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Patent GB-189818700-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and connected with the Handle Bars of Bicycles.
Inventor: HOFMANN CARL
Filed: 1898-09-01
Granted: 1898-12-03
Abstract: 18,700. Hofmann, C. Sept. 1. Handles-bars; brakes.-Consists mainly of antivibration arrangements for bicycle handle-bars. The handle-bar g is carried by a rod f passing through a stuffing-box e and connected to a piston c working in a cylinder a<1> formed on the upper end of the stem a. The piston rests on a spiral spring d, and the cylinder is preferably filled with oil, glycerine, &c., perforations in the piston allowing the liquid to pass from one side of the piston to the other. A tube h on the handle-bar extends downwards over the stuffing-box, and is connected to the stem so that the latter turns with the handle-bars, which are, however, free to move vertically. The brake lever (not shown in Fig. 1) is not fixed to the handle-bar, but is pivoted to a block sliding in a curved slot in a plate fixed to the joint piece m. The brake lever is thus free to follow the movement of the handle-bar.
Patent GB-189822427-A (GB)
Title: Improved Brake Apparatus for Use on Railway and Tram Lines.
Inventor: PERRY GEORGE
Filed: 1898-10-25
Granted: 1899-08-05
Abstract: 22,427. Perry, G. Oct. 25. Brakes.-Two trough-shaped rails 4, lying alongside the tramway or railway rails 1 and connected by links 5 to a central fixed rail 7, are applied against the wheel flanges by turning a shaft 11 to which they are connected by rods 9 and levers 10. The shaft is actuated by a hand-lever 13 or a weighted block or handle 15 adapted to be slid into engagement with a key on the shaft and operated by a carriage axle.
Patent GB-189823654-A (GB)
Title: A New or Improved Rotary Weight Motor.
Inventor: MARTIN JAMES WILSON
Filed: 1898-11-10
Granted: 1899-10-14
Abstract: 23,654. Martin, J. W. Nov. 10. Weight motors; self-driving motors.-Weights F slide on the spokes of the motor wheel A, and are connected to counterbalance weights I by means of cords K passing over pulleys L. The counterbalance weights slide on the curved bars M. The weights F are fitted with rollers which engage with a grooved guide H, which is placed eccentrically to the wheel, so that, while the weights F are descending, their distance from the axis of the wheel is greater than when they are ascending. This arrangement, it is stated, causes the wheel to revolve continuously. The motor is stopped by putting the guide concentric to the wheel, and reversed by reversing its eccentricity, the counterbalance weights being simultaneously moved by suitable mechanism.
Patent GB-189826219-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Means or Apparatus for Recording and Reproducing Speech and other Sounds.
Inventor: JOHNSON JAMES YATE
Filed: 1898-12-12
Granted: 1899-03-11
Abstract: 26,219. Johnson, J. Y., [American Graphophone]. Dec. 12. Phonographs, graphophones, and like sound-recording instruments.-Relates to the arrangement of the recording-tool and the surface speed of the cylinder &c. for the reproduction of records of sounds. The tool E is preferably set at about an angle of 20‹ with the tangent of the point of contact with the cylinder. The tool is held in a tubular holder D attached at the side of the diaphragm and to the centre of the diaphragm C by means of stay arms d<1>. The diaphragm is held in position by cement on a ring B' cemented in turn on to the frame. The cylinder has a surface speed of about 44 metres per minute.
Patent GB-189902708-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Machine for Dyeing, Bleaching, Wetting-out, and Semi-mercerising Piece-goods.
