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Patent GB-190628585-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to the Purification of Sewage
Inventor: BOULT ALFRED JULIUS
Filed: 1906-12-14
Granted: 1907-09-19
Abstract: 28,585. Boult, A. J., [Bohen, E.]. Dec. 14. Sewage, treating ; precipitating, settling, and decanting; tanks; precipitants; bacteriological processes; aerating and oxidizing; filtering; filtering- media.-Sewage that has been preliminarily purified by decantation and the removal of floating bodies enters a tank 1, which is provided with horizontal baffles and has its bottom arranged in the form of hoppers At the lower end of each hopper is a double-closing device, for instance two superposed valves, which admits of the transfer of deposit to trucks or conveyers without stoppage of working. From the tank 1, the liquid passes into one of the tanks 2, which are similar to the tank 1, but are provided with vertical baffles and a longitudinal partition, as shown. From the conduit 3, the liquid is led into tanks 4, divided by longitudinal partitions and provided with sediment hoppers and with false bottoms, the latter formed by gratings of armoured concrete and supporting iron shavings, through which the liquid rises to a conduit 5. It is next passed through a forked pipe into a chamber 6 at a lower level, entering in such a manner that it receives an eddying motion and is mixed with lime and clay supplied in measured proportions. The liquid next flows through the tank 7 in two streams, then through tanks 8, 9, respectively similar to the tanks 1, 2. Next to these are tanks 10, having baffle-plates and arranged so that the liquid flows down a slight and gradually decreasing slope. It is stated that in tanks 10 the liquid is submitted to the action of both aerobic and anaerobic organisms. The liquid is oxidized by a fall on to coarse clinkers in the chamber 11, and is then filtered through the beds 12, 13. These consist of layers of clinkers, which rest on reinforced-concrete gratings and decrease in size upwardly, the top layer consisting of fine clinkers mixed with sand. After filtration, the water is oxidized by flowing down an inclined way provided with stones so as to form a natural cascade, and it is then passed into a river. Valves are provided to regulate the flow of liquid through the various tanks.
Patent GB-190629280-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Demonstration Boards or Devices for Teaching purposes.
Inventor: PLATT HARRY HOWELL
Filed: 1906-12-22
Granted: 1907-08-22
Abstract: 29,280. Platt, H. H. Dec. 22. Magic-lantern apparatus.-A tracing-blackboard A fitted with a ground-glass front B is converted into a magic-lantern screen by removing the hinged back C, for which purpose the hinge pins are detachable.
Patent GB-190700398-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Telescopes.
Inventor: HAHN ARWED
Filed: 1907-01-07
Granted: 1907-09-05
Abstract: 398. Hahn, A. Jan. 7. Telescopes; s u rveying-instruments; clinometers; c o mpasses, magnetic.- In a telescope for use in surveying, gun-sighting, and other operations, and of the kind comprising an adjustable reflector a, the mechanism for adjusting the erecting-prism and the reflector is so arranged that its parts are enclosed within, or are formed concentrically with the casing of the instrument. In the instrument shown in Figs. 1, 2, and 3, adjustment is effected by a milled head r, which Ly engaging with worm wheels h, k, l, i rotates the worms n, m, gearing respectively with worm-wheels on the sleeves o, p of the reflector a and the crecting-prism c. A sleeve w, which may be screwed up and down on the body of the instrument, serves to adjust the inclination of the reflector. This inclination is indicated by a pointer z moving vertically in a graduated helical groove in the sleeve. In a modification, Fig. 4, in which the erecting-prism c is placed between the eyepiece and the right-angle reflector d, the reflecting and erecting prisms are rotated by a single worm 6. Prisms arranged as shown in Fig. 7 may be employed to adapt the telescope for use with binocular vision. When the telescope is used in surveying-instruments, it may carry a magnetic needle 12, Fig. 8, to which is attached a glass plate 13 provided with a sighting- mark. The needle may be placed in and out of operation by means of a a button 23, which is connected to a plate 20 beneath the needle. In a modification, the glass plate is mounted at the centre of the needle, and the edge of the plate itself constitutes the sighting-mark.
Patent GB-190702263-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Methods of Producing Wire Glass.
