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Patent GB-190718546-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Parcel, Package, Luggage, and like Carrier and Fastener.
Inventor: BOYD WILLIAM HENRY
Filed: 1907-08-16
Granted: 1908-05-14
Abstract: 18,546. Boyd, W. H. Aug. 16. Parcel-carriers.-A parcel-carrier comprises one or more bands a, each of which is wound at one end e<2> upon a hand-operated spindle g, which automatically locks, as for example by means of a ratchet and pawl g<3>, g<4> when the band closes round the parcel. The other end e is detachably connected, as by a pin and slot i<3>, to the supports f of the spindle g. The support f is rigidly fixed to a block d, which also carries a handle d<2>. The supports fare independent of each other and of the handle d'. For small parcels, a second block is provided, the parcel being clamped between the two blocks.
Patent GB-190719236-A (GB)
Title: Ironing Machines.
Inventor: KREUTER ADAM
Filed: 1907-08-27
Granted: 1908-03-12
Abstract: 19,236. Kreuter, A. Aug. 27. Links.-In an ironing- machine, one of the links is arranged to be adjustable in lengths and to yield slightly under pressure. The upper end 39 is threaded and engages a ball-nut 40 provided with a lock-nut 41 and a pin 43 taking into a recess in the frame 36 to prevent rotation ; at its other end the link is coupled by a spring to a yoke.
Patent GB-190719717-A (GB)
Title: Apparatus for Cooling the Brakes of Motor Road Vehicles.
Filed: 1907-09-03
Granted: 1907-12-31
Abstract: 19,717. Soc. Anon. des Automobiles Peugeot. Sept. 29, 1906, [date applied for under Patents Act, 1901]. Brakes.-The brakes of a motor road vehicle are cooled by a circulation of air in the brake drums produced by an ejector operated by the exhaust gases or steam of the motor, or by a pump or blower driven by the motor. The ejector a draws air through a pipe c connected by pipes e, e<1>, e<2> to the brake drums, which are provided with air inlets g, g<1> arranged so that air is forced into the brake drums by the rotation of the wheels. In a modified form, a pump or blower forces air along the tubes into the brake drums.
Patent GB-190721859-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Apparatus for Supplying Strips of Paper or suitable Material for Wrapping or Binding Packages and for similar purposes.
Inventor: JUSTICE PHILIP MIDDLETON
Filed: 1907-10-03
Granted: 1908-04-30
Abstract: 21,859. Justice, P. M., [National Binding Machine Co.]. Oct. 3. Bobbin, spool, &c. holders and cases. - In apparatus for supplying adhesive strips of paper &c. for binding parcels or for similar purposes, the strip 25 is fed from a roll &c., contained in a suitable casing, by feed-rollers 23, 24 operated by a handle 17. The strip, which may have been gummed and dried previously, is pressed normally against a gumming or moistening pad 13 by a piece 20 carried by a pivoted arm 19. When a sufficient length of the strip has been gummed or moistened by drawing forwards the projecting end by the fingers, the handle 17 is reversed, thus causing the pawl 22 to lift the arm 19 and also causing the blade 26, frictionally secured to the spindle 16, to engage with the fixed blade 14 and sever the end of the strip. When the handle 17 is again turned in the direction of the arrow, the end of the main strip is fed forwards beyond the pad 13 before the piece 20 descends to its original position, thus presenting a dry end for engagement by the fingers.
