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Patent GB-191320435-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Refrigerating Apparatus.
Inventor: PIERPOINT MARY ALICE
IPC: F25B27/00
Filed: 1913-09-10
Granted: 1915-02-18
Abstract: 20,435. Pierpont, M. A. Sept. 10. Refrigerating, coldair machines for.-A portable hand - driven cold-air refrigerating- machine comprises a compression cylinder a. a water-cooled coil l through which the compressed air passes to a receiver d, an expansion cylinder b opposite the cylinder a, and a coil p leading from the expansion cylinder and surrounding a freezing- vessel or refrigerator q. Atmospheric air is drawn in by the compressor through a valve j until the expanded air reaches a certain pressure, after which the air returns from the coil p past a loaded valve s to the compressor. The valve j is then closed automatically, and the air works in a closed cycle. The parts are arranged in a casing provided with a lifting- handle w, and driving-gear f, g is arranged as shown.
Patent GB-191320794-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Expanding Pulleys.
Inventor: DECOUX ROBERT
IPC: F16H55/56
Filed: 1913-09-15
Granted: 1914-03-05
Abstract: 20,794. Decoux, R. Sept. 16, 1912, [Convention date]. Expanding pulleys.- V-pulleys, in w h i c h either or both flanges slide on the shaft, are provided with loose conical faces D<1>, D<2> for taking the belt when idle. By means of a catch or like device, the faces are caused to slide with the corresponding driving-flange. Reference has been directed by the Comptroller to Specifications 22,714/11 and 12,473/12.
Patent GB-191322984-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to Metal Fittings or Furniture for Window Blinds.
Inventor: CLARKE ADAM
IPC: E06B9/44
Filed: 1913-10-11
Granted: 1914-02-19
Abstract: 22,984. Clarke, A. Oct. 11. Roller - blinds, pulleys for.-The cord pulley of a window blind comprises a tubular part g with caps h fitted over the ends between the member g and the flanges d, c, as shown. The blind roller a is fitted into the socket portion b, the parts being secured by a pin e riveted over on the washer f.
Patent GB-191324565-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Electric Heating Element.
Inventor: FOSTER SAMUEL EDWARD
IPC: H05B3/16
Filed: 1913-10-29
Granted: 1914-07-23
Abstract: 24,565. Foster, S. E. Oct. 29. Resistances for heating. A wire or strip is wound over a number of bobbins, one or more of which can move laterally or transversely to the plane containing them, so as to maintain the wire taut when hot. In the form shown in Fig. 2, the bobbins are mounted on iron rods c supported in inclined slots f, y in side-plates d connected by a back-plate h. The outer rods may be fixed by nuts e, the middle rod being left free to move under gravity; or, the heater may be mounted horizontally, with the middle rod fixed and the outer ones free. The movement of the bobbins may be assisted by weights. Figs. 3 and 4 show alternative windings. The bobbins may consist of threaded porcelain tubes, of which one or more may be mounted on each rod c. The wire may be coiled except for the parts in contact with the bobbins. In modifications, the bobbins may be of square, triangular, oval, or other section, and they may be solid instead of tubular. The slots f, g may be replaced by grooves, and may embrace the ends of the bobbins themselves instead of the rods c.
Patent GB-191324569-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Porous Containers or Diaphragms for Voltaic Cells.
Inventor: LUCAS JOHN GEORGE
IPC: H01M2/16
Filed: 1913-10-29
Granted: 1914-08-13
Abstract: 24,569. Lucas, J. G. Oct. 29. Electrodes.-A basket-work container, made of vegetable fibre such as Japanese rush, is used to hold a granular or powdered depolarizer. The sides may consist of horizontal coils with vertical lacing, and the bottom may be of the same material or may be non-porous. The Provisional Specification refers to the application to LeclanchÚ cells, and the use of fibres woven or plaited into sheet form as a porous diaphragm.
Patent GB-191327430-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Tool Carriers for Turning Lathes.
Inventor: PETZ HENRIK
IPC: B23B29/30
Filed: 1913-11-28
Granted: 1915-06-10
Abstract: 27,430. Petz, H. Dec. 26, 1912, [Convention date]. Tool-holders; turrets.-Turret tool-holders for use in lathes have a rectangular shank 5, Fig. 1, containing a spindle 4 carrying the turret head. A screwed hand-wheel clamps the turret in indexed position and, when rotated to unclamp, allows a spring 10 to separate the head from the end of the sleeve sufficiently to disengage the pawl 15 or the bolt 16, Fig. 4, with the exception of a bevelled end which snaps back as the head rotates due to contact of the hand-wheel with the nut 6. The pawl may be on the head and the notches in the sleeve.
