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  • 4 patent

    1) патент (охранный документ на изобретение, удостоверяющий признание предложения изобретением, его приоритет и исключительное право на него патентообладателя)
    2) патентовать; патентованный; патентный
    - patent applied for
    - patent in force
    - patent being in force
    - patent for a design
    - patent for an invention
    - patent for a plant
    - patent for improvement
    - patent in dispute
    - patent on a design
    - patent pending
    - patent referred to
    - patent abroad
    - patent of addition
    - patent of confirmation
    - patent of importation
    - patent of improvement
    - patent of revalidation
    - abandoned patent
    - additional patent
    - adjudicated patent
    - AEC-owned patent
    - anticipating patent
    - apparatus patent
    - art patent
    - article patent
    - assailable patent
    - assigned patent
    - atomic energy patent
    - attackable patent
    - attacked patent
    - basic patent
    - biological patent
    - blocking patent
    - blocking-off patent
    - borderline patent
    - British Letters patent
    - broad patent
    - business method patent
    - cancelled patent
    - ceased patent
    - chemical patent
    - cited patent
    - collateral patent
    - colonial patent
    - combination patent
    - Commission-owned patent
    - communicated patent
    - competing patent
    - complementary patent
    - composition-of-matter patent
    - confirmation patent
    - conflicting patent
    - contestable patent
    - copending patents
    - corresponding patents
    - deadwood patent
    - dead-wood patent
    - defective patent
    - dependent patent
    - design letters patent
    - device patent
    - disputed patent
    - divisional patent
    - domestic patent
    - dominant patent
    - dormant patent
    - double patent
    - dragnet patent
    - drug patent
    - duplicate patents
    - earlier patent
    - economic patent
    - electrical patent
    - European patent
    - exclusive patent
    - exercisable patent
    - existing patent
    - expired patent
    - exploitable patent
    - extended patent
    - extinct patent
    - fencing-off patent
    - final patent
    - foreign patent
    - forfeited patent
    - fortifying patent
    - freed patent
    - free-lance patent
    - French pharmaceutical patent
    - granted patent
    - home patent
    - importation patent
    - improvement patent
    - incipient patent
    - incontestable patent
    - independent patent
    - indigenous patent
    - industrial patent
    - industrial development patent
    - infringed patent
    - infringing patent
    - infringing patents
    - inoperative patent
    - interdependent patents
    - intervening patent
    - invalid patent
    - issued patent
    - joint patent
    - key patent
    - land patent
    - lapsed patent
    - later patent
    - later-dated patent
    - legally effective patent
    - letters patent
    - licensed patent
    - litigious patent
    - live patent
    - machine patent
    - main patent
    - manufacture patent
    - master patent
    - material patent
    - mechanical patent
    - medical patent
    - metallurgical patent
    - method patent
    - minor patent
    - modification patent
    - more recent patent
    - narrow patent
    - national patent
    - national patent under the PCT
    - native's patent
    - new use patent
    - non-convention patent
    - Nordic patent
    - not infringed patent
    - nuisance patent
    - objected patent
    - obstructive patent
    - old patent
    - operative patent
    - original patent
    - ornamental design patent
    - overlapping patents
    - paper patent
    - parallel patent
    - parent patent
    - pending patent
    - petty patent
    - pharmaceutical patent
    - pioneer patent
    - plant patent
    - pooled patent
    - posthumous patent
    - practicable patent
    - printed patent
    - prior patent
    - process patent
    - product patent
    - provisional European patent
    - questionable patent
    - reference patent
    - regional patent
    - reinstated patent
    - reissue patent
    - reissued patent
    - related patent
    - revoked patent
    - scarecrow patent
    - secret patent
    - senior patent
    - shot gun patent
    - simultaneous patent
    - small patent
    - software patent
    - standard patent
    - strain patent
    - strong patent
    - structure patent
    - subordinate patent
    - subsequent patent
    - subservient patent
    - subsidiary patent
    - sued upon patent
    - suppressed patent
    - transfer of technology patent
    - unenforceable patent
    - unexpired patent
    - universal patent
    - unjustified patent
    - unused patent
    - U. S. patent
    - useful model patent
    - utility patent
    - valid patent
    - valuable patent
    - void patent
    - voidable patent
    - weak patent
    - withheld patent
    - world-wide patent
    - worthless patent
    - X-series patent
    - younger patent
    - youngest patent
    * * *
    патент (охранный документ, представляющий исключительнее право на осуществление, использование и продажу изобретения в течение определенного срока и на определенно» территории)

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  • 5 patent

    1. n

    - additional patent
    - apparatus patent
    - article patent
    - basic patent
    - blocking-off patent
    - borderline patent
    - broad patent
    - cancelled patent
    - confirmed patent
    - competing patent
    - confirmation patent
    - corresponding patent
    - design patent
    - device patent
    - domestic patent
    - drug patent
    - existing patent
    - expired patent
    - fencing-in patent
    - fencing-off patent
    - foreign patent
    - granted patent
    - home patent
    - improvement patent
    - independent patent
    - infringing patent
    - inoperative patent
    - invalid patent
    - invalidated patent
    - issued patent
    - joint patent
    - key patent
    - lapsed patent
    - letters patent
    - litigious patent
    - live patent
    - main patent
    - method patent
    - minor patent
    - modification patent
    - national patent
    - obtained patent
    - parent patent
    - prior patent
    - process patent
    - product patent
    - questionable patent
    - registered patent
    - reinstated patent
    - related patent
    - secret patent
    - small patent
    - subordinate patent
    - subsequent patent
    - unexpired patent
    - universal patent
    - unjustified patent
    - valid patent
    - valuable patent
    - void patent
    - youngest patent
    - patent for a design
    - patent for improvement
    - patent in addition
    - patent on an invention
    - abandon a patent
    - annul a patent
    - apply for a patent
    - assign a patent
    - attack a patent
    - avoid a patent
    - cancel a patent
    - cede a patent
    - circumvent a patent
    - contest a patent
    - deliver a patent
    - dispute a patent
    - dodge a patent
    - drop a patent
    - exploit a patent
    - extend a patent
    - file a patent
    - forfeit a patent
    - get a patent
    - grant a patent
    - have the right to a patent
    - hold a patent
    - infringe a patent
    - invalidate a patent
    - issue a patent
    - litigate a patent
    - maintain a patent in force
    - nullify a patent
    - obtain a patent
    - oppose a patent
    - practise a patent
    - put a patent into practice
    - receive a patent
    - refuse a patent
    - reinstate a patent
    - reject a patent
    - renew a patent
    - retain a patent
    - revoke a patent
    - secure a patent
    - sell a patent
    - suppress a patent
    - surrender a patent
    - take out a patent
    - transfer a patent
    - use a patent
    - vend a patent
    - violate a patent
    - withdraw a patent
    - withhold a patent
    2. v

