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Patent GB-190815409-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in the Construction of Stop Tap and similar Boxes.
Inventor: HARPER FREDERICK
Filed: 1908-07-21
Granted: 1909-04-15
Abstract: 15,409. Harper, r., and Johnson, J. July 21. Road service b o x e s.-A thick moulded slab a, Fig. 1, of concrete or the like is bricked or set in the road surface, and through its centre a large vertical opening a' is, provided. The opening is preferably enlarged at a<5>, and is formed at a<6> with a ledge serving-as a seating for a metal frame d with a cover d<2>, the frame and cover being fixed by a small filling of cement a<8>. The lower part of the service box may be formed of a drain-pipe e or of brickwork. In a modification, Fig. 3, the opening a' is moulded to receive a piece f similar to the socketed end of a drainpipe. The piece f provides the ledge a<6> for the frame d and lid d@, and also accommodates the end of the drain-pipe e. In a further modification, Fig. 5, the slab a is dispensed with, and the piece f is set in brickwork g.
Patent GB-190817147-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Excavating Apparatus for use in Open Works.
Inventor: WISCHOW EMIL
Filed: 1908-03-11
Granted: 1909-02-18
Abstract: 17,147. Wischow, E. March 11. [Patent of Addition to No. 5488, A.D. 1908.] Excavating.-Relates to improvements in the excavating-apparatus described in Specification No. 5488, A.D. 1908, in which a rigid guide-rail carries a slide provided with a rotating cutting-tool. Two carriages 1, 2, running on rails 3, 4 at the bottom and top of the working respectively, support by a link 6 and guide 8 a rigid guide-rail 9 carrying a tool slide 10. The guide-rail is moved to or from the working-face, and the tool slide 10 traversed along the rail, as described in the above-mentioned Specification. Means are provided for enabling the carriages 1, 2 to travel around sharp curves in the rails. The carriage 1 runs on two pairs of rails 3 ; on each pair of rails are three bogie frames 37, the middle bogie frames having slight lateral play. The six bogie frames support the carriage 1. The carriage 2 is mounted on two bogie frames 38. The cutting-tool mounted on the tool slide 10 may comprise a disk 40, Fig. 7, rotated by suitable means and carrying cutters 41. Several of these rotating cutter disks may be mounted on the tool slide 10. In another form the tool slide is divided into two parts 42, 43, Fig. 9, the front part 43 being adapted to be turned on the back part 42 and clamped thereon in any desired position. Rotating cutter disks may be mounted on the front part 43; or a cutter chain 19 may be carried by rollers 17, 18 driven by suitable means: In the form of the apparatus shown in Fig. 11, the guide-rail 9 has no movement independent of the carriage, the movement of the cutting-tool 46 to or from the working face being effected by mounting the tool adjustably on a shaft 47. In a modification of this form, the tool slide carries a part adjustable towards the working face; on this part a cutter roller is' journaled, the cutter being rotated by an electric motor and chain gearing.
Patent GB-190817370-A (GB)
Title: A New or Improved Flying Machine.
Inventor: EQUEVILLEY-MONTJUSTIN RAYMOND
Filed: 1908-08-18
Granted: 1909-08-18
Abstract: 17,370. Montjustin, R. d'Equevilley-. Aug. 18. Gas and like engines, mounting and supporting. In an aerial machine having two sets of aeroplanes 1 to 25 strained between inner and outer rings b, a, the motor g is elastically mounted by fitting it in a ring e which is supported from the ring b by rods or ties f.
Patent GB-190820265-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Clamping Mechanism for Printing Presses.
Inventor: LAKE HAROLD WILLIAMSON
Filed: 1908-09-26
Granted: 1909-04-22
Abstract: 20,265. Lake, H. W., [Goss Printing Press Co.]. Sept. 26. Printing-surfaces ; printing-rollers.-In a plateclamping mechanism for rotary printing-machines, the clamps may be separately adjustable to plates of different widths, and may also be simultaneously moved to lock the plates on the cylinder with sufficient yielding to allow for slight irregularities in the edge of the plate. The screw-operated clamps 44, Fig. 2, shaped to receive the bevelled edge of the plate 49, are carried by the two semiannular members 13, 14 which form an extension of the main cylinder 12 but are capable of slight longitudinal movement relatively to it. The clamps 44 move in slots 42, Fig. 9, in the members 13, 14, and can be independently adjusted in them by the screws 34, Fig. 2, turned by a suitable wrench, movement by hand being prevented by the spring detent 38. A spiral spring 36 presses the screw and clamp forward to allow for irregularities in the plate. The members 13, 14 fit on the hub 15 of the cylinder 12, and are secured thereto by means of links 21, Figs. 1 and 5, pivoted at 23 to the hub 15. The outer end of each link 21 is journaled upon an eccentric stud 20 mounted upon an eccentric pin 18, which is held in position in the member 13 or 14 by a key 25. The outer end of the pin 18 has a squared hole to receive a key, by means of which the eccentric stud 20 can be operated to move the member 13 or 14 relatively to the cylinder 12. The pin 18 is held against a slight turning-force by a spring pin 27 engaging depressions in its side. The cylinder 12 has the usual fixed stops 45, 46, and also movable stops 47 mounted in the slots 48 for use when the cylinder is constructed to carry four plates 49, 50, . . . abreast. In a modified construction, the movable members 13, 14 are narrower, and the clamps move in slots in the cylinder 12 instead of in the members 13, 14.
