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Patent GB-189812945-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Explosion Engines.
Inventor: BAINES WILLIAM
Filed: 1898-06-09
Granted: 1899-07-08
Abstract: 12,945. Baines, W. June 9. Gas and like engines.-The mixture of air and oil vapour, or other charge, after passing through the admission valve and its casing A passes also through a casing B around the exhaust valve b on its way to the cylinder, thereby cooling the exhaust valve and being heated by it. The casings are formed in one piece, or are united together by screwing or otherwise.
Patent GB-189816072-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Stands and Brackets for Exhibiting Umbrellas, Sunshades, Walking Sticks, and the like.
Inventor: DAWSON ALBERT EDWARD
Filed: 1898-07-23
Granted: 1899-05-27
Abstract: 16,072. Dawson, A. E. July 23. Umbrella stands. - A stand for use in halls &c. consists of a central rod or pillar c, on which is adjustably mounted one or more discs e, h having perforations to receive the umbrellas &c. and a base-plate b having recesses to receive the umbrella &c. ends, the whole resting on a wooden base a as shown. In modifications, the stand may be mounted on a bracket, or the perforated plates may be semi - circular for attachment to a backing &c. The recesses for the umbrella &c. ends are preferably troughshaped.
Patent GB-189816739-A (GB)
Title: Improved Brake Lever Clip for Cycles.
Inventor: WALKER LAMBERT
Filed: 1898-08-02
Granted: 1899-06-02
Abstract: 16,739. Walker, L. Aug. 2. Brakes.-A brake lever clip consists of a band D which encircles the handle-bar, and a hollow block C shown separately in Fig. 2 and provided with a lug b on which the brake lever is pivoted. The ends of the band D are secured to the block by a bolt E, which passes through a hole in the end d and engages a nut d<1> secured to the other end of the band. A cross-bar c on the block C is pressed against the handle-bar by the band as shown.
Patent GB-189817443-A (GB)
Title: Improved Means for Automatically Closing Bulkhead and other Water-tight Doors.
Inventor: KNORRING AXEL VON
Filed: 1898-08-12
Granted: 1898-10-15
Abstract: 17,443. Knorring, A. von. Aug. 12. Bulkhead doors; companions; hatches.-In the event of water accumulating in any compartment of a ship, all the bulkhead doors and the companion-ways and hatchways leading from that compartment are automatically closed. Fig. 2 shows one method of closing bulkhead doors. In the deck, at each side of the bulkhead, is provided a tank B containing a float D, which is hinged at D' and carries the bulkhead door E. When water enters a compartment, the float D rises and closes the door as shown to the right of Fig. 2. A water-tight joint is made by a strip of india-rubber G, and the door may be secured by a fastening J. A system of water supply and delivery pipes with suitable cooks is provided to enable the doors to be tested at any time. Any dirt can be removed from the tank B into a receptacle B<1> by a scraper H, connected to hinged bars H<1>, and provided with an operating- rod and handle H<3>. Floats, hinged in the manner shown, may be arranged to operate doors moving across the openings horizontally, vertically, or diagonally, or to operate doors hinged to the bulkhead at the sides of the opening. In the arrangement shown, two doors are provided for each opening, but one only may be provided, actuated by a float on either side of the bulkhead. In this event a casing is provided round the opening in which the door moves. When closed, the door fits between inclined framings to make a water-tight joint.
Patent GB-189818126-A (GB)
Title: Improved Means and Ingredients for Treating Cocoa and like Fibres in Imitation of Hair for Upholstery.
Inventor: HORSEY EMMA
Filed: 1898-08-23
Granted: 1899-10-23
Abstract: 18,126. Horsey, E. Aug. 23. Upholstery stuffing-materials.-Coco and like vegetable fibre is carded and washed in water, and then washed, until thoroughly impregnated, in alum sulphate, then washed again in cold water, and dried at a temperature of 175-200‹ F. The fibre is then immersed in a solution of 1 gallon of water, 6 to 8 oz. of borax, 4 oz. of gum arabic, and 2¢ lbs. of lac, with or without a dye. This treatment renders the fibre impervious to moisture, odourless, and springy, and prevents it from harbouring insects.
Patent GB-189818234-A (GB)
Title: Improved Construction of Chambers or Receptacles for Drying, Evaporating, Heating, or Cooling Substances.
