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Patent GB-190620929-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Insulating Studs and the like, and Methods of Making the same.
Filed: 1906-09-20
Granted: 1907-08-15
Abstract: 20,929. British Thomson-Houston Co., [General Electric Co.]. Sept. 20. Studs &c.-Electric insulating-studs for rigidly supporting and insulating various objects such as collector rings are made of a stud 3 recessed as at 7, which is surrounded by insulating-material 4 such as micanite, and inserted in a copper or like socket 2 shouldered as at 12 so that, when the outer socket is compressed by means of dies, the outer surface will be uniform as shown in Fig. 4. The stud may be slightly warmed before being assembled so as to prevent the micanite from cracking during the pressing process.
Patent GB-190621993-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Spring Wheels
Inventor: MARR WILLIAM GESNER
Filed: 1906-10-05
Granted: 1906-12-06
Abstract: 21,993. Marr, W. G. Oct. 9, 1905, [date applied for under Patents Act, 1901]. Spring wheels.-The rim is made up of a number of spring-supported sections mounted upon pistons. Each section a is formed in the centre of its underside with a rod a' guided in a sleeve b screwed into the felloe. A nut d screwed on the end of the rod limits the outward motion. Two helical springs support the section, and an interposed rubber sleeve S acts as a dust-protector. Shoes f formed with tips i and supported by springs k are placed between the sections, and a block tyre g is fitted between flanges formed on the rim-members. Transverse ribs h on the sections separate the blocks.
Patent GB-190702808-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Valves to Facilitate Repairs.
Inventor: BOWER JOSEPH
Filed: 1907-02-05
Granted: 1908-01-23
Abstract: 2808. Bower, J. Feb. 5. Lift valves ; repairing, facilitating ; seats.-A combination of valves to facilitate repairs comprises two separate, oppositely - disposed, screw - down valves seating on two separate removable seatings secured in a common casing. The valves, which have a seating on the back so as to make a tight joint with the cover when fully open, are attached to their spindles J by a nut N, engaging an enlarged end on the spindle and screwed into a recess on the back of the valve. The seats are provided with projections C and recesses E to engage with a key D to facilitate screwing into place. [Reference has been directed under Section 7 of Patents &c. Act, 1907, to Specifications Nos. 227 and 2994, A.D. 1875, and No. 5114, A.D. 1886, and No. 22,472, A.D. 1902.]
Patent GB-190703798-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to Respirators, Face Protectors, and the like.
Inventor: AITCHISON JAMES
Filed: 1907-02-15
Granted: 1908-01-30
Abstract: 3798. Aitchison, J. Feb. 15. Masks.-Face protectors and respirators are constructed with yielding edges and sides, in the manner described in connexion with goggles in Specification No. 7263, A.D. 1900, [Abridgment Class Philosophical instruments], to render them more portable and to enable them better to conform to the face. A respirator, Fig. 1, consists of a flexible frame a covered with gauze, crape, or similar material and secured to the gauze frame b. Fig. 2 shows an appliance in which a nose frame e is also provided, detachable or not from the frame b, the flexible frame following the line of the padded edge f. A pair of goggles may be connected to the nose piece, or a mask or face.guard comprising goggles, nose piece, and respirator may he made in one with flexible or yielding sides following the contour of the face.
Patent GB-190704914-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to Lens Diaphragms.
Inventor: FARMER ERNEST HOWARD
Filed: 1907-02-28
Granted: 1908-02-20
Abstract: 4914. Farmer, E. H. Feb. 28. Lens fittings; photo-mechanical printing. - L e n s fittings and diaphragms used in conjunction with Levy and like screens are used with a diagram or scale based on the known principle in photo - mechanical reproduction that it is essential that the form and position of the pencils of light passing through the screen should be kept constant. The diagram can be set without the necessity of preliminary calculation according to the screen used, the scale o f reproduction, and the conditions of working. The diagram also incidentally indicates the proper screen distance with any stop it may be desired to use, the screen distance indications being marked on the ratio system. A series of lies 17, Fig. 1, drawn either parallel or concentric, according to the type of movement of the indicator, represent proportional differences in camera extensions or scales of reproduction. Each of these lines is experimentally marked where an indicator 18 attached to the diaphragm mechanism indicates apertures having the actual f-ratios with which it is desired to work. This gives the f-ratio lines 16. The diaphragm itself is of the type in which two holed plates 5, 6 are adjustable towards and away from each other. These plates are mounted in the frame 1 which fits in the lens tube, and a plate 14 encircling the tube has an indicator indicating the angular position of the stop relatively to the screen. The plates are adjusted by a right and left handed screw 9, which operates lugs 10, 11 attached to extensions on the plates, the lower lug 11 carrying the indicator 18. The screw is mounted in the lug 8 of the extension 7 of the frame carrying the plates. In a modified construction, the screen 9 carries a pinion which rotates an annular ring carrying the indicator 18, the extension lines 17 in this case being circular. In a second modification, a double set of holed plates are provided with separate adjustments and making possible a large variety of apertures. In the third modification, the indicator 18, Fig 8, actuates an ordinary diaphragm, and the holed plates are then adjusted by the screw 9 to correspond.