Inventor: ARBOGAST JOHN IGNATIUS
Filed: 1907-01-29
Granted: 1907-07-04
Abstract: 2263. Arbogast, J. I. Jan. 29. Glass-furnaces; annealing-ovens.-In the manufacture of wired glass, sheets of glass g, Fig. 3, surrounded by metal frames 17 are placed in pans 10 and upon them are placed layers of wire netting and other sheets h of glass. The pans 10 are then moved on rollers 19, Fig. 5, slowly thruugh an oven or furnace 3, Figs. 1 and 5, the temperature of the various parts of which is regulated so that the glass is gradually heated until the two sheets fuse together and enclose the wire netting, after which the temperature gradually falls asthe pans 10 continue to move through the furnace. The pans are connected by pins 13 which engage holes in lugs 11 on the next pan. The foremost pan is drawn out of the furnace by a chain 22 and windlass 20. The empty pans may be moved back to the feeding end of the furnace by a conveyer rail 14 and trolly 15. The lower part of the furnace is filled with earth 5. The furnace has oppositely arranged heating-flues 6, to which gas is supplied as shown.
Patent GB-190711066-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Dynamos for Train Lighting.
Inventor: LEITNER HENRY
Filed: 1907-05-11
Granted: 1908-05-07
Abstract: 11,066. Leitner, H. May 11. Field magnets.- To rapidly build up the voltage of trainlighting dynamos of the type described in Specification No. 9655, A.D. 1905, the field magnet is provided with an auxiliary winding or windings excited from a separate source. TheFigure shows the m a i n field winding c, c<1> connected to auxiliary brushes e, e' and main brushes d, d<1>, the latter communicating with the battery g through an automatic switch The auxiliary winding f, f<1> is connected across the battery g, and, by suitably proportioning it, the output curve of the machine can be modified, as desired. According to the Provisional Specification, the auxiliary winding or windings may be included in the circuit of the auxiliary brushes.
Patent GB-190711120-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Device for Holding and Guiding a Razor or other Blade whilst the same is being Stropped.
Inventor: LOEB CHARLES NEVILLE
Filed: 1907-05-13
Granted: 1907-10-17
Abstract: 11,120. Loeb, C. N. May 13. Sharpening.-A device for holding and guiding a razor blade or the like while being stropped consists of the usual clip g, supported on equal arms h<1>, or on unequal arms h, hinged at k to a plate a which slides on a strop c. The plate has the ends b bent down so as to form a channel, the strop being secured in the channel by means of resilient bars e, which are hinged at d to one end of the plate and engage with bayonet-slots f at the other end. For stropping thin razor blades, the clip is provided with a handle.
Patent GB-190713286-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to Cycle Chain Wheels and Cranks.
Inventor: WILLIAMS EDWARD
Filed: 1907-06-08
Granted: 1908-04-30
Abstract: 13,286. Williams, E. June 8. Forging.-In forming, from sheet metal, the crank-attachment pieces c for cycle chain-wheels, the metal is caused to flow in the dishing operation to give a sharp edge to the dished portion. This is effected by means of dies a, b, the upper die having a projecting ring a<2> which forms a depression c<2> in the article and causes the metal to flow to the shape shown in Fig. 5. In a modification, the piece is dished in the ordinary manner to a greater depth than usual, and pressure is applied to the front of the boss to cause the necessary flow.
Patent GB-190719334-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Apparatus for Raising and Sustaining the Windows of Railway and other Carriages.
Inventor: LAYCOCK WILLIAM ERNEST
Filed: 1907-08-28
Granted: 1908-04-23
Abstract: 19,334. Laycock, W. E. Aug. 28. Window opening and closing apparatus.-Railwaycarriage windows are supported on spring-governed lazy-tongs arranged at each end of the window. A hand-lever h<3>, working in a slot h<4>, operates the lazy-tongs through links h<2>, h<1>, which are connected either to the bottom bar of the window or to a cross-bar j, Fig. 2, attached to the lazy-tongs. A ball or other like clutch h<5>, connecting the members h<2>, h<3>, serves to hold the window in any desired position, and prevent any accidental movement.
Patent GB-190726829-A (GB)
Title: Process for the Electrolytical Refining of Copper.
Inventor: AWALOW JOSEPH
Filed: 1907-12-04
Granted: 1909-01-04
Abstract: 26,829. Awalow, J. Dec. 4. Copper, refining.-In refining copper by means of a cuprous solution, the electrolyte is neutral or alkaline, such as a solution of copper sulphate or chloride in sodium chloride, ammonium chloride, or sulphate, ammonia, &c. The solution is treated so as to produce cuprous compounds by electrolysis, or by heating with copper shavings. The surface of the electrolyte is protected from oxidation by a layer of oil.
