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Patent GB-189728246-A (GB)
Title: An Improvement in Safety Electric Fuses.
Inventor: GOVER HENRY CHARLES
Filed: 1897-11-30
Granted: 1898-01-01
Abstract: 28,246. Gover, H. C., and M³ller, W. Nov. 30. Cut-outs.-The base B is formed with slots adapted to receive sliding inverted T-pieces A carrying the terminals to which the wires are secured. The wires pass in through holes D, and are secured by screws C, and the fuse wire F is threaded through a tunnel G and secured by screws E. Slots H are cut in the screw thread, and communicate with a groove L which is in communication with the exterior through openings M.
Patent GB-189801532-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Machines for Folding and Filling Cardboard Cases or the like, and Enclosing them within an Outer Case.
Inventor: GODFREY ALFRED
Filed: 1898-01-19
Granted: 1899-01-19
Abstract: 1532. Godfrey, A. Jan. 19. Packeting or parcelling cigarettes, confectionery, &c.-Cardboard and like boxes or cases for enclosing cigarettes, chocolate, soaps, &c. are formed, filled, and enclosed in an outer case by apparatus shown in Fig. 2. The blank is fed over a die or matrix D, which consists of a series of plates, having apertures through which the blank is passed by an upper die B to produce the various folds. The die B consists of an outer spring ring B<3> surrounding an inner part B' which passes through the matrix, while the ring B<3> is arrested by the top-plate of the matrix. Fig. 18<c> shows the box or drawer which has been formed as described. It drops into a channel underneath the matrix, and is pushed towards the filling-device G<1>. This consists of a vertical container having ribs or partitions to separate the cigarettes &c. It is open at the base, the cigarettes &c. being retained in place by fingers. The container is lifted and dropped into the open drawer or box, and a definite layer of the cigarettes &c. is thus deposited or packed therein by withdrawing the lower fingers and inserting others at the top of the layer to be deposited. The filled box is then pushed to a switch plate, which pushes it to one side, and the next box to the opposite side, and at the same time a shell or cover is pushed from under the container K in line with each box. The rear flap of each filled box is next turned down on the contents, and the box is pushed into the shell, the filled shell or box being finally thrown off by the succeeding boxes, or otherwise. Modifications of the dies adapted for boxes of different sizes are described. In this modification, the blank may be cut by knife edges on the dies.
Patent GB-189806475-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and in the Manufacture of Woven Driving Belting.
Filed: 1898-03-17
Granted: 1899-03-11
Abstract: 6475. Reddaway & Co., F., and Mack, G. March 17. Woven fabrics for gearing belts and bands are made in strips a, the adjacent edges of which are formed with thinner tongues b for connecting the strips together by stitching.
Patent GB-189810709-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Apparatus for Treating or Mercerising Yarns of Cotton or other Fibres to Impart a Silky or Lustrous Appearance thereto.
Inventor: HALL WILLIAM
Filed: 1898-05-10
Granted: 1899-03-11
Abstract: 10,709. Hall, W. May 10. Yarns, mercerizing.-The hanks of yarn are stretched over rollers P, P<1>, P<2>, of which P<1> is made to swivel outwards, P is vertically adjustable as shown, and P<2> is horizontally adjustable by means of screws R for the purpose of stretching the hanks. The frame H carrying the rollers slides vertically in a frame G, being raised and lowered by means of chains N and a hand-lever, while the frame G is mounted by means of the rollers K, L, M to ride on rollers B, C, which may be arranged in a straight line or in a closed curve. The hanks may therefore be brought over any one of a series of tanks D, lowered so as to dip into the liquor in the tank, and, by means of a handle attached to the roller P, they may be turned so that every part of the hanks shall pass through the liquor. A pressing-roller may be applied to any one of the rollers P, P', P<2>.
Patent GB-189811069-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and connected with Type-writers.
Inventor: CRAIG WILLIAM S
Filed: 1898-05-14
Granted: 1898-08-20
Abstract: 11,069. Craig, W. S., and Whitacre, C. C. May 14. Type-writers.-Relates to means for accurately adjusting the platen longitudinally in its carriage, to bring any point, as for example an erased letter, into exact position for printing. In Fig. 2 the bearing a for the platen shaft B<1>, at one end of the platen A, is formed with an external screw-thread fitting a nut or screwed part c of the carriage B. The bearing a fits between the end of the platen A and the knob C by which the platen may be turned. The bearing a may be turned by its head b to adjust the platen longitudinally. In Fig. 3, a collar a<1> having inclined or wedge surfaces a', a<3> is fixed to the platen shaft B<1>. A lever having a ring d', surrounding the collar a<1>, is pivoted to the carriage frame. On the ring d<2> are pins e for engaging the wedge surfaces a', a<3> and moving the platen.