Inventor: NEWELL HARRY
Filed: 1899-02-07
Granted: 1899-12-16
Abstract: 2708. Newell, H. Feb. 7. Mercerizing.-Relates to a machine for semi-mercerizing piece goods, in which two or three different pieces can be treated at the same time. Three pieces b, c, d, for example, are placed upon a table at the entrance to the machine, and are passed into the vat over brake bars e and f so as to maintain a suitable tension. In the vat, the pieces pass over and under two series of rollers g and h, and after leaving the vat they pass between nipping or squeezing rollers i and j, the upper one of which is weighted by a lever k. The uppermost piece is then carried to a cutting-apparatus p, and the other two pieces are wound on separate rollers or beams n and o, the axle of the upper roller being capable of rising and falling in vertical slots s. By means of a perforated pipe, water may be discharged upon the pieces as they enter the nipping- rollers in order to cool them.
Patent GB-189905310-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Microphones.
Inventor: GERMAIN PIERRE
Filed: 1899-03-10
Granted: 1900-03-03
Abstract: 5310. Germain, P. March 10. Telephones.-Microphones are formed with the granulated material, rods, lozenges, &c. consisting of an intimate mixture of baked carbon and a metal such as silver or copper. The mixture may be formed of carbon and the subdivided metal, or of carbon and the metal reduced from an oxide or salt. Fig. 1 shows a section of a microphone in which the lozenges a, b and the granulated material d are prepared in the above manner. The Specification also refers to heating the granulated material &c. by any means during transmission.
Patent GB-189906696-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Hair Pins.
Inventor: DISSOSWAY CROWELL MUNDY
Filed: 1899-03-28
Granted: 1899-07-15
Abstract: 6696. Dissosway, C. M., and Ehrlich, L. March 28. Hair - pins. - A pocket c is made in one prong near the head at the side or edge of the hair-pin, to catch in the hair, and the space between the prongs is narrower above than below the pocket.
Patent GB-189910852-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or connected with Derrick Gear for Ships and the like.
Inventor: MOSS WILLIAM EDWARD
Filed: 1899-05-24
Granted: 1900-03-24
Abstract: 10,852. Moss, W. E. May 24. Cranes.-Relates to derricks for ships' use. To obtain simultaneous slewing and luffing of the jib b, into the position shown in broken lines, a rope a is attached to the end of the jib and passes through blocks c and e on the mast d and the ship's side f respectively, and then to the jib again at g. A second rope j passes round pulleys k and m to the winch n. Double blocks may also be used.
Patent GB-189924516-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in the Decoration of Walls, Screens, and other such Surfaces.
Inventor: HORTON ARTHUR EDWARD
Filed: 1899-12-09
Granted: 1900-10-13
Abstract: 24,516. Horton, A. E. Dec. 9. Screens.-Lace, muslin, or other textile material is dipped in starch or other paste and applied to the screen, on which a background of the desired tint or colour has been painted. The fabric may be woven in colours, and the edges may be covered by mouldings.
Patent GB-190008471-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Electrical Accumulators.
Inventor: RENAUD LOUIS
Filed: 1900-05-08
Granted: 1900-12-08
Abstract: 8471. Renaud, L. Dec. 6, A.D. 1899, [date applied for under Sec. 103 of Patents &c. Act, A.D. 1883]. Secondary batteries. -- One of the electrodes, preferably the negative electrode, is made up of a lead trough A, Fig. 1, containing active material and serving also as the battery cell. In the active material are placed at intervals perforated tubes C of lead or of non-conducting material. Other openings, not shown, are also made in the active material to facilitate the circulation of the electrolyte and the escape of gases. The positive electrodes, which are provided with insulating- feet, are placed in the tubes C. The positive electrode may be a perforated tube E filled with active material in which may be inserted a wire F, or a screw G, or it may be made up of lead discs R threaded on a wire or rod. Fig. 3 shows another form of positive electrode, comprising four concentric perforated tubes K, J, M, N, with active material packed between two pairs of them, and, if the two pairs be insulated from each other, the appliance, Fig. 3, mav form a battery in itself. The tubes are preferably provided with bosses, studs, spikes, or the like, which project into the active material.
Patent GB-190009782-A (GB)
Title: Process and Apparatus for the Manufacture of Gas.
