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Patent GB-190706938-A (GB)
Title: Improved Apparatus for Cleaning Printing Rollers and Colour Bands.
Filed: 1907-03-22
Granted: 1907-07-04
Abstract: 6938. Bungartz, M., and Apparate- Bauanstalt Fortschritt Ges. March 22. Printing fabrics and paperhangings; printing- rollers.-Relates tc apparatus for cleaning printing-rollers and endless colour cloths such as are used in printing calico and wall - paper. The roller or endless cloth is revolved or advanced before jets of water, and is moved endways irregularly in order to avoid the formation of streaks. The roller is supported on a shaft 9 between jet pipes 24, 25 in a casing provided with a discharge opening 38. The shaft 9 is driven from a shaft 14 through gearing 22, 21, and endlong movement is imparted to the shaft 14 by means of a cam 18 and a pin 20, and from the shaft 14 to the shaft 9 by means of flanges 40 on either gear-wheel 22, 21. The pin 20 is provided with a shuttle-shaped guide-piece in order to avoid jerks at the bends of the cam-groove. The roller is secured on the shaft 9 between a spring stop 11 and a removable sleeve 10 adjustable in notches in the shaft by means of a catch 12. The outlets of the jet pipes are conical in order to give a united stream. An endless cloth is supported on a drum on the shaft 9 and on a second drum 27 free to slide on a shaft 26 mounted in a slide 30 adjustable by means of a rack and toothed segment to tension the cloth. A third jet pipe 41 is provided for cleaning the inside of the cloth.
Patent GB-190712230-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in the Treatment of Tars and Pitches in order to render them more suitable for Industrial Purposes.
Inventor: MALDEN WALTER JAMES
Filed: 1907-05-27
Granted: 1908-05-07
Abstract: 12.230. Malden, W. J., and Malden, A. May 27. Tar; pitch; distilling tar.-Tars and pitches are treated with a mixture of concentrated sulphuric acid and manganese dioxide in order to render them more suitable for briquetting fuel or for other industrial purposes. The tar is first heated and powdered manganese dioxide stirred in until the temperature reaches from 50-60‹ C. ; the acid is then added, and the whole is stirred and the temperature raised, until the loss by evaporation is constant and very small. The tenacity and ductility of the final product may be regulated by varying the proportions of the materials used. In the case of pitch, oil or tar, or both, should be added to the pitch before treating with acid and manganese dioxide.
Patent GB-190716362-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to Milling Machines.
Inventor: VERNET ARTHUR
Filed: 1907-07-16
Granted: 1908-07-16
Abstract: 16,362. Vernet, A. Feb. 7, [date applied for under Patents Act, 1901]. Milling. - Multiple-spindle turret machines, of the kind comprising a central driving- shaft provided with a gear-wheel adapted to drive various cutters through the intermediary of gearwheels and parallel shafts, have the cutters driven from these shafts by shafts arranged at right-angles or at an inclination thereto. The main turret-head 49, Fig. 1, revolves eccentrically round the central driving-shaft so that only that gear-wheel 73 is driven on the parallel shaft which drives the cutter spindles in position over the worktable 2. The head 52 rotates on a face 6, Fig. 4, inclined at an angle of forty-five degrees to the central shaft, and is driven from the parallel shaft 3 by an inclined shaft 9 placed obliquely so that only the cutter 4, which is in operative position, is driven. The head 53 carries shafts 63, 64 connected by helical wheels mounted on clutch sleeves, one of the sleeves being bevel-geared to a crossshaft geared to one of the parallel shafts so that either spindle may be driven as required. Other heads may be angularly or vertically adjustable. An additional cutter with an horizontal axis may be provided, driven from the power shaft (not shown) for rotating the main turret head. In a modification, the head 49 is fixed and a number of tables are carried by a framing rotatable about the standard 1. In another modification, the turret head 49 is centrally mounted about the driving- shaft, and the parallel shafts not required to be driven are disconnected by sliding the wheels 73 on their shafts. This machine is provided with a cutter mounted on a sliding-carriage adjustable vertically and laterally. The Specification, in the original form, as open to inspection under Section 91 (3) (a) comprises also the subject-matter of Specification No. 5499, A.D. 1908 ; it also comprises a machine with a single turret bead fixed to the standard and similar to the head 52 ; another machine with a similar head but with the cutter arranged to be operative when in the horizontal position; a machine with a head similar to the head 52 carried by a saddle on a standard laterally movable on a bed ; and a machine having a single head similar to the head 53 but carried on a standard over a compound table. This subject - matter does not appear in the Complete Specification as accepted.