Patent GB-191400702-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Vaporizer for Internal Combustion Engines.
Inventor: BINKS CHARLES
Filed: 1914-01-10
Granted: 1914-11-05
Abstract: 702. Sinks, C. Jan. 10. Vaporizers, external.-Apparatus for vaporizing a mixture of fuel and air comprises a round flat box, inside which is a spiral passage formed by walls 4 heated on both sides by an exhaust jacket 3, 5. The spaces 3, 5 communicate with each other through holes 11 in the peripheral wall of the silencer. The fuel mixture is fed in at 1 at the periphery and passes out from the centre of the coil.
Patent GB-191401790-A (GB)
Title: Apparatus for use when Paving Roads and the like.
Inventor: COWELL WILLIAM BLACKWELL
IPC: E01C23/14
Filed: 1914-01-22
Granted: 1915-04-22
Abstract: 1790. Cowell, W. B. Jan. 22. Surface-heating apparatus.-Relates to apparatus for heating road surfaces, of the kind in which a box open at the bottom is placed upon the roadway and heated internally by oil burners or a blast of hot air, and consists in employing a box having low vertical sides and a domed top, a diaphragm capable of absorbing heat being provided at the junction of the top and sides. In the form shown, a diaphragm, formed of perforated tiles e of metal or refractory material such as earthenware mounted on #-iron supports, is arranged at the junction of the sides r and pyramidal top f of the rectangular box. The top and sides may be lagged with asbestos, and hot air may be admitted through the top of the box by means of a pipe k closed at the bottom and provided with lateral perforations l. As an alternative or additional heating-means, blowlamps o mounted on side brackets o<1> may be arranged to deliver flame through openings p, air under pressure being supplied through the pipe k. The heater may be lifted by handles detachably mounted on bars s.
Patent GB-191402266-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to Brake Mechanism for Railway and like Vehicles.
Inventor: GRESHAM HARRY EDWARD
IPC: B61H13/26
Filed: 1914-01-28
Granted: 1914-10-15
Abstract: 2266. Gresham, H. E. Jan. 28. [Addition to 15,033/13.] Force-transmitting mechanism.-The wedge connected to the brake piston-rod as described in the parent case is replaced by a bridge-piece c, which engages between cams f, Fig. 1, suspended by links g from the cylinder and connected by pins h to the overlapping pull-rods a, b ; cr the links g may be shaped to serve as cams as shown in Fig. 3.
Patent GB-191402930-A (GB)
Title: Device for Extinguishing the Flame in Fire-damp or Coal Dust Explosions.
IPC: A62C8/00
Filed: 1914-02-04
Abstract: 2930. Verwaltung der Zeche Maximilian. Feb. 4, 1913, [Convention date]. Void [Published under Sect. 91 of the Act]. Sprinkling apparatus operated by explosions.- In explosion-arresting devices for mines, of the type in which liquid is discharged from tanks or troughs by the action of the explosion, the tanks &c. are mounted on the woodwork of the gallery close below the roof and transversely to the direction of the gallery. In the construction shown in Fig. 2, the trough a is mounted in a frame b provided with wheels c, which are adapted to run on rails d provided with downwardly or upwardly bent parts e, which cause the tilting of the carriage and trough when these are moved along the rails by an explosion. In a modification, the trough is mounted on trunnions, which may be flattened to rest on flat supports, so that the trough is prevented from tilting under normal conditions. For the latter purpose, the troughs a may be secured by thin ropes adapted to be broken by the shock of an explosion.
Patent GB-191403082-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Detachable Wheels.
IPC: B60B3/16
Filed: 1914-02-05
Granted: 1914-05-07
Abstract: 3082. Pugh, J. V., Blair, W., and Budge-Whitworth, Ltd. Feb. 5. Detaching from and attaching to permanent hubs. - In detachable wheels of the kind which are secured by means of transverse bolts, the bolts, nuts, or like screw-threaded devices are retained in connexion with their respective hub parts by means of collars. As shown in Fig. 2, the bolt c is secured with rotational and axial freedom in the detachable hub a by a collar f sprung into a groove c, and screws into a boss g, which may take the driving-strains, on the permanent hub. The nuts h, Fig. 3, may have rotational and axial freedom in the detachable hub, the co-operating bolt c being rigidly fixed to the permanent hub. The bolts or nuts may be rotatable and axially fixed in the detachable hub, and the coacting nuts or bolts axially movable but not rotatable in the permanent hub, as in Fig. 4, which shows the nut h<1> secured to the detachable hub rotatably, and the bolt c<2> axially movable . against the spring n but keyed against rotation. The bolts serving to bind the hub plates together are arranged between the attaching bolts and are provided with projecting nuts adapted to enter holes in the permanent hub to form a driving-means.
