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Patent GB-190701431-A (GB)
Title: Improved Process for Soldering Aluminium, Aluminium Alloys, and the like
Inventor: BOULT ALFRED JULIUS
Filed: 1907-01-19
Granted: 1907-12-19
Abstract: 1431. Boult, A. J., [Brokelt, R., and Nordb÷hmische Automobil Zentrale]. Jan. 19. Soldering.-Aluminium, aluminium alloys, &c. are heated at the part to be soldered to the point of softening and are roughened, as by means of a chisel, and a solder, consisting of aluminium or its alloys similarly heated, is applied to the part and the treatment with the chisel &c. is continued to produce rubbing and compression. Two articles may be thus soldered together by means of. an intermediate member of the solder, or a part to be soldered on may be formed from the solder during the soldering. The process may be used for filling up holes.
Patent GB-190710243-A (GB)
Title: A New Artificial Stone-like Substance and Process for Producing same.
Inventor: SCHLEUNING WILHELM
Filed: 1907-05-02
Granted: 1908-02-06
Abstract: 10,243. Schleuning, W. May 2. Stone, artificial and imitation.-Artificial stone is prepared by mixing water-glass with chalky slag from blast furnaces. The setting of the mass may be delayed by the addition of chalk, brick-dust, fine sand, or the like, or hastened by the addition of a small proportion of Portland cement, caustic lime, or the like. The material may be stamped, cast, or moulded, and may be coloured. It can be used for bricks, balustrades, &c.
Patent GB-190711953-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Stoppers for Bottles Jars, and the like.
Inventor: ASHWORTH ROBERT EDWIN
Filed: 1907-05-23
Granted: 1908-01-23
Abstract: 11,953. Ashworth, R. E. May 23. Stoppers.-An air-tight joint between a vessel and its cover is formed by means of a rubber ring, as shown. The mouth of the vessel A, Fig. 1, is formed with a shallow annular groove a a short distance below the lip, and the part of the lip a<1> above the groove is bevelled. The cover B is formed with a deep groove b in which lies the rubber ring C of circular or other cross-section. This ring projects slightly from the groove b, and when the stopper is pressed into the mouth of the vessel the ring is compressed by the bevelled surface a<1> until it can spring out and enter the groove a. In Fig. 2, the device is shown applied to a vessel the cover of which fits over the mouth.
Patent GB-190717202-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Water Heaters
Inventor: EWART JOHN WILLIAM
Filed: 1907-07-27
Granted: 1908-06-18
Abstract: 17,202. Ewart, J. W. July 27. Heating water.-A water-healer has a casing a with passages b, c for the water to be heated, and inner boxes e through which combustion products pass, the water being in the thin spaces between the casing and boxes. The boxes consist of dished sheets of metal connected in pairs, each communicating with the next by a number of short pipes or nipples f. The dished plates may be formed by spinning or stamping. The combustion products pass from the deep bottom section j through the boxes, and finally escape through a flue g which is held in place by a nut i.
Patent GB-190717767-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Tell-tales for Checking Watchmen Workmen, Servants, and the like.
Inventor: BUERK RICHARD
Filed: 1907-08-03
Granted: 1907-11-14
Abstract: 17,767. Buerk, R. Aug. 3, 1906, [date applied for under Patents Act, 1901]. Time-checking apparatus for workmen, servants, and the like. In timechecking apparatus in which a type key is inserted and cooperates with one of a number of matrices carried on a cylinder, the cylinder is adapted to be rotated by the key so as to enable a larger number of matrices to be carried. The cylinder is fitted with an end disk 7, which is flattened so as to be held in central position by a spring 10 and has slots 35, 36, one or other of which is engaged by a pin 34 on the bit of the key so as to be rotated thereby in order to bring either outside row of matrices into engagement with the key type. Keys for the central row of matrices are without the pin. In another form, the end plate 11 carries a roller 12 adapted to engage an inclined projection 15 on the key. In a further modification, the shaped end 32, Fig. 9, of the key bit engages a half cylinder 28 geared to the matrix cylinder, as shown, so as to bring the correct matrix to position, the shank of the key lying in a slotted barrel 21 with a nose piece 23 so as to be held in position by a spring plunger. The half-cylinder 28 and matrix cylinder are held in normal position by a spring 20 in the hollow spindle of the matrix cylinder.
Patent GB-190717780-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to Apparatus for Drying Proofed and like Fabrics or Materials.
