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Patent GB-189815855-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Infusing and like Apparatus.
Inventor: BARBE PIERRE EUGENE SYLVAIN
Filed: 1898-07-20
Granted: 1899-07-01
Abstract: 15,855. BarbÚ, P. E. S. July 20. Water-heating oil stoves.-Relates to an infusing- apparatus with which is combined a geyser for supplying the boiling water. Two strainers P, Q for containing coffee, tea, &c. are fitted in the upper part K of the apparatus, which is provided with a cover I. Below the strainers a receiver is provided fitted with a draw-off cock S. A geyser G is fitted into the bottom of the apparatus. The right-hand section shows an open geyser with a float F, and the left-hand section a closed geyser. Water is also contained in a boiler surrounding and communicating with the geyser. A burner A is used as the source of heat, and is supplied with air through holes in the casing, which holes may be covered with metallic netting. Water is introduced into the boiler or geyser through the branch D or the water gauge E. When the water boils, it is projected up a central tube H, and issues in a series of jets through small holes into an upper chamber, from which it filters through the perforations T into the strainers. The tube H is enclosed by a tube a. Windows d of glass, mica, &c. are fitted into the receiver for the purpose of ascertaining the height of the liquid therein. The parts in contact with the liquid are constructed of, or lined with, enamelled sheet metal or glass. The various parts are fitted with stops to retain them in position.
Patent GB-189821337-A (GB)
Title: Production of Stable Catalytic Material, and Catalytic Gas or Vapour Lighting Tips or Burners, and Tufts.
Inventor: PORTER WILLIAM HENRY
Filed: 1898-10-11
Granted: 1898-11-26
Abstract: 21,337. Porter, W. H. Oct. 11. Lighting gas or vapour by automatic igniters of the platinum-black type. The burner tips A are designed by means of indentations a or other devices to give to the flame a slight inclination, which is rectified by the attachment B containing the igniting-material and the wires or fibres C, D. The platinum black or equivalent igniting-material may be prepared in various manners, as for example: (1) by heating a solution of platinum chloride and hydrated aluminium chloride and treating linen, wood, or other vegetable material with the resulting paste. Upon heating, the vegetable material is destroyed, leaving a porous mass of finelydivided metallic platinum and aluminium oxide ; (2) separate solutions of platinum and aluminium are evaporated, and the resulting substances are mixed dry. Glycerine or other reducing-agent is added to facilitate the decomposition and produce a plastic mass, in which state the mixture is preferably applied ; (3) aluminium hydrate or oxide is added to a solution of platinic chloride and heated at 200‹ F. to dryness, a saturated solution of sugar being subsequently added. In preparing the paste, nitrates, acetates, or other salts may be used instead of the chlorides, and the platinum and aluminium may be replaced by other elements of their respective groups. Other substances, such as asbestos, may be substituted for the element of the aluminium group. From paste prepared in the above or in any substantially similar manner, automatic igniters having a number of projecting fibres are made by embedding in, or impregnating with, this paste, loose cotton or other vegetable fibres. It is sufficient if the fibres are only impregnated with an earthy oxide and connected at the base with platinum black or equivalent material. Platinum or like wires may be substituted for the non-metallic fibres or filaments.
Patent GB-189909190-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Plaiting Machines.
Inventor: HAGERTY THOMAS FRANCIS
Filed: 1899-05-02
Granted: 1899-11-18
Abstract: 9190. Hagerty, T. F. May 2. Pleating.-Relates to machines for producing accordion, pine-apple, or other pleating. Fig. 1 shows a side view, and Fig. 2 a vertical section, of one form of machine. The material y to be pleated is fed over and under a series of bars d serving as a tension device, and then over a guidebar e, after which it is pleated by two reciprocating blades k, r and the pleated material is collected in a box b, in which it accumulates and is kept in shape by a spring-pressed bar c. The upper blade k is reciprocated by the cam n, and the lower blade r by the cam s. Another form of machine is described in which the pleating is effected by a single blade and the pleated material is pressed into shape by passing it through a pair of rollers.
Patent GB-189913345-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Driving Gear for Motor Cycles and the like.
