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Patent GB-190311392-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Perforating Machines.
Inventor: DAVIS GEORGE HOWLETT
Filed: 1903-05-19
Granted: 1904-05-19
Abstract: 11,392. Davis, G. H. May 19. Automatic instruments.-Relates to machines for perforating the tune-sheets of automatic musical instruments. Several blank sheets 5 are drawn from rollers mounted on the bars 6<a>, 6<b>, Fig. 1, and are pressed firmly together while being punched by punches mounted in the cross-bar 4, which is reciprocated vertically by an eccentric 2<a> on the mainshaft 2. Sheets of different width are kept in a central position by flanged bars 100, Fig. 9, adjusted by right and left handed nuts 102 engaging with screw threads on the spindles 103, which are turned simultaneonsly by bevel gearing connected with the spindle 104. The blank sheets are drawn forwards by chains 39, 40 running over sprocket-wheels actuated step by step by pawl- and-ratchet mechanism driven by a cam on the mainshaft. The chains 39, 40 carry bars 48, 49, and the sheets are gripped between the bars 48 and fixed or movable rollers 50 on the bars 49. The bars carry antifriction rollers running along the guide-rails 52. The stencil sheet 15, or other punch-selecting medium, is carried by the spindle 13 removably mounted on the frame 10 pivoted at 10<1> to the frame of the machine. The spindle 13 may be rotated directly by hand by the crank handle 75 and spur gearing. From the spindle 13, the stencil passes between the contact-fingers 17, 77 and the.rotatable contact-bar 16, which is kept clean by a roller 25. The stencil then passes around the loose roller 28, the rod 33, and the roller 38 until it is gripped between the bar 48 and roller 50. The stencil openings are arranged to come exactly over the punched openings in the sheets 5. Any want of coincidence in these openings is thus readily seen and remedied. As the stencil openings come opposite the fingers 17, an electric current passes between the fingers and the bar 16 and controls the electromagnets 20, which in turn control the punches in any suitable manner, such as that described in Specification No. 17,453, A.D. 1900. The frame 10 can be thrown to the right, to disconnect the bar 16, by pushing down the rod 69 so as to liberate the catches 66. This is done automatically, when the end of the stencil is reached, by means of an electromagnet 72 in connection with the finger 77. The stencil is fed past the fingers, when the punches are rising, by a rod 33 carried by links 34 pivoted at 35 and actuated by the eccentric 37, Fig. 1. As this rod moves to the left, the stencil is fed. The rod then moves back, and the slack is taken up by the forward movement of the bar 48 and roller 50, which takes place during part of the downward movement of the punches.
Patent GB-190312526-A (GB)
Title: Improved Manufacture of Electric Cables.
Inventor: DIESELHORST WILLIAM
Filed: 1903-06-02
Granted: 1904-03-24
Abstract: 12,526. Dieselhorst, W., and Martin, A. W. June 2. Cables.-Telegraph and telephone cables are made as described in Specification No. 3281, A.D. 1882, by twisting together two similar parts to form a pair, then twisting two such pairs to form a larger strand, and so on, two similar elements being twisted together at each stage. To avoid excessive inductive interference between the separate circuits, and in order that the method of superimposing, that is using one circuit as a part of one or more other circuits, may be applicable, the length of lay is decreased or increased at each successive twisting. Parallelism of wires of two elements of a pair is by this means avoided. Fig. 3 shows two elements e,f, each consisting of two smaller elements laid at an angle x, twisted together at an angle y, which is different from the angle x. The parts g, h of the smaller elements of the elements e, fare then not parallel, but at an angle z. The wires, elements, &c. may otherwise be wound one on the other in any manner, and the complete ropes may be used as separate cables, or as cores from which larger cables may be made by twisting, stranding, or otherwise. Specification No. 688, A.D. 1901, is referred to.
Patent GB-190313213-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Coupling Apparatus for Railway Vehicles.
