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Patent GB-190307688-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Distance or Range Finders.
Inventor: NICHOLSON EZRA
Filed: 1903-04-02
Granted: 1903-07-09
Abstract: 7688. Nicholson, E. April 2. Telemeters.-The apparatus, designed chiefly for use on marine vessels, consists of a chart B ruled with three sets of lines. One I radiates from a zero I0 and overlies the other two, which represent the scales J, K. A telescope A is mounted on the table D, which, when turned, causes the spring pin G to engage holes in either of the two scales H<1>, H<2>, symmetrically arranged on opposite sides of a zero H‹, representing the sailing-course. A slide O<1>, carrying a pointer N and a graduated movable arm 0, is arranged to slide over the scale J. The device is used as follows :-The pin G is placed on graduation 1 in H or H<2>, and an object, the distance from which is desired, viewed. The pin G is then moved to graduation 2, and the distance the ship goes, before the same object again comes into view, is read off from the log. The slide N is then placed at the number of miles or knots so obtained, the arm 0 having been previously placed along the line I2 when the slide N was at zero. The intersection of the arm 0 and the line I marked 1, is read off on the scale J, which will give the distance of the vessel from the object when abreast. By reading along the scale K, the distance the vessel is out from the object is ascertained. The reading along the arm 0 gives the distance of the vessel from the object at the time of the second observation.
Patent GB-190307738-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Machinery for Corking by Steam or other Motive Power.
Inventor: JACKSON JOHN PERKINS
Filed: 1903-04-03
Granted: 1904-02-18
Abstract: 7738. Jackson, J. P. April 3. Corking.--Bottles filled with beer &c., are fed by hand into a machine, and automatically corked. The bottles are placed in cups in a circular table 3, and are raised in turn by a platform 8, on a vertical spindle 7, against a monthpiece 9, and are corked by a plunger 6. The bottle rest is supported during the corking by a wedge 12, which descends and holds the serrated arm 11 of a lever 10 attached to the spindle 7. The machine is driven from a shaft 19, which gears into a shaft 13 by worm-wheel or toothed gearing. The table 3 is given an intermittent motion from the shaft 13, by a Geneva-stop mechanism, comprising a crank 14 with a pin 15, which engages with slots 17 on a wheel attached to the spindles on which the table is mounted. The plunger 6 is actuated by an eccentric 22, and the bottle rest is actuated by a cam 21 on the shaft 13. The corks may be fed by hand into holes in a circular disc, which revolves like the bottle table, and delivers one cork at a time into the mouthpiece of the machine. An overhead self-feeding mechanism may be provided, in which the corks are thrown into a hopper, and pass down a tube to the mouthpiece at the time when the plunger descends.
Patent GB-190308905-A (GB)
Title: Manufacture of New Dyestuffs of the Anthracene Series and of Materials therefor.
Inventor: IMRAY OLIVER
Filed: 1903-04-20
Granted: 1904-03-03
Abstract: 8905. Imray, O., [Farbwerke vorm. Meister, Lucius, & Briining]. April 20. Dyes, artificial.-Dyes of the anthracene series, which dye wool, either chrome - mordanted or otherwise, fast blue shades, are produced by treating the 1:5 or 1:8 8 amidoanthraquinone monosulphonic acid with chlorine or bromine. The halogen dyes thus formed are condensed with p-toluidine, aniline, or other aromatic amine, and the products are sulphonated with fuming sulphuric acid. The amidoanthraquinone sulphonic acids are obtained by nitrating anthraquinone #-sulphonic acid and reducing. The halogenized dyes dye wool yellowish shades which become red on the addition of boric acid. Reference is made to Specification No. 5459, A.D. 1900.
Patent GB-190316790-A (GB)
Title: An Improved File for Sharpening Saws and the like
Inventor: HOLDERNESS HERBERT LACY
Filed: 1903-07-31
Granted: 1903-11-26
Abstract: 16,790. Holderness, H. L. July 31. Files.-The rounded edges of files for sharpening saws &c. are replaced by polygonal edges as shown. According to the Provisional Specification, round files may be made in a similar manner.
