baber/WOPTO huggingface dataset:
Patent GB-190003677-A (GB)
Title: Improved Method of Condensing Steam in Steam Engines.
Inventor: REEDE ADRIANUS ANTHONIE WILTON
Filed: 1900-02-24
Granted: 1900-07-14
Abstract: 3677. Reede, A. A. W. van. Feb. 24. Systems of working.-The exhaust steam is condensed at a pressure above one atmosphere, whereby the water of condensation can be supplied to the boiler at a higher temperature than usual, and the engine can be controlled by varying the condenser temperature.
Patent GB-190005222-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Rotary Engines.
Inventor: EVANS JAMES MATHEW
Filed: 1900-03-19
Granted: 1900-05-19
Abstract: 5222. Evans, J. M. March 19. Annular-chamber type.-The chamber 1 is concentrically mounted on the main shaft, which is cranked and carries on the crank-pin 6 a cylindrical piston 5, which rotates in contact with the inner wall of the chamber. Sliding partitions 3 are connected to grooves 14<1> on the piston, and a steam-tight joint is made with the piston by means of adjustable shoes 20'. The partitions divide the chamber into compartments, which are each provided with supply and exhaust ports a, b. The ports are controlled by disc valves d rotated by the shaft as indicated in the detail view, Fig. 2. The steam-chests e are formed in both sides of the chamber if the engine is to be reversible, so that steam can be admitted from either side. The piston is surrounded by two rings 11, between which steam is admitted to press them against the sides of the chamber, leakage being prevented by flexible packing-pieces 12<1>.
Patent GB-190012380-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to Workmen's Time Recorders.
Inventor: MACCOY JAMES SHARON
Filed: 1900-07-09
Granted: 1901-07-09
Abstract: 12,380. Lake, H. H., [MacCoy, J. S.]. July 9. Date and time printing stamps.-Cards 32, bearing workmen's numbers, names, and occupations, are stamped with the date and time on their coming in and going out of the works. The inverted card 32, dropped down a shoot 3, is retained against the printing-wheels X by a pivoted detent 18 obstructing the shoulder 33, and is struck by the platen at the end of a lever 7 which is operated by a cam 8 and a hand - lever 10. Simultaneously a punch 15 driven by the platen takes a bit off the card, so as to make the shoulder 33 one line lower. These bits drop down a shoot 34 into a receptacle. An arm 28, acting with the lever 10 upon another arm 27, lifts a cam 29 past a pivoted pallet 31 upon a vertical shaft 21, and winds up a spring which runs down under the control of a train and a fly in a frame Y when the handle is released. Thus the cam 29 returns over the pallet 31, and so turns the shaft 21 to disengage the detent 18, to which it is connected by a link 20. The card then falls through the shoot 3. If, however, it is desirable to remove the card from the upper end of the conduit 3 after printing, the pallet 31 is put out of reach of the cam 29 by means of a push 36. The type is inked by a band connecting two winding-reels 42, which are alternately driven by a shifting shaft 46 with terminal mitre gear 47. The shaft is rotated by a ratchet lever connected to the platen lever 7, and is shifted as follows :-At each end of the sbaft there is a lever 63 under a spring 64, a latch 59 to hold the lever, and a trigger 56 to trip the latch. The trigger acts with an arm 57 which feels the roll of paper, and when one lever is set free the other is applied and latched.
Patent GB-190012616-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or connected with the Keys of Pianofortes and the like
Inventor: HALLE CLIFFORD ROBERT STEPHEN
Filed: 1900-07-12
Granted: 1901-05-11
Abstract: 12,616. HallÚ, C. R S. J. July 12. Pianofortes.-The keys, through which the ordinary pins B pass, balance on strips D, D', which may be separate from one another, but in the case shown form the edges of a channelled strip of metal E. The front edge D forms a pivot for the white keys, and the back edge D' for the black ones. The keys may be notched where they rest on the strips, but they are preferably furnished merely with soft washers F.
Patent GB-190015666-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in, or connected with Coupling Apparatus for Railway, Tramway, and the like Vehicles.
Inventor: CLARK JAMES FREDERICK
Filed: 1900-09-04
Granted: 1901-02-23
Abstract: 15,666. Clark, J. F. Sept. 4. Couplings, automatic; draw-gear.-The link A of each vehicle, passing loosely through the beam B and bolted to the crosshead E, has an extension K, forming the draw-bar, bolted to the fixed bracket C. Weighted hooks D are so pivoted to the crosshead E that normally they are horizontal, but, when two vehicles are brought together, the links A depress them, after which they return and automatically engage the links. The beaks of the hooks D are lowered for uncoupling by depressing. one of the pivoted levers G, Fig. 6, and may be kept in this position by causing the handle of the operating-lever to engage with the catch i of the bracket J.