Inventor: CHISHOLM JAMES WHITE
Filed: 1900-05-28
Granted: 1900-10-06
Abstract: 9782. Chisholm, J. W. May 28. Gas -producers. - Relates to producers with electric " regenerators " or fixing-apparatus. In the arrangement shown, two producers F<1> are shown, which may be used alternately. These are charged with fuel from a hopper H by a chute l, and the fuel is stirred by an externally-operated weight m. Air is forced into the bottom of the furnace through a tube i, and steam is forced into, above, or below the fuel by nozzles S. The gas produced passes by the passage q to the dust separator D' having a depending wall P. It next passes through the single fixing-chamber or socalled "regenerator," consisting of a number of cylindrical chambers Q connected together alternately at top and bottom by openings s, and charged with porous crucibles w, in each of which is another like cup insulated therefrom. These two cups contain respectively iron and copper, or other materials of opposite polarities, so as to act electrically upon the gases to decompose them, the products immediately recombining while in a nascent state into a permanent fixed gas. The crucibles are separated from each other by porous insulating- material, so arranged that the heated gases can be forced through passages formed by the interstices between the parts. The gases then pass to a water-heater L. An exhaust pump E withdraws the gases. In a modification, the furnace is a down-draught one, the air being admitted at the top while the ashpit acts as a dust separator, a second dust separator being formed at the bottom of the first chamber Q. The down-draught furnace is preferred.
Patent GB-190009886-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Stub Pens.
Inventor: BURDSALL FRANK H
Filed: 1900-05-29
Granted: 1900-07-07
Abstract: 9886. Burdsall, F. H. May 29. Pens.-The n i b is made as shown in plan in Fig. 1 and side view in Fig. 2.
Patent GB-190010599-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Explosion Engines, Suitable for Horseless Carriages, Launches and Stationary Purposes.
Inventor: ADAMS SUSIE
Filed: 1900-06-11
Granted: 1900-10-27
Abstract: 10,599. Adams, S., [trading as Adams & Co., S.]. June 11. Gas or explosive-vapour engines.-The exhaust valve F and the oil pump Q are operated by the same eccentric P, which is driven at half the speed of the crank shaft by a raw-hide pinion M. The exhaust valve by means of the mechanism shown, has a sudden and irregular motion given to it. The cylinder cover and lever D<1> are cast in one piece, and have conical bearing-surfaces at each end on which the jacket D fits, while a continuation of the cylinder lever beyond the cylinder jacket fits into the crank chamber K. The engine is suitable for road vehicles and launches.
Patent GB-190011661-A (GB)
Title: Bottle Casings.
Inventor: GOLBY FREDERICK WILLIAM
Filed: 1900-06-27
Granted: 1900-12-15
Abstract: 11,661. Golby, F. W., [Gamper, A., and Degemeyer, C.]. June 27. Wrappers.-A bi-partite bottle casing, of the form shown in Fig. 6, is stamped out of a single piece of pasteboard, paper, &c.
Patent GB-190015625-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Steriliser.
Inventor: DEFRIES WOLF
Filed: 1900-09-03
Granted: 1901-07-06
Abstract: 15,625. Defries, W., and Feeny, V. I. Sept. 3. Disinfecting &c.-An apparatus for sterilizing or disinfecting instruments &c. comprises a heating- vessel A, having a perforated false bottom a, and connected by a pipe C with a chamber B fitted with shelves &c. H to receive the articles I to be sterilized, and covered by a lid K. A pipe E, parallel with the pipe C, but removed from it a short distance, and having a sluice valve F, leads from the bottom of the chamber B to below the false bottom a. The vessel can be emptied through an outlet pipe G. The upper end of the pipe C is perforated, the perforations being normally wholly or partially closed by a cap D which may have hollow arms c acting as a Barker's mill. In use the valves F and G are closed, and the chamber B is partially filled with disinfectant &c., the height being indicated by a gauge b. The valve F is opened to allow the liquid to flow into the vessel A, and is then closed. The liquid is then heated until the steam pressure forces it up through the pipe 0 on to the articles to be disinfected. Solid matter collecting in the chamber is removed periodically through the pipe G.
