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Patent GB-190422781-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Railway-car-couplings.
Inventor: GUDICH KOLOMAN
Filed: 1904-10-22
Granted: 1905-03-02
Abstract: 22,781. Gudich, K. Oct. 22. Couplings, automatic.-The link and hook are formed in one with a bar which moves horizontally, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2, round an eccentric sheave f, keyed to a vertical pin g journalled in the draw-bar, the pin being fast to a partially-toothed wheel m adapted to be rotated by gearing from side cranks o. The end of the coupling-bar forms a strap k round the sheave, and has a slot to take a stud i on the sheave and allow a certain amount of play. The pin g is given a twist in the direction shown by the arrows by means of a spring h. To set for coupling, the wheel m is rotated until the pin i engages the strap, and the hooks are drawn back sideways until the notch q engages the catchlever p. When the vehicles touch, the catch p is disengaged by the buffers by means of the levers s, and the spring h closes the couplings and holds them in engagement. The toothed part of the wheel m is arranged so that it is out of gear when the catch p enters the notch q, so as to avoid straining the spring h and unnecessary movement of the coupling-piece.
Patent GB-190508521-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Apparatus for use in the Manufacture of Briquettes.
Inventor: BOULT ALFRED JULIUS
Filed: 1905-04-20
Granted: 1905-08-24
Abstract: 8521. Boult, A. J., [Rosenthal, A. M., and Rosenthal, C. M. A.]. April 20. Moulding peat and fuel briquettes. -Fuel is fed down the shoot 22 and is simultaneously pressed and charred between the stationary press plates 2 and the moving plates 3. Fluid under pressure, supplied to the cylinders 11 by main and branch pipes 20, 21, forces the plungers 17 in pairs outwards, traversing the plates 3 between guides 10 fixed to the solid backs 4 of the stationary plates. Heating-fluid passes from the chamber 7 through parallel passages 6 in the plates to a chamber 8, and the front faces 5 of the plates, which are separated from the backs 4 by a non-conducting layer, are provided with edges 9 to cut the material into squares. The briquettes are removed after the door 23 is opened.
Patent GB-190514869-A (GB)
Title: Apparatus for Separating Dust from Blast Furnace and like Gases
Inventor: MOWER GEORGE AUGUSTUS
Filed: 1906-02-13
Granted: 1906-08-16
Abstract: 14,869. Mower, G. A., and Bassett, W. J. Feb. 13. Fans.-Apparatus for separating dust from blastfurnace and like gases, of the kind in which dustladen gases are discharged, by fans, under pressure into centrifugal separators, and steam or water-spray is mingled with the gases, is provided with a settling- chamber through which the gases are passed previously to entering the fan. In the form shown, gases pass from a downtake a into a settling- chamber c provided with a baffle-plate o, and hoppers m with double doors s for the discharge of dust. The settling-chamber communicates with the inlet eye of the fan d, which forces the gases through a conduit f, provided with spraying- nozzles, to a centrifugal separator g, and from thence to an outlet k. All conduits are vertical or steeply inclined, and the conduit j is provided with a door r for the removal of dust. Spraying- nozzles may also be provided in the settling- chamber, the separator g, or the conduitj.
Patent GB-190519273-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Cork Retaining Devices
Inventor: THOMPSON WILLIAM PHILLIPS
Filed: 1905-09-23
Granted: 1906-02-01
Abstract: 19,273. Thompson, W. P., [Resch, E., trading as Resch's Waverley Brewery]. Sept. 23. Corks, retaining. -The device consists of a wire b bent so as to form arms d to grip the bottle neck, and provided wit h a disk a to bear on the top of the cork.
Patent GB-190519781-A (GB)
Title: Improved Method of Refining Metals and Apparatus therefor.
Inventor: SIMPSON WILLIAM SPEIRS
Filed: 1905-09-30
Granted: 1906-09-27
Abstract: 19,781. Simpson, W. S. Sept. 30. Crucibles and melting- pots.-Crucibles for use in a process for heating and agitating metals in vacuo are provided with one or more perforated walls, having a compartment on either side, so as to cause a thorough agitation of the molten metat when the crucible, or the furnace containing it, is rooked.
Patent GB-190521142-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Windows.
