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Patent GB-190211205-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or connected with Folding Revolving Doors
Inventor: GOUBEAUT ALBERT
Filed: 1902-05-15
Granted: 1902-07-17
Abstract: 11,205. Goubeaut, A. May 15. Doors.-To permit of the folding of the four radial leaves of a revolving door in a small space, they are connected by hinges 7 so as to fold on one of the leaves 3, which is fitted at the outer edge with vertical casement bolts i, j, adapted to enter sockets k, l in the floor and ceiling, and serve as pivots for turning 'the folded door into one of the segmental casings b. The central pivots may be in the form of sliding bolts e, adapted to enter sockets m, or the upper pivot may carry rollers r mounted on a flanged sleeve t supported by a carriage v mounted on a circular track. A guide-roller z carried by an arm of the carriage bears against the sides h of the circular slot or track in the ceiling. The leaves may be supported in an extended radial position by chains 12 or the like. In a modification, a pair of levers can be folded into each circular side casing of the frame. In this form, the leaves are provided with curved projections and sockets, which interlock when the door is extended in ordinary use.
Patent GB-190214936-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in the Manufacture of Certain Alloys of Aluminium.
Inventor: WARRINGTON HENRY
Filed: 1902-07-04
Granted: 1903-05-14
Abstract: 14,936. Warrington, H., and Warring- ton, H. J., [trading as Warrington & Son, H.]. July 4. Alloys of aluminium and iron are produced by enclosing alumina in an envelope of wrought iron, raising the mass to a blood-red heat, and rolling it like bar iron. Equal weights of iron and alumina are used, but the proportion may range from two parts of either to one part of the other.
Patent GB-190224659-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Outlets for Sinks and the like
Inventor: ROEBUCK JOHN
Filed: 1902-11-11
Granted: 1903-02-19
Abstract: 24,659. Roebuck, J. Nov. 11. Casting and moulding.-Relates to a method of fixing the brass grating of a sink in the lead outlet by casting. The grating is placed upon a raised disc d<1>, the edge of which it overlaps. A cote is then built upon the grating in a cone C. The cone C is then removed and the mould B placed over the core, when the lead is poured in by the aperture b.
Patent GB-190228156-A (GB)
Title: Mode of and Means for Automatically Controlling the Pressure of Fluid as Supplied to Pneumatic Tyres, Gas Mains and other Vessels.
Inventor: NIELSEN CARL
Filed: 1902-12-20
Granted: 1903-11-05
Abstract: 28,156. Nielsen, C. Dec. 20. Wheels with air-compressing appliances.-Consists in the use of a piece of expansible hose in a conduit for fluids, the hose being provided with attachments, which are operated by its alteration of shape, caused by the fluid, to control the supply of fluid when the pressure reaches a certain point. Fig. 1 shows the hose a employed for regulating the inflation of a pneumatic tyre l to which air is supplied by a pump p fixed on the hub A of a cycle or motorcar wheel and having a piston rod operated in opposite directions respectively by a cam surface e on the wheel and a spring v. When the tyre is fully inflated, the hose a also expands and raises a link c which engages with a notch w in the pistonrod k and thereby stops its reciprocation.
Patent GB-190228251-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Apparatus for the Distillation of Ammoniacal Liquors.
Inventor: WILTON THOMAS
Filed: 1902-12-22
Granted: 1903-10-22
Abstract: 28,251. Wilton, T., and Wilton, G. Dec. 22. Distillang-furnaces.-Fig. 2 shows a transverse section and Fig. 3 a longitudinal section of a still for ammoniacal liquors. The cylinders a are supported above the furnace g, the products of combustion being made to take the sinuous course indicated by the arrows, Fig. 3, by means-of the baffles h.
Patent GB-190300862-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Means for Holding Supports or Crutches for Incandescent Mantles.
Inventor: THOMPSON WILLIAM PHILLIPS
Filed: 1903-01-13
Granted: 1903-03-12
Abstract: 8 6 2 . Thompson, W. P., [Ahrendt & Co.]. Jan. 13. Incandescent gas lamps. - The mantle pin or crutch d is held in adjusted position by two or more springs c depending from a perforated plate b fixed to the wire gauze a of the burner.
Patent GB-190305734-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Hackling Machines.
