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Patent GB-190709172-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Electric Arc Lamps.
Inventor: INGRAM EDWARD RENDELL
Filed: 1907-04-19
Granted: 1908-02-13
Abstract: 9172. Ingram, E. R., and Hunt, H. April 19. Arc lamps.-Two or more pairs of inclined carbons are adapted to be used in succession by the detention of one or more pairs and by the mechanical release of the corresponding gearing when the first pair has been consumed. A clockwork lamp is described. Carbon - holders c are guided by porcelain rollers engaging frame rods d, and are suspended from cords wound on double drums g, one for each pair of carbons. Each drum is geared to an escapement-wheel h controlled by a pallet i. A weighted lever j engages with the pallet except when rocked by an arm projecting from the core k of a differential solenoid. A pinion m on the spindle of one drum drives a toothed wheel n, which carries a projection o. When the first carbons are consumed, the projection o tilts a lever p so as to disengage its end, which is bent at right-angles to the part shown, from a notched wheel s on the spindle of the second drum. The arc is struck and partly regulated by lateral movement of one set of carbons, which are embraced by arms or hooks v attached to an horizontal arm t actuated by a lever u, a link w, and the solenoid core. A deflecting-magnet r and an economizer, which may be made in separate circular pieces for different pairs of carbons, are provided.
Patent GB-190712748-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Rendering Silver Non-tarnishable.
Inventor: COWPER-COLES SHERARD OSBORN
Filed: 1907-06-01
Granted: 1908-05-28
Abstract: 12,748. Coles, S. O. Cowper-. June 1. Alloys, depositing; electrolytes, circulating.-The process described in Specification No. 1391, A.D. 1892, for rendering silver untarnishable by electrodepositing thereon an alloy of silver with zinc or cadmium, is modified with the object of obtaining a uniform deposit of constant composition. The electrolyte is caused to impinge in the form of jets over the whole of the surface of the cathode which is kept in motion, and the proportion of zinc or cadmium in the electrolyte may be diminished.
Patent GB-190717317-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Motor Vehicles.
Inventor: OSBORN ALDEN EMERSON
Filed: 1907-07-29
Granted: 1908-07-16
Abstract: 17,317. Osborn, A. E. July 29. Motor road vehicles.-Comprises means for steering and transmitting power to the steering-wheels of a motor-vehicle, which are applicable specially to vehicles having a single steering and driving wheel, Figs. 2 and 3 show one form of apparatus in which the front wheel 16 is provided with an annular recess in the hub formed by a web 40 and a collar 33 which is mounted in ball bearings on a member 41. The latter member is mounted on vertical steering-pivots 42 carried on the fixed axle 27, and is provided with a lever arm 43 attached to the steering-gear, which comprises links 25, 26, and a vertical shaft 24 operated from the usual steering- column. The fixed axle is connected by springs 28 to the vehicle body. The motor 15 drives a sprocket-wheel 20 on a sleeve 29, which is mounted at one end on ball bearings carried by the fixed axle, and carries one fork 32 of an universal joint at the other end. The universal joint is situated in the annular recess in the wheel, and comprises a ring 31 connected to the fork 32 and to the wheel hub in the usual way. In another construction, Fig. 4, the fixed axle is cranked at 27<b> to pass above the wheel, and has vertically depending members 27<c>, 47 forming supports for the wheel and the driving-shaft respectively. The vertical pivots are journaled in horizontal extensions 32<a> of the member 27<c> and are connected to a collar running on ball bearings in the wheel hub. An extension 43<a> of the wheel hub is connected to the driving- shaft 44, which is provided with an universal joint 45 in the plane of the wheel and is driven by a sprocket-wheel 20<a> forming part of a brake drum mounted on the shaft.
Patent GB-190718479-A (GB)
Title: Machine for Tooling Rails at their Place of Junction.
Inventor: JENSEN PETER
Filed: 1907-08-15
Granted: 1908-01-09
Abstract: 18,479. Jensen, P., [Vereinigte Schmirgel-und Maschinenfabriken Akt.-Ges. vorm. S. Oppenheim & Co. und Schlesinger & Go.]. Aug. 15. Milling.-A machine for milling rail joints comprises guide-bars g supporting the cutter carriage and adjustable in standards p, clamped to the rails. The cutter-rotating gearing, operated by a handle K, gears with a wormwheel nut M on a screw L, so that the cutter is rotated and fed simultaneously. By disengaging a pawl q which normally holds the screw stationary, the feed may be rendered inoperative or may be operated by a handle a. The screws t for adjusting the guide-bars are connected to them through ball-and-socket joints so that the guide-bars may be set at a small inclination to the rails.
