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Patent GB-190302546-A (GB)
Title: Signalling Device.
Inventor: LOB GUIDO EGON
Filed: 1903-02-03
Granted: 1903-05-28
Abstract: 2546. Lob, G. E. Feb. 3. Signalling - instru - ments ;audible signals; indicators or repeaters, point or switch and signal.-Relates to apparatus for transmitting and receiving visible signals or orders, also comprising a bell signal for calling attention to the order and for indicating the fact that the order has been executed. Such apparatus is adapted for use on ships, and in the operation of semaphore and other railway signals, switches, &c. The invention is shown as applied on board ship. A casing 3 mounted on a base 2 is fitted with a marked dial 4 over which the operating lever or pointer 5 is arranged to move. The lever 5 is fixed to a spindle 12, on which is mounted a chain-wheel 11 driving another wheel 13 by means of a chain 14. On the spindle of the wheel 13 is a pinion 8<1> in gear with a rack 8, which couples together two pistons or plungers 7, 7<1> working in cylinders 6, 6<1>. These pistons may consist of leather cups forced against the cylinder walls by split rings. The cylinders are connected by pipes 9, 10 to corresponding cylinders in the receiving-instrument, which is similar to the transmitting-instrument, except that a pointer replaces the lever 5. The pipes and cylinders are filled with water &c., which serves to transmit the motion of the lever 5 and pistons in the transmitting-instrument to the pistons and pointer of the receiving-instrument. Additional liquid is supplied, when required, from a reservoir 15 by a pipe 16 leading to a short pipe 17 coupled to the pipes 9, 10. A check valve and a stop-cock 18 control the supply. The different instruments are fitted with electric bells, operated upon the closing of a battery circuit. The terminals are so arranged in connection with the instruments and the engineer's quadrant that the circuit is closed when the engineer's lever is not moved to a position corresponding with the order transmitted. Push-buttons may be arranged at the transmitting and receiving stations, to sound the bells independently of the operation of the signalling-apparatus. The quadrant has no positions or notches corresponding to the All right" and " Stand by" orders on the dial, in which position of the pointer the bell circuit is always open. By moving the lever 5 through its full travel, it can be ascertained whether the receiving- instrument is in register with it. If not, by opening the valve 18 and moving the lever, the instruments can be brought into agreement.
Patent GB-190304940-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Controlling Device for Liquid Supply Rolls.
Inventor: NEWTON HENRY EDWARD
Filed: 1903-03-03
Granted: 1903-04-30
Abstract: 4940. Newton, H. E., [Hoe, R.]. March 3. Coating surfaces with liquids.-Relates to means for controlling the supply of liquid to damping or other liquid-supply rollers, and is described as applied to the damping-apparatus of planographic printing presses. Fig. 1 shows damping-rollers 5 supplied with water by a roller 4 in arms 6 on a rock shaft 7. The roller 4 moves alternately into contact with the rollers 5 and a roller 3 in the water reservoir 2. The roller 3 is rotated by screw gear 8, 9 or other means. The supply of liquid is regulated by varying the time the roller 4 is in contact with the roller 3. On the shaft 7 is an arm 16 having a radial curved slot 19. A bolt 20 carrying a roller 21 may be fixed in any position along the slot. The adjustment of the belt 20 is assisted by an arm 22 engaging it and pivoted at 23 on the arm 16, the point 23 being the centre of curvature of the slot. The roller 21 engages a cam 18 on the shaft of the roller 3. The downward movement of the arms 6, 16 are adjustably limited by a stop 26 engaging a screw 27 in the framing. When the bolt 20 is at the outer end of the slot 19, the roller 4 only contacts with the roller 3 for the short time that the roller 21 runs on the lowest part of the cam 18, but if the bolt is moved nearer the shaft 7 the roller 4 contacts with the roller 3 before the roller 21 reaches the lowest part of the cam, the contact being longer the nearer the bolt is to the shaft 7. Fig. 9 shows an arrangement in which an arm 48 on the rock shaft 7 is connected by a rod 47 to an arm 44 pivoted at 45. A roller 46 on the arm 44 engages a cam 30 and a controlling arm or block 32 pivoted at 33 on the side of the cam. On the shaft 31 of the cam 30 is a loose cam 34, to which an arm 38 having a handle 39 is fixed by a screw 37'. The arm 38 carries a bolt 43 movable in a slot in a fixed bracket 42 for fixing the arm and cam 34 in different positions to vary the length of time of contact of the rollers 3, 4. A roller 35 on the cam arm 32 runs on the cam 34, and when this roller reaches the low part of the cam 34, the arm 32 descends and moves the roller 4 away from the roller 3 as shown. In a modification of this mechanism, for cases in which the rollers 5 are above the rollers 3, the arm 32 is arranged to lift the arm 44 at variable times, and consequently to lift the roller 4 from the roller 3 after a variable period of contact.
