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Patent GB-190721340-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Balls for Golf and like Games.
Inventor: ROGER JAMES HENRY
Filed: 1907-09-26
Granted: 1908-05-07
Abstract: 21,340. Roger, J. H. Sept. 26. Balls.-Relates to developments in the inventions described in Specifications No. 3230, A.D. 1903, and No. 28,428, A.D. 1906, and consists in forming the core b, Fig. 1, of twisted rubber strands enclosed within a rubber bag c, Figs. 1 and 3, which may have a plain surface or be provided with pips, globules, indentations, or the like d. A winding e of rubber tape and an outer cover of gutta-percha f are then added to complete the ball. In a modification, in addition to the twisted tape b, water or the like may be introduced into the bag, as described in Specification No. 20,905, A.D. 1905. In another modification, the bag may be dispensed with and the twisted thread b treated to a preliminary winding with rubber thread before the winding of broad rubber tape and the guttapercha are applied.
Patent GB-190726346-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Acetylene Gas Generators.
Inventor: ALLEN THOMAS GASKELL
Filed: 1907-11-28
Granted: 1908-03-26
Abstract: 26,346. Allen, T. G. Nov. 28. Acetylene. - In acetylene generators wherein water is fed to a vertical carbide container by a varying overflow from a substantially fixed water level surrounding it, a floating hood is placed over the open top of the carbide-container to wash the gas by forcing it to bubble through the water. The Figure shows a carbide-container c having an aperture d near the top of its casing to admit water from a tank a when the gas pressure inside a water-sealed cap b permits. Within the cap b, and over the open top of the carbide container, floats a water-scrubbing hood e which forces the gas to bubble through the water before reaching the outlet pipe from the cap b.
Patent GB-190801945-A (GB)
Title: A Music Page Turner.
Inventor: THERIOT ROSEMOND FRANCOIS
Filed: 1908-01-28
Granted: 1908-10-29
Abstract: 1945. Theriot, R. F. Jan. 28. Leaf-turners.-A leaf-turner is provided with a back-board 10 carrying a ledge 12 adjustable along a slot 11 with side frames 15 for supporting music. The music leaves are turned over by arms 25 carrying clips 26<1> and mounted on a pin 24 supported by an horizontal plate 23 secured to the under face of a shelf 16. The shelf 16 has a longitudinal slot 17 in which works a block 18, to which plates 19, 20 are secured on eich side of the shelf. The block is pulled to one side by a spring 21 which is always kept under tension by a stop 22 in the path of the block. An arm 26 is pivoted to the underside of the block 18, and terminates at one end in a hook 27 and a rounded projection 28 and at the other in a tail-piece 31. A spring 29 is secured at one end to the arm 26, and at the other engages an eye 30. When the block is reciprocated by means of a cord 33 and treadle 35, the arm 26, which normally is held clear of the turning-arms 25 by the engagement of a stop 32 with the tail-piece 31, is moved forward by the spring 29 to engage successively relatively staggered tabs 25<1> on the turning-arms. In the return motion, the arm 26 is kept clear of the arms 25 by the engagement of the projection 28 with the edge of the plate 23.
Patent GB-190803954-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Tennis Poles and the like.
Filed: 1908-02-21
Granted: 1908-12-03
Abstract: 3954. Reavell, W., and Reavell & Co. Feb. 21. Nets for games.- The mechanism for tightening a tennis net is contained in the post, and is operated by turning the knob or head of the post. The mechanism is mounted on a plate 2, and consists of a knob or cover 4 with an extension 5 pivoted at 6 to the plate 2. A spring- pressed pawl engages with a ratchet-wheel 9 secured to the extension 5. A thumb-piece 11 projecting through an opening in the post enables the pawl to be lifted out of engagement with the ratchet-wheel. The top cord 16 of the net passes into the post through an opening 17, and is gripped in a diametrical hole 15 in the extension 5. The mechanism may be mounted in a short tubular extension fitted to a wooden post, and may be operated by means of a rod inserted in holes 19 in the knob.
Patent GB-190805877-A (GB)
Title: A New or Improved Process for Preserving Matter of Animal Origin.
Inventor: GIRONCOLI SIEGFRIED
Filed: 1908-03-16
Granted: 1908-11-19
Abstract: 5877. Gironcoli, S. March 16. Preserving.-Matter of animal origin is preserved by coating with fat, which may be emulsified with a sugar solution, such as an extract of red beet, and then enclosing in a chamber which is filled with a non-injurious gas under a pressure of at least two atmospheres.
Patent GB-190809301-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Picture-frames.
