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Patent GB-190813967-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Knife Cleaning Machines
Inventor: MODEL WILHELM
Filed: 1908-07-01
Granted: 1908-12-17
Abstract: 13,967. Model, W. July 1. Knives, cleaning and polishing.-The rollers 3 of the machine are mounted in symmetrical forked bearings 9, which are adjustable by screws 12 to maintain the contact-surface central. The opposite end of the driving-spindle is supported on a bearing 14 pivoted on the base at 15 to admit of this adjustment without affecting the meshing of the pinions 13, 17, which may be formed with evolute teeth. The knife-rest 18 is made adjustable by means of removable plates 21 which are screwed thereto. Broad-bladed knives are cleaned in recesses 23 in the main frame. The cleaning-rollers are constructed with iron centres covered successively with layers of hard rubber, moderately hard rubber, soft rubber, and leather. A small space is left between the bearing 9 and the frame, and a flanged sleeve is fitted to the spindle where it passes through the frame, to prevent excessive wear owing to the cleaning-powder falling from the rollers. A drawer may be fitted to the base of the apparatus for storing spare parts &c.
Patent GB-190820525-A (GB)
Title: Improved Methods of Producing Iridescent Color Effects on Lettering or for Decorative Purposes.
Inventor: BUNDY FREDERICK WILLIAM
Filed: 1908-09-30
Granted: 1909-03-11
Abstract: 20,525. Bundy, F. W. Sept. 30. Ornamenting.-Relates to decorative tablets and the like having a front plate of glass or other transparent material which has clear designs or lettering on an apaque ground, and consists in spraying the transparent designs &c. in succession with primary colours to produce an iridescent effect. Behind the front plate is placed a reflecting surface which may have printed or otherwise produced upon it the whole or a part of the same design that is on the front plate, the two designs being arranged to register. This reflecting surface may be in contact with, or separated from, the front plate.
Patent GB-190822619-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Safety Hooks for Lifting, Lowering, Hauling and like Tackle.
Inventor: PLATER FREDERICK JOHN
Filed: 1908-10-24
Granted: 1909-08-05
Abstract: 22,619. Plater, F. J. Oct. 24. Hooks.-In a safety hook for lifting, lowering, hauling, and like tackle, of the kind in which a pivoted closing-tongue b has an extension d to which the shackle f is attached, the pivot cis placed to one side of the centre line g passing through the suspending-chain &c., so that, when the hook is supported from below and the load is relieved, the extension d falls over automatically to open the tongue b.
Patent GB-190826146-A (GB)
Title: Apparatus for Determining the Calorific Power and Composition of Gaseous Combustibles.
Filed: 1908-12-03
Granted: 1909-12-03
Abstract: 26,146. Lemoult, P., and Soc. Anon. Les Etablissements Poulenc frÞres. Dec. 3. Testing gases.-Relates to apparatus for analyzing gaseous combustibles and thence determining their calorific value. A eudiometer t is provided with a pressure - regulating tube T<1>, connected to the lower end. A sample of the gas to be tested is introduced into the tube through the three-way cock R, and the carbon dioxide present is estimated. Oxygen is then added and a sample of the mixture is placed in an additional reservoir s. The remainder of the gas is passed into a metal combustion bomb and burnt. The products of combustion are passed back to the measuring- tube, and the amount of carbon dioxide produced is estimated. Excess of oxygen is determined by means of pyrogallic acid, and the amount of initial oxygen added is determined from the sample in the additional reservoirs. In determining the colorific value, advantage is taken of the fact that the calorific value of grammemolecules of hydrogen and carbon monoxide are practically identical.
Patent GB-190901233-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Method of and Means for Burning Fuel for Firing Steam Boilers.
Inventor: COTTON FRANK
Filed: 1909-01-18
Granted: 1909-09-02
Abstract: 1233. Cotton, F. April 16, 1908, [Convention date]. Steam-generator furnaces; air and steam, supplying.-Lignite, refuse, and other low-grade fuels are burnt in a deep mass in a closed-bottom shaft furnace, the whole of the air and superheated steam necessary for combustion being supplied under pressure into the body of the fuel. As shown applied to a locomotive-type boiler, the furnace consists of a shaft A having a solid hearth B, a feeding-door D, and ash-removing apertures C. Air and superheated steam are supplied through tuyeres (not shown) delivering into the mass of the fuel, and the products of combustion pass through a flue E above the level of the fuel in the shaft to the tubes of the boiler. The steam for supply to the tuyere is superheated in a coil H in a chamber F at the top of the furnace. A baffle U is fitted to prevent direct contact of the furnace gases with the boiler above the water-level. In the case of an externally-fired multitubular boiler, staggered columns of brickwork may be fitted in the flue beneath the boiler. The Specification. in its original form, as open to public inspection under Section 91 (3) (a), comprises also the subject-matter of Specification 16,554/09, for which see the abridgment of that case. This subject-matter does not appear in the Complete Specification as accepted.
