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Patent GB-190003024-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to Free-wheel Cycles.
Inventor: SLOAN ROBERT ALEXANDER
Filed: 1900-02-15
Granted: 1901-01-12
Abstract: 3024. Sloan, R. A., and Barnes, J. E. L. Feb. 15. Bicycles; driving-mechanism; clutches ; brakes.- In free-wheel gearing for bicycles and othercycles, the chain pinion 4 has a seating on the ring 5 secured to the hub of the back wheel, and on the part 6 secured to the frame. The pinion has on either side inclined teeth 8, 9, which are adapted to gear with the teeth 7 on the ring 5 or with the teeth 10 of a loose ring mounted as shown in Fig. 1 and pressed inwards by springs 11. When the pedals are worked forward, the teeth 8 engage with the teeth 7 towards which the chain-wheel is drawn by reason of the inclines on the teeth. When the pedals are worked backwards, the pinion, for the same reason, slides towards and into engagement with the loose ring, being then entirely free of the hub, and thus permitting the wheel to run free without friction. The brake is worked by a ratchet disc 12, Fig. 8, fixed on the crank shaft, a tooth 15 on the brake rod 14 being brought into engagement with it by a wire 16 worked by hand.
Patent GB-190004389-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Method of and Apparatus for Rolling Glass.
Inventor: APPERT LEON
Filed: 1900-03-07
Granted: 1901-01-26
Abstract: 4389. Appert, L. March 7. Rolling. - Consists of arrangements for preventing the rollers &c. from being in continuous contact with the molten glass during rolling. The adjustable rollers 1, 2, driven through gearing by the shaft 5, are reciprocated laterally bv groove cams 9, 10 engaging fixed rollers 13, 14. The delivery and receiving tables 15, 25 are similarly reciprocated by cams driven n through bevel gearing 21, 22, 23, 24 and 24. 31, 30, 29 by the shaft 5. Compressed air &c. is supplied at the point 33 by a perforated pipe 32, to prevent adhesion of the glass to the rollers. The table 25 may be replaced by a roller.
Patent GB-190008696-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Buckles and Slip Hooks.
Inventor: HIPWELL DANIEL EDWARD
Filed: 1900-05-11
Granted: 1901-04-20
Abstract: 8696. Hipwell, D. E. May 11. Hooks.-Relates to readily detachable buckles and slip-hooks for chains, straps, &c. In the hook shown in Fig. 1, a frame a, attached at one end to the chain, is forked at the other end to receive the link x to be attached, which is then secured by turning the pivoted hook c into the position shown. It is retained in position by its slotted end e spring- ing past lugs d on the frame a. In a modification illustrated in Fig. 4, the frame a is bent as shown, the hook c being pivoted at b and formed with lugs f to retain it in position. In a further modification, shown in Fig. 9, the hook i<1> interlocks with the frame a, and is formed with a lug i which sweeps out the chain link when the hook is released. Figs. 11 and 12 show a buckle for securing straps ; it consists of a frame a, in which are pivoted at r levers c connected by a crosspiece q carrying a hook l adapted to engage the strap k, as shown. The levers are retained in position by their ends springing under inclined surfaces formed on the frame a. Lugs m are formed on the levers c to aid in releasing them. The end bar o may be flattened and perforated to receive the hook l.
Patent GB-190009417-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Telescoping Umbrellas.
