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Patent GB-190613289-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Carburettors for Explosion Engines.
Inventor: FARKAS ARMAND
Filed: 1906-06-08
Granted: 1906-07-12
Abstract: 13,289. Farkas, A., and Kieffer, J. July 3, 1905, [date applied for under Patents Act, 1901 ]. Gas or explosivevapour engines, carburetting in. The carburettor c o mprises a heated tubular spray chamber a with air inlets g and an automatic supplementary air valve i placed at such a distance from the heated chamber that the heat thereof is not conveyed to the valve.
Patent GB-190614855-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Signalling Devices for Motor Cars and other Vehicles.
Inventor: TAS HERMAN
Filed: 1906-06-30
Granted: 1907-03-07
Abstract: 14,855. Tas, H. Jane 30. Signals, pneumatic and motor road vehicle.- A pair of hands 1, for use in motor and other road vehicles, are raised when the car is going to stop or turn. The hands are operated pneumatically from pedals 2 or from a bulb 4. The hand is connected to a collapsible rubber ball 4 by a tube 5 which straightens out when inflated. The collapsible ball is operated from the steering-wheel, the back of the seat, or between the knees.
Patent GB-190624637-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Heating and Cooking Apparatus.
Filed: 1906-11-03
Granted: 1907-07-25
Abstract: 2 4 , 6 3 7. Gronwald, H., and Vacuum Kochapparat Ges. Nov. 3. Boiling-pans.-Relates to heating or cooking apparatus in which the heating or cooking vessel is surrounded by a vacuum jacket 5, which may communicate with a chamber 10 in the vessel and contains a small quantity of liquid which is converted into vapour. The jacket 5 is connected by a pipe 6 to an air-pump, and is supplied with liquid through a pipe 7. If too much liquid passes into the jacket, the excess may be drawn through the pipe 6 and trapped in a reservoir 14. The airpipe 6 may be provided with an adjustable extension 15 arranged so that its lower end is at the level of the amount of liquid that can be completely converted into steam and fill the steam spaces. The reservoir 14 may also serve as a condenser if any steam is inadvertently drawn from the jacket 5. A gauge 13 shows the amount of water withdrawn. A corresponding amount of water is then added to the jacket. A portable field cooking-apparatus is also described and illustrated. The boiler, which is mounted above a fire-place, has its jacket connected to an air-pump placed in front of the boiler.
Patent GB-190625498-A (GB)
Title: Improved Soft Soldering Tin Paste and Process for the Production thereof.
Inventor: BAGGER JOHAN WILHELM
Filed: 1906-11-12
Granted: 1907-04-11
Abstract: 25,498. Bagger, J. W. Nov. 12. Soldering.-A soldering-paste is made by grinding to powder in vacuo an alloy of tin and lead, preferably with the addition of antimony, bismuth, and cadmium, and mixing with lactic acid and glycerin.
Patent GB-190627023-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Fishing Reels and other Rotating Drums or Winches, Requiring a Brake
Inventor: BAKER FRANK
Filed: 1906-11-28
Granted: 1907-10-24
Abstract: 27,023. Baker, F. Nov. 28. Brakes.-In brakes for fishing-reels and other drums and winches, of the type in which the friction members are forced through apertures in the hollow spindle of the reel by a wedge inside the spindle, an expanding spring carries the friction blocks. The reel 8, Fig. 6, is provided with a steel lining 8<a> and rotates on a hollow spindle screwed to the back-plate 10. Brake blocks 12 carried on the ends of an expanding spring 13, Figs. 4 and 6, project through radial apertures 11 in the spindle and bear on the lining 8<a> of the drum. A plug 14, which screws into the hollow spindle, is provided with a conical end 16 serving to force the blocks 12 apart to increase the friction on the drum. To enable the brake pressure to be released instantly, a push-pin 17 working through the plug 14 may be provided, this pin forcing the blocks 12 off the cone 16 and along the elongated slots 11. A weak spring 18 keeps the spring 17 in engagement with the block-carrying spring 13, and a stronger spring 20 tends to keep the blocks at the far end of the slots 11. The pin 17, instead of sliding in the plug 14, may screw therein, and is then provided with a "quick" thread.
Patent GB-190629423-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and connected with the Electric Lighting of Trains
Inventor: PRESTON WALTER REUBEN
Filed: 1906-12-24
Granted: 1907-11-07
Abstract: 29,423. Preston, W. R., Roe, C., and Roe, C. H. Dec. 24. Dynamos, driving.-Dynamos for train-lighting purposes, driven from one of the car axles, are connected to the bogie frame a through a pivoted link system b and are carried on rollers h on a curved guide g on the underframe e of the coach, the curve of the guide being part of a circle described with the bogie pivot as its centre. By this means, the driving-pulley n and the dynamo pulley are kept in alinement, and the tension in the belt is kept constant. The tension can be adjusted by a bolt k and nuts m, n.
