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Patent GB-190406658-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to the Lubrication of Engines and Motor Propelled Vehicles.
Inventor: DOBBS ARCHIBALD EDWARD
Filed: 1904-03-18
Granted: 1905-01-19
Abstract: 6658. Dobbs, A. E., Dobbs, A. F., and Kerr, J. B. March 18. Lubricators.- Engines and live axles, particularly of steam-propelled vehicles, are automatically lubricated so as not to require attention for a considerable time. Fig. 1 shows a pump for injecting graphite and oil, or heavy oil alone, into the steam. The lubricant in the receptacle a passes by gravity, or is forced by a spring piston, through the orifice b into the chamber d in the screwed plug c, and is forced by the collar e of the reciprocating plunger f through the orifice g, which is provided with the check valve h. The front and rear portions of the plunger are preferably of different diameters. The forward end of the pump cylinder may be connected by a bye-pass passage to the orifice b, to return excess of lubricant. The plunger is connected with the valve gear, so that the quantity of lubricant supplied is proportional to the quantity of steam. When applied to the engine described in Specification No. 12,116, A.D. 1903, [Abridgment Class Steam engines], the plunger may be worked, the spindle of the bell-crank operating the valve rod, and the whole device may be mounted on the valve-chest. The crank-pins and crank shafts are bored with transverse passages to conduct the oil from the crank chamber to the bearings. The live axles are fitted with lubricating-pads l, Fig. 2, held up by springs m, and receiving oil from chambers o. Reserve oil may be fed through holes p from reservoirs in the hollow axles.
Patent GB-190410470-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Apparatus for Skinning, Breaking, and Degerminating Maize or other Grain.
Inventor: LIVESEY JOHN
Filed: 1904-05-06
Granted: 1905-05-04
Abstract: 10,470. Livesey, J. May 6. Hulling maize &c.-Maize or other grain is skinned, broken, and degerminated between opposing toothed faces reciprocating across each other in the direction of the feed of the material. In the form shown, a, Fig. 3, is a flat plate with pyramidal or facetted teeth on both sides reciprocated vertically between fixed plates b, b, provided with similar teeth, by means of the crank k and rod l. The grain is fed to the apparatus by the hopper d, which, in the case of a pair of reciprocating plates, is made double as shown. The fixed plates bare adjusted in position by shafts e, passing through brackets g fixed to the plates b, mounted eccentrically in bearings f, Fig. 2, and carrying arms h the position of which is regulated by a rod i and screw and hand-wheel i<1>, so that the positions of all the plates may be regulated at once. The rods i may be attached together so as to form a rectangular frame by means of which the positions of all the plates can be regulated through one hand-wheel. The opposing surfaces may be cylindrical or curved, and the material may ba fed by a horizontal cylindrical arrangement, or a travelling or reciprocating band or chain device may be used.
Patent GB-190412206-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Sparking Mechanism for Internal Combustion Engines
Inventor: REES ARTHUR
Filed: 1904-05-30
Granted: 1905-01-26
Abstract: 12,206. Rees, A. May 30. Gas and like engines, igniting in. To adjust the time of ignition, the striker F, which operates the pawl M of the movable sparking-point, is mounted on a rod A which has a vertical movement, but may turn slightly about the pin C. The time of contact between the pawl M and the striker F is varied by adjusting the position of the rod A by means of the screw I. If preferred, the screw may be replaced by a hand-operated pinion.
Patent GB-190415029-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Method or Process of Cleaning and Sterilizing Milk Bottles and the like
Inventor: ADAMS CHARLES SUMNER
Filed: 1904-07-05
Granted: 1904-08-25
Abstract: 15,029. Adams, C. S., and Rice, A. J. Aug. 1, A.D. 1903, [date applied for under Patents Act, A.D. 1901]. Bottles, washing. - Milk bottles and similar articles are cleaned and sterilized by subjecting them to the action of several jets of water or washing-fluid of gradually-increasing temperature. Fig. 1 shows a plan of apparatus for carrying out the process constituting the invention. A tank is divided into three compartments 1, 2, 3 by partitions 4, 5, and above it is mounted a pair of angleirons 6 constituting ways for the passage of boxes 28 containing inverted bottles, the last box pushed on at the left hand of the machine, serving to move forward all the others on the guide-ways 6. Beneath the bottle mouths and in line therewith are two pipes 10, 11 having orifices 12, the portions of the pipes in one compartment being cut off from those in the other compartments by plugs. The two portions of the pipes 10, 11 in each compartment are connected by a pipe 20 with a rotary pump 17, 18, 19, one for each compartment, the supply pipe 21 of each pump being respectively connected with the same compartment. The bottles may be subjected to the action of a washing-liquid in the compartments 2, 3 and to boiling water or steam in the compartment 1. The exterior of the bottles is cleansed by the jets when the bottle mouths do not stand directly above the orifices 12. At first, the liquid in all the tanks is heated by steam injected through pipes 23, but subsequently all the heating is effected in the compartment 1 by pipes 2, 4 heated by the exhaust steam from the engine 15 which drives the pumps, and the liquid from the compartment 1 overflows into the compartment 12 and thence into the compartment 3 from which it is drawn off, so that the temperature of the liquid becomes gradually less in each compartment from 1 to 3.
