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Patent GB-190715550-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Machines for Transport of Dough
Inventor: BAKER GEORGE SAMUEL
Filed: 1907-07-05
Granted: 1908-05-14
Abstract: 15,550. Baker, G. S. July 5. Conveyers for proving dough in baking operations, comprise a series of boxes connected to endless chains which are driven by suitable mechanism, means also being provided to retain the dough in boxes when they are in an inverted position. Figs. 1 and 2 show a conveyer for this purpose, comprising a series of boxes f attached to roller chains running on rails b. The boxes receive the dough from the dividing - machine through the hopper i, and deliver it over a fixed guide to a conveyer belt o. Each box has a bottom and a suitable number of transverse compartments bounded by one common side wall g, the top and remaining side being left open. While the boxes are travelling horizontally, the open sides are closed by the walls of the adjacent boxes. A belt j, or a series of wooden slats supported by rollers or roller chains on rails l, runs on pulleys i<1> and retains the dough in the boxes on the return journey. A canvas web n runs between-the belt and the boxes, and may be diverted at one end to pass over a pulley n<1> and thus retain the dough in the boxes while they are rounding the chain-wheel d. A fixed shield may however be used for this purpose. The pulleys d, n<1>, i<1> are mounted in adjustable bearings m to allow the tension in the chains and belts to be regulated. The chains are rotated by pawl-andratchet mechanism r which also transmits motion by toothed gearing to the belts, and may be utilized to impart a rocking motion to the hopper i. The hopper may be provided with guides to direct the divided masses of dough into the compartments of the boxes. The machine may be arranged with two series of boxes side by side or superposed, and the boxes and belts may be arranged in inclined positions.
Patent GB-190716749-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in the Art of Casting Pipes and the like.
Inventor: CUSTER EDGAR ALAN
Filed: 1907-07-22
Granted: 1908-07-22
Abstract: 16,749. Custer, E. A. July 22. Casting.-Pipes are cast in permanent moulds by the plant described in Specification No. 16,746, A.D. 1907. A table 12, Fig. 1, carries moulds 17 situated between grooves 15, and is rotated with a step-by-step motion to bring the grooves into line with a track 11, so that a pouring - track 13 may be run on to the table over the mould until its ladles 14 are over the gates 25, Fig. 3. 'The ladles. are of similar shape and equal capacity, are tilted equally by a crank-handle and gearing, and are mounted so that their spouts are situated in the axes of tilting as described in Specification No. 16,747, A.D. 1907. The gates 25 terminate in U- shaped runners 24 equally disposed along the length of the mould, and this arrangement combined with the arrangement of the pouring-truck enables equal streams of metal to enter the mould, producing uniform pressures and equal flow throughout. A hollow perforated core-bar 27 with a sand or like gritty facing is employed to provide means for the escape of air. A longitudinal channel 26 is provided at the top of the mould to collect gas liberated during the casting. After pouring, the truck is returned up the empty branch 10 to be refilled from the cupola 6 through a distributing- ladle 8, the table 12 is rotated a step, and the filled truck 13 is run over the next mould. During the period of a complete rotation of the table the moulds are opened, freed from the castings, and prepared for a fresh pouring. The mould is fully described in Specification No. 16,748, A.D. 1907.
Patent GB-190717525-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Split Pins or similar Fastening Devices.
Inventor: LEACHMAN CLAUDE
Filed: 1907-07-31
Granted: 1908-07-30
Abstract: 17,525. Leachman, C. July 31. Pins for cottering ; nails, sockets for. - A w e d g e piece is arranged within a split pin or similar fastening-device, so that after insertion the end of the pin may be opened. The pin B is provided with recesses B' and an axial cylindrical hole for the wedge piece, which comprises a pin provided with a bulged portion C. By moving the part C out of the recesses B', the pin is opened. In a modification, the bulged part C is provided with shoulders or projeclions which engage with corresponding shoulders in the pin when the part C is forced out of the recess. The two parts of the split pin may be unconnected and the wedge pin formed with two bulges, or two wedge pins employed. The split pin may be made in more than two parts, as in the form of a slitted cylinder.
Patent GB-190717617-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in a Coin Controlled Pay Station for Telephones.
