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Patent GB-191225819-A (GB)
Title: Apparatus for Taking the Profiles of Rails.
Inventor: SHORTER ALBERT EDWARD
Filed: 1912-11-11
Granted: 1913-11-06
Abstract: 25,819. Shorter, A. E. Nov. 11. Outline gauges.-Relates to apparatus for producing, by means of a number of adjustable gauging-points, a templet of the cross-section of railway and like rails or of metal bars of various shapes employed in building-construc tion. Two parallel frames A, of a shape similar to, but larger than, the rail to be gauged, are formed of sections fitting together by means of flanged connexions B and screws C, whereby they may be placed side by side around the rail. Clamping - screws G are provided for forcing the frames together, and their opposing faces are faced with rubber, leather, or other frictional material for holding any required number of gauging- points D between them, the points being pressed against the surface of the rail, as shown, before the clamping-screws are tightened. The frames may be removed with the gauging-points in position and placed upon paper on a drawing-board for the purpose of drawing the profile.
Patent GB-191226815-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Driving Chains.
IPC: F16G13/04
Filed: 1912-11-22
Granted: 1913-09-25
Abstract: 26,815. Renold, C. G., and Renold, Ltd., H. Nov. 22. Case-hardening .-In driving-chains of the plain-bearing 'silent' type, the wearing-surfaces only are case-hardened. The links may be protected against carburization except where a hard surface is required, or may be carburized without any protective coating, the film being removed from the parts to be left soft before the final heating and quenching, or the two methods may be combined. According to the first method of manufacture, the link blanks are punched from strips of low-carbon chrome-nickel steel, preferably cold rolled, and the rough edges are removed by pressing them through a die slightly smaller than the blanking-die. Round holes for the rivets are then punched of smaller diameter than the rivets in order that the removal of the protective coating may bring them to the correct size. The links are then coated with copper. or nickel and, after forming the gearing faces by grinding, and enlarging and polishing the holes by forcing steel drifts through them, are packed in retorts with carbonaceous material and heated. When cool, a thin shaving is removed from the backs of the rivet holes as described in Specification 19,378/12, [Class 24, Chains &c.]. The links are then heated and quenched in water or oil. In the second method of manufacture, the blanks are left with rough edges and the rivet holes are punched to correct size and smoothed. The rough edges of the gearing faces are then removed, and the faces ground to shape. The links are then carburized all over, and are allowed to cool in the retort. The carburized skin is then removed from the edge of the link with the exception of the gearing faces, and the subsequent processes are as in the first method When the former methods are combined, the steel strip is cleaned and, after coating with nickel and copper, is treated as in the second method. The foregoing methods can be applied to blocks sawn off a bar machined to the contour of the link.
Patent GB-191228096-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Seats for the Bodies of Vehicles.
Inventor: LAMPLUGH WILLIAM ALFRED
IPC: B60N2/06
Filed: 1912-12-05
Granted: 1913-08-14
Abstract: 28,096. Lamplugh, W. A. Dec. 5. Seat adjustments.-A vehicle seat which is insulated from and adjustable in the body of a vehicle comprises a supporting-plate on which is mounted a tube 11, Fig. 2, rotatable by means of a handwheel 14 sliding on an inner screwed rod 10. The hand-wheel may be engaged by means of a clutch with the tube 11 or may be moved outwards to engage a squared head 17 on the rod 10. By rotation of the tube 11, a nut 18, engaging a plate carrying the seat cushion by means of a ball 19, is traversed, and the seat is longitudinally adjusted. Rotation of the rod 10 traverses a nut 7 carrying a rod having rollers 9 on which rest bars 4<11> carrying the back 3. The back is additionally adjustable by engaging the ends of the bars 4" in a series of slots in the plate. The seat-supporting plate may itself be angularly adjusted as shown in Fig. 8 by means of a right and left hand screw adjustment 27.
Patent GB-191301649-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Miners' Picks.
Inventor: WILLIAMS WILLIAM EDWARD
IPC: B25D7/00
Filed: 1913-01-21
Granted: 1913-09-18
Abstract: 1649. Williams, W. E. Jan. 21. [Addition to 21,651/11.] Wedge expanding-devices for socket fixings.- Relates to miners' picks of the kind described in the parent Specification, and consists in providing a slot a in the shank of the wedge adapted to receive a pick point for forcing the wedge from the shaft when the shaft is to be withdrawn. A recess b is formed in the pick head to give access to the hole in the wedge-shank.
