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Patent GB-190429054-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Electric Incandescent Lighting Devices for Pictures, Music Desks, Writing Desks, Pianofortes and the like.
Inventor: SCHWABE CARL
Filed: 1904-12-30
Granted: 1905-02-02
Abstract: 29,054. Schwabe, C. Dec. 30. Supporting lamps; incandescent lamps. -For lighting pictures, music or writing desks, and pianofortes and the like, tubular lamps with straight filaments are used. The lamps are preferably silvered on one side and are supported by spring clips in a cylindrical casing. Fig. 2 shows an arrangement for lighting a picture. Two or more lamps a are held end to end in spring clips in the cylindrical casing c, which is pivoted at each end to an arm f sliding in the tube g. In addition,the tube g may be mounted to slide on uprights h fixed on the frame by means of anglepieces i. Fig. 4 shows an arrangement for music stands. In this case, only one lamp is used and a shade or reflector c' is pivoted to the casing c. The lower part of the tubular support f is forked and fitted with clamps g.
Patent GB-190504735-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to the Sighting Gear of Barrel Recoil Ordnance.
Filed: 1905-03-07
Granted: 1905-04-13
Abstract: 4735. Krupp Akt.-Ges., F. April 14, 1904, [date applied for under Patents Act, 1901]. Sights and methods of sighting.-Fig. 3 is a part sectional rear elevation of an arrangement in which the gun B and back sight d' are elevated simultaneously by the hand-wheel i<1>, acting through the shaft J, bevel-wheels i<2>, h<2>, nut H, and the screwed sleeves G, F, rotation of the sleeve G being prevented by feathers on the bracket K. The sleeve F is connected to the cradle A by a bracket M, M<1>, M<3> with a spindle M<2> passing through the sleeve. The gun is elevated while the line of sight remains fixed by the hand-wheel e' acting through the shaft E, bevel-wheels e<2>, f<2>, and sleeve F. At one end, the shaft E carries a bevelwheel e<3> in gear with the wheel t<3> on a shaft T, at the upper end of which is a worm t<4> in gear with teeth d<4> on the sight arc D. The ratios of transmission being equal, the angular motions of gun and sight are equal and opposite, so that a constant' line of sight is maintained as the gun is elevated for range by the hand-wheel e<1>.
Patent GB-190508290-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to the Breech Mechanism of Ordnance
Inventor: HOLMSTROEM CARL
Filed: 1905-04-18
Granted: 1906-01-18
Abstract: 8290. Holmstr÷m, C., Middleton, E., and Kohler, G. A. April 18. Ordnance breech mechanism.-A transversely-sliding breech mechanism is shown in plan in Figs. 3 and 4; Fig. 5 is a similar view of a removable casing carrying the cocking-mechanism. The cartridge-extractor consists of a rib on the breechblock B, which engages the flange of the cartridge case and prises the latter from the chamber as the block recedes from the front face of the breech-opening. The pivoted ejector F is actuated by a pawl b, pivoted to the underside of the block B at b<1>. A stud b<2> on the pawl slides in a guide-groove a<1>, with a recess a<2> at its outer end, so that the ejector may be returned to its normal position by the introduction of a fresh cartridge. In howitzers, a spring arm is pivoted in the breech-opening so that when the breech is opened the arm springs into position across the end of the bore and retains the ensuing cartridge until the breech is again closed. The cocking-arm d is controlled by a V-spring D<2>, the short arm of which rests against a stop d<6>, and engages a shoulder d' on the toepiece d' so that the firing pin D may have a rebound. The firing-mechanism is actuated by a sliding rod d<14>, with a spring pawl d<13> which engages the long arm d<12> of a lever, the short arm d<10> of which bears against a cam d<9> on the spindle d<1> of the cooking- arm D. The pawl d<13> is tripped and the mechanism released by the stud d<17>. Premature discharge is prevented by a pivoted arm d<19>, engaged at d<18> with a slot in the cam d<9>. The arm can only assume the position shown in Fig. 5 when a hole c' in a plate c, carried by the actuating-crank, is opposite the end d<20> of the arm. This is only possible when the breech is properly closed. The removable casing D<1> is secured in the breech-block by a sliding plate D<3>.
Patent GB-190512721-A (GB)
Title: A Liquid Measure Indicator for Barrels, Casks, Tanks, and the like.
