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Patent GB-190426144-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Apparatus for the Distribution of Liquids such as Sewage, and the like.
Inventor: MACCORMAC ERNEST CAMPBELL
Filed: 1904-12-01
Granted: 1905-11-16
Abstract: 26,144. Maccormac, E. C. Dec. 1. Sewage and foul waters, treating; filtering; tanks for.-The apparatus is specially intended for distributing sewage and waste waters to filter beds, tanks, &c. In Fig. 1 a single siphon is shown. When the collecting-tank is full, liquid overflows into the tank 13, and the float 12 is raised and opens the air valve 10, discharge through the siphon then taking place. The tank 13 is discharged by the siphon 14. The latter may be replaced by the arrangement shown in Fig. 7, where an outlet tube 15 is sealed by mercury in a floating receptacle 16, the seal being broken when the receptacle falls with the level of the liquid in the collecting-tank. Fig. 3 shows apparatus for filling two or more filter beds in order. The float 18 rises with the liquid until it engages with the stop 26. The liquid continuing to rise forces the seal 19<a> and releases the air from the float through the small chamber 27. The fall of the float rotates a shaft 23 by means of a lever 19<b>, a ratchet, and a ratchet-wheel. The shaft carries cams which engage with strikers on the air-valve levers of the siphons. The valves are held on their seats by weights 31 on the levers and are closed gradually by means of an air cushion formed of two cylinders sliding one within the other, the outer one having a small air-hole. The length of time during which the air valve is open may also be regulated by means of the valve 28 of the chamber 27. Fig. 5 shows an arrangement by which the air valves 34<a> &c, of a series of siphons are operated by means of a single cam shaft. The float 43 in this case is placed in an inner compartment of an auxiliary tank 44<b>. Reference is made to an arrangement of this nature in which a central float controls the air valves of a series of siphons by means of radial levers.
Patent GB-190427833-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Fastener for Papers and the like
Inventor: BAWCOMBE HENRY
Filed: 1904-12-20
Granted: 1905-10-12
Abstract: 27,833. Bawcombe, H. Dec. 20. Paper-fasteners.-A tubular screw rivet in two parts, Figs. 1 and 2, is used to hold together papers, textile fabrics, &c. which have to be added to or rearranged. A wire, Fig. 3, provided with a handle A and a screw thread B to screw into the tube serves as a guide for the papers. The guide may have a piercing-head, Fig. 4, which is removed when the screw part, Fig. 1, is to be applied. After screwing the parts of the rivet together, the guide is removed. The free ends of the shanks may be cut off in a diagonal manner for piercing the material.
Patent GB-190428687-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Means or Apparatus for Automatically Starting, Controlling, and Stopping Single or Multiphase Alternating Current Electric Motors.
Inventor: CARR OSWALD
Filed: 1904-12-29
Granted: 1905-12-07
Abstract: 28,687. Carr, O., and Birch, J. C. Dec. 29. Motors, controlling. -In order that the requisite current may be supplied to the armature of an alternating-current series or repulsion motor both at starting and during running, the position of the brushes upon the commutator is automatically d etermined by means of a centrifugal governor or the like driven by the armature shaft, which serves, in addition, to open-circuit the motor upon the occurrence of an overload or a failure of current. The overload and no-voltage release arrangements are shown also in their application to induction motors. Within the end casing C, Fig. 3, of the motor and upon the armature shaft G is fixed a disc O, provided with two or more radial slots P, within which slide pins Q connected to governor balls R mounted on levers S pivoted to a sliding sleeve T. Pins V at the extremities of a forked lever W enter into an annular groove in the sleeve T, and the lower end of the lever W is provided with a spur-sector 2 gearing with a pinion 3 on a screw-threaded shaft 4, which works through a swivelling nut fixed to one of the arms of the brush-rocker N, so that, as the sleeve T moves along the shaft, the brushes are moved around the commutator. When the sector 2 is moved away from the commutator, a projection 8 thereon bears upon a switch arm 7, and completes the motor circuit between the terminals I, J. Upon the occurrence of an overload or a failure of the supply, the centrifugal governor moves the sector back, and the projection 8 engages with a projection 9 on the arm 7, thereby opening the switch. The brushes are brought into the best position for starting, and the switch 7 is closed by pressing the upper end of a lever Y pivoted on the brush-rocker handle or on a spindle Z and with its lower end in a position for moving the sleeve T. Fig. 2 shows an induction motor, in which one end of the lever W works in the annular groove U of the sleeve T and the other end between projections 11, 12 on the switch arm 7, which is adapted to make contact with the terminals I, J. Springs 13, 14 connect the levers W, 7.
