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Patent GB-189920916-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Cushions, Pillows and other Articles of Upholstery and the like.
Inventor: PAYN EDWARD MARSHALL
Filed: 1899-10-19
Granted: 1900-09-01
Abstract: 20,916. Payn, E. M. Oct. 19. Curtains ; cushions ; pillows.-Instead of using a separate cord edging and stitching it on to the cushion, curtain, drapery, &c., the fabric of the cover a is made with a special edging which is turned over a rough core b and secured by stitching as shown in Fig. 2. The frill f may be attached by the same row of stitches c which secures the cord cover, or it may be dispensed with. Several widths of cord cover may be made around the edge of the fabric cover ; they may be cut off, and be secured separately as shown in sections in Fig. 4.
Patent GB-189921000-A (GB)
Title: A New or Improved Device for use in connection with Golf Clubs.
Inventor: BOGLE CATHERINE DOROTHEA
Filed: 1899-10-20
Granted: 1900-08-18
Abstract: 21,000. Bogle, C. D. Oct. 20. Golf.-Relates to an appliance to be secured to golf clubs, for use in picking up balls. A piece of sheet metal with eight radial arms is employed ; four arms a are bent up to secure the appliance to the end of the stick, and the four arms a' are bent down to form the clip. In a modification, a metal tube is provided with a series of slits extending from one end the greater part of its length, and half the arms thus produced are bent down to form the clip.
Patent GB-190000163-A (GB)
Title: Improved Automatic Make and Break for Electric Circuits.
Inventor: FARLANE PETER COCHRANE MC
Filed: 1900-01-03
Granted: 1900-11-03
Abstract: 163. McFarlane, P. C., and Reid, D. Jan. 3. Switches.-A periodic make and break is obtained by fitting a contact - spring B on one of the arms of an escapement A. The spring is insulated from the arm, though connected to a terminal G by a spring F, and makes contact at intervals with pins C carried by the escapement-wheel D.
Patent GB-190002309-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Barbed Wire.
Inventor: CARROLL FRANCIS CARLTON
Filed: 1900-02-06
Granted: 1900-12-15
Abstract: 2309. Carroll, F. C. Feb. 6. Fencing.-Barbed wire is formed of two strands, which are twisted as shown at 1, 1<a>, Fig. 1, to serve as collars or stops for the barbs 3, which are loosely mounted on one of the strands or wires between the collars so as to be revoluble thereon. Instead of using stops as in Fig. 1, the barbs may be mounted on straight portions 8 of one wire, the other wire having at these parts loops 7. In another modification, the barbs may be mounted on bends 10 of a single wire. The barbs have one arm long or weighted, which serves to cause the other or short arm to point upwards ; but the barbs, being loosely mounted, will be rotated when cattle &c. press against them, thus preventing injury to the cattle &c.
Patent GB-190004277-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Watch Safety Devices.
Inventor: SAVELAND JOHN
Filed: 1900-03-06
Granted: 1900-04-14
Abstract: 4277. Saveland, J. March 6. Protectors, watch.- Relates to safety devices for watches. Fig. 2 shows a form suitable for gentlemen. The watch is attached to a hook 9 on a chain 8, the end of which is passed through a slot 7 in the pocket 6 and is secured by a catch 12 to a band 11 carrying an ornament 13 which is too large to pass through the slot 7. A disc 10 prevents the chain 8 from being drawn through the opening. This form allows the watch to be withdrawn until the ornament 13 engages the pocket. In the application to a lady's watch shown in Fig. 6, an ornamental disc 13 is secured direct to the chain 8, the band 11 being dispensed with. A ribbon 15 and ornament 16 may be secured to the disc 13.
Patent GB-190005237-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Machinery for Breaking or Scutching Flax or other Fibrous Materials.
Inventor: MACKIE THOMAS FRASER
Filed: 1900-03-20
Granted: 1901-01-26
Abstract: 5237. Mackie, T. F., and Shaw, G. March 20. Breaking and scutching apparatus.-Relates to means for imparting- to the breaking or scutching rollers a continuous and also a reciprocating motion. The rollers are driven from the spur pinion F<1>, which is driven through the bevel-wheels E', G, E and change gearing from the shaft L, the bevel-wheel G being carried on the end of a lever or arm, which is oscillated by means of an eccentric K and adjustable connecting-rod J. The eccentric K is driven from the shaft L through change gearing. Any suitable arrangement of epicyclic gearing may be substituted for the arrangement of three bevel-wheels described.
Patent GB-190016018-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in the Manufacture of the Locking Studs of the End Doors of Railway Wagons and Trucks.
