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Patent GB-190417893-A (GB)
Title: Improvements connected with the Carburetters of Internal Combustion Oil Engines.
Inventor: RENAULT LOUIS
Filed: 1904-08-17
Granted: 1905-02-09
Abstract: 17,893. Renault, L. Aug. 17. Gas or explosive-vapour engines, carburetting and governing in Oil is supplied to the carburetter mixing-chamber 6 through the passages 3, 4 and the spraying-nozzle 2. The passages 3, 4 communicate through an opening controlled by a conical valve 5, which is normally held open by the spring 23. The air supply enters the chamber 10 through ports 17, and passes to the mixing-chamber through ports 9 and the hot-water or gas jacketed chamber 7, and partly through ports, controlled by the piston valve 13, and the passage 16 in the chamber 15. The speed of the engine is governed by the action of the piston suction on the disc 11. The disc is carried by the spring-controlled spindle 12, to which is fixed the piston valve 13 controlling the air supply to the mixing-chamber through the passage 16. Any depression in the chamber 10 lowers the piston valve and opens the air-supply ports to the passage 16. The oil valve operating- rod 19 is at the same time released from the action of the spindle 12 and depresses the valve 5 while under the influence of the spring 22. To prevent sudden movements of the disc 11, the spindle 12 is formed with a screwed end which gives a rotary motion to the disc, spindle, and valve as they rise and fall. Slight modifications are described in which the spindle 12 operates a piston or butterfly valve in the carburetter outlet.
Patent GB-190423452-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to the Insulation of Coils of Electrical Apparatus.
Inventor: MOORE ODUS BURDETTE
Filed: 1904-10-31
Granted: 1904-12-01
Abstract: 23,452. Moore, O. B. Nov. 21, A.D. 1903, [date applied for under Patents Act, A.D. 1901]. Electromagnets.-Relates to a method of insulating the corners of coils of electric apparatus, the invention being shown as applied to a transformer of the shell type, in which a number of flat coils are placed side by side on an iron core-. The adjacent coils, which may be wrapped in tape cut narrower at the inner corners to prevent bulging, are separated by U-shaped strips 2, Fig. 4, consisting of one or more thicknesses of insulating- fabric. The corner pieces 3 are made by first folding insulating-fabric into the shape shown in Fig. 3, and then drawing apart the corners 6, 7 so as partially to unfold the channel portion 5 until the edges 8, 9 are substantially at right-angles. The ends of the corner pieces and strips 2 may be bevelled by employing layers of fabric of different lengths. The strips 2 may overlap the ends of the corner pieces, being overlapped in turn by the channel portion 5, and the corner pieces and strips may be in one piece, with the joints of the pieces situated near the middle of the sides of the coil. Groups of coils, having the separate members insulated as above described or otherwise, may be insulated in a similar manner.
Patent GB-190425910-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Workmen's and like Time Recorders.
Filed: 1904-11-28
Granted: 1905-10-12
Abstract: 25,910. Recorders, Ltd., [International Time Recording Co.]. Nov. 28. Time-checking apparatus for workmen. The type-wheels are aligned for the printing operation by linkwork connected through a dashpot to the printing-lever, whereby they only remain momentarily locked against the driving impulse of the clock. The lever u carries the cylinder of the dash-pot down with it, and keeps the piston q depressed until sufficient air has escaped to permit a spring h to return the associated linkwork, and thereby disengage the aligning- pawl d and toothed wheel e. Specification No. 9487, A.D. 1899, is referred to.
Patent GB-190426744-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Means or Apparatus for use in Combining, Arranging and Displaying Street Advertisements, Posters and the like.
Inventor: SHELDON PERCY
Filed: 1904-12-08
Granted: 1905-10-12
Abstract: 26,744. Sheldon, P. Dec. 8. Advertising. - Relates to apparatus for use in a system for displaying advertisements, posters, and the like on surfaces in an artistic manner and so that a record of the posters &c. on a station at any time can be kept. The person in charge of the posting is provided with a board or model built to' scale of the station and graduated on the edges with the current sizes of paper. The arrangement shown i n Fig. 1 represents a station 120 ft. long by 60 ft. high. I t i s provided with inner rails c, d capable of being secured in any position by means of dowel pins so as to represent any size of station. The rail d is adjustable by means of dowel pins on the rail c. Blocks or sheets of different colours, representing to scale the sizes of sheet in use, are provided to aid the designer in arranging the posters. In conjunc tion with this apparatus, a diagram of each station as arranged is made in a book, and the copies are corrected when the stations are altered. For this purpose, each paster is provided with a diagram of the station, on which he marks his alterations.
