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Patent GB-190010357-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Electrical Apparatus for Surgical and other Purposes.
Inventor: HYNES JOHN JOSEPH
Filed: 1900-06-06
Granted: 1900-08-04
Abstract: 10,357. Hynes, J. J., and Randall, P. M. June 6. Primary batteries.-Relates to electric apparatus for surgical, dental, and other purposes. The Figures show the application to an incandescent lamp. A case A contains in its lower portion a suitable galvanic battery, the wires of which are connected to the lighting-device, which is packed in the upper portion, a rib C keeping the parts separate. One of the battery elements D is provided with a cap E having a screwed extension e and an insulating-washer F. One wire is connected to a contact-piece J, which is pressed down into contact with the extension e by rotating its screwed insulating-sleeve H in a sleeve G carried by the cover C and connected by a wire with the other battery element. The wire N is connected to the sleeve G.
Patent GB-190011197-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Printing or Transferring upon Glass and other Hard Surfaces
Inventor: GAUNTLETT FREDRICK WILLIAM
Filed: 1900-06-20
Granted: 1901-06-01
Abstract: 11,197. Gauntlett, F. W., and Lloyd, J. H. June 20. Transferring designs, pictures, and the like ; transfers.-Relates to the printing or transferring of designs &c. upon opal, glass, and other hard surfaces, such as celluloid or the like. The opal, glass, or other surface is coated with a suitable film, which may be obtained by using a solution containing gelatine, potassium silicate, and tannic acid, alum, formaldehyde, or potassium bichromate. The design is obtained by lithographic, typographic, collotype, photographic, or other process upon a transfer coated with any suitable soluble materials, such as gums, gelatine, or starches, and the transfer is pressed, by means of a squeegee or other means, and then removed in the ordinary way. A solution containing tannic acid, alum, or formaldehyde is applied to the transferred design, which is thus fixed without the aid of intense heat. In cases where such a solution may not be used, the transferred design may be coated with an alcoholic solution of suitable lacs, resins, and copal, to form a protective varnish.
Patent GB-190014054-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Indicators for Electric Bells and the like.
Filed: 1900-08-04
Granted: 1900-12-01
Abstract: 14,054. Sax & Co., J., and Aird, J. Aug. 4. Indicators or annunciators.-Relates to indicators for electric bells &c. The indicator discs C, C<1> are carried by the armatures G, G', which are connected by thin bent springs F, F<1> to the cores of the electromagnets B, B<1>. When one of the pushes D, D<1> is operated, a circuit A, 1, B, 2, D, 3, or A, 1, a, 7, B', 8, D', 9, 3, is completed through the corresponding indicator electromagnet, which then attracts its armature and so moves the disc C or C<1>. The same movement of the armature also completes a shunt circuit 4, 5, 6 between the armature and the corresponding contact-bar H or H'. This shunt circuit effects the operation of the electric bell &c. E.
Patent GB-190015294-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Ships' Hulls.
Inventor: ZARLING HEINRICH
Filed: 1900-08-28
Granted: 1900-11-17
Abstract: 15,294. Zarling, H., and Irschick, T. Aug. 28. Screw propellers; rudders.-Two or more longitudinal channels are formed in the hull in which the screw propellers are placed. An additional rudder may be fitted at the bow.
Patent GB-190022592-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Process for Dealcoholising Fermented Beverages and the like, and Apparatus therefor.
Inventor: MUELLER AUGUST
Filed: 1900-12-11
Granted: 1901-04-13
Abstract: 22,592. M³ller, A. Dec. 11. Distilling beer and other beverages; vacuum apparatus.-The alcohol is wholly or partly removed from beer and other fermented beverages, without otherwise impairing their taste, by distilling it off at a low temperature and pressure and out of contact with air. The distillation is effected in a still Y heated by a water bath W and connected by a pipe M to a condenser A and to a vacuum pump. The de-alcoholized liquid is drawn off to a refrigerator, and is thence run into casks in a cellar cooled by ice. During the whole of the operation and while in the casks the air is displaced and the liquid is agitated by carbonic acid, which is admitted to the still through the pipe R.
Patent GB-190023891-A (GB)
Title: Improved Machine for Cleaning, Pointing Scaling and Polishing Grain.