Patent GB-190702655-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or connected with Tea Rolling Machines.
Inventor: PARRY ALFRED
IPC: A23F3/12
Filed: 1907-02-02
Granted: 1907-08-22
Abstract: 2655. Parry, A. Feb. 2. Tea.-In apparatus for rolling tea leaf &c., the tea is continuously fed to the annular space between two vertical, or approximately vertical, bodies having relative motion, and is discharged in a regulated manner. The apparatus comprises a casing a having internal ribs a, and a body i having external ribs i<1>, the ribs being preferably helically &c. disposed. The body i is movable vertically, and is carried by a shaft e resting in a bearing f<1> in a beam f, vertically adjusted by screw-gearing f<2>. The casing a is supported on ball bearings g<2> in a fixed sleeve g by a neck h<1> upon a plate h, and is made in two pieces, provided with fastenings and turning upon pivot pins k, k' when slid back in slots h<3>, p<1>. The shaft e, where it passes through the casing a, is surrounded by a copper tube, and, at the bearings g<2>, by a leather &c. sleeve. The plate h has two openings, preferably on either side of the beam f, with sliding doors j. The tea is fed by a shoot, inclined hopper b, and chamber c. The inlet to the hopper b has a valve q, centrally pivoted on a shaft q<1> and adjustably vibrated from a shaft r, which carries paddles s for feediog forward the tea and effecting ventilation of the machine, and is driven through stepped pulleys from a countershaft t<2>. The chamber c has a feeding-screw d upon the shaft e, and is supported by cross-bars l. In the machine shown, both the casing a and body i are rotated, the casing through a spur-wheel p, with which the pins k<1> engage, and the body through the shaft e, upon which the bevel-wheel m is slidably mounted. The wheel m rests in a neck c<2> on the chamber c, and oil is caught by a dish m<3> with a drainage-pipe. The casing a is preferably of timber at the top and of metal at the bottom, and iron surfaces in contact with the leaf may be covered with brass. A series of rotating rollers may be provided at the bottom.
Patent GB-190705194-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Electrical Ignition Apparatus for use in Internal Combustion Engines and for other purposes.
Inventor: POSTANS ARTHUR JAMES
Filed: 1907-03-04
Granted: 1908-04-04
Abstract: 5194. Postans, A. J. March 4. Gas and like engines, igniting in. The sparking- plug is an improvement on the apparatus described in Specification:,No. 1296, A.D. 1904. It has the moving terminal pivoted within it by means of a ball-and-socket joint, so as to prevent leakage. The fixed terminal a is a metal sleeve fixed or removably secured to the hollow plug b. The movable terminal c is a metal rod pivoted at c<1> to the insulated core f of the screwed plug g. A spring h attached to the short outer arm of'the rod c makes electrical connexion with the energizing-circuit, presses the ball c<1> on its socket, and normally holds the rod c in contact with the terminal a. When the coil is energized, the armature d fixed on the spindle d' is attracted, and in moving to the position shown in Fig. 4, presses the insulated bracket j against the rod c, breaking contact at one side and making contact at the opposite side of the terminal a, thus producing two sparks each time the magnet is energized.
Patent GB-190705232-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Case Shot for Shot Guns.
Inventor: CAMET BLAISE
Filed: 1907-03-04
Granted: 1907-04-18
Abstract: 5232. Camet, B. March 21, 1906, [date applied for under Patents Act, 1901]. Cartridges, small-arm.-In shot cartridges, the charge of shot is carried in a case which is discharged from the gun and turns over at a predetermined time during its flight to allow the shot to spread. The front end of the case is formed of one or more truncated cones terminating in a flat or slightly concave nose, and is roughened, preferably by the application of pulverized wool or cloth shearings, the cylindrical part of the case being made smooth, preferably by alcohol varnish. The rear end of the case is provided with a stopper f, Fig. 12, having its front part of less diameter than its rear part g, and a star-shaped piece i of strong paper is fastened to the stopper, so that the stopper becomes detached when the case leaves the gun. The tubular shell may be closed at its front end by cardboard disks j, Fig. 17, reinforced by a strong paper ring k.
Patent GB-190711903-A (GB)
Title: Improved Process of Manufacturing Fatty Compounds suitable for Turkey-red Dyeing.
