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Patent GB-190418004-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Machines for Spinning and Doubling Fibrous Materials.
Inventor: SHAW JOHN FRANKLIN
Filed: 1904-08-19
Granted: 1905-06-22
Abstract: 18,004. Shaw, J. F., and Kidd, J. Aug. 19. Spindle apparatus.- Yarns of any count are spun and doubled on a spindle a by a driven wharl f provided with a pillar h and a pivoted carrier k, the yarn passing from the rollers through an eye i on the pillar, and guides m, l on the carrier or presser to the co being wound. The tension may be increased by winding the yarn round the pillar or carrier or both. A pin n prevents the carrier from flying out. The wheel revolves on a fixed sleeve e having a supporting collar or flange hollowed out to receive lubricant. The spindle is mounted in lifting rails b, c and carries a steadying- vane o. Drag is applied to the spindle by a setscrew r passing through a bracket p and carrying a plate faced with leather or felt. The yarn may be wound on a skewer fitting into a socket at the top of a short spindle, or on to a spool on a fixed spindle.
Patent GB-190424173-A (GB)
Title: A Composition for Application to Paper Cardboard and other Substances to form a Coating for Recording and Reproducing Sounds Phonographically.
Inventor: BROCHERIOUX EMILIEN JEAN BAPTI
Filed: 1904-11-08
Granted: 1905-09-14
Abstract: 24,173. Brocherioux, E. J. B., Tochon, P. J., Fortier, A., and Marotte, L. V. Nov. 8. Postcards.-Paper, cardboard, and like substances and postcards are coated with a composition adapted to receive and reproduce sounds phonographically. The mixture consists of permanent white, zinc white, stearin, salt of tartar, hide glue, and water. These substances may be replaced by their chemical analogues, and fish-glue may be used instead of hide glue. The mixture is applied with a brush in several coats, and is surfaced by rolling or by pressure.
Patent GB-190425584-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Sights suitable for Ordnance and Small Arms.
Inventor: MEESON WILLIAM
Filed: 1904-11-24
Granted: 1905-11-23
Abstract: 25,584. Meeson, W. Nov. 24. Sights.-The sight k is mounted at the pivot h of arms d, e, pivoted to nuts b, c working on a right and left handed screw f. The range is indicated on a scale j integral with the pivot-pin h, and rigidly attached to the arm e, or on scales n on the base a. The milled head of the screw f may also be graduated. Adjustment for windage is made by a screw l.
Patent GB-190427603-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Vulcanising Apparatus.
Inventor: FROST HENRY HARVEY
Filed: 1904-12-17
Granted: 1905-12-16
Abstract: 27,603. Frost, H. H. Dec. 17. India-rubber, vulcanizing.-Relates to vulcanizing- apparatus specially adapted for repairing the covers of pneumatic tyres and for joining the ends of tubes. The appliance is extensible and conformable to the shape of the tyre cover, and consists of a coil or channel made from a length of tubing or series of tubes through which steam, hot air, or other heating-medium is passed. The vulcanizing- member A, Fig. 1, is combined with a portable steam generator B, and is formed by a tube of circular or other cross-section bent upon itself to form a channel A<4> open at the top. When it is desired to treat the inner surface simultaneously with the outer, the tube shown in Fig. 2 is used. This consists of a coil of tubing connected by flexible conduits to a steam generator. In a modification, the coil is open along the top, forming a channel, and may be used alone, the convolutions being extended or contracted by the provision of eyelets or the like on the inside, through which a rod passes. In the form shown in Fig. 8, the vulcanizing-surface is formed by a series of tubes A<*>, communicating at their opposite ends with junction boxes E provided with conduits E'. Any of the vulcanizing-members used may be covered with a flexible metallic envelope, and the outer surface of a tyre cover is treated without removal from the wheel.
Patent GB-190427630-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Window Sashes.
Inventor: CARL FRANZ JULIUS
Filed: 1904-12-17
Granted: 1905-11-23
Abstract: 27,630. Carl, F. J., and Carl, H. G. Dec. 17. Windows.-Relates to means whereby each sash can be swung open either in its upper or lower position. The upper sash 16 is balanced by a weight 18, and the lower sash 17 by a weight 19. The top rail and the meeting rail of the upper sash are each provided, at the side to which the counterbalance weight is attached, with a plate, in which a socket or eye is formed. In the upper position of the sash, these sockets engage with pins 25, 26, and in the lower position with pins 21, 22. The pins 21, 26 have a stop between them, and are attached to the window frame by wings. Similar hinging-devices are provided for the lower sash on the other side. The sashes have antifriction rollers 40 on their swinging edges, and openings 41 are cut in the guide-slots to allow them to pass when the sash is swung open, while the sash is enabled to clear the frame by being moved vertically a short distance. Pivoted catches 42 upon the frame can be made to intercept the parts of the hinges attached to the sash at the proper point, and wedges attached to the sashes engage with similar wedges on the side of the frame and thus force the sashes against the sides of the grooves.
