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Patent GB-190410643-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Railway Signaling Apparatus.
Inventor: NEELEMANS ALFRED
Filed: 1904-05-09
Granted: 1904-09-08
Abstract: 10,643. Neelemans, A. May 9. Contacts, electric ; indicators and repeaters, signal; signalling between trains; controlling and locking signals- Signals, actuated electrically, are put to " danger " automatically by the passing of a train, and independent indication of the proper working of the signal is given at the cabin when the controller is moved back to "danger." Motion is communicated from a motor B to a weighted rod b carrying at the top a bracket c, on which is fixed an electromagnet 5. The armature e of the electromagnet is pivoted to a standard d on the bracket, and its short arm presses against the end of a rod a, which actuates the signal arm ; or the arm e may work in a slot in the rod a and press against a shoulder. When the rod c has risen a certain distance, it causes the snap switch 4 to shunt the current through a brake magnet of the motor. The controlling-switch consists of three contact-pieces 33, 19, 20, Fig. 2, and a brush 18. When the brush is moved so as to make contact with the pieces 19, 20, currents are sent from a source 8 through the electromagnet 5 and motor B, so that the signal is lowered. The passage of a train over an insulated section of track 11, 14 causes an electromagnet to be short-circuited, so that its armature 16 falls, the circuit of the electromagnet 5 is broken, and the arm A returns to the "danger" position. If the brush 18 is placed in the position shown, the weighted arm L descends, causing the motor to rotate and send a current through the indicator 7.
Patent GB-190411560-A (GB)
Title: An Improved lawn Roller.
Inventor: SYMES SANDHAM FRANCIS
Filed: 1904-05-19
Granted: 1904-09-08
Abstract: 11,560. Symes, S. F. May 19. Drawings to Specification. Rollers, garden.-A lawn roller is constructed of an earthenware, metal, or other pipe, filled with concrete, in which is embedded either an axle, or a pipe wherein an axle may revolve. The outer pipe may be dispensed with, and a roller consisting of concrete only be used. Ball bearinga may be provided.
Patent GB-190419561-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Trolleys or Collectors for Electric Tramways.
Inventor: HONNETTE JOSEF
Filed: 1904-09-10
Granted: 1904-10-27
Abstract: 19,561. Honnette, J., and Gebhardi, H. Sept. 10. Electric railways and tramways with overhead wires. Collectors.-The collector is formed of a number of rollers d mounted on an axle a fixed between the arms of a fork b at the end of the trolley arm. The rollers have a concave surface and are recessed internally so as to shorten the bearing - parts e, f.
Patent GB-190421140-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Frame Buildings.
Inventor: MUELLER ARTHUR
Filed: 1904-10-01
Granted: 1904-11-03
Abstract: 21,140. M³ller, A. Oct. 1. Barns.-Relates chiefly to means, consisting of angle-irons and bolts, or bolts alone, for connecting uprights with the rafters and purlins of barns, barracks, stables, and other frame buildings, and especially suitable for temporary buildings made of round timbers the ends only of which will require dressing. The central uprights consist of single posts I, Fig. 4, but the side and corner uprights may be built up of two or three posts connected together in a pyramidal form by bolts and ties. The ridge beam M, Fig. 4, the abutting ends of the rafters S, S<1>, and the upright I are connected together by bolts h, i, k, l, angle-irons m, n, and ties Z, but, if two rows of central posts are employed as shown in Fig. 6, the ties Z rest on the beams or purlins M and clamp the rafters between them as before described. The lower ends of the rafters are connected in a similar manner to that shown in Fig. 4, but no tie is required and one bolt is used instead of the bolts k, l. For lighter structures, bolts may be suspended in the purlins, their lower ends passing some distance into the posts I, and similar bolts embedded in the foundation may pass through sleepers into the lower ends of the posts. This form enables the roof to be readily removed for repairs &c. Walls may be made by connecting boards to the outer uprights.
Patent GB-190428452-A (GB)
Title: Governing Mechanism for Turbines.
