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Patent GB-190008589-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Machines for Applying Wire Strips or the like in the Manufacture of Boots and Shoes.
Inventor: BOULT ALFRED JULIUS
Filed: 1900-05-09
Granted: 1901-05-04
Abstract: 8589. Boult, A. J., [United Shoe Machinery Co.]. May 9. Lasting; nailing. -The lasted upper is secured at the toe by a wire or the like, as shown in Fig. 2, instead of by tacks as usual. The invention is shown as applied to the lasting-machine described in Specification No. 14.453, A.D. 1897, but may be applied to others. The wire is stored on a reel 2, the movements of which are retarded by a spring- pushed plunger 4. From the reel the wire passes through a tensioning-device 18, under the control of a treadle, to an arm 40 carried by a rod 42. When the pressers 36, 38 are not in use, the arm 40 is retracted by the bar 46, which withdraws the said pressers. A roller 52 in the bar moves in an inclined slot in a plate attached to the rod 42. In applying the wire, it is first attached to the pin d, and, as the upper round the toe is crimped and pressed over the insole, the wire is placed in position and is finally secured to the pin e as shown in Fig. 4. The wire is then cut off by cutters actuated by the treadle which operates the tension device. The machine uses two sizes of tacks, which fall down two adjustable raceways, the size of tack in use depending on which raceway is in register with the nail-feeding devices. Figs. 9, 12, 13, and 14 show the means for changing the position of the raceways. A rod 64 is hinged to the raceway at one end, and is screwed at the other into a strap 68, which fits the portion 72 of a lever 80 having an eccentric bore 78 for a pin 81. The pin 81 has an eccentric portion on which is fixed a pinion in gear with a toothed lever 60. When this lever is in the position shown in Fig. 9, the raceway 84 registers with the nail orifice 86, and, when the lever is reversed, the other raceway 90 registers with the orifice 86. By moving the lever 80, both raceways arc thrown out of engagement with the orifice, so that no tacks are supplied while the toe of the upper is being secured by the wire 20. A spring bolt 94 holds the devices in the required position.
Patent GB-190014153-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Warp Stop-motions and Automatic Weft-supply Mechanism for Looms.
Inventor: BAKER WILLIAM HENRY
Filed: 1900-08-07
Granted: 1900-10-06
Abstract: 14,153. Baker, W. H., and Kip, F. E. Aug. 7 Loom stop-motions.- Each warp thread 1 s threadod through a dropper 11, which is guided at its ends by a compound metal bar 9, 10 and a guide-bar 12 carried by the heald 7. The strips 9, 10 are insulated from each other, and from terminals of an electric circuit 14 through a generator 15 and an electromagnet 16. When a thread breaks, the dropper makes electric contact between the strips 9, 10, and causes the armature lever 18 to be attracted. This allows the arm 20 to engage with a tappet 21 on the lay 3, and thereby to stop the loom. In order to prevent the motion from being put into action by the sagging of the warps, as when weaving warp pile fabrics, the circuit is broken except when the healds are in their highest and lowest positions. This is effected either by switch levers operated by the shedding-levers, or by contact-plates at the top and bottom of the healds engaging with fixed spring contacts. Loom shuttle - changing mechanism; shuttles, changing bobbins and the like in automatically.- The arrangement of the fixed electromagnet 16 and arm 20 may be employed in any electrically-operated weft-supply mechanism.
Patent GB-190014882-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Trawls.
Inventor: HJORT JOHAN
Filed: 1900-08-20
Granted: 1901-06-22
Abstract: 14,882. Hjort, J. Jan. 22, [date applied for under Sec. 103 of Patents &c. Act, A.D. 1883]. Trawling-gear; nets.-For trawling near the surface, the bottom of the net is extended forwards at i to prevent the escape of fish. Each of the extensions b, c is fitted with a float and spreader. These spreaders act so as to extend the net in all directions. Floats f may be employed, in which case the depth of the net below the surface is determined by the length of the bridles e.
