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Patent GB-190706805-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Photo and like Frames.
Filed: 1907-03-21
Granted: 1907-08-15
Abstract: 6805. Goodman, O. G., and Goodman, Ltd., G. March 21. Picture frames. - Relates to metal-faced photograph, picture, and like frames. The back d, for securing the photograph or picture c and glazing c<1> within the body y part b, is hinged to the body part. The metal facing a is mounted to slide on the body part by turning over the side edges, and either the top or the bottom edge is turned over or formed with separated hook-like portions a' for securing the back d.
Patent GB-190708137-A (GB)
Title: Improved Coupling for Road Vehicles.
Inventor: VOORT MAURICE HYACINTH ANTOINE
Filed: 1907-04-08
Granted: 1907-09-12
Abstract: 8137. Voort, M. H. A. M. van der. April 8. Motor road vehicles.-In a coupling-device for road vehicles, two wire ropes are crossed between the vehicles, each coupling-rope being provided with two springs for tensioning purposes. Each rope is attached at one end to a casing 10, one end of which is attached to a flange screwed into a piston 12, which works in a barrel 11 screwed into an eye 7. Inside the barrel 11, a weak spring 15 and a stiffer spring 16 are provided, both fastened to a sheave working in the barrel. The springs 15, 16 are also attached to the piston 12 and to a screwed cap 13, respectively. The spring 15 allows the possibility of effecting a coupling, and also when the vehicles are set in motion serves to keep the wire ropes tensioned, the stronger spring being only compressed when the coupling has been effected and the vehicles are set in motion. The eyes on the ropes are secured by bolts to similar eyes on the vehicles.
Patent GB-190708144-A (GB)
Title: Improved Cyclometer Guard
Inventor: GUYON GARDINER FREDERIC
Filed: 1907-04-08
Granted: 1908-03-12
Abstract: 8144. Guyon, G. P. April 8. Odometers.-A combined guard and support for a cyclometer is held in position by two spring arms f which are clamped round the front fork of the machine by a bolt h. The actual guard consists of a metal casing a, open at one end to permit the insertion of the cyclometer. The figures are observed through the opening d in the top of the casing, while a slot e in the lower part serves to receive a projection on the bottom of the cyclometer which is tightly held in place by a screw c.
Patent GB-190715045-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Plug Cocks or Valves.
Inventor: BROOKE ROBERT GRUNDY
Filed: 1907-06-29
Granted: 1908-06-18
Abstract: 15,045. Brooke, R. G. June 29. Plug cocks.-Relates to plug cocks, the object being to maintain a fluidtight closure without the use of an elastic plug or of packing in the barrel. The outlet a of the plug barrel contains a sleeve c capable of a sliding movement. One end of the sleeve c is maintained in close contact with the plug d. This is effected by inserting packing g between a collar e on the sleeve and a ring h screwed into the outlet a. As the plug d wears, the ring h is screwed into the outlet a, thus causing the packing g to press the sleeve c into contact with the plug. The inner end n of the sleeve c may be made of soft metal, vulcanite, or asbestos composition, and it may be machined to the same radius of curvature as the plug. In a modification, the sleeve c is pressed against the plug by a spring acting in conjunction with the packing, the movement of the sleeve c in this case being automatically regulated as the plug wears. The plug d may be adjusted vertically by screwing the stem more or less through the cover of the valve.
Patent GB-190720139-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in the Treatment of Coal-gas and Analogous Gases for the Obtainment of Extraneous Matters, such as Tar Constituents and Ammonia therefrom.