Patent GB-190316945-A (GB)
Title: Water Tube Boiler with Field's Tubes.
Inventor: SMIT PIETER
Filed: 1903-08-04
Granted: 1903-10-08
Abstract: 16,945. Smit, P. Aug. 4. Steam-generator furnaces.-The upper vessel 1 of a boiler having downwardly extending Field tubes 10, rests on front and back walls 2, 3, the front wall having a furnace door 4. A firebrick wall or fire bridge 7 at the back of the furnace 5 divides the tubes 10 into two groups a, b, the products of combustion passing from one group to the other through spaces at the sides of the wall and thence through openings 15 to the uptake 16. Feedwater heaters 17 having field or other tubes 18 may be arranged as shown between the openings 15 and the uptake 16. Hinged flaps 8, 20, lined with non-conducting material, such as asbestos, are provided.
Patent GB-190325455-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or in connection with Turbines.
Inventor: THOMPSON WILLIAM PHILLIPS
Filed: 1903-11-21
Granted: 1903-12-31
Abstract: 25,455. Thompson, W. P., [Holzwarth, H.]. Nov. 21. Steam &c. turbines.-A parallel-flow turbine has partitions in its casing formed of two discs 1, 2, bolted together and surrounded by a ring 10. Peripheral nozzle apertures 6 are formed in the disc and fitted with built-up nozzles formed of end-pieces 12 having flanges 14 engaging in recesses in the disc 1, and central pieces 23 each carrying a guide-blade 22, and also having a flange engaging in a recess in the disc. The parts of the nozzles are secured to the discs by rivets 16.
Patent GB-190326772-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Electric Arc Lighting
Inventor: CARBONE TITO LIVIO
Filed: 1903-12-07
Granted: 1904-09-15
Abstract: 26,772. Carbone, T. L. Dec. 7. Arc lamps.-A lamp with the arc at the lower end of inclined carbons is used with ordinary pure carbons, and with 60 volts or more.
Patent GB-190401136-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to the Securing or Connecting of Valves or Clacks to Valve Spindles and the like
Inventor: ISAAC STOREY AND SONS LTD
Filed: 1904-01-16
Granted: 1904-11-17
Abstract: 1136. Storey & Sons, I., and Ely, C. Jan. 16. Lift valves; spindles.- The connection between lift &c. valves and their spindles is obtained, as shown in Fig. 1, by an enlarged end b of the spindle, and a tubular ex- tension d on the valve which is turned or other- wise pressed over the enlargement, as shown in Fig. 2. In a modi- fication, a loose tubular part d<x>, Fig. 3, is used, which is secured in a recess in the valve by a screwed ferrule i screw- ing down upon the flange h. The valves in each case are capable of a limited movement on their spindle, allowing of adjustment to the seat.
Patent GB-190410881-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Methods of Conducting Chemical Reactions by Means of a Mercury Vapour Arc.
Inventor: CAROLAN EDGAR ALFRED
Filed: 1904-05-11
Granted: 1905-03-30
Abstract: 10,881. Carolan, E. A., [General Electric Co.]. May 11. R÷ntgen-ray and like apparatus. - Relates to methods of, and apparatus for, producing chemical reactions by means of the ultra-violet and similar radiations from a mercury vapour arc. Fig. 1 shows a tube 1 of fused quartz, silica, or other material previous to such rays. Through the stopper 6 passes a tube 4 enclosing the leading-in wire 5 for the graphite or iron anode 3, and connected by the tube 7 to an exhaust pump. The tube 1 is surrounded by a suitable container 11 of glass or other material impervious to the rays. The gases or vapours to be acted on are passed in through tube 12 and out by a tube 13. Nozzles 14 or air jets for cooling the electrodes, or other cooling means, may be provided. In a modified form of the apparatus, the quartz tube is U-shaped, and both electrodes are of mercury. Ozone, from air or oxygen, hydrogen peroxide from water vapour and oxygen, and sulphuric acid from sulphurous acid and oxygen, are mentioned as substances which may be obtained by this process.
