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Patent GB-190109467-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Gas Ranges
Inventor: HUTSON WILLIAM DRIVER
Filed: 1901-05-07
Granted: 1901-07-06
Abstract: 9467. Hutson, W. D. May 7. Gas cooking-stores; burners; ovens; plate and dish warmers.-Several ovens a, a', a<11> are enclosed within one casing b, flues d, d<1> being arranged between each pair of ovens. Immediately beneath each of these flues is a burner connected to a gassupply tube, and formed of a tube i having a narrow slot j, which is covered by a fine metal-gauze hood k held in place by collars l. The tube is enclosed within an outer one m having a slot o. A partition p extends from the underside of the casing b to the top of the oven a<1>. Circular openings c, c<1> are provided above the flues, and are covered with lids or with pots to be heated. Beneath the oven a<1> is a chamber a<111> acting as a plate-warmer. The ovens are, by this construction, heated only by external heat, that is, the products of combustion circulating beneath, up the side of, and over the ovens.
Patent GB-190110169-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Range Finding and Sighting Appliance for Weapons.
Inventor: BEAL LATHAM OSBORNE
Filed: 1901-05-16
Granted: 1901-08-24
Abstract: 10,169. Beal, L. O. May 16. Drawings to Specification. Range - finders.-The fore-sight of a rifle is provided with an aperture, the height of which corresponds to the apparent height of a man at a range of 500 yards, while, at the same range, the height of a mounted man corresponds to the external height of the fore-sight. Other ranges are judged by observing the proportional height on the fore-sight of the objects.
Patent GB-190113466-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Railway Switch and Signal Apparatus.
Filed: 1901-07-02
Granted: 1902-06-05
Abstract: 13,466. Westinghouse Brake Co., and Malan, E. de M. July 2. Interlocking ; indicators and repeaters, point or switch and signal semaphore signals. -Relates to interlocking for electrically-worked or controlled points and signals, and to means whereby, if the points are partly or wholly forced open, they are automatically forced completely over and held, an indication being given at the point lever. Straight bars 3,4 are worked by the signal lever 1 and point lever 2, and indication locks 5, 8, and 9, gearing with these bars are controlled by the electromagnets 6, 10, and 11. The bars carry contacts 13,15, and 16 which work over the fixed terminals as shown. The points and signals are worked or controlled by magnets in a usual manner. The point bar 4 also works a roller switch 33 through a clutch 34 and crankpin 31 to complete the signal circuits at the ends of its stroke. The clutch is disengaged by the lever 46 if current fails in the electromagnet 48 and at the same time the lever moves the switch to re-arrange the connections 50 to 54, shown on the left, and the roller switch is caused to take a mid position by the springs 73. This lever can only be restored by band, preferably by breaking a seal, after failure in the current or forcible reversal of the points. The signal bar lock 5 works an indicator 7, and the point bar locks work the indicator 12 to show their positions. The latter indicator also works the switch 62 over four contacts one of which is in circuit with a bell 68 to give an audible indication while the points are moving over or when they are opened by a train running back through them.
Patent GB-190122058-A (GB)
Title: A New or Improved Adjustable Crank or use in connection with Velocipedes and for other Purposes.
Inventor: DEAN ARTHUR
Filed: 1901-12-21
Granted: 1901-12-21
Abstract: 22,058. Dean, A. Nov. 1. Cranks.-Relates to the construction of adjustable cranks for velocipedes and for other purposes. The crank is made in two parts a, b. The part a is formed with an internally-threaded recess, into which the part b is screwed. A collar c slides on the part b, but cannot turn thereon owing to a flattened face on the part b engaging a corresponding surface on the collar c. The collar c is formed with projections d, d engaging corresponding recesses e, e in the end of the part a. A hollow nut g slides over the collar c, and is screwed upon the end of the part a to lock the parts together in their adjusted position.
Patent GB-190123879-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Automatic Fluid Pressure Speed Governors.
