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Patent GB-190804092-A (GB)
Title: Improved Gates and Means for Operating the same for Pit Cages and Hoists
Inventor: GILL JOHN
Filed: 1908-02-24
Granted: 1908-07-02
Abstract: 4092. Gill, J. Feb. 24. Door - opening apparatus.-Relates to gates for pit cages &c. consisting of a series of iron or like bars which may be drawn up together for opening by means of a winding-roller operated by hand or automatically, as required. The bars C, Fig. 2, forming the door, move between guides E, are joined together by short lengths of chain &c. F, and have running through them ropes G which are attached at their upper ends to a roller H. Hand operation is effected by means of a rope J, and the door is kept open by a ratchet L which may be disengaged by hand to close the door. For operating the door automatically, the roller is provided with a wheel O, Fig. 5, which presses against a stationary rack P fixed to the side of the shaft. This rack may be put out of operation by a catch Q. A bolt R is provided for keeping the lift-door open when hoisting coal.
Patent GB-190804338-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Photographic Dark-slides.
Inventor: CHAMBERS GUY ARTHUR
Filed: 1908-02-26
Granted: 1908-05-21
Abstract: 4338. Chambers, G. A. Feb. 26. Dark-slides.-A double dark-slide is made of paper, cardboard, or other light cheap material to be thrown away after use. The plates a are separated by a cardboard piece b. In front of the plates are frames c, d, between which the shutters e slide. The frame is bound together by edging-fabric g.
Patent GB-190805042-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Printing and Sight Reading Telegraph Apparatus.
Inventor: BEECH ERNEST WILLIAM
Filed: 1908-03-05
Granted: 1909-02-11
Abstract: 5042. Beech, E. W. March 5. Typewriters.-In a printing telegraph combined with a typewriter, the depression of a transmitting character key releases a sector at the transmitting and the receiving stations, and the sectors fall until that at the transmitting station is stopped by the depressed key, when a circuit is completed to stop the sector at the receiving station. The extent of fall of these sectors determines the position of printing-sectors carrying type which are pressed against the printing-rollers each time a key is depressed. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the transmitter, the receiving-instrument being similarly constructed. The depression of a key completes a circuit through polarized relays which complete circuits through the magnets 4. The detent 5 is moved by the magnet 4 and the sector 7 rotates until it is held by the depressed key 8, a similar sector 7 being simultaneously released to' rotate at the receiver. The contact between the sector 7 and the key 8 completes another circuit through the polarized relay which now energizes the magnet 9 at both stations. The attraction of this armature moves a detent 10 at the receiver to stop the sector 7, the two sectors 7 having thus rotated an exactly equal amount. Each of a series of sectors 11 arranged parallel to the sector 7 carries the necessary letters and the like on its periphery and one of them falls with the sector 7 at each station until it is stopped by the bar 17 attached to the sector 7. It is arranged that this rotation brings the character corresponding tb the depressed key into position to be pressed by the paper on the roller 13, which is moved forward when the circuit is completed through the magnet 9. The release of the key breaks the circuit through the magnet 9, and, the roller 13 being drawn back, the ratchet 21 moves the wheels 22, 15 one step. The wheel 15 has a stepped series of teeth 14 which release consecutively the levers 12 to allow the printing-sectors 11 to fall in turn until at the end of a revolution of the wheel 15, a line being completed on the drum 13 the paper is moved forward. The rotation of the ratchet-wheel 22 raises the lever 23, and, by making contact at the screw 24, completes a circuit through the magnet 25, the armature 26 of which presses on the plus27 and brings the sectors 7, 11 back to their initial positions. The time of fall of the sectors may be regulated by placing them in contact with a suitable pendulum or by attaching a sheet, of iron which moves in a magnetic field. The detent 10 at the receiver may be replaced by an escapement mechanism operated by electro-magnets controlled by contacts made by the sector at the transmitter during its fall.
