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Patent GB-190220140-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Sticks for Umbrellas and the like
Inventor: KRONENBERG ERNST
Filed: 1902-09-15
Granted: 1903-09-03
Abstract: 20,140. Kronenberg, E. Sept. 15. Umbrella sticks; walking-sticks.-Figs. 1 and 4 show, respectively, the lower and upper ends of an umbrella stick. The lower end b is enlarged, a sharp projection e being formed at the enlargement to provide an abutment for the crown of an umbrella. An enlargement at the upper end serves as a handle. The stick may be strengthened by a metal lining, or it may be formed wholly of metal. Further strengthening may be effected by means of suitable coverings of celluloid or gutta-percha; or wood may be used for strengthening the handle part. In the case of walking-sticks, only the handle end will be enlarged or strengthened.
Patent GB-190225808-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Sheep Shears.
Inventor: BORS OTTO
Filed: 1902-11-24
Granted: 1903-01-29
Abstract: 25,808. B÷rs, O. Nov. 24. Shears.-Relates to sheep shears with detachable blades, and is an improvement upon the invention described in Specification No. 21,886, A.D. 1902. The bow shanks 1 have extensions 2, which are bevelled at 3 to fit into the undercut recesses 5 on the blades 4. The parts are retained by screws when interlocked.
Patent GB-190306457-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Cask Tilters
Inventor: THOMPSON WILLIAM ERNEST
Filed: 1903-03-20
Granted: 1903-08-20
Abstract: 6457. Thompson, W. E. March 20. Tilters.-A tilter consisting of a stem f and a sliding casing a, containing a spring m, is provided with means for adjusting the tension of the spring. Fig. 2 shows the upper end of the spring resting against a cross-bar p which projects through slots o and is adjusted by a nut v. Fig. 3 shows the spring bearing against a nut s, the tension being adjusted by screwing the tube d through the cap c. The nut may be adjusted by arranging the cap to screw down on or within the tube a. Fig. 4 shows a means of adjusting the length of the part d by means of an extension t fixed by a screw.
Patent GB-190307510-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Crucibles or Seggars for Use in the Production of Barium Oxide Cyanides and the like.
Inventor: FELD WALTHER
Filed: 1903-03-31
Granted: 1903-12-03
Abstract: 7510. Feld, W. March 31. Crucibles for manufacturing barium oxide are oval in shape, with thickened edges a, c, so that, when arranged with the long axes parallel to the direction of the heating furnace gases, the contents of the crucibles adjacent to these thickened edges are not unduly heated, and a more uniform heating of the material is thereby obtained. The crucibles are preferably formed of separate parts fitting together, so that a number of parts standing one on top of another form a whole retort, the uppermost and lowest crucibles of which may be provided with a fixed bottom, or an oval cover may be placed above or below to close them.
Patent GB-190312873-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in connection with Door Knockers.
Inventor: PECKETT WILLIAM JOHN
Filed: 1903-06-08
Granted: 1904-04-14
Abstract: 12,873. Peckett, W. J. June 8. Door bells; electric bells.-In a combined door knocker and electric or other bell, the knocker e, Fig. 1, acts upon a spring pin a one end of which projects through the pad b, while the other end actuates the hammer c of the bell f. In a modified arrangement, a projection on the knocker projects through an opening in the door and has attached to it the bell hammer, or the gong may be arranged opposite an opening in the door so that the knocker may act upon it directly. An elastic pad is then placed below the upper part of the knocker. Fig. 4 shows an arrangement in which a Bowden wire is utilized. The outer casing i of the wire is secured to the inside of the door, and the movable strand h is attached to the knocker, the bell being placed at a distance. In another arrangement, a pin similar to the pin shown in Fig. 1 bears against one arm of a bellcrank lever, the other arm of which is connected to a bell placed at a distance. To ring an electric bell by using the knocker e, Fig. 6, the pin a acts upon one contact of a switch l, l<1>, which is in circuit with the bell, or a projection m, Fig. 7, on the knocker e may make contact with the piece n secured to the door, the parts m, n being connected electrically with the bell. The lower part of the knocker in the latter arrangement may operate a bell attached to the door.
Patent GB-190320484-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Weighing Machine.
