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Patent GB-190302091-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Typecomposing Machines
Inventor: POST ALFRED
Filed: 1903-01-28
Granted: 1904-01-28
Abstract: 2091. Post, A., Elarwasser, A., Willner, I., and Markus P. Jan. 28. Type, setting.-The types are in channels 1 arranged in a curved series, and the bottom types are taken singly from the channels by carriers on pivoted radial arms 3 operated by the armatures 5 of a series of magnets 4 in circuits controlled by the finger keys 26 &c. The lower ends of the channels are provided with slots 30, which permit of the passage of the carriers 36. Each carrier 36 is pivoted on a lever 35 pivoted on the arm 3 and pulled by a spring 38. An angle-lever 37 is pivoted on the end of the carrier, a spring 33 tending to open it away from the end of the carrier and a spring 39 tending to keep it closed. A heel 40 on the carrier engages the type and swings the carrier up into engagement with the underside of the type, opening the lever 37, so that the ends of the type are enclosed between it and the heel 40. As soon as the type is removed, the spring 39 closes the lever and causes it to grip the type against the heel 40. Each type is deposited by the carrier 36 in a receiver 2, which is rotated so as to face the operated carrier. The receiver is rotated from its normal central position by two magnets 18, the armatures 45 of which are connected to arms 19 of a pair of toothed segments 17 engaging with opposite sides of a toothed wheel on the vertical shaft to which the receiver 2 is fixed. The receiver is stopped in proper position by an arm 20, rotating with it, engaging one of a series of stop levers 22 operated by magnets 23. The type inserted in the receiver is retained by spring pawls 27. When the receiver 2 returns to normal position, the type is pushed out of it into a fixed receiver 8, past spring retaining-pawls 29, by a pivoted hammer 13 operated by a pinion engaging a curved rack 14 on a lever connected with the armature 60 of a magnet 50. The circuit of this magnet 50 is closed when the depressed key is released. From the fixed receiver 8 the types pass into the galley 9, pushing before them a block connected by a cord to a spring drum.
Patent GB-190304182-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Presses for use in the Manufacture of Golf Balls.
Inventor: GRAY KENNETH
Filed: 1903-02-21
Granted: 1904-01-21
Abstract: 4182. Gray, K. Feb. 21. Moulding india-rubber &c. balls.-Relates to the construction of a mould for the manufacture of balls, such as golf balls, from india-rubber or an indiarubber composition, the mould being provided with a chamber or cavity through which a heating or cooling fluid is circulated. Each half of the mould A, Figs. 1 and 2, is provided with a cavity B, Fig. 2 ; the fluid is conducted into the upper cavity by a pipe E<2>, Fig. 1, from a supply main, and passes into the lower cavity through flexible pipes F, which are connected by a U-shaped pipe F<1>, and thence out to the exhaust main by the pipe G<2>. Near the meeting faces of the mould at C', Fig. 2, the walls are made thinner than at other parts, in order to ensure an efficient action of the heating-fluid at the circumferential joint of the ball. Baffles B<1> are provided in the cavities to direct the flow of the fluid through them. The pipes E<2>, G<2> are each fitted with unions, whereby they may be readily connected with cocks leading from the supply and exhaust mains, for quick insertion and removal of the mould from the press.
Patent GB-190305143-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Hydro-carbon Safety Lamps.
Inventor: PARKER WILLIAM
Filed: 1903-03-05
Granted: 1904-01-07
Abstract: 5143. Parker, W. March 5. Extinguishing oil lamps.-Relates to arrangements whereby hydrocarbon lamps are extinguished upon being overturned. Inside the reservoir a is a separate vertical chamber b with a trumpetshaped top c, which is soldered to the reservoir beneath the collar d which carries the burner. Inside the collar is a cone e forming a receptacle f, into which the oil in the chamber b flows should the lamp be upset. At the top of the reservoir is an air valve i provided with a box m, which communicates by a curved tube l with the bottom of the chamber b. The box contains a small hall j which closes the air opening when the lamp is upset, and a large ball k which closes the top of the tube l when the lamp is upright. The oil from the reservoir a enters the chamber b through a small hole n in the tube l, and so reaches the wicks o. The Provisional Specification also states that the chamber b may be packed with wool.
Patent GB-190308174-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Panel Construction for Partitions, Wall Linings, Door, and other Wooden Structures.