Patent GB-190106000-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Apparatus for the Supply or Delivery of Fluids in Exchange for Coins inserted therein
Inventor: STAPLES WALTER
Filed: 1901-03-21
Granted: 1901-12-31
Abstract: 6000. Staples, W. March 21. Gas Meters ; liquid meters; actuating-mechanism ; delivery mechanism.-Relates to price-varying mechanism for prepayment fluid meters, shown applied to a coin-freed meter of the kind described in Specification No. 20,710, A.D. 1899. A gear wheel a, fixed to a spindle b, is geared to an interchangeable gear wheel c, on the squared end of a spindle d, by one or more pinions f, f<1> carried by a plate e mounted loosely on the spindle b. This plate is clamped in position by a nut j and a bolt i engaging a segmental slot h<1>, and carries an arm g to hold the wheel c on the spindle d which engages a segmental slot h in the plate e.
Patent GB-190109664-A (GB)
Title: Improved Apparatus for Generating and Storing Acetylene-gas.
Inventor: SCHMITT FRIEDRICH
Filed: 1901-05-09
Granted: 1901-09-28
Abstract: 9664. Schmitt, F. May 9. Acetylene. - Relates to apparatus for generating and storing acetylene gas, of the type in which the supply of water to the carbide i s automatically regulated as the pressure of the generated gas varies. The apparatus comprises a chamber a, containing two generating-vessels b, b<1>, and a chamber h for storing the gas generated, both of which chambers are originally filled with water. Water enters the generating- vessels b, b<1> through valved openings e, e', arranged at different levels, and the gas generated passes by the pipes f, f<1> to a chamber m containing purifying-material, and thence by the pipes l, l<1> to the surface of the water in the chambers h, a. As the pressure accumulates, the water in these chambers is displaced into superposed chambers h<1>, a<1>, respectively. As the water level in the chamber a falls, the supply of water is cut off first from the generating-vessel b and afterwards from the generating-vessel b<1>. The chambers a<1>, h<1> communicate with the atmosphere, and the former is provided with a filling-opening q and overflow pipe r. For producing and storing larger quantities of gas, all the parts of this apparatus may be duplicated. In a modification, the chambers h, h<1> are situated below, instead of above, the chambers a, a' respectively.
Patent GB-190115140-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Machines for Automatically Separating a Desired Weight of Material from a Mass thereof, and Automatically Delivering the Same into a Package or other Receptacle
Inventor: HADDAN REGINALD
Filed: 1901-07-25
Granted: 1902-06-25
Abstract: 15,140. Haddan, R., [Lottridge, G. W.]. July 25. Automatic-feed weighers for sugar, starch, grain, &c., adapted for weighing and delivering into a package or other receptacle. A continuous feed passes into a rocking shoot 11, which delivers into the right or left branch of a fixed shoot 10, alternately, so as to charge one of the receptacles 4, which are carried on beams 2 having counterpoises 9. When a receptacle is charged, it descends, and its weighted door 31 is unlatched by a fixed bar 37 and is held open by a second latch 39. By means of a tripping-device 24 actuated by levers 26 on the falling receptacle, the catch 19 of a weighted lever 16 is released so that the lever falls over and brings with it the rocking shoot and its additional or decisive rocking weight 13. The shoot now discharges in:: the adjoining receptacle, which has been previously raised by its counterpoise.
Patent GB-190116354-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Fumigators or the like.
