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Patent GB-190003333-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Stretcher for Transporting the Wounded.
Inventor: DUBOSQUIELLE LEON
Filed: 1900-02-20
Granted: 1900-05-05
Abstract: 3333. Dubosquielle, L. Feb. 20. Litters, ambulance. -A stretcher comprises tubes 5 and 6 provided with handles 4 at their free ends, the other ends sliding in tubes 1 and 2 also provided with handles 4. Screws 20, 21 secure the tubes in any position, and spring catches 17 engaging sockets 35 prevent them from coming apart. Each tube is formed with lugs 11, between which are pivoted feet 9, which can be secured in either a horizontal or a vertical position by pins 10. Bars 12<1> and 14, pivoted at 12 and 15 respectively, can be connected to the opposite tubes by pins 13 and 16, as shown. A frame consisting of bars 22, 23, connected by a bar 24 pivoted to the bar 22 and secured by a pin to the bar 23, is pivoted to the tubes 1 and 2, and can be secured at any inclination by racks 26, as shown. The canvas cover may be made in two pieces secured together by hooks and eyes 30, 31, Fig. 4, laced to the sides over hooks 27, and formed with a band 28 for securing the patient. In a modification, the cover is formed in one piece. The telescoping parts may be dispensed with.
Patent GB-190005249-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Gas and Liquid Burners.
Inventor: SALA JUAN
Filed: 1900-03-20
Granted: 1900-04-28
Abstract: 5249. Sala, J. March 20. Gas and vapour burners are formed of a casing A, of good heat-conducting metal, with a base B of similar metal, through which passes a gas or oil feed-tube C having a connecting - piece D for attaching the burner to the lamp. The tube C and air openings E are packed with fine wirecloth. The burner top is covered with gauze G, and heat - conductors F pass through the gauze and down inside the burner tube A. In the example shown in Fig. 1, these conductors are rods; in the form shown in Fig. 2, a shaped piece of metal is used, fitting within the burner tube A and provided with bevelled lower ends. The burner tube is provided with a double outer casing. When using liquid fuel, this outer casing is heated by a small lamp to start the burner. Afterwards the hot metal vaporizes the liquid fuel, and the hot vapour and heated air are ignited above the gauze. The burner is also applicable for use with gas.
Patent GB-190005990-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Pivot Devices for Adjustments for Looking Glasses and other Articles Required to be Swung or Held at Various Angles.
Inventor: JONES THOMAS
Filed: 1900-03-30
Granted: 1901-02-01
Abstract: 5990. Jones, T., and Turner, H. T. March 30. Pivot adjustments.-Relates to a pivot adjustment for looking-glasses, blackboards, and the like. The plate A with the pivot C, is fixed on the looking-glass, the pivot being surrounded by a ring B with blunt teeth on one face. The plate D is fixed on the support, and has a boss E in which is fitted a piece F having blunt teeth G on its outer face, which teeth are pressed in contact with the teeth on B by the spiral spring H. This spring surrounds a tube I, fixed to the end of the boss E and adapted to receive the pivot C. The pivot C is held in the tube I by a washer M and pin N. A pin J, fixed in the piece F, works in a slot K in the tube, which slot may be slightly inclined. Dummy pieces (without teeth) F and B may be used at the opposite side of the looking-glass. India-rubber washers on the faces of B and F may be used instead of teeth.
Patent GB-190011117-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Chucks for the Mandrels of Turning-lathes, Drilling Machines, and the like.
Inventor: MENDE FERDINAND
Filed: 1900-06-19
Granted: 1901-02-01
Abstract: 11,117. Mende, F. June 19. Chucks.-A chuck for lathes, drilling-machines, &c. has a conical cap d screwing into a boss b, formed on or attached to the spindle. The cap is held centrally by a cylinder c fitting the coned end a of the spindle. The jaws e slide in, and are operated by, the cap, and are held angularly by engaging slots in the face of a ring g, secured on the end of the cylinder c by an annular plate i. The jaws have dovetails k to receive interchangeable face blocks h, suited to the size of the work. When a large drill or shaft is held, it may be gripped by the dovetails k.
Patent GB-190023049-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Automatic Brake Mechanism for Checking the Speed of Closure of Furnace Dampers and like Purposes.
