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Patent GB-190800863-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Till.
Inventor: DENTON GEORGE RICHARD
Filed: 1908-01-14
Granted: 1909-01-14
Abstract: 863. Denton, G. R. Jan. 14., Tills.-A till, having an open change drawer in which a constant sum is kept, is provided with separate shoots for different denominations of coin, and separate rows of compartments for the coins inserted at each transaction, and with mechanism by means of which, after the coins received have been placed in the compartments, a movement is given to these compartments whereby the coins from several transactions are kept in view until released from the compartments and dropped into a suitable receptacle. The till consists of two parallel glass plates 6, 7, mounted on a base-piece, which may contain the change-drawer, and united by end pieces 1, 2 and a top piece 4, in which is a partitioned shoot 5. Extending between the end pieces are shafts 12, 13 fitted with sprocket-wheels carrying endless chains 14 in which are fixed parallel bars 15, which work between the plates 6, 7 and inside the back-plate 11. The chains divide the space 16 between the plates vertically into compartments, the plates being divided to allow the chains to pass. The bars 15 form revoluble shelves on which the coins rest, the different compartments 17, 18, 19 between the chains carrying coins of different denominations. A push-rod 20 is fitted at one end and is normally held up by a spring 22, Figs. 1 and 3. It has rack teeth 23 gearing with a wheel 24, which gears with a spurwheel loose on the shaft 12. This spur-wheel carries a disk 25 bearing a pawl adapted to engage a ratchet-wheel 26 on the shaft 12. At the end of the rod 20 is a lever 27 co-acting with the tail of a balanced pawl 28, which engages a ratchet-wheel 29 on the shaft 13. When a coin is tendered and change is required, the salesman places the coin in the change-drawer and extracts an equivalent amount of change. The amount of the change is then handed over, and the amount of the purchase is inserted through a shoot 5 into the uppermost row of compartments. The rod 20 is then depressed, tripping the pawl 28 and freeing the shaft 13, at the same time revolving the shaft 12 through the rack 23, the train of wheels, and the pawl and ratchet 26. The bars 15 are thus caused to descend one step, closing the compartments containing the coins last inserted, and allowing the coins on the lowest bar to fall between guide-plates 30, 31 into the receiver. During the downward movement of the rod 20, the pawl 28 escapes from the lever 27 and locks the shaft 13 in its new position until the rod is again depressed, the lever 27 passing the pawl inoperatively as the rod 20 rises. The movement of the rod 20 may actuate a counting-mechanism to show the number of times the rod is operated.
Patent GB-190802578-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Coin Testing and Sorting Mechanism especially applicable to Coin-freed Automatic Machines.
Inventor: HADIDA HENRY
Filed: 1908-02-05
Granted: 1908-12-31
Abstract: 2578. Hadida, H. Feb. 5. Fraud, preventing; money shoots; returning coin. -The coin inserted in an horizontal slot a slides down an inclined shoot b, at the extremity of which it passes over a deflector, which causes it to assume a vertical position and roll down a series of zigzag tracks d. The first portion of the zigzag track is inclined laterally and cut away as shown at d<1>, Fig. 5, so that coins of insufficient diameter fall into a shoot f. A rounded stop e, Fig. 1, may momentarily arrest the coin. A magnet g, Fig. 4, covered with brass or like gauze g<1> to prevent coins from adhering to its surface, attracts iron disks through the opposite side of the shoot, a spring g<2> yielding to allow the metal disk to fall into a shoot f<1>. A spring tongue g<4> attached to a guard g<3> prevents the disk from tilting over too far. Coins that are too heavy tilt a weighted trap h and pass down a continuation of the shoot f<1>, while coins of insufficient weight fail to tilt a trap i leading to the coin mechanism. The bends of the zigzag track may be suitably rounded and cushioned, and a gauge slit may be arranged at the bottom of the inclined shoot b to reject thin coins.
