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Patent GB-190511002-A (GB)
Title: A New or Improved Hand Tool for Resizing the Pellets of Air Guns.
Inventor: JEFFRIES LINCOLN
Filed: 1905-05-26
Granted: 1905-09-14
Abstract: 11,002. Jeffries, L. May 26. Toy missiles.-Relates to a hand-tool for resizing air-gun pellets. The pellet is placed in a socket a<2> carried by the jaw a<1> of the pliers A, and is shaped by a conical die a' carried by the jaw a<3>. The depth of the socket is adjusted by a plunger B, a collar b<2> on which abuts against the screwed bush b<4>. The plunger is also used to eject the resized pellet.
Patent GB-190511495-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in the Construction of Tubular Boilers
Inventor: BAINES WILLIAM
Filed: 1905-06-01
Granted: 1905-08-24
Abstract: 11,495. Baines, W. June 1. No Patent granted (Sealing fee not paid). Multitubular boilers. Boilers for motor road vehicles of the type in which a central fire-box A is furnished on either side with fire-tube chambers D and combustion chambers G are formed with a large open fire-box, as shown, extending above the fire-tubes, and having a tapering or conical dome with a central fuel feeding aperture C. The use of a fire-box crown plate and stays is thus dispensed with, and sufficient space is given in the boiler to allow access to the fire-tubes.
Patent GB-190516497-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Steam Engines.
Inventor: DAWBARN ROBERT ARTHUR
Filed: 1905-08-14
Granted: 1906-01-18
Abstract: 16,497. Dawbarn, R. A. Aug. 14. Terminal exhaust engines ; cylinders, heating; pistons; piston-rods, compound engines.-In engines having. terminal exhaust parts in which the hollow piston is approximately of half the length of the cylinder, the piston is heated as described in Specification No. 6958, A.D. 1901. The piping in the piston is connected by pipes s passing through the piston-red with piping contained in the flue of a stove surrounding the connecting - rod. The cylinder ends and covers are heated by pipes connected to the tubular arrangement contained in the flue of the stove or the furnace flue of the steam generator. The piping 9 is wrapped upon FIC.6. Terminal exhaust engines ; cylinders., heating; pistons; piston-rods ; compound engines.-In engines having terminal exhaust parts in which the hollow piston is approximately of half the length of the cylinder, the piston is heated as described in Specification No. 6958,A.D. 1901. The piping in the piston is connected by pipes passing through the piston-red with piping contained in the flue of a s t o v e surrounding the connecting - rod. The cylinder ends and covers are heated by pipes connected to the tubular arrangement contained in the flue of the stove or a distance-piece 21 screwed to the end corners of the piston 5, or may be embedded in a piece 21<a>, Fig. 6, cast on the piston. This piping passes through the piston-rod and is connected to piping 17 reciprocating through stuffing-boxes 18 in the flue of the stove. An air chamber 22 is arranged in the piston to allow for expansion of the water. In a compound engine, the heat-absorbing pipes of the low- or intermediatepressure pistons may be heated in a continuation of the flue of the stove for the high-pressure piston.
Patent GB-190520505-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and in connection with Stencil Sheets.
Inventor: HURWITZ HERMANN
Filed: 1905-10-10
Granted: 1906-07-12
Abstract: 20,505. Hurwitz, H. Oct. 10. Stencils.-Stencil sheets employed for producing reverse copies of documents on hectographic surfaces are protected when not in use by a protecting-sheet b of oil &c. paper, impermeable to ink, connected to the stencil along one edge. The protecting-sheet b is raised to allow the back of the stencil to be inked. The sheet b is formed with a rough surface d, which serves instead of the usual silk sheet to remove the wax from the stencil when struck by the types of the typewriter. A cover sheet e is also provided.
Patent GB-190521030-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Cooking Ranges.
Inventor: MILLER WILLIAM
Filed: 1905-10-17
Granted: 1906-05-31
Abstract: 21,030. Miller, W. Oct. 17. Cooking - ranges. -An auxiliary boiler or supply tank is fitted in the flues of a convertible close and open range of the kind described in Specification No. 6379, A.D. 1904, in place of the oven described in that Specification. Specification N o. 1415, A.D. 1891, is also referred to. The auxiliary boiler or tank A is connected to the boiler I in the grate by circulation pipes L, L<1>, and may be of such dimensions that the combustion products pass partly over its front surface.
Patent GB-190523998-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Machines for Constructing Flexible Metal Tubes and Armouring Flexible Hose or other Tubes.
