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Patent GB-190214909-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Machines for Treating Fibrous Plants.
Inventor: GRAY WILLIAM BENJAMIN
Filed: 1902-07-04
Granted: 1903-07-02
Abstract: 14,909. Gray, W. B. July 4. Breaking and scutching apparatus.-Relates to apparatus for breaking or scutching flax, rhea, jute, &c. The material is fed on to a table T and between pairs of grooved rollers R, R<1>. The upper rollers are pressed downwards by springs adjusted by screws N. The lower rollers are rotated by worm-wheels and worms on shafts geared by spur-wheels to countershafts which are geared by bevel-wheels to the main shafts. Between the pairs of rolls are sets of plates, each consisting of two fixed plates S and one reciprocating plate S<1> between them. The fixed plates rest on the machine bed, and are held down by forks P which straddle the movable plates. The movable plates are reciprocated by eccentrics on the countershafts. The three plates have two or more slots through which the material is fed by the grooved rolls ; lips W guide the material into the slots.
Patent GB-190215453-A (GB)
Title: Wire Outlines of Familiar Forms
Inventor: REID WILLIAM
Filed: 1902-07-11
Granted: 1902-10-23
Abstract: 15,453. Reid, W. July 11. Educational appliances.-Various straight and curved pieces of wire of quadrangular section are provided, and a game consists in arranging them so as to form outline designs of different kinds such for instance as that shown in Fig. 4. Diagrams of suitable designs are supplied with the wires. According to the Provisional Specification, letters and figures may be formed with the wires.
Patent GB-190215569-A (GB)
Title: New and Useful Spring Catch for Furniture-doors and the like.
Inventor: KAISER JOSEPH
Filed: 1902-07-12
Granted: 1902-10-23
Abstract: 15,569. Kaiser, J. July 12. Double-door fastenings.-Relates to a catch for use in securing doable doors of furniture &c. In a casing c secured to one door a is pivoted a bent lever d, the ends of which are arranged to pass through slots in the casing. Normally the lever is retained in the inoperative position by means of a spring f. The lower end of the lever is guided by a plate k secured to the casing and carries a pin h, which passes through a slot in the casing and projects into the path of the other door t. In securing the doors, the door a is first closed, and the door t, which carries the lock, in closing, engages the pin h and forces the top part of the lever d into engagement with a plate l secured to the frame. Upon opening the door t, the spring f forces the lever out of engagement with the plate l, and releases the door a. A catch is arranged both at the top and the bottom of the door.
Patent GB-190216676-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Door Fasteners
Inventor: STANSFIELD FRED
Filed: 1902-07-28
Granted: 1903-04-23
Abstract: 16,676. Stansfield, F. July 28. Indicators, "engaged" and like.-In connection with a door fastening, mechanism is arranged for indicating whether the door is securely fastened or otherwise. Fig. 1 shows the invention as applied to a railway-carriage door fastening. Within the carriage frame or body b is mounted a spindle d, to which is attached a semaphore or dial plate e having the word "secure" &c. thereon. The spindle d is connected by a lever f and link q to a T-shaped lever pivoted at i. When the latch or turn-button k is turned to secure the door, it operates the said lever and the dial e is rotated so as to display the word "secure" through an aperture in the inner panel of the carriage. When the fastening is released, the dial e is turned, so as to move the word " secure " from behind the aperture, by a weighted lever l or a spring &c. In this position, such words as" not fastened " may be brought in front of the aperture, the words being formed on an extension of the dial e, or on a similar plate.
Patent GB-190218629-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Marine Torches, and in Marine Torch Burners.
