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Patent GB-190712799-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Levels.
Inventor: GARDNER SIDNEY HOWARD
Filed: 1907-06-03
Granted: 1908-02-27
Abstract: 12,799. Gardner, S. H. June 3. Levels; clinometers.-A level or clinometer 10 is made with a circular opening 11 in which is mounted an arbor 21 carrying a weight 26 having secured to it a band 28 marked with a scale, which is viewed through an opening 30 in the top of the level and coacts with a suitable pointer. The arbor is carried in sectional adjustably-mounted plates 14, 15, and carries at its ends plates 33, 34 having pointers co-acting with two scales on the instrument, one a protractor scale and the other showing the rise per foot.
Patent GB-190714093-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Rotary Kilns
Inventor: WARREN WILLIAM ROSS
Filed: 1907-06-18
Granted: 1908-01-09
Abstract: 14,093. Warren, W. R. June 18. Rotary kilns.-A kiln for burning cement &c. is divided by partitions e<1> into two or more compartments d opening into a common chamber c, from which the flames from the burner g are forced into the compartments. The partitions e<1> are preferably segmental in shape, as shown in Fig. 2, and are separated by a space e through which air or other cooling-medium may be circulated.
Patent GB-190714946-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Rolling Mills for Rolling Hollow Cylinders, and other Hollow Bodies.
Inventor: MELLOR PETER
Filed: 1907-06-29
Granted: 1908-07-29
Abstract: 14,946. Mellor, P. June 29. Rolling.-An annular-body rolling-mill has combined with it power means for adjusting the pass and the guide-rolls; means for cooling the rolls and for putting the upper roll out of alinement with the lower ; and side rolls for rolling the ends of the work. The mill is of the type in which the lower roll B is removable for insertion of the work, and a rising table P lifts the work into position. In addition to the screws E for adjusting the pass, fluid-pressure cylinders D are provided and the bearings M of the upper roll A are movable laterally by screws L. Adjustable rolls I act on the side of the work and may be driven by hand or by power. The guide-rollers C are adjusted by power. The rolls may be bored and a jet of water introduced for cooling purposes, and grooves or recesses may be provided in the rolls for keeping the cylinder to the required length by rolling it into such recesses.
Patent GB-190722815-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Number Plates for Motor Vehicles.
Inventor: DOVE GEORGE VALENTINE
Filed: 1907-10-16
Granted: 1908-09-17
Abstract: 22,815. Dove, G. V. Oct. 16. Drawings to Specification. Number plates are detachably fixed to any desired part of a motor road vehicle by means of open spring clips, or are attached to a lamp bracket or similar arm by means of sockets and thumb-screws. Temporary plates may be clipped over the ordinary fixed plates.
Patent GB-190724340-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Name Plates or Labels
Inventor: LOXLEY EDWARD
Filed: 1907-11-04
Granted: 1908-04-09
Abstract: 24,340. Loxley, E. Nov. 4. Address labels; label - holdes.-A label for attachment to pigeon baskets comprises a metal holder, on which certain instructions are printed by enamelling or by stamping, together with a removable paper slip I bearing further instructions. The paper slip is visible through openings in the holder, and is held in position by clips carried by a metal plate seated in grooves formed by turned-back edges of the holder.
Patent GB-190725298-A (GB)
Title: Improved Arrangements for Operating Automatic Warning and Indicating Apparatus for Stopping Trains before a Danger Signal.
Inventor: BRAAM JACQUES PIERRE DE
Filed: 1907-11-14
Granted: 1908-01-23
Abstract: 25,298. Braam, J. P. de. Nov. 16, 1906, [date applied for under Patents Act, 1901]. Contacts, mechanical ; stopping e n g i n e s and trains.-Two contact-bars are arranged symmetrically on opposite sides of a track rail, one being fixed and the other movable. The signals are only given or the brakes applied on the engine when the movable bar is raised so that both the co-operating engine contacts are actuated. The two track contacts b, c, Fig. 1, are arranged on opposite sides of the rail a, the bar c being movable up to the level of the bar b. Two brackets f, on the engine, support a shaft g, which when turned effects the movements of the warning and brakeapplying apparatus by any suitable means. The sleeve h is keyed in the middle of the shaft g and has a tubular projection i forming a lodgment for a double pin j, k, the two arms of which are separated by the collar m. Through the plugs at the ends of the tube project the conical ends 1, 2 of the arms j, k. The engine contacts d, e are fixed on bushes p, q mounted loose on the shaft g, and projections on these bushes have cylindrical holes t, u with truncated conical recesses t<1>, u<1>, into which project the points 1, 2. Two springs v, w bear on the end plugs and on an annular shoulder x in the middle of the tube i. If either engine contact is separately actuated, the corresponding conical point is forced into the tube, and the springs force the other point into the conical recess in the bush, thus allowing the socket p to rotate freely on the shaft g. But if both are simultaneously actuated, the conical points cannot be pushed into the tube and consequently the shaft g is turned and the signals or brakes are operated. A spring y, Fig. 3, between the ends of which extend the pin z fixed to the bracket and a pin 4 fixed to the engine contact, serves to return the levers rapidly after ceasing to operate. For single-line working, the shaft g carries two pairs of contacts, which in this case are pivoted instead of fixed to the sockets p, q, the pivots being so arranged as to allow actuation of the sockets when the contacts move in one direction only.
