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Patent GB-190820278-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to Vacuum Cleaning Machines.
Inventor: ILES ALBERT SAMUEL
Filed: 1908-09-26
Granted: 1909-09-27
Abstract: 20,278. Iles, A.S. Sept. 26. Vacuum cleaning- apparatus. - In a domestic apparatus of the type provided with suction bellows, a vacuum chamber of triangular formation, and dry dustseparating devices, the inclined sides of the chamber are adapted to form the fixed portion of the bellows. The triangular vacuum chamber a is fitted within a framing b mounted on castors and provided with a hinged lid c. The inclined sides of the chamber form the fixed portions of a pair of bellows j provided with flap inlet and delivery valves n, m respectively and operated by a hand-wheel g through a crank h and a slotted cross-head i or a pair of connecting-rods. The dust is preferably intercepted by a bag o of fabric, say calico. The bag is attached to a removable cover-plate p fitted with a hose connexion q and secured to the chamber by screws s or a bayonet-joint. The chamber is provided with a relief valve t to prevent excessive suction.
Patent GB-190823338-A (GB)
Title: Improved Device for Protecting the Internal Parts of Ships Against Splinters by Elastic Means.
Inventor: NEUDECK GEORG
Filed: 1908-11-02
Granted: 1909-02-25
Abstract: 23,338. Neudeck, G. Nov. 2. Metallic fabrics. -Nets for protecting the interior of ships from splinters caused bv projectiles are constructed of spirallywound wires or springs knotted to form a chain net, as shown in Fig. 3.
Patent GB-190823687-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Power-driven Vehicles
Inventor: ELKIN CHARLES
Filed: 1908-11-05
Granted: 1909-04-15
Abstract: 23,687. Elkin, C. Nov. 5. Locomotive railway vehicles; motor road vehicles. -Relates to vehicles of the kind in which screw propellers act on the air to assist in propelling, in addition to the ordinary propelling-mechanism. In the electrically-propelled railway vehicle shown in Fig. 1, propellers 14, driven by motors 15, are mounted two at each end of the vehicle, the motors being preferably connected in the circuit of the wheel-propelling motors. The propeller motors are carried by a framework 17. A motor road vehicle is shown in which a propeller is arranged at the rear.
Patent GB-190824328-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Supporting Inclined Rotary Drums.
Inventor: CLARK WILLIAM
Filed: 1908-11-12
Granted: 1909-09-02
Abstract: 24,328. Clark, W., [Fellner & Ziegler, and Hellbig, A. B.]. Nov. 12. Rotary furnaces.-In bearings for the inclined drums of rotary furnaces, kilns, &c., of the kind in which the downward tendency of the drum is counteracted by a slight inclination of the bearing- rollers, the bearing-plates 2 of a set of four or more rollers 11 are connected together by arms 4 and rods 5, in such a manner that they are constraiued to turn together on pivots 3. Each roller is mounted in a carrier 6 free to slide in a curved segmental guide 7, which is in the plane of the axis of the roller, the centre of curvature being approximately at the point of contact 10. Each slide 6 is supported by two rods 13, which ensure that the axis of the roller participates in the movement of the bearing plate 2. The axis of the pivot 3 passes through the point 10, and the plate 2 can consequently be turned without altering the point of support 10.
Patent GB-190824442-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Apparatus for Testing the Efficiency of Marine Propellers.
Inventor: WESTINGHOUSE GEORGE
Filed: 1908-11-13
Granted: 1909-02-25
Abstract: 24,442. Westinghouse, G. Nov. 30,1907, [date applied for under Section 91 of Patents &c. Act, 1907]. Elastic-fluid turbines.-In apparatus for testing the efficiency of marine propellers in which a turbine-driven propeller revolves in a cylindrical tank, means are provided for determining the speed of rotation and the thrnst of the shaft, the power supplied by the turbine and the speed of the liquid leaving the propeller. The propeller 5, as shown in the diagrammatic view, Fig. 6, is arranged in the tank 8 so that the currents set up are approximately concentric with the cylindrical wall of the tank. The shaft 6 is connected by a coupling 9 with the shaft 10 provided with a thrust bearing 11, and by a coupling 13, which allows some longitudinal play, with the shaft 12 of the rotor 14 of the turbine 21. The casing 17 of the stator partially encloses the rotor, as shown in Fig. 3, and is formed with a hollow spindle 18, which serves as fluid-supply inlet by means of ports 26, and is rotatably journaled in a bearing 19. The power supplied is determined by balancing the reactive torque of the stator by means of an arm 29, Fig. 3, attached to the element 17 and supported by the platform of suitable scales.