Inventor: EDWARDS WILLIAM CHARLES
Filed: 1903-04-08
Granted: 1904-04-07
Abstract: 8174. Edwards, W. C. April 8. Glass houses.-In panels for partitions, greenhouses, portable or other buildings, &c., the framework is formed of stiles a, Fig. 1, recessed to receive thinner adjustable rails b so that the outer faces are flush. The stiles a are grooved or rebated to receive the panels c flush under the rails b. The stiles a and rails b may be correspondingly bevelled or moulded, to give a mitred effect, or separate mouldings may be used. The recesses in the stiles a are bevelled or moulded in correspondence with the rails b. The framework shown in Fig. 3 is rabbeted to receive a second panel c' behind the ordinary panel c, and a layer d of felt, paper, asbestos, metal, or other thin material may be inserted between the panels c, c<1>, to make the structure tighter, sound or vermin proof, or for other purposes. The backs of the rails may be grooved to receive small tubing or wires c<2> for electric lighting, telephones, or bells, in which case separate mouldings b<1> are used in parts. The ends of the rails may be reversely moulded to slide along the stiles, as shown at b<2>, Fig. 3. The ends of the structure are let into corner posts e, Figs. 5 and 7 ; in the form shown in Fig. 7, a strengthening-piece f is inserted in the corner. The structures may be prepared in portable sections.
Patent GB-190312174-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to Trolleys for Overhead Electrical Conductor Systems.
Inventor: CANTONO EUGENIO
Filed: 1903-05-28
Granted: 1904-05-28
Abstract: 12,174. Lake, H. H., [Cantono, E.]. May 28. Collectors.-Trolleys for electric vehicles running upon rails or upon the ordinary roads and worked on the overhead electric conductor system, are constructed with pairs of rollers, carried by oppositely inclined arms, bearing against each wire. The inclined arms carrying the rollers are pivoted on a crosshead mounted to turn in the end of the arm 1, which is hinged at 2 to a cress-piece 3 on the vertical spindle 4. The arm 1 is pulled upwards by the action of the spring 5 and turned round the spindle 4 by the action of a spring 8 and cord 6 passing round a segment. The inclined arms are drawn together by springs 14, the movement being limited by stops 13 ; the pivots 12 upon which they turn are inclined to cause the rods to lie in an inclined plane, corresponding to the direction of the resultant of the forces exerted by the springs 5, 8, and thus always present the bottoms of the pulley grooves to the wires. Figs. 4 and 5 show vehicles having trolleys for wires arranged upon the right and left hand side of the roadway, respectively, the maximum displacement being shown in each case.
Patent GB-190314361-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to the Manufacture of Iron and Steel from Chromic Pig Iron or the like
Inventor: MASSENEZ OTTO
Filed: 1903-06-27
Granted: 1904-04-28
Abstract: 14,361. Massenez, O. June 27. Open-hearth processes; chrome steel.-Pig iron containing more than one per cent. of chromium, is made into iron or steel by using sufficient slagforming additions in the early stages of the process to restrict the chromic oxide in the resultant slag to 13 per cent., or under. One or more additions and withdrawals of slag are made as required, until the remaining slag is sufficiently fluid. The additions may consist of iron ore, lime, and basic slag, or of lime and mill scale or ore, and fluor spar may also be used. Reference is made to Specification No. 26,980, A.D. 1902, which describes the use of chlorides, fluorides, and carbonates as fluxes.
Patent GB-190318421-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Tyres for Wheeled Vehicles.
Inventor: NILSON LARS GUSTAF
Filed: 1903-08-26
Granted: 1904-01-21
Abstract: 18,421. Nilson, L. G. Aug. 26. Tyres, elastic other than pneumatic; felloes or rims. -Relates to tyres, formed of india-rubber or like blocks, for the wheels of motor omnibuses and other vehicles. In the form shown in Figs. 4 and 6, each block a has a V-shaped projection c adapted to take into a recess b on the adjacent block, which recess may be undercut. The blocks have side ribs a', which engage in grooves d' formed on side plates d secured to the rim by transverse bolts e. Projections d' on the plates fit into recesses a<2> in the sides of the tyre, and the blocks are additionally held in position by radial bolts g, which pass through the rim into screw-nuts f embedded in the blocks In modifications, the blocks are shaped to give scarfed, tongued, or grooved joints.
Patent GB-190403869-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Towels
Inventor: CLEWLEY FRANK
Filed: 1904-02-16
Granted: 1904-03-17
Abstract: 3869. Clewley, F. Feb. 16. Knitted fabrics.- An openwork fabric, Fig. 2, for towels, is obtained by combining parallel chains of loops D, Fig. 3, into groups, which form the close part of the fabric, by means of transverse filler threads E<1>. By working the latter so as periodically to re-arrange the loops D into fresh groups, an openwork fabric is obtained. The ends of the fabric form a fringe.
