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Patent GB-190702983-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to Automatic Electrical Targets for Rifle Practice.
Inventor: ROSE SYDNEY ASTON MERSEY
Filed: 1907-02-06
Granted: 1907-07-18
Abstract: 2983. Rose, S. A. M., and Crowle, H. B. Feb. 6. Switches; selectors. -A solenoid draws up a racked core h<1>, which rotates a pinion h<2> carrying a contact-arm i and completes a circuit through any one of a number of contacts j. The arm i is provided with an auxiliary pivoted contact - p i e c e i<1>, which rides over raised inclined pieces p situated between the contacts j and is geared to a fan i<4>, which retards its fall and prevents it from making contact with any of the contact-plates j until the arm i comes to rest. The various positions of rest are determined by the values of resistances included in the circuit of the solenoid coil.
Patent GB-190703941-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Means for Operating Fanlights, Ventilators, and the like.
Inventor: COOK JAMES JOHN
Filed: 1907-02-18
Granted: 1907-05-30
Abstract: 3941. Cook, J. J. Feb. 18. Window and ventilator opening and closing apparatus.-Fan-lights, ventilators, &c. are operated by a cord attached to a curved lever bent at F to form a hook by which it is hung from a bracket B on the frame so as to clear the fan-light. The closing motion is communicated by the engagement of the curved part of the lever with a roller I carried by a pin on a bracket mounted on the fan-light, and the opening motion is started by the engagement of the bent part H of the lever with the roller, after which the sash descends by its own weight until held by the usual stay. The fan-light may be held in any intermediate position by securing the cord to a cleat.
Patent GB-190708756-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Milk Buckets and similar Vessels
Inventor: BELL SAMUEL ERNEST
Filed: 1907-04-15
Granted: 1907-05-30
Abstract: 8756. Bell, S. E. April 15. Milk pails, which when in use are gripped between the knees, are provided with recesses such as e, f, h<1>, or g on at least two opposite sides or extending completely round or for more than a semicircle. The recesses may be arc-shaped in vertical section, or the curvature may be greater near the top, as in Fig. 3. Any or all of the edges of the recess may project as at l, m. The buckets may be supported by rods i, j, and a scale k may be provided. The recesses may be impressed, or made by attaching suitably-shaped plates to holes in the blank of the bucket.
Patent GB-190712939-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Braiding Machines
Inventor: BOULT ALFRED JULIUS
Filed: 1907-06-04
Granted: 1907-09-12
Abstract: 12,939. Boult, A. J., [Nagel, A. W.]. June 4. Braiding - machines. - To effect a temporary stoppage of the bobbins of lace-braiding machines midway between the crossing-places, pairs of curved guide-plates d geared together and controlled by pattern mechanism are placed below each crossing, opposite the usual switches x. The operative edge y of a guide-plate d is so curved that in one position, Fig. 7, the bobbin spindles g are switched into the stopping-places a, while in the other position, Fig. 1, the edges y of a pair of guide-plates d assist in guiding the bobbin on to the ordinary switch x opposite. In moving from the first to the second position, the guide-plates d project the resting bobbins into the path of the respective drivers. The movement is obtained from sliding rods k, depressed by the pattern mechanism, by means of a pin and helical groove. The curved edges y may be notched at d', Fig. 7, to receive the bobbin spindle.
Patent GB-190712950-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Pencil Holders.
Inventor: REICHENBACH ALBERT
Filed: 1907-06-04
Granted: 1907-09-12
Abstract: 12,950. Reichenbach, A., Reis, W., and Drusenbaum, K., [trading as Rau, G., (Firm of)]. June 4. Pencil-holders.-Relates to holders in which the lead is projected by gripping-devices movable to and from each other. Between the two gripping- devices e, f, which are moved apart by the spring, are provided two flanged tubes b, c, sliding one over the other, to guide the lead d in case it is broken within the spring. The gripping-devices each consist of a convex plate h to which elastic fingers i are attached. Rings l, m placed between the fingers and the flanged tubes prevent injury to the fingers. A flanged tube g is placed between the forward gripper f and the orifice of the holder. The gripper e is moved forward to project the lead d by a plunger engaging the flanged tube o.
Patent GB-190714159-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Flue Cover Blocks for Steam Boilers
Inventor: POULTON WILLIAM
Filed: 1907-06-19
Granted: 1908-06-18
Abstract: 14,159. Poulton, W. June 19. Settings.-Flue cover blocks for steam boilers are formed on their upper face with channels a, which are covered by a slab d, thus forming air cavities.
