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Patent GB-190706570-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Grip Rollers for use with Sliding Sashes for the purpose of Holding the Sashes at any required Heights.
Inventor: FISHER GEORGE
Filed: 1907-03-19
Granted: 1908-01-30
Abstract: 6570. Fisher, G., and Dunn, E. March 19. Window holders.-Griprollers, for holding sliding sashes at the required heights without the aid of sash weights and cords, are pressed forward with the requisite force by springs s through the medium of antifriction 1 alls or rollers. As shown in Fig. 2, the ends of the roller A are provided with pins a which run in horizontal slots or grooves b in cheeks B' of a housing B, which is let into the sash or frame. An antifriction ball or roller e, which is carried by a pin c mounted in a recess at the back of the housing, is caused to press upon the surfaces of the roller by a spiral spring d. As a modification, multiple rollers may be arranged one above another in a single housing ; or two or more pins c, arranged side by side, each carrying an antifriction ball or roller and pressed forward by a spring, may press on a single roller. As further modifications, flat or curved springs may be used, fitted within the housing and carrying antifriction balls or rollers bearing directly on the surface of the grip-roller.
Patent GB-190715441-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Voltage Regulation for Electric Distribution.
Inventor: CONRAD FRANK
Filed: 1907-07-04
Granted: 1908-03-05
Abstract: 15,441. Conrad, F. July 9, 1906, [date applied for under Patents Act, 1901]. Dynamos, regulating; field magnets.-To regulate the voltage applied to a circuit and the charging and discharging of a storage battery connected to the circuit, the battery 5 is placed in series with the booster generator 6 across the supply circuit, and an exciter generator 8 is employed to regulate the electromotive force of the booster, so as to aid or oppose the battery by an amount dependent upon the amount of current traversing the circuit and the condition and voltage of the battery. The exciter generator 8 has a main field winding 11 and two auxiliary oppositely - wound field windings 13, 14, the circuits of which contain resistances 15, 16 arranged to be alternately short-circuited by a switch 20 responsive to variations in the current traversing the supply conductor 2 between the main generator 4 and the battery 5, or responsive both to this current and the voltage of the exciter generator. The polarity of the field of the exciter is reversed, the auxiliary field magnet windings having sufficient ampere turns. The contact terminals 24, 28 co-operate to govern the circuit of the magnet winding 22, the position of the terminal 24 depends upon the direction and magnitude of flow of current in the flat coil 26, which is acted upon by the permanent magnet 27, and the position of the terminal 28 depends upon the amount of the supply current. In operation, the switch 20 vibrates between the stationary contact terminals 17, 18, the terminals 24, 28 moving into and out of engagement at a corresponding rate.
Patent GB-190726960-A (GB)
Title: Improved Device for Squeezing Lemon Slices.
Inventor: DOLL CENTA
Filed: 1907-12-06
Granted: 1908-02-13
Abstract: 26,960. Doll, C. Dec. 6. Lemons, squeezing.- A device for squeezing lemon slices comprises a spring cramp 2, detachably connected by the screw-head 5 to a spit or prong 1, which is pressed through the lemon slice to be squeezed. The spit may be in the form of a fork, and the e squeezing device may consist of two arms pivoted together and mounted as before on the spit. The whole may be made of one piece of metal by stamping, the spit being between or outside the squeezing- arms, which may have projections on their interior for holding the slices.
Patent GB-190805097-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to Portable Electric Accumulators.
Inventor: BRISTOL LARS
Filed: 1908-03-06
Granted: 1909-02-25
Abstract: 5097. Bristol, L. March 6. Secondary batteries.-Accumulators for motorcars &c., which are liable to be upset or shaken, have the spaces between the plates filled with an acid-proof fibrous material, and are provided with gas exit tubes to prevent spilling of the electrolyte. Fig. 1 shows part of a two-cell battery a, having glass wool, asbestos, or other fibrous material c between the plates b, and an exit tube d terminating in a cup e and fitted with a cover f and drip tube g. In a modification, Fig. 2, a tube h surrounds the exit tube d. This form may be made longer, the tube being provided with an external ring-flange to keep it in position in the battery.
Patent GB-190807709-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or connected with Motor Road Vehicles.
Inventor: LOWRY-CORRY REGINALD CHARLES
Filed: 1908-04-07
Granted: 1909-04-07
Abstract: 7709. Corry, R. C. Lowry-. April 7. Gas and like engines. - The piston - rod 12 of a two-stroke motor 6 drives two shafts 7 through a yoke 13, the shafts being also connected by toothed gearing 15.
