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Patent GB-190526380-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in the Manufacture and Production of Stable Dry Hydrosulphites
Inventor: JOHNSON JAMES YATE
Filed: 1905-12-18
Granted: 1906-08-02
Abstract: 26,380. Johnson. J. Y., [Badische Anilin & Soda Fabrik]. Dec. 18. Calcium hyposulphite.-Dry stable calcium hyposulphite is obtained by mixing the precipitated salt with quicklime or other alkaline-earth oxide or a dry alkali hydroxide, before, simultaneously with, or after treating the salt with a volatile liquid miscible with water, such as alcohol, and drying in vacuo. In an example, sodium hyposulphite solution is stirred with calcium chloride solution, the precipitate is filtered off and washed with water, and then with alcohol, and the alcoholic paste is mixed with quicklime; the bulk of the alcohol is filtered off and the mass is dried in vacuo. Specification No. 18,852, A.D. 1900, is referred to.
Patent GB-190600496-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Process of Preparing Oats or similar Grain for use as Food.
Inventor: GILKESON JAMES RUSSELL
Filed: 1906-01-08
Granted: 1906-04-05
Abstract: 496. Gilkeson, J. R. Jan. 8. Food preparations.-In preparing oats, barley, or other grain for use as food, the cleaned and washed grain is first soaked in cold water, and then the soaked grain with the hulls on is cooked in hot water for about an hour. After passing through a hot-air drier, the grain is granulated, cut, or broken in a mill, and the hulls &c. separated. Oats thus prepared are stated to be ready for use after treating with hot water for about fifteen minutes.
Patent GB-190605860-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Whip Tops.
Inventor: COPP RICHARD
Filed: 1906-03-10
Granted: 1906-11-01
Abstract: 5860. Copp, R. March 10. Tops.-Whip-tops are provided with means for enabling them to be readily started spinning without the use of a lash or the use of both hands. These consist in providing the head of the top with a peg t<1>, which may be fitted in a recess as shown in Fig. 2, or screwed into place ; or it may be in one with the peg on which the top spins. In another form, Fig. 5, the peg is made to fit loosely in the recess in the head, so that it drops back into the recess after the top is started. Projections or shoulders t<4>, t<5> retain the peg in place.
Patent GB-190607129-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Indicating and Registering Ticket Punches.
Inventor: LOCKHART JAMES
Filed: 1906-03-24
Granted: 1906-07-26
Abstract: 7129. Lockhart, J. March 24. Ticket punches.-The operative stroke of a breast punch is given by pressing the main casing back. wards until it is against a hinged flap supported by the wearer. The flap 10 is hinged upon a spindle 9, the motion of which lowers by linkwork the slide 12 and the usual feeling-piece which throws a bell-crank lever out of line with a stop 18, and thereby unlocks the punch when a ticket is inserted and the initial backward motion occurs. The double full-stroke pawl 24 is arranged to operate the bell hammer, and pin-and-lever parts 20, 21 actuate the counter. Fig. 6 shows a receptacle for the punched-out pieces, the door to which is kept in place by a fixed catch 27 and a spring sliding catch 29 ; the latter may be moved up to open the door by means of a pin placed in the hole 30 which can be sealed with paper.
Patent GB-190608307-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Construction of Ships and Boats, specially applicable to Life Boats.
Inventor: BUTCHER MATTHEW
Filed: 1906-04-06
Granted: 1906-08-02
Abstract: 8307. Butcher, M. April 6. Hulls.-The sides e of a ship or boat are continued for some distance below the bottom a, which is approximately flat. A large body of water is thus enclosed, reducing the rolling and the liability to capsize. These estensions f are made to meet at the stem of the vessel and are only carried round the stern in skeleton form, leaving a large opening on each side.
Patent GB-190610636-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Pneumatic Tyres or Covers of same
Inventor: WILKINSON CHARLES HENRY
Filed: 1906-05-07
Granted: 1907-04-25
Abstract: 10,636. Wilkinson, C. H. May 7. Tyres, pneumatic. -The outer cover, comprising the rubber layer a, aud canvas insertion b, is provided with a supplementary rubber section c, vulcanized to the inner surface of the canvas insertion, and an additional canvas lining d.
Patent GB-190617650-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Controlling Devices for Printing, Numbering, Stamping or Counting Machines.