Patent GB-190411914-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Apparatus for Cutting or Splitting Cloth
Inventor: MIDDLETON CHARLES EDWARD
Filed: 1904-05-25
Granted: 1904-11-10
Abstract: 11,914. Middleton, C. E., Middleton, F. P., Middleton, A. T., and Southworth, G. May 25. Cutting-machines for fabrics.-In apparatus for cutting or splitting double-width cloth, woven with a split selvage, a toothed guide-wheel e, Fig. 1, the teeth of which enter the holes between the weft threads in the centre of the cloth k, guides the cloth to the knife a, and tends to prevent the knife from leaving the split. The cloth after being divided passes on either side of a V-shaped piece g. Fig. 4 shows the arrangement applied to a rotary disc machine. The cutting-wheel o is supported on the end of a bar q pivoted on two screw studs r, and is driven from a belt pulley w through a universal joint x and bevel-pinions 2, 3. In order that the knife may be always parallel to its normal plane, the forked bar t is pivoted by a block u to the frame of the machine, the parallel motion being completed by a link, equal in length to the bar t, one end of which is pivoted to the frame while the other is pivoted to an arm rigidly attached to the bar q.
Patent GB-190414914-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Typewriting Machines
Inventor: MEYER LOUIS
Filed: 1904-07-02
Granted: 1904-08-04
Abstract: 14,914. Meyer, L., and Losey, J. B. July 2. Type-writers, for printing either from left to right or from right to left, have two racks attached to the paper carriage, one on each side of the driving-pinion, either of which can be placed in gear with the pinion. The post 3 of the carriageactuator is fixed to the deck-frame 1 by a nut 4. The dog-wheel 6 turns on the post 3 and has a pawl 7 which engages a ratchet 11 on the casing of the spring 12. A wasber 15 beneath the dog-wheel 6 enables the pawl 7 to move downwards in order to slip over the teeth. A pinion 16 on the spring- casing gears with the racks on the carriage. The dog-wheel is given a step-by-step movement by means of a dog 17 which is fast on a rocking shaft 19 and to which is pivoted a loose dog 18, the two being connected by a spring 20. The two racks 30, Fig. 6, are held together at the ends by cross bars 31 which are provided with pins 32 passing through slots in the end ears 34 of the carriage frame 35. The racks are moved into gear with the pinion 16 by means of a rocking arm 38 at each end which projects through a slot in the ear 34 into a hole in the cross-bar 31. The arms 38 are attached to a rod 37 journalled in the carriage frame and one of them has a handle 38<a>. The racks are held in position by a pivoted latch 40 which engages either of the pins 32.
Patent GB-190422504-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Starting, Stopping, Speed Controlling and Reversing Gear.
Inventor: HELE-SHAW HENRY SELBY
Filed: 1904-10-19
Granted: 1905-08-24
Abstract: 22,504. Shaw, H. S. Hele-, Oct. 19. Drawings to Specification. Locking bolts.-Relates to improvements in the starting, stopping, speed-controlling, and reversing gear described in Specification No. 28,145A, A.D. 1902, [Abridgment Class Mechanism &c.]. An annular locking-piece, secured in place by setscrews, is passed over the heads of a circular series of bolts used to secure two parts together.
Patent GB-190422645-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Internal Combustion Engines.
Inventor: BROWNE THOM BOUSQUET
Filed: 1904-10-20
Granted: 1905-08-24
Abstract: 22,645. Browne, T. B., and Martineau, F. L. Oct. 20. Gas and like engines, valve gear for. The e x h a u s t valves of engines with cylinders placed on opposite sides of the c r a n k shaft are worked by worm gearing, of which the worm-wheel A forms the disc between the two crank-pins X and drives a diagonal countershaft C carrying cams D and a wheel B working in a recess in the crank chamber, which forms a sump for the lubricating-oil. The cams act on the valves through rocking levers E.
