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Patent GB-189906212-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Rotary Engine.
Inventor: BAIRD JAMES
Filed: 1899-03-22
Granted: 1899-07-08
Abstract: 6212. Baird, J. Jan. 26, [date applied for under Sec. 103 of Patents &c. Act, A.D. 1883]. Annular and crescent-shaped chamber types. - Relates to an engine in which water, steam, compressed air or gas, &c. acts between slide blocks F engaging recesses in a disc B mounted on a shaft E passing eccentrically through the casing A. The slides engage bosses or pivots G on inner radial piston arms C, which carry steam-tight pieces K and have projections engaging recesses in outer radial piston arms C<1>. The piston arms have eyes U and U<1> which embrace hubs D and D'. Spring-pressed packing-pieces H and M are provided. The Figures show two cylinders side by side, with their pistons mutually, at rightangles. These engines may be compounded. The invention is also applicable to pumps and blowers.
Patent GB-189907104-A (GB)
Title: Improved File for Papers, Sheet Music and the like.
Inventor: THOMPSON WILLIAM PHILLIPS
Filed: 1899-04-04
Granted: 1899-05-06
Abstract: 7104. Thompson, W. P., [Kolderup, A. M.]. April 4. Filing papers &c. -Relates to a file in which the papers, sheet music, &c. are filed between covers in groups, each of which may be removed separately. Fig. 2 shows a cross-section. The papers &c. are secured in groups D, E to sheet-metal or card backings C, provided with bayonet slots which engage a pair of bars B fixed between the covers A. A movable spring piece secured to the covers is used to prevent the papers from being accidentally displaced.
Patent GB-189908387-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Block or Slab for Ceilings.
Inventor: KOERTING WILHELM
Filed: 1899-04-21
Granted: 1899-05-27
Abstract: 8387. K÷rting, W. April 21. Blocks or slabs for ceilings. The side jointing-faces a are of S-shape with an upper plane vertical surface b, set on one side of a lower plane vertical surface b<1>.
Patent GB-189913288-A (GB)
Title: Clip or Fastener for Paper and the like.
Inventor: BOWEN ADNA GUERNSEY
Filed: 1899-06-27
Granted: 1899-08-05
Abstract: 13,288. Bowen, A. G. June 27. Fastenings. - A piece of wire is bent into the shape shown in Fig. 1, so that the parts A, C and D, F touch at i and h, and is used as a clip f o r securing together papers and the like. Two modifications are described, supplied with suspending-loops ; in one case the shoulders c, b, f, e are rounded.
Patent GB-189917848-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Rabbit Export Crate, and mode of Packing same.
Inventor: BURRELL WILLIAM
Filed: 1899-09-04
Granted: 1900-07-21
Abstract: 17,848. Burrell, W., and Story, J. W. Sept. 4. Packing rabbits and hares.-In packing the carcases of rabbits and hares into crates constructed as shown in Figs. 4 and 5, the carcases are hung in two parallel rows from the longitudinal or cross bars &c. B at the top by hooks C, and in each row the backs and the bellies are placed alternately on the outside. When the ends are not hinged as shown in Fig. 5, the crate on being packed is laid on its side, a board is inserted through the ends as a temporary support for the row of carcases, and the longitudinal bars on the side which is uppermost are removed.
Patent GB-189918144-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Automatic Couplings for Railway and like Vehicles.
Inventor: MURROW DAVID MORGAN
Filed: 1899-09-08
Granted: 1900-08-11
Abstract: 18,144. Murrow, D. M. Sept. 8. Couplings, automatic. - Each hook B engages with its catch or striking-plate D, which is slotted to receive it. The projecting ends of the plates D are curved downwards, and the undersides of the hooks B are rounded. The cross-bars E are furnished with side levers E<2> and arms F for raising the hooks into their uncoupled positions. The pivoted bar G enables one of the side levers E<2> to be caught by its end when depressed, so ensuring that the hook B is raised. In a modified form, the bar G is dispensed with, and the back of the hook B is recessed so that the arm F may, when inclined, jam with the hook and retain it in the uncoupled position.
Patent GB-189919805-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Typewriting Machines.
Filed: 1899-10-03
Granted: 1900-01-06
Abstract: 19,805. Turner, R., and Duplex Typewriter Co. Oct. 3. Type-writers.-Relates to an improved " action " for type-writers in which a ring of radial typebars c is employed. The stems of the keys o are guided in bars p, and have a slot or slot and-pin connection with the key levers q. The key levers are linked at t to bell-crank levers j, connected in pairs by springs m and actuating the type-bars through draw-bars l. The levers j have trunnions fitting into grooves h in bars f, g. Adjusting- screws r pressing against a cross-plate s serve to control the effective tension on the key lovers of the springs m. Cushioned cross-bars u constitute the stops to the upward movement of the key levers.
