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Patent GB-190210655-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in the Production and Manufacture of Matches, and Striking Compositions, and in the Substances and Processes Employed therein.
Inventor: BALE FREDERICK
Filed: 1902-05-09
Granted: 1903-03-12
Abstract: 10,655. Bale, F. May 9. Matches.-Phosphorus compounds termed phosphides and obtained from naphthalene, anthracene, phenanthrene, pyrene, chrysene, and some similar solid hydrocarbons, and complex phosphorus compounds obtained from other similar solid hydrocarbons, are used in the manufacture of matches and striking-compositions. Naphthalene diphosphide, tetraphospbide, hexaphbsphide, and octaphosphide, for example, respectively represented approximately by P2C10H8, P4C10H8, P6C10H8, and P8C10H8. may be obtained by mixing the powdered hydrocarbon with water, heating to about 80‹ C., adding the estimated proportion of phosphorus, and, when this has melted, stirring rapidly to obtain combination. As the phosphide forms, it is melted and separated from the uncombined naphthalene, and, when cool, it is granulated or pulverized under the water by stirring rapidly, and is finally washed with cold water. The compounds in general may be obtained by bringing together the phosphorus and hydrocarbon in the solid, liquid, or gaseous state at a suitable temperature and out of contact with air. Thus, hydrocarbon vapour may be passed over or through fragments of phosphorus piled in a suitable chamber, or phosphorus vapour, advantageously direct from retorts in which it is manufactured, may be passed through a receiver containing hydrocarbon and water, and the suboxide of phosphorus obtained in phosphorus manufacture may be thus utilized. Apparatus consisting of a closed chamber, cylinder, or receiver, and such as a butter-salt pan in which the salt is swept into outside pockets or chambers by a bottom scraper, may be adapted for producing the compounds. An additional agitator is required above the scraper, and inlets for phosphorus and hydrocarbon, and outlets for waste gas and melted phosphide &c., must be provided. Water taps may be fitted in the outside pockets or chambers, and doors or equivalents fitted between the latter and the receiver. These receivers may be worked in pairs or series. In operation, hydrocarbon and water may be placed in the receiver, phosphorus or phosphorus vapour passed in, and the melted phosphide either run off and cast, or granulated, swept into a pocket, and there washed ; or hydrocarbon vapour may be passed into a. phosphorus conduit, or into a vessel connected to this conduit and to the receiver. Air is displaced from the apparatus by hydrocarbon vapour before commencing the operations. The phosphorus compounds may be used with ingredients such as potassium chlorate, manganese dioxide, glue and water, or potassium chlorate, glue, chalk, ground glass, and water, for match compositions.
Patent GB-190210851-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in the Keys of Pianofortes, Organs, and other like Keyed Instruments
Inventor: CLIVE GUY
Filed: 1902-05-12
Granted: 1903-03-12
Abstract: 10,851. Clive, G. May 12. Organs and like instruments; pianofortes. - Keys are made about one third longer than usual. The black keys b are sloped as shown in their upper surfaces. The front edges are vertical, so that the fingers can strike the white keys at points close up to the black ones. The sides of the black keys are also hollowed out to enable the parts of the white keys which lie between them to be more readily reached. Adjacent edges of the B and C and the E and F keys are bevelled, as are also the front corners of all the keys. These arrangements enable runs, octaves, and the like to be played more readily. In overstrung pianofortes, part of one key overlaps the next, and the latter is therefore cut away at the place where the overlapping occurs.
Patent GB-190212575-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Fire Escape.
Inventor: BURR DANIEL FRANCIS
Filed: 1902-06-02
Granted: 1902-07-03
Abstract: 12,575. Burr, D. F. June 2. Fire - escapes.- Relates to a rope for lowering persons from buildings in case of fire. One end of the rope a is fastened by a hook b to a piece of furniture or the like, the hook being secured by a safetybar b<1>. On the other end of the rope is an eye c, to form a slip loop which is passed under the arms of the person to be lowered. Knobs a<1> are formed on the rope to retard the descent. The last person in the building slips down hand-over-hand.
Patent GB-190217082-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Rail-joints for Railways.
Inventor: AVERY EDWARD ROY
Filed: 1902-08-01
Granted: 1902-10-16
Abstract: 17,082. Avery, E. R. Aug. 1. Rail joints; chairs; claair keys.-The rail ends are held in the chair 1 by the key 11, which is tapered longitudinally and vertically so that the chair and key fit the rail as shown in section. The key is held by a T-headed bolt 15, which fits into a T-slot in the key, and projects through the forked end of a spring plate 12 secured to the chair to receive the nut 16.
