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Patent GB-190810407-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Spring Valves.
Inventor: GUTERMUTH MAX FRIEDRICH
Filed: 1908-05-13
Granted: 1909-04-08
Abstract: 10,407. Gutermuth, M. F. May 13. Check valves; seats.-Relates to spring valves especially of the type described in Specification No. 25,566, A.D. 1899, constructed so as to lessen the resistance to, and the deviation of the flow of the fluid passing through the valve, and to make the valve and its support self-contained and readily attachable to the valve seat. The valve flap a and the valve seat g are constructed of cylindrical form, and so as to be substantially tangential with each other and with the stream of fluid as it comes from the port f. The spring part b may be a simple continuation of the flap, Fig. 3, or it may be wound spirally. The spiral may be supported on a spindle mounted in bearings fixed on the valve seat, as described in the above-mentioned Specification. When the valve and its support are made self-contained, they may be constructed from a bifurcated strip, Figs. 6 and 7, or from a single blank of sheet metal, in which longitudinal slots are so formed that the middle portion of the blank may serve as the spring part b and flap a, and the side portions k serve as supports which can be secured by screws &c. to the seat. Fig. 10 shows a form of valve constructed in this manner, and so that the pressure of the fluid tends to coil up the spiral b further.and to uncoil the spirals k. In a modification, Fig. 8, in which this pressure tends to coil up both spirals b, k further, the parts are coiled in a direction reverse from that in which the valve b is coiled so that they may be screwed on to a part of the seat g opposite to that through which the port f is bored. The parts k may be stiffened by adding to the thickness of the outer strips of the blank, or by embossing. The metal at the ends of the slots also may be strengthened', or a solid or hollow spindle may be fixed in the central coil. The valve flap and the supports may be made separately, being joined together so as to form a selfcontained unit, as shown in Fig. 13, in which the side pieces r are provided with slotted tubes t fitting into the central coil of the valve flap and are stamped in the form of cylindrical rims adapted to fit into and to be fastened by screws &c. to the valve seat. In another modification, Fig. 14, a valve flap, for use with a long port, and the support are made from a U-shaped piece of sheet metal having a cut l, Fig. 16; the part m serves as the flap, and the part n is fastened by bolts and nuts &c. to the valve seat. The methods of constructing the valve and support in a self-c ntained manner are applicable to valves of the kind described in the above-mentioned Specification.
Patent GB-190812436-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Variable Speed Mechanism.
Inventor: HADDAN HERBERT JOHN
Filed: 1908-06-09
Granted: 1908-09-17
Abstract: 12,436. Haddan, H. J., [Lodge & Shipley Machine Tool Co.]. June 9. Variable-speed gearing. - A variable-speed belt gear is constructed with telescopic pulleys so that the belt is kept moving in one plane. Driving and driven countershafts 13, 14 supported by suitable hangers 1, 2, 3, 4 carry sets of telescoping belt-pulleys 16, 17, 18 and 20, 21, 19 respectively. The pulley 16 is mounted centrally upon spokes &c. 23 secured to the shaft 13. The pulleys 17, 18 are mounted from either side upon spokes, &c. 26, 29 respectively, secured to hubs 25, 28 which slide on keys on the shaft 13. The pulley 16 has an outwardlyextending flange 24, and the pulleys 17, 18 have inwardlyinclined. flanges 27, 30 for lifting the belt. The corresponding and similar pulleys 20, 21, 19 are shown in extended position. The belt 31 is kept in the plane of the pulleys 16, 20 by guides 32, 33. The first speed-change is effected by moving the pulleys 18, 21 to the right outwards and inwards, respectively. For the second speed-change, the pulleys 17, 19 are moved to the left. These various movements are effected in proper sequence by cams 44, 50, 52, 53 and gearing 41, 40, 42 actuated by a hand or other chain-wheel 38.
Patent GB-190813148-A (GB)
Inventor: STOREY ANDREW WILLIAM
Filed: 1908-06-20
Granted: 1909-06-17
Abstract: 13,148. Storey, A. W. June 20. Bending.-The hexagonal mesh of wire-netting is modified by reciprocating the half-pinions of the twisting - machine two or more stages between successive twists, thus producing designs such as are shown in Figs. 1 and 2. Each half-pinion crosses the half-pinion it would normally cooperate with, and intertwists with the half-pinion beyond, or it may proceed still farther before intertwisting. Additional half-pinions are threaded. The halfpinions may be given a half-turn after the first crossing when there is more than one crossing as in Fig. 2, thus interlacing the wire. The half-turn may also be given to the half-pinions in the design shown in Fig. 1, thereby binding-in the selvedge wire.
