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Patent GB-190613348-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Scaffolding.
Inventor: REICH MATHIAS
Filed: 1906-06-09
Granted: 1906-08-23
Abstract: 13,348. Reich, M. June 9. Scaffolding and staging.-An adjustable telescopic support for staging &c. consists of a post c of +-section sliding in a tube b, in which it is guided by angle-bars d, Figs. 1 and 4, riveted to the upper part of the tube. The parts of the bars d projecting above the tube b are flattened together as shown in Fig. 5, and are provided with holes e corresponding to holes e in the post c, through which bolts f are passed to retain the post at any desired height. A cross-bar g for supporting the staging comprises L-bars which fit into slits h, Fig. 6, and are secured to the post by bolts f<1>. The bolt-holes e may be enlarged to form footholds for ascending the scaffold.
Patent GB-190613596-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Incandescent Electric Lamps.
Filed: 1906-06-13
Granted: 1907-06-13
Abstract: 13,596. British Thomson-Houston Co., [General Electric Co.]. June 13. Incandescent lamps.-Filaments of a non-ductile metal such as tungsten or molybdenum are made from plastic threads, containing the metal or a compound and a binder, which are mounted for subsequent treatment upon the supports for the finished filaments. Each support consists of a glass stem 2, Fig. 2, carrying nickel wires 3, 4 arranged in pairs to avoid sharp bends in the filaments. The plastic thread is looped loosely as shown, allowing for subsequent contraction, the lower hooks permitting the filament to be withdrawn from them if necessary. Fig. 4 shows a modification for a vertical lamp in which a bulbous support 12 with hooks 14 is employed. In the case of tungsten filaments, a paste of the metal and glucose, with oxides if desired, may be used to form the plastic threads, and these may be secured to the leading-in wires by a paste of tungsten oxides and glucose. The threads are dried by heating in a resistance furnace to about 250‹ C., and are then carbonized in a second heater at about 350‹ C., after which each support is placed in a bulb. After exhaustion of the bulbs, the filaments are heated by current to reduce oxides if present and to drive off part of the carbon. The remaining carbon may be removed by heating, first in an oxidizing-atmosphere to oxidize the surface of the filaments, and then more strongly in a reducing- atmosphere, when the carbon reduces the oxidized surface.
Patent GB-190623152-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in the Electrical Ignition of Internal Combustion Engines.
Inventor: LLOYD JOHN
Filed: 1906-10-19
Granted: 1907-05-09
Abstract: 23,152. Lloyd, J. Oct. 19. Thermo - electric batteries. -A thermo - electric battery is heated by the exhaust of an explosion engine and is arranged to give a five-volt current when the engine is using the minimum amount of gas. [Reference has been directed under Patents Act, 1902, to Specification No. 14,639, A.D. 1896.]
Patent GB-190709925-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Railway Signalling.
Inventor: WARREN JOHN HENRY
Filed: 1907-04-29
Granted: 1908-02-13
Abstract: 9925. Warren, J. H., Blades, T., and Wren, J. April 29. Brakes. - Contacts on the track engage pivoted levers on the engine to withdraw stops from piston valves which serve to pass compressed air or steam to other piston valves operating miniature signals, bells, brake valves, throttle valves, and whistle signals. The engine contact-lever is constructed so that if it is bent or broken a valve in the train-pipe is opened. Fig. 1 shows the general arrangement of apparatus on the engine. The end of the lever 2 in its normal position serves as a stop for the piston valve 39. On the withdrawal of the stop 3 the pressure in the pipe 57 connected to the reservoir 56 causes the piston valve to move to the left, thereby putting the pipe 60 to exhaust. The top of the cylinder of the miniature signal apparatus is thus exhausted, and the piston thereof is lifted by pressure in the pipe 69, which then passes to the pipe 70 and moves back the piston of the valve 39 and admits air from pipe 57 to pipe 60 and replaces the piston of the miniature signal apparatus. The pipe 60 is branched to the brake-valve operating-cylinder, Fig. 8, so arranged that, when the pipe 60 is exhausted, air from the reservoir 79 drives the piston 104 to the left and, through the connecting- rod 101 and the pin and fork 93, 99 on the valve handle 97, operates the brake valves 54. Air also passes to the pipe 112 connected to the piston 113 operating the throttle-valve handle 114. The pin 140, acting in the slot 25, serves to limit the motion of the piston 104 and prevent too sudden application of the brakes. The above-described action takes place each time the locomotive passes a track obstacle at danger.' The auxiliary reservoir 79, with a check valve 81, is provided to afford a reserve of air in case of damage to the main pipes.