Inventor: GRIFFITHS DAVID JOHN
Filed: 1905-06-20
Granted: 1906-05-31
Abstract: 12,721. Griffiths, D. J., Morgan, D., and Jones, E. June 20. Valves fitted with liquid-level gauges. -An appliance for indicating the amount of liquid contained in or removed from a cask, tank, or other receptacle consists of a barrel tap A, cast in one with a smaller cock B, which is connected by a rubber tube to a gauge G. Specifications No. 4701, A.D. 1879, No. 1794,A.D.1891,and Nos. 17,369 and 21,486. A.D. 1903, [Abridgment Class Registering &c.], are referred to.
Patent GB-190513478-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Safety Fastenings for Pockets or the like of Wearing Apparel.
Inventor: MACKENZIE JOHN WILLIAM
Filed: 1905-06-29
Granted: 1905-08-31
Abstract: 13,478. Mackenzie, J. W., [Soc. A. Besson et Rousse]. June 29. Pockets.-A fastening for the pocket of garments consists of two parts, a female part consisting of a metal plate a, Fig. 8, provided with an eye d and a projecting stud A, and a male part. The male part consists of a plate e with which is formed a hook k bent at l, the two parts k, e being formed with circular apertures and the part e being fitted with a socket for the reception of the stud A. The two parts of the fastening are sewn or otherwise fastened to strips m, n, of material, which are sewn to the fabric along the pocket slits of the garments. The fastenings are first caused to engage in the fashion of a hook and eye fastening, the parts being then pressed together so that the stud A enters the socket B as shown in Fig. 9.
Patent GB-190513749-A (GB)
Title: A Non Collapsible Guard for Carving-forks
Inventor: SCOTT FLORENCE GUILLUM
Filed: 1905-07-04
Granted: 1906-03-01
Abstract: 13,749. Scott, F. G. July 4. Garving-forks.-The guard 2 is made from a separate piece of metal, and is formed with a hole in it through which is passed the tang 3 of the fork 1. The handle and guard are held in position by a nut screwing on the end of the tang which extends right through the handle. The guard is thus always in position.
Patent GB-190515879-A (GB)
Title: A Trouser Stretcher
Inventor: ROBERTSON WILLIAM BEVERIDGE
Filed: 1905-08-03
Granted: 1906-06-28
Abstract: 15,879. Robertson, W. B. Aug. 3. Trouser stretchers.-A trouser stretcher of the type described in Specification No. 17,749, A.D; 1887, consists of two open frames made of pairs of bars a<1>, b<1>, Fig. 1, pivoted to each end of the axis of a roller c, and having their outer ends connected by cross-pieces d, e. Pairs of angle-plates d<1>, e' are arranged at opposite ends of the cross-bars and form a sort of wedge recess between them and the cross-bars. The trousers are laid with their knee portions under the roller c and their end portions over the cross-bars d, e. Wedge-shaped bars are then jammed in under the plates d<1>, e<1>, and the trousers stretched by folding the frames together. A strap g and buckle h hold the frames closed. [Reference has been directed under Patents Act, 1902, to Specification No. 17,749, A.D. 1887.]
Patent GB-190520963-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Gas Engine Plants.
Inventor: ILLMER LOUIS
Filed: 1905-10-16
Granted: 1906-10-11
Abstract: 20,963. Illmer, L., and Kunze, E. J. Oct. 16. Gas engines.-A battery of gas engines 10 is supplied with air and gas compressed sufficiently by independent pumps 12, 14 to enable it to flow freely into the cylinders. The gas accumulates in reservoirs 17, 19 and the air in the main 20. The invention is described in connexion with twostroke-cycle double-acting engines in which the combustible charge lies between two layers of air which separate it from the piston and the admission valve. The valve mechanism for admitting the charges and controlling their relative volumes forms the subject-matter of Specification No. 20,964, A.D. 1905. The gas is drawn from a producer 21 or a blast furnace.
Patent GB-190525439-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Mechanical Piano Players.
Inventor: CROWLEY HERBERT JOHN
Filed: 1905-12-07
Granted: 1906-11-01
Abstract: 25,439. Crowley, H. J. Dec. 7. Automatic instruments; pianofortes.-To enable the melody to be accentuated, two sound-modifying devices, such as strips of felt or the like, one for the treble and the other for the bass notes, can be interposed between the hammers and the strings by non-pneumatic mechanism operated by a handle. The strips a, a' are suspended from rods b, b<1>, bent and pivoted independently, and held up by springs e. Rods g, pivoted to the rods b, are reduced at o to pass through holes in levers i, i<1>, connected by links j, j<1> to arms k, k<1> of a shaft m, which can be turned by the handle n to lower either strip. The reduction of the sound may be graduated by interposing the strips to a greater or less extent. The handle n is not necessarily at the middle of the instrument.