Inventor: GOEBEL JEAN
Filed: 1906-08-04
Granted: 1907-07-11
Abstract: 17,650. Goebel, J. Aug. 4. Feeding sheets ; stopping-arrangements.-Apparatus for,feeding cards, tickets, &c. to printing, numbering, &c. machines, is provided with card-controlled means for stopping the machine or part of it. The card is passed first under a slotted bracket 17 fixed to a hinged flap 14 supported by a reciprocating lever 15. If the card has been improperly fed, the flap 14 will not drop, owing to the card catching on the table 18, and the non-moving of the flap 14 is used to stop the machine. The flap 14 would, however, also drop if no card was fed, but in this case a sliding catch 20, normally supported by the card while passing over a notch 4 in a disk 5, would drop into the notch and lock the disk, thus stopping the machine. Other means may replace the sliding catch 20, or, in some cases, the sliding catch, suitably modified if desired, is used without the flap 14.
Patent GB-190620313-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Facilitate Turning the Nuts of Fish-plate Bolts of Tramway Rails.
Inventor: SONNENSCHEIN FREDERICK BOLTON
Filed: 1906-09-12
Granted: 1907-07-04
Abstract: 20,313. SonnÙnschein, F. B. Sept. 12. Rail joints.-To provide a space between the rails and paving of a tramway for the insertion of a spanner to tighten up the nuts at joints, the lip arid groove of each rail end are cut away, and a U-shaped fish-plate is used, the outer limb b<2> of which forms a lining to the paving, and serves as a substitute for the cut-away lip, as shown. The cavity may be closed by a metal cover, level with the bottom of the groove, and having downward projections engaging the sides of the nuts, thus locking the latter. The cavity may however be closed by a packing of rope, or may be filled with pitch or other fusible material. The ends of the fish-plate may be closed to retain any water which may flow in. The:space may be left on the outside of the rail by cutting away a portion of the head, or-by leaving a space between the paving and the rail, a similar fish-plate being used. The fish plate may be strengthened by transverse bolts, which may be used to vary the width of the cavity if the plate is of sufficiently springy mat rial.
Patent GB-190628404-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Carburetters for Internal Combustion Engines.
Inventor: ONIONS JOHN THOMAS
Filed: 1906-12-13
Granted: 1907-12-13
Abstract: 28,404. Onions, J. T. Dec. 13. Gas or explosive-vapour engines, carburetting in. A block E, formed by rolling copper gauze of fine mesh into a solid cylinder, is mounted in a chamber C', which is connected with the float feed-valve through a passage f, and is provided with an outlet hole or holes d controlled by a slide F. The level of the liquid fuel is maintained below the top of the gauze block up which the fuel rises by capillary action assisted by the engine suction. The chamber C<1> is surrounded by a jacket supplied with hot water from the cooling-system. The fuel passing through the opening &c. d impinges on a gauze screen k, and mixes with air entering through holes d'. A valve G<1> controls the supply of supplementary air, a gauze screen m being mounted at the junction of the valve body and the supply pipe.
Patent GB-190704805-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Sand Blast Apparatus
Inventor: EVANS WILLIAM EDWARD
Filed: 1907-02-27
Granted: 1907-09-26
Abstract: 4805. Evans, W. E., [Minimax Consolidated, Ltd.]. Feb. 27. Sand blast. - The discharge openings for the pressure fluid and the sand are opened or closed simultaneously by the movement of the jet-producing nozzle, which is actuated by hand. The sand box a, one side of the bottom of which is made slanting to effect the complete discharge of all the sand, is supported in hinged arms d carried by the support c. The jet-producing nozzle f is mounted to slide vertically on the lower portion of the standard. When in its highest position, part r of its base covers the hole k through which the pressure fluid is discharged, and also the bottom of the sand nozzle e is closed by the wall of the tubular extension s of the nozzle f. When the nozzle f is moved by depressing the knob t which acts through rods n, m, the discharge openings are uncovered. A screw - thread connexion between the rods m, n allows of the adjustment of the blast by altering the area of the pressure-fluid discharge opening which is uncovered.
Patent GB-190708935-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Signalling and Life-saving Devices, more especially for use at Sea.
