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stated_aims,patent_id,year,label
This invention relates to flour mixing machines and has for its object to provide mechanism in connection therewith for effecting the mixing process in a more efficient manner and with less power and wear and tear of the mechanism.,GB189925090A,1899,0
"The object of my invention is to construct a machine for shaping nuts, screw and bolt heads, and other articles in such a manner as to be capable of performing as much work as two ordinary machines, thus reducing the cost in manufacture, and only necessarily requiring one attendant. A further object is to construct an appliance which will more firmly hold the nuts in position during the shaping operation, whilst at the same time they can be more quickly and easily released than heretofore.",GB189201409A,1892,1
The object of this invention is to run the dabbing brush at a higher speed and consequently allow of the combing machine being run at a higher speed with less wear and tear than hitherto.,GB188205818A,1882,1
"My invention relates to that class of clocks known as alarums which set a bell in motion at any given time at which they may be set to awaken a sleeper, and it is designed, in addition to, or in place of the mechanical bell now usually employed, and which only runs for a limited time, to combine with the clock and alarum movement an electric bell, which shall at the same time be set in operation and continue to ring until the sleeper rises and stops it by breaking an electrical circuit.",GB188601550A,1886,0
"""According to this invention two or any reasonably greater number of barbs are simultaneously formed on the main wire or wires by one action of the mechanism thereby greatly increasing the rapidity and economy of manufacture. To do this I form the barbs upon the wire when it is at one level and then allow it to assume another level so that the portion that has been barbed can be drawn out through the machine clear of the barbing mechanism.""",GB189213281A,1892,1
"The Invention relates to caddies or boxes for keeping coffee, tea, or other substances that require to be preserved from contact with the air, in order to prevent the loss or destruction of aroma, or their getting bad qualities thereby ; at the same time my improved boxes offer the means of measuring out their contents.",GB185801448A,1858,0
Whilst guarding the operator from danger from these causes the protection guard constructed in accordance with this invention permits of fresh cutters being fixed and of the cutiers being sharpened without inconvenience. The guard is moreover easily adjustable to suit varying thicknesses of wood to be worked.,GB189810387A,1898,0
"My invention has for its object, the economical production of balls for ball bearings and relates to that part of the process of producing such balls which pertains to the machines for making the rough balls into which the metal is formed before grinding into the final spherical shape. This invention relates to the production of balls for ball bearings and has for its object, the economical production of balls for ball bearings and relates to that part of the process of producing such balls which pertains to the machines for making the rough balls into which the metal is formed before grinding into the final spherical shape.",GB189623906A,1896,0
"""The said Invention relates partly to the production or manufacture and strengthening of heavy ordnance, and to apparatus employed therein, whereby a more homogeneous mass is obtained with increased resistance to longitudinal and radial or transverse strain. This part of the Invention is also applicable to the production of other heavy hollow castings, such, for example, as mortars and the cylinders of hydraulic presses. Another part of this Invention relates to an improved mode of mounting ordnance, whereby greater accuracy and steadiness are obtained with less recoil than heretofore.""",GB186500295A,1865,0
"The object of this invention is to produce a sewing-machine for making the ordinary lock-stitch in which both threads can be used directly from a spool, ball or cop, thus saving the time usually required to wind up the shuttle thread upon a bobbin, and in which the necessary take-up can be accomplished without the provision of a separate device for the purpose; furthermore, to produce a sewing-machine for making the ordinary lock-stitch, in which both threads can be used directly from a spool, ball or cop, and in which the loop-taker is so arranged as to allow the loops of the needle-thread to pass through by or beyond the shaft of the loop-taker to enclose the shuttle-thread and in which the loop-taker is so formed as to serve as a take-up.",GB189203525A,1892,1
My present invention has for its object to adjust and limit the movement of the ram and to provide for compensating for the wearing of the iron or steel plate which bears directly on the bearing brass and of the end of the ram which bears on that plate.,GB189220732A,1892,0
"Our Improvements in the Art of Block Printing consist principally in the peculiar and novel arrangement or construction of the table to be used by printers of calicoes, muslins, or other woven fabrics or materials adapted to receive impressions from the ordinary printing block, and also in the application of a drying cylinder to the printing table for the purpose of immediately drying the goods after they have received the impressions or color, and before they are rolled upon a drum or winding-on roller attached to the table, and thereby prevent the necessity of conducting the, printed goods over rollers or across the workshop or printing room, which is obliged to be done in the ordinary process of block printing, for the purpose of drying the goods, whereby a considerable saving of time, room, and expence will be effected, and the colours which have been imprinted upon the cloth will be much brighter in effect and considerably improved. Another feature of novelty and improvement is the application of a small temporary table and blanket covered with a piece of waste calico, and placed at the opposite side of the table to that where the workman stands, which small table and waste calico is for the purpose of receiving from the printing block what is usually termed in the trade the ""tip,"" that is, any extra portion of the block which may project over the width of the cloth, as is frequently the case. Another part of our improvement, therefore, is to obviate this defect, and the means or apparatus for accomplishing it is shewn in front and side elevation at Figures 5 and 6.",GB183707317A,1837,1
"The said Invention relates to a method of treating carpets and other woven fabrics to make them impervious to water, thereby greatly enhancing the value of such materials, and rendering them applicable for a great number of purposes for which they are unfit in their ordinary condition. I not only adapt ordinary paper or cloth, or paper and cloth combined, for use in many cases as a substitute for leather, more particularly where leather is employed as a covering or lining for various materials, as for instance real leather, wood, pasteboard, and the like, in the manufacture of various articles of trade, but also give to the same the colour and appearance of the leather for which it is to be substituted, and render it under all practical circumstances thoroughly proof against injury from water, perspiration, or other moisture. The sheet material prepared in accordance with this Invention, as before stated, is intended as a substitute for leather, and is to be cemented to the article which it is to cover or line.",GB187304140A,1873,0
"The object of the hydrocarburet in the composition is to dissolve its component parts and so serve as a vebicle for their introduction into the pores of the leather, while it is freed therefrom immediately afterwards by evaporation.",GB186603114A,1866,0
"The object of my Inven-tion is to put in the ""tweel"" without the ""cam,"" or to dispense with the ""cam.""",GB185200736A,1852,0
"This Invention relates to certain improvements in the shuttle motion of looms for narrow goods, such as ribbons, suspenders, and so forth, in which the requisite motion is imparted to the shuttles generally by a reciprocating toothed rack and a series of cog wheels arranged on opposite sides of the gap, and in looms with two or more shuttles one above the other. A .vertically adjustable rack and pinion for each shuttle, or other complicated mechanisms, are employed to impart to the shuttles the desired motion, and the loom is rendered expensive and liable to get out of order. These difficulties are obviated by this present Invention, which consists in the employment or use of a reciprocating carrier in combination with the toothed rack and cog wheels or other equivalent mechanism, and with a series of shuttles mounted one above the other in a vertically adjustable frame, and provided with guide grooves to receive suitable dogs which project from the carrier in such a manner that by raising or lowering the shuttle frame each of the shuttles in the tier can be thrown in gear with one and the same carrier, and the desired motion is imparted to it without requiring teeth in the shuttle itself, or without requiring a separate carrier and separate racks and pinions for each shuttle, and with a mechanism which is simple, durable, and not liable to get out of order.",GB186502836A,1865,0
"This invention applies to the letting off mechanism known as the ""cratch or warp rack by which the warp and warp beam are held with the desired amount of tension on the yarn and by which the warp yarn is delivered as required to pass into the loom, and is designed to render the delivery of the warp to the loom automatic without the attention of the weaver and to enable the warp beams to be changed or replaced in the cratch easily or quickly while the loom is in motion.",GB189401997A,1894,1
"Our invention relates to improvements in automatic pumping attachments for pneumatic tyres for bicycles and other vehicle wheels and the object of the invention is to design a simple form of automatic pump, which may be readily attached to the wheel of the bicycle to automatically pump the tyre and thereby dispense with the ordinary cylinder pump at present in use and it consists essentially of a ring suitably secured on the wheel concentrically to the hub and provided on its periphery with a compressible tube and a roller suitably journalled on an arm connected to the forks, the air tube secured on the flat ring being connected by a suitable valve to a tube, which extends through the rim and is connected to the interior air tube of the tyre as hereinafter more particularly explained.",GB189730462A,1897,0
"The object of this invention is to provide an instrument in which tune-plates of unequal size may be employed so that larger or smaller plates may be used according as the number and arrangement of the pins representing the tunes vary. And in order still more effectively to remove any restriction in the choice of tunes as regards their length, this mechanism admits of the employment not only of revolving tune-plates but also of plates capable of rectilinear motion so that the length of the pieces of music that can be played by this instrument is practically unlimited.",GB189110053A,1891,0
The object of our invention is to provide improved means for securing such discs or diaphragm whereby we are enabled to produce nozzles more cheaply than heretofore.,GB189017962A,1890,0
"The traverse and distribution of the yarn upon the barrel to attain the conical end or cylindrical form is such that the yarn in winding is so interlaid one portion over the other that the whole is firm on the barrel and cannot "" run over ""thus the waste of material and loss of time caused thereby are avoided. Another and special advantage is in the after operation of reeling and winding the yarn, wound as above described by admitting of the contents of the barrels being roeled therefrom without necessity of rotation of the barrel, an important advantage in the case of tender yarns.",GB188710242A,1887,1
The especial object of the present improvements is to increase the effective power of the gag reins so that horses to which it is found necessary to apply such contrivances may be conveniently kept under proper control.,GB186802661A,1868,0
"The object of the lip-shaped rim g is to prevent water or, other fluid from oozing down into the vessel b and destroying the packing.",GB188810775A,1888,0
"That in order to remedy in some degree such inconvenience it is very desirable to have the said carriages feathered or beviled off to a sharp edge from the top to the bottom thereof, and it is also desirable that the bottoms or those parts of the said carriages which coincide with the outer circle of the combs should first lead into or enter between the warp threads. It is also very desirable to make a whole hole by six passes of the carriage from side to side, in order that the same may be effected in less time, all of which we have accomplished in the machines made with our improvements.",GB182505067A,1825,1
"The object of this invention is to produce fire lighters for domestic and factory use and for lighting fires generally which are perfectly reliable for the purposo, are clean, easy and safe to handle, while they occupy comparatively very small space and they burn with a lively and intense flame sufficiently long to properly ignito the beating material whether that be coal or other substance.",GB188809266A,1888,0
"This invention has reference to the manner in which we construct and arrange rices for use on work benches and for like purposes, the object of our invention being to construct a quick and readily adjustable jaw action which while having a rapid opening and closing motion has also a very minute and powerful screw gripping action for securely retaining any object within its jaws.",GB189318335A,1893,1
"""The object of our Invention is to purify and filter saccharum, sugar, yeast, and other analogous materials.""",GB188004385A,1880,0
"The invention has for its object an apparatus for grinding or reducing oats, barley, corn, peas, beans or the like, in which the substance or material to be ground is passed between the grooved or fluted and opposing surfaces of a roller (capable of revolving) and concaves, the latter being adapted to be easily removed in order to facilitate or expedite repairs, renewals, etcetera.",GB188911112A,1889,0
"This Invention is designed to overcome a want long felt by the trade, for in all such pumps made hitherto the valve seatings are secured by convenient means to the underside of the valves; rising and falling with them, with the result of their early destruction, which is a source of continual repairs and expense. In machines at present in use a separate tap or valve is used for both gas and water, wherein by ny improvements a single valve is produced to effect the double purpose in an economical and novel way.",GB188406058A,1884,0
"The object of this Invention is to fix in a secure and rapid manner buttons, studs, and bosses to articles of dress, as boots, trowsers, gloves, and such like, also on accoutrements, portmanteaus, cases, and leather goods generally.",GB186402325A,1864,1
"This Invention as communicated to me by my foreign correspondent relates to the application of a double oblique slide to an excentric for the purpose of varying or reversing the throw thereof, by simply moving the slide longitudinally to the axis of the shaft of the excentric. The Invention is particularly applicable to the valve excentrics of locomotive and other steam engines, supplying the place of the link motion than which it is much more simple; for, by a proper arrangement of the parts, a constant ""lead"" of the valve under all the required changes of condition of the excentric is provided for.",GB185702254A,1857,0
"My invention relates to a new or improved device or appliance for use in connection with the sheet covering a railway or other truck and has for its object to provide suitable mechanism, capable of being easily operated so as to raise or lower the said sheet covering the truck, or wagon.
My invention relates to a new or improved device or appliance for use in connection with the sheet covering a railway or other truck, and has for its object to provide suitable mechanism, capable of being easily operated so as to raise or lower the said sheet covering the truck or wagon, and to allow of its being suitably arranged so as to effectually protect the contents of the truck or wagon from rain, snow, damp, dirt or the like, while its use would considerably reduce the amount now annually paid by railway companies on claims for damaged goods. The invention further aims to abolish the present ineffective method pursued in covering goods and merchandise, conveyed in railway trucks, or other vehicles to which this device can be applied, while its adaptation by railway companies would effect a considerable reduction of expenditure now so prevalent through the disadvantages accruing from the system now in general use.",GB189500639A,1895,0
This Invention has for its object improvements in tramway carriages. At present great difficulty is experienced in collecting the fares in tramway carriages and in preventing fraud either by the passengers or the conductor.,GB187203333A,1872,0
The Invention has for its object improvements in burners for hydrocarbon oils and relates to that class of burners in which the cone or cones and gallery together with the chimney and globe or shade or the cone or cones and chimney alone are capable of being raised a certain distance above the wick tube or tubes for the purpose of filling and trimming and lighting the lamp. By the aid of my invention the upper part of the burner and the cone or cones and gallery together with the chimney and globe may be raised and securely held in that position while the lamp is being trimmed or filled or lighted.,GB188515340A,1885,0
"The object is to accelerate the chemical action in, and thus increase the effective working capacity of a given acid-producing space by agitation, mixture, and projection of the gases therein throughout the whole extent of this space; thus, also, accelerating the draught and the production of sulphur dioxide at the furnace, or presentation thereof from the generator. Furthermore, rapidly, repeatedly and coutinuously to return the greater part of the nitrous anhydride with any accompanying other nitrogen acids for action again as an oxygen-carrier between the oxygen present and the sulphur dioxide; as well as unaltered nitro-sulphuric acid, unconverted sulphur dioxide, and unprecipitated sulphuric acid. Furthermore, to precipitate a great portion of the sulphuric acid existing ns suspended misty particles in the chamber-atmosphere which has escaped previons precipitation and return the portion unprecipitated, thus saving what would otherwise be lost. Furthermore, to break up substantially all the nitro-sulphuric acid, also existing as suspended misty particles in the chainber-atmosphero and which has escaped previous decomposition into nitrous anhydride and sulphuric acid, conserving a body of nitrous anhydride with rapid and repeated use thereof; thus enormously increasing the action of nitrous anhydride in a given time, the portion escaping the Gay-Lussac tower being replaced by fresh additions through the Glover tower in tho usual way; and, at the same time, retaining practically all the sulphuric acid resulting from the splitting up; and, Finally, to convert all the sulphurous acid remaining, which has escaped previous conversion, into sulphuric acid and save practically the whole of this.",GB189504856A,1895,1
"My invention has for its object a lighter for cigarettes and cigars by means of which they may be lit without resorting to the use of the ordinary match, fuse, or the like, and lighting in windy or exposed situations thus greatly facilitated.",GB189718170A,1897,0
"This invention relates to what is known as the process of ""pickling"" or treating with acid the surface of sheet metal plates or other articles, in order to prepare them to receive a coating of metallic tin or other metal, as for instance in the manufacture of tin plate. It has for its object improvements in the said process of pickling or cleaning, by which improvements great economy in the cost of the process and in the time required is effected and more efficient results are produced.