Inventor: SCHMITZ ALEXANDER
Filed: 1907-05-22
Granted: 1907-07-18
Abstract: 11,903. Schmitz, A. May 22. Mordants and fixing-agents. - Consists in dispensing with the preliminary beating before sulphonation in the process described in Specification No. 8245, A.D. 1907, for making fatty compounds for use as turkey-red oils and soaps, which do not form insoluble lime soaps when mixed with calcareous water. The compounds are made by mixing at the ordinary temperature oxyricinoleic acid, or oxy-acid compounds prepared from other fatty oils or from animal or vegetable fats, or a mixture of one or more of these substances with other fatty oils, fats or fatty acids, with castor oil or fats or other similar fatty oils and ' sulphonating ' with sulphuric acid, washing, and finally mixing with alkali. The mixture is allowed to stand with the sulphuric acid until a sample of the product mixed with some alkali dissolves in hot calcareous water without the separation of a lime-soap.
Patent GB-190714744-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Packing Means for Rotating Shafts
Inventor: WHEELER GEORGE THOMAS
Filed: 1907-06-26
Granted: 1908-06-25
Abstract: 14,744. Wheeler, G. T., and Down, P. B. June 26. Stuffing-boxes, substitutes for.-A piston e sliding in a box c and packed by a cup-leather makes a fluid-tight joint with a collar d on a rotating shaft a. The rubbing surface is supplied with lubricant by a cup p, the stem of which projects into a groove in the piston e, and prevents its rotation. The piston may be pressed against the collar by fluid admitted to the box c by a pipe h. Where the atmospheric pressure is in excess, the collar d is arranged inside the box c, and the atmospheric pressure may be partly balanced by fluid admitted to the box c. In order to pack against excess of pressure on either side, the shaft a may have a collar d on each side of a single piston e, or a piston e on each side of a single collar d. The pistons e may be formed with rounded peripheries to allow the pistons to bed well on the collars. The collars d may be shrunk on the shafts, or may be made in two parts detachably secured.
Patent GB-190715242-A (GB)
Title: A New or Improved Device for Facilitating the Location of Punctures in Pneumatic Tyres and the like.
Inventor: WHITMORE ALBERT SAMUEL
Filed: 1907-07-02
Granted: 1908-07-02
Abstract: 15,242. Whitmore, A. S., and McKinnon, G. July 2. Tyres, pneumatic. - A device for detecting punctures in pneumatic tyres comprises a frame a lined with soft material and having a thin sheet b of rubber stretched over the outer surface. The frame a is drawn slowly round the inflated air-tube until the air escaping from the puncture bulges out the rubber sheet.
Patent GB-190715362-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Regulating Devices for Gas Burners.
Filed: 1907-07-03
Granted: 1908-07-03
Abstract: 15,362. Deutsche Continental Gas- Ges., and Mucke, F. July 3. Gas supply, regulating and controlling.-In connexion with a water-heater, the gas pressure is regulated, and the sudden formation of a full-sized flame is prevented, by means of a valve of special construction operated by a membrane arranged on the burner side of the valve. A throttle valve n, having a by-pass o, is placed in the burner supply pipe and is secured by a rod p to a weighted diaphragm r in a chamber u, which is connected with the supply pipe by a passage t<1> provided with a bored disk valve v. The throttle valve n is of paraboloid form with a cylindrical lower part, a certain amount of preliminary movement thus being possible without increasing the gas supply. When the gas is turned on, the pressure in the tube i between the valve n and the burner is reduced, and the gas therefore flows through the hole o in the throttle valve n to produce a small flame, and also from the diaphragm chamber u through the hole to in the disk valve v, thus causing the weighted diaphragm to lower. The valve n therefore leaves its seat, but the gas supply is not increased until the paraboloid part of the valve passes through the seat, the flame then gradually growing to its full height. When the tap is turned off, the increased pressure in the tube i is immediately communicated to the diaphragm chamber u, owing to the lifting of the valve v, and the flame is therefore at once extinguished.
Patent GB-190715957-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Attachments for Neckties and the like.
Inventor: PEGLER BERNARD CHARLES HOLMES
Filed: 1907-07-11
Granted: 1908-02-27
Abstract: 15,957. Pegler, B. C. H. July 11. Neck-tie retainers.-A neck-tie retainer is formed of a strip of metal provided at one end with a loop a or other means of attaching it to a collar stud, at the other with a double clip c to engage the tie and shirt front, and with a hook b or the like to support the folds of the tie. This hook and the clip c may be vertically adjustable. Fig. 4 shows the stem part a<1> of a two-part stud substituted for the loop a. Fig. 7 shows a modification with extended arms e which retain the tie band in position on the collar. The clip c may consist of two plain spring clips, or the outer portion which engages the tie may be a lever clip.
