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Patent GB-191014246-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Sleighs.
Inventor: SCHROFF RUDOLF
IPC: B62B13/00
Filed: 1910-06-13
Granted: 1910-12-15
Abstract: 14,246. Schroff, R. June 13. Sledges.-A "Rodel-sleigh" is constructed with a single runner having spring supports for the seat. Figs. 1 and 2 show a sledge having a single runner 1, to which are fastened supports 3 connected together by slats or straps 4 forming the seat. The supports 3 may be made flexible by using steel bands. The sleigh is provided with handles 7 and leg-rests 6. Larger sleighs have the front end of the runner pivoted to facilitate steering, which may be effected by leg-rests or handles, and leg-rests for additional passengers may be secured to the seat supports. The runners may be of T, U, or round section, either round bar or tube, and the materials may be of iron, steel, or other metal, or wood and bamboo.
Patent GB-191014876-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to Mineral Oil Burners for use in Signal and other Lanterns.
Inventor: GRIER THOMAS
IPC: F23D3/00
Filed: 1910-06-21
Granted: 1911-04-13
Abstract: 14,876. Grier, T. June 21. Wick burners. - In an air-cap for wick burners, two hoods B, B, are fitted in line with the opening b<1>, and two sloping surfaces b<13> are fitted near the wick-tube b<10>. Air which passes through the perforations b<8> is thus deflected away from the base of the flame by the surfaces b<13>. Finely perforated disks b<15> serve to warm the air reaching the flame, to prevent a sudden rush of air which might extinguish it.
Patent GB-191021215-A (GB)
Title: Balancing Device for Aeroplanes.
Inventor: LEWIS MARTIN STRAIT
IPC: B64C17/00
Filed: 1910-09-12
Granted: 1911-05-25
Abstract: 21,215. Lewis, M. S. Sept. 12. Actuating. - In connexion with an air-compressor 6 driven by the motor of an aeroplane, an escape cock 14 is opened when the pressure in the reservoir exceeds a predetermined amount, so that the compressor then runs idle and further compression is prevented. The cock is operated by a piston in the casing 15 subjected on one side to the pressure in the reservoir and on the other side to an adjustable spring, the piston operating through a slotted cross-head 18 and crank 20.
Patent GB-191022125-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Reinforced Concrete Railway Sleepers.
Inventor: PORRI ANTOINE
IPC: E01B9/40
Filed: 1910-09-23
Granted: 1910-11-17
Abstract: 22,125. Porri, A. Sept. 24, 1909, [Convention date]. Sleepers, composite; sound and vibration, preventing.-#-sbaped sleepers of reinforced concrete have peforations in the vertical walls 2, and have integral chairs 4 carrying a pad 15 of lead or of cork on which the rail is secured by clamps 17, which may be changed to adjust the gauge. The chairs 4 have vertical walls 5 reinforced by bars 13 passing through yokes 21 on the chair. The base flanges 1 of the sleeper may be provided only at its ends.
Patent GB-191024287-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Buildings Cranes.
Inventor: WIEHE AUGUST
IPC: B66C23/20
Filed: 1910-10-19
Granted: 1911-10-19
Abstract: 24,287. Wiehe, A. Oct. 19. No Patent granted (Sealing fee not paid). Jib cranes.-Comprises a jib crane which is automatically slued when the load is raised. Fig. 1 shows the crane in side elevation. The hoisting-rope b passes over a pulley loose on a shaft n on the jib, and is attached to a "Gall's" chain a shown in Fig. 3. The shaft n carries a pair of toothed wheels k, one on each side of the rope pulley, and is geared by chain gearing y and bevel-gearing s to the post on which the jib slues. When the load is hoisted and the chain reaches the jib-head, the cross-bars of the chain engage with the toothed wheels k and rotate the shaft n, thus slueing the jib. When the jib has slued through a right-angle, a cam j on the post engages a roller j<1> and disengages the bevel-gearing. The toothed wheels k are normally locked so as to hold the jib in the outward position, but are freed when projections c on the top bar of the chain strike a lever e. A bracket d on the outer end of the jib guides the chain on to the toothed wheels
Patent GB-191024932-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Vehicle Wheels.
Inventor: BILL ROBERT
IPC: B60B9/10
Filed: 1910-10-27
Granted: 1911-07-13
Abstract: 24,932. Bill, R., and Silvester, H. Oct. 27. Spring wheels w i t h continuous outer rigid ring and rubber - ring and like cushions. -A disk-like web f on the rim is guided between disks b, c on the hub by sets of rollers pin races o arranged inside and outside of rubber or similar cushions h. Each cushion is fitted in a sleeve passing through an aperture in the web f, and embraces a bobbin l on a bolt k connecting the disks.
