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Patent GB-189721976-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Appliances used in connection with the Electro-deposition of Metals.
Inventor: GREENFIELD FRED
Filed: 1897-09-25
Granted: 1898-04-02
Abstract: 21,976. Greenfield, F. Sept. 25. Small articles, plating.-Articles such as cycle screws, spindles, hubs, and cranks are supported by means such as are shown in Fig. 2, in nickelling, silvering, and other plating baths. A conducting- strip c<1> extends along two sides of a wooden bar a<1>, and is provided with an eye c which is hooked to a supporting-rod. The conductor c' may otherwise form an open metal frame, the wood being dispensed with. The conductor c' carries headed studs c<2>, in pairs, to engage keyhole slots in the bent-up ends of metal supports e, which may thus be readily placed on the conductor c' after being filled with the articles. All the metal parts are coated with enamel or other non-conducting material, excepting contact surfaces. The Provisional Specification mentions the use of rubber bands for this purpose. The supports e are made of various forms, as shown, to suit different articles. Among these, screw-threaded articles without heads are screwed into suitable holes e<3>. Hollow articles are placed on strips 21 with upturned ends or notched edges to retain them in position.
Patent GB-189724479-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Garden Seats or the like.
Inventor: TYLER ARTHUR AUGUSTUS
Filed: 1897-10-22
Granted: 1898-03-05
Abstract: 24,479. Tyler, A. A., March, W., and Penn, H. Oct. 22. Seats and seat backs; seat protectors.-The back C of a garden seat for omnibuses &c. has pivoted to each end of it two rods D, E connected by a link F. The rods work in guides G provided with stop pins H, I, J. The back, which forms a thief guard, can be made to face either way, or to cover the seat and protect it from weather.
Patent GB-189729494-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Inflation Valves and Pumps.
Inventor: LIEBENROOD FITZ-HARDINGE ROBER
Filed: 1897-12-13
Granted: 1898-12-10
Abstract: 29,494. Liebenrood, FitzH. R. B. Dec. 13. Tyres, pneumatic, inflating-valves for. Between the two parts A and B of a casing, Fig. 1, an elastic perforated cushion C is secured, airtight joints being effected by. projections A<3>, B<1>. The closing-cap D has a cup-shaped end D<1> and projections D<2> to engage grooves which are cut away at two opposite points. A flap C<5>, Fig. 11, a rubber strip, or a metal plate may be attached to the cushion. During the process of inflating, the pump nozzle is held within the perforation of the cushion.
Patent GB-189806128-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or connected with Miners' Safety Lamps.
Inventor: ACKROYD WILLIAM
Filed: 1898-03-12
Granted: 1899-01-28
Abstract: 6128. Ackroyd, W., and Best, W. March 12. M i n e rs' safety lamps. - To minimize the risks consequent o n a n y negligence on the part of the lampcleaner, the bonnet i s so constructed that it need not be finally attached until after the lamp has been lit, locked, and inspected. When the parts are put together, the screwing up of the ring E causes the flange L to raise a stud N on a spring M attached to the frame A from the position shown in Fig. 2 to that shown in Figs. 1 and 3. Upon screwing in the reservoir B the spring bolt C engages with the teeth A o n t h e underside o f t h e ring E, and locks the lamp. After the lamp and gauze have been examined by the miner or inspector, the bonnet R is screwed home, a spring P on the bonnet then engaging with the raised spring M and the stud N and preventing the bonnet from being unscrewed until the unlocking and taking to pieces of the lamp allows the spring M and the stud N to return to the position shown in Fig. 2.
Patent GB-189808023-A (GB)
Title: A New or Improved Method of Closing Capsules or Cartridges containing Compressed or Liquefied Gases or Liquids under Pressure.
Inventor: STERNE THEODORE
Filed: 1898-04-04
Granted: 1899-03-11
Abstract: 8023. SternÚ, T. April 4. Storing under pressure. - The capsules A are provided with a cover B or B<1> which is held in place by magnetic attraction or by an agglutinative substance, the perforation for charging and discharging being too small to enable the internal pressure to force the cover off. The capsules are charged by laying them in grooves b in a box D, Figs. 6 and 7, and supporting their covers B at some distance from them by pins, hooks, or claws C on the lid. After compressed or liquefied gas or liquid under pressure has been forced into the box, the box is tilted so that the capsules fall against and adhere to their covers. By this invention capsules can be used more than once. Various kinds of capsules and covers are shown in Figs. 1, 2, 3, and 4. The covers B' have projections which enter the holes a in the capsules.
