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Patent GB-190302452-A (GB)
Title: A New Filtering Bag
Inventor: SCHMIDT CARL FREIDRICH
Filed: 1903-02-02
Granted: 1903-03-05
Abstract: 2452. Schmidt, C. F. Feb. 2. Bag-filters; filtering essences and food preparations.-A seamless bag is woven from single or double threads of cotton, linen, or balf-linen yarn with fairly large meshes. The bag is sterilized, and the edge hemmed.
Patent GB-190306606-A (GB)
Title: Apparatus for Painting or Pasting Ceilings, Walls and the like.
Inventor: MEINECKE CARL
Filed: 1903-03-21
Granted: 1903-06-04
Abstract: 6606. Meinecke, C. March 21. Painting. -Relates to apparatus for painting ceilings, walls, and the like. A vessel b containing paint is carried by a handle a and is provided with a roller h which travels on the ceiling or wall to be painted. The roller h is carried by adjustable arms g and is connected by chain gear with revolving brushes d, e, the latter of which dips into the paint and feeds it to the former. One or more wipers o in the form of slides are used in connection with the brushes d, which are of ordinary form but are screwed into the stock c so as to be adjustable. The whole brush is further adjustable by being carried together with the brush e by arms q which are movable round a central screw fitted with a thumb-nut.
Patent GB-190306618-A (GB)
Title: Improvement connected with Coin Freed Apparatus.
Inventor: KELSEY LUCIEN
Filed: 1903-03-21
Granted: 1904-01-21
Abstract: 6618. Kelsey, L., [Pelzer & Co.]. March 21. Money shoots ; fraud, preventing.- Relates to apparatus requiring two coins to operate it. The shoot A leads to a chamber B which contains a pivoted T-piece C having play between two stops I, G so that it directs the first coin down a branch shoot E, and being thereby tilted, directs the second coin down the main shoot D with recovery of its initial position. Coin action.- Both coins may take part in the releasing-action, or, as shown, only the second, which is drawn out by the actuating- slide K and lifts a detent N out of engagement therewith.
Patent GB-190307412-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Apparatus for the Treatment and Distribution of Sewage and Trade Effluents.
Inventor: RAMSBOTTOM HANNIBAL
Filed: 1903-03-31
Granted: 1904-03-03
Abstract: 7412. Ramsbottom, H., Horrocks, B., and Newton, W. J. March 31. Right to Patent relinquished. Sewage and foul waters, treating; filtering. - Sewage and factory effluents are distributed over filter beds by means of revolving apparatus in which no joints are employed. The pipe A, in the centre of the tilter bed 1, supplies the sewage through apertures C into a revolving annular tank E, provided with tangential exits G. A plate or apron D serves to throw the liquid outwards. Distributing-pipes H, provided with cleansing- caps J, are fitted in the exits, and, with the tank E, are supported by a cap with a ball or pivot joint B.
Patent GB-190307587-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Electrolytic Meters.
Inventor: CAROLAN EDGAR ALFRED
Filed: 1903-04-01
Granted: 1904-03-31
Abstract: 7587. Carolan, E. A., [General Electric Co.]. April 1. Quantity meters. - An electrolytic meter has one electrode carried by a float 7, which is graduated vertically to read against an indicator 21 on another float 23, the whole being enclosed by a glass receptacle 1 with a stopper 14. Mercury electrodes may be used in a solution of mercurous nitrate. The anode may be carried on an annular shelf or trough, connection with it being made by a wire passed through the stopper and coated with insulating-material 15 to protect the wire from the solution. The float 7 may be of glass, with a graduated neck 19, and a depending tube 6 carrying an open bulb 5, which contains the cathode. A wire sealed in the lower end of the tube 6 connects the cathode to some mercury in this tube; a connecting-wire 13, secured in the stopper, dips in the mercury in the tube 6. A wire 17 projects from the bulb 5 into mercury in a tube 18, to compensate for the varying displacement of mercury in the tube 6 by the wire 13, and to guide the float. The indicator 21 is a ring carried by arms on an annular float 23. The meter is shunted by a main resistance 10. Both electrodes may be movable, the second one being carried by the float 23.
Patent GB-190312344-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Fireplaces and Stoves for Hospitals, Schools, Dwelling Houses, and other Places.