Patent GB-190807923-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Electric Furnaces
IPC: H05B7/00
Filed: 1908-04-09
Granted: 1908-12-03
Abstract: 7923. Nathusius, H., and Westdeutsche Thomasphosphatwerke Ges. April 9. [Patent of Addition to No. 7188, A.D. 1908.] Electric furnaces.-The circuit connexions of an electrode furnace of the type described in Specification No. 7188, A.D. 1908, are arranged so that the distribution of current through the metal bath may be varied by switching-out separate electrodes or by varying the resistance in series with them. The connexions for a three - phase furnace are shown in Fig. 4. The upper electrodes a, b, c are connected to the three phase-windings I, II, III of the generator, and the lower electrodes d, e,f are connected through switches and variable resistances to the neutral point of the generator. In a furnace operated on the three-wire system, two upper electrodes are connected to the outers and the lower electrodes through switches and resistances to the middle wire. When a simple alternating or continuous current is used, a single upper electrode may be connected to one pole of the generator, and the lower electrode or electrodes through switches and resistances to the other pole, or two upper electrodes a, c, Fig. 1, may be connected to the two poles of the generator x, the lower electrodes d, f being then arranged to be connected together at will through a switch and variable resistance y, as shown. By these means the heat may be concentrated at any desired part of the bath ; and also, in the case of alternating currents, particularly three-phase currents, a circular motion of the charge takes place.
Patent GB-190808145-A (GB)
Title: Improved Folding Writing Desk.
Inventor: MOHR CHRISTIAN
Filed: 1908-04-13
Granted: 1908-07-23
Abstract: 8145. Mohr, C. April 13. Desks. - A folding writing - desk comprises a writing-board a to which a supporting-board c and an inclined book-rest b are hinged at e, d respectively. In the open position, the board b rests against the bevelled edge l of the writing- board, while the supporting - board, which has a strip h to increase its bearing area, rests against the bevelled edge k of the book-rest. A ledge f is provided to prevent the book from sliding down the writing - board, and a hinged stop g is provided to keep the apparatus in the open position. The bottom edge of the board c is cut away so that only a comparatively small part rests on the table.
Patent GB-190811216-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Self-adjusting Metallic Packings for Pump Plungers and the like.
Filed: 1908-05-23
Granted: 1909-05-24
Abstract: 11,216. Foden, W., and United Kingdom Self-Adjusting Anti-Friction Metallic Packing Syndicate. May 23. Pistons.-Plungers, buckets, and rams of pumps or compressors, &c. are packed by metallic rings expanded by springs acting on conical carrying- rings. In the form shown in Fig. 1, packing-rings A, B, C, D, A<1>, B<1>, C<1>, D', are carried on conical rings 4, 5 which are pressed axially by a spring 6. The rings 4, 5 are mounted on an enlarged part 1<a> of the rod, forming at its ends shoulders against which the disks or junk rings 2,3 bear. The packing-rings are pressed axially by a spring 7. In a modified form shown in Fig. 4, the junk ring 3 is dispensed with, and a single spring 6<a> is employed. The packing-rings K; L, M, N, 0, P are mounted on divided rings F, G which are expanded by the cones 4<a>, 5<a>. The ring F is formed with a retaining- flange F<a>.
Patent GB-190813072-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Oil Burners for Steam Generators.
Inventor: SCOTT JOHN
Filed: 1908-06-19
Granted: 1909-03-18
Abstract: 13,072. Scott, J., and Gottschau, C. M. June 19. Vapour burners; burners, regulating and controlling.-In a vapour burner for steamgenerators, the vapour-emission nozzles are divided into a number of sets, and a valve in a chamber having a lower conical part controls the passage of the vapour to all these sets, except one. The Figures show a burner in which there are three sets of nozzles. Paraffin or other like fuel admitted at A into the coil A<1> is vaporized hy the burner and passes through an inlet B<1> into the valve casing B<2>. The burner is started by burning petrol is open-topped channels A<2>, which extend beneath the nozzles and are connected to a supply pipe A<3>. Fig. 3 is a section on the line a, b, c, d, Fig. 1, through the valve casing, and Fig. 4 a sectional plan. The passages C<2> which are in communication with the burner nozzles D<3> are uncontrolled, but the vapour supply to the passages C<3>, C<4>, which are in communication with the pipes E, E' and consequently with the burner nozzles E<2>, E<3> respectively, is controlled by the valve C. The valve is provided at different levels with two sets of ports D, D', which may be brought into communication with the passages C', C<4>, respectively, and is furnished with a wire-gauze strainer C'. The ports D are elongated circumferentially so as to be twice the area of the ports D<1>. By means of the handle G<1>, the valve spindle G and valve may be so actuated as to allow the vapour to pass through both the sets of passages, all the burner jets then being in operation, or the valve may be turned so that vapour passes only down the passages C<3>, when the nozzles E<3> will be cut out. A further movement of the handle cuts out the nozzles E<2>. The set of nozzles D' which are always burning generate sufficient vapour to ignite the vapour from the other nozzles when required. Only two sets of jets, or more than three may be employed, but the regulable sets of jets are always arranged so as to be turned on or cut off in rotation. According to the Provisional Specification, the burner may be used for the steamgenerators of motor-vehicles and motor-boats.
