baber/WOPTO huggingface dataset:
Patent GB-190518691-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Fishing Reel.
Inventor: HAWS ADAM
Filed: 1905-09-15
Granted: 1906-02-15
Abstract: 18,691. Haws, A., and Haws, W. Sept. 15. Brakes.-In a fishing-reel the brake consists of a brake block f passing through a slot in the plate b<1> and carried by a spring f. The brake is normally out of contact with the flange of the reel, but can be applied by pressing the spring f with the finger. [Reference has been directed under Patents Act, 1902, to Specifications No. 1774, A.D. 1884, No. 11,062, A.D. 1892, No. 15,917, A.D. 1896, No. 14,987, A.D. 1899, and No. 4936, A.D. 1904, [Abridgment Class Fish &c.].]
Patent GB-190520264-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Fire-tongs.
Inventor: TOMBS GRACE
Filed: 1905-10-07
Granted: 1906-04-19
Abstract: 20,264. Tombs, G. Oct. 7. Fire-longs. - The jaws or grips a are made concave. [Reference has been directed under Patents Act, 1902, to Specifications Nos. 931 and 5701, A.D. 1884, and No. 1936, A.D. 1887.]
Patent GB-190523132-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Magneto-electric Ignition Apparatus for Internal Combustion Engines.
Inventor: SIMMS FREDERICK RICHARD
Filed: 1905-11-10
Granted: 1906-02-22
Abstract: 23,132. Simms, F. R., and Bosch, R. Nov. 10. Gas and like engines, igniting in. In a magneto-ignition machine for internal - combustion engines on motor-cycles &c., the armature and field magnets are so shaped that the maximum tensions succeed each other . at unequal intervals. The armature is shown in Fig. 2, with its poles Pn, Ps displaced axially until their ends lie on a central plane B. Each field pole, the developed surface of which is shown in Figs. 5 and 9, has a wide and narrow part, the wide part of one being opposite to the narrow part of the other. In Figs. 2 and 3, the armature is shown with its poles opposite the narrow parts of the field-magnet poles. In Fig. 5, the armature poles Ps, Pn are shown in a position of maximum tension between the fieldmagnet poles N, S. When the armature is turned through 180 degrees; as in Fig. 6, it falls short of the next position of maximum tension by an angle a/2, the size of the poles being arranged so that this angle is half the angle between the two cylinders k<1>, k', Fig. 1. The armature rotates at half the speed of the motor shaft, and sparks therefore pass at intervals of 360 + and 360 - a degrees in the revolutions of the motor shaft. Sparks thus pass in alternate cylinders in successive revolutions. Both the armature and field-magnet poles, or either of them, may be T-shaped.
Patent GB-190524843-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to Buffers or Shock-absorbing Devices for Motor Road or other Vehicles.
Inventor: RENAULT LOUIS
Filed: 1905-11-30
Granted: 1906-02-08
Abstract: 24,843. Renault, L. Jan. 17, [date applied for under Patents Act, 1901]. Springs. - The movement of the springs of motor road and other vehicles is checked by means of a piston 1 working in a viscous fluid contained in a cylinder 2 attached to the vehicle body. The piston is connected by a bent lever 3, 4 rocking around a spindle 5 to the axle 8 of the vehicle. The two extremities of the cylinder are connected by a groove 9, which diminishes in depth towards the ends of the cylinder, so that an increasing resistance is offered as the piston moves farther from its normal position. The ends of the cylinder are also connected by a tube 10, the effective area of which can be regulated by a pin 11.
Patent GB-190602146-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to the Manufacture of Aluminium Foil.
Filed: 1906-01-27
Granted: 1906-07-26
Abstract: 2146. Lake, H. H., [Aluminium-warenfabrik Gontenschwil Akt.-Ges.]. Jan. 27. Metal-annealing furnaces. - Aluminium foil is annealed in vacuo in a furnace fitted with an air-exhauster.
Patent GB-190603910-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Apparatus for Regulating the Action of Brakes of Railway Waggons and other similar Vehicles.
Inventor: PARROTT GEORGE
Filed: 1906-02-16
Granted: 1906-07-26
Abstract: 3910. Parrott, G. Feb. 16. Brakes.-The transverse shaft c, Fig. 3, o an either-side wagon brake is provided with cams n which serve to lift the pivoted levers j to release the brakes and also to retain the brakes in the off position. Arms d, e are keyed to the transverse shaft c and have secured to them levers f, f<1> carrying wedge-shaped blocks g, g<1> at their ends. The blocks g, g<1> slide between the inclined ends h of the levers j and fixed guide-plates i. While the brakes are off, the lever rests upon the flat horizontal sides of the cams n. To apply the brakes, the hand-lever a, connected by links to the transverse shaft e, is turned, and the levers j are slightly lifted by the cams n until the highest point of the cam face passes to the right of the shaft c, when the levers j will fall by their own weight and apply, by means of the projecting arms l, the brake blocks to the wheels. At the same time, the wedges g, g<1> move along the underside of the guide-plates i to depress the levers j farther and to lock the brakes in the operative position.
