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Patent GB-190815620-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Evaporative Condensers.
Inventor: FRASER JOHN
Filed: 1908-07-23
Granted: 1909-06-17
Abstract: 15,620. Fraser, J., Fraser, P., and Fraser, N. July 23. Condensers.-Relates to evaporative condensers of the type described in Specification No. 17,794, A.D. 1900, and consists in providing side by side two horizontal sections of tubes A, B, through which the steam passes in succession, each section having a supply of cooling water and air which is wholly or partly independent of that to 'the other section. The sections A, B are separated by a partition Q, the steam passing from the section A to the section B by way of a suitable header. Each section has separate water tanks F, G, pumps H, J, spraying-nozzles supplied with water by pipes K, L, and separate air-blowers mounted on the shaft X. The section A is of greater surface area than the section B.
Patent GB-190817121-A (GB)
Title: An Improvement in Automatically Folding Steps.
Inventor: COTGREAVE ALFRED
IPC: E06C1/387
Filed: 1908-08-14
Granted: 1909-07-01
Abstract: 17,121. Cotgreave, A. Aug. 14. Hinges and pivots.-Relates to pivot joints for spring-folding steps of the kind described in Specification No. 8123, A.D. 1901, [Abridgment Class Furniture &c.], for attachment to book shelves &c. The step a is extended at f beyond its pivot b so as to be acted upon by a tension or compression spring g enclosed within a cavity c in the attachment plate e. A buffer hand stops j, k are arranged as shown.
Patent GB-190821225-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Gear Cutting Machines
Inventor: SUNDERLAND SAM
IPC: B23F5/14
Filed: 1908-10-08
Granted: 1909-05-06
Abstract: 21,225. Sunderland, S. Oct. 8. Shaping.-Spur-wheels are cut by a multipletooth cutter of rack form fed past the blank with a relative rolling action while reciprocating transversely for the cut. The cutter is fed a sufficient distance to cause one space to be completely finished, and then the rotation of the blank is stopped, the blank is withdrawn clear of the cutter, which is quickly lowered, and the blank is re-engaged with the cutter and put into rotation in unison with the upward feed for another series of cuts. The blank mandrel S is driven at 53, Fig. 3, through change-gearing at 50, and spur gearing 48, W from a shaft 44 rotated by a latch and trigger from an alined shaft 33 driven from the main shaft 16, which has change-gear connexion with the vertical feed-screw for traversing the cutter saddle 2. The cutter slide reciprocates horizontally on the saddle and is driven by a crank-pin working in a transverse slot. The slideways are angularly adjustable on the saddle at N to provide for cutting spiral gears. The saddle 2 is balanced at 3. The shaft 33 is driven by a wheel 32 meshing with a wheel 31, Figs. 3 and 4, loose on a shaft 29 moving axially to clutch with wheels 28 or 30 providing a slowfeed and a quick-return motion. The wheel 32 has a ring-shaped flange 32<A> slotted to receive a trigger 34 loose on the shaft 33 and connected to the wheel 32 by a tension spring which tends to hold the trigger at the opposite end of the slot to that shown in Fig. 7. On the completion of a series of cuts, the trigger engages a lever 55, Fig. 10, and releases a bar 61, which drops and allows a pawl 62, Fig. 9, on a disk 63 to engage with a ratchetwheel 64 and rotate the wheel one revolution, whereupon a projection 63<A> raises the bar 61 and causes the projection 61<B> to trip the pawl and release the disk. The boss of the disk drives an eccentric shaft 70 through two-to-one gearing so that the shaft makes a half-revolution, and by linkage 71, Fig. 4, moves back the blank side. The hooked arm 73 slides the shaft 29 and reverses the wheel 32, causing the trigger to leave the latch and stopping the rotation of the shaft 44, and therefore, of the blank. The latch 46 yields when the trigger encounters it in the reverse direction and so does the lever 55. At the point in the rotation of the shaft 29 corresponding with the end of the return of the cutter saddle, a cam 75 releases the arm 73, allowing a spring to reverse the drive of the wheel 31. The trigger then trips the bar 61 so that the shaft 70 brings back the blank slide and the trigger then engages the latch 46, and the rotation of the blank is continued. The first few teeth of the cutter are preferably shorter than standard rack teeth so that, on the partly generated teeth of the blank re-engaging with the cutter, light cuts are taken on the nearly completed teeth.
