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Patent GB-190312078-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Electric Pocket Lanterns
Inventor: GLOERFELD CARL
Filed: 1903-05-27
Granted: 1903-07-02
Abstract: 12,078. Gloerfeld, C. May 27. Lanterns.-In a pocket incandescent lantern, the knob operating a sliding contact is placed in a recess, and a movable hook is provided for suspending the lantern. Fig. 1 shows the recess 3 in the top plate 1 for the knob 7, to which are attached the tongue 9 and plate 8 by means of a pin sliding in the slot 6. The view of the top plate of the lantern from below, Fig. 3, shows how the bevelled side walls of the recess form guides for the bent edges 10 of the plate 8. Above the bracket 11 on the lower side of the top plate 1 a strip of sheet metal 12 passes. Its two ends 14, 13 are bent downwards, the outer one forming a movable hook for suspension.
Patent GB-190312785-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Slide Valves, Chiefly Designed for Blowing Engines.
Filed: 1903-06-06
Granted: 1904-02-14
Abstract: 12,785. Lake, H. H., [Southwark Foundry and Machine Co.]. June 6. Slide valves.-The valves are of the grid type and are described as applied to a blowing-engine, the invention consisting of means for keeping the valves against their seat and being shown applied to delivery valves in Figs. 1, 10, and 14 and to a suction valve in Fig. 18. A face is formed on the back of the valve d against which bears a plate f, f or frame f<1>, which is secured and adjusted by bolts g, h passing through sleeves k which screw into bosses on the back or cover c of the valve chest and bear against collars on the bolts. The sleeves and bolts are secured by nuts m, l.
Patent GB-190320853-A (GB)
Title: Improvement in Locking Device for Umbrellas, Walking Sticks and the like.
Inventor: LEVINGER LEOPOLD
Filed: 1903-09-28
Granted: 1903-10-29
Abstract: 20,853. Levinger, L. Sept. 28. Locking-devices. - Relates to devices for preventing the theft of umbrellas, walking-sticks, and the like. In one form of the device a bolt d operated by a lock in the handle a of an umbrella &c., secures a shackle b to a tubular part c of the handle a. In another form, a rod, normally held in a groove in the stick by a spring, forms a closed loop with the curved handle of the stick. In a further form, shown in Fig. 3, the shackle is made in two pieces p, hinged at o to a pin n carried by a sleeve m, which is fixed to the stick by an ornamental sheet-metal lug l. The two pieces p may be bent round and locked as at q, or laid round the stick to form a mount. In a still further form, one end of a chain is fixed to the stick, the other end having a locking-staple which is secured by a lock in the stick.
Patent GB-190321306-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Electric Lamps.
Inventor: BURKE JOHN BENJAMIN BUTLER
Filed: 1903-10-03
Granted: 1904-01-07
Abstract: 21,306. Burke, J. B. B. Oct. 3. Vacuum tubes.-Relates to an improvement in the mercury lamps described in Specification No. 14,121, A.D. 1900. A one per cent. potassium or sodium amalgam is substituted for the mercury electrode. A monatomic gas, preferably helium, is introduced at a pressure of about 1 mm. into the lamp before sealing, to reduce the resistance. Small quantities of another gas, such as nitrogen, may be introduced with the helium. In the form of the lamp shown, the tube extends into the bulb.
Patent GB-190321552-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Liquid-fuel Burners or Atomizers
Filed: 1903-10-07
Granted: 1904-08-11
Abstract: 21,552. North West Rivet, Bolt, and Nut Factory, Ltd., and Walker, J. K. Oct. 7. Liquid-fuel fittings.-Relates to a burner in which the liquid fuel is broken up into a fine spray and delivered with the blast of air. A spider b, placed within the blast tube a, supports an inner tube c of fine bore, through which the liquid fuel is fed and delivered through minute orifices d at or near the end. A stem piece e is fitted at the end of the inner tube c and carries a screw propeller or vaned wheel f<1> free to rotate within or outside the mouth of the blast pipe. This propeller is rotated by the air blast, and, as the liquid fuel is forced or dropped from the orifices, it is broken up into a fine spray, and carried forward into the furnace by the air blast.