Patent GB-190220392-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Pipe Wrenches.
Inventor: RUEGER CHARLES CONRAD
Filed: 1902-09-18
Granted: 1902-10-30
Abstract: 20,392. Rueger, C. C. Sept. 18. Wrenches, pipe. The pipe is gripped between the end 5 of the jaw handle A and the hooked jaw 3 pivoted to the handle at 6. The part 7 of the hooked jaw is concentric with the pivot 6, and the curved face of the end 5 is eccentric to the pivot, and is so formed that, if lines be drawn from the centre of any sized pipe being gripped to the centre of the pivot and to the point of contact of the pipe respectively, these lines form an angle a of less than 20‹. The part 8 of the hooked jaw may be curved to fit the largest pipe, as shown. The hooked jaw is urged to take its closed position by a spring 9, and carries a trigger 11. The gripping-surfaces of the jaws may be serrated or plain. and may be continuously curved or have polygonal faces.
Patent GB-190226148-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in the Preparation of Sensitized Paper for taking Press Copies of Written Type-written or Printed Documents
Inventor: CUFF SIDNEY WILMO
Filed: 1902-11-27
Granted: 1903-01-08
Abstract: 26,148. Cuff, S. W. Nov. 27. Copying-paper is made from a pulp to which has been added a mixture of ferrous chloride and potassium bichromate, or of ferric chloride and sodium bicarbonate. The finished paper should contain about four or five per cent. by weight of the chemicals employed.
Patent GB-190304517-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Rotary Engines, Pumps and Compressors.
Filed: 1903-02-26
Granted: 1903-12-10
Abstract: 4517. Cook's Air Compressors and Pumps, Ltd., and Richardson, R. Feb. 26. Crescent-shaped chamber type of rotary engines, pumps, or compressors, of the kind described in Specifications No. 16,513, A.D. 1901, and No. 11,465, A.D. 1902. Both the inner drum F and the outer drum B rotate, and the vanes A slide through divided cylindrical plugs G in the inner drum and are secured to rocking plugs C in the outer drum.
Patent GB-190304926-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Straw Stacking Implements.
Inventor: HEARN CHARLES
Filed: 1903-03-03
Granted: 1903-05-07
Abstract: 4926. Hearn, C. March 3, A.D. 1902, [date applied for under Patents Act, A.D. 1901]. Elevators.-Relates to fans or blowers for stacking straw, and consists of a device for preventing the fans from stopping. The shaft 1 has a fan, not shcwn, a fast sleeve 3 with ratchet surfaces 4, 5, and a loose driving-pulley 6 having spring pawls 7 arranged radially. Flywheels 2 are keyed to the shaft 1 on each side of the fan. Normally, the driving-belt rotates the shaft 1, but, should the speed of the pulley 6 fall, the pawls slip over the ratchets, while the fan continues to rotate owing to the momentum of the wheels 2.
Patent GB-190304973-A (GB)
Title: A Collapsable Electric Light Fitting or Bracket
Inventor: COLLET JAMES FRANCIS HERBERT
Filed: 1903-03-03
Granted: 1904-01-07
Abstract: 4973. Collet, J. F. H., and Somervell, A. March 3. Supporting lamps. -A bracket suitable for use on musical instruments, desks, and articles of furniture consisis of a flexible arm, adapted to be withdrawn from a tubular casing when required for use. The flexible arm a, Fig. 1, moves in the tubular casing c mounted in brackets d<1> upon a slide d, which itself moves in guides e on the music stand A. To prevent the stand A from being lowered while the arm a is withdrawn, the support f is pivoted to the frame A and is provided with lugs g, each of which has a flat side which normally rests against the back of the frame, thus preventing the support f from rotating about its pivot. When the slide d is in its inmost position, these lugs g can turn in notches in the slide, and thus the support f be rotated and the stand A lowered. The slide i, attached to the arm a and moving in a slot in the casing c, is attached to a cord, which passes round the pulleys k and is attached to the stand A. Thus, on moving the slide d by the handle p, the arm a will be drawn out of the casing c. The electrical connections are so arranged that a projection on the slide d closes the circuit when the arm a is fully withdrawn, and breaks it again on the slide d returning to its normal position.
Patent GB-190304978-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in the Manufacture of Turf-bricks.
