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Patent GB-190102117-A (GB)
Title: Mechanism for Actuating Electrical Igniters for Internal Combustion Engines
Inventor: DEUTZ THE GASMOTOREN FABRIK
Filed: 1901-01-30
Granted: 1901-03-02
Abstract: 2117. Abel, C. D., [Gasmotoren Fabrik Deutz]. Jan. 30. Gas a n d like engines, igniting in. A trip gear is em- ployed to enable the action of the electric contact- breaker to be re- tarded when the engine is running slowly at starting. Fig. 1 shows the mechanism arranged for nor- mal working, and Fig. 4 for starting. The contacts a, b in the cylinder are broken by the downward motion of the lever e, transmitted through the spring m and slotted rod d. To retard ignition, a piece h pivoted to the engine frame is moved so that a block i on it leaves the notch I in the link g and enters another II, thus bringing another block k beneath the end l of the rod d. The block k thus supports the rod d, until the lever e has moved some distance downwards, when the link g withdraws the block k and allows the rod d to descend suddenly.
Patent GB-190103561-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in the Manufacture of Condensed or Desiccated Milk, and in Apparatus therefor.
Inventor: CAMPBELL JOSEPH HENDERSON
Filed: 1901-02-19
Granted: 1902-01-16
Abstract: 3561. Campbell, J. H., and Campbell, C. H. Feb. 19. Preserving milk; food preparations.-In order to produce a condensed or desiccated milk, or milk compound, in which the milk proteids will be as soluble and of the same peptogenic quality as in ordinary milk, the evaporation is conducted at a temperature below the coagulating-point of albumen, and with such rapidity that the milk is prevented from souring. To accomplish this, the milk, while heated preferably to 35‹-55‹ C., is exposed to a copious current of air, which is either blown into it, or caused to act upon it when spread over an extended surface. The milk is first placed in a tank A, Fig. 1, heated by an outer jacket a or by inner pipes b, or both, through which hot water or other heating-medium may be circulated. By means of suitable pipes and nozzles f, a large volume of air is forced into the lower part of the tank, in such a manner as to produce a rolling motion of the liquid and thus prevent foaming or caking upon the heated surfaces. Either hot air may be blown in from the pipe E, in connection with a heater D and blower C, or cold air from the pipe E<2>. As the condensation proceeds, the temperature is gradually reduced by lowering the level of the heating-fluid, and, when the product is of the consistency of ordinary condensed milk, it is drawn off through the valve g. If a desiccated product is required, the condensed milk, which must be free from fatty matters, is run into a drum B, which is closed at one end and while slowly rotated supplied with hot air through a bent nozzle n, Fig. 6. This operation is continued until the product attains the consistency of a damp or plastic solid. The lumpy mass is then scraped off the sides of the drum B, and broken up into granules of uniform size. This may be done in the drum B, but preferably by passing the mass first through a breaker F, consisting of a trough, fitted with a rotating shaft r carrying projecting arms r<1>, and supplied with hot air through nozzles s, and then through a granulator G, consisting of a sieve or perforated plate u, over which sweeps an inclined blade or knife G<1> turning within guide-rollers u<1>. The granulated mass is discharged into a rotary desiccating-drum H, preferably made of canvas stretched on a suitable frame, and supplied with hot air through a hollow shaft 14, provided with obliquely-arranged nozzles 15. Finally, the desiccated milk may be ground to any suitable degree of fineness. In a modification of the process, the milk after the first evaporation, instead of being converted into a plastic mass in the drum B, is mixed with an alimentary powder, such as already prepared desiccated milk, wheat flour, or powdered cocoa or chocolate. A mixed food powder may also be obtained by mixing desiccated milk, prepared as above, with any other food powder.
