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Patent GB-190318051-A (GB)
Title: Improved Bench Stop Adjuster.
Inventor: MACKETT ALFRED EDWIN
Filed: 1903-08-20
Granted: 1903-10-01
Abstract: 18,051. Mackett, A. E. Aug. 20. Bench fittings.-Relates to adjustable bench stops. The stops B are carried by a holder A, which is adjusted by a screw C. The head of the screw C turns in a metal bush D let into the bench F. A collar E is secured to the screw C below the bush D in order to prevent end motion of the screw. The holder A may carry one stop only.
Patent GB-190320026-A (GB)
Title: A Clip for Holding Programmes for use in Theatres and other Places.
Inventor: OGILVIE JAMES
Filed: 1903-09-17
Granted: 1904-03-10
Abstract: 20,026. Ogilvie, J., and Lowe, J. D. Sept. 17. Advertising; displaying.-A clip for holding programmes used in theatres &c., advertising cards, &c. consists of a plate A, Figs. 1 and 3, which is pivoted in a dished frame B, and normally held in contact with the lower part of the rim a' of the frame by means of a coiled spring a, Fig. 3. The programme is inserted between the plate and the rim, which may be forced apart by pressing the top of the plate. The frame may fit in a recess made in a chair or seat back, or the dish-shaped part B may be reversed so as to project from the face of the seat-back ; in this case the part B is open for the reception of the plate A.
Patent GB-190323905-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Spinning Frames
Inventor: PIRRIE JOHN BARBOUR
Filed: 1903-11-04
Granted: 1904-10-13
Abstract: 23,905. Pirrie, J. B. Nov. 4. Spindle apparatus; building-motions.-Relates to the spinning-frame described in Specification No. 25,926, A.D. 1901, in which a traveller or eye, to conduct the yarn to the bobbin, is carried by a dragged ring free to rotate on a surface which revolves with the spindle. In the present improvements, each spindle is under independent control in running, stopping, traverse, and doffing so that regular cops may be spun irrespective of breakages. The spinning-spindle a is driven in the usual manner from the cylinder c, and trausmits motion by a band passing around a wharve a<3> to an auxiliary spindle b. Free to slide up and down this spindle is a wharve b<2>, supported by a builder d and driving a running ring e, also carried by the builder. An annular &c. reservoir d<1> containing oil in which the ring e revolves is fixed to the underside of the builder, the ring being centered therein by means of projections which bear on a flange formed on its lower edge. The builder d slides upon fixed rods d<3>, and is given the necessary traverse by chains f<2> secured to the usual rocking shaft f. This shaft carries three bosses ; each traverse chain f<2> is fastened to the builder plate d and to one or the other of two of these bosses, both of which latter are loose on the rocking shaft but receive motion therefrom through frictional contact with the third boss, which is feathered on the shaft and pressed against the adjacent boss by a spiral spring. The two loose bosses are connected by bolts in slots of sufficient length to allow of relative turning, so as to tighten the chains f<2>. This arrangement permits the position of the builder d, and its attachments, to be adjusted by the operator when piecing an end or the like on any spindle independently of the other spindles in the frame. The spindle a and its auxiliary spindle b may be stopped at any time by means of a brake a<6> operated by a counterbalanced pedal a<5>.
Patent GB-190403750-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Explosive Engine Cylinders.
Inventor: BIGSBY JESSE WALTER
Filed: 1904-02-15
Granted: 1904-04-28
Abstract: 3750. Bigsby, J. W., and Barhoff, F. W. Feb. 15. Casting.-In order to secure cooling-plates 2 to the cylinder 1 of an explosion engine, they are placed in the mould in which the cylinder is cast. The metal when first poured in is allowed to run through the mould in order to heat the plates.
Patent GB-190410427-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Warp Stop Motions for Looms.
Inventor: LIVESEY ROBERT CROSSLEY
Filed: 1904-05-06
Granted: 1905-04-06
Abstract: 10,427. Livesey, R. C. May 6. Loom stop-motions. - Relates to the type of warp stopmotion in which a bar B, rocked to and fro at each beat of the lay, engages and nips between itself and a stationary bar A, each time an end breaks, a thin steel drop or blade M depending from the heald or yarn. The lever bracket F, pivoted to the gable end of the loom, carries at one end a spindle g on which are fixed two fingers G, G'. The other end f<1> of the bracket is connected to a lever H, the end of which works in a slot in a bracket attached to the knocking-off handle C. A cam-piece E on the lay-sword engages with the finger G, and moves the rocking bar B away from the stationary bar by means of the crank g<1> and connecting-rod b, at each beat-up of the lay. The finger and rocking bar are returned to their normal position by means of a spring on the spindle g. When a warp thread breaks, the falling of the drop M arrests the retnrn of the rocking bar, and the finger G', being thus held in the path of the cam-piece E as the lay recedes, engages with it, and carries back the pivoted lever F, moving the knocking-off lever C and stopping the loom.
