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Patent GB-190217091-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Buttons.
Inventor: BADORFF PETER JOSEPH
Filed: 1902-08-01
Granted: 1903-05-07
Abstract: 17,091. Badorff, P. J. Aug. 1. Buttons with loose shanks. An eyelet a, enclosing a piece of fabric c, has its lower portion b loosely upset over the recessed portion of the back d. A filling-disc of cardboard f may be inserted beneath the covering-front e, which is secured by upsetting.
Patent GB-190219257-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Tobacco Stripping Machines
Inventor: HUTCHESON JAMES ARCHIBALD
Filed: 1902-09-02
Granted: 1903-03-19
Abstract: 19,257. Lake, H. H., [Hutcheson, J. A.]. Sept. 2. Tobacco.-Fig. 2 shows a longitudinal section of a machine for stripping tobacco leaves. The feedtable 5 has a series of parallel channels, V-shaped in cross-section, each provided near the discharge end with an opening through which a doublebevelled roll 12 on the shaft 11 meets a grooved roll 10 carried by the shaft 9. The gate 14 is raised at intervals by the contact of a roller carried by one of the sprocket chains with the arm 15. The leaf stems are seized by the elastic bars 18, 19 carried by the chains, which draw them between the grooved stripping-rolls 42, 43 supported in spring-held bearings and rotating in directions to oppose the passage. The cam-plates 51, 52 separate the shafts of the rolls 42, 43 as they pass through, so that the leaves fall into position in the grooves of the rolls 42, 43, which are arranged opposite the channels of the feed-table 5 and are provided with teeth which grip the leaves and remove them from the stems. The leaf parts are thrown to the front of the machine, and the stems are discharged at the back, when the bars 18, 19 separate. The machine is adapted to different lengths of tobacco leaf by altering the number of links in the sprocket-chains and adjusting the positions of the bearings of the shafts of the rear wheels in the slides 84. Adjustable plates 89 are employed to maintain the parallelism of the chains.
Patent GB-190228101-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Hammocks, also Servicealbe for other Purposes.
Inventor: MORTIMER ELSIE BROWN
Filed: 1902-12-19
Granted: 1903-11-05
Abstract: 28,101. Mortimer, E. B. Dec. 19. Litters, ambulance.-A hammock is designed to be used also as an ambulance litter. The hammock is made of canvas or other material and is provided with eyelet holes a, a', Fig. 1, at its edges ; a series of tapes a<2> are stitched to cloth near the holes, and beckets c attached to the cloth provide a means of attaching a bag B, Fig. 2, having corner tapes b<1>. The bag is formed with three compartments, each of which contains a reeded air cushion. For use as a stretcher, hollow aluminium &c. legs are employed at the corners. The sides of the stretcher are formed of bamboo &c. poles passing through cross-tubes d, Fig. 4, in the legs ; steel tubes inserted in sockets d' serve as distance-pieces for the ends. The cloth is laced over the tubes &c. by means of the tapes. The stretcher, in conjunction with a web hand which passes around the arms and legs of a man and through the beckets, serves as an ambulance apparatus.
Patent GB-190228278-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Rotary Engines.
Inventor: ALLEN ANDERSON DICKENS
Filed: 1902-12-22
Granted: 1903-08-27
Abstract: 28,278. Allen, A. D. Dec. 22. Annular-chamber type of engines. The engine has steam ports 40 opening into chambers in fixed abutments 7 with sloping extremities 19. The piston drum 12 has two or more sliding vanes 18 formed with pistons 16 working in chambers 15 connected to the pressure side of the vanes by branched passages 20, either arm of which can be closed by a ball valve 24. The piston chambers have valve-controlled outlet passages 30. The steam supply is controlled by plate valves 42 carried by sliding studs 44 and normally pressed inwards by springs 47 controlled by screwed studs 50. The centrifugal action on each valve regulates its proximity to the admission ports 51, and so controls the steam supply. The engine may be fitted with duplicate valves for reversing.