Inventor: MILLS BENJAMIN JOSEPH BARNARD
Filed: 1900-05-22
Granted: 1900-10-06
Abstract: 9417. Mills, B. J. B., [Ely, C. H., Danser, J. W., and Rue, F. B.]. May 22. Folding, telescopic, and like umbrellas. - Relates particularly to the class of umbrella described in Specification No. 5600, A.D. 1898, and consists chiefly of devices for locking the two sections of each rib and securing sections of the stick together. Figs. 1 and 1<a> show an umbrella with a jointed rib, stretcher, and devices for securing the parts in position, and Fig. 5 the joint for securing together the sections of the stick and the handle for co-operation with the joint. Each rib is constructed of two telescopic sections 24, 26, the outer of which carries upon a sleeve 28 lugs or ears to which the stretcher 29 is pivoted. The inner end of the stretcher is secured to the runner of the umbrella. Mounted within the stretcher is the locking-rod 33, the lower end of which is hinged to the sleeve 34 upon the runner, while the upper end is formed with the cam-head 35, which, when the ribs are to be locked in their extended position, engages behind the lug 36 on the section 24. On closing the umbrella, the sleeve 34 is moved downwards, and the cam-heads released from their engagement with the lugs, thereby allowing their ribs to be telescoped. In order to allow of the relative movement of the sleeve 34, the runner may be provided with a screw-threaded ring 39 to force the sleeve upwards, or to allow the sleeve free movement. By this means the cam-heads may be simultaneously released from their engagement with the lugs 36. As regards the stick, two tubular portions are secured together by the jointing-arrangement shown in Fig. 5. The upper portion or section is provided with an internal rod 2, which is adapted to fit within the lower section of the stick when the parts are united. Mounted within the lower section is a similar rod 5, the engaging ends of the rods being provided with interlocking scarfs 6, 6. In order to operate the rod 5 within the lower section when it is desired to unite the two sections, a sleeve 7 is provided which is mounted on the stick at its lower erd and connected with a plunger 8 working inside the stick by means of a pin 9 which works within a slot 10 in the stick. By moving the sleeve 7 upwards the rods 11 and 5 are projected, and then, by engaging the scarfed ends of the rods 2 and 5, the sleeve 7 may be moved downwards to draw the rod 2 within the lower section. To apply force in order that the two sections may be firmly attached, the handle 15 is provided with a stationarv sleeve 16 and with a movable sleeve 17, the closed lower end thereof forming a bearing for the bottom end of the lower stick section, and this in co-operation with the nut 18 and the sleeve 7 forces the rod 2 into the lower stick section and secures the sections together. A removable tip 40 is secured by a latch.
Patent GB-190009604-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Wheel Guard or Fender for use upon Tram Cars and like Vehicles.
Inventor: LOWE ERNEST ARTHUR
Filed: 1900-05-24
Granted: 1901-05-11
Abstract: 9604. Lowe, E. A. May 24. Wheel guards and obstruction-removers for tramcars and like vehicles. The semicircular guard a is supported on rollers b, and is automatically adjustable vertically by means of the wheels e, which bear against the guides f of the frames j bolted to the underside of the vehicle.
Patent GB-190015675-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in the Speed Gear of Motor Cars and like Vehicles or Machines.
Inventor: SCOTT JOHN FORBES
Filed: 1900-09-04
Granted: 1901-07-06
Abstract: 15,675. Scott, J. F. Sept. 4. Motor road vehicles.-Relates to the speed gear of motor cars and like vehicles and machines, and consists in making the third speed wheel B, which receives the maximum of work and therefore gets most rapidly worn, detachable from the sleeve A. In the example shown, the fourth speed wheel D is also detachable. Both these wheels can therefore be readily taken off, and new wheels substituted without the expense of a new sleeve.
Patent GB-190100324-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Life Boats.
Inventor: EDWARDS EDMUND
Filed: 1901-01-05
Granted: 1901-02-16
Abstract: 324. Edwards, E., [Moll, J. G.]. Jan. 5. Lifeboats.-The boat has a curved deck with scuppers A‹ at the sides. Hinged valves d allow the water to pass into compartments C from which it is discharged through openings fitted with flap valves a<2>. Under the deck are two airtight casings B, made of thin wood and lined with canvas coated with marine glue. Additional buoyancy is afforded by bolsters E of galvanized iron, copper, &c., covered with wood and divided into sections. Beneath the turtle backs F, F<1> are air casings of similar construction to B. Between them is supported a metal rod H, over which a tarpaulin or other cover may be stretched, its sides being secured by ropes passed round the boat under the gunwale.
Patent GB-190100666-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Combination Couches or Bedsteads, Chairs, Desks and the like.
Inventor: CLEEMPUT JULIEN VAN
Filed: 1901-01-10
Granted: 1901-08-03
Abstract: 666. Cleemput, J. van. Jan. 10. Drawings to Specification. Trays.-A tray having a fixed rim on three sides and a hinged flap on the fourth has extensions, which may be fitted into slots on the arms of a chair or commode combined with a bedstead.
Patent GB-190101165-A (GB)
Inventor: CHAMBERS GEORGE JAMES
Filed: 1901-01-17
Granted: 1901-11-30
Abstract: 1165. Chambers, G. J. Jan. 17. Attaching valves to bottles etc.; plug cocks.-Relates to taps for earthenware, glass, or other bottles, jars, &c. The vessel is formed with an inwardlyprojecting hollow boss a<1>, Fig. 2, closed at its inner end, and provided with a lining c of cork &c., adapted to receive the tightly-fitting plug d of the cock. The boss and lining are formed with corresponding lateral perforations c<1>, and, when the plug d is turned through half a revolution from the position shown, this port registers with a similar lateral perforation in the plug. In the position shown, the cock is closed. The plug may be closed at its inner end, in which case the inner end of the boss may be open, as shown in Fig. 5, and the outer end of the plug may be curved, cranked, or provided with a crosshead d<2>, to serve as a spout and as an operating-handle. In its closed position, the cock is protected from dust &c. by the overhanging boss a<3> on the vessel, or, as in the form shown in Fig. 10, a similar protection may be obtained by bending the open end d<3> of the spout d' at right-angles, in which case the cock may be closed or opened by a quarter turn. In the form shown in Fig. 5, the boss a<1> is downwardly inclined, the boss a<3> being less prominent. In a modification of this form, the boss a<3> is omitted, the spout d<2>, in the closed position, lying in a recess in the side of the vessel.
