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Patent GB-190524231-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Six Wheeled Road Vehicles.
Inventor: BOULT ALFRED JULIUS
Filed: 1905-11-23
Granted: 1906-06-21
Abstract: 24,231. Boult, A. J., [Soc. E. Surcouf et Cie]. Nov. 23. Motor road vehicles.-- Relates to six-wheeled motor road vehicles forming part of a road train, and comprises an arrangement of equalizing levers combined with the suspension springs, means for driving the central wheels from a continuous longitudinal shaft, linkwork for simultaneously adjusting the front and rear wheels for steering, and arrangements of couplings between vehicles. (1) The inner ends of the suspension springs are connected, as shown in Fig. 1, to short levers 30, 31 pivoted at 36, 37 to the frame of the vehicle, while the outer ends of the front and rear springs 28, 29 are connected to the ends of the central spring 38 by long levers 32, 33 pivoted to the frame at 34, 35 and jointed together by a pin-and-slot arrangement 41. Both long and short levers are divided by their pivots in the ratio 3 : 1 so that the weight is always distributed evenly among the axles. (2) The longitudinal driving-shaft, made up of the sections 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, drives the differential countershaft 12 through a longitudinal countershaft, bevel-gear, and differential gearing 10, all contained in a casing 9. Sprocket-wheels, on the ends of the shaft 12, drive the central wheels 14 through chains and spring couplings 16. (3) The front and rear wheels are mounted on swivelling axles and adjusted simultaneously for steering by a series of rods 22 and sectors 23 gearing together. (4) The vehicle shown is drawn by a pole 24 connected to the front steering-wheels, and draws the next vehicle by means of a pole 26 pivoted at 25 to a framing 27 carried by the axle. The pivot 25 is placed at a certain distance from the central axle, in accordance with conditions set forth in the Specification, to ensure all the vehicles of the train travelling in the same path.
Patent GB-190526436-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Automatic Couplings for Railway Vehicles.
Inventor: NEUMAN DANIEL
Filed: 1905-12-19
Granted: 1906-04-05
Abstract: 26,436. Neuman, D., and Orosz, L. M. Dec. 19. Couplings, automatic.-In automatic couplings in which a weight is used to maintain the coupling- element in the operative and inoperative positions, the weight is mounted on a separate shaft in place of being attached to the cross-shaft by an arm as usual, the object being to minimize the risk of the arm becoming bent by jarring and to hold the coupling firmly in its two positions without risk of disturbance therefrom when the car jolts. The weight k is carried by an arm j, which is pivoted at l in a bracket and is joined by a link m to one arm n of an elbow lever on the cross-shaft b. The other arm e of the elbow is linked to the automatic coupling-element a. In the operative position shown, the weight is well in front of its pivot l and thus has a large turning movement for holding the coupling out. In the inoperative position, shown in dotted lines, the weight is only slightly behind its pivot, and the joint between the rods m, n is raised above the dead-centre line, and is maintained in this position by the weight of the coupling, the jolting forwards of the weight thus being prevented. The angle through which the weight moves is determined by stops f, which limit the rotation of the cross-shaft.
Patent GB-190527081-A (GB)
Title: An Improvement in Bread-making and a Stimulant or Nutrient for Yeast applicable thereto
Inventor: PINK LEONILARD
Filed: 1905-12-28
Granted: 1906-04-19
Abstract: 27,081. Pink, L. Dec. 28. Yeast.-A stimulant or nutrient material, which is added to yeast used in making bread, consists of calcium citrate, dicalcium phosphate (Ca2H2P2O8), acid potassium tartrate, and sugar.
Patent GB-190527258-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Lubricators.
Inventor: MOREHOUSE DAVID
Filed: 1905-12-30
Granted: 1906-05-10
Abstract: 27,258. Morehouse, D. Jan. 30, [date applied for under Patents Act, 1901]. Lubricators. - A lubricator for steam-engines consists of a cylinder A containing a piston 14 sliding on a central tube 9, which is fixed to the cylinder by means of hollow nuts 10 with holes 11 communicating with passages 12, 13 m the cylinder heads. Steam is admitted by the inlet 16 below the piston, and the oil in the upper part of the cylinder is forced through the passages 12, tube 9, and passages 11, 13 to a number of sight-feed devices. The piston moves against the spring 17. The sight-feed device consists of a tube 23 with a hole 24, surrounded by a globular glass 26, mounted in sockets 27 and gaskets 28. The oil passes through grooves 25<a> surrounding the plug 25, and ascends through water in the tube 23.
Patent GB-190600943-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Means or Devices for Operating Tramway and other Points and the like.