Inventor: NOTOVITCH SAVELY
Filed: 1900-12-31
Granted: 1901-06-08
Abstract: 23,891. Notovitch, S. Dec. 31. Husking, scouring, and polishing grain. -Relates to a machine for decorticating and polishing grain and removing the refuse by means of a current of air. The grain is fed from a hopper a into a roughened conical casing b, in which is adjustably mounted a drum carrying beaters e and brushes f. Part of the refuse falls through a grating h, and is removed by a conveyer 6. The beaters e throw the grain and refuse up through the passage i, the grain returns to the casing through the passage l, while the refuse is removed through a passage leading to the fan k. Baffle-plates m are arranged to control the movement of the grain from the passage i to the passage l. The grain, after leaving the casing b, falls into a lower casing q, also having an adjustable drum provided with peripheral recesses w for lifting the grain and also with specially-grooved plates for decorticating the grain. The refuse is removed, partly through a grating r over the conveyer 7, and partly by an exhaust from the fan k. The movable parts are driven by a suitable arrangement of belt gearing.
Patent GB-190109767-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Stoppers and Fittings for the same for Bottles and the like.
Inventor: MYER SYDNEY
Filed: 1901-05-10
Granted: 1902-04-24
Abstract: 9767. Myer, S., and Nayler, G. May 10. Stoppers; refilling, preventing.-Relates to bottles &c. for containing proprietary liquids &c., and more especially to means adapted to indicate whether unauthorized liquid has been introduced after the original liquid has been partly or wholly withdrawn. The stopper a, Fig. 1, over which is placed a seal, is formed with outlet passages d, c, e, the passages d, e being out of alignment. Attached to the stopper is a stem f, formed with serrations or teeth adapted to be engaged by clipping arms or pawls h, g on the float k. In emptying the vessel, the float falls to the level of the remaining liquid, and the arms h prevent it from rising again should additional liquid be introduced. When the bottle is inverted, the pawls g prevent the float from rising on the stem. In the modification shown in Fig. 2, the pawls g pivoted inside the float serve to prevent the upward movement of the float on the stem, in both the upright and inverted positions of the vessel. In the form shown in Fig. 3, the pawls are replaced by balls l mounted in recesses m in the float, and the stopper is formed with a series of outlet ports e communicating with the central outlet o. The head n of the stem f may also be adapted to act as a valve, to close the passage o when in an inverted position.
Patent GB-190114955-A (GB)
Title: Improvement in Sail-reefing Appliances.
Inventor: OERTZ MAX
Filed: 1901-07-23
Granted: 1901-11-23
Abstract: 14,955. Oertz, M. July 23 Sails ; spars.- Relates to reefing the mainsails of yachts and the like by rolling them up on their booms. As shown in Figs. 1 and 2, the boom is rotated by pawl- and - ratchet gear, and is held in any desired position by a pawl K, pivoted on a curved bar, rigidly connected to the jaw or fork G. The cheeks B, between which the lever H works, are held apart at one end by a sleeve R, so that the lever can be swung aside into the position shown in dotted lines in Fig. 1 to allow the boom to rotate freely.
Patent GB-190125316-A (GB)
Title: Improved Tile for Floors, Walls and the like.
Inventor: BENNETT GEORGE HOWARD
Filed: 1901-12-11
Granted: 1902-01-23
Abstract: 25,316. Bennett, G. H. May 15, [date applied for under Sec. 103 of Patents &c. Act, A.D. 1883]. Facing-tiles for floors, walls, &c. Recessed foundation or base tiles A are laid closely together, and are connected by annular or perforated locking-tiles F, which are cemented in the recesses in the base tiles. In the form shown in Fig. 7<a>, flanges J of the base tiles are perforated to receive pins of the locking-tiles, or the locking- pins may extend through the base and locking tiles. The tiles may be made of rubber, vulcanized fibre, wood, linoleum, artificial leather, paper, or other material and may be coloured to form mosaic patterns or designs.
Patent GB-190201716-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and connected with Piercing and Forging Machinery for the Manufacture of Tubes or Tubular Articles.
