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Patent GB-190501018-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Means for Attaching Skis to the Feet.
Inventor: ANDERSEN SIGURD SYR
Filed: 1905-01-18
Granted: 1905-04-27
Abstract: 1018. Andersen, S. S. Jan. 18. Snow-ahoes.-Skis are provided with a toe strap 19 and a heel strap 1 forming a fastening which can be easily secured. The strap 1 is guided by guides 3, attached to metal lugs 2 to which the strap 19 is attached, and by projections 13, 11, 10, Fig. 3, on a plate attached to the heel of the boot. Tension is put on the strap 1 by means of a lever 7, which is pivoted in a bracket 16 of stamped metal, secured by spikes 14 and a screw to the ski. The ends of the strap 1 are connected by a pin 5, which is engaged by a notch 6 in the lever 7, and when the lever 7 is in the position shown by the full lines in Fig. 1, the ski is securely held to the foot, the lever 7 being so arranged that the tension of the strap 1 keeps the lever locked in position. The pin 5 is prevented from being accidentally released from the notch 6 by the notch being formed of the same diameter as the pin 5, with a contracted entrance 18, Fig. 4. This pin 5 is filed away as shown, and it can only enter the notch when the lever is drawn back beyond the position shown by the dotted lines, Fig. 1, but, when the lever is locked, the pin 5 cannot leave the notch. The lugs 2 are provided with plates 20, 21, 22, 23, Fig. 7, which are passed through a slot 24 in the ski, and the lugs are secured in position by bending the part 22 so as to clamp the whole to the ski. An ordinary toe strap with metal guides similar to the guides 3, Fig. 1, may be used in place of a toe strap attached to lugs.
Patent GB-190502789-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Protective Devices for Electric Circuits.
Filed: 1905-02-10
Granted: 1905-10-19
Abstract: 2789. British Thomson-Houston Co., [General Electric Co.]. Feb. 10. Distributing. - Relates to devices for protecting electric circuits from abnormal high - voltage currents. Figs. 1 and 2 show the arrangement applied to a transformer system, the device serving to connect the low-tension system to earth should it become charged with the high voltage. The primary mains 4, 5, 6 are connected to earth through high impedances 13, 14, 15, so that the loss is slight. The transformer windings 1, 2, 3 and 1', 2', 3<1> are connected in delta as shown. The secondary windings are connected to earth through earthing-devices or " film cut - outs " 16, 17, 18, which make the connexion should the voltage abnormally increase. The earthing-device is shown in Fig. 3, and consists of a body of mercury or other conducting-liquid 21, contained in an inverted insulating-cup 20 fitted in a metal block 19. The mercury is insulated therefrom by a thin layer 22 of insulating-material such as paper or mica. A small depression 23 may be formed below the layer 22, and is filled with mercury to obtain good contact when the layer is broken. As the secondary transformer windings . offer a small reactance to a high-voltage current produced by short-circuiting, all the windings will be connected to ground, and an excess rush will follow in all the primary windings, and will open the fuses &c.
Patent GB-190504597-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Metallic Bedsteads and Cots.
Inventor: PEYTON BERNARD RICHARD
Filed: 1905-03-06
Granted: 1905-11-02
Abstract: 4597. Peyton, B. R. March 6. Bedsteads and cots.- In bedsteads and cots in which the end rails are forwardly extended to admit of the bedclothes being placed between the rails and the frame, the end bars d<1> are supported in a plane above that of the side bars e by means of duplex corner chills formed of two superposed integral parts b<1>, b<2>, or by two separate chills similarly superposed, the necessary clearance between the end rails and end bars being provided for by inwardly cranking the end bars at d<1>. The bars may be attached to the chills by dovetail connexions.
Patent GB-190514136-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Water Tube Marine Boilers
Inventor: NORMAND JACQUES AUGUSTIN NORMA
Filed: 1905-07-08
Granted: 1905-09-14
Abstract: 14,136. Normand, J. A., Normand, F. E., and Normand, M. E., [trading as Soc. Augustin Normand et Cie], and Sigaudy, P. Sept. 14, 1904, [date applied for under Patents Act, 1901]. Marine water-tube boilers, arrangements of.-In vessels where the boiler space is limited, two independent water-tube boilers having single lower drums c, d, and upper drums a, b are fitted to occupy the space of a single boiler of the Normand type. In the event of a tube bursting, one boiler. will still be effective. The two furnaces are separated by a fire-brick partition i which may be continued up into the chimney. The upper and lower drums are connected at their ends by the return tubes e, f and tubular stays g, h, respectively.