Inventor: SHORLAND FRANK HERBERT
Filed: 1903-05-30
Granted: 1904-03-24
Abstract: 12,344. Shorland, F. H. May 30. Air, heating.-Relates to stoves and fireplaces for hospitals, schools, dwellinghouses, &c., and having a chamber at the back for heating the air supply to the room. This chamber c, the capacity of which is increased by making the back a and sides of the grate of a curved form, is traversed by baffles f and opens at the top into the usual shafts p, which may lead into the same room or into the room above. Mica flaps h are fitted to the air inlet g.
Patent GB-190317366-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Folding or Collapsible Gates, Window Guards and the like.
Inventor: CLARK ALFRED
Filed: 1903-08-10
Granted: 1904-05-05
Abstract: 17,366. Clark, A. Aug. 10. Lifts.-Gates are formed from horizontal frames a, Fig. 1, composed of two bars riveted together with distance - pieces between them, and connected by one or more systems of double lazy-tongs devices, each consisting of a series of links b pivoted at their centres d while their extremities carry pins e sliding in slots f. The frame is shown in Fig. 2 as applied to lifts or hoists, the gate k being supported by a rope l and a counterweight n, which automatically closes the gate when the lift rises. The opening may be effected by the lift as it descends, or the gate may gear with a part of the lift and be closed by its ascent, or the gate may close by its own weight, a projection on the lift raising it during ascent.
Patent GB-190321224-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Duplex Pumping Engines
Inventor: ODDIE PHILIP FRANCIS
Filed: 1903-10-03
Granted: 1904-08-18
Abstract: 21,224. Oddie, P. F. Oct. 3. Drawings to Specification. Duplex pumps.-Relates to a steam valve gear of a similar nature to that described in Specification No. 23,782, A.D. 1896, in which the valves are moved at right-angles to the piston stroke and each piston-rod controls the expansion valve of its own cylinder and the main valve of the other through a cam-plate which reciprocates with it, the arrangement being specially applicable for use with separately-cast cylinders and also with compound cylinders.
Patent GB-190405240-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Blade-holder for that Class of Devices that are used for Automatically Reversing a Razor Blade at the End of each Pull of the Strop while Stropping the same.
Inventor: WATTS JOHN ROBERT
Filed: 1904-03-03
Granted: 1905-01-05
Abstract: 5240. Watts, J. R. March 3. Strops.-Relates to razor strops in which the blade is reversed alternately every time the direction of movement of the strop E is reversed. The holder A is formed of metal, the sides of which are corrugated and shaped to form a spring slide, and is mounted, by means of lugs B, on the main frame C. The upper part of the holder works in conjunction with the hollow roller piece D, pivoted on the frame C. The strop E passes over the roller D and between the two bars h on the limbs of the frame C. Each time the direction of stropping is reversed, the hollow roller D reverses the holder A to bring the edge of the razor into contact with the strop.
Patent GB-190405653-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in the Working of Sewage Sprinklers or Distributors.
Inventor: HOWARD EDWIN THOMAS
Filed: 1904-03-08
Granted: 1904-04-28
Abstract: 5653. Howard, E. T. March 8. Sewage, treating; filtering.-Sprinklers for sewage filters are propelled by floats or discs acted on by the flowing sewage or sewage effluent. Sewage enters by the pipe D, and after percolating through the bed B, runs into the channel A, where the current carries round with it floats or discs F, by which the arms E are actuated.
Patent GB-190408179-A (GB)
Title: A New or Improved Table Game and Implements used therein.
Inventor: HARRINGTON JOHN
Filed: 1904-04-09
Granted: 1905-02-09
Abstract: 8179. Harrington, J. April 9. G a m e s played with balls, projectors, towers, b ridges, fortifications, cues, and mallets. - A game is played by projecting balls on a table at bridges b, Figs. 1 and 5, pivoted in front of openings in a tower A and walls B, along which are placed towers a. Normally the bridges b are raised so as to protect pivoted supports d, which hold flags c in raised positions. Each player tries by projecting a ball along the table to hit the lower parts b<2> of one of the bridges, and so to lower the bridge to the position shown in Fig. 5. He then tries to send a ball up the incline b, and so to lower a flag c by moving a support d. The balls may be struck by a cue or mallet, but preferably by a projector, Fig. 6, which consists of a plunger g, guided by holes in supports f. The plunger g is forced back against the action of a spring k, and is held in this position by a spring-controlled sliding plate h, which engages a notch g<1> in the plunger. The ball is guided into position for discharging by an incline j, formed preferably of two wires, and the plunger g is operated by depressing the plate h. The walls B are connected to a guard, which prevents the balls from falling off the table. The projector can be used for other games.
Patent GB-190416980-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Vending Machines.
