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Patent GB-191113318-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Methods of Forming Lasts.
Inventor: BOULT ALFRED JULIUS
IPC: B27M3/20
Filed: 1911-06-02
Granted: 1912-05-30
Abstract: 13,318. Boult, A. J., [United Shoe Machinery Co.]. June 2. Turning; workholders.-Reverse last parts are turned from a pattern by marking a line on the block, previously to turning, which agrees in position with a like line on the pattern and bears a definite relation to a hinge-attaching surface, and causing these lines XY, XZ, Fig. 6, to rotate about the lathe spindles so as to make always equal but opposite angles with the line x g passing through the axis of rotation of the block and pattern and that of the pattern wheel or cutter head. To facilitate mounting the pattern and block, a special work-holder is employed consisting of a plate b<2>, Fig. 4, for engaging a flat surface on the block, a screwed and tapered shank for mounting in the lathe, and a curved projecting plate b<4> flanged on one side for insertion into a groove in the stock recessed to take the flange. A wedge E secures the block in position. The invention is described with particular reference to the last described in Specification 8041/00, [Class 17, Boots &c.]
Patent GB-191115801-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Tables.
Inventor: JEFFCOCK WILLIAM PARKYN
IPC: A47B3/00
Filed: 1911-07-07
Granted: 1912-05-23
Abstract: 15,801. Jeffcock, W. P. July 7. Folding tables.-A folding table comprises a top having a fixed central portion C supported on fixed legs or other support, and alternately long and short leaves or flaps A, B, supported when raised by supplementary hinged leg frames. The central portion may be in the form of a Maltese cross, as shown in Fig. 1, or of polygonal or irregular shape. Or an irregular portion C may be formed in one with or secured to a base of Maltese-cross shape as shown in Fig. 4, the leaves being hinged to the base and recessed on their upper surfaces to fit the upper central portion. The supplementary legs E', Fig. 5, may be hinged to links E pivoted to fixed legs D on a rigid cross-frame F.
Patent GB-191120656-A (GB)
Title: Process and Apparatus for Removing the Lye from Textile Fabrics Steeped in Soda Lye for the purpose of Mercersing by Means of Steam.
Inventor: PETZOLD MAX
IPC: D06B15/09
Filed: 1911-09-18
Granted: 1912-02-22
Abstract: 20,656. Petzold, M. Sept. 27, 1910, [Convention date]. Passing m a t e r i a l s through fluid - supplying apparatus. - T o remove lye from fabrics soaked in 'soda - lye for mercerizing, the fabric is subjected to steam spray and pressing-rollers to remove the greater part of the lye, and is then passed through hot water or weak lye in which it is stretched transversely by chains before passing to the washing-apparatus. From the store roller 7, the fabric passes over width stretching-rollers 9, 10, 15, 16, 17, 18, and pressing-rollers 11, 13. Lye is sprayed on to the fabric from nozzles 57, 57<1>, and steam from nozzles 19, 21, 23, 25. The vat 5 contains water or weak lye from which the fabric, which is nearly free from lye, passes over guide-rollers in the tank 29 containing hot water or weak lye, in which it is stretched by diverging chains 39. From the tank 29, it passes over guiderollers and pressing-rollers 37 to an acid tank 40 and a water tank 41 heated by a steamcoil 54.
Patent GB-191123559-A (GB)
Title: Improved Floating Bridge.
Inventor: MAIN JAMES ALEXANDER
IPC: E01D15/14
Filed: 1911-10-25
Granted: 1912-07-11
Abstract: 23,559. Main, J. A. Oct. 25. Bridges.-A bridge A is supported at a fixed level, notwithstanding the variations of the water-level, by pontoons B which are restrained from rising above the position in which they support the bridge, when. fully loaded at the lowest water-lever, by cables F connecting fixed points on the bridge structure to fixed points on land. The pontoons may be designed so that their section above the lowest water-level is less than that below, to keep the increase in displacement due to the rise of the waterlevel as low as possible.
Patent GB-191123576-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Apparatus for Promoting Circulation in Steam Boilers.
