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Patent GB-189907890-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Locomotive Tender Couplings.
Inventor: MEEKER STEPHEN JONES
Filed: 1899-04-14
Granted: 1900-03-10
Abstract: 7890. Meeker, S. J. April 14. Coupling.s, automatic.-Relates to couplings for locomotive tenders designed to permit a certain lateral movement in passing round curves. Fig. 2 shows a plan. The coupler b, in the form shown, is of vertical plane type, having a guard arm b<2>, a swinging knuckle b<4>, and a vertical locking-pin b<5>. The hole in the coupler shank for the coupling- pin c is elongated so as to allow a movement of the coupler relatively to the bracket plate a; and the chamber in the bracket is shaped so that when drawn out the coupler is free to move laterally, but when pushed home is caused to assume a central position in order to ensure proper coupling with another coupler.
Patent GB-189917721-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Rotative Motors.
Inventor: NIVERT EMILE
Filed: 1899-09-01
Granted: 1899-11-04
Abstract: 17,721. Nivert, E. Sept. 1. Impact-wheels.-Figs. 1 and 4 show an explosion gas turbine. A mixture, say, of water and glycerine is expelled from the chamber a by gases exploded electrically therein, and is directed by a nozzle q against the vanes of a water-wheel. The explosive gases are drawn past a valve u, and forced through a passage t to the chamber a, by a piston f sliding in a chamber c and operated by a pivoted lever g connected by a rod to an eccentric pin on a pinion i which gears with a pinion k on the shaft. The electric circuit and the valve, p are controlled by spring-pressed rods v and o operated by cams n and m on the spindle of a pinion l gearing with the pinion i. The liquid expelled into the chamber b returns past the valve r to the chamber a. A self-starter, consisting of a pump kettle similar to those used in fire-pumps, may be connected to the chamber a by a pipe provided with a stop valve, the Rowing-back pipe being provided with a stop valve and connected to the nozzle q.
Patent GB-189918872-A (GB)
Title: The Manufacture or Production of Azo-coloring Matters.
Inventor: NEWTON HENRY EDWARD
Filed: 1899-09-19
Granted: 1900-07-21
Abstract: 18,872. Newton, H. E., [Farbenfabriken vorm. F. Bayer & Co.]. Sept. 19. Dyes, artificial.-New azo dyes which yield on unmordanted cotton fast and bright violet to blue shades are produced by combining a tetrazotized diamine, such as benzidine, tolidine, dianisidine, or the like, with a molecular proportion of an alpha-naphthol sulphonic acid or of a peri-chlor-, perialkyloxy-, or other peri derivative thereof, and a molecular proportion of #1#4-amidonaphthol. Examples are given in which (1) dianisidine, a,- naphthol-#2#3-disulphonic acid, and #2#4-amidonaphthol, and (2) benzidine, monoethyl-alpha1alpha4-dihydroxynaphthalene - #2#3 - disulphonic acid and #1#4-amidonaphthol are respectively employed. When these dyes are rediazotized upon the fibre and further coupled with #-naphthol, bright reddish-blue to blue tints, fast to washing, are produced.
Patent GB-189922189-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Chart Blanks.
Inventor: GOODWIN WILLIAM HENRY
Filed: 1899-11-06
Granted: 1900-09-01
Abstract: 22,189. Goodwin, W. H. Nov. 6. Charts.-Relates to the construction o f chronological chart blanks. Scales w, formed of four parts g, each of which is subdivided i n t o a hundred parts, are marked o the adjacent sides of a square. The ends of the scales are united by a subdivided arc u. The period and the area covered by any event are marked off by arcs struck from the centre t and radial lines drawn towards the arc u.
Patent GB-190011154-A (GB)
Title: New and Improved Screens for Attachment to Potato Diggers to Prevent Potatoes being Buried or Covered with Soil.
Inventor: GRACE JOHN
Filed: 1900-06-20
Granted: 1901-06-08
Abstract: 11,154. Grace, J. June 20. Potato diggers in which revolving forks are employed for removing the potatoes from the drills. The invention consists in the attachment of screens to prevent the potatoes being buried. In Fig. 1, d, d represents the path of the revolving forks, and B the usual share to the rear of which the screen A is bolted. An additional screen E is attached to a plate F, so as to ensure the whole of the drill containing the potatoes being passed over the screen A. The plate F is carried on a standard e, jointed at h so as to bend outwards only, and controlled in its movements by the springs g and g<1>. The upper part of the standard e is adjustably clamped to the frame of the machine.
Patent GB-190018700-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Washing-boards or Surfaces.
