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Patent GB-190321456-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Hydrants and Faucets
Inventor: POLLOCK ROBERT LINCOLN
Filed: 1903-10-06
Granted: 1904-08-04
Abstract: 21,456. Pollock, R. L. Oct. 6. Oscillating cylindrical valves; multiple-way valves; mixing-valves. -Consists of an apparatus which may be used as a hydrant, and in a modification as a faucet, formed of a tubular plug arranged inside a casing, the bottom of which forms a seating for the plug and has passages which communicate with a hole in the bottom of the plug. Fig. 1 shows a vertical section of the hydrant, the outer casing being formed of two parts, the lower part A being fitted with an inlet pipe B and an outlet pipe C corresponding to the ports B<1>, C<1>. A port D<2> in the end of the plug D may be brought into communication with either of the ports by rotating the plug, and this latter movement is limited by a pin J working in a slot. As a modification, the apparatus may be used as a faucet, the part A being embedded in a wall and the part D being provided with two ports K, K<1> of twice the size of the ports B<1>, C', as shown in Fig. 5. By this means a supply of hot and cold water through the ports C<1>, B<1>, respectively, to the interior of the plug D can be regulated by rotating the plug. When used as a faucet, a spring L, shown in Fig. 4, is used to keep the plug D in place.
Patent GB-190324780-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Automatic Safety Appliance for Colliery Cages Elevators and the like
Inventor: HOWELLS EDWARD
Filed: 1903-11-14
Granted: 1903-12-31
Abstract: 24,780. Howells, E., and Howells, L. H. Nov. 14. Safety suspending or retaining apparatus for colliery cages and the like. The block C, carrying the levers E, G for nipping the guide-rope B, is a sliding fit on the rod A, fixed to the cage. The lever E is kept out of engagement, as shown in Fig. 1, by means of a chain and the pivoted levers G, H, the lever H carrying rollers I, I<1>. In the event of the hauling-rope 0 breaking, the levers G, H fall, as shown in Fig. 3, and the weight of the cage, acting through the lever H on the end of the lever G, presses the lever E tightly against the guide-rope, thus suspending the cage.
Patent GB-190325867-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in the Production of Carbonic Acid.
Inventor: SCHUETZ GUSTAV ADOLF
Filed: 1903-11-26
Granted: 1904-11-26
Abstract: 25,867. Sch³tz, G. A. Nov. 26. Carbonic acid.-Relates to the manufacture of carbonic acid by the coke process, and consists (1) in producing in the apparatus itself a continuous supply of pure water, for diluting the lye which absorbs the carbonic acid, and for feeding the boiler which supplies the motive power to the apparatus ; (2) in obtaining the heat necessary for the boiler and for the working process from the crude coke gases; and (3) in using the absorbing lye for lubricating the working steam engine. A boiler a containing pure water is heated by a coke furnace, and supplies steam to a non-condensing engine b, which works pumps d, g, &c. The furnace gases are purified and cooled during their passage up a coke-tower c, which is supplied with cold water, and are then pumped up a saturator e, viz., a coke-tower supplied with warm water. The gases are thus heated and saturated with moisture, and on passing into an absorber f, viz., a coke tower supplied with cold potash or soda lye, the carbonic acid is absorbed, the moisture is condensed, and so dilutes the lye, white the rest of the gases escape to the atmosphere. The waste steam from the engine b, which is lubricated with lye instead of with oil so as to prevent any fouling of the water, heats a purifier h, and, on condensing, is collected in a vessel l. The saturated lye is pumped into the heated purifier h, carbonic acid and steam being evolved and conveyed to a cooler i, where the steam condenses and passes to the vessel l, while the carbonic acid passes to a gasometer k. The water in the cooler i becomes warmed during the process, and is then used in the saturator e. The pure water in the vessel l is used for supplying the boiler a, while the surplus passes by way of an overflow pipe to the absorber f and further dilutes the lye.
Patent GB-190326127-A (GB)
Title: Improved Collapsible Table.
Inventor: SCHMIDTMANN FRITZ
Filed: 1903-11-30
Granted: 1904-03-03
Abstract: 26,127. Schmidtmann, F. Nov. 30. Tables.-In a folding table; two plates a, Fig. 1, are hinged together and provided, around the edges, with a downwards-extending frame c. The legs consist of two rectangular frames d which are hinged to the walls of the frame and provided with stays f which are hinged to cross-bars e, and may be connected by a hook and eye. Frames g, which are hinged to the cross-bars and constructed to fit in the frames d, may be turned outwards so that their upper ends abut against the outer wall of the frame.