Inventor: CARROLL JOSEPH
Filed: 1907-04-17
Granted: 1908-02-20
Abstract: 8935. Carroll, J. April 17. Signal lamps; gas lamps and burners; acetylene and like lamps.-In a signalling and life-saving rocket apparatus, shown in Fig. 1, a parachute b, which opens out when the rocket d is spent, starts a phosphoretted-hydrogen or other self-lighting burner q, which gives a steady light and helps to keep the parachute suspended by its heated gases. The phosphoretted-hydrogen device, shown separately in Fig. 2, comprises vessels k containing water and calcium phosphide, with a valve l which is turned to connect the vessels by pulling up a rod m, the spindle of the valve ending in a crosspiece w which engages in a twisted slot in a tube x to which the rod m is connected. The rod m passes up through the central tube a of the apparatus and ends in a cross-piece o, which is carried up by a sleeve g when the parachute opens, thereby pulling up the tube x so as to connect the vessels k. Gas is then formed, and passes to a ring of'burners q through tubes fitted with cocks which are normally closed to keep out moisture. Instead of phosphoretted hydrogen, other gases such as acetylene may be generated and may be ignited by means of spongy platinum; or a mixture of acetylene and phosphoretted hydrogen may be made.
Patent GB-190711352-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or connected with Electrically-operated or Controlled Whistles or Sound Signalling Apparatus.
Inventor: BRUCE WILLIAM JOSEPH WILLETT
Filed: 1907-05-15
Granted: 1908-05-15
Abstract: 11,352. Bruce, W. J. W. May 15. Whistles. - In electromagnetically - controlled steam whistles or the like, the magnets and automatic contact-making apparatus are arranged in separate compartments of a water-tight casing which is attached to the steam-pipe immediately below the valve, and at some distance from the whistle. The valve d<x> is operated by the admission of steam by a pilot valve d' to the piston cylinder d'. The pilot valve is actuated through a lever e and an adjustable rod h<1> by electromagnets contained in a casing f which is supported from the steam-pipe by brackets g. The electromagnets i are connected in a circuit which includes a contact n and a wiper m mounted on a wheel l<2>, which is driven by a motor k, thus effecting periodical operation of the whistle.
Patent GB-190712279-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Appliances to Bottles for Preventing the Fraudulent Refilling of same.
Inventor: WALKER WILLIAM MORTON
Filed: 1907-05-28
Granted: 1908-02-06
Abstract: 12,279. Walker, W. M. May 28. Bottles, non-refillable.- The neck B of a bottle tapers slightly from top to bottom and is fitted with a stopper consisting of a tube C' in which is placed a shorter tube G forming a seating for a ball valve H, as shown. The tube C' is closed at the top by a slightly convex cover C<2> the diameter of which is nearly equal to that of the neck. Openings C<3> in the upper part of the tube C<1> and slits in the cover C' allow the liquid to pass through the stopper during pouring. A ring J of cork enables the stopper to be tightly fitted in the neck of the bottle. When the bottle is tilted, the ball falls away from its seating and allows the liquid to pass out. In a modification, the slits in the cover C are replaced by holes.
Patent GB-190713895-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Apparatus for Transmitting Motion at Variable Speed.
Inventor: WILLIAMS HARVEY DANIEL
Filed: 1907-06-15
Granted: 1908-06-15
Abstract: 13,895. Williams, H. D. June 15. Revolving-cylinder pumps; actuating; stroke, varying.-Relates to hydraulic apparatus for transmitting motion at variable speeds wherein a duplex pumping system is employed, one part for the driving and the other for the driven member, and wherein the pump cylinders are arranged in a rotating cylindrical body discharging into and fed from a central valve plate, the pistons being operated through a swash-plate of variable inclination. The invention consists mainly in providing means for overcoming the irregularities of such mechanism due to the inclination of the swash-plate, the universal joint between this plate and the shaft, and to the change which takes place as a cylinder port comes into or out of communication with a mid-plate port. Fig. 1 shows the shaft 5 carrying the cylinder barrel 14, which bears on a raised face 2<f> of the mid-plate 2. The pistons 18 are operated by rods 19 connected to the swash-plate 23. This plate is connected to the shaft 5 through a universal joint, and is inclined by means of the scroll 35 on the disk 36 engaging teeth on the pivoted ring 33 surrounding the swash-plate. Screwed bushes 22, 24 hold the ends of the connecting-rods in their seats, which are lubricated by the motive fluid by making passages, such as 18<a>, through the pistons and connecting-rods. The mechanism on each side of the mid-plate is the same, except that on the driven side the swashplate may have a constant angle of inclination. The outlets 16 of the cylinders 15 are made smaller than the bore of the cylinders, as shown in Fig. 4, and register with ports 2<c>, 2<d> in the mid-plate shown in Fig. 5. The communication between the ports 16 and the ports 2<c>, 2<a> is made gradual by providing V-shaped grooves 2<e>. The ports 16 may be spaced unevenly, as shown in Fig. 4, but the arrangement of the ports is the same for those cylinders that occupy the same position relatively to the one cylinder which has the central arrangement of the port. The volumetric irregularities may also be corrected by having cylinders of different sizes, as shown in Fig. 6. These two features may be combined. Another method which may be used with the unequal spacing of the ports is shown in Fig. 7, in which the cylinders are unevenly spaced ; or this method may be combined with the variation in size of the cylinders. The uneven spaciug may also be applied to the connecting-rod-end sockets in the swash-plate. Fig. 8 shows another method in which the sockets are placed at different distances from the centre of the ring. The same variation may be applied to the cylinders. The valve 48 allows of passage between the suction port of the mid-plate and the well of the casing, to replenish any leakage that may occur. The total area of the cylinders on the driven side of the plate may be made different from that on the driving side in order to allow for further gearing up or down.