Patent GB-191104087-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Apparatus for Crushing the Burrs in Wool, principally for use in Carding-engines.
Inventor: HOWARTH THOMAS
IPC: D01G15/96
Filed: 1911-02-17
Granted: 1912-02-15
Abstract: 4087. Howarth, T., and Musgrave, J. V. Feb. 17. Burring - apparatus, principally for use in carding-engines. The weights z for the upper roller are connected by the yoke h to arms projecting from a plate f secured to the bearing c, while from the centre of the plate projects a knuckle-jointed rod k provided with lock-nuts p. Beneath the lock-nuts p, at the two ends of the machine, take the ends of a beam or crosspiece l which may be raised or lowered by a screw q, the arrangement being such that when the bearings are raised by turning the screw q the rollers are relieved of the action of the weights. The upper roller is driven from the lower roller by the belt and spur gearing shown, a spur-wheel r on the shaft of the lower roller engaging with an idle spur-wheel t, on the shaft of which is a belt pulley connected by a belt u with a pulley on the shaft of the top roller, the belt being kept taut by a weighted tension pulley w.
Patent GB-191105849-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Blow-pipe Burners and the like.
IPC: F23D14/82
Filed: 1911-03-08
Granted: 1912-03-07
Abstract: 5849. Soc. l'Electrolyse Franþaise. March 11, 1910, [Convention date]. Blow-pipe burners; gas supply. - An oxyacetylene or like blow-pipe burner is provided in the passage for the combustible gas with means for preventing back-firing, comprising a highly-compressed laminated annular gauze partition through which the gas passes radially, and with a mixing-device in the main passage, comprising passages diverging from the main passage into an annular passage from which other passages converge into the main passage. The acetylene arriving by the conduit 44 passes radially through the gauze washers 39, Figs. 10 and 11, which are threaded on the polygonal exterior of the hollow rod 40 and compressed by a nut 43, and by way of the openings 42 and the tube 40 to the mixing-passage 1. The mixture is promoted by the brass or like device 15, Fig. 2, the entering gases being led in two diverging streams 2, 3 to the circumferential grooved passage 18, from which, through two converging passages arranged in a plane perpendicular to the plane containing the passages 2, 3, they are led to reunite in the passage 14. The total sectional area of the diverging and converging passages are respectively equal to that of the main passage. In a modification, only one passage opens from each of the passages 16, 14 into the grooved passage. The Specification describes two other devices for preventing backfiring, which are stated to form no part of the invention. In one arrangement, wire gauze is wound on an inner perforated cone, between which and an outer perforated cone it is compressed by means of a nut, the acetylene passing through the perforations in the cones and the gauze to the burner. The other device comprises a conical housing in the mixing-chamber, in which a pad of rolled metal gauze is compressed by a perforated plate and hollow nut.
Patent GB-191119856-A (GB)
Title: Improved Electric safety Fuse.
Inventor: MUELLER JEAN
IPC: H01H85/15
Filed: 1911-09-06
Granted: 1912-09-05
Abstract: 19,856. M³ller, J. Sept. 6. Fusible cut-outs.-In a cartridge or plug fuse having the fuse-wire enclosed in an inner removable insulating-carrier with metal ends d, the carrier is formed as a flat strip c to economize space and facilitate removal and insertion. In the form shown in Fig. 1, the outer casing a is provided with a hole adapted to fit over a supporting-pin and metal contacts b with which the ends d of the fuse carrier make contact. The fuse-wire f, preferably made of silver, is visible through an opening in the supporting- plate c which registers with a hole g in the casing a. In the plug shown in Fig. 2, the fuse carrier is held by spring clips attached to the contact i and to the removable metal cover h which forms the other contact. Fuses of different capacity are distinguished by varying the breadth of the fuse carrier.
Patent GB-191121818-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Process for Treating Wood.
Inventor: MATHYS ALBERT WILLIAM
IPC: B27K5/00
Filed: 1911-10-03
Granted: 1912-03-28
Abstract: 21,818. Mathys, A. W., [National Lumber Vulcanizing Corporation]. Oct. 3. Wood, preserving.-Wood is dried and vul. canized, its pyroligneous acid is removed, and its resins are uniformly diffused by (1) subjecting the unheated wood to a vacuum, (2) heating it gradually up to about 250‹ F. under vacuum, (3) subjecting it to steam of a maximum temperature of about 230‹ F., and (4) subjecting to vacuum and dry heat not exceeding about 380‹ F.
Patent GB-191122519-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Hermetically Sealing Metal-vapour Apparatus with Mercury Packing.
