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Patent GB-190110026-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Aerated Water Syphons and the like.
Inventor: PIERIE WILLIAM
Filed: 1901-05-14
Granted: 1902-05-14
Abstract: 10,026. Pirrie, W. May 14. Measured quantities, delivering.- Relates to siphons, gasogenes, and other vessels for containing aerated liquids, and consists in providing them with an appliance which prevents an excessive rush of the aÙrated liquid when the valve is opened. This appliance consists of a measuring g o r delivery chamber which is attached to the e top of the siphon and is provided with a snifting device adapted to lower the pressure within the chamber to atmospheric pressure when the contents are to be drawn off. Several forms of the invention are described. In that shown in Fig. 1, a is the siphon bottle, g the measuring or delivery chamber, the snifting passage, and m an ordinary push valve, operated by pressing on it with the bottom of the glass into which the liquid is to be discharged. When the chamber g is forced downwards to open the valve d, the snifting passage is closed by the top of the chamber. The apparatus may be provided with means for aerating the liquid by sparklets.
Patent GB-190111296-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Drilling Machines.
Inventor: ARNOLD WILLIAM
Filed: 1901-06-01
Granted: 1902-05-31
Abstract: 11,296. Arnold, W., and Leech, J. June 1. Drilling.-A multiple drilling-machine, specially applicable for drilling circular rows of holes in boiler flues or other articles, has a table 3 guided by standards 2 and raised by worm gearing 6 and a screw 4 to feed the work against a number of drills, the spindles of which are mounted in a circle on a head secured to the standards. The head consists of two plates 9, 10, secured together by bolts and distancepieces, and supporting a central spindle 14, driven by bevel-gearing and carrying a toothed wheel 15 gearing with pinions 17 on the drill spindles 16. The spindles have bearings in the plates 9, 10, and a ball thrust 22 is inserted between each socket 23 and the plate 9. Interchangeable heads are provided with different numbers of spindles arranged on circles of different diameters to suit the work. In a modified form of machine, to drill holes through the flanges of superimposed sections, a certain number of spindles are situated at opposite ends of a diameter of the head, and the work is supported on two or more tables arranged outside the standards, so that a partial circle of holes may be drilled in the flanges of two or more pairs of sections simultaneously, the tables having an intermittent rotation to complete the circles. In another form, the framing &c. may be modified to leave the front of the machine open, so that large boiler ends may be placed on the table.
Patent GB-190111978-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Hydrocarbon Motors
Inventor: CORDONNIER LEON
Filed: 1901-06-12
Granted: 1901-07-13
Abstract: 11,978. Cordonnier, L. June 12. Gas and explosive-vapour engines.-A combustible charge is drawn into the crank chamber 2 through ports 12, 13 in the hollow crank shaft 11 and its bearing 14, and after compression is admitted through the port 4 to the cylinder from which the exhaust has just escaped by the port 3. The charge in the cylinder is compressed on the upstroke.
Patent GB-190120542-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Movable Devices for Moulding Coupling Pressing Fastening Gripping or Joining Objects.
Inventor: SANT GEORGE
Filed: 1901-10-14
Granted: 1902-06-05
Abstract: 20,542. Sant, G., and Edwards, A. Oct. 14. Couplings, non-automatic.-An expanding mandrel, plunger, or core, for use in the manufacture of articles with contracted necks, or for coupling railway rolling stock, or the like, is constructed of sections F, M mounted to slide on radial dovetail ribs of a base-plate B at the end of a spindle S. The core is expanded by a conical plug D formed with dovetail ribs which slide in dovetail grooves in the sections, and the ribs are inclined so as to move the sections F more rapidly than the sections M. The conical plug may be operated by a screw, rack, or levers, or by steam, pneumatic, or hydraulic apparatus. For coupling railway vehicles, the core enters a bell or casing, which is formed with a contracted mouth, and is pivoted to the opposite vehicle to facilitate the rounding of curves.
Patent GB-190126677-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Bolts for Emergency Exit Doors.
