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Patent GB-190706904-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to Injectors.
Inventor: METCALFE JAMES CROXON
Filed: 1907-03-22
Granted: 1907-11-21
Abstract: 6904. Metcalfe, J. C., and Metcalfe, R. D. March 22. Injectors.-Relates to injectors with divided combining-chambers, in which each compartment has its own overflow valve. The forcing steam nozzle a, the lifting steam nozzle b, the combining-tube c, and the delivery tube q are as shown. The overflow valves d, e of the compartments f, g communicate with a common overflow h. The valve e is free or unloaded, while the valve d is controlled by hand or by the pressure in the delivery chamber k through the medium of the plunger and the lever i, as shown in Fig. 1. The pressure in the chamber g may also be used to control the valve d, as shown at x and w, Fig. 5. The communication between the interior of the combining-nozzle c and each of the compartments f, g may be a combined flap and slot ; or one compartment may have a slot and the other a flap or a combined flap and slot, or both may have flaps as o, p, Fig. 1. A sliding nozzle r with wings s may be used instead of a slot, as shown in Fig. 3. Water is drawn up the passage m and is controlled by the valve n.
Patent GB-190709850-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Micrometers, Gauges and like Measuring Instruments.
Filed: 1907-04-27
Granted: 1908-04-27
Abstract: 9850. British Thomson-Houston Co., [General Electric Co.]. April 27. Indicating small movements; gauges. - To increase the sensitiveness of measuring-instruments such as calliper gauges, a liquid index is employed. The fixed jaw 14 of a micrometer gauge is attached to a diaphragm 15 forming the wall of a chamber containing liquid such as mercury which runs up the fine bore of a glass tube 23 and indicates against a scale 31 the pressure at which the measurement is taken. The head 16 containing the diaphragm is adjustable .by means of screws 18, 20 for calibration, play being allowed in the fitting of the tube as shown. Fig. 3 shows the application of the liquid indicating means to a surface gauge, a sliding collar 49 being employed to mark a required point.
Patent GB-190711917-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Electrodes for Resistance Furnaces.
Inventor: ROECHLING HERMANN
Filed: 1907-05-22
Granted: 1907-09-26
Abstract: 11,917. R÷chling, H., Schoenawa, J., and Rodenhauser, W. May 22. Electric furnaces.-An electrode for an incandescence furnace is formed with a refractory working face b and a metal backing a ; the backing may be insulated from the furnace wall c, and is provided with lugs for the attachment of the supply conductors. The working face b is composed of earths, such as calcined dolomite or magnesite, with the addition of a carbonaceous adhesive, preferably tar. The wrought-iron, caststeel, or other difficultly fusible metal backing a is provided with recesses of dovetail or other shape, by means of which the refractory face b is securely attached. The electrode may be insulated by coating the back and sides with a refractory insulating- material, such as asbestonite, asbestos cement, or ambroin, with or without the insertion of mica. A furnace for smelting good conductors may be contracted in section between the electrodes, or the walls for receiving the electrodes may be at an angle. Several electrodes may be provided, to allow of the employment of polyphase currents Specification No. 13,653, A.D. 1900, [Abridgment Class Iron &c.], is referred to.
Patent GB-190720133-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Typewriting Machines.
Inventor: FELL JOHN CORRY
Filed: 1907-09-09
Granted: 1908-03-26
Abstract: 20,133. Fell, J. C., [Wyckoff, Seamans, & Benedict]. Sept. 9. Typewriters.-Relates to key-operated means in typewriters for imparting a letter-spacing motion to the paper carriage in a direction the reverse of that normally controlled by the escapement mechanism. The parts are described in connexion with a machine employing a platen 10 mounted in a carriage 9 having ball bearings on rails 7, and drawn across the machine by the usual spring drum. A feed-rack 11 pivoted at 13 to the carriage 9 engages a pinion 16 on a shaft 17 enclosed in a housing 18, an escapement-wheel 19 loose on the shaft coacting with the usual feeddogs. A ratchet-wheel 20 secured to the wheel 19 is engaged by pawls 21, Fig. 4, pivoted to the interior of a drum 23 rigidly fixed on the shaft 17. The pawls prevent motion of the carriage when the escapement-wheel is held by the feed-dogs. To provide for the back-spacing motion, the exterior of the drum 23 is formed with ratchet teeth engaged by the tooth 47 of a #-shaped member 44 linked by arms 42, 38 on a shaft 39 and a link 37 with a key lever 30. The arrangement of the nshaped member is such that the tooth 47 during the upward motion of the arm 42.produced by the key does not pass out of engagement with a tooth of the ratchet 23, but jams therein so as to prevent overthrow. During the motion of the ratchet 23, the pawls 21 ride over one tooth of the fixed ratchet 20. The member 44 is formed by bending a sheet-metal blank. In a machine in which the escapement-wheel 19 is not held against backward rotation by feed-dogs &c., the wheel may be rigidly mounted upon the shaft 17, and the ratchet 20 and pawls 21 are dispensed with. The shaft 39 is fitted with a returning-spring 53 the tension of which is adjustable by a collar 54. The carriage may be moved in either direction without being interfered with by the back-spacing mechanism.