Patent GB-190100526-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in the Manufacture or Production of Homologues of Xanthine
Inventor: JOHNSON GEORGE WILLIAM
Filed: 1901-01-08
Granted: 1901-06-15
Abstract: 526. Johnson, G. W., [Boehringer & Soehne, C. F.]. Jan. 8. Xanthine derivatives.-8-Alkylxanthines, which possess the general properties characteristic of xanthines, are produced directly from uric acid, or its homologues which contain alkyl radicles in the alloxan group, by heating them with an organic acid anhydride. The reaction may be carried out in a vessel fitted with a reflux condenser, or more quickly under pressure in a closed vessel, or in presence of a condensing-agent such as pyridine. The alkyl derivative remains undissolved and may be purified by conversion into a sodium salt and reprecipitation by acid. The process is concluded when the product ceases to reduce ammoniacal silver solution. The reaction proceeds in accordance with the following general equation :- in which R', R', R<3> are alkyl radicles. Examples are given in which 8-methylxanthine is prepared from uric acid and acetic anhydride, 3 : 8-dimethylxanthine from 3-methyluric acid and acetic anhydride, 1 : 3 : 8-trimethylxanthine from 1 : 3- dimethyluric acid and acetic anhydride, 8-ethylxanthine from uric acid and propionic anhydride, and isopropylxanthine from uric acid and isobutyric acid.
Patent GB-190105805-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Railway and Tramway Tracks.
Inventor: HADFIELD ROBERT ABBOTT
Filed: 1901-03-19
Granted: 1902-03-06
Abstract: 5805. Hadfield, R. A. March 19. Rails ;rail joints ; crossings; curves.-To resist heavy wear at crossings, junctions, &c. on electric and other railways and tramways, the rails are cast of manganese steel and may be toughened as described in Specification No. 11,833, A.D. 1896, [Abridgment Class Iron &c.]. The rail may be of the box or bridge type, with ribs a at intervals, and may be cast of ordinary steel. A cast manganese steel or other steel sole-plate B is bolted to the flanges of the rails under the joint by closely-fitting or other bolts C. To enable the boltholes to be bored, ferrules of wrought iron or other soft metal are cast in. Similar soft pieces are also cast in the ends of the rail, so that a transverse bolt D can be inserted to hold the rails in vertical and horizontal alignment. Instead of the bolt, keys may be driven into recesses cast in the rail ends. In addition to or in place of these bolts or keys, rings G are shrunk on to bosses F cast on the rail ends.
Patent GB-190107195-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Apparatus for Charging Syphone or the like with Aerated Liquids
Inventor: DURAFORT VICTOR ERNEST JULES
Filed: 1901-04-04
Granted: 1902-03-20
Abstract: 7195. Durafort, V. E. J. April 4. Bottling.-Relates to machines for filling siphon bottles and the like with aerated liquids. Fig. 1 shows a duplex apparatus for filling two siphon bottles, but the apparatus may be adapted to receive only one bottle, or more than two, at a time. Fig. 2 shows the operative mechanism employed for each of the filling-arrange- ments. The shaft a, operated by the hand-lever y, carries a disc b provided with two cams c, d. The cam c engages a roller i on the lever e, which carries in the socket m a spring-controlled plunger n for supporting the siphon bottle &c. k, the upward movement of the lever e by the cam causing the nozzle t of the siphon to enter the filling-nozzle u and open the liquid-supply valve (of known con- struction) therein. The cam d then engages a roller on the lever j, pivoted at h on the lever e, and causes the roller p to actuate the thumb-lever q of the siphon, to admit the liquid. The roller p is adjustably mounted on a plate r fixed to an arm s of the lever j, to enable it to be adjusted to bottles of different shapes and sizes. When the bottle is filled, the snift valve v is actuated by the lever X. Guards 1 of wire-gauze, and doors 2 provided with wire-gauze panels, are provided to prevent accidents in case of a bottle bursting. Each door is carried on a pivot 3, controlled by a spring 6, which normally keeps the door open. When the lever y is operated to fill the bottle, the projection 5 on the lever engages the arm 4 on the pivot 3, and closes the corresponding door. The movement of the lever y is limited by stops z, z<1>
Patent GB-190113587-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Furnaces and Flues of Steam Boilers and the like.
Inventor: RAINFORTH WILLIAM
Filed: 1901-07-03
Granted: 1902-07-03
Abstract: 13,587. Rainforth, W. July 3. Flues, internal.-In furnace flues with stiffening-ridges at uniform intervals, the sides of such ridges are constructed in the form of hyperbolic, parabolic, cycloidal, epicycloidal, or hypocycloidal curves, the intervals between the ridges being either plain or similarly curved, inward or outward. Figs. 1 to 5 show several forms of such flue walls in longitudinal section. The later Specification No. 19,485, A.D. 1901, [Abridgment Class Metals, Cutting &c.], is referred to.
Patent GB-190114171-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Pins or Appliances for Securing Ladies Hats and the like to the Head.
