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Patent GB-189815100-A (GB)
Title: Electrical Influence Machines.
Inventor: PIDGEON WINTER RANDELL
Filed: 1898-07-09
Granted: 1899-03-18
Abstract: 15,100. Pidgeon, W. R. July 9. Influence machines. - Conducting - sectors are placed near one another on discs D or drums of ebonite, glass, or other material, and covered with a mixture I of equal weights of paraffin wax and resin, which is spread over the entire surfaces of the sectors and discs or drums, so that only contactbuttons M project. The surfaces are afterwards varnished with filtered shellac varnish. The machines are arranged so that the sectors are influenced from both sides simultaneously. A machine may consist of two oppositely-rotating discs, each carrying several concentric projecting cylinders, containing conducting-sectors, of such radii that those on one disc pass between those on the other. For this machine, the sectors may be attached to thin sheet ebonite, which is rolled into cylindrical form, in one or more layers, and is fixed by screws in circular grooves cut in the discs. Contact-knobs are fixed on the outsides of the discs. Otherwise sheet-metal sectors may be supported in a mould, shaped to form a disc with projecting cylinders in one piece, of plastic rubber, which is afterwards vulcanized. Fig. 1 shows a half elevation, and Fig. 2 a side view, of a machine having two oppositely-rotating discs D, with radial sectors. The earthing brushes E pass through stationary inductors A, which are covered with insulating-material, and are charged from points B in advance of the main collectors C.
Patent GB-189815438-A (GB)
Title: Apparatus for Cutting off the Excess Tobacco Protruding from one end of the Paper-tube of Cigarettes provided with a Paper Mouth-piece.
Inventor: HAGELBERG GUSTAF ADOLF
Filed: 1898-07-13
Granted: 1899-07-13
Abstract: 15,438. Hagelberg, G. A., and Lindel÷f, L. July 13. Cigarette - making machines. - Relates to a machine for cutting off the excess tobacco protruding from the end of a cigarette tube after the insertion of a mouthpiece. A shaft 4 is mounted upon the base-plate 1, and is revolved by means of a flywheel 7 having a handle 8, or by mechanical means. A gear-wheel 23 on the shaft 4 engages a pinion 22 on a shaft 17 which carries a cutting- disc 18. A drum 5 is mounted upon the shaft 4, and has a longitudinal groove to receive a cigarette which is supplied from an inclined table 9. An adjustable piece 6 serves to regulate the machine according to the length of the cigarette. A sleeve 24 is fixed on the shaft 4, and carries a spring- controlled pin 29 having a disc 30 adapted to come against the end of the cigarette and keep it in the groove. A bell-crank lever 26 is pivoted at 25 to an arm of the sleeve 24, the long arm of the lever engaging with the pin 29 and the short arm with a fixed guard piece 27. The pin is held in the position shown in full lines in Fig. 2, when the cigarette is dropped into the groove and then assumes the position shown in dotted lines, so as to retain the cigarette in position. As the drum 5 revolves, the cutter 18 cuts off the excess of tobacco. The cutter 18 is held pressed against the drum 18 by a spring 19. The cigarette after being cut is dropped down the plane 10. Guard casings enclose part of the mechanism. The capacity of the machine may be increased by providing the drum 5 with several grooves, the sleeve 24 being provided with a corresponding number of pins 29 and levers 26.
Patent GB-189821969-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Permutation Locks.
