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Patent GB-190011392-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Machine Tools for Working Metals.
Inventor: BATEMAN RICHARD WILKINSON
Filed: 1900-06-23
Granted: 1901-02-23
Abstract: 11,392. Bateman, R. W., and Bateman, L. H. June 23. Planing; shaping; slotting; gearing, driving.- Spring buffers or cushioning devices are applied to planing, shaping, slotting, or other metal-cutting machines to take up the shock due to reversal of the tool or work. In the form shown in Fig. 3, the rack 3 of a planing - machine can slide in guides 2, and has a crosshead 5 with buffer rods 6, which pass through lugs 7 on the underside of the table. Springs 9 on the rods yield when the table is reversed, allowing the rack to move relatively to the table. For heavy planers the number of buffers may be increased, and for quick-moving planers two separate racks may be used, having a cushioning-arrangement for each end of the stroke. In a modification, a wheel 10, Fig. 6, loosely mounted on the shaft 12, drives an adjacent wheel gearing with the rack by means of a segmental recess 13, in which engages a lug on the adjacent wheel. A spiral spring 14 in the recess yields when the gearing is reversed. Air cushions may be used instead of springs. In large rack - driven shaping and slotting machines, the buffers are applied in a similar manner to either of those shown.
Patent GB-190016780-A (GB)
Title: An Improved High Pressure Accumulator for Incandescent Gas Lighting.
Inventor: HOWELL HENRY
Filed: 1900-09-20
Granted: 1901-08-31
Abstract: 16,780. Howell, H. Sept. 20. Lamps, actinic.-The pressure of the gas supply to incandescent burners for photographic or other purposes is increased to about 9 inches by the apparatus shown in Fig. 1. Gas supplied at ordinary pressure by the tube Y has its pressure increased by a foot-pump or its equivalent S, and is then forced by a pipe E, E<1> into the annular chamber formed between the concentric water chambers A, B, which communicate with each other at D. In the event of the pressure becoming excessive, the level X' of the water in the chamber A rises and actuates the float F<1> of the valve F, the gas then escaping by the pipe G to the lowpressure side of the pump S, and the speed of the motor, when a motor is employed, may be controlled by a lever actuated by the movement of float F<1>. The pressure at the burner N is rendered independent of the fluctuations in the pressure in the chamber B and the pump S by a regulator L arranged in the supply pipe M.
Patent GB-190100097-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Valves
Inventor: BECK WILLIAM HENRY
Filed: 1901-01-01
Granted: 1901-12-14
Abstract: 97. Beck, W. H., [Sloss, A. M.]. Jan. 1. Mixing-valves.-A tap specially suitable for making and dispensing aerated beverages is shown in Fig. 2. A tube 6, connected to a supply of carbonated water or gas, has an inner tube 9 for the mineral water, and its outlet 10, Fig. 4, has a ring of apertures 13. The valve 18 has a facing 25 which is ribbed to fit on to the outlet of the tube 9, and by raising the valve from its seat, the fluids emerge into the mixing-chamber 16. By varying the number of the apertures, the mixture can be varied as desired.
Patent GB-190108638-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Bosh Plates for Blast Furnaces.
Inventor: KENNEDY JULIAN
Filed: 1901-04-26
Granted: 1901-06-01
Abstract: 8638. Kennedy, J. April 26. B l a s t furnaces.- Bosh-plates, employed for cooling purposes, may be provided with flanges 2, and hollow bosses 11, for receiving bolts 10, having hooked ends 12, which engage with the upper parts of the circumferential strengthening-bands 3. The plates may be withdrawn, when required, by means of hooks passed through apertures 16 formed in vertical ribs 17 on the bosh-plates. The sections of the bands 3 are secured together by means of plates 14, 15, sufficiently narrow to allow the hooked ends 12 to rest against the bands. In another form, lugs are employed in place of the bosses 11, and are bolted to the usual strengthening-bands, and, in a modification of this form, spacing-plates are inserted between the boshplates.
Patent GB-190109443-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Railroad Car Axle and like Bearings.