Patent GB-190001522-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Comb Cutting Machines.
Filed: 1900-01-24
Granted: 1901-01-19
Abstract: 1522. Aberdeen Comb Works Co. and Stewart, W. D. Jan. 24. Combs, hair.-Twin comb-cutting machines are arranged to cut six combs at once. Each jaw C and D carries three cutters A and B. The cutters A are held by bolts and clamps G to a holder E with conical studs F fitting in the jaw A, and each holder has an arm K connected to a link and lever I to give angular adjustment. The cutters B are held between plates M, N on the jaw D, the plate M being angularly adjustable by the studs R and the screw Q serving to clamp the whole. The slide S, as shown, has one channel T between a single and a double bed for the work to facilitate the placing of the blanks in position, or it may have three single beds with two intermediate channels.
Patent GB-190007210-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Osmium Illuminating Filaments.
Inventor: WELSBACH CARL AUER VON
Filed: 1900-04-18
Granted: 1901-01-26
Abstract: 7210. Welsbach, C. A. von. April 18. Incandescent lamps. - Filaments containing osmium, as described in Specifications Nos. 1535 and 13,116, A.D. 1898, are formed into coils consisting of numerous turns of small diameter, which may be flattened. Slight contact between adjacent turns is not important. The filament is squirted from paste containing osmium, organic binding- material, "pure soot," lµvulose or burnt sugar, and pure gum arabic, and may be strengthened by drawing it through collodion or celluloid solution, or by attaching to it a silk thread coated with adhesive material. It is dusted with powdered magnesia, Spanish chalk, or " witchmeal,'' and then coiled on a combustible support, made of collodion-cotton, paper pulp, or the pith of rushes, or on a tapered support which is withdrawn after hardening the filament somewhat by heating. The coils may be flattened with a fine hair brush. Or the filament may be squirted directly on an oiled or dusted plate, so as to settle in the desired form. The coil is formed into a loop, and afterwards dried and heated to redness, air being excluded, and consolidated as described in the Specifications referred to. The coils may be supported by passing through them a thorium-oxide or other refractory filament, squirted from a paste with binding-material, which adheres to the coils where they touch, and is attached to the supports of the osmium filament.
Patent GB-190008787-A (GB)
Title: A Refuse Bucket.
Inventor: PECKOVER FLORENCE
Filed: 1900-05-12
Granted: 1900-11-03
Abstract: 8787. P e c kover, F. May 12. B u c k e r t s.-A house-refuse bucket B is fitted and combined with a strainer A.
Patent GB-190013233-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to Safety-valves.
Inventor: HEYLANDT HERMANN
Filed: 1900-07-23
Granted: 1900-11-10
Abstract: 13,233. Heylandt, H. July 23. Safety - valves.- Relates to safetyvalves of the kind described in Specification No. 13,232, A.D. 1900, in which the valve is fitted with a pressure plate placed in a conical outlet. The spindle of the valve b is fitted with two or more pressureplates d, d', which work in the correspondingly-stepped outlet a. Instead of being stepped, the outlet may be conical. The pressure-plates may be fitted on a separate spindle.
Patent GB-190015459-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to Mixing, Kneading and Triturating Machines.
Filed: 1900-08-30
Granted: 1901-06-22
Abstract: 15,459. Lake, H. H., [Cannstatter Misch-und Knet-maschinen-Fabrik Cannstatter Dampf-Backofen-Fabrik Werner & Pfleiderer]. Aug. 30. Mills and apparatus.-Consists of a device for locking the lid of the container of a mixing or triturating machine when the driving-mechanism is in gear, and for preventing the driving- mechanism from being engaged while the lid is open. In the Figures, in which the container is shown in the tilted position, and the lid closed in the full lines and open in the dotted lines, the driving-shaft b, capable of being moved endways by a lever c, to connect or disconnect it from the driving-pulley, carries a disc a having an annular groove e ; to the lid is jointed a rod d the free end of which is adjacent to the disc. With the shaft in the disconnected position, the groove e is opposite the end of the rod ; when the lid is opened, the rod moves towards the centre of the shaft, and locks it in place. When the lid is closed, the end of the rod moves out clear of the disc ; the shaft may then be moved endways, but now the lid cannot be opened as the inward movement of the rod is arrested by the disc. In one modification, the locking-ring is coupled by levers to the belt shifter, and, in another, the ring is replaced by a slide mounted in a suitable guides and formed with two lugs, to engage the rod d, and with an eye, which fits loosely on the shaft between two collars. The invention may also be applied in connection with machines driven directly by electric or other motors.