Patent GB-190809696-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Portable Fire Extinguishers.
Inventor: GRUENWALD KARL
Filed: 1908-05-04
Granted: 1908-10-08
Abstract: 9696. Gr³nwald, K. May 4. Extincteurs.-In a device for enabling the liquid to be discharged in a downward as well as an upward direction, the discharge pipe b, Fig. 3, connected to the nozzle c communicates through openings e, d at the top and bottom respectively with chambers g, f. The liquid enters these chambers through openings h controlled by ball valves j, i, which are connected by a rigid rod k, so that, when the extincteur is pointed upwards, the valve j is closed and the valve i open, while, when the extincteur is pointed downwards, the valves and the bar k fall by gravity, so that the valve j becomes opened and the valve i closed, as shown. In order to increase the sensitiveness of the apparatus, the valves j, i and the connecting-rod k may be made hollow to contain a weighting-medium l, such as shot or mercury. Fig. 4 shows a modification in which the chambers g,f are dispensed with, and the rod k is elightly bent and is pivoted near the centre. The openings d, e may be provided with gauze.
Patent GB-190813571-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Winding Engines.
Filed: 1908-06-27
Granted: 1909-06-03
Abstract: 13,571. Barclay, Sons, & Co., A., and Turner, T. June 27. [Cognate Application No. 28,098, A.D. 1908, dated Dec. 24.] Brakes.-Comprises actuating and regulating means for winding - engine brakes which are applied automatically in the event of an overwind or of excessive speed towards the end of the wind. The degree of application of the brake is regulated by a dash-pot the exit from which is controlled by a governor. In the mechanism shown, a screwed spindle driven from the engine is fitted with a nut D connected to a bar I which has an incline at each end and slides between rollers c, j. The upper roller c is mounted on the governor sleeve, and the lower roller j on a pawl lever supporting a rod J<1>. On the cage nearing the end of the shaft, one or other of the wedges passes between the rollers, and if the speed has not been suitably rcduced the roller j is depressed, thereby releasing a pawl and allowing the rod J<1> to fall. A bell-crank O is operated by the rod J<1> and releases a weighted lever which is connected by a link to the brake valve S, the brakes being applied by steam pressure or by gravity. The application of the brake is graduated by a cataract or dash-pot T, connected to the brake lever T<1>, the discharge of fluid into the receptacle T<2> being controlled by a valve t connected by a link to the governor sleeve, so that the brake is applied more or less gradually according to the speed. The engine throttle valve and the reversing device U are also controlled by the weighted lever P.
Patent GB-190814787-A (GB)
Title: A New or Improved Metallic Basket or Crate for Carboys and the like.
Inventor: MAUSER ALFONS
Filed: 1908-07-13
Granted: 1908-10-29
Abstract: 14,787. Mauser, A. July 13. Baskets for carboys &c. are constructed from triangular pieces or serrated strips of sheet metal connected by rivets or screws or welded together. The basket shown in Fig. 1 is made from triangular pieces a, an upper ring l, a lower ring m, a bottom cut from sheet metal, and a pair of handles i attached to the upper ring l. The pieces a are stamped from the waste portions formed in cutting out dynamo armature plates &c. from rectangular metal sheets, and are formed with roll portions e, f and stamped projections g. Three such plates overlap at a given point and are secured together by a rivet &c. or by welding, the upper and lower rows of plates being similarly connected to the top and bottom rings l, m. The triangular plates may also be formed with internal spaces or cut out portions of any given shape. In a modification, the basket is provided with intermediate horizontal hoops, the plates a having recesses for receiving them, and in further modifications the triangular pieces are replaced by vertical or horizontal serrated strips overlapping at given points and connected together as above.
Patent GB-190817656-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to Means for Driving Talking Machines.
Inventor: THOMAS CHARLES
Filed: 1908-08-22
Granted: 1909-07-29
Abstract: 17,656. Thomas, C. Aug. 22. Gramophones.-A gramophone turntable f is driven by a friction wheel d turned by a strap c from an electric motor a. The wheel d may be pressed by springs against the turntable. In a modification shown in Fig. 4, the hand-wheel d<1> of a sewing-machine driven by an electric motor a has a rubber periphery d<2> to drive frictionally the turntable f of a gramophone mounted in slides l on the machine casing. A stop m limits the sliding. [Reference has been directed under Section 7 of Patents &c. Act, 1907, to Specifications No. 9981, A.D. 1888, and No. 1799, A.D. 1908.]