Patent GB-189811187-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or connected with Injectors.
Inventor: WHITE CHARLES MELBOURNE
Filed: 1898-05-17
Granted: 1898-11-05
Abstract: 11,187. White, C. M., [Hayden and Derby Manufacturing Co.]. May 17. Lifting and forcing combined injectors; starting and stopping valves and cocks.-On moving the lever 21, steam is first admitted by the valve 18 to the lifting-nozzle 6, the valve 16 of which is previously opened. Steam and water pass up through the automatic valve 13, Fig. 3, (which is a section parallel to Fig. 1 through the valve spindle 26), past the valve 14 to the overflow. On further movement of the lever, the overflow valve 14 connected therewith by the rod 23 partially closes, so that the passage to the overflow is throttled and water enters the forcer. The valve 19 now admits steam to the forcer, so that the pressure in the chamber 12 communicating with the top of the valve 13 is increased and the valve closes. When the steam valve is fully opened, the valve 14 closes and water passes the check valve 15. The latter is arranged in a separate casing to which the injector is connected by a flange joint to facilitate removal. The nozzle 6 has a hole 30, so that the injector may work at its minimum capacity when the valve 16 is closed. There is a pin-and-slot connection between the lever 21 and rod 23, so that the latter may be operated separately if desired.
Patent GB-189818593-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Nose-bags for Horses and other Animals.
Inventor: BIELEFELD JULIUS MARTIN
Filed: 1898-08-30
Granted: 1898-11-19
Abstract: 18,593. Bielefeld, J. M. Aug. 30. Nosebags.-T h e bag has a constricted neck A widening at the top, and the bottom part B to contain the food is of circular, semicircular, or flat form. Holes E are made for ventilation.
Patent GB-189819069-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Handle-bars for Velocipedes.
Inventor: SCOTT RALPH ROBERT
Filed: 1898-09-07
Granted: 1898-11-12
Abstract: 19,069. Scott, R. R. Sept. 7. Handle-bars, folding. The handle-bars a<1> are pivoted to the central stem a at c as shown, so as to fold down, and are held in an extended position by sleeves g, which pass over the joints and screw on to threads d on the stem a. When a brake is used, it is jointed and fitted with a sleeve in a similar manner.
Patent GB-189819470-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in the Manufacture of Dioxide of Barium.
Filed: 1898-09-13
Granted: 1898-12-17
Abstract: 19,470. Lake, W. R., [Soc. Bonnet, Ramel, Savigny, Giraud, et Marnas]. Sept. 13. Barium oxides.-For the purpose of manufacturing barium dioxide, any hydrated baryta, as pure as possible, is used, and is intimately mixed with an equivalent of carbon in a finely - divided condition. This mixture is heated to a temperature of about 150‹ C., and the desiccated magma is transferred to a plumbago or other refractory crucible, lined internally with a carboniferous substance or one capable of yielding carbon, such as cardboard, paper, wood pulp, or sheets of vegetable fibres, or carbon itself. The crucible, having a cover which will allow the gases produced to escape, is then heated to from 1000‹ to 1200‹ C. for from five to eight hours, whereby the hydrated baryta is changed into anhydrous porous baryta, which is specially suited for use in obtaining barium dioxide by known methods, giving a yield of from 86 to 94 per cent. of pure dioxide. In a modified process, the carbon is not mixed with the baryta until the latter has been heated to about 150‹ C.
Patent GB-189901880-A (GB)
Title: New or Improved Method and Means for the Decolourization of Glass.
Inventor: MOSER RUDOLPH
Filed: 1899-01-26
Granted: 1899-11-18
Abstract: 1880. Moser, R. Jan. 26. Materials. -Relates to the decolorization of glass or neutralization of the green tint due to the presence of iron. A mixture of manganese peroxide, selenium, oxide of bismuth, nickelous hydrate, and arsenious acid is added to a small quantity of the materials from which the glass is made, and the mixture is introduced into the melting-pot after melting has proceeded to some extent in the furnace. Wet sticks of wood &c. are introduced to produce ebullition and thoroughly mix the contents of the melting-pot. Vitreous arsenious oxide may be added.
Patent GB-189913726-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Picking-apparatus for Looms.