Inventor: CARTER CHARLES HICKLING
Filed: 1907-08-01
Granted: 1908-01-30
Abstract: 17,617. Carter, C. H. Aug. 1. Telephones; money shoots. - Tolls of various values are inserted in a single slot and afterwards deflected into their proper channels by a separator, so that each produces a distinct signal or series of signals by striking sounding-devices mounted upon a resonant plate. The coin channel plates f, g, which are supported on posts d with intervening felt &c. washers e for deadening sound vibrations, enclose, at the top, a single channel h, which leads to the separator and into which the coins are inserted by a slot i, and below, the separator and two channels separated by a division plate k. The coins roll along the separator j bearing against the inclined rear wall 2, Fig. 10, a fifty-cent coin, say, being diverted through the aperture l, Fig. 8, by the deflector 3, so as to strike the stems of the wire gongs 8, 9, Fig. 1, while the deflector 4 turns a twenty-five cent coin through the aperture m into contact with the gong 9 only. A five-cent piece is diverted through an aperture q, Fig. 1, in the opposite wall of the separator into contact with the lower edge of a bell 10, while a ten-cent piece escapes the deflectors and falls through the end of the separator striking both the top and bottom of the bell producing two signals. The bell and gongs are mounted on a resonant plate b to which is secured the base 14 of the transmitter 15. ' Fraud, preventing.-The deflector 6 turns onecent coins out of the separator, whence they pass direct to the money-box u.
Patent GB-190717671-A (GB)
Title: Improved Means or Devices for Closing the Ends of Pipes or Junction Inlets or Outlets of Earthenware or Stoneware Pipes.
Inventor: SUTTON JOHN HOLMES
Filed: 1907-08-02
Granted: 1907-11-07
Abstract: 17,671. Sutton, J. H., and Gregson, L. Aug. 2. Stoppers.-A clamping-device, for securing a pipe stopper on to its seat, comprises fixed and pivoted members engaging an annular groove in the pipe socket above the stopper. In the form shown in Fig. 1, members 6 are fixed to, and a member 8 loosely pivoted on, a ring 5 carrying studs bearing on the stopper. The device is placed above the stopper so that the members 6 enter the annular groove, and adjacent studs on the ring contact with the stopper. The member 8 is then turned down from the plane of the ring and into the annular groove, and its nut tightened, so that the ring is forced into contact with the stopper at that point by the member 8 becoming horizontal. In the form shown in Fig. 3, the fixed member 13 is placed in the groove over the cover, the outer end forced down, and pivoted members 15 thereon turned into the groove. The construction may be varied.
Patent GB-190718253-A (GB)
Title: An Improvement in Soap Frames.
Inventor: BLOXAM ARTHUR GEORGE
Filed: 1907-08-12
Granted: 1908-05-21
Abstract: 18,253. Bloxam, A. G., [Jacobi, A., (Firm of)]. Aug. 12. Casting s o a p.- Soap frames are provided with vents which are automatically closed when t h e frames become filled with soap. The vent pipe 2 is fitted with a loose metal rod or stopper 3 in such a manner that air normally escapes through the space 4, but when the space is filled the liquid soap solidifies round the rod 3 and closes the passage 4. A hook 6 engages with a bent arm 5 of the stopper 3 and prevents it from being ejected from the tube 2. It is stated that the vent may be sealed automatically by making the pipe so narrow that the liquid soap congeals therein.
Patent GB-190718431-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Miners' Tea Bottles or Jacks
Inventor: HARRIS HAROLD DOUGLAS
Filed: 1908-02-14
Granted: 1908-06-04
Abstract: 18,431. Harris, H. D. Feb. 14, 1908. Workmen's cans.- Miners' tea bottles or jacks of oval form are made in two parts, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2, to facilitate cleaning. The top, Fig. 1, has a body part which fits into the main body of the can, the joint being made air-tight by a rubber or other washer fitting in a groove 4 on this inside body part; a second washer 3 is placed between the flanges 2, Fig. 1, and 2, Fig. 2. The joint is secured by means of fasteners such as, for example, screws 5, fitting into open-ended slots in the two lugs 1, and secured by thumb or other nuts 6.
Patent GB-190720417-A (GB)
Title: Process for the Manufacture of High-speed Tools for Machine-tools.
Inventor: LUDWIG ANTON GEORG
Filed: 1907-09-13
Granted: 1908-05-28
Abstract: 20,417. Ludwig, A. G. Sept. 13. Tools; soldering and brazing.-High-speed tools are made by soldering or brazing, with a material not easily melted such as copper, an end piece of nigh-speed steel to a shank of ordinary metal. The shank a, Fig. 5, is formed by cutting a bar say at an angle of forty-five degrees, the edge c is bent up with a hammer, and the piece of high-speed steel d is placed in position and clamped by aid of a bar g and tongs h, Fig. 7. Copper and soldering-material is placed at k, and the part d is heated almost to melting, and is cooled in a strong current of cold air, the bar g being knife - edged at m to allow freedom of access. When the tool is cool it is ground under water. When the cutting - end is worn out, it may be sawn out and a new piece attached as described above.