Inventor: MCTEAR BALFOUR FRASER
Filed: 1902-01-22
Granted: 1903-02-21
Abstract: 1716. McTear, B. F. Jan. 22. Forging; squirting.- A machine for piercing billets for the manufacture of seamless tubes &c., shown in divided plan in Figs. 3 and 3<A>, has a divided die 1, 2 and a piercing-mandrel 5. The rear die 1 is held in a casing 14 connected to the head 13 of a ram 12, by which it is forced forward, the head being guided on rods 10 connecting thrust blocks 8, 9 supporting the mandrel and ram cylinder respectively. The bead 13 carries a cylinder 31 with a plunger 33 and loose ring 32 to support the billet o in the rear die. The front die 2, also sliding on the rods 10, has jaws 3, operated by small vertical rams, to grip the front end of the billet to pull it over the bulb 6 of the mandrel as the billet is being pierced or " squirted " from the rear die. The die 2 is operated by pistons 20, connected by a crosshead 23 and rods 25 to the die, the crosshead sliding on rods 24. When the billet is nearly pierced, the movement of the ram 12 is reversed, and the water is exhausted from the cylinder 31, allowing the plunger 33 to recede so that the mandrel enters the ring and cylinder as the piercing is completed. The billet is stripped from the die 1 by the continued movement of the die 2 and the return of the die 1 and ram 12 by a ram 28. The thrust blocks are adjustable on the rods 10 to suit various lengths of billets and mandrels. A square billet may be pierced in a round or oval die. The mandrel may be moved, instead of the rear die, and the plunger 33 may be dispensed with, the piercing being completed by the front die after the relative movement of the rear die and mandrel has ceased.
Patent GB-190207127-A (GB)
Title: Multiple Toaster applicable also for Roasting Chops, Potatoes, Chestnuts and the like.
Inventor: MILLARD EDWIN HAVELOCK
Filed: 1902-03-24
Granted: 1902-05-29
Abstract: 7127. Millard, E. H. March 24. Toasting-appliances,. ; grilling-apparatus; potato and chestnut roasters.-Relates to apparatus for toasting several slices of bread at once before a fireplace, and applicable also for toasting or roasting chops, potatoes, and chestnuts. A cage K, Fig. 5, of wire trelliswork, is formed wider at the top than at the bottom, and deeper at the back than at the front, and is provided with a suspension loop Wand hooks L for attachment of other cages at the sides and bottom, and retains the slices S as shown. One form of support for the cage is shown in Fig. 1, and consists of a bar B with claws A and a projection C. The claws grip the edge of the fire-hole of a stove, and may be made thin enough to allow a cover or cooking-pot to be placed over the hole. This support may be used with a bar D, Fig. 3, provided with a ring F, a slot E to take over the projection C, and a hook G for the loop W, to adjust the position of the cage before the fire. A straight bar may be used with a claw at one end, to grip the top-bar of a firegrate, and a hook at the other end for the loop W. A wire support may be used, the adjustable portion passing through a ring on the fixed portion, instead of using a slot and projection ; or the parts may be made of telescopic piping.
Patent GB-190207737-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Machines for Inserting Fastenings.
Inventor: BOULT ALFRED JULIUS
Filed: 1902-04-02
Granted: 1903-04-02
Abstract: 7737. Boult, A. J., [United Shoe Machinery Co.]. April 2. Nailing. -Relates to a machine for inserting fastenings, and the invention is shown as applied to a boot-nailing machine in which nails are cut from a nail strip one at a time ; but other fastenings may be used. Means are provided for connecting and disconnecting the operative parts from the driving-shaft, and for lowering the work support during the feed and for further lowering it when the stock is to be changed. The driver bar b<3>, and bar c<3>, and nail strip raceway are described as of known construction and arrangement. The awl bar is reciprocated vertically by a rock shaft i<3>, on which is fixed an arm i<4> adjacent to a continuously-rocking loose arm i<5> driven by an eccentric on the main shaft, the fixed and loose arms being coupled by a spring- pin j<2>, which may be drawn out of gear by a wedge cam j<4> operated by a rod j<5> from the starting-treadle g<5>. An extension k<2> of the arm i<4> acts through a rod k<3> and bell crank e' on the bolt e<4> so as to permit it, when the awl is not being worked, to get behind the lever d' and thereby stop it from reciprocating the awl and the nail raceway in the lateral direction. While fastenings are being inserted, the spring k<6> returns the bell crank before the bolt has time to act. The work support c<4> is connected to a treadle t<5>, and is normally held up by the spring f<2> round the rod f<1> on the other end of the treadle. The upper end of this rod f<1> passes through a clutch consisting of a loose sleeve f<4> containing a pivoted spring pawl, which may be tripped by an adjustable stop i<1>. The clutch, and with it the rod, are lifted by the bell crank f having a roller g bearing on the cam g<4> on the main shaft. This cam has two paths for the roller, one to give a small lift and the other to keep the rod lifted to a greater elevation, thus lowering the work holder at intervals for the feed, or lowering it further when the stock is being changed. The roller is moved on to one or the other part of the cam by a rod h connected to the starting-treadle g<5>, which also controls the disengaging-gear for the awl bar and other parts. On the underside of the work plate is a sliding edge gauge 19 held by a spring 21 against a stop 25 or a spring-controlled removable stop 24, both stops being carried by an adjustable plate 22 so as to regulate two rows of fastenings.