Inventor: MINISZEWSKI JOSEPH DE
Filed: 1899-07-03
Granted: 1899-08-05
Abstract: 13,726. Miniszewski, J. de, and Mohl, T. de. July 3. Loom picking-motions. -The shuttle is picked by compressed air supplied from an air compressor or pump b, carried by the lay a and operated by a connection e from a fixed part f of the loom or from the crank shaft. The air is admitted to a cylinder i at each side of the loom by a sliding valve j, operated against a spring by a lever from a cam on the crank shaft whenever a feeler q is caused by the presence of the shuttle in the shuttle box to depress the bar s into operative position in front of the valve and in the path of the cam-actuated lever. The compressed air in the cylinder acts upon a piston for picking, and also forms a buffer for the entering shuttle.
Patent GB-189914713-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Spark Arresters for Use with Locomotive or other Boiler Apparatus.
Inventor: STEVENS NATHAN PAGE
Filed: 1899-07-17
Granted: 1899-09-23
Abstract: 14,713. Stevens, N. P., and Knomles, F. M. July 17. Drawings to Specification. Smoke-boxes of locomotive and like boilers are made with an extension beyond the funnel which contains a spark-arrester and is hinged to the ordinary smoke-box.
Patent GB-189914753-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Coin Freed or Actuated Gas or similar Meters.
Inventor: BEECHEY CHARLES GRANTLEY
Filed: 1899-07-18
Granted: 1900-05-19
Abstract: 14,753. Beechey, C. G., and Wright, A. T. July 18. Gas meters. - A wheel i, geared to the meter and forming a bearing for a shaft k, which is movable to open and to close the the valve, bears a bell crank between brackets j<2>, one arm l of which engages a slot in the shaft, while the other protrudes through a slot in the wheels. The protruding arm being itself slotted, a radial pin m upon a ratchetwheel f effects the required operations when the ratchet-wheel is turned after prepayment, and when the geared wheel has subsequently turnedthrough the same angle. A dial g turns with the ratchetwheel, and an index p with the gear-wheel. Coin action.-As a split handle a is turned, the coin x occupying the slot is forced against the ratchet lever e by a fixed cam d, and the ratchet-wheel is advanced one tooth for a halfpenny, or two teeth for a penny. Coin-slit closing-devices.-If sufficient coins are inserted to give the ratchet-wheel a complete revolution, the shaft k is moved further back, and a collar k<1> upon it sets a bell crank r across the coin entrance c.
Patent GB-189916142-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Automatic Fire Alarm Systems and Apparatus.
Inventor: HALE GEORGE CONSIDER
Filed: 1899-08-08
Granted: 1899-10-28
Abstract: 16,142. Hale, G. C., and Wollman, M. Aug. 8. Telephone sy s t e m s.- Relates to an automatic fire-alarm system in which phonographs and telephones are used to indicate the locality of the fire. Thermostats A, A<1>, A<2> are placed i the various rooms of a building. The thermostats consist of bent pieces of metal which, when heated, expand and break the electric circuit containing the battery B and one of the electromagnets C. The armature C<1> of the de-energized magnet then falls back, thereby lowering a phonograph diaphragm G into contact with its cylinder E. The armature also closes a circuit S, S<1> containing a battery S<2> and an electromagnet R, which, when energized, attracts its armature S' and allows the lever V to fall. The fall of this lever disengages the motor F<2>, which turns the phonograph cylinders, and also releases a magneto machine M, which calls up a local telephone N and the central exchange. The phonograph cylinders E now send through a speaking-tube a message indicating the locality of the fire to the funnel K on the external wall of the building, and to a telephone L, which transmits it through the wires w, w<1> and 2, 3 to the local telephone N and to the central exchange. The central exchange connects up to the fire-station. Direct wires may be taken from the telephone L to the fire-station.
Patent GB-189919888-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in the Manufacture of Lace Hosiery and in Apparatus therefor.
Inventor: WALTON BENJAMIN
Filed: 1899-10-04
Granted: 1900-10-04
Abstract: 19,888. Walton, B. Oct. 4. Straight-bar knitting-machines. -Relates to machines of the Cotton type for making the openwork or lace parts of stockings, socks, &c. The object is to enable a machine to transfer loops to right or left and both to right and left between each course at will, instead of performing either one or other of the transfers, as is at present the case. The pawls A<6>, A<7> which operate the screw box of the transferring- bars are acted on by two pairs of cams C, C' and D, D', which can be put in and out of action by hand or automatically. When one pair of cams comes into action, one transfer is made between successive courses; while, when the other pair is in action, two transfers are made. The cams are feathered to a sleeve which has a ratchet - wheel and pawl arrangement for rotating the cams and giving a cycle of motions to the cams, and consequently to the pawls A<6>, A<7>. The sleeve may have two ratchet-wheels, so that this cycle may consist of a different number of motions when one transfer and two transfers are performed. The cams may act on the pawls A<6>, A<7> through an extra pair of levers. Arrangements are described for ensuring that the pawls A<6>, A<7> are not in the path of the cams when these are shogged ; means are also shown consisting of links, levers, star-wheels, ratchet-wheels, and bits on a pattern chain for automatically shifting the cams.