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  • 6 patent

    (pat; Pat; Pt)
    юр. n патент; привілей; переважне право; патентування; a патентований; патентний; v патентувати; брати патент
    документ, виданий урядовою установою винахіднику, що засвідчує авторство, право на винахід та виключне право на його використання протягом визначеного терміну; ♦ патент захищає винахідника від конкурентів, є видом інтелектуальної власності (intellectual property) та належить до категорії нематеріальних активів (intangible assets)
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    basic patent основний патент; borderline patent спірний патент; broad patent патент з широким визначенням винаходу; cancelled patent скасований патент; competing patent конкурентний патент; confirmation patent затверджений патент; design patent • патент на проект • патент на конструкцію • патент на промисловий зразок; device patent патент на прилад; drug patent патент на медикамент; existing patent чинний патент; expired patent патент із закінченим терміном чинності; foreign patent закордонний патент; improvement patent патент на удосконалення; independent patent незалежний патент; infringing patent що порушує патент; inoperative patent нечинний патент; invalid patent нечинний патент; issued patent виданий патент; joint patent спільний патент; key patent основний патент; lapsed patent патент із закінченим терміном чинності; letters patent патентна грамота; litigious patent спірний патент; main patent основний патент; method patent патент на спосіб; minor patent малий патент; parent patent основний патент; petty patent обмежений патент; process patent патент на спосіб • патент на технологічний процес; product patent патент на виріб; questionable patent спірний патент; registered patent оформлений патент; reinstated patent відновлений патент; related patent споріднений патент; secret patent таємний патент; small patent малий патент; standard patent стандартний патент; subordinate patent залежний патент; unexpired patent чинний патент; universal patent універсальний патент; valid patent чинний патент; valuable patent цінний патент
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    patent for a design патент на проект • патент на конструкцію • патент на промисловий зразок; patent for improvement патент на удосконалення; patent holder власник патенту; patent in force чинний патент; patent infringement порушення патенту; patent monopoly патентна монополія; patent on an invention патент на винахід; patent rights право на патент; patent specification опис патенту; to abandon a patent відмовлятися/відмовитися від патенту; to apply for a patent заявляти/заявити прохання щодо права на патент; to assign a patent призначати/призначити патент; to avoid granting a patent заперечувати/заперечити патент; to cancel a patent скасовувати/скасувати патент; to circumvent a patent уникати/уникнути патенту; to contest a patent заперечувати/заперечити патент; to deliver a patent видавати/видати патент; to dispute a patent заперечувати/заперечити патент; to exploit a patent використовувати/використати патент; to extend a patent продовжувати/продовжити строк чинності патенту; to file a patent оформляти/оформити патент; to forfeit a patent втрачати/втратити право на патент; to get a patent одержувати/одержати патент; to grant a patent видавати/видати патент; to have the right to a patent мати право на патент; to hold a patent мати патент; to infringe onapatent порушувати/порушити патент; to invalidate a patent визнавати/ визнати патент нечинним; to issue a patent видавати/видати патент; to litigate a patent заперечувати/заперечити патент через суд; to nullify a patent скасовувати/скасувати патент; to obtain a patent одержувати/одержати патент; to oppose a patent протиставлятися/протиставитися патентові; to pool patents об'єднувати/об'єднати патенти; to put a patent into practice застосовувати/застосувати патент; to receive a patent одержувати/одержати патент; to refuse a patent відмовлятися/відмовитися видати патент; to reject a patent відмовлятися/відмовитися видати патент; to reinstate a patent відновлювати/відновити патент; to renew a patent відновлювати/відновити патент; to secure a patent одержувати/одержати патент • діставати/дістати патент • здобувати/здобути патент; to sell a patent продавати/продати патент; to take out a patent брати/взяти патент; to transfer a patent передавати/передати патент; to use a patent користуватися патентом; to vend a patent продавати/продати патент; to violate a patent порушувати/порушити патент; to withdraw a patent скасовувати/скасувати патент; to withhold a patent припиняти/припинити видачу патенту
    patent ‡ A. assets¹ (383)
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    патент < лат. patens (patentis) — відкритий, очевидний; пор. нім. Patent < фр. lettre patente < лат. litterae patentes (СІС: 506; Фасмер 111: 216)
    пор. copyright
    пор. trademark

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    'peitənt, ]( American) 'pæ-
    1. noun
    (an official licence from the government giving one person or business the right to make and sell a particular article and to prevent others from doing the same: She took out a patent on her design; (also adjective) a patent process.) patente

    2. verb
    (to obtain a patent for; He patented his new invention.) patentar
    tr['peɪtənt]
    1 SMALLCOMMERCE/SMALL patente nombre femenino
    1 (obvious) patente, evidente
    2 SMALLCOMMERCE/SMALL patentado
    1 SMALLCOMMERCE/SMALL patentar
    \
    SMALLIDIOMATIC EXPRESSION/SMALL
    to take out a patent on something sacar una patente de algo, patentar algo
    patent medicine específico
    Patent Office Registro de la propiedad industrial Table 1SMALLNOTA/SMALL En Patent Office se pronuncia ['pætn2t]/Table 1
    patent ['pætənt] vt
    : patentar
    patent adj ['pætənt, 'peɪt-]
    1) obvious: patente, evidente
    2) ['pæt-] patented: patentado
    patent ['pætənt] n
    : patente f
    adj.
    manifiesto, -a adj.
    patentado, -a adj.
    patente adj.
    n.
    diploma s.m.
    patente s.m.
    v.
    patentar v.

    I 'pætṇt, 'peɪtṇt, 'pætṇt
    noun patente f

    to take out a patent on something — patentar algo; (before n)

    patent agentagente mf de patentes

    patent attorney — ( in US) abogado, -da m,f especialista en patentes

    Patent Office — ≈Registro m de la propiedad industrial


    II 'pætṇt, 'peɪtṇt, 'pætṇt
    transitive verb patentar

    III
    1) 'peɪtṇt, 'pæt-, 'peɪtṇt ( obvious) (frml) patente, evidente
    2) 'pætṇt, 'peɪtṇt, 'pætṇt ( patented) < invention> patentado

    patent medicineespecialidad f medicinal

    ['peɪtǝnt]
    1. ADJ
    1) frm (=obvious) patente, evidente
    2) (=patented) [invention] patentado
    2.

    patent applied for, patent pending — patente en trámite

    3.
    4.
    CPD

    patent agent Nagente mf de patentes

    Patent and Trademark Office N (US)= Patent Office

    patent infringement Nviolación f de patentes

    patent law Nderecho m de patentes

    patent office Noficina f de patentes

    Patent Office N(Brit) registro de la propiedad industrial

    patent rights NPLderechos mpl de patente

    * * *

    I ['pætṇt, 'peɪtṇt, 'pætṇt]
    noun patente f

    to take out a patent on something — patentar algo; (before n)

    patent agentagente mf de patentes

    patent attorney — ( in US) abogado, -da m,f especialista en patentes

    Patent Office — ≈Registro m de la propiedad industrial


    II ['pætṇt, 'peɪtṇt, 'pætṇt]
    transitive verb patentar

    III
    1) ['peɪtṇt, 'pæt-, 'peɪtṇt] ( obvious) (frml) patente, evidente
    2) ['pætṇt, 'peɪtṇt, 'pætṇt] ( patented) < invention> patentado

    patent medicineespecialidad f medicinal

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  • 8 Small, James

    [br]
    b. c. 1742 Scotland
    d. 1793 Scotland
    [br]
    Scottish engineer who was first to apply scientific experiment and calculation to the design of ploughs.
    [br]
    James Small served his apprenticeship as a wright and blacksmith at Hutton in Berwickshire, and then travelled for a time in England. It is possible that he learned his trade from the ploughwright Pashley, who ran the "Manufactory" in Rotherham. On his return to Scotland he settled at Blackadder Mount, Berwickshire, and there began to make his ploughs. He used a spring balance to determine the draft of the plough and fashioned the mouldboard from a soft wood so that the wear would show quickly on its surface. Repeated trials indicated the best shape to be adopted, and he had his mouldboards cast at the Carron Ironworks. At trials held at Dalkeith, Small's plough, pulled by two horses, outperformed the old Scotch plough hauled by as many as eight oxen, and his ploughs were soon to be found in all areas of the country. He established workshops in Leith Walk, where he made ploughs and other implements. It was in Edinburgh in 1784 that he published Treatise on Ploughs, in which he set out his methods and calculations. He made no attempt to patent his ideas, feeling that they should be available to all, and the book provided sufficient information for it to be used by his rivals. As a result he died a poor man at the age of 52. His family were supported with a £1,500 subscription raised on their behalf by Sir John Sinclair, President of the Board of Agriculture.
    [br]
    Bibliography
    1784, A Treatise on Ploughs and Wheel Carriages.
    Further Reading
    J.B.Passmore, 1930, The English Plough, Reading: University of Reading (provides a history of plough development from the eighth century, and deals in detail with Small's work).
    AP