Patent GB-190325797-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to the Designing of Carpets and other Textile Fabrics
Inventor: BOUET EDMOND ALPHONSE
Filed: 1903-11-26
Granted: 1904-11-03
Abstract: 25,797. BouÙt, E. A. Nov. 26. Designing woven fabrics.-In the designing of carpets and other woven fabrics, certain figures are produced by using squared paper in the ordinary manner, so that the finest detail of the figure corresponds to one square of the paper; other figures are produced such that the finest details thereof correspond to a block of four squares o f the paper ; while still other figures are produced the finest details of which correspond to a block of nine squares of the paper. Other figures may also be produced by using as a unit thereof blocks of sixteen or more squares of the paper. Three figures of a design drawn on squared paper, in accordance with this invention are shown. The jacquard cards are punched or perforated in a corresponding manner.
Patent GB-190404408-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Documents-files.
Inventor: GOTTWALS WILLIAM OTTERBEIN
Filed: 1904-02-22
Granted: 1905-02-22
Abstract: 4408. Gottwals, W. O. Feb. 21, A.D. 1903, [date appliedfor under Patents Act, A.D. 1901]. Filing papers &c.-Relates to means for supporting, guiding, and locking the follower or fileboard, employed for compressing the papers &c. filed, of letter or document file boxes. The file box consists of a base a, two side-pieces a<1>, and an endpiece a<2>. The follower B slides on a rod C sunk in the base, and passing through a hole 4 in a plate 5 attached to the follower. A clamping- lever D is attached to the plate 5 by two links E, F which are secured by pins passing through flanges or ears on the plate 5 and lever D. The rod C passes through a hole 8 in the end of the lever D. The parts are so proportioned that, when the lever is in the position shown in Fig. 1, the hole 8 is depressed below the hole 4, and the follower has a biting action on the rod at two points, one above and one below, which holds it firm. To release the follower, the lever is moved into the position shown in Fig. 3, whereby the holes 4, 8 are brought into alignment, and the follower falls backwards into an inclined position. The holes may be elongated vertically to allow more play ; this may be done by boring them obliquely to the plane of the follower. Both holes may be bored at the same time if the two parts are arranged in the proper position. The rod C is held at one end by a flange 21, which bears against a plate 15 sunk in the groove 1 in the base. The other end of the rod rests in a bearing 19, the inside of which fits the rod, and the outside the groove 1.
Patent GB-190405132-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Folding Chairs.
Inventor: ATKINS EDWIN
Filed: 1904-03-01
Granted: 1904-04-07
Abstract: 5132. Atkins, E. March 1. Chairs.-In an arrangement for preventing the collapsing of folding deck-chairs due to the slipping of the cross-bar C<1> carried by the struts C from the notches A<2> in the bars A, a swinging catch E on the cross-bar C<1> engages with one or other of a series of cross-bars carried by the bars A. In a modification, the catch is replaced by two catches secured to the bar C' by clamps which allow the catches to swing freely.
Patent GB-190411792-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and connected with Inverted Incandescent Gas Lights.
Inventor: WARRY JOSEPH
Filed: 1904-05-24
Granted: 1905-04-27
Abstract: 11,792. Warry, J. May 24. Regenerative incandescent gas lamps.-Mantles 1, made of annular shape with inner walls 2 and outer walls 15, are mounted on steatite or like rings 4, 5, which are preferably connected by arms 11,12. An ordinary mantle, suspended from the ring 5, may be substituted for the double mantle 1, the ring 4 being then dispensed with. The three bunsen tubes 18, 19, 20 forming the burner, depend from a common supply pipe 17, and are fitted with gauze discs 33 to prevent the flame from flashing back. The mixing-chambers are heated by the products of combustion, which pass up a central flue tube or opening 16 to the casing 29, whence they escape through a tube or tubes 38.
Patent GB-190412484-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Combination Tool for Cyclists' and Motorists'.
Inventor: FRY ARTHUR
Filed: 1904-06-02
Granted: 1904-12-22
Abstract: 12,484. Fry, A. June 2. Tyres, pneumatic.-A combination tool for use by cyclists and motorists has a lever a, one end d of which is shaped to act as a tyre-remover, and also a sliding jaw, one end p of which serves as a tyre lever.
Patent GB-190413598-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Domestic Fire-places.
