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Patent GB-190125570-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in the Method of and Means for Launching Boats from Ships, Jetties Lighthouses or the like.
Inventor: MORTELL HENRY RAMSDEN
Filed: 1901-12-14
Granted: 1902-12-13
Abstract: 25,570. Mortell, H. R. Dec. 14 Buoyant fittings, releasing. In boat-operating apparatus, which may also be applied for disengaging deckhouses, bridges, rafts, pontoon?, seats, and the like for use for life-saving purposes, ordinary davits are replaced by two L-sbaped pivoted levers 1, 2, connected by struts 6 to racks 7 operated by worms and pinions 9, 10, 11, 12, or by other gearing. The pinions 10 are mounted in articulated frames 14, to allow of their being moved by a screw 15 into and out of gear with the racks 7, which are held by the noses 20 of the pivoted tip levers 18 when the pinions are out of gear, and the pivoted grips 25 are actuated from the arms 19 of the levers 18 by wires and shafts 21, 22 connected to trippers 28. The longitudinal shaft 13 runs along the side of the ship, and is divided into as many lengths as there are boats, the lengths being connected by clutches, Figs. 19 and 20, having rims or arms 36 for the operator to grip, and pins 39, 40 working in curved slots 37, 38 on opposite sides of the sleeve 35. Two drums 41, 42 are preferably provided on the shaft 13 for each L-shaped lever 1, 2, and one clutch 47 and one brake 57, Fig. 9, for each drum, both the clutch and the brake being simultaneously operated from the screw 64 by means of the pivoted levers 46 and the cam-plate 52. The ropes 66 run from the drums up over the pulleysheaves 5 on the brackets 1, 2 to the boat, where they engage weighted grips 67, 68, which automatically release the ropes, when the boat touches the water. Additional cords and levers may, however, be provided for releasing the ropes by hand. The gear may be adapted for use with racks 7 arranged horizontally instead of vertically, or the racks may be replaced by other gearing, such as the worm gearing shown in Fig. 15, the rotation of which by worms on the shaft 13 causes the longitudinal movement of screw-threaded rods 103 attached to the lower ends of the L-shaped levers. The mechanism for taking in or letting out the ropes 66 from which the boat is suspended consists of pulley sheaves 109 carried by brackets 107, 108, which travel on the screw-threaded spindle 104 when that spindle is rotated by the bevel gearing 97.
Patent GB-190201412-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Air Brake Systems for Railway and like Vehicles.
Inventor: WHITING PAUL
Filed: 1902-01-18
Granted: 1902-09-04
Abstract: 1412. Whiting P. Jan. 18. Brakes, compressed-air. Relates to brake systems comprising an automatic air line and an independent release and application line called the " straight air line. These lines are connected to a quadruple valve, constructed and acting as described in Specification No. 1413, A.D. 1902, and to a driver's equalizing-valve as set forth in Specification No. 1414, A.D. 1902. Fig. 1 shows a diagrammatic view of the apparatus. The automatic train - pipe G is connected to the quadruple valve D and to the cylinder 23 of the equalizing-valve, while the " straight " air" pipe H connected to the reservoir I also communicates with the quadruple valve and the cylinder valve C of the driver's valve. A cock J, shown detached on an enlarged scale in Fig. 14, allows the pipe 86 to communicate with the atmosphere when the ports 110', 111<a> register. and in this position the automatic system only is in operation. The exhaust from the brake cylinder may pass through the pipes 86, H, and 56 to the cylinder valve C, and thence to the atmosphere when this valve is in its first and second positions, but should this valve be set in its third or lap position, there will be no release of the brakes, so that the driver may restore the pressure in the auxiliary reservoir and train-pipe after setting the brakes.
Patent GB-190203490-A (GB)
Title: Improvement in Lightning Dischargers for Electrical Installations.
Filed: 1902-02-11
Granted: 1902-03-20
Abstract: 3490. Siemens Bros. & Co , [Siemens & Halske Akt.- Ges.]. Feb. 11. Lightning-arresters.- Relates to lightning-arresters such as are described in Specification No. 2106, A.D. 1896, the section of the horns being made angular, as shown in the Figures, ia the arcing position.