Patent GB-190415698-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Gas Stoves and the like
Inventor: NUTTING JOSEPH
Filed: 1904-07-14
Granted: 1905-06-15
Abstract: 15,698. Nutting, J. July 14. Gas cooking &c. stoves.-Relates to an attachment for the part of a gas stove or the like where the burners for beating the cooking-utensils are fitted, the invention being specially applicable to stoves fitted with tubular boilers as described in Specifications Nos. 19,583 and 23,151, A.D. 1901. Fig. 1 shows a stove with a tubular boiler a, the plate b, which ordinarily carries the bars or rack for supporting the cooking-utensils, being formed with upwardly-extending ridges c. A flat hot-plate d, having covered apertures e over the burners f, is supported by the ridges c. The products of combustion escape through holes g in the ridges or hotplate. The plate b may be dispensed with and the hot-plate d supported by walls, feet, or brackets. As shown in Fig. 3, the hot-plate is formed with supporting side-walls d<1>. The products of combustion may pass through flues g' to the underside of the hot-water tank h.
Patent GB-190419733-A (GB)
Title: A Screw Fitted Collar Stand with Extending Base.
Inventor: DELF WILLIAM
Filed: 1904-09-13
Granted: 1905-05-04
Abstract: 19,733. Delf, W. Sept. 13. Clip suspenders; displaying.-Consists of a stand for holding collars and like articles in shop windows in the position which they would occupy in wear, having an extending base to enable it to rest on the rods in shop windows at various distances apart. A strip of metal A, Fig. 1, is bent up at each end B, C. A screw E passes through the end C and presses against the collar or against a plate G, which is hinged to the lugs H. The front of the collar is held by the stud D through its buttonholes, and the back by the stud F, Fig. 1, or the loop T, Fig. 4. The screw will make the collar take any required set or slope. The extending base K consists of a strip of metal, fastened to the strip A by the bands J, and capable of sliding on it to make the stand wide enough to rest on the horizontal rods of shop windows set at any distance apart. The end of the extending base is curved as at L, Fig. 1, or as shown in Fig. 8. In the latter case, the end may be furnished with a screw R to grip the rod firmly. Or the end may be shaped as shown in Fig. 7 for attaching to a shelf or counter ; or it may be turned down as shown at N, Fig. 5, to fit into a socket M ; or, finally, it may be bent round as in Fig. 6 and provided with a screw 0. The sliding base may be omitted. Either the stand or the sliding base may have lateral supports.
Patent GB-190423024-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Brake Gear, for Railway Waggons and the like.
Inventor: POOLE THOMAS PAUL
Filed: 1904-10-26
Granted: 1904-12-01
Abstract: 23,024. Poole, T. P. Oct. 26. Brakes.-Relates to hand-applied brakes for railway wagons and the like. Levers B, B<1> on opposite sides of the wagon are connected by a bar C, and pivoted on a rod A, from which the brake blocks are actuated by a crank D, link F, and lever E. The levers are locked by pressing them under teeth H on guards G, G<1> against the action of springs J, J', the springs having projections c to hold the levers in their inoperative position.