Inventor: SCHEEL RICHARD OSCAR
Filed: 1905-10-18
Granted: 1906-02-01
Abstract: 21,142. Scheel, a. O. Oct. 18. Windows.-To allow sliding sashes to be turned into the room for cleaning &c., they are hinged at 10 to vertically-sliding slips 7, backed by metal strips 8. A sash is disengaged from the right-hand slip by turning with a key a pinion 12, Fig. 3, engaging with pinions 15, 16, all mounted in a casing 19, inserted in the sash. The pinions 15, 16 mesh with sliding racks 17, 18, and in the sliding position of the sash, the rack 18 engages as shown with a mortise in the bar 8. .When the pinions are rotated in the direction of the arrows, the sash is released from the slip 7, while the latter is held from vertical movement by the rack 17 engaging in a recess 21.
Patent GB-190521923-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Means for Removing Errors of Indication in Calculating Machines.
Inventor: TRINKS FRANZ
Filed: 1905-10-27
Granted: 1906-06-28
Abstract: 21,923. Trinks, F. Oct. 27. Calculating-apparatus.-In pin-disk and cam - ring machines of the kind shown, having indicating - wheels e displaying the item set which are moved by means of a toothed segment d upon the cam-ring b during the setting but are unaffected by operation of the machine and are restored by return of the cam-disks, means are described for adjusting such indicating-wheels to zero by hand when required, for the purpose of correcting cumulative errors due to inexact setting of the disks. Preferably, this takes the form of known spindle-operated zeroizing-parts g, p, combined with such a positioning of the segments d that, when the cam-disks are all in the zero position and the handle l is in its rest position, the wheels do not engage with the segments, and are free to be adjusted by the zeroizing-mechanism; but, alternatively, any suitable device for securing disengagement may be employed. The use of the zeroizing-parts upon the indicator wheels for the purpose of simultaneously returning all the rings b to zero position by hand when required, and the freeing' of the wheels for adjustment by partial operation of the handle, are mentioned as known.
Patent GB-190522451-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Systems of Heating Buildings and the like
Inventor: NESBIT DAVID MEIN
Filed: 1905-11-02
Granted: 1906-11-01
Abstract: 22,451. Nesbit, D. M. Nov. 2. Heating buildings; thermostats.- A hot-water heating installation is converted into a steam heating - installation by substituting a steam generator for the hot-water boiler, and by providing each section, or any particular part of the system, with a device for feeding the steam or vapour automatically to each section or part only as it is required, so as to prevent short-circuiting of the steam. The controlling-device may be of any form, such as that described in Specifications Nos. 12,850, 12,852, and 17,801, A.D. 1904. A thermostat h controlling a valve in the supply pipe e may be enclosed in a jacket i into which the return pipe f is led. The jacket may be provided with external and internal strengthening-ribs formed in the manner described in Specification No. 6320, A.D. 1904, [Abridgment Class Boxes &c.]. The lower part of the jacket may lead to a mud box or dirt catcher, such as that described in Specification No. 6938, A.D. 1905, [Abridgment Class Steam generators]. Where necessary, the supply mains may be inclined so that the water of condensation follows the same course as the steam; or a drain connexion k, fitted with a thermostatic valve l, may lead from the supply main to the return main. The discharge of the vacuum pump, to which the jacket i is connected, may be collected in an elevated tank, where the air is separated, and returned to the boiler. In converting systems in which one main serves both for flow and return, the discharge from the radiators may be led to a common return pipe leading to the vacuum pump or condenser. Specification No. 12,944, A.D. 1902, is also referred to.
Patent GB-190525719-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Fasteners or Catches to be used in connection with Double Doors and Windows
Inventor: SHELDON JOHN ECCLESTON
Filed: 1905-12-11
Granted: 1906-11-01
Abstract: 25,719. Sheldon, J. E., [Harris & Sheldon]. Dec. 11. Double-door fastenings.-Mounted obliquely in the frame above and below the doors d, e are revoluble shafts a, provided at the ends with arms a', a<2>, placed at right-angles to each other. A spring f tends to keep the arms a<2> vertically projecting through a slot in the face-plate c, into the path of the second door e, the arm a' in this position being horizontal and wholly within the framework. As the door e is closed, the arm a<2> is pushed into an horizcntal position by the door, and the arm a' is thereby rotated to engage with the slot d<1> on the first door d, which is thus securely fastened till the opening of the second door. In a modification, the arm a<1> is replaced by a short bolt operated by a crank-arm on the shaft a. [Reference has been directed under Patents Act, 1902, to Specifications No. 1565, A.D. 1875, No. 2601, A.D. 1878, No. 41, A.D. 1889, and No. 5426, A.D. 1903.]
Patent GB-190526454-A (GB)
Title: System of Water Supply for Urban and other Buildings.