Patent GB-190207050-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and connected with Axle Box and other Bearings
Inventor: WOOD ERNEST JOHN
Filed: 1902-03-22
Granted: 1902-12-18
Abstract: 7050. Wood, E. J. March 22. Axle-boxes, lubricating.-In the bottom t' of an oil trough or reservoir T, arranged above the bearing E, are formed or fitted one or more recesses R with oil holes r' corresponding with oil holes in the bearing E. A valve V, formed as a ball or portion of a ball, is arranged in each recess, and is provided with a teat or stem v<1> projecting into the hole r'. The valve closes the hole r<1> when the vehicle is at rest, but, in running, the vibration lifts the valve and permits oil to pass from the reservoir T to the bearing. A,guard may be fixed near the valve to prevent displacement, and each of the recesses may be covered by wire gauze W to act as a strainer. In a modification, the valve may be formed as a disc having projections journalled in the valve seat. The top of the disc is concave to receive a ball. The rolling of the ball due to the vibration of the vehicle &c. rocks the disc to admit oil to the bearing. In another modification, the hole r<1> is closed, normally, by an inverted spring-controlled valve. The stem of the valve projects through the bottom of the trough or recess into the path of a ball &c. The ball rolls due to the vibration of the vehicle and comes into contact with the stem, thereby pressing the valve downwards so as to admit lubricant to the bearing.
Patent GB-190209032-A (GB)
Title: Packing Material to be used in connection with Joints obtained by Hot Rivetting.
Inventor: LAKEBERG LEOPOLD
Filed: 1902-04-18
Granted: 1902-07-03
Abstract: 9032. Lakeberg, L. April 18. Riveted joints.-Relates to a packing-material for use in jointing metal parts by hot riveting. The packing-material consists of a sheet of pasteboard with wire netting affixed to both faces and filled in with a vitreous enamel that becomes liquid when strongly heated but hardens on cooling. This material being placed between the parts to be joined, the enamel is melted by the heat of the rivets and makes good the joint.
Patent GB-190215845-A (GB)
Title: Desk with Top
Inventor: SENZ KARL
Filed: 1902-07-16
Granted: 1903-04-16
Abstract: 15,845. Senz, K. July 16. Desks.-Relates to a writing-desk, which can be used by a.sitting or standing person, and in which the drawers and lid of the desk can be simultaneously locked. The casing of the desk con- sists of a front part with drawers and a back part in which slides the casing 1 having pigeonholes or shelves and carrying the hinged lid 3. The sliding p a r t 1 is counterbalanced by a weight 8, and is raised or lowered by operating a slide 9 ; it is held at any height by racks 5 and a hinged pawl board 6 ; it is closed in front by a slide 11, counterbalanced by a weight 12, and having depending side pieces 13, pins 14 on which work between projections 15 on a sliding bar 16, in which are diagonal and angular slots 20, 17, 18. Pins 19 on the drawers engage the slots 17, 18 when the drawers are home, and, when in t h i s position, all the drawers are locked by lifting the sliding front 11. The lifting of the front 11 causes the bars 16 to rise and the inclined slots 20, act on pins 21, and project bars 22 and cause them to engage eyes 23 on the hinged desk top. The drawers and desk top are thus simultaneously locked ; they can be unlocked by lowering the front 11.
Patent GB-190216728-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Distance Meter or Range Finder
Inventor: SOERENSEN JOHAN POUL
Filed: 1902-07-28
Granted: 1902-12-04
Abstract: 16,728. S÷rensen, J. P. July 28. Range-finders; maps and charts, setting out beurings on.-An observing-telescope a is rotated by a crank n through bevel gearing, which also rotates at the same rate a ruler g on a map or chart c. The ruler is set originally parallel to the axis of the telescope. A second observing - telescope b at some distance away is similarly operated and connected electromagnetically to a second ruler w, which thus moves with and parallel to it. As the telescopes a and b are kept upon a distant object d, the intersection of the rulers on the map indicates its position and distance. The axle of the bevelwheel t carries a contact-arm w over contacts arranged in successive sets of three. Each set is connected by wires 4, 5, 6 to three radially-arranged electromagnets 7, 8, and 9 with an armature adapted to rotate about a central pivot 13. This armature carries a worm which, engaging with a worm-wheel 15, drives the ruler h. The other sets of contacts are similarly connected. The gearing is so designed that, as the telescope b is rotated, the ruler h responds with a step-by-step movement of ten minutes of arc at a time.
Patent GB-190216931-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in the Manufacture and Production of Green Dyes Containing Sulphur
Inventor: JOHNSON GEORGE WILLIAM
Filed: 1902-07-30
Granted: 1903-06-04
Abstract: 16,931. Johnson, J. Y., [Kalle & Co.]. July 30. Dyes, artificial.-Relates to the production of dyes containing sulphur and dyeing green or bluegreen shades on unmordanted cotton, by melting p-oxyphenylthiourea or p-oxythiocarbanilide with sulphur and sodium sulphide. The dyes obtained withstand washing and the action of soap and light, and become a deeper blue on treatment with chrome salts. The dry melts may be used directly for dyeing, but preferably they are deprived of a portion of their sulphur by acidifying a solution with hydrochloric acid, filtering, and salting out the dye.
