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Patent GB-190629318-A (GB)
Title: Improved Game for Facilitating the Study of Music.
Inventor: FOSTER FLORENCE PICHE
Filed: 1906-12-22
Granted: 1907-12-21
Abstract: 29,318. Foster, r. P. Dec. 22. Music-teaching games. - A series of games is played with various blocks, cards, and other devices in conjunction with explanatory rhymes. A set of blocks, Fig. 2, formed in. three sizes a, b, c represent the intervals between the successive notes of the major or minor scales. A pair of cards with staves are marked with successive line notes on one and space notes on the other, phrased into groups, and with suitable rhymes. Another pair of cards illustrate the transposition of notes from the treble to the bass staff. A set of frets, Fig. 5, of various lengths is formed with projecting fingers corresponding with and arranged to fit over the keys of an instrument, the fingers being lettered in accordance with the keys. A pack of tickets with single notes marked on a staff is used in connexion with the frets. A set of lettered tickets is printed in dark colour on one side and light colour on the other side to represent the natural and sharp notes respectively. Another set of tickets is marked with the signatures of the various keys. These tickets are used in conjunction with a folding card, Fig. 10, representing a toy city wall, with the keynote of a scale marked over each gateway. A pack of cards is marked with various keynotes and directions for finding the corresponding relative major or minor keynote. A set of blocks, Fig. 14, represent by their various sizes the relative time value of the different notes. These blocks are used in conjunction with cards, various groups of notes as in Fig. 15, and with cards bearing various time signatures. A set of blocks similar to those of Fig. 13 are marked with the notes or rests to which they correspond.
Patent GB-190629577-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Flushing Tanks.
Inventor: AKINS CHARLES JOHN
Filed: 1906-12-28
Granted: 1907-04-18
Abstract: 29,577. Akins, C. J., Sherk, G. W., and Graham, B. W. Dec. 28. Actuating lift valves.-In closed flusbing-tanks, an air vent 7 and the discharge valve are closed by a float 44'. When the valve 31 is raised by means of a handle on the spindle 49 and levers 46, 48, a pivoted dog 34 engages a shoulder 33 on the spindle 21 and keeps the valve raised. As the cistern empties, the float 44<1> descends and depresses the upper end of a trigger 40, the other end of which engages a loop 39 on the dog,and so releases the spindle, which then descends.
Patent GB-190702680-A (GB)
Title: A Device for Producing Automatic Ignition in Combination with a Cigar Cutter
Inventor: KELLERMANN JACQUES
IPC: F23Q2/32
Filed: 1907-02-02
Granted: 1907-10-31
Abstract: 2680. Kellermann, J. Feb. 2. Smokers' combination articles.-A cigar cutter is combined with a portable igniting-device of the kind employing the catalytic action of platinum sponge &c. In Fig. 2, the cutter f is shown integral with the side tube d, but may be attached thereto. The cutting-blade b is controlled by a spring. In Fig. 4, the cutter is shown at the foot of the box.
Patent GB-190706747-A (GB)
Title: Improved Method of and Means for Lubricating Worm and like Gearing.
Filed: 1907-03-20
Granted: 1907-04-18
Abstract: 6747. Aktieselskabet Elling Compressor Co. March 20, 1906, [date applied for under Patents Act, 1901]. Lubricating. - To lubricate high-speed worm gearing for steam turbines, dynamos, &c., lubricant is injected against the worm at such an angle as to impinge upon the outer edge of the worm and be deflected towards the bottom of the thread. Oil in the casing h is forced by a centrifugal pump f into a chamber e, and passes through a pipe g to a nozzle c, which is provided with vanes to deflect the oil at the desired angle against the working side of the worm a. The edge of the thread is sharp, as shown in Fig. 1, to prevent spluttering and disturbance of the sheet of oil. The capacity of the chamber e is such that if the pump f ceases to act the oil in the tank h rises to bathe the worm gearing. An automatic valve may be placed between the casing h and the chamber e, to open when the pressure in the chamber e falls below a certain limit. A Pitot-tube may be placed in one of the passages to indicate the circulation of the oil. Means may be provided to cool, filter, and separate air from the lubricant. The lubricant may consist of water, with or without graphite.
