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Patent GB-190517877-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Actuating Mechanism for Coin-freed Meters.
Inventor: HIBBERD CHARLES EDWIN
Filed: 1905-09-04
Granted: 1906-07-19
Abstract: 17,877. Hibberd, C. E. Sept. 4. Coins, separating.-Relates to coin-freeing mechanism for a gas-meter, to be operated proportionally according to the value of the coin inserted. The shoot 31 by which the coins are conveyed to the mechanism has curved deflecting- strips 27, 28, 29, and 30, to guide each coin, according to its diameter, to a corresponding lateral slot in the bottom of the shoot.
Patent GB-190519911-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to Stiffening or Retaining Devices for Lace Collars, Waist Bands, and other Articles of Dress.
Inventor: OWEN ARTHUR
Filed: 1905-10-03
Granted: 1906-06-07
Abstract: 19,911. Owen, A. Oct. 3. Stays or stiffeners; belts; collars.-Relates to stiffening or retaining appliances for lace or like collars, waistbands, and other articles of d r es s, and consists in making them so that they may be readily adjusted in size. For this purpose, a pair of pin-like heads a or other attachment parts are combined with stems d, d' arranged to engage adjustably the one with the other in a screw-like manner. In the form shown, the pointed ends bare protected and retained in position by a detachable guard-piece c adapted to snap over the said ends. The attachment head may consist of a rectangular frame adapted to be sewn or otherwise attached to an article of dress. The Provisional Specification states that the adjustable connexion may be effected by making one stem to slide upon or with respect to the other.
Patent GB-190526799-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Apparatus for Scaling or Cleaning Boiler Tubes and the like.
Inventor: WILMOTT FREDERICK ASHFORD
Filed: 1905-12-22
Granted: 1906-12-20
Abstract: 26,799. Wilmott, F. A., and Cobon, C. W., [trading as Wilmott & Cobon], and Driscoll, J. Dec. 22. Cleaning pipes and tubes.-Boiler tubes &c. are cleaned by tools attached to an apparatus by means of which a hammering action may be applied to the tool. The tools shown in Figs. 1, 2, and 3 are used in order. The tool shown in Fig. 2 is twisted and provided with notches A<1> having cutting-edges A<2>, while the parts between the notches serve to guide the tool through the tube. The finisbing-tool E, Fig. 3, consists of a central web provided with two or more curved cutters E<1>, E<2> having forward cutting- edges e, and may be modified by replacing the cutter E<2> by a roller. The tools are loosely attached to a jaw B by a pin C, and the hammering action is applied by resiprocating the box D which strikes the head Bl.
Patent GB-190600526-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Oilers.
Inventor: HOWORTH FRANKLIN WISE
Filed: 1906-01-08
Granted: 1906-07-12
Abstract: 526. Howorth, F. W., [Winton, A., and Anderson, H. B.]. Jan. 8. Lift valves. -A multiple lubricator for automobiles &c. consists of a number of body portions 1 having screwed connexions-7, 8 forming a connected passage 6 to which oil is supplied by force feed or by gravity. Each portion contains a needle valve 3 adjusted by means of the head 28 and nut 27. Each valve can be opened to provide a flush of oil without disturbing the adjustment by raising the head 28 and nut 27 against the action of the spring 9. The strip 29, Fig. 2, engages the notch 30 in the nut 27 to prevent its rotation during adjustment, and limits the upward motion of the head 28.
Patent GB-190604206-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Card Supports for Dummy Hands.
Inventor: WEDDERBURN GERTRUDE FOSTER
Filed: 1906-02-20
Granted: 1907-02-20
Abstract: 4206. Wedderburn, G. F. May 9, 1905, [date applied for under Patents Act, 1901]. Card games.-A card holder for bridge &c. consists of a base a having two double flaps b, b<1> hinged to it at the edges d. The free edges of the flaps b rest against an elevation c on the base a. The cards are placed with their backs against the faces b<1>. The device may be folded as shown in Fig. 3. In a modification, the base a', Fig. 2, is fitted with two elevations c', a single.double flap b<1>, hinged at d', being employed. Ribs e facilitate the removal of the cards. The elevation c<1> may be adapted to receive a pencil.
Patent GB-190609223-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or connected with "Drawing" Tubes or Hollow Bodies.
Inventor: MCTEAR BALFOUR FRASER
Filed: 1906-04-19
Granted: 1907-04-04
Abstract: 9223. McTear, B. F. April 19. Drawing.-Tubes and other hollow bodies are supported while being drawn, to keep them central with reference to the die, by means of a conical sleeve e fitting loosely on the mandrel d and moving forward with the tube during drawing. The plug is knocked away just as the last part of the tube passes through the die. In a modification, the tube is constrained in its motion by external slides or rollers.
