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Patent GB-190802166-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Reversible Petroleum and Compressed Air Motors.
Inventor: BERLIET MARIUS
Filed: 1908-01-30
Granted: 1909-01-21
Abstract: 2166. Berliet, M. Jan. 30. Gas or explosive-vapour engines.-An engine working on a four-stroke cycle is provided with compressed-air admission valves worked from an adjustable cam-shaft for starting, for running with increased power, and for running backwards as a compressed-air engine, the cams for these valves being of special form. A six-cylinder engine is described having three cranks at 120 degrees. A half-speed cam-shaft, not shown, controls the admission and exhaust valves for normal working, and a second cam-shaft 10 controls the compressed-air admission valves 23 of the six cylinders. The shaft 10 is adjustable axially by means of a lever 29, and has three positions. At starting, the lever 29 is brought into the position 32, and cams 33 operate the valves 23 to admit compressed air to all the cylinders on the power out-stroke, the air being discharged on the return stroke through the exhaust valves. On the next out-stroke, carburetted air may be drawn in, and on the following cut-stroke, compressed air is admitted after the explosion, giving increased power. With the lever 29 in the position 31, the valves 23 are not lifted. In the position 30, the cams 39 are brought into action to admit compressed air on alternate revolutions for backward running, the air being discharged through the carburetted-air admission valves. The cams 33, 39 have the profile shown in Fig. 4, the part a-b being in practice ineffective when the engine has attained its normal speed.
Patent GB-190805982-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Ball Cocks for the Supply of Water and other Liquids to Cisterns and Tanks.
Inventor: HITCHEN HARTLEY
Filed: 1908-03-18
Granted: 1909-01-14
Abstract: 5982. Hitchen, H. March 18. Ball and float valves; lift valves; seats.-A floatoperated lift valve is provided with a double closure by means of a seating-washer C<4> secured between the two parts A, C of the valve casing, and a second washer B<3> secured on the end of the plunger B by a ferrule or thimble B<2>. The end of the thimble projects beyond the washer B<3> so as to seat on the washer C<4>, while a nipple C<1> projecting from the part C seats on the washer B<3>. The nipple is grooved externally as shown, for the reception of the washer C<4>, which also forms a tight joint between the two parts A, C of the casing.
Patent GB-190809697-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Electric-switches.
Filed: 1908-05-04
Granted: 1908-09-24
Abstract: 9697. Thames Iron Works, Shipbuilding, and Engineering Co., and Flood, W. B. May 4. Switches.-Relates to switches having a quick make and break. The fixed contacts c, dare mounted an insulating-base, and a movable contact e is pivoted on an arm f, which is pivoted to the switch casing. This movable contact e is attached to the tumbler or operating-lever by an elastic member, which, in the form shown, consists of a pin i surrounded by a spring k and passing through a hole in a swivelj<o>. A lever 1<l> is pivoted to the same pin as the lever f. When the lever j<1> is moved, the spring k is first compressed and the contact e turned on its pivot to cause the contacts to rub together ; this action continues until the lever j<1> passes the dead centre, whereupon the spring expands, throwing over the switch. The lever f may have attached to it a flexible band carrying a plate m, bearing-indications which appear under a window n. A modification is described in which the parts are arranged to have the form of an ordinary tumbler switch.
Patent GB-190811699-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Apparatus for Cleaning by Fluid Pressure.
Inventor: SPENCER IRA HOBART
Filed: 1908-05-29
Granted: 1909-01-21
Abstract: 11,699. Spencer, I. H. May 29. Vacuum cleaning - apparatus. - Dust - laden air enters the apparatus by a trunk 26 from mains 50 and passes direct to a primary depositing- chamber 6. Thence it rises and passes the length of a fan chamber 19, in which is a multi-stage fan, being delivered tangentially through the aperture 29 beneath a depending conical shield 34 in the dust-collector 33. A .shield 28 directs the air current. The lighter particles are collected by a filter 37, the heavier settling into a receptacle 7. The fan is driven by a motor 9 supported on frame bars 14 held by standards 5 encircling the dust receptacles 6, 7.
Patent GB-190812488-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Machines for Making Moulding Cores.
