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Patent GB-190210359-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Mouse and like Traps
Inventor: SHEPHERD EDWIN WESLEY
Filed: 1902-05-05
Granted: 1902-06-12
Abstract: 10,359. Shepherd, E. W. May 6, A.D. 1901, [date applied for under Patents Act, A.D. 1901]. Traps for catching mice and other animals. The trap may be oblong with an opening at each end, or may be made in the form of a cross with four openings. Fig. 4 shows a section of the latter form. The openings b<1>, b<1>, b<1> are made in the ends of the arms, and a bait hook a is fixed in the centre of the trap. A bail-shaped rod D actuated by a spring E is arranged opposite each opening b<1>, and, when sprung, catches the animal and holds it against the top A of the trap. A treadle plate C is pivoted opposite each opening b<1>, and a side plate c<1>, having a notch c<2> and a cam surface c<3>, is attached to the plate C. The notch c<2> is employed to engage the rod D and hold it in the set position, as shown at the right of Fig. 4. Any pressure on the plate C springs the trap, as shown at the left of Fig. 4. One end of the bar D projects to the outside of the trap and forms a handle for use in setting the trap, which is done by turning the trap upside down and rotating the bar D until it is in engagement with the notch c<2>.
Patent GB-190210429-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to Fastenings for Corsets, Gloves, Dresses and the like.
Inventor: THURLOW HARRY WORTHINGTON
Filed: 1902-05-06
Granted: 1902-09-18
Abstract: 10,429. Thurlow, H. W. May 6. Stud-and-socket fastenings.-Relates to stud- and-socket fastenings for corsets, gloves, dresses, and the like. A socket or button member, for attachment to a corset steel, and for use with a ball-headed stud, is shown in section in Fig. 3, and in plan, with the top removed, in Fig. 13. A base-plate 2 is provided with a rim 13, a stud aperture 4, a standing collar or ring 6, and a wire spring c, the free ends or legs of which pass through slotted or cut-away parts of the ring 6. A cover or top plate 3 is provided, and the member is attached by riveting through extensions 14. The cover can be omitted in fastenings intended to be attached to the inner side of the material, and both the stud and socket members are then provided with holes for sewing. The rim is also omitted and replaced by lips 18, Fig. 8. For glove &c. fastenings, the ring or collar is prolonged and up-set like a tubular rivet, interposing washer plates. The studs are preferably formed with square shoulders on the shank to afford a seat for the legs of the springs.
Patent GB-190213192-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or connected with Plan-sifters.
Inventor: WEYERMANN JAIME
Filed: 1902-06-10
Granted: 1903-04-23
Abstract: 13,192. Weyermann, J. June 10. Sieves or sifting. surfaces, cleaning. - Relates to means for keeping the silk or sifting-surface of plansifters clean, consisting in the provision of a brush B so arranged that it is caused to travel beneath the surface of the silk by the circular movement imparted to the sifter. Fig. 1 shows the sifter in plan with the silk removed. Guide-bars h are fixed so as to form an endless s passage x. The central bar h is provided with teeth q, and also with an upstanding central ridge f. The brushholder B is of the shape shown, with a hole d to prevent the accumulation of sifted material thereon. A metal weight, having ends of unequal size, is fixed on the brush B. The larger end i is provided with a pin p, which projects through the brush to engage the teeth q. The brush B is supported on rows of bristles c resting on the rails h, or, in a modification, the brush B may consist of a piece of wood having a strip of leather fixed around its edge upon which it rests. The movement of the sifter causes the brush to travel in the direction of the arrows ; the dotted lines show various successive positions.
Patent GB-190213424-A (GB)
Title: Improved Safety Attachment for Motor Vehicles.
Inventor: BURT CHARLES HARLEY
Filed: 1902-06-13
Granted: 1903-04-30
Abstract: 13,424. Burt, C. H. June 13. Motor road vehicles.-Relates to an arrangement for the prevention of side slip in horseless vehicles, such as motor cars, vans, &c., comprising either a sharp-edged wheel or a sliding runner, which can be forced into contact with the road. Fig. 1 shows in side elevation, and Fig. 3 in end elevation, the wheel form of the device. The wheel a, preferably with two sharp edges to avoid running into tram-line grooves and the like, is forced into the road by a spring a<6>. The arm a<1> which carries the wheel slides without rotation in the box a<2>. This box is rigidly attached to the axle b or frame c of the vehicle. The arm a' is raised by a flexible connection d or otherwise, attached to the footlever e, which is held by a spring catch f when the wheel a is not needed. The catch f can be readily operated by the foot of the driver. The motion of the lever e is restricted by the slot g<1>.