Inventor: REGESTER FREDERIC ARTHUR
Filed: 1904-06-16
Granted: 1904-11-03
Abstract: 13,598. Regester, F. A. June 16. Air and water heating stoves and fireplaces; smoke-consuming; ovens; canopies.-Relates to air and water heating, smoke-consuming, and ventilating stoves, fireplaces, ranges, and the like, and consists in providing flues 2, opening from the sides below the fire level so as to produce a downdraught through the fire. These flues are led through air or water chambers at the sides or back, and may also be applied for heating an oven at the top of the fireplace. A canopy, provided with a chamber for heating air, may also be applied. Fig. 1 shows such a fireplace in front elevation, and Fig. 3 shows a part sectional plan of one of the air or water chambers 5, with the flue 2 passing through it. The chambers 5 may be connected at the back or top. When used as hot-air chambers, air enters through ventilators 6, Fig. 1, at the bottom, or through inlets 7 below the floor, and is deflected by baffle-plates or the like upon the hot flues 2, after which it escapes into the room through ventilators at the top ; or it is led away by means of a pipe 8 to be used as required. When boilers take the place of hot-air chambers, flow and return pipes are fitted in the usual manner. A hot-air chamber and a boiler may be provided in one stove, and, if desired, hot air may be passed through the top chamber, which may be fitted with a door and used as an oven ; or the flues 2 may be made to pass around the outside of an oven arranged at the top of the stove. The improved canopy, which may be applied to any form of stove, may be fixed or adjustable. It has side wings 10, Fig. 5, and a hood 12 at the back fitted into the brickwork, and hinged, if the hood is adjustable, along the line 13. The hood may be provided with a register flap leading to the chimney. A cylindrical or other-shaped airheating baffle-chamber 11 is arranged in the underside of the canopy, and, with a plate 15, encloses a chamber which, by the addition of air inlets and outlets, forms a hot-air circulating chamber. Products of combustion enter the baffle-chamber 11 through openings 16, and pass through a flue 17 to the chimney. When the canopy is made adjustable, as shown in Fig. 6, the flue 17, which is fixed to the hood 12, works loosely through the wall of the baffle-chamber 11, the latter being fitted with an interior socket to receive the end of the flue, so that, when the canopy is closed, communication with the chimney is cut off. Heat radiated from the fire heats the baffle-chamber and causes a draught in the flues leading to the chimney. The side flues 2 may communicate with the canopy through openings in the side wings, the products of combustion then entering the baffle-chamber 11 through openings 16. The stove described above may be enclosed in a plain or ornamental casing of iron, faience, or other material for use as a portable stove, in which case a flue pipe carries away the products of combustion.
Patent GB-190415140-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Reservoir Pens.
Inventor: RUE EVELYN DE LA
Filed: 1904-07-06
Granted: 1905-05-04
Abstract: 15,140. De la Rue, E. July 6. Pens, reservoir. Two ink ducts a, a<1> are provided in the plug holding the nib ; one supplies ink to the top of the nib, the other to the underside, while the plug is also provided with two air ducts b, b<1>. The nib is shown dotted at c.
Patent GB-190418071-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Pulverizing Mills.
Inventor: ALLISON CHARLES ARTHUR
Filed: 1904-08-20
Granted: 1904-10-13
Abstract: 18,071. Allison, C. A., [Elspass Roller Quartz Mill and Manufacturing Co.]. Aug. 20. Sifting nres &c.-In the pulverizing- mill shown in Fig. 1, the ground material passes through a screen D<6> which forms a vertical periphery to the rotating pan D. The screen is cleaned by scrapers mounted on a stationary bar. The sifted substances then fall into a trough D<7> having an inclined bottom, whence they pass out by the shoot D9.
Patent GB-190420102-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to Machines for Wrapping Goods.
