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Patent GB-190009902-A (GB)
Title: A New or Improved Type-writer, especially adapted for Printing Music.
Inventor: PRYOR HENRY ALLEN
Filed: 1900-05-29
Granted: 1900-07-14
Abstract: 9902. Pryor, H. A., [Beals, F. H.]. May 29. Type-writers.-Relates to a type-writer specially adapted for printing music. The characters most frequently used are printed by means of type-bars actuated from the keyboard ; those more rarely employed are printed from types supported in a carriage which is positioned by hand. The machine is shown in front elevation in Fig. 2, and in partial vertical transverse section in Fig. 6. The paper is torn off, as required, from a supply roll in the base of the machine. The main printing- mechanism comprises type-bars 24 and key levers 26. Buffer springs 29 check the advance of the type-bars and ensure their return. The supplementary printing-mechanism comprises a carriage 32 moving between rails 31 carried by pillars 30. The carriage 32 can be secured in any desired position by means of set-screws. A central opening 36 is normally in front of the impression point, and the type-bars 24 strike through it. Fig. 13 shows the carriage in rear view, parts being broken away, and Fig. 15 shows it in vertical transverse section. It is provided with a number of spring- controlled sliding plungers 34<a> bearing type on their rear ends. Each plunger has a head 34 extending towards the keyboard. A hammer 39, Fig. 6, operated from the keyboard, strikes the head 34 and forces the selected type against the paper. The track 31 is provided with an index, and the carriage 32 bears a pointer 37 by means of which the carriage is positioned, and which may serve also to facilitate the copying of music. The carriage is provided with an ink-ribbon 43, which serves for both the main and supplementary printing- mechanisms. The spool 44 is rotated through toothed gearing 87, 88, 90, Fig. 15, from a rack 91 on the main paper carriage. Wheels 51, 47 are provided in the carriage 32 for ruling vertical and staff lines respectively. They take ink from suitable inking-rolls. The main papercarriage 55, Fig. 2, is adapted to move horizontally between a track 54 and another at the base of the machine. Mounted so as to move vertically in the main paper-carriage 55 is a secondary papercarriage 56. It consists of a plate of hard rubber &c., over which the paper is stretched between rolls 68, 71. It also bears a spring-pressed paperclamp 69. The carriage 56 rests upon a bar 57, which can be raised and lowered by means of a lever moving over au index-plate on the keyboard. A note can thus be printed at any desired line on the staff. The main carriage-feed is effected by means of a pawl 75, Fig. 11, engaging with the spacing-rack 74. The pawl is carried by a block 76 which can be moved through a graduated series of distances by means of levers connected with a series of spacing-keys. A release key is provided for the spacing-pawl, which also serves to disengage the gearing of the ink-ribbon, so that it remains stationary when the carriage is returned at the end of a line. An alarm bell signals the approach of the end of a line in the usual manner.
Patent GB-190016707-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in the Manufacture of Tools and Projectiles.
Inventor: HAY JOHN SUPPES
Filed: 1900-09-19
Granted: 1900-11-17
Abstract: 16,707. Hay, J. S. Sept. 19. Tools, metal for.-An air-hardening steel, suitable for tools and projectiles, is obtained by melting iron, with carbon, chromium, tungsten, and manganese, in a crucible, in the ordinary way. The steel is cast in moulds having the desired forms of the tools or projectiles to be made. The tools &c. may be improved, if necessary, by heating to a temperature between 1050‹ C. and 1150‹ C., and allowing them to cool slowly.
Patent GB-190019336-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or connected with Saddles or Seats.
Inventor: RAE WILLIAM FRASER
Filed: 1900-10-29
Granted: 1900-12-22
Abstract: 19,336. Rae, W. F. Oct. 29. Seats; chairs.- A. saddle or seat for cycles or chairs and other like furniture has a pneumatic support of the kind described in Specification No. 17,508, A.D. 1898, [Abridgment Class Wheels &c.]. The saddle a is secured to a plate b, to which is fixed a block d with flexible flanges e. The block slides vertically between flanges on a short metal tube f, and rests on a chamber g which can be inflated like a tyre. The tube f is attached to the seat pillar h, and is closed at the ends. The saddle or seat may rest on two or more such supports to suit the use. The tube may be attached to the saddle, and the block to the pillar.
Patent GB-190103873-A (GB)
Title: Improved Apparatus for Estimating Photographic Exposures.