Patent GB-190728653-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Machines for Sewing the Mouths of Filled Sacks
Inventor: NORTH WILLIAM STANLEY
Filed: 1907-12-30
Granted: 1908-05-07
Abstract: 28,653. North, W. S. Dec. 30. Sack-seaming machines. - An apparatus is described for sewing the mouths of filled sacks, which are fed under the sewing-head on an endless conveyer driven from the same source as the sewing- mechanism. The sewing-mechanism A is of well known type, having an horizontal needle, and is mounted so that the goose-neck C overhangs the frame B. It is driven from an electric motor through a transmitter, from which belting runs to the wheel a. From a small cone on the transmitter, a belt b runs over an idle-pulley j to a pulley H on the end of the shaft Q, on which is splined a worm mounted in a bracket, which is supported on the bracket i of the conveyer h. In bosses of this bracket are journaled shafts k, which project beyond the framework and carry the conveyer, to one of which is fixed a worm-wheel to gear with the worm on the shaft Q. The conveyer, with the brackets and worm, may be raised or lowered to accommodate various sizes of sacks, by counterweighted sprocket-chains K passing over wheels L on a shaft m, a ratchet and pawl holding the wheel in any position, while a handle N is provided to raise the conveyer. The bracket i carries a support R underneath the conveyer to prevent sagging. Thread-cutters.-For severing the thread between the sacks, the work-support carries an anvil s, which co-operates with a cutter blade t on a sliding rod u. The blade t is operated from a cam T, mounted on the same shaft as a wheel 6, which is arranged to pull over a lever 7, thereby operating the cutter when the handle U is raised, the lever 7 normally being out of the cam path.
Patent GB-190803142-A (GB)
Title: A New or Improved Wheel for Road Carriages and the like
Inventor: STAPLE WILLIAM
Filed: 1908-02-12
Granted: 1909-01-07
Abstract: 3142. Staple, W., and Griffiths, G. E. Feb. 12. Spring wheels.-An inner wooden felloe B surrounded by a metal band F is connected to an outer ring E by radial helical springs H formed with heads seated in the outer rim and with screwed inner ends secured by wing-nuts. The two rims are connected also by chains, cords, or rods N arranged tangentially and oppositely in direction.
Patent GB-190803477-A (GB)
Title: Improved Mechanical Piano Player.
Inventor: SEFTON-JONES HERBERT
Filed: 1908-02-15
Granted: 1908-08-20
Abstract: 3477. Jones, H. Sefton-, [A. B. Chase Co.]. Feb. 15. Automatic instruments. - A grand piano having a keyboard and action that can be removed by sliding horizontally, is provided with a detachable mechanical player the principal parts of which are disposed in a shallow horizontal formation and secured below and to the rear of the keyboard. The fall-board 16 and strip 17 are both removable, and each key is provided with a threaded wire 20 and nut 21. To limit the upward movements of the keys 13, a rail 19 carrying adjustable stops 22 is provided in addition to the usual stops 24. Treadles 25 are hinged to rods 31 and also to rods 26 pivoted on vertical levers 27, these levers 27 being pivoted in brackets 28 secured to the pedal support 29. The levers 27 are also connected to the bellows b which are provided with springs 30. When it is desired to play the instrument manually, rods 31 are lifted and folded within the support. The note-operating pneumatics 34, 35 are arranged in two parallel rows and the pneumatics are connected to hinged levers 37 working in suitable bearings, the levers being connected to vertical wires 41 carrying feltcapped nuts 42 which engage nuts 21 carried by the keys at the level of the top surface of the keybed 40. A slide 43 is provided to guide each member 41, and a casing 45 contains the pneumatics which are connected to the note-operating pneumatics and the tracker board by suitable ducts. The tracker box t is pivoted at 56 so that it may be swung underneath the key-bed, flexible ducts being employed. In Fig. 7, which is a section on the line C, D, Fig. 1, of half of the attachment, the controller box 47, expression bellows 48, 49, and motor regulator 50 are shown located at the back of the key-bed 40. A lever on the tracker box operates a valve in the tempo box, and another lever is arranged to operate the damper rail, which is also adapted to be operated by a pedal when the instrument is being played manually. Expression levers carried by the tracker operate valves in the expression bellows 48, 49 through levers 77, 78 and 81, 82 respectively. The soft pedal is adapted to shift the piano action transversely, and the motor is located beneath the key-bed immediately in front of the pneumatics and is secured by brackets to the side frame q and an arm r. The attachment is secured to the piano by lugs 99 and tbumb-screws which screw into a cross-bar on the key-bed, and also by brackets i, 102. Hinged legs W are provided to support the player when detached from the piano, and a screen V hides the bellows and other parts from view.