Inventor: WEDDERBURN JAMES
Filed: 1903-09-23
Granted: 1903-10-29
Abstract: 20,484. Wedderburn, J. Sept. 23. Compound-lever apparatus; adjusting; bearings; casings.-The scale-pan E is attached to the longitudinal lever F by means of the pivot link F<1>, placed on a knife-bar at its central point. One end of the lever F is attached to the fixed hook F<3> by means of the pivot link F<2>, and the other end has another pivot link F<4> fitting on the pivot link G<1> of the lever G, which is suspended transversely. The latter is suspended by the pivot link G' attached to the fixed hook G<3>, and connected to the index-lever bar H by pivot links G<4>, H<1>. The index-lever bar H is hung by a pivot link on to the fixed link or hook H<3>. The supporting-bracket H<4> has a slot in which the end of this lever H moves. K denotes a sliding weight. The weight rack J is hung from the end of the lever H by another pivot link. An adjustment weight L works on the screw L', and is supported on the lever by uprights. The apparatus, except the lever H and a part of the transverse bar G, is enclosed in a box C provided with a door C<1> and attached by set-screws D to the vertical bars of the frame. On this box the hooks H<3>, G<3>, and F<3> are fixed, and suitable openings are made therein for the passage of the transverse bar G and the scale attachment. Each supporting-pin is provided with a knife - bar which engages on suitable surfaces in the pivot links, and, for the purposes of easy adjustment, all the pivot links outside the box when the latter is closed are slotted so as to allow their easy removal from the supporting-pins.
Patent GB-190321405-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Electric Energy Meters.
Filed: 1903-10-05
Granted: 1904-01-14
Abstract: 21,405. Siemens Bros. & Co., [Siemens & Halske Akt.-Ges.]. Oct. 5. Energy meters.-A commutator motor meter has four armature windings connected in pairs a, b, to produce two magnetic fluxes at right-angles to each other about the spindle. The two windings of each pair a, b are connected at one end to a common terminal l<1> or l<2>, and at the other to a segment of a four-part commutator k, as shown diagrammatically in Fig. 1. Two brushes connect together the segments on which they bear. One winding in each pair a or b is thus connected successively with the two windings in the other pair b or a, by contact of the brushes with the segments, half the windings being thus fully effective. During the passages of the brushes from segment to segment, two windings are connected in parallel. In one form of the meter, shown in Fig. 2, the armature windings a, b are stationary and surround the middle parts of bent iron cores m, n, which are carried at right angles to one another on the spindle of the meter, between main-current field coils i. The spindle carries two brushes s', s<2> round a stationary commutator k, consisting of two divided rings, the gaps between the two segments of each ring being opposite the middle of the segments of the other ring, so that the windings are connected successively as described with reference to Fig. 1. The meter has an eddy current brake and a counter as usual. In another form of meter, the two pairs of armature windings are carried at right-angles to one another on the spindle, which also carries a commutator similar to that shown in Fig. 2, in contact with two stationary brushes ; two rings and brushes provide the remaining armature connections.
Patent GB-190326991-A (GB)
Title: A Releasing Buckle Stirrup Bar.
Inventor: MARTIN JEAN
Filed: 1903-12-09
Granted: 1904-01-14
Abstract: 26,991. Martin, J. Dec. 22, A.D. 1902, [date applied for under Patents Act, A.D. 1901]. Stirrup straps, suspending, safety saddlebars for. A releasing stirrup bar c is connected to a plate a on the saddle by a conical pin m in the socket b, and a spring catch f pivoted at v. When the rider falls, the catch is forced back, and the buckle or fastening comes away from the plate a.
Patent GB-190400347-A (GB)
Title: Scone and Muffin Mixing Machine.
Inventor: WESTWATER PETER
Filed: 1904-01-06
Granted: 1904-11-10
Abstract: 347. Westwater, P. Jan. 6. Moving - beater apparatus.-A scone and muffin mixing- machine consists of a containing-pan K fitted to a platform J having projections j which fit into recesses j<1> in the framework of the machine. The platform is capable of being raised or lowered by levers pivoted in the framework at m and m<1>. Vertical knives or bars I are bolted to a horizontal slotted piece H, which is attached to a vertical spindle driven by bevel gearing G, D from a shaft B. The knives may be fixed at any angle to the direction of rotation. A series of such machines may be driven from the same shaft.
Patent GB-190400623-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Percussive Hand Tool Actuated by Fluid Pressure.