Patent GB-190726878-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Boiler or the like Furnaces.
Inventor: CLARKE CHARLES LEIGH
Filed: 1908-06-04
Granted: 1908-11-26
Abstract: 26,878. Clarke, C. L. June 4, 1908. Smoke-consuming.-In a boiler or like furnace, air for secondary combustion is heated in pipes within the flues and is mixed with a supplementary supply of cold air, and delivered above or beyond the grate. Figs. 2 and 3 show the invention applied to a Lancashire boiler. An air-heating pipe 6 is arranged in each of the side flues 4, and is provided with a flared inlet 7 arranged in the front wall. The heated air enters a trunk 12 and escapes to the furnace by means of pipes 13 on each side of the furnace door. The air may enter the furnace by natural draught, or may be induced by a jet of air or steam or driven or drawn through the pipe by a fan or the like. Fig. 3 shows a steam nozzle 21 which delivers steam-into the part of the air pipe outside the furnace, the steam being previously heated in a pipe 19 arranged in the flues 4, although the steam may be led directly to the nozzle. A rotary hit-and-miss valve 25 admits a supplementary supply of cold air to the hot-air pipe. The air may be led through the furnace front at each side'of and above the level of the door instead of through the dead-plate, and may also be led through pipes and delivered through or behind the bridge in addition to or instead of at the front of the furnace. The air pipe 6 may be located in the bottom flue instead of or in addition to the side flues 4, and may pass in succession through two or more of the flues.
Patent GB-190727943-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Feeding Bottles.
Inventor: GEE THOMAS SNEATH
Filed: 1907-12-18
Granted: 1908-02-20
Abstract: 27,943. Gee, T. S. Dec. 18. Feeding-bottles.-The bottle a, Fig. 1, is cylindrical and is mounted internally to avoid angles for lodgment of dirt. It is further provided with a hexagonal or like surface c to prevent rolling. In a modification, studs i, Fig. 5, are used for the same purpose, or a hexagonal ring may replace the studs. The bottom c', Fig. 1, of the bottle is flat or is provided with studs to enable the bottle to stand upright. A teat f is provided with corrugations g so that external pressure does not entirely close its orifice.
Patent GB-190802126-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and connected with Trawling Gear
Inventor: BRACE JOSEPH IRONS
Filed: 1908-01-30
Granted: 1908-10-22
Abstract: 2126. Brace, J. I. Jan. 30. Trawling-gear.-Kites, to be attached to the headlines of trawl-nets to expand them when shooting, are made of sections of wood &c. as a sheathing covered by canvas. The canvas is stitched between each section at d, the front surface c always being flush with the centre of the kite. Stays g, h attach the kite to the net.
Patent GB-190802739-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or connected with Photographic Cameras.
Inventor: PARKINSON WILLIAM LAURENCE
Filed: 1908-02-07
Granted: 1909-02-08
Abstract: 2739. Parkinson, W. L. Feb. 7. Cameras; dark slides.-A shutter d, Fig. 5, slides in, and closes part of an aperture c, Fig. 3, in the back of a camera used for multiple-photograph work. The shutter has pins d' sliding in grooves d<2> in the sides of the aperture c, which they enter by gaps d<5>. Flanges d<3> on the shutter enter rabbets d<4>, and a tongue d<6> enters a recess d<7>, the shutter being held. in position by a spring d<8>. The dark slide used has an integral focusing-screen, and can be moved and secured to expose different parts of the plate. The shutter of the dark slide is retained by a projection and a spring catch on the camera back.
Patent GB-190805155-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Method of Treating and Conditioning Cereals and their Products and other Alimentary Substances so as to Improve their Baking Value and Add to their Commercial Value.