Patent GB-190803381-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Reels or Spools for use in Playing Games of Skill.
Inventor: DECAMPS JEAN MAURICE
Filed: 1908-02-14
Granted: 1908-05-21
Abstract: 3381. DÚcamps, J. M. Feb. 14. Spinning t o y s ; tops.-Reels or spools for use in the game of " Di- "abolo" are made of two connected hollow cones a, b of leather closed at the base by convex leather disks d, e attached by pasting or sewing &c. The cones are attached at their apices, by means of a bolt and nuts f, to a grooved metal pulley c
Patent GB-190804288-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Devices for Automatically Arresting Run-away Colliery Trams
Inventor: SNAITH EVAN ROBERT
Filed: 1908-02-26
Granted: 1908-11-19
Abstract: 4288. Snaith, E. R. Feb. 26. Brakes.-When the hauling-tackle of a mine tram breaks on an incline, a vertical metal dropbar on the tram is released and penetrates the permanent way, thus preventing the tram from running backwards. One of the back wheels of the tram has a toothed collar B capable of being engaged by a clutch C pivoted at D to a sliding bar E terminating in a pin f, which passes through the metal drop-bar Z and keeps it raised. The dropbar Z is pointed at its lower end and slides in guides Y, Y', so that when released it penetrates the permanent way. The clutch C is connected to the hauling-bar 0, Fig. 2, which shows the underside of the tram, through links H, K, L. The hauling-bar slides in guides p, P<1> and has a spring R enclosed in a steel collar which limits the extent of the compression of the spring. When the pull on the hauling-bar ceases, the lever L, pivoting at M and connected to the hauling-bar by a loose pin connexion N, takes up the position shown in dotted lines and causes the clutch C to engage with the collar B. If the car then moves backwards, the clutch is drawn backwards and the drop-bar is released. A hand-lever V, pivoted to the side of the tram and to the clutch C at G, is moved into a nearly vertical position by means of a spring (not shown) on a relaxation of hauling-tension, and may then be engaged by an arrangement T on the track for the purpose of throwing the clutch out of action, the lever being locked in position by pins X. A relaxation of the pull then causes the pin J on the link K to travel in the slot in the link H without actuating the clutch. Stopping-devices can be arranged at opposite sides of the tram in order to arrest it when travelling in either direction.
Patent GB-190808428-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Safety Cranks for Starting Internal Combustion Engines.
Inventor: HARTMAN NOBLE WASHINGTON
Filed: 1908-04-15
Granted: 1908-07-30
Abstract: 8428. Hartman, N. W., Williams, L. Y., and Bay, A. C. April 15. Gas and like engines, starting. The starting- handle 1 has a projecting peg 17 engaging the end of the crank-shaft 14 in the usual way, and is forced out of engagement by the cam-shaped end of the crank-shaft when the motor overruns the starting-device. A circular disk 8, secured to the framing by two pins 9, has a pair of inwardlyprojecting radial pegs 13, which engage teeth 5 on an enlarged portion of the handle shaft. During the operation of starting, the disk 8 is forced away from the framing by the action of the teeth on the pegs, and the springs 12 then maintain the handle in engagement with the crank-shaft. If premature ignition occurs, the teeth engage the pins 13, the disk comes into contact with the frame, and the handle is forced outwards until it is disengaged from the crank-shaft.
Patent GB-190809496-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Steam Generator Settings
Inventor: GERMEAU EMILE NICOLAS JOSEPH
Filed: 1908-05-01
Granted: 1908-09-17
Abstract: 9496. Germeau, E. N. J., and Bouton, A. N. G. May 1. Steam-generator furnaces; settings and external flues.-The upper parts of the external flues g, f of a Cornish or similar boiler are formed as heating- chambers d, c for superheating the steam in the boiler. The chambers are cut off from the direct draught of the furnace by means of plates a, and are heated only by the contact of the gases in the lower parts of the flues. The plates are freely supported upon ledges i in the flues and upon the boiler plates. They may be readily slid along the flue or removed in order to regulate the heating of the chambers by means of tongs inserted through openings k in the front of the boiler. The arch b forming the top of the chambers is preferably constructed of concrete or of bricks and concrete reinforced by transverse and longitudinal iron bars p, q. The arch is supported at its centre upon the top of the boiler, its sides resting in sand joints m at the top of the masonry.
