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Patent GB-191301242-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Buoyant Deck Seats.
Inventor: LINKLETER WILLIAM DALTON
IPC: B63C9/30
Filed: 1913-01-16
Granted: 1914-01-15
Abstract: 1242. Linkleter, W. D., and Linkleter, J. Jan. 16. Pontoon rafts.-Deck seats consist of two rows of air-cases enclosed by scantlings normally housed one on top of the other and hinged together so that when thrown overboard to form life-saving rafts they open out to give increased width and additional stability. Spring catches C ship into eyeplates E when in the water and lock the cases in the open position.
Patent GB-191303439-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Automatic Small Arms.
Inventor: TOMISCHKA ALOIS
IPC: F41A19/48
Filed: 1912-10-28
Granted: 1913-05-08
Abstract: 3439. Tomischka, A. Oct. 28, 1912. Breech actions, sliding barrel and breechblock. - Relates to automatic pistols as described in Specification 13,880/08, in which the hammer can be cocked, for firing the first shot, by a pull of the trigger, the action of the trigger being transmitted to the hammer by a cocking-bar pivoted to the hammer. The invention consists in forming the bar with halfcock and full-cock notches adapted to engage a fixed tooth on the frame, and with a notch adapted to be engaged by a safety hook. In Fig. 1, the parts are shown with the half-ccck notch 9 engaging the tooth 13, and with the notch 17 engaged by the safety hook 18. If the safety hook is disengaged, and the trigger pulled, a projection 15 on the trigger engages the hooked end of the cocking-bar 8 and draws it forward, thereby rotating the hammer, until the two parts slip out of engagement, whereupon the gun is fired. During automatic firing, the full-cock notch 10 engages the tooth 13, and the cocking-bar is raised to disengage it by a pawl 16 on the trigger.
Patent GB-191305502-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Non-refillable Bottles.
Inventor: CLARK FLETCHER BROWN
IPC: B65D49/04
Filed: 1913-03-05
Granted: 1913-12-11
Abstract: 5502. Clark, F. B. March 5, 1912, [Convention date]. Bottles, non-refillable.-A metal tube 3 having a conical lower end 4 closed by a ball has strips 10 cut out of the sides, bent over, and held together by a pin 11 to form a baffle. A screen 9 is added. The tube 3 is secured in the neck of the bottle by inturned parts 6, 7.
Patent GB-191306130-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to Wind Screens for Propelied Vehicles.
Inventor: HANS DRESCHER
IPC: B60J1/04
Filed: 1913-03-12
Abstract: 6130. Drescher, H. March 25, 1912, [Convention date]. Void. [Published under Section 91 of the Act.] Wind-screens.-Automobiles having a curved roof 1 to lessen wind resistance are provided with a similarly-curved wind-screen 2 adapted to be slid in side guides 3 to a position beneath the roof. A clamping-screw 9 mounted on the handle 8 holds the screen in adjusted position. The screen may be manipulated by cords 10 running over a hand-wheel 12 provided with a detent or a spring-controlled drum 13, Fig. 5, may replace the hand-wheel, the spring 14 becoming wound up by the downward movement of the screen. The screen shown is curved also in horizontal section, but it may be straight.
Patent GB-191310584-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Taps, Cocks and the like.
Inventor: GARRATT JAMES THOMAS
IPC: F16K41/02
Filed: 1913-11-05
Granted: 1914-06-18
Abstract: 10,584. Garratt, J. T. Nov. 5. Actuating; lift valves; seats and faces.-The spindle c of a valve terminates in a cup f adapted to contain a solid or hollow pad of rubber &c. which engages a turned-up seat b. The spindle passes through a stuffing-box g, and may be actuated by a screwed handle d or by a loose key r, Fig. 2.
Patent GB-191312781-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Bricks and the like.
Inventor: PRIESTNALL THOMAS
IPC: E04C1/39
Filed: 1913-06-02
Granted: 1913-12-11
Abstract: 12,781. Priestnall, T. June 2. Bricks, special shapes of.-Bricks to be used for carrying off water from a gutter or the like are formed with offset portions 2, and with glazed or waterproofed apertures 4 in the body and offset portions. The outer edge of the aperture preferably conforms to the shape of the offset portion, which may be semicircular or rectangular. The bricks are provided at one end with an extension 3 so as to be equal in length to one and a half ordinary bricks.
Patent GB-191322025-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Oars.