Patent GB-190514923-A (GB)
Title: Improvements or connected with Apparatus for Automatically Lighting Gas Lamps.
Inventor: KISSEL WILHELM
Filed: 1905-07-20
Granted: 1905-09-14
Abstract: 14,923. Kissel, W. July 20. Valves controlled from a distance.-A mercury seal f, Fig. 1, carried by a float h, opens or closes the gas supply pipes a when the gas pressure is varied, and the apparatus is adjusted by raising and lowering the pipe a, preferably by screwing it into the cover c of the float chamber k, or by a rack and pinion. In one form, the pipe a screws into the cover c, the mercury seal f is carried near the bottom of the float h, and the float is guided by the inlet gas pipes i. In a modification, the flattened end p, Fig. 2, of the gas pipe a passes through a slot in a disk n secured between the burner socket and a union m rotatably connected by a screw cap q to the cover, so that the pipe a is adjusted by turning the socket.
Patent GB-190520100-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Rontgen-ray Tubes.
Filed: 1905-10-04
Granted: 1905-11-23
Abstract: 20,100. "Polyphos" Elektrizitõts- Ges. Oct. 5, 1904, [date applied for under Patents Act, 1901]. R÷ntgen-ray apparatus. - A screen is arranged within the-X-ray tube to absorb, or convert into highly penetrative rays, the rays of low penetrative power. The anticathode b may be entirely surrounded by a cylindrical screen c of material such as sheet iron or porcelain, or such screen may have an aperture d through which can pass only the secondary or tertiary rays which do not proceed directly from the anticathode. The direct rays are, in the latter construction, intercepted by a projection e. The arrangement may be such that the secondary rays are first converted into the tertiary rays, which then pass through the aperture d.
Patent GB-190520355-A (GB)
Title: Improvement in the Means for Suspending the Incandescence Bodies or Mantles of Inverted Incandescent Gas Lamps.
Inventor: ASCH MAX
Filed: 1905-10-09
Granted: 1905-11-02
Abstract: 20,355. Asch, M., and Silberstein, I., [trading as Magnesia Co., Asch, & Silberstein]. Aug. 24, [date applied for under Patents Act, 1901]. Grant of Patent refused. Incandescent gas lamps. - The ring support for i.nverted incandescent gas mantles has duplicate projections b, b<1>.
Patent GB-190523659-A (GB)
Title: A Combined Milk Can Measure Check, Order Marker, and Account Card for Household use.
Inventor: STAPLES JOHN CROSBY
Filed: 1905-11-17
Granted: 1906-09-13
Abstract: 23,659. Staples, J. C. Nov. 17. Measures of capacity.-In a milk can fitted with an order marker and an account card, the graduations on the outside of the can for order - marking purposes are indented so as to show on the inside for measurechecking.
Patent GB-190523757-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Apparatus for Employed in the Manufacture of Wire, and other Ropes, Cables and the like
Filed: 1905-11-18
Granted: 1906-11-17
Abstract: 23,757. Callender's Cable and Construction Co., and Downton, A. V. Nov. 18. Machines for making wire and other ropes &c.- An expansible bobbin suitable for mounting coils, hanks, or skeins of wire to be used in the manufacture of stranded copper, iron, or steel wires, consists of a sleeve b, having a movable flange c' for the insertion of the coil of wire, and a fixed flange c on which the coil rests. The coil is gripped internally by arms d working in slots c<2> and moved by the rotation of screws e operated by a key e<2>. Fast on the inner ends of the screws e are cog-wheels e<1> all gearing with a central cogwheel f so that, when one of the screws e is turned, all the screws are turned equally, and the arms d thus move in and out together. The cog-wheel f may be.omitted and the arms d moved separately. The bobbins may be mounted vertically or horizontally. In vertical machines, the flange c<1> may be dispensed with.
Patent GB-190524742-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Spigot-and-socket Joints for Pipes.
Inventor: RIEF FRIEDRICH WILHELM
Filed: 1905-11-29
Granted: 1906-08-23
Abstract: 24,742. Rief, F. W. Nov. 29. Spigot-and-socket joints.-The socket is provided with bulged projections b, and the flared end of the spigot has corresponding parts e cut away from it. The spigot is inserted in the socket and turned through an angle, and packing is rammed between the pipe and the socket. The flared end allows the pipe to expand and contract without loosening the packing or allowing lateral shifting of the pipes.
