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Patent GB-190225377-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Arc Lamps for Electric Lighting
Inventor: BOWLEY JOSEPH WILFRED
Filed: 1902-11-19
Granted: 1903-07-09
Abstract: 25,377. Bowley, J. W., and Walters, A. Nov. 19. Arc lamps.-Inclined or vertical carbons having the arc between their lower ends are supported upon fire-brick discs, and fed downwards by their own weight. The electrodes c, c<1>, Fig. 1, preferably of flame carbon, pass through holes in the firebrick base b, to the underside of which are attached the supporting firebrick discs g, g<1> or a firebrick ring. Clips d, d' sliding upon guides may also be employed for long carbons. A magnetic coil f, Fig. 2, symmetrically placed behind the carbons, is energized on making circuit, and attracts the iron plate q<1>, which causes the linkwork q to withdraw the metal piece j from between the carbons, thereby striking the arc. The coil may either be a solenoid, or of a horse-shoe shape, as shown. The weight of the pieces or a spring returns the piece j when the lamp is switched off.
Patent GB-190226424-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in the Metal Standards or Supports for School Desks and Seats and the like.
Inventor: FISHER FREDERICK HARRISON
Filed: 1902-12-01
Granted: 1903-03-12
Abstract: 26,424. Fisher, F. H. Dec. 1. School desks and seats.-Relates to a method of making the standards, to reduce weight and minimise breakage. The outlines A are formed of strips of wrought iron, steel, &c.. and are connected by distance-pieces B of the same metal or of malleable cast iron. Lugs b<4> are turned down at right-angles to form stops, the other lugs b<2> being placed through holes in the parts A and riveted over. The parts B may be thickened where the joints b<1> of the desk or seat occur.
Patent GB-190305378-A (GB)
Title: Improvement in Watches
Inventor: SILBERBERG NATHAN
IPC: G04B1/20
Filed: 1903-03-07
Granted: 1903-05-21
Abstract: 5378. Silberberg, N. March 7. Winding-mechanism; overwinding, preventing.- The barrel arbor, being tubular and carrying a disc on a square end, contains the winding-arbor E having a click-wheel, and the two are rotatably connected together by means of a clutch, which consists of a notched disc e on the other end of the winding-arbor and of a disc or strap f, bearing a tooth f<1> to fit the notch, which is pivoted at s on the disc g of the barrel arbor. A spring i attached to the strap and bearing against the disc makes the lug and notch engage till a pin g' on the limb of the disc has turned a atop-wheel m on the barrel into the position where a pin m<2> on it presses the strap.
Patent GB-190307804-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Hawser Attachments for Vessels.
Inventor: REAVLEY RICHARD CORMACK
Filed: 1903-04-03
Granted: 1903-06-04
Abstract: 7804. Reavley, R. C. May 6, A.D. 1902, [date applied for under Patents Act, A.D. 1901]. Indicating tensions of ship's cables and hawsers. A box b closed at the front end c<2>, open at the back end, and slotted at the top, is bolted down and receives the spring slide d which carries the bitts e. The pointer h<2> attached to the slide d indicates on the scale h the strain of the spring g, and the pull on the cable or hawser may thus be determined.
Patent GB-190308349-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Self Acting Mules and Twiners.
Filed: 1903-04-11
Granted: 1904-02-11
Abstract: 8349. Hetherington & Sons, J., and Ross, G. E. April 11. Mules and twiners.-The carriage is constructed of cast and sheet metal to be fire resisting, yet light and strong. The frame is made of cast-iron principal and intermediate adjustable stretchers 1, Fig. 3, and 8, Fig. 4, and bolted plating 32, 33, 34, stiffened by diagonal rods 14, and is carried upon .wheel frames 5 by brackets 4 bolted to the principal stretchers. The stretchers carry adjustable faller brackets 3 and back brackets 2, and, by means of struts 12, support front brackets 10, which are connected to the back brackets by tie-rods 11 and hold the spindles 22. The back and front frame plates 32, 33 carry back and front intermediate brackets 9, 13, and all the back and front brackets are connected by bolted plates 50, 26. Top plates 25 are put on, and the front and back are completed by plates 45, 28, the former of which slip into girders on the back brackets. Bearings for the shaft of the tin-roller are mounted on the principal and some of the intermediate stretchers.