Inventor: KUHN CHARLES HENRY
Filed: 1901-11-25
Granted: 1902-02-13
Abstract: 23,879. Kuhn, C. H., Baldwin, W. C., Murdoch, J. H., and Donnan, A. Nov. 25. Governing or regulating; stop gear ;pistons.- Consists in a method of and means for governing engines by the compression or exhaustion of air at a rate depending on the speed of the engine, the apparatus being also adapted to shut off the steam supply in case of breakdown, and to enable the engine to be set at full speed from a point at a distance when desired. The air is forced into the reservoir 37 under gentle pressure from a pump cylinder 52 into which at each backward stroke of the engine there enters a piston 53 carried by the engine crosshead. The piston is conical in form and too small to come into actual contact with the cylinder 52 at any point. It is capable of adjust. ment for centralizing it on the rod 56, and is attached thereto by a nut, which holds it in position by friction not so great that it will not shift if it strikes the cylinder 52. If the engine runs at a higher speed than that for which the governor is set air accumulates in the reservoir, and the throttle valve is moved by the diaphragm so as to reduce the supply of steam or shut it off, while if a breakdown occurs which prevents air from being fed into the reservoir, the weighted arm 74 closes the valve in the opposite direction. If the engine is for use in a saw mill, a pivoted lever 85 for bringing the valve into its fully-open position may also be provided. By a cord attached to this lever, which is weighted so as to be normally out of action, the sawyer is enabled to give a quick return to the log-carriage by temporarily opening the valve to its fullest extent. Another form of this governor is shown, in which the chamber 37 is exhausted more or less, instead of being filled with compressed air.
Patent GB-190200583-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and pertaining to Locomotive Engine Spark Arresting Appliances and Arrangements.
Inventor: WAINWRIGHT HARRY SMITH
Filed: 1902-01-08
Granted: 1903-02-07
Abstract: 583. Wainwright, H. S. Jan. 8. Spark-arresters.-A conical grid-like spark-arrester is mounted in the smoke-box of a locomotive.with its smaller end supported on the upper part of the blast pipe, while its upper part is extended to, and surrounds, the base of the chimney, and partly within the chimney base and partly within the first cone is mounted a second similar cone. In the example shown, the two cones are constructed as described in Specification No. 14,262, A.D. 1901, but they may otherwise be constructed by winding a chain spirally round a framework of notched or recessed bars. The cone c in the example shown is secured to the blast pipe b by hook bolts n, passing through the flange of the blower ring q, so as to be readily detachable. The upper end of the cone c surrounds the chimney base e, and, jointly, the base e and cone c enclose the chimney cone d.
Patent GB-190213039-A (GB)
Title: New or Improved Device for Preventing the Wetting of or the Attachment of Mud to Certain Parts of Ladies' Clothing.
Inventor: COX HENRY
Filed: 1902-06-07
Granted: 1903-04-30
Abstract: 13,039. Cox, H. June 7. Leggings.-Consists of half leggings to cover the back of the legs and prevent wet and muddy dresses from coming into contact with the back of boots and stockings. It may be made of wires a or of a stiffened fabric, and is provided with straps b, b<1> or other means of attachment.
Patent GB-190213525-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Cuff Holders.
Inventor: JAKOBI PETER
Filed: 1902-06-14
Granted: 1902-07-17
Abstract: 13,525. Jakobi, P. June 14. Cuff suspenders.-On the inside of the coat sleeve k, Fig. 1, is fixed a guide-way a shown separately in plan and in cross-section in Figs. 2 and 3. In this guide-way is mounted a block in which is fitted a stud c, which is engaged in a buttonhole in the cuff C. The stnd c can be clamped in any desired position in the guide-way. A scale is marked on the guide-way so as to fix exactly the place where the stud should be clamped.
Patent GB-190214727-A (GB)
Title: Improved Manufacture of Window & other Glass, Vases and other Objects of Glass, Porcelain or other Ceramic Material
Inventor: STORR WILHELM
Filed: 1902-07-01
Granted: 1903-04-30
Abstract: 14,727. Storr, W. July 1. Bottles.-Bottles and other articles of glass and ceramicware are provided with a metal skeleton or vaning on their surfaces, to prevent them falling to pieces when cracked. A mixture of borax, or other flux, chalk, metal oxide, powdered precious metal, and potassium silicate is applied to the article on one or both sides in the form of veins in straight or curved lines, patterns, &c. The article is then heated to fuse the composition, and, after cooling, is placed in an electrolytic bath in order to deposit metals on the veins.
Patent GB-190217752-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Cork Extractors.
