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Patent GB-190720658-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Screw and Nut Mechanism especially applicable to Gate Valves.
Inventor: NEWTON PHILIP ARTHUR
Filed: 1907-09-17
Granted: 1908-04-23
Abstract: 20,658. Newton, P. A., [Smith, A. P.]. Sept. 17. Screw and nut mechanism.-One of the members of a screw and nut mechanism is provided with a collapsible screw thread so that, when the members are in certain relative position, further rotation of one member does not cause longitudinal movement of the other. Figs. 2 and 3 show the device applied as a means for actuating a sliding or gate valve of known type. The screw-threaded rod 15 engages with a yoke 17 which operates the valve disks and also with a nut 25 connected to the disks. The nut 25 is hollow and contains a collapsible helix 31, which is held by stops and acts as a screw thread until the rod 15 is partly withdrawn from the nut, when the free portion of the helix collapses and, by allowing relative movement between the yoke and the disks, causes the inclined surfaces 23 of the former to force the disks against their seatings.
Patent GB-190720667-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Amusement Apparatus.
Inventor: MANGELS WILLIAM FREDERICK
Filed: 1907-09-17
Granted: 1907-11-21
Abstract: 20,667. Mangels, W. F., and Brewster, C. N. Sept. 17. Tobogganing; railways for recreation. -A circular car G is conveyed up an inclined track B by means of a continuously - moving endless chain I worked from a motor J<6>. Lugs attached to the chain engage with recesses formed on the underside of the cars. When the car reaches the top of the track B, it disengages from the chain lug and passes along the inclined path C to the circuitous track D, down which it travels by its own weight. The car runs on castors, and is provided with an external ring of iron, backed with resilient material, in order to prevent the occupants from receiving severe shocks as the car bumps against the side walls of the track D. In order to prevent the car from running back if the chain breaks, spring-actuated retaining-arms N are pivoted to the side walls of the track B.
Patent GB-190722115-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Nut Locks.
Inventor: SCHMIDT PAUL CURT
Filed: 1907-10-07
Granted: 1908-01-09
Abstract: 22,115. Schmidt, P. C. Oct. 7. Locking nuts.-In order to lock the nut 5 to the bolt 1 a member 7 is used, its ends 11 springing into one of the pairs of sockets 6 in the nut 5 and its body 9 engaging one of the slots 4 in the end of the bolt 1. The member may be removed at will to unlock the nut.
Patent GB-190726243-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Closing Devices for Cases and similar Receptacles
Inventor: DAHL NEKOLAI
Filed: 1907-11-27
Granted: 1908-01-16
Abstract: 26,243. Dahl, N. Dec. 6, 1906, [date applied for under Patents Act, 1901]. Lids. - Each of a pair of hooks d is pivoted at c to an elastic steel plate a pivoted to each side of the case. When fastened, each hook is turned to engage the lid g, a bar on which takes beneath the fixed part f of the top of the case. A label l may be placed between the tail b of the hook d and the plate, and attached by tacks to the case side.
Patent GB-190801969-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Attachments for Sewing Machines more particularly for use in Sewing Collars and the like.
Inventor: FENWICK ALBERT DIXON
Filed: 1908-01-28
Granted: 1908-04-30
Abstract: 1969. Fenwick, A. D., and Norwood, C. Jan. 28. Sewing-machines, guiding materials in. - Improvements in the apparatus described in Specifications Nos. 14,562 and 17,244, A.D. 1907, comprise the use of two tension springs p, p<1>, and detail modifications in the shape of the slides and the mode of attachment of the guides m<1>, c to the work-plate. One spring p is attached at one end to a cross-bar m and at the other end by an eye to a link o; while the other spring is also connected at one end to the cross-bar m and at the other end to a pin h<2> connecting the handle h to the sliding gauge b. When the handle h is moved, the springs thus act oppositely, and so reduce the effort needed to move the handle and facilitate rapidity of adjustment. The cross-bars m are attached by pins and slots m<2> ... m<5>, c<1> . . . c<4>, to the workplate and guides m', c, so as to allow a slight adjustment of the sliding guide e to bring it into the line of stitching, and also to adjust for wear. A clamp r secures the guide c to the work-plate. The link o passes over a cross-bar m, and is connected at opposite ends to the slide e and the handle h by means of a pin o<1>, Fig. 3, carrying a spacing-nut and a nut o<3>, a split-pin o', Fig. 1, being passed through the pin above the nut o<3>. The slides e, b and guides c, m<1> are formed with vertical sides instead of dovetailed bearing-surfaces.
Patent GB-190802152-A (GB)
Title: Process for Obtaining Radio-active Bodies from Uranium or from Compounds of the same.
