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Patent GB-191019976-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Cash Registers and Autographic Devices therefor.
Inventor: BRIDEN ROBERT
Filed: 1910-08-26
Granted: 1911-08-24
Abstract: 19,976. Briden, R., [representative of Palmer, C.]. Aug. 26. Autographic cash registers.-A key-set keyoperated machine, of the type described in Specification 10,213/93 is combined with an autographic device and with mechanism between the keys and the autograph - strip feeding- devices whereby the strip may be fed upon the depression of either a special-transaction key or an amount key, according to the adjustment. The feeding-device is also provided with means adapted to hold it in an inoperative position. Keys for special transactions.-Pivoted on a shaft 22 is a yoke frame 50 having a number of depending lugs 51, which rest on the specialtransaction keys. When any of these keys is depressed, the frame 50 is raised, and through the shoulder 52, mounted on the right-hand side of the frame, the pin 53, the link 54, and the arm 55, the shaft 37 is rocked. On the shaft 37 is mounted a bell-crank lever 38, attached by means of a lever 43 to a lever 36 carrying the actuating-pawl 35, which engages a ratchetwheel 34 on the receiving-drum of the autographstrip 32. An operating-handle 42 has a pin-andslot connexion with the bell-crank lever 38 and is provided for the purpose of advancing the strip independently. Keyboards.-If it is desired to actuate the feeding-device upon every operation of the machine, the key-coupler 24, which is moved each time the machine is operated, is adapted to be connected to a slotted plate 56, which is held in its rear position as shown in Fig. 2 by the action of a spring 60 on the end of a key stem 58. When the key 58 is depressed, the plate 56 moves forward, and its notch 62 engages the coupler 24. At the same time, the projection 63 on the plate moves beneath the shoulder 52 so that the shoulder receives the movement of the coupler and communicates it as above described to the pawl 35. To hold the feeding-device inoperative, the pawl 35 and the detent 44 are disengaged from the ratchet-wheel by means of a lever 47 engaging the pins 48, 49 on the pawl and detent respectively.
Patent GB-191021749-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Storm Windows.
Inventor: JOHNSTON WILLIAM
IPC: E06B3/34
Filed: 1910-09-19
Granted: 1911-01-19
Abstract: 21,749. Johnston, W., and Hirons, W. Sept. 19 Ordinary sash windows with outer hinged windows. - Ordinary sash windows are provided with an outer hinged "storm" window which may be swung inwards through the e window frame for cleaning after the sashes have been removed. The storm window 10 is pivotally secured by straps 12 to a rod 11 the ends of which are bent outwards and pivoted in brackets 13 on the frame. The rod 11 and its arms 11<1>, 11<2> are countersunk in the window 10. The upper rail of the window 10 is provided with a hinged strip 18 and the sill with a hinged bead 21 so that the window can be swung inwards when the strip 18 and bead 21 are turned down. The outer portion of the sill is flat, and drainage channels 20 are provided leading from the inner portion of the sill, which is grooved, to the outside.
Patent GB-191022147-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Pneumatic Tyres.
Inventor: HILL BARTON BERKLEY
IPC: B60C5/00
Filed: 1910-09-23
Granted: 1911-09-21
Abstract: 22,147. Hill, B. B. Sept. 23. [Cognate Application, 24,279/10.] Jackets and covers; tread bands, projections, and surfaces.-A tyre cover is formed of a main part a of canvas layers, and an outer coating, or outer and inner coatings, of rubberized leather segments or strips secured to the canvas by cement and sewing, stapling, or like means. As shown in Fig. 2, the edges b<1>, b<2> of the strips c may be scalloped, and an outer studded tread band d may be fitted.
Patent GB-191025392-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Rupture Trusses.
Inventor: LOEWY ALFRED
IPC: A61F5/32
Filed: 1910-11-01
Granted: 1911-04-20
Abstract: 25,392. Loewy, A. Nov. 1. Trusses.-In a rupture truss, the belt a is loosely or fixedly connected to the spring b by pieces e so that it makes chord-like lines with the curve of the spring, and as a consequence the spring is kept from contact with the body. The spring comprises two parallel strips which are superposed near the adjustable pad c.
Patent GB-191103855-A (GB)
Title: Improved Teapot.
