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Patent GB-190516595-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Razor-stropping Machines.
Filed: 1905-08-15
Granted: 1906-01-11
Abstract: 16,595. Randolph, T. H., and Wilkinson Sword Co. Aug. 15. Strops.-Relates to razor-stropping apparatus in which the blade is held stationary and the strop is carried round two independently - movable guiding - devices which bring it into o contact with either side of the razor alternately. The strop A passes round guide-rollers F<1>, F on the pivoted arm F', then round the sleeve D' on the rod D at the back of the razor, and then round guide-rollers E, E<1> on the pivoted arm E'. The razor is held in a spring clip holder mounted on a rod B<1>, and is capable of end movement though prevented from moving sideways by the two-rods B', D being connected at the top and bottom. When one end of the strop is pulled, the corresponding. side of the guiding-frame is brought towards the razor and the noses E<4>, F<4> are arranged so that the strop is pushed out of contact with one side of the razor before it comes into contact with, the other side.
Patent GB-190523607-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Apparatus for Communicating and Transmitting Notifications, and the like, from One Part of a Ship to Another.
Inventor: CHADBURN WILLIAM
Filed: 1905-11-16
Granted: 1906-10-25
Abstract: 23,607. Chadburn, W. Nov. 16. Order apparatus.-Relates to order apparatus for ships in which the receiver comprises three or more solenoids, adapted to be energized in sequence by currents sent over separate line wires from the transmitter, the cores of the solenoids acting on a crank so as to rotate the pointer of the receiver. The cores 11 of the solenoids 10 are connected to the crank 13 by arms 12, so that the pointer 14 can be rotated in either direction according to the order in which the solenoids are energized. The transmitter may have several sets of contacts, corresponding contacts 1, 1<x>, 1<y> of each set being connected together and to one of the solenoids by line wire 20. The transmitter contacts may be double, so that the contact on the handle 4 may stand between the twin contacts in its position of rest, no current then flowing. The cores of the solenoids are held in position, after actuation, by providing an iron piece at the outer end of the solenoid, so that when the core moves in, it is attracted by the iron piece and is held by it at the end of its stroke, thus keeping the pointer 14 at the centre of its order. If the number of orders is greater than three, the crank 13 moves the pointer through gearing giving an intermittent motion to the pointer, such as a Geneva-stop motion. The apparatus may be duplicated to act as a tell-tale.
Patent GB-190523890-A (GB)
Title: Improved Signal and Gate Mechanism for Railway Crossings.
Inventor: COMBS JAMES GIDIAN OTTAWAY
Filed: 1905-11-20
Granted: 1906-05-10
Abstract: 23,890. Combs, J. G. O., and Combs, I. D. Nov. 19, 1904, [date applied for under Patents Act, 1901]. Barriers; crossing - gates. - Railway tracks at crossings are provided with barriers and signals operated at the approach of trains, by trip gear actuated by the wheels. The barrier consists of an horizontal bar 4, Fig. 6, pivoted to a pair of parallel bars 5, 6 one of which is fast on a transverse shaft 8 adapted to be rotated by a crank 9, a pin on which engages a shoulder 32, Fig. 7, on a loop 31 actuated by a rod, wire, or like connexion c attached to the gate-operating trip. The lamp and semaphore signals are carried on a pillar 10 which also carries a hammer to strike a gong and is rotated by a crank and link 14 from an arm 15 on a transverse shaft 16, which carries at the opposite end two arms 17 having pins 18, 19 in opposite directions. The pin 19 is engaged by a catch on a rod 28 pivoted to an arm 27 on a transverse shaft 25, the other arm 26 being attached to the signal-operating trip connexion b. To prevent accidental operation of the device, a signal-setting trip first operates, by a connexion a, attached to an arm 21, a cross-shaft 20, so as to lower a pivoted frame 23 in order to allow the signalsetting catch rod 28, which rests on the frame 23, to drop into engagement with the pin 19, which is then pulled over by the next, the signal-setting, trip. This in turn lowers the pin 18 so that the gate-actuating catch rod drops, and the shoulder 32 engages the pin on the crank 9 so as to raise the barrier 4, on the train meeting the gate-operating trip. A resetting trip, by means of a connexion d and loops 35, 36 attached to arms 33, 34, lowers the barrier and raises the frame 23 while at the same time a shoulder 37 on the arm 34 engages the pin 19 so as to re-set the signal and raise the shoulder 32 out of engagement with the pin on the crank 9. A vertical guide is provided to prevent displacement of the catch rod 28., The trip consists of a pair of arms 38, 39 pivoted below the rail tread but extending above it, and having depending lugs pivoted to links 40, 41 pivoted together, as shown, and attached to a lever 42 with resetting springs 44, to which the connexions a, b, c, or d may be attached. When applied to single tracks, the mechanism is duplicated and preferably arranged on opposite sides of the track, and on double tracks, each mechanism will be applied at the point to be protected. The working parts are protected by a housing.