Patent GB-190513127-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in the Manufacture of Salt
Inventor: HARGREAVES JAMES
Filed: 1905-06-26
Granted: 1906-06-21
Abstract: 13,127. Hargreaves, J. June 26. Common salt.-Brine is purified by adding chlorine or a hypochlorite or the like to oxidize ferrous salts, after which soda or other alkali or lime is added in excess to precipitate lime and magnesia. The precipitate carries down with it the ferric oxide produced by the oxidation of the ferrous salts. Crystals of salt produced from the purified brine are free from colour.
Patent GB-190517353-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Yielding Bearing.
Inventor: LAVAL CARL GUSTAF PATRIK DE
Filed: 1905-08-28
Granted: 1905-09-21
Abstract: 17,353. Laval, C. G. P. de, and Fagerstr÷m, E. E. F. Aug. 28. Supporting bearings.-A yieldina bearing for steam-turbine and other high-speed shafts is supported by one or more cords or wires b coiled over at least two supports c placed at opposite sides of the shaft.
Patent GB-190519571-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Self-acting Mules.
Inventor: HOUGET FERNAND
Filed: 1905-09-28
Granted: 1906-08-16
Abstract: 19,571. Houget, F. Sept. 28. Mules.-A buffer, for deadening the shock of the carriage against the frame at the end of the inward traverse, consists of a cylinder 2 in which works a piston 3, the pistonrod 4 terminating in a flange 5 against which the carriage acts to compress a fluid in the cylinder. When a compressible fluid, such as air, is employed, the exhaust outlet 8, provided with a regulating- cock 7, is arranged on the side of the cylinder, and the piston closes the outlet before completing its stroke, the compression thus produced arresting the carriage gently and facilitating the commencement of the outward traverse. When an incompressible fluid is employed, the outlet 8 is arranged at the end of the cylinder, and in such a manner that the fluid offers an increasing resistance to the inward movement of the piston. A light spring 6 effects the return movement of the piston as the carriage runs out.
Patent GB-190519991-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Forging Press Die.
Inventor: LANGE WALTHER
Filed: 1905-10-03
Granted: 1906-05-03
Abstract: 19,991. Lange, W. Oct. 3. Forging; shearing.-A forging-press die for making burrless forgings is in three parts a, b, c, the part b being fixed and being of a definite height corresponding to the size of the ball &c. to be made, or having one or more notches at a certain height. The metal is placed in the parts b, c and compressed by the part a, any surplus metal flowing out from between the parts a, b or along the notches, being shearing off when the part c is lowered and the part a advanced further.
Patent GB-190524828-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Burner for Testing Gas
Inventor: CARPENTER CHARLES CLAUDE
Filed: 1905-11-30
Granted: 1906-01-04
Abstract: 24,828. Carpenter, C. C. Nov. 30. Gas burners.-To adapt to tri-current argand burners for testing gases of different compositions or quality, the disk G, described in Specification No. 13,553, A.D. 1905, for simultaneously regulating the air supply through passages E, J to the inner and outer surfaces of the argand flame, the disk is formed with a flange N, which regulates the supply of additional air through the ports L wben the disk is raised or lowered to vary the air supply through the passages E, J. A small quantity of air is continuously supplied to the passage M by a channel K.
Patent GB-190526236-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Two Speed Driving Gear for Cycles.
Filed: 1905-12-16
Granted: 1906-08-23
Abstract: 26,236. Hub Two Speed Gear Co., Reynolds, C. H., and Palmer, W. H. Dec. 16. Variable-speed gearing; clutches.-In the type of two-speed driving-gear for bicycles &c., in which a sliding sun-pinion D is adapted to be clutched to a stationary member E and to the hub, the sunpinion is constructed with a clutch extension d to engage either the stationary member or the hub clutch a. These teeth a are preferably formed in a sleeve a<1> inserted within the hub, or they may be formed by pins or projections secured thereto. As further modifications, the pins that carry the planetpinions may be extended inwardly to constitute the hub clutch, or the teeth may be formed as part of the pinion carrier. In a second arrangement of the gear, the extension d carries balls, rollers, or pawls to engage ratchet teeth in the station and hub clutches, or the extension of the ann pinion may be cut with ratchet teeth adapted to be engaged by pawls upon the axle clutch and the hub. The axle and hub clutches may be arranged in close juxtaposition, no free space being left between them.
Patent GB-190601219-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Automatic Coupling Devices for Railway Waggons and other like Vehicles.