Inventor: ADKINS GEORGE WILLIAM
IPC: A47G19/12
Filed: 1911-02-15
Granted: 1911-09-21
Abstract: 3855. Adkins, G. W., and Bromwich, K. L. Feb. 15. Pots.-A teapot is divided into a hot-water chamber a and an infusion chamber b by a sloping partition c, so that, when tea is poured out, hot water flows over the partition, but, when hot water is poured out, no reverse flow occurs.
Patent GB-191105190-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Electrical Transformers.
Inventor: BERRY ARTHUR FRANCIS
IPC: H01F30/10
Filed: 1911-03-01
Granted: 1912-02-29
Abstract: 5190. Berry, A. F. March 1. Transformers.-In a transformer having its primary and secondary coils arranged to give high efficiency and close regulation, one or more supplementary coils are so arranged in series with the secondary coil that they offer little impedance under normal working conditions, but under abnormal conditions the impedance will rise much faster than that of the main secondary winding and thus check the current through such winding. The supplementary coils are preferably wound in the reverse direction to the main winding. As shown in Fig. 1, applied to a transformer having a core a of the laminated shell type, the supplementary coils c are arranged in additional openings formed in the core, and are connected in series with the main secondary coil c. In a modification, a supplementary coil is arranged around a central core or member extending through the space between the inner legs of the plates of the ordinary core.
Patent GB-191106626-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Electric Order-signalling Apparatus.
Filed: 1911-03-16
Granted: 1911-04-27
Abstract: 6626. Siemens Bros. & Co., [Siemens & Halske Akt.-Ges.]. March 16. [Addition to 19,684/09.] Order apparatus.-Relates to an improved method of connecting the indicating-dials of an order-signalling apparatus, as described in the parent Specification, particularly when the signal disks have a different number of divisions, in order to allow them to move through different angular distances. The spindle of the disk b is provided with an arm d which once in each revolution engages with a pinion c meshing with a toothed wheel e on the spindle of the second disk b<1>, the velocity ratio being so chosen that the two disks turn through one division together. The spindles of the transmitters and the pinion are provided with detent wheels g, g<1>, g<2>, with which the spring arms h, h<1>, h<2> engage, in order to render the setting of the disks more certain and to allow the second disk b<1> to be moved independently of the other.
Patent GB-191107407-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Sewing Machines.
Inventor: WINKLEY ERASTUS EDWIN
IPC: D05B15/00
Filed: 1911-03-24
Granted: 1912-03-21
Abstract: 7407. Winkley, E. E. March 26, 1910, [Convention date]. Boot-sole sewing machines, welting and turnshoe.-Means are provided for correctly positioning the base of the channel with relation to the stitch - forming mechanism. The channelguide 12, or a separate sole-engaging device, is pivoted on a slide 16 working in a slot 17 of the feed-slide 7 of a Goodyear machine. It is normally pressed down by a spring 18, but is adapted to be positioned by two cam-actuated lugs 22, 23. The awl 13 is pivoted concentrically on the slide 16. In the position shown, the awl and guide are in engagement and the needle is about to descend. The guide is then moved and held by the lugs, and the awl is retracted. After the needle has completed its stroke, the guide is rocked, and may be raised vertically, during the return stroke of the feed-slide, by the cams actuating the lugs 22, 23. The spring 18 allows the guide always to find the base of the channel.
Patent GB-191107494-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Woven Wire Fabrics.
Inventor: GREENING NATHANIEL
Filed: 1911-03-25
Granted: 1912-03-25
Abstract: 7494. Greening, N. March 25. Wire fabrics.-A warp-and-weft wire fabric, for use in making screens, reinforced concrete, &c., has additional straight wire warps C secured to one of its faces by binding-warps D arranged as shown in Fig. 7 or in Fig. 11. The warps C may be additionally secured in place by electric welding.
Patent GB-191115363-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Elastic Tyres of Vehicle Wheels.
Inventor: WINDIBANK JOB
IPC: B60C7/28
Filed: 1911-07-01
Granted: 1912-06-27
Abstract: 15,363. Windibank, J. July 1. Tyre attachments fn rims.-Continuous solid rubber tyres of the " band " type, which are usually vulcanized to a continuous rigid metal base hand and forced on the rim, are characterized by the base band being divided at one or more places and fitted with means for drawing together the ends. In the form shown, the ends of the band b divided at e are drawn together by bolts passing through slots in the band, rim c, and felloe d. Various mechanical means for drawing the ends together are described, such as plates with inclined surfaces, Fig. 9, actuated by transverse bolts.
