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Patent GB-191311758-A (GB)
Title: Method for Removing or Recovering certain Substances from Coal Gas.
Inventor: HULTMAN GUSTAF HENRIK
IPC: B01D53/14
Filed: 1913-05-20
Granted: 1913-11-27
Abstract: 11,758. Hultman, G. H. May 20. Purifying processes; materials for purifying; naphthalene, removing. - Sulphur compounds such as carbon disulphide, benzol, and naphthalene are removed from coal gas by washing the gas in alcohol cooled to or below 0‹ C. Some other washing-liquid may be used cooled to the same temperature and possessing the same property as alcohol of being able, at the same temperature, to prevent freezing of the moisture separated from the gas on account of the low temperature. At temperatures of from -15‹ to -20‹ C., good absorption is obtained, and the gas after being treated may be washed with water to recover the alcohol, the washing-liquids being subjected to fractional distillation to recover the sulphur compounds and alcohol. A suitable washer comprises alternate washing and cooling compartments, the washing liquid passing from one washer to the other and the cooling-fluid from one cooler to the other.
Patent GB-191311963-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Plasterers' Trowels.
Inventor: GOLBY FREDERICK WILLIAM
IPC: E04F21/06
Filed: 1913-05-22
Granted: 1913-07-24
Abstract: 11,963. Golby, F. W., [Graef, J.]. May 22. Reversible handles; fixing by screwed sockets specially placed and arranged.-A trowel is provided with a longitudinal strip of metal 6 riveted to the blade and having two threaded sockets 9 equidistant from the ends of the blade, either of which is adapted to be engaged with the threaded end 11 of a handle stem 5. Each socket is formed with two half holes 14 on opposite sides and the stem is provided with one half hole 13 which, when registering with any of the half holes 14, forms a complete hole into which a tapering pin 17 may be driven to lock the stem against rotation. Holes 16 are provided in the blade to allow the pin 17 to be driven out. When the blade is worn at one end the stem may be removed and inserted in the other socket 9 or into one of the sockets of another blade.
Patent GB-191313489-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Method of Making Pockets in Garments, for the Safety of Valuables.
Inventor: STEVENS FRANK HERBERT
IPC: A41D27/20
Filed: 1913-06-11
Granted: 1913-12-24
Abstract: 13,489. Stevens, F. H. June 11. Pockets.-A pocket is provided with a partition to form a safety pocket having an opening at the side or bottom. As shown in Fig. 3, the partition D is inserted in the pocket, which is sewn round along the line E so attaching the partition except along the right side where the edge of the partition is just within the sewing E, thereby forming the entrance to the safety pocket; or the opening to the inner pocket may be at the bottom.
Patent GB-191313721-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to Electric Switches.
Inventor: LUCAS OLIVER
IPC: H01H13/28
Filed: 1913-06-13
Granted: 1914-04-02
Abstract: 13,721. Lucas, O., and Handley, F. June 13. Switches, quick-action.-A switch is provided with movable contacts e disposed on a collar d mounted to slide along a central fixed stem c, and is retained in the ' on ' or ' off ' positions by means of spring-controlled balls k playing in recesses in the stem, and interacting with a double conical surface formed on the inside of the sliding collar. The apparatus shown comprises an annular arrangement of contacts b mounted on a base a and moving contacts c in the form of a flanged ring fitting tightly over the stationary contacts. Three balls k, Fig. 6, in recesses in the stem c are constantly urged to their outward limit by a spring-pressed ball j in an axial bore of the stem. The balls are forced inwards during the passage of the narrow part of the conical surface over them and are forced out again by the spring-controlled ball j when the constricted part has passed them, thus retaining the switch in the ' on ' or ' off ' positions. The collar is moved by a push and pull handle f rigidly attached to the collar by a crosspin g. In a modification, the handle has a lostmotion relatively to the cross-pin to which it is also attached by an additional spring, shoulders on the handle and central stem serving to limit the outward movement of the handle.