Patent GB-190228505-A (GB)
Inventor: HOLBROOK WILLIAM
Filed: 1902-12-24
Granted: 1903-10-29
Abstract: 28,505. Holbrook, W., and Fuller, E. A. Dec. 24. Doors, cart etc.; hand-trucks.-Fastenings for the doors of vans, carts, barrows, &c. are provided with an alarm to signal the operation of unfastening. The application to the tailboard of a road vehicle is described. The plate a of the casing attached to the body B of the vehicle carries brackets c, c', between which is mounted the bar d carrying the lateral projecting bolt or latchf. A loop or eye attached to the tailboard D is passed over the bar d, and is retained by a cottar pin passed through the slot e. By means of the cottar pin, the bar may be rotated so as to bring the bolt f into engagement with the slot z<1> in the tailboard. The lever i<1> is pivoted on the screw and is secured by the washers l, m and the nut n. The washer m is of india-rubber or other elastic material to enable the lever to yield to lateral pressure. One end of the lever i<1> engages in the bolt f, and at the other end are two open slots p, p' and a curved finger q. The tumbler s, pivoted at t, carries the hammer u adapted to strike the gong y. When the bar d is rotated to withdraw the bolt f from the slot z<1>, the lever i<1> is turned and acts on the tooth r on the tumbler s, causing the hammer to be retracted, until the tooth r escapes the point of the finger q, when the action of the spring v causes the hammer to strike the gong. The surface of the tooth r is bevelled, so that, in the reverse operation, the finger q passes over the tooth without moving the tumbler s. The bar d may be dispensed with, and the bolt f may be operated by a key. When the fastening-device is to be attached to a door, the positions of the bar d and the bolt f are transposed. The gong or other alarm may be placed at any desired distance from the fastening. In the Provisional Specification, it is stated that the alarm may be operated electrically, contact being made by a moving part of the fastening or lock.
Patent GB-190301282-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Pneumatic Tyres for Self Propelled Vehicles.
Inventor: FITZGERALD JOHN HERBERT WILSON
Filed: 1903-01-19
Granted: 1903-04-02
Abstract: 1282. Fitzgerald, J. H. W. Jan. 19. Tyres, pneumatic. -Relates to means for preventing slipping of the tyres of motor-driven vehicles. A rubber or like ring B is fitted round the tread par t of the outer cover A, and may be prevented from creeping by transverse corrugations on the ring and cover. The channel-shaped outer surface of the ring is adapted to receive a metal band C, to which pyramidal studs a are secured, preferably by riveting. The ring and band are secured at intervals to the cover by radial bolts b and nuts c, which press on plates E placed between the cover and the inner tube D. The length of the band may be adjusted by means of a slot-and-stud arrangement. In a modification, the nuts c screw on to the outer split ends of the radial bolts.
Patent GB-190301705-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and connected with Type Distributing Machines.
Inventor: WINKLER FERNANDO
Filed: 1903-01-23
Granted: 1904-01-14
Abstract: 1705. Winkler, F. Jan. 23. Type, distributing. - The types to be distributed are placed between guides on a table 2, one line being fed forward and the end types knocked off from it into a mouth 13. The lower part of the mouth 13 is of spherical form, and on it swivels the upper end of a tube 11, on which telescopes a second tube 12. The lower end of the tube 12 swivels on the spherical upper end of a guide 14 carried by a lever 6, which is operated by hand to bring the guide over the proper openings 16 in a plate 15. From these openings tubes 17 lead to the compartments 18 of a type case, or of the magazine of a composing-machine. The lever 6 slides through a vertical pivot 5 in a step bearing 7, and is provided with an index finger 8, the pin 9 of which moves over a series of index holes 4 in a plate 3. The holes 4 and the openings 16 are in corresponding rows radiating from the pivot 5. When the pin 9 has been moved over the proper hole 4, the lever 6 is depressed, and operates a lever frame 19, which engages a rod 25 connected to a slide 23, by which the end types are knocked off into the mouth 13. A slide 20 is moved, so as to permit types of the various thicknesses to be knocked off, by a diagonal slot in the slide 23, and the movement of the slide 23 is varied by the different degree of depression of the lever 6, the depression of the lever being limited by adjusting screws 10.
Patent GB-190303385-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in the Manufacture of Paint Brushes Pencils and the like
Inventor: HADDAN REGINALD
Filed: 1903-02-12
Granted: 1903-05-21
Abstract: 3385. Haddan, R., [Monteserin, J.]. Feb. 12. Pencils and pencil and like holders, combined with paint &c. brushes. A pencil or crayon holder M is fixed to a brush by tubes A, F<11>. The brush, consisting of the bristles C held in a ferrule B, can be pushed into the tube A when the pin D is turned until it comes opposite the notch E. The tube A may then be covered with a cap.
Patent GB-190303447-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Anchors for Ships.
Inventor: GERDAU BARTHOLD
Filed: 1903-02-13
Granted: 1903-05-14
Abstract: 3447. Gerdau, B. Feb. 13. Anchors.-Relates to means for attaching and detaching anchor cables. In the stockless anchor shown, each of the pivoted flukes has a pair of lugs a drilled to receive a pin b which passes through one of the end links of the chain k.