Inventor: HEISTER AUGUST
Filed: 1900-10-19
Granted: 1900-12-01
Abstract: 18,700. Heister, A. Oct. 19. Washing- boards. -A washing-board is made entirely of sheet zinc or other suitable metal, and is stamped w i t h corrugations b, lateral flanges a, and a receptacle c for soap &c.
Patent GB-190100190-A (GB)
Title: An Improvement in or applicable to Spring Seats and Backs for Chairs, Sofas, Cushions and other Upholstered Articles and the like.
Filed: 1901-01-03
Granted: 1901-11-23
Abstract: 190. Compin's Patent Springs, Ltd., and Percival, W. Jan. 3. Upholstery springs; spring surfaces; cushions. -Relates to springs and spring surfaces for the seats and backs of chairs, sofas, &c., and for cushions. Plate springs b have rolled ends b<1>, which fit in a groove a<1> in the back rail of the frame a, and can be readily removed. The other ends of the springs are bifurcated, and engage sleeves c sliding on pins d and acted on by coiled springs e. In order to resist twisting stress, the pins are placed through holes in the front rails a, and are secured in the manner shown in Figs. 3 to 6.
Patent GB-190106599-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Upright Pianoforte Actions
Inventor: WILLIAMS ROBERT FRICK
Filed: 1901-03-29
Granted: 1902-02-06
Abstract: 6599. Williams, R. F. March 29. Pianofortes.-The invention relates to actions for upright pianofortes. As shown in Fig. 1, the sticker 1 is hinged to a lever 2, which rests in the key 5, and also to a lever 6 one of whose ends encounters a rail 9 when the sticker is lifted, and thus actuates the damper wire 12. The set-off is effected by a button 15, and the sticker may be guided either by a continuation 14 of the wire which carries the button, or by wires 22 which embrace it at a point nearer the hammer-butt, as shown in Fig. 2. In this Figure, the damper lever 21 is hinged to the rail 4 and not to the sticker, through which it passes, and is actuated directly by the lever 2 when the latter rises.
Patent GB-190108796-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Stoppers or Seals for Bottles and other Vessels
Inventor: BREWINGTON HENRY SCOTT
Filed: 1901-04-29
Granted: 1901-09-28
Abstract: 8796. Brewington, H. S. April 29. Stoppers; capsuling and sealing bottles &c.-The neck 1, Fig. 1, of the bottle &c. is formed with a horizontal shoulder 2 and an undercut shoulder 3, and is closed by the hollow stopper 4, which is made of aluminium or other suitable metal &c., and is pressed down on the shoulder 2 until its corrugated sides 6 are compressed together under the shoulder 3, as shown in Fig. 2. A packing- washer 7 of cork &c. is fitted in the lower end of the stopper, to form a tight joint with the neck. In the modification shown in Fig. 4, the shoulders are formed on the exterior of the neck, over which the corrugated cap-shaped stopper 11 is compressed, as shown, the washer 14 being placed in the interior of the cap.
Patent GB-190109133-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Apparatus for the Distillation of Nitric Acid.
Inventor: PLATH GOTTFRIED
Filed: 1901-05-02
Granted: 1902-04-24
Abstract: 9133. Plath, G. May 2. Distilling nitric acid.- Fig. 1 shows an elevation, and Fig. 2 a plan, of the apparatus, which comprises stills A, Woulffe's bottles B, a condenser D, a tower E, and a Woulffe's bottle F. The invention consists chiefly in obtaining a white acid by submitting both the condensed acid and the vapours before condensation to a prolonged contact with air. For this purpose, the condensed acid is drawn off from the front end of the condenser D through a pipe h, from which it flows through a pipe coil H into a collector G. Air which enters the open end of the coil H, being drawn through it by the draught from a chimney or forced into it by other means, flows over the surface of the liquid in the coil, and then mixes with the vapours in the condenser, and passes forward in the same direction as the vapours towards the tower E, the contact between the air and vapours being thereby more prolonged than when the two flow in opposite directions. The lower bends y of each pair of condenser tubes are connected together by bent pipes z, in which the acid collects and leaves a free passage for the air and vapours through the condenser tubes. The coil H may be heated, if necessary. The air enters through a superposed series of rings or covers I, which gradually decrease in diameter from the lowest to the uppermost, so that the size of the air passage may be regulated by removing one or more of these rings.
