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Patent GB-190200057-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in the First Elevator Mechanism of Linotype Machines.
Inventor: LOCK WILLIAM HENRY
Filed: 1902-01-01
Granted: 1902-11-13
Abstract: 57. Look, W. H., and Cotsworth, A. G. Jan. 1. Linotype machines. - Relates to improvements in connection with the aligning-mechanism in the Mergenthaler machine (Specification No. 14,582, A.D. 1890). The alignment is effected in that machine by means of a slight rise of the first elevator or yoke, which then holds a lug on each matrix up against a fixed aligning-ridge. In order to allow of the free movement of the matrices during the process of justification, the yoke must be held down temporarily to keep the aforesaid lugs clear of the aligning ridge, and this is effected, as described in Specification No. 21,298, A.D. 1897, by means of a detent n<64>, Figs. 1 and 3, which is pivoted to the yoke N and engages under a stop n<66> carried by the vice frame P. After justification is complete, it is necessary to release the detent to allow the alignment to be performed, and this invention differs from that described in the second of the aforesaid Specifications in the means employed for effecting the release. On the hub 2 of the first elevator cam 1, which is carried on the main cam shaft a<6> of the machine, is formed a cam surface 4 adapted to strike the rear end of a push-rod 6, which slides in bearings 7 and is tensioned towards the cam by a spring 8. At its forward end 11 the push-rod 6 abuts against a short rod 12 sliding in the vice frame P, which is thus enabled to be rocked forward on its pivots, when necessary, without disturbing the rod 6. The rod 12 serves to actuate a finger n<71> on a shaft n<68>, which also carries a finger n<70> in proximity to the detent n<64>. The forward movement of the rod 6 therefore serves to rock the finger n<70> and release the detent.
Patent GB-190206728-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in the Manufacture of Steel.
Inventor: PRATIS LEOPOLDO VITTORIO
Filed: 1902-03-19
Granted: 1902-11-20
Abstract: 6728. Pratis, L. V. March 19. Hydrogen.-Magnetic iron oxide, for use in converting cast iron into steel, is obtained by heating a pasty mass of ferrous sulphate, produced by treating iron, preferably finely-divided, with dilute sulphuric acid. Hydrogen is evolved and may be collected for use.
Patent GB-190208563-A (GB)
Title: Improved Mechanism for the Manufacture of Earthenware Pipes and the like with an Internal Jointing Device
Inventor: TANSLEY JAMES
Filed: 1902-04-12
Granted: 1902-06-12
Abstract: 8563. Tansley, J. April 12. Drawings to Specification. Spigot-and-socket joints; couplings, disconnectible. -Relates to mechanism for enabling earthenware pipes and like articles formed in a mould to be produced with an internal recess in the sockets, and lugs on the ends of the spigot ends, or on the plugs or stoppers for the pipes, so that adjoining pieces may be joined together by a species of bayonet joint.
Patent GB-190208719-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Domestic Fireplaces.
Inventor: BRATT LIONEL GEORGE JOHN
Filed: 1902-04-15
Granted: 1903-03-19
Abstract: 8719. Bratt, L. G. J., and Colbran, J. B., [trading as Bratt, Colbran, & Co.]. April 15. Grates; firebars. -T he grate is formed of a firebrick back B and sides A, with a horizontal removable metal grating C resting u p o n short feet and provided with a raised projecting rim D to retain the fuel. In a modification, the lower part of the firebrick sides and back, or back only, slope inwards towards the grating, thus reducing the size of the latter, which is inclined downwardly and rearwardly. The sloping parts of the back and sides may be formed separately, so as to be easily renewable.
Patent GB-190212184-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Doors
Inventor: SCHWARZE AUGUST
Filed: 1902-05-28
Granted: 1903-03-05
Abstract: 12,184. Schwarze, A. May 28. Doors.-Fireproof and burglar-resisting doors for theatres, factories, warehouses, banks, &c. are constructed of iron, steel, or metal plates 5, 6, rolled, stamped, or pressed with recesses or panels and overlapping flanges 8, 9 at the edges. The plates may be secured together by the folded edges, or by rivets or screws, the spaces may be filled in with asbestos or the like, and the edges may be stiffened by a block filling 10.
Patent GB-190212678-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Refrigerating Apparatus.
