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Patent GB-190411212-A (GB)
Title: An Improvement in the Method of Fastening Boots, Shoes and the like.
Inventor: ROBERTSON WILLIAM LAING
Filed: 1904-05-16
Granted: 1904-10-27
Abstract: 11,212. Robertson, W. L., and Robertson, W. L. May 16. Strap fastenings. -The front and back parts b, c of a boot or shoe are separate or only connected by expanding water-tight tonguesd. The parts b, c are drawn together and fastened by a strap f, Fig. 3, secured by a buckle, button, &c. The single strap f may be replaced by two parallel straps, as shown in Fig. 4. In the arrangement shown in Fig. 5, the strap s, forked at s', s', passes right round the boot and is secured to a similarly-forked strap t which passes round the back of the boot from the other side.
Patent GB-190412642-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Garden or other Seats for Tramcars, Omnibuses, Parks, and the like.
Inventor: WATSON WILLIAM
Filed: 1904-06-03
Granted: 1905-06-01
Abstract: 12,642. Watson, W., and Cristol, D. June 3. Seats and seat backs.-To the ordinary tramcar, garden, or other outdoor seat C is hinged at F the under one of a pair of boards A, B, preferably made of cork or composition and hinged together at D, Fig. 2. The boards have slots at the sides through which pass the arms carrying the reversible back-rest. In one position of this back-rest, only the upper board is raised to provide a dry seat and seat back, and in the other or reversed position of the back-rest'both boards can be raised, turning, while folded together, about the hinges at F connecting the seat cover to the seat. The board or boards which are turned up rest against the reversible back-rest. Two or more such pairs of boards can be used with seats for more than one person. The boards have a beading around the edges to prevent water &c. from getting between them.
Patent GB-190414099-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Brushes for Cleaning Boots and Shoes.
Inventor: HOLDSWORTH ALFRED
Filed: 1904-06-22
Granted: 1905-04-27
Abstract: 14,099. Holdsworth, A., and Wilson, H. A. June 22. Boot and shoe cleaning and polishing brushes.- To facilitate cleaning the space between the sole and the upper of boots &c., a narrow row of stiff bristles 2 is located apart from the ordinary brushing-bristles, preferably projecting from one end of the handle. They may be located elsewhere than at the end, or two rows, one at each end, may be used.
Patent GB-190418500-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Rules and Linotypes for Tabular Matter.
Inventor: LOCK WILLIAM HENRY
Filed: 1904-08-26
Granted: 1905-07-20
Abstract: 18,500. Lock, W. H., and Speechley, W. R. Aug. 26. Linotype machines; rules.-Relates to linotypes and rules for printing tabular matter. The linotypes are provided with recesses 2, Fig. 1, which do not extend to the edges of the printing - face, and the rules 5, Fig. 2, are provided with teeth 4 which enter the recesses. These recesses may be produced by means of the devices described in Specification No. 17,635, A.D. 1903, one or more of which are inserted in the composed line of matrices. Each of these devices consists of a body-part 10, provided with supporting-lugs 11, a vertically-sliding piece 12, and a horizontally-sliding tongue 14, Figs. 7 and 8. When the piece 12 is in the lower position, the tongue 14 can be pushed back to the position shown in Fig. 7, and when the piece 12 is pushed up, a cam-surface 20 pushes the tongue 14 out as shown in Fig. 8. The devices are placed in the assembly-box of the machine by hand, with the tongues 14 in the retracted position. A groove 27 is formed in the matrix-delivery channel 24, Fig. 12, to allow the tongues 14 to pass. The slides 12 are raised by the justification-block as it ascends, and the tongues are thereby projected. When the first elevator ascends to the matrix guide-bar 26, the slides 12, if they have not already fallen by gravity, are depressed by the bar 26. An inclined cam-surface 28 in the intermediate space-bar channel 25 returns the tongues 14 to their normal position, and the devices are removed from the channel by hand. The recesses in the linotypes may also be formed by matrices of the form shown in Fig. 15. These may either be provided with V-shaped toothed notches 36 for distribution or may be removed by hand.
Patent GB-190418980-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Household Fire Grates and the like.
Inventor: DELVE WILLIAM HENRY
Filed: 1904-09-02
Granted: 1905-09-02
Abstract: 18,980. Delve, W. H. Sept. 2. Air-heating arrangements.-A device a, Figs. 6 and 7, is fitted to the back or side of an ordinary firegrate, so that air entering it from between the firebars becomes heated, and is led into the room, into the grate openings b, Fig. 6, or to a flue h, Fig. 8, at the back, passing around a boiler j. Suitable recesses or projections may be formed in the top and bottom of the device for securing it in position, and it may be provided with a back, which may replace one of the sides or the back of the fireplace, or with a bottom e, Fig. 8, or with a back and bottom.