Patent GB-190715128-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Die Stocks.
Inventor: BORDEN BRADFORD
Filed: 1907-07-01
Granted: 1907-10-24
Abstract: 15,128. Borden, B., and Neracher, W. A. July 1. Stocks and dies. - Stocks have two sets of chasers capable of forming threads of different pitches. The dies slide in radial grooves as controlled by projecting pins engaging camplates. The pins 4 of the dies 5, Figs. 2 and 4, pass through slots 10 in the plate, 7 into slots 13<a> in the plate 13, but the pins on the dies 6 engage slots 9 in the plate 7 only. The slots 10 consist of a radial-portion and a concentric portion, so that when the dies 5 are operated by the plate 13 the dies 6 and plate 7 are locked, and conversely. In a modification, radial die slots are formed in the stock body from side to side, and chaser-adjusting plates for the two sets are placed one on each side; both plates are locked, when adjusted, by a single transverse bolt.
Patent GB-190715636-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Automatically Operated Station Indicators for Electric Railways.
Inventor: DALEY MICHAEL
Filed: 1907-07-08
Granted: 1908-03-12
Abstract: 15,636. Daley, M., and Daley, P. July 8. Indicators, station, slopping - place, &c. -In a station indicator for electric railways in which the indicating-cards n are pivoted in disks c mounted in wall-brackets l, and are operated by an electromagnet through pawl-and-ratchet mechanism, the armature r of the electro-magnet E is straddled over the ratchet-wheel D, Fig. 2, while the return movement of the ratchet-wheel is prevented by a pawl s engaging with a second ratchet-wheel F. The indicator is operated by the line current tbrough a track switch of known construction, comprising a fixed member e on the trolly arm and a pivoted depending member f, preferably mounted on a cross-wire.
Patent GB-190716814-A (GB)
Title: Improved Apparatus for Joining Lead Pipes
Inventor: BRIERLEY RICHARD
Filed: 1907-07-23
Granted: 1908-07-23
Abstract: 16,814. Brierley, R. July 23. Casting.-Lead pipes are jointed by casting. A core of metal or dissolvable paste A is fitted inside the ends of the lead pipes B, C to be jointed. The iron mould D is fixed by means of the clamps E, having feet F to engage projections G on the lower half of the mould D, and is fitted with a copper or other thin metal liner J which has an enlargement K with an opening L, through which molten lead can be poured until the liner is filled. Then by application of heat to the under portion of the liner J, the lead around the joint and the ends of the lead pipes B, C are melted and fused together. In some cases the iron mould D is dispensed with, and the liner J itself constitutes the mould.
Patent GB-190718696-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in the Production of Resilient Bodies.
Inventor: WILKINSON SAMUEL WRIGHT
Filed: 1907-08-19
Granted: 1908-08-13
Abstract: 18,696. Wilkinson, S. W. Aug. 19. Tyres, elastic other than pneumatic.-Plastic compositions for filling tyres of wheels are made by the absorption of formaldehyde in gelatine solutions which do not solidify in the cold, such as that obtained from fish offal, to which solution proteids, such as casein or albumen may be added. The liquid, after being treated with formaldehyde, is pumped into the tyre, and coagulated by heating to a temperature not above boiling water.
Patent GB-190718700-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Cellar and like Trap Doors.
Inventor: YOUNG ERNEST WILLIAM
Filed: 1907-08-19
Granted: 1907-11-07
Abstract: 18,700. Young, E. W. Aug. 19. Cellar covers.-A trap door b forms the platform of a cage sliding on suitable guides h, and is nearly counterbalanced by sliding weights i. The cage, when raised, is supported by a weighted catch m, and, when lowered, rests on springs n, thus allowing the platform to be always flush with the pavement. The cage is closed on some of its sides by rails f. A ladder l admits of entrance to the cellar.