Patent GB-190723284-A (GB)
Title: Improved Non-refillable Bottle.
Inventor: GIBSON ELIZABETH
Filed: 1907-10-22
Granted: 1908-04-09
Abstract: 23,284. Gibson, E. Oct, 22. Bottles, non-refillable.- The bottle is formed with an annular groove 4, above which the neck tapers outwards to an enlargement 6 ; above this the neck is cylindrical. A valve 12, adapted to seat on the enlargement 6 and in the taper part of the neck, is retained in the neck by spring hooks 15, which engage the groove 4 and allow sufficient play to the valve. The valve is covered with elastic material to form an hermetic closure. Above the valve a stopper 9, with a longitudinal passage 10 and crosswires 17, is secured immovably in the neck. The passage 10 is closed by a stopper 16.
Patent GB-190724938-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Wheels for Motor Cars and the like having Pneumatic Tyres and Detachable Rims.
Inventor: MORLEY HERBERT WILLIAM
Filed: 1907-11-11
Granted: 1908-10-29
Abstract: 24,938. Morley, H. W., and Jackson, W. Nov. 11. Felloes or rims.-Detachable tyre-carrying rims K are attached to the permanent rim or felloe B by a series of pairs of coacting wedges D, I, separable from the rim and felloe and fixed to the latter by bolts H passing either through the felloe or between the detachable rim and the permanent rim C secured on the felloe, Fig. 6. The wedges have lips P' to enable a lever to be used for their removal. To prevent creeping of the detachable rim, a boss N is fixed thereto and enters a recess in the felloe. The air valve passes through this box, a nut and leather washer making a water-tight joint. When desired, the wheel may be run on the permanent rim C.
Patent GB-190800892-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Alternating Current Electric Motors of the Induction Type.
Filed: 1908-01-14
Granted: 1908-11-26
Abstract: 892. Crompton & Co., Macfarlane, J. C., and Burge, H. Jan. 14. Armatures; motors, controlling.-An induction motor is provided with two rotors, one of high resistance and one of low resistance, both upon the same spindle and capable of axial movement so that the high-resistance rotor used at starting may be automatically replaced by the low-resistance rotor as the speed rises. The starting rotor A, Fig. 1, which may be an unwound core, is spring-held in proximity to the stator when the rotor is at rest, and, together with the high-resistance running rotor B, is adapted to rotate upon a hub C with the spindle D, and at the same time to slide upon the spindle, to which the hub is connected by a feather. As the motor speeds up under the influence of the starting-rotor, the change of rotors is automatically effected by screw or cam mechanism. In one form, a female screw-thread of quick pitch is formed upon the interior of the hub and is engaged by a male thread upon the spindle, so that, upon rotation of the motor, the rotors are moved along the spindle. In another form, the interior of the hub is formed with two cam-faces E, Fig. 1, forming rather less than half a turn of a screw-thread, one face of which is left-handed and the other righthanded. One or other of these cam-faces is engaged by a cam-piece F, according to the direction of revolution of the motor, the resulting axial movement of the rotor being the same in each case. The rotors are returned to the starting position by a spring X, and the motion of the hub is controlled by a dash-pot Z. The requisite motion of the hub may be obtained by the centrifugal action of weights placed in carriers and free to slide radially. These weights are connected with the hub by chains, cords, or links, and a spring is used to balance the centrifugal action of the weights, so that the hub may have a definite axial position for definite speeds. The hub and spindle may be fixed together and moved endways as a whole. Specification No 4171, A.D. 1894, is referred to.
Patent GB-190804463-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Lamps or Lanterns for Motor and other Vehicles.