Patent GB-190526176-A (GB)
Title: Improved Process for Treating Rosin and Rosin Oils.
Inventor: BOSCH KARL
Filed: 1905-12-15
Granted: 1906-05-10
Abstract: 26,176. Bosch, K. Dec. 15. Distillation, destructive.-Relates to the manufacture of resin oil and the subsequent treatment of the product for refining the same and obtaining products therefrom. Resin is distilled as usual up to the point at which the resin oil begins to come over, but is then distilled more rapidly, only 60 per cent of resin oil containing 35-45 per cent of saponifiable matter being collected. The still is unusually large and is provided with a high, very broad connecting-tube, provided with a return pipe for any matter not sufficiently broken up. The oil is afterwards treated with caustic soda.
Patent GB-190605993-A (GB)
Title: Guiding Device for Railway Signal Lamps that have to be Raised and Lowered.
Inventor: HENZE NORBERT
Filed: 1906-03-12
Granted: 1906-03-29
Abstract: 5993. Henze, N. May 30, 1905, [date applied for under Patents Act, 1901]. Signal lamps; lamp brackets.-A band c, on which a railway signal lamp d is raised and lowered, is given a twist so that the lamp is turned out of the clear roadway when in the lowered position.
Patent GB-190607480-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Endless Chain and like Platform Lifts and Conveyors.
Inventor: PENROSE ANDREW WYBRANT
Filed: 1906-03-28
Granted: 1907-01-17
Abstract: 7480. Penrose, A. W. March 28. Lifts; elevators; conveyers.-Platform elevators, conveyers, and lifts are provided with means for discharging the platforms on the same side as that on which the goods are taken up. For this purpose, the platforms are rigidly secured to the carrier-chains, and the discharge is effected by deflecting these chains from their course by fixed or adjustable guide-pulleys so as to incline the platforms from the horizontal position. The invention is described with reference to an endlesschain lift with comb-like platforms. The chains run in channel guides Q, and the platforms are connected to them by extensions R, S replacing the pins U which normally connect the links T. This method of connexion ensures that the platform participates in any change of inclination of the chain. Fig. 2 shows the arrangement of deflecting-pulleys at the top story. These pulleys may be arranged also at stories beneath, but an additional guide-pulley is then required for restoring the chain to the vertical position. In this case the bearings 0 of the pulleys C slide on the frames F so as to be put out of action. 'rhe chain is tensioned by a screw M, a guard-plate preventing the chain links from failing away from the lower sprocket.
Patent GB-190607766-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in the Manufacture or Production of a Certain Part of Door Furniture.
Inventor: BROWN ALFRED
Filed: 1906-03-31
Granted: 1906-10-25
Abstract: 7766. Brown, A., and Pruce, H. C., [trading as Brown & Co., A.]. March 31. Knobs, attaching. - The split flanged rings employed for securing knobs to their spindles as described in Specification No. 3434, A.D. 1894, and shown in Figs. 2 and 3, are machined from a solid bar instead of being stamped or cast as previously.
Patent GB-190613221-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Electric Switches.
Filed: 1906-06-07
Granted: 1907-05-30
Abstract: 13,221. British Thomson-Houston Co., [General Electric Co.] June 7. Distributing ; switches.- Switches or circuitbreakers, such as those at central stations in electric-railway work, actuated electro-magnetically, by a hand-switch at a point which may be out of sight of the main switches, are provided with' audible alarms, arranged so as to sound only when the main switch opens while the controlling handswitch occupies the position in which it was left after being turned to cause the main switches to close. The alarm 21 responds to the automatic opening of any one or all of the main switches 2; and ceases to sound only when all the operating handles 12 have been turned back, or when all the main switches have been reclosed. In operating one of the switches, a handle 12 starting from its right-hand position is turned to the left, first making a connexion from the control circuit 10, 11, by way of a contact 19 and the auxiliary switch 8 carried by the main switch 2, to the alarm bell 21. On being pushed farther over, the handle makes connexion at a contact 13 through a coil 4 and closes the main switch, which is then caught by a latch 5. The handle, when released, is forced away from the contact 13 and into the position shown in Fig. 2 by means of a spring 24, which acts on a spindle 23 of triangular section. The main switch remains closed till the latch is tripped by excessive current in the series coil 6, or by the energizing of a second trip-coil 7 by means of the hand-switch. In the case of automatic opening, the bell sounds ; in the second case, as the bell circuit has been broken at the point 19, it does not sound.