Patent GB-190812062-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Gripping or Non-slipping Devices for Ladders.
Inventor: TURNER RICHARD
Filed: 1908-06-03
Granted: 1908-08-06
Abstract: 12,062. Turner, R., and Ward, R. June 3. Ladders.-Relates to non-slip devices applied to the head or foot of ladders. A steel claw 6. mounted on a bolt 3 which takes through holes in a steel clip 2 embracing the ladder side, engages a part of the building, the claw being retained by a flange 5 on the clip. Various forms of claw are shown.
Patent GB-190816773-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Ferro-concrete Floors and Ceilings
Inventor: HERMANNS RUDOLF
Filed: 1908-08-10
Granted: 1908-12-31
Abstract: 16,773. Hermanns, R. Aug. 10. Building-blocks for nollow floors are made with bars 2 embedded in the bases and the ends turned up to support the beam reinforcing-bars 3 in their correct positions.
Patent GB-190819203-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Jointed Air Tubes for Pneumatic Tyres.
Inventor: JELLEY JAMES
Filed: 1908-09-12
Granted: 1909-06-03
Abstract: 19,203. Jelley, J. Sept. 12. No Patent granted (Sealing fee not paid). Tyres, pneumatic.-Relates to double-ended airtubes in which the joint is open so as to maintain a continuous air cushion. The tubulure D, which engages a corresponding socket A, is of small diameter in relation to the tube B to which it is connected by a conical or flat web C. A stiffening- tube J may be inserted. One end of the tube is extended to overlap the joint, and the cross-section at the joint is somewhat larger than that of the tube so that a uniform diameter is obtained on inflation.
Patent GB-190823013-A (GB)
Inventor: BLOUNT CHARLES WILLIAM
Filed: 1908-10-29
Granted: 1909-05-13
Abstract: 23,013. Blount, C. W., and Weir, W. F. V. Oct. 29. Teapots etc.; urns.-The infuser c in a teapot, urn, &c. is attached at its periphery to two or more chains &c. e connected by a loop f, which engages a hook g for holding the infuser above the infusion, or a hook g' for holding the lid open, whereupon the infuser may be opened. When the pot &c. has a detachable lid, the infuser may be guided by one or two stems secured to the lid or the pot, and the parts of the infuser fit loosely together. The chains &c. may pass over rollers &c. on the lid.
Patent GB-190824741-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Presses for Pressing Pasty Masses through Orifices or Nozzles.
Inventor: SCHILLING HUGO OTTO
Filed: 1908-11-17
Granted: 1909-01-28
Abstract: 24,741. Schilling, H. O., and Ihnen, B. E. Nov. 17. Moulding biscuits, cakes, &c.-In an extrusion press for the production of biscuits, cakes, &c., dough is fed downwards by rollers b and is forced through nozzles in an exchangeable die-platep by means of a plate e carried by a reciprocating slide s. The plate e is slidably mounted within the slide s and is withdrawn downwardly during the return movement of the slide. Cams c mounted upon a shaft w impart a slow forward motion to the slide s, and a quick return is produced by means of a cam d mounted upon a shaft m operated by genevastop mechanism k. The plate e is reciprocated by means of a slide h operated by a cam mounted upon a shaft n driven by stop-mechanism t.
Patent GB-190826301-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Process and Apparatus for the Continuous Distillation of Liquids.