Patent GB-190525450-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Anti-slipping and Anti-puncturing Device for the Tyres of Vehicles
Inventor: BROWN CHARLES
Filed: 1905-12-07
Granted: 1906-07-12
Abstract: 25,450. Brown, C. Dec. 7. Tyres, pneumatic.-A protective tread for tyres comprises an endless band of three or more rows of metal plates A, B, C, suitably curved and connected together, transversely and circumferentially, by means of hooks and eyes formed on the plates. The band is attached by hooks D to adjustable retaining-wires E. According to the Provisional Specification, the band is secured by means of clips bolted at intervals to the wheel rim.
Patent GB-190525779-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Rims and Elastic Tyres for Road-vehicle Wheels.
Inventor: HOPKINSON JOHN EBENEZER
Filed: 1905-12-11
Granted: 1906-02-01
Abstract: 25,779. Hopkinson, J. E. Dec. 11. Felloes or rims; tyres, elastic other than pneumatic.-For preventing creeping, the base of the elastic tyre a, which is made of harder rubber than the body, and the rim c are formed with corresponding slots e and dovetailed projections d, which may be taper in width, or inclined from side to side, or both taper and inclined. To assist in forcing the tyre down into the rim channel, the inturned lip f of each side flange is formed with a continuous series of diamond-shaped projections f<1>.
Patent GB-190526177-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Advertising Apparatus and the like.
Inventor: THOMPSON WILLIAM PHILLIPS
Filed: 1905-12-15
Granted: 1906-12-15
Abstract: 26,177. Thompson, W. P., [Veneziani, F., and Veneziani, A.]. Dec. 15. Clutches.-Relates to apparatus of the type in which bands carrying advertisements are intermittently wound from one roller to another and back again, the advertisements appearing at apertures in a casing which also carries a clock dial or dials and a calendar. A motor drives through gearing a shaft a, carrying upon a bush N a disk b<1> and upon a bush M a loose wheel b, Fig. 4. A disk b', fixed to the frame H, carries lugs C', C<2> adapted to engage lugs D', D' on the disk b<1> when the disk b<1> is rotated by the shaft a, and so to push the disk b<1> towards the wheel b, thus causing lugs E', E' to engage lugs F<1>, F<2> and driving the wheel b until the lugs D<1>, D<2> get free of the lugs C<1>, C', when the disk b<1> is pushed out of engagement with the wheel b by a spring y which is stronger than the corresponding spring y<1>. The wheel b then remains at rest until the disks b<1>, b<2> again engage one another by reason of the continuous rotation of the shaft a.
Patent GB-190526448-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Pneumatic Despatch Tube Apparatus.
Inventor: FORDYCE EDMOND ARMITAGE
Filed: 1905-12-19
Granted: 1906-09-13
Abstract: 26,448. Fordyce, E. A. Dec. 19. Pneumatic dispatch apparatus.-Provides a twotube apparatus on the vacuum principle, through which no air passes when the apparatus is not in use. The transit tubes A, B form through the junction box A' a continuous airtrack, and the tube B3 which connects the track to the exhaust tank K contains a single main valve D which is operable by a piston in a cylinder E having pipe connexions L, M with the tube. A carrier inserted at either station briefly closes the circuit of an electro-magnet G, which opens an atmospheric pipe F at the bottom of the cylinder. Atmospheric pressure accordingly lifts the piston so that the valve is opened. The carrier then travels till finally the piston descends again in consequence of suction through the lower connexion M of the cylinder, which contains a regulating-valve N.
