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Patent GB-190406864-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Supporting or Securing Means for Stationary Railway Buffers or Stops.
Inventor: GEBAUER JULIUS HERMANN CARL
Filed: 1904-03-21
Granted: 1904-06-23
Abstract: 6864. Gebauer, J. H. C. March 21. Buffer and like stops.-Relates to means for supporting stationary buffers in stations not on the ground level. Asa substructure for the buffer, an iron frame formed from two parallel girders t<1>, connected by cross-girders t<3> resting on a layer of concrete and embedded in concrete and masonry, is so arranged that, when a train strikes the buffer, the resistance of the buffer produces a pulling strain R which is transmitted by the oblique stays a to the iron frame at the point b, Of the two component parts of the strain R, the horizontal strain P' is taken up by the masonry behind, while the vertical force P<2> is taken up by the elastic bending of the girders. The elastic bending is possible since the upward force P<2> is more than balanced by two downward forces-that at c due to the weight of masonry ; that at d due to the weight of the locomotive. In a modification, auxiliary stays at e secure the stay point b to the buffer foundabions,
Patent GB-190407904-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Iron and Stone Work Flooring and the like.
Inventor: SILLER ALARICH
Filed: 1904-04-05
Granted: 1904-06-02
Abstract: 7904. Siller, A. April 5. Floors; girders and beams. -Main I or other girders are connected by cross - trussed girders formed of flat tension and compression rods d, z, threaded through slots in ribbed plates k, and fixed thereto by cement or other filling-in material. Blocks a, arranged to register at the cross girders and break joint between, are set in cement &c.
Patent GB-190411327-A (GB)
Title: Apparatus for use in Producing Scenic Effects and the like.
Inventor: GARRICK GUS
Filed: 1904-05-17
Granted: 1904-12-01
Abstract: 11,327. Garrick, G. May 17. Exhibitions, scenic and spectacular ; theatrical appliances. - Apparatus for the productiun of scenic effects in theatres and the like consists of a frame a, Figs. 1 and 2, formed to resemble a large post-card album, at the back of which is placed a stage, preferably mounted on rollers, having two platforms i, j on which tableaux can be exhibited. The frame is provided with two sliding screens e, f formed with apertures g, h, thus allowing each platform to be exhibited in turn. One screen only, provided with two openings having blind shutters, may replace the two screens. The side c and fly-leaf d, hinged at b, are shut while the change is being made.
Patent GB-190420396-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Air Pumps.
Inventor: THOMPSON WILLIAM PHILLIPS
Filed: 1904-09-21
Granted: 1904-10-27
Abstract: 20,396. Thompson, W. P., [Wray Pump and Register Co.]. Sept. 21. Compressing.-A compound air pump of the type in which two pistons, working in cylinders of unequal capacities, are operated by means of racks and pinions is shown in Fig. 1. The larger piston 11 is actuated directly by means of the handle 34, while the smaller piston-rod 15 is pivotally connected to a double rack 16 of U-shaped crosssection, as shown in Fig. 3, which engages with the small pinions 18 fixed upon either side of the large pinion 13, so that, as the piston 11 reciprocates, the piston 15 reciprocates in the reverse direction with a smaller velocity but with a greater power. The rack 16 is made in the form described in order to relieve the gear axis from end thrust, and its teeth are omitted for a short space at the upper end so that the smaller piston can be thrown out of action when desired. A hook 19 attached to the upper end of the rack serves the double purpose of holding the rack in its inoperative position, when the hook is in the position shown in Fig. 1, and of preventing the rack from dropping into the said position when the hook is turned round into the position shown in Fig. 2. The handle 34 is made double to avoid contact of the operator's hand with the opposite rack, and a guard or warning-device 35 is fixed in the centre to prevent its being grasped at the middle. The usual check valves are provided between the two cylinders and in the outlet pipe.
Patent GB-190500811-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Stenter-clips.
Inventor: RILEY JAMES
Filed: 1905-01-16
Granted: 1906-01-16
Abstract: 811. Riley, J. Jan. 16. Stretching and tentering.-Stenter clips are made with the lower jaw having a rotatable roller h, preferably fluted and adjusted by screwsj, i. The upper jaw d is pivoted at c, and made with its gripping-surface e at an angle, to increase the grip as the tension of the cloth increases. The usual lever m may be pivoted to the arm b and lifted by operating the arm l.
Patent GB-190503867-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Electrical Apparatus for Automatically Controlling the Pressure of Steam in Boilers.