Inventor: HOW EDWARD JOHN
Filed: 1901-12-31
Granted: 1902-04-10
Abstract: 26,677. How, E. J., and King, H., [trading as Hill & Co.. J.1. Dec. 31. Emergency-exit fastenings for doors. Figs. 2 and 4 show the application of the invention to a double door. Push-bars C, C<1>, are rigidly connected by arms L to rods R. The squared end of a rod engages a follower F mounted in a casing W. An arm T on the follower engages the lower bolt B, and by means of pivoted pins J, J', secured between pivoted plates P and engaging slots in the bolts B, B', motion is transmitted to the upper bolt B<1>. In place of the arm T, two plates carrying a pin to engage a slot in the bolt B may be provided. When the push-bar is turned in the direction indicated in Fig. 4, the bolts B, B' are withdrawn from the sockets in the door frame, and the door is unfastened. A spring-controlled bolt S, mounted on the bar R, is adapted to engage a recess formed partly in the follower and partly iu the bush, which acts as a bearing for the follower, thereby securing the bolts B, B' in the withdrawn position. The bars R, C may be replaced by wooden blocks provided with metal pivots.
Patent GB-190203504-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Refrigerators and Cold Air Chambers.
Filed: 1902-02-11
Granted: 1902-07-17
Abstract: 3504. Mantell, L., Prim, W. J., and Keith & Blackman Co., J. Feb. 11. Refrigerators.-A fan N or the like draws air through the trunks M, which may be placed under the ceiling or round the corners of the chamber and sends it through a trunk L around or through the - ice receptacle or to the outlet shaft P in order to produce dry or moist cold air or for ventilation. The ice receptacle is made preferably of corrugated metal H with an outer casing G leaving spaces through which the air can pass and deposit moisture, which runs down to an inclined dip tray T underneath. If moist cold air is desired, the air is sent over the ice in the receptacle. Valves Q, J are arranged in the trunks and in the cover and casing of the ice vessel, to control the passage of the air and fresh air is drawn in through a valve and filter placed in the walls of the chamber. The chamber itself is constructed with a double lining of wood B C packed with insulating-material and placed at a distance from the brickwork or outer casing. It may be divided by an insulating-partition F, the ice receptacle being also divided so that one half may be put out of use. A vestibule E with two doors and a door for tilling ice are provided.
Patent GB-190206526-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Invalid Bedsteads
Inventor: BENNETT SILAS WRIGHT
Filed: 1902-03-17
Granted: 1902-05-15
Abstract: 6526. Bennett, S. W. March 17. Bedsteads.-Relates to extensible invalids' bed- steads fitted with sanitary convenience arrange- ments. The frame is in two parts each carried on four legs, and one part has slides 5 working in guides 6 on the other. One part has a shelf 7 overlapping the other part and supporting a bed- pan 8. By means of pivoted links 24, 25 and a lever 26, the part may be separated and the pan brought into the space between them. By means of a shaft 14 having arms 15 and suitable gearing 17, the head end of the mattress may be raised. The separate central part of the mattress is in three parts, of which the outer parts a, c are hinged to the middle one. Each of the outer parts may be tilted by cranks 19, 22 on shafts 18, 21 operated by crank-handles. The bed-pan has two lids, which are automatically caused, by springs, to open as the bed is extended, so protecting the ends of the sections 11, a, b, c of the mattress. On closing-up the bed, one of the lids is closed by the mattress, and the link 29 causes the other to close.
Patent GB-190208479-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to the Production of Luminous Effects for Scenic, Decorative and like Purposes.
Inventor: BEAU HENRI
Filed: 1902-04-11
Granted: 1903-03-19
Abstract: 8479. Beau, H. April 11. Ornamenting.-Relates to a keyboard instrument with electric contact makers and circuits containing coloured electric lamps arranged to produce harmonious scenic or decorative lighting effects, which may form an accompaniment to an orchestra, or be used for illuminating dancers, figurants, or scenery. The seven colours of the spectrum correspond with the seven notes of the musical scale, and intermediate colours represent the sharps or flats. When a key of the key board is depressed, a circuit is completed through a spring b, copper bar a and solenoid d, a movable core e is raised, and a second circuit is completed through a spring lever f, a mercury cup, and the electric lamps L. Resistances u can be thrown into the circuit to diminish the light by pedals, which complete separate circuits through solenoids X and thus raise forked conducting cores t out of mercury cups. Cylindrical sliding switches R, S, with metal conducting rings and intermediate insulating rings, may be introduced into the circuit to enable two systems of lamps to be illuminated either separately or together. Electric incandescent lamps may be grouped to form stars or designs, or coloured screens may be moved before arc-light projectors.
Patent GB-190209113-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Machines for the Assembly of Type Matrices and the Casting of Linotypes therefrom.