Patent GB-190710154-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Pencil Sharpeners.
Inventor: BAINES FREDERICK EDWARD VESEY
Filed: 1907-05-01
Granted: 1907-11-21
Abstract: 10,154. Baines, F. E. V. May 1. Pencil-sharpeners.-Relates to pencil-sharpeners of the kind described in Specification No. 25,259, A.D. 1905, in which the cutting-edge of the blade is inclined to the axis of the cone which receives the pencil so as to produce a shearing cut. In order to avoid the " backing-off " of the blade which is necessary when the cutting-edge crosses the axis of the cone, the cutting-edge is located entirely on one side of the axis. The blade lies in a plane c, Fig. 5, which intersects the cone at a greater angle with the axis of the cone than that between the side of the cone and the axis. A part only of the cone is cut away by the plane c as shown in Figs. 7 and 9, the other part being provided with abutments b<3> for the ends of the blade c<2> which is held in position by a screw or screws d. The sides of the coned hole b<1> which receives the pencil are curved so that a curved point is imparted to the pencil. More than one blade may be used if desired.
Patent GB-190712516-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Cycle Brakes.
Inventor: HARROWER THOMAS
Filed: 1907-05-30
Granted: 1908-02-13
Abstract: 12,516. Harrower, T., and Packness, O. L. T. May 30. Brakes.-Band brakes B, H are applied simultaneously to drums A, K on the front and rear wheel hubs by back-pedalling. A clutch F is connected by a rod G, to the rear-wheel brake, and by a rod E, a horseshoe-shaped bell-crank lever C, and a rod b<1> to the front-wheel brake. Relief springs are placed on the rods G, b<1> between the ends of the rods and fixed lugs on the frame of the cycle.
Patent GB-190716059-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to the Manufacture of Metal Tubes and the like.
Filed: 1907-07-12
Granted: 1908-07-13
Abstract: 16,059. Reinhard, H., and Tubes, Ltd. July 12. Rolling.-Blooms are pierced by means of rolls, mounted in rotating housings and a ct i n g longitudinally, such rolls coacting with a mandrel, against which the bloom is fed. The rolls a, which mav be of pilger form, are rotated independently by means of wheels p which gear with an annular ring q, Fig. 11, made in two pieces for easy removal ; in case of dangerous pressure on the rolls, a breaking-device t is inserted which relieves the rolls and prevents damage.The bloom 20 is fed through a guide 22 by a screwed rod 1 adapted at its head to grip the bloom so that the bloom is made to rotate with the rod 1. For feeding the bloom, a half-nut 2, operated through a lever and an automatic stop-device, fits on to the rod-1, which is rotated through gearing and a spring coupling 6, allowing continuous turning of the feeding arrangement even when the bloom is stationary. The bloom is fed against the head 25 of the mandrel 24, which can be adjusted relatively to the rollers and then fixed. For allowing continuous feeding, a belt tightening and loosening device may also be used, consisting of a spring- operated fork 37 with a roller 38 pressing on the belt, this roller being lifted when the bloom is stationary. Concentrically grooved rollers may be used instead of the pilger rolls, when the internally toothed rings may be dispensed with. The feedhead 23 has a recessed portion allowing the head to pass over the mandrel so that the whole billet is pierced. The rolls a are made in two portions, Fig. 9, so that the working portion can be easily removed.
Patent GB-190717363-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to Steam Condensers and Water Coolers.
Inventor: MORISON DONALD BARNS
Filed: 1907-07-29
Granted: 1908-07-23
Abstract: 17,363. Morison, D. B. July 29. Air-pumps, steam-engine and like.- Relates to condenser systems, such as are described in Specification No. 21,120, A.D. 1906, in which water is cooled and used for cooling air and condensing vapour in the air-pump or in the air-pump system. The invention comprises special forms of watercooling devices, means for regulating the flow of water through the cooler, and a device through which the air and cooled water pass together to the air-pump.
Patent GB-190718972-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Appliance for use in Manipulating Oven Shelves or Grates or the like.
Inventor: COLLINSON ROBERT
Filed: 1907-08-23
Granted: 1908-04-23
Abstract: 18,972. Collinson, R., and Lord, R. Aug. 23. Oven shelves and the like, appliances for handling. -The apparatus comprises a plate or frame a with a turned-up edge f, adapted to be pushed under the hot shelf or article to be moved by means of the handle b, and a grip consisting of arms c pivoted to the handles at d so that their forward ends or the cross piece e connecting these ends may be operated by means of the tail pieces c' to grip the article.
Patent GB-190721222-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or connected with Paper or other Cutting Machines.
Inventor: VICKERY FREDERICK WILLIAM
Filed: 1907-09-24
Granted: 1908-09-24
Abstract: 21,222. Vickery, F. W. Sept. 24. Cutting - machines for paper &c. - Consists of apparatus, specially applicable for cutting watermark papers, for automatically altering or timing the speed of the cutting-knife, or of the feedrolls, whenever the cut is too early or too late, by means of electrically - controlled mechanism, which is operated through contacts being connected by passing through holes in the web occupying a fixed position relatively to the water-mark, and acts upon the expanding pulley or equivalent device of the cutting-knife or feed-rolls. The invention is shown in Fig. 1 as applied to a machine with a revolving cutter 8 driven by means of an expanding pulley 16. Between the draw or feed rolls 1 and the reel of paper 2 is placed an adjustable carriage 3 containing two electric contacts 4, 4<a>, between which and a bottom contact 5 the web 6 passes on its way to the drive rolls 7, 7 of the cutter 8. The top contacts 4, 4<a> are dropped at a predetermined time by cam action on the machine, and, if the hole that was punched in the web during manufacture is too early or too late for correct cutting, an electric circuit is made through one of the contacts 4, 4<a> and the bottom contact 5, and one of the electromagnets 9 is excited so as to operate a pawl 10, which normally holds stationary a spring-controlled two-armed lever 11. The released lever then takes the stroke of its cam 12, and the connected lever 13 carrying a pawl 14 turns the ratchet-wheel 15, which is connected to the adjusting-device of the expanding pulley by a chain 17. Two ratchet-wheels 15 are employed acting in opposite directions to make the pulley either larger or smaller, and the ratchet-operating levers 11, 18 are spring-pressed upon their cams and are operated by the depressed portions, so that if both circuits are made together by the breaking of the web the backward and forward motions will not come into action at the same time. Various other arrangements of, and means for adjusting the position of the electric contacts are described. A device for acting upon the rate of feed is shown in Fig. 6. The feed-rolls are actuated by racks carried by a rod 33 connected to a nut 25 mounted upon a threaded rod 26, which is positioned in a slot of a rotating disk 31 upon the driving-axle 30 of the cutting-machine. The position of the nut 25 upon the rod 26, and therefore the rate of feed produced by the rod 33, is adjusted by turning the rod 26 by means of the milled head 27, which is engaged, when an electric circuit of the kind already described is completed, by the end of one of the rods 28, 29 being drawn towards the head 27 by a lever 34 connected to one of the levers 11, 18 shown in Fig. 1. The invention is applicable to a machine for cutting several reels of paper, there being a common cutter, and a speed-adjusting device for each set of draw-rolls.
Patent GB-190721554-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Workmen's and like Time Recorders.
Inventor: KRAUSE AUGUST CHARLES
Filed: 1907-09-28
Granted: 1908-08-13
Abstract: 21,554. Krause, A. C. Sept. 28. Time-checking apparatus for workmen. In order to ensure correct insertion of the card in a workmen's time-recorder, and therefore printing in proper position, the daily movable card rest is made in two parts, the relative motion of which by the inserted card unlocks the printing-hammer. The actual card rest G is pivoted at H to a lever E, which rests on the daily movement cam K and is balanced by a spring 20. The rear arm of the lever G has a slot embracing a shaft F, and preferably fitted with adjusting-screws T ; it also has a curved edge to engage a bell-crank lever N, the lower forked end of which embraces a link P pivoted to a crank R in the printing-hammer shaft and having a catch-piece Q to engage a fixed stop S. An indicator may be fitted for actuation by the lever N to show when the hammer is released and may be operated.
Patent GB-190805853-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Educational Appliance for Teaching Mechanical Drawing.
Inventor: BATTLE ALBERT ERNEST
Filed: 1908-03-16
Granted: 1908-10-29
Abstract: 5853. Battle, A. E. March 16. Drawing, teaching; drawing-boards.-A device for teaching mechanical drawing comprises a drawing-board, drawing-paper, and examples of drawings to be copied, combined in book form. The back a of the book is made stiff and with straight edges to serve as a drawing-board. Sheets of drawing-paper b interleaved with copies b<1> are bound between the back a and a cover c, and are provided with lines of perforations d near the binding edges. The device may be packed in a case together with a T-square, set-squares, pencil, india-rubber, and drawing-pins.