Patent GB-190721148-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Construction of Brooch or Bar-clip for Personal Wear.
Inventor: EDMONDS HENRY
Filed: 1907-09-24
Granted: 1908-01-23
Abstract: 21,148. Edmonds, H. Sept. 24. Fastenings, clip; jewellery fastenings.-A brocch or bar clip consists of two pieces a of wire fastened together at their middle at d in such a manner that their ends spring apart. The ends are each covered with blanks forming a projection f and socket e to act as clip3, sliding rings c being usad to hold the clips in engagement. The device is particularly adapted for coupling the points of soft collars.
Patent GB-190722336-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Tables.
Inventor: SUTTON THOMAS BERTRAM
Filed: 1907-10-10
Granted: 1908-09-10
Abstract: 22,336. Sutton, T. B., and Howard, E. Oct. 10. Tables.-The top e of a Pembroke table is mounted upon a vertical pivot f so that the flaps e<1> may be firmly supported upon the frame of the table when the top has been rotated through a right-angle. The pivot may be in the form of a screw carried by a bar e<2> secured to the top e. A hinged bracket g carried on a cross-bar d connecting the side rails of the table, serves as an independent support for the flaps. One or more drawers may be fitted.
Patent GB-190801823-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Stove Grates
Inventor: RUSSELL JOHN EYRE
Filed: 1908-01-27
Granted: 1908-12-03
Abstract: 1823. Russell, J. E. Jan. 27. Grates. - In order to vary the capacity of the fuel spaces in register and like fire-places, they are fitted with loose removable cheeks D, which may be pushed back into recesses formed, as shown in Fig. 2, in the sides B of the fire-grate, or as shown in Fig. 10, in the back C. The cheeks may consist of plates with lateral extensions F, Fig. 8, which are slipped into small recesses in the sides of the grate.
Patent GB-190803991-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Syphonic Action Water Closets and in Flushing Apparatus therefor.
Inventor: STEVENSON JAMES ALBERT
Filed: 1908-02-21
Granted: 1908-06-04
Abstract: 3991. Stevenson, J. A., and Phillips, L. O. Feb. 21. Closet basins; flushing. - When the flushing- valve 15<a> is turned on, water is delivered by a pipe 14 to an air vessel 8, and to a chamber 4 and flushing-rim 6 by a perforated pipe 16<a>. The water enters the vessel 8 through an opening 10 in a compartment 9 in which it seals the end of a pipe 11. Air is forced out of the vessel through a pipe 12 to an air-lock 3 formed by inverted U-shaped passages A, B, and C, D. At the same time, water passes to the basin from the rim 6, and when the bowl is sufficiently full, the cock 15<a> is turned off. The locked air then returns along the pipe 12 and escapes into the outlet D by the pipe 11, thus setting up siphonic action. The vessel 8 finally drains off by a small passage 13. As the water rises in the basin, it ascends a passage 18 connecting the chamber 4 and the basin, and compresses air in the trap 17, keeping back the water in the chamber until the cessation of siphonic action, when it forms an after-flush.
Patent GB-190807499-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to the Outer Covers or Jackets of Pneumatic Tyres for the Prevention of Punctures
Inventor: GOWER ARTHUR
Filed: 1908-04-04
Granted: 1909-02-18
Abstract: 7499. Gower, A. April 4. No Patent granted (Sealing fee not paid). Tyres, pneumatic.-A puncture-preventing band incorporated in the tread of a tyre cover, or placed between the cover and its canvas backing or between the cover and the air-tube, is made from a sheet of mixed raw cotton and raw silk, preferably cardings, which is alternately sprinkled with resin and folded until a band is formed. Long-staple Egyptian cotton is preferred.
Patent GB-190808137-A (GB)
Title: A Device to be used as a Sandwich Board for Displaying a Number of Advertisements in Succession.
Inventor: RHODES EDGAR
Filed: 1908-04-13
Granted: 1909-02-11
Abstract: 8137. Rhodes, E., Rhodes, W., Hirst, J. G., Parker, S., and Tavernor, J. M. April 13. Advertising. - A sandwich-board for displaying advertisements comprises a casing fitted with rollers carrying an endless band or belt provided with a number of advertisements, and mechanism actuated by the leg or walking action of the person carrying the device for intermittently moving the band. In the construction shown, the band 9, Fig. 1, is mounted on rollers 3 connected by chain gearing 7. The lower roller is mounted in spring - retained bearings 10 for tensioning the band. The upper roller is geared to a spur-wheel 12, to which one end of the spring is secured, the other end of the spring being fixed to a shaft 13 carrying a fast ratchetwheel 20. The ratchet-wheel is actuated by a pawllever 22 operated by a link 23, which derives its motion from the leg or walking action of the itinerant. A pawl 24 prevents return movement. The spring is wound up by the motion of the ratchet-wheel, a stop 17 on the spur-wheel 12 engaging a double-pawl 18. This pawl is tripped by a catch 25 on the ratchet-wheel, whereupon the spur-wheel is released, and the spring drives the rollers. The amount of movement is adjusted so as to bring a fresh advertisement into view. As shown in Fig. 5, a board is mounted on the back and front of the itinerant, the links 23 being actuated by a double-cranked lever 26, the depending limb of which carries a forked projection for engaging the leg of the itinerant.