Inventor: PEACOCK JOHN READ
Filed: 1906-01-13
Granted: 1906-10-25
Abstract: 943. Peacock, J. R. Jan. 13. Points and switches, tramway and like, operated mechanically from the vehicle. The point tongue P is connected to a lever H pivoted at A to the track and carrying rollers F at one end. The switch is normally closed by a spring S and is opened when required by a shoe K lowered from the vehicle into a slot N parallel to the rail. The shoe presses the rollers F away from the rail, thereby rocking the lever H and moving the points.
Patent GB-190603528-A (GB)
Title: Improved Process and Apparatus for Smelting Ores and Converting Mattes.
Inventor: DAY ARTHUR MILTON
Filed: 1906-02-13
Granted: 1906-09-20
Abstract: 3528. Day, A. M. Feb. 13. Metallurgical furnaces. - In smelting copper and other ores and converting matte, the charge is placed in a vessel a and covered with molten matte or other substance sufficiently hot to start fusion, and fuel and flux, in a powdered form, are injected by means of separate air-blasts. The vessel a is supported on trunnions d, e, and may be tilted by means of a toothed wheel f which gears with a rack mounted on a movable hydraulic cylinder g. Tuyeres k open into an air chest c which communicates through a passage l, trunnion e, and extension piece m with a blast pipe o. Some of the tuyeres are connected by pipes r, s to the bottom of a number of vessels t, which contain powdered flux and fuel, and are provided with blast pipes u, v separate from the main blast pipe o. The tuyeres are provided with fusible extensions x, which may be formed by tamping the ore around rods temporarily inserted in the tuyÞres. To keep the tuyeres open, silica may be injected from one of the vessels t.
Patent GB-190604730-A (GB)
Title: Improved Photographic Printing Frame
Inventor: BATTY JOHN
Filed: 1906-02-27
Granted: 1906-11-08
Abstract: 4730. Batty, J. Feb. 27. Printing.-Relates to printing-frames of the class which are adjustable to hold negatives of various sizes by means of one or more sliding pieces with rabbeted edges. The sides are formed with slots, and the negative 5 is held beween an adjustable sliding.piece 7 and the end piece 2, for which, however, a duplicate sliding piece may be substituted. These sliding pieces 7 are grooved, and engage inside tongues 9, of the frame. A cross-bar 11 locks the sliding pieces in position. The frame may be fitted with the hinged pressure back 10 described in Specification No. 10,597, A.D. 1904.
Patent GB-190605302-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in the Manufacture of a Composition for the Manufacturing of Grinding Tools.
Inventor: PAULS FERDINAND
Filed: 1906-03-05
Granted: 1906-07-05
Abstract: 5302. Pauls, F. March 5. Wheels and tools, composition of.-Ten to fifty per cent of fine pumice-stone powder is mixed with the usual compositions of emery &c. and a binding-agent, such as shellac, in the manufacture of grinding-tools. [Reference has been directed under Patents Act, 1902, to Specification No. 2071, A.D. 1880.]
Patent GB-190607235-A (GB)
Title: Standards for Supporting Rock Drills, and the like.
Filed: 1906-03-26
Granted: 1907-01-24
Abstract: 7235. Hardy Patent Pick Co., and Blears, W. March 26. Rock drills.-In an adjustable support for rock drills, the pillar or equivalent a, having an extending screw foot i, carries a cross-head b in which are formed vertical slots c through which the notched bars d slide, and an horizontal slot e in which the hand-pin or locking-barf, having a handle l, moves so as to engage or be freed from the notches g as desired. Removal of the pin f from the slot e is prevented by a suitably fixed washer k. The lower ends of the sliding bars d carry a sleeve h, which works on the pillar a.
Patent GB-190607516-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Valve Gear for Internal Combustion Engines.
Inventor: CLIFT ERIC HOLLOCOOMBE
Filed: 1906-03-28
Granted: 1906-12-20
Abstract: 7516. Clift, E. H. March 28. Gas and like engines, valve-gear for, and governing and igniting in. The lift of the inlet and exhaust valves is varied by moving the cam shaft either by hand or by the action of the governor away from or towards the crank-shaft. The same movement alters the time of ignition. The cam shaft A, Fig. 1, is supported above the cylinders by bearings a, a<1>, carried by tubular members B. The latter are raised or lowered by rotating the nuts C on the screw-threads d of the fixed supports D. The nuts C are,geared together by spur-wheels c and a hand- or governor-controlled rack E. The cam shaft is driven from the crank-shaft by a shaft F and skew or worm wheels. The wheel f<1> is mounted on the shaft F so that it can slide along it when the cam shaft is moved. The commutator case L, Fig. 2, or the electric make-and-break device is arranged so that an angular movement relative to the cam shaft A alters the time of firing. When the cam shaft is moved, this angular movement is produced by the link l, the bell-crank lever K pivoted to the frame at k, and a lever H which encircles the cam shaft and is pivoted to the frame at h,
Patent GB-190608392-A (GB)
Title: An Arrangement for Indicating and Recording Permanently the Maximum Demand for Electrical Energy on any Circuit.