Patent GB-190424042-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Hot Presses for Moulding Peat Briquettes
Inventor: CRAWFORD VICTOR MIDDLETON
Filed: 1904-11-07
Granted: 1905-10-12
Abstract: 24,042. Crawford, V. M. Nov. 7. Moving beater apparatus combined with peatmoulding apparatus. Dry peat is fed by a screw 2 through a tube 3, which projects into the retort 1 and has a door 4 normally closed to prevent escape of gas into a retort 1, where it is mixed and fed downwards by inclined blades 11 on a central shaft 10. The gases from the furnace pass off through a passage 8 and are used to dry the peat, which before quitting the retort is partially carbonized. The retort-bottom 12 has radial projections 13 holding it firm, and it has also an opening through which the peat is forced into an extended tube 14 cast integral with it, where the peat is moulded.
Patent GB-190425880-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to Screw Jacks.
Inventor: LAKE ARTHUR ERNEST
Filed: 1904-11-28
Granted: 1905-10-12
Abstract: 25,880. Lake, A. E. Nov. 28. Lifting-jacks of the non-rotating screw type suitable for raising vehicle bodies are provided each with a spinning or rotating nut or collar having teeth on its under surface adapted to be engaged by a spring pawl mounted on a rotating sleeve. Fig. 1 shows the screw a normally housed in the casing c and engaged by the rotating nut b, having g teeth b<1> adapted to be engaged by the spring bolt d mounted on the rotatable sleeve e. The sleeve e may be retained in position by screws or by an antifriction vulcanite washer screwed to the upper surface of the casing c. The spring bolt can be rotated with the sleeve e by means of the handle g, and may be held out of engagement with the teeth b<1> by turning the handle d' to one side and ledging it under the cam-surface e<2> of the sleeve e. In operation, the screw is raised bodily till it abuts against the article to be lifted, and the nut is then spun downwards until it rests on the top of the casing. To raise the screw further, the spring bolt is allowed to engage the notches in the rotating nut, and the handle g is then rotated. The notches may be formed on the side of the rotating nnt, and in some cases may be engaged by the upper end of the lever handle.
Patent GB-190504036-A (GB)
Title: A Cartridge Ejector for Automatic Small Arms
Inventor: SCHOUBOE JENS THEODOR SUHR
Filed: 1905-02-27
Granted: 1906-02-22
Abstract: 4036. Schouboe, J. T. S. Feb. 27. Breech actions, sliding barrel and breech-block.- A cartridge-ejector 1 for guns with recoiling- barrels is pivoted by the pin 8 and slot 7 to the breech casing 3, is held in an upright position by an arm 2 pivoted at 11 to the casing, and is pressed downwards by the contact of its nose 12 against the wall of the breech frame and also by the spring 14. During the recoil, the heel 18 of the ejector strikes the shoulder 19 of a fixed block 5 and is tilted backwards, ejecting the empty case, the breech-block having meanwhile been raised to clear the breech. The block 5 is provided with a slope 16 by which the ejector is first raised into contact with the rim of the cartridge case. A second block 6 has a slope 17 in the path of the pin 15 on the arm 2, so that the latter may be lifted to allow the tilting of the ejector.
Patent GB-190505225-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Apparatus for Drying Vegetables, Fruits, Starch and the like.
