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Patent GB-190516966-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Violins.
Inventor: TOWART ROBERT DAVID
Filed: 1905-08-22
Granted: 1906-04-12
Abstract: 16,966. Towart, R. D. Aug. 22. Violins.-An auxiliary bridge d and tension band a are applied to the back of an ordinary violin to balance the tension of the strings and improve the tone. The band, which consists of a thin strip of spring steel, or a light wire or pair of wires, is stretched from the neck to the tail-pin over rests formed on glands or plates f, by means of an adjusting-screw or wrest-pins as shown. The auxiliary bridge is placed under or near the sound post and preferably on the side underneath the first and second strings. When not in use, the auxiliary bridge may be removed.
Patent GB-190517714-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Toys
Inventor: DOUGLAS WILLIAM PERCY
Filed: 1905-09-01
Granted: 1906-02-22
Abstract: 17,714. Douglas, W. P. Sept. 1. Toys for delivering sweetmeats and the like.-Relates to toys adapted to deliver tablets or packets &c. of sweets, toys, beads; or other commodities, from a model of a cottage, castle, &c., provided with two or more separate or double swing doors or windows. A castle a, Figs. 1 and 3, is provided with a magazine k, Figs. 1 and 7, from which the sweets &c. are delivered to a tray h carried on the head of, or otherwise by, a figure g. Two figures g are mounted on a rod f carried by a spindle d, which can be rotated by a handle such as a representation of a flag e. The figures g, as they rotate, open a door b outwards, and a door c inwards, when they leave and enter the castle respectively. The figure which leaves the door b is provided with a projection which is adapted to feed. packet &c. on to the tray h, by entering a groove m, Fig. 7, in the bottom of the magazine k; or, the tray may be supplied by means of a slide actuated by a lever or the like. The hinges of the doors b, c are acted on by springs which automatically close the doors.
Patent GB-190519941-A (GB)
Title: Improved Method of Utilising Iron-ore Waste in the Manufacture of Iron and Steel.
Inventor: BLOOD THOMAS HENRY
Filed: 1905-10-03
Granted: 1906-02-08
Abstract: 19,941. Blood, T. H. Oct. 3. No Patent granted (Sealing fee not paid). Blast -furnace charges.-The dust or residue left after calcining raw iron-stone is mixed with slack or cannel coal, and recalcined on a bed of clinkers taken from an old or disused mine-ruck.
Patent GB-190521838-A (GB)
Title: A Registering Machine and Apparatus for the Issuing or Receiving of Tickets or Checks.
Inventor: HARPER JOHN ROBERT
Filed: 1905-10-26
Granted: 1906-10-25
Abstract: 21,838. Harper, J. R., and Harper, M. A. J. Oct. 26. Checks and tickets, collecting and issuing.- Machines are described for issuing, collecting, and registering tickets, especially as constructed and shown by way of example in Fig. 13, the construction being capable of variation to represent different values. The machine is provided with an interchangeable magazine 3, Fig. 2, capable of receiving one shape of ticket or check only and supported on a base-plate 9 constructed to fit the check or provided with a shaped cover 11 and profile and centre guides 4, to which the checks are delivered from a file such as is described in Specification No. 21,372, A.D. 1904, the files being suspended above the magazine. The tickets are supported partly on the bed-plate 9 and partly on projections 13, and, as they are fed forward, they push against a spring-controlled roller flap 16, which bears on their upper surfaces to prevent a return movement and forces the tickets into the shoot 7 as the indentations pass over the projections 13. The roller flap is provided with an arm 16<b> which actuates a mechanical counter. Figs. 23 and 24 show a modification for issuing tickets without indented edges, in which the knife is provided with a notch 14<e> large enough to allow free movement without registering when the machine is empty. The knife is constructed in two parts, the upper being kept in advance of the lower by pins and spiral springs as shown in Fig. 16. The ticket is thus supported on the lower plate. The roller flap is mounted under the bed-plate and carries a triangular piece 16<a>, which depresses a lever 31 raising the part 31<b> through the slot 14<f>, thus preventing the return of the knife. The L- shaped end of the lever may be replaced by a spring arm 31<e>, Fig. 21, engaging in holes 14<g>, and the block 16<a> by a heel-piece, Fig. 22, the return of which to its original position is assured by a triangular plate 14<h> on the knife acting on a pin 31<d>. Attached to the flap 16 is a block of vulcanite acting on spiral springs 20 to close the circuit of any electric counter. Guards 7<a> are formed in the shoot, consisting of continuations of the projections 13 and preventing the fraudulent insertion of checks. The magazines are rendered removable and are held in position in the outer cases, Fig. 2, by pins and spring slips. The apparatus may. be adapted for receiving checks by mounting it upon a pedestal as indicated in Fig. 6, the handle being replaced by a spring-controlled sliding bar operated by a cord 30, actuated by pedal, power, or otherwise. The checks fall into a specially constructed box 28, which is wholly or partially enclosed in the pedestal.