Inventor: LOMAX RALPH
Filed: 1905-02-24
Granted: 1906-03-24
Abstract: 3867. Lomax, R., and Tomlinson, J. Feb. 24. Regulating; switches.- The fuel supply and the draught in a steamgenerator furnace are controlled automatically by a column of mercury, which, as the steam pressure on it rises, brings into an electric circuit resistances controlling the speed of the motor driving the stoker or airsupply apparatus. The pressure in the steam pipes 2, bearing on the lower end of the column of mercury in the tube 1, moves the upper end of the column into contact with contacts 5 on a tube 3 made of non-conducting material, thus completing in succession the circuits through the wires 6 ... 11, the solenoids 19 ... 24, wire 17, and tubes 14, 12. The solenoids, as they are excited by the battery 47, lift in succession from the mercury cups 32 the forks 31 of the levers 27, and break at a ... f the shunt circuits of the resistances 38 ... 43, which are thus thrown into the circuit 35 of the dynamo 36, and regulate the speed of the motor 37 driving the stoker.
Patent GB-190511512-A (GB)
Title: Improved Manufacture of Celluloid.
Inventor: BEHAL AUGUSTE
Filed: 1905-06-01
Granted: 1905-06-22
Abstract: 11,512. BÚhal, A. June 1. Celluloid and like compositions.-In the manufacture of celluloid, the whole or a part of the camphor is replaced by borneols, such as the mixture obtained by hydration of camphene. For example, 1 kilo of nitrocellulose is moistened with alcohol, and about 500 grammes of borneol, dissolved in 500-600 grammes of ethyl acetate or other solvent of nitrocellulose, are mixed with the nitrocellulose, the solvent being then volatilized.
Patent GB-190515132-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Chimney Pots, or Tops.
Inventor: BROADBENT STANLEY
Filed: 1905-07-24
Granted: 1905-12-21
Abstract: 15,132. Broadbent, S., Stephens, A., and Jeavons, F. D., [trading as Broadbent & Co.]. July 24. Chimney tops.-A chimney pot or top is formed with an inner tapered or cylindrical part D, Fig. 1, or D', Fig. 3, having projecting lugs E at the corners of its square base to support an outer cover A, A<1>. An up draught is created by air passing up tapered conduits extending upwards from the bottom of the cover. Ribs c extend upwards from the lugs E.
Patent GB-190516227-A (GB)
Title: Manufacture of Blue Colouring Matters of the Quinoline Group and Photographic Surfaces Sensitised therewith.
Inventor: IMRAY OLIVER
Filed: 1905-08-09
Granted: 1906-03-15
Abstract: 16,227. Imray, O., [Farbwerke vorm. Meister, Lucius, & Br³ning]. Aug. 9. Dyes, artificial.-Blue dyes, suitable for rendering silver-halide emulsions sensitive to red light, are produced by causing an alkali to react, in the presence of formaldehyde, or of a substance yielding formaldehyde, on a salt of an alkylquinaldinium base, either alone or mixed with a salt of an alkylquinolinium base. The reaction may be carried out in alcoholic, aqueous, or pyridine solution. In examples, dyes are obtained from mixtures of quinoline ethoiodide and quinaldine ethoiodide, quinoline methochloride and m- or p-toluquinaldine ethoiodide, and from quinaldine ethoiodide in presence of formaldehyde.
Patent GB-190524882-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Electric Arc Lamps Burning Mineralised Carbons.
Inventor: HEGNER HIPPOLYTE
Filed: 1905-11-30
Granted: 1906-11-30
Abstract: 24,882. Hegner, H. Nov. 30. Arc lamps. - A lamp using mineralized carbons has clock-work regulating- mechanism placed below the arc and arranged so that the carbons collide repeatedly if their ends become coated with slag. The carbon-holders are connected to the mechanism by a flexible member which is not exposed to fumes. The frame comprises a disk 1, Fig. 1, carrying the mechanism, a disk 2 serving as a screen for fumes, and a disk 3 supporting guidepulleys 13, 17.. The upper carbon-holder 11 is attached to' a chain 12, which passes over the pulley 13, down a tube 4, under pulleys 14, 16 on a rocking-frame 15, up a tube 23, and over a pulley 17 to a tube 19. This slides on a rod 43 and carries the lower carbon-holder 20, which is on the same side of the tube as the chain. The enclosed parts of the chain may be replaced by rods. The rocking-frame 15 is pivoted at a point nearly in line with that part of the chain which is connected to the upper carbon-holder, and carries multiplying- gearing connecting the pulley 16 to a spindle carrying vanes (not shown). A fixed plate is adapted to engage the vanes when the frame is raised. A second rocking-frame 27, Fig. 4, carries the cores 31, 32 of series and shunt solenoids 33, 34 and the piston of a dash-pot, and is connected to the clock-work frame 15 by means of au adjustable link 29 and of a pin (not shown) on the latter frame. A short lever carries on one arm an armature 40 situated near the core 32 of the shunt solenoid, and on the other arm a carbon contact-block 39. When the carbons, insulated by solid slag, come together the armature 40 is attracted against the tension of a spring 41, and the block 39 touches a carbon pencil 37. The carbons are thus short-circuited and a strong current flows momentarily through the series solenoid, so that the carbons are separated and then allowed to collide. The Provisional Specification states that there may be provided an additional series electro-magnet to assist in reciprocating the carbons, and that the globe may be protected from hot ashes by a glass sleeve made in two parts and surrounding the frame tubes.
