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Patent GB-191200216-A (GB)
Title: A Catamenial Appliance.
Inventor: THRESHER WILLIAM
IPC: A61F13/64
Filed: 1912-01-03
Granted: 1913-01-03
Abstract: 216. Thresher, W., and Coultas, W. E. Jan. 3. C a t a m e n i a l appliances. - A catamenial appliance comprises a waterproof strip A provided with serrated edges, a backing B of ribbon, the ends of which are passed through rings D and are then doubled back to overlap the ends of the strip A, and two narrow bands C of ribbon which hold in place the absorbent pad or towel. The strip A and backing B are stitched together round the edges, and the ends of the bands C are stitched between the strip A and the backing. When in use, the serrated edges of the strip A turn in over the edges of the towel.
Patent GB-191202744-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Ships' Lead or Sounding Apparatus.
Inventor: RATTRAY GORDON
IPC: G01C13/00
Filed: 1912-02-02
Granted: 1912-04-18
Abstract: 2744. Rattray, G. Feb. 2, 1911, [Convention date]. Sounding - apparatus. -The lead 13<a>, acting as a feeler, is continuously raised and lowered, descending each time to a predetermined distance, except when it first reaches bottom, in which case a signal is given and the line again paid in. The means employed to effect this comprise a reversible motor 11 adapted to drive the winding - drum 12 and also, through chaingearing 26<a>, a spindle 22<g>, Fig. 4, carrying a contact - member 22<c>, which is thus caused to travel towards one or other of two contacts 22<b>, 22<c> and finally throw the switch 21 over to reverse the motor by reason of one of two solenoids 21<d>, 21<c> being energized. The solenoid 21<d> will also be energized if the lead touches bottom, as the sheave 14 then rises to allow contact to be made at 31 in a circuit which also contains a lamp 34 and bell 35. The depth at which the lead touches is indicated by the position of the arm 22<e> at the moment when the signal is given.
Patent GB-191202954-A (GB)
Title: Dirigible Airship.
Inventor: SCHLEGELMILCH AUGUST
IPC: B64B1/00
Filed: 1912-02-05
Granted: 1913-02-05
Abstract: 2954. Schlegelmilch, A. Feb. 5. No Patent granted (Sealing fee not paid). Aerial machines with aerostats; aerostats; propelling and steering.-In an air-ship of the type steered by the adjustment of one or more propeller shafts, each with its engine about a vertical axis, the bearings for each shaft are rotatably mounted upon the framework of the aerostat so that the tractive effort is transmitted directly to such framework. The envelope a has a rigid frame b of light metal netting from which the car is suspended by rods c, and which carries a rotatable central bearing k disposed between collars r on the propeller shaft o. The end bearings n are carried by a frame m which with the motor i is mounted on the car by a ball bearing g, and is adjustable for steering through toothed wheels t, v operated from a handwheel u. Tanks, arrangement of.-The fuel tank h is carried by the bottom plate of the engine and is mounted in the ball bearing g.
Patent GB-191204379-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Printing Presses or other Paper-handling Machines.
Inventor: BURCH WILLIAM ISAAC
IPC: B41F33/12
Filed: 1912-02-21
Granted: 1913-02-20
Abstract: 4379. Burch, W. I., [Harris Automatic Press Co.]. Feb. 21. Tripping-arrangements.-Relates to a device for automatically operating the trip or throw-off mechanism of printing-machines of the kind in which a moving shaft is locked to a normally idle shaft connected to the trip mechanism, should no sheet be present. The sheets are fed along to the press over a plate 26 by feeddisks 2 on the shaft 1. Loose on the shaft 1 is a sleeve 5 with flanges 6 between which a detector 7 with projecting lug 8 is pivoted. One flange 6 gears with a wheel 9 on a shaft 10, rocked by a link 13 from the machine. Loose on the sleeve 5 is a disk 17 gearing with a disk 21 on the shaft 20 connected to the trip gear, for example in the manner described in Specification 4176/97. In the periphery of the disk 17 is a notch 18 in which, should no sheet be covering the slot 26<a> in the plate 26, the lug 8 on the feeler 7 engages on the return stroke of the disk 6. The motion is transmitted to the shaft 20 which operates the trip gear.
Patent GB-191206492-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Camp Beds.
Inventor: THESIGER WILFRED GILBERT
IPC: A47C17/82
Filed: 1912-05-22
Granted: 1913-05-22
Abstract: 6492. Thesiger, W. G. May 22. Folding bedsteads.-A camp bedstead comprises two boxes B which are spaced apart by, and serve to support, rods R which form side bars for a canvas sheet C in the form of a flat tube. One of the boxes is fitted with a frame F which can be unfolded from a recess to form a screen or pillow-rest. The boxes are of a size suitable for carriage as panniers on mule-back when disconnected. Supports K for a mosquito net may be mounted in sockets S<I> on the boxes.