Patent GB-190501501-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to the Manufacture of Artificial Silk from Solutions of Cellulose
Inventor: LINKMEYER RUDOLF
Filed: 1905-01-25
Granted: 1905-05-04
Abstract: 1501. Linkmeyer, R., and Pollak, M. Jan. 25. Cellulose, non-fibrous.-Relates to the manufacture of glazed or lustrous threads of artificial silk. The threads obtained by precipitating an ammoniacal solution of cellulose in a weak acid or neutral bath are mercerized before drying by passing them through a solution of caustic soda or potash of from 10‹ to 40‹ BÚ. and mixing, and then through a 5 per cent solution of sulphuric acid, and finally raising and drying.
Patent GB-190501569-A (GB)
Inventor: HARDY TOM HARRY
Filed: 1905-01-26
Granted: 1905-12-07
Abstract: 1569. Hardy, T. H., and Walker, K. R. Jan. 26. Straight-bar knitting-machines. - To allow an improved selvedge to be made on plated goods, the lower ends of the plating-thread eye 4 and the main-thread eye 3 of the thread-guide are brought into the same horizontal plane during the process of laying the threads over the selvedge needle or needles. For this purpose, the plating-thread guide 5 is made to slide on the main-thread guide and is depressed by the upper lever 6 passing at the proper time under inclined surfaces 9.
Patent GB-190503981-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Convertible Billiard and Dining Tables.
Inventor: ALCOCK HENRY UTTON
Filed: 1905-02-25
Granted: 1906-02-08
Abstract: 3981. Alcook, H. U. Feb. 25. Billiards.-In a convertible billiard and dining table, the bed frame is provided with depending guides engaging with slots in the leg frame, and may be raised by means of levers, being supported in the raised position by props hinged to the leg frame and acted on by leaf springs. Props A, hinged at a to transverse bearers B<1> secured to the leg frame B and formed for purpose of adjustment in two screwed parts, bear against leaf springs A<1> and serve, when in a raised position, to support a bed frame C provided with guides D engaging with slots in the leg frame B. The raising of the bed frame C is effected by means of levers E provided with a roller e<1> and a fulcrum pin e resting in a notch E<1> formed on the end rail of the leg frame B, the levers E being slid upon a shelf E<2> when not in use. In a modification, shown in Fig. 6, screwed props A are fixed to the underside of a bed frame C provided with guides D engaging with slots in the leg frame B ; the bed frame is lifted by means of levers E fulcrumed on a pin e and formed in two hinged parts, the outer part e<3> of which may be turned under the projecting part of the bed frame C when not in use. When in a raised position, the bed frame C is temporarily supported by pivoted props a<1>, and the cross-rails B<1> are removed and placed under props A, the props a<1 >being then removed and the weight of the bed frame C taken by the cross-rails B<1>; or the props A may be fixed 'to the cross - rails. When the bed frame is lowered, the rails carrying the props may be turned upside down ; or the cross-rails may be fixed in the leg frame, in which case the props are carried on the underside of the bed frame so as to be capable of being slid.
Patent GB-190507288-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Machines for Stripping and Cleaning the Fibrous Part of Leaves or Stems and Separating from same the Pulp or Woody Part thereof.
Inventor: BURROWS TAYLOR
Filed: 1905-04-06
Granted: 1906-04-06
Abstract: 7288. Burrows, T., and Smith, W. M. April 6. Breaking and scutching apparatus; heckling-machines ; obtaining fibres.-A machine for stripping and cleaning the fibrous part of leaves or stems of hemp, banana, &c. and separating therefrom the pulp or woody part is constructed with a revolving cylinder a provided with equi-spaced combs or hackles d inclined backward so as to comb away the pulpy matter without injuring the fibres. The leaves, fed by rollers h, are pressed into the combs by revolving blades e, or brushes, which are driven positively by gearing from the cylinder shaft and engage between the combs. The material is retained in contact with the comb cylinder by a fixed plate, and is taken off by a roller n constructed with brushes and steel plates n<1> alternating, and working in conjunction with a rubber-covered roller r. The rear ends of fibres escaping from the feed-rollers are carried round opposite the plate p, which keeps them in contact with the combs while the roller n draws them up. One or more of the combs are replaced by lifting- plates m and cleaning-brushes t for the fibres, and the combs are cleaned by a fixed or revolving brush s. A perforated tube q may supply a stream of water. The roller n is driven by a chain o<1> from the feed-rollers, which are driven by gearing from the cylinder shaft. In some cases, instead of the material being passed through the machine, it is presented first at one end and then at the other, the feed-rollers being fitted with reversing-gear i, i<1> controlled by a pedal lever l.