Patent GB-191404004-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in connection with Fire Resisting Shutters Doors and the like.
Inventor: GIBSON ARTHUR LLOYD
IPC: A62C2/16
Filed: 1914-02-16
Granted: 1914-10-01
Abstract: 4004. Gibson, A. L., [Kinnear Manufacturing Co.]. Feb. 16. Fire-proof shutters.- Relates to means for controlling and operating rolling fire shutters, and more particularly to locking-means for limiti n g the unwinding movement of the winding barrel or drum, so that the shutter cannot sag down further and bulge out the guidegrooves after it has closed, should the temper of the counterbalancing-spring be destroyed by fire. When a fusible link 34, Fig. 2, in a chain 33 is melted, a lever 32 releases a second lever 31 from engagement with one of a number of projections 22<b> on a wheel 22, Figs. 2 and 3, which is loosely mounted on the shaft 21 and is provided with a pawl 25 engaging a ratchet-wheel 24 fast on the shaft 21. A spring fixed to the shaft 21 then operates the shutter barrel 10 through the shaft 21, ratchetwheel 24, pawl 25, wheel 22, and a wheel 20, which is keyed to a tubular shaft or extension 18 of the barrel 10. The connexion between the wheels 22, 20 consists of a lug 30<a>, which moves in a radial slot 22<a> in the wheel 22 and a spiral groove 20b in the wheel 20, the wheel 22 turning the wheel 20 when the lug 30<a> reaches the outer end of the spiral groove 20b. When the shutter is fully lowered, the barrel 10 is locked by means of a lug 29<a>, which moves in a radial slot 19<a> in a wheel 19 loose on the tubular shaft 18 and adjustably fixed to the bracket 12<a> by a pin 23, the lug 29<a> locking the wheel 20 to the fixed wheel 19 on reaching the inner end of a second spiral groove 20<a> in the wheel 20.
Patent GB-191404240-A (GB)
Title: Combined Milk-cooler and Strainer.
Inventor: CHRISTENSEN CARL
IPC: F25D31/00
Filed: 1914-02-18
Granted: 1915-01-07
Abstract: 4240. Christensen, C. June 7, 1913, [Convention date]. Cooling milk.-An appliance for straining and cooling milk as it is poured into an ordinary portable vessel d comprises an inverted conical water-cooled casing a corrugated internally, a cotton-wool strainer m at the bottom of a removable part k, and a detachable top h having a domed bottom i to distribute the milk through openings on to the corrugated surface. The cotton-wool rests on a gauze disk l and is held down by a heavy plate n provided with perforations o for the milk and with finger-holes p. The top of the part k is provided with a bead q to prevent splashing, and the casing a is formed with a flanged collar b resting on the top of the milk vessel d and provided with apertures c for viewing the contents of the vessels d,
Patent GB-191405737-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Explosives.
Inventor: STOLTZENBERG HUGO
IPC: C06B23/00
Filed: 1914-03-06
Granted: 1915-06-03
Abstract: 5737. Stoltzenberg, H. March 6. Nitrates.-Nitrocellulose explosives are stabilized by means of betaine or its salts or compounds.
Patent GB-191406582-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Cinematographic Apparatus.
Inventor: MCGOWAN ROBERT
IPC: G03B21/32
Filed: 1914-03-16
Granted: 1915-03-11
Abstract: 6582. McGowan, R. March 16. Kinematograph apparatus.-Relates to a spoolholder for a spool from which the film is unwound from the inner periphery. The spool is held by curved clamps 8 engaging the outer periphery only of the spool. The clamps are adjustably mounted on screw threaded spindles carried by a disk 5 and geared to rotate together. The film 4 is passed through a separator 10 and over the cylindrical end 9 of the hub carrying the disk 5. The disk and hub are rotated by the shaft 6 which is driven from the kinematograph apparatus.
Patent GB-191407068-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Auxiliary Air Admission Valves for Internal Combustion Engines.