Patent GB-190725416-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Variable Delivery Pumps
Filed: 1907-11-16
Granted: 1908-08-27
Abstract: 25,416. Clarke, Chapman, & Co., and Butler, E. Nov. 16. Differential pumps; delivery, regulating; stroke, varying.-A variable delivery is obtainedfrom a multiple cylinder constantspeed - and - stroke pump by relative adjustment of their driving-eccentrics. One plunger of each pair is actuated by a fixed eccentric and the other by an eccentric capable of relative angular control whilst in motion. The controlling-gear comprises, as shown in Fig. I, a nut E which at one end slides over and engages keys K on a sleeve extension A of the eccentric sheave, and at the other end engages helicoidal grooves H on an extension of the driving- shaft. The axial position of the nut E is determined by a wheel G engaging the screwed extension W of the shaft. A split collar L holds the flange F of this wheel G in engagement with the nut. The relative position of the pair of eccentrics is indicated by a rim M and scale X. In a modification, the part of the nut engaging the shaft is bolted to the part engaging the keys K. As applied to fastrunning pumps, which may have two pairs of plungers as shown in Fig. V, the controlling-gear comprises a nut U sliding over the extension sleeve V of the two adjustable eccentrics C<3>, C', and over a sleeve E secured to the shaft H carrying fixed eccentrics C', C. The sleeves V, E may be grooved or the sleeve V may carry keys as shown in Fig. I. Movement of the nut U is obtained by a handwheel G, screw shaft W, and yoke nut Y. Each pair of plungers work in separate chambers, and both pairs pump through a common inlet Sand outlet D.
Patent GB-190808387-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Lubricating and Cooling Media.
Inventor: DUCKHAM ALEXANDER
Filed: 1908-04-15
Granted: 1908-08-20
Abstract: 8387. Duckham, A. April 15. Lubricants.-Relates to an emulsified oil, fat, &c. for use as a lubricating and cooling medium, more particularly in the cylinders of internal-combustion engines. The composition comprises a mixture of a heavy hydrocarbon oil, and an animal fat such as lanoline, the materials being emulsified by means of ammonia or an ammonium salt of a fatty acid, such as ammonium oleate.
Patent GB-190811879-A (GB)
Title: Automatic Shaft Balancing Device for Centrifugal Pumps, Turbines and Ventilators
Filed: 1907-06-06
Granted: 1908-06-09
Abstract: 11,879. Berliner-Maschinenbau Akt.- Ges., [formerly L. Scheartzkopff]. June 6. [Patent of Addition to No. 13,167, A.D. 1907.] Centrifugal pumps.-Relates to improvements i n the end-thrust balancing - device for centrifugal pumps described in Specification N o . 13,167, A.D. 1907. The impeller d and balancing-piston a are secured to a shaft w and are capable of slight endwise movement. A balancing- chamber f is formed in the casing e. Fluid leaks from the pump delivery space to the chamber f around the periphery of the piston a and escapes through an annular throttling space formed by shoulders c<1>, c<2> on the piston and casing respectively. The variation of this throttling space by the axial movements of the shaft causes a variation of the balancing pressure in the chamber f. The end-thrust is accordingly automatically balanced.
Patent GB-190816766-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Electro-magnetic Clutches.
Filed: 1908-08-10
Granted: 1908-12-17
Abstract: 16,766. Siemens Bros. Dynamo Works, [Siemens-Schuckertwerke Ges.]. Aug. 10. Clutches.-The armatures c, Fig. 1, of an electromagnetic clutch with a stationary magnet f are mounted on their shafts a<1>, a<2> by means of flexible diaphragms b or springs &c. When the electromagnet f is excited, the armatures c are drawn together until gripping-rings d, which also act as distance-pieces and as a path for the magnetic flux, engage frictionally. The gripping-surfaces e may be conical, and, if the magnet be arranged as in Fig. 3, the rings d need not be magnetic. Only one of the armatures need be flexibly mounted, and the magnet f may be arranged at one side as in Fig. 5. In this case the rigid armature c', c<2> has an annular gap closed by a non-magnetic ring h, the armature c forming the bridge for the magnetic flux.
Patent GB-190817054-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Apparatus for use in Subjecting Ores, Shale, Coal, and the like, to the Action of Heat, more especially intended for use in Treating Iron-ore, or Iron-stone Shale.