Inventor: TRIVELLI ADRIAAN PETER HERMAN
Filed: 1908-01-30
Granted: 1908-07-23
Abstract: 2152. Trivelli, A. P. H. Jan. 31, 1907, [date applied for under Section 91 of Patents &c. Act, 1907]. Radio-active preparations, for example uranium-X &c., are produced by the exposure of uranium and its compounds to rays from radioactive substances, or to cathode or R÷ngten rays in vacuo with or without the assistance of rays from radio-active bodies. The uranium &c. is placed on a platinum holder c, which lies at the focus of the cathode b in a highly vacuous tube a. The holder c and anode f are joined up together to the positive, and the cathode e to the negative pole of an induction apparatus.
Patent GB-190805131-A (GB)
Title: Web Feeding Mechanisms for Envelope Machines
Inventor: MACKENZIE JOHN WILLIAM
Filed: 1908-03-06
Granted: 1908-11-12
Abstract: 5131. Mackenzie, J. W., [Cupples Envelope Co., S.]. March 6. Feeding - apparatus for webs. - Relates to the provision of an adjustable housing for the reciprocating driving-rack and the pinion in devices for intermittently feeding a web of paper from a reel. The apparatus comprises a roller 9 journaled in a frame 5, and a lower roller 11 mounted in bearings 12 raised by means of adjustable springs 16. On the shaft 10 of the roller 9 are a collar 10<1>, a ratchet-wheel 17, and a loose disk 19 forced against the ratchet-wheel by a spring 20. Loose on the shaft 10 is also a pinion 24 with which engages a rack 29, depressed by a cam 4 on the shaft 3 and raised by a spring 31, the upward motion being limited by an adjustable stop 35. Rigidly secured to the pinion 24 is a disk 21 provided with a pivoted pawl 22, a lug 23 on which engages a notch 19<1> in the disk 19, Fig. VI. In operation, the disk 19 pressed into frictional contact with the ratchet-wheel 17 by the spring 20 lifts the pawl 22 from the ratchet teeth during the return stroke, the outward motion of the pawl being limited by a stop 22'. The housing 26 through which the rack 29 passes is mounted on the eccentric sleeve 37 of a collar 36, by which means the housing may be adjusted to take up wear.
Patent GB-190809425-A (GB)
Title: New or Improved Device for Suspending Curtains, Bed Hangings and the like.
Inventor: KRAFT GOTTHARD
Filed: 1908-05-01
Granted: 1909-04-01
Abstract: 9425. Kraft, G. May 1. No Patent granted (Sealing fee not paid). Safety-pins.-A hollow ring a for supporting curtains, bed-hangings, &c., is provided with a slot or gap e, in which the edge of the curtain &c. is placed and secured by a pin d sliding within the ring. The end of the pin d may be bent as shown, to produce sufficientfriction to prevent accidental movement, and it may be moved by means of a loop or handle f projecting through a slot g in the surface of the ring. The pin may be fixed at its inner end and provided with a bow, by compressing which the pointed end of the pin may be disengaged from the curtain &c.
Patent GB-190810550-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in fastenings for travelling trunks, boxes and the like
Filed: 1908-05-15
Granted: 1909-04-22
Abstract: 10,550. Bates & Sons, J. & E., and Evans, A. May 15. Fastenings, hasp. The side hasps D of a multiplehasp fastening for travelling trunks, portmanteaux, deed-boxes, &c. are secured by a pivoted bar E, which is locked by the centre hasp B. The ends of the bar E engage oppositely turned hooks d on the hasps D, the rounded centre portion of the bar being engaged, and drawn into position, by a cylindrical recess b<1> in the hasp B. Pins a<1> on the bar E also enter holes in the part b<1>.
Patent GB-190811072-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Water-heaters or Geysers.
Inventor: EWART GEORGE HERBERT
Filed: 1908-05-21
Granted: 1908-12-17
Abstract: 11,072. Ewart, G. H. May 21. Atmospheric gas burners.-The Bunsen burner d for a water-heater is provided with a gauze diaphragm at d<1>, and is formed with a constricted neck as shown; the outlet holes for gas are lateral, thus preventing any deposit falling from the flue from entering the burner.
Patent GB-190815590-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to the Control of Traffic on Electric Railways.