Inventor: FELD WALTHER
Filed: 1907-09-09
Granted: 1908-09-09
Abstract: 20,139. Feld, W. Sept. 9. Purifying gas.-Tar, tar constituents, tar oils, water, ammonia, and other extraneous matters are separated from gases by fractional cooling, or by fractional cooling combined with washing at successively reduced temperatures. Any suitable cooling or washing apparatus may be employed. For example, the first apparatus may cool the gas to 160‹ C., and thus separate practically all the tar constituents having boiling-points above 300‹ C.; the second apparatus may cool the gas to 80‹ C. and abstract constituents boiling above 180‹ C.; the third apparatus may cool to 60‹ C., when water and oil will be condensed and separate by specific gravity ; subsequent apparatus may cool still further. The cooling of the gases at one stage may be effected by washing them with products from a later stage, that is with a liquid containing substances with which the gases at their temperature are not saturated, the evaporation of these substances lowering the temperature of the gas. Absorbed ammonia may be separated from the washing-liquor and reconducted into the gas for subsequent separation as described in Specification No. 26,262, A.D. 1905. When a certain constituent is to be separated free from other constituents, the dew-point of which is near the temperature at which the desired constituent is to be separated, the volume of the gases may be increased to raise gases above the dew-point of the undesired constituent, as described in Specifications Nos. 27,567, 27,568, and 28,390, A.D. 1907. To prevent premature condensation in the pipes leading from the gas-generators to the first cooling-apparatus, these pipes may be covered by a non-conductor of heat, or they may be heated by waste heat from the generators ; or the sectional area of the pipes may be gradually increased according to the number of gas-generators in communication therewith; or suitable diluting gases may be passed into the generators or the pipes leading therefrom to increase the volume of the gases and thus raise the dew-points. Fig. 2 shows a dry main 2 of gradually increasing section with pipes 3, 4 leading from the first and last of a battery of generators, 1 being the passage to the first cooling-apparatus. Fig. 4 shows a similar arrangement for an hydraulic main. Specification No. 20,870, A.D. 1904, is referred to.
Patent GB-190722902-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Cylinder Printing Machines.
Inventor: BONHAM HERBERT
Filed: 1907-10-17
Granted: 1908-01-30
Abstract: 22,902. Bonham, H. Oct. 17. Cylinder machines with plane printing-surfaces; rotary machines; feeding sheets.-Sheets are fed to the impression cylinder or cylinders of a machine for printing in one or more colours, by means of an auxiliary cylinder which is held locked in position while each sheet is being registered accurately ; the auxiliary cylinder is automatically set in motion and stopped, and grippers on it carry the sheets to grippers on the continuously-revolving impression cylinder. The impression cylinder 6 drives the auxiliary cylinder 1 through gear-wheels 10, 2, the latter being formed with a gap 7 of two teeth which allows the cylinder 6 to revolve when the cylinder 1 is fixed. The sheets are fed from a board 38, against adjustable stops 34, 35, carried by a fixed rod 36, and by a plate 37 hinged to the board 38, so that in the high positions of the impression cylinder 6 and auxiliary cylinder 1, which are both carried by a bracket 4, Fig. 3, the stops 34, 35 contact, but when the bracket 4 is lowered the stop 35 falls and allows the sheet to pass between the stops. The stops 34, 35 may be replaced by a single hinged stop, which is automatically moved clear of the bottom of the board 38 to allow a sheet to pass through. As shown in Fig. 1, the cylinder 6 is in its raised position, and the cylinder 1 is held in its stopped position by spring-controlled catches 20, 21, which engage a projection 19 on a disk 16 fixed to the shaft 3 of the cylinder 1. In this position, the grippers 22 on a spring-controlled shaft 23 are held out of action by a pendent block 26 engaged by a catch 27 which, as the cylinder 6 rotates, is acted on by a pin 28 on a spring-controlled sliding block 8 fitted in grooves 9 on the spur-wheel 10 of the cylinder 6, and the grippers 22 grip the paper. The pin 28 also acts on the bell-crank lever 21, and releases the cylinder 1, just before the block 8 is moved by a fixed cam 13, which engages a pin 11 on the block, in order to force teeth 18 into contact with teeth 15 on the disk 16, and so drive the cylinder 1 until the wheel 10 gears with the teeth of the wheel 3 adjacent to the gap 7. The cylinder 1 next revolves for one revolution, and is then automatically stopped by the catches 20, 21, the wheel 10 being again opposite the gap 7 so that it can rotate freely. On the second revolution of the cylinder 6, it has been depressed so that the pin 11 on the block 8 is engaged by the underside of the cam 13, and so the wheel 10 and disk 16 are held out of engagement until the cylinder 6 is in its raised position again. After the cylinder 1 has gripped the sheet and revolved partly, the grippers 22 are released by a fixed cam 30, on the bracket 4, which acts on a pin on one gripper 22, and the sheet is then in a position to be caught by grippers 31 on the cylinder 6.
Patent GB-190728179-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Transmission Gear.