Patent GB-190818555-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Folding Perambulators, Push Cars and the like.
Inventor: BAKER HENRY VINCENT
IPC: B62B7/10
Filed: 1908-09-04
Granted: 1909-09-02
Abstract: 18,555. Baker, H. V. Sept. 4. Seats &c.- In folding perambulators &c. a seat is provided which is suspended from the rails or arm - rests D. A foot-rest f<1> is adjustable in height to facilitate sitting or reclining. An adjustable strap f<2> provides additional support for the foot-rest when it is in its lower position.
Patent GB-190819220-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Egg Boiling Apparatus.
Inventor: SCHROETER FRIEDRICH
Filed: 1908-09-12
Granted: 1908-12-17
Abstract: 19,220. Schr÷ter, F. Sept. 12. Extinguishing wick burners.-The flame of a spirit lamp for heating an egg boiler is extinguished at a predetermined time by the falling of the heated vessel on to the lamp. The egg boiler d is suspended over the lamp e by a cord c wound on a roller g, which is released at the predetermined time by clockwork f.
Patent GB-190826596-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Reversible Elastic Fluid Turbines.
Inventor: POERSCKE HEINRICH PAUL RUDOLF
Filed: 1908-12-08
Granted: 1909-08-05
Abstract: 26,596. P÷rscke, H. P. R. L. Dec. 8. Elastic-fluid turbines.-Reversible turbines are fitted with blades suited for both directions of rotation, preferably those described in Specification No. 26,597, A.D. 1908, and are provided with duplicated systems of guide-blades for use alternatively, so that for either direction of flow there is an increasing arc of admission from stage to stage from the inlet to the exhaust. A turbine of this construction is shown diagrammatically in Fig. 1. For forward driving, motive fluid is admitted to nozzles a and passes to the left to the exhaust b, the number of guide-blades increasing successively at each stage. For reverse driving, the nozzles a are closed and fluid is admitted to nozzles a<1>, whence it passes from left to right to the exhaust b<1>, the number of guide-blades in this case also increasing from stage to stage. The exhaust chambers at b, b<1> communicate with a common exhaust pipe, a slide valve g serving to cut off that exhaust chamber which for the time being is out of use, whereby the accidental escape of live steam through the exhaust is avoided. The construction and dimensions of all the rotor wheels are identical.
Patent GB-190828420-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Means for Applying Motive Power to the Driving of Machinery.
Inventor: MATTHEWS RICHARD BORLASE
Filed: 1908-12-30
Granted: 1909-11-18
Abstract: 28,420. Matthews, R. B. Dec. 30. Friction and toothed gearing.-In electric motors particularly suitable for domestic uses, the drive is transmitted by speed-reducing friction gearing arranged so that the motor can be set up quickly near the machine to be driven, which is provided with a driving-disk to which motion is imparted by pressing on it the friction pinion. Power is transmitted from the electric motor a, Fig. 1, to the wheel d on the machine to be driven by a friction or toothed wheel c rotated through pulleys g', i and a band or chain h tightened by an idler palley o. The radius arm e on which the wheels c, i are mounted swings on the motor shaft, or on a boss attached to the motor, or on a separate bearing, and is adapted to press the wheels c, d together by a spring in the box j, or by a handle f. The end of the arm or the gear-case, in which the whole may be enclosed, may be provided with a stop or buffer between it and the base b, to which, according to the Provisional Specification, the motor may be attached by anchor bolts operated by cams. In the modification shown in Fig. 3, the friction wheel c mounted on the shaft e is driven by a worm t and wormwheel s, and the opposite end of the spindle may have a flexible shaft attached.
Patent GB-190904636-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Self-driving Motor.
Inventor: BAIN ALEXANDER
IPC: F03G7/10
Filed: 1909-02-25
Granted: 1909-12-16
Abstract: 4636. Bain, A. Feb. 25. Self-driving machines. -A number of lazytongs b are secured to the peripheries of two wheels a slightly inclined to, and directly or indirectly gearing with, each other, the lazytongs closing and extending, as illustrated in Fig. 5, as the wheels rotate. Weights c are so carried by guided rods c<1> connected with the tongs, or by secondary tongs as shown in Fig. 2, that most of them are always tending to rotate the wheels in one direction. Ball bearings may be used throughout.
Patent GB-190905933-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Leather Laces and in the Manufacture of same.