Inventor: HERBERT FRED
Filed: 1908-06-10
Granted: 1908-10-15
Abstract: 12,488. Herbert, F. June 10. Moulding. - Machines for making cores are arranged first to apply pressure to the interior of the moulding material, and afterwards to complete the core by applying pressure to the exterior of the material. Figs. 1 and 4 illustrate one construction of apparatus according to the invention, in which the core-box or mould is formed of four segments g, sliding on fixed vertical pillars a and connected to pistons in power cylinders f on the pillars, so that the segments may be moved towards or from each other by admitting water, compressed air, steam, or other suitable power medium to the cylinders. Any number of segments for the core-box may be employed together with a corresponding number of pillars of any suitable section ; also any number of power cylinders may be connected to each segment instead of three as shown in Fig. 1. Any other suitable means may be adopted in place of the power cylinders for moving the core-box sections simultaneously. The core-box sections are provided with conduits h through which heating fluid for drying the core is passed, and they also have knife edges a<2> to cut off projecting pieces of the core when the final compression takes place. The supply of moulding material may be measured, and the interior pressure applied thereto by any suitable means, which in the example shown are similar to those described in Specifications No. 26,194, A.D. 1898, and No. 26,786, A.D. 1905. A core-bar t is forced upwards through the centre of the moulding material. In the illustrated form the bar t fits on the reduced end l of a plunger m fitted in the cylinder d, and the material is retained in the corebox during the passage of the bar by means of the plate k. A coned head n is fitted on the core-bar, and a tube s is lowered on to the coned head to act as a measuring device and also to retain the material in position prior to the introduction of the core-bar. As the core-bar approaches the limit of its movement, the flange r on the plunger engages the loose ring o and forces it upwards to form the socket end of the core. After this operation, thin plates j are removed simultaneously from under the stop nuts c<1> on all the piston-rods of the power cylinders, to allow the segments to move inwards and apply the final external pressure to the material. Small power cylinders m<1> or other means may be employed for moving the plates j. In a modified form of apparatus the pillars a are inclined, and the core-box sections are moved relatively to one another by sliding up and down the pillars. The external compression is given to the material as the core-bar approaches its final position, by forcing the sections upwards on the inclined pillars by means of the ram which operates the core-bar. To prevent injury to the core during removal from the machine a ring of larger diameter than the core is secured to the lower end of the core-bar.
Patent GB-190815356-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Igniters for Explosion Engines.
Inventor: SAGE GEORGE WILLIAM
Filed: 1908-07-20
Granted: 1908-10-29
Abstract: 15,356. Sage, G. W., and Pine, N. H. July 20. Gas engines, igniting in. In a make-and-break ignition device, a mechanically rotated electrode contacts successively with a number of L-shaped electrodes instead of with only one, so that the electrode can be rotated at a speed slower than that of the engine. The rotary electrode 11 carries a spur 12, which makes and breaks contact successively with the spurs 14, 15 on the spring-controlled rocking electrodes 16, 17. Specification No. 3394, A.D. 1905, is referred to.
Patent GB-190815420-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Thread Cutting Temples for Looms.
Inventor: BAUER CHARLES
Filed: 1908-07-21
Granted: 1908-10-15
Abstract: 15,420. Bauer, C., [Northrop Loom Co.]. July 21. Loom temples; weft, cutting.-The outer end 7 of the temple head 5 is furnished with a hardened plate 8 having a slot 9, into which passes the filling end extending from the fabric to the automatic bobbing-changing apparatus. A fixed knife 10 is adjustably secured by screws 11 to the temple stand 1, and, when the temple head 5 and shank 2 are moved inwards against the action of a spring 3 by the lay striking the heel 4, the filling is forced against the fixed knife and cut by its inclined edge 13. The screws 11 pass through an elongated slot in the shank of the blade 10, which can be readily removed for sharpening.
Patent GB-190817260-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Trouser Pressers and Stretchers.
Inventor: O'BRIEN BERNARDO SEGUI
Filed: 1908-08-17
Granted: 1908-10-29
Abstract: 17,260. O'Brien, B. S., and Wheat, H. M. Aug. 17. Trouser stretchers and presses. - A trouser stretcher and presser consists of two members A, B adapted to grip the trousers and to be kept apart by spreader bars 10, which are provided with teeth 11 engaging with members 12. Each of the members A, B consist of a bevelled wooden strip 1 hinged to a bevelled strip 2 divided into sections 2, 2<a>, 2b. The strips are lined with felt 4, and are provided with recesses 5 and cover-plates 6 formed with slots 7. In use, the trousers are folded and placed between the members A, B when these are opened as in Fig. 4. Each member is then closed as shown in Fig. 3, and the trousers are smoothed out ; the whole is then held in a vertical position, when the spreaders 10 will fall into place and lock the two clamps while the trousers are stretched. Each member is provided with an eye 13 for attaching to a chain 14 by which the stretcher may be hung.