In this way very large quantities of acid are wasted annually, and one object of the present invention is to prevent this waste, or at least to considerably reduce it.",GB188608324A,1886,1
"The object of this invention is to provide a thill coupling which will enable the pole of a vehicle to be readily attached and detached, and which, moreover, will be free from rattling and more efficient than those of the kind heretofore used. This invention relates to thill couplings; the object of the invention being to provide a coupling by which the pole of a vehicle can be readily attached or detached and which, moreover, will be free from rattling, and capable of being readily applied to any vehicle in which the pole thereof is fitted with the usual thill iron.",GB189717828A,1897,0
"Our present invention relates to multiple drills or boring machines and has for
its object to construct a new or improved machine which will drill a number of holes
radially towards a centre or at varying angles simultaneously in effecting the said
object therefore we employ any number of drills corresponding to the number of
holes required to be drilled or bored and we secure said drills to a corresponding
number of spindles which we support in either a circular or partly circular frame
in such a inanner that the points of the drills are directed or extend towards-
where desired-one common centre in such a manner for instance that all the radial
holes in the hub of a bicycle wheel or other similar article where such holes are required may be drilled or bored at one operation.",GB189016004A,1890,1
"""The object of this arrangement is to cause the wheel Z° to advance constantly the number of teeth required, and con- sequently the wheel which turns the cloth beam on which the fabric rolls after having passed on the breast beam.""

""The object of this arrangement is to govern the march of the regulator.""

""thus this arrangement of four rules or levers has for object to free the shuttle drivers.""

""The object of the method above explained is to unhook instantaneously the number of crotchets neces- sary.""

""The object of this piece, Figure 32, is to lift the selvage so that the points of the wheel may always take hold of it.""

""the object of which is to lift at each turn the lever v, a, and bring it into the notch f¹ of c¹, d', (Figure 11, Sheet 3,). and consequently bring back the shuttle driver to its original position.""

""This piece Le may oscillate around the point Me of the fixed piece No, and has for object to give an alternate up-and-down movement to the piece o°, p³, of the improved mechanical arrangements at the upper part of the loom, see Figure 2, Sheet 2, by means of the rod Po and lever Q, which divides into two elbows R and So: (Figures 2 and 3), so as to act on both sides of the mechanism.""

""In this shuttle, the bottom of which is of steel, the small rollers are of much greater diameter than those hitherto used, the object of this increased diameter being to give greater speed to the shuttle. The object of the steel plate placed above the shuttle is to permit the perfect action of the spring blade, shewn Figure 8 (Sheet 3), in the shuttle boxes.""

""It will be readily understood that with these studs y the proposed object is completely fulfilled, because while preventing the guide blade N, O, from pressing on the blade, it allows this latter free play.""

""which has for object to uplift at a given moment the friction roller X"", and consequently the extremity U of T, U"";""

""thus this arrangement of four rules or levers has for object. to permit the escape of the shuttle drivers.""

""The object of this arrangement is to cause the wheel Z to advance constantly the number of teeth required, and consequently the wheel Y° which turns the cloth. beam on which the fabric rolls after having passed on the breast beam.""

""the object of this arrangement is to govern the march 'of; the regulator.""

""The object of the method above explained is to unhook instan- . taneously the number of crotchets necessary.""

""The object of this piece, Fig. 32, is to lift the selvage so that the points of the wheel may always take hold of it.""

""the object of which is to lift at each turn the lever v, a, and bring it into the notch f¹ of c¹, d', (Figure 11, Sheet 2), and consequently bring back the shuttle driver to its original position.""

""This piece Le may oscillate around the point Me of the fixed piece No, and has for object to give an alter- nate up-and-down movement to the piece o³, ps, of ""Beau's system,"" Figure 2, by means of the rod P and lever Q, which divides into two elbows R° and S, so as to act on both sides of the mechanism.""

""In this shuttle, the bottom of which is of steel, the small rollers are of much greater diameter than those hitherto used, the object of this increased diameter being to give greater speed to the shuttle. The object of the steel plate placed above the shuttle is to permit the perfect action of the spring blade, shewn (Figure 8, Sheet 2), in the shuttle boxes.""

""The blade placed in the axis of the middle of the fabric has for object in its come-and-go motion, to cut these velvets in two piles.""

""It will be readily understood that with these studs y the proposed object is completely fulfilled, because while preventing the guide blade N, O, from pressing on the blade, it allows this latter free play.""",GB186400971A,1864,1
"The advantages of reefing the mainsail by this method is the saving of time and of life, the facility with which it can be accomplished, and the few hands required to do it. The advantages of reefing the jib in the above manner is the saving of life, the speed with which it can be performed, its economy, and enabling one to haul in the jib instantaneously, liko a fore stay sail.",GB186803902A,1868,1
"This Invention has for its object improved apparatus or means for effecting the automatic action of what are known as mechanical diggers, grabbers or excavators. This Invention has for its object improved apparatus or means for effecting the automatic action of what are known as mechanical diggers, grabbers or excavators.",GB188501725A,1885,0
"The object of this invention is the improvement of lasting or tacking machines and consists in the first place in applying to the last guide against which the operator holds the boot a locking arrangement which comes into operation before the tack is driven.

The object of this invention is the improvement of lasting or tacking machines which make use of a magnetized hammer for driving the tacks and consists, in the first place, in applying to the last guide, against which the operator holds the boot, a locking arrangement which comes into operation before the tack is driven.

The object of the arrangement being that while the hammer o is raised the operator can manipulate the boot i against the elastically sliding guide a but that just prior to the descent of the hammer o the machine locks the guide a fast so as to form an unyielding support to the boot i while the tack is driven.",GB189511437A,1895,0
"""In order to facilitate the instant use of the compass correctors I may construct the same with a central dial or graduated part in connection with a hand or index and with clock work for moving same once in four and twenty hours. Such a construction is applicable for use with any of the heavenly bodies and I thus do away with the necessity for constantly setting the instrument according to the hour.""",GB188200933A,1882,1
My invention has for its object an improved machine for winding lace blocking ribbon and for other such like purposes by which I am enabled to wind lace upon the cards with rapidity and ease and by a slight alteration of the machine it is equally applicable for blocking ribbon and other purposes and thereby much time and labour is saved especially at such times as stock-taking when large quantities of lace ribbon and other materials have to be rewound after having been measured.,GB188716958A,1887,1
"This Invention relates particularly to improvements in stands or frames for decanters, bottles, and jars. I will describe my Invention as specially applicable to stands for decanters and bottles containing spirits or liqueurs, or scents, my object being to lock or secure the same and prevent the abstraction in a surreptitious manner and by any unauthorized person of the contents.",GB188103417A,1881,0
"My Invention relates to the stoppering or closing of bottles containing äerated or other liquids and is designed to provide improved devices for this purpose whereby the mouth of a bottle may be closed so as to prevent the access of air to the interior, the said devices being so constructed and arranged that both the closing and the opening can be effected very quickly and with the utmost facility.",GB188204347A,1882,1
"The object of our invention is to construct apparatus whereby miners safety lamps may be lighted in a safer and more expeditious manner than heretofore, and this without the necessity of employing expensive electrical generating machinery.",GB189504577A,1895,1
"Our Invention relates to the construction and arrangement of apparatus to
be applied to looms for weaving figured fabrics, and has for object to obtain a
greater speed in the action of the lames or heddles by means of a double
action, and thus obtain a greater quantity of work.",GB185900650A,1859,1
"This invention relates to an improved apparatus to enable small ingots or bodies of steel or other metals to be more expeditiously and economically cast than could heretofore be done.
Now this apparatus has been devised for the purpose of obviating these difficulties.",GB188205298A,1882,1
"My improvements consist in constructing the trunnions and a frame or ring connecting them independently of the shell of the converter, so that the shell can be readily taken out of the trunnion ring and removed for repairs, and a repaired shell can be quickly substituted.",GB188002024A,1880,1
"Our invention has for its object, improvements in electric telegraphic apparatus applicable also to other electric signalling or indicating apparatus by which in the case of single needle telegraph we are enabled at any point on the line of wire where the intensity of the electric current becomes diminished to automatically relay from a battery the particular current which may be in circuit, whether it be of the positive or negative kind and further to deflect the needle or actuate any other electrical instrument in a much more sensitive or economical manner than has been previously done.",GB188913371A,1889,0
"My said Invention has for object to assist and regulate the process of fermentation, such as is employed by distillers and brewers, and it consists in passing or forcing atmospheric air or other gas or mixture of gases of like action through the fermentable or fermenting liquid or matters after yeast or an équivalent inducer of fermentation has been added.",GB186302247A,1863,0
"This invention has for its object the finishing of yarns of wool and other fibrous materials in a more expeditious manner than hitherto, and in such a way that, greasy places generally left in the yarn by the uneffectual washing or scouring of the same when in a stretched condition is to a great extent, if not entirely obviated.",GB189402178A,1894,1
"the object of the upper valve being to close and shut off the water whenever the lower one is removed in order to renew the leather or other facing for repairs or other purposes, thus preventing any waste of water or trouble in stopping it, and the object of the lower valve being to close and shut off the water when the cistern it is intended to supply is full.",GB187300561A,1873,0
The object of this invention is first to improve the manufacture of figured warp pile fabrics woven face to face in which the design or figure is formed by cut and uncut pile and the back ground by the ground warp and weft without pile.,GB189903098A,1899,0
"Our improved process has the very great advantage over those ordinarily used, in which metal patterns are applied upon the cloth when the latter is passed through the teasing or napping machine, in order to preserve to the required part of them from the action of the machine, of not requiring any special machine, so that the work is very economically and quickly executed, whilst the former processes heretofore ordinarily employed require special machines which turn ont only a comparatively small quantity of work, and are very costly both in themselves and in the multiplicity of the patterns which they require. Moreover by our process of protecting the design, the colours of the parts so protected against the action of the machine being absolutely independent of the colour of the parts not so protected, it is possible to vary infinitely the designs and modifications which it may be desired to produce, and which it is absolutely impossible to obtain by the processes ordinarily employed.",GB189308356A,1893,1
"My invention relates to means for conducting electricity for propelling, heat- ing and lighting railroad cars by electricity, and also in means for telephoning from said cars to any desired point or station.",GB189800831A,1898,0
"The present invention has for its object improvements upon an invention for which I obtained Letters Patent No. 7187 of the year 1895 and relates to the movement of the riband receiving or exhibiting the pictures with a view to increase the time of rest of this riband, and of winding it up in proportion to its movement.",GB189607801A,1896,1
"The object of the present application consists of an electric motor characterised by having the number of revolutions continuously, that is, not abruptly, changeable within desired limits.",GB189609650A,1896,0
This Invention has for its object improvements in machinery for excavating narrow channels or trenches for draining land. This invention has for its object improvements in machinery for excavating narrow channels or trenches for draining land.,GB188201547A,1882,0
"""It consists in enclosing the springs or a spring acting catch within a light metal case in such a manner that it is in condition to retain the runner as desired by merely fixing the caso in a slot in the stick, the upper part of the case and the projecting catch being the only parts visible when so fixed in place thus producing a better retention device and saving considerable time in securing them in the stick, over the present method, which consists in securing a wire spring in an irregular formed slot in the stick requiring considerable adjust- ment and having an unsightly appearance when done""",GB188205206A,1882,1
"The object of the invention is to devise means by which names, business devices, and ornamentations may be imprinted on the surface of steel or other metal with rapidity and accuracy, and it consists, essentially, in preparing as hereinafter described a surface of vulcanised rubber or like material so that the business letters, devices, and ornamentations, shall be sunk below the main surface, the said prepared surface being placed on a roller and manipulated substantially as and for the purpose hereinafter more fully explained.",GB188513351A,1885,1
"This invention relates to machines for the manufacture of glassware, and the object of the same is to provide an improved rapidly working machine for forming tumblers, jelly glasses and other articles of regular form. The feeding and cut-off mechanisms greatly facilitate the manufacture of glass articles and render the same uniform as the supply, of glass is accurately gaged.",GB189813310A,1898,1
"""The objects of this Invention are to facilitate the charging of muzzle-loading cannon by mechanism operating in the rear of the same, to provide an improved mode of firing the gun when loaded, to elevate the charge or load to the muzzle of the cannon by mechanism operating from the rear, and to automatically control or limit the recoil of the gun; also to provide efficient cartridges for such guns.""
""This Invention will not only permit the loading and firing of heavy ordnance to be executed with greater accuracy and effect than could possibly be accomplished by the methods at present in use, but the men who are engaged in the work are protected while so employed, as all the operations are conducted and performed below the level and under the protection of the parapets, except the sighting of the piece.""
""This Invention will not only permit the loading and firing of heavy ordnance to be executed with greater rapidity, accuracy, and effect than could possibly be accomplished by the methods at present in use, but the men who are engaged in the work are protected while so employed, as all the operations are conducted and performed below the level, and under the protection of the parapets, except the sighting of the piece. """,GB187600582A,1876,1
"The invention has for its object to provide improved means whereby the sliding jaw of a vice of this class may be readily made inoperative so that it may be quickly adjusted, and as readily made operative after adjustment, and to this end it consists in the improvements which I will now proceed to describe and claim.",GB188911027A,1889,1
"This Invention, which relates to improvements in the construction of ships, has for its object to render an upper part, which is attached to the deck, capable of being readily detached on an emergency and cast into the sea, thereby constituting a series of rafts to which persons on board the ships are enabled to attach themselves by ropes, with which the removable parts of the ship are provided, or by other convenient or suitable means. It is to be understood that instead of arranging the rafts as shewn on the Drawings, they may be made to cover the whole of the deck and other parts of the ship or vessel, and it is further to be understood that it is not intended under my said Invention to dispense with the usual complement of boats provided for ships, but that the rafts should be used as supplementary thereto in cases where the boats are not sufficient to contain the number of persons on board the ship, the intention being merely to provide sufficient life preserving facilities readily available, and which will not in any way interfere with the proper working of the ship, or with the integrity of the hull.",GB187501792A,1875,0
"This invention is designed to produce novel effects in weaving which are not obtainable in the present Jacquard loom, and, by application of my apparatus to a Brussels carpet loom, to transpose, or change one for the other, any of the four top frames in a few minutes without any cutting out or retying of the worsted or any waste of the same.",GB189110669A,1891,1
"The chief object of this Invention is to give security to passengers while waiting on the platform of railway stations. To this end I provide at the edge of the platform a moveable fence, which, when in place, will guard persons from slipping down on to the roadway, and when a train has arrived will disappear and allow free access to the carriages that have come alongside.",GB186002382A,1860,0
"This Invention has for its object a mode of constructing and applying an oven to a kitchen range or cooking apparatus, and consists of forming the top, bottom, sides, and back of the oven of fire bricks or tiles, and these parts are kept together and supported by tee and angle iron. This Invention has for its object a mode of constructing and applying an oven to a kitchen range or cooking apparatus, and consists of forming the top, bottom, sides, and back of the oven of fire bricks or tiles, and these parts are kept together and supported by tee and angle iron.",GB185302000A,1853,0
"Now the peculiar character of this part of the Inven- tion is the use of mechanical power to aid the hand of the user, so that only a comparatively small effort moving through a much more extended space than the piston is required to be exerted by the person's hand when using the instrument.",GB184912612A,1849,0
"""This invention relates to improvements in mechanism employed for the purpose of operating healds in weaving, variously known as shedding machines, dobbies, witches, and others, and has for its object the improvement of such mechanism so that it can be arranged as a positive motion for the purpose of wearing heavier and more difficult materials than hitherto, and also the adoption of means whereby the opening of the warp threads for the shuttle to pass through the ""shed"" may be effected in a shorter space of time than by the present forms of machines, thereby accelerating the speed of the loom. This invention will allow of the horizontal dobby being more successfully employed in the manufacture of gauze or leno cloth in which some of the warp threads are caused to twist round other warp threads, for by the use of this invention the healds may be brought to a dead level whilst the cross weaving takes place, and yet the opening of the warp threads may be effected in half the time. This invention also allows of the adoption of improved means of effecting in a single lift dobby what is known as an open or V ""shed,"" in which some healds are caused to be depressed at the same time others are rising, each heald commencing to form the ""shed"" from a common centre, thereby equalizing the tension on the threads, and at the same time causing those healds that are being depressed to assist in lifting the remaining healds. This invention is designed to perform the work which has usually been performed by tappets, cams or wipers, and is an important feature, the arrangement of which is to effect a positive motion.""",GB189113160A,1891,1
"This Invention presents great advantages, the dyeing operation being effected in a single bath without mordant, and wool dyed in this manner is not injured, as is the case when dyed in the ordinary way, and neither stains or other blemishes are produced. Moveover a considerable saving in time and fuel is effected, and the cost of the coloring matter is but little if any increased.",GB187602534A,1876,1
"This invention has for its object to provide a shackle with a better and readier method of fastening than in those now in use and also to obtain a better shaped shackle, that is, one which is of a more uniform size with the chain which it is to be used in connection with and one which has no projections to prevent it passing over pullies and also to make a shackle which when used under water will not by rusting get set fast so as to make it a work of time and labour to open it and lastly to make a shackle which will not come unfastened by a continual jerking strain as happens with the screw shackles used at present.This Invention has for its object to provide a shackle with a better and readier method of fastening than in those now in use and also to obtain a better shaped shackle for shackling together the links of chains that is one which is of a more uniform size with the chain links which it is to be used in connection with and one which has no projections to prevent it passing over pulleys.",GB188203136A,1882,1
"The purpose of the guide rod m is to lay the wire evenly on the reel, and to do this, it is necessary that it should reciprocate horizontally, carrying the wire with it, and causing it to cross and re-cross the drum of the reel.",GB188510128A,1885,0
"This Invention is designed for the purpose of simplifying the means of producing from one entire piece of cloth or other material the several parts of overcoats or other similar articles of dress. And the object and intention of this Invention is to obviate this, by cutting or shaping cloth or other material from which the several external parts of an overcoat are to be produced (namely, the back and fore parts, sleeves, collar, lappels, and skirts,) in such a manner as that such said several parts are only separated from each other by incisions made in the material, and are not cut into distinct and separate pieces, as heretofore, and this is effected by arranging the several parts in the following order: The upper part of the pattern forms one half of the collar, one lappel, and one breast pocket flap, from the lower part of which said flap proceeds one sleeve, and that part of the ""sye"" which comes underneath the sleeve from the lowermost edge of the sleeve.",GB185502729A,1855,0
"The object of our invention is, in constructing what are known in the trade as top bars of domestic and similar fire places, to dispense with the brazing and dovetailing of the cross or top plate to the end plate or ribs, and to form top bars with the end and top plates in one piece.",GB189625320A,1896,0
The object of my invention is to manufacture improved apparatus for testing the purity or genuineness of wine.,GB188811740A,1888,0
"When this work begins at the same time at so many points which must be chosen for destroying the snow and ice in one night, the largest town can be delivered in eight hours from this trouble so prejudicial to the passage and to the health of populations.",GB187200639A,1872,1
"The object of the present invention is to provide a machine for forming such grooves and for analogous purposes, which shall not require the constant interference of the operator, and which will successfully and expeditiously perform the work required.",GB189800187A,1898,1
My invention consists in the construction and means of fixing hat and other pegs for the purpose of increasing the strength and durability while being simple in fixing and unfixing the same and is carried out in the manner hereinafter described reference being bad to the accompanying drawings in all the Figures of which the same part is indicated by like letters of reference.,GB188910426A,1889,0
"The object of my Invention is to simplify and expedite the manufacture of Incandescent Electric Lamps.