Patent GB-190611734-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Lamps and Apparatus for Burning Carburetted Air.
Inventor: SUTER FRANK WEST
Filed: 1903-05-19
Granted: 1907-06-19
Abstract: 11,734. Suter, F. W. May 19. Carburetting.-Relates to lamps in which both carburetted and uncarburetted air are supplied to the burner, and consists mainly in so mounting the carburettor that its adjustment upon the burner tube simultaneously reduces the supply of carburetted air and increases the supply of uncarburetted air, or vice versa. The carburettor C' is loosely mounted upon one end B of a bent tube B<1>, which communicates with a burner placed at a lower level, and is carried by a bracket A. The carburettor is packed with absorbent material. When the lamp is in use, air enters the carburettor at the port C<3> and passes to the burner tube B' by the ports B<3>, uncarburetted air being supplied to the tube B, B<1> by the port C'. The regulation of the relative proportions of carburetted and uncarburetted air supplied to the burner tube B<1> is effected by raising or lowering the carburettor upon the tube B by means of a screw D. In a modification, the ports are so arranged that the regulation of the air supplies is effected by turning the carburettor upon the gas tube. The carburettor is formed with heat-absorbing ribs or projections, and the general arrangement permits of the carburettor being readily detached and either replaced or renewed.
Patent GB-190612620-A (GB)
Title: A New or Improved Valve Gear for Internal Combustion or like Engines.
Inventor: HORA MANUEL HERRERA DE
Filed: 1906-05-30
Granted: 1907-01-03
Abstract: 12,620. Hora, M. H. de. May 30. Gas and like engines, valve gear for. A valvegear is described in which there is no half - speed shaft. A wiper B on the main shaft rotates a star - wheel carrying a second wiper D which actuates the inlet valve. A substantially similar arrangement C is used for the exhaust valve. The Figure shows the invention applied to a fourstroke-cycle engine; for a two-stroke-cycle engine, the main shaft would carry two wipers B at right-angles, or two diametrically opposite wipers D might be used. The fulcrum F of the tappet lever is adjustable in position.
Patent GB-190612961-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Instrument for Measuring Distances on Maps, and other similar Linear Distances.
Inventor: PATCHING ALEXANDER WHEELER
Filed: 1906-06-05
Granted: 1907-03-21
Abstract: 12,961. Patching, A. W. June 5. Measuring - wheels for maps, charts, plans, &c. The tracing - wheel has teeth at a given distance apart and is mounted upon the screw A along which it travels as it rolls over the map &c. The semicylindrical frame C is in one piece, having lugs to support the screw and a fitting for a handle F; it is graduated on both edges according to the number of revolutions of the tracing-wheel.
Patent GB-190613920-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Apparatus for Preventing Lateral Slipping of Motor Cars or other Road Vehicles
Inventor: POUPARD FREDERICK ABRAHAM
Filed: 1906-06-18
Granted: 1907-09-18
Abstract: 13,920. Poupard, F. A. June 18. Slipping of wheels, preventing.-A wheel a, Fig. 5, provided with a tyre or a suitably roughened circumference, is carried by a frame b, which in turn is pivoted at d to a larger framework e, so that it may rock laterally. The frame e has stops f to limit the rocking motion, and is also provided with sleeves g which slide upon four bolts h attached to the underside of the car. Springs j keep the wheel pressed on the ground, and split pins k allow the frame e to be removed. The wheel a has projections or spikes round the edge of its periphery, which engage the ground whenever side slip causes the wheel to cant. Fig. 3 shows a section of the wheel rim in which the spikes at the edges are dispensed with, a tyre t of rubber or other suitable material being let into a channelled rim u. Fig. 4 shows a modification in which the frame e is dispensed with, the pivots d working in eyes m on rods n which carry collars o. Brackets p provided with projections q, r connect the apparatus to the vehicle. Either form of the apparatus can be mounted so that it can be drawn up out of contact with the ground,
Patent GB-190615021-A (GB)
Title: Incandescence Bodies Composed of Tungsten for Incandescent Lamps.
Filed: 1906-07-02
Granted: 1907-02-21
Abstract: 15,021. Consortium f ³ r Elektrochemische Industrie Ges. July 5,1905, [date applied for under Patents Act, 1901]. Electric furnaces; incandescent lamps.- Filaments of tungsten are heated, before use, nearly to their melting-point in vacuo, or in a neutral gas, by the passage of a current, by means of an arc between tungsten electrodes, or by placing them in a heated tube of tungsten. It is stated that osmium filaments if similarly treated become permanently ductile and acquire higher electric conductivity. Specification No. 28,154, A.D. 1904, is referred to.