Patent GB-190825320-A (GB)
Title: Heating Cartridges or Fire Lighters.
Inventor: WANNER HERMANN
Filed: 1908-11-24
Granted: 1909-08-26
Abstract: 25,320. Wanner, H. Nov. 24. Composition fuel ; wood fuel. -A combustible box a of wool, paper, &c., containing combustible materials, for lighting fires or for temporary heating purposes, is open at the bottom excapt for cross. strips g of paper &c. which are pasted on after the box has been filled. The box has holes in the sides and top, and contains materials in layers each adapted to be ignited by the one below ; for instance, at the bottom shavings, wood-wool, or paper; in the middle sticks with interstices between them, and at the top coal or coke. The sides of the box may be secured by pasted strips of paper &c. or by wire, metal pieces, or a combustible adhesive.
Patent GB-190904196-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Means of Connecting and Jointing Sewerage Gas and Water Pipes Mains and Branches and Stop Ends to same.
Inventor: CHICK PERCY
IPC: F16L13/11
Filed: 1909-02-20
Granted: 1909-10-21
Abstract: 4196. Chick, P. Feb. 20. Spigot - and socket joints held by cement and the like. -Relates to joints for gas, water, sewage, and like pipes, in which a notched flange on the spigot passes through and is engaged behind a notched flange in the socket, the joint being made good with cement &c. A peripheral groove f is formed on the flange a of the spigot, registering with a corresponding groove in the socket, the groove being run with cement &c. through an opening e. The spigot may have a flange butting against the mouth of the socket, or the socket may be extended as at h and the space thus formed packed with cement &c. The joint may be applied to end-stopping devices for pipes.
Patent GB-190912160-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or connected with Loom Picking Mechanism.
Inventor: TOYODA SAKICHI
IPC: D03D49/24
Filed: 1908-05-26
Granted: 1909-08-26
Abstract: 12,160. Toyoda, S. May 26, 1908. Checking picking-sticks.-The picking bar or stick 6 is checked by two leather loops 2, 3 mounted in a frame 1, one leather loop diminishing the blow given to the other. The leather loops are adjustably anchored or fixed to the frame by a pin, which fits through slots in the loops, whereby the swing of the picking-stick may be varied. The leather loops 2, 3 pass close together between the two members of the U-shaped arm 8 of a support 7, and the loop 2 is adjustably anchored by a bolt 13 to a slide 11, which is adjustably bolted to an extension of the support 7. The bolt displaces the inner loop inwards, and thus regulates the friction of the movement of this loop in the support 7 when struck by the picking-stick.
Patent GB-190914606-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Impulse Turbines.
IPC: F01D11/00
Filed: 1909-06-22
Granted: 1909-10-14
Abstract: 14,606. Brown & Co., J., and Bell, T. June 22. Stuffing-boxes, substitutes for.-A leakage-preventing device for impulse turbines, such as those of the Curtis type, comprises a sleeve E having a flange D secured to the stationary diaphragm A. The sleeve is recessed to receive a segmental ring J of brass or other soft metal or composition, the inner surface K of which is circumferentially grooved. The sleeve E, which is preferably of the same material as the shaft B, is formed with a reduced part G to facilitate expansion. The segments J are tongued together as shown, with the necessary clearance, and, to allow for circumferential expansion of the segments, one only of the securing-screws H for each segment has a tight fit in the ring E.
Patent GB-190920213-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to Floating Docks.
