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Patent GB-190009342-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Double Acting Spring Hinges.
Inventor: STUMP ABRAHAM L
Filed: 1900-05-21
Granted: 1900-07-28
Abstract: 9342. Stump, A. L., and Brucker, F. May 21. Door holders.- Relates to a spring hinge for closing doors, which is provided with a stop for holding the door when full open. The hinge is shown in vertical section in Fig. 1. One end of the spring i is attached to the outer end of a socket fixed to the door frame A by the plate a. The other end of the spring bears against a sliding plate e, which is pulled out by one of two pins f fixed to the pocket b on the double swing door B. The door turns on the pivot g. When the door B is full open, it is held by one of the pins f passing into a rabbet e' in the outer end of the pocket d.
Patent GB-190010213-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to Cooling Devices for the Pistons of Internal Combustion and like Engines.
Inventor: MCMULLEN JOHN ALEXANDER
Filed: 1900-06-02
Granted: 1901-05-04
Abstract: 10,213. McMullen, J. A. June 2. Piston.-Water is admitted to the trunk piston of a gas or like engine, to cool it, by a tube d closed at the end e and sliding in a chamber f from which the water passes to the tube through a port. The water escapes from the piston by a similar pipe i. The pipes d, i may be united. The chambers f and l may be formed in an enlargement of the trunk piston, as shown in Fig. 5.
Patent GB-190010463-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Closed Life-boat; and Devices for Launching the same.
Inventor: GIFFHORN LUDWIG JULIUS WILLIAM
Filed: 1900-06-08
Granted: 1901-07-08
Abstract: 10,463. Griffhorn, -. June 8. Drawings to Specification. Condensers; marine engines.-Covered lifeboats carried by steamships have tanks containing drinking-water. To keep this water sweet and pure and to protect it from frost, these tanks are occasionally connected to the condensers of the ships' engines, so that they serve as auxiliary condensers. The connection is made by a hose which can easily be cut in case of emergency after a valve has been closed.
Patent GB-190013060-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Motor Gun Carriages.
Inventor: LAWSON HENRY JOHN
Filed: 1900-07-19
Granted: 1901-01-12
Abstract: 13,060. Lawson, H. J. July 19. Motor road vehicles.-Relates to a motor gun carriage. The carriage frame consists of two U frames A, connected by cross - bars A<1> and strengthened by struts A<2>. The motor and carburetter E are carried on the front wheel, which is mounted on the fork B' in the socket B. The steering-handle D is secured to the crown of the fork B<1>. The gun pivot is carried by the parallel members C' from the socket B, and is retained in any desired position by the adjustable strut C<3>. A shield F on the front wheel protects the carburetter, and a shield F<2> secured to the gun protects the gunner.
Patent GB-190014761-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Double-ply Woven Fabrics.
Inventor: STEVENSON WILLIAM MANSFIELD
Filed: 1900-08-17
Granted: 1900-10-20
Abstract: 14,761. Stevenson, W. M. Jan. 22, [date applied for under Sec. 103 of Patents &c. Act, A.D. 1883]. Double fabrics.-In two-ply fabrics the warp threads for binding the weft threads 1, 2 in each ply are normally shed in pairs-1<a>, 1<b> and 1<c>, 1<d> for the face ply, and 2<a>, 2<b> and 2<c>, 2<d> for the back plybut for tying the two plies together at intervals the pairs of the upper ply are divided, one warp engaging with a weft thread of the back ply and the other preventing this weft thread from being drawn up between weft threads of the face ply. The warp threads employed for tying are taken from the pairs, alternately, as shown.
Patent GB-190015700-A (GB)
Title: The Manufacture of Improved Fuel.
Inventor: MACALPINE THOMAS
Filed: 1900-09-04
Granted: 1901-09-04
Abstract: 15,700. Macalpine, T. Sept. 4. Fuel.-An artificial fuel may be manufactured by immersing peat, or other fibrous material, such as sawdust and shavings, in naphtha or other light hydrocarbon oil, then pressing the peat or other material, saturating with oil at a temperature of about 212‹ F., and finally pressing to remove excess of oil and water. The treatment with naphtha and light hydrocarbon oil may be omitted. Peat, sawdust, or shavings, previously treated, if desired, in the manner above described, may be immersed in heated oils, fats, tar, or pitch, and afterwards pressed. The Provisional Specification states also that grass may be used in making an artificial fuel.
Patent GB-190022020-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Valves for Steam Pipes.