Patent GB-190419758-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Thermopiles.
Inventor: WILDERMAN MEYER
Filed: 1904-09-13
Granted: 1905-07-13
Abstract: 19,758. Wilderman, M., and Mond, R. L. Sept. 13. Drawings to Specification. Making parts of thermo-electric batteries.-Thermopiles are made of a compound wire or strip, the core and cover being, for example, platinum and iron respectively. This is bent to a zig-zag, spiral, or other suitable form, and partially immersed in an acid or reagent to dissolve off the outer metal from the bends on one side, so that the strip consists of naked and covered core alternately, thus dispensing with soldering or brazing. Or the spiral of compound wire may be wound on an insulating-rod, and covered with wax along one side, the acid then dissolving off the outer metal from the exposed part of the spiral. The wax is then removed, leaving the core alternately bare and covered, all the covered parts being on one side. Or a compound strip may be wound on flat pieces of an insulator, and the outer metal dissolved along one face. These may be laid one on another to form a thermo electric battery.
Patent GB-190420058-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Fluid Meters, Motors, and Pumps.
Inventor: SHARP JOHN
Filed: 1904-09-17
Granted: 1905-09-07
Abstract: 20,058. Sharp, J. Sept. 17. Liquid meters. - A liquid meter has a large measuring-cylinder and a small auxiliary cylinder for controlling its action, the arrangement being such that the motions of the two pistons are interdependent. Figs. 8 and 10 are sectional elevations at right-angles to one another through the watersupply chest 2, showing the auxiliary cylinder 63 and the slide valve 1. This valve, shown separately in Fig. 11, serves to distribute the fluid to both cylinders, and receives two separate motions at right-angles from the two piston-rods. As the main piston-rod 3 descends, the pin 10 passes downwards through a slot 16 formed in a sleeve 8 mounted upon the rod, and when near the end of its stroke forces the sleeve downwards and so causes a transverse movement of the valve 1. This opens the port 4 and end 6 of the cylinder 63 to the discharge port 60 and admits pressure fluid from the space 2 through the port 5 to the end 7 of the cylinder. The pistons of the cylinder 63 are thus actuated, and their motion is communicated to the valve 1, which receives a longitudinal movement and thereby admits pressure water by the ports 52, 58 to the lower end of the main cylinder, the piston of which then begins to rise. In this way, the action becomes automatic, each pieton controlling the motion of the other. In order to avoid movement of the sleeve 8 owing to friction, an intermediate fixed sleeve 13 is interposed between the sleeve 8 and the piston-rod. In another form, the valve 1 is cylindrical and receives an oscillation instead of the transverse motion in the case of the flat slide valve. Modifications in the device for transmitting the motion of the sleeve 8 to the valve, and also of the pin-and-slot device, are described. Various mechanisms for communicating the movement of the sleeve 8 to the counting-apparatus are shown in Figs. 5, 6, and 7. Fig. 5 shows two separate pawls 35, 34 employed to effect the movement on the up and down strokes respectively, while in the form shown in Figs. 6 and 7 a star-wheel 41 is employed, which is operated by pins 39, 40.
Patent GB-190500445-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Shedding Motions for Power Looms
Inventor: ISHERWOOD TEDDY
Filed: 1905-01-10
Granted: 1905-10-26
Abstract: 445. Isherwood, T. Jan. 10. Loom shedding-motions.-A half-moon or other cam or tappet B, Fig. 1, is fixed on the tappetshaft A, so as to act on two bowls carried on rods D<1>, D<2>, passing through bearings F<1>, F<2> and connected together by links E', E<2>, bolts, and pins &c. Or the rods may be made in one piece. A lever H is connected by studs, bolts, &c. to one of the levers D<1>, D<2>, and also by screws, keys, &c. to a shaft K, which carries two bowls or rollers L<2>, or two double-ended levers K, L, Fig. 3, adapted to be placed in different positions on the shaft. These bowls or levers are connected to the heald irames and to two similar bowls &c. L' on another roller J over the roller K, so that, as the tappet-shaft rotates, the shaft K is oscillated and the shed is formed. In a modification, a lever B, Fig. 4, is fixed on the tappet-shaft A, and carries a bowl C, which engages tappets or cams D', D<2>, connected by links L<1>, L<2> and fixed to guide-rods E', E<2>, a lever H connecting the bottom rolter-shaft and one of the rods D', D<2>. If desired, the rods E', E<2> may be arranged vertically.