Patent GB-190326895-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Steam Generators
Inventor: IMRAY OLIVER
Filed: 1903-12-08
Granted: 1904-01-21
Abstract: 26,895. Imray, O., [Stirling Co.]. Dec. 8. Water-tube boilers; superheaters, steam.-A superheater, which may be flooded so as to serve as an auxiliary boiler, is combined with a water-tube boiler of the Stirling type. Between two banks of water tubes, which are connected to water and steam drums 2, 3, and to a mud drum 4, is fixed a bank of superheating-tubes 11, which is connected to an upper drum 12 and a lower drum 10. Baffles 8, 19 cause the products of combustion to pass up among the water tubes 6, down among the superheating-tubes 11, and up among the water tubes 5 to the outlet 20. The drum 12 is divided by a transverse partition, so that steam entering one chamber, so formed, by the tubes 15, 14, leading from the drums 2, 3, is compelled to circulate through the tubes 11 and drum 10 on its way to the other chamber of the drum 12, in which a steam outlet 17 is fitted. Circulation in the water tubes 5, 6, and drums 2, 3, 4, may be facilitated by connecting the drums 2, 3 directly by pipes 18. To regulate the amount of superheat, and to flood the superheater, the mud drum 4 is connected to the drum 10 by an external valved pipe 23, which extends as a spray pipe 24 into the lower part of the drum 10.
Patent GB-190327473-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Incandescent Gas Burners.
Filed: 1903-12-15
Granted: 1904-10-20
Abstract: 27,473. Cuttell, T. L., and Anti-Vibration Incandescent Lighting Co. Dec. 15. Incandescent gas burners.-The mixing-tube 1 consists of an elbow-tube, the air inlets 4 being at the horizontal end, and the mantle 3 at the vertical end. In some cases, the burner is connected to the fixed gas pipe 5 by a flexible tube, and the burner and its shade 7 are suspended by coiled springs. According to the Provisional Specification, the burner, when suspended by springs may have a trumpet-shaped horizontal end fitting over the fixed gas pipe, so as to form the air inlet, and may also be formed with a double-elbow mixing- pipe.
Patent GB-190402187-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Treating Scrap Sheet Steel and Recarbonizing the same.
Inventor: ATHA HERBERT BURR
Filed: 1904-01-28
Granted: 1904-04-28
Abstract: 2187. Atha, H. B. Jan. 28. Scrap, utilizing; open-hearth processes.-Scrap sheet steel is mixed with finely-divided carbon, pressed into bundles, and placed in the open-hearth furnace to re-carbonize the metal, or used as part of the charge with other scrap or instead of pig iron. The carbon may be enclosed in receptacles, such as sacks or bags, or may be used loose, or may be mixed with liquid, into which the scrap is dipped before or after bundling.
Patent GB-190406428-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to the Manufacture of a Condensation Product from Haematoxylin and Formaldehyde.
Inventor: LEPETIT ROBERTO
Filed: 1904-03-16
Granted: 1904-04-21
Abstract: 6428. Lepetit, R. March 16. Pigments. - A bronzing-powder is made by heating formaldehyde and hµmatoxylin or logwood extract with hydrochloric or sulphuric acid at 100‹ C., or formaldehyde and hµmatoxylin alone under pressure at above 100‹ C., and precipitating the product by pouring the mixture into large excess of cold water.
Patent GB-190408844-A (GB)
Title: Combination-lock.
Inventor: HARTMANN SOPHUS
Filed: 1904-04-18
Granted: 1904-05-19
Abstract: 8844. Hartmann, S., and Ehrhart, M. April 18. Locks, permutation.-In a permutation lock for doors, drawers, cupboards, safes, &c., which is so arranged that the door &c. can only be opened when a number of concentric discs are turned into prearranged positions, two pairs of bolts b, separated by the vertical partition l of the case, are actuated by pinions f, one of which is connected to the disc k and the other to the disc i. The plate m and the discs k, i are marked with scales of division. When the discs are rotated to certain positions, the ends of all the bolts b lie flush with the plate c. The bolts b are guided by pins d. Any number of pairs of bolts may be used.
Patent GB-190411979-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and connected with Filters.