IPC: B63C1/02
Filed: 1909-09-03
Granted: 1910-09-01
Abstract: 20,213. Mavor, H. A., and Mavor & Coulson. Sept. 3. Floating docks.-A floating dock is provided with means exterior to and removable from its structure for temporary use in effecting its transportation oversea. These means may comprise propellers, inclined shafts c, and motors mounted in housings on the outer walls driven from a central station on the dock and preferably provided with " spinners " as described in Specification 8851/07, [Class 35, Dynamo-electric generators &c.]; or the motor k, Fig. 7, may have two windings of different pole values adapted to be connected in different orders to two alternators i, j of different periodicities, as described in Specification 12,917/09, [Class 35, Dynamo-electric generators &c.]; or separate single-winding motors m of different pole values may be connected in different orders with a corresponding number of alternators n of different periodicity as described in Specification 11,183/07, [Class 35, Dynamo-electric generators &c.].
Patent GB-190921220-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Flying Machine.
Inventor: ROOTS JAMES DENNIS
IPC: B64C25/00
Filed: 1909-09-16
Granted: 1911-05-25
Abstract: 21,220. Roots, J. D. Sept. 16. Aerial machines without aerostats; arrangements of land-wheels for starting flight; steering.-Aerial machines are provided with steering land-wheels adapted to be operated simultaneously with the rudder and preferably also with the balancing- planes. According to the Provisional Specification, small machines may be mounted upon a bicycle frame with a single steering-wheel and suitable trailing-wheels. As shown, the machine is provided with a pair of steering-wheels B operated by the pillar R, nut R<3>, and lever T. A second lever T', Fig. 6, is connected with the nut R<3> and operates the rudder I and lateral balancing-planes J by wires T<2>. The operation of the balancing- planes may be delayed with respect to that of the rudder by interposing a lost-motion device. The elevator K may be operated by the pillar W screwing into the pillar R and having the grooved collar W<2> for engagement of an operating-lever. Shock of landing, deadening.-The forks P of the steering-wheels B are pivoted in a pair of parallel plate springs 0 secured at their forward extremities to a frame-bar of the machine. Planes, arrangement of.-The invention is shown as applied to a machine having front and rear rows of superposed planes F, G, elevator K, and tail planes H. The middle front planes J are pivoted at J' to serve as lateral balancing-planes as described above.
Patent GB-190922493-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Sliver Cans.
Inventor: SHEPHERD ARTHUR
IPC: B65H75/16
Filed: 1909-10-02
Granted: 1910-09-22
Abstract: 22,493. Shepherd, A. Oct. 2. Non-metallic hollow-ware; bodies; ends, footrings, and binding-hoops.-A sliver can built up of butt-ended sheets of veneer, and having the joints of the respective layers displaced relatively to each other, is formed with multiply-veneer strengthening-bands e, j, at the top and bottom respectively, and is protected by seamless metallic rings f, m swaged over the edges of the can. The bottom is also of multiply veneer, and preferably has its lower layers of smaller diameter than the others, so that its layers will rest on the top edge of the ring j.
Patent GB-190922863-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Bearings suitable for Roller Skates.
Inventor: STARLEY WILLIAM
IPC: A63C17/22
Filed: 1909-10-07
Granted: 1910-05-12
Abstract: 22,863. Starley, W. Oct. 7. Ball bearings.-In a roller skate having rollers divided into-two or more parts to allow differential action, each part 1, 2 of the roller has a V-shaped groove 4 running on a single row of balls 3. Single cones 5, 6 and a double cone 7 are mounted on the spindle and adjusted by a nut 9. The spindle passes through arms 11 on the frame 12, separated by a distance piece 13, the rollers at each end of the spindle being adjusted simultaneously by one of the nuts 9. In a modification, the spindle is fixed to the frame 12 and the rollers are adjusted independently.
Patent GB-190925021-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Dredgers.
IPC: E02F3/92
Filed: 1909-10-30
Granted: 1910-08-25
Abstract: 25,021. Simons & Co., W., Brown, W., and Brown, W. Oct. 30. Suction apparatus.-In a suction dredger, a fanshaped suction nozzle A is divided by a partition B into two sections, each communicating with an independent suction pipe. The valves connecting each suction pipe with the pump are connected with the mooring-winch used for moving the vessel radially, so that, as the vessel is swung to one side, the suction pipe on that side is in communication with the pump, and the nozzle makes a cut in that direction.
Patent GB-190926428-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to the Treatment of Gases from Coke Ovens or Gas Retorts.
Inventor: JONES ARTHUR OWEN
IPC: C10K1/04
Filed: 1909-11-15
Granted: 1910-11-15
Abstract: 26,428. Jones, A. O. Nov. 15. Tar; washers.-In the extraction of tar from the gases from coke ovens or gas-retorts, the gases at a temperature of about 110‹ C. are passed through a body of tar at about the same temperature, so that the water vapour in the gas does not become condensed, and the lighter hydrocarbons are deposited with the tar in its passage through the body of liquid tar. Apparatus used in connexion with this process consists of two superposed chambers 1, each having an annular trough 2. The top chamber is supplied by the pipe 3 with tar heated to about 110‹ C., which overflows into the lower chamber through the tube 4, and is conveyed away by the pipe 5. The gases forced through the inlet 7, and directed by the hoods 8, bubble through the tar in each chamber, and escape through the outlet 10. The gases are then admitted directly to the sulphuric-acid solution, also at a temperature above the boiling-point of water.
Patent GB-190929472-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Machinery for Finishing Cords, Fustians, velvets, and other suitable Pile Fabrics.
Inventor: KERSHAW JOHN
IPC: D06C29/00
Filed: 1909-12-16
Granted: 1910-09-15
Abstract: 29,472. Kershaw, J., aud Helliwell, W. H. Dec. 16. Pile, raising and dressing. - Velvets, cords, and like pile fabrics are dressed by means of rotary brushes mounted in a reciprocating frame, and so arranged that the direction of rotation changes with that of reciprocation, and the brushes are arranged at an angle to the run of the fabric, so that their actions overlap and reversal marks are obliterated. The brushes F are mounted on shafts E in frames B, which reciprocate on the frame A; and the shafts E carry raw-hide pinions G at the centre, which gear with a rack H reciprocating in guides J. The frames B and rack H are reciprocated by connexions S, P to reverse cranks K on a driving shaft L, so that the direction of movement of the frame and brushes is the same. The brushes work over tension rollers U carried by the frame V supported upon the arms W of adjustably weighted levers X, links Y preventing lateral movement. The fabric passes to the rollers U over rollers 3, and the cranks operate to reciprocate the rack and frame quickly, each throw of the cranks causing the brushes to make approximately two revolutions, and, owing to the relative speeds, each reciprocating traverse is practically over the same part of the cloth. The brush shafts E are set at an angle to the run of the cloth. Further tension and guide rollers may be mounted above the brushes, and the brushes will then operate on the cloth at two opposite points of their periphery.
Patent GB-191000641-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or connected with Gas Lamps.
Inventor: GLOVER RICHARD BOWIE GASKELL
IPC: F21S13/10
Filed: 1910-01-10
Granted: 1910-12-08
Abstract: 641. Glover, R. B. G. Jan. 10. Lighting burners, lighting-holes and doors for.- Relates to closing-appliances for the torch-holes of street gas lamps, of the kind that are dish-shaped and hinged to the lamp, and consists in providing means whereby the portion fitting the torch-hole always has a proper seating. The torch-hole D has splayed-out walls E and receives a hemisphere A pivotally mounted on a bar B which is hinged to the lamp frame C. The bar B may be spring- controlled.
Patent GB-191003694-A (GB)
Title: New or Improved Device for Fastening Veils to Ladies' Hats and the like.
Inventor: CLEGG-HILL CHARLES ROWLAND
IPC: A42B5/00
Filed: 1910-02-15
Granted: 1910-04-21
Abstract: 3694. Hill, C. R. Clegg-. Feb. 15. Hats with veil - holders. - A device for attaching veils to hats consists of a bar, provided with projecting knobs, fixed to the hat. The bar C provided with knobs D is fixed to the hat behind the band B, if there be one, by means of a strip E, looped over the bar and riveted, and having holes H for sewing. The strip E, of which there may be more than one, may be made integral with the bar, or may be riveted directly to it.
Patent GB-191004662-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Furnaces or Fire Places.
Inventor: NAGY DESIDERIUS
Filed: 1910-02-24
Granted: 1910-10-13
Abstract: 4662. Nagy, D. Feb. 24. Cooking-ranges; coking - chambers. - Relates to stoves &c. provided with retorts or coking- chambers for the preliminary coking of brown coal, wood, &c. Fig. 1 shows the improvements adapted to a kitchen range. The retort f is fitted in guides e so that it may be withdrawn from the fire-place. The top g is also made removable to facilitate the charging of the retort, and a sliding bottom h is fitted to enable the partly-coked fuel to be dumped into the fireplace a. The gases distilled off pass into the retort chamber or inner casing m, and thence through a pipe d to the fire-place. Apertures c allow the flames to pass into the flues.
Patent GB-191007851-A (GB)
Title: A Device for Sending Current Impulses particularly applicable to Automatic Telephone Systems.