Inventor: PETERS GEORG
Filed: 1903-03-03
Granted: 1904-01-07
Abstract: 4978. Peters, G. March 3. Peat.-In the preparation of turf or peat fuel blocks, the peat is dried by reducing it to fibres and then allowing it to stand in heaps exposed to the air. Oxidation and consequent heating take place, and are accompanied by vaporization of the water. Neutralizing by addition of lye, chalk, or the like is preferred for acid turfs. The deconposition which takes place during the drying renders the peat blocks more uniform.
Patent GB-190316322-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Looms for Weaving Duplex Woven Fabrics
Inventor: SMITH BENJAMIN SINCLAIR
Filed: 1903-07-24
Granted: 1903-09-10
Abstract: 16,322. Smith, B. S. July 24. Shuttleless looms ; weft needles or carriers; forming selvages; stop-motions.-In a loom for weaving duplex pile fabrics such as the carpets described in Specification No. 7586, A.D. 1899, the two parallel weft needles n, Fig. 1, are attached to a carriage c, which is reciprocated on the bar b by an endless chain e on a sprocket-wheel f driven by a chain e', the wheels f, g, h being rotated, so as to reciprocate the carriage, by levers i, i<1> connected to the chains e<3> and vibrated by one or two cams on the shaft j<2> . The wefts carried through the sheds are looped, so as to form a selvage, over threads inserted by shuttles k, Fig. 4, which are reciprocated in boxes k<1> on a bracket at the side of the loom by levers operated by a cam on the shaft of the lay. The needles consist of tubes n, Fig. 6, cut away at n' to allow the shuttle to pass, and provided with rollers n<2> for the weft w. In weaving double-width fabrics, the needles and their carrier are duplicated, the needles at one side of the loom being formed with hooks n<7>, Figs. 7 and 8, which enter the slots n<6> in the other needles and draw out the wefts passing through the eyes n<5>. The selvage-forming shuttles and shuttle mechanism are omitted. To prevent the beat-up from occurring when the weft needles are in the shed, the carriage c, Fig. 1, is fitted with a roller c', which, when the needles are withdrawn, allows a spring lever p to rise so as to move the lever p' and link q, and thus to move aside the spring tongue s, Fig. 3, which otherwise blocks the lay t, and stops the loom.
Patent GB-190322212-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Drilling Braces
Inventor: OATES DAVID DONALD
Filed: 1903-10-15
Granted: 1904-09-22
Abstract: 22,212. Oates, D. D., Turnbull, S., and Campbell, T. B. Oct. 15. Braces.-The handle B of a ratchet brace is pivoted between two plates C, one above and one below an enlargement A on the spindle, and has a piece of steel D let into its eccentric end to engage the enlargement. A spring E fixed to the back or side of the handle holds the same in operative position.
Patent GB-190324076-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or connected with Rice Thrashing Machines
Inventor: KIRBY GEORGE CLARVIS
Filed: 1903-11-06
Granted: 1904-01-21
Abstract: 24,076. Kirby, G. C. Nov. 6. Drawings to Specification. Sifting grain.-A sieve for use in a thrashing- machine is formed of transverse parallel square rods set with an angle uppermost.
Patent GB-190402093-A (GB)
Title: Improved Means for the Excitation and Regulation of Induction Machines.
Inventor: LEBLANC MAURICE
Filed: 1904-01-27
Granted: 1904-10-27
Abstract: 2093. Leblanc, M. Jan. 28, A.D. 1903, [date applied for under Patents Act, A.D. 1901]. Dynamos and motors, alternating-current ; armatures; dynamos, regulating; field magnets; motors, controlling.-Relates to the excitation of asynchronous alternating-current induction machines. The object is stated to be that induction machines shaH furnish wattless currents to the line instead of taking them from it. The invention depends upon the fact that if a three-phase current be supplied to a direct-current armature by means of brushes, a rotating field is produced, and, if the armature be run below synchronism, the machine acts as a motor, and, if above, as a generator. In the arrangement shown in Figs. 1 to 3, a small machine 18, termed an exciter, is combined with the induction machine 17. It comprises an armature, like that of a direct-current machine, which may be mounted on the rotor shaft. On the commutator rub three brushes 13, 14, 15 (or other number corresponding to the number of phases) connected to the secondary member of the induction machine through the brushes 22, 23, 24 and slip-rings. The field consists of an iron ring 11 having six slots or recesses 16, and does not carry a winding. The armature is driven above or below synchronism according as to whether the machine is to serve as a generator or motor. In starting the machine as a motor, the exciter must be disconcerted, and the secondary circuit closed through a rheostat, one form of which is shown in Fig. 4. The arms 31, 32, 33 can be moved simultaneously to cut in or out resistance. When the switches are thrown over, resistances are all cut out and connection made with the exciter through the contacts 45, 46, 47. In modifications, described in the Specification as open to public inspection, the electromotive force, the resistance, and the slip or speed are so proportioned that any desired value, either negative or positive, can be given to the coefficient of self-induction representing the magnetic leakage of the secondary element of the machine. Fig. 9 shows a number of induction machines 51 ... 54 arranged at a central station and driven at such a speed as to serve as generators. The special exciting machines 56 ... 59 are driven by continuouscurrent motors 60. One of the machines 54 is specially excited to control the remainder. The exciters 56 &c. are provided with armatures of the continuous-current type as described above. Windings, such as are shown in Fig. 10, may, however, be placed on the stator for regulating purposes.
