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Patent GB-190417446-A (GB)
Title: Boot and Shoe Cleaning and Polishing Machine.
Inventor: LLOYD BENJAMIN FURNEY
Filed: 1904-08-10
Granted: 1905-06-22
Abstract: 17,446. Lloyd, B. F. Aug. 10. Boots and shoes, cleaning and polishing.-In the machine shown, three pairs of concave brushes are held on boards D connected by metal stays E which slide on runners C on the base. Metal bridges L are fastened to the backs of the brushes, provided with pins N passing through holes in the boards D, and with screwed holes in which work thumbscrews M ; spiral springs may be mounted on the pins N. The brushes have a certain amount of play, and are laterally adjustable by means of the screws M. The boots are held on spring steel lasts attached by means of rotatable pins and tongues, shown in Fig. 5, to a hinged dovetailed frame B, Figs. 1 and 4. Reciprocating motion of the boards D and the brushes is effected by means of a crank F, an eccentric-pin, and a rod G. The first brushes remove dirt, the second, which are supplied with blacking allowed to drip on them from a box P, black the boots, and the third polish them. The frame B is pushed onwards so that the boots come under the brushes in succession. The number of brushes may be varied, and the number of frames B used with each machine and of brushes on each frame may also be varied.
Patent GB-190420361-A (GB)
Title: A New or Improved Device for Supporting Books and the like.
Inventor: ADAMS ARTHUR
Filed: 1904-09-21
Granted: 1904-10-27
Abstract: 20,361. Adams, A. Sept. 21. Book slides and stands.-A means for supporting books in safes or cupboards consists of a frame a having slots b in which cross strips c can be placed, the strips and the sides of the frame having slots d in which are inserted the spindles of rollers g supporting the books. Lugs e may be provided for attachment to a saft or cupboard.
Patent GB-190420811-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Machines for Graining Leather.
Inventor: KEEFE CHARLES HENRY
Filed: 1904-09-27
Granted: 1904-10-27
Abstract: 20,811. Keefe, C. H. Sept. 27. Hides and skins, tanned or tawed, treating.-In a machine for graining leather, such as box calf, bag leather, enamelled leather, shoe-upper leather, &c., smooth or corrugated cylindrical rollers C, D are mounted in vertically - adjustable bearings arranged in slotted guides in the frame A, and are caused to rotate in the same direction. Springs E, F are interposed to allow the rollers to yield to the varying thicknesses of the leather, the movement of the rollers towards each other being limited by means of screws G, H. The leather, guided over a table K<1>, passes with its flesh side uppermost, over a longitudinal graining-rod K. By means of the adjustable bar O, the leather is folded over the edge k of the bar K and discharged by means of the lower roll.
Patent GB-190421912-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Buffers and End Steps for Railway Vehicles.
Inventor: SPENCER ALFRED GEORGE
Filed: 1904-10-11
Granted: 1905-07-27
Abstract: 21,912. Spencer, A. G. Oct. 11. Steps; buffers.-Buffer casings and end steps for giving access to the roofs of railway carriages are provided with treads of india-rubber or other material which will present a good foothold. A slab 1, Fig. 1, of india-rubber with a roughened upper surface and recessed sides 1<a> is secured by corresponding recessed strips 2 to the flattened upper side 4 of the buffer casing 5. Fig. 4 shows a slab 6 of india-rubber formed with extensions which fit into holes 8 in a holder 7, which is adapted, by being formed with bevelled sides, to be secured in a dovetail groove formed in the top of the buffer casing, or the holder 7 may be screwed to the buffer casing. The slab of india-rubber may be provided with flanges which fit into a recessed holder secured to the casing by screws. The tread may also consist of a holder 14, Fig. 11, formed with a number of holes fitted with pieces 15 of india-rubber. The pieces may be separate from each other or they may be secured to a backing 16. Similar methods apply in securing treads to end steps, as shown for example in Fig. 15.
Patent GB-190424770-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Electric Signalling Devices for Elevators or the like.