Inventor: HOLBOURNS JOHN GLENNIE
Filed: 1902-04-19
Granted: 1903-06-19
Abstract: 9113. Holbourns, J. G., and Longhurst, H. A. April 19. Linotype machines.-Relates to linotype machines of the class known as typograph machines, which are described in Specification No. 15,060, A.D. 1890. Fig. 2 shows the machine in side elevation. The matrix bars are suspended from wires 4 which converge towards the front of the machine to form two vertical walls of parallel wires 3. between which the matrix bars are assembled in line. Instead of tilting the whole frame 2 backwards to return the matrix bars after a line has been cast, a positive mechanical device is employed for that purpose. A distributer 6 is provided for each of the two divisions of the matrix-bar "ways" 4, 3, the two distributers being worked simultaneously from the two sides of the machine. The left-hand distributer and its actuating-devices are shown in Fig. 2. The distributer is connected by a ball-andsocket joint to a telescopic arm 33, which is jointed to a vertical shaft supported in the bearing 35. The shaft bears a pinion 32 gearing with a rack on a bar 28 actuated by the bell-crank lever 27 and cam-controlled bar 26. When the shaft is rocked, the distributer sweeps upwards along the wires 3, 4, driving the matrices before it and returning them to the point from which they were originally released. In order to allow for the divergence of the wires, the distributer consists of a three-part telescopic tube, which is slotted to engage the heads of the pivot screws of a lazy-tongs which expands as the distributer moves along the wires. Each pivot screw enters a block threaded on one of the wires, the blocks being enabled to move towards and from one another by the lazy-tongs which connects them. The capacity of the distributer to accommodate itself to the varying relative positions of the ways may be increased by interposing elastic rings between the heads of the pivot screws and the inner surfaces of the slotted telescopic tubes. The escapements which release the matrix bars when the keys 49 are depressed are all carried by a frame 44, which is capable of being lifted on its supporting and guiding pins 45. At the moment when the distributers have nearly reached the furthest point of their travel, a cam raises the bar 52 and tilts the lever 55, so as to lift the lug 57 and frame 44 and raise all the escapements clear of the wires. The escapements descend after the matrix bars have been carried beyond them, and the return of the bars is thus prevented. When casting repeat linotypes, the distributers are locked by catches and the bar 52 is disconnected at 53 from the lever 55. The spacers are returned along their ways by telescopic arms, which are operated from one of the shafts which drive the arms 33.
Patent GB-190210967-A (GB)
Title: Improved Fire-place for Open Chimneys, Stoves, Furnaces, and the like.
Inventor: LANGE JENS JOHAN MICHAEL
Filed: 1902-05-13
Granted: 1902-07-17
Abstract: 10,967. Lange, J. J. M. May 13. Slow-combustion stoves.-A firegrate for stoves or furnaces, in which the combustion proceeds from above downwards, is formed with a casing a having a front opening b and a hood c, and supports by means of a fixed bolt 12 a grate d. Pivoted at 13, to a counterbalanced lever 15 which is itself pivoted at 14, is a cylindrically, spherically, or prismatically shaped grate f having openings e. Within the casing and grates is a hollow cylindrical fire-chamber g, mounted upon pivots hand adapted to be turned in either direction by levers 4, 10 and pawls 3, 8. The chamber has diametrically-opposite openings i, k, each equal to the width of the grate d. At other diametricallyopposite parts are a plate n lined with fireproof material m, and a grate p with openings q, each of the latter parts having a series of projections r, s along one edge. A cylindrically-curved cover u is pivoted at t, and is turned thereon by the levers v, w. Connected to the cover u is a plate x, and pivoted to the latter is a plate z. These plates, when the cover is raised, take up the positions shown in Fig. 2. During use, the parts are in the position shown in Fig. 1. The draught may be lessened by slightly raising the cover u, or by turning the cylinder slightly, or it may be increased by turning the cylinder so much to the left that the open space i is in front of the grate f, and the grate d is closed by the plate n. When fresh fuel is to be introduced, the cylinder is rotated through 180‹, the cover raised, and fresh fuel added, the parts being then in the position shown in Fig. 2. The cylinder is again rotated another 180‹, and the cover closed. In one modification, the cylinder is mounted in grooves in the end walls, while in another the cylinder is fixed, the fuel being carried round, when required, by a rotating arm.