Patent GB-191314071-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Electric Arc Lamps.
Inventor: RAILING ADOLF HARRY
IPC: H05B31/18
Filed: 1913-06-18
Granted: 1914-03-26
Abstract: 14,071. Railing, A. H., and Angold, A. E. June 18. Arc lamps.-Convergent electrodes, which move longitudinally only, are guided and fed simultaneously by a light, easily-running arrangement which allows a weak regulating-device to be used. The electrode-holders F, G are provided with rollers L running on guide-rods N and are connected to a common counterweight Q similarly guided. One connecting member consists of a chain H passing over a sprocket-wheel P, or of a pair of bands wound oppositely on drums on a shaft. To this sprocket-wheel or shaft is attached a brake-wheel S, engaged by a brake lever T actuated by a spring T<1> and solenoids ; or other regulatingÀmechanism may be employed. The holder attached to the second connecting member, which passes over a large pulley R, is made as light as possible, and the counterweight is sufficiently heavy to raise this holder when the other is lifted by the regulating- mechanism.
Patent GB-191314713-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Luggage Carriers for Motor Cars.
IPC: B60R9/06
Filed: 1913-06-25
Granted: 1913-10-30
Abstract: 14,713. Soc. en nom Collectif, Carrosserie Van den Plas. Nov. 8, 1912, [Convention date]. Luggage racks.-A readily-detachable luggagecarrier for motor-cars comprises a rectangular grid-like carrier frame k, adapted to turn up into a vertical position when not required, and a similar frame a for protecting the body. The frame k is pivoted at i to lugs f bolted to fixed fittings h, and is supported in the horizontal position by folding stays p connected at l to the frame a which is attached to the lugs f at e and hooks on to fittings o on the body.
Patent GB-191314802-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Closing Devices for Carriage and like Doors.
Inventor: BOULT ALFRED JULIUS
IPC: E05B65/20
Filed: 1913-06-26
Granted: 1913-11-13
Abstract: 1 4 , 8 0 2 . Boult, A. J., [Soc. en nom Collectif "Carrosserie v a n den Plas "]. June 26. [Addition to 19,788/12.] M u l t i p l e fastenings for doors. - The motor and like carriage - door fastening described in the parent Specification has the sliding bolts 16, 24, which carry the doubly - inclined hooks 17 concealed in the style of the door, while the corresponding catches are placed in recesses in the door frame. Locking-means are provided in the form of a pivoted connecting - rod 14 spring-pressed to engage the pin 12 on its lower end with the edge of the guide 21 when the bolt has been drawn down to the locking position by the handleoperated link 10.
Patent GB-191316720-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Shaft Couplings.
IPC: F16D3/62
Filed: 1913-07-21
Granted: 1914-07-21
Abstract: 16,720. Maschinenfabrik Badenia vorm. W. Platz Sohne Akt.-Ges. and Beilke, W. July 21. Shaft couplings.-In flexible shaft couplings. blade springs 4, Fig. 1, are carried by bars 3 which turn on pivots 7 on carriers 2 secured on one shaft, and bear against abutments 6 secured to the other shaft, the parts being so arranged that under normal load the abutments 6 are parallel to the lines joining the pivots 7 to the shaft centre, lateral pressure on the springs being substantially eliminated. A second series of springs 9, Fig. 2, secured to the parts 6 and to the first series of springs may replace the abutments. The bars 3 may be extended and form slotted guiding bars 10 engaging pins 12 on the parts 6.
Patent GB-191322301-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Appliances for Playing a Parlour Game.
Inventor: NEWLANDS ROBERT WILLIAM
IPC: A63H33/00
Filed: 1913-10-03
Granted: 1914-07-09
Abstract: 22,301. Newlands, R. W. Oct. 3. Games of chance.-A device for playing games consists of a ball b contained in a box a which has a hole d in the bottom of such a size that the ball can rest on a table on which the box is placed. The surface of the ball is marked with numerals, letters, or words, so that, by moving the box about, the ball rolls on the table and a different figure &c. is seen through a hole c in the top or side of the box. The box may be made of opaque glass with a transparent spot in the top or side.