Inventor: PEAT JAMES BARCLAY
Filed: 1908-08-13
Granted: 1909-04-29
Abstract: 17,054. Peat, J. B. Aug. 13. Retorts. - Apparatus for treating ore, shale, coal, &c., particularly for treating iron ore to obtain the magnetic oxide, comprises a bunker 1 in which the material is dried, and upper and lower chambers 5, 8 connected by one or more tubes 6 surrounded by heating-flues 13. The material passes from the bunker 1 through a shoot 2 and hopper 4 into the upper chamber 5, and then through the retort tubes 6 into the lower chamber 8, from which it is discharged by means of a valve 9. The material may be heated with or without the presence of air. In the former case ferric oxide is produced from iron ore or ironstone shale, while in the latter case the magnetic oxide is formed. The material is heated in the bunker 1 by the waste furnace gases passing through the flue 16, which is formed with an enlargement 18 to give a greater heating effect. The flue 16 is provided with an air jacket 22, the hot air from which passes through the material in the bunker. Means are provided for draining away condensed moisture. The tubes 6 may be tapered, and corrugated or ribbed on their outer surface ; they are mounted so as to permit of expansion, and are heated by means of the flues 13, which are of larger cross-section at the bottom than at the top. The material is discharged from the tubes by a plate 7 rotating or oscillating about a longitudinal axis. A rod 38 carrying the plate 7 may be provided with a worm or projections to facilitate the passage of the material. The gases given off by the charge are withdrawn by a pipe 29, and are utilized to blow air into the furnace or to increase the chimney draught.
Patent GB-190900590-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Continuous Current Dynamo-electric Machines.
Inventor: MARCHAL PIERRE
IPC: H02K23/66
Filed: 1908-08-14
Granted: 1909-06-17
Abstract: 590. Marchal, P. Aug. 14, 1908. Interrupters, mechanical.-Fig. 4 shows a switch for making and breaking the field circuits of a dynamo for igniting in internal-combustion engines, and consisting of lever contacts opened successively by means of a cam on the engine shaft. To vary automatically the duration of the make and break, the cam 21, Fig. 6, is not fixed rigidly upon the engine shaft but can move away centrifugally so that a greater arc of the cam acts upon the levers as the speed increases.
Patent GB-190904443-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Knitting Machines.
IPC: D04B9/00
Filed: 1909-02-23
Granted: 1910-02-23
Abstract: 4443. Marks, E. C. R., [Wilcomb Machine Co.]. Feb. 23. [Addition to 2812/08.] Circular machines. - Relates to modifications of the machine described in the parent Specification. The presser ring 9 is provided with a bevel edge 9<a> and downwardly-projecting teeth 9<b> which extend below the lowest position of the needle-heads, thus avoiding the possibility of the needles striking the ring 9 in their upward movement. The web-holders 7 act similarly to the dividing-wheels of a loop-wheel frame, the new loops being held on the tops of the webholders previous to being drawn into the fabric. This action renders the new loops of equal length, facilitates the use of tender yarn, and assists in preventing small obstructions, knots, &c. from appearing on the face of the fabric. The sinkers and web-holders are thinned at the acting ends as shown, the sliding surfaces being of the full width to facilitate removal from the inside of the machine. The pivoted web-holder cams 39 are adjusted by means of pins 41 working in grooves 42 cut in pivots 43, to which are fixed levers 45 which may be turned by hand. The sinker cover-plate is provided with an upwardly-extending edge, which prevents the access of oil to the acting ends of the sinkers.
Patent GB-190904793-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Machines for Filling Bottles and like Receptacles.