Patent GB-190403235-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to the Manufacture of Briquettes from Friable Ores
Inventor: SCHULTE-STEINBERG HUGO
Filed: 1904-02-09
Granted: 1904-03-10
Abstract: 3235. Steinberg, H. Schulte-. Feb. 9. Blast-furnace charges. - Friable ores are briquetted in a press with the addition of a binding- agent consisting of blast-furnace slag which has been decomposed by steam at high pressure in a manner similar to that described in Specification No. 17,183, A.D. 1903.
Patent GB-190403627-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to Portable Fire Stoves.
Inventor: CARTWRIGHT JESSE
Filed: 1904-02-13
Granted: 1905-01-05
Abstract: 3627. Cartwright, J. Feb. 13. Portable stoves for cooking and other purposes. In a stove which may be taken to pieces, the angled supports a are secured in pairs to the front and back plates c, b, and carry hooks f which engage slots in the side-pieces d. A perforated bottom rests on angle-irons l ; and the top-plate, which is formed with spikes o for supporting the chimney is retained in place by the pegs q at the top of the supports. The firebars and door are carried by the front section, and the door is preferably secured by a hook j which locks it when it is slid to one end of the hinge bar as shown.
Patent GB-190403789-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Expansion Gear for Direct Acting Steam Pumps.
Inventor: HONEGGER GUSTAV
Filed: 1904-02-15
Granted: 1904-07-07
Abstract: 3789. Honegger, G. Feb. 15. Steam pumps.-The steam slide-valve edges and ports 24, 25, 26 are inclined, as shown in Figs. 3 and 4, and the valve has an independent transverse movement for varying expansion. The valve gear is shown applied to a two-cylinder engine, and the valve 27 of one cylinder receives its longitudinal movements from the piston-rod of the other cylinder through levers 7 pivoted at 1, 2, respectively, while the valve-spindle is turned to give it its transverse movement through linkwork 13-21, Figs. 1 and 2. The valve-spindle 12 drives the valve through a toothed sector 29 gearing with a rack 28 and engaged by two lugs on the valve. The spindle 12 may be disconnected from the rod 18, as shown in Fig. 2, to enable the valve to be moved transversely by hand at starting. A similarly-acting piston valve is also described.
Patent GB-190405496-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Rock-drills, Pneumatic Hammers and other Percussive Tools.
Inventor: BARNSLEY GEORGE
Filed: 1904-03-05
Granted: 1905-02-23
Abstract: 5496. Barnsley, G. March 5. Rock drills, percussive. The cutting or working part of a drill or the like for use in connection with a percussive rock drill, pneumatic hammer, or other percussive tool is formed integrally with a shoulder A<2> and a slightly-tapered stem A<3> adapted to fit in a socket B' formed in a rod B provided with means for attachment to the reciprocating part of the rock drill, the drill proper being preferably formed from high-speed steel, and the socket-piece from nickel steel. After lengthened use when the socket fails to grip the stem of the drill, a small length is cut off the rod B and the socket B<2> reamered out.
Patent GB-190409591-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to Writing Utensils, Tool Holders, and the like.
Inventor: KUBE ALFONS
Filed: 1904-04-26
Granted: 1904-07-14
Abstract: 9591. Kube, A., and Kube, F. April 26. Penholders.-Penholders, tool-holders, and the like are made partially or completely of a substance which readily becomes soft on heating and can then be moulded to the shape of the hand by pressure, and which hardens on cooling. The handle is covered with a layer of the substance and dipped for a.short time into boiling water, pressed by the fingers to the desired shape, and plunged into cold water with the fingers in position. A suitable mixture can be made of manila-copal pine resin, asphaltum, stearine, talc, and kieselguhr.