Patent GB-190305205-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Breech Mechanism for Ordnance.
Filed: 1903-03-05
Granted: 1904-01-14
Abstract: 5205. Armstrong, Whitworth, & Co., Sir W. G., and Hadcock, A. G. March 5. Breech mechanism.-Fig. 1 shows a rear elevation, Fig. 2 a side elevation, and Fig. 4 a vertical section of the breech-block. The laterally-sliding breech-block a, provided with ribs a<2> engaging with corresponding grooves in the gun, is withdrawn by a roller c on the crank-arm c<1> engaging in the groove a<3> of the block, The striker d is cocked and released by the spindle e' bearing a firing-arm e with a spring tripper e<1>. The spindle e' of the firing-arm is actuated by means of an arm e<3> with a roller e<4> engaged by the actuating-lever f on the carriage. The spindle e' is prevented from moving lengthwise, and can be locked at "safe" by a flange g<1> on an arm g, overlapping the part e<8> on the arm e<3> and having a tooth g<2> engaging in the notch e<9> of the part e'. To enable the gun to be fired from the other side, a spindle h, Fig. 6, passing through the breech is provided at one end with an arm h<1> engaging with the arm e<3> on the outer end of the firing-spindle e', and at the other end with an arm and roller h' engaged by an actuating-lever on the carriage. The safety mechanism consists of a spring bolt i which locks the arm h<1> when the arm e<3> is moved forward by hand, and a projection i<1> on the bolt i enters a recess i<2> on the arm e<3>. In the modification, shown in Fig. 7, a roller h<4> on the arm h' engages with a finger e<3> mounted on the firing-spindle e', which can be locked at " safe " by turning the arm g to the right, when a lump g<2> engages the lip e<10> and turns the spindle until the shoulder e<9> is also engaged. Fig. 9 shows the striker d actuated by means of the ratchet-wheel k mounted on the firing-spindle e<2>, the rebound-spring being dispensed with by catching the end coils of the spring d<1> behind lugs d<4>.
Patent GB-190306270-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Wrenches.
Inventor: IRLAND DAVID HENRY
Filed: 1903-03-18
Granted: 1903-06-11
Abstract: 6270. Irland, D. H. March 18. Wrenches.-A wrench for pipes &c. is provided with means for operating the movable jaw. The jaws are closed by.means of a spring 9, Fig. 1, and opened by means of a lever 19, which acts on the toggles 21, 22, or otherwise. The serrated plates 2, 13 may be dovetailed into or riveted in position. The handle 4 is tubular and is provided with a lengthening-part 24, screw-threaded at its ends 25, 26 to engage with the threaded end 27 of the handle when the part 24 is either in its closed or extended position. In the wrench shown in Fig. 6, the plunger 37 is formed with an inclined end on which a roller, fixed to the lever 38, bears.
Patent GB-190313723-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Railway Signalling Apparatus.
Inventor: O'DONNELL JOHN PATRICK
Filed: 1903-06-19
Granted: 1903-08-13
Abstract: 13,723. O'Donnell, J. P., [Dodgson, F. L.]. June 19. Signalling between trains; semaphore &c. signals. -To prevent cars or trains from head-on collisions on single tracks, the counting- devices shown in plan in Fig. 2, and the circuit arrangements for the track block, ensure that the signal protecting the car is in the danger position and remains in that position until the car passes out of the block and counts itself out and re-sets the apparatus in position. The insulated track sections 1, 2, 3, 4 are connected to the electromagnets or relays 5, 6, 7, 8, and to the batteries 9, 58, 11, 59. The signals 17, 18, placed at the entrances to the track, are actuated by the motors 19, 20. The counting- mechanism consists of the two electromagnets 23, 24, the movable armature arms 27, 28, having spring ends 32, the shaft 35, two opposed ratchetwheels 33, 34 on the shaft, the disc 36 of insulating- material carrying a bridge-piece 37 of conducting- material, the stationary contact-pieces 38, 39, resting on the periphery of the disc 36 and adapted simultaneously to make contact with the bridge, and a contact-point 40 for one armature arm for making a circuit through the arm when it operates its ratchet-wheel. The motor circuit for each signal is controlled by both counting-devices and by the position of the other signal ; each motor circuit is closed by the operation of its own counting-device and by the normal positions of the other signal and its counting-device, and is opened by the re-setting or counting-out operation of its own counting-device to the normal position. The signal allowing a car to enter the block is cleared when the counter of that signal is in the zero position, the signal guarding the opposite end of the block is in the danger position, and the counter controlling this signal has moved one space forward. Stop mechanism is provided for the insulated disc 36. On each signal a contact-breaker of suitable form is arranged. The signal contact-breaker may be composed of two contact springs, so arranged that when the signal is in the danger position the plug carried by the signal arm makes connection between the springs.