Inventor: MAGEE GEORGE WILLIAM
Filed: 1901-05-07
Granted: 1901-08-17
Abstract: 9443. Magee, G. W. May 7. Axle-boxes and other axle bearings.-Figs. 1 and 2 show the application of the invention to a car axle. The journal is preferably formed without a collar at the end. The brass D, which may be lined with lead or have recesses containing a tin alloy, is strengthened by ribs at the ends and the sides and by a cross-bar D', and at about the centre has a raised circular platform D' adapted to receive a cap E having a rim E<1>. A vulcanized rubber or other block H is placed between the cap and the brass, and is kept in place by a disc G which slightly overhangs the platform. By this arrangement, the cap and disc G are allowed a small amount of motion relative to the brass. The bearing is enclosed within a box B, which may contain the usual lubricating-devices, and dustexcluding devices C are also provided. The cap E may be formed integral with the box. The bearing is also shown as fitted to an ordinary axle with an end collar, the bar D<3> being dispensed with, and in another form the platform is formed of a rectangular shape.
Patent GB-190113675-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Fuel and the Manufacture thereof.
Inventor: GREENWOOD JOHN
Filed: 1901-07-05
Granted: 1901-08-17
Abstract: 13,675. Greenwood, J., and Greenwood, J. July 5. Fuel.-An artificial fuel, which may be used for heating irons for ironing linen &c., may be made from a mixture of charcoal, coke or ashes, and anthracite, with clay, cement, or sodium nitrate, and lime, clay, or cement; or the fuel may be made from a mixture of charcoal with brick clay, coke or ashes, or lime and coke or ashes.
Patent GB-190115737-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Abdominal Belts and Corsets.
Inventor: WOOD VINCENT FAVA
Filed: 1901-08-03
Granted: 1901-09-28
Abstract: 15,737. Wood, V. F., [trading as Wood, V.]. Aug. 3. Belts corsets; stocking suspenders.-Relates to abdominal belts and corsets, and consists in providing them, as shown in Figs. 1 and 3, with means for adjusting them to the figure of the wearer. The means consist of a pair of straps c on each side which are buckled together. The straps may also be adjusted in length by providing pushbuttons at the rear of tlfe corset, and providing the straps with means for engaging the buttons. The belts and corsets are preferably made with elastic insets b. Stocking suspenders f, f are attached to the garments by the triangular-shaped pieces of material f<1> or by hooks and eyes, or the like.
Patent GB-190116130-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Baths and Means for Producing Waves and Executing Gymnastic Exercises therein
Inventor: GOSSMANN HEINRICH
Filed: 1901-08-10
Granted: 1901-09-21
Abstract: 16,130. Gossmann, H. Aug. 10. Exercising-apparatus combined with baths. The bather sits upon a small wheeled carriage b, and pulls against springs s to cause the carriage to run backwards and forwards and thus produce waves. The carriage may run on rollers arranged on the bottom of the bath ; or it may be replaced by a swing. The springs may be attached to handlevers.
Patent GB-190117586-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Illuminated Clocks.
Inventor: BAILEY WILLIAM HENRY
Filed: 1901-09-03
Granted: 1902-08-28
Abstract: 17,586. Bailey, Sir W. H. Sept. 3. Illuminated clocks dials.-The dial takes the form of an ornamental ring b upon a rectangularly-flanged disc a, which is preferably a reflector, and the hour divisions are shown by glasses in the ring bearing numerals or letters which may constitute an advertisement. Behind each glass is fitted an electric lamp, and the switches of these lights may be controlled from the clock movement so as to turn the lights on and off intermittently. Coloured lamps may be employed behind each window, so that different colours may be shown in succession.
Patent GB-190118560-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Means for Exterminating Moths and Process for the Production of such Means
Inventor: KORNFELD ADOLF
Filed: 1901-09-17
Granted: 1901-10-19
Abstract: 18,560. Kornfeld, A., and Zirner, J. H. Sept. 17. Preservative compositions.-Relates to a composition for exterminating moths, and protecting articles of clothing or the like from their attacks. The composition is prepared with a base of sawdust, infusorial earth, sponge, or the like, so that the composition does not come into direct contact with the article to be protected. The composition contains sawdust, ammonium carbonate, oil of lavender, acetic acid, spirits of wine, camphor, and oil of turpentine.
