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Patent GB-190227458-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Jacquard Looms.
Inventor: NOVET CLAUDE
Filed: 1902-12-12
Granted: 1903-03-26
Abstract: 27,458. Novet, C. Dec. 12. Jacquards. - A jacquard, which enables two picks of weft to be inserted with the aid of one and the same pattern card, has a series of needles 2, 3, 4, 5, with their lifting-hooks G, 7, 8, 9, and a series of needles 25, 26, connected by springs 34, 35 to oscillating levers 28, 29, The lifting- knives 10, 11, 12, 13 are pivoted to a verticallymovable frame or griffe and connected to rods 32, 33, as shown in Fig. 1. The upper ends of the levers 28, 29, respectively, are formed with inclined surfaces 30, 31. When the pattern card 1 is pressed against the needles, it may be assumed that needles 4, 5 are pushed back, and needles 2, 3 remain stationary ; then, during the next lift of the knives, the hooks 6, 7 are raised. Further, let it be assumed that the card has also pushed back the needle 26 ; then the corresponding lever 28 will have been oscillated into the position shown in Fig. 1, as soon as the rod 33 has been raised. During the ensuing descent of the griffe, the rod 33 is pushed towards the left hand by the inclined surface 31, and the knives 11, 13 are turned into their inoperative positions ; consequently, at the next lift, only the hook 6 will be raised. In a modification, the needles 25, 26 and the levers 28, 29 are not used, but the rods corresponding to rods 32, 33 are actuated by mechanism of any suitable kind. The lifting-knives are hooked at their lower ends for engaging with hooks or tringles attached to intermediate parts of the lifting-hooks. In a second modification, two pattern cylinders and an ordinary arrangement of needles, hooks, and lifting-knives are employed. One cylinder supports the cards, and the other having suitably-perforated faces is mounted so as to be independently movable within the card cylinder. In a third modification, there is one pattern cylinder and a selection of the hooks which were lifted for the first pick is made by means of rotary catches connected to a horizontally-reciprocating rod and arranged to press against the hooks. In a fourth modification, the selection of the hooks for the two picks is effected by means of two sets of needles, one set controlled by the pattern cylinder and the other set by any suitable mechanism.
Patent GB-190227911-A (GB)
Title: Process and Apparatus for Measuring the Supply of Liquids Gases and Vapours.
Inventor: BUSS EDUARD
Filed: 1902-12-17
Granted: 1903-08-06
Abstract: 27,911. Buss, E. Dec. 18, A.D. 1901, [date applied for under Patents Act, A.D. 1901]. Liquid meters.-The quantity of gas, vapour, or liquid passing through tubular conduits during a given period is measured by a combination of the mechanical apparatus shown in Figs. 1 or 5 with electrical apparatus, partly shown in Figs. 2, 3, and 6. In the construction shown in Fig. 1, fluid passing from the pipe 1 to the pipe 2 impinges upon the part 18, causing the pivoted lever 20 to turn, whereupon the cam 21 raises the spring- pressed stud 23 on the lever 24 and turns the axle 25, while, in the construction shown in Fig. 5, the axle 37 is turned by the rise or fall of a weighted bellows-arrangement 28, which actuates a valve 15 controlling the passage 5 to the outlet pipe 2. In each case, the movement of the axle 25 or 37 is utilized to raise or lower either a cone 26 dipping into a cup of mercury 30 arranged in an electric circuit, or a slide 11, which more or less closes a slot 7 in a partition 9 in an electrolytic cell 10 containing electrodes 6, 8 of copper or other metal, immersed in a solution of sulphate of copper or of a salt of the metal of which the electrodes are formed. The intensity of the current and the quantity of ions which pass augment and diminish in a constant manner according to the open section of the slot 7, without however being proportionate thereto. Thus every augmentation or diminution of the principal current produces a corresponding augmentation or diminution of the electric current, which can be measured or indicated by known apparatus. In Fig. 6, the axle, to avoid friction, is shown mounted in a flexible tube 44 which can be twisted, but in a modified arrangement the flexible tube equivalent to the tube 44 is simply bent.
Patent GB-190302170-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in the Distributors of Linotype Machines.