Inventor: FEDEROLF LEONHARD
IPC: A43C9/00
Filed: 1909-03-11
Granted: 1909-07-15
Abstract: 5933. Federolf, L. June 1, 1908, [Convention date]. Processes and materials for treating hides and skins.-Laces and sewing-thongs are made from leather tanned with the hair, the points only of the laces being free from hair to facilitate their being threaded. The hides from which the laces are manufactured are unhaired at the places that are to form the points of the laces, the hides being then tanned. They may, however, be tanned first and then unhaired at the required places. The parts of the hide adapted to form the points may not be tanned but only unhaired. The hide is suspended in the tanning-liquid in such a way that the ends from which the points are formed do not come in contact with the liquid, and so retain the properties of the raw hide. In chrome tanning in hot weather, the exposed parts are treated with antiseptic agents.
Patent GB-190909549-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Eye Glass Chain Reels.
Inventor: WEDELL OTTO BISMARCK
IPC: A45F5/00
Filed: 1909-04-22
Granted: 1909-11-25
Abstract: 9549. Wedell, D. B. April 22. Eyeglass guards. - A reel for attaching eyeglasses to wearing-apparel comprises a casing a, Fig. 1, provided with a slot b and a notch u, and having a shouldered spindle f round which is coiled a spring g. One end of the spring is fixed to the spindle, and the other to a spirally grooved drum i, revolubly mounted on the spindle f and adapted to receive in its grooves the eyeglass chain o when this is wound up. The chain is attached to a pin p on the drum, and passes through a hole t in a sliding collar q having a guide-pin y, Fig. 3, fitting into the groove j. When the chain is unwound, a pm z on the sliding collar q engages in the notch u of the casing, and, on releasing the pin z by a slight lift of the chain, the spring g revolves the drum i, coiling the chain in the groove j. As the drum revolves, the collar q travels along it to guide the chain. The other end of the chain is attached to a stop l, Fig. 4, having a hole x to receive a snap for the eyeglass. The reel is attached to the clothing by a safety-pin fastening 4.
Patent GB-190912224-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Apparatus for Cutting Metal Sheets and Plates by Means of a Heating Jet and of an Oxygen Jet.
IPC: B23K7/10
Filed: 1909-05-24
Granted: 1909-10-07
Abstract: 12,224. British Oxygen Co., [Soc. Anon. l'Oxhydrique Internationale]. May 24. Blowpipe burners.-In apparatus for severing metals by fusion along a curve, a bar carries the blowpipe and a centre and is moved along the plate by a wheel geared up from a hand-ariven shaft, so that variations of speed which may take place in the hand operation are almost imperceptible in the wheel. The bar 1 carries the centre 7 and the blowpipe 13, which are adjustable along a centre slot in the bar and has freely mounted upon it a wheel 24 driven through worm gearing 25, 31 from a hand-wheel 32.
Patent GB-190913259-A (GB)
Title: Improved Means for Separating Dust from Air.
Inventor: SAMUELSON ERNEST
IPC: B01D45/14
Filed: 1909-06-07
Granted: 1910-03-10
Abstract: 13,259. Samuelson, E., and Greenwood, B. June 7. Separators for gaseous substances. - In apparatus consisting of a cylindrical casing attached to the eye of a fan, the air enters at the end of the casing, not tangentially. To the eye a of a fan is attached a cylinder c s u rrounded by an outer casing e. The end of the casing e is closed, except for an annular opening g, by a disk f, provided with a flange h. In the space between the flange h and the casing e are helical blades i, or the disk f may be attached to the spindle of the fan and carry straight blades, or the separation may be effected by the baffling action only, to increase which the cylinder c is provided with a flange d. In order to allow the dust to pass undisturbed to the pocket j, the lower part of the space surrounding the disk f is closed by a piece n.
Patent GB-190913835-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Adding Machines.
