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Patent GB-190825416-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Railway or Tramway Points and Switches.
Inventor: LANGE GEORGE
Filed: 1908-11-25
Granted: 1909-06-03
Abstract: 25,416. Lange, G. Nov. 25. Points and switches, railway and tramway, operating mechanically from the vehicles. Mounted adjacent to the inner side of each of the rails 1 on the shaft 11, is a vertical lever 10 connected up to the point tongues 3 and to the point-indicating signal C as shown. Each lever 10 carries a bar 19 slidably connected to it by the interaction of bolts 20, 20<1>, and slots 17, 18, which in turn carries a nose 31, 32 pivotally connected to its upper end. Normally the points are set for the main line, and the lever 10 rests as shown in Fig. 4 with its nose 31 below the upper surface of the rail. On approaching the points facing-ways the wheels are arranged to depress one arm of a pivoted lever 24 and thereby raise the bar 19 and bring the nose 31 into a position so that it can be caught by a depending arm z on the vehicle. The lever 10 is then swung over and the points are thereby operated. The bar 19 is kept in its raised position against the action of the spring 37 by the pawl 22 engaging teeth formed on the lever 10. The nose 31 is normally held fixed to the bar 19 by the spring-held catch 30 but is liberated, when the lever 10 is swung over, by the stop 33 engaging the retracting-levers 34. Simultaneously with the release of the nose, another stop 36 operates the pawl 22 so as to permit the bar 19 to fall and, through the action of the pulley 40 on the wire 38, to pull the nose 31 back into its normally depressed position. To retain the levers 10 in either of their end positions, a weighted arm 15 is loosely mounted on the shaft 11 and is connected to the lever 10 by the guides 14 which permit a certain amount of lost motion. The lever 10 on one side of the track is fixed to the shaft 11 while the other is loose but connected to it through a linkage so that the two levers move in opposite directions when the shaft 11 is operated, only one being in a position to be operated on by the lever 24 and arm z at one time.
Patent GB-190826866-A (GB)
Title: A New or Improved Fitting for use with Fishing Rods
Inventor: POWER EDWARD SPRAGUE
Filed: 1908-12-10
Granted: 1909-02-04
Abstract: 26,866. Power, E. S., and Tear, E. A. Dec. 10. Rod fittings.-The line is prevented frcm fouling in making a cast by providing the top wire loop C supporting an agate ring D with a backwardly-sloping yoke A, which acts as a disengaging- surface. The yoke is supported by a stay B which, together with arms F, is bound with wire G to the top joint H.
Patent GB-190827011-A (GB)
Title: A Medicinal Time and Bottle Contents Indicator.
Inventor: HUGHES RICHARD HAMBLY
Filed: 1908-12-12
Granted: 1909-12-13
Abstract: 27,011. Hughes, R. H. Dec. 12. Time reminders. -Medicine bottles and the like are provided with timeindicating dials and pointers in combination with a poison or other indicator, adapted to be displayed and hidden at will. A pointer g, which serves as a time indicator in conjunction with a dial, is attached to a milled head, Fig. 2, a pivoted disk i, Fig. 4, or a gearwheel u, Fig. 11, or it may be attached by a clip to a bottle, Fig. 6, or the boss of the dial a, Fig. 9. The gear-wheel u, Fig. 11, may be rotated by worm or pinion gearing operated by a knob s. The word " Poison " or the like is displayed upon the rotatable disk b, Fig. 2, at a slot in the dial a; upon a disk b, Fig. 4, rotatable with the pointer disk over the dial at the slot h or upon a ring p, Fig. 9, slidable in a recess which is partly covered by a plate q. The dial may bear other desired information.
Patent GB-190827114-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Steam and other Fluid Pressure Turbines.
Inventor: HOLLE ALEXANDER ALBERT
Filed: 1908-12-14
Granted: 1909-08-05
Abstract: 27,114. Holle, A. A. Dec. 14. Impact-wheels.-Steam is admitted to a turbine intermittently and momentarily so that it acts upon the vanes by impulse only. For example, an impact-wheel, in which piston heads B rotate in an annulus-shaped chamber, is fitted with a steam nozzle C having a valve which is opened and shut very rapidly, as each piston passes the nozzle, by projections e on a cam E securel to the main shaft. The exhaust H is located so that the space on the jet side of the active piston head is opened to the exhaust immediately after the admission valve is closed.
Patent GB-190902232-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Universal Milling Machines and other Fluting Machines.
