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Patent GB-189822591-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Stopping or Closing Devices for Pipes or Conduits.
Inventor: FARRER FREDERICK TEMPLAR
Filed: 1898-10-27
Granted: 1898-12-17
Abstract: 22,591. Farrer, F. T., and Brown, W. W. Oct. 27. Stopping pipes. - Relates to apparatus, more particularly applicable for stopping drain pipes for testing purposes, and consisting of an ex. pansible bag, shown in longitudinal section in Fig. 1. A cylindrical india-rubber bag A is closed at one end and attached at the other to a flanged pipe B. Surrounding the bag is the cylindrical canvas cover C, the diameter of which corresponds with that of the pipe to be stopped. The cover is closed at the ends by radial seams as in a football, one end having a slit, through which the bag can be inserted, and which is then laced up. The stopper having been placed in position in the drain, the pipe B is connected to an air pump and the bag inflated. Fig. 3 shows a modified method of attaching the tube B to the bag A. An intermediate cover, between the bag A and cover C, may be used.
Patent GB-189823988-A (GB)
Title: Improvement in or relating to Coin-controlled Telephones.
Inventor: THOMPSON WILLIAM PHILLIPS
Filed: 1898-11-14
Granted: 1899-01-14
Abstract: 23,988. Thompson, W. P., [Kahrs, C. H.]. Nov. 14. Telephonic a p p a - ratus.-Prepayment through a slot I allows an hour-glass A hanging vertically to be turned till it is in the oblique position shown. One end of a double arm B turning with the hour-glass is now in contact with a terminal G, and the other end is lodged upon a peg F borne by a slide having an actuating-knob E. When the glass has run down it takes the initial vertical position, the arm B slipping from the contact G. If mercury is used in the hour-glass, the circuit may be made thereby and the external contact be dispensed with. The hour-glass may be vertical when in action, if the finger F on the slide is made so that it will both raise and lower. Coin-slit closing-devices.-A coin can only be inserted through the slit when the slide is in the position for determining the closure of the circuit. Thus, in case the user finds he has not been switched on, he may by means of the slide lower the hour-glass into the horizontal position so as to be out of action.
Patent GB-189826564-A (GB)
Title: A New or Improved Button.
Inventor: PLUNKETT JOHN WILLIAM
Filed: 1898-12-15
Granted: 1899-12-15
Abstract: 26,564. Plunkett, H. C., [Executor of Dunsany, J. W. Plunkett, Baron]. Dec. 15. Pill-boxes.-Relates to hollow buttons which form receptacles for pills &c. The button is attached by sewing through the holes 10, Fig. 3, or by means of the shank 7, Fig. 5. The lid 1 may screw on to the body, as shown in Fig. 3, or may be hinged like a watch case, as shown in Fig. 5. The interior may be partitioned to hold tubes of tabloids and pills at the same time.
Patent GB-189901798-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Boots or Shoes for Cricketing, Running, Jumping, and such like purposes.
Inventor: SAGAR JAMES
Filed: 1899-01-26
Granted: 1899-12-02
Abstract: 1798. Sagar, J. Jan. 26. Spikes for cricket and like boots and shoes are made removable. Sockets such as A are secured by flanges in the sole and top-lift, and into them the spikes are screwed by a wrench or key. The flanges are square, and are secured by nails or screws at the corners.
Patent GB-189905549-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Systems of Electrical Distribution.
Filed: 1899-03-14
Granted: 1900-01-20
Abstract: 5549. British Thomson-Houston Co., [Steinmetz, C. P.]. March 14. Drawings to Specification. Motors, controlling.-In systems having circuits of different frequency, the speed of induction motors is controlled by switching on to a circuit of high or of low frequency, or by varying the resistance in the secondary circuits.
Patent GB-189911880-A (GB)
Title: Improved Portable Electrical Drilling Machine.
Inventor: CRONEAU ALPHONSE LOUIS
Filed: 1899-06-07
Granted: 1900-03-17
Abstract: 11,880. Croneau, A. L. June 7. Drilling.-A portable electric drilling-machine for drilling ships' decks, floors, bridges, plates, &c. has a frame 1 with wheels 9 and handles 7. The front end is supported by electromagnets 3, between which the drill spindle 2 is mounted. The magnets hold the machine to the work. The spindle is driven from a motor 4 through an elastic coupling 5. A starting and regulating commutator 6 is provided within reach of the operator's seat 8.
