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Patent GB-190415317-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to Ornamental Hair Combs and other Ornaments for the Hair.
Inventor: PARKER FREDERICK
Filed: 1904-07-08
Granted: 1904-08-11
Abstract: 15,317. Parker, F., Smith, W. A., [trading as Parker & Smith], and Reynolds, J. W. H. July 8. Combs, hair; hair-pins. - An ornamental haircomb or hair-pin is secured by gripping the hair between it and a secondary comb or equivalent device hinged or otherwise attached to its inner side. The secondary comb B may be attached by spring wire D inserted through a rib C on the comb B, and the teeth of the combs preferably interlock.
Patent GB-190415709-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to the Manufacture of Manures
Inventor: BOUTAN JULES JOSEPH
Filed: 1904-07-14
Granted: 1905-07-14
Abstract: 15,709. Boutan, J. J. Aug. 13, A.D. 1903, [date appdied for under Patents Act, A.D. 1901]. Manures. - A manure is made by treating phosphate of lime or alumina with a concentrated alkaline solution and mixing peat with the product. The solution may consist of vinasse or other residues. The manure is dried in the open air or otherwise, and finely ground. Nitrogen may be added to the manure by utilizing its absorbent properties for ammoniacal salts and waters. The phosphate may be omitted, and molasses or a mixture of the sulphates of potash and lime may replace the alkaline solutions. In a modified process, peat, which may have been previously treated with salts of soda or ammonia, is added to the product obtained by treating phosphate of lime or aluminium with sulphuric or other acid. It is stated that ammonium salts may sometimes replace the salts of potash or soda, and that electrolytic methods may be used in treating the peat with the alkaline solutions.
Patent GB-190417460-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Chimneys or Cylinders for Incandescent Gas Burners.
Inventor: HEYS WILLIE
Filed: 1904-08-11
Granted: 1905-07-20
Abstract: 17,460. Heys, W. Aug. 11. Chimneys.- Chimneys for incandescent gas burners are widened just above the gallery, and contracted again at a short distance above the top of the mantle, the upper part being made 6 to 7 inches long. Holes are provided at the bottom for the admission of air and for lighting.
Patent GB-190417691-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Automatic Feeding Apparatus for Roller Mills, Purifiers and the like.
Inventor: HIGGINBOTTOM JAMES
Filed: 1904-08-15
Granted: 1905-08-15
Abstract: 17,691. Higginbottom, J. Aug. 15. Feeding - devices for roller mills, purifiers, and the like. The feedroller E is formed with longitudinal grooves F and run at such a speed as will cause any obstruction to be forced through the passage G between the roller E and the hanging gate C, which is balanced by the adjustable weight D. The feed falls on to a vibrating spreader H suspended on pivots I and having a lip K contacting with the grooves of the roller E. The feed is thus spread in a lateral direction before passing over the edge L to the rolls or purifier sieves, and any heavy foreign substances are retained in a pocket or recess M. The spreader is weighted at J, or it may be provided with a spring. Two or more lips on the spreader may contact with the grooved feed-roller, or the latter may carry one or more grooved discs. In some cases, the spreader is formed with perforated surfaces for catching and retaining hard substances and assisting in the spreading action.
Patent GB-190422838-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Electric Arc Lamps.
Filed: 1904-10-24
Granted: 1905-08-17
Abstract: 22,838. Jandus Arc Lamp and Electric Co., and Jones, A. D. Oct. 24. Solenoids.-In an arc-lamp regulating-mechanism, an annular groove 7 in the core 3 of an ironclad solenoid 2 comes opposite the bottom annular plate 6 of the solenoid casing 1 when a sudden descent of the core is desired. The core and solenoid may be shaped as described in Specification No. 24,276, A.D. 1901.
Patent GB-190423513-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Carburetters for Internal Combustion Engines
Inventor: DION ALBERT DE
Filed: 1904-10-31
Granted: 1904-12-22
Abstract: 23,513. Dion, Marquis A. de, and Bouton, G. Dec. 9, A.D. 1903, [date applied for under Patents Act, A.D. 1901]. Gas and like engines, governing in. Fig. 1 shows means for regulating simultaneously the air supply to the carburetter, and the supply of mixture to the engine. A carburetter suitable for a twocylinder engine is shown, but the invention may be applied to other engines. Air is admitted to the mixing-chambers a through the inlets c and the plug valves b, b<1>, which also regulates the carburetter outlet d. Fuel is drawn in through the nozzles in the base. The ports in the plugs b, b<1> are arranged so that the throttling of the mixture takes place before that of the air. To prevent a vacuum from being formed in the carburetter when the plug valves are closed, small ports g are provided in the lower part of the valves, and are placed so as to admit air just before the mixture is completely throttled in the passage d. The plug valves are connected together and operated by hand or otherwise.