Inventor: JOHNSON ALEXANDER FREDERICK JE
Filed: 1902-08-25
Granted: 1903-07-16
Abstract: 18,629. Johnson, A. F. J. Aug. 25. Signals, lamp and floating.-Relates to acetylene torches such as are described in Specification No. 22,227, A.D. 1 8 9 9, o r torches and lamps for marine or other purposes. Fig. 1 shows a marine torch having a body 1, a top-plate 2, and a bottom-plate 3. Inserted in the plate 3 is a cup 4 having openings through which water may pass to the carbide, which i s contained in a sack 10 secured by a wire &c. 11. The opening in the bottom of the cup 4 is hermetically closed by a tear-off strip 6, which is removed when the torch is to be used. The bottom is weighed at 9 to cause the torch to float in upright position. A thin metal vessel 13 having openings 15 is preferably placed in the torch. The burners are formed by raised portions 16 stamped on the top-plate 2 or on a ring attached to it, and perforated at 17 so that the flames from two adjacent perforations impinge and combine. Fig. 11 shows a modification in which two converging perforations 17 are formed in each burner projection 16. In order to filter the gas, a sheet 27 of porous paper, cloth, &c. is placed beneath the burners. In the top 2 is fixed a cup 18 for calcium phosphide which forms the automatic igniter for the acetylene. The opening in the cup 18 is closed by a rubber &c. pad 53 held in place by a disc 22 which covers the burners and is attached by a tear-off strip 23. This strip and the disc are removed when the torch is to be used. To ensure the lighting of the acetylene, oneof the burners 16 has a perforation which directs the jet towards the opening in the top of the cup 18. In a torch which is re-chargeable, the burner ring is removably fixed in a ring secured to the top-plate 2. The outer edge of the ring is screwed for securing a sealing-cap such as 22. The bottom of the torch may be secured to the body 1 by screwing it on. The Provisional Specification describes also (1) a means for holding burners, or burner tips in cups in the top-plate, and securing them by a special cement or by compression; and (2) a means for insulating burners from the heat by the securing-cement, or by asbestos packing.
Patent GB-190221681-A (GB)
Title: Nearly Crewless, Seagoing Submarine Warships
Inventor: MIDDLETON HENRY
Filed: 1902-10-06
Granted: 1903-10-06
Abstract: 21,681. Middleton, H. Oct. 6. Propelling and steering submarine boats of the type described in Specifications No. 4604, A.D. 1887, No. 13,945, A.D. 1888, Nos. 5399 and 15,253, A.D. 1891, and No. 12,717, A.D. 1893. The boat is controlled by one or two men in the conning-tower, which is fitted with a switchboard. In addition, the fins or propellers described in the prior Specifications may be rapidly flexed by air or water under pressure. The "fin-flexing" rod d, Fig. 5, passes loosely through-the piston L and the rod L<1> fitted with electromagnets M; M<1>. On turning the handle H<1> from its central or "off " position to the right or left, to supply fluid to the cylinder, the magnets M, M<1> are energized and grip and reciprocate the rod d. Loss of trim is compensated for by dragging weights backwards or forwards by electromotors, Fig. 6, one of which is cut in when the lever connecting the balls shown leaves the hotizontal position. This device, with or without multiplying-gear, is used to make the boat ascend or descend. Fig. 8 shows an alarm device for maintaining the trim. Normally, the ends of the electric wires shown are separated by an air bubble, which is displaced by mercury when the glass tube T is inclined, thus closing the circuit and ringing a bell.
Patent GB-190224128-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Electric Motors, the Invention being applicable to Electric Fans.
Inventor: HOLSON ALBERT BERNHARD
Filed: 1902-11-04
Granted: 1903-06-18
Abstract: 24,128. Holson, A. B. Nov. 4, A.D. 1901, [date applied for under Patents Act, A.D. 1901]. Casings ; frames ; motors, gearing for. - Relates to electric motors, and more particularly to the means employed for transmitting motion from the armature to a surrounding rotatable member, such means being an improvement on those described in Specification No. 15,674, A.D. 1902. Fig. 2 shows the invention applied to an electric fan. The armature is mounted so as to rotate within a stationary frame 13, carrying the field poles, and its slightly-inclined shaft is provided at its opposite ends with a pair of friction pinions 25, 26, which gear respectively with a pair of friction rings 27, 28 on the upper and lower parts of an outer rotatable shell 10, to which fan blades are attached. For the purpose of adjusting the engagement of the gears, the shell 10 is formed in two parts, one of which screws into the other and is secured after adjustment by set-screws 35. The stationary frame 13 is formed with journals 14, 15, on which the shell 10 rotates, and is fitted with endplates 17,18 carrying the bearingsforthe armature shaft. Instead of friction gearing, toothed gearing arranged in the same manner may be employed.