Patent GB-190824887-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Brakes for Railway Vehicles.
Inventor: SNAITH EVAN ROBERT
Filed: 1908-11-19
Granted: 1909-04-08
Abstract: 24,887. Snaith, E. R. Nov. 19. Brakes.-Relates to devices to enable either lever of an " either-side " or a " cross-cornered " wagon brake to be operated independently of the other, and to facilitate the use of vacuum apparatus with the hand-operated mechanism. Mounted on one end of the cross-shaft A is a device a<1> consisting of two arms connected by a loop a<4>, one arm having a square hole engaging a squared portion of the shaft. The hand-lever B is rotatably mounted on the shaft A between these arms and has a projection b<1> engaging the loop a<4>, so that the shaft A can be turned by the lever on the opposite side of the vehicle, or by the vacuum apparatus, without moving the lever B. This construction is also used on the other side of the wagon when both handlevers extend to the same end of the vehicle. When the lever on the other side of the wagon is placed at the opposite corner, the lever on that side is pivoted to the brake hanger and either has a projection e<2>, Fig. 4, engaging a modified loop device e<1> on the cross-shaft, or it has an extension d<3>, Fig. 5, connected by a chain d<3> to a lever d<4> on the crossshaft. In each case a lever is fixed on the crossshaft A having its outer end connected to the vacuum cylinder.
Patent GB-190827389-A (GB)
Title: A New or Improved Cleaning and Sorting Device for Threshing Machines.
Inventor: ERLINGER GUSTAV
Filed: 1908-12-17
Granted: 1909-10-14
Abstract: 27,389. Erlinger, G. Dec. 17. Sifting and separating grain.-Grain while passing over vibrating interchangeable grading-sieves in a thrashing-machine is cleaned by an air blast produced by a suction fan. The fine grain falls into a hopper e, and fine impurities are carried through the regulating-valve m to the fan l. The blast passing through the larger meshed sieve d is increased in velocity by restricting the area of its passage by laterally projecting baffles o. The air then expands in the chamber i, and its decreased velocity allows the heavier impurities to fall on to the baffles o, which are formed as channels to lead the material to a trough p. A regulating-valve n is fitted above the chamber i, and the suction is controlled by an adjustably-loaded valve r. Sacks may be attached to the hoppers e, f.
Patent GB-190827729-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Ceiling Roses aand the like for use in Electric Circuits.
Inventor: BAZELL FREDERICK GEORGE
Filed: 1908-12-21
Granted: 1909-10-28
Abstract: 27,729. Bazell, F. G., and Verney, R. B. Dec. 21. Couplings. - A ceiling r o s e, or other fitting, which may be attached to the main wires a without cutting them, comprises a porcelain body A, through which pass terminals B, B<2> having binding- screws or the equivalent on either side. The mains C are bared of insulation and engaged by the terminals B, which, in the form shown, consist of clips. The terminals B' receive the branch wires D ; suitable cord grips G are provided, which, in the form shown, are opposite one another and connected by a circular web, which is provided with holes for the passage of the branch wires. The body A is screwed to carry the cover F, and is attached to the base E, which is grooved to take the mains, by means of a single screw which passes through the body and the base, and fixes all to the ceiling.
Patent GB-190828076-A (GB)
Title: Contact Device on a Travelling Bridge-crane to Convey Current from an Electric Overhead Conductor to an Electric Locomotive Passing under the same, without Interfering with the Working of the Crane.
