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Patent GB-190424776-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Cotton Picking Machines.
Inventor: LOWRY GEORGE ARCHIBALD
Filed: 1904-11-15
Granted: 1905-03-23
Abstract: 24,776. Lowry, G. A. Nov. 15. Cotton, gathering.-A machine for gathering cotton consists of a frame mcunted on wheels and carrying mechanical pickers, driven from the axles of the wheels and directed by the operators, and seats for the operators and a receptacle for the picked cotton. The travelling wheels A, B are arranged at such a distance apart as to pass on opposite sides of a row of cotton plants, and the frame is of sufficient height to pass over them. Platforms Q, T and seats R, V for the operators are arranged on each side. On a transverse shaft B<1> are loosely mounted sprocket-wheels C', Fig. 3, driven from the axles of the travelling wheels by chains and driving the shaft B<1> by slip clutches, to allow for one travelling wheel moving faster than the other. The shaft B' communicates motion by means of bevel gear to a longitudinal shaft N, which bears the picking- mechanism. The latter is shown separately in Figs. 4 and 5. An arm L<1> mounted on the shaft b N bears a sleeve N<1> turning on it through a range determined by the slot O<1> and the pins P<1>. The sleeve carries arms Q<1> bearing a stud or rod R', which carries two arms S<1>, T<1> bearing brackets A<2>, B<2> fitted with housings F<2>, G', through which and over the pulley L' at their further end and over a pulley K<2> mounted on the stud R<1> passes an endless band fitted with fingers S<2> to pluck the cotton. The band is driven by a pulley K<2>, which receives motion by means of a band from a pulley N<2> mounted on the shaft N. The cotton is removed from the carrier by a doffer wheel E<2> driven by a band frcm the stud R<1>, and falls into a receptacle A<3>, Fig. 3. The picking- mechanism is counterbalanced by the weight M<1>. The apparatus is drawn by horses harnessed to single-trees F<3> attached to a chain G<3> passing under pulleys J<3> about the level of the axles of the traveling wheels and passing over a pulley H<3>. In a modification, shown in Fig. 8, the picking-mechanism is dispensed with and the cotton gathered by hand and placed on a conveyer D',which delivers it into the receptacle I<4> and the bag J'.
Patent GB-190425511-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Screw-propelled Vessels.
Inventor: NORMAND JACQUES AUGUSTIN
Filed: 1904-11-23
Granted: 1905-01-12
Abstract: 25,511. Normand, J. A., Normand, F. E., and Normand, M. E., [trading as Soc. Augustin Normand et Cie]. Jan. 16, [date applied for under Patents Act, A.D. 1901]. Propeller shafts, arrangements of.-In a screwpropelled vessel, particularly in a motor boat, a small hull is built underneath it, in which the driving-shaft and mechanism is placed, as shown in section in Figs. 1 and 4, where the same letters represent the same section. In the case illustrated, a four-crank engine is used so that the torque on the shaft may be uniform.
Patent GB-190428576-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Bottles to Prevent Refilling
Inventor: GAJARDO ADRIAN
Filed: 1904-12-28
Granted: 1905-06-15
Abstract: 28,576. Gajardo, A. Dec. 28. Stopper; refilling, preventing.-In a bottle neck a, of the shape shown in Fig. 1, is secured a sleeve d, at the bottom of which is a ring b which forms a seating for a floating valve c. This valve is controlled by a ball h, which is kept in position by an inverted cup-shaped partition g attached to the sleeve so as to give the necessary freedom to the ball. When the bottle is inverted, the liquid leaves the sleeve through apertures e, and returns through apertures f, finally leaving the bottle through an additional sleeve k, which is secured within the sleeve d and projects below the apertures f so as to prevent any tampering with the valve. Perforations i or tubes are formed in the partition g, so that, in attempts to refill the bottle fraudulently by pressure or suction, the in-flowing liquid would close the valve. The valve may be conical in shape, and the partition g may be provided with projections on its underside to prevent any sticking of the valve and ball. In a modification, shown in Fig. 3, the lower part of the sleeve d' and the valve seating b are detached from the upper portion d<2> of the sleeve. Cement may be used for securing the various surfaces, and it may be protected from the contents of the bottle by applying it in grooves p, as shown in Fig. 3. Otherwise, the surfaces may be riveted or ground to a tight fit and secured by pressure or by a prior heating of the outer part. In a modification, the upper end of the sleeve d<2> may be shaped as at o, Fig. 6, to engage a strip n of tin or other soft metal, which is sealed on the outside of the bottle.