Patent GB-190217077-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to the Manufacture of Resin Size.
Inventor: ARLEDTER FRITZ
Filed: 1902-08-01
Granted: 1903-03-26
Abstract: 17,077. Arledter, F., and Arledter, H. Jan. 25, [date applied for under Patents Act, A.D. 1901]. Sizes and similar finishes.-Relates to resin size suitable for use in the manufacture of paper, and containing a high percentage of free resin and also a resinate capable of decomposition into a volatile substance and free resin in the paper itself when it is dried and heated. Resin is introduced into the boiler A, heated by a coil a, and is melted down together with mineral or vegetable oil or fat, such as naphtha or palm oil. The liquid mass passes through the filter F into the upper compartment B<2> of the vessel B. A screen C divides the vessel B into compartments B', B<2>, and the vessel is heated by the jacket b<3> and coil b<4>. Prior to the introduction of the resin and oil a quantity of sodium-carbonate solution or other alkali lye has been introduced through the manhole b<2>, together with a solution of ammonium carbonate or salammoniac. The pump P is now started, and the solutions are circulated through the filter F', pump P, and vessel B for about an hour. Carbonic-acid gas is liberated and a considerable pressure produced within the vessel. Saponification ceases when a certain pressure is reached, but can be continued as far as may be necessary by opening the vent cock b<2>. Ammonium resinate is also formed. The mass is cooled, the vent cock opened, the valve e closed, and the mass pumped by a pump P' into the storage tank D.
Patent GB-190221803-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Feed-water Heaters.
Inventor: SIMPSON SYDNEY WESTHORPE
Filed: 1902-10-07
Granted: 1903-08-13
Abstract: 21,803. Simpson, S. W., and Crabtree, W. F. Oct. 7. Feedwater, heating.-The feedwater is pumped through a tube a, with a coil continuation c, which is fixed in the exhaust steam-pipe b.
Patent GB-190300694-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Fermenting Tuns
Inventor: SEYBOTH LEONARD
Filed: 1903-01-10
Granted: 1903-10-01
Abstract: 694. Seyboth, L. Jan. 10. Drawings to Specification. Coating surfaces with liquids and plastic materials. -A layer of wax, paraffin, or resin is applied to the cement walls of a fermenting-tun, by first spreading it on paper, linen, or other sheets, and when dry applying the prepared surface to the wall and passing a heated iron over the outer surface of the sheet to cause the wax &c. to enter the pores of the walls.
Patent GB-190300816-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in the Production of Hollow, Seamless Stampings, such as Barrels, Casks, Drums, Bottles, Cylinders and like Articles.
Inventor: SCHUMACHER EBERHARD
Filed: 1903-01-13
Granted: 1903-07-02
Abstract: 816. Schumacher, E., and Tyson, J. H. Jan. 13. Stamping ; spinn i n g - Seamless hollow articles, such h as barrels, drums, casks, bottles, cylinders, &c., are made from sheet metal or from lengths of tubing by a succession of operations in suitably-shaped dies, the blank being subjected to external pressure. The articles may be partially shaped by spinning, only an external support being used. The finished shape is obtained by admitting fluid pressure to the interior of the article while in the dies. A finished cask, drum, and bottle are shown at a, b, and c, each having a single opening. In the case of casks and drums, the opening seating is elliptical, and the parts h, f of a metal seating for a bung or vent peg are fitted to it. The part f has a shoulder g to suit tho elliptical opening in the vessel, and is held in place by the ring h. Two blanks may be treated together to obtain an article with a coating or lining of superior metal.
Patent GB-190309459-A (GB)
Inventor: HINZ GEORG
Filed: 1903-04-27
Granted: 1903-10-08
Abstract: 9459. Hinz, G. April 27. Motor road vehicles.-Combined belt and toothed gearing is employed for obtaining a variable speed for motor cars &c. On a shaft A are mounted a number of toothed wheels a<1> a<2>, a<3>, a<4> in gear with wheels b<1>, b<2>, b<3>, b<4>, loosely mounted ona. countershaft B and formed integral with pulleys c<1>, c<2>, c<3>, c<4>. The toothed wheels are surrounded by a casing or oiling-box, carrying rollers e for supporting the belt and facilitating its movement from one pulley to another. By altering the position of the belt on the pulleys c<1> etc.; the speed is changed. A pulley f on the shaft B serves as a loose pulley. The shaft A may act either as the driving or the driven shaft.