IPC: F22D7/00
Filed: 1911-10-25
Granted: 1913-01-27
Abstract: 23,576. Circulators, Ltd., Schofield, H., and Sedgwick, C. H. Oct. 25. Partitions in water space.-Relates to jackets provided with tapering hoods placed over furnace-flues for promoting the water-circulation. To allow a jacket to be fitted and adjusted upon flues of different diameters, the end walls supporting the jacket are made flexible, and the jacket itself is made up of overlapping curved plates. The hood may be formed of two parts which overlap longitudinally. The end walls of the jacket shown consist of short thin plates a forming links connected by hinge-pins b. The walls are supported vertically upon the flue by flanges c on the plates, and are secured by chains j and adjusting-screws k<2>. The plates e forming the jacket are secured by inserting projections d on the end walls in slots in the plates, and by driving wedges through the slotted ends of the projections. The two parts of the hood g are connected to the end walls by brackets h<1> and bolts h<2>. A hood may be provided with one or more apertures in its upper part for the escape of steam, a cover-plate being placed above and parallel to the hood. Curved or straight directing-pieces m may be placed inside the jacket or hood.
Patent GB-191204804-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Automatic Pistols.
IPC: F41A3/64
Filed: 1912-02-26
Granted: 1912-10-31
Abstract: 4804. Wesson, J. H., and Smith & Wesson. Feb. 26. Breech actions, sliding breech-block.-Relates to automatic pistols of the kind in which the breech-block can be disconnected from its return spring, for hand-loading prior to the first discharge, and consists in improved means for connecting and disconnecting the return spring. In the construction shown in Figs. 1 and 2, the recoil-spring guide-rod 5, 7, which carries the forward spring-abutment 4, is detachably secured to the breech-block 1 by a laterally-sliding spring latch 12. In the modification shown in Pigs. 8 and 9, the guide-rod 5 is fixed to the breech-block 1, and the rear spring-abutment 18 is detachably secured to the frame by a laterally-sliding latch 25. When the abutment is disconnected from the frame, the breechblock, recoil spring, and abutment can he retracted together without compressing the spring.
Patent GB-191208163-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Apparatus for Determining the Moment when a Ship's Gun Passes through a Predetermined Elevation.
Inventor: MARKHOF LUDWIG JOSEF MAUTNER R
Filed: 1912-04-04
Granted: 1912-08-01
Abstract: 8163. Markhof, L. J. Mautner, Ritter von. April 21, 1911, [Convention date]. Naval mountings.- Relates to improvements in apparatus of the kind described in Specification 19,887/10, for determining the moment when a ship's gun passes through a predetermined elevation. The invention consists in substituting, for the pendulum of the prior invention, a ball 12 rolling freely between 17, or a globule of arc-shaped guides 15, 16, 17, or a globule of liquid, for example mercury, in a curved tube which may be filled with a liquid of different colour and lower specific gravity. A slide 6, adjustable upon the guides in accordance with the desired elevation, has horns h by means of which the coincidence of the ball and the slide 6 is determined. The apparatus is swung upon an axis 2, which moves parallel to the gun at all elevations. In the construction shown, the upper guide comprises two parts 15, 16, which are the pole-pieces of an electro-magnet 18, whereby the ball 12 is magnetically suspended from the upper guides.
Patent GB-191211618-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to the Stripping of Palm Fruit from the Cones.
Inventor: HAWKINS ISAAC THOMAS
IPC: A23N5/00
Filed: 1912-05-15
Granted: 1913-05-01
Abstract: 11,618. Hawkins, I. T. May 15. Hulling; thrashing - machines. - -Palm fruit is freed from the cones or heads in which it grows, by means of a stripping - basket consisting of a number of rings 3, concentric and diminishing in diameter downwardly, in which the cone is placed point downwards. It is then acted upon by a plunger 4 attached to a rod 5 sliding in guides 6 and driven by a connecting - rod 7 and crank-pin 10. The spur-wheel 9 carrying the crank - pin is driven by a pinion 13 on the shaft 14, which also carries a pulley from which the fan 21 is driven. This fan directs a blast of air beneath the oscillating bars 19, which form a riddle receiving the material from the stripping-basket through a hopper 18 and separating the fruit from the cones. The fruit falls across the air blast and through louvres 25 to a conveyer. Two or more stripping-baskets may be mounted in one machine.
Patent GB-191212891-A (GB)
Title: Transfer Mechanism for Calculating Machines.
Inventor: WERNER HERMANN
Filed: 1912-06-01
Granted: 1912-10-24
Abstract: 12,891. Werner, H. June 1. Multiplying and dividing apparatus; transfer mechanism.-Relates to improvements in transfer mechanism for machines of the Thomas type, and in means for preventing overthrow. The usual star-wheel operates, through a lever 6, a cam 3, sliding it along the spindle of the stepped drum 2. A cam-surface 11 engages an extension 20 of a long tooth 16 pivoted at 19 to the drum, raising it into position to engage and to add one on the usual sliding pinion 23. A fixed cam 9 engaging a projection 8 on the cam 3 restores it to position, and a surface 14 on the cam acts on an extension 15 of the transfer-tooth carrying-arm 17 to lower the tooth again. A slot 12 in the cam engages a pin 13 on the drum. To prevent overthrow, the wheel 23 is mounted between arms 24, 25 and is locked by a projection 27 of the arm 24 after an extension 24<a> of the arm leaves the stepped cylinder.