Patent GB-190213485-A (GB)
Title: A New or Improved Table or Lawn Game
Inventor: HARDING GEORGE
Filed: 1902-06-14
Granted: 1902-10-23
Abstract: 13,485. Harding, G. June 14. Games imitating cricket.-A game imitating cricket is played on a table or lawn. Fig. 1 shows the table game. Two wickets E and a series of figures A representing fielders are placed on the table, which is surrounded by a cardboard screen F. The wickets are defended with a small bat, the scoring being determined by the part of the screen on to which the ball is played. The batsman is out if bowled &c., or if the ball knocks over one of the figures. In the lawn game, a court is marked out into numbered rectangles, to determine the scoring, the surrounding screen being dispensed with, while nets are placed behind the wickets.
Patent GB-190217790-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Paper Files.
Inventor: CHIGER SIEGMUND
Filed: 1902-08-13
Granted: 1902-09-18
Abstract: 17,790. Chiger, S. Aug. 13. Filing papers.- Fig. 2 shows a section, Fig. 3 a back view, and Fig. 4 an end view of the file. The papers d, perforated with four holes e, are secured by the flexible metal strips g, k to the flexible card, paper, or metal sbeet b attached to the cover a. The strip k has a groove i to permit the passage of the ends f of the strip g.
Patent GB-190219137-A (GB)
Title: Automatically Releasing Apparatus, for use with Kites, Captive Balloons and the like.
Inventor: CUBITT ARCHIBALD STANNARD
Filed: 1902-09-01
Granted: 1903-07-30
Abstract: 19,137. Cubitt, A. S. Sept. 1. Drawings to Specification. Shutters.-A device is arranged to release automatically a parachute &c. at a predetermined point on a cord or wire attached to a kite or captive balloon and to operate automatically the shutter of a photographic camera attached to the device at the time of releasing. After the parachute has been released, the camera returns to the lower end of the cord or wire ready for further use.
Patent GB-190219809-A (GB)
Title: Drying and Stretching Frame for Ladies' Skirts.
Inventor: KNOLLMANN HUGO
Filed: 1902-09-10
Granted: 1902-12-18
Abstract: 19,809. Knollmann, H. Sept. 10. Drying clothes.-A frame for supporting and stretching skirts, which are being dried after having been dyed or washed, is shown in Figs. 1 and 3. An upper plate 1 is made in halves, so as to be adjustable, and has the legs 4 and arms 8 fixed to it. The lower ends of the legs are fixed to a spider 15 connected by screwed spindles 25 to a second spider 22 carrying a ring 16. The ring has hooks 24 for engaging the skirt, and can be moved downwards by the screwed spindles. The ring is made in halves so as to be laterally adjustable by means of thumb-screws 18.
Patent GB-190220023-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Pencil-Sharpeners and in Combined Pencil-sharpeners and Point-protectors.
Inventor: FOLEY JAMES SAMUEL
Filed: 1902-09-13
Granted: 1903-07-02
Abstract: 20,023. Foley, J. S. Sept. 13. Pencil sharpeners ; pencil and like point-protectors.-Relates to a pencil sharpener and pointprotector combined. A tubular cap a, Fig. 1, has a bevelled end in which is a slit b. One side a<3> of the slit is set down below the plane of the other side a', and to the lower side is screwed a knife blade e, its edge running parallel to the slit, but being set back from the centre line, Fig. 6. The blade may be attached to the sheath of the instrument forming a side of the bevelled end. On inserting and rotating a pencil, the severed wood escapes through the slit. A point-clearance c, Fig. 1, is provided.
Patent GB-190227986-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Vapour-generating Apparatus for Domestic Stoves and the like
Inventor: OTTEN GERRIT CORNELIS
Filed: 1902-12-18
Granted: 1903-12-03
Abstract: 27,986. Otten, G. C. Dec. 18. Oil, vaporizing.-Relates to apparatus for generating a vapour for domestic and other purposes, such as for roasting coffee, boiling, &c. Alcohol or other liquid is charged through a screw-plugged opening D into a reservoir A, beneath which is a perforated metallic casing B wherein a lamp C is put to start the process. The vapour formed by the heat of the lamp passes to the dome A', which may be provided with a safety blow-off valve N, and is collected by a perforated pipe g and led by a tube G to a three-way socket E, the passages of which are opened, regulated, and closed simultaneously by a screw valve F. One portion of the vapour passes by the tube I past a regulating- screw K to a tube L, and thence by an external tube M to a heating-burner m for carrying on the process. The other portion of the vapour is led away by the tube H outside the apparatus for use. When the process has fairly started, the lamp C is removed or extinguished. When the screw K has been regulated, its end may be covered by a cap K. In a modification, instead of a regulating-screw K, the end of the tube I is bent round and made into the form of a small jet, and air is allowed to mix with the vapour in the tube M.