Patent GB-190902934-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Attachments for Phonographs.
Inventor: WIXEN EDWIN THOMAS ANDREW
Filed: 1909-02-06
Granted: 1910-02-03
Abstract: 2934. Wixen, E. T. A. Feb. 6. Clips.-A clip is movably secured to the guide rod or bar of a phonograph to facilitate the repetition of any desired portion of a record. Fig. 1 shows a form of spring clip a having rubber pads c for the guide-bar d. Fig. 3 shows a clip having a sliding ring f to facilitate easy movement along the bar d. Fig. 5 shows a similar form but having a tightening-screw g. The jaws of the clip are suitably formed to engage any guide-bar.
Patent GB-190904810-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Joints for Rules.
Inventor: KIMMEL HARRY JOSEPH
IPC: G01B3/06
Filed: 1909-02-26
Granted: 1909-08-12
Abstract: 4810. Kimmel, H. J. Feb. 26, 1908, [Convention date]. No Patent granted (Sealing fee not paid). Bevels.-A folding rule provided with improved joints has a graduated disk 12 fixed to one arm at the central joint so that its graduations register with the inner side of the other arm. Reference has been directed by the Comptroller to Specification 29,150/04, [Class 65, Hinges &c.].
Patent GB-190905280-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Multiple Switch Starters.
Inventor: LAKE HAROLD WILLIAMSON
IPC: H02P1/02
Filed: 1909-03-04
Granted: 1909-12-09
Abstract: 5280. Lake, H. W., [Cutler-Hammer Manufacturing Co.]. March 4. Automatic circuit-breakers; latching.-A multiple-unit switch of the Cutler-Hammer type described in Specification 11,500/02, in which a number of switch arms are thrown in a definite sequence and held on by a no-volt coil operating on the first-thrown arm, is provided with a hand switch which, if released before all the switches are thrown, causes the de-energization of the no-volt coil. In one form, a switch carried by the last thrown arm bridges contacts 35, 36, Fig. 6, when the arm is thrown, thus short-circuiting a switch 37 in the circuit of the no-volt coil 21. The switch 37 is closed against the force of a spring 37<a> until the switching sequence is completed, in order to hold the first switch arm closed. In another form, a spring contact 51, Fig. 7, carried by the same arm, butts, in the open position of the arm, against a contact 52, completing a short circuit around the no-volt coil. This short-circuit is broken during the switching-on operation by a normallyclosed hand switch. In a modification, a contact 56, Fig. 9, is provided on the switch base, which when the last switch arm is thrown, carries cur rent direct to the no-volt coil 21 through a lead 57. The coil is energized during the switching- on operation through a normally-open switch 37. In another method, the arm 37, Fig. 10, of a switch for short-circuiting the coil 21 has a stud 60 on it. An arm 61 on a rock-shaft 62, is moved, when the last arm 1<c> is thrown, into the path of the stud 60, and prevents the arm 37 from being moved into the short-circuiting position. To effect this, one end of a double arm 63 on the shaft 62 is engaged by the end of the arm 1<c>, and the other end is pressed outwards by a spring 65, tending normally to hold the arm 61 out of the path of the stud.
Patent GB-190905364-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Bed-rests.
Inventor: CAMPION GEORGE GORING
IPC: A47C20/02
Filed: 1909-03-05
Granted: 1909-06-24
Abstract: 5364. Campion, G. G. March 5. Bed-rests.-A bed-rest comprises a base 1, to which is hinged a back-rest 3 fitted with a wovenwire surface 4 tensioned by bolts and nuts 6, 7. The back-rest is supported by a stay-frame 8 hinged at 9, the ends of which engage in grooves 10 in the sides. The back-rest is retained at the desired inclination by means of cords 11 at each side which are secured at 12, pass over pulleys 13, 14, and are fixed by means of clutches 15 and cleats 16. The bed-rest may be folded and secured by hooks 17 and eyes 18. Rubber or like pads 19 are attached to the base 1 to prevent slipping.
Patent GB-190907065-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Packages for Razor Blades.
