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Patent GB-190909009-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Pneumatic Boot Trees.
Inventor: MCLEAN ARCHIBALD
IPC: A43D3/04
Filed: 1909-10-18
Granted: 1910-08-18
Abstract: 9009. McLean, A. Oct. 18. Trees.-A pneumatic boot tree has its bottom portion a of one-ply rubber, and its upper portion a<1> of two-ply rubber. The rubber is strengthened by vulcanizing canvas to it at the parts a<2>, a<3>, a<4>, a<5>, a<6>. A plug b is inserted in the top of the tree, and the rubber is clamped in an air-tight manner to it by a strap tightened by a bolt. An inlet valve b<4> and an outlet valve c are provided. The tree may be covered with absorbent material to dry the inside of the boot.
Patent GB-190913956-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Burglar Alarm Systems.
Inventor: SUNDHEIMER MALCOLM
IPC: G08B13/22
Filed: 1909-06-14
Granted: 1910-06-09
Abstract: 13,956. Sundheimer, M. June 14. Burglar and like alarms. - In an electric burglar-alarm system, an alarm bell 3 is sounded by a clock-work striker 6 when a normally-closed circuit is broken, and by an electric striker 4 of ordinary type when a normally-open circuit is closed. The circuit-wires pass from the vault &c. in which the burglar-contacts are disposed, through a metal cable 20, to an alarm casing, with double insulated walls 1, 2, fixed on the outside of the building. The normally-closed circuit 22, 20, 23, 24, 25 includes a magnet 11, the armature of which releases the rotary striker 6 when the circuit is broken, say by cutting the wires or by opening doors &c. The striker 6, as shown in Fig. 2, is carried by a jointed arm 14, 15 which rotates on a shaft 7, Fig. 1. A coiled spring normally brings the arm 14 back against a stop 17 so that the striker 6 can clear the dome 3, but centrifugal force carries the arm 14 over to the stop 18, in which position the striker 6 sounds the bell. The closed circuit 22, 25 is supplied alternatively from batteries 21, 26, according to the position of a two-way switch 33, which is broad enough to prevent both batteries from being cut out simultaneously. The disconnected battery may be put in circuit with a testing-galvanometer 36 by depressing the flexible tail of the switch 33 on to a spring contact 34 or 35. The normallyopen circuit 37, 39, which passes through the drop-relay 48 and battery 40, may be closed (a) by door &c. contacts between the wires 41; 44, (b) by the action of the normally-energized magnet 11 on a contact 42, (c) by drilling the bell casing so as to connect the walls 1, 2, and (d) by spring collars 55 on the ends of the cable 20 which are brought into contact with rings 56, 57 if the cable is pulled. In any of these events, the relay 48 is energized, breaks its own circuit at 49, and energizes the lines 38, 39 leading to the electric ringing-mechanism 5. An ammeter 68 is provided for the battery 40.
Patent GB-190923410-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Apparatus for Changing the Positions of Hanks of Yarn on Dyeing Sticks.
Inventor: SCHLUMPF JAKOB
IPC: D06B3/08
Filed: 1909-10-13
Granted: 1910-10-13
Abstract: 23,410. Schlumpf, J. Oct. 13. Hank type.-A travelling machine for automatically raising hanks of yarn arranged on yarn sticks out of a dye vat and shifting round the hanks on the sticks comprises holding-members which seize the hanks on a stick, held and being moved by the mechanism, and grip them fast until the stick has been moved away from the gripping point by approximately the length of a hank, after which the hank is released. The machine is built upon two side frames 1 rigidly braced together, and runs by means of travelling wheels 5 on overhead girders above the vat 7. A motor between the frames drives, through suitable gearing, both the wheels 5 and the operating-mechanism. This consists more particularly of two dipping-wheels 10, one on each side of the vat, and each furnished with three dippers 11 for picking up the sticks, which dippers are always held vertical by ordinary epicyclic gear; the gripping-device is composed of two bars 18, 19 furnished with teeth and adapted to move endways on each other. The bars 19, 18 are mounted on toothed wheels 20, 21, respectively, one bar 19 and its wheel 20 being adapted to move longitudinally, Fig. 7. This movement is effected by a cam - groove pulley 23, which causes the gripping-device to hold the hanks when the teeth have entered the hanks on the raised stick, and to release them when they have been shifted round. For driving the gear-wheels 20, 21, other gearwheels, fast on the shaft 22 which carries the cam 23, are provided, of which that gearing with the shifting wheel 20 is wide enough to remain in gear despite such shifting. The shift round being completed, the stick is replaced on the vat 7. The machine may be fitted with a device for preventing the hank sticks from being seized by one dipping - wheel only, and not simultaneously by the other; also with arrangements for automatically reversing the direction of travel,
Patent GB-190924262-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Vehicle Wheels.