Patent GB-190508300-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Bibs and Aprons.
Inventor: WHEATLEY WILLIAM HUMPHREY
Filed: 1905-04-18
Granted: 1905-08-24
Abstract: 8300. Wheatley, W. H., [Moore & Son Co., E. C.]. April 18. Aprons; bibs.- An apron, bib, or bib-apron is made with lateral pockets b, Fig. 5, adapted to enclose waist and neck springs of the shape shown in Fig. 3. A slot may be made in the end of each pocket to enable the spring to be removed, or the end may be covered by a flap, as in Fig. 7, the flap being fastened by push-buttons.
Patent GB-190509264-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Kilns for Drying Hops or the like.
Inventor: JOYCE HORACE WILLIAM
Filed: 1905-05-02
Granted: 1906-04-12
Abstract: 9264. Joyce, H. W. May 2. Kilns.-Hops, malt, fruit, and the like are dried on a floor by hot air, heated by a furnace below it ; when smokeless fuel is used, the products of combustion may be discharged into the drying-chamber. Air is heated in a shaft a, Fig. 1, and discharged through the drying-floor b. The air enters at grids or the like k, and is heated in its passage about one or more furnaces c, which may be of the kind described in Specification No. 10,988, A.D. 1902, [Abridgment Class Furnaces &c.], and between baffles m, l and zigzag flues g, h with end cleaning- covers and dampers j. Air entering at inlets e may be heated in hollow fire-bars e<1>, of which some may open into the shaft a and the others into a passage f passing up through the drying-floor and preferably having a hooded end as shown. When two furnaces c are used, the connecting-flues h may pass from side to side so that two zigzig spiral flues are formed. The air-pipe f may be of zigzag, sinuous, or coiled form, and a number of such pipes may be used. Fans may be used to increase the draught. A hot-water device may be used in combination with the air-heating apparatus; it may consist of a coil in the shaft a and a boiler surrounding the fire-box, which is formed with corrugated walls. In the Provisional Specification, the air-heating furnace described in Specification No. 5023, A.D. 1895, is referred to.
Patent GB-190517788-A (GB)
Title: Improved Means for Facilitating the Repair of Cycle Tyres
Filed: 1905-09-02
Granted: 1906-05-17
Abstract: 17,788. Patterson, G., and New Hudson Cycle Co. Sept. 2. Luggage - carriers.-In the type of device in which a reserve pneumatic-tyre air tube a is so carried upon a motor or other cycle that it can be used to replace a punctured tube without removal of the wheel, the tube, passing between one member of each of the rear and bottom forks and the wheel, is adapted to be folded up and enclosed by a leather case b detachably secured to the machine.
Patent GB-190518130-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Vacuum Evaporating Apparatus
Inventor: JUERGENS FRIEDRICH
Filed: 1905-09-07
Granted: 1906-05-31
Abstract: 18,130. J³rgens, F. Sept. 7. Stills. - The type of vacuum evaporating - apparatus in which the heati n g and evaporating chambers are entirely separate from each other is modified by (1) making the bottom E of the evaporator A the top of the heater B, and (2) surrounding the downflow F to the settling- chamber H with the return pipe G, thus preventing the cooling of the surfaces affected and the consequent incrustation of the downflow, the water-tubes, and the bottom of the evaporator.
Patent GB-190519980-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Apparatus for Weaving Pattern Cloths.