Patent GB-190224255-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in the Manufacture of Organic Acyl Bodies
Inventor: JOHNSON JAMES YATE
Filed: 1902-11-05
Granted: 1903-09-10
Abstract: 24,255. Johnson, J. Y., [Badische Anilin & Soda Fabrik]. Nov. 5. Acids, organic, chlorides and anhydrides of.- Relates to the manufacture of organic acyl bodies. Chlorides or anhydrides of acetic, benzoic, or other organic acids are produced by gently warming a mixture of the sodium, barium, calcium, potassium, or other salt of chlorosulphonic acid with suitable proportions of the sodium or other salt of the organic acid, or with the organic acid itself. In examples, acetic anhydride is produced by treating a mixture of sodium chlorsulphonate and anhydrous sodium acetate, and acetyl chloride is formed by treating a mixture of sodium chlorsulphonate and sodium acetate or anhydrous acetic acid.
Patent GB-190226974-A (GB)
Title: Improved Construction of Distributor for Filter Beds and the like.
Inventor: HAM FREDERIC GEORGE SISON
Filed: 1902-12-06
Granted: 1903-10-22
Abstract: 26,974. Ham, F. G. S. Dec. 6. Sewage and foul waters, treating; filtering.-An apparatus for sprinkling water, sewage, or sewage effluent, over a filter bed consists of a ring-shaped trough F, with radial-distributing arms H, mounted so as to revolve upon a central standard. Motion is imparted to the distributer by the liquid issuing through nozzles D at the end of fixed radial arms C, and acting upon striking plates or vanes E, arranged in the trough F. Deflectors K are arranged in the path of the liquid to divert it into the distributing- arms H.
Patent GB-190227118-A (GB)
Title: A New or Improved Incandescent Burner for Petroleum or the like.
Inventor: POPESCU GEORGE
Filed: 1902-12-09
Granted: 1903-03-12
Abstract: 27,118. Popescu, G. Dec. 9. Incandescent vapour burners. - In an incandescent burner for petroleum and d other oils, the burner is kept cool by air currents which pass up inside and outside the wick-tube. The wick is cylindrical in its upper portion, but below is divided into two branches b, Fig. 2, which pass through tubular sleeves c attached to a casing d which fits inside the upper part of the wick. The bottom e of the casing is provided with a rack f, actuated by a pinion. The sleeves c pass through sleeves l on the mount k, which screws into the reservoir of the lamp. The upper ends of the sleeves l carry a collar m, into which is screwed the outer wicktube n, Fig. 1. A shoulder on this tube carries a chimney holder p, the lower part q of which is perforated. A tube v attached to the sleeves l above the collar m serves as a guide for the casing d and also as an air shaft. A burner cone x is attached to the chimney holder, and a perforated deflector y is inserted in the upper part of the tube v, a disc 1, of S-shaped section, being supported by the deflector. The vaporizing-collar between the burner cone and the top of the wicktnbe consists of two collars connected by strips and lying one above the other. The upper and smaller one 3 is bent at right-angles, the air passing in, over, and under it. The collar and the burner cone each have a central aperture through which the deflector is passed, the apertures also providing a passage for the mixed vapour and air. The chimney holder is provided with a socket 5, in which the mantle crutch 7 is held by a screw 6. To bring the burner into operation, the burner cone, vaporizing-collar, and chimney holder are raised on the wick-tube so as to leave the upper end of the wick free for lighting. The holder is then returned to its former position. The burner is kept cool by the air currents, which pass up between the outer-wick tube and the burner cone, and also through the tube v. A perforated gallery u may be screwed on to the crown k.
Patent GB-190307341-A (GB)
Title: Process for the Manufacture of Variously Shaped Industrial Objects from Cellulose Compounds.
Inventor: LEDERER LEONHARD
Filed: 1903-03-30
Granted: 1904-03-30
Abstract: 7341. Lederer, L. March 30. Straps and bands.-Relates to the manufacture of threads, strips, ribbons, sheets, tubes, &c. from acidylized cellulose. A solution of the cellulose compound in acetic acid, phenol, chloroform, or mixtures of these solvents, is squirted into a liquid, such as alcohol, benzene, petroleum spirit, &c., which will absorb or mix with the solvent but will not dissolve the acidylized cellulose. For instance, a syrupy solution of acetyl-cellulose in acetic acid is discharged in a thin jet or stream into alcohol. The liquid thereupon becomes plastic and after a short time, the thread obtained is removed from the alcohol, and drawn out or stretched and dried at a moderate temperature. Dye liquids, gclatine, oil of turpentine, camphor, solid colouring matters, metal dust, or other material may be added to the solution of acidylized cellulose before squirting.