Inventor: SPENLE JOHN
Filed: 1907-08-03
Granted: 1908-06-04
Abstract: 17,780. Spenle, J. Aug. 3. Solvent-recovery. apparatus.-In apparatus for drying fabrics containing volatile solvents or fluids, an open - ended drying- chamber b is used, through which the fabrics are passed in a volute-like path between heating-elements c and cooling elements h. In the form shown in Fig. 2, the top f of the chamber b is made with sloping sides, and steam is passed through the conduit f<1> to keep the top sufficiently warm to prevent condensation. The walls b are cooled. Receptacles e are provided at the foot of the walls and the cooling-elements h to catch the condensed solvent as it trickles down to prevent it from dropping on the fabric again. In the form shown in Fig. 5, the fabric travels horizontally immediately above the heating-chest c, which is placed within a suitable casing k. The cooling chests or pipes hand troughs e are arranged as shown.
Patent GB-190719074-A (GB)
Title: Speed Indicator for Vehicles of All Kinds
Inventor: LUECK RICHARD
Filed: 1907-08-24
Granted: 1908-08-24
Abstract: 19,074. L³ck, R. Aug. 24. Speed indicators.-In a time-distance recorder the style f, carried by a double-armed lever m, is caused to mark a paper strip, carried on a clockdriven drum a, at intervals representing equal distances traversed by the vehicle by means of a cam l which engages one arm of the lever m. This cam is mounted on a spindle k which is intermittently actuated through cam and pawl-andratchet gearing q, h, g from the vehicle axle p. At high speeds, when the dots become inconveniently close, the rotation of the spindle k can be geared down to a second spindle carrying a cam which operates a second style-carrying lever. The record-strip is graduated so as to indicate minutes. In another form, the cam l, Fig. 4, moves through a bell-crank m<1>, a bar p<2> connected by a cord w with the lever 6 carrying the style. The tension of the cord can be varied by the screw 4. For high speeds, the bell-crank m<1> can be disengaged, by lateral movement on its axis X, from the bar p<2>, which is then operated from the same shaft k by means of the gearing s, t, cam l<1>, and bell-crank m<2>.
Patent GB-190724148-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and in the Manufacture of Stair Rods.
Inventor: HOLLAND LOUIS
Filed: 1907-11-01
Granted: 1908-11-02
Abstract: 24,148. Holland, L. Nov. 1. Making stair-rods.-Stair-rods are made with a triangular core A of iron or soft steel, over which is drawn sheet brass B having its ends 5, 6 tucked away into a groove 4 in the back corner of the triangular core, whereby the sheet brass is effectively secured thereto. Specifications No. 3315, A.D. 1869, Nos. 1386 and 1655, A.D. 1884, and No. 20,628, A.D. 1889, are referred to.
Patent GB-190724200-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Electric Switches or Switch Operating Devices
Inventor: GAGLIO GIOVANNI
Filed: 1907-11-01
Granted: 1908-10-15
Abstract: 24,200. Gaglio, G., and Villani, L. Nov. 1. Sand-glasses.- A mechanism for operating an electric switch for a definite time consists of a sand-glass or like vessel c mounted in a tube which is put into an inclined position and keeps the circuit closed until the sand or fluid flows from the upper to the lower bulb, returning it to the vertical position and thus breaking the circuit. Figs. 1 and 3 show the invention applied to the supplying of a lamp for a definite time on the opening of a door. On the door being opened, a rod l engages with a wheel i, raising it and causing it to engage a cam f, turning the sand-glass into an inclined position, from which it is prevented from returning by a catch n and stop m until the material in the glass has run into the lower bulb. While in the inclined position, brushes A are bridged by a switch g carried by the spindle e. A counterweight lever o having a bent rod o<1> is provided, which, by means of a stop, prevents the return of the sand-glass into the vertical position until a given quantity of sand has fallen into the lower bulb.
Patent GB-190724894-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Electricity Measuring Instruments.
Inventor: SLAUGHTER THOMAS EDWARD
Filed: 1907-11-09
Granted: 1908-11-09
Abstract: 24,894. Slaughter, T. E., and Harrison, H. T. Nov. 9. Brakes and retarding-apparatus.-The moving part of an electricity meter is supported by a float i, Fig. 7, provided with vanes or paddles j for braking or damping the motion ; and the level of the supporting-liquid, and thus the immersion of the vanes j, is automatically varied to compensate for the change of viscosity of the liquid with temperature. This variation of level may be effected by the expansion of air or other fluid contained within a bell-shaped float, or in a float of annular form as shown in Fig. 6, or in an independent chamber, or by a column of expansible liquid such as mercury, or by a plunger operated by a corrugated inner vessel containing spirit. The vanes may be shaped so that the area of immersion is disproportionate to the depth, as in Fig. 7. The damping-liquid, which may be glycerine, heavy oil, or other viscous liquid, is contained in a removable vessel k. The damping-liquid may be contained in a separate channel v<1> surrounding the vessel v containing the liquid for supporting the float i, the vanes j being arranged to dip into this annular space,
Patent GB-190813395-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Hand Levers for Actuating Railway Point Switches.