Inventor: LAKE WILLIAM EDWARD
Filed: 1904-09-17
Granted: 1905-08-24
Abstract: 20,102. Lake, W. E., [Kustner FrÞres]. Sept. 17. Parcelling sweetmeats &c.-In a machine for wrapping-up sweetmeats &c., the sweetmeats are placed on an inclined vibrating tray whence they pass, one by one, to a conveyer belt which carries each sweetmeat forward until it is pressed, together with a wrapper, into a mould in a carrier-wheel When the majority of the folding operations have been performed, the sweetmeat is transferred from the carrier-wheel to a discharge channel, the roof of which is so shaped that it completes the folding operations. The rectangular sweetmeats q are placed on the inclined tray I, Figs. 11 and 12, which is given a vertical vibratory movement by the cam K and a horizontal vibratory movement by a face-cam on the driving-shaft b. The movement of the tray, which is controlled by springs, causes the sweetmeats to pass, one by one, past the guide P on to the belt q<1>, running in the channel N. A wrapper is cut from the web m, Fig. 1, by the reciprocating knife r, and the sweetmeat is then forced into one of eight moulds, in the intermittently-rotating carrier i, by the plunger e<2>; connected to the slide e, driven by a crank on the shaft b. The sweetmeat is held in the mould by two spring-pressed pivoted pieces n, o. The shaft h, carrying the carrier i, is then rotated through an eighth of a revolution by a crank on the shaft b engaging with one of eight radial slots in a disc fixed to the shaft h. The projecting side flap of .the wrapper is tucked in by a roller t<3>, which presses back the pieces n, o one after the other. The tucking-roller t<3> is carried by the piece t, which is pressed forward by the spring u<1> bearing against the slide e, and is retracted by a spring pawl t<6>, Fig. 3<a>, on the slide e, engaging with the pin t<5> on the arm t<4>. The wrapper is folded into the form shown in Fig. 8<a> by folders s, Fig. 1, worked from the slide e, and the projecting ends of the wrapper are then turned down by rotating blades v, pressed by springs against the sides of the carrier i. The sweetmeat is held in place, during the further rotation of the carrier, by plates w pressed against the carrier i by springs surrounding the rods w<1>. When the sweetmeat comes opposite the channel x, it is forced out of the mould in the carrier by a horizontally-reciprocating piece g' connected to a slide worked from the shaft b. The roof x<1> of the channel x, which has vertical springs at its sides, is so curved that it folds down the remaining upstanding flaps of the wrapper. The carrier i is held immovable in its positions of rest by means of an extension on the reciprocating piece g<2> engaging with one of the eight radial slots in the previouslymentioned driving-disc fixed to the shaft h.
Patent GB-190422688-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in the Manufacture of Steel and in the Smelting or Reduction of Iron or other Ores and Metals.
Inventor: ZOHRAB EDWARD TRAVERS
Filed: 1904-10-21
Granted: 1905-08-24
Abstract: 22,688. Zohrab, E. T. Oct. 21. Drawings to Specification. Carbonizing-kilns; gas-producers.-Peat gas employed in a special smelting process for the production of steel and iron in blast furnaces of special construction is obtained by charring peat or peat moss in an oven of the type described in Specification No. 26,191, A.D. 1896. The peat may be placed in a receptacle and then run into the oven, the heating of which may be augmented by introducing into surrounding flues either combustible gases and air or the gases drawn off from the top of the smelting-furnace.
Patent GB-190423957-A (GB)
Title: A New or Improved Convertible Canopied Chair.
Inventor: PUGH FRANK
Filed: 1904-11-05
Granted: 1904-12-15
Abstract: 23,957. Pugh, F., and George, A. W. Nov. 5. Litters, ambulance.-Relates to a folding chair which may be converted into a bed or couch or into an ambulance stretcher. The chair consists of side-bars 2, Fig. 1, supported by hinged frames 5, 6 and carrying a swinging frame 7, which is pivoted at 8 and is capable of being secured at varying inclinations by a pivoted frame 17 engaging notched pieces 21 on the inside of the bars 2. A frame 10, provided with cross-pieces 15, 20, is hinged to the top of the frame 7, and is supported in an approximately horizontal position by arms 12, pivoted to the frame 7 by removable pins 14, to carry the upper end of a web of fabric to form a canopy. The web 1 is secured to the cross-piece 20 and the bar 19 of the supporting-frame 5, and hangs loosely between the latter bar and the detachable cross-piece 15. When the arrangement is used as a couch or bed, the frames 7, 10 are swung backwards into a horizontal position and supported by securing the arms 12 and frame 17 to the rear supporting-frame 6 by means of pins 22. Additional support is provided by connecting the frame 7 and bars 2 together by means of pins 23, 24. In this position, the web 1 is supported at the front by the bar 9 of the frame 7. To convert the bed into an ambulance stretcher, as shown in Fig. 3, the hinged frame 10 is temporarily slightly raised and the front supporting-frame 5 folded beneath the bars 2 as shown. For purposes of transport, the frame 17 and arms 12 are disconnected from the frame 6, which is then folded beneath the bars 2, and the frame 10 is folded over on to the frame 7. In this position, the tension of the web is maintained by the cross-piece 15, which is detached except when the appliance is used as a chair or is closed up. The supports 5, 6 may at their upper ends be formed with tenons which enter mortices in the bars 2, and additional bolts may be provided at the junction 11 of the frames 7, 10 to afford additional support when the frame 10 is in its extended position. The removable pins 14, 22, 23, 24 are preferably attached to the arrangement by chains.
Patent GB-190500352-A (GB)
Title: Protective Apparatus for Alternating Current Circuits.