Inventor: LACKIE WILLIAM WALKER
Filed: 1906-04-07
Granted: 1907-02-07
Abstract: 8392. Lackie, W. W. April 7. Current meters.-A maximum-current indicator comprises a pivoted lever C connected to the core of a fixed solenoid A, so as to be tilted when a certain current passes ; the tilting connects a wheel F, carried by the lever, with a wheel of the counting-train of a watt-hour or other meter, so as to move a weight along the lever till the latter is tilted back. The position of the weight indicates the current-strength. The time taken to tilt the lever, back is approximately the same for. all currents, and depends on which wheel is used as driving-wheel. According to the Provisional Specification, the lever is trough-shaped, and the driving- wheel may belong to clock-work, driven electrically or by a spring so as to make the apparatus complete in itself. In the arrangement shown, the wheel F winds in a cord H, which passes through the weight E and moves it by a stop L. When the lever tilts back, the cord is unwound by a weight N, leaving the weight E, for its position to be read from a scale G on or separate from the lever.- The cord may be fixed to the weight E, the part to the left being omitted, but in that case a further increase of current would be recorded in a shorter time than the original current. In a modification, the driving-wheel, or bevel-gearing or a cord therefrom, rotates a long screw so as to move a nut along the lever ; a pulley with a weighted cord, or a spring, may be provided to rotate the screw back when the wheels are out of gear, returning the nut but leaving an indicator-piece which the nut pushes. In a third form, a rack is moved along the lever by a pinion which engages with the driving- wheel. In modified forms, the lever is hung from hooks, and the solenoid is above the lever, its plunger being connected between the pivot and the weight.
Patent GB-190610004-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to the Preservation of Food.
Inventor: HANSEN DORTHEUS ANDREAS
Filed: 1906-04-28
Granted: 1907-01-03
Abstract: 10,004. Hansen, D. A., and Schilbred, C. May 1, 1905, [date applied for under Patents Act, 1901]. Preserving food.-Food substances, e.g. shrimps, are preserved by exposing them to carbonic acid at a low temperature, preferably forty to fifty below 0‹ C., for a short time and then keeping them in an atmosphere of the gas. They may be subjected to a cold jet from a cylinder of the liquefied gas in a vessel which is afterwards sealed. [Reference has been directed under Patents Act, 1902, to Specification No. 998, A.D. 1892.]
Patent GB-190622270-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to Rotary Engines of the Impact Wheel Type.
Inventor: HUBBARD CLARA ADELAIDE
Filed: 1906-10-09
Granted: 1907-07-25
Abstract: 22,270. Hubbard, C. A. Oct. 9. Impact - wheels. - The casing 1, Figs. 2, 3, and 5, encloses a doublewalled cylinder 7 which forms an outer exhaust chamber, an inner exhaust chamber 14, and a central working chamber containing the wheel or drum 16. The wheel has two rows of buckets 19, 20 on each side. the two rows on one side being arranged for forward driving and those on the other side being arranged for reverse driving. The nozzle passages 21, 22, Fig. 9, are similarly arranged in two sets, which are out of alinement and between which are arranged the exhaust ports 21<a>, 22<a>. The nozzle passages are controlled by oscillating cylindrical valves 24, Fig. 7, which have ports 25 adapted to aline with one or other of the sets of nozzle passages. The valves are connected by cranks 28 and links 29 to a common operating-handle 32. Each distributing-valve has a pulsation-producing valve 36, Fig. 7, these valves being connected by crank and link devices to a common eceentric 43 on the shaft 17, so that they are rocked and admit steam in puffs from the steam chamber 6 to the distributing-valves. One set of exhaust ports 21<a> communicates with inner exhaust chamber, and the other set communicates with the outer exhaust chamber.