Inventor: FLOHR-NEE-BAER WILHELMINE
IPC: B63H16/10
Filed: 1913-09-30
Granted: 1913-11-20
Abstract: 22,025. Flohr, [nÚe Bõr], W. Sept. 30. Oars.-Bow-facing oars in two parts each attached to geared pinions contained in a box pivoted to the gunwale are constructed with the stub axles c, d of the pinions projecting through the box so that the sockets y, h carrying the oar parts may be detachably pinned thereto.
Patent GB-191322719-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Firelighters Made from Combustible Materials.
Inventor: ECCLES WILLIAM EDWARD
IPC: C10L11/04
Filed: 1913-10-08
Granted: 1914-04-02
Abstract: 22,719. Eccles, W. E. Oct. 8. Composition fuel.-A fire-ligliter consists of sawdust, chips, peat, or like combustible material together with soot or ground coal or both agglomerated by means of unrefined paraffin wax. The wax is melted and the other materials added after previous thorough mixing, the pasty mass being moulded into blocks, bars, cakes, &c. The fire-lighter does not stain the hands or a paper wrapper.
Patent GB-191323747-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Suction Cleaners and the like.
Inventor: STRASCHNOW RALPH
IPC: A47L5/04
Filed: 1913-10-20
Granted: 1914-04-16
Abstract: 23,747. Straschnow, R. Oct. 20. Vacuum cleaning- apparatus. - In apparatus of the single-acting handoperated pistonpump type, a partition 10 with a central opening is arranged between the cylinder 1 of the pump and a second cylinder 2 containing the dust-separator. The cylinders 1, 2 are separably connected by a rubber ring 13 to allow the dust to be removed from the separator 11, which consists of a body 16 filled with cotton and a yoke 17 to support a bag 18 which is secured to the body by a wire in the groove 19. A valve 21 is arranged as shown in the transverse wall of the body 16. The nozzle 24 is connected to a tube 4 which projects within a conical tube 3 to form an annular dust-collecting space.
Patent GB-191324188-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Coin Testing Machines.
Inventor: BEDDARD WILLIAM H
IPC: G07F1/04
Filed: 1913-10-25
Granted: 1914-10-22
Abstract: 24,188. Beddard, W. K. Oct. 25. [Addition to 16,770/11.] Coins, testing. -Relates to the coin-testing device described in the parent Specification, and consists chiefly in that (1) the side of the shoot against which the coin bears during its passage through the tester is movable as a whole, and is adapted to be swung outwardly to clear the shoot by the insertion of a coin or by the operation of an external handle, and (2) instead of the single spring 19 mentioned in the parent Specification, two such springs are provided with a space between them so that the periphery of a rolling coin engages them in succession. The movable side c comprises two parts c<2>, c<3> coupled together by a pin h<3>, and is normally held in the closed position by a spring c<10>. A coin, while being inserted in the slot o, thrusts back an arm l<5>, Fig. 6, on a spindle l<3>, and simultaneously a pawl l<7>, carried by a second arm l<6> on the spindle, engages a projection c<9> on the part c<3> and swings open the side c. A bar c<8> rigidly connected to the side c moves through an aperture a<2> in the fixed side a and clears the shoot. Before the cein has passed completely through the slot o, the pawl l<7> escapes past the projection c<9>, whereupon the spring c<10> closes the shoot. The spindle l<3> may also be rotated to open the shoot by means of an external knob l<4>. The two leaf springs j, m, which are used in place of the spring 19 described in the parent Specification, are attached to a block s detachably secured to the fixed upper part i of the shoot. These springs are positioned by set-screws j<2>, m<2>, which engage a bearing-piece t separated from the springs by blocks u. If a coin of elliptical shape escapes past the spring j, it will be stopped shortly after by the spring m, there being a space r between the springs. Briefly, the action of the tester is as follows. After entering the slot o, the coin strikes a stop w from which it falls on to the fixed part d of the base and then rolls over the balanced lever 16, which tests its weight and rolling velocity as described in the parent Specification. During its passage, the coin bears against projecting surfaces c<4>, c<5> on the side c, Fig. 9, and finally, if of sufficient size to pass a stop i<3>, against a surface i<2>. The coin next passes under the springs j, m and is then deflected by a stop n on to a balanced lever 21, which tilts to allow a correct coin to pass into a shoot y as described in the parent Specification.
Patent GB-191325299-A (GB)
Title: Improved Signalling Apparatus for use on Road Vehicles.