Patent GB-191324572-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in the Manufacture of Vegetable Milk and its Derivatives.
Inventor: MELHUISH WILLIAM JAMES
IPC: A23C11/10
Filed: 1913-10-29
Granted: 1914-12-29
Abstract: 24,572. Melhuish, W. J. Oct. 29. Fatty oils, extracting. - In the manufacture of artificial milk from soya beans by a process similar to that described in Specification 27,860/12, [Class 84, Milking &c.], the oil is first extracted from the beans or meal, or is centrifugally separated from an extract obtained by treating the meal at about 90 C. with water containing potassium phosphate &c. Specifications 12,355/98, 15,311/05, 30,275/10, and 7296/13, [all in Class 84, Milking &c.], also are referred to.
Patent GB-191324871-A (GB)
Title: A Variable Candle Power Incandescent Electric Lamp and Switch.
Inventor: RHODES WILLIAM GOULD
IPC: H05B39/06
Filed: 1913-11-01
Granted: 1914-12-10
Abstract: 24,871. Rhodes, W. G. Nov. 1. Multiple-filament lamps. - Two metallic filaments b, c, of equal resistance and candle-power, are connected to three contact plates on the cap. Corresponding contacts in a bayonet or other holder are connected as shown to the contacts j, k, m of a rotary switch. The switch arm (not shown) is pivoted at n and can be turned in the clockwise direction to connect the two filaments in series at j, the filament c only at k, the filaments in parallel at m, giving one quarter, half, and full light respectively, and to cut off at the fourth position. The switch may be arranged for anti - clockwise rotation. Reference has been directed by the Comptroller to Specifications 19,874/92, 15,485/93, 11,219/94, and 21,740/10.
Patent GB-191326117-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and pertaining to the Production of a White Light Resembling Normal Daylight.
Inventor: GROSHEINTZ PAUL
IPC: F21V9/02
Filed: 1913-11-14
Granted: 1914-05-14
Abstract: 26,117. Grosheintz, P. Nov. 16, 1912, [Convention date]. Colour screens.-Cobalt glass of selected tint is used to enclose a reddish-yellow source of light, such as an electric arc lamp or incandescent lamp, to imitate daylight. Ultramarine blue and that obtained by adding copper compounds to glass are unsuitable. Such an enclosure may be additional to or may replace that of clear glass ordinarily used. It may be made blue throughout, or flashed by dipping the blowing-pipe successively into clear and blue glass, and optionally again into clear glass, so that a thin blue film is obtained on a clear backing.
Patent GB-191401524-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Ships' Berths and the like.
Inventor: WHITFIELD GILBERT
IPC: B63B29/10
Filed: 1914-01-20
Granted: 1914-12-24
Abstract: 1524. Whitfield, G., and Johnson, C. Jan. 20. Folding berths.-A folding ship's berth &c., in which the bottom or mattress portion is hinged along one side, is supported in the horizontal position by a jointed stay retained extended by a slotted strut engaging a stud on the jointed stay. The berth bottom 1 is shown held horizontal by the engagement of the bent end of the slot 9, in the pivoted strut 7, with a headed stud 8 on the jointed stay 4. A handle 11 is provided to facilitate the release of the strut 7.
Patent GB-191404770-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Kerbs or Fenders.
Inventor: SHORTHOUSE HERBERT JOHN
IPC: B21D53/40
Filed: 1914-02-24
Granted: 1914-12-24
Abstract: 4770. Shorthouse, H. J. Feb. 24. Fenders.-The ends are hinged to the front to facilitate packing for transport, and plates b<2> are provided at the joints, being permanently attached to one part and adapted to be secured to the other. The plates b<2> may be secured by screws, pins, or other means, and may be formed integrally with one member of the hinge. The hinge members may be made from blanks suitably cut and bent. Plates may be secured to the ends or the front to cover the joints when the fender is in use.