Patent GB-190815364-A (GB)
Title: A New or Improved Device for Cleaning the Flats used in Carding.
Inventor: BOVENSIEFEN GUSTAV
Filed: 1908-07-20
Granted: 1908-10-29
Abstract: 15,364. Bovensiepen, G. July 20. Carding-engines.- The flats are cleaned by a card roller a and a brush roller b. The card roller is provided with teeth inclined as shown ; it is set so that the teeth touch the backing of the flat cards, and is driven at such a speed that the teeth do not scrape the backing of the flats but have a rolling action thereon. The brush b clears the card roller a and also the upper parts of the flats, and is cleaned by the usual comb k.
Patent GB-190815606-A (GB)
Title: A Device for Developing and Strengthening the Muscles of the Body and Arms.
Inventor: BLAKOE ROBERT
Filed: 1908-07-23
Granted: 1909-01-14
Abstract: 15,606. Blakoe, R. July 23. Gymnastic apparatus. - A part circle A of tempered spring steel &c. has grips E, F by which the ends can be urged together or drawn apart to an extent which can be measured by a scale G bridging the gap. By this means physical strength can be gauged. The scale may be provided with a sliding marker N.
Patent GB-190819589-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Electric Circuit Breakers.
Filed: 1908-09-17
Granted: 1909-07-22
Abstract: 19,589. British Thomson - Houston Co., [General Electric Co.]. Sept. 17. Switches; cutouts.-An automatic circuit-breaker, having a currentresponsive coil carried by the movable member, is provided with a calibrating - device consisting of an adjustable stop for the armature of the tripping-mechanism, clamped to the movable member. The movable member comprises an arm 9, Fig. 4, pivoted at 10 to the switch base and carrying contacts 6, 7, which co-operate with the fixed contacts 4, 5. The contact 7 is extended in the form of a spring to engage with a similar spring contact connected with the terminal 5 in all positions of the switch arm. The coil 8 is arranged within the arm, and the framework of the arm itself serves as part of the magnetic circuit. To lock the switch in the closed position, projections 15, 17, Figs. 4 and 5, are arranged upon the upper part of the switch arm, as shown. In closing the switch, the camface 17 engages the pivoted bolt 18 and depresses it into engagement with the projections 15. The bolt serves also to prevent the switch arm from being forced home too far with risk of damage to the fixed contacts. The coil 8 is provided with a fixed core 23 surrounded by a sleeve 24, which guides the movable core 25. This core rests upon the adjustable stop 26, which is in the form of a plate slotted at the top and corrugated so that a second corrugated plate provided with a hole may be clamped down upon it in various positions, by means of the screwed switch - handle 30. The plate 26 may be graduated and the upper plate slotted so that the point at which the switch is set may be observed.
Patent GB-190822349-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to the Speed Regulation of Electrically Driven Ring spinning Frames
Filed: 1908-10-21
Granted: 1909-06-10
Abstract: 22,349. Akt.-Ges. Brown, Boveri, et Cie. May 27, [date applied for under Section 91 of Patents &c. Act, 1907]. Driving-arrangements; electrical arrangements.- Relates to the speed regulation of electrically-driven ring spinning-frames, particularly to such methods as are described in Specification No. 7612, A.D. 1908. A cord k is connected with the regulating-gear of the motor and is operated by the heart-shaped cam c or other part which controls the reciprocating motion of the ring rail, and by a cam g actuated by the ratchet-wheel shaft e or other part which controls the progressive motion of the ring rail. If the cord initially hangs loose, the reciprocating motion of the lever h is not communicated thereto, but as the roller descends, owing to the operation of the cam g, the lever imposes a reciprocation of constantly-increasing amplitude until a maximum is reached, as indicated in Fig. 2. To allow for the inertia of the parts of the motor and machine, the cam f is designed so that the points of greatest and least eccentricity harmonize with those of the cam c, but are reached sooner and kept up longer.
Patent GB-190826323-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Pad-locks and the like.