Patent GB-190309540-A (GB)
Title: Improvement in Musical Stringed Instruments
Inventor: PADOUR ALOIS
Filed: 1903-04-28
Granted: 1903-06-11
Abstract: 9540. Padour, A. April 28. Pianofortes; instruments with sonorous strings.- In an electromagnetic arrangement for causing vibration of the strings in pianos and other stringed instruments, a key-lever 1, hinged at 2, makes electrical connection between metal springs 3, 4 when it is pressed down, thus completing a circuit including an electromagnet 6. A make-and-break vibrator is included in the circuit, hence the piano strings 9, situated immediately above the electromagnet, is intermittently attracted, and so caused to vibrate. By adjustment of the vibrator, its periodicity is always arranged to be less than the frequency of the note emitted by the string. An arrangement is added for damping the string slightly at their centres, by means of a pedal action or the like, for the purpose of producing harmonics.
Patent GB-190310744-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Foundations for Windmill and other Towers.
Inventor: CLEMSON WALTER JOHN
Filed: 1903-05-12
Granted: 1904-03-10
Abstract: 10,744. Clemson, W. J. May 12. Windmills.-Relates to foundations for windmill and other towers of iron and steel. The centre-piece A carrying the mast or uprights of the tower is cast with radial sleeves on its underside. Steel T-arms a pass through these sleeves, and carry other sleeves B. These sleeves B are keyed to receive the angle uprights C of constructional towers, and are cast with legs D ending in feet E. The arms a may project, and be fitted with separate sleeves supporting the tower by feet. The arms a are keyed to the centre-piece by keys b, and one arm is carried through two opposite sleeves, in the square tower shown. Angular towers have one radial sleeve for each angle. The knee e on the legs D is rested on timber, when possible.
Patent GB-190311116-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Rotary Tools for Cutting Metal.
Inventor: TINDEL ADAM
Filed: 1903-05-15
Granted: 1903-06-25
Abstract: 11,116. Tindel, A. May 15. Sawing; tools; tool-holders. -Relates to the construction of saws and other rotary tools, and consists in the means for securing the teeth or cutters so that they can be removed easily and replaced. Figs. 1, 2, and 3 show a circular saw, in which the teeth are held in dovetail grooves 2, cut in the faces of the saw. The backs 2<a> of the grooves are not parallel to the face, but are inclined outwards towards the edge of the saw, as shown in Fig. 3, to give the necessary clearance to the cutters. The grooves may be cut by a milling-tool, the rounded bottoms allowing of the introduction of a tool for the removal of the cutters. The cutters, being of simple form, may be made of selfhardening steel. Several such saws may be secured on a spindle to form a milling-tool. Cutters may be secured in this manner in a ring, as shown in Figs. 5 and 6, to form an annular boring-tool.
Patent GB-190313292-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Channel Flap Laying Machines for use in Boot and Shoe Manufacture.
Inventor: HADAWAY JOHN BENJAMIN
Filed: 1903-06-13
Granted: 1904-06-09
Abstract: 13,292. Hadaway, J. B. June 13. Rotary brushes ; bristles.-The rotary tool 2, 3, for use in laying channel flaps in the manufacture of boots and shoes, is combined with a brush 12, provided with a number of stiff bristles 13 of whalebone &c., in addition to the usual bristles. The brush serves to remove particles of dust, dirt, wax, or cement from the sole and channel flap, and also aids the action of the flap - laying blades 2, 3.