Inventor: BARBOUR JAMES
Filed: 1903-03-12
Granted: 1904-01-28
Abstract: 5734. Barbour, J. March 12. Heckling-machines for flax, hemp, &c. The stroke of the holder channel and the period of rest are adjustable by the application of an interchangeable cam 9, which is fixed to the first-motion shaft 10, and acts on a bowl 8 carried by a stud 7 on a looped-lever 1 pivoted at 2. The connecting- rod 4 is secured to the lever 1, which is of T-section, by an adjustable clip 5, and a small lever and locking-device, or a nut and bolt 6 are employed to lock the clip in any position. The holder channel is suspended from pulleys oscillated by the rod 4.
Patent GB-190305775-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in the Means of Making and Fixing Ornamental Ceilings or Partitions.
Inventor: SAYER ROBERT ALFRED
Filed: 1903-03-12
Granted: 1904-01-28
Abstract: 5775. Sayer, R. A. March 12. Wall and ceiling coverings.-Embossed ornamental materials are affixed to large sheets of millboard, compoboard, parquet boards, or the like, previous to their being fixed to ceilings, walls, and partitions.
Patent GB-190308937-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Range-finders for Rifles and Guns.
Inventor: WILLIS PERCY RICHARD JULIUS
Filed: 1903-04-21
Granted: 1904-04-14
Abstract: 8937. Willis, P. R. J., [Kennedy, A.]. April 21. Range-finders.-Two slotted plates 8 are hinged to the plate 1, which may be attached to the barrel of a rifle or to a gun, and which is formed with spring tongues 4, serving to hold the plates in position. The slots are provided with' a suitable number of notches, which are numbered consecutively from the numbers 0, 0 at the end near the plate 1. The lengths of the slots are so related that if the notches 0, 0 and, say, the notches 6, 6 are, respectively, in alignment with the same object, that object will be 600 yards away. The finder may be used separately from the rifle or gun.
Patent GB-190310298-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Secondary or Storage Batteries
Inventor: DARLING ROBERT
Filed: 1903-05-06
Granted: 1903-07-30
Abstract: 10,298. Lake, H. H., [Darling, R., and Chronik, L.]. May 6. Secondary batteries. - The cell is formed of a jar 1, Fig. 1, having an interior groove 2 near its upper rim, containing an oily or greasy substance to prevent creeping of salts. The cell has an insulating -lid 3. The positive electrode 4 is a plate of amalgamated zinc which rests upon bare copper wires 6, Fig. 5, the upper ends of which are joined to a transverse lead bar 7. Beneath the latter the wires are greased, and afterwards covered with rubber or like sleeves 13. Lower still they pass through an insulating-block 16, and are then bent at rightangles twice. The ends are embedded in a second insulating-block 15. Or, one wire only may be used, the parts 14 being shaped as shown. The bar 7 is provided with a tubular brass or like socket 9, Fig. 6, round which a neck of lead 8 is cast. The socket is internally screwed to receive the screw 10, the head of which is secured in a lead head 11. A soft-metal strap-conductor 12 is firmly held by means of the screw. The lead coating prevents any corrosion of the brass screw. The negative electrode consists of a number of units 17, Fig. 2, generally not less than four. Each unit is complete in itself, and is similarly formed. Between comparatively thick perforated plates 18, Fig. 4, of antimonious lead there are placed a number of similarly-perforated, corrugated, thin sheets of lead. The whole is then secured together by riveted or fused bolts 20, of antimonious lead. Through a central perforation formed in the entire bundle, an antimonious lead stem 22 is passed, and is burned to the end plates. In the modification shown in Fig. 4, the stem is cast in position, so as to form a head 27 and a shoulder 28, and so as to fill the interstices between washers 26 and the plates which they separate. Each unit rests upon projections U from the cell walls, Fig. 1, and may also rest upon the blocks 15, 16. All the stems are joined to, or may be formed with, the conducting antimonious-lead grid 23, which is provided with a terminal 24.
Patent GB-190312045-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in the Treatment of Milk for Purifying and Preserving same.
Inventor: DASEKING MARIE
Filed: 1903-05-26
Granted: 1904-03-03
Abstract: 12,045. Daseking, M., and Paradies, H. May 26. Preserving milk.-Milk is heated to a high temperature (e.g., 85‹ C.) on a water bath, and maintained at that temperature for some time. While still hot, the mucilaginous constituents are separated in a centrifugal machine. The milk is then cooled nearly to freezing point, and the air thus expelled.
Patent GB-190312972-A (GB)
Title: Improved Construction of Ornamental Braid, Ribbon, and the like.
Inventor: FRANKLIN ALFRED WALKER
Filed: 1903-06-09
Granted: 1904-05-05
Abstract: 12,972. Franklin, A. W., [Kaiser & Dicke]. June 9. Ribbons. - A closely braided or woven solid or tubular core A is surrounded by a braided, knitted, or otherwise - made, open or lace-like covering B of the same or a different colour or material, the whole forming an ornamental braid or ribbon.