Patent GB-190501603-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Metal Packing for Flange and other Joints.
Inventor: HULBURD PERCY
Filed: 1905-01-26
Granted: 1905-05-11
Abstract: 1603. Hulburd, P. Jan. 26. Joint-making packing.- The metal rings described in Specification No. 25,323, A.D. 1898, are made with the flange b, which centresthering by resting against the bolts, in one piece with the ling.
Patent GB-190502824-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or connected with Loom Take-up Motions.
Inventor: WHITE WILLIAM BELL
Filed: 1905-02-11
Granted: 1905-08-17
Abstract: 2824. White, W. B., and Jack, A. Feb. 11. Loom take-up motions.-Relates to means for producing an automatic recoil in the take-up motion, thereby letting back the warp, when the loom is stopped on the absence or breakage of weft. When this stoppage occurs, a catch G pivoted to an L-shaped bracket E, falls upon and pushes back the catch-rod finger C, thereby giving a partial turn to the catch-rod D, which raises the actuating and retaining devices of the take-up motion, a slip catch and additional ratchet being employed in this connexion. When the loom is started, the thickened part of a projection H bolted to the setting-on handle A raises the catch G, thus liberating the catch-rod finger C so that the actuating and retaining catches may fall into engagement again with the take-up ratchet-wheel. By swivelling back the catch G by the lug J, the catch-rod finger may be liberated, so that the take-up remains in operation with the loom stopped, for use in hand-weaving &c. In a modification, the curved end of a small swivel-piece, resting on the usual fork-slide and pivoted to the setting-on handle, comes behind the catch-rod finger and pushes it back when the loom is stopped. The weaver, if desired, may find the pick in a loose-reed loom by pushing home the fork-slide, lifting the brake, and pushing the spring handle half-way until the pick is found.
Patent GB-190511375-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Driving Free-wheel and Brake Mechanism for Cycle Hubs and the like.
Inventor: BEESLEY JOHN
Filed: 1905-05-31
Granted: 1906-02-08
Abstract: 11,375. Beesley, J. Nov. 30. Brakes.-In a brake for the hub of a cycle front wheel, a fixed bearing-cone H and a sleeve bearing- cone H<1> have hexagonal ends to carry disks E, E' which have lugs G, G<1> to engage the ends of a helical spring P, so that, by operating an arm J<1> upon the cone H<1>, the spring is expanded into frictional contact with the hub. The cone H is held stationary by an arm Q engaging the forks. The bearings are adjusted by means of a screwed sleeve M.
Patent GB-190514543-A (GB)
Title: Manufacture of Red, Dark Red to Violet Sulphurised Dyestuffs.
Inventor: IMRAY OLIVER
Filed: 1905-07-14
Granted: 1906-01-25
Abstract: 14,543. Imray, O., [Farbwerke vorm. Meister, Lucius, & Br³ning]. July 14. Dyes, artificial.-Sulphuretted dyes, which are distinguished from known dyes by the redness of their tints and by their fastness to light, are produced by heating with polysulphides in presence of copper or copper compounds, either hydroxylated azines or their alkyl, aryl, sulphonic, carboxylic, halogen, or like derivatives, or the sulphuretted dyes derived from them. The heating may be effected in the melting process, or by using water, or alcohol, as a solvent, or by other known process. Enamelled or lead-lined vessels are used preferably, but copper vessels may be employed. In examples, dyes are produced from 1 :7-amidooxyphenazine, its homologue obtained from p-amidophenol and m-toluylenediamine, the oxyphenazine derived from 1 :2 :4- dinitrochlorbenzene and p-amidophenol-o-sulphonic acid, alpha-amido-6 : 8-dichlor-7-oxyphenazine, the azines derived from m-toluylenediamine and o-o-dichlor-p-amidophenol, or o-chlor-p-amidophenol, phenosaffraninone, oorp-tolusaffraninone, xylosaffraninone from a symmetrical m-xylidene, phenosaffranol, dibrom-or dichlorphenosaffraninone obtained by halogenating a solution of phenosaffraninone in concentrated hydrochloric acid, fatty saffraninones such as etho- or anethosaffraninone obtained from p-nitrosophenol and m-monoalkyltoluylenediamine, or their derivatives from chlorinated amidophenols. Copper bronze, copper sulphate, and copper sulphides are suitable copper compounds.