Patent GB-190313618-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Printing and Numbering Machines.
Inventor: CARLAW DAVID
Filed: 1903-06-18
Granted: 1904-05-26
Abstract: 13,618. Carlaw, D., Carlaw, D., Carlaw, A. L., and Carlaw, J. W. June 18. Rotary machines; numbering-apparatus; collecting-apparatus folding paper.-Relates to improvements in rotary machines such as that described in Specification No. 11,428, A.D. 1887, for printing and numbering counter-check books, bill heads, tickets, labels, &c., and working from a reel of paper and delivering the sheets whole or cut, perforated, and folded. (1) A hollow numbering or printing and numbering cylinder is fitted with removable numbering-wheel cases a, Figs. 9 and 13, adjustable on longitudinal bars 39, the axis of the cylinder being at right-angles to that of the numbering-wheels 19, 20. The cylinder consists of a cast body 44, a central bridge piece 44<a>, solid ends 44<b> with projecting journals, and removable recessed side pieces 47, 48 secured by screws. The wheels 19, 20 are actuated by ratchets 21, 22 and spring driving-pawls 23, 24 and retaining- pawls. The pawls 23, 24 are pivoted on a swing- ing arm 27, which is hung loosely on the case bolt 28, and engages with a slide 32 operated by a cam 33 on a cam-actuated and spring-returned longitudinal rock-bar 34. Salesman's numbers are printed on the leaf and duplicate by means of wheels e arranged in a case at the side of each case a, and on the stub by wheels at the rear of the corresponding cases a. (2) The folding- mechanism consists of rollers 50, 51, Fig. 2, and a cam-actuated folding-knife 52 recessed to clear the tapes 54, the underside of which is raised by a crank arm 57 so as to reduce the depth of the knife recesses. The folded paper is caught and pressed between two bands of tapes travelling round rollers 50, 50<a> and 51, 51<a>, 51<b>. (3) The sheets may be collected in a revolving hopper 70, Fig. 18, formed of two discs 71, 71<a> and curved blades or partitions 72, and driven by means of a ratchet 75, a retaining-pawl 79, and a driving- pawl 76 operated by a lever 77 and a rod 78 reciprocated by a cam and worm gearing or otherwise ; or the delivery table may be provided with a travelling band actuated intermittently by ratchet gear.
Patent GB-190317452-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Spring Hook Clip for Securing Luggage Labels and for Supporting Showcards and the like purposes.
Inventor: WILSON JOSEPH FOORD
Filed: 1903-08-11
Granted: 1903-09-10
Abstract: 17,452. Wilson, J. F., and Whitmore, E. H. Aug. 11. Hooks.-A spring clip hook for hanging show cards, calendars, &c. is made by bending a flat metal spring into the form shown in Figs. 2, 4, 6, and 8, the shank 4 being provided with staple points 5 for holding the calendar 7 ; or the calendar may be attached in any usual manner. A tongue is stamped out of the outwardly-curving front 2, Fig. 2, which presses against the back 3 and prevents the holder from coming off the rod, wire, string, &c. upon which it has been placed by opening the spring jaw. A tongue from the back may cross that from the front, Fig. 4, or press against it, Fig. 6, or the front may be curved inwards and inserted into a hole stamped in the back portion, as shown in Fig. 8.
Patent GB-190319869-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Machine for the Manufacture of Headed Pins and the like.