Inventor: WIBERG ALLAN
Filed: 1909-06-12
Granted: 1910-06-13
Abstract: 13,835. Wiberg, A. June 12. Type-wheel actions; hammer-impression arrangements. - In a key-operated single-bank adding- macbine, the depression of a key rotates a single item-printing wheel which is adapted to move step by step across the machine and to operate in turn each of the adding-wheels. The depression of keys 72, Fig. 1, gives a differential rocking movement to a bar 11, pivoted at 12, Figs. 2 and 3, and connected to a sector and pinion 15, 16 by means of a link 14. An arm 17, rigidly connected with the pinion 16, is provided with a rod 18 passing through a hole in, and thus driving, a mutilated type-wheel 1 mounted upon a carriage 24. The type-wheel is provided with an arm 41 to which is pivoted a spring - controlled tooth adapted to engage in turn with each of the adding-wheels 5. On the completion of the stroke of the key, a hammer 74 forces the paper and the inking-ribbon against the item-printing wheel 1. Totals are printed directly from the adding-wheels 5 by depressing a key S, Fig. 2, which operates a hammer 9 extending across the wheels. Letter - spacing mechanism; carriage - releasing arrangements.-A forked arm 34, Figs. 1, 3, and 4, engaging a pivoted bar 32 carrying a double-pawl escapement 30, 31, is rocked at each key depression. A spring-controlled wheel 27 is thus permitted to turn, and its teeth 78, which engage with a rack on the type-wheel carriage, give to it a step-by-step movement. In a modification, (not shown), a a pivoted lever engaging the bar 32 is provided, which can be operated manually so as to disengage both escapement pawls 30, 31 from the wheel 27 ; the carriage can thus be moved to any desired extent.
Patent GB-190916310-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating Steerable Sledges.
Inventor: MEYER HEINRICH BRUNO
IPC: B62B13/10
Filed: 1909-07-13
Granted: 1909-12-09
Abstract: 16,310. Meyer, H. B. July 13. Sledges.-A steerable sledge is provided with a steering-wheel the spindle f of which is hinged to the centre pin of the fore-sledge so that it may yield forwards when sudden shocks occur, in order to avoid injury to the steerer.
Patent GB-190917661-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Apparatus for Transporting Liquids and Delivering them in Measured Quantities.
Inventor: BRONNER ALFRED FREDERICK
IPC: G01F11/02
Filed: 1909-07-29
Granted: 1910-07-28
Abstract: 17,661. Bronner, A. F., and Quick, A. A. July 29. Single-acting suction-valveless bucket pumps; pumps with axially oscillating cylinders; measuring-devices ; valves, arrangement of.-An apparatus for transporting liquids, such as milk, and delivering them in measured quantities, consists in part of a delivery vessel 25 into which the liquid is drawn from a transport vessel, and from which the liquid is delivered in measured quantities. The piston 63, Fig. 2, of a cylinder 60 of known capacity is provided with a hollow piston-rod having an inner sliding plunger 69. When the piston is raised, liquid passes up an extension 61 of the piston-rod and through apertures 74 into the cylinder. During this operation, the piston-rod and inner plunger 69 are locked by a spring catch 72. When the piston is at its highest position, the catch 72 is released by contact with a recess 79. The main plunger is then depressed by pushing the knob 75 so that the head 71 is below the aperture 74. When the piston 63 is depressed, the liquid in the cylinder passes from the underside of the piston to the upper side through the apertures 74, hollow piston-rod, and apertures 73. When the piston is raised a second time, the liquid passes by the annular space 68 to the outlet pipe 67. In a modified form of apparatus, liquid is drawn into the measuring- cylinder by a piston mounted on a rod having its central portion of square or rectangular cross - section and the upper and lower ends circular. The piston-rod moves through a square-shaped socket so that the rod cannot turn when it is being depressed or raised. The piston engages at its highest position with a pin on the upper side of the cylinder, and when a handle upon the rod is turned the cylinder and lower socket rotate so that an inlet is brought into register with an outlet pipe. The piston is then depressed to expel the liquid. In its lowest position, the piston engages a pin on the lower side of the cylinder so that the cylinder and socket may be returned to their initial position. A ball valve closes the inlet when the amount of liquid left in the vessel is not sufficient to make up the measured quantity. A counting- device may be actuated by the measuring- device.
Patent GB-190917839-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Sieves for Threshing Machines.
Inventor: SHUPERT HORACE
IPC: A01F12/44
Filed: 1909-07-31
Granted: 1909-11-11
Abstract: 17,839. Shupert, H. Jan. 22, [Convention date]. Thrashing-machines.-A sieve for a thrashing- machine is constructed with an angle-iron frame 3, with a brace running longitudinally in the centre and with transverse shafts 5 which carry the curved leaves 8 on each side of the brace. The shafts are attached to the frame by U-shaped bolts secured by nuts 6, and are withdrawn through apertures in the side-rails of the frame. Arms 10 are fixed to the leaves 8 and connected by the rod 11 to the cranked rocking-shaft 12. The lower end of each leaf is bent slightly upwards and perforated. The stay 14 serves to attach the sieve to the machine.