Patent GB-190118859-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Exhaust Silencer for Explosion Engines
Inventor: PRESTWICH JOSEPH
Filed: 1901-09-21
Granted: 1902-08-21
Abstract: 18,859. Prestwich, J., and Drury, W. Sept. 21. Exhaust-silencers. -In a cylinder a with closed ends are secured a suitable number of smaller tubes c, d, e, also with closed ends but somewhat shorter than the cylinder a. These tubes are shaped so as to fit the cylinder a and to fit together at the centre. The exhaust is admitted to one of these tubes by a branch q, and then is caused to take a circuitous path through the other tubes, suitablydisposed holes being made, and is finally discharged to the outlet x through the spaces between the tubes and the outer cylinder.
Patent GB-190122563-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Frames for Motor Cycles and other Vehicles.
Inventor: SPOONER ARTHUR FREEMORE
Filed: 1901-11-08
Granted: 1902-10-23
Abstract: 22,563. Spooner, A. F., [Werner, M., and Werner, E.]. Nov. 8. Motor cycles.-Relates to the frames of motor cycles and other vehicles. In place of the usual crank bracket, an opening is left in the frame in which the motor casing e is bolted, and the pedal crank p is supported a short distance behind in a bracket in the back fork or chain stay c. The motor is secured by means of lugs g, h, the bottom tube a being forked to embrace the front lug.
Patent GB-190125613-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Electrical Measuring Instruments.
Inventor: SCHNEIDER FRIEDRICH WILHELM
Filed: 1901-12-14
Granted: 1903-01-14
Abstract: 25,613. Schneider, F. W., and Collin, A. Strauss-. Dec. 14. Switches.-A time-switch, which may be used in connection with coin-freeing mechanism, includes main and auxiliary switches, connected in series in a supply conductor. The main switch 19, Fig. 3, can be turned at any time by a handle on its shaft 1 ; the auxiliary switch 23 is simultaneously closed, in opposition to a spring, by contact of the first switch. If a coin has been inserted in the apparatus, the auxiliary switch is then held closed by a catch 26, until this is removed by the action of a clock ; the clock goes at a definite rate whenever the main switch 19 is closed. The insertion of a coin thus allows the circuit to be closed for a definite total time. The clock, Fig. 2, consists of a spring having its outer end 11 stationary, and its inner end attached to a ratchet-wheel 10, which engages a pawl on an adjacent gear-wheel and thus drives gearing 34 and an escapement and balance wheel 16, Fig. 3, so that a shaft 33, Fig. 2, makes one turn during the time allowed on payment of one coin. The spring is wound up to some extent every time the main-switch shaft 1 is turned, by a pawl 6 on this shaft engaging a tooth 7 carried by the ratchet-wheel 10, as shown in Fig. 2, until a stop 30 bears on the tail of the pawl and disengages it. If the spring is not wound up, a projection 9 on the ratchet-wheel raises an arm 31 of a shaft 32 which carries the catch 26, Fig. 3, and thus releases the auxiliary switch 23 ; this switch is closed again when the main switch is turned to wind up the spring. The clock is stopped by a pin on the balance-wheel 16 being engaged by a part 22 of an arm 20, when this arm is pressed down in opposition to a spring, either by a cam 4 on the shaft 1 when the main switch is open, or by the auxiliary switch 23 when this is open. When coin-freeing mechanism is used, the coin presses back a detent, so that this drops an arm of the shaft 32, carrying the catch 26, which can then engage the auxiliary switch 23 when this is closed. The detent rests on a cam on the clock shaft 33, and is raised to lift the catch 26, and open the auxiliary switch, at the expiration of the time allowed.
Patent GB-190125624-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or connected with the Ejectors or Stamps of Biscuit Cutting Machines.