Inventor: JONES WILLIAM RICHARD SUMTION
Filed: 1903-06-12
Granted: 1904-05-26
Abstract: 13,213. Jones, W. R. S. June 12. Couplings, non-automatic.-In a central coupling, consisting of three links a, b, c, of which a is pivoted to the hook d of one vehicle, and c is adapted to take over the hook d' of the other vehicle, the central link b is so formed and arranged that it can be turned from. the horizontal position shown in Fig. 3 to the vertical position shown in Fig. 4, thus tightening up the coupling. The link b is made to turn from one position to the other by a pole, or by other means not requiring the shunter to pass between the buffers. The link b is preferably triangular and connected to the link c by an eye f. For operating it without a pole, two flexible connections m are connected to eyes k fixed to the two sides of the link c, are passed through roller guides n fixed to the link a, and are then connected to a drum o on a transverse shaft p provided with a handle r at each end. Another flexible connection t, also connected to the drum o, is connected to an eye s on the link b and passed through a guiding-eye g<3> on the link b. On winding up the connections m with the links hanging slack as shown in Fig. 3, the links a, c are drawn together, and the link b caused to fall into the tight position shown in Fig. 4. On winding up the connection t and unwinding the connections m, the links are restored to the slack position. With the links in the tight position, there may still be a little slack, or the links may be so proportioned that the buffers have to be slightly compressed to allow the link b to fall into the vertical position. To prevent the link b from being accidentally jerked from the tight to the the slack position, it may be fitted with a weight catch g, which falls into a position to intercept the link a, as shown in Fig. 4. The connection t is passed through the lower end of the catch g so as to move it out of the way of the link a when the connection t is tightened.
Patent GB-190313417-A (GB)
Title: Improvements by which Ordinary Pianofortes may be used for Special Technical Purposes
Inventor: LOTT FRANK
Filed: 1903-06-16
Granted: 1904-05-05
Abstract: 13,417. Lott, F. June 16. Pianofortes; exercising-apparatus.-An ordinary pianoforte is adapted for practising play by the silencing, clicking, and touch-adjusting means shown. The celeste rail 2 is placed between the strings and the hammers 12 by pulling forward the sliding rod 8, which acts on the pivoted lever 5 bearing against the bracket 7 of the celeste rail. The butts 13 of the hammers at the same time are moved out of the path of the hoppers 14. Down-clicks are produced by projections on the undersides of the keys 16 coming into contact with the bar 15, which by a parallel motion controlled by a turn-pin and links can be brought into or out of line with the projections 17. Up-clicks are produced by the hooks or projections 34 on the keys engaging with the rail 26, when that rail is brought into position by a pivoted elbow-lever with an engaging wedgeshaped limb. To regulate the touch, the canting- bar 35, provided with springs or levers 37, one for each key, is brought into position for the spring levers to engage with the projections 49 on the keys, by means of the sliding L-shaped bar 39 below the spring levers, and by an adjustable sliding bar which, through inclined plates, raises the bar 39. Rack-and-pinion gearing enables the bar 39 to be displaced to vary the fulcra about which the spring-levers work and so vary the weight of the touch. The claims are confined to the upclicks, and the means for varying the resistance or touch of the keys. According to the Provisional Specification, the clicking-devices are attached to the hammer butts and to the backs of the keys to make contacts with resonant rails when these are in position, and the celeste rail is brought into action by a movement of the ordinary soft pedal or by a "stop" action. Reference is made to Specification No. 16,066, A.D. 1903.
Patent GB-190314423-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Motor Cycle and the like.
Inventor: PILKINGTON GEORGE
Filed: 1903-06-29
Granted: 1904-06-29
Abstract: 14,423. Pilkington, G. June 29. Motor cycles; fromes; steering-mechanism.-Relates more particularly to three - wheeled motor cycles having two wheels in front, and consists of means for the attachment of the motor, comprising also improvements in the frame and in the steering. The motor is carried on the cross-members B, B<1> of the frame, and secured by nuts and vertical bolts H passing through slots in the members, so that the engine can be mounted in place or removed by a vertical movement. The frame is rectangular in plan with a triangular rear part. The steering-wheels are secured to the ends a' of the base tubes, and the steering-column C is carried down to the base and preferably supported by struts c<1>, c<2>. Struts E for the saddle tube are preferably provided. Transverse supporting-members similar to B, B<1> are provided in the case of a bicycle. According to the Provisional Specification, washers on the bolts H engage recesses or projections around the ends of the slots to prevent shifting of the bolts.
Patent GB-190316705-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Rotary Engines or Motors.