Patent GB-190315729-A (GB)
Title: Improved Means of Adjusting the Gas Supply to Incandescent and other Atmospheric Gas Burners.
Inventor: BRAY GEORGE
Filed: 1903-07-16
Granted: 1903-08-20
Abstract: 15,729. Bray, G., and Bray, J. W. July 16. Gas burners.-The gas supply to an incandescent or other atmospheric gas burner is varied without materially varying the pressure of the gas, as determined by the ordinary gas cock, at the point at whicn the gas issues from the nozzle into the bunsen or mixing tube, by forming several holes B in the gas nozzle A, and closing one or more of them by means of a screw, pin, cap, slide, or subsidiary cock or valve. Figs. 1 and 3 show three of the five holes B so arranged that one or more of the three holes may be closed by the screw D, and Fig. 5 shows six holes B so arranged that they may be made to coincide in whole or in part with a slot G in the rotary disc F. The gasways are preferably countersunk at B<1> to form a recess beneath each outlet B.
Patent GB-190317207-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or connected with Dynamo-electric Machines.
Filed: 1903-08-07
Granted: 1904-07-21
Abstract: 17,207. Dutton, T. M., and Sandycroft Foundry Co. Aug. 7. Commutators.- Consists of means by which a continuous-current multipolar generator, or a rotary converter, may be caused to give, in addition to the ordinary direct current, either an alternating current of one cycle per revolution, or an undulating current which has zero potential once in e a c h revolution. The shaft of the armature is provided with means for collecting alternately direct and alternating current from the ordinary commutator. The invention is particularly applicable for driving rock drills of the type described in Specification No. 9977, A.D. 1889, in which the drill makes one forward and one return stroke for each revolution of the generator. Fig. 1 shows an arrangement for producing an alternating current. A four-part commutator 2 is mounted on the same shaft as the ordinary direct-current commutator 4 of a four-pole generator 3. Opposite segments 6, 7 of the commutator 2 are connected by conductors 5 to segments of the commutator 4 so that they are fed with alternating current. The segments 6, 7 are so proportioned that each subtends an angle equal to 360‹ divided by the number of poles of the generator. The other segments 8, 9 of the commutator are connected by conductors 35 to collecting-rings 10, 11, the brushes 12, 13 of which are connected to the ordinary brushes of the commutator 4. Brushes 22, 23 bear on the commutator 2. During the passage of one segment 8 the current remains at a maximum ; as the segment 7 passes, the current changes its phase and rises to a maximum at which it is maintained by the segment 9. The phase again changes as the segment 6 passes. In the arrangement shown, the junction of the two coils 18 of the drill is connected to the brush 22. The brush 23 is connected to a brush 24 bearing on a ring 14 connected to a half ring as described in the Specification mentioned above. Brushes 19, 20, bearing on the half ring, are connected to the extremities of the coils 18. The slip-rings 10, 11 may be dispensed with, the segments 8, 9 being subdivided and the parts connected to corresponding parts of the commutator 4. The machine may be fed with direct current, and be worked as a rotary converter. Fig. 2 shows a modification producing a pulsating current which falls to zero potential once in each revolution. The commutator 2 is replaced by two rings, each having one large segment 31 and a pair of small segments 27, 28, each equal to half the size of the segment 6 in Fig. 1. The small segments of one ring are displaced 180‹ to those of the other ring. Each conductor 5 is connected to one of each pair of small segments. The large segments are fed with direct current by means of rings 10, 11. Brushes 33, 34 bear on the rings as shown. In this case, the rings 14, 15 are driven at half the speed of the armature. The dynamo used is preferably shunt-wound, and is compounded by leading the conductors from the brushes 19, 20 round the poles as shown.
Patent GB-190318370-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to the Reproduction of Pictures or the like by Aid of Catalysis.
Inventor: BLOXAM ARTHUR GEORGE
Filed: 1903-08-25
Granted: 1904-06-16
Abstract: 18,370. Bloxam, A. G., [Neue Photographische Ges.]. Aug. 25. Inkless printing by chemical reaction.-In making pictures suitable for reproduction by catalysis, as described in Specification No. 22,841, A.D. 1901, the silver negative or picture is treated with a manganic salt, a ferricyanide, and an acid, so as to obtain a negative or picture in which the higher oxides of manganese are substituted for the silver, thus reducing the tendency to deterioration of the negative. The manganic salt is employed in the form of an alkaline solution in the presence of an organic hydroxy-acid or its salt. The silver negative is treated with a solution of potassium ferricyanide, a manganic salt solution, and some acid, until the blackness has completely disappeared. The negative is then washed and immersed in a bath of alkaline ferricyanide, when it becomes brown.