Inventor: WILKINSON JAMES
Filed: 1904-12-27
Granted: 1905-05-25
Abstract: 28,452. Wilkinson, J. July 23, [date applied for under Patents Act, A.D. 1901]. Steam &c. turbines.-In order to equalize the wear of the admission valves of a turbine, they are opened in constantly changing groups of a number determined by the governor. The governor by a suitable linkage operates an oscillating valve 27, Fig. 2, and so controls the supply of steam through a passage 28 to one side of a piston 29 in a cylinder 24. Steam also passes by a passage 56 to the interior of a cylinder 57 projectir.g into the piston 29. The cylinder 57 contains a spring 58, and the position of the piston 29 is determined, under the control of the governor, by the steam pressure above the piston and in the cylinder 57 and by the spring 58. Steam above the piston 29 can gradually escape through a passage 44 to a passage 43 connected with the exhaust. The piston 29 is conical and eccentric to the axis of the piston-rod, and so acts as a cam on valves 48 contained in casings arranged round the cylinder 24. When the valves 48 are held open, pipes 47 are thus connected with the exhaust 43. In the position shown, all the valves 48 are held open against the action of springs, but if the piston 29 is raised, a greater or smaller number are allowed to close. The piston 29 is constantly rotated, so that the valves held open are constantly changed. For this purpose, part of the piston-rod 34 is square, and passes through a wormwheel 35 driven from the main shaft. The piston runs on ball bearings on a disc supported by the spring 58. The turbine wheel has two sets of buckets 14, 15, Fig. 3, for forward and reverse motion respectively, and the fluid is discharged either through nozzles 10 or 11 according to the position of valves 12, 13 which are operated by pistons 19, 21 moving in cylinders 18, 20. The cylinders 18, 20 are connected by passages 65, 66 to the casing of a reversing-valve 63, by means of which either cylinder is connected with the corresponding pipe 47, while the other cylinder is connected with a highpressure passage 67 which, by equalizing the pressure on the two sides of the piston 21, allows a spring 22 to close the valve 13. When the outer end of the cylinder 18 is exhausted by the pipe 47, the valve 12 is opened, but when the exhaust ceases owing to the closing of the corresponding valve 48, Fig. 2, steam leaks above the piston 19, Fig. 3, through a perforation, equalizes the pressure, and allows the valve 12 to close. The controller apparatus shown in Fig. 2 may control other arrangements of valves than that shown in Fig. 3.
Patent GB-190503525-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Apparatus for Producing Electric Reactions in Gases by Aid of Electric Arcs
Inventor: BIRKELAND KRISTIAN
Filed: 1905-02-20
Granted: 1905-07-13
Abstract: 3525. Birkeland, K. Feb. 20, 1914, [date applied for under Patents Act, 1901]. Drawings to Specification. Resistances, inductive. Alternators, supplying electric arc furnaces for treating gases, may be of a cheap type, to provide inductive resistance in the circuits.
Patent GB-190506754-A (GB)
Title: Improved Device to Prevent Punctures in Rubber Tyres
Inventor: SABARINI ACHILLE
Filed: 1905-03-30
Granted: 1905-09-14
Abstract: 6754. Sabarini, A. March 30. Tyres, pneumatic.- A puncture - preventing device consists of an arch-shaped band a formed by bending a length of steel or other flexible material upon itself in a zigzag fashion. The edges of the band embrace wires b, c, and the air tube e is additionally protected by a strip of canvas f, Fig. 3.
Patent GB-190512300-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Crucible Furnaces.
Inventor: FORSTER FRITZ
Filed: 1905-06-13
Granted: 1905-11-16
Abstract: 12,300. Forster, F. June 13. Crucible furnaces; air, supplying.-Relates to means for controlling the admission of air either under the grate, or into the shaft of a crucible furnace, or simultaneously uuderthe grate and into the shaft. The air is supplied through an opening o to a chamber r between the walls w, w<1>, and passes through regulable openings v to the space below the grate, or through valved pipes l, l<1> to a pipe s having branches or nozzles z arranged near the level of the crucible supports. In a modification, air may be passed from the chamber r to the pipe 8 through pipes t having a regulating slide or damper.
Patent GB-190512536-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to Electric Incandescent Candle Fittings.
Inventor: POPE FREDERICK ROBERTS
Filed: 1905-06-16
Granted: 1905-12-07
Abstract: 12,536. Pope, F. R. June 16. Incandescent lamps formed as imitation candles. The bulb a is blown at the end of a glass tube e b, within which is a re-entrant tube d, carrying the filament c at its upper end. The leading-in wires are attached to copper or other wires e, f, which are insulated from one another, preferably by surrounding one or each by a fine glass tube. In a modification, the sealed tubular part of the lamp is short, and is fixed to a single open tube forming a continuation of the tube b. The lower end of the tube b, or of its continuation, is secured by cement in a bayonet-joint or other cap g, having contact-plates connected to the wires e, f. Secured on the cap g, by screwing or otherwise, is a flanged ring l supporting a white or coloured cylinder k of porcelain, opal or enamelled glass, or other material. Preferably, the ring l is screwed into the lower end of the cylinder. The threaded part n of the holder may be extended as shown in Fig. 4, to receive a nut o having a flange y which presses on the edge of the candle sconce x, and locks the pins p in the bayonet-slots. The Provisional Specification states that a rubber ring may be placed between the cap and the opal cylinder.
