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Patent GB-190217078-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to Cash Registers
Inventor: PIERCE RAY VAUGHN
Filed: 1902-08-01
Granted: 1903-03-12
Abstract: 17,078. Lake, H. H., [Pierce, R. V.]. Aug. 1. Receipts, checking and recording.-Relates to apparatus for indicating and registering cash pay. ments, of the kind in which handles 35, Fig. 1, are raised to an extent corresponding with the amount paid, whereby certain indicating-drums are correspondingly turned, the subsequent movement of a crank handle 49 serving to raise the indicating- drums to windows 50 and to put mechanism into action whereby the return of the handles 35 actuates totalizing-registers. The present improvements have reference to printing-mechanism for use with such a register, whereby the amount of each successive payment is printed on a tape. The raising of the handles 35 is caused, by means of segmental toothed racks, trains of toothed wheels, and a series of concentric shafts, to set corresponding type-discs 87 in position to print the proper number on the tape 112. This tape is wound off the reel 111 on to the reel 116, the former being on a fixed pivot, while the latter is mounted on a rocking frame 94, which also carries guide-rollers for the tape. By the movement of the crank handle 49, the spindle of which is shown at 41, this frame is tilted over to bring the tape against the type-discs, an inking-roller 151, on a subsidiary pivoted frame 147, being first rolled over the type. The tape-carrying frame is mounted loosely on the spindle 41, but is turned with it by a projection 145, Fig. 13, engaging a sleeve or button 139. By turning this button until the gap shown in it is opposite to the shaft 41, the printing-apparatus is put out of action, since the projection 145 then merely passes into the gap ; at such times also the inking-roller is held clear of the type-discs, because the tail 154 of the subsidiary frame cannot come back into the recess in the button 139. The tape-carrying frame is locked in the printing position by a catch lever 157, which is normally held back by a pin on a disc on the shaft 41. Means are also provided for locking the levers 35, by means of a catch and toothed rack, during the registering and printing. The tape is advanced after each printing by ratchet gearing on the winding-on roller 116.. This gearing is operated by the movement of the tape-carrying frame, the pawl lever 129 being linked by the bar 131 to the fixed axle of the winding-off roller 111.
Patent GB-190222817-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Trolley Heads for Electric Railways and Tramways on the Overhead System
Inventor: SCHULTZ CHARLES STAFFORD
Filed: 1902-10-20
Granted: 1903-02-12
Abstract: 22,817. Schultz, C. S. Oct. 20. Electric railways and tramways with overhead conductors. Collectors.-The centre E of the trolley wheel is placed slightly behind the centre line F of the vertical axis of the swivelling head, so that the wheel will follow the wire more easily when it is at the side. An arm G is attached to the lower end of the swivelling part, and used for bringing the groove of the trolley wheel into alignment with the pole. This may be done by attaching the ordinary trolley-pole rope to the arm and leading it through a guide, such as a ring or pulley H on the pole. The swivelling casing A is hemispherical, shouldered slightly to receive the bearing of the trolley wheel, and slotted so that the wheel can run freely in it.
Patent GB-190225830-A (GB)
Title: Improved Manufacture of Paper for use as Wrappers for Cigars, Cigarettes, and for other purposes.
Inventor: BOULT ALFRED JULIUS
Filed: 1902-11-24
Granted: 1903-04-16
Abstract: 25,830. Boult, A. J., [Marsden, M. W.]. Nov. 24. Cigar and cigarette paper.-Relates to the production from tobacco stems &c. of paper suitable for making the outer coverings or wrappings of cigars, cigarettes, &c. The stems are boiled for two or three hours at 80 1b. pressure in a closed vessel, such as a pulp digester. The material is then pressed, washed, combed, pulped, and made into paper in the usual way, the paper being embossed, if desired, with markings to resemble those of the natural leaf. From one to two per cent. of glycerine, and one-half to one per cent. of liquorice may be added to the pulp. To colour the paper &c., the pulp has added to it the purified solution or juice obtained from the boiling operation, or the paper itself may be stained or impregnated with it. The juice is purified by straining and heating in a closed receptacle to a temperature exceeding 250‹ F., when the pressure is suddenly relieved, the residue being subsequently evaporated until the mineral matters crystallize out.