Patent GB-190224627-A (GB)
Title: Improvement in Toothed Wheel Mechanism used on Machines having Reversing Movement.
Inventor: DERENBACH MAX JACOB GUSTAV
Filed: 1902-11-10
Granted: 1903-08-13
Abstract: 24,627. Derenbach, M. J. G. Nov. 10. Rolling.-Relates to the arrangements for reversing when toothed gearing is employed in rolling-mills, quick-return presses, &c. In the case of tube-rolling mills, when movable rollers are traversed by toothed wheels over fixed racks, double wheels and racks are employed, of which either one wheel or one rack is spring-mounted, so that, on reversing the motion, the teeth engage on both faces. Fig. 1 shows two wheels d, f engaging with one fixed rack g and one spring sliding rack h. One long wheel may be employed instead of two, or two wheels with teeth set alternately. In the case of two wheels engaging, one rack, one of them is spring-mounted.
Patent GB-190303077-A (GB)
Title: An Improvement in the Manufacture of Hollow Glass Ware.
Inventor: ARBOGAST JOHN I
Filed: 1903-02-09
Granted: 1903-05-21
Abstract: 3077. Arbogast, J. I., Arbogast, C. V., Arbogast, F. J., Arbogast, P. R., and Arbogast, F. L. Feb. 11, A.D. 1902, [date applied for under Patents Act, A.D. 1901]. Blowing and moulding bottles &c.-A hinged mould, arranged on a base-plate B, is provided with a number of cavities A, the lower part a of each being shaped so as to form the neck of the bottle &c. After molten metal has been placed in the cavities, plungers b are simultaneously raised by the movement of a slide B<1> having inclined ribs, which act on the plunger so as to form the bores of the bottle &c. necks. The plungers are then retracted, and the blanks are annealed, this being the chief feature of the invention. After they are annealed, the blanks are placed in divided neck moulds E, Fig. 3, which are suspended in recesses in a table F so that the blanks can be reheated by gas burners I. The heated blanks still in the neck moulds are transferred to finishing-moulds K, Fig. 4, and the bottles are blown by compressed air.
Patent GB-190303938-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Filters.
Inventor: SMITH WILLIAM BLACKBURN
Filed: 1903-02-19
Granted: 1904-02-18
Abstract: 3938. Smith, W. B. Feb. 19. Tank filters ; filtering-media.-A filter cartridge consists of a foraminous tube 1 secured in a baseplate 6 removably fixed to an ordinary filter or feedwater tank 7, such as used on vessels, an outer foramirous tube 2, and a tube 3 of filter cloth or other medium folded between the tubes. The end of the cloth is fastened by screwing the handle 9 into the cap 11. A number of such cartridges may be mounted in one casing. The cartridge or cartridges may be mounted in a perforated vessel filled with coir or coco-nut fibre, such arrangement being used as a mud filter.
Patent GB-190306192-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in the Manufacture of Wall Coverings, Wall Papers and the like.
Inventor: OTT EUGEN
Filed: 1903-03-17
Granted: 1904-02-04
Abstract: 6192. Ott, E. March 17. Drawings to Specification. Wall coverings.-In order to produce a damask effect on wall coverings made of paper, canvas, &c., lengths are treated with transparent water colour, so that the shade increases in depth from the centre towards the ends. A middle-tone covering colour is then applied, so as to form the background or foreground of the design. A relief effect may be produced by employing shade lines, or by pressing or stamping the design, and the threads of a fabric may be imitated by adding horizontal and vertical lines.
Patent GB-190314846-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Mechanical Stokers.
Inventor: COWAN JOHN
Filed: 1903-07-03
Granted: 1904-06-30
Abstract: 14,846. Cowan, J. July 3. Mechanical stoking. - In a Stirling water-tube boiler or other furnace having a mechanical chaingrate stoker d, the entry of air at the rear of the furnace is prevented, and the ashes are arrested, by a vertical or inclined counterweighted hinged plate e. The accumulated ashes are dumped automatically from time to time. The plate e is carried by a spindle g suspended from a plate a supported by the side walls b of the firebridge.
