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Patent GB-190607861-A (GB)
Title: Fishing Toy.
Inventor: LUNDSTROEM ADRIAN EUGENE
Filed: 1906-04-02
Granted: 1906-08-09
Abstract: 7861. Lundstr÷m, A. E. April 2. Fishing-toys.-Consists of a stick or rod, to which is attached a string and an imitation fish constructed of thin cardboard, paper, celluloid, metal, or metallized paper, upon which natural colours are printed or painted. The fish is preferably provided with fins bent or twisted in such a way that it moves in a lifelike manner when drawn through the air.
Patent GB-190608871-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Internal Combustion Engines.
Inventor: CLIFT ERIC HOLLOCOOMBE
Filed: 1906-04-12
Granted: 1907-02-28
Abstract: 8871. Clift, E. H. April 12. Hand-hole doors.-An inspection opening in the wall of a gas-engine cylinder is closed by a compound plug consisting of two partitions A, B, the latter being attached, by means of lugs b' and pins d<3>, to a lever D, one end of which is pivoted to the cylinder and the. other end is held down by a screw d<5> and nut d<6>. Pieces of the small portion B are cut away at b<2>, and the remaining metal b<3> is flanged at b<4>, this flange engaging with a flange a<2> on the portion A when the two tend to separate. A bolt E keeps the portions in position. The faces a, b of the portions A, B, respectively, are normally separated by a helical spring C.
Patent GB-190609477-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Devices for Driving the Mould-table of Briquette-presses and the like.
Inventor: BUSSE OSCAR
Filed: 1906-04-23
Granted: 1906-06-07
Abstract: 9477. Busse, O. April 23. Moulding briquettes &c.-A crank-pin d engages with slots c to rotate the table a intermittently, the slots being straight for most of their length but curved from f to the end to the curvature of the crank-pin path so that the pin, moving outward from the point f, does not tend to move the table. The slots may be in a separate disk on the central shaft instead of in the table.
Patent GB-190610867-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Wooden Crates for Holding or Containing Bottles and the like
Inventor: MILLS JOHN WILLIAM
Filed: 1906-05-09
Granted: 1907-01-24
Abstract: 10,867. Mills, J. W., and Mills, A. May 9. Crates.-Wooden crates for bottles &c. are made to take up less room and to be stronger than usual. Triangular corner supports B, Fig. 2, are reduced in thickness at the tops and bottoms and in intermediate positions to receive rails C, D, E, F mitred together at their ends, and chamfered as shown. The pieces forming the crate bottom are slid into grooves in the rails F, and under them are runners J with their ends secured to the rails F, the runners and rails F being grooved to receive wire or like binding g. Similar binding is applied to the rails C, D. According to the Provisional Specification, the rails may be longitudinally corrugated or fluted.
Patent GB-190610994-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to the Suspension of Wires, Cables and the like for Electric Traction.
Inventor: PRINGLE PERCIVAL JOHN
Filed: 1906-05-10
Granted: 1907-08-10
Abstract: 10,994. Pringle, P. J. May 10. Electric railways and tramways on the overheadconductor system. Conductors.-Supports for overhead conductors and the like are carried on two ears c, Fig. 1, adapted to take tangential strain and connected by a tie strip, rod, or cable d which passes through or round an insulator l, which may be attached toan ordinary hanger insulator, the dispositions of the various parts being such that the virtual point of intersection between the trolly wire and the tie lies within the ear. By this arrangement, the conductor can bend either vertically or horizontally according to the direction of the force acting upon it. Each of the ears c may consist of a casting, preferably of copper, with a semicircular groove f in which the cable b is held by tangs h, Fig. 2, and the lug i, which is attached to the steel tie-rope d, is bushed with iron or steel k to prevent galvanic action. The insulators l, m, Fig. 6, are preferably of the revolving-reel type, and turn on bolts n, p carried by the stirrup q on the bracket arm a. The device may be used at curves by throwing the lugs on the ears out of line, and more than one tie may be used at each bracket, or each tie may be composed of several sections insulated or not from one another.
Patent GB-190611082-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Gas Regulators for Incandescent Burners.
Inventor: BLOCK EUGENE HENRY
Filed: 1906-05-11
Granted: 1906-09-06
Abstract: 11,082. Block, E. H. May 11. Actuating lift valves. - The gas supply of an incandescent burner is regulated by adjusting a cap l, Figs. 3 and 8, relatively to a needle valve m on a plug f. The cap l is screwed on the plug, and has lugs k, Fig. 8, engaging slots j in a milled sleeve i rotatably mounted on the plug. Slots e, Fig. 3, in the mixing-chamber allow the sleeve i to be rotated, and inwardly-bent pieces e<1> on the tube prevent the sleeve from rising and the. lugs k from being lifted too far. Specification No. 28,095, A.D. 1903, [Abridgment Class Lamps &c.], is referred to.