Inventor: THOMPSON WILLIAM PHILLIPS
Filed: 1899-06-27
Granted: 1899-07-29
Abstract: 13,345. Thompson, W. P., [Ateliers de Constructions Mecaniques ci-devant Ducommun]. June 27. Motor road vehicles. -Relates to clutches for allowing the pedal driving - gear or the motor of a motor cycle to be used together or independently. The crank axle g or the rear hub is fitted with a clutch consisting of wedgeshaped pieces d carried on a disc a forced against a flange b on the chain-wheel by springs f, the chain-wheel being mounted loosely on the axle or hub. A similar clutch is fitted to the driving-shaft of the motor. By this arrangement the driving-wheel can be driven by, or can over-run, the crank-axle or motor driving-shaft. The invention is stated to facilitate the conversion of an ordinary cycle into a motor cycle.
Patent GB-189919047-A (GB)
Title: An Improvement connected with Tight Fitting Doors of Ships' Bulkheads, Strong Rooms, Buildings, Safes and the like.
Inventor: HIND JOHN HOLSALL
Filed: 1899-09-21
Granted: 1900-09-21
Abstract: 19,047. Hind, J. H., and Topping, T. E. Sept. 21. Safes and strong-rooms; door holders.-Relates to hinged drop-closing doors for ships' bulkheads, safes, and strong-rooms, and for resisting fires and Hoods in buildings and the like. Such doors are hung on special rising hinges, which allow the door, when closed against its framing, to drop behind wedge-shaped clips or cleats to make a water-tight joint. To open the door, it is first raised into the position shown in Fig. 1<a> by means of a cam acting on the frame and rotated by a lever N on either side of the door. It is then swung open, rising on its hinges, and is automatically locked in the open position. Fig. 5 shows an elevation, and Fig. 4 a sectional plan, of a hinge. The part secured to the frame has a helical upper surface I, and is slotted at F to allow the butt B on the door to drop when the door has been closed. A wedge surface H on the door engages with a similar one L on the stationary part D. The locking-device for holding the door open is shown in Fig. 7, and consists of a lever R mounted on the bulkhead and actuating a weighted catch S pivoted in a bracket T. When the door is swung open, a tapered bracket W raises the lever and allows the weighted catch to drop. When the slot X comes below the lever R, the latter drops, and raises a projection Z on the catch into engagement with the slotted bracket V on the door. To close the door, the lever can be raised to undo the catch by hand, or electrically or automatically by the entry of water into the compartment in the case of a bulkhead or flood door.
Patent GB-189919155-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Internal Combustion Engines.
Inventor: DOUGILL JOHN
Filed: 1899-09-23
Granted: 1900-09-22
Abstract: 19,155. Dougill, J. Sept. 23. Gas and explosive-vapour engines.-The object of the invention is to ensure a constant charge of fuel entering the cylinder, no matter at what speed the engine is running. This is effected by four air valves E, adjusted to open at gradually increasing pressures, the levers b of which carry valves b<4> which control the fuel orifices g. If the engine runs slowly, only one valve is sucked open by the piston; if it goes twice as fast, two valves are opened, but consequently remain open for only half the time and so on. The orifices F and i are controlled by two valves h<2>, h<6>, Fig. 6, rocking on a shaft and operated by a lever k<1> under the control of a governor. The valve h<2> is normally held closed by a spring h<3>, and is opened at every cycle by the lever, but, when the lever fails to open it, air only is drawn into the cylinder through the port i. The motor is suitable for motor cars.
Patent GB-189920241-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Automatically Operated Valves.
Inventor: GULLAND CHARLES
Filed: 1899-10-09
Granted: 1899-11-18
Abstract: 20,241. Gulland, C. Oct. 9. Actuating valves and cocks. - The valve e is normally held down, so as to close the openings g in a fixed hollow guide d, by the pressure of water admitted from the inlet through a groove k to the back of the valve. On screwing out the valve m, water escapes through passages l and n to the outlet a, and the pressure of water on the portion f opens the valve. The openings g are formed V-shaped, to cause the water to be cut-off gradually and thereby prevent shocks, and may be adjusted by an internal cylinder h with similar openings. The valve m may be replaced by a ball- and-float valve or a spring-push valve. Fig. 6 shows the invention applied to a stand-pipe, a spring-push valve t, for putting the back of the valve in communication with the inlet pipe or the exit, being operated by a lever q and a ring r. A cushioning-chamber, connected to the exterior by a pipe 5 with a regulating-valve 6, is provided between the valve and its hollow guide.
Patent GB-189921018-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Bottle-filling and Stoppering Machines.