Inventor: WALCUTT JOHN MACY
IPC: A45D27/24
Filed: 1909-03-24
Granted: 1909-06-17
Abstract: 7065. Walcutt, J. M. March 24. Cards for displaying.-Razor blades of the interchangeable type are held in position on a strip 1 of paper &c. by lugs 2 adapted to engage the perforations of the blades, or by other means. The strip is scored at 5 so that the edges of the blades are not in contact with the fold. The whole is secured by a flap 4.
Patent GB-190908640-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Automatic Central Buffers and Couplings for Railway and the like Rolling Stock.
Inventor: JOHNSTON GEORGE
IPC: B61G5/04
Filed: 1909-04-10
Granted: 1909-12-23
Abstract: 8640. Johnston, G., and Gunstone, H. H. April 10. [Addition to 9970/06.] Couplings, automatic; buffers; combined buffer and draw gear.-The coupling described in the parent Specification is modified for coupling on curved tracks of small radius. Spring buffers b are provided on one side only of each coupling-head c, and these buffers bring the heads into line for coupling. The automatic coupling may be swung out of the way and the ordinary hook d used with the common link couplings.
Patent GB-190909328-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to Periscopes, Stereoscopes and other Optical Instruments.
IPC: G02B23/08
Filed: 1909-04-20
Granted: 1910-04-20
Abstract: 9328. Aldis, H. L., Aldis, A. C. W., and Improved Periscope, Ltd. April 20. Periscopes; stereoscopes; telescopes.-The eyelens is adapted to be inclined in any direction by the observer to bring the axis of the lens into alinement with any desired point of the image. The eye-lens a may be mounted in a fitting b with a spherical surface b' seating upon a cup-like part in a member c, springs being provided to retain the parts in contact. The member c is mounted in a tube e carrying the field-lens f. In binocular instruments, the eye-lenses are connected so that the axes are always parallel.
Patent GB-190909973-A (GB)
Title: Improved Resilient Tyre.
Inventor: LAMPLOUGH FREDERICK
IPC: B60C23/16
Filed: 1909-04-27
Granted: 1910-02-03
Abstract: 9973. Lamplough, F. April 27. Liquids, tyres containing only.-Relates to tyres which consist of spring-pressed liquid cushions. India-rubber diaphragm's d, Fig. 1, formed with thickened treads d', are clamped directly to the sides of concave rims a by rings e and bolts. The rims contain water and communicate by pipes c with spring-pressed chambers supported inside the rim by brackets h. The flexible sides b<3> of the chamber are secured to a ring b by plates b<2> and are covered by plates g held by leaf springs g'. In a modification, a disk wheel containing water communicates with the tyre and is formed at its sides with apertures closed by spring-pressed flexible walls as above. The spring chambers may consist of cylinders fitted with pistons pressed upwards by helical springs.
Patent GB-190910133-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Apparatus for Automatically Playing Pianofortes, Carillons and other Musical Instruments.
Inventor: WALKER JAMES JOHN
IPC: G10F5/06
Filed: 1908-07-18
Granted: 1909-10-18
Abstract: 10,133. Walker, J. J. July 18, 1908. Registering webs. - In automatic musical instruments, means are provided for automatically adjusting the tune-sheet to ensure registration of the tune-sheet apertures with the tracker-bar ducts. The tune-sheet is provided centrally with a continuous row of perforations 1, which normally traverse the tracker-bar 5 between the ducts 3, 4. When the tune-sheet moves toward one .side or the other, the control perforations 1 register with one or other of the ports 3, 4 actuating a device, which may be similar to that described in Specification 27,043/05, [Class 88, Music &c.], for returning the tune-sheet to its normal position. The trackerbar and both winding-rollers may be arranged to be skewed simultaneously, as shown in the drawing, and the device may operate electrically.
Patent GB-190914500-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Stenotypers.
Inventor: INGRAM CHRISTIANA ELIZABETH
IPC: B41J3/26
Filed: 1909-11-19
Granted: 1910-05-12
Abstract: 14,500. Ingram, C. E. Nov. 19. Stenographic machines; ink-ribbon mechanism; paper-supports; web feeding and guiding arrangements.-Relates to stenographic machines wherein a small number of key-levers b, c rotate a spiral platen h, which is connected by gearing l, m, n to the inkribbon spindles l<1>, n<1> and the paper feed-rolls k<1>. The ink-ribbon o is reversed by means of a rock-shaft r provided near the keyboard with a double hmdle r<2>, which may be operated by the little finger, the shaft r being also provided with forks r<1> which engage sliding dog-clutch members on the spindles l<1>, n<1>. The roll of paper p<1> is mounted on a detachable flanged spindle u, which fits tightly within the roll and is provided with a spring-pressed gudgeon v and a detachable flanged member t'. The spring is attached to the spindle and the gudgeon, so that, when the spindle is dismounted, there is only one loose part. The paper passes from the roll through the feed-rolls k<1> and round the platen h, and then passes under a spring guide-bar s, which directs the paper between the flanges t, t<1>, the paper being thereby kept straight while passing through the machine.