Inventor: JAMES REGINALD WILLIAM
Filed: 1906-01-16
Granted: 1907-01-10
Abstract: 1219. James, R. W., [Duplessis, J. J.]. Jan. 16. Couplings, automatic.-A tumbler b is pivoted at c in the split draw-head d, so as to be raised on impact and dropped through the link f of the oncoming vehicle. To allow vehicles of different heights to couple, the mouth of the draw-head contains a pivoted guide-plate g, which rests on a yielding support such as a spring h. The disengaging-gear is attached to the protruding upper part b<1> of the tumbler, and a pin may be inserted in a hole e to prevent premature disengagement.
Patent GB-190602791-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and connected with the Manufacture of India Rubber and like Compositions
Inventor: JACKSON PEARSON JACQUES
Filed: 1906-02-05
Granted: 1907-01-31
Abstract: 2791. Jackson, P. J. Feb. 5. No Patent granted (Sealingfee not paid). India-rubber compositions.-A non-slipping indiarubber composition for tyres and the like is obtained by mixing from 10 to 20 per cent of granulated or powdered blast-furnace slag with the rubber substance and vulcanizing or otherwise hardening the mixture. [Reference has been directed under Patents Act, 1902, to Specifications No. 2121, A.D. 1889, [Abridgment Class Moulding &c.], No. 6830, A.D. 1896, No. 27,606, A.D. 1898, [Abridgment Class Cements &c.], and No. 5648, A.D. 1904.]
Patent GB-190604263-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to the Doors or Valves of Dumping Vehicles or Receptacles
Inventor: GOODWIN JOHN MARSTON
Filed: 1906-02-21
Granted: 1906-06-21
Abstract: 4263. Goodwin, J. M. Feb. 21. Door-opening apparatus. - The drop doors of dumping-vehicles or receptacles are built up from sheet-metal blanks. Fig. 1 shows a transverse section of a vehicle &c. The door G is pivoted at 4 to arms 3 on a shaft 1, which can rock in brackets 2. It is supported in the closed position by a ledge on its free edge bearing on a door A, which is mounted on a longitudinal shaft J and is held raised by a detent C. When this detent is rotated outwardly, the door G swings down, first about the shaft 1 and then about the pivots 4.
Patent GB-190605673-A (GB)
Title: Improvements to Reflex Cameras, by the Addition thereto, of a Swing Back
Inventor: HUMAN ERNEST
Filed: 1906-03-09
Granted: 1907-01-17
Abstract: 5673. Human, E. March 9. Cameras.-To adapt a swing back to a camera of the reflector type; so that the focal plane, the mirror, and the focusing-screen have always the same relative positions, the three parts D, B, C are mounted on an inner framework G which swings on pivots A within the camera casing, and may be rotated by the pinion R. The focal-plane shutter F and reversing-back H rotate together with the frame G.
Patent GB-190606395-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Damping Devices for Tubular Bells or Chimes.
Inventor: MOORE WILLIAM ROBERT
Filed: 1906-03-16
Granted: 1906-08-02
Abstract: 6395. Moore, W. R. March 16. Tubular bells or chimes are damped by hinged arms B, covered with felt or like material, and held in continuous contact with the edges or sides of the tubes by gravity or by springs.
Patent GB-190609977-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in & relating to Apparatus for Rifle Gunnery & like Practice
Inventor: MITCHELL FRANK
Filed: 1906-04-28
Granted: 1907-05-28
Abstract: 9977. Mitchell, F. April 28. Rifle &c. practice, teaching.-Rifles, guns, or their substitutes are adapted for shooting practice, the aim being indicated without ammunition being necessary. Fig. 2 shows a wire &c. connector 2 extending through the bore of the gun and attached at one end to a rubber plug 5 and at the other end to a weight 7 after passing through a target 3. The weight keeps the cord &c. stretched. A washer 8 on the wire may make contact with an adjustable cone-shaped ring 9, and electric connexions are made as shown with the barrel, a battery 12, electro-magnet 11, armature 14, a bell, the trigger, and a metal strip 10 extending along the gun. If the gun is aimed correctly, the washer 8 does not contact with the ring 9 and the trigger being pulled the bell will ring, but, if not, then the bell is cut out of circuit by the armature 14. The bell may be replaced by other indicators such as electric lights &c., and the coned ring or washer may consist of a number of insulated segments so that an indication may be given by one of a series of circuits and thus locate the aim. Fig. 6 shows a modification in which a universally-mounted rod 17 outside the barrel is attached by an elastic cord to the target and is adapted to make contact, when the gun is fired, with a small target 20 having a series of insulated contact-surfaces connected with an ordinary room indicator. The target 20 is jumped forward by the firing needle bolt of the gun against the action of a spring. Fig. 9 shows another modification in which a chemically prepared target 20 carried by a cap removable from the gun is marked by metal points 18, 19 in an electric circuit controlled by the firing of the gun. The points are carried by a bent rod 17 supported by the connector 21. In a similar manner, an electric discharge may perforate the target 20 and so produce a mark. Various modifications are described in which the connector or the small target are mechanically operated so as to mark or prick the result of the aim. In all cases the connector is kept taut by means of springs, weights, or their equivalents. The Provisional Specification describes various modifications in which a connector is used ; it is therein also stated that the operator may carry on his shoulders a satchel which contains the battery and the target-indicating apparatus &c., and also describes types of rings, such as 9, Fig: 2, of such a construction that their internal diameter can be varied.