Inventor: FORTUNESCO NICOLAS JEAN
Filed: 1903-07-30
Granted: 1904-07-14
Abstract: 16,705. Fortunesco, N. J., Georges, A., and Georges, J. July 30. Crescent - shaped chamber type.-The radiallysliding vanes 1 in the eccentrically-mounted piston 39 move on planes inclined at an angle a to the plane through the centre of the piston and have projecting blocks 2, which work in grooves in the end covers 45, which are concentric with the cylinder. Wear is taken up between the vane and cylinder and between the piston and the abutment 12 by wedges worked by longitudinal screws 6. Plates in the piston recesses are pressed against the longitudinal faces of the vanes by springs 11, and the ends and outer edges of the vanes are kept tight by spring-pressed plates. There is an admission port 32 and exhaust port 33, which may be interchanged by a four-way valve for reversing. The space 34 serves as a steam jacket for steam, and a water jacket for explosion engines. Compressed or liquefied air or liquid may be used to drive the engine. The invention is applicable to multiple-expansion steam engines, and the reversing- valve may be worked by a cam to vary the cut-off.
Patent GB-190319681-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in & connected with Combined Smokers' Ash Receptacles and Paper Weights
Inventor: ROBSON PHILIP APPLEBY
Filed: 1903-09-12
Granted: 1904-03-24
Abstract: 19,681. Robson, P. A. Feb. 9, [date applied for under Patents Act, A.D. 1901]. Paper-weights.-Ashtrays which may be used as paper-weights are combined with pipe-cleaners and cigarette or cigar rests. The base A of the device, formed with a hollow or well B, is made of any heavy material, such as metal or glass &c., and may be of any desired shape, preferably converging upwards. The inner edge C is slightly rounded or bevelled. A spike or tapered spindle E rises from the centre of the well B, with its upper portion in the form of a pyramid, the edges of which serve for the scraping out of pipe bowls. Cigarette or cigar rests F may be formed on the top or sides of the well, and the under surface of the base may be covered with leather or cloth.
Patent GB-190323935-A (GB)
Title: Improved Box for Holding Musical Instrument Strings and Resin.
Inventor: COOPER VINCENT JOHN
Filed: 1903-11-04
Granted: 1904-06-09
Abstract: 23,935. Cooper, V. J., and Dailey, A. Nov. 4. Violins and like bowed instruments. -In a box, Fig. 2, f o r holding resin separate from a supply of strings, the strings are wound around a hollow annular portion open at its underside. The opening is closed by a disc cover F carrying the resin E, which fits into it, being held securely in position by the friction of the rubber projections H on the lips G of the resin holder. A flexible handle J, Fig. 1, preferably of soft leather, is attached to the disc cover F.
Patent GB-190325393-A (GB)
Title: A Process of Manufacturing Artificial Stone suitable for Pavements, Building Above and Below Ground and for Hydraulic purposes.
Inventor: NIESSEN JOHANN JOSEPH
Filed: 1903-11-21
Granted: 1904-01-14
Abstract: 25,393. Niessen, J. J. Nov. 21. Stone, artificial.-Aluminium hydrates such as bauxite and corundum are sintered or melted, reduced to small pieces, and mixed with binding- material, such as clay, cement, asphalt, &c. The materials are then made into suitable forms and, after burning, are used for pavements, buildings above and below ground, and for hydraulic purposes.
Patent GB-190404586-A (GB)
Title: Improvements connected with Side Lay Mechanism of Printing, Ruling, Folding and like Machines.
Inventor: VICKERY FREDERICK WILLIAM
Filed: 1904-02-24
Granted: 1905-01-12
Abstract: 4586. Vickery, F. W. Feb. 24. Feeding sheets.-Relates to side-lay mechanism for printing, ruling, folding, and like machines. A slide B mounted in the feed board C carries a spring-pressed rod A on which is loosely mounted a gripping-device D. The rod A can be raised, against the action of its spring, by a cam-shaped projection E, which is acted on by a wiper G pivoted to the slide B. The wiper G is actuated by two pins H, K carried by a plate L which is adjustably fixed to the feed board. During the return movement of the slide B, the rod A is raised by the action of the pin H. As the slide moves towards the sheet, the front edge of the gripper D passes over the edge of the sheet J which is met by projections F which extend down on either side of the slide. The gripper D then stops, but the slide B and rod A continue to the end of their stroke. The wiper G then meets the pin K, the bar A is released, and presses the gripper down on the sheet. During the return movement, the sheet is carried along until the gripper D meets a fixed stop M. At the end of the stroke, the rod A lifts the gripper and releases the sheet. To prevent the edge of the sheet from being broken, the gripper D is adjusted on the rod A by means of a screw P so that the front edge I of the gripper comes slightly into contact with the sheet during the forward movement.