Inventor: HOERENZ FRIEDRICH OTTO
Filed: 1900-12-17
Granted: 1901-03-16
Abstract: 23,049. H÷renz, F. O. Dec. 17. Winches.-Relates to automatic brake mechanism for winch apparatus used to operate furnace dampers and for like purposes. The damper chain a, Fig. 1, engages a chain-wheel which is loose on the shaft b, but fast to the handle d. In winding up the chain to raise the damper, the pawl c on the handle d rides over the teeth of the ratchet - wheel f. When the damper is allowed to fall, the pawl engages the ratchet-wheel and the motion is transmitted through the shaft b and the toothed gearing shown to the shaft h of a centrifugal governor carrying the brake disc k. Bearing on the disc is a brake block p on the end of an arm extending from the shaft o. As the speed rises, the upward pressure of the disc k against the brake block increases. The normal pressure of the block is varied by means of a screw s bearing on a spring arm on the shaft o and the radial distance of the block from the axis of the disc is adjusted by the screw u. Fig. 5 shows a modified construction in which the brake blocks p revolve and the disc is fixed as regards rotation. In Fig. 6 the fixed brake block p is shown arranged to be adjusted vertically and radially by the same movement.
Patent GB-190100772-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Wood Floors.
Inventor: GEOHST EDWARD
Filed: 1901-01-11
Granted: 1901-05-18
Abstract: 772. Goehst, E. Jan. 11. Floors.-The boards b, for the borders only, or the floor generally, are connected together by wood or metal strips c inserted in inclined saw-cuts made in the undersides of the boards. The strips may be plain, crimped, corrugated, flanged, or serrated, and the ends c' of metal strips may be clenched outside the boards. The strips may be parallel or inclined to one another, and may be at right-angles or inclined to the edges of the boards.
Patent GB-190105694-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Toy Rockers.
Inventor: KERR GEORGE SMILEY
Filed: 1901-03-18
Granted: 1901-08-17
Abstract: 5694. Kerr, G. S. Aug. 17, A.D. 1900, [date applied for under Sec. 103 of Patents &c. Act, A.D. 1883]. Rockers for children. -Two parallel curved rockers 1 with inturned ends 2 are connected by cross pieces 4, 8, and are fitted with end seats 6 and a longitudinal bridge-piece 5. The bridgepiece is supported by central stays, and carries side loops 12. The seats 6 are fitted with back-rests 7, and footboards 9 are fitted between the crosspieces 8. The rockers 1 are provided with rubber tyres.
Patent GB-190106907-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Pumps or Compressors.
Inventor: BOULT ALFRED JULIUS
Filed: 1901-04-02
Granted: 1902-02-27
Abstract: 6907. Boult, A. J., [Oddesse-Dampfpumpen- Ges.]. April 2. Steam pumps.-Relates to compensating apparatus for direct-acting pumps using steam expansively. A link e pivoted to the frame at e‹ and a link c, resting on the compensating plunger b which is arranged at right-angles to the pump axis, are pivoted together by a pinp carrying a roller which engages in a slot m in the main crosshead. The free end of the link c is gnided by a radius link q. Three methods are described for cutting off the pressure in the reservoir t from below the plunger b near the correct limit of its outward stroke. In one, a spring-pressed valve v is allowed to close by a lever v<1> in contact with the plunger; in the second, a piston valve replaces the valve v and is closed by the contact with a nut on its stem of a projection carried by the plunger b ; in the third, the plunger b itself closes ports connecting with the reservoir t. Fig. 5 shows diagrammatically a modified linkage in which the link c slides in the main crosshead. The ordinary slide valves, and also the expansion valves, if used, are operated from extensions of the lever e.
Patent GB-190107344-A (GB)
Title: A Method of and Composition for Impregnating Paper, Card-board and the like.
Inventor: BACK JULIUS
Filed: 1901-04-09
Granted: 1902-02-27
Abstract: 7344. Back, J. April 9. Paper, cardboard, &c., impregnating with liquids. -The material is soaked or treated with a mixture containing 20 parts of calcium hydrate, 80 parts of dextrin, and 40 parts of meal or starch, the ingredients being mixed with sufficient water to a consistency which varies from that of a thin liquid to a syrup. After being soaked in the mixture, the material is dried, pressed, and flattened, when it is ready for use.