Inventor: SYKES WILLIAM ROBERT
Filed: 1908-07-22
Granted: 1908-10-29
Abstract: 15,590. Sykes, W. R., and Cooke, C. J. July 22. Electric railways and tramways; points and switches. - Electric energy is used through the medium of insulated track sections both for traction purposes and for the automatic control of points, signals, &c. The circuits are completed through the wheels &c. of the train-motor L, which, in any section, connects the two high-tension conductors H<1>, B<2> through the usual trolly &c. J, the conductor H<2> being permanently connected to one or both rails, and also short-circuits the relay F used in the usual low-tension continuous signalling- circuit; this relay closes or breaks the operative circuit of the signal or like motor G in that section and sets it opposite to its normal position. Since, when alternating high-tension currents are used, access of the current to the relays might bring about reversal of their winding, the relays are connected to the track rails through impedance coils p<1>, p<2> or are short-circuited by a condenser or other capacity P. When the conductor is permanently connected to both rails, resistances are included which are high compared with that of the relay circuit and low compared with that of the power circuit itself ; but, when it is connected to only one rail, the excitation of a magnet N<b> closes a circuit leading to the other rail.
Patent GB-190819116-A (GB)
Title: A New or Improved Advertising Device.
Inventor: COLE RICHARD
Filed: 1908-09-11
Granted: 1909-05-06
Abstract: 19,116. Cole, R. Sept. 11. Advertising.-In apparatus for advertising on shutters or flaps, the shutters &c, are opened and closed by means of a set of links and a crank and connecting-rod, or a crank and slotted head. In one device an eccentric is connected by means of rods f, Fig. 1, to pins in sliders which operate shutters m, m<1> through rods k and universal joints. The rods k may be bent back on themselves to give them elasticity. In another device, the eccentric operates a shutter m, Fig. 3, by means of a rod f and universal joint l. Rods k operate sliders h and a second shutter. In another device the slider h, Fig. 6, is joined up by rods k and joints to two out of four jointed shutters m. In the modification shown in Fig. 8, three corners of the collapsible frame are placed in slides and operated by a link f. Another link k is pivotally attached to one of the shutters, and the other end rotates about a fixed pin z<1>. The fourth corner of the frame may rest upon a castor. The apparatus may be driven from the axle of a vehicle, or it may be fixed to a building and driven by a motor. Lamps may be located between the flaps or within the collapsible frames.
Patent GB-190902206-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Fishing-reels.
IPC: A01K89/015
Filed: 1909-01-29
Granted: 1910-01-31
Abstract: 2206. Hardy, L. R., Hardy, J. J., and Hardy Bros. Jan. 29. Reels, rod.-In a fishing-reel of the type in which by the operation of a single lever A, pivoted at k, the normal check a is first removed, a period of free rotation is then allowed and finally, by continued movement of the lever A, the rotation is stopped, the final braking action is obtained by means distinct from those causing the initial retardation. Upon releasing the lever A, the spring a' automatically brings the check a back into engagement with the spool b<1>. An adjustable stop D may be provided to regulate the pressure of the brake-strap C. Means may be provided for starting the rotation of the reel, such as a pivotally-mounted lever F. The shape of the operating-lever may be modified in various ways as also the shape of the normal check, is shown, for example, in Fig. 4. The slight retardation of the spool produced before the final braking action may be obtained by a supplementary brake strap C' as shown in Fig. 3.
Patent GB-190903793-A (GB)
Title: Improved Apparatus or Machine for Winding Wire and other Material.
Inventor: KING ERNEST
IPC: B65H54/28
Filed: 1909-02-16
Granted: 1910-02-10
Abstract: 3793. King, E. Feb. 16. Winding-machines.-In a machine for winding wire on to spools or bobbins, the wire is passed over a grooved guiding-wheel B attached to a carrier C having a pawl which engages with a right and left handed screw D, and is wound on the bobbin E, which is belt-driven and is carried on a sliding carriage G attached to a weighted lever H, so that when the lever is raised into the position shown in dotted lines the belt is so slack as to be inoperative. The pawl carrier C of the wheel B carries also a pulley F, from which may be suspended a weighted cord for braking the guiding-wheel B. The screw D is adjusted by a screw I.
Patent GB-190905582-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Multiple Tyre Wheels.
Inventor: JENATZY CAMILLE
IPC: B60B3/18
Filed: 1909-03-08
Granted: 1910-02-24
Abstract: 5582. Jenatzy, C. March 8. Locking nuts.-The nut 18 which secures a series of wheels on a common hub 11 is recessed to receive teeth on a pivoted locking-catch 20.
Patent GB-190905975-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Curtain Suspenders.