Inventor: ELAND JOHN
IPC: B60Q1/34
Filed: 1913-11-05
Granted: 1914-02-26
Abstract: 25,299. Eland, J. Nov. 5. Road-vehicle signals.-To indicate turning of a road vehicle, a semaphore g is permitted to fall to the appropriate side, a lamp h or h<1> being simultaneously covered by a coloured glass d or d<1>. The leverf, shown in Fig. 2, which is a back view of the apparatus, rotates the cross-shaped member b, pivoted at x, by pin-and-slot mechanism. A pin b<2> on the arm b<3> of this cross engages in a slot g<2> of the semaphore g pivoted at a<2>, and moves the semaphore until this is able to fall by its own weight. At the same time, the coloured glasses d, d<1>, attached to the cross b by the arms c, c<1>, are suitably moved.
Patent GB-191325846-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Apparatus for Converting Alternating into Direct Current.
Inventor: WADE HAROLD
IPC: H02M1/22
Filed: 1913-11-11
Granted: 1914-08-13
Abstract: 25,846. Wade, H., [Heyman, D. A.]. Nov. 11. Commutator switching - arrangements. - A commutator for rectifying alternating currents is driven by a motor which is started by the alternating current and, by means of an automatic switch centrifugally-operated at a certain speed, is subsequently connected so that its field is excited with the rectified current, its armature remaining supplied with alternating current; the motor is thus maintained in synchronism with the alternating current. The switch comprises an arm 28 pivoted at 29 and carrying contacts 28<1>, 28<2>, which, during starting, engage fixed contacts 33, 34 and 35, 36, and after the motor has reached a given speed, connect contacts 37, 38 and 39, 40. The switch is operated by an arm 23 pivoted on a bracket 24 and connected by a spring 30 to the arm 28. An adjustable spring 25, set according to the frequency of the alternating current, holds the arm 28 in the starting position until a centrifugal governor 15, pivoted at 17 to a bracket on the motor shaft, has operated a rod 20 to throw over the arm 23, whereupon the spring 30 throws the switch to the running position. At starting, alternating current from the generator 47 flows through the leads a, a<1>, a<2> to the field 4, and by a branch a<3> through the commutator 10 to the armature 6. A fly-wheel 8 is provided on the motor shaft, and the result of these connexions is to accelerate the motor to a speed synchronous with the alternating current. When this condition is reached, the governor 15 throws the switch arm 28, and connexions are made by which the field is excited by the rectified current by way of leads a<4>, c, the commutator 10, and leads a<3>, a<2>, b<2>, the commutator and lead b, while the armature receives alternating current direct from the generator 47. The rectified current load is applied at the leads w, w<1>. The governor may be dispensed with, and the switch worked by hand.
Patent GB-191403787-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Miners' Safety Lamps.
Inventor: BAILLY OSCAR
IPC: F21L23/00
Filed: 1914-02-13
Granted: 1914-08-20
Abstract: 3787. Bailly, O. Feb. 13. Miners' safety lamps. - In miners' lamps in which an incandescent vapour burner 11 is used, the lamp glass 1 is seated on a metal ring 25, below which is a heat-insulating cylinder 26 seated on a ring 27 encircling the vaporizer 12, and an air-inlet ring 28 having gauzes 29. The lamp is assembled by screwing the reservoir into the lower ring 6, which has air inlets 30, 32. The bonnet 34 is screwed on the upper ring 4 and encloses gauzes 2, 3.
Patent GB-191406349-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Muffle Furnaces for the Production of Zinc.
Inventor: KOPPERS HEINRICH
IPC: C22B19/06
Filed: 1914-03-12
Granted: 1914-07-09
Abstract: 6349. Koppers, H., and Lengersdorf, N. March 12. Muffle furnaces. - A muffle furnace for the production of zinc is divided up into a number of sections, each having its own reversible regenerator system. In one form, Figs. 1 and 2, in which the regenerators are situated in the upper portion of the furnace structure, the muffles a are arranged back to back in chambers b, e connected at their lower ends by an aperture c in the dividing-wall d. When gas and air are supplied, say through the lefthand regenerators, combustion takes place in the chamber b and the products escape through the opening c, the chamber e and the corresponding right-hand regenerators. The lower parts of the chambers b, e form a receptacle for slag, which can be drawn off through the valve q. Ash from the muffles is discharged through openings r leading to shoots s and a conveyer u. In another form, Fig. 3, the regenerators are arranged below the muffles and a combustion and slag-collecting chamber p<1> is interposed, to prevent leakage of slag into the regenerators.
Patent GB-191406470-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Circular Knitting Machines.