Inventor: POTTER HENRY
Filed: 1904-01-09
Granted: 1905-01-05
Abstract: 623. Potter, H. Jan. 9. Percussive hand tools.-In a percussive hammer or riveting-tool, provided with an oscillating valve 14 forming part of the cylinder, as described in Specification No. 27,578, A.D. 1903, the air, after acting on the smaller rear end 12 of the piston, acts on the larger front end 13 of the same, and then exhausts. The handle 4 and a triangularlyported bush 7 secured therein are rotatable between balls 8 and a nut 11 on the rear part 2 of the cylinder, which, according to the Provisional Specification, is tapered. When the valve 14 is in the position shown, live air passes through the handle and the more-or-less-opened triangular ports 22, and the passages and ports 24, 25 to the rear of the piston, and air from the front of the cylinder exhausts through the ports 28, 29 in the cylinder wall and the grooves 31 in the exterior of the valve 14. When the piston uncovers the port 34, live air passes into the chamber 18, overcomes the live-air pressure in the smaller valvewing chamber 17, and rotates the valve so that the back end of the cylinder is cut off from the air supply and connected by the ports and passages 25, 28 with the front end of the cylinder. When the front edge of the smaller end 12 of the piston uncovers the port 35, the valve returns to its original position. The chamber 18 is connected by a port 45 with one of the passages 28, and the annular space surrounding the piston is connected with the atmosphere by ports 37 and ports 38, 38<a>, which are covered and uncovered by the end 13 of the piston.
Patent GB-190400936-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and in the Manufacture of Pneumatic Tyres.
Inventor: BIRTWISLE JOHN
Filed: 1904-01-14
Granted: 1904-11-17
Abstract: 936. Birtwisle, J. Jan. 14. Tyres, pneumatic.-Relates to air tubes of the type described in Specification No. 12,152, A.D. 1891, in which the rubber is in compression, in order to prevent or minimize the escape of air if the tube be punctured. In the form shown in construction in Fig. 7, a ring c of unvulcanized india-rubber is formed on a mould d, Fig. 9, preferably upon a layer e of fabric or other inextensible material, and is then vulcanized, being thus, or otherwise, secured to the layer e. An air tube f is attached to the ring c either before or after it has been turned into the form shown in Fig. 7 ; or the edges of the endless strip c may be extended and joined above the strip, as shown in Fig. 8. In the form shown in Fig. 12, the strip e is extended laterally and formed with inextensible edges e<1> to engage with the outer cover or with the rim of the wheel. In another modification, the compression strip c may be extended to half-way, or more, round the air tube, and formed with flaps, which are folded around, and then vulcanized to, the air tube.
Patent GB-190402711-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in, and relating to, Internal Combustion Engines.
Inventor: PAGE LEON MARIE LE
Filed: 1904-02-03
Granted: 1905-05-03
Abstract: 2711. Le Page, L. M. Feb. 3. Gas and like engines.-To regulate the power of engines for motor road vehicles the stroke of the piston is varied by the combination of a slotted link f with a rack m and connecting-rod h as shown in Fig. 1. The end of the piston-rod d is attached to the guide c, and carries a roller e, working in the slotted link f the position of which is varied by a hand or suitably-operated rack m turning about the centre n. The lower end of the link f is attached to the connecting-rod h operating the crank i, the roller e being situated at the intersection of the arcs described by the sector-rack and connecting- rod respectively. The mechanism is enclosed in a casing p connected to the cylinder flange q. The rack may be replaced by a screw which moves a nut over a curved guide bar to lift or lower the slotted link.
Patent GB-190403977-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Diaphragm Pumps.
Inventor: HORSTMANN SIDNEY ADOLPH
Filed: 1904-02-17
Granted: 1904-04-21
Abstract: 3977. Horstmann, S. A., and Fuller, R. C. L. Feb. 17. Flexible diaphragm pumps; pump valves - Relates to dia phragm pumps for use in connection with internal - combustion engines, more especially those used on motor road vehicles, for circulating the cooling - water round the cylinders. It is also stated to be suitable for pumping oil for lubricating, or other liquids or semi-liquids as may be found desirable. The Figure shows a sectional elevation of the pump in which f, g are the suction and delivery valves respectively, c the pump chamber, d the flexible diaphragm, and b a hollow screw by which the pump is connected to the engine cylinder a. The diaphragm is vibrated by the varying pressure in the cylinder, due to the intake, compression, explosion, and exhaust strokes. As the diaphragm vibrates, liquid is drawn in past the valve f, and then forced out past the valve g to the water jacket or the like.
Patent GB-190406921-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in the Process of, and Apparatus for, the Recovering of Ammonia from Gases during the Process of Manufacture, and for the Production of Fertilizers.