Patent GB-190512314-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Brushing Apparatus.
Inventor: SCANLAN JOSEPH FRANCIS
Filed: 1905-06-13
Granted: 1906-01-25
Abstract: 12,314. Scanlan, J. F. June 13. Carpet-sweepers. - The bristles are carried on transverse leather strips d' which may be riveted to a band d<2> which passes round the three cylinders shown, being driven by the middle one, which has teeth engaging with holes in the edges of the band d<2>. Grooves are provided in all three cylinders to allow the passage of the above-mentioned rivets. The brush is held by trunnions h on either side as handles, and may be driven after the manner of a horse-clipping machine or by a crank or otherwise, the part d being used to brush a horse's coat or other surface. The brush may be cleaned in any ordinary manner, but if desired the frame which carried the cylinders may be extended as at a<3> to carry curry-combs for the same purpose, pivoted at g<2> and kept as required either in the dotted-line or full-line position, as shown, by springs g<5> and stops.
Patent GB-190514663-A (GB)
Title: Improvements for Central Battery Telephone Transmitters.
Inventor: SCALES JOSEPH HENRY
Filed: 1905-07-17
Granted: 1905-11-02
Abstract: 14,663. Scales, J. H. July 17. Telephones. - In order to prevent the overhearing of any private conversation while the receiver is off the hook, the transmitter mouthpiece may be temporarily closed by means of a soundproof box enclosure attached to the mouthpiece and provided with a lid or shutter. In the form shown in Fig. 1, the part 6 is attached to the mouthpiece 1 by an annular piece 2 and elastic washer 3, the lid 7 being pivoted at 8 so as to open into the position shown in dotted lines. The lid 7 is provided with a layer 10 of sound-proof material. During speaking, the part 6 acts as a resonator. In another form, the part 6 may be attached directly to the mouthpiece. The lid 7 may be replaced by a shutter sliding in vertical guides 16, the washer 11 forming a sound-proof joint when the shutter is over the mouthpiece.
Patent GB-190522198-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Contact Apparatus for Electrical Igniters.
Inventor: DAY CHARLES AUBREY
Filed: 1905-10-31
Granted: 1906-08-23
Abstract: 22,198. Day, C. A., [Fabrik Elektrischer Z³nder Ges.]. Oct. 31. Dynamos, driving; magneto-electric machines.- Relates to contact apparatus for electric ignition, particularly where a magneto is employed. The contact is made directly or indirectly by means of a centrifugal device in connexion with the magneto, so that contact is made only when the speed is sufficient. In the arrangement shown in Fig. 1, the contacts 14, 15 are held apart by a latch 11. The magneto is driven by the rack 2 through gearing 3, 4, 5, 6. On the wheel 6 is a centrifugal piece 8 restrained by a spring 10. When sufficient speed has been attained, the piece 8 lifts the latch 11, allowing the spring 14 to make rubbing contact with the spring 15. To break the circuit, the contacts are separated by a pin 18 carried by a lever 20, which is operated by a key 22, 21, the key also serving to operate a locking-bolt for the rack 2. In a modified form, Fig. 4, a disk 24 carries a centrifugal piece 26, adapted to make contact with a ring 28 in contact with terminal 29, the other terminal 30 being connected to the spindle 23.
Patent GB-190526503-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to Hoses and other Flexible Pipes.
Filed: 1905-12-19
Granted: 1906-10-18
Abstract: 26,503. Soc. Civile d'Etudes de l'IndÚchirable Grimson. Nov. 20, [date applied for under Patents Act, 1901]. Drawings to Specification. Hose is made from fabric to which sheet cork is cemented. Any fabric, but more particularly a fabric known as "untearable fabric " in which the weft threads are crossed at an angle of forty-five degrees, is coated on both sides either wholly or at the places such that when the fabric is wound only the inner and outer surfaces of the hose are coated with cork. Tbe cork is preferably cemented on with india-rubber solution and the hose compressed and vulcanized after formation. A thin strip of cork or coated fabric is then cemented over the joint to hide it and to prevent the fabric from tearing away.