Patent GB-190800697-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Machines for Upsetting the Edges of Rolled Metal Plates.
Inventor: BOULT ALFRED JULIUS
Filed: 1908-01-11
Granted: 1908-09-24
Abstract: 697. Boult, A. J., [Hoskins, G. & C.]. Jan. 11. Forging; rolling; hammers, power. - A machine, for upsetting the edges of rolled metal plates for use in the construction of wrought-iron or steel pipes of the locking- bar type in which the edges have dovetailed sections, comprises a rotary hammer and a roller sizing or finishing device, the plate being upset by the hammer between adjustable clamping blocks or guides and then passing through the roller device. On a frame A are mounted two pillars B, B<1>, laterally adjustable in guides b, b<1> by a screw C and spur gearing C<2> so as to accommodate plates of different widths, the pillars have projections which hold the clamps and guides D', which are also fastened to the pillars by bows d, d' and bolts d<2>. These guides are formed of blocks adjusted by bolts d<3>, are arranged on the flat side of the pillars so as to loosely hold the plate E, and are cut away on the sides adjacent to the hammers in arcs of circles concentric with the circle described by the hammers, so that the hammers may upset the edges of the plates against the blocks. To allow of varying the amount of body in the dovetails for different thicknesses of plates, the bows are laterally adjustable by screws P, P<1>. The hammers g, g are mounted on vertical shafts, which connect plates G, G and form a boss, which is secured to a central conical shaft F, F<1> in each pillar by cotters, the shafts F, Fl being driven by pulleys J and belting j, j<1> from a shaft K, while the plate is hauled past the hammers by a clamp L secured by a wedge l to the plate. The sizing and finishing apparatus, Fig. 6, is self-adjusting, and consists of upper and lower pairs of holding- rollers M, M', mounted loosely on shafts m, m<1>, these are connected at their ends by yokes 0, O<1> having projections o, o<1>, to limit the lateral motion of the sizing-rollers N, N<1> which are carried by plungers n, n<1>, and have central grooves of nearly sufficient size to admit the dovetails, so that the burr is cleaned off. Should inequalities in the parallelism of the sides of the plates occur, the sizing-rollers accommodate themselves by sliding as a whole.
Patent GB-190801406-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Back-pressure Seal, and Overflow, for Washer, in Carburetted Water Gas Plants.
Inventor: CARTER SAMUEL
Filed: 1908-01-21
Granted: 1908-12-03
Abstract: 1406. Carter, S. Jan. 21. Washers.-In a carburetted water-gas plant, the back pressure seal and washer is constructed so as to minimize fluctuations of the seal depth. The dip-pipe conveying the gas from the superheater has an enlarged end or mouth, and the liquid overflow orifice is of greater width than depth. In the form shown, the dip-pipe a has a bell-shaped mouth b, and the overflow orifice d, Fig. 3, from the washer is shaped as a rectangle with its longer side horizontal. A chamber d<1> is provided beyond and below the orifice to facilitate the escape of liquid to the seal pot. Both the dip-pipe and overflow orifice may be adjustable in height.
Patent GB-190807605-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in the Removal of Lye from Textile Materials.