Inventor: LANDI TITO
Filed: 1908-02-27
Granted: 1908-05-21
Abstract: 4463. Landi, T. Jan. 14, [date applied for under Section 91 of Patents &c. Act, 1907]. Incandescent vapour lamps ; lamp brackets.-In a lamp for motor-cars &c., a spirit lamp heats a refractory mantle, air enters through a series of holes in the door, the reservoir of the lamp is packed so that the lamp is adapted to be proof against cold, rain, high speed, &c., and the lamp is supported by an anti-vibration device. As shown in Figs. 1 and 2, a burner i of a type described in Specification No. 11,976, A.D. 1902, is arranged within a chimney D attached by means of a collar e to a jacket A, preferably of copper, within which is arranged a conical reflecting-surface C of german silver with a concave back d. A glazed door B with air-holes c is provided, and the air outlet consists of holes q, r in the parts A, C, and downward openings in a hinged cap E lined at the top with asbestos v. The reservoir of the lamp is covered with felt, and is supported by a cover g secured to the jacket A by screws h to permit of easy cleaning. The filling - plug of the reservoir is protected by a metal cap. The mantle is supported by a rod k and rests on a conical part i of the burner to prevent oscillations. Access to the burner for lighting purposes is effected by a sliding door o, through a hole p in which a regulating-key passes. To prevent shocks, the lamp is supported by sockets F which are received by two forked arms G provided with lining rubber ringe S fixed by bolts u. The arms G are united to an arm H fixed to the motor and provided with a cross-arm t to prevent lateral oscillations.
Patent GB-190804470-A (GB)
Title: Improved Reproducing Apparatus for Talking Machines.
Inventor: BONTCHEV VASSIL
Filed: 1908-02-27
Granted: 1908-08-06
Abstract: 4470. Bontchev, V. June 13, 1907, [date applied for under Section 91 of Patents &c. Act, 1907]. Phonographs and gramophones.-A sound - box has a needle r for use with gramophone records, and a rounded stylus t for use with phonograph records. An arm p which carries the styles is secured to a flat spring l reinforced by a central metal plate i, which has conical cavities resting against corresponding points or knife-edges n, the spring l being fixed by screws m in a tangential groove in the sound-box casing a. The arm p may be bifurcated and attached to both sides of the diaphragm, as shown by the dotted lines, Fig. 2. The diaphragm b is held in the casing between rubber washers by a screwed ring c. The casing a is made of aluminium, ivorine, &c.
Patent GB-190809236-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to a Method of and Apparatus for Inducing Circulation in Steam Generators.
Inventor: ANDRIOLI VITTORI
Filed: 1908-04-28
Granted: 1908-10-01
Abstract: 9236. Andrioli, V. April 28. Water-circulation, promoting.-The water circulation in a boiler is increased by drawing water from the coldest part and delivering it into a tube surrounded by a larger tube in the fire-box, the latter tube being closed at one end and opening into the water-space at the other. The water passes through a chamber into which the feed is injected. The rapid heating which takes place causes the deposition of impurities, which can be blown off from the water chamber and through a tap at the closed end of the large tube. The water in the annular space between the tubes 2, 6 becomes heated very quickly and rises through an opening 4 into the water-space 5. This causes water to flow in from a tube 7 which is connected to a chamber 8 and to a pipe 9. The feed enters the chamber 8 and there deposits some of its impurities, which can be blown out by a tap 16. Baffles 11 serve to hold the tube 6 in position, and prevent impurities from being drawn into the boiler.
Patent GB-190809274-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Wheels for Automobiles and other Vehicles
Inventor: STEVENS GEORGE JOHN
Filed: 1908-04-29
Granted: 1908-11-26
Abstract: 9274. Stevens, G. J. April 29. Spring wheels.-Relates to spring wheels of the kind in which a rim is formed with a web held between a pair of disks secured to the hub and carrying supporting- cushions. According to the present invention, the rim g is in two parts bolted together and flared outwardly at the inner periphery g' in order to engage a solid or pneumatic cushion b seated in a groove in the hub. Side-rings i securing the tyres are bolted to the parts g. The dished disks c, which are exchangeable and removable singly without dismounting the wheel, are bolted to flanges on the axle-box, are connected by bolts f passing through apertures in the web, and are bent outwardly at d to support solid or pneumatic cushions e.
Patent GB-190811142-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in the Manufacture of Armour-plate.
Inventor: COWPER-COLES SHERARD OSBORN
Filed: 1908-05-22
Granted: 1909-08-23
Abstract: 11,142. Coles, S. O. Cowper-. May 22. Armour-plating.-Hardened steel balls, fragments of hardened steel, or short-length tubes of steel or alloy of steel or hardened aluminium or carhorundum are arranged in any pattern, and aluminium or an alloy of aluminium is cast around them. Steel wire or ribbons may also be used to increase the strength of the plate. The bottom or side of the mould in which the plate is cast may have placed in it a sheet of copper or copper alloy having lugs to ensure a perfect union with the aluminium. An alloy of zinc and iron may also be used for this purpose.