Patent GB-190817665-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or connected with Lathes and like Machines.
Inventor: LINLEY OWEN
Filed: 1908-08-22
Granted: 1909-07-29
Abstract: 17,665. Linley, 0. Aug. 22. Lathes; tools.-An attachment to lathes or like machines to enable the tools to be accurately set in a longitudinal direction, comprises a slidable scale D marked for both directions of setting and adjustable along a rod A, which is fixed in bearings B. A slidable and rotatable radial arm C has a flange G in the same plane as the tip, so that when the tip is in touch with the end of the work as shown in the position C<1>, and the scale abuts against the flange G, the scale is set for reading and may be secured by screws H. The scale is read by a pointer arm K on the saddle, having a mark corresponding. the position of the point of the tool. The tool has a line N on it to show where the cutting edges should meet when ground, and the tool is located accurately by side stops O, and a depth stop (not shown) on the tool-holder.
Patent GB-190820179-A (GB)
Title: An Electro-pneumatic Device intended to Indicate Attempts to Tamper with Articles to be Protected
Inventor: SERAGNOLI ENRICO
Filed: 1908-09-25
Granted: 1908-12-03
Abstract: 20,179. Seragnoli, E. Sept. 25. Alarms, burglar and like.-A safe or other article 1 is made with double walls enclosing a jacketing-space 4 in which the air is exhausted or compressed through a metallic conduit 5. The conduit 5 is connected to one pole of a battery 11 the other pole of which is connected through an indicator 8 to wires 13, 14, 15 ; these are led inside the conduit to contacts in the safe by which an alarm is given if the safe is forced. Perforation of the wall of the safe causes the alarm circuit to be closed by a manometer 6, while any attempt to prevent this by crushing the conduit 5 completes the circuit by forcing the wall of the conduit into contact with one of the internal wires, which is uninsulated. The uninsulated wire is normally kept out of contact with the conduit by a surrounding spiral of insulation, or by being coiled along with insulated wires. Lamps 10 are energized by a relay 9 whenever the alarm bell 7 is sounded. The installation is provided with pushcontacts 18 for domestic use.
Patent GB-190822129-A (GB)
Title: Improved File.
Inventor: NIEBCH RUDOLF
Filed: 1908-10-19
Granted: 1908-12-31
Abstract: 22,129. Niebch, R. Oct. 19. Files.-The teeth of a file are cut in bands of small and large pitch, Fig. 1, so that the teeth project in some places more than in others and run in zigzag lines, Fig. 3.
Patent GB-190908791-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Method of Opening and Balancing the Opening Portion of Roof Skylights, Ventilators and the like.
Inventor: ENGLAND WILLIAM HENRY
IPC: E05C17/18
Filed: 1909-04-14
Granted: 1910-02-17
Abstract: 8791. England, W.H., [trading as "England" Works]. April 14. Sky - lights. - A sky-light f is provided with inclined extension arms a carrying a balanceweight W, which may be adjusted to counterbalance the light and secured in position on the arms by set-screws, the arrangement being such that the sky-light may be flush with the roof. The light may be held open by a stay l and a catch on the frame c ; ordinary means for operating the sky-light by cords are described.
Patent GB-190911989-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to the Periodic Production of Lists of Items of Changing Value.
Inventor: JOHNSON WALTER CLAUDE
IPC: B41B1/02
Filed: 1909-05-21
Granted: 1910-05-19
Abstract: 11,989. Johnson, W. C. May 21. Drawings to Specification. Price and like lists.-Quotations of the temporary values of securities &c. are printed in upright figures for items of unchanged value, and in italics or back-sloped figures for items of increased or diminished value.
Patent GB-190912906-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Furnaces.
Inventor: LEE THOMAS FRANCIS FITZHUGH
Filed: 1909-06-01
Granted: 1910-05-19
Abstract: 12,906. Lee, T. F. F. June 27, 1908, [Convention date]. Vertical boilers ; kitchen-range and like boilers.- The Specification in the original form, as open to inspection under Sect. 91 (3) (a), comprises the low-pressure steam, or hot-water boiler shown in Fig. 15. The shell is formed with a cylindrical chamber 188 and a flue space 201 through which the furnace gases pass along the course indicated by arrows. In a kitchen range, Fig. 10, the boiler is in the form of a hollow cylinder with openings 33, 159 leading respectively from the combustion chamber 8 and to the flues round the oven 162. Dampers 167, 168 direct the gases either all round the oven or over the top only. The side grate can be rocked by cams 174, and the lower grate can be reciprocated. This subject-matter does not appear in the Specification as accepted.