    Biographical history of technology > Small, James

  • 9 Holden, Sir Isaac

    SUBJECT AREA: Textiles
    [br]
    b. 7 May 1807 Hurlet, between Paisley and Glasgow, Scotland
    d. 13 August 1897
    [br]
    British developer of the wool-combing machine.
    [br]
    Isaac Holden's father, who had the same name, had been a farmer and lead miner at Alston in Cumbria before moving to work in a coal-mine near Glasgow. After a short period at Kilbarchan grammar school, the younger Isaac was engaged first as a drawboy to two weavers and then, after the family had moved to Johnstone, Scotland, worked in a cotton-spinning mill while attending night school to improve his education. He was able to learn Latin and bookkeeping, but when he was about 15 he was apprenticed to an uncle as a shawl-weaver. This proved to be too much for his strength so he returned to scholastic studies and became Assistant to an able teacher, John Kennedy, who lectured on physics, chemistry and history, which he also taught to his colleague. The elder Isaac died in 1826 and the younger had to provide for his mother and younger brother, but in 1828, at the age of 21, he moved to a teaching post in Leeds. He filled similar positions in Huddersfield and Reading, where in October 1829 he invented and demonstrated the lucifer match but did not seek to exploit it. In 1830 he returned because of ill health to his mother in Scotland, where he began to teach again. However, he was recommended as a bookkeeper to William Townend, member of the firm of Townend Brothers, Cullingworth, near Bingley, Yorkshire. Holden moved there in November 1830 and was soon involved in running the mill, eventually becoming a partner.
    In 1833 Holden urged Messrs Townend to introduce seven wool-combing machines of Collier's designs, but they were found to be very imperfect and brought only trouble and loss. In 1836 Holden began experimenting on the machines until they showed reasonable success. He decided to concentrate entirely on developing the combing machine and in 1846 moved to Bradford to form an alliance with Samuel Lister. A joint patent in 1847 covered improvements to the Collier combing machine. The "square motion" imitated the action of the hand-comber more closely and was patented in 1856. Five more patents followed in 1857 and others from 1858 to 1862. Holden recommended that the machines should be introduced into France, where they would be more valuable for the merino trade. This venture was begun in 1848 in the joint partnership of Lister \& Holden, with equal shares of profits. Holden established a mill at Saint-Denis, first with Donisthorpe machines and then with his own "square motion" type. Other mills were founded at Rheims and at Croix, near Roubaix. In 1858 Lister decided to retire from the French concerns and sold his share to Holden. Soon after this, Holden decided to remodel all their machinery for washing and carding the gill machines as well as perfecting the square comb. Four years of excessive application followed, during which time £20,000 was spent in experiments in a small mill at Bradford. The result fully justified the expenditure and the Alston Works was built in Bradford.
    Holden was a Liberal and from 1865 to 1868 he represented Knaresborough in Parliament. Later he became the Member of Parliament for the Northern Division of the Riding, Yorkshire, and then for the town of Keighley after the constituencies had been altered. He was liberal in his support of religious, charitable and political objectives. His house at Oakworth, near Keighley, must have been one of the earliest to have been lit by electricity.
    [br]
    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    Baronet 1893.
    Bibliography
    1847, with Samuel Lister, British patent no. 11,896 (improved Collier combing machine). 1856. British patent no. 1,058 ("square motion" combing machine).
    1857. British patent no. 278 1857, British patent no. 279 1857, British patent no. 280 1857, British patent no. 281 1857, British patent no. 3,177 1858, British patent no. 597 1859, British patent no. 52 1860, British patent no. 810 1862, British patent no. 1,890 1862, British patent no. 3,394
    Further Reading
    J.Hogg (ed.), c.1888, Fortunes Made in Business, London (provides an account of Holden's life).
    Obituary, 1897, Engineer 84.
    Obituary, 1897, Engineering 64.
    E.M.Sigsworth, 1973, "Sir Isaac Holden, Bt: the first comber in Europe", in N.B.Harte and K.G.Ponting (eds), Textile History and Economic History, Essays in Honour of
    Miss Julia de Lacy Mann, Manchester.
    W.English, 1969, The Textile Industry, London (provides a good explanation of the square motion combing machine).
    RLH

    Biographical history of technology > Holden, Sir Isaac

  • 10 Lister, Samuel Cunliffe, 1st Baron Masham

    SUBJECT AREA: Textiles
    [br]
    b. 1 January 1815 Calverly Hall, Bradford, England
    d. 2 February 1906 Swinton Park, near Bradford, England
    [br]
    English inventor of successful wool-combing and waste-silk spinning machines.
    [br]
    Lister was descended from one of the old Yorkshire families, the Cunliffe Listers of Manningham, and was the fourth son of his father Ellis. After attending a school on Clapham Common, Lister would not go to university; his family hoped he would enter the Church, but instead he started work with the Liverpool merchants Sands, Turner \& Co., who frequently sent him to America. In 1837 his father built for him and his brother a worsted mill at Manningham, where Samuel invented a swivel shuttle and a machine for making fringes on shawls. It was here that he first became aware of the unhealthy occupation of combing wool by hand. Four years later, after seeing the machine that G.E. Donisthorpe was trying to work out, he turned his attention to mechanizing wool-combing. Lister took Donisthorpe into partnership after paying him £12,000 for his patent, and developed the Lister-Cartwright "square nip" comber. Until this time, combing machines were little different from Cartwright's original, but Lister was able to improve on this with continuous operation and by 1843 was combing the first fine botany wool that had ever been combed by machinery. In the following year he received an order for fifty machines to comb all qualities of wool. Further combing patents were taken out with Donisthorpe in 1849, 1850, 1851 and 1852, the last two being in Lister's name only. One of the important features of these patents was the provision of a gripping device or "nip" which held the wool fibres at one end while the rest of the tuft was being combed. Lister was soon running nine combing mills. In the 1850s Lister had become involved in disputes with others who held combing patents, such as his associate Isaac Holden and the Frenchman Josué Heilmann. Lister bought up the Heilmann machine patents and afterwards other types until he obtained a complete monopoly of combing machines before the patents expired. His invention stimulated demand for wool by cheapening the product and gave a vital boost to the Australian wool trade. By 1856 he was at the head of a wool-combing business such as had never been seen before, with mills at Manningham, Bradford, Halifax, Keighley and other places in the West Riding, as well as abroad.
    His inventive genius also extended to other fields. In 1848 he patented automatic compressed air brakes for railways, and in 1853 alone he took out twelve patents for various textile machines. He then tried to spin waste silk and made a second commercial career, turning what was called "chassum" and hitherto regarded as refuse into beautiful velvets, silks, plush and other fine materials. Waste silk consisted of cocoon remnants from the reeling process, damaged cocoons and fibres rejected from other processes. There was also wild silk obtained from uncultivated worms. This is what Lister saw in a London warehouse as a mass of knotty, dirty, impure stuff, full of bits of stick and dead mulberry leaves, which he bought for a halfpenny a pound. He spent ten years trying to solve the problems, but after a loss of £250,000 and desertion by his partner his machine caught on in 1865 and brought Lister another fortune. Having failed to comb this waste silk, Lister turned his attention to the idea of "dressing" it and separating the qualities automatically. He patented a machine in 1877 that gave a graduated combing. To weave his new silk, he imported from Spain to Bradford, together with its inventor Jose Reixach, a velvet loom that was still giving trouble. It wove two fabrics face to face, but the problem lay in separating the layers so that the pile remained regular in length. Eventually Lister was inspired by watching a scissors grinder in the street to use small emery wheels to sharpen the cutters that divided the layers of fabric. Lister took out several patents for this loom in his own name in 1868 and 1869, while in 1871 he took out one jointly with Reixach. It is said that he spent £29,000 over an eleven-year period on this loom, but this was more than recouped from the sale of reasonably priced high-quality velvets and plushes once success was achieved. Manningham mills were greatly enlarged to accommodate this new manufacture.
    In later years Lister had an annual profit from his mills of £250,000, much of which was presented to Bradford city in gifts such as Lister Park, the original home of the Listers. He was connected with the Bradford Chamber of Commerce for many years and held the position of President of the Fair Trade League for some time. In 1887 he became High Sheriff of Yorkshire, and in 1891 he was made 1st Baron Masham. He was also Deputy Lieutenant in North and West Riding.
    [br]
    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    Created 1st Baron Masham 1891.
    Bibliography
    1849, with G.E.Donisthorpe, British patent no. 12,712. 1850, with G.E. Donisthorpe, British patent no. 13,009. 1851, British patent no. 13,532.
    1852, British patent no. 14,135.
    1877, British patent no. 3,600 (combing machine). 1868, British patent no. 470.
    1868, British patent no. 2,386.
    1868, British patent no. 2,429.
    1868, British patent no. 3,669.
    1868, British patent no. 1,549.
    1871, with J.Reixach, British patent no. 1,117. 1905, Lord Masham's Inventions (autobiography).
    Further Reading
    J.Hogg (ed.), c. 1888, Fortunes Made in Business, London (biography).
    W.English, 1969, The Textile Industry, London; and C.Singer (ed.), 1958, A History of Technology, Vol. IV, Oxford: Clarendon Press (both cover the technical details of Lister's invention).
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  • 11 Cartwright, Revd Edmund