Patent GB-190514220-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Devices for Preventing Side-slip or Skidding in Cycles, Motor-cars and other Road Vehicles.
Inventor: POCKLINGTON FREDERIC ARTHUR
Filed: 1905-07-10
Granted: 1906-07-10
Abstract: 14,220. Pocklington, F. A. July 10. Slipping of wheels, preventing. -A weighted framework a having toothed wheels d or other gripping-surface at the end of the arms, is pivoted at b to the body of a cycle, motor-car, or other road vehicle. When side slip occurs, the framework, owing to the inertia of the weight c, lags behind the lateral motion of the car and is slightly tilted out of the vertical, thus causing one of the toothed wheels d to come in contact with the ground and prevent further slipping. Instead of being pivoted to the vehicle, the framework may slide in a groove and may be made to clear the ground in all positions, the weight, by its inertia, serving to check side slip without engaging with the ground. Chains f are provided to limit the lateral swing and to prevent any forward or backward motion of the framework.
Patent GB-190514980-A (GB)
Title: Improved Gas Retort Discharger
Inventor: LUDBROOK SAMUEL WILLIAM
Filed: 1905-07-21
Granted: 1906-05-10
Abstract: 14,980. Ludbrook, S. W. July 21. Gas retorts, discharging.-The discharging-bar A, B of a gas-retort discharger runs in an adjustable track, and is jointed, so that the rear end may turn upwards to save space, The bar A, B is provided with a toothed rack U on its lower side engaging with a shrouded toothed wheel N, and runs between two channel irons D, E, Fig. 4, forming a carriage G. The wheel N is driven from a bevel-wheel Q, sliding in a square vertical shaft R, and supported by a bracket K<1> attached to the channel iron D. The shaft R is driven by gearing from a motor X which can also be employed to raise the carriage G to the level of the retort to be cleared by means of the ropes a. At the rear of the carriage G is a vertical piece H, up which a wheel l in the end of the bar B runs, bearing a wheel I at its end against which the bar B rides. Water is supplied to the discharger head J from a tank e on the apparatus by a flexible tube f. The apparatus runs across the fronts of the retorts on rails j.
Patent GB-190515623-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Mechanical Lubricators
Inventor: WILLCOX PERCY FRANCIS CAMERON
Filed: 1905-07-31
Granted: 1905-10-19
Abstract: 15,623. Willcox, P. F. C. July 31. Vessels discharged by pistons.-Forcefeed lubricators are so constructed as to facilitate recharging the cylinder with liquid or solid lubricant. The cylinder a, Fig. 1, from which t h e lubricant is ejected by the piston f, is removable for recharging, and is held in position by the cap d sliding on the standards c and secured by nuts e. Instead of being removable, the cylinder may have a movable section l, Fig. 2, or may be in two parts with a hinge m, Fig. 3.
Patent GB-190516973-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and appertaining to Incubators.
Inventor: WEAVER JOHN JAMES
Filed: 1905-08-22
Granted: 1906-08-16
Abstract: 16,973. Weaver, J. J. Aug. 22. Heating by electricity; thermostats.-Relates to incubators heated by means of electric radiators and provided with a thermostat or thermostat-like apparatus for throwing some of the radiators into and out of circuit so as to regulate the temperature. Fig. 1 shows one arrangement, in which the incubator a is heated by radiators d which are always in circuit and by additional radiators e which are thrown into and out of circuit by a switch g operated by the segments 6 connected to an armature placed between the magnets i, j. A maximum-and-minimum thermometer f having contacts 1, 2, 3 is placed inside the incubator, and the circuits are arranged as shown so as to throw the radiator e into and out of circuit as the temperature reaches its lower and higher limit respectively. In a modification, an ordinary mercury thermometer is used, with a contact placed so as to close a circuit when the temperature reaches its higher limit. In this form, the radiator e is always in circuit unless the temperature rises too high, when contact is made and a magnet energized and a switch operated to throw the radiator e out of circuit.
Patent GB-190521700-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Connecting Joint for the Sections of Drain Cleaning Tools, Chimney Cleaning Brushes, Pulling Through Rods for Electrical Conduits, Fishing Rods, Sword Sticks and the like.