The object of my Invention is to simplify and regulate the manufacture of Incandescent Electric Lamps.",GB188303910A,1883,1
"This invention relates to improvements in machines for washing or carbonizing
wool and other fibres and is designed as to possess a superior efficiency in its
operation, together with greater economy in the time occupied in washing or
treating the wool or fibres, also producing better final results than heretofore.",GB189626208A,1896,1
"Knowing these difficulties or impediments and the importance of overcoming the same, I have first sought to do away with the metallic piston as a recipient of work, then for working under the greatest possible fall of temperature disposable due to the combustion of a body, I find that it is essentially convenient to effect such combustion rapidly, which avoids the loss of heat and other actions of time, but without seeking to intentionally decrease the inaximum pressure and temperature of the explosion, and lastly to transmit the vis-viva or total work due to the explosion by allowing the products of such explosion to pass over any recipient, the float board of a turbine for instance, directly or by the medium of a projectile or gaseous or liquid piston thus increasing the mass in movement and reducing the speed of flow. Lastly the apparatus for realizing this method of action is of such slight weight and requires such restricted amount of combustible that these advantages have suggested to me the idea of applying the same for the purpose of navigation, aerostation and aviation apart from other uses for which very naturally the properties of a light, simple, and economical motor renders it fitted.",GB189410034A,1894,1
"This Invention has for its object improvements in asphalte and other similar roads or surfaces by increasing the foothold for horses without affecting the ease of traction, and other advantages of a smooth impervious surface; and my improvements are for the purpose of counteracting the disadvantages arising from sudden changes of weather and other similar causes, and so that asphalte may be used on inclines and in other positions where the same is now impracticable or unsafe.",GB187702363A,1877,0
"My main objects are to provide attachments that can be readily applied to existing pinting presses, without requiring any alteration in the construction of such presses, and to make various forms of such attachments rendering my invention suitable for the various classes of work in which multi-color printing is used, so that the various colors may be printed at one impression, thus avoiding in ordinary cases the necessity of passing the paper through the press more than once. My further objects are to simplify to a great extent the mechanism for operating such devices; to provide means for readily placing the device within the main form at any point desued, without confining it to a particular space in the columu, to provide means whereby the width of the colored matter to be printed may be easily varied without it being necessary to provide separate complete forms for various widths, such as one, two or three columns; and to reduce the space lost in luking the supplemental form aud insure the thorough king of the whole of the said form, and generally to improve the construction and operation of this class of devices. My object is chiefly to overcome this objection and my invention to that end consists in providing an uk table arranged parallel to the ordinary ink table and in a different plane thereto with mechanism to operate it, the whole constituting an attachment which can be readily applied to the ordinary jobber press, in an improved means for attaching the sectional ink rollers to the shaft, in a combination of parts whereby contrasting colois may be either printed in parallel lines on in the same line, and for accomplishing the purposes defined.",GB189509094A,1895,1
"The object of our invention is to obviate these defects, and consists in supporting the top rollers by a suitable frame, secured to one or more rams working in a cylinder or cylinders, operated by hydraulic pressure supplied by a pump or in any convenient manner, whereby the amount of tensile strain to be put upon the yarn and the desired length to which the yarn is to be stretched may be regulated to any degree and the apparatus arranged so that when the necessary strain has been applied the ram will automatically stop. In order to ensure the thorough washing off of the liquor from the yarn or the like, we find it desirable to keep the water in the bath agitated and accomplish our object by mounting and driving in any convenient manner a plunger or agitator; such arrangement may also be used along with the mercerising liquid, thereby proventing any of the component parts of the liquid settling to the bottom of the bath, thus producing more efficient results.The object of our invention is to obviate these defects, and in describing our invention in detail, reference is made to the accompanying sheet of drawings, in which Fig. 1 represents an end elevation partly in section of a machine con- structed in accordance with our invention, and Fig. 2 is a front elevation of the machine, the front plate of the liquor tank being removed in order to show more clearly the rollers and hydraulic cylinder placed in the interior of the tank.",GB189727435A,1897,0
"The Invention has for its object improvements in articles of ladies' attire known as ""dress improvers,"" whereby such articles are rendered capable of occupying but little space when required, but are readily adjustable for wear.",GB187503500A,1875,0
"Our Invention relates to the machines adapted to be employed in the knitting of spaced healds, and has for its principal object to simplify the arrangements for forming or leaving the spaces at the required intervals.",GB187900372A,1879,0
"In machinery for preparing and spinning cotton and other fibrous material, it is customary to bush the roller stands and slides with brass to prevent the wearing of the roller necks. These brasses have been made wider at the bottom than the top to prevent them rising, and to assist in securing them in position. The widening of these bushing brasses at the bottom tends to weaken the stands and slides, and the object of this invention is to insert a wide brass for the roller neck to rest on without weakening the stands or slides and at the same time facilitate the renewal of the brasses when worn out and reduce the liability to break the stands and slides.",GB189201417A,1892,0
"My Invention consists of the improvements herein-after described in machinery for cutting screws, by which improvements two, three, or more screws may be cut simultaneously in the same machine.",GB186502652A,1865,1
The object of this Invention is to make bright or tooled bolts and nuts as used by engineers from the rough forgings in an accurato and more expeditious manner than by the machinery in general use. The object of this Invention is to make bright or tooled bolts and nuts as used by engineers from the rough forgings in an accurato and more expeditious manner than by the machinery in general use.,GB187404276A,1874,1
"This invention has for its object an improved mounting for a howitzer. For the purpose of inclining the gun to the desired angle a toothed arc is mounted concentrically with the trunnions, and this are engages with a worm capable of sliding upon an axis carried upon the slide parallel with its face.",GB188501674A,1885,0
"This Invention has for its object to produce upon twist lace machines a groundwork or tissue in imitation of hand-made lace, with a relatively less number of motions than heretofore, and this we effect by arranging and working or intersecting the threads in such manner as to produce a new construction of mesh. The purpose of this series of threads is to noose or draw together the crossings of the groundwork or tissue formed by the traversing threads, as before described.",GB187402620A,1874,1
The object of our invention is to devise and work an arm which shall deliver a rapid blow as nearly as possible like that given by a stick held in a workman's hand; and that with the greatest amount of elasticity producible in a mechanical apparatus.,GB188805816A,1888,0
"My third improvement relates to an improved construction of counter or indicator, to be applied to a meter for measuring either gas, water, or other liquids.",GB185113468A,1851,0
"The present invention is particularly designed for effecting the rapid mounting of hooks of the triangle type, while at the same time securely holding the same in the required positions, as, for instance, when arranged as a spinning flight.",GB189503851A,1895,1
"This invention relates to engines worked by the pressure of water or other incompressible and non-elastic fluid, and it has for its object a novel method of constructing such engines so that the quantity of water used may bear a certain proportion to the work done by the engine, and so that the power obtained may be applied in the most effective way.",GB188414935A,1884,0
"My invention devised with the object of providing a roll for the purpose of
finishing the hips of slated roofs of buildings with a view to manufacturing the same
in a more simple and inexpensive manner than that hitherto employed for the
purpose.",GB189214472A,1892,0
"The chief object of the present invention is to provide a new and improved sole-levelling machine having twin jacks adapted to be rotated horizontally and to move laterally and longitudinally, and so constructed that while a boot or shoe on one jack is being acted, upon by a vibrating roller-leveler, the attendant or operator can mount and prepare on the other jack another boot or shoe to be leveled, thereby increasing the efficiency of sole-leveling machines and producing a machine which is susceptible of rapidly leveling the soles of boots and slioes without loss of time. The invention also has for its object to provide new and improved adjustable leveling-rolls adapted to act upon shoe soles which vary in contour or shape, and also to conform to the angle at which the sole is presented and to equalize the pressure over the entire sole.",GB189507631A,1895,1
"My Invention relates to improvements in the construction of Taps and Valves for liquids, the object being to simplify the construction so as to render them less liable to get out of order, to reduce the first cost, and to give increased facility for repairs.",GB188203280A,1882,0
"This Invention relates to the construction of a simple, cheap, and effective clog or apparatus for roughing horses whereby the clog or apparatus can be placed on the horse's foot and the roughing effected in a few minutes; at the same time the clog or apparatus can also be quickly removed.
In some cases the cross bar e is made in three parts, the two outer parts being screwed to the middle part, the object of this construction being to allow of the apparatus being adjusted to shoes of different sizes.",GB187900370A,1879,1
"Our Invention consists in certain new mechanical arrangements and com-binations of parts, constituting improved machinery or apparatus in which the several operations of washing, cleansing, and drying grain may be performed in one machine or apparatus, in a moro speedy, simple, and efficient manner than when separate machines are employed for performing those operations, as heretofore practised.",GB185603010A,1856,1
"This invention which relates to kitchen ranges, stoves and the like has for its object the simplification of the parts constituting the hood in an open and close fire, whereby the opening and closing of said hood is rendered easier and less liable to get out of order.",GB189812722A,1898,0
"The special object of the disc A and tappet a a¹ device is to minimise the time of action of the intermittent current of the line circuit, and thus render the adoption of primary batteries possible for this purpose.",GB189319948A,1893,1
"To obtain or render practicable greater rapidity of action and adjustment, and at the same time stability and safety without undue or undesirable upward friction, I employ as the sustaining medium one or more special or peculiar friction breaks, so constructed as to possess ""grip"" or friction one way only, that is, when turned in one direction, and perfect freedom when turned in the reverse direction. As a means of still further increasing the convenience and rapidity of action and adjustment, in some cases, such, for instance, as music or other stools or seats, I dispense with the before-named hand discs or crosses upon the ends of the longitudinal shaft (leaving it short within the limits of the frames of the seat), and 1 substitute therefor a pair of flat oblong or other conveniently formed ""wings"" or projections, which, by a suitable connection with the breaks and the application of a strong spring action capable of entirely and freely lifting the upper frame, racks, and seat, enable the occupier or user to alter or adjust the height by the mere downward or upward pressure of the hands upon or under the before-named wings or projections; pressing them downwards, releasing or easing one break, and causing the seat to rise; and pulling them upwards, releasing or easing the other or reverse break, and causing the seat to lower, as the case may require.",GB187701314A,1877,1
"The objects of the improvements are a more speedy and perfect carbonization of the coal or other material, whereby a greater quantity of good gas and a better quality of coke are realized, less carbon formed in the retort, and greater facilities afforded for its removal, whilst the duration of the retort or oven is prolonged and considerable saving effected in the working expenses.",GB186603226A,1866,1
My invention relates to improvements in the construction of the cam-caps or welting-cam-caps of Circular Ribbing Knitting machines and is designed to afford the means whereby the outthrow cam can be moved into or out of action at the will of the operator.,GB188717887A,1887,0
"This invention comprises a new and improved construction and arrangement of parts for raising and supporting the weights suspended from the top rollers of drawing frames, and for facilitating the renewal of broken parts.",GB189401098A,1894,0
"This Invention is designed principally to enable the workman to unchuck or release the article from the dogs or holders, and replace it by another without stopping the lathe, by which means both time and labor are considerably economized.",GB187404280A,1874,1
"This invention relates to means for automatically releasing the self-acting brake employed in looms for weaving, and consists in attaching to the ordinary brake lever a lever pivoted to the back end of the loom side; the latter lever being provided with slots, or their equivalents, in which is mounted a sliding rod with a curved or other notch. The lever and its connections are operated by the momentum of the fly wheel on the tappet shaft after the brake has been applied, and is constructed to stop the loom on the back centre when the ""weft"" breaks, which is the most convenient position for the weaver.",GB188614202A,1886,0
"The object of the present Invention is to act directly on the impurities of the juice, both organic and mineral, so as to render them insoluble, preserving them at the same time from all the alterations above mentioned, and leaving the sugar uninjured in solution in the water of the juice. By this means loaves of white sugar may be produced immediately from the juice, without the necessity of first producing a raw sugar and then refining it.",GB184912844A,1849,1
"The object of this Invention is to improve the means of connecting together the several cars of a railroad train, so that while they shall be capable of automatically coupling as they approach each other, yet the coupling shall be effected without any violent shock or concussion of the car, and so that when once coupled they shall be held securely together, and the coupling hooks shall not be in danger of becoming detached from the shoulder or other detents with which they engage. It is necessary however that while the hooks should not accidentally disengage yet they should be capable of readily uncoupling whenever it be desired.",GB187401062A,1874,0
"Our invention is designed to secure the end of the flexible metal strap at one operation, and similarly to disengage or release it at one operation.",GB189925657A,1899,0
"In order to obtain a really good result, it is of the greatest importance that the winding should be performed at a high speed, since otherwise, when several threads are simultaneously wound upon the wire these threads are apt to become entangled and not to be laid evenly close to one another. My present invention consists essentially in a combination of the two arrangements above mentioned. In my improved machine the bobbin from which the wire to be covered is drawn and that upon which the wire when covered is wound, are both mounted in revolving frames whose axes are in alignment with one another, the axes of the bobbins being perpendicular to the axes of rotation of the frames, and the wire being led from the one frame to the other through apertures formed in their respective axes. Between the two frames, a bobbin carrying the covering material is mounted to rotate around the wire in a direction opposite to that in which the wire itself revolves, the combined effect of the two rotations in opposite directions being to virtually increase the speed of the winding operation, so that in this manner I am enabled to obtain a highly efficient machine.",GB189923038A,1899,1
"This invention has for object, certain improvements connected with the standards of plate shears and in means for keeping the severed parts of the plate apart.",GB189705266A,1897,0
"""The object of our Invention is to obtain a concentration of mineral at least as high as that ordinarily obtainable by the separate and consecutive use of the appliances above named, with less labor employed in the mero handling of mineral ore, together with diminished cost of dressing and an increased saving of mineral from the tailings or waste."".""These steep inclinations or falls may be repeated if necessary, to any desirable extent, the object being that the tailings when they are finally washed off the Concentrator shall contain the least possible amount of mineral if any."".""As the ore is liable to be scoured off the surface of an inclined plane if only a slight increase over the proper flow of water takes place, our improvements have also for their object to permit of an occasional increase over the ordinary flow of water, thereby causing a larger quantity of water-borne material to pass over the Concentrator within a given time than permissible with existing appliances without loss of mineral."".""In fact the drag blocks are used by us for the purpose of effecting a concentration of mineral at the head of each section of the surface of the Concentrator similar to the deposits of mineral which are ordinarily found in the stony bed of streams flowing through mining districts."".""Our Invention relates to improvements in machinery for use in dressing or concen- trating Tin and other mineral ores when in a pulverized or crushed condition, the object of our Invention being to obtain such a concentration of mineral as that ordinarily obtainable by the separate and consecutive use of self-acting cleaning frames and buddles, with less labour employed in the mere handling of mineral ore, and a decrease of mineral in the tailings or waste."".""These steep inclinations or falls may be repeated, if necessary, to any desirable extent the object being that the tailings, when they are finally washed off the Concen- trator, shall contain the least possible amount of mineral, if any."".""As the ore is liable to be scoured off the surface of an inclined plane if only a slight increase over the proper flow of water take place, our improvements have also for their object to permit of an occasional or intermittent increase over the ordinary flow of water, thereby causing a larger quantity of water-borne material to pass over the Concentrator within a given time than is permissible with existing appliances without loss of mineral."".""In fact the drag blocks are used by us for the purpose of effecting a concentration of mineral at the head of each section of the surface of the Concentrator, similar to the deposits of mineral which are ordinarily found in the stony bed of streams flowing through mining districts.""",GB188816854A,1888,1
"This Invention has for its object the accelerating the weaving of different fabrics, and especially silk fabrics, called ribbons, and is applicable to all kinds of ribbons, such as plain and figured ribbons, and other small wares. This Invention has for its object to accelerate in a remarkable manner the manufacture of different fabrics, both plain and figured.",GB186000108A,1860,1
"This Invention relates to machinery employed for doubling and twisting yarns and other material requiring to be doubled or twisted and it has for its object the construction or arrangement of such machinery in an improved and economical manner, so as, whilst effecting a saving of material, to render such machinery capable of performing the operation of doubling and twisting in a more rapid, satisfactory and efficient manner than is possible with the machinery at present generally used. Our said Invention relates to machinery employed for doubling and twisting yarn and other material requiring to be doubled or twisted and it has for its object the construction or arrangement of such machinery in an improved and economical manner so as, whilst effecting a saving of material to render such machinery capable of performing the operations of doubling and twisting in a more rapid, satisfactory, and efficient manner than is possible with the machinery at present generally used.",GB188412402A,1884,1
"""Now this Invention has for its object obviating these inconveniences and to provide means for discharging the liquid from the bottle in any desired quantities into a glass or other vessel as required, the neck of the bottle remaining always downwards and covored by the liquid contents which constitutes an excellent hydraulic obturator. Moreover, the air can never enter the bottle except at the moment when the liquid is being withdrawn.""",GB187702777A,1877,0
"""This invention relates to the construction of instruments used in playing the game of golf such as clubs drivers bulgers brasseys and so forth and has for its object a better construction of the head pieces and a better means of fixing thereunto the handles or shafts.""
""Now by my invention I have entirely overcome this difficulty and I do so by forming the metallic head in a series of compartments separated from each other by metallic strengthening ribs or divisions each compartment being filled up or rendered solid as hereinafter described.""",GB189513545A,1895,0
"My Invention relates to the manufacture of metallic peroxido and especially peroxide of lead, from soluble salts of the metals, and in the case of lead especially from chloride of lead.",GB188201721A,1882,0
"This invention relates to a new and quick method of attaching and detaching a handle to a mop, brush or other article.",GB189510381A,1895,1
The object of this invention is to provide in connection with telephonic switching 5 apparatus means whereby whilst the annunciator is operated in the ordinary way when a call is made to the exchange the annunciator does not fall when the operator at the exchange communicates with the distant station and the invention further enables switching to be conveniently effected in a more ready and expeditious manner than hitherto.,GB189014182A,1890,1
"This invention relates to an adding appliance for merchants and others use, and has for its object to enable the user to make quick and accurate additions of numbers, money etc.