Inventor: STRONG ELI CHARLES
IPC: B23C3/32
Filed: 1909-01-30
Granted: 1910-01-31
Abstract: 2232. Strong, E. C. Jan. 30. Milling helical surfaces.-In a milling-machine for fluting twist drills, the cutter D<1> is secured on a driven shaft D which is mounted in an adjustable bracket C, the shaft also reciprocating the work-carrying table E through bevel-gears and a cam, rack, or crank. The table carries brackets F which may be both at the same end or at opposite ends of the former G, which they support. The former carries the drill blank H, and is rotated by a spring pin K in a fixed bracket K' engaging a flute G' of decreasing pitch therein. The work is supported as described in Specification 11,293/06, by a sliding rod M operated by an adjustable incline L attached to the table E.
Patent GB-190905596-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to Pumping Apparatus.
Inventor: PENNINGS PIETER JOHANNES
IPC: F01B25/00
Filed: 1909-03-08
Granted: 1909-09-30
Abstract: 5596. Pennings, P. J. March 8. Steam - engine airpumps in series.-In a steam-engine air-pump, in which the air and water are withdrawn separately, the air is compressed up to atmospheric pressure in two stages. Air is drawn into a cylinder a through ports c, and on the down-stroke of the piston b, is forced, through valves f, into the pressure chamber h of the water pump, which is of the valveless suction type, water entering through the valved piston d at the air and same time. On the up-stroke, this air and water is forced out through valves i, and the air that is drawn into the top half of the cylinder a is forced directly into the atmosphere. In a modification, the air in the top half of the cylinder a passes by means of a pipe to the pressure chamber h of the water pump.
Patent GB-190906207-A (GB)
Title: New or Improved Means for Preventing Chimneys from Smoking.
Inventor: REID KILPATRICK MERRY
IPC: F24F7/00
Filed: 1909-03-16
Granted: 1910-02-03
Abstract: 6207. Reid, K. M. March 16. Chimneys. - A hollow cylinder or trunk b, having a directly connected h o o d c, a n d through which the smoke passes, is fitted within the lower part of a chimney to prevent d o w ndraught. It may have an enlarged mouth either fitting the chimney or an aperture in a plate a which fits the chimney. The hood c may be pivoted on the cylinder to facilitate cleaning &c. The cylinder is preferably fitted immediately above the grate register and may be telescopic.
Patent GB-190909197-A (GB)
Title: Process for Plastic Reproduction of any Bodily Objects.
Inventor: SELKE WILLY ALFRED CARL
IPC: G03F7/00
Filed: 1909-04-19
Granted: 1910-04-19
Abstract: 9197. Selke, W. A. C. April 19. Artistic modelling.-For producing models of objects by stippling, a number of photogrammetric or stereogrammetric measuring-photographs are taken, and from the photos the co-ordinates are obtained for making the model. Two or more photos are taken with cameras arranged parallel, as shown at b<3>, b<4>, Fig. 7, or together as shown at b<1>, b<2>, or the axes of the cameras may be inclined. Fixed measuring-marks e are used in taking the photo. For a complete bust, photos are taken from all sides, with cameras arranged around as sbown in Fig. 7, or alternatively, use may be made of mirrors s<1>, s<2>, Fig. 8, with the object a in the angle. The bust to be moulded is placed on a graduated revolving stand h, Fig. 10, and, with a stippling-pointer adjustable along three mutually perpendicular axes k, m, n, the bust can be shaped according to the co-ordinates obtained from the photos.
Patent GB-190909782-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Self-feeding Percussive Apparatus such as Rock Drills and the like.
Inventor: MAUSS WILHELM
IPC: E21B19/086
Filed: 1909-04-24
Granted: 1910-04-21
Abstract: 9782. Mauss, W. April 24. Percussive drills. - Relates to self-feeding percussive apparatus of the type described in Specification 15,121/07, [Class 85, Mining &c.], in which the percussive engine is pressed forward in an encircling shell and is checked by liquid in front of the shell, and consists in placing the valve controlling the escape of liquid on a part of the apparatus external to the shell. A valve seating 14 with detachable seats 19 is secured by a clip 15 on a neck 4 extending from the front end of the percussive engine 2 through the front cap 5 of the shell 1. Rubber or like valves 22 carried by stirrup arms 23 hinged on a pin 24 are held to the seats by a rubber band 25. Blocks 26 on the stirrup arms 23 are forced apart by a camsurface 9 on the piston-rod 6 when the drill 7 cuts to a sufficient depth. The valves 22 are thus raised from their seats, liquid escapes from the chamber 12 through ports 13, 21, and the engine 2 is moved forward by pressure fluid acting at the rear. The blocks 26 have bevelled inner edges, and may be changed to vary the feeding-point. The stirrup 23 vibrates laterally with the piston-rod, the valves 22 being thus unaffected by vibration. Cup-leathers 3 on the engine 2 have between them a ring 31 with radial holes 32 connected to atmosphere by a port 34. If leakage occurs, the nature of the discharge indicates which of the two leathers is defective.