Patent GB-190423620-A (GB)
Title: Improved Coin-operated Vending Machine
Inventor: HORROCKS LEONARD BROWNLOW
Filed: 1904-11-01
Granted: 1905-10-26
Abstract: 23,620. Horrocks, L. B. Nov. 1. Sale apparatus for c i g a r s, packets of cigarettes, or other goods, singly or in packets. Storage ; delivery mechanism. -The articles, such as cigars 3, thick packets 4, or thin packets 5, are contained in radial tubes or compartments in a rotary drum 1 which is turned in a semicircular underframe 6 to let them drop in succession through an aperture 7 and shoot 8 at the bottom. Filling goods receptacles.- The drum is filled as it is turned in the direction allowed by a ratchet 17 and pawl 18. The door of the casing being open, a trap 60 closes the exit 7 owing to the action of a rack 64 which is pushed outwards by a spring 65. Actuating-mechanism.-A band 14 connects the drum to a wheel and axle 13, 11 from which a weight (not shown) is suspended by another band 10. When action is given to a trigger 36, in consequence of the operation of a hand-lever 46and an intervening coin, an overlying lever 27 rocks a shaft bearing a disc 32 and a heavy arm 29. A pawl 34 upon the disc then makes a small lever 23 momentarily lift the pawl 18 from the ratchet-wheel, so that the drum is turned to the extent of one tooth. As the weight is not sufficient to start the drum when it is filled with long thin packages owing to their friction against the underframe 6, a spring 19 is provided to assist the weight at the higher positions. For the same purpose, the drum is unbalanced by a load 22 equal to one quarter of the contents. Displaying "empty" and like notices.-Numbers on the band from the drum are visible between guide-rollers 171. Coin action.-The coin 38 dropped down a shoot 40 lodges between the lower limb of the trigger 36 and a fixed sector 42. A disc 43 connected by a link 48 to the hand-lever 46 is then turned by the operation of the latter, and a pin 30 upon it pushes the coin past the lever. Fraud, preventing.-To prevent the machine from being jammed by a second coin, a counterweighted lever 57 is provided in the money shoot. A second coin cannot pass, but is pushed into an exit shoot 59, when the lever is raised by the pin which acts un the first coin. The discharged operative coin is received till the next operation by an exhibiting-trap 53, which is operated by toggle linkage 54 in connection with the trigger 36. The advance of the drum only takes place after the coin has passed into the receiving-shoot 52.
Patent GB-190426216-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Candle Holders and the like.
Inventor: GILMORE DAVID
Filed: 1904-12-02
Granted: 1905-11-02
Abstract: 26,216. Gilmore, D. Dec. 2. Candle holders.-The candle is supported at the bottom and gripped at some height above the bottom by the spring strips A, A<1>, carrying rivets c at their upper ends working in slots of the annular piece B, which is turned round to force the ends of the strips apart and release the candle.
Patent GB-190427606-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or connected with Hooks and Links of Chains.
Inventor: MATTASSI LUIGE DOMANICO
Filed: 1904-12-17
Granted: 1905-06-08
Abstract: 27,606. Matassi, L. D. Dec. 17. Hooks.-A hook B has a contracted space left between its point A and the main shank C. The link G to be placed on it is provided with an indentation I to allow the passage of the link through the contracted space.
Patent GB-190428122-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Electric Ignition Devices for Internal Combustion Engines.
Filed: 1904-12-22
Granted: 1905-07-06
Abstract: 28,122. Paxman, J., and Davey, Paxman, & Co. Dec. 22. Dynamos, driving. - The movable sparking terminal of an ignition device, and the oscillating armature of a magneto - electric machine, are operated by a rod D, which carries a trip-lever C, actuated by the reciprocating rod B. When the rod B engages the trip-lever C, the rod D rises and transmits motion to the armature through the rod a in the ordinary way. As soon as the trip-lever is released, the rod a is returned by the spring F to its normal position, while the rod D falls and engages the arm G connected to the movable sparking terminal situated within the cylinder. The time of ignition may be adjusted by varying the position of a pin or of an eccentric H.
Patent GB-190428634-A (GB)
Title: Improved Candle-holder.
Inventor: LEHMANN ERNST PAUL
Filed: 1904-12-28
Granted: 1905-02-23
Abstract: 28,634. Lehmann, E. P. Dec. 28. Candle holders; candlesticks.-Relates to candle holders of the type described in Specification No. 4435, A.D. 1895, and consists in combining a clamping-device for holding the candle with a number of downwardly-tapering edges for supporting the bottom edge of the candle. In one form, the candle is inserted through apertures in the bent portions b, Fig. 1, of the clamping-arms a, which have a tendency to spring apart and thereby grip the candle, the lower edge of the latter resting on the inwardly-bent edges c of the arms a. Fig. 5 shows a similar holder made of wire. In a modification, the arms a, Fig. 3, are rigid, and the candle is gripped between a pair of clamping-springs f guided in slots in the arms a.