Inventor: HADDAN REGINALD
IPC: B67C3/24
Filed: 1909-02-26
Granted: 1909-06-24
Abstract: 4793. Haddan, R., [Pfaff, R.]. Feb. 26. Bottling.-In a rotary-table bottling-machine of the type in which the bottle-holders are lifted by fluid under pressure, all the operations for charging with pressure gas and filling the bottles, and for the supply and return of pressure fluid for lifting the bottles to the filling- heads, are controlled by a single central cock. In the form shown, the plug 2 of the central cock is stationary and the shell 3 revolves with the filling-heads, but this arrangement may be reversed. The supply vessel 4 is carried by the plug, suitable passages being provided for the supply of pressure gas and liquid to the filling- heads 6 and the return of snifted gas to the reservoir. In one form of the invention, compressed air for lifting each bottle-holder 29 is supplied by an air-pump, not shown, through channels 9, 11, 8 in the plug 2, one of the channels 12 in the shell, and a pipe 13, shown at the left-hand side of Fig. 1, to the cylinder 31. At the end of the filling-operation, rotation of the machine enables the air to flow through the right-hand pipe 13, channels 12, 14, 15, 16, and a pipe 34, into the atmosphere, allowing the bottle-holder to descend. The pressure of the compressed air is sufficient to overcome the bottling counter-pressure as well as the weight of the parts. In a modification of the invention, Fig. 6, water under pressure is used for pressing the bottles against the filling-heads. The water is forced through a pipe 41 by a pressure and suction pump 40, and then through passages in the plug and shell and.a pipe 13 to the cylinder 31. Instead of exhausting to the atmosphere, the liquid flows back to the pump through the passages 14, 15, 16, 17, a pipe 34, a channel 44 in the standard, and a pipe 47.
Patent GB-190922707-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Starting Gates.
Inventor: CHAPMAN CHARLES ARTHUR
IPC: A63K3/02
Filed: 1909-10-05
Granted: 1910-02-24
Abstract: 22,707. Chapman, C. A. Oct. 5. Starting - gates for horse races. - Relates to a starting - gate of the type in which the barrier is drawn by weights diagonally from before the horses. The barrier consists of two ropes 1 stretched over pegs 3 on posts 4 and held tight by elastic sections 2. Loops 12 of easily breakable material are emboddied in the barrier, so that these will break in the case af a false start instead of the ropes 1. The barrier is held on the pegs 3 by catches 13 against the pull of ropes 6 attached to weights 9. To start the race, the starter moves a switch which closes the circuit of an electro-magnet 27; attracts a detent 26 and allows a weight 25 to fall, thus operating another detent 22 which allows a second weight 20 to fall. The weight 20, being connected by cords 18 with the catches 13, pulls them down and releases the barrier. The weights 9 may be arranged to fall upon spring buffers.
Patent GB-190923768-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Telemeters.
Inventor: COLZI VIRGILIO
Filed: 1909-10-16
Granted: 1910-09-22
Abstract: 23,768. Colzi, V., and Bardelli, F. Oct. 17, 1908, [Convention date]. Range-finders.-In a short-base coincidence telemeter, the optical parts are mounted in a frame 1 with strengthening-ribs 2 projecting from a central block and connected together by rings, the whole being enclosed in a protecting-casing 4. The two separate half-images are brought into the field of the eyepiece by means of a system of three prisms 10, 11, 12, Figs. 6 and 28, the path of the rays for one of such images being as shown by 14<a>, 14<b>, 14<c>, 14<d>, 14<e>, in Fig. 6, the eyepiece 9, which is furnished with a longitudinal sector 15, Fig. 1, to divide the field into two parts, being mounted to face the emergent face of the prism 12. The reading-device consists of two prisms 16, 17, Fig. 14, mounted in drums &c. to be rotated equally and in opposite directions to effect coincidence, the circumference of the drums being graduated empirically. As a single point cannot be viewed simultaneously in both half-fields, a mounting is supplied on one side of the instrument carrying a prism 39 and an optical block, the prism when in position throws the rays emanating from one point into the field of view, and the block is turned into position for normal working, its function being to act like the prism to shorten the focal length of the lens 7 to the same extent. To see that correct initial adjustment is obtained, subsidiary prisms 44, 45, Fig. 28, are placed on either side of the eyepiece prism with scales on their ends as at 46. These scales are illuminated from the outside, and the rays pass in the example shown from the opposite reflecting side of the prisms through the lens 8, by which they are slightly bent below the axis X and reflected at 46<d>, 46<e>, 46<f>, back above the axis into the prism 11, and thence.into the eyepiece. Both scales should be seen normally in the eyepiece, but if they are not, flexure is given to the body of the telemeter by means of a screw acting on a bar eccentrically connected to the ends of the telemeter.