Inventor: SELLENSCHEIDT CARL
Filed: 1904-05-26
Granted: 1905-02-09
Abstract: 11,979. Sellenscheidt, C. May 26. Filter-presses; filter blocks &c.-Relates to the construction of filter blocks for presses and to means for fixing them in the presses when not necessarily of equal thickness. Each filter block is composed of two layers of medium a, Fig. 1, arranged between perforated metal sheets b, b<1>. The perforations are of pyramidal, conical, or other tapered form with the openings or ends of larger area in contact with the medium, so that the latter enters the perforation when the plates are pressed together. The blocks are mounted in a casing c, the plates b fitting into recesses on a ridge d, which has also grooves into which the edge of the pastelike fibrous material of the medium is compressed. The outer perforated plates b<1> of each block are held in place by bevelled rims e. These are fixed by the inclined or bevelled heads of wedges or pawls f which are driven into inclined recesses in the frame. In another form of apparatus, Fig. 2, the perforated plates are fixed in independent frames b<4>, placed alternately between the frames c of the filtering-layers. One of the plates b', b<3> is preferably cast with the frame b<4>, the other being inserted in a groove on the frame and held in position by a bayonet joint or otherwise. Suitable passages convey the liquid to the centre of each block, and lead it away, when filtered, from the chamber formed between consecutive blocks.
Patent GB-190419982-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to Umbrellas, Sunshades, and the like
Inventor: REVEL ANTOINE AIME
Filed: 1904-09-16
Granted: 1905-08-17
Abstract: 19,982. Revel, A. A. Sept. 16. Holding open.- Umbrellas, sunshades, &c. are held open by means of a cup - shaped clip A, Fig. 3, fastened on the end of the runner C, which engages with a ferrule B on the stick D. The positions of the clip A and the ferrule B may be interchanged, as shown in Fig. 4.
Patent GB-190421771-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Device for Producing Illusionary Effects.
Inventor: MAXIM HIRAM STEVENS
Filed: 1904-10-10
Granted: 1905-08-03
Abstract: 21,771. Maxim, Sir H. S. Oct. 10. Roundabouts; tracks for sporting purposes.-A rotatable spherical or cylindrical structure is provided for purposes of illusion with a concave paraboloidal floor B and suitably - hung mirrors C. Admittance is gained to the spherical structure by means of fixed stairs and platforms, and the observation of external objects, through the ventilating- holes, which would tend to destroy the illusion, is prevented by an external casing, which may be painted to represent the globe. A bicycle track can be made on the outer edges of the floor and the adjacent parts of the sphere. The rotation of the whole is effected by a suitable motor and intermediate gearing, driving the central hollow shaft b<1>. In a modification, the lower part of the structure carries a rail which rests on, and is driven by rollers geared to a motor, while the stairway is central and revolvable. Admission can be effected without stopping the structure by means of a circular cage, which slides on the central shaft, and in the lower position is carried on a flange thereof. The cage can be lifted off the flange by rollers attached to hydraulic jacks and allowed to come to rest before setting down or taking up passengers. The cylindrical form of the apparatus has a revolving floor running on rollers, and a central footstep, and driven by a motor rotating therewith.
Patent GB-190427393-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to the Furnaces of Steam Generators.
Inventor: DAVIES HARRY LLEWELYN
Filed: 1904-12-15
Granted: 1905-12-14
Abstract: 27,393. Davies, H. L. Dec. 15. Steam - generator fireboxes.-To dispense with welded or riveted joints in the fireboxes of vertical steam generators, a domed or hemispherical body A is pressed from a single steel plate and provided with openings A<1>, A<2> respectively, for firing and for the escape of the combustion products. The base of the body may be enlarged to form a flange A<3> for riveting to the boiler shell D, or a separate ring may be riveted to the body at a point below the level of the fire bars E.
Patent GB-190429346-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or connected with Electrical Gas-igniting and Extinguishing Apparatus.
Inventor: DOWN HENRY LANGDON
Filed: 1904-12-31
Granted: 1905-10-26
Abstract: 29,346. Down, H. L., and Wiseman, D. H. Dec. 31. Lighting and extinguishing g a s.- In electric lighting and extinguishing apparatus, the electric igniter is arranged at the base of the perforated pilot jet o, Fig. 1, and the burner is ignited by a climbing flame. In one form of apparatus, a lift valve k, Fig. 3, at the base of the pilot jet is operated in opposition to a spring u by the gas-valve-operating armature c, and the igniting-coil, arranged in circuit with the operating-electromagnet f, Fig. 1, is fitted in bushed holes p in an insulating-piece q surrounding the pilot jet.
Patent GB-190501327-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Bag Spreader for Tea Packing Machines and the like.