Patent GB-190319024-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Oil and Vapour Burners.
Inventor: SMITH TOM GRAVES
Filed: 1903-09-03
Granted: 1904-07-07
Abstract: 19,024. Smith, T. G. Sept. 3. Vapour burners.-A burner or blow-lamp for heating the vaporizers or ignition tubes of internalcombustion engines or for other purposes is constructed to be accessible for cleaning without the removal of a large number of plugs &c. In the form shown in Figs, 1 and 2, the oil pipe a, b, c, d is arranged so that the lengths b, c are accessible by removing the plug f, and the lengths a, d by disconnecting the supply pipe and removing the plug h. In another form, shown in Figs. 5 and 7, the oil passes through a passage i and divides to pass through zig-zag passages k, l, Fig. 7, in a truncated cone j bolted on the seating p. The zig-zag passages communicate with the burner e through a passage m. All the passages are accessible by removing the cone and a plug n.
Patent GB-190321790-A (GB)
Title: Apparatus for Cleaning Carriage, Motor Car and other Windows.
Inventor: APJOHN JAMES HENRY
Filed: 1903-10-09
Granted: 1904-08-11
Abstract: 21,790. Apjohn, J. H. Oct. 9. Windows and the like, cleaning.-For cleaning carriage, motor car, and other windows, brushes or wipers s are carried on each side of the windows a in horizontal slides, which are moved by sprocket - wheels c and endless chains c<1> travelling in the guide-pillars c. For motor cars, the wheels e may be driven by another chain h actuated from the motor shaft l by frictiongear m, m<1> and a sprocket - wheel g. When motive power is not available, any of the sprockets may be turned by a handle. The brush-bars are moved by studs n on the chains c' which, for the upward journey, engage projections p on the bars, and leave them as they travel round the upper pulleys d. They carry the brushes down by engaging the projections q, and are disengaged at the bottom by passing round the pulleys r; the brushes may be fixed normally to the glass, so as to clean both ways, or they may be pivoted as shown, so that they do not bear on the glass when moving up, but are thrown into action for the down journey by trip-levers u.
Patent GB-190322481-A (GB)
Title: Improvements connected with Apparatus for Lighting and Extinguishing Gas from a Distance
Inventor: WEINMANN GUSTAV
Filed: 1903-10-17
Granted: 1904-01-21
Abstract: 22,481. Weinmann, G. Oct. 17. Actuating valves and cocks.-The gas supply to burners c fitted with pilot or other igniting-devices v is controlled by diaphragm valves actuated from a distance by varying the pressure of the gas in the mains. Attached to the diaphragm e are a valve l and a tube f, the spindle k of the valve l bearing against a spring-pressed stirrup m, and the tube f being supported by a bearing h and recessed to receive a sliding sleeve g, of which the outer surface is flush with the outer surface of the tube f. The stirrup m is held in contact with the valve spindle k by springs r, adjustably mounted on rods o, which prevent the stirrup from rotating, and other springs t, similarly mounted on other rods, bear against sleeves u, which slide on these rods and in holes in the flange n of the stirrup. During the daytime, when the burners are not in use and the pressure of the gas is low, the passage of gas from the inlet b to the burner channel c is prevented by the valve l, Fig 1. When the burners are required for use, the pressure of the gas in the mains is increased slightly above the normal working pressure, the diaphragm e and the attached tube f moving against the pressure of the springs r to the position shown in Fig. 2. Upon the rearward movement of the tube f which occurs when the pressure is reduced to the normal, catches v engage the recessed part of the tube f and hold the valve l open. To extinguish the burners, the pressure of the gas is increased beyond that used when lighting the burners ; the tube f then moves forward against the pressure of the springs r, t until the sleeve g forces the catches v out of the recess in the tube f, as shown in Fig. 3. During the rearward movement which takes place when the pressure of. the gas is again reduced, the sleeve g is carried forward by the springs v until its end abuts against the tube f, whereupon the sleeve moves with the tube, and the catches finally rest upon the forward part of the tube, as shown in Fig. 1. The pressure of the gas at which particular burners or series of burners are ignited may be varied by adjusting the springs r by means of the nuts q, and similarly the nuts s of the springs t may be adjusted to vary the extinguishing-preesure. Weights may be substituted for the springs r, t when the valve-rod k is arranged vertically, and individual burners may be extinguished by connecting a small pressure pump to the inlet pipe b or to the valve chamber.