Patent GB-190408708-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and connected with Shuttles for Looms for Weaving.
Inventor: SACKETT CHARLES EDGAR
Filed: 1904-04-15
Granted: 1904-08-11
Abstract: 8708. Sackett, C. E. April 15. L o o m shuttles ; stop-motions; shuttle boxes. - A shuttle is provided with devices to facilitate threading, to break the weft and stop the loom when the warp threads bec o m e entangled, and to control and deliver the weft in an improved manner. The weft 3 from the bobbin is led by hand round the point 16 of a threading- section 9 rising from a base-plate 4 screwed in a recess in the delivery end of the shuttle, and is guided down vertical passages 17, 18 into a thin lateral slot in the shuttle side. This slot registers with a slot 6, Fig. 10, in a plate 5 rising from the base-plate 4, so that the weft passes round the edge 7 of the slot 6 and radiates therefrom in the delivery slot. Between the bobbin and the edge 7, the weft is passed down a thin recess 26 at the side of a block 21, and is guided laterally through a sloping side pasaage into a vertical slot in the block. The weft passes over a piece of felt 23, which imparts drag to the weft, and between the plate 5 and a pivoted jaw 8, to which one end of an arched bowspring 11 is connected. The spring 11 is adjustably secured to the shuttle at its other end, and, when it meets an entanglement or float in the warp threads, it is depressed, and forces the jaw 8 against the plate 5, nipping and breaking the weft, so that the loom is stopped in the usual manner. The shuttle-box cover-plate is constructed with an arched section into which the spring 11 freely passes.
Patent GB-190411338-A (GB)
Title: Improved Machine for Welding or Forging Metal Rings.
Inventor: GIRLOT JOSEPH
Filed: 1904-05-17
Granted: 1904-08-11
Abstract: 11,338. Girlot, J. July 17, A.D. 1903, [date applied for under Patents Act, A.D. 1901]. Forging ; welding.-Rings for chains and other purposes are welded and forged in dies. The ring to be welded is mounted between shafts C, U geared together to rotate in the same direction. The dies are mounted on the heads L of hammers K operated by cams I and springs M. The compression of the springs may be adjusted by pinions P and racks O, Q which control the position of the abutments N of the springs. When the ring to be swaged is linked to another one, the finished link is held by cam-operated tongs T and the hammer heads are recessed to clear it. Fig. 10 illustrates a pair of dies ; the recesses 5 receive the finished link, and the annular recess 1 swages the rough link. The centre part of the die is cut away at the top and sides to enable rings to be swaged out to a larger diameter. A cutter 3 and recesses 4 may be provided to trim off surplus metal, and a pair of side shafts may be employed in addition to the dies, to give a rolling pressure.
Patent GB-190411444-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Dynamo-Electric Machines
Filed: 1904-05-18
Granted: 1905-03-23
Abstract: 11,444. British Thomson-Houston Co., [General Electric Co.]. May 18. Field magnets; sparking, preventing.-In order to prevent sparking at the commutators of direct. current motors, the circuits of which are liable to be frequently broken, such as, f o example, motors employed in railway and tramway work, the metal spools S, Fig. 1, upon which the field coils F are wound, are prevented from acting as short - circuited secondaries to the field coils by breaking their electrical continuity and inserting insulating-material I, or a simple air-gap may be made in the spool. Mutually-registering projections and recesses of various shapes are formed in the insulating-material and in the spool, preferably at the flanges r, which are made thicker at those points, as shown in Fig. 5. In Fig. 6, the outside portions of the flanges r are cut away to receive the insulating-material I, which is retained by metal pieces p riveted to the flanges. In the manufacture of the spool, the insulating-piece may be placed in the mould and the spool cast around it, or the insulation may be moulded into shape and placed in a slot formed in the spool.
Patent GB-190412042-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Roving Frames or Gill Spinning Frames used for Preparing or Spinning Flax or other Fibrous Materials.