Patent GB-190614404-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and connected with Joints in Drain Pipes and such like.
Inventor: MCGRAW HUGH
Filed: 1906-06-23
Granted: 1907-05-02
Abstract: 14,404. McGraw, H. June 23. Drain - pipe junctions. - Relates to means fur providing for variation in the size and shape of the spigot, in spigot - andsocket joints for drain and like pipes of the type described in Specification No. 10,923, A.D. 1895, in which ridges or projections are provided in the socket. Equidistant ridges C formed in the socket and having the edge B blunted are each provided with an arris or point A, which may be fitted say by hacking or filing or by turning the spigot. According to the Provisional Specification, studs may replace the ridges.
Patent GB-190614743-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Means for Economizing Fuel in Kitchen Ranges and the like.
Inventor: RHODES JAMES
Filed: 1906-06-28
Granted: 1907-03-28
Abstract: 14,743. Rhodes, J. June 28. Fuel-economizers for use with domestic ovens, boilers, cooking-apparatus, &c., shown in Figs. 1 and 2 applied to a kitchen range, consist of a top plate supported by flanges 4, 5 and formed with a shallow front and back 10, 11, and a side reaching down to the fire-bars. The side 8 retains the fuel within the device, and the front 10 prevents the entry of the cold air direct to the oven flue when the fire is low. The usual hot-plate opening with a lid 12 is provided in the top plate. The device may also be used as an ordinary false grate side,
Patent GB-190619009-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Buckets for Elastic Fluid Turbines.
Filed: 1906-08-25
Granted: 1907-05-09
Abstract: 19,009. Warwick Machinery Co., [General Electric Co.]. Aug. 25. Elastic-fluid turbines.-Blades are provided with dovetail shauks which are slid in undercut grooves in the base or support, and are spaced by distancepieces, the whole being secured in position by turning over the metal of the base at the ends of the grooves. The method of mounting two rings of blades on one wheel is shown in Figs. 1 and 2. The base segments 1 are of any desired length and are made with flanges 4 which engage grooves in the wheel 2. The segments and wheel are secured together by countersunk rivets 5. In the peripheral surface of each segment is cut a dovetail groove into which the shanks 7 of the blades 8 are slid. Between each blade is placed a distanceblock 9, shaped to fit the blades and cut from a bar of the same section as the groove. At the end of each base segment is inserted a filling-block 12, preferably made of steel. This block has a flat end which lies nearly flush with the end of the base segment. A suitable punch is used to form deep incisions 13 in the metal where the ends of the segments meet, and a lip 14 is turned over and against the flat face of the block 12 at one end of the segment and against the shank of the end blade at the other end of the segment. In a modification, only one ring of blades is mounted on each wheel. The invention is applicable to intermediates or guide-blades.
Patent GB-190624756-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Electric Railways and Tramways.
Inventor: THEWLIS JOSEPH
Filed: 1906-11-05
Granted: 1907-02-21
Abstract: 24,756. Thewlis, J. Nov. 5. Electric railways and tramways on the surface-contact system, in which the sectional conductors are placed immediately over a continuous conductor but normally kept in a raised position out of contact therewith by springs. Conductors; conduits; switches.-As adapted for railways, the sectional conductors d and the continuous conductors a are supported in chairs c, Figs. 1, 3, and 5. Pairs of springs f are arranged in the chairs to support the upper conductor normally out of contact with the continuous conductor, which is permanently connected to the source of electric supply. The springs are of such a strength as not to yield when a person steps on to the conductors, but the downward pressure of the contact slippers or rollers is made sufficiently great to move the upper conductors into contact with the lower one as the car moves along. The conductors are protected between the chairs by plates or guards n pivoted in the lugs l on the chairs. The conductor a is secured in the chairs by wedges k. Fig. 6 shows the modified arrangement for tramways, the conductors in this case being supported in troughs or conduits q. The conductors can be examined or taken out by raising the pivoted plates n.
Patent GB-190625191-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Spraying Apparatus.