Inventor: HUBER CARL
Filed: 1898-08-24
Granted: 1899-07-22
Abstract: 18,234. Huber, C. Aug. 24. Cooling-chambers. - Figs. 1 and 2 show a chamber for cooling. The cooling-fluid, entering at F, passes between the spiral projections D, D' from the plates C, C<1>, which also have grooves E, to the outlet F<1>. Both spiral projections may be carried by one plate, or only one projection may be used, the other being replaced by a radial discharge pipe on the underside of the plate C. In other modifications, the fluid is caused to pass in a zig-zag path. In the case of a square chamber, a zig-zag rib and inter-fitting straight ribs are used, while in a circular chamher a radial and a number of concentric partitions are used.
Patent GB-189820017-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Means for Producing Automatic Ignition of Gas Issuing from Burners Furnished with Incandescent Mantles or Hoods.
Inventor: PIERRON LEON
Filed: 1898-09-21
Granted: 1898-12-03
Abstract: 20,017. Pierron, L. March 10, [date claimed under Sec. 103 of Patents &c. Act, A.D. 1883]. Incandescent gas lamps.-Relates to the preparation of mantles for use with automatic igniters of the platinum-black type, the principal object being to increase the life or durability of the igniters without the aid of mechanical devices. When the mantle is prepared, before the usual incineration there are made on that part of the mantle which is in contact with the igniter C a few marks or lines B with a solution of non-volatile or infusible oxides of acid action which prevent ulterior chemical reactions, such as described in Specification No. 15,414, A.D. 1898, and conductors D, either of cotton threads saturated with a platinnm - chloride or similar solution or of wires of platinum or platinum alloy or their equivalents, are passed into the mantle along the marks B. When the mantle is prepared after incineration, it is dried after the marks or lines B of the non-volatile or infusible oxides of aeid action have been made thereon, and the parts B thus prepared are treated with a solution of an 'igniting-element,' such as a platinum salt, and the mantle is calcined. If the igniting-element' be not applied in sufficient quantity to secure ignition, a pellet of the igniting-substance is mounted or supported by a wire on the outside of the mantle and in contact with the prepared parts B. The details of the processes may be slightly modified, and the materials used may be varied in the manner described in the Specification referred to.
Patent GB-189820208-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Electrical Signalling Apparatus for Railways.
Inventor: PEGELOW FRIEDRICH
Filed: 1898-09-23
Granted: 1899-09-23
Abstract: 20,208. Pegelow, F. Sept. 23. Signals on engines and trains; signalling and communicating between trains. -Relates to electric signalling - apparatus for preventing collisions between vehicles approaching each other on railways, the apparatus also enabling telegraphic or telephonic communication to be established between the drivers. Two insulated conducting-rails F, G are mounted between the ordinary rails H, H<1>, so as to make contact with the roller E, or the roller E<1>, according to the direction of motion of the vehicle. Each section of the rails F, G is equal to or more than the minimum permissible distance which one vehicle may approach to another, and the sections of each rail are arranged to break joint with those of the other. The rollers E, E<1> and the ordinary wheels D are connected through the switchboard A to the battery a and alarm b on the vehicle. The board A is provided with two switch levers, each having two insulated contact-making plugs. One lever is set to connect the contacts 1 and 2, if the vehicle is moving in a forward direction, the contacts 3 and 4, if the vehicle is moving backwards, or the contacts 5 and 6, if the vehicle is stopped. The other lever is set to connect the contacts 7 and 8, or 9 and 10, accordingly as the roller E, or the roller E', is on the rails F, G. When two vehicles approach each other until they come on the same section of rail F or G, or when one vehicle moves on to such a section occupied by a stationary vehicle, the alarm b on the moving vehicle or vehicles is operated. When the alarms have been operated and the vehicles brought to a standstill, the alarms may be cut out, and a telegraphic or telephonic apparatus switched into the circuit.
Patent GB-189905935-A (GB)
Title: Improved Mechanism or Machine for Beading and Wiring the Edges of Strip Metal and such like.
Inventor: BREININGER FREDERICK HENRY WIL
Filed: 1899-03-18
Granted: 1900-02-10
Abstract: 5935. Breininger, F. H. W. March 18. Metal sheet, beading and wiring edges of.-A strip of metal, such as may be used for a cycle mud guard, has its edges beaded by being drawn between plates a<2>, a<3>, the operative edges of which have taper bead grooves d, which gradually effect the curling over and beading of the edges as the strip passes from the front end a<7> to the rear end a<9>. A mandrel plate e with suitable edges e<2>, e<3> is fixed between the plates a<2>, a<3>, co-operating with them in the beading and preventing buckling of the strip. The strip is fed by a pair of rolls (not shown) at the rear end, and a second pair may be provided at the front end. A guide is provided for keeping the strip central. The wire n for wiring the edges is fed into the grooves d as shown. The plates a<2>, a<3> may be replaced by a pair of vertical grooved rolls m, Fig. 6, adjacent to the feed-rolls.