Inventor: GARDA GIOVANNI
Filed: 1905-10-03
Granted: 1906-09-20
Abstract: 19,980. Garda, G. Oct. 3. Loom dobbies; healds; lifting-cords and equivalents.-In a loom for weaving figured fabrics, a series of endless wires 10 are guided by rollers on pins 8 mounted in a frame, the horizontal portions of the wires consisting of rigid bars 11. An endless wire 10 is provided for each repeat of the pattern, and the healds consist of similarly guided wires 13, which have mails 14 and are attached to the bars 11, each pair of bars 11 having as many wires 13 as there are repeats in the pattern. The mails may otherwise consist of metallic loops, which rotate loosely and eccentrically between two enlargements on the wires 13. At one side of the apparatus, the wires 10 are connected directly or through wires 20 to hooked rods 21, and at the other side a vibrating plate 23, which is operated by suitable rods and levers, is adapted to push back the bars 11, after the wires 10 have been operated to form a shed by the raising of the rods 21. Pivoted bell-crank levers 36 are connected to sliding plates 31, and have horizontal arms passing through slots in the hooked rods 21. When a plate 31 is moved to the right, a corresponding rod 21 is raised slightly into position to be engaged by one of a series of projections 49 on a plate 44. This plate is guided and operated in such a manner that it makes an horizontal movement to engage the selected rods 21, and an upward movement to raise these rods and the corresponding healds 13. To each plate 31 are attached horizontal cords or bars 34 provided with loops 35, of which various forms are described. Horizontal rods 38 are passed through certain of the loops 35 in such a manner as to engage only those loops corresponding to the plates 31, which have to be actuated to raise the warps for particular shots of weft. Each rod 38 corresponds to a shot of weft, and the rods are successively moved to the right in regular order, each movement of a rod causing a predetermined number of the plates 31 to be drawn to the right and cause the corresponding hooked rods 21 to be raised. Instead of the plates 31, rods mounted to move with a parallel motion may be used. The rods 38 are suitably guided, and are moved to the right by projecting plates on vertical shafts, which are successively partially rotated by projections thereon being struck by pins on intermittentlymoving chains. The projecting plates on the shafts are raised and lowered to operate the rods 38 in the various rows. Separate mechanism is provided for operating the rods 38 in incomplete rows. In a modified form of the apparatus, the loops 35 are wound upon and unwound from transverse shafts to actuate the plates 31, the shafts being successively rotated by star-wheels, acted upon by pins carried by frames reciprocated by chains.
Patent GB-190522524-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Calculating Machines.
Inventor: TRINKS FRANZ
Filed: 1905-11-03
Granted: 1906-03-01
Abstract: 22,524. Trinks, F. Nov. 3. Calculating-apparatus. - In pin-disk and camring adding and multiplying-machines in which the counter wheels as shown are arranged for English monetary values with the pence wheel a' upon the .right, provision is made for proper engagement when the counter casing A, B, C, D is shifted to the right for the purpose of multiplication and similar operations on higher denominations. All the counter-wheel pinions except that for the pence are ten-toothed, and two alternative intermediate wheels i<1>, i<2> are rotated by the right-hand pinwheel. Of these, the wheel i<1> is smaller and gears with the twelve-toothed pence pinion, whereas the larger wheel i<2> of the same number of teeth is adapted to engage any of the ten-toothed pinions. For other monetary systems, three or more alternative wheels may be provided.
Patent GB-190523464-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in connection with Fire Clay and other Retorts for Making Gas and for other purposes.
Inventor: TIMMIS GEORGE HERBERT
Filed: 1905-11-15
Granted: 1906-11-15
Abstract: 23,464. Timmis, G. H., and Jones, W. D. Nov. 15. Gas retorts; retorts.-Two or more fire-clay or other retorts, for gas-making and other purposes, are constructed in one piece. Two retorts A may be disposed vertically one above the other. The cast-iron mouthpiece B, common to the two retorts, is provided with lugs E upon which may be placed a shelf for charging and discharging the upper retort. Apertures or passages may be provided in the diaphragm separating the retorts, to secure better beating of the retorts. Three retorts may be arranged vertically.
Patent GB-190600203-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Sinks
Inventor: ADAMS SAMUEL HENRY
Filed: 1906-01-03
Granted: 1906-09-27
Abstract: 203. Adams, S. H. Jan. 3. Sinks.-A draining ledge A is formed at the back of a sink for plates &c. An overflow B may be provided.
Patent GB-190601084-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to the Manufacture of Butter.