Patent GB-190725131-A (GB)
Title: A Mechanical Rotary or Revolving Drier for Removing and Expelling Moisture from Megass, Sawdust, Sand and Particles of Various Substances.
Inventor: JONES LLEWELLYN
Filed: 1907-11-13
Granted: 1908-11-13
Abstract: 25,131. Jones, L. Nov. 13. Rotary drying-kilns.-A rotary drier is provided internally with vanes b forming compartments which carry the materials round to the top of the drum, whence they are guided into the lower empty compartment by a distributor i operated by a lever k. When the material is to be discharged, the distributor i is laid horizontally so that all the material falls on it and is easily removed. In some cases the distributor may have one inclined and one horizontal side ; or it may be arranged in an inclined instead of an horizontal position for discharge. In the form shown in Fig. 3, the distributor is formed to fit closely over radial vanes. The inner surface of this distributor may be inclined. The shaft of the distributor is mounted in the shaft on which the drum is rotated through gearing from a belt pulley. The drum is mounted in a flue through which the combustion products from a boiler furnace or other source are led, a deflector h being arranged below to short-circuit any desired proportion of gases. The drum may otherwise be arranged in a by-pass chamber above the chimney flue. These heating-arrangements may be supplemented or displaced by a fire-grate in the flue. Steam may be used as the heating- medium. A conduit may lead the generated vapours away.
Patent GB-190801093-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Sound Reflectors for Horns, Sirens, Phonographs or the like.
Inventor: SUDRE FRANCOIS
Filed: 1908-01-16
Granted: 1908-10-15
Abstract: 1093. Sudre, F. Jan. 21,1907, [date applied for under Section 91 of Patents &c. Act, 1907]. Reflectors.-The trumpet - mouth of a gramophone, siren, motor-car horn, &c. is fitted with a reflecting hollow or solid body 3, which is of a double paraboloid or other shape and is preferably secured at the focus of the flare of the horn. The arrangement is such as to direct the sound, by double reflection from the body 3 and the sides of the horn, approximately in a straight line. Vibrating membranes, as described in Specification No. 22,562, A.D. 1901, [Abridgment Class Music &c.], may be fitted to modify the character of the sound.
Patent GB-190801465-A (GB)
Title: Machine for Making Paper-bags out of Paper Tubes with Lateral Longitudinal Folds.
Inventor: BODLAENDER WILHELM
Filed: 1908-01-21
Granted: 1908-12-31
Abstract: 1465. Bodlaender, W. Jan. 21. Feeding sheets.-In a machine for making paper bags, sheets of paper or pasteboard previously coated with adhesive are taken from a resiliently held pile by a carrier 27 with a detacher 28. The carrier is rigid with the former which produces the box fold.
Patent GB-190803590-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Safety or Catching Net for Tramcars.
Inventor: EMONS GOTTFRIED
Filed: 1908-02-17
Granted: 1908-06-25
Abstract: 3590. Emons, G. Feb. 17, Wheel guards and obstruction-removers.-A safetynet for tramcars is adapted to be operated only when an object falls on to it. The net is carried between a bridge h on the vehicle and a bridge-piece e carried by arms c pivoting on a shaft b supported in bearings a. The arms c at their other ends carry counterweights d. On the shaft b is also loosely mounted a grating i connected rigidly to two levers i<1> connected together by a bolt k. The bolt k is connected to rods r through rods l and levers n pivoted at m. The rods r slide in guides o attached to the vehicle, and are pressed forwards by springs acting against collars p on the rods, which extend under the projections q attached to the weights d and so retains the weights in position. When an obstacle falls on and depresses the grating i, the levers i<1> are moved forwards, drawing the rods l and levers n and so withdrawing the bolts r from beneath the projections q. This allows the weights to fall, thus raising the arms c and net as shown in dotted lines in Fig. 1.