Inventor: ROUX XAVIER MARIE
Filed: 1904-03-22
Granted: 1905-02-23
Abstract: 6921. Roux, X. M., and Gonin, B. W. March 22. Manures.-Relates to a process for removing ammonia from gases during manufacture and for obtaining a fertilizer therefrom. The gases are passed by a distributing-rose e into a, preferably cylindrical, casing a which contains a series of meshed wire baskets b. These baskets are filled through their open ends with peat which has been treated with alkali. They are preferably arranged as shown in a framework c so that they can all be removed after use by means of the handle a<1>. Suitable arrangements are made for passing in air, such as a rotatable perforated band d operating in conjunction with holes in the casing a; a suitable gas exit a<2> is provided.
Patent GB-190413718-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Pistons.
Inventor: READING THOMAS
Filed: 1904-06-17
Granted: 1905-01-26
Abstract: 13,718. Reading, T., and Houghton, A. J. June 17. Pistons; stuffing-boxes.-These are packed by two split rings, one of which e, Fig. 2, is formed with a flange f entering a -groove b in the other ring a, Fig. 2<a>. The rings are arranged with splits diametrically opposite. The ring a at each side of the split is fitted with a T-headed pin c, shown also in Fig. 3, the shank of which enters a recess in the flange forming one side of the groove b. The flange f is formed with gaps g corresponding to the pins c, and, when owing to wear it is desirable to allow further expansion of the rings, either the gaps g or the pins c are filed away. The expansion of the rings may be assisted by a spring inserted between the ends of the ring e. The ring a may be formed with a groove b in each face, each groove receiving the flange of a ring e. The Provisional Specification states that undue expansion of the packing-rings may be prevented by internal metal pieces, more readily expansible by heat than the packing-rings, which engage between lugs on the latter.
Patent GB-190416652-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Filters Filtering Media and Matters appertaining thereto.
Inventor: CHALLIS CHARLES EBENEZER
IPC: C02F1/00
Filed: 1904-07-28
Granted: 1905-07-06
Abstract: 16,652. Challis, C. E. July 28. Filters.-Powdered kieselguhr, with or without an admixture of pulverized flint, felspar, stone, clay, animal charcoal, &c., is mixed to a smooth paste with water and poured on a screen in the filter chamber. The screen may be made of fine wire gauze reinforced by electrodeposited metal, or of asbestos felt or cloth protected by wire gauze, or of porous earthenware. In large filters, a branch is taken from the supply pipe to the delivery pipe, and the filtering-chamber is provided with a manhole, so that, by opening the branch and manhole and closing the delivery pipe, the medium is washed out. A manhole cover for pressure filters is shown in Figs. 1 and 3. The cover is held down by a screw passing through a bar N held in swing loops L. The screw is fixed to the cover by the divided washer shown in Fig. 3, over which a plate is bolted. If the water contains metallic oxides or much organic matter, it may undergo a preliminary filtering through animal charcoal. Portable filters with pressure or suction reservoirs, and tap and domestic filters with similar filtering- beds, are also described.
Patent GB-190419376-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Picks.
Inventor: MONTGOMERY SAMUEL
Filed: 1904-09-08
Granted: 1904-11-17
Abstract: 19,376. Montgomery, S. Sept. 12, A.D. 1903, [date applied for under Patents Act, A.D. 1901]. Picks.-The ends of a pick head are recessed at 5 and the lower walls of the recesses are partly cut away at 4 to receive the tongues 7 of bits 6 which are secured by flush-ended pins 9.
Patent GB-190426015-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or connected with Railway Ties or Sleepers, and Means for Connecting Rails thereto.
Inventor: DREIBELBIS ALFRED S
Filed: 1904-11-29
Granted: 1906-02-28
Abstract: 26,015. Dreibelbis, A. S. Nov. 29. Sleepers; rails, securing to sleepers.-Railway ties or sleepers are made in the form of a box C, Fig. 2, of rectangular cross-section, and are provided with springs D, held in cup-like receptacles E, located immediately beneath the rails. The sleepers are provided with a lid F, held up by the springs, the lid being slightly depressed when a car is passing. This arrangement, it is stated, produces a comparatively noiseless and even travel. The rails are secured to the lid of the sleeper by the plates G. One of these plates may be made in two parts, as shown, to facilitate replacing the rails. The surfaces of the two parts which bear against each other are formed with serrations g and the upper part is provided with an oblong slot, so that, when the nut is loosened, this part can be slid away, thus liberating the rail. The sleepers rest on metallic sills B which are embedded in concrete.
Patent GB-190501425-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Railway Rail Joints.