Patent GB-190721264-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Detachable Wheels for Ordnance.
Filed: 1907-09-25
Abstract: 21,264. Krupp Akt.-Ges., F. Jan. 2, [date applied for under Patents Act, 1901]. Void. [Published under Patents &c. Act, 1907.] Field carriages.-In a device for securing the wheels to field carriages which are taken to pieces for transport, a rotary sleeve B, Fig. 1, is secured to the axle A by means of a nut G. Felt &c. rings C are fitted at each end, and lubricant is supplied through a channel a<1> closed by a screw H which also secures the nut G to the axle A. The hub D has a projection d' to fit a corresponding recess in the sleeve B when the wheel is placed in position. A cross-pin E mounted in the hub and having a segmental recess e<2>, Fig. 3, and a handle e<1>, engages a recess b<2> in the sleeve B, and secures the wheel in position. The pin E is locked by a pin F which passes through an eye d<2> and the handle. To detach the wheel, the handle e<1> is turned through half a revolution to engage the pin E from the recess b<2>.
Patent GB-190721772-A (GB)
Title: A Process for the Synthetic Production of India-rubber.
Inventor: HEINEMANN ARTHUR
Filed: 1907-10-02
Granted: 1908-10-01
Abstract: 21,772. Heinemann, A. Oct. 2. Divinyl; isoprene.-Divinyl is prepared synthetically by passing a mixture of acetylene and ethylene through a heated tube. Isoprene or methyldivinyl is prepared by treating divinyl with methyl chloride or by passing a mixture of acetylene, ethylene and methyl chloride through a heated tube.
Patent GB-190727851-A (GB)
Title: Machine for Embossing Characters in Printing Plates.
Inventor: OWENS CHARLES
Filed: 1907-12-17
Granted: 1908-12-17
Abstract: 27,851. Owens, C., and Montague, D. P. Dec. 17. Typewriters.-Relates to machines for embossing characters in printing-plates, of the kind in which mating dies act on opposite sides of the plate. The metal plate is introduced at x between rotary carriers 8, 15 having dies 9, 32, the latter dies being slidingly mounted in the carrier 15. A continuously rotating shaft 2 carries sleeves 14, 5, which are connected by engaging-members 12, 13. The carrier 15 is secured to the sleeve 14, and the carrier 8 is secured to a shaft 10 connected to the sleeve 5 by bevel-gearing 6. A disk 16 secured to the sleeve 14 carries a pivoted pawl 19, which engages a toothed plate 3 on the shaft 2, and serves as a driving-connexion between the shaft and the sleeve 14. When a key-lever 21 is depressed, a stop 20 is raised into the path of a pivoted step 18 engaging the pawl 19, which is thereby tripped, and the rotation of the disk 16 and the sleeves 14, 5 arrested. The movement of the stop 18 is limited by an abutment 34. Further rotation of the shaft 2 causes an inclined part on the plate 3 to ride round an inclined part 17 on the disk 16, thereby moving the disk 16 and the sleeve 14 along the shaft, this motion being permitted by slots in the members 12, 13. The dies 32 are confined between plates 23, 24 which are secured to the framework and formed each with an aperture beneath the point x. When the carrier 15 rises, it slides relatively to the dies, except the selected one, this being then opposite the holes in the plates 23, 24. A plate 29 resting on the disk 16 is formed with a punch 30, which rests in the hole in the plate 24 so that when the disk 16 rises, the selected die is lifted towards the impression point x. The carrier 15 is returned by springs 26, and returns the selected die by bearing on its head 32. When the disk 16 rises, one of the notches 27 in the periphery engages a fixed stop 28 and positions the die carrier accurately. The pawl 19 is swung over the top of the stop 23 by a spring 22, and serves to restore the stop 20 to normal position when the plate 16 falls. In a modification, the die carrier 8 is replaced by a die carrier, which is mounted on the shaft 2 and is provided with the whole of the arrangements, excepting the pawl 19 and stop 18, described above with reference to the carrier 15.
Patent GB-190728292-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Baby Carriages.