Patent GB-190601620-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Manufacture of Waterproof Boots, Shoes and like Foot Coverings.
Inventor: TREBITSCH RUDOLF
Filed: 1906-01-22
Granted: 1906-02-08
Abstract: 1620. Trebitsch, R., Gallasch, V., and Krenn, H. Jan. 22. Insoles; soles; heels; uppers ; waterproofing.-In constructing a waterproof boot or shoe, waterproofed paper is used for the upper and insole, and waterproofed pasteboard or presspan for the sole, and also, if desired, the heel. The upper is partially or entirely lined with ordinary woven fabric cemented in with fish glue, which is also used for securing the insole in place. When the boot is finished, it is coated with leather varnish to which has been added a solution of casein with formaldehyde. Fig. 1 shows an overshoe made by the above process, the shape of the shoe being somewhat the same as that of the well-known snow-shoes. The upper consists of a front piece a with a central tongue b, and of two side pieces c, d connected together at the back. The piece c is secured to the tongue by stud fastenings f, f<1>, and the other piece d is then folded over the piece c and secured to it by similar fastenings g, g<1>.
Patent GB-190607014-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Railway Carriage Door and like Locks
Inventor: HAMILTON BELTON TATTNALL
Filed: 1906-03-23
Granted: 1907-03-21
Abstract: 7014. Hamilton, B. T., and Stroud, L. March 23. Door fastenings.-In a fastening for railwaycarriage and like doors, the frame A, Figs. 1 and 2, is provided with a flange B forming a race for balls B<1>, which are normally forced apart by a spring B<2>. The spindle C is concentric with the flange B and carries loose thereon a locking- member D, of which the upper part forms an arm B<3> and the lower part has a double cam-face D<1> to jam either of the balls against the flange B if the member D is rotated. A piece F mounted on a square part of the spindle has lugs F<1> entering the annular recess between the member D and the flange, and situated on opposite sides of the arm B<3>. An arm F<2> also extends from the piece F and lies over the arm B<3>. The latch E is controlled by a spring E<2>, and has lugs E', E<4> between which the arms B<3>, F<2> move. In operation, the latch is withdrawn by rotation of the spindle 0 and with it the arm F<2> and the lugs F<1>. One end of one lug first moves a ball inwards just before the opposite end of the other lug engages the arm B<3> to rotate the ball locking-mechanism. The action of the spring E<2> and lug E<4> on the projection F<3> of the arm F<2> returns the parts to the position shown in Fig. 1, when the handle is released. To lock the door, the parts are rotated. to bring the arm F' against the stop G, the upper end of the arm B<3> then engaging the curved part E<1> on the latch. The lug E<1> then exercises a radial push on the arm B<3>, and the ball locking- mechanism retains the parts in that position until the lugs F<1> are again operated, to release the locking-parts, by rotation of the handle. In the arrangement shown in Fig. 4, the balls alone are used to lock the latch. The arm F<2> is so shaped that the lug E<1> cannot make contact with it, but with the arm B<3>, which can only be rotated by means of the handle. The arm F<2> may, in another modification, be omitted ; the arm B<3> then engages both lugs E<1>, E<4> and the latch remains in whatever position it is placed until the handle is again operated. The locking-balls may be replaced by rollers, or by the locking-devices described in Specification No. 20,447, A.D. 1905, [Abridgment Class Mechanism &c.]. The ball or roller looking- mechanisms are described in Specifications No. 2111, A.D. 1905, and No. 814, A.D. 1906, [Abridgment Class Mechanism &c.].
Patent GB-190607419-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to Pneumatic Percussive Tools.
Inventor: BRACKENBURY HEREWARD IRENIUS
Filed: 1906-03-27
Granted: 1906-09-06
Abstract: 7419. Brackenbury, H. I., and Tierney, J. W. March 27. Percussive hand-tools.- In a pneumatic rammer, hammer, rock drill, or similar percussive machine or tool, of the type which has a differential piston and a differential valve, the stroke being greater than the length of the piston, the supply to the rear end of the piston is cut off by the motion of the piston itself independently of the valve, which causes the exhaust to open at a later period, and the supply to the front end of the piston is constant. Fluid constantly passes through a hole B<1> in the valve-box, which may or may not have a cover C, and when in position shown, drives out the valve, fluid at the same time passing down the passage E<1> to the front of the piston, which is returned. When the piston uncovers port E<4>, air passes into the passages E<5>, B<7> and on uncovering port E<3>, passes through a port B<6> not covered by the valve, so as to return the valve. Fluid then passes through ports E<5>, B<7>, B<5> to drive out the piston, until the port E' is covered, when the stroke is completed by expansion of the fluid and the kinetic energy of the piston until the pressure falls below that on the smaller area of the valve, the valve being then driven out. The remaining pressure is exhausted through a port farther to the rear of the cylinder than the port E<3> and behind the shoulder on the valve, the chamber A<5>, and into the atmosphere.