Patent GB-190504190-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or connected with Lanterns for Producing Scenic and other Effects.
Inventor: BRANTINGHAM JOHN BRUCE
Filed: 1905-02-28
Granted: 1905-11-16
Abstract: 4190. Brantingham, J. B., and Brantingham, W. P., [trading as Brantingham Bros.]. Feb. 28. Optical projection apparatus.-A lantern for use in theatres and the like for producing light effects in different colours is provided with a number of coloured, and dimming screens g, sliding in vertical grooves, capable of being raised from the " magazine " e containing them by cords h, or other means to produce the necessary effects. The cords pass over pulleys l, fixed to the lantern, and over others suitably ar. ranged so that the screens may be operated from a distance. The lantern body a is preferably provided with an opening b at the top for the introduction of an electric arc light, and its interior surfaces are arranged to act as reflectors.
Patent GB-190504888-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Cardboard Boxes.
Inventor: ROBINSON JOHN BRADBURY
Filed: 1905-03-08
Granted: 1905-10-05
Abstract: 4888. Robinson, J. B. March 8. Folding cardboard boxes. - The box is formed from a blank shaped as shown in Fig. 1, the flaps 3 being folded along the lines 4, 5, as shown in Fig. 2, to form pockets into which the parts 7 of the flaps 8 may be tucked. The flaps 13, 14 may be turned in either after or before the flap 5, as shown in the upper and lower parts respectively of Fig. 2. The blank may be flattened along the lines 16, 17 after it has been formed into a tube by securing the flap 12 to the part 11 by means of gum or staples.
Patent GB-190508901-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Self-lighting Gas-burner.
Inventor: THEUERKORN OTTO PAUL
Filed: 1905-04-27
Granted: 1906-02-08
Abstract: 8901. Theuerkorn, O. P. April 27. Lighting gas.-To protect the catalytic igniter d from deterioration and damage, it is mounted in a chamber, depression, or channel c, formed in a ring b superposed on the burner head a. One side of the channel c is open to the atmosphere, and the mixture-of gas and air from the Bunsen tube a is deflected by a tongue-piece g towards the inner wall of the channel. After the gas has been lit, the flame seats itself upon the upper edge f of the ring, its descent into the channel c being prevented by the ascent of a current of cool air over the deflector o.
Patent GB-190514780-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in, or relating to, Apparatus for Electric Welding.
Filed: 1905-07-18
Granted: 1905-10-05
Abstract: 14,780. Lake, H. H., [Clinton Wire Cloth Co.]. July 18. Welding; working by electricity.-A number of welds are simultaneously effected by pressure members having provision for automatically equalizing the pressure at the welds, thereby enabling a single transformer to be used. The invention is described for making double welds in fabric, which rests on a fixed electrode 10, Fig. 1, having two jaws 11, Fig. 2. The upper electrode 12 is adapted to rock on trunnions 17 in a recess in a plunger 13, depressed by a spring and raised by a lever 20. The descent of the plunger is governed by the average condition of the welds, the rocking trunnion compensating for inequalities, and, when the required upset has been attained, contacts 25, 29 close the circuit of an auxiliary coil x on the transformer through a circuit-breaker 28 which opens the primary circuit. In a modification, two plungers are used, connected by a pivoted link which carries the contact-screw.