Inventor: MANNERING WILLIAM
Filed: 1899-10-20
Granted: 1900-10-20
Abstract: 21,018. Mannering, W., and Barnard, W. P. Oct. 20. Bottling; stoppering.-Relates to machines for filling screw-stoppered bottles with aÙrated liquids &c., and for inserting the stoppers, after filling, while the bottles are still in position in the machine. The bottle 55, placed on the bottle rest 54, is raised by the operation of the treadle 45 until the neck enters the filling-nozzle 2, and the stopper enters the chuck 28 on the lower end of the stoppering-spindle 23. The sealing-ring 33 is then compressed around the neck by the gland 37, which is raised for this purpose by the shoulders 57 on the rods 41 of the treadle mechanism. The stoppering-spindle 23 carries a weight 25, and has a left-hand screwthread 22, where it passes through the screw matrix 21. It is connected by the lever 19 and link 20 to the machine frame, the lever 19 being connected by the rod 17 to the arm 13 on the spindle 9 of the hand-lever 8. A second arm 12 on the spindle 9 operates the syrup pump 6, by engaging the projectious 14 on the pump rod 15. On the upward movement of the lever 8, the stopper is unscrewed and raised clear of the bottle, and a charge of syrup is forced from the pump 6 into the filling-nozzle. The liquidsupply valve 48 and the snift valve 49 are both actuated by the lever 50. When the bottle is filled, the lever 8 is moved downwards, to re-insert the stopper in the bottle. The liquid-supply and snift valves communicate with the port 47, Fig. 2, and the syrup pump is connected to the port 4. The chuck 28 consists of a disc faced with a roughened rubber plate, and an internally-serrated split ring 29, which is pivoted at 30 to the disc, and is held together by an elastic ring 31. The machine may also be driven by steam or other power.
Patent GB-190000874-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Process for the Manufacture of Composite Articles of Cast Aluminium with other Metals.
Inventor: BAUDELOT LEON GEORGES
Filed: 1900-01-15
Granted: 1900-11-17
Abstract: 874. Baudelot, L. G. Jan. 15. Metal pipes and tubes.-Tubes or other articles are made by casting aluminium round a core or strengthening-piece of iron, steel, or other metal. For instance, a steel tube to be mounted in the aluminium fork head of a cycle is first coated with a layer of soft brazing-material, and is then tinned, and, finally, the aluminium is cast on it.
Patent GB-190005817-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Apparatus for Generating Acetylene Gas.
Inventor: JAVAL EUGENE ALFRED
Filed: 1900-03-28
Granted: 1901-03-02
Abstract: 5817. Javal, E. A. March 28. Acetylene.-An acetylene gas generator is provided with automatic means for introducing with each fresh charge of carbide a suitable quantity of water, and for simultaneously discharging the residual products at the lower part of the apparatus ; also with a specially - constructed box for purifying and removing water of condensation from the gas on its way to the holder. In the form of apparatus shown, the carbide and water are both introduced into the generating-vessel A through the same hopper B. The carbide is supplied at C by any suitable means, such as the automatic bucket distributer described in Specification No. 9319, A.D. 1898, and the water is supplied at D by means of an oscillating trough E, which is normally retained in the position shown by an arrangement consisting of two connected levers a and e, the latter engaging with a stop h on the trough E. As each charge of carbide falls on to a disc f at one end of the lever a, the levers turn on their axes and release the trough E. The carbide descends through an opening m into the generating-chamber, any gas produced during its descent being prevented from escaping by a small partition l ; it drops first on to an inclined grating o, and thence on to a horizontal grating p. On the introduction of fresh carbide and water, a float 0 rises and opens a valve S for discharging the lime sludge, the opening of this valve being caused to take place suddenly by means of a compression spring r<1> in the connecting-chain N. The purifier consists of a gas-tight box H containing water. This box is provided with an overflow pipe J, surrounded by a water seal K, which allows of the escape of excess of water due to condensation. The arrangement is such that the generator can be disconnected without gas escaping from the holder. In a modification of the apparatus, the carbide and the water are introduced into the generating-chamber through separate hoppers, in which case the carbide hopper may be of the construction described in Specification No. 9319, A.D. 1898, and the water supply passage may be fitted with a grating for supporting purifying- material such as sulphate of iron.
Patent GB-190006474-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Hames.