Inventor: HARDINGHAM GEORGE GATTON MELHU
IPC: H01J5/30
Filed: 1911-10-12
Granted: 1912-10-10
Abstract: 22,519. Hardingham, G. G. M., [Hurtmann & Braum Akt.-Ges.]. Oct. 12. Joint making packing. - Consists of a liquid seal for a tubular metal vessel f for a vapour electric rectifier. The vessel has a cover b engaging a flange a shrunk on or otherwise secured to the vessel at a small distance from the mouth, the intervening space e being filled with mercury, which is retained by packing-rings c of asbestos, rubber, or the like. An electrode k may be similarly sealed into an insulator i, which is itself sealed into a recess in the cover b, the whole being secured by a 'nut s.
Patent GB-191123403-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Fire Resisting Doors and Automatic Fire Extinguishing Apparatus.
Inventor: HIGSON PERCY
IPC: A62C2/18
Filed: 1911-10-24
Granted: 1912-10-24
Abstract: 23,403. Higson, P., and Hughes, T. Oct. 24. Fires, minimizing in connexion with doors; sprinklers, automatic.- Relates to apparatus, operated by a reduction of pressure when automatic sprinklers come into action, for releasing automatically-closing fire-resisting doors, protecting them by a water screen, sounding an alarm, and delivering a key of the building into a receptacle to which access can be obtained from the outside of the building. A fire-resisting door a is suspended, by means of pulleys c. upon an inclined rail b, and is held in the open position, shown in dotted lines, by a pivoted stop c<1>, which normally engages one end of a lever c<2>. The lever c<2> is controlled by a flexible diaphragm in a casing A, which is connected by a pipe d to the sprinkler installation, so that when the fluid pressure falls, the lever c<2> is actuated by spring action to free the door. The door a, which may be made of wood &c. with a central filling of asbestos, is provided with perforated pipes f<1> at the top and bottom, the perforations f<2> being closed by fusible metal. In a modification, the door is made hollow of metal plates, and is adapted to be filled with water, fusible plugs being provided in the sides of the door. The door may be provided with a trough at each side at the top, into which the perforated pipes are adapted to discharge, the water leaking out at the bottom of the trough and flowing down the sides of the door. On the closing of the door a, the pipes f<1> are automatically coupled with a pipe f<3>, and a valve C is opened by means of a stop h actuating a rod h<1>, a lever h<3>, and a valve h<2>, which drains off water from the upper side of a diaphragm in the valve casing C. thus allowing the valve to open under the action of springs g<1>. The water has access through a pipe i to a water-wheel, on the shaft of which is a clapper adapted to sound a bell i<3>. One of the stops c<1> on the door a is adapted to actuate a lever j and a shutter j<1> to release a ball j<2>, which falls down a pipe j<3> and tilts a pivoted table j<4>, thus discharging the front door key into a receptacle k having a glazed door k<1>; or the key may be contained in the ball j<2>. At the same time an electric contact may be closed to sound an alarm indicating the position of the receptacle k. One of the stops c<1> may be released by means of a diaphragm device E, which is similar to the device A, and is connected to a pipe n, the pressure in which can be reduced by means of a valve similar to the valve C and similarly controlled by a valve such as h<2>, which can be opened either manually, or by the action of locking the front door of the building. Reference has been directed by the Comptroller to Specification 25,765/96.
Patent GB-191123492-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in means for the Collection of Fares in Public Conveyances.
Inventor: MASTERS ARTHUR BROWNING
IPC: G08B5/22
Filed: 1911-10-24
Granted: 1912-10-24
Abstract: 23,492. Masters, A. B. Oct. 24. ' Engaged ' and like indicators.-In indicators for fare payments and occupancy of seats in public vehicles &c. the device is arranged as shown in Figs. 2 and 3, the indicating-disk being carried by a pivoted arm 12 which is caused to rock in one direction by a current passed through a coil 15 and in the other direction by a reverse current through a coil 13. The arm 12 carries a pin 16 dipping into a mercury cup 17, the circuit being broken after the indicator is moved to the right.
Patent GB-191123791-A (GB)
Title: Manufacture and Production of a New Colouring Matter suitable for the Production of Lakes.
Inventor: NEWTON PHILIP ARTHUR
Filed: 1911-10-27
Granted: 1912-05-23
Abstract: 23,791. Newton, P. A., [Farbenfabriken vorm. F. Bayer & Co.]. Oct. 27. Monoazo dyes are obtained by combining diazotized p-chlor-o-nitraniline with acetoacetico-chloranilide. Lakes of greenish-yellow shade are obtained from the above - described dye by the usual methods. Acetoacetic-o-chloranilide is obtained from ochloraniline and acetoacetic ester.