Patent GB-189921162-A (GB)
Title: Improved Process for Preparing Threads and Fabrics for the purpose of rendering Fabrics Puncture Proof.
Inventor: BOYEUX ANTOINE
Filed: 1899-10-23
Granted: 1900-10-23
Abstract: 21,162. Boyeux, A., Humbert, L. F., and Sanlaville, A. Oct. 23. Tyres, pneumatic.-Relates to the treatment of threads and fabrics for the purpose of rendering the finished fabric puncture-proof, the invention being specially suitable for use in the manufacture of puncture-proof bands or covers for pneumatic tyres. Vegetable threads and fabrics are mercerized, washed, passed through solutions of acetate of lead and sulphuric acid, washed, and dried. They are then brushed or otherwise treated with a solution of caoutchouc in benzine, to which has been added ceruse or oxide of lead, zinc, &c. ; metallic powders may also be employed. For threads or fabrics of common silk, the mercerizing process is dispensed with, and the material is repeatedly dipped into a solution of stannic chloride and washed after each dipping, the rinsing water of the last dipping operation having dissolved in it a little carbonate of soda, the other operations being the same as for vegetable fibres. Fabrics of tussah silk and wool do not require either mercerizing or treating with stannic chloride. The materials may be finished by having their interstices filled with metallic salts, oxides, or powdered material of any kind.
Patent GB-189922647-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Windows.
Inventor: FISHER ARTHUR HENRY
Filed: 1899-11-13
Granted: 1900-11-03
Abstract: 22,647. Fisher, A. B. Nov. 13. Windows. - Relates to cord detaching and retaining mechanism for sliding sashes which are arranged to turn inwards for cleaning &c. A yoke or loop E at the end of the sash cord E' is formed with side projections which enter recesses in a bracket let into the sash stile A. A cross-shaft D is provided with two hooks C<1>, which are arranged to enter the yokes and detach them from the sashes. The shaft is operated by a handle, and is locked with the hooks in a raised or lowered position by a pawl which engages with a notched disc at the end of the shaft. The sashes are fitted with eyes or sockets which fit over fixed pintles, and the beads are hinged so as to turn back out of the way.
Patent GB-190006653-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Lasts for Boots and Shoes.
Inventor: HODGSON JOHN EDMUND
Filed: 1900-04-10
Granted: 1900-06-30
Abstract: 6653. Hodgson, J. E. April 10. Lasts. - Relates to wooden lasts used in finishing. They are made of the form shown, so that the two parts can be sprung together to be placed in the boot or shoe. The upper part is pulled down by a handle or treadle acting on a rod E carrying a pin K bearing on a slotted washer in the bottom of a recess.
Patent GB-190009995-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Apparatus for Retarding the Motion of Ships and other Vessels.
Inventor: MARTIN THOMAS INGRAM
Filed: 1900-05-31
Granted: 1901-05-25
Abstract: 9995. Martin, T. I. May 31. Stopping way.-Two or more bucket - shaped devices A, connected together, are hung at the stern. When it is desired to stop the vessel quickly, these devices are dropped overboard and towed astern as shown in Fig. 1. Instead of a single group, two or more may be used.
Patent GB-190013196-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in the Manufacture of Spiral-shaped Music Sheets for Mechanical Musical Instruments.
Inventor: STAFFELSTEIN ADOLF CARL FERDIN
Filed: 1900-07-21
Granted: 1901-04-27
Abstract: 13,196. Staffelatein, A. C. F., and Kluge, H. F. F. July 21. Automatic instruments.-Relates to a punching - machine for spiral tunesheets. The copy templet a consists of a straight sheet, and is mounted on a carriage t, which is moved longitudinally by a rack z and a pinion operated by hand. The spiral tune-sheet b is mounted on a central pin g, and its edge engages with a pinion p driven from the rack. The templet and the tune-sheet are thus moved together. The punching-device y is carried on a slide k, the position of which is determined by a pin s, which drops into the holes in the templet. The punch g is operated by a hand-lever, and on the completion of each row of holes the slide k is moved so as to bring the punch into position for the next row. In a modification, the pin g is driven by hand, and movement is thence communicated to the rack z. The punch is carried by a radial arm, which is mounted on a long sleeve for steadiness.
