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Patent GB-190724742-A (GB)
Title: Method of and Machine for Threading Needles for Polishing the Eyes in the Process of Manufacture of Needles.
Inventor: FAIRWEATHER WALLACE
Filed: 1907-11-08
Granted: 1908-02-20
Abstract: 24,742. Fairweather, W., [Singer Manufacturing Co.]. Nov. 8. Surfacing and polishing.-Needles are threaded upon the polisbing-thread of an eye-polishing machine by an automatically-operated apparatus. The thread t is secured at one end to a threader 41 which is gripped between two jaws 45, 46 and a stationary anvil and at the other to a post 94. The needles are fed to the threader by a pair of parallel screws 4, 5. As the needles pass on to the threader the jaws alternately release the latter so as to allow the needle to pass. The screws are driven continuously from the shaft 97. A ratchet 27 receives a step-by-step motion to actuate a feeding-drum shaft 16 when the latter is moved laterally by a cam 28 to bring certain clutch-pins into engagement. The needle-feeding drum is then caused to rotate slowly and needles, carried in its several peripheral notches, are deposited one by one in the grooves of the feed-screws 4, 5, the notches in the drum being spaced to correspond with the pitch of the screws. As the needles are carried forwards towards the threader 41, their blades are successively engaged by the bevelled ends of turning-jaws 60, 61, Fig. 6. These receive reciprocal movements upon opposite sides of the needle engaged, tending to roll it. The needle continues to turn until one of the jaws encounters the grooved or flattened side of the needle, when the rolling motion is arrested, the eye being thus located in alinement with the threading-implement. During this engagement of the turning-jaws, the rocking frame 66 is permitted by the looseness of the joints to yield slightly to enable the jaws 60, 61 to follow the advancing movement of the needle. Afterwards the turning-jaws are caused to open under the action of a cam and are returned to their initial position by a spring 79. The con tinued movement of the needle now causes its eye to pass over the adjacent end of the threader 41, and beneath the retracted clamping-jaw 45, thus slightly springing the threader 41, as represented in Fig. 9. As the needle continues to advance, the clamping-jaw 46 rises and the needle passes between it and the stationary jaw 44 of the anvil, again deflecting the opposite end of the threader. A guide-rail 83 and a presser-plate 87 are provided to keep the needles in proper position. The feeding-drum continues to deliver needles singly to the feed-screws, which maintain the same in spaced relation while transporting them longitudinally towards the opposite end of the machine until the cam 28 permits the unclutching of the needle-feeding drum from its shaft 16 ; the delivery of needles then temporarily ceases to permit the previously threaded-needles to be fed slightly beyond the threading-portion of the machine for final removal.
Patent GB-190727029-A (GB)
Title: An Apparatus for Setting Out Work for Wood Frames, Doors and Windows.
Inventor: GROTH WALTER
Filed: 1907-12-06
Granted: 1908-08-27
Abstract: 27,029. Groth, W. Dec. 6. Tools for setting-out work.-An apparatus for setting-out wood frames, doors, and windows is provided with a series of sets y, y', y<2>, y<3> of marking-knives h mounted on adjustable patterns. The work may be pressed against any set of these knives by means of a lever m operating a pressure plate l. The patterns c are provided with plates d, e, which allow adjustment in two directions at right-angles by means of dovetail grooves b, f in the base a and plate d, respectively. A vertical bar i, adjustable in a transverse direction, acts as a fence and carries the pressure plate l resting on springs k. The plate l may be adapted to carry patterns. For transverse frame parts, three other patterns are provided.
Patent GB-190801830-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Submarine Boats or Vessels.
Inventor: BLANCHARD CHARLES
Filed: 1908-03-12
Granted: 1908-08-13
Abstract: 1830. Blanchard, C. March 12. Submarine vessels; keels. - A detachable keel c for a submarine vessel is housed within a cavity formed in the hull and upon the line of the keel, the exterior surface of the mass when in position being flush with the general surface of the hull. The keel is secured in position by spindles, passing through stuffing-boxes f and having at their lower ends S-shaped projections e' adapted to engage studs on the keel arranged in sockets d. To release the keel, the lock-nuts e<4> are first loosened, and the spindles are then turned by levers passed through holes in the heads e<2>.
Patent GB-190803171-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Hoisting Devices.