Inventor: LANG RICHARD
Filed: 1905-01-24
Granted: 1905-06-08
Abstract: 1425. Lang, R. Jan. 24. Rail joints.-The rail ends are connected by fishplates 3, 4, shaped as shown, and formed with curved lips 5, the ends of which bear against the centre of the rail. The fishplate 3 is provided with threaded holes and the plate 4 with conical holes to receive the shaped securing-bolts 14, 17. The bolts have squared or hexagonal heads 13 and similar shaped parts 15 below the conical portion 14, and they are locked by a bar 9 which has keyhole slots 12 and slides in a recess 6 in the fishplate 4. When the bolts have been screwed up, the bar 9 is moved longitudinally to cause the narrow parts of the keyhole slots to engage the parts 15 of the bolts. A lug 11 on the bent end of the bar 9 springs into a hole in the end of the fisbplate and locks the bar 9. Bolts and nuts may be used in place of the studs and screwed holes for securing the fishplates.
Patent GB-190502642-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Change-speed Gearing particularly applicable for use on Motor-vehicles and the like.
Inventor: NOBLE PERCY WARREN
Filed: 1905-02-09
Granted: 1905-12-07
Abstract: 2642. Noble, P. W. Feb. 9. Motor road vehicles.-Relates to an arrangement for changing speed in a variable-speed gear in two distinct motions, specially applicable to motorvehicles. Wheels B, B', sliding on a feather &c. on a driving-shaft A, may be caused to engage one at a time with wheels D secured to the driven shaft C. This is effected by forks E extending from sleeves on separate auxiliary shafts F. F<1>, F<2>, These sleeves are pushed forward resiliently as the shafts F &c. are advanced by springs M, and are retracted positively by stops N. The shafts F, F', F<2> are arranged in the arc of a circle with centre at one point H<1> of a lever G, the upper end of which forms a ball G<1> adapted to engage in boxes J on these shafts. The shafts F &c. are traversed longitudinally by causing the lever G to turn about a transverse pivot H by a positive effort transmitted from a main speed lever through a bellcrank L. To change the gear, an auxiliary lever upon, say, the steering-wheel is moved so as to put in tension an elastic device connected to lugs G<2> on the lever G. Upon a subsequent withdrawal of the main lever, this device turns the lever G about the pivot H' so that the ball G<1> comes into the proper box J, and the main lever affects the new engagement. A spring K is adapted to bring the lever G normally into the mid-gear position.
Patent GB-190510300-A (GB)
Title: Improved Holder for Pens Pencils and the like.
Inventor: BREYMANN-SCHWERTENBERG GUSTAVE
Filed: 1905-05-16
Granted: 1906-03-08
Abstract: 10,300. Schwertenberg, G. de Breymann-. May 16. Penholders; pencil and like holders.-A pen or penholder, pencil, stylus, paint brush, or the like is held in a flat or slightly-convex rhomboidal or like block A, Figs. 6 and 7, to prevent tiring and writers' cramp. In the form shown in Fig. 7, the bottom angle of the block A rests on the paper, and is provided with a smooth cover to slide easily over the paper. The block or the like may be hollow to receive weights.
Patent GB-190510787-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Lacing Eyelets.
Inventor: MORRISON JOHN ANDREW
Filed: 1905-05-23
Granted: 1906-01-11
Abstract: 10,787. Morrison, J. A., Gibb, D., and Gibb, W. May 23. Eyelets.-Lacing eyelets for boots, shoes, garments, belting, &c., and intended especially for use with flit laces, which may have round tags, are formed as shown in Fig. 1. The inner edge f of the eyelets i, j is straight, and the outer edge is provided with an outward bend h<1> at the end. The eyelets j are equal in length to the width of the lace, the eyelet i being a little longer. The eyelets may be coated with celluloid &c., and may be formed in several parts. [Reference has been directed under Patents Act, 1902, to Specification No. 20,698, A.D. 1901.]
Patent GB-190519820-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Buttons.
Inventor: KALLIWODA IRENE
Filed: 1905-09-30
Granted: 1906-04-05
Abstract: 19,820. Kalliwoda [nÚe Von Halden], I. Sept. 30. Buttons. - Relates to a crotchetwork button formed from cord, silk, &c. without a wire insertion. The Figure shows various stages in the manufacture of the button. The central part of the button may be made in any manner, and after its formation three rows of stitches a, b, c are worked round it, the partly-finished button being supported by a backing of fabric. Of these, the rows a, b are subsequently covered by embroidery or other stitches d. The row c may be stiffened with horsehair &c. and is overcast with embroidery stitches f. Rows of stitches h may then be worked over the embroidery stitches d. The button is cut out of the backing of fabric. Loop stitches g are then worked over the stitches d, f, and the backing of fabric is removed from the central part of the button.