Inventor: PERKS WALTER GEORGE
Filed: 1908-12-04
Granted: 1910-01-04
Abstract: 26,301. Perks, W. G. Dec. 4. Fractional distillation; general arrangement of distilling &c. apparatus; liquids, circulating; processes, special.-An apparatus for distilling by the aid of currents of steam comprises a number of superposed evaporating-trays b arranged in a casing A, a condenser B, and a separator C in which the liquid and water separate by gravity, the water being returned to the trays b by pipes D, m for the production of fresh quantities of steam. The trays b are provided with overflow pipes c and with baffles o, Fig. 2, furnishing a zigzag path for the liquid. The trays are heated by pipes n or by a false bottom. Steam may be injected through perforations in the heating-pipes or the false bottom, or may be generated from water introduced into the trays. A basin p is used to catch any liquid condensed in the head and to return it to the trays. The invention is especially adapted to the separation of ether from its solution in oil, since the return of the condensed water to the still avoids any loss of dissolved ether.
Patent GB-190903554-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Electric Radiators and other Apparatus where Banks of Massed Lamps or other Radiating Devices are used.
Inventor: FENNELL WILLIAM
IPC: H05B3/00
Filed: 1909-02-13
Granted: 1910-02-10
Abstract: 3554. Fennell, W., aad Perry, W. P. Feb. 13. Supporting.-In electric radiators, cooking-ovens, theatre battens, and other apparatus such as artificial loads, in which a number of lamps are engaged with bus-bars a as described in Specification 24,550/07, [Class 39, Electric lamps &c.], the bus-bars are formed of sheet metal such as spring steel and are provided with spring contacts a', and a screen is provided with inclined projections b<3>, Fig. 2, which engage with the lamp pins, and force the lamps into engagement with the spring contacts. The contacts may form part of, or may be attached to the bus-bars. The projections on the screen have notched ends b<4> to engage with the lamp pins and hold the lamps in position. An oven has lamps supported in this way and inclined at an angle at the top corners, a space being left for a kettle ; the lamps, bus-bars, switches, and other parts may be detachable as a whole from the oven.
Patent GB-190907614-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Motor Vehicles.
Inventor: MACKENZIE JOHN WILLIAM
IPC: B62D19/00
Filed: 1909-03-30
Granted: 1910-03-30
Abstract: 7614. Mackenzie. J. W., [Ford Motor Co.]. March 30. Springs, arrangement of and mounting bodies and undercarriages on; guiding vertical play; axles. - In arrangements in which pairs of rods 16, 17, Fig. 1, attached to the front and rear axles near their ends and converging towards the centre of the vehicle, are connected to the transverse frame member 11 by ball-and-socket joints, the ends of the rods of each pair are united, and one ball joint is used for each pair. The rods 16 are connected to a tubular forward extension 9 of the rear axle casing enclosing the longitudinal driving-shaft. The forward end of the extension 9 is connected to the gear casing 12 by a ball-and-socket arrangement enclosing the universal joint of the driving-shaft. The ends of the transverse semielliptic spring 4 are secured by Jinks 5 to upwardly-extending curved arms 6, formed on the front axle, with an opening near each arm to receive the ends of the distance-rods 17.
Patent GB-190923728-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Photographic Cameras.
Inventor: BERRELL WILLIAM
IPC: G03B13/02
Filed: 1909-10-16
Granted: 1910-02-24
Abstract: 23,728. Berrell, W. Oct. 16. Finders.-In cameras with a rising and falling front, the view-finder is pivoted to the front, or to the frame carrying the front so that it may be mechanically rocked in accordance with the movement of the camera lens. In one construction, the view-finder 8, Fig. 1, is hinged at the top of the pillar support 3. A curved rod 10 passes through the pivot pin 9 of the viewfinder and through the hollow pillar 3. The end 5 of this rod is raised and lowered by the sleeve 2 of the lens-board, so that, as the lens is raised or lowered, the view-finder is tilted to show the correct picture taken. Alternatively, the curved arm may be fixed, and the view-finder pivoted on the lens-board. In a further modified construction, a curved arm 11, Fig. 5, is fixed on the pivot 14 of the view-finder, which is pivoted on the lens-board, and the arm passes through a fixed knob 15 on the pillars 3. Or, alternatively, if the view-finder is fixed to the pillar 3, the arm 11 passes through a knob on the rising and falling sleeve fixing the lens-board.