Patent GB-190421792-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Compound Vehicle Wheels.
Inventor: OLIVER FREDERICK WILLIAM
Filed: 1904-10-10
Granted: 1905-08-24
Abstract: 21,792. Oliver, F. W. Oct. 10. Annular wheels; wheels with portable tracks.-In wheels for railway vehicles, traction engines, motor road vehicles, &c. The vehicle axle 5 is supported on a wheel 6 having a rounded rim d which runs in a slightly wider groove d<1> in a wheel 9. This wheel forms the road wheel and is constructed with two hollow cylinders 7 secured by bolts c to the outer tyre portion 8.
Patent GB-190422349-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Guides for Fur and Carpet Sewing Machines
Inventor: CUNNINGHAM CLARA HIBERNIA
Filed: 1904-10-17
Granted: 1905-05-25
Abstract: 22,349. Cunningham, C. H. March 29, [date applied for under Patents Act, A.D. 1901]. Carpet-sewing machines ; furs, sewing ; guiding materials. - Relates especially to machines for sewing carpets and furs, and consists of means for turning the fibres in and down out of the way of the needle while the edges of the material are being sewn. Fig. 2 shows a plan of the appliance with a piece 20 of fur in position, Fig. 3 a side elevation, and Fig. 13 a perspective view of the essential parts of the appliance. It consists of rearwardly-directed guide-wings 2 which are continued forwardly and downwardly as a tongue 3 which lies between the feed-rolls of a fur-sewing machine in such a position that there is very little space between the front of the tongue and the needle. The finger of the operator may be used to spread the fur or pile as it is passed under the wings 2, but there may be attached to the appliance a spreader 6 and, in conjunction with this, supplemental guides 7 may also be employed. The appliance is adjustably attached to the sewing- machine.
Patent GB-190424835-A (GB)
Title: Novel or Improved Means for use in Fixing Removable Covers, such for instance as those of Typewriters, Sewing Machines, and the like.
Filed: 1904-11-16
Granted: 1905-09-21
Abstract: 24,835. Stroud & Son, R., and Turner, S.W. Nov. 16. Sewing-machine covers.-Means for attaching removable covers to the baseboards or tables comprise engaging projections or slots &c. on the board and cover which are caused to engage by an endways movement of the cover after it has been placed down on the board or table, a latch &c. being provided to prevent the return of the cover. Fig. 1 shows a type-writer cover A on the baseboard B, the latter being provided with projecting lower edges or flanges a, b, c, on which the edges of the cover rest. The sides of the board B are provided with angle-plates or mountings d, in which are cut slots having downward portions f and horizontal portions g. On the inner sides of the cover @ projecting pins which pass into the slots f, as @ in Fig. 1, as the cover is placed down on the @ and then by an endways movement of the @ along the parts g. The pins are pre- @ headed to prevent the sides of the cover from expanding outwards. The slots may be on the cover and the pins on the board. The rear projecting edge c is sufficiently wide for the rear edge of the cover to rest on after the endways movement. A latch k may be provided to prevent the return of the cover, until the latch is lifted by the finger-piece n. A lock may be used instead of the latch k.
Patent GB-190426101-A (GB)
Title: Method of Suspension of the Differential Shaft of Automobile Vehicles and a Contrivance for Connecting the Shaft with the Driving Axle.
Inventor: BRILLIE AUGUSTE-EUGENE
Filed: 1904-11-30
Granted: 1905-05-25
Abstract: 26,101. BrilliÚ, A.-E. Dec. 2, A.D. 1903, [date applied for under Patents Act, A.D. 1901]. Motor road vehicles.-Relates to a method of mounting the transverse differential shaft and the fixed axle on which the driving - wheels are mounted. Figs. 1 and 2 show a sectional elevation and plan of the arrangement, and Fig. 3 a section on the line A B E, Fig. 2. The casing k, carrying the differential shaft m, n, is mounted on two sub-frames e, which are pivoted at one end to a bracket d on the main frame a, and at the other end to the axle c. The sub-frames each consist of a shaft e fitting into an arched bearing-block g, to which the casing k is bolted. Pinions p, q on the ends of the differential shaft gear into internally-toothed wheels fixed to the driving-wheels, and the distance between the differential shaft and axle may be varied by mounting the axle in an eccentric bush i in the end of the block g, as shown in Fig. 3, in order that pinions of different sizes may be used. The eccentric bushes i are clamped in position, and also secured by a set-screw t entering cavities formed in the bushes. The main frame a is connected to the axle c through springs b.