Patent GB-190410792-A (GB)
Title: Improved Method of Stopping Moving Carriers.
Inventor: JOHNSON CHARLES MORLEY
Filed: 1904-05-10
Granted: 1905-04-13
Abstract: 10,792. Johnson, C. M. May 10. Pneumatic despatch apparatus.-Relates to means for electromagnetically stopping moving carriers in pneumatic despatch and like apparatus. The carrier C emerging from the tube T closes a switch S, which completes a circuit energizing an electromagnet M so placed as to stop the iron wheels D.
Patent GB-190411165-A (GB)
Title: An Adjustable Pedestal or Bearing for Shafting
Inventor: SOMERS THOMAS THORPE
Filed: 1904-05-14
Granted: 1905-03-16
Abstract: 11,165. Somers, T. T. May 14. Adjusting bearing.-The brasses E<1>, E<2> of the pedestal or plummer block A, Fig. 1, are adjusted by the wedges C', C<1> and D', D<2> respectively. When the brasses are assembled, their faces F, Figs. 3 and 4, grooved at G to support the wedges, form in outline a trapezium. The wedges are preferably double or in pairs, their broad ends being connected by cross-bars C<3>, D<3>. Their inner edges are made oblique to fit against the side of the brasses within the grooves. The wedges pass through the top and one of the side-plates into holes formed in the oppositely-placed plates, and are secured in position by nuts 11, I, held or carried by the cross-bars, through which pass screws C<5>, D<5> of the pedestal.
Patent GB-190411498-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Device for Raising Door Curtains and the like.
Inventor: DRAKE HENRY JOSIAH
Filed: 1904-05-19
Granted: 1904-06-23
Abstract: 11,498. Drake, H. J. May 19. Curtains, drawing and suspending.-To prevent a curtain or the like attached to a door from dragging when the door is opened, a curtain-pin or safety-pin &c. M is fastened to the lower part of the curtain, and a cord D passes upwards therefrom to a hemispherical holder A on the lintel B, through a ring or wheel fitted to slide in a slotted plate G fixed to, and projecting from, the top of the door; the cord passes through a hole C in the holder and is knotted on the other side. On opening the door, part of the cord travels through the ring in the plate G, and the lower part of the curtain is thus lifted.
Patent GB-190414327-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Apparatus for Raising, Buoying and Propelling Air Ships and other purposes.
Inventor: WINEGARDEN AREY VAN
Filed: 1904-06-25
Granted: 1904-08-11
Abstract: 14,327. Winegrarden, A. van, and Crawford, G. M. June 25. Driving and like chains ; attachments ; guiding. - In an aÙronautical apparatus, the two pairs 7 of chains, running on wheels 4,4<a>, 6, 6<a>, 9, 9<a>, are provided with cross - bars 11, 12 riveted or otherwise connected to lugs on some of the links of the chains. The cross - bars carry sails 10 which raise or buoy the body of the air ship &c. The ascending parts of the chains (shown on the right of the wheels 4, 4<a>) cause the sails to collapse, while the descending parts (shown on the left of the wheels 4, 4<a>) open them out. Similar cross-bars 13,14 prevent the collapsed sails shown on the right-hand side of the Figure from flapping about as they are ascending.
Patent GB-190416254-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in connection with Winches and Hoisting Machines.
Inventor: STACEY GEORGE WILLIAM
Filed: 1904-07-22
Granted: 1905-05-18
Abstract: 16,254. Stacey, G. W. July 22. Winches; hoists.-Winches and hoisting-machines for use in building and other operations are constructed with chain driving-gearing, and have adjustable bearings in order to regulate the tension of the chain. The winding drum or barrel g is mounted in the frame a, which also supports the handle-shaft b. Sprocket-wheels c, e having deep flanges are fixed on the shafts and connected by a chain d. The bearings of the shaft b are arranged to slide along guides l and are adjusted by bolts j provided with nuts k. A brake is provided, consisting of a band n acting upon a wheel q. Pressure is applied by a pivoted lever o connected to the ends of the brake strap.