Patent GB-190522920-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Travelling Greenhouses.
Inventor: MARTEL ADOLPHUS HENRY
Filed: 1905-11-08
Granted: 1906-01-25
Abstract: 22,920. Martel, A. H. Nov. 8. Glass-houses; walls.-A travelling greenhouse is mounted on rails f, Fig. 1, carried by sleepers e resting on slabs c of concrete, Fig. 3, the ends of which engage grooves in concrete blocks a. The sides k are provided with frames m, shown also in Fig. 5, carrying the wheels g; draught is prevented by a galvanized-iron sheet n placed between the wheels and the outer frame m. The ends consist of fixed lights p, Fig. 2, to the lower bar t of which are-hinged flaps s ; a galvanized-iron skirting is hinged to the flaps, so that the flaps and skirting may be turned up clear of plants &c. The door q is removable. An ordinary roof with lifting lights is used. When two greenhouses adjoin, a troughshaped rail u is fitted.
Patent GB-190525227-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Folding Tables, Chairs, Couches, and other Articles of Furniture
Inventor: HAMPTON JOSEPH COWAN
Filed: 1905-12-05
Granted: 1906-11-29
Abstract: 25,227. Hampton, J. C., and Emery, F. O. Dec. 5. Stays.-The ends a, Fig. 7, of the cross-bars d connecting the legs e of tables, chairs, couches, and the like, adapted to be folded up, are provided with brass caps, fitting into brass sockets b in the legs, and the ends of the stays f, which secure the legs in position when opened out, are covered with brass strips h, which slide freely in the brasslined slots c, Fig. 6, when the legs are folded up. The ends of the strips h are turned up, and spring catches g are provided on the stays at the other end of the slot c.
Patent GB-190525265-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to Exhaust Devices for Marine Engines.
Inventor: GOODWIN HERBERT NELSON
Filed: 1905-12-05
Granted: 1906-05-17
Abstract: 25,265. Goodwin, H. N. Dec. 5. Exhaust-silencers. -The exhaust gases from a marine gasolene engine are removed and silenced by the ejector action of the rush of water through a constricted tube bolted to the vessel's bottom. The part f of the tube facing the bow is constricted so that a jet of water is discharged into the part g into which the exhaust pipe n opens. The jacket water may be discharged into the pipe n in order to cool the exhaust.
Patent GB-190606326-A (GB)
Title: Suspension Plate or Board for Kitchen Utensils.
Inventor: ENGELS EMIL
Filed: 1906-03-16
Granted: 1906-05-10
Abstract: 6326. Engels, E. March 16. No Patent granted (Sealing fee not paid). Brackets.-A bracket having hooks for supporting kitchen utensils, is provided with a clock u and may also carry an eggtimer e.
Patent GB-190608415-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Plate-rolling Mills.
Inventor: LAMBERTON ANDREW
Filed: 1906-04-07
Granted: 1907-01-17
Abstract: 8415. Lamberton, A. April 7. Rolling.-P 1 a t e s are rolled by non - reversing mills having pairs of roughing and finishing rolls arranged in tandem on different levels and driven in opposite directions. A common housing may contain both pairs. In the form shown in Fig. 2, the top roll B of the finishing-rolls is not driven. Ordinary passadjusting and balance gear is provided. In operation, the upper roll B is raised to clear the plate, which is passed through the rolls C,D and back over the roll A by live roller feeding-tables O of usualform operated by hydraulic cylinders P. After roughing, the roll B is lowered and the roll C raised and similar action takes place.
Patent GB-190609184-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Brooms, Brushes, Swabs or the like.