Inventor: JACOBS LOUIS HERMAN
IPC: B60B23/02
Filed: 1909-10-22
Granted: 1910-02-10
Abstract: 24,262. Jacobs, L. H., and Jacobs, T. G. Oct. 22. Detachable - rim attachments to wheels.- A detachable rim is secured on the felloe 7<a> by means of an expansible ring 4 of rectangular cross - section adapted to engage a corresponding groove on the inside of the rim. A disk 6, on a right and left screw device by which the ring 4 is adjusted, is bored at 7 to receive a locking-collar or split pin. The fixed and detachable rim members may have -interengaging projections &c.
Patent GB-190925704-A (GB)
Title: New or Improved Method of and Means for Automatically Feeding Water and Shot or other Abrading Materials to Stone Sawing Machines.
Inventor: LITTLEWOOD BEAUMONT
Filed: 1909-11-08
Granted: 1910-09-29
Abstract: 25,704. Littlewood, S. Nov. 8. Sand, grit, and the like, feeding to machines. - Water and abrading-material are fed to a saw frame 4 by means of a conveyer 11, which raises it from a chamber 10 to a vessel 12 whence it is scooped up by a rotating member 13 having a series of spiral channels, or a series of buckets, and passed to a pipe 14. The pipe 14 carries a perforated chamber 15, from which the water and grit pass to an adjustable casing 16, having a screen 16<2> and a spreader 16<3>, and thence by pipes 17 supported in a grating 18, to the saw blades. After use, it falls to a trough 6 and through a strainer 8 and recess 7, back to the chamber 10. The surplus water from the pipe 14 passes by a pipe 19 to one or more tipping tanks 20, which automatically discharge, when full, into the trough 6. When required, a valve 21 is closed, and the water passes through a pipe a to a settling-tank. If required, the grit &c. may be supplied directly from the pipe 14, which may have pipes attached to increase the sweep; or a reciprocating feeder may be used.
Patent GB-190928378-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Electric Ignition Devices for Internal Combustion Engines.
Inventor: MAGGIORA DEMETRIO
Filed: 1909-12-04
Granted: 1910-11-24
Abstract: 28,378. Maggiora, D. Dec. 4. Systems, electric; sparking-plugs.-In multicylinder engines, the insulated terminals a ... d of the spark-plugs are connected to the secondary of an induction coil i by a common lead m, the uninsulated terminals e ... h being on the side or end of the piston. A contact-breaker n, Fig. 1, times the ignition point for the circuit, the condition of the charges and positions of the pistons determining in which cylinder a spark shall be produced. In place of the contact-breaker, an external spark-gap is provided for the secondary circuit, a trembler being placed in the primary circuit. The external spark-gap is adjustable, but the gap is always of greater length than the igniting - spark length, so that, when two terminals in one cylinder. come opposite to each other, sparks occur in the cylinder, while at other times sparking takes place across the external gap. The insulated electrodes are, in this modification, placed at the end of the cylinders, and are movable towards or away from the piston.
Patent GB-191001437-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Steam Engine and like Indicators.
Inventor: PURDY FREDERICK
IPC: G01L23/02
Filed: 1910-01-19
Granted: 1910-09-22
Abstract: 1437. Purdy, F. Jan. 19, 1909, [Convention date]. Recording by coordinates; photographic recorders. -In an engine indicator especially adapted for use with highspeed engines, such as gas-engines, a mirror, normally tilted slightly out of the vertical plane, is adapted to be rocked by a diaphragm controlled by the cylinder pressure, and is also rotated synchronously with the movements of the crank - shaft. The atmospheric l i n e is thus a circle, and the indicator diaphragm is a curve deviating therefrom but referred to t h e centre of the circle as the point of zero pressure. A rod 29, attached to the diaphragm 18, Fig. 3, upon which the pressure acts, extends through the stud 22, Fig. 4, on which a bevelwheel 23 is loosely mounted, and engages the back of a mirror 26 pivoted upon the wheel 23 and controlled by a spring 28, the wheel and mirror receiving a rotary movement derived from the crank-shaft. A beam from an arc lamp 43 passing along the tube 44, 45 is reflected by the mirrors 46, 47 on to the mirror 26, and the beam reflected from the latter mirror is received by the ground-glass screen or photographic film 42. The form of diagram obtained is shown in Fig. 9.
