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Patent GB-189804966-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or connected with Distilling Apparatus.
Inventor: WEBSTER ALBERT
Filed: 1898-03-01
Granted: 1899-01-07
Abstract: 4966. Webster, A. March 1. Feedwater, purifying.-Relates to apparatus for distilling water for boiler feed and for other purposes, and consists in combining the still and condenser in a single vessel. Fig. 1 shows one arrangement, consisting of a vessel a in the lower part of which the water is evaporated by a steam coil b, while the steam produced is condensed in a vessel c by a cooling-coil d. Fig. 5 shows a horizontal arrangement of apparatus, b being the heating-coil and c the vessel in which the steam is condensed by the coil d. The coil d may be replaced by a number of straight tubes fitted across from side to side of the vessel a, and such a condenser may also serve for condensing the steam from the auxiliary engines of a ship. The distillation may be effected under reduced or increased pressure.
Patent GB-189807539-A (GB)
Title: A Keyless Tube Crane or Cock for Kitchen Sinks.
Inventor: MCDONALD JOHN HALL
Filed: 1898-03-29
Granted: 1898-07-30
Abstract: 7539. McDonald, J. H. March 29. Taps and pipes, connecting. - In a cock for kitchen sinks, the tube B has a flange c mounted within a stuffing - box A formed on the cock casing, a water-tight joint being made by means of packing D and the screwed gland shown.
Patent GB-189809745-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to the Supply of Gas to Buildings.
Inventor: PENMAN ALBERT HILL
Filed: 1898-04-28
Granted: 1899-03-18
Abstract: 9745. Penman, A. H. April 28. Automatic cut-offs for gas cocks; gas valves. - Valves normally held open by supports of fusible metal are placed at various points in the gas-supply pipes of buildings. Two typical forms are illustrated in Figs. 2 and 7, that shown in the latter being also adapted to be closed by hand. In Fig. 2, the valve A is supported by a stand F of fusible metal. In Fig. 7, a button F of fusible metal secured to the valve spindle rests on a plate supported on ledges J, which may be formed in the casing, or as shown, or a separate part K which can be turned by hand to close the valve. Apertures closed by caps such as E or L give access to the interior of the casing.
Patent GB-189810836-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Fluid Pressure Engines.
Inventor: LANCHESTER FREDERICK WILLIAM
Filed: 1898-05-12
Granted: 1899-03-11
Abstract: 10,836. Lanchester, F. W. May 12. Balancing moving parts; pistons.-Relates to fluid-pressure engines, more especially of the type described in Specification No. 13,960, A..D. 1896, in which a pair of oppositely-rotating shafts are simultaneously driven by four connecting-rods from the piston in a single pair of cylinders. In order to reduce wear in the cylinders and guides and to avoid unequal stresses in the linkwork D', Fig. 1, the crank shafts B are geared together so that a straight-line movement of the pistons is determined. The spur gear may be of double helical form, or may be single as shown in Fig. 2. When single, the lateral thrust is resisted by the groove-and-tongue arrangement a, a<1>. In order to permit the construction to be as light as possible, the piston is made in two parts, a piston body and a pin bracket. The piston body is formed with a ring-stop and concave back plate in one piece, and the pin bracket is a casting screwed into a projection from the back plate. In a trunkcylinder engine, owing to the reduction of the lateral strains, the bearing - surfaces may be considerably cut away.
Patent GB-189813254-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Automatic Loaders, Conveyors, and Unloaders.
Inventor: WHEELER GAGE MASON
Filed: 1898-06-14
Granted: 1898-07-16
Abstract: 13,254. Wheeler, G. M. June 14. Conveyers; elevators.- Fig. 4 shows a section on the line Y-Y, Fig. 1. The apparatus is specially adapted for loading and unloading ships. The endless chain I runs on sprockets H and C and guide-pulleys J mounted in the rectangular frame A. Comb-like carriers L are fixed to the chain at intervals. Each of these is made with shafts K and M upon the ends of which are mounted pulleys N and 0 adapted to run in guides a and b. These guides are so disposed that each carrier in passing from Q to P is maintained in a horizontal position. The load is placed on the table Q, of similar construction to the carriers, from which it is picked up and conveyed to a similar table P upon which it is deposited as the carrier sinks through it.
Patent GB-189816195-A (GB)
Title: Improved Means for Heating Food Preserved in Closed Vessels.