Inventor: HARRIS WILLIAM WALLINGTON
IPC: F25B17/06
Filed: 1902-06-03
Granted: 1903-06-03
Abstract: 12,678. Harris, W. W. June 3. Ice-making and refrigerating.-Relates to continuous and automatic refrigerating-apparatus of the ammonia-absorption type, constituting improvements in the invention described in Specification No. 14,554, A.D. 1898, and No. 21,302, A.D. 1900. The vessels a, a<1>, each of which acts alternately as a separator and an absorber, are shown in end view in Fig. 3. Water tanks c, c<1>, connected by a chain c<2> which passes over sprocketwheels f, f<1>, f<2>, are arranged to rise and fall so as to cool the vessels a, a<1> alternately. As one rises into its raised position, it is filled with water from a tap automatically operated by the tanks. The lowered tank is discharged to a certain level by the opening of a valve Q<1> on a short chain R<1>. In the position of the apparatus shown, the vessel a<1> is being heated to drive off the ammonia into the usual cooling-vessel in a brine tank by a gas burner b on the end of an arm pivoted at b<1>. The vessel c, although full of water, is maintained in its raised position by the locking of the sprocketwheel f, which is effected by the abutting of a stop on the sprocket-wheel against the end of a tube d', fitted in the vessel a', the upper end of which acts like a Bourdon gauge, as described in Specification No. 21,302, A.D. 1900. When the temperature of the vessel a<1> reaches a certain height, the tube d<1> uncoils out of the way of the stop e', and thus liberates the sprocket-wheel f<1>, and allows the tank c to fall and the partially-empty tank c' to rise. As the latter moves, it first pushes the arm b into a vertical position, and then into an inclined position under the vessel a. The tank c' fills automatically, and the tank c is similarly discharged. The cycle is thus repeated automatically. In a modification the vessels a, a' are mounted symmetrically with the condensers on a rocking shaft, the cooling tank being stationary. The want of balance necessary for the operation of the apparatus is produced by the filling and discharging of the condensers in a similar way to that described for the cooling-tanks.
Patent GB-190226265-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Stands for Surgical Instruments.
Inventor: THOMPSON WILLIAM PHILLIPS
Filed: 1902-11-28
Granted: 1903-10-01
Abstract: 26,265. Thompson, W. P., [K÷lliker & Co., P. A.] Nov. 28. Trays.-A glass or other tray for surgical instruments in general, but especially for dental instruments, is formed with notched or corrugated ends b, c and with a bridge e dividing it into two compartments of unequal size. The smaller compartment is subdivided by longitudinal ribs into still smaller compartments. The instruments, drills, &c. rest in the notches of the ends with their tips immersed in disinfectant solution, as shown.
Patent GB-190227482-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Gas Igniters Adapted to be Operated from a Distance
Inventor: BODART ALPHONSE TEOPHIEL
Filed: 1902-12-12
Granted: 1903-12-10
Abstract: 27,482. Bodart, A. T. Dec. 12 Actuating valves and cocks; gas valves and cocks. -In self-lighting burners, gas valves which may be controlled from a distance consist of an elastic device g mounted upon a rectilinearly-guided cylindrical body h, which is normally forced upwards to close the gas openings to the nozzle c by the pressure of a spring j upon a pin i projecting from the cylinder h. By means of an electrical or other controlling-device, a step wheel n on the spindle l of the ratchet-wheel m is made to depress the pin i and the attached cylinder h against the pressure of the springs, and so open the valve. In the modification shown in Fig. 3, the valve h opens and closes the gas inlets q of the cylindrical nozzle p. The teeth of the wheels m, n are adapted to suit the number and the grouping of the burners.
Patent GB-190300319-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Method or Process and Apparatus for Manufacturing Starch
Filed: 1903-01-06
Granted: 1903-02-26
Abstract: 319. Murdoch, A. P., and Improved Process Manufacturing Co. Jan. 6. Drawings to Specification. Manures.-In a process for the manufacture of commercial starch, in which the starch liquor is caused to flow continuously through one or more series of inverted conical vats, the heavy non- farinaceous sediment that is discharged may be ground between rollers and used as a fertilizer.
Patent GB-190310212-A (GB)
Title: Improved Automatic Coupling Apparatus for Railway Cars.