Inventor: MILLS CLAUDE KENNEDY
Filed: 1908-12-24
Granted: 1909-09-09
Abstract: 28,076. Mills, C. K., [Maschinen und Dampf- Kesselfabrik "Guilleaume Werke" Ges.]. Dec. 24 Electric railways on the overhead conductor system. Conductors.-Relates to arrangements at places, such as near to loading and unloading plant, where the overhead conductor crosses the path of a travelling bridge-crane. The overhead conductor a is passed over an insulated guide-roller b carried by the bridge - crane above the track of the crab. Pivotally carried from the lower part of the crab track are conducting-rods e, e<1>, d, d<1>, which are adapted to carry the car collector across the bridgecrane below the crab track. The rods e, e' are suspended at their other ends from the conductor a by means of rollers f, f<1>, while the rods d, d' normally hang vertically, Fig. 3, so as not to obstruct the path of the crab. Upon the passage of a collector in either direction, this gap in its path is completed by one of the depending rods being swung across it by the collector. When the bridge-crane is moved, the roller b runs under the conductor while the rollers f, f<1> run over it, the relative position of all the parts remaining the same.
Patent GB-190828268-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Coin-freed Apparatus.
Inventor: GENTEUR DESIRE ARTHEM
Filed: 1908-12-28
Granted: 1909-08-05
Abstract: 28,268. Genteur, D. A. Dec. 28. Sale apparatus for books, periodicals &c., contained in separate casings b, Fig. 2, of a case a adapted to be fixed in waiting-rooms, cabins &c., and for tickets, sweetmeats &c. arranged in a pile in a case a, Fig. 6. Spring - pressed protectors normally prevent the removal of the books. Actuating - mechanism.-The casing b is moved forwards on a guide-bar k to enable the purchaser to withdraw the book &c. selected, by pressing in a push-piece g after a coin has been inserted in the corresponding slot e so as to couple the corresponding angle-lever c on a spindle f with a lever i on the book casing. The push g bears on an anglelever w coupled to an arm h on the spindle f. The book case is retained in the forward position by the engagement of an arm n of a bell-crank m with a notch x on the guide-bar. In the arrangement shown in Fig. 6 the lowest article is fed forwards to the purchaser by a recessed slide b, on which the lever i is mounted. Coin action. - The coin first tilts the lever i, so as to remove a spring-pressed pawl j from locking-engagement, and then couples it to the angle-lever. Coin-slit closing-devices.-A following weight y, Fig. 6., closes the coin-slit through a system of levers and links z, z<1>, z<11> when the goods are exhausted. Registers.-A register l<1>, Fig. 2, is operated at each actuation of the apparatus from a rock-shaft q through links r, p, an angle-lever t on the casing b engaging an arm s on the rock-shaft.
Patent GB-190907591-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Spinning Tops.
Inventor: WINZER CHARLES BURTON
IPC: A63H1/16
Filed: 1909-03-30
Granted: 1909-08-05
Abstract: 7591. Winzer, C. B. March 30. Tops. - Metal springs or the like are added to tops to cause them to jump or dance while spinning. As shown in Fig. 1, the top spins on the flattened end B' of a spiral spring B. A spinning-point may be provided, and the spring may be located within the top. In the form shown in Fig. 4, the top has a spinning-point C but the metal spring is replaced by a rubber ball G. Instead of the ball a loop of metal may be used, or, a flat metal spring K, Fig. 6. It is stated in the Provisional Specification that the spindle may have a rubber point or may be made entirely of rubber, and it may be used with or without the metal spring.
Patent GB-190907927-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Woodworking Machines.