Patent GB-191207145-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Switches for Electric Circuits.
Inventor: ISIDOR DEUTSCH
IPC: H01H51/12
Filed: 1912-03-23
Abstract: 7145. Deutsch, I. March 23, 1911, [Convention date]. Void. [Published under Section 91 of the Act.] Master control systems.- The individual contactor switches 27, 28, 29 are constructed as electro-magnetic switches having the property of closing under a moderately strong current, and remaining open under a small or excessive current. A master switch 30 is closed through the coil of a relay 23, which connects the motor 22 in circuit through the coil 33 of the switch 27 and the resistances 24, 25, 26. The first rush of current through the coil 33 holds the switch open. When the motor speeds up and the current sinks to a moderate value, the switch 27 is closed, short-circuiting the resistance 24. A consequent rush of current takes place through the coil 35 of the next contactor switch, and the processes are repeated until all the resistances are short-circuited.
Patent GB-191207515-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Fastenings for Trunks, Boxes and analogous Articles.
Inventor: BROOKS BOULTBEE
IPC: E05C19/14
Filed: 1912-03-28
Granted: 1913-03-06
Abstract: 7515. Brooks, B. March 28. [Cognate Application, 17,802/12.] Hasp fastenings.-Relates to a fastening for trunks, boxes, &c., or for securing these to luggage carriers, of the type in which a lever 3 fulcrumed at 2 to the body of the trunk has pivoted to it an eye member 6, engaging the hook 8 of the lid. To take up any slackening, the eye member 6 is screwed at one end into a swivel-box 4 situated between the forks of the lever 3. In a modification, Fig. 9, the member 3 is made in two parts, the one to which the hook 7 is pivoted being adapted to receive the screwed portion 6.
Patent GB-191208437-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Flushing Cisterns for Water Closets, and in Disinfecting Means therefor.
Inventor: FRASER WILLIAM ALEXANDER
IPC: E03D1/34
Filed: 1912-04-09
Granted: 1912-07-25
Abstract: 8437. Fraser, W. A. April 9. Lift valves.-An air valve to be carried by a float consists of a disk M, supported by a metal ring L<3> held between a shoulder M<1> on the disk and a transverse pin M<2>.
Patent GB-191209512-A (GB)
Title: Improved Process for the Manufacture of Armor Plates.
IPC: C21D9/42
Filed: 1912-04-22
Granted: 1912-10-10
Abstract: 9512. Soc. Anon. Italiana Gio Ansaldo, Armstrong, & Co. May 3, 1911, [Convention date]. Hardening; cementation.-Armour-plates are rolled or forged from a steel inget, annealed, subjected to a series of thermal treatments, cemented, and subjected to a further series of thermal treatments. The ingot is heated to about 450‹ C. for several hours and is then heated slowly to about 1,200‹ C. and rolled or forged and annealed. The plate is then heated to about 600‹ C., quenched in oil or warm water, heated to 750-780‹ C., upset, cooled to about 200‹ C. in oil or boiling water, heated to about 630‹ C., upset, cooled in air, and then preferably machined on the face. It is then cemented during about 60 hours at 960-1,000‹ C., after which it is allowed to cool to 780-800‹ C. and further cooled in oil to 300-400‹ C. It is next heated to 625-640‹ C., quenched in water, heated to 750-780‹ C., bent, reheated to 750-780‹ C., quenched in oil, heated to about 635‹ C., and quenched in water, the quenching at 635‹ C. being repeated if the fracture at this stage is not fibrous. Finally, the plate is hardened differentially, the face being heated to 850‹ C. and the back in contact with sand to about 600‹ C.
Patent GB-191211608-A (GB)
Title: Improved Means for Controlling the Flow of Water in Mains.
Inventor: KENT WALTER GEORGE
IPC: G01F15/00
Filed: 1912-11-15
Granted: 1913-07-17
Abstract: 11,608. Kent, W. G. Nov. 15. Valves closing after predetermined interval or flow.-To close the valve v in a water main when a predetermined quantity of water has passed, the valve is operated by a piston p in the cylinder c. A counter g is actuated from a Venturi meter, and this counter actuates an electrical device h, which, on the predetermined quantity of liquid being passed, starts the motor i, which traverses a rack j to control the valve a. The valve a permits the liquid from the pipe u<1> to pass through the pipe x to raise the piston p and close the valve. To prevent the sudden closure of the valve, an exhaust valve y<1> is acted upon by the pressure in the pipe u<1> to restrict the exhaust passage in the event of a dangerously high pressure in the main.