Patent GB-190819013-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Automatic Gas Cut-off Devices.
Inventor: NIEMANN HENRY
Filed: 1908-09-10
Granted: 1908-12-31
Abstract: 19,013. Niemann, H. Sept. 10. Gas cocks and valves, automatically closing on extinguishing.-A cut-off valve 12, normally held open by the buoyancy of a float 15 immersed in melted beeswax, sulphur, or paraffin 9, is closed by the contraction of the wax &c. when the latter solidifies owing to the extinction of a burner supplied through the cut-off. The valve 12 is supported by a wire frame from the float 15, and its seat is the bevelled upper end of the inlet tube 6. The position of the float when the wax is melted is determined by a split spring-ring 20 which engages the interior of the chamber 1 by a screw-thread. When the wax solidifies, it drags down the float and seats the valve. A by-pass 30, 31 is provided for initially lighting the burner ; it may be closed automatically, after an interval sufficient for the melting of the wax 9, by the release of a weighted wheel 34<a> from a weighted detent 47 which is connected by a lever and a rod to a piston in a cylinder 40, containing solid wax so as to be held immovably in the path of a pin on the wheel 34<a> until the wax is melted by the heat from the ordinary burner, or a small flame for this purpose may be maintained in a metal cage 56, in which case the cut-off will operate when the small flame is extinguished by blowing out or by fall of pressure due to leakage. The cut-off closer the valve 12 after an interval of from several minutes to several hours, according to pre-arranged conditions.
Patent GB-190821334-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Governing Devices for Marine Distance Recorders.
Inventor: PHELP JOHN AWBERY
Filed: 1908-10-09
Granted: 1909-10-07
Abstract: 21,334. Phelp, J. A. Oct. 9. No Patent granted (Sealing fee not paid). Vane governors.-In governors for marine distance-recorders, in which a vane or fly pivoted on a spindle driven by the recorder operating or impeller spindle moves outwards under the action of centrifugal force, the fly is mounted within a casing so as to be partly or wholly immersed in water or other liquid. The fly e moves between stops on the spindle under the action of a returning spring h, and may y be driven either by toothed gearing or by a rope passing round a pulley q fixed on the fly spindle. The casing may be circular or of other shape, and provided with an observation window ; or it may be transparent. It is provided with a cone-shaped mouth l to prevent the escape of liquid.
Patent GB-190821545-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Tyres for Motor Car and like Wheels.
Inventor: WIECHARD FRIEDRICH
Filed: 1908-10-12
Granted: 1909-07-22
Abstract: 21,545. Wiechard, F. Oct. 10, 1907, [date applied for under Section 91 of Patents &c. Act, 1907]. Felloes or rims. -Between a solid tyre and the side flanges D by which it is secured to the rim, rubber rings B are interposed. The tyre rests on a narrow rib F. The gripping-surfaces of the tyre and flanges are serrated.
Patent GB-190825140-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Cleats for Ships' Hatches.
Inventor: BEER ARCHIBALD ROWE
Filed: 1908-11-23
Granted: 1909-05-27
Abstract: 25,140. Beer, A. R. Nov. 23. Hatches.-The upper part F of a cleat for ships' hatches is formed with two equal vertical facets inclined to the coaming at substantially the same angle as that of the wedge K.
Patent GB-190826486-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Spiral Drills.
Inventor: URBSCHEIT ALFRED
Filed: 1908-12-07
Granted: 1909-05-13
Abstract: 26,486. Urbscheit, A. Dec. 24, 1907, [date applied for under Section 91 of Patents &c. Act 1907]. Drills.-A twist drill is provided with a detachable cutting-portion c of high-speed steel, the parts being fixed together by a screw passing through the part c and through projections e on the upper part, which fit into lateral slots d in the lower part. A cylindrical shoulder h engages a recess in the upper part, and a tongue f which may be removable engages the groove g.
Patent GB-190826632-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Vacuum Jacketed Vessels for Liquids, Liquid Foods and the like.