Patent GB-190106440-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Pipe Coils for Attemperators and like Apparatus.
Inventor: WORSSAM HENRY JOHN
Filed: 1901-03-27
Granted: 1901-05-04
Abstract: 6440. Worssam, H. J. March 27. Butt and flange joints; hinge and swivelling joints.- Relates to pipe coils for brewers' attemperators and for all beating or cooling coils which are not subject to very high pressure, and comprises a special joint, which is less liable to leak than the usual flanged joints, which can be easily taken to pieces for cleaning, and in which the angle between adjacent pipes may be varied. The pipes a of the coils are fitted into sockets b, each of which terminates in ahead c with two opposite flat surfaces on it. One of these surfaces has a hole through it just large enough to allow the passage of a screw bolt d, while the opposite surface has a hole through it of larger diameter than this. When these socket heads are to make joint with each other, they are placed together so that the wider openings coincide and a bolt is passed through them, on which is screwed a nut to tighten the joint. In most cases, a washer e is placed between the meeting surfaces. In Fig. 3, one bolt d and nut m are shown as serving to tighten together a number of joints, which lie in the same vertical line.
Patent GB-190111751-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to Hat-pins.
Inventor: REINER ARTHUR
Filed: 1901-06-08
Granted: 1901-11-16
Abstract: 11,751. Reiner, A., [trading as Reiner & Co., A.]. June 8. Pins, dress and like.- To prevent the enlargement of the holes in the hat, the hat-pin described in Specification No. 2357, A.D. 1901, works through a slit in the piece band two holes in the fastening-piece f. The latter is passed through the side of the hat and through slots in the ends of the piece b, and then turned down flat.
Patent GB-190114655-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in the Manufacture of Stock Bricks
Filed: 1901-07-18
Granted: 1902-05-01
Abstract: 14,655. Beckenham and Penge Brick Works, and Focknall, G. N. July 18. Bricks.-Stock bricks are made from a stiff plastic mixture of raw clay and powdered chalk, with or without the addition of lime, ashes, coke breeze, and small coal.
Patent GB-190118802-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Double Acting Steam Engines and like Air Pumps.
Filed: 1901-09-20
Granted: 1902-08-07
Abstract: 18,802. Davey, Paxman, & Co., and King, T. S. Sept. 20. Plunger pumps.- Comprises a plunger pump combined with air pumps of the kind described in Specification No. 21,209, A.D. 1900, the object being to remove the limitation as to the speed of these pumps due to the fact that such pumps have to act during a portion of their stroke as water pumps. The pumps referred to are of the centre suction type, in which the air or gases are delivered through valves F in the end of the barrel during one stroke of the bucket, and through valves E in the bucket during the other stroke, the bucket discharging into a delivery chamber H by means of a sliding trunk G. According to the present invention, the trunk G is formed with an extension G' forming, with a supplemental barrel having suitably-arranged inlets and an outlet valve K, a pump for dealing with the water separately.
Patent GB-190126026-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Engine Distributing-valve Motion and Reversing Gear.
Inventor: LADISLAW HEINRICH
Filed: 1901-12-20
Granted: 1902-12-18
Abstract: 26,026. Ladislaw, H., and Sgal, L. Dec. 20. Valves and valve gear.-(1) The tubular piston distributing-valve is formed with loose collars B, B, forming one edge of the valve ports, the movements of which due to their lagging behind the valve serve to work the engine expansively. The valve is worked by an eccentric F mounted on a countershaft driven through an idle wheel J from the crank shaft. In order to provide for reversing, the bearings K of the spindle of the idle wheel are made movable along the bracket L in a direction at right-angles to the spindle, whereby the necessary angular adjustment of the eccentric shaft relatively to the crank shaft is effected. (2) In another form, rotary distributing-valves d are driven by chain gearing from the crank shaft g through intermediate differential bevel gear. In this, the planet pinions n, o are mounted on a cruciform shaft j, which can be adjusted by a hand-lever i, when it is desired to shift the valves angularly in relation to the crank shaft g, for the purpose of reversing.