Patent GB-191217894-A (GB)
Title: Improved Rod Packing.
Inventor: SMITH THOMAS
IPC: F16J15/28
Filed: 1912-08-02
Granted: 1913-07-17
Abstract: 17,894. Smith, T. Aug. 2. Packing, metallic.-A stuffing - box containing segmental packing is open to the cylinder in order that the fluid pressure may compress the packing. The packing-rings 7, 8, 9, 10, Fig. 6, are contained in a casing 11, the end 12 of which abuts against a ball-joint ring 13. Slots 24 in the casing 11 form guides for the joint pieces 21, Fig. 2, of the ring 10, and for the rods 27, Fig. 3, which prevent rotation of the rings 8, 9. The packing is compressed axially by a spring 5 acting on a flanged ring 6. When the rod to be packed has a shoulder, the internal diameters of the end 12 of the casing and of the ring 6 are enlarged as shown. The casing is then supported by a ring 19 made in halves dowelled together, and the ring 7 is made similarly.
Patent GB-191218999-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Safety Devices for Indicating Deficiency of Lubricating Oil in Internal Combustion Engines and other Motors.
Inventor: ROSENTRETER ALBERT GEORGE
IPC: F01M11/12
Filed: 1912-08-19
Granted: 1913-05-22
Abstract: 18,999. Rosentreter, A. G. Aug. 19. Indicators, alarm and signal.-An alarm or indicator for signalling the exhaustion of lubricating-oil in the crank chamber of an internal-combustion engine is actuated by a float, which also puts into operation means for slowing and eventually stopping the motor. The float B in a compartment A<3> of the crank chamber is fixed to a vertical rod B' carrying an electric contact-piece B<2>, adapted to engage a contact-point D when the oil level falls. This closes the circuit of an indicator such as a buzzer J, or a lamp E, or both. The descent of the rod B<1>, by means of a pin B<2> striking an arm P<2>, actuates a valve P in the exhaust pipe A<5> to choke the exhaust and warn the operator.
Patent GB-191221151-A (GB)
Title: Lawn Mowers.
Inventor: COLDWELL WILLIAM HERBERT
IPC: A01D34/42
Filed: 1912-09-17
Granted: 1913-05-08
Abstract: 21,151. Coldwell, W. H. Sept. 17. Lawn-mowers. - The cutting - apparatus is constructed and arranged so that it may all be removed from the machine and replaced therein without varying the relative positions of the rotary, cutter and stationary knife. One cutting-apparatus may be substituted for another to adapt the machine for different classes of work. In the horse machine shown in Figs. 2 and 4, the main frame comprises sidepieces 1<a> connected by cross-bars 2, 4, and is provided with a seat 3, handles 5, front castor wheels 7, and a rear driving-roller 6. The wheels 7 are adjustable vertically by means of racks and pinions operated by levers 11. The rotary cutter 15 and the bar 17 carrying the stationary knife 16 are mounted between sideplates 18 connected together by tie-rods 19. The rotary cutter 15 may be mounted in arms 20 pivoted on the plates 18 and adjusted by means of screws 25 and clamping-bolts 26, 27. The plates 18 are provided with grooves 28 to engage ribs on the side-pieces 1<a> for removably holding the cutting - apparatus in position. They fit against lugs 30 or set-screws 31, and may be locked in position by set-screws 34 engaging inclined shoulders 33. A pinion 35 on the cuttershaft engages a gear-wheel driven from the roller 6. Part of the gear casing may be connected to the plate 18, and stretcher-bars or eye-bolts may be connected to lugs 39 to assist in holding the cutting-apparatus and pinion 35 in place. A roller 40 may be adjustably connected to the plates 18 or to the main frame. In the hand machine shown in Fig. 7, the sideplates 60 of the cutting-apparatus are channelled to fit down on horizontal parts of the side-bars 50, and are locked in position by horizontal set-screws 68, 69 engaging their tapered edges. The knife-bar 61 is pivotally mounted and is adjusted by means of screws 64. The rotary cutter 65 is driven by a chain 67 from the roller 51, and the castor wheels 53 are adjusted bv means of collars 54 and set-screws 55.
Patent GB-191221764-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Clothes-pounders.