Patent GB-190812715-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in the Manufacture of Wall-ties and the like.
Inventor: MARCH CHARLES
Filed: 1908-06-13
Granted: 1909-05-27
Abstract: 12,715. March, C., and Haggo, W. June 13. Bending.-A machine for forming the twists in wall ties of the form shown in Fig. 5, has the rack E which operates the twisting-pinion G operated by a pivoted connecting - rod B, which may be made to engage one of two slots s D for twisting in either direction. In its inoperative position the connecting rod rests on a roller b<1>. One end of the bar to be twisted is held in a stationary slotted arm K, while the other end is engaged by a slotted arm J carried by the twisting-pinion G
Patent GB-190813265-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Pressure Balancing Devices for Combined Action and Reaction Turbines.
Inventor: SCHMOLKA MORITZ
Filed: 1908-06-22
Granted: 1908-09-10
Abstract: 13,265. Schmolka, M. June 22. [Patent of Addition to No. 2994, A.D. 1908.] Elastic-fluid turbines.-Relates to pressurebalanciug devices of the kind described in Specification No. 2994, A.D. 1908, and consists in providing apertures in the wheel which carries the impulse blades, so that the excess steam deflected for balancing purposes may be utilized in the reaction turbine. The dummy piston p is subjected on its high-pressure side to steam entering the chamber n from above, the steam being deflected by impact of the blades. The apertures d' in the wheel d allow the excess of the steam to pass on into the chamber e. The dummy piston, instead of being screwed on the shaft as shown, may be formed in one therewith.
Patent GB-190823694-A (GB)
Title: A New or Improved Machine for Manufacturing Blank Hexagon Nuts.
Inventor: FORD JAMES
Filed: 1908-11-05
Granted: 1909-09-30
Abstract: 23,694. Ford, J. Nov. 5. Forging; punching; shearing.-In a machine for making blank hexagon nuts, a blank is cut off by an hexagonal tool and pressed into a die and against a movable chamfering-tool; the chamfering-tool then lifts and allows the blank to be ejected from the die, whereupon a pair of grippers carry the blank to punching and flattening means and finally to an ejector. The cam-operated hexagon tool g, Fig. 6, cuts a blank from a heated bar and presses it into a die j, the pivoted chamfering- tool o<1> having previously descended ; the tool or then rises and the tool g ejects the blank the operating-cam q<1> being suilably shaped to effect this. The tool g<1> is retracted by a two-armed lever g<1> operated from a cam q. Cam-operated grippers t, t<1>, Fig. 2, then move the blank to a punching-die w<2>; the punch x, Fig. 7, is leveroperated from a cam y on the cam shaft f and is retracted by a cam-operated arm 3 which engages a block 2 suspended from the lever y', a plate< >x<3> acting as a stripper. Further movement of the grippers brings the blank under a helved flattening- tool and the grippers then recede from the blank and allow an ejector 11 to shoot it down a hole 10 in the bed.
Patent GB-190825293-A (GB)
Title: A Bag or Wrapping for Joints of Meat.
Filed: 1908-11-24
Granted: 1908-12-10
Abstract: 25,293. Colonial Consignment and Distributing Co., and Dicks, J. Nov. 24. Bags ; wrappers. -A fabric bag or wrapper a for meat, especially for legs of mutton &c., has the shape shown with openings b, e the latter being to accommodate the narrow end orshank of the meat. The open end b is folded several times upon itself to protect the cut end of the joint.
Patent GB-190826059-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Rifle, Gunnery and like Target Practice Apparatus.
Inventor: MITCHELL FRANK
Filed: 1908-12-03
Granted: 1909-12-02
Abstract: 26,059. Mitchell, F. Dec. 3. [Cognate Application No. 15,503, A.D. 1909, dated July 2.] Rifle and gunnery practice, teaching.- Relates to subtarget apparatus. The gun carries a butting - plate D which, when aim is taken, is held against, but not mechanically attached to, abutting- plate B mounted in a support A. The support is fixed as shown in Fig. 1, or is mounted on hinged arms K, Figs. 5 and 6, or on any suitable bracket, or is connected to a movable target, so as always to have a fixed angular position relatively to the target. The plate B is held in its support A at a fixed relative angle to the target, as shown in Fig. 1, and the plate D controls one or more rods D' mounted in universal joints C<1> on the gun ; or, as shown in Figs. 5 and 6, the plate D is held at a fixed relative angle to the gun, and the plate B controls one or more rods D<1> mounted in universal joints C' on the support A. When the trigger is pressed, a sub-target or firing-limit device E is moved towards the free end of the rods D', or vice versa, by means of a flexible wire E', Fig. 1, or a sliding rod J<2>, Fig. 6 ; springs E<1>, J<4> retain the parts in the normal position. To maintain contact between the plates D, B despite the small movements made when aim is taken, one plate B, Fig. 1 and 6, is mounted against a spring B<2>, or the support K, Fig. 5, is mounted against a spring K<7>. In the latter case, when the plate B is arranged to move the rods D<1> longitudinally upon the trigger being pulled, the control spring therefor must be stronger than the spring K<7> to prevent longitudinal motion of these parts while aim is being taken, and the bracket must be sufficiently heavy to resist the sudden impulse when the trigger is pulled, so that the plate B and the rods D<1> may perform their longitudinal movement. A balance weight may be attached to the bracket by a rope passing over a pulley so as to supplement or help the spring K<7> and at the same time increase the inertia of the bracket as a whole. A convenient universal joint for the rods D<1> is obtained by passing a rod through a disk of indiarubber and securing it thereto by rubber solution. In the firing-limit device shown in Figs. 9,10, and 11, a pivoted catch V<6> lies in the way of a cam-shaped projection on the firing-bolt until released by the armature V<4>, V<2> when the aim is within the required limit. The electric connexion of the parts carried by the gun is effected by the plates D, B and rubbing-contacts T, S<4>, as shown in Fig. 9, or by double-contacts X<1>, W<1> on the plates D, B, as shown in Fig. 14. The plates D, B may be held against each other by magnetic attraction, and, for greater accuracy, may be portions of spheres having the target as centre.
Patent GB-190902947-A (GB)
Title: Centrifugal Mixer of Concrete and other Mortar Mixtures.
Inventor: HILLER GEORG
IPC: B01F5/20
Filed: 1909-02-06
Granted: 1909-11-18
Abstract: 2947. Hiller, G. Feb. 6. Rotary stirrers; moving-container apparatus. -A machine for mixing concrete &c. consists of a vertical shaft d, on which are mounted, first a drum e, and secondly a deflector l, which throws the material against sprays of water. The drum e is rubbed on its inner surface and is attached to the shaft d by arms f, the upper surfaces of which are sloped so as to throw material falling on them against the walls of the drum. The deflector l is also ribbed and is surrounded by a casing n, which is caused to revolve by a rack q and gear-wheels s, t, Fixed scrapers u are provided to clean the casing n.
Patent GB-190903128-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Razor-stropping Appliances.
Inventor: HALL ROBERT FREDERICK
IPC: B24D15/08
Filed: 1909-02-09
Granted: 1909-09-16
Abstract: 3128. Hall, R. F. Feb. 9. Stropping-apparatus.-A razor-stropping device is constructed with a wooden drum 2 mounted in bearings in side plates 1 and having a leather band 5 helically wound around it with its ends sunk in recesses in the drum as at 6, Fig. 4. The drum is adapted to be rotated by means of a handle 8, and loosely mounted on the axle 3 is a spurwheel 11 between friction disks 12, 13, the disk 13 being pressed by a spring washer 14. This spurwheel 11 gears with a second spur-wheel 15, which in turn engages the wheel h, Fig. 4, on the spindle carrying the blade d. On rotating the drum, the friction disk and gear-wheels cause the appropriate side of the blade to bear on the strop, according to the direction of its rotation, the friction clutch 12, 13 then allowing slip between the gear train and the drum 2 as this is further rotated. A spring 18 mounted on a bar joining the side plates of the device is pressed down by the blade when turned to bear on the strop, and acts to raise the blade immediately the pressure due to the rotation of the drum is relieved, and thereby prevents the blade from cutting the strop on the reverse rotation. In the form shown, the razor being stropped is of the kind described in Specification 3114/09, [Class 30, Cutlery], the guard or comb plate e being turned np and the blade d hanging down. A guard 22 in the form of a grid-like frame, to prevent the operator's fingers from coming into contact with the blade, is mounted on a bar 23 and is urged by a spring into contact with the razor when the device is in use. The side plates 1 are gapped as shown at 19, 21, to form a rest for the safety razor. Fig. 7 shows a modifica-, tion of the device for stropping blades when separate from the razor. The blade is placed in the holder 26, and by means of a friction clutch and spur-wheels 11, 15, h as described above is presented on either side to the stropping-dram. In this instance the drum is held stationary by means of an extension of the spindle or otherwise, and the side plates 1 are rotated by means of a handle 27.