Patent GB-190624085-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Portable Field-kitchens.
Inventor: HOEHNKE LOUIS
Filed: 1906-10-29
Granted: 1907-04-11
Abstract: 24,085. H÷hnke, L. Oct. 29. Drawings to Specification. Non-conducting coverings and compositions.-A mixture of baked ground earth and crushed cork or other vegetable matter is used as a non-conducting packing or lining in a special construction of field cooking-apparatus.
Patent GB-190624479-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Loom "Slay".
Inventor: PICKLES THOMAS
Filed: 1906-11-02
Granted: 1907-08-01
Abstract: 24,479. Pickles, T. Nov. 2. Loom lays; shuttleraces.-The main body of the lay is made of a comparatively thin steel or other metal frame a, and is provided with a trashboard b of lignum vitµ secured thereto by studs or bolts c and also, preferably, by nuts d. The upper ends of the bolts may be countersunk and the holes afterwards filled in. The trash-board may extend the whole length of the lay, or only along a part thereof, e.g. to the box fly-plates. At the shuttle-box end, the part in contact with the trash-board may be filled in with a wooden &c. block h secured by bolts k or otherwise. The metal portion of the lay may be in angle, T, channel, or other sectional form. According to the Provisional Specification, other wood &c. may be used instead of lignum vitµ for the trash-board.
Patent GB-190628087-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Portable Hand Dust Extractors for Carpet Cleaning and like purposes
Inventor: ANDERS AUGUST
Filed: 1906-12-10
Granted: 1908-03-10
Abstract: 28,087. Anders, A., and Beckmann, R. Dec. 10. Vacuum cleaning-apparatus.-A portable hand apparatus comprises a wheeled frame a, Fig. 1, carrying an oscillating double - acting pump d operated by a crank driven by spur gearing from the wheel axle. The nozzle g, Fig. 3, has two passages connected by flexible tubing e, f with the discharge and suction orifices of the pump, so that a volume of air is in continuous circulation within the apparatus, being discharged through one nozzle passage and withdrawn, laden with dust, through the other. The air is filtered in a suitable chamber j. For removing dust from hangings &c., additional nozzles and long connecting - tubes are employed ; a hand-operated crank is attached to the wheel axle, the entire apparatus being then inverted and supported by the handle and a strut k carried by the frame, Fig. 4. The connecting- tubes may be led to a common point where a valve &c. may be placed to divert the circulating air from the nozzles not in use. In modified arrangements, the frame may be replaced by a flat box, which supports the pump or bellows and serves as the filtering-chamber.
Patent GB-190700713-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Road Vehicles.
Inventor: HOPPER JOHN
Filed: 1907-01-10
Granted: 1907-11-07
Abstract: 713. Hopper, J. Jan. 10. Hinges.-The hinges of a folding motor-car seat are formed so that the parts can only fold in one direction as shown at x, y, z. The hinges at y, z are also geared together by segmental racks d, e.
Patent GB-190702371-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Rules for Measuring Cloth and the like.
Filed: 1907-01-30
Granted: 1907-12-31
Abstract: 2371. G÷ddertz, O., and Controllmeterstab-Ges. Jan. 30. Measures of length ; counting - apparatus. - In cloth-measuring rods provided with counting - apparatus, a disk g is adapted to register half metres, and winds up, through a ten-toothed pinion d, a barrel spring b which returns the dials to zero when a detent lever t is depressed. The counter is advanced on the depression of a spring-lever o, every second depression moving the metre dial h one division through carrying mechanism of the geneva-stop type. The lever o, pivoted at u, Fig. 5, may be operated by a spring-controlled cone w which, when depressed, forces down an extension v of the lever,
Patent GB-190705333-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Carburetters for Internal Combustion-engines
Inventor: SCOTT WILLIAM
Filed: 1907-03-05
Granted: 1907-10-10
Abstract: 5333. Lake, H. H., [Scott, W.]. March 5. Gas or explosive-vapour engines, carburetting in. The air and fuel supplies to a gasolene or. other carburettor are simultaneously controlled by the engine suction. The air valve 20 is connected to a needle'valve 19, which is surrounded by an adjustable sleeve 18, through a fuel shut-off valve 21. Provision is made to maintain the level of the fuel in the float chamber 13 above that in the spraying- nozzle ; and also to regulate the carburettor outlet by means of a hand-operated throttle valve 6. When starting, the air valve 20 and its connexions are raised by a rod 28. In a modification of the fuelsupply device, the needle valve 19 is adjusted from outside the carburettor. If preferred, the throttle valve may be arranged in the outlet pipe.