Inventor: GREENFIELD EDWIN TRUMAN
Filed: 1905-11-21
Granted: 1906-11-21
Abstract: 23,998. Greenfield, E. T. Nov. 21. Corrugating; bending.-The apparatus for armouring cables described in Specification No. 8045, A.D. 1899, [Abridgment Class Electricity, Conducting &c.]; is adapted for armouring or making flexible tubes. without the use of a mandrel, by the addition of a guiding-plate 11 to the die 2 which helps to give the inner strip 16 its initial curvature, strengthening - corrugations 18 being formed on the strips 16, 17 by the corrugating and feeding rolls.
Patent GB-190608216-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Match Box Holder
Inventor: TRUEMAN ARTHUR
Filed: 1906-04-05
Granted: 1907-02-21
Abstract: 8216. Trueman, A. April 5. Drawings to Specification. Advertising.-The whole or a part of a speciallyconstructed match-box holder is used for advertising purposes.
Patent GB-190613747-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Apparatus for Promoting or Increasing Respiration.
Filed: 1906-06-15
Granted: 1906-12-31
Abstract: 13,747. Kohlensõure-Industrie Stettin Ges., and Brat, P. June 15. Respiration, appliances for p r omoting.-For assisti n g or restoring breathing, a vessel a, fitted with a reducing-valve b, and containing oxygen, communicates by a pipe c w i t hone port of a three-way tap d, which is joined by its other ports to a constantly - acting exhaust pump g and a face mask i, the latter fitting tightly over the mouth and nose. By operating the tap d, the vessels a, g are alternately put in communication with the mask i, the vessel a forcing oxygen into the lungs, and the vessel g drawing off the expired air. The alternations of pressure and exhaustion can be adjusted to the natural breathing-period of the patient by suitably regulating the movements of the tap d.
Patent GB-190617388-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in relating to Pressure Indicators for use in connection with Pneumatic Tyres and the like.
Inventor: TURNER HENRY
Filed: 1906-08-02
Granted: 1907-05-16
Abstract: 17,388. Turner, H. Aug. 2. Couplings, d i s c nnectible. - A connecting- device for attaching a pressure gauge momentarily to a pneumatic tyre consists of a thimble having a central tubular pin D adapted to be inserted in the inlet valve of the tyre, which it opens by pressing the valve pin. An air-tight joint is ensured by a rubber seat I surrounding the pin and supported by a spring F bearing against the metal washer H.
Patent GB-190617729-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Garment Supporters and Retainers
Inventor: CHRYSLER CHARLES
Filed: 1906-08-07
Granted: 1907-08-07
Abstract: 17,729. Chrysler, C. Nov. 7, 1905, [date applied for under Patents Act, 1901]. Belts ; suspenders for articles of dress.-Relates to a belt for holding up a skirt band to prevent the skirt from sagging or rising up in the front when' , ` worn. Plates 7, Fig. 1, each having a bulging centre part 8, from which jagged projections 9 are punched up, are threaded at intervals on the belt by means of vertical end slots 6, the belt passing behind the bulge. The skirt band is tightened over the projections 9, and lies underneath a turned-over extension 10 on the plate. The extension forms a hook which serves to hold down the skirt, and projections 11 stamped outwardly from the bill of the hook serve to retain an. outer covering belt. In the modification shown in Fig. 7, the hook 10<a> projects from one corner. Blouse-retain ing plates, Fig. 5, are also provided, and threaded by slots 4 on to the belt. Projections 5 stamped inwardly from the plates engage the blouse and hold it down.
Patent GB-190618368-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Capsules to Prevent Bottles from being Fraudulently Refilled.
Inventor: HEFFERNAN TOM
Filed: 1906-08-16
Granted: 1907-08-01
Abstract: 18,368. Heffernan, T. Aug. 16. Bottles, non-refillable. -A capsule a provided with liquid outlets 2 is compressed or sprung over the bottle neck. The upper part of the capsule is formed with quick screw-threads adapted to be engaged by projections 5 on a revoluble cap 6. When screwed down, the cap bears on a marble 10, and causes it to close a valve 7 seating in the upper part of the neck. The marble may be replaced by a spindle depending from the cap ; or, as shown in Fig. 6, the marble may bear directly on a valve seating and be controlled by a cap 15 adapted to screw on to the capsule 13, locking-means being provided to prevent the cap from being entirely withdrawn. The valve may be controlled by a perforated disk 20, Fig. 8, carried by a screwspindle 18 working through the top of the capsule and provided with an operating disk 19. Or, the upper face of the valve may be formed with camsurfaces 24, Fig. 12, adapted to co-operate with a projection 23 depending from the disk 20, the spindle of the operating-disk 19 in this instance being plain. Or, as shown in Fig. 15, the camsurfaces may be formed on the upper surface 24 of the controlling-disk and the underside 23 of the top of the capsule. The cap 26, Fig. 17, or the part of the capsule which carries the valve-controlling means, may be removably connected to the capsule proper, so that when the capsule is destroyed, the other parts may be used again.
