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Patent GB-190122816-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Wrought Metal Radiators for Heating Buildings
Inventor: WILMOT FRANK ASHLEY
Filed: 1901-11-12
Granted: 1902-05-08
Abstract: 22,816. Wilmot, F. A. Nov. 12. Stamping. - Relates to steam or hot - water radiators of the type described in Specifications Nos. 19,813 and 19,814, A.D. 1899, [Abridgment Class Heating], in which the radiator pipes are fixed in cupped headers made of wrought metal. The headers B, Fig. 4, are formed with collars 10 to receive the pipes, and are made up of two or more sections stamped from wrought metal, the points 11. being formed either towards the top or bottom of the header with the projecting parts on the inside or on the outside of the header. The side sections of the headers B have openings countersunk externally to receive flanges upon cross-tubes 24, Fig. 11, which are surrounded by tubes 26. The ends of tubes 26 abut against the inner sides of the headers so as to prevent expansion and collapse. When the header is formed from three blocks, the sides, bottom, and top are in one piece B<5>, Fig. 12, and the ends B<6> are secured to the main piece by joints 11. Reference is made to Specification No. 6824, A.D. 1897.
Patent GB-190203043-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Machines for Cutting up Wire into Dowels or Rivets and for inserting the latter
Inventor: BURDON CHARLES BARNARD
Filed: 1902-02-06
Granted: 1902-05-15
Abstract: 3043. Burdon, C. B., [Bally Sons, C. F.]. Feb. 6. Shearing.-Relates to machines for cutting-up the special wire shown in Fig. 12 into forked dowels, rivets, or nails such as shown in two views in Figs. 13 and 14, and driving them into leather for the manufacture of boots, shoes, saddlery, &c., or into paper for bookbinding &c., or into wood. The manufacture of the special wire is described in Specification No. 2835, A.D. 1902. The wire f is fed by a pawl g<3> which acts on the discs f<1>. The flattened part f of the wire is cut through to form a single point on the dowels which is then severed, and to leave a double point on the end of the wire from which the next dowel will be cut. The dies c, d are formed respectively with a V-shaped projection c<1> and a corresponding groove d'. The severed dowel falls into the hole i' in the slide i which moves back and allows it to fall through the channel j<1> to the spring fingers k. The punch h, recessed below, now descends and passes through the hole i<1> and channel j<1> to drive the dowel. The dies are carried by arms a pivoted together at b.
Patent GB-190203937-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Turbines
Inventor: PROCNER JAN
Filed: 1902-02-15
Granted: 1903-01-01
Abstract: 3937. Procner, J. Feb. 15. Steam &c. turbines.- A reaction-wheel of the Barker's mill type, driven by steam, gas, or air, is shown in Fig. 1. The shaft W has a hollow boss N with two or more radial tubes S, each tube having a paraboloid nozzle s. The fluid pressure is regulated by a governorcontrolled admission valve, and then passes through a flexible pipe o to the hollow shaft and jet tubes. The centrifugal governor R has an adjusting-spring f and its collar T is connected t o a rocking shaft Q. The shaft Q is connected by rods t to the admission valve and by a lever m to an air valve L, by which air is admitted to the casing G to prevent racing. An additional braking-device consists of a ring B connected by sliding rods to the collar T and adapted to engage with the conical flywheel K. The engine is made reversible by making the nozzle tubes rotatable and reversing them by means of a sliding rod on which are helical gears engaging with spur-gearing which rotates the nozzle tubes.
Patent GB-190204231-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Holder for Blind Cords and the like.
Inventor: STEINMETZ ARTHUR SAMLER BERNAR
Filed: 1902-02-19
Granted: 1903-01-15
Abstract: 4231. Steinmetz, A. S. B. Feb. 19. Window blinds. - A device for holding the bottom pulley of an endless blind cord and the like is shown in Fig. 1. The cord pulley A is mounted in a support B which is connected by a spring D to a hook on the window frame. The spring may be connected directly to the pulley, and an additional adjusting- device consisting of a right and left hand screwed coupling - piece may be used. By fixing brackets H, I, Fig. 5, to the window frame, and fitting the spring D on a rod J sliding in a frame B, the spring may be used in compression.
Patent GB-190211680-A (GB)
Title: Improved Means for Transporting Goods on Land and Sea without Repacking
Inventor: SMITH WILLIAM W
Filed: 1902-05-22
Granted: 1902-12-18
Abstract: 11,680. Smith, W. W. May 22. Transporting goods on land and sea without repacking.-Ships are arranged to carry the railroad cars C one above the other in perpendicular lines on the different decks, which are laid with longitudinal and cross tracks and switches for placing them in position. Suitable openings are made through the bulkheads, and inclined tracks and lifts &c. are provided to lead the cars to the different decks. The bodies C of the trucks may be separated from their bogies H by means of the upper and lower lines of rails of different gauge, shown as L and LL.
