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Patent GB-190524025-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Vapour Electric Apparatus.
Filed: 1905-11-21
Granted: 1906-09-06
Abstract: 24,025. British Thomson-Houston Co., [General Electric Co.]. Nov. 21. Vacuum tubes.- In a multipleanode vapour electric device such as a rectifier or alternating- current lamp, arcing between the anodes 4 is prevented by a tube 17, which is adapted to conduct emanations from the cathode 11 past the anode-chambers 2, and is flared at its upper end so as to catch mercury falling from the contracted mouth of a condensing- chamber 16. This tube may be made of glass, metal, or other materials, but not of fused silica, and is supported by means of a shoulder 18 in the containing vessel, scallops or openings being provided to allow passage of mercury. The leading-in wires and rear ends of the anodes 4 are covered by glass sleeves 8.
Patent GB-190524360-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Wrenches.
Inventor: MCMILLEN ROBERT
Filed: 1905-11-24
Granted: 1906-11-01
Abstract: 24,360. McMillen, R. Nov. 24. Wrenches.-In wrenches in which the grip of the jaws is increased by a movement of the adjustable jaw towards the fixed jaw 3 by the handhold of operator, the pole 2 of the wrench has a fixed jaw 3 and carries an adjustable jaw 4 connected to the hand-lever 6 by a bar 5. The pole passes through a passage in the hand-lever. To the inner part of the lever is pivoted, by a pin 9, a dog 10 having a rounded end 10<1>. Teeth 11 on the dog interlock with similar teeth 2<1> on the edge of the pole 2, the engagement being maintained by a leaf-spring 12. The dog 10 has a thumb-piece 13 for disengaging it. The jaws may be of a suitable form for pipes and curved objects. In use, when the wrench has been adjusted to a nut or pipe, the operator grasps the lever 6 as well as the pole 2 and thus causes the movable jaw to grip the object in proportion to the force required to turn the wrench.
Patent GB-190524748-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Means for Operating Railway Points and Switches from the Vehicles.
Inventor: PARSONS LOUIS ROBERT
Filed: 1905-11-29
Granted: 1906-10-25
Abstract: 24,748. Parsons, L. R., and Roberts, E. C. Nov. 29. Points and switches, railway, operating and locking from the vehicles mechanically. The point tongues C are connected by a bar 12, link 10, and pin-and-slot connexion 9 to the wheel 4, which in turn is connected by rods 3 to oscillatory disks 2. These disks are formed with V-shaped recesses 19<1>, Fig. 7, in which are pivoted trip-levers 21, 22 normally held in a radial position by the springs 24 and arranged so that there is always one in a vertical position. These trip-levers are struck by levers depending from the vehicles so as to operate the points as desired. In order to lock the points in position, a locking-shaft 25, Figs. 1 and 6, is mounted under the point tongues and has secured on one end a bevelled pinion 27 adapted to mesh with teeth on the wheel 4. Recesses 28, 29 are formed in the locking - shaft at the portions adjacent to the point tongues, so that, when the shaft is turned, one or other of the tongues will drop therein and become locked in position. When the points are operated, the shaft 25 is, by reason of the pin-and-slot connexion 9, first rotated sufficiently to release the point tongues before the bar 12 is moved. The points are again locked in their new position by the farther rotation of the shaft. The method of securing the trip-levers 21, 22 by the springs 24 prevents the incorrect operation of the points, as the trip-lever, if accidently moved, swings back into the recess 19<1> without rotating the disk 2.
Patent GB-190608174-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Telephone Apparatus.
Inventor: BINES ROBERT
Filed: 1906-04-04
Granted: 1906-09-20
Abstract: 8174. Bines, R. April 4. Telephone systems.-Relates to arrangements of telephone apparatus for preventing the disturbing effects due to induction. The transmitter A is in series with the two primary coils A', B', connected in multiple, of the cores A', B', the secondaries C, C' of which are in series with the line-wires D. The cores are wound so that the ends of the cores opposite each other are of unlike polarity. Between the cores A', B', and magnetically insulated therefrom, are mounted cores E, F having coils E', F' connected to the receiver G.
Patent GB-190610742-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Change Speed Gearing for Motor Cars and the like.