Inventor: LEIGHTON RICHARD BENJAMIN HENR
Filed: 1898-10-18
Granted: 1899-03-18
Abstract: 21,969. Leighton, R. B. H., and Leighton, J. Oct. 18. Locks, permutation.-Figs. 2, 3, and 4 show the invention applied to a padlock. The cupped head 5 of the lock has a central pin 8 carrying a sleeve 9, in which slides the bolt 10 with a loose circular head 12. The bow 7 is pivoted at 6 in the head 5, and has an enlargement 14 at the other end, engaging in a recess in the head 12 when the latter is pushed home. The bolt has a lug 10<b>, and carries a bent spring 10<c>. The outward movement of the bolt is normally limited by the lip 10<a> on the spring engaging a screw 11 in the sleeve, but by depressing the spring at 10<c> the bolt can be further drawn out till the lug 10<b> engages the screw. Flanged rings 21 are mounted on the sleeve, and have feathers 27 engaging in any one of the internal grooves 26, Fig. 4, in surrounding rings 25. These rings have the combination letters &c. on their circumferences, and, when correctly set, recesses 23 in the rings 21 align with lugs 16 on the bolt and allow the latter to be withdrawn, and the bow turned. The sleeve has a slot 15 to receive the lugs 16, and is prevented from rotating by a spring arm 17, fixed to and passing diametrically through it, and engaging one of a number of notches 19, Fig. 3, in the head 5. The lower end 17<a> of this arm, and a flange 9 on the sleeve, prevent lateral movement of the rings 21. When the bolt is in its most extended position, the combination may be altered, either by sliding the rings 25 off the feathers 27, and changing their angular positions, or by changing the angular position of the arm 17. The screw may also be removed through an aperture 24. When applied to a satchel or hand-bag, the parts 32, 33, Fig. 5, of the bag are held together by a lug 30 on the head 12 entering a recess 31. When the bolt is drawn out, the head can be turned to allow the parts 32, 33 to be separated.
Patent GB-189822515-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Locks.
Inventor: MICHAELSEN ERNST
Filed: 1898-10-26
Granted: 1899-04-08
Abstract: 22,515. Michaelsen, E. May 11, [date applied for under Sec. 103 of Patents &c. Act, A.D. 1883]. Locks, key.-Relates to spring locks of the Yale type, the bolt being so secured in its slot position that it is impossible to push it in from the outside. The spindle h is provided with an arm g of the shape shown in Fig. 3, longitudinal motion of the spindle h in the direction of the arrow in Fig. 4 compressing a spring m. The free or lower end of the bar k projects into a slot l in the upper end of the spindle h, the shape of the slot allowing motion of the spindle h on either side of its central position, through an angle v. In the hooks f, f<1> are cut angular notches n, n<1> respectively, allowing the arm g to pass through the hooks f or f<1> when the spindle h is pulled out and turned. When the key is turned from the outside to fasten the lock, the arm g takes up the position g<1> behind the hook, the sloping surface of the slot l meeting the bar k, and the bolt is thus prevented from being pushed inwards by any outside means. Pulling the spindle h outwards and turning in the direction shown by the arrow, the spindle will, under the action of the spring m, assume its normal position with the arm g in front of the hook f. Turning the spindle h in the direction opposite to that shown by the arrow will now cause the arm g to pull the bolt inward. The notches n, n' are so arranged in the hooks f, f<1> that the bolt mechauism may be reversed.
Patent GB-189827457-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Cigarette Holders and Cigar Holders.
Inventor: KING AUGUSTINE ALMA
Filed: 1898-12-29
Granted: 1899-06-24
Abstract: 27,457. King, A. A. Dec. 29. Cigar and cigarette holders.-Relates to a construction of holder by which the end of the cigar or cigarette may be easily ejected. In the stem of the holder is a tube d screwed at one end into the mouthpiece g, and having a flange h at the other end. The flange h is held down on a ring k of soft material, by the pressure of a spring f surrounding the tube b. The mouthpiece and tube b may be pushed forward, against the pressure of the spring, to eject the cigar &c. end. A ferrule i covers the ends of the holder a and mouthpiece g, and may be fixed to either of them, the other sliding in it. In a modification, the passage for the smoke is around the rod d instead of through it.
Patent GB-189901232-A (GB)
Title: Process of and Means for Transforming Electric Currents.
Inventor: THOMSEN HANS PETER JORGEN JULI
Filed: 1899-01-18
Granted: 1899-03-18
Abstract: 1232. Thomsen, H. P. J. J. Jan. 18. Transformers; switches.- -Relates to an arrangement of accumulators and a switch to obtain low-tension currents. The accumulator is divided into groups of cells which are connected by the conductors a .. a<12> to the brushes g .. g<12> of a commutator switch. On the drum e are mounted spiral contacts h, i connected to metal end caps suitably connected to the working circuit d<1>, d<2>. On continuously rotating the drum the current is supplied from the successive groups. A secondary battery c may be connected to the working circuit to supply current during the momentary breaks at the commutator.
Patent GB-189905808-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Exhaust Valves for Internal Combustion Motors.