Patent GB-190618667-A (GB)
Title: A Dust Suppressor for Motor and Bicycle Wheels
Inventor: MARTIN GEORGE FREDERICK
Filed: 1906-08-20
Granted: 1907-05-02
Abstract: 18,667. Martin, G. F. Aug. 20. Drawings to Specification. Wheels with casing enclosing spokes.-In a device for preventing the raising of dust by the wheels of bicycles and motor and other vehicles, a two-part hood supported from the axle is used to enclose the wheel while shields or covers to enclose the spokes may also be used.
Patent GB-190618990-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Metal Golf Driving Clubs.
Inventor: MYLES DAVID
Filed: 1906-08-25
Granted: 1907-01-24
Abstract: 18,990. Myles, D. Aug. 25. Golf.-Metal golf clubs of the type described in Specification No. 5121, A.D. 1905, are constructed with an inclined enlargement 5 on the rear face, the inclination being from the heel 6 to the toe 7, as shown by the contour lines in Fig. 2. The enlargement is adapted to give the club a " driver " balance." In order that the balance may be adjusted, the enlargement may be separate from the club and soldered, brazed, or screwed thereto.
Patent GB-190623847-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Linotype Machines.
Inventor: POLLEN ARTHUR HUNGERFORD
Filed: 1906-10-26
Granted: 1908-01-25
Abstract: 23,847. Pollen, A. H., Holbourns, J. G., and Longhurst, H. A. Oct. 26. Linotype machines.-Relates to change of magazine in single or multiple magazine linotype machines, and consists in providing means for effecting seriatim the operations of locking the escapement levers, disengaging the escapement rods from the escapement levers, and locking the key-levers. Specifications No. 14,582, A.D. 1890, No. 24,605, A.D. 1894, and No. 15,058, A.D. 1904, are referred to. The escapement levers 8, Fig. 1, are locked by a rock-shaft 25 provided with a groove 27 or series of fingers, the escapement rods are disengaged by a rock-shaft 29 provided with a ridged bar or series of fingers, and the key-lever rods are locked by a rock-shaft 33 provided with a face 35 or series of fingers. The three rook-shafts 33, 29, 25 are actuated seriatim by a sliding-bar 36 operated by a handle 39 retained in its two positions by a spring bolt 42. The shaft 33 is actuated by means of a stud 49 and slotted lug 47, the shaft 29 by means of a cranked pin 50 and a slot 51, and the shaft 25 by means of a crank-pin 54 and spring push-piece 52. The shaft 25 is turned to locking position against the action of a spiral spring, which returns the shaft on the reverse movement of the bar 36. The shaft 25 is retained in locking position by means of a detent 56 engaging behind a shoulder 57. Fig. 7 shows an. arrangement of multiple actuators 61 for the crank-pins 54 in a multiple magazine machine. The actuators 61 are carried by a spring-supported bar 60 on the sliding- bar 36, and are normally retracted by springs 65. When it is desired to change a magazine, the corresponding actuator is depressed and then rotated, so that it is held depressed by means of a pin 63 normally located in a slot 64.
Patent GB-190626903-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Drop Down Small Arms.
Inventor: BAKER WILLIAM
Filed: 1906-11-27
Granted: 1907-07-25
Abstract: 26,903. Baker, W. Nov. 27. Breech actions, drop-down barrel.-The hammers are cocked when the gun is opened, but the main springs are compressed by the closing of the gun. The main spring 9 is mounted in a box 10 pivoted at 11, to the lock plate 26. When the gun is opened, the hammer 13 is cocked by the-longer arm of the main spring the box 10 carrying the spring being turned by the pressure of the sear spring 22 upon the end 23 of the box 10. The forward end of the box 10 is raised to compress the main spring 9 by means of a pivoted lever 16, the forward end 21 of which is depressed by a lump 19<a> when the gun is closed. Modifications, showing various arrangements of the lump lever 16 and of the box 10, are described.
Patent GB-190629675-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Rollers for use in Cloth Milling and Fulling Machines.
