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Patent GB-190504893-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in connection with Fans for Compressing Air
Inventor: JEFFREYS JOHN
Filed: 1905-03-08
Granted: 1906-02-08
Abstract: 4893. Jeffreys, J. March 8. Fans.-For compressing air, fans a of a type somewhat similar to that described in SpecificationNo.23,921,A.D. 1895, [Abridgment Class, Air and gases, Compressing &c.], are mounted upon a common shaft and formed of successively increasing diameters and reduced widths. Each fan has shallow rotary blades h carried by diaphragms e, while fixed guide-vanes g within the casings c direct the air into the next fau of the series, the air finally escaping from a reservoir k. To prevent undue heating, the apparatus may be water - jacketed where necessary, while, to deliver air at differeut pressures, two or more machines as described above may be mounted upon a common shaft. The Provisional Specification states that a collecting inlet chamber may be provided, and also describes an arrangement in which a number of centrifugal fans of the same diameter are mounted upon a common shaft passing through a combination cylindrical or octagonal casing. The axis of the fans is mounted eccentrically in the casing, a buffer plate is fixed at the point where the fan most nearly approaches the casing, and an adjoining chamber, separated by a perforated diaphragm from the fan chamber, is provided between consecutive fans.
Patent GB-190505104-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in the Construction of Vessels for Storing Gasoline, Petrol and other Explosive Fluids.
Inventor: BEELEY THOMAS CARTER
Filed: 1905-03-11
Granted: 1905-11-02
Abstract: 5104. Beeley, T. C. March 11. Heating liquids. -Tanks for petrol and other inflammable liquids have longitudinal tubes f secured in the ends of the tank for the circulation of steam or hot air to accelerate the discharge of the liquid.
Patent GB-190505977-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Means for Regulating the Speed of Alternate Current Electric Machines Provided with Commutators
Filed: 1905-03-21
Granted: 1906-03-01
Abstract: 5977. Elektrizitõts Akt.-Ges. vorm. W. Lahmeyer & Co. April 15,1904, [date applied for under Patents Act, 1901]. Dynamos, regulating ; motors, cont r o l l i n g.-Polyphase alternating- current commutator machines have placed in parallel with the brushes the secondary windings of a polyphase transformer, the primary windings of which are in parallel with the mains. In the form shown, the stator windings S of a three-phase motor are connected to the mains, and three brushes placed at 120 degrees apart bear upon the collector of its rotor R. The connexions to the three-phase transformer T are adjustable, so that different ratios of transformation may be obtained. The brushes make an angle of 90 degrees with the axes of the corresponding stator windings, so that there is decrease of speed with increase of torque, the motor starting with the characteristic of a series-wound machine and running normally as a shunt-wound machine without change of the connexions.
Patent GB-190507232-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Composition for Cleansing and Renovating the Polished, Varnished, Painted, or similarly treated Surfaces of Wood, Stone, or other Materials.
Inventor: COX EDWARD HENRY
Filed: 1905-04-05
Granted: 1905-09-07
Abstract: 7232. Cox, E. H. April 5. Cleansing-compositions.-A composition, containing, sulphuric acid, common salt, water, glycerine, an adhesive thickening substance such as syrup, treacle, dextrin, agar-agar, or gelatine, and an aromatic oil, such as oil of thyme or sassafras, is used for cleaning the surfaces, whether varnished, polished, or otherwise, of wood, stone, metal, or the like.
Patent GB-190513860-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Indexes or Index Tabs for Books, Files, Card Index Systems and the like.
Inventor: PINK FRANK
Filed: 1905-07-05
Granted: 1905-11-16
Abstract: 13,860. Pink, F., and Petty, J. P. July 5. Indexing.-Index tab s for use. in books, files, card index systems, &c. consist of a single strip of celluloid or other transparent material a folded round a strip of paper b bearing the index letter &c. The folded piece a may be replaced by two portions or strips, one on each side of the strip b.
Patent GB-190519995-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to the Production of Carburetted Generator or Water Gas
Inventor: HUTMACHER JULIUS ANTON
Filed: 1905-10-03
Granted: 1905-12-14
Abstract: 19,995. Hutmacher, J. A. Oct. 3. Carburetting.-Relates to a process for the production of carburetted producer or water gas in which superheated h y d r o - carbon vapours are admitted to the reduction stratum of the column of coal. The hydrogen liberated in the reduction zone appears to act in the nascent state on the hydrocarbons with the production of lighter and permanent gases. Water vapour and air enter respectively at e, f, and the siphon b serves to introduce hydrocarbons which are superheated in the chamber c and enter at or near the reduction zone.