Inventor: SAPOSHNIKOFF IVAN
Filed: 1903-05-05
Granted: 1904-03-10
Abstract: 10,212. Saposhnikoff, I. May 5. Couplings, automatic and non - automatic.-An automatic coupling is formed by two similar hooked forks P, Fig. 26, one connected to the draw-bar of each vehicle. Each fork is capable of turning on a longitudinal axis and is normally held by a balance weight with the hooks at an angle of 45‹, as shown in full lines in Fig. 19, the fork with which it is about to couple being shown in dotted lines. On pushing the vehicles together, the inclined faces of the forks cause them to turn into the positions shown in Fig. 21, in which they can pass one another. The forks then turn back and engage one another as shown in Fig. 26. Wings R ensure proper registering of the forks in passing one another. Each fork is formed in one with a square shank K, Fig. 17. This shank has rounded edges and passes through a round hole in the buffer beam A and a round hole in a box E fixed to the shortened draw-bar B. The counterweight lever N is threaded on the end of the shank, and the shank is retained in the box E by a key at d. To disengage the coupling, one of the forks is turned through an angle of 90‹ by means of a rod T, Fig. 23, connected to the counterweight lever N. The fork can be retained temporarily in the disengaging position by engaging a snug p on the rod T with a counterweighted catch y. On separating the vehicles, the wings on the couplings cause the rod T to be released, and the parts then return to their normal position. If it is required to use the automatic coupling with an ordinary screw coupling, the ordinary coupling- hood D, Fig. 16, is attached by a stirrup r to the shank K, or the stirrup r may be used without the hook. The automatic coupling is also shortened by pushing its shank further back into the block E, Fig. 17.
Patent GB-190310623-A (GB)
Title: Apparatus for Heating Air and other Gases.
Inventor: LAPP VALENTIN
Filed: 1903-05-09
Granted: 1903-06-25
Abstract: 10,623. Lapp, V. May 9. Air and other gas heating furnaces.-In the apparatus shown in Fig. 1 for heating air and other gases for various purposes, and more particularly for drying malt and spent grain, the products of combustion from the furnaces 2 are mixed with the waste gases from a steam-boiler furnace and then passed in a sinuous course through horizontal pipes arranged transversely in the heating-chamber 1. The pipes 5, leading from the mixing-flue, pass backwards and forwards in the heating-chamber and open into a wooden box 7 connected by straight pipes 28 with another box 8, which, in turn, is connected with a third box 30 until the last box 9 is reached, the number of pipes being increased as the gases become cooler. The last box 9 is enlarged at the upper part and opens into a flue leading to the chimney of the boiler. The air enters the chamber 1 through a channel surrounding this flue and is made to circulate in a sinuous course towards the front end, passing alternately over and under the partitions 23, 24. These partitions are made alternately of brickwork and iron. An inclined baffle above the pipes 5 deflects the heated air downwards into bell-mouthed openings 6 leading to a flue 16, which communicates with the malt chamber. To utilize the heat radiated from the walls of the chamber 1, the cold air is first passed through the external casing 25 before it enters the heating-chamber. Access is obtained to the heating-pipes through openings 26 in one of the walls of the heating- chambers. The tie rods connecting the boxes together are provided, at the middle, with a looped screw junction, and, at the ends, with springs to allow of the pipes expanding. Further, the boxes are mounted on rollers so that they can yield easily to the expansion of the pipes.
Patent GB-190313557-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Liquid Soldering Composition.
Inventor: CALLMANN JACOB
Filed: 1903-06-17
Granted: 1903-08-13
Abstract: 13,557. Callmann, J., and Bormann, R. June 17. Soldering.-Relates to a liquid or paste composition for soldering, especially suitable for small articles. The composition consists of tin or a tin alloy, triturated to a paste, and mixed with zinc or ammonium chloride, or both, and cellulose or other thickening-substance. The composition may be applied with a brush. As an example, it is stated that a spiral of wire may be converted to a tube by this method of soldering.
Patent GB-190317114-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Apparatus for Raising and Forcing Water, especially applicable for Removing Water from Cellars, and the like.
Inventor: GRIFFITHS WILLIAM ULRICH
Filed: 1903-08-06
Granted: 1903-10-01
Abstract: 17,114. Griffiths, W. U. Aug. 6. Automatic systems of raising water; direct air or steam pressure apparatus.-The tank shown in Fig. 5 is placed underneath, and is connected by the pipe 6 to, the source of supply of the water to be raised, in this case stated to be a cellar. The pipe 8 connects the tank to the place where the water is to be raised or forced, and is provided with a suitable valve. As the water flows into the tank, the float 35 rises up the rod 34 until it reaches the projection 38, when it raises the arm 30, the projection 32, and the weight 25, thus turning, by means of the piece 29, the valve-spindle 15. This goes on until the weight 25 falls over on to the other limit projection. This motion of the valve-spindle closes the exhaust-pipe outlet 24, Fig. 2, and opens the compressed air or steam inlet valve 13, Fig. 4. The entrance of the air or steam closes the pipe 6 and forces the water through the pipe 8. As the water falls, the float 35 sinks until it reaches the projection 37, when as before described, the valve-spindle is turned, closing the valve 13 and opening the exhaust outlet 24.