Inventor: GILCHRIST RAYMOND BEARDSLEY
Filed: 1902-08-12
Granted: 1902-10-30
Abstract: 17,752. Gilchrist, R. B. Aug. 12. Corkscrews and cork-drawers.-Relates to corkextractors of the type in which the corkscrew is reciprocated, by a hand-lever &c., through a nut, which serves to rotate the screw when the latter is entering the cork, and to strip the cork from the screw when the cork has been entirely or partially withdrawn from the bottle. The apparatus, as shown, is adapted to be sesured by its base-plate 2 to a wall &c., but it may be designed for attachment to a bar or counter. The main part 3 of the frame or casting is formed with a socket 10 to receive the mouth of the bottle, and with a boss to receive the pivot 12 of the operating-lever 14. The shorter end of the lever 14 is connected by the pin 29 to the arm or link 24, which is preferably formed integrally with the corkscrew carrier 20, by stamping from a single blank, and strengthened by flanges 27 &c. The corkscrew 17 is formed with a semi-spherical head 18, which rests on the bearing-plate 19 supported on the carrier 20, the head being cupped to receive the end of the coned bearing-screw 22. To permit the oscillating movement of the carrier relatively to the corkscrew when the lever 14 is operated, the carrier 20 is formed with a slot for the corkscrew, and with bent lugs 25, by which it is guided with the necessary freedom of movement on the vertical post 4. The nut 32, through which the corkscrew works, is also mounted, by means of grooved lugs, on the guide-post 4, and is provided with a lug 41, which is engaged in the gab 40 of the latch 39 to lock. the nut in its lower position when the cork is being stripped off, i.e., during alternate upward movements of the screw. The latch is disengaged from the lug 41 near the end of the stripping movement, by the projection 42 on the lever 14 engaging the projection 43 on the latch, and remains unlocked during the downward movement of the screw. It is brought into position for re-engagement by the projection 46 on the nut engaging the inclines 47, 48 of the latch during the upward and downward movements of the nut with the screw, and is engaged by the lug 41 acting on the projecting lower shoulder of the gab 40 as the nut reaches its lower position. When the latch is disengaged by the projection 42, the nut falls by gravity into the position shown, in which the lug 41 is opposite to the projection 44 of the latch, so preventing reengagement of the latch until the nut has been raised in the operation of extracting the cork and lowered again. The latch is prevented from falling backwards by the arm 50 engaging the frame.
Patent GB-190304044-A (GB)
Title: A Means for Preventing the Skidding or Side Slipping of Motor Cars, Cycles and other Vehicles.
Inventor: BUTLER SAMUEL
Filed: 1903-02-20
Granted: 1903-12-31
Abstract: 4044. Butler, S. Feb. 20. Tyres, pneumatic &c.-Relates to jackets and covers for preventing slipping. Fig. 1 shows a chain-like band, constructed of steel links a hinged together and fixed to the tyre by means of straps passing through the lugs d. The lugs may be dispensed with and the bandfitted into a recess in the tyre, projections on the band fitting into recesses cut in the tyre ; or the band may be broadened and the edges bent down to grip the sides of the tyre. For the metal band may be substituted a rubber band fitted with projecting metal studs. In Fig. 10 the band n and the tyre e are shown provided with grooves, the plates or studs p with stems and washers q being fitted to the band. The band n shown in Fig. 12 is made in sections, and is attached by hooks o' and rods o carried on each side ; some of the hooks may be replaced by a connecting-nut, fitting right and left handed screw threads cut on the projecting ends of the wire o. In a modification of the form shown in Fig. 10, a narrow cover is interposed between the tube g and outer cover e, and the studs are fitted directly to the cover e, the band n being dispensed with.
Patent GB-190306345-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Fire Escapes
Inventor: JONES GEORGE
Filed: 1903-03-19
Granted: 1903-07-16
Abstract: 6345. Jones, G. March 19. Fire-escapes.-Relates to a portable fire-escape adapted to be affixed to a window opening &c. The escape comprises a ladder, Fig. 1, formed of two chains connected by steps b, held by eyes or hooked ends. The ladder is suspended from an adjustable clamp made in three pieces f, g, h bolted together and having lugs f<3>, g3 to prevent it from opening out. The hook may be solid throughout. The long bottom step c is connected by pear-shaped links to the chains ; the ladder is folded on the bottom step and secured by a hook C, which, being released, allows the ladder to fall.
Patent GB-190307388-A (GB)
Title: Improved Apparatus for the Administration of Soemnoform and like Anaesthetics.