Inventor: IMRAY OLIVER
Filed: 1904-11-15
Granted: 1904-12-15
Abstract: 24,770. Imray, O., [Payne, F. S.]. Nov. 15. Signals, electric.-Relates to a signalling-system for two or more lifts, whereby all cars going in the same direction may be signalled from each floor, together with means at or near the floor from which the signal was sent for cutting out the signals from all of said cars going in the same direction, without affecting the signals from that floor in lifts going in the opposite direction. Means are also provided at each floor for indicating the direction in which the lift is moving or is about to move. The call-boxes on each floor have ' up' and ' down' signals to indicate the direction of motion of the car, and also signals to indicate the position of the car. The lifts are provided with ' up ' and 'down' signals, and with ' up ' and ' down ' magnets controlling corresponding floor signals, and with up' and 'down' circuit-breaking magnets used for cutting out the floor signals on all the lifts when one lift has stopped at the required floor. This is effected by the opening of the lift door (or some such device) closing a switch which completes a circuit through the abovementioned circuit-breaking magnet, the armature of which breaks the circuit of the indicator magnet. Each lift is also provided with a switching-mechanism, shown in Figs. 1 and 2, by which the 'up' or 'down' circuit is always properly connected through the switch arm to correspond with the direction in which the car is moving. The wheel 1 is driven by the main shaft of the lift,and in turn actuates the screw 3, causing the nut 5 to move the brush 6 over contacts 9, 10, 11, 12, which are connected to the signals in the call-boxes for indicating the position of the lift. The screw 3 also drives the shaft 15 carrying a collar 17, wide gear wheel 16, and a frictionally-mounted gear wheel 18, to which is attached the switch arm 19, moving over contacts 20-27. The rotation of the wheel 35 on the screw shaft 33 continues until it reaches the abutment 34, when it turns the screw shaft 33 and also, by gearing 36, 37, turns the wheel 18 and the switch arm 19. During the travel of the wheel 35 between the abutments 34, the friction gearing tends to rotate the arm 19 until it strikes a stop piece 39. As soon as the direction of the shaft 15 is reversed, the spring 31 of the friction gearing rotates the arm 19 in the other direction. The switch arm is thus automatically reversed whenever the gear 35 strikes either abutment 34, and also whenever the direction of rotation of the shaft 15 is reversed. The complete wiring for one floor and two lifts is shown and described in the Specification.
Patent GB-190425650-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Bobbin and Flyer Frames and the like
Inventor: JONES JOHN WILLIAM
Filed: 1904-11-25
Granted: 1905-10-19
Abstract: 25,650. Jones, J. W., and Park, J. H. Nov. 25. Building-motions. - In order to prevent faulty winding caused by backlash at the end of each traverse of the bobbin rail D, the lifting-rack is divided by a groove A A<1>, and the teeth B on one side are set half a pitch back relatively to the teeth C on the other side, two pinions or a compound pinion being applied to each rack.
Patent GB-190428193-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Attachment Clips for use in connection with Motor-cycle Saddles, Motor Vehicle Seats and analogous Saddles and Seats
Inventor: BROOKS JOHN BOULTBEE
Filed: 1904-12-23
Granted: 1905-10-26
Abstract: 28,193. Brooks, J. B., and Holt, J. Dec. 23. Saddle clips. - For adjusting the tilt of the saddle of a motor vehicle, or of a motor or other cycle, a boss a upon the pillar has a pair of rear ears a<1> through which passes a bolt g, while a screw h, capable of rotating but incapable of an independent traversing motion, passes through a pair of horizontal ears a' and through a slide i having extensions i<1> engaging slots c' in washers c and slots e<1> in the frame members, so that, on slackening the nuts i', g<2>, the parts are free to pivot on the rear bolt, and then, on turning the screw h by its bead i<3>, the slide, connected to the washers c, d' and the underframe, is raised or lowered and the saddle tilted as desired. By retightening the nuts, the washers are clamped in their new position, while the non-traversing screw in conjunction with the slide renders the adjustment self-locking. In lieu of making the boss integral with the pillar as shown, a split block adapted to be sprung on to the pillar, or a twopart boss with horizontal ears upon one part may be clamped upon the pillar by the cross-bolts. The slide may be directly connected to the framing sides.
Patent GB-190504645-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to the Working of Compound Engines and in Regulator Valves therefor.
Inventor: DEELEY RICHARD MUNTFORD
Filed: 1905-03-06
Granted: 1905-10-19
Abstract: 4645. Deeley, R. M. March 6. Starting.-Compound locomotives may be worked simple, the high-pressure piston being balanced. The regulator is made in two parts, the outer a of which is moved directly and moves the inner part b by a pin passing through a hole c and projecting into a slot d. The first movement of the slide a brings the ports e, f opposite ports e<1>, f<1> to admit high-pressure steam both to the high-pressure valve-chests and the receiver. Both ends of the high-pressure cylinders are connected by check valves with the receiver, so that the high-pressure piston is balanced. Further motion of the slide a brings the ports i opposite ports i<1> to admit steam in large volume to the high-pressure valve-chest and shuts off high - pressure steam from the receiver.