Inventor: ADKINS WILLIAM WOOD
Filed: 1900-04-06
Granted: 1900-05-12
Abstract: 6474. Adkins, W. W. April 6. Fastening traces to hames. The trace 10 is removably attached to the hame 1 by a pin or bolt 9, which slides in the turned-over ends 5 of a slotted plate 4 attached to a staple 2 on the hame by its turned-over end 3. The trace enters the slot 6 in the plate 4. The pin 9 is kept in locked position by a pivoted keeper 7, the end 8 of which comes over the head of the pin.
Patent GB-190007057-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Conveyors for Ore, Coal, and other Materials.
Inventor: BREWER GRIFFITH
Filed: 1900-04-17
Granted: 1900-05-19
Abstract: 7057. Brewer, G., [Hunt Co., C. W.]. April 17. Conveyers.-The space between adjacent buckets A for coal, ore, &c. is bridged by overlapping and pivoted flaps C, held in their normal positions by springs 12, each of which is attached at one end to a bucket and at the other to a crank on the pivot of the flap. A hanging weight may be substituted for the spring. One of the flaps C may be rigid.
Patent GB-190015424-A (GB)
Title: Puzzles.
Inventor: WYNNE EDWARD WILLIAMS
Filed: 1900-08-30
Granted: 1901-01-19
Abstract: 15,424. Wynne, E. W. Aug. 30. Puzzles.-A box C is provided with an uneven bottom B having a central hole A, and is closed by a glass cover D. The puzzle consists in manipulating the box so as to cause a marble &c. E to enter the hole A.
Patent GB-190103947-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Mosaics.
Inventor: MAINZER WOLFE
Filed: 1901-02-23
Granted: 1901-03-23
Abstract: 3947. Mainzer, W. Feb. 23. Mosaics.- In order to prevent cracking and improve the appearance of continuous mosaics of large area, metal dividing -strips A are embedded i the e mosaic, and may be fixed in the concrete or other foundation D by flanges C, lugs, bolts, notches, or otherwise.
Patent GB-190106454-A (GB)
Title: A New or Improved Grid or Electrode for Retaining Plumbic Oxides in Accumulators to Prevent Disintegration during Charging and Discharging.
Inventor: CLARK EDWARD JAMES
Filed: 1901-03-27
Granted: 1902-05-27
Abstract: 6454. Clark, E. J. March 27. Secondary batteries.-Fig. 1 shows an elevation of part of a grid, Fig. 4 a horizontal section of the same, and Fig. 3 a vertical section. It consists of vertical bars a, a<1> and rounded horizontal bars c. After the active material has been placed in the grid, the bars c have their ends turned up by rolling into the position shown in the vertical section in Fig. 3.
Patent GB-190108212-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Covers for Hand Holes
Filed: 1901-04-22
Granted: 1902-04-10
Abstract: 8212. Rottenburg, L., and Paterson, Cooper, & Co. April 22.. Handhole doors.-Handholes in cylindrical vessels or casings, especially the casings of electric generators and motors, are closed by a broad band of metal c, which is tightened round the casing by screws, bolts, eccentrics, or toggle-levers, but preferably by the toggle links e and levers/shown in Fig. 2, which illustrates the invention as applied to the casing surrounding the brushes or commutator of a dynamo.
Patent GB-190112429-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Plating or Tinning Machines.
Inventor: HADDAN HERBERT JOHN
Filed: 1901-06-18
Granted: 1902-01-09
Abstract: 12,429. Haddan, H. J., [American Tin Plate Co.]. June 18. Tinning and coating by dipping. -Relates to automatic means for removing plates from the tinning-pot and delivering them on to a carrying- off table. In the form shown in Figs. 2 and 3, the plates, as they emerge from the pot M, are attracted by sets of electromagnets 32, and carried round and delivered on to the guides S. The magnets are carried on cross-bars 9, 10 pivotally mounted on the discs 1, 2, 3 so that there is a certain amount of play. The circuits of the magnets are made and broken at the desired moments by brushes rubbing on two stationary commutator discs 13, 14. Between the sets of electromagnets are fitted cross-bars 11, 2.
Patent GB-190120455-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and connected with Electrical Signalling Apparatus for Railways.
