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Patent GB-190500447-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Machines for Roasting Coffee Beans, or other Materials.
Inventor: CRANSTON STUART
Filed: 1905-01-10
Granted: 1905-09-07
Abstract: 447. Cranston, S. Jan. 10. Fastenings.-The cylinder of a coffee roasting machine rotates in a frame held in position by a weighted catch. The projection N<2> on the bearing A<3> engages with a pivoted catch N held in position by an arm carrying a weight N<3>. When the lever M is moved to the right, the stud S strikes the trigger S<1> attached to the bar S' which, by means of the link S<3>, releases the catch N.
Patent GB-190503872-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in the Axle Boxes of Railway and Tramway Rolling Stock and other Vehicles.
Inventor: GREEN HARRY
Filed: 1905-02-24
Granted: 1905-06-08
Abstract: 3872. Green, H. Feb. 24. A xle-box guiding- arrangements for railway and tramway rolling - stock and other vehicles. In order to avoid the necessity for lifting the vehicle when an axle-box is to be removed, the box is made in two parts, the line of division corresponding with the channels for the guides. Fig. 3 shows a plan of the box. The back-plate B, formed with guiding-flanges F, is separate from the remainder of the box, and is secured by bolts K, so that it can be removed to allow the withdrawal of the box without the necessity for lifting the vehicle. The flanges F are cast in one with the body of the box.
Patent GB-190505180-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Means for Spinning or Twisting and Winding, or for Winding Yarn and the like.
Inventor: HUBBARD CHARLES WELLS
Filed: 1905-03-13
Granted: 1905-11-02
Abstract: 5180. Hubbard, C. W. March 13. Bobbins, spools, reels, and balls of thread; spindle apparatus; winding-machines.-The object is to produce large and compact masses of roving and yarn, say from three to five feet in length and containing thirty pounds of roving or ten pounds of finished yarn, by the use of which the operations of deffing and changing the bobbins are required at less frequent intervals, and in carpet wills the operations of reeling and spooling from six-ounce Lobbins to ten-pound spools are dispensed with. The roving or yarn is built up into a cylindrical mass m, Fig. 1, by means of superposed horizontal layers resting on a felt-covered plate 8, each layer being formed by coiling the material in the heartshaped curves shown in Fig. 3. Fig. 1 shows an apparatus suitable for spinning or twisting and winding, while that shown in Fig. 5 is for winding only. The yarn is coiled by means of a plate 16 which rotates with the spindle 18 and slides longitudinally upon it. The plate is provided with a radial slot in which slides a thread-guide which is traversed radially as the plate rotates by a heartshaped cam 23 on a loose presser-plate 21. The spindle 18 and plate 8 are driven by the pulley 13. and the loose cam-plate 21 by the pulley 5 and the arms 22 of the flyer 3. In order that the material may be coiled in the manner shown in Fig. 3, the plate 8 on which the coils are laid is caused to rotate with the flyer 3 but at a slightly slower or greater speed. The plate 8 is mounted on a sleeve 6 carrying a spur-wheel 10 which has one more or less teeth than a spur-wheel 14 fast to the pulley 5, while an epicyclic spur-wheel 12 carried by the pulley 13 engages with both' of the spur-wheels 10, 14. In the arrangement shown in Fig. 5, the tradially-slotted plate 26 carrying the thread-guide is stationary, while the cam-plate 27 and the threadsupporting plate 43 are driven at different speeds by the gearing 32, 33. The plate 43 is mounted loosely on the balanced rod 44, and is caused to rotate with the flyer 28, while it can rise and fall within it.