    [br]
    b. 24 April 1743 Marnham, Nottingham, England
    d. 30 October 1823 Hastings, Sussex, England
    [br]
    English inventor of the power loom, a combing machine and machines for making ropes, bread and bricks as well as agricultural improvements.
    [br]
    Edmund Cartwright, the fourth son of William Cartwright, was educated at Wakefield Grammar School, and went to University College, Oxford, at the age of 14. By special act of convocation in 1764, he was elected Fellow of Magdalen College. He married Alice Whitaker in 1772 and soon after was given the ecclesiastical living of Brampton in Derbyshire. In 1779 he was presented with the living of Goadby, Marwood, Leicestershire, where he wrote poems, reviewed new works, and began agricultural experiments. A visit to Matlock in the summer of 1784 introduced him to the inventions of Richard Arkwright and he asked why weaving could not be mechanized in a similar manner to spinning. This began a remarkable career of inventions.
    Cartwright returned home and built a loom which required two strong men to operate it. This was the first attempt in England to develop a power loom. It had a vertical warp, the reed fell with the weight of at least half a hundredweight and, to quote Gartwright's own words, "the springs which threw the shuttle were strong enough to throw a Congreive [sic] rocket" (Strickland 19.71:8—for background to the "rocket" comparison, see Congreve, Sir William). Nevertheless, it had the same three basics of weaving that still remain today in modern power looms: shedding or dividing the warp; picking or projecting the shuttle with the weft; and beating that pick of weft into place with a reed. This loom he proudly patented in 1785, and then he went to look at hand looms and was surprised to see how simply they operated. Further improvements to his own loom, covered by two more patents in 1786 and 1787, produced a machine with the more conventional horizontal layout that showed promise; however, the Manchester merchants whom he visited were not interested. He patented more improvements in 1788 as a result of the experience gained in 1786 through establishing a factory at Doncaster with power looms worked by a bull that were the ancestors of modern ones. Twenty-four looms driven by steam-power were installed in Manchester in 1791, but the mill was burned down and no one repeated the experiment. The Doncaster mill was sold in 1793, Cartwright having lost £30,000, However, in 1809 Parliament voted him £10,000 because his looms were then coming into general use.
    In 1789 he began working on a wool-combing machine which he patented in 1790, with further improvements in 1792. This seems to have been the earliest instance of mechanized combing. It used a circular revolving comb from which the long fibres or "top" were. carried off into a can, and a smaller cylinder-comb for teasing out short fibres or "noils", which were taken off by hand. Its output equalled that of twenty hand combers, but it was only relatively successful. It was employed in various Leicestershire and Yorkshire mills, but infringements were frequent and costly to resist. The patent was prolonged for fourteen years after 1801, but even then Cartwright did not make any profit. His 1792 patent also included a machine to make ropes with the outstanding and basic invention of the "cordelier" which he communicated to his friends, including Robert Fulton, but again it brought little financial benefit. As a result of these problems and the lack of remuneration for his inventions, Cartwright moved to London in 1796 and for a time lived in a house built with geometrical bricks of his own design.
    Other inventions followed fast, including a tread-wheel for cranes, metallic packing for pistons in steam-engines, and bread-making and brick-making machines, to mention but a few. He had already returned to agricultural improvements and he put forward suggestions in 1793 for a reaping machine. In 1801 he received a prize from the Board of Agriculture for an essay on husbandry, which was followed in 1803 by a silver medal for the invention of a three-furrow plough and in 1805 by a gold medal for his essay on manures. From 1801 to 1807 he ran an experimental farm on the Duke of Bedford's estates at Woburn.
    From 1786 until his death he was a prebendary of Lincoln. In about 1810 he bought a small farm at Hollanden near Sevenoaks, Kent, where he continued his inventions, both agricultural and general. Inventing to the last, he died at Hastings and was buried in Battle church.
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    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    Board of Agriculture Prize 1801 (for an essay on agriculture). Society of Arts, Silver Medal 1803 (for his three-furrow plough); Gold Medal 1805 (for an essay on agricultural improvements).
    Bibliography
    1785. British patent no. 1,270 (power loom).
    1786. British patent no. 1,565 (improved power loom). 1787. British patent no. 1,616 (improved power loom).
    1788. British patent no. 1,676 (improved power loom). 1790, British patent no. 1,747 (wool-combing machine).
    1790, British patent no. 1,787 (wool-combing machine).
    1792, British patent no. 1,876 (improved wool-combing machine and rope-making machine with cordelier).
    Further Reading
    M.Strickland, 1843, A Memoir of the Life, Writings and Mechanical Inventions of Edmund Cartwright, D.D., F.R.S., London (remains the fullest biography of Cartwright).
    Dictionary of National Biography (a good summary of Cartwright's life). For discussions of Cartwright's weaving inventions, see: A.Barlow, 1878, The History and Principles of Weaving by Hand and by Power, London; R.L. Hills, 1970, Power in the Industrial Revolution, Manchester. F.Nasmith, 1925–6, "Fathers of machine cotton manufacture", Transactions of the
    Newcomen Society 6.
    H.W.Dickinson, 1942–3, "A condensed history of rope-making", Transactions of the Newcomen Society 23.
    W.English, 1969, The Textile Industry, London (covers both his power loom and his wool -combing machine).
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  • 12 Curr, John

    [br]
    b. 1756 Kyo, near Lanchester, or in Greenside, near Ryton-on-Tyne, Durham, England
    d. 27 January 1823 Sheffield, England
    [br]
    English coal-mine manager and engineer, inventor of flanged, cast-iron plate rails.
    [br]
    The son of a "coal viewer", Curr was brought up in the West Durham colliery district. In 1777 he went to the Duke of Norfolk's collieries at Sheffield, where in 1880 he was appointed Superintendent. There coal was conveyed underground in baskets on sledges: Curr replaced the wicker sledges with wheeled corves, i.e. small four-wheeled wooden wagons, running on "rail-roads" with cast-iron rails and hauled from the coal-face to the shaft bottom by horses. The rails employed hitherto had usually consisted of plates of iron, the flange being on the wheels of the wagon. Curr's new design involved flanges on the rails which guided the vehicles, the wheels of which were unflanged and could run on any hard surface. He appears to have left no precise record of the date that he did this, and surviving records have been interpreted as implying various dates between 1776 and 1787. In 1787 John Buddle paid tribute to the efficiency of the rails of Curr's type, which were first used for surface transport by Joseph Butler in 1788 at his iron furnace at Wingerworth near Chesterfield: their use was then promoted widely by Benjamin Outram, and they were adopted in many other English mines. They proved serviceable until the advent of locomotives demanded different rails.
    In 1788 Curr also developed a system for drawing a full corve up a mine shaft while lowering an empty one, with guides to separate them. At the surface the corves were automatically emptied by tipplers. Four years later he was awarded a patent for using double ropes for lifting heavier loads. As the weight of the rope itself became a considerable problem with the increasing depth of the shafts, Curr invented the flat hemp rope, patented in 1798, which consisted of several small round ropes stitched together and lapped upon itself in winding. It acted as a counterbalance and led to a reduction in the time and cost of hoisting: at the beginning of a run the loaded rope began to coil upon a small diameter, gradually increasing, while the unloaded rope began to coil off a large diameter, gradually decreasing.
    Curr's book The Coal Viewer (1797) is the earliest-known engineering work on railway track and it also contains the most elaborate description of a Newcomen pumping engine, at the highest state of its development. He became an acknowledged expert on construction of Newcomen-type atmospheric engines, and in 1792 he established a foundry to make parts for railways and engines.
    Because of the poor financial results of the Duke of Norfolk's collieries at the end of the century, Curr was dismissed in 1801 despite numerous inventions and improvements which he had introduced. After his dismissal, six more of his patents were concerned with rope-making: the one he gained in 1813 referred to the application of flat ropes to horse-gins and perpendicular drum-shafts of steam engines. Curr also introduced the use of inclined planes, where a descending train of full corves pulled up an empty one, and he was one of the pioneers employing fixed steam engines for hauling. He may have resided in France for some time before his death.
    [br]
    Bibliography
    1788. British patent no. 1,660 (guides in mine shafts).
    1789. An Account of tin Improved Method of Drawing Coals and Extracting Ores, etc., from Mines, Newcastle upon Tyne.
    1797. The Coal Viewer and Engine Builder's Practical Companion; reprinted with five plates and an introduction by Charles E.Lee, 1970, London: Frank Cass, and New York: Augustus M.Kelley.
    1798. British patent no. 2,270 (flat hemp ropes).
    Further Reading
    F.Bland, 1930–1, "John Curr, originator of iron tram roads", Transactions of the Newcomen Society 11:121–30.
    R.A.Mott, 1969, Tramroads of the eighteenth century and their originator: John Curr', Transactions of the Newcomen Society 42:1–23 (includes corrections to Fred Bland's earlier paper).
    Charles E.Lee, 1970, introduction to John Curr, The Coal Viewer and Engine Builder's Practical Companion, London: Frank Cass, pp. 1–4; orig. pub. 1797, Sheffield (contains the most comprehensive biographical information).
    R.Galloway, 1898, Annals of Coalmining, Vol. I, London; reprinted 1971, London (provides a detailed account of Curr's technological alterations).
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  • 13 Heathcote, John