Patent GB-190015569-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Stopper for Bottles, Jars, and the like.
Inventor: HOBSON ALFRED
Filed: 1900-09-01
Granted: 1900-11-03
Abstract: 15,569. Hobson, A. Sept. 1. Stoppers. - Relates to a screw stopper for beer bottles, jars, &c., such as are provided with a tap for drawing off the contents. To permit the entrance of air or the escape of gas from the vessel, the stopper a is formed or provided with a central passage or tube f, which is normally closed by the plug h on the screw cap g seating on the upper end of the plug or nozzle e. By unscrewing the cap g, the passage f is opened to the atmosphere through the ports i. The lower edge n of the cap is bent inwards, as shown, to prevent the removal of the cap. To prevent the rotation of the tube f, its lower end may be bevelled outwards into oval form &c.
Patent GB-190022529-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Burners for Oil Stoves, Lamps, and the like.
Inventor: NYQVIST JOHAN ERIC
Filed: 1900-12-11
Granted: 1901-12-11
Abstract: 22,529. Nyqvist, J. E., S÷derberg, K. T., and Almatedt, H. T. Dec. 11. Oil burners.-The inner wick-tube is made in two parts, a lower fixed part 2, and an upper part 3, screwed to a ring 5 fixed to the part 2. Between the outer wick-tube 6, and the inner one is a cylindrical casing 7, having holes into which the wick is pressed, and inwardly-turned prongs 8 to hold the wick. The casing 7 is raised and lowered by the rack and pinion shown. To the wick-tube 3 are attached arms 19, supporting the air tube 16, on the top of which is fixed by prongs 17 a perforated burner plate 4. When the wick cannot be raised higher by means of the screw mechanism, it may be raised by hand by unscrewing and removing the wick-tube 3.
Patent GB-190022577-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Miners' and like Safety Lamps.
Inventor: ANDERSON RICHARD BURPEE
Filed: 1900-12-11
Granted: 1901-03-30
Abstract: 22,577. Anderson, R. B., and Hamilton, A. S. Dec. 11. Miners' and like safety lamps.-The upper parts or bodies of known types of miners' and like lamps are adapted to receive an acetylene or other gas generator or reservoir, the advantages of the use of gas being that, if the flame be extinguished by fire-damp, the acetylene or other gas will continue to issue from the burner, and will reignite, as soon as the atmosphere becumessufficiently pure, from the gases burning within the upper end of the gauze cylinder, the superficial area of which may be reduced, as the absence of smoke minimizes the chances of the gauze becoming clogged. The flame will also continue burning in the event of the lamp being upset or inverted. In the acetylene lamp shown in the Figure, the casing 1 of the water and calciumcarbide chambers 7, 8 is screwed into the base-ring E of a Hepplewhite-Gray lamp body B. The water from the chamber 7 traverses the apertures 4', the regulating screw valves 5, the horizontal tube 4 packed with absorbent material, the drip tube 6<1>, and a perforated tube 9 packed with absorbent material, to the calcium carbide contained in the chamber 8, which is composed of two telescoping parts retained in position by a spring 12. This spring is located in a chamber 13, from which the gas generated passes by the tube 10 and the controlling-cock 14 to the burner 11. The filling-tube 16 of the water chamber 7 is preferably bent to clear the usual locking-device, and is normally closed by a vented plug 18. Access to the interior of the casing 1 is obtained by unscrewing the detachable bottom 2.
Patent GB-190023589-A (GB)
Title: Means for Winding Clocks, Watches, and the like.
Inventor: LEBRET AUGUSTE EDOUARD
Filed: 1900-12-24
Granted: 1901-11-09
Abstract: 23,589. Lebret, A. E. Dec. 24. Trains, going.-The going-barrel may have a pinion centrally attached to it to drive the dial work. Winding-mechanism-The main spring is wound by an electromagnetic ratchet consisting of an electromagnet q, hinged armature p, pawl, and ratchet pinion k. The current is led by a spring finger e to an insulated sleeve d<1> on an arbor a, and the circuit is intermittently completed at another finger f, which bears against an insulating- cam d, by means of a pin d<11> which projects from the sleeve through the cam. In a modification, Fig. 3, a quick cam 1 and a slow arm 5 allow a spring terminal 2 to touch a fixed terminal 6 every four minutes.