Patent GB-190827232-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Hydraulic Engines.
Inventor: PROCTOR WILLIAM EDWARD
Filed: 1908-12-15
Granted: 1909-11-25
Abstract: 27,232. Proctor, W. E. Dec. 15. [Cognate Application No. 13,426, A.D. 1909, dated June 8.] Mountings.- Apparatus for operating turntables and gun platforms by means of hydraulic pressure comprises pistons of different diameters arranged in tubes and connected to a drum by means of a chain, means being provided for keeping the chain taut. Fig. 1 shows one form of the apparatus, two chambers a, b in which drums are mounted being connected by tubes c, d of different diameters. In these tubes are arranged pistons e, f, connected by chains passing around the drums. A controlling-valve k determines the path of the pressure water acting on the pistons and consequently the direction of motion of the apparatus. Fig. 6 shows a modification in which only one chamber is used, a weight q being attached to the smaller piston f. In some cases a rope is used in place of a chain, and the drum is made capable of sliding along the shaft so that, as the rope is fed on to the drum, it is kept centred with the cylinder. In some cases also the cock may be automatically controlled and a relief valve fitted. Fig. 3 shows the apparatus applied to a steering-gear ; the spindle m projects thrcugh the cover t of the apparatus and is connected to a cross-head u attached to the rudder-head and to another cross-head v. In another form, the spindle m carries a spur-wheel gearing with a segmental rack. In another form the rudder-head is carried through a hollow spindle which is connected to a large wheel within the hydarulic apparatus, and the head may be connected to the hollow spindle.
Patent GB-190902987-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Corsets.
Inventor: MENZIES ELLEN KEILLOR
IPC: A41C1/00
Filed: 1909-02-08
Granted: 1910-02-03
Abstract: 2987. Menzies, E. K. Feb. 8. Metal - strip or busk fastenings.- In a corset of the type described in Specification 21,798/08, [Class 43, Fastenings, Dress], the overlapping steels or busks are secured together by means of hooks 9, the inner parts of which embrace the outer steel 3, while the free ends are adapted to pass through slits 12 in the sheath of the inside steel 1 to engage with it.
Patent GB-190903763-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Reflecting Devices for use in Photographic Studios.
Inventor: ISER ADALBERT
IPC: G03B15/06
Filed: 1909-02-15
Granted: 1909-05-27
Abstract: 3763. Iser, A. Feb. 18, 1908, [Convention date]. Studios.-A studio is arranged so as to enable the sitter to view himself while being photographed, and also to take himself if desired. The studio is divided into two halves by a sliding plate-glass partition a. The camera chamber is illuminated with a very weak light, and for the exposure the sitting or posing chamber is well illuminated by lights such as g. This has the effect of producing a darkened background, and the plate-glass screen a becomes an apparent mirror enabling the person photographed to see himself. An automatic release connexion n, l, m is provided to enable a sitter to take himself.
Patent GB-190904089-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Mould Drying Ovens.
Inventor: HORNER JOHN
IPC: B22C9/12
Filed: 1909-02-19
Granted: 1909-12-02
Abstract: 4089. Horner, J. Feb. 19. Ovens for drying moulds for casting pipes. The drying-chamber is constructed with a perforated floor C, upon which the moulds D are placed. The combustion products from the furnace H pass through a flue G to the hollow floor, and through the moulds to the top of the oven, whence they pass away through flues I, J. The floor is stiffened by girders F and formed with suitable stoppers for the holes above which the moulds are not placed. An exhaust fan may be provided. Specifications 2943/65, 231/66, [Class 83, Metals, Cutting &c.], 1460/75, and 9504/01 are referred to.
Patent GB-190905175-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Steam Superheating Devices.
Inventor: SCHMIDT WILHELM
IPC: F22G7/14
Filed: 1909-03-03
Granted: 1909-06-10
Abstract: 5175. Schmidt, W. March 4, 1908, [Convention date]. Fire-tubes, arrangements of superheating- tubes in.-In a superheater consisting of U- tubes placed in the smoke-tubes of a boiler, two or more continuous U-loops d, e are arranged in a tube in such a way that the loop d containing the coolest steam is surrounded by the coolest furnace gases, and the loop e containing the hottest steam is surrounded by the hottest furnace gases. The steam on its way between the U-loops d, e may pass through a number of loops h, Fig. 6, arranged in a second tube. The separate loops formed in a continuous tube may be placed in different tubes. The return tube between the loop e and the superheatedsteam header is insulated from the surrounding gases by a tube f.
Patent GB-190905669-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Printing Presses.