Patent GB-190707906-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Machine Tools with Sliding Tables or Carriages
Filed: 1907-04-21
Granted: 1907-06-20
Abstract: 7906. Soc. Anon. des Anciens Etablissements Panhard et Levassor. April 21, 1906, [date applied for under Patents Act, 1901]. Feed - motions. - Tools are automatically disengaged from the work in machines with sliding tables or carriages running on rails 2 by screws 8, which shift the carriages laterally upon their axles 5 which are loose in the wheels. The wheels 4 have extended bosses rotatably connected at 7 to the screws 8, which are keyed upon the axles and engage nuts 9 carried by the carriages. Levers 10 keyed to the screws are coupled together by rods 12 carrying bowls 11 which engage notched bars 13 and, together with spring limiting stops 17, assist the axles 5 to make a partial rotation under the influence of the frictional drag from the wheels.
Patent GB-190709591-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Means for Guiding and Supporting Carbons or Electrodes in Pairs in Arc Lamps.
Inventor: GROSS OTTO
Filed: 1907-04-25
Granted: 1908-02-20
Abstract: 9591. Gross, O. April 25. Arc lamps.-To guide a pair of converging and abutting carbons forming one electrode, their holders d are connected by forks d<1>, U-pieces, or links to the axles of wheels b which engage four rods a<1>. Pivoted links j connect the axles to a cross-bar or posts attached to a guided weight g. The cross-bar may be either above or below the axles, and, with the links, may be duplicated for balancing. Either the wheels or tne rods are grooved. The rods a<1> form a frame which may be hung on pivots near its upper end. The carbons are clamped in their holders by springs e and nuts f, by a loose clamping piece or grippers, or by screw-actuated pieces within sleeves. According to the Provisional Specification, the single wheels may be replaced by wheeled carriages, and the invention applied to a lamp having two single-carbon electrodes.
Patent GB-190709973-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Inverted Gas Burners.
Inventor: MCLEAN JAMES HARDIE
Filed: 1907-04-30
Granted: 1908-04-16
Abstract: 9973. McLean, J. H., Phelps, F., and Raybould, A. April 30. Incandescent gas lamps. -An inverted lamp has a conical dust retaining burner mouth C, and a helical strip or strips H are inserted in the space between a detachable flue E and the mixing-tube A. The mantle support is carried by the flue, and the casing F surrounding the flue is formed with perforations at its upper end. In a modification, the space surrounding the mixing-tube is divided into two or more vertical or spiral flues.
Patent GB-190714562-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Attachments for Sewing Machines more particularly for use in Sewing Collars and the like.
Inventor: FENWICK ALBERT DIXON
Filed: 1907-06-24
Granted: 1907-11-28
Abstract: 14,562. Fenwick, A. D. June 24. Presser-feet; guiding materials.-Relates to guiding-devices for use in sewing double collars. When the two folds 7, 8, Fig. 2, are being sewn together, the upper fold is guided by a flange b on the presser-foot and the lower fold by a hooked guide C, Fig. 6. When the band 5 is being inserted, a plate d is moved into position and serves to guide the upper fold 7 and the inner edge of the band 5. The guide-plate d moves between guides d', and is withdrawn from its operative position against a spring g by a cam-lecer f<1>.
Patent GB-190719692-A (GB)
Title: A New or Improved Machine for Flattening or Shaping Cigarettes.
Inventor: APTEKMAN LAZARIDAS
Filed: 1907-09-03
Granted: 1907-11-14
Abstract: 19,692. Aptekman, L. Sept. 3. Cigarette-making appliances.-Relates to an appliance for flattening or shaping cigarettes. Two dies c, c<1>, fixed in the jaws of the frame a by means of clamping-dogs e, e<1>, register alternately with the two dies h, h<1> clamped to a lever g pivoted at g<1>. This lever may be operated by means of a handle k and a polygonal or other shaped cam j which engages with antifriction bowls l, m mounted in the frame a. The dies may be made with the concave part set obliquely and adapted to give the cigarette a sharply defined edge. The dies may be modified so as to compress the cigarette to a rectangular, or diamond shape with rounded edges. The cam j is preferably made with the opposite edges approximately parallel.
Patent GB-190724132-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Machines for Making Paper Bags.
Inventor: LUEDIN CARL
Filed: 1907-10-31
Granted: 1908-06-04
Abstract: 24,132. L³din, C. Oct. 31. Cutting - machines for paper.-In a machine for making paper bags from continuous tubing, transverse cuts are made in both plies of the tubing by a blade 26 on the roller 8. The bagblanks are prevented from adhering to the rollers 8, 9 by flat springs 29 mounted on the roller 8 and by a cam - operated bar 41 mounted on the roller 9.
Patent GB-190726530-A (GB)
Title: An Improved System of Radio Telephony.
