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Patent GB-190415439-A (GB)
Title: An Improvement in Machines for Coating Metal Plates, Show Cards, or the like, with Colour Varnish or Lacquer.
Inventor: KIRKBRIDE JOSEPH
Filed: 1904-07-11
Granted: 1905-05-11
Abstract: 15,439. Kirkbride, J. July 11. Painting and varnishing; lacquering. - In machines for coating metal plates &c. with colour, varnish, &c., a straight squeegee f of rubber is used for removing the colour &c. from the ends of the rollers a, b, instead of the usual channelled steel scraper. The squeegee is attached to an arm d which is adjustable on a rod.
Patent GB-190416445-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Street Signs.
Inventor: HOFHEIMER MAURICE
Filed: 1904-07-25
Granted: 1904-09-01
Abstract: 16,445. Hofheimer, M. July 25. Signs. - Relates to illuminated street signs, particularly adapted for posts carrying overhanging lamps. A rectangular or other frame consisting of sides 2 joined by corner pieces 3 and formed with display openings on a series of brackets 4 which are clamped to the electric light post 5. The signboards 7, of porcelain, stencilled metal, or coloured glass having the letters etched out or sandblasted, are supported by inwardly-extended lugs at the bottom of grooves 8, and behind the two signboards which are nearest to the source of light are placed reflectors 12, such as white enamelled plates, resting upon lugs 14 and held in place by fingers 15.
Patent GB-190418963-A (GB)
Inventor: BLYE HARRY CLAY
Filed: 1904-09-02
Granted: 1904-10-06
Abstract: 18,963. Lake, H. H., [Blye, H. C.]. Sept.2. - Stoppers; capsuling and sealing bottles etc.; capsules, bottle &c.-A metal cap 10, Fig. 3, has a groove 13 running around its lower edge, the groove holding an elastic washer. Before being passed over the bottle mouth, the washer is only loosely held in the groove. When in position, the sides of the groove are pinched on to the washer, which is made to expand under the shoulder 15 of the mouth, thereby locking the cap in position. In Fig. 7, a stopper, similar in construction to the cap in Fig. 3 but having the washing groove facing inwards, is shown passed into the bottle neck and the groove pinched to force the washer against a locking shoulder 20 of the bottle.
Patent GB-190420374-A (GB)
Title: Improved Means in connection with Motor Cars and other Vehicles for Preventing the Dissemination of Dust thereby.
Inventor: EDMUNDS HENRY
Filed: 1904-09-21
Granted: 1905-06-15
Abstract: 20,374. Edmunds, H. Sept. 21. Dust, preventing rising of.-A moistened surface is supported behind the wheels of a motor or other road vehicle to collect the dust thrown up by the wheels. A box A has a perforated front plate b, and is divided by a partition C over which is hung a sheet of absorbent material d. Water is fed into the back part of the box from a closed tank e through tubes f, g, and is carried along the material d by capillary attraction, thus always keeping the front plate b moist.
Patent GB-190420613-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and connected with Lifts and Hoists.
Filed: 1904-09-24
Granted: 1905-07-20
Abstract: 20,613. Waygood & Co., R., and Walker, H. C. Sept. 24. Lifts.-The armature of an electromagnet is connected to the lift door and is arranged so that, after a predetermined time has elapsed, the door is automatically shut. On each floor, near the liftenclosure door, is fixed a solenoid A, the armature of which is connected by levers, as shown, to a rack-bar r which turns a toothed quadrant fixed to the door. The coil of the solenoid is connected up to a double-contact switch B, which is operated by the movement of the door. Wires are led from the switch B to the main lead x and to the timerelay magnet C. This consists of a coil passing around a core c with an extension carrying two contacts e, f and working in a dash-pot m. Two fixed contacts h, i are connected respectively to the solenoid A and to the negative lead y. When the door is opened, the circuit 2 to the controller is broken by the movement of the switch B into the position shown in dotted lines. The current is diverted through the relay magnet C which, after a predetermined time, attracts the core c and causes current to pass through the solenoid A, thus closing the door. The invention is described with reference to an electric lift, but is equally applicable to lifts operated by hydraulic or other means.
Patent GB-190425271-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Beaters for Eggs, Cream and the like.