Patent GB-190426289-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to Automatic Indicating and Recording Car Scales.
Inventor: GOETZ GEORGE
Filed: 1904-12-02
Granted: 1905-11-23
Abstract: 26,289. Goetz, G. Dec. 2. Weigh-bridges for railway vehicles.-The weight of each car is indicated and recorded as the train of cars runs over the platform at a reasonable speed. The platform on compound levers is balanced by a scale beam B, Fig. 4, with adjusting-weights, and the weight of the car on the platform is equated by the tension of a spring C, Fig. 2, with which the scale beam is connected from a knife-edge on its curved head B<2>. Spring balances.-The connection between the scale beam and spring consists of a forked clevis b<1>, Fig. 4, a link b<2>, a swivel and screw coupling b<4>, b<5>, a coupling-rod b<6>, a rack b<7>, Fig. 2, another coupling, and an eye taking the hooked end of the spring. The link has an open slot b<9> and a bevelled end to engage a cross-pin and fit the cleft in the clevis and it is detachably secured by a chained pin b<12>. The spring is attached below by a screw clamp to a stud on a cross-bar between vertical screws, so that its effective length and tension may be independently adjusted. Vibration, neutralizing.-To steady the movement of the scale beam, it is connected by an extension B', Fig. 4, to a dash-pot G', the piston G, Fig. 15, of which has two pairs of large spring valves g, g<1> opening opposite ways. Indicating-mechanism.-The rack b<7>, Fig. 2, connecting the scale beam and weighing-spring gears with a pinion d on a shaft D, with cord and weight D<11> to take up backlash, which carries the index E of a dial E<4> and a printing-wheel F. The shaft is supported by pairs of antifriction wheels D<1>, themselves relieved by rollers D<3> under their spindles, but it is prevented from leaving the wheels by guards D<6> with feeling-screws D<7>. Printing-devices.-A record strip X, Fig. 4, fed from a roll H, is arranged across the printing- wheel, is struck by a hammer K<1>, and is advanced by a spring motor beneath a guide-roller H<3>, owing to the hammer disengaging a long detent H<20> from a double-cam H<8> on the guide-roller H<3>. An inking disc I is turned by a band I<4>. Assuming the car has four wheels on each side, as each wheel runs over a rocker M, Fig. 33, at one end of the track, a slide M', Fig. 20, bearing a pawl M<8> drives a ratchet-wheel M" of sixteen teeth, and at the third advance an associated tappet-wheel (not shown) acting on a bell-crank lever (not shown) makes a connected lever m<5>, Fig. 4, turn a bell crank m<7> so as to lift the impression hammer K' into engagement with a catch. At the fourth advance, the bell crank is released, and a tappetwheel m<12>, Fig. 20, acting on a lever m<13> makes a connected lever disengage the catch. A reversed ratchet m<19> and a lever m<21> with a pawl m<20> prevent over-driving, while a pawl m prevents reversal. A duplicate rocker and tappet mechanism is provided for the other end of the platform. As engines and tenders have their wheels differently spaced from the cars, the pawl M<8> is disengaged by means of a peg while they travel over the platform.
Patent GB-190500747-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to the Furnaces of Steam Boilers, and the like.
Inventor: GOLDIE ALEXANDER SOMMERVILLE
IPC: F23L9/00
Filed: 1905-01-14
Granted: 1905-10-26
Abstract: 747. Goldie, A. S. Jan. 14. Grates; dead-plates; air, supplying.-In a modification of the furnaces described in Specification No. 1734, A.D. 1904, a central air-heating chamber E, Fig. 1, supplies air to the fuel on the fire-bars or plates B, C, and a central chamber H fitted with a partition K, and mounted on the longitudinal dead-plate A, supplies air, which enters through a doorway on the boiler front, to the combustion products. The dead-plate A is supported by projections A<1> resting on projections F<1> on the tray F, which rests on the sides of the chamber E. The fire-bars or plates B, C, and the intermediate strip C', are supported by bearers G; the bar C is formed, as shown in Fig. 4, with lateral projections c between which the air passes to the fuel, and the transverse parts b, forming the bar B, are connected by a strip B<1>. The cap H<1> of the airheating chamber H may be supported above the body of the chamber, and the heating-chamber H may be made wider at the back than at the front.