Filed: 1904-05-27
Granted: 1905-05-25
Abstract: 12,042. Greeves, J. & T. M., and Eves, J. V. May 27. Flyer frames; gill boxes or frames; rollers and roller heads; stopmotions; roving-guides.- Gill roving-frames for flax &c. are constructed with four rows of spindles, preferably arranged in steps, as shown in Fig. 1, to facilitate piecing and doffing, and e a c h gill head supplies four rovings. The stepping of the spindles is effected by employing collars G, G<1>, &c. of varying length, or by supporting the spindle footsteps at different levels. The gill heads descend towards the delivery rollers A, B to give a short nip, and the rollers are preferably arranged well above the back row of spindles. The wooden pressing-roller B may be constructed with a plain boss at each side of the neck, wide enough for two slivers, or the bosses may be divided into two by circumferential grooves. Fig. 5 shows a built-up pressing-roller, in which two wooden bosses b<2>, separated by a rubber ring b<6>, are mounted on a rubber ring b<5> surrounding a steel bush b<3>, which is mounted on, and driven by, a pin b<4> in the axle of the roller. Flanges, with pins b<8> fitting freely in holes in the rollers, clamp the parts together. The sliver conductors K, Fig. 2, are made double to serve for two slivers, and are adjustably secured by a set-screw k to, or formed with a hook to embrace, a bar K<1>, which is supported in a bracket adjustable in the carriage plates at the sides of each head. A tongue may project from the conductor over the gills to keep the rovings separate. Each gill head is driven by a separate clutch M, Fig. 13, fixed on the back shaft L on which the bevel-wheels P for driving the gill screws are freely mounted. The clutch M carries a pivoted pawl m, Fig. 15, formed on its lower side as a double inclined surface, and, in the driving position, a spring button m', projecting from the revolving shaft L, acts against one of the inclines, and an inclined face m<3> on the pawl drives an inclined steel piece p fixed to the bevel-wheel P, Fig. 13. In case of obstruction in any gill head, the corresponding spring button fails to hold the pawl in driving position, and it is consequently raised by the inclined piece on the wheel P and the double incline slides past the button. In this position, the free end of the pawl is projected outside the periphery of the clutch and acts against a lever S on a shaft s carrying a trigger lever T, which normally supports a weighted lever U loose on a shaft X. The lever U is thus released, and, in descending, acts through a peg arm Y on the shaft X to turn the shaft, and, through a lever, link, and strap fork N, to shift the belt on to the loose pulley 0. The Provisional Specification states that the retaining-rollers of the gill heads may be placed relatively to one another so that the jockey roller may be directed on to either lower roller.
Patent GB-190413264-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Continuous Current Electric Motors and Generators.
Inventor: TORDA LUDWIG
Filed: 1904-06-11
Granted: 1905-05-11
Abstract: 13,264. Torda, L. June 11. Dynamos, regulating ; field magnets ; motors, controlling.-Speed variation is obtained in continuous-current motors, and voltage regulation in dynamos, by altering the reluctance of the fieldmagnet circuit of the machine by adjustably arranging paramagnetic plates in air ducts in the field - magnet core, remote from the armature. The width of an air duct may be approximately (m - i) g, (where g represents the width of the air gap and m the ratio of the extremes of the required speed variation), or, when applied inside the magnet cores, only about one half or one-third as much. As shown in Figs. 1 and 2, iron plates a are applied inside the pole cores between the field coils and the yoke g, and are fixed to an iron ring b mounted upon guide-bolts c fixed to the yoke. The iron plates are slid for adjustment by means of a screw spindle e and a wheel f supported on the frame and working in a screwthreaded boss h on the ring. The air ducts and paramagnetic plates, which are arranged at rightangles to the lines of force, may be applied at any part of the field-magnet system, e.g., inside the yoke, Fig. 4, or inside the pole cores, Figs. 4 and 6. The sides of the ducts may be part of the core, or may be formed of separate pieces, which may be non-magnetic. The ducts and plates may also be wedge-shaped as shown in Fig. 8. When the plates are applied between the pole shoes and field coils, they are insulated from the iron ring. The invention is applicable to machines for rolling-mills, printing-machines, &c.
Patent GB-190416036-A (GB)
Title: Improved Window Cleaner
Inventor: BURT LUCY MAUD
Filed: 1904-07-19
Granted: 1905-07-19
Abstract: 16,036. Burt, L. M. July 19. Windows, cleaning; dusters and dusting-appliances.-A frame of bamboo, wire, or other material, covered for example with leather or fibre, is provided with a nose or projection 3 by means of which the outside corners of the windows may be reached from inside. The windows may afterwards be polished by means of a duster 4 in the form of a bag, which is slipped over the frame. When not in use for this purpose, the bag may be attached by strings to loops on the lower part of the frame, which is supported on a handle. According to the Provisional Specification, the apparatus being used for a wet and dry process, a covered frame is provided at each side of the handle.
