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Patent GB-190311723-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Clutches.
Inventor: SOAMES ALFRED
Filed: 1903-05-22
Granted: 1904-03-31
Abstract: 11,723. Soames, A., and Davies, W. Langdon-. May 22. Clutches; brakes.-In a clutch of the Weston type for connecting two shafts, a casing C is fixed to one shaft A and a wheel D is fixed to the other shaft B. Friction plates or rings E, F are arranged partially to overlap each other, the rings E being held to the casing C by pins G and the rings F to the wheel D by pins H. The rings are pressed into engagement by means of a sliding spring- controlled disc K. The lower part of the casing acts as an oil bath. Springs are arranged between one or both sets of rings to separate the same when the clutch is not in action. The springs which have to move a number of plates may be made stronger or more numerous than those which have to move fewer plates. The springs may consist of tongues cut out of the rings, or of split and bent rings I, as shown. In a modification, adapted for use as a brake, projections on the casing C and on the wheel D engage notches in the rings; when employed as a brake, the casing is fixed. One set of plates or rings may be arranged to surround the other set, loose rings being placed in the spaces between the rings so as to be partially overlapped by both sets. Springs are arranged between the plates where they are not overlapped by the rings.
Patent GB-190314096-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in the Manufacture of Rug, Door and other Handles.
Filed: 1903-06-24
Granted: 1904-05-26
Abstract: 14,096. Harper & Co., J., and Morgan, A. June 24. Bending.-Door, rug, and other handles are formed from sheet-metal blanks. The part b is dished, and holes or slots are pierced in the ends c. The ends may have longitndinal or circular grooves or corrugations e.
Patent GB-190317668-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Manually Operated and other Propelling and Steering Mechanism for Vessels.
Inventor: MUKDEN ALFRED
Filed: 1903-08-14
Granted: 1903-11-05
Abstract: 17,668. Mukden, A., and Gellner, G. Aug. 14. Propelling and steering by water jets; endlessband propellers.-Water entering the conduit 2 through the inclined channel 11 is forced backwards by the guided vanes 8 carried by the endless chain 4 operated by the power or hand driven sprocket-wheels 3. The vessel is driven astern by forcing water through the channels 15, and may be steered by turning the tillers 17 to operate the valves 16. The sprocket-wheels, when operated by hand, are connected by chain, bevel, and ratchet gearing to pivoted levers 22, which are oscillated like oars. For forward motion, the pawls 26, 34 drive the ratchet-wheels 28, 35, while reversal is effected by operating the bell crank 37 and cord 38 to release the pawls 26, 34, and allow the pawls 39, 40 to drive the ratchet-wheels 41, 42 integral with, but having teeth arranged oppositely to, those in the wheels 28, 35.
Patent GB-190319227-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Reading Stands and the like.
Inventor: DAVIS ALEXANDER
Filed: 1903-09-07
Granted: 1904-07-28
Abstract: 19,227. Davis, A. Sept. 7. Easels.- Relates to an appliance which may be used as an easel, table, book-holder, music stand, notice board, or the like, and consists of a flat rest or board, connected by hinged arms to a vertical rod d sliding in a pedestal. A board H, serving as the top of a table, is connected by two knuckle joints F, G, which may be tightened by thumb-screws, to a bar or arm C, connected at its other end by a thumbscrew D to a horizontal rod B secured to the vertical rod A. The rod A is supported in a hollow metal or other pedestal 0 and secured at any height by a thumb-screw. The board H may be turned into any position and secured by tightening the thumb-screws.
Patent GB-190323537-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Adjustable Wick Raisers
Inventor: WIRTH CHARLES EDWARD
Filed: 1903-10-30
Granted: 1903-12-17
Abstract: 23,537. Wirth, C. E. April 27, [date applied for under Patents Act, A.D. 1901]. Oil lamps and burners; wick-raising apparatus.- Relates to apparatus for raising wicks of burners in lamps. The wick, shown as for a circular or argand burner, is held by the pronged arms e<2>, attached to a band e. This band is connected through a bridge-piece and sleeve e<1> to a screw-rod h, suitably guided through holes in the fixed framework. This rod, acting as a rack, gears with a mutilated pinion g, on the shaft g<1> of which a knob 6 is fixed for turning the pinion ; a brake 5 acts on the shaft. It is clear that by turning the pinion one way, the rod h, and with it the wick, is raised until the blank part of the pinion comes into contact with the rod. By then turning the knob h', the height of the wick may be adjusted to whatever maximum is desired, the brake meanwhile holding the pinion still. The pinion may then be used for raising or lowering the wick without fear of the wick being too high or too low. As the wick wears, its maximum height may be adjusted by the rod h, and, if necessary, by altering the position of the prongs e<2> in the wick.