Inventor: THORNYCROFT JOHN ISAAC
Filed: 1906-11-08
Granted: 1907-10-31
Abstract: 25,191. Thornycroft, Sir J. I. Nov. 8. Spray burners.-An apparatus for spraying liquid fuels comprises a plug d with a truncated conical point having a special stepped face, shown in Figs. 3 and 4, fitting into a correspondingly cut seat c. The plug d is rotated by the rod o from the handle q and has a slight sliding motion on this rod o, being kept in an outward position by spring p, as shown in Fig. 1. The movement of the handle q is limited by a movable stop r, and a pointer w on the handle slides over a graduated arc. As the handle is turned, the plug d moves in a lateral and rotary direction with relation to the nozzle c and allows a passage for the fluid, which issues with a rotary motion and impinges against the wall of the aperture c<1>.
Patent GB-190625231-A (GB)
Title: An Automatic Wheel for Preventing or Checking the Side-slipping of Motor and other Vehicles.
Inventor: OXBORROW EDMUND WOODS
Filed: 1906-11-08
Granted: 1907-08-15
Abstract: 25,231. Oxborrow, E. W. Nov. 8. Slipping of wheels, preventing.-A barrel-shaped wheel A is carried in a forked frame E connected by means of a ball-and-socket or hinged joint B to a bracket F secured to the axle or other part of a motor or other vehicle, so that when side-slip occurs the wheel may tilt and get a grip of the ground. The wheel A, which may have a rubber or other tyre, is pressed into contact with the road by a spring D, and its lateral movement is limited by stay-rods C.
Patent GB-190705103-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Apparatus for Preventing Accidents through Corves or the like Railway or Tramway Vehicles Breaking Loose or Running Away on Inclines.
Inventor: HARGREAVES HARRY
Filed: 1907-03-02
Granted: 1907-12-05
Abstract: 5103. Hargreaves, H. March 2. Stops for preventing backward movement or excessive speed of railway or tramway vehicles on inclines. A pawl or catch d, made heavier at its lower end, is pivotally supported in a rectangular trough a so as to contact with, and be depressed by the axles of corves or other vehicles passing up the incline. If a vehicle is running in the opposite direction, the pawl is forced against the spring h into a vertical position, where it is held by the spring-pressed stop f. The movement of the pawl into contact with the stop f completes an electric circuit through a signal apparatus. To adapt the apparatus to prevent excessive speed, the pawl is reversed so that the heavy end rests on a ledge e<1>, and the lighter end lies at an angle of less than 45 degrees to the horizontal. When vehicles moving at normal speed pass over and depress it, it is able to recover itself, but if the speed is excessive, it is moved into a vertical position and arrests the vehicle.
Patent GB-190708263-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Extractors for Bottle-stoppers.
Inventor: SHORT JOSEPH BARTON
Filed: 1907-04-09
Granted: 1908-01-16
Abstract: 8263. Short, J. B., and Conklin, E. D. April 9. Corks, withdrawing.-A metal band 3, the ends 7, 10 of which are formed so as to interlock readily, is placed in the bottle mouth, as shown in Fig. 2 The cork 2 is then driven in. The ends of the band 3 may be bent over and interlocked, as shown in Fig. 1, to form a grip for the finger in drawing the cork. The shaded portion 12 of the band 3 may be coated with paraffin wax, to prevent corrosion &c. In the form shown in Fig. 18, a separate finger-grip 43 is connected to the band 3. The band 3 and grip 43 may also be of wire. In the form shown in Fig. 28, a wire 54 passes baneath the cork 2, and ends in two loops 55, through which the finger is placed in withdrawing the cork. In the form shown in Fig. 30, the loops 55 are replaced by separate rings 58.
Patent GB-190715895-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Rotary Pumps.
Inventor: SANDS JOHN
Filed: 1907-07-10
Granted: 1908-07-02
Abstract: 15,895. Sands, J. July 10. Centrifugal pumps.-A pump with liners for fluids containing solid matter has the interior surface a' of the side walls of the casing machined so that the liners e may fit accurately. A tubular intake liner h is provided on one side and also acts as a bearing for the impeller f. The liner k on the other side is conical and bears against an extended conical boss j on the impeller f. The outlet tube a' is of D-section, and the liner q has an extended side held by the wedge-shaped shoe r and bolts. The bearing n for the shaft i is adjusted by screws o in the door p. A clean-water chamber m of usual construction is connected to a water supply.