Inventor: HAYWARD RICHARD BAKER
Filed: 1906-04-18
Granted: 1907-04-18
Abstract: 9184. Kayward, R. B. April 18. Handles.-A brush, mop, or polisher is provided with a stock B, which is tongued or shaped as shown to slide endways into, and be retained in, a correspondingly-shaped holder A to which a handle C is attached. The holder A is constructed to leave the ends of the brush free, and a screw a prevents endlong motion.
Patent GB-190609882-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Cigarette Machines.
Filed: 1906-04-27
Granted: 1906-11-01
Abstract: 9882. British-American Tobacco Co., [Prescott, S. I.]. April 27. Cigarette-making machines.-Relates to machines in which a charge of tobacco is shaped and introduced into a tube or casing, the objects being to avoid undue pressure on the filler before its introduction into the tube and to produce a cigarette in which the longer fibres are in the centre and the shorter on the outside thereof. The tobacco is carried by a feed-belt 2, Fig. 2, and rollers 4, 10, to a pin roll 12 and guide-channel 14, which hold the fibres while a rapidly-rotating picker roll 16 loosens them and deposits them into a swinging hopper 17. The fibres fall from the hopper on to a pair of endless belts 46, 47, Fig. 9, which run towards one another and deliver the fibres into the "throat" formed by the two drums 49, 52, and a pair of spring plates 67. With this arrangement, the vibration of the machine causes the shorter fibres of tobacco to sift through the longer fibres while on the belts 46, 47, so that the sheet of material formed in the " throat, " from which the fillers are cut, has the longer fibres in the centre thereof and the shorter ones on the outside. The width of the belts 46, 47 is substantially equal to the length of the cigarettes to be formed. From the throat, the tobacco passes into a shaper case consisting of a chamber formed by two horizontal-plates 72, 76, separated by fixed mould blocks 73, 74, between which slides a movable mould block 78, the tobacco being delivered first to one side and then to the other of the movable block 78, which thus moulds a cigarette at each reciprocation, the upper edge of the block 78 being sufficiently sharp to shear off suitable sections from the sheet of tobacco for forming a filler. The shaped fillers are ejected from the shaper case and introduced into previously-formed casings or tubes by reciprocating plungers 89, 90, Fig. 6, the tubes being supported on spouts 86, 87 communicating with the shaper case. The tubes to be filled are supplied from a magazine 108, the base of which is formed of a stepped rocking block, for agitating the tubes in the magazine, and a pair of spring gates operated by cam mechanism for opening and closing the exits from the magazine on opposite sides alternately. The tube is deposited from the magazine on to a sliding carrier 115 which places it on to its spout, the tube being held on the spout during the operation of forcing in the tobacco filler by pivoted stops 118 operated by blocks 119 on the slides 92, 94. The filled tubes are pushed from their spouts by the plungers 89, 90 and fall into a delivery hopper.
Patent GB-190610504-A (GB)
Title: Apparatus for Collecting Yeast from Fermenting Beer.
Inventor: LEMAIRE NICOLAS GILISSEN
Filed: 1906-05-04
Granted: 1907-03-14
Abstract: 10,504. Lemaire, N. G. May 4. Brewing.-For removing yeast from the surface of fermenting beer, a pipe b, passing through a stuffing-box b<1> into the trough A, ends in a funnel B, and is attached to a handle C, by turning which the mouth of the funnel can be lowered into the liquid to allow the yeast to flow through the pipe b.
Patent GB-190611312-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or connected with the Production of Copies of Tracings, Drawings, or other Transparencies.
Inventor: SHAWCROSS HENRY LIONAL
Filed: 1906-05-15
Granted: 1907-06-13
Abstract: 11,312. Shawcross, H. L. May 15. Copying drawings &c. ; positives, producing directly; printing ; sensitized papers ; photo - mechanical printing.-Relates to the production of direct positive copies in indian or like printing- inks, or transfer copies in photo-lithographic ink for photo-mechanical printing. A gum-ferric film is used containing a ferric-sensitive salt and an organic thickener. The film is exposed under the copy, and the unreduced iron under the lines of the copy is completely dissolved and washed away by potassium ferro-cyanide, assisted, if necessary, by a water bath, sponge, or water jet. The print is dried and forms a stencil copy of the design. To produce a copy in ink, the surface is treated with a prepared solution of Indian ink, pigment, paint, or other colouring-matter or dye-stuff that becomes insoluble on drying. The print thus inked is then immersed in a weak acid bath to dissolve away the reduced iron, and to bleach the copy white, and is afterwards washed. To remove any underlying blue, a solution of oxalate of potash is used. To obtain a photo-litho transfer a greasy litho-transfer or printer's ink is used. It is repelled from the gum-ferric film still undissolved, and only takes on the bare paper forming the stencil design.