Patent GB-189913214-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Range Finders.
Inventor: LANGER GOTTHOLD
Filed: 1899-06-26
Granted: 1899-08-05
Abstract: 13,214. Langer, G. June 26. Range-finders.-A frame 1, with strengthening- rib, is clamped at 2 to the stand of the instrument, and carries at its head a bearing 3 for a stud 4 which can be tightly clamped by the nut 6. The stud carries a cup 11 secured by pins and nut 17 to an arm 14 and forming at one side the half socket 10<1> for the upper telescope T, the other half socket 10 being rigidly fastened to the stud. The arm 14 extends downwards, and is provided with a housing formed under the cover-plate 18, in which is a toothed wheel 19. A pinion 20 and index-hand 22 are mounted rigidly on the axis of the wheel 19. A second arm 26 swings loosely between stops on the stud 4 at 12, and has a toothed segment 27 gearing with the pinion 20 beyond which it is bent and carries the lower telescope T<1>; an arm 32, with roller 33 running in a guide-roll 34, steadies its movements. The two arms are provided with handles 16, 28. A second index-hand 25 is carried by the shaft of a pinion 24 gearing with the toothed wheel 19. In use, the distant object is sighted by the telescope T, and the stud 4 and arm 14 clamped by the nut 6. The arm 26 is then moved by the handle 28 till the object is also sighted in the lower telescope T'. The relative displacement in degrees is then read off by the pointer 31 on the scale 30, and the fractions by the index-hands 22, 25 worked by the multiplying-gear. Scales of distances are marked near to the angle scales.
Patent GB-189913905-A (GB)
Title: The Manufacture of Polynitro Derivatives of Oxydialphylamines and of Colouring Matters therefrom.
Inventor: RANSFORD ROBERT BOLTON
Filed: 1899-07-05
Granted: 1900-05-05
Abstract: 13,905. Ransford, R. B., [Cassella & Co., L.]. July 5. Polynitro-oxydialphylamines are prepared (1) by condensing dinitrochlorbenzene with nitroamidophenols and (2) by nitrating the products of condensation of dinitrochlorbenzene with amidophenols, or their homologues. For example, tetranitro-oxydiphenylamine is produced by heating picramic acid with dinitrochlorbenzene in presence of sodium acetate and alcohol in a closed vessel at 120‹-130‹ C. for 3 to 4 hours. The product, after recrystallization, forms bright yellow crystals melting at 203‹ C. Tetranitro-oxyphenyltolylamine is produced by similarly condensing p-amido-ocresol with dinitrochlorbenzene and then nitrating the product with the required quantity of sulphuric and nitric acids. It is separated as an orangecoloured precipitate when the reaction mixture is diluted with ice. Dyes, artificial.-Dyes which yield dark brown to yellowish brown shades upon cotton are produced by heating the foregoing polynitro-oxydialphylamines with sulphur and an alkaline sulphide in the manner described in Specification No. 25,234, A.D. 1897.
Patent GB-189917188-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and connected with Explosion Engines.
Inventor: JUSTICE PHILIP MIDDLETON
Filed: 1899-08-24
Granted: 1899-09-30
Abstract: 17,188. Justice, P. M., [Columbia Automobile Co.]. Aug. 24. Gas and like engines.-Steam from the tank F that supplies the water jacket E is admitted to the exhaust pipe D just outside the valve B, to cool it and the exhaust gases, and to deodorize the latter. The mixing also has the effect of rendering the escaping steam invisible.
Patent GB-189919874-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Harness Back Bands.
Inventor: WILSON GEORGE
Filed: 1899-10-04
Granted: 1900-08-04
Abstract: 19,874. Wilson, G. Oct. 4. Backbands; fastening.-The lower part of the backhand is in two parts a, b, which are not stitched together. The strap b has riveted to it metal plates or washers c for the tongue d of the shaft - tug buckle. The washers may be flanged to embrace the strap a. The buckle holes may be arranged so that the greatest strain comes o n the strap b. The outer strap a may be in two thicknesses.
Patent GB-190002464-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Oil Filtering Apparatus.