Filed: 1907-11-30
Granted: 1908-04-09
Abstract: 26,530. Ges. f³r drahthose Telegraphie. Dec. 19,1906, [date applied for under Patents Act, 1901]. Wireless telephony.-In a system of wireless telephony, the exciting-circuit is coupled with the transmitter circuit with a coupling of less than three per cent, and at the receiving station an integrating detector is coupled with the receiving circuit as closely as possible. The aerial a is closely coupled to the microphone circuit b, and the coupling'between the exciting-circuit C, which includes an arc d and the antenna, is made less than three per cent. At the receiving station, the antenna f is coupled as closely as possible to the detector circuit g, which contains a high self-induction, a small capacity k, and an integrating-detector h, such as an electrolytic cell, a thermo-couple, a magnetic detector, or a bolometer, connected in parallel therewith. In series with the detector his a condenser i, to which an indicator l, such as a telephone, and a source of direct current m are connected. The microphone circuit and the detector circuit may be conductively connected to their respective antenna ; or, the microphone may be inserted either directly in the antenna or connected with a capacity or self-induction coil, the combination being inserted in the antenna. The microphone may act on a closed circuit between the antenna and the exciting-circuit, in which case the antenna is coupled to the intermediate circuit in the manner described.
Patent GB-190727102-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Elevators for use with Boots
Inventor: BASCOMBE REGINALD EDWARD
Filed: 1907-12-07
Granted: 1908-09-10
Abstract: 27,102. Bascombe, R. E. Dec. 7. Socks.-An elevator consists of one or more lifts c of wedge-shaped pieces of cork, one or more lifts b of soft rubber, preferably perforated, and a covering a of leather, which is extended to the instep and skived to a thin edge. A pin or stud e holds the elevator in place.
Patent GB-190728647-A (GB)
Title: Improved Method of Producing High Frequency Electrical Oscillations and Apparatus therefor
Inventor: FESSENDEN REGINALD AUBREY
Filed: 1907-12-30
Granted: 1909-03-01
Abstract: 28,647. Fessenden, R. A. Feb. 4, [date applied for under Patents Act, 1901]. Wireless telegraphy and telephony.-A spark-gap for use in wireless signalling has a length equal to the critical sparking distance for the pressure of the atmosphere which surrounds the spark. A number of such spark-gaps, the terminals 9, 10, 11, 12 of which may be cylindrical or barrel-shaped, water-cooled rotating vessels of platinum, iridium, aluminium, coated with the oxides of calcium, -barium, strontium, and having curved sparking surfaces, may be arranged in series in an atmosphere of air, nitrogen, helium, argon, &c. preferably in a partly vacuous state. The distance between the nearest points of the electrodes is preferably less than the critical distance, while the points on the electrodes which are furthest separated are further apart than this distance. The current supplied to the sparking circuit is continuous.
Patent GB-190800326-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Vibrator for Massage or like Treatment.
Inventor: MACAURA GERALD JOSEPH
Filed: 1908-01-06
Granted: 1908-04-16
Abstract: 326. Macaura, G. J. Jan. 6. Drawings to Specification. Right to Patent relinquished. Handles.-A hand-operated massage appliance of the rotary type is provided with a handle which may be made of rubber, either solid, or hollow and inflated, or a rubber or other resilient buffer is inserted between the handle and the rest of the appliance. A thumb-rest is also provided.
Patent GB-190808227-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or connected with Baskets known as "Chips" for Containing Strawberries and other Fruit.
Inventor: DARLEY CHARLES WILLIAM
Filed: 1908-04-14
Granted: 1909-01-14
Abstract: 8227. Darley, C. W. April 14. Fruit baskets. - Chip baskets having pivoted handles for nesting and provided with a contents label such as is described in Specification No. 14,362, A.D. 1905, are strengthened about the central part to provide a better support for the handle B and a better surface for the attachment of the label D, by employing a stronger chip or an additional chip a' at that part. The handle B is pivoted to the inside of the basket by means of a bifurcated rivet c, which also helps to secure the label D. The handle is locked in the upright position by means of a bifurcated rivet d, Fig. 8, which passes through the label, the strengthening-chip a<2>, and the chip a, and has a pintle projection d<3>, which takes into a hole in the lower part b of the handle B. Instead of providing the rivet with a pintle projection, one of its members may be flat and turned down inside the basket, the other member being round and taking into a hole in the handle B. The basket may be made of chips plaited together, or pieces of veneer a with spaces between them to allow of ventilation. In the latter case, the strengthening-strip passes under and secures the bottom, which is made as a separate piece.
Patent GB-190809416-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Blotting Device.
