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Patent GB-189812341-A (GB)
Title: Improved Self-regulating Apparatus for Converting Variable into Uniform Speed.
Inventor: EVERARD GEORGES
Filed: 1898-06-01
Granted: 1898-09-03
Abstract: 12,341. Everard, G., and Everard, F. June 1. Centrifugal governors.-The object is to convert the variable motion of a train, windmill, waterwheel, or other motor into uniform motion for electric lighting purposes. A centrifugal governor, with balls A, A, adjustably loaded with shot, moves a cone pulley F up and down according to the speed of the variably-driven shaft D. The band H, retained in a fixed plane by rollers K, K<1>, drives the apparatus of which the speed is to be uniform, moving down the cone as the speed of the shaft D increases and vice versÔ.
Patent GB-189812685-A (GB)
Title: A New or Improved Material as Food for Animals and the Method of Preparing same.
Inventor: THOMPSON GEORGE FREDERICK
Filed: 1898-06-07
Granted: 1899-04-15
Abstract: 12,685. Thompson, G. F., [Cochran, J. S.]. June 7. Food for animals.-A substitute for hay which may also be employed in the form of chaff or as an ingredient in compound foods, is obtained from bagasse, the residue of sugar cane after the juice has been extracted. The bagasse is disintegrated, and then subjected to a winnowing process by which all the pithy part of the cane is removed leaving the fibrous part for use as above stated.
Patent GB-189814344-A (GB)
Title: Improvements of and in connection with Hollow Water-cooled Firebars.
Inventor: KOESTER ERNST JOSEPH
Filed: 1898-06-29
Granted: 1898-09-10
Abstract: 14,344. Koester, E. J. June 29. Firebars and grates.-Relates to hollow watercooled firebars. The water passes from a tank G, by outlets g alternately at different angles so as to save space, to pipes K of oval section, which fit loosely into apertures in the receiving-ends L of the firebars. The water is discharged over dams N into a common receiving-tank O. Joints, and their attendant leaks, are thus avoided. The firebars are supported by girders T', T<2>, so as to allow for expansion. The cover of the tank 0 supports the firebridge, and is made with a water-cooled chamber W, which forms the top of the opening by which the firebars enter the tank 0.
Patent GB-189815533-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Musical Scale Teaching Devices.
Inventor: FLETCHER EVELYN ASHTON
Filed: 1898-07-15
Granted: 1898-11-19
Abstract: 15,533. Fletcher, E. A. July 15. Teaching music.- White and black tablets 3, 5, respectively, having reduced rectangular ends, are fitted between the side bars A, B, the former of which has white and black sections 2, 4 corresponding to the natural and sharp or flat notes of a piano and to the tablets, and the latter is in two parts hinged together. The end tablets are secured to the bar A by hooks 9, and are dovetailed to fit into corresponding recesses in the bar B. The black sections 2 and tablets 5 are preferably roughened so that a blind person may be taught music or to construct any required scale.
Patent GB-189815837-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Self-acting Mules.
Inventor: DUGDALE JOSEPH
Filed: 1898-07-20
Granted: 1899-03-11
Abstract: 15,837. Dugdale, J., Haythornthwaite, W., and Tempest, W. July 20. Mules and twiners.-Relates to means for tightening the backing-off chain to a gradually-increasing extent at the end of each successive draw. A loose arm 15 rests normally on an arm or bracket 16 carried by a pivoted elbow lever 14, the longer arm of which engages at the end of the outward run with an adjustable stop 10 on the shaper rod 11. When the lever 14 is moved through its engagement with the stop 10, the arm 15 is raised and the snail and click are moved so as to tighten the backing-off chain 1. The automatic adjustment of the shaper rod 11 causes the amount of tightening to be increased at each successive draw.
Patent GB-189821068-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Metal-cutting Machines.