Inventor: BRADSHAW ISAAC
IPC: A47H13/04
Filed: 1909-03-12
Granted: 1910-03-10
Abstract: 5975. Bradshaw, I. March 12. Safety-pins.-A curtain suspender, comprising a combined hook and safety-pin, is formed by bending a preferably pointed piece of wire to form a number of spring coils a‹ and a loop a<2>, with which the pin a' can be engaged from either side; the wire is brought back parallel with the part a<3>, and is bent over and under the part a<3> so as to form a hook a<6>, Fig. 1, which may be bent outwards to facilitate its attachment to a curtain-ring. The wire may be further bent at a<7>, a<8>, Fig. 2, to strengthen the hook, the end of the part a<7> either being coiled around the part a<3>, or, for heavy curtains, being carried down to form a hook a<10> adapted to support the pin a<1>.
Patent GB-190908163-A (GB)
Title: Improved Manufacture of Pyrophoric Masses.
Inventor: BLOXAM ARTHUR GEORGE
IPC: C06C15/00
Filed: 1909-04-05
Granted: 1910-03-17
Abstract: 8163. Bloxam, A. G., [Treibacher Chemische Werke Ges.]. April 5. Light, obtaining byfriction of metallic particles.- Pyrophoric masses, some of which give a sheet of flame when a knife is drawn across them, are obtained by impregnating with suboxide an alloy containing one or more rare earth metals, particularly an alloy of cerium with one or more heavy metals such as iron, nickel, cobalt, or manganese. The process may be carried out by reducing the alloy to powder or fine chips, strongly compressing the powder or chips into a compact mass, and heating the mass with air or other oxidizing-agent to incipient redness, whereupon the particles frit together. For varying the hardness, or increasing the durability or illuminating effect, metals such as calcium, magnesium, aluminium, tin, zinc, or lead may be present in proportions up to ten per cent of the mass without particularly depreciating the pyrophoric power.
Patent GB-190909623-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Train Controlling Means on Electric Railway Systems.
Inventor: ROBINSON WILLIAM
IPC: B61L3/18
Filed: 1908-10-20
Granted: 1909-10-20
Abstract: 9623. Robinson, W. Oct. 20, 1908. Electrical and combined electrical and pneumatic systems; track apparatus for stopping trains.-A reserve high-pressure air reservoir is provided on the cars to ensure a sufficient supply of air to a pneumatic brake mechanism actuated by mechanical contacts on the track operated in combination with the electric railway system described in relation to Fig. 4 in Specification 22,227/08. A shaft 3f mounted adjacent to each block or section d is provided with a projection 3g, which is adapted when raised to engage with a valve-controlling lever 3h, Fig. 4, pending from the cars. A counterweight 3i normally retains the projection below the rail level. When a train enters the block c, the relay magnet 7 becomes short-circuited by the wheels, thus causing the de-energizing of the magnet 39 and the energizing cf the magnet 4n. The magnet 4n opens the needle valve 3k, whereupon compressed fluid passes from the supply T into the cylinder 3a and raises the projection 3g. Should a train pass into the block d while the first train is on the blcck c, its brakes are operated and the train is checked or stopped. The operation of the lever 3h on the car greatly reduces the pressure in the reservoir I, especially on a long down-grade block, and, to avoid there not being sufficient pressure left to apply the brakes a second time when necessary, an auxiliary reservoir M is provided, which is normally maintained by the check valve 5f at the maximum pressure. When it is necessary to use the reservoir M, the valve 5h is operated to connect it to the engineer's valve V.
Patent GB-190915786-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Electric Heaters for Fluids or Liquids.
Inventor: PONZINI ALFREDO
IPC: H05B6/02
Filed: 1909-07-06
Granted: 1909-11-04
Abstract: 15,786. Ponzini, A. July 6. Reactances, iron - cored. -A tube or cylinder N of magnetic material is provided with a grooved outer surface forming rings A, in which currents are induced by a coil B, the heat produced being given up to fluids passed through the tube ; the number of active turns in the coil may be varied.
Patent GB-190917089-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to Domestic and other Cooling Appliances.
Inventor: JOHNSTON GEORGE
IPC: F25D7/00
Filed: 1909-07-22
Granted: 1910-10-24
Abstract: 17,089. Johnston, G. July 22. Domestic filters; filters, cooling.-A cooling- appliance, in which the cooling is effected by the evaporation of water contained between a porous wall and the wall of a vessel, may be adapted to contain a filter, and to contain filtered water. A metal or non - porous vessel a, containing the liquid, food, &c. to be cooled, is surrounded by a jacket h of porous material, such as woven fabric, and water from an upper annular water chamber e<2> is supplied to the space between the jacket and the vessel a. The fabric may be protected by wirework j. A filter d may be supported in the vessel a.
Patent GB-190917921-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Means for the Controlling or Governing of Steam or Gas Turbines.