Inventor: CLARINGBURN CHARLES
IPC: D04B13/02
Filed: 1914-03-14
Granted: 1914-11-12
Abstract: 6470. Claringburn, C. March 14. Circular machines.- Relates to improved means for feeding elastic thread for making seamless elastic stockings &c. and in which the shape or size of the article is determined by regulating the rate at which the elastic thread is fed to the needles. Fig. 2 shows in plan a circular rib knitting- machine, with fixed needle cylinder, supported on a circular table 1. A frame 14 is pivoted to and carried round by two arms 13 fitted to the revolving cam cylinder, and has a screwed shaft 15 and a splined shaft 16 mounted between end plates 18. A disk 2 engaging the shaft 16 by means of a feather drives, through bevel-gear, feed-rollers between which the elastic thread is fed to the needles. The disk 2 is moved along the shaft 16 to vary the feed, by means of an arm 25 car-. ried by a nut 24 on the screw 15, which has a star-wheel 26 operated by pattern - controlled sliding strikers 28. These strikers are thrust into the path of the starwheel against spring action by sliding wedge-pieces 31 operated by vertical levers 32, studs on which work in rightangled slots in continuously reciprocating connecting-rods 35. The levers are operated by the studs &c. on the pattern chain 42 lifting the levers 35, so that the studs engage the vertical parts of the respective slots.
Patent GB-191414135-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Ball and Socket Joints especially intended for use with Field Gun Carriages.
Inventor: DAWSON ARTHUR TREVOR
IPC: F41A23/00
Filed: 1914-06-11
Granted: 1915-09-13
Abstract: 14,135. Dawson, Sir A. T., and Buckham, G. T. June 11. Ball-jointed hinges.-Comprises a ball-and-socket joint especially intended for use on field-gun carriages. The joint is shown applied to connect the beams of a divided trail to the cross-bar and also as a rotatable mounting for the training-pivot in the cross-bar. The trail beams A are formed with socket members D<1> adapted to receive ball members D mounted on each end of the cross-bar B. Each ball member D is formed by a pair of part-spherical rings D<3>, D<4>, provided on abutting faces with a dovetail key and groove which connect the members when assembled. To assemble the joint, the rings are slipped one after the other into the socket member through specially shaped openings D<2>, Fig. 6. They are then turned into position and may be held by a tommy-bar engaging holes d<1>, d<2> in the socket and ball respectively while the cross-bar is being screwed therein. The ball parts may be secured by a screw d. The ball E forming a pivotal mounting for the training pivot C is arranged and assembled in a similar manner. The set-screw e however merely connects the two rings to one another, the pivot C being rotatable therein.
Patent GB-191416474-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Process for Rectifying Spirit in Periodically Working Apparatus.
Inventor: SCHILLING CARL
IPC: B01D3/00
Filed: 1914-07-10
Granted: 1915-10-11
Abstract: 16,474. Schilling, C. July 10. Alcoholic liquids, distilling.-In rectifying spirit in periodically-working apparatus, the whole of the foreshots and faints obtained in one operation are distilled with the crude spirit in the next operation, so that in each operation the end products, namely ethers and fusel oil, are obtained. No faints of the second grade are obtained, the fractions collected being ethers. foreshots of the third and second grade, rectified spirit, faints of the third grade, and fusel oil. (1) In treating crude spirit having a low content of aldehydes, the crude spirit is first put into the still and diluted. The charge is heated, and, after the formation of vapours, the trays of the column are filled with foreshots of the second grade. The foreshots of the third grade are then admitted to the top of the column. The admission of water to the condenser is thus reduced, so that vapours flow to the cooler, ethers being thus obtained. The remainder of the foreshots of the second grade is then run into the middle of the column, and ethers, foreshots of the third and second grade, and refined spirit are successively collected. A few hours before the end of the distillation the faints are run into the still or the bottom of the column, and the remainder of the refined spirit and the faints are successively obtained. The fusel oil may be afterwards distilled over. (2) In the case of crude spirit containing a large amount of aldehydes, the process is modified bv charging the still with water which is heated till it boils, running preheated crude spirit rapidly into the top of the column, then running foreshots of third grade into the top of the column, and the whole of the foreshots of the second grade into the middle of the column. The crude spirit may, before distillation, be treated with potassium permanganate to destroy malodorous impurities, and with alkali to neutralize acid and to decompose the ethers.
Patent GB-191419567-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or connected with Apparatus for Evaporating and Concentrating Liquids.