Patent GB-190718927-A (GB)
Title: Improved Combined Table and Mangle.
Inventor: BECKERT REINHARDT WILLY
Filed: 1907-08-22
Granted: 1907-10-31
Abstract: 1 8 , 9 2 7 . Beckert, R. W. Oct. 8, 1906, [date applied for under Patents Act, 1901]. Mangling and wringing machines.-In a combined table and mangle, the table top is divided transversely, one portion 3 being hinged at 4 while the other part 6 slides longitudinally on the frame, to allow the mangle to be raised into its operative position. The mangle consists of two rollers 14, 18, mounted between slotted cheeks 11 pivoted to the frame at 30. The upper roller is depressed by means of weighted levers 25 connected by stirrups with a bar 21 bearing on the journals of the upper roller. The handle-wheel and a gear-wheel 35 integral with it are detachable and, when the mangle is turned down, are separately-packed, as shown in Fig. 3.
Patent GB-190719196-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Washing Machines
Inventor: ARNOLD JEANNIE
Filed: 1907-08-26
Granted: 1908-08-13
Abstract: 19,196. Arnold, J. Aug. 26. Washing-machines.-A washing boiler of the domestic type is fitted with an internal clothes cage which can be rotated, usually while partly immersed. The plates of the boiler A, Fig. 1, are continued downwards to form the furnace C', provided with a flue C<4>, and have also strengthening-strips A<2> supporting ball bearings for the stub shafts D; there may be a lid B of partly cylindrical shape with handles. To the shafts are secured the side plates E<1>, Fig. 3, of the cage, kept apart by means of brass distance-tubes E<2> through which pass iron tie-bolts, and also by the hard wood rods E<5> arranged between the peripheries of the plates ; the cage has a number of symmetrically-placed lobes one of which is formed by the hinged section E<7> with separate side plates and a fastening. To the main side plates are also attached the inwardly projecting beaters E<6>. The cage is rotated either by hand or by a belt and pulley, the washing- solution preferably covering the lowest lobe, and a small quantity of disinfectant may be added at the end of the process. In portable arrangements, the boiler may lift off the furnace.
Patent GB-190722706-A (GB)
Title: Improved Device for Securing or Fastening Lace Collars Blouse Tops and similar Articles of Wearing Apparel.
Inventor: BRENNER LUDWIG FRIEDRICH
Filed: 1907-10-15
Granted: 1908-07-30
Abstract: 22,706. Brenner, L. F. Oct. 15. Stays or stiffeners.-A stud-and-socket device of the kind described in Specification No. 9249, A.D. 1906, for securing lace collars, blouse tops, &c., consists of two small plates or bars A, C, which are attached to the ends of the collar or the like. One bar, C, which is made of flexible material, is provided with holes D and slots E, corresponding with the studs B on the other part. The plates may be attached to ornamental parts.
Patent GB-190726121-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Metal Bars for use in the Construction of Armed Concrete.
Inventor: GALLO CLAUDIO
Filed: 1907-11-26
Granted: 1908-04-30
Abstract: 26,121. Gallo, C. Nov. 26. Reinforced concrete.-Bars for reinforcing concrete are formed with concave sides and transverse ribs 1, Figs. 1 and 3, and may be triangular in cross-section.
Patent GB-190810355-A (GB)
Title: Loom Box Arrangement, with regard to the Checking of the Shuttle
Inventor: ASTLEY RICHARD
Filed: 1908-05-13
Granted: 1909-04-15
Abstract: 10,355. Astley, R. May 13. Loom swells ; checking shuttles; shuttle boxes.- The swell f is pivoted to the front of the shuttle box on a pin i, which engages a hole in a casting k and a hole in the bottom plate of the box. The end of the spring h engages in a box-like part o on the swell, and the end of the latter is guided by a piece p, which is carried by a part g and receives a pin r arranged to limit the motion of the swell. The inner side of the swell has a horizontal groove opposite the eyelet in the shuttle. At the back of the box opposite the swell, is a steel plate d, which is secured by sinking it into the bottom of the box and by screws covered by the picker guide c. The check strap passes through a slot b in the back of the box and consists of two parts s, t, the latter being connected to a spring v attached to a hook w by means of a leather tab x.