Patent GB-190419309-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Furnaces of Steam Boilers
Inventor: KEARNEY ROBERT
Filed: 1904-09-07
Granted: 1905-09-07
Abstract: 19,309. Kearney, R. Sept. 7. Firebridges.-The firebridge 1 of a steam-boiler furnace is made in the form of a metal box and is loosely mounted at the rear of the furnace chamber. Boiler feedwater is supplied by a pipe 5 to the hollow firebridge, where it is heated, and is subsequently led to the boiler by one or more pipes 6.
Patent GB-190420585-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to the Overhead Conductor System for Electric Traction.
Inventor: BROOKS ARTHUR AUGUSTUS
Filed: 1904-09-24
Granted: 1905-09-14
Abstract: 20,585. Brooks, A. A., and Watson, G. A. Sept. 24. Conductors.-In an electric traction system, means are described for automatically cutting off the supply of current to a section of an overhead conductor on the breaking of the wire. The Figure shows one section of the conductor wires 1, 2 for a double track, connected at one end by the wire 3. Two stud contacts 6, 7 are normally connected by the pivoted metal bar 10, held in position by the screw-and-nut mechanism at the end of the fuse wire 13, so that the supply current from the lead 46 can pass to the conductor wire 1 by the lead 8 and terminal 18. A small portion of the current passes from the terminal 18 through a resistance 20, solenoid winding 22, and the wires 26, 45 to the earthed terminal 5. While the conductor wires remain intact, current also passes along the wires 3, 2 to the terminal 19 and then through a resistance 21, solenoid winding-24, and the wire 45 to earth. The solenoids are of equal strength and thus have no resultant action on the contact-pieces insulated from, and carried by, the pivoted metal arm 28, which is therefore held against the core 32 under normal conditions by the spring 34. If either of the conductor wires breaks, the solenoid 24 is cut out of circuit, thus allowing the solenoid 22 to attract the arm 28 against the action of the spring, which movement causes the electrodes 36, 37 to complete a circuit from the feed-wire 46 through the arm 10, fuse 13, wire 41, metal arm 28, and the wire 45 to earth, and blows the fuse 13 by thus bringing it into a circuit carrying the full current. On the fuse breaking, the bar 10 immediately falls by its own weight, thus breaking the main circuit between the studs 6, 7. For testing purposes, a lamp is inserted at 42 and the arm 40 carrying the electrode 37 is moved on to the contact-stud 39. If the lamp is illuminated on forcing the electrodes 36, 37 into contact, the section is in working order. In cases where single trolley wires are used, the conductors 3, 2 are replaced by a wire of small cross-section.
Patent GB-190425898-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and connected with Switchboards for Telegraphic, Telephonic and other Electrical Systems.
Inventor: MILLS BENJAMIN JOSEPH BARNARD
Filed: 1904-11-28
Granted: 1905-04-06
Abstract: 25,898. Mills, B. J. B., [Hammond, W. P.]. Nov. 28. Telegraphs; telephone systems.- Relates to switchboard apparatus for telegraph, telephone, and other systems. The apparatus comprises (1) plug switches which can be used to make connections and loops as shown in Figs. 1 and 9, (2) a grounding-switch, Fig. 10, whereby a linewire may be interrupted and either or both parts put to earth, and (3) an automatic plug cord takeup shown in Fig. 7. The loop and "patch" or connecting plugs, Figs. 1, 4, and 5, are adapted to receive a second loop plug so that loop and patch connections can be made at the one jack. The patch plug consists of a body 6, having a socket to receive a second plug, an insulated pin 7 to engage the spring c of the jack and separate contacts a, b, and a spring 8 connected to the cord 10 and normally resting on the body 6. In a patch connection, the current passes from the jack to the body 6, spring 8, connecting-cord 10, &c. The loop plug is also formed with a socket 14<a>, Fig. 4, to receive another plug, and within the reduced body 11<a>, but insulated therefrom, is a conducting-pin 12. A spring 13 is secured to the pin 12 by a screw 15<a>, which is insulated from the spring but is connected to the pin 12. The terminals of the loop wire are connected to the pin 12 through the screw 15a and to the spring 13, respectively. Upon inserting a loop plug in either type of plug, the springs 8, 13 are separated from the body of the plug and engage with the pin 12 as shown in Fig. 1. In order to save space, patch-plug boxes and loop-plug boxes are constructed, in which a series of sockets are mounted side by side. Fig. 9 shows a loop-plug box, the pin 12 and body 11 <a> being connected respectively to the last spring 24x and one of the sockets 25. The sockets are normally connected in series by the springs 24, but, on inserting a patch or loop plug, the circuit is completed through the circuits of the respective plugs. The grounding -switch comprises three segments 17, 18, 19, Fig. 10, respectively connected to earth, line W, and line E. The rotary arm 20 may connect the lines W, E or it may connect either or both to the earthed segment 17. Fig. 7 shows the automatic plug cord take-up, in which the cord passes through rings 32, 33 fastened to the plugs by elastic connections 34.