Filed: 1903-03-30
Granted: 1904-02-25
Abstract: 7388. Knowles, V., and Dental Manufacturing Co. March 30. Anµsthetics, administering; inhalers. - Relates to inhalers for administering soemnoform, kelane, ethyl chloride, nitrous oxide, and like anµsthetics. The funnel 1, Fig. 2, fitting over the face has an inflated tube 2 acting as a cushion-edge, and is lined with a detachable piece of flannel or like material to be soaked with the anµsthetic, being held in place by a removable wire frame 14. The funnel 1 is screwed on to an elbow tube 6 leading to a rubber bag for containing the anaesthetic vapour or gas, and provided with loops both inside and out at the bottom, so that the bag may be turned inside out for cleaning. The bag is connected to the elbow tube by an elastic ring in its neck, and a rubber band holds it in place. A tubular plug cock or valve, Fig. 5, is employed in the elbow tube 6 opening beneath a funnel 7 for regulation of the air supply by rotating the cock through the handle 8 ; or, a further supply of liquid anaesthetic may be introduced through the funnel 7 to be soaked into a sponge fixed beneath the funnel.
Patent GB-190307778-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Lifter-feet for Use with the Lifter-pillars used with Rails Lifted and Lowered in Ring-spinning Machines Ring-doubling Machines and other Machines for Preparing Spinning, Doubling and Winding Cotton, Wool, Silk and other Fibrous Materials.
Filed: 1903-04-03
Granted: 1904-02-04
Abstract: 7778. Platt Bros. & Co., and Chadderton, T. April 3. Lifting-rails; building- motions.-The lifter-feet a, Fig. 2, for use with the lifter-pillars of ring spinning, and doubling, and other machines for preparing, spinning, doubling, and winding cotton, wool, silk, &c., are formed of yokes d with knife-edges or angular parts &c. e resting in the hollows or bearings f, in the lifterarms c. The lifter-pillars b are recessed at their bottom ends i, and are adjusted in position by means of screws g passing through the yokes d, and lock-nuts h. The round, conical, or other tapering points of the screws thus support the pillars b. The yokes are provided with sockets or hollows, for guiding the pillars b on the points of the set-screws g. The lifter-pillar b, after adjustment, may thus be readily removed for repairs &c., without the necessity of removing the lifter-foot.
Patent GB-190312967-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Variable Speed Gears for Cycles.
Inventor: HINE RICHARD JOHN
Filed: 1903-06-09
Granted: 1904-05-12
Abstract: 12,967. Hine, R. J. June 9. Driving-mechanism -Relates to a three-speed gear for bicycles &c. On the crank axle P are mounted a keyed spur-wheel B and two loose sliding wheels B', B<2>, which gear respectively with two sliding wheels D, D<1>, and a keyed wheel D<2> on a countershaft Q. By clutching the wheels B', B<2> to the wheel B, the motion of the axle is transmitted direct to the chain-wheel C, and low speed is obtained. For an intermediate speed, the pairs of wheels B', B, and D<1>, D<2>, are clutched together, while clutching together the wheels D, D' to the wheel D<2> gives high speed. For operating the clutches, a lever M on a rod G is rotated to assume the various positions indicated in Fig. 2. In the rotation of the lever, a rotatable cam-piece K, Fig. 4, forces in a sliding cam K<1>, which, through a spring L, imparts a longitudinal motion to the rod and, through connecting-bars H, to the two parallel rods E, F. The upper rod carries a fork e<1> engaging a groove in the wheel B<2>, while a loose sleeve, held in normal position by a spring J, has a fork e engaging a groove in the wheel B'. The lower rod has similar forks f, f<1>, engaging grooves in the wheels D, D' respectively. A spring N keeps the cam parts continually in contact. If desired, the wheels B, D<2> may be mounted so as to slide on the axles, in which case, the wheels B', D need have no sliding motion.
Patent GB-190313036-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Tug and other Boats.
Inventor: CORESSY-KORESSIOS THEODOR NICO
Filed: 1903-06-10
Granted: 1904-04-21
Abstract: 13,036. Koressios, T. N. Coressy-. June 10. Prupeller shafts, arrangement of.-In launches, tugs, and shallow-draught vessels, the propeller shaft e is inclined, as shown, to prevent a current of water being driven against the bows of a towed barge or following vessel.
Patent GB-190314331-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Furnaces in Boilers and the like.
Inventor: MACKENZIE JOHN WILLIAM
Filed: 1903-06-27
Granted: 1904-06-27
Abstract: 14,331. Mackenzie, J. W., [Budden, H. A.]. June 27. Steam - generator furnaces.-In a furnace for the consumption of fuel containing much h volatile matter, closed coking- chambers 3 are arranged over down-draught water - bar grates, and are provided with flues 31, 32, which conduct the distilled gases to inlets 24 at the side of the grates. The inlets 24 are also connected to air flues in the walls and floor of the asbpit. The grate consists of two rows of tubes, which are connected at one end in vertical pairs by bends 10, and at the other end to horizontal headers, so that the lower row of tubes communicates with a feed header 13, and the upper row communicates with a header 14 leading to a steam drum. The feed header is connected to the lower and upper parts of the boiler.