Inventor: FISH WILLIAM
IPC: B27C7/00
Filed: 1909-04-02
Granted: 1909-10-28
Abstract: 7927. Fish, W. April 2. Lathes.-In machines for cutting screws, spirals, &c. on wood, of the kind in which a former-screw 5 coupled to the blank 13 by means of a chuck 10 is rotated by a hand-crank 14 or by power, and a fixed thread-key 6 projecting into the thread of the former-screw causes it to be traversed longitudinally to carry the blank 13 past a fixed cutter 12. The thread-key 6 is rotatable, and is clamped in any angular position to fit a thread of any pitch on the former-screw. A guide or rest 11 for the blank is situated in front of the cutter.
Patent GB-190909502-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Apparatus for Periodical Interruption of Alternating Electric Current.
Inventor: DRAULT LEOPOLD JEAN-BAPTISTE
IPC: H01H29/00
Filed: 1909-04-21
Granted: 1909-10-28
Abstract: 9502. Drault, L. J. B. April 23, 1908, [Convention date]. Mercury interrupters.-Apparatus for producing a periodical interruption of an alternating current comprises a mercury-jet interrupter rotated by a shunt motor, which is started as an alternating- curreut commutator motor and run as a synchronous motor with slip-rings. The interrupter, especially intended for the interruption of an alternating current at its maximum for each alternation but suitable also for the periodical interruption of a continuous current, consists of an hermetically-closed vessel a containing mercury surrounded by an inert gas, and, dipping into the mercury, a rotary core c which draws up the mercury by centrifugal action and projects it through an orifice d. The mercury jet once per revolution impinges upon the contact e and closes the circuit containing the interrupter. The vessel a may be rotated relatively to the core c, and, for this purpose, is provided with a contact x moving over the circular fixed contact y. The interrupter may have one, two, or more teeth e according to the numbar of poles of the motor. The shunt-wound motor i which drives the interrupter is of known type provided with a commutator and with slip-rings which are connected to two strips of the commutator diametrically opposite each other. At starting, the commutator is supplied with the alternating- current to be interrupted, and, when the speed of the motor, so driven, exceeds the speed of synchronism, the current is changed over to the sliprings and the motor falls into synchronism.
Patent GB-190912206-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to the Manufacture and Production of Beta-methyltetramethylene-diamine.
Inventor: NEWTON PHILIP ARTHUR
Filed: 1909-05-24
Granted: 1910-01-27
Abstract: 12,206. Newton, P. A., [Farbenfabriken vorm. F. Bayer & Co.]. May 24. #-Methyltetramethylenediamine is prepared by heating the diamide of #-methyladipic acid with solutions of halogens in aqueous caustic alkali, or according to the Provisional Specification in aqueous solutions of sodium or potassium carbonate, bicarbonate, &c.
Patent GB-190912225-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Cutting Metal by Means of a Heating Jet and of an Oxygen Jet and Apparatus therefor.
IPC: B23K7/00
Filed: 1909-05-24
Granted: 1909-10-07
Abstract: 12,225. British Oxygen Co., [Soc. Anon. l'Oxhydrique Internationale]. May 24. Blowpipe burners. -A blowpipe for use in the severing of metals has a heating-jet b placed in front of a cutting oxygen-jet c, a jet e of neutral or reducing and combustible gas being placed at the back.
Patent GB-190920778-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to the Boilers and Boiler Flues of Kitchen Ranges and the like.
IPC: F24C13/00
Filed: 1909-09-11
Granted: 1910-09-12
Abstract: 20,778. Napier, Son, & Co., and McAlpine, G. Sept. 11. Kitchen-range and like boilers.- The boiler A of a kitchen range may be rhomboidal in section with flues B<1>, C beneath and behind as in Fig. 1, or triangular in section with a third flue f above it as in Fig. 5. Cross flues may be formed through it.
Patent GB-190924292-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and connected with Coin Freed Gas Meters.