Patent GB-189906473-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Electrical Apparatus for Igniting Gas Burners from a Distance.
Inventor: BOLLE CARL
Filed: 1899-03-25
Granted: 1900-02-17
Abstract: 6473. BollÚ, C., [Fitzlaff, C.]. March 25. Lighting and extinguishing gas.-When the gas cocks are actuated and the burners ignited from a distance by electrical apparatus, the parts are so arranged that a stronger current is required to effect the opening than the closing of the gas cock, which is thus closed with certainty when the same current is employed throughout. The ignition and extinction bobbins Z, L are of equal power, but the core of the ignition bobbin Z is further from its armature z than the core of the extinction bobbin L is from its armature l, and the armature z has, in addition, to lift the spring-loaded sparking rod f, which in Figs. 1 and 2 is shown located within the pilot jet. The opening and closing of the gas cock is effected by the transmission, by means of the arms d, e, of the movements of the armatures z, l to an arm C on the cock.
Patent GB-189908231-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Baking Ovens.
Inventor: MARSHALL JOHN IRWIN
Filed: 1899-04-19
Granted: 1899-05-27
Abstract: 8231. Marshall, J. I., and Faulds, J. April 19. Earthenware and like pipes and tubes.-The walls or flues of bakers' ovens are built up of hollow tiles or pipes of the form shown in Figs. 6 and 7.
Patent GB-189915488-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Wave Motors.
Inventor: ESSINGTON HENRY C
Filed: 1899-07-28
Granted: 1900-05-26
Abstract: 15,488. Essington, H. C. Dec. 28, A.D. 1898, [date applied for under Sec. 103 of Patents &c. Act, A.D. 1883]. Actuating pumps. - A lever arm 2 carrying a float 1, which rises and falls with the waves, is connected with the machinery driven through a coaxially-mounted arm 6 by means of a clutch connection consisting of a ratchet segment 9 and pawl 8. To allow for the rise and fall of the tide, or a higher wave than usual, the pawl is disengaged from the ratchet by the trip levers 11 striking the stops 12 at the end of a long stroke, or the trips may ride over fixed cam surfaces and thereby lift the pawl. Pistons connected to the driven part work in the oppositely-placed cushioning-cylinders 14, which may act as compressors or pumps. The float 1 may be spherical, and mounted to rotate on bearings 24, 25 on the arm 2, and this arm may be strengthened by stays or by an outside frame.
Patent GB-189915562-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Screening Coal, Coke and other Materials.
Inventor: BLACKETT WILLIAM CUTHBERT
Filed: 1899-07-29
Granted: 1900-09-29
Abstract: 15,562. Blackett, W. C. July 29. Screening coal, coke, &c. -Coal, coke, or other material is graded in a cylindrical screen A provided with perforations a<3> of two or more sizes. In the apparatus shown, a preliminary screening is effected in the jigging-screen B, and the coal &c. is then fed to the lower end of the screen A, up which it is conveyed by the spiral ledges E, which may be perforated as shown in the Figure. Two grades of coal are discharged to the trucks G, and the largest size is discharged to the cleaning-belt H. The screen may be placed horizontally, and may be rotated by any suitable means.
Patent GB-190003781-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Cuff Protectors.
Inventor: MAULE EDWARD HERBERT
Filed: 1900-02-27
Granted: 1900-03-31
Abstract: 3781. Maule, E. H. Feb. 27. Drawings to Specification. Calendars and date indicators; calculating-apparatus.-Almanacs and money tables are printed on a special form of cuff protector.
Patent GB-190006591-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Jacks and Needles applicable to Knitting Machinery and the like.
Inventor: MOORE JOHN CHARLES
Filed: 1900-04-09
Granted: 1901-02-09
Abstract: 6591. Moore, J. C. April 9. Knitting-machine needles and jacks.-The needles, both frame and rib, are secured to the jacks by turned-up projections c, e, f, fitting in slots in the jacks, as shown in Figs. 1, 4, 5, 6, and 7, or by the jacks fitting between projections b on the needles, as shown in Figs. 2 and 8, and not by soldering as is usual. In the arrangements shown in Figs. 1, 2, 5, 6, 7, and 8, the needle tricks are sufficiently deep to keep the parts interlocked ; in that shown in Fig. 4, the jacks work in tricks, at or about the point e, which keep the parts engaged. The needle, Fig. 3, has a turned-over projection, for engaging a spring used in some types of machines and usually soldered to the needle.