Patent GB-190506200-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Inking Ribbon Shifting Mechanism for Time Recorders or similar Apparatus
Inventor: DEY JOHN
Filed: 1905-03-23
Granted: 1905-09-07
Abstract: 6200. Dey, J., and Dey, A. March 23. Time-checking apparatus for workmen. Relates to shifting mechanism for the multi-colour ribbon of a time - recorder or similar apparatus. The two - colour ribbon 19, Figs. 1 and 3, is carried vertically between the minute type-wheel 1 and a closed card receiver 8, by spools 20 mounted by means of sleeves 24 upon a bar 25, and by guidesleeves 21 and a double guide-rod 22, which parts slide as a whole on fixed spindles 26, 27. A visual indicator 31 is provided, preferably upon the bar 25. When certain other parts are set from the minute-wheel 1, the shifting is effected by operation of the platen mechanism. A slotted link 33 connected with the bar 25 co-operates with a pin 34 on a lever 35 on a spindle 36, which is mounted in arms 37 upon a fixed post 38. The lever 35 is flanged at its free end 39, Fig. 1, and provided with a wedge-shaped member 40 for co-operation with a knife-edge 41 on an arm 42 on the rock-shaft 15 of the platen mechanism. A controlling - member 57 for the lever 35 is pivoted on an arm 54 and connected by means of a link 59 with a spring 60 adjustable on the spindle 36. The arm 54, Figs. 1 and 2, is on a sleeve mounted on a spindle 53, and is normally depressed by the weight of the connected parts. Another arm 51 on the sleeve has a slotted connexion with an arm 50 on a rock-shaft 49, on which is an adjustable wiper arm 48 co-operating with a notched disk 47, driven from the minute-wheel shaft 5 by reducing-gearing. Two forks 62, 65, Fig. 8, on the member 57 co-operate with projections 61, 63 on the minutewheel 1 and determine the position of the member 57, corresponding to the position of the wiper arm 48 either within a notch 55 or upon the raised surface of the disk 47. Means are provided for locking against tampering with or jarring. An arm 66, Fig. 3, on the member 57 co operates with two toothed locking-arms 67, 68, Figs. 7 and 8, the former on a sleeve 69 loose on the spindle 53 and within a sleeve 71 carrying the latter. Pins 79 on the minutewheel effect release of the member 57 through releasing arms 70, 72 in the sleeves. The arms 70, 72 are provided with ratchet teeth 80 to prevent jarring of the minute-wheel.
Patent GB-190512078-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Steam Generators.
Inventor: FAIRWEATHER WALLACE
Filed: 1905-06-09
Granted: 1905-10-26
Abstract: 12,078. Fairweather, W., [Forbes, C. W.]. June 9. Water-tube boilers.-Relates to boilers having the generating - tubes arranged in an inclined position directly over the furnace. The nest of tubes 4 is provided with transverse drums or water chambers 5 having a capacity equal to or greater than that of the headers usually employed. The drums are connected by circulating-pipes 7, 8 with a steam and water drum 6, and are provided with flat tube-plates ; or they may be circular in section, the tube ends being bent to enter them radially. Directly below the nest of tubes 4 are additional generating- tubes 9 of larger diameter. These support the furnace crown 12, which is composed of short firebrick sections shaped to fit on the tubes. The partition 16, Figs:6 and 7, at the back end of the 'crown is formed of hollow firebrick sections, shaped to fit against the tubes and rabbeted together to prevent lateral movement. The sides of the furnace are composed of rectangular tubes 11, connected at the ends to standpipes or headers 10. Baffles 13, 14 deflect the furnace gases amongst the tubes. In the modification shown in Fig. 5, the steam spaces of the back drum 5 and the top drum 6 are connected by pipes 21.
Patent GB-190516342-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Belt-pulleys.
Inventor: FRASER JOHN
Filed: 1905-08-11
Granted: 1905-10-19
Abstract: 16,342. Fraser, J., Fraser, P., and Fraser, N. Aug. 11. Pulleys are made with radial arms of malleable iron &c. having their inner ends attached to the pulley hub and their outer ends bent round at right-angles in a swan-neck curve and secured to the pulley rim, as shown in Figs. 1 and 4. Specification No. 9842, A.D. 1890, is referred to.