Patent GB-191406989-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Coffee Pots, Coffee Machines, Cafetieres, Percolators and the like.
Inventor: BETJEMANN JOHN GEORGE
IPC: A47J31/06
Filed: 1914-03-19
Granted: 1914-12-10
Abstract: 6989. Betjemann, J. G. March 19. Coffee, apparatus for making.-A coffee percolator consists of a vessel 6 which may rest upon a jug &c. by means of arms 15 and in which is placed a tube 9 carrying a perforated disk 10. The coffee is placed upon the disk 10, and a cover 12 and funnel 14 are then placed in position. Water poured into the funnel 14 rises through the apparatus and overflows through apertures 7 into the jug &c. The apparatus may form part of a coffee pot, machine, &c. According to the Provisional Specification, the disk 10 may be in the form of a perforated box &c.
Patent GB-191412392-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Clips for Holding and Displaying Tobacco Pipes in Shop Windows, Sample Cases and the like.
Inventor: MYERS ADOLPH
IPC: A47F5/08
Filed: 1914-05-20
Granted: 1915-03-18
Abstract: 12,392. Myers, A., and Myers, L. May 20. Clips, internal. - A clip for displaying tobacco pipes in shop windows, sample cases, &c., consists of a U- shaped spring B hinged to an angle-bracket 5 and adapted to grip the interior of the bowl 8 of the pipe. A lip 13 serves for disengagement, and spring tongues 11, 12 may be cut out and turned up to form a ticket clip.
Patent GB-191413910-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Detachable Device for Aerating Liquids in Bottles.
Inventor: PARKER ALFRED JAMES
IPC: B01F3/04
Filed: 1914-06-09
Granted: 1915-06-09
Abstract: 13,910. Parker, A. J. June 9. Gazogenes. - A device for aerating the contents of bottles by capsules of compressed gas is attached by side legs which grip below the flange of the neck. The capsuleholder a has legs f formed of sheet metal or of hinged wire frames and having inturned ends g, which are p r e s s e d against the bottle neck by a sliding ring r. A stopper j carrying a piercer l has side lugs k which project through slots in the legs f. The stopper may have slotted lugs which embrace the legs f and serve in place of the ring r to draw the legs together.
Patent GB-191418903-A (GB)
Title: A Compressed Air Starter for Internal Combustion Engines and the like.
Inventor: MARTIN JAMES
Filed: 1914-08-21
Granted: 1915-06-24
Abstract: 18,903. Martin, J. Aug. 21. Rotary disk valves.-An interconvertible compressed-air engine and pump, which rotates in opposite directions according as it acts as an engine or pump and which is used as engine turning-gear, consists of two pairs of radial cylinders N cast in one block. A single valve P rotated from the crank-shaft controls the working. The valve stem H is hollow to act as an exhaust or suction passage. Terminal exhaust or suction ports I are also provided. The valve is connected to its stem by a key M entering grooves Q in the valve.
Patent GB-191423243-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Regenerators for Furnaces.