Inventor: KLINGENBERG GEORG
Filed: 1900-02-07
Granted: 1900-11-24
Abstract: 2464. Klingenberg, G. Feb. 7. Pneumatic filters; cleansing; discharging liquid; filtering oils; decanting and settling. -The apparatus comprises several superposed compartments. The heavier impurities settle out, and only the upper and purer layers of oil are allowed to pass upward for further purification. The first and second chambers are connected by a pipe e, and the others by filters F. The upward flow of the oil and its discharge through the cock f are caused by pressure of air supplied by a pump and confined over the oil in each chamber. The filters are automatically cleansed by the reverse flow of oil caused by drawing off the sediment from one of the lower chambers. Oil may be forced out of the storage tank by air supplied by the filter pump, and discharged through the cock h so that drip is returned to the filter.
Patent GB-190004672-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Electrical Terminals.
Inventor: WALKER WILLIAM
Filed: 1900-03-12
Granted: 1900-12-22
Abstract: 4672. Walker, W. March 12. Couplings.-A terminal a, Fig. 6, is made with a tubular part a<2>, slit longitudinally, tapered at the end, and screw-threaded externally to receive a screw cap, Fig. 5, by which the tapered portion can be compressed on a wire placed in it. In a modification, the tapered and slit part is made separately from the tubular body, and is supported on a shoulder therein when the cap is screwed on the body. The body may be provided with a shoulder and nut, Figs. 6 and 7, to secure it in the base of a switch. Two or more terminals may be provided on one body, for connecting two or more wires together.
Patent GB-190012199-A (GB)
Title: Improved Brake-handle Attachment for the Bowden Type of Brake.
Filed: 1900-07-06
Granted: 1901-05-11
Abstract: 12,199. Marston (Limited), J., and Hough, W. July 6. Brakes.-Relates to brake-handle attachments for the Bowden type of brake. The handle B is bifurcated at the inner end, and is carried by the studs d of the pins E which fix the clip C. If either the handle, the clip, or a pin should be broken, the combination can be taken to pieces and a new part substituted for the broken part. Studs may project from the bifurcated ends of the handle into holes in the heads of the pins, in place of the arrangement shown in Fig. 3. The tube f is received by a socket e of usual construction, and the brake wire g is connected to the usual eye h.
Patent GB-190022537-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Road Roller Scarifier
Inventor: ASPLEN BERNARD
Filed: 1900-12-11
Granted: 1901-11-23
Abstract: 22,537. Asplen, B. Dec. 11. Roads and ways, making and repairing.-In a scarifier adapted to be attached to a road roller or traction engine or mounted on a separate carriage, two rows of inclined adjustable tines 31 are secured by set-screws 32 in slots in flanges 28 at the ends of the inclined portions 27 of a casing C. This casing slides in an outer rectangular casing A, the side walls of which carry supporting-flanges 12. Buffer springs 22, kept in place by pins 23, press the head of the casing C against a washer 21 secured by nuts 21, 25 to an adjusting-spindle 14, screwthreaded to engage a bush 16 and having a flange 19 above the buffer-plate 20. This plate is adjusted by regulating-screws 33 with lock-nuts 34. The bush 16 is held in place in its recess by a key plug. An opening is provided in one side of the casing C.
Patent GB-190100520-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Apparatus for Washing Bottles
Inventor: HEURTEAUX GEORGES
Filed: 1901-01-08
Granted: 1902-01-02
Abstract: 520. Heurteaux, G. Jan. 8. Bottles, washing. -Fig. 1 shows an elevation and Fig. 2 a plan of the machine, Fig. 6 a view of the brush arrangement showing two positions of the bottles. The frame 2,provided with rollers 3 running on the rail 4, rotates round the shaft 1, which carries a spur-wheel 5 and bevel-wheel 6. Each of the four compartments is provided with a slide 7 moving in a guide 8, and formed with teeth 9 adapted to gear with the wheel 5, from which they are disengaged by the roller 10 coming in contact with the stop 11 fixed on the bracket 12. The guides 8 are fixed to rods 14 sliding in the frame and provided with rollers 15 and arranged to strike the spring-held oscillating stops 16 mounted on pivots 17 and provided with rollers, beneath which act the feet of rods 22. The guides 8 carry the shafts of the bevel-wheels 25, to which are secured bevel pinions 26, 27, each provided with teeth on half its circumference and gearing alternately with a bevel pinion on the same shaft as the bevel-wheel 104. Levers 29, oscillating on shafts 30, are pivoted to the rods 14 and to levers 32 which act upon spring-held rods 34 supporting heads 36 carrying movable spring- pressed plungers 37, fixed on rods 38 and guided by means of a pin 39 and slot 40. The cranks 42 are connected by bars 43, which are operated by means of bevel gearing actuated by racks on the frames 2. The fixed rods 49 guide the horizontal frames 50, 51. The frame 50 is provided with rails on which slide flanges 95 fixed on the bottle containers 58, which are divided into compartments and provided with wooden clamps 60, mounted on flat springs 61, fixed to longitudinal bars 62, operated by suitable means to hold or release the bottles. The frame 51 is provided with openings 73 and rotatable neck supports 74. Screw-threads on the rods 34 engage nuts in the heads 36, and suitable bevel gearing is employed to rotate the rods and cause the heads to move up and down. The cases of inverted bottles are introduced at the station I. At the station II, the bottles come over the hollow frame 80, provided with hollow shafts 81 carrying brushes 82 provided with holes 83 for admission of water and rotated by cranks 84 coupled together by bars operated by a train of gear-wheels. At the station III, the bottles come over a tubular frame 88, supplied with water at high pressure. At the station IV, the bottles are removed.