Patent GB-190210652-A (GB)
Title: A Four-way Valve Box for Hydraulic Presses.
Inventor: CLAREMONT ERNEST ALEXANDER
Filed: 1902-05-09
Granted: 1902-08-07
Abstract: 10,652. Claremont, E. A., and Stratton, J. May 9. Squirting. - Relates to valves for hydraulic presses; such as are used in the manufacture of lead pipes and coverings for cables &c. The inlet for the pressure fluid opens into the chamber containing a wheel valve a adapted to engage either of the seats b, c, and control the entrance to passages d, e. These passages lead to chambers f, g connected, by passages, to the exhaust m and to the press by passages l, h. Valves in these chambers are connected by a winged stem of such a length that when one valve is closed to the exhaust the other is open. Normally, one of the valves is closed by means of a spring i encircling a guidepin and having an abutment against a plug o. A pin n screwing through a nut o<1> is employed to open the other valve and clore the first valve. The passage h leads to the underside of the press ram, and the passage l to the top side of the ram. In lifting the ram, the valve a is turned so as to open the passage e to the pressure water, which flows by the passage h to the press. the water from above the ram being forced through the passage l, past the valve to the exhaust. In lowering the ram, the valve a is operated so as to close the passage e, and the pin n is turned to open one valve and close the other.
Patent GB-190210829-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and connected with Liquid Distributing Apparatus for Filters.
Inventor: ADAMS MOSES JAMES
Filed: 1902-05-12
Granted: 1903-02-05
Abstract: 10,829. Adams, M. J. May 12. Right to Patent relinquished. Filter beds; supplying l i q u i d. -Consists o f improved means for distributing the liquid over the surface of a filter bed. Fig. 1 shows a cross-section of a filter bed. The liquid is discharged on to the filter from lateral holes in a pipe e', and the pipe is traversed along the filter by the reaction due to this discharge. Two pipes are employed for the two directions of traverse respectively, and the holes in one correspond to unperforated parts of the other. Each pipe is supplied from the tank c by a siphon d which forms part of a siphon j adapted to draw liquid from the channel and the pipes and their connections are supported by floats o or otherwise. On the distributer reaching the end of its travel, the siphon, which has been in operation, is stopped by the automatic admission of air or otherwise. The tank c is then filled by the pipe k, thus starting the other siphon and causing the distributer to travel back. A single pipe only may be used, perforated on both sides, the two sets of perforations being closed alternately by valves &c. operated by contact with the end walls of the filter. Or a single perforated pipe or trough may be tilted by rack-and-pinion gear so as to be discharged alternately on opposite sides. In another modification, in which a single perforated pipe is employed, the distributer is drawn backwards and forwards by a rope operated by gearing connected to a float in the supply tank, and the tilting of the distributer pipe is effected by the change in direction of pull. In the case of a trough, its lips are preferably notched. Fig. 7 shows a modified form of siphon. Connected with the siphon a<2> is a pipe a<5> opening into a tank a<4>. On filling the tank a<4>, the liquid flows up the pipe a<5> into the siphon, and starts it. In another modification, the siphon is trapped at both ends.