Patent GB-190212978-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Lamp Glasses.
Inventor: SCHOTT OTTO
Filed: 1902-06-07
Granted: 1903-04-23
Abstract: 12,978. Schott, O. June 7. Chimneys.-In chimneysof the kind described in Specification No. 4852, A.D. 1898, in which the upper part a is supported upon a separate part b, which has apertures b<2> for the entrance of the air supply, indentations b<3> acting in conjunction with the inclined edge prevent any material longitudinal or lateral displacement of the lower end of the suspended part a in the event of its being cracked by the heat of the flame and dropping down.
Patent GB-190213016-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Attachment of Placquets to Eyeglasses.
Inventor: LAURANCE LIONEL
Filed: 1902-06-07
Granted: 1903-04-09
Abstract: 13,016. Laurance, L. June 7. Eyeglasses.-The plaquets D are attached to pins A, which can be adjusted in sockets B and secured by set-screws E. A pin-and-slot attachment may also be used.
Patent GB-190218437-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Direct Acting Pumping Engines.
Filed: 1902-08-21
Granted: 1903-07-16
Abstract: 18,437. May, W., and Pulsometer Engineering Co. Aug. 21. Drawings to Specification. Steam pumps.-Relates to the valves and valve gear of the motor cylinder of direct-acting pumping-engines. An auxiliary valve and valvechest are used, being connected to the steam supply, and working the main valve. This auxiliary valve is worked by a tappet rod and lever actuated by the pump-rod.
Patent GB-190220207-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Apparatus for Shaping Hollow or Tubular Metal Articles
Filed: 1902-09-16
Granted: 1902-11-06
Abstract: 20,207. Lake, W. R., [Stirling Co.]. Sept. 16. Rolling; corrugating.-A rolling-mill for forming hollow or tubular articles of irregular outline, such as serpentine boiler headers, has pairs of horizontal rolls 1, 2 and an intermediate vertical pair 3, each provided with mechanism for adjusting the pass, and all preferably positively driven by suitable mechanism, such as movable power cylinders 26 with racks engaging wheels on the roll shafts, the cylinders moving over fixed pistons 28. The horizontal rolls have an irregular outline to suit the corrugations required on two opposite faces of the header. The rolls 3 may be plain, or may have the shape shown in Fig. 4 to form steps on the two remaining sides of the header, these steps being at right-angles to inclined water tubes. The rolls are formed to complete a header in one revolution. The tubular blank may be filled with sand or other filling to prevent collapse, or may be rolled on a hollow cast-iron or other frangible mandrel, as shown in dotted lines ; or a mandrel head may be held in the eye of the rolls 1, 2. The blank may be pulled or pushed through the rolls.
Patent GB-190221733-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Electric Fans.
Inventor: FELL JOHN CORRY
Filed: 1902-10-06
Granted: 1902-11-13
Abstract: 21,733. Fell, J. C., [Coleman, W. E.]. Oct. 6. Fans, screw. The fan and the motor Mare mounted on truunions m, and partly supported by a wheel T which bears against the conical base b. This wheel T is rotated by worm gearing, and causes the fan to rotate about the vertical column m<2>, the speed being adjusted by raising or lowering the wheel on the spindle w. Vanes D on the fan guard G are caused to oscillate by a crank linkage q, R driven by belt and worm gearing h, e<1> from the shaft M<1>.
Patent GB-190227048-A (GB)
Title: Combined Furnace for Melting Vitreous Matters.
Filed: 1902-12-08
Granted: 1903-10-22
Abstract: 27,048. Clark, I. C., Davies, A. J., and Russell, W. L., (executors of Clark, A. M.), [Fellner & Ziegler]. Dec. 8. Melting-furnaces.-Relates to the continuous production in a molten, state of vitreous substances, such as are used in the manufacture of cement, glass, and the like.. A reverberatory furnace A of ordinary construction is combined with a rotary furnace C in such a manner that the waste gases from the former are utilized for heating the latter. The rotary furnace is inclined slightly so that the substances fed into the upper end F can pass continuously into the furnace A, where their complete fusion is effected.