Patent GB-190705576-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Apparatus for Treating Electric Conductors, especially applicable in the Manufacture of Filaments for Incandescent Electric Lamps.
Filed: 1907-03-07
Granted: 1907-11-14
Abstract: 5576. British Thomson-Houston Co., [General Electric Co.]. March 7. Resistances of tungsten and the like. In automatic apparatus for treating an electric conductor containing a refractory material, described as applied to the manufacture of filaments for incandescent lamps, successive portions of the conductor are heated by a current in an exhausted chamber and detached. The pieces may be made into loops before heating, and the heating may take place in two stages. The conductor may be a wire made by squirting a mixture of tungsten and cadmium amalgam containing 50 parts of cadmium, 50 of mercury, and 39 of tungsten, and is wound on a reel 4, whence it passes between pads 28<1>, through a fixed eye 5, and between rollers 6 carried by arms 8 which are geared by toothed sectors and are normally drawn together by a spring 12. A clip 13, the upper jaw of which carries an armature 23, is attached to an arm 14 pivoted at its lower end. A pin on the arm works in a slot in a lever 17 which is actuated by an electro-magnet 16 and a spring 21. The chamber 1 is of glass or metal, and has a removable cover 2 made air-tight by cement or by a gasket. In operation, electro-magnets 24, 22, 16 are first excited, whereby the rollers 6 are separated, the arm 14 is moved towards them, compressing a spring 26, and the clip 13 is opened. De-excitation of the electro-magnet 22 allows the clip to seize the end of the wire. The electro magnet 16 is then de-energized so that the arm 14 falls back and draws out the required length of wire, after which a smaller current flows through the electro-magnet and the arm is raised again to the position shown, the rollers 6 having meanwhile closed together. The wire thus formed into a loop is heated by current supplied through the rollers and clip, first to distil the mercury and cadmium which may be condensed by a water jacket 25, and then to sinter the residual tungsten. The electromagnet 16 being again strongly excited, the clip approaches the rollers and the finisbed loop falls into a receptacle 29. The supply of current to the electro-magnets and wire is controlled by a series of disks 33 on a rotary shaft 30, having on their edges contact-plates of the required lengths, adapted to be engaged by brushes connected through resistances to the electro-magnets &c. Two disks each are provided for the electro-magnet 16 and the wire, to allow currents of different strengths to be used.
Patent GB-190714676-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Mounts for Pipes, Cigar Holders and the like.
Inventor: SHARMAN RICHARD
Filed: 1907-06-25
Granted: 1908-03-26
Abstract: 14,676. Sharman, R. June 25. No Patent granted (Sealing fee not paid). Tobacco pipes and cigar &c. holders.-In a mount and joint of the class in which the mount is made in two parts, which are attached to the mouthpiece and the stem respectively and are adapted to be joined by a screw-thread or bayonet-joint, the part a, fitted to the stem, has a contracted portion d which engages by screw-threads, e.g. with the part b fitted to the mouthpiece. The wood of the stem or a packing-ring k slightly projects from the contracted portion d, to enable a tight joint to be made.
Patent GB-190717787-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Apparatus for Measuring Liquids.
Inventor: DONISTHORPE EDMUND SEAL
Filed: 1907-08-03
Granted: 1908-08-04
Abstract: 17,787. Donisthorpe, E. S. Aug. 3. [Cognate Application No. 26,152, A.D. 1907, dated Nov. 26.] Liquid meters.-A wheel f divided into two or more compartments g is mounted with its axis e in a horizontal position in a frame c carried on gimbals d arranged in a tank a, and constitutes a liquid meter, particularly applicable as a petrol meter. One or more levers h carrying floats k are pivoted to rods j on the wheel and the lever which is uppermost engages a catch rod l. Petrol passes through the orifice m by way of a receptacle o to the upper compartment, thereby raising the float lever out of engagement with the catch l and allowing the wheel to turn. The petrol is then discharged through the orifice b. A counting-apparatus can be operated from the spindle e. In a modification, only one float and lever is provided ; this lever is pivoted to the frame c and has a lug engaging the wheel. The float on rising to the required extent carries the lug clear of the wheel.