Patent GB-190428684-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Apparatus for Drying & Screening Sand, Minerals, & other Substances
Inventor: ROBINSON EDWARD
Filed: 1904-12-29
Granted: 1905-11-23
Abstract: 28,684. Robinson, E. Dec. 29. Separating sand, minerals, &c.-In apparatus for drying sand, minerals, &c., the material to be dried passes through a heated rotary cylinder, the inner surface of which is fitted with an internal helical conveyer c provided with lifting- diaphragms d. The diaphragms are inclined to the axis of rotation, and are so disposed that at each revolution of the cylinder the material is lifted and dropped on the next diaphragm four times. In this way the sand &c., which is supplied to one end of the cylinder by a conveyer B or the like, advances to the other end, which may be provided with a screen of wire mesh, perforated sheet, or the like, for separating or grading the materials. The cylinder, which is mounted on wheels and rotated by bevel gearing b or other means, is enclosed in brickwork which contains a fireplace, preferably at the feed end of the cylinder. The waste gases from the fireplace pass to a chimney C, where they are utilized to heat air. The air is drawn through a jacket surrounding the chimney by a fan D, and is forced through the interior of the cylinder in a direction opposite to that in which the sand &c. is advancing. Where the material cannot be dried over a fire, a blast of heated air is driven into the centre of the cylinder. Apertures are formed in the helical conveyer for the passage of heated air.
Patent GB-190502963-A (GB)
Title: Improved Automatic Lubricating Mechanism for the Collars and Foot Step Bearings of Spinning Machine Spindles.
Inventor: GUILLEMAUD ARTHUR
Filed: 1905-02-13
Granted: 1905-06-29
Abstract: 2963. Guillemaud, A. Feb. 13. Lubricating.- Relates to means for continuously lubricating the collar and footstep bearings of spinning-spindles. The footstep rail is provided with a longitudinal chamber 16, and the bolster rail with two longitudinal chambers 8, 9, the lower of which communicates with the chamber 16 by pipes or tubes 20. The chamber 8 has a longitudinal groove along its bottom, and is supplied with oil by a suitable pump 25, the oil, after lubricating the bearings 4, being thrown off by the rotating rings or disks 7 on each spindle into the chamber 9, from which it flows by the pipes 20 into the chamber 16 to lubricate the footsteps. From the chamber 16 the oil passes by a pipe 23 to a filter 24 and thence to the pump. The collar bearing 4 is grooved to facilitate lubrication ; each spindle passes through a screwed plug 2 in the bottom of the chamber 9 ; the footstep bearing is formed in a screwed plug 17, and, at the point where the spindle passes through the cover 14 of the chamber 16, it is recessed to receive a flange on a plate 13 attached to the cover. The chamber 8 is also provided with a cover ; 21 is a washer.
Patent GB-190506472-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Water Waste Preventers
Inventor: TUA GIACINTO
Filed: 1905-03-27
Granted: 1905-06-29
Abstract: 6472. Tua, G March 27. Plug cocks; tampering with valves and cocks, preventing; venting.-The plug 5, Figs. 3 and 5, of a plug cock, in connexion with a water-waste preventer, has the upper mouth of the discharge passage 8 flared laterally, as shown at 14, to enable a small quantityof water to be drawn into a tumbler or the like. A separate vent passage 16 is also provided in the plug. The plug is retained in the casing by a screw nut 13, secured by a pin 12 and a lead seal 9, the closing-wire 10 of which rests in a groove in the nut and the end of the pin 12. An outlet tube 18, which is screwed to the valve casing, is fitted with a vent hole 19 and a flap valve 19<x> and serves as an additional security against tampering.
Patent GB-190507766-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in, and relating to, the Coating and Drying of Paper.
Inventor: STEPHAN SIGISMUND
Filed: 1905-04-12
Granted: 1906-04-12
Abstract: 7766. Stephan, S., [Rolier, P.-V.]. April 12. No Patent granted (Sealing fee not paid). Paper, coating; drying. -Relates to a method of and machine for the continuous coating on both sides of a web of paper. The paper from the roll 12 is coated on its upper surface by a coating-apparatus 4 of any suitable construction, and then passes to a drying-apparatus 9. The paper passes through the drying-apparatus in the circuitous manner shown, being supported until it reaches the reversing- roller 15 by rollers which engage only with the uncoated surface. After leaving the roller 15, the web is supported on its coated side, and passes out at 17, round stretching-rollers to a second coating-apparatus 4<a>, through a second drying-apparatus 9<a>, over a suitable stretching-device 20, and through a waterspraying device to the drum 22, on which it is wound. The whole apparatus is driven by means of belt and toothed gearing from a speed changing gear consisting of a conical friction roller 2 which drives a friction roller 3 feathered on a shaft mounted on bearings 36, Fig. 5, pressed upwards by weight levers 37. An arm 34 connected to the roller and screwed on the screw shaft 35, which may be turned by a hand-wheel, serves to move the roller 3 along the conical roller 2 and so to change the speed. Small rollers 39 connected with the shaft of the roller 3 and pivoted to the supports 38<a> ensure equal movement of both ends of the shaft. The drying-apparatus is provided with channels 23, 26, Figs. 1 and 2, placed at the top and bottom and having vertical pipes 24, 28 alternately arranged and provided with openings so arranged that the current of air flows to and fro over the web. As shown in Figs. 3 and 4, the pipes 24, 28 are replaced by tubes 30 each containing a fan which circulates heated air over the web. A serpentine heating-pipe 33 may be placed in the centre of the drying-apparatus. In order to ensure good adhesion of the paper on each coating- cylinder, part of the periphery is perforated and surrounds a vacuum chamber, Fig. 8, held in position by counterpoise weights 49 and maintained at reduced pressure by connexion with the hollow axle as shown.