Filed: 1906-05-08
Granted: 1907-01-17
Abstract: 10,742. West, E. J., and West, Ltd. May 8. Variable-speed gearing; clutches.-Relates to gearing of the type in which change in the velocityratio are effected through the agency of gear-wheels which are slid into mesh while the gearing as a whole is isolated from the engine, or from such driven elements as the road wheels of a motor car or omnibus. The first - motion shaft A, which is driven from the engine through the usual clutch, drives a countershaft N through toothed wheels K, P. The secondmotion shaft B is hollow, and is adapted to fit over the end of the shaft A and over the end of a driven shaft C. The shaft B is driven at varying speeds when sliding gears Q, R are caused to mesh with fixed gears S, T on the shaft N, and when clutch teeth L engage the teeth on the wheel K. The shaft B normally drives the shaft C through a spring-actuated, sliding, positive clutch-member H on the former which engages a fixed member J on the latter, these members being disengaged while changing speed.
Patent GB-190610761-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Coal Tipping Apparatus and the like.
Inventor: KILBURN BERTRAM EDWARD DUNBAR
Filed: 1906-05-08
Granted: 1906-10-25
Abstract: 10,761. Kilburn, B. E. D., [Eisenwerk (vorm. Nagel & Kaemp) Akt.-Ges.]. May 8. Tipping-apparatus ; shoots.-Relates to hoisting and tipping apparatus for railway vehicles, and comprises the provision on the platform of a small shoot which bridges the distance to the main shoot during the tipping operation and permits free passage during raising and lowering. The truck c is secured on the platform, which tilts about the axis b until the projecting nose i of the auxiliary shoot h comes over the main shoot.
Patent GB-190611755-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Machines for Scraping and Transporting Snow, Gravel and the like.
Inventor: COLEMAN JOHN FRANCIS
Filed: 1906-05-19
Granted: 1906-10-25
Abstract: 11,755. Coleman, J. F. May 19. Refuse, collecting; scraping-machines.- Consists in a machine for scraping up, transporting, and discharging snow, gravel, sand, and the like. Fig. 5 is a longitudinal section. The downwardly-bent ends of the frame bars 7, 8 are slotted at 9 to receive the studs 51 of the arms 50 of a scraper 30 having a flared mouth. The scraper is also guided by arms 52 having forks embracing the arched rear axle 10, and it is raised and lowered by coupled elbow-levers 62 having suspending links 60. The levers are actuated by a hand-lever 67 on a crossshaft 68, which has arms 70 coupled to the links 65. The scraper, when filled and raised, is locked by the entry under the studs 51 of projections 82 of the coupled locking-levers 80, these being actuated either by means of a hand-lever 86 or by means of a treadle-bar 91, which is linked to the lever 86 by an elbow 88, as shown. The treadle is attached to a pivoted pair of bars 92, which have bent ends 95, adapted to enter under sliding blocks 97, from which the scraper is hung by stays 96. The treadle is held up by springs 94, which normally hold the levers 80 under the studs 51 and the catches 95 under the blocks 97, so that depression of the treadle or movement of the lever 86 leaves the scraper completely free to descend. For discharging, the scraper has bottom doors 34, the axes of which carry arms 36, Fig. 1, coupled together by a bar 38, to which the dooroperating lever 37 is pivoted.
Patent GB-190619438-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in the Construction of Pneumatic Tyres.
Inventor: BYROM JOHN
Filed: 1906-08-31
Granted: 1907-07-04
Abstract: 19,438. Byrom, J. Aug. 31. Tyres, pneumatic. -A tyre fabric adapted to be embedded in rubber, leather, &c., comprises a central tread strip A of zigzag wire or metal strip, connected by lacing D to similar side rings B bent at C to form hooks for engagement with the rim. In modifications, endless bands of cord, catgut, wire, &c., and strips of leather are threaded through the loops of the strip A. The side rings B may be replaced by ordinary inextensible wires. For light tyres, the central band may be dispensed with.
Patent GB-190622520-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Clutching Devices Adapted for use in Communicating Rotary Motion and in Controlling the Transmission thereof.