Patent GB-190601924-A (GB)
Title: Electrode for Storage Batteries.
Inventor: EDISON THOMAS ALVA
Filed: 1906-01-25
Granted: 1906-07-26
Abstract: 1924. Edison, T. A. Nov. 2, 1905, [date applied for under Patents Act, 1901]. Secondary batteries. - Electrodes for alkaline accumulators of the Edison type are made as follows :-Strips of thin sheet steel, preferably plated with a cobalt-nickel alloy coating which is welded in place by heating in a hydrogen atmosphere, are bent into tubes. The strips are closely perforated, and the joints 2 may be of the double overlap kind, Fig. 4, and either vertical, or helical, as in Fig. 7, or of the kind shown in Fig. 5. The active material, such as nickel hydroxide, mixed with conducting flakes, preferably of cobalt or cobalt-nickel alloy, and with a sticky substance, such as glucose or molasses, is introduced in successive increments, which are submitted to great. pressure by means of tamping plungers. Thispressure crushes the active material into intimate contact with the conducting flakes. Preferably before filling, seamless rings 6 of nickel are fitted on the tubes for strengthening purposes, the rings upon adjacent tubes being staggered, Fig. 2, to permit the close assembling in the grid 9 by means of bent-over portions 10. Before the tubes are closed, a nickel cup or diaphragm 7, Fig. 6, is introduced into each end, and the edges 8 are then turned over, holding the active mass against longitudinal expansion. After the glucose &c. is dissolved out to render the mass more porous, the grids may be grouped with the ordinary corrugatedpocket negatives, as in Fig. 1.
Patent GB-190602714-A (GB)
Title: An Improved System for the Transmission of Motive Power in Automobiles.
Inventor: SPYKER JACOBUS
IPC: B60K3/02
Filed: 1906-02-03
Granted: 1907-02-02
Abstract: 2714. Spyker, J. Feb. 3. Gas and like engines compressed-air engines.-Relates to pneumatic transmission systems for automobiles in which a separate air motor is used for each driving-wheel, each motor having several cylinders, and comprises an arrangement of valves and tubes for distributing the air to the motors, and for connecting them to a separate braking- reservoir. Means are described for regulating the speed of the explosion engine according to the pressure of the air in the reservoir. The explosion motors 1 drive the air-pumps 2. which compress air into the reservoir 5, and a valve 6 distributes the compressed air through suitable pipes to the motors 13, 14, 15, 16 actuating the wheels of the vehicle through spur reducing-gear. A spring- controlled safety-valve 33 on the air reservoir is arranged to control by means of levers and links the admission valve 35 of the explosion motor. A braking action is obtained by reversing the air motors and closing the valve 6, thereby opening the valve 18 and allowing the motors to compress air into the auxiliary reservoir 19. The exhaust gases from the explosion engine are led through a winding tube in, or into a casing enclosing. the main air reservoir 5. Also, the cooling-water from the cylinders of the motor 1 is pumped through the casings of the air motors to warm the latter.
Patent GB-190605836-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or appertaining to Machines for Washing and Scouring or similarly Treating Textile Piece Goods.
Inventor: BAILEY JAMES
Filed: 1906-03-10
Granted: 1907-01-24
Abstract: 5836. Bailey, J. March 10. Washing.-In washing, scouring, or like machines for textile piece goods, the drafts of fabric are delivered in a contracted condition to the squeezing or nipping rollers by specially formed and arranged guideways, troughs, or funnels. Fig. 1 shows the guidewayf in position with the ordinary arrangement of washing - machine. These guideways or troughs, which may be made of wood, earthenware, brass, or other suitable material, are of the sections shown in Figs. 4 and 5, and may be formed either square or rectangular with converging sides and their ends tapered or curved so that they are brought close to the nip of the squeezing- rollers. The guideways are held in position either horizontally or incliued, by the pins g engaging with the cross-pieces e attached to the side frame of the machine. One or more drafts may be passed through each guideway.
Patent GB-190611733-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Supports for Mantles for Incandescent Gas Lighting.
Filed: 1906-05-19
Granted: 1906-07-26
Abstract: 11,733. Jackson, J. E. Evans-, and Block Light, Ltd. May 19. Incandescent gas lamps; anti-vibration devices.- The mantle is carried by one or more metal chains e, Fig. 2, the ends of which are secured to vertical supports a, and, when using two or more chains c<1>, Fig. 3, to a ring e on the vertical supports e<1>.
