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Patent GB-190503995-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Means for Advertising or for Indicating Purposes.
Inventor: WHITEHEAD WILLIAM
Filed: 1905-02-25
Granted: 1906-05-25
Abstract: 3995. Whitehead, W. Feb. 25. Letters and numerals.-Letters and numerals are made by perforating, creasing, or slitting, sheets of paper, card, or the like a, as at b, Fig. 1, or punching out portions b, Fig. 4, leaving narrow pieces e between the letter and the rest of the sheet a. The back of the letter is gummed, the rest of the sheet being left plain, or even treated with a suitable resist. To affix the letters in . the form of words, the separate letters are wetted, and placed side by side on the window or the like, the straight edges of the sheets a serving to secure proper alinement. When dry, the ungummed part is easily torn off, leaving the letters in their proper positions. The letters may be arranged diagonally, as in Fig. 7, to enable them to be readily fixed to a window, or the like, at any angle. Words may be stamped out of a sheet in a similar way, Fig. 8, the back of the letters being gummed. The letters may be flat, corrugated, or embossed, and may be coloured or otherwise ornamented in any suitable way. For instance, the base of the letters may be provided with perforated designs.
Patent GB-190506512-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Fog Signalling Apparatus for Railways to be Worked by Signalman in his Box or otherwise.
Inventor: PAYNE ARTHUR
Filed: 1905-06-01
Granted: 1906-04-26
Abstract: 6512. Payne, A. June 1. Detonator apparatus; pyrotechnic signals.- Detonators which also give a brilliant red light on explosion are fired by a magazine repeating firearm g of any usual type, preferably of the Winchester repeating-rifle type. The firearm is fixed in some convenient position to a support, and is actuated from a lever c in the cabin through suitable rods and levers. The apparatus may be used to give a warning-signal after a train has passed the ' home ' signal.
Patent GB-190507807-A (GB)
Title: Apparatus for Regaining the Benzine Employed for Cleaning Fabrics.
Inventor: DELHOTEL EDMOND
Filed: 1905-04-12
Granted: 1905-09-14
Abstract: 7807. Delhotel, E. July 16, 1904, [date applied for under Patents Act, 1901]. Distilling and condensing apparatus, general arrangement of; solvent-recovery apparatus.- The air used for evaporating benzine from fabrics which have been cleaned by its agency is passed through a condenser which removes the benzine and is then returned to the drying-chamber. The fabrics, after having been wrung out, are suspended from bars in a stove A, provided with baffles c, d, and are treated with air which has been heated in passing over the flanged steam pipes D. The air afterwards passes to a jet condenser B, and returns to the stove by means of a fan G. Apparatus E, termed a " Florentine," is used to separate the benzine and water. An impetus separator F removes particles of liquid from the air.
Patent GB-190509011-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Centrifugal Separators for Liquids.
Inventor: SPOONER ARTHUR FREEMORE
Filed: 1905-04-28
Granted: 1906-04-28
Abstract: 9011. Spooner, A. F., [Aktiebolaget Separator]. April 28. Cream-separators &c. -The separating- plates in the drum of a centrifugal machine are formed with thickened edges, which are bent, as usual, at an angle to the bodies of the plates. Figs. 3 and 4 show respectively conical and curved vertical plates so formed.
Patent GB-190510093-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to Benzoyl-salicylic Acid.
Inventor: WETTER JASPER
Filed: 1905-05-13
Granted: 1906-03-01
Abstract: 10,093. Wetter, J., [Hoffmann-la-Roche & Co., F.]. May 13. Medicines.-Benzoylsalicylic acid, produced by condensing disodium salicylate with benzoyl chloride, is intended for therapeutic uses.
Patent GB-190514826-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Leathers or Sweatbands for Hats and other Head Coverings.
Filed: 1905-07-19
Granted: 1906-03-22
Abstract: 1 4 , 8 2 6. Hat Manufacturers' Supply Co., [Taylor, J.]. July 19. Appliances for securing to head.-Relates to leathers, such as those described in Specifications No. 8987, A.D. 1895, No. 6877, A.D. 1897, Nos. 13,979 and 16,112, A.D. 1898, and No. 16,861, A.D. 1901, which are provided with a rubber cord by tightening which the leathers are caused to bulge inwardly so as to produce an elastic cushion adapted to grip the head, and consists in securing the cord to the body of the hat at two points a, a<1>, Fig. 3, This prevents the formation of a ridge in the leather in front of the hat, and marking the forehead is thereby avoided. The cord maybe secured by metal clips, stitching, or cementing.