Patent GB-190608331-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Scissors.
Inventor: YANKER ELISE
Filed: 1906-04-06
Granted: 1906-05-17
Abstract: 8331. Yanker, E. April 6. Scissors.-Relates to improvements in the scissors for cutting scalloped or fancy edges in paper or fabrics described in Specification No. 3263, A..D. 1905. The blades A are made wedge-shaped, as shown in Fig. 3, the cutting-edge being formed on the thicker end. Notches, which may be of any suitable shape, are cut in the adjacent faces of the blades at the cutting-edges and form teeth B, the teeth on one blade extending into notches in the other blade.
Patent GB-190610230-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Oscillating Blade or Fish Tail Propellers
Inventor: WADE GEORGE EDWARD
Filed: 1906-05-01
Granted: 1907-01-10
Abstract: 10,230. Wade, G. E. May 1. No Patent granted (Sealing fee not paid). Propelling by vibrating plates.-In apparatus of th e kind described in Specification No. 10,026, A.D. 1905, the blade a is made of graduated thickness, either as a single plate or laminated.
Patent GB-190612277-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Device for Lighting Fires.
Inventor: KENNEDY ROBERT
Filed: 1906-05-26
Granted: 1907-02-21
Abstract: 12,277. Kennedy, R. May 26. Atmospheric gas burners. - An atmospheric gas burner for lighting fires is constructed with a flared, flattened nozzle h, the mixing-tube being formed as shown in horizontal and vertical longitudinal section in Figs. 2 and 3 respectively. The gas nipple c is secured by a nut c<2>.
Patent GB-190614321-A (GB)
Title: An Apparatus for Automatically Displaying Advertisements Textile Fabrics and the like
Inventor: MAGINNIS JAMES PORTER
Filed: 1906-06-22
Granted: 1907-02-21
Abstract: 14,321. Maginnis, J. P. June 22. Advertising; displaying.-Relates to apparatus for intermittently displaying advertisements, pictures, maps, textile fabrics, wall-papers, &c. The advertisements, pictures, &c. are attached to both sides of flexible sheets having rods R, R<1> fixed to their top and bottom edges, or the fabrics, wall-papers, &c. may be attached directly to the rods, the sheets being supported by the projecting ends of the rods in the vertical guides G, G<1>. Two endless chains or bands B, working in unison, are provided with hooks or fingers H, which catch the projecting ends of the rod at the top of the front sheet and carry the sheet upwards over the roller F until the lower rod engages with the guides G, G', the sheet then falling in a reversed position at the back of the other sheets. The roller F running free causes the sheet to travel at a greater speed than the chains, and frees the rod from the hooks. The hooks may be prevented from engaging with the ends of the lower rods by setting the axle of the lower sprocketwheels forward, by making the lower sprocketwheels of larger diameter than the upper ones, by arranging the lower sprocket-wheels at a greater distance apart upon their axles than the upper ones, by providing rollers which keep the chains from engaging with the ends of the rods, by guides which keep the ends of the rods out of the pathway of the hooks, or by other suitable means.
Patent GB-190617419-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Switches or Line Selectors for Telephones and the like.
Inventor: HAHNER BERNARD
Filed: 1906-08-02
Granted: 1907-02-28
Abstract: 17,419. Hahner, B. Nov. 14, 1905, [date applied for under Patents Act, 1901]. Telephones; telephone systems.-The contacts of a line selector for telephones &c. are placed in rows concentrically around the spindle of a revoluble arm, this arm being telescopic and provided with means by which it may be locked in any operating position. The selector arm r carries a contact c, and is provided with a slot by which it is slidably engaged with a fixed part a', the latter being pivoted on a pin l<1> and so actuated by a spring that it returns to its normal position at the extreme ends of the rows of contacts k when unlocked. Along the lever r a number of notches f are placed, according to the number of rows of contacts, into which. a pawl o on the end of the lever d' may be inserted. Integral with the lever d<1> is a lever d carrying a stud l, upon which the stem t of the telephone bracket u rests. Upon the fixed part a<1> a spring e is arranged, carrying at its free-end a pin b which passes through the slot of the sliding-part r into holes a arranged concentrically around the stud l<1>, thereby holding the lever in any radial position. In Fig. 3 the selector is shown in one of its working positions. If, however, the te'ephone is placed upon the bracket u, the stud e is depressed and bears against the contact j, which is connected to the line selector arm and thereby to a metal plate m, also serving for connecting up the arm, this plate carrying a contact n by which it may be connected up to the battery of the microphone and bell. At the same time the pawl o is released from the notch f, while the end p of the lever d' presses against the spring e, releasing the pin b from the hole a. In this position the telescopic lever r may be moved to any of the contacts k, and, by taking off the telephone, the arm is locked in that position by the pawl o and the pin b. At the rear of the switch-board an eccentric or cam of insulating-material is mounted. upon the stud l<1>. A spring h connected to the. distance wire bears upon this cam, and, by rotation of the cam, makes contact with the strips y or z, the former being connected to the belt and the latter to the telephone wires. The slidable part r of the arm is pressed inwards by the action of a springs.