Patent GB-190110984-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Cork Extractors
Inventor: BAUMGARTEN ALBERT
Filed: 1901-05-28
Granted: 1902-05-08
Abstract: 10,984. Nickels, W. L., [Baumgarten, A.]. May 28. Corkscrews and cork-drawers.-The casing 11 of the apparatus is made in two parts, held together by screws 12, and adapted to be secured to a table or other support, the forward sides of the two halves of the casing being formed with projections 18, having slots 17 to receive the pivot pins d' of the operating-lever D'. The inner end of the lever is connected by a pin d to the carrier B, in which the corkscrew C is revolubly mounted, as shown in Fig. 4, the head 15 of the corkscrew being held in the recess 16 in the carrier by the end of the lever. The corkscrew works through the nut E, mounted to slide in the barrel 14, the studs 20, 26 on the nut and carrier engaging respectively in the open- ing 21<a> and slot 25 in the sliding connector F. On the upward movement of the lever D<1>, the carrier, corkscrew, connector F, and nut descend together until the nut reaches the lower limit of its move- ment, the further movement of the lever then causing the corkscrew to rotate through the nut, and to be inserted in the cork. During the first portion of the return movement of the lever, the parts again move together to extract the cork, after which the nut is stopped by the connector engaging a stop, the completion of the return stroke of the lever drawing the corkscrew through the nut, to strip off the cork.
Patent GB-190112666-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Mechanism for Imparting a Rotary Movement to Screens, Conveyors or other desired Machinery.
Inventor: SMITH GEORGE
Filed: 1901-06-21
Granted: 1902-05-29
Abstract: 12,666. Smith, G. June 21. Sifting.-Relates to the production of gyratory movement in screens, conveyers, and other analogous machinery without producing unequal strains on the driving-shaft. The shaft a is supported in fixed bearings, and carries a disc b formed with symmetrical recesses b<1>, or the shaft may carry balanced arms. In either case there is no gyratory action on the shaft. The recesses or arms serve to drive one or more heavy balls d, which run in a ball race c carried by the screen, conveyer, &c., to which the gyratory movement is to be given. Rollers or slide blocks may be used instead of balls.
Patent GB-190115825-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Motor Road Vehicles.
Inventor: HICKS BOHN CHAPIN
Filed: 1901-08-06
Granted: 1901-10-19
Abstract: 15,825. Hicks, B. C. Aug. 6. Motor road vehicles,-Relates mainly to the construction of the under carriage and of the carriage body. Fig. 1 shows a plan of the undercarriage, and Fig. 3 a rear elevation partly in section. The main frame a is mounted at the rear end on the axle b of the single driving-wheel c, and at the front end on the axle d provided at its ends with the usual steering-wheels. In addition, rear supporting-wheels i are provided in line with and outside of the central driving-wheel c. The load is transmitted to these through a two-part U-shaped axle f pivoted to the main frame at g at points forward of the driving-axle, the two parts being pivoted together at h. The seat portion of the body j is supported at the front end on a spring k, and at the rear on elliptical side springs l resting on the axle f. The springs l are secured to the axle by clips, so that their position can be altered so as to adjust the distribution of the load, the carriage body being suspended from the springs by swinging links n. A separate portion of the carriage body, forming a platform for supporting the storage batteries t, or other appurtenances, is independently mounted on leaf springs q borne by the driving-axle b. In view of the relative motion of the two parts of the carriage body, wearing- strips u and roller or ball bearings ware disposed as shown in Fig. 3.
Patent GB-190116105-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Stocks and Dies.
Inventor: WILKINSON FREDERICK WILLIAM
Filed: 1901-08-10
Granted: 1902-02-27
Abstract: 16,105. Wilkinson, F. W. Aug. 10. Stocks and dies.-The tool is specially for screwthreading fixed studs &c, in positions not readily accessible. The dies a are held in jaws b, which overlap one another at e and are provided with shanks f, g hinged together at h and forced apart so that the dies grip the stud by a screw k. The tool is rotated by a spanner placed on the squared part n or on the head l, or by a tommy bar inserted in one of the holes m.
Patent GB-190124078-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and Appertaining to Guards or Obstruction Removers for Tramcars and other Vehicles.
Inventor: HEATHCOTE WILLIAM HENRY
Filed: 1901-11-27
Granted: 1902-10-23
Abstract: 24,078. Heathcote, W. H. Nov. 27. Obstruction-removers.-A horizontal tray controlled by a "feeler" is mounted so that its distance from the track is always the same even when the vehicle pitches. The application to a tramcar is described. The tray a is carried by the shaft b journalled in bearings c supported by stays c<1> attached to the axle-boxes and controlled by lateral guides f attached to the body of the car. The feeler e, jointed at e<3>, extends through eyes a<1> in the tray a, and is connected by the arm e' to the levers g, g<1> jointed to the arm a<3> of the tray a. Should an obstruction strike the feeler e, the shaft g' is pushed back in the slot g<3>, raising the arm a<2> and causing the front of the tray a to bear on the track. The parts are re-set by the foot or hand lever h connected to the shaft g<2> in the manner shown. In the modification shown in Fig. 5, the feeler e is in one piece and is connected to the shaft b by the levers k<1>, k<2>, k<3>. In Fig. 7, the bearings c have rollers n, which bear on curved surfaces o carried by pivoted levers o<1>, or rollers p may be mounted at the lower ends of the bearings.