Inventor: DAVIS GEORGE
Filed: 1905-10-25
Granted: 1906-03-22
Abstract: 2 1 , 7 0 0 . Davis, G., Davis, W., and Davis, S., [trading as Marshall Bros.]. Oct. 25. Cleansing.-In screw joints for drain-cleaning tools, the male or female part is provided with a spring bolt C, which engages in a socket a<3> formed in the shoulders of the other part. The bolt is carried in a recess b<3>, and is provided with an extension c<3> formed with inclined sides to fit in a corresponding slot b<4>. The bolt is provided with a stop e and with a notch c<4> to allow withdrawal.
Patent GB-190522270-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and connected with Apparatus for Cooling Water for Condensing and other purposes.
Inventor: BROWN JAMES HENRY
Filed: 1905-11-01
Granted: 1906-10-25
Abstract: 22,270. Brown, J. H. Nov. 1. Scrubbers. - I n cooling-towers for cooling water for gas purification &c., a fan for circulating air through the tower is operated by a water-wheel device driven by the water during its descent througt the tower. Part of the water after trickling over the hurdles or grids passes into troughs A, which are connected with main troughs C at the sides of the tower. Inclined shoots E lead the water from the troughs C to the waterwheels, which are mounted on the same shaft as the fans and attached thereto.
Patent GB-190522675-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Fluid Pressure Turbines.
Inventor: WESTINGHOUSE GEORGE
Filed: 1905-11-06
Granted: 1906-06-21
Abstract: 22,675. Westinghouse, G. Nov. 17,1904, [date applied for under Patents Act, 1901]. Stuffing-boxes, substitutes for.-To reduce leakage in fluid-pressure turbines, the rings of nozzles, guides, or blades are made in sections and each section is pressed towards the rotating drum by springs. Fig. 3 is a side elevation of one section 12, showing a spring 18 which touches the section at one end and is sunk into it at the other. Fig. 1 is a cross-section showing the nozzle ring 12 and drum 6. The nozzle ring has two projections 13, 14, which engage in recesses in the casing as shown. Holes 25 may be drilled through the nozzle ring to ensure equality of steam pressures upon it. Instead of springs such as 18, spiral springs with small pistons may be used. Fig. 6 shows how adjacent sections of a nozzle ring are fitted together, the plane of the joint being approximately parallel to the nozzle walls. The above-described construction of ring may be applied to packing- rings for rotating shafts.
Patent GB-190524643-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Swell Pedals for Organs.
Inventor: GARRARD JAMES ROBERT LINDSAY
Filed: 1905-11-28
Granted: 1906-02-15
Abstract: 24,643. Garrard, J. R. L. Nov. 28. Organs.-Swell pedals of the kind described in Specification No. 5545, A.D. 1905, have the pawlcarrying foot-plates 6 pivoted to the backfalllevers 1, and pulled by the springs 10. The tooth 4 engaging with the notches 12 in the segmental rack is formed on one side of the foot-plate. The spring 10 is attached at one end to the lever 1, and at the other end to the hook 9 on the adjusting- bolt 7.
Patent GB-190526346-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Metallic Packings.
Inventor: FULLER EDWARD JAMES
Filed: 1905-12-18
Granted: 1906-05-31
Abstract: 26,346. Fuller, E. J. Dec. 18. Stuffing - boxes.- The packing-rings aro made in four pieces held together by a spring, and are held between collars in an enclosing cage, the halves of which are secured by bolts and held in alinemeot by rings 14 fitting into annular recesses 13 in both. The packing-rings 6, 7 are connected by a lug 10 so as to break joint, and are arranged in pairs.
Patent GB-190526701-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and connected with Earthenware and the like Vessels.
Inventor: LANGER FRANZ
Filed: 1905-12-21
Granted: 1906-02-08
Abstract: 26,701. Langer, F. Dec. 21. Jugs.-A vessel, jug, & c. of earthenware or other material may be removably connected with a metal part serving, for example, as both foot and handle. Fig. 1 shows a form in which a jug a is fitted into a metal part x. The jug is fitted easily into the metal part and is then turned through a right-angle, when it is held in position by the spring action of the ends b, c. The jug is provided with a base part e which fits into a suitable recess in the part x.
Patent GB-190526889-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Processes of Manufacturing an Artificial Manure from Waste Material.
Inventor: THOMPSON WILLIAM PHILLIPS
Filed: 1905-12-23
Granted: 1906-12-06
Abstract: 26,889. Thompson, W. P., [Schlutius, J.]. Dec. 23. Manures ; refuse, treating.-A manure is obtained by treating town-refuse, which contains potassium and phosphorus compounds, with nitric acid or other nitrogen-oxygen products obtained by electric means from atmospheric nitrogen. The constituents of the refuse which are not dissolved are separated by a filtration, centrifugal, or sedimentary process. The proportions of the manure ingredients can be regulated by previously sorting the refuse or by the addition of the constituents required.