Patent GB-190007776-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and connected with Braiding-machines.
Inventor: DEMUTH CARL
Filed: 1900-04-26
Granted: 1900-08-18
Abstract: 7776. Demuth, C., and Demuth, E April 26. Braiding-machines.-Guide-pieces on the lower end of the bobbin spindles work in grooves C in a plate situated between the wings A and the wheels B. The grooved plate can be cast in one or in four sections ; in the latter case, each section has a semicircular hole or gap to receive the axles of the wheels and wings. The sections are kept together by rings and bolts.
Patent GB-190009010-A (GB)
Title: A Machine for Drying Grain and other Granular Substances
Inventor: GORDON JOHN WILTON
Filed: 1900-05-16
Granted: 1901-04-06
Abstract: 9010. Gordon, J. W., [Okrassa, R.]. May 16. Drying grain, coffee, &c.-A rotary drying- d r u m A, journalled in vertical standards, is formed with a c e n t r a l cylindrical compartment G, which has a perforated wall covered with screens I and through which hot air passes from a supply pipe connected to the trunnions U. The drum is divided longitudinally and transversely by partitions F, T, and the chambers so formed contain compound S - shaped mixing-plates J, which rotate with the drum so as to scoop up and agitate the material in the drum. Doors D, Q, connected together by a catch R, are provided in the drum and mixing-plates to facilitate charging and discharging.
Patent GB-190011354-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to Hinged Split Followers or Forms for Boots and Shoes.
Inventor: COLLINS JEREMIAH FINBAR
Filed: 1900-06-22
Granted: 1900-07-28
Abstract: 11,354. Collins, J. F. June 22. Lasts.-The toe is made in two sections hinged to the heel in the manner shown. To the heel is secured a tube 3, shown separately in Fig. 9, within which bosses 11 on the toe sections rotate. These sections are pressed apart by springs to a distance limited by the screw 19. The tube 3 is slotted in the manner shown, so that, when the heel is turned up to shorten the last, the toe-sections are drawn towards one another by the fingers 15 engaging in the said slot.
Patent GB-190013431-A (GB)
Title: A Self Opening Envelope, Wrapper or Cover for Sealed Letters, Book Packages and other Parcels.
Inventor: MITCHELL FREDERICK SCOTT
Filed: 1900-07-26
Granted: 1901-06-01
Abstract: 13,431. Mitchell, F. S. July 26. Envelopes; wrappers, postal. Envelopes and wrappers for parcels, books, &c. are provided with a tape attached across the envelope &c. on the inside to facilitate opening by tearing.
Patent GB-190016549-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Typewriting Machines.
Inventor: FELL JOHN CORRY
Filed: 1900-09-17
Granted: 1900-11-17
Abstract: 16,549. Fell, J. C., [Felbel, J.]. Sept. 17. Type-writters.-Relates to the paper-carriages of type-writers. Fig. 1 shows the carriage in front elevation, Fig. 8 in plan, and Fig. 2 in transverse section. The platen frame consists of side bars 3, 4, and a rear bar 5, and is adapted to slide on rails 6. A guide 10 for the type-bars at the impressionpoint is shown in dotted lines. Pressure - rollers 13, 16 are carried by spring arms 14, and project through openings 22 in the spring - pressed apron or deflecting plate 18. The scale 23 is carried by arms 24 and is tensioned against the platen by a spring 25<a>, Fig. 1. Two paper guides 27 are adapted to engage with the edges of the sheet of paper, whatever may be its width. They consist of curved plates pivoted on pins 31, Fig. 3, extending from arms 32, which are pivoted loosely at 35, 36 to a grooved rod 37 extending across the platen. The sheet of paper passes over this rod as shown in Figs. 1 and 2. Sleeves 38 are splined to the rod 37, and are surrounded by helical springs 42 secured at one end to rings 41 adjustably engaged by crown teeth with similar teeth 40, Fig. 4, on the sleeves 38. The free ends of the springs 42 press upwardly on the arms 33 and tension the guides 27 against the platen. The crown teeth 40, 41 enable the tension of the two springs 42 to be independently adjustable. The rod 37 can also be turned so as to vary the pressure of both of the guides 27 on the platen. This is effected by means of a milled wheel 48 secured to the rod 37, the rod being first moved slightly to the right against the tension of the spring 49 to disengage the crown teeth 47<a>. The arms 32 are provided with extensions 50 extending into a depression 51<a> at the foot of the paper shelf 51. The extensions 50 serve as guides when feeding the sheet into the machine. The paper-guides 27 may be riveted to the arms 32, which may also be rigidly connected with the splined sleeves 38, the rod 37 being tensioned by. a coiled spring tending to press both paper-guides against the platen. The apron 18 may be prolonged so that its forward end acts as a carriage scale. When the guides 27 are riveted to the arms 32 they may be looped or bent back on themselves to ensure a more even and yielding pressure on the platen. Small spring-pressed rollers may press on the platen through openings in the guides 27.