Inventor: ORTH FRANK
IPC: F28F21/04
Filed: 1914-11-28
Granted: 1915-10-21
Abstract: 23,243. Orth, F. Nov. 28. Regenerators.-In reversible chequer-work regenerators, in order to prevent the upper courses of the chequer-work from becoming clogged by the fusion of dust or the like, the speed of the gases is reduced on entering the regenerator, and the gases are passed through large passages of a primary heat-absorbing structure and then through distributing-channels of large area before entering the smaller passages in a secondary structure of ordinary chequer-work. In the form of regenerator shown in Figs. 1 and 2, furnace gases enter the regenerator by a flue 9 and pass into a large space 17 at the top of the regenerator, where the speed of the gases is reduced to precipitate dust. The gases enter openings 18 and pass downwardly between longitudinal vertical partitions 11, carrying upstanding portions 13, and transverse plates 14, 15, 16, which deflect the gases and provide surfaces for the accumulation of dust. After passing through the distributing-channels 12, the gases enter the ordinary chequer-work 8. Ledges 19, 20 or the plates 14, 16 assist in collecting the dust. Doors 21 are provided to give access to the plates for cleaning purposes. Fig. 4 shows a modification, in which the gases in passing between the longitudinal partition walls are caused to change their direction twice by additional plates 22, 23 on which the dust may be deposited. The ledges 20 are formed of varying heights to ensure a uniform distribution of the gases through the openings 18. In the modification shown in Fig. 6, the partitions carry plates 25, 26, and a plate 27 is provided on the upper part of the chequer-work. The gases are thus caused to take a U-shaped course between the partitions before entering the chequer-work 8. Ribs 29 assist in the deposition of dust. A further modification comprises a primary heatabsorbing structure formed of chequer-work with enlarged openings for the passage of gases leading into longitudinal gas-distributing channels separating the primary structure from the secondary chequer-work structure. Baffles are arranged at the entrance of the enlarged openings in the primary structure to deflect the gases. The primary structure may take the form of several layers of coarse chequer-work. In the modification shown in Fig. 12, the primary heatabsorbing structure is formed by extending the longitudinal partition walls upwardly as shown at 40. The walls are preferably formed of unequal height and are spaced apart by blocks 42.
Patent GB-191424119-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Fluid Meters.
Inventor: BROWN WILLIAM LAIRD
IPC: G07F15/00
Filed: 1914-12-15
Granted: 1915-12-15
Abstract: 24,119. Brown, W. L. Dec. 15. Gas, supplying by meter.-A spindle 8 carrying the valve closure is driven from the planetarv member 40 of an epicyclic train through a worm 39 and pinion 12, so that if, owing to leakage, the meter continues to work after the valve has been closed, the worm 39 slides past the then stationary pinion 12 and thrusts the coin-controlled mechanism 45 laterally and jams it against operation. The member 40 carries the planet-wheels 41, which work between an internal gear 42, carried by a coin-controlled spindle 45, and a gear 37 mounted on a meterdriven spindle 34; the spindle 34 is in two parts connected by a frangible coupling 55, which breaks under the abnormal torque to which the spindle is subjected after the jamming of the coin mechanism. When the maximum number of coins has been inserted, an arm 14 on the spindle 8 engages a projection 53 on the gear casing 43, which is attached to the internal gear 42, and prevents further operation of the coin mechanism.
Patent GB-191424264-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Air-heaters, more especially suitable for use in Smelting Works.
Filed: 1914-12-18
Granted: 1915-12-02
Abstract: 24,264. Dietzius, A., and Warme-Verwertungs-Ges. Dec. 18. Heating air. - In an air - heating apparatus, more particularly for use in smelting-works, the air enters at f and is heated by waste furnace gases passing through tubes a and leaves by a passage g. To increase the rate of flow, an inner casing m is arranged within the outer casing n. In a modification, the tubes a are divided into two groups by a transverse baffle, and both the air and the furnace gases follow an up-and-down path. In a further modification, inverted U-tubes are used, thus dispensing with the upper tubeplate. Reference h a s b e e n directed by the Comptroller to Specifications 4567/85, [Class 7, Air and gas engines], and 13,152/01.
Patent GB-191502048-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in the Production of Aluminous Compounds.