IPC: H04M1/31
Filed: 1910-03-31
Granted: 1910-09-15
Abstract: 7851. Deutsche Telephonwerke Ges. Nov. 8, 1909, [Convention date]. Automatic exchange systems.-Relates to impulsetransmitters particularly applicable for automaticexchange telephone systems. The keys d have a certain freedom of movement, and, by their operation, vary the position of stops r co-operating with a stepped strip e in such a manner that the stops limit the motion of the contact mechanism q, u, v. In the form shown, a framework b, f, g, pivoted on an axis c, carries a number of bars t, to which the key-bars t<1> are attached by pin-andslot connexions i, k. When a key is depressed, its projection r is moved to the right, and limits the depression of the key by engaging the stepped strip e. During the downward movement of the frame b, the sector m moves the pawl o idly over the inside teeth of the cam-disk p, the pivoted projection s preventing the possibility of the closing of the contact u, v. During the return movement of the frame b, the disk p and projection s intermittently close the contact u, v.
Patent GB-191008128-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Devices for Charging Smoking Pipes with Tobacco.
Inventor: DRYSDALE HENRY
IPC: A24F9/02
Filed: 1910-04-04
Granted: 1911-01-05
Abstract: 8128. Drysdale, H. April 4. Tobacco - pipe filling apparatus. - The apparatus comprises inner and outer cylinders 1, 2 and a third cylinder 4 arranged as shown. The cylinder 4 is slightly withdrawn by means of the plunger 6 to admit the inner end of the paper covering of the cartridge 8. When the plunger is operated, the cylinder 4, under the action of the spring 7, first grips the paper covering between the flange 4a and the cylinder 1, and holds it while the tobacco is ejected.
Patent GB-191010398-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Non-conducting Coverings for Steam Pipes and the like.
Inventor: ENGLISH WILLIAM ERNEST
IPC: F16L59/12
Filed: 1910-04-28
Granted: 1911-04-06
Abstract: 10,398. English, W. E., and Mills, C. H., [trading as Thermal Insulating Co.], and Perkins, H., and Hastie, J. C. April 28. Non-conducting coverings.-A non-conducting covering for steam-pipes &c. comprises loose or fibrous non-conducting material, such as silicate cotton or flock asbestos, located within a casing comprising lengths of sheet-metal spaced from the pipe by means of distance-pieces composed of solid non-conducting material, such as magnesia or asbestos in the form of semicircular or lesser segments, each casing length having its longitudinal seam fastened by means of slots c receiving bent tongues b cut without waste, and having a raised bead a forming an abutment for the end of the next length.
Patent GB-191013494-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to the Hulls of Ships.
Inventor: BENTES MANOEL RAYMUNDO
IPC: B63B1/04
Filed: 1910-06-03
Granted: 1911-06-01
Abstract: 13,494. Bentes, M. R. June 3. Hulls.-Comprises a flat-bottomed hull having the greater draught forward and the maximum beam towards the bows. The greatest width c, d is about one-eighth of the length and situated at a distance of one-third of the length from the bows. The difference in draught fore and aft is about one quarter of the draught aft.
Patent GB-191014400-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Cash Registers.
IPC: G06C11/02
Filed: 1910-06-14
Granted: 1911-06-08
Abstract: 14,400. National Cash Register Co., [National Cash Register Co.]. June 14. Cash registers. - The improvements a r e in key set and operated cash registers, and comprise key operating and interlocking mechanism, and indicator and register operating-mechanism. Tablet indicators.-A weighted yoke l lying across the key-levers is linked to a crank K, Fig. 4, on a shaft w<1> carrying a web W, which is adapted to engage projections w on any indicator stems that have been raised through a short distance initially by the keys. Triangular spring-pressed pawls C' hold the indicators so set by engaging notches c<3> in the stems, which have deep notches c, c' to allow disengagement of the pawls at the end of the travel. A key is held depressed while the remaining keys are successively depressed, the web W being in the position shown in Fig. 5. The crank-pin is guided by a cam-groove k<1>, Fig. 4. Differential mechanism.-The register is operated by racks r<1>, pin-and-slot connected to links carried by the key-levers, the racks being thrown into engaging position by cam arms m on the links engaging a fixed bar v. The arms m are withdrawn from the racks by engaging a bar v<1> when the racks abut against a transverse plate of the casing so as to prevent overthrow. Keyboard interlocks.-A simple cam-and-lever transfer mechanism being employed, it is necessary that the keys should be operated only in succession. To ensure this, a double set of stops for the key-levers is employed, a rear set of the well-known wedge stops S' for each denomination preventing any two keys of the same denomination from being operated for the same transaction, and a front set of similar stops S extending across the machine but cut away so as to prevent simultaneous but allow successive actuation of any two key levers. Instead of hanging wedges, chamfered disks U, U<1> may be employed strung on transverse shafts u, u<1>, the key-levers having extensions cut away at one side.