Inventor: BOULT ALFRED JULIUS
IPC: B41F27/12
Filed: 1909-03-09
Granted: 1909-10-21
Abstract: 5669. Boult, A. J., [Ford, A. J.]. March 9. Blankets; offset machines; printing-surfaces- The impression blanket or surface 1, or a flexible offset surface, is removably attached to the reelrods 5 by means of connecting-bars 11 and clamping-bars 12. These bars are clamped to the ends of the cloth &c. 1 by screws 13, and the bar 11 has recesses therein which engage projections, such as the dovetail pieces 15, on the rods 5. By releasing the pawls 10 from the usual ratchet-wheels 9 on the ends of the bars 5, the blanket 1 is slackened, and either end may be disengaged easily from the bar 5. The attachments may be used either on cylinders or flat beds.
Patent GB-190909912-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Cinematography in Colours.
Inventor: PALMER HENRY WILLIAM HAMBLIN
IPC: G03B33/08
Filed: 1909-04-26
Granted: 1910-04-26
Abstract: 9912. Palmer, H. W. H. April 26. Kinematograph apparatus.-Kinematographic projection in natural colours is obtained by taking the negatives through differentlycoloured screens, blue-violet, yellow-green, and orange-red successively every three picturas. The positive films have the colours printed on or stained into the proper divisions corresponding to the exposures. The pictures may be arranged in a spiral track on a circular glass disk as shown. Specification 3443/09 is referred to. Reference has been directed by the Comptroller to Specifications 23,863/99 and 453/08.
Patent GB-190913068-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Lime and Cement Kilns.
Inventor: PERPIGNANI NICOLAS
IPC: C04B11/028
Filed: 1909-06-03
Granted: 1910-04-21
Abstract: 13,068. Perpignani, N., and Candlot, E. June 3. Shaft kilns.-A kiln employed for burning lime and cement, and of the type described in Specification 22,769/03, is provided with a chimney, of which the upper part 10 is fixed to the roof, and a counterbalanced lower part 11 is vertically adjustable and carries a water seal 15. The steam from this seal passes into the part 10 and increases the draught.
Patent GB-190916597-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Steam Traps.
Inventor: DAVIDSON JOHN
IPC: F16T1/26
Filed: 1909-07-16
Granted: 1910-01-06
Abstract: 16,597. Davidson, J., and Larmuth, W. O. July 16. Steam-traps.-A bucket e operates a pilot valve g and controls a main discharge valve j, which is closed by the pressure on a diaphragm k. The diaphragm chamber is connected by a small pipe (not shown), to a port p, which is connected through the valve g either to a port n inside the trap or to a port r connected by another pipe to an opening r<1> in the discharge passage. The bucket is guided on a tube by a rod f provided with feathers. The valve j has diagonal wings causing it to rotate when the trap discharges. In a modification, the port r is controlled by a spring- pressed valve actuated by the plug g.
Patent GB-190920385-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Grinding Mills.
Inventor: WALKER JOHN
IPC: A23G1/10
Filed: 1909-09-06
Granted: 1910-02-24
Abstract: 20,385. Walker, J. Sept. 6. Rotary stirrers. - In apparatus for triturating, mixing, and levigating granular material, especially applicable for treating cocoa, sugar, and vanilla in the manufacture of chocolate, the materials are mixed in a trough s by helical blades s<1>, and pass by a passage 30 into a special conical mill comprising a stationary shell c and an adjustable runner d kept cool by water circulation, and then by a passage h to a similar but larger mill. The mixer is driven by a belt S<3> from the shaft l of the upper runner.
Patent GB-190921282-A (GB)
Title: Inflating Valve Combined with a Safety Valve and a Pressure Gauge for the Pneumatic Tyres of Automobile Vehicles.
Inventor: MONDON JEAN
IPC: B60C23/00
Filed: 1909-09-17
Granted: 1910-04-28
Abstract: 21,282. Mondon, J. Sept. 18, 1908, [Convention date]. Tyre and like inflating - valves. -A tyre valve is provided with a pressure gauge 3 of ordinary construction and with a relief valve comprising a plug lift valve 7 loaded by a spring 8 which is adjusted by a screwed cap 9
Patent GB-190923857-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in the Production of Moulds for Casting Metals.