Inventor: HOGARTH JAMES
Filed: 1908-05-02
Granted: 1909-04-22
Abstract: 5155. Hogarth, J. May 2. Preserving flour &c.-Cereals, their products, and other alimentary substances are conditioned by treating with air or other gas which has been subjected to a rotary, reciprocating, or like motion. The gases &c. produced during electric discharges or from other sources of light may be used. In one form of apparatus, the air is forced or drawn through tubes c, which are fitted into end plates d<1> carried in bearings g. The tubes may be connected either in series or in parallel by spaces within the end plates. The air is then led to a mixing-vessel with agitating-vanes, which is fed with flour &c. from a hopper, or to a chamber into which the flour &c. is shaken from a sieve and removed by a screw-conveyer. In another form of apparatus the air &c. may be passed through a pipe coiled on a rotating drum, or the air &c. may be mixed with the flour &c. and the mixture passed through a rotor of any suitable construction and then to a cyclone or other separator. The air &c. may be washed, filtered, dried, or heated and a variable quantity of untreated air may pass by a branch pipe to mix with that from the rotor. The axis of the rotor is preferably arranged to point East and West but may be in any other position.
Patent GB-190807937-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Wheels for Road Locomotives, Traction Engines, Motor Wagons and the like.
Inventor: BLAND WILLIAM
Filed: 1908-04-09
Granted: 1909-01-07
Abstract: 7937. Bland, W. April 9. Disk wheels.-A disk wheel is made of a number of metal-plate sections, each having the rim portion and spokes integrally formed by imparting to suitably-shaped blanks a segmental form, troughshaped in cross-section, the wheel sections being welded together and secured to the hub. Steel or iron plates of suitable length and breadth have parts cut out laterally, leaving tapered projections to form the spokes b, and are then heated and pressed or forged into trough shape, the flat bottom of the trough forming the rim a. The spokes are secured between two flanges d on the hub and two collars f provided with projections g, which enter recesses in the hub flanges between the spokes.
Patent GB-190811351-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Draught Excluders.
Inventor: RUSS EDWIN
Filed: 1908-05-25
Granted: 1909-03-25
Abstract: 11,351. Russ, E. May 25. Draught-excluders.-In draught-excluders of the kind described in Specification No. 129, A.D. 1893, the two end brackets b, which carry the plushcovered roller, are provided with lugs c extending into the ends of the roller, which may be hollow, or solid with recessed ends, or may be provided with ferrules at its ends. The position of the lugs c is such that the roller is retained in close proximity to the door.
Patent GB-190814096-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Train Operated Mechanism for Opening and Closing Doors.
Inventor: ROBERTSON POMPIE LEE
Filed: 1908-07-03
Granted: 1908-09-03
Abstract: 14,096. Robertson, P. L. July 3, 1907, [date applied for under Section 91 of Patents &c. Act, 1907]. Door opening and closing apparatus.-Relates to mechanism for opening and closing doors, particularly mine doors, in which the doors are opened by the weight of an approaching train or other vehicle. The pivoted track rails 2 are supported by transversely-disposed bars 5 pivotally connected at their inner ends to a support 7, the bars 5 being attached at their outer ends to longitudinallydisposed operating-bars 8. The bars 8 are pivoted at 9 and are adapted to operate the flexible door 20 through levers 11, 13, 16, 18, the levers 13, 18 being pivoted to a supporting frame 3 and provided with holes for the purpose of adjustment. Weights 21 on the ends of the bars 8 return the door to its closed position after the train &c. has passed through.
Patent GB-190816464-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Ironing Machines.
Inventor: FAIRBROTHER HENRY
Filed: 1908-08-04
Granted: 1909-03-18
Abstract: 16,464. Fairbrother, H., [Slitzel, H.]. Aug. 4. No Patent granted (Sealing fee not paid). Ironing-machines.-In a shirt-ironing machine, the iron 14 is oscillated about a vertical axis so as to iron the shirt front and the neck-band in their normal relative positions. The spindle 12, oscillated by mechanism within the standard 1, carries a radial pin 13 adapted to enter a longitudinal recess in the iron, which is drawn towards the spindle by a pair of springs 15, but may be displaced outwardly by actuating a bell-crank lever 16 pivoted on the iron. This lever carries a roller 166 which is pressed against the standard 1 when it is desired to move the iron outwards. The shirt is placed on one of two boards 17, which are mounted on carriages 33 running along rails 26 and can be raised into contact with the iron by means of a plate 29 supported by a lever 50 connected with the treadle-lever 54 by a resilient telescopic link 53. The treadle-lever can be held in any desired position by means of a pawl 62, which engages a toothed quadrant 63 and is operated by a foot-lever 60. The iron is recessed to fit over the block 73 against which the neck-band is placed, and the band is thus ironed while in a vertical position. To permit the escape of moisture, the sole of the iron has grooves or ribs radiating from the axis of oscillation. The spindle 12 may be disconnected from its driving-gear by means of a spring clutch pin 81. The machine may be duplicated, two irons and sets of tables being arranged on opposite sides of a common standard.