Inventor: VICARS JOHN
Filed: 1901-12-16
Granted: 1902-10-30
Abstract: 25,624. Vicars, J., Vicars, T., and Vicars, J. Dec. 16. Biscuits.-Relates to means for adjusting and securing the ejectors or stamps of biscuit-cutting machines. In the means shown in Fig. 1, rods 5 are attached to the ejectors 4 of the cutters 3, and pass freely through the cutter-plate 2, back-plate 6, and brackets 7, secured to the back-plate by bolts and nuts 8, and adjusting-nuts 9, and, if desired, lock-nuts 11 are threaded on the rods between the parts 6, 7 and above the parts 7 respectively. The brackets 7 may have open slotted ends, so that they can be rotated for ready removal of the nuts 9. In a modification, collars surround the ejector rods and pass freely through the brackets, and the nuts bear against the ends of the collars, which are somewhat thicker than the brackets, allowing a slight end play of the rods. In another modification, the adjusting-nuts are made longer, so that parts pass through the brackets in place of the collars, and similar parts pass through the back-plate. In other means, headed bolts or screws pass through the brackets into the backplate, and the brackets thus serve to lock the nuts, or the brackets are pressed on the tops of the rods by means of bolts and nuts engaging the brackets and back-plate. In the means shown in Fig. 7, the brackets 7 have screwed ends or bars 14 receiving the adjusting-nuts 9, which are grooved to engage jaws or projections 16 on the rods 5, and, in a modification, the grooved nuts are threaded on the rods, and the brackets have the corresponding projections. In other means, headed screws pass freely through the cutter-plate and press directly on the ejectors, or, as in the modification shown in Fig. 12, the screws 8 press directly on projections 16 of the rods 5, these projections preferably having slots or jaws engaging grooves in the screws. Where the cutters are very small, one bracket may serve for several cutters. In another arrangement, one end of each bracket is connected with an ejector rod of one cutter, and the other end with the ejector rod of an adjacent cutter.
Patent GB-190201228-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Gun Sighting Apparatus
Inventor: COMMON ANDREW AINSLIE
Filed: 1902-01-16
Granted: 1903-01-15
Abstract: 1228. Common, A. A. Jan. 16. Sights, telescope. The fiducial mark d, Fig. 1, is placed between the object glass b and the concave eye lens c. To enable the fiducial mark to be seen through the eye-piece, the lower half of the lens c is provided with a convex lens e, which is carried upon it, as shown, or is made integral therewith, as shown in Fig. 2. In the latter case, the lower lens may be one-half, or only one-third, of a lens. A screen g may be arranged to cover the lower half of the eye-piece except at the centre. In modifications, the lens e is placed (1), Fig. 3, in the centre of the eye lens c ; (2), Fig. 4, in the centre of, but inside, the lens c ; and (3), Fig. 5, in a holder f between the mark d and the eye lens. A binocular form of telescope is preferably employed, but the mark and extra lens are only provided in one of the telescopes. The distance between the telescopes is adjusted by the device shown in Fig. 12.
Patent GB-190204290-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Drainage System
Inventor: MARTINI CLARA HEDWIG
Filed: 1902-02-19
Granted: 1903-01-22
Abstract: 4290. Martini, C. H. Feb. 19. Systems.-Relates to apparatus for the automatic and intermittent flushing of drains. The waste and soil pipes from the various parts of a building discharge into vessels S, S' communicating with the drain pipe A. This pipe is fitted at its ends with vessels L and L' communicating by pipes F and F'. The vessel L' also contains a float h attached to the rod of a double-faced valve k, which normatly closes the outlet end of the pipe A. As the sewage collects in the various vessels, the air from the vessels L and L' is forced into the sewer through a pipe r fitted with a non-return valve r<1>. This goes on until the valve k is floated from its lower seat and the collected sewage is discharged, the heavier matter from the pipe A first, followed by the liquid from the vessels L and L<1> upon the entry of air. The apparatus for discharging the various collecting-vessels in succession may be variously modified. Fig. 2 shows a modification in which the closets &c. discharge directly into the pipe A. The float h works in an inner vessel L' open at the bottom and fitted with a valve r<2> for the escape of air. The outer vessel S communicates, as usual, with the sewer by the pipe r. When a flush takes place, the pipe A first discharges, then the vessel S, and, finally, the vessel L'. A number of collecting-vessels open at the bottom may be suspended from pivoted arms, from which also the float h is suspended. In other cases, one of the vessels L may be connected to the valve k by a-string passing over pulleys ; or one vessel may be of annular form connected to the other by flexible pipes.