Patent GB-190518710-A (GB)
Title: A New or Improved Construction of Belt or like Fastener.
Inventor: HERBERT EDWARD GEISLER
Filed: 1905-09-16
Granted: 1906-08-16
Abstract: 18,710. Herbert, E. G., and Fletcher, C. Sept. 16. Belt and band fastenings.-A fastener for connecting the ends bf driving-belts &c. comprises a pair of members of the form shown in Fig. 1, one member being fastened to each end, and the parts then connected by a pin c passing through the alternately-arranged looped ends as shown in Fig. 6. Each member consists of a number of staple-like units a of wire or narrow sheet-metal strips having turned-down ends which are intended to be clinched into the belt and with shoulders formed preferably by a double coil of the staple. These shoulders serve to connect the series of staples together by means of a pin &c. b, and also serve as abutments to facilitate correct fixing of the device on the belt end. In modifications, various forms of shoulders may be provided upon the staples, the connecting-pin b may be interlaced or soldered to the staples, or may comprise a bolt and nut which may be eventually withdrawn, or the staples may be interlaced as shown in Fig. 10, and soldered or galvanized, thus dispensing with the connecting-pin b.
Patent GB-190522990-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Machines for Making "Kite" or Cone Shaped Paper Bags.
Filed: 1905-11-09
Granted: 1906-02-15
Abstract: 22,990. Nichols, W. B., Duerden, J., and Bibby & Baron. Nov. 9. Paper bags.-Relates to a machine for making conical paper bags of the kind shown in Figs. 8 to 10. The web of paper a, Fig. 1, is pasted along the edge a<1>, Figs. 8, and 9, by means of the pasting-roller c, and the web is then cut into square blanks by the cutting- rollers e. Each blank is folded as shown in Fig. 9 by the vertically - reciprocating blade h, Figs. 1 and 3, which presses the folded edge of the blank between the spring- pressed jaws i<1>, i2, Figs. 1 and 7, mounted on the swinging frame A<1> operated by the crank A<4>. As the blade h comes in contact with the blank, the oscillating lever g<5> raises the roller g, thus allowing the blank to, be drawn, freely through the feed-rollers g, g<1>. As the frame A<1> swings outwards into the position shown in Fig. 3, the jaws i<1>, i<2>, which hold between them the partly folded blank, are caused to assume an horizontal position, as indicated on the right of Fig. 7, this movement being caused by the spring- controlled arm i<6>, on the spindle i9, engaging with the fixed rod i<8>, The blank is thus laid in the correct position upon the creasing - rollers j, j<1>, Fig. 3, between which it is pressed by the oscillating blade k, which is carried by an arm k<1> mounted on the frame A<1> and is oscillated by the arm k<4> carrying the friction roller k<5> engaging with the fixed rod k<6>. When the rollers j, j<1>, which are driven from the pnlley j<5> mounted on the shaft A<3> about which the frame A<1> swings, have completed the bag, it is allowed .to fall upon a travelling apron, which conducts it from the machine. A small triangular table t may be fixed to the frame A<1> to support the partly folded blank when the latter is turned into its horizontal position.
Patent GB-190524032-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Process for Forming and Hardening Incandescent Gaslight Bodies.
Filed: 1905-11-21
Granted: 1906-03-29
Abstract: 24,032. Export - Gasgl³hlicht Ges. Dec. 30, 1904, [date applied for under Patents Act, 1901]. Drawings to Specification. Incandescent gas and oil lamps.-During the operation of burning-off, incandescent inantles are rotated step by step.
Patent GB-190526458-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Folding or Portable Tables.
Inventor: ABBOTT STEPHEN WALTER
Filed: 1905-12-19
Granted: 1906-09-27
Abstract: 26,458. Abbott, S. W. Dec. 19 Stays.-A folding or portable card, garden, or similar table is constructed with four legs, the legs 5 being hinged in pairs at some distance from their upper ends to a strut, stay, or plate 3, which is itself hinged to the underside of the supporting platform 1. The upper ends of the legs are made with means for engaging with the table top as shown at 6, and a button 7 engaging with a notch in the cross-plate renders such engagement secure. As shown in Fig. 2, the stay plate 3 is cut away at 11 to allow the button 7 to pass through when the table is folded, so that it can be turned round as indicated anJ thus keep the hinged members closed together.
Patent GB-190526563-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Radiators for Cooling Liquids, Air, Gases and the like.