Patent GB-190225836-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Drawing Instruments.
Inventor: OPEL MAGNUS
Filed: 1902-11-24
Granted: 1903-02-19
Abstract: 25,836. Opel, M., and Fischer, A. Nov. 24. Drawings to Specification. Mathematical drawing-instruments.-To prevent contact with the drawing-paper, squares, rulers, scales, French curves, &c. are fitted with projecting ridges.
Patent GB-190226582-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Air Balloons.
Inventor: CHIODERA ALFRED
Filed: 1902-12-02
Granted: 1903-06-04
Abstract: 26,582. Chiodera, A. June 6, [date applied for under Patents Act, A.D. 1901]. AÙrostats.-The envelope a is made expansible, a portion b being supported on a trussed frame d e hinged at c and attached to the rest by bellows pleats.
Patent GB-190226813-A (GB)
Title: Automatic Valves for Fixing on to the Inspection Arms of Intercepters of Sewers and Drains.
Inventor: FIRTH FRED
Filed: 1902-12-05
Granted: 1903-05-07
Abstract: 26,813. Firth, F. Dec. 5. Traps; inspection openings.-The object is to provide a vent for pent-up sewage if, for any reason, a siphon track becomes blocked. For this purpose, a disc valve J, swinging on a pivot K and carrying a float L, is fitted to the inspection opening B, as shown. Should the siphon 0 become blocked, the sewage behind it raises the float and opens the valve, thereby preventing back-flooding. The valve consists of a ring I covered in by a copper back-plate and working over a seat E. It is arrested in closing by a stop G, and guided when opening by a guard N terminating in a stop O. Other kinds of valve than that illustrated may be used in a similar manner.
Patent GB-190300542-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Apparatus for Roasting Coffee.
Inventor: IMRAY OLIVER
Filed: 1903-01-08
Granted: 1903-03-26
Abstract: 542. Imray, O., [Lester, G. C., and Moegling, C. W. A.]. Jan. 8. Heating by electricity.-An electrically heated and driven apparatus for roasting coffee has a rotary drum 1 adjustably fixed on a shaft 2, driven by an arrangement of spur and bevel gearing from the armature shaft 8 of an electric motor 9. The drum 1 is divided by a perforated partition 29 into a central roasting-chamber 31 and an outer annular chamber 32 in which the electric heaters are arranged. Helical agitating-blades 33, 34 are fixed in the chamber 31. One side of the drum 1 is closed by a plate 11, and the opposite side is open, but is provided with a ring 25 having bearing- surfaces 37, 38 which co-act with similar surfaces on a fixed plate 12, which closes the side of the drum. The shaft 2 can be adjusted by a nut 40 in its bearing 41 to enable the bearing-surfaces to be properly adjusted to prevent any of the beans falling out of the drum. A feed-hopper 14, a discharge opening 16, and a sampling-hole are provided in the plate 12, and can all be closed by suitable shutters. The electric heaters, which are wound upon spools 46 with helical grooves, are mounted in the annular chamber 32. There are four sets of heaters having three spools in each joined up in multiple. The current is carried by brushes 61, 62, 63, 64 engaging rings 56, 57, 58,59 on the side of the drum. A switch is provided by which either one, two, or three of the heaters in each set can be thrown into the circuit. The motor 9 is arranged in the same circuit and switches are provided so that the motor and the heaters may be independently energized. The roasted berries are discharged into a trolley 19 with a perforated bottom 20 having a space 21 below, connected with an exhaust to expedite the cooling of the berries.
Patent GB-190301813-A (GB)
Title: An Improvement in Gulleys or Traps for Drains
Inventor: TAYLOR CHARLES
Filed: 1903-01-26
Granted: 1903-03-19
Abstract: 1813. Taylor, C. Jan. 26. Gully traps.-The waste pipes are connected to side inlets a discharging on to a second grating c.
Patent GB-190302151-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Printing Machines.