Patent GB-190323658-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Isochramatic Screens for use with Hand Cameras and the like.
Inventor: BUTCHER WILLIAM FREDERIC
Filed: 1903-10-31
Granted: 1904-09-08
Abstract: 23,658. Butcher, W. F., and Butcher, F. E. Oct. 31. Cameras lens fittings. -A series of isochromatic screens are adapted to the camera front so as to be conveniently adjusted in front of the lens aperture. The screens 2, Fig. 1, are arranged on the periphery of a sector plate 1 which is mounted on a central pivot 3, Fig. 2, and rotated by a milled head 6. A similar diaphragm 11 may also be mounted behind the screens and carry a series of magnifiers 12 for focussing at short distances. Spring arms 8, 16 engage notches 7, 15 on the edges of the diaphragms when the screen or magnifier indi. cated respectively by the pointers 9, 13 are in register with the lens aperture. Instead of having a revolving diaphragm; a sliding diaphragm may be arranged on the front of the camera and fitted with the screens adapted to register with the lens aperture.
Patent GB-190407070-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to Newspapers, Periodicals, and the like.
Inventor: HUTCHINSON SHELLEY BYRON
Filed: 1904-03-23
Granted: 1904-04-28
Abstract: 7070. Hutchinson, S. B. March 23. Newspapers; coupons. -The corners of newspapers are perforated across a diagonal line A so that the triangular flaps B fold over upon the outside of the paper. These flaps serve as coupons to contain printed matter printed preferably on the outer faces C, and they may be printed in various colours. They are easily detached from the paper, and serve as a good advertising-medium.
Patent GB-190409677-A (GB)
Title: Improved Means for Attaching Hose Supporters to Corsets
Inventor: STREATFIELD FREDERICK CHARLES
Filed: 1904-04-27
Granted: 1904-11-03
Abstract: 9677. Streatfield, F. C. W. April 27. Stocking suspenders.- Elastic webbing &c. e, Fig. 1, from the stockings is passed through a metal loop a which lies flat against the front of a corset and across both meeting edges c thereof. Integral with the loop is a T-shaped part b, the cross-bar of which lies inside the corset. As thus arranged, the device assists in locking the corset edges together when they are held by the fastening d.
Patent GB-190418115-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Apparatus for Handling Lumber and other Material.
Inventor: DUPEE GEORGE EDWIN
Filed: 1904-08-22
Granted: 1905-02-09
Abstract: 18,115. Dupee, G. E. Aug. 22. Loading and unloading; conveyers; elevators winches.-Relates to conveyer and elevator apparatus for handling lumber or the like, and consists of a sectional roller-way, which can be readily erected, and is fitted with a feeding-in device and with elevators adapted to pick out and pile lumber of certain sizes, and to be started and stopped by the lumber itself. Fig. 1 shows the application of the apparatus to the unloading of a ship. The roller-way consists of sections 6 connected by dovetail joints, and it is built up in the hold section by section, and is supported by brackets secured to the stanchions 4. Each section is fitted with a number of rollers 2 driven one from the other by chain gearing 93, one of them being driven by a transverse power shaft. On reaching the piling point, the lumber is stopped by an adjustable gauge which allows all below a certain thickness to pass, and is moved sideways by means of screwribbed rollers 3 to an elevator which raises it to the pile. Fig 3 shows one of the supporting-brackets for the roller-way in the hold. It consists of four blocks 7 clamped together by bolts and carrying rods or bars 8 on which the roller-way rests. The bars 8 are braced below, or, as shown, above, by means of adjustable rods 15 connected to the stanchion 4 by a clamp, Fig. 4, consisting of four eye-bolts fitting one into the other as shown. Figs. 6 and 7 show the piling-elevator. A frame, supported in an inclined position, and consisting of two tubes 33 braced together, rests at its lower end on a shaft 40 driven from one of the rollers and carrying the lower sprocket-wheels 38. The elevator chains are fitted with hooks 37 and their lower rims are guided in the tubes 33, which are slotted to allow the passage of the hooks 37. A timber, having been arrested by one of the stops 31, is moved sideways by the screw-ribbed rollers 30 until it engages a lever 32, and thus closes the clutch 57 and starts the elevator. On the timber reaching the required height, it engages a second lever 70 and adjustable stop 71, so releasing the catch which till then had held the clutch closed. The feeding-in device employed where the lumber is taken from a pile instead of from a ship comprises endless conveyer chains 100, Fig. 17, led over guide.rollers 105, 106, and over a driving- sprocket on a longitudinal shaft 104 driven through bevel gearing from the transverse power shaft. The rollers 106 are mounted in arms swinging on the shaft 104, and the rollers 105 in a frame which can be attached to either side of the roller-way. A winch 76, Fig. 7, useful in connection with the work, is driven from one of the rollers through a clutch.