Inventor: YAGN NICHOLAS
Filed: 1905-03-13
Granted: 1905-12-14
Abstract: 5225. Yagn, N. March 13. Drying vegetables, fruits, starch, &c.- A chamber, doublywalled and with a water-tight bottom, is divided into a series of air-tight horizontal compartments by airtight partitions consisting of angular metal plates 9. The ends of the plates 9 extend through openings 8 in the end-walls. These openings are covered by flexible covers or otherwise, and serve for the introduction of the sieves or trays 7 which are conveyed through the apparatus, either sliding on the metal plates or running on rails above them. Steam enters the lowest compartment by the pipe 25, and such steam as is immediately c o n - densed and falls on the floor is carried away by the pipe 26, while the remainder is condensed on the plate 9 and the resulting water trickling down the plates passes off by the troughs 12, 13 and the pipe 14 and may feed the boiler supplying the steam. A pipe 27 open to the atmosphere keeps the temperature in the lowest compartment below 100‹ C. The upper compartments are only heated indirectly, hot air rising from the lower heated plates along with steam from the drying substance and the steam condensing on the upper plates, whereby they are heated, being led off as before. The sieves are passed through the compartments, which diminish in temperature upwards, in turn, a final drying taking place in the open top compartment. In so ne cases a Cornish or other boiler may be set within the lowest compartment, into which also the exhaust steam from the engine may be conveyed. The circulation of air in each compartment is assisted by fans 15, the blades of contiguous fans on the same shaft being set oppositely. The fans are mounted on hollow spindles 32 attached to spindles 17, Fig. 4, rotatably mounted in bearings in the standards 16. The fans may be taken from their spindles and removed by a door in a casing. Guards 24 surround the spindles 23, which are attached to and form a continuation of the spindles 17, 32, and the fans are driven from pulleys 21 mounted in a casing. These pulleys are rotated by cords driven from the pulley 28 and passing over guide-pulleys 29, 30, the latter of which slides in a groove under the action of a weight 31 or a spring, so that the tension remains constant.
Patent GB-190505479-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Machines for Packing Cigarettes and other similar Articles in Sealed Packages
Inventor: WRIGHT RICHARD HARVEY
Filed: 1905-03-15
Granted: 1905-10-05
Abstract: 5479. Wright, R. H., and Bracy, E. L. March 15. Feeding sheets. - In a machine for packeting cigarettes or like articles, the cigarettes are drawn off from a hopper by means of a rotating drum having transverse pockets into which the cigarettes fall. The cigarettes, with a scored wrapper beneath them, are pressed into a mould on a rotating mould-wheel, during the rotation of which the parts 96, 97, 98 are pasted and the flaps 99, 100, 101 are closed over the cigarettes. The wrapper is fed forward from the table 133, Fig. 1, by the pivoted feeder 12, operated by the bell - crank lever 11 driven from the cam shaft 9.
Patent GB-190510697-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Steam Engines Operating with Injector Condensers.
Inventor: LINDEMANN OTTOCAR
Filed: 1905-05-22
Granted: 1905-08-31
Abstract: 10,697. Lindemann, O., [K÷rting Akt.- Ges., Geb.]. May 22. Condensers, preventing overflow from.-In order to prevent water from the condenser of a condensing-engine from entering the cylinder in the event of the condenser being flooded, a float c, Fig. 3, in a casing inserted in the exhaust pipe operates a valve e and so admits air to a pipe h, which is normally in communication with the exhaust pipe, through a passage s in the stem of the valve e. The opening of the passage s is covered when the valve e is opened, The pipe h leads to the space below a piston n, Fig. 2, in a valve casing bolted to the exhaust pipe. The space above the piston n ordinarily communicates with the exhaust pipe through a passage r. The air admitted below the piston n raises it and so opens a valve, which admits air to the exhaust pipe and s) prevents the inflow of water. The valve and piston n may be dispensed with, the air from the pipe h being admitted directly to the exhaust pipe. In an engine which can be used without the condenser, the piston n operates the exhaust-diverting valve.
Patent GB-190513251-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to Damper Controllers for Steam Generator Furnaces and the like.