Patent GB-190125387-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Electric Railways on a Sectional Conductor or like System.
Filed: 1901-12-12
Granted: 1902-11-27
Abstract: 25,387. British Thomson-Houston Co., [Farnsworth, P.]. Dec. 12. Electric railways and tramways on a sectional conductor or like system with electromagnetic switches. Conductors; switches.-The switches W, which connect the sections 1, 2, &c. to the feeder F, are successively closed by the coils G and opened by the coils N. The coils are excited from the collectors by a shunt off the motor circuit, or by a separate source of current on the vehicle, shown as a generator E driven by a compressed-air motor A with a combined air-valve handle and switch H. In Fig. 1, the switch W, as it is lifted by the coil G, also actuates the auxiliary switch S, which breaks a shunt circuit round the resistance R leading current to the coil G, and also completes a parallel circuit to the breaking-coil N of the rear switch ; the latter coil is wound with a greater number of ampÞre turns, so that it can act in opposition to the coil G. Danger due to leakage currents &c., which may keep a switch closed, is thus prevented, and the rear switches are positively opened. The switch W is also shown as making and breaking the circuit of a blow-out coil B. In the preferred form shown on the right of Fig. 2, the auxiliary switch S charges the circuit connections of the coils G, N from parallel to series when the switch W closes, so that they act as their own resistances, and the resistance R is dispensed with. In another modification, shown on the left of Fig. 2, the coil N is cut into the circuit in series after the full exciting current has flowed through the coil G to lift the switch W.
Patent GB-190125421-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Automatic Fire Alarm Transmission.
Inventor: BOWELL GEORGE BENNETT
Filed: 1901-12-12
Granted: 1902-10-30
Abstract: 25,421. Bowell, G. B. Dec. 12. Alarms, fire.-Relates to an alarm installation in a building, which sends a fire call to a central station when the local circuits are broken by the heat of the fire acting on thermostats, but which also sends a different call in case of a break in the local circuit or of failure of the local battery. Fig. 1 is a diagram of one arrangement. When the thermostats f break two parallel branches of the local circuit, the magnet e is de-energized, and the armature S moves so as to remove the short circuit of the magnet E. The magnet E then releases the clockwork, which drives the transmitting-disc T with the code message on its periphery. On the axis of this disc is a cam which raises the contact-bars 19, 20, 21, 22, with the result of re-energizing the magnet e and arresting the disc T at half revolution, if both thermostats f have not acted, or, if the local battery B has failed. But the revolution is otherwise completed, and the fire call sent after the fault alarm. A modification is described in which the transmitter and the contacts are slightly different.
Patent GB-190203830-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Toy Horns.
Inventor: GUSTINE FRANKLIN JOHNS
Filed: 1902-02-14
Granted: 1902-05-22
Abstract: 3830. C u s - tine, F. J. Feb. 14. Musical toys.- Relates to the construction of toy horns &c. The flared end c of the horn a is fitted with a cap e, in which slides a tube h carrying a mouth-piece f, and, at its inner end, a diaphragm m. The diaphragm may be made of thin paper &c., and is held in place by a doubled piece of wire netting k, which acts as a spring. When a humming noise is made in the mouthpiece, the diaphragm takes up the vibrations and, acting in conjunction with the resonance of the body of the horn, produces a similar but louder sound.
Patent GB-190206221-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Acetylene Gas Generator.