Patent GB-191115467-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to Billiard and other Tables.
Inventor: RILEY EDWARD JOHN
IPC: A63D15/04
Filed: 1911-07-03
Granted: 1911-09-07
Abstract: 15,467. Riley, E. J. July 3. Brackets, adjusting and securing.-Arms or brackets a for carrying a loose end leaf on a billiard or other table are detachably connected to the side rails c of the table, preferably by a pin-and-slot fastening d, f and a clip or staple c. The arm is preferably cranked at a' so as to raise the leaf to the proper level, and the end may be formed with a flange j to hold the leaf in place.
Patent GB-191116654-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Spare Wheels for Motor Cars and the like.
Inventor: STOCKS HARRY BENWELL
IPC: B60B11/10
Filed: 1911-07-20
Granted: 1912-08-20
Abstract: 16,654. Stocks, H. B. July 20. [Cognate Application, 18,397/11.] Auxiliary-rim attachments to wheels.-To obviate the necessity for a lifting-jack or like device in fitting an auxiliary wheel at the side of a vehicle wheel, the auxiliary wheel a is fitted with two relatively slidable frames b, c. The frame b is clamped to the vehicle wheel in the usual manner, and on rotation of this wheel in either direction, the two wheels are automatically centred and locked. For this purpose, studs d on the frame b engage slots c<2> in the frame c, and are locked in the centred position by means of spring detents f. Rubber or spring buffers may be fitted at the ends of the slots c<2>. The spring detents f may be replaced by set-screws, which may be sufficiently strong to lift the vehicle wheel into correct position. In further modifications, the pin-andslot arrangements may be'replaced by link or eccentric devices.
Patent GB-191117281-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Electric Pocket Lamps.
Inventor: POUTEAUX ALFRED PIERRE HONORE
Filed: 1911-07-28
Granted: 1912-05-30
Abstract: 17,281. Pouteaux, A. P. H. July 28. Electrodes; cells.-A sealed primary battery shown in Fig. 1, having electrodes of lead peroxide a and pure tin b in dilute sulphuric acid is used in a pocket lamp, Fig. 3, the electromotive force being about 2 volts. Each electrode rests in a ring k at the bottom of a celluloid or like cell, and is removably secured in a flanged opening in the cell cover by a rubber ring d, which is compressed between two lead-antimony washers by screwing the inner nut h of a terminal. The lead peroxide surrounds a lead-antimony core within a perforated tube a of celluloid or the like, closed at the ends by disks of lead-antimony. This electrode is prepared by filling the perforated tube a with a mixture of red lead and zinc sulphate, the specific gravity of which must not exceed 3À8, immersing it in sulphuric acid of 40 Be. and drying, repeating this with longer immersion, and peroxidizing by electrolysis in a hot 40 per cent solution of zinc sulphate against lead cathodes, on which zinc is deposited. Tin can be recovered from used battery electrolyte by placing zinc in it.
Patent GB-191120221-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Match Box Holders.
Inventor: WARD FRANCIS
IPC: A24F27/10
Filed: 1911-09-12
Granted: 1912-04-25
Abstract: 20,221. Ward, F. Sept. 12. Drawings to Specification. Calendars.-A flat cardboard match-box holder has a leaflet calendar mounted thereon or a calendar may be printed on the holder.
Patent GB-191126547-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Lanterns or Lamps.
Inventor: COLLINS CHARLES PATRICK
IPC: F21L19/00
Filed: 1911-11-27
Granted: 1912-11-07
Abstract: 26,547. Collins, C. P. March 27, [Convention date]. Lamp and flash signals. - A signal lamp of the kind shown in Fig. 1 is provided with a sleeve 11 of glass, mica, isinglass, or other transparent material having differently coloured sections 12, 13 which can be brought opposite the flame by a rack and pinion. Reference has been directed by the Comptroller to Specification 2663/62.
Patent GB-191200639-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Machines for Making Tags.