Patent GB-190602927-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Condensing Agents for use in the Manufacture of Synthetical Indigo and other Products formed by Condensation.
Inventor: BELART HANS
Filed: 1906-02-07
Granted: 1907-02-07
Abstract: 2927. Belart, H. Feb. 7. Dyes, artificial; ketones.-Relates to the use of potassium and sodium compounds of organic products containing one or more amino groups as condensing-agents in the manufacture of indigo or other products formed by condensation. The use of sodium compounds of aniline, naphthylamine, diphenylamine, tolylamine, or xylylamine is described. Indigo is produced by adding the disodium salt of phenylglycine-o-carboxylic acid to the products obtained by heating aniline with sodium or sodium amide. The Provisional Specification describes also the production of isophorone from acetone. Specifications No. 19,474, A.D. 1904, and No. 19,353, A.D. 1905, are referred to.
Patent GB-190605761-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Paper Indenting or Embossing Machines comprising Devices for Feeding, Delivering and Receiving the Paper, for Timing the Feeding and Indenting Devices and for Flattening the Indentations.
Inventor: HADDAN REGINALD
Filed: 1906-03-09
Granted: 1907-02-28
Abstract: 5761. Haddan, R., [National Perforating Machine Co.]. March 9. Feeding sheets.-Relates to a machine for impressing lines upon sheets of paper by means of toothed disks which are pressed on the paper as it is carried around by a platen, the object being to facilitate the severing of the sheets along the lines which are formed. The machine is provided with an adjustable feed mechanism. The sheets are fed by hand from a table 21, Figs. 2 and 3, 'between a rubber-covered roller 7 and a roller 8, up against a stop bar 14, bell-crank levers 16 carrying which are connected by links 20 to similar levers 19 carrying the roller 8. The levers 16 are rocked by a lever 17, Fig. 2, actuated by two cam-surfaces 27, 28, Figs. 2 and 9, on the driving-shaft 4, which simultaneously raise'the bar 14 and lower the roller 8 on to the roller 7; the feed then commences. The roller 7 is driven from the platen 3 through a roller 9 kept in engagement by springs 11. The roller 9 -also guides the paper to a rubber-covered roller 13, which presses the paper on to the platen,' and ensures the feed of the paper to the disks 5. Projections on the stop bar 14 in the low position. of the bar engage recesses in the roller 9. The feed of the paper may be adjusted by means of the cams 27, 28, which are identical in form, the cam 27 being fixed to, and the cam 28 adjustable on, the shaft 4. A disk 29, provided with a scale on its edge, is fixed to the cam 27, and an index on the cam 28 is brought against that number on the scale which is the same as the length of the feed required for the sheet. The smallest number on the scale corresponds to the minimum feed, which is that obtained when the peripheries of the disk 27, 28 coincide in position. When the cam 28 has been adjusted on the shaft 4, it is secured in position by a clamping-screw. After the paper leaves smoothing-disks 59, it is fed by means of rollers or disks 61 adjustably mounted on an horizontal shaft, is stripped from the platen by slightly curved guides 65 adjustably:mounted on a shaft 64, and passes between rollers 61, 63 on to a table 70, the slope of which is adjustable. The rollers 61, 63 are driven frictionally, and the guides 65 curl up the front edges of the sheets and so prevent these from curling down. Fingers 66 are adjustably arranged on the shaft 64 to assist the guides 65 in keeping the sheet flat. The table 70 is formed with adjustable sides 71 and ends 72. The end 72 is formed as two lugs instead of a flat wall in order to prevent the sheets from being curved by the confinement of air between two sheets.
Patent GB-190608488-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Means for Securing Blades or Vanes of Elastic Fluid Turbines and the like
Inventor: SWEET CHARLES ELIAS
Filed: 1906-04-09
Granted: 1906-05-10
Abstract: 8488. Sweet, C. E. April 20, 1905, [date applied for under Patents Act, 1901]. Elastic-fluid turbines.-The blades or guide-vanes of turbines, turbo-compressors, or pumps are secured by means of a strip 5, Fig. 1, threaded through holes punched in the blades. The strip is cut close to the blades, and part of it is bent up, as shown in Fig. 3, to form a spacing-piece between adjacent blades. The particular cross-section of the strip is not material, a number of forms being shown in the Specification.