Inventor: HOWORTH FRANKLIN WISE
Filed: 1904-08-03
Granted: 1905-04-13
Abstract: 16,980. Howorth, F. W., [Pumphrey, W. H.]. Aug. 3. Sale apparatus for small packages or boxes containing gum, candy, matches, or the like. Delivery mechanism.-A sliding ejector 9, Fig. 1, moving over guides 17, which it engages by spurs 23, and over a shelf or ledges 27, thrusts the bottom article 11 of a stack from a magazine 5 into a shoot 6. Actuating - mechanism ; coin action; coin-discharging mechanism.-A spring-returned pusher 13 extending inwards as a spike 10 thrusts the coin, which is dropped through a slit in the ejector, along the guides 17, pressing it against the spurs 23 of the ejector. When released, the pusher carries the ejector back with it by pressure at the collar 9<a>, after letting the coin drop beyond the guides. Fraud, preventing.-The diameter and thickness of the coin are gauged by lugs at 20 on the socket through which the pusher works. Card or thin metal is pierced by the spike, and string is cut by an oblique blade 22 on the ejector. To prevent advancing the ejector by shaking the machine, resistance is offered by spring pawls 24, 24<a>, Figs. 5 and 6, engaging recesses 25, or the ejector must be rocked upon trunnions by the thrust in order to clear the ledges 27. The gap between the guides allows paper &c. to be cleared out. Empty machines, locking action of ; coin-slit closing-devices.-A weight 12 following the articles engages the recesses 25 to prevent the ejector from returning and re-opening the coin-slit. Money boxes.-The coins drop into a hinged tray 3 which is held up to a seat by hooks 31.
Patent GB-190417304-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Water Heating and Steam Generating Apparatus.
Inventor: FIRTH ARTHUR
Filed: 1904-08-08
Granted: 1905-06-08
Abstract: 17,304. Firth, A. Aug. 8. Water-heaters, gas &c.-The products of combustion from the gas or other fuel employed pass through a helical or otherwise coiled p i p e placed inside the boiler. The coiled pipe D is attached to the apex of the conical lower plate B of the boiler A. The gas burners C are placed in a recess in the flange A'.
Patent GB-190422108-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Spinning and Doubling Machines.
Inventor: SMITH WILLIAM THOMAS
Filed: 1904-10-14
Granted: 1905-08-17
Abstract: 22,108. Smith, W. T. Oct. 14. Sp i n d l e apparatus.- The cop spindle A, Fig. 2, of spinning and doubling machines is driven frictionally by a large sleeve or extension d' on the concentric guide or flyer spindle D, which is driven positively by a wharl E. The extension d<1> embraces the cop spindle, and passes down the interior of a collar B carried by the top rail, and thus forms a supporting-bearing for the spindle A, which is also carried in a footstep bearing on the bottom rail, or is otherwise supported. The collar B forms a bearing for the guide-spindle D. In modifications, a leather or spring washer inserted like spring packing in the interior of the hollow guide or flyer and engaging the surface of the spindle A may be used to drive the latter frictionally ; or a concave or cup-shaped washer may be used, having an inclined or bevelled edge to maintain one member of the washer firmly pressed against the cop spindle ; or a spring clip or clamp, say a split bush with a spring to keep it in frictional contact with the spindle A, may be used, or the clip may be formed by punching a hole in a piece of sheet metal and bending the ends upwards on to and around the spindle A. A drag or brake band g, Fig. 4, connected to a spring H or weight, acts on the spindle A or on a pulley G ou the lower end of the latter. According to the Provisional Specification, the drag band is also attached to a sliding or rotating drag rail or rod, moved longitudinally or slowly rotated to apply a variable drag to the spindle ; or a cam-actuated brake may be used, and a compound cam with quick return motion and clutch or train of wheels and bevel gear may be used to regulate the drag.
Patent GB-190425665-A (GB)
Title: Dry Pipe Valves for Automatic Sprinkler Systems.
Inventor: MCALEAR JAMES
Filed: 1904-11-25
Granted: 1904-12-31
Abstract: 25,665. McAlear, J. Nov. 25. Sprinklers, automatic; alarms, fire.-In a valve for pipe sprinkler systems, a case 1 is provided with an inlet 5, outlet 6, and a partition 1<a>, in which is an aperture closed by a cover 7, mounted ou a pivoted arm 8. The cover is kept in position by the pressure of the air in the distributing-pipes, and to it is pivoted an arm 11, which firmly holds a shaft 13, mounted on a pivoted arm 20 and provided with a weighted arm 19. A cover 17, mounted on a pivoted arm 15, is firmly secured in position by turning the buckle 14<a> of an expanding strut 14, which is pivoted to the arm 15 and presses against a flat surface on the shaft 13. A pressure gauge is attached to an opening 30. When the sprinkler heads are removed and the air pressure reduced, the weight 12 forces up the cover 7, and the cover 17 is thus released. The water then forces up the cover, and the covers and weighted arm swing back against the case, leaving a free passage for the water. As the arm 20 swings back, the shaft at the pivot rocks an arm 24, Fig. 4, which disengages a plug 25, allowing metal bows 26 to come together and complete an electric circuit, thereby sounding an alarm.