Inventor: RHODES ALBERT
Filed: 1906-12-31
Granted: 1907-12-12
Abstract: 29,675. Rhodes, A. Dec. 31. Wooden rollers and drums.-A roller for cloth milling and fulling machines comprises a metal bush b, Figs. 2 and 3. on the shaft d, and having disks c, c<1> mounted loosely at its extremities and supporting wooden blocks f shaped to fit together to form a complete cylinder. The inner surfaces of the disks have annular flanges c<2> projecting from them, so that the parts c<3>, c<4> may engage with corresponding parts formed on the wooden blocks f, the screwed bolts g then being passed through the whole and screwed into openings tapped in the disk c<1>. In a modification, the ends of the bolts are secured by nuts arranged in recesses in the disk c<1>.
Patent GB-190700244-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or connected with Electrical Automatic Signalling Systems for Railways.
Inventor: SAYERS JOSIAH
Filed: 1907-01-04
Granted: 1907-11-14
Abstract: 244. Sayers, J. Jan. 4. Automatic systems.-In order to prevent leakage between contiguous sections of insulated track rails used in automatic electric signalling-systems, short lengths of insulated rail are introduced into each rail and are bonded, so that any leakage from a section is short-circuited through the bond and does not interfere with the next section.
Patent GB-190700859-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Non-skidding Appliances for Motor Cars and other Vehicles
Inventor: RODRIGUEZ EMILIO
Filed: 1907-01-12
Granted: 1908-01-11
Abstract: 859. Rodriguez, E. Jan. 12. Tyres, pneumatic &c.-A sectional tread band comprises elements buils up of plaits of vegetable fibre, such as Spanish hemp, mixed or not with other materials placed side by side and stitched or otherwise secured together until the required length and width are obtained. In the form shown, a length a of plaited hemp is wound on itself, and the windings are secured together by hemp stitches b. The section thus formed is secured by rivets to canvas c to which are riveted hooked metal pieces e, which are engaged by a wire or by the edges of the rim to secure the sections on the tyre. The band may be lined inside or outside with protecting material. According to the Provisional Specification, the tread band may be continuous and may be made up of plaits or ropes of indiarubber, leather, wire, or other material; the band may comprise more than one layer, and metal pieces may be attached to its surface.
Patent GB-190701025-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Alarm Clocks.
Inventor: FATTORINI EDWARD
Filed: 1907-01-15
Granted: 1907-04-25
Abstract: 1025. Fattorini, E., Fattorini, J. E., Fattorini, J., and Fattorini, E. J. Jan. 15. Alarms.-In alarm clocks of the type described in Specification No. 16,226, A.D. 1892, in which the alarm rings every twenty-four hours, an indicator plate is provided to show in which period of twelve hours the alarm will take place. A plate G, pivoted at E and bearing the words 'alarm' and 'silent,' has a cam F or the like which bears against the cam C on the twentyfour hour-wheel B. When the step D on the cam C reaches the cam F, the word 'alarm' is seen indicating that the alarm will ring within the next twelve hours, after which the word 'silent' is visible.
Patent GB-190702515-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Forms or Moulds particularly for use in Moulding Insulating Sheaths for Electric Conductors from Sheet Fibrous Material.
Inventor: BAKER WILLIAM HENRY
Filed: 1907-01-31
Granted: 1907-06-06
Abstract: 2515. Baker, W. H. March 21,1906, [date applied for under Patents Act, 1901]. Moulding pulp; moulding electric insulators.- Fibre insulating-coverings for conductors in electric railways &c. are shaped and dried on a former 10, made so that there are air passages in it through which hot air can get to the fibre during drying . The skeleton former consists of perforated sheetmetal strips 13 fastened on a wood frame consisting of separated filling - pieces 14, to which are fixed longitudinal spacing-pieces 15, which may have the grain running differently, leaving air spaces 16, 17. Pieces, such as 19, 20, are secured to this frame to give the covering at any point the particular shape desired ; as shown, the shape produced would have flared and tapering ends. The damp sheet being placed round the former, it is clamped or pressed by pieces 35 and transferred to the drier.
Patent GB-190704096-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Jacquard Mechanism for Looms.