Inventor: EHRMANN MICHEL BERNARD LEON
Filed: 1906-01-15
Granted: 1906-07-19
Abstract: 1084. Ehrmaan, M. B. L. Jan. 15. Butter; cream, treating for special purposes.- Cream for making butter is treated with carbonic. acid either as a gas or in solution or liquefied. The acid may be added to the cream in the cans &c. in which it is stored before it is made into butter.
Patent GB-190603453-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in the Construction of Ships.
Inventor: AISBITT MATHEW WELDON
Filed: 1906-02-12
Granted: 1907-01-03
Abstract: 3453. Aisbitt, M. W., and Shotton, J. W. Feb. 12. Bulkheads; bunkers.- Between two longitudinal, vertical or nearly vertical bulkheads a<1> placed comparatively near to one another is fitted an horizontal floor g<1>. This construction provides a tunnel h<1> beneath the floor, extending from the machinery spaces to the fore and aft peak bulkheads. The after tunnel is used as a screw tunnel, and the forward tunnel may be used for the purpose of ventilating or cooling the cargo disposed in the compartments above it. When the space between the bulkheads is used as a coalbunker, the floor g<1> is fitted with doors n<1> having sloping roofs o<1> to support the coal and relieve the doors of pressure.
Patent GB-190606117-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Self-playing Musical Instruments and Musical Instrument Players.
Inventor: DEAN BENJAMIN SAGER
Filed: 1906-03-13
Granted: 1907-03-13
Abstract: 6117. Dean, B. S. March 13. Automatic instruments.-In a selfplaying musical instrument, or player, a number, such as three, of primary pneumatic devices, are arranged to be employed singly, or in combination, and control variably a tone-producing m e a n s, whereby individual tones of varying intensities are produced. The tune-sheet has three or more note preparations for each note, and there are preferably two sheets and two tracker-board sections arranged as shown in Fig. 9. Relative compensating movements of adjustment are imparted automatically to the two tracker sections 71, 72 by means of control perforations in the two sheets 78, 79, the pneumatic devices 86, 87, the rocking beam 91, and the frame-controlling pneumatic 96, 97. Each primary pneumatic 15, 16, 17, Fig. 3, comprises a reciprocating cylinder 18 fitted to a stationary plunger 19, the cylinder being provided with a rod 21, which is connected up to the secondary valve stem 38. Operation of one or more of the primary pneumatics cuts off communication between the vacuum chamber 22 and the valve chamber 31, and admits atmospheric air to the latter through ports 36. These ports 36 are of graduated sizes to operate the secondary pneumatic 28 with different rapidities. The secondary pneumatic is connected up to one end of a spring-controlled friction band, which surrounds a continuously rotated disk or roller ; the other end of the band is connected to the striker, which is operated with a force depending on the rapidity of action of the secondary pneumatic. With three primary pneumatics and suitably graduated ports, seven different degrees of intensity may thus be obtained. In a modified arrangement of primary and secondary pneumatics, the secondary device comprises three bellows chambers operating at different distances along a lever connected to the striker-operating means, and controlled by three primary diaphragm valves.
Patent GB-190606778-A (GB)
Title: A Combined Collar Spring and Neck-tie Retainer.
Inventor: MALLINSON ALEXANDER EMANUEL
Filed: 1906-03-21
Granted: 1906-12-20
Abstract: 6778. Mallinson, A. E., and Mallinson, L. A. March 21. ' .. Collars.-A spring metal band a, terminating in loops b through which a neck-tie is threaded, is placed within a double e collar and serves to keep the points together.
Patent GB-190607284-A (GB)
Title: Improved Construction of Lever Lock generally applicable
Inventor: HORSEY JOHN GEORGE
Filed: 1906-03-26
Granted: 1907-03-21
Abstract: 7284. Horsey, J. G., and Horsey, E. March 26. Locks, key.-The locking-levers 2 of a lever lock are fulcrumed in the solid piece 8 of the casing 1, and are provided with notches 4 for the reception of the head 5 of the bolt when the latter is withdrawn. When the bolt is shot, the levers are so placed by the key that their edges 10 are positioned under the head 5 of the bolt at different t points across its width, so as to prevent the forcing back of the bolt, the levers being so fulcrumed that the fulcrum 7 takes the resistance.