Inventor: CROOKER EDWIN RAY
IPC: D06F5/02
Filed: 1912-09-24
Granted: 1913-02-27
Abstract: 21,764. Crooker, E. R. Sept. 24. Washing-pounders. - The conical body of a clothes-pounder is provided internally at the apex with a perforated soap-receptacle. In the form shown in Fig. 1, the body 1 is formed with airchambers 2 having apertures at 18 and is shaped at 14 to receive the flange of a perforated cap 11, forming with the body a receptacle for soap. In a modification, the cap is cut away radially and is sprung into a'semicircular groove in the body. In a third construction, the receptacle is of approximately spherical form with a bayonet-jointed cap and is supported by a groove at the apex of the body.
Patent GB-191223352-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Rate Plotting Machines.
Inventor: POLLEN ARTHUR HUNGERFORD
Filed: 1912-10-12
Granted: 1913-12-12
Abstract: 23,352. Pollen, A. H., and Isherwood, H. Oct. 12. Single recording-apparatus applied to a number of measuring-instruments.-Relates to apparatus for plotting the variation of a quantity which is observed by two or more instruments 41, 42, and consists in transmitting the mean observation to the pencil 3. When the switch 11 is in the proper position the instruments 41, 42 are connected to the step-by-step receivers 8, 9 respectively; the receiver 8 drives one member 26 of a differential gear 7 through the shafts 21, 14 and worm-gear 16, and the receiver 9 drives another member 27 of the gear through the shaft 22 and worm-gear 17, the diameter of the wheel 17 being twice that of the wheel 16. The third member 29 thus receives the mean motion of the receivers 8, 9 and transmits it to the pencil 3. When the switch is in the position shown the instrument 42 is used alone and is connected in parallel to the receivers 8, 9. Specification 7383/11, [Class 38(iii), Electric motor control systems &c.], is referred to.
Patent GB-191223542-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to Automatic Electric Current Controllers.
Inventor: ABBATECOLA LIVIO
IPC: H01H37/50
Filed: 1912-10-15
Granted: 1913-07-17
Abstract: 23,542. Abbatecola, L. March 26. [Convention date]. No Patent granted (Sealing fee not paid). Switches; time-limit devices.-An automatic current-limiting device comprises in combination an electro-magnetic switch and a time-limit thermal switch, the latter switch keeping the former out of action for a short time after the current has been turned on. The device is designed for use with metallic-filament lamps, and prevents the initial excess current which passes while the filaments are being heated up from 'operating the electro - magnetic limit switch. Electro-magnetic switches.-The electro-magnetic switch comprises a shunt winding and two mutually opposed series windings mounted on a stationary E-shaped core A attached to a stationary carbon contact E', and a movable core B carrying a carbon contact E. The shunt winding is normally short-circuited by the contacts E, E<1> and the series windings being in opposition have no action on the movable core until one of them is open-circuited, a short time after turning on current, by a thermal switch R. The other series winding is thus left ready to act and in the event of excess current passing it lifts the contact E, throwing the shunt winding into circuit to hold up the core B and cutting out the series winding. Thermal switches.- The time-limit thermal switch R comprises a tensioned wire F, in series with the series windings of the electro-magnetic switch. When slackened by heat after the current has passed through it for a short time, it allows a weighted pulley P to turn and carry a suspended contact S away from a stationary contact R, thus breaking the circuit through one branch of the series coil on the electromagnetic switch.
Patent GB-191225194-A (GB)
Title: A Device for Attachment to the Wheels, Axles, or the like of Motor Buses, Motor Cars and other Vehicles for Preventing the Lateral Splashing of Mud and Water.
Inventor: COOPER CHARLES FREDERICK
IPC: B60B7/00
Filed: 1912-11-04
Granted: 1913-09-18
Abstract: 25,194. Cooper, C. F., and Cooper, C. C., [trading as Unit Patents]. Nov. 4. Mud-guards carried by wheels. - Lateral splash guards for m o to r and other vehicles comprise a disk or circular member A provided with a central aperture C substantially larger in diameter than the axle, box, cap, or hub of the wheel, upon which it is directly slipped and loosely retained, the size of the aperture and the weight of the disk ensuring that the disk is always in contact with, and supported by, the road surface, and the aperture allowing a free up-and-down and a corresponding lateral movement of the disk independently of the vehicle wheel. As shown in Fig. 3, the guard has additional apertures B', B<2> to engage pegs F<1>, F<2> or the like on the body or spokes of the wheel in such manner that the disk can slide freely on its fixings but is retained in position by a stop or plate D secured to the pegs. More than two additional holes and a corresponding number of pegs may be used. Distance-pieces to prevent the guard from rubbing the wheel may also be provided.
Patent GB-191228679-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to a Process for Dulling Enamel.