Inventor: REHSE ALBERT
Filed: 1898-07-25
Granted: 1898-10-22
Abstract: 16,195. Rehse, A. July 25. Oil and spirit stoves combined with food-preserving receptacles.-Hermetically-closed vessels containing preserved food are provided with means for heating the food previous to use. The can a, for example, is enclosed in a casing b, the base of which is in the form of a tray c containing solid fuel, preferably alcohol absorbed in jelly of agar agar, to which a cap f with a rubber packing g is applied. In using the heater, the can containing the preserved food is supported on lugs b<1>, the cap f removed, and the fuel ignited. Air enters through perforations j in the casing b, and a high temperature is obtained on the Bunsen burner principle.
Patent GB-189817079-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Apparatus for Producing Acetylene Gas.
Inventor: GEHLERT FRIEDRICH
Filed: 1898-08-08
Granted: 1898-10-15
Abstract: 17,079. Gehlert, F. Aug. 8. Acetylene.-Apparatus more especially designed for avoiding the smell of the gas and of the byeproducts. The cover d of the generator A is hermetically closed by wing nuts h and by a bridge i and screw k. This cover carries a manometer and a gas delivery pipe q connected with a wall bracket by a ball joint r upon which the cover may be turned back. The cover also carries a carbide - supplying device consisting of spring tongs F which, when closed by being drawn into a sleeve t<1> by a screw u, supports a pin F<1> carrying the carbide container K. In operation, the generator is charged with water by the pipe e, and, when the gas cock s has been opened, the screw u is turned so as to lower the spring tongs F out of the sleeve t<1>, whereupon they open and let the container K fall into the water. The gas passes into a holder in which is fitted a manometer. When the carbide is exhausted, the gas cock s is closed, and the taps m and o are opened for thoroughly washing out the bye-products. The cover d is then removed, and a fresh charge of carbide is attached to the tongs F.
Patent GB-189819085-A (GB)
Title: Improved Mode of Treating Edible and other Oils.
Inventor: HARRIS JOHN NUGENT
Filed: 1898-09-07
Granted: 1899-07-29
Abstract: 19,085. Harris, J. N., and Headington, H. S. Sept. 7. Medicinal preparations.-Relates to the treatment of oils such as cotton-seed oil, ground-nut oil, or fish oil, to render them suitable for dietetic or medicinal purposes. The oil is mixed at a suitable temperature with powdered charcoal, if rancid, with the addition of prepared chalk. After the carbon and impurities have been allowed to settle, the oil is run into another vessel, a small quantity of methylated alcohol containing gum myrrh and gum benzoin is added, and air or air mixed with steam is blown through ; the oil is then allowed to stand for some time at a suitable temperature.
Patent GB-189901600-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Machines for Filling Bottles and other like Receptacles.
Inventor: DENHAM WILLIAM
Filed: 1899-01-24
Granted: 1899-09-30
Abstract: 1600. Denham, W. Jan. 24. Measured quantities, delivering.- Relates to apparatus for filling a number of bottles &c. simultaneously with measured quantities of liquid or semi-liquid. The liquid is delivered from the tank or tanks 1 through the cocks 3 into the transparent measuring - vessels 7, provided with graduated i n d i - cators 14, and is delivered from these vessels through the cocks 9 and filling-tubes 9<e> into the bottles &c. 12. The bottles are preferably placed in a cage 12<a> on the table 11, and are raised to and lowered from the filling-tubes by the rack and pinion gear 13<a>, 13<d>, which is operated through spur gearing from the hand-wheel 13<i>. The bottom of the tank 1 is inclined to the discharge orifices 2, and the cocks 3 are all operated simultaneously through rack-and-pinion gearing 5, 6<a>, &c. The cocks 9 are operated in a similar manner. The measuring-vessels 7 are provided with overflow pipes 17, discharging into troughs 18. When necessary, the liquid in the tank 1 may be heated by means of a steam coil 15. For beer or other liquid liable to froth, the discharge pipes 16 and 9* from the cocks 3 and 9 extend almost to the bottoms of the measuring-vessels 7 and the bottles 12 respectively. In a modification, the cocks 3 are omitted, the pipe from each orifice 2 delivering through a three-way cock into the bottom of the corresponding measure. The threeway cocks also serve for delivering the liquid from the measures into the bottles. The measures are made removable to facilitate cleaning.
Patent GB-189908364-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Axle, Sash, and like Pulleys.