Inventor: SHANN MONTAGUE HERBERT CHURCHI
Filed: 1898-10-06
Granted: 1899-10-06
Abstract: 21,068. Shann, M. H. C. Oct. 6. Milling; boring and drilling; slotting.-A machine, which is adapted to perform a number of operations, such as milling, boring, drilling, slotting, &c., at one setting of the work, is provided with means for controlling and varying the speed of the cutting and feeding operations. A vertical h a n d - operated slide D, Fig. 1, on a standard C carries a frame E, pivoted at D<1>, D' and carrying a second slide F, on which is the arm F<1>. A bridge G is supported by the slide F and arm F', and can be angularly adjusted by a worm H and wheel H<1>. A saddle J, preferably having a bearing on the bridge of the kind described in Specification No. 22,268, A.D. 1897, is traversed by a screw K<3> driven from a shaft N<3>. The saddle carries a hollow ram L in which is mounted a milling-spindle M, which can be driven from a shaft L' by either of the pairs of pinions L<4> M<4>, L<5> M<5>, or by the pinion L<7> and internal wheel M<7> on the faceplate M<3> on the spindle. The ram is driven by gearing L<13>, L<14> from the shaft L', its position and length of stroke being adjustable. The shaft L<1> is driven from a hollow power shaft N geared to the main driving-shaft P. The ram is fed vertically by causing a split nut on the saddle to engage a screw (not shown) mounted on the ram and rotated by gearing from the shaft N<3> or by a hand-wheel N<6>. The hollow power shaft N contains a feed-shaft N<1>, Fig. 8, the shaft N driving the shaft N' through a reversing and variable speed train of wheels mounted in a frame T. The shaft N passes through a sleeve N<2> passing through the outer pivot of the bridge, and carries a sleeve R which can be clutched to the shaft or driven through a reducing back gear. The sleeve drives an ordinary crown reversing-train R', imparting motion to a shaft R<3>. This shaft drives a shaft R, either by a pair of mitre-wheels R', R<5> or by reducing-wheels R<41>, R<51>, a clutch R' being provided. The shaft R<6> similarly drives a shaft R<10> by mitre-wheels R<8>, R<9> or by reducing- gear R<12>, R<13>, R", R<15>, each controlled by a clutch R". The shaft R<10> drives a shaft R<19> through mitre-wheels or through unequal wheels and a back gear R<20>. The shaft R<19> drives the shaft N<1> through gearing R<23>, N", and drives a shaft S through gearing R<24>, S'. The shaft S is geared to the sleeve N<2>, which drives both the shafts N<3>, K<3>. The shaft N' is geared to a spindle E<2>, which serves to raise or lower the slide F and also drives a sleeve P', which is adapted to impart a feed motion to both the planing-table A and boring-table B. All the feed-motions are thus under control of the train of wheels in the frame T. The slide F is supported by a balancing chain U arranged as shown, and the ram L is hung in the bight of a chain W.
Patent GB-189822674-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or Connected with Machinery for Varnishing and otherwise Coating Continuous Paper or other Material.
Inventor: BUSH EDMUND
Filed: 1898-10-28
Granted: 1899-09-02
Abstract: 22,674. Bush, E. Oct. 28. Varnishing.-In apparatus for varnishing and otherwise coating continuous lengths of paper or other material, paper from a roll D, supported in brackets C, is fed over guide-rollers E, F, and over a tension roller G, which may be stationary or actuated by weights or springs. The paper passes round a rotating cylinder B, past an idle roller K, which transfers varnish to it from a roller L rotating in a varnish trough H. The paper is taken off over a guide-roller P, after passing a roller M, which spreads the varnish &c., and is driven at a surface speed greater than that of the cylinder B and the other rollers, which are driven from the main shaft S at equal surface speeds. A roller N similar to the roller M is used when the paper is fed in the reverse direction.
Patent GB-189826107-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Flexible Ladders and Fire-escapes, and in the Means and Apparatus for Making the same.
