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Patent GB-190123732-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Lamps for Outdoor Incandescent Gas Lighting.
Inventor: SUGG WILLIAM THOMAS
Filed: 1901-11-22
Granted: 1902-10-30
Abstract: 23,732. Sugg, W. T. Nov. 22. Incandescent gas lamps.-To allow, in outdoor lamps and lanterns, of the glass cylinders or chimneys J being readily removed for cleaning without damaging the mantle, the burners are so mounted that they can be raised or lowered about six inches without shaking or jaring and without escape of gas. The burner H may be mounted either upon an externally screw-threaded tube F, which may be rotated by the button G to lower the tube in a cork slide in the casing D, Fig. 1, or upon a tube Q working in a liquid gasalier or like seal with a counterbalance weight U. Thus the whole burner may be lowered a distance sufficient to enable the attendant to remove the glass cylinder J without destroying the mantle. When the cylinder J has been cleaned, it is replaced in the holder, and the burner is raised to bring the glass cylinder within the flue or chimney of the lantern. The pilot light N may either be carried up one corner of the lantern and enter the chimney just above the top of the mantle, or it may be mounted on a tube L which, by means of a nut M, may be raised or lowered, without being rotated, in the cork slide in the casing K.
Patent GB-190204282-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Portable Drilling Apparatus
Inventor: HAUSER HEINRICH
Filed: 1902-02-19
Granted: 1902-06-05
Abstract: 4282. Hauser, H., and Weinhardt, A. Feb. 19. Braces and other hand-drills.-A portable drilling apparatus for use in erecting comprises a drill spindle 18 mounted in a sleeve 32 screwed into a boss 34 on an arm 14 clamped in the head 1 6 of an arm 13, which is clamped in a block 31 clamped on a tube 1. A jaw 2 is clamped on the tube, and a rod 5 passing through the tube carries a jaw 6, the two jaws being drawn together to grip the work 30 by screwing a nut 9 on the rod 5 against the tube 1. The drill spindle is rotated in either direction by a ratchet-lever 23 carrying two oppositely-acting pawls, either one of which can be engaged with a ratchet-wheel 20 on the spindle by turning a collar 25 with a semicircular flange 22. The feed is effected by screwing the sleeve 32 through the boss 34 by means of a star-wheel 32<x>. The drill may be quickly withdrawn by clamping the ratchetlever to the sleeve 32 by means of a nut 28 on the drill spindle. A handle 23<x> may be turned into line with the ratchet-lever, to facilitate the use of the apparatus as a brace. The drilling- apparatus is attached to circular objects such as pipes or pillars by means of a chain slung round the work and hooked to projections on the boss 34. The nuts of the various clamps have ring- shaped heads, so that they may be turned without a key or spanner.
Patent GB-190212040-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Stop Motions for Knitting and other Machines in which one or more Threads are used
Inventor: JOHNSON JOSIAH
Filed: 1902-05-27
Granted: 1903-04-30
Abstract: 12,040. Johnson, J. May 27. Stop-motions. - Relates to a stop - motion for knitting-machines and other machines in which one or more threads are used. When a thread 27 breaks, a pivoted lever 24 drops and by means of a cord 23 rocks a pivoted clawker 20 and causes it to engage a ratchet-wheel 5, which, normally, is frictionally driven by the shaft 2, the friction being obtained by a spring 5<b> adjusted by a set-screw in a recess. When the ratchet-wheel is stopped, it acts as a brake and gradually brings the machine to rest ; at the same time a clutch 6, feathered to the shaft 2, and having an inclined projecting rib 8 engaging a recess in the ratchet - wheel, is forced out of gear with the wheel 5 and through levers 10 raises a lever 15 out of engagement with a projection 19 and so allows a spring 17<a> to shift the belt-fork and stop the machine. The clawker 20 may also be connected by a cord to the fabric take-up and be caused to stop the ratchet-wheel when a thread breaks and the fabric presses off.
Patent GB-190216351-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Combing Machines.