Inventor: CROSSLEY WILLIAM JOHN
Filed: 1899-03-17
Granted: 1900-06-16
Abstract: 5808. Crossley, W. J., and Coster, A. V. March 17. Gas and like engines, valves for. The pressure tending to hold closed the exhaust valve is counterbalanced by the opening of a relief valve just before the exhaust valve is to be opened. In Fig. 1, the relief valve F puts the space behind the piston C on the valve into communication with the cylinder B ; in Fig. 3, the space above the piston K is opened to the atmosphere by the valve I. A modified form of the valve shown in Fig. 1, with the valve F formed in it, is also described. In each case cooling-water is circulated through the valves.
Patent GB-189906814-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Ball Grinding Mills.
Filed: 1899-03-29
Granted: 1899-04-29
Abstract: 6814. Lake, H. H., [Krupp Grusonwerk, F.]. March 29. Ball mills for ores &c. The drum 4, surrounded by coarse and fine sieves 5, 6, which are provided with plates 7 for the return of insufficientlyreduced material, is placed above a trough in which water is caused to circulate. Nozzles 11 are also arranged to spray water upon the outer sieve. Water is fed into the trough by a pipe 10 ; it escapes, carrying with it the lighter particles of ores &c., over the gate 12, which is adjusted so as to maintain the water at about the level of the inner sieve. The heavy particles of the material escape into a trough 14 by a pipe 13, which may be made telescopic to permit of the regulation of the fineness of the delivered material.
Patent GB-189910659-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Mud Guard for Cycles.
Inventor: BEYERMANN MAX
Filed: 1899-05-20
Granted: 1899-06-24
Abstract: 10,659. Beyermann, M., and Thym, A. May 20. Guards, mud.-A flexible strip a of oilcloth, india-rubber cloth, or other stiff material is provided with a hook g for attachment to the crosspiece of the rear fork of a bicycle &c., and extends under the stay m and the bottom bracket to the head. It is held in position by hooked clips d, and is fitted with a slide S for adjusting its length. The rear projecting part is fitted with an air tube h, which may be inflated through a valve i to render it sufficiently rigid to clear the wheel. When not in use, the guard is detached and rolled up so that it can be carried in the pocket.
Patent GB-189912088-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Ball and Roller Bearings.
Inventor: BIRD HENRY JOHN
Filed: 1899-06-09
Granted: 1900-06-09
Abstract: 12,088. Bird, H. J. June 9. Ball and roller bearings.-Fig. 1 shows a ball bearing for a back wheel hub. Two sets of balls B are employed running between cones D, D<1> on the tube G and cups A in the hub and cones C on the axle respectively. The length of the tube G is adjustable, and the adjustment is locked by the small tube G<1>, on which a left-hand thread is cut. Rollers may be used instead of balls.
Patent GB-189913482-A (GB)
Title: Device for Golf-holes.
Inventor: TURNER EDWARD AUGUSTUS
Filed: 1899-06-29
Granted: 1899-09-02
Abstract: 13,482. Turner, E. A. Dec. 27, A.D. 1898, [date applied for under Sec. 103 of Patents &c. Act, A.D. 1883]. Golf.-In order that the flag or marker may be placed in an upright position within the golf-hole, the device shown in Fig. 2 is employed. It consists essentially of the casing A and of a funnel-shaped portion B, which opens into a socket D for the reception o f t h e flagstaff. The portion B may be cast integrally with the casing, or may be constructed separately therefrom.
Patent GB-189914795-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Acetylene Gas Lamps.
Inventor: SNYDER GEORGE G
Filed: 1899-07-18
Granted: 1899-12-30
Abstract: 14,795. Snyder, G. G., and West, M. L. July 18. Acetylene lamps specially adapted for cycles. Water from the chamber 1 passes through channels 11, 12 in the plug 7 and perforations 9 in the tube 6 to the carbide, and the gas escapes to the burner 14. The supply of water through the channel 12 is regulated by the gas pressure. A gauze cylinder 10 surrounding the tube 6 is held in place by the cap 8, while the chambers 1 and 2 are screwed to the flanged d plate 4.
Patent GB-189921669-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Electric Meters.