Patent GB-190228476-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Preserve and Pickle Jars, Pots, Tins and like Receptacles
Inventor: DAW DANIEL
Filed: 1902-12-24
Granted: 1903-12-24
Abstract: 28,476. Daw, D. Dec. 24. Drawings to Specification. Bottles, jars, and like vessels.-A ledge is formed on the inner side and below the rim of a glass or earthenware pot, bottle, or jar, or of a tin vessel, used for, holding preserves, pickles, &c., to form a rest for a knife, fork, or spoon.
Patent GB-190300143-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Electrical Measuring Instruments
Filed: 1903-01-03
Granted: 1903-12-31
Abstract: 143. Chamberlain & Hookham, and Watts, J. F. Jan.3. Current meters.-An instrument operating thermally contains two ordinary two-metal strips x, d, carried by blocks c<1> on springs c<2>, placed oppositely, and connected together by a rod z, so that no movement is caused by variations in atmospheric temperature. One strip d has an adjustable arm h connected by a small chain or other flexible connection to a pulley on the axle of a pointer e, which is also acted on by a hair-spring to keep the chain taut. One strip is electrically heated in any suitable manner by the current or pressure to be measured, so as to bend, turning the pointer slowly from zero in opposition to the air-spring ; in the arrangement shown, the strip d is heated by a surrounding winding carrying the current. The arrangement shown is for use as a maximum demand indicator, in the case b of a mercury motor moter, return of the deflected pointer to zero being prevented by a ratchet-wheel on its axle engaging a stationary pawl m. The pointer can be released by disengaging the pawl by means of a wire n, which is moved in opposition to a spring w by a chain connection with a resetting-handle s. The instrument may otherwise be arranged for use as an ammeter or volt-meter, or to record on a clockdriven drum.
Patent GB-190300346-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Conduits and Troughs for Electric Conductors
Inventor: DEVONSHIRE THOMAS EASTON
Filed: 1903-01-06
Granted: 1903-10-22
Abstract: 346. Devonshire, T. E. Jan. 6. Conduits.-Conduits and troughs of cementmortar, concrete, or the like for electric conductors are provided with an " earth sheath " consisting of a core of " expanded metal " or metal network and metal end-pieces on the sections. In constructing a tubular conduit, a sheet of expanded metal &c. d, Figs. 1 and 2, is bent into a cylinder with overlapping and connected edges, one end being then inserted into and connected by a wire lacing y or otherwise to a metal socket b and the other slipped over and connected by a wire binding x or otherwise to a metal spigot a. Cement-mortar &c. to form the conduit body c is moulded over the core d. The spigot and socket ends of two sections to be connected are brought together as shown in Fig. 2, leaving a space into which lead &c. g is poured through a hole in the socket b ; the walls of this space may be corrugated as shown. The spigot a and socket b may otherwise be turned and bored to fit closely, or may be screwed together ; in these cases rings of filling-material are placed between the internal butting-parts of the joint. Conduits having two or more ducts may be similarly formed, the expanded metal core being carried through the internal as well as through the external walls. The conduit as a whole is jointed as described with reference to Figs. 1 and 2, and the ducts are formed with engaging spigots and sockets. The expanded metal core d, Figs. 5 and 6, of the body of a U-shaped trough is similarly connected to metal ends a, b by wires or strips y, and the metal core q of the cover is connected by wires z to transverse strips 2 in contact with extensions 3 on the ends a, b. A wire strip may otherwise be laid in the annular space between overlapping ends a, band then interlaced with covering-sheets of expanded metal or network after the trough is filled in with pitch &c. round the conductors ; these covering- sheets are finally covered with cement-mortar, concrete, &c. In a modification, the ends a, bare formed with overlapping and contacting pieces, and are placed inside and outside the metal core, which is bent outwards towards the end b to leave a space for the reception of molten lead &c.
Patent GB-190314024-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and connected with Submarine Vessels.
Inventor: HUGUET WILLIAM
Filed: 1903-06-23
Granted: 1904-03-24
Abstract: 14,024. Huguet, W., Minart, L., and Miron, r. June 23. Driving-gear for screw propellers; rudders. -Means are provided for propelling and steering submarine vessels, without the shell being traversed by movable parts, thus rendering the vessel water-tight. Electric power is utilized, the motors being placed on the outside of the shell. The current for the electric motors may be generated in the vessel, or may be supplied to the switchboard j<1> from any external source. The vessel is propelled by the motor j, Fig. 1, operating a screw propeller, and is steered by the rudder k operated by the motor l by a toothed pinion in gear with a sector mounted on the rudder. The motors are enclosed in water-tight casings, if they have commutators and brushes, and air is forced into the casings to keep out the water. If the motors are without brushes or commutators, they are immersed in the water and the various parts are insulated with caoutchouc or gutta-percha to resist the action of sea-water.