Patent GB-190515671-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Brake Beams
Inventor: CORNWALL FREDERICK REID
Filed: 1905-07-31
Granted: 1905-10-26
Abstract: 15,671. Cornwall, F. R. Dec. 5, 1904, [date applied for under Patents Act, 1901]. Brakes.-Brake beams have a compression member 1 of U-section. The sides of the U diverge, and the channel may be thickened at its central portion and formed with beads 1<a> at its edges. At the centre of the beam, where the compression member passes through an eye in the strut 6, the sides of the channel are spread apart by a lug in the eye, to increase the strength of the compression member under vertical loads. The ends of the compression member may be seated directly in the brake shoes 2 as shown, or they may fit in thrust blocks. Filling-blocks 3, in the ends of the channel, have openings for the passage of the tension rod 4, which carries nuts 5 for tightening the tension rod and arching the compression member.
Patent GB-190522258-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and connected with Apparatus for Conveying & Cooling Metal Bars and the like.
Inventor: JONES THOMAS
Filed: 1905-10-31
Granted: 1906-06-21
Abstract: 22,258. Jones, T. Oct. 31. Rolling; shearing. - Relates to apparatus for transporting and cooling iron and similar bars of metal as they are brought from a rolling- mill or shears, and in which a bar B of metal is slid out on to a series of parallel rollers A, between which is a transporting - frame C, which has pivoted fingers or trips H and is reciprocated from the handle D by the crank E and connecting-rod F. This frame comprises sliding pieces c resting on antifriction rollers G and provided with a series of pairs of pivoted fingers or trips H so arranged that, when the bar B is resting on the rollers A and the transporting-frame is being pulled back, the trips are depressed as they pass under the bar, but when the frame moves in the reverse direction the trips rest against stops I and push the bar forward and laterally off the rollers A. Other trips or stops K are also provided which prevent the bars from being drawn back. The trips H may be made with forked ends. In other forms, the trips are in the form of rollers arranged with their axes parallel to the rollers A and carried in brackets which are pivoted to the sliding pieces c. The rollers are caused to assume a vertical position either by counterweighting or by arranging them with their ends below the axes of suspension of the brackets. Such roller trips prevent obstruction to the bars B as they pass on to the rollers A. The bars are cooled during their traverse to the conveyer. To effect more rapid cooling, a water tank L is provided into which the bars are dropped. The sloping bottom is provided with a similar conveyer U, which is linked to the conveyer C so as to reciprocate therewith.
Patent GB-190524346-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Portable Self-contained Vulcanising Apparatus.
Inventor: FROST HENRY HARVEY
Filed: 1905-11-24
Granted: 1906-10-25
Abstract: 24,346. Frost, H. H. Nov. 24. Steam generators combined with apparatus for vulcanizing india-rubber &c. ; multitubular boiler; shells.-In a steam generator which is constructed with a curved surface for vulcanizing and w h i c h may be cast, flue-tubes are provided, the tubes passing through the water space from the burner, which is fitted at the lower end of the boiler. Fig. 2 shows the boiler and burner and Fig. 1 the boiler in plan together with the tubes A'. A filling-plug B, safety-valve, and pressure gauge with a drip-cock D<1> for allowing excess water to escape are provided. The walls of the generator forming the vulcanizing-surface may be graduated in thickness or otherwise constructed in such a manner that the heat is graduated towards the edges of the surfaces covered by the vulcanizer. For supporting the apparatus, the lamp bracket upon a motor-car may be employed, a socket and a clamping-screw being fitted to the generator.
Patent GB-190600210-A (GB)
Title: Improved Means for Suspending and Operating Reversible Sliding Window Sashes.
Inventor: PITT WILLIAM JOSEPH
Filed: 1906-01-03
Granted: 1906-03-08
Abstract: 210. Pitt, W. J. Jan. 3. Window opening and closing apparatus.-Reversible sliding sashes are raised by screws h which pass through nuts a and are operated from a drum i through the bevel-gear shown. The drum can be driven positively by gearing, or by an endless cord or chain, or by means of a cord coiled on the drum in opposite directions at the two ends.
Patent GB-190601198-A (GB)
Title: Improved System of Automatically Indicating and Recording Movements of Trains and Tramcars.