Patent GB-190307776-A (GB)
Title: Processes of Separating Proteids from Non-nitrogenous Bodies.
Filed: 1903-04-03
Granted: 1903-10-15
Abstract: 7776. Carstairs, J., and Allrich Guano Co. April 3. Manures.-Relates to a process for separating such proteids as albumen, fibrin, &c. from fats, oils, and other non-nitrogenous bodies, and is applicable to the preparation of guano and oil from fish, or to the refining of oils &c. In preparing guano, the fish is comminuted, mixed with 2 per cent. of a saturated solution of aromatic alcohols, such as a mixture of 9 parts of phenol and 1 part of benzyl alcohol in methyl or like alcohol and boiled. The oil or fat rises to the top, and is decanted off or forced out by high-pressure steam.
Patent GB-190324005-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Thread or Yarn Winding or Spooling Machines.
Filed: 1903-11-05
Granted: 1904-10-20
Abstract: 24,005. British Northrop Loom Co., [Northrop Loom Co.]. Nov. 5. Winding - machines ; building- motions. - In machines for winding yarn or thread on to spools or bobbins, the wear on the thread-guides is equalized by imparting to them a slight lateral traverse in addition to the usual vertical traverse. The traverse mechanism is such that the depth of the frame is materially decreased, so that space is provided between the bobbin boxes and the frame sides for hoppers to receive the empty bobbins. The thread guides t are mounted on traverse rods T, of which there are two at each side of the frame. The rods T are rigidly secured to links d, which are pivotally connected to rocker arms R loosely fulcrumed on the extended journals y of oscillating yoke-like members Y. The bearings b for the journals y are formed on the spindle-rails S'. The yokes Y are connected by a rod F, so that they oscillate together, and the arms R rest on adjustable seats on the ends of short arms a<1>, which are adjustably secured to the journals y, so that, when the yokes Y are oscillated, the arms R swing about the journals y and impart a lateral and vertical traverse to the thread guides. The arms R at opposite ends of each side extend in opposite directions from their fulcra, so that the rods T move in opposite directions. A segmental shoe m<6> is secured to one of the yokes Y, and to it are fastened chains m<4>, m<9>, which are guided by pulleys m<5>, m<10> and are fastened to a drum m and a weight W respectively. The drum m is secured to a gear-wheel m<1>, which is rotated in alternate directions by a second gear-wheel, in well-known manner, so that the chain m<4> is alternately wound on to and off the drum m, and the yokes Y are thereby oscillated. Any suitable mangle-motion may be employed. Hoppers H with sloping sides are placed side by side between the bobbin boxes E and the frame sides. The inclined tops c of the boxes E serve to direct the spent bobbins into the mouths of the hoppers, as the bobbins are ejected from the bobbin holders. The bottoms of the hoppers H are provided with sliding gates h', which may be withdrawn to discharge the bobbins in the hoppers into a removable box. The bobbin holders B<10> may be of any suitable construction, the form shown being that described in Specification No. 14,039, A.D. 1903.
Patent GB-190324398-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Fluid Pressure Turbines.
Inventor: HODGKINSON FRANCIS
Filed: 1903-11-10
Granted: 1904-02-04
Abstract: 24,398. Hodgkinson, F. Nov. 13, A.D. 1902, [date applied for under Patents Act, A.D. 1901]. Steam &c. turbines.-Steam or other fluidpressure turbines are fitted with leakage-preventing and adjusting devices, and nozzles or guide passages as shown in the Figures. The casing 1, Fig. 1, carries rings 10 formed with grooves and flanges 14 which intermesh with similar parts 15 formed on the turbine drum 6. By means of a two-part adjustable block 16 adjusted by studs 20, the flanges of the casing and drum are kept in such proximity that leakage is prevented, and the blades 13 may thus have considerable clearance. The nozzle or guide-rings may have throated guidepassages formed in them, or may have a steam groove with separate curved discharge apertures. The guide-ring 21, Fig. 3, has an outer detachable ring 22 secured by studs 23. The guide-ring 28, Figs. 8 and 9, has inner and outer curved rings 29, and the passages are formed by partitions which are inserted in grooves in the rings.
Patent GB-190403728-A (GB)
Title: Improved Means for Heating Cabins and Passages of Passenger Vessels by Steam.