Patent GB-190611352-A (GB)
Title: Detachable Sign or Mark for Drinking Vessels
Inventor: SCHMIDT HUGO
Filed: 1906-05-15
Granted: 1906-05-31
Abstract: 11,352. Schmidt, H. May 15. Drinking-vessels.- A detachable mark or sign for drinking- vessels consists of a clip a, bearing a piece b shaped as a heart, cross, or the like.
Patent GB-190612143-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Loose Leaf Binders.
Inventor: HONEY ERNEST KITT
Filed: 1906-05-24
Granted: 1906-10-04
Abstract: 12,143. Honey, E. K. May 24. Filing papers &c.-In a binder having posts e. attached at their lower ends to the bar of one cover, the bar b of the other cover is locked adjustably to the posts by means of sliding blocks g, one for each post, operated by eccentrics k, Figs. 3 and 4, by conical-headed screws m, Fig. 6, or by cams or the like. The blocks g slide on V-guides in the bar b, and are inserted through recesses which are afterwards filled by blocks h carrying the eccentrics or screws k, m, &c. These blocks are fixed by screws i. The bars band blocks g are formed with semicircular recesses where they engage the posts. Separate blocks g, h, &c. are provided for each post. The posts may be in sections screwed one to another for varying the length.
Patent GB-190612213-A (GB)
Title: Brush for Cleaning Artificial Sets of Teeth
Inventor: NEWTON PHILIP ARTHUR
Filed: 1906-05-25
Granted: 1906-09-27
Abstract: 12,213. Newton, P. A., [Klewe & Co.]. May 25. Handles. - The handle of a brush for cleaning artificial teeth is made curved, as shown, and preferably of celluloid.
Patent GB-190612421-A (GB)
Title: Manufacture of New Azo-dyestuffs.
Filed: 1906-05-28
Granted: 1906-09-06
Abstract: 12,421. Soc. pour l'Industrie Chimique Ó Bale, [called Society of Chemical Industry in Basle]. May 29, 1905, [date applied for under Patents Act, 1901]. Dyes, artificial.-Azo dyes are produced by combining a diazo derivative of an anhydroaminoalphylacidyl-1 : 2 diamiuonaphthol sulphonic acid (produced by using 1 :2-diaminonaphthol derivatives in the process described in Specification No. 13,778, A.D. 1902), with a dye component. The monazo dyes so produced are combined with diazo compounds. According to an example, a dye is obtained from anhydro-m-aminobenzoyl-1: 2-diamino-5-naphthol-7-sulphonic acid, 1 : 4-naphtholsulphonic acid, and o-toluidine. Instead of o-toluidine, aniline, xylidine, anisidine, or p-aminoacetanilide may be used. Instead of 1 : 4-naphtholsulphonic acid, the corresponding 1 :5- and 2 :6- acids may be used
Patent GB-190615523-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in connection with Crane Mechanism.
Inventor: METCALFE HENRY WRAY
Filed: 1906-07-09
Granted: 1907-05-09
Abstract: 15,523. Metcalfe, H. W. July 9. Grabs.-A grab is suspended from the travelling carriage of a transporter by two ropes connected to a chain f passing around a chainwheel g mounted on an axle g<1>. The outer extremities of the bucket sections are hinged to arms i mounted loosely on the axle g<1>, and the pivotally-connected inner ends of the buckets are suspended .by chains m wound round and secured to the axle g'. If one side of the chain f is wound up, the other being paid out, the wheel g is rotated and the grab opened or closed.
Patent GB-190620780-A (GB)
Title: An Apparatus for Recovering Useful Substances suitable for Cattle Fodder from the Waste Water of Corn Washing Machines.