Patent GB-190819344-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Screens for Photometric Measurements.
Filed: 1908-09-15
Granted: 1908-12-31
Abstract: 19,344. Siemens Bros. & Co., [Siemens & Halske Akt.-Ges.]. Sept. 15. Photometers.-A photometric screen of the Bunsen grease-spot type is made by replacing the opaque paper screen by a double-sided mirror d between two frosted-glass plates b, c ; a hole a in the mirror serves for the translucent spot. In another form a double mirror of the size of the grease-spot ordinarily used is placed between two frosted-glass plates so that the translucent and opaque parts are reversed. If the light is diffuse a small mirror may be placed on either side of a frosted-glass plate.
Patent GB-190827333-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Typewriters.
Inventor: FORBES WILLIAM YUILE
Filed: 1907-11-23
Granted: 1909-01-25
Abstract: 27,333. Forbes, W. Y., and Rothwell, W. H. Nov. 23, 1907. Typewriters.-(1). The escapement mechanism consists of a crown-wheel 27 connected to the carriage 13 by a pinion 29 and rack 30, and engaged by fast and loose dogs on the opposite arms of an anchor or bell-crank lever 34 operated from the universal bar by a second bell-crank lever 35. (2). A hand-lever 24, which moves across the front of the machine, is connected by a cord 25 to the driving- drum 26, and carries a line-spacing lever 83, a carriage-release lever 45, a margin-release lever 119, and tabulating-devices 120. The lever 24 carries an arcuate rack 23, and effects the return of the carriage through pinions 22, 20 and a rack 19 detachably coupled to the carriage by a hook 18. The carriage-release lever 45 through a cord 44 &c. operates a rod to tilt the rack 30 out of engagement with the pinion 29. A number of stops 115, pivoted behind a rack 114 notched to correspond with the scale bar, can be turned down into an horizontal position to engage the margin-release lever 119, or into a lower position so as to be engaged by the tabulating-rods 120. When a rod 120 is pushed in, it passes on to a receiver bar 122, and is raised into the path of the stop 115 when the bar 122 is tilted by the actuation of the carriagerelease lever 45. A pawl 125 prevents the return of the rod 120 until after it has been lifted by the bar 122. The plate carrying the stops 115 has a slight spring-controlled side motion to minimize the concussion when the margin or tabulating devices are in use. The tabulating-mechanism may be detachable from the hand-lever.
Patent GB-190901005-A (GB)
Title: An Arrangement for Transmission of Power by Liquids under Pressure.
Inventor: LENTZ HUGO
IPC: F04C14/26
Filed: 1909-01-15
Granted: 1910-01-17
Abstract: 1005. Lentz, H. Jan. 15, 1908, [Convention date]. Speed - varying mechanism.-In apparatus of the type wherein the supply from the pumps to the motors, and consequently their speed, is regulated by by-passing more or less of the liquid back to the suction pipes of the pumps, a special regulator is used which provides for positive regulation of the quantity of liquid bypassed. On the shaft c of the pumps are two disks a, b, having blades which are constrained to move in grooves in a fluid-tight framing f, a central suction pipe k, Fig. 3, communicating with both pump bodies d, e. Each pump, as shown in Fig. 2, has two diametrically opposite inlets m, n and two outlets q, r with discharge pipes s, t. The pipes s, t of the pump a lead to ports v, x in a regulating - v a l v e casing, and those of the pump b lead to two similar ports. The regulator, which is rotated by a spindle and has a watertight diaphragm at each end, has two sets of valve ports 3, 4 adapted to co-operate with the pump discharge ports, and an annular space 5 communicating with the suction pipe k of the pumps. The ports are arranged so that the rotation of the valve produces a gradual and successive closing of the ports, and the valve faces 8 are made smaller than these ports so that they are never completely closed. From the valve z liquid passes by a pipe 10 through a reversing-valve 11 to the two motors 20, 21, which in the case of a motor-car form the differential gear ; thence the liquid returns to the pump by the pipe 13. In the position of the valve 11 shown in Fig. 1, the liquid passes from it to a pipe 18 forming the common inlet pipe to the motors, and the pipe 19 acts as the common discharge. If the valve 11 is shifted to the left as shown in Fig. 8, the pipe 19 becomes the inlet pipe and the pipe 18 the outlet pipe, the liquid passing from the latter through ports 15, 16 through the centre of the valve 11 to the pipe 13.