Inventor: EVANS LYELL
Filed: 1908-05-01
Granted: 1909-04-01
Abstract: 9416. Evans, L. May 1. No Patent granted Sealing fee not paid). Blotting-appliances.-A covering or thimble of any suitable blotting-material is made to fit over one or more fingers or a thumb. [Reference has been directed under Section 7 of Patents &c. Act, 1907, to Specification No. 10,502, A.D. 1887.]
Patent GB-190809662-A (GB)
Title: Igniting Device for Miners' Safety Lamps.
Inventor: WICKE FERDINAND ARTHUR
Filed: 1908-05-04
Granted: 1909-05-04
Abstract: 9662. Wicke, F. A. May 4. Miners' safety lamps.-The igniting-device consists of a band 16 carrying primers which are ignited by an electrically-heated thin platinum wire 15. The source of current, such as an accumulator 3, is arranged on the bottom portion of the lamp. The circuit is completed at 17. In the modification shown in Figs. 4 and 5, the band is mounted on an horizontal spindle and is fed forward by a spindle 20 having a ring handle 24. The raising of the ring 24 completes the.circuit through the contacts 21, 22 by means of pins 25, so that the closure of the circuit is only effected during the feeding forward of the priming-band.
Patent GB-190809700-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Knitted Fabrics and in the Means for and the Method of Knitting the same.
Inventor: CLARKE HENRY
Filed: 1908-05-04
Granted: 1909-01-07
Abstract: 9700. Clarke, H., and Jackson, R. May 4. No Patent granted (Sealing fee not paid). Circular knitting-machines; knitted fabrics.-A plating-yarn 12 is caused to show on both sides of the fabric and conceal the body yarn 13 by being fed above the projecting ends of radial knocking- over bits 8 sliding in a tricked dial, the yarn 13 being fed to the needles in the usual way. The fabric obtained is similar, as to the front side, to ordinary plated work, while the back surface is covered with elongated loops of plating-yarn d. The bits 8 are projected at the feeding point, where they ride over a cam 11 ; they are subsequently retracted to release the elongated loops of plating yarn. According to the Provisional Specification, the invention may be applied to straight-bar machines.
Patent GB-190816395-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to the Construction of Reversible and Non-reversible Turbines for Steam and other Elastic Pressure Fluids.
Inventor: CLARK WILLIAM
Filed: 1908-08-04
Granted: 1909-07-15
Abstract: 16,395. Clark, W. Aug. 4. [Cognate Application No. 18,550, A.D. 1908, dated Sept. 4.] Elastic-fluid turbines.-In an axial-flow turbine the blades 7 are arranged in rings, each ring carrying several concentric sets of blades, as shown in Fig. 6. Steam admitted to the chamber 11 passes to the other end of the turbine through the innermost set of blades, then back to the admission end 11<1> through the next set, and so on in a known manner, the path being alternately forwards and backwards until the exhaust end is reached. The turbine may be made reversible by a device by which the rings can be locked to the rotor 1 or to the stator 2 at will. A number of grooves 14 is formed in the rotor and stator, and the inner and outer circular ends of the blade rings are also grooved. In each groove 14 slides a rod 16 provided with projections 17, of width equal to the width of a ring and separated by gaps of the same width. By the engagement of the projections 17 with the grooves 15 in the rings, alternate rings are locked to the rotor, and the others are locked to the stator. An axial movement of the rods 16 locks the first set of rings to the stator and the others to the rotor and so reverses the turbine. The rods 16 may be connected by a rod 19, a channelled ring 18 being provided to receive the head of the rod in the rotor. According to Provisional Specification No. 16,395, the rods 16 may be actuated by steam pressure. The notched roots 7<1>, Fig. 3, of the blades 7 are secured between pairs of rings 5<1>, 6<1> of channel shape section. These rings are bolted together, distance-pieces 9 being arranged between the blades, and molten metal being run in to fill up. In a modification, Fig. 5, the blades are wedged ioto grooves cut in the rings 5<1>, 6<1>. In non-reversible turbines the rings may be fixed to the rotor and stator respectively by bolts 8. To prevent spilling of the fluid, and to allow for the sagging of the rotor, the effective radial length of each blade is decreased in the direction of flow. This may be accomplished by using wedge-shaped distance-pieces 9, Fig. 3, or by suitably shaping the rings 5<1>, 6<1>, Fig. 5.
Patent GB-190821399-A (GB)
Title: A Brake for Motor Cars or other Vehicles.