Patent GB-190716175-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Means for Attaching Flexible Conductors to Commutator Brushes and also applicable for Uniting other Bodies or Articles.
Filed: 1907-07-13
Granted: 1908-07-09
Abstract: 1 6 , 1 7 5. Morgan Crucible Co., and McCourt, C. D. July 13. Brushes.-Flexible conductors are attached to the carbon commutator brushes of electric machines, or other wires, rods, &c. are united to carbon or other blocks as follows A hole is formed in the block, and the splayed or upset end of the wire or rod is inserted, the hole being then filled with a metallic sponge or granulated metal or alloy d, which is compressed solid by a punch or other means.
Patent GB-190719353-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Flushing Valves.
Inventor: COOPER WILLIAM SAMUEL
Filed: 1907-08-28
Granted: 1908-06-04
Abstract: 19,353. Cooper, W. S. Aug. 28. Door &c. stops.- A rubber buffer for a closet is attached to an arm 4 by a screw 7 which may be reached through a slit 8 in the rubber.
Patent GB-190723043-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Arc Lamps.
Inventor: TIMAR DAGOBERT
Filed: 1907-10-18
Granted: 1908-07-16
Abstract: 23,043. Timar, D., and Dreger, K. von. Oct. 18. Arc lamps.-In a lamp of the kind described in Specification No. 4374, A.D. 1902, having carbons which are parallel in use, the lower held ends of the carbons are separated when the current is switched off and their free ends are brought together, in readiness for striking the arc, which is to be formed at their extreme ends. In the form of lamp shown, a series solenoid 36 and a fixed carbon-holder 4 are carried by arms 39 attached to a practically airtight ring 40, which unites upper and lower globes 41, 42 and supports the lamp. A lever 54, pivoted to the arms 39, is connected to the core of the solenoid and has a downward extension pivoted to the lower end of the movable carbon-holder 3. This carbon-holder is made heavy, so that, when current is switched on, its inertia causes the point of its carbon to separate from the fixed carbon, on the lower end of the carbon-holder 3 being moved suddenly inwards by the solenoid 36. When the lamp is burning, the holder 3 rests against an insulating block 38 on the holder 4. The carbon-holders and the block 38 are chamfered to prevent pieces of carbon from lodging on them, and an inclined mica guide 45 also protects the holders.
Patent GB-190727153-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Centrifugal Spraying Nozzles for use in Cleaning Bottles.
Inventor: BEAL SAMUEL
Filed: 1907-12-09
Granted: 1908-11-12
Abstract: 27,153. Beal, S. Dec. 9. Bottles, washing. - A centrifugal spraying-nozzle A for use in rinsing bottles is provided with a sliding tube K, which is forced upwards by the pressure of the water so as to direct the spray clear of the neck of the bottle. The lower end of the tube is flared to act as a piston, and a spring D may be fitted to ensure its quick return. A holder is arranged so that the bottle is supported immediately above, but not in contact with the nozzle A, and so that the tube K enters it when the water is turned on.
Patent GB-190728364-A (GB)
Title: Carbon Tetrachloride Apparatus for the Extraction on a Large Scale of Fatty Matters from Products containing the latter.
Inventor: BERNARD PAUL
Filed: 1907-12-24
Granted: 1908-04-23
Abstract: 28,364. Bernard, P. Dec. 24. Solvent-recovery apparatus.-Apparatus for extracting fatty matters continuously by means of carbon tetrachloride includes two extractors which may be placed in communication so that solvent may be discharged from one to the other by means of gravitation and vapour pressure. Specification No. 18,667, A.D. 1905, is referred to. The apparatus includes two extractors A', A' connected by the pipes F, N, a receiver B for the fatty solution, condensers C', C<2>, arefrigerating-chamber D for cooling the air escaping from the condensers, and a reservoir E for the solvent. Closed and perforated steam coils are provided in the extractors A', A<2> and in the receiver B.