Inventor: RAPKE ADOLF LEOPOLD
Filed: 1900-12-04
Granted: 1901-03-23
Abstract: 22,020. Rapke, A. L. Dec. 4. Lift valves. - A valve for steam pipes fitted with a device for removing the water carried by the steam is shown. The casing 2 has a conical downward extension 1, which forms the seat of the plug valve 4. Steam entering the valve strikes the conical plug, and is relieved of any water carried by it. The water passes through an opening in the conical extension into a suitable receptacle.
Patent GB-190022863-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to Camp Stools.
Inventor: BURNAP CHARLES EDWARD
Filed: 1900-12-14
Granted: 1901-02-09
Abstract: 22,863. Burnap, C. E., and Sheffy, J. K. Dec. 14. Stools.-Relates to folding portable camp stools which can be folded and inserted into a hollow walking-stick as shown in Fig. 3, the handle n then being screwed on to retain it. The three legs have central spherical knobs p, which are arranged between flanged discs q held together by a spring s, t, u, v as indicated in Fig. 5. The legs pass through slots r in the discs, and the effect of the spring s and slots r is to spread out the legs automatically when they are released. The lower ends of the legs are connected by flexible stays c, jointed at d, to the shouldered lower ends of the legs, and connected together at e; these stays may be arranged as indicated in dotted lines in Fig. 1, and their function is to limit the extent of opening of the legs. The canvas bottom f has secured to its corners plates h with ears j by which the plates are pivoted to the shouldered upper ends of the legs.
Patent GB-190100078-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Valves for Distributing Fluid under Pressure.
Inventor: CRAVEN ROBERT EDWIN PEACOCK
Filed: 1901-01-01
Granted: 1901-02-09
Abstract: 78. Craven, R. E. P. Jan. 1. Working valves -Relates to valves for distributing fluid under pres sure to hydraulic machinery. The barrel 2 of the valve is formed with chambers 3 4,5 communicating with the inlet channel 3<a>, the exhaust channel 5<a>, and the channel 4<a> leading to the hydraulic cylinder &c. The barrel is closed by screw plugs 7, 13 provided with extentensions 9, 14 which leave spaces or ports at 11, 15. The cup - leathers 21, 22 are fixed on the valve spindle 18 as shown. In the position shown, the fluid under pressure has access to the cylinder, but, on depressing the spindle by the hand-lever, the fluid is cut off and the fluid in the cylinder can pass to the exhaust. The exhaust may take place through the plug 13 as shown in Fig. 3.
Patent GB-190104244-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Cap Bars applicable for Spinning and Roving and other Frames.
Filed: 1901-02-27
Granted: 1901-10-12
Abstract: 4244. Brooks & Doxey, and Cook, W. H. Feb. 27. Rollers and roller heads.-The cap bar B is secured to its carrying-bar A by means of a triangular key C, one face of the key resting on a continuous flat on the bar A, while the opposite edge thereof becomes embedded in the socket of the cap bar. The invention is applicable to ring spinning, roving, and other frames.
Patent GB-190105483-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Rock Drills.
Filed: 1901-03-15
Granted: 1902-03-13
Abstract: 5483. Gardner Electric Drill and Hammer Co., [Sicka, L. T.]. March 15. Rock drills, percussive hand or other power. The drill spindle 9 is held by its neck in the clamp 7, which is attached by the spring 5 to the crosshead 3 driven by the crank shaft 1 through the curved slot 3". If the drill sticks, the crosshead can still reciprocate. The whole is mounted in a casing which has bearings 2<g>, 2<b>, 2<c>, 2<d>, 2<a> for the crank shaft and spindle and crosshead. A feed-nut 2<f> and any suitable rotating-gear 10, 11 are also provided,
Patent GB-190106369-A (GB)
Title: A New or Improved Process for Securing Heads to Cans Tins and the like
Inventor: WILCOX GEORGE
Filed: 1901-03-26
Granted: 1901-05-18
Abstract: 6369. Wilcox, G. March 26. Making cans and canisters; soldering.-Relates to a method of soldering the tops and bottoms after the formation of the side seams. The ends of the can-body are successively dipped into molten solder, inverted, and cooled, and the body passed through a fluxing-machine. The heads are then driven on the body and preferably crimped and heat applied in such a way as to fuse the rib of solder which has been formed on each end and to cause it to flow down into the seam. To effect this, the device shown in Fig. 7 may be employed, where the cans a are rolled along a heated trough g. In another method, the tins are supported vertically upon a plate which is passed along a row of burners.
Patent GB-190111802-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Pumping Machinery.