Patent GB-190618255-A (GB)
Title: High Tension Section-insulator for Electric Tramways or Railways.
Inventor: KLEINSTEUBER FRANZ GUSTAV
Filed: 1906-08-14
Granted: 1907-02-28
Abstract: 18,255. Kleinsteuber, F. G. Aug. 14. Electric railways and tramways.-Section insulators for overhead electric conductors are constructed with angle-pieces a, to which the current cables are fixed by clamps c, and the trolly sections d by the means shown. The inner bridge-pieces e and the intermediate piece f are shaped as shown in Fig. 3, so as to afford a uniform surface for the collector and yet be spaced so far apart as to prevent sparking. The connecting-insulators g, h are carried on the intermediate piece f, which is itself supported by arms projecting on either side. To secure slight flexibility, elastic disks n of cork, rubber, or the like, bearing on metallic disks m, are carried on the angle-pieces a and are adjusted by bolts o, which also carry anchor wires s connecting the pieces a to the conductor beyond the end d. For very high voltages, the gap may be arranged as shown m Figs. 4 and 5, the bottom of the intermediate piece q being made of wood u, and the Y-shaped end pieces e being provided with the arc blow-out horns t.
Patent GB-190619780-A (GB)
Title: Process for Utilizing Close Burning Coal Dust for Making Metallurgical Coke or other kinds of Coke.
Inventor: VELNA GASTON DE
Filed: 1906-09-05
Granted: 1907-03-14
Abstract: 19,780. Velna, G. de. Sept. 12, 1905, [date applied for under Patents Act, 1901]. Materials for making coke. - Anthracite dust, close-burning coal dust, gas-coke dust, lignite or peat coke dust, or any other coal dust which is practically deprived of volatile substances, or a mixture of these dusts, with 2-4 per cent of dry pitch, i.e., pitch which softens at a temperature of 65-70‹ C., 3-5 per cent of semi-fat coal, and 8-10 per cent of coal-tar, is coked. The whole is crushed by suitable means and thoroughly mixed to form a homogeneous paste, which is formed into balls or briquettes while cold and without water vapour. If the balls or briquets are subjected before baking to very great pressure, the resulting coke is a metallurgical coke suitable for use in foundries and blast furnaces.
Patent GB-190621094-A (GB)
Title: Improved Arrangement of Electric Motor-generator for Working Arc Lamps.
Filed: 1906-09-22
Granted: 1907-01-03
Abstract: 21,094. Siemens Bros. Dynamo Works, [Siemens Schuckertwerke Ges.]. Sept. 22. Regulating.-A motor-generator for feeding an arc lamp from constant-pressure supply mains with a current at a pressure varying oppositely to its strength, without the use of a steadying resistance, has its armature m, g in series between the supply mains n, and the field windings sm of the motor in series with the lamp l. The field windings sg of the generator are supplied with constant current from the mains or other source. The motor may be so proportioned that the effect upon its speed of variations in its exciting-current is greater than that of the simultaneous variations in pressure at its terminals.
Patent GB-190621170-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Starting Mechanism for Explosion Engines.
Inventor: WINTON ALEXANDER
Filed: 1906-09-24
Granted: 1907-08-08
Abstract: 21,170. Winton, A., and Anderson, H. B. Sept. 24. Drawings to Specification. Gas or explosive-vapour engines, starting. In a multiple - cylinder engine in which starting is effected by charging the cylinders by forcing air through a separate carburettor, or by a hand-pump between the carburettor and the engine, the explosive mixture is supplied in close proximity to the ignition plugs. Each cylinder is provided with a relief cock. All the cocks are opened or closed together by the movement of a single lever. The invention is applicable to engines for driving vehicles.