Patent GB-190505167-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Domestic Fireplaces
Inventor: CLEAVER HOWARD CRUNDEN
Filed: 1905-03-13
Granted: 1906-03-13
Abstract: 5167. Cleaver, H. C. March 13. Fire-places; feeding and stoking.- The fire-place described in Specification No. 613, A.D. 1904, is fitted with a fuel-supply regulating-door F at the mouth of the hopper E, and the curb or grate front D is fitted with a ventilator Q and a door J giving access to the ashpit H. The flue may be diverted so as to heat an oven, or boiler, or to serve as a radiator,
Patent GB-190506821-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Metallic Packing for Stuffing Boxes and the like.
Filed: 1905-03-31
Granted: 1906-01-25
Abstract: 6821. Foden, W., and United Kingdom Self-Adjusting Anti-Friction Metallic Packing Syndicate. March 31. Stuffing-boxes.-Improvements are described on the stuffing-boxes for carbon - dioxide and other high-pressure compressors &c. described in Specification No. 8333, A.D. 1902. Leakage is exhausted from the box, and the metal packing is supplemented by a liquid seal. The box is divided into two parts by a false gland 1. Two sets of packing 6 contained in sleeves 5 are compressed by spiral springs 8. At the end of each sleeve 5 is a spherical-faced ring 4. One ring 4 bears on a seating in the gland 11, and the other on a seating in the end of the false gland 1. The gland 11 contains an oil chamber packed by two rings 20 separated by a distance-piece 21 and compressed by a follower 23 and a screw cap. The outer packing-ring 20 is reduced in diameter in order to allow the annular end of the follower 23 to act directly on the distancepiece 21 when the outer ring 20 has been sufficiently compressed. In a modified stuffing-box for a rod of large diameter, each spring 8 is replaced by a number of spiral springs coutained in recesses in a ring. The recesses are drained by suitable passages. The oil chamber in the gland 11 is replaced by a stuffing-box for compressible packing.
Patent GB-190513872-A (GB)
Title: A Mechanical Cricket Bowler for Practice at the Nets.
Inventor: MIDGLEY FRANKLIN
Filed: 1905-07-05
Granted: 1906-03-08
Abstract: 13,872. Midgley, F. July 5. Bowling-apparatus.- Relates to bowling-apparatus for use in practising cricket. The ball is placed in a cup D carried at the end of an arm A B, pivoted at c to a frame H and drawn back against the action of a spring E by a winch K, until its lower end is held by a catch G,on the release of which the arm A B moves forward until arrested by a spring F, to which it is connected by a cord &c.f. The stoppage of the arm A causes the ball to be discharged from the cup D. The plate C to which the arm A B is pivoted can be swung horizontally about the point n, and clamped by a screw N, so as to deliver the ball to " leg " or " off " as desired. The cup D is rotatable upon its axis, and is fitted with hooks p, to which a cord P, passing through eyes q and fixed to the frame at R, is attached. The cord P is wound round the cup D, and, as the arm A moves forward, rotates the cup, thus. imparting " break " to the ball.
Patent GB-190514153-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in String Cutters.
Inventor: PAINTER EMERICK HARRISON
Filed: 1905-07-10
Granted: 1905-08-31
Abstract: 14,153. Painter, E. H. July 9, 1904, [date applied for under Patents Act, 1901]. String cutters.-One end of a blade 12 is pivoted between two ears 9 on a projection 6 on a finger ring 5. The other end is fixed between two other ears 10 by a screw 16 which may be removed so that the blade may be raised into a suitable position for sharpening. A notch 17 is provided at the end of the blade to facilitate raising it.
Patent GB-190514327-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Apparatus for Evaporating Brine and at the same time producing High Pressure Steam.