Inventor: TEWKSBURY CHARLES BOARDMAN
IPC: B31D1/02
Filed: 1912-01-09
Granted: 1912-09-19
Abstract: 639. Tewksbury, C. B. Jan. 9. Reinforced paper and cardboard.-A machine for making compound fabrics consisting of two layers of paper or like flexible material with short pieces of string interposed between them, is provided with a rotatable carrier for interposing the strings in a taut condition. The reels 24, Fig. 1, of string, tape, wire, metallic ribbon, &c., are held on posts 23 secured to the underside of a disk 22 which is fixed to a rotatable shaft 15. Each pair of reels is provided with an arm 27, through the eye 26 of which the string passes to an eye 28, and thence through tensioning- springs 30 to a double eye 29. The disk 17, fixed to the rotatable shaft 14, is placed as shown, and is provided with a series of levers 18, the upper arms of which are kept in contact with the upper surface of the disk 17 by springs 20 except when the levers are actuated by the camplate 16, Fig. 2, secured to the frame of the machine. The cam 16 is so shaped that the levers 18 grip the free ends of the string when in their lowest position, and do not open to release the string until it has been carried round to the gripping- fingers 36, in which position it is severed by knives 32, 33. The gripping - fingers 36 are carried by shafts 37, which are rotatably mounted in a cylinder 34 and in a flange 34<b> secured thereto. The cylinder 34 is fixed to the rotatable shaft 35 and is provided with grooves 34<d> and with roughened ends 34<c>. One end of each shaft 37 is formed as a crank 38 and carries a roller 39, which bears against a fixed cam-plate 40. The fingers 36 are pressed against the ends 34<c> by springs 41, but as the cylinder 34 rotates the shafts 37 are rocked at the required time by the cam 40, and the fingers 36 are opened and closed. The strips of paper 43, 45 pass between cementing-rollers to the underside of the cylinder 34, and the string &c. is laid on the cemented surface of the strip 45 and forced into one of the grooves 34<d>. The strips are pressed into contact by an adjustable roller 42, and run over a drum 47 to a drier.
Patent GB-191203478-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Railway and Road Passenger Vehicles.
Inventor: HUPPERT LOUIS CHARLES
IPC: B61D13/02
Filed: 1912-02-12
Granted: 1913-01-30
Abstract: 3478. Huppert, L. C., Paul, A. F., and Tanner, A. J. Feb. 12. Ingress and egress of passengers, controlling; steps.-A railway, tramway, or other passenger vehicle is divided into two portions by a central platform which may be independently supported upon the truck that connects the two sections, and means for defining exit and entrance passageways may be provided on the platform. The central platform C, which is at a lower level than the car floor, is spring-supported upon a truck 12 pivoted to the two car sections by ring bolts 14. The floors of the car sections extend over the platform as shown at 18, and are curved to move within circular guards 20 on the platform. Springs 27 are provided between the truck 12 and rub-plates 26 on the body. The truck 12 is suspended below the axle boxes as described in Specification 6720/11, and may have a radial link suspension as described in Specifications 22,682/10 and 6720/11 [both in Class 103 (vi), Railway &c. vehicles, Undercarriage &c.]. The platform is provided on each side with gates 7, 7<1> swinging about stanchions 9, 9<1>, the gates on one side being closed when the car is in use. Rails 8 pivoted to stanchions 10 so that they can be swung over from side to side define exit and entrance passageways, and a rail 11 which can be fixed on the stanchions 9, 9 or 9<1>, 9<1>, forms a conductor's station. Lengths of chain 8<1> connect the rails 8 to stancions 10<1> on the floor extensions 18. The doors on the motorman's platform may be used as auxiliary or emergency exits. Fig. 6 shows a modification in which the central platform is either independently mounted on a separate truck as shown in dotted lines or mounted directly on the car frames, which are dropped at the centre to make the platform lower. Folding doors 7 and and sliding steps 6 are provided on both sides of and completely enclosing the platform. The conductor controls the doors and steps in use for the time being by means of handles 30 and connexions 33. The handles 30 can be moved with the rail 11 from side to side. The rails defining the exit and entrance passageways are reversible and arranged as shown. Two stairways 28 lead from within each car section to an upper deck and terminate above the platform, portions of the skirting being cut away to provide head-room for passengers walking beneath them.
Patent GB-191204386-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Tunnel Kilns.
Inventor: RAMEN ARTHUR
IPC: F27B9/36
Filed: 1912-02-21
Granted: 1912-06-27
Abstract: 4386. RamÚn, A. Feb. 21. Tunnel kilns.-In a gas-fired tunnel kiln, gas from a conduit g is supplied to the kiln through a transverse passage o situated between the burning-chamber b and cooling-chamber c. The gas issuing from the passage o produces an injector action, causing the air from the cooling- chamber to pass over and under the passage u before mixing with the gas in the combustion chamber b. The injector action of the gas may be assisted by arranging above the passage o, in the channel connecting the combustion and cooling chambers, pipes for the introduction of air under pressure.