Inventor: MATTER JULIUS
Filed: 1908-04-06
Granted: 1909-03-25
Abstract: 7605. Matter, J. April 6. Washing.-Textile materials impregnated with lye in mercerization are delixiviated and the lye is recovered by repeatedly and alternately passing the material through a counter-current of washing fluid and steaming it. The apparatus used comprises a chamber a, with a sloping floor b, subdivided into a number of cascade compartments d, d' . . . d<6> by double vertical partitions, of which one part c extends to the bottom and the other e does not. There are also two large partitions which dip into the liquid in the end compartments d<6>, d ; they extend to the top of the chamber a, and form, with a cover s having an hydraulic joint r, an air-tight chamber A within the other chamber a. The material t coming from the mercerizing-machine passes over a roller u into the first compartment d, under a roller therein, over a roller g in the chamber A, and so on, in zigzag fashion through each compartment d<1>, d<2> . . . d<6> until it passes out through squeezing-rollers n, o. As the material passes out of each cascade compartment, one side comes in contact with an horizontal steam-pipe v, perforated on the side nearer the material, and, immediately after, the other side touches an horizontal rod w. The positions of the next pipe v and rod w are reversed with regard to the side of the fabric that each touches. Each pair, pipe and rod, is so placed that the material is stretched between its components. The steam from the pipes v removes the lye from the material, and the rods w strip it off so that it falls into the cascade compartments. Finally, a powerful waterspray from a pipe z acts on the material just before it passes through the squeezing-rollers n, o. This water flows into the last compartment d<6>, and, mixing with the lye there present, flows into the next compartment d<5>, and so on, the lye getting more concentrated as it passes down the cascade counter to the travelling material, the concentration being regulated by the amount of the water sprayed from the pipe z. The chamber A being air-tight, the lye is stated not to become carbonated, so that it can be drawn off, say from the compartment d<3>, for bleaching purposes, or from the first compartment d, d<1> for mercerizing.
Patent GB-190807629-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to Colouring Celluloid, more especially for use in Preparing Coloured Screens for Photography
Inventor: LEHNER FRIEDRICH
Filed: 1908-04-06
Granted: 1908-12-17
Abstract: 7629. Lehner, F. April 6. Dyeing.-A process is described for colouring celluloid, more particularly in connexion with the preparation of screens for colour photography, wherein the celluloid if permeated by weak spirit, incorporated with dye-stuffs soluble in water and insoluble in alcohol, and, after the water has been driven off, is further treated by strong spirit or absolute alcohol. The process prevents the spreading of the colour when making the screens. The following dyes are described as specially suitable : for red, ponceau ; for blue, silk blue and cotton light blue ; for green, concentrated acid green or naphthol green ; for yellow, naphthol yellow, or acid yellow. In order to incorporate these dyestuffs in the celluloid, the latter is treated in rolling, kneading, or mixing machines with spirit holding as much water as possible, and the colours are added either as solids or in solution. The mass, when perfectly homogeneous and having had the water partly driven off by warming, is again reduced to films which are then strained. Any remaining water is removed from the films in the drying process which lasts several days, and the films may be softened by exposure to the vapour of strong spirit or absolute alcohol.
Patent GB-190810462-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Rabbit or Vermin Gin or Trap
Inventor: DENNIS GEORGE CRAWSHAY
Filed: 1908-05-14
Granted: 1909-04-01
Abstract: 10,462. Dennis, G. C. May 14. Traps-In order to control an area added to that controlled by the automatic closing of the jaws in a spring-jaw trap, the jaws a are provided with two or more straight, curved, spiked, rounded or angular bars g.
Patent GB-190812902-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Mechanism for Delivering Printed and like Webs.
Filed: 1908-06-16
Granted: 1909-05-20
Abstract: 12,902. Lamson Paragon Supply Co., [Carter-Crume Co.]. June 16. Rotary machines; inking-apparatus; associating- apparatus; delivery apparatus. - In a rotary printing - machine, particularly for printing on webs to be bound into sales-books &c., one or more webs A, B from the main printing-cylinders 2 are perforated by any suitable mechanism, such as that described in Specification No. 12,904, A.D. 1908, [Abridgment Class Cutting &c.], turned and guided round bars 3, 4, 6, 7, associated with a supplementary web C led straight from printing-mechanism at 9, and delivered between rollers 5 to the cutting and delivery mechanism. The supplementary printing -mechanism, Fig. 4, may comprise web-feeding rollers 11, 12, pressed together by a spring 13, but separable by lifting the handle 14, so that the web C may be threaded. The web C passes between printing-rollers 16, 17, and under a revolving numbering-head 60 inked by rollers 74, 75, 76. The shaft of the roller 76 is shifted laterally at intervals at one end by a lever 77 actuated through a cam 79 turned by a ratchet and pawl 80 on a lever 81 reciprocated from the shaft 61. The web C may be perforated by rolls 62, 63.
Patent GB-190821144-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Work-holders for use in the Manufacture of Boots, Hats, Military Accoutrements and in Leather Work generally.