Patent GB-190910303-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Adjustable Rear-supports for Automatic Guns.
IPC: F41A23/06
Filed: 1909-04-30
Granted: 1909-07-22
Abstract: 10,303. Soc. Anon. des Anciens •tablissements Hotchkiss et Cie. June 24, 1908, [Convention date]. Tripod and like mounts for machine guns.-A Hotchkiss gun of the kind described in Specification 10,149/07, is according to the invention provided with an adjustable rear support which consists of two concentric screws f, g of opposite pitch and which fits at one end into a socket b in the gun-stock a, the other end being provided with a roller g<3> capable of moving in a fixed guide h. The outer screw f, which may be rotated by turning a milled hand-grip f<1>, engages with a segmental nut c<3> which forms part of a plate c<5> mounted on the stock a, and which may be moved out of engagement with the screw f against the action of a spring e when large movements are required to be given to the gun. In a modification, the roller g<3> is replaced by an eyepiece arranged to slide on a support provided with adjustable supporting-plates.
Patent GB-190911727-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and in connection with Roller Skates.
Inventor: EEMAN LEO ERNST
Filed: 1909-05-18
Granted: 1910-05-18
Abstract: 11,727. Eeman, L. E. May 18. Skates.-Inwardly inclined pivoted brackets B, for the axles X of roller skates, are adapted to rotate on double ball bearings about a pivot pin C, and are held in alinement by an adjustable spring F. The foot-plate A may be formed of pressed steel with flanged or beaded edges.
Patent GB-190914403-A (GB)
Title: Method of Deodorising Exhaust Gases especially those of Internal Combustion Engines.
Inventor: BREGHA LEOPOLD
IPC: B01D53/86
Filed: 1909-06-19
Granted: 1910-05-05
Abstract: 14,403. Bregha, L., and Kaiser, H. June 19. Exhaust, dealing with.-The exhaust gases are de-odorized by causing them to impinge on a mixture of calcium chloride and calcium oxide. The reagents are placed in a closed casing.
Patent GB-190918429-A (GB)
Title: Means for Deodorizing and Drying Night Soil and the like.
Inventor: WELCOME EARNEST TOUISSANT
IPC: F26B9/08
Filed: 1909-08-10
Granted: 1910-05-26
Abstract: 18,429. Welcome, E. T. Aug. 10. Agitators other than conveyers; air, supplying; temperature, controlling.-Night-soil and other substances are dried and deodorized in cars in an oven by heating, stirring, and aerating, and the noxious gases evolved are burnt in a furnace. In the apparatus shown in Fig. 1, the cars run on tracks in an oven with sealing doors, and above the oven is built a furnace heating a boiler 5. A flue 6 connects the oven with the furnace through valved openings 7, 8 leading to the spaces above and below the grate. Burners 14 in the flue 6 may supplement the furnace. Steam coils 15 within the oven and coils 17 within a closed air-chamber 18 are supplied from the boiler. A fan or blower 21 forces air from this chamber to a hollow bearing 23, Fig. 2, in the door 2. The cars carry struts 34, Fig. 3, having bearings which carry the trunnions of the car bodies. The car bodies are double-walled, providing steam spaces which may be charged, for example, by connexion with a pipe 16<1>, Fig. 1. Bearings in the ends carry a hollow shaft 41 having perforated arms 41<1> within the body, the shaft being tapered at one end to fit a tapered socket 26 within the door bearing 23 and socketed at the other to receive the' tapered end of the next car shaft. The hollow shafts are oscillated by a crank and a pitman 30 outside the door 2. A toothed wheel and a handle-actuated pinion are used to dump the car. Figs. 6 and 7 show parallel ovens heated by coils 15 and containing cars of a modified form, in which the body has double end walls perforated on the inner sides and connected by a passage having apertures in its upper wall 52, which forms part of the bottom. Hot air is passed from a chamber through a conduit 54 and connexions 53 into the perforated end walls. The side walls of the cars are perforated, and have doors 58. Stirring-apparatus comprising a shaft 41 carrying perforated arms 41' may be provided.
Patent GB-190918623-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Variable Speed Mechanism for Printing Presses.