Inventor: SCHMICK HENRY JONAS
Filed: 1908-02-12
Granted: 1908-08-27
Abstract: 3171. Schmick, H. J. Feb. 12. Pulley-blocks; hauling and winding drums; gearing of general application.-The invention has for its object to reduce the friction in hoisting-devices, and is shown applied to a pulley-block. The hoisting-wheel 4 is mounted on a shaft in a casing 1 and carries a number of rollers 8 in sockets 10. The hand chain-wheel is secured to an axle 14 and drives a disk 12, shown in front elevation in Fig. 4. This disk is formed with radial cam-shaped surfaces 13 having grooves 30 to receive the roller axles. When the disk is rotated, the cams engage the rollers in succession and thus rotate the hoisting- wheel. A sleeve 16 is carried loosely on the axle 14 and bears against a loose ring 26 having ratchet teeth 27 in contact with similar teeth on the handwheel. When the load is being hoisted, the ring 26 rotates with the hand-wheel, allowing the sleeve to remain stationary, but when the load is lowered, the teeth slip a little and so jam the ring against the sleeve and cause the sleeve to rotate. It is stated that the extra friction involved in the rotation of the sleeve has a braking effect.
Patent GB-190805286-A (GB)
Title: Integrating Apparatus
Inventor: MERRICK HERBERT LANSING
Filed: 1908-03-09
Granted: 1908-10-15
Abstract: 5286. Merrick, H. L. March 9. Integrating-mechanism for measuring-apparatus.- An integrating-mechanism of the travelling-band and friction-wheel type is employed to determine the total weight of material passing along an endless conveying-belt. The belt c passes at one point over a group of rollers supported upon a plate m suspended from the shorter arm of a weighing- lever l, at the opposite extremity of which is a link t carrying adjustable weights x and a hollow cylinder with its perforated lower end moving in a mercury dash-pot. At another point, the belt drives a roller e and wheelf communicating motion to the endless integrating-belt a, Fig. 2, through the shaft q. The position of the weighing.lever determines the angle between the axis of the integrating-wheel and the direction of travel of the integrating-belt, and in consequence the degree of axial movement communicated to the wheel, which has a limited travel along its axle, at either end of which it completes an electric circuit and reverses, by means of electro-magnets 1 and clutch parts 2, 3, 4, the motion of the integrating-belt, either drum b of which is thus driven from the shaft q. The number of reversals as shown by a counter, and the position of the wheel read upon a suitable scale furnish a measure of the quantity integrated. Alternatively, the integrating-belt 18, Fig. 7, is always driven in the same direction, and between the vertical portions of the belt is a wheel 13 carrying a number of integrating-wheels 12 free to rotate in fixed bearings thereon. Opposite wheels bear against the belt, and a rotation of the carrying- wheel is thus produced which is a function of the angle which the plane of this wheel makes with the line of travel of the belt at the two points of contact. To permit the control of this angle by the weighing-lever, the carrying-wheel is mounted in a frame 15 capable of turning within limits about an horizontal axis as determined by the link 23. The rotations of the carrying-wheel are counted and fractions thereof are indicated.
Patent GB-190807472-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in the Manufacture of the Bodies of Motor Car Lamps and other Lamps.
Inventor: WHITFIELD HERBERT ERNEST
Filed: 1908-04-04
Granted: 1908-09-17
Abstract: 7472. Whitfield, H. E. April 4. Carriage, velocipede, and like lamps. -Motor - car and like lamps are formed by stamping a sheet-metal blank in top and bottom dies in a press, so as to form two semi - cylindrical parts 1, Fig. 3, separated by a raised portion 5. Two hollow bosses 2, 3 are also stamped out,_ and when the blank ends 8 have been pierced out for receiving the top and bottom parts of the lamp body, the blank is bent at 5, and the ends 6, 7 after being trimmed are soldered together, as shown in Fig. 1. The cylindrical body is grooved or beaded at 11, 12 for the reception of the back and front of the lamp. The body may be of oval instead of circular section, and funnel-shaped parts 4 may be stamped out of the body to receive a glass for a side light.
Patent GB-190808119-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Tube Bending Machines.
Inventor: ROSS GEORGE
Filed: 1908-04-13
Granted: 1909-03-25
Abstract: 8119. Ross, G. April 13. Bending. - A machine for bending tubes without the use of fillings comprises a framewor k supporting guide - pulleys o, Figs. 1 and 2, adjustable in grooves n, and a sector k with a clamping-yoke p for the tube mounted on a squared portion of a shaft provided with a wormwheel segment operated by hand or power at g. The pulleys o rotate freely on bushes which take the clamping-strain, and the sector k is provided with a detachable portion to permit variation of the groove contour. Additional pieces r, Fig. 7, may be secured to the sector to permit the diameter of the bend to be altered in cases where a number of sectors of different diameters are not provided.