Inventor: SAVOYE PAUL ALEXANDRE
IPC: F02D9/00
Filed: 1914-03-20
Granted: 1915-04-22
Abstract: 7068. Savoye, P. March 20. [Addition to 6856/14.] Check lift valves; loose-ball valves.-Relates to the auxiliary air-admission device described in the parent Specification, comprising a spring- loaded ball valve working in conjunction with two conical seats, and consists in making these seats of comparatively small depth and in providing adjustable air-inlet apertures below the lower seat. The ball valve E coacts with either the lower seat c or with the upper seat c in an adjustable screwed sleeve D, which is provided also with an alternative upper seat b for the ball. Air may be admitted below the ball valve through passages p controlled by an adjustable ported ring r. The ball is loaded by a spring d the compression in which is varied by the lever j and rod f. In a modification, the upper seat is screwed into a cylindrical part winch forms the lower seat and is screwed into the valve casing. This cylindrical part, a section of which is shown at I, Fig. 4, is prevented from becoming unscrewed through vibration, by fitting into a groove v in its periphery a ring of wire w, a projection y on which may spring into notches z in the casing A.
Patent GB-191407433-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in connection with Fuel Injection Devices for Internal Combustion Engines.
Inventor: BERGLUND OTTO ROBERT PERCIVAL
IPC: F02M59/10
Filed: 1914-03-24
Granted: 1915-03-04
Abstract: 7433. Berglund, 0. R. P. March 24. Cylinders receiving liquid fuel.-A piston e for compressing injection air works in a chamber open to the working cylinder and over a fixed piston i, so that cooling-air is drawn in and forced out of the chamber g or the annular chamber d, the other of the chambers being the compression chamber. The piston is operated by a rod f or by lugs passing through the piston i or the cover h from a cam or lever (not shown). The compression chamber g or d communicates with the working cylinder through a passage such as l until the piston b nearly completes its compression stroke, after which the air in the chamber g or d, is further compressed and passes through a pipe p to the fuel nozzle o. The passage to the pipe p may be opened only at the end of the stroke of the piston e through ports l<1>, s. When the chamber g is the compression chamber, the interior of the piston i may communicate with the water jacket t, t<11>.
Patent GB-191407901-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Tube Rolling Mills.
IPC: B21B21/04
Filed: 1914-03-28
Granted: 1915-06-24
Abstract: 7901. Mannesmannrohren - Werke. April 29, 1913, [Convention date]. Rolling-mandrels.-Pilger mandrel carriages provided with liquid brakes have hollow brake pistons a, and spindles a', preferably provided with a quick-pitch screw, project into the pistons and are carried by the feed-slide. A ratchet device i is provided for rotating the mandrel. Several alternative constructions of the hollow brake pistons arc described.
Patent GB-191411236-A (GB)
Title: Improved Method of Tracing or Determining Admixtures or Variations in the Composition of Gases.
Inventor: HABER FRITZ
IPC: G01N29/032
Filed: 1914-05-06
Granted: 1915-07-22
Abstract: 11,236. Haber, F., and Leiser, R. May 13, 1913, [Convention date]. Gas analysis.-In apparatus for testing gases consisting of two closed organ pipes, one at least of which is a membrane pipe, blown by the same gas current, alterations in pitch in the two pipes due to variations in pressure in the blowing-current, are avoided by providing a pressure-regulator in the gas-passage, and making the pipes long and blowing to an overtone. In addition, the strength of the blast on the two pipes may be equalized by providing throttling-devices in one or both of the branch passages leading to the pipes, or by making the blowing-slits of the pipes adjustable.
Patent GB-191411388-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Step-ladders or the like.
Inventor: JONES HUGH LLOYD
IPC: E06C7/18
Filed: 1914-05-08
Granted: 1915-02-25
Abstract: 11,388. Jones, H. L. May 8. Ladders.-In a stepladder particularly for use against walls &c., the parts are pivoted together by pins e on the step part b engaging slots d in lugs c carried by the strut part a; and the part b is provided with parts f extending above the pins e to limit the spread instead of or in addition to the usual cord. A collapsible hand-rail g, supported by a pair of standards pivoted to the part b, one of which standards h is prolonged and pivoted to the strut part a at n, may be provided. The strut part a may be solid, as shown, or of skeleton or frame construction, and may be extended upwardly to form a handhold or knee-rest; or the ladder may have a flat top shelf in place of this extension.
Patent GB-191413368-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Apparatus for Measuring the Linear Expansion of Solids.