Patent GB-190404616-A (GB)
Title: Improved Detachable Inner Tube for Pneumatic Tyres
Inventor: RICH FRANK
Filed: 1904-02-25
Granted: 1904-11-03
Abstract: 4616. Rich, F. Feb. 25. Tyres, pneumatic. - A detachable air tube is formed with open ends, one or both of which may be tapered as shown. A washer b, secured on the outside of the end d, is passed through the inwardly-turned end c and is adapted to engage behind a washer a, secured on the inside thereof to make an airtight joint. The washers may be formed of india-rubber, "composition," rubber and canvas, or other material not so flexible as the air tube.
Patent GB-190405057-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Flooring Cramps
Inventor: BUNTING ALFRED TANSLEY
Filed: 1904-03-01
Granted: 1904-11-24
Abstract: 5057. Bunting, A. T. March 1. Cramps. - A flooring cramp consists of a camshaped plate A held down on a triangular baseplate E by an eccentrically-placed nut. A pawl D attached to the eccentric works in a ratchet F on the faceplate, and keeps the work cramped. Legs G, which may be plain or notched, hold the cramp on to the joist. The eccentric may also work in a rectangular frame, one of the edges of which bears against the work to be cramped, and the cramp fixed to the joist by a cam-lever and guard-plate.
Patent GB-190410261-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Automatic Coin-freed and other Machines for Indicating Weight, Height and the like
Inventor: JUSTICE PHILIP MIDDLETON
Filed: 1904-05-04
Granted: 1904-07-21
Abstract: 10,261. Justice, P. M., [American Talking Scale Co.]. May 4. Measures of length.-The height measurements and weights of persons are announced by phonograph. The invention is described with reference to a weighing-machine, Fig. 1 being a side view, Figs. 5 and 7 front and sectional plan views to a larger scale, and Fig. 3 a plan of a detail. The reproducer 10, Fig. 5, of a phonograph is connected by a rod 58, Fig. 1, to the draw-bar 56 of the weighing-machine and is drawn radially in front of a disc 5, which bears in concentric readings the phonographic record of a scale of weights ; the disc, usually after prepayment, is caused to make a revolution with the reproducer in action at the radius to which the load has brought it. By pushing down a hand-rod 24, Fig. 1, a lever 21 which is connected to it by a link 22 is made to turn a toothed sector 18 with a pin 20, Fig. 7, on the same shaft 19, and the sector in turn gives rotation to a pinion 15, till a pawl 16 thereon engages a notch in the spindle 11 of the record disc, whereupon a fixed cam 34 on the lever-shaft disengages the lever from the pin 20 on the sector. Usually in consequence of a coin action, a detent 40, Fig. 5, is then withdrawn by a spring 42 from a notch 6 in the record disc, and just previous to the release a stop 66 on a collar 67 on the shaft 41 of the detent leaves a stop 65 on a pawl 64, so letting it fall into engagement with a ratchet-wheel 63, which is attached to a pinion in gear with a rack on the draw-bar 58. The record disc is accordingly turned by the toothed sector, which is pulled by a spring 19<a> while the reproducer is kept in the position due to the load. As the rotation is completed, a pickup 43 again lifts the detent and the pawl 64 from the ratchet-wheel 63. As the sector reaches its normal position, its pin 20 disengages a latch 29 from the hub 27 of the lever 21, thus permitting the hand-rod to rise again. The coin falling down a shoot 50, Fig. 5, strikes a pin 49 on a rotary sleeve 48 on the shaft of the ratchet-wheel, so making it rock away a latch 46 from the notch of a collar 44 on the shaft of the detent. A shutter 53, Fig. 3, pulled under the coin slit 51 by a spring 54, is opened and closed by a rib 24<a> on the hand-rod 24.
Patent GB-190411218-A (GB)
Title: Improved Process for the Manufacture of Floor Covering and the Floor Covering Obtained by said Process.
Inventor: WULF CHRISTIAN
Filed: 1904-05-16
Granted: 1904-06-16
Abstract: 11,218. Wulf, C. May 16. Floor paper.-A floor severing to be glued or pasted to the floor, in place of staining the floor, is made of strips of thin absorbent paper or other suitable material saturated with oil colour and dried by artificial heat or otherwise, and then painted on one side with the same oil colour or with patterns or designs in different colours. The patterns may be produced by printing or otherwise.