Patent GB-190515982-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Automatic Fire-arms
Inventor: WHITING WILLIAM JOHN
Filed: 1905-08-04
Granted: 1906-03-22
Abstract: 15,982. Whiting, W. J. Aug. 4. Breech actions, sliding breech-block.-The barrel of an automatic small-arm with a longitudinally. recoiling breech-slide has a tongue - andgroove connexion with the body, and is locked in position by the spring trigger-guard c, the ends c<1>, c<2> of which pass through gaps d<2>, e' in the body and engage in undercut recesses d, e formed in the undersurface of the barrel. The trigger-guard is utilized as a buffer-spring for the breech-slide by the ends c<1>, c<2> being still further forced together by the edge e<1> of the barrel recess e<2> pushing forward the rear end c<2> of the trigger-guard when the breech-slide, thrown forward by its return spring, strikes the barrel. Similarly, the forward end c<1> is driven back by the barrel when the recoiling breech-slide strikes with its abutment f<4> against a collar a<20> on the barrel. A safety-device for the hammer i consists of a lever m pivoted at m<2> in a lateral recess of the hammer, When the outer end m3 of the lever m is depressed, the sear j is pushed out of the hammer bent and engaged in the bent m<4> of the lever m so as to hold the hammer at half-cock, the tail j<2> of the sear being carried rearwards out of the reach of the sear-actuating bar k<1>.
Patent GB-190518672-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Material for use in connection with Elastic Tyres for Vehicles.
Inventor: GASTON PAUL LEON COLIN
Filed: 1905-09-15
Abstract: 18,672. Colin, G. P. L. March 1, [date applied for under Patents Act, 1901]. Void. [Published under Patents Act, 1901.] Tyres, elastic other than pneumatic.-A material for use in elastic tyres in lieu of compressed air, and for like purposes, consists of a viscous material such as gelatine, hardened or otherwise, holding in suspension microscopic bubbles of air or other gas. The production and dimensions of the bubbles is fixed at the desired moment by submitting the material to ebullition, and stopping this ebullition at a predetermined point ; and, if desired, stirring the mixture and stopping such stirring at a predetermined point.
Patent GB-190518922-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Lasting or like Machines.
Inventor: BOULT ALFRED JULIUS
Filed: 1905-09-19
Granted: 1906-09-13
Abstract: 18,922. Boult, A. J., [United Shoe Machinery Co.]. Sept. 19. Lasting.-Relates to improvements in the lasting- machine described in Specification No. 14,453, A.D. 1897, in which the tube 15, upon the end of which the grippers 14 are mounted, is connected to the sleeve 22, which is reciprocated longitudinally by the connecting-rod 55 through the medium of the spring 49. This causes the grippers 14, holding the edge of the upper, to move laterally until the tension causes the spring 49 to yield, when the lateral motion ceases. As soon as the grippers open, the spring 49 causes them to continue their lateral motion to the end of their normal stroke, with the result that considerable shock is sometimes caused. The object of the present invention is to prevent this shock, and to permit of the limitation of the lateral movement of the grippers 14. For this purpose, the sleeve 22 is fitted with adjustable collars 25, 26, which engage the bearing 31 at the ends of the stroke and arrest further lateral motion. The rack x<3> may be yieldingly connected with the lever x<6>.
Patent GB-190520837-A (GB)
Title: Improved Method of Manufacturing Sulphate of Ammonia.
Inventor: GROSSMANN JACOB
Filed: 1905-10-14
Granted: 1906-03-08
Abstract: 20,837. Grossmann, J. Oct. 14. Purifying ammoniacal liquor.-In the manufacture of ammonium sulphate from gas-liquor, the cyanides &c. are eliminated by the following processes :-(1) The crude liquor is distilled in the usual way, but without the addition of lime, and the ammonia is absorbed in sulphuric acid in a saturator. The residual still-liquor is evaporated down and filtered, and the filtrate is transferred to a second still, where it is mixed with excess of sulphuric. acid and heated until all the sulphocyanic acid &c. has been driven off and absorbed in some suitable material. The purified liquor is then run into settling-tanks or is filtered, and may be then used either alone or mixed with more sulphuric acid as the absorbent in the saturator ; or it may be neutralized with ammonia gas or pure or crude ammonia liquor in a separate plant and treated for the recovery of ammonium sulphate. When the crude liquor is produced on the spot, only part of the liquor from the ammonia still is treated as above ; the rest is used, after cooling, for absorption of the crude gas. (2) When ferrocyanides are present, the residual liquor is agitated in a separate still with an iron compound (sulphate, sulphide, hydrate, carbonate, &c.), in quantity sufficient to form an insoluble ferrocyanide, and then sufficient sulphuric acid is added to decompose any thiosulphates present and leave a slight excess of free acid. After agitating and heating, the liquor is settled or filtered, transferred to the sulphocyanogen still, and treated with the rest of the acid. Other compounds such as those of zinc may be substituted for the iron compounds in the above process. (3) If the crude liquor contains ammonium cyanide, it may, prior to its treatment in the ammonia still, be agitated with an iron compound to yield a ferrocyanide, or with sulphur or polysulphide to form a sulphocyanide. All the above processes may be carried on with the help of currents of air or steam and at various pressures.