Patent GB-190013418-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Shoe Fastenings.
Inventor: HAMMERSLEY REUBEN GEORGE
Filed: 1900-07-25
Granted: 1901-06-01
Abstract: 13,418. Hammersley, R. G., and Fochin, J. H., [trading as Leicester Slipper Manufacturing Co.]. July 25. Uppers.-Relates to a method of fastening cyclists' and other shoes. Strap and buckle fastenings are employed in the manner shown, the strap being held in place by being passed through a loop on an outside tongue C. In addition an ordinary inside tongue may be fitted. The tongue C may be attached in various ways, and may be out in one with the toe-cap. The fastenings described are stated to be particularly applicable to the shoes worn by the inmates of lunatic asylums.
Patent GB-190100294-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to Galvanic Cells or Batteries.
Inventor: BAIR MICHAEL MARTIN
Filed: 1901-01-04
Granted: 1901-11-09
Abstract: 294. Bair, M. M. Jan. 4. Primary batteries. -Relates to batteries which are hermetically sealed and intended for use with motor vehicles, and has for its chief object so to construct the cells that they can be readily opened and the constituent elements taken apart and after recharging be put together again. For this purpose, each cell is provided with a detachable lid and a fastening for the same. Fig. 4 shows one construction of cell, and Fig. 3 the cover separately. The inner vessel may be a canvas bag c containing one of the electrodes c<1>, and is placed in an outer vessel a, which may constitute the other electrode and is provided with a projection a<5> which engages with a recess e<5> in a piece of insulating-material c<4>, which forms the bottom of the porous vessel c. The cover b consists of a ring of ebonite or the like, provided with an annular recess b<5> and a lip b<4> over which the upper edge c<4> of the bag c is engaged and held by a layer b<6> of paraffin wax or other insulating-material. The ring b may be provided on its outer surface with an interrupted screw-thread b<2>, which engages with an interrupted thread formed in the upper part of the outer vessel a. The cover b rests on a washer a<3>, lying in an annular groove upon the outer vessel a. A spring a<7> on the outer vessel engages with one of a series of notches formed in the cover b. In the modification shown in Fig. 6, the cover is fastened by a pin b<8> on the cover engaging with an angular slot a<8> on the neck a<1> of the outer vessel a. Fig. 8 shows in plan, and Fig. 10 in elevation, a wire spring fastening d<1>, which rests on and holds down the cover by engaging with hooks, projections, or other appliances e<2>, e<3> on the outer vessel. The fastening is operated by a thumb-plate d'. Several modified forms of spring wire fastenings are described. In that shown in Fig. 15, as applied to a LeclanchÚ cell, a wire ring d<8> held in a groove on the cover b is fastened by links e', e<5> to a ring e<7> secured to the neck of the outer vessel a.
Patent GB-190102424-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Propeller for use on Ships and Boats
Inventor: CLARK THOMAS
Filed: 1901-02-05
Granted: 1901-12-21
Abstract: 2424. Clark, T. Feb. 5. Screw propellers.-To increase the speed for a given motive power, and to lessen vibration and the racing of the screw, the two blades are arranged with opposite pitches as shown. The two blades a, b are, respectively, provided with bosses a<1>, b<1>, which are secured to each other by the bolts c, and to the shaft by one or more keys. The points of the blades are arranged to overlap, as shown in Fig. 3.
Patent GB-190105266-A (GB)
Title: A New or Improved Hanger for Domestic Purposes.
Inventor: RUCK JOHN CHRISTIAN
Filed: 1901-03-12
Granted: 1902-01-23
Abstract: 5266. Ruck, J. C. March 12. Hooks.-The appliance consists of one or more rods d, attached to a screw clamp a for fixing to a mantelpiece &c. b. The rod d may end in a hook or an eye m, with a thumb-screw or spring for securing a rod e therein. The rod e may be used for suspending clothes for airing &c., or a curtain g to act as a fire-screen. In the modification shown in Fig. 4, the rod his adjustably secured to the clamp by a thumb-nut i, and carries a ring l, to which is pivoted the ring j for the suspending rod. By this means the appliance may be folded out of the way when not in use.