Inventor: LAKE WILLIAM EDWARD
IPC: B41F3/80
Filed: 1909-08-12
Granted: 1910-07-28
Abstract: 18,623. Lake, W. E., [Goss Printing Press Co.]. Aug. 12. Driving printing-machines.-Relates to variablespeed gearing for printing-presses, of the kind in which a driving shaft can be connected to a driven shaft either through a friction clutch for a high speed, or, for a low speed, through reducing-gearing comprising ratchet mechanism which is automatically disconnected when the high-speed clutch is brought into engagement. This clutch 45 is slidable on a feather on a driving shaft 19, which receives power through a pinion 20 from a highspeed motor. A coacting clutch-member 41 is carried by a sleeve 38, which is loose on the shaft 19 and carries also a gear 40 which drives the press. Wheels 28, 29 carried by a loose spider-22 are geared through idlers to a pinion 21 fast upon the shaft 19. Pinions 31, 32 secured to the wheels 28, 29. respectively, mesh with an internally-toothed wheel 35, which also is loose on the shaft 19. Pawls carried hy a disk 37 secured to the sleeve 38 may be engaged and driven by a ratchet-wheel 36 secured to the wheel 35. With the clutch 45 disengaged and the spider 22 loose, the press is not driven. When a brake 24 is applied to a rim 23 on the spider 22, the gearing comes into operation, and the wheel 36 drives the sleeve 38. This is the low-speed drive. On sliding the clutch 45 into engagement, the high-speed drive is brought into action without previously freeing the spider 22. The pawls then overrun the wheel 38. A brake 43 may be applied to stop the press. The brakes and clutch are operated by a single hand-lever which carries two pawls and a cam as described in Specification 18,272/09.
Patent GB-190918846-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Apparatus and Processes for the Manufacture of Artificial Ice.
Inventor: BERRYMAN ROBERT JAMES
IPC: F25C1/00
Filed: 1909-08-16
Granted: 1910-08-11
Abstract: 18,846. Berryman, R. J. Aug. 16. Ice - making, can or mould systems and apparatus for.-The cans are surrounded by a fluid which is cooled by pipes &c. containing a refrigerant, the fluid being subsequently heated for thawing the ice from the sides of the cans by the passage of a warm fluid through the pipes &c. Water, contained in cans C placed in a tank containing cooled brine, is frozen until only a small quantity containing the impurities remains unfrozen. This is withdrawn through an aperture in the base of the can. Normally, the aperture is closed by a hollow plug 9, which may serve as an overflow, and is loosened, if frozen, by the admission of hot water to its interior. The brine may be cooled or heated by pipes 3 or hollow plates through which ammonia &c. circulates. The water is agitated by the admission of air or ozone through perforated pipes 8. In the outer series of cans, these pipes are placed near the outer edge of the cans ; in the other cans, the pipes 8 are arranged centrally. To facilitate removal of the blocks, eye-bolts may be frozen therein. Fig. 6 shows a can provided with a perforated pipe 50, which admits air to agitate the water during freezing, and subsequently serves for the withdrawal of the impure water not to be frozen. The pipe 50 is in communication through suitable valves and cocks with an air-pump 55 and also with a suction pump 59. A branch air-pipe 51 serves to agitate the brine so as to facilitate the uniform heating of the fluid when thawing the ice loose. The brine may be cooled by ammonia or like pipes immersed therein, or, as shown, the brine is cooled in a vessel E and circulated through the tank, being admitted at the base thereof so as to discharge directly in contact with the bottom of the receptacle throughout its entire length. The coil 46 may be supplied with a cooling-fluid, or, when the blocks are to be thawed, a heating- medium. In a modification, the brine is replaced by air.
Patent GB-190920092-A (GB)
Title: A New or Improved Machine for Drying Cacao, Coffee, Copra and other similar Materials.
Inventor: BRIDGE ROBERT
IPC: F26B11/18
Filed: 1909-09-02
Granted: 1909-12-16
Abstract: 20,092. Bridge, R., and Smith, H. H. Sept. 2. Rotary-chamber apparatus. - Cocoa, coffee, other beans and berries, copra, &c. are dried in perforated cylinders carried by spiders mounted on a rotary shaft within a casing through which hot air is circulated, the air being heated by a furnace below the casing. The perforated cylinders x are provided with sliding or hinged doors y and with internal ribs z for turning over the material as the cylinders revolve round the shaft u, which, as shown, is operated by hand through belt gearing, but may be operated by power. The casing n is mounted ou an airheating furnace a, and is provided with a hinged or sliding door r to enable the cylinders to be withdrawn when the material is dried. The axes f<1> of the cylinders are pressed in one direction by springs f<2> located in recesses in one of the spiders. The cylinders are removed from the spiders by liberating each end f<1> in turn by an axial movement; eye-bolts a<2> on the end disks of the cylinders are then attached to chains b<1>, the cylinder is raised by means of a handwheel d<1>, a nut b<2>, a threaded link c<1>, and a right and left handed screw b', whereupon the cylinder is conveyed away by a traversing trolly o. The cylinders may also be made to revolve on their axes if necessary. Air entering through openings m at the back of the furnace is heated while passing through flues k sur. rounding the combustion chamber b and passes upwards into the casing n. The circulation may be increased by a fan or blower, and the amount regulated by a damper or hit-and-miss grating o, similar regulating-devices being provided for the openings m if necessary. The hot air and combustion products do not come into contact, and are discharged respectively through chimneys p, h provided with pivoted dampers j. A number of casings may be arranged on a common shaft, and clutches provided whereby each drying-machine may be stopped and started independently.