Inventor: GREEN JOSHUA
Filed: 1908-04-29
Granted: 1909-04-29
Abstract: 9301. Green, J. April 29. No Patent granted (Sealing fee not paid). Picture frames.-A picture frame, chiefly designed for show cards &c., is marked with particulars, such as an advertiser's name, which cannot be removed without destroying the frame. One of the mouldings is in two parts separated at their adjacent ends b by a space and cut away at the front b<1> to contain a metal, wood, or other plate c bearing the required particulars. The space is filled by a preferably T-shaped block e, the shoulders of which rest on the edges of the adjacent ends b, and serve as a backing for the plate c, which may extend beyond the moulding. A mirror, which may be visible through cut-away portions in the plate c, may be fitted between the latter and the block e. The plate c may be inserted at one or more of the corners of the frame, a mirror backed by a wooden or other block being placed behind it.
Patent GB-190817197-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Machines for Composing or Preparing Record Strips, Controllers or Patterns for Type-casting, Composing and similar Machines.
Filed: 1908-08-15
Granted: 1909-03-11
Abstract: 17,197. Pierpont, F. H., and Lanston Monotype Corporation. Aug. 15. Type composing and casting machines.-Relates to machines of the kind described in Specifications Nos. 8634 and 18,638, A.D. 1899, and consists in the provision of a detachable stepped stop which forms a rigid abutment for the units-counting mechanism. The stop consists of two stepped blocks A, A<1>, Fig. 5, mounted on pivots a in a detachable frame K, Fig. 4, and connected together by a spring A<2>. Each of the blocks is adapted to be raised so as to bring any one of its steps into the path of a projection D<1> on the units-counting rack D. To each block A, A' is fixed a second stepped block B, B<1> adapted to be lifted by rods C connected to the punch levers. In a modification, Fig. 7, the stepped blocks are replaced by stops A<4> mounted on a pivot a. Each stop has a projection A<5> which underlies one of the stops adjacent to it, so that, when any stop is lifted by a rod C, all the stops at one side of it are raised to form a rigid abutment for the units-racks D. Specification No. 18,230, A.D. 1906, is referred to.
Patent GB-190820004-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Lanterns for Gas Lighting
Inventor: GUNNING JOHN
Filed: 1908-09-23
Granted: 1909-02-04
Abstract: 20,004. Gunning, J. Sept. 23. [Patent of Addition to No. 2960, A.D. 1908.] Street lamps; lanterns; lighting and extinguishing gas.-Tbe street or other lantern and its support described in Specification No. 2960, A.D. 1908, is modified for suspended:lamps by forming the top of the casing a, which contains .the automatic controller, with a boss b which is.screwthreaded to receive a swan neck or standard c of the lamp. A hinged door d of practically the full width and -height of the casing is used, .and the door is provided with a fastening-device .consisting of a sliding 'domed; bell, or conical shaped cap e, which also renders the casing a weathertight. The boss b is formed with an annular and a lateral duct, which directs the water running down the standard c and diverts it to the back of the casing. Any ordinary fastening-device may be used in addition to the cap e.
Patent GB-190823265-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Smokeless Lamp Burning Liquid Hydro-carbons.
Inventor: WOODWARD JOHN THOMAS
Filed: 1908-10-31
Granted: 1909-09-16
Abstract: 23,265. Woodward, J. T., Fredericks, F., and Copelin, W. E. Oct. 31. Hand piston pumps.-A pump J with suction valve K, delivery valve L, and relief valve M serves to force oil from an outer reservoir A of a lamp to an inner reservoir E until a given pressure is reached, solid d impurities being retained by a gauze screen I.
Patent GB-190827382-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Mouth Pieces of Speaking Tubes and Telephones.
Inventor: JAMES HORACE
Filed: 1908-12-16
Granted: 1908-12-16
Abstract: 27,382. James, U. Dec. 16. Speaking-tubes.- A portable mouthpiece, for use with ordinary telephone and speaking-tube transmitters, comprised two parts E, F so constructed that a sound-chamber D is left between them. In the sound passage A one or more antiseptic disks, which may be constructed of perforated celluloid sheets separated by antiseptic Sheets, are placed, Sound-amplifying means such as antiseptically treated vibratory diaphragms or wires may be placed in the sound chamber D.
Patent GB-190904677-A (GB)
Title: Improved Textile Fabrics having Electrical and other Properties.