Patent GB-189808657-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Driving-chains.
Inventor: BOULT ALFRED JULIUS
Filed: 1898-04-13
Granted: 1898-05-14
Abstract: 8657. Boult, A. J., [Horne, J. B.]. April 13. Pins, joint.-The pins B, Fig. 3, of driving-chains are free in the inner link A and in the outer links A<1>; they are formed near the ends with circumferential grooves t<1>, into which are sprung spring locking-plates, slit as in Fig. 4, or formed from steel wire as in Fig. 5.
Patent GB-189813619-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Cell-cylinders for Drying Apparatus.
Inventor: BROMHEAD SAMUEL SIDNEY
Filed: 1898-06-18
Granted: 1898-08-06
Abstract: 13,619. Bromhead, S. S., [M÷ller & Pfeifer]. June 18. Drawings to Specification. Sifting clay &c.-In a rotary drying-cylinder, having fitted therein a number of cells, perforations are provided in the concentric walls thereof so that the finer and more readily dried material passes to the outer cells.
Patent GB-189814779-A (GB)
Title: Improvement in Shedding Mechanism of Looms for Weaving.
Inventor: HAYHURST DAVID DAVIS
Filed: 1898-07-05
Granted: 1899-06-17
Abstract: 14,779. Hayhurst, D. D., and Leach, J. July 5. Loom shedding-motions. -The lambs or bars G, to which the healds are attached, are guided vertically by a grid F to keep the healds in proper position, and are connected to the lower staves of the healds by adjustable leather straps.
Patent GB-189817296-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Filtering Presses.
Inventor: METZGER JEAN
Filed: 1898-08-10
Granted: 1898-11-05
Abstract: 17,296. Metzger, J. Aug. 10. Filter-presses.-The liquid is twice filtered, by passing from the inlet chamber E through a first set of filters to an intermediate chamber D, from whence it passes through a second set to the outlet. In traversing the filters, the liquid passes by one set of passages to the plate 1, and from there by the filters 3, plates 2, and another set of passages to the chamber D.
Patent GB-189823314-A (GB)
Title: Improved Life-boat, specially adapted for Use on Sea-going Ships.
Inventor: MULIE WILLEM PETRUS
Filed: 1898-11-05
Granted: 1899-10-07
Abstract: 23,314. Mulie, W. P., and Berg, B. H. van den. Nov. 5. Lifeboats; sea-calming by discharging oil.-Relates to devices for preventing the capsizing of ships' lifeboats, which devices, when the boat is inboard, can be swung into the interior of the boat. As shown in Fig. 7, a pointed airtight casing A is hinged to each side of the boat, so that it can be swung inside as indicated in dotted lines. When in use, the casings are secured by turn-bolts E, or by spring fastenings. The boat shown has a double bottom, and is fitted with water-escape tubes provided with non-return valves. At bow and stern are placed oil tanks, the contents of which escape through tubes to prevent seas from breaking over the boat.
Patent GB-189826089-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to Ornaments for Bedsteads, Fenders, and the like.
Inventor: SANDERS WILLIAM
Filed: 1898-12-09
Granted: 1899-10-14
Abstract: 26,089. Sanders, W., and Seymour, G. E. Dec. 9. Fenders.-The base B, by which a stamped sheet-metal ornament or mount A is fixed to a fender, is bent from a piece of metal in which is made a hole b, Fig. 6. After the base is bent as shown in Figs. 1 and 5, the mount A is slipped into the recess b<1>, and the parts b<2>, b<3> are pressed together by suitable tools into a recess in the mount.
Patent GB-189827524-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Coin Freed Apparatus.
Inventor: WOHLGRATH FELIX
Filed: 1898-12-30
Granted: 1899-12-30
Abstract: 27,524. Wohlgrath, F. Dec. 30. Drawings to Specification. Advertising.-A shaft of a coin-freed sale apparatus may bear a drum carrying advertisements printed on a paper ribbon a certain length of which will be delivered on the outside at each partial rotation.
Patent GB-189904429-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Centrifugal Governors.