Patent GB-190612251-A (GB)
Title: A Protector for Pneumatic Tyres.
Inventor: LAUENER ALFRED
Filed: 1906-05-25
Granted: 1906-10-04
Abstract: 12,251. Lauener, A. May 27, 1905, [date applied for under Patents Act, 1901]. Tyres, pneumatic; spring wheels; wheels with portable tracks. - A metal protector for pneumatic tyres comprises a ring c larger in diameter than the tyre f, which rolls in it. The outer surface may be channelled or furnished with studs, and is fitted in position after deflation of the tyre.
Patent GB-190613130-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to the Manufacture of Cellular Plates, Cylinders or the like for Separating or Sorting Apparatus.
Inventor: ELLIS REGINALD EATON
Filed: 1906-06-06
Granted: 1906-11-29
Abstract: 13,130. Eills, R. E., [Herrmann, L., (Firm of)]. June 6. Separating or sorting.-In a modification of the invention described in Specification No. 4408, A.D. 1906, in which pitted plates or cylinders for separating and sorting apparatus are made by shearing and bending downwards by dies, the sheet metal employed is of greater thickness than the depth of the cells to be produced, so as to prevent the formation of slits at the front edges of the cells. The punch c, Fig. 1, and die d are adapted to cut partly through the metal around a portion of the periphery of the cell and to press out the metal to form the cell. When metal of less thickness than the depth of the cell required is used, the cutting is dispensed with and the tongue or metal of the cell left united with the metal at the-front edge of the cell, the die f, Fig. 2, employed having a recess or opening g. Or the metal may be cut at both sides of the cell and the metal between the cuts forced down to form the cell. The cells may be stamped or pressed obliquely to the surface of the metal as shown in Fig. 4.
Patent GB-190614959-A (GB)
Title: Mechanism for Transmitting Movement from one Reciprocating Member to another.
Inventor: HEIDE HENRY CONRAD
Filed: 1906-06-30
Granted: 1907-03-07
Abstract: 14,959. Heide, H. C., [Standard Screw Co.]. June 30. Tappet mechanism.-Relates to mechanism for transmitting movement at a reduced speed from one reciprocating member to another, applicable to the pointing and cupping tool spindle of a machine for making metal screws. The spindle 1 has a pin 2 which engages slots 3 formed in a hollow shaft H, Figs. 1 and 2, adapted to be driven from the driving-shaft B, so that the spindle 1 may be rotated and longitudinally displaced. The pm 2 projects into a collar 16, which is adapted to be rotated in a recess 15 of a sleeve 13 loose on the shaft H. The sleeve 13 is pivoted to a lever 7 by a pin 14, which is situated between the pivot 6 and a projection 8 on the other end of the lever. The stud 8 projects into the path of a reciprocating rod 9 which, as it reciprocates, moves the sleeve 13 along the shaft H through the lever 7, and carries with it the spindle 1 against the action of the spring 4. From the position of the pin 14, the travel of the spindle 1 is less than that of the plunger shaft 9, and this proportion may be varied by adjusting the distance between the pin 14 and stud B, relatively to the operative length of the lever 7. The lever 7 has a slot 17 through which extends the stud of the frame A.
Patent GB-190618869-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Etching Machines.