Patent GB-190317197-A (GB)
Title: Improvement connected with Gas Heating Stoves.
Inventor: WHEATON CHARLES RICHARD
Filed: 1903-08-07
Granted: 1904-01-14
Abstract: 17,197. Wheaton, C. R. Aug. 7. Gas stoves.-A rotary fan, or the like, is pivoted above the gas jets so as to be rotated by the ascending gas fumes and heated air, which has then disseminated into a room. Fig. 2 shows the fan C mounted at the apex of a reflecting cone. Air enters by the opening F, which may be provided with a regulator, and escapes through the cover G. Bull's-eye lenses are fitted in the casing. In a modification, the cone is replaced by a curved corrugated copper reflector, and the fan is pivoted to an upright mounted on a bar.
Patent GB-190324309-A (GB)
Title: Rotary Engines of the Steam Turbine Type.
Inventor: MASTERS THOMAS JAMES
Filed: 1903-11-09
Granted: 1904-04-28
Abstract: 24,309. Masters, T. J. Nov. 9. Steam &c. turbines.-A parallel-flow turbine has several wheel discs 3, Fig. 1, mounted on a shaft 1, each disc having an outer and inner ring of blades 9, 10, for forward and reversed running respectively. The discs are separated by partitions 6 provided with two rings of nozzle openings 15, Figs. 1 and 13, of graduated size. The admission cover 14 has two annular steam channels 17 fed by a branched steam pipe 21. The inner ring of nozzles is controlled by screw-down valves 44 and the outer series of nozzles is covered by a ring valve 33 formed with slots or perforations of two sizes and operated by an external handle 40 so that one in four or one in two of the nozzles can be cut out. The partitions 6, Figs. 9 and 10, are formed in halves, and have nozzles 15 diminishing in size towards their discharge ends The partitions have annular grooves containing packing- rings 68 pressed apart against the adjoining wheel discs by springs 69. The turbine may have both rings of blades arranged to operate in the same direction, and be made reversible by having a duplicate but reversed engine arranged on the engine shaft.
Patent GB-190324739-A (GB)
Title: New or Improved Manufacture of Rails for Railways and Tramways.
Inventor: HADFIELD ROBERT ABBOTT
Filed: 1903-11-13
Granted: 1904-10-20
Abstract: 24,739. Hadfield, R. A. Aug. 27, [date applied for under Patents Act, A.D. 1901]. Casting and moulding. -Relates to casting rails of, preferably, Hadfield's manganese steel. Fig. 1 shows a cross - sectional view of the mould, which may be made by hand or machine. Those portions designed to form the grooves for wheel flanges may be made of dry or green sand and the rest of green sand. When desired, the parts of the mould requiring special smoothness, such as the flange groove, can be formed by a chill C, Fig. 1, having a rib or core-piece c, or the chill piece may only cover the central portion of the flange. The lower portion of the rail may be made of ordinary steel, preferably soft steel, and the head portion of manganese steel. This may be effected by pouring the manganese steel in last, or by impregnating the molten metal with finelydivided ferro-manganese while pouring it into the mould.
Patent GB-190400761-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Advertising.
Inventor: JACKSON PEARSON JACQUES
Filed: 1904-01-12
Granted: 1904-12-15
Abstract: 761. Jackson, P. J. Jan. 12. Puzzles; card games.- Pictorial cards, postcards, fortune-telling cards, handbills, cards, circulars, envelopes, and the like are provided with one or more puzzle or fortunetelling questions b, with instructions c for obtaining the answer, with a key e for the answers d, and with announcements or advertisements f. Further advertisements may appear on the other side. When supplied singly, or in sets for use as a card game, the chart e, d may be upon a separate card.