Inventor: DALGLIESH ALEXANDER DEARM SCOT
Filed: 1901-07-11
Granted: 1902-06-19
Abstract: 14,171. Dalgliesh, A. D. S., and Davies, E. A. July 11. Appliancesfor securing to head.-Fig. 2 shows a transverse section of a hat with two of the appliances in position. Each consists of a sickle-shaped piece b adapted to be turned by a knob c so as to engage with the hair at the side of the head. The two appliances may be connected together by a cross-shaft.
Patent GB-190121637-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in connection with the Spinning of Yarns or Threads on Self-acting Mules and in Apparatus therefor.
Inventor: HOUGET FERNAND
Filed: 1901-10-28
Granted: 1902-08-28
Abstract: 21,637. Houget, F. Oct. 28. Mules. - Relates to means for delivering a supplementary length of roving as the carriage approaches the end of the outward run. The roller shaft 1 is provided with a clutch 2, of which the loose portion can be rotated in one direction by a weighted cord 7 and in the other by a cord 10 connected to a sliding rod 12. The rod 12 is connected at the other end by a cord 15 with one part of a clutch 16, of which the other part 18 is driven continuously through change gearing. Normally, both clutches are held out of gear by a spring 28 and the levers and links 27, 32, 37, 6, 5. As the carriage nears the end of its outward run, an adjustable striker thereon engages a pivoted latch 35 on a lever 34, whereby both clutches are placed in gear so as to rotate the roller shaft 1, the parts being blocked in this position by a gravity catch 30. During this operation, the cords 15, 7 are wound up and the cord 10 is unwound, while the rod 12 is slid to the right until an adjustable block 33 thereon releases the catch lever 30, and allows the spring 28 to disengage the clutches, when the weighted cord 7 returns the parts to the starting position.
Patent GB-190125663-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Gas Engines.
Inventor: JUNKERS HUGO
Filed: 1901-12-16
Granted: 1902-10-30
Abstract: 25,663. Junkers, H. Dec. 16. Gas engines. - Two cylinders a, b are arranged in line with two pistons in each. Two of the pistons c, e may be connected to one crank, and the others d, f to an opposite crank. Or the pistons d, e may be connected together, and also the pistons c, f. The compression pump is shown at t.
Patent GB-190200737-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Railway Sleepers, Brake Blocks, Driving Pulleys, Rollers, Insulators for Electric Wires and other similar Articles.
Inventor: BOARD SAMUEL GEORGE
Filed: 1902-01-10
Granted: 1902-11-27
Abstract: 737. Board, S. G., and Freeman, G. F. Jan. 10. Wood substitutes.-Railway sleepers, brake blocks for railway and other wheels, driving-pulleys, rollers for calendering, washing, and other machines, electric insulators, and other similar articles (other than wheel discs or centres described in Specification No. 1580, A.D. 1901, [Abridgment Class Wheels &c.], are made from a composition containing woud or cork sawdust, or wood or other pulp or fibre, or similar vegetable material, magnesium oxide, and farina, with a solution of magnesium chloride or hydrochloric acid or other binding-material. The farina may be omitted. The mixture is pressed to shape and dried.
Patent GB-190201044-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Driving Mechanism for Screw Propellers.
Inventor: BROWN EGERTON
Filed: 1902-01-14
Granted: 1902-12-24
Abstract: 1044. Brown, E. Jan. 14. Driving-gear for screw propellers.-Screw-propeller shafts or other high-speed shafts are driven by worm and wheel gearing. The worm B is upon a separate length of shafting, and is bolted through flanges to the shaft to be driven. The wormwheel C is large and, preferably, has detachable teeth, the teeth being clamped between segmental flanges on the worm-wheel.
Patent GB-190201612-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Collapsible Rings Applicable for Use in Carrying Small Articles upon the Finger, and for other Purposes.
Inventor: CLARK ALFRED
Filed: 1902-01-21
Granted: 1902-03-27
Abstract: 1612. Clark, A. Jan. 21. Rings.-Relates to collapsable rings which may be used in most cases where rings are ordinarily employed. Fig. 4 shows a small collapsable ring A, made of four hinged sections, and used for carrying articles such as pens, pencils, purses, wallets, &c. upon the finger. The article may be fixed to the ring by means of a pin passing through one of the hinges and through lugs B formed on the article C.
Patent GB-190201931-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Portable Generators for Acetylene.