Patent GB-190808881-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Moulding Machine for Foundry Work.
Inventor: OERTZEN GUSTAV ADOLF
Filed: 1908-04-23
Granted: 1909-02-04
Abstract: 8881. Oertzen, G. A. April 23. Moulding.-A moulding-machine is provided with a rotary frame 3 carrying sliding pattern plates 25, 26, pressed together by crank-shafts 11, 12 and adjustable rods 13, 14 and returned by springs 30. A hand-wheel 5 drives the double gear 7, 8 actuating gears 9, 10 on the shafts 11, 12, while the frame 3 is fixed ; but if the gears 9, 10 are fixed, turning of the wheel 5 rotates the frame 3 about the axis 4. At starting, the frame is fixed by a bolt 19 pressed into a notch 24 in the stand L by a spring 20, and rotation of the wheel 5 actuates the gears and press till a pin 17 on the bolt, pressed by a spring, drops into a notch 18 in the rotating gear 10 and draws the bolt out of the notch 24, Fig. 6. The gears are thus locked, and the frame 3, being free, rotates through half a revolution, whereupon the other bolt 19 engages the notch 24. The gear 10 is meanwhile freed by the withdrawing of the pin 17, by the action of the projection 23 of the stand 2 on the end 22 of the bolt 19. In use, a moulding-box with sand is placed on the forwardly drawn plate 26, Fig. 8, and the plate is pushed back ; the machine is then operated to press the mould, rotate the frame 3, Fig. 10, and then open. The plate 26 is then pushed back, and a moulding-box with sand is placed on the plate 25 and pushed back, Fig. 12. The finished mould is then removed and the operation is repeated. With a non-rotatable frame, particularly for moulding deep objects, the upper and lower moulding-boxes are placed on the right and left ends of the plate 25, Fig. 17, the lower box being provided with a removable filling-templet. Both boxes are pressed simultaneously, and the upper box is attached to the plate 25 by pins &c. The plates are withdrawn and moved to bring the upper box above the lower, after which they are brought together again, Fig. 18. The upper box is next detached, and the plates are moved apart and in opposite directions ; the complete mould is then removed.
Patent GB-190812315-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and connected with Child or other Passenger Seats for Attachment to Cycles and the like.
Inventor: LOWE JAMES HENRY
Filed: 1908-12-07
Granted: 1909-07-29
Abstract: 12,315. Lowe, J. H., and Griffiths, G. Dec. 7. Passengers, for conveying. - In a tandem seat equipment for cycles, of the kind comprising a fork and a lateral arm joined together and carrying an auxiliary saddle, the ends of the fork A are mounted in sockets having eyes engaging the rear axle. The lateral arm B has an eye engaging a pin or bracket I on the saddle pillar O. Rests L may be provided for the rear rider, and the main saddle K may have eyelets or loops to enable him to hold on by ; or a small handle-bar M, having a lateral spigot socketed or screwed into the tube N on which the main saddle is mounted, may be provided.
Patent GB-190823930-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Electrodes for use in Electrolysis.
Filed: 1908-11-09
Granted: 1909-08-19
Abstract: 23,930. Connor, C. C., Stubbs, J. W., and Electrolytic Alkali Co. Nov. 9. Electrodes of the type described in Specification No. 10,204, A.D.1902. Two straight metal bars a are joined together at one end b to form a terminal, and are connected at intervals to transverse carbon rods c by lead or other metal castings d ; the bars a may have holes to receive the metal. When casting the metal, distance-pieces are placed between the bars a to form moulds. The bars a are coated with tar, pitch, paraffin wax, or asbestos impregnated with oil, and are covered with Portland cement or other insulating-material g. Carbon blocks are placed on the projecting ends of the transverse rods c.
Patent GB-190825780-A (GB)
Title: Improved Means of Repairing the Ends or Studs of Swing Rails and Sand Roller Pikes of Looms, or the like.