Inventor: SPOONER ARTHUR FREEMORE
Filed: 1899-02-28
Granted: 1900-02-28
Abstract: 4429. Spooner, A. F., [Aubrat, E.]. Feb. 28. Centrifugal, governors.-The governor is designed to be capable of having its speed of control adjusted or regulated arbitrarily or according to a prescribed rule or the variation in some physical action, while it is at the same time astatic at all speeds. The adjustment or regulation is effected either automatically or otherwise. Several forms of the invention are described, in all of which the governor is loaded with a weight of variable leverage and the speed of control is altered bv shifting the weight along the lever or by shifting the position of the fulcrum. Fig. 8 shows a form of the governor in side elevation in which the adjustment is effected by mechanical control. In this, the governor muff or sleeve 10 is acted on by the lever 2 carrying a weight 4 and also by the centrifugal weights 3, the arms 1 of which engage with transverse guides projecting from the muff. The weight 4 is adjustable by means of a screw worked from a shaft 17 through universal joints which permit of movement of the lever 2. Suitable indicators are provided at 34 and 36. In place of the control being effected by the shaft 17, it may be effected by a mechanically-actuated apparatus embodying the principle of the fusee. In other forms of the invention, rack or linkage gear are employed for shifting the weight ; also in one form an electromagnetic apparatus is used, and in another hydraulic apparatus for the same purpose is described. Rack gear for varying the leverage by shifting the fulcrum of the lever 2 is also shown in two forms of the invention.
Patent GB-189904732-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Rock Drills.
Filed: 1899-03-03
Granted: 1900-01-06
Abstract: 4732. Lake, H. H., [Rand Drill Co.]. March 3. Rock drills, percussive, valves and valve gear for. Relates to a valve arrangement for causing the drill to work with short strokes when required. Fig. 1 shows a drill with a piston valve worked from the main piston through a rocker. One exhaust port can be closed or throttled by an additional cylindrical valve o so as to cushion the forward ends of the main valve and piston. The valve is then operated alternately by the cushioning and by one incline on the piston, suthcient leakage taking place to allow this. The valve o is shown in Fig. 3 with a head r for turning it by hand within limits allowed by stops, and it is normally held open by a spring.
Patent GB-189910731-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Attachments or Supports to Bicycles.
Inventor: RULE WILLIAM BENNETT
Filed: 1899-05-23
Granted: 1899-08-19
Abstract: 10,731. Rule, W. B. May 23. Supports for bicycles. A stay, consisting of a rod B sliding in a tube A or of two parallel wires sliding one on the other or formed of rods jointed together, is hinged to the frame, and may be extended to rest on the ground and support the bicycle. In the case of a gentleman's bicycle the stay is fixed to the upper frame tube, but when applied to a lady's cycle it is attached to the front lower tube. When not in use, the stay is fixed parallel to the frame member. When a telescopic stay is used, a spring E engaging a groove R in, or the end P of, the rod B serves to lock it in its extended or closed position.
Patent GB-189913316-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in the Driving Mechanism of Velocipedes and Motor or other Vehicles.
Inventor: WALKER THOMAS FERDINAND
Filed: 1899-06-27
Granted: 1900-06-02
Abstract: 13,316. Walker, T. F., and Walker, T. S. June 27. Motor road vehicles.-Relates to clutches for bicycles &c. with two sets of rollers arranged for forward and backward driving respectively, the latter being capable of being kept out of action to give a free wheel. In the arrangement shown in Figs. 1 and 2, the driving-wheel hub carries a disc a formed with inclines a<1>, a<2> on its outer edge against which work clutch rollers f, f<1>. Side plates e, e' are mounted on the disc, and form the bearing for the chain-wheel d, the inner surface of which engages the chain rollers f, f<1>. The side plates are connected by cross-bolts e<2>, which pass between the rollers. The rollers are kept in action by spring plugs a<12> working in recesses in projecting lugs o<9> on the disc. As shown, both sets of rollers are in operative position, but, if the plates e are turned relatively to the disc a, the bolts e<2> may be made to bear on the rollers f<1>, which are arranged for back driving and thus keep them out of action. The movement of the side plates is effected by a cam a<3> carried by a lever a<4>, which can be swung over as indicated by the dotted curve in Fig. 2. In a modified arrangement, the clutch rollers are arranged with the springs between them, and the back driving-rollers are taken out of action by a series of inclined pins carried by a plate which can be moved inwards or outwards from the disc a. A clutch of this form may be operated by the rider without dismounting, by causing the plate to be moved by a nut working on a thread on the bottom bracket or on the main axle, and capable of being partially rotated through a bell-crank lever, links, &c. The two sets of clutch rollers may be arranged in separate recesses in the inner and outer peripheries of the disc fixed to the hub, the chain-wheel in this case having two flanges to engage the rollers. Or the two sets of rollers may be arranged side by side, the chain-wheel having a lateral flange to engage the second set. In this case the back-driving rollers are put out of action by pins carried on a plate which can be rotated by hand, in which case a catch is provided to hold it in position, or by a pawl and ratchet-wheel or similar contrivance operated by the rider through suitable connections.