Patent GB-190109695-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in the Treatment of Raw Cotton and Cotton Goods to Reduce the Inflammability thereof
Filed: 1901-05-09
Granted: 1902-05-08
Abstract: 9695. Perkin, W. H., and Whipp Bros. & Tod. May 9. Fireproofing fibres.-In order to diminish the inflammability of raw cotton and cotton goods, especially flannelette, the materials are soaked for an hour in a mixture containing a soluble tungstate, such as sodium tungstate, a soluble aluminium salt, and an organic acid, such as acetic acid or formic acid, the organic acid being subsequently removed from the material by passing it over heated tins or cylinders or by drying and steaming. Four examples are given of solutions which may be used :-(1) 100 parts of aluminium sulphocyanide solution of 33‹ Tw. are mixed with 25 parts of acetic acid of 11‹ Tw. and 200 parts of sodium tungstate solution of 56‹ Tw.; (2) 100 parts of aluminium acetate solution of 26‹ Tw. are mixed with 10 parts of acetic acid solution of 11‹ Tw. and 200 partsof sodium tungstate solution of 56‹ Tw. ; (3) 100 parts of aluminium sulphate of 26‹ Tw. are mixed with 30 parts of acetic acid solution of 11‹ Tw. and 150 parts of sodium tungstate solution of 60‹ Tw. ; (4) 100 parts of aluminium sulphate solution of 26‹ Tw. are mixed with 40 parts of formic acid solution of 11‹ Tw. and 150 parts of sodium tungstate solution of 60‹ Tw. It is preferable to remove the sizing from fabrics before treating them in accordance with this invention.
Patent GB-190113692-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Stoppering Bottles, Jars and other Vessels.
Inventor: MARGETTS FREDERICK WILLIAM
Filed: 1901-07-05
Granted: 1901-11-30
Abstract: 13,692. Margetts, F. W. July 5. Stoppers.-Relates to means for stoppering bottles, jars, casks, drums, &c. The neck A, Fig. 2, of the vessel is threaded internally to receive the screw stopper F, and is formed at some distance beneath the thread with an upwardly - projecting tapered ledge C, which forms with the neck a tapered recess c. A plug, disc, ring, or washer E of cork, wood, woodite, fibre, gutta-percha, &c. is inserted beneath the stopper, and, when the stopper is screwed down, is compressed over the ledge C, and into the recess c, to form a tight joint. The plug or washer E may be shaped to fit in a recess in the bottom of the stopper; or, it may be tapered to fit in a corresponding upwardly-tapered hole through the centre of the stopper. The stopper may consist, as shown in Fig. 8, of a metal shell F<1>, adapted to receive the packing-plug E'. Casks &c. are fitted with a screwed boss G, having an upwardly-projecting tapered ledge C, and adapted to receive the screw plug F, which, when screwed down, compresses the packing disc or washer E over the ledge C into the recess c. The Provisional Specification also states that, when the contents of the vessel are not under great pressure, the ledge C may be flat on its upper surface and the recess c omitted.
Patent GB-190115229-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Guards for Velocipedes and the like.
Inventor: TURNER WILLIAM EDWARD
Filed: 1901-07-27
Granted: 1902-05-29
Abstract: 15,229. Turner, W. E., and Jackson, F. T. July 27. Guards, mud, chain, dress, and like. -Dress guards are attached to chain or mud guards so that the means of attachment do not show on the outer surface. A mud guard is formed from a metal blank by piercing and turning over its edges, and then inserting in the folded edges a wire 5 formed with loops 6 which pass through the holes in the guard and receive the cords of the dress guard 8, and with raised portions 7 which hold the wires in position when the folded edges of the guard are closed up. The wires may be replaced by lengths of catgut or the like.
Patent GB-190118136-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Temples for Looms.
Inventor: LUPTON WILLIAM
Filed: 1901-09-11
Granted: 1902-07-24
Abstract: 18,136. Lupton, W. Sept. 11 Loom temples.-A star temple comprises a wheel B mounted on a boss D projecting from a plate A and may be supported by hardened steel balls G. A stud H holds the wheel in position. The raceway F may be formed entirely in the plate A, or entirely in the wheel, or partly in the plate and partly in the wheel. Rollers may be employed instead of balls, or fewer balls in segmental races may be used. The ball or roller bearings may be applied to single and double star temples, or to combined star and roller temples.
Patent GB-190119159-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Fluid Pressure Engines, in part relating to Power Propelled Vehicles.