Patent GB-190228193-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and connected with Wire Winding Machines.
Inventor: HARDING THOMAS
Filed: 1902-12-22
Granted: 1903-11-12
Abstract: 28,193. Harding, T., and Harding, E. J. Dec. 22. Reeling wire.-A machine for winding wire for use in making wire ropes is shown in Figs. 1 and 2, and it is fitted with automatic attachments for (1) regulating the tension, (2) traversing the wire, and [3) stopping the machine when the bobbin is full, when the swift is empty, or when the wire breaks or becomes entangled. The driving-pulley h can be geared to the shaft g of the reel d by means of a clutch i, which is actuated by gearing r connected to a sliding bar q, Fig. 7. The shaft g drives a second shaft j connected by worm gearing k to a heartshaped cam m, which reciprocates an adjustably-arranged bar o carrying a guide-pulley p for the wire from the swift A. The swift is driven by gearing y, and one or more band brakes 3 are used to keep the wire taut. The stopping-arrangements are connected to the sliding bar q, which operates the driving-clutch. This bar has a pivoted plate s which, when raised, projects into the path of lugs t on the swift so that the bar is moved to disengage the clutch. The pivoted plate can be raised (1) by a bar w<2> connected to a feeler acting on the reel, (2) by an arm w connected to a weighted bar v resting on the moving wire, or (3) by a curved lever x adapted to be set in action by an entanglement in the wire.
Patent GB-190305088-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in, and relating to, Apparatus for Producing a Mixture of Gases, or of Gas and Air for Illuminating Purposes
Filed: 1903-03-04
Granted: 1904-04-02
Abstract: 5088. Catt, R., and Rose, R. March 4. Ironing-machines. - Relates to ironing and like machines which employ feed-lips, and consists in arranging the feed-lip so that the introduction of the fingers or the like between it and the ironing-roller causes it to fall away from the roller, and, by so doing, to operate means for stopping the machine. The feed-lip A, Figs. 1 and 2, is connected to the footboard C by spring rods B, which are set so that the feed-lip is ordinarily opened only sufficiently to admit the article to be ironed, but, if a finger is inserted between the roller and the feed-lip, the latter is forced back against the pressure of the springs b, and, in so doing, overbalances a weighted lever H connected to the lip by a bar G, so that the lip is thrown fully back and, in its course, strikes a spring bar D; this bar moves a trigger e on a spring rod E, so as to release it from a catch by which it is normally held, and cause it to act on an arm f, which moves the strike gear F, thereby shifting the belt from the fast to the loose pulley.
Patent GB-190306845-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Mantles for Incandescent Gas and other Lamps and in the Method of Making same.
Inventor: SCHWARTZ MAXIMILIAN JOHANNES
Filed: 1903-03-24
Granted: 1903-06-11
Abstract: 6845. Schwartz, M. J. March 24. Incandescent gas and oil lamps.-Mantles having strengthened heads are further strengthened by extending the line of connection between the strengthened head b and the weaker body a by means of projecting tongues c, which are either formed during the manufacture of the mantle or are subsequently stitched thereon. The body a and the head b, c may, however, be made separately, the body a being saturated with salts of the usual incandescent substances, and the head b, c with salts of aluminium, beryl nitrate, or the like. When the parts are dried, secured to one another, and incinerated, the resulting oxides combine and increase the power of resistance along the line formed by the edges of the tongues c.
Patent GB-190312276-A (GB)
Title: Improvement connected with the Fittings of Musical Boxes, Barrel Organs, Automatic Pianos, or other Musical Instruments Operated by a Revolving Cylinder or Drum.
Inventor: FRYER TOM
Filed: 1903-05-29
Granted: 1904-03-31
Abstract: 12,276. Fryer, T. May 29. Automatic instruments.-To adjust or set the cylinder or drum A of a musical box, barrel organ, automatic piano, or other instrument operated by a cylinder, drum, or pin barrel, the axle B is tapped at G and fitted with the steel pin F to bear on the graduated setting or shift wheel E. When the pin F is adjusted to a proper length, the countersunk set-screw is screwed up to keep the pin in position.