Patent GB-189913965-A (GB)
Title: New or Improved Trunnion Bearings for Ordnance.
Inventor: REICHWALD AUGUST
Filed: 1899-07-06
Granted: 1900-04-28
Abstract: 1 3 , 9 6 5 . Reichwald, A., [Krupp, F.]. July 6. Removal of parts, facilitating.-Relates to bearings for trunnions of guns which are withdrawn longitudinally from their bearings. Each trunnion is supported in position by a block d, Fig. 5, which is pushed laterally into the body part a of the mounting, and is secured by plates h passing over the projections f, g and bolted together at i. Shoulders e are provided on the blocks d to transfer the strain to the body, or the shoulders may be dispensed with, and the strain is then taken entirely by the bolts i.
Patent GB-189920799-A (GB)
Title: Apparatus for Filling Powder into Bottles and like Receptacles.
Inventor: WILD HARRY REGINALD
Filed: 1899-10-17
Granted: 1900-08-18
Abstract: 20,799. Wild, H. R. Oct. 17. Bottling pulverulent materials.-A number of bottles A are arranged on the table s<1> of a machine which is shown in transverse section. The table is raised by a treadle, and the bottles thereby brought against the flexible nozzles c of a hopper a containing the powder. The powder is forced into the bottles by screws f, g rotated by a hand-wheel through suitable gearing. The machine may be constructed to fill single bottles.
Patent GB-189921068-A (GB)
Title: Cash Register or Check Till.
Inventor: BARKER GEORGE
Filed: 1899-10-21
Granted: 1900-08-04
Abstract: 21,068. Barker, G., [Blair, T. H.]. Oct 21. Fastenings.-In a cash register, the amounts of the transactions are displayed by checks 18 inserted into a removable check receiver 14 down grooves 180. The insertion of the check depresses a spring fastening 28, and releases the till drawer, which is thrown open by a spring 21 and rings a bell by means of a slip pawl. When the shoulders 19, 19 on the check pass beyond the grooves 180, the fastening forces the check backwards into the receptacle 14, at the mouth of which it remains, displaying the value of the last transaction, until a new check is inserted. Several receivers may be employed, each with its own lever 28, in which case the drawer fastening is formed on a frame actuated by any one of the levers. Springs 31 prevent the withdrawal of a check after it has been passed down sufficiently to actuate the drawer.
Patent GB-189922353-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Topographical Instrument for the Measurement of Angles, Altitudes and Distances.
Inventor: AUBRY PAUL OMER
Filed: 1899-11-08
Granted: 1900-11-08
Abstract: 22,353. Aubry, P. O. May 20, [date applied for under Sec. 103 of Patents &c. Act, A.D. 1883]. Telemeters; sextants; clinometers; levels; surveying - instruments. - The apparatus is of the character of the sextant for observing angles and so calculating distances, but it is combined with a clinometer for vertical angles, and with a slide-rule for performing the calculations. Referring to Fig. 4, the distant object M is observed from the extremities of a base line A B (l), and the angles a, # noted. The distance A M (x) is then given by the equation x = l sin # /sin (#-alpha). The angles o, # are read to great nicety by the fixed mirror a and movable mirror b, which is displaced by turning the screw c by the head f and so rotating the toothed sector d. The arrow h reads on the scale A, and fine readings are taken by the graduated head f and vernier l. e is a counterspring for taking up slack. At the bottom of the instrument is the slide-rule for solving the equation log x = log l + log sin # - log sin (# - a), the scales C, E, D, B being respectively for log sin #, log l, log sin (#- a), and log x. At one end of the instrument a sighting-device m is provided for taking altitudes, a pendulum clinometer, provided with a vernier, swinging over a scale at the back. The finger-piece p is for releasing the pendulum which is otherwise held by a spring clip. The slide-rule can also be used for obtaining the linear height of the distant object when its vertical angle and distance have been determined.