Inventor: EVANS WILLIAM CHARLES BLANCHAR
Filed: 1905-12-20
Granted: 1906-04-26
Abstract: 26,563. Evans, W. C. B., and Cottrell, W. S. Dec. 20. Gas and like engines. - Relates to radiators, applicable to cooling gases or liquids and condensing steam and similar operations, in which the liquid is cooled by passing alternately from one side of a casing to the other side by gravitation round tubes C through which air passes..Perforated plates K are alternately disposed at each side of the casing. The liquid is caused to flow alternately from side to side of the casing by unperforated plates H. The inner air-tubes C are wedged into the outer walls of the casing by hollow wooden cones D. The outer tubes E are wedged into the inner walls of the casing in a similar manner.
Patent GB-190600742-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Means for Weighing, whilst Filling and on Delivery, Definite Separate Portions of the Load of Motor Propelled Vehicles.
Filed: 1906-01-11
Granted: 1906-12-06
Abstract: 742. Mann, J. H., and Mann's Patent Steam Cart and Waggon Co. Jan. 11. Loading and unloading; cranes ; skips.-A motor road vehicle with many compartments is combined with a weighing-machine so that the several compartments can be weighed separately on the vehicle while material is being filled or delivered. The compartments are suitably recessed at the centre of the vehicle for a standard g to pass between. A jib K is movable round the standard and is fixed in position over the centre of a compartment by springs and notches. By means of a handler, screw-threaded shaft p, swivel nut o, and bellcrank lever l, the weighing-machine m and compartment d' are raised for the weighing-operation. A bracket i at the bottom of the compartment is connected by links h to the standard and is provided with holes with which a fixing-bolt j engages. For a vehicle with more than four compartments, the standard surrounds a pillar which is raised or lowered by worm gearing and carries with it the jib. The weighing means is movable along a screw-threaded rod carried by the jib and rotated by gearing from a hand-wheel. To obviate the necessity of recessing the compartments, a framework is constructed to support a sliding girder which is moved by rack and pinion and carries the weighing means.
Patent GB-190601068-A (GB)
Title: Improved Means for Preventing Overheating of Electrical Machinery.
Inventor: PARSONS CHARLES ALGERNON
Filed: 1906-01-15
Granted: 1907-01-03
Abstract: 1068. Parsons, C. A. Jan. 15. Armatures; cooling.-Relates to an improvement upon the method of cooling electric machines described in Specification N o. 13,108, A.D. 1905, and consists in using tapes containing metal of high thermal conductivity so arranged as to allow easy dissipation of heat, without producing electric circuits, in which eddy currents would be formed. In one form of type, copper or other good heat-conducting wires a, Figs. 1 and 2, preferably of oval or flat section, form the whole or part of the warps, and are held together by wefts b of cotton or other suitable material. The wire is made discontinuous by interruptions c, or by using short lengths of the tape. In other modifications, the wires are sewn in the tape, or attached to the surface thereof, by varnishing the tapes and passing them between hot rollers. In some forms, the wire is wound round the tape or placed between two previously-varnished tapes. The tapes thus formed are lapped round the conductors, and in the case of fixed transformers &c. may be cooled by means of any suitable cooling-devices.
Patent GB-190604871-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Apparatus for Compounding Alternating Current Dynamo Electric Machines.
Filed: 1906-02-28
Granted: 1906-09-13
Abstract: 4871. Bruce, Peebles, & Co., and La Cour, J. L. Feb. 28. Dynamos, regulating ; motors, controlling.-In the method of compounding alternating-current machines described in Specification No. 9837, A.D. 1905, in which the field is excited by continuous current from a converter without salient poles and without current excitation and supplied with current from the alternating - current machine through series and shunt transformers, a motor converter such as is described in Specification. No. 3704, A.D. 1903, but in which the converter is without salient poles and without current excitation, is used in place of the ordinary converter In the construction of motor converter shown in Fig. 2, the armature A of the converter is connected in parallel with the rotor winding R of the induction motor. The motor converter being driven by the shaft of the alternating - current machine, the armature winding A may be dispensed with and the different phase windings of the rotor R connected direct to the commutator C. The stator S and rotor R may be wound for any number of poles independently of the number of poles of the alternating-current machine, and the corresponding number of brushes provided on the commutator. A second set of brushes B<2> displaced ninety electrical degrees from the main brushes B<1> may be arranged on the commutator as shown in Fig. 5, and connected through a resistance equal to the resistance of the field of the alternating- current machine. The use of this second set of brushes is also applicable to the converter described in Specification No. 9837, A.D. 1905.