Patent GB-191012335-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Hinged Frames or Members Forming Parts of Furniture and other Articles.
Inventor: ROSENTHAL AUGUST
IPC: A47B3/10
Filed: 1910-05-19
Granted: 1911-05-19
Abstract: 12,335. Rosenthal, A. May 19. Tresfle.s.-A spring bow 10 with inturned ends 9 is pivoted in bearings 8 on a frame 7 and is adapted to expand into spaces formed between the end of the frame and blocks 11 so as to be held in the open position, or to be contracted between the blocks when folded. The combined structure may form a part of a stand. Corner pieces 21, Fig. 8, may be used instead of the separate blocks 11, the sides of the bow being held in spaces 23 when folded and in spaces 22 when in use. The sides of the bow may be contracted by a pull on a cord guided over pulleys on a horizontal rod loosely mounted on the sides.
Patent GB-191012535-A (GB)
Title: A Method of Producing Castable Masses from Non-plastic Substances.
Inventor: WEBER EMIL
IPC: C04B33/13
Filed: 1910-05-23
Granted: 1911-03-09
Abstract: 12,535. Weber, E. June 23, 1909, [Convention date]. Plastic compositions. - Castable masses are produced from powdered non-plastic substances, such as quartz, carborundum, steatite, magnesite, zinc oxide, sulphur, graphite, and metals by adding a small quantity of alkali-from 0À05 to 0À2 per cent-and a little water, with or without the addition of humus or carbonaceous substances of high molecular weight, such as humic acid, grape sugar, gum, brown coal, and turf, in small quantities such as from 0À05 to 0À2 per cent. Barium and lead salt solutions may also be added to precipitate soluble sulphates, and the masses may be hardened by an addition of acids or salts. The powdered materials may be in different states of division.
Patent GB-191014478-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Rotary Engines.
Inventor: HARTMANN WILLY
Filed: 1910-06-15
Granted: 1911-04-13
Abstract: 14,478. Hartmann, W. June 15. Fixed-abutment type; packing drums and vanes; working-fluid supply.-A rotary engine having a conical casing with an eccentric drum, in which a vane is moved radially by a stud on a disk rotating concentrically with the casing, has a valve which controls the admission of the explosive mixture, the explosion thereof, and the removal of the burnt gases. The drum 2, fixed on the shaft 3, is packed by the disk 8, which presses against the disk 7 by ball bearings. The pressure is obtained by spring- pressed conical rollers 16. The position of the drum on the shaft is adjusted by nuts 11, 12. A stud 20 in the disk 7 is screwed into the vane 19, which is thus kept in contact with the casing. Packing-strips 21 are fitted on the vane. The valve 25 is operated by the six-tooth pinion 33 from the two teeth on the disk 34 on the shaft of the engine. The valve is moved through one revolution for three revolutions of the drum. In the first revolution of the drum in each cycle, the explosive mixture is drawn in through the port 26; in the next revolution, this mixture is compressed into the valve chamber, and cooling-air only is drawn into the cylinder, a separate valve being provided to change the connexions to the port 26 to supply air or mixture; in the third revolution, the gas, which is exploded in the valve chamber, is admitted to the casing, and the air is expelled through the port 27. In the first revolution of the next cycle, the exhaust gases are expelled through this port.
Patent GB-191015902-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Ambulance Stretchers.
Inventor: COX JOHN SEALEY
IPC: A61G1/02
Filed: 1910-07-02
Granted: 1911-01-26
Abstract: 15,902. Cox, J. S. July 2. Litters.-A stretcher which can be readily taken to pieces is provided with means for adjusting its length. The side tubes are telescopic, but the end of the tube b which slides into the other b<1> is made of the same diameter as the tube b<1> so as to form a shoulder which abuts against the tube b<1> when the stretcher is at its minimum length. A set-screw c engaging a groove or slot in the tube b may be provided on one or both tubes b<1> to secure the side tubes at various extensions. The canvas consists of two main portions i, which are secured together at their inner edges when the stretcher is of minimum length, but additional sections j, j<1>, j<2> may be inserted and secured together at their edges as shown. Instead of adding the sections at the centre, one section may be placed over the handles at each end and secured to the outer edges of the sections i. The canvas, which has pockets at its edges through which the side tubes are passed, is held taut by hinged cross-stays d pivoted to brackets e on the side tubes.
Patent GB-191017662-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Carriers for Attachment to Cycles and Motor Cycles.