Inventor: MORGAN EDWARD MOMPESSON
Filed: 1904-11-21
Granted: 1905-09-28
Abstract: 25,271. Morgan, E. M. Nov. 21. Egg-beaters ; cream-whippers. - The dashers, which are of the form shown in Fig. 2, have a combined reciprocating and oscillating motion in opposite directions, the convolutions of one dasher being made larger than those of the other to allow them to pass through each other. A frame i carries a spur-wheel h and at each end cross-pieces j, offset beyond the gear h and carrying pinions g upon pins on their inner sides. The pinions have radial arms k, l, the latter bearing a cranked arm m, rigidly fixed and carrying a stud n. The dashers b consist of single lengths of wire bent to form eyes c, pivoted upon the arm k, and loops e, sprung over the arm l and the stud n respectively. The support consists of a piece o of wire, the ends of which are sprung between projections p and are held in holes in the frame by the end of the spindle o<1>. The bearing-surface r is of curved outline and is joined to a similar piece s. The stud n is farther from the centre of its pinion than the arm l, the object being to give the beaters circular and oval throws respectively.
Patent GB-190425755-A (GB)
Title: Improvements connected with Boxes, Packets and like Containers for Pulverulent and Granular Substances.
Inventor: WALMSLEY WILLIAM EDWARD
Filed: 1904-11-26
Granted: 1905-11-02
Abstract: 25,755. Walmsley, W. E. Nov. 26. Cardboard boxes; metal boxes; contents, withdrawing; powder distributers.- Boxes, packets, canisters, and similar containers for pepper, salt, disinfectants, and other granular and pulverulent substances are made from blanks of cardboard, metal, or other sheet material, and have perforations or apertures in the ends, closable by shutters. In the form shown in Figs. 1 and 2, a sliding shutter C moves between the perforations in flaps 1, 3. The shutter also may be perforated, in which case a part of the flap 3 is cut away to allow a tab on the shutter to project, shoulders on the shutter preventing its complete withdrawal. The shutter may be circular as shown in Fig. 6. In the form shown in Fig. 7, the perforations may be replaced by apertures V, and the shutter C forms a part of the original blank.
Patent GB-190502041-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Rivet Making Machines
Filed: 1905-02-01
Granted: 1905-05-25
Abstract: 2041. Palmer's Shipbuilding and Iron Co., and Webster, R. J. Feb. 1. Forging.-The die-ring A of a rivet-forging machine is made in one piece ; the bridge-ring G is continuous, but consists of segments and a bridgepiece or support H; and the dies C are inserted from the outside of, and secured by set-screws D in, the ring A. Friction blocks, adjusted by screws L, retard the motion of the ring A, which is rotated by a pawl Q and ratchet-teeth E, while flanges F prevent endways motion of the ring A on the ring G.
Patent GB-190504872-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Cravat Holders
Inventor: RIETHMUELLER ROBERT
Filed: 1905-03-08
Granted: 1905-04-27
Abstract: 4872. Riethm³ller, R. March 8. Necktie retainers.-The retainer, which is attached to the collar stud, consists of two wire arms a, b, brought together at their ends d into points directed towards each other. These arms are bent out so as to leave a circular space c in the centre of the retainer, through which the held of the stud is introduced. The cravat is tied in the usual manner, and is held in position by the turned-up points of the retail er engaging in the material.
Patent GB-190513484-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Type Bar Mechanism for Typewriters.
Inventor: BOULT ALFRED JULIUS
Filed: 1905-06-29
Granted: 1906-02-22
Abstract: 13,484. Boult, A. J., [Columbia Type Writer Manufacturing Co.]. June 29. Typewriters.-Relates to means for guiding the type-bars at the printing point. Instead of using a plate carrying pins as in the Bar-lock machine, a plate A, formed with recesses A', is provided, and the type-bars B are formed with lugs B' to enter the recesses A'. The recesses A' are, preferably, formed in a concave face, as shown. The parts A<2> forming the recesses A<1> are bevelled so that the lugs B<1> enter readily, and the lugs B<1> are also bevelled. One part A<2> is extended, as shown at A<3>, to form a printing-point indicator.
Patent GB-190513812-A (GB)
Title: Improved Device for Locating Matter Engraved on the Record of a Sound Reproducing Instrument.
Inventor: IMRAY OLIVER
Filed: 1905-07-04
Granted: 1905-08-17
Abstract: 13,812. Imray, O., [International Textbook Co.]. July 4. Phonographs.-Relates to a device for locating the position of any word or phrase upon a phonographic record so that any word or phrase may be repeated at will without repeating the record from the beginning, the invention being adapted for use in teaching languages &c. The speaker-arm lifterbar 4, Fig. 3, is provided with teeth 7 to engage teeth 8 on the speaker-arm 2 so as to set the speaker to repeat that which has just been spoken before the thumb-lever 6 was depressed to raise the speaker. The index scale 9 is detachably secured to the journal rod 11 of the lifter-bar 4, and is provided with indications A ... U to position the speaker-arm. The index-scale 9 may have a pointer 14 which for accurate adjustment will be brought into coincidence with the commencement of the record. The guide or lexicon of the language gives all the words, with an indication of the number of the cylinder which contains them, index letters A ... U denoting the position on that cylinder.
Patent GB-190514673-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Device for Extinguishing Lamps and the like.
Inventor: PHILLIPS ROBERT JOHN
Filed: 1905-07-17
Granted: 1905-11-30
Abstract: 14,673. Phillips, R. J. July 17. Extinguishing oil lamps; chimneys. - A piece a of curved sheet metal is clipped to the top of the chimney d and has, on its hollow side, a spot or indentation e to be blown or breathed on when it is desired to extinguish the lamp. In a modification, the appliance is bent over at the top.
Patent GB-190515208-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and connected with Apparatus for Printing Addresses or other Matter on Envelopes, Post Cards, Wrappers, Sheets of Paper or the like
Inventor: SMITH GEORGE
Filed: 1905-07-24
Granted: 1906-07-19
Abstract: 15,208. Smith, G. July 24. Stencilling-apparatus. - An addressing-machine for use with paper stencils d, Fig. 5, stuck on to a carrying-band consisting of a ladder-like framework c with a band b of porous fabric secured to it, operates as follows :-The steneil band passes between guides a and over an inking-drum B, Fig. 1, which is provided with toothed side disks R to engage with holes Q in the stencil band and keep it in register, and is continuously revolved by gearing from a shaft S carrying a handle. The envelope, post card, &c. to be addressed is pressed on to the stencil at the proper time by a roller Q', mounted as shown, on a lever H actuated by a cam T and sliding bar T', and the envelope &c. then moves the stencil band &c. for a short distance. The shaft M is turned by a spring-controlled pawl on the loose wheel L, engaging with the notched disk N fast on the shaft, and this allows the stencil band to be adjusted by rotation of the shaft by a milled head on the end. The inking-rollers C, D, mounted on levers E, F, are normally pressed against the drum B by a spring, but are separated and held out of all contact when not in action by a catch Y' engaging a pin X.
Patent GB-190517669-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Perambulators, Children's Mail-carts, Ambulance and similar other Vehicles.
Inventor: HOSEGOOD FREDERICK WILLIAM
Filed: 1905-09-01
Granted: 1906-05-03
Abstract: 17,669. Hosegood, F. W. Sept. 1. Perambulators; ambulance vehicles.-In folding perambulators and ambulance and like vehicles, the wheels c, d, Fig. 3, on each side of the vehicle are mounted on the underframe e, which supports the sides a, b by springs f. The frame e is connected at its ends by pivoted rods h, h<1>, and the ends k, k<1>, Fig. 4, are pivoted to the sides a, b. The vehicle is kept rigid when in use by the seat m, which may be hinged at m<1>, m<2> to the side a, and carries by links s a pivoted well p. When the vehicle is to be folded, the well is folded against the seat and the latter raised on its hinges, or removed, when the two sides will be free to be brought together.
Patent GB-190519483-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Hydraulic Lifts Electrically Operated.