Patent GB-191217462-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Platen Printing Presses.
Inventor: SCHOLES JOHN
IPC: B41F1/28
Filed: 1912-07-27
Granted: 1913-07-24
Abstract: 17,462. Scholes, J., Wolstenholme, C., and Barton, R. J. July 27. Counting-apparatus.-In a platen press provided with a finger F which passes under and lifts the sheet x after printing and withdraws from the sheet while the impression is made, the bracket B carrying the finger carries also a pivoted arm P for actuating a counter Q on the side arms of the press. The arm P can be turned into the dotted position to render the counter inoperative.
Patent GB-191218747-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Electric Rectifying Apparatus.
IPC: H02M7/36
Filed: 1912-08-15
Granted: 1913-06-26
Abstract: 18,747. British Thomson-Houston Co., [General Electric Co.]. Aug. 15. Commutator switching - arrangements. - A vibrating rectifier is provided with a device such as a spring 20, which bears against the armature 2 and prevents its operation by currents from the battery 10 if the alternating current fails, and which brings the armature to rest near one pole of the operating-magnet 4 so as to facilitate starting. A second spring 19 frictionally engaging the armature may assist the damping function.
Patent GB-191219533-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Electric Fuses.
Inventor: CHRISTIANS GEORGE WILLIAM
IPC: H01H85/157
Filed: 1912-08-26
Granted: 1913-04-24
Abstract: 19,533. Christians, G. W. Dec. 27, 1911, [Convention date]. Fusible cut-outs.-In electric fuses of the kind in which a long fuse wire is looped to and fro between two terminals at the ends of a central insulating supporting- rod, the terminals are made in the form of caps C provided on their edges with integrally constructed hooks E supporting the loops of the continuous fuse wire F which extends between the caps lengthwise of the rod. The caps are applied to enlargements B at the ends of the rod, and the edge of each cap is cut to forms arms D. which are bent twice at right - angles and then turned back to form the hooks. The wire is enclosed by a cover composed of a filling G of plaster or other comminuted refractory material and an outer envelope H of asbestos cloth or like non - combustible fabric. The cover may be applied by first laying the cloth flat, spreading thereon a layer of plaster mixed with water followed by a layer of dry plaster, tightly wrapping the plaster-covered cloth around the fuse strip and holder, and finally securing it in place by a cord I wound around it.
Patent GB-191219596-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Wood Panelled Partitions, particularly applicable to Ships' Cabins, Corridors, Alleyways and the like.
Inventor: WAKEHAM WILLIAM GEORGE
IPC: B63B3/68
Filed: 1912-08-27
Granted: 1913-08-21
Abstract: 19,596. Wakeham, W. G. Ang. 27. Panels and panelled work.-Panels 3 of partitions are connected together by metal or wood tongues 7 arranged alternately towards either face of the panelling, as shown in Fig. 1, or by tongues 7<a> and dowels 15 arranged alternately as shown in Fig. 5. The panels may be secured by tongues to members 8 fitted to the rails. The middle rail 4 may he moulded on one side to form a chair-rail 6, and on the other side to form a hand-rail 5, strengthened by means of a metal or tough-wood insertion 13; or the rail may be moulded to form a chair-rail on both sides, in which case it is strengthened bv a channel plate 11. The strengthening-members may be continuous throughout the rail, or may consist of a series of short pieces. The edges of the panels between the tongues 7 may be grooved for electric-light wires &c.
Patent GB-191219673-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Safety Devices for Firearms.
Inventor: MAUSER PAUL
IPC: F41A17/48
Filed: 1912-08-28
Granted: 1913-04-24
Abstract: 19,673. Mauser, P. Dec. 6, 1911, [Convention date]. Breech actions, sliding breech-block.-Relates to automatic guns having laterally swinging locking-levers, one of which is connected with a safety-lever which locks the trigger-mechanism when the breech is unlocked, and consists in constructing the safety-device as a two-armed lever p pivoted on a vertical pivot and engaging the sear-operating member z<2> by means of a hook p<3> on its rear arm when the breech is unlocked. The hook p<3> is bevelled laterally, as shown at Fig. 2, so that, as it is swung sideways, during the unlocking of the breech, it engages the edge of the sear-engaging hook z<3> and disengages it from the sear. The tail p' of the safety-lever works in a recess v<1> of a transverse spindle v which can be rotated to lock the safety-lever, and consequently the locking-levers, in the position these parts occupy when the breech is locked. On the spindle v are also two cams v<3>, v<4>, Figs. 2 and 6, one v<4> of which controls a catch-lever a for adjusting for single loading while the other v<3> controls a safety-lever c.