Patent GB-190316237-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Antivibratory and Adjustment Devices for the Saddles of Cycles and the like.
Inventor: DUFFY JAMES JOSEPH
Filed: 1903-07-23
Granted: 1904-06-23
Abstract: 16,237. Duffy, J. J. July 23. Saddle and seat springs; saddle and seat supports.-Relates to improvements upon the antivibration devices for the saddles of cycles and the like described in Specification No. 26,397, A.D. 1901, and provides means for adjusting the tension of the seat. The lower part A of the double spring A, B is mounted upon the saddle-bar clamp and slidingly supports at its rear end a cross-plate C carrying expanding springs b<1>. The springs, through a seat support E provided with a central projection e<1> and a screw-pin K, carry the upper spring B, upon which the cross-plate of the support slides. By moving the parts E, C with the springs b<1> in either direction along slots b<3>, a<2>, the tension of the seat may be adjusted, the whole being finally secured by nuts b<4>, a<3>. The lower spring A may consist of two or three superposed plates, while, as shown, it is attached to the clamp by projections a<1> secured between flanges on side plates H which are attached to the saddle-bar by a socket F having serrated faces engaging similar faces upon the plates. When only one spring b<1> is used, the seat support is arranged to slide as before upon the spring B, but the latter is bent down and secured to the underside of the coil spring, no cross-plate being necessary. A screwpin adjustment may be provided at the front end of the saddle.
Patent GB-190317118-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Moulds for Making Matrices for the Production of Cylindrical Type Wheel Casings, Type Segments or the like for Typewriting and other Machines by Electrotypy.
Inventor: THOMPSON WILLIAM PHILLIPS
Filed: 1903-08-06
Granted: 1903-11-12
Abstract: 17,118. Thompson, W. P., [Greeff & Co., A.]. Aug. 6. Type-writers and like machines.-Relates to the preparation of moulds or matrices for producing type-cylinder shells or type-segments, for typewriters &c., by electrodeposition. Four or other number of blocks a are fixed together by tapering bolts c &c., leaving a central opening d. Clamping-plates h are fixed on the upper and lower sides of the blocks a by bolts i, and these plates hold the pattern cylinder e in central position. Thin plates b are placed between the blocks a, their inner edges projecting and engaging the pattern cylinder e. When the whole is fixed together, soft modelling material such as wax, gypsum, guttapercha, or an easily-fusible metal such as lead, zinc, &c., is pressed into the openings f in the blocks a by means of pressers g &c., so as to form a mould round the pattern cylinder. When the material is set, the parts are disconnected, the blocks a withdrawn radially, and the pattern removed, after which the parts of the mould are re-assembled and connected. The mould is then prepared for the usual electrotyping process.
Patent GB-190318389-A (GB)
Title: A New Manufacture of Horse-clothing, Carpet-felting, and the like.
Inventor: ORR DAVID WHITEFORD
Filed: 1903-08-26
Granted: 1904-08-18
Abstract: 18,389. Orr, D. W., and Baldwin, W. Aug. 26. Felted fabrics; pile fabrics.-Relates to the manufacture of horse-clothing, carpet, felting, &c. A layer of camel's hair in the form of noils or waste is laid upon, or beneath, a layer of woven jute &c., such as canvas, and the hair is pushed or pulled through the fabric by a series of barbed needles carried by bars which are reciprocated both horizontally and vertically. A second layer of hair is then applied to the opposite side of the fabric and drawn through in a similar manner. After this, the fabric thus made with a pile on each face, may be steamed, and passed between rollers having a longitudinal as well as a rotary movement, in order to rub the surface into a firm felt, and conceal the woven foundation.
Patent GB-190318688-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Drawing Instruments.
Inventor: JACKSON THOMAS
Filed: 1903-08-31
Granted: 1904-07-28
Abstract: 18,688. Jackson, T. Aug. 31. Mathematical drawing-instruments. - A pair of spring bow compasses is added to "interchangeable" school sets comprising a loose divider, a pen, and a solid lead holder, adapted to fit into the same pen or pencil handle and compasses, so as to provide spring bow pen or pencil compasses or dividers by the addition of a single instrument. The shank of the pen used is provided with a line or ridge coinciding with the split of the pencil holder of the ordinary or spring bow compasses, to facilitate the adjustment of the pen point.