Patent GB-190200461-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to Wood Working Machines
Inventor: DUDEK FRANZ
Filed: 1902-01-07
Granted: 1902-11-20
Abstract: 461. Dudek, F., Dembowski, R., and Josephy, G. Jan. 7. - Lathes.-Relates to a machine for shaping and smoothing curved or straight wooden bars such for example as are used in the manufacture of Vienna bentwood chairs. Part of the back of such a chair is shown in dotted lines, Fig. 2. The bent wood is shaped and finished by two revolving cutters 12, 13, and is guided in front by a vertical rod 43, and at the back by two jaws at 41, the position of the front and back guides being controlled by a cam 15 rotated by worm gearing 20 from the shaft 22. The distance of the cutters 12,13 from the rotating hollow spindle 1 is also controlled by the cam 15 which acts on a slide 5, 6, the movement of which acts on the cutters through inclined grooves at 8. Two vertical feed-rollers 45 are actuated by bevel gearing 53, 54 and spur gearing 55, are mounted so that they can approach or recede, and are pressed together by springs.
Patent GB-190203283-A (GB)
Title: An Improvement in Hods as used in Building and like Operations
Inventor: LOUDON ROBERT JUNIOR
Filed: 1902-02-10
Granted: 1902-11-20
Abstract: 3283. Loudon, R. Feb. 10. Hods.-To facili- tate the renewal of the shaft, and other repairs, the hod is constructed of a V-shaped box a, a Y-shaped metal frame b with tapered sockets e, f of square or other shape to receive the end of the shaft g, and a forked strut j made of metal stiffened by wood j<3> and formed with a hook j<2> which is passed through the socket f. The shaft is secured in the socket f by a screw, and is detached by a wedge m, driven in between the angle of the frame b and a metal strip l inserted in a slot in the end of the shaft.
Patent GB-190204368-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Microphones for High Tension Currents
Inventor: GAILLARD RAOUL
Filed: 1902-02-20
Granted: 1902-04-03
Abstract: 4368. Gaillard, R., and Ducretet, E. Feb. 20. Telephones.-Relates to a microphone in which the granule chamber is formed with a striated metal backplate P, preferably coated within an oxidizable metal. The plate P is separated from the diaphragm m by a felt or other similar ring T, and the chamber is divided into compartments by strips of flexible material or light fabric. The diaphragm is secured to a frame E by a ring band clamps r. The back-plate is secured in the frame by a screw ring e.
Patent GB-190205031-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Pneumatic Hammers.
Inventor: O'DONNELL JOHN PATRICK
Filed: 1902-02-27
Granted: 1903-02-26
Abstract: 5031. O'Donnell, J. P., [Kimman, H. J.]. Feb. 27. Percussive hand tools.-A pneumatic hammer for riveting &c. has a solid piston 2 and a distributing- valve 11 working longitudinally in a taper bushing 10, which fits in the cylinder and is kept in place by a plug 25 screwing into the bushing. The throttle valve 7 is actuated by a trigger 9 and is pressed back to close the opening 8 by a spring. The forward movement of the distributing-valve is assisted by a spring 26. The ports and passages are arranged so that during the forward motion of the piston motive fluid reaches the cylinder by the passages 12, 13, 14 and the exhaust takes place through openings 20 and through channels 15, openings 23, space 16, an opening in the bushing, openings 21, 22 in the cylinder, and openings 19<a>, Fig. 8, in the handle base. The valve is moved into its forward position by motive fluid entering the channel 17 and passing into and behind the valve by openings. The motive fluid now passes from the channel 14 to the channel 15 by the openings 23 and the exhaust takes place through channel 18 and openings 19, 21, 22, 19<a>. Cushioning takes place behind the piston on the return stroke. The valve is returned to the position shown by motive fluid leaking past the flange X and acting on the differential areas of the flanges X<1>, Z. In a modification, a leakage passage is made through the flange X<1>.
Patent GB-190208888-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Steam Generators specially adapted for Automobiles.