Inventor: BEAUMONT JOHN PERCIVAL
Filed: 1902-01-24
Granted: 1902-12-24
Abstract: 1931. Beaumont, J. P. Jan. 24. Acetylene.-Relates to generators which are used more particularly for tunnelmaking, mining operations, and the like, and in which the inner chamber is removable and the gassupply pipe is jointed; and consists in dispensing with this joint by forming the carbide bucket B with a central passage E, and mounting in this passage a pipe F, which passes through the side of the outer vessel A at the bottom, and is fixed to the gas-supply pipe H. As an alternative, the pipe F may pass up within the outer casing, instead of passing through its side. The carbide bucket is divided into compartments, as shown in Fig. 1, and water passes into the waterways by holes b<2> at the bottom, and thence into the compartments by holes arranged at different levels, so as to bring the compartments into action successively. The carbide bucket is enclosed by a removable cover C forming a space in which the pressure of the gas automatically controls the level and thereby the supply of the water. The cover is secured by a cross-bar c<2> passing under hooks a<4>, and is fitted with hooks k, which engage the carbide bucket when the cover C is raised by the handle c<1> and serve for lifting it out.
Patent GB-190207863-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Typewriting Machines.
Inventor: FELL JOHN CORRY
Filed: 1902-04-03
Granted: 1902-06-12
Abstract: 7863. Fell, J. C., [Union Typewriter Co.]. April 3. Type-writers. - Relates to denominational tabu lating - mechanism for type - writing machines. Thetabulating-me - chanism described in this Specification differs from that described in the preceding one in that the shaft 68 which is turned through varying angles by the depression of the tabulating-keys bears a stop carrier 100 provided with spirally-arranged external stop-lugs 104, and the carriage bears a single rearwardly-extending stop 81. As in the invention described in the preceding Specification, the point at which the carriage is arrested depends upon which stop 104 acts as an abutment to check the movement of the stop 81 when the carriage is released, that is, it depends on the extent to which the shaft 68 is rotated. Fig. 6 shows the shaft 68 in section, with the stop carrier 100 mounted on it, and Fig. 7 shows the stop carrier in section on the line y-y. Two spring clips 101 grip the cylindrical portions of the shaft 68, and the forked central portion 99 enters the slots or serrations 97 in the shaft 68. In the normal position of the shaft 68 the stop 81 can pass without obstruction through the space 104<x> between the stops 104. The stop 81 may be adjustable longitudinally instead of the stop carrier 100. Reference is made to Specifications No. 14,894, A.D. 1900, and Nos. 7861 and 7862, A.D. 1902.
Patent GB-190208654-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or connected with Furnaces.
Inventor: RAILTON WILLIAM BERNARD
Filed: 1902-04-14
Granted: 1903-04-14
Abstract: 8654. Railton, W. B., Campbell, R., and Crawford, J. F. April 14. Firebars and grates.-To permit the bars to be shaken one at a time, a lever G, which can be used anywhere on a fulcrum rod C, is provided for lifting and shaking them. It is brought into engagement with a notch in a downward projection at the front of the bar. A removable handle H is put on the lever when using it.
Patent GB-190210266-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Ginning, Burring and like Fibre Cleaning Machines.
Inventor: YOULTEN WILLIAM
Filed: 1902-05-03
Granted: 1903-08-01
Abstract: 10,266. Youlten, W. May 3. Gins; burring-apparatus; cleaners.-The material is fed, by the travelling apron 7, between two series of air jets b and over a laterally-reciprocating grid c to the roller a. The fibres are drawn by the roller behind the part h of the grid, while the seeds &c. are detached by a reciprocating comb x, and fall away through the bars of the grid, the released fibre being removed from the roller by a rotary brush 8. The grid c is mounted so that the part h may be adjusted towards and from the roller a.
Patent GB-190210956-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Atomizers.