This invention has for its object an instrument or appliance to enable manufacturers, merchants, retailers of produce, and others, to make quick and accurate additional calculations of money, numbers, time, etceterae, and to always have a sum total set forth.",GB189605741A,1896,1
"The object of the present invention is to secure uniform quality of product, greater yield, means of using spent acid over and over again until consumed, while avoiding the labour, cost and time in clarification, filtration, settling, etc; so that one fourth the stock of acids usually required suffices to supply a factory.",GB188613011A,1886,1
"""Braids, Stay Bindings, Webs and the like as at present produced will when drawn or stretched twist and curl up so that the material oftentimes present a round instead of the desired flat surface. The curling referred to when the bending is used in the manufacture of articles of apparel and the like causes much delay and inconvenience to those employed to deal with it; and when the braids or bindings. are used as strings to garments they rarely present a flat surface on account of their great tendency to curl up. The object of our Invention is therefore to avoid the curling or twisting in the fabric referred to and our Improvements relate to the warp threads used in its manufacture.""",GB188608690A,1886,1
My Invention has for its object the separation of cinders from their attendant dust in such manner that no annoyance from the dust can be experienced by the operator. This Invention has for its object certain apparatus for the separation of cinders from their attendant dust in such manner that no annoyance from the dust can be experienced by the operator.,GB187902698A,1879,0
"My said Invention has for its object improvements in charging and firing heavy guns on board ship, or in forts, batteries, or other situations wherein such guns are employed, and in machinery or apparatus used for these purposes.",GB187602808A,1876,0
"This invention relates to safety razors or shaving instruments the object being to provide an improved blade-holder and handle combined, also an improved guard for the blade-edge, together with means for adjusting the blade, whereby the construction and arrangement of such instruments is simplified and their cost is reduced.",GB188611388A,1886,0
"The objects of these improvements are as follows:—
Self-acting regulators in preparing machines as now applied have as regards the strap guides when in use a tendency to vibrato considerably, and by that means move the strap about on the speed cones, and so interfere with the proper regulation of the feed motion. The means at present adopted for altering the speed of the feed motion when changing from one class of cotton to another have been found very inconvenient as involving considerable loss of time in effecting the same. In those cases where the roller and shell are at present used, the feed roller not being held well to the surface of the cotton under all circumstances, there is a great tendency to what is technically termed ""plucking,"" thereby impairing the efficiency and sensitiveness of the same as a means of regulating and feeding the cotton or other fibrous material. For removing these defects in which our objects consist, and thus carry out our improvements, we adopt the following arrangements:-We construct the two strap guides of the regulator as levers geared together by means of two quadrants containing several small teeth, or it may be one large tooth and recess only, cither of which quadrants is constructed with or has attached unto it a pinion, which pinion takes into and is actuated by a worm fitted on to a shaft, such shaft being fixed as convenience may require.",GB187300373A,1873,1
"This Invention has for its object certain improvements in ornamental weaving, and in the apparatus employed therein. A leading object of this lnvention is to prevent the very frequent stoppages consequent on the quick using up or exhaustion of the embroidering material consequent on the manner in which ordinary swivel or brocade shuttles and frames are now used, in which the shuttle threads are the ornamenting threads, whereas according to my Inven- tion the shuttle threads are used to draw ornamenting warp threads into sheds opened to receive them, the swivel shuttle threads becoming longitudinal threads in the fabric.",GB186601953A,1866,0
"This invention has for its object, to construct corset fastenings in such a manner, that they can be opened simultaneously by longitudinal shifting of the corset bars or busks or one of them, and that they can be closed or locked by simply pressing the eyelets over the buttons.",GB189411294A,1894,0
"This invention has reference to improvements in the manufacture of glass and has for object to considerably lessen the time usually required to effect complete fusion of the frit or material of which glass is to be made (hereinafter referred to as frit), due to the slow conduction of heat from the exterior of the mass of frit to its centre in consequence of such frit being a bad conductor of heat.",GB189208865A,1892,1
"The object in circulating the solution is to prevent the tanning or coloring material from settling in the tank, and also to cause an even distribution of said materials throughout the tank, causing a more rapid action of the solution upon the hides or skins. One of the essential features of my process of tanning and coloring hides or skins consists of placing the skins or hides in a solution containing the tanning and coloring materials and passing a suitable electric current of sufficient volume and pressure through such solution for the purpose of opening the pores or fibres of the hides or skins and forcing the tanning liquid into and through the skins or hides, as well as the coloring material.",GB189814220A,1898,1
Our present invention relates to the method of hanging doors within door-cases or frames and the object thereof is to so hang a door that it may be opened by pushing or pulling at either outer edge thereof and at either side of said door that is to say doors which are hung in accordance with our invention have what we would term a double free action so that they may be forced open from either jamb or side of door-case or frame and inwards or outwards as the case may be.,GB189019446A,1890,0
"My said invention has for its object to obtain improved results with economy and expedition in the working of rolling mills for rolling bars, rods, and wire.
My invention relates to and is connected with rolling mills for rolling steel or iron bars, rods, and wire and it has for its object to obtain improved results with economy and expedition in the working of such mills.",GB189810452A,1898,1
"Now, the object and intention of this Invention is to protect the metal both from wet and unequal expansion, and thus to prevent oxidation and crystallization thereof, and this I propose to effect by insulating the metal as above stated.",GB186100838A,1861,0
"The present invention which has been developed especially in connection with pneumatic malting drum remedies this drawback by the fixing of a ring or half ring round each ventilating pipe or inlet attached to the wall which is next the space with the lowest temperature and securing the same tightly to the wall by means of rivets, solder or any other means suitable to the purpose.",GB189920730A,1899,0
"The object of my invention is to make the machine safer to ride by lessening the risk of a fall in a forward direction, and I accomplish this end by using a ratchet arrangement to prevent the frame overrunning the front wheel.The objects of my invention are, First, to lessen the risk of a fall in a forward direction, and Secondly, should such an accident occur, by reducing the speed, to mitigate its effects, and I accomplish these ends, without spoiling the appearance of the machine, by using ratchet mechanism to prevent the frame overrunning the front wheel.",GB188503596A,1885,0
The object of the clarifying or decolorizing operation is to free the tannic extracts from colouring matters of a sirupy consistence which prevent them penetrating the leathers. It greatly accelerates the tanning operation and further allows of employing extracts for thin leathers without fear of colouring them.,GB189222480A,1892,1
"By thus interposing elastic material between the base of the rail and the flanges of the sleepers all jarring and rattling between the rail and sleepers is prevented, and the nuts of the screw bolts which connect them together are less liable to become loose.",GB187102705A,1871,0
"The invention relates to improvements in means or apparatus for saving life and property during storms, in harbours, along the coast, or at open sea, by the discharge of oil into the sea, whereby there is produced a smooth surface which is not broken by the wind, as is usually the case when the surface of the sea is violently acted upon by the wind.

This construction is especially useful at open sea between ships, while for coast service we deem it expedient to make the specific gravity of the apparatus such that it will sink beneath the surface of the water in order to avoid currents; this, however, is immaterial, as we shall make it so as to float or not, as may be advisable.

In case it should be impossible to throw the projectile, as for want of a mortar, or powder, the distributer could be carried by a boat as near as possible to the ship in distress and dropped overboard, and operated by persons at a distance or in the boat, so that as the surface became smooth by means of the discharge of oil, the distressed ship could be approached with safety and the people and property transferred to the shore or other ship, so that our invention is not only a projectile and distributer but also a distributer adapted to throw oil into the sea when being drawn through the water.