Patent GB-190808144-A (GB)
Title: Improved Means for Operating Street Railway Points or Switches.
Inventor: PRESTON LEONARD ZEPHENIAH
Filed: 1908-04-13
Granted: 1909-02-11
Abstract: 8144. Preston, L. Z. April 12, 1907, [date applied for under Section 91 of Patents &c. Act, 1907]. Points and switches, tramway, operating mechanically from the vehicles. The point tongues 34 are moved by means of two pointed shoes 24, 14 let down into the rail groove. The shoes are secured to the lower end of rods 17 mounted in the casings 1, 2 and kept in their raised position by means of springs 19. The casing are secured to the front platform of the cars, and can be adjusted laterally to suit the groove of the rails. Pedals 12 are formed on the upper end of the operating-rods for depressing them against the action of the springs. Grooves 20, 28 are formed in the oparating-rods, which engage with studs 21 projecting from the casings. These grooves are vertical with the exception of the upper end, which is made slanting, so that as the rods are depressed they will be also turned axially in opposite directions. By these means, the pointed shoes can be made to pass between the point tongues and the side of the rail groove and move them over in either direction as desired. To facilitate the action, the points of the tongues are bevelled, and small recesses are formed in the sides of the grooves near the parts where the ends of the point tongues abut. [Reference has been directed under Section 7 of Patents &c. Act, 1907, to Specifications No. 2286, A.D. 1883, No. 503, A.D. 1887, No. 16,442, A.D. 1889, No. 19,183, A.D. 1896, No. 24,845, A.D. 1901, and No. 75C5, A.D. 1903.]
Patent GB-190810487-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Apparatus for Serving Liquids.
Filed: 1908-05-14
Granted: 1909-05-13
Abstract: 10,487. Liquid Check Syndicate, and Leon, W. May 14. Measured quantities, delivering.-Relates to apparatus of the type in which liquid is alternately fed to and delivered from measuring - chambers by means of a plug cock having air and liquid passages between the measuring-vessels and the container and the exterior respectively, and consists in arranging the plug cock horizontally and on a level with the bottom of the measuring-chambers, and in improved means for holding the bottle and for operating a counter. The cock has two pairs of passages b<1>, c<1> and b<2>, c<2>, the web a being arranged at 45 degrees to the tap d<1>. In the position shown, passages e<3>, f<2> from the top of the container and of one receptacle, and passages e', f<1> between the bottom parts of the same, are opened through the parts c<1>, c' of the cock, allowing this receptacle to fill; while passages g<1>, g<2> to the bottom and top of the second receptacle are opened to the atmosphere at h<1>, h<2>, allowing it to deliver liquid. A quarter-turn of the tap reverses these connexions. A cam i<2> and roller m operate a lever n attached to a counter k. A ratchet device is fitted to prevent reverse movement of the cock. The bottle-neck support is pivoted on a horizontal axis d<2>, and the whole is secured by a lock t engaging the end of a bar s which is pivoted to a lever resting on the top of the bottle.
Patent GB-190815256-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Machines for Ironing or Glossing Collars, Cuffs and the like.
Inventor: HERBERT WALTER
Filed: 1908-07-18
Granted: 1909-03-04
Abstract: 15,256. Herbert, W. July 18. Ironing-machines.-Two or more heated ironing or glossing rollers 1, 2 are arranged between, and in contact with, a pair of drums 3, 4, which carry the collars, cuffs, &c. to be treated. Guides 8 are fixed between the ironing-rollers and a guideplate 9 is fixed round the side of one of the rollers. The goods pass successively between the .upper surfaces of the rollers and the underside of the drum 3, and return between the under surfaces of the rollers and the upper surface of the drum 4. The drums may be pressed into contact with the rollers by springs &c. 5. A table 12 receives and supports the goods. In a modification the rollers are arranged one above the other and the drums are arranged horizontally on each side of the rollers.
Patent GB-190815958-A (GB)
Title: A New or Improved Reinforced Concrete Sleeper for Railways and Tramways.
Inventor: WEEDON JOHN FRANCIS
Filed: 1908-07-27
Granted: 1909-04-08
Abstract: 15,958. Weedon, J. F. July 27. [Cognate Application No. 22,414,A.D. 1908, dated Oct. 22.] Sleepers of reinforced concrete are made with hollow or solid inverted bowl-shaped parts b, connected by a beam c and reinforced by rings or spirals i, and by rods, bars, or wires h at different levels, running lengthwise within the beam c and circling round the ends b. The reinforcements may be connected by transverse binding-rods &c. Holes e are provided for packing the cavities of the sleeper, and holes k for the rail-securing bolts, or the bolts may be embedded in the sleeper. The ends b may be circular, oval, or polygonal, or, according to the Provisional Specification, of any other shape. The bowl-shaped ends b, whether solid or hollow, may be used separately without the connecting-beam c, as shown in Fig. 7.