Patent GB-190324984-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Means and Apparatus for Damping Grain, Powdered Minerals or Materials and the like.
Inventor: ROBSON STEPHEN EDWARD
Filed: 1903-11-17
Granted: 1904-09-15
Abstract: 24,984. Robson, S. E., Robson, F., and Collins, J. W. Nov. 17. Damping grain. -Relates to apparatus for damping grain, powdered minerals or materials, and the like, the water being turned on or off automatically with variations in the feed of the material. The grain &c., in falling through the tube U to the feeder A, depresses a flap valve, thereby actuating levers N, L and opening the lift valve K in the tank H. The water &c. passes by the pipe G to nozzles W, where it meets a blast of air issuing from nozzles Y and is sprayed over the grain &c, falling into the hopper B: The adjustable nozzles are supported by a bracket F on the hopper B, and the liquid in the tank may be heated by steam pipes. When the grain &c. ceases to flow through the tube U, the flap valve closes and the supply of water is stopped.
Patent GB-190325429-A (GB)
Title: Improved Spring Arch for Rim Brakes of Cycles.
Inventor: HOUNSELL WILLIAM GEORGE
Filed: 1903-11-21
Granted: 1904-09-29
Abstract: 25,429. Hounsell, W. G. Nov. 21. Brakes. - In a yoke for the rim brakes of cycles, limbs S, knucklejointed to a piece K, carry the blocks B and inclined guide-pins T, a take-off spring L being adapted to press out the limbs. Thus, in applying the brake, the inclined guides E tend to cause the blocks to be applied nearer to the centre of the rim, while, when the brake rod is released, the action of the spring, together with that of the guides, causes the blocks to move out and back again to normal position. According to the Provisional Specification, the lower extremities of the limbs form part of the inclined guides.
Patent GB-190405712-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to the Manufacture of Artificial Asphalt or the like Composition
Inventor: SHEDLOCK JAMES JOHN
Filed: 1904-03-08
Granted: 1905-03-08
Abstract: 5712. Shedlock, J. J. March 8. Moving-stirrer apparatus.-Relates to the manufacture of an asphalt for paving &c. Finely comminuted lime, in one or other of its forms, together with silica or similar material, is mixed with liquid tar or other suitable hydrocarbon in the proportion of about 3 to 1, and the mixture is then subjected in a divided state to the action of superheated steam or heated inert gas in an airtight chamber. The volatile constituents separate out and are drawn off. As shown, the lime is fed from the hopper A and the tar from the receptacle E on to a revolving cone C, from which they are removed by fixed scrapers F. Revolving scrapers H then feed them from the inner surface of the cone G on to a worm I, whence they fall, over a cone J on to the upper tray K of a series in the airtight chamber N. Gas or steam passes from the superheater 3 between, and sometimes into, the trays. The material is fed down through holes, preferably placed spirally in the trays, by means of revolving beaters L fitted by means of square holes in their ends to the shaft T. There may be more than one beater and one hole for each tray, and some of the extra beaters may have serrated lower edges to stir up the mass. The revolving scraper 0 forces the material out of the bottom through a hole Q, the shelf or other receptacle on to which it falls being so placed as to keep the chamber airtight The gases and volatile constituents pass away in to the condenser 6, from which condensed water and distillates pass out through pipes 7, 8, respectively. If steam is not used, the inert gases from the condenser may be taken round by pipes 11, 4 to the superheater 3, and used again. The steam or inert gases are at a temperature of about 300‹-500‹ F. Air forced through red-hot coke is sometimes employed.
Patent GB-190407337-A (GB)
Title: Combined Sound-Reproducing and Stereopticon Apparatus.