The device could also be used by a ship in the case of a storm, by projecting the device ahead and then drawing it back towards the ship so as to make a smooth surface on the water, through which the ship could sail.",GB189113526A,1891,0
"Our Invention relates to an improved mode of manufacturing hair cloth and other similar fabrics, and also to improvements in looms used therefor. The shuttle is fed or supplied with the hairs forming the weft alternately at either side of the warp, by which means the texture of the cloth produced is rendered much more uniform than hitherto and is otherwise improved; the hairs are much less liable to break in weaving, and the manufacture is also greatly accelerated.",GB186803620A,1868,1
"The object of this Invention is to manufacture spun tobacco by a quicker process than that heretofore adopted, by which a finer, better pressed, and more saleable article is produced.",GB185802586A,1858,1
"The advantages of my Invention consist in building structures which shall be capable of affording a controlable temperature internally during the hottest weather, and as all the parts are mechanically prepared and fitted at the builder's factory, such structures can be put together in the shortest time by unskilled labour and with great dispatch. Besides the foregoing advantages over any other structures now in use mine may be removed from one site to another with very little cost of labour or inconvenience beyond carriage charges.",GB186303196A,1863,1
"My invention relates to an improved mouthpiece for tobacco-pipes, cigar-holders and the like and has for its object to prevent the saliva from entering the pipe or the like.",GB189009594A,1890,0
"This mode of securing the cap (which in ordinary receptacles is usually held by a chain outside the vessel), prevents the chain from catching or becoming damaged or broken, and is also applicable for securing screw caps in vessels for containing and supplying oils for various purposes when made of other material than cast iron.",GB188004748A,1880,0
"The first part of my Invention relates to that class or description of
jacquard machines used for weaving, which are commonly known or
denominated ""double-action jacquard machines,"" and, as applied to such
machines, the object of my Invention is to increase their speed, and at
the same time diminish the strain upon and the wear and tear of
the warp threads, and thus make the double-action machine more
perfect. The object of this centre feather or web is to compensate the unequal lever-
ago of the needle upon the limb of the hook when raised, and prevent
the hook from being pushed over too far when the griffe bar is of limited
width; where space is not an object, the centre web may be dispensed
with. The object of this arrangement
is to transmit the power from the end of the loom below to a point
under the ""jacquard.""",GB187000838A,1870,1
The improvements have for their object the regulation of the speed of motors more spontaneously and with more energy than by any means known hitherto.,GB187900904A,1879,0
"Such being the nature and object of our said Invention, we will now proceed to describe more in detail the manner in which the same is to be or may be performed or carried into practical effect; and in order that the same may be clearly understood we have annexed hereunto a Sheet of Drawings illustrative thereof, and have marked the same with figures and letters of reference corresponding with those in the following explanation thereof :-. Having now described the nature and object of our said Invention, together with the manner in which the same is to be or may be performed or carried into practical effect, we wish it to be understood that we claim as our Invention, attaching the swell directly and rigidly to the stop rod finger, or casting or otherwise forming the swell and the stop rod finger in one piece in the manner and for the purposes herein-before more particularly set forth.",GB187604895A,1876,0
"The object of this Invention is the construction of a machine designed for folding paper in sections of several sheets or in quires with expedition and facility, without regard to adjustment as to the thickness or number of sheets being folded at one time, and the appearance of the paper when folded will be cleaner, neater, and more uniform than when folded by hand. The object of this Invention is the construction of a machine designed for folding paper in sections of several sheets, or in quires, with expedition and facility, without regard to adjustment as to the thickness or number of sheets being folded at one time, and the appearance of the paper when folded will be cleaner, neater, and more uniform than when folded by hand.",GB188002512A,1880,1
"The object of this invention is to prevent this frequent interruption, noise and annoyance and the consequent loss of time and efficiency by attaching a sloping surface to the ledge or book shelf for the slates to rest upon, so that as soon as the slates are put away down the slot provided for them they become slightly jambed so that they cannot rattle, however much the desk is shaken. The object of this invention is to prevent the frequent interruption, noise and annoyance, and consequent loss of time and efficiency, caused through this rattling, by attaching a sloping surface to the ledge or book-shelf for the slate to rest upon, so that as soon as the slates are put away down the slot, they slide by gravity. down the sloping surface and become slightly jambed, so that they cannot rattle however much the desk happens to be shaken.",GB189011200A,1890,1
"The object of this invention is to increase the working capacity of what are known as ""Rapid"" printing presses, and this object is attained by a reduction of the periphery of such roller with a view to making such periphery considerably smaller than the distance which the carriage is required to travel in any given case. By such means the machine works more efficiently than hitherto and is enabled to turn out in a given space of time a quantity of work exceeding by about one third the amount of work yielded by the presses hitherto employed.",GB189409213A,1894,1
The object of this invention is to make a detachable dress guard to protect ladies dresses from the back wheel & the driving chain. The object of this invention is to make a detachable dress-guard for ladies cycles; this guard is to protect ladies dresses from the back wheel & the driving chain.,GB189516677A,1895,0
"The object of this Invention is to effect in an efficient and expeditious manner the compression of bales of cotton, hay, and other substances.",GB186301390A,1863,1
"The object of this Invention is to facilitate and expedite the manufacture of the said articles, and to preserve the finish of the textile fabric, and to cheapen the cost of production.",GB187201732A,1872,1
"A further improvement consists in a means of preventing the fermentation of urine, with a view to retain all its original properties. This forms an especial feature of the Invention, having for its object the employment of lime for the utilization of urine in a non-putrescent condition.",GB186301362A,1863,0
Their object is to divide the outward current of air produced by the action of the fans from the inward current towards the centre of the next case and to thus constitute an annular channel in each case for the air to pass from one case to the other.,GB186901135A,1869,0
"It is highly important therefore that a photographic exposure meter should show when once set and opposite the scale denoting the sizes of the diaphragms, the time of exposure suitable for each diaphragm simultaneously; and the photographer will then be able to choose such diaphragın as will require an exposure within the capacity of his shutter and still at the same time a suitable one for the subject to be photographed :- For instance, if moving objects are to be photographed he must choose the shortest exposure at which his shutter can work as indicated on the scale, and use the diaphragm of the size indicated for that exposure. Ithus arrange my instrument so that it not only indicates the necessary length of exposure but also a suitable diaphragm to use.",GB189408515A,1894,1
"My invention relates to improvements in fire-bars, in which the bar is provided with a number of polygonal shaped divisions which taper from the top of the bar to nothing, or run into the bar, in conjunction with peculiar shaped air passages between each of the polygonal shaped divisions, and the object of my improvement is that the air passing through the peculiar formed air passages and between each division of the bar, is in a manner compressed, as when the bars are lying close together the divisions form conical shaped tubes, and the air being heated by the fire on the top of the grate the air from the ash pit is drawn, at a great velocity through these passages and is greatly heated before entering the furnace, by coming into close contact with such a large surface of the fire bars, which means a great saving in coal which would be necessary to heat the cold air entering the furnace, and also the bars last longer as they are not burnt away so quickly, on account of the free circulation of air between them.",GB188717666A,1887,0
"This invention relates to improvements in affixing metal medallions, metal trade marks or the like to brush ware and other articles, and the object of my invention is to fix said medallions or the like, without the use of cement, which has hitherto been necessary. This invention relates to improvements in affixing metal medallions, metal trade marks or the like, to brush ware and other articles, and the object of my invention is to fix said medallions or the like, without using cement, and without pinning the medallions as hitherto done.",GB189406037A,1894,0
"My invention relates to puddling furnaces, the object of the invention being to provide a greater concentration of heat by forming combustion in the hearth of the furnace through the admission of air over the top of the bridge after circulating around a fire chamber several times.",GB189005001A,1890,0
"My invention chiefly relates to school-desks, and has for its object to construct the same in such a manner that, when the desk is used for writing, it can be moved close to the scholars and that, in addition to being used as a writing desk, it can be set at a suitable angle to serve as a reading desk or placed in a horizontal position to form a table and moved out of the way to afford room for standing or for drill.",GB188903437A,1889,0
"The object of this invention is to cut or machine work on both backward and forward strokes of planing, shaping, slotting, plate edgeing, and similar machines thereby decreasing the cost of the work and considerably increasing the amount of work done in a given time on these and similar machines.",GB189014493A,1890,1
"This invention which relates to improvements in and applicable to circular knitting machines filled with bearded needles and blade wheels, has ""for its object the provision of means for enabling a splicing thread to be inserted and withdrawn with certainty and accuracy at any predetermined needle and at any particular course or part of a course; also means by which the splicing"" threadl may be held in or out of action for any number of courses or parts of courses, means for cutting, and for holding the cut end of the splicing thread when it is thrown out of order, means for ensuring the splicing threall being delivered to the needles when it is thrown into work, and means by which the splicing thread may be automatically thrown into and out of action.This invention which relates to improvements in and applicable to circular Knitting machine fitted with bearded needles and blade wheels, has for its object the provision of means for enabling a splicing thread to be inserted and withdrawn with certainty and accuracy at any predetermined needle and at any particular course or part of a course; also means by which the splicing thread may be held in or out of action for any number of courses or parts of courses; means for cutting the thread and holding the cut end when the thread is thrown out-of action; mean's for ensuring the splicing thread being delivered to the needles when it is thrown into action; and means for automatically controlling the ""action of the 'above mechanisms.",GB189624975A,1896,0
"To avoid the above mentioned losses and inconvenience and to promote ease and
economy in use we propose to mould Napthalene into the form of small spheres of
convenient size, preferably (say) from inch to 1 inch diameter according to the
size of the carburetting vessels, in the manner hereinafter fully descrioed.

In order to avoid the above mentioned inconveniences and losses as well as to
promote cleanliness, economy of time and labor in use and ease and safety in
handling, packing and carriage we mould the napthalene into small spherical or
substantially spherical shapes or balls of moderate and convenient size preferably
into spheres of about five eighths of one inch in diameter or from that say to one
inch in diameter, that range of sizes being found to admit of the most convenient
packing being effected in the sizes and forms of carburetting vessels at present used
but the sizes may be varied to suit the vessels that are to receive them.",GB188714085A,1887,1
"My invention has for its object to provide a machine for enclosing in wrappers, washing blue, blacklead, soap, or other substances in a more rapid and efficient manner than heretofore. My invention has for its object to provide a machine for enclosing in wrappers, washing-blue, black-lead, soap or other substance in a more rapid and efficient manner than heretofore.",GB189903514A,1899,1
My invention relates to an improvement in boots and shoes by means of which thorough ventilation is obtained.,GB189416143A,1894,0
"This invention relates to improvements in churns for producing butter from either milk or cream, in such a manner that a current of air is caused to flow through the milk or cream under treatment by the action of centrifugal force, whereby the churning operation is greatly expedited.",GB189504307A,1895,1
"It is found in practice that these cutters require frequent renewal, which it is the object of the present Invention to remedy.

The Invention has for its object the improvement of the shears or cutting tools used in machinery for making nails, and more particularly refers to the shears or cutting tools forming part of machinery employed for the purpose of making wrought nails, and which machinery formed the subject of a Patent granted to George Tomlinson Bousfield, on the Fifteenth day of May, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-five, under the title of Improvements in the Manufacture of Wrought Nails."" In these machines the portion of iron required to form each nail is severed from a heated plate of iron by cutting tools or shears, which cutting tools or shears have heretofore been made by casting them into the proper form, of one description of ordinary iron, and chilling or chill-casting the cutting edges of such tools afterwards, dressing them or bringing the said edges to a sharp face on a ""lap,"" as is well understood by machinists. It is found by experience that tools so formed being required to operate continually upon heated plates of metal, are apt to become dull and to lose edge, thus entailing the evil of too frequent stoppage of the machine to exchange the cutters, and causing considerable loss of time. It, therefore, becomes highly desirable to form these cutters of metal better adapted to maintain a tolerably keen edge whilst cutting heated iron, and thus to avoid the delays above named in the renewal of the cutters.",GB185601339A,1856,1
"This invention relates to an improvement in buttons, and particularly to those buttons made of metal, and commonly known to the trade as rivet buttons, that is those buttons which are intended to be secured to cloth or fabric by means of a tack, rivet, or other metal fastener, the button in the present instance being particularly designed or adapted for use on men's pants or the like, the object of the same being to devise a button which shall be simple in construction, and consequently cheap to manufacture and at the same time neat in appearance, the several parts being so arranged that although a soft or cheap metal may be used in making the front and back-plates thereof, yet the finished article will be sufficiently strong to withstand any strain to which it might be subjected when applied to the garment referred to, and further that by its peculiar construction and arrangement of parts, the two plates of which the button is composed will not become separated from each other when the garment to which it is secured is put through a washing or wringing machine as is now the case with the common form of pant or the like buttons. The object being to prevent, where possible, the protrusion of the swaged end of the rivet c above the surface of the face plate A.",GB189318521A,1893,0
"My said Invention relates to a system or mode of making gas by a simplified process, combining economy of time in the manufacture and an increase in the quantity produced, consequent upon the charge being ""worked off"" quickly.",GB185201161A,1852,1
"Our improvements in Cocks and Valves are designed to supply an effective cock or valve for steam, or for hot or cold fluids or gases flowing under high pressure, but they are also applicable to form a durable and efficient low pressure tap or valve.",GB188611731A,1886,0
"This Invention has for its object the production of an aromatic salt which possesses and combines in itself all the agreeable and digestive qualities which are desirable in condiments. All the substances of which it is composed are eminently beneficial. The said aromatic salt may be advantageously and economically substituted for the salt and all other condiments ordinarily employed; both for table use and culinary operations it imparts an agreeable and appetising flavour to the viands, and mildly and gently stimulates the action of the digestive organs. This salt is moreover perfectly innocuous, and on this account also is to be preferred to all other stimulants, which in most cases are highly injurious to health. What more particularly distinguishes the new aromatic salt is, that it includes in its composition all the condiments capable of imparting an agreeable flavour to the food and calculated to promote digestion, so that it may be employed alone without the addition of any other product.",GB188101141A,1881,0
"Our Invention relates to the mounting and supporting of metallic spring or woven wire mattresses and has for its principal objects to dispense with the ordinary wooden frames, to provide for the straining of the mattress without disturbing the framing of the bedstead and to simplify the construction of the latter.",GB188403185A,1884,0
"The purpose for which this said hook, pin head, or point, is used, is to draw the cotton thro: the picotted loops (as shewn in Fig. 7) which are made in the process of tatting, and thereby preventing the necessity of putting the shuttle out of the operators hands, while the said operator picks up a pin, or crochet hook, for the purpose of drawing cotton thro picotted loops made.",GB189200884A,1892,1
"This Invention has for its object the carbonizing or destroying cotton and other vegetable fibre or material contained in mixed fabrics, and the separation and extraction of the wool therefrom more expeditiously than has hitherto been done by means of certain apparatus constructed as herein mentioned, and which apparatus is also applicable for drying rags, flocks, and other materials.",GB186702803A,1867,1
"This Invention has for its object a better construction of the perma-
nent ways of railways. The third improvement, which relates to chairs, consists in the
application of adjusting jaws and metal wedges, which have for their
object, first, to fix the rails more securely in the chairs; and, secondly,
to allow of the rails of a railway to be turned over, and that to be used
on both sides.",GB185301855A,1853,0
"The object of my invention (which is to be known as the ""Posthastia,"") is to prepare letters circulars and newspapers for the post, by damping and closing the envelopes and wrappers of letters and circulars, damping the wrappers of newspapers, damping, seperating, and affixing, in a clean and rapid manner, the postage stamps on letters, circulars and newspapers.",GB188609340A,1886,1
"""Heretofore in printing these goods the color rollers and their accessories have been mounted in the general fixed framing of the machine, thereby causing a great waste of time when changing the colors from one part of the machine to another, in changing the coloring of a design, or in changing the design altogether, as in that case the color rollers and their accessories have to be separately taken from their bearings and removed to their respective places in the altered design intended to be printed necessarily occupying much time. By the use of the portable color frame, the color rollers and their accessories are removed and, replaced at once by simply lifting from one part of the machine to another when it is necessary to alter the coloring of any design, thereby economising time and rendering the operation much moro cleanly. It has been usual in printing these goods to apply the coloring matters on to the upper surface of the printing rollers or cylinders, thereby preventing the possibility of applying more than a very limited quantity of colouring matter without liability of the color flowing down into the carved or engraved parts of the design and causing defects in the work. But by means of the adjustable radial arms and adjusting worms carried in the color frames the endless color cloths can be adjusted at various angles to the printing surfaces. Wo find that the best results are produced by bringing the color cloths into such a position or angle that the color shall be applied from below or to the under side of the printing rollers, whereby larger quantititics of color can be applied without danger of its flowing into the carved parts of the design, thus obviating many defects in the printing and at the same time producing greater brilliancy of color. These moveable segmental pattern blocks may be cut or carved in the usual manner or they may be constructed with stereotype surfaces, as is well known, and attached by dovetails and grooves to the central cores, by which contrivance large and claborate designs can be obtained at less cost than by the usual method of forming the printing cylinders. By this arrangement greater accuracy of register is secured and a much larger amount of colouring matter can be applied to the printing surfaces and consequently greater brilliancy of design obtained than heretofore.""",GB187100577A,1871,1
"The object of the present invention is a new process and apparatus for the
manufacture of so-called water gas. The object of this arrangement is that the molten or semi-liquid slag, which
runs down the walls of the generator should be prevented from adhering to the
walls, and compelled to deposit itself on the grate, whence it can readily be
removed.",GB189513764A,1895,0
"My Invention being the application of hot and cold air under pressure as described, for the purpose of evaporating or concentrating and refrigerating alkaline liquors and solutions in breweries, distillerics, chemical, and other manufactories, with a view to economize heat and time.