Inventor: BUTT THOMAS
Filed: 1908-06-24
Granted: 1909-03-18
Abstract: 13,395. Butt, T. June 24. Points and switches, operating. Relates to a shunting-lever . or operating-appliance combined with a device for retaining the points in their set position. The hand-lever J, pivoted to the bracket G, carries two arms H<1>, H<2> adapted to engage with projections F', F<2> on a pivotally mounted trough or box B. The base of the box is shaped on the inside as shown in Fig. 1 to prevent a spherical weight A from coming to rest in any position other than at either end of the box. The box is connected by the rod E<2> to the point tongues; As the lever J is moved from one side to the other, the box is rocked on its support and the weight A moves to the opposite end of the box and retains the points in their set position.
Patent GB-190813990-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Rod Packings.
Inventor: JOHNSTON THOMAS ALBERS
Filed: 1908-07-01
Granted: 1908-11-05
Abstract: 13,990. Johnston, T. A. July 1. Stuffing-boxes.-A stuffing-box 9, in two parts 11, 12 secured together by bolts through flanges formed thereon, is fixed to the cylinder head 6 over a stuffing-box therein, of which the packing comprises two spring-pressed wedge rings 19, 20. Vibration of the piston-rod 7 is permitted by enlarged openings 8, 10 in the cylinder head and the box 9. Inside the box 9 is a cylindrical casing 22 having a neck 23 which extends into a neck 15 formed on the two parts of the box and closed by a cap 17. The ends of the casing 22 contain pairs of projecting wedge-shaped packing-rings 26, 28, which are pressed against the walls of the box by springs 30 and by a packing of small spheres of metal, graphite, &c. which is compressed by a spring-pressed follower 25. A lubricating-passage 33 is made in the inner wall of the box. In some cases the inner packing-rings 28 may be dispensed with.
Patent GB-190814280-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Air-pumps, Compressors and the like Machines
Inventor: NICHOLS THOMAS WINTER
Filed: 1908-07-06
Granted: 1909-06-03
Abstract: 14,280. Nichols, T. W. July 6. Oscillating-vane type of air-compressor, pump, or the like. The hollow vane is oscillated by a crankpin which engages guides formed inside the vane and is driven from a shaft running through the vane and mounted in bearings in the end plates of the casing. The vane p is bolted to a pindle m, mounted in bearings n in the end plates b of a casing a. A driving-shaft s carries crank-pins t engaging brasses, carried by blocks u which are adapted to slide in guides v, forming part of the vane p. Inlet ports e and delivery ports hare provided, and the vane is formed with projections r which register with the ports h, reducing clearance. Spring-pressed valves g cover the ports h, which lead by channels l to a common outlet k. Grooves y may be formed in the surface of the vane to receive water for packing purposes, or spring- pressed bars may be used. In a modification the ports e communicate directly with the atmosphere and additional inlet ports are formed in the end plates.
Patent GB-190814426-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Padlock and other Lock Casings.
Inventor: TOWNE HENRY ROBINSON
Filed: 1908-07-07
Granted: 1909-04-01
Abstract: 14,426. Towne, H. R. July 7. Locks, key; padlocks.-Padlock and other cases are formed by a ring of wrought or ductile material in one or both edges of which shoulders 3 are formed to act as continuous seats for the faceplates 5, between which the mechanism is contained, and the whole is then permanently secured by spinning or turning over the edges 2 of the ring. The seats 3 may be formed by securing a smaller ring within the outer ring. In a modification, the ring is formed from a blank 11, Fig. 19, which is slotted to receive the shackle, and is formed with ears 12, 13 to receive the pivot-pin and to guide the shackle, respectively. The face-plates 5 are formed from a blank, Fig. 21, having ears 14 which are bent over as at 15 to enclose and protect the parts 12, 13 of the ring 11 and hence also the shackle-pin. The face-plates are then secured by turning over the edges of the ring 11 as before, an inner ring forming the necessary seating.
Patent GB-190815190-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Apparatus for use in Conducting Paper, or the like, in Cylinder Printing Machines.