Inventor: HOLDSWORTH WILLIAM
Filed: 1902-07-23
Granted: 1903-06-25
Abstract: 16,351. Holdsworth, W., [trading as Holdsworth & Sons, J.]. July 23. Combing-machines.-In a machine for combing wool, silk, worsted, &c., the material is fed by a head 15, Fig. 1, to, and deposited by a dabbing - brush 16 on, a series of teeth 10 fixed on the peripheries of three discs 8, 4, 8, Fig. 3, carried by a revolving drum 1 into which steam is supplied. The disc 4 is fixed to the drum, and the discs 8 are loosely mounted, by ball bearings, on the drum, and are driven by arms 5 or. the disc 4. Swivelling brackets 13, carried by arms 14 adjustably secured to the frames 3, engage grooves in the discs 8, and cause the discs to rotate in planes inclined to the disc 4, so that they gradually diverge from their nearest position to the disc 4, which is at the feeding-side of the machine, to a distance equal to the length of the fibres being combed, at the opposite or delivery side of the machine. The material is held by the teeth of the disc 4 and combed by the teeth of the discs 8 as they move away, and the fibres are drawn off the teeth at the delivery side of the machine by rollers 17 arranged at each side of each disc, and delivered in the form of a sliver through a funnel to a coiler or can. Noil or waste is removed by strippers or revolving brushes. Several sets of discs 8, 4, 8 may be employed in one machine.
Patent GB-190219741-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to Skirt and Stockings Suspenders
Inventor: WARDROPER ANNIE
Filed: 1902-09-09
Granted: 1903-07-16
Abstract: 19,741. Wardroper, A., [trading as White, A.]. Sept. 9. Suspenders for articles of dress; belts.-Relates to a combined skirt and stocking suspender, and consists of an ordinary abdominal or elastic belt A, Fig. 1, provided with strips of material B, C for suspending the skirt and stockings respectively. To retain the belt in place, an inner flap or fly a, Fig. 2, is used, provided with a row of eyelet holes a<1>, which engage with the busk studs e of the corset. The belt has several vertical bones or strips a', and eyelets are provided at the opposite sides of the upper ends to receive square shaped safety-pins a<4> for attaching and securing the belt to the corset, the pins lying above the upper ends of the strips a<2> close to the corset. The ribbons or tapes B are sewn to the belt, and are provided at the lower ends with pairs of eyelet holes b<1>, one pair above another, to enable the skirt to be hung at various heights by means of safety-pins b'. The upper inelastic strips C are fitted with elastic lower portions c<2> terminating in clips c' for holding the stockings.
Patent GB-190220141-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Mediums for use in Producing Photographic Pictures on Fabrics Skins Leather Wood or the like, and in Processes for Making the same.
Inventor: COBENZL ALBERT
Filed: 1902-09-15
Granted: 1903-08-06
Abstract: 20,141. Cobenzl, A., and Mies, A. H. Sept. 15. Printing.-Sensitized material is produced by impregnating fabrics, skins, leather, wood, or the like with soluble starch, with the addition of a chloride, and then drying it, preferably at a high temperature, to render the starch insoluble, and rendering it sensitive by a solution of silver nitrate.
Patent GB-190224442-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Water Tube Boilers
Inventor: SILVESTRI GIULIO
Filed: 1902-11-07
Granted: 1903-11-07
Abstract: 24,442. Silvestri, G. Nov. 7. Water-tube boilers. -Two annular water chambers a, b, having tube walls c, e, are connected by cylindrical or other rows of tubes d,f, arranged close together so as to form annular flues h, i for the passage of the products of combustion from a fireplace in the inner cylinder of tubes d. Liquid, vaporous, or gaseous fuel is preferably used. At one end of each cylinder of tubes, alternate tubes are reduced in diameter to form openings for the passage of the furnace gases. The drums a, bare readily removed, to afford access to the water tubes, and are connected by pipes p, p<1> with the steam collector o. To ensure an active circulation, the generator may be slightly inclined or the bottom of the pipe p closed by a plate r carrying a number of narrow upwardly-projecting tubes s, as shown.
Patent GB-190224778-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Steam Super Heaters
Filed: 1902-11-11
Granted: 1903-02-26
Abstract: 24,778. Lake, H. H., [Stirling Co.]. Nov. 11. Superheaters, steam.-A superheater 18 of the Niclausse type with one or two headers is placed behind a baffle-wall 16 of the boiler furnace, at the top of which is a damper 41 to control the access of heat. A baffle 43 is also set behind the superheater.
Patent GB-190226709-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Gas Producers.
Inventor: WILSON ALFRED
Filed: 1902-12-03
Granted: 1903-09-17
Abstract: 26,709. Wilson, A. Dec. 3. Gas-producers.-Air, or a mixture of air and steam, with or without other gases, is fed into the producer 1 through a channel 2 of the form shown and between grate bars 3. The channel 2 is open at the bottom, and is supported by girders 12. The bars 3 are supported by metal segments 14, and rest against a metal ring 15. Air channels 4 are provided in the lining 13 behind the grates, and communicate with the inlet 10. Cleaning-holes 11 are provided. The gas escapes through a flue 7 of the form shown to an annular flue 8 having an outlet 9. A piece 7<a> on this flue rests on an arch 16. Ashes and clinker are removed through openings 20 in a water bottom 18, into which dips a conical ring 19 surrounding the bottom of the fuel chamber. A number of inclined passages 21 round the generator are fitted with metal plates 22 having normally-closed poking-holes 23. The gas outlet 9 and the air inlet 10 may be connected to a regenerator.