Inventor: GLOAGUEN PAUL FRANCOIS
Filed: 1908-10-07
Granted: 1909-02-11
Abstract: 21,144. Gloaguen, P. F. Oct. 7,1907, [date applied for under Section 91 of Patents &c. Act, 1907]. Felt hats. - Consists of a work-holder applicable for use in making hats &c. but described as applied to bootmaking. The holder consists of a spherical-ended post 5 wedge-shaped at its upper end to support the boot last &c., and resting at its spherical end on three ledges j projecting from a semi-spherical seating i in the upper part of a metal frame a. This frame fits over a split bench or other post c and is gripped by turning a screw f, or by inserting a wedge pin h. A plate n, Figs. 1 and 3, projects laterally from the frame a and is formed with one piece with a bracket p, in the end of which rests the axle r of a two-armed actuating- lever s, v. The arm v forms a cam, and engages a groove w in a movable fork-ended wedge-piece x, which passes through a slot o in the plate n and rests at its forked end z on the spherical end y of the post 5. The piece x carries a projection 1, which engages the upper end of the slot, and is held in place by a pin 4 and notched piece 2. The other arm t is engaged by one end 9 of a leather band 10, which is twisted to form a loop 12 and then passes over the boot &c. as shown. The usual foot stirrup 13 is threaded through the loop 12, and through a second, but lower, loop 14 riveted to the band 9. When pressure is exerted on the stirrup 13, the band 10 clamps the work on the last &c., and simultaneously the end 9 of the band turns the lever s, causing the arm v to actuate the wedge-piece x so that its forked end is clamped down on to the spherical end y of the post 5. When the pressure is released, the post may be moved into any other desired position ; bearings m are provided in the frame a to support the post in a horizontal position. The forks z, ledges j, and the top of the post 5 may be faced with leather.
Patent GB-190824261-A (GB)
Title: Apparatus for Operating Railway Signals, Train Stops, Train Brakes and Crossing Gates.
Inventor: JOHNSON ARTHUR HENRY
Filed: 1908-11-12
Granted: 1909-11-11
Abstract: 24,261. Johnson, A. H. Nov. 12. Brakes-Relates to means for operating railway signals, train brakes, &c. and consists in improvements in connexion with the apparatus described in Specification No. 11,005, A.D. 1905, [Abridgment Class Railway signals &c.]. The signals &c. are operated from an electric motor m in a casing j, which motor drives a Roots' blower or similar type of rotary pump enclosed in an inner casing r, to pump oil, which fills the casing to the level h-h past the non-return valve d<1> into a chamber V<1>. The oil passes through the duct f to the cylinder c, thus lifting the piston p, to which is attached the operating-rod p<1> for the signal &c. to be moved. A partly balanced gate-valve V pivoted at z is held closed by the armature n of an electro-magnet o in parallel with the motor, but, when the motor circuit is broken at the main switch, the valve is opened by the pressure of oil under the piston p, which is thus allowed to drop quickly. The motor circuit is alone broken, however, when the switch s is opened on the completion of the necessary movement of the operating-rod p<1>, at which time a pawl t mounted on a pivoted lever y, which normally holds the contact s' up to close the circuit, is forced over by the spring w<1> acting on the roller w to open the switch quickly, the movement being allowed by the driver u, which normally holds the switch closed, moving above the pawl. On the return of the member p<1> after the motor circuit is broken, the pawl is first forced out by the lower end of the driver u without moving the lever y, as shown in Fig. 4 ; but, as soon as the corner formed by surfaces t<1>, t<11> is passed, the spring quickly snaps the pawl up to its normal position and closes the switch s. To prevent the signal &c. from sticking in its operated position, a constant leakage is allowed past the piston p, or a leak port is provided therein, whereby a constant movement is given to the member p<1>, which first drops with leakage until the switch s is closed, whereupon the motor m pumps more oil until the switch again opens. Should the valve V fail to open when the main switch is opened, this leakage allows a gradual return of the operated member. To prevent the raising of the piston by means, other than by pressure of oil, a detent x is pivoted to the rod p<1> and normally engages in a recess x<1> in the casing, from which recess it is moved by air pressure on the plug x<11>. Instead of the piston, a diaphragm, ram, or equivalent device may be used, and the action may be radial instead of straight, while the pawl t may be mounted on a slide. To operate a home and a distant signal from one motor, the rod of the home arm is operated as before, thus opening the port l, Fig. 7, to raise the distant signal rod, the motor being cut out when this has risen and the two signals are at safety. The distant signal has a port b<1> leading to a separate controlling-valve to allow the signal to be returned when necessary.
Patent GB-190825214-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Ball Bearings.