IPC: C01F7/748
Filed: 1915-02-09
Abstract: 2048. Spence, H., Llewellyn, W. B., and Spence & Sons, P. Feb 9. Aluminium sulphate.-The aluminium sulphate liquors obtained from unground calcined coal-measure or like shales are treated for neutralization or rendering; basic with or without concurrent purification from iron by digesting in the absence of the shale-residues with soluble sources of alumina such as bauxite, readily decomposed silicates, aluminates, and basic sulphate compounds, the object being to reduce the quantity of precipitate and facilitate the purification. Excess of potassium sulphate, which is usually present, may be removed as alum in the known manner before or after the treatment. High temperatures, for example 85 C. to the boiling-point, and high specific gravities, for example 1À35 to 1À45, are suitable for rapidly effecting the solution of alumina; high specific gravities and lower temperatures, for example 60-80 C., are suitable for preventing the precipitation o f basic insoluble compounds as neutralization is approached; lower specific gravities, for example 1À25 to 1À3, and lower temperatures, for example 50-60 C-., are suitable for economic purification in substantially neutral or basic solutions; and high temperatures, for example 80 C. to the boiling- point, and specific gravities of 1-3 to 1À35 are suitable for. rapid purification and solution of alumina; hut the conditions are varied in accordance with the object or combination of objects in view. Specifications 3805/12 and 22,590/12 are referred to.
Patent GB-191506599-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Dirigible Airships.
Inventor: ADOLPHE CLEMENT-BAYARD
IPC: B64B1/00
Filed: 1915-05-03
Abstract: 6599. Bayard, A. Clement-. May 1, 1914, [Convention date]. Void. [Published under Section 91 of the Act]. [Addition to 18,359/14.] Aerial machines with aerostats; cars. -In order to increase the lateral stability, when on land, of the airship described in the parent Specification, one of the longitudinallyarranged cars is replaced by two lateral cars h<1>, h<2>, so t h a t the airship has three points of support. Alternatively, struts x hinged to the propeller frames are arranged to be brought into contact with the ground when the air-ship lands, so as to give lateral support.
Patent GB-191509343-A (GB)
Title: Improved Powders mainly applicable as Comestibles and their Method of Manufacture.
Inventor: VASEY SAMUEL ARCHIBALD
IPC: A23P10/30
Filed: 1915-06-25
Abstract: 9343. Vasey, S. A., and Cleeve, N. A. June 25. Preserving food; food preparations; salt preparations.-Comestible and other powders, such as oatmeal, pea flour, casein, coffee, milk sugar, and salt, are superficially and evenly coated with not more than 5 per cent of an odourless hydrocarbon, such as B.P. paraffinum liquidum, which is both liquid and non-volatile at ordinary temperatures. The powders are preserved, rendered more readily miscible with water, and kept dry and non-caking. The process described consists in blowing the powder into a mist of the hydrocarbon obtained by a spray-producer.
Patent GB-191511330-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Powder Blowers.
Inventor: BURRAGE DONALD FERGUSON
IPC: B05B11/04
Filed: 1915-08-05
Abstract: 11,330. Burrage, D. F. Aug. 5. Powder-blowers consist of a triangular or other paper or like bag the sides of which are normally pressed apart by a spiral or other spring c, one end of which may be bent and secured to the bag by a loop d, the mouth being secured by means of a flexible strip b as described in Specification 16,130/11, [Class 94 (ii), Paper bags &c.]. The sides near the outlet a are pressed together, when required, by a clip e.
Patent GB-191514095-A (GB)
Title: Motion Picture Film Renovator.
Inventor: GREENE BEATRICE HELEN
IPC: G03D15/00
Filed: 1915-10-05
Abstract: 14,095. Greene, B. H. Oct. 5. Kinematograph picture films.-In apparatus for renovating films, the film is first passed between roller brushes 6, Fig. 1, for removing dirt, then between cleaning-pads 13, 14, Fig. 3, in the frame 8, which are kept moist with cleaning-material, and finally between rollers a, b', Fig. 4, in the frame 19, which have an absorbent surface for drying the film. The springs 10 maintain a resilient pressure between the pads 13, 14. The pressure between the rollers a, b<1> is adjusted by the screws 25.