Patent GB-191123995-A (GB)
Title: Process of Re-gaining the Volatile Solvents for Cellulose-esters.
Inventor: WOHL ALFRED
Filed: 1911-10-30
Granted: 1912-02-08
Abstract: 23,995. Wohl, A. Nov. 12, 1910, [Convention date]. No Patent granted (Sealing fee not paid). Nitrates; carboxylates; acetates.-The vapours of the volatile solvents used in the manufacture of solutions of nitrocellulose and cellulose esters of organic acids are absorbed by passing the air containing them over finely divided solid cellulose ester. The absorptive layer is preferably distributed over several vessels arranged behind one another, and the absorption is facilitated by cooling. The Specification as open to inspection under Section 91 (3) (a) comprises also the following matter. In the case of mixed solvents such as a mixture of alcohol and ether, the more easilyabsorbed vapour, in this case that of alcohol, is first led over the cellulose ester, and then the ether vapour. The nitrocellulose may be first wetted, or alcohol may be added, or alcohol vapours may be added to the gases containing ether, and steam to the gases containing alcohol. The absorption is furthered by strong compression of the gases. The solvents mentioned in addition to alcohol and ether are acetone, fatty acid esters, and ethylene chloride. Cellulose acetate is instanced as a suitable organic acid ester of cellulose. This subject-matter does not appear in the Specification as accepted.
Patent GB-191124135-A (GB)
Title: A Method of Making Records for Mechanical Musical Instruments.
Inventor: LAKE HAROLD WILLIAMSON
Filed: 1911-10-31
Granted: 1912-10-31
Abstract: 24,135. Lake, H. W., [Aeolian Co.]. Oct. 31. Combined with phonographs; tune-sheets.- Combined records for phonographs and pianoplayers or the like are obtained by accompanying the performance of the phonograph upon an instrument fitted with a roll-perforating device and then attaching to the roll a negative phonograph record to serve as a master for the preparation of combined records. The phonograph record may be made upon the material of the sheet, which may be of celluloid, or upon an attached marginal strip. Fig. 4 is a diagram of apparatus employed for duplicating the records. The master-record is passed over a tracker-bar 6, which operates the perforator 13, thus duplicating the note-sheet, while the phonograph record is duplicated by pressurerolls 18, 19 from the negative record on the master 1.
Patent GB-191124200-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in the Process of and Means for Vulcanising and Finishing Indiarubber-proofed Textures.
Inventor: COULTER WILLIAM
IPC: B29C35/02
Filed: 1911-11-01
Granted: 1912-11-01
Abstract: 24,200. Coulter, W., and Bridge, R. Nov. 1. Coating webs.-Relates to a process and apparatus for vulcanizing and finishing rubberproofed textures. The fabric a on leaving the usual spreading-machine is placed in an outer cooling-chamber b, where it is passed over guiderollers c in conjunction with a doctor d for controlling the amount of farina to be applied. It is then passed into a separate room i<1>, where it is drawn over a steam - chest e to remove excess of naphtha, through a brushing or finishing chamber i and also through a chamber k heated by steam-chests e and m and closed by pivoted flaps. In this chamber the fabric is partly cured by means of fumes generated from sulphur chloride. The fabric then passes into the chamber b and is batched upon a roller o. When cool, it may be printed or may be subjected to the second portion of the process. For this purpose the fabric is passed over a roller p, revolving in vulcanizing liquid contained in a tank q, which is supplied and raised and lowered in guides r from outside the room to protect the operator from the fumes. As the fabric passes below the steam-chest m, the fumes generated are drawn off by means of a fan &c. t. It is again passed through the brushing-box i and heated chamber k, where it is treated with the fumes of a deodorant, such as ammonia, and is finally batched in the room b. The sulphurous fumes in the vulcanizing- chamber may be neutralized by allowing ammonia fumes to escape from the chamber k. In place of employing the heating-chamber k, the fabric may be passed in sinuous form through an ordinary dry heat stove, the vulcanizing compound being first mixed with the rubber. Specification 27,289/10 is referred to.
Patent GB-191126274-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Power Presses.
