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Patent GB-190719046-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Spring Mounted Platforms for Railway Vehicles and the like.
Inventor: JEPSON JAMES THOMAS
Filed: 1907-08-24
Granted: 1908-04-23
Abstract: 19,046. Jepson, J. T. Aug. 24. Platforms, communication; vestibules, collapsible, connecting cars.-Communication platforms and vestibules of railway vehicles are mounted on automatic buffer couplers of the kind described, for instance, in Specification No. 26,165, A.D. 1904, whereby contiguous platforms are maintained approximately in contact on curves and with the heaviest draw-bar pulls. The consequent increase in the width of the buffer face, moreover, facilitates alinement when coupling on curves. The platform buffer plate 1 is riveted to the buffer face 3 carried on the draw-bar 7 on which the buffer springs 4, 5 are disposed at either side of the web 6 secured to the vehicle. The draw-bar is capable of lateral movement and may be supported by means of a guide-plate 9 fixed to the vehicle. In the case of vestibules, a similar arrangement of springs may be used at the top of the vehicle. Closer contact of adjacent platforms may be obtained by interposing springs between the coupler and the platform buffer to take up any longitudinal slack.
Patent GB-190720301-A (GB)
Title: Method of Distributing the Gases in Gas Burners for Lighting and Heating Purposes.
Inventor: DETSINYI GUSTAV
Filed: 1907-09-11
Granted: 1908-02-13
Abstract: 20,301. Detsinyl, G. Sept. 11. Incandescent gas burners.-The burner head, shaped like a prism, cylinder, hemisphere, ellipsoid, inverted pyramid, or preferably an inverted cone, is formed of superimposed non- conducting corrugated or flat plates a, notched or grooved, or separated by notched or grooved refractory distance-pieces b, so that the gaseous mixture can pass laterally from a central .passage d or passages in the burner head to the outside. Additional plates may be arranged on the burner head to increase the storage and radiation of heat.
Patent GB-190722593-A (GB)
Title: Improved Transformable Vehicle-body.
Inventor: BUFF THEODORE HENRI
Filed: 1907-10-14
Granted: 1908-05-07
Abstract: 22,593. Buff, T. H. Nov. 28,1906, [date applied for under Patents Act, 1901]. Seats and seat backs, arrangement of.-The seats 3, 18 of motor and other vehicles are pivoted to the sides of the body at 4, so that they may be turned underside uppermost and form with the backs 5, 19 hinged to them a flat surface at the top of the body for carrying goods. When so transformed, the seat sides 7, 20 fit into the stepping in openings 11, which may be closed by slides at other times, while the supporting cross-piece 17 turns about the pivot 15, and the cross-piece 21 hinged to the hind seat forms an horizontal extension supported by the doors 23. The vehicle may be used for both passengers and goods by closing down the seats as stated, and securing to the platform removable folding benches. These consist of a seat 24, Fig. 7, to which the supports 25 and sides 26 are hinged, and a back 27 sliding in grooves in the sides. Sliding bolts 28 keep the parts in the unfolded position, and the hinged lap plates 29, through which pass bolts pivoted in recesses in the platform, serve to secure the benches. In this case, the goods are disposed beneath the platform. A detachable leather or other covering may be used to hide any defacement of the seat backs. The Specification in the original form as published under the Act of 1901, describes leaves hinged to the seat sides 7, 20 and extending respectively to the seat backs 5. The cross-piece 17, also, is shown pivoted to the floor of the vehicle. This subject-matter does not appeir in the Complete Specification as accepted.
Patent GB-190723077-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or connected with Automatic Lubricators.
Inventor: ROSS ROBERT LIGHTON
Filed: 1907-10-19
Granted: 1908-07-16
Abstract: 23,077. Ross, R. L. Oct. 19. Actuating pumps. -In pump and other lubricators actuated by ratchet mechanism the feed is varied by masking some of the teeth of the working ratchet-wheel. An idle ratchet -wheel a, mounted loosely on the boss of the working ratchetwheel e, is formed with quadrant flanges a', and similar flanges h<1> are formed on a plate h, which is adjustably secured to the wheel a by a screw i and a slot. By adjusting the flanges a', h<1>, the number of teeth exposed to the action of the pawl g is varied. The wheel a is driven by a pawl b mounted on the pin c which carries the pawl g. The actuating- lever d is mounted loosely on a boss of the wheel e. The plate h may be dispensed with, the flanges a<1> being used alone. Two independent driving-pawