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Patent GB-190713071-A (GB)
Title: Improved Electrode for Search Lights.
Filed: 1907-06-05
Granted: 1907-07-25
Abstract: 13,071. Siemens A. Co., Gebr. June 8, 1906, [date applied for under Patents Act, 1901]. Search lights. - The negative electrode b for an arc is a carbon rod of smaller diameter than the positive electrode c, and is surrounded near the arc by a tube a of carbon or other conductive material, to retard its combustion and diminish its resistance. The rod can be rotated and moved axially in e tube.
Patent GB-190713318-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Boiler or like Furnaces.
Inventor: KACZYNSKI FRANCISZEK
Filed: 1907-06-08
Granted: 1908-09-08
Abstract: 13,318. Kaczynski, F., Rudnitzki, B., and Sosnowski, G. de. June 8. Fire bars and grates; fire - bridges; mechanical stoking.-The fire-bars for an inclined grate are formed with corrugations which are arranged at varying angles to the fuel surface. As shown in Figs. 1 and 2 applied to a furnace with rocking fire-bars and mechanical fuel-feeding arrangements, the inclination of the corrugations 21 to the fuel surface gradually increases to the lower or firebridge end of the bar. The grate is arranged at an angle of thirty-five degrees to the horizontal, and the bars are supported at their upper ends on a fixed bearer 19 and at their lower ends on a movable bar 22. The latter is formed with projections which engage with and lift alternate bars. The mechanism for operating the bearer bar 22 is connected with that of the fuel-feeding arrangements, which consist of a fuel hopper 5 and a reciprocating plate 15. The fire-bridge is formed of disks 23<a> loosely strung on to a bar 23. A firebrick heat-radiating wall A is built to project at an angle over the rear end of the grate. The ashes and clinker pass over the fire-bridge into a chamber from which they are transferred at intervals to the ash-pit. Firing-doors 6 and a draughtregulating door 7 are provided.
Patent GB-190717235-A (GB)
Title: Automatic Disconnecting Device for Paper Treating Machines with Rotatable Rolls
Inventor: FISCHER ROBERT ERNST
Filed: 1907-07-27
Granted: 1908-05-07
Abstract: 17,235. Fischer, R. E., and Wescher, M. July 27. Stopping - arrangements. Printing and other machines treating paper in webs are automatically stopped should an accident to the paper occur, as follows : The paper passes between guides e, f. Should an accident occur, the paper is heaped up between the guides and depresses the lower one, as shown in Fig. 2, which is hinged at the point g. As the guide is depressed, an arm s connected to it is moved to the left, and the vertical rod p, which bears against the pin r upon it, is also moved to the left under the pull of the spring q. The rod p is slotted above, so as, normally, to allow a lever l free play within the slot. When, however, the rod is moved to the left, the slot takes over a shoulder t on the lever, and any movement of the lever is communicated to the rod. The lever is rocked by the cam j on the feed-roll b, and thereby the rod p is raised and rocks a lever o, which withdraws a pin x from a bar y. This, under the influence of a spring, weight, &c., serves to stop the machine.
Patent GB-190719714-A (GB)
Title: Process and Device for Obtaining Smokeless Combustion in Locomotives.
Inventor: GRAHL GUSTAV DE
Filed: 1907-09-03
Granted: 1908-04-23
Abstract: 19,714. Grahl, G. de. Sept. 3. Smoke-consuming. - Air for secondary combustion in locomotive furnaces is supplied immediately above the fuel near the furnace door through hollow stay-bolts 10, which are connected to the ash-pit either by tubes 12, as shown, or by an airbox. The air is forced into the ash-pit by the motion of the locomotive, and the supply is regulated by a damper 25.
Patent GB-190721964-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Apparatus for Indicating the Flow of Cooling Liquor from Attemperator Coils, and for Utilizing the same
Inventor: WARDALE ALBERT EDWIN
Filed: 1907-10-05
Granted: 1908-09-10
Abstract: 21,964. Wardale, A. E. Oct. 5. No Patent granted (Sealing fee not paid). Indicating flow of liquids.-Relates to apparatus for indicating the flow of cooling - liquid from attemperator coils and for utilizing it. The liquid flows by the inlet pipe b into a glass cylinder d, and escapes by an outlet pipe g which leads to a tank. The cylinder d, which is held in a metal body a, is provided with an air-escape valve h<1>. The inlet pipe b may be provided with a trap c acting as a water seal to the air in the cylinder. A drain-cock h and a controlling-cock k may also be provided.
Patent GB-190722951-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Stirrup for Riding
Inventor: HILL TOM
Filed: 1907-10-17
Granted: 1908-07-23
Abstract: 22,951. Hill, T. Oct. 17. Stirrups. - T h e stirrup leather, instead of passing through a slot cut in the top part of the stirrup, completely encircles the stirrup top and is kept in place by means of a metal loop b at the front of the stirrup. The top part of the stirrup may be curved outwards.
Patent GB-190728430-A (GB)
Title: Improved Fishing Rod Ring
Filed: 1907-12-24
Granted: 1908-08-20
Abstract: 28,430. Allcock & Co., S., and Williams. A. Dec. 24. Rod fittings.-Fishing-rod rings of the revolving- centre type are protected by one or more guardbars G', G<2>, which are brazed to a supporting- frame B<1>, B<2>.
Patent GB-190800352-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to the Manufacture of Tools of High Speed and Extra High Speed Steel.
Inventor: VIALLON PAUL ANTOINE
Filed: 1908-01-06
Granted: 1908-12-31
Abstract: 352. Viallon, P. A. Jan.6. Tools; drills and cutters; soldering; welding.- Tools for lathes and planing-machines, boring bits and drills, screw-taps, &c. are made with a body of ordinary steel or other metal and a working-portion of high-speed steel by a soldering or welding process. In the example shown, the nose 3 prepared on the bar 1 is heated to a cherry red and is covered with soldering-material, and the correspondingly heated portion 2 of high-speed steel is applied and temporarily fixed by pressure. The assembled tool is then heated to a yellow heat, and welding is completed by hammering. The tool is slowly cooled, is dressed and finished, and then reheated and tempered like an ordinary tool made entirely of high-speed steel.
Patent GB-190802989-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to the Regulation of the Discharge of Liquids and more especially of Sewage Effluents from Septic Tanks to Filter Beds.
Inventor: MILNES GEORGE PERCIVAL
Filed: 1908-02-10
Granted: 1908-09-03
Abstract: 2989. Milnes, G. P. Feb. 10. Sewage, treating ; filtering; tanks for.-In apparatus for regulating the discharge of sewage effluents from tanks to filter-beds, stated to be applicable in connexion with the apparatus described in Specifications No. 7284, A.D. 1905, and No. 15,139, A.D. 1906, a valve q in the outlet channel a of the tank b its operated by means of a lever m and a chain l, connected at its lower end to a pivoted tube h. The tube carries a bucket k at one end and a balance weight i at the other. It is pivoted about a pipe d carried by a bracket c and passing through the wall n. A tube f, the inclination of which can be adjusted, is connected to the pipe d by an elbow piece. When the liquid in the channel a rises above the open end of the pipe f, it overflows through the pipes f, d, h to the bucket, and thus opens the valve q. The bucket k is emptied through a tap l<1> more slowly than it is filled, the tap l<1> being sometimes opened by means of a weighted lever arm t which comes into contact with a stop u. The flow through the pipe h may be regulated by a valve s. In modified apparatus, the bucket k is suspended on the chain l and filled direct from the pipe d, the pipe h being dispensed with.
Patent GB-190803283-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Electrodes for Electric Arc Lamps.
Filed: 1908-02-13
Abstract: 3283. Allgemeine Elektricitõts-Ges. Feb. 16, 1907, [date applied for under Section 91 of Patents &c. Act, 1907]. Void, [Published under Patents &c. Act, 1907.] Arc lamps.-An electrode consists of titanium oxide enclosed in a metallic sheath, for instance an iron tube, into which the powdered material is pressed.
Patent GB-190804070-A (GB)
Title: Automatic Appliance for the Chemical Extinction of Fires.
Inventor: WESTFIELD THOMAS CLARK
Filed: 1908-02-24
Granted: 1908-10-22
Abstract: 4070. Westfield, T. C. Feb. 24. Grenades; chemicals and substances for; fireextinguishing by gases.-Phosphorus is stored under water in hermetically-closed tubes or receptacles of celluloid, glass, &c., preferably glass encased in celluloid. The receptacles are burnt by the heat of a fire, and the phosphoric acid gas produced by the combustion of the phosphorus acts as an extinguishing-agent. In making the devices, all air is excluded, and the celluloid receptacles are sealed by means of plaster of paris or other cement, while the glass receptacles are sealed by fusion. The devices may be thrown upon a fire, or may be suspended by means of an attached ring or hook.
Patent GB-190805173-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or connected with Sluice Valves and the like.
Inventor: FLETCHER JOSEPH
Filed: 1908-03-07
Granted: 1908-11-26
Abstract: 5173. Fletcher, J. March 7. Sliding valves.-In sluice valves having devices for forcing the valve disks against the seatings in the closed position, mechanism is provided to prevent the wedging-device from operating before the valve disks have arrived at the position to close. Two swivel members D, D<1>, Figs. 2 and 3, are suspended from a yoke C, which is formed integral with the wedging-members C<8>, C<9>, and moves relatively to the valve disks at the commencement of opening and during the wedging action at the completion of the closing movement. The backs of the valve disks are formed with wedging-inclines corresponding to those on the yoke. The feet d<2>, d<3> of the swivel members, as shown in Fig. 3, are adapted in conjunction with inclined members b<8> and the guides or slides F formed on the valve casing to prevent any relative movement between the valve disks and the wedging-members before the valve arrives at the stops a5, a<6>, when, simultaneously, the feet d<2>, d<3> reach the bottom of the guides F. In this position, shown in Fig. 2, the feet d<2>, d<3> move outwards to free themselves from the parts b<8> when the yoke C and the wedging- members integral therewith move downwards to effect the wedging action of the valve disks on their seatings.
Patent GB-190805702-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Driving Means for Automobiles, Locomotive Engines, Stationary Engines and the like
Inventor: REICHEL MAX
Filed: 1908-03-13
Granted: 1908-08-27
Abstract: 5702. Reichel, M. March 13. Compressedgas engines. - Consists in using compressed nitrogen as the motive power for automobiles, stationary engines, &c.
Patent GB-190807530-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Detachable Wheel Hubs.
Inventor: PUGH JOHN VERNON
Filed: 1908-04-04
Granted: 1909-06-04
Abstract: 7530. Pugh, J. V. April 4. [Cognate Application No. 13,934, A.D. 1908, dated July 1.] Ball-bearings.-The permanent hub of a detachable wheel is made in one or more pieces adapted to be stamped from sheet metal, and the arrangement of the bearings is such that, while allowing withdrawal of the wheel from the axle or axlecasing, at least one of the ball races in contact with the permanent hub is rigidly connected thereto. In the form shown in Fig. 1, the movement of the outer races c, d is limited by shoulders o on the hub, and the inner races m, n butt against shoulders p on the axle-casing. The lateral thrust is taken by the outer bearing which is secured by the nut r. In the form shown in Fig. 4, the outer race of the bearing n is carried in a recess formed on the flange f of the brake-drum and the inner race is secured by the nut 13. In applying this form to a non-driving wheel, the brake drum flange may be replaced by a cap which screws into the hub. Fig. 5 shows a modification in which the connexion between the live axle and the hub is through the sleeve 4, which carries the bearing in a recess in the flange 5. Lubricating.-In a hub with a closed end, the lubricating-device is of the kind described in Specification No. 198, A.D. 1908 ; in a hub with an open end, Fig. 1, a cap 43 is used to close the open end and to provide an oil bath for the bearings, the locking-front i being provided with a plugged opening 44 for supplying the oil.
Patent GB-190813524-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Thermostatic Regulators.
Filed: 1908-06-25
Granted: 1909-04-22
Abstract: 13,524. Cambridge Scientific Instrument Co., [Hohmann & Maurer Manufacturing Co.]. June 25. Thermostats.-The expansion of a tube 2 allows a valve to be moved away from its seat by a spring 10, to admit fluid under pressure to a motor. The expansible tube acts through a less expansible rod 3, secured at its outer end 4. The rod carries a plug 11, which presses the valve on to its seat, over-actuation being prevented by a spring 12, stronger than the spring 10 ; the movement of the plug is limited by a cap 13. The valve and spring 10 are carried in a stem 5, screwed removably and adjustably into a casing 1, the adjustment being shown by a pointer 20. The pressure fluid passes from an inlet 17, through a chamber 15 and through the clearance between the valve spindle and the stem, to an outlet 18. Stuffing-boxes 6, 7 are provided at each end of the stem 5.
Patent GB-190816553-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or connected with Burglar or like Alarms.
Inventor: MEUNIER CLAUDIUS
Filed: 1908-08-05
Granted: 1909-04-29
Abstract: 16,553. Meunier, C. Aug. 5. Alarms, burglar and like.-A nullifying - device, by which an initiated person may put out of action an alarm fixed on the other side of a door that he wishes to enter, is operated by turning a key in an auxiliary keyhole until an audible signal is heard and then giving the key an additional predetermined number of turns. The bolt f, Fig. 1, is arranged to operate a detonating or other alarm when the door is opened. To prevent tbis, the key of the nullifying- device is arranged to step round a ratchet-wheel in the casing d; the shaft of the ratchet-wheel rotates an arm o, Fig. 1, which sounds a bell q, and an arm e, Fig. 5, which at a later instant withdraws the bolt f into the casing d. The bolt f is released again if the key is overturned. The number of turns that must be given after the audible signal is heard may be varied by altering the position of the arm o on a disk i, which it engages by pins under pressure of a spring.
Patent GB-190822825-A (GB)
Title: Improved Dolls or the like and Method of Manufacturing the same.
IPC: A63H3/36
Filed: 1908-10-27
Granted: 1909-10-21
Abstract: 22,825. Hamburger, A., Coston, H. E., and Dover Street Studios & Adart, Ltd. Oct. 27. Dolls.-In dolls, formed by sewing together representations in linen &c. of the back and front of the figure and then stuffing the inside, the back and front are made from distorted photographs, Fig. 2, of the original, Fig. 1. The doll thus produced is normal in appearance, since the distortion in the photographs neutralizes the distortion produced when the doll is stuffed. The distorted photographs may, for example, be produced by photographing the image of the original in a convex cylindrical mirror.
Patent GB-190823183-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Curing Process.
Inventor: BOULT ALFRED JULIUS
Filed: 1908-10-30
Granted: 1909-05-13
Abstract: 23,183. Boult, A. J., [Electric Meat Curing Co.]. Oct. 30. Treating meat.-In a curing process, the material is immersed in curing-medium which is continuously cooled and subjected to the action of an electric current. The current is preferably reversed periodically, or an alternating current is used, in order to neutralize the products of electrolysis. In the apparatus shown, meat 2 is placed in trays 3, in a curing-tank 1, containing brine, and having two sets of electrodes 12, 13 in multiple connexion. The electrodes are placed in porous cups 14, 15 to prevent contamination of the brine. To cool the brine continuously, it is preferably circulated through a tank 5, having acooling-coil 10. The brine passes through an overflow pipe 4, preferably of rubber, and thence through the pipe 6, the pump 7, the pipe 8, and the rubber hose 9, to the curing-tank. The current is reversed by means of a double-pole switch, having pivoted contact makers, included in the circuit. Instead of surrounding the electrodes by porous cups, the brine may, for example, be caused to flow round the electrodes away from the meat ; and the cooling may be accomplished by blowing cold air through the curing-tank, or by non-metallic pipes in the curing- tank.
Patent GB-190824673-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Nail Tongs.
Inventor: MAHER WILLIAM
Filed: 1908-11-17
Granted: 1909-03-25
Abstract: 24,673. Maher, W. Nov. 17. Pliers.-Tongs to obviate the necessity of picking nails from a keg by hand are constructed with prongs curved in such a way that a maximum quantity of nails may be picked up at one time. The handles 5 are crossed and pivoted together at 6, and each of the jaws comprises a head 7 ending in three curved teeth, of which the intermediate one 10 is curved to a greater degree than the two outer ones 9. As is shown, the heads are off-set with respect to the handles and shaped so that the teeth all meet in one plane when the handles are closed.
Patent GB-190825666-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Safety Devices to Prevent the Spread of Fire when a Kinematograph Film is Ignited.
Inventor: KAMM LEO
Filed: 1908-11-27
Granted: 1909-10-14
Abstract: 25,666. Kamm, L. Nov. 27. Kinematographs.-In a safety device for preventing spread of fire in a kinematograph, comprising two rollers g arranged at the aperture of the film box so that a slit just large enough for the passage of the film is left between them, the films are fixed in a square frame h and pressed together by springs i. Means are provided for attaching the film box to any existing type of kinematograph comprising a pair of parallel plates j, to embrace the spool arm e, and a plate l in the grooves k, screwed down by a screw m on to the arm e to clamp the box thereon.
Patent GB-190901179-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Acetylene Generators for Carriage Lamps.
Inventor: BARNES ANDREW
IPC: C10H1/00
Filed: 1909-01-18
Granted: 1910-01-18
Abstract: 1179. Barnes, A. Jan. 18. Drip-feed apparatus.-An acetylene generator for carriage lamps comprises a waterchamber a above a carbide-chamber b, which is provided with a central perforated tube screwing on to the valve seat at the bottom of the waterchamber. A spring clip p frictionally engages the valve stem i for retaining it in any desired position. An enlargement n on the gas-outlet pipe is packed with filtering-material, to which access is obtained by removing a nut o. An extension of the valve seat may be provided, as shown in Fig. 4, with the object of rendering the water feed automatic by enabling gaseous pressure to hold a water globule in suspension in the cavity below the valve.
Patent GB-190902938-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Apparatus for the Recovery of Metalliferous Fumes Obtained in Roasting or Smelting Ores.
Inventor: SEBILLOT AMEDEE MATHURIN GABRI
IPC: C22B19/18
Filed: 1909-02-06
Granted: 1909-09-23
Abstract: 2938. Sebillot, A. M. G., and Mauclaire, L. Feb. 7, 1908, [Convention date]. Dry processes of extracting lead. - The Specification in the original form, as open to inspection under Section 91 (3) (a), refers to the production of oxide of zinc, and states also that the reduction of mixed lead and zinc ores is effected in such a way that all the zinc is condensed as oxide and all the lead obtained in a molten mass at the bottom of the crucible or reduction vessel. This subject-matter does not appear in the Specification as accepted.
Patent GB-190904543-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in the Manufacture of Cans and Apparatus therefor.
Inventor: EDMUNDS HENRY
Filed: 1909-02-24
Granted: 1910-02-03
Abstract: 4543. Edmunds, H., [Rose, J. F.]. Feb. 24. Ratchet gearing.- The frame 81 of a machine for burnishing an annular ring on cams, is intermittentlyrotated by a pawl 99 on an arm 97 rocked by a cam-operated rod 105; a detent 94 which normally locks the frame is lifted by a cam - piece on the arm 97 as it moves backwards prior to the driving stroke Specification 16,913/08 is referred to.
Patent GB-190905948-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Justifying Mechanism for Pattern-controlled Composing Machines.
IPC: B41B7/04
Filed: 1909-03-12
Granted: 1910-03-10
Abstract: 5948. Lanston Monotype Corporation, [Bancroft, J. S., and Indahl, M. C.]. March 12. Justifying type in single-type composing and casting machines having automatic justifying- mechanism controlled by line - deficiency and space-number signals in the pattern or record strip. The line-deficiency measuring element consists, as heretofore, of a slide 30 which is adjusted in accordance with the line-deficiency signal in the record strip by means of two bars 34, 35 adapted to be lifted by levers 13 into engagement with one of the pairs of positioning-jaws 6. The bars 34, 35 are connected by means of racks and pinions on shafts 41, 42 with wedges 44, 45 which adjust the slide 30. The mechanism operated by the space-number signal consists of a sleeve 47 guided on a rod 46 and provided with a latch or latches 50 adapted to be engaged by the other pair of positioning-jaws 6. The space-apportioning mechanism comprises a series of wedges 66 which are interposed between the slide 30 and a fixed abutment, and means for driving in a number of the wedges equal to the number of spaces in the line so as to fill up the space between the slide 30 and the abutment. Connected with the sleeve 47 is an interponent 67 which is thereby caused to cover a number of the wedges 66 equal to the number of spaces in the line. The interponent is caused to drive in the wedges by an actuator 77 which is moved at right-angles to the sleeve 47 by a motor 86<a>. The motion of the actuator 77 is transmitted to the mouldadjusting devices by a rack and a pinion on a shaft 85, the end of which screws through a fixed block 86 and bears against a movable block 32 which forms an abutment for the mould - blade. The motor 86<a> is controlled by a slide valve which is moved into position to cause the advance of the actuator 77 by a spring, and to retract the actuator previous to the composition of a new line by pistons operated by the justification - designating signals in the strip. A delaying - mechanism is provided to prevent the retraction of the actuator before the casting of the last type of the previous line. Specifications 8633/99 and 22,374/08 are referred to.
Patent GB-190910574-A (GB)
Title: Improved Mounting for the Ladder Rollers of Dredgers, Conveyors and the like.
IPC: B65G39/20
Filed: 1909-05-04
Granted: 1909-07-08
Abstract: 10,574. Fleming & Ferguson, and Dunlop, E. May 4. Idler rollers for endless-belt conveyers.-The rollers used for conveying the buckets of dredgers and the like are mounted in bearings designed to provide for lubrication and to exclude water and sand. The bushes a in the brackets b are carried by springs c to press against the faces d of the roller e. This retains in place the lubricant located between the outer surface of the roller shaft and the face and the inner surface of the bush, and also allows lateral play to the roller. The lubricant may be contained in a box. The springs may be adjusted by screws.
Patent GB-190912721-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Self-driving Compressed-air Engine for Cycles and the like.
Inventor: CAMMELL WILLIAM ALFRED
IPC: B62M9/00
Filed: 1909-12-29
Granted: 1910-04-28
Abstract: 12,721. Cammell, W. A., Cooper, G., and Wakefield, F. H. Dec. 29. Self-driving machines.-A cylinder 3 containing a piston 19 for driving a bicycle through a connecting-rod and crank is supplied for the down-stroke with compressed air from a reservoir 2 through a sliding plug-valve 11, which is shifted at a stage in the down-stroke and at the end of the return stroke, the used air escaping by an exhaust port 21. The piston 31 of an air-compressor 4 for charging the reservoir through a non-return valve 32 is coupled to the driving-piston; and a hand-cock 10 is provided for cutting off the connexion for driving, leaving the compressor to be worked by the cyclist.