Patent GB-191303345-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Steam Traps.
Inventor: JUSTICE PHILIP MIDDLETON
IPC: F16T1/32
Filed: 1913-02-08
Granted: 1914-02-05
Abstract: 3345. Justice, P. M., [Nashua Machine Co.]. Feb. 8. Direct steam-pressure apparatus, automatic.- In a steam-trap in which water is discharged under pressure a counterbalanced receiver is arranged to open and close positively the steam-inlet valve and the water discharge valve. As shown in Figs. 2 and 3, the receiver 6 is mounted by means of pipes 12, 13 on trunnions on a hollow frame 40, and is counterbalanced by a lever 7 adapted to slide on a fulcrum 47. A cross-head 73 pivotally mounted on ears 71 projecting from the supports for the pipes 12, 13, plays between nuts 75 on the stem 53 of the steam-valve 45. Another cross-head 79 for operating the discharge valve 65 in a similar way is connected by rods 81 with the ears 71. The nuts are adjusted so that, when the receiver is overbalanced by water entering through the pipes 10, 12, the steam valve is opened slightly in advance of the discharge valve, and steam is admitted through one side of the frame 40 to the receiver through the pipe 13, to discharge the water through the pipe 12 and the other side of the frame to the valve 65. Springs 75<a>, 85<a> are interposed between the cross - heads and the lower nuts to prevent damage to the valves when closing. A check valve 42 is provided in the inlet pipe, and a vent valve 56 is opened when the steam-valve is closed.
Patent GB-191313873-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Potato Digging Machines.
Inventor: WOMMER GEORG
IPC: A01D19/04
Filed: 1913-06-16
Granted: 1913-11-27
Abstract: 13,873. Wommer, G., and Hense, H. June 16. Potato diggers and harvesters.-The forks of a potato harvester are turned through an angle as they pass through the soil and throw the potatoes rearwards upon a grating, from which they are raised by an elevator to sifting and sacking apparatus. The inclined shaft 5 of the digging- wheel 8 and the arms for supporting the share 7 are carried by a casting 3 mounted on the axle of the front wheels 1. The forks 14 are fixed to spindles 13 mounted in arms 11 which are connected by extensions 12, rods 21, and pins 20 to a ring 18 eccentrically mounted on disks 15, 16, so that the forks may be maintained in the hanging position. The forks are turned about the axes of the spindles 13, so as to deliver the potatoes on to the grating 41, by the engagement of stepped pieces 22 with their correspondingly stepped heads 23. They are returned to the normal position by springs 27 which force projections 28 against the arms 11. The shock is reduced by the engagement of an incline 25 with the driving-piece 22. The position and speed of oscillation of the forks may be altered by varying the position of the piece 22 and the radii of the steps. The grating 41 and the elevating, sifting, and sacking apparatus are carried by a wheeled frame 29 swivelling on a bolt 30. The endless-chain elevator 38 runs over chainwheels 34, 40 and guide rollers 46, and is driven by chain gearing from the axle of the wheels 31. It delivers the potatoes on a grating 42, from which they pass to sacks 44 through a funnel 43 having two outlets and a trap 45.
Patent GB-191315085-A (GB)
Title: Burner for Inverted Incandescent Gas Light.
IPC: F23D14/30
Filed: 1913-06-30
Granted: 1914-03-05
Abstract: 15,085. Pintsch Akt.-Ges., J. May 3, [Convention date]. Incandescent gas-burners; burners, attaching and mounting.-The vertical mixing-tube a of an inverted burner is fixed to the casing by one or more horizontally-arranged spring lugs. The upper free end of the mixing-tube is fitted to a cylindrical part e of the nipple and is provided with projections h engaging longitudinal grooves g in the nipple to prevent rotation. In one construction, the spring lugs m, n engage a groove in a supporting ring c on the mixing- tube and also engage lugs k on the reflector i to hold the reflector in position.
Patent GB-191316850-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Draft and Weather Check for Hinged Doors and Windows.
Inventor: SADLER ALFRED GEORGE
IPC: E06B7/20
Filed: 1913-07-22
Granted: 1914-06-25
Abstract: 16,850. Sadler, A. G. July 22. Draught and weather excluders.-Relates to draught and weather excluders for hinged doors or windows of the type comprising a curved slat hinged to the bottom of the door &c. As shown in Fig. 2, the slat A falls freely and is raised, on the opening of the door &c., by a spring E secured to one end of the slat and to the door jamb at D. Fig. 3 shows a modification in which the slat is carried by spring hinges L, each having one leg M sunk into the slat and secured by a bent toe m and the other leg N formed with an eye n through which is passed a screw for securing it to the door &c. The slat is closed down, when the door &c. is closed, by a bent spring finger G, Fig. 4<a>, secured to the jamb or frame.