Inventor: MENSING CARL FREDERICK
Filed: 1904-03-28
Granted: 1904-06-09
Abstract: 7337. Mensing, C. F. April 25, A.D. 1903, [date applied for under Patents Act, A.D. 1901]. Optical projection apparatus.-In a. coin-freed combined sound-reproducing and scene-displaying apparatus, a travelling contact-arm carried by the phonograph or like, engages in succession a series of contacts, thus making and breaking a circuit through an electromagnet, the armature of which controls the rotation of the slides, which pass between the two lenses of a projecting-apparatus. The phonograph or like apparatus 4 is driven by an electric motor, which also slowly rotates the pulley 33, fixed to the shaft 30. The projecting-apparatus comprises a lamp 42, lenses 41, 43, mirror 45, and a screen 47 viewed through the hood 48. The required number of slides are carried on the skeleton wheel 31, provided with the same number of lugs 32, one of which normally engages with the end of a lever 24 connected by the pivoted and spring-connected catch 26 to the pivoted and spring-retracted armature 22 of the electromagnet 20. One terminal of the motor is connected, through the magnet 20, to the contact-arm 10, and the other terminal to a series of contacts adapted to engage with the travelling arm 10 of the phonograph &c. The catch 26 is provided with a notch 29 and bevelled end, such that, when the armature is attracted, the lever 24 is raised and the lug 32 can pass, but, as soon as the bevel end of the catch 26 comes against the magnet pole, it is forced outwards, thus releasing the armature 22 from the notch 29 and allowing the lever 24 to fall back in time to stop the next lug 32 on the slide-carrier. When the magnet is out of circuit, the armature is pulled back into the notch 29. The lugs 32 are so arranged, that, when they are engaged by the lever 24, the slides are in position for exhibition. The wheel 31 is rotated by the friction of a spring, fixed to the axle 30 and pressing against the inner part of the hub of the wheel 31.
Patent GB-190408214-A (GB)
Title: Gas Burner with a Device for Holding the By-pass Pipe in the Middle of the Mixing Tube
Inventor: WIECKART THEODOR HERRMANN WILH
Filed: 1904-04-09
Granted: 1905-03-30
Abstract: 8214. Weickart, T.H.W. April 9. Rotary or oscillating disc valves.-In a byepass gas burner, the usual nozzle which is screwed into the tap body is dispensed with, and is replaced by a nozzle controlled by a perforated rotating disc carried by a lever e movable between stops.
Patent GB-190409246-A (GB)
Title: Improved Contrivance for Removing Incrustation from the Interior Surface of Tubes.
Inventor: COCKBURN SIDNEY MANTHORP
Filed: 1904-04-22
Granted: 1905-07-22
Abstract: 9246. Cockburn, S. M., Temperley, J. R., and Temperley, J. April 22. Tubes, cleaning.-Relates to apparatus for removing the incrustation from the interior of tubes, particularly the tubes of water-tube boilers. The chisels a, Fig. 2, pivoted on a head c at the end of a tubular rod d, are pressed against the incrusted tube, to which they impart a rapid succession of blows, preferably communicated to them from a pneumatic hammer. The chisels may act in the manner of a pick, as shown in Fig. 2, or in the manner of a cold chisel, as shown in Fig. 3. A helical spring is provided for pressing the chisels against the tube, and the shank e<2> is adapted to receive the blows delivered by the hammer. The apparatus is supported in a tube on the rest o, Fig. 5, which is provided with a roller k. The chisels may be connected by a chain f.
Patent GB-190412326-A (GB)
Title: A Combination Drawing Instrument
Inventor: MOODIE ROBERT
Filed: 1904-05-31
Granted: 1904-09-22
Abstract: 12,326. Moodie, R. May 31. Mathematical drawing-instruments.-A pair of compasses, adapted to bisect, trisect, or measure, angles is made of two flat arms jointed at a so that one arm can swing over the other. When the pencil point has been worn flat, it can be transferred to the other side of the needle arm, so as to bring a sharp edge into action. The two arms are separated at the pivot by a milled tightening-nut, and are connected together by a link b c as shown. A scale may be secured to an arm by pins and keyhole slots. Either the end of the link (Fig. 1) or the pivot (Fig. 6) slides in a slot in the pencil arm against a scale of chords. The needle arm is graduated in inches on one side and in centimetres onthe other. The pencil is clamped in a holder g, of the form shown in Figs. 9, 11, by the wedge-shaped part p of one leg. When closed-up for putting away, the pencil is inserted in the holder in the opposite direction, and the two legs are locked together by the bent parts j of the holder engaging the dovetailed part k of the steel point d, as shown in Fig. 11.
Patent GB-190414485-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Rotary-box Looms.