Patent GB-190317868-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Driving Axle Mechanism for Automobile Carriages
Inventor: WHITE ROLLIN HENRY
Filed: 1903-08-18
Granted: 1903-09-24
Abstract: 17,868. White, R. H. Dec. 1, A.D. 1902, [date applied for under Patents Act, A.D. 1901]. Motor road vehicles.-Comprises means for mounting and driving the divided axle in the balance gear of automobiles, adjustable thrust bearings employed therein, and means for connecting the wheels and brake drums to the axles. The sections 1, 2 of the divided axle are mounted in tubular housings 3, 4 which are connected with each other by a transverselydivided gear case 5. This casing is formed with half-tubular extensions 6 which embrace a bearing-sleeve 8 for supporting the rear section 10 of the driving. shaft and the bevel-wheel 11. At the back of this wheel is a ball thrust bearing. Within the casing 5 is a built-up hollow member 18, rotatively mounted on the axle sections 1, 2 and carrying bevel planet wheels 22 gearing with bevel-wheels 21 on the axle. The hollow member 18 is driven by the wheels 11 through the bevel-wheel 20. The inner ends of the axle sections 1, 2 are supported by sleeves or bushings 23 screwed into the tubes 3, 4, and endwise thrust of the hollow member 18 is transmitted to these bushings through ball bearings composed of balls 25 interposed between steel discs 24. The outer ends of the axle sections are provided with loose sleeves 30 made with several ball races. The balls run between these sleeves, and steel sleeves 30 driven in the housing- tubes. Felt washers are used to close the ends of the bearings. The sleeves 30 are caused to rotate with the axles by projections 34 engaging with the wheel hubs, and the brake drums 39 are caused to rotate in like manner by projections 40.
Patent GB-190325125-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in the Construction of Vertical Fire-tube Boilers.
Inventor: MANN GEORGE HUTCHINSON
Filed: 1903-11-18
Granted: 1904-09-15
Abstract: 25,125. Mann, G. H. Nov. 18. Exhaust, rendering invisible by superheating.-The steam is led into a chamber 7 placed above the combustion chamber 4 of the boiler, and surrounding the uptake. An auxiliary superheating- chamber 10 is connected to the chamber 7 by the tubes 11. The superheated steam escapes into the uptake through the opening 12.
Patent GB-190328806-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Sockets for Incandescent Electric Lamps;
Inventor: BAKELEY CHARLES
Filed: 1903-12-31
Granted: 1904-04-21
Abstract: 28,806. Bakeley, C., and Schrage, J. H. Dec. 31. Incandescent lamps, holders for, with switches. The base - piece 1 contains conducting- sleeves 2, 6, i n which the line terminals are fixed. The sleeve 6 is connected to the spring ring 8, arranged concentrically about the sleeve 2, which terminates in a screw 5. Thedetachable portion 9 of the holder is provided at one end with a ring 14, making connection with the ring 8, and a nut 15 which screws on to the screw 5, thus supporting the portion 9. The nut 15 is connected by the arm 16 and the fuse 27 to the plate 24, and thence, when the switch is on, by the spindle 31, bearing 28, plate 20, and screw 22, to the lamp contained in the collar 18. This collar is secured by conducting-screws 19, which pass up to the ring 14. When the switch is turned off, the stud 33 coacts with the cam notches 29 and moves the spindle 31 longitudinally, against the action of the spring 34, thus disconnecting the plate 24 from the spindle. A case 36, secured by screws 37, encloses the whole. The holder may be modified for use with a Thomson-Houston lamp. Supporting lamps.-By substituting a base-piece and casing of different size and shape, the holder may be converted into a wall socket.
Patent GB-190400403-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Gas Governors.