Patent GB-190101250-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Arrangement for Fixing Cabinet or other Handles, to Furniture, Doors, or Frames, Without Screws.
Inventor: HARRISON RICHARD RIDGWAY
Filed: 1901-01-19
Granted: 1901-11-30
Abstract: 1250. Harrison, R. R., [trading as Loach & Clarke]. Jan. 19 Handles.-Relates to fixing handles for cabinets, doors, &c. The handle a has pivots engaging eyes b<1> having split shanks which are placed through washers c and holes in the drawer &c., and are clinched, as shown in Fig. 4, by driving between the parts of the shank a wedge e<4> projecting from a concave head e'. The eyes may be bent from a piece of half-round wire, or part of the shank may be solid, as shown in Fig. 8.
Patent GB-190108081-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Skirts and Flounces therefor.
Inventor: LIEBMAN SIGMUND
Filed: 1901-04-19
Granted: 1901-05-25
Abstract: 8081. Liebman, S. April 19. Dresses; trimmings.-A flounce B for skirts &c. is made separate, and is detachably secured to the part A by buttons C or by hooks and eyes or other fastenings. The buttons may be fixed as shown on the part A, and the buttonholes formed in a band D fixed on the flounce B so as not to interfere with the drapery of the flounce.
Patent GB-190110654-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Resistances for the Control of Electric Currents.
Inventor: WEAVER THOMAS EDGAR
Filed: 1901-05-23
Granted: 1902-03-20
Abstract: 10,654. Weaver, T. E. May 23. Resistances.-A resistance for controlling current consists of a series of balls or pieces of carbon, in a non-conducting channel, such as a glass or earthenware tube provided with terminal metal caps, containing pressure springs. The resistance is due mainly to bad contacts between the carbon pieces. In the form shown, a series of carbon plates b is held between two porcelain strips a, bolted together.
Patent GB-190111117-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Back Pedalling Brake for Cycles
Inventor: SOUTER JAMES STEPHEN
Filed: 1901-05-30
Granted: 1901-07-06
Abstract: 11,117. Souter, J. S., and Souter, G. C. May 30. Brakes. - A back - pedalling brake, which is actuated by the straightening of the driving-chain on pedalling backwards, is shown in Fig. 1. The lever A is pivoted to the strap g carried by the stay S, and carries the roller E, which is kept in contact with the chain e by means of the spring f. The blocks C' are attached to the lever A, which is bent round the wheel at the end carrying the brake blocks. To keep the roller E from contact with the chain when pedalling forward, the clip g may be extended upwards, and carry an adjustable stop to catch the brake block C<1>.
Patent GB-190113363-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Drilling Machines.
Filed: 1901-07-01
Granted: 1902-07-01
Abstract: 13,363. Poppe, P. A., and White & Poppe. July 1. Drilling.-A horizontal drilling-machine comprises two headstocks 4, 5, mounted on a bed 2 on which is also a cross-slide 3 to carry the work. Each headstock has two drill spindles 7, 9 mounted in bearings 10, 11 carried by blocks 12 adjustably secured to lugs 16 on the headstocks by bolts 17 engaging T-slots in the blocks. The spindles are suitably driven, as by pulleys 18 and overhead gear. Each headstock has a yoke 25 carrying two screw stops 20, 21, one for each spindle, to regulate the depths of the holes drilled. The slide 3 has screw stops 38, 39, which engage with opposite sides of the bed to enable the work to be brought into alignment with the drills. The slide is moved by a rack engaged by a sector on a shaft 27, provided with a handle 42 and with sectors 28 carrying stops 32, 33, one for each of the screw stops 20, 21, so that the movement of the cross-slide is accompanied by a movement of one pair of the stops 32, 33 into the path of the corresponding pair of screw stops. The headstooks are moved by handles 43, 44, and either one or two holes may be drilled in the work by the forward movement of each headstock in each limiting position of the crossslide. The headstocks may have only one spindle, and only one headstock may be used.