Inventor: LONES JABEZ
Filed: 1900-09-08
Granted: 1901-06-01
Abstract: 16,018. Lones, J., and Holden, E., [trading as Lones, Vernon, & Holden]. Sept. 8 Rolling, forging.-Locking-studs for the end doors of railway wagons and trucks are made by rolling a bar in grooved rolls to produce a series of joined blanks such as is shown in Fig. 2 or Fig. 3, the rolls having a series of suitable grooves or passes. The bar shown in Fig. 2 is divided at the lines f, g, and the bar shown in Fig. 3 at the lines h, to give separate blanks. The thickened end d of the blank is then reduced to the finished size, Fig. 1, by passing it into grooves in gapped rolls, the grooves being shaped to reduce it in successive stages, leaving a collar c and bevelling or pointing the end d. The flat portion a is then cranked in a stamp or hammer, the thickened portioned e preserving the proper thickness of metal when cranked. The slot d<2> and holes d<3>, Fig. 1, are formed in the ordinary way.
Patent GB-190109291-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in the Production of Cinematic Pictures, and in Apparatus for Viewing the Same.
Inventor: ROSENBERG AUGUSTUS
Filed: 1901-05-04
Granted: 1902-03-20
Abstract: 9291. Rosenberg, A. May 4. Kinematographs-Relates to the production of the picture strips, and to apparatus for viewing them. Sheets of kinematographic pictures are printed from blocks obtained by known processes from the photographic strips after cutting them up and placing them side by side. The sheets are perforated and numbered so that they can be torn into strips, which are then gummed end to end to form a strip for use in the kinematograph. This strip S passes from the roll E, between friction rolls f and guide-pulleys g, g', g<2>, to the drum D, which is rotated by a crank handle d. The strip is kept on the drum by a friction roll L, and may be arranged to pass out of the casing at n'. The pictures are viewed by reflection in a mirror H, which is caused to oscillate synchronously with the movement of the strip by means of an arm k engaging pins m on the drum D. A spring j ensures the quick return of the mirror. The mirror reflects one whole picture and parts of the two adjacent ones.
Patent GB-190111897-A (GB)
Title: Improvements connected with the Opening of Envelopes
Inventor: TYERMAN WILLIAM HENRY
Filed: 1901-06-11
Granted: 1901-11-16
Abstract: 11,897. Tyerman, W. H. June 11. Envelopes.-A suitably-shaped card A, which may bear advertisements, is enclosed in the envelope. On pulling the projecting part B, the envelope is cut open. A recess C is left where the envelope is to be grasped whilst opening. The card A may be made double and folded.
Patent GB-190113032-A (GB)
Title: Improved Process for the Reduction of Ores or Compounds by Means of the Electric Current.
Inventor: IRVINE HUGH ALEXANDER
Filed: 1901-06-26
Granted: 1901-07-27
Abstract: 13,032. Irvine, H. A. June 26. Drawings to Specification. Phosphorus.-Ores or chemical compounds are reduced for the production of phosphorus or other substance, by heating with a flux and a reducing- agent such as carbon, by contact with a layer of the residual slag, which is kept fused by passage of electric current through it. The operation is started by passing the current through conducting material such as granulated coke, covered with the ore &c. For the manufacture of phosphorus, a mixture of phosphate of lime or alumina with coal and a silicate may be used.
Patent GB-190118248-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Non-conducting Composition for Preventing the Radiation or Transmission of Heat.
Inventor: HERDMAN GEORGE ALBERT
Filed: 1901-09-12
Granted: 1902-07-10
Abstract: 18,248. Herdman, G. A. Sept. 12. Non-conducting compositions.-A non-conducting composition for preventing the radiation or transmission of heat is made from slagwool, dried and finely-ground ordinary yellow clay, and a weak solution of silicate of soda, with or without a fibrous material such as cow-hair or coco-nut fibre worked up with the composition to form a bond for the mixture while in the plastic condition. The composition is applied to boilers, steam pipes, and other surfaces in the ordinary way of plastic covering-materials.
Patent GB-190119899-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Apparatus for Compressing Fuel for Coke Ovens and other Purposes.
Inventor: THOMPSON WILLIAM PHILLIPS
Filed: 1901-10-05
Granted: 1902-08-28
Abstract: 19,899. Thompson W. P., [Darby, J. H.]. Oct. 5. Moulding fuel.-Fuel for coke ovens, gas retorts, storage, &c. is rammed into a box F, the sides of which can be freed simultaneously to such an extent that the compressed cake can be pushed into the oven &c. on a movable peel. The sides of the box may be hinged at the bottom on opposite sides of the peel, and operated at the top by means of eccentrics H on shafts I mounted in framework J and operated by worm gearing K and a band-wheel L. In another method, the sides are not hinged, but are operated at the bottom also by eccentrics.