Patent GB-190518981-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Machines for Wrapping Chocolates and the like in Tin Foil or other suitable Material.
IPC: B65B11/54
Filed: 1905-09-20
Granted: 1906-08-16
Abstract: 18,981. Keiller & Son, J., and Boyd, W. Sept. 20. Drawings to Specification. Cutting by unclassified operations.-Relates to improvements in the machine for wrapping-up chocolates &c., described in Specification No. 9043, A.D. 1904, [Abridgment Class Packing &c.]. A web of tin-foil is drawn into the machine by a roll and is cut into wrappers by a vertically reciprocating electrically heated wire. It is stated in the Provisional Specification that the wrappers may be cut out from the web by electrically heated wires arranged in a rectangular or other form.
Patent GB-190519906-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Electric Clocks.
Inventor: PARSONS ISAAC HARDY
Filed: 1905-10-02
Granted: 1906-09-27
Abstract: 19,906. Parsons, I. H., and Ball, A. E. J. Oct. 2. Electric clocks escapements.-An electric clock or workman's tell-tale has a secondary step-by-step mechanism comprising a magnetically - operated lever or levers carrying a propelling and locking pawl and connected with a back stop click, for the purpose of locking the mechanism against external influence throughout the motion. The ratchetwheel A, Fig. 1, in the position of rest, is held, by the pawl C bearing on the fixed stop D and by the back stop click F, from motion in either direction. When the armature J is attracted by the magnet K, K<1> against the spring I, the spring pawl C is withdrawn and slides along the wheel tooth, which path is roughly tangential about the pivot E. Until the armature is released, the wheel remains locked by the pressure communicated to the click F by the link H; thereafter the wheel is propelled by the pawl C as far as the stop D will permit, the click F being released at the required rate. In modifications, the disposition of the levers is varied. Separate levers B<1>, B, Fig. 3, may respectively carry the propelling-pawl C<1> and the locking - pawl C, the latter having a rounded edge. The lever B<1>, pivoted at E', operates the lever B by contact at B<5>. In a further modification, the lever B is pivoted to an horizontal lever under a fixed stop on the frame, and the contacting portions B<5> have a hook form.
Patent GB-190523219-A (GB)
Title: Improved Means for Mounting Stone Lithographic Rollers.
Inventor: JUSTICE PHILIP MIDDLETON
Filed: 1905-11-11
Granted: 1906-03-15
Abstract: 23,219. Justice, P. M., [Charlottenburger Farbwerke Akt.-Ges.]. Nov. 11. Printing and embossing rollers.-Stone lithographic rollers, whether composed of a number of segments or not, are mounted so that only at its two ends does the roller contact with the shaft. Reference is made in the description to Specification No. 4227, A.D. 1904. A mounting of this kind provides elasticity between the roller and shaft and prevents the former from bursting. In Fig. 2, which shows the invention applied to a roller composed of a number of segments, the roller a is shown held on the shaft b between a fixed disk d', integral, if desired, with the shaft, and a movable disk d, tightened up by a nut g. The ends of the roller are conically turned, as also are the rims uf the disks d, d<1>, aud an elastic lining f of leather, rubber, &c. is interposed. Fig. 4 shows the ends of the roller, fitted with metal caps b, c having concentric conical bearings. A fixed shoulder g and a movable shoulder f secure the stone. In a modification, the caps b, c are replaced by short tubes entering the bore of the roller and having end flanges. Linings are placed between the end flanges and the stone. Fig. 8 shows the roller bored conically and held by a fixed cone d and a movable cone d<1>, which are screwed on to a tube b placed over the shaft. In a modification of this construction, the cones are fitted to the shaft itself. With the exception of the construction shown in Fig. 2, the arrangements ensure the centring of the roller on its shaft.
Patent GB-190600531-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Steam Turbines.