Inventor: PEARSON HERBERT PINK
IPC: D06M11/09
Filed: 1909-02-25
Granted: 1910-02-10
Abstract: 4677. Pearson, H. P. Feb. 25. Materials, special, for fabrics; mixed fabrics. -To obtain woven fabrics for use as flannels, shirtings, &c., and also knitted hosiery &c., which possess electrical properties and are unshrinkable, woollen and like fibres such as " tops " or "-slubbing," are chlorinated by treatment with gaseous chlorine, chlorine solution, or an acidified solution of hypochlorite &c., or are treated with -bromine or bromine compounds, and are then mixed in the dry state with wool that has not been treated with halogens, the mixed fibres being then spun into yarn, from which fabrics and garments are obtained. The wool is bleached before, or after, or both before and after the chlorination, by sulphur dioxide gas, or by acidified solutions of sulphites, bisulphites, or thiosulphites, or by two of these processes. Small quantities of other fibres, such as cotton, silk, or ramie, may be mixed with the wool. Fabrics may also be obtained from two-fold yarn composed of chlorinated wool yarn twisted with untreated! wool yarn.
Patent GB-190907576-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Couplings or Connections for Electric Conductors or Cables, and the like.
Inventor: BROOKES ALFRED GEORGE
IPC: H02G3/06
Filed: 1909-03-30
Granted: 1910-03-30
Abstract: 7576. Brookes, A. G., [Thomas & Betts Co.]. March 30. Overlap joints with transverse holding-means; sleeve joints; plates, securing tubes to.-A connector for electric conductors &c. comprises a collar 1, which embraces the conductor, and a screw 8 loosely mounted in holes in the collar. A nut 9 traverses the screw when this is rotated and bites into the covering of the conductor &c. An abutment surface 2 may be provided between which and the conductor &c., the nut wedges. The device is described as applied to connecting conductors to outlet boxes, and connecting conductors end to end.
Patent GB-190910518-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to the Burners of Incandescent Gas Lights, Gas Stoves, Soldering Irons, Bunsen Burners and the like.
Inventor: PROSSER HARRY REGINALD
IPC: F23D14/30
Filed: 1909-05-04
Granted: 1910-03-10
Abstract: 10,518. Prosser, H. R. May 4. A tmosphericgas burners; blowpipe burners. - The mixing-tube of the burners of incandescent gas lights, gas stoves, soldering irons, Bunsen burners, &c. is constricted near the outlet so as to give a ball-shaped flame. The constriction is shown at b<2>, and is formed by spinning or pressing. It may be formed on a separate fitting taking over the end of the tube.
Patent GB-190915968-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Letter Boxes, Pillar Boxes, and the like.
Inventor: CALDECOURT CHARLES THOMAS
IPC: A47G29/124
Filed: 1909-07-08
Granted: 1910-03-31
Abstract: 15,968. Caldecourt, C. T. July 8. Letter-boxes and like receiving - devices are provided with a shoot A, at the bottom of which are two series of springs or levers mounted loosely on rods D, E so as to interlace each other. The rod F keeps the series C continually under spring tension. The other series is counterpoised, but, when the lower ends are widely opened, the upper ends B contact with the shoots and put this series also under spring tension. A fixed rod H connects the plates G carrying the shoot A. Each spring is coiled to provide a bearing and also for spacing.
Patent GB-190916136-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Machines for Bending and Flanging Plates.
IPC: B21D5/01
Filed: 1909-07-10
Granted: 1910-03-03
Abstract: 16,136. Smith & Co., H., and Smith, A. R. July 10. Machines; press working valves.-The hydraulic rams which are employed to raise, lower, or hold fast the upper roll of a plate-bending machine in any position are controlled by valves set by means of a hand gear. The shoe G, Fig. 3, carrying the upper roll beam D is coupled to cross-heads F connected to the rams E and two small push-down and draw-back rams H, which may be operated by the valves J described in Specification 25,221/05. Screwthreaded, splined spindles K, operated by bevel gearing from hand-wheels, engage nuts k<1> on the cross-heads F, so that, as the spindles are rotated, they are raised or lowered and so operate the valves to raise or lower the rams by the amount of the movement of the spindles. The controlling - valves may act on the main rams direct, the small rams being used for drawing back only.
Patent GB-190916323-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Meat-carving Appliances.
Inventor: DINSDALE GEORGE
IPC: B26D7/01
Filed: 1909-07-13
Granted: 1910-07-07
Abstract: 16,323. Dinsdale, G. July 13. Meat-carving appliances. -Relates to stands and to holding - devices for use with tinned meats, and consists in a stand comprising a plate a carrying two, projections b, d, one of which carries a recess approximately equal in diameter to the larger end of the tin of meat. the second projection being of the same size as this recess. The holder e is adapted to retain the last portions of the meat firmly secured to the projection d at the final stages of carving. It consists of an adjustable band secured by a slotted arm g and a pawl or the like, and is provided with a handle f and guards h, h<1>.