Patent GB-190113113-A (GB)
Inventor: TILLINGHAST PARDON WILBUR
Filed: 1901-06-27
Granted: 1901-11-09
Abstract: 13,113. Tillinghast, P. W., and Vigneron, A. T. June 27. Tyres, pneumatic etc.; felloes or rims.-Relates to attaching pneumatic or other elastic tyres to wheel rims. In the form shown in Fig. 2, an inextensible metal band b is embedded in that part of the tyre which normally lies within the rim. A wedge-shaped metal ring e is shrunk on to the felloes d, and the rim is completed by a corresponding metal ring e', which is detachably secured to the felloes by means of lugs l and bolts h. The band b has a curvilinear cross-section, so that screwing up the bolts h attaches the tyre. In modifications, the ring e may form an integral part of the felloe, and the ring e<1> may either screw directly on to the felloe or he secured to the ring e by lugs and nuts. Each ring may be detachable, as is shown in Fig. 6, in which case one ring may be secured by a flanged screwed sleeve g, and the other ring by a bolt h, which screws into the sleeve and is locked by a nut i. The rings may be corrugated to engage with corresponding corrugations on the tyre, and a corrugated strip of rubber s may be placed between the rings e and the felloe. The band b, which may be corrugated, may be secured to the inner periphery of the tyre, or it may be replaced by two embedded bands b<1>. Disc-wheels.-When the tyre is to be attached to a disc-wheel, the disc or discs may be extended to form either the rings e, e', or, as shown in Fig. 9, the band b.
Patent GB-190114969-A (GB)
Title: Improvement in Electric Synchronism and Frequency or Speed Indicators.
Inventor: LINCOLN PAUL MARTYN
Filed: 1901-07-23
Granted: 1902-01-09
Abstract: 14,969. Lincoln, P. M. July 23. Drawings to Specification. Revolution-direction and speed indicators.-For indicating the direction of revolution and speed of a shaft, an electric frequency indicator of special construction is supplied with currents from a small two-phase generator on the shaft.
Patent GB-190117654-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and connected with Ventilation by Window Openings.
Inventor: ALFORD JOSEPH WILLIAM GILBERT
Filed: 1901-09-03
Granted: 1902-06-19
Abstract: 17,654. Alford, J. W. G., and Martin, B. C. Sept. 3. Windows; window opening and closing apparatus; window holders.-Vertical operating-rods 3 are arranged to slide in guidesockets 8 fixed to the lower sash, and are connected to the upper sash by keys or cross-pins 5, which are inserted through slots in metal discs 6 of the sash when the rods are tilted sideways. The sashes are locked together by a thumb-screw 9, which passes through the socket and bears against the rod a little on one side of the axial line, so as to prevent rattling of the sashes. A sliding bolt 10 of the lower sash can be shot into hole 11 in the frame, to fasten the sashes in an open or closed position. In the arrangement shown in Fig. 11, a handle 7 at the lower end of the rod 3 is recessed to engage with studs 13 projecting from the frame.
Patent GB-190122740-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in the Construction and Mounting of Explosion Motors for Safety Bicycles and other similar Vehicles.
Inventor: CLEMENT ADOLPHE
Filed: 1901-11-11
Granted: 1902-09-04
Abstract: 22,740. Clement, A. Nov. 11. Pistons.-Explosion engines for safety bicycles and other similar vehicles are constructed with a rod C projecting from the crank casing and secured to a tube D of the frame by a clip b, c. The gudgeon K by which the connecting-rod is attached to the piston is retained by the segmental packing-rings x.
Patent GB-190123564-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Cinematograph Apparatus.
Inventor: MORTIER PAUL
Filed: 1901-11-20
Granted: 1902-10-09
Abstract: 23,564. Mortier, P. May 2, [date applied for under Sec. 103 of Patents &c. Act, A.D. 1883]. Magic-lantern apparatus.-In order to obtain a stationary picture from a constantly moving film, a pair of prisms, one movable, is placed in the path of the light. The Figure shows the arrangement. The film a b passes the window F F<1> and the light from the condenser K passes to the fixed prism P thence through a movable prism P' to the screen A B. The prism P' is tilted by means of a lever L which is moved by pins E on the drum, as shown. When the pin passes the lever, the latter is thrown back suddenly by a powerful spring S and the next picture thrown on the screen. The lever is cushioned in its return movement by springs N.
Patent GB-190123913-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Internal Combustion Motors.
Inventor: ACCLES JAMES GEORGE
Filed: 1901-11-25
Granted: 1902-11-06
Abstract: 23,913. Accles, J. G., and Veulle, F. H. de. Nov. 25. Flywheels.- The flywheel of an internal combustion engine, particularly applicable to velocipedes, is made up of two discs a, a<1>, one carrying a sleeve e<1> and the other a pin l, which fit together and form the crank pin. They a r e locked together by a head on the pin which can pass through an elongated hole in the opposite disc when the axes of the discs are not coincident. Pistons.-The piston B is attached to the con. necting-rod by a gudgeon f<1> which is secured by a split taper pin f<2>.