Inventor: DAVY WILLIAM JAMES
Filed: 1902-04-16
Granted: 1903-04-16
Abstract: 8888. Davy, W. J. April 16. Instantaneous and water-tube boilers for motor cars &c. Three, or other suitable number, of independent generating-coils b, c, d, preferably concentric, are connected by joint pieces m, m', m<2>, shown separately in Fig. 5, to the bottom ring f of an outer feed-heating coil a. The pipes of the generating-coils are prolonged through flue tubes n traversing the steam drum, and are then bent over and connected to the top of the steam drum, as indicated in Fig. 2. The bottom ring of the feedheating coil has a straight prolongation f which is continued to the rear of the car, where it is provided with a blow-off cock. Blow-off cocks for the generating-coils may be fitted to the jointpieces m &c. A water-level gauge, the upper end of which is connected to the steam drum, is also connected to one of these cocks. The generator is preferably heated by liquid fuel, a hanging baffle cone or brick p being provided. A chimney with a hood fitted over its end beneath the car, is described but not claimed. The car, when in motion, causes the air to rush into this hood and suck the gases through the chimney.
Patent GB-190210867-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Lock Nuts and in Machinery for Making same.
Inventor: PRIESTLEY GEORGE FREDERICK
Filed: 1902-05-12
Granted: 1903-05-12
Abstract: 10,867. Priestley, G. F. May 12. Making nuts.-A laminated lock-nut is made from cold strip metal fed automatically or by hand into a machine, Fig. 15, against an adjustable stop L'. A cutter K and plunger H', operated by cams on a shaft E, cut off a length and bend its ends at right-angles in a die as shown at V, Fig. 18. The ends of the die are formed by noses on slides L which are moved inwards to fold down the ends as shown in Fig. 4. Holes are then punched in each half by punches R', operated by the plunger H<1> and supported on springs in the noses or in a slide moved forward from the rear of the machine by a cam shaft at the rear. A single or divided plunger T with noses T<1> forming the bottom of the die is then raised to first bend the doubled ends round a bar U, drawn into the die by a cam on the rear shaft, and then close them together, as shown in Fig. 6, with the aid of the plunger H<1>, the bar U having been withdrawn. The blank is then ejected and tapped in a separate machine, the inner laminations being forced sideways in opposite directions as shown in Fig. 7, to provide a spring grip which may be increased by curving the upper or lower pair of laminations as shown in Fig. 9. A positive locking may be formed by rolling a number of half-round grooves along the bolt blanks in manufacture, and providing one of the punches R<1> with a half-round projection, so that a pin may be passed into the rouud hole formed by a semicircular groove in the bolt and the recesses in one pair of laminations. The machine shown in Fig. 15 has a set of straightening-rollers R and an automatic feed consisting of a sliding block Q<2> on which is pivoted a gripping-lever Q connected to a rod Q<1>, pivoted at Q<3>, and passing through a crank-pin of adjustable throw on a disc P driven from the rear cam shaft. The two cam shafts are driven from a shaft B geared to a driving-shaft C and carrying cams for operating the plunger T and for operating vertical rods B' engaging inclined slots L<1> in the slides L to move them horizontally. Hexagon or other shaped nuts may be similarly made, a shearing-punch N being provided to suitably trim the strip. Nuts with only two or three laminations may be made, the strip being then heated by an oil or similar heater.
Patent GB-190220148-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to the Production of Articles of Glass and to Apparatus therefor.
Filed: 1902-09-15
Granted: 1902-12-18
Abstract: 20,148. Lake, H. H., [Toledo Glass Co.]. Sept. 15. Drawings to Specification. Measured quantities, delivering.-In a machine for blowing or moulding glass bottles &c., the mould in which is produced the blank from which the bottle is to be blown is lowered so that its open end dips into a pool of molten glass extending laterally from a glass furnace. Suction is applied and the mould is filled with glass. The open end is closed by a plate which shears off the glass as it closes, and the mould rises from the tank containing an accurately measured quantity of glass.
Patent GB-190225571-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to the Driving Wheels of Motor Cycles
Filed: 1902-11-21
Granted: 1903-09-10
Abstract: 25,571. Lloyds Cycle Fittings, Ltd., W. A., and Tunstall, C. Nov. 21. Driving-mechanism ; motor cycles.-The driving-wheels of belt or band driven motor cycles are detachably connected to the road wheels by bifurcated bolts d, e passing through the side of the pulley a and adapted to engage with the spokes alternately, either singly or in sets, from the far and near sides respectively. In a modification, the studs or bolts may be provided with hooks engaging the spokes from alternate sides, or the studs may have right-angled slots. According to the Provisional Specification, the bolts may have hooked and bifurcated ends alternately.
Patent GB-190228153-A (GB)
Title: Coupling and Uncoupling Apparatus for the Three Links now in Use on Railway Waggons or Trucks.