Inventor: CAMPBELL WILLIAM
Filed: 1904-02-15
Granted: 1904-11-24
Abstract: 3728. Campbell, W. Feb. 15. Heating ships.- To heat the cabins and passages of passenger vessels, the partition bulkheads are constructed with channel-bars at the base arranged to enclose steam heating- pipes. The base of the partition bulkheads A is formed by channel-bars B resting on edge over the deck planks, to which the are bolted. The upper sides of the channel bars support a wooden cant A<1>forming the base of the partition and door sills. Steam pipes D are carried within the hollow of each channel-bar vertically below the partition bulkhead. On one side they are enclosed by the vertically-placed perforated bases of the channelbars, and on the other side by a flat brass fret E.
Patent GB-190409471-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Floor-boards.
Inventor: FULGHUM ELISHA JULIAN
Filed: 1904-04-25
Granted: 1904-05-26
Abstract: 9471. Fulghum, E. J. April 25. Floors ; parquetry. - Short lengths of floorboard are utilized by uniting their ends by tongues and grooves, as shown in Fig. 4. To prevent lateral displacement, the tongue 4 makes a small angle with the groove 6, as shown in horizontal section in Fig. 5. The sides of the composite floor-board are tongued and grooved as usual. Short blocks may be made into lengths with fancy patterns, by using different kinds of wood.
Patent GB-190413655-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and connected with Expanding Pulleys.
Inventor: BROMHEAD SAMUEL SIDNEY
Filed: 1904-06-16
Granted: 1904-07-21
Abstract: 13,655. Bromhead, S. S., [Fouillaron, G.]. June 16. Pulleys and driving-drums.- Relates to an expanding pulley consisting of two hollow cones a, a<1> with interlacing radial arms c. By sliding one of the cones along the shaft by means of a lever, the working-diameter of the pulley may be altered.
Patent GB-190419231-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Self-propelling and Self-rotating Projectiles.
Inventor: UNGE WILHELM THEODOR
Filed: 1904-09-06
Granted: 1904-12-31
Abstract: 19,231. Unge, W. T. Sept. 6. Rockets, war.-In order to allow a rocket to turn freely in the discharging-tube about its natural axis of rotation, which may not coincide with its geometrical axis, an outer balance-ring C is placed near its centre of gravity. The periphery of the ring is at a distance from the cylindrical surface of the rocket always greater than the distance between the points in which the geometrical axis and the axis of rotation at the greatest angle of deviation at the rear-end plane of the rocket. The ring C may be of soft material and suitably shaped in order to be rapidly worn down by the rotation, so that the centre of the ring may lie in the axis of rotation. Two balance rings close together may be provided.
Patent GB-190422465-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in, and in connection with the Manufacture of Concrete Slabs, Blocks, and the like.
Inventor: KNIGHTS JAMES WEST
Filed: 1904-10-18
Granted: 1905-08-24
Abstract: 22,465. Knights, J. W., Drake, W., and Stanton, W. R. Oct. 18. Moulding concrete blocks, slabs, &c.-Verticalsided moulds and cores are used in making blocks and slabs from concrete, the cores being collapsable in two directions. The cores are in two parts 10, 11, each with a thin covering 13 strengthened by a lining 14. The lining is cut away at 15 and the ends join together as at 16, Fig. 2, projections 17 on one part securing the joint. The cover 12 wedges the core open at the top, and the rod 21 passing through it carries a cam 22, which, on the rod being turned, keeps the bottom walls of the core apart. In this operative position of the rod 21, another rod 27, Fig. 3, can pass through an eye 25 on it and thus secure the core. The rammer 28, which is recessed to avoid the core, is operated by a weight falling along the rod 31 as described in Specification No. 11,359, A.D. 1903, the weight-operating gear also lifting the rammer by means of the hook 32. The rammer being removed and a board placed on top of the concrete, the mould is turned over on rockers 33 till it is inverted, stops 34 then being drawn out so that the sides, when expanded to allow the block or slab to be removed, will be held, by the stops contacting with the ground, from falling in. In a modification, the core sides are in one piece, but are cut away at the middle to allow collapsing to take place. The chains 20 prevent the wedge 19 or the cam 22 from forcing the core walls out, and the stops 30 limit the motion of the rammer and therefore the thickness of the block formed.