Filed: 1906-01-16
Granted: 1907-01-16
Abstract: 1198. Lake, H. H., [Steiner Investment Co.]. Jan. 16. Strikers for operating electric switches on track.-The train, Fig. 5, carries two striking- plates 41, 42, one 42, of which has a single contact-surface 44 for depressing a series of buttons 32<1>, 33', 34<1> of the switch box, Fig. 2, these buttons being of various lengths and thus giving contacts for long or short periods to indicate the signal number; the other striking- plate 41 has a series of contact-surfaces 43 for depressing a single stud 31, giving long and short signals to indicate the train number. The striking-plates on the engine are made so as to be easily interchangeable for renewal or other purposes. At points, a. similar contact-box may be used to indicate the motion of the switch rails. Specification No. 1207, A.D. 1906, [Abridgment Class Railway signals &c.], is referred to.
Patent GB-190604173-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Machines for Manufacturing Boxes from Pasteboard or the like.
Inventor: FETTBACK FRANZ
Filed: 1906-02-20
Granted: 1906-05-03
Abstract: 4173. Fettback, F. Aug. 24, 1905, [date applied for under Patents Act, 1901]. Box-making machines.- In a machine for manufacturing boxes of any cross-section other than circular, by winding a glued strip of material round a core, which is an improvement on the machines described in Specifications No. 19,169, A.D. 1901, and No. 20,077, A.D. 1902, means are provided to prevent relative twisting between the core and abutment, between which the box bottoms are held, and the feed devices are given an oscillating motion to deliver the strip tangentially to the winding-core. The feed devices are also arranged to bring the bottom strip and the upper covering-strip to the core in parallel adjacent paths. The winding core 1, Fig. 2, and the abutment 2 between which the box bottom 3 is held are fixed to spindles 4, 18, each connected to the shaft 23 by chains and sprocket-wheels or other suitable gearing. The finger 12 which holds the winding- strip is controlled by cam-operated levers 10, 11, and cam-disks 13 operate the cutter 14, Fig. 1, the pressing-finger 15, and the slide 16. A plate 30, 30<a> carrying adjustable spring blades 32, 32a which press down the strips 33, 33<a>, is held in a slot between plates 36, 37, Fig. 5, by means of flanges. To the plate 36 is connected a pin 39, so that the cam 47 through the lever 43 and rods 42, 41 causes the feeding-device to oscillate about the pin 39. With this motion may be compounded another imparted by rods 48, 48<a> and cam-operated levers 49, 49<a>, so that the resultant movement corresponds to the cross-section of the box. The cam 47 has only recesses 50, 52, so that the feeding-device is only adjusted while the first layer is being wound, and a projection 53 to lower the feeding-device, so that the strip lies on the support 54 when the knife 14 is lowered.
Patent GB-190611484-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Kindergarten Apparatus for Teaching Reading.
Filed: 1906-05-16
Granted: 1906-05-16
Abstract: 11,484. Moore, M., and Robinson & Co., R. May 16. Reading, teaching. - Relates to kindergarten word-making blocks. For the small letters, cubes with single letters on the faces, as shown in Fig. 1, and rectangular prisms with single letters on the ends and syllables or roots on the sides, as shown in Fig. 2,. are used. For the capitals, flat cards with a letter on each side, as shown in Fig. 3, are used. The arrangement of the syllables on prisms provides-for even spacing in the words formed. Each block and card has a distinctive co'our. The blocks may be hollow or solid.
Patent GB-190619211-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Hydraulic Clutch.
Inventor: DANN AUGUSTUS CARDIGAN FREDERI
Filed: 1906-08-28
Granted: 1907-08-22
Abstract: 19,211. Dann, A. c. F. Aug. 28. Hydraulic transmission of power.-An hydraulic clutch is formed of two cylindrical members, the outer one carrying pawls traversing the annular space between the members, and the inner drum carrying parts which may be projected into this annular space to restrict the free movement of the outer member. Fig. 1 shows a front elevation of the apparatus and Fig. 2 a sectional elevation. The outer member B carries pawls D, which act upon liquid in the annular space between the drums B, C. The drum C carries pieces E<1>, which are forced out radially by the action of racks F on pinion nuts on screwed extensions of the parts E'. This radial movement forces the hinged pieces E into the annular space. Cup-leathers G are provided and also packing at g<2> to prevent the escape of fluid. Flexible diaphragms I compensate for the solid material projected into the annular space, when the pieces E are fully extended by the motion of the sleeve J. An ordinary cone clutch j<1>, j<2> may engage to give positive drive. Fig. 1<a> shows a modification in which two sets of pawls D, D' mounted in opposite directions are provided, so that either of the drums may become the driving-member without the use of a mechanical clutch. Both surfaces of the member E are, in this case, inclined. The movement of the pawls is limited by stops, and holes are formed in the pawls and in the members E to allow the fluid to flow gradually from one side to the other.