Inventor: SAUVEE ALBERT
Filed: 1903-01-29
Granted: 1903-11-12
Abstract: 2151. SauvÚe, A. Jan. 29. Associating and collecting apparatus ; delivery apparatus.-Relates to turning-bars, which may be made hollow, and have a stream of air passing out through holes in their length, to prevent the printed part of the paper from touching the bar and also to collecting-cylinders, which are fitted with a pair of specially-operated supplementary grippers, to hold the sheets already on the cylinder while the main set of grippers are taking up another sheet. The turning-bars are arranged as shown in Figs. 1 and 2 ; the paper 2 passes the printing-rollers 4 and the slitting-rollers 5, passing on to the turning-bars as several printed strips a, b, c, d. The turning-bars 1 are made hollow, are connected at one end by flexible connections to a compressed-air supply pipe 6, and have rows of small holes formed in them, partly covered by sliding collars 8. These collars are adjusted to support the unprinted edges of, the sheets, which are prevented from touching the bar in the middle by the streams of compressed air issuing from the small holes in the bar. The air may be heated to assist in drying the ink on the paper, and caps may be used over the outer ends of the bars, to prevent loss of air from the holes not covered by the collars 8. Cylinders, on which it is desirable to accumulate two or more sheets, may be fitted with a supplementary pair of grippers 12, Fig. 5, to hold the previously-collected sheets on the cylinder, while the main grippers 11, take up another sheet, as shown in Fig. 4. The supplementary grippers are actuated from tne fixed cam 22, are connected by a rod 25, and are mounted so as to be capable of adjustment, on replacement to accommodate different widths of sheets. The main grippers are normally actuated from the cam 15 on the fixed shaft, but to release the papers, when enough have been collected, various means may be used ; for instance, a cam 18, fixed on a gear wheel 16, may be moved at such a speed by means of the pinion 17 fixed to the cylinder, that it opens the main grippers through roller 19 simultaneously with the opening of the supplementary grippers 12, and allows the batch of sheets to pass from the cylinder.
Patent GB-190302945-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Advertising Apparatus and Appliances.
Inventor: WARBURTON LUKE MARSDEN
Filed: 1903-02-07
Granted: 1903-12-10
Abstract: 2945. Warburton, L. M. Feb. 7. Advertising.-Relates to moving advertisements. Fig. 1 shows a part sectional front elevation. A disc b, caused to revolve by clockwork, or by an electric or other motor, is provided with a series of small discs c, mounted concentrically with the axis d of the large disc, and one small disc c', mounted freely on the axis d. Each small disc c is provided with a pin or pivot e, either solid or tubular, upon which it can revolve freely, and also with a balance weight f, whereby it is kept in a vertical position with the advertisements thereon in the same horizontal lines during the whole revolution of the large disc. The pins e are fixed to the posterior side, and, if the faces of the small discs are required flush with that of the large, the small discs are fitted in dished recesses g of the latter as shown in Fig. 2. The large disc is fitted in a rectangular frame a, with sufficient space outside to display fixed advertisements, and, if required, with a glazed front. The apparatus may be rendered luminous by making the small discs, or the small and the large discs, of transparent material, and throwing a powerful light from behind upon the same.
Patent GB-190303336-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Automatic Lubricating Apparatus
Inventor: FOWLER ROBERT JOHN
Filed: 1903-02-12
Granted: 1903-03-19
Abstract: 3336. Fowler, R. J., and Briddon, G. Feb. 12. Lubricators.-Fig. 1 shows the automatic lubricating - device as applied to an eccentric. A disc or wheel e mounted upon the eccentric shaft b dips into an enclosed bath d and carries round with it the lubricant, which isarrested by a scraper f and led to a channel g. Thence it drops into a funnel i, and enters the bearing by a suitable passage.
Patent GB-190306501-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Forms for Winding Electric Coils.