    SUBJECT AREA: Textiles
    [br]
    b. 7 August 1783 Duffield, Derbyshire, England
    d. 18 January 1861 Tiverton, Devonshire, England
    [br]
    English inventor of the bobbin-net lace machine.
    [br]
    Heathcote was the son of a small farmer who became blind, obliging the family to move to Long Whatton, near Loughborough, c.1790. He was apprenticed to W.Shepherd, a hosiery-machine maker, and became a frame-smith in the hosiery industry. He moved to Nottingham where he entered the employment of an excellent machine maker named Elliott. He later joined William Caldwell of Hathern, whose daughter he had married. The lace-making apparatus they patented jointly in 1804 had already been anticipated, so Heathcote turned to the problem of making pillow lace, a cottage industry in which women made lace by arranging pins stuck in a pillow in the correct pattern and winding around them thread contained on thin bobbins. He began by analysing the complicated hand-woven lace into simple warp and weft threads and found he could dispense with half the bobbins. The first machine he developed and patented, in 1808, made narrow lace an inch or so wide, but the following year he made much broader lace on an improved version. In his second patent, in 1809, he could make a type of net curtain, Brussels lace, without patterns. His machine made bobbin-net by the use of thin brass discs, between which the thread was wound. As they passed through the warp threads, which were arranged vertically, the warp threads were moved to each side in turn, so as to twist the bobbin threads round the warp threads. The bobbins were in two rows to save space, and jogged on carriages in grooves along a bar running the length of the machine. As the strength of this fabric depended upon bringing the bobbin threads diagonally across, in addition to the forward movement, the machine had to provide for a sideways movement of each bobbin every time the lengthwise course was completed. A high standard of accuracy in manufacture was essential for success. Called the "Old Loughborough", it was acknowledged to be the most complicated machine so far produced. In partnership with a man named Charles Lacy, who supplied the necessary capital, a factory was established at Loughborough that proved highly successful; however, their fifty-five frames were destroyed by Luddites in 1816. Heathcote was awarded damages of £10,000 by the county of Nottingham on the condition it was spent locally, but to avoid further interference he decided to transfer not only his machines but his entire workforce elsewhere and refused the money. In a disused woollen factory at Tiverton in Devonshire, powered by the waters of the river Exe, he built 300 frames of greater width and speed. By continually making inventions and improvements until he retired in 1843, his business flourished and he amassed a large fortune. He patented one machine for silk cocoon-reeling and another for plaiting or braiding. In 1825 he brought out two patents for the mechanical ornamentation or figuring of lace. He acquired a sound knowledge of French prior to opening a steam-powered lace factory in France. The factory proved to be a successful venture that lasted many years. In 1832 he patented a monstrous steam plough that is reputed to have cost him over £12,000 and was claimed to be the best in its day. One of its stated aims was "improved methods of draining land", which he hoped would develop agriculture in Ireland. A cable was used to haul the implement across the land. From 1832 to 1859, Heathcote represented Tiverton in Parliament and, among other benefactions, he built a school for his adopted town.
    [br]
    Bibliography
    1804, with William Caldwell, British patent no. 2,788 (lace-making machine). 1808. British patent no. 3,151 (machine for making narrow lace).
    1809. British patent no. 3,216 (machine for making Brussels lace). 1813, British patent no. 3,673.
    1825, British patent no. 5,103 (mechanical ornamentation of lace). 1825, British patent no. 5,144 (mechanical ornamentation of lace).
    Further Reading
    V.Felkin, 1867, History of the Machine-wrought Hosiery and Lace Manufacture, Nottingham (provides a full account of Heathcote's early life and his inventions).
    A.Barlow, 1878, The History and Principles of Weaving by Hand and by Power, London (provides more details of his later years).
    W.G.Allen, 1958 John Heathcote and His Heritage (biography).
    M.R.Lane, 1980, The Story of the Steam Plough Works, Fowlers of Leeds, London (for comments about Heathcote's steam plough).
    W.English, 1969, The Textile Industry, London, and C.Singer (ed.), 1958, A History of
    Technology, Vol. V, Oxford: Clarendon Press (both describe the lace-making machine).
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  • 14 Crampton, Thomas Russell

    [br]
    b. 6 August 1816 Broadstairs, Kent, England
    d. 19 April 1888 London, England
    [br]
    English engineer, pioneer of submarine electric telegraphy and inventor of the Crampton locomotive.
    [br]
    After private education and an engineering apprenticeship, Crampton worked under Marc Brunel, Daniel Gooch and the Rennie brothers before setting up as a civil engineer in 1848. His developing ideas on locomotive design were expressed through a series of five patents taken out between 1842 and 1849, each making a multiplicity of claims. The most typical feature of the Crampton locomotive, however, was a single pair of driving wheels set to the rear of the firebox. This meant they could be of large diameter, while the centre of gravity of the locomotive remained low, for the boiler barrel, though large, had only small carrying-wheels beneath it. The cylinders were approximately midway along the boiler and were outside the frames, as was the valve gear. The result was a steady-riding locomotive which neither pitched about a central driving axle nor hunted from side to side, as did other contemporary locomotives, and its working parts were unusually accessible for maintenance. However, adhesive weight was limited and the long wheelbase tended to damage track. Locomotives of this type were soon superseded on British railways, although they lasted much longer in Germany and France. Locomotives built to the later patents incorporated a long, coupled wheelbase with drive through an intermediate crankshaft, but they mostly had only short lives. In 1851 Crampton, with associates, laid the first successful submarine electric telegraph cable. The previous year the brothers Jacob and John Brett had laid a cable, comprising a copper wire insulated with gutta-percha, beneath the English Channel from Dover to Cap Gris Nez: signals were passed but within a few hours the cable failed. Crampton joined the Bretts' company, put up half the capital needed for another attempt, and designed a much stronger cable. Four gutta-percha-insulated copper wires were twisted together, surrounded by tarred hemp and armoured by galvanized iron wires; this cable was successful.
    Crampton was also active in railway civil engineering and in water and gas engineering, and c. 1882 he invented a hydraulic tunnel-boring machine intended for a Channel tunnel.
    [br]
    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    Vice-President, Institution of Mechanical Engineers. Officier de la Légion d'Honneur (France).
    Bibliography
    1842, British patent no. 9,261.
    1845. British patent no. 10,854.
    1846. British patent no. 11,349.
    1847. British patent no. 11,760.
    1849, British patent no. 12,627.
    1885, British patent no. 14,021.
    Further Reading
    M.Sharman, 1933, The Crampton Locomotive, Swindon: M.Sharman; P.C.Dewhurst, 1956–7, "The Crampton locomotive", Parts I and II, Transactions of the Newcomen Society 30:99 (the most important recent publications on Crampton's locomotives).
    C.Hamilton Ellis, 1958, Twenty Locomotive Men, Shepperton: Ian Allen. J.Kieve, 1973, The Electric Telegraph, Newton Abbot: David \& Charles, 102–4.
    R.B.Matkin, 1979, "Thomas Crampton: Man of Kent", Industrial Past 6 (2).
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  • 15 claim

    1. transitive verb
    1) (demand as one's due property) Anspruch erheben auf (+ Akk.), beanspruchen [Thron, Gebiete]; fordern [Lohnerhöhung, Schadenersatz]; beantragen [Arbeitslosenunterstützung, Sozialhilfe usw.]; abholen [Fundsache]

    claim one's luggage — sein Gepäck [ab]holen

    2) (represent oneself as having) für sich beanspruchen, in Anspruch nehmen [Sieg]
    3) (profess, contend) behaupten
    4) (result in loss of) fordern [Opfer, Menschenleben]
    2. intransitive verb
    1) (Insurance) Ansprüche geltend machen
    2) (for costs)

    claim for damages/expenses — Schadenersatz fordern/sich (Dat.) Auslagen rückerstatten lassen

    3. noun
    1) Anspruch, der (to auf + Akk.)

    lay claim to somethingauf etwas (Akk.) Anspruch erheben

    3) (pay claim) Forderung, die ( for nach)
    4)

    claim [for expenses] — Spesenabrechnung, die ( for über + Akk.)