Inventor: LOCKWOOD RHODES
Filed: 1902-05-13
Granted: 1902-10-16
Abstract: 10,956. L a k e, H. H., [Lockwood, R.]. May 13. Spray-producers.-A bulb 1, provided with a check valve 2, has an aperture provided with a bush in which slides a receptacle 3, or the receptacle may be fixed to the bulb. A flange 7 on the receptacle engages the bush to form a joint, when the atomizer is to be used. A cap 8, provided with a nozzle 9, screws upon the receptacle, and within this cap is secured a glass, rubber, &c. cup or receptacle 4, which acts as a reservoir for the liquid to be sprayed. A pipe 11, arranged within the nozzle 9, extends down into the liquid, and at the upper end it is provided with a conical nozzle having grooves on the exterior. In operation, air is forced from the bulb through an opening 13 to the space between the receptacles 3, 4, and passes thence, through a passage 14, to the interior of the receptacle 4. The pressure of the air upon the liquid forces it through the pipe 11 so as to mingle with the air passing through the grooves in the nozzle 5. The liquid is delivered through the orifice in the nozzle 9 as a spray. When not in use, the receptacle 3 is pushed within the bulb, and the nozzle 9 is covered by a cap 15. In a modification, the inner receptacle is dispensed with, and a pipe on the wall of the other receptacle serves as a passage for the air,
Patent GB-190213866-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to Luminous Signs
Inventor: AUZERIC MARIE AGNES EREMBERT
Filed: 1902-06-18
Granted: 1903-05-28
Abstract: 13,866. Auzeric [nÚe Armantier], M. A. E. June 18. Signs; letters.- Luminous letters and signs are formed of transparent or translucent material a, and serve as a lid or cover to a flat case c, which contains the electric lamp or other source of light. The spaces d between the limbs of the letters &c. are covered with opaque material, which may be secured to the letters &c., or to the case, or partly to both.
Patent GB-190214350-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Couplings for Railway Wagons, Carriages and the like.
Inventor: WARSOP THOMAS
Filed: 1902-06-25
Granted: 1903-06-11
Abstract: 14,350. Warsop, T. June 25. Couplings, automatic; buffers.-An automatic buffer coupling for railway vehicles is formed by a bell-mouthed buffer head A pivoted at J<1> to the draw-bar of one vehicle and a plunger C carried by the other vehicle and arranged to enter the head A and then to turn round through about a right-angle, so as to bring projections c<1>, c<1> on the plunger behind internal projections a on the head A. The plunger C has a collar F and a stem G fitting into a head B pivoted at K<1> to the drawbar of the vehicle, and an arm I carrying a weight H is fixed to the stem G. When the parts are in position ready for coupling, the arm I is held nearly vertical by a pivoted spring catch L. When the head A strikes the catch L, it releases the arm I, and allows the weight H to cause the required partial rotation of the plunger C. To uncouple, the arm I is lifted by means of a handle P, which turns on the stem G and has a pin R engaging a segmental slot in the boss of the arm I. The handle can also be used to prevent automatic coupling. The plunger C and the head A may have interrupted screw-threads instead of plain projections.
Patent GB-190223849-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Oil and Spirit Lamps
Inventor: MASTERS WILLIAM STANLEY
Filed: 1902-10-31
Granted: 1903-09-03
Abstract: 23,849. Masters, W. S. Oct. 31. Extinguishing o i l lamps; reservoir fittings.-To prevent the escape of oil from the reservoir, and to extinguish the lamp automatically in the event of its being upset, the filling-aperture B of the reservoir A is placed at about the level of the lower end of a tube C depending round the wick-tube G, and the sliding sleeve J carrying the pivoted extinguishers K is raised by a spring M to extinguish the flame when a ball falls from an annular race J<2> formed on the lower end of the extinguisher sleeve. The extinguishers may be operated on ordinary occasions by means of a spindle N<2> and a lever N engaging with a slotted plate J<4> projecting from the sleeve J.
Patent GB-190227098-A (GB)
Title: Apparatus for Producing Rarefaction of the Air in the Ducts and Cavities of the Human Body.
Filed: 1902-12-09
Granted: 1903-04-23
Abstract: 27,098. Soc. Pharmacie Centrale de France. July 21, [date applied for under Patents Act, A.D, 1901]. Syringes; ear instruments.-Relates to apparatus for producing rarefaction of air in the ducts and cavities of the human body. The invention is specially described as applied for producing rarefaction of the air in the external auditory passage. A cylinder a is fitted with a piston b consisting of an elastic ring l, Fig. 4, held between two metal plates m, m<1>. The plates m, m<1> can be drawn together by a nut o<1>, Fig.1, working on a rod fixed to the plate m and passing axially through the piston-rod, so as to expand the ring l against the leather cover o. The piston is normally depressed by a spring k, the piston-rod b<1> being graduated and fitted with a nut c, which can be adjusted to limit the upward movement of the piston. The cylinder a is provided with a nozzle with a tap h, on which is fitted a tube provided with an end-piece adapted to fit in the ear. A lateral opening g in the end of the cylinder is covered by a nut d with a series of graduated openings, any one of which can be brought into register with the opening g. The instrument is used as follows :-The piston is forced up to the required extent, and the end-piece is placed in the ear or other orifice, and the piston is allowed to descend so as to rarefy the air. The opening in the nut is intermittently closed and opened by the forefinger, so as to produce a pulsating effect.