Inventor: CAROLAN EDGAR ALFRED
Filed: 1903-03-20
Granted: 1904-02-18
Abstract: 6501. Carolan, E. A., [General Electric Co.]. March 20. Bending. - Relates to forms for winding coils and more especially those intended for armatures, and consists in a winding-form on which coils having different numbers of layers or turns can be formed, or coils composed of conductors having different diameters, while the proper configuration of the coil is obtained in a single operation and the coil is readily removed when completed. Starting from a gauge 17, Fig. 1, carried by a removable plate 11, Fig. 4, and serving to regulate the length of wire to form the leads, the wires are clamped in a cup-shaped piece 19 by means of a screw head, and then wound against inclined walls 22 on the main frame 1, a face 23 on the detachable plate 11 being at right-angles to the wall 22. The wires are then carried across the suitably-inclined ends of the winding-form, and through off-set-forming hooks 19<a>, 19<b>, respectively on the main frame 1 and detachable plate 11, a slight twist being given to the wires to bring them in contact with the projections 21. The off-sets in the coil, produced by the hooks 19<a>, 19<b>, enable the coils to overlap when in place on the core of the dynamo-electric machine. A sliding piece 2, with an end wall 20, is held clamped during these operations by means of a nut 10. This piece moves on parallel guides 3, which are fixed to the frame 1 in an inclined position, and carry a lever 5 having an eccentric cam-slot 6 at one end in which a pivot 7 on the sliding piece 2 engages, the guides 3 having a slot 8 concentric with the pivot 4 on which the lever 5 turns. The lever is clamped by means of a stud 9 and a nut 10. After the wires have passed the second side of the device and over the piojections 21, they are held clamped by the wall 20 of the sliding piece, and then pass through the second set of forming-hooks 19<a>, 19<b>. The operation is repeated until the desired number of convolutions has been made. Each time the wire comes to the sliding piece 2, the latter is raised to admit the wires. The ends of the last turn, which form the commutator leads and are on the top side of the coil, are measured by a gauge 24 before cutting the wite. Pieces of string are tied round the coil and the plate 11 may then be removed from the frame 1 by withdrawing a sliding bolt. On removing the nut 10 also, the coil may be taken off the form and slipped into the slots in the core of a dynamoelectric machine. The winding-form is supported by a standard adapted to allow the form to turn in auy direction in a given plane.
Patent GB-190313791-A (GB)
Title: A Collapsable and Portable Stand for Bicycles and Motor Bicycles.
Inventor: ECKFORD PETER
Filed: 1903-06-20
Granted: 1903-07-30
Abstract: 13,791. Eckford, P. June 20. Stands.-A stand for bicycles or motor bicycles is formed by a wooden base A and two inverted U-shaped supports b, c, the legs of which fit into sockets in the base, their upper portions being shaped to fit under suitable parts of the bicycle, as shown. Inclined stays A fitting over the rear axle and over studs on the base prevent lateral or longitudinal motion of the bicycle. The parts b, c, A can be disconnected from the base a and laid flat, when the stand is not in use.
Patent GB-190320403-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Devices for Cleaning Forks, Spoons and other Metallic Articles.
Inventor: GREENWAY GEORGE PHILIP
Filed: 1903-09-22
Granted: 1904-08-25
Abstract: 20,403. Greenway, G. P. Sept. 22. Forks and spoons, cleaning and polishing.-In a machine for cleaning and polishing forks, spoons, and other metal articles, a bob H of felt for cleaning the concave portion of spoons, a circular brush C for cleaning the spaces between fork prongs, a washleather cylinder D and a cylinder E covered with felted fabric, both for polishing purposes, are mounted on a spindle B which revolves in bearings in a dish-shaped frame A, which can be screwed or clamped to a bench or table. One side a<1> of this frame A carries a bracket J in which a wheel F is mounted. The inside of this wheel is formed with a number of fine serrations, which, when the wheel is revolved by turning a handle G, bite into a friction-wheel I mounted on the spindle B, and cause the latter to rotate. The articles are cleaned by pressing them against the various cylinders &c., which, in some cases, are separated by wooden discs L, while the dish part of the frame A may be provided with longitudinal ribs K for arresting the dust or powder which flies off the articles being cleaned. Sometimes another felt disc, with a hollow rim for cleaning the convex portions of spoons, is mounted on the spindle B. The Provisional Specification also states that ordinary spur gearing can be used for driving the spindle B, the end wall a' of the frame A being preferably flanged so that the gearing is boxed in. It also states that the top of this end wall may also be provided with a forwardly-projecting flange to act as a dust arrester.
Patent GB-190324629-A (GB)
Title: New or Improved Manufacture of Artificial Mother of Pearl and Apparatus therefor.