Patent GB-190925741-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Tool for Watchmakers.
Inventor: FROMENT CHARLES
IPC: G04D3/04
Filed: 1909-11-08
Granted: 1910-06-30
Abstract: 25,741. Froment, C. Nov. 8. Tools, special.- An instrument for use in watchmaking comprises a support 1 for a working - table, mounted on a hollow foot 2 and having an arm 5 in which a vertical screwed rod 7 carrying the toolholder 6 is guided directly above a channel 3 in the support 1 communicating with the hollow foot. The table 9, provided with a ring of perforations 10, has a spindle 34 which fits into a bore in the support 1. The table can thus be adjusted and clamped by means of a screw 4 so that any suitable perforation is over the channel 3, in order that the parts of the watch removed by the tool may be dropped into the receptacle 2. In a modification, the screw 7 is guided by means of a vertical rod connected to it and passing through a bracket fixed to the upper part of the arm 5. Two forms of a device for removing watch-hands are described; the device comprises two adjustable jaws and is adapted to be attached to the tool-holder 6.
Patent GB-190929124-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Cardboard or other Boxes.
Inventor: FLORA ELLSWORTH EPHRAIM
IPC: B65D5/32
Filed: 1909-12-13
Granted: 1910-04-14
Abstract: 29,124. Flora, E. E. Feb. 26, [Convention date]. Folding boxes; corner joints; straps, strengthening.-A box of cardboard or other material comprises sides 110, 112, a bottom 111, and a lid 113 consisting of separate pieces connected together along the edges by continuous troughshaped metal binding-strips 4 formed with flanges 6, which may be corrugated, as shown at 14, for strengthening purposes. The binding- strips are secured to the sides &c. by nailing, riveting, &c. The loose ends 8 are formed with grooves or recesses 9 along their edges, in which the flanges. 6 engage in setting-up the box. Specification 8854/08 is referred to.
Patent GB-191011792-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Electric Cable.
Inventor: BEAVER CHARLES JAMES
IPC: H01B3/08
Filed: 1910-05-12
Granted: 1911-03-09
Abstract: 11,792. Beaver, C. J., Preece, G. G. L., and Claremont, E. A. May 12. Armouring cables. - Conductors having two concentric armouring layers and particularly suitable for use in fiery mines and similar situations are constructed with a layer of heat and fire resisting material between the two layers. This material E situated between the armouring-layers F, D may be of asbestos, slag-wool, or hair or vegetable fibre, made fire-resisting by the usual methods, and it prevents arcs or volatile inflammable matter due to failures in the conductor from reaching the outside of the cable before the safety-devices protecting the line have operated.
Patent GB-191012177-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Composition for Building Manufacturing and the like purposes.
Inventor: SIEGMANN WILLIAM GERHARDT FRIE
IPC: C04B28/32
Filed: 1910-05-17
Granted: 1910-10-20
Abstract: 12,177. Siegmann, W. G. F. May 17. Plastic compositions containing fibres and oxychlorides.-A plastic composition consists of straw, calcined magnesite, magnesium chloride, asphalt, boric acid, and crushed stone, gravel, or stone dust. When required for floor arches, partitions, electric insulating, doors, stairs, table tops, &c., the proportions preferred are 50 lb. of chopped or pulverized straw, 65 lb. of calcined magnesite, 10 gals. of magnesium chloride, 1¢ gals. of asphaltum, and 10 oz. of boric acid. For heavy traffic, the proportions are 50 lb. of straw, 70 lb. of magnesite, 6 gals. of magnesium chloride, 5 gals. of asphaltum, and 5 oz. of boric acid. Two parts of one of these mixtures are mixed with one part of a mixture consisting of 100 lb. of stone, 2 lb. of magnesite, and ¢ gal. of magnesium chloride.