Patent GB-190802162-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Sewing Machines.
Inventor: BAKER FREDERICK
Filed: 1908-01-30
Granted: 1909-04-30
Abstract: 2162. Baker, F., and Jacobs, L. Jan. 30. Lock-stitch hook sewing-machines; governing under thread. - A lock-stitch hook mechanism is constructed after the manner of the chain - stitch mechanism described in Specification No. 18,052, A.D. 1907, the tension device being replaced by a stationary spool case and spool. The mechanism comprises either a rotary hook-disk having one or more tripping hooks, an oscillating hook-disk having two or more tripping hooks, or an oscillating hookdisk having one fixed hook arranged to convey the needle loops to the lower point of the spool case and there to release them so that they may be drawn over the spool. Fig. 1 shows the construction having an oscillating hook-disk D and one fixed hook d. The disk is oscillated sufficiently for the hook d to bring the needle loop to the point of the spool case E<1> on the forward movement and leave it there during the return movement. The loop is spread laterally by a plate f pivoted on the disk shaft, the curved tail f<1> of which is depressed by a fixed finger G when the hook is near to the spool case point. The loop is carried forward over the spool case by two laterally projecting pins h', h<2> on a lever H, which is oscillated by the segmental projection h on the hook-disk. The spool case is pressed towards the hook-disk by the lower point of a lever e. This lever is momentarily rocked to permit the passage of the needle-thread loop by a toe h<x> on the lever H. The spool case is slotted, the slot extending from t in one side where the thread is introduced to the middle of the upper portion where the spool thread normally lies. The wall e<4> at the end of this slot is separate from the case and is secured in position by a screw e<6>. By adjusting this screw. the width of the end of the slot can be varied, and the tension of the thread produced by the frictionwith the walls consequently varied. A flat spring in the spool case behind the spool assists in removing the spool when the catch e<1> is withdrawn.
Patent GB-190802420-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Drop Targets.
Inventor: KRCEK JOSEF
Filed: 1908-02-03
Granted: 1908-05-21
Abstract: 2420. Krcek, J. Feb. 3. Targets. -A hollow drop-target is filled with a viscous mass, such as clay paste, and is provided at the back with an indiarubber diaphragm d, which acts by increase of pressure on a plate h fixed to a spring f, so as to release the spring from a retaining- pin i when the target is struck. The spring, when released, lifts a hook m from the eye bracket j on the target, which is thrown down from a support o on the post l by a spring n. The target consists of two tarred wooden walls A, B separated around the edges by wooden strips a, and is provided with a stoppered opening at the head for filling it with the paste. The diaphragm d is fixed in a flanged rectangular aperture by means of iron strips. The wire spring consists of a short fixed arm g wound into an eyelet at s and having a longer arm f, to which the plate h is fixed, held under a pin i so that the plate h covers the diaphragm. Escape of the clay paste through the bullet holes is prevented by the wood fibres and the drying of the paste. The holes may afterwards be plugged.
Patent GB-190804515-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in the Manufacture of Hydrofluosilicic Acid.
Inventor: RIVIERE LOUIS
Filed: 1908-02-28
Granted: 1909-03-01
Abstract: 4515. RiviÞre, L. Feb. 28, 1907, [date applied for under Section 91 of Patents &c. Act, 1907]. Drawings to Specification. No Patent granted (Sealing fee not paid). Purifying saccharine liquids.-Molasses is freed from potash, soda, &c. by treatment, after dilution or not with water, with gaseous silicon tetrafluoride. An apparatus adapted for the continuous production of the gas is used, and the precipitated fluosilicates are utilized for the regeneration of the gas.
Patent GB-190804843-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Apparatus for Receiving Undamped Electric Oscillations.