Inventor: HARGREAVES JAMES
Filed: 1898-12-10
Granted: 1899-10-14
Abstract: 26,107. Hargreaves, J. Dec. 10. T u b e expanders and the like.- Tubular rungs of ladders are held in a die 18, and expanded at the ends by a plunger 21 operated by a lever 22 and toggle link or joint.
Patent GB-189827322-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Machines for Pouncing Hat-bodies.
Inventor: LARKIN GEORGE FREDERICK
Filed: 1898-12-27
Granted: 1899-02-18
Abstract: 27,322. Larkin, G. F. Dec. 27. Felt hats.-Relates to machines for pouncing, shearing, luring, and finishing hats. The pouncing &c. is effected by a revolving belt k covered with or made of suitable material and running round two pulleys h<3>, i<3> mounted in a frame E, one pulley i<3> being connected to a spring sliding block l<4>, while the other is driven by a belt h<2> from a wheel c<9>. The frame E is fixed to the end of a rod f, which is mounted so that it, with the wheels c<7>, c<9>, &c., can be moved in any direction to allow of the belt k being applied to any part of the hat H. When not in use, the frame E rests in the top of a fork g as shown. The hat H is fitted on a block mounted on the end of a spindle a<3> which is caused to revolve by the belt b<6> and can be raised or lowered by the treadle a<4>.
Patent GB-189901235-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or connected with Incandescent Gas Street Lamps and the like.
Inventor: HIMMEL GOTTLOB
Filed: 1899-01-18
Granted: 1899-03-04
Abstract: 1235. Himmel, G. Jan. 18. Street and like lamps; incandescent gas lamps; lighting.-Relates to a method of lighting street and like lamps by means of which the incandescent mantle is protected from shock. The burner is shown in partial sectional elevation in Fig. 3. The tap of the lamp is shown in sectional elevation and plan in Figs. 5 and 6. The tap body A is screwed to the top of the gas pipe, and is surrounded by the horizontally-operating tap B, which, when the tap is closed, rests in the position shown in Fig. 6. When the lamplighter inserts his torch between the lever C and crook D, the tap is opened and gas passes through the radial passage a<2> into the chamber b, and thence through the elbow passages a, a<1> to the concentric pipes E and F respectively. The pipe E leads to the burner, and the pipe F is provided with nozzles f, f<1>, f<2>, through which gas escapes, which is lighted by the torch and, passing through the tube f<3>, lights the lamp. When the lever C is pushed over to the stop c, the lighting- device is extinguished. A wind shield g is provided.
Patent GB-189902496-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Apparatus for Use in Galvanizing Metals.
Inventor: GOLBY FREDERICK WILLIAM
Filed: 1899-02-03
Granted: 1899-06-02
Abstract: 2496. Golby, F. W., [Schaefer, H.]. Feb. 3. Galvanizing. - The pot 6 employed for galvanizing metals is provided internally round its sides with a covering 7 of fire-resisting material, fixed by rivets, and well hammered so as to prevent leakage. If an old or corroded pot is provided with such a covering, any space existing between the adjacent surfaces is preferably filled up with a mixture of red lead and zinc white. In the example shown, which is intended for galvanizing metal pipes, the pot is made oblong with a semicircular bottom. It is heated by a furnace 1, which is covered with fire-proof stones, and has at the bottom of the ashpit a sheet-iron box filled with water. The pot is provided with a tongue 5 which extends round the sides nearly to the middle, and, besides protecting it from the direct action of the flames, directs these flames to the two flues 9, 9<a>. The furnace gases next pass by the flues 10, past inspection openings 13, a regulating-slide 11, and a damper 16, to a drying- chamber 14, in which the pipes, after pickling, are placed to dry before passing to the pot. The pipes rest upon an inclined plate having projecting ribs on both upper and lower surface. The gases escape by the flue 17 and damper 18 to the chimney 19.
Patent GB-189908493-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Belt Tightening of Slackening Devices for Use on Automobile Vehicles.