IPC: B01D1/08
Filed: 1914-09-09
Granted: 1915-09-09
Abstract: 19,567. Fawcett, Preston, & Co., and Lang, A. M. Sept. 9. Tube-plates. -In an evaporator having a heating-chamber containing tubes extending between upper and lower downwardly inclined tube-plates, the tubes are inclined so as to enter the tube-plates at right-angles, and the lower tube-plate is formed in two or more stepped parts. By forming the lower tubeplate 4 of the heating-chamber 2 in steps as shown, the lower ends of the inner set of tubes 5 come close to the bottom of the evaporator, thus improving the circulation at that part. Steam may be introduced into a jacket 15 formed by an annular concave plate 16 secured to the bottom of the evaporator.
Patent GB-191422013-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Life Saving Equipments for Submarine or other use.
Inventor: JENKINS HAROLD CARNEGIE
IPC: B63G8/40
Filed: 1914-11-04
Granted: 1915-08-05
Abstract: 22,013. Jenkins, H. C. Nov. 4. [Cognate Application, 22,375/14.] Body attachments, buoyant.-Relates to life-saving equipments for submarine or other use, comprising a buoyant jacket &c. provided with a breathing- apparatus which can be detached from the jacket when the wearer rises to the surface. The breathing-apparatus is detached by releasing a single fastening, or in cases where a mouthpiece, facemask, &c. is secured to the wearer's head &c. by releasing two fastenings. In the form shown, the breathing-apparatus is attached by means of a strap q secured to the jacket a and having a loop r at the free end ; a pin p is inserted through the loop r and loops n on the jacket, and preferably through loops o on the canvas or other backing m carrying the breathing-apparatus. The strap q may pass through a loop s on the breathing-apparatus. Two or more converging straps may be employed in place of the strap q, connected at their ends to a single strap or junction-piece secured by the pin p. The breathing-apparatus comprises an oxygen cylinder b, a regenerating cartridge c, a reducing- valve and injector e, and breathing-bags g, g<1> connected by tubes h to a mouthpiece i. This is attached to the head by straps t, t' and a readilyreleased grip-buckle, comprising a frame u and a pivoted bent frame u<1> having a cross-bar u' to which is secured the strap t<1>, the end t' of which is gripped by the finger and thumb. The other strap t is passed through the frame. The straps are tightened by pulling the end of the strap t, and released by pulling the flap t<2>. Provisional Specification 22,375/14 states that a single catch or device may be arranged to release both the breathing- apparatus and the mouthpiece &c.
Patent GB-191422248-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Electric Transformers.
Inventor: IMRAY OLIVER
IPC: H01F38/28
Filed: 1914-11-09
Granted: 1915-07-29
Abstract: 22,248. Imray, P., [Siemens-Schuckertwerke]. Nov. 9. Transformers.-In electric transformers such as are used in measuring-instruments, the transformation ratio is adjusted to any required exactness by arranging that an adjustable portion of the secondary winding is traversed by part only of the total magnetic flux, or by varying that part of the flux which traverses the adjustable part of the secondary winding, or by both these methods combined. As shown, the core b is formed with one or more holes e, through which turns d of the secondary winding can be led. Adjustment can be obtained by the selection of the hole through which the turns d are passed, or by varying the number of turns through a particular hole.
Patent GB-191502895-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Reed Relief Motions for Looms for Weaving.
Inventor: SHAW THOMAS
IPC: D03D49/68
Filed: 1915-02-23
Granted: 1915-04-15
Abstract: 2895. Shaw, T. Feb. 23. [Addition to 24,193/12.] Loose-reed motions.-In a loom in which the reed is normally held fast and is freed when a sliding piece 21 on an inclined plane 24, controlled by the shuttle-box swell lever, contacts with a fixed abutment 22 as the lay moves forwards as described in the parent Specification, the piece 21, when moved up the inclined plane, acts on one end of a spring-pressed lever so as to move the other end 9<1> from under an adjustable end piece 8 on an arm 7 secured to the reed-locking bar 3, which is pivoted at 4; so that the arm 7 is rocked by a bent spring 17 and tilts the bar 3, thus releasing the reed 1. At the same time, an arm 13 rigidly secured to the bar 3 acts on a lever 14 pivoted at 14<2> to the lay, so that the lever 14 is rocked, and its cranked end 14<1>, which normally acts on a spring 15 to hold the pivoted shuttle-box flap in position, is moved backwards to free the flap.
Patent GB-191504265-A (GB)
Title: An Appliance for use in Putting Driving Straps or Ropes on Pulleys or the like.
Inventor: HOYLE JOSHUA
IPC: F16H7/24
Filed: 1915-03-18
Granted: 1915-10-07
Abstract: 4265. Hoyle, J. March 18. Gloves.-A fingerless glove a of leather &c. with two projections b, b<1> on the palm, is used for putting a driving strap or rope on a pulley while in motion.