Inventor: WALTON ALBERT ELIAS
Filed: 1908-12-09
Granted: 1909-09-09
Abstract: 26,632. Walton, A. E., and Sheriff, A. E. Dec. 9. Stoppers.-The neck of a vacuum-jacketed vessel for retaining heat and cold is provided with a shoulder for the use of a stopper made of composition or vulcanite and having a cork collar at its lower end through which passes a cone-shaped core attached to a swivelling thumb-screw at the top working on two inclined planes upon the bottle neck so as to force the collar into position against the shoulder.
Patent GB-190828224-A (GB)
Title: Improved Method of and Means for Utilizing Exhaust Steam.
Inventor: WADAGAKI YASUZO
IPC: F01D1/02
Filed: 1907-12-25
Granted: 1909-09-09
Abstract: 28,224. Wadagaki, Y. Dec. 25, 1907, [date applied for under Section 91 of Patents &c. Act, 1907]. Elastic-fluid turbines.-The exhaust from steam engines or turbines is used to drive an auxiliary turbine coupled to a centrifugal fan which increases the pressure of the main steam supply. The auxiliary turbine is fitted with an indicator which indicates efficient conditions of working. A marine plant is shown in Fig. 1. Steam flows through a supply pipe 1 to a centrifugal compressor 2, where its temperature and pressure are raised, and thence by way of pipes 3 to the main engines 4. The exhaust from these engines passes through pipes 6 to an auxiliary turbine 7, which is not connected to a propeller, but is coupled to the compressor 2, and is exhausted into condensers 9. By-pass pipes 10 establish direct communication between the supply pipe 1 and the main engines. Stop-valves 11, 12, 13 regulate the flow of steam through the pipes 3, 10. Under certain conditions, steam might flow backwards through the pipe 10. In the auxiliary turbine 7 a floating vane, similar to a weather-cock, is arranged in the exhaust and actuates an indicator 16, so that the direction of flow of the exhaust may be observed, and the plant regulated accordingly. In a modification, the reciprocating engines 4 are replaced by turbines, and certain pipes are duplicated for reversing purposes. The exhaust from all the auxiliary engines on a ship may be led to the turbine 7. A suitable compressor is shown in Fig. 3 in which fluid is drawn in at a port 1, compressed by a centrifugal impeller, and discharged into an annular chamber arranged in a spherical casing, whence it is drawn off through outlets 3.
Patent GB-190904243-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Exposure-indicators for Photographic Plate Holders.
Inventor: THOMPSON WILLIAM PHILLIPS
IPC: G03B17/26
Filed: 1909-02-20
Granted: 1909-05-27
Abstract: 4243. Thompson, W. P., [Jõhde, E.]. Feb. 20. Dark-slides.-In a locking-device and exposure-indicator for the shutters of dark-slides, the locking-device is inoperative when the dark-slide is empty, but is moved into operative position when the dark-slide is loaded, and contains two notches, the shutter being automatically locked by one of these notches when the plate is unexposed, and by the other after exposure. In one construction, the pivoted locking-lever c, Fig. 1, is notched at c' and c<2> and has also a central notch c<3>. When the dark-slide is unloaded, the lever c is maintained in a vertical position by the engagement between the end of a projection d<1>, and the end of a spring rod f. In this position, the pin l on the dark-slide shutter k slides in the notch c<3>, and there is no locking. On inserting a plate m, the spring g is pressed up, raising the rod f which tilts the end of the projecting tongue e and engages a projection d<2>, holding the lever c in the tilted position. On now closing the shutter k, the pin l slides over the sloping edge and engages the notch c<1>, The rod f is released from the projection d<2>, and is free from the path of the projections d', d<2>. To expose the plate. the pin l is released from the notch c<1>, and the spring i, pressing upon the projection h, tilts the lever over into the position shown in Fig. 4, so that, on returning the shutter after exposure, the pin l engages the notch c<2>. On emptying the dark-slide, the spring g draws the rod f down and erects the lever into idle position. In a modified construction, the notched lever c, Fig. 7, is pivoted on an arm n of a rod o rotating in the frame. A spring r<1> tends to turn the rod o so as to deflect the arm n and the lever c out of the path of the pin l. Another spring tends to keep the locking-lever c in the vertical position shown in full lines. On loading the dark-slide, the plate presses the arm r back, causing the locking-lever to be rocked back into the path of the pin l. On closing the shutter, the lever c is tilted into the dotted position 2, so that the pin engages the notch c<1>. On returning the shutter after exposure, the pin l slides over the curved edge above the notch c<2>, and engages in the notch c<2>.
Patent GB-190904549-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Tooth Brushes.