Inventor: LOCK WILLIAM HENRY
Filed: 1903-01-29
Granted: 1903-12-10
Abstract: 2170. Lock, W. H., [National Typographic Co.]. Jan. 29. Linotype machines. -Relates to a fender or guard, for use in connection with the distributing-mechanism of linotype machines of the kind described in Specification No. 14,582, A.D. 1890, for preventing the matrices, as they fall from the distributer bar, from catching against the lower traversing-screw. The fender or guard E consists of a metal plate which is secured to the magazine entrance so that it underlies the lower traversing- screw C', the upper edge of the guard being curved outwards. Should the matrix B strike the guard as it falls, it is tilted backwards edgewise and falls into the magazine channel D. The guard may also be in the form of a curved plate E<1> placed over the upper inner side of the traversing-screw.
Patent GB-190302911-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Means for Promoting Combustion and for Smoke Consuming or Preventing Purposes for use in connection with Steam Generator Furnaces.
Inventor: DAVIES OSWYN ST LEGER
Filed: 1903-02-07
Granted: 1903-12-10
Abstract: 2911. Davies, O. St. L., and Booth, J. Feb. 7. Steam-generator furnaces; smoke-consuming.- Air and steam are injected into the furnace gases from the inner sides of a pair of tubes a arranged in the upper part of the furnace. Air or steam issuing from nozzles a<1> induce currents of air through the perforated tubes a, the escaping jets crossing each other in a downward direction, as shown in dotted lines in Fig. 1. Air is also delivered to the rear of the bridge by the nozzle a<6>, and, in addition, into the support g, when such is employed, in order to keep it cool. In place of the protecting-support g, the pipes may be coated with heat-resisting material or may be water-jacketed. The pipes may be D- shaped in section. Alternate stoking on the sides of the grate may be employed.
Patent GB-190309833-A (GB)
Title: Improved Means for Determining the Quantity of Liquid in Refrigerating Apparatus.
Inventor: SMAILL JOHN
Filed: 1903-04-30
Granted: 1903-07-09
Abstract: 9833. Smaill, J. May 2, A.D. 1902, [date applied for under Patents Act, A.D. 1901]. Liquid levels, indicating.-To indicate the level of the volatile liquid in ammonia and like refrigerators, a portion or the whole of the liquid is cooled below 0‹ C. by an expansion pipe, so that a frost line is visible at the level of the liquid on the outside of the apparatus. In the arrangement shown, an indicating- vessel 1 is in connection with the reservoir 3, and an expansion pipe 5 is provided, through which a portion of the volatile liquid is allowed to escape, thus cooling the liquid and air and vapour in the vessel. The vessel 1 may be dispensed with, the frost line being indicated on the outside of the reservoir itself.
Patent GB-190310275-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Wind Musical Instruments
Inventor: MACKEY GEORGE B
Filed: 1903-05-06
Granted: 1903-06-18
Abstract: 10,275. Mackey, G. B. May 6. Brass and like wind instruments.-The valveboxes of a cornet or other wind instrument are connected by passages and pipes, which, where necessary, are placed at the same angle to the central plane of the body of the instrument, so that the resistance to the passage of the air through the instrument is not altered when the valves are depressed. The central valve-box 6, Fig. 1, is lengthened to enable the pipe 11 to be connected to its rear side, and the three valve-boxes 5, 6, 7 are connected by pipes 13, 15, 16, and the passages formed by these pipes are connected by pipes 12, 14, 17, the planes of which are at 145‹ to the central plane of the body of the instrument. When the valve shown in Fig. 3 and situated in the box 5 is depressed, the openings 25, 26 in the valve register with the ends of the valve pipe 22 and the end of the upper arm of the tuning-slide 19, through which the air is deflected. Similar valves in the boxes 6, 7, when depressed, deflect the air through the pipe 27 and through a short bend, like the bend 12, on the opposite side of the valve-box 6, so as to convey the air from the pipe 11 to the pipe 13.
Patent GB-190311378-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Electric Testing Apparatus and in Dynamos therefor.