Patent GB-190520225-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Chairs for Children.
Inventor: UNGER ISAAC
Filed: 1905-10-06
Granted: 1906-05-03
Abstract: 20,225. Unger, I. Feb. 20, [date applied for under Patents Act, 1901]. Chairs; tables.-A guard is fitted under the table of a nursery chair to prevent the child from slipping through the space between the table and the chair, and consists of a U-shaped rod 5, the ends 6 of which are bent at a right-angle and passed through staples 7 on the underside of the table 2. The table is fitted to the arms of the chair by means of a latch-pin 4 and a pivot 3. The guard is preferably made of steel rod, but may be made of wood or wickerwork. In a modification, wire netting or wickerwork 8, Fig. 4, is fitted to the guard 5, which is provided with a cross-rod 9 for that purpose ; and, further, the ends of the guard, instead of passing through staples under the table, may be driven into the edge of the table.
Patent GB-190520941-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Machines for Lixiviation Processes.
Inventor: CONSTANS ALFRED EDWARD WILLIAM
Filed: 1905-10-16
Granted: 1906-05-31
Abstract: 20,941. Constans, A. E. W. Oct. 16. Mixing solids with liquids.-In lixiviation apparatus for treating ores with cyanide, and for other purposes, a tube f supported on brackets carries within it a shaft m fitted with a screw conveyer j, which, when the shaft is rotated by means of a pulley, continually raises the material under treatment, and causes it to overflow at the top of the tube f to downwardly-bent pieces h, separated by spaces i, thus distributing the material over the surface of the liquid.
Patent GB-190521540-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Tires for Vehicle Wheels.
Inventor: MIDGLEY THOMAS
Filed: 1905-10-23
Granted: 1906-04-12
Abstract: 21,540. Midgley, T. Oct. 23. Felloes or rims tyres, elastic other than pneumatic.-Elastic tyres are secured to the felloe by hollow split wedging-rings 6 drawn together by transverse bolts 7, thus leaving the tyre free to expand laterally under pressure. The base of the tyre is rendered inextensible by a ring 2 of sheet metal formed with perforations through which are threaded circumferential wire spirals 3. In modifications, the wedging-rings are formed as shown in Fig. 2, and the sheet-metal base is replaced by a series of retaining-wires 16 in conjunction with circumferential or transverse wire helices 15. Slipping is prevented by metal studs 8 embedded in the tyre flush with the tread and secured by wire spirals 11.
Patent GB-190521653-A (GB)
Title: Improved Fasteners for Securing Papers and other Articles.
Inventor: BORN HARRY
Filed: 1905-10-24
Granted: 1905-12-30
Abstract: 21,653. Born, H. Oct. 24. Fastenings, bent metal tongue. A fastener for papers and the like is formed by bending into U-shape a blank a, Fig. 1, having a central slot with bent-in edges b, c, Fig. 2, forming clamping- jaws. These jaws may be smooth, serrated, or undulated, and may take over one another vertically, or shear-like as shown in Fig. 6. In a modification, several pairs of jaws are arranged side by side.
Patent GB-190521980-A (GB)
Title: An Improvement connected with Water-storage Cisterns.
Inventor: MADDOCK SAMUEL
Filed: 1905-10-28
Granted: 1906-09-13
Abstract: 21,980. Maddock, S., and Johnstone, A. H. Oct. 28. Tanks and cisterns.-For clearing away the dregs and sediments which collect at the bottom of the ordinary domestic water storage cistern, the bottom of the cistern is made grooved and sloping and is provided with a plug J, which may be operated from a handle in the batbroom. The pipe H leads from the bottom of the cistern to the rain pipe, and is fitted with a cock N and also a leakagedetecting pipe Q.
Patent GB-190525392-A (GB)
Title: Improved Apparatus for Illuminating Photographic Studios with Electric Incandescence Lamps.
Inventor: LIPPE PHILIPP GEORG VON DER
Filed: 1905-12-06
Granted: 1906-02-22
Abstract: 25,392. Lippe, P. G. von der. Dec. 6. Overhead runways and trollies.-In connexion with electric lamps, the supports 3 are adjustably suspended by means of cords, pulleys, and counterweights 5 from a bar 6, which is supported at its ends by means of pairs of rollers 7 travelling on bars 8. These are similarly supported by rollers and by beams 9. The bars may be movable by hand, by means of ropes, or otherwise.
Patent GB-190600702-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Ingot Casting Machines.