Patent GB-190105504-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Fastenings for Boxes Packing Cases and other like Receptacles
Inventor: SUTTON HENRY
Filed: 1901-03-15
Granted: 1902-01-09
Abstract: 5504. Sutton, H. March 15. Fastenings for boxes, packing-cases, and the like. According to one part of the invention, a hinge fastening is fitted to the back of the box &c. At each side of the box is secured an angle plate a with curved lips a<2>, the centre of curvature being at the edge of the box. Plates b secured to the lid are each provided with a depending flange b<2>, the edges of which are curved to correspond with the lips. These flanges engage between the lips a<2> and against the side of the plate a, when the lid is closed, and serve to retain the same against vertical or lateral motion. The bottom edge of the part a may be turned out and shaped to form a spring to act on the part b and cause a slight lifting of the lid when the box is unfastened at the front end. The hinge fastenings may be applied to the front as well as the back of the box, and in addition to or as serving to replace the ordinary hinges. They may be used in connection with any self-locking fastening or lock at the front of the box, but preferably the fastening used is that forming the second part of the invention. This fastening comprises a casing made in two parts d, e, of sheet metal, the parts being connected together by a rivet g, which serves as a pivot for the lever i. Slots in the part e serve for the attachment of the spring l, which is looped so as to slide and be retained in the slots. One end of the spring bears on the lever i, and the other end beats against the catch on the lid when closed. The lever i is formed with a hook at one end, and at the other end i<1> is bent and passes through a curved slot in the casing to serve as a handle, the box being cut away at m to permit access to the same. A plate p attached to the lid is provided with a catch piece p<1>, which, upon the lid being closed, passes into a slot in the box and casing and, after pressing down the spring l, is engaged by the hook portion of the lever i. Wing pieces p<2> on the plate p engage in saw cuts n<2> in the box to prevent side motion. The lid is opened by operating the handle i<1>, so as to release the catch p<1>, the spring forcing the lid upwards so as partially to open the same. A label or seal may be gummed or pasted so as to conceal the handle i<1>, and this seal has to be broken before the lid can be unfastened. In a modification, the saw cuts in the box may be dispensed with, the lever being adapted to work in a cut-away part of the back plate and engage a slot in the catch plate. In another modification, the casing is made cylindrical and fixed in a recess in the inner side of the box so as to lie flush with the side. A second recess is cut from the outside of the box, and the handle of the lever works in a slot at the intersection of the recesses.
Patent GB-190107990-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Kites
Inventor: BATTERSBY ROBERT HENRY
Filed: 1901-04-18
Granted: 1902-02-20
Abstract: 7990. Battersby, R. H. April 18. Drawings to Specification. Flags.-A special steadying-keel for kites may be arranged as a flag or colour.
Patent GB-190109898-A (GB)
Title: Improved Method of Preserving Eggs.
Inventor: FRYKLIND KNUT EDWARD
Filed: 1901-05-13
Granted: 1901-10-19
Abstract: 9898. Fryklind, K. E. May 13. Preserving eggs.-Eggs are preserved by coating them with linseed or similar oil, which is then caused to dry rapidly by treating it with oxidizing- agents, such as permanganate of potash, chromic acid, ozone, or ozonized air or oxygen. The eggs may be first coated with dextrin.
Patent GB-190112091-A (GB)
Title: An Improvement in Tea Cutting Machines.
Inventor: BARTLETT CHARLES HENRY
Filed: 1901-06-13
Granted: 1902-05-01
Abstract: 12,091. Bartlett, C. H. June 13. Tea.-Relates to tea - cutting m a - chines of the kind described in Specification No. 20,982, A.D. 1 8 9 3, and consists of mechanism for allowing the rapid passage of nails &c, which may have got amongst the tea. Fig. 1 shows a section of the mechanism, and Figs. 2 and 3 a front view and section of the friction clutch. The tea is cut between the rotating cylinders A and the knives c, three of which are mounted on each shaft c'. The segment discs E pass between spring-held rings D, and are not rotated so long as a concave part e' is parallel to the edge of the disc G, but, directly a nail &c. attempts to pass between the cylinder A and the knife c, the shaft c<1> is slightly rotated, the convex part e is gripped by the rings D, and the shaft e<1> is rapidly turned through 120‹, allowing the nail &c. to pass and bringing the next knife c into operation. The spring pressure may be applied to the segment discs instead of to the rings D, in which case the discs each consist of two plates.
Patent GB-190112721-A (GB)
Title: Improved Machine for Use in the Manufacture of Electric Fuses for Cartridges.