Inventor: BAILEY FRANK
Filed: 1906-10-11
Granted: 1907-10-10
Abstract: 22,520. Bailey, F., and Jackson, F. H. Oct. 11. Hydraulic transmission of power. -Hydraulic clutches, including those of the type described in Specification No. 1318, A.D. 1906, [Abridgment Class Mechanism &c.], are provided on one or on both sides with a circular plate which is forced against the inner member of the clutch by fluid pressure. A reservoir for storing fluid for replenishing the clutch is also formed on the clutch drum, and a relief valve is fitted to relieve the pressure in the clutch chamber when this becomes excessive. Fig. 1 shows the loose plate a' bearing against the vane disk B ; it is prevented from rotating therewith by means of a stop a<2> which engages a recess a<3> in the casing A. The back of the disk communicates with the hollow interior D of the clutch by passages a<4>, this communication being controlled by a valve F. which may in some cases be connected to the main controlling-valve E of the clutch. When the pressure behind the disk is relieved, the latter falls away from the vane disk B, allowing free passage for the fluid, which is further provided for by the holes a<5> in the disk a<1>, shown in Fig. 2. When the apparatus is required to be capable of transmitting motion in the reverse direction also, or for occasional use as a brake, the stop a' carried by the plate a<1> is arranged to work in a groove formed in the casing A of such length as to adapt the position of the holes a<5> to the reversed condition of running. The reservoir G containing the liquid for replenishing the clutch is fitted with non-return valves g<1> opening towards the clutch chamber a. The reservoir is so arranged that it may catch the leakage from the stuffing-box d, and the leakage may pass through non-return valves into the interior of the reservoir. A relief valve is provided to permit of the clutch slipping when a predetermined torque has been reached. Preferably, the valve F is constructed as a piston valve having on one side a trunk f, thus forming an annulus f<1> to which the pressure fluid is admitted, the pressure thereon being balanced by a spring f<2>. The load on this spring can be adjusted through the inclined surfaces of the pieces f<3>, f<4> by means of a thumb-screw f
Patent GB-190624269-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Relieving Mechanism for Weighing Apparatus.
Inventor: HIPKINS WILLIAM EDWARD
Filed: 1906-10-31
Granted: 1907-07-11
Abstract: 24,269. Hipkins, W. E. Oct. 31. Relieving-mechanism.-In weighing-apparatus of the stand-scale type, chemical balances, &c., the sliding standard d, Fig. 5, is brought into and out of use by a hand-lever i, pivoted to one of the legs b by which the scale is supported. The lever is joined to the standard d by means of a togglejointj, Figs. 2 and 5.
Patent GB-190626363-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or connected with the Swells and Picking Devices of Loom Shuttle Boxes
Filed: 1906-11-21
Granted: 1907-05-16
Abstract: 26,363. Jacobi, L., and Union Bank. Nov. 21. Loom swells ; shuttle boxes; pickers; checking pickers ; weft - replenishing mechanism ; stop-motions.- In a loom having an automatic weftreplenishing m echanism, the picker 8 is guided by the slotted swell 2, and by the spindle 4 placed at the back of the box. When the shuttle enters the box, the projection 7 on the pivoted swell turns the lever 10, 11, which raises the sliding bar 18 against the action of the spring 16. The pivoted feeler 20, which controls the weft-replenishing mechanism, is thus pressed down upon the cop. The motion of the lever 10, 11 tilts the lever 13, 14, which would otherwise engage with the stop 15 as the lay moves forward and thus actuate mechanism for stopping the loom.
Patent GB-190628074-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to the Brakes of Cycles and the like.
Inventor: PHILLIPS WILLIAM
Filed: 1906-12-10
Granted: 1907-03-07
Abstract: 28,074. Phillips, W. Dec 10. Brakes.-To facilitate the mending of tyre punctures, the yoke of the rim brake of a cycle &c. is formed in two parts united together at one of the elbows by an overlaid plate-metal hinge G bolted or riveted at H, K to the parts, so that, after pressing the member A' inwards free of the guidepin D, the member may be slightly twisted to clear the guide and turned up as shown in dotted lines.
Patent GB-190704313-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Process for Removing Scale and Oxide from Metallic Surfaces and Preparing Metallic Surfaces for Coating with other Metals and Materials
Inventor: COWPER-GOLES SHERARD OSBORN
Filed: 1907-02-21
Granted: 1907-12-19
Abstract: 4313. Coles, S. O. Cowper-. Feb. 21. Enamelling. - Metallic surfaces are cleaned, annealed, and provided with a slight metallic coating preparatory to being coated with enamel. The sheets or other articles to be treated are heated in an air-tight box or chamber, and during the operation pure dry hydrogen is passed into the box so as to reduce the scale and oxide on the articles, as described in Specification No. 23,664, A.D. 1906, [Abridgment Class Metals and alloys]. When the annealing is nearly completed, there is introduced into the box hydrogen gas which has been passed over or through molten zinc as described in Specification No. 12,452, A.D. 1906, [Abridgment Class Metals and alloys]. The articles thus receive a slight coating which does not readily oxidize, so that they retain a surface free from oxide and ready for coating with the desired material.