Inventor: ASHLEY HERBERT
Filed: 1901-06-10
Granted: 1902-05-08
Abstract: 11,802. Ashley, H., and Barr, J. June 10. Bucket pumps; plunger pumps; pump counterbalances; delivery column, balancing.-Consistsof a construction in which the pump is double-acting with a single bucket, and balanced at all levels of the water in the well or hole. Fig. 1 shows the application to a pump having a bucket D in which the suction valves E are carried on a portion D<1> of the bucket of reduced diameter, G<1>, G<2> being the delivery valves. The bucket-rod H is hollow and open at the top, and at its lower end communicates by a passage H<1> with the annular space between the barrel A and the reduced part D<1> of the bucket. The water thus stands in the rod H at the same level as in the well and rising main C. The rod H occupies about half the area of the rising main C, and acts as a plunger, so that the pump delivers on the down-stroke as well as on the upstroke. In a modification, a double cup K, Fig. 2, containing a ball valve K', is fitted above the passage H<1>, so that, should the water level in the well be below the bucket D, the valve K<2> will prevent air from being drawn through the rod H. Two adaptations of the invention to a bucket of ordinary construction are described. In one, the communication between the hollow rod H and the space below the bucket, by way of a passage similar to H', is controlled by ports in an extension of the delivery valve, so arranged that the passage H<1> is only open when the delivery valve is closed. In the second case, the bolt connecting the rod H and bucket is hollow, and slides over a central tube, the open lower end of which is always below the level of the water in the well.
Patent GB-190112772-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or connected with Ring Spinning, Doubling and Twisting Machines.
Inventor: CRAVEN PHINEHAS PEARSON
Filed: 1901-06-22
Granted: 1902-05-01
Abstract: 12,772. Craven, P. P. June 22. Spindle apparatus for r i n g and traveller spinning, doubling, and twisting machines. For spinning yarns of high counts, or soft yarns of low counts, the bobbin E is fitted with a disc G, which slides upon and rotates with it in the same manner in which similar discs have been fitted to slide upon and rotate with the bare spindle. In order to ensure that the disc shall rotate with the bobbin, the latter may be made with a flattened portion, a longitudinal groove, or of a polygonal section, the central aperture in the disc G being of corresponding shape, or the disc may be fitted with suitable springs K, which press on the cylindrical surface of the bobbin. A thin tube may be placed on the bobbin, in which case the disc is caused to slide upon and rotate with the tube.
Patent GB-190113430-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Variable Speed Gearing.
Inventor: FAIRWEATHER WALLACE
Filed: 1901-07-02
Granted: 1901-11-09
Abstract: 13,430. Fairweather, W., [Shattuck Manufacturing Co.]. July 2. Toothed gearing. - Relates to variable-speed gearing in which the speed ratio may be varied, while the wheels remain in gear. A sot of stepped wheels is made in two parts 9, 13 ; the part 13 is movable along inclined guides on the part 9, which is rigidly connected to the shaft 7. The pinion 49 is mounted between arms 55, 57 on a inclined shaft 51, which carries a pinion 53 in gear with the pinion 49, and may be geared to a hollow shaft 71, by pinions 67, 69. The arm 55 is formed with a projection 65 adapted to engage in channels 45 formed on the wheels. One of the guides 21, secured to the movable part of the wheel, has pivoted on its outer end a pointed shoe 31, which is adapted to run in grooves in a fixed cone 23, Fig. 12 ; as long as the shoe is free to run in the central straight groove 25 the wheel remains in its normal position, but when, by turning the switch 33 by means of its handle 37, the shoe is diverted into one of the side grooves 27, 29, the movable halfwheel is moved laterally to cause each step first to coincide with and form a continuation of the next larger or smaller step of the fixed half-wheel, as the case may be, and then to return to its normal position. Fig. 3 shows the shoe in the groove 29, the movable half-wheel moved to the left, and the pinion entering into gear with one of its steps ; as the wheel returns to the normal position, it carries the pinion with it, and resumes its place opposite the corresponding step of the fixed wheel before it has cleared the pinion. The handle 37 is provided with a spring finger 43, Figs. 9 and 10, which always tends to return the stitch to the central position. The outward movement of the movable half-wheel at either end, when the pinion is in gear with the largest or smallest step, is limited by a lever 81, jointed to the handle 37, and to a rod 73 ; this is fitted to slide in the shaft 51 and provided with stops 75, 77 which come in contact with the boss of the pinion. The form of switch described above permits of the change of gear being effected when the wheel is rotating in one direction only ; to enable the change to be made while rotating in either direction, a double switch of modified form is employed,
Patent GB-190116677-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to the Manufacture of Electrodes for Galvanic Batteries.