Inventor: LUMGAIR DAVID
Filed: 1906-01-08
Granted: 1906-11-22
Abstract: 531. Lumgair, D., and Binder, J. P. Jan. 8. Elastic -fluid turbines. - A multiple - expansion turbine consists of two sets of outward-flow impulse turbine wheels, all mounted on one shaft, the wheels of one set being of larger diameter than those of the other. Fig. 1 is a longitudinal section showing the casing made up of sections 2 with intermediate rings 4. Each section 2 has a partition 5 and contains two wheels. Openings 12 permit the steam to flow from one wheel to the next.
Patent GB-190601088-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Elastic Fluid Rotary Motor of the Geared Vane Type
Filed: 1906-01-15
Granted: 1906-10-04
Abstract: 1088. Clarke, Chapman, & Co., and Robson, J. Jan. 15. Geared-vane type. - A multiple-expansion rotary engine of the type having intermittently - rotating interchangeable pistons and abutments is shown in Fig. 1. Four disks 20 ... 23 are mounted on the shaft 2 and carry pivoted arms 39, Fig. 12, engaging straps or chains 3, which encircle the shaft and form friction grips for rotating it. The peripheries of the disks have cam-surfaces 51, Fig. 4, carrying rollers engaging with similar pivoted camsurfaces 53, which form friction blocks adapted to engage with the casing when moved in one direction and to slide free from it when moved in the other direction. The first disk has an annular chamber 43 divided into separ a t working chambers by three or more abutment partitions 44, and a corresponding number of piston vanes are formed on the next disk and fit into the working chambers. The second and third working chambers 46, 49 are arranged similarly to the first. The steam, ammonia, or other elastic - fluid admission port 18 communicates through passages 63 with an annular channel 64 in a distributing-disk 31, and this channel is connected to the three segmental valve chambers 26, each containing a rocking valve 25 containing ports which control the passage of steam to and from the working chambers through passages 67. The valves are rocked from side to side to provide for the admission, cut-off, and exhaust of the steam, by steam admitted from the channels 64 to one or other side of the valves. The exhaust from the valve chambers passes through suitable channels to the main exhaust 60, where it is joined by the main body of steam after it has passed in turn through the three sets of working chambers. The disks are kept pressed together by screw studs 38 fitted with spring washers 138. The shaft at the admission end of the engine bears against a ball bearing enclosed by friction disks 7 and supported by a screw stud 6. A collar near the other end of the shaft fits against a ball bearing 9, and a spring 11 placed between the bearing and the gland 13 keeps the shaft pressed to the left. In operation, steam enters the three working chambers of the first and third disks on one side of the piston vanes so as to wedge the disks against the casing, while the second and fourth disks are forced round by the steam acting on their piston vanes, and as their gripping-devices engage with the shaft the shaft is rotated. After one-third of a revolution, the second and fourth disks are wedged to the casing and the first and third disks rotate, and so on.