Patent GB-190525894-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Friction Clutches.
Inventor: CHURCHILL FRANK
Filed: 1905-12-13
Granted: 1906-11-22
Abstract: 25,894. Churchill, F. Dec. 13. Clutches. -Relates to improvements in the clutches described in Specification No. 319, A.D. 1900, and consists in balancing the effects of centrifugal force by weights, springs, &c. The cone clutch a, c is normally engaged by internal springs, and is disengaged by links g, k carrying rollers h at their junction and pivoted on a movable sleeve f and on a sleeve d, rotating with the clutch part c, respectively. The links k are provided with springs or weights q to balance the effect of centrifugal force on the links k, g and rollers h tending to disengage the parts.
Patent GB-190526986-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and connected with Tip-waggons
Inventor: JONAS RICHARD
Filed: 1905-12-27
Granted: 1906-03-08
Abstract: 26,986. Jonas, R. Dec. 27. Tip-wagons.-The bearers a, for the body of a tip-wagon, comprise channel-irons the side flanges of which are fairly deep at the top, where the bearers are subject to bending stresses, and taper off towards the feet s, where the bearers terminate in flat plates which can be secured to the underframe r. This renders the bearers somewhat elastic under transverse shocks. They are preferably arched, as shown.
Patent GB-190604704-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to School Desks and other Articles requiring Vertical Adjustment.
Inventor: SCOTT THOMAS ROBERTSON
Filed: 1906-02-26
Granted: 1906-11-08
Abstract: 4704. Scott, T. R. Feb. 26. Tripod and like stands. - Relates to means for adjusting vertically, with positive stops at small intervals, scientific instrument stands and like articles. In the form shown in Figs. 2 and 4; the part d, which is preferably trough-shaped and may slide in the standard b, is formed with a longitudinal slot g opposite a bolt-hole in the standard b. The part d is provided on both sides of the slot g with stops h spaced at suitable regular or irregular intervals. The part d may be secured in its adjusted position by means of a block or blocks i having a central groove and recesses k adapted to engage the stops h. A bolt m, passing through a hole l in the block i and through the slot g and the bolt hole f, carries a nut n which serves to secure the parts: When it is desirable to release the locking-member quickly, a bearing-plate o and a spring p are provided so that on the nut n being slackened the block i is pressed out of engagement with the stop h. In the form shown in Figs. 5 and 6, which is particularly suitable where the backs of the parts b, d are curved, stops h<1> are formed on either or both of the outer sides of the part d and may engage with stops h<2> provided on the standard b. The parts d, b, formed into a slot g and the parts d, b, are secured by means of a block i<1> through which passes a bolt h carrying a nut n.
Patent GB-190605521-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Machines for Making Paper Board Boxes.
Inventor: BURNSIDE ALEXANDER MITCHELL
Filed: 1906-03-07
Granted: 1906-08-02
Abstract: 5521. Burnside, A. M. March 7. Feeding sheets.-In machines of the kind described in Specification No. 18,552, A.D. 1903, [Abridgment Class Printing other than letterpress &c.], for creasing and cutting paper-board boxblanks, the feed-table f<3> is provided with side guides f<4> adjustable for different widths of blanks.
Patent GB-190608641-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Motor Rudders for Ships.
Filed: 1906-04-10
Abstract: 8641. Dufaux & Cie, H. & A. April 14, 1905, [date applied for under Patents Act, 1901]. Void. [Published under Patents Act, 1901.] Gas and explosive-vapour engines.-The engine is mounted in a space in the rudder and drives the propeller direct. A pulley q is mounted on the shaft and connected to it by any coupling- device. A rope r passes round the pulley q and through the pipa s, having its free end connected to a handle by which the motor may be started. The mechanism p for timing the ignition is also actuated by means of a cord p<1> passing up the pipe s.