Patent GB-190208496-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in the Treads or Surfaces of Steps and the like in Order to Prevent Slipping
Inventor: COOKSEY ARTHUR WILLIAM
Filed: 1902-04-11
Granted: 1902-06-25
Abstract: 8496. Cooksey, A. W. April 11. Treads.-Relates to treads for use on steps, landings, paving, &c., to prevent slipping. Strips of teak or other wood b are moulded with artificial stone steps &c., the end grain being exposed. The undercut grooves may be made after the step &c. is moulded, and the teak strip may be of dovetail or rectangular section and may be expanded in the undercut grooves by a wedge c, Fig. 3, or they may be introduced endways.
Patent GB-190209778-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Stoves
Inventor: CAHOONE EDWIN RUTHVEN
Filed: 1902-04-28
Granted: 1903-02-19
Abstract: 9778. Cahoone, E. R. April 28. Air-heating arrangements; air supply; grates; water-heating stoves.-A close stove, in which the combustion proceeds from above downwards, is formed of a casing 2, within which is the fuel space 3, 4, the fuel being charged through a door 40. The lower part of the stove consists of an annular air-heating tube 8, having several series of openings, such as 9, in one of which are removable hanging bars 7 of the shape shown and forming the sides of the grate above the bottom bars. Higher up, the grate is formed of a wall having tapering air passages 6 formed therein, and higher still of an inclined wall having air passages or depressions 26 covered on their inner side to prevent fuel passing into them. A projecting flange 23 collects cold air, which passes through openings to air chambers 33. A second similar series of chambers receives air through openings 35. From these chambers a considerable proportion of the air passes down side tubes 36 to the air-heating tube 8, from which it escapes through the perforations mentioned above to the fuel. The remainder of the air in the chambers 33 passes directly to the fuel chamber through flexible tubes 30, built up of perforated sections. Some of this air may be able to pass directly downwards through the fuel, but some will pass through the covered air pockets or passages 26 and grooves 6, gradually meeting with and burning the fuel. Additional air may enter through the tubes 15, or these tubes may be covered with mica and act simply as sight-holes. A further supply of air enters at the hottest part of the stove through air introducers 45, each consisting of a double casing to which air is admitted through peripheral notches 46, and after passing through the heated passage 47, enters the fuel chamber through other notches and a perforated plate 48. The hot products of combustion pass upwards through a space 70 between the casing and the fuel chamber, heating on its way the air passing through the air tube 8, water in an annular heater 4<a>, and the air passing down the air tubes 36 and the air passages 26. The gases leave by a flue 44, but can, if desired, be first led round the outside of the stove by means of a flue 44<b> and then back to the flue 44. A damper 43 opens communication between the fuel chamber and the flue 44, when the fuel door 40 is opened to admit fuel. This is done by connecting the door to the damper by a chain 40<a>. The fuel door is itself opened when the door 42 is swung horizontally, the latter engaging a lug projecting from the fuel door. The whole stove may be enclosed within an outer casing or drum, as indicated in dotted lines.
Patent GB-190209821-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Casement Stays or Fastenings
Inventor: HOW EDWARD JOHN
Filed: 1902-04-29
Granted: 1902-06-12
Abstract: 9821. How, E. J., and King, H., [trading as Hill & Co., J.]. April 29. Stays; hinges.-The stay S, which is provided with holes H for engaging a peg P fixed to a window frame, is pivoted by a pin D to a bracket B secured to a casement. The pivot hole E is larger in diameter than the pin D, so as to allow the stay to be raised out of engagement with the peg. A nib or projection N on the stay extends partly across the underside of the hole E, and serves to prevent the stay from dropping below a horizontal position, and also ensures a rigid joint when the stay is in the engaged position.