Inventor: ALLISON CHARLES ARTHUR
Filed: 1905-12-19
Granted: 1906-12-19
Abstract: 26,454. Allison, C. A., [Groom, W. P.]. Dec. 19. Water supply.-A water-supply system for domestic, manufacturing, or fire-extinguishing purposes consists of a central station where air and water are stored under pressure, and whence air under pressure may be delivered to the various branches of the system for raising water, or, in emergency, water under pressure may be supplied direct from the central station. An air-compressor 1, Fig. 2, at the central station draws air through the pipe 2 from the tank 4 and delivers it through a pipe 7, which branches into three parts 8, 9, 10 each provided with a stop-cock and delivering into tanks 15, 18, and 25. The tank 15 contains compressed air only and is connected by short pipes 21, 28 provided with stop-cocks to the tanks 18, 25, which contain both water and air under pressure. For starting the apparatus, air is in turn pumped out of the tanks 18, 25 by means of pipes 37, 32, respectively, and water is admitted through valves 24, 31 until the tanks are nearly full. Compressed air is pumped into the three tanks up to a pressure of 100 lb. per square inch. The tanks are connected to a pressure-water main 44 and air main 34, the spent air being returned to the compressor by a return main 37 by way of the tank 4. These three mains are connected to the buildings to be supplied, as shown in Fig. 3. The pressure main 44, which is only intended to be used for emergencies, is connected to a hydrant 55 outside, and to branches 54 inside the building, so that pressure water may be delivered direct to any floor through pipes 94, 72 and a cock 95 operated by wrenches 97. The air-pressure main 34 is connected to a service pipe 56, used to force water from the tanks 58, 59, which have been previously filled from the ordinary town mains 60, to any height in the supply pipe 72. For ordinary domestic use, these pipes are connected through ball cocks to service tanks 76. The tanks 98, 99, similarly equipped to those in the basement, are used for raising water to greater heights by a step-by-step method. [Reference has been directed under Patents Act, 1902, to [Specifications No. 6198, A.D. 1897, and Nos. 16,316 and 19,256, A.D. 1904, [Abridgment Class Pumps &c.].]
Patent GB-190600295-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Telegraphic Transmitters.
Inventor: MARKS GEORGE CROYDON
Filed: 1906-01-04
Granted: 1906-11-08
Abstract: 295. Marks, G. C., [Barkley, R. W.]. Jan. 4. Telegraphs.-Relates to keyboard transmitters of the type in which the depression of a key causes the corresponding code wheel to be brought into engagement with a continuously rotating shaft, by which it is rotated d until automatically thrown out of engagement. All the code wheels act on a single contact bar so that only one pair of contacts is necessary for the whole keyboard. The depression of a key lever n causes the wheel f to engage the continuously rotating shaft e and thus to rotate the wheel hand the code disk i fixed thereto. The projections k on the code disk raise the contact lever 7, bringing contacts 16, 17 together to complete the line circuit. Each key lever n is connected by a loop r to a sub-lever o, pivoted to the lever g and also connected to it by the spring p attached to the free end of the lever g and to a downwardly projecting arm on the sub-lever. The spring p keeps a stop q on the lever g bearing on the sub-lever o, so that levers g, o move rigidly together when drawn up by the lifting spring s but are elastically connected when drawn down by the key lever n. The other arm of the lever g carries the gear-wheel f, which is continually in mesh with the wheel h but only engages the rotating shaft e when the lever g is depressed. The mechanism for stopping the rotation of the code wheel i when the complete signal has been sent comprises a toggle joint u, w and a pawl z adapted to be engaged by a pin m on the wheel h when the signal is finished. When the lever g is depressed, the toggle-levers come into line and prevent the levers from rising, also bring- ing the pawl z in the path of the pin m, which subsequently engages the pawl and forces the toggle members out of alinement so that the levers g, o are raised by the spring s, and throw the wheel f out of engagement with the wheel e. Each code wheel may have its code repeated on it several times, a corresponding number of pins m being used for stopping the rotation. If desired, more than one pair of contacts 16, 17 may be provided, certain code wheels operating one pair and certain other wheels the other pair. Fig. 5 shows a slight modification in which the projections on the code wheels act indirectly upon the contact bar 7 through the separate levers 7<x>, provided with slots 28 which slip over a rod 19 so that any lever can be replaced without-disturbing the others.
Patent GB-190600297-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Turbines.