Patent GB-190605781-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and connected with the Utilization of Waste Heat from Boiler and other Furnaces and in Apparatus therefor.
Inventor: BRUCE ROBERT
Filed: 1906-03-09
Granted: 1907-01-31
Abstract: 5 7 8 1. Bruce, R., and Bell, G. G. March 9. Feed-water, heating ; superheaters, steam.-The waste gases from a boiler furnace are passed successively through a s u p e rheater, an air beater, a feed-water heater, and a preliminary air heater. The s u p e r heater may be omitte'd. Fig. 1 shows a steam superheater 5, an air heater 4 arranged in the uptake, a feed-water heater 3, and a preliminary air heater 2. Air enters at 1 by natural or forced draught and flows in the direction indicated by the arrows. A fan may be provided in the chimney 8, or between the preliminary and main air heater.
Patent GB-190612927-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Marine Life-saving Apparatus
Inventor: FUCHS CASPAR
Filed: 1906-06-02
Granted: 1906-12-13
Abstract: 12,927. Fuchs, C. June 2. Fastenings, clamp. Comprises a clamp, for dividing a tube into two parts, which is capable of being easily unfastened. A strip d round the tube a is pressed against it by two wood blocks f held by screws e, e'. The blocks f are weakened by recesses so that when the ends of the strap are pulled apart, the wood breaks and the bolt e drops out.
Patent GB-190628504-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Cigarette Cases and the like.
Inventor: SAGET LOUIS
Filed: 1906-12-13
Granted: 1907-12-05
Abstract: 28,504. Saget, L. Dec. 13. Cigarette &c. cases are made in two parts a, b, Figs. 2 and 4, hinged together and spring-opened, both parts being covered by a slanting lid d also opening by spring action. A catch on the lid engages with groove e on the part b, and is released by pressure on that part. Metal crossstrips near the hinge c ensure that the cigarettes shall protrude, as shown. Specifications No. 26,253, A.D. 1897, and No. 10,085, A.D. 1899, are referred to.
Patent GB-190713329-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Metal Fasteners for use in the Manufacture of Boxes and for other purposes
Inventor: NORTON ELLIOTT SALTONSTALL
Filed: 1907-06-08
Granted: 1907-11-28
Abstract: 13,329. Norton, E. S. Dec. 4, 1905, [date applied for under Patents Act, 1901]. Pins, dowel and like.-A. corrugated metal fastener for use in drawing together abutting pieces of wood in the manufacture of boxes &c. has oppositely-inclined corrugations a, b separated by a tapered corrugation c. The lower edge is bevelled on both sides, to produce sharp points e, between which are substantially V-shaped cutting-edges f.
Patent GB-190714444-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in, and Apparatus for, Making Paper, or Cardboard Boxes, or Cases.
Filed: 1907-06-22
Granted: 1908-04-09
Abstract: 14,444. Imperial Tobacco Co. (of Great Britain and Ireland), and Drysdale, H. June 22. Box-making machines.-A machine for stripping or knocking out the separate blanks from a sheet of blanks, which are diagonally arranged as shown in Fig. 1, comprises an oscillated shaft 1, Fig. 2, carried in bearings in the frame 13 and communicating motion by means of levers and spur-wheels to the rocking shaft 7 mounted in bearings in the side frames 12. Levers 8 fixed to the shaft 7, and links 9 support the stripper-plate carrier 10, which is bolted to slides 11 moving vertically in slides carried by the side frames 12. The stripper plates 14 are adjustably secured to the carrier 10, and the stationary plate-carrier 15 carrying adjustable plates 16 is also secured to the frames 12. A strip of the cardboard or paper of the width comprised between lines 18, Fig. 1, is fed between the rows of stripping- plates at each operation, the stripped blanks 19, 20 being collected in two series of piles.
Patent GB-190716608-A (GB)
Title: A New or Improved Drawing Instrument.