Patent GB-190121366-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Infusers for Tea Coffee and the like
Inventor: LINDSELL HERBERT GEORGE
Filed: 1901-10-24
Granted: 1901-11-30
Abstract: 21,366. Lindsell, H.G. Oct. 24. Tea, coffee, &c. making apparatus.- The infuser consists of two hemispheres a, b of wire or other straining - ma- terial, which may be united by the screw threads a', b<2>.
Patent GB-190121830-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Apparatus for the Steaming or Finishing of Textile Fabrics.
Inventor: LISTER JOHN THOMAS
Filed: 1901-10-30
Granted: 1902-10-30
Abstract: 21,830. Lister, J. T. Oct. 30. Steaming; shrinking.-In steaming fabrics with a view to shrinking them the fabrics are wound on a skeleton wheel a composed of laths a' secured to end discs a<3>, a<4>, and the reel is mounted on a perforated steam pipe b, within a drum c, the body of which consists of outer and inner surfaces c<1>, c<2>, secured to flanges c<3> on the ends. The outer surface c<1> is preferably a bad conductor of heat, so that this and the air space between both surfaces may serve to maintain the heat within the drum. Apertures a<7> permit the steam to escape to the exterior of the fabric, which is thus steamed from both sides. The drum is mounted on an arm d' of a standard d, so as to be turned into the vertical position while the fabric is being steamed, the condensed steam escaping through perforations C<11> at the base. A coating of felt may be applied at the other end of the drum and to other parts to absorb moisture, so that the operating-steam may be always dry. To remove or insert the fabric, the drum is moved to the position shown, the drum being in two longitudinal hinged parts, to permit this insertion and withdrawal.
Patent GB-190123131-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or connected with Conduits for Electric Railways and Tramways.
Inventor: CORNWALLIS-WEST GEORGE FREDERI
Filed: 1901-11-15
Granted: 1902-08-28
Abstract: 23,131. Cornwallis - West, G. F. M. Nov. 15. Electric railways and tramways on the conduit system. Conduits ; conductors ; insulation.-The slotted conduit is formed of two blocks A, B of insulating devitrified glass material or " Garchey vitreous " stone" held together by clamps. The bottom may be eloped towards the ends, and provided with drainage holes <;,/ and also with connections for flushing it. The conductor n may be attached by screws to blocks cast in the part A, or lengths of the conductor may be cast in as shown in Fig. 6. and suitably connected at their ends. A metal strip s to catch leakage currents may be attached.
Patent GB-190123192-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Tie-clips or Attachments and in the Attachment of Ties thereto.
Inventor: CURTIS HERBERT EDWARD
Filed: 1901-11-16
Granted: 1902-08-14
Abstract: 23,192. Curtis, H. E. Nov. 16. Necktie retainers.-A necktie, bow. scarf, or like clip or attaching-device comprises a central part A, with a stud opening B, and arms D with terminal hooks E to be sprung under the edge of the collar, and is either sewn &c. at the part A to a made-up bow or scarf, or provided with a rigid or hinged loop G for holding a piece of material to be tied or folded by the wearer.
Patent GB-190125994-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to the Manufacture of Explosives, Celluloid and the like.
Inventor: ROBERTSON ROBERT
Filed: 1901-12-19
Granted: 1903-02-19
Abstract: 25,994. Robertson, R., and Rintoul, W. Dec. 19. Drawings !o Specification. Coated fabrics.-Relates to the recovery of acetone used as a solvent in the manufacture of articles or materials in which a dissolved nitrocellulose or its equivalent is employed. The air containing the acetone vapour is brought into contact, preferably by the process described in Specification No. 25,993, A.D. 1901, [Abridgment Class Acids, alkalies, &c.], with solutions of bisulphites, such as sodium and potassium bisulphite, the acetone being thereby absorbed. The bisulphite compound is then distilled to separate the acetone. The bisulphite solution is cooled before distillation, to enable the greater part of the sulphate contained in it to crystallize and be removed, the complete rectification being effected by the addition of an alkali before or after distillation.