Patent GB-190928404-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Balanced Slide and like Valves for Motive Power Engines.
IPC: F01L15/12
Filed: 1909-12-06
Granted: 1910-10-13
Abstract: 28,404. Gibb & Hogg, Barclay, A. W., and Carmichael, D. C. Dec. 6. Slide valves.-A slide valve B is held to its seat by a balance piston A which passes through a stuffing-box in the valve-chest cover E. The pressure fluid from the interior of the valve is led behind the piston G. The contact of the piston with the valve may be ensured by spring- pressed pistons J in contact with an adjustable disk L in the cover K.
Patent GB-190929771-A (GB)
Title: Safety Device for the Filling and Emptying Apertures of Vessels containing Combustible Liquid.
Inventor: LANGREHR KARL
IPC: A62C4/00
Filed: 1909-12-20
Granted: 1910-08-04
Abstract: 29,771. Langrehr, K. Dec. 20. Oil reservoirs.-The filling-apertures of oil &c. reservoirs are fitted with a device for preventing flame from reaching the oil. The device consists of a tube formed by coiling smooth and corrugated metal strips, leaving narrow passages between the windings where the smooth and corrugated portions adjoin. The total free cross-section of these passages may equal the cross-section of the filling-aperture. In one form, Fig. 1, the tube is formed by coiling a single strip 1, partly smooth and partly corrugated. A groove 4 in the corrugated part fits a groove 3 in the smooth part of the adjacent coil, and the tube is secured to a ring 5 forming the filling-aperture. In a modification, Fig. 3, a narrow corrugated strip 8 is wound with a broader smooth strip 9, which has two grooves, the smaller fitting within the larger, with the corrugated strip 8, also grooved, fitting between. Another form, Fig. 5, is composed of rings, the smooth part 10 of each ring fitting within the corrugated part 11 of the next, or wholly corrugated rings may be arranged alternately with smooth rings. The rings may bo held together by perforated metal tubes, to which the end rings are soldered.
Patent GB-191003633-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Dark-room Lamps.
Inventor: WRATTEN SIDNEY HERBERT
IPC: G03D17/00
Filed: 1910-02-14
Granted: 1910-08-11
Abstract: 3633. Wratten, S. H. Feb. 14. Dark-room lamps.-In dark-room lamps, a current of cool air is caused to pass over the surface of the colored safe-light in order to prevent damage by heating. The lamp A is provided with an illuminant B, the light from which is reflected by the reflector G on to the safe-light E. A plate of transparent or translucent material F is placed between the reflector G and the safe-light E, and serves to confine the current of air which enters through the apertures K and double walls G, H as shown. A sliding door D is provided in the upper part of the lantern. The illuminant may be placed alongside the safe-light, and the plate F may be a safe-light. More than one air-passage may be provided.
Patent GB-191004494-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Closing Devices for Preserve Tins.
Inventor: JOHANSEN ANDREAS
Filed: 1910-02-23
Granted: 1910-07-28
Abstract: 4494. Johansen, A. Feb. 23. Seamed joints.-In a a preserve tin which is opened by tearing a piece out of the cover, and in which the lid is seamed to the body as shown in Fig. 2, the form of the seam at the point where the tearing-tongue is situated is changed to that illustrated in Fig. 4, for the purpose of ensuring that the tongue shall not tear transversely.
Patent GB-191004633-A (GB)
Title: A Fastener for Fixing a Cape Hood to the Body of a Motor Car.