Inventor: DEBENHAM AGNES ELIZABETH
Filed: 1907-07-19
Granted: 1907-12-19
Abstract: 16,608. Debenham, A. E. July 19. Parallel rulers ; protractors.-An instrument which can be used as a protractor and for drawing parallel lines for money columns, manuscript music, &c. comprises essentially a frame consisting of three members 1, 2, 3, two of which are parallel as shown, strengthened, as desired, by a metal strip 4 ; a rule 7 slides in grooves in the parallel arms. The rule has protractor marks and also a mark 13 which, when the rule is set into alinement with marks 10, 12, enables lines to be drawn to the angular points o, p of the frame at definite angles. A second rule may slide between the rule 7 and the arm 1.
Patent GB-190724491-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Rotary Engines.
Inventor: FORD ANDREW FRANCIS
Filed: 1907-11-05
Granted: 1908-10-22
Abstract: 24,491. Ford, A. F., and Henderson, V. O. Nov. 5. Fixed-abutment type.-In a rotary engine of the type having an eccentrically-arranged drum piston 25 provided with rocking and sliding vanes 26 working within a cylindrical casing 10, the vanes pass through hollow slotted bearings 28 which are filled with packing saturated with lubricant, the packing being introduced through the end of the bearing which is provided with a screw-threaded closure disk 29. The closed end 11 of the drum fits into a recess 18 in one cover and the open end of the drum into an annular groove 20, in the other. Steam is distributed as usual by a valve 34 to ports 32 on opposite sides of the drum, and power is transmitted from the drum shaft 16.
Patent GB-190724707-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Refractory Electric Conductors.
Filed: 1907-11-07
Granted: 1908-07-02
Abstract: 24,707. British Thomson-Houston Co., [General Electric Co.]. Nov. 7. Resistances applicable for heaters in furnaces &c. and composed of a refractory metal with a small addition of silicon, are made by introducing the metal and silicon into a plastic binder, shaping, and treating to remove the binder and sinter the residue. Such bodies may have a resistance three or four times that of the pure metal, without the melting point being greatly affected. Tantalum or tungsten may be the metal employed ; for instance, a finely powdered mixture of tungsten and silicon, containing 5 per cent of the latter, may be incorporated in a cadmium-mercury amalgam, optionally containing a little bismuth, and squirted hot into tough pliable wire of any diameter, which is cut and shaped. Mercury and some cadmium are removed by a baking process, and the remaining cadmium by passage of current, which also sinters the residue, possibly causing the tungsten and silicon to combine. Heating takes place in a vacuum, an absorbent such as phosphorus pentoxide being present during the sintering. Specification No. 18,485, A.D. 1906, [Abridgment Class Electric lamps &c.], is referred to.
Patent GB-190726214-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Internal Combustion Motor Engine Turbines or Reaction Wheels
Inventor: HUTCHINGS JOHN
Filed: 1907-11-27
Granted: 1909-03-01
Abstract: 26,214. Hutchings, J. Nov. 27. Gas and vapour burners; lighting burners by electric devices.-Liquid or gaseous fuel is forced through a pipe p into jets 36, and, passing through an inner grid 44, mixes with air that has passed through pipes 45 heated by the exhaust gases and has entered the space between the inner and outer grids 44 through the grid 47. In passing through the outer grid, the air and fuel fully intermix and burn in the chamber d. In starting, the combustion is commenced by means of a wire 43 rendered incandescent and turned into the position shown by the handle 50. It may also be used to spark on to a projection of the inner grid. To ensure a uniform mixture, air is admitted from the chamber 46 through a -central pipe 49. The admission of the fuel is controlled by a cock 48, and of the air by a valve (not shown). Steam may be admitted from the pipe 41 at either of the apertures 42. The liquid fuel is supplied from apparatus comprising a reservoir into which the fuel is forced by a constantly reciprocating pump, described in Specification No. 19,124, A.D. 1908, [Abridgment Class Rotary engines &c.]. The air is compressed by a doubleacting oscillating-cylinder pump 11, Fig. 4, and is delivered into a reservoir 9, whence it flows through the pipes 45 which are laid in a chamber 52, through which pass the gases exhausted from the impact-wheel. The ducts 14 connecting the reservoir 9 to the pump cylinder pass from the underside of the cylinder up to and through the trunnions and down the trunnion posts. A drain cock 53 is provided at the commencement of the ducts. The pump is driven from a shaft 17 geared to the motor shaft e. The casings of the motor, the compression pump, and the combustion chamber are water-jacketed. Water is supplied to the jackets and to the hollow o in the base from a tank h. The connexion with the oscillating cylinder is made by means of a flexible tube 59.