Inventor: ASHBY FRANK
IPC: B62J7/00
Filed: 1910-07-26
Granted: 1911-06-29
Abstract: 17,662. Ashby, F. July 26. Children's seat attachments, luggage-carriers. -In carriers for attachment to cycles and motor-cycles, of the kind comprising upright back or main members a which carry the platform and are provided with hooks c whereby the carrier may be suspended from the handle-bars, a displaceable keeper bar f is arranged to brace together the upper ends of the back members and to pass round or engage the back of the handle-bar stem so as to prevent lateral and forward displacement of the carrier. The bar is pivoted to one member a and engages the other member by a hook and preferably a snap action. The platform is pivoted to the back members and is supported by diagonal struts k which are secured to the lower ends of the members by removable bolts and nuts lc' so that the carrier may be folded up. A tie-bar b is arranged between the main members in front of the head. The lower ends a<1> of the members fit into slotted ears upon clips d. The platform may carry a child's seat, as shown, or it may itself be padded and a back-rest attached to the upper portions of the main members. The carrier may, however, be used as an ordinary front carrier upon which parcels &c. may be strapped; or an upper rail may be provided to encircle a basket or the like.
Patent GB-191021736-A (GB)
Title: A New or Improved Table and Container for Knives, Forks, Spoons, and (or) similar Articles.
IPC: A47B33/00
Filed: 1910-09-19
Granted: 1911-07-13
Abstract: 21,736. Elkington & Co., and Richards, F. C. Sept. 19. Tables combined with containers for cutlery &c.-A table is provided with recesses e, f, and trays g, or the like for table cutlery, silver, &c., the whole article thus forming a combined " canteen and table. The top is hinged to form a lid, and specially-shaped side recesses h for soup ladles &c. may be provided.
Patent GB-191022292-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Recording Apparatus.
Inventor: LEEDS MORRIS EVANS
Filed: 1910-09-26
Granted: 1911-04-27
Abstract: 22,292. Leeds, M. E. Oct. 23, 1909, [Conuention date]. Recording by co-ordinates. - In apparatus wherein mechanical means are provided for making a record under the control of the needle, pointer, or indicator of a physical, electrical, chemical, mechanical, or other measuring-instrument, a disk 32 is rotated according to the deflection of the indicator and moves a flexible connexion 42 so as to traverse a carriage 44 carrying a marker. The flexible member 42 is wound in the threads of a screwed sleeve carrying a pinion 34 clutched to the disk by a spring 35. Spring arms 49 on the carriage run on a guide rod 50 and an electrical contact 52 may be fitted to engage a conductor 51 for rebalancing the circuit controlling the needle.
Patent GB-191026486-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and connected with Advertising Mediums such as Posters, Signs, Sandwich Boards and the like.
Inventor: MARSHALL DALE
IPC: G09F7/22
Filed: 1910-11-15
Granted: 1911-08-24
Abstract: 26,486. Marshall, D. Nov. 15. Moving and changing apparatus.-Movably and superficially attached portions M, Figs. 6 and 7; of a picture or notice are operated by natural or artificial air-currents. The movable part may be provided with a lip L, against which the air impinges, with or without the assistance of fixed deflecting-pieces D. The movement may be conveyed to a sign - part through wires; or the device may be one M, Fig. 9, which is periodically inflated by the aircurrents traversing apertures A. A scroll M, Fig. 10, may be rolled up under the action of the air currents or by the mere variation of temperature, or by a combination of both, so as to expose a picture P to view periodically:
Patent GB-191112350-A (GB)
Title: Treatment of Beer or Ale.
Inventor: WALLERSTEIN LEO
IPC: C12H1/00
Filed: 1911-05-22
Granted: 1911-11-16
Abstract: 12,350. Wallerstein, L. May 22. Clarifying beverages; fermenting; materials for making beverages.-To prevent the clouding of beer on chilling, due to precipitation of albuminoids, a proteolytic enzyme active in slightly acid solution is added to the beer at any stage after the cooling of the wort, and preferably after the main fermentation, and shortly before bottling. The enzyme remains active after the pasteurization and exerts a peptonizing action on the albuminoids. The proteolytic enzymes may be obtained from malt, by grinding green malt with water, treating with dilute hydrochloric acid for some time, and precipitating the enzyme from the solution with alcohol. Other enzymes suitable for use are papain from papaw, bromelin from pineapple, animal pepsin, and endotryptase from yeast.
Patent GB-191114216-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Hydroplane Boats.