Patent GB-190811168-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or connected with Hand Appliances for Cleaning Forks Knives Plate and the like.
Inventor: HOLT MITCHELL
Filed: 1908-05-22
Granted: 1909-01-07
Abstract: 11,168. Holt, M. May 22. Knives &c., cleaning &c. -A hand appliance for use in cleaning knives, forks, spoons, plate, saddlery fittings, &c. comprises a brush B carried by a stock A and surrounded by a ring C of felt or the like. The stock is shaped to form a handle, or a separate handle may be inserted at right-angles to the stock. The bristles are secured to a block of wood which is glued in a recess in the stock. An apertured screw piece D, or a projecting tube attached to the tool, serves to facilitate the strightening of bent fork prongs.
Patent GB-190811359-A (GB)
Title: Mechanical Installation for the Utilisation of Tidal and other Water Currents
Inventor: SEABRA JOSE HENRIQUES
Filed: 1908-05-25
Granted: 1909-01-07
Abstract: 11,359. Seabra, J. H. May 25. Turbines.-A water-wheel, preferably of the kind described in Specification No. 15,218, A.D. 1907, [Abridgment Class Hydraulic machinery &c.], is mounted on pontoons and connected by telescopic shafting and universal joints with a machine which transforms the slow motion of the wheel in a variable direction into a quick one in a constant direction. The shaft of the water-wheel 2, Fig. 7, which wheel is mounted on pontoons 3 and adapted to be operated by the tidal current, is connected with the primary shaft 23 of the transforming-machine by a shaft 66, telescopic shafts 69, and universal joints 68. The telescopic shafts 69 consist of two longitudinally slotted bars engaging one another and embraced by guide-rings 70 as in Fig. 8. The shaft 66 is supported by the pivoted member 65 connecting the pontoons with the shore. On the shaft 23 of the transformer are two large pulleys 21, 22 connected by crossed and open cables 25, 26 respectively with small pulleys 27, 28, Fig. 2, loose on a shaft 39. Rubbing of the crossed cables is prevented by a guide comb, consisting of vertical bars 31 'freely mounted in cross-bars 29, 30, Fig. 5. A hand-operated clutch 32 feathered on the shaft 39 is engaged with one or other of the pulleys 27, 28 according as the tide is running in or out to ensure rotation of the shaft 39 in one direction. The cables are tightened by sliding the bearings of the shaft 23, Fig. 3, along slideways 56. At each end of the shaft 39 is a fly-wheel 40 carrying slideways 41 mounted on pins 61. An oscillating frame 43 derives its motion from the fly-wheel through a rod 42 which slides in the piece 41. This oscillating motion is transformed into a rotary motion of a shaft 51 through two connecting-rods 47, 48 attached to the frame 43 at 45, 46, and to the cranks 49, 50, which are at rightangles to each other. This arrangement enables the dead-centres to be passed without difficulty. On the shaft 51 is a free-wheel fly-wheel 52, whereby the fly-wheel overruns the shaft in case of obstruction.
Patent GB-190812500-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Cash Registers.