Patent GB-190913938-A (GB)
Title: Process for Forming Expanded Metal.
Inventor: KANE THOMAS HENRY
IPC: B21D31/04
Filed: 1909-06-14
Granted: 1909-12-23
Abstract: 13,938. Kane, T. H. Aug. 13, 1908, [Convention date]. Expanded metal. - In making expanded metal with strengthening-ribs 1 for concrete roofs, ceilings, floors, partitions, &c., the portion 2, Fig. 1, is slit preferably as described in Specification 8701/08, and is then placed between dies 5, 6, the dies 6 having tongues 8 to engage grooves in the ribs and being forced into grooves 9 in the die 5 so as to expand all the slitted portions and simultaneously to bend the strengthening - ribs as shown in Fig. 3. The sheet may be slit in any other desired manner, and the dies may be replaced by grooved rollers. To form roofs, ceilings, floors, partitions, &c., one surface of the metal is covered with concrete and the other is plastered. The Specification as open to inspection under Section 91 (3) (a) states also that the sheet may first be partly expanded by laterally separating the side edges; this subject-matter does not appear in the Specification as accepted.
Patent GB-190917872-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to the Hood Fittings of Motor and other Vehicles.
Inventor: HILTON GEORGE TOM
IPC: B60J7/12
Filed: 1909-08-03
Granted: 1910-06-23
Abstract: 17,872. Hilton, G. T., and Coppell, F. B. Aug. 3. [Addition to 20,412/08.] Pivot adjustments.-Relates to pivot adjustments for the hood fittings of motor and other vehicles of the type described in the parent Specification, and consists in forming the ratchet teeth upon the pivot spindle, arranging the pawls side by side upon a single spindle, and operating the pawls to disengage them from the ratchet teeth by means of an eccentric spindle. A number of pawls G engage with ratchet teeth formed on the pivot spindle A, and are mounted upon a spindle d. The pawls are stepped as shown in Fig. 2 to allow adjustment to a fraction of a tooth, as described in the above-mentioned Specification, and are disengaged from the ratchet teeth by means of an eccentric spindle F, which, on being rotated, depresses the tails g<1> of the pawls. The spindle F may be arranged to lift the noses g<2> of the pawls, or the pawls may be arranged upon the spindle F, and a cross-bar provided to prevent the tails g' from rising when the spindle is turned. The pawls are kept in engagement with the ratchet teeth by springs f which abut at one side against the casing C enclosing the device.
Patent GB-190923470-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Sundials.
Inventor: HOMAN WILLIAM MACLEAN
IPC: G04B49/02
Filed: 1909-10-14
Granted: 1910-10-13
Abstract: 23,470. Homan, W. M. Oct 14. Sundials. - A device for fixing a sundial in any y desired position comprises a bowl to which the sundial is attached, and means for securing the bowl to a hollow base, the two parts together forming a ball joint. Fig. 1 shows an arrangement in which the bowl A, carrying the dial D, has pins B projecting into plaster of paris in the cup C. In a modification, a clamping-nut is employed.
Patent GB-190926264-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to the Manufacture of Borax, Soap, Soap Powder, Soda Crystals, Soda-ash, Carbosil and other Articles of a Similar Nature so as to Make Them Commercially More Valuable or Less Liable to Set into a Hard Mass.
Inventor: ORMANDY WILLIAM REGINALD
IPC: C11D17/06
Filed: 1909-11-12
Granted: 1910-11-14
Abstract: 26,264. Ormandy, W. R., and Kay, W. Nov. 12. Cleansing and abrading compositions; saponaceous cleansing - compositions, materials for making. - Soap, soap powder, borax, soda crystals, soda-ash, carbosil, and other hygroscopic or other powdered substances which are liable to caking are mixed with albosil (a white variety of kieselguhr) to prevent their setting into a solid mass or lumps. The albosil also acts as an abrasive, and, according to the Provisional Specification, may be used for this purpose solely in admixture with ordinary soap.
Patent GB-191000666-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Glass Lined Milk Cans.