Inventor: SAYERS WILLIAM BROOKS
Filed: 1906-01-04
Granted: 1907-04-04
Abstract: 297. Sayers, W. B. Jan. 4. Impact wheels. - Relates to impact - wheels in which the working fluid is caused to pass through the motor in a spiral path partly in the periphery of the rotor and partly in the adjacent surface of the stator, and consists essentially in making the inlet sides of the buckets or vanes more nearlv radial than the outside sides thereof. Figs. 3, 4, and 5 show the blocks used to form the buckets, in which 4 is the inlet and 5 the outlet side. These blocks are held in position by the rotor as shown in Fig. 12, in which the passage is shown of elliptical cross-section. The buckets may be formed of plates, Figs. 7 and 9, arranged alternately. Owing to the increased inclination of the outlet sides, the passage in the buckets decreases in crosssection towards the outlet when the core is placed centrally. To cause the cross-section to increase, the core may be placed out of centre. Fig. 15 shows a construction having two inlets 55, 56 which communicate with passages 57 passing halfway round the motor. The steam then passes into sets of vanes 60, 68 respectively, and from these into parallel pairs of sets of vanes 64, 65 and 69, 70. The rings of buckets may be of increasing diameter, and balancing-pistons may be used. To insert the buckets in rotors of the form shown in Fig. 12, the parts are first clamped on a cylindrical former and then transferred as a whole to one half of the rotor.
Patent GB-190601914-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or connected with Apparatus for Protecting Telegraph and like Lines from the Effects of Lightning Discharges.
Inventor: FULLER JOHN CRISP
Filed: 1906-01-25
Granted: 1906-12-06
Abstract: 1914. Fuller, J. C., and Fuller, G. Jan. 25. Lightning-arrest - e r s. - Insulators for telegraph lines &c. are formed with chambers or recesses in which lightning - arresters are fitted for the purpose of earthing the line through the insulator bolt or otherwise if the potential becomes excessive. In the form shown in Fig. 1, a vacuumtube lightning-protector7 7 is connected by a wire 9 to the line-wire, and through a spring 11 with the bolt 5. An indiarubber washer 4 is preferably employed in conjunction with the screwed cover 3. Carbon-block arresters may be similarly fitted. The earthing wire may pass through an extra hole formed in the insulator, independently of the bolt. The bottom of the chamber 2 may be filled in with paraffin wax.
Patent GB-190606304-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and connected with Mechanical Cash Tills.
Inventor: BOEHM LUDWIG
Filed: 1906-03-15
Granted: 1906-10-18
Abstract: 6304. B÷hm, L. March 15, 1905, [date applied for under Patents Act, 1901]. Money-delivering apparatus. -The coins paid in through sorting-apparatus 2, Fig. 1, are fed seriatim from tubes 3 to tubes 48 by toothed slides 4, which are reciprocated by rotation of a shaft bearing halfwheels 5, there being a second shaft bearing wheels 6, which is reversed by a spring at each slip of the half-wheels. By the passage of each coin of any particular denomination a detent 7 is disengaged from a ratchetwheel 8 at the top of a vertical spring-driven shaft in gear with a counting-train 9, so that the contents of the tubes 48 are always indicated. On the operation of keys 10, slides 17 having a series of holes are drawn under the storage tubes 48 by wheels 19 in gear with spring drums 21, and, owing to pins on the slides passing wheels 22, the counting - trains 9 showing the contents of the tubes are reversed according to the numbers of the coins carried out on a counter - board 23. Each key 10, acting through a rod 11, Fig. 2, and a disk 12, puts down a stop 13 to determine the protrusion of the delivery slide, and with this action a shaft 15 bearing snapping catches 14 for the stop is rocked so that an arm 16 lifts a bolt from the rear end of the slide. On a rack-bar 25 being pushed down, a sliding support 29 is shifted to let the counter-board and coins drop, and then the spring-drams are reversed to return the delivery slides, ratchets preventing reversal of the counting- trains. Indicating-drums 41, as also adding and printing wheels, are in gear with rollers 37 behind the rows of keys, which bear pins arranged spirally. Rods 38 extending from the keys of certain rows constitute stops for the studs after disengaging detents 44 from notched wheels at the ends of the rollers. A bar crossing the delivery slides can be shifted by a special key 34, to lock the delivery slides and lift their bolts, so that the catches 14 are rendered ineffective.