Patent GB-190817529-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Furnaces for Steam Boilers, Stoves and the like.
Inventor: KREUTZER LUDVIG CARL
Filed: 1908-08-20
Granted: 1909-07-01
Abstract: 17,529. Kreutzer, L. C., and M÷ller, N. P. S. Aug. 20. Smoke - consuming ; grates.-The combustion products pass over an oblique plate d at the rear of the grate and beneath an arched plate e, and thence through hollow grate bars a connected with side flues b, which discharge into a main flue c.
Patent GB-190822036-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Governing Mechanism for Internal Combustion Engines.
Inventor: MATHOT RODOLPHE
Filed: 1908-10-17
Granted: 1910-01-17
Abstract: 22,036. Mathot, R. Oct. 28, 1907, [date applied for under Section 91 of Patents &c. Act, 1907]. Gas and like Engines, governing. Variable-lift valve-gear for controlling the admission valve V comprises a pivoted member O, Fig. 1, attached to the valve spindle, and controlled by the governor so as to bear against a curved surface R<0> on the valve lever L at varying distances from the fulcrum 1. The rod t connecting the member O to the governor is of sufficient length to prevent reaction on the governor. In a second arrangement, the member O is pivoted to the valve spindle at a point above the lever L, and the curved surface R<0> is convex, the valve being moved downwards by the gear as in Fig. 1. In a third arrangement, a two-armed lever acts directly upon the valve spindle, and the member O, which is pivoted to the free end of this lever, is engaged by the upper surface of a lever pivoted to the engine at a point below the end of the valve spindle, and actuated at its free end by a mechanism similar to that shown in Fig. 1. The Specification in the original form, as open to inspection under Section 91 (3) (a), comprises also a modification of each arrangement in which the governor controls the pivoted member O by means of a bell-crank lever mounted loosely upon the pivot of the member O and having a slot in one arm which engages with a pin carried by the member O, the arrangement of the pin and slot being reversed if desired ; and also four arrangements of variable-lift valve-gear, as shown in Figs. 4, 5, 6, and 7. As shown in Fig. 4, a roller O is adjusted by the governor between bearing-surfaces on two levers L, l, the spindle of the roller being free to move in a slot in the governor lever; but in a modification, the roller is carried by a link arranged parallel to the bearing-surfaces of the levers L, l. As shown in Fig. 5, a slotted lever O is adjusted by the governor relatively to its fulcrum p and transmits variable motion from a lever L pivoted at 1, to a lever l pivoted at 2. In Fig. 6, the valve-lever l is moved by the governor through the link O pivoted at 3, and is actuated from the lever L pivoted at 1 by mean of a link l<1>. In Fig. 7, the lever L carries a rack engaging with the sector-shaped end of a rod l<1> pivoted to the valve-lever l and this lever is adjusted by_ the governor so as to bring its fulcrum nearer to or farther from the valve spindle. This subject-matter does not appear in the Complete Specification as accepted.
Patent GB-190823494-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Core Supports for use in Moulding and Casting.
Inventor: GAERTNER ABRAHAM
Filed: 1908-11-03
Granted: 1909-05-27
Abstract: 23,494. Gõrtner, A. Nov. 3. Casting.-Chaplets are made with a stem portion a of any cross-section adapted to be engaged by projections c on supporting-plates b.
Patent GB-190828555-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Coaling Steamers.
Inventor: MAYOH JOSEPH
Filed: 1908-12-31
Granted: 1909-12-02
Abstract: 28,555. Mayoh, J. Dec. 31. Loading and unloading. - In a coaling-vessel, one or more series of cross conveyers deliver the coal from the hold to a longitudinal conveyer which elevates it to the deck, where it is discharged by longitudinally-adjustable elevators into telescopic shoots. In the arrangement shown, the hopper-shaped outlets B' of the hold are closed by doors operated from hand-wheels. The outlets are divided into two series and are served by jigger conveyers C linked in pairs to a shaft C<17> and delivering to a longitudinal conveyer D, which has a run above the deck on the staging D<3>. Rails E6, D', extending the length of the holds, are provided on the deck and on the staging, upon which elevators E rum. The elevators are actuated from motors K and are traversed by motors H, which can also swing them about the pivotal supports E<4>. Means may be provided for selectively discharging the buckets D into the elevators. The elevators deliver to telescopicshoots G leading to the bunkers of the receiving vessel.