Patent GB-190804870-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Metallic Barrels and like Receptacles.
Inventor: WRIGHT STEPHEN MARSHALL
Filed: 1908-03-03
Granted: 1908-10-08
Abstract: 4870. Wright, S. M. March 3. Metal casks; hoops; heads; strengthening.-A metal barrel comprises sections 21, 22 which can be detachably secured together. Each section has beads 23 in which spring strengthening-hoops may be inserted, and vertical braces 27, 28. The section 22 has secured to it an interior band 24, and the section 21 has an horizontal shoulder 26 and a vertical flange 25, and the parts are fastened together by bolts 29. A cover 31 having a flange provided with strengthening-beads 33, 34 is secured by a pin 40, which passes through eyes 37 carried by the upper barrel section and an eye 36 carried by the cover.
Patent GB-190805202-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Cushion Wheels.
Inventor: ELLIS ABRAM
Filed: 1908-03-07
Granted: 1908-06-18
Abstract: 5202. Ellis, A. March 7. Spring wheels.-Relates to wheels of the type described in Specifications No. 25,593, A.D. 1906, and No. 20,860, A.D. 1907. Rigid spokes 1, Figs. 1 and 2, secured between hub disks 2 are fitted with sliding collars 7 carrying rollers 14 on which bear rim segments 12. The ends of the segments overlap and are formed with registering triangular slots 13, guided in the forked end of the spoke and limited in outward motion by rollers 6. The rollers 14 are carried by pivots 17 integral with the collars, and run upon tracks 16 formed on housings 15 for rubber tread blocks 19 connected by dowel pins 21. Each spoke is surrounded by a helical spring 11 held between a flange 10 integral with the spoke and a nut 8 adjustable on the collar. A casing 22 surrounds the spring.
Patent GB-190806557-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Wire Bale Tie Making Machines.
Inventor: LAKE WILLIAM EDWARD
Filed: 1908-03-24
Granted: 1909-04-26
Abstract: 6557. Lake, W. E., [Dillon-Griswold Wire Co.]. March 24. Making bale ties.-In a machine for forming bale ties of the kind shown in Fig. 1, the hooked ends 3 are made by roughly forming a loop, twisting, and finally compressing in dies, the blanks being carried from one operation to the other by means of a turret provided with a number of gripping-jaws. The machine is an improvement on that described in Specification No. 11,942, A.D. 1906. The hookforming mechanism consists of a segmental plate 48, Figs. 6 and 9, rotating in the direction of the arrow and carrying projecting pins 49, 50, 51. This coacts with anarm 52 rotating in the opposite direction, below which is a plate 55 with a flange 56, which acts as a stripper when the plate 48 descends to release the loop. During this operation, the wire is held between a stop 31 and a finger 30. The finger 30 moves backward to allow the free end of the wire to lie alongside the tie, as shown in Fig. 9, the tie then being gripped by the jaws A of the turret. The turret then moves a quarter of a revolution, and the loop is engaged by the disks 96 of twisting-pincers 94. These pincers are moved forward by a cam-operated shaft 95 and are closed by a sliding collar 116, the shaft 95 being rotated to give the twisting action from a shaft 47, driven intermittently by a mutilated gear. The twisted blank is then carried by the turret under the action of dies 125, 126, Figs. 9 and 17, mounted on arms 122, 123 operated by an oscillating cam 137. The dies are carried between upper and lower plates, the upper ones 127,130 of which are shown ; these plates have fingers which coact with each other. The turret work-holder consists of fixed jaws 8, 9, 10, 11, Fig. 2, and movable jaws 12, 13, 14, 15 ; the latter jaws are pivoted at 16, and rollers 17 on them engage a cam 19. For the position shown, the jaws 12, 13, 14 are closed, and the jaws 15 are open. The cam 19 is loose on its shaft 6 and its back-plate carries an arm 27 operated by a lever 24 actuated by a cam o on a shaft 22. By means of the latter cam, the cam 19 is moved so as to cause the jaw 12 to close quickly on the tie directly after the rough loop is formed. As the cut-off blanks are supplied to the machine, they run down guides, and are then moved forward by the finger 30 with the path of the jaws, a notched disk preventing this movement when the jaws are not in the correct position to receive the blank.