Patent GB-190403023-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Automatic Tacking Hammers
Inventor: NEWTON HERBERT BRYAN
Filed: 1904-02-06
Granted: 1904-05-26
Abstract: 3023. Newton, H. B. Feb. 6. Nailing, hand tools for; combination tools; hammers.-An automatic tacking-hammer or a hammer and lasting-pincers provided with a receptacle for loose tacks is shown in Figs. 1, 6, and 10. The tacks pass from the receptacle 4 along the raceway 5 and are admitted singly by the plates 9, 12 to the tube 6, the passage 60, and chamber 7 in the movable member 3, ready to be driven home by the driver 8. The plates 9, 12 are fixed to a transverse bar 13 which is reciprocated by a spring and the member 3, the plate 12 having a finger 20 and the plate 9 a parallel and a wedge-shaped finger 11, 10. A tack is first arrested by the finger 10, on the return of the bar 13 by the plate 12, on the forward motion of the bar 13 by the finger 11, and on the second return motion of the bar the finger 11 releases the tack and the plate 12 closes the raceway 5 to prevent the overturning of the tack and arrest the next tack. Towards the end of the forward motion of the bar 13 the finger 20 allows the tack to swing into the position shown in Fig. 6 so that the fingers 11, 10 may pass in front of and behind it. The tack is guided by the spring-pressed latch 14 having a raceway 15 the upper edges of the sides of which are inclined so that the tack can just pass beneath the partition 16, but its return is practically impossible. The driver has a tongue 18 to enter the raceway 15. The spring latch 14 yields when the tack is being driven home, the latch 14 being hinged so that an imperfect tack may be readily removed from the passage 60 or chamber 7.
Patent GB-190406827-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Pilot-sheeting for Facilitating the Driving of Sheet Piles
Inventor: MCBEAN DUNCAN DONALD
Filed: 1904-03-21
Granted: 1904-06-02
Abstract: 6827. McBean, D. D. May 9, A.D. 1903, [date applied for under Patents Act, A.D. 1901]. Tunnels and tunnelling.-Consists in a method of driving sheet piles of the kind described in Specification No. 6829, A.D. 1904, [Abridgment Class Hydraulic engineering], for building coffer dams and in excavating for tunnel construction, whereby obstructions such as boulders may be removed before the piles, three of which are united to form a sheeting, are driven. A number of pilot piles A, preferably four, may be driven first, as shown in Fig. 1 to indicate by their positions the presence of obstructions. A drill guide of the same dimensions as one of the piles A is then placed in the position of one of these, so that the obstruction may be drilled and an explosive charge inserted. Fig. 2 shows a sectional view of one of these pilot piles, which is formed in the upper part of channel beams connected by plates 6. The lower part is formed of a casting 8 shod with cutting-plates 10 and bored to form a passage 11 for water under pressure, which removes the material beneath the pile, one of the cutting-plates being made shorter to facilitate the exit of this material.
Patent GB-190408694-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Alternating Current Arc Lamps.
Filed: 1904-04-15
Granted: 1905-04-06
Abstract: 8694. Ganz & Co. Eisengiesserei und Maschinenfabrik Akt.-Ges. July 24, A.D. 1903, [date applied for under Patents Act, A.D. 1901]. Arc lamps for alternating current. On the main tubular frame is a slotted iron core 2 with its ends connected by an iron framework 3, and surrounded by a series, shunt, or differential coil 1 ; at one end it passes through a light good cond ucting counterpoise ring 5, the repulsion of which, produced by the currents in the coil, regulates the distance between the carbons. The ring 5, preferably of aluminium, is pivoted at the back and connected by the rod 6 and ring-lever 7 to the adjustable counterpoise 8, and moves the carbons by means of the arm 10 and suitable mechanism. Inside the ring is the core 2, with its ends joined by side-pieces 3, and surrounded by a series coil 1. A dash-pot 9 prevents the breaking of the arc. If a shunt coil is used, the ring is below it and the carbons are brought into contact when the current is switched on ; but when the arc is struck, the shunt current diminishes and allows the upper carbon to rise to a constant distance from the lower.
Patent GB-190414626-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Cigar, and Cigarette Holders.
Inventor: SHARMAN JOHN
Filed: 1904-06-29
Granted: 1904-12-22
Abstract: 14,626. Sharman, J. June 29. Tobacco.-A perforated cover d is fitted to the end of the holder a, and carries a central spirallycoiled wire c, on to which the cigarette or cigar is screwed. The cover, which is preferably bulged outwards to compress the end of the cigarette &c., is screwed or fitted to, or formed in one piece with, a band or ferrule f on the holder, and may have a raised rim b<1>. Cigarettes and cigars may be smoked to the end in this kind of holder.
Patent GB-190416400-A (GB)
Title: A New Method for Preserving and Improving the Surfaces of Macadamised Roads adn Streets and Preventing the Formation of Dust Resulting from the Disintegration of Macadamised Surfaces.