Inventor: BOLLEE LEON
Filed: 1907-12-21
Granted: 1908-10-08
Abstract: 28,179. BollÚe, L. Dec. 24, 1906, [date applied for under Patents Act, 1901]. Motor road vehicles.- Relates to a transmission gear for motor road vehicles, which enables the transmission ratio to be readily changed and permits of the use of splayed wheels even when the driving-axle is horizontal. In the arrangement shown in Fig. 1, the wheel, the axle of which is horizontal, is carried by a sleeve j mounted eccentrically on the fixed axle a so that the driving-axle d is not concentric with the wheel axle. An internally toothed ring h forms part of the wheel cap, and is driven by a pinion on the driving-axle. The transmission ratio may be readily altered by changing the pinions and the sleeve j. When splayed wheels are used, as shown in Fig. 2, the sleeve is bored out so that the wheel axle intersects the driving - axle at an angle, and bevel - wheels are employed. In one modification, the driven bevelwheel may be directly secured to the hub, and the wheel cap may form a support for the end of the driving-spindle. In another modification, in which the driving-axles are secured directly to the wheels, the sleeve is secured in the side of the differential casing. while one pinion on the driving-shaft drives another on the driven half-axle. The sleeve may be made in one piece, as shown ; or it may be made in two parts, an outer concentric ring and an inner eccentric sleeve, so that the latter only need be changed ; or both parts may be bored eccentrically so that it is not necessary to change the parts, a partial relative rotation serving to vary the eccentricity. In side - chain vehicles having splayed wheels, the driving pinions may be mounted on an inclined sleeve similarly to the arrangement shown in Fig. 2, so that the pinions and wheels are in parallel planes, and twisting of the chains is avoided.
Patent GB-190807843-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Surface Condensers.
Filed: 1908-04-08
Granted: 1909-04-01
Abstract: 7843. Warwick Machinery Co., [Curtis, C. G.]. April 8. Elastic-fluid turbines.-The tubes conveying the cooling-medium in a condenser for steam turbines are arranged so that the total cross-sectional area of the passages for the steam is greatest where the volume of steam is greatest and decreases as the volume diminishes. The tubes are arranged in concentric arcs and are staggered. Fig. 1 shows the general arrangement of the apparatus. The tubes 4 are fixed in tube plates 2, 3, which form parts of chambered heads 5, 6. Partitions 7, 9 in these heads cause the water from a centrifugal pump 8 to take a circuitous course to an outlet 10. An air-pump 14 removes air from the hot-well 11 through a pipe 13, and water of condensation is removed by a centrifugal pump 12. The circulating and hot-well pumps are driven by steam turbines 16, 17, which may be governed so that the speed increases as the amount of exhaust steam increases. The tube sheet is laid off with concentrics arcs, the radial space between them decreasing by steps from the inlet to the outlet. On one of the arcs the centres for one row of tubes are marked. Radial lines then determine the centres on alternate arcs. Radial lines drawn midway between those first obtained determine the centres on the remaining arcs. The centres are thus arranged in two concentric sets, those in one set being staggered with respect to those in the other by an amount of equal to half the pitch.
Patent GB-190810442-A (GB)
Title: An Apparatus for the Extraction of Tar, Dust and such like from Gases.
Inventor: BURSTALL FREDERIC WILLIAM
Filed: 1908-05-14
Granted: 1909-04-15
Abstract: 10,442. Burstall, F. W. May 14. Scrubbers and washers.-Dust, tar, &c. are removed from gases by means of an apparatus similar to a centrifugal pump, with the rotor formed of a series of wires f<2> mounted radially on a hub g. Water is supplied near the hub, and along with the tar adheres to the wires and slides along them, being finally thrown off into the casing e<2>. The Provisional Specification mentions that the wires can be secured in dovetail grooves in the hub by means of solder.
Patent GB-190811354-A (GB)
Title: Improved Holder for Viewing Transparencies
Inventor: FALK BENJAMIN JOSEPH
Filed: 1908-05-25
Granted: 1909-04-01
Abstract: 11,354. Falk, B. J. May 25. Reflectors.-A holder for supporting a transparency in position for viewing comprises a box 10 for storage of extra transparencies, a frame 11 hinged to one end of the box, two triangular side wings 12 to exclude side light, and two cover sections 13. The upper surface of the box is formed of a mirror 16. The wings 12 are hinged to the frame 11 underneath, and are blackened on their inner sides. The covers 13 are also hinged to the frame 11 so that the whole can fold up as shown in Fig. 3. Light shires directly through the transparency, and the fixture is seen in the mirror.
Patent GB-190813262-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to the Manufacture of Paper for use with "Looseleaf" or other Books.