Patent GB-190800406-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Air Pumps
Inventor: NEWTON PHILIP ARTHUR
Filed: 1908-01-07
Granted: 1908-04-02
Abstract: 406. Newton, P. A., [Blake & Knowles Steam Pump Works]. Jan. 7. Air-pumps, steam-engine and like.-Relates to double-acting pumps, the cylinders of which have central valveless suction passages. The suction passage c is connected by a passage 10 to the suction inlet C, which communicates through a passage 11 with valves 1. Some of the air and uncondensed vapour passes with the water through the valves 1, 2 to a passage 13 and outlet D, but most of the air &c. rises through the passage 10 and is delivered through valves 3 to the outlet.
Patent GB-190802564-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Blacking or Polish for Boots, Shoes and other Leather Goods.
Inventor: MACDONALD ANDREW
Filed: 1908-02-05
Granted: 1908-10-22
Abstract: 2564. Macdonald, A. Feb. 5. Boot blacking and polishing preparations.-Boot and leather polish is mixed with less solvent, such as turpentine, than is usual, in order to obtain a polish that may be made into blocks and yet be soft enough to be rubbed directly on to the leather, brush, cloth, or pad. A suitable composition is : stearine 5 parts, paraffin wax 5 parts, carnauba wax 2¢ parts, lustrous pitch 2¢ parts, turpentine 7 parts.
Patent GB-190805497-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Radio-telegraphic Receiving Apparatus.
Filed: 1908-03-11
Granted: 1908-06-18
Abstract: 5497. Reuthe, G., and Amalgamated Radio-Telegraph Co. June 18,1907, [date applied for under Section 91 of Patents &c. Act, 1907]. No Patent granted (Sealing fee not paid). Telegraphs.-The arm carrying the ink-wheel of a Morse printer used with a coherer in wireless telegraphy responds quickly to a forward impulse, but its return is retarded by pneumatic, mechanical, or other means, so that the decohering of the coherer by the tapper does not break the continuity of a " dash " signal. In the form shown in Fig. 3, the ink-wheel f is carried by a lever s, which is operated by an armature a. When the wheel f rises, air flows through a hole o in a cylinder c, but on return, a disk g closes the hole and the motion of the wheel is retarded by a piston b. In the form shown in Fig. 5, an arm t carried by the lever s rests on a wheel h which is mounted on a spring i. The action between the wheel h and the arm t produces the retarding effect.
Patent GB-190809150-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Apparatus for Measuring and Indicating the Explosive and Calorific Values of Gaseous Mixtures
Inventor: EVANS ATHOL GERALD
Filed: 1908-04-28
Granted: 1909-04-28
Abstract: 9150. Evans, A. G. April 28. Calorimeters; Photometers; thermometers.-The calorific, explosive, and like values of gases are determined by means of a device comprising a catalytic tube a, which contains a platinized medium, such as asbestos, and is attached across the free ends of a thermometer consisting of two metal tubes b, c, having different coefficients of expansion. A heating-coil may be fitted in the tube a to raise the temperature of the catalytic agent sufficiently for it to start occluding low hydrocarbons. Unequal expansion of the tubes b, c results in a slackening of the connexions i, so that the tensioned cord k can rotate the indicator p. As the thermometer moves, the circuit of the heating-coil may be broken.
Patent GB-190809423-A (GB)
Title: An Improvement in Fish Hooks
Inventor: HORTON OLIVER
Filed: 1908-05-01
Granted: 1909-04-15
Abstract: 9423. Horton, O. May 1. Fish-hooks.-A fish-hook has a side bend made on it, at or about the region of the barb, as shown. Specification No. 19,078, A.D. 1900, is referred to.
Patent GB-190815597-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to the Fastening of Boots or Shoes.
Inventor: SNOWDON JOHN
Filed: 1908-07-23
Granted: 1909-02-18
Abstract: 15,597. Snowdon, J. July 23. Stud-and-socket fastenings.- Boots and shoes are provided with stud-and-socket fasteners which give the boot the appearance of an ordinary buttoned boot. The socket E is stitched to one flap and is engaged by one head D of a stud A which is stitched to the other flap. The stud A has a second head B shaped like an ordinary boot button and projecting through holes in the form of buttonholes.
Patent GB-190816222-A (GB)
Title: A Method of Filtering Water, or Sewage which has been Septically Digested, by the use of Polarite, Cinders (or similar Material), and Sand, specially arranged.