Inventor: ACWORTH JOSEPH JOHN
Filed: 1901-02-23
Granted: 1901-12-21
Abstract: 3873. Acworth, J. J. Feb. 23. Slide rules.-Relates to a slide rule for calculating photographic exposure. The numbers representing the speed numbers and the stops are on the slide of the rule, namely, the scales D, E ; the scales C, F for the actinometer time and the time of exposure being on the fixed part of the rule; or this arrangement may be reversed. To calculate an exposure, the speed of the plate scale D is set opposite the actinometer time scale C, and the time of exposure is read off on scale F opposite the number representing the value of the stop on scale E. The actinometer time is ascertained by the blackening of a piece of paper in the aperture B to a standard colour. An allowance is made for the colour of the subject.
Patent GB-190104133-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Casting-machine.
Inventor: VEEDER CURTIS HUSSEY
Filed: 1901-02-26
Granted: 1901-05-04
Abstract: 4133. Veeder, C. H. Feb. 26. Casting, machines for. Castings with bearing-surfaces that require no machining are cast by forcing metal into a vacuous mould. The mould 0 is contained in a vacuous chamber C, and is supplied with molten metal from a nozzle 10 ; it is mounted on a vertically-sliding frame H, on which the carriers h, h<1> of its two halves are slid horizontally by levers and links 57, 58, 59. On the parts h, h<1> the mould for the sprue and the core are carried, and auxiliary cylindrical carriers h<11>, h<111> carry the parts of the mould proper ; the latter move with parts h, A', until they are arrested by stops and disengage the casting from the core and sprue mould. Scrapers 100 pass over the top of the mould, and, impinging against the end of the sprue, strip the casting from the mould. A drip catcher 65, operated by a pneumatic cylinder m, passes under the nozzle 10 as soon as the mould falls, and directs any drip to the shoots 66 and 68. A brush b, similarly operated, passes over the mould faces to clean them. The castings fall into one of two pockets 125 on a slide valve 126, one pocket being beyond the end of the machine, so that it can be emptied while the other is being filled. The melting-pot M is situated above the mould ; it is made of refractory material, heated by gas burners, and secured to the sever c<1> of the chamber C. The metal is forced out by a plunger p when the pressure on the valve v is relieved, both plunger and valve being operated by arms 27<1>, 37<1>, which can be swung aside to allow of the removal of the pot M. The cover and pot are lifted by a bail 5, and may be inverted by gearing 15. The cover c' is secured by cams 120<11> and levers 120.
Patent GB-190104537-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Water-Closets.
Inventor: DUNBAR WILLIAM
Filed: 1901-03-04
Granted: 1902-01-23
Abstract: 4537. Dunbar, W., Ford, J. K., and Ford, W. March 4. Flushing closets.-To facilitate flushing, a cistern D is placed alongside the closet, and connected thereto by a pipe F. The closet discharge-valve lever is connected to the starting-valve J of the flushing-cistern, so that the discharge of the basin and the flushing of its trap take place simultaneously. The arrangement may be applied to closets of various types.
Patent GB-190105125-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Protective Covers for Outdoor Seats.
Inventor: GLAZEBROOK HENRY GEORGE TWANBR
Filed: 1901-03-11
Granted: 1901-05-18
Abstract: 5125. Glazebrook, H. G. T. March 11. Seat protectors for omnibuses. The flexible cover c, which passes round rollers b, b<1> fitted in the seat back, is drawn out to cover the seat, and is automatically returned by the weight d when the occupant leaves the seat. In reversible backs, the device is duplicated.
Patent GB-190106235-A (GB)
Title: Improvement in Chimneys.
Inventor: CUSTODIS ALPHONS
Filed: 1901-03-25
Granted: 1901-07-20
Abstract: 6235. Custodis, A. March 25. Chimneys. - The linings of chimneys are built up in sections resting on internal corbels so as to leave channels a having communication with the atmosphere and the flue through ducts e, f, which may have dampers.
Patent GB-190106940-A (GB)
Title: Pneumatic Harmony and Solo Soundboard for Organs Playable from Pedal or Manual.