Inventor: TIRMANN HANS
Filed: 1901-06-21
Granted: 1901-11-23
Abstract: 12,721. Tirmann, H., and Tirmann, H. June 21. Blasting-fuses.- Relates to machines for manufaoturing electric fuses. Fig. 1 shows a side elevation, Fig. 5 a plan, and Fig. 6 an enlarged vertical section of the mould. Two arms 28 are pivoted at the point 3 to a standard, and carry a frame 1 pivoted to them at 2, this arrangement allowing the frame to be turned up about the pivot 3 for the soldering operation, [and turned down about the pivot 2 for the casting operation. The frame 1 is formed with an angle-piece 4 across it, and the angle-piece carries two other plates 7, 8. The compound wires 24 are pressed into the grooves 6 of the angle-piece 4 by the spring levers 22, and their ends, after being separated, are nipped in the groove 31 of the plate and cut off. A wire 32, to form the fuse bridges, is then stretched across the ends of the wires, the frame 1 is turned up about the pivot 3, and the wires are soldered together, the wire 32 being afterwards cut between the fuses. The plates 7, 8 are then lowered upon the ledge 17 away from the bridged wires and the frame 1 is turned down about the pivot 2 to bring the bridges into the charge holders 12 which are carried in a holder 33 mounted on the support 11 after which the insulating. material is run in between the guideplates 35, 36. The support 11 is raised and lowered by eccentrics 23 on a cross shaft, and the spring levers 22 are raised by the cross shaft 29 which is also raised by eccentrics.
Patent GB-190113718-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Device for Cutting Off the Heads of Turnips or other Roots or for Removing Weeds or Loosening the Soil.
Inventor: VELTHEIM-OSTRAU FRANZ VON
Filed: 1901-07-05
Granted: 1901-08-10
Abstract: 13,718. Veltheim - Ostrau, F. von. July 5. Cultivators; weeds, destroying; crops, root, topping machines for.-Relates to an attachment, which may be applied to the frame of any existing implement, for cutting off the heads of turnips and like crops, removing weeds, or loosening the soil. The attachment consists of one or more guide-tubes e adjustably secured to the beam a of an implement. A rod f slides within the tube e, and its downward movement is limited by an abutment g adjustable on the rod f by means of a screw. A shoe h is pivoted on the bottom of the rod f, and slides over the turnips to be topped or over inequalities in the surface of the soil. A knife m is adjustably attached at the rear of the shoe h. The shape of the knife m is varied to adapt it for the various operations mentioned.
Patent GB-190117144-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Supporting Devices for Brush Holders for Dynamo Electric Machines.
Inventor: FOX ARTHUR O'NEILL
Filed: 1901-08-27
Granted: 1901-10-19
Abstract: 17,144. Fox, A. O'N. Aug. 27. Brush-holders; field magnets.-The brush-holders are supported by a movable ring A, extending around the commutator and fitting into a recess formed in the field-magnet frame. For the purpose of adjustment, the ring A is provided on its periphery with a rack, which is engaged by a pinion on a spindle E. mounted on the field-magnet frame and operated by a hand-wheel F. The ring is secured in position, after adjustment, by means of set-screws J, which enter a groove in the recessed face of the field-magnet frame.
Patent GB-190117665-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Vapour-burning Apparatus.
Inventor: KITSON ARTHUR
Filed: 1901-09-03
Granted: 1902-08-14
Abstract: 17,665. Kitson, A. Sept. 3. Vapour burners. -Relates to improvements on the invention described in Specification No. 22,204, A.D. 1898, to enable a vapour-burning lamp, having a horizontal vaporizing-tube l located over one or more incandescent burners and in the path of the products of combustion, to consume kerosene or similar oil with less powerful or more distant burners. The mixing-tube a, having a short constricted tube b at its inlet end to reduce noise, has a continuation a' provided near the burner nipple with a butterfly valve c, perforated so as always to allow the passage of a small amount of combustible mixture. To the tube a' a tube d is secured by a screwed union f, this tube being partly closed by discs d<1>, d<2> carrying a tube h through which the vaporizing - tube l slides loosely to permit the entrance of air to the end of a flattened vaporizing burner tube i, having an aperture k for the entrance of vapour and a union j for connection to a gas-supply pipe which supplies gas to start the vaporization The disc d<2> is perforated to form a burner outlet. Wire gauze g is provided to prevent lighting-back. A reflector o is secured to the mixing-tube and its extension by nuts n, n', and by screwed rods p and nuts to a saddle-shaped piece q forced upon the tube a to which it is fixed by a screwed drip cock r. This saddle-shaped piece may have a screwed socket s for attachment to a support.