Inventor: SCHUELER ALFRED JACOB
IPC: C23D5/00
Filed: 1912-12-12
Granted: 1913-12-12
Abstract: 28,679. Schuler, A. J. Dec. 12. Enamels.-Metal or other articles are provided with a dull enamel coating by first firing the article with an enamel coating of ordinary composition, and afterwards firing with a second enamel coating which is prepared by intimately mixing together ordinary enamel ingredients comprising about equal quantities of alkali and silica, fusing the ingredients to form a vitreous mass, grinding this mass, and mixing therewith a quantity of raw siliceous materials nearly equal to the quantity of said ordinary enamel ingredients. A suitable composition for the first coating enamel consists of 15 kgs. of borax, 12 kgs. of felspar, 9 kgs. of quartz, 3 kgs. of fluorspar, 6 kgs. of raw cryolite, 6 kgs. of purified soda powder, 1¢ kgs. of white alumina, 100 grms. of manganese dioxide, and 50 grms. of cobalt. The second coating is formed by adding to the first coating composition 2 kgs. of tin oxide and a quantity of ammonium carbonate, and, after grinding, intimately mixing, fusing, and regrinding the materials, a paste consisting of 100 grms. of raw kaolin and 700 grms. of raw felspar made into a paste with 1 to 1À5 kgs. of water is added for each kilogram of the mixture. Surfaces for receiving writing may be made by adding suitable quantities of magnesium carbonate, soda, or borax to the second coating.
Patent GB-191308219-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Method of and Apparatus for Raising, Lowering and Transporting Glass and other Articles.
IPC: B66C1/02
Filed: 1913-04-08
Granted: 1914-05-08
Abstract: 8219. Soc. Anon. des Manufactures des Glaces et Produits Chimiques de St. Gobain, Chauny et Cirey. April 8. [Addition to 14,054/12.] Load, grasping and recleasing.-In the apparatus described in the parent Specification, in which glass plates &c. are lifted by a series of vacuum cups or suckers carried on a suspended frame, the cups are formed with single or concentric rubber rings c having knife-like edges, and each cup adjusts itself to the surface by the ball joint d. Each cup can be lifted out of action by a cam lever, or by a pivotal mounting, or, as shown in Fig. 4, by hand, being held out of action by a pin q inserted in the hole s. The cups a are arranged on a frame b, Fig. 7, in a series of rectangles, suited to plates of various sizes. The frame b is suspended from a frame m and can be tilted by a handle l about an axis o to assist in raising a plate from the plaster bed from which it is to be lifted. The air is exhausted from the cups through diaphragms, each pierced with a small hole. With this arrangement, the vacuum is not destroyed by the cups that are out of action, and any cup that is not adhering properly can be detected by the whistling sound produced.
Patent GB-191316855-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Apparatus for Emptying Sacks, Bedding and the like by Means of a Suction Air Current.
Inventor: WALLMEYER AUGUST
IPC: B65G53/42
Filed: 1913-07-22
Granted: 1914-07-02
Abstract: 16,855. Wallmeyer, A. July 22. Pneumatic conveyers.-Relates to apparatus for emptying or filling sacks by pneumatic means, and more particularly to the suction and delivery nozzles of such apparatus. The application to an ordinary feather - cleaning machine is shown. The suction nozzle 13, to which the sack ox bed tick 15 is attached, is connected to a fan 4 which delivers the feathers through the outlet 7 and pipe 9 to a steaming- drum 1, the dust-collecting pit 2 of which is connected by pipes 19, 18 to an annular space 16 surrounding the nozzle 13 and open to the interior of the sack 15. The air current thus delivered to the space 16 prevents the material of the sack from being drawn into, and choking, the nozzle 13. Valves and connexions are employed so that, after treatment, the feathers may be delivered through a nozzle 5 similar in arrangement and construction to the suction nozzle 13.
Patent GB-191321977-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Fruit and Vegetable Graders and Cleaners and the like.
Inventor: NEWTON JOHN MARTIN
IPC: B07B13/05
Filed: 1913-09-30
Granted: 1914-07-16
Abstract: 21,977. Newton, J. M. Sept. 30. Cleaning fruit and vegetables. - Apparatus for grading and cleaning fruit and vegetables comprises an inclined endless travelling band A on to which the fruit &c. is delivered from a hopper R. Rotating rollers E, F, G are situated at graduated distances above the band and serve to deliver fruit &c. which cannot pass under them into trays T, U, V, the smallest fruit &c. rolling down the band into a tray S. The rollers E, F, G may have soft spiral flanges of compressed felt or bristles, and the band A may be of brushy material to clean the fruit &c. Stationary or revolving brushes may also be provided to clean the fruit on its way to the trays.