Inventor: ASHCROFT WILLIAM
IPC: B60J7/10
Filed: 1910-02-24
Granted: 1910-11-10
Abstract: 4633. Ashcroft, W. Feb. 24. Turn-button fasteners for motor - car hoods. The hood is fastened to the body of the car by a plate b. attached to the hood and having a dovetail or equivalentlyshaped tongue b<1> which engages a similarlyshaped socket c<1> in a plate c secured to the car. The tongue is secured in the socket by any suitable means, but preferably by a pivoted plate f having feathers j which are drawn into keyways k by a spring around the pivot pin.
Patent GB-191006583-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or connected with Automatic Indicator Weighing Machines or Weighbridges.
IPC: G01G23/20
Filed: 1910-03-16
Granted: 1911-01-12
Abstract: 6583. Pooley & Son, H., and Dobson, J. March 16. Dials and scales; mounting indicating-apparatus. - Relates to the indicating-drum of a weighing - machine or weighbridge, and consists in interposing ball bearings between the drum and its spindle and d supporting the ends of the spindle on knifeedge bearings. The drum, which bears major weight graduations 4<1> and weight markings 3<1> operating in conjunction with a minor order, intersecting, weight scale 4, rotates on ball bearings 6, Fig. 3, and the drum spindle 5 is secured at each end to a knife - edge 16 resting on a fixed bearing-surface 18. By this means the final vibrations of the drum are made about the knife-edges and greater accuracy in the position of the drum is secured.
Patent GB-191018916-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Fittings for use in connection with Electric Incandescent Lamps.
Inventor: MIDGLEY ALBERT HENRY
IPC: H01R33/94
Filed: 1910-08-11
Granted: 1911-02-09
Abstract: 18,916. Midgley, A. H., and Vandervell, C. A. Aug. 11. Holders.-A holder, adapted to be coupled by a bayonet-joint to the terminal plug of a cable, is provided with a cylindrical plunger-block d, of vulcanite &c., having two pins movable in slots in the holder casing to allow a partial rotation of the block. The plungers g are bored axially to engage conducting-rods g<2>, projecting from two split-pins g<1> screwed into the block opposite to the plungers, a spring i being arranged around each rod. The cable plug is provided with metal sockets to receive the pins g', and with pins to enter bayonet slots in the casing. Two nuts c are provided for fixing the holder to a frame &c.
Patent GB-191021725-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Drawing Apparatus.
Inventor: BINKO HENRY
IPC: B43L13/18
Filed: 1910-09-19
Granted: 1911-06-01
Abstract: 21,725. Binko, H. Sept. 19. Camera lucidas.-A folding drawing-board a has its parts so joined together by hinges c that, on opening out the board, a space b is left between the parts of just sufficient width to support a sheet of reflecting glass d to be used for copying a drawing.
Patent GB-191028489-A (GB)
Title: New or Improved Method and Means for Recovering or/and Utilising Worn or Waste Rubber or the like.
Inventor: RICHARDS WALTER EDWIN WINDSOR
IPC: C08J11/10
Filed: 1910-12-07
Granted: 1912-03-07
Abstract: 28,489. Richards, W. E. W. Dec. 7. Utilizing waste india-rubber; plastic compositions containing india-rubber, fibres, &c.- Finely ground waste rubber is mixed with asbestos, and at the same time heated to a temperature at which the rubber is fused into the mass, namely about 300‹ C. To the plastic mass thus formed is added, preferably after cooling, a quantity of sulphur, and the mass is moulded and vulcanized, or the mass may be heated to vulcanizing temperature in the mixing-machine, and afterwards moulded in hot moulds. Rubber thus fused into asbestos becomes soluble in benzol or other solvent, and may be dissolved out, leaving the impurities, such as pieces of canvas, in the asbestos, which can be purified by cineration. When the rubber is to be recovered by solution, the asbestos may be wholly or partly replaced by other heatresisting materials such as mineral wool, or preferably materials which are also soluble in water, such as ammonium chloride.