Inventor: KOENIG JOSEF
Filed: 1901-08-14
Granted: 1901-09-21
Abstract: 16,354. K÷nig, J. Aug. 14. Fumigating &c.-A fumigating-apparatus, especially adapted for preventing bees from attacking an operator, comprises a chamber e to contain tobacco &c., closed by gratings f, g and fitted with a hinged funnel k, through which the fumes are expelled. A current of air is forced by a fan c through a tube d to the lower part of the chamber e, part of it passing through the gratings and the tobacco, and the remainder going through a central tube i leading direct to the funnel k. The fan c is actuated by clockwork from a spring b, Fig. 4, the clockwork also actuating an arm n carrying a plate o which is carried over the air inlet of the fan as the fan rotates, the fan being stopped by a lug on the axle l engaging one of the wheels when the air inlet is closed. The tobacco &c. is ignited by removing the funnel k and grating g and dropping in some burning tinder &c.
Patent GB-190118429-A (GB)
Title: Furnace for Burning Ore Blocks or Briquettes
Inventor: GROENDAL GUSTAF
Filed: 1901-09-14
Granted: 1902-07-10
Abstract: 18,429. Gr÷ndal, G. Sept. 14. K i l n s.-Relates to a gas-fired furnace or kiln of the tunnel type for burning briquettes of iron ore. The briquettes are carried through the kiln on platform carriages which form a movable hearth, indicated by two dotted lines. Gas enters at a, and is burnt in the chamber b above the charge, and the products of combustion pass through the preliminary heating-chamber c to the chimney. Air enters at d, and passes under the movable hearth to the entrance end of the kiln, where a further supply is admitted at e; the mingled air currents then transverse the cooling - chamber f, and meet the gas entering at a. In traversing the chamber f, the briquettes are cooled and the air heated.
Patent GB-190120082-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Machines for Threading Tape or Ribbon into Lace Edgings.
Inventor: KOPS SAMUEL
Filed: 1901-10-08
Granted: 1901-11-16
Abstract: 20,082. Kops, S. Oct. 8. Bodkins. - R e - lates to a bodkin for use in a machine for threading tape or ribbon into lace edgings. The bodkin is tubular, as shown in Fig. 4, and is provided at one end with a solid head h<1> and is cut through transversely at the other end. The lace m is assembled on the bodkin h as shown at the right hand of Fig. 1, the head h<1> is removed, the tape or ribbon is drawn through the bodkin h, and its end is attached to the end of the lace and the two are then drawn off with the former threaded through the latter. Fig. 5 shows a crosssection of a modified form of needle in which the outer shell h is provided with a concentric inner shell h<2>, the ribbon being placed between the two shells.
Patent GB-190121580-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Couplings for the Worm Shafts and Worms of Conveyors for Grain and such like Materials and in Repairing the Worm on Worm Shafts of Conveyors for the aforesaid Purposes.
Inventor: SMITH THOMAS
Filed: 1901-10-28
Granted: 1902-10-28
Abstract: 21,580. Smith, T. Oct. 28. Conveyers.-Consists of improved means of coupling and repairing worm conveyers and their shafts. Two lengths of conveyer shaft are coupled by a split sleeve, which carries a worm of the correct diameter or pitch, comprising one, or two, complete turns. A broken part of a worm is made good by chipping down the broken part of the shaft for a length equal to the sleeve, which is then fixed in the space thus left. A similar sleeve may be used for repairing a worn-out journal, as shown in Fig. 3, where the sleeve 1 has a central plain part forming the journal and carries at each end a worm blade 3. The sleeves are secured by bolts 4 and 6 ; or, according to the Provisional Specification, by taper pins.
Patent GB-190126576-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Fuel Feeders for Furnaces.
Inventor: BROOKES ALFRED GEORGE
Filed: 1901-12-30
Granted: 1902-07-24
Abstract: 26,576. Brookes, A. G., [Bradley, P. B.]. Dec. 30. Pulverulent-fuel fittings.-Coal dust or like fuel is supplied from the hopper A to a rotary delivery device C, by which it is discharged into the furnace. A rotary feeding and loosening device a is fitted at the bottom of the hopper ; it consists of a hollow drum with pins passing through it and bearing on the central shaft. Below the hopper is a roller d, between which and an adjustable gate e the fuel falls. The gate e is adjusted by the hand-wheel e<2>, or by the band m<8> and drum m<9>, the band being operated by the lever m<5> and piston m<2>, so as to regulate the supply of fuel in accordance with the pressure of steam in a boiler when the invention is applied to a steam-boiler furnace. The delivery device C is constructed with vanes of bent sheet metal secured in grooves in the periphery of a drum by bars c<2>, as shown in Fig. 4. The bars are held in place by an encircling ring at each end. Air is introduced to mix with the fuel at h and h'.