Patent GB-190901187-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Chimney Tops.
Inventor: LOWE MOSES
IPC: F23L17/02
Filed: 1909-01-18
Granted: 1909-11-25
Abstract: 1187. Lowe, M. Jan. 18. Chimney tops. - In tops having a jacket c, with lateral openings d, supported upon a gallery b, openings e are made in the gallery between the openings d, cowl-protected openings h are provided beneath the jacket, and a conical hood k is detachably carried above the shaft a by brackets engaging in lugs n.
Patent GB-190902592-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to Coiled and similar Springs, for Upholstery, Mattresses and other purposes.
Inventor: MORRIS WILLIAM EDWARD
IPC: A47C23/043
Filed: 1909-03-11
Granted: 1909-07-15
Abstract: 2592. Morris, W. E. March 11. Helical springs.- Relates to springs for mattresses &c., and consists in separating the end convolution a from the second convolution b by a radial kinked part c, and the end of the wire d is fastened to this part so as to obviate the tendency of the end convolution to become enlarged or deformed.
Patent GB-190903427-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Hose Cleaning Apparatus.
Inventor: HOFMANN GEORG
Filed: 1909-02-11
Granted: 1909-07-15
Abstract: 3427. Hofmann, G. Feb. 11. . Cleaning externally; reels.-Apparatus for washing, squeezing, and reeling hose-pipes, which may.also be used for coiling dry hose-- pipes, comprises a washing-tank 2, a spraying- chamber 3, squeezing-rollers, and a reel 4. The ' hose-pipe passes - over a roller 18, through the tank 2 supplied with water from a tap 35 and having a lower brush 7 and upper brushes 8, 9 hinged at one end to the tank and detachably secured at the other end by pins. The hose then passes between two sets of nozzles 27, 28 in the spraying-chamber supplied with water by pipes 32, 33, and then between two pairs of brushes 36, 37, 38, 39 to the squeezing-rollers. The upper brushes 38, 39 are spring-pressed and are carried by hangers on the hinged lid 26 of the chamber. The rubber squeezing and feed rollers 48, 49 are actuated by a hand-wheel 59 and gear-wheels 60, 60<a>, 61, 61<a>. The bearings of the roller 48 are fixed. The roller 49 is moved vertically to press the hose by a weighted lever 53 which may be depressed by a hand-lever 54 with an arm 55 engaging the lever 53. Motion is communicated by a belt 63 from a pulley 62 to the reel, which is mounted in bearings adjustably carried by supports 73, so that the tension of the belt may be adjusted. The reel has arms 66, 68, and the hose-pipe is wound upon cross-stays 76, 77, 78, 79, which may be withdrawn laterally to allow removal of the coiled pipe. The ends of the pipe near the couplings are cleaned by hand in the tank 2. Water from the tank 2 and the chamber 3 passes away by a waste-pipe 83.
Patent GB-190903918-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to Gas Producers.
Inventor: HUTCHINS THOMAS WILLIAM STAINE
IPC: C10J3/80
Filed: 1909-02-17
Granted: 1910-01-20
Abstract: 3918. Hutchins, T. W. S. Feb. 17. Instantaneous generators.-In a vaporizer formed about the outlet pipe of a producer, and enclosed by a chamber through which the airsupply passes, as described in Specification 22,974/05, [Class 55, Gas manufacture], the water is contained in a series of annular troughs or detachable collars f, and overflows from one to another. Water is also supplied by a pipe i<1> to one end of a box-like step-grate which is of #-form, and may be withdrawn bodily through a door n.
Patent GB-190905688-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Swivel Connectors for Inflators and the like.
Inventor: DOSSETTER WILLIAM JAMES
IPC: B60C29/06
Filed: 1909-03-09
Granted: 1909-12-09
Abstract: 5688. Dossetter, W. J. March 9. Swivelling joints for connecting inflators to valves comprise a member d adapted to screw on to the valve, having an extension d<1> with a head over which is sprung a suitable packing- ring h. The ring h and the extension d<1> are inserted in a tubular member a having a branch b for connexion to the pump. The parts are held together by any suitable means, such as turning in the part a<1> as shown; or, in modifications, by using a metal plug or screw cap surrounding the extension d<1> below the packing, and taking into or on to the tubular member a. In the modification shown in Fig. 2, a continuation d<3> of the extension d<1> passes through a stuffing-box or packing-ring j, and is provided with a milled head d<4> for screwing the member d on to the valve nipple.