Patent GB-190520841-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in the Farm of and Means for Manufacturing Conduits applicable for Conducting Air, Steam, or other Gases.
Inventor: SELLARS JOHN CARRINGTON
Filed: 1905-10-14
Granted: 1906-10-13
Abstract: 20,841. Sellars, J. C. Oct. 14. Conduits for ventilation or for conducting air, steam, or gases are made from paper, cardboard, canvas, or thin sheet metal or metal foil, by bending a sheet of the material round a mandrel a, heated if necessary and supported at the ends by blocks b, b<1>, The material is held on the mandrel, while it is being formed, by means of a clip d of springy metal. In forming conduits of the shape shown in Fig. 6, several such mandrels are arranged in series, the material being passed under the first mandrel, round the clip d, and then under the next mandrel &c., as shown in Fig. 11 ; the mandrels are then turned through a right-angle. If the conduits are formed of paper or the like, they are impregnated with sodium silicate, cement paint, or fire or damp resisting or other liquid. Before removal from the mandrels, clips f are attached at each end of a length of conduit to keep the parts in the position shown. Fig. 7<A> shows a modified form of conduit formed by rotating two mandrels towards one another.
Patent GB-190526755-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Needles for Threading Cord into Seams.
Inventor: BERNHARD RUDOLF
Filed: 1905-12-22
Granted: 1906-02-08
Abstract: 26,755. Bernhard, R. Dec. 22. Sewing-needles; bodkins.-A needle or bodkin is made with a cylindrical hole 3 in the slightly enlarged end into which the cord or thread 4 is inserted. The cord is secured in the cavity by a thread 6, which is passed through it and through the holes 5 in the walls of the needle.
Patent GB-190601802-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Revolving Distributors for Sewage and the like
Inventor: ADAMS NORMAN JAMES
Filed: 1906-01-24
Granted: 1906-05-10
Abstract: 1802. Adams, N. J. Jan. 24. Spray-producers and spreaders.-A revolving fan or blower is placed upon the arm or other suitable part of a rotary distributor to impart motion thereto. As shown in Fig. 1, an electrically-driven fan i is placed on the arm d, current being supplied by a wire connected with the main current wire at the top of the distributor. According to the Provisional Specification, arrangements may be made so that contact is automatically made or broken according as the speed of rotation falls below or exceeds a certain limit.
Patent GB-190602364-A (GB)
Title: Improvements connected with Dynamo Electric Machines and Electric Motors for Maintaining a Constant Electro Motive Force under Variations of Speed.
Inventor: MACKIE MATTHEW WILLIAM WALBANK
Filed: 1906-01-30
Granted: 1907-01-17
Abstract: 2364. Mackie, M. W. W. Jan. 30. Dynamos, regulating; field magnets; m o t o r s, controlling.-A constant electromotive force is maintained between the brushes of a variablespeed multipolar shuntwound machine, specially applicable for lighting railway trains, by providing some of the field poles, e.g. N, S, Fig. 1, with series windings D in addition to the ordinary shunt windings c, which act as demagnetizing-windings when the speed rises above the normal. The armature employed in Fig. 1 has an ordinary series or wave winding. The brushes a, b, Figs. 1 and 3, are shunted by a storage battery B, and a second battery A is connected across the terminals of the machine. The battery B is designed to give the same electromotive force as the battery A, and is substituted for the battery A when the latter has been discharged. When the machine has attained the normal speed, it commences to charge the battery B, the battery A then serving to supply the lamps A with current independently of the dynamo and also to oppose the electromotive force of the dynamo, so that practically no current flows through the field winding D. On an increase of speed, a current flows through the winding D and battery A, demagnetizing the corresponding field poles and diminishing or even reversing the electromotive force generated in one half of the armature conductors. When the speed of the machine falls below the normal, the circuit to either brush a or b is automatically opened. In the case of a six-pole machine, four of the poles may be differentially wound. The application of the invention to four-pole and six-pole machines having drum or lap - wound armatures is also described.