Inventor: MACQUET JEAN-BAPTISTE
Filed: 1902-03-13
Granted: 1902-07-03
Abstract: 6221. Macquet, J. B. Sept. 13, A.D. 1901, [date applied for under Patents Act, A.D. 1901]. Acetylene.-Relates to acetylene generators in which the carbide is fed into the water either by hand or automatically. The bell a, which may be furnished both with a charging-tube f and a drum feeding-device d, is immersed and guided in a tank b containing water, the level of which is at a certain distance below the ground. The carbide, introduced by hand through the tube f, or by hand, or automatically from the feeding-device d, falls on to a grating g, fixed in the bottom of the bell and movable with it, so that the exhausted lime falls to the bottom of the cistern, from which it may be removed by means of an ordinary pump. The feeding-device d consists of a hopper p, fitted with a rotatable drum r provided with a number of compartments having movable bottoms, which open when the mechanism, which ordinarily keeps them closed, comes in contact with two diametrically opposite stops s. By these means, freezing is prevented and the gas is produced in a cold and washed condition.
Patent GB-190209598-A (GB)
Title: Improved Process and Apparatus for Rapidly Producing a Gas Suitable for Driving Gas Engines and other Appliances.
Inventor: WINAND PAUL
Filed: 1902-04-25
Granted: 1902-08-14
Abstract: 9598. Winand, P. April 25. Gas-producers.-Relates to the manufacture of a gas specially applicable for use in gas engines as a substitute for blast-furnace gases. In the form shown in Fig. 1, a furnace a is constructed with non-conducting walls. The lower part of the furnace has bars r supporting solid fuel, while the upper horizontal part f receives a burner b fed from the tube o with liquid fuel, which is burned by an air blast entering through the tube l. The flame heats up the walls and the solid fuel. The products of combustion escape by the tubes h, t. When the upper part of the furnace is sufficiently heated, the air feed of the burner is diminished, and the power gas thereby obtained is passed through the solid fuel to the tube h and scrubber s, and away for use. When the coke glows sufficiently, the supply of the liquid fuel may be reduced, and an air feed turned on at m beneath the grate. The gas now produced passes through the tubes k, g to the scrubber. The liquid fuel may, however, be continued throughout, no air being admitted at m. Steam may in that case be admitted. The heat of the gas from the liquid fuel now forms a mixture of carbonic oxide and hydrogen from the carbonic acid, steam, and solid fuel. When required, blast-furnace gases may enter the tube g at n, for use in the gas engine. In the arrangement shown in Fig. 2, there is only the top horizontal portion f of the furnace, and this is heated at first by the complete combustion of the liquid fuel introduced at o. Subsequently, the liquid is only partially burned, and the gas obtained is collected for use. The hot gaseous products are used to heat the air blast, by passage through a chamber c, having upper and lower compartments e, e<1> connected by tubes d. The air enters the central compartment i by the tube l<1> and leaves it by the tube l.
Patent GB-190210882-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Power Shaft Couplings.
Inventor: RUDD OLE
Filed: 1902-05-12
Granted: 1902-07-17
Abstract: 10,882. Rudd, O. May 12. Shaft couplings. -In a claw coupling, the sides of the claws are undercut, and the claws on one part are of less width than the spaces on the other, so that keys d may be driven in between the claws to hold the two parts together. The keys are formed with lips to receive which one set of claws is bevelled off.
Patent GB-190213030-A (GB)
Title: Automatic Fuel Feed Regulator for Flash Boilers.
Inventor: PEUGEOT PIERRE GODEFROY ARMAND
Filed: 1902-06-07
Granted: 1903-03-26
Abstract: 13,030. Peugeot, P. G. A. June 7. Instantaneous boilers.-Relates to means for automatically regulating the heating of steam generators of the flash type. A thermostatic device or tube a, adapted to be heated by the furnace burners and cooled by the feedwater, actuates a spring-pressed valve g controlling the fuel supply to the burner by means of the thrustpiece c and the adjustable elastic spring e. Feedwater is admitted by the inner tube k to the outer tube a, and passes to the vaporizing coils by the pipe l. A single tube a of U-shape with the thrust-piece c at the bend may be employed instead of the outer and inner tubes a, k, and the expansion tube may be formed by one of the vaporizer coils. The valve g may have a bye-pass.
Patent GB-190303102-A (GB)
Title: New or Improved Devices for Indicating the Stopping Places on Electric Tramcars, applicable also for other Purposes.