Patent GB-190022944-A (GB)
Title: Improvements applicable to the Furnaces of Steam Boilers
Inventor: PRIESTLEY FRED
Filed: 1900-12-15
Granted: 1901-05-18
Abstract: 22,944. Priestley, F. Dec. 15. Blast apparatus for furnaces. Jets of superheated steam are delivered through nozzles n into the " blow-holes " d, which form continuations of the air trunks g. The air drawn into the trunks g by the steam jets is mixed with hot gases drawn in from the furnace through the brauches h. The steam for the jets is superheated in the coil i, which forms an arch over the mouth of the furnace. The draught may be intensified by allowing some of the steam to enter the furnace through nozzles fitted at one or more of the inner bends of the coil i.
Patent GB-190103201-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Apparatus for Automatically Regulating the Supply of Motive Fluid to Feed Pumps and the like.
Filed: 1901-02-14
Granted: 1901-04-06
Abstract: 3201. Clarke, Chapman, & Co., and Woodeson, W. A. Feb. 14. Governing or controlling pumps. - Consists of apparatus for automatically regulating the supply of motive fluid to feed-pumps and the like. The liquid to be pumped passes into a tank containing an open-topped vessel 3, which the liquid first enters, and which serves as a float. The float 3 is connected by the links 10<a>, 12 and lever 10 to the rod 13 connected to the motive-fluid valve. The rod 13 passes through an air pipe 14, and carries a weight. The float 3 is strengthened by straps, and is pivoted on links 6 pivoted in an extension 8 of the tank.
Patent GB-190103443-A (GB)
Title: Device for Closing Envelopes.
Inventor: FEHRE CURT
Filed: 1901-02-18
Granted: 1901-03-23
Abstract: 3443. Fehre, C. Feb. 18. Envelopes, closing. Relates to a fastening which cannot be opened without detection. The appliance consists of two circular metal plates a, b, provided with teeth d, f, which enter the rings e, c, when the parts are pressed together. Advertisements may appear on the external plate.
Patent GB-190108962-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Switch Apparatus for use in a Surface Contact System of Electric Traction, and in Operating Switches used in such System.
Inventor: PARKER THOMAS HUGH
Filed: 1901-05-01
Granted: 1901-06-15
Abstract: 8962. Parker, T. H. May 1. Electric railways and tramways on a surface contact system with mechanically - operated switches. Switches; conductors.-The switch which connects the road studs to the main may be of any suitable form, such as a bridge-piece B turning over contact-plates, and is operated by a star-wheel or the like E engaged by strikers on the front and rear of the vehicle or train to make and break the connection. The casing A, which contains the switch and carries the spindle of the wheel E, is supported by lugs d in slots inside the outer casing F. It is inserted vertically and turned into the horizontal position so that the star-wheel is brought into the slot, and the contact-plates at the same time are coupled up to the main and branch conductors. These conductors are led into the two standards K, where they are connected to insulated mercury cups c by the pieces g screwed to the bottom of the cups. Plungers b, connected through fuses a to the contact-plates over which the bridge B works, dip into these cups when the inner box is turned down, and a tight joint is made by a washer n. The inner box has removable covers M, q, N, and that over the fuse may be of glass, and the outer box is closed by the cover P.
Patent GB-190109576-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Combined Speed Indicating and Recording Apparatus-either with or without Distance Recording Mechanism-for Motor Cars or other Uses.
Inventor: STAUNTON FRANCIS MALGER
Filed: 1901-05-08
Granted: 1902-04-17
Abstract: 9576. Staunton, F. M. May 8. Speed indicators.-Improvements on the invention described in Specification No. 22,009, A.D. 1899. Centrifugal balls c on bow springs c<1> between fixed and sliding collars d, e on a spindle a determine the position of a sliding rack i, which moves with a lever f following the sliding collar and turns an index o on a dial. A second rack k, pushed by a pin i<2> on the first rack, turns another index, but is kept at the maximum displacement for a certain number of revolutions of the spindle, by a pawl q, till worm gear s disengages the pawl. A third rack may remain at the absolute maximum. Odometers.-The worm gear may be part of a counter of the units of distance travelled by a car.