Patent GB-190307593-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Machines for Screw-threading Pipes, Tubes or the like.
Inventor: GREENFIELD EDWIN TRUMAN
Filed: 1903-04-01
Granted: 1904-02-18
Abstract: 7593. Greenfield, E. T. April 1. Screwing; bending; wire; soldering and brazing. -A screw thread is formed on a pipe, tube, rod, or the like by coiling on it a triangular wire, the face of the wire resting on the tube having a groove to receive a brazing-wire, by which the thread wire may be subsequently brazed to the tube. A machine for coiling the thread and brazing-wires simultaneously has a carriage 10 mounted on antifriction rollers on a bed 2 and traversed in a manner similar to the carriage of a screw-cutting lathe. The tube 11 to be screw-threaded is clamped at one end in a clamp 15 carried by a motor-driven spindle in a headstock 3, the other end being supported by a back-centre, sliding in a headstock (not shown) and pressed forward by a weight. The tube is held against vibration, when rotated at a high speed, by grooved rollers 13 on arms 14 on a rock-shaft 12. The thread wire 45 is supplied from a reel at the rear end of the machine and passes over guide-rollers in a trough 70 on the saddle and thence between rollers 40, 41 and through a clamp 48 and shearing-device 52 to the tube, the rollers 40, 41 and shearing-device being carried by a bracket 47 on the carriage. The brazing-wire 58 is supplied from a reel 59 carried by the saddle and passes through a tubular guide 57. A divided bearing 33, 34 on the carriage surrounds the pipe, the bearing cap 34 being hinged and secured by a hand-operated yoke. The trough 70 contains liquid flux kept in motion by stirrers on one of the guide-pulleys. To start the machine, the thread wire is passed over the various guiderollers and through the clamp 48, shearing-device 52, and a guide-plate. The wire is then held by the clamp 48, which is pushed forward on guiderods to thread the wire through a hole in the tube. The clamp is then released and the tube turned by a hand-wheel to start the coiling, the brazing- wire being placed in a feeding position by hand. The tube is then rotated, and the carriage traversed at the necessary rate to give the desired pitch of thread..The machine is shown as driven by an electromotor controlled by a rheostat 64, the controlling-arm 65 of which is operated through a tappet rod 61 to stop the motor when a sufficient length of tube has been threaded. The wires are then severed by a manual depression of a spring plunger 56 carrying the shearing-knife 53 coacting with a fixed blade screwed into the bracket 47. The heating of the pipe &c., to fuse the brazing-wire to braze the thread wire, is effected subsequently.
Patent GB-190308625-A (GB)
Title: Improvements connected with Tobacco Smoking Pipes and the like.
Inventor: BURKARD ADAM
Filed: 1903-04-16
Granted: 1903-12-03
Abstract: 8625. Burkard, A. April 16. Tobacco pipes and cigar and cigarette holders.- A readily removable and renewable tube C, made of wild-cherry wood, is inserted in the stem of the pipe or cigar or cigarette holder, its larger diameter fitting the shank A and its smaller diameter the mouthpiece B.
Patent GB-190311334-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Flash Light Apparatus for Photographic or like purposes.
Inventor: KRUEGER HENRY
Filed: 1903-05-19
Granted: 1904-03-24
Abstract: 11,334. Kruger, H., and Kruger, B. May 19. Lamps, actinic.- Relates to a flash light apparatus for photographic and like purposes, in which a silent flash is obtained, the construction being such that no undesirable shadow is thrown behind the sitter. The flash powder is placed in the tray s and ignited by deflecting upon it the gas flame from the burner p, by pressing the pneumatic ball r<1>. The apparatus is enclosed in a reflecting- chamber a, the front of which is covered by a transparency b<1>, extended across the rim of the hinged frame b. The flue a<2> and flexible pipe d serve to carry from the room the fumes arising from the ignition of the flash powder. The tube k, fitted to the bottom of the chamber, telescopically supports the spindle l carrying a pipe m, supporting one or more ordinary gas burners m<1> and the small burner p. The joint o' connects the pipe o by flexible tubing r with the pneumatic ball r'. The burners m<1> serve for focussing purposes, the same conditions of light and shade applying as with the flash light. The chamber a is pivotally mounted in the yoke frame e, centered on the end of a pillar f, which enters telescopically into the central tubular portion of the movable stand g. The pillar f is provided with a screw thread adapted to work through the internally - screwed boss of a bevel - wheel h, whose rotation by the second bevel-wheel h<1> and handle h<2> elevates or lowers the hood.