Inventor: NUTTER JOHN HENRY
Filed: 1908-11-30
Granted: 1909-10-14
Abstract: 25,780. Nutter, J. H. Nov. 30. Casting.-Apparatus for repairing the swing-rail ends and sand-roller pikes of looms, and for like purposes comprises a mould made in two parts having cylindrical recesses C, D, Figs. 1 and 2, dowel-pins, and clamping means E, F, H. In repairing a swing-rail end, the latter is ground down at the collar, and placed in the recess D, and metal is poured in. Upright bars carry supports J for the swing-rails, and adjusting-screws L<1> serve to adjust the rail to obtain the proper depth of collar cast on it.
Patent GB-190826130-A (GB)
Title: Improved Manufacture of Pitch Forks.
Inventor: BLOXAM ARTHUR GEORGE
Filed: 1908-12-03
Granted: 1909-09-02
Abstract: 26,130. Bloxam, A. G., [Vogel & Noot]. Dec. 3. Making agricultural forks.-Triangular pieces a, Fig. 1, for the tines, are stamped out, pressed to the grooved form shown in Fig. 2 or other suitable shape, and bent as in Fig. 3. A stamped-out blank b, Fig. 4, is grooved to correspond to the tines, which are secured in it by screws c, by rivets, or by soldering or welding. The blank b is folded over at the end to form a socket for the handle. Strengthening-ribs f may be added to the portion b, which may also be partly cut away.
Patent GB-190915847-A (GB)
Title: Manufacture and Production of New Azodyestuffs.
Inventor: NEWTON PHILIP ARTHUR
Filed: 1909-07-07
Granted: 1910-06-23
Abstract: 15,847. Newton, P. A., [Farbenfabriken vorm. F. Bayer & Co.]. July 7. Samples furnished. Monoazo dyes are obtained by combining the diazo compounds of amin arylsulphonamides, or derivatives thereof, with alpha-methylindole or its derivatives or sulphonic acids thereof. Such of the dyes as do not contain sulphonic groups are subsequently sulphonated. The following components are specified :-m-aminobenzenesulphonanilide, o-anisidine-p-sulphonanilide, o-toluidinep-sulphontoluidide, 1-chlor-2-aminophenyl-4-sulphonxylidide, 1-napbthylamine-6-sulphonamide, on the one hand, and alpha-methyliodole or its sulphonic acid, B3-Pr2-dimethylindole, B3-chlor-Pr2-methylindole, derivatives alkylated in the inner group, or the sulphonic acids described in Specification 12,444/0'.
Patent GB-190918808-A (GB)
Title: Improved Manufacture of Metallic Filaments for Incandescence Electric Lighting.
Inventor: WEBER CHRISTOPH HEINRICH
IPC: H01K3/02
Filed: 1909-08-16
Granted: 1910-05-19
Abstract: 18,808. Weber, C. H. Aug. 16. Filaments, metallic, contain a very little tellurium or selenium, as an alloy, which renders them less brittle. In one method, tungstem &c. is mixed with a little tellurium or selenium and an organic binder, and squirted into filaments, which are heated in an exhausted tube up to 800‹ C. to decompose the binder. The filaments are then heated by current in an inert or reducing gas, at first for some time at a low red heat, and then to bright redness, whereupon most of the tellurium &c. volatilizes some carbon apparently being removed at the same time. Alternatively, tungsten &c. is mixed with tellurium or selenium dioxide and a binder, the filaments being heated in a mixture of hydrogen and sulphur dioxide ; tellurium &c. is then liberated in the filaments. Or metallic filaments may be flashed in tellurium or selenium hydride and hydrogen, tellurium &c. being deposited and gradually absorbed. Care must be taken to avoid overheating, especially when usiug selenium, for which lower temperatures are necessary. The amount of tellurium &c. remaining is too small in amount for quantitive estimation, and is not removed by strong heating in a vacuum ; an excess renders the filaments more brittle.
Patent GB-190918836-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in the Construction of Propellers.
Inventor: PITTER WALTER CHARLES
IPC: B63H1/12
Filed: 1910-02-15
Granted: 1911-01-05
Abstract: 18,836. Pitter, W. C. Feb. 15, 1910. Screw propellers.-A propeller is comprised of sets of curved parallel blades A, B, C, D, Fig. 4, arranged one behind another radially of the axis of rotation, a twist through an angle # about the point p being given to each set of blades to give the required pitch. In Fig. 5 is shown a propeller in which the blades are carried by a frame e mounted to feather in the socket g under the control of the vane d. A blade m especially applicable for marine propulsion having a vane f is shown in Fig. 8. In the application to aerial vessels the central part of the propeller is ineffective, the outer portion of the blades being spaced by insertion pieces or tubes. The blades are passed through slots r in the boss s and are secured by the long bolts t, Fig. 15. Fig. 22 shows a helicoptor propeller comprising four sets G of helical blades arranged to rotate above fixed blades L stayed to the aeroplane.