Patent GB-190809981-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Tyres for Vehicle Wheels
Inventor: KUHNEN HERMANN
Filed: 1908-05-07
Granted: 1908-12-17
Abstract: 9981. Kuhnen, H. May 7. Tyres, elastic other than pneumatic.-For securing solid rubber tyres, metallic insertions 4 are vulcanized in the base of the tyres and are given permanent set towards the centre of the wheel, so that when the removable flange 2 is tightened up, the metal insertions are bent still farther and compress the base of the tyres upon the rim. The insertions may take the form of a continuous coil of wire 4, Fig. 3, or of a perforated sheet-metal band 9, Fig. 4, the latter being divided alternately on either side to give circumferential elasticity.
Patent GB-190815203-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Internal Combustion Engines.
Inventor: KIRKE PERCY ST GEORGE
Filed: 1908-07-17
Granted: 1908-11-05
Abstract: 15.203. Kirke, P. St. G. July 17. Gas and explosive-vapour engines.-To equalize the pressure during the working stroke of an internal - combustion engine, a yielding piston or plunger, one face of which may be acted upon by an air cushion while the other is acted on by a more or less complete vacuum, is provided in the cylinder end. Ignition may be effected by the heat of compression or by other means. The plunger f, Fig. 1, which slides in the extension e, is attached to a piston g the upper side of which is open to the atmosphere through a non-return valve i<1>, while on the bottom side a vacuum is maintained, preferably, by the ejector action of the exhaust acting through the passage k. The top side of the piston g, the motion of which may be limited by a rod s, may communicate through a by-pass (not shown) with one or more chambers p so as to increase the pressure in the cylinder i ; or compressed air may be supplied through the inlet valve i<1>. To facilitate the complete expulsion of the products of combustion the plunger descends, after each explosion, to the position shown in dotted lines.
Patent GB-190815986-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Appliances for Cooking Eggs.
Inventor: HATELEY ALBERT
Filed: 1908-07-28
Granted: 1909-07-28
Abstract: 15,986. Hateley, A. July 28. E g g - boilers.- An egg-poacher of the kind described in Specification No. 21,245, A.D. 1904, comprises a base d with raised surface d<1>, upright wires b<1> attached to the base, and a bottomlescylindrical body a, which rests on the base while the egg is cooking and can be raised up the wires b<1> when the egg is cooked. [Reference has been directed under Section 7 of Patents &c. Act, 1907, to Specifications No. 1926, A.D. 1900, and No. 12,456, A.D. 1906.]
Patent GB-190816071-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Lubricators for the Production of Forced Lubrication.
Inventor: SMITH WILLIAM
Filed: 1908-07-29
Granted: 1908-11-26
Abstract: 16,071. Smith, W. July 29. [Patent of Addition to No. 9895, A.D. 1907.] Lubricators. -In a lubricator of the kind described in Specification No. 9895, A.D. 1907, comprising a casing A containing two spring-actuated pistons F, G, the pistons are held apart during recharging by a pivoted ring K, which is turned from an horizontal position into the vertical position shown in Fig. 2 by means of a key applied to the end K<1> of its pivot. A filling-opening H, Fig. 3, is closed by a casing door I actuated by a spring J. The lubricant is discharged through a stem G<1>, and its flow is regulated by adjusting a hollow screwed plug M within an outer screwed plug 0, the upper end of which is cut away on one side as shown in Fig. 2.
Patent GB-190819850-A (GB)
Title: Ignition Apparatus for Explosion Engines.
Inventor: VARLEY RICHARD
Filed: 1908-09-22
Granted: 1909-09-22
Abstract: 19,850. Varley, R. Sept. 22. Gas and like engines, igniting in. In ignition apparatus an impedance is interposed between the high-potential end of the secondary winding and the spark-plug to absorb the high frequency oscillations produced by the condenser action of the spark-plug as shown in Fig. 1, a reactance coil 10 is interposed between the high potential end g<3> of the secondary of the induction coil and the sparkplug 5. The reactance coil 10 shown in Fig. 2 comprises a spirally-wound strip of flat wire 11 and an insulating tape 12, the ends 14, 15 of the wire strip 11 being turned outwards to form connecting ears. The coil may be impregnated with varnish or enamel and afterwards baked to a solid mass. The wire 11 has a comparatively large cross-section relatively to the rest of the secondary winding. Another form of reactance coil shown in Fig. 3 comprises a hard rubber core 23 formed with a spiral groove 24 in which lies the wire 25, the turns being widely separated. A perforated mica cover 26 surrounds the wire 25 and a slotted iron sheath 27 encloses the whole.