Patent GB-190317595-A (GB)
Title: Books Albums or the like for the Preservation of Cigar Bands or Labels
Inventor: HILL JOSEPH
Filed: 1903-08-14
Granted: 1904-06-16
Abstract: 17,595. Hill, J. Aug. 14. Memorandum books; pocket books; albums.- Books for preserving cigar labels and bands have a gummed column Z to which the labels are affixed, and blank columns for remarks and dates.
Patent GB-190323301-A (GB)
Title: Frame for Cigar-cases, Porte-monnaies and the like.
Inventor: LEHMANN FRIEDRICH
Filed: 1903-10-27
Granted: 1904-09-01
Abstract: 23,301. Lehmann, F. Oct. 27. Portemonnaies.-The frames of the leaves or halves a, b, connected by a hinge c, are made of metal of L-section in such manner that, when closed together, one fits inside the other and abuts against stops d formed by a thickening or by attached strips.
Patent GB-190323648-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Cart for the Removal of Household and like Refuse
Inventor: HUNT FLORENCE MINA VERNON
Filed: 1903-10-31
Granted: 1903-12-03
Abstract: 23,648. Hunt, F. M. V. Oct. 31. Motor road vehicles.-A motor cart for collecting and removing bins containing household and like refuse nas the sides b and end c hinged so as to drop down.
Patent GB-190324651-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Compound or Agent for Preventing Incrustation in Steam Boilers.
Inventor: BYRNE THOMAS
Filed: 1903-11-13
Granted: 1904-10-27
Abstract: 24,651. Byrne, T., Scott, G. L., and Wheatley, W. Nov. 13. Incrustation, preventing; feedwater, purifying.- An extract made by boiling oak in water, or obtained from oak by distillation or other means, is added, with or without the addition of an alkali, to the water in a boiler, or to the feedwater.
Patent GB-190324900-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Apparatus for Indicating the Level of Liquids
Inventor: BLANCHARD ARTHUR
Filed: 1903-11-16
Granted: 1904-10-27
Abstract: 24,900. Blanchard, A. Nov. 16. Water and other liquid levels, indicating. - The apparatus is applicable particularly for liquids in hermetically - sealed vessels, such as steam generators, and the reservoirs of lamps in which the oil is under pressure, as described in Specification No. 10,680, A.D. 1901, [Abridgment Class Lamps &c.]. A float A slides on guides B, and so communicates a rotary motion to the screw C, which, in cases where no pressure is used, may be made to indicate the level by the attachment of a pointer. In cases in which pressure is used, the upper end of the screw C is fixed to the small magnet G, and above the diaphragm F is a magnetized pointer H, which serves to show the position of G and consequently the depth of the fluid. The diaphragm F is screwed and flanged so as to form an airtight plug when placed in the vessel.
Patent GB-190326148-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in the Preparation of Oxygen.
Inventor: JAUBERT GEORGE FRANCOIS
Filed: 1903-11-30
Granted: 1904-11-10
Abstract: 26,148. Jaubert, G. F. July 3, [date applied for under Patents Act, A.D. 1901]. Oxygen.-In the preparation of the powder described in Specification No. 21,122, A.D. 1903, which, in contact with water, evolves oxygen, it is preferable to mix the ferrous or manganous sulphate only at the moment of use. The improved procedure is as follows :-Dry chloride of lime is pulverized with copper, nickel, or cobalt sulphate or other salt, and the white powder obtained, which may be agglomerated or compressed, is treated as desired with a solution of iron or manganese sulphate.
Patent GB-190405608-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or connected with Card Tables.
Inventor: LOW WILLIAM THOMAS
Filed: 1904-03-08
Granted: 1904-06-02
Abstract: 5608. Low, W. T. March 8. Tables.-A card table provided with a folding, rotating, detachable top 1 is fitted with a counter drawer 11, a flap or shelf 8 having recesses for a glass, ashtray, &c., and a compartment 15, for each player. The drawers 11 slide in grooves under the top 1. The flaps or shelves 8 are hinged to a base or floor 7 provided with a centre-piece 5 carrying the top 1, and are retained by pivoted spring latches 10 on the top 1 in the closed position, and fall down on rotating the top for opening. The compartments 15 are formed by partitions 14 on the base 7. A split catch 3 on the top 1 engages under an endless shoulder in the piece 5, and is released by a push 6. Rotation of the top 1 is limited by engagement of stops 13 against one of the partitions 14. The top 1 folds down to half size by means of hinged leaves 2, one of which is raised by a push 16 to facilitate opening.