Patent GB-190717537-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Steam Generators
Inventor: WILLIS PERCY RICHARD JULIUS
Filed: 1907-07-31
Granted: 1908-07-30
Abstract: 17,537. Willis, P. R. J., [Stanton, H.]. July 31. No Patent granted (Sealing fee not paid). Steam-generator furnaces; baffles ; dampers.-In a steam-generator of the kind comprising waterlegs 14, 16, 18 depending from an horizontal drum, the hot'gases from the furnace 10 on their way through the combustion chamber are compelled to pass along the whole length of both sides of the legs, which are provided with heat-conducting studs 20. One of the legs 14, which is of less width than the combustion chamber, is arranged over the furnace 10, and other legs 16, 18 extending across the whole width of the combustion chamber are arranged between the furnace and the uptake. Walls 40, 42, placed at the back and parallel to the legs, compel the hot gases to take a course along the whole length of the legs. A damper 46 at the bottom of the wall 40 is opened when the furnace is started to give a direct draught through the combustion chamber.
Patent GB-190719034-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or connected with "Cash Registers.
Inventor: MACBETH GEORGE
Filed: 1907-08-24
Granted: 1908-08-20
Abstract: 19,034. Macbeth, G. Aug. 24. Typewriters and like machines.-Relates to cash registers of the kind in which dial indicators are operated by slides set by moving pointers along scales, a record being printed by a movement of the setting-lever at right-angles to the setting movement. The slides 12 carry underneath the type 16, and above the racks which operate through gear 19 the pinions attached to the indicating- dials 1 and have. also pivoted to them the setting- levers 10, carrying the pointers 14 moving over scales 15. The slots in which the levers 10 move have toothed lower edges so as to ensure exact position for indicating and printing, and the levers work between bars 26 carried by side arms 27, 28. When the levers 10 are depressed, the platencarrying bar 37 is raised by the lever 34 and rod 32, adjustment being allowed by the screw stop 33 on the rod 32, which also releases the drawer latch 9. The record strip is wound on the roll 6 by the bevel-wheel 55 and ratchet, the pawl of which is carried by the spring plunger 51 engaged by the drawer.
Patent GB-190719654-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to Wheels for Road, or the like, Vehicles.
Inventor: KNIGHT JOSEPH
Filed: 1907-09-03
Granted: 1908-05-28
Abstract: 19,654. Knight, J. Sept. 3. Spring wheels; disk wheels; tyres, pneumatic.- A spring ring 8, Fig. 1, of wooden plates superposed axially is held against outward movement between dished metal plates 6, 7, and supports a pneumatic tube 12 surrounded by a tyre 11 held by the bent edges of the plates. The wooden hub 1, Fig. 3, is held between fixed and detachable axle-box flanges 4, 5. The enlarged ends 14<a> of bolts 14 pass through the plates 7 and screw into the gear rack 13. The other screwed ends of the bolts are narrower than the shank and pass through the plates 6 and a cap 15. The wooden ring 8 may be held centrally by means of screws fitted with sufficient play to allow inward motion.
Patent GB-190722052-A (GB)
Title: Improved Means to Lessen the Raising of Dust by Motor Cars.
Inventor: ROSS WILLIAM
Filed: 1907-10-07
Granted: 1908-07-30
Abstract: 22,052. Ross, W., Ross, T., and Kennedy, H. Oct. 7. Motor vehicles.-Comprises means for preventing the raising of dust behind the wheels of motor-vehicles, by which a downward and rearward direction is given to jets of fluid such as compressed air or exhaust gases. The fluid may be used direct, or may operate induction apparatus. Fig. 2 shows an arrangement for discharging exhaust gases behind the rear wheels. From the silencer E a connexion D carries the fluid to a long horizontal pipe ending in right-angle bends C leading to nozzles A, elongated horizontally and placed in the planes of the wheels B. Cocks may be used to close connexion between the silencer and the nozzles, and to open another outlet therefrom.
Patent GB-190724870-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to the Vanes of Turbines
Inventor: EMDEN PAUL
Filed: 1907-11-09
Granted: 1908-03-12
Abstract: 24,870. Emden, P. Nov. 9. Elastic-fluid turbines.-Shrouds are placed at the roots of turbine blades to prevent radial leakage. Blades b are stamped out of rectangular blanks and are formed with lugs d for attachment to the rotor a. If the part e between the lugs is not removed, a slot f must be made in the rotor. Filling-pieces i, forming shrouds, are arranged to fill the spaces between adjacent vanes to prevent leakage towards the axis of the rotor. The shrouds i are bent to form lugs k, Figs. 6 and 8, so that the plates i and vanes b may be secured by the same rivets. In a modification, the lugs k are situated inside and the lugs d outside.
Patent GB-190727575-A (GB)
Title: Process of Sub-aqueous Concrete Construction.