Inventor: BAVEYSTOCK ARTHUR ROBERT HOLLO
Filed: 1907-12-23
Granted: 1908-10-29
Abstract: 2 8 , 2 9 2. Baveystock, A. R. H., and Young, S. L. Dec. 23. Perambulators, children's mail-carts, and like vehicles.-The back frame f of a baby carriage is connected by a system of pivoted levers to the leg-rest h<1>, so that by moving it from the position shown in Fig. 1 to that shown in Fig. 3, the carriage is converted into a bassinet. The two members a, b of the main frame are pivoted together at c. The seat e is pivoted at g in the member b, and its free end, when in use, rests on a cross-bar h in the member a. The seat e is also connected by links i to the frame a. The back frame f pivoted at g has at each side an extension j connected at j<1> to one of a pair of toggle bars k, k<0> jointed at k<1>, the other of which is connected to the pivot c. The joints k<1> are connected by rods l to the leg-rest h<1> at l<1>. The toggle-bars k, k serve to lock the arrangement in the bassinet position. The whole may be collapsed into a small space on first raising the front of the seat e. The footboard m is mounted on a slide in the frame of the leg-rest h<1>, and may be fixed in any desired position by a bolt or thumb-screw.
Patent GB-190801253-A (GB)
Inventor: GERARD LEON
Filed: 1908-01-18
Granted: 1909-04-19
Abstract: 1253. Gerard, L. April 19, 1907, [date applied for under Section 91 of Patents &c. Act, 1907]. Gases, treating electrically.- Ozonizers &c. are provided with baths of insulating-oils, instead of water, contained in metallic casings. The electrodes may be curved apart towards their ends. Expansion of the parts may be facilitated by the employment of electrodes split along a generatrix or helix, and by suitably attaching the dielectrics. The apparatus, Fig. 1, is mainly constructed of glass, celluloid, &c., either in one piece, or in several pieces joined together by an insulating-cement, such as one composed of litharge, sulphur, &c., and comprises insulated tubes 1, 4 and metallic conductors 3, 5, which are curved apart towards their ends and are split along a generatrix or helix. The device is immersed in an oil bath 7, consisting of an insulated metallic vessel provided with a radiator 9. The air &c. enters the apparatus at the tube 2, and leaves at the tube 6. The apparatus, Fig. 5, comprises metallic tubes 11, 14 separated by a pair of dielectric tubes 16, 17. The dielectric tubes 16, 17 are separated by a ring of asbestos &c., and are free to expand upwards and laterally. The air &c. enters by the tube 11, passes through holes in the dielectric tube 16, and leaves at the tube 18. The oil bath is similar to that previously described. Plates may be used instead of tubes, and single dielectric surfaces instead of double ends. The oil used may be petrol, Canada balsam, resinous solutions, mineral oils, &c. The tubes or plates may be of glass, mica, celluloid, paper, sulphur, or enamel, and the electrodes of tin, aluminium, copper, silver, &c. The Specification in the original form, as open to inspection under Section 91 (3) (a), comprises also the employment of smooth-surfaced electrodes ; air or water for cooling the radiators ; large conducting-surfaces adjacent to the ozonizers to modify the peaks of the current waves in the same manner as does the metallic bath-container a wooden or other insulation for the metal box ; the direct connexion of the electrodes with the step-up transformer etc.; the connexion of a number of ozonizers in series ; a soft packing of asbestos, mica, solid paraffin, &c. between the inner electrode and its adjacent dielectric ; the maintaining of a uniform current density in the gas gap by curving the ends of the electrodes apart. There is also described a modification of the apparatus shown in Fig. 5, in which the dielectric tubes are rounded off at their lower ends like test-tubes. Multiple arc arrangements of circuits and gas-supply pipes to the ozonizers are also described. This subject - matter does not appear in the Complete Specification as accepted.
Patent GB-190802019-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Radiators for Motor Road Vehicles.
Inventor: MARSDEN HARRY RICHARD
Filed: 1908-01-29
Granted: 1908-06-11
Abstract: 2019. Marsden, H. R. Jan. 29. Gas and like engines, cooling 'cylinders of. A radiator for a motor road vehicle consists of a number of flat tubes, each subdivided by bending- in one or both sides at intervals, as shown in section in Fig. 3, the tubes being connected to top and bottom tanks and passing through a series of gill plates, to which they are soldered. Fig. 1 shows a construction having angularly bent gillplates e, which are threaded upon the tubes d and support one another. Each tube is formed of one or two metal plates the edges of which are connected by soldered lock-joints. The assembled parts are dipped in solder, which unites the tubes to end plates and to flanges on the gill-plates, and secures the lock-joints. The joints between the tubes and tanks are preferably re-soldered. The gill-plates may be undulated instead of angular. In a modification, flat gill-plates are used ; these require to be spaced until after soldering.