Patent GB-190615962-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Axles for Vehicles
Inventor: WILLIS PERCY RICHARD JULIUS
Filed: 1906-07-14
Granted: 1907-05-23
Abstract: 15,962. Willis, P. R. J., [Nickerson, S. H., and Nickerson, A. V.]. July 14. Journals.-An axle for vehicles is provided at its ends with removable wearing-sleaves 3, 5, slightly tapered, and secured by screwing on tb slightly enlarged parts of the axle 1, or by feathers 8, 9. In a modification, the sleeve 3 is fixed by a lug on the collar 4 engaging a notch in the collar on the axle, and the sleeve 5 has a screw-threaded aperture 6 engaging the screwed spindle 7. The outer sleeve 5 is adjustable to compensate for wear, washers being inserted in the space 12.
Patent GB-190616923-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Camera Attachments.
Inventor: PHILLIPS WILLIS EUGENE
IPC: G02B13/10
Filed: 1906-07-26
Granted: 1907-02-28
Abstract: 16,923. Phillips, W. E. Nov. 9,1905, [date applied for under Patents Act, 1901]. Optical prisms; lenses.-An attachment is described for cameras whereby the image may be brought more nearly to the relative proportions as seen by the eye. The attachment may also be used to distort the image to the extent of caricature. Two adjustable prisms 8, 9, Fig. 3, oppositely disposed, are pivotally mounted in a tube fitting on to a lens. When parallel, the prisms produce no effect on the image, but distortion is produced to an extent varying with their relative angular position. This is adjusted by the screw 12, which carries a disk 17 engaging the pivoting arms 15 on the prism. Alternatively there may be spring arms 18, Fig. 2, which can be released from the disk 17 and frictionally engage a disk 21 on the outside of the tube so as to enable the prisms to be independently adjustable.
Patent GB-190617247-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Humidfying and Air Conditioning Apparatus.
Inventor: CRAMER STUART WARREN
Filed: 1906-07-31
Granted: 1907-02-21
Abstract: 17,247. Cramer, S. W. July 31. Air, moistening and purifying. - Relates to humidifying and air - conditioning apparatus for textile and other factories, the apparatus being designed for use in systems of automatic regulation of humidity and temperature. The apparatus is of the type in which air is driven through a spray chamber and passes thence to a chamber arranged over a water basin and containing absorbent fabrics on which suspended impurities are deposited, and the invention consists mainly in the arrangement of the absorbent fabric in sets of concentric cylinders. Air drawn from the exterior of a room, by way of a valve-controlled conduit passing through a window, or from the interior, or partly from both, is propelled downwards by a fan 30 through a casing 1, first being saturated with spray produced by water from a spraying-nozzle 3 impinging on a corrugated deflector 2 ; the air then passes over moistened surfaces 22 of absorbent woven fabric or cypress wood. Suspended impurities are deposited on the surfaces, which also, according to temperature, have an evaporative or condensing action on the moist air. The air finally impinges normally on the surface of water in a drip chamber 25, thereby depositing coarse impurities, and then passes out into the room laterally as shown. The moistened surfaces 22, Fig. 3, consist of tubes of woven fabric &c. composed of two concentric members and removably inserted in two semicylindrical casings 23 secured by thumb-screws 21 to stays 20. The fan is driven by an electromotor 31 or otherwise. The spraying - nozzle is provided with a screw-down valve 13, Fig. 4, for regulating the water supply, and either the valve or its seat is grooved to separate the water into fine streams. The excess water is circulated by a pump (not shown), a strainer 9 within a filtering-chamber 7 and a strainer 27 being provided. A door 18 affords access to the interior of the apparatus.
Patent GB-190620316-A (GB)
Title: A New or Improved Combination Book Clasp and Pencil Holder.
Inventor: DOWNES WILLIAM JOSEPH
Filed: 1906-09-12
Granted: 1907-05-02
Abstract: 20,316. Downes, W. J. Sept. 12. Fastenings, clip. To prevent the loss of the pencil with which notebooks, memorandum books, &c. are fitted, a clasp a has a hinged tongue b, bearing a clip c for holding the pencil. The tongue may be recessed or may have a small stud to facilitate its withdrawal.
Patent GB-190623451-A (GB)
Title: Apparatus for Generating Steam and Combustion Products Under Pressure.