Inventor: BOULTON ISAAC
Filed: 1903-02-10
Granted: 1904-02-04
Abstract: 3102. Boulton, I. Feb. 10. Indicalors, stopping-place and like.-The travelling bands carrying the stopping-place names are driven by a reversible spring motor, controlled electrically by the conductor, the apparatus being applicable to tramway, railway, and road vehicles. The endless band 7, Fig. 1, carries plates or tablets bearing the names, and passes over two wheels 5, in front of one of which is the window 2. A spring motor 9, Fig. 2, drives the wheel spindle 4 through gearing 17, 18, 19, the wheel 18 being movable by an external handle so as to gear with a fourth spur-wheel engaging with the wheel 19 in order to reverse. When the electromagnet 12 is energized by the conductor completing its circuit, the lever 11 is pulled down and its distant-end removed from the slotted wheel 10 driven by the motor, the escapement 15 of the latter, with its air brake, being simultaneously freed by the fall of the pin 16. If the circuit is now broken, the lever re-engages with the next slot, and the next name is displayed. In the modification shown in Fig. 8, the names are upon a flexible band 7, which is driven by the milled edge of the spring-driven wheel 10, against which it is pressed by the wheel 23. The motion is controlled in the same manner as before. The name plates may bear advertisements and be illuminated at night, and there may be also electrical contacts at the stopping-places arranged to complete the circuit of the releasing- magnet.
Patent GB-190304548-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Apparatus for Ozonizing, Purifying and otherwise Treating Atmospheric Air.
Inventor: ROSENBERG AUGUSTUS
Filed: 1903-02-26
Granted: 1904-02-11
Abstract: 4548. Rosenberg, A. Feb. 26. Drawings to Specification. Ventilating ships.-Air is passed through a horizontal chamber charged with some absorbent for carbonic acid, such as sodium peroxide, milk of lime, or caustic alkali, the absorbent being mechanically agitated by arms on a rotating shaft. If sodium peroxide is used, oxygen is thereby liberated and mixes with the air. In other cases, free oxygen may be added to the air. The air, free from carbonic acid, passes to a dust filter or collector, thence to a drying-chamber, and next to a special ozonizer, after which it is discharged through a tube having lateral outlets or perforations gradually increasing in size as they are farther away from the ozonizer.
Patent GB-190310210-A (GB)
Title: Means for Preventing Dust Explosions.
Inventor: WESTRUM LEONARD SCHADE VAN
Filed: 1903-05-05
Granted: 1903-06-18
Abstract: 10,210. Westrum, L. S. van. May 5. Laying dust in mines.-To prevent dust explosions in coal mines &c., the surfaces exposed to dust are sprinkled or moistened with a medium consisting of water in which is mixed or dissolved an oily substance, such as petroleum, tar, oil, &c.
Patent GB-190315328-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Bridle-bits.
Inventor: LAMARQUE BERNARD
Filed: 1903-07-10
Granted: 1903-11-05
Abstract: 15,328. Lamarque, B. July 10. Bits; stopping and controlling r u n a w a y and restive animals.-Bits, for stopping and controlling runaway and restive horses and raising horses addicted to stumbling, are formed with hollow side pieces A, A<1>, within which rods B, B<1> can rotate. These rods have arms L, L<1>, which may be connected by a noseband and can be moved, by the reins or guides, so as to close the animal's nostrils, as shown by dotted lines. The movement of the arms is limited by stops E, and influenced by springs S held in position by discs. The chambers containing the springs are hermetically closed by caps I. In Fig. 4, the arm is shown as being controlled by a flat spring R, screwed to a projection on the piece A, the movement of the arm being limited by a screw P engaging a groove in the rod B.
Patent GB-190316264-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Bridles for Use with Painters Brushes and the like
Inventor: DRAKE HENRY JOSIAH
Filed: 1903-07-23
Granted: 1903-09-03
Abstract: 16,264. Drake, H. J. July 23. Paint, varnish and whitewash brushes.-Relates to bridles for paint, varnish, and distemper brushes to prevent spraying. In one form, the bridle consists of a metal or other band A, Figs. 1 and 2, which is fastened by a hook catch C round the bristles B, Fig. 1. The band is preferably kept in place by two metal rods D, which are soldered at one end to the band C, and are sharpened at the other end to engage with the handle, as shown ; or strips of metal K, Fig. 3, are used to connect the band to a second band F, which is secured by a screw and nut H over the binding on the brush handle. In another form, one continuous split tubular band is used, fastened by a catch or otherwise, or kept in position by its own resilience. The lower edge may be bent inwards to ensure a better grip.