Patent GB-190917759-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Condensing Systems.
Inventor: WOLF ALFRED
IPC: F28B9/00
Filed: 1909-07-30
Granted: 1910-07-07
Abstract: 17,759. Wolf, A. Aug. 1, 1908, [Convention date]. Candenser systems ; surface condensers ; combined surface and jet condensers.-A centrifugal air-pump, in which the air is entrained by means of water discharged from the impeller of the pump, is operated by water of condensation. The air-pump g withdraws water and air from the condenser by pipes e, f respectively. The air separates in a tank i, and the water is returned to the steam space of the condenser by a pipe k in an amount regulated by a float valve m. The returned water showers over the condenser tubes and aids in the condensation.
Patent GB-190918350-A (GB)
Title: Improved Incandescent Oil Lamp.
Inventor: PRESTON JOHN CHARLES
IPC: F23D99/00
Filed: 1909-08-09
Granted: 1909-12-09
Abstract: 18,350. Preston, J. C. Sept. 2, 1908, [Convention date]. Incandescent vapour burners; vaporizing-appa ratus.-In an incandescent vapour lamp, the mantle is tied on a ferrule 14, Fig. 3, supported on the coiled vaporisiog-tube 10 which forms the end portion of the pillar-tube 9, Fig. 1, which supports the mantle and burner. A hood 16, 17 prevents the entrance of burnt air into the U-shaped mixing-tube 12.
Patent GB-190918657-A (GB)
Title: Improved Seat Guard for Closets.
Inventor: SCHAARSCHMIDT FRITZ
IPC: A47K13/16
Filed: 1909-08-13
Granted: 1910-03-31
Abstract: 18,657. Schaarschmidt, F., and Semmler, W. Aug. 13. Seat guards.-The guard comprises a sheet of tissue paper with a central hole 2, radiating slits 3, and a line of slits 4 corresponding with the edge of the hole in the seat. A rectangular slit 6 is preferably provided at the front of the guard.
Patent GB-190929034-A (GB)
Title: A Vessel or Receptacle for the Materials used in Garnishing Food or Dishes thereof.
Inventor: FOERDERER FRIEDRICH
IPC: A47J43/20
Filed: 1909-12-11
Granted: 1910-04-14
Abstract: 29,034. F÷rderer, F. Dec. 11. Washing fruit and vegetables.-A vessel used in preparing parsley, cress, lemons, &c. for the embellishment of food comprises compartments 1, 2 in which the greens are washed, others 3, 4 containing draining-racks c, and another 5 containing sufficient water to prevent lemons from drying too rapidly.
Patent GB-191007292-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Electric Frequency Converters.
IPC: H02M5/32
Filed: 1910-03-23
Granted: 1910-07-21
Abstract: 7292. Siemens Bros. Dynamo Works, [Siemens Schuckertwerke]. March 23. Rotary converters.-In a rotary electric frequency - converter having main field windings and commutating field windings on the stator, the strength of the main field through the commutating-poles is reduced to zero by making the number of main poles for each 360 electrical degrees of arc equal to the number of commutating-poles and to the number of phases with which the machine is designed to operate, and by arranging the main field windings so that they do not embrace any commutating-pole. The commutating-windings 3, 4, Fig. 2, are connected in series with the main field windings 1, 2. A second small independently-excited winding may be wound on the commutating-poles in circuit with voltage or phase transformers, or both, by adjusting which any desired commutating flux may be obtained.
Patent GB-191013222-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Blow Pipes and Blow Lamps for Soldering and other purposes.
Inventor: GRUBE EDWARD
IPC: F23D99/00
Filed: 1910-05-31
Granted: 1911-05-31
Abstract: 13,222. Grube, E., and Wells, A. C. May 31. Atmospheric spray burners; blowpipe burners; vaporizing - apparatus.-A blowpipe or lamp burning mineral oil is so arranged that the oil may be mixed with air, or with oxygen as desired, an additional supply of oxygen also being provided for cutting metals. Oil passes by way of a pipe a to a nozzle a<1> in a tube a<3> having air-inlets a<4>, and burns at the mouth of the pipe. Should a hotter flame be required, some of the oil passes to a vaporizer B, where it is vaporized by the heat of the tube a<3> and by way of a cock e to a chamber E, to which oxygen is supplied by the pipe D. The mixed oil and oxygen burns at the nozzle f <1>. For cutting metals, a pipe M with a cock m and nozzle m<1> leads a supply of oxygen from the pipe D to the flame from the nozzle f<1>.
Patent GB-191018122-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or appertaining to Ring Spinning, Doubling and like Machinery used in the Production of Yarns or Threads of Fibrous Substances.