Patent GB-190805340-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Pipe Clips
Filed: 1908-03-09
Granted: 1908-07-09
Abstract: 5340. Deutsch-Oesterreichische Mannesmann - r÷hren - Werke. March 11, 1907, [date applied for under Section 91 of Patents &c. Act, 1907]. Clip joints.-A clip for connecting branch pipes to gas, water, and like mains having a covering, such as asphalted jute &c., is provided with ridges of varying height ; the inner and higher ridges a cut through the covering and bear on the pipe, while the outer ridges b cut partly through the covering and compress it against the inner ridges when the clip is tightened by means of nuts. Asphalt may be run into the grooves between the ridges, or packing-strips d may be placed in the grooves.
Patent GB-190805697-A (GB)
Title: Improved Composition for Closing or Lining Preserve Tins.
Inventor: GUELPA GIUSEPPE
Filed: 1908-03-13
Granted: 1908-08-06
Abstract: 5697. Guelpa, G. March 13. Cements.-A composition for closing preserve tins contains essentially albumen (preferably bloodalbumen) and starchy' materials, for example wheat-flour, starch, oatmeal, or rice-flour, and also water, glycerine, and an antiseptic, such as thymol dissolved in alcohol, or boric acid. The composition is spread in thick layers on the edges of the lid and the lid is heated to at least 100‹ C. The product is stated to be strongly adherent and elastic, and not to be putrescible, influenced by heat or moisture, or attacked by acids, oils or fatty substances, warm water, or any other material that may be contained in preserved food. The composition may be hardened by adding a little formaldehyde or tanning substance.
Patent GB-190809897-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Clamps for use in Machines for Cutting Paper or the like.
Inventor: SEYBOLD CHARLES
Filed: 1908-05-06
Granted: 1908-07-23
Abstract: 9897. Seybold, C. May 6. Cutting-machines for paper &c. - A clamp employed for gripping piles of paper or the like, in paper-cutting or like machines, is made sufficiently flexible to eusure a uniform clamping - pressure Fig. 1 is a side elevation of the clamp, and Fig. 3 a cross-section on the line 3-3 of Fig. 1. The lower end 1 of a clamping bar has screwed to it a U-shaped metallic plate 2, the base 3 of which forms the contacting surface of the clamp. A series of blocks 7 of hard rubber are inserted between the clamping-bar and the U-shaped plate, and the sides 2 of the plate have slots 10 allowing it to bend slightly. The screws 5 work in vertical slots in the clamping-bar, and these slots, with the spaces 6, 8, allow the necessary play when the roller is compressed.
Patent GB-190811712-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Shaping Tool for Dental Purposes.
Filed: 1908-05-29
Granted: 1908-08-13
Abstract: 11,712. Siemens & Halske Akt.-Ges. March 10, [date applied for under Section 91 of Patents &c. Act, 1907]. Drawings to Specification. Files. - The working surfaces of a dental shaping-tool for silicate or other fillings are made of chemically or mechanically roughened tantalum, or of an alloy of tantalum. Specification No. 26,735, A.D. 1907, [Abridgment Class Medicine &c.], is referred to.
Patent GB-190812067-A (GB)
Title: Manufacture of Condensation Products of Gallocyanines with Ammonia.
Filed: 1908-06-03
Granted: 1908-12-03
Abstract: 12,067. Farbwerke vorm. L. Durand, Huguenin, & Co. June 3, 1907, [date [applied for under Section 91 of Patents &c. Act, 1907]. [Patent of Addition to No. 15,138, A.D. 1907.] Samples furnished under Section 2 of Patents &c. Act, 1907. Dyes, artificial.-Dye-stuffs which dye chromemordanted wool greenish-blue, are produced by condensing gallocyanines derived from gallamic acid with ammonia in presence of an aromatic nitrohydrocarbon. The products can be diazotized and combined with the usual azo-components. In an example the gallocyanine from nitrosodiethylaniline and gallamic acid is condensed with ammonia in presence of dinitrobenzene. Specifications Nos. 569, 6946, 15,345, and 18,526, A.D. 1890, Nos. 583 and 22,623, A.D. 1891, No. 24,802, A.D. 1893, No. 15,064, A.D. 1894, Nos. 3854 and 16,301, A.D. 1895, and No. 15,138, A.D. 1907, are referred to.