    claim for damages — Schadenersatzforderung, die

    5)

    stake a claim to something(fig.) ein Anrecht auf etwas (Akk.) anmelden

    Phrasal Verbs:
    - academic.ru/85370/claim_back">claim back
    * * *
    [kleim] 1. verb
    1) (to say that something is a fact: He claims to be the best runner in the class.) behaupten
    2) (to demand as a right: You must claim your money back if the goods are damaged.) fordern
    3) (to state that one is the owner of: Does anyone claim this book?) beanspruchen
    2. noun
    1) (a statement (that something is a fact): Her claim that she was the millionaire's daughter was disproved.) die Behauptung
    2) ((a demand for) a payment of compensation etc: a claim for damages against her employer.) die (Zahlungs-)Forderung
    3) (a demand for something which (one says) one owns or has a right to: a rightful claim to the money.) der Anspruch
    * * *
    [kleɪm]
    I. n
    1. (assertion) Behauptung f
    a \claim to fame ein Anspruch m auf Ruhm
    to make \claims to be sth/[that]... behaupten, etw zu sein/[dass]...
    to make wild \claims about sth über etw akk wilde Behauptungen aufstellen
    to substantiate a \claim eine Behauptung untermauern
    to support a \claim (in argument) eine Behauptung stützen; (in legal affairs) einen Anspruch begründen
    2. (demand for money) Forderung f; (in insurance) Versicherungsfall m
    to make a \claim on one's insurance bei der Versicherung einen Schadensanspruch geltend machen
    to pay a \claim einen Schaden bezahlen
    to put in a \claim [for sth] [für etw akk] Schadenersatz beantragen
    to submit a \claim for sth für etw akk eine Auslagenerstattung einreichen
    3. (right) Anspruch m, Anrecht nt (to auf + akk)
    legal \claim Rechtsanspruch m
    to have a/no \claim to sth auf etw akk Anspruch/keinen Anspruch haben
    to have no \claims on sb jdm gegenüber keine Ansprüche haben
    to lay \claim to sth auf etw akk Anspruch erheben
    \claim to recourse Rückgriffsanspruch m
    4. ECON (insurance event) Schadensfall m; (insurance right) Versicherungsanspruch m, Anspruch m auf Versicherungsleistung
    to settle a \claim eine Forderung regulieren
    5. LAW (law suit) Klage f; (assertion of right) Klagebegehren nt
    particulars of \claim Klagebegründung f
    \claim barred by procedural requirements die Klage ist unzulässig
    \claim barred by res judicata die Rechtskraft steht der Klage entgegen
    \claim barred by the statute of limitations der Anspruch ist verjährt
    6. LAW (legal matter)
    small \claim Bagatellsache f
    small \claims court Gericht, das für Geldansprüche bis zu einer bestimmten Höhe zuständig ist
    7. (patent)
    [statement of] \claim [Patent]anspruch m
    8. MIN
    [mining] \claim Claim nt
    to stake a \claim ein Claim abstecken
    II. vt
    1. (assert)
    both contestants \claimed victory after the race nach dem Rennen erhoben beide Wettbewerbsteilnehmer Anspruch auf den ersten Platz
    her new novel is \claimed to be her best yet ihr neuester Roman soll ihr bisher bester sein
    the club \claims over 100 members der Verein führt über 100 Mitglieder
    to \claim responsibility die Verantwortung übernehmen
    to \claim [that]... behaupten, dass...
    2. (declare ownership)
    to \claim sth auf etw akk Anspruch erheben
    to \claim diplomatic immunity sich akk auf diplomatische Immunität berufen
    to \claim one's luggage sein Gepäck abholen
    to \claim ownership of sth Besitzanspruch auf etw akk erheben
    to \claim the throne den Thron beanspruchen
    3. (require)
    to \claim sb's attention/a lot of time jds Aufmerksamkeit/viel Zeit in Anspruch nehmen
    4. (demand in writing)
    to \claim sth etw beantragen
    to \claim damages/a refund Schadenersatz/eine Rückerstattung fordern
    to \claim one's money back BRIT sein Geld zurückverlangen
    5. (cause death)
    to \claim thousands of lives Tausende von Leben fordern
    6. LAW (state grievance)
    to \claim sth wegen einer S. gen klagen
    7. (sl)
    to \claim sb (attack) jdn angreifen; (arrest) jdn verhaften
    8.
    to \claim the moral high ground die Moral für sich akk beanspruchen
    III. vi seine Ansprüche/seinen Anspruch geltend machen
    to \claim for sth etw fordern
    to \claim on the insurance Schadenersatz bei der Versicherung beantragen
    * * *
    [kleɪm]
    1. vt
    1) (= demand as one's own or due) Anspruch m erheben auf (+acc); social security, benefits, sum of money (= apply for) beantragen; (= draw) beanspruchen; lost property abholen

    he claimed diplomatic immunityer berief sich auf seine diplomatische Immunität

    to claim sth as one's own — etw für sich beanspruchen, Anspruch auf etw (acc) erheben

    the fighting claimed many lives —

    2) (= profess, assert) behaupten

    he claims to have seen you — er behauptet, Sie gesehen zu haben, er will Sie gesehen haben

    the club can claim a membership of... — der Verein kann... Mitglieder vorweisen

    the advantages claimed for this technique — die Vorzüge, die man dieser Methode zuschreibt

    3) one's attention, interest in Anspruch nehmen
    2. vi
    1) (INSUR) Ansprüche geltend machen; (for damage done by people) Schadenersatz m verlangen
    2)

    (for expenses etc) to claim for sth — sich (dat) etw zurückgeben or -zahlen lassen

    you can claim for your travelling expensesSie können sich (dat) Ihre Reisekosten zurückerstatten lassen

    3. n
    1) (= demand) Anspruch m; (= pay claim, IND) Forderung f

    his claim to the throne/title/property etc — sein Anspruch auf den Thron/Titel/das Grundstück etc

    my claim to fame is that... — mein Anspruch auf Ruhm begründet sich darauf, dass...

    you have no claim on medu hast keine Ansprüche an mich (zu stellen)

    children have first claim on their parentsdie Kinder müssen an erster Stelle stehen, die Kinder müssen vorgehen

    to put in a claim (for sth) — etw beantragen; (Insur) Ansprüche geltend machen

    he put in an expenses claim for £100 — er reichte Spesen in Höhe von £ 100 ein

    2) (= assertion) Behauptung f

    to make a claim —

    have you heard his claim? — haben Sie gehört, was er behauptet?

    the exaggerated claims made for the new washing powder — die übertriebenen Eigenschaften, die man diesem neuen Waschpulver zuschreibt

    I make no claim to be a geniusich erhebe nicht den Anspruch, ein Genie zu sein

    See:
    stake
    * * *
    claim [kleım]
    A v/t
    1. fordern, beanspruchen, verlangen, geltend machen, Anspruch erheben auf (akk):
    claim compensation Ersatz fordern;
    claim back zurückfordern
    2. fig Aufmerksamkeit etc in Anspruch nehmen, (er)fordern
    3. fig (Todes)Opfer, Menschenleben fordern:
    4. a) behaupten ( sth etwas; that dass)
    b) (von sich) behaupten ( to be zu sein), für sich in Anspruch nehmen, Anspruch erheben auf (akk)
    c) aufweisen (können), haben
    d) sich bekennen zu, die Verantwortung für einen Terroranschlag etc übernehmen
    5. zurück-, einfordern, (als sein Eigentum) abholen
    B v/i claim against Klage erheben gegen
    C s
    1. Anspruch m, Forderung f (on, against gegen):
    lay claim to A 1, A 4 b;
    make a claim eine Forderung erheben oder geltend machen;
    make (many) claims (up)on fig jemanden, jemandes Zeit (stark) in Anspruch nehmen
    2. a) (Rechts) Anspruch m, Anrecht n ( beide:
    to, [up]on auf akk, gegen):
    claim for damages Schadensersatzanspruch;
    claim to power Machtanspruch;
    put in ( oder enter) a claim eine Forderung erheben, einen Anspruch geltend machen; hegemony
    b) (Zahlungs) Forderung f
    c) (Patent) Anspruch m
    3. Behauptung f, Anspruch m:
    make no claim to be complete keinen Anspruch auf Vollständigkeit erheben
    4. US
    b) Claim m (Anteil an einem Goldgräberunternehmen)
    5. Bergbau: Mutung f, Grubenanteil m
    * * *
    1. transitive verb
    1) (demand as one's due property) Anspruch erheben auf (+ Akk.), beanspruchen [Thron, Gebiete]; fordern [Lohnerhöhung, Schadenersatz]; beantragen [Arbeitslosenunterstützung, Sozialhilfe usw.]; abholen [Fundsache]

    claim one's luggage — sein Gepäck [ab]holen

    2) (represent oneself as having) für sich beanspruchen, in Anspruch nehmen [Sieg]
    3) (profess, contend) behaupten
    4) (result in loss of) fordern [Opfer, Menschenleben]
    2. intransitive verb
    1) (Insurance) Ansprüche geltend machen

    claim for damages/expenses — Schadenersatz fordern/sich (Dat.) Auslagen rückerstatten lassen

    3. noun
    1) Anspruch, der (to auf + Akk.)

    lay claim to somethingauf etwas (Akk.) Anspruch erheben

    3) (pay claim) Forderung, die ( for nach)
    4)

    claim [for expenses] — Spesenabrechnung, die ( for über + Akk.)

    claim for damages — Schadenersatzforderung, die

    5)

    stake a claim to something(fig.) ein Anrecht auf etwas (Akk.) anmelden

    Phrasal Verbs:
    * * *
    n.
    Anrecht -e n.
    Forderung f.
    Recht -e n. v.
    anmaßen v.
    beanspruchen v.
    behaupten v.
    fordern v.