Inventor: BODDAM EDMOND MEYER TUDOR
Filed: 1905-09-26
Granted: 1906-09-20
Abstract: 19,483. Boddam, E. M. T. Sept. 26. Lifts.-The lifting-cylinder of an electricallyoperated hydraulic lift of the direct-acting or indirect-acting type is connected by a pipe 2 to a main cylinder 1, Figs. 1 and 2, preferably of larger bore, the piston 6 of which is fitted with a nut 7 and guide-piece 8 so as to be operated by an electrically-driven screwed shaft 9 working in a thrust block 11. A smaller relief cylinder 15 is connected to the main cylinder by a port 18, and contains a spring-controlled piston 17 which moves outward only when the ordinary working pressure is exceeded. The ports connecting the two cylinders are closed and opened by means of an ordinary controlling-valve in the pipe 2 operated in the usual manner by a band-rope, or electrically by magnets attached to the valve-rod. A suitable electro-magnetic attachment, one form of which is shown diagrammatically in Fig. 3, is added for inserting the necessary starting and regulating resistances required for the motor in accordance with the adjustment of the controlling-valve, with the spindle of which it is mechanically connected. A preferred form of the electro-magnetic attachment is shown in the Figures, but it may be in the form of an ordinary controller. A small movement of the valve-rod 45 of the controlling- valve 46 adjusts the switch arm 40 so that a resistance 41 is put in series with the armature and the motor is started at slow speed, and at the same time the coil 43 of the magnet starter is energized. A larger movement of the valve-rod 45 and of the switch arm 40 cuts out the armature resistance. The starting-resistances 42 are cut out preferably by a switch 60 actuated by the hydraulic multiplying-apparatus constructed as described in Specification No. 23,715, A.D. 1903, [Abridgment Class Dynamo-electric generators &c.]. Valves 21, 22 actuated by magnets 29,30 are provided for preventing overrunning and for making good leakage, if necessary, at each stroke, the electromagnet 29 being energized on the tripping of a switch 48 by the guide 8 on the piston-rod 6 when it reaches the end of its stroke. The switch 48, Figs. 1 and 3, also ensures that resistance shall be inserted in the motor circuit at the same time.
Patent GB-190522717-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Air Suction or Vacuum Brake Apparatus.
Inventor: HARDY JOSEPH ROBERT
Filed: 1905-11-06
Granted: 1906-03-01
Abstract: 22,717. Hardy, J. R. Nov. 6. Brakes. - In vacuum - brake apparatus, each brake cylinder is connected to the train-pipe through a regulating-valve which, when unseated by a sufficient increase of pressure in the trainpipe, temporarily closes the communication between the train-pipe and the brake cylinder to accelerate the action of the increasing train-pipe pressure on the other regulating-valves in the train. Each vehicle may also be fitted with a quick-acting valve, and a final valve may be provided at the end of the train for the automatic admission of air to the train-pipe. A construction of the regulating- valve a is shown in Fig. 1. It comprises a bell valve 3, suspended by a diaphragm 4 and carrying a cone valve or a cylinder 6, with which it is in communication through an aperture 7. This cylinder passes tightly through the wall 13 and into the cap 17, and communicates, through apertures 18, with the pipe 16 leading to the brake cylinder 2. The chamber 11 is connected to a receptacle 12. When the bell valve is seated, as shown, the brake cylinder can be exhausted through the apertures 18,7, and the receptacle 12 through apertures 9, 10. When the bell valve 3 is raised by an increase of train-pipe pressure, the cylinder 6 enters the cap 17, whereby the apertures 18 leading to the brake cylinder are closed, and a ridge 8 on the bell valve comes into contact with a ridge 14 on the wall 13 so that the receptacle 12 is in communication with the train-pipe only through the small aperture 10, while a small quantity of outside air flows into the train-pipe through an aperture beneath the diaphragm 4. When the pressures on the two sides of the diaphragm 4 have been equalized through the small aperture 10, the bell valve closes again, and the brake cylinder is again connected with the train-pipe and the brake applied. The pressure at which the valve is actuated can be adjusted by varying the size of the apertures 7, 9, and the time the bell valve remains off its seat can be altered by altering the capacity of the receptacle 12 or the size of the aperture 10. The bell valves may be adjusted to close as soon as a final automatic valve c, of known construction, is opened, whereby the brakes throughout the train are applied at approximately the same time. Quick-acting valves b, arranged to open on powerful increases of train-pipe pressure, may be fitted on each vehicle, and, when a final valve c is dispensed with, they may be adjusted to remain open for a sufficient time to fill the brake cylinders.
Patent GB-190523748-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in the Method of and Apparatus for Manufacturing Half-stuff from Peat-moss as a Basis for Millboard and Paper Making.
Inventor: BERESFORD GEORGE DE LA POER
Filed: 1905-11-17
Granted: 1906-07-26
Abstract: 23,748. Beresford, G. de la P. Nov. 17. Washing. - Relates to improvements in the method and apparatus for manufacturing halfstuff from peat moss as a basis for millboard and paper-making. The freshly cut peat is fed by trucks A to a teasing-machine or devil B, by which it is torn and divided and then passed into water in one or more store tanks C, where sticks, roots, bits of bark, and other objectionable substances may be removed by workmen. From the store tank, the material is carried by a conveyer D to the first of a series of washing,tanks E<1>, E<2>, E<3>, fitted with perforated false bottoms and with conveyer chains F<1>, F<2>, F<3>, having teeth G, or screens, or teeth and screens alternately. The conveyer chains are driven by worm gearing and move the material slowly forward against the action of a current of water travelling in the opposite direction. The material is moved from one washing-tank to the next by conveyers N, and also passes between rolls M which open the fibre and squeeze out the dirty water. The silt and refuse in the washing-tanks pass through the perforated false bottoms and escape by channels or pipes J to a settling-pond alongside the washing-tanks. The last pair of rolls M delivers the material into one or more receivers 0, in which the fibre is immersed in water and from which the fibre is forwarded directly into the hollander or millboard-making machinery.