Inventor: ORMOND JAMES
Filed: 1905-01-23
Granted: 1905-08-03
Abstract: 1327. Ormond, J. Jan. 23. Packeting and filling tea &c.-In packeting tea and like substances by apparatus such as that described in Specification No. 1440, A.D. 1903, a spreader is used to hold the bag open. The spreader consists of four plates A, Figs. 1 and 2, tapering downwards towards the ends 8, and having bent or inclined upper ends 7, which are bolted to plates 9, pivotally mounted on pins 10, extending through lugs 11 on the vertically-reciprocating shoot 1. The plates 9 are, normally, pressed outwards by springs 13, thus causing the lower ends of the plates A to incline inwards. On the descent of the shoot, the plates 9 engage with shoulders 12 on the fixed table 6, thus moving the plates A outwards to hold the bag, whenthe shoot is at the limit of its descent. Stops on the shoot limit the outward movement of the plates.
Patent GB-190508910-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to Closing Devices for Vessels
Inventor: CLERC JULES
Filed: 1905-04-27
Granted: 1905-09-14
Abstract: 8910. Clerc, J. April 27. Stoppers.-Bottles and like vessels containing liquids, sterilized in an autoclave or digester, are closed by a metallic cap d, adapted to engage both the mouth g of the vessel and the upper surface of a washer c which rests on an annular collar a, the contacting surfaces of all the parts being made plane. The cap d is forced on to the neck by the external pressure as the liquid cools. The closure is also applicable to vessels containing alimentary products, and substances which are readily condensable and which absorb air or moisture. In such cases, the cap should be provided with a device to facilitate its removal. [Reference has been directed under Patents Act, 1902, to Specification No. 21,347, A.D. 1903.]
Patent GB-190512253-A (GB)
Title: Improved Electric Accumulator Plates for the Storage of Electricity.
Inventor: KELLEY FREDERICK THOMAS
Filed: 1905-06-13
Granted: 1906-06-13
Abstract: 12,253. Kelley, F. T. June 13. Secondary batteries.-The positive mass consists of a mixture of red lead and lead filings or scrap made into a paste with a little sulphuric acid. The negative mass consists of lead scrap or powder mixed with lead, which has been precipitated by means of zinc from lead acetate solution, or with litharge. The masses are placed in porous cells or cases fitted with metal terminals, and the elements thus formed are placed in a suitable vessel containing sulphuric acid. The positives may be steeped in chloride of lime solution to accelerate the first charging. [Reference has been directed under Patents Act, 1902, to Specifications No. 5451, A.D. 1881, Nos. 3802,4178, and 4303, A.D. 1882, Nos. 1831 and 11,307, A.D. 1885, No. 7636, A.D. 1886, No. 9861, A.D. 1890, No. 9541, A.D. 1892, and No. 8963, A.D. 1899.]
Patent GB-190517361-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Machines for the Manufacture of Brushes.
Inventor: ALEXANDER PHOEBUS HARRY
Filed: 1905-08-28
Granted: 1906-08-02
Abstract: 17,361. Alexander, P. H. Aug. 28. Machines for making. - A machine for delivering bristles to a brush blank consists of a bristle hopper with perforated bottom and mechanism for imparting to the hopper simultaneous swinging and rocking motions in vertical planes at rightangles to one another. An adjunct to the machine consists of a belt conveyer to gather up the waste bristles below the machine and deliver them to the hopper. Fig. 1 is a section and Fig. 2 an end elevation of the machine. The brush blank 1, the holder 2, and the plate 3 rest on a platform 4 and over them is suspended a hopper 5 with a bottom of wire-gauze. The bristles are placed in the hopper and pass through the gauze into the holes in the brush blank. The standards 7, 8 are provided with slide ways to accommodate the bars 9, 10, the upper ends of which abut against compression springs 11, 12. The hopper is secured to the slide bars by studs and ball-and-socket joints 15, 16. The shaft 17, driven by a pulley 18, carries two cams 19, 20, each consisting of four arms with antifriction wheels. One cam is set forty-five degrees behind the other, and the consequent reciprocations of the slide bars cause a rocking movement to be imparted to the hopper. It is found desirable to give the hopper an additional movement substantially parallel to the brush blank, and to effect such movement the following mechanism is provided :-In one of the slides, in its widened lower end, is a curved slot 25, through which projects a stud 26, fixed to the hopper. This stud is connected to a crank disk 35 by way of the levers 27, 28, 32, 33, as shown in Fig. 2, so that by the rotation of the crank disk the hopper is caused to oscillate. The waste bristles fall through the machine and into a receptacle having an inclined bottom terminating in an upward curve. Working in the curved part is a drum, over which and other suitably-disposed pulleys runs a belt with conveyer ribs to pick up the bristles and deliver them to the hopper. This conveying-arrangement is not shown in Figs. 1 and 2.
Patent GB-190520095-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Automatic Compressed Air Brakes.