Patent GB-190609804-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Flying Apparatus
Inventor: BRANDL ADOLPH
Filed: 1906-04-26
Granted: 1906-05-03
Abstract: 9804. Brandl, A. April 27, 1905, [date applied for under Patents Act, 1901]. Propelling.-Wings are fitted to the person by means of a frame shaped to fit the arm while the forearm is bent, and the bar d which supports the hand is curved so that the amount of the bending of the forearm may be varied. The elbow fits into a cup e. The frame is connected to the shoulder ball joint k by an adjustable piece p. The wing is spread by mechanism, such as g, operated by the hand while grasping the bar d. Rods projecting laterally from the boot heels may be provided to aid the spreading of the wings.
Patent GB-190610494-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Valve Motion for Internal Combustion Engines.
Filed: 1906-05-04
Granted: 1906-09-20
Abstract: 10,494. Maschinenfabrik und M³hlenbauanstalt G. Luther Akt.- Ges. Jan. 12, [date applied for under Patents Act, 1901]. Transmitting-mechanism.-In a gas-engine valvegear shown in Fig. 1, the governor alters the lift of the inlet valve k by shifting a carriage m through a link r. This action moves the pivot of a rocking lever d, operated from an eccentric a, and so varies the lift of the valve. Fig. 3 is an enlarged section of tLe carriage m, which runs in a V-groove t in its support. When the valve is lifted, the pressure on the link f jams the carriage m into the groove t, but when the valve is closed, the carriage rests by meaus of a roller o on a yoke p, and is easily moved by the governor. When the 'governor controls two valve-geare, it acts through a resilient connecxion.
Patent GB-190611056-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Casks, Vats and the like Vessels.
Inventor: RUSSELL HERBERT SAMUEL
Filed: 1906-05-11
Granted: 1907-02-21
Abstract: 11,056. Russell, H. S. May 11. Heads.-The edge of the head A of a cask or barrel is bevelled at a, a' and has a circumferential tongue a<2>. The staves B are made with a correspondingly bevelled and grooved recess.
Patent GB-190611308-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Windows and the like
Inventor: PRICE RICKARDS
Filed: 1906-05-15
Granted: 1907-01-17
Abstract: 11,308. Price, R. May 15. Windows.-A casement frame, shown in Fig. 11, contains two glazed sashes 1, 2, hinged to a central stile or mullion 3 which may be rotated on pivot pins 6, 7 working in a slot 9, so as to allow the sashes to open, one outside the room and the other inside. The glazed sashes are held in place when closed by a rabbet 23, or by hinged weather strips 13, 14, and the ends of the glazed sashes and the outer frame may be filleted and channelled to exclude draught. The frames may be used as upper or lower sashes for sliding windows, as shown in Figs. 1 and 3, or may be turned into a vertical position, as shown in Fig. 15, in which case the sashes are usually balanced by weights, attached by cords passing over pulleys at the top of the frame to the pivot pins 6, 7. In a modifi. cation, Fig. 13, with three sashes, instead of using a central stile or mullion, the middle sash is pivoted and the other sashes are hinged to it, so as to allow either both to swing outwards, or one outwards and the other inwards.
Patent GB-190617831-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or connected with Trunnions or Pivots and Hinges for Mirrors and the like.
Inventor: BLANKSTONE DAVID
Filed: 1906-08-08
Granted: 1907-08-01
Abstract: 17,831. Blankstone, D. Aug. 8. Hinges; pivot adjustments. - Relates to means for adjusting the pivots of swinging mirrors. Fig. 6 shows a pivot for use with vertically pivoted mirrors. The socket piece 7 has a screwed pin 2, which passes through a plate 5 threaded to receive it. The socket piece has an oval neck 7<a> which engages a similar recess in the cover-plate 2<b>, so that by rotating the plate 5 the position of the socket 7 can be adjusted. When the parts are assembled, the cover-plate is secured to the framework, the screwed plate 5 engaging in the recess 5a. Fig. 5 shows the adjusting-means applied to pivots for horizontal pivoted mirrors, the screwed pin 2 terminating in a wedge-shaped piece 2<a>. The plate 5 is preferably made of hard metal.
Patent GB-190618569-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to Treads for Pneumatic Tyres.
Inventor: MOCOMBLE LEON CAVELIER DE
Filed: 1906-08-18
Granted: 1906-11-29
Abstract: 18,569. Mocomble, L. C. de, and Demase, A. Aug. 18. Spring wheels; tyres, pneumatic. - In a pneumatic tyre, a flexible and non-slipping tread-band d, holding rivets i, is seated in a non-flexible shaped metal ring c, which supports the rivets and protects the outer cover from penetration by them.