Inventor: WEEDE HENRY MAURICE VAN
IPC: B63B1/20
Filed: 1911-06-15
Granted: 1911-09-14
Abstract: 14,216. Weede, H. M. van. June 15. Hydroplane vessels.-The hulls are composed of an elongated arch A, the crown of which is inclined downwards from bow to stern, and the sides of which are provided with lateral planes B. When moving forward, the tendency of the air beneath the arch is to raise the vessel out of the water. A main keel C is fitted centrally to the arch A, and includes a bearing 15 for the shaft 16 of the propeller D. Supplementary keels 17 are also fitted. A rudder F is fitted as shown, and is connected to the steering-wheel G. Horizontal fins H are provided whereby the head of the vessel may be raised or depressed. Air-tubes are also fitted to increase the buoyancy.
Patent GB-191116509-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Method of and Apparatus for Regulating Free Jet Turbines by Means of Rocking Nozzles.
Inventor: ZODEL ALOYS
IPC: F03B15/20
Filed: 1911-07-18
Granted: 1911-11-16
Abstract: 16,509. Zodel, A. Jan. 9, [Convention date]. Regulating.-An hydraulic jet-wheel A is regulated by a governor-controlled servo-motor d which, acting through link-work e, f, H, adjusts the valve c situated in the nozzle a, and at the same time alters the angular position of the nozzle a, which is adapted to rock about a pivot b. The effect of this method of regulation is that for a smaller jet the centre of impact on the blades is situated at a greater distance from the axis of the turbine. A movable dash-pot n is connected to the nozzle, and the enclosed perforated piston is attached to the lever e. In the event, therefore, of a sudden decrease of load, the nozzle is deflected so that the jet entirely clears the blades. The weight of the dash-pot and the excess weight of the nozzle on the right side of the pivot b turn the nozzle slowly back into the angular position necessitated by the load conditions. Gradual variations of load do not bring the dash-pot device into effective operation. In a modification, the adjustment of the angle of the nozzle is effected by a second servo-motor instead of by a mechanical device.
Patent GB-191122184-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Load Extension Indicator.
Inventor: DALBY WILLIAM ERNEST
IPC: G01N3/06
Filed: 1911-10-09
Granted: 1912-07-18
Abstract: 22,184. Dalby, W. E. Oct. 9. Testing physical qualities of materials.-In apparatus having means for optically measuring and recording both the strains due to applied tensional, compressional, or torsional stresses and also such applied stresses, the stresses being measured by the strain produced in a weighbar or member the physical properties of which are known, a beam of light is reflected in succession by two mirrors mounted upon axes at right-angles, one of which is turned proportionally to the applied stress, i.e. to the resulting strain in the weigh-bar, and the other to the strain in the test-bar. In the apparatus shown in Fig. 1, the hollow weigh-bar a is carried, for example, by the beam b of a testing-machine, and, by means of a screwed collar d, supports the test-bar c, to the lower end of which the required stress is applied by any known means. The resulting strain in the weigh-bar rocks a spring-controlled concave mirror f, having a pair of knife-edges in engagement with the underside of a sleeve attached internally to the bar a and a single knife-edge supported by an unstressed rod e. A beam of light from the slit z of a recording- apparatus carried by the weigh-bar, after reflection at the surface of a mirror m, is reflected by the mirrors f, k and is brought to a focus on the screen or photographic plate l. The plane mirror k is mounted on an axis at rightangles to that of the mirror f, and is rotated proportionately to the strain in the test-bar by means of a flexible connexion s passing over pulleys t, u and attached to a long lever n fixed to the axis of the mirror. The flexible connexion may be replaced by a system of levers and links (two forms of which are described), the test-bar being engaged at the two points between which the strain is measured by pairs of screwed spring-controlled pointed studs. The scale on which strains are recorded is varied, in the form shown in Fig. 3, by altering the position of a connecting-link 17. In the apparatus shown in Fig. 9, for measuring torsional stresses and strains, the stress is transmitted through the test-bar c to the hollow weigh-bar a, the left-hand end of which is fixed to the rigid frame 44 by keys or feathers. The strain on the known bar a, i.e. the applied stress, is measured 'by the movements of the concave mirror f carried by the unstressed central bar 45; the torsion in the test-bar causes a reduction or increase in the length of the bight 53 of the cord, which passes over the pulley 52 and is wound in opposite directions on the pulleys 48, 49 respectively, and the cord, in changing its length, rocks the lever 51 and hence turns the mirror k. The scale of the diagram can be varied by adjusting a connecting-link 61 similar to the link 17 described above.