Patent GB-190622640-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Fare Indicators for Vehicles
Inventor: MASCART CHARLES
Filed: 1906-10-12
Granted: 1907-03-07
Abstract: 22,640. Mascart, C. Dec. 23, 1905, [date applied for under Patents Act, 1901]. Fares, registering.-The time during which a vehicle such as a motor-car is kept standing due to a break-down or other cause occupying time that should not be paid for is registered upon a special counter. In the device described, a wheel of the clock-work drives a pinion 2, operating the fare indicator, through a pinion 3 mounted at 4 on a lever 5 pivoted to the arbor 6 of the pinion 2, the lever being held in this position by a. spring 7. Mounted on a second lever 8 pivoted at 9 are two other pinions 12,10, the latter operating the counter 16 through a pin 14 and a lever 15. The pinion 12 is normally held out of gear by a cam 19, but when this is rotated, the pinion 12 is put in gear and the pinion 3 thrown out. The cam 19 is rotated by the flagstaff to bring a notice such as "break-down" into view.
Patent GB-190623637-A (GB)
Title: Improved Riding Saddle for Ladies.
Inventor: MILLS CLAUDE KENNEDY
Filed: 1906-10-24
Granted: 1907-07-25
Abstract: 2 3 , 6 3 7. Mills, C. K., [Guilleaume, R.]. Oct. 24. Saddles.-In a side saddle, the near-side head a is fixed to the side plate c of the saddle-tree, and the leaping head b is capable of being adjusted in a slotted guide d fixed to the side plate. The base f of the head b is formed in two parts having interlocking teeth, so that the head may be turned in any direction when the screw e is loosened. In a modified form, the near - side head a is made adjustable and the head b is fixed.
Patent GB-190623763-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Saws or Cutting or Grinding Wheels for Stone, Marble and the like.
Inventor: BOORNE WILLIAM HANSON
Filed: 1906-10-25
Granted: 1907-10-25
Abstract: 23,763. Boorne, W. H. Oct. 25. Saws.-In a circular or reciprocating saw or cutting or grinding wheel for stone, marble, cement, &c., of the kind in which a central disk or backing of metal, celluloid, &c. a and a cutting-edge d of abrasive material are used, the abrasive material is formed or moulded in sloping or wedge-like section to reduce friction, the cutting-edge being the thickest part. [Reference has been directed under Patents Act, 1902, to Specification No. 28,755, A.D. 1903.]
Patent GB-190624786-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Handles for Gimlets and other Tools.
Inventor: GRIFFITHS JOHN RHYS
Filed: 1906-11-05
Granted: 1907-04-25
Abstract: 24,786. Griffiths, J. R. Nov. 5. Gimlets; handles. -The handles of gimlets and other tools are strengthened and fixed in position by passing a pin a axially through the handle b and through a hole c in the shank d of the tool.
Patent GB-190625483-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Reversing Gears.
Inventor: JUSTICE PHILIP MIDDLETON
Filed: 1906-11-12
Granted: 1907-03-28
Abstract: 25,483. Justice, P. M., [Gies Gear Co.]. Nov. 12. Reversing-gearing.-Relates to reversing-gearing of the type in which a direct solid drive is produced through the agency of a clutch and reversal is effected by braking a casing which carries a countershaft. Driving and driven shafts 1, 2, Fig. 1, carry a spur-pinion 4 and a sprocket-wheel 5, respectively, which gear directly and through a chain with a spur-wheel 14 and a sprocket-wheel 12 fast on a countershaft 11. The shaft 11 is carried by a casing 6, which is formed with a projecting rim 15 adapted to be engaged by an expanding-segment clutch 19 carried by arms 17 secured to the shaft 2. When the clutch 19 is brought into operation by a sliding cone 21, the gear rotates solid. When the clutch is released and a brake band 22 is applied to the casing 6, the shaft 2 is reversed. In a modification shown in Fig. 4, the reversal is effected by moving one lever 40. The band 22, which is shown applied to the rim 15, is pivoted at its end to a lever 41. The lever 40 engages the cone 21 so that when that lever is thrust to the left, the clutch is operated while the band remains loose. On retracting the lever 40, the clutch is disengaged, and a wedge 42 pivoted to that lever engages the lever 41 and contracts the band 22.
Patent GB-190627709-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Optical Instrument for Observing Insects and for other purposes.
Inventor: NEWTON HERBERT CHARLES
Filed: 1906-12-05
Granted: 1907-07-18
Abstract: 27,709. Newton, H. C., [Gasparis, A. de]. Dec. 5. Microscopes; telescopes.-By the addition of an auxiliary object-glass a<1> to an ordinary terrestrial telescope or like erecting instrument, insects &c. can be viewed at a short distance, which is, however sufficiently great for the objects viewed not to be disturbed. The instrument is preferably mounted on a stand.
Patent GB-190706616-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Calendars, and Christmas, Birthday Greeting and like Cards.