Filed: 1903-05-19
Granted: 1904-05-19
Abstract: 11,378. Evershed & Vignoles, and Evershed, S. May 19. Dynamos. - Relates to apparatus for testing the insulation of cables &c., and more particularly to a porta b l e continuouscurrent dynamo adapted to give a constant electromotive force and be driven at a high speed. A galvanometer or am-meter, preferably of the moving-coil type, may be combined with the dynamo. The dynamo may be driven through a friction clutch which slips when the speed is excessive, or through an electromagnetic clutch which slips when the electromotive force has reached the predetermined limit. Fig. 4 shows one arrangement of apparatus, fixed within a box for convenience in carrying. The armature A is driven by hand, a friction clutch C, G being interposed. A galvanometer S, with dial T, and a resistance V are arranged between one terminal of the dynamo and a terminal t<1>, connected to the cable &c. The other terminal t<2> is connected to earth. The field magnets may be permanent magnets or electromagnets. Armatures; commutators; brushes.-The twopart commutator consists of a number of wires N, Fig. 5, carried by two plates m, n, which are connected to the armature windings by conductors passing through the hollow shaft B. The brushes consist of a pair of light discs R', R<2>, against which the wires N' rub and slowly rotate. The armature is preferably formed with two coils L, R at rightangles, Fig. 7, each having a two-part commutator connected in series, and embracing an arc of about 80‹. Each of the field poles N, S embraces an arc of about 90‹, so that the sum of the electromotive forces in the coils is practically constant. Dynamos, driving.-The friction clutch is shown in Figs. 1 and 2. It consists of a driving-disc G on which rub blocks D, preferably of leather, carried by arms pivoted to the driven disc C. The blocks are held on by springs F until the centrifugal action at high speed lifts them. In a modified clutch, a disc carrying a leather ring is forced against the driving-disc by springs, and a tubular electromagnet is provided to oppose the spring and hold off the disc when the electromotive force rises. If the electromagnet coil revolves on the armature axle, it may be supplied with current from the commutator brushes by means of slip-rings. Or the electromagnet may have a laminated core and work with alternating currents supplied by special armature coils.
Patent GB-190312849-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Wind Musical Instruments of the Character which, for the Production of Various Pitch or Tones, have their Tubes Variously Lengthened by the Operation of Pistons or Valves.
Filed: 1903-06-08
Granted: 1904-05-12
Abstract: 12,849. Besson & Co., and Edwards, T. C. June 8. Brass and like wind instruments.-Instruments such as the euphonium are provided with an ordinary and an alternative half-tone loop tube, and both an ordinary and an alternative two half-tones loop tube, and three pistons B, C, D, which are, respectively, provided with ports b, c, d, adapted to coincide with one another and with the main tube a, g, when all the pistons are in the normal position. The third piston B has ports b, m, f, n therein, the second piston C has ports c, i, j, o, p, and the first piston D ports d, k, l, r, s, the pistons and ports being constructed and arranged to act in combination with one another, and with the main tubing, and the various loop tubes. The third piston, when depressed, closes all such portions of the normal tube as are contained between their normal entrance to and exit from the third piston, together with the ordinary loop tubes, and substitutes therefor another tubing of exact length to lower the pitch three half-tones. Means are provided to connect up the alternative half-tone and two half-tone loop tubes to further and correctly lower the pitch by one or two semitones. The loop tubes Y, Z are the alternative half-tone and two half-tones tubes respectively, while the loop tubes G, H are the ordinary two and three half-tones loop tubes respectively. The ordinary half-tone loop tube is associated with the second piston, and a short tube connects the second and first pistons C, D. Tuning-slides are provided in the tubes and loops where required. The invention is applicable to any number of valves, and the valves may be rotary pistons, or lever valves. The upper and lower loop tubings may be interchanged, if desired.
Patent GB-190313186-A (GB)
Title: A New or Improved Toy or Game
Inventor: MATTHEWS JOHN HENRY
Filed: 1903-06-12
Granted: 1904-04-07
Abstract: 13,186. Matthews, J. H. June 12. Mechanical toys; games played with animals, models, lances, puppets, rings, pegs, goals, and quintains; scoring and marking.-Relates to a mechanical toy with which a game is played, the players controlling the movements of horses, upon which are mounted armed knights who engage in a tournament or tilt at rings or pegs. Figures e, Fig. 1, representing knights &c., are mounted on horses d, a knife edge on the rider resting in a groove d' in the horse's back, or in a groove m<1>, Fig. 11, in a drum m loosely mounted in bearings in a frame m<5> on the back of the horse d. The horses are arranged above a box a, a section of which is shown in Fig. 4. A prancing motion is given to the horses by pendulums c<6> hinged to pivots c<4> on slides c, projecting pins c<7> on the horses being socketted in the upper ends of the pendulum stems, so that the movements of the pendulums are transmitted to the horses. The horses are also adapted to turn upon the pins c<7> as axes (so as to have a curvetting movement,) but they are weighted so that normally the horses face in the direction of grooves b<1>, b<2> formed in the top of the box, which is marked out like a field; the grooves are adapted to guide the pins c<7>. The horses can be made to approach or recede from each other by pulling cords c<8> passing over pulleys and attached to the backs and fronts of the slides c, which move in guide-ways f <1>, f<2>. The riders are provided with lances or other weapons e', fixed as shown in Fig. 1, or held by movable arms, and the rider is weighted to counterbalance the weight of the lance. The players actuate the cords c<8>, and each player tries to unseat his opponent's knight, and when successful, the player scores points on a scorer provided at the side of the box a. The body of the knight may be formed of two hinged parts suitably locked together, and a flexible connection may be provided for it to prevent it falling from the horse when unseated. Means may be provided for levelling the parts of the box a. The riders, instead of attacking each other, may tilt at rings g suitably supported, or at a loop representing a tent-peg, or at a quintain or goal. The pendulum weights are kept stationary, when not in use, by hooks attached to the box a, which is provided with a door for allowing access to the weights ; or, the weights may be secured by other means. The box a may be formed in two hinged portions divided along the line A-A, the upper one, containing the mechanism, being raised when access to the weights is required ; the weights can, in this case, be locked by a flap. The apparatus may be closed by a lid.