Inventor: CASTLE PETER CAMERON DOUGLAS
Filed: 1903-11-12
Granted: 1904-11-10
Abstract: 24,629. Castle, P. C. D. Nov. 12. Moulding a r t i - ficial mother - of - pearl.-The moulds employed are forced upwards towards fixed plungers B by a hydraulic ram C, and the mixture is successively heated to 100‹ F. and cooled by successively admitting steam and cold water to the jackets of the moulds A and plungers.
Patent GB-190328341-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Combined Governor and Valve Gear for Steam Engines.
Inventor: WILLIAMS FRANK
Filed: 1903-12-24
Granted: 1904-02-04
Abstract: 28,341. Williams, F. Dec. 24. Eccentrics.-The eccentric D is mounted loosely on the fixed eccentric C, and its position is determined by the governor to vary the point of cut-off.
Patent GB-190400901-A (GB)
Title: Improvement in Automatic Pressure Reducing Valves for Railway and like Vehicle Brakes.
Inventor: CLARK FRANCIS LUDLOW
Filed: 1904-01-13
Granted: 1904-03-24
Abstract: 901. Clark, F. L. Jan. 15, A.D. 1903, [date applied for under Patents Act, A.D. 1901]. Brakes. - The relief valve for limiting the accumulation of pressure in the brake cylinders, and for gradually reducing the pressure after an emergency application, is provided with a balance piston so that it closes at a pressure equal to, or bearing a predetermined ratio to, that required for opening it. The valve shown in Fig. 1 consists of two heads 4, 5 in a casing 1 connected by a pipe 13 to the brake cylinder, the area of the head 5 being approximately equal to that of the cylinder 2, or such as to secure a predetermined ratio between the opening and closing pressures. If the pressure is slightly above the normal, the valve 4 is moved away from its seat, and the air passes away through the V-shaped notch 7 in the ring 6. In an emergency application, the piston 5 is forced down so that the notch 7 is nearly closed, and the pressure is let off, at first, very slowly. In a modification, the spindle 12 is fitted with a slide valve working on a valve face with a triangular port, through which the pressure is let off as described above.
Patent GB-190402550-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Rotary Impact Engines.
Inventor: ALLISON CHARLES ARTHUR
Filed: 1904-02-02
Granted: 1904-03-03
Abstract: 2550. Allison, C. A., [Hooven, Owens, Rentschler Co.]. Feb. 2. Steam turbines.- A compound steam turbine is fitted with an injector de- vice for introducing a supplementary high-pressure steam supply to the low -pressure tur- bine as shown in Fig. 1. The low- pressure turbine 2 has a n annular steam supply channel 8 connected by a pipe 9 to the exhaust end of the high-pressure turbine, not shown, and supplying steam to the low- pressure turbine through three, or other suitable num- ber, of segmental passages 10. A nozzle 14 connected to a nozzle box 13 is fitted opposite to each of these passages, and high- pressure steam is supplied to the nozzles when extra power is required. The high-pressure steam has an injector action on the low-pressure steam, and the mixture passes into, and drives, the turbine.
Patent GB-190404991-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Sparking Plugs for Explosion Engines.
Inventor: BOULT ALFRED JULIUS
Filed: 1904-02-29
Granted: 1905-01-19
Abstract: 4991. Boult, A. J., [Macquaire, L.]. Feb. 29. Gas and like engines, igniting in. The sparking- plug shown in Fig. 2 consists of a metal body 14 into which is screwed a gland 15 which holds in its place a porcelain plug 1, separated from the metal body by asbestos packing 10, 11. The plug is recessed at 2, 3, the recess 2 receiving a nut 4, and the recess 3 an electrode 5 screwed to the central rod and bearing against an asbestos washer 8. A grating 12 surrounds the rod 5, and may form a part of the casting 15, or may be separate as shown in Fig. 7 ; its object being to burn up any excess oil or other matter produced by imperfect vaporization of the substance used. A platinum eyelet 13 may be used to give the spark the maximum of heat. The grating may be of various shapes, and may be in one piece with the central rod, and the hole in it through which this rod passes, in the cases where the grating is separate from the rod, may be eccentric with the rod to give a spark at one point, or may be star-shaped or the like to give sparks at many points as in Figs. 7 and 8. When the grating is fixed to the rod, sparking takes place around the periphery of the grating.