Inventor: LEVY LOUIS EDWARD
Filed: 1906-08-23
Granted: 1907-01-03
Abstract: 18,869. Levy, L. E., and Levy, M. Aug. 23. Etching.-Relates to apparatus for carrying out the etching process described in Specification No. 2710, A.D. 1899, and includes means for drawing off fumes, gases, &c. from the etching-chamber, condensing them, and returning them to the atomizers. Fig. 1 shows a side elevation of the apparatus, Fig. 6 a section through the etching and washing chambers, and Fig. 3 a transverse section through the etching-chamber. The washing tank or chamber W has in its floor a number of perforated jet-spreaders or sprayers w connected by pipes with a water supply. The etching tank or chamber 15 has a perforated floor beneath which is a compressed-air chamber 16. In the perforated floor are fixed atomizers, Figs. 10 and 11, consisting of nozzles 20 and caps 22, the upper nipple and shoulder 21 of the nozzle being grooved to separate the cap and form passages for the acid which surrounds the atomizers to pass to the outlet. The outlet of the cap 22 is larger than that of the nozzle 20. An opening in the side of the tank 15 communicates with a funnel 23 which has a plug 24 for discharging the acid, and communicates with a drain pipe 25 passing from the tank W. The level of the acid in the chamber may be ascertained by looking into the funnel. At the side of the tank is an off-set which communicates with the chamber and with a condenser 26, provided with a series of baffle-plates, and connected by a casing 28 and pipe 29 with the suction side of a pump or blower 30. The blast or compression side of this blower is connected through a trap 19 and pipe 31 with the chamber 16. Oil is placed in the casing of the blower, and the trap 19 serves to catch any that may be forced beyond the pump. The oil returns through a drip pipe D to the pump. A pipe connects the pipe 31 with the drain pipe 25, and a valve is provided for directing a portion of the air &c. from the fan into the drain pipe. On the upper edge of the chambers 15, W is a frame 34 having an inwardlyextending flange 33, Fig. 3, and to it are attached the side pieces 35 of a bridge 36. The bridge carries a partial cover 47 for the etching-chamber, the rear part of such cover being hinged. It also carries mechanism for reciprocating a plate-carrier C the frame of which is provided with wheels c<1> running on the bars 34. The part carrying the plate extends under the cover 47, and is mounted on parts 50 of the carriage depending between the sides of the cover 47 and the frame 34. A crossbar of the carrier is connected by a detachable hook with a slide 42 in guides on the bridge 36, and operated by a rod 41 and crank 40 driven by gears 39 from a shaft 37. The carriage may be thrown up into the position shown in dotted lines for inspection of the plate.
Patent GB-190621059-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Automatically Operating Telegraphic Mechanism for Transmitting Predetermined Messages particularly applicable for Fire Alarm Apparatus.
Inventor: SMITH CHARLES
Filed: 1906-09-22
Granted: 1907-08-29
Abstract: 21,059. Smith, C. Sept. 22. Order or alarm apparatus.-The descent of a weight, on the operation of an automatic fire-alarm, actuates a telegraphic transmitter adapted to make and break a circuit, thereby sending a message to a central station indicating the locality of the fire. The fire-alarm device may be of the kind described in Specifications Nos. 14,582 and 16.242, A.D. 1906, [Abridgment Class Fire, Extinction &c. of], and may comprise flexible connexions 2, Figs. 1 and 2, each of which extends through one of the rooms of the building and passes over guide pulleys and round a fusible device, on the melting of which the flexible connexion is straightened under the action of a weight 1, which thus descends in the case 3. By means of a window 4, the weight affected can be observed. A projection 5 on the weight depresses a striker 6 mounted on arms 7, and thus roch a shaft 8 and an arm 9, which releases a weighted arm 10, located between two pins 15 on a toothed wheel 12. The motion of the latter is transmitted through a train of wheels to a notched disk 22, the speed being regulated by means of a flier 21. A lever 23, Fig. 1, counterweighted so as to bear against the periphery of the disk 22, is provided with a contact screw 24, adapted to contact, when the lever is rooked, with a spring 25, a message being thus sent through wires 26, 27 to a central station. In case of the breakage of one of the connexions 2, contacts 28, 29, Fig. 2, are closed by the weight 1, in order to indicate at the central station that the alarm message is due to accident. The disk 22, instead of being notched, may be formed with conducting and non- conducting surfaces of proper lengths. According to the Provisional Specification, the rocking lever or key of the transmitter may be actuated.by means of a number of projections on the falling weight itself.
Patent GB-190624220-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Wrought Metal Wheels.
Inventor: SCHOEN CHARLES THOMAS
Filed: 1906-10-30
Granted: 1907-04-18
Abstract: 24,220. Schoen, C. T. Oct. 30. Forging.-A car wheel is made by the process described in Specification No. 24,219, A.D. 1906, by pressing an angular slab in successive dies, Figs. 3 and 5, which enclose it circumferentially. The slab may have a small piece nipped off each corner. The use of the dies, Fig. 5, may be followed or replaced by the use of dishing-dies, Fig. 8.