Patent GB-190706491-A (GB)
Title: Improved Method of Operating Gas Producers and Producers therefor.
Inventor: LYMN ARTHUR HENRY
Filed: 1907-03-18
Granted: 1908-03-05
Abstract: 6491. Lymn, A. H., and Weil, J. A. March 18. Producers.-In gasproducers supplied with blast simultaneously at the top and bottom, the gases and vapours resulting from the down-draught in the upper part b of the shaft are withdrawn through parts f situated above the final gas outlet k, and are injected at the base of the lower part a of the shaft. Alternatively, the gases and vapours resulting from the updraught in the lower part may be withdrawn through ports situated below the outlet k, and injected above the fuel level in the upper part. The tubes g conveying the gases from the upper to the lower part of the producer, or vice versa, may open into a combustion chamber m, which is supplied with air for the purpose of burning the tarry matter in the gases.
Patent GB-190709242-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Machines for Inserting Inlays in Paper or Pasteboard.
Inventor: HOFFMANN OSCAR
Filed: 1907-04-20
Granted: 1907-10-10
Abstract: 9242. Hoffmann, O. May 23, 1906, [date applied for under Patents Act, 1901]. Paper, strengthening with wire &c.-In machines for making paper or pasteboard in which crossing threads &c. are embedded between two bands of paper combined by an adhesive substance, the bobbins for the cross threads are mounted on a carriage and at each reciprocation thereof a number of cross threads corresponding to the number of bobbins are inserted at right-angles to the longitudinal threads. The longitudinal threads are led from bobbins 3 over grooved guides 5 to pressure rollers 1, 2 between which the previouslygummed rolls of paper are fed. The cross-threads are carried from bobbins 8 mounted on a carriage 7 to eyelets 16 in a curved insertion arm 15, and at each transverse reciprocation of the carriage are hooked over stretching-pins 36 mounted on end-disks 45 carried on the shaft of the roller 1. The stretching-pins 36 are formed on two-armed levers 48 pivoted at 46 and are pressed outwards by springs 49. As the roller 1 rotates, the levers 48 are rocked in turn to free them from the threads by an adjustable finger 52 engaging with a groove 50 in the end disk 45. At each complete reciprocation of the carriage, the roller is fed forward by ratchet gear, the multiple of the distance between the stretching-pins corresponding to the number of bobbins 8. The carriage 7 is provided with wheels 13 running on rails 12 and is moved by an endless band running on rollers 17, 18, 19, 20. Reversal of movement is secured by the carriage pressing back levers 32 which actuate a vertically-guided rod 28 and move a friction roller 25 from one side to the other of a disk 26 keyed to a driving- shaft 27.
Patent GB-190709351-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Safety Air Brake Mechanism for Lifts or Elevators.
Inventor: SMALL FRED EVERETT
Filed: 1907-04-22
Granted: 1908-04-22
Abstract: 9351. Small, F. E., and Latsch, T. M. April 24, 1906, [date applied for under Patents Act, 1901]. Lifts; safety suspending-apparatus.-A lift cage is provided with fluid pressure actuated brakes for arresting the cage automatically in the event of excessive speed, or by hand. Fig. 1 is a plan view of the brake mechanism, Fig. 2 a vertical section of the lift cage, and Fig. 3 a detail view of tha control valve. An auxiliary compressed-air chamber 12 on the cage is connected by flexible tubing with a fixed reservoir 8, and communicates by a pipe 13 with a valve chamber 14, the opposite side of which communicates through a three-way cock 17 with the outer ends of a cylinder 20. This cylinder contains pistons 21 which are connected by rods and toggle-links 26 to a pair of brake levers adapted to engage the cage guides. The mechanism is brought into action by opening the valve 14, which may be effected automatically by the governor 44 on excessive speed, or by a haud-rope 78. The valve 14 comprises a conical head 63 connecte by a hollow tube with a piston 67 working in a chamber 69. The hollow tube contains a rod carrying a smaller valve 61, which is first actuated by the governor or by hand. The air then passes into the upper part of the chamber 69 and releases the main valve 63. When the device has been operated, the valve 14 is closed by opening the upper part of the chamber 69 to the atmosphere, by means of a tube 75. Air is exhausted from the brake eylinder by adjusting the cock 27, which is normally held in such position as to communicate freely between the main valve 14 and the brake cylinder. A one - way valve 11<1> is provided on the flexible tubing 10 so that the chamber 12 always contains sufficient air to operate the mechanism, even if the tubing 10 should break. The governor 44 is driven by a weight and cord pulleys as shown, or in any convenient manner. [Reference has been directed under Section 7 of Patents &c. Act, 1907, to Specifications No. 10,225, A.D. 1890, No. 18,211, A.D. 1902, No. 6176, A.D. 1903, and No. 1765, A.D. 1906.]