Inventor: RALLS JAMES CHARLES
Filed: 1908-12-05
Granted: 1909-11-11
Abstract: 26,323. Ralls, J. C. Dec. 5. Locks, key padlocks.-The ordinary detectorlever of a lock is normally inactive and extends into close proximity to the key pin a, thus serving as a guard against picking. The bit of the true key has to be cut through to the stem. In the padlock shown in Fig. 1, the detector-lever A is normally in the unlocking-position and is not actuated by the true key. If lifted by a false key, it engages the shackle hook, and cannot be released until the shackle is pressed in. When the invention is applied to the form of padlock shown in Fig. 4, or to ordinary looks, the detector, when raised by a false key, is held in the locking-position by means of the bolt stump, and is released by moving the bolt forward with the true key.
Patent GB-190828042-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Bleaching Cotton and other Vegetable Fibres in the Raw State or in the Form of Yarns or Fabrics.
Inventor: HARDMAN FREDERICK
Filed: 1908-12-24
Granted: 1909-12-02
Abstract: 28,042. Hardman, F., and Edmondson, F. Dec. 24. Bleaching.-In bleaching cotton and other vegetable fibres in the raw state, or as yarns, fabrics, &c., treatment with cold caustic soda or potash lye containing a little vegetable oil, preferably castor oil, made soluble by any suitable known treatment, as by sulphonation, takes the place of the ordinary boiling or treating in steam-heated kiers. Raw fibres and yarns are steeped in the liquid, and fabrics are run in open state over and under rollers through it, being subsequently squeezed. Chemicking, souring, and washing complete the bleaching process, the whole being carried out in the cold.
Patent GB-190902954-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to Apparatus for Indicating and Recording the Course and Speed of Ships.
Inventor: WLODZIMIRSKI JULIAN
IPC: G03B17/24
Filed: 1909-02-06
Granted: 1909-07-01
Abstract: 2954. Wlodzimirski, J. Feb. 6. Cameras for indicating the speed and course of ships and with provision for developing and the like.-A ship's course is recorded by photographing the compass at given intervals of time. An objective 2 is arranged between the compass 1 and a sensitized record film 3, which is periodically exposed. The exposed film is carried through developing and fixing troughs 5, 6, and, after being washed, is wound up on a roller 9.
Patent GB-190908130-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Apparatus for use in the Metabolism of Seeds.
Inventor: KAMMER JOHN VON DER
IPC: A01G31/06
Filed: 1909-04-05
Granted: 1909-11-04
Abstract: 8130. Kammer, J. von der. April 7, 1908, [Convention date]. Germination, assisting. - Seeds, bulbs or tubers are caused to germinate and grow to a certain extent without soil in an anaerobic atmosphere. The plants may be transferred to the ground or used as human or animal food. For this purpose, they may be canned in an ordinary manner. The seeds &c. are placed, without being steeped or soaked, which would remove useful bacteria and organic matter in drawers 9 having a perforated bottom 10 of wire gauze &c., and sides 11 of a non- porous material such as soapstone. The drawers rest upon trays 5 of soapstone into which water or a bacterial culture is introduced while the seeds &c. are periodically moistened with a special liquid. Several drawers are enclosed by a single chamber 18 into which nitrogen, which may have traces of other gases present, is introduced from a gas-holder 23, a trough 25 containing alkaline pyrogallol to absorb oxygen being provided if necessary. The nitrogen may be produced alternatively or additionally by means of reagents placed in a trough 24 or other vessel in the chamber. The partitions 2 are held in place by bolts 3 and the trays may be merely recessed therein or supported on brackets at the corners. The trays are provided with a cock 14 for drawing-off the liquid, and may have cross-bars 8 to support the drawer. The liquid used for moistening the seeds &c. consists of a solution of potassium phosphate, calcium carbonate and ordinary fertilizers containing soluble potassium, free phosphoric acid and nitrogen, neutralized by an extract of wood-ashes. The bacterial culture is obtained by dissolving potassium phosphate in water, stirring with calcium carbonate, decanting, adding dextrose and a filtered and sterilized extract of germinated seeds, for instance, wheat, corn, and vetches, and inoculating this liquid with an extraction of black pasture soil, or with nitrogen-fixing bacteria or fungi such as those on the market for the inoculation of legumes. The liquid is rendered neutral or slightly alkaline by adding extract of wood-ashes, and is allowed to develop in an air-tight stoneware vessel at about 35‹ C. for about four days until turbid. A fresh supply of the culture is placed in the trays for each batch of seeds &c., the waste liquid being drawn off, filtered, sterilized and again inoculated.