Patent GB-190205407-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Woven Pile Fabrics
Inventor: DORNAN THOMAS BENTON
Filed: 1902-03-04
Granted: 1902-05-08
Abstract: 5407. Dornan, T. B. March 4. Pile fabrics; carpets.-A pile fabric, of more than one ply, is woven of sets 1, 2, 3, 4, of weft threads, sets b, b<1>, of binder warp threads, and sets c, d, e, f, g, of pile warp threads ; a set of stuffer warp threads s, is also employed. The binder warp threads pass alternately from ply to ply, and the pile threads are brought to the surface successively, as shown, or as may be required by the nature of the pattern. The binding of the pile threads is effected by the weft threads of the upper and lower plies alternately.
Patent GB-190215787-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Machinery or Apparatus for Making Basket Wicker Work.
Inventor: POHORZELECK ARNO
Filed: 1902-07-15
Granted: 1903-06-18
Abstract: 15,787. Pohorzeleck, A. July 15. Looms for wickerwork.-In machines for making baskets, the stakes 23 are moved so as to form the shed for the flexible withes by means of spring clips or grippers, of which one set is carried by a fixed bar 1 and the other by a reciprocating bar 2. The grippers on the moving bar 2 are held closed or allowed to open by means of cams or projections 25 on a shaft 24, which is turned through a quarter of a revolution at each reciprocation of the bar. The grippers on the bar 1 are held by springs only. When the bar 2 has approached the bar 1, certain of the grippers on the bar 2 are locked in the closed position by their projections 25, and the stakes which have entered these grippers are removed from the corresponding grippers on the bar 1 and raised, while the others remain in the grippers of the bar 1. At the next reciprocation of the bar 2, those stakes which were held by its grippers are retained by those on the bar 1, while the empty grippers on the bar 2 seize and remove the stakes from the corresponding grippers on the bar 1. By this means, a different shed is formed at each reciprocation of the bar 2. Fig. 2 shows the arrangement of the machine for forming a plain basket bottom. The stakes are secured in a clamp 42, which is connected to the ends of a cord or chain 43 passing over pulleys as shown, of which the pulley 45 is connected with its shaft through a friction clutch or brake. The bar 2 carrying the reciprocating grippers is carried by the levers 56, and is operated by an eccentric 51 and lever 58. After the withes have been laid in the shed either by hand or by the apparatus described in Specification No. 17,863, A.D. 1902, they are beaten up by a bar 40 operated by a crank disc 38, the force exerted by the beat-up bar causing the clamping- bar 42 to slide along the rods 41 against the action of the friction clutch or brake. A modified machine is described for making the sides of square hampers after the bottom has been formed, the bottom being supported upon a frame or block, which can be adjusted according to the size of the basket bottom, and be partially rotated to bring the sides in succession into position. Reference is also made to Specification No. 5299, A.D. 1902.
Patent GB-190216230-A (GB)
Title: Pigment Spraying Mechanisms for Button Stencilling Machines
Inventor: HORMBY JOHN
Filed: 1902-07-21
Granted: 1902-11-27
Abstract: 16,230. Hormby, J. July 21. Stencilling - apparatus. - Relates to pigmentspraying mechanisms for button-stencilling apparatus, such as that described in Specification No. 16,229, A.D. 1902. Fig. 3 represents a sectional elevation of apparatus having general mechanism and three series of stencils as described in the prior Specification, and Fig. 13 is a sectional view of one of the sprays and reservoirs for pigment, colour, shellac, &c. The reservoirs are clamped on a carrier loosely journalled on the shaft a and oscillated as described in the prior Specification. Each reservoir is fitted with a nozzle T for spraying, and is connected by a pipe S' and flexible tubing S to an air chamber R, which is supported on a bracket V, and supplied with compressed air through a pipe R<1>. A normally-closed escape valve of the chamber R is provided with a roller R<4> for co-operation with a cam-disc U, which is mounted on one of the step carrier shafts c, and provided with as man projections u as there are seats in the buttoncarrier on the shaft a.
Patent GB-190225237-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Starching Machines
Inventor: RICKEY WILLIAM HENRY
Filed: 1902-11-17
Granted: 1903-06-11
Abstract: 25,237. Rickey, W. H. Nov. 17. Starching clothes and the like. - The articles, fed between travelling bands b, c, are carried through hot starch in a tank a, and pass over a roller t, cold starch being applied by a tank i, which reciprocates above a table g. The tension of the band b is regulated by means of a rod f connected to a movable bearing of the end roller d. The tension of the band c is regulated by handledrods g', which govern the position of one of the upper carrying - rolls. The cold-starch tank i carries pivoted rods j bearing weights q and provided with sleeves p, which are connected to arms r pivoted to the machine and are operated by rods k connected to driving- wheels l. The outlet for starch is controlled hy bolts 1 and springs 6. To prevent collars &c. from adhering to the cold-starch applying-rollers, they are provided with knives 2 guided by smooth surfaces at the ends of the rollers. The roller t is mounted in vertically-movable bearings, and is pressed upwards by a weighted lever u.