Inventor: WALLER WILLIAM
IPC: B30B15/30
Filed: 1911-11-24
Granted: 1912-11-25
Abstract: 26,274. Waller, W. Nov. 24. Embossing.-Relates to presses of the type in which the bottom tool is mounted on a draw slide, and in which the work is placed in or on the bottom tool and moves with it into and out of operative position. The die g<1>, Fig. 3, is attached by linkage o, n, l, k to a lever h acted on by a cam f. The cam is keyed to a sleeve t, Fig. 5, to which is attached a spring- pressed pawl q, Fig. 4, kept out of engagement with a ratchet-wheel p by means of a sliding bolt s. The bolt may be withdrawn by a treadle to allow the ratchet - wheel to communicate motion through the pawl to the sleeve t and cam f. The ratchet-wheel is loosely mounted on the main shaft, and is driven by gearing involving the use of a counter shaft. A cam u operates the ordinary one revolution press clutch. Each depression of the treadle only enables one series of operations to be performed. By operating the ordinary clutch instead of the bolt s, the machine may be operated in the usual way.
Patent GB-191200722-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Electric Clocks.
IPC: G04C3/16
Filed: 1912-01-09
Granted: 1912-12-05
Abstract: 722. British Thomson-Houston Co., and Holden, F. Jan. 9. Electric clocks.-In a clock of the kind having an electrically-maintained pendulum, the indicating-mechanism is not driven by the pendulum, but by an electromotor, the circuit of which is completed at intervals by a contact on the pendulum co-operating with a contact-wheel rotated by the motor. The motor d, which is such that, when once started, it runs at a nearly constant speed for a considerable time, is geared to a contact-wheel f having one or more pins g arranged in the path of a flexible contact-member h on the pendulum a. A train of wheels connects the wheel f to the clockhands. The arrangement is such that the circuit can be completed through the members g, h when the pendulum is swinging in one direction only. The motor receives the currentimpulses at intervals determined by the speed of the rotating wheel f, and thus the number of revolutions made by the contact-wheel in equal long intervals of time is constant. Specification 14,873/09 is referred to.
Patent GB-191201485-A (GB)
Title: A Machine for Beating and Refining Paper Pulp.
Inventor: SECOND MAURICE
IPC: D21D1/14
Filed: 1912-01-18
Granted: 1912-09-12
Abstract: 1485. Second, M. Feb. 4, 1911, [Convention date]. Pulping-engines. - In apparatus for beating and refining pulp, comprising a beater roll and bed-plate, working in a tank in which the pulp is circulated in an 8-shaped path along a sloping channel by the pumping-action of the roller, a hinged pulp-collecting shutter 8, and a movable shutter 17 for limiting the thickness of the layer of pulp passing to the roller, are provided. The return portion of the channel may be divided into two portions at 10.
Patent GB-191209274-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Nut Lock.
Inventor: PHILLIPS WILLIAM THOMAS
IPC: F16B39/12
Filed: 1912-04-19
Granted: 1913-04-17
Abstract: 9274. Phillips, W. T., and Phillips, W. H. April 19. Locking nuts. - Relates to a nut made in two parts, one part having a threaded boss which screws into the other part, and consists in boring the bolt hole eccentricallv to the boss c, the thread on which runs in the same direction as the thread on the bolt. After screwing - up the compound nut. the outer part is turned back slightly, thereby locking the arrangement.
Patent GB-191210522-A (GB)
Title: Multiple Opening Balanced Slide Valves.
Inventor: ANDREWS JAMES
Filed: 1912-05-03
Granted: 1912-09-05
Abstract: 10,522. Andrews, J. May 3. Slide valves.-The valve is rectangular in form, has two working faces, and is embraced on three sides by a saddle which rests on the valve face 8. It is provided with inlet and exhaust cavities 2, 3, 4, and the cradle with recesses 9, 10, 11 corresponding with the ports in the valve seat, and a passage 15 which may serve for admission, or as a by-pass to put the cylinder ends into communication for cushioning purposes when the valve is in its central position. Or the passages 15 may serve both purposes, or be dispensed with. In the position shown, the valve gives triple admission to the port 12 through the openings 17, 20, 21, and double opening to the exhaust port 14 from the port 13 directly through the cavity 3, and indirectly through the cavities 3, 11, 4.
Patent GB-191212070-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Squares or Instruments for Measuring Right Angles.
Inventor: HOPKINS GEORGE
IPC: G01B3/56
Filed: 1912-05-21
Granted: 1912-12-19
Abstract: 12,070. Hopkins, G. May 21. Squares.-A member a of metal, wood, &c., having its inner plane surfaces at right-angles, is recessed to receive two blades b, also at rightangles. The blades may he fixed or, as shown in Fig. 2, they may be graduated and provided with slots b<1> to render them adjustable through the slots a<1> so that the sqnare may be used to draw a line parallel to the edge of a moulding &c. and at a given distance therefrom. The onter edge a<2> nf the member a may be inclined at forty - five degrees to facilitate cutting a mitre &c. at that angle.