Inventor: ILLINGWORTH JOHN
Filed: 1906-01-10
Granted: 1906-07-05
Abstract: 702. Illingworth, J. Jan. 10. Casting and moulding; castings.-In a machine for casting ingots by the method described in Specification No. 12,628, A.D. 1899, [Abridgment Class Iron &c.], hydraulic cylinders 9, 10 are arranged between vertical walls 3, consisting of horizontal I-beams 4 wich filling-blocks 5, tied by rods 7, and a plate 13 which bears on a series of upright moulds 14, preferably two or three in series transversely, but any number longitudinally, standing on removable plates 15. Each mould is in two parts having grooved edges which receive removable filling-pieces 17. In use, the moulds are arranged with the filling-pieces in place and subjected to pressure, and are filled, the metal being allowed partially to harden. The pressure is then slackened, and the pieces 17 removed, after which pressure is applied to close the mould and condense the metal. The moulds may be filled from the top or bottom.
Patent GB-190604820-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to Traction Engines and similar Road Vehicles.
Inventor: BROWN ARTHUR MOGG
Filed: 1906-02-27
Granted: 1907-01-03
Abstract: 4820. Brown, A. M., and Pears, W. C. Feb. 27. Traction engines and road locomotives.-The level of the engine and boiler of a traction engine may be adjusted by means of wedges D, placed between the ends of the spring or springs A. and the hornplate brackets B, and operated in pairs by a right and left hand threaded rod E. When equalizing- levers F are used, the spring A is supported on trunnions G, which rest on the equalizing-levers at H. The wedges may be inclined in the opposite way to that shown, or the wedges may move at right-angles to the springs. The wedge motion may also be applied to volute-spring mountings.
Patent GB-190605713-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or Additions to Spring Socket Fastenings for Loose-leaf Binders or Books.
Filed: 1906-03-09
Granted: 1906-07-05
Abstract: 5713. Kenrick & Jefferson, and Mayward, G. T. March 9. Fastenings.-The spring- socket fastening for looseleaf binders or books described in Specification No. 2688, A.D. 1905, is provided with a locking-device for preventing accidental unfastening. The fastening consists of a stud a secured to the folded part b of the cover or binder, and an elastic head or button c secured to the folded part b<2>. The neck carrying the head a<2> of the stud is made somewhat longer, and is engaged by the slots d in a plate e having a sliding or other movement between the folds of the part b<2>, so as to lock the studs and prevent disengagement. Enlarged parts e<2> of the slots permit of the passage of the heads a<2> when the plate is moved to the unlocking position by means of its projecting finger-piece e<1>.
Patent GB-190613414-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Dynamo-electric Power Transmission Mechanism
Filed: 1906-06-11
Granted: 1907-06-11
Abstract: 13,414. British Thomson-Houston Co., and Hopps, B. June 11. Distributing.-A prime-mover, the speed and torque of which it is desired to maintain constant notwithstanding variations of the load, drives an alternating-current generator such as is described in Specification No. 25,636, A.D. 1904, [Abridgment, Class Dynamo-electric generators &c.], the frequency of which maybe changed by varying the number of poles, the generator supplying current to the load motors, which are wound so that their pole numbers may also be changed. The constantspeed prime-mover, e.g. a petrol engine, drives the alternating-current generator, the four field windings P<1>, P', P<3>, P<4> of which may be connected through the switch F so as to produce a variablepole machine, the variation being preferably limited to a range of two to one. The generator is separately excited by the exciter E, and the armature supplies current to induction motors M of either the slip-ring or squirrel-cage type. In order that the speed of the motors may be readily varied, they are wound so as to enable their pole numbers to be changed by connecting the field windings through the switch S. The controlling-arm of the resistance R in the exciter circuit may be interconnected with the throttle valve of the prime-mover to govern its speed, and with the switches S, F, and the controller arm may be operated either by hand or by automatic mechanism controlled in accordance with the speed of the vehicle when the motors are employed for propelling vehicles.
Patent GB-190623911-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Collar Stiffeners.
Inventor: MANN ALFRED
Filed: 1906-10-27
Granted: 1907-09-12
Abstract: 23,911. Mann, A. Oct. 27. Stays or stiffeners. -A device for stiffening ladies' collars and other neckwear consists of textile material, either in one or two strips, to which are connected strips of steel or whale bone arranged in such a manner as to be easily removable, so that the position of the strips may be easily changed. Fig. 2 shows a support consisting of a strip of fabric a to which vertical steels bare detachably secured by means of press-buttons c passed through the fabric. Fig. 4 shows a form in which the steels are attached to the fabric by means of U -shaped clamps d, which surround both the fabric and steel and are retained by a tooth e, which enters a hole in the steel. In a modification, slanting pieces of steel are attached to one another by clamps, as shown in Fig. 4. Fig 7 shows a form in which two strips of material i are united by strips of steel which are retained by a strip g, the pointed end h of which enters a hole in the steel.