IPC: F01B25/00
Filed: 1909-08-03
Granted: 1909-11-18
Abstract: 17,921. Akt.-Ges. Brown, Boveri, et Cie. Aug. 3, 1908, [Convention date]. Centrifugal and fluid governors.-In governing mechanism for a steam or gas turbi@e wherein the throttle valve is operated by a piston acted on by a fluid, for instance oil, under pressure, the outlet from the cylinder containing such piston is controlled by a piston valve n, which has a curved face o and is rotated in addition to being moved endways. The valve o may be in one with the governor sleeve.
Patent GB-190922124-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Aerial Vessels.
Inventor: MOYA HIDALGO
IPC: B64D27/00
Filed: 1909-09-28
Granted: 1910-04-14
Abstract: 22,124. Moya, H. Sept. 28. Steering.-The screw propeller of an aerial machine is adapted to be moved with its engine in two planes at right-angles for steering. A base-plate A secured to the frame carries a boss B to receive a pin B<1> projecting from a plate C, and a plate G which carries the engine has depending lugs F, F<1>, Fig. 3, hinged by a pin H between lugs E, E<1>, E<3> projecting from the plate C so that relative movement between the plates. A, G can take place by turning about the two pins B', H at right-angles. A forked plate J is secured at its forked end to the lugs E, E<1>, and has mounted in its other end a hollow shaft K enclosing a second shaft K'. At opposite ends of each of the shafts K, K<1> are mounted a bevel-wheel M, M' and a hand-wheel L, L' for operating the bevel-wheels, which traverse respectively a rack N supported on pillars O from the base-plate A, and a rack N' secured to the engine-plate G by arms 0<1>. The parts are adjusted by means of detents Q, Q<1> engaging teeth P, P<1> on the racks N, N<1> respectively.
Patent GB-190922490-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Automatic Fire Alarms.
Inventor: CASTLE FRANK
Filed: 1909-10-02
Granted: 1910-05-19
Abstract: 22,490. Castle, F. Oct. 2. Alarms operated by fusible devices.-A fusible composition for keeping electric contacts apart until a particular temperature is reached consists of cellulose and camphor mixed together in proportions varying with the degree of hardness and fusibility required.
Patent GB-190925385-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Beds.
Inventor: TAYLOR ARTHUR KENNON
IPC: A47D7/04
Filed: 1909-11-03
Granted: 1910-05-05
Abstract: 25,385. Taylor, A. K. Nov. 24, 1908, [Convention date]. Folding bedsteads.-An infant's crib is adjustably supported over or at the side of a bed by a portable and collapsible support, adapted when folded to enclose the crib and to be stored under the bed. The crib frame 19, 20 is shaped as shown, so that it is locked by its own weight in adjusted engagement with racks 17 let into the supporting-frame 9. This upright frame 9 is pivoted at 11 to an horizontal frame 6 so shaped that, when collapsed, the crib may be enclosed between the two frames 6, 9. A pivoted notched bar 12 locks the frame 9 in its upright position, and the free end of the crib may be supported by a folding frame 36. The crib has a cover which can be folded to either side, and consists of netting &c. on rods 40 pivoted to end disks 38, the cover being held expanded by tabs and buttons. The crib sides are mounted on rotatable sockets 29, as shown, and are held upright by latches engaging eyes on the end rails 24, 32.
Patent GB-190929437-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Electrically Illuminated Advertising Sign.
Inventor: GATES CHARLES
IPC: G09F13/00
Filed: 1909-12-16
Granted: 1910-12-08
Abstract: 29,437. Gates, C. Dec. 16. Moving and changing apparatus.-Translucent advertisements on a sheet of glass d have one or more letters or fractions of letters over each of the compartments into which the sign-box is divided. The lamps in these compartments are progressively lighted, whereby the advertisement develops out of a jumble of characters. Reference has been directed by the Comptroller to Specifications 28,260/96, 22,231/97, and 18,310/09.
Patent GB-191000167-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Wire Fabrics or Mattresses for Bedsteads, Cots, and like Articles of Furniture.
Inventor: EVANS ROBERT EVAN LLEWELLYN
IPC: A47C23/145
Filed: 1910-01-04
Granted: 1910-11-10
Abstract: 167. Evans, R. E. L. Jan. 4. Mattresses. - Relates to mattresses for bedsteads, cots, &c. of the construction described in Specification 23,859/99. Two series of diagonally-disposed springs D are arranged at or near the middle of the mattress, being secured in position preferably by means of two thin steel plates C loosely connected to the side bars A of the bedstead &c. The arrangement may be used alone, or in combination with that described in the before-mentioned Specification.