Patent GB-191317130-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Petroleum Incandescent Lamps.
Inventor: GOTTKE OTTO
IPC: F23D99/00
Filed: 1913-07-25
Granted: 1914-03-26
Abstract: 17,130. Gottke, O. Sept. 11, 1912, [Convention date]. Pilot jets.-An incandescent vapour lamp is ignited by a small vaporizer which is arranged in the starting- cup, and comprises a perforated tube containing a metallic wick and provided with fuel inlets 37 and a cover carrying a tube 38 through which the vapour escapes, this being ignited by the starting- cup flame.
Patent GB-191318474-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Mercury Motor Electricity Meters.
IPC: G01R11/30
Filed: 1913-08-14
Granted: 1913-12-18
Abstract: 18,474. Chamberlain & Hookham, and Holden, S. H. Aug. 14. Mercury motor meters; casings.-The armature with its spindle and the whole or part of the counting-train are enclosed in an air-tight chamber to which the mercury has access and from which it flows into the armature space when the meter is erected. In the form shown, the space D in which the armature rotates communicates through a funnel E with the interior of a cover H with a window K, for the counter. The window is removable for access to the dials. In a modification, a counter outside the enclosure is driven by a spindle passing through a gland. Reference has been directed by the Comptroller to Specifications 5926/83 and 701/87.
Patent GB-191320392-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Thumb Tacks.
Inventor: FORD CHARLES ALFRED
IPC: B43M15/00
Filed: 1913-09-09
Granted: 1913-11-20
Abstract: 20,392. Ford, C. A. Sept. 9. Pins, drawing. - A drawing-pin or ' thumb tack ' for attaching a print, photograph, or sheet of paper to a board, wall, &c. is formed with a resilient tongue 4 bent over the head 1, which grips the paper without piercing it. The head 1 has two prongs 3, Fig. 1, turned down, and the tongue has a point turned up, forming together a flared mouth to facilitate the entrance of the paper. As shown in Fig. 4, the prongs are dispensed with, and the circular head has its sides turned up at 3<a>. Instead of being integral with the head, the tongue may consist of a loop of spring wire, one end of which is bent under the head and wound around the shank 2 of the drawing-pin.
Patent GB-191323005-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Apparatus for Playing a Game of Skill.
Inventor: PESSERS HENRY JOHN GERARD
IPC: A63F7/02
Filed: 1913-10-11
Granted: 1914-03-05
Abstract: 23,005. Pessers, H. J. G. Oct. 11. Tivoli billiards and the like.-In a vertical bagatelle type of game-apparatus which may be coin-freed, a ball is projected by the player from a pivoted spring projector 6 with the object of firing the ball through an opening in the periphery of a rotary target 2. The balls are introduced into the projector through gates 11 from trays 14, by operating spring-pressed gate-opening rods 13. A handle 16 is then raised, thereby temporarily removing an obstructing-member 15 from the mouth of the projector. During the return movement of the handle, due to gravity or assisted by a spring or weight, the target 2 is rotated by means of a toothed quadrant 21 and intermediate gearing. The projector is adjusted about its pivot by means of a rod 10.
Patent GB-191324785-A (GB)
Title: New or Improved Means for and Method of Darning or Patching Wearing Apparel and the like.
Inventor: CONE JOHN
IPC: D04B17/00
Filed: 1913-10-31
Granted: 1914-07-09
Abstract: 24,785. Cone, J. Oct. 31. Darning.-A darning-block is furnished with a series of pins 2 on the four edges of its upper surface upon which the fabric is impaled, and around which threads are guided prior to being attached to the fabric by other threads passed by means of a needle 5 through the fabric and alternately under and over the surface threads. The pins are specially spaced and are of differing sizes so as to facilitate guiding the surface threads around them according to a certain scheme. The needle threads are passed only in the direction shown in Fig. 4, and for this purpose the block is recessed in between the pins. The centre of the block is hollowed to permit the needle to move below the fabric. A set of darning-blocks may be nested together. and gratings may be provided for placing in the central cavities of the blocks to prevent the fabric from sagging.