Patent GB-190626550-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Anti-vibrator for Glass Frames, to Rail, & Motor Vehicles, & the like, for the Automatic Absorption of all Vibrations.
Inventor: TURNER GEORGE FREDERICK
Filed: 1906-11-23
Granted: 1907-11-21
Abstract: 26,550. Turner, G. F. Nov. 23. Motor road vehicles.- An anti - rattling device which also acts as a window-holder is mounted in a recess in the running face of a motor-car window, and comprises a rubber-tyred roller F carried on studs G and working between jaws E at the upper end of a plate spring D. The inner surfaces of the jaws E bear on the flat sides of the roller, while the outer surfaces work accurately within chucks C and against a base-plate A which is perforated to allow the roller to pass The lower end of the spring D is turned over and held by an adjusting-screw K.
Patent GB-190627295-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or connected with Gun Sights.
Inventor: PETCH ALBANY FRANCIS
Filed: 1906-11-30
Granted: 1907-09-12
Abstract: 27,295. Petch, A. F., and Redpath, R. Nov. 30. Sights.-Relates to sights having spirally graduated range-dials, and consists in providing means for compensating for changes in the muzzle-velocity. The reader r is caused to slide radially across the range-dial a by a pin i working in a spiral groove d<1> in the dial. At its opposite extremity, the reader has a second pin n which may be engaged with any one of the cam-grooves k ... k<8> in a diskj, each groove corresponding with a particular muzzle-velocity. The disk is mounted upon the spindle e in front of the dial a, and is held in any position, against rotation, by a screw l, carried by a pivoted arm m and screwed into the appropriate hole j<1> in the disk j.
Patent GB-190627983-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Transposing Keyboards for Pianos and like Musical Instruments having Keyboards.
Inventor: SCURFIELD GEORGE GOUTHWAITE
Filed: 1906-12-08
Granted: 1907-09-26
Abstract: 27,983. Scurfield, G. G. Dec. 8. Pianofortes.-An auxiliary transposing keyboard for keyboard instruments is provided with means for adjusting it to different instruments. A wooden foundation piece A is fitted detachably over the ordinary keyboard B, and is slotted to receive an adjustable bar A' in which sliding pegs a<1> with springs a<2> are mounted, so that with their lower ends resting on the. keys their upper ends are all at the same level. The. bar A<1> is adjustable vertically by means of set-screws at the ends, and horizontally either by means of a strip A<2> which can be placed on either side or by reversing the bar. Brackets D<1> are adjustably attached, by means of tolts and slots or otherwise, to a lath adapted to slide in a dovetail groove d<1> and carrying a rod d, on which the auxiliary keyboard and the keys are pivoted. A rod c<2> passing through holes in all the keys holds the black keys up with the white keys when the keyboard is raised. The rod d may be provided with pins extending into slots in some or all of the keys for maintaining them in position. The white keys are provided with guide-pins e at the back as well as in front. The front guide-pins are mounted on an adjustable rail E, and a series of levers e<1> for the white keys is fitted on the pins. The rear ends of these levers are bent as shown, so that the pegs a<1> receive a greater travel than the keys, and they are guided by pins H passing through slots in the levers. Similar bent levers may be attached loosely to the rail E for co-operation with the black keys, in which case the rod c<2> may be dispensed with. The apparatus may take the place of the ordinary keyboard lid, and may be boxed in and fitted with a light lid.
Patent GB-190700878-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Elastic Tyres for Vehicles.
Inventor: MCGIEHAN ISAAC SEAMAN
Filed: 1907-01-12
Granted: 1908-01-11
Abstract: 878. McGiehan, I. S. Jan 12. Tyres, pneumatic &c.-A solid elastic tyre, or the tread of a pneumatic tyre, is formed of open-mesh woven fabric, preferably cut on the bins, treated with rubber or rubber composition so as to fill the meshes of the fabric. Strips b of this material are consolidated by pressure and, to form a solid tyre, such as shown in Fig. 1, are vulcanized between rubber side strips a. Fig. 4 shows the application to a pneumatic tyre, the outer strips b of the prepared fabric being extended down the sides g of the cover.
Patent GB-190702223-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Machines for Making Screws.