Patent GB-190321467-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Apparatus for Cutting Coal
Inventor: KUEMPER AUGUST
Filed: 1903-10-06
Granted: 1903-11-12
Abstract: 21,467. K³mper, A., and Happe, H. Oct. 6. Undercutting &c.-Coal is cut by an oscillating saw worked by hand. The saw a has teeth on its outer edges and also on the openings therein. It is carried by the sliding frame d, which is fed by a screw l in the frame r. This frame is mounted to turn as a lever between adjustable clamps on a prop h.
Patent GB-190321568-A (GB)
Title: Improvements connected with Lamps for Road Vehicles.
Inventor: BLERIOT LOUIS
Filed: 1903-10-07
Granted: 1903-11-12
Abstract: 21,568. BlÞriot, L. Oct. 7. Horns.-A lamp for road vehicles may be combined with a horn or hooter, as shown in the Figure. The body 1 of the lamp passes through the centre of the bell mouth 3 of the horn, and forms one fitting with it, the stem 4 of the horn being coiled up in a cover or casing 5 formed at the back of the lamp. The sound reed 8 may be fixed in the tube 6, to the end of which the pneumatic ball is attached, either directly, or with a suitable length of flexible tubing interposed. If preferred, the metal rim in front of the lens holder 2 may be made larger than the mouth of the horn, so that where two lamps are used, they may have a symmetrical appearance from the front.
Patent GB-190322143-A (GB)
Title: An Improvements in the Construction of Bib & Stop Taps and the like,
Inventor: BANNISTER GEORGE VINCENT
Filed: 1903-10-14
Granted: 1904-04-07
Abstract: 22,143. Bannister, A., and Bannister, E. Oct. 14. Lift valves; casings; repairing, facilitating.- In a screw-down bib or stop tap, means are provided whereby the tap can be removed for repairs &c. without the necessity of turning off the water at the service pipe. An india-rubber or other suitable ball c is held away from a conical seating, formed in a division b of the valve casing, by means of a loose spindle d, working in a bridge e, carried by one end f of the tap. The portion f of the tap is screwed into the casing a. When the tap is removed, and the spindle d withdrawn, the ball c is pressed on to its seat by the pressure of the water, and so checks the flow of the water until the valve is replaced.
Patent GB-190322567-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Pigments and Processes of Making the same.
Inventor: ARMBRUSTER WILLIAM JOSEPH
Filed: 1903-10-19
Granted: 1903-11-19
Abstract: 22,567. Armbruster, W. J., and Morton. J. Oct. 19. Pigments.-A pigment, consisting of barium carbonate and aluminium hydrate with or without barium sulphate, is precipitated from solutions of salts of barium and aluminium and the carbonate or carbonate and hydrate of an alkali-metal. In an example, barium chloride, sodium carbonate, and aluminium sulphate are used, and a pigment containing all three constituents obtained. When using caustic alkali, care is taken that at no stage of the operation is it in excess of the aluminium salt present. When barium sulphide or hydrate alone is used, the reaction with sodium sulphate is best performed separately Strontium may be substituted for barium. Aniline dyes or any precipitable organic colours may be introduced with the reagents, and precipitated in the body of the pigment.
Patent GB-190325273-A (GB)
Title: Improved Process of, and Apparatus for, Cutting Spur or Gear Wheels
Inventor: REINECKER J E
Filed: 1903-11-19
Granted: 1904-11-17
Abstract: 25,273. Lake, H. H., [Reinecker, J. E.]. Nov. 19. Planing and shaping.-The teeth of wheels are relieved on the faces or flanks or both to reduce noise in running, the relief being zero at the pitch line and a maximum at the point and base. Figs. 2 and 5 show a shaping-machine for cutting such teeth, the tool 15 having the shape of a rack tooth with which the cut wheel would gear correctly. The tool ram 13 is reciprocated by a pinion 11 feathered on a rock-shaft 7, operated by a crank and rack 5 from the driving-shaft 2. The ram slides in a saddle 17 which can be traversed along a guide-bar 18 by a screw 20 to cut a tooth, a corresponding rolling movement being imparted to the blank 22 by crossed flexible bands attached to a bar 28 on the saddle, and to a segment 27 on the dividing-plate 26 which is locked to the blank spindle 23 by the index-pin. The segment has the same diameter as the pitch circle of the blank. The relieving of the teeth is effected by causing the point of the tool to move in a slight curve instead of along a straight line during its lateral traverse. This result is obtained by providing a variable abutment for the tool-box 14, so that the tool may drop further as it approaches either end of its lateral movement. The tool-box has an inclined surface 41 engaging an abutment 40 which is moved vertically by an eccentric 38 on a shaft 3.6 carried by the ram, and rotated by a rack on the guide-bar engaging a wheel 34 carried by the saddle and feathered on the shaft.