Patent GB-189925528-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Hurricane Lanterns.
Inventor: WEST CLEMENT
Filed: 1899-12-23
Granted: 1900-02-03
Abstract: 25,528. West, C. Dec. 23. Lanterns.-Relates to means for preventing the ingress of draughts into the globe and lantern head, and for facilitating the introduction and removal of the globe. The upper end of the globe c is normally protected by a flange e' depending from the lantern head e, which flange is cut away at e<3> and supplemented by a slide f, which can be raised within certain limits for the introduction or removal of the globe. The part g<2> of the wire guard is shaped as shown in Fig. 4, to act as a guide or position-finder for the globe when it is being introduced into the spring clip g.
Patent GB-190003091-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Metal Cutting Machines for Milling, Boring and the like.
Inventor: RICHARDS GEORGE
Filed: 1900-02-16
Granted: 1900-05-19
Abstract: 3091. Richards, G. Feb. 16. Milling; boring and drilling.-The frame and table 1 of a milling-machine are in one piece, the table having the usual slides 26, 28. The spindle slide 3 is moved vertically by a screw 7 operated from a hand-shaft 80. The driving-belt 47 passes over idle pulleys 13, 14, the pulley 14 being carried by a quadrant lever 35 pivoted on a shaft 15, so that the tension of the belt may be adjusted. The pulley 14 drives the shaft 15 through gearing (not shown), one of the wheels being mounted on an eccentric sleeve so that all the feed-motions may be stopped. The shaft 15 drives a vertical shaft 48 by friction discs 16, 17, the discs 17 being moved vertically by a pinion 44 and rack 43 to alter the speed or direction of rotation of the feeds. The shaft 48 drives a shaft 21 connected by suitable gearing and clutches to the feed screws. The arm 4 for supporting the cutter arbor 30 has a stud 32 supported by a bearing 6 on a bracket 5. Or the bracket may be removed when the machine is used to cut racks. The arm 4 may be removed and a boring-bar inserted in the spindle 20, its outer end being supported by the bearing 6, so that the machine may be used for boring, drilling, &c. The slide 3 may have an extending arm, with a head to carry a vertical milling-spindle. Suitable back gear 39 is provided, and also a tappet and rod for automatically disengaged the clutch operating the feed-screw.
Patent GB-190003106-A (GB)
Title: An Automatic Electric Circuit Breaker.
Inventor: REED LYMAN COLEMAN
Filed: 1900-02-16
Granted: 1900-03-24
Abstract: 3106. Reed, L. C., Reed, W. B., and Farrar, E. H. Feb. 16. Cut-outs; transformers; distributing.-Relates to means for protecting a circuit from excessive currents, particularly adapted for low-tension distribution systems. Fig. 1 shows the appliance fitted on a three-wire system. Within a casing 1 is a three-pole switch comprising a lever 12 pivoted to a post 14 and carrying the bridging-contacts 9, 10, 11. The other arm of the lever is slotted, and through the slot passes a pin 18 carried by the stem 17 of an iron weight 16. This weight is normally held up to close the switch by a fuse 19. This fuse is in the closed secondary circuit 23 of a transformer, the primary 25 of which connects the neutral wire of the system to earth. The coils 23, 25 surround a core 29, and are covered by an iron casing 26. Should the system become charged with a high-tension continuous current, this flows through the primary coil to earth, energizing the core and attracting the weight 16 with sufficient force to break the fuse and open the circuit. With an alternating current, the current induced in the secondary melts the fuse, and the circuit is opened by the falling of the weight.
Patent GB-190010263-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Alcohol Perfuming Lamps.
Inventor: BLAKELY JESSE
Filed: 1900-06-05
Granted: 1900-07-07
Abstract: 10,263. Blakely, J. June 5. Spirit lamps. - An alcohol lamp for perfuming the air has a vapour tube 8 inside the wick tube 4, supporting a pin 10 which carries a block of carbon 11. The carbon becomes heated by the flame from the wick, the flame is extinguished, and the heated carbon expands the vapour of the perfumed alcohol, as it rises through the tube 8, without burning it.