Inventor: VIVINUS EDOUARD ALEXIS
Filed: 1899-04-22
Granted: 1899-07-22
Abstract: 8493. Vininus, E. A., and Hecht, A. J. April 22. Motor road vehicles.- Relates to belt tightening or slackening devices for use on automobile vehicles. The vehicle frame V is supported on two axles, one of which A, preferably the rear axle, is a made movable relatively to the frame by means of the hand-lever B. The belt pulley P being carried by the axle A and the motor pulley P<1> by the frame, the belt C is thus slackened o r tightened.
Patent GB-189908509-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Lanterns for Ships' Navigating Lights.
Inventor: BALL ALFRED FALCONER
Filed: 1899-04-24
Granted: 1900-03-10
Abstract: 8509. Ball, A. F. April 24. Ships' side and masthead lights.-To enable the lanterns to be used with either oil or electric lights, the ventilator or hood v, Fig. 1, employed with the oil lamp may be detached and replaced by a cap d, Fig. 2, carrying the electric lamp and leads. The ring a, which carries the ventilator v, is detachably connected by a screw or bayonet fastening to a ring b riveted on the lantern, and, when the cap d is employed, it is secured by a similarly-attached ring c. The electric-lamp holder f is mounted at the end of a lengthening-piece e, the wires are protected by a flexible tube m, of copper, india-rubber, or lead, and a key or guide on the cap ensures the flat side of the lamp filament being in the proper position.
Patent GB-189912343-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Water Tube Boilers.
Filed: 1899-06-13
Granted: 1899-12-30
Abstract: 12,343. Petersen Water Tube Boiler Co. and Furneaux, J. B. June 13. Steam-generator furnaces.-Relates to watertube boilers in which a number of tubular elements 3, 3 are arranged in vertical sections connecting transverse steam and water drums 1 and 2. A tube passes through each header 4, to admit a jet of steam for removing soot from the exterior of the tubes 3. The baffles 24 are arranged with gaps at alternate sides to direct the furnace gases to and fro horizontally, at right-angles to the tubes. These baffles have flanges at back and front to protect the headers. The front and rear walls of the casing have hinged doors 18, 19, each formed of two inner metal plates with a layer of asbestos or other non-conductor of heat between them, and an outer plate with an intervening air space. The side walls of the casing are built up of dished plates supporting blocks of refractory material. A slab 27 at the back of the grate protects the water drum 2. A low mid-partition 28 divides the grate into two parts ; it is preferably hollow and perforated for the supply of air, being formed with an adjustable inlet opening at its front end.
Patent GB-189916517-A (GB)
Inventor: HOFFMANN ERNST GUSTAV
Filed: 1899-08-14
Granted: 1900-06-30
Abstract: 16,517. Hoffmann, E. G. Aug. 14. Step and verticalshaft bearings. -The bearing adjusts itself to inequalities in the running of the shaft, and is moreover self-contained, so that it can be manufactured in various sizes and sold as a separate article. The shaft a bears on the ring b surrounding its reduced end a<1>. Each ball bears at two points against the ring b, and at one point against the cone d. The lower surface of the cone d is conical or curved, and rests on a correspondingly-shaped seat, so that the cone is free to slide a certain distance. If the cone has both surfaces alike, it can be reversed when worn. Flanges d' on each side of the cone retain the balls in place when the shaft is removed. A spring ring h holds the ring b in position in the casing.
Patent GB-189921010-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Metal Clamping Strips, Eyelets and the like.
Inventor: NICOLAI LUDWIG
Filed: 1899-10-20
Granted: 1900-09-22
Abstract: 21,010. Nicolai, L., [Saltzkorn, E.]. Oct. 20. Spiked plates; staples.-Metallic clamping strips, eyelets, &c., specially suitable for jointing the edges of pasteboard and similar boxes, are formed by suitably slitting a metal plate or disc A to turn back tongues B, separated by small points C. The points C are formed by the undercutting of the tongues near their base. The tongues are turned slightly back so that they will readily clinch by bending at the undercut portion when inserted. The eyelets may be formed separately, Fig. 7, or may be formed as corner pieces, Fig. 8, or may be formed in rows on a metal strip.