Patent GB-191327473-A (GB)
Title: Ampere Meter and Volt Meter for Vehicles and the like.
Filed: 1913-11-28
Granted: 1915-07-15
Abstract: 27,473. Schoeller & Co. Feb. 10, [Convention date] Electro-magnetic current meter.-An ammeter adapted for use also as a volt-meter has a magnet M, a support G for the moving system S, a supporting-plate E for a series-resistance W, and contact plates C, D all fastened on a base-plate H by means of a bridge-piece B and two screws A<2>. A shunt J, for use when the instrument is connected as an ammeter, is mounted on the plate. The plates C, E and shunt J are insulated, but the plate D is in contact with the casing, which forms one terminal. A scale F may be mounted on the bridge B. The Specification, as open to inspection under Section 91 (3) (a), comprises means for operating the contact from outside the instrument, consisting of a screw and sliding-rod. This subject-matter does not appear in the Specification as accepted.
Patent GB-191401539-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Resilient Wheels.
Inventor: MITCHELL AUGUSTA VIRGINIA
IPC: B60B9/26
Filed: 1914-01-20
Granted: 1914-04-23
Abstract: 1539. Mitchell, A. V. Jan. 20. Spring wheels with continuous outer rigid ring and metal springs other than helical and volute springs.-Blade-spring spokes 13, Figs. 1 and 3, of long U-form have their ends fitted in radial slots 16 cut in a solid hub 15. The walls of the slots at their outer parts are rounded and diverge. A detachable plate 18 is fixed at one side by transverse bolts, and radial displacement of the spokes may be prevented by an annular projection and groove 20. The centres of the loops rest in a curved seating. in a block 22, Fig. 3, which is detachably screwed through the rim into a transverse projection 31. The spoke is secured by a bolt 24 screwed radially through the washer 25, and auxiliary springs 26, 27 into the block. The rubber tyre has recesses fitting over the projections 31; it is vulcanized to the roughened surface of the rim, and finally secured by a detachable flange 33.
Patent GB-191402043-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Combined Ruler and Blotter.
Inventor: BANCROFT KENNETH
IPC: B43L17/00
Filed: 1914-07-25
Granted: 1915-05-13
Abstract: 2043. Bancroft, K., Dickson, F. J., and Dickson, E. T., [trading as Bancroft- Dickson Co.]. July 25. Rulers.-A combined ruler and blotter comprises a ruler having flat, curved, or other suitably shaped faces, and provided with clips or catches at its ends or sides to hold a correspondingly shaped lath around which is folded a piece or pieces of blotting-paper. The lath a, Fig. 4, may slide beneath angle-pieces b secured to the ruler c, or may be held by side strips d, Fig. 9, attached to the ruler c by spring catches e. In a modification, the lath is hinged to the ruler at one end, and is secured by a catch at the other.
Patent GB-191403720-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Mixing Devices for Cement and Fibrous Materials.
Inventor: NESETRIL JAN
IPC: B28C5/40
Filed: 1913-09-24
Granted: 1914-06-11
Abstract: 3720. Nesetril, J. Sept. 24, 1913. Roller-machines; feeding-appliances.-A composition for the manufacture of railway sleepers, such as are described in Specification 21,556/13, [Class 104 (ii), Railway and tramway permanent way &c.], consists of cement and fibrous material, such as asbestos, first mixed dry and then wet, the first mixing being effected by grooved rollers which place the asbestos fibres parallel. The asbestos is fed to the machine and cut up by a spiked roller 25 revolving in a spiked casing 26. The cement is fed from a hopper 27 by a roller 28. The two pass to two grooved rollers 29, 30, the ridges of one roller engaging with the grooves of the other. The rollers 29, 30 rotate at different speeds and arrange the fibres parallel to each other. The materials then pass to a casing 31, in which rotates a drum 32 carrying rollers 36 in its circumference. The axles of the rollers 36 are provided with pinions engaging with a circular rack. Water is supplied through perforated channels 33 on the drum 32. From the casing 31, the composition passes to a mould-box 47.
Patent GB-191405313-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Machines for Making Flexible Metal Fabric.
Inventor: PRATT ALPHONSO COMSTOCK
IPC: B21F31/00
Filed: 1914-03-02
Granted: 1915-02-11
Abstract: 5313. Pratt, A. C. April 2, 1913, [Convention date]. Chain-mail fabrics. - Chain mesh consists of two sets of links, one set being in the form of plates 19, preferably of cruciform shape, which are secured in the other set, of ring form 18, by bending over the corners of the plates.