Inventor: JOHNSON WILLIAM SAMUEL
Filed: 1899-04-21
Granted: 1899-12-23
Abstract: 8364. Johnson, W. S. April 21. Drawings to Specification. Pulleys, axle, frame, and like.-The pulley is free to rotate on the spindle, which is itself free to turn in the frame.
Patent GB-189909668-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Holder for Ladies' Hats, Bonnets, and other Head Coverings.
Inventor: DONOVAN CHARLES JOHN
Filed: 1899-05-08
Granted: 1900-03-10
Abstract: 9668. Donovan, C. J. May 8. Brackets.-Relates to a holder for ladies hats, bonnets, &c., which may be removably fitted inside a hat or travelling box or hung in a wardrobe, cupboard, or other place. A flexible strip of metal A, perforated with suitable apertures, is fixed at one end to a suitable base B, and slides at the other in a guide C. When not in use, the strip lies flat against the base-plate, but it may be raised into a loop and retained in this position by a hat pin, which is passed through two of the perforations in the strip. A hat may now be secured to the loop by passing a second hat pin through the hat and through two other perforations in the strip. The appliance may be held in the interior of the hat box, by suitable clips, or hung in a wardrobe, cupboard, &c.
Patent GB-189910309-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Injectors.
Filed: 1899-05-16
Granted: 1899-07-01
Abstract: 10,309. Lake, H. H., [Sellers & Co., W.]. May 16. Lifting and forcing combined injectors; overflow arrangements.-The overflow opening F from the combining-tube of the lifting-injector is enclosed in a chamber L, and thus separated from the chamber L', which encloses the overflow openings of the forcing-injector, and which communicates with the air by an outwardly-opening valve J. The chambers L, L<1> communicate through a valve H, which may be operated by hand, or, as shown, automatically by the difference between the pressure in the chambers L, L<1>. Thus, at starting, and with normal temperature of water supply, the valve H is open, but closes to prevent excess of pressure in the chamber L' from reaching the outlet F and stopping the injector. The valve J may be held down by a cam j or the like. In a modification, in which the lifting- injector is arranged round the forcing steam nozzle, the valve H is in the form of a sleeve sliding on the forcing combining-tube and pressed by a spring so as to close the outlet F at the mouth of the lifting combining-tube.
Patent GB-189911661-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Driving Gear for Motor Cars and the like.
Inventor: EHRHARDT GUSTAV
Filed: 1899-06-05
Granted: 1899-08-12
Abstract: 11,661. Ehrhardt, G. June 5. Motor road vehicles.-In toothed driving-gear for motor cars and the like, the teeth of the wheels and pinions are made to project laterally from the rim so as to be open at the top and bottom and on one side. In this way accumulation of dirt in the teeth is prevented.
Patent GB-189913741-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Binders for Papers and Documents.
Inventor: COPELAND ROBERT JAMES
Filed: 1899-07-03
Granted: 1899-10-07
Abstract: 13,741. Copeland, R. J., and Chatterson, A. E. July 3. Locks, seal.-Relates to binders such as those used in perpetual ledgers. Fig. 1 shows a sectional elevation. The movable strips 1, 2 are connected together by telescopic tubes 17, 18 enclosing springs 19, 20, and by the posts 4, 5, on which the sheets are filed. The binder is closed by means of a seal lock consisting of a casing 32 carried by the strip 1, to which is pivoted the pawl 33, having a tooth 34, and shoulder 35. The piece 36 carries a cam 37, and is rotated by means of a key, to cause the tooth 34 to move in or out of engagement with the toothed arm 39, carried by the strip 1. The keyhole is made in the lid of the shallow box 40, which contains a piece of paper to be punctured by the insertion of the key for turning the piece 36. The box 40 is provided with a separate spring lock, which is locked by closing down the lid, and is unlocked by the first movement of the key in unlocking the binder. A modified lock is shown in Fig. 7. The pawl 51 is adapted to engage the teeth of the arm 49, while the broader-faced pawl 52 can only engage the indented head 54. The pawl 51 is operated by the spring-held piece 55, having a finger 57, working in the slot 58 of the seal latch 59. The rotating piece 62 is shouldered in the tubular piece 60, and has a longitudinal slot 63, through which the key passes into engagement with the bevel of the shoulder 60, against which it turns and forces down the piece 55.
Patent GB-189923691-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Manufacturing Railway & Tramway Rail Joints.