Patent GB-190506060-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to Cow Milkers
Inventor: LJUNGSTROM GEORG
Filed: 1905-03-22
Granted: 1905-08-03
Abstract: 6060. Ljungstrom, G. March 22. Drawings to Specification. Flexible tubes used as couplings.-In cow-milkers actuated by liquid which is given a pulsating motion by a pump, the pipe connecting the pump and the milking-apparatus is made of sections of metal tube connected by rubber joining-pieces to allow the pipe to be folded up. Specification No. 19,616, A.D. 1903, [Abridgment Class Milking &c.], is referred to.
Patent GB-190510460-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Spark Arrester for Locomotive and other High Pressure Engines.
Inventor: MACALLAN GEORGE
Filed: 1905-05-18
Granted: 1906-02-01
Abstract: 10,460. Macallan, G. May 18. Spark-arresters.-To arrest sparks or incandescent cinders in locomotives and other high-pressure engines, the blast pipe a is provided with a hinged cap b of the kind described in Specification No. 4057, A.D. 1891, [Abridgment Class Furnaces &c.], and to the cap is secured by a screw b<1> a perforated plate c which is turned with the cap b into the horizontal position to arrest sparks, and into the vertical position when the blast is such as would not produce sparks.
Patent GB-190510652-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in the Preparation and Preservation of Forage.
Inventor: BATHGATE HARRY NORMAN
Filed: 1905-05-22
Granted: 1905-09-28
Abstract: 10,652. Bathgate, H. N., and Morfit, M. C. C. May 22. Preserving food.-Forage, such as oats, maize, malt, lentils, rye, cotton-seed, bran, linseed press cakes, or other material in a granular or mass-like form, is treated to exclude air and moisture, by rolling in a cold or solid jelly made from Irish moss, agar-agar, Ceylon moss, or other edible seaweed, to which may be added starch, gum, sugar, dextrin, flour paste, &c. The jelly is of such consistency as to coat the food, but not to permeate it. Flavouring and preserving materials, also powdered, such as salt, calcium phosphate, gentian, kolo nut, aluminium sulphate, alum, boric acid, or salicylic acid may be added. The coated food is dried and may be pressed into cakes and wrapped in waxed paper, the packages being if necessary dipped in melted wax to seal them. The seaweed may be pulverized before making the jelly to avoid the necessity of straining it. Bitter seaweeds may be soaked with an alkali or borax before the jelly is made. Specifications No. 1320, A.D. 1855, No. 2637, A.D. 1856, No. 4062, A.D. 1877, and No. 142, A.D. 1881, are referred to.
Patent GB-190511521-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Instep Supporter for Supporting the Arch of the Human Foot.
Inventor: LONDON GEORGE G
Filed: 1905-06-21
Granted: 1905-08-17
Abstract: 11,521. London, G. G. June 1. Insoles.-A spring support for the instep in cases of flat foot consists of a plate A, Fig. 1, of spring steel, german silver, &c., having slits I terminating in holes C. The plate A is bent up in the niddle and attached by rivets B, Fig. 3, to a half-insole K skived to make it fit more accurately in the boot. [Reference has been directed under Patents Act, 1902, to Specifications No. 14,351, A.D. 1898, and Nos. 12,856 and 17,606, A.D. 1904.]
Patent GB-190514130-A (GB)
Title: Attachment for Recording applicable for Disc Sound Reproducing Machines.
Filed: 1905-07-08
Granted: 1906-06-07
Abstract: 14,130. Michaelis, W., Packman, P. J., and Neophone, Ltd. July 8. Phonographs &c.-Relates to a device to permit direct'recording, capable of attachment to existing disk machines. The recorder 5 supported by the sleeve 2 moves along the radially-disposed feedscrew 24 enclosed within the carrier 1, which is supported at one end outside the record by the stand 12 with the hinged upper piece 10, and at the other end by a vertical spindle 20 supported on a cap 33, which by its split socket grips the head of the turntable pivot 18. The screw 24 is revolved by the pin 35, cross-pin 21, and bevel-gearing 22. The lever 26 throws into and out of action a halfnut engaging the screw 24, and at the same time lowers or raises the recorder.
Patent GB-190515197-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in, and relating to, Explosion Motors.