Inventor: WARWICK GEORGE THOMAS
Filed: 1907-01-29
Granted: 1907-11-21
Abstract: 2223. Warwick, G. T., and Leete, T. W. Jan. 29. Straightening; rolling; shearing; forging; screwing.-Wire or rod for the manufacture of screws is fed through straightening-rolls b, Fig. 1<a>, and a guide-tube d to body-reducing rolls 5, 6, Fig. 3<a>, from which the strip passes to blank-severing means 62, forging-dies 83, and thread-rolling devices 117. The body-reducing rolls are recessed to form segments which act consecutively upon the same portion of the rod, the tube d being reciprocated by a cam t and rotated to prevent the formation of fins by pinion teeth 15 engaging an internal rack on a forked cam lever 14. When the last segment has operated, the rod is fed forward a blank length, the grippers e being controlled by a coned sleeve i, cam-operated at p. The adjusting- screws for the upper roll carry gear-wheels 24 meshing with a pinion 25 on the boss of a bandwheel provided with a locking-nut 29. A camoperated shear blade 62 cuts off a blank and positions it on a block 64 ready to be inserted in a carrier or holder 74, Fig. 8, by a plunger 71. A slide 80, supported in a slide 92, carries a vertical slide 79 and is advanced to nick the head by a die 78 as shown in Fig. 12. The slide 79 is then lowered, and a second advance of the slide 80 causes the die 83 to shape the head as in Fig. 13. The slide 66, Fig. 8, carrying the holders 74, then moves to the right or left to bring an empty holder in position to receive a fresh blank, and to carry a nicked blank to one of the finishing-dies 91, carried by the slide 92. The holders 74 are made in halves and are spring-closed against register projections 66'. After finishing, an ejector 100 delivers the blank between fingers 110, 111 mounted to slide in guides in a standard 112, together with slides 115 carrying pinions 114 connecting the finger-bars. The-slides 115 are a frictional fit, and only move when relative movement of the fingers is prevented by a blank, or when the pins 116 contact against the top on the return stroke. The fingers are a little thinner than the diameter of the screw at the bottom of the thread, and they raise the blanks and bold them between the chain-driven threading-rolls 123, 124 till the close of the operation ; the fingers then release the blanks, and return. The rolls are driven by a single chain 129, Fig. 1<b>, and have a triangular portion 118, Fig. 17, for further reducing the diameter of the body ; a flange 119 for finishing the end; dies 120 for threading ; and flanges 121, 122 engage the head to prevent lateral movement. The arrangement of gear-wheels and shafts for operating the various cams from the driving-pulley 44 is shown in Figs. 1<a> and 1.
Patent GB-190703533-A (GB)
Title: Improved Process for Mixing and Supplying Gases, and Apparatus therefor.
Filed: 1907-02-12
Granted: 1907-04-11
Abstract: 3533. Akt.-Ges. far Selas-Beleuchtung. March 3, 1906, [date applied for under Patents Act, 1901 ]. Mixing gases.-In gas-mixing appliances of the type in which gases are drawn through mixing- valves by suction and forcing apparatus, the valves are directly actuated both by the pressure in the suction pipe and by that in the service pipe. The air and gas are drawn into the chamber 3 through the openings 1, 2, respectively, by the rotary pump 5, the gas passing through a pressure regulator 7. The inlets are controlled by a valve 12 sliding in the chamber 3. Into the bottom of the chamber 3 opens a pipe 14 connected to the service pipe 6. A pipe 8 and regulating-valve 9 are also provided connecting the service pipe 6 with the suction side of the pump 5 and the chamber 3. The valve 12 is so arranged that when it is raised the inlet openings are enlarged. If the pressure in the pipe 6 increases, the increased pressure in the pipe 8 overbalances that in the pipe 14 and diminishes the inlets. Instead of the pressures acting directly on the bottom of the valve 12, they may act on a diaphragm attached thereto. The ratio of the inlets may be altered with the amount of opening by making one of them narrower above than below or by causing the valve to turn as it rises. Plug cocks actuated by a piston, or other forms of valve, may be substituted for the hollow piston 12. In a modification, the regulator 9 is dispensed with.
Patent GB-190704252-A (GB)
Title: Improved Curling Tongs for Making Marcel Waves.
Inventor: WEX VALENTIN
Filed: 1907-02-20
Granted: 1907-06-13
Abstract: 4252. Wex, V. Feb. 26, 1906, [date applied for under Patents Act, 1901]. Hair curling, toilet appliances for.-In tongs having sliding toothed bars b operated from the handle, fixed combs a are provided at the sides.