Patent GB-190302756-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Pneumatic Tyres.
Inventor: BROOKES HARRY
Filed: 1903-02-05
Granted: 1903-08-27
Abstract: 2756. Brookes, H. Feb. 5. Tyres, pneumatic.-A puncture-proof band for the pneumatic tyres of motor cars &c., to be inserted between the air tube and outer cover of the tyre, consists of a number of thin metal plates C hinged together at their edges and secured between two bands of rubber D, G by rivets E. The heads of the rivets are covered by canvas strips H, I. The separate short lengths of hinged metal plates C are arranged to overlap each other. Instead of rivets E, bolts of the form shown in Fig. 6 are preferably employed to hold the bands together. The sharp points pierce the rubber easily ; they are cut or nipped off after the bolts are in place and the nuts are screwed up.
Patent GB-190310225-A (GB)
Title: A Method of and Apparatus for Canting or Swinging a Ship.
Inventor: BLAIR JOHN BICKERS
Filed: 1903-05-05
Granted: 1903-06-18
Abstract: 10,225. Blair, J. B. May 5. Steering by air, steam, and water jets. -Relates to means for swing- ing a vessel having no steerage way without the aid of tugs or hauling- lines. Transverse trunks F, forming waterways at the bow and stern, are fitted with pipes having oppositely-directed nozzles H, J. Compressed air or steam, escaping from one of these nozzles, carries a column of water with it and causes the vessel to turn. The pipes are controlled by valves worked from the bridge.
Patent GB-190319774-A (GB)
Title: Process and Apparatus for Sewing Books.
Inventor: NECKER ANNA
Filed: 1903-09-14
Granted: 1904-07-14
Abstract: 19,774. Necker, A., and Lassberg, M. Sept. 14. Book-stitching machines; multiple needle - machines; double-loop stitching-machines.-For attaching the pages of large account books and the like to binding strips or bands, a machine comprising a number of series of needles, depending upon the size of the book, is used. In each series there are two straight thread needles and one hook or looperneedle. The sheets of paper are arranged vertically on a table 22, Fig. 2, and the needle-bars 6 are reciprocated by cams 9 in inclined slides attached to a frame 2, which also carries thread bobbins 17, drums 18 for the band, thread tighteners 20, and guides 21. One thread needle 6, Fig. 4, pierces the band and paper at a and forms a thread loop, which is carried sideways bya looper, working in a slide on the end of a table 12. The loop is caught by a hook needle 7, and is dragged through a hole c, previously made by that needle in its descent, and passed through the loop of the other needle thread, previously made in a similar manner and retained on the hook. The hook needles are adjustably secured to a slide 8 which is caused to reciprocate. The table 12 is mounted on swinging arms so that it may be lowered in order to place the sheets of paper 23 in place on the table 22. A number of supports 24 of similar shape are mounted on rollers or in guides to form supports for the sheets and to keep them upright
Patent GB-190321381-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Cabinets for Filling and Indexing Papers and Documents.
Inventor: JOHNSON THOMAS JEFFERSON
Filed: 1903-10-05
Granted: 1904-08-04
Abstract: 21,381. Johnson, T. J., and Larsh, D. La S. Oct. 5. Filing papers &c.-Relates to cabinets for filing and indexing papers, cards, cheques, &c. The drawer 1 is divided by wire or other partitions 23 into compartments opened or rendered accessible by rocking the partitions through connections to index keys 9. Wires or rods 27 form the bottom of the series of compartments. Each partition 23 is secured in a pocket 22 on a rock-shaft 10, and the pockets 22 are maintained in normal position by a spring 31 on a rod. The shafts 10 are mounted at the rear in a plate 12, and at the front pass under a partition 5 and are supported on a rod in slots in plates 15, 16. The plate 15 is preferably secured to the partition 5, and the plate 16 is secured at the ends 17 to the sides of the drawer. The keys 9 are shown staggered. The key stems 8 slide through a partition 6, and are correspondingly connected, by crossed levers or toggles 36, to front and rear cranks 20, 21 on the shafts 10. The cranks 20, 21 are respectively disposed in front of the plate 16 and between the plates 15, 16. Additional rows of keys and additional rock-shafts are introduced by constructing two rows of compartments and extending the rock-shafts of the rear row between those of the front row.