Patent GB-190910422-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Flying Machines.
Inventor: LANCHESTER FREDERICK WILLIAM
IPC: B64C13/00
Filed: 1909-05-03
Granted: 1910-04-28
Abstract: 10,422. Lanchester, F W, May 3. Aerial machines without aerostats; planes, construction and arrangement of steering; propelling. -The aerial machine is steered by a front elevator pivoted at its forward end and normally out of action, and by a multicellular tail, adjustable by means of irreversible gearing about a transverse axis, and placed behind the propeller so as to absorb the angular momentum of the currents from the propeller. The machine is provided with main supporting-planes a. Outriggers s support the front elevator q, which is adjusted when required by a hand-lever t. The rear elevator f preferably consists of an hexagonal member having six cells j, and is mounted on an axis k. The tail is adjusted by worm or other reversible gearing which holds it in its adjusted position.
Patent GB-190915895-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Trolley Wheels or Collectors for Electricity.
IPC: B60L5/06
Filed: 1909-07-07
Granted: 1909-10-28
Abstract: 15,895. Krebs, G., and Krebs & Co., G. July 7. Trolly pulleys and collecting - wheels. - The rims or felloes 1 of trolly-wheels or collectors for electricity are connected to the hubs 2 by means of metal disks 3, 4 which engage in grooves formed in the rims as shown. The disks are held in position by means of a shoulder on the hub, a distancepiece 10, and a ring 8 sprung into position over the enlarged end 9 of the brush. This construction gives a comparatively large chamber 14 for containing lubricant.
Patent GB-190917655-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Rendering Mixtures of Fatty Matters and other Organic Materials such as Solvents, Soluble in Water and in the Products Obtained.
Inventor: LAROCHE JEAN
IPC: C11B3/00
Filed: 1909-07-29
Granted: 1910-07-29
Abstract: 17,655. Laroche, J., and Juillard, P. July 29. Soaps and saponaceous cleansing-compositions, materials for making. - Fatty bodies, such as olive oil, castor oil, oleic acid, or ricinoleic acid, mixed with other organic substances, such as ether, phenols, carbon bisulphide, petroleum ether, ligroin, or the halogen derivatives of methane, such as chloroform and carbon tetrachloride, are rendered soluble in water by consecutive sulphonation with sulphuric acid, hydrolysis by means of water or a solution of sodium chloride or sulphate, and neutralization with one or more bases. By neutralizing with caustic soda or ammonia, or both in succession, four different soaps are obtainable, owing to the presence of carboxylic and sulphonic groups, unless sodium chloride &c. are used in place of water, in which case only two soaps are obtainable. More ether &c. may be added after sulphonation. The products may be used as soap, for cleaning fabrics, skins, and leather, in dyeing, and as hair-washes, toilet petroleums, &c.
Patent GB-190922669-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to Account and other Printed Forms.
Inventor: BENNET JOHN FREDERICK
IPC: B42D15/08
Filed: 1909-10-05
Granted: 1910-01-06
Abstract: 22,669. Bennet, J. F. Oct. 5. [Addition to 19,364/06.] Letter-sheets.-The postal form described in the parent Specification is modified in that the blank upper portion of the form is dispensed with and the wings or ears for securing the folded form are attached to the lower portion of the sheet. The lower flap d is folded on the line e, the wings b having been previously folded backwards, and the upper flaps g, i are then folded above the flap d and secured by the wings b.
Patent GB-190926218-A (GB)
Title: Improved Process of Manufacturing Driving Members.
Inventor: ALBERT HERZOG
IPC: B63C9/08
Filed: 1909-11-12
Abstract: 26,218. Herzog, A. March 24, [Convention date]. Void. [Published under Section 91 of the Act.] Imitations of textile fabrics. - In making driving-belts, ropes, girths, &c. of open, non- woven and non-stranded fibres, the fibres are arranged principally in the direction of pull, and are bound together by a suitable agglutinant, such as india-rubber solution, and then pressed to the required shape.
Patent GB-191002571-A (GB)
Title: Improved Engine Control Gear for Motor Propelled Road Vehicles.