Patent GB-190211533-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Roasting Furnaces
Inventor: KLEPETKO FRANK
Filed: 1902-05-20
Granted: 1902-08-07
Abstract: 11,533. Klepetko, F., and Evans, W. J. May 20. Roasting-furnaces, charging; charges, agitating. -Relates to furnaces having superposed hearths b with central and peripheral openings arranged alternately, and more particularly to feeding and stirring mechanism for the same. The stirring- mechanism is cooled by water circulation. Fig. 2 shows a vertical section through the furnace, and Fig. 4 a section through the feeding-mechanism. From the hopper g, Fig. 4, the material to be treated fall into a shallow cone h, within which it is stirred by arms p attached to a rotating ring j, It then falls on a plate q, from which it is displaced by a reciprocating rake s. This rake is driven by means of suitable rods and levers from a crank of variable throw on a shaft from which the ring j is operated by toothed gearing, this shaft being rotated by toothed gearing from the central hollow shaft 10, Fig. 2. The shaft 10 carries hollow arms 11 of the form shown in cross-section in Fig. 14. On these arms are secured a number of vertical stirrer teeth 17, with laterally-inclined blades, which are constructed to embrace the flanges on the arms, and which are wedged in place. Upwardly-projecting blades 18 are secured at the ends of the arms. Within the shaft 10 and arms 11 are water-supply pipes arranged to deliver water to the outer ends of the arms ; the water overflows at the top of the shaft. The details of construction are described at length in the Specification.
Patent GB-190214418-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or in connection with Gas Burners.
Inventor: THOMPSON WILLIAM PHILLIPS
Filed: 1902-06-25
Granted: 1902-11-13
Abstract: 14,418. Thompson, W. P., [Humphrey, A. H.]. June 25. Gas valves and cocks.-The spring needle valve N, determining the supply of gas to the pilot jet L<111> of an incandescent cluster light, may be " set" as required by means of the adjustable collar N<11>, and has a spring P on the outer end of its actuating-lever 0 to equalize the difference between the throw of the pilot and main valves and permit of their being actuated by a single pull on the chains.
Patent GB-190221574-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Looms for Weaving Elastic Webs
Inventor: TURNER ARCHIBALD
Filed: 1902-10-03
Granted: 1903-08-20
Abstract: 21,574. Turner, A. Oct. 3. Loom let-off motions, for elastic webs. In order that the elastic warp threads 5 may be maintained at a uniform tension during the weaving operation, a non-elastic thread or cord 6 is wound on the beam or bobbin 1 simultaneously with the elastic threads, and the unwinding of the non-elastic thread against the action of a brake simultaneously unwinds the elastic threads. In the arrangement shown in Fig. 1, the non-elastic thread 6 is passed round a speed cone 8, the shaft 9 of which is driven intermittently by ratchet and worm gearing, and wound on a beam or bobbin 22 driven by a cord 25 from the shaft 9 ; 28 is a brake pulley round which passes the weighted brake band 29. In a modification. the elastic and non-elastic threads are wound on separate beams or bobbins fixed side by side on the same spindle. Or the beam containing the elastic threads may be driven by the frictional contact of a constantly-driven pulley carried in spring or other bearings, whereby it is pressed continuously against the warp during the unwinding operation.
Patent GB-190221901-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Electric Accumulators.
Inventor: SCHMITT PAUL
Filed: 1902-10-08
Granted: 1903-10-08
Abstract: 21,901. Schmitt, P., and Fabre, C. Oct. 8. Secondary batteries.-The frame of an electric- accumulator electrode is built up of a narrow vertical strip e, Fig. 1, of lead, attached hori- zontal strips a of lead antimonide and sides plates g, h, Fig. 4, of celluloid, ebonite, or other non-conducting material cr of lead, lead antimonide, or other material which does not injuriously affect the electrolyte. The active material retained on the horizontal strips a between the side plates consists of grains composed of a mixture of lead oxide or other suitable material with sulphuric acid and glycerine. A paste of these materials and water is made up in a leaden vessel, is then dried without heating in thin layers, and is finally compressed, pounded, and sifted into the granular form. When the material is in position, the free ends b of the horizontal strips are bent into the vertical position to confine it. Small rigid plates are placed against these bent ends and the opposite edge of the frame. The side plates g, h are perforated, and are made double, with their perforations not opposite to each other, to allow access of the electrolyte to the active material without allowing the grains to escape. Perforated horizontal partitions i are placed among the material to keep the side plates parallel to each other. The terminal f of the electrode is connected to the upper strip of lead antimonide.