Inventor: LANCHESTER FREDERICK WILLIAM
Filed: 1901-09-25
Granted: 1902-12-24
Abstract: 19,159. Lanchester, F. W. Sept. 25. Compressing.-A motor cylinder which may serve also as a pump is used in conjunction with another fluid-pressure cylinder to utilize the surplus energy of the latter in compressing air in one or more stages, or in case of vehicles to utilize the momentum of the vehicle for a similar purpose, the compressed air being used for starting &c. Figs. 1, 2, and 3 show the air cylinder with a piston distributing-valve a, b, c, exhaust ports e<1>, and pressure ports f. The latter are controlled by beat valves g, which are opened to admit motive fluid by a lever m when the cylinder is used as a motor, but which serve as automatic delivery valves when used as a compressnr, the pivot n of the lever m is carried eccentrically on the pin t by which it may be adjusted so that the lever m raises the valve-rods altogether or opens them to different extents. The lever m is worked from the crosshead s and the pin t is adjusted by the rocking shaft w which operates the reversing gear x, y, z, 9, 10, 11 of the piston valve. The cylinder may be employed, as shown at 21 in Fig. 6, in conjunction with an internal - combustion engine 20, (a) to pump atmospheric air into a low-pressure reservoir 22, (b) to pump such low-pressure air into a highpressure reservoir 23, (c) to be worked by highpressure air and to exhaust into the reservoir 22 or into the atmosphere, or (d) to be worked by low-pressure air. All these operations can be controlled by the slide valve 24 and the system of pipes shown. The air after compression is cooled in a refrigerator 34, and on returning to expand in the cylinder 21 is warmed by contact with the cylinder 20 or its exhaust.
Patent GB-190126517-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or connected with Apparatus for Electrically Igniting Miners' Safety Lamps.
Inventor: BEST WILLIAM
Filed: 1901-12-28
Granted: 1902-12-11
Abstract: 26,517. Best, W. Dec. 28. Miners' safety lamps.-An apparatus for use in electrically igniting miners' safety oil lamps, consists of a shelf 1 carrying a number of metallic rings 2 on which the lamps are stored. These rings are connected together and to one pole of the electric generator by wires 4, 5 and a terminal 3. The other pole of the generator is connected by a wire 10 to a conductor 6 carrying an adjustable bracket 7 connected by a wire 9 to an insulated hand conductor 8 adapted to make contact with a conducting-ring 12, mounted on an insulating-ring 16, so as to cause sparking to take place between the ring 12 and the wick-tube 14. In a modification, a spring-pressed pin, carried by a metallic standard behind the lamp, makes contact with the ring 12, the standard being connected to one of a series of metal plates separated by insulating-strips on the front of the shelf. Contact is made between one of these strips and another strip, connected to one pole of the generator by a hand insulated double roller. The second-named strip may be dispensed with, a hand insulated single contact-roller connected to the generator being used.
Patent GB-190204316-A (GB)
Title: A Combined Web Printing, Numbering, Cutting and Folding Machine.
Inventor: WOOLLEY GEORGE ORLANDO
Filed: 1902-02-20
Granted: 1903-02-19
Abstract: 4316. Woolley, G. O., and Woolley, A. E. Feb. 20. Rotary machines; numbering-apparatus; cutting- apparatus; folding paper.-Relates to machines for printing and numbering a strip or strips of paper, cutting off predetermined lengths, and folding such lengths in zig-zag form. The strips pass from reels 1, 1<1> to drawing-rollers 2, 2<1>, between numbering-mechanisms 4<1>, by which each is numbered on its upper side, and then, together, between a printing-cylinder 3 and an impression cylinder 3<1>. The numbering-mechanisms may each consist of a disc 4<1>, having consecutive numbers of, say, from 1 to 50, and an impression disc 5 having an impression projection 5<1>. The discs 4<1>, 5 are geared together by gears having 50 and 49 teeth, respectively, or a multiple of these numbers, so that the numbers are printed consecutively by the projections 5<1>. When the circumference of the disc 4<1> is different from the length of each sheet or impression, the discs may be driven by elliptical gears, as shown. Any other form of numbering-mechanism may be used. The cylinder 3 is inked by rollers 7,7<1> and inking-apparatus, as shown. From the printing-cylinders 3, 3<1>, the webs pass between cutting-cylinders 8, 8<1> arranged to cut off lengths of web, each containing, say, 50 sheets or impressions. The cylinder 8<1> has a groove, with which co-operates a serrated cutting-blade mounted to slide radially in the cylinder 8 by means of its stems 9. At every fiftieth revolution the blade is protruded, to cut the webs, by cam-pieces 14 on a bar 12. The bar 12 is movable, and normally stands with its cam-pieces 14 out of the path of the stems 9, but is moved at the required intervals by a cam-wheel 11 rotated by ratchet-gear. The lengths of web are folded, alternately into grippers 17, 18, by folding-blades 17<1>, 23. The blade 17<1> is on levers operated by the cam 19, and the blade 23 is carried by bars 24, sliding through a swivelling guide 25, and operated through the link mechanism shown, from a cam 20. The two sets of grippers 17, 18 are the same, and each consists of a bar a and fingers b, shown closed in Fig. 10 and open in Fig. 11. The bar a is fixed on the ends of levers 26 rocked by a cam 27, and the fingers b are on a shaft c journalled on the bar a and turned by a spring to close the grippers. Fixed on the shaft c is a lever e, which, as the grippers rise, comes into contact with an adjustable stop f and opens the grippers. The fold previously tucked into the grippers is pushed to the rear, to clear the grippers for the new fold, by a pair of fingers d on a shaft 29. The fingers d are formed with slotted extensions engaged, to rock the fingers, by the shaft c. When the grippers are opened, they are held open by a pivoted catch g, on the lever e, until the folding-blade 23 engages and releases the catch.