Inventor: GRIEVE GEORGE KING
Filed: 1904-01-07
Granted: 1904-11-10
Abstract: 403. Grieve, G. K., and Peebles, W. C. Jan. 7. Pressure-regulating valves; gas valves; equilibrium valves.-In a gas governor, the gas inlet is controlled by a double-beat valve operated by a float valve, the position of which is regulated by the outlet pressure. In the form shown in Fig. 1, a double-beat valve for controlling the gas inlet is formed from two cones A' connected at their apices and closing against seatings A<2>, A<3>. Tubular perforated extensions C, C<1> may be provided to serve as guides for the valve. The valve is connected by a third cone A<4> to a float bell A which is on the outlet side B<1> of the governor. The governor can be regulated by means of compressed air supplied to the interior of the bell A by a pipe D connected to a suitable holder. To prevent oscillation, the bottom of the bell is closed by a baffle-plate D<1> having orifices D', E, of which the orifice D<2> is closed by a flap valve, while the opening E is of small area. The flap valve may be replaced by an annular disc sliding on the pipe D, a separate small opening being formed in the plate D' to allow egress of water. The arrangement for preventing oscillation of the bell may be used with other forms of gas governor, In a modification, the governor is regulated by weights acting on the bell directly or through a lever, and the weight of the bell is counterbalanced partially or entirely by means of a float which may be placed at the lower part of the bell or in a separate chamber. The interior of the bell communicates with the atmosphere through a central pipe, the external opening of which is closed by a perforated plug. In the modification shown in Fig. 3, the bell A, to which a double-beat valve A<1> is attached, works in a mercury seal C'. The outlet opening B<1> communicates with the underside of the bell by openings H. Or the spindle A<4> of the valve may be connected by a lever to a horizontal spindle passing through a stuffing-box in the valve casing and connected by a second lever to the spindle of a controlling-bell working in a second chamber.
Patent GB-190402319-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Non-refillable Bottles
Inventor: COHEN REUBEN
Filed: 1904-01-30
Granted: 1904-03-03
Abstract: 2319. Cohen, R. Jan. 30. Stoppers; refilling, preventing. - A non-refill- able bottle is formed with a diaphragm having a central opening d, around which is a rim e receiving a cork or other washer f. The bottle being filled, a conical plug h is inserted in the opening d, the washer f forming a seat for a head g on the plug. The plug h is protected by a cap i, formed with holes for the escape of liquid. A whalebone or other spring l is threaded around ears k on the cap, and the spring can be forced past a contracted part n of the neck, the cap i being retained in the neck by the spring l. A cork washed fitting an external groove in the cap i may be used in place of the spring l. In a further modification, the disc, rim, and cap are all formed in one piece, which is retained in position by two indentations in the bottle neck. The bottle is also closed by a cork o.
Patent GB-190403540-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Alternating-current Integrating and Indicating Wattmeters
Inventor: CONRAD FRANK
Filed: 1904-02-12
Granted: 1904-10-13
Abstract: 3540. Conrad, F. Feb. 20, A.D. 1903, [date applied for under Patents Act, A.D. 1901]. Energy meters.-An induction motor meter for a single alternating current, described as a watthour meter, but applicable as a watt-meter, has two pressure coils 1, Fig. 1, arranged symmetrically on a rectangular iron core 3 with central projections, one of which carries the main-current coil 2. The pressure coils 1 are in series with a separate inductance, between the mains, and the magnetic flux produced by them is caused to be in exact quadrature with that produced by the main-current coil 2, when the load is non-inductive, by placing on each pressure coil a secondary winding in a specially arranged closed circuit, Fig. 3. The two secondary windings 13, 14 are connected in parallel by a straight wire resistance 15, and in closed circuit by a connection 18, resistances 21, 22, a flexible connection 25, and a contact 16 on the wire 15. The contact 16 consists of a short tube and a set-screw. The resistances 21, 22 are such as to produce the quadrature relation, and the contact 16 is moved along the wire 15 to produce a want of balance sufficient to compensate for friction. One resistance 22 only may be used, for currents of low frequency.
Patent GB-190407653-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Gauge for Postage and other Stamps
Inventor: GENTIL JOSEPH EUGENE HORACE
Filed: 1904-03-31
Granted: 1905-02-09
Abstract: 7653. Gentil, J. E. H. March 31. Stamp-perforation gauges.-A gauge for measuring the frequency of the perforations on postage stamps has six slits A, A<1>, marked on both sides with scales representing the number of perforations in a given length, and is adapted for examining stamps mounted in albums, the edge only being allowed to appear through the slit. Similar scales for the examination of loose stamps are marked on the edges and down the centre of the gauge, and short measures of length are given on each side at B. Water-marks can also be examined by illuminating a stamp from the back and observing it through the slit.