Inventor: SPOONER ARTHUR FREEMORE
Filed: 1905-07-24
Granted: 1906-06-14
Abstract: 15,197. Spooner, A. F., [Cornilleau, G., and Sainte-Beuve, A.] July 24. Gas and like engines, starting and governing in. Compression is relieved at starting, and the power developed by the engine regulated by a single shaft i, Fig. 2, which adjusts both the exhaust-cam shaft k and the admission-cam shaft a. The power developed b the engine is controlled by adjusting the lift of the inlet valves, which are operated by cams c, mounted on eccentric pins e and in slots t, Fig. 6, formed in an outer shaft a. The eccentric pins e are formed on a normally stationary shaft d having flat portions adjoining the cams which enable the shaft to be withdrawn through the cams when dismounting for repairs &c. The outer shaft a is rotated by the gear-wheel b, while the cams c are adjusted independently by partly rotating the shaft a through the gear-wheels g, h and the shaft i. By sufficiently rotating the shaft i when starting, the cam shaft k may be moved longitudinally by a projection s on the shaft i to throw the half-compression cams q, Fig. 4, into operation, The cam shaft is returned by a spring r.
Patent GB-190516704-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Machinery for the Manufacture of Screw Nuts and other Articles from Solid Rods.
Filed: 1905-08-17
Granted: 1906-04-05
Abstract: 16,704. Breeden & Co., J., and Breeden, F. Aug. 17. Sawing.-In a machine for making nuts, screw caps, screw collars, pins, nipples, unions, &c. from metal rods by drilling, turning, screwing, and tapping, each blank is severed from a rod e by a circular saw f on a reciprocating block g. The rod e is fed by gravity through a guide d and a carrier a<3> mounted on a shaft a which is intermittently rotated to bring the blank beneath the different tools. The length of each blank is determined by a ring B resting on pins 16 which are adjusted vertically by means of the multiple cam 18. As the saw advances, a projection on the block g engages a wedge u<1> on the pivoted part u of a clamp and causes the rod e to be gripped.
Patent GB-190517525-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Heddles and Heddle Frames for Loom Harness.
Inventor: LACKEY WILLIAM SHINN
Filed: 1905-08-30
Granted: 1906-02-22
Abstract: 17,525. Lackey, W. S. Aug. 30. Loom healds are made removable by forming their ends with elongated openings 5 and fingers 12, which latter can be bent round so as to grip the beadings 9 formed on rails 7, which may be of the sectional form shown. The rails, passing from end to end of the heald frame, project slightly, and pivoted catches on the frame engage holes in the projecting parts. Screw-threaded hooks 10 support the rails, thus obviating the interposition of hooks between the healds. Each heald can be removed by bending back the fingers 12, and each rail by throwing back the pivoted latch and sliding the rail. The twists in the healds are made near the ends, so as to avoid chafing the thread. The healds are freely adjustable along the rails.
Patent GB-190520105-A (GB)
Title: An Improved in Circular Saw Benches
Inventor: EVANS FREDERICK
Filed: 1905-10-05
Granted: 1906-06-14
Abstract: 20,105. Evans, F. Oct. 5. Sawing.-The fixed column C of a circular saw for cutting wood lengths crossways has a turned flange D, on which, by means of a turned face with a projecting flange F, swivels the frame A, which may be fixed in position by hook bolts G. The table B may be made adjustable vertically by a slide H and screw J &c., or may be fixed to the frame A, which carries the saw spindle. The spindle is situated below the table and driven by a belt passing over a pulley K, self-adjustable pulley L, fixed pulley M, and a pulley on a countershaft O. The countershaft may in other cases be fixed to the right or to the base of the machine, or may be dispensed with.
Patent GB-190521931-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Electric Arc Lamps.
Filed: 1905-10-27
Granted: 1906-10-27
Abstract: 21,931. British Thomson-Houston Co., [General Electric Co.]. Oct. 27. Arc lamps. -The positive electrode consists partly of conductive material and partly of magnesia, a rare earth such as thoria, or other material conductive only at high temperatures. The arc is struck from the conductive part, and is transferred to the refractory part by movement of the electrode when the refractory part has become heated by conduction. In the form shown in Fig. 3, the refractory part is a block 8, held by screws in a dovetailed recess in a curved rocking- bar 5, of copper or other material, to form the upper electrode in the type of lamp described in Specification No. 6040, A.D. 1904. The lower electrode 10 is of titanium carbide, magnetite, or other material. The base-plate 1, Fig. 1, of the lamp carries a tube 2, which may form part of a central chimney. The electrode 5 passes through slots in the tube 1 and is attached at its ends to yokes 6, which are pivoted to the tube 2 and connected by links 27, 26 to the core 23 of solenoids 24. A tube 12 carrying the holder of the electrode 10 is guided by a rod 13 and engaged by two clutches 19, 21. An arm 16 on a rod 15 serves as an upper and lower stop for the two clutches respectively ; the clutch 19, the pawl of which is drawn upwards by a spring 20, is also provided with a lower stop 17, to limit the length of the arc struck. The pawl 22 of the clutch 21 engages the top of a dash-pot 25, which is attached to the core 23. The links 26, 27 are connected by a pin-and-slot device, and the clutch 21 is arranged so that, when the core 23 begins to ascend, it is allowed to acquire some momentum before it moves the electrodes. The solenoids 24 are in shunt to the arc, so as to bring the electrodes together when the current is switched on, and are then cut out of circuit by means of a series coil 35. If the voltage rises unduly, a high-voltage coil 39 closes a shunt circuit about the coil 35, causing current to flow again through the solenoids 24.