Patent GB-190610617-A (GB)
Title: Improved Means for Locking the Sliding Seats of Vehicles
Inventor: PRUDENT JAMES
Filed: 1906-05-07
Granted: 1907-01-03
Abstract: 10,617. Prudent, J. May 7 Fastenings, sliding-bolt. The sliding seats of vehicles are locked in position by spring bolts G operated by a handle D which turns a disk C to which the bolts are pivoted. The pivot B of the disk is formed on a plate A secured to the seat. The plate also carries guiding-lugs H for the bolts, and it is fitted with a cover having a slot for the passage of the handle.
Patent GB-190610851-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Locking and Controlling Mechanism
Inventor: JUNG ALFRED JAMES
Filed: 1906-05-09
Granted: 1907-05-09
Abstract: 10,851. Jung, A. J. May 9. Clutches; levers. -Relates to selflocking control &c. devices of the kind in which a movable member is normally locked to a fixed member but is released and then adjusted by an operating member, and which are applicable to ignition and other control mechanisms of motor road vehicles &c. The movable member D carries one or more pairs of spring - pressed locking-elements A pivotally mounted on pins d in a conveniently dustproof casing formed by the disk D and the flanged fixed member E. The boss of the operating-handle B<1> passes loosely through the disk D and carries upon its squared end an arm or eccentric B, which lies between the locking-pieces as shown, so that when rotated in either direction it disengages one of the locking-elements from the casing. The other or " slipping locking-element is simultaneously released from frictional contact with the casing by the engagement of one of the shoulders B<3> on the arm B with a corresponding part A' on the locking piece. After the initial release, further movement effects positive adjustment through one of the stops H.
Patent GB-190617432-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Tyres for the Wheels of Road Vehicles.
Inventor: WALTON FREDERICK
Filed: 1906-08-02
Granted: 1907-07-11
Abstract: 17,432. Walton, F. Aug. 2. Drawings to Specification. Cements.-In the building of tyres by winding successive convolutions of a fabric on a form, to join the layers together, a cement composed of twenty parts of oxidized oil, two parts kowrie gum, and four parts of common resin is used.
Patent GB-190617523-A (GB)
Title: Pneumatic Dash Pot for Movable Parts Acting under the Influence of Variations of Pressure
Inventor: LONGUEMARE ADELE AMELIE
Filed: 1906-08-03
Granted: 1907-04-25
Abstract: 17,523. Longuemare, A. A. Aug. 3. Gas or explosive-vapour engines, carburetting in. The movements of the supplementary air valve of an explosion engine are damped by a pneumatic dash-pot, which comprises a hollow piston a, provided on its faces with a number of small holes d, e and arranged to work within a cylinder b closed by a screwed cap c, the flow through the upper face of the piston being regulated by a disk k which may be rotated to cover some of the holes d. The piston-rod f is connected at its lower end to a supplementary air valve g, which slides in an open cylinder h and is closed on its lower side, the air entering through openings i, j in the valve and cylinder h, respectively. A projection formed on the valve g glides in a groove in the cylinder hand guides the whole arrangement. The passage m from the carburettor is connected to the inlet passage n by a perforated pipe p. Small holes t are provided in the cylinder h so as to produce a draught and avoid the condensation of petrol when the engine is working at a low speed. In a modification, the dash-pot is arranged below the valve g and is connected directly thereto.
Patent GB-190619922-A (GB)
Title: Improved Retort for Distilling by Means or with the Aid of Open Steam.
Inventor: GROSSMANN JACOB
Filed: 1906-09-07
Granted: 1907-09-07
Abstract: 19,922. Grossman, J. Sept. 7. Retorts.-A cylindrical retort for distilling with the aid of open steam is provided with hollow agitators h mounted on a hollow shaft so as to scrape or nearly scrape its inner surface and perforated so as to blow steam against its walls. The shaft is scraped by stirrers i which may also be made hollow so as to admit steam. The retort may be heated in any way, and is provided with the usual charging and discharging passages, doors for the insertion of rakes, &c. The apparatus is designed to prevent destructive distillation when organic bodies, such as naphthylamine, are under treatment, and especially when sewage is distilled for the recovery of fatty bodies.