Inventor: SHAKESHAFT CHARLES EDWARD MUIR
IPC: G07F15/00
Filed: 1909-10-22
Granted: 1910-04-14
Abstract: 24,292. Shakeshaft, C. E. M., and Clarkson, T. J. R. Oct. 22. Gas, supplying by meter. - In prepayment att a c h m e n t s for gas-meters, in which .the valve is controlled by a disk nut moved along a screw shaft, and in which mutilated wheels are used as change-wheels, the disk nut o is made rigid with rods n, which pass through apertures in a disk m rotated by prepayment, and the mutilated change-wheel f is provided with several gaps. The rotation of the plate m and the shaft l causes the disk nut o to traverse a screw p, permitting a pivoted valve-closure r to be withdrawn from a valve s by the action of a spring q. The return of the nut is effected by the rotation of the screw p by the meter mechanism through gear u, t. When the maximum number of coins has been inserted, a rod 1 travelling with the nut o engages the change-wheel f. Coin action, mechanical-connexion.-The coin x, projecting from a carrier a on a hand, operated spindle c, engages one of two pins e on the mutilated change-wheel f, and rotates it through half a revolution.
Patent GB-190927181-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Mariners' Compasses.
Filed: 1909-11-23
Granted: 1910-10-20
Abstract: 27,181. Kelvin & J. White, and Clark, F. W. Nov. 23. [Addition to 10,200/07.] Mariners' compasses. - In compass suspensions, as described in the parent Specification and Specification 7022/09, springs 10 are provided between the bottoms of the boxes 2 carrying the main springs 4 and small slidable casings 11 carrying rollers 12 supporting the journals 13. The springs 10 are guided by pins 9.
Patent GB-190930504-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in the Manufacture and Production of Compounds of the Anthracene Series.
Inventor: JOHNSON JAMES YATE
IPC: C09B1/32
Filed: 1909-12-30
Granted: 1910-12-15
Abstract: 30,504. Johnson, J. Y., [Badische Anilin & Soda Fabrik]. Dec. 30. Anthracene dyes.-Vat dyes are obtained by condensing two molecular proportions of 1-aminoanthraquinone or derivatives thereof, such as 1 : 5- or 1 : 8-diaminoanthraquinone or 1-amino-2-methylanthraquinone, but not halogen derivatives, with dichlordiphenylmethanes or homologues thereof, of the general formula Hl.R.CH2.R.Hl. Sulphonation of the products yields acid wool dyes. 2 : 4'- and 4 : 4<1>- dichlordiphenylmethane and 4 : 4'-dichlor-3 : 3<1>-dimethyldiphenylmethane are specified as suitable parent materials. The vat dye from 1-aminoanthraquinone and 4 : 4<1>-dichlordiphenylmethane dyes cotton bordeaux red ; its sulphonic acid dyes wool red. Specification 9888/09 is referred to. The Provisional Specification describes also the use of other aminoanthraquinones or derivatives thereof and of derivatives of the dihalogendiphenylmethane compounds, including those in which one or both of the methylene hydrogen atoms are replaced by alkyl, aryl, or -aralkyl groups. 2 : 4<1>- and 4 : 4<1>-Dichlordiphenylmethane and 4 : 4<1>-dichlor-3 : 3<1>-dimethyldiphenylmethane are obtained by condensing chlorbenzene and o-chlortoluene respectively with formaldehyde in the presence of sulphuric acid, and fractionating the products.
Patent GB-191000145-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Folding and Reclining Chairs.