Inventor: KUELLER MAX
IPC: A61C13/00
Filed: 1909-10-18
Granted: 1910-05-12
Abstract: 23,857. K³ller, M. Oct. 19, 1908, [Convention date]. Fibrous plastic compositions. - Anatomical parts, such as dental parts, and dies for producing them are cast in refractory metals in a mould produced directly from the part in question. A substance such as glue or gelatine may be added to the mould material, which, when the mould is set, acts to expand the same to compensate for the shrinking of the metal on cooling. Salts may be added to cause the mould material to set quickly, to render it antiseptic, and to give it a pleasant taste or odour. The mould material may be sand, infusorial earth, chamotte, pumice stone, quartz sand, clay, chalk, asbestos, &c. mixed with a binding- medium such as plaster of paris or cement. Materials such as magnesia or the like used for artificial stone may be employed. Wood-meal, coal dust, resin, &c. may be added to increase the porosity. Salts employed to hasten the ,setting may be potassium salts, siegnette salt, sodium sulphate, ammonium chloride, or waterglass or the like. Such salts may be afterwards wholly or in part dissolved out in water to increase the porosity.
Patent GB-190924882-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Pudding Basins.
Inventor: TIDCOMBE EMMA
IPC: A47J43/20
Filed: 1909-10-29
Granted: 1910-10-20
Abstract: 24,882. Tidcombe, E. Oct. 29. Pudding-bowls.-A metal pudding-basin has a metal band e fitting over the mouth in order to clamp in position a sheet of grease-proof paper of the kind known as vegetable parchment. The band is held in position by means of wire hooks f, which take under a flange near the mouth of the basin.
Patent GB-190927625-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Apparatus for Compressing Gas, Air or Vapour for Gas Lighting Purposes and the like.
Inventor: BARNETT HENRY
Filed: 1909-11-27
Granted: 1910-11-24
Abstract: 27,625. Barnett, H. Nov. 27. Liquid pressure engines. - Relates to air, gas, or vapour compressors chiefly for use in lighting-plants and of the type comprising a compressor cylinder arranged in line with an hydraulic motor cylinder, the distributing- valve of which is actuated by a supplementary hydraulic motor. According to the invention, the distributing-valve of the supplementary motor is tappet - actuated from the compressor piston in such a manner that the whole apparatus operates automatically and can be started and stopped by unskilled persons. The double-acting compressor cylinder a is arranged in line with an hydraulic motor cylinder d provided with a four-way distributing-valve g actuated by a supplementary hydraulic motor f through the medium of a lever h. A rod k connected to the distributing- valve of the supplementary motor f carries tappets k, k<1>, which are struck alternately by a tappet arm i<1> carried by a piston-rod j, which may be connected by a bracket with the compressor piston-rod, but is preferably connected to the compressor piston, so as to minimize the space between the compressor and motor cylin. ders. The tappets and tappet arm are adapted to slide on a fixed guide-bar i.
Patent GB-190930096-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Drilling Machines.
IPC: B23Q5/04
Filed: 1909-12-23
Granted: 1910-06-23
Abstract: 30,096. Loewe & Co., W., and Bechstein, E. Dec. 23. Drilling-machines.-To avoid the necessity of shifting the belt to obtain different speeds in a drilling-machine, two or more pulleys on both the drilling and driving spindles are connected by one belt, the pulleys being adapted to be coupled, one of each set at a time, to their spindles. The belt 6 passes over the pulleys 9 and 14, either of which can be coupled to the drilling-spindle 10, and over the pulleys 8 and 12, either of which can be coupled to the driving-shaft 17, idlers 2, 3, 4, 5 being arranged to deflect the belt. Four speeds are thus obtained. 30,193. Sears, J. E. Dec. 24. Drilling-machines.-In a machine for cutting man-holes or the like, of the type in which the spindle carrying the cutter arm is mounted on a saddle adapted to receive a simple transverse movement relative to the table of the machine, the transverse movement is given by means of a suitably - shaped cam. The saddle a carrying the cutter spindle b is slidably mounted on the frame of the machine, and carries a roller e adapted to co-act with a suitably shaped cam f, whereby the saddle is given the desired motion. The cam is mounted on a shaft g rotated through worm gearing and carrying an eccentric t which operates through an adjustable connecting-rod s an hydraulic distributing-valve r which is connected by supply pipes to a cylinder q and ram o on the machine frame. The head of the ram o is separated from a bracket k on the saddle by a spring m which is compressed, thus obviating shock on the return of the saddle, the roller e being caused to follow the cam by the hydraulic pressure in the ram being regulated by the valve. An alternative method dispensing with the hydraulic control is shown in Fig. 6, wherein a cam u is mounted on the shaft q and operates, through a pivoted lever w, a spindle z which has a spring interposed between it and the bracket. This cam is so shaped that it allows the main cam to traverse the slide until near the end of its stroke, when it holds the rod z back and compresses the spring m, and maintains this compression throughout the retraction of the saddle.