Patent GB-190402125-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Railway Chairs and Fastenings.
Inventor: BELL JAMES
Filed: 1904-01-28
Granted: 1904-12-01
Abstract: 2125. Bell, J. Jan. 28. Chairs; rail joints; rails.-Relates to means for providing support for railway rails at and near the joints and for the fishplates connecting them and also in means for preventing creeping of the rails. Fig. 2 shows a side elevation, and Fig. 3 a sectional transverse view of one arrangement. The two chairs A', A', adjacent to, and on each side of, the joint of the rail B, are connected by a girder-like piece A, preferably formed in a piece with them and having the central part A<3> shaped to receive the base of the rail B and the angleshaped fishplates B', B<2>. The fishplates are arranged to abut at their ends against the parts C<1>, formed on the girder part, so as to prevent creeping of the rails. To strengthen the girder, it is formed with a depending web C<2> upon its underside. Fig. 6 shows a modification in which ordinary fishplates are used. A further modificatior. is also shown in which the chair is modified in the usual manner so as to accommodate a check rail. The arrangement may be adapted for other forms of rails, and also for crossings. The girder part may be supported by pieces of metal or timber fixed between the sleepers.
Patent GB-190407775-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Instruments for Rendering Visible the Luminous Effects Produced by Radio-active Substances.
Inventor: GLEW FREDERICK HARRISON
Filed: 1904-04-02
Granted: 1904-12-22
Abstract: 7775. Glew, F. H. April 2. Radio-active substances, instruments for observing effects of.-The radio-active substance is arranged on one side of a transparent fluorescent or phosphorescent screen, and the luminous effects of its rays are observed through a lens on the other side of the screen. In Fig. 1, the screen A is removably held by resilient fingers b<2> on a casing b carrying the eyepiece b<1>. It is made by sifting zinc sulphide, willemite, natural zinc silicate, or other phosphorescent or fluorescent substance over a glass, mica, celluloid, or similar transparent plate coated with an adhesive material a. The radioactive substance is caused to adhere to the coated surface c of a piece C of glass or cardboard and may be used in the solid or gaseous state or in solution. Or a plate of pitchblende may be employed. The piece C may be connected to the screen by adhesive strips a', or it may be placed in contact with the screen, The space a<X> may be exhausted, or may contain air or other gas or vapour. Or it may be adapted to take a stencil, Fig. 4, cut to the outline of a landscape or otherwise to limit the area of visible scintillations to some pattern. A stencil may be fixed permanently in contact with the screen, or the radio-active plate, or both. Instead of using a stencil, a design may be painted on the screen or plate, or both, or the radio-active substance may be mixed with varnish or gum and painted on the screen. The lens B, Fig. 2, may comprise a cylindrical piece of glass with a rounded end, the fluorescent substance a being applied to its flat end. Or it may be spherical, the radio-active plate being correspondingly curved. The parts of the device may be disconnectible to adapt them to fit into a box when not in use.
Patent GB-190407973-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Safety Fasteners for Envelopes and other Containers.
Inventor: NOSEWORTHY JONATHAN
Filed: 1904-04-06
Granted: 1904-05-12
Abstract: 7973. Noseworthy, J. April 6. Envelopes.-Relates to a safety fastening for envelopes and other packages or containers for the storage or transportation of valuables, money, and other articles. The fastening may be made in one with the envelope blank, or separate, and consists of a pocket or sheath member and a key-member. The pocket-member 5 has slots 6 and creases 7, so that the side flaps 8 may be overlapped on the central portion to form a sheath. A tongue 11 formed by a curved slot 10 is pushed through registering slots 12 in the flaps of the envelope and bent over on the outside. The key-member 13 has a longitudinal slot 14 running from the outer edge to an eye 15, the jaws of the key having tapered parts 16 and laterally extended wings 17, each wing being preferably provided with a lip 18 which may be folded on a crease 19. The sheath being in position, the lips 18 are folded and the jaws of the key are pressed together to cause them to overlap. The key is then thrust through the slots 12 in the envelope and above the tongue 11. The continued movement of the key in the sheath brings the wings 17 opposite to the slots 9, when the elasticity of the jaws force the wings into the slots, and the lips 18 spread out and prevent the withdrawal of the key. When the fastening is separate, the key-member is cemented or glued to the sealing-flap.