Inventor: SCHLEICHER EMIL
Filed: 1903-09-15
Granted: 1903-10-15
Abstract: 19,869. Schleicher, E. Sept. 15. Making pins. - Relates to machinery for heading pins. The end of the shank wire is inserted in the end of a coil, from which a piece is cut off and compressed to form the head. The pin blank is then severed and pointed as usual. The shank wire 17, Fig. 2, is drawn through straighteners by pincers 18 carried by the slide 22, Fig. 1, moved forwards and backwards by the cam 23 and the spring g, the top jaw of the pincers being operated by a cam 19 through the pivoted lever 21. A laterally - sliding block 30, operated by a cam-worked slide, holds the end of the shank during the heading. A second pair of pincers 9 grips the end of the wire coil 7 and places it over the shank, being moved backwards and forwards on the carriage b by a cam and spring. The carriage b slides laterally in the carriage a, which is movable vertically by another cam and spring so that it may clear the heading-hammer 1 after the cam-worked knife 33 has cut off the end of the coil. The hammer is driven forwards by a cam, and is pulled back by a spring, after which a cam and lever depress the knife 38 to cut off the pin blank, which falls to the usual pointing-roller and slides.
Patent GB-190320578-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Clutches.
Inventor: POCHIN FRANK HOWARD
Filed: 1903-09-24
Granted: 1903-10-29
Abstract: 20,578. Pochin, F. H., and Pochin, H. S. Sept. 24. Embossing.-Relates to clutches for use in various types of machines such as embossing-machines, stamping- presses, guillotines, heeling, sole - cutting, and ranging machines. The main shaft 2 carries a loose driving- pulley which fits over a disc 3 on the shaft. The disc 3 is provided on its periphery with a sloping recess 4 in which is located a spring-pressed clutch roller 10. A ring 7 mounted loose on the shaft or on a disc 6, Fig. 4, on the shaft carries a wedgeshaped finger 8. Fig. 1, which rests in the recess 4 and bears against the roller 10 so as to release the shaft when the machine is stopped. The ring 7 has an internal recess containing a spring 11 to form a yielding connection with the disc 6. A stop pin 13 on the outside of ring 7 normally rests against the stop lever 14. The lever 14 is thrown out by the treadle-operated sliding block 21 acting on the adjustable connecting-lever 19. The other end of the shaft has a roller clutch to prevent reverse motion. The clutch may be used to control either an upper or lower operating-arm so as to release the machine in its inoperative position.
Patent GB-190326721-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to Speed and Mileage Recorders for Tram-cars and the like.
Inventor: HARTLEY HENRY
Filed: 1903-12-07
Granted: 1904-10-06
Abstract: 26,721. Hartley, H., and Canova, V. Dec. 7. Speed indicators; odometers.-A speed and mileage indicator and recorder, of the kind described in Specification No. 18,221, A.D. 1903, is driven by a supplementary wheel, running in frictional contact with the rail or road, and adapted to adjust itself to irregular movements of the car. When applied to a tramcar of the double-bogie type, this wheel d is flanged, and is mounted on a bracket a. The bracket a is pivoted to a bar g, which is hinged to a bracket f at h. A spring l serves to press the bar g downwards, and to maintain the wheel d in contact with the rail. The bracket, f is hinged to the bogie plate b, a pair of clamping-plates b<1> being preferably used to avoid drilling the plate. A forked bar j, made in two parts, one of which slides within the other, is pivoted at one end at h, and attached at the other end to the bogie plate c ; or the bar may be made in one piece, and attached at the latter end, by means of a suitable bar and hinges, to the bogie plate on the opposite side of the car. The wheel is made with a rubber or spring web, or is otherwise constructed so as to be elastic. The centrifugal device may be arranged inside the wheel at m, and may be connected by wires to the indicator.
Patent GB-190407299-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Arc Light Electrodes and Methods of Making the same
Inventor: DEMPSTER JOHN THOMAS HENRY
Filed: 1904-03-26
Granted: 1905-03-23
Abstract: 7299. Dempster, J. T. H. March 26, A.D. 1903, [date applied for under Patents Act, A.D. 1901]. Arc lamps.-An electrode consists of an iron tube having a filling composed of an oxide or oxides of iron, mixed with some substance, such as potassium titanate, to lower the melting point. The filling is made by mixing magnetite, red oxide of iron, and potassium titanate or the like with water and a little glycerine, moulding the mixture into pencils, drying the pencils at 200' C., and further heating them to 1200‹ C. in a bath of non- carbonizing material, such as magnesium oxide, thereby converting the red oxide into magnetite. The fillings 2 are then forced into iron tubes 1, and one end of the electrode fused over to make it a good conductor.