Patent GB-190207148-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Machines for Washing Fabrics.
Inventor: ECK THEODOR
Filed: 1902-03-24
Granted: 1902-06-25
Abstract: 7148. Eck, T., and Becker, W. March 24. Washing.-Relates to machines for washing fabrics, in which the fabrics, roughly folded or doubled together so as to form long lengths, are made to run in helical windings through the tub or vat. The folded or doubled fabric a is conducted round one or more sets of guide-rolls b, each composed of a number corresponding to that of the coils or windings, and adapted to turn loosely on a common shaft d. Guide-combs e, f ensure the passage of the fabric on to the proper rolls. In order to economize water, the wash tub or vat is divided into several compartments by partitions g, h furnished with overflow holes i. Fresh water is admitted to the middle compartment, and flows from that into the two lateral compartments.
Patent GB-190207718-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and connected with Electric Punka-motors.
Inventor: ZELLWEGER ALFRED
Filed: 1902-04-02
Granted: 1902-11-27
Abstract: 7718. Zellweger, A. April 2. Motors, electromagnetic.-A motor for operating punkahs consists of a pair of electromagnets a, b above which is arranged an armature d, pivoted to a post c, and arranged so as to oscillate, directly or through the medium of a connecting-rod e and counterweighted lever g, a lever i in connection with the punkah string k. At the end of each movement, the electric circuit is opened or closed by a lever l, actuated by the counterweighted lever g.
Patent GB-190210847-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Workmen's Time Recorders and the like.
Inventor: STOCKALL JAMES JOHN
Filed: 1902-05-12
Granted: 1903-04-30
Abstract: 10,847. Stockall, J. J. May 12. Time-checking apparatus for workmen. A timeprinting apparatus, driven by a clock, is made with escapement gearing to effect quick movements of the type-wheels, and a movable carrier to receive cards is provided with a stop to prevent its downward movement until the card is in place in the carrier. This stop is a light bell-crank lever, pivoted on the carrier so that a weighted vertical arm engages a stationary shoulder until the card bears on a horizontal arm of the bell crank. The printing-apparatus has wheels a, b, Fig. 1, driven by a clock and making one turn an hour. The wheel b is attached to two snail cams o, p and a wheel c with 30 V-shaped teeth, this combination being loose on a shaft l, on which are fixed an escapement-wheel d and a type-wheel k to print minutes. A pin e on the wheel c bears against a spring on the wheel d, to drive this, but the wheel d is held stationary by either of two teeth of an escapement until this is rocked by arms h engaging the wheel c, whereupon the wheel d turns suddenly through half a tooth length, with the shaft l and the type-wheel k. The two edge cams o, p act successively on spring-pressed arms q, s, Fig. 4, of shafts z, 1 ; an arm 2 of the shaft z carries a spring-pressed pawl r, to drive a wheel n one tooth distance, when a detaining-arm u on the shaft 1 leaves the wheel n ; a lateral projection on the arm 2 limits the movement of the wheel n to one tooth at a time. The wheel n is loose on the shaft l, and attached to an hour type-wheel m, Fig. 1.
Patent GB-190215715-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or connected with Electric Cable Junction, Terminal, and like Boxes.
Inventor: BURNET CHARLES DOUGLAS
Filed: 1902-07-15
Granted: 1903-06-18
Abstract: 15,715. Burnet, C. D. July 15. Junction boxes.- Relates to means for supporting the cables in junction, terminal, or like boxes. Figs. 1 and 2 show the invention applied to a triple concentric cable x, the three parts of which are connected to conductors x<1>. The box a is formed with a web d pierced with a hole having a slot d<1> at the top. A bobbin c, formed in two halves adapted to fit round the cable, is provided on its central portion with flats c', which allow it to be passed through the slot d<1> into the hole in the web d. It is then rigidly secured by rotating it through a right-angle. The clamps x' of the conductors x' are arranged close to the sides of the bobbin, to prevent longitudinal motion of the cable.
Patent GB-190216892-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or connected with Gas Heating Appliances.