Patent GB-190802655-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to the Manufacture of Artificial Fuel.
Inventor: VIVIAN AVANDO WARREN HUSSEY
Filed: 1908-02-06
Granted: 1909-02-04
Abstract: 2655. Vivian, A. W. H., Davies, G. L., and Grote, L. Feb. 6. Tar -Liquid hydrocarbons, such as gas tar, are treated with chlorine or chlorine-producing compounds, and the binding-material so obtained is mixed with carbonaceous matter, heated, and briquetted to form a fuel. The chlorinating agent may be bleaching-powder, alone or mixed with lime, or free chlorine and steam may be passed directly into the hydrocarbons, lime being subsequently added. The Provisional Specification mentions sulphur chloride as a chlorinating agent. Specifications Nos. 7357 and 7357A, A.D. 1906, [Abridgment Class Fuel, Manufacture of], are referred to.
Patent GB-190805974-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Dynamo-electric Machines.
Filed: 1908-03-17
Granted: 1909-03-04
Abstract: 5974. British Thomson-Houston Co., [General Electric Co.]. March 17. Dynamos and motors combined as transformers. - I n direct-current converters, and especially those used in car-equipments for reducing the line voltage, the fields are so wound as to prevent the current rushes that occur firstly when the trolly leaves the line, causing the car motors to form a short circuit on the momentum-driven generator, and secondly when the trolly contact is resumed, the motors having dropped in speed meanwhile. The armature winding is also modified to improve the commutation. In the form shown in Fig. 1, a single core A carries motor and generator windings which are brought out to separate commutators C, C'. The motor circuit from the trolly F passes through the rheostat G, motor armature, series coils E, E', and generator armature to earth. The series coils E, E<1> neutralize each other when the machine runs as a (onverter, and their junction forms one terminal of the shunt coil D, the field of which is normally opposed by that of the coil E<1>. The load circuit, consisting of the master controllers J and contactors I, is in series with the generator armature, series coil E', and ground. The converter starts from rest unloaded as a compound motor, the coils E, E' assisting each other to build the field rapidly, but when the load is thrown on, the current in the coil E<1> reverses and neutralizes that in the coil E, so that the machine acquires a shunt characteristic. Removal of the trolly from the line causes a generated current to flow through the coils E, E', the former then opposing the shunt coil D and preventing an output current rush. When the trolly is replaced and both armatures act as motors, the current in the coil E' is as at starting, and both series coils assist in rapidly augmenting the counter-volts of the machine. The two machines may be made entirely separate by disconnecting the junction of the series coils, the coil E<1> being joined to the controller line f, and the common junction of the coils E, D being connected directly to ground. In the form shown in Fig. 3, the separate armatures A', A<2> have separate shunt coils D<1>, D<2> and pairs of series coils E, E1 and E', E<1>1. The coils E1, E<1>1 and E, E' oppose pair and pair, while the coil E is wound so as normally to assist the shunt coil D<1>. To enable the series fields to build as rapidly as possible, the shunt and series coils are wound on separate poles To improve the bad commutation that would result when both halves of the machine act either as motor or generator, the usual arrangement of spiral pitch motor and generator coils wound in the same slots is replaced by one in which the two windings have different pitches. The motor or high-voltage winding is preferably placed at the tops of the slots, as this leaves it accessible for the repair of the frequent groundings to which it is liable. The generator winding is placed at the bottoms of the slots and has a fractional pitch.