Patent GB-190920096-A (GB)
Title: Kitchen Implement for Tendering Steaks and similar Operations.
Inventor: PIERPOINT BEATRICE
IPC: A22C9/00
Filed: 1909-09-02
Granted: 1909-09-30
Abstract: 20,096. Pierpoint, B. Sept. 2. Meat, dressing. - A beater for making meat tender comprises a bat B with studs C and with or without holes D. The edges E may be hardened or fitted with a strip of metal for breaking bones. T h e studs may be removable, and may be of different lengths.
Patent GB-190920347-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Circular Knitting Machines and to the Method of Producing Flat Fashioned Fabrics thereon.
Inventor: WALKER KENNETH RALPH
IPC: D04B9/20
Filed: 1909-09-06
Granted: 1910-08-11
Abstract: 20,347. Walker, K. R. Sept. 6. Circular machines.-In the production of two flat selvedged fabrics simultaneously on a circular series of needles, one web is automatically widened as the other is narrowed, this arrangement permitting the use of a smaller cylinder than would be necessary if both webs were widened and narrowed simultaneously. The needles are provided with knitting-butts, and are mounted in jacks 5 with lifting - butts 6, which ride on four sectional platforms 7 extending partly round the cylinder. The platforms are periodically moved vertically by means of cams and lift the butts of the needles which are to knit from the inactive path 47 to the knitting path 48. The needles, having knitted, pass to the inactive track until raised by the platforms. In order to bring a varying number of needles into action, each platform has a sliding extension 18, which participates in the lifting movement, but is independently operated by an arcuate rack 21. These racks are actuated by pairs of ratchet-wheels with opposed teeth, and pawls, one of each pair being placed out of action by pattern mechanism while the other pawl is in action. For the purpose of narrowing, the selvedge needles are lifted into the path 49, Fig. 4, by means of pickers 50 mounted at the ends of the slides 18 and independently lifted during narrowing by means of curved bars 53, which are placed under the action of the platform-lifting cams by cam-truck shogging-mechanism under the control of the pattern chains.
Patent GB-190924974-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Washing-vessels, Baths, Buckets and like Vessels.
IPC: A47K1/04
Filed: 1909-10-30
Granted: 1910-09-15
Abstract: 24,974. Sims & Sons, S., and Sims, W. H. Oct. 30. Wash - tubs.- Soap - holders are attached to baths, pails, &c., so that their bodies lie without, but are adapted to drain within the vessel; they are mounted as shown, in combination with a handle C specially formed for that purpose.
Patent GB-190928071-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Heating and Condensation Apparatus.
Inventor: MUCHKA JOSEF
IPC: F01K3/00
Filed: 1909-12-01
Granted: 1910-12-01
Abstract: 28,071. Muchka, J. Dec. 1. Steam-pumps.- The exhaust steam from a direct-acting pump is allowed to acculate in a receiver until a predetermined pressure is reached, after which it flows through a loaded valve into the suction pipe, and heats the water by its condensation. As illustrated in Figs. 1 and 2, exhaust steam passes by a pipe 22 into a receiver 21, where it accumulates until it can open a valve 6 which shuts off the exhaust pipe 3 from the suction pipe 1. The seat of the valve 6 is formed as a nozzle 5 so that the suction of the pump is aided by the injector effect of the exhaust steam. An adjustable piston 8 is secured to the stem 7 of the valve 6 and controls a port 10 leading to the atmosphere, by means of which any excess of steam can escape from the pipe 3. The adjustable loading-spring 9 is contained in an air-cushioning chamber provided with a regulating-cock 12. The apparatus may be used for circulating and heating the water in a tank.
Patent GB-191006038-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Towing-posts.
Inventor: JOHNSTONE WILSON F
IPC: B63B21/56
Filed: 1910-03-10
Granted: 1910-07-14
Abstract: 6038. Johnstone, W. F. March 26, 1909, [Convention date]. Towing.-A towing-post is located abaft of and near the centre of the deck of a vessel, and comprises an arcuate casing 6 pivoted in a base-plate 2 secured to the deck. The tow rope 16 passes over rollers pivoted within the casing, and down co-axially with the post to the towing-machine. A top bearing 18 is provided supported by stays 19, while extending radially from the casing are stays 20, the lower ends of which carry rollers bearing on a roller-way 22.