Patent GB-190212303-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Feed Water Heaters, Filters and Purifiers.
Inventor: OSBOURN MILLARD PALAGANO
Filed: 1902-05-29
Granted: 1902-09-11
Abstract: 12,303. Osbourn, M. P. May 29. Feedwater, heating and purifying. - Relates to apparatus in which chemical purifying-agents are mixed with the water, and comprises means for controlling the supply of and heating, the purifying-agent. Figs. 1 and 2 show vertical sections of the apparatus taken on planes at right-angles, Fig. 2 being partly in elevation. The water is supplied to the heater a by the pipe c, into which the chemical reagent is delivered by the pipe s from the reservoirs r, r. The supplies of water and chemical reagent are simultaneously controlled by valves e, s<1> connected together and operated by a float in the heater, the connection being of a yielding character, to allow one valve to move when the other is closed. The reagent is preliminarily heated by arranging the pipe s in contiguity to a steam pipe t, which conveys steam to the reservoir to expel the reagent. The two pipes may be enclosed in a common casing, as shown in Fig. 3. The heater is of any suitable kind, but preferably an open exhaust-steam heater. After leaving the heater, the mixed water and reagent pass over a series of pans j in a chamber f, on which precipitated impurities are deposited, the process being assisted by a series of inclined baffle-plates m removably inserted above the pans. The purified water finally passes through a filter h. The pans j are trough-shaped in transverse section, as shown in Fig. 2, to facilitate the collection and removal of the precipitate.
Patent GB-190213566-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Sliver Cans
Inventor: SUTCLIFFE JAMES ANDERTON
Filed: 1902-06-16
Granted: 1903-06-04
Abstract: 13,566. Sutcliffe, J. A. June 16. Sliver cans made from paper or "fibre" are strengthened at the lower ends by means of a binding-ring B, which is folded over the lower edge of the can body A, and has a strengthening-ring C driven on to it and further secured by soldering &c. Rivets E secure the binder and can body together.
Patent GB-190214685-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to the Staining of Wood
Inventor: PFISTER JOSEF
Filed: 1902-07-01
Granted: 1902-10-09
Abstract: 14,685. Pfister, J. July 1. Painting and varnishing.-Relates to means for staining wood in one or more colours by forcing dyes or stains through the wood in the direction of the fibre. The patterns are obtained by employing stencils or equivalent apparatus on the surface of the wood to which the stain is applied. The stencil may consist of a resisting coating preferably of some adhesive resinous fatty substance, or of a suitably cut india-rubber or like plate, or the wood may be cut in grooves in the required pattern and then a plain sheet of rubber is pressed over the uncut portions of the wood, or cap-shaped fittings may be fixed in the wood at the required positions, or a flexible cord may be nailed to the wood so as to form the desired pattern, or if it is desired to force different stains through the wood simultaneously, the apparatus shown in Fig. 11 may be employed. In Fig. 11, 14 represents a base-plate having a number of upstanding sharpened ridges 13 which are forced into the wood. The ridges 13 are so arranged as to form a number of distinct chambers or passages 15 communicating by means of passages 16 with chambers 17 connected by pipes 4 with supplies of stain under pressure. The pipes 4 slide fluid-tight in the chambers 17 so that any desired number of the passages 16 may be closed by the pipes 4, leaving only those open through which it is desired to force the stain.