Patent GB-190823082-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Valves and Valve Gear of Internal Combustion Engines.
Filed: 1908-10-30
Granted: 1909-08-19
Abstract: 23,082. Albion Motor Car Co., and Murray, T. B. Oct. 30. Gas and like engines, valves and valve-gear for. Trunk piston valves C<3>, B<3>, for admission and exhaust respectively, are arranged in water-jacketed valve cylinders at either side of the working cylinder and are driven from cranks on countershafts C, B, parallel with the crank-shaft. The valves have upstanding walls provided with ports K for controlling annular cylinder ports G, H. The valves are packed by means of flanged split rings, the flanges L' of these rings being held in place by the valve covers M. The split in each ring L is arranged to come between two of the ports K and opposite to a tongue on the valve-cylinder. The engine shown has two working cylinders, and these together with the four valve cylinders are enclosed within a common water jacket. In multi-cylinder engines, all the exhaust valves and all the admission valves are operated from two countershafts, such as B, C, and all the exhaust or admission valve cylinders are connected to a common exhaust or admission pipe. According to the Provisional Specification, the ports K may be dispensed with.
Patent GB-190823915-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Valve Gear for Locomotive and other Reversible Steam Engines.
Inventor: RUSSELL FREDERICK VERNON
Filed: 1908-11-07
Granted: 1909-09-23
Abstract: 23,915. Russell, F. V. Nov. 7. Drawings to Specification. Valve-gear.-Slide valves, having a greater lap than usual, are opened and closed quickly by reversible link-motions, in which the forward and backward eccentrics are made with unequal throws, or unequal angles of advance, or with both unequal throws and unequal angles of advance. In one arrangement, a valve eleven and a half inches long and having a lap of one and a quarter inches, is operated by a gear worked from eccentrics which have throws of seven inches and five and threequarter inches respectively, and angles of advance of one hundred and ten degrees and one hundred and twelve degrees respectively. The engine may be started by the means described in Specification No. 437, A.D. 1907.
Patent GB-190826461-A (GB)
Title: Improved Method of and Machine for Manufacturing Drawers for Match Boxes and the like.
Filed: 1908-12-07
Granted: 1909-04-01
Abstract: 2 6 , 4 6 1 . J÷nk÷pings och Vulcans T õ n d s t i c k s - Fabriksaktiebolag. June 30, [date applied for under Section 91 of Patents &c. Act, 1907]. Box-making machines.-In a machine for making the drawers of boxes for containing matches &c., the portions forming the side waHs of the drawers are made by winding thin strips of wood &c. upon a continuously-rotating mandrel 4. Each blank thus formed is pushed, by any suitable means, upon an intermittently-rotating mandrel 35, previously provided with a drawer bottom 36. In order that the mandrel 35 may rotate in the same direction and with the same speed as the mandrel 4 while the transference takes place, the mandrel 35 is driven by a pinion 38 gearing with a camactuated toothed segment 39, the cam being so shaped that the mandrel 35 remains stationary while the box is finished and removed and a fresh drawer-bottom placed in position. Specification No. 24,699, A.D. 1908, is referred to.
Patent GB-190900122-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Ships' Rudders.
IPC: B63H25/38
Filed: 1909-01-02
Granted: 1909-09-09
Abstract: 122. White & Co., J. S., and Hastie, P. Jan. 2. Rudders are formed with two blades diverging downwards from the stock and situated so as to be above the zone of the water acted upon by the screw propeller. Figs. 1 and 2 are vertical sections at right-angles to each other, and Fig. 3 is a section on the line A-A of Fig. 1. Frames b are formed integrally with the stock a, and project therefrom fore and aft downwards and angularly on either side of a plane in which the axis of the stock lies. Plates c are riveted to the outer sides of the frames b, and pieces of wood d fitted in the openings of the frames. Both faces of the blades may be either curved or flat, or each blade as a whole may be curved transversely. Apertures j may be formed in the blades.
Patent GB-190901339-A (GB)
Title: Improved Manufacture of Aluminium Alloys.
Inventor: LAURENT EUGENE JEAN SEVILLE DE
IPC: C22C21/00
Filed: 1909-01-19
Granted: 1910-01-19
Abstract: 1339. St. Laurent, E. J. S. de, Lancaster, E. W., McNeale, H. T., and Collins, J. W. Jan. 19. Mould and core materials.-Moulds used in casting alloys of lead and aluminium are coated with a paste containing carbon and alumina, to which may be added oxide or croconate of lead.