Patent GB-190921750-A (GB)
Title: New or Improved Apparatus for use in Butt-welding the Ends of Rails.
IPC: E01B29/46
Filed: 1909-09-23
Granted: 1910-09-22
Abstract: 21,750. Goldschmidt, T., [Firm of]. April 8, [Convention date]. Cramps and clamps.-In order to butt-weld rails, particularly by the alumino - thermic process, the rails are clamped by their heads only instead of by the webs so as to bring the heads of the abutting rails into alinement. In the form shown in Figs. 1 and 2, trough-shaped guides b, b<1> are fitted on the rail-heads, being received in grooves in the saddles c, c<1>, which are provided with half-hoop clamp g operated by screws g<1> to engage the heads of the rails. The saddles are drawn together by nuts f, and are kept in alinement by sliding on rods d, d'. In operating on grooved rails, Fig. 7, each saddle is similarly provided with three clamps, but the screw i<1> of the centre clamp presses a wedge h into the groove in the rail, the wedge passing through a cut-away portion of the guide l which is shaped to fit the top surface of the rail. Wedges k fit between each side of this clamp and the saddle to correct cant of the saddle due to the one-sided grip of the other clamps.
Patent GB-190923959-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in the Transmission of Power by Worm Gearing, suitable for the Live Axles of Motor Cars and other purposes.
Inventor: LAMPLOUGH FREDERICK
IPC: F16H1/22
Filed: 1909-10-19
Granted: 1910-08-18
Abstract: 23,959. Lamplough, F. Oct. 19. Transmission gear of invariable ratio. - Relates to worm gearing of the type in which the end-thrust in the worm shaft is neutralized by the use on that shaft of two worms, of opposite hand, meshing with separate worm-wheels, and comprises an arrangement in which the worm-wheels are on opposite sides of the worm shaft. Combinations with balance gearing suitable for motor-vehicles are described. In the arrangement shown in Figs. 1 and 2, the axis of the driving worm shaft a, which carries the two worms a<1>, a <2>, intersects the axis of the driven axle d. The worm-wheels b, b<1> on opposite sides of the shaft a carry separate sets of balance gearing, the sun elements of which are connected by duplicated spur-pinions b<3>, b<4> to two wheels c on the ends of the axle parts. In another arrangement, the axes of the worm shaft and of the axle do not intersect; there is only one wheel such as c, and this contains the balance gearing.
Patent GB-190925278-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to Electric Switches.
Inventor: SCHULTZ HJALMAR RUDMAN
IPC: H02B1/00
Filed: 1909-11-02
Granted: 1910-09-15
Abstract: 25,278. Schultz, H. R., and Holt, F. B. Nov. 2. Automatic circuit-breakers ; oil switches.-Relates to electric switches of the type used on hightension circuits, having the live parts completely enclosed and the switch adapted to open automatically, and consists in mechanically supporting the overload coil and the ammeter upon one of the high-tension conductors to which they are electrically connected, and also in insulating and separately enclosing the trip mechanism from the live parts. The switch actuating and tripping mechanism is preferably of the kind described in Specification 17,274/09. One of the high-tension conductors 8 is directly connected to one of fixed contacts 11. The other conductor 7 supports by a bar 22 the overload coil 19, and, by a bar 27, both the ammeter 20 and the magnetic circuit of the overload coil, the conductors 7, 27 being mutually insulated by a sleeve 30. The bar 27 is connected to the other fixed contact 11, and to one terminal of the ammeter, the second terminal being connected by a conductor to the end of the overload coil 19. The tripping-lever 35 is insulated from its supports, and the trip mechanism is enclosed in a separate removable casing 18, which also contains the no - load trip - coil energized from a shunt transformer 36 through fuses 37. Switch mechanism interlocking with lids.-Arrangements may be added for preventing the removal of the oil-chamber 2 and the hood 3 so long as the switch is closed.