Patent GB-191206479-A (GB)
Title: Device for Obtaining Intimate Contact with, Engaging or Clamping Bodies of any Shape.
Inventor: KUNZE PAULIN KARL
IPC: B25B1/20
Filed: 1912-03-15
Granted: 1913-03-17
Abstract: 6479. Kunze, P. K. Aug. 22, 1911, [Convention date]. Seat bottoms and backs.-A device for obtaining intimate contact with bodies of any shape is provided with pairs of parallel cylindrical segments b each carrying a pair of cylindrical segments a journaled therein and arranged side by side in pairs in larger cylindrical segments c, which are again, in pairs, arranged in still larger segments d, and so on, according to the required intimacy of contact, the segments being journaled symmetrically about the axis of the segment on which they are seated, and all the segments being suitably held together. The device may be used for chair seats and backs, operating-tables, invalid chairs, and generally where intimate contact has to be made between surfaces of symmetrical or irregular contour. The segments may be magnetized to cause them to adhere together. The segments may be provided with concentric projecting guides engaging corresponding grooves in the seatings. The engaging-cheeks a may be arranged unsymmetrically on each side of the axis of the cylinder b, and the segments b unsymmetrically on the segments c and so on, when the pressure on certain parts of the gripped article is to be reduced. The segments may be provided with permanent magnets, electro-magnets, or springs to cause them to return, when free, to the normal position. Fig. 10 shows the invention applied to a chair seat. The back may also be constructed in a similar manner. Frict on balls or rollers may be placed between the larger segments. The back and seat may have a common segment. The modifications shown in Figs. 11 and 13 are adapted to engage an object not only in the direction of its principal axis but also in the direction of its generating-line. In the modification shown in Fig. 11, a series of similar sets of cheeks formed of thin plates are provided, the lower members e<5> of which are supported on each side by chains s which are in turn supported by sets of segments comprising cheeks a, b, c, d at right-angles to the member e<5>. In the modification shown in Fig. 13, the separate sets of cheeks are of greater thickness, and the engaging cheeks consist of spherical segments a<8> which are journaled in fours in a larger segment b<8>. Each pair of segments b<8> are journaled in a cylindrical segment c<9>, and these in turn in segments d which are journaled in a seating e. The seatings e are supported on each side by a nest of segments a<4>, b<1>, c<2> at right-angles to the cheeks e. Devices are provided for preventing the removal of flat or spherical cheeks from their seatings.
Patent GB-191212579-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Motors.
Inventor: ORTH CHARLES PHILIP
IPC: F03G7/10
Filed: 1912-05-28
Granted: 1913-01-09
Abstract: 12,579. Orth, C. P. May 28. Self-driving machines. -Relates to self-driving buoyancy machines, and consists in making the collapsible floats of square section hinged at one corner and operated at the diagonally opposite corner. Figs. 1, 2 show a number of floats 1.0 which are carried upon bars 5 secured to a hub 4. The whole is mounted in a tank 1 containing liquid, and air is admitted to and expelled from the floats at the correct times. The side members 7 of each float support are formed of parallel bars 8 serving as guides for rollers 11 at one corner of the float. For collapsing the floats, a cam 19 actuates through rollers 23 and springs 26 a system of bars and links 27, 28, 29 secured to the travelling ends of the floats. The casing 15 secured to the shaft 3, communicates with all the floats by tubes 16. To reverse the direction of movement, the sleeve 20 carrying the cam 19 is provided with a gear-wheel 30 meshing with a hand-wheel 31. This may be turned through 180 degrees and locked in position. In the modified form shown in Fig. 5, the travelling ends of the floats are operated by cam-tracks 60. The floats are mounted on chains passing over sprocket-wheels 43. The floats are equipped with air-tubes 62 leading to a common conduit 63 and to air-tanks 64. The shaft of one of the wheels 43 is extended to carry a power pulley and brake drum 66, shown in Fig. 9. Around the wheel 66 is arranged the hand 67 terminating in links 68 secured to a disk 69, the handle attached to which is held in place on a slotted arc 75 by means of a nut.