Inventor: RUTT ROBERT SPURDEN
Filed: 1901-04-02
Granted: 1902-03-13
Abstract: 6940. Butt, R. S. April 2. Organs.-The invention relates to a solo soundboard by which one note only of a chord can be sounded, all the others being silenced. The pipes or reeds G receive wind from chambers B, which may be supplied from a trunk running along at the back of them and connected with them by non-return valves P. When wind is in this trunk, all the notes of a chord are sounded, but by means of a valve Q wind can be shut off from it, and admitted to the chamber B corresponding to the lowest note of a stop. All the other chambers B then receive their wind through passages H from the lowest one. If, now, a chord is struck, all the playing pallets E of the chord are opened, but, as the passages H are closed at the same time by pallets E<1>, carried by the spindles F of the pallets E, none but the lowest pipe or reed of the chord can get any wind. By a duplication of this arrangement, the tenor or bass notes only of a chord may be sounded at will, and by further multiplication any note of a chord can be sounded alone.
Patent GB-190109100-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Carving or Copying Machines.
Inventor: GATES JOHN
Filed: 1901-05-02
Granted: 1902-05-01
Abstract: 9100. Gates, J. May 2. Carving.-Relates to machines, in which one or more pairs of rotating carving-tools are mounted so that the adjustments of each tool are the same but in opposite directions. The rotating tools at 1 are driven by bevel-gearing from shafts 4, which are driven by a belt 6 from a driving-drum 47. Each tool of a pair is mounted on one of the sliding tables 13, which are connected to opposite sides of an endless chain, so that the tools are always moved in opposite directions. The supporting-frame of the tables 13 is pivoted on a shaft 29, which shaft is supported on a beam 31, which can be raised and lowered by a counterbalanced lever 36. The movement is imparted to this lever by a treadle. The support of the tool axis 1 can be rotated about the axis 4 by turning the shaft 18, which is connected to the sleeve 3 by worm gearing 24 and spur gearing. The other tool of the pair is rotated at the same time through an equal angle in an opposite direction by the shaft 19. The table for supporting the work consists of a gridiron of slats, so that, when necessary, work can be mounted between the slats. It is operated by a handle and endless chain. When a pattern is used, one of the tool-holders, after the belt has been removed, is used as a tracer.
Patent GB-190111953-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Bulkhead Doors.
Inventor: IFE WALTER WILLIAM
Filed: 1901-06-11
Granted: 1902-01-23
Abstract: 11,953. Ife, W. W. June 11. Bulkheads; bulkhead doors. - Bulkheads are corrugated, as shown at 51, Fig. 1, to prevent any distortion of the door frames or closing-gear in the event of damage to the vessel in way of a bulkhead. There is a hinged door at each side of the bulkhead. Under normal conditions, the two are coupled by a hinged bar 14, so that they swing together within curved plates D, E, which need only be about half the height of the door, as shown in Fig. 3. These plates D, E are hinged, so that they can be swung back into the dotted positions, and the bar 14 can be removed so that the doors can be swung wide open to allow a free passage through the doorway. The doors can be both closed when no passage-way is required. As shown in Fig. 5, the door jambs consist of flat bars 5, 6 and angle-bars riveted to the bulkhead. Packing-strips 8 are secured by a batten 7. Other strips 27 are attached to the angle-bars to make a joint with the edges of the doors when in the positions shown in Fig. 1. The door is a dished plate, its vertical edges being stiffened by channel-bars, and its top and broken edges by angle-bars. It rotates freely on a vertical spindle, and has handles on each side. These spindles can be rotated by worm gear actuated by hand-wheels, and carry curved arms 25, 26, which press the doors against the packing-strips 8. The other edge of the door is made water-tight by wedges 35, 36, Fig. 6, bearing on blocks 28 on the door. These wedges are controlled by handwheels through the rack-and-pinion gear shown. Packing-strips are also provided at the top and bottom of the door frame. As the door is swung open, it is raised on its spindle by the stilt arrangement G, and is swung inwards to its original position automatically. As shown in Fig. 7, the stilt rests on a block supported on some material 48 soluble water. Should water enter any compartment, it passes by a pipe 49 to the stilt on the other side of the bulkhead, and dissolves the material 48. The stilt is thus left unsupported, and the door of the water-logged compartment is automatically closed.
Patent GB-190113085-A (GB)
Title: An Improvement connected with Tobacco Pipes.
Inventor: WILLIAMS JOHN THOMAS
Filed: 1901-06-27
Granted: 1902-05-08
Abstract: 13,085. Williams, J. T. June 27. Tobacco pipes. - The tobacco is placed in a removable cage a, made by twisting a Hat wire into a conical spiral.
Patent GB-190114405-A (GB)
Title: Improved Bellows or "Pneumatic" for use in Organs, Apparatus for Automatically Playing Musical Instruments, and the like.