Inventor: BELL VICTOR CHARLES
IPC: A46B9/04
Filed: 1909-02-24
Granted: 1909-11-25
Abstract: 4549. Bell, V. C. Feb. 24. Toothbrushes.-In toothbrushes for cleaning the inward and outward surfaces of the teeth, of the kind in which concave and convex brush-heads are arranged transversely to the handle, and have bristles extending transversely to the length of the handle, which is curved adjacent to the brushheads, the outermost rows 4, 6 are soft for massaging the gums, and the bristles are tapered in length from one side of the brush-head to the other.
Patent GB-190906303-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Joints and Connections for Crossed or Abutting Parts.
Inventor: WEYGAND HEINRICH
IPC: B21D39/03
Filed: 1909-03-16
Granted: 1909-11-04
Abstract: 6303. Weygand, H. March 16. Scrapers, foot and hall.-Relates to the construction of boot - scrapers whereby rivets, tenons, &c. are avoided. Horizontal members 27 are secured to vertical channel irons 28, 30 by sinking them in transverse slots 29, and by upsetting or melting down the projecting edges to form securing means.
Patent GB-190908920-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Regenerative and Non-regenerative Coke Ovens.
Inventor: FABRY RENE FRANCOIS FERDINAND
IPC: C10B5/06
Filed: 1909-04-15
Granted: 1909-08-26
Abstract: 8920. Fabry, R. F. F. April 15. Coke ovens.-Horizontal or inclined ovens, working with intermittent gas supply as described in Specification 5801/08, are formed with flues which widen from the gas inlet to the outlet so that there is a uniform rate of combustion all along the flues, the effect of the increasing dilution of the combustible constituents being neutralized by the fall in the velocity of the current. As shown in Fig. 1 in a regenerative coke oven working with reversal of the air supply, the air passes from the regenerator D and along the flues H to the burners I, the mixed gases burning along the flues H' and passing to the regenerator D'. The flues H, H<1> widen in plan view from the burners I. In a non- regenerative coke oven, gas and air are supplied to each of the flues H, H<1> at their narrow ends. The invention is also applicable to inclined coke ovens.
Patent GB-190911300-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Manufacture of Filling or Stuffing Material.
IPC: C08J9/30
Filed: 1909-05-12
Granted: 1909-08-19
Abstract: 11,300. Caldwell, R. J., Pfleumer, F., and Pfleumatic Syndicate. May 12. Non-metallic elastic bodies and cores. - An elastic material similar to that described in Specification 2796/08, for filling tyres &c., is made by acting upon gelatine and glycerine beaten up into a foam, with a tanning-agent, and the invention comprises means for controlling the rate of tanning, and also means for distributing the tanning - agent uniformly. Gelatine and a fine powder, such as zinc oxide, are soaked in glycerine, the proportions being such that a viscous mass is produced when heated to about 70‹ C. The heated mass is beaten into a foam by a stirrer and compressed gas is forced in until the pressure is raised to from 5-50 atmospheres and the stirring is continued. A neutral gas, such as carbon dioxide or nitrogen, is forced in if the tanning is to be delayed, or oxygen may be employed for increasing the rate of tanning as described in the above-mentioned Specification. About 20 per cent of a solution of a tanning-agent such as hydroquinone, tannin, gallic acid, or preferably pyrogallol, previously rendered viscous by mixing with gelatine, or gelatine and glycerine, is forced into the foam, and the stirring is continued until an energy - measuring instrument connected to the stirrer registers a predetermined value, whereupon a sample is taken, and the material is quickly fed into the article to be filled. In addition to adding a neutral or diluent gas, a reducing-agent or acid substance such as a sulphite, bisulphite, sulphurous acid, citric acid, or gallic acid may be added to retard the tanning action.
Patent GB-190920832-A (GB)
Title: Carbons for Electric Arc Lamps.
Inventor: WEINERT KARL
IPC: H05B31/10
Filed: 1909-09-11
Granted: 1910-02-03
Abstract: 20,832. Weinert, K. Sept. 11. Arc lamps; arc-lamp electrodes.-Two or more cores in an electrode are connected by bridges d to facilitate the transference of the arc from one core to another. Fig. 2 shows in section two pairs e, e' o f such electrodes in starting position in a lamp without feeding-mechanism, the electrodes of each pair being of one sign and having an edge f in contact, so as to be mutually supporting. The distance apart of the inner cores b of each pair is equal to, or slightly less than, the length of the core bridges d.