Patent GB-190605953-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Machines for Turning Corks
Inventor: LAUER BERTHOLD
Filed: 1906-03-12
Granted: 1907-04-12
Abstract: 5953. Lauer, B. March 12. Cork, cutting.-In a machine for turning corks in two operations with a single cutter, the driving-shaft 3 rotates through gearing 7,10,11 a spindle 12, which carries the cams 13, 15, 14, Fig. 3, the first for feeding the cork block, the second for tightening and releasing the block and enabling it to be turned, and the third for raising the blade 45. The cam 13, Figs. 3 and 6, acts on a roller 16 fixed to a pivoted toothed sector 17, Fig. 6, gearing with a similar sector which is mounted on a shaft 20, carrying at the end of an arm a platform 24 for the cork. These parts, which are returned by a spring 25, have pins 28 entering circular slots 27 in two arms 26, which are loose on the spindle 20 and have return springs 32 and a spring blade 29 secured to the stay 30. When, as shown in Fig. 6, the platform is ready to be pulled back, the cork blank has been freed from fixed bars 87 and rests under the spring 29 and against the stop 88 in position to be held by the gripping-jaws. The cam 15 then releases a roller 66 on a lever 67, and so allows a spring to move a slide 70 carrying the movable jaw 71 towards the blank. The jaws are then rotated by gearing 74, 84, 83, Fig. 3, and a partly-toothed pinion 76 oscillated from a double right and left handed screw 6<1> on the shaft 3 by an arm 77 connected by a slotted rod 78 through a pin 80 to a slide 37, to which is connected by pivot 36 a nut 35 engaging with the screw 6<1>. A spring 8<1>. is stretched between shackle 82 and the part 37, and a stop is provided for the rod 78. The slide 37 is connected by a groove 51 and roller 50, Figs. 2 and 3, to a bar 49, to which are connected parts 46 sliding on a square rod 39 supported by a part 40. The part 40 is inclined, when it is desired to cut conical corks, by the movement of the portion 41 on the portion 42 and is secured by a bolt 43, the inclination being regulated by screws. The rarts 46 carry the blade 45, which is consequently moved longitudinally. The blade is raised or put into working position by a cam 14 engaging a roller 52 on an adjustable bracket 53 secured at right-angles to an arm 54 normally resting on a stop and oscillating on the portion 55 of the square rod. This arm carries a roller 56 on which the blade bolder travels, contact being ensured between the cam and roller by a roller 57 acted on by a spring pressed rod 59. The cam 14 is so shaped that the blade is raised and lowered twice in every revolution, once to take off a rough cut from the block, and again to turn it.
Patent GB-190608235-A (GB)
Title: Automatic Switch for Portable Electric Incandescent Lamps
Inventor: LOEWENHERZ ERNST
Filed: 1906-04-05
Granted: 1907-03-07
Abstract: 8235. L÷wenherz, E. April 5. Supporting lamps. -An incandescent lamp, 10, worked by a battery in the box. 1, is hung when not in use on a pivoted hook - piece 5, whereby its weight opens a switch in the circuit. The piece 5 is permanently connected to one terminal 4, and is held against a contact 6 by a spring when the lamp is off the hook. The ring 11 serves as a handle when the lamp is in use. [Reference has been directed under Patents Act, 1902, to Specification No. 14,322, A.D. 1891, [Abridgment Class Electricity, Regulating &c.].]
Patent GB-190613672-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Spring Tyres for Road Vehicles.
Inventor: ALLIE GUSTAVE HUBERT CLEMENT
Filed: 1906-06-14
Granted: 1906-09-06
Abstract: 13,672. AlliÚ, G. H. C. June 15, 1905, [date applied for under Patents Act, 1901]. Tyres, elastic other than pneumatic.- The ordinary airtube of a pneumatic tyre is replaced by a series of helical springs D arranged between two metal rings F, G furnished with guiding-nipples E, the whole arrangement being placed within the ordinary outer cover C of a pneumatic tyre. A leather, rubber, or like band H may be provided.