Patent GB-190714652-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Fly Traps.
Inventor: NITZ GUSTAV
IPC: A01M1/16
Filed: 1907-06-25
Granted: 1907-10-10
Abstract: 14,652. Nitz, G. June 25. Traps for flies. A fly trap having a conical or pyramidal adhesive surface is made collapsible, folding into its dish-shaped base b, which is then covered by a lid or by a similar trap d inverted and fitting into the rim c of the first, as shown in Fig. 2. To assist folding, bands g on the outside or inside of the conical surface are provided, or the surface may be pleated. The supporting ring or hook e is affixed to a recessed block f of wood or the like which, when collapsed, comes into contact with, and prevents the adhesive surface from touching, the lid or the superposed trap. The closed trap is sealed with a strip of paper.
Patent GB-190714660-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or connected with Paper Cutting Machines
Inventor: VICKERY FREDERICK WILLIAM
Filed: 1907-06-25
Granted: 1908-04-23
Abstract: 14,660. Vickery, F. W. June 25. C u t t i n g-machines for paper.-Relates to the delivering of 'angle' or rectangular sheets of paper from cutting - machines, and consists of a device which is adjustable to the varying angle and width of the paper. Arms 4, Fig. 1, are adjustable by means of clamping-nuts 34 in brackets 2 pivoted at 3 to clamps 4, which are slidable along a girder 5 at right-angles to the direction of travel of the paper, to adjust for the varying width of the paper. A rotating roller 10 extends across the machine, and tapes 11 pass around this roller and rollers 9 carried by the brackets 2 and around rollers 8, 6 on the ends of the arms 1, so that the arms 1 may be adjusted in the bracket 2 without altering the lengths of the tapes. Feed-rollers 7 mounted below the rollers 6 may be carried by arms 12 pivoted to sockets 14, the arms being clamped by nuts 13 in a position as shown in dotted lines to press on the tapes 11. Or the rollers 6 may be mounted to press, under spring or weight action, on the rollers 7 ; ten methods of so mounting the rollers 6 are described. Fig. 1 shows two arms 1 with their rollers 6, 6<a> adjusted to seize the corners of angle sheets simultaneously and deposit them on the pipe 33. For delivering rectangular sheets, the rollers 6 are brought close up to and parallel with a roller P ; in this case the rollers 7, 7a may be dispensed with. Or the rollers 6, 6a may rest on the roller P, in which case the bolts 16, which are used for adjusting the arms 1 vertically, are left loose. The apparatus may be used in conjunction with the machine described in Specification No. 17,257, A.D. 1906.
Patent GB-190717389-A (GB)
Title: Improvements connected with the Filtration or Purification of Sewage, Trade Liquids, and other Impure Liquids.
Inventor: MALABAR ROBERT
Filed: 1907-07-30
Granted: 1908-06-18
Abstract: 17,389. Malabar, R. July 30. Sewage and foul waters, treating; filt e r i n g ; filtering- media.-Sewage or trade or other impure liquid supplied to the tank i filters upwards through a layer b of wood in the form of a fine fibre, granules, or powder, placed between layers a, c of carbon and perforated plates d, e. The liquid passes through the space f to the outlet g. Part of the liquid may filter downwards through similar layers a', b<1>, c' to the space k, which is provided with an air inlet or inlets p and a discharge sluice m. Several such tanks are used in series. Beech or poplar wood is mentioned as being suitable.
Patent GB-190718629-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Ball Crushing Mills.
Inventor: CADENACCIO ETTORE
Filed: 1907-08-17
Granted: 1908-03-19
Abstract: 18,629. Cadenaccio, E. Aug. 17. Ball mills.-Relates to ball mills in which the crushed material is continuously removed by aspiration when it is ground sufficiently fine. The mill comprises a rotary cylinder with hollow trunnions, through which a current of air passes and which are adapted for the supply and discharge of the material to be treated. The inner lining of the cylinder is provided with a number of grooves or recesses a, b, c, d, and the Specification gives a mathematical calculation to determine the shape of the grooves to ensure that the material carried up on one side of the cylinder shall be discharged from the recesses in such a way that the shower of falling particles may fill the whole of the cylinder, so that the aspirating effect of the air current may be as effective as possible.