Inventor: HILTON GEORGE TOM
Filed: 1908-10-10
Granted: 1909-07-01
Abstract: 21,399. Hilton, G. T., and Coppell, F. B. Oct. 10. Brakes.-In brakes for motor-cars &c., two rotating members are so disposed in relation to one or more non-rotary pivoted members, that when one rotating member is brought into engagement with the pivoted member, the latter is also brought into contact with the other rotating member. A cylindrical drum A is fixed to the live axle b or countershaft, and a conical drum C is arranged to slide on a squared or other shaped part of the shaft b. A hollow member D, in two or more sections pivoted at e<1> to stationary parts e, is arranged about the drums A, C so that axial movement of the drum C into contact with the member D at d' will cause the member D to grip the drum A at d<2>. The drum A may be conical so as to engage along its whole width, or blocks d<3>, Fig. 3, may be pivoted to the parts d<2>. The friction surfaces may be continuous or provided with spaces d<4>, and are preferably renewable. The drum C may be moved by a fork at its smaller end, and may have a collar c<1> against which a spring f bears to keep the cone in its disengaged position. When the fork is placed at the larger end of the cone, a ball thrust bearing g is preferably used.
Patent GB-190822000-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Brushes for Painting, Varnishing and the like.
Inventor: HARTLEY WILLIAM
Filed: 1908-10-17
Granted: 1909-06-24
Abstract: 22,000. Hartley, W. Oct. 17. Paint brushes ; bristles; bristles, fixing; , stands.- The moulded heads a for receiving the bristles of paint brushes &c. are formel with a flange h and oval wedge-shaped tongues b having grooves f and projections b<4>. Holes g, g<1> are provided for the attachment of the binding-wires, which are held in position by wires passing through holes in the flange h. Bridling cords or devices may be attached by means of the projections b<4> or holes t. A central hole g<1> enables the brush to be suspended in water on a rod.
Patent GB-190822212-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Nut Locks.
Inventor: BEVAN WILLIAM REES
Filed: 1908-10-20
Granted: 1909-10-20
Abstract: 22,212. Bevan, W. R., Blackmore, A., Harvie, W. J., Morley, D. T., and Watney, W. S. Oct. 20. Locking nuts.- In a nut-lock of the kind described in Specification No. 9590, A.D. 1908, comprising a grooved roller placed in a tapered recess in the nut to engage the threads of the bolt, a flat bent spring m, Figs. 1 and 3, is used to force the roller b towards the narrow end of the recess a. A cap or flange 1 is formed at the bottom of the nut, and a cap or washer 2 is provided at the top to hold the roller and spring in position. A pointed instrument is inserted in an opening c to move the roller away from the threads of the bolt. Fig. 6 shows a modification in which a flat bent spring n serves also as a bearing-surface for the roller.
Patent GB-190825637-A (GB)
Title: Improved Manufacture of Building Material capable of Serving as a Substitute for Wood and the like.
Inventor: WINKLER KASPAR
Filed: 1908-11-27
Granted: 1909-08-26
Abstract: 25,637. Winkler, K. Dec. 6, 1907, [date applied for under Section 91 of Patents &c. Act, 1907]. Wood substitutes.-A wood substitute is made by comminuting fibrous substances, mixing with drying substances, impregnating if desired to render the product harder, mixing with binding- substances, and moulding under pressure. Peat or the like is disintegrated, and made non-bygroscopic by treatment with substances which break down the cell walls, or fill up the pores. A 10 per cent solution of calcium sulphide with from 2 to 10 per cent of lead sulphide added is preferred. The fibres may be impregnated with a paste of carbolineum containing oxides, carbonates, or silicates, and they may be dyed. The substance is highly dried and placed in a mixing-machine with about 25 per cent of a binder such as sulphur, Montan wax, resin, asphalt, or paraffin, or mixtures of these. Bituminous shale or talc may be added. The mass is heated and thoroughly mixed and discharged in a finely-divided condition into moulds, where it is subjected to high pressure (300 atmospheres) and allowed to cool. To obtain an insoluble product, 15 per cent of resin distillates with or without drying oils and carbolineum are added to the binder. For slabs the material receives an addition of not more than 40 per cent of substances such as basic copper or lead carbonates, oxides, dolomite, kaolin, kieselguhr, feldspar or quartz in the form of powder. For a cheap material which will not be subjected to great strains, about 60 per cent of silicate of lime, siliceous tufa, or blast furnace slag opened up with superheated steam, is added to the comminuted fibres. Cement may be used for the same purpose. For a quick drying or hardening material, iron acetate and alcohol are added, and the mixture is moulded with only so much water as is necessary to form a stiff paste. Metal reinforcements may be embedded in the moulds..