Filed: 1908-06-10
Granted: 1909-06-10
Abstract: 12,500. National Cash Register Co., [National Cash Register Co.]. June 10. Receipts, checking and recording.- Means are provided in connexion with cash registers for keeping an unlimited number of separate accounts. The totals of these are kept on detachable counters, each of which consists of a box 10 carrying on the shaft 9 the counter wheels 7 with their actuating-pinions 8 and transfer mechanism, which may be of any suitable kind, that shown consisting of a spring-pressed pawl engaging with the ratchet - wheel 23 when the pin 25 carried by the pawl falls into a notch in the disk 26. Two opposite notches are provided as the counter wheels have a double set of digits. The three lowest pinions 8 are of larger diameter and project through the hinged and locked cover 12 of the detachable counter so that, when the latter is placed on the carriage 19 of the machine, carried inwards by the cam 65 and links 68, 72, and raised by the cam slots 35 engaging pins on the carriage, the pinions will engage the auxiliary racks 37. The racks 37 are connected by springs 43<a> to the lever-set racks 6 and work on the fame guides 42, the slots 42<a> in the auxiliary slides being turned down so as to bring these racks into gear with the counter pinions in position. This operation of the detachable counter takes place when the spirally-arranged cams 38 successively engage and reset to normal position the lever-set racks 6, with which the auxiliary racks are locked by means of pawls 6<a> which are released by cams 39<a> on the shaft 39. In order to prevent tampering with the amount on the counter, double pawls 13, 14 are fitted to the three setting pinions 8, the lower pawls being prolonged as shown so as to be released by pins 18 on the carriage 19. The pawls 13 are only fitted to the fourth and fifth counter-wheel pinions, the last pinion having a pawl 28 in addition which is adapted to drop into a notch on its wheel 7 when the highest digit is reached, thus locking the wheel and preventing fraudulent resetting by continued addition on the setting-pinions. The machine with which this detachable counter is employed is of the kind described in Specification No. 21,213, A.D. 1903, the vertical rack-bars 5 for operating the main counter and indicators being in gear with the setting-levers 1. The indicators are operated by the bars 48 having pins 47 engaging slots 46 in the racks 5 and being drawn down by springs 58 ; the detent levers 54 for the indicators are operated by cams 56.
Patent GB-190817114-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Elevated Tracks or Run-ways and Trolleys therefor.
Filed: 1908-08-14
Granted: 1908-11-12
Abstract: 17,114. London Electron Works Co., and Kardos, E. Aug. 14. Conveyers; cranes.- To avoid injury to workmen through electric shocks, conveyers or overhead run-ways are insulated from their supporting- beams. and formed into sections separated by airgaps ; the hook or eye on the lifting and lowering part of the travelling trolly is also insulated from the rest of the trolly. Fig. 1 shows a side elevation of the trolly and track with a turntable G of ordinary construction. The beams H are supported by the walls of the building and are insulated from the tracks A which they carry. The tracks are divided up into sections by air-gaps S and the eye N of the trolly, is separated from the rest of the trolly by the insulation M.
Patent GB-190817144-A (GB)
Title: Improved Devices for Securing and Locking the Hatches of Barges and other Craft.
Inventor: ELLISDON SIDNEY CALLENDER
Filed: 1908-08-14
Granted: 1909-09-14
Abstract: 17,144. Ellisdon, S. C. Aug. 14. Hatches.-An arrangement for securing hatches, more particularly of barges, comprises bars F pivoted by connecting links E to brackets D secured to the hatch coaming. Each bar has longitudinal play so that a hook B and hasp C may be moved into engagement with eyes secured to the batch coaming. The bars are laid over the tarpaulin or other hatch cover, and are secured in position by padlocks, seals, or other fastening-devices passing through the hasps. By arranging four such bars, two on each side of the permanent middle beam, the covers of the whole barge may be secured by two padlocks.
Patent GB-190818482-A (GB)
Title: Improved Means for Purifying the "Slip" or like Material Employed in the Manufacture of China, Earthenware and like Goods.
Inventor: SOLON GILBERT CHARLES
Filed: 1908-09-03
Granted: 1909-09-03
Abstract: 18,482. Solon, G. C., and Campbell, A. J. Sept. 3. Magnetic separators.-In a magnetic separator for treating potters' slip and like material, a series of frames, each carrying a series of electro-magnets, is traversed below a sieve or tray into which the slip &c. is fed, and the frames are successively removed from the electric circuit and carried through a water trough to remove the attracted magnetic material before being reintroduced into the circuit. The frames o are traversed below the trough t by pushers secured to blocks C<1> reciprocated by eccentrics a<1>. Each frame has projecting from its underside channel pieces h, in the walls of which are holes adapted to engage with spring-controlled pivoted arms f carried by standards e on endless chains b. The standards are carried between guide-bars which hold open the arms f as shown in Fig. 3, until they have reached the last frame of the series. The arms are then allowed to close, and the end frame is thereby carried by the chains through the water trough j<1>. The cleaned magnets are carried to the other end of the series of frames, the spring arms then opening so as to release the cleaned frame and remaining open until they reach the last frame, when they close into engagement therewith, and so on. The slip passes through holes r in the tops of the frames into contact with the magnets, the cleaned slip passing away through an opening u. The magnets are energized while they are in operative position by contact with copper strips v, the contact between the strips and each frame ceasing as that frame is engaged by the spring arms.