Inventor: TUCK GUSTAVE
Filed: 1907-03-19
Granted: 1908-03-19
Abstract: 6616. Tuck, G., and Bull, M. March 19. Picture frames.-Christmas cards &c. are prepared so that the inner leaves may be inserted or removed easily, not being fastened. The cover a, Fig. 2, is bent double, and the front part has a hole c, Fig. 1, cut in it to expose the print, and may also be cut short at the end as shown. A ribbon d passing through both parts of the cover supports the cards b, which are pushed through it ; the cards may be further supported by a guide e of paper &c. attached to one part of the cover, or by rivets, another ribbon, &c.
Patent GB-190710469-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Electrical Vapour Apparatus.
Inventor: HAHN KONRAD
Filed: 1907-05-06
Granted: 1908-01-16
Abstract: 10,469. Hahn, K. May 6. Converting alternating and direct currents.-In a vapour rectifier having several liquid electrodes, the supply of condensed liquid to an electrode is regulated by a stopper or its equivalent which controls the passage of vapour to a condensing- chamber feeding the electrode, in accordance with the quantity of liquid in the electrode. All but one of the electrodes may be provided with such device, the one excepted having a condensing- chamber only. The stopper may float on the electrode, and consist of aglass or quartz tube d, Fig. 1, when the condensing-chamber a opens into the main chamber at its upper end, or of a ball when the opening is at the lower end ; or, the liquid electrode may itself act as the stopper, as shown at m, Fig. 4. An additional electrode may be placed in the path of the mercury condensed in a chamber l, the overflow from this electrode passing to the electrode k which regulates the supply of vapour to the chamber. Annular electrodes may be used.
Patent GB-190715968-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Combination Tools.
Inventor: TAYLOR CHARLES GILBERT
Filed: 1907-07-11
Granted: 1907-11-28
Abstract: 15,968. Taylor, C. G. July 11, 1906, [date applied for under Patents Act, 1901]. Opening bottles.-A combination tool, to be used for opening bottles and sheet-metal cans, has a handle composed of a single strip of metal bent to form a loop 6, into which a corkscrew folds, as shown in Fig. I. Riveted in the handle is a blade 13, of which one edge forms the can-opener 17, and the other 15 is used for removing bottle closures, as shown.
Patent GB-190717947-A (GB)
Title: An Automatic Electrical Gong Ringing Device for Electrical Street Railway Cars.
Inventor: FALLEK NATHAN
Filed: 1907-08-07
Granted: 1908-01-23
Abstract: 17,947. Fallek, N. Aug. 7. Tramcar bells. - In electric street cars, the controller is adapted as a switch for an electricallyoperated bell or gong ringing device which will automatically and continuously ring the bell when the car is standing still or running at full speed, unless the motorman presses the handle against the action of a spring 27 or removes the handle, and also when the car is starting and until it has attained a fair rate of speed, or when running with resistance in the motor circuit, and that will ring whenever desired, the current for the circuit being obtained from a battery or from the trolly, with the provision of a cut-out switch 29. A ring-shaped box 6, provided with a recess to fit the stop-post 4, encloses a non-conducting ring 8 secured by two cover rings 9 and containing several contact-makers 13 worked by a lug 11 on the handle 2 against the action of a spring and to make contact with a wire 21 touching a plate 20, to which is secured the circuit wire 22 insulated from the controller and which can be swung free from the wire 21, the other circuit wire 24 being in connexion with the handle. There are no contacts corresponding to the position 'off' as shown in Fig. 1, where the car has attained a fair rate of speed and the motors are in series with no controller :resistance, while the contacts near the 'stop' and full speed' positions are close to the stop-post 4, so that contact is made unless the handle is kept pressed against the spring 27. Contacts are also placed at all intermediate speeds so that the bell rings whenever there is controller resistance in circuit. When the handle is operated by step-by-step movements, lugs 26 are cast on the top plate to indicate the proper steps, and the contacts are preferably placed in line with these.
Patent GB-190722305-A (GB)
Title: Self-fixing Removable Button.
Inventor: SEFTON-JONES HERBERT
Filed: 1907-10-09
Granted: 1908-04-09
Abstract: 22,305. Jones, H. Sefton-, [Facchinetti, C.]. Oct. 9. Studs and solitaires; buttons.-A two-part button or stud for use with trousers, cuffs, and other garments comprises a base part a, Fig. 2, having a sharp pointed head recessed at b and adapted to be gripped by straight portions f, g of a spring e in the top part c. The spring can be opened to release the head by pressure on a cover h having two tapering points i as shown in Fig. 4.