    English-german dictionary > claim

  • 16 Bollée, Ernest-Sylvain

    [br]
    b. 19 July 1814 Clefmont (Haute-Marne), France
    d. 11 September 1891 Le Mans, France
    [br]
    French inventor of the rotor-stator wind engine and founder of the Bollée manufacturing industry.
    [br]
    Ernest-Sylvain Bollée was the founder of an extensive dynasty of bellfounders based in Le Mans and in Orléans. He and his three sons, Amédée (1844–1917), Ernest-Sylvain fils (1846–1917) and Auguste (1847-?), were involved in work and patents on steam-and petrol-driven cars, on wind engines and on hydraulic rams. The presence of the Bollées' car industry in Le Mans was a factor in the establishment of the car races that are held there.
    In 1868 Ernest-Sylvain Bollée père took out a patent for a wind engine, which at that time was well established in America and in England. In both these countries, variable-shuttered as well as fixed-blade wind engines were in production and patented, but the Ernest-Sylvain Bollée patent was for a type of wind engine that had not been seen before and is more akin to the water-driven turbine of the Jonval type, with its basic principle being parallel to the "rotor" and "stator". The wind drives through a fixed ring of blades on to a rotating ring that has a slightly greater number of blades. The blades of the fixed ring are curved in the opposite direction to those on the rotating blades and thus the air is directed onto the latter, causing it to rotate at a considerable speed: this is the "rotor". For greater efficiency a cuff of sheet iron can be attached to the "stator", giving a tunnel effect and driving more air at the "rotor". The head of this wind engine is turned to the wind by means of a wind-driven vane mounted in front of the blades. The wind vane adjusts the wind angle to enable the wind engine to run at a constant speed.
    The fact that this wind engine was invented by the owner of a brass foundry, with all the gear trains between the wind vane and the head of the tower being of the highest-quality brass and, therefore, small in scale, lay behind its success. Also, it was of prefabricated construction, so that fixed lengths of cast-iron pillar were delivered, complete with twelve treads of cast-iron staircase fixed to the outside and wrought-iron stays. The drive from the wind engine was taken down the inside of the pillar to pumps at ground level.
    Whilst the wind engines were being built for wealthy owners or communes, the work of the foundry continued. The three sons joined the family firm as partners and produced several steam-driven vehicles. These vehicles were the work of Amédée père and were l'Obéissante (1873); the Autobus (1880–3), of which some were built in Berlin under licence; the tram Bollée-Dalifol (1876); and the private car La Mancelle (1878). Another important line, in parallel with the pumping mechanism required for the wind engines, was the development of hydraulic rams, following the Montgolfier patent. In accordance with French practice, the firm was split three ways when Ernest-Sylvain Bollée père died. Amédée père inherited the car side of the business, but it is due to Amédée fils (1867– 1926) that the principal developments in car manufacture came into being. He developed the petrol-driven car after the impetus given by his grandfather, his father and his uncle Ernest-Sylvain fils. In 1887 he designed a four-stroke single-cylinder engine, although he also used engines designed by others such as Peugeot. He produced two luxurious saloon cars before putting Torpilleur on the road in 1898; this car competed in the Tour de France in 1899. Whilst designing other cars, Amédée's son Léon (1870–1913) developed the Voiturette, in 1896, and then began general manufacture of small cars on factory lines. The firm ceased work after a merger with the English firm of Morris in 1926. Auguste inherited the Eolienne or wind-engine side of the business; however, attracted to the artistic life, he sold out to Ernest Lebert in 1898 and settled in the Paris of the Impressionists. Lebert developed the wind-engine business and retained the basic "stator-rotor" form with a conventional lattice tower. He remained in Le Mans, carrying on the business of the manufacture of wind engines, pumps and hydraulic machinery, describing himself as a "Civil Engineer".
    The hydraulic-ram business fell to Ernest-Sylvain fils and continued to thrive from a solid base of design and production. The foundry in Le Mans is still there but, more importantly, the bell foundry of Dominique Bollée in Saint-Jean-de-Braye in Orléans is still at work casting bells in the old way.
    [br]
    Further Reading
    André Gaucheron and J.Kenneth Major, 1985, The Eolienne Bollée, The International Molinological Society.
    Cénomane (Le Mans), 11, 12 and 13 (1983 and 1984).
    KM

    Biographical history of technology > Bollée, Ernest-Sylvain

  • 17 Sauerbrun, Charles de, Baron von Drais

    SUBJECT AREA: Land transport
    [br]
    b. 1785
    d. 1851
    [br]
    German popularizer of the first form of manumotive vehicle, the hobby-horse.
    [br]
    An engineer and agriculturalist who had to travel long distances over rough country, he evolved an improved design of velocipede. The original device appears to have been first shown in the gardens of the Palais Royal by the comte de Sivrac in 1791, a small wooden "horse" fitted with two wheels and propelled by the rider's legs thrusting alternately against the ground. It was not possible to turn the front wheel to steer the machine, a small variation from the straight being obtained by the rider leaning sideways. It is not known if de Sivrac was the inventor of the machine: it is likely that it had been in existence, probably as a child's toy, for a number of years. Its original name was the celerifière, but it was renamed the velocifère in 1793. The Baron's Draisienne was an improvement on this primitive machine; it had a triangulated wooden frame, an upholstered seat, a rear luggage seat and an armrest which took the thrust of the rider as he or she pushed against the ground. Furthermore, it was steerable. In some models there was a cordoperated brake and a prop stand, and the seat height could be adjusted. At least one machine was fitted with a milometer. Drais began limited manufacture and launched a long marketing and patenting campaign, part of which involved sending advertising letters to leading figures, including a number of kings.
    The Draisienne was first shown in public in April 1817: a ladies' version became available in 1819. Von Drais took out a patent in Baden on 12 January 1818 and followed with a French patent on 17 February. Three-and four-wheeled versions became available so the two men could take the ladies for a jaunt.
    Drais left his agricultural and forestry work and devoted his full time to the "Running Machine" business. Soon copies were being made and sold in Italy, Germany and Austria. In London, a Denis Johnson took out a patent in December 1818 for a "pedestrian curricle" which was soon nicknamed the dandy horse.
    [br]
    Further Reading
    C.A.Caunter, 1955, Cycles: History and Development, London: Science Museum and HMSO.
    IMcN