Patent GB-191012574-A (GB)
Title: Moving Picture Machine and Film.
Inventor: VICTOR ALEXANDER FERDINAND
IPC: G03B21/32
Filed: 1910-05-24
Granted: 1911-05-18
Abstract: 12,574. Victor, A. F. May 24. Kinematograph apparatus.-The picture-carrying disk has a spiral series of perforations 12 through it with which engages a pointer 13 on a reciprocating rod 14, which also has an upward and downward movement imparted to its working end by means of an eccentric pin on a revolving disk 18. The picture-carrier can move transversely under the influence of the pointer and the last perforation 19 is made so long that the pointer on reaching it ceases to drive the disk.
Patent GB-191013641-A (GB)
Title: A Single Knife Double Acting Dobby.
Inventor: WILSON JOHN
IPC: D03C1/06
Filed: 1910-06-06
Granted: 1911-05-25
Abstract: 13,641. Wilson, J., and Riley, J. H. June 6. Dobbies. - In a single - knife double - acting dobby, the pattern chain 9<A> operates tumblers 6, 6<A> having ends 10, 11 arranged to control catches 2, 2<A>, which are adapted to engage an horizontally-reciprocating knife 1. The jack levers 4 are operated by connectors .3 pivoted to the catches 2, 2<A>.
Patent GB-191016169-A (GB)
Title: Improvement in the Production of Water-soluble Crystalline Aluminium Formate.
Inventor: SEFTON-JONES HERBERT
IPC: C07C51/43
Filed: 1910-07-06
Granted: 1910-11-24
Abstract: 16,169. Jones, H. Sefton-, [Quade, F.]. July 6. Aluminium formate.-Crystalline water-soluble aluminium formate is obtained by evaporating on the water-bath a solution of aluminium formate containing excess of formic acid. In the examples the salt is obtained by evaporating the commercial aluminium formate solution with the addition of formic acid until a crust forms and then crystallizing at 25-30‹ C., or by evaporating a solution of aluminium hydroxide in 95 per cent formic acid. The crystalline cake can be freed from formic acid by washing with ether. On dissolving the salt in water, it cannot be re-crystallized as can be done with the basic chromium formate Cr (HCOO)3, 2 Cr (HCOO)2.OH+H2O. Aluminium acetate cannot be obtained by the above processes. Specification 8643/07 is referred to.
Patent GB-191020945-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Centrifugal Machines.
Inventor: PATON JOHN MCCLURE CALDWELL
Filed: 1910-09-08
Granted: 1911-01-19
Abstract: 20,945. Paton, J. M. C. Sept. 8. Driving. - The spindle of a centrifugal machine in which the basket or container is supported on the upper end of the spindle is prolonged downwards through the lower bearing, as shown, so that it can be connected to any desired driving-mechanism.
Patent GB-191023367-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Eyeglasses.
Inventor: NEWBOLD HARRY
IPC: G02C5/12
Filed: 1910-10-08
Granted: 1911-02-16
Abstract: 23,367. Newbold, H. Oct. 8. Eyeglasses.-In eyeglasses fitted with spring plaquets forced apart by finger pressure to adjust upon the nose, the gripping pressure of the plaquets is limited by means of adjustable stops. In the form shown in Fig. 1, the stop consists of an adjustable screw 6 passing through the finger grip 4 and through a flange 7, which may be pushed on one side to lock the screw after adjustment; or a lock-nut may be used. In the form shown in Fig. 3, the stop consists of a metal tongue 6 adjusted by bending. Either of these forms may be modified by having the stop set in or attached to the lens mounting 2 and bearing on the finger grip. Fig. 13 shows a further form in which the stop consists of a washer, fastened on the pivot post beneath the spring, and having a piece 6 bent downwards into the path of the plaquet arm.