Inventor: HOLME JOHN STANLEY
Filed: 1899-11-28
Granted: 1901-02-28
Abstract: 23,691. Holme, J. S. Nov. 28. Making parts of railway and tramway permanent way.-For lap or scarf rail joints such as are described in Specifications No. 17,277, A.D. 1891, No. 11,889, A.D. 1895, and No. 17,664, A.D. 1899, [all in Abridgment Class Railways &c.], the rail ends are heated and pressed to shape between dies which are shaped to remove part of the head and foot or flange and to thicken the web and to deflect it parallel to itself. For shaping the end of double-headed rails, as shown in Fig. 5, the pair of dies shown in Fig. 2 are used, and for flanged tram-rails three dies are used, one to act on the foot and the others on the sides. The dies are attached to the heads of a hydraulic press, and the dies may be formed with studs to punch out the bolt-holes at the same time.
Patent GB-190003134-A (GB)
Title: New or Improved Tilting Device for Barrels.
Inventor: WATSON THOMAS
Filed: 1900-02-16
Granted: 1901-01-19
Abstract: 3134. Watson, T. Feb. 16. Cask and like gauges.-A device consisting of telescopic tubes a,. b, connected by a spring e, is interposed between the rear of the barrel and the ceiling or other support, being attached to both. The tube b has a rack f, which works in a slit in the outer tube a, and a double pawl g serves to hold the tubes distended while the device is being attached to the barrel, and to prevent them from being distended afterwards. The tubes are fitted with caps c, d at the ends, one or both of which may be provided with adjustable attachment rods. The tubes may be provided with an index and scale to indicate approximately the contents of the barrel.
Patent GB-190006569-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to the Heating of Conductors of the Second Class in Electric Incandescent Lamps.
Inventor: RAAB CARL
Filed: 1900-04-07
Granted: 1901-03-16
Abstract: 6569. Raab, C. April 7. Incandescent lamps. - Incandescence bodies, which conduct only after preliminary heating, are used on alternating-current systems in connection with resistances such as ordinary incandescent lamps, transformers having differentially-disposed primary coils, and electrical heaters, which may be of fine platinum wire wound on mica. The heaters are supplied with secondary currents from the transformers, until, by the incandescence bodies becoming conductive, the primary currents become equal and opposite, so that no secondary current is induced. The transformers may have open magnetic circuits, so that their coils serve as inductive resistances in series with the incandescence bodies ; transformers without separate secondary coils, as described in Specification No. 5293, A.D. 1889, [Abridgment Class Electricity, Regulating &c.], may be used. The invention is applicable in various ways on two- and three-wire systems. Fig. 5 shows a three-phase three-wire system, in which two incandescence bodies 24, 25 are separately in series with the two windings 22, 23 of the transformer, between two of the supply wires and the third wire. The heaters 28, 29 are separately connected with parts of the coils 22, 23. At starting, an ordinary incandescent lamp 26 is connected in parallel with one incandescence body 24 by a switch 27, current thus passing through the coil 22 only ; the heater 28 then renders the body 25 conductive, and, when the current taken by this through the coil 23 is equal to that in the coit 22, the heater 28 ceases to receive much current. The switch 27 is then opened, whereupon the unbalanced current in the coil 23 excites the second heater 29, and renders the body 24 conductive, so that the currents in the coils 22, 23 again balance, and the current supplied to the heater 29 is reduced. In some modifications, the switch 27, incandescence body 24, and heater 29 are omitted, the ordinary lamp 26 being left in circuit after starting ; the lamp may be replaced by an inductive winding. Switches to disconnect the heaters may be provided. Additional heaters may be connected in series or otherwise in the heating-circuits, to start additional incandescence bodies, which are connected directly between the supply wires.
Patent GB-190010005-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Clips for Tentering Machines.
Inventor: BIRTWISTLE WILLIAM
Filed: 1900-05-31
Granted: 1900-12-15
Abstract: 10,005. Birtwistle, W. May 31. Stretching and tentering.-The upper jaw 1 of the tentering-clip, which may be opened by an inclined surface acting on the arm 8 or directly on the jaw, has at the rear a wheel or runner 4 to serve as a feeler. An additional serrated jaw 10, pivoted at 11 and raised by the wheel 4, may be used to smooth the selvage or edge of the fabric.