Patent GB-190407441-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Surface Water Gullies.
Inventor: BROWN ARTHUR
Filed: 1904-03-29
Granted: 1905-01-12
Abstract: 7441. Brown, A., and Powell, C. March 29. Gully traps.-Means for adjusting the level of the grate and doubly trapping sewer gas are provided by the construction shown. The frame B<2> is formed with a flange B<4> between which and a flange B<5> on the casing B distance pieces, brickwork, cement, or the like may be inserted to raise the frame B<2>. As shown in Fig. 3, the traps are formed by a funnel E in one piece with the grate and by inner and outer casings A, C connected by an aperture D in the wall B<1>. In Fig. 6 the first trap is shown formed by a detachable hood G, having a sloping roof and supported by a flange B<6> and, by means of a web G<1>, the casing A. A cleansing and inspection opening F, Fig. 3, is provided.
Patent GB-190409842-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Resistance Units and Methods of Making Same
Filed: 1904-04-29
Granted: 1905-03-02
Abstract: 9842. British Thomson-Houston Co., [General Electric Co.]. April 29. Resistances.-Self-reducing resistances, applicable for use in place of hand-operated resistances in starting electric motors, are formed of a mixture of a material having a negative temperature coefficient, such as magnetite, with a material which only becomes a conductor when hot, such as a silicate, for example mica. The materials are finely powdered and compressed within a metal tube having a lining B of mica, asbestos, or other insulating-material. Metal plugs C, with extensions to serve as terminals, are forced inwards by means of the nuts D, from which they are insulated by mica washers E. The tube is then heated until the material softens, the heating being assisted by the passage of an electric current when the mixture becomes conducting. The tube is then allowed to cool, and afterwards a sudden large current is passed for a few seconds. By increasing the proportion of the silicate, the rate at which the resistance of the mixture decreases is reduced.
Patent GB-190412762-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Automatic Carburettor for Explosion Motors
Filed: 1904-06-06
Granted: 1904-08-04
Abstract: 12,762. Soc. Anon. des Automobiles Peugeot. March 31, A.D. 1903, [date applied for under Patents Act, A. D. 1901]. Load on, adjusting and varying.-In connection with the carburetting-apparatus of a motor-car engine, the rocking-shaft r, s, t is connected to the governor while rods a<1>, b<1>, being moved in the direction of the arrows 1, 2 respectively, accelerate and retard the engine.
Patent GB-190415070-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to the Control of Electric Motors, and Machines Driven thereby.
Filed: 1904-07-05
Granted: 1905-05-25
Abstract: 15,070. British Thomson-Houston Co., [General Electric Co.]. July 5. Driving machines by electromotors.-Relates to an arrangement for braking an electric motor, and the shaft driven by it, simultaneously. As shown in Fig. 1, the motor M is connected by a belt B to the pulley A<1> of the driven machine, such as a printing-press. The magnetic brake C is adapted to act on the rim of the flywheel A. The movable part D of the brake D is controlled by the spring s, is faced with leather &c. E, and carries a coil c which, when energized, causes the part D to rise to engage with the flywheel. Fig. 2 shows the control circuits. The controller consists of the stationary contacts h<1> to h<9> and two sets of movable contacts g<1> to g<7> and g<8> to g<14>, the latter being the braking set. For starting, the field is from the line-wire i to the contacts h<2>, g<2>, g<3>, and h', field f, and contacts h', g<4>, g<1>, and h<1>, to the line-wire 2. The armature circuit is from the line-wire 1, to the contacts h<2>, g<2>, g<3>, h<3>, armature m, resistance R, and contacts h<5>, g<5>, g<4>, g<1>, and h<1>, and to the linewire 2. The circuit of the armature is closed through the resistance R, which may be cut out by the contacts g<6>, g<7>. When the controlling-switch is thrown over to the braking position, the field circuit is not changed, but the armature is shortcircuited through the resistance R and coil c. The motor is braked by the current flowing through the armature, and at the same time the magnetic brake D is applied to the rim of the flywheel A, both driving and driven members being thus braked at the same time.