Patent GB-190429223-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Boxes.
Inventor: COMINGS WILLIAM RIGHTER
Filed: 1904-12-31
Granted: 1906-01-18
Abstract: 29,223. Comings, W. R. Dec. 31. Folding boxes and their lids are made from paper, cardboard, celluloid, gelatin, leather, flexible metal and the like in the manner shown. The blank, cut and scored as shown in Fig. 1, is folded as in Fig. 2 over a stiffener, shown in Fig. 3, the handle tabs 7 facilitating the entry of the locking-ends 2 into the slots 8 of the stiffener. The parts are then secured in place by a locking-blank or false bottom. In a modification, the sides of the blank may also be provided with tabs for securing to the stiffener. The locking-blank may be hinged to facilitate entry into the box, and the stiffener may have a rabbet 14, Fig. 13, into which the locking-blank may enter. Instead of the handle tabs being cut out of the blank itself, they may be made separately. Another form of blank is shown in Fig. 12, and the form shown in Fig. 8 is used without a stiffener. The Provisional Specification states also that the sides may be made with reinforcing-strips.
Patent GB-190503076-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Electric Signalling Apparatus.
Filed: 1905-02-14
Granted: 1905-10-05
Abstract: 3076. Evershed & Vignoles, and Evershed, S. Feb. 14. Order apparatus.-Relates to telegraphic apparatus for the transmission of signals, orders or signs, and is applicable to ships' telegraphs, railway traindescribing telegraphs, mining telegraphs, engine-room telegraphs, &c. The invention is based on the ratio principle described in Specification No. 8784, A.D. 1891. To secure the maximum possible working forces, a combination of ratio coils is used with a magnetic needle so proportioned as to have a maximum magnetic moment with a minimum moment of inertia. For this purpose, the soft iron or steel needle is either an ellipsoid of revolution or a flat ellipsoid, and the coils closely surround the needle. To secure a symmetrical scale, although one of the ratio coils is within the other, the needle and coils are duplicated, as shown in one form in Fig. 2, where the circuit G passes through the outer coil B of one needle and the inner coil b of the other. In the form shown in Fig. 2, the needles are connected to the indicator E by links J<1>, J<3>, but they may also form an astatic system with a common axis. Anelectromagnet M with large polar surfaces N, O is placed in the circuit F for the purpose of neutralizing stray fields when the apparatus is placed near a compass &c. The transmitter T is preferably of the type described in Specification No. 12,279, A.D. 1899. The bobbins of the coils are made of thin sheet copper covered with thin paper insulation. The resistances R are preferably so arranged that a constant total current is used in the apparatus.
Patent GB-190504010-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Burners having Incandescing Mantles
Inventor: MCILROY DAVID
Filed: 1905-02-27
Granted: 1906-02-01
Abstract: 4010. McIlroy, D. Feb. 27. Incandescent lamps and burners ; air supply.- The mantle holder A is mounted in a square or like socket B to guide it vertically so as to keep the mantle central over the burner and thus prevent damage to it by side shocks. The holder A may be worked up and down by means of a screw and nut as in Fig. 1, or by a rack and pinion as in Fig. 3. In gas burners, two wire-gauze pieces E, E<1> are placed at the tip of the burner. In vapour lamps, an annular baffle H is placed within the wick-tube for the central air supply, and the flame spreader K is perforated.
Patent GB-190505628-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Steam Traps
Inventor: BARNES WALTER ESMOND
Filed: 1905-03-17
Granted: 1905-07-20
Abstract: 5628. Barnes, W. E. March 17, 1904, [date applied for under Patents Act, 1901]. Actuating lift valves; cleaning valves.-The valve 6 of a steam trap is operated by a diaphragm 12, the motion of which, according to the pressure in the chamber x containing a volatile liquid, opens or closes the valve. To blow through the trap for cleaning purposes, the part 2 of the casing is partly unscrewed from the part 1, thus lifting the valve from its seating. Adjustment is made by a screw 22, working in a thread in the casing, a pin 22 serving to prevent it from moving with respect to the dome 14 of the pressure-chamber during such adjustment.