Inventor: AUSTIN JOHN
Filed: 1902-12-20
Granted: 1903-06-25
Abstract: 28,153. Austin, J., and Jukes, J. T. Dec. 20. Couplings, non- automatic. - The cross-shaft A, which has end handles C and is mounted in slotted bearings D, carries a fork or lever B for manipulating the end link E when coupling or uncoupling.
Patent GB-190302213-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Method of Connecting together without Screws the Parts of Appliances used in Transmitting Power, such as Belt Pulleys, Adjusting Rings or Collars and the like.
Inventor: KOTTUSCH EMANUEL
Filed: 1903-01-30
Granted: 1903-12-03
Abstract: 2213. Kottusch, E. Jan. 30. Pulleys; toothed wheels; shaft couplings; shafts; mounting and securing pulleys, toothed wheels, couplings, &c. on shafts.-The parts of devices used in the transmission of power, such as belt and rope pulleys, toothed wheels, adjusting rings or collars, couplings, &c , are formed with interlocking teeth, and are connected together, without the aid of screws &c., when the devices are secured to shafting. Fig. 1 shows an adjusting-ring made in two parts a, b. The abutting faces of the parts are formed with inclined teeth c, which interlock when the two parts are brought into engagement. The parts are firmly secured together by means of a screw, key, &c. used in fixing the ring to a shaft. Fig. 5 shows a split pulley in which the parts of the bo s e are formed with interlocking teeth c. In the case of a large pulley, dovetail pieces hare fitted to the meeting faces of the rim and are engaged by wedge-shaped straps g. In small pulleys, instead of forming the interlocking teeth in the boss, the teeth are formed in the arms. In all these cases, it is possible for the parts to slide in a plane at right-angles to the axis of the shaft as well as in the plane of the axis of the shaft, and, further, the abutting faces are so arranged that one pattern may be used for both parts. In a modification, the teeth are each provided with a shoulder engaging a corresponding recess, so as to limit the longitudinal sliding.
Patent GB-190304444-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to Dynamometers
Inventor: WESTON EDWARD
Filed: 1903-02-25
Granted: 1903-07-23
Abstract: 4444. Weston, E., and Benecke, A. O. Feb. 25. Dynamometers for power-driven machines are adapted to make continuous time records of the power supplied. The driving-pulley y transmits the power to be measured to the shaft m through a strong coiled spring o. An arm h is integral with a metallic sleeve h<2> secured to the shaft m, and the arm carries a brush h<1> adapted to bear on a resistance r connected at its ends to rings t, t<1>, on which bear brushes j, j<1> connected through an adjustable resistance q with the battery l. A third brush j<2> makes contact with the sleeve h<2> and arm h. A certain fraction of the battery pressure is taken from the resistance r through the brushes j<1>, j<2> and wires w<3>, this fraction depending on the relative position of the arm h and pulley y, i.e., on the torque transmitted. The current in the wires w<3> passes through the moving coil c of a measuring- instrument, of which i is the index needle. A movement of the index needle closes the contact p<1>, s' or p<2>, s<2> according to its direction, thus sending current from the split battery b in one or other direction through the wires w to the motor a. The worm gear g and arms a<1>, a<2> are turned by the motor until the index needle is again free, the number of revolutions of the motor being thus proportional to the deviation of the index needle, i.e., to the torque in the shaft m. An arm n with a recording-stylus makes a continuous record of the torque or power on a clock-driven cylinder e.
Patent GB-190308156-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to the Firing Mechanism of Breech Loading Ordnance.
Inventor: SCHNEIDER CHARLES PROSPER EUGE
Filed: 1903-04-08
Granted: 1903-06-18
Abstract: 8156. Schneider, C. P. E. April 8. Ordnance breech mechanism.-Relates to safety firing-devices for guns which are provided with a breech screw 3, mounted on the stem of a carrier 4, pivoted at 2 to the side of the breech. The breeeb-screw is mounted eccentrically, so that when it is turned, for unlocking, the firing-pin b no longer comes in line with the centre of the cartridge in the gun. The firing-pin is hinged by a ball-and-socket joint to the hammer a, which moves concentri. cally in a recess in the carrier. The hammer is cocked, when the breechscrew is unlocked, by the pressure of the curved surface e on the breechscrew against the surface f of the hammer. The sear g moves laterally, and is disengaged by a pusher k, which can only act when the breech-screw is locked. This pusher acts as a safety against hang-fire, since it is not until the gun begins to recoil that it is disengaged by the meeting of its lug m with a shoulder n of the firing-rod l.