Patent GB-191219681-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to the Mounting of the Spindles of Grinding Machines, Machine Tools and other Machinery.
Inventor: ALMFELT KARL JOHAN
IPC: F16C35/12
Filed: 1912-08-28
Granted: 1913-03-13
Abstract: 19,681. Almfelt, K. J., and Hart, A. Aug. 28. Ball bearings. - The spindles of grinding machines, machine tools, &c. are mounted in a sleeve containing at each end adjustable selfalining ball bearings. Each bearing consists of two rows of balls, the outer races d, e of which are spherical or conical to permit of small deflexions of the axes of the spindles and are adjusted to take up wear by screwed rings f, f<1>. To provide for expansion, one of the bearings is mounted as a complete unit in a cylindrical ring g free to slide in the sleeve c. The inner ball races e<2> may be formed directly on the spindle. Each bearing may have three rows of balls, the middle row being non-adjustable.
Patent GB-191221168-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Hat Fasteners.
Inventor: KUNZLER PAUL
IPC: A42B7/00
Filed: 1912-09-17
Granted: 1913-07-03
Abstract: 21,168. Kunzler, P. Sept. 17. [Cognate Application, 6558/13.] Hats, securing to head. - Pivoted prongs mounted within the hat are free to enter the hair as the hat is placed on the head and are raised by rotation on their pivots, means being provided to hold the prongs in their raised position while the hat is being worn. The pivoted prongs may be arranged in pairs in a holder, and adapted to slide towards one another as the prongs are raised. In one form (not shown) the depending prongs are raised by contact with the head and are held bv a ratchetwheel and spring pawl. The pawl can be released by a finger on a spindle passing through the crown of the hat and operated by a knob outside. In the form shown in Fig. 1, prongs c are pivoted at d to members d' adapted to slide in a metal guide a. The members d<1> are pressed outwards by springs f. A drum b, rotatable by an ornamental knob outside the hat is connected by wires c to the pivots d, round which the wires are wrapped, so that turning the knob rotates the prongs and slides them inwards. The prongs are held in the desired position by a circular ratchet (not shown), which may be released by an axial movement of the knob. In a modification, the prongs are moved inwards by a pinion and racks. The prongs have pin- and-slot connexions with the guide, the slots being shaped to give the required rotation. In this form, the friction of the parts may suffice to retain the prongs in the raised position.
Patent GB-191221304-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or connected with the Manufacture of Ammonia, and its Salts.
Inventor: WINSTANLEY THOMAS
IPC: C01C1/08
Filed: 1912-09-19
Granted: 1913-09-18
Abstract: 21,304. Winstanley, T., and Williams, F. H. Sept. 19. Ammonia.-Nitrogenous organic materials, such as wool waste, leather waste, peat, &c. are distilled in a retort, in an atmosphere of hydrogen with or without a small quantity of alkali, to obtain ammonia and charcoal. An electric current may be passed through the retort to facilitate the combination of the nitrogen evolved in the distillation with the hydrogen. The material is charged into a retort B set in a furnace A. The hydrogen is obtained by acting with steam on iron in tubes C, C<1> projecting into the retort. The gases pass away by a pipe E and are absorbed in water or ammoniacal gas liquor in a vessel F, or may be dried and treated with acid to form for instance ammonium sulphate; or they may be returned to the retort by valve G and pipe H. The Provisional Specification also states that the hydrogen-generating apparatus may be arranged outside the retort.
Patent GB-191223122-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Boots and Shoes.
Inventor: BARLTROP HERBERT JOSEPH
IPC: A43B3/02
Filed: 1912-10-10
Granted: 1913-05-22
Abstract: 23,122. Barltrop, H. J. Oct. 10. With attachments for special purpo.ses.-In a boot or shoe provided with one or more pockets or pouches for use in carrying cash, notes, &c., each pocket is formed between the upper and lining. In one construction, the upper 5 is slit at 6 near its top edge, and the upper and lining are then sewn together by one or more rows of stitches 8 to form the sides and bottom of the pocket. The upper edge of the slit 6 is secured by stitching 9 to the lining, and, to give the opening a finished appearance, the lower side of the slit is cut to a curve as shown. One or more additional compartments 3 may be provided by securing flaps 11 to the outside of the upper 5. The pocket is closed by a flap 4 secured by a press-button 16 or other fastening; this flap may be furnished with an ornamental tassel. In a modified construction, instead of the slit 6, the upper and lining are left detached for a short distance at their upper edges, to form the mouth of the pocket.