Inventor: LIEBHABER ERIC DANIEL DE
Filed: 1904-07-25
Granted: 1905-05-04
Abstract: 16,400. Liebhaber, E. D. de. July 25. Liquid surface-treating compositions.-A concentrated solution of calcium chloride or other deliquescent salt is sprinkled on macadam roads in making or repairing or for dust-preventing, this solution being used instead of water for binding and preserving the road surface.
Patent GB-190418858-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to the Manufacture of Artificial Fuel.
Inventor: GRAYSON PAULINE
Filed: 1904-09-01
Granted: 1905-08-31
Abstract: 18,858. Grayson, P. Sept. 1. Fuel.-Composite fuel of the kind described in Specification No. 10,687, A.D. 1903, is made by mixing sawdust, sand, lime or cement, plaster of Paris or gypsum, coal, and water, with or without molasses, and incorporating the product under heat with petroleum, pitch, and resin previously heated together ; or the mixed dry substances may be added to a heated mixture of water, oil, pitch, and resin. Pitch or resin may be used for pitch and resin, and molasses may be dissolved in the water. The resulting material is made into slabs, balls, blocks, or other forms, and these are preferably coated with lime when hot and allowed to cool.
Patent GB-190419368-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or connected with Self-threading Shuttles for Looms for Weaving.
Filed: 1904-09-08
Granted: 1905-08-24
Abstract: 19,368. British Northrop Loom Co., [Northrop Loom Co.]. Sept. 8. Loom shuttles.-A shuttle is provided with a self-threading device constructed to permit thread delivery therefrom should the thread fail to be directed into the delivery eye. The device differs from that described in Specification No. 28,333, A.D. 1902, in that it is independent of loom mechanism apart from the shuttle. A metal block is secured in the front end of the shuttle, and comprises upturned sides 2, 3 having between them upper and lower thread passages 7, 4. As the shuttle with a fresh cop is shot across the loom, the weft is drawn down between an inclined face 17 on the side 3 and the top of a guard 8 on the side 2 into the upper passage 7, and underneath the downturned end of a finger 11. The weft is also drawn over the diagonal edge of a front extension or shield 15 formed on the side 3, and ordinarily is drawn underneath the shield, and around and under a beak 14 formed on the front end or head 13 of the side 2. On the return shot of the shuttle, the weft is drawn under the head 13 and around its front sloping edge down into the delivery eye a<x> and into the lower thread passage 4. When the shuttle is threaded, the shield 15, the front edge or rib 18 of the side 3, and the beak 14 co-operate to prevent the removal of the weft. If the weft should fail to be drawn beneath the shield and under the beak on the first shot, it will still be delivered properly from the shuttle, passing over a curved edge 10 on the guard 8 and more or less over the chamfered side 19 of the opening in the top of the shuttle. Tension is put on the weft by its passing over a piece of felt at the entrance to the passage 4.
Patent GB-190420411-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Potato Planting Machine
Inventor: TAVERNER WILLIAM WHITE
Filed: 1904-09-22
Granted: 1905-09-21
Abstract: 20,411. Taverner, W. W. Sept. 22. Potato planters.-The potatoes are placed in a hopper d the spring bottom of which is forced up by the buckets of an elevator e, and are delivered thereby to the shoot f, whence they fall into the furrow and are covered up by the mouldboard g, which can be raised or lowered by means of the handle i. The elevator may be put in or out of gear by a sliding or other clutch controlled by the lever k.
Patent GB-190500117-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Photographic Dark Slides or Plate Holders
Inventor: ADAMS ARTHUR LEWIS
Filed: 1905-01-03
Granted: 1906-01-03
Abstract: 117. Adams, A. L. Jan. 3. Dark slides.-Relates to devices controlled from the outside of the dark slide for retaining the plate in position. In one form, Fig. 1, two turnbuttons A, A' turn about pivots B, B<1> on the frame C of the dark slide and are operated by the sliding rod E. In another form, the buttons are modified in size and shape to serve as short links for a bar parallel to the rod E. Or the rod E, Fig.. 4, may itself overlap the edge of the plate X and be rotated away from and clear of the plate by means of diagonal slots N and pins O. The slide E moves stiffly, and its position denotes whether. the fasteners are in proper position or not. The Provisional Specification also describes methods for indicating when exposure has been made in the case where rollable or flexible shutters are used. These consist essentially in the provision of a stop or indicator, which before exposure is in an idle position, but is moved after exposure to prevent the shutter from being drawn. Specifications No. 5800, A.D. 1891, No. 3598, A.D. 1892, No. 24,607, A.D. 1894, and No. 5946, A.D 1903, are referred to.