Filed: 1899-10-30
Granted: 1900-02-03
Abstract: 21,669. British Thomson - Houston Co., [Thomson, E.]. Oct. 30. Energy and quantity meters.-A continuouscurrent motor meter having no brake is arranged as shown. Stationary main current coils K<1> tend to turn a movable coil P, connected with additional resistance R<1> between the mains 1, 2, in opposition to a spring 8, and so that an arm 5 of the coil P touches a contact 6. This closes the primary circuit of a motorgenerator A between the mains. The armature A is situated in a permanent magnetic field, and its speed increases until the proportional secondary current, which passes through stationary coils K, balances the effect of the main current coils K<1>, on the movable coil P. The spring 8 then opens the contact 5, 6, and the speed of the motor-generator falls off until the effect of the main current again closes the contact. These operations continue, and the motor-generator thus runs at speeds varying about a mean proportional to the main current, if the pressure remains constant, or to the power supplied, and its revolutions are registered by a counter C.
Patent GB-189923289-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Controlling Devices for Electric Motors.
Filed: 1899-11-22
Granted: 1900-01-06
Abstract: 23,289. British Thomson-Houston Co., [Potter, W. B.]. Nov. 22. Switches for motors. An electromagnetic arrangement checks a too rapid forward movement of the controller, but does not interfere with the return movement. The connections are so arranged that the electromagnet is always in the circuit whatever may be the relative arrangement of the motors. Fig. 2 shows one form of construction. The controller cylinder Kis fitted with a disc E projecting through a slot A' in the casing A and having a number of recesses e along its edge. An electromagnet F, suitably connected to the circuit, is fixed on the casing, and its armature has an extension 0 fitted with a tooth adapted to engage in the recesses where the current exceeds the limit. Preferably in normal working the coil F is in a shunt circuit, and the main current only flows through it when the current exceeds the limit. Fig. 3 is a diagram showing this arrangement with motors M<1>, M' in series. Normally the current flows through the circuit-breaker CB, fitted with a coil N and adjustable spring n, but, when the current exceeds the limit, the circuitbreaker acts and the full current flows through the coil F. Fig. 4 shows the circuits and connections in a series-parallel controller so arranged that the coil F is always in series with one of the motors, whether they are in series, or in parallel, or whether one of the motors is cut-out by manipulating the cut-out switches CO' or CO<2>. In another arrangement, for two motors, the coil F is in two sections, one section being connected with one motor and the other section with the second motor.
Patent GB-190010303-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Ship's Logs.
Inventor: COOMBS JOHN COLBY
Filed: 1900-06-05
Granted: 1900-09-22
Abstract: 10,303. Coombs, J. C., and McGray, A. N. June 5. Logs.-The body A of the log, which may be of glass, or may be provided with an inspection aperture a<7> and rotary cover, is formed in three parts with partitions C, B, a<10>, the two first forced against packed shoulders by screw rings. Two water-tight chambers I, J and a packing-chamber C<3> are thus formed in the front of the casing. The rotator O is mounted on a shaft L, taking its end bearing in the frame N of the steadying vane or vanes n, so that the rotator is pushed through the water as the log is drawn along and the strain of the other parts is reduced. A guide-rod K is provided for a carriage k, which is fed from end to end of the chamber M by a right and left handed screw on the shaft L, a finger k<1> riding alternately in one thread and the other. When the carriage reaches the front of the chamber, it thrusts a rod G to the right, and completes circuit at the contacts E, F for the electric recorder on board, showing distance and time. The cable may carry two wires or the return may be made through earth. Flexible waterproof sleeves H prevent water from passing along by the side of the rod G into either of the chambers I, J. To remove any water which may collect in the chamber M, disconnected helical grooves l are made in the shaft L, and a similar groove in the casing ; these grooves act as a rotary pump.
Patent GB-190011097-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Electrical Accumulators or Secondary Batteries and in the Manufacture of the same.
Inventor: WOODWARD HENRY
Filed: 1900-06-19
Granted: 1901-03-02
Abstract: 11,097. Woodward, H. June 19. Secondary batteries.-The positive plates are made from thin strips or tapes p<1>, p<2>, Fig. 2, of lead pivoted together so as to form trellis or lattice work. A hollow tube may be attached to the upper and lower edges of the plates, and these tubes are perforated and filled with active material. Fig. 6 shows a similar plate, made by interweaving two strips p<6>, p<7> with each other. The active material is laid roughly on the plates, and then smoothed down by rollers. The negative plates may be of the same construction as the positive plates, or helically-wound lead wires may be used in their construction as shown in Figs. 7 and 8. The faces of the strips may be serrated or roughened. A separator is made from thin celluloid, which is finely perforated and then corrugated.