Patent GB-190626574-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Folding Hammock Lounges & like Appliances.
Inventor: ROBINSON THOMAS FREDERICK
Filed: 1906-11-23
Granted: 1907-10-17
Abstract: 26,574. Robinson, T. F. Nov. 23. Hammocks.-A hammock, capable of being folded into small compass when not in use, consists of a sheet of canvas 10 supported upon a box-like frame by means of struts 6, 7, connected together in pairs by cross-bars 8, 9 and by flexible steel-wire rope tensioning-members 11, 12. The lower ends of the struts abut against a stop 4 secured upon inner rails 3 fixed to the side bars 1 of the frame, and they are secured in place by means of metal strips 5. The members 11, 12 pass over the ends of the cross-bars 8 which extend beyond the struts 6, 7 ; by slipping these members off the bars, the struts can be removed from the stop 4 and folded in the frame, the struts 6 being turned in the clockwise, and the struts 7 in the counterclockwise direction, so as to occupy the positions shown in Fig. 2. The proportions of the struts 6, 7, canvas 10, and stays 11, 12 are such that the struts fit within the frame, the stays being taut and the canvas wound over the bars 8, 9 of the struts 7. The struts may also be laid in the frame without turning over, the loose canvas being tucked in. A method of securing the stays 11, 12 by threading through the wood of the struts or base is shown in Fig. 6.
Patent GB-190627252-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Eye Guards or Shields.
Inventor: COVER HARVEY SAMUEL
Filed: 1906-11-30
Granted: 1907-03-28
Abstract: 27,252. Cover, H. S. Nov. 30. Goggles.-The frames 10, the bridge-piece 7, and the tabs 8 are formed from one piece of rubber or other elastic material. The frames are provided with integral tapering tubular flaps 12<a>, which bend outwards so as to fit flatly against the face. The glasses 12 are inserted in recesses in the frames, across which wires 17 are stretched to prevent distortion.
Patent GB-190628308-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Bookmarkers.
Inventor: LUFF GEORGE
Filed: 1906-12-12
Granted: 1907-05-16
Abstract: 28,308. Luff, G. Dec. 12. Book - markers.-A projecting piece A on the cover of the book is creased at the base in a V-shaped crease, and also longitudinally. When the book is opened, the flap automatically opens flat ; when the book is closed, the flap folds down and rests between the pages at which the book was opened.
Patent GB-190629326-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Stoneware or other Pipe Joints.
Inventor: NAYLOR GEORGE WILFRED
Filed: 1906-12-24
Granted: 1907-10-10
Abstract: 29,326. Naylor, G. W., and Naylor, J. F. Dec. 24. Spigot - and - socket joints.-In spigot andsocket joints having two rows of fillets or internal projections formed in the socket, the outer fillet is set back from the edge of the socket and the inner fillet clear of the flat inner shoulder of the socket. The portions cut away from one fillet may be opposite to those cut away from the other.
Patent GB-190629756-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Mechanism or Apparatus for Automatically Distributing Sand for Preventing or Minimising Side-slip in Motor Road Vehicles.
Inventor: BEAVEN CHARLES
Filed: 1906-12-31
Granted: 1907-11-14
Abstract: 29,756. Beaven, C. Dec. 31. Rotary disk, self closing, sand valves. -A sand valve for distributing sand on to the road to prevent side slip in motor road vehicles consists of a disk h, preferably integral with the discharge pipe h<1>, which is capable of rotating upon a fixed disk g<1> against the action of a torsional spring i, ports being formed in the disk h corre sponding with ports g<2> in the disk g<1>. The valves are opened by flexible connexions to arms h<3> fixed to the discharge pipes or by rods, the springs i being dispensed with in the latter case.