Inventor: MURDOCH JAMES SEMPLE
Filed: 1901-07-15
Granted: 1902-07-03
Abstract: 14,405. Murdoch, J. S., and Stone, F. July 15. Automatic instruments; organs.-The invention relates to pneumatics or bellows for actuating parts of musical instruments. To enable several of such pneumatics to be placed side by side, they are made very narrow, and built up of a number of wedgeshaped bellows, the narrow part of one being next the wide or expanding part of the next. Preferably an even number of the constituent bellows are used, so that the complete pneumatic opens parallel, and the parts communicate as shown. If one pneumatic is not sufficient for the work required of it, two or more may be placed side by side and connected by a bridge.
Patent GB-190123275-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or connected with Brakes for Velocipedes and the like
Inventor: HAYES WALTER HENRY
Filed: 1901-11-18
Granted: 1902-03-20
Abstract: 23,275. Hayes, W. H. Nov. 18. Brakes for veloci- pedes and the like. Figs. 4 and 5 show the application to the rear wheel of a bicycle. A brake ring is bolted through the spokes of the wheel to a divided or split ring a placed round the hub. A brake band f is con- nected at one end to a cross-bar g secured to the axle g<1>, formed with a bent end g<2> to keep the band f in position, with an arm h to engage the forks i and prevent rotation, and with an arm j which serves as a guide for a rod k secured to the free end of the band f. When applied to the front wheel as shown in Fig. 6, the band is secured to a bar l fitted with arm m which engages the fork n and guides the operating-rod p. A spring q releases the brake when the pressure is removed. Fig. 9 shows an arrangement by which brakes may be simultaneously applied to two tricycle wheels. The brake bands are connected to levers s, s<1>, which are pivoted at s<2>, s<3> to the axle t, connected together at u<2>, and actuated by a Bowden or other mechanism v. A spring z releases the brake.
Patent GB-190201238-A (GB)
Title: Improved Collector Rings for Electrical Machines.
Filed: 1902-01-16
Granted: 1903-01-08
Abstract: 1238. British Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Co., [Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Co.]. Jan. 16. Collecting-rings; ventilating.-A number of collecting-rings 2. 3, 4, arranged side by side, are provided with supporting-arms 11, 13, 15, that project into approximately the same plane and are secured to a supporting-ring 1, attached to the armature spider or other suitable part of the machine. In the arrangement shown, each ring is provided with four supporting-arms, those of the two outer rings being inclined so as to extend into the same plane as those of the middle ring. Both the collecting-rings and the supporting-ring may be divided into two parts bolted together, and the latter ring may be of skeleton or openwork formation, to promote ventilation.
Patent GB-190202031-A (GB)
Title: A New or Improved Warp Stop Motion for Looms
Filed: 1902-01-25
Granted: 1902-04-17
Abstract: 2031. Textile Machinery Improvement Co., and Lemyre, J. E. Jan. 25. Loom stop-motions; reeds; lays.-A warp stopmotion for looms comprises a series of detectors d' having projections or fingers d<6>, in contact with the unbroken warp threads w, and recessed ends d<4>, loosely resting upon a carrier d', which is adjustably secured to the frame of the reed R. The front ends d<5> of the detectors pass between the dents of the reed and, when a thread breaks the corresponding detector falls upon a guard ,plate l<1> attached to the top rail L'. A plate d<3>, removably secured to the reed frame, limits the upward movements of the detectors. A laterallymovable bar F is mounted upon the carrier d<2>, and is formed with a longitudinal groove which engages with projections d<7>, on the detectors, when any of these fall owing to breakage of the threads. As long as the threads are unbroken the detectors are lifted, during the shedding-operations, and the bar F is free to move laterally under the action of links f <1>, arms f<2> secured to a shaft f<4>, and an arm f<5>, which is also secured to the shaft, and strikes against a fixed stop a, during the backward movements of the lay. An arm f<6> is secured to the shaft f<4>, and its extremity is held in contact with a finger m on the lay L, by means of a spring m<1> connected to the lay-sword S. During the beat-up, the finger m is normally pulled downwards by the spring, so that it passes beneath a block n' secured to a pivoted shipperlever n; but, when a thread breaks and the bar F is locked by means of the corresponding detector, the finger m is held in its raised position, and consequently strikes the block n<1>, during the beat-up of the lay.
Patent GB-190204520-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Electric Batteries.