Patent GB-190810634-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Dumping Push-cars
Inventor: LOONEY RICHARD TIMOTHY
Filed: 1908-05-15
Granted: 1909-05-13
Abstract: 10,634. Looney, R. T. May 15. Tip-wagons; axle-trucks or undercarriages; bodies. -A railway push-car with a body capable of being turned and dumped in any direction comprises a truck frame 1, Fig. 6, with bearing-blocks 5 for the wheel axles, a roller frame 14, Fig 5, capable of being turned on the frame 1, and a dumping bodyframe 25, Fig. 4, with runners to engage rollers carried by the frame 14. The truck frame 1 is formed of a series of longitudinal bars 2, on the top edges of which are secured transverse bars 3 connected at their ends by side boards 4. The ends of the bars 2 form rounded handles 13. The inner bars 3 carry a swivel board 9 with a swivel plate 10 having an alined central aperture 12. On top of the bars 3, 4 is secured an octagonal metal frame on which rests the roller frame 14, which is formed of two pairs of longitudinal bars 15 connected by cross-bars 16. Each pair of bars 15 is spaced by blocks 17 to carry a series of rullers. The outer rollers are mounted on transverse shafts 19, the ends of which project to form pins 20. Secured below to the frame 14 is a swivel board 21, with a central swivel plate and with alined apertures for a pivot pin to pass through the central cross-bar 16 and aperture 12 in the pivot plate of the truck frame 1. The body frame 25 is formed of longitudinal bars 26 connected by end cross-bars 27. Two of the bars 26 project below the rest to form runners 28 to engage the rollers on the frame 14. To blocks 30 bolted to the bars 26 are secured hangers 29, Fig. 1, the hooked ends 31 of which engage the pins 20 when the body frame 25 is tilted. The body carries a suitable flooring and may have side boards 32 with handle-bars 33 for turning and tilting. After discharge of the contents, the body drops back by its own weight upon the frame 14, on which it may be locked by the operation of a lever which causes bolts 34 to slide laterally and engage the hooks 31. In a modified construction, the frame 14 is provided with the runners and the frame 25 with the rollers, and, in tilting, hooks mounted on the ends of the projecting shaft of one pair of rollers engage pins projecting from the frame carrying the runners. Casual turning of the body on the truck frame is prevented by a locking-device consisting of a rockshaft mounted laterally at the end of the truck frame and carrying projecting parallel stop-pins to engage the runner bars. In another modification, some of the rollers are carried by the body 25 and some by the frame 14, the hinge for tilting being formed by hooked portions of the runner bars on the body 25 engaging the end rollers on the frame 14. In a further modification, the intermediate frame 14 is dispensed with and a longitudinal rail is pivoted centrally on the truck frame. The body frame carries two end rollers running on this rail and also two side rollers running on the truck frame and mounted on lateral spindles at the centre of the body frame, the spindles engaging stops at the ends of the rail for tilting.
Patent GB-190815566-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Self-propelled Road Vehicles.
Inventor: CLARKSON THOMAS
Filed: 1908-07-22
Granted: 1909-07-22
Abstract: 15,566. Clarkson, T., and Morison, W. J. July 22. Motor road vehicles.-The fan and pump of a steam-propelled vehicle are driven from one of the steering-wheels. The steering-wheel C shown in plan in Fig. 1, carries a toothed wheel D, which gears with a pinion mounted in a bearing F adapted to swivel with the wheel. The pinion drives a shaft mounted in the casing K on the frame of the vehicle through a shaft H, universal joints H<1>, H', and bevel-gearing. The shaft in the casing K rotates a pump P and a sprocket R driving the fan B through chain gearing, the sprocket R being frictionally connected to the shaft so as to allow slip when starting.
Patent GB-190815596-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Cream and other like Separators.
Inventor: CORRIGAN OWEN
Filed: 1908-07-23
Granted: 1909-05-27
Abstract: 15,596. Corrigan, O. July 23. Spanners.-A spanner or lever for extracting the central pipe and liner-plates from a cream-separator is provided with an attachment to render it easier to use. To a shaft spanner A of ordinary type but rather longer than usual, is hinged at B a piece of steel C-sbaped at the end D so as to fit over the edge of the separator bowl and to give a firm bearing for the tool when in use.
Patent GB-190816903-A (GB)
Title: Improvement in or relating to "Intermediate Cooler for Compressors Combustion-engines, Explosion-engines and the like".
Inventor: JUNKERS HUGO
Filed: 1908-08-11
Granted: 1909-05-06
Abstract: 16,903. Junkers, H. Aug. 11. [Patent of Addition to No. 25,502, A.D. 1904.] Gas and like engines, cooling charge in: The heating and cooling apparatus described in Specification No. 25,502, A.D. 1904, [Abridgment Class Heating], is modified for use as an intermediate cooler for air and gases between the pump and working cylinder of an internal-combustion engine. The apparatus shown in Figs. 2 and 3 consists of a flanged casing 7 adapted to be inserted in the gas or air conduit. Within the casing 7 are arranged cooling-water channels 9, the spaces between which are divided by heat-conducting sheet-metal plates 10 into oblong air or gas channels parallel to the direction of flow of the air or gas. The plates 10 may be zigzag, U-shaped, or of any of the shapes shown in the above-mentioned Specification. In a modification, the water channels are arranged concentrically ; and in a further modification they consist of individual narrow pipes, to withstand pressure. Instead of the heatconducting plates being connected directly to the water channels, they may be connected to an intermediate plate. Specification No. 10,425, A.D. 1903, is also referred to.