Inventor: LAFUMA EMILE
Filed: 1908-06-22
Granted: 1909-06-03
Abstract: 13,262. Lafuma, E., Bertholet, L., and Navarre, A. June 22. Paper-machines; thickness of paper, regulating and gauging; writing-paper.-Paper having flexible portions to enable sheets to lie flat, suitable for loose-leaf books, also applicable for ordinary account-books or other books or albums, is formed by reducing the substance and thickness of the pulp at the desired parts. Continuous bands h of canvas, india-rubber, wool, cotton, or other material are mounted on rolls g beneath the wire-cloth c of the paper-machine and adjacant to the gate d. The pulp is caused to flow away from the part of the wire above the area of contact of the band, and the thinning of the pulp can be regulated by the tension and degree of pressure of the band on the wire-cloth. A number of bands may be used, disposed in positions to suit the size of the paper to be cut.
Patent GB-190815843-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Strap Handles
Inventor: HOMER JAMES
Filed: 1908-07-25
Granted: 1909-04-29
Abstract: 15,843. Homer, J. July 25. Parcel-carriers.-A strap handle is formed of two layers a of leather &c. with a metallic insertion b between them extending from end to end of the handle. Spaces are left between pairs of rivets c for openings d, through which the fastening-straps pass.
Patent GB-190817436-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Positive Pressure Rotary Blowers.
Inventor: WILSON JOHN WRIGHT
Filed: 1908-08-19
Granted: 1909-03-18
Abstract: 17,436. Wilson, J. W. Aug. 26,1907, [date applied for under Section 91 of Patents &c. Act, 1907]. Fixed-abutment type of rotary blower with piston having axially - slidmg vanes. The hollow piston drum C works in a casing having inclined sides A<1>, A<2>, and is provided with axial slots C<1> in which piston vanes H slide. The vanes H are pivoted in slots in balls D which connect the drum C with the shafts E, E'. Suction and discharge ports are provided at the narrowed upper part of the casing. The vanes H are arranged at right-angles to one another to give continuous delivery. The edges of the vanes have grooves fitting over bars I carried by rings I' which run in recesses A<5> in the casing walls. The periphery of each ring is inclined, to allow the casing walls A', A<2> to be easily removed when necessary. Figs. 5 and 8 show a modified form of vane H comprising two plates h, h<1>, riveted to a central member i and spaced a part by washers m. Filling- pieces l, j are fitted, and a renewable grooved working strip k for engaging with the bar I is secured to the filling-strip j.
Patent GB-190818570-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Apparatus for Developing Photographic Roll Films in the Strip where a Dark Room is Used.
Inventor: MCGHEE JAMES JEROME
Filed: 1908-09-04
Granted: 1909-06-24
Abstract: 18,570. McGhee, J. J. Sept. 4. Trays, dishes, &c.-For developing a length of film, the film is supported by a metal coil C which is attached edgewise to a perforated base A. A stem handle B is screwed or otherwise temporarily secured to the base, for lifting the coil. The film is wrapped round the outside of the convolutions with the emulsion side outermost, and the ends are secured by fastening-plates D, D<1>. The device is used with a circular container.
Patent GB-190822600-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Gathering Machine for Bookbinders' Use.
Inventor: ABEL JAMES
Filed: 1908-10-24
Granted: 1909-04-22
Abstract: 22,600. Abel, J. Oct. 24. Bookbinding.-A gathering-machine consists of a series of carriers g pivotally carried by pins f attached to two endless chains e on sprocket-wheels d carried by shafts b, c. Motion is imparted by a band to a pulley k, worm l, and worm-wheel m to the shaft c, any suitable striking arrangement n being provided to throw the pulley k in and out of action. Each carrier g has a vertical partition h, and is provided with rollers i arranged vertically under the pins f and working between vertical guides j flared at their upper and lower ends.
Patent GB-190823281-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in connection with Apparatus for Raising Water.
Inventor: HUMPHREY ALBERT ALEXANDER
Filed: 1908-10-31
Granted: 1909-05-13
Abstract: 23,281. Humphrey, A. A. Oct. 31. Raising liquids by aerating ascending column.-In order to avoid the necessity for compressing air to a high degree for working air-lift pumps in cases where liquid has to be raised from considerable depths, moderately compressed air is carried down to the foot of the up-flow pipe by a falling water column, whereby the pressure is raised to the desired extent. The moderately compressed air is introduced through the pipe e, Fig. 1, into a chamber d from which it is carried by a jet of water down the pipe f to the foot of the up-flow pipe g. An automatic starting-valve l is fitted in the outlet pipe at the level of the water in the well which remains open when the water is stationary in the pipe but closes with the rush of fluid when the water is flowing rapidly. Toe lower end of the upflow pipe is made bell-mouthed so as approximately to fit the box of the well, and a non-return valve i may be fitted as shown in Fig. 2.