Patent GB-190113435-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Self Acting Points for Tramways and the like Purposes.
Inventor: ASKHAM PHILIP UNWIN
Filed: 1901-07-02
Granted: 1902-05-22
Abstract: 13,435. Askham, P. U., and Marshall, W. July 2. Points and switches.-Relates to improvements on the spring or self-acting tramway points described in Specification No. 1987, A.D. 1886. The buffer case b is secured in position by a block a attached to the lid d of the dirt box c, or by a loose block or plug a, or by an elliptical flange f taking into recessed slides e, or by a pin gib and cottar l, or by a set-screw and lock-nuts. The guide and holding-down bolts or rods m may be similarly held in the dirt box, or they may be placed under a flange on the buffer case. One or more buffer springs h, with or without cases, may be held by brackets i cast on or attached to the bottom of the dirt box, and may be set up by screws j. The heel end of the tongue is held down by a notch therein taking over a bolt or cottar n..
Patent GB-190114745-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Self-acting Spinning Mules.
Inventor: SATTLER EUGEN RUDOLF
Filed: 1901-07-19
Granted: 1901-08-24
Abstract: 14,745. Sattler, E. R. July 19. Mules.-The yarn is wound in a cross-wound fashion on the bare spindle, the highest portion of the copping-rail a being made separate from the body thereof and automatically raised or lowered at each stretch. In Fig. 1, the rail is provided with two loose portions b, c hinged together at d, one of them being also hinged to the rail at e. A projection p on the part c rests upon a star-wheel f, which is intermittently rotated by worm and ratchet gearing at each reciprocation of the carriage. The star-wheel f may be replaced by a reciprocating wedge. In the arrangement shown in Fig. 5, a wedge l is supported in vertical guides and raised and lowered by an intermittentlyrotated eccentric m.
Patent GB-190115215-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Means for Opening and Closing Sky Lights.
Inventor: HESEMANN PETER
Filed: 1901-07-26
Granted: 1901-09-14
Abstract: 15,215. Hesemann, P. July 26. Window opening and closing apparatus.-An operating wire cord d, formed of two strands twisted in opposite directions, is clamped at one end to a pivoted catch n of the window, and the other end is attached to a vertical sliding rod s provided with a handle g, which slides in a slotted guide-tube i. The catch is mounted on a U-shaped pin u, which can be withdrawn to release the window when the bent part is turned upwards clear of the bracket c. The cord d moves in a bent guide-tube b, and detaches the catch from a fixed striking-plate m when the handle is raised.
Patent GB-190115881-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Surface Contact Electric Railways.
Filed: 1901-08-07
Granted: 1902-08-07
Abstract: 15,881. British Thomson -Houston Co., [Potter, W. B.]. Aug. 7. Electric railways and tramways on a surface contact system. Switches; conductors.-Whenever heavy currents are required, as, for instance, on curves, gradients, or elsewhere, large switches with their sluggishness and heavy blows on the carbon &c. contacts are avoided by connecting one or more of the contact-switches in multiple as shown at G<1>. The Figure shows a surface contact system with supply studs C and studs B conveying current through the operating-coils of the electromagnetic switches. The fuse in each switch is also replaced by a contact-breaker CB common to a group of switches.
Patent GB-190117990-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Screw Down Valves.
Inventor: BURGESS BENJAMIN
Filed: 1901-09-09
Granted: 1902-06-12
Abstract: 17,990. Burgess, B., and Burgess, B. J. Sept. 9. Lift valves; tampering with valves and cocks, preventing.-The quick-threaded spindle E works through a loose sleeve D, which can be jammed between a shoulder C and a washer F by a screwed plug G when the valve is required for use.
Patent GB-190121294-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in electric Accumulator Batteries
Inventor: TRIBELHORN ALBERT
Filed: 1901-10-23
Granted: 1901-11-23
Abstract: 21,294. Tribelhorn, A. Oct. 23. Secondary bat- teries. - The elec- trodes, Figs. 2 and 3, are of conical or pyramidal shape, arranged in tiers with a central pas- sage s for the gas bubbles generated by the action of the battery. These bubbles carry with them portions of the electrolyte, which is thereby circulated and kept of uniform density. The electrodes of one polarity are conductively con- nected together by pieces t, and those of the other polarity by pieces w. These pieces are surrounded by insulating-sheaths e at the parts where they pass through the recesses p<1> in the plates of opposite polarity. The plates may be of the PlantÚ type, or alternately of the Faure and PlantÚ types, or may be of the Faure type on the upper surface and of the PlantÚ type on the under surface.