Inventor: WATZLAWIK FRITZ
Filed: 1907-02-19
Granted: 1907-08-08
Abstract: 4096. Watzlawik, F., and Hahn, S. Feb. 19. Loom jacquards.-Relates to jacquard mechanism of the type in which the needles 37, which are acted upon by the cards 39, control the positions of the lifting- hooks f through horizontal needles 30, tapes or wires k or suitable levers, and springs i, which are connected to the hooks, the needles 30 being formed with notches 31, 32, which are engaged by cross-bars 34 on horizontallymovab!e frames 33 when the needles are not raised, so that the needles are moved to the left and the corresponding hooks f are disengaged from their knives. Each needle 37 is formed with two or more cross-bars, upon which the ends 30<a> of the needles 30 rest, so that each medle 37 controls two or more needles 30 and hooks f to produce repeats of the pattern. The cross-bars on the needles 37 may be extended to co-operate with the needles 30 in two or more vertical rows. The needles 37 are mounted in a removable frame 36, which is secured to the frame of the jacquard by pins 43 fitting into sockets 41, 42. The frame 36 with the needles 37 may be removed from the jacquard machine without disturbing the needles 30, and may be replaced by another frame, of which the needles co-operate with a different number of needles 30, in order to effect a change in the number of repeats of the pattern. The cards 39 are moved intermittently by means of wheels 40, and the needles 30 may be controlled by cards 44, 46, when the ground is to be produced.
Patent GB-190705079-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Sheep Wash Fluid.
Inventor: SMITH WILLIAM JONES
Filed: 1907-03-02
Granted: 1907-08-22
Abstract: 5079. Smith, W. J. March 2. Sheep, washing; parasites, destroying.-A composition for washing sheep consists of common soda, black soap, turpentine, borax, carbolic oil, ammonia, sulphur, pearl ash, hellebore, and water, boiled together in specified proportions.
Patent GB-190710958-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Tap or Cock for Gas and the like.
Inventor: TOURTEL JOHN MESNY
Filed: 1907-10-25
Granted: 1908-03-26
Abstract: 10,958. Tourtel, J. M. Oct. 25. Lighting and extinguishing gas.- The valve of an automatic gas-controlling apparatus is actuated by a diaphragm or a liquid-sealed bell, and comprises a cylindrical plug a turned by a spindle a' in a casing b closed by a cover c. The spindle is provided with a sealing-surface d pressed into contact with the casing by a spring e acting between the plug and a cap f, which may be pivoted in the cover.
Patent GB-190711580-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Turbines.
Filed: 1907-05-17
Granted: 1908-06-17
Abstract: 11,580. Belliss & Morcom, Jude, A., and Morcom, R. K. May 17. Elastic-fluid turbines. - Relates to end-thrust balancing-devices and leakage-preventing devices for turbines. To allow a balancing-piston of minimum size to be used, the turbine is arranged as an impulse turbine with a wheel portion a, Fig. 2, and drum portions b<1>, b<2>, b<3>, the statical fluid pressure on the opposite faces of the wheel portion aud on the opposite surfaces of the blade series being the same. The balancing-piston is exposed on one side of its part of smaller diameter f<1> to high-pressure steam and on one side of its part of larger diameter f<2> to low-pressure steam or to the condenser, and at the annular rim g to an intermediate pressure through pipes h, h<1>, h<3>. The turbine may have two wheels and a balancing- piston of only one diameter. A leakage-preventing device for turbine balancing-pistons, shaft stuffing- boxes, and the like consists of a series of spring rings k, Fig. 3, formed with lateral grooves filled with carbon or the like k<1>. A modified leakagepreventing device has segmental rings m, Fig. 4, adjustable by bolts n relatively to the balancing- piston j. The segmental rings have flanges m<1> fitting into recesses in the casing o and provided with overlapping strips m'. The rings may have deformable packing-strips m<3> on their operative faces. A leakage-preventing device for the bladecarrying portions of a turbine consists of segments p<1>, Fig. 6, having enlarged rivet holes which allow the position of the segments to be adjusted relatively to the rotor b<1> by a tool inserted in an aperture p<4> in the blade carrier p. Various modifications of these adjustable segments are described, some of which are deformable. Another modification has the blade carriers p, Fig. 13, mounted in supports q adjustable with regard to the rotor by screw studs q<1>. Deformable strips r, Fig. 14, as shown, or of similar construction, may be fixed on the blade ends. Or the deformable strips r, Fig. 17, may be fixed to the stator opposite the blade ends.
Patent GB-190712377-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Banana Wrappers or Coverings.
Inventor: BELL WILLIAM
Filed: 1907-05-28
Granted: 1907-10-03
Abstract: 12,377. Bell, W. May 28. Wrappers or coverings for bananas are formed of two or more pieces 2 of cloth or suitable flexible material and padding 3, all stitched together at 4. The unpadded hems 6 are provided with eyes 7 through which pass drawstrings 8. Snap hooks 9 engage with one or other of the sets of rings 10, when the package is made up. A rubber or other lining or covering may also be provided.