Patent GB-190014763-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Lubricators
Inventor: HORTON HARRY
Filed: 1900-08-17
Granted: 1901-08-17
Abstract: 14,763. Horton, H. Aug. 17. Lubricatos.-In a sight-feed lubricator, the steam inlet 3 is connected to a coil 10 made with both spiral and vertical return bends, or of other suitable form, to provide a tortuous passage for the steam through the oil reservoir 1. The lubricator is provided with a discharge cock 4, oil delivery pipe 8, and sight-feed glass 5 &c.
Patent GB-190104956-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Fastenings for Elastic Tyres
Inventor: JENNINGS WILLIAM
Filed: 1901-03-08
Granted: 1901-05-25
Abstract: 4956. Jennings, W. March 8. Tyres, elastic other than pneumatic.-The rubber or like tyre 8, shown in plan in Fig. 1, is attached to the rim 7 by compressing the rubber, so that the ends of the attaching-wires 11 project. Internally screw-threaded sleeves 13 are screwed on to the threaded ends 12 of the wires, and similar screw-threads are then cut on the other ends 15, after which the sleeves are engaged with the ends 15. The rubber is released so that part of each spindle - shaped sleeve 13 lies in each of the abutting ends. The sleeve may have a central flange on which are elastic washers.
Patent GB-190109029-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Knitting Machines
Inventor: CLARKE HARRY
Filed: 1901-05-02
Granted: 1902-04-24
Abstract: 9029. Clarke, H. May 2. Circular knitting- machines.-Relates to a construction of needles whereby a direct pull or push is put on the needle and side strain is obviated. The needle is forked or cranked at B or B<1>, and embraces or rides on a cam supported by a stem C directly in line with the needle stem. The needle may engage a separate needle-bit as shown in Figs. 2 and 5.
Patent GB-190109334-A (GB)
Title: An Attachment for Potato Digging Machines for Automatically Depositing the Potatoes in Heaps.
Inventor: GROHMANN CARL FERDINAND
Filed: 1901-05-06
Granted: 1901-06-22
Abstract: 9334. Grohmann, C. F. May 6. Potato diggers.-Relates to an attachment to potato diggers for depositing the potatoes in heaps, at intervals, upon the ground. The attachment is described in connection with a machine in which the potatoes are raised by a share, and then carried by a bucket elevator to a screen, from which the cleaned potatoes drop into the receiver 8. The receiver 8 is pivoted at 9, so that it can be inclined so as to discharge the potatoes at either side of the machine. The receiver 8 is provided with fixed sides 10, and with pivoted ends 12, having quadrantal cheek pieces 13 attached thereto. Forks 14 are secured to the ends 12, and operating-links 15 are pivoted to the forks 14 and are connected at their upper ends by hooks or similar temporary couplings to cranks 18 and 19 on a shaft 20. The shaft 20 is rocked by means of tappets 21 and 22, which are alternately engaged by arms 27 and 28 on a rotary shaft 23 driven by chain gearing from the axle of the main wheels of the machine. When it is desired to deposit the potatoes at, say, the left of the machine, as shown in Fig. 3, a pin 16 on the fork 14 at the right of the machine is placed in a hook 17 on the frame to hold the receiver in an inclined position, and the link 15 at the left of the machine is coupled to the crank 18, by the operation of which the end 12 is alternately raised and lowered, to deposit the potatoes in heaps.
Patent GB-190115760-A (GB)
Title: A New and Improved Carburetting Apparatus and Burner for Liquid Hydro-carbons.
Inventor: MACHLET GEORGE
Filed: 1901-08-03
Granted: 1902-02-27
Abstract: 15,760. Machlet, G. Aug. 3. Vapour stoves. -The apparatus, which is called a " carburetter," consists of a vapour burner which internally heats an annular vessel fed with oil, the gas produced, mixed with the products of combustion from the vapour burner and with air, passing away for use in gas furnaces and the like. It consists of an outer casing S supporting, by means of a pin b and the pipe P, a ring B, upon which rests a burner casing A'. Inside the latter is a refractory lining A' supporting a casing A within which is the burner D. Surrounding the latter is a spiral tray e which at first receives a supply of naphtha from a tank J. Air is injected from the main M through the nozzle C, having a needle valve C', and the mixture of vapour and air passes up the burner and partly escapes through the openings e<3>, and partly, after passing through the inclined openings e<2>, escapes through the perforations e'. The mixture is then ignited through the openings s in the casings S. A portion of the flame is drawn through openings e<5> downwards towards the tray e. When the apparatus is sufficiently hot, the naphtha supply is cut off, and heavy hydrocarbon oil is admitted from a raised tank and a pipe P.