Patent GB-190618725-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and connected with Mechanical Stokers
Inventor: STROUSE WILLIAM HENRY
Filed: 1906-08-21
Granted: 1907-05-23
Abstract: 18,725. Strouse, W. H. Aug. 21. Mechanical stoking. - A mechanical stoker adapted particularly for feeding fuel to locomotive fire-boxes consists of a reciprocating plunger operated by steam pressure and mounted upon a frame detachably secured to the furnace front. The frame 16 carrying the plunger is mounted upon castors, and comprises a bed with guides at the sides for the plunger 20, the forward portion of the bed being curved downwardly and extended within the fuel opening in the form of a projection 21. Fuel from a hopper 30 falls on to the frame bed and is forced by the plunger through the door 24, which is hinged at its upper edge and retained in its closed position by a spring 25. The plunger 20, the shape of which is shown in Fig. 12, is connected by means of a web 35 to the piston-rod 34, Fig. 5, of the piston 33 working in the cylinder 32 mounted on the frame 16. Steam is admitted through inlet and exhaust ports 36 from a valve and steam-chest 37, to which steam is supplied through a pipe 38 leading to a throttle valve 39. The admission of steam to each end of the cylinder is controlled by oscillating valves 41 mounted upon a valve-rod 40. Motion is imparted to the latter by the reciprocating plunger 20, which is provided on its underside, at the rear, with oppositely inclined projections 50, Figs. 1 and 12. These projections engage with adjustable sliding pieces 51, mounted upon levers 47 located on opposite sides of the cylinder and pivoted at opposite ends, and through them impart motion to rods 46, horizontal levers 44 having pins 45, and arms 43 on the valve-rod 40. The sliding pieces 51 on the rods 47 are adjusted to vary the stroke of the piston and plunger, by means of hand-levers 55, 59, to which they are connected by link gearing as shown. The lever 59 also controls the valve for admitting steam to the steam-chest. To prevent shock at the ends of the movement of the plunger and piston, steam is admitted to the cylinder near the end of each stroke by valves which are opened by the piston striking against rods 70 upon them.
Patent GB-190618954-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Spring Winding Mechanism.
Inventor: OHLSON OLOF
Filed: 1906-08-24
Granted: 1907-08-01
Abstract: 18,954. Ohlson, O. Aug. 24. Overwinding, preventing- -A click, Fig. 3, to be pivoted in a recess in the plate,has a rigid toe 17 and a tooth 19 at the end of a spring 20. During unwinding, both toe and tooth engage with the teeth of the winding- wheel, but in winding the tooth only is in contact with the wheel and the toe lies out in the recess. The click is made from a single blank by partly boring it to form a recess and then by milling it on the other side to remove the metal between the spring hoop 20 and the central portion 23.
Patent GB-190619276-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Apparatus for Conditioning Yarn.
Inventor: BRIGGS JAMES
Filed: 1906-08-29
Granted: 1907-04-25
Abstract: 19,276. Briggs, J. Aug. 29. Liquids, apparatus for treating with.-Open-work receptacles with sliding bottoms are, by suitable means, lowered into or raised from a conditioning- tank in frames. On removal from the tank, the yarns can be dried or partly dried, and rapidly discharged into skips, trucks, &c. The receptacle 4 is slid from the raised frame 2 on to supports 6 on one side of the tank 1, a stop 8 on its bottom taking the sliding bottom 5 with it. The yarns being placed in it, it is slid back into the frame 2 and lowered into the liquid in the tank 1. When the process is completed, the frame is raised and surplus liquid drains off the yarn and falls into the tank. The receptacle 4 is then slid out of the frame 2 on to supports 6<A> on the other side of the tank 1, the false bottom 5 being kept in the frame by a stop piece 7, so that the yarns fall directly into a skip or truck placed for their reception. The receptacle 4 is then slid back through the frame 2 on to the first supports 6. The apparatus may be provided with an automatic indicator which shows the length of time necessary for the yarns to remain in the tank. According to the Provisional Specification, a sand-glass may be arranged for this purpose, it being tilted when the yarn is lowered into the tank.
Patent GB-190627896-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Torchshaft or Ladderpole for use in Street Lighting or the like.
Inventor: THOMAS ARTHUR
Filed: 1906-12-07
Granted: 1907-03-28
Abstract: 27,896. Blood, A. T. Dec, 7. Torches.-A lamplighter's torch shaft is fitted with a detachable hook i by which it can be attached to the top of a lamp-post &c., and is provided with steps j, k, l by which it may be mounted. The upper part of the shaft is encircled by bands e, secured by bolts g, h, spaces being left between the bolts and shaft for the insertion of the hook i. The lowest step l is fitted with a concave metal plate m adapted to fit against the base of the lamp-post &c. The shaft may also be secured by means of a leather strap.