Patent GB-190921780-A (GB)
Title: A Method of Advertising all Kinds of Draperies and the like for Furnishing Purposes.
Inventor: RANYELL EDWARD
IPC: A47F7/16
Filed: 1909-09-24
Granted: 1910-04-21
Abstract: 21,780. Ranyell, E. Sept. 24. Pattern cards.-Draperies &c. are represented in miniature in the actual materials on a showcard &c. a, Figs. 1 and 2, which may be painted and also, if desired, shaped or embossed to represent the background with which the draperies are to be employed. The background may comprise a front a, to which a shaped board b carrying the draperies is glued, nailed, or screwed.
Patent GB-190922539-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Electrical Indicating Means for Weighing Machines.
IPC: G01G23/36
Filed: 1909-10-04
Granted: 1910-10-04
Abstract: 22,539. Dobson, J., and Pooley & Son, H. Oct. 4. Indicating and registering mechanism.-The beam of the machine 15 is attached to the movable member of a solenoid 14, the induced alternating electromotive force in which, depending on the final position of the beam, is shown by a voltmeter 18 and measures the weight. An electric governor device is employed to maintain the constancy of the alternating current. Part of the current from the main 7 supplying a continuous - current motor 4 is shunted to the external coil 9 of a solenoid forming part of an electric governor. The motor drives an alternator 6, the alternate current from which excites the external coil 12 of another solenoid, as shown. The internal members 10, 13 of the solenoids are suspended from a pivoted beam 11, the governor being so arranged that a constant alternating current is always induced in the coil attached to the member 13 and in the external circuit connecting this member with the fixed member 14 of the weighing-machine solenoid. In a modification, the internal member 13 of the governor may be a solid core, both coils being wound on the external member.
Patent GB-190927824-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to the Manufacture of Boots and Shoes.
Inventor: CHAVEZ JUAN
IPC: A43B23/02
Filed: 1909-11-29
Granted: 1910-05-05
Abstract: 27,824. Chavez, J. Nov. 29. Slippers; uppers. - A piece of leather is cut to the shape shown in Fig. 1 with a cruciform incision at C. It is then moistened and stretched over a last, and left to set. The sole is attached in the usual manner. Reference has been directed by the Comptroller to Specifications 5271/78, 10,908/90, 9677/00, and 613/02.
Patent GB-190927908-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in the Production of Isoprene.
Inventor: WOLTERECK HERMAN CHARLES
IPC: C07C4/22
Filed: 1909-11-30
Granted: 1910-11-24
Abstract: 27,908. Woltereck, H. C. Nov. 30. Hydrocarbons, cracking.-Isoprene is produced by passing the vapours of turpentine through an iron tube filled with contact material such as iron-wire gauze, perforated disks, &c., and heated to a temperature of 550-600‹ C. An inert gas such as nitrogen may be mixed with the vapours. Benzene and combustible gas are the chief by-products.
Patent GB-190928502-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in the Manufacture of Polishes for Leather and the like.
Inventor: SCHAEFER HEINRICH
IPC: C09G1/08
Filed: 1909-12-06
Granted: 1910-06-02
Abstract: 28,502. Schõfer, H. Dec. 7, 1908, [Convention date]. Polishing-compositions.-Polishes for leather, oilcloth, &c. containing saponified waxy substances are prepared with a small proportion of water so as to be obtained in solid form. Beeswax, stearin, bitumen, or other saponifiable substance is heated with glycerine and caustic soda or potash or borax solution. Oils or fats and colouring-matters are added. In use, the solid is moistened with water and a portion rubbed off with a brush.
Patent GB-190928848-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Rifling Machines.