Patent GB-190316232-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in the Manufacture of Electrical Resistances.
Inventor: WEAVER THOMAS EDGAR
Filed: 1903-07-23
Granted: 1904-02-18
Abstract: 16,232. Weaver, T. E. July 23 Resistances.-A resistance of the kind described in Specifications No. 10,654, A.D. 1901, and No. 10,098, A.D. 1902, now consists of a pile of german-silver plates, the surfaces of which are oxidized by heating, preferably by passing current through the pile after it is built up. In order to increase the cooling surface, alternate plates may be larger than the intervening ones ; or a part of each plate, Fig. 4, may project to opposite sides of the pile alternately.
Patent GB-190318030-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Paper Making Machines.
Inventor: FARWELL OTIS MARSHALL
Filed: 1903-08-20
Granted: 1904-01-07
Abstract: 18,030. Farwell, O. M. Aug. 20, A.D. 1902, [date applied for under Patents Act, A.D. 1901]. Watermarking. - The watermarking of paper, particularly long fibre stock and like thin paper, is effected in paper-making machines of the continuous-web type by an impression surface or roller M which is mounted in spring bearings and acts, through an intermediate sheet of fabric, on the paper as it passes round the drying-cylinder K. The upper blanket felt F serves as the intermediate fabric, this felt passing round the upper couch roll D<1>, under the upper press roller G<1> and pressure roll H, and over a guide roll f and the impression roller M which keep it in contact with the drying- cylinder K. The paper from the endless wire cloth B travelling over suction boxes C passes between the couch rolls D, D', and is then carried along with the felts E, F between the press rolls G, G<1>, after which it passes with the upper felt into contact with the drying-cylinder. A partial drying of the paper is effected before it comes opposite the roller M to receive the impression ; and the drying is completed and the impression fixed as it passes on round the cylinder. The roller M may be arranged in other positions, the essential feature being that it shall act on the paper after it leaves the couch rolls.
Patent GB-190318738-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Water Closets.
Filed: 1903-08-31
Granted: 1904-06-30
Abstract: 18,738. Jennings, Ltd., G., and Morley, J. Aug. 31. Wash-out closets traps.-The necessity of piercing the wall for the passage of the two air pipes in the closet described in Specification No. 17,853, A.D. 1892, is obviated by the construction shown. In this the essential features are a chamber b and pipes f, g. The flush descends the pipe a, fills the chamber b, which is preferably made in one piece with the basin, and rushes out through the pipes f, g, and through perforations d in the rim e. The air in the long leg of the siphon is swept out through the trap (which is made of enlarged diameter for the purpose), thus starting siphonic action. The basin is refilled through the pipe f.
Patent GB-190320072-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Coin Mechanism, especially applicable to Electricity and other Meters.
Inventor: DUBOIS EDWARD
Filed: 1903-09-17
Granted: 1904-09-15
Abstract: 20,072. Du Bois, E. Sept. 17. Electricity, supplying, in general ; gas meters ; liquid meters; coin action. -The weight of a coin and the movement of a meter cause opposite movements of a detentreleasing arm 5, by means of differential gearing, Fig. 1, a movable coupling, Fig. 3, or ratchet gearing ; in its zero position the arm 5 displaces a detent 6, Fig. 1, to release a supply switch or other device 15. When differential gearing is used, the insertion of a coin causes a weighted coin-lever 12 to tilt so that a pin on one arm 17 of it closes the switch 15 in opposition to a spring or weight, and a pin or a weighted pawl on another arm 14 turns a star-wheel 1 a definite extent. The switch 15 is thereupon engaged by the spring-pressed detent 6. The star-wheel 1 is also retained by a spring. The star-wheel is attached to a crown-wheel 3, facing a similar wheel driven by the meter ; both wheels gear with an interposed pinion 7, loose on an arm of a shaft 4, on which shaft the wheels are free to turn, and the arm 5 of this shaft displaces the detent 6 when the shaft is in its zero position. In a modification using a coupling, shown in plan in Fig. 3, the coupling 18 slides lengthwise on the shaft 4, between the star-wheel 1 and a wheel 9 driven by the meter, and can engage either of these wheels frictionally, or by teeth or pins 23 entering holes. When the coin-lever turns, a cam 20 on it allows a spring fork 19 to connect the coupling 18 and shaft 4 to the star-wheel 1, and the coin-lever then turns these parts a definite extent; the cam 20 then causes the fork 19 to connect the coupling and shaft to the meter wheel 9, by which the shaft 1 is afterwards returned to its zero position. The . Provisional Specification describes a modification in which the star-wheel and the meter-wheel carry pawls to engage ratchet-wheels fixed on the shaft, one pawl at a time being allowed to engage.