The beforegoing being the nature, object, and purposes of this Invention, what I claim as the Invention secured to me by Letters Patent as aforesaid is, the application and use of hot and cold air under pressure, and expelled broadcast through perforated pipes as described, for the purpose of evaporating or concentrating and refrigerating alkaline liquors and solutions in breweries, distillerics, chemical, and other manufactories, with a view to economise heat and time, substantially as hercin set forth.",GB187202351A,1872,1
The object of my Invention is to provide a machine for cutting rags ropes and other materials into pieces of any desired size in a rapid and efficient manner.,GB188613722A,1886,1
"This Invention has for its object the construction of a machine or apparatus whereby, in the first place, the labour now necessary for the working of a sewing machine may be greatly reduced; secondly, by the use of my Invention the injurious effects upon the constitution from the use of the treadle may be entirely obviated; thirdly, according to my Invention the operator may have the free use of both hands in the guidance of the work operated upon.",GB187603957A,1876,0
"My Invention relates to improvements in Mercurial pumps for exhausting
gaseous fluids, whereby their operation is expedited, and the apparatus is rendered
self-contained and compact. My Invention relates to improvements in Mercurial pumps for exhausting
gaseous fluids, that is to say pumps of the type of what is known as the
Sprengel pump,"" whereby their operation is expedited and the apparatus is
rendered self contained, more compact and less fragile than heretofore.",GB188501533A,1885,1
"This invention relates to improvements in the manufacture of casks, more especially with regard to the means for the attachment and rendering tight of the heads, and has for its object to accomplish this purpose in a more simple and effective manner than heretofore.",GB189813985A,1898,0
"My invention is for the purpose of guiding or holding a centre punch, so as
easily to indicate the centre of round, square, or other geometrically shaped bars,
or of crank shafts (as I find that the projection of a crank arm forms no obstruction
to the application of my device) which usually require to be centred, so as to be
turned in a lathe. My device is further adjustable, so as to suit and adapt itself in
the hands of the operator to any size or form of bar, and its application is
exceedingly simple, even in unskilled hands.",GB188501150A,1885,0
"Our present invention relates to improvements in machinery or apparatus for finishing worsted, woollen and other woven fabrics by imparting a smoothness and compactness to such fabrics in a more economical, expeditious and superior manner than heretofore usual.",GB189006258A,1890,1
"The object of our invention is the construction of an apparatus suitable for attachment to the front of tramway and other engines, for the purpose of preventing accidents by the automatic removal of anything bulky that may be laying on the tramway track, in such a manner that, the wheels of the engine will not pass over the same.",GB189107450A,1891,0
"The object of this invention is to construct rotary washing machines so that the water or washing liquid is more thoroughly infused into the goods being washed, consequently the operation is not as long, and is far more effective than with the ordinary rotary washers.",GB189702009A,1897,1
Our invention consists principally of the improvements hereinafter described in such chucks for lathes as are commonly called scroll chucks and screw chucks but our improvements are also in part applicable to the jaws of vices and to cramps as hereinafter described.,GB188714146A,1887,0
This Invention has for its object a process for separating and collecting particles of metal or metallic compounds applicable for condensing fumes from smelting furnaces and for other purposes.,GB188411120A,1884,0
"This invention relates to the improvements in appliances for displaying boots and shoes and other articles travellers samples and window dressing, and has for its object to provide a light cheap and effective means of preserving the shapes of articles to which it is applied. The object of this invention is to provide a light, cheap and effective appliance for preserving the shape of articles displayed in shop windows, glass cases or the like, for travellers samples or of articles in private use, such as boots, shoes, corsets, dresses, coats, jackets and the like.",GB189911470A,1899,0
"The object of the Invention is to enable the surface speed to be ascertained at once by observation, and thereby to either act as a check upon or to avoid the existing practice and time occupied in ascertaining such speeds by calculation as well as the error inherent to that method. The object of the Invention is to enable the surface speed to be ascertained at once by observation, and thereby to either act as a check upon or to avoid the existing practice and time occupied in ascertaining such speed by calculation as well as the error inherent to that method.",GB187601376A,1876,1
"My invention relates to the treatment of textile plants, such as flax, hemp and the like, so as to obtain the fibres ready for the ordinary manufacturing operations in which such fibres are employed, the object which I have in view being to economise time and labour, to avoid waste, and to secure good and uniform quality of fibre.",GB188814100A,1888,1
"""This invention which has for its object the manufacture of blueish-black coloring matters is described by my correspondents as follows: :-""",GB188818425A,1888,0
"It has been found in practice that saddles or seats for velocipedes, as usually constructed, give rise, during use, to friction and injurious pressure, which not only prevents the full power of the muscles being exerted for the propulsion of the velocipede, but also frequently results in more or less serious injury to the gluteal region and pelvic outlet of the rider. By our invention we provide a seat or sale of such shape, and so hung or supported, that the above injurious pressures and frictions will be obviated or practically so and our said invention comprises, moreover, the further improvements hereinafter described.",GB189727605A,1897,0
"The present invention relates to improvements in medicine bottles and the like, and its object is to measure the quantity of medicine or other fluid to be taken or withdrawn without the aid of another instru.nent or vessel and to take it without having to ponr it into another vessel or spoon. The present invention relates to improvements in medicine bottles and the like, and its object is to measure the quantity of medicine or other fluid to be taken or withdrawn from the bottle without the aid of another instrument or vessel and to take it without having to pour it into another vessel or spoon.",GB188809551A,1888,0
"""This invention relates to improvements in Sewing machines for producing a lock stitch with waxed threads; the chief object being to simplify the action and increase the precision of the working parts, and thereby provide for their being driven at a high speed.""
""This Invention relates to improvements in Sewing Machines for producing a lock stitch with waxed threads; the chief object being to simplify the action and increase the precision of the working parts, and thereby to provide for their being driven at a high speed""",GB188202617A,1882,1
"""This invention has for its object the production of new dye-stuffs of the azo series which in consequence of the presence of a basic group, will dye cotton, with the aid of tannin mordants. The new dye-stuffs do not show the sensibility to the action of acids of analogous bodies hitherto known.""

""This observation also opens a way to make azo colors soluble in water without changing their properties.""",GB189222572A,1892,0
"By my above described Invention a leak may be stopped in about ten minutes, and thus the delay consequent upon having to empty the boiler or the risk of scalding in attempting to drive in an ordinary wooden plug in the manner now practised is avoided.",GB187604545A,1876,1
The invention is designed with the object of providing a machine which will work more efficiently and more quickly than what are at present employed for this work.,GB189121658A,1891,1
"This Invention has for its object improvements in constructing the treads of steps or stairs, and is more particularly applicable for constructing the treads of steps or stairs for public buildings, such as railway stations and others where they are much used, and in fact for all buildings where numerous persons are constantly passing up and down such steps or stairs.",GB186503306A,1865,0
"By the above described arrangement a higher speed may be obtained during a portion of the traverse without undue strain or shock on the headstock and driving mechanism at starting, or ""backing-off,"" or on ""putting-up"" the carriage; thus permitting of an increased number of traverses or stretches being performed, with a-correspondingly increased production, in a given time.",GB188305277A,1883,1
Our improvements in railway wheels consist in fixing the tyre to the body of the wheel by methods so permanently secure that even the application of the most powerful brake would not effect their separation or permit the tyre to slip round the body of the wheel. We achieve this end mainly by the use of iron rings of a certain novel form.,GB188100352A,1881,0
"1st To any ticket nipper or punch used for nipping or punching railway or other tickets or cards the addition and attachment of removeable dies and stamps or other type to the jaws of the said nipper or punch, for the purpose of stamping, impressing, or endorsing on such cards or tickets the dates of the day month or year or other similar stamp, simultaneously with the nipping or punching of the said cards or tickets, substantially as herein before described. 2nd To one or both of the jaws of a ticket nipper or punch, the addition of a removeable adjustable platform for the purpose of adjusting the relative positions of the stamps and dies or other type used in and for the purpose of stamping, impressing or endorsing tickets or cards substantially as herein before set forth and described. 3rd The addition of removeable and adjustable stamps and dies and other type as herein before described to any description of plier used for the purpose of endorsing or stamping.",GB188501327A,1885,1
"My invention relates to a method of and appliances for dealing with the smoke generated in household or other grates or fire places, and for carrying away the vitiated air or other noxious gases, in a simple and efficient manner, and for bringing into the apartments or building if desired, warm or fresh air or any gas conducive to health.",GB188500609A,1885,0
"Our present invention relates to means for lacing boots, shoes, and other articles of wearing apparel and has for its object an expeditious method of performing the same and the obtaining of comfort and freedom to that part of the body to which the laced apparel is secured; to attain which we employ ordinary small rollers or pulley wheels which are arranged and secured to the wearing apparel in an improved manner. Hitherto when using small rollers or pulley wheels as a means for lacing articles of wearing apparel the way in which the same have been secured to the apparel has made it too stiff and what has been gained in expedition of lacing the apparel has been lost in discomfort to the wearer, to obviate this drawback and to obtain both expedition in the lacing and comfort in the wearing we arrange and secure the small pulley wheels or pulleys to the wearing apparel in the following manner:",GB188906933A,1889,1
"The invention consists in improved means for actuating the toolholder slides whereby the machine can be driven and maintained at a very much increased speed; secondly in improved means for feeding the moulding uninterruptedly consecutively through the machine whereby the machine can be kept continuously running while the attendant merely pushes in one moulding after, and against the end of, the other, so that the daily yield of the machine is greatly increased; thirdly in means for holding the tools, the toolholder chuck being easily removable whereby the machine needs only to be stopped while one toolholder chuck is taken out in order to be replaced by another the tools of which have meanwhile or previously been sharpened without being removed from their chuck. The above improvements thus all tend to enormously increase the yield of the machine and to enable it to be worked by one attendant. Fourthly the invention comprises means for altering the angle at which the tools act on the moulding and means for adapting them to mouldings of various widths and thicknesses.",GB189728449A,1897,1
"The object of our process is to obtain metals in the state of pure oxides, or at least free from injurious bodies such as arsenic and antimony.",GB186603212A,1866,0
"The purpose of this Invention is to raise sunken vessels in a considerably short time, and in a very safe manner.",GB187801498A,1878,1
"This invention has reference to improvements in apparatus for distributing actuating fluid in motors, such as those of direct acting steam pumps, the object being to cause the slide valve of such a motor, when attaining a position wherein one of the main steam ports of the engine cylinder is in communication with the exhaust, to be in an automatic way, rapidly moved to the end of its stroke, and thereby quickly placing the said port in full communication with the exhaust, and the main steam port to the opposite side of the piston in full communication with the steam chest, and consequently in a position for making the return stroke of the engine piston and so on with respect to each stroke.

This invention has reference to improvements in apparatus for distributing actuating fluid in motors, such as those of direct acting steam pumps, the object being to cause the slide valve of such a motor, when attaining a position wherein one of the main steam ports of the engine cylinder is in communication with the exhaust, to be in an automatic way, rapidly moved to the end of its stroke, so as to thereby quickly place the said port in full communication with the exhaust, and the main steam port to the opposite side of the piston in full communication with the steam chest, and consequently in a position for making the return stroke of the engine piston, and so on with respect to each stroke.",GB189400186A,1894,1
"This invention relates to the construction of resistance switches and their brushes in such a manner that in order to provide for a given number of steps, the number of contact plates or segments and of the resistances and their connections may be considerably reduced, or in other words, that a given number of plates or segments, resistances and connections may serve for a considerably greater number of steps.",GB189508727A,1895,0
"The object of our Invention is to size yarns, or threads at the time or during the process of spinning or doubling in those spinning and doubling machines having the character of the throstle frame.",GB185800622A,1858,0
"This invention relates chiefly to the ironing of gentlemen's shirt fronts but it is also applicable for ironing purposes generally, the object of the invention being to provide an ironing board of such a form that the steam produced by passing the hot iron over the damp shirt front may pass away readily thereby effecting a quicker drying of the front whereby the ironing operation may be carried out more speedily and effectively than heretofore. The object of thus forming the slits or holes being that the steam as it passes through shall have free egress and pass away quickly.This Invention relates chiefly to the ironing of Gentlemen's shirt fronts but it is also applicable for ironing purposes generally, the object of the Invention being to provide an ironing board of such a form that the vapor produced at the back of the article being ironed by the hot iron passing over the damp articles may pass readily away thus effecting a quicker drying of the front than heretofore and facilitating the ironing operation. The object of thus forming the slits or holes being that the vapor as it passes through shall be free to pass away quickly.",GB188304690A,1883,1
This Invention has for its principal object to give to a Traction Engine more spring than can be obtained from the use of spring wheels only as will be hereinafter fully described with reference to the accompanying drawings.,GB188609516A,1886,0
"The object of our invention is to permit two half-fronts of different shirts to be ironed simultaneously and laterally, also two shirt cuffs, and by a duplicate arrangement of boards allow of the four half fronts of four shirts being under treatment in the same machine, either for 'ironing' or 'glossing' and with the same or variable pressure against the ironing roll, and each set of boards independently controlled with the great advantage of better ironing than heretofore and a quicker rate of treatment.",GB189902985A,1899,1
"""Hitherto the difficulty has been that where the load became excessive the burning of the armature of the dynamo machine (in consequence of its ceasing to revolve) took place and the principal object of the present invention is to obviate this.""",GB189106048A,1891,0
"The object of my invention is ""Improvements in apparatus for wiping the points of pens,"" after being used, so as to preserve them from corrosion. The object of the improvement in pen wipers hereinafter detailed, is a mechanical contrivance, for wiping the points of pens, immediately after being used by a simpler, quicker, & cleaner method, than has hitherto been in ordinary use. The jaws A B are hinged at their inner ends by a link J, Fig. 3, or other connecting medium, the object being to pivotally connect them.",GB189015625A,1890,1
My improved mode of securing tyres to the rims of wheels has the advantage of enabling the tyres to be very quickly mounted and dismounted.,GB189304964A,1893,1
"The inventor therefore wishes it to be understood that he does not claim any special form of the said kind of gearing for the said purpose, the essential feature of the Invention being the application of any kind of frictional gearing for transmitting power from the gas-motor to the driving-wheels, as thereby means are provided for stopping and reversing the motion of the locomotive and for starting it while the gas-motor is kept constantly working with the same sense of rotation.",GB187900309A,1879,0
The present invention is directed mainly to overcoming these defects.,GB189309280A,1893,0
"This Invention is designed for the purpose of enabling the well-known operations of the ""raising gig"" to be carried on in two or more places or parts of a piece of woollen cloth at one time, instead of at one part only, as heretofore commonly practised, and the means by which this may be effected are as follows:-Across the face of the teasling drum of an ordinary ""gig mill"" I arrange and dispose the ""raising gig"" and parts in connection therewith in the following manner; that is to say, I employ, for example, two breast rollers, one at each side of the centre of the aforesaid drum, and immediately over the centre of said drum I place a guide roller, over which the cloth to be operated upon passes from the feeding roller over the breast rollers on to the winding-on roller, the cloth being kept in a proper state of tension, and the aforesaid breast rollers raised or lowered by an arrangement of worms and worm wheels in connection with a shaft for actuating the same by hand, as desired.",GB185502272A,1855,1
In order to avoid this we provide the cell or vessel with an overflow pipe through which any excess of alloy will flow out and the proper level of the alloy will be thus automatically maintained.,GB189405831A,1894,0
"This Invention relates to the class of machinery for purposes above, known as hand mules, and to self-acting mules, and the object of the Invention is the construction, arrangement, and application of apparatus to such machinery, so as to admit of two or more threads being spun on one mule spindle at the same time, and also that such threads may be doubled on the same mule, and so not only produce two threads at the same time on one machine, but also by doubling on the same machine as the spinning is effected, I dispense with the use of a separate machine for doubling, with consequent economy of time, labour, and power required as heretofore.",GB187301943A,1873,1
"The object of my Invention is to increase the speed of signalling in long submarine telegraph cables, or to reduce the cost of such cables by effecting a very considerable diminution in the weights of conducting and insulating materials now necessary to obtain a given rate of speed in signalling.",GB187503807A,1875,1
"My said Invention consists of the improvements herein-after described in producing the said photographs, by which improvements great economy in time, labour, and material is effected.",GB187700142A,1877,1
"This Invention has for its object improvements in apparatus for cleaning the bottoms of ships while in motion, in order to increase the speed and to save costs and time of docking.",GB187904374A,1879,1
"The object of this invention is a new or improved device for making continuous warm or hot applications to any part of the body by means of hot water. The object of the special construction of the receptacle above specified is to secure a large heating surface with the smallest capacity consistent with a sufficient distance between the tubes C and D to facilitate the circulation-it being obvious, that the less water used with the same heating surface, the less time will. be required to heat it, which is often a matter of great importance.",GB188905177A,1889,1
"As some water corporations or companies necessitate by their bye laws that flushing cisterns shall be constructed to contain and discharge a given quantity of water for each flush, or not more than a given quantity of water for each flush, I arrange a flushing cistern according to my Invention so as to effect this object, thus, I provide a tray or auxiliary receiver near the top of the cistern ärranged to receive the water from the supply cock, and so that the receiver will contain, and when full float the ball of the lever which works the supply cock.",GB187903782A,1879,0
"The object of the present Invention is to manufacture in an economical manner a wick which will burn without destroying the wall of the candle. For this purpose, we form the middle of the wick of plait, and the exterior we compose of straight strands or threads laid against the plait in parallel lines, and we bind the whole together by a single gimping thread, which is lapped around the wick.",GB185400724A,1854,0
"This invention relates to improvements in the general arrangement and also to the
form of construction of ore crushing mills or stamper batteries and has for its object
the provision of various means by which the mills or batteries will be rendered more
efficient for crushing and amalgamating purposes. This invention is designed to produce the long sought for fast crushing stamp mill.",GB189721310A,1897,1
"This invention relates to improvements in the plates, or elements, used in secondary batteries, the object being to present a maximum of exciting surface to the action of the electrolytic fluid and to render the same portable and cheap of production.",GB188607848A,1886,0
"The Invention of improvements in machinery for making pins and pin nails, which has been communicated to me by a foreigner residing abroad (as above said), consists in a novel construction or arrangement of machinery, containing many known agents before employed for similar purposes, but in this instance differently formed and newly arranged, in order to effect the manufacture of pins and pin nails in a more perfect, convenient, and expeditious manner than could be done in the existing machines, to which I have alluded, having the like objects.",GB184109036A,1841,1
"My Invention consists of the improvements, herein-after described, in implements or machines for digging or removing growing potatoes from the earth, the object of my said improvements being the more rapid and economical removal of the potatoes.