Patent GB-190523526-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to Electrical Furnaces.
Inventor: PLATSCHICK BENVENUTO
Filed: 1905-11-15
Granted: 1906-09-20
Abstract: 23,526. Platschick, B. Nov. 15. Pyrometers.-A hot-wire electric furnace for use in dentistry, enamelling, chemistry, and bacteriology, and for other applications, is constructed with removable interchangeable bodies each containing a thermo-electric couple and compensating- resistances, the same pyrometic indications being obtained with each body and couple with a given galvanometer. In the form described, shown in section in Fig. 5, bars 23 of platinum alloys forming a couple are embedded in asbestos 24 in the rear wall of each body, the bars projecting through a plate 32 of earthenware. Compensating-resistances 26 packed in asbestos are connected to the bars 23 and to rods 27 passing through an outer metallic casing to securing-screws 31 on a stand on the baseplate 11.
Patent GB-190523994-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Air Compressors for use in connection with Rock Drills and the like
Filed: 1905-11-21
Granted: 1906-03-22
Abstract: 23,994. Lake, H. H., [Ingersoll-Rand Co.]. Nov. 21. Compressing. -Comprises a form of air-compressor for use in connexion with percussive rock drills &c. in which the tool piston is actuated by reciprocating columns of air. A hollow piston 12 - with an open-ended trunk 13 communicates with a closed crank 15 forming a development of the cylinder head 14. Peripheral ports 27, 29 in the piston are arranged to coact with the bridge ports 28, 30 respectively in the cylinder wall, to open communication between the crank casing and the cylinder alternately on opposite sides of the piston. An inlet valve 20 for atmospheric air is provided in the cylinder bead 19, and a passage 23, furnished with a non-return valve 25, connects the cylinder end with the crank casing. The delivery port 8 is spaced a short distance from the cylinder end. It will be seen that by this arrangement of ports and valves, atmospheric air drawn in at the beginning of one stroke is compressed at the end of the return stroke, whereby the pressure of the reciprocating columns of air is raised to, and maintained at, the working pressure.
Patent GB-190525804-A (GB)
Title: A Medicine for the Treatment of Rheumatism
Inventor: MEALING THOMAS
Filed: 1905-12-12
Granted: 1906-02-22
Abstract: 25,804. Mealing, T. Dec. 12. Medicines.-A medicine for the treatment of rheumatism consists of potassium iodide, magnesium carbonate, magnesium sulphate, aniseed water, and colchicum wine.
Patent GB-190603450-A (GB)
Title: The Manufacture of a Colloidal Material.
Inventor: ARNOLD GEORGE EDMUND
Filed: 1906-02-12
Granted: 1907-02-12
Abstract: 3450. Arnold, G. E., Fox, A. S., Scott, A. C., and Roberts, H. E. U. Feb. 12. Nitrates, ethereal.-A colloidal material which may be used in the production of celluloid, xylonite, pyroxylin, artificial silk, &c., or as a waterproof or non - inflammable coating or a varnish, and for other purposes, is prepared by dissolving nitrostarch either alone or mixed with nitrocellulose in a solvent such as wood spirit, acetic ether, or nitrobenzene, the mass being denitrated before or after moulding. The material may be denitrated by treating with ammonium or alkali sulphide or with ferrous or cuprous chloride or oxychloride. To the mass before moulding may be added camphor, oils, gums, colouring- matter, fish scales, or insoluble carbonates or sulphates, and, if the material is to be rendered non - inflammable, sodium tungstate or zinc chloride.
Patent GB-190605355-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in the Construction of Wrought Iron Windows.
Inventor: FILZAMER AUGUST
Filed: 1906-03-05
Granted: 1906-05-10
Abstract: 5355. Filzamer, A. March 5. Glazing windows. -The panes of wrought-iron windows are held in sash-bars of which one set a are as usual cruciform in section, while the other set b are of H-section. The place of intersection is such that the perforated bars a are not materially weakened, being such that there is a flange all in one plane, for the plane to bed against, extending right round the aperture. The pane is inserted obliquely into one of the H- bars b and pushed back against the bar a ; it can then be brought into the other H-bar, and be secured by putty. The glazing is facilitated if the bars b are of the section shown in Fig. 6.