Patent GB-190419829-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Elastic-fluid Turbines.
Inventor: WILKINSON JAMES
Filed: 1904-09-14
Granted: 1905-01-12
Abstract: 19,829. Wilkinson, J. Sept. 22, A.D. 1903, [date applied for under Patents Act, A.D. 1901]. Steam &c. turbines.-A method of governing the stage pressures in turbines divided into stages in each of which a wheel revolves is shown in Fig. 1. Within the partition 1 are valves 4 which slide in the cylinders 5 so that, when they are in the inner position, the passage through the partition is closed, and vice versÔ. These valves are fluidactuated. One end of each cylinder 5 is connected to the cylindrical chamber 10, the other end being open to the stage fluid. Within the chamber 10 revolves a differential piston 16. Fluid from the boiler, initial stage, or other source of high pressure is admitted to the part 11, the stage fluid being admitted to the opposite end of the chamber by the pipe 14. The space 12 is open to the atmosphere. The oblique packing causes an intermittent or pulsatory flow to the adjoining pipe 22, thus preventing wire-drawing. The arrangement as applied to a reversing turbine is shown in Figs. 4 and 5. The wheel 2 has two sets of vanes as shown in Fig. 7, and the partition has two valves separated by a partition. The ends of the valve chambers communicate with the cylinder 35 containing the piston valve 34. The alternate chambers of this cylinder are supplied with high-pressure fluid, the others being in communication with the differential piston chamber. By moving the piston valve 34, the inner or outer valves in the partition may be held closed, when the others are controlled as before by the differential piston.
Patent GB-190423576-A (GB)
Title: Process for Restoring to White Flour Certain Properties and Materials or Ingredients Lost in Milling for use in the Manufacture of Bread Cake Pastry Pudding and other Articles of Food in which Flour is or may be used.
Inventor: ROBERTS HERBERT
Filed: 1904-11-01
Granted: 1905-08-31
Abstract: 23,576. Roberts, H. Nov. 1. Food preparations.-Phosphates of potassium, magnesium, sodium, and calcium, together with soluble proteids, such as milk proteids, are added to flour for use in making bread, cakes, pastry, puddings, &c. to restore the ingredients lost in the milling process owing to the separation of the bran.
Patent GB-190501928-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in, and relating to, Apparatus for Treating Ores
Inventor: HENDRYX WILBUR ALSON
Filed: 1905-01-31
Granted: 1906-03-31
Abstract: 1928. Hendryx; W.A. Jan. 31. Cells and receptacles; electrodes; electrolytes, heating, agitating, and regenerating.-An apparatus for extracting metals from ore pulp solutions consists of a tank 1, in the conical bottom of which is an outlet controlled by a valve 9<A>. The valve spindle 12 is surrounded by a tubular shaft, which works in ball bearings 18<A>, and carries screw propellers 28<A> which rotate within a casing 30, having internal ribs to prevent swirling of the solution by the propellers. The bottom of the shaft is supported by a grid, and the contents of the tank thus have access to the screw propellers, by which the ore-pulp solution is raised through the casing 30, discharged over a distributing-plate, and thus brought into contact with the atmosphere. The apertures in the valve - seat cage, giving access to the casing, are controlled by adjustable cages which may be clamped in position after adjustment. The distributing-plate is provided with four trap-doors which permit the insertion aud removal of four groups of electrodes, which are supported in the direction of the flow of the solution by a staging 44. Each group of electrodes consists of a framing supporting anodes, preferably of carbon, between which are arranged cathodes, preferably of lead. The metals are extracted, and the electrolyte regenerated by the current. The solution in the tank is heated by coiled steam-pipes 54 secured by straps underneath the staging. The solution may sometimes be passed downward through the propeller casing, and the distributing- plate dispensed with, the solutions absorbing their oxygen as they come to the surface to enter the propeller casing. Specification No. 1916, A.D. 1905, is referred to.