Patent GB-190105106-A (GB)
Title: Improvement in Instruments for Taking Soundings.
Inventor: WIGZELL EUSTACE ERNEST
Filed: 1901-03-11
Granted: 1901-05-11
Abstract: 5106. Wigzell, E. E. March 11. Sounding-apparatus.-Relates to an instrument for taking soundings. An outer tube A, having a slot B, contains a tube E with a bell-mouth C and an oval hollow bulb D screwed to the outer tube. A rack bar F is attached to piston G, working in the tube E, and having a cup-shaped washer F<1>, and carries a block H with a spring button I and a slotted projection J. To this projection is hooked one end of a german silver spring K, attached at the other end to a cap M and embracing a steadying rod or tube E<1>. A ring N over the rack bar, has a knife-shaped piece G, Fig. 3, adapted to be held in engagement with the rack teeth by springs Q, 0, made of non-corrosive metal and turned over at P. The tooth G is disengaged when the springs 0, P engage the bell-mouth C, and when the instrument is raised to the surface a button on the ring N indicates the depths on scales at the sides of the slot B. These scales are graduated by placing the instrument in a test tube filled with water and connected to a hydraulic pump provided with a test gauge graduated to correspond with the various depths. In using the instrument at sea it is put in an outer casing and locked therein by a bayonet joint. The casing is attached to a wire passing from a winch over a fairlead attached to the stern of a ship and having a grooved wheel over the rim of which two cheeks project.
Patent GB-190111906-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Cycles, Motor Cars and similarly constructed Vehicles.
Inventor: WALKER GILBERT
Filed: 1901-06-11
Granted: 1902-06-11
Abstract: 11,906. Walker, G., [trading as Adams Co., A.]. June 11. Tyres, pneumatic.-To prevent slipping, the tread is composed of alternate layers k, Fig. 7, of rubber and coarse canvas tapes arranged edgewise, and, to prevent punctures, overlapping metal plates l, m are embedded in the tyre. The inflating- valve comprises a tube a over the flat or convex inner end of which goldbeaters' skin or like is stretched. It is closed, when the tyre is inflated, by a conical-tipped screw b which engages a soft metal seat c. The screw b may be replaced by a screw-cap containing a soft metal pad.
Patent GB-190112869-A (GB)
Title: Safety Suspending or Retaining Apparatus for Hoists Lifts, and Mine Cages
Inventor: LEE JOHN FORSTER
Filed: 1901-06-25
Granted: 1902-05-29
Abstract: 12,869. Lee, J. F., and Groves, H. June 25. Safety retaining- apparatus for hoists, lifts, and mine cages. Segmental bodies a, pivoted in the sides of the shaft, are formed with projections c, d, the projection c being higher up than the projection d. I n operation, the bottom of the cage wipes over the tapered surface leading up to the projection c, thus turning the device so that the catch d projects below the cage in a position to retain it in case of accident. This safety apparatus is particularly suitable for use with automatic detaching-apparatus in mines.
Patent GB-190114545-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Motor Vehicles Particularly Vehicles Fitted with Metallic Tires.