My Invention consists of the improvements, herein-after described, in implements or machines for digging or removing growing potatoes from the earth; the object of my said improvements being so to construct the machines that the removal of the potatoes is effected more rapidly and economically than by the ordinary machines.",GB187702625A,1877,1
"This invention has for its object an improved scoop, money holder or apparatus for the counting or storing of coins prior to their insertion in paper or other suitable baga whereby great saving of time to those in the habit of counting money and rolling up coins in paper and the absoluto correctness in the counting of a given amount is ensured at the same time is simple in its use, and inexpensive to manufacture.",GB189618490A,1896,1
"This Invention relates to further improvements in machinery for the above purposes, for which Letters Patent were granted to me hearing date the 21st day of May 1874, No. 1804, and the object of the present Invention, like that of the one above referred to, is to obtain by the use of improved machinery results equal with regard to the quality of yarn to those hitherto obtainable only by the use of the spinning ""mule"" at an increased rate of production and considerable reduction in the amount of space or room occupied.",GB187602628A,1876,1
The object of the present invention is to reduce the labor required and greatly expedite the operation.,GB189914071A,1899,1
"Having now described and ascertained the nature, object, and purposes of my Invention, and shown how the same may be put into practical operation, what I claim as my Invention is,-",GB188001622A,1880,0
"One object of my invention is to provide means for exactly poising an escapement of any construction whatever, in any vertical position of the watch. My invention has further for its object to prevent another imperfection of the well-known escapements especially of those known as: ""bascule-escapements"" or ""detent escapements,"" the so called: racing or galloping of the same, that is to say the imparting of two or more impulses to the balance-wheel whilst the same is moving in one and the same direction. A further object of my invention is to provide means for temporarily stopping the escapement-wheel whilst the balance wheel is removed for repairs.",GB189516420A,1895,0
This invention has for its object the improved arrangement and construction of apparatus for softening and purifying water by means of lime or other reagents in a more rapid and simple manner than is the case with any other known method.,GB189314195A,1893,1
This Invention has for its object improved driving mechanism for velocipedes.,GB188613157A,1886,0
"""Figure 1, shows a perspective view of a retort, arranged according to the first part of the Invention, which consists in forming them shallow, (that is, from a, to b,) in proportion to their width, (or from c, to d.) say in depth (from a, to b,) about one half their breadth, (from c, to d,) or less, and with flat or comparatively flat bottoms, the object being to expose a large surface of metal in the retort to the direct action of the heat, and thus to accelerate sublimation, and prevent, as much as possible, large quantities of residue.""",GB185300998A,1853,1
My invention has for its object to manufacture nitric acid by a continuous process instead of by the intermittent process hitherto employed for the purpose.,GB189306960A,1893,1
"The object of my Invention is to save time by more readily adjusting, securing, or changing the saw blades of timber frames.",GB188100771A,1881,1
"The side plates or top framing 9, rollers g, h, and i, and endless belt fare capable of adjustment, and the mouth of the feeder, which delivers the tobacco to the knife d, is contracted at the sides as usual, the object being to cut the whole of the tobacco without making ""side pickings,"" thus effecting a great saving in the work performed.",GB186200766A,1862,1
"This invention consists in a new construction of holders or so called ""settings"" for incandescent electric lamps. The object of the construction is to enable the lamp holders to be conveniently screwed on to gaseliers, chandeliers &c, to fit the conducting wires in the lamp holder in a commodious way, to protect the same from contact or any external disturbance, as well as to fix the lamp itself into the holder in the simplest way and thereby to ensure its contact with the conductors.",GB188402285A,1884,0
"The object of this Invention is to remedy these inconveniences, and at the same time admit of increasing the speed five-fold. The object of our Invention is to remedy these inconveniences, and at the same time admitting of increasing the speed five fold. The object of the shaft 7 is to regulate the delivery of the thread, and is screw-cut in the centre for receiving a rundle m, the diameter of which is equal to that of the interior of the tubular axis d, and is provided with a small pin or tail piece p engaging in a vertical groove n made in the said axis; by this means the rundle is rendered motionless in a circular sense, whilst it is capable of a vertical motion in turning the shaft l, on which it is screwed, between the rundle m and the top of the axis d; the shaft is surrounded by a spiral spring, and bears at its lower end a muffle in which it freely turns, and which is furnished with a key engaging in the groove n of the axis d. The shaft is also intended to stop the machine in case of a thread breaking, or when the reel is empty; for example, this shaft being no longer retained by the thread, and actuated by the spiral spring descends till the eyelet K rests on the upper part of the tube.",GB186703672A,1867,1
"The object of my invention is to so construct a heddle of this character as to facilitate the shedding of the warp threads first on one side and then on the opposite side of the needles, and to prevent excessive chaffing or abrading of the warp threads due to their bearing against the heddle bars or to confinement between the bars and needles as said threads rise and fall in the shedding operation, and this object I attain mainly by permitting a slight lateral movement of the bars of the headle when the threads bear sidewise upon the same, a special disposition of the needles in respect to each other and to the bars of the heddle also aiding in the accomplishment of the desired result.",GB189206545A,1892,0
"The object of this invention is to provide a mechanical device by which fruit may with facility and rapidity be virtually ""hand-picked"" and collected in a bag, free from the injury done to it when shaken, as is usually done off lofty inaccessible branches and allowed to fall to the ground. The object of this invention is to provide a mechanical device by which fruit may, with facility and rapidity, be virtually ""hand-picked"" and collected in a bag or net free from the injury done to it when shaken, as is usually done, off lofty inaccessible branches and allowed to fall to the ground.",GB189408373A,1894,1
"This invention has for its object to enable heels, sole edges and other parts of boots and shoes, to be provided with a brilliant and durable wax finish at less expense for time and labor than by the methods now in use, and it consists as a whole in an improved method involving the following steps, viz.: first, scouring the heel or other parts to be burnished, secondly, inking or colouring the scoured surface, and lastly presenting the inked surface to a rapidly moving abrasive surface coated with wax, the said abrasive surface having a comparatively fine texture like that of the emery cloth of commerce, and being adapted to create sufficient friction when pressed against a heel to melt the wax coating and thus gain access through said coating to the surface of the heel and exert a smoothing effect thereon, and at the same time force the wax into the fibres of the leather and leave it smoothly spread thereon, the result being the formation of a brilliant smooth waxed surface.",GB189200225A,1892,1
"The object of our Invention is, firstly, to attain greater speed than is otherwise attainable, and also to avoid all strain or jerking of the threads on starting, or slackening of the threads on stopping, whereby better and more even warping is attained; secondly, to regulate the tension of the warp so that a regular and uniform length of warp is obtained accordingly, as may be required, and also the obtaining of more even cheeses.",GB188003385A,1880,1
"The first part of my said Invention, which relates to an improvement in the bushes or shields for the bungholes of casks or other vessels, and by which they are more securely held therein than hitherto, and also rendered capable of being easily and rapidly tightened at any time, consists in forming a screw or spiral thread on the outside of the shield of such diameter that it may be screwed into the said hole. The second part of this Invention, which relates to the means for fixing and tightening the shields, herein-before referred to, into casks or other vessels, consists of a short shaft, on the axis of which is fitted eccentrically a serrated or fluted boss, which is so arranged that the shaft may turn round within it.",GB186902653A,1869,1
The object of this invention is to design a price tag or ticket which will remain concealed when not required for inspection and it consists essentially of a tag or ticket fitted into a recess formed in the blocking board a spring being attached to the said tag or ticket in such a manner that the tension of the said spring shall hold the tag or ticket in the recess substantially and for the purpose hereinafter more particularly explained.,GB189118761A,1891,0
"The object of my Invention is the production of a machine by which pills can be rounded much more rapidly than by the well known hand method; which is performed by rotating the irregular shaped Pills between a disc of Iron or wood having a rim corresponding to the diameter of the Pills, and a slab of marble, wood or other suitable substance, in such a manner that while the pills are carried over a considerable surface they revolve on an ever changing axis. The object of my Invention is the production of a machine by which Pills can be rounded much more rapidly than by the well known hand_method, which is performed by rotating the irregular shaped Pills between a disk of Iron or wood, having a rim corresponding to the size of the Pills to be rounded, and a slab of marble, wood or other suitable substance in such a manner that while the pills are carried over a considerable surface they revolve on an ever changing axis.",GB188808952A,1888,1
"The chief object of this invention is to strengthen and protect the corners of sheet metal travelling trunks which are most liable to be injured by pressure or concussion, that is to say, the top and bottom longitudinal corners; but the invention refers also to strengthening and protecting the bottom end corners, and any of the other corners, if such is desired.",GB188513402A,1885,0
"The object of my invention is to puddle and purify metals, and to convert the same into a homogeneous body which can be made into either malleable ingots or malleable castings or into steel castings or steel ingots by smelting the metal with the aid of gas in a converter constructed as hereafter described or as a saving of time by smelting the metal first in a cupola or a smelting furnace and afterwards to run it into the converter.",GB188919333A,1889,1
"Our invention, which relates to improvements in plates and tips for soles and heels of boots and shoes, has for its object in the first place a perforated or solid metal plate, to be fixed in the leather at the side and toe of sole of boot or shoc, to affix a half star plate with a washer of leather or other suitable equivalents that has raised parts champered off, to fill up, between the vacant spaces u Fig. 4, and to lay flat on base plates Figures 3 and Figure 5 when fixed to the boot or shoe. Our motive for constructing this star shaped metal plate, with star shaped washer with hollow corner rims in base plate for leather or other suitable materials, 'to fill in the hollow corners of same, is to prevent in the first place, the sound of the metal alone in walking; secondly to prevent any accident from slipping, thirdly to make the heel lighter and more firmer in walking.",GB189215628A,1892,0
"This invention relates to an improved winding machine or apparatus of the kind or class adapted for winding thread, yarn or like material upon a cop tube or cylinder, and has for its object to provide a simple and efficient machine of that kind capable of running at a substantially high speed and of producing a maximum number of balls of thread or yarn in a minimum time.",GB189728209A,1897,1
"This invention relates to a new and useful improvement in automatic loaders, conveyors and unloaders, and is especially adapted for loading and unloading vessels, and has for its object to provide a simple and effective mechanism for receiving, conveying and depositing the cargo of vessels either in package or bulk form, so as to bring about an even and continuous motion which will avoid the enormous delays which are now occasioned by the present method. The unloading platform P is arranged slightly below the level of the upper surface of the carriers while in their horizontal position, and has formed thereon the fingers T through which the fingers of the carriers pass just prior to said carriers being deflected downward, as before set forth; the object of which arrangement is to permit the carriers to convey the load to the platform and then deposit it thereon automatically.",GB189813254A,1898,1
"The purpose of this Invention is the construction of an apparatus for moistening
envelope flaps or wrapper ends in a simple and quicker manner than by moisten-
ing the same by the tongue. The apparatus may be made adjustable so as to fit
envelopes of different shape and size.",GB188101580A,1881,1
"The object of this invention is to provide a wheel for such vehicles as have the spring or bearings outside the wheel that will revolve on the spindle, so that each wheel may revolve independently of the other.",GB188702232A,1887,0
"""The objects of this Invention are,—
1st. To obviate the waste of time consumed in the difficult and arduous labour of
lifting loaded or unloaded wagons.
2nd. To allow of the instantaneous transfer of convoys of provisions, ammunition,
or merchandise, wherever situated, from the railway to the common road, and vice
versa.""

""I claim, the practical method of establishing in combination with the woodwork
of a truck or wagon, one, two, or more turning platforms, with the object of effecting
the advantages indicated at the commencement of this description, the platform,
being dependent on the wagon, as in Figs. 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5; or independent of it,
as in Figs. and 6; or constructed as mentioned in the final remarks.""",GB187802320A,1878,1
"My said invention has for its object to increase the efficiency of steam boilers by means of improved arrangements and apparatus for accelerating or controlling the ordinary rate of combustion, for regulating the quantities of air supplied above and below the fire bars and for heating the air by the waste gases from tlie furnaces.",GB189218389A,1892,0
"One object of the invention is to provide for an efficient separation of the substances treated, such as grits or middlings, from the dust or other light particles contained therein, while the said substances are caused to move over the surface of the usual shaking sieve within the machine and there subjected in a well known manner to the action of a current of air created by suction. Other objects of the invention are, to provide for the possibility of continuously observing and watching the process of separation from without, to admit of the sifting surface being readily cleaned at any time, to prevent the accumulation, within the machine, of the dust usually created therein by the suction current of air and thus to keep the lateral glass windows of the machine clear, to dispense with the deflectors usually employed in machines of this class and to provide for a more efficient travelling movement of the material on the shaking sieve and hence for a more efficient separation than has been possible to obtain heretofore.",GB189612045A,1896,0
"This Invention relates to the manufacture of endless band knives to be used in machines for cutting cloth, leather, rubber, and other materials, the objects in view being to obtain greater cutting power, and to reduce friction.",GB188203823A,1882,0
"The object of this invention is to arrange an appliance on the screw cap of a lubricator that the cap can be securely fastened in position at any part of the plug after adjustment for forcing the grease or other lubricant through the stem of the plug to the shaft, axle, or other journal that requires lubricating. The object of this invention is to arrange an applianco on the screw cap of a Lubricator that the cap can be securely fastened in position at any part of the plug after adjustment for forcing the grease or other like lubricant through the stem of the plug to the shaft axle or other journal that requires lubricating.",GB188413232A,1884,0
"My invention is mainly designed to overcome these defects, and it has for one of its important objects to cause the abutment to quickly return to its position behind the piston head and across the steam space the instant the piston head has passed the plane of movement thereof. Another object of my invention is to provide improved and effective means for very rapidly withdrawing the abutment to permit the piston head to pass, whereby the engine may be run at a higher rate of speed than heretofore and the abutment at the same time allowed to remain in its effective position across the steam space until the expansive force of the charge of steami propelling it has been utilized to the maximum degree. Another object of my invention is to provide improved means whereby the abutment is actuated to recede from and enter the steam space at such time only when it is free from pressure, thereby avoiding excessive friction and enabling the easy and punctual operation of the abutment. Another object of my invention is to withdraw the abutment by positive means having operative connection with the piston and acting in unison therewith, and to instantly return the abutment at the proper period by means acting independently of the piston. A further object of my invention is to provide a multi-piston engine in which both sets of valves for each piston may be reset or reversed and the time of operation of the abutment accordingly varied, by one and the same movement. A still further object of my invention is to provide improved and simple means for varying the time of closing of the admission valve whereby the speed of the engine is automatically regulated. And a still further object of my invention is to provide a shell in which the piston head is housed with a removable section for affording access to the interior thereof, and at the same time have the construction such as to permit of the entire shell, including such section, being provided with a continuous steam jacket.",GB189724152A,1897,1
"My object being to perform the processes of sizing, bleaching, and dyeing during the operation of slubbing, roving, spinning, or doubling, thereby not only saving the time and labor of consequently sizing, bleaching, and dyeing the yarn or thread, but producing a better result, as the sizing, bleaching, or dyeing liquids being applied to the fibres before the twist is put in become more thoroughly incorporated with them.",GB185902149A,1859,1
As a painting or window cleaning machine it would be found useful doing away with the danger of ladders or standing on window sills.,GB188401450A,1884,0
"By means of this Invention I am enabled to crease, paste, and press down the bottom lap of paper bags in a good, cheap, and quick manner.",GB187604198A,1876,1
"My present Invention has for its object, amongst other things, (a) to convert the tar or tarry liquors, or tarry vapours, given off from coal in distillation, into permanent gas; (b) to effect this object and those above specified by certain modes or methods and apparatus, and (c) to carry out these and other objects incident to the process by apparatus in which the ordinary retorts of gas works are rendered available for making gas according to my Invention.
Although this object of my Invention is, as above stated, to use existing retorts of Gas Works, in the manner I have already described, yet the arrangement and construction of gas making apparatus herein described is equally applicable to cases where it is desired to use new retorts and build new retort benches.
The chief object of cooling the trough C is to keep the tar in it in a fluid state.",GB188802096A,1888,0
"Now the object of my invention is to facilitate and expedite the charging of the oven bottom or drawplate so as to save time and fuel besides rendering the work more easy for the attendants.Now the object of my invention is to facilitate and expedite the charging of the oven bottom or drawplate so as to save time, fuel and labour besides rendering the work more easy for the attendants and more exact.",GB189603255A,1896,1
"This invention has for its object a machine for embossing or impressing patterns of any suitable kind on leather, more particularly for making imitations of fine leather such as lizard skin, crocodile and the like.",GB189920498A,1899,0
"This invention has been specially designed for the purpose of intercepting all grease, fat, or oleaginous substances that find their way from a washing-up sink into a sewer, and thereby choke the same and the connections.",GB189106889A,1891,0
"This invention relates to a travelling or field aerated water manufactory_com- prising a van, conveyance or other portable structure with or without wheels, equipped and fitted with machines, apparatus and tools suitable for the manu- facture of aerated waters, and the object of which is to provide an immediate supply for the sale of such aerated waters when travelling from town to town and putting up at camps or various enclosures where a ready demand or sale would be obtained.",GB189727143A,1897,0
"The object of my invention is to make a toy, in the form of a repeating gun, or pistol, having a magazine for holding projectiles, and can be used, either as a magazine gun, for rapid firing or as a breechloader.