Inventor: HORNE WILLIAM JAMES ADAM EDWAR
IPC: G01B5/30
Filed: 1914-05-30
Granted: 1915-04-15
Abstract: 13,368. Horne, W. J. A. E. May 30. Heat and temperature coefficients, apparatus for determining.-Apparatus for measuring the linear expansion of solids, for determining the coefficient of expansion, comprises a support carrying duplicate specimens which are heated to different temperatures by fluid media and have means enabling the variation in length to be measured. The specimens b, b<1>, which may be tubes or rods enclosed in tubular jackets, are supported loosely by a clamp c and firmly by the pointed ends of adjusting-screws a<2>, e entering indentations f. Each tube has pipes n, o for the conveyance of the heating- fluid, and a thermometer u. An arm g<1> and a forked arm g partly surrounding it are secured to the tops of the specimens. The difference in the lengths of the rods may be measured by means of a micrometer gauge j, which is fixed in a slot j<1> in the arm g, Fig. 3, by a screw j<2>, and is adjusted until a bridge-piece k, carried partly by it and partly by a rib k<1> engaging in a V-groove in the arm g<1>, is horizontal, as indicated by a level l. The arms g, g<1> may also have an ' anvil ' i permitting measurement by a spherometer, ribs m, m<1> for use with sliding callipers, and knife-edges p, p<1> to carry a pointer for use with a scale. The measurement may also be taken by means of a beam of light reflected on to a scale by a mirror mounted on a stand carried partly by each arm.
Patent GB-191419560-A (GB)
Title: Improved Means for Obtaining Power from Solar and like Heat by the Expansion and Contraction of Liquids.
Inventor: SNELLING JOHN CHARLES
IPC: F24S10/70
Filed: 1914-09-08
Granted: 1915-09-02
Abstract: 19,560. Snelling, J. C. Sept. 8. Vapour-engines; driving-gear. - In an apparatus for obtaining power from solar and like heat by the expansion and contraction of a liquid, the hulk of the liquid is contained in a number of tubes of small diameter, and the energy of the expansion and contraction is transmitted to the prime mover through a non- volatile liquid buffer. The changes of temperature of the tubes are controlled by shutters which are operated by the tramm1štting - mechanism at the extremes of its movement. The tubes a, Fig. 1, containing alcohol, ether, toluol, or other liquid are connected to headers, the whole forming a closed system connected by a pipe c to a bag w immersed in the non- volatile liquid filling a closed vessel m which commmicates by a tube n<1> with the working cylinder n. The rod o of the piston working in the cylinder n carries adjustable stops l<1>, l<2> arranged to operate the shutters. The reciprocating motion of the piston is converted into rotary motion of a shaft v by the mechanism shown in Figs. 6 and 7. The piston-rod o carries a cross-head p fitted with two racks u, u<1>, guided by rollers t and gearing respectively with and small pinions s, s<1>, mounted loosely on the shaft v. During the expansion stroke, the pinion a<1> rotated by the rack u<1> drives by means of a pawl a ratchetwheel z secured to the shaft v. During the contraction stroke, the pinion s rotated by the rack u drives by means of a pawl a second ratchet-wheel z secured to the shaft v.
Patent GB-191422849-A (GB)
Title: A New and Improved Method of Obtaining a Percussive Blow on Stamping Presses and the like.
Inventor: NEEDHAM STANLEY ORTON
IPC: B28B1/04
Filed: 1914-11-21
Granted: 1915-11-22
Abstract: 22,849. Needham, S. O., and Savory, E. W. Nov. 21. Embossing and stamping. - The blow of a press is obtained by first rotating the screw and its fly-wheel together with the nut through which the screw works, and then suddenly stopping, checking, or reversing the nut, so that the screw travels on through the nut. In the press shown, the screw J which carries the fly-wheel K works through a nut H, journaled in the frame R and geared by bevel-gears G<1>, G to a shaft F driven, and arrested when required, through a clutch C from a cone B on the driven shaft A. The clutch is operated by a lever Q, and when declutched from the cone B, it enters a braking-cone D fixed on the framing. After the blow of the die N upon the die 0, the screw rebounds, springs P assisting the rebound. In the upward movement a lock-nut L fixed on the screw locks against the underside of the nut H. If the motion of the nut H is to be reversed, any suitable known reversing-gear may be employed.
Patent GB-191424332-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Ice Skate, and Method of Manufacturing the same.
Inventor: MEAGHER GEORGE ALFRED
IPC: A63C1/02
Filed: 1914-12-19
Granted: 1915-04-22
Abstract: 24,332. Meagher, G. A. Dec. 19. No Patent granted (Sealing fee not paid). Skates.-In manufacturing an ice skate, the portions b, c, Fig. 2, of a metal blank a are split longitudinally, and the split portions are bent outwards, as shown in Fig. 7, to constitute sole and heel plates for attachment to the boot by means of screws &c.