Patent GB-191409765-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in connection with Moving Picture Devices.
Inventor: PIERSON PAUL MELVILLE
IPC: G09F19/18
Filed: 1914-04-20
Granted: 1915-01-21
Abstract: 9765. Pierson, P. M., and Hochatetter, F. W. April 20. Kinematograph apparatus.-Relates to shutters for use in machines for producing and exhibiting moving pictures in natural colours. The shutter mechanism is mounted on the front wall 10 of a camera or projecting - apparatus for exhibiting moving pictures, between an exposure window 11 and a telescopic barrel 21 carrying the usual lenses, and comprises a casing 16 and an inner box-like member 27 sliding on balls and vertically reciprocated by a connecting-rod and cam 54. Upper and lower passages in the box are alternately held in register with the windows 11, 20 by the cam 54, for the purpose of allowing the rays of light focused from the lenses 22, 23 to pass through pairs of transparent coloured screens removably held in slots 40, 41, 42, 43 by means of clips 45, 46. The box may have a single passage containing one or more coloured screens.
Patent GB-191413397-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Machines for the Manufacture of Hemp Shoes.
IPC: A43D15/00
Filed: 1914-06-02
Granted: 1915-09-02
Abstract: 13,397. Power y Zabala, J., and Alpargatus (Powers Patents) Ltd. June 2. Drawings to Specification. Boot-soles, machines for making by stitching together coils of rope or the like.-A machine comprises two or more ranks of needles, awls, shuttles, and work-holders similar to those used in the machine described in Specification 1114/14, and is arranged for simultaneously stitching-through a corresponding number of shaped soles.
Patent GB-191413544-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Elastic Wheels for Motor Cars and other Road Vehicles.
Inventor: GUSTAVE FREDERIC THEODORE PELI
IPC: B60B9/28
Filed: 1914-06-03
Abstract: 13,544. PÚlissiÚ, G. F. T. Dec. 12, 1913, [Convention date]. Void. [Published under Section 91 of the Act.] Spring wheels with continuous outer rigid ring and helical and volute springs.-Telescopic. spokes containing helical springs consist of tubes 19, 19<1> which are cut away so as to form interengaging tongues 25, 25<1>. Plugs are screwed into the ends of the spokes. The outer plugs 27 are' forked and pivoted to lugs 18 on the rim 14. The inner lugs have rounded extremities seated in axial grooves in the hub, and pivot on bolts 28. Dirt-excluding sleeves 36 are fitted around the spokes.
Patent GB-191413777-A (GB)
Title: A System of Resiliently Mounting the Backs of Seats of Automobiles and other Vehicles.
Inventor: ESNAULT-PELTERIE ROBERT
IPC: B60N2/02
Filed: 1914-06-06
Granted: 1914-11-19
Abstract: 13,777. Pelterie, R. Esnault-. June 14, 1913, [Convention date]. Seats and seat-backs, arrangement and disposition of. - A resiliently mounted seat back for automobiles and other vehicles is so arranged that when jolted all points thereon describe arcs of circles struck from the approximate centre of gravity of the vehicle body, or arcs tangent to the first named arcs. In the arrangement shown in Fig. 1, pins b on the back engage slots a having as centre the centre of gravity A of the vehicle body, the spring mounting comprising a leaf spring c and helical spring c'. In a modification, Fig. 2, the movement of the back is controlled by links e in conjunction with springs g, h; and in a further modification, by hinged struts or toggle levers in conjunction with flexible ties and springs.
Patent GB-191416257-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Means for Storing and Delivering Flour, Meal, Bran, or the like.
Inventor: SAMUELSON ERNEST
IPC: B65D88/54
Filed: 1914-07-08
Granted: 1915-06-17
Abstract: 16,257. Samuelson, E., and Backhouse, J. July 8. Storage bins. - Relates to storing chambers for flour and the like of the type in which the chambers are formed of high narrow bins and consists in providing such chambers with a screw discharge device. The bins a of a series are preferably made tapering towards the top, and have at the base a single or double screw - thread d mounted on a shaft c and rotating above the outlet f. Scrapers i are arranged below the screws d. The bins are of thin wood or of sheet iron lined with cardboard, and are circular or polygonal in section, the spaces between circular bins being utilized for the circulation of cooling-air.