Inventor: WALKER ALBERT EDWARD
Filed: 1904-06-27
Granted: 1905-04-27
Abstract: 14,485. Walker, A. E., Walker, A., and Walker, G. June 27. Loom shuttle boxes : change box motions.-Relates to improvements in rotary-box looms such as that described in Specification No. 15,998, A.D. 1901. The bearing 200, Figs. 1, 2, and 3, of the shuttle box 2 has its upper semicircle a formed from a centre 204 and its lower one b from a centre 205. The elongation thus produced allows vertical vibration. The bearing is made adjustable by bolts fitting in slots 201, and is also laterally adjustable by bolts 202. A ring 207 is freely mounted on the supporting-disc 206, and is kept in place by a flange 208 on the head 209 of the spindle 210. The ring serves to distribute the friction. The box-turning pins 212 are placed obliquely in the sprocket-wheel 213 as regards the position of the compartments m around the axis 210, and the pins stop, as shown, at unequal distances from the lines a-b, c-d drawn at right-angles to one another. The line c-d passes through the pivot of the draw-rod 61<a>. Fig. 4 also shows the position of the pins 212<a> on a second sprocketwheel for rotating the shuttle box in a reverse direction. Fig. 7 shows the rotary box adapted to a lay carried by two swords 8<a>, 8<b> at each end The turning-pins 212 on the sprocket-wheel 213 are arranged so that the arc x y of travel is bisected by the vertical line e-f passing through the pivot 61<d> of the draw-rod. Adjusting-screws are provided at the lower end of the bell-crank levers of the card-cylinder motion.
Patent GB-190421054-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Machinery or Apparatus for Automatically Cutting Continous Rolls of Paper into Longitudinal Strips, for Cutting such Strips Transversely so as to form Rectangular Tablets or Labels, and for Delivering the Tablets or Labels to any desired place.
Inventor: TAYLOR ELMER ZEBLEY
Filed: 1904-09-30
Granted: 1905-03-02
Abstract: 21,054. Taylor, E. Z. Sept. 30. Printing-apparatus combined with cutting-machines for paper.-Label designs are printed on a roll of paper in the cylinder machine described in Specification No. 4591, A.D. 1904, [Abridgment Class Printing other than Letterpress], the roll being afterwards cut into longitudinal strips by circular knives and the strips cut by transverse blades, thus forming tablets or labels, which are deposited on a travelling apron for delivery to any desired place. In the arrangement shown in Fig. 2, the paper passes round the impression cylinder b and between its surface and the forme-cylinders, which are as many in number as the separate colours or bronzes to be printed. A small transverse, angular, ribbed roller m, mounted in the ends of arms x which turn freely upon the spindle o, guides and feeds the paper between the circular knives n. These knives are fixed to the ends of cylinders or blocks mounted on spindles o, o<1>, being arranged at equal distances apart, the knives on each spindle overlapping those on the other spindle. On the lower spindle o', and between the cylinders carrying the knives n, are fixed cylinders in the periphery of which are cut grooves so arranged that all the grooves are at equal distances apart. Stripping guides or fingers v, projecting into these grooves, prevent the paper, after it is cut into strips, from being carried round with the knives, the paper strip being delivered by them to the transverse cutting-blades 2, 10. The lower blade 2 is fixed to the cross-stay w by set-screws 6, its cutting-edge being adjusted by a number of screws and locknuts 4 abutting against a lug or rib 5 on the cross-stay w. The upper blade 10 is fixed by screws to arms 9 carried by cylinders fixed on the rotating shaft 7. This shaft fits freely in its bearings, and has cam-shaped or slightly eccentric collars, running on corresponding cylindrical discs, near its ends. These are so arranged that, during cutting, the shaft 7 is forced against the top of the bearings, thus ensuring steadiness. A spindle 21, mounted at the back of arms 9 and actuated by a crank 22, the bushed end of which runs in a campath 24, carries a number of adjustable arms 27 to which are bolted fingers or blades 30. These fingers prevent the transverse sets of labels, after being cut, from being scattered about, and guide them to a receptacle 31, from which by means of a travelling belt 32 the labels can be transported to any desired place. A side-guard 43, having recesses through which the fingers 30 pass, prevents the labels from falling off the belt.
Patent GB-190422174-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Concrete Piles, Pillars, Beams, and other Concrete Structures.
Inventor: MOUCHEL GUSTAVE LOUIS
Filed: 1904-10-14
Granted: 1905-08-17
Abstract: 22,174. Mouchel, G. L. Oct. 14. Concrete b u i l dings ; skeletons of m e t a l ; columns, beams,&c.-Rods d in concrete piles, pillars, beams, and structures g e n erally, held apart as by struts f, are tied by loops a of wire of suitable thickness, twisted on themselves at b with the tag ends c projecting in the plane of the loop or at rightangles to it. The loops are made or slipped on the rods with the ends projecting away from the surface into the centra of the concrete e.