Patent GB-190526628-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to Cotton Gins.
Inventor: SULTANALY ABDEALI HAJI
Filed: 1905-12-20
Granted: 1906-05-31
Abstract: 26,628. Sultanaly, A. H., and Dotivalla, D. E. Dec. 20. Gins.-In order that the relative speeds of the leather roller and the crank shaft may be altered and the speed of the leather roller reduced, the latter is driven from the crank-shaft c, through a two-stepped pulley d, e, carried by a bracket h separate from the gin.
Patent GB-190603939-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Stand for Free Arm Drawing Board for use in Schools and other Places.
Inventor: BROOMFIELD ARCHIBALD
Filed: 1906-02-17
Granted: 1906-11-22
Abstract: 3939. Broomfield, A. Feb. 17. Easels.-An adjustable stand for free-arm drawing-boards consists of a wooden frame, made up of side pieces a and cross-bars a' combined with a drawing-board c hinged to the rear end of the frame at d. The stand is held on the edge of the table by pivotally-mounted hooks b. The stay e, pivotally secured to the frame at one end, engages at the other end with a bar f. Holes are drilled in the edges of the board and also through the turned-over ends of the barf. By adjusting the position of the bar f and passing the pin i through the holes, the board may be secured at any. inclination.
Patent GB-190611784-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Apparatus for Indicating the Magnitude of the Torque or Turning Effort in Shafting.
Inventor: GIBSON JOSEPH HAMILTON
Filed: 1906-05-21
Granted: 1907-05-02
Abstract: 11,784. Gibson, J. H., and Bevis, R. R. May 21. Dynamometers ; indicating by optical devices.- The torque transmitted by a rotating shaft is determined by optically measuring the relative torsion of the shaft between two sections at some distance apart. Fig. 9 shows a ray of light D coming from a source behind a slit in the fixed screen 3, and passing through slits in disks A, B fixed to the shaft, and a fourth slit in a stationary tut adjustable plate C behind the second disk ; in this case the shaft is not doing work and there are two limiting positions of the adjustable plate, the mean of which gives a position in line with the slits in the two shaft disks, whereby slits of finite width may be employed. Fig. 11 shows the same limiting position when the shaft is subject to torque and there is a relative displacement T. The adjustable plate is mounted upon a frame 7, the upper edge of which bears a scale 14 adjacent to the vernier 15 upon the upper edge of the plate ; a finger-wheel with rack-and-pinion mechanism is provided for moving, and a clamping-screw for holding the plate, while a simple optical system as shown may be employed for observing conveniently. In the case of a turbine steamship, the zero reading is taken when the propeller is driving the shaft. The arrangement may be modified by reflecting the ray from the disk B, projecting it upon a screen or photographic plate, or employing lenses and stops in place of slits. To measure variations in the torque during the revolution, several sets of slits may be used in different angular positions and at different radial distances from the axis, provided that optical interference from intermediate shaft couplings or bearings is avoided.
Patent GB-190629364-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Safety Detaching and Suspending Hooks for use upon Mine Cages.
Inventor: BROWN WALTER BADGER
Filed: 1906-12-24
Granted: 1907-10-03
Abstract: 29,364. Brown, W. B., and Barker, J. F. Dec. 24. Hooks.-In the safety detaching and suspending hooks for mine cages described in Specifications No. 1105, A.D. 1879, [Abridgment Class Lifting &c.], and No. 3021, A.D. 1882, a locking- device is provided to prevent the inner plates from jumping back and failing to suspend the cage after the detachment of the top shackle. A locking-bolt engages slots C in the outer plates and shouldered slots A, A<1>, B in the inner plates. When the inner plates are engaged by the catchplate, the bolt drops into the semicircular parts B, and the plates are thus locked. Specification No. 18,043, A.D. 1898, is referred to.