Patent GB-190202176-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Parcels Carrier.
Inventor: CHIDELL LOUISA MARIA CAROLINE
Filed: 1902-01-27
Granted: 1902-03-20
Abstract: 2176. Chidell, L. M. C., and Snellgrove, C. H. Jan. 27. Parcelcarriers.-Two or more parcel-suspending hooks c are suspended from pins g in the slots b of a plate a to which a haudle d is attached. The handle is preferably fixed at one end e and at the other it is secured to the plate a by a stud-andslot arrangement f, so that it may be laid flat upon the plate when not in use, as shown in Fig. 2. The pins g are preferably depressed below the general surface of the plate a, so that the hooks c may be folded on the underside of the plate. The handle may bear advertisements.
Patent GB-190204823-A (GB)
Title: Improved Apparatus for Attaching and Detaching the Handle of a Brush or Broom and the like.
Inventor: ELSTONE JOSEPH
Filed: 1902-02-26
Granted: 1902-05-29
Abstract: 4823. Elstone, J. Feb. 26. Handles, fixing to stocks.-The handle a is fixed to the stock b of a brush or broom &c. by a socket d provided with a screw f, on which are carried a piece g for bearing on the stock, a rubber washer h, and a nut i. The handle is fixed to the socket d by screws &c. On turning the handle, the nut rises and expands the washer in the broom &c. socket c, thas fixing the handle.
Patent GB-190205154-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Locks for Locking Oil-pots and Bonnets to Miners' Safety Lamps; and in Magnets for Use in Unlocking the same.
Inventor: DAVIES HENRY
Filed: 1902-03-01
Granted: 1902-05-01
Abstract: 5154. Davies, H. March 1. Electromagnets for use in withdrawing spring bolts employed for securing the oilpots and bonnets to the bodies of miners' safety lamps. The magnet consists of a soft-iron core h, round which is wound a coil i of copper wire mounted between brass end-plates j, the parts being insulated. The core is secured to an iron base l, which is turned up in front towards the end of the core, both the base and the core being reduced in area at the ends.
Patent GB-190209233-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Sheet Metal Boxes.
Inventor: BREHMER AUGUST
Filed: 1902-04-21
Granted: 1902-05-29
Abstract: 9233. Brehmer, A. April 21. Metal boxes.-The lid d of a sheet-metal box has a lap a, which may be provided at both ends with ears a' to serve as hinge pivots. The upper edge of the box is formed, at the rear, with a bead c, bent inwards, the bead c<1> formed round the remainder of the edge being bent outwards, serving as bearings or sockets for the pivots a'. To insert the pivots into the bearings, the lid may be slit, or one of the ears or pivots a<2> may be cut off and replaced by a pin a<3>.
Patent GB-190211700-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Coffins or Caskets.
Inventor: JOHNSON CHARLES NEWTON
Filed: 1902-05-22
Granted: 1902-09-11
Abstract: 11,700. Johnson, C. N., and Ruble, S. P. May 22. Cofins. -The body 1 and lid 2 are made of glass, porcelain, or other indestructible material. The body is formed with beadings 4, 5, and is bevelled at the top to receive the lid. Dovetailed slots are formed in posts 6 at the sides to receive lead &c. plates 8 carrying handles 9. The slots open through the beading 5, so that the plates can be inserted from below. The lid is fixed by turn-buttons 15, the screws 16 of which are bedded in cement contained in hollow lugs 18.