Inventor: BATTERSBY JAMES THOMAS
IPC: D01H1/20
Filed: 1910-07-30
Granted: 1911-07-27
Abstract: 18,122. Battersby, J. T. July 30. Driving-arrangements; roller heads.-Relates to arrangements wherein an epicyclic train is used in ring spinning, doubling, and like machines so that the rollers may be driven faster when the ring rail is descending and slower when it is ascending, the normal speed being imparted when the rail is set at the top and bottom of the "lift." The planet-wheels of the epicyclic train are carried by a worm-wheel, which is operated by a cam n, preferably mounted on the building-motion shaft, through a lever m, ratchet h<1>, and worm f as shown. An additional pawl, to give the decreased speed during the ascent of the ring rail, may be used and operated by a chain or strap suitably connected with the lever m. Pawls may be dispensed with, and the worm-wheel shaft operated by a strap, secured at one end to a drum fast thereon, and at the other to the building-motion lever, or by a rack-and-pinion device actuated by the cam n. The epicyclic train is mounted on a shaft b from which the rollers are actuated or on each of the roller shafts.
Patent GB-191018457-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Corsets.
Inventor: TEUFEL WILHELM JULIUS
IPC: A41C1/00
Filed: 1910-08-04
Granted: 1911-06-21
Abstract: 18,457. Teufel, W. J. Aug. 4. Drawings to Specification. Corsets; materials for wearing-apparel.-Corsets are made of a material produced by the use of a highly polished cotton thread known (in Germany) as " eisengarn." The thread may comprise either the warp or the weft or both. Corsets of this material are stated to be permeable to air, as well as being resistant to strain, as is required in orthopµdic treatment.
Patent GB-191027307-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Firing Devices for Fire Arms.
Inventor: ENKLAAR KAREL ALEXANDER
IPC: F41A17/10
Filed: 1910-11-23
Granted: 1911-06-15
Abstract: 27,307. Enklaar, K. A. Nov. 23. Safety appliances applicable generally.-Relates to firing-devices of the kind in which the trigger is prevented from moving, except when the fire-arm has a predetermined angle of elevation, by means of a ball and hemispherical recess, a plunger raising the ball into the recess only when the fire-arm has the predetermined elevation, and consists in providing a frame 7, Fig. 9, with two adjacent ball races 9 having inclined ends, and a sliding block 11, the block having two recesses 12 to embrace the balls 10, the frame being pivoted to a casing 5 rigidly attached to the fire-arm so as to be free to rotate in a vertical plane, and being set to agree with the required angle of elevation by the movement of the sight, a further correction for " angle of sight being made by hand. The block 11 is connected by a stirrup 13 and a link 15 to a sliding frame 16, which is normally pressed downwards by a spring 20 so as to aline the recess between the bars 18, 19 with a plunger 23 carried by a flat spring 22. If the trigger 1 is pulled when the parts are in the position shown in Fig. 9, the plunger engages the bar 19 and full motion is prevented. If the gun is at, or within ten degrees of, the predetermined angle of elevation, the plunger can enter the recess between the bars 18, 19 when the trigger is pulled. The trigger may be freed from the controlling-device by means of the lever 55 moving the slide 56 upwards so that the plunger then enters a recess 54 when the trigger is pulled. An arm 3, Figs. 1 and 9, attached to the trigger-bar 2 carries a pivoted arm 24, the shorter arm of which is acted upon by a spring 25 which overcomes the spring 20, the longer arm acting at 26 upon the crossbar 14 of the stirrups 13 to raise the slide 11 clear of the balls until the trigger is pulled, the arm 3 then falling to allow the spring 20 to come into action. The pivot pin of the frame extends at one end outside the casing 5, and upon the projection is mounted a freelyrotating stop-plate 26, Figs. 1 and 3, provided with a stop 27 held in engagement with the wedge face 40 of a rod 39 by a flat spring. The rod 39 is actuated from the sight 41 by mechanism 42, 44 to set the plate 26 according to the position of the sight. The movement of the plate 26 is imparted to the pivot pin of the frame 7 by means of a nut 32, and a lever 36, 37 mounted rigidly on the pivot pin and held in engagement with the nut by a spring 38. The normal position of the nut 32 on the plate 26 corresponds to the zero position of the pointer 28, also mounted on the plate 26, and with that for firing at a target on the same horizontal plane as the firer. To correct for angle of site, the nut 32 is moved up or down on the screw 33 by toothed gearing and mechanism adapted to act upon the head 53 of the screw, the motion being indicated by the pointer 28 which is geared, as shown at 29, 30, 31, to the screw.