Patent GB-190004215-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in the Manufacture of Tubes, Bobbins, Spools and Pirns Employed in Machinery for Preparing and Spinning Textile Fibres.
Inventor: IRVIN FREDERICK DAVID
Filed: 1900-03-06
Granted: 1901-01-12
Abstract: 4215. Irvin, F. D., and Baldwin, J. March 6. Bobbins, spools, pirns, and tubes.-The bobbin, which may be made of wood, papier mÔchÚ, or other suitable material, is entirely enclosed in a metal sheath b. The ends of the sheath may be folded over or embedded in the ends of the bobbin, or they may be overlapped by an ordinary end sheath or ferrule c. The sheath may consist of a drawn tube, or be formed by seaming together the edges of a metal sheet, in which case the substance of the bobbin may be grooved to receive the seam. The bobbin may be fitted with hard wood bushes as usual, and with a head d of wood or other suitable material covered with an ordinary end shield c.
Patent GB-190005005-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Device for Securing Table Cloths and the like, and for Ornamenting same.
Inventor: BERTELS MARIE
Filed: 1900-03-16
Granted: 1900-04-28
Abstract: 5005. Bertels, M. March 16. Table and like covers.-A clamp consisting of wooden strips a pressed together by a spring b is weighted by a metal &c. butterfly, flower, &c. c, and clamped to the corner of a table cloth &c. d to prevent it from being displaced. Fig. 4 shows three clamps connected by garlands.
Patent GB-190007238-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to the Manufacture of Nuts, Screw, Couplings, and the like.
Inventor: PERRINS HARRY
Filed: 1900-04-19
Granted: 1901-04-13
Abstract: 7238. Perrins, H. April 19. Making nuts and wire and rod couplings.-In the manufacture of nuts, screw couplings, and the like from puddled or other iron or steel bars, a tubular bar of the desired section is formed by piling and welding as described in Specification No. 22,947, A.D. 1897, and then rolling on a mandrel between gapped rolls. The bar is then cut into nuts, preferably in a lathe by a tool which chamfers the end of the bar while cutting off a nut. Screw couplings, such as are shown in Fig. 4, for bridge &c. tie-rods, are cut off to the desired length, and then reduced at the ends by swaging or rolling.
Patent GB-190009906-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to the Manufacture of India Rubber.
Inventor: ARNAUD ALBERT LEON
Filed: 1900-05-29
Granted: 1901-02-23
Abstract: 9906. Arnaud, A. L., Verneuil. A. V. L., Wehry, A. M. G., and Lebeuf, A. G. May 29. Washing india-rubber.-Rubber is separated from parts of plants by grinding and washing only. After preliminary grinding and sifting, the material is steeped in hot or cold water, and ground to a thick paste, which is separated in hot or cold water, preferably on stationary sieves in a vessel in which the water is reciprocated by a piston. The portion remaining on the sieves is pressed to remove water, and again ground, when the rubber agglomerates. It is thrown into boiling water, in which the rubber floats, and a small residue sinks.
Patent GB-190010930-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Letter Character or Type.
Inventor: DITTMANN CARL
Filed: 1900-06-15
Granted: 1900-10-27
Abstract: 10,930. Dittmann, C., and Sch³tze, A. June 15. Type.-Relates to types which, when turned into different positions, represent or print signs denoting different letter characters or figures. Figs. 1, 2, and 3 show three groups of characters, each of which groups is formed by one sign placed or printed in eight different positions. The forms of the signs may be varied. Octagonal type bodies, as shown in Fig. 7, may be employed, each of which may be turned into eight different positions representing different characters ; or rectangular type bodies, as shown in Figs. 8 and 9, each representing four characters, may be employed. The eight or four sides of the type bodies may be marked with the signs indicated by the different positions.