Patent GB-190503874-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and applicable to Machines for the Manufacture of Lace and Braided or Plaited Fabrics
Inventor: BIRKIN THOMAS ISAAC
Filed: 1905-02-24
Granted: 1905-10-05
Abstract: 3874. Birkin, T. I., Birkin, R. L., and Birkin, C. W., [MalhÞre, E., MalhÞre, L., and MalhÞre, A.]. Feb. 24. Braiding-machines.-Relates to improvements in the means for stopping, starting, and directing the thread-carrying spindles described in Specification No. 11,411, A.D. 1894. The spindles 1 are driven by means of notched driving-disks 7 and gear-wheels 9 ; they pass round in grooves between the inner and outer guide-plates and fixed disks. 3 on axles 4, and can be stopped opposite the space between the disks by the selective operation of adjacent jacquard-controlled spindles. Each spindle 11 carries a piece 12, of which the boss 13, Figs. 3 and 4, or an attached piece, provides an abutment for bobbin spindles 1. The latter are directed to the stopping-places by a U-sectioned piece 17 which either slides against a spring 18 over a plate 16 swivelling on the piece 12 or is pivoted directly to the latter. In the former arrangement, should the machine be reversed, the bobbin spindles are able to force back the slides 17 and re-enter their stopping-places. The parts are operated through the medium of a cam-truck 20 on an axle 19 attached to the plate 16 and passing through a slot 21 in the piece 12. The spindle 11 can be drawn down by the jacquard so as to bring the truck 20 in contact with either of two counter cams 22, 23 on the collars 8 of the two adjacent driving-disks, whereupon the bobbin spindle in the slide 17 is directed to the right or left. In the inoperative position, the plain surfaces 24, 25 of the collars 8 touch the trucks 20 and prevent oscillation.
Patent GB-190504649-A (GB)
Title: A Combined Tie Retainer and Collar Stud.
Inventor: MERTEN LUDWIG
Filed: 1905-03-06
Granted: 1905-06-22
Abstract: 4649. Merten, L. March 6. Necktie retainers; studs.-A combined stud and necktie retainer consists of a squared pin e formed at one end with a spiral f to engage the tie and at the other with a knob i which engages spring jaws g mounted on a back-plate h in the hollow base of a collar stud, the shank of which forms a square socket for the pin e.
Patent GB-190506507-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Sewing Machines.
Inventor: JONES WILLIAM
Filed: 1905-03-28
Granted: 1905-10-19
Abstract: 6507. Jones, W., and Hall, J. March 28. Lock-stitch hook sewing-machines. - Relates to improvements in a rotary hook a. The hook shaft is rotated at a higher speed than the needle shaft by means of a non-slipping band such as is described in Specification No. 19,936, A.D. 1904, [Abridgment Class Mechanism &c.]. The bobbin carrier is mounted in a race h in the hook, and is kept from rotating by a retainer which engages a projection p on the carrier. To facilitate the passage of the thread loop past the projection p, a finger r, mounted on a shaft parallel to the hook shaft, is actuated by an eccentric-rod directly from the needle-driving shaft, once for each stitch, to rotate the bobbin case away from the retainer. To prevent the fouling of the thread loop by the hook on its second rotation and to prevent the loop from twisting, a guide n is attached to the bobbin case and supports the thread loop after it is cast off.
Patent GB-190506849-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Printing Machines.
Inventor: LOCK WILLIAM HENRY
Filed: 1905-03-31
Granted: 1906-03-29
Abstract: 6849. Lock, W. H., and North, T. M. March 31. Printing in several colours.-Rotary or cylinder non-perfecting printing-machines are arranged one behind the other so that they may operate successively and automatically to print on both sides of the sheets to perfect them in black or colour, and some of the machines may be modified so as to be adjustable for printing the sheets on one side only in colours. In the example shown in Fig. 1, machine No. I is adapted to print either on the front or on the back of the sheet. When printing on the front, the impression cylinder 7 is turned in the opposite direction to the arrow, as in machines No. II &c. The feeding-cylinder 4 is swung away from the cylinder 7, as is also the cylinder 9 and tapes 10, and the feed-board 6 is brought close up to the cylinder, so that the sheets pass over the top of the cylinder, right round it, and on to the tapes 10<a>, to be fed to the other machines and printed on the same side. When the sheets are to be printed on the reverse side, they are passed over the cylinder 4, under the impression cylinder 7, which then revolves as shown by the arrow, then over the gripper cylinder 9, and along the tapes 10.