Patent GB-190314305-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Cupola Furnaces
Inventor: BOULT ALFRED JULIUS
Filed: 1903-06-27
Granted: 1903-09-17
Abstract: 14,305. Boult, A. J., [Seydel, A.]. June 27. Cupola furnaces; blast for cupolafurnaces.-The shaft of the furnace is of larger diameter in its central part than in the upper and bottom sections, and gas outlets 7 are made through the lining, near the top, so that the upward velocity of the gases is reduced. The blast is heated by passing it around tubes 11, or through a chamber, in the top of the cupola and then through the space between the outer and inner casings 14, 15. Passages 12, 13, through, and at the back of, the lining increase the heating of the inner casing 14. Additional tuyÞres 22, 23 are provided for supplying air to aid in completing the combustion in the shaft and top of the cupola. Fuel, such as sprayed or vaporized liquid or gas with air and steam, may be injected through the tuyÞres 24.
Patent GB-190320419-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in the Separation of Minerals from Ores and Gangue.
Inventor: SULMAN HENRY LIVINGSTONE
Filed: 1903-09-22
Granted: 1904-10-22
Abstract: 20,419. Sulman, H. L., and Picard, H. F. Kirkpatrick-. Sept. 22. Washing ores &c.-Relates to the separation of metalliferous constituents, graphite, carbon, sulphur, &c. from the gangue in their ores by the selective action of oils, grease, tar, and the like. Air, gases, or steam, charged with oil vapour or with atomized oil, is blown through the ore pulp. According to the Provisional Specification, soap solutions may be used in a similar way, acid being added to decompose the soap.
Patent GB-190408977-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Baling Presses
Inventor: HOWARD GEOFFREY
Filed: 1904-04-19
Granted: 1905-03-02
Abstract: 8977. Howard, G., and Gibbs, G. April 19. Baling-presses.-Relates to baling-presses of the kind described in Specification No. 13,881, A.D. 1899, and comprises mechanism for feeding material from a thrashing or like machine to the press. A segmental platform A<2> is formed with slots a through which project blades b, Fig. 4, on a rake B pivoted at b<1> and oscillated by a link b<4> from a shaft b<2> operated by a toothed segment and a shaft b<8> ; the shaft b<8> carries a feeder for thrusting the material down in the press A, and is actuated by the press plunger. The shoot or board C and platform A' are mounted on the pivot b<1> so as to be swung inwards when not in use. The passage of the material down the shoot is controlled by prongs c<1> on a bar C<3> operated by a cord c<4> and weight. According to the Provisional Specification, the teeth of the rake B may be flexible in one direction.
Patent GB-190409233-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Pneumatic Tyres for Motor Cars, Motor and other Cycles and similar Road Vehicles.
Inventor: REDDAWAY FRANK
Filed: 1904-04-22
Granted: 1905-02-23
Abstract: 9233. Reddaway, F. April 22. Tyres, pneumatic, for motor cars, motor &c. cycles, and other vehicles. With the object of preventing skidding, the covers are formed with two treads, as shown. To assist in the same object, and to preserve the tyre from injury when exposed to severe compression, which is set up by skidding, a steel &c. ring d is placed in the groove between the two treads. The ring may be partly embedded in the rubber.
Patent GB-190413105-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or connected with Rubbing or Washing Boards for Laundry purposes.