The object of my invention is to make a toy repeating gun or pistol provided with a magazine for holding peas or other small projectiles the said toy gun or pistol being so constructed as to be used either as a magazine gun or pistol for rapid firing or as a breech loader.",GB189407658A,1894,0
"My invention relates to improved means for facilitating the removal of window-sashes from sash-frames and the replacing of the same therein, and my said invention obviates the liability to accidents during the operations of cleaning and glazing windows, and increases the facility and rapidity with which these operations may be performed. An important feature of my said invention is the construction of the pulley-stile at one or the other side of the sash-frame in such a manner that a portion or portions of the said stile may be readily removed, so as to leave a recess or cavity into which the sashes can be successively pushed to permit them to pass the bead or beads on the opposite side of the sash-frame. By this means 1 am enabled, without otherwise altering the construction and without changing the external appearance of the sashes and sash-frame, to provide for the removal and replacing of the sashes with great facility and in a very short space of time. I also provide for the detachment or uncoupling of the sashes from the sash-lines, and for the retention of the said lines (while the sashes are disconnected therefrom) in a convenient position for the said lines to be again secured or coupled to the sashes, so as to prevent the running down of the sash-weights and the consequent difficulty of again getting hold of the sash-lines. In addition to the advantages above enumerated, my invention affords the further advantage that the window-sashes can be removed and the sash-lines renewed without the necessity for taking off the beads of the sash-frame, and consequently without liability to injury of such beads by the tools required in the detachment of the same.",GB189110477A,1891,1
This invention which relates to improvements in the manufacture of biscuits has for its object to prevent the cracking and breaking of biscuits after firing.This invention which relates to improvements in the manufacture of biscuits has for its object to prevent the cracking and breaking of the biscuits after being baked or fired.,GB189009091A,1890,0
"This Invention relates to a process and apparatus for smelting zinc in such a manner that there shall be little or no waste of metal by volatilisation; that the heat employed for smelting shall be applied directly to the ore, and fully utilised; that retorts and other vessels ordinarily used in reduction shall be dispensed with; and that the reduction of large charges of ore shall be rapidly and completely effected by simple means and by comparatively unskilled labour.",GB187301623A,1873,1
"The most important improvement consists in such an arrangement of the parts of the machine delivering. the goods, as to enable a regular selling of each packet separately without having to arrange the packets beforehand in the receiver; the packets of goods of round, egg, or similar shape can be thrown without any order into a drum. This enables a great quantity of goods to be put in a comparatively small space and saves the time and trouble of putting in the goods in order. The other improvements are in the mechanism which operates or regulates the delivery of the goods, and in arrangements for amusement and show connected with the selling operations.",GB189524211A,1895,1
"The object of my invention is to attain a higher speed in card setting machines, and to simplify and improve the different movements of the pricker, crown, fingers, cutter, wire holder, feed motion and improvements in the method of actuating the shell or nut barrel by the twill for endless or other sheets. The object of my invention is to attain a higher speed in card setting machines, and to simplify and improve the different movements of the pricker, crown, fingers, cutter, wire holder, feed motion, and improvements in the method of mounting the slide carrying the shell for forming the twill in endless or other sheets.",GB189608371A,1896,1
"My invention consists of a drilling machine especially devised for the purpose of forming a series of circumferential rows of openings in an annular plate or ring, my invention comprising certain details in the construction of the machine with the view, mainly, of insuring accuracy and rapidity in the operation of the machine. In order to prevent the drills from meeting in the centre of the ring, one drill is operated slightly in advance of the other, so. that it is fully projected and partially retracted before the opposite drill reaches the limit of its inward movement, as will be understood on reference to the diagrams, Figs. 5 and 6. In order to provide for the intermittent circumferential adjustment of the ring in the intervals between the actions of the drills, the shaft, 4, has a worm wheel, 28, which engages with a worm, 29, on a shaft, 30, the outer end of which is geared by means of spur wheels, 31, and, 32. to a shaft, 33, carrying a ratchet wheel, 34, with which engages a pawl, 35, hung to an arm, 36, connected by a rod, 37, to an arm, 38, on a rock shaft, 39, free to turn on a spindle, 40, carried by an arm, 41, of the frame, said rock shaft also having an arm, 42, which is acted upon by lugs, 43, on the periphery of one of the cam disks, 23, whereby, on each rotation of the latter, there will be a number of vibrations of the pawl-carrying arm, 36, and a consequent succession of movements of the ratchet wheel, 34, to the extent of one or more teeth, back movement of the wheel being prevented by a retaining pawl, 44, as shown in Fig. 3. It will be seen that the above described machine is entirely automatic in its action, and that the various adjustments of the parts insure accuracy in the disposal of the openings in the annular plate or ring, while rapid operation is insured by the use of a series of drill spindles and by working said spindles in pairs, each drill passing but part way through the ring, as the openings can be made much more rapidly in this way than when a single drill passing completely through the ring from one side to the other is employed. In order to complete the drilling of the ring more rapidly, I may place two or more drill carriages at any point on the circumference of the ring, but preferably at a point directly opposite the drill carriages on the machine above described, each pair of drill carriages being provided with drill spindles, so as to form a separate row of openings in the ring.",GB188813729A,1888,1
"Calf skins are at least four times thicker at the head than elsewhere; this part is therefore more difficult to tan than the other parts, and consequently requires a longer stay in the pits and more bark. The object of the improved machine, the subject of this Invention, is to render the head as thin as the other parts at one operation and before tanning, an object not hitherto attained, and which permits perfect tanning in less time than otherwise required.",GB186502136A,1865,1
"The object of these improvements is to produce a very sensitive caster, that is to say, a caster which will move to the requisite position under the influence of a very slight pressure in the direction of the rotation of the caster when the piece of furniture to which it is applied is shifted, while the weight of the piece of furniture or other object will act nearly vertically upon the axis of the said caster and not, as in other casters heretofore employed, at a point a considerable distance from the axis of the caster. A proof of this (which is constantly presented) is that by reason of the wear and friction these casters soon cease to fulfil the object for which they were designed and cannot revolve upon their axes but slide along upon a portion only of their periphery which portion wears and becomes flattened thus rendering the easters useless",GB188302951A,1883,0
The object of this invention is an improved method of constructing transposing pianofortes which can be adapted to either upright or horizontal instruments. The object of having this pin attached to the lever is to prevent the lever being moved before the key bottom raised or thrown out of gear thus preventing any damage being done to the mechanism as until the key bottom is raised the lever that transposes the keys cannot be moved.The object of this invention is an improved method of constructing transposing pianofortes either upright or horizontal:-. The object of having this pin E attached to the said lever D is to prevent the lever D being moved either way before the key bottom A is thrown out of gear and thus preventing any damage being caused to the mechanism as until the key bottom A is raised the lever D that transposes the keys L cannot be moved either way.,GB189406908A,1894,0
"The special object of the radiating fingers of the dash being, when very rapidly rotated, collectively to create a vortex-like agitation and aeration of the cream, which is most desirable for butter making, and individually to pick up a portion of the cream and to centrifugally disperse it with a forcible impact against the ends and lid of the churn in a stream of separating drops, which causes the butter particles to be most rapidly separated from the cream and agglomerated together.",GB189318768A,1893,1
"This Invention has for its object to ventilate parts of waterproof overcoats and other garments. In order to ventilate waterproof overcoats over the shoulders and upper parts of the coat and under the arms I remove from such parts of the coat the waterproofing material, and to prevent rain passing through such parts of the coat I place over them a cape of waterproof material fixed to the coat around the neck, and hanging down so as to overlap the ventilated portions of the coat.",GB186901847A,1869,0
"This invention is for accurately, and quickly recording events at sports and entertainments.",GB189310476A,1893,1
"The more especial objects of our improvements are to produce smoother yarn in spinning and twisting machinery, as well as more readily to convert a ""fly"" into a ""cap"" frame, or vice versa, such conversion on machinery as at present constructed being tedious.",GB186800652A,1868,1
The object of my Invention is to provide a machine for sifting or sorting grain or ground materials or the like which is simple in construction takes less power to operate it occupies but small space and is capable of operating upon a larger amount of grain or material in a given time than is the case with machines as hitherto made. The object of my invention is to provide a machine for sifting or sorting grain or ground materials or the like which is simple in construction takes less power to operate it occupies but small space and is capable of operating upon a larger amount of grain or material in a given time than is the case with machines for the purpose as hitherto made.,GB188815565A,1888,1
"This invention prevents these evils and is also otherwise very useful as it protects the udder against the sting of insects, against external injury for instance by one cow treading upon another who is lying down, and against the influence of the weather which causes cracks and collection of matter in the udder skin; it also prevents the cow from giving suck to herself.",GB189011298A,1890,0
"""The first part of my invention relates to hecks and reeds used in leasing or separating the yarns or threads being formed into warps or forming warps being operated upon in warping and beaming machines, sectional warping and beaming machines, warp-balling machines, machines for chaining or linking warps and other machines used in the formation and treatment of warps and portions of warps and has for its object to facilitate the leasing or separation into individual yarns or threads or into groups of two or more yarns or threads as may be necessary or desirable from time to time of the yarns or threads being formed into or forming warps or portions of warps being formed or operated upon by means of warping and beaming machines, sectional warping and beaming machines, warp-balling machines and machines for chaining or linking warps and other machines used in the formation and treatment of warps and portions of warps, and also to render unnecessary the unthreading and re-threading of the V reeds used in conjunction with sectional warping and beaming machines which have hitherto been necessary when it has been requisite to make changes in the leasing or separation of the yarns or threads being formed into ""sections"" in such machines."".""The second part of my invention also relates to hecks and reeds used in leasing or separating the yarns or threads being formed into warps or forming warps being operated upon in warping and beaming machines, sectional warping and beaming machines, warp-balling machines, machines for chaining or linking warps and other machines used in the formation and treatment of warps and portions of warps and has for its object to facilitate the leasing or separation into individual yarns or threads or into groups of two or more yarns or threads as may be necessary or desirable from time to time of the yarns or threads being formed into or forming warps or portions of warps being formed or operated upon by means of warping and beaming machines, sectional warping and beaming machines, warp-balling machines and machines for chaining or linking warps and other machines used in the formation and treatment of warps and portions of warps and also to render unnecessary the un-threading and re-threading of the V reeds used in conjunction with sectional warping and beaming machines which have hitherto been necessary when it has been requisite to make changes in the leasing or separation of the yarns or threads being formed into ""sections"" in such machines."".""My invention relates thirdly to the reeds which are used for the purpose of adjusting the width occupied by the yarns or threads being formed into warps or sections or balls in warping and beaming and sectional warping and beaming machines or machines similar to sectional warping and beaming machines and used in the dressing of warps in sections and such warp-balling machines as are employed to form balled warps from bobbins placed in creels or to assemble yarns or threads into warps and form them into balls in one operation, or other machines employed in the formation of warps or the treatment of yarns or threads in the form of warps or portions of warps and also to the lease-reeds or hecks used in machines of any of the said kinds for the purpose of ""taking the lease"" in the warps or portions of warps being operated upon whether such lease-reeds or hecks are employed in leasing the yarns or threads in ""half-beers"" or other divisions or groups of yarns or threads or ""end and end that is to say by separating each yarn or thread from its neighbour. This part of my invention consists in improvements by which I enable the yarns or threads or half beers or other divisions or groups into which it is or may at any time be necessary or desirable that the warp or section of a warp being formed or being formed into a ball in a warping mill or sectional warping or beaming machine or warp-balling machine or operated upon in any other of the machines above referred to shall be divided by means of a V reed or lease-reed or heck to be passed into dents or compartments of the V reed or lease-reed or herk employed in or in conjunction with such machine more quickly and with much greater ease and with less damage to the yarns or threads than has been the case with V reeds and lease-reeds or hecks as hitherto constructed.",GB189522524A,1895,1
"My improvements consist in refining a certain kind of indigo known by the name of Manilla indigo, by expelling from it considerable portions of saling and calcareous matters, which at present render it unfit for most purposes. The distinguishing feature of this Invention hence consists in indicating the precise nature of the impurities which render Manilla indigo useless, and to afford cheap and practical means for rectifying the same, so as to render it applicable on an equal footing with other qualities, and in particular cases even more advantageously than ordinary indigo, on account of the peculiar redness which the Manilla indigo naturally possesses.",GB185401291A,1854,0
"Wet gas meters as at present constructed are very liable to be tilted in such manner as to interfere with due registration of the quantity of gas passed through them, and my improvements relate to means by which when such tilting takes place the passage of gas through the meter will be suspended and then restored, so soon as the position of the meter is again correctly adjusted.",GB185901058A,1859,0
"""My invention relates to furnaces, and more especially to the furnaces or fireboxes of boilers of the well-known locomotive type, and it has for its objects novel methods of construction of the fire-grate and of the parts supplying air to the fuel, by which more perfect combustion of the latter is attained, and the firebars can be easily and quickly cleaned and the clinker formed upon them removed, and the fire can when required be entirely withdrawu and removed.""
""In order to provide for the admission of air above the fuel, so as to ensure perfect combustion and to prevent smoke, I leave a space between the forward end of the frame which carries the bars, and the inner or tube-plate end r of the fire-box, and in this space I arrange and fix a vertical passage open below, preferably of cast iron, which, after rising above the top of the fire, has its open end directed backward (or away from the tube plate, as shewn in the several figures).""
""By my invention, the firegrate of the furnace is readily and quickly cleaned, or the fire withdrawn, and the admission of air, both below the grate, and above the burning fuel, is provided for and is easily adjusted, whilst the apparatus is simple, effective, and not liable to get out of order.""",GB189317198A,1893,1
"In order to hasten the process of gasification, and also to increase the quantity of gas evolved, I pass dried steam and condensed gas through the charge-and, to cleanse the gas, without the usual costly scrubber, cause it to pass through small chambers divided into three compartments the top one having a perforated floor through which water or other liquid can be made to trickle on to the gas passing through the centre compartment, the third, or bottom; compartment being for the tar and liquor from which the gas is so cleansed. In order to hasten the process of gasification and also to increase the quantity of 5 gas evolved, I pass dried steam through the charge; and to cleanse the gas without the usual costly scrubber I cause it to pass through small chambers divided into three compartments, the top one having a perforated floor through which water or other liquids can be made to trickle on to the gas passing through the centre compartment,- the third, or bottom, compartment being for the tar and liquor from which the gas is 1 so cleansed.",GB188605727A,1886,1
"The object of this Invention is to prevent the handle of the brush from falling through, an accident that commonly occurs to this description of brushes.",GB185301225A,1853,0
"The object of our invention is to provide automatic means for discharging the fibrous material after it has been sufficiently treated in the rag engine, thereby saving the time and labor required to remove the said material by hand.",GB189112919A,1891,1