Inventor: BERRY HENRY
IPC: B60K28/06
Filed: 1910-08-02
Granted: 1911-03-30
Abstract: 2571. Berry, H. Aug. 2. No Patent granted (Sealing fee not paid). Controlling independently of drivers; interlocking and guarding against w r o n g movements. - The m o t o r ignition circuit contains switches arranged in parallel, and opened resp ectively when the gear-lever is moved from the fire - engine position, and when a hinged foot-board, pedal, or pedal attachment is allowed to rise owing to the absence or illness of the driver. A series of parallel metal bars a<1>, a<2>, &c., with insulated portions b, are traversed by sliding switch contacts c<1>, c<2>, c<3> connected by links to the gearlever, clutch pedal, and hinged foot-board. The leads D, E are connected to the accumulator and ignition coil circuit. When the gear-lever is central, the contact c<1> bridges the bars a<4>, a<5> and completes the ignition circuit irrespective of the position of the foot-board &c. If the gear-level is not in central position, the completion of the ignition circuit is dependent on the depression of the foot-board &c. The disposition of the contacts is slightly modified for magneto ignition. The spark-advancing mechanism is returned to its most retarded position, when the automatic control comes into action, by coupling the contact-breaker h to the pivoted footboard by a connexion 1, and to the spark-advancing lever through a buffer spring g.
Patent GB-191004473-A (GB)
Title: Process to Recover Ammonium Sulphate Direct from Coke Oven or Retort Gas.
Inventor: FABRY RENE
IPC: C01C1/244
Filed: 1910-02-23
Granted: 1910-09-08
Abstract: 4473. Fabry, R. Feb. 23. Ammonium sulphate.-Hot or cold crude coke-oven or retort gas, preferably first freed from tar, is washed with a neutral solution of zinc sulphate, whereby zinc sulphide and ammonium sulphate are obtained. The zinc sulphide is roasted to sulphate for re-use. If the crude gas contains insufficient sulphuretted hydrogen, this substance may be supplied by adding sulphur to the material in the retorts.
Patent GB-191008142-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Drying Machines.
Inventor: STOTT OSWALD
IPC: F26B11/02
Filed: 1910-04-04
Granted: 1911-04-04
Abstract: 8142. Stott, O. April 4. Rotary - chamber apparatus. - Cast brass and other metal and other goods are dried by an air current in an apparatus of the kind in which a rotary drum is arranged on an inclinable axis. At each end the drum is supported in ring-like supports b, Fig. 2, provided with roller bearings c. At the receiving end, the trunnions of the support are carried in fixed bearings in a standard. At the other end, the trunnions of the support may be carried by a stirrup g adjustable vertically by a screw working in a bracket on a standard k. The drum is driven by means of a shaft parallel with its axis, the shaft carrying a pinion and the drum a spurwheel at the receiving end. By lowering the discharge end of the drum sufficiently, the wheel and pinion may be disengaged. The trunnions of the carrier at the discharge end may alternatively be adjusted by screws in slots in the sides of the standard k. The drum may be perforated and enclosed in a casing having air inlet and outlet openings. A number of drying- drums may be geared together side by side, as shown in Fig. 5, the blast and suction openings of their casings being flexibly connected to common trunk pipes l, m as shown in full lines; or the outlet opening of one casing may be connected to the inlet opening of the next as shown in dotted lines. The driving-shafts of the series being geared together and driven from a common source, any of the drums (2, 3 as shown) may be thrown out of action by lowering their discharge ends.
Patent GB-191008945-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Diagonal Brushing Machines.
IPC: D06C11/00
Filed: 1910-04-13
Granted: 1910-07-07
Abstract: 8945. Marks, E. C. R., [M³ller, F., (Firm of)]. April 13. Pile, raising and dressing.-A diagonal brushing-machine is provided with two brush rollers lying above one another and journaled diagonally to the directions of entry and exit of the goods, the rollers being displaced at rightangles to each other. The fabric enters over feeding-rollers 1, 2, 3, 4, and passes over the lower table 5 and over the diagonal edge thereof, where it is acted on by the brush roller V. It then passes under the table 5, over rollers 6, 7 to the table 8, over the edge of which it passes to be acted on by the roller W, whence it passes under the table to the rollers 10, 12. The bearings of the brush rollers are made adjustable.