Patent GB-190417560-A (GB)
Title: A New or Improved Passenger or Goods Attachment to be connnected to the Side of Cycles or the like
Inventor: HARRISON CHARLES
Filed: 1904-08-12
Granted: 1905-01-12
Abstract: 17,560. Harrison, C. Aug. 12. Coupling, arrangements for; passengers, for conveying ; luggage-carriers.-A passenger or goods vehicle, which can be detachably secured to the side of a cycle or like vehicle, is arranged to allow a slight rise or fall when passing over rough roads or when turning. The body B of the detachable vehicle is supported from the axle of a single wheel A, and the axle is extended and connected by a swivel joint E to the cycle H. A swivel-jointed rod C connects the front part of the detachable vehicle to the front part of the frame of the cycle by means of a swivel joint D, and a slotted extensible part of the rod C permits the length of the detachable vehicle to be adjusted.
Patent GB-190418394-A (GB)
Title: A New or Improved Appliance for Holding Doors, Casements or the like Closed or Open or at any Desired Angle.
Inventor: SCRATTON EDWARD JOSHUA BLACKBU
Filed: 1904-08-25
Granted: 1905-06-29
Abstract: 18,394. Scratton, E. J. B. Aug. 25. Door &c. holders; sliding bolts.-Relates to means for holding doors, case ments, &c. closed, or open fully or at any desired angle. A vertical tube A, or a guide formed of portions of tubing, is fixed to the opening edge of the door or casement B. A square or round rod C of metal, wood, &c. slides within the tube A and has, at its lower end, a catch or holder D which may be a pointed end, a serrated gripping-plate, a pronged device, or a rubber block secured in a double ferrule or the like. A helical spring H may be fitted to increase the downward pressure. To raise or lower the rod C, a handle or lever E is lifted, rotated, and allowed to drop into a shallow or a deep slot a or a' formed in the upper end of the guide-tube A. The handle E may be connected to the rod by a swivel joint I when, to raise the rod, the handle E is lifted and turned over the edge of the tube A, engaging therewith if desired by a notch. In another form, the handle may be fitted to rotate on the top of the rod C to rest in the notch a or a'. These devices permit the rod C to be secured in raised or lowered position where the holder D, being of plate or such form, does not permit of rotation. This may also be provided for by a swivel connection between the rod and bottom-plate.
Patent GB-190421892-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Electric Arc Lamps.
Inventor: LEWIS FRANK MICHAEL
Filed: 1904-10-11
Granted: 1905-08-10
Abstract: 21,892. Lewis, F. M. Oct. 11. Arc lamps.-In lamps adapted to be used in series, devices are provided for assisting the regulating-mechanisms to assume the positions corresponding to the current in the regulating-solenoids, as described in Specification No. 27,199, A.D. 1903. Six forms of the device are described. In the first form, the core of the regulating-solenoid is partly supported by a spiral spring in tension or compression. In the second, the core 1, Fig. 2, is longer than the solenoid 5 and is arranged so that in its highest position it is central within the solenoid, but in its lowest position its upper end is nearly level with that of the solenoid. The core is shown connected to a clutch 6 by means of a lever 42. In the third form, a shorter core having the shape of an inverted cone is employed. In the fourth and fifth forms, weights are picked up by the regulating-mechanism in its movement. The weights consist of diss 31, Fig. 4, having apertures of different sizes, and threaded on a U- shaped wire 33 attached to the core 1, or of a chain which depends from the core or from a lever or pulley, to which the core is connected, and rests partly on the bottom of a bucket. In the sixth form, the core 1, Fig. 6, is connected to a lever so arranged that as the core is raised it moves towards the axis of the solenoid. The " regulation re-starters " described in Specification No. 4557, A.D. 1903, may be used in conjunction with the above devices.
Patent GB-190423598-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Wrenches.
Inventor: FLING ROBERT GEORGE
Filed: 1904-11-01
Granted: 1905-01-26
Abstract: 23,598. Fling, R. G. Nov. 1. spanners and wrenches.-A wrench for use in places where an ordinary wrench is unsatisfactory has screwed jaws 2, 2<a> working on a rod in a slotted bar 5 and adjusted by a handle 6. The rod has a circular enlargement 7 fitting in an opening at one end of an arm 8, which can be tilted to any position round the axis of the rod, Fig. 5, and is fixed by a screw 9. The arm 8 has keyed upon it a ratchetwheel 14 engaging spring-controlled pawls 15 fitted to the bead 10, through which the arm passes and into which handles 12 are screwed.