Patent GB-190813012-A (GB)
Title: Strike and Bead Joint Tool for Bricklayers Use
Inventor: JONES THOMAS DICKENS
Filed: 1908-06-18
Granted: 1909-01-14
Abstract: 13,012. Jones, T. D. June 18. Hand tools for applying cements and the like.-A tool for finishing off the mortar joints in brickwork &c., which may also be used for pointing, consists of a bar A about an inch wide and of suitable thickness fitted with a thin blade B secured by means of screws C with its edge projecting over the edge of the bar. In use, the edge of the bar A is moved along the joint and flattens the mortar, and the blade B removes the superfluous mortar which is pressed out. A second blade B is fixed at the other end of the bar.
Patent GB-190815104-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Meters for Fluids.
Inventor: ROBESON ANTHONY MAURICE
Filed: 1908-07-16
Granted: 1909-07-08
Abstract: 15,104. Robeson, A. M., and Frerichs, J. A. July 16. Anemometers.-In apparatus for measuring the speed, volume, &c. of flow of compressed air &c. through a pipe a, devices are fitted which compensate for differences of pressure and temperature in the stream and thus make the readings give weights directly. As shown, the appa. ratus is of the moving-bell type. A Pitot tube f facing the stream communicates with the inside, and a tube e facing at right. angles to the stream with the outside, of the bell c, which may have its sides c<1> tapering outwards so that the movements of the bell are directly proportional to the increments of pressure. The bell spindle c<2> in rising turns a forked lever g about its pivot g<1>, and by means of slides h and levers h<1>, h<2> oscillates the spindle i, which may give a simple indication of velocity or may be combined with integrating - apparatus to give a record of the volume &c. When a change of temperature occurs, a zinc or other rod n in the pipe a acts through levers n<1>, n<2> and a slotted arm m to alter the position of the slides h. A cylinder k, communicating with the space above the bell, carries on its spindle a slotted cross-head l engaging a pin l<1> attached to the slides h, so that variation of pressure is also compensated for. Integrating-apparatus comprising a rotating mushroom co-operating with a spindle dHvi�Jgthe<c>oun ting-gear is described ; this apparatus works on the roller and disk plan.
Patent GB-190816164-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Spring Switches for Electrically Setting Railway Points and Signals.
Filed: 1908-07-30
Granted: 1909-01-14
Abstract: 16,164. Siemens & Halske Akt-Ges. Sept. 2, 1907, [date applied for under Section 91 of Patents &c. Act, 1907]. Switches. - Relates to an electric switch for use in connexion with means for setting railway points and signals. The points and signals are shown in Fig. 1 as operated from an electric motor 5 through a worm and worm - wheel 4 and rack 1. Fixed to the worm-wheel is a controlling disk 6, in the periphery of which is a notch 7, 8 adapted to engage with rollers 21, 22 carried by switch levers 18, 19 pivoted at 16, 17. The levers work under the influence of a spring 20 so as to engage one or other of the sets of motor control contacts 23 ... 26 according as the rollers 21, 22 are in engagement with the periphery of the disk 6 or the notch 7, 8. At the end of the operating movement in either direction, one of the rollers passes into the notch, as shown, simultaneously opening the motor circuit and completing the connexions ready for the reverse direction of running. On the completion of the movement, the roller must enter the notch sufficiently far to enable the controlling-spring 20 to press it completely home in case the motor comes to a dead stop at the moment the switch lever interrupts the motor circuit. To ensure this, movable supports 14, 15 are provided, which are normally kept against the stops 12, 13 by the spring 11, thus serving as continuations of the interrupted edge of the disk to either of the rollers when entering the notch, so as to hold them until the disk has reached such a position that they can, by pushing the supports away, fall to the bottom of the notch clear of the inclines. On the commencement of the reverse movement, the roller is raised out of the notch by the action of the inclined ends, the pivoted supporting-pieces 14, 15 being pressed out of the way. If the spring 20 is made of suitable strength, it will oppose any tendency of the points to move under external influences when in either set position. Fig. 5 shows a modified construction, in which the levers engage a supporting-bar 104 adapted to slide freely in the bar 103 connected to the points or signals to be operated. When the bar 103 is moved over to either of its extreme positions, the bar 104 operates under the influence of the spring-pressed rollers in a manner similar to the supports 14, 15. Fig. 6 shows another modification, in which the two switch levers are replaced by a single spring-controlled three-armed lever 105 carrying a contact 106.