Patent GB-190326564-A (GB)
Title: Improved Machine for Automatically Shaping Masses of Dough to the Form required for Loaves.
Inventor: MACINTOSH ALBERT CHARLES
Filed: 1903-12-04
Granted: 1904-10-06
Abstract: 26,564. Macintosh, A. C., and Thomas, W. G. Dec. 4. Moulding dough. - Relates to machines for moulding dough, such as are described in Specification No. 14,056, A.D. 1902. The lumps of dough a are carried by a travelling band b under a second band c to a revolving cutting-disc d, from which the two parts fall down inclined surfaces upon the band f. Thence the dough passes into bowls h, being retained on the band until the bowls are in position by a hinged flap i, which is raised by a moving ledge j coming in contact with one arm k of a bell-crank lever, attached to the flap through a series of links. The bowls are attached in pairs on cross-pieces m, Fig. 3, pivotally mounted on plates n, which by rollers o at their ends run in grooves p, and are driven by a link-chain connecting them passing around the sprocket-wheels r, r<1>. Hinged lids or covers u carry rollers z which run on a cam-race y to bring the lids over the bowls. The lids are free to open ou reaching the part y<1>, and are opened by a race y<2> on the opposite side of the rollers. The dough is discharged on to a travelling band 2. To give the bowls a reciprocating motion, the carriage m is pivoted to a block 4, which slides in a slot 5 in the cross-piece n. A stud 6 on the carriage passes through the slot 7 in the sprocket-wheel 8. When the bowls are inverted, the wheel 8 engages with the pitch chain 9, the direction of rotation being such that the pin 6 occupies the position in the slot 7 of greatest radius. When the bowls are upright, a spur-wheel keyed to the sprocket-wheel engages with a rack, the direction of rotation bringing the stud 6 to the position of smaller radius.
Patent GB-190400832-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Time Hand Stamps.
Inventor: BARTHOLOMEW WILBUR FISK
Filed: 1904-01-12
Granted: 1904-02-25
Abstract: 832. Bartholomew, W. F. Jan. 12. Hand-stamps.-A hand-stamp, in addition to being fitted with movable date-type, and with other fixed type, may have an annular dial similar to a clock, with movable arrow in the centre to print the time, the stamp having a corresponding dial and arrow on top, by which the position of the printing arrow may be easily seen. The arrow is set by turning the handle, and means are provided for taking up the wear. The base A of the stamp is fitted with a rubber printing-surface B, having fixed type matter D, movable date type C, and an annular time dial E. A circular stamp F, passing through the stamp B, has an arrow formed on its face, and fits into a sleeve G, which carries a ratchet-wheel G<1>, in a recess in the base-plate, and also a handle H. An outer sleeve 1, with a flange I', is clamped to the inner sleeve and the handle by a screw 9,-passing through a short vertical slot in the sleeve G. On top of the base A, an annular time dial L is formed, corresponding to the dial E, while an arrowhead or other mark on the flange I<1> corresponds in position with the arrow on the stamp F, so that the time indicated on the dial L by the mark on the flange I' is the same as the time printed by the dial E and the arrow F. The arrows may be set to any desired position by turning the handle H, and are kept in that position by a V-shaped spring pawl engaging with the V-shaped teeth on the ratchetwheel G'. A plate A' separates the ratchet-wheel and the top of the rubber stamp, and also forms a bearing for the bottom of the sleeve G. A rubber washer N is placed between the flange I<1> and the base A, to prevent excessive wear, but when wear does occur, it may be taken up by slackening the screw J, pressing the sleeve I and the handle H downwards, and tightening the screw again, the slot in the sleeve G allowing for the relative movement of the sleeve and the screw vertically, and yet preventing the arrow-head on the flange I' from being displaced relatively to the arrow on the stamp F. On the dials L and E, the hours may be represented by diamond-shaped figures, the halfhours by radiating lines, the quarter-hours by shorter radiating lines, and the minutes by dots.