Patent GB-190323420-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Railway Carriage Vestibule Wind Guards, and similar Appliances.
Inventor: LAYCOCK WILLIAM SAMUEL
Filed: 1903-10-29
Granted: 1904-09-08
Abstract: 23,420. Laycock, W. S. Oct. 29. Vestibules, collapsable, connecting cars; wind guards or deflectors.- Wind guards of the spring-roller type which draw out horizontally, for the vestibules of railway carriages, are made double to avoid soiling the clothes of passengers. The screen is in two parts A, B, Fig. 3, united at a rod H, which is fitted with a drawing-out tab I and means for securing it while in use. The parts are wound on separate spring rollers C, D, Figs. 2 and 3, so that the dirt is not communicated to the inside part. The rod H is too long to pass through the slot G of the case.
Patent GB-190324865-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Head Hinge for Contracting the Head, when Falling, of Motor Cars, & Carriages & other Vehicles
Inventor: COLCLOUGH JOHN EVERARD HENRY
Filed: 1903-11-16
Granted: 1904-10-13
Abstract: 24,865. Colclough, J. E. H. Nov. 16. Hoods.-The frame of a hood is pivoted at a point which moves backwards or forwards when the hood is folded down, the pivot being carried for this purpose by an arm pivoted to the vehicle. The central plate a, Fig. 1, having side plates pivoted to it at b, is pivoted at the point c to the arm d, which is pivoted to a forked bracket f fixed to the vehicle body. When the hood is up, a screw attached to a prolongation of the plate a, passes into a slot g in the arm d, and is secured to the arm by a nut i. A foot k, formed on the lower end of the arm d, keeps the plate a in a vertical position, by bearing against the lower part of the fork in the bracket f. When lowering the hood, the nut i is unscrewed, the arm d then rotates to the left about its pivot in the bracket f, the plate a rotates to the right about its pivot c, and the frame falls into the position shown in Fig. 3.
Patent GB-190327132-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Extracting Zinc and other Sulphides from their Ores
Inventor: MARKS GEORGE CROYDON
Filed: 1903-12-11
Granted: 1904-04-28
Abstract: 27,132. Marks, G. C., [Delprat, G. D.]. Dec. 11. Washing ores.-Zinc, lead, and silver sulphides are separated in a saturated or other solution of sodium chloride, to which about 2 per cent. of sulphuric acid may be added. The sulphides rise to the surface and are skimmed off.
Patent GB-190327366-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to Sketch Blocks, Scribbling Blocks and the like.
Inventor: SNAITH ARTHUR EDWIN
Filed: 1903-12-14
Granted: 1904-10-20
Abstract: 27,366. Snaith, A. E. Dec. 14. Pencil-sharpeners;paper-knives; erasers.-Sketching- blocks, scribbling- blocks, and the like are provided with a knife or blade a which may be used to detach the leaves from the pad and for sharpening pencils or for erasing. The blade a has preferably one end b bent up at right-angles and is sharpened on both edges c. When not in use, the blade is inserted between two leaves of the pad, the end b abutting against the edge.
Patent GB-190409694-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in the Construction of Fountains
Inventor: STODDART JOSEPH
Filed: 1904-04-28
Granted: 1905-03-23
Abstract: 9694. Stoddart, J., and Stoddart, T. April 28. Bucket pumps for fountains. In the cylinder A is a piston h having a cup-leather H and a hollow piston-rod, working through a stuffing-box and carrying a bridge-piece G, at each end of which are rods C pressed upwards by springs D. On the piston rising, water is drawn through the orifice J; on its being forced down, the water passes the cup-leather above the piston. The springs then force up the piston, drawing water under it and forcing the water above the piston through the hole B and -up the hollow rod F. A bent spring O, pressing against a roller, keeps the movement uniform. In smaller fountains, a spring may be placed under the piston or between the bridge G and the top of the cylinder.
Patent GB-190410327-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and applicable to Coal Boxes,
Inventor: HAMPSON JANE GARDNER
Filed: 1904-05-05
Granted: 1904-06-09
Abstract: 10,327. Hampson, J. G. May 5. Coal boxes.-The inner removable box or tin of a coal box is provided with a hinged front D having wings F sliding between double sides C. The downward movement of the front D is limited by contact of lugs or catches on the wings F against stops H. Reference is made to Specification No. 5414, A.D. 1904.