Patent GB-190508742-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Seltzogenes, and Analogous Vessels, for containing Aerated Beverages and provided with Means for Aerating such Beverages
Inventor: CAMPBELL ALBERT JOHNSTONE
Filed: 1905-04-25
Granted: 1906-04-19
Abstract: 8742. Campbell, A. J., and Campbell, R. H. April 25. Aerating liquids; seltzogenes &c.-Relates to apparatus for aerating the contents of seltzogenes or like vessels by means of capsules of compressed gas. A capsule 2, held in a cradle 17, is opened by being pressed against a piercer 5, secured in the upper recess of a plug 1. Gas passes through the piercer and a passage 7 in the plug and through a non-return valve formed by an india-rubber ring 10, stretched across a metal ring 8 and held in the lower recess of the plug 1 by a ring 11. The washer 14, which receives the neck of the capsule, has a recess 16 formed round it so as to act by pneumatic pressure.
Patent GB-190512939-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Turbines.
Inventor: GOLDSBOROUGH RICHARD HENRY
Filed: 1905-06-22
Granted: 1906-06-22
Abstract: 12,939. Goldsborough, R. H. June 22. Switches forming part of a footstep bearing arrangement. The total vertical thrust of a vertical turbine is shared between a fixed block 154, balls 167, and oil under pressure in the space 153. To relieve any increase of pressure that may come upon the balls, oil is admitted below the piston 157 on which the balls run, and an electric device shown in Fig. 3 is added. Any increase of pressure on the balls acting on the oil in the space 156 raises a diaphragm 160, and by means of a finger 163 closes an electric circuit 166, which causes the pressure of oil delivered to the pipe 159 to be increased, whereby the pressure on the balls 167 is relieved.
Patent GB-190521704-A (GB)
Title: New or Improved Starting Mechanism for Internal Combustion Engines or Engines Using Oil or Gaseous Fuel.
Inventor: MCGOWN ROGERS
Filed: 1905-10-25
Granted: 1906-05-10
Abstract: 21,704. McGown, R. Oct. 25. Turning - gear consists of a spiral spring andmeans by which the engine, is caused to wind up the spring, which when set free rotates the shaft. The spring c, Fig. 1, is secured to a fixed casing e and to a sleeve b surrounding the main shaft a. Upon the sleeve is mounted a loose toothed ring g carrying a drum h around which is placed a friction strap o operated by the driver. Upon the end of the shaft a is placed a disk j carrying studs k upon which revolve pinions l, which gear with the ring g and the end of the sleeve b, the flange of which contains one more tooth than the ring g. Upon the shaft a is also the inner part m of a free wheel, Fig, 4, the outer part of which is secured to the sleeve b. By applying the strap o, the shaft a will wind up the spring. On the strap being released, the spring rotates the shaft. In a modification of this construction, the main shaft a is replaced by an auxiliary shaft to which the spring is attached. The main shaft carriestwo sprocket - wheels, which are free in opposite directions. One of these gears with a sprocketwheel on the auxiliary shaft, the other with the disk carrying the pinions. In the arrangement shown in Fig. 3, the casing e to which the spring is attached revolves and is provided with teeth which gear with a toothed wheel a<2> on a lay shaft a' mounted on a swivel bearing. This shaft is rotated during winding by the wheel a<3>, gearing with the fly-wheel. The sleeve b is held stationary by a spring- pressed retaining-catch b<3> controlled by the driver. An additional device consisting of a spring-pressed pawl and ratchet teeth may be provided to prevent the spring from running down when the engine is stopped.
Patent GB-190521743-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Calculating Machines for English Currency.
Inventor: TRINKS FRANZ
Filed: 1905-10-25
Granted: 1906-03-01
Abstract: 21,743. Trinks, F. Oct. 25. Calculating-apparatus.-In machines preferably of the pin-disk and camring type for adding English monetary values, pence, shillings, and pounds are dealt with in the usual way, but a special hand-operated counting - wheel is provided for the farthings and transfers to the pence wheel of the ordinary totalizing-counter when four farthings have been registered. The farthings' wheel d is shown mounted in the main frame of the calculating-machine, above the totalizing-counter a, with the pence wheel of which it gears by means of a single-tooth and intermediate wheels. The numbers are viewed through an aperture e, and the wheel is set by means of an external wing nut upon its spindle. Preferably, a yielding detent is provided to aline the wheel and render its motion audible, and, when the totalizing-counter is displaced laterally for registration on the pounds' wheels only, a locking-bar upon the movable counter frame may engage and lock some wheel in the farthings' train.
Patent GB-190523838-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Apparatus for Changing the Frequency of Alternating Electric Currents.