Patent GB-190415351-A (GB)
Title: Improved Drying Apparatus.
Inventor: LENNOX ALLISON BELL
Filed: 1904-07-09
Granted: 1905-03-23
Abstract: 15,351. Lennox, A. B. July 9. Drying hay, straw, grains, spent hops, &c.-The casing shown is divided horizontally into a series of three or more compartments b, c, d, the highest and lowest of which are connected by the rear vertical passage f. At the front, the chambers b, d are provided with doors k, q. At the back, the chamber b is fitted with an air propeller, and the lowest chamber d with a radiator l. The intermediate chambers c are divided by vertical wirenetting partitions into a series of drying-compartments m. The compartments alternate with aircirculation channels. After the drying has proceeded and the circulating air has become saturated, the doors k, q are opened to allow the air to escape and a fresh supply to enter. The top and bottom of the compartments c are covered by wirework or perforated doors o, through which the material supplied through the doors p, shown open in dotted lines, may be fed to the drying-compartments. The air channels are covered by slats during the charging operation. The lower doors of the compartments are opened to allow of the discharge of the material to the lower chamber d.
Patent GB-190427466-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Flash-light Cartridges for Producing Artificial Light for Photographic and other purposes.
Inventor: LUETTKE HANS
Filed: 1904-12-16
Granted: 1905-01-26
Abstract: 27,466. L³ttke, H., Arndt, P., and L÷wengard, F. L., [trading as L³ttke & Arndt]. Dec. 16. Pyrotechnics.-The casings of flash-light cartridges are made of thin aluminium or other metal or alloy or coated metal. The cartridge may consist of an aluminium casing enclosing a material containing aluminium or magnesium or both.
Patent GB-190428623-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Artificial Tracks for Ski-runners, Sledges and the like.
Inventor: SCHUMANN ALBERT
Filed: 1904-12-28
Granted: 1905-02-02
Abstract: 28,623. Schumann, A. Dec. 28. Tobogganing; tracks for sporting purposes.-An inclined track for toboggans and the like is divided into sections such as a and b, separated by a gap, the lower section b being made of stretched fibrous or metallic fabric, or of boards covered with a resilient surface. The upper section a is curved slightly upwards at its lower extremity, to give to the toboggans the motion indicated by the arrow c, and it may also be made resilient and provided with flanged guides for the toboggans.
Patent GB-190506015-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and connected with Carding Engines.
Inventor: PILLING JAMES
Filed: 1905-03-22
Granted: 1906-02-15
Abstract: 6015. Pilling, J. March 22. Carding - engines. -The door of the cylinder is automatically closed by a weighted lever, on withdrawal of the stripping or grinding apparatus. The door G rests on a lateral projection E on the weighted lever A, and is kept open by an angle - iron H mounted on the stripping or grinding roller shaft K. [Reference has been directed under Patents Act, 1902, to Specifications No. 39, A.D. 1897, and No. 6694, A.D. 1904.]
Patent GB-190507982-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in the Manufacture of Soluble Milk Powder
Inventor: GLAS ADOLF
Filed: 1905-04-14
Granted: 1905-08-24
Abstract: 7982. Glas, A. May 17, 1904, [date applied for under Patents Act, 1901]. Food preparations; preserving milk.-Calcium saccharate, or other compound of calcium with the higher alcohols or sugars, is added to milk, before or during evaporation, in the preparation of milk powders, to render the albuminous portion soluble.