Patent GB-190225669-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Fire Escapes
Inventor: PORTER WILLIAM H
Filed: 1902-11-21
Granted: 1903-01-15
Abstract: 25,669. Porter, W. H. Nov. 21. Fire-escapes.-Relates to a portable fire-escape consisting of a steel tape wound on a spindle in a casing, and an automatic braking-apparatus. The end of the steel tape 20, Fig. 8, is connected to a piece of furniture in a room, the person to be lowered being attached to the casing. When the coil of tape and its spindle begin to rotate, during a descent, the semicircular brake blocks 15, 16, sliding on radial arms 12, are thrown out by centrifugal force and help to retard the descent. At the same time, a lever 10 pivoted to the outer end of one of the arms 9 tightens a strap brake 13, on its drum 14, the end of this lever being fitted in a notch in the bar 12. The result is that these two brakes regulate the speed of descent automatically.
Patent GB-190300110-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or connected with Lubricators.
Inventor: WALLACH LEWIS CHARLES
Filed: 1903-01-02
Granted: 1903-11-26
Abstract: 110. Wallach, L. C., and Sonneborn, J. Jan. 2. Lubricators.-Solid or semi-solid lubricant is delivered from a container through the medium of a piston actuated by water pressure, such as the pressure from the ordinary water-supply main. The container 1 is closed by a screwed cover 8, provided with a packing-strip 9 &c. The lubricant is placed below a piston 2 working in the container, the piston-rod passing out through a gland in the cover and serving to indicate the quantity of lubricant in the container. Water is supplied above the piston by means of a nozzle 10 controlled by a cock 11. The lubricant is forced out of the container by the pressure of the water on the piston, the rate of feed being controlled by a delivery cock 3. A distributing-pipe 4 may be fitted to the cock 3 and to this pipe are connected a number of cocks 5 controlling the supply to the different parts to be lubricated. In charging the container, the piston is raised, the water above the piston passing out through a pipe 12 controlled by a cock 13 and air being admitted below the piston through a cock 14 ; the cover and piston are then detached and the container is filled with lubricant. According to the Provisional Specification, the cover may be fixed to the container body by pivoted bolts on one part engaging forked lugs on the other part.
Patent GB-190300146-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Apparatus for the Prevention of the Escape of Dust from Refuse Destructors and other Furnaces and Flues.
Inventor: NEWTON WILLIAM JOSEPH
Filed: 1903-01-03
Granted: 1904-01-02
Abstract: 146. Newton, W. J., Diggle, R., and Watson, G. Jan. 3. Refuse - consuming &c. furnaces. - Relates to improvements upon the arrangement described in Specification No. 12,752, A.D. 1897, for arresting the dust &c. in smoke escaping from refuseconsuming furnaces. To avoid stopping the draught when removing the deposited ash, the chamber D, which is built around a downtake B, or a chimney, is formed with dust pockets F having openings tangential to the swirl of the gases. The pockets are formed with the cleaning-doors H, and with other doors G which close under the action of the draught wben the cleaning-doors are opened. The circular chamber may be built around the base of a chimney without the intervention of a central downtake.
Patent GB-190300543-A (GB)
Title: Manufacture on Para-para<1>-diamidoacidyldiphenylamines and of Para-para<1>-diamidodiphenylamine therefrom.
Inventor: IMRAY OLIVER
Filed: 1903-01-08
Granted: 1903-11-19
Abstract: 543. Imray, O., [Farbwerke vorm. Meister, Lucius, & Br³ning]. Jan. 8. p - p<1> - Diamidoformyldiphenylamine. - Dinitroformyldiphenylamine or dinitro-acetyl - diphenylamine, prepared by nitrating formyl or acetyldiphenylamine is finely ground and mixed with water, and the mixture is slowly introduced into a mixture of iron filings and a little hydrochloric or sulphuric acid, the whole being heated to 60‹- 90‹ C. for about five hours, while stirring. On cooling, the mass is treated with more acid until hydrogen begins to be evolved, to separate the base from the excess of iron, and, after filtration of the solution, the base is separated from the filtrate by sodium acetate. p-p<1>-Diamidodiphenylamine.-Either of the acidyl bodies formed as above is hydrolysed by acidifying the reduced mass with sulphuric acid, and boiling.