Filed: 1905-11-18
Granted: 1906-11-17
Abstract: 23,838. British Thomson-Houston Co., [General Electric Co.]. Nov. 18. Rotary transformers. - Both the motor and transformer windings of a frequency-changer for alternating currents are combined in one machine, which, as shown in Fig. 2, preferably has the structure of an induction motor, the rotor and stator of which are each provided with two sets of distributed windings of different pole numbers arranged on the same core and preferably in the same slots. The windings 4<a>, 5<a>, 6<a> and 4<b> 5<b>, 6<b> form the field-magnet and armature windings, respectively, of the motor part of the machine, while the windings 1<a>, 2<a>, 3<a> and 1<b> 2<b>, 3<b> act as the primary and secondary windings of the tranformer. Instead of placing the two primary windings on the stator core, as shown, either or both may be placed on the rotor core. Buth primary windings are connected to the mains in parallel, preferably through a compounding- transformer T, the motor secondary winding is short-circuited, and the transformer secondary winding is connected to the external circuit through slip-rings C. To avoid locking, the stator and rotor cores are given different numbers of slots. In order to maintain a constant voltage at the rings C with varying load, or to produce a rising voltage with increase of load, the secondary windings 1<t>, 2<t>, 3<t> of the compounding-transformer T are placed in series with the corresponding transformer primary windings, and its primary windings 4<t>, 5<t>, 6<t> in series with the primary windings of the motor part of the machine. The preferred compounding-transformer, Fig. 3, of the type described in Specification No. 8215, A.D. 1905, [Abridgment Class Electricity, Regulating &c.], has an open magnetic circuit, and its primary and secondary windings on each leg are connected in different phases of the motor and transformer windings of the machine.
Patent GB-190600869-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Indicator for Rubber or other Stamps used for the purpose of Marking Dating and like purposes
Inventor: WARMSLEY JOHN LOUIS
Filed: 1906-01-12
Granted: 1906-12-06
Abstract: 869. Warmsley, J. L., and Ramsden, J. Jan. 12. Hand-stamps.-An indicator, provided on the handles of endorsing hand-stamps for the purpose of enabling the user to see whether the stamps are the right way up for marking, comprises an adhesive label c, bearing an impression of the subject-matter of the stamp or a description of the same, a transparent disk b of celluloid, talc, &c., and a cap a secured to the stamp handle by means of pins d or by a screw-thread. The Pro. visional Specification describes a stamp handle having a recess and a cap secured to the rim of the recess. It also states that a disk of celluloid, aluminium, &c., having an impressed stamp corresponding with the stamp carried by the handle, may be secured in a groove cut in the handle.
Patent GB-190603914-A (GB)
Title: A Flexible Stamp
Inventor: JANACOPOULO DEMETRIUS ATHANASE
Filed: 1906-02-16
Granted: 1906-10-04
Abstract: 3914. Janacopoulo, D. A. Feb. 16. No Patent granted (Sealingfee not paid). Hand - stamps.- A hand-stamp comprises two plates B, C pressed apart by springs S which encircle screws F, passing freely through the upper and screwed into the lower plate. The printing- surface is attached to the plate C, and the upper plate is provided with a handle A. According to the Provisional Specification, from one to four springs may be employed.
Patent GB-190603947-A (GB)
Title: Improved Distributing Valve for Steam and other Pressure-fluid Engines
Inventor: SHIRLEY JOHN IGNATIUS
Filed: 1906-02-17
Granted: 1907-02-16
Abstract: 3947. Shirley, J. I. Feb. 17. Valves and valve-gear expansion, varying.-In the case of a two-cylinder engine, the motive fluid is distributed by a rotary valve a having a double set of ports d, d<1>, e, e<1> placed between the cylinders b, b<1> and rotated by toothed gearing n from the crank-shaft v. The engine is reversed by moving the valve longitudinally and the expansion is varied by an adjustable sleeve z surrounding the valve by which the ports can be varied in size. The valve a is divided by partitions f, f<1> into three parts g, h, h<1>, the part g serving as the supply, the parts h, h<1> being connected to the outlets. i, i<1>, The distributing-valve may be adapted for singlecylinder engines, the cranks may be disposed at 180 degrees, and the steam and exhaust passages interchanged.
Patent GB-190605298-A (GB)
Title: Improvements connected with Pneumatic Tyres for Vehicles.
Inventor: HEWER ARTHUR
Filed: 1906-03-05
Granted: 1907-02-28
Abstract: 5298. Hewer, A. March 5. Tyres, pneumatic. -- A puncture-preventing hoop of well - tempered gunmetal, steel, or other material is inserted between the inner tube and outer cover. One end 4 overlaps the other 5, the edges of which are turned up to form a guide 6, both ends having antifriction metal deposited or sweated on them to avoid heating. The hoop may be enclosed in a fabric cover 7. [Reference has been directed under Patents Act, 1902, to Specifications No. 18,040, A.D. 1898, No. 14,253, A.D. 1902, and No. 1477, A.D. 1905.]