Patent GB-190607571-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Enveloped Bullets for Small Arm Ammunition.
Filed: 1906-03-29
Granted: 1907-03-14
Abstract: 7571. King's Norton Metal Co., Bayliss, T. A., and Smith, H. M. March 29. Projectiles, small-arm.-Relates to enveloped bullets, and consists in making the body of two or more parts of different densities in order to increase the length of the cylindrical part of the bullet, and to locate the centre of gravity suitably. In the form shown in Fig. 1, the light metallic or non-metallic core a has fitted on it a tube b of denser metal, preferably lead, the whole being enclosed in the envelope c of cupro-nickel or the like. In the form shown in Fig. 2, the core consists of a leaden tube b closed at its front end. The tube b may be fitted with a thin metal tube d, partially or wholly filled by a paper plug e or by a light metallic or non- metallic cone. In the form shown in Fig. 4, the bullet consists of a front part a, two lighter conical parts f and a lead or other dense-metal part g arranged between the cones. In another form, shown in Fig. 7, the bullet consists of four heavymetal parts alternating with three lighter metallic or non-metallic disks h.
Patent GB-190608244-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Table Games.
Inventor: GRAY CHARLES HERBERT
Filed: 1906-04-05
Granted: 1906-11-15
Abstract: 8244. Gray, C. H. April 5. Games played with boards and pieces or men; war games.-Relates to board games of the kind in which pieces, adapted to be moved over the board by the players in opposition to each other, are given some value, and are constructed to carry a number or other signification in such a way that the number &c. is only visible to the player to whom the particular piece belongs. According to the present invention, the pieces consist of weighted bases A, to which are attached shields B having on their inner sides the numbers representing their values. The numbers may be on removable tablets, which can be slipped into a recess behind the shield, thus enabling the values of the pieces to be changed. The board and pieces may be designed for military, naval, and like games.
Patent GB-190608402-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Controlling Systems for Electric Motors.
Inventor: COOPER WILLIAM
Filed: 1906-04-07
Granted: 1906-06-14
Abstract: 8402. Cooper, W. April 10, 1905, [date applied for under Patents Act, 1901]. Switches.-In controlling several motors, particularly on electric trains, by means of an auxiliary circuit containing a master-controller which regulates the resistances and series-parallel connexions, a selective switching-device placed in the auxiliary circuit is adapted to cut out one or more of the motors at will, without interfering with the control of the remainder. The Figure shows the arrangement for' two motors with hand-operated master controlling-switch. A battery 4 in the auxiliary circuit supplies current to the actuating-coils of a number of electro-magnetic switches governing the connexions and resistances of the motors, according to the movements of the master-controller 6 and the selective switching - device 5, both of which are shown in the ' off' positions. To bring both motors into operation, the row of contacts w of the switch 5 is brought into the line x. The mastercontroller is then moved to the position a, energizing the actuating-coils 13,19,24, and completing circuit from the supply wire 1 through both motors 2, 3 in series with the full resistances 26,27, 28, 29, &c Succeeding movements of the master-controller through the positions b, c, d, e, f respectively energize the coils 33, 39, 40, 41, 42, ultimately shortcircuiting all the resistance. In the next position g, the coil 51 is energized, short-circuiting the switch 25, and preparing for the next position, in which the motors are put in parallel by energizing the coils 59, 61 and de-energizing the coil 51. In the last two positions i,j, the resistances are again shortcircuited. To cut out the motor 2, in case, for instance, of disablement, the master-controller is moved 'off' and the switch 5 to the position y, energizing the coil 66 and closing a circuit round the motor 2. When the master-controller is subsequently moved through the positions a ... f, the motor 3 is connected to the supply and successively accelerated. To cut out the motor 3 and bring the other again into use, the master controller is moved 'off' and the switch 5 to the position z, which de-energizes the coil 66 and energizes the coil 61, opening the switch 67 and closing a circuit round the motor 3. Subsequent regulation by the master-controller proceeds as before. To cut out both motors while allowing the master-controller to regulate other units of the train, the switch 5 is kept in the position shown.