Inventor: MURRAY WILLIAM JOHN
Filed: 1908-11-23
Granted: 1909-03-18
Abstract: 25,214. Murray, W. J. Nov. 23. Ball bearings.-A cage for spacing bearing-balls and for carrying intermediate balls D comprises two rings F formed with shallow depressions F<1> to receive the balls C. The intermediate balls D are mounted in blocks E, Fig. 6, formed with projections E<3>which are riveted in holes F<2> in the rings F. Each block E has holes E<1>, E<2>, Fig. 7, through which the ball D contacts with the main balls C, the surface of the ball D lying flush with the sides of the block. The larger hole E<1> is staked or turned inwardly at 2 to retain the ball. Each ball D is placed in a straight line with the centres of the two adjoining balls C.
Patent GB-190900794-A (GB)
Title: A Process for the Production of Borax from Native Compounds of Boron.
Inventor: BAILEY GILBERT ELLIS
Filed: 1909-01-12
Granted: 1909-08-19
Abstract: 794. Bailey, G. E., and Stevenson, A. Jan. 12. Crystallizing.-The material is leached with boiling water or wet steam in a tank 3. The saturated solution is tapped at vents 15 and is cooled in a refrigeration tank 5. The crystals are removed from the inclined floor 19 to a sump 22, and the liquor is pumped to a heater 23 on its way back to the leaching-tank 3.
Patent GB-190901244-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in the Manufacture and Production of Colouring Matters of the Pyrazolone Group.
Inventor: JOHNSON JAMES YATE
IPC: C09B27/06
Filed: 1909-01-18
Granted: 1909-10-21
Abstract: 1244. Johnson, J. Y., [Badische Anilin & Soda Fabrik]. Jan. 18. Samples furnished. Pyrazolone dyes are obtained by combining dihydroxytartaric acid with two molecular prcportions of the hydrazine of 3-chlor-2-amino-1- methylbenzene-5-sulphonic acid ; or by acting with a hydrazine on oxalacetic ester and acting with a diazo compound upon the resulting pyrazolone after saponification if necessary, either the hydrazine or the diazo compound, or both, being derived from 3-chlor-2-amino-1-methylbenzene-5-sulphonic acid. According to an example, the diazo compound of 3-chlor-2-amino-1-methylbenzene-5-sulphonic acid is combined with 1-p-sulphophenyl-5-pyrazolone-3- carboxylic acid. The products dye yellow shades. Specification 1245/09 is referred to.
Patent GB-190905595-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Electric Time-alarm Devices.
Inventor: LAKE HAROLD WILLIAMSON
IPC: G04C21/20
Filed: 1909-03-08
Granted: 1909-10-07
Abstract: 5595. Lake, H. W., [Hasela Fabrik Patentierter Neuheiten C. H. Schaettgen]. March 8. Drawings to Specification. Time alarms. - An electric alarm bell or buzzer, placed under the pillow of a person who is to be awakened, is energized at the required hour by a separate clock-work contact-closer. The clock-work comprises a notched hub which rotates on a non-rotating setting-shaft and coacts with a pin on the shaft; at a given time the pin enters the notch and the hub slides laterally under pressure of a spring contact, which meets a second contact and closes the circuit. A lever is provided for separating the contacts to stop the alarm. Reference has been directed by the Comptroller to Specifications 4712/82 and 9136/92.
Patent GB-190909211-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Apparatus for Generating Acetylene and other similarly obtained Gases.
Inventor: BEAN HENRY RALPH
IPC: C10H1/00
Filed: 1909-04-19
Granted: 1909-12-16
Abstract: 9211. Bean, H. R. April 19. Drip-feed apparatus; regulating head of liquid directly; liquid supply controlled by variations of gas pressure. -The containers for carbide or other reagent, described in Specification 6029/99, are, according to the present invention, provided with controlling-valves on either the water inlet, or the gas outlet, or both. Fig. 3, shows a container constructed as described in the abovementioned Specification, provided with a needle valve H on the water inlet, and a cock J on the gas outlet.
Patent GB-190909272-A (GB)
Title: A Slidable and Foldable Chair or Seat for Motor Cars or Carriages or the like.
Inventor: THORN OLIVER
IPC: B60N2/30
Filed: 1909-04-19
Granted: 1910-02-24
Abstract: 9272. Thorn, O. April 19. Folding and sliding seats.-An auxiliary folding and sliding seat A for motor cars, carriages, &c. is hinged to back standards B, and to front legs C with horizontal extensions D, which slide in guides E on or in the floor of the vehicle. A folding or detachable back F may be provided.