Inventor: POERSCKE RUDOLF
Filed: 1901-08-20
Granted: 1902-07-17
Abstract: 16,677. P÷rscke, R. Aug. 20. Primary batteries.- A plate or electrode is made up of a grid consisting of a number of horizontal shelves a, preferably of iron or copper and riveted to vertical bars b. The shelves may be V-shape in section. Into this grid is packed a finely-pulverized depolarizer, made into a paste with a solution of sugar or other binding- agent. The depolarizer may be of the oxide class. The plate is then heated to about 120 C. on a plate of sheet metal, and is subsequently heated to a red heat in an open fire, after which it is gradually cooled in the air.
Patent GB-190117132-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in the Construction of Insulators for Electrically Separating Sections of Overhead Trolley Lines and the like.
Inventor: QUIN ROBERT CORNELIUS
Filed: 1901-08-27
Granted: 1902-03-27
Abstract: 17,132. Quin, R. C. Aug. 27. Electric railways and tramways.-Relates to section insulators for trolley lines and the like. Conductors; insulation.-The trolley wires p are held by eccentric dogs &c. b in the metal parts or castings a, between which is mounted a third casting e, all three having runners and guides d, d', l on their undersides for the trolley wheel. The three castings are insulated from each other by insulators i, j having corrugated surfaces and resilient washers at their ends, where they are provided with sockets to receive lugs on the castings. They are held together by the tension rods f and end bars f bearing on the ends of the insulators j. The lugs of the central part are threaded on the rods f, and adjusted thereon by nuts h. Perforated extensions o of these lugs afford means for attachment to the span wires or brackets. Owing to the tension of the wires p and the position of the rods f, all the insulators are under compression.
Patent GB-190119470-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to Rail Joints.
Inventor: MELAUN FRANZ
Filed: 1901-09-30
Granted: 1902-08-21
Abstract: 19,470. Melaun, F. Sept. 30. Railjoints; chairs. -The rail ends are placed some e distance apart, and the gap in the tread is filled in by a head k, formed on one or both fishplates. The rails rest on the inturned bottoms w of the plates which bridge the sleepers, and the plates bear against the web of the rail, but not under the head or over the foot. A stop r is placed between the ends of the rail in the bottom of the fishplates which abut against the lugs z on the stop. Notches are made at i for the fixing- spikes &c. The Provisional Specification also mentions a square-headed screw stop and a stepped or overlapping arrangement for the separate parts of the tread.
Patent GB-190119965-A (GB)
Title: Improved Means for Carrying Packages, applicable to Wheel-barrows, Stretchers and the like.
Inventor: PHILLIPS GRAFTON
Filed: 1901-10-07
Granted: 1902-08-28
Abstract: 19,965. Phillips, G. Oct. 7. Handbarrows; hand-trucks and wheeled parcelcarriers; wheelbarrows.-Relates to means for readily transporting boxes, barrels, bags, and other packages on band vehicles of various types, the application to a wheelbarrow being shown in Figs. 1 and 2. The sides F are connected at the end furthest from the wheel W by a cross-bar R, to which are pivoted the handles E carrying bell-crank levers. The sides have slots S, in which slide the ends of a bar A connected by links C to the levers D. In use, the barrow is wheeled up to and dropped over the box, so that it lies between the bars A, B, and the bar A is then moved backwards by raising the handle, whereby the box is gripped between the bars A, B and is readily moved. The bar B may be either fixed or adjustable by means of sliding bolts I, operated from a handle J to engage in any one of a series of holes F<1> in the sides. The bars A, B may either be curved or be fitted with removable curved pieces, and the bar A and links C may be replaced by a rope or chain passing through the slots. The bar A may be secured to pivoted levers operated by the links C.
Patent GB-190126505-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Bearings for the Spindles and Flyers of Roving & Twisting Frames.
Inventor: BARBOUR THOMAS
Filed: 1901-12-28
Granted: 1902-11-20
Abstract: 26,505. Barbour, T. Dec. 28. Spindle apparatus.-The upper end of the spindle and flyer of a roving and twisting frame is supported in a split bush 3, having a conical outer surface, which is held by a nut 7 in a conical aperture in the bracket or "steadier" 1. Looseness in the bearing due to wear is compensated for by screwing up the nut 7.
Patent GB-190200656-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Pulp Moulding Machines.