Inventor: LOVEGROVE THOMAS GAWTHROP
Filed: 1905-06-27
Granted: 1905-10-19
Abstract: 13,251. Lovegrove, T. G. June 27. Dampers. - Relates to means for operating the damper of a steamboiler furnace by a governor, driven by an engine supplied from the boiler. The centrifugal governor C, Fig. 1, driven from the shaft D of a steam-engine, has its stem in the sleeve K attached to a lever M pivoted in a bearing N and connected through the arms P, Q with the shaft of a damper R. A valve B is so arranged that, when the steam pressure in the boiler reaches a predetermined point, the pressure to the engine is automatically r e - duced to a minimum, and, when the steam pressure falls below the predetermined point, sufficient steam is admitted to drive the engine at its maximum speed so as to operate the damper R. The damper is placed in a main flue of the furnace, and is adjusted by a screw T which is fitted on the frame of the governor, and bears against a limb of the lever M. In the form shown in Fig. 2, the sleeve U engages a lever V connected to a flexible piece W which is attached to a lever Y actuating the shaft of the damper R.
Patent GB-190519505-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in the Manufacture of the Fork End Fittings of Cycle Framings
Inventor: TODD ROWLAND DOUGLAS
Filed: 1905-09-27
Granted: 1906-06-28
Abstract: 19,505. Todd, R. D., and Hazlewood, W. H., [trading as Birmingham Stopper and Cycle Components Co.]. Sept. 27. Forks.-For connecting the chain stays to the back forks of cycles, an extension 2 of the stay end plate 1 is formed with a bearing-sleeve 3 over which takes a hole 7 in the lug 6, a screw 4 being passed through a washer into the screwed interior 5 of the sleeve. The sleeve is fetched up or raised by displacing the metal of the plate. For this purpose, the extension may be pierced by a small hole enlarged from the inside by a punch which displaces the metal outwardly ; or the sleeve may be produced by sinking the metal of the plate at the desired part and subsequently knocking the bottom out of the sinking and shaping the walls ; or; as described in the Provisional Specification, the sleeve or eye may be fetched up at the same time that the plate is shaped or fashioned into the stay end fitting.
Patent GB-190520756-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to the Suspension of Rotating Apparatus and Magnetic Compasses
Inventor: ANSCHUETZ-KAEMPFE HERMANN
Filed: 1905-10-13
Granted: 1906-02-01
Abstract: 20,756. Kaempfe, A. Ansch³tz-. March 25, [date applied for under Patents Act, 1901]. Gyroscopic apparatus; compasses, magnetic.-To reduce friction between a gyroscope and its support, the bearing upon which the system rests and about which horizontal motion takes place is rotated about its vertical axis. The uniformly rotating- wheel h, which has teeth upon one half of its circumference only, gears alternately with the wheels i, k, and thus rotates the bearing d alternately in opposite directions. A compass needle may also be mounted in a similar manner.
Patent GB-190602365-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in the Working of Internal Combustion Engines.
Inventor: SABATHE LOUIS GASTON
Filed: 1906-01-30
Granted: 1907-01-30
Abstract: 2365. SabathÚ, L. G. Jan. 30. Gas and like engines.-A two-stroke -cycle engine compresses the residual products of combustion during the in-stroke, and during compression a gaseous, solid, or liquid combustible is injected. At the beginning of the out-stroke, a supporter of combustion is injected, and combustion takes place while it is being admitted. The engine is suitable for submarine boats ; when the boat is on the surface, the pump h is employed to compress air into reservoirs e<2> to support combustion in the cylinder, but when it is submerged, combustion is supported by oxygen and the pump h is employed to withdraw the products of combustion from a tank wherein they are cooled and purified and to expel them overboard.
Patent GB-190603326-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Rims for Vehicle Wheels.
Inventor: SHUGERS GEORGE
Filed: 1906-02-10
Granted: 1907-02-09
Abstract: 3326. Shugers, G. Feb. 10. Felloes or rims. - The detachable split retaining- flange D seated in a recess b in the rim B is formed with hooked lugs k adapted to be passed through a recess in the rim and locked by means of a pivoted catch m provided with slightly curved surfaces v. for drawing together the lugs k. The catch m is provided with a piece t for closing the gap in the rim.