Patent GB-190617976-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Igniting Devices.
Inventor: DEIMEL FRITZ
Filed: 1906-08-10
Granted: 1907-05-23
Abstract: 17,976. Deimel, F. Aug. 10. Lighters, pipe &c -An igniting - device, of the type in which an igniting pill or body ignites the vapour of alco hol &c., comprises two distinct but in terconnected recep tacles c, e, one containing the alcohol and the other the igniting-body h, the latter being carried by the lid f which serves as a handle for inserting the igniting-body into the alcohol vapour Fig. 1 shows the receptacles arranged end to end, while in Fig. 2 they are arranged side by side in which case the lids d, f may be rigidly joined together.
Patent GB-190628534-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Travellers for Ring Spinning Frames.
Inventor: AOUST VICTORIEN D
Filed: 1906-12-14
Granted: 1907-06-20
Abstract: 28,534. Aoust, V. d', and Deck, N. Dec. 14. Spindle apparatus.-The traveller, shown in three positions in Fig. 2, rotates in an annular groove formed by a cap F, Fig. 3. It is formed with two cranks or bends 5, 7 which serve as guides for the thread, and has one end I extended and curved as shown in Fig. 2. It may also have a crank or bend 6 intermediate of the bends 5, 7. The thread is guided to the bobbin in the manner shown. The traveller may also be curved to reduce the space required for its free rotation. By the use of this traveller fine and soft yarns may be spun ; the centre of gravity of the traveller being situated near the curved end, the centrifugal force, assisted by the tension of the yarn, causes the traveller to bear against the bobbin and to be thereby assisted in its movement, and owing to the shape of the curved end, the position of the traveller is automatically altered as the winding proceeds, so as to maintain a constant length of thread between it and the bobbin.
Patent GB-190704742-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Alternating Electric Current Motors.
Filed: 1907-02-26
Granted: 1908-01-30
Abstract: 4742. British Thomson-Houston Co., [General Electric Co.]. Feb. 26. Motors, alternating-current ; motors, controlling ; armatures ; field magnets.-Consists in means for imparting to an alternating - current motor the characteristics of a repulsion or series motor without the use of a commutator. The action of the machine is explained with reference to Fig. 1, in which A represents a stationary magnet, having a winding B and enclosing a ring armature C, within which is a rotatable flux shunt D. The armature consists of Gramme ring turns E, E, E', E<1>, respectively closed through drum coils F, F<1>. At starting, the ring turns act, in conjunction with the coils B, as a transformer which supplies current to the drum turns, this current reacting with the main field to give the torque. As the machine speeds up, the counter electromotive force in the dium coils due to rotation opposes the transformer electromotive force and a decreasing current is taken, giving the required characteristic. A double armature machine working on this principle, shown in Figs. 2 and 3, consists of two laminated bipolar magnets A enclosing annular armatures C, which are supported on a common spider C<1> and carry ting and drum coils E, F. The flux shunts D are sleeved on the shaft and may be adjusted by means of a worm G. By reversing the ar gle of the shunts, the rotation of the motor may be reversed.
Patent GB-190706877-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Elastic Fluid Turbines.
Inventor: LAMBERT THOMAS
Filed: 1907-03-22
Granted: 1908-03-19
Abstract: 6877. Lambert, T. March 22. Elastic-fluid turbines.-Reversible turbines are made with symmetrical blades, and are provided with mechanism whereby the inclination of the guide-channels may be reversed. A portion of a stator is shown in Fig. 6, and the positions of the parts in the forward and reverse positions are shown in Figs. 10 and 11. The rotor is fitted with double concave blades A', Figs. 10 and 11. The guide-channels consist of spaces formed between fixed double concave blades A, Figs. 6, 10, and 11, and movable pins B. For forward running, the pins B are moved to the right, as in Fig. 10, and the rotor blades A' move to the right. For reverse running, the pins B are moved to the left. The old guide-channels are thus closed up and new channels with reversed curvature are opened, as shown in Fig. 11. The rotor blades then move to the left. The movable pins B are secured to cylinders C, Fig. 6, or, in the case of radial flow turbines, to flat annular disks, the whole of these cylinders or disks being operated by a suitable mechanism; the whole of the pins B are thereby simultaneously operated.