Inventor: HUTLEY FRANCIS
Filed: 1904-06-10
Granted: 1905-06-01
Abstract: 13,105. Hutley, F. June 10. Washing-boards are provided with narrow slots or saw-cuts between the several corrugations; a plain but similarly-slotted one may be hinged to such a board, to assist the rubbing. In one form, shown in Figs. 1, 2, 4, and 6, the slots a<2> extend almost across the width of the board between the corrugations a'. The plain boarding b is inclined to the general plane of the board, as shown in Fig. 4, to form a receptacle for soap. The corrugations may be formed from a single piece of wood or of slightly-separated wood or metal rods of diamond, circular, or other section. Fig. 19 shows a modification in which the rods are of a sinuous form with suitable distance - pieces a' of metal. Fig. 21 shows a form in which two rows of rods are employed and supported if necessary by the metal strips x, fastened at one end to the slot a<6> and at the other to the rod a<12> extending across the board. Fig. 25 illustrates another arrangement, in which two boards are employed with their plain faces adjacent; if desired, only one such board may be used, the plain side being employed for washing collars &c. In Figs. 29 and 30, the plain board a<1*> with the saw-cut slots is shown hinged upon the washing-board by means of the hooks a<16> which can slide on the rod a<17> in the direction of the arrow, or the board may be turned back or entirely removed.
Patent GB-190419538-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Ironing Machines.
Inventor: BRAITHWAITE CHARLES LLOYD
Filed: 1904-09-10
Granted: 1905-07-06
Abstract: 19,538. Braithwaite, C. L., and O'Brien, B. Sept. 10. Ironing-machines.-In the Decoudun type of ironing-machine, the roller is raised and lowered by means of duplicated bell-crank levers actuated by a worm-wheel. In the form shown in Fig. 1, one arm of the bell-crank lever B, mounted on the shaft C, supports the bearings of the roller D, and the other arm has the form of a toothed sector, which gears with a worm E rotated by a handwheel or by connection with any of the gearwheels of the machine. In a modification, the lower arm of the lever B terminates in a nut working on the threaded bar F.
Patent GB-190422002-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to the Manufacture of Coke.
Inventor: HENNEBUTTE HENRI
Filed: 1904-10-12
Granted: 1905-11-11
Abstract: 22,002. Hennebutte, H. Oct. 12. Fuel ; coking.-Metallurgical coke is made from lignite, steam coal, slow-burning, lean, or uninflammable coal, which has been previously mixed with a hydrocarbon which dissociates at a high temperature and cements together the non-coking coal. Heavy wood tars, coal tars, schist tars, naphtha tars, or the like may be used, with addition of a little alkali or alkaline earth, or a solution of molasses may be used. Coals and lignites which liberate their hydrocarbons at low temperatures are previously mixed with a little pitch or resin.
Patent GB-190424572-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in connection with Electric Igniters for Internal Combustion Engines.
Inventor: DION ALBERT DE
Filed: 1904-11-12
Granted: 1904-12-15
Abstract: 24,572. Dion, Marquis A. de, and Bouton, G. Aug. 16, [date applied for under Patents Act, A.D. 1901]. Gas and like engines, igniting in. The whole of the igniting - mechanism is enclosed in a box attached to the crank chamber 1. The cam shaft 2 and worm-wheel 3 drive a spindle 5 at one-fourth the speed of the engine, where four cylinders are used. The spindle 5 has keyed to it a cup 7 containing a porcelain block 8, over which fits a cylinder 9 to which is attached an arm 10 carrying pieces 11 which make contact with a segment 16, Fig. 2, connected to the secondary coil of an induction machine and with pieces 12 connected to the cylinder igniters by insulated wires. The pieces 12, 16 are held in place by bolts passing through a porcelain cover 14. The segment 16 is nearly equal to half a circumference, and hence a spark is produced in each cylinder once every four strokes. A spring 17 prevents vibration caused by the meeting of the pieces 11, 12. If the shaft 5 revolves at half the engine-speed, a central arm such as 17 and four equally-spaced segments 12 may be used without any segment 16. The gear for driving the shaft 5 may be modified. The number of segments 12 depends on the number of cylinders used.
Patent GB-190425862-A (GB)
Title: A New or Improved Method of Manufacturing Gear Wheels.
Inventor: BRUN FREDERIC-AMEDEE
Filed: 1904-11-28
Granted: 1904-12-31
Abstract: 25,862. Brun, F. A. May 28, [date applied for under Patents Act, A.D. 1901]. Rolling.-Toothed gear wheels are made by rolling a stamped blank 5, Fig. 4, mounted on a spindle 6, between conical rolls 8, the teeth being impressed by a die-wheel 9 mounted as shown in Fig. 1.