Inventor: PIEPENBRING EMIL
Filed: 1906-09-19
Granted: 1907-02-14
Abstract: 20,780. Piepenbring, E. Sept. 19. Drying food for animals. - Relates to apparatus by which vegetable substances suspended in the waste water from cornwashing machines are recovered and prepared as food for animals. The water is passed through one or more coarse sieves c and one or more fine sieves f, which allow the muddy water to flow away. The material collected is passed to a press l, which may be replaced by a centrifugal or vacuum drying-apparatus, and thence to a drying- stand m. The material may be packed as powder or formed into cakes.
Patent GB-190623203-A (GB)
Title: Repair Plug for Pneumatic Tires
Inventor: KINNEY RALPH PARSONS
Filed: 1906-10-19
Granted: 1907-03-14
Abstract: 23,203. Kinney, R. P. Oct. 20,1905, [date applied for under Patents Act, 1901]. Tyres, pneumatic.-A repair plug for punctured pneumatic tyres is formed of a flange a with a flat under surface and tapering edge connected by a short neck a<2> to a pear-shaped nipple a<1>. The device is made of rubber, the nipple being of greater hardness than the remainder of the plug.
Patent GB-190626210-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in the Manufacture of Metal Strip or Wire.
Inventor: COWPER-COLES SHERARD OSBORN
Filed: 1906-11-19
Granted: 1907-11-19
Abstract: 26,210. Coles, S. O. Cowper-. Nov. 19. Copper, refining; making wire.-Relates to the electro-deposition of strip or wire directly from crude copper. The apparatus is similar to that used for refining crude copper, except that the cathodes are rotated and are somewhat larger. The cathodes may be of copper or a copper alloy, or lead or lead-coated iron, and may be in the form of disks, Fig. 3, with a continuous spiral scratch d<1> on both sides; or they may be square with stepped rounded edges, Fig. 4, and provided with a spiral scratch v. Fig. 2 shows in plan cathode disks d mounted on a shaft f, driven from a shaft by gearing l, m and a shaft i, the bearings g being preferably open at the top so that the shaft f may be lifted out of the tank. Each cathode d is arranged between two fixed anodes b of crude copper, which may be supported in guides c. The anodes have connexions r with a conductor p, and the cathodes have connexions with a conductor o, by brushes q which may be arranged to make contact with the shaft f instead of directly with the cathodes. The shafts f, i may be hollow, and the electrolyte may be delivered through them at holes s between the cathodes and anodes.
Patent GB-190626610-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Centrifugal Pumps and Turbines.
Inventor: REES EDMUND SCOTT GUSTAVE
Filed: 1906-11-23
Granted: 1907-11-21
Abstract: 26,610. Rees, E. S. G. Nov. 23. Turbines.-A rotor for a centrifugal pump or outward-flow water turbine is formed by dividing by means of a central web a rotor such as that described in Specifications Nos. 4810 and 14,253, A.D. 1906, into two separate fluid-pressure reservoirs, each having a constricted peripheral outlet or series of nozzles discharging into separate sets of expanding channels or suitable chambers in the casing. The dividing web is so formed and provided with interlacing passages C, C', Fig. 1, that the fluid which enters at the left eye A is discharged from the right-hand outlet B and the fluid which enters at the right eye A' is discharged from the left-band outlet B<1>. By connecting the fixed channels receiving the water from one outlet with the inlet eye in the same side, a two-stage pump or turbine is obtained. Fig. 3 shows the arrangement of fixed cut-water rings and ducts in a multi-stage pump consisting of three double impellers c. The arrows show the path traversed by the fluid. The casing d is a bored-out casting pro.vided with annular connecting-grooves e and ducts e'. To it are fixed the cut-water rings a, having suitable expanding channels b and also the symmetrical partitions f provided with ducts f<1>, f<2>. The interconnexions of the rotors in multi-stage arrangements may be varied in a number of ways, thereby involving constructional modifications of the stationary cut-waters, partitions, and casing. Figs. 5<a>, 6, and 7 show three interconnexions diagrammatically. The full and broken lines g indicate in each case the path of the fluid in the machine, the full lines being the portions of the path within the rotor. k is the centre line of the shaft, h the periphery of the rotor, and i the periphery of the cut-water ring. Fig. 5<a> shows an arrangement of two double rotors in series ; Fig. 6 shows two double rotors in parallel, and Fig. 7 an arrangement whereby one stream of fluid passes successively through the right-hand rotors of a number of double rotors, while another stream passes successively through the left-hand rotors. The casing passages of this last modification are interlaced as shown at j. In each of these three cases, end thrusts on the shaft are balanced.