Patent GB-190620630-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and connected with Apparatus for Generating Gas from Liquid Hydro-carbons
Inventor: REID ROBERT
Filed: 1906-09-17
Granted: 1907-09-17
Abstract: 20,630. Reid, R. Sept. 17. Oil gas.-An oilgas apparatus comprises a tube adapted to be heated by a furnace, and containing indestructible porous or other material, the supply of oil being regulated by the motion of the gas-holder. The tube or generator A, of circuitous or other form, may be made of non-combustible material, such as vitrified clay, or copper or other metal, and is set in a furnace B with the inlet and outlet A<2> , A<3> passing preferably through the back of the furnace. The tube A is loosely filled with small pieces of a mixture of burnt lignite and clay, or with copper gauze, or small copper tubes. The oil-supply tank C is arranged on the gas holder in a manner similar to that described in Specification No. 18,923, A.D. 1905, but the supply is controlled by the motion of the bell c<1> through a lever c<2> and cock c. An ordinary cock c<5> is also provided.
Patent GB-190623395-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Brakes.
Inventor: FREUND EDWIN
Filed: 1906-10-22
Granted: 1907-10-22
Abstract: 23,395. Freund, E. Oct. 22. Brakes ; sanding rails.-In spring-applied brakes for electric tramcars and other vehicles, the applying-springs can be released, to apply the brakes to any extent, by the attendant pressing with his body against a lever, so that his hands are left free ; means are provided to prevent the brakes from being held off from one end of a tramcar when they are being actuated from the other end ; and the brake-application lever may be adapted to operate a rail-sander. A spindle B', Fig. 2, on the tramcar platform D<1>, can be rotated by a handwheel B<2> to rotate a barrel F<1> through spur-wheels F<2>, P<1>, and wind thereon a chain F<5>, whereby the applying-springs are put in tension and the brakes held off. A brake pulley B<6> is fitted loosely over the operating-spindle B', and is acted on by a band B<9>, one end of which is secured to an arm E<3> fast on a spindle E', while the other end is loosely connected to the spindle E<1>. A spring E<7>, acting on an arm E' on the spindle E', tends to keep the band B9 tightened around the pulley B<6>. When the chain is being wound on the barrel F<1>, a pawl B<7> on the spindle B' rides over ratchet teeth T' on the pulley B<6>; but when the spindle B' is rotated in the opposite direction, the pulley is coupled to it by the ratchet and pawl, so that the applying- springs are held in tension so long as the band B<9> is tightened around the pulley B<6>. The driver can relax the band B<9>, to allow the brakes to be put on, by pressing with his body against a lever E<2> on the spindle E<1>. To prevent the brakes from being held off from the opposite end of the tramcar to that at which they are being operated, there may be provided only one lever E<2>, which may be adapted to work over a fixed bracket E<5> and may be so arranged that it can be removed therefrom, for transference to the other end of the car, only when it is in the brakes on' position. Or the levers E<4> at the two ends of the car may be connected by a rod K<1>, Fig. 5, so that the applying- springs are released from both ends of the car simultaneously. The lever E' may actuate a railsander when moved beyond the ordinary position for braking. The invention is shown in connexion with a spring-applied brake of the kind described in Specification No. 5350, A.D. 1905, but it can be used with a track brake. The chains F<5> at each end of the tramcar are connected to regulating-springs G<1>, which are linked to the brake lever G<2> and applying-springs J' by rods G<3>. The applying-springs are adjustably connected to brackets J<1> on the car. The lever G<2> is fulcrumed at O, and is linked to a floating lever G<4>, connected to the brake beams H<1>, H<2> by rods G<7>, G<6>.
Patent GB-190629175-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Change Speed Gearing for Motor Road Vehicles.
Inventor: BRAMLEY-MOORE SWINFEN
Filed: 1906-12-21
Granted: 1907-03-21
Abstract: 29,175. Moore, S. Bramley-. Dec. 21. Variable - speed gearing. - Relates to change - speed gearing for motor road vehicles of the type described in Specification No. 6859, A.D. 1905, and consists in a method of supporting the abutting ends of the driving and driven shafts, and an arrangement whereby the countershaft and all the wheels, except one pair, are out of action on the direct drive. Driving and driven shafts v, w have reduced portions v<1>, w<1> projecting into the boss e of a loose spur-wheel m mounted in a bearing f. Wheels x, g loose on these shafts mesh respectively with a wheel a fast on the shaft z and with the wheel c which slides on a squared part of the shaft z. By means of sliding clutches, either of the wheels x, m may be clutched to the shaft v, either of the wheels m, g may be clutched to the shaft w, and the wheel b which meshes with the wheel m may be clutched to the shaft z.