Patent GB-190013531-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Process for the Production of Alkalicyanides.
Inventor: ALDER VICTOR
Filed: 1900-07-27
Granted: 1900-09-08
Abstract: 13,531. Alder, V. July 27. Potassium salts; sodium salts.-Alkaline ferrocyanides are converted into simple alkaline cyanides by first fusing them with potassium carbonate, whereby the well-known reaction K4FeCy6 + K2CO3 = 4 KCy + 2 KCyO + Fe + CO is effected, and then adding a further quantity of ferrocyanide and fusing in order to reduce the cyanate produced in the first reaction to cyanide. This is effected in accordance with the equations- 2 KCyO + 2 K4FeCy6 = 10 KCy + 2 FeO + C4 +N4. 2 FeO + C, = 2 CO + Fe. The molten mass is filtered in the usual manner. The cyanogen groups which are lost in this process may be obtained as cyanide by adding caustic soda and calcium carbide to the mixture, as in Dalinot's process, thus- K4FeCy6 + Na2O + CaC2 = 4 KCy + 2 NaCy + CaO + Fe + C2.
Patent GB-190015391-A (GB)
Title: The Manufacture or Production of New Dye-stuffs of the Anthracene Series.
Inventor: NEWTON HENRY EDWARD
Filed: 1900-08-29
Granted: 1901-07-27
Abstract: 15,391. Newton, H. E., [Farbenfabriken vorm. F. Bayer & Co.]. Aug. 29. Dyes, artificial.-Relates to the process described in Specification No. 23,927, A.D. 1894, and consists in first replacing the nitro group in alpha-nitroquinizarin of the formula by an alphylamido group, by heating the nitro compound with a primary aromatic amine, such as aniline, o- or p-toluidine, alpha-naphthylamine, or the like. The new product is precipitated by pouring the cool mixture into alcohol. When heated with sulphonating-agents, the new dyes yield sulphonic acid dyes which dye mordanted and unmordanted wool violet-red to blue and greenish-blue shades. The new products also yield green dye-stuffs when further heated with aromatic amines.
Patent GB-190015547-A (GB)
Title: Process and Apparatus for Ornamenting Surfaces
Inventor: COMMOSS JOSEPH TUTTLE
Filed: 1900-08-31
Granted: 1901-04-13
Abstract: 15,547. Commoss, J. T. Aug. 31. Pottery.-Porcelain is ornamented with dry or liquid pigments or vitrifiable colours bv blowing or spraying these into a casing a, at the bottom of which the porcelain p is placed, either unprotected, or below stencils q, or partitions, so that the finelydivided colour &c. settles on the surface by gravity. The stencils or partitions may be at some distance above the surface, to avoid sharp edges. The porcelain may be placed on a plate c, which is passed into the casing on rollers. Stencil plates may be carried by arms of shafts r, which may be turned to lower the stencils to the work, after a ground colour has been applied, so that a second colour may be applied through the stencils. The colours are supplied to the casing by ordinary sprayproducers m, with compressed air from a receiver.
Patent GB-190017934-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Phonographs and other similar Instruments
Inventor: JENSEN NEWMAN
Filed: 1900-10-09
Granted: 1901-08-03
Abstract: 17,934. Jensen, N. Oct. 9. Phonographs and like sound-recording instruments. -Phonographs and like sound-reproducing instruments have the horns mounted on tubes extending from a fixed support a. The support a has tubes a<2> projecting downwards into axially-pivoted elbow tubes c, the pivots being carried by a frame depending from the support a. Tubes e, curved at e<2> to slide in the elbow c, are pivoted or hinged at e<3>, and slide telescopically in tubes e', which are provided with corresponding pivoted elbow joints e<4>, g, to which the reproducersf are attached.