Inventor: SCHELLER OTTO
Filed: 1908-03-03
Granted: 1908-06-18
Abstract: 4843. Scheller, 0. March 4, 1907, [date applied for under Section 91 of Patents &c. Act, 1907]. Wireless telegraphy. - In a wireless telegraph receiving-system for undamped waves, in which an interrupter intermittently connects a resonancecircuit to the detector-circuit, the interrupter is arranged to work at a frequency equal to, or a submultiple of, the natural frequency of vibration of the detector circuit. The high-frequency resonance circuit C, L is connected by the interrupter U and a rectifier G, such as an electrolytic cell or valve tube, to the detector-circuit C<1> T, the natural period of vibration of which may be much lower than that of the circuit C, L. If the natural period of vibration of the circuit C, L is not more than fifty times that of the circuit C', T, the rectifier G may be omitted, but in this case the frequency of the one circuit must be an exact multiple of that of the other. Should the frequency of the interrupter be too high to produce a clear note in the telephone T, the energy must be transferred from the high-frequency circuit into one of a lower frequency, and thence it must be transferred a second time by another interrupter to a circuit of still lower frequency. In some cases, the accumulation of energy in the detector circuit may be dispensed with by altering the frequency of the interrupter, or by making the detector-circuit aperiodic.
Patent GB-190805709-A (GB)
Filed: 1908-03-14
Granted: 1908-12-31
Abstract: 5709. Fawcett, Preston, &. Co., and Dinsdale, H. March 14. Atmospheric vapour burners; vaporizing-apparatus.-An atmospheric burner for steam generators &c. consists of a main group of perforated tubes a, Figs. 1 and 4, and, adjacent to them, a pilot burner j, above which aro placed the principal part f of the main vaporizer and a smaller auxiliary vaporizer m for use in connexion with the pilot burner in starting the main burner. The improvement consists in applying to the sides of the burner j imperforate plates w, which touch the vaporizer f and exclude air from the pilot flame. In the construction shown in plan in Fig. 1, -perforated burner tubes a project horizontally from mixing-chambers c adjacent to the double vapoursupply nozzle e. The oil for the main burner passes from a pipe i through coils h at the sides of the burner, and thence to the larger central coil f, and issues as vapour from the nozzle e. The pilot burner is in the middle of and slightly lower than the group of tubes a, and is supplied with vapour by a pipe m, which passes into the main vaporizer f, as shown, and thence through a chamber dividing the mixing-chambers c, to a nozzle adjacent to 'an air inlet q, Fig. 4, beneath the burner j, the upper surface of which is channelled and perforated as shown.
Patent GB-190805824-A (GB)
Title: Device for Warming Bathing Towels, Shirts and the like.
Inventor: PARTOS ALEXANDER
Filed: 1908-03-16
Granted: 1908-07-02
Abstract: 5824. Pßrtos, A. March 16. Drying clothes. - An apparatus for warming bathing-towels, shirts, &c. consists of a receptacle c, in which the articles are hung, provided with a water tank b forming a flange which rests on a double casing a, two bent pipes e from the tank b being arranged so as to sprinkle water on unslaked lime placed in a tray d beneath the receptacle. Each pipe is closed by a valve f operated by a string k. The whole is covered by a lid i. The space between the two casings may be filled with a non-conductor of heat.
Patent GB-190807966-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Mops.
Inventor: ALLEN GEORGE
Filed: 1908-04-10
Granted: 1909-04-13
Abstract: 7966. Allen, G. April 10. Mops.-Relates to mops provided with means for expressing surplus water, comprising a tube sliding on the stail and a disk on the mop. A thin metal sleeve e having an enlarged, slightly conical or cylindrical part f slides on the stail and is locked in position by means of a split conical tube sliding thereon. The mop consists of yarn b, or strips of textile fabric a, or both. A conical disk h may be fitted to the mop.
Patent GB-190808318-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Utilizing Solar Heat and in Apparatus therefor.
Inventor: HADDAN REGINALD
Filed: 1908-04-14
Granted: 1909-04-08
Abstract: 8318. Haddan, R., [Sun Power Co.]. April 14. Turbines.-In a system for utilizing solar heat, water heated by the sun is passed through an expanding nozzle 7 so that it boils under reduced pressure maintained by a pump 11, aud the mixture of steam and spray produced orives a turbine T. The water may be heated in a sheet-metal vessel, or in a tank 3 such as is described in Specification No. 28,130, A.D. 1907, [Abridgment Class Heating]. From the tank the water flows through a reservoir 4, and through the nozzle 7 to the turbine T driving an electric generator, or the water may pass directly from the heating - tank to the nozzle. From the turbine the vapour and spray pass to a condenser 9, from which air is withdrawn by the pump 11, the condensed water being discharged by a pump 19.
Patent GB-190812785-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in a Machine for Forming Enlarged or Extended Heads upon Nails and the like.