Patent GB-190707324-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Fly-papers and Machines for the Manufacture thereof.
Inventor: KEITEL KURT
Filed: 1907-03-27
Granted: 1907-07-18
Abstract: 7324. Keitel, K. March 27. Gumming, pasting, and the like.-A continuous rotary machine for making fly-papers by applying adhesive material to portions of a length of paper, has a drum G round which the paper A passes. Two adjustable rollers M, M', geared together and to the drum G, apply the sticky material from a trough O. The projections M<3> receive the gum from the depressions M' of the roller M', the plain portions of the two rollers fitting tightly together to remove any adhesive. Either or both of the rollers may be heated, for instance by a pipe S provided with jets. Two other similarly arranged rollers N, N', having respectively projections N<3> and depressions N', apply borders of resin with or without castor oil. The paper may then be passed over guide rollers and have a similar strip of plain paper pressed upon it, being afterwards cut up.
Patent GB-190709931-A (GB)
Title: Process for the Treatment of Starch
Inventor: THOERL FRIEDRICH
Filed: 1907-04-29
Granted: 1907-07-18
Abstract: 9931. Th÷rl, F., [trading as Harburger Stõrke-Fabrik, F. Th÷rl]. April 29. Starch is produced in tablets or blocks and pieces or sticks without lengthy drying. Starch powder direct from the centrifugals or depositing basins is rapidly dried in vacuum apparatus, ground, and subjected to high pressure in hydraulic or other presses to form blocks which are then 'treated in separate chambers with a current of steam or of warm or moist air and so caused to crumble into sticks or pieces. Preferably tablets or blocks of a certain weight are pressed, folded in paper or laid between card-boards, and afterwards treated with the warm air or steam.
Patent GB-190712374-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Dynamo-electric Generators of the Inductor Type.
Inventor: LAKE HAROLD WILLIAMSON
Filed: 1907-05-28
Granted: 1908-02-13
Abstract: 12,374. Lake, H. W., [Hallock, W.]. May 28. Field magnets; inductorsfor stationary armatures and field magnets.-The field magnet of an inductor-alternator comprises two castings 10, Figs.1, 8, and 9, bolted together, each casting being provided with relatively staggered long and short radial polar projections 13, 13<a>, between which is rotated a spider 16 carrying at its ends two laminated blocks 14 of magnetic material, separated by non-magnetic material 15 and so placed as to bridge the long and short projections 13, 13<a> alternately. The field-magnet coil A and generating-coils B are concentrically arranged as shown. When the spokes of the rotor have moved into the position shown in Fig. 8, the paths of the field flux are closed by the inner magnetic blocks 14 across the projections 13 causing all the flux to thread through the generating-coils B. Further movement of the rotor short-circuits the field flux across the projections 13<a>, Fig. 9, and outer blocks 14, so that the flux is entirely outside the generating-coils B. The alternating current will have as many complete cycles per revolution as there are spokes in the rotor. In a modification, the castings 10 are spaced apart from one another instead of being bolted together, and the positions of the field magnet and generating-coils are reversed, the field coil being inside and the generating-coils outside. In one position of the inductor, the field flux has a closed path inside the generating-coil ; in the other position, the magnetic path is closed outside the generating-coil, so that all the flux threads through this coil.
Patent GB-190716244-A (GB)
Title: Improved Combined Shirt and Tunic
Inventor: MURRAY EDWARD NICOL
Filed: 1907-07-15
Granted: 1907-11-14
Abstract: 16,244. Murray, E. N. July 15. Shirts; coats and jackets; belts; suspenders for articles of dress.-A shirt, of which the upper part is made like a military tunic and the lower part like an ordinary shirt, has in front a depending tab 6, Fig. 3, with holes 8 to engage a button on the trousers, and behind, brace tab ends 13, 14, Fig. 4, for a similar purpose. Attached to the tab ends and to the shirt is a belt 17, the two ends of which have holes 18. A buckle 20 is attached to one strap by passing the tongue through any desired hole, and then turning back the strap end and engaging a hook 19 in another of the holes 18. The belt is then fastened in front. The back tab ends form extensions of a vertical box pleat 11, and the back and front tabs together support the trousers. The garment is completed by the application of a collar 22, cuffs 24, shoulder straps 23, a yoke 12, and a pocket 21.
Patent GB-190719362-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Hammock or like Chairs.