Patent GB-191223643-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to the Production of Metallic Catalysts.
IPC: B01J23/70
Filed: 1912-10-16
Granted: 1913-05-29
Abstract: 23,643. M³ller Speisefettfabrik Akt.- Ges., C. & G. May 24, [Convention date]. [Addition to 22,092/12.] Fatty oils, hydrogenated. In connexion with the application of metallic catalysts to the conversion of unsaturated glycerides into saturated compounds, by treatment with hydrogen, an example is given in which soya bean oil is treated.
Patent GB-191223838-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Steam Superheaters for Locomotive, Marine and other Boilers.
Inventor: ALLEN ROBERT
IPC: F22G7/00
Filed: 1912-10-18
Granted: 1913-10-20
Abstract: 23,838. Allen, R. Oct. 18. Cleaning, fluid-pressure processes for; metal pipes and tubes. - The smoke-tubes traversing a superheating- chamber are cleaned by passing steam into them from a steam space provided in the chamber. In a superheater consisting of adjacent chambers c<1> traversed by smoke tubes a, formed with internal and external helical ribs, as described in Specification 15,574/12 steam is admitted to a space h between the chambers. from which it passes into the tubes through perforations k. Partitions in the space ensure the equal distribution of steam to the tubes.
Patent GB-191230056-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Moulds for Making Rubber Articles.
Inventor: EGGERS WILLIAM
IPC: B29C33/00
Filed: 1912-12-31
Granted: 1913-06-19
Abstract: 30,056. Eggers, W. Dec. 31. Moulding indiarubber.-A mould for forming rubber articles comprises two mould sections, each formed of a plate b carrying mould shells a. Fig. 2 shows a mould for forming hardrubber articles, such as pipe-stems, in which the shells a are secured to the plate b by clamping nuts n, which are carried by screw parts b<1>, aud engage corner recesses a' on the shells. The top mould section is held upon the bottom section by means of sockets engaging pins p<1> on the bottom section. Each mould shell is formed with a pin o and socket o' which engage with a similar hole and pin on the corresponding shell. A number of moulds are superposed and locked together and placed in the vulcanizing-oven. After vulcaniza tion, the moulds are taken apart, cooled, and the articles removed. Fig. 8 shows a modified mould for making hollow soft-rubber articles. The mould shells a are formed with flanges a<X> having shoulders which interengage and also fit into recesses in plates f. The plates fare connected to the plates b by screw bolts b<1> and the mould sections are clamped together by thumb-screws e. The mould shells are cast from soft metal such as tin, type-metal, aluminium, &c., or hard metal such as steel, the soft metal shells being finished by swaging and the hard by machinery.
Patent GB-191301246-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Delivery Mechanism of Printing Machines.
IPC: B65H29/04
Filed: 1913-01-16
Granted: 1913-10-30
Abstract: 1246. Dawson & Nancarrow, and Hudson, B. Jan. 16. Delivery apparatus.-Sheets are delivered from printing-machines by grippers on endless chains which carry the sheets vertically dependent and clear of the machine to a position in which the grippers are inclined and opened to deposit the sheets on an inclined table. As shown the grippers comprise a transverse bar 13 on arms 14 fixed to a shaft 15 journaled in blocks 16, secured by bolts 17 to a chain 1 which is driven from the impression cylinder and passes over sprockets 2, 3 adjustable on a standard 9, and over sprockets 4, 5 on adjustable arms 10, 11 supported by a standard 12. The other gripper member consists of fingers 18 on a sleeve 19 free on shaft 15 and acted on by a coiled spring tending to keep the grippers closed. In action, a cam 31 acts on a roller 22 on an arm 21 on sleeve 19 to open the fingers 18 to allow a sheet to be taken from the impression cylinder, the sheet being carried vertically until the sprocket 3 is reached. The shaft 15 swivels relatively to the block 16 as this sprocket is passed and the sheet still remains vertical after the gripper passes the sprocket, a spring-controlled pawl 35, Fig. 6, engaging a ratchet-wheel 32 on shaft 15 to keep the grippers steady during their movement. The grippers keep the sheets vertical until they are near the delivery board 33 when an adjustably inclined arm 25 acts on a roller 24 on an arm 23 fixed to the shaft 15 and turns the grippers into the proper position for laying the sheet upon the delivery board. According to the Provisional Specification only three sprockets are employed for the chains 1 and inclined surfaces are arranged for turning the gripping devices positively as they pass by the sprockets.