Inventor: HEISER CHRISTIAN ROBERT
Filed: 1908-07-17
Granted: 1909-07-08
Abstract: 15,190. Heiser, C. R. July 17. Feeding sheets; feeding-apparatus for webs.-In lithographic, three-colour, or ordinary printing, in which the web or sheet is printed against a cylindrical impression surface, the web &c. is smoothed on the cylinder by means of a yieldingly-mounted spindle overlaid with helical frictional bands or surfaces wound in opposite directions from the centre and bearing against the impression cylinder, whereby the web &c. is prevented from creasing or dipping between the gutters in the forme. In the apparatus shown, a sheet i carried by a cylinder a is acted on by a helical roller e carried in bearings 5 on a lay-bar f journaled in arms g carried by spring-controlled rods h, which press the roller e into frictional contact with the sheet i. The roller e is formed of a spindle suitably covered, to give a limited elasticity, with helical strips or bands of canvas, tape-material, india-rubber, or compositions thereof, pile fabrics, horsehair compositions, &c. wound in opposite directions, as shown in Fig. 5. The roller e spreads the material towards the margin and prevents creasing. The roller may be made to act on cardboard sheets, and may be formed in one or two parts. The spring supports h may be dispensed with and the frictional contact obtained by means of intermediately-arranged laminated springs fixed to the frame of the machine.
Patent GB-190818469-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or connected with Acetylene Gas Generators for use on Buoys & for other purposes.
Inventor: SCOTT CHARLES WILLIAM
Filed: 1908-09-03
Granted: 1909-07-08
Abstract: 18,469. Scott, C. W. Sept. 3. Acetylene.-Relates to acetylene-generators of the type in which a float-operated valve admits carbide to water when the amount of gas in the generating-chamber is small. As shown in Fig. 1, a carbide-chamber c has an opening at the bottom normally closed by a valve d carried by a float f in the generating-chamber e. An aperture i at the bottom of the chamber e allows ingress of water and evacuation of sludge. A baffle-plate m is provided for the carbide to fall on. A pipe t, with a non-return valve s, allows rapid escape of water under the pressure of generated gas. For refilling the carbidechamber, a hopper w is preferably provided. This is filled with carbide and its cover replaced ; a valve x at the bottom of the hopper is then opened, and the carbide falls into the chamber c. The valve d is kept closed, while recharging, by a plunger n operated by a screw q. Gas generated passes through a purifier u and a pressure-reducing valve v. In the modification shown in Fig. 2, the bottom of the carbide-chamber is below the external water level ; and to prevent flooding when the carbide is exhausted, a diaphragm y<1> with a central opening is provided below the float f, the opening' being closed by a valve z when the float rises higher than usual. In this form the sludge may be retained at the bottom of the generating-chamber and discharged at intervals by a valve A<1>. To allow the escape of water from the chamber e when the valve Z is closed, an inverted U-pipe y has one end opening into the chamber e, the other opening below the diaphragm y<1>. Instead of being carried by a buoy, as shown, the generator may be contained in a tank.
Patent GB-190819759-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Milk Cans and the like for Railway and other Transit.
Inventor: GAMESON CHARLES HENRY
Filed: 1908-09-21
Granted: 1909-09-21
Abstract: 19,759. Games C. H. Sept. 21. Stoppers.-Lids for milk cans or churns are made flat, are provided with faced joints to keep out dust &c. and are secured by hasps and eyes. A can top B, Fig. 2, has an inner rim B<1> faced at C to accommodate a faced flange A<2> of a flat lid A which has a protecting outer flange A<1>. In a modification, Fig. 3, the flange A' is slightly conical and bears sideways against a faced edge C as shown. The lid is secured by a pivot fitting in a slot F<1>, Fig. 2, at one side and by a hasp and eye at the other.
Patent GB-190820983-A (GB)
Title: A Continuous Calendar.
Inventor: TINKER FREDERICK JOHN
Filed: 1908-10-05
Granted: 1909-05-20
Abstract: 20,983. Tinker, F. J., and Tinker, L. G. Oct. 5. Calendars and date indicators.-A calendar of the daily-set type consists of three scrolls A, U, E bearing the days of the week, the days of the month, and the months, respectively, and of three extensible eccentrically-pivoted pointers. Hooks on the index-fingers of the pointers engage holes G in the scrolls and the pointers are thus kept in position. A slip H bearing the number of the year can be attached to one of the pointers, while a similar slip I may bear advertising-matter ; these slips also serve to bring the date into prominence.
Patent GB-190821094-A (GB)
Title: An Improvement in Sad-irons Internally Heated by Means of Liquid Vaporizable Fuel.