Patent GB-190323088-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Apparatus for Forming and Wrapping Blocks of Caramel or similarly Plastic Material
Inventor: DOOLITTLE PERRY ERNEST
Filed: 1903-10-24
Granted: 1904-12-23
Abstract: 23,088. Doolittle, P. E. Oct. 24. Parcelling confectionery or sweetmeats.-Relates to apparatus for forming and wrapping-up blocks of caramel or similar plastic material. The strips of caramel are fed from a table 63, Fig. 3, to sizing - rolls 66<a>, and delivered on to a table 63<a> furnished with a travelling band, which carries them to the sizing and shaping mechanism 66, the wrapped caramels being delivered at the side of the machine. Figs. 6 and 7 show the paper-folding and delivery mechanism. Paper and caramel cutting mechanisms similar to those described in Specification No. 23,089, A.D. 1903, may be provided ; also plunger mechanism to force the caramel down upon the piece of paper and into the shoot 98‹, so as to turn the side edges of the wrapper at right-angles to the caramel. The sliding carriages 101, 122 with the folding-blades 99, 120 and end-folders 141,145 act as described in the above-mentioned Specification, and are provided with corner folding wings 146, mounted on pins 147 and having front and rear nose-pieces 146<a>, 146<b> respectively. When the carriages are in their rear positions, spring - actuated pins 149<a> bear against the pieces 146<b> and cause the wings 146 to turn into the open position. When the carriages move inwards, the fingers 146 extend through holes in the side walls of the shoot 98*, and the pieces 146<a> bear against springs on the walls, causing the wings 146 to turn on their pins and fold the corners of the partially-wrapped caramel. A pusher 101<a>, on the slide 101 pushes the caramel resting on the spring-pressed platform 98<c>, forming the bottom of the shoot, into the side delivery passage 160. The bottom of this passage. is divided centrally for a portion of its length, and the two portions are bent downwards and then upwards so as to form guides 161, Fig. 12, which turn the projecting ends of the paper under and against the caramel as it passes along the passage.
Patent GB-190325156-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Castors for Furniture and the like.
Inventor: INGALL WILLIAM
Filed: 1903-11-18
Granted: 1904-10-06
Abstract: 25,156. Ingall, W., [Seavill, W.]. Nov. 18. Castors.-A castor with antifriction bearings has a socket A for attachment to a leg of a table or other article of furniture and a cylindrical part M, screwed to the socket and contracted at R, to retain the castor ball P in position. The ball P rotates against antifriction balls G, on which the table &c. leg rests through the medium of a cupshaped base C. The balls are retained in place by openings in a plate E, which is secured by, and can rotate round, a screw D, and has flanges H, which bear against the cup C and castor ball respectively.
Patent GB-190410632-A (GB)
Title: Machine for Sealing Boiler Tubes
Inventor: COUSINS GEORGE WILLIAM
Filed: 1904-05-09
Granted: 1905-05-04
Abstract: 10,632. Cousins, G. W., and Guthrie, J. May 9. Cleaning tubes.-In a machine for scaling boiler tubes, six threaded dies, three only of which are shown, are placed over the corresponding tubes and rotated by worms E and shafts D connected by spur gear F. The machine is made in halves, which, when passed over the tubes to be cleaned, are connected by a set-screw G and bolts H. The dies can be removed or examined by removing the screws B, and, on being rotated, cut into the scale and move evenly along the tubes.
Patent GB-190412790-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Corsets.
Inventor: SAVOYE EMILE
Filed: 1904-06-06
Granted: 1905-04-06
Abstract: 12,790. Savoye, E. June 6. Corsets are formed of a series of pieces cut so that the joining-seams 1, 2, 3, &c. are curved forwards and are always concave to the front of the top edge. The stiffeners 13, 14, 15, &c. are placed obliquely across the seams.
Patent GB-190414157-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in the Manufacture of Coke, and Furnaces, Ovens, and Apparatus therefor.
Inventor: ARMSTRONG JOHN
Filed: 1904-06-22
Granted: 1905-05-04
Abstract: 14,157. Armstrong, J. June 22. Firebricks f o r coke ovens or furnaces are made with tongue-and -groove joints f<3>, f<5> to strengthen the thin brickwork and form gastight joints, as shown. The divisions f<1> of the combustion flues are also prolonged into the main wall.