Patent GB-190016121-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to Typewriting Machines.
Inventor: NAUMANN BRUNO
Filed: 1900-09-11
Granted: 1901-09-11
Abstract: 16,121. Naumann, B. Sept. 11. Type-writers. - Relates to means for facilitating the writing of columns of figures, tables, &c. The paper carriage is provided with a rearwardly. extending arm g, adapted to engage with stops e carried by a toothed bar E. The bar E is supported by a frame A carried by a rock-shaft b movable longitudinally in its bearings. The arm h<1> of the frame A is pivoted to a lever C, which is itself adapted to turn about a pin J passing through a slot in the lever, so that the latter can be moved both to shift the frame A in a plane parallel with the carriage, and to rock it so as to bring the stop or stops e into the path of the arm g. A horizontal portion k of the frame A is adapted to engage with a lever k when the frame is rocked, and so release the carriage rack R from engagement with the pinion P of the escapement feed-mechanism. The carriage is then advanced by its driving-spring until the arm g abuts against the stop e. The forward end of the lever C is arranged to move beneath a segmental scale f, provided with notches f<1>, with one of which a tooth N on the lever is made to engage when the carriage is required to stop at the corresponding point. The lever C is, however, normally held in a forwardly-projected position by means of a controlling-spring p<1>. The movement of the carriage when released is clamped by a brake m, which is pressed against the carriage-driving spring drum n by a spring-cushioned plate c', when the lever C is pushed towards the rear.
Patent GB-190022233-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Electric Railways, Tramways, and the like on a Sectional Conductor System.
Inventor: KANDO COLEMAN
Filed: 1900-12-06
Granted: 1901-02-16
Abstract: 22,233. Kand¾, C. Dec. 6. Electric railways and tramways on a sectional conductor system arranged so that the section preceding that occupied by the vehicle is rendered temporarily dead until the vehicle passes to the next section. Conductors; switches.-Each section 1, 2, 3, &c. is normally connected to the main conductor 11 at its ends by switches 5, 6, 7, 8, &c. Those numbered with even numbers at the end of a section are shown separately in Fig. 2, and those at the beginning with even numbers in Fig. 3. When the vehicle 19 passes a gap between sections 1, 2 for instance, it opens the switches 5, 6 either mechanically or by an electric apparatus 12 ; current is thereby cut off from the coil 16, and the magnet 20 liberates the hooks 23, 25, allowing the switch 8 to close and the switch 7 to drop on to the second hook, so that it remains open. Closure of the switch 8 restores current to the section 3 and coil 17, which withdraws the hook 26 at the previous switch 9, allowing that to close also.
Patent GB-190103603-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Type Distributing Apparatus.
Inventor: MARKS GEORGE CROYDON
Filed: 1901-02-19
Granted: 1901-05-11
Abstract: 3603. Marks, G. C., [Breakey, J.]. Feb. 19. Type, distributing.-Relates to type-distributing apparatus of the class described in Specifications No. 3103, A.D. 1878, and No. 3477, A.D. 1881, and consists of means for preventing wear on the type by automatically opening the shutter latches before inserting the type into the shutter channels. Fig. 1 is a sectional elevation shewing a lifter L in a shutter channel C, and Fig. 5 a section through a channel C showing its shutter latch S. The types T are transferred from the galley channel on to the lifter L by a reciprocating pusher D. The shutter latch s is pressed into the channel C by a spring s, and is opened before the entrance of a type by an adjustable opener O on a pivoted lever B, having a cam projection b engaged by a roller r on the lifter ring R. When the ring R rises, the opener 0 is depressed and its rounded edge engages the latch S and forces it back against the pressure of the spring s, and holds it while the type is fed into the channel C.
Patent GB-190103860-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Electromagnets.
Filed: 1901-02-22
Granted: 1902-01-30
Abstract: 3860. Sheppard, E. G., Solomon, M., and Nernst Electric Light, Ltd. Feb. 22. Cut-outs. - An electromagnet suitable for use in cut-outs or other apparatus, and especially in connection with Nernst lamps, is provided with a nearly-closed magnetic circuit, composed of two pieces of iron B, B' of the form shown. The armature D is carried by a long thin spring C, free throughout its length, and, when attracted, it almost fills the air gap between the parts B and B<1>.