Patent GB-190930167-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Apparatus for Forming Artificial Stone Building Blocks, Pipes and the like.
Inventor: PAULY ALBERT ALONZO
IPC: B28B7/10
Filed: 1909-12-24
Granted: 1910-08-11
Abstract: 30,167. Pauly, A. A. Dec. 24. Moulds; processes.-Relates to apparatus for moulding sewer pipes, hollow building-blocks, &c. from cementitious material. Fig. 1 shows a pipe-moulding apparatus in which the cores 11 and mould walls are made hollow and their interiors are connected by pipes 14, 29 to a steam-pipe 13. The water condensing in the hollow mould walls is led away by overflow pipes 7 of such a length as to cause the socket end of the pipe to be heated by steam and the thinner portion below by the condensation water. The water condensing in the cores is led away by the core-supporting pipes. The pipes are removed, when moulded, by means of stripping-devices consisting of pallets 25 supported by ejector bars 24 on a cross-head 16, which is operated through chains 22, parallel shafts 18, and toothed gearing 26, 27, by a driving-shaft 28. Detachable rings 12 are secured to the upper ends of the cores to form the socket parts. Figs. 6 and 7 show a block-moulding apparatus in which the sides 30, ends 31, and middle partitions 32 of the mould body consist of hollow sections, bolted together, having their interior spaces communicating. The hollow cores 11<a> are provided with recesses into which tapered projections 35 on the mould walls project and form supports for the pallets. Steam is admitted to the interiors of the mould walls and cores by branch pipes leading from a steam-supply pipe 13<a>. The condensation water escapes through holes 33 in the bottoms of the mould sections and cores.
Patent GB-190930510-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to the Manufacture of Artificial Silk, and Fabrics thereof.
Inventor: GEBAUER JULIUS HERRMANN CARL
IPC: D01F2/26
Filed: 1909-12-30
Granted: 1910-12-30
Abstract: 30,510. Gebauer, J. H. C. Dec. 30. Coating-compositions; backings.-Artificialsilk composed of collodion and caoutchouc is rendered durable, elastic, and resistant to moisture by treating it in filament or fabric form with a solution of albumen, and then heating to vulcanize the caoutchouc and coagulate the albumen. The caoutchouc may be added to the collodion before or after spinning, and may contain sulphur &c. for vulcanizing purposes. Dye previously applied to the artificial silk is rendered fast by the treatment.
Patent GB-190930556-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Alternating Current Electric Systems for Driving Multiphase Induction Motors at Different Speeds.
IPC: H02K17/30
Filed: 1909-12-31
Granted: 1911-01-02
Abstract: 30,556. Mavor, H. A., Hobart, H. M., and Mavor & Coulson. Dec. 31. Dynamos and motors combined for transmitting power.-In an alternating-current system, a large range of driving speeds is obtained by using induction motors having windings adapted to take currents differing both in phase and frequency numbers. Such windings are also applicable to generators. A spirally - wound motor stator is shown in Fig. 7, the bars of which are connected as a three-phase eight-pole winding between the left-hand terminals SA, TA, SB, TB, SC, TC, when the middle row of controller contacts is connected to the row 19 ... 67, and as a two-phase six-pole winding between the right-hand terminals SA, TA, SB, TB, when the middle contacts are' connected to the row 16 ... 70. Such a motor, used in conjunction with a pair of generators doubly wound to give two or three phase supplies each at 25 or 50 periods, would give four running speeds. Winding schemes for obtaining two or three supplies from a six-polegenerator are given. A multifrequency generator set is shown in Fig. 11, in which the pole magnet c of a generator e is coupled to the rotor i of a second generator h. With a speed of 600 revolutions per miiiute, the stator e gives a two or three phase supply at fifty periods from two separate windings or from a two-phase winding only, with a Scott transformer or other device. The stator h has windings interchangeable from eight-pole threephase to six-pole two-phase. Then, depending upon whether the machines are connected by the switch g to give frequency sum or difference, frequencies of ninety, eighty, twenty, or ten may be obtained from the machine i in addition to the fifty-period supply to the circuit f obtainable directly from the stator e. Alternatively, the rotor i may carry the windings of interchangeable pole and phase number, a suitable sliding switch being mounted on the shaft for making the change. The Specification also describes the cascading of motors having variable pole and phase numbers, In such multifrequency phase systems, motor windings u, Fig. 15, may be tapped so that the supply transformers v are connected in double delta at light loads and are changed to pure delta with diametral connexions at heavy loads. Larger numbers of phases than three may be employed.