Inventor: MOLL EUGEN
Filed: 1905-07-11
Granted: 1906-01-04
Abstract: 14,327. Moll, E. July 11. Steam generation, methods of and means for. -An apparatus for evaporating brine and generating steam comprises a heater A and an evaporator C, connected by a pipe containing a throttle valve B<1>. This airangement ensures a higher pressure in the heater, which is kept full of saturated brine, than in the evaporator. T h e brine and separated salt pass away by the aperture D, which is kept clear by a stirring - device, to a closed pan E heated by the steam generated in C. The steam arising from the pan E is used for heating the open pans which contain saturated brine at 70‹ C. The usual elevator F, crusher G, and drying-apparatus H are also provided. Specifications No. 3109, A.D. 1878. No. 6118, A.D. 1889 and No. 20,221, A.D. 1893, [Abridgment Class Distilling &c.], are referred to.
Patent GB-190521268-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in, or connected with, Magneto-electric Apparatus for Igniting the Charge in Internal Combustion Motors
Inventor: ROMAIN MAURICE DE SAINT
Filed: 1905-10-19
Granted: 1906-05-03
Abstract: 21,268. Saint Romain, M. de. April 27, [date applied for under Patents Act, 1901]. Gas and like engines, igniting in. In magneto - electric machines for igniting the gaseous mixture of internalcombustion engines, high and low tension windings are wound on a single core 2, Fig. 1, through which passes the whole of the magnetic flux due to the inducing- poles N', S', Fig. 2, of the field 1, the number of alternations of the magnetic flux per revolution being equal to half the number of inducing - poles. The armature extensions 3, 4 extend from opposite ends of the core 2 in a direction parallel to the core axis. The circuit of the primary winding 5 is made and broken by means of a collector 7 keyed to an insulating sleeve 8 and engaging with a brush 10. The hightension winding 6 is connected to a terminal 13, which engages in each revolution of the armature with a contact 14 fixed to the stationary insulating plate 15.
Patent GB-190525384-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in the Construction of Ships
Filed: 1905-12-06
Granted: 1906-02-08
Abstract: 25,384. Palmer's Shipbuilding and Iron Co., and Long, A. E. Dec. 6. Frames and framing.- The longitudinal de c k girders e are made completely continuous a n d not notched over the deck beams. The transverse beams are made up of a number of divided lengths f, fitted between the longitudinals. These lengths may either be made up of flanged plates, as shown, or of partially-flanged plates secured by angles. The camber of the deck is an arc of a circle and the girders are set radially, so that all the divided lengths are of the same size. The separate transverse beam pieces are stiffened by longitudinal pieces k. The deck plating is made flush, so that it may be better adapted for covering with corticine.
Patent GB-190526065-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Apparatus for the Evaporation or Concentration of Liquids.
Inventor: PRACHE CHARLES LOUIS
Filed: 1905-12-14
Granted: 1906-12-14
Abstract: 26,065. Prache, C. L., and Bouillon, C. G. V. March 24, [date applied for under Patents Act, 1901]. Evaporators; heating, special means for.-An apparatus wherein the evaporation is effected by withdrawing the vapours emitted by the liquid and compressing them by a pump l into the heating- chamber is divided by a number of vertical partitions into chambers 1, 3, 3 ... through which the liquid circulates in series, the heating and vapour spaces being common to each of the chambers. The circulating-tubes project above the upper tubeplate, the "upflows" to a greater extent than the "downflows." The liquid passes from the centres of the several downflows n by tubes o to the succeeding chambers, where it is distributed by the baffles r. The supply of liquid to the first compartment is regulated by a float valve c. The Specification in the original form as published under the Act of 1901 comprises also an arrangement of apparatus resembling a multiple-effect, the liquid circulating in series through the concentrators, and the vapours being drawn off and compres ed into the heaters in parallel. This subject-matter does not appear in the Complete Specification as accepted.
Patent GB-190600220-A (GB)
Title: A New Game.
Inventor: PEARSON JAMES WILLIAM
Filed: 1906-01-03
Granted: 1906-12-31
Abstract: 220. Pearson, J. W. Jan. 3. No Patent granted (Sealing fee not paid). Puzzles.-Relates to a game or puzzle, the object of which is to manipulate certain balls from an annular race j through holes c in a metal ring b and into a central pocket d by way of openings e. The remaining balls are then manipulated into recesses or pockets f through holes g in the same. Various scoring values may be given to the pockets, and the score may be recorded by means of pins, adapted to engage holes m in a ring or cover k. The apparatus, which may be of any suitable size or shape, is preferably covered with a glass lid, and may be provided with a central slide for the withdrawal of the balls. The central pocket d may be pivoted in such a way as to facilitate the entrance of the balls, and thus render the game more difficult.