Inventor: STEEL LEONARD RAMBLER
IPC: B65D77/04
Filed: 1910-01-10
Granted: 1910-09-01
Abstract: 666. Steel, L. R. Jan. 10. Bottles, coverings for.-A receptacle for milk &c. comprises a glass or other vessel 20 removably secured in a metal casing consisting of a body 1, a bottom 26, and a neck portion 2, 12. The neck portion has secured to it a ring 18, into which the vessel 20 screws. The vessel 20 is closed by a cap 27, and the casing by a lid consisting of parts 29, 33. The bottom rim of the casing is strengthened by rings 7, 8 fastened in place by the rivets 6 that secure the bottom 26. Holes 17 are adapted to be used in connexion with a seal fastening. The casing is adapted to be enclosed in a cage consisting of rings 37, 38 connected by slats 40, some of which are carried across the ring 37 to form a bottom for the cage. Handles are secured to the ring 38.
Patent GB-191000717-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in the Manufacture of Articles of Jewellery.
Inventor: KING HENRY WILLIAM
Filed: 1910-01-11
Granted: 1910-02-24
Abstract: 717. King, H. W. Jan. 11. Making jewellery.-Articles of jewellery have their backs finished with enamel &c. instead of metal. To a gold or other metal article A is applied a layer of enamel B, an additional layer of enamel C being put on to form an inwardlycurved strengthening-rim. The whole is fired in a furnace, less heat being applied to the rim than to the centre to prevent the enamel from flowing inwards.
Patent GB-191004115-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Apparatus for Distributing Electricity.
Inventor: LUCAS ERNEST WHEELDON
IPC: H02M3/40
Filed: 1910-06-11
Granted: 1911-01-05
Abstract: 4115. Lucas, E. W., Walmsley, W., and Walmsley, J. T. June 11. Rotary distributors.-Apparatus for distributing electricty of the kind in which current is supplied intermittently to a number of circuits, comprises a series of stationary commutator disks with conducting-segments A separated by air spaces K, a series of revolvable brush disks G adapted to feed the segments, and revolving fan blades M adapted to blow air between the segments in order to diminish sparking. The segments A are carried by two rings B, C, which are preferably made in halves coupled together by bolts J. The air spaces between the segments are made funnel-shaped, as shown in Fig. 4. Each brush disk is adapted to feed two commutator disks through brushes H, current being supplied to the brushes through the shaft O on which the brush disks are mounted.
Patent GB-191007663-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Button Fasteners.
Inventor: MICKISH ANTON
IPC: A44B1/34
Filed: 1910-03-29
Granted: 1910-06-09
Abstract: 7663. Mickish, A. March 29. Button-fasteners. - A button 1 is fastened to the fabric by a pronged staple 2 having recesses 6, which, after piercing the fabric, engage in a box - shaped socket 4. The socket 4 is formed from a sheet of metal, the meeting edges of which are notched to form the sockets for the prongs and prolonged at 4<a> and cut away at 5 to form means for opening the edges and releasing the staple.
Patent GB-191010797-A (GB)
Title: Trousers Hanger.
Inventor: LITTIG VICTOR LOUIS
IPC: A47G25/32
Filed: 1910-05-02
Granted: 1910-09-29
Abstract: 10,797. Littig, V. L. May 2. Hooks. - A hook d used in suspending a trousers stretcher is formed with two depending eyes c, c', one of the eyes being open.
Patent GB-191015842-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Method of Fixing Stops or Terminals in the Ends of Tubes.
Inventor: CUTLER ALFRED WILLIAM
IPC: B21D53/48
Filed: 1910-07-01
Granted: 1911-05-25
Abstract: 15,842. Cutler, A. W. July 1. Knobs.-A terminal a is fixed to a tube d by pressing a portion of the tube into a groove b in the terminal, as shown in Fig. 3. A shoulder may be provided on the terminal to lie flush with the end of the tube. Specification 15,245/10 is referred to.
Patent GB-191015879-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in the Manufacture of Electric Metal Filament Lamps.
Inventor: SCHROETER KARL
IPC: H01K3/02
Filed: 1910-07-02
Granted: 1911-01-12
Abstract: 15,879. Schr÷ter, K. Jan. 21, [Convention date]. Filaments; filaments, supports for. - Metal filaments containing a metallic binder are purified by the passage of current through them when mounted upon the final supports, which are coated with a soluble material e, afterwards removed with the deposit of expelled metal. Parts such as the hooks c and leading- in wires which become hot are not coated or have their coating removed before the filaments are mounted, to avoid carbonizing the coating, but being hot they receive little deposit. As coating-materials, collodion dissolved in alcoholether, paraffin in benzine, and rubber in carbon disulphide, may be used, the corresponding solvents being used to remove them.