Patent GB-190629753-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Apparatus for Laying, or Piling Sheets of Paper leaving Printing, Ruling, and Cutting, Machines, and the like.
Inventor: NUTTALL JAMES
Filed: 1906-12-31
Granted: 1907-11-14
Abstract: 29,753. Nuttall, J., and Seddon, C. R. Dec. 31, Delivery apparatus. - Relates to means for bending upwards the side edges of sheets of paper delivered from printing, ruling, or cutting machines &c. in order to prevent the sheets from doubling up or bending downwards as they are delivered. The sheets are delivered from the machine on to a broad travelling band or creeper, their side edges being supported above the creeper and the i n t e rmediate parts being depressed on to its surface. In the form shown in Fig. 1, the side edges of the sheets are supported by projections 2 on travelling belts 1 which are supported on the creeper 7, the slack of the belts being taken up by swinging pulleys 14. On shafts 15, 16 are mounted swinging arms 17, 18 carrying pulleys 19, 20, round which pass tapes 3 which depress the middle parts of the sheets on to the creeper 7. Fingers 26 on a rocking shaft 24, Fig. 6, push forward the delivered sheets in the receptacle. The depressing- tapes 3 may be in contact with the creeper only at the delivery end, so that the edges of the sheets are bent gradually. In the form shown in Fig. 4, the belts 1 and projections 2 are replaced by belts 1, without projections, supported by rollers 37, 38 above the creeper 7. In the form shown in Fig. 6, the creeper is replaced by a stationary board 52, and means is provided for raisins the delivery end of the device as the pile of delivered sheets increases. The sheets are delivered from the machine to a creeper 7 provided with laying-tapes 32, and thence pass on to the board 52. The side edges of the sheets are supported by tapes 1, and the middle parts are depressed by tapes 3. The board 52 is pivoted at one end to arms 40 which are pivoted to brackets 39 on the machine frame 11. A roller 55, carried by the frame 11, bears against a curved plate 54 attached to the board 52 and supports the board in an horizontal position. The arms 40 are gradually raised by links 41 pivoted to disks 42 which are rotated by gearing from a part of the machine. The tapes 1,.3 are adjustable to enable the amount of bending of the sheets to be varied. The depressing-tapes 3 may be replaced by rollers or pulleys, or the weight of the paper or currents of air may be employed to depress the middle parts of the sheets. The sides of the receiving-box for the sheets may be curved, or straight or curved pieces may be attached thereto or to the delivery end of the creeper, to maintain the sheets in their curved form.
Patent GB-190702780-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Coupling for Trucks.
Inventor: SCHWESIG ALBERT
Filed: 1907-02-04
Granted: 1907-04-25
Abstract: 2780. Schwesig, A., and Schmale, C. Feb. 4. Couplings, non-automatic.-In a coupling for trucks comprising links r and hooks h mounted upon pivots b, the links, which are longer than the hooks, are formed with elongated eyes v so as to allow a sliding movement upon the pivots b, thereby preventing the truck, the link of which is coupled to the hook of an adjacent truck, from being lifted off the rails by the upward pressure brought to bear upon the pivot b of the first truck, through its link r, when the trucks are pushed closely together. In a modification, the loop r<2>, Fig. 5, is connected to the pivot b by a pair of links r<1>.
Patent GB-190703314-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in the Construction of Rotary Screening Apparatus
Inventor: POOL THOMAS AUBREY
Filed: 1907-02-11
Granted: 1907-11-07
Abstract: 3314. Pool, T. A. Feb. 11. Screening gravel, stone, &c.-The longitudinal members e, Figs 1 and 2, of rotary cylindrical screens for treating stone, gravel, ballast, &c. are made of H or other section with grooves along the sides to receive the perforated screening-plates k. The members are preferably constructed of three flat or slightly curved bars e, e<1>, Fig. 3, riveted or otherwise secured together, the two outer bars e being wider than the inner or centre bar e<1>. The exterior plate e may be longer than the other two plates, and may be riveted to the circumferential members d. When a number of inclined concentric screens of different lengths are employed, the longitudinals e are secured at one end to rings or brackets f carried by an end plate g, and at the other end to circumferential members d ; the inner set of longitudinals are connected by radial arms b, c to the driving-shaft a, and the screens are spaced by distance-pieces h secured by bolts i and nuts j. The screening-plates k may be secured to the longitudinal or circumferential members by means of bolts, studs, or rivets.