Inventor: WALKER SETH THORNTON
Filed: 1901-07-17
Granted: 1902-06-25
Abstract: 14,545. Walker, S. T., and Flather, W. H. B. July 17. Tyres, non-elastic.-Consists in means for preventing the slipping of the wheels of heavy motor wagons and the like. Secured to the felloes 5 is a ring 3 with a number of radial holes in which a number of pointed spikes 7 are capable of sliding radially. These spikes are all jointed to an eccentric strap 14, which is capable of rotating with the wheel about an eccentric sheave 15. The sheave is adjustable in fixed guides so that it can either be placed concentric to the wheel, or eccentric to a regulable extent so as to vary the depth to which the spikes are protruded at the tread of the wheel. A hand-wheel and worm and screw gear are provided for adjusting the eccentric.
Patent GB-190115403-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Secretaires or Writing Tables.
Inventor: SALOMON GEORG
Filed: 1901-07-30
Granted: 1902-05-29
Abstract: 15,403. Salomon, G. July 30. Secretaires; tables; desks.-Relates to a secretaire or writing-table having a hinged desk-top a supported on struts c, and a hinged table top b hung on stays d. The struts c and stays d are connected in such a manner as to allow of both parts a, b folding to the vertical position a<2>, b<2> shown in dotted lines in Fig. 4. The parts c, d may be connected by a pin-and-slot arrangement, which will allow of the parts being separated. When separated the ends of the struts c may be placed in holes fin the sides w of the desk.
Patent GB-190117846-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Bedsteads.
Inventor: STACHE ERNST
Filed: 1901-09-06
Granted: 1902-03-20
Abstract: 17,846. Stache, E. Sept. 6. Berths.-Relates to a bedstead, for use on board ship and as a cradle for children, in which the bottom is suspended. The frame consists of end-frames 3, 4, and sides 1,2, and a curved bottom 5, below which is a drawer to receive linen &c. The mattress support or bottom 8 is curved to correspond to the part 5, and is secured to ends 7 suspended on pins 6 on the endframes 3, 4. The ends 7 may be removed from the sides and bottom 8, and the sides can then be secured to the ends 3, 4 by hooks and eyes 9, and the bottom can be held to the part 5 by straps 12.
Patent GB-190121665-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in the Construction and Production of the Terminals of Electric Glow Lamp Sockets and in their Fitting to and Insulation from the Casing of the said Sockets.
Inventor: HOPKINS CHARLES YEOMANS
Filed: 1901-10-29
Granted: 1902-09-18
Abstract: 21,665. Hopkins, C. Y. Oct. 29. Incandescent lamps, holders for. An ordinary bayonet-joint casing s contains two cylindrical insulators g, h ; the lower one h has two circular recesses h<2> to receive cylindrical projections from the upper one g, and round holes are provided to receive the plungercarriers a and the supply conductors. Each spring plunger d is held in a cylindrical carrier a, threaded to receive a screw cap c, by which the end of a supply conductor is clamped on the carrier a after insertion through a hole in the screw cap ; the carrier a and the screw cap c are milled externally. The parts can be economically made in an automatic lathe. In a modification, the screw cap c is replaced by a notched flat-headed screw, the head of which enters a recess in an enlarged part of the plunger carrier, when its stem is screwed into an axial hole in the latter. The circular recesses h<2> and the corresponding projections on the insulators may be varied in arrangement.
Patent GB-190125616-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Process of Manufacture of Peat Briquettes.
Inventor: HELBING EMIL
Filed: 1901-12-14
Granted: 1902-10-02
Abstract: 25,616. Helbing, E. Dec. 14. Fuel.-Natural peat is mixed with milk of lime and an oxide of manganese or other oxygengenerating material, moulded into briquettes, and dried. Other materials, such as fats, oils, resin, bitumen, tar products, pitch, and coal dust, may also be incorporated with poor peat.
Patent GB-190202628-A (GB)
Title: A Game Marker for Ping Pong or Table Tennis or any Kindred Game of the same Character.
Inventor: ATKINS THOMAS
Filed: 1902-02-01
Granted: 1903-01-29
Abstract: 2628. Atkins, T., and Laurie, S. Feb. 1. Scoring and marking.-A marker for ping-pong, table tennis, and kindred games is constructed to register the score of a number of players. Endless bands e marked with suitable letters can be moved by turning the rollers c on which they are mounted, so as to exhibit letters corresponding to the players' names. Pointers g sliding on wires f serve to record the game in play, and each game is registered opposite a letter corresponding to the name of the winner, by one of the pointers i sliding on wires j. Numbers k, normally covered by slides m, serve as an extension of the game scores. A pencil o is attached to the marker, which is provided with a memorandum tablet n.