Patent GB-190727224-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Electrolytic Condensers
Filed: 1907-12-09
Granted: 1908-10-01
Abstract: 27,224. British Thomson-Houston Co., [General Electric Co.]. Dec. 9. Condensers.-Relates to electrolytic condensers, applicable as lightning-arresters &c., of the type consisting of a number of nested dishes with a suitable electrolyte in between, as described in Specification No. 19,235, A.D. 1906. According to the present invention, the dishes are arranged in pairs with their adjacent faces protected from the action of the electrolyte, so that, if a plate is punctured by local action, the electrolyte cannot penetrate the insulation between each pair and short-circuit the films on this plate, and so increase the load on the other cones. Each dish comprises two conical aluminium plates 1, 2 separated by a layer 3 of insulating-material, such as hydro-carbon, glass, porcelain, celluloid, &c., extending over the central portions only. The plates have flanges 4 extending beyond the edges of the insulating- backing 3 and electrically connected by one or more metal washers 5. The cones are separated by insulation blocks 6, so as to leave room to introduce the electrolyte 7, and the whole is held upright by insulating-posts 8, resting on brackets 9 in an oil tank 10 and passing through the flanges 4, washers 5, and. blocks 6. The upper and lower dishes are in contact with terminals. The mode of supporting the plates may be adopted with the single cones shown in the above-menticned Specification.
Patent GB-190800689-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to the Starting Mechanism of Motor Cars and the like.
Inventor: WILLIAMS HENRY WILLIAM
Filed: 1908-01-11
Granted: 1908-10-08
Abstract: 689. Williams, H. W. Jan. 11. Motor road vehicles.-The engines of a motor car are started from the driver's seat by means of cords passing over pulleys (not shown) to an annular rim mounted on the fly-wheel or in other suitable position, teeth formed on the fly-wheel being engaged by one or more plungers which are provided on the annular rim, and pass through the rim and through wedges or blocks adapted to engage with fixed springs or stops so as to prevent back-firing. As shown in Fig. 1, the annular rim a surrounds the fly-wheel b, and carries one or more plungers c sliding in a wedge or wedges d supported on a pivoted lever h, as shown in Fig. 2, the plunger being pressed into engagement with teeth on the fly-wheel by means of a spring n. To start the engine, the rim a is pulled in the required direction by means of a cordf so as to turn the engine shaft. If back-firing occurs, the lever h knocks against a apring j on a fixed guard m, and the wedge d is drawn down, forcing the plunger out of engagement with the teeth. A cord g is provided for bringing the device back to its first position. Fig. 3 shows a modification, in which the wedge is replaced by a loose block o, through a hole in which the plunger c slides. Back-firing is prevented by the engagement of the end o<2> of the block with a fixed piecep. The plunger is lifted out of engagement with the teeth when its end o' meets the block q. A spring g returns the device to its starting position.
Patent GB-190802380-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Heels.
Inventor: BOULT ALFRED JULIUS
Filed: 1908-02-03
Granted: 1909-01-28
Abstract: 2380. Boult, A. J., [United Shoe Machinery Co.] Feb.3 Heels, are formed with projections f on the upper; surface b, which penetrate the leather of the hee seat and at the same time retain the cement which is applied to them before being pressed into contact therewith. The external lifts of the heel are preferably made with the grain side of the leather outermost The heel seat lift is bevelled at the breast edge, and around the entire edge of this lift the projections are omitted to admit of trimming without revealing, the projections. The centre of the surface of the lowermost lift c, on to which the top lift is subsequently spanked in the heel-attaching operation, has depressions g which serve to retain cement applied to the heel to aid in the retention of the top lift The projections f and depressions g are produced while moulding or compressing the heels.
Patent GB-190802468-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or connected with the Spindles of Machines for Spinning, Doubling, or Twisting Yarns, and Winding same onto Bobbins or Spools or into Cops.
Inventor: DUCKETT JOHN
Filed: 1908-02-04
Granted: 1908-11-12
Abstract: 2468. Duckett, J., [Duckett, J., and Duckett, F. J.]. Feb. 4. Friction gearing. -The flyers and spindles of spinning-machines are driven by friction gearing constructed as shown. The wharl 6 of the flyer is driven from the wharl 3 of the spindle through a pair of friction disks 23, 24 on a common spindle 25, the sizes of the disks being arranged to give the desired speed. The spindle wharl 3 is driven by a band.