Inventor: HARVEY EDWARD CHARLES
Filed: 1902-07-30
Granted: 1903-06-11
Abstract: 16,892. Harvey, E. C. July 30. Incandescent gas stoves.-Relates to apparatus of the kind described in Specification No. 3341, A.D. 1901. A steel mixing and regenerative chamber b, having a ring of radial burner slits b<3>, is secured to a conical openended tube b<1>, resting on the burner gallery a<2> and having a perforated diaphragm b<2> at the bottom. A thin ring-like screen c of asbestos, interwoven or combined with metal, is arranged below the burner slits. The metallic asbestos, in cord-like or other form, is wound on a frame d, to which an openwork basket screen e is secured by stays e', the whole being suspended by spring hooks e<2> engaging a flange b<4>. The asbestos material may consist of woven cloth or thin rods mounted between trough-shaped rings connected by stays. The asbestos may be of feather-like form, and situated between two frames connected together by a hinge and a clip or hook.
Patent GB-190220922-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to the Production of Radio-active Metallic Coatings
Filed: 1902-09-25
Granted: 1903-09-03
Abstract: 20,922. Lake, H. H., [Fabrik Chemischer Praeparate von Dr. R. Sthamer, (vorm. Sthamer, Noack, & Co.)]. Sept. 25. Bismuth; coating.-Relates to the production of metallic coatings which have the property of exciting radiant action on uranium and other metals, and consists in the deposition of thin layers of radioactive materials from solutions of pitchblende containing radio-active bismuth or of other substances containing radio-active materials. The solutions may be made from the residues resulting from the treatment of uran-pitchblende with sulphuric acid or other suitable acid or salt solution so as to dissolve the bismuth and the radio-active materials. Bismuth may be coated by immersion in the solution, the radio-active metal being deposited and the bismuth dissolved.
Patent GB-190303545-A (GB)
Title: Manufacture and Production of Meto-amido-ortho-oxy-benzyl Sulphonic Acid.
Inventor: NEWTON HENRY EDWARD
Filed: 1903-02-14
Granted: 1904-01-07
Abstract: 3545. Newton, H. E., [Farbenfabriken vorm. F. Bayer & Co.]. Feb. 14. m-Amido-o-oxybenzyl sulphonic acid.-m-Nitroo-oxybenzyl halogenides, prepared as described in Specification No. 12,421, A.D. 1901, are treated with sulphites or bisulphites. The mixture obtained is allowed to stand, and is filtered, the filtrate is acidulated with hydrochloric acid, and the sodium salt of m-nitro o-benzyl sulphonic acid precipitated by adding common salt. The solution of this salt is reduced by means of zinc dust, or in any other known way, the solution is filtered, and the sulphonic acid precipitated by hydrochloric acid. The new body obtained has the formula :- It forms a whitish stable powder, soluble with difficulty in cold water, but soluble in hot water. It is practically insoluble in ether, alcohol, and acetone, and forms salts with alkalies.
Patent GB-190304718-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Gas Burners
Inventor: WECK RICHARD
Filed: 1903-02-28
Granted: 1903-05-14
Abstract: 4718. Weck, R. Feb. 28. Gas valves and cocks ; plug cocks.-To allow of either the pilot jet or the main jet being utilized while the other is extinguished, the burner tube a terminates at its lower end in a plug c, in which are bored eccentrically two gas channels e, d. The lower end of the plug rests in, and is attached by a bayonet fastening n, o to, a base b, which is formed with an eccentrically-located gas channel m. By means of a handle k attached to a ring i, the tube a with its plug c may be turned relatively to the base b so as to bring either the bye-pass channel e or the main channel d over the fixed channel m. The area of the bye-pass channel e may be regulated by a set-screw h.
Patent GB-190306500-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Dynamo Electric Machines
Inventor: CAROLAN EDGAR ALFRED
Filed: 1903-03-20
Granted: 1904-02-11
Abstract: 6500. Carolan, E. A., [General Electric Co.]. March 20. Field magnets especially suitable for high-speed revolving-field machines. The spider A has the outer ends of its arms expanded into circular arcs provided with a series of dovetailed transverse recesses, adapted to receive corresponding projections on the laminae 3, constituting the field core B. The pole-pieces C have parallel sides and shouldered horns 6 to receive spools of copper wire 7, and are composed of laminµ 8 and end plates bolted together. Dovetailed projections on the laminµ fit into somewhat larger recesses on the flat sides of the field core, the connection between which is made rigid by the aid of a friction strip 12 and locking-keys 11 and 10, the latter being the thicker of the two and tapering down at one end to the thickness of the other. The laminµ 8 are provided with slots 13, so that both dovetailed projections may register with their corresponding recesses. In order to give further support to the pole-pieces when the field revolves horizontally, steps are formed at the lower end of the recesses 5, either by omitting some of the lower core laminµ or by providing only small slots 14 for the passage of the friction strips and driven keys 10, and upon the steps the stationary keys 11 and pole-piece projections rest while the other keys are being driven home.