Patent GB-190610462-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Prepayment Mechanism for use in connection with Renting or Hire Purchase of Electric Installations or other Standing Charges in connection therewith.
Inventor: MERRITT FRANCIS HENRY
Filed: 1906-05-04
Granted: 1907-04-11
Abstract: 10,462. Merritt, F. H. May 4. Electricity, supplying ; coin action. - Fixed charges for the supply of electricity or for hire of installations &c. are collected in prepayment apparatus. The inserted coins close the consumer's circuit and are removed by the collector periodically. The coin or coins inserted in the bucket e, Fig. 2, on the pivoted beam c tilt the beam against the action of the spring or counterweight f, so that the contact c<1> enters the mercury cup g. In the form shown in Fig. 4, the bucket and counterweight are carried by a cord c passing over pulleys c<2>, c<4>. Several balance beams may be employed when more than one coin is required, connected to the same or to separate switches.
Patent GB-190611970-A (GB)
Title: Temperature-controlled Apparatus for Automatically Preventing the Condensation and Freezing of Moisture on Shop Windows.
Inventor: REMIG MICHAEL
Filed: 1906-05-22
Granted: 1906-10-04
Abstract: 11,970. Remig, M., and Remig, J. May 22. Drawings to Specification. No Patent granted (Sealing fee not paid). Window fittings.-The condensation and freezing of moisture on shop windows are prevented by causing a stream of cold air to traverse the inside surface of the glass whenever the temperature inside is greater than that outside. Two fans on the same shaft are driven by an electromotor, which is started when the circuit is closed by a mercury thermometer fixed inside the window. One fan draws air from the exterior and forces it through a slit pipe at the bottom of the window, thus driving the warm air into a funnel at the top, whence it is drawn off by the other fan.
Patent GB-190612259-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Single Cylinder Fluid-pressure Motors Working Expansively.
Inventor: ERVILLE JOSEPH D AUTEMARRE D
Filed: 1906-05-25
Granted: 1906-10-25
Abstract: 12,259. ErvillÚ, J. d'A. d'. Oct. 31, 1905, [date applied for under Pateuts Act, 1901]. Single-acting engines; valves and valve-gear.- The motive fluid is distributed in a single-acting steam or compressed-air engine by a cam-actuated oscillating cock placed at the end of the cylinder. The cams are shaped as shown in Figs. 4 and 6, and two of them are employed as shown in Fig. 1 in reversing-engines.
Patent GB-190615526-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Rotary Pump
Inventor: MOORE MAURICE
Filed: 1906-07-09
Granted: 1906-11-22
Abstract: 15,526. Moore, M., and Murray, J. July 9. Movable-abutment type. - The inner wall of the pump chamber B' is formed by a revoluble drum T, the hollow trunnions R, S of which are mounted in brackets B, C. The outer wall is formed by a revoluble casing made up of a centre piece C' and side pieces H which are mounted upon lugs D eccentric to the trunnions R, S. The chamber B' is divided by a tongue A', which is pivoted in the drum and slides in a recess. E<1> in the casing. The casing is driven by a belt running on its periphery L<1> and drives the drum T by means of the tongue A<1>. The fluid is sucked into the chamber B'through the trunnion R and the passage W, and is forced out through the passage X and the trunnion S. The drum works between side pieces which are held in contact with it by screws J<1>. The joints between the casing walls H and their eccentric bosses are made fluid-tight by leatber rings L, which are secured to the bosses by plates M and are held in contact with the casing by annular plates P. The trunnions are packed by stuffing-boxes G, into the ends of which the suction and delivery pipes are screwed. Fig. 5 shows a method of coupling the suction ends of two pumps in one box.
Patent GB-190621907-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Self Acting Mules.
Filed: 1906-10-04
Granted: 1907-01-10
Abstract: 21,907. Lees & Co., A., and Clegg, R. Oct. 4. Mules.-To prevent backward rotation of the drawing - rollers during jacking, twisting, &c., a roller, ball, or like clutch is mounted on the front roller shaft a, the usual wheel and catches hitherto employed for this purpose being dispensed with. A disk h, recessed at h<1> to receive rollers or balls k, is fixed on the front roller shaft a and arranged within a stationary ring bracket i. The disk can turn freely within the ring when the rollers are delivering yarn, but any tendency of the disk to rotate in the opposite direction is prevented by the rollers &c. wedging between the bottom of the recesses and the ring.