Inventor: DAVIS HARRY PHILLIPS
Filed: 1905-01-07
Granted: 1905-04-20
Abstract: 352. Davis, H. P., and Conrad, F. Jan. 20, 1904, [date applied for under Patents Act, 1901]. Cut-outs ; distributing. - In alternating-current distribution having transmission lines in parallel, means are provided for breaking the circuit in any of the lines should there be a reversal of energy flow, or when the current in any conductor exceeds, by a predetermined amount, the current in a corresponding conductor of another line. A relay in inductive relation through transformers with the lines serves to close the tripping-circuits of circuit-breakers. Fig. 1 shows the application to a three-phase system in which a load 2 is supplied from the generator 1 through conductors 4, 5, 6 and 7, 8, 9. Transformers 13, 14 are in series with the conductors 4, 7. They supply current to coils 15, 16, which are in inductive relation with a coil 17 but normally do not affect it. Transformers 131, 141 are also in series with the conductors 6, 9. At 19 is the instrument for closing the circuit of the tripping-magnets 27, 28 of the circuit-breakers. It comprises two watt-meters having their.moving parts mechanically connected. The voltage winding 20 of one receives its energy from a transformer 22 of special construction, there being two magnetic circuits so arranged that the voltage supplied is practically constant. The core 222 has one magnetic circuit of small reluctance and the other of large reluctance, being provided with any air gap 225. The series coil 18 of the watt-meter is connected to the coil 17. The coils 181, 201 of the second watt-meter are similarly connected to the transformers 171, 221. Should a short-circuit occur, say at 31, the balance is disturbed, and contact is made at 23, 24, so energizing the tripcoil 27 of the circuit-breaker in the faulty line. The core for the coils 15, 16, 17, when designed to operate on reversal of energy flow only, is shown in Fig. 3, there being an air gap at 30 and the magnetic flux being forced through the middle leg and energizing the coil 17 on current reversal in either of the coils 15, 16. When it is desired that the circuit-breakers should operate with an excessive flow in one conductor, the core and winding shown in Fig. 4 are employed, the coils 15, 16 acting in opposition. A similar arrangement may be employed on a two-phase system. Circuitbreakers of ordinary construction may be provided at 10, 11 to operate under ordinary conditions of overload &c.
Patent GB-190505980-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Alternating Current Dynamo Elecric Machines.
Filed: 1905-03-21
Granted: 1905-12-14
Abstract: 5980. British Thomson-Houston Co., [General Electric Co.]. March 21. Switches. - A centrifugally - operated switch, for use in connexion with a dynamo-electric machine having two relativelymovable sets of brushes upon its commutator, consists of a pivoted arm H, Fig. 3, held against a stop h, when the machine is at rest, by a spring I and carrying a contact J which is adapted to bridge contacts j when the machine reaches a certain speed.
Patent GB-190509991-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Electric Switches
Filed: 1905-05-12
Granted: 1905-11-02
Abstract: 9991. Electric Ignition Co., and Hall, F. H. May 12. Switches particularly adapted for the ignition systems of internal-combustion engines on motor bicycles &c. As shown applied to a system with two separate accumulators, on the ebonite or like base a clipped to the handle-bar &c. is a contactlever d in which there is a slot g so as to render the lever capable, not only of rotating, but also of moving longitudinally on the pin f. A tension spring e tends to pull the rounded nose d' of the switch lever into engagement with the pair of the terminals b<1>, b<2>, c<1>, c<2> between which it happens to be. The edges of the hollowed part of the cover h limit the movement of the switch arm, and, instead of the switch being made with four terminals as a "two-way" switch, it may be constructed with three terminals as a " one-way " switch.
Patent GB-190510088-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in the Construction of Ships.
Inventor: AISBITT MATHEW WELDON
Filed: 1905-05-13
Granted: 1905-10-12
Abstract: 10,088. Aisbitt, M. W., and Shotton, J. W. May f3. Bulkheads; tanks; compartments. -- Below the main deck of.the vessel, the space is divided by a vertical longitudinal bulkhead E, and between the main deck and the upper deck A the space is divided by two longitudinal bulkheads F<1>, F<2>, enclosing a compartment G. The sides F', F<2> are, preferably, sloped together near the bottom. The wing-spaces H<1>, H<2> are in communication with the lower portion of the hold, being specially adapted for grain cargoes. The compartment G may be used for ballast, cargo, or passengers. The whole structure is stated to form an efficient longitudinal girder.