Inventor: DIENER ADOLPHE
Filed: 1908-10-06
Granted: 1909-05-06
Abstract: 21,094. Diener, A. Oct. 6. [Patent of Addition to No. 21,005, A.D. 1908.] Burners, applications of; vaporizing-apparatus.-A sad-iron of the kind described in Specification No. 21,005, A.D. 1908, is provided with a supplementary vaporizing-chamber 7<1>, which is connected with the main vaporizing- chamber 7 by means of a conduit 8 and heated by the burner. The conduit 8 is traversed by a rod 9, the ends of which extend into the chambers 7, 7<1> respectively. The liquid fuel is conducted from the hollow handle 4 to the chamber 7 by a tube 10 of narrow bore containing a rod 13. The orifice of the burner tube 14 in the chamber 7<1> may be covered by a guard 15 of gauze &c.
Patent GB-190821191-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in the Manufacture of Artificial Hair or Silky Threads.
Inventor: ELLIS GEORGE BELOE
Filed: 1908-10-07
Granted: 1909-10-07
Abstract: 21,191. Ellis, G. B., [Crino´d Soc. Anon.]. Oct. 7. Cellulose.-A mixture of concentrated solutions of sodium or potassium carbonate and sodium or potassium hydrate, preferably in about equal proportions, is used as the precipitating-liquid in the manufacture of artificial silk or hair from cuprammoniacal cellulose solution, prepared for example as described in Specification No. 16,442, A.D. 1906. The thread on leaving the precipitating-bath is wound on a bobbin in a second bath composed of the same constituents as above but containing considerably less of the alkali hydrate. After washing, the copper and ammonia are removed by a sodium bisulphate bath equivalent to a solution of free sulphuric acid of about 3 per cent strength
Patent GB-190823209-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Mechanical Players for Musical Instruments.
Inventor: RILEY WILLIAM JOSEPH
Filed: 1908-10-31
Granted: 1909-09-09
Abstract: 23,209. Riley, W. J., [trading as Yote Manufacturing Co.]. Oct. 31. Automatic instruments.-Relates to the winding and rewinding of the music sheet and to means for longitudinally adjusting the spools. The spindles of the spools engage with shafts 12, 16, Fig. 1, abutting against the coned ends of adjusting-pins 59, 60 which are moved in their casings by a rocker-shaft 65 controlled by a handle 66. For this purpose, toothed quadrants on the shaft 65 may engage racks on the pios, as shown in Fig. 8, or slotted forks carried by the shaft 65 may engage with studs on the pins. Springs 35, 55 keep the shafts 12, 16 in place when the spools are removed. The pinions 30, 38 are carried by sleeves which are axially confined and which engage the adjustable shafts 12, 16 by pin-and-slot connexions. Rewinding is effected by a lever which acts through a bell-crank 47, 48 to rock a shaft 42, an arm on which shifts the driving-spindle 21 against a spring 44 so as to disengage pinions 29, 30 and clutch in the loose pinion 36 which drives the music spool. The spindle 21 engages by a pin-andslot connexion with the driving-pinion 20, which is maintained in alinement with the pinion 17 on the motor shaft by an adjustable tongue 25 engaging a grooved collar. During winding, a pivoted brake 69, Fig. 4, is applied by means of an adjustablytensioned spring 72 to a wheel 56 on the shaft 16. The rewinding-shaft 42 removes this brake by means of a collar provided either with a spiral face-cam 78 to engage the free end of the brake, or with a pin to engage an inclined surface on the brake lever, and at the same time a brake 79, Fig. 8, on a loose collar 80 connected by a torsion spring to the shaft 42, is applied to the pinion 30 so as to brake the take-up spool. According to the Provisional Specification, the spool-adjusting shaft 65 is actuated from outside the casing by a sciew-and-nut mechanism.
Patent GB-190903057-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Match Striking Device.
Inventor: MORGENSTERN FRANCOIS
IPC: A24F27/26
Filed: 1909-02-08
Granted: 1909-09-09
Abstract: 3057. Morgenstern, F. Feb. 8. Match-striking appliances. - A device for holding and igniting matches comprises a container 4, Fig. 2, in which the matches 5 are arranged, to be urged towards the end or stop 10, in which is situated the striking-appliance, hy a coiled spring 9 abutting against the removable bottom 7. The striking-means consists of two parts or surfaces 1, shown in dotted lines in Fig. 1, covered with igniting-material, such as emery paste, corundum, crushed glass, &c., the parts being urged towards one another by springs or plates or other equivalent means.