Patent GB-190124654-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or Applicable to "Beating Engines" used in the Manufacture of Paper
Inventor: PARTINGTON EDWARD
Filed: 1901-12-04
Granted: 1902-12-04
Abstract: 24,654. Partington, E. Dec. 4. Rag-engines and other pulping-engines.-The continuous oblong or elliptical trough-shaped cistern a is provided with an opening b in the centre, as shown, and each of the longitudinal portions of the trough is fitted with a grinding or beating roll c, the two rolls being rotated in opposite directions by the pulleys k, i.
Patent GB-190201460-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Paper-cutting Machines.
Filed: 1902-01-18
Granted: 1902-11-27
Abstract: 1460. Lake, H. H., [Vereinigte Kammerich'sche Werke Akt.-Ges.]. Jan. 18. Cutting-machines for paper &c.-Relates to machines in which the pile of paper &c. to be cut is supported upon a rotary table, and cut upon all the four sides with only one adjustment of the machine, and in which the cutters are secured in holders or carriages G, which can slide upon a vertically-reciprocating transverse beam E. To prevent lateral play of the knife holder G during the cut, due to wear of the sliding faces between the holder and the beam E, the holder is supported on the beam in the manner shown in Fig. 4. Angle plates 21, 23 carry rollers 27, which run upon guide-ways on the upper face of the beam ; the pressure between the sliding faces of the holder and beam is regulated by vertical screws 25, while the angle plate is clamped to the holder in its adjusted position by screws 24. Guide rails or projections 28 may be fixed to the holder and run in grooves in the beam E. The knife holders forming a pair are pressed towards one another by springs in the usual manner.
Patent GB-190204708-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in the Manufacture of Sulphurised Dye-Stuffs.
Filed: 1902-02-25
Granted: 1903-01-15
Abstract: 4708. Thompson & Co., W. G., and Vlies, L. E. Feb. 25. Dyes, artificial.-Sulphurized cotton dyes are produced by heating with alkaline sulphides and sulphur, or alkaline sulphides alone, the azo dyes obtained by combining diazo compounds of the benzene or naphthalene series with oxydinitrodiphenylamine, or its derivatives, either alone or in conjunction with picric acid or dinitrophenol. Examples are given in which the azo compounds obtained by combining diazotized nitraniline, or diazotized aniline, with the oxydinitrophenylamine resulting from the condensation of p-amidophenol with 1 : 2 : 4-chlordinitrobenzene, are respectively, heated with sodium sulphide and sulphur to 160‹- 190‹ C., until no increase in the amount of dye can be detected. In another example, a mixture of the azo compound and picric acid is boiled with sodium - sulphide solution and sulphur at the reflux condenser for several hours. The products dye unmordanted cotton black. The Provisional Specification mentions also the production of azo dyes from amidonitro- and diamido-oxydiphenylamines, and from nitrooxy-, amidooxy-, nitroamido-, diamido-and diamidooxy-diphenylamines and their sulphonic acids and chloro derivatives, by combining them with diazo and tetrazo compounds of amines and diamines of the benzene and naphthalene series, or their nitro-, chlor-, hydroxy-, nitrochlor-, and nitrohydroxy - derivatives, or their sulphonic or carboxylic acids.
Patent GB-190207430-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in the Process of Building Cops upon Ring Spinning or Twisting Frames.
Inventor: HITCHON ALFRED
Filed: 1902-03-27
Granted: 1903-03-19
Abstract: 7430. Hitchon, A. March 27. Ring and traveller frames.-Relates to improvements on the inventions described in Specifications No. 17,008 and 19,106, A.D. 1901. The double cams H, M for reciprocating the sections of the spindle-carrying rails A are made in such a manner that one rotation of the cam shaft G produces several reciprocations of the rail, but the depth to which the rail is lowered is different for each successive lift until the shaft has made a complete revolution. An excessive increase in the diameter of the cop nose is thereby avoided.
Patent GB-190212312-A (GB)
Title: Luggage-racks.
Inventor: CLARK HOBART
Filed: 1902-05-29
Granted: 1902-10-23
Abstract: 12,312. Clark, H. May 29, A.D. 1901, [date applied for under Patents Act, A.D. 1901]. Luggage a n d parcel racks.-Relates to racks of the type generally used for railway carriages and other vehicles. The plate A<3>, secured to the wall of the vehicle &c., has end brackets A in which is journalled a rack or holder comprising four parallel yokes D connected by cross-bars E. The end yokes have their trunnions D<3> mounted on their outer ends, causing the rack to rest normally with its mouth or opening upwards, and pins D' below the trunnions are guided in the slots C of the brackets A, which are fitted with rubber cushions F, F<1>.