Inventor: WARD GEORGE ROBERT
Filed: 1902-01-09
Granted: 1902-05-01
Abstract: 656. Ward, G. R. Jan. 9. Moulding pulp plates &c.-Perforated moulds 3, 4 are fixed to a carrier 1 on a hollow shaft 2, and movable mould sections 3<a>, 4<a> are connected together by rods 5, and move over a fixed cam surface 7. The carrier is divided into two parts by a partition 4<1>, and is fitted with suction pipes 8, 9 leading to the hollow shaft, which is rotated continuously. The open moulds dip into a vat 6 containing wood pulp, and take up sufficient material for making butter-plates or other articles to be moulded. As the mould rotates out of the vat, the outer half is forced inwards by the cam 7, and the expresed water is drawn off through the pipes 8, 9 and hollow shaft, and also through perforated pipes 10, 11 within the hollow shaft. The moulded articles are detached from the moulds by air forced through the pipes 10, 11 and inner halves of the moulds.
Patent GB-190202148-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and connected with Forges.
Inventor: DITTMAR GUSTAV
Filed: 1902-01-27
Granted: 1903-01-27
Abstract: 2148. Dittmar, G. Jan. 27. Smiths' forges. -Blast-heating coils or passages are arranged to utilize the beat of the escaping gases from the fire, or other waste heat, of a forge, and a jet of compressed air, thus heated, is used to induce a further supply of heated or unheated air in a suction blast apparatus. Fig. 1 shows a simple coil c for heating the compressed air supplied to a suction blast apparatus e, which draws in cold air. Fig. 3 shows a second coil h of larger piping, for heating the air drawn in by the suction blast apparatus. Fig. 4 shows a hollow hearth k arranged for heating the secondary air supply, and Fig. 5 shows the secondary air-supply pipe k coiled round the hearth. A spiral channel, similar to that shown in Fig. 5, may be cast in one piece with the hearth.
Patent GB-190211463-A (GB)
Title: An Improvement in the Construction of Golf Clubs.
Inventor: BLACK THOMAS HUTCHESON BONTHRO
Filed: 1902-05-20
Granted: 1903-04-02
Abstract: 11,463. Black, T. H. B. May 20. Golf.-In order to prevent the stroke of the club being spoiled by striking the ground, the sole of the club is fitted with one or more rollers A mounted on an axle carried by a plate B let in and secured by screws to the sole of the club. The edge b<3> of the plate is preferably rounded.
Patent GB-190215101-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in the Needle Motion of Looms for Weaving Pile Fabrics.
Inventor: HOLLINGWORTH EDWARD
Filed: 1902-07-07
Granted: 1902-08-07
Abstract: 15,101. Hollingworth, E., [Hutchins, G. F.]. July 7. Looms, pile forming in; brake mechanism; stopmotions; shuttleless looms. -The long needle 10, employed for inserting a double filling- thread to hold the yarn tufts in looms for weaving moquette or Axminster rugs or other pile fabrics, is mounted in a raceway 9 and formed with a series of apertures which engage with pins 33<1> projecting from the rim of a wheel 33, carried by a shaft 30. This wheel is driven alternately in opposite directions by means of a pinion and the toothed sector 23 mounted on a stud 24 and adjustably connected to a rod 21 which is attached to a crank 19 on a shaft 16. A mutilated pinion 15 on the shaft 16 gears with series of teeth on a plate 14, which is loosely mounted on a shaft 12, and adjustably secured by means of bolts 13<1> to a disc 13 fixed to the shaft. A brake strap 36 is connected at one end to a pin 37<1>, passes over a brake pulley on the shaft 30, and is attached to a counterweighted lever 38, which is actuated by cams 19<11> on the hub of the crank 19. By this means, the brake is applied when the needle approaches the end of its stroke in either direction. The needle may be tubular without a filling-piece, or it may enclose a wooden or other filling-piece having a flat base in which holes are bored to receive the pins 33'. The rotation of the needle is prevented by a triangular-shaped block secured to the needle and travelling along a correspondinglyshaped slot in the raceway. The inner end of the raceway may be adjusted vertically by means of a screw 6<1>. In a modification of the needle-actuating apparatus, the needle is clamped to a wire or cord which passes round and has its ends secured to a drum taking the place of the wheel 33 ; the band brake is also replaced by a brake block secured to an oscillating lever. A loom stop-motion of any ordinary kind is controlled by a spring-pressed lever connected to a lever which is vibrated across the path of the needle, at every beat-up, by means of a cam mounted on the shaft 12. If, from any cause, the needle has not been fully withdrawn from the shed when the beat-up takes place, the vibrating lever is arrested by the needle and the stop-motion is thereupon actuated.