Patent GB-190824807-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Pressure Gauges.
Filed: 1908-11-18
Granted: 1909-01-28
Abstract: 24,807. Schultze, G. A., and Dosch, A. Nov. 19, 1907, [date applied for under Section 91 of Patents &c. Act, 1907]. Pressure gauges, - In order to provide for measuring very small pressures in apparatus for measuring gas-pressure by means of bells dipping in liquid, the effective bell surface is increased by employing a larger number of bells arranged vertically or side by side to act on the same balance apparatus and pointer, a number of scales corresponding to the arrangements of bells in use being provided on the dial. Cocks admit gas to any required number of the globes.
Patent GB-190905395-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to the Recovery of the Vapours of Volatile Liquids, particularly Alcohol and Ether, from their Admixture with Air.
Filed: 1909-03-05
Granted: 1910-01-20
Abstract: 5395. Soc. l'Air Liquide (Soc. Anon. pour l'•tude et l'Exploitation des ProcÚdÚs G. Claude). March 6, 1908, [Convention date]. Volatile solvents, recovering.-Relates to a process for the recovery by liquefaction of volatile bodies, such as ether and alcohol, contained in small quantities in air, in which the air is compressed, is cooled for the removal of water, and is passed through heat-exchangers A, B, where it is cooled by means of previous quantities of air which have been expanded, as in a motor M, and circulated in the reverse direction through the heatexchangers B, A. The invention consists in regulating the process so as to prevent solidification of the separated bodies, as by means of valves V which regulate the amount of cold expanded air passed into the heatexchangers. The liquids collect in the bases J, K of the exchangers. The apparatus may be arranged for "partial lique- "faction with backward return" as described in Specification 16,298/03. A portion of the compressed air at the base of the exchanger B may be liquefied and supplied to apparatus for obtaining oxygen from liquid air.
Patent GB-190910881-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Acetylene Gas Generators and the like for Vehicles.
Inventor: NIER ERNST ARTHUR
IPC: C10H21/00
Filed: 1909-05-07
Granted: 1910-05-09
Abstract: 10,881. Nier, E. A., and Ehmer, J. M. May 7. Vehicles with acetylene installations; vehicles with supports for galvanic batteries.-For securing an acetylene generator, battery box, or other article to a vehicle, a plate 1, bolted to the vehicle, is formed with slots to receive projecting edges 7 on the article. Inclined surfaces are formed on the back of the plate, which serve to join the edges in the slots ; and a spring catch 9 is provided.
Patent GB-190921256-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Internal Combustion Engines.
Inventor: HUTTON JAMES
IPC: F02B1/00
Filed: 1909-09-17
Granted: 1910-08-04
Abstract: 21,256. Hutton, J. Sept. 17. Two-stroke-cycle engines; four-stroke-cycle engines. -The bulk of the exhaust is allowed to escape to the atmosphere, and the remaining products are withdrawn through an auxiliary exhaust port by a rotary blower, a fan, or an ejector pump, with or without a condenser. Figs. IV., V., and VI. show the invention applied to a double-acting two-strokecycle engine in which, after the bulk of the exhaust has escaped through the valve b, the remainder is drawn through the terminal ports c, and through condensers f, g, by the rotary pump n. In a modification, a rotary pump is employed to inject water into the exhaust pipe and thus expel the exhaust by ejector action. In this case the separate condenser may be dispensed with.
Patent GB-190924681-A (GB)
Title: Improved Nozzle for Fire Hose.
Inventor: FLEMING ARTHUR STANLEY
IPC: A62C31/05
Filed: 1909-12-06
Granted: 1910-09-29
Abstract: 24,681. Fleming, A. S. Dec. 6. [Cognate Application, 4797/10.] Levers, locking.-Levers operating spreader plates on nozzles are provided with locking- means. As shown in Fig. 1, the end 7<c> of the operating-lever 7 is held by a jamming lever 19 when the spreader plates 4, 5 are in the closed position. In the modification shown in Fig. 2 of the drawings filed with the first Provisional Specification, the locking lever 11 is held in its raised position by a spring 17 and is adapted to be pushed down by a thumb-piece 14. To enable the spreaders to be closed, the thumb-piece 14 is depressed to release the end 7<b> of the lever 7 from the bent portion 16 and allow it to slide to the other end of the lever 11 to be again locked when the lever is operated.