Inventor: STEVENSON GEORGE
Filed: 1906-10-22
Granted: 1907-10-22
Abstract: 23,451. Stevenson, G. Oct. 22. Steam generation by direct contact of furnace gases ; superheaters, steam.-Fuel is burnt under pressure in the furnace of a steam boiler, and the resulting gases are mixed with the steam or are utilized for driving the air-compressor for the furnace. Fig. 1 shows the application to a Cornish boiler. The fuel is supplied under pressure from a tank G to a nozzle L, where it is mixed with compressed air from a reservoir T ; the mixture is ignited by a pilot light or by an electric spark. The back end of the furnace is connected by a pipe P with the air-compressor, and by a pipe fitted with a check valve W with the steam space. [Reference has been directed under Patents Act, 1902, to Specifications No. 2801, A.D. 1869, No. 2233, A.D. 1872, No. 1962, A.D. 1874, No. 65, A.D. 1883, No. 25,445, A.D. 1899, [Abridgment Class Furnaces &c.], No. 28,111, A.D. 1903, and Nos. 6221 and 9668, A.D. 1905.]
Patent GB-190624066-A (GB)
Title: Improvement in Dough Dividers.
Inventor: HOUTEN FRANK HENRY VAN
Filed: 1906-10-29
Granted: 1907-04-25
Abstract: 24,066. Houten, F. H. van. Oct. 29. Moulding dough.-To separate from one another the dough masses delivered simultaneously from a dividing-head A of the type described in Specification No. 16,404, A.D. 1904, they are received on a conveyer C from which they pass through oppositely-rotating rolls E to a second conveyer F, both the rolls and the second conveyer being run at a higher surface speed than the conveyer C.
Patent GB-190625183-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and connected with Railway Points and Switches.
Inventor: HIBNER PHILIP DEFORIST
Filed: 1906-11-08
Granted: 1907-02-28
Abstract: 25,183. Hibner, P. D., and Lorraine, J. S. Nov. 8. Points and switches, railway, operated mechanically, in conjunction with a semaphore signal, from the vehicles. Fig. 1 shows a plan of a portion of a track fitted with the mechanism, Fig. 2 a sectional side view of the track and front portion of a vehicle, and Fig. 3 a sectional end view of the track. A plate 25, secured to a pivoted lever 23, is adapted to be depressed by the leading wheels of the car so as to raise a pin 12 by means of a lever 21. The pin 12 is mounted so as to be capable of a transverse movement when struck by a plate 46 on the car, and thus operates the points 7 and point indicator or signal 34 through a lever 13 and the bell-crank levers shown. The pin 12 is made of such a weight as to lie normally in its lowest position, the plate 25 being then in its raised position. The plate 46 is depressed against the action of a spring 47 by the foot of the motorman, and is turned into its operative position by a hand-lever 59. The position of the points is indicated at night time by an electric lamp 37, the circuit of which is completed by contacts on the semaphore axis 33.
Patent GB-190626706-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Brake Mechanism to be Applied to both Wheel Hubs of Bicycles, Motor Cars or the like.
Inventor: WALKER ROBERT
Filed: 1906-11-24
Granted: 1907-11-07
Abstract: 26,706. Walker, R., Chamberlain, J. W., and Chamberlain, J. B. Nov. 24. Brakes.-In hand-operated hub brakes for cycles, motor-cars, &c. having a split cylinder 6 adapted to be expanded into contact with the hub shell 1, a cam 17, formed on a lever 16 disposed longitudinally of. the hub, enters between the edges of the cylinder. The lever rests on an axle sleeve 14, and between a flange 15 and a cone 4, one end of the lever entering a recess in this cone, the other end being rounded and bearing against the flange 15. The cylinder is supported by flange 21, and is prevented from rotation by a stop 9 on the fixed cone 3. The edges of the cylinder may be hollowed out where they are engaged by the cam, or they may be bevelled for the whole or a part of their length. An arm 13 on the cone 4 is connected to the operating-means, the turning of the cone tilting the lever 16 and expanding the cylinder. When the mechanism is applied to the rear wheel of a cycle, a key is attached to an extension on the fixed cone, the key preventing rotation of the cylinder by entering between its edges.
Patent GB-190629162-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Advertizing Device.
Inventor: MARTHA KELLER
Filed: 1906-12-21
Abstract: 29,162. Keller, M. Dec. 21, 1905, [date applied for under Patents Act, 1901]. Void. [Published under Patents &c. Act, 1907.] Advertising.- Advertising matter is placed on a label or stamp a intended to be affixed to envelopes &c. by means of gum &c. on its rear side, and to carry a postage stamp on a space provided on its . face. The labels may be supplied in sheets divisible along lines of perforations.