Patent GB-190407596-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Swaging and Forging Machines
Filed: 1904-03-30
Granted: 1905-02-02
Abstract: 7596. Jones, E., and Kynoch, Ltd. March 30. Forging.-Bars are forged and the bases of projectiles are closed in by machines having a number of radially-acting adjustable swages. Fig. 1 shows a machine arranged for forging bars. Pairs of swages 1, 1<A>, 2, 2<A> slide in bushes 3, and are controlled by toggles actuated by connecting-rods 6 from geared shafts 5 with a belt pulley 7. The abutment pins of the toggles are carried by studs 9, screwed into bushes 10, rotatably secured in the framing and operated in pairs through gearing 11, 14, from hand-wheels on the shafts 13, to adjust the position of the swages in the central space 16. In the modification shown in Fig. 4, the swages, preferably eight in number, are guided by a circular block 16, and reciprocated by toggles 18, connected to a crosshead 20 driven by connecting- rods 22 from the main shaft. The swages are simultaneously adjusted by the abutment studs 24, screwed into bushes provided with bevel-wheels geared into a roller-borne ring 26. One of the bushes extends outwardly from the machine and carries a hand-wheel 28. The projectile to be swaged is supported on a block 32 resting on an asbestos sheet carried by the top of a ball thrustbearing on the central column of the machine. The projectile is given a. step-by-step rotation by a cap 1, pressed on to the nose by a spring inside a sleeve 4, which is screwed into a bush 5 supported by a ball thrust-bearing and is rotated through gearing 14, a Geneva motion 12, and spur-wheels 6. A hand-wheel 10 keyed on the sleeve 4 provides for raising the cap from the projectile, when the clutch 7 feathered to the sleeve is released from engagement with the wheel 6 keyed to the bush 5.
Patent GB-190408728-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and connected with Warp Stop Motions for Looms.
Inventor: SPOERRI HANS
Filed: 1904-04-16
Granted: 1904-08-18
Abstract: 8728. Sp÷rri, H. April 16. Loom stop - motions; lease-rods; stopping- mechanism.-In a warp stop-motion, the dropplates 15 which are supported by separate warp threads have both ends indentical in shape, and are arranged in more than two rows so as to obviate friction of the warp threads against one another. The plates 15 are guided by rails 13 secured below the warp threads, and by rods 16, 17, which rest loosely at different levels in open supporting - grooves and also serve as lease-rods. Forked arms 9 carrying serrated blades 10 are secured to a shaft 11 which is yieldingly rocked by means of an arm 8 and a spring 7, which is secured to an arm 5 loose on the shaft 11 and vibrated by an adjustable connecting-rod 2 connected to the lay-sword. The blades 10 are thus moved laterally below similar blades 12, and, when a warp thread breaks, the corresponding plate 15 drops, and engages one of the blades 10 so that the shaft 11 is not rocked, the spring 7 extending to permit the vibration of the arm 5. A cranked lever on the shaft 11 then fails to raise the front end cf a pivoted tumbler lever, so that a pusher, carried by the lay-sword, strikes a block attached to a pin passing through the tumbler lever. The pin is pushed back against the action of a spring, and acts through a cranked lever and connecting-rod to displace the knocking-off lever and stop the loom. An extra plate 15 is connected to a pivoted lever at the back of the loom, so that, when the lever is depressed by hand against the action of a spring, the plate is lowered and the loom stopped. The plates 15 are arranged in a frame which is mounted on pins carried by the loom frame so as to be adjustable vertically. The pins are adjustably secured to brackets, so that the arrangement may be fitted on to looms of different widths, and the brackets may be adjusted in position from back to front of the loom.
Patent GB-190409874-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Electric Switches.
Inventor: DUNN GANO SILLICK
Filed: 1904-04-29
Granted: 1904-10-15
Abstract: 9874. Dunn, G. S. Aug. 25, A.D. 1903, [date applied for under Patents Act, A.D. 1901]. Motors, controlling.-Relates to a time switch applicable to motor-controlling switches operating on the multi-voltage system, such as those described in Specification No. 13,779, A.D. 1904. When the connections are such that a large change in the voltage-drop at the armature takes place, a resistance is thrown in and is cut out after a predetermined interval of time. The switch is shown as applied to the motor controller described in the Specification mentioned above. The motor can be connected across any pair of the conductors a, b, c, d. The motor field is permanently connected across the conductors a, d through resistances r, which are cut out automatically as required. Sparking is thereby prevented. One of the armature conductors is connected direct to a fixed contact and through a resistance R to another fixed contact. The resistance R is cut out whenever a contact g, connected by a flexible conductor to the contact of the resistance R, engages contacts p on the ring g<1>. The contact g is secured to a lever h pressed by a spring s so to engage the contacts g, p. Each time the controller is arranged to give a large change of voltage at the armature, the lever h is pressed outwards by a cam-ring i on the controller engaging a roller on the roller j. It is delayed in its return by a dash-pot device comprising a piston working in a cylinder l having an inlet ball valve m and a valve n which permits the slow egress of air. The ball of the valve n is pressed by the spring against its seat. The valve n consists of a screw notched along one side and arranged opposite a small opening in the dash-pot.