Inventor: MCQUEEN FINLAY ROBERT
Filed: 1907-12-13
Granted: 1908-03-19
Abstract: 27,575. McQueen, F. R. Dec. 13. Moulding concrete.-Subaqueous concrete structures, for example docks, are constructed by moulding a section of the structure above water, lowering the section into the water but leaving the top of it above the water, moulding another section on top of the first section, and so on successively until the bottom section rests upon the ground. A metallic reinforcement may be inserted. Fig. 1 shows one form of apparatus used, and Fig. 3 shows in horizontal section a reinforced dock structure made by this apparatus. Concrete is rammed upon the mould bottom between the moulding-boards 2, 3, 4. When the moulds are full, the bottom is suitably lowered by screw rods 13, more concrete is added, and so on. The structure may be built in one place and floated to another.
Patent GB-190728522-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Connecting Rod and Lubricating Devices for the Crank Pins of Loom Crank Shafts.
Inventor: EVANS WILLIAM PARSONAGE
Filed: 1907-12-28
Granted: 1908-10-29
Abstract: 28,522. Evans, W. P., and Schultz, D. L. Dec. 28. Loom connecting- rods that encircle or join-up on the cranks are provided with means for automatically lubricating the crank-pin, and also, if desired, the lay connexion. The connecting-rod head, Fig. 4, has a recess a', in which fit bearing-brass halves c, d, formed with interengaging locking-parts at c<2>, the brass c having a pap c<1> engaging a recess a<2> in the head. The brasses are held by an adjustable wedge f. The brasses are cut away, as shown, to communicate with a grease box b, which has a lining i of wool or fibre and is closed by means of a cover h or by a plate secured by a bolt g. In a modification, Fig. 5, the brasses c<x>, d<x> are set up by means of blocks m, n fitting in the recess a' of the head, and are held in place by ruffs or collars. The blocks are tightened by means of keys f<x>, driven transversely through the head and secured by means of lock-nuts g<x>. According to the Provisional Specification, the grease box may be in the length of or attached to the connecting-rod.
Patent GB-190801361-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Vehicle Springs.
Inventor: MEREDITH CHARLES ARTHUR
Filed: 1908-01-20
Granted: 1908-04-09
Abstract: 1361. Meredith, C. A. Jan. 20. Springs.-Ordinary elliptic springs of vehicles, such as automobiles, have the lower half 5 formed in two parts, the inner ends of which are secured by bolts 20 in sockets formed at the lower ends of levers 17, which are pivoted at 19 to a sleeve 10 mounted on the axle 9 and have their upper ends 12 mounted upon a bolt 13, which is fitted with springs 15, 16 in the manner shown. The springs 15 are compressed during the flattening of the elliptic spring, while the spring 16, which is weaker than the others, serves to retard tha recoil of the elliptic spring. In modifications, the levers may be pivoted to ears formed integral with the axle, and the auxiliary springs may be arranged below the axle.
Patent GB-190801445-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Paddle Wheel particularly for use on Air Ships.
Inventor: FRONZ FRANZESCO
Filed: 1908-01-21
Granted: 1908-07-16
Abstract: 1445. Fronz, F. Jan. 21. Propelling; steering.-The shaft 6, on which the blades 9 of paddle-wheels for air - ships &c. are mounted, is arranged eccentrically to the axis of the paddle-wheel in order that the velocity of the blades may be increased during the effective part of the rotation. The shaft 6 is secured on the cranked ends of shafts 4, on which disks 2 rotate. The disks carry bolts or pins 5, which pass through slots 8 in the arms 7 and transmit the rotation of the disks to the paddles. By turning the shafts 4, the direction of the effective stroke of the blades may be altered. The paddle-wheels are arranged in a tubular framework and rotated in opposite directions.
Patent GB-190801704-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Making and Maintaining Roads
Inventor: FARTHING ISAAC
Filed: 1908-01-24
Granted: 1908-09-10
Abstract: 1704. Farthing, I. Jan. 24. Asphalt paving; paving-materials. - A bitu- minous mixture consisting of 4 parts of tar, 2 parts of pitch, and 1 part of lias lime is heated and mixed with 20 parts of dry granite, slag, or scoria broken down to 2¢ inch gauge. To this mixture are added 2 parts of fine clinker or breeze. The whole is laid on a good foundation and rolled. The surface may be coated with some of the above mixture of tar, pitch, and lime, spread with stone chippings, and again rolled. Specifications No. 1757, A.D. 1871, Nos. 16,657 and 27,308, A.D. 1904, and Nos. 3749 and 15,993, A.D. 1906, are referred to.