Inventor: APPLE VINCENT GROBY
Filed: 1902-02-22
Granted: 1902-05-08
Abstract: 4520. Apple, V. G. Feb. 22. Secondary batteries.-The object is to produce a light compact storage battery free from artificial joints. Fig. 2 shows a plan view of part of a battery. The grids or plates a<1> of one polarity are formed integral with the cell A, which is made of conducting-material and is provided on its inner ends with ribs a for holding active material. The grids or plates b of the other polarity are made integral with one another, as shown in Fig. 4, and lie between the plates a', being held in place by insulating-strips c<1>. Two separate cells are formed in the one casing by means of the metallic partition a<2>. With this arrangement, the two cells will be of opposite polarity and likewise the two sets of removable plates b, the latter forming the terminal plates of the battery.
Patent GB-190209863-A (GB)
Title: A Process for the Preparation of a Serum for the Treatment of Diabetes and the like.
Inventor: BLUM FERDINAND
Filed: 1902-04-29
Granted: 1903-04-23
Abstract: 9863. Blum, F. April 29. Medicines anti-toxines.-The blood of a dog which has been repeatedly inoculated with the juice of suprarenal capsules is used as an injection in the treatment of diabetes and complaints having their origin in imperfect action of the suprarenal capsules.
Patent GB-190210528-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Galvanic Batteries for Shot Firing in Mines or other Works.
Inventor: COOK CHARLES
Filed: 1902-05-07
Granted: 1903-03-12
Abstract: 10,528. Cook, C. May 7. Primary batteries. -Relates to batteries for use in shot-firing in mines and other works. The cells A, B, Fig. 1, are placed in a casing or in separate casings A', B', provided with one or separate insulating-covers D, D' in which are fitted metal plates E, E' with which the necessary contacts are made. The whole is placed in a leather casing G having an open top crossed by a strap, and having also a side strap for attachment to the person. Fig. 3 shows another arrangement, adapted to be carried in the pocket.
Patent GB-190213805-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and connected with Solid Rubber Tyres for the Wheels of Road Vehicles.
Inventor: GOLDSWORTHY JOSEPH
Filed: 1902-06-18
Granted: 1903-05-07
Abstract: 13,805. Goldsworthy, J. June 18. Tyres, elastic other than pneumatic.-Relates to solid rubber tyres for the wheels of road vehicles, which are secured to the rims by one or more internal metal bands or wires. The ends e,f of the band d are turned down through a hole cut through the rim a and into the felloe c, if a felloe is used, and are secured by a T-shaped block g and a screw k. The band is also secured at intervals by being passed through holes in blocks l let into recesses in the rim and felloe. The blocks l, may be secured from inside the felloe by screws n, or by screwed shanks and nuts. The securing- devices may be coated with rubber before being put into place, and suitable washers are provided for preventing access of moisture to the holes in the felloe. The ends of the band or wire d may also be connected together by a right and left hand nut.
Patent GB-190219909-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Self Holding Double Eye Glasses.
Inventor: STANLEY WILLIAM FORD
Filed: 1902-09-11
Granted: 1903-08-13
Abstract: 19,909. Stanley, W. F. Sept. 11. Eyeglasses.-Each of the usual plaquets is replaced by a pair A B, which may be connected at one end or at the centre.
Patent GB-190221386-A (GB)
Title: Improved Manufacture of Non-conducting Coverings, Blocks and Slabs suitable for Covering Steam Pipes, Boilers and the like and for other purposes.
Inventor: MICHELL HENRY COLBECK
Filed: 1902-10-01
Granted: 1904-01-01
Abstract: 21,386. Michell, H. C. Oct. 1. Slabs; facing-blocks.-Relates to non-conducting coverings, blocks, and slabs, composed of, or containing flakes or particles of mica and a silicious binding-agent, such as sodium silicate, clays, or the like, with or without the addition of light porous or open filling, of the kind mentioned in Specification No. 4970, A.D. 1901 and used for covering steam pipes, boilers, refrigerator pipes, and for other purposes. These coverings, blocks, and slabs, after being moulded to shape and dried, are subjected to a high temperature, in order that the sodium silicate may combine with the mica and form a compound silicate with it. In this way, a durable outer crust or shell is formed, which will resist the action of air, steam, and water. The heating may be effected by firing in a kiln at a temperature up to, or about, 1000‹ C. The interior of the coverings &c. may be charged with non- conducting material of various kinds, other than mica and light porons or other material referred to in the prior Specification ; or the coverings &c. may be formed of an intimate mixture of mica, filling-material, a binding-agent, and a non-hygroscopic substance, moulded to shape as described in the prior Specification. In some cases, refractory fibrous material, such as asbestos, may be added to the mica and the binding-agent.