    Biographical history of technology > Sauerbrun, Charles de, Baron von Drais

  • 18 Arnold, John

    SUBJECT AREA: Horology
    [br]
    b. 1735/6 Bodmin (?), Cornwall, England
    d. 25 August 1799 Eltham, London, England
    [br]
    English clock, watch, and chronometer maker who invented the isochronous helical balance spring and an improved form of detached detent escapement.
    [br]
    John Arnold was apprenticed to his father, a watchmaker, and then worked as an itinerant journeyman in the Low Countries and, later, in England. He settled in London in 1762 and rapidly established his reputation at Court by presenting George III with a miniature repeating watch mounted in a ring. He later abandoned the security of the Court for a more precarious living developing his chronometers, with some financial assistance from the Board of Longitude. Symbolically, in 1771 he moved from the vicinity of the Court at St James's to John Adam Street, which was close to the premises of the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures \& Commerce.
    By the time Arnold became interested in chronometry, Harrison had already demonstrated that longitude could be determined by means of a timekeeper, and the need was for a simpler instrument that could be sold at an affordable price for universal use at sea. Le Roy had shown that it was possible to dispense with a remontoire by using a detached escapement with an isochronous balance; Arnold was obviously thinking along the same lines, although he may not have been aware of Le Roy's work. By 1772 Arnold had developed his detached escapement, a pivoted detent which was quite different from that used on the European continent, and three years later he took out a patent for a compensation balance and a helical balance spring (Arnold used the spring in torsion and not in tension as Harrison had done). His compensation balance was similar in principle to that described by Le Roy and used riveted bimetallic strips to alter the radius of gyration of the balance by moving small weights radially. Although the helical balance spring was not completely isochronous it was a great improvement on the spiral spring, and in a later patent (1782) he showed how it could be made more truly isochronous by shaping the ends. In this form it was used universally in marine chronometers.
    Although Arnold's chronometers performed well, their long-term stability was less satisfactory because of the deterioration of the oil on the pivot of the detent. In his patent of 1782 he eliminated this defect by replacing the pivot with a spring, producing the spring detent escapement. This was also done independendy at about the same time by Berthoud and Earnshaw, although Earnshaw claimed vehemently that Arnold had plagiarized his work. Ironically it was Earnshaw's design that was finally adopted, although he had merely replaced Arnold's pivoted detent with a spring, while Arnold had completely redesigned the escapement. Earnshaw also improved the compensation balance by fusing the steel to the brass to form the bimetallic element, and it was in this form that it began to be used universally for chronometers and high-grade watches.
    As a result of the efforts of Arnold and Earnshaw, the marine chronometer emerged in what was essentially its final form by the end of the eighteenth century. The standardization of the design in England enabled it to be produced economically; whereas Larcum Kendall was paid £500 to copy Harrison's fourth timekeeper, Arnold was able to sell his chronometers for less than one-fifth of that amount. This combination of price and quality led to Britain's domination of the chronometer market during the nineteenth century.
    [br]
    Bibliography
    30 December 1775, "Timekeepers", British patent no. 1,113.
    2 May 1782, "A new escapement, and also a balance to compensate the effects arising from heat and cold in pocket chronometers, and for incurving the ends of the helical spring…", British patent no. 1,382.
    Further Reading
    R.T.Gould, 1923, The Marine Chronometer: Its History and Development, London; reprinted 1960, Holland Press (provides an overview).
    V.Mercer, 1972, John Arnold \& Son Chronometer Makers 1726–1843, London.
    DV

    Biographical history of technology > Arnold, John

  • 19 Johnson, Eldridge Reeves

    SUBJECT AREA: Recording
    [br]
    b. 18 February 1867 Wilmington, Delaware, USA
    d. 14 November 1945 Moorestown, New Jersey, USA
    [br]
    American industrialist, founder and owner of the Victor Talking Machine Company; developer of many basic constructions in mechanical sound recording and the reproduction and manufacture of gramophone records.
    [br]
    He graduated from the Dover Academy (Delaware) in 1882 and was apprenticed in a machine-repair firm in Philadelphia and studied in evening classes at the Spring Garden Institute. In 1888 he took employment in a small Philadelphia machine shop owned by Andrew Scull, specializing in repair and bookbinding machinery. After travels in the western part of the US, in 1891 he became a partner in Scull \& Johnson, Manufacturing Machinists, and established a further company, the New Jersey Wire Stitching Machine Company. He bought out Andrew Scull's interest in October 1894 (the last instalment being paid in 1897) and became an independent general machinist. In 1896 he had perfected a spring motor for the Berliner flat-disc gramophone, and he started experimenting with a more direct method of recording in a spiral groove: that of cutting in wax. Co-operation with Berliner eventually led to the incorporation of the Victor Talking Machine Company in 1901. The innumerable court cases stemming from the fact that so many patents for various elements in sound recording and reproduction were in very many hands were brought to an end in 1903 when Johnson was material in establishing cross-licencing agreements between Victor, Columbia Graphophone and Edison to create what is known as a patent pool. Early on, Johnson had a thorough experience in all matters concerning the development and manufacture of both gramophones and records. He made and patented many major contributions in all these fields, and his approach was very business-like in that the contribution to cost of each part or process was always a decisive factor in his designs. This attitude was material in his consulting work for the sister company, the Gramophone Company, in London before it set up its own factories in 1910. He had quickly learned the advantages of advertising and of providing customers with durable equipment and records. This motivation was so strong that Johnson set up a research programme for determining the cause of wear in records. It turned out to depend on groove profile, and from 1911 one particular profile was adhered to and processes for transforming the grooves of valuable earlier records were developed. Without precise measuring instruments, he used the durability as the determining factor. Johnson withdrew more and more to the role of manager, and the Victor Talking Machine Company gained such a position in the market that the US anti-trust legislation was used against it. However, a generation change in the Board of Directors and certain erroneous decisions as to product line started a decline, and in February 1926 Johnson withdrew on extended sick leave: these changes led to the eventual sale of Victor. However, Victor survived due to the advent of radio and the electrification of replay equipment and became a part of Radio Corporation of America. In retirement Johnson took up various activities in the arts and sciences and financially supported several projects; his private yacht was used in 1933 in work with the Smithsonian Institution on a deep-sea hydrographie and fauna-collecting expedition near Puerto Rico.
    [br]
    Bibliography
    Johnson's patents were many, and some were fundamental to the development of the gramophone, such as: US patent no. 650,843 (in particular a recording lathe); US patent nos. 655,556, 655,556 and 679,896 (soundboxes); US patent no. 681,918 (making the original conductive for electroplating); US patent no. 739,318 (shellac record with paper label).
    Further Reading
    Mrs E.R.Johnson, 1913, "Eldridge Reeves Johnson (1867–1945): Industrial pioneer", manuscript (an account of his early experience).
    E.Hutto, Jr, "Emile Berliner, Eldridge Johnson, and the Victor Talking Machine Company", Journal of AES 25(10/11):666–73 (a good but brief account based on company information).
    E.R.Fenimore Johnson, 1974, His Master's Voice was Eldridge R.Johnson, Milford, Del.
    (a very personal biography by his only son).
    GB-N

    Biographical history of technology > Johnson, Eldridge Reeves

  • 20 Sholes, Christopher Latham

    SUBJECT AREA: Paper and printing
    [br]
    b. 14 February 1819 Mooresburg, Pennsylvania, USA
    d. 17 February 1890 USA
    [br]
    American inventor of the first commercially successful typewriter.
    [br]
    Sholes was born on his parents' farm, of a family that had originally come from England. After leaving school at 14, he was apprenticed for four years to the local newspaper, the Danville Intelligencer. He moved with his parents to Wisconsin, where he followed his trade as journalist and printer, within a year becoming State Printer and taking charge of the House journal of the State Legislature. When he was 20 he left home and joined his brother in Madison, Wisconsin, on the staff of the Wisconsin Enquirer. After marrying, he took the editorship of the Southport Telegraph, until he became Postmaster of Southport. His experiences as journalist and postmaster drew him into politics and, in spite of the delicate nature of his health and personality, he served with credit as State Senator and in the State Assembly. In 1860 he moved to Milwaukee, where he became Editor of the local paper until President Lincoln offered him the post of Collector of Customs at Milwaukee.
    That position at last gave Sholes time to develop his undoubted inventive talents. With a machinist friend, Samuel W.Soule, he obtained a patent for a paging machine and another two years later for a machine for numbering the blank pages of a book serially. At the small machine shop where they worked, there was a third inventor, Carlos Glidden. It was Glidden who suggested to Sholes that, in view of his numbering machine, he would be well equipped to develop a letter printing machine. Glidden drew Sholes's attention to an account of a writing machine that had recently been invented in London by John Pratt, and Sholes was so seized with the idea that he devoted the rest of his life to perfecting the machine. With Glidden and Soule, he took out a patent for a typewriter on June 1868 followed by two further patents for improvements. Sholes struggled unsuccessfully for five years to exploit his invention; his two partners gave up their rights in it and finally, on 1 March 1873, Sholes himself sold his rights to the Remington Arms Company for $12,000. With their mechanical skills and equipment, Remingtons were able to perfect the Sholes typewriter and put it on the market. This, the first commercially successful typewriter, led to a revolution not only in office work, but also in work for women, although progress was slow at first. When the New York Young Women's Christian Association bought six Remingtons in 1881 to begin classes for young women, eight turned up for the first les-son; and five years later it was estimated that there were 60,000 female typists in the USA. Sholes said, "I feel that I have done something for the women who have always had to work so hard. This will more easily enable them to earn a living."
    Sholes continued his work on the typewriter, giving Remingtons the benefit of his results. His last patent was granted in 1878. Never very strong, Sholes became consumptive and spent much of his remaining nine years in the vain pursuit of health.
    [br]
    Bibliography
    23 June 1868, US patent no. 79,265 (the first typewriter patent).
    Further Reading
    M.H.Adler, 1973, The Writing Machine, London: Allen \& Unwin.
    LRD

    Biographical history of technology > Sholes, Christopher Latham

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