Patent GB-190507620-A (GB)
Title: Apparatus for the Measurement of X-rays and other similar Radiations.
Inventor: GAIFFE GEORGES EUGENE
Filed: 1905-04-10
Granted: 1905-11-16
Abstract: 7620. Gaiffe, G. E. April 10. Photometers.- The luminosity of a fluorescent screen caused by a radioactive substance is used as a standard of comparison in measuring the intensity of the radiations emitted by a R÷ntgen-ray tube. The plate a, which is opaque to R÷ntgen rays, is pierced by holes a<1>, which are closed by silver disks b of different thicknesses. The radio-active substance is placed at the centre in the cupel c, and the screen is interposed between the holes and the point of observation. The thickness of disk giving a luminosity equal to that of the standard will be a measure of the intensity of the rays emitted by the tube. An opaque rotating disk f, cut away to leave uncovered three apertures, may be used to facilitate comparison. In a modification, Fig. 3, a wedge b is used instead of disks of different thicknesses ; the instrument may also be used without this wedge by varying the distance of the tube to be tested. The screen may be replaced by a photographic plate.
Patent GB-190511103-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Stop Cocks to Control the Passage of Gas & other Fluids to Multiple Outlets.
Inventor: BALLINGER TOM
Filed: 1905-05-27
Granted: 1906-01-25
Abstract: 11,103. Ballinger, T., and Kirk, T. May 27. Plug cocks ; indicating amount of opening of valves and cocks.-Relates to multiple - way plug cocks, particularly applicable to gas fittings. A triple-branched gas burner is shown in Fig. 1, but the invention may be applied t any number of branches. The construction of the plug is shown in Fig. 3. The supply branch f is preferably situated opposite the delivery branches a<1>, b<1>, c<1>, which are in alinement. The hollow plug e, Fig. 3, is provided with a circumferential groove g to register with the channel f. Similar channels h, i, j correspond with the branches a<1>, b<1>, c'. All the channels communicate with the interior of the plug by one or more perforations. The channels h, j are in transverse alinement, but i is set out of alinement. In an extreme position all the burners are cut off. On turning the plug, the end of the channel i first registers with its delivery channel and one burner only is supplied. On turning the plug further, the ends of the channels h, j register with their delivery channels, but the channel i is not yet out of register. The device then acts as a triple burner. On further turning, the channel i is put out of register and the two outside burners only are supplied. The channel g is of such dimensions that it registers with f in all three positions. The handle l of the plug is provided with a pointer moving over a scale m marked with the numerals indicating the number of burners turned on in that position of the plug.
Patent GB-190521729-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or connected with Miners' Safety Lamps.
Inventor: BEST WILLIAM
Filed: 1905-10-25
Granted: 1906-10-11
Abstract: 21,729. Best, W. Oct. 25. Miners' safety lamps; reflectors.- In order to throw the light downwards, the reservoir has a central vertical aperture 9, closed at the top by a glass or lens 12, and an annular reflector fixed at the bottom of the bonnet 5. This reflector may be made by silvering a shoulder 4<x>, Fig. 3, formed onthe glass chimney 4. The wick-tubes 10 are bent so as to terminate over the aperture 9.
Patent GB-190523931-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or connected with Brake and Sanding Apparatus of Railway Vehicles.
Inventor: PLANTA EMANUEL VON
Filed: 1905-11-21
Granted: 1906-05-24
Abstract: 23,931. Planta, E. von, and Adam, F. Nov. 21, 1904, [date applied under Patents Act, 1901]. Sanding rails ; brakes, pneumatic-pressure. To obtain a maximum braking effect throughout a train, the triple valves of several vehicles are modified so as to operate the sanding-gear when an emergency brake application is made. A doubleended valve f is mounted in a tube b in the lower part of the triple-valve casing a and is normally held by a spring o so as to close the upper seating g. The valve piston p has an extension, which, when the valve descends for emergency application, bears on the upper continuation i of the valve f and depresses it, allowing air to pass to the passage l and through the cock n to the pipe d, which communicates with the sanding-gear. An additional passage m communicating with the atmosphere is provided in the plug c and cock n to allow the escape of air which may leak past the valve g, thus obviating accidental operation of the sanding-gear. The seating k at the upper end of this passage is closed by the lower part of the valve spindle h when the latter descends. By turning the cock n, the sanding- gear is rendered independent of the brake system.