Inventor: HANSON BENGT MAGNUS WILHELM
IPC: B23D5/02
Filed: 1909-12-09
Granted: 1910-12-09
Abstract: 28,848. Hanson, B. M. W. Dec. 9. Rifling; boring-bars. -To obtain a taper or other groove of varying depth during the rifling operation of gun barrels the tool is acted on by two devices, one f o r deepening the cut successively and the other for tapering. In the apparatus shown in Fig. 2, there may be as ordinarily employed a slide 2, supporting a spindle 6 for the rifling- rod, a slide 9 moving at right-angles to the slide 2 and actuated by a roller 13 moving in an obliquely disposed bar, and a rack 10 actuating a pinion 11 on the spindle 6. The rifling-rod consists of a tube 15, Figs. 4 and 5, attached to a screw - threaded coupling member 16, Fig. 2, which is tapered to fit a corresponding hole in the spindle 6, and is fixed by a nut 17. The tool 18 is forced outwards for deepening the groove by a wedge 21 attached to a rod 22 and for tapering by a wedge 35 bearing against the wedge 21. The rod 22 has a slight sliding motion in the tube 15 determined by the position of the heads 24, 25, of which one 24 is screwed into the tube 15 and the other is attached to a rod which is screwed into the rod 22. The head 24 is turned by being thrust into a square hole in indexing- means, thus increasing the distance between it and the head 25. As the rod 15 is advanced, the head 25 strikes a fixed abutment, and the rod 22 and wedge 21 are moved relatively to the tube until the head 25 strikes the head 24. The wedge 35 is operated by means of a rod 29, a collar 30, an arm 30<1>, and a spring-pressed plunger 31 which bears against a cam-surface.
Patent GB-191001995-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Steam Boilers.
Inventor: VOGT HENRIK CHRISTIAN
IPC: F22B13/12
Filed: 1910-01-26
Granted: 1910-07-14
Abstract: 1995. Vogt, H. C. Jan. 26. Fire-boxes; tubes, water. -In a locomotive fire-box having its front, top, and rear formed by a flat-sided box a arching the fire-grate, the sides are formed by inclined water-tubes f, which lift the water over a flange j, provided in order to retain water upon the top of the fire-box. The tubes are secured by four-way tubular fittings g, which are expanded into the flat sides of the box a. Two branches h of each fitting afford access to a tube and to the box for cleaning purposes.
Patent GB-191009884-A (GB)
Title: Process of Manufacturing Nitrites and Nitrates.
IPC: C01B21/46
Filed: 1910-04-22
Granted: 1910-09-01
Abstract: 9884. Salpetersõure Industrie-Ges., and Pauling, H. April 22. Alkali nitrate and nitrite.-To obtain nitrate and nitrite separately when nitrogen oxides are absorbed in lye, the gases and lye are passed in contrary directions through towers, the lye being however withdrawn at an intermediate point, and the excess of nitrite separated by evaporation and crystallization. The residual liquor is then passed through the remainder of the towers, and nitrate crystallized out from the resulting liquor.
Patent GB-191011121-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to Power Presses.
Inventor: CHALLEN WALTER BERNARD
IPC: B21J9/12
Filed: 1910-05-05
Granted: 1910-10-27
Abstract: 11,121. Challen, W. B. May 5. Presses, mechanical.-The joints of toggle and like coining and other presses are cooled by means of water which is drawn from a tank b by means of a pump and circulated through channels in the parts e, d.
Patent GB-191025358-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Locks, Latches, Padlocks and the like, and in Keys for the same.
Inventor: BAUER JOHN CHARLES
IPC: E05B29/00
Filed: 1910-11-01
Granted: 1911-04-13
Abstract: 25,358. Bauer, J. C. Nov. 1. Locks, revolving - barrel; slider mechanism; padlocks.-In a revolving-barrel lock of the type in which slotted slides are contained within the barrel and are adapted to engage recesses in the fixed casing, two independent slides b, b<1> are mounted side by side in each of a number of slots a<2> in the barrel, and are notched at b<2> to receive an operating portion of the key, the latter being provided with two distinct such portions d, d', Fig, 9, one for each set of slides. The slides are springless, each portion of the key having top and bottom actuating edges. The barrel is preferably in two parts, and each part has a shallow key-way a<1> lengthwise and a series of the transverse grooves a<2> to receive the slides. The mechanism is applied to latches and locks, the barrel having the usual pin or follower for operating the bolt; or the slides may themselves lock the bolt, in which case they have no turning movement, as in the padlock shown in Fig. 4, in which the slides engage notches in the shackle limbs. The lock is stated to be applicable to box-lids and bags. Keys.-The key is formed of two blades of metal, secured together face to face, the edges of each being shaped to correspond with one of the sets of sliders.