Patent GB-190413566-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Apparatus for Reversing Steam and other Engines
Inventor: SAYLOR CHARLES FRANKLIN
Filed: 1904-06-15
Granted: 1904-09-22
Abstract: 13,566. Saylor, C. F. June 16, A.D. 1903, [date applied for under Patents Act, A.D. 1901], Starting-engines; valve gear.-The link motion 1,2 2 of large steam and other engines is worked by a small starting-engine 10 which rocks the lever 3 through toothed gearing 14, 15, 8. The link 12 of the starting-engine is shifted by a lever 18 pivoted at 19 and having a sleeve sliding upon it with pins which engage an inclined slot in a block 24 carried on a bell crank 21, also pivoted at 19 and connected by a rod 30 to an arm 9 of the lever 3. Therefore, whenever the lever 18 is shifted, the resulting movement of the lever 3 always tends to bring the vertical arm of the belt crank parallel with the lever 18, and consequently the sleeve and the link 12 into their central and inactive positions.
Patent GB-190417325-A (GB)
Title: Mechanism for Indicating the Speed of a Motor-car, Motor Cycle or the like and for Recording such Indicated Speed.
Inventor: HARRISON JOHN ARTHUR
Filed: 1904-08-09
Granted: 1905-06-15
Abstract: 17,325. Harrison, J. A. Aug. 9. Speed indicators. -Centrifugal apparatus is used for indicating the speed of motor cars, motor cycles, and like vehicles, the movements of the apparatus be in g transmitted to one or more indicating- hands by means of flexible cords s or other connection. The apparatus is mounted in a casing on the underside of the car body and is driven by a belt or other drive from the intermediate shaft. The centrifugal apparatus consists of masses i mounted on links h, surrounded by springs h' and pivoted between a fixed and a sliding collar on the spindle d. The sliding collar g acts through a ball bearing on the member l, to which the flexible cords are secured. The cords are carried over guide-pulleys and wound round pulleys fixed to the indicating-hands, and controlled by springs. An indicator may be placed at the back of the car for public view. The pencil of a recording-mechanism may be attached at any part of the flexible cord. The apparatus may also actuate an electric bell or other speed-limit alarm.
Patent GB-190420198-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Method of Fastening Furniture to Rim Locks and Latches.
Inventor: LUINEY ALFRED MALLABONE
Filed: 1904-09-20
Granted: 1905-08-10
Abstract: 20,198. Linney, A. M. Sept. 20. Knobs and handles, attaching. -One of the knobs of a lock or latch is secured by means of a slotted plate B, which engages with the flange D and is screwed or otherwise fixed to the lock-plate or door. The other knob is secured on the loose spindle by means of a rose which may be slotted similarly to the plate B or may consist merely of a plate, secured by screws, in which the neck of the knob is rotatably secured.
Patent GB-190424199-A (GB)
Title: Improved Process and Apparatus for Disintegrating Kaolinic Stone and the like and for Separating the Constituents thereof.
Inventor: FRUGLER RENE
Filed: 1904-11-08
Granted: 1905-05-25
Abstract: 24,199. Frugier, R. Nov. 9, A.D. 1903, [date applied for under Patents Act, A.D. 1901]. Washing minerals.-Relates to apparatus for separating kaolin from the various naturallyoccurring impurities, and consists of a fixed cage c supported by an angle-iron d on a flange b in an open cylindrical vat a, thus forming an annular space in which the material to be treated is placed. To the vat a is secured a collector g communicating by a pipe h with a shaft i in which works a bucket elevator k. Water passes from the pipe m down the shaft i into the cage c, where it is set in motion by revolving paddles f, the kaolin washed out by the water passing into the purifier p through the pipe v and thence to settling-tanks. The quartz and mica fall to the bottom of the vessel i and are removed by the elevator. Several types of cages are shown in the Specification in which the perforated portion has the shape of an upright or inverted cone, a flat plate, or a double cylinder. In another modification, the cage rotates and the water is prevented from moving by vertical baffles. The purifier may be dispensed with.
Patent GB-190424791-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or connected with Mouth-organs or Harmonicas.
Inventor: MENDELS JOSEPH HARRIS
Filed: 1904-11-15
Granted: 1905-07-20
Abstract: 24,791. Mendles, J. H., Allan, J. A., and Neilson, H. H. Nov. 15. Mouth organs. - A mouthpiece mounted to slide on the instrument is provided with an opening having rounded edges, and with end guards 11 to prevent it from shifting in the mouth. The lip contact portions 9 of the attachment are formed with bent edges 7 to engage grooves in the plates 5. The edges 12 of the opening are folded over as shown.