Patent GB-190508820-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Printing Machines.
Inventor: FOSTER JOSEPH
Filed: 1905-04-26
Granted: 1906-01-25
Abstract: 8820. Foster, J., and Foster, J. Y. April 26. No Patent granted (Sealing fee not paid). Delivery apparatus; associating and collecting apparatus; newspapersealing arrangements; rotary machines.-Apparatus more particularly for pasting together webs for newspapers and the like, either during or immediately after printing in rotary machines, consists of a reservoir a for paste or gum, having a longitudinal slit c, or other openings at the outermost part or parts of the revolving reservoir. The linear velocity of the orifices is preferably equal to that of the web to be pasted, and the shaft d is geared to revolve at such a speed as to cause the paste to be deposited on the web the required distances apart. The paste is fed to the orifice by centrifugal action, and also if desired,by regulated air pressure and paste feed, through the hollow shaft d. The width and length of the orifices, and also their position, may be adjustable ; one way of adjusting the latter is by mounting on the cylinder a, carried loosely by the shaft d, a worm gearing with a worm-wheel fixed to the shaft. The pasting is either for securing sheets at their centre margins, or for forming temporary seals.
Patent GB-190510051-A (GB)
Title: Improved Means of Supporting Brushes for use in connection with Receptacles for Holding Semi-fluid or Fluid Matter.
Inventor: MARKS GEORGE CROYDON
Filed: 1905-05-12
Granted: 1905-08-17
Abstract: 10,051. Marks, G. C., [Low, A. A.]. May 12. Stoppers. -Relates to means for holding brushes in the covers of gum bottles and the like, so that the height of the brush may be adjusted from time to time to accommodate itself to the level of the liquid in the bottle. The cover a is provided with a hollow cylindrical portion a', which projects both above and below the cover, through which the brush can slide. The brush handle b is held temporarily in any prescribed position in the sleeve a<2> by the set-screw e.
Patent GB-190511535-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Regulators for Dynamo Electric Machines and the like.
Filed: 1905-06-02
Granted: 1906-02-08
Abstract: 11,535. British Thomson-Houston Co., [General Electric Co.]. June 2. Dynamos, regulating.-To maintain the voltage delivered by an alternating-current or direct-current dynamo constant at any point in the system, resistance or other controlling-device is automatically cut into or out of operation in either the field circuit of the generator or in the field circuit of an exciter. Fig. 1 shows the application of the invention to a single-phase generator 1 with a direct-current exciter 5. The voltage regulator consists of two cores 6, 7 connected together, the former of which is wound with coils 8 fed with current from the mains either directly or through a transformer 9. The core 7 is acted upon in the opposite direction to the core 6 by means of coils 10, 11, and is provided with a contact 14 for engaging with a fixed contact 15 as the cores vibrate. The coil 10 is connected in shunt with the exciter armature, while the coil 11 is in series both with the exciter field 12 and with a variable resistance 13. When the voltage of the generator diminishes, the effect of the coils 10, 11 preponderates, the contacts 14, 15 are in contact for more of any given period, and the resistance 13 is short-circuited. Instead of the core 7 being provided with two separate windings, a single winding, Fig. 2, in series with a resistance 23 may be employed in the field circuit only. The closing of the contacts 24, 25 short-circuits a portion 26 of the winding, and the other portion 27 may have its effect adjusted by a shunt resistance 28, condensers 35 being used to prevent sparking. A compounding effect is obtained by connecting the windings 30 in series with the secondaries of shunt and series transformers 33, 34.