Patent GB-190512378-A (GB)
Title: Carburetter for Explosion Engines.
Inventor: JOHNSTON JOHN HOWARD
Filed: 1905-06-14
Granted: 1905-10-19
Abstract: 12,378. Johnston, J. H. July 1, 1904, [date applied for under Patents Act, 1901]. Gas or explosivevapour engines, carburetting in. An air valve d of conical bore surrounds the nozzle a and is adjusted vertically by hand. It slides in a sleeve e, has a number of radial holes m normal to the axis and of rectangular section which are all below the sleeve e in their lowest position, and is closed at the top except for a small hole i.
Patent GB-190517302-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Telephone or like Transmitters.
Filed: 1905-08-26
Granted: 1905-11-16
Abstract: 17,302. Cutmore, H. A., and Tolaupad Syndicate. Aug. 26. Speaking-tubes.-A device having an annular diverging chamber with gauze and perforations is fitted on to a telephone or speaking-tube mouthpiece to enable conversation to be carried on in a whisper. The device is fitted on by the tubular piece I and rubber ring K. A gauze ring C carries a conical piece D, to which the outside of the chamber A is roughly parallel. Pieces E, F of gauze are inserted and rows of perforations G, H made. The perforations G, H need not be circular holes, but may be formed by serrating the edge. of the mouthpiece.
Patent GB-190518801-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Variable Speed Gearing for Velocipedes or the like.
Filed: 1905-09-18
Granted: 1906-09-18
Abstract: 18,801. Humber, Ltd., and Easom, F. Sept. 18. Variable - speed gearing. - In three - speed hub gearing for velocipedes &c. of the type in which two sets of planet pinions B, B<1>, carried by the driving-element B<*> and the hub, respectively, engage a freely-mounted sliding sun pinion adapted to be clutched to the axle, the sun pinion is replaced by two pinions A, A<1>, operated by a crosspin D<1> and normally pressed together by springs E, E'. Thus, for the direct drive, the parts are in the position shown in Fig. 4 when the pinions, free to rotate, are clutched together by end teeth a'. For the high speed, the pinion A is moved to the right to engage fixed clutch teeth c, so that the hub is driven through the planet pinions B and the teeth H<1>. When the cross-pin is returned to normal position and the sun pinion A<1> pushed back, the sun pinion A is released by the spring E, while the other sun pinion is brought into engagement with the fixed clutch teeth c<1>. The drive is then at low speed through the internally-toothed ring B' and the pinions B'. A collar upon the axle limits the extent to which the sun pinions are moved by their respective springs.
Patent GB-190521349-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Stoppering Bottles, Jars and other Vessels.
Inventor: MARGETTS FREDERICK WILLIAM
Filed: 1905-10-20
Granted: 1906-07-05
Abstract: 21,349. Margetts, F. W. Oct. 20. Stoppers, screw.-A stopper B of the form described in Specification No. 27,251, A.D. 1904, is formed with a circumferential ridge b, which forms a corresponding depression in the washer C, the fluting described in the above Specification being absent. The stopper B can thus be rotated independently of the washer C, which is pressed down upon its seating. In a modification, the stopper B is formed with a depending shoulder b<1>, the washer C being recessed to accommodate it.
Patent GB-190523705-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Shop Fronts or the like.
Inventor: GREGORY JOSEPH FRANK
Filed: 1905-11-17
Granted: 1906-02-22
Abstract: 23,705. Gregory, J. F. Nov. 17. Shop fronts.-Sloping show cases or receptacles for goods a, Fig. 1, are situated slightly behind the level of the window b, screens f, h are placed in the rear of the cases, and the whole is covered by a top g.
Patent GB-190607677-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to Seal-attachments for use in Securing the Ends of Tie-strings or the like of Parcels and other Packings or Objects.
Inventor: HERSCHELL JOSEPH MATHIAS
Filed: 1906-03-30
Granted: 1906-06-28
Abstract: 7677. Herschell, J. M., [Alessi, L.]. March 30. Fastenings, seal. Relates to a sealing-device for the strings of parcels &c. The ends of the string are secured to the shank b of the stud portion B, over which is then passed the cover portion A containing the spring catch device C adapted to engage the head c of the stud and secure it against removal.