Patent GB-190612165-A (GB)
Title: A Machine Tool for Breaking the Seats of Boots and Shoes.
Inventor: DILLEY ISAAC
Filed: 1906-05-24
Granted: 1907-04-11
Abstract: 12,165. Dilley, I., and Dilley, W. May 24. Heels.-A machine too] for breaking the seats of boots and shoes consists of a taper or conical disk a mounted o n a revolving shaft b and provided on the tapered surface with a number of blunt serrations. A circular guard-plate e is clamped against the smaller end of the disk by a set-screw d, preferably with a washer f interposed between the plate e and the head of the set-screw. To employ the tool, the edge of the guard-plate is inserted between the upper and the heel seat, and the beel is passed round the tool as the latter is rotated.
Patent GB-190619371-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Decorating & Ornamenting Metallic Wooden & Metal and Wood Combined, Bedsteads
Inventor: WEBSTER GEORGE AUGUSTUS
Filed: 1906-08-30
Granted: 1907-07-25
Abstract: 19,371. Webster, G. A. Aug. 30. Ornamenting.-Relates to the ornamentation of bedsteads by means of the application of the Wedgwood ware known as "jasper" in the form of cameos &c. a or of drums, spindles, &c. a<1>. The cameos are attached by means of a special backing c of plaster of Paris and felt.
Patent GB-190622713-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to Apparatus for Automatically Solving Trigonometrical and like Problems particularly applicable to Surveying and Range-finding
Inventor: BAUMANN FRANZ
Filed: 1906-10-13
Granted: 1907-05-30
Abstract: 22,713. Baumann, F. Oct. 13. Surveying-instruments; bearings, instruments for determining; telemeters.-Relates to instruments for solving problems in plane triangles, which may also be used for range - finding and for finding the bearing of a target invisible from the position of a gun. In the instrument shown in Fig. 2, a graduated disk 6 is fixed to a carriage 4, which is adjusted by means of a graduated screw 5 in one direction only in a groove in a guide 3. This guide is pivoted in an arm 2 which may be clamped in any position with respect to the support 1. The arm 2 carries a stud 9 which fits in a slot in an index 8 pivoted on the hub 7 of the disk 6. For field work, a telescope or other sighting-device 10 may be rigidly mounted above the disk 6 with its axis parallel to the direction in which the carriage 4 slides. As an example of its use, suppose the angle a of the triangle a b c, Fig. 4, is to be formed, the lengths of the lines a b, b c being known. The instrument is mounted with the support 1 over the point b and with the carriage 4 in its central position ; the telescope is then sighted to the point c, the arm 2 also being directed in this line so that its stud falls on the point 9. The arm 2 is then fixed and the disk 6 rotated until the telescope sights the point a. Then is calculated that length which bears to the length a b the same ratio as the length of the arm 2 or b 9 bears to the length b c. The centre of the disk 6 is then moved through this calculated distance along the line b a and assumes the position b<1>. The line b<1> 9, which is the new middle line of the index 8, is then parallel to a c; hence the index indicates the angle a on the disk 6. If the angle a is known, the range b c can be found in a similar manner. In the form of instrument shown in Fig. 5, the index 8 is attached to a graduated worm-wheel 10, the casing 13 with the graduated worm being attached to the carriage 4. The worm may be held out of engagement with the wheel 10 by means of a spring. The angles being read from the worm gear, the graduated disk is unnecessary. The index may be in two hinged sections, and may have a groove in which the lug 11 of the stud 9 slides. To increase the range of the instrument, an arm may be pivoted to the arm 2, the outer end of this pivoted arm being slidably, but non-rotatably, fitted in the slot of the index 8.
Patent GB-190622969-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Safety Clutches for Mine Cages, Lifts or the like.