Inventor: SHILLINGTON HENRY
Filed: 1908-07-31
Granted: 1909-06-03
Abstract: 16,222. Shillington, H. July 31. Sewage, treating; filtering; filtering-media.- Sewage passes from a septic tank 2, Fig. 1, through a covered receiving-chamber 4, having an overflow weir 5 at one end, and through penstocks 7 to filters 14. The liquid is distributed over the filters by troughs 8 having notches in the sides and a perforated base. The filters consist of successive layers 9, 10, 11, of sand or fine cinders, polarite, and cinders, coke, coal or slate, separated by galvanized iron-wire netting. These materials rest on tiles 12 covering drainage channels formed by spaced rows of bricks. The filters may be ventilated by means of galvanized iron tubes rising above the surface and descending to various levels. Fig. 8 shows a modified form for lateral filtration. The layers 9, 10, 11 are vertical, and there is a space 17 for the liquid. A thick iron plate 19 with a low wall 18 prevents the liquid over-running the filter. It is stated that in either form of filter there may be spaces, filled with liquid, between adjacent layers of filtering-material and the netting.
Patent GB-190819360-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Artificial Ear Drums
Inventor: LOOSMORE EDWARD JAMES
Filed: 1908-09-15
Granted: 1908-10-01
Abstract: 19,360. Loosmore, E. J. Sept. 15. Ear appliances. -Artificial ear drums of the elastic cup form are made with one or more corrugated flexible cross-pieces c, and with holes b, which are preferably of oval or rectangular shape.
Patent GB-190821232-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Foundry and other Moulding Machines to be Operated by Hand or otherwise.
Inventor: TOPHAM JOHN HADFIELD
Filed: 1908-10-08
Granted: 1909-12-08
Abstract: 21,232. Topham, J. H. Oct. 8. Moulding.-A moulding-machine consists of a rectangular or drum-shaped casing E, supported by trunnions D turning in standards B, in which casing slides a box P operated by one or more eccentric cams N mounted on a shaft F passing through the trunnions. The patterns are attached to the box P, and the moulding-boxes charged with sand to the casing E. The shaft F is actuated by a ratchet lever H as shown or by a lever with a clutch or with a box-end to fit the shaft, or worm gearing may be employed. A pin M is employed to connect the shaft F to the trunnion D, and pins O to connect the casing E to the standards B so that according to which pins are inserted so rotation of the shaft F causes rotation of the body E as a whole or reciprocates the box P.
Patent GB-190826528-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Tiled Hearths for Fireplaces and Stoves.
Inventor: JOHNSON JOHN THOMAS
Filed: 1908-12-08
Granted: 1910-01-06
Abstract: 26,528. Johnson, J. T. Dec. 8. Hearths; fenders.-Portable tiled hearths for use on the ordinary hearth are constructed by cementing tiles to a base-plate of three-ply or four-ply alder or birch veneer, or of sheet metal, and have wood borders forming a curb, or upon which a curb may rest or be secured. Wood blocks C, coloured and shaped to represent tiles, may replace the tiles that are adjacent to the fire-place jambs, thus enabling the hearth to be readily cut to fit the fire-place. Adhesive liquid cement is used for fixing the tiles, and, when a sheet-metal base is used, a layer of strawboard is placed between the base G and the tiles. The wood borders B surrounding the front and sides may be reeded or carved, and enamelled or painted &c. to form a curb; or they may have a curb H screwed to the border. A metal strip D may be used to protect the back edges of the tiles. A wood or metal stop for the fire-implements may be secured to the base-plate, the tiles being suitably cut. According to the Provisional Speoification, the hearth may be in one or more pieces, and the sheet-metal base may be bent to form a raised border for the support of a curb.
Patent GB-190904909-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to Watt Hour Meters.
Inventor: EMILE GRASSOT
IPC: G01R11/30
Filed: 1909-02-27
Abstract: 4909. Grassot, E. March 10, 1908, [Convention date]. Void. [Published under Section 91 of the Act]. Commutator motor meters.-An energy meter consists of an iron-cored field magnet excited by the pressure between the mains, an armature i, Fig. 4, connected across a series resistance s in the main circuit, and an eddy-current brake. Hysteresis errors are avoided by intermittently varying the excitation of the field magnet for short intervals of time, and friction is compensated for by a resistance r<1>, which causes a portion of the pressure current to traverse the armature. The intermittent variation of the excitation is effected by a switch which is in parallel with a resistance r in series with the field winding a and is either opened or closed intermittently by the counting-train. In the switch shown in Fig. 5, two blade springs t, t<1> are carried by an insulating-piece pivoted at o. Normally the springs t, t<1> are in contact and rest on a cam p, driven by the counting-mechanism, but, when the cam p clears the lower blade t<1>, contact between the blades is momentarily broken. In the arrangement shown in Fig. 6, a lever u is reciprocated horizontally by an eccentric on one wheel of the counting-train, and is periodically lifted and allowed to drop sharply by a pin on a second wheel of the train, rotating in the opposite direction to the first wheel.