Inventor: DAVIES JOSEPH BARTLETT
Filed: 1908-06-15
Granted: 1909-02-11
Abstract: 12,785. Davies, J. B., and Bell, H. June 15. Brakes.-If the plungers 46 of a nail-heading machine meet with undue resistance, they slide on beams 16 and trip a mechanism which turns over the belt-straps and also puts a brake on the driving- shaft. The trippers are mounted on a crossshaft and, when they are turned by reason of the relative motion of the plungers 46 and beams 16, they operate trip levers which actuate the belt-fork lever 163, which in turn operates a brake block 172.
Patent GB-190815940-A (GB)
Title: System of Telegraphy.
Inventor: DEAN ROBERT LEE
Filed: 1908-07-27
Granted: 1909-01-21
Abstract: 15,940. Dean, R. L. July 27. Telegraphs.-In a page-printing telegraph in which a carriage in the receiver moves backwards and forwards over the paper sheet synchronously with a similar carriage at the transmitter which moves over the message sheet on which the signals are embossed according to a code, only two printing-members are used in the receiver and characters resembling ordinary Roman letters are built up by a number of successive impresses of the two types on the paper. Positive and negative currents are used to select the proper printing- magnets. The two printing-types 57, 59 are shown in Fig. 6<a> ; the characters which can be built up by successive impresses of these two types are shown at D' in Fig. 20. The thick lines which occur in some of the characters are caused by long impulses which hold the longitudinally moving type on the paper for an interval. The carriage bearing the printing-mechanism is moved backwards and forwards by means of two motor-driven worms 75, 76, Fig. 3, with which the teeth 78, 79, Fig. 9, on the nut 74 are capable of engaging. In its motion to the left the tooth 78 is held in engagement with the worm 76 (not shown in Fig. 9) by a projection 81 on the nut 74, engaging with the upper side of the bar 82. Towards the end of its journey the nut 74 pushes back the spring-held lever 89 which, when the projection 81 on the nut has reached the end of the bar 82, forces the tooth 78 out of engagement with the worm 76. A bar 67 makes a contact at the end of the journey of the carriage, and if the transmitter carriage has also reached the end of its journey and made a contact in the same circuit, a solenoid is energized, a catch is released, and the lever 89 now forces the tooth 79 into engagement with the other worm 75. A similar operation takes place in the transmitter, and both carriages start synchronously on their return journey. The energization of the solenoid also effects by means of a ratchet and pawl the forward feed of the paper. A retaining-pawl which comes into operation when the paper has been fed a certain distance ensures equal spacing. The transmitter is similar in operation to the receiver, a carriage carrying a contact device moving over the paper which is held by hooks on a metallic feed band, and on which the message is impressed in the form of double lines of circular embossments according to the code shown at d, Fig. 20. As the carriage moves over the sheet, the points 162, Fig. 18, on the two levers 152 come in contact with the embossed portions and make and break the circuit at 158. The length of the impulse depends on the size of the embossed circle.
Patent GB-190817263-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Bell or Gong Ringing Apparatus
Inventor: WURDA FRITZ BERTL
Filed: 1908-08-17
Granted: 1909-01-21
Abstract: 17,263. Wurda, F. B. Aug. 17. Carillon mechanism; instruments with sonorous plates.- A musical instrument comprises a number of tuned steel plates a hung by cords b in a frame c, on which are pivoted hammers g normally held away from the plates a by means of springs. The hammers g are connected by cords h with keys i which are also pivoted to the frame, and non- metallic dampers d are arranged on shafts e which may be rotated by levers and links f. In a modification for producing an imitation of church-bell ring- ing, the plates are swung by depressing keys, and they strike pivoted hammers, the heads of which can be adjusted up or down. A hammer is arranged on each side of each plate.
Patent GB-190817618-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to the Manufacture of Refractory Conductors.
Inventor: ARSEM WILLIAM COLLINS
Filed: 1908-08-21
Granted: 1909-01-07
Abstract: 17,618. Arsem, W. C. Aug. 24, 1907, [date applied for under Section 91 of Patents &c. Act, 1907]. Mixing pasty materials for making electric-lamp filaments. An oxide of a refractory metal is mixed with finely divided carbon and a binder by repeated extrusion, before being squirted into filaments. A series of successively smaller orifices may be used. The oxides may be those of tungsten, molybdenum, or tantalum, and the binder may be a mixture of ceresine, gilsonite, and resin.