Patent GB-190407834-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Supports or Attachments, for Medical, Diet, and other Cards, or Card Holders, used in Combination with Bedsteads, and other Articles of Furniture
Inventor: GATE FREDERICK
Filed: 1904-04-05
Granted: 1905-03-16
Abstract: 7834. Gate, F. April 5. Bedsteads.-A support or bracket for medical, diet, &c. cards, or card holders, to be used in combination with bedsteads or other furniture, consists of a cross-bar C, Fig. 1, suppcrted by an upright or uprights B, fixed to the bed &c. On the bar C two or more stops D are formed, between which the clip or hook E', on the back of the card or holder E, passes and so supports the card. The bar C may be longer and provided with more stops D, to support several cards, and may also be fixed to a curtain-supporting pole or other support.
Patent GB-190413635-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Compound Locomotives.
Inventor: SMITH WALTER MACKERSIE
Filed: 1904-06-16
Granted: 1905-04-27
Abstract: 13,635. Smith, W. M. June 16. Cylinders; cylinders, mounting and supporting. - Relates to compound locomotives of the kind described in Specification No. 14,721, A.D. 1898, having two outside cylinders arranged on either side of a central cylinder or cylinders, and consists in the construction and method of mounting the cylinders in the suitably-shaped main plate frames. The three cylinders are cast together, or are cast separately with suitable flanges E, F for bolting together permanently, as shown in half-sectional transverse elevation in Fig. 1. The cylinders are placed in position without being separated, and are bolted to the main frames H by means of flanges G, the frames being formed with rectangular openings through which the outside cylinders pass. Each side frame may be formed in two parts, which overlap where the opening occurs, so that the cylinders may be passed into position from the end, the flanges G being then either inside or outside the frames. When the cylinders are cast together, a flange is cast on the central cylinder as at E, in order that a separate cylinder may be made and attached as shown in Fig. 1, in case of accident, to the original outside cylinder.
Patent GB-190417834-A (GB)
Title: A Sanitary Pail with a Cover and a Special Seat specially for use Underground
Inventor: TYACK WILLIAM JOHN
Filed: 1904-08-16
Granted: 1905-09-16
Abstract: 17,834. Tyack, W. J. Aug. 16. Excreta pails; commodes.-A seat comprising wooden blocks F on supports D is detachably fitted to excreta pails in order to adapt them for use as commodes for persons working underground. The metal supports Dare secured by sockets E and catches K, the latter serving also to fasten down, by means of a metal strap, the cover upon the rim. The cover, Fig. 6, is fitted underneath with an elastic ring H to form an airtight joint with the rim.
Patent GB-190420330-A (GB)
Filed: 1904-09-21
Granted: 1905-07-27
Abstract: 20,330. Thornton - Pickard M a n ufacturing Co., and Pickard, G. A. Sept. 21. Shutters. - The pneumatic-release ball B is provided with two plate levers D.or their equivalent so that the same amount of air is always expelled when t h e shutter is released. One , or both plates are hinged to the collar A, or may be otherwise flexibly connected together and provided with adjustable stops, and with springs to reopen them on release of the pressure.
Patent GB-190420608-A (GB)
Title: Apparatus for Cutting Glass Letters Discs and Similar Objects out of Flat Sheets.
Inventor: BOEHM FRANZ
Filed: 1904-09-24
Granted: 1905-09-23
Abstract: 20,608. B÷hm, F. Sept. 24. Manhole and like cutters.- Letters, discs, and the like are cut out of glass or, according to the Provisional Specification, other materials by a machine of the following construction :-The castiron base-plate a is formed with a recess in which springs support a working platform a<1>. A bracket b fixed to the base-plate is bored to receive a spindle c which can turn and move longitudinally within limits. The weight of the spindle is supported by a spiral spring e beneath a handle f worked by hand. The lower end of the spindle c serves as a bearing for an arm g which at its other end carries a block i in the form of a cup to receive a friction ball k, which is pressed by a spring l into a groove or ball race m, formed in a ring h carried by the bracket b. To the underside of the block i is attached a horizontal rail n parallel with the arm g. The rail n carries a sliding block o which holds the cutting-tool p. The shape of the groove m determines the shape of the letter to be cut out, and, if the curve is not to be closed, the interval where the tool is not to cut is produced by raising a portion of the ball race as at x, so that the tool is lifted from the work. The ring h containing the ball race m is exchangeable.