Patent GB-190804885-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Electrically Controlled Gas Lighting Devices.
Inventor: MADDICK JAMES CHARLES ANDREWS
Filed: 1908-03-04
Granted: 1909-02-04
Abstract: 4885. Maddick, J. C. A. March 4. Lighting and extinguishing g a s - Apparatus for automatically lighting one or more gas jets on the failure of electric light comprises two gas cocks A, B, Fig. 1, arranged in the gas-supply pipe, the cock B farthest from the burners being operated simultaneously with the electriclight switch. The cock A is closed or opened, according as the current is on or off, preferably by means of a solenoid d in the electric circuit acting through its core e on the cock lever f, so that, if the current should fail, the cock A is opened and, the cock B also remaining open, gas is supplied to the burners which are then ignited by pilot-jets or other means. The spindle i<1> of the cock B and a second spindle k<1> in alinement with it are each provided with an insulating cylindrical block fitted with a common movable sleeve p, with slots n, o in which pins j, l projecting from the spindles i<1>, k' engage. A reduced-part k<2>, Fig. 5, of the spindle k<1> has pins k<3> for engaging one or other of the cheeks s<1> of a contact-arm s. When the sleeve p, Fig. 1, is operated by an arm p<1>, the arm s, Fig. 4. is brought between a plate t and a spring plate u to complete the electric lighting-circuit, and when the sleeve p, Fig. 1, is rotated sufficiently for the edge of the slot n to contact the pin j, the cock B is opened, the completion of the. electric circuit closing the cock A. By moving the sleeve laterally so as to disengage the pin l from the slot o, the cock B can be operated independently of the switch, and the arm p<1> then moves in a slot q<1> in the cover instead of in a parallel one q.- In a modification, the gas cock A and the core e, Fig. 6, of the solenoid dare carried by a telescopic part c<3> of the gas-pipe, and the cock lever w engages with a fixed bracket x.
Patent GB-190805572-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Cut-off Valved Rotary Engines.
Inventor: KNOWLES JOHN
Filed: 1908-03-12
Granted: 1908-11-05
Abstract: 5572. Knowles, J. March 12. Indicating amount of opening of valves and cocks. - The spindle of the cutoff valve in a rotary engine carries a pinion 46. The latter is rotated as required by a rack 53, which carries a pointer 54, thereby indicating on a graduated scale 52 the position of the valve.
Patent GB-190808973-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to Suction Dust-removing Apparatus.
Inventor: WHITFIELD HARRY
Filed: 1908-04-24
Granted: 1908-07-30
Abstract: 8973. Whitfield, H. April 24. Vacuum cleaning- apparatus.-A suction nozzle consists of an outer member d formed with a slot e and bearing- surfaces g and an inner member b forming a T- or L-shaped end to the suction pipe a, and constituting a pivot by which the member d is attached to the suction pipe. The member b is formed with a wide slot c, through which the slot e communicates with the pipe a.
Patent GB-190812660-A (GB)
Title: Improved Machine for Issuing Registration Certificates for Registered Letters, Postal Packets, or the like.
Inventor: TIMAR DAGOBERT
Filed: 1908-06-12
Granted: 1909-01-21
Abstract: 12,660. Timar, D., and Dreger, K. von. June 12. Copying documents &c.-Relates to apparatus for dealing with registered letters or other postal packets in which the Post Office and the sender are supplied with duplicate copies of the registration certificates which are prepared in the machine itself. The letters are carried in succession between two or more rollers 3, 4 and 6, 7, over which separate webs of copying-paper 10, 11 pass, so that the address on the letter comes against the copying- webs twice or more often. One web of paper is subsequently cut, and the part carrying the address delivered to the sender. The letter is brought by a guide to the first pair of rollers with the address facing the roller 3. A handle 18 is then given a partial turn and rotates through spur-wheels the roller 3. The letter is thus delivered through a hopper to the second pair of rollers, which is rotated by an endless chain 5 from the roller 3. A further movement of the handle 18 passes the letter between the second pair of rollers to the chamber 29. A knife 22 is connected by levers to the rod of a cam-plate 19 mounted on the shaft of the handle 18, so that, on completion of the revolution of the handle, the knife 22 cuts off a copy of the address, which then passes out of the apparatus. A second knife 28 is connected by levers to flaps 32, Fig. 2, at the base of the receptacle, so that, when the flaps are opened, the web 10 carrying the Post Office copies is cut and passes out with the letters. The webs 10, 11 may be kept moist by sponges 12, 13.