Inventor: BOULT ALFRED JULIUS
Filed: 1906-10-17
Granted: 1907-10-17
Abstract: 22,969. Boult, A. J., [Hodgson, W. M.]. Oct. 17. Safety suspending-apparatus. - A mine cage, lift, hoisting-skip, &c. is supported, in the event of the hoisting-rope breaking, by means of a pair or pairs of gripping-dogs mounted on opposite side of the guides, each pair of dogs being pivoted to a single lever normally horizontal but tilted by springs and weights when the hoisting-cable becomes slack or breaks. Fig. 3 shows the apparatus in operative position, Fig. 4 being an elevation at right-angles to Fig. 3. The dogs J are pivotally mounted in a lever or levers H, connected to the cage by swinging links I and carrying counterweights at their outer ends. The levers are rigidly connected to a rectangular frame G, which is free to move vertically, but is normally held in its lowest position by springs E passing round guide-pulleys F and connected to a crossbar D on the draw-bar B. During normal working, the levers H are horizontal and the weight of the cage is transmitted through the girder C resting on the lock-nuts B<1>. In the event of the lifting-rope breaking, the springs E become slack, and the frame G is raised by a spring R acting through the lever 0, rock-shaft N, and levers S. The lever H, assisted by its counterweight, is tilted, and the dogs J engage with the guides and support the cage. The frame G is provided with antifriction rollers g where it is engaged by the levers S.
Patent GB-190624221-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Gear Wheels.
Inventor: SCHOEN CHARLES THOMAS
Filed: 1906-10-30
Granted: 1907-03-07
Abstract: 24,221. Schoen, C. T. Oct. 30. Forging.-A blank for a toothed wheel is made by the process described in Specification No. 24,219, A.D. 1906, by pressing an angular slab in successive dies, Figs. 3 and 5, which enclose it circumferentially, but the use of the dies, Fig. 3, may be omitted. The slab may have a small piece nipped off each corner.
Patent GB-190624335-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Ventilating Stove for Drying Damp Rooms and the like.
Inventor: PAETSCH FRIEDRICH
Filed: 1906-10-31
Granted: 1907-04-25
Abstract: 24,335. Paetsch, F. Oct. 31. Air-heating and ventilating stoves.-A stove for drying damp rooms by means of hot air consists of one or more pipes d passing through the fuel in the brazier c and heating air, which is drawn from outside the building through the pipe e and is delivered near the ceiling of the room by a pipe i and deflector k. The hood g has a charging-door m. The pipes d, i and the hood g are removable to facilitate transport.
Patent GB-190625419-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Machines for Boning Fish.
Filed: 1906-11-10
Granted: 1907-04-04
Abstract: 25,419. Lake, H. H., [J³rgens & Westphalen]. Nov. 10. Preserving fish.-A fishboning machine comprises a frame in which is mounted a shaft w<1>, carrying two gear-wheels, one of which meshes with a wheel u<2> mounted loosely on a shaft u, while the other drives a wheel u<4>, which gears with another wheel u<1> mounted loosely on the shaft u, the wheels u<1>, u<2> thus rotating in opposite directions. Feathered on the shaft u is a displaceable clutch member u<3>, which can be coupled with the wheels u<1>, u<2> by means of a lever system v, v<1>, of which one end is attache i to the member u<3>, while the other end moves in a groove in a cam-wheel w, which is driven from the main shaft w<1>. A movable carriage c, driven by a chain s and wheel t from the shaft u, carries the fish in two movable jaws a, b, which are opened and closed by a system of levers from a roller o running on a cam-track or rail q. Two of the levers g, h are attached to a sliding piece i, and the other two d, f to a double crank k, which is operated through a link l, a pivoted member m, and a spring-controlled rod n from the roller o. When the fish is inserted, the carriage c moves back, and by means of a tappet c<1> pushes back a carriage e<2> carrying a crank lever e<3>, of which one end rests between two fixed stops q<1>, while the other end is connected by a rod e<4> to a rotatable arm e<5>, carrying the shaft e<6> of the disk knife e ; a pinion e<7> on this shaft gears with a toothed segment e<8>, so that, when the knife e is pulled by the rod e' into position for cutting off the head of the fish, it revolves at the same time. The cam-wheel w then engages the clutch u<3> with the wheel u<2>, and the carriage c moves forward past an horizontal revolving knife x, which cuts off the skinny part of the belly, and then under two revolving vertical knives j, which loosen the bones. Afterwards a movable spring-controlled vertical arm z ejects the fish from the jaws, which are now open. During the latter part of the forward movement, a stud s<1> on the chain s engages a downward projection of a rod e<9> on the carriage e<2>, and restores the knife e to its initial position. In a modified form of machine, the clamp supports rotate uninterruptedly around an horizontal axis.