Patent GB-190610410-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Apparatus for Carrying and Handling Torpedoes on Submarines, and like Vessels.
Inventor: MORIARTY THOMAS JOSEPH
Filed: 1906-05-03
Granted: 1906-12-20
Abstract: 10,410. Moriarty, T. J. May 5, 1905, [date applied for under Patents Act, 1901]. Torpedoes are carried on submarine and like vessels in tubes 10 mounted on ball bearings in a revolving carrier consisting of rings 6, 7, 8 which are rotated around a shaft 5 by gearing on the ring 6, so that the tubes may be successively alined with the launching-tube 14. The carrier is enclosed in a magazine 1 normally open below to external water through a valve 17, and provided above with a sea-valve 86 and a compressed-air valve 89 for admitting and expelling the sea-water. The torpedoes are loaded into the tubes 10 through a door 42, and are retained therein by latches 36 which engage with lugs 35 on the torpedoes. Each tube is connected at its rear end by a stud 31, Fig. 10, to a curved block 30 arranged to slide in an eccentric guide-ring 29 so that, as the carrier rotates, the tubes will revolve in their bearings in the rings 6, 7, 8 to retain the guide-grooves 33 uppermost. When one of the tubes is rotated to the discharging position, a flanged ring 44, Fig. 4, is pressed by a screw 45 against the end of the tube, which is thereby moved forwards against the pressure of a spring 27 into contact with the inner end of the launching-tube 14 and is held by locking- pins against further rotation. In this position, one of the rods 41, carried by the rings 6, 7, is interposed between the rods 39, 40 carried by the tube, so that by pressing a lever 95 forwards the latch 36 is raised and the lug 35 released. Compressed air is then admitted through the valve 91 to move the torpedo b into the firing position, in which the latch engages with a second lug 34 on the torpedo. The cap 15 of the launching-tube is turned about its hinge 67, to uncover the end of the tube, by means of the hand-wheel 76, and intermediate gearing and linkages, the bevel-gears B, C are at the same time actuated, so as to rock the shaft 78 and withdraw the sector 50 from a slotted web 49 on the lever 48 of the firing-valve. The air for the expulsion of the torpedo enters the tube 10 through the inlet 54 and operates a valve 53, which, through the links 55, rocks the lever 95 and disengages the latch 36 from the lug 34. The torpedo is then free to be expelled. Water may be admitted behind the torpedo b, before its expulsion, through valves 64, which are raised by an external lever. A modified device for operating the latch 36 is described.
Patent GB-190611953-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Sight-feed Lubricators, Water-gauge Fittings and the like.
Inventor: HULBURD PERCY
Filed: 1906-05-22
Granted: 1907-02-14
Abstract: 11,953. Hulburd, P. May 22. Gauge -glass fittings - A gauge glass is mounted in such a way as to dispense with packing-rings. The glass b, Fig. 1, is mounted in a metal tube a, which has conical apertures e<1>, f<1> engaging conical plugs e, f, the upper one of which is screwed down. Fig. 2 shows a modification, in which the tube a is provided with collars h pressed against seats h<1> by glands or nuts i. In this case the shank j slides in a stuffing-box k.
Patent GB-190614838-A (GB)
Title: Improvement in Stoppering Bottles or other Vessels.
Inventor: MATTHIAS EDWARD ALEXANDER
Filed: 1906-06-30
Granted: 1907-02-28
Abstract: 14,838. Matthias, E. A. June 30. Stoppers, bayonet-joint and like.-The bottle neck is formed with two opposite projections 5 and a shoulder 6. The stopper 1, which is notched at 3 for the passage of the projections 5, is placed in position, so that a rubber ring 8 rests on the shoulder 6, and, on being rotated, is pressed down by the engagement of two inclines 2 with the projections 5. A thumb-piece 7 limits the rotation by striking the projections 5.