Inventor: REED JOSEPH HENRY
Filed: 1907-08-29
Granted: 1908-07-02
Abstract: 19,362. Reed, J. H. Aug. 29. Bedsteads; chairs; hammocks. -A hammock chair, convertible into a hammock, bed, or stretcher, comprises two rectangular frames a, d pivoted together at k and each provided with a leg c and stay e adapted to engage a notch c<2> on the leg. The fabric b is secured to a rail d<3> at the back of the bottom frame, passes loosely over the front bar f, and is attached at the upper end to an adjusting- roller secured in position by a pin j engaging holes h<2>. The rail d' may also be made adjustable. The front bar is attached to the frame by means of short pivoted links f<1> secured by screwed pins f<3>. When used as a chair, as shown in Fig. 1, the set of legs attached to the member a are used to adjust the inclination of the back by engaging with notches d<1> on the frame d. When the article is used as a camp bed, the bar f is dropped clear of the fabric and the two main frames are held in line by screwed pins m engaging with holes a<3> in the frames. The device converted into a hammock is illustrated in Fig. 12. To convert the camp bed into a stretcher, the legs and stays are folded into line with the main frames.
Patent GB-190720760-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Combustion or Explosive Power Motors
Inventor: MEYER PAUL
Filed: 1907-09-18
Granted: 1908-02-13
Abstract: 20,760. Meyer, P. Sept. 19, 1906, [date applied for under Patents Act, 1901]. Gas and like engines, starting. In an engine having an auxiliary chamber which is put into communication with the combustion chamber at starting to reduce compression, a positivelyoperated escape valve is placed on the auxiliary chamber and is kept open during the compression stroke, so as to allow air or combustion products to be driven out. This chamber may be separate or may be formed by part of the exhaust pipe. Fig. 1 shows the first-mentioned arrangement, with auxiliary chamber b, a valve a separating it from the combustion chamber, and an escape valve c. The valve a is closed during normal working. The Specification in the original form as published under the Act of 1901 also states that the air and gas are introduced consecutively at starting instead of simultaneously ; this subjectmatter does not appear in the Complete Specification as accepted.
Patent GB-190724835-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Cash Registering or Adding Machines and Cash Check Tills.
Inventor: ILL ARTHUR HENRY GLED
Filed: 1907-11-09
Granted: 1908-10-29
Abstract: 24,835. Gledhill, A. H. Nov. 9. Tills.-The means for locking the various actions of a cash register are located so as to be under the control of one lover which can be locked in any position. The locking-lever 1 is pivoted at 2 and has the arm 4 notched to correspond to the five positions as indicated on the external plate 23, Fig. 7, the catch 5 for the arm being held by the bolt 6 of an ordinary lock. In the position shown in Fig. 1, the projection 14 of the lever 1 locks in the notched disk 16 secured on the operating- shaft 17 driven in the usual manner from the coupler, thus locking the keys. In the second position, the lock 14 is removed, and the keys can be operated, the interlocking-lever 9 between the key-coupler and the drawer being in action and preventing a second actuation of the keys before the drawer is closes. In the third position the pin 7 removes the key and drawer interlocking-lever 9 from action ; in the fourth position both the lever 9 and the bell hammer 20 are held out of action and . in the fifth position the lever 9 is again in action and the bell hammer out of action. A recording- strip for transactions is carried on a drum 24 rotated by a ratchet and pawl 28 carried by the arm 27 on the sleeve 26, which is rocked by the arm 25 thereon engaging an actuated key. The record drum may also be rotated by the lever 31, which can be moved to disengage the pawl 28 so as to allow the record sheet to be set by hand. The lever 43 engages a ratchet-wheel on the operating- shaft 17 to prevent backward motion, and is accessible on opening the outer casing to free the shaft and release any key that may be jammed. Fixed stops 40, 41 limit the movement of the coupler and of the keys, thus avoiding the necessity for very accurate machining and fitting of the latter.
Patent GB-190726055-A (GB)
Title: Device for Separating Iron Particles from Chaff and the like, by Means of Magnets.
Inventor: HAGMUELLER JOSEPH
Filed: 1907-11-25
Granted: 1908-08-20
Abstract: 26,055. Hagmuller, J. Nov. 25. No Patent granted (Sealing fee not paid). Guards.-In a chaff-cutter, magnets are arranged so as to attract and retain the iron particles directly the chaff is cut, and before it falls to the ground. The magnets also act as guards for the knives. Iron bars d are adjustably mounted parallel to the knives b, c in slots h provided in fittings e, f secured to the spokes of the fly-wheel a of the chaff-cutter, magnets g being arranged between the bars and the knives, and secured by screws to the former. The poles of the magnets project beyond the knives and are curved away therefrom so that they do not come in contact with the straw in the machine.