Inventor: SPAULDING FREDERICK SECCIAL
IPC: A47C3/027
Filed: 1910-01-03
Granted: 1910-10-27
Abstract: 145. Spauldi n g, F. S. Jan. 2, 1909, [Convention date]. F o l d i n g and collapsible s e a t s ; bedsteads convertible into seats &c.-Two or more folding chairs are adjustably mounted on a frame having wheels which run on inclined tracks to give a swinging motion. The device is also convertible into a bedstead or stretcher. Two chairs mounted vis-Ó-vis are shown in Fig. 1, a sectional view in the plane XX being shown in Fig. 2. The legs 7 of the chairs are pivoted to the runners 1, Fig. 1, the wheels 2 of which bear on tracks 4 in the bottom framing 3, and are guarded by fending-boards 6, Fig. 2, attached to the runners or to the framing 3, as shown. Swinging motion is imparted by pressure of the occupants' feet upon the platform 5. The height of the chair is adjusted by inserting in one of the slots 13 of a central member 14 a bar 12 which joins two brace-bars 10. These are pivoted to the seat bearers 8 and the back legs at 11, and to the arm-rests 16 at 18. The inclination of the back 21 is altered by engaging a notched bar 22 with a bar 23, which joins the upper ends of the braces 10. By placing both chairs in the position shown in the left-hand side of Fig. 1, an infant's cot-bed is formed, which may be adapted for adults by making the seat backs horizontal. By slightly inclining the seatbacks, an invalids' couch is formed, which, by means of the ends of the runners 1, may be carried as a stretcher, or wheeled from place to place when removed from the tracks 4.
Patent GB-191003087-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Folding Mechanism for Printing Presses.
Inventor: LAKE WILIAM EDWARD
IPC: B65H45/16
Filed: 1910-02-08
Granted: 1910-07-21
Abstract: 3087. Lake, W. E., [Goss Printing Press Co.]. Feb. 8. Folding paper.-Transverse folding-mecbanism, of the kind in which the paper is folded by a blade on a moving carrier coacting with gripping-jaws which move to deliver the sheets to delivery mechanism, is constructed so that the jaws move in an oval path, and so that the jaws point in substantially the same direction during their motion. As shown, the folding-blade 30 is mounted in a slotted block 32 in a cylindrical or other moving carrier 22, which is provided with grippers to receive the sheet cut by cylinders 10, 11 and guided by guides 33, 34. The folding-blade tucks the paper between a fixed jaw 42 and movable jaws 44 on a rock-shaft 43 controlled by a spring-pressed rod 46 guided by a perforated pivoted stud. The jaws are normally closed, but are opened before the folding and delivery operations by means of fixed cams 70, 72 which act on rollers on arms 48, 50 on the shaft 43. The jaws are mounted in a frame 35 which is slotted at 38 to engage a bar 39, and the frame is given such a movement, by means of crank arms 67 pivoted to arms 40 of the frame, that the jaws 42, 44 travel in the oval path shown by dotted lines, and the jaws remain substantially parallel in successive positions so that they are radial to the oval path in the folding position as shown, but when they deliver the folded sheets to grippers 57 on a cylindrical or other moving carrier 56, the jaws are then tangential to the path. The folded sheets are stripped from the grippers 57 by strippers 73, and are delivered by a belt 82. The jaws 42 are slotted to permit the action of the grippers 57.
Patent GB-191006071-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Means for Fastening India-rubber Pads to the Covers of Gas Purifiers and other Apparatus.
Inventor: MILBOURNE ROBERT JOHN
IPC: C10K1/22
Filed: 1910-03-10
Granted: 1910-12-31
Abstract: 6071. Milbourne, R. J. March 10. Doors.- India-rubber pads are fastened to the covers of gas purifiers and other apparatus by eyebolts d engaging with holes in the curb of the cover a and having their eye extremities embedded in the rubber pad b, in which they are secured by means of screws e passed through the pad. The flattened extremities of the bolts may have one or more eye - holes d, and an elastic washer i may be inserted above the curb a for taking-up slack due to compression of the pad. As an additional attachment, the rubber pad may be treated with solution.
Patent GB-191006318-A (GB)
Title: Skirt and Blouse Adjuster.
Inventor: MALCOLM CHARLES FORREST
IPC: A41F5/00
Filed: 1910-03-14
Granted: 1910-12-31
Abstract: 6318. Malcolm, C. F. March 14. Skirt and blouse grips. - Consists of a plate formed with (1) a flat hook A, which is engaged over the usual blouse tape; (2) slots C, through which the blouse tapes are passed before being tied round the waist; and (3) holes &c. B to receive hooks fixed to the skirt-band.