Inventor: PURDY THOMAS C
Filed: 1905-10-04
Granted: 1906-10-04
Abstract: 20,095. Purdy, T. C. Oct. 4. Brakes.-In trains made up of air-braked and non-braked or hand-braked vehicles, there is provided on each of the latter vehicles a local venting- valve for accelerating emergency applications of the brakes. This valve comprises a casing A, which can be connected to the train-pipe by a union A<1>, and a reservoir E in which is a piston K, the stem K<1> of which can slide in a tube F. In the normal position of the piston, the train-pipe and reservoir E communicate through passages g, h, i in the piston and the tube F. During service applications, the pressure in the reservoir can equalize with that in the train-pipe, through the passages g, h, i, without moving the piston. But in emergency applications the piston rises, and its pins S unseat a spring-pressed valve C and so vent the train-pipe to the atmosphere through a passage L. The piston stem will then have moved sufficiently to vent the reservoir E to the atmosphere through conduits o, p, and the valve C will be closed again by its spring.
Patent GB-190521469-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Skates
Inventor: MARTIN JOHN EDWARD
Filed: 1905-10-23
Granted: 1906-03-01
Abstract: 21,469. Martin, J. E. Oct. 23. Skates.-Blade skates are so constructed that the sole and heel supporting-members may be folded up in alinement with the runner so as to occupy a small space for transportation, and these members are operated conjointly, in order to clamp the skate to a boot &c., by means of a lever and rod, the clainping-device being adjustable to suit different sizes of boots. One form of skate is shown in Fig. 4 in the position ready to be put on, and in Fig. 2 in the closed position. The skate is preferably formed with a slotted runner 3, to which are connected pins 6, 10, 13, to which are pivoted bars 5, 8, 11, respectively, each formed with clips for engaging the boot. The pins 10, 13 are preferably split and can slide along the runner, the movement of the pin 10 serving to open the bar 8, and with it the bar 5, which is pivoted to it, from the closed position, Fig. 2, and also to cause the clips to engage the sides of the sole. This latter movement is effected by means of a lever 18, which is pivoted to the pin 10, and is provided with a block 17, which slides on a rod 16 until it engages a nut 19, and then forces the bars 8, 5 inwards so as to grip the sole ; simultaneously, it moves the pin 13, which is connected to the rod 16, and so causes the bar 11 to move towards a lug 20, which engages the breast of the heel, the movement of the bar 11 serving to grip the heel securely. The position of the nut 19 can be adjusted to adapt the skate to boots of different sizes. In order to give a firm support to the sole, the bar 5 is formed with depending flanges 22, Fig. 8, the lower ends of which turn under the slotted top of the runner and which embrace the pin 6. When the bar 5 is perpendicular to the direction of the runner, the vertical edges of the flanges 22 meet the sides of the runners. The bar 11 is similarly strengthened. The pivot pin 13 is embraced by a saddle 15, Fig. 10, which guides it in its movement along the runner.
Patent GB-190523614-A (GB)
Title: A Device for Indicating the Extent of Opening of Valves with Non-lifting Spindles.
Inventor: TRAPP EDWARD MORTIMER
Filed: 1905-11-16
Granted: 1906-05-10
Abstract: 23,614. Trapp, E. M., [Trapp, F. R.]. Nov. 16. Indicating amount of opening of valves and cocks. -To indicate the amount of opening of a valve having a non-lifting spindle, the spindle is screwed or fitted with a screwed sleeve d and engages a quadrant plate f which is provided with a pointer working over a scale plate h. The sleeve d may be secured by a key e. The plate h is secured by means of a foot j to the gland casing, or to any other part of the valve.
Patent GB-190526918-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to Superheaters.
Filed: 1905-12-23
Granted: 1906-05-31
Abstract: 26,918. Lake, H. H., [Soc. Anon. de Perfectionnements MÚcaniques]. Dec. 23. Superheaters, steam ; feed - water, heating.-Steam from a water-tube boiler is superheated in two stages ; first in tubes arranged in the uptake in the manner of a feed-heater, and, second, in tubes so placed as to be subjected to the direct radiation from the furnace and to the impact of the furnace gases. The first heater may be so connected that it may be used either as a feed-heater or as a superheater. In a boiler of the type shown in Figs. 2 and 3, the first heater is formed of U-tubes opening into partitioned headers 6, and the second heater, which is built into or replaces part of tha back wall of the furnace, consists of horizontal tubes 14 arranged between vertical headers. In a boiler of the type shown in Figs. 5 and 7, the feed-heater 18 constitutes the first heater, and one or more rows of connected tubes 21 arranged in the lateral walls of the furnace form the second heater. This heater is provided with a drain pipe 23.]