Inventor: ELS RICHARD
Filed: 1901-10-12
Granted: 1902-02-20
Abstract: 20,455. Els, R. Oct. 12. Signals on engines &c. ; stopping engines &c. ; signalling to cabins &c. ; contacts, electric.-A conducting-wite d is arranged close to the rails, and is connected at intervals to like poles of two or more batteries a, the other like poles of which are connected to earth. Two other conducting-wires d<2>, d', divided into sections arranged to break joint with each other, are mounted on either side of the wire d, in position to be engaged by the contact-shoes h, h', Fig. 2, carried by a bracket r on the locomotive. The ends of the sections of the wires d', d<1> are connected, as shown in Fig. 1, to alarm bells n, n<1>, o, o<1>, &c. in the workmen's houses I, II, &c., and the shoes h, h', which are insulated from each other and held in operative position by springs f, are connected separately to an alarm and brakeapplying device of any suitable construction on the locomotive, the return circuit being through the wheels and rails to earth. The operation is as follows :-Assuming that a train has reached a point x, and is to be signalled and stopped from a point y, the watchman at the latter point connects the wires d<2>, d<1> to the wire d by means of a key s, so completing the circuits of the bells n<1>, o, o<1>, and of the three corresponding bells p, p<1>, &c. on the other side of the point y. At the same time, the circuits a, d, S, d', h, and a, d, S, d<1>, h<1> of the alarm and brake-applying mechanism on the locomotive, are also completed. The key S may consist, as shown in Fig. 2, of a blade s grooved to bear on the wire d, and provided with a spring- supported plate t adapted to make contact with the wires d<1>, d<2>.
Patent GB-190122666-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Means for Aerating Liquids.
Inventor: GWYNNE JOHN
Filed: 1901-11-09
Granted: 1902-09-25
Abstract: 22,666. Gwynne, J., and Sargeant, E. W. Nov. 9. AÙrating liquids.-The aÙration of liquids, e.g., chemical solutions into which it is necessary to introduce air in order to bring about required reactions, is effected by means of a centrifugal pump 1, Fig. 1, which withdraws the liquid from the bottom of the containing-vessel 2 and re-introduces it, mixed with air, through a perforated pipe 4. This admixture is effected in the withdrawal pipe 5, which is contracted into a nozzle at 6, Fig. 3, which is surrounded by a combining-nozzle 7, the space 8 between the nozzles communicating with an air chamber 9, the inlet to which is controlled by a cock 10.
Patent GB-190126139-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Arc Lamps and Electrodes therefor.
Filed: 1902-01-20
Granted: 1902-02-27
Abstract: 26,139. British Thomson-Houston Co., [Dean, W. T.]. Jan. 20, A.D. 1902. Arc lamps. - Tubular carbons are used containing rods of magnesia, zirconia, or other refractory material. The lower carbon B and its core may be fixed, and the upper carbon movable by ordinary clutch mechanism D. The upper oxide rod is loose, but is provided with a cap c to rest upon the upper car bon. When an arc is struck between the carbons, the ends of the oxide rods become hot and conductive, and the arc passes between them, the upper one being raised by the continued ascent of the clutch and upper carbon, on which the cap c then rests.
Patent GB-190126690-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Electric Arc Lamps.
Filed: 1901-12-31
Granted: 1902-02-06
Abstract: 26,690. British Thomson - Houston Co., [Thomson, E.]. Dec. 31. Arc lamps.-An electromagnetic lamp, for use with continuous current at constant pressure, is provided with three coils F, F, I in series with the arc. Two coils F magnetize a stationary laminated iron core E, not to saturation ; this core has only a small air gap, at e<2>. The third coil I is also stationary, and has a large opening to receive the middle of a U-shaped laminated iron core H, which is carried by a light frame K, fulcrumed at one side of the coil I, and held up at the other side by an adjustable helical spring. The ends of the movable core H are situated near bevelled corners e<3> of the fixed core E, so that magnetic attraction between them remains nearly unaltered in any positions of the movable core. The movable frame K is linked to a clutch N, in engagement with the upper carbon D. The arc may be enclosed. The lower part t of the fixed core E, between the bevelled corners e<3>, is surrounded by a thick highly - conductive band or coil G. By these arrangements a stable arc may be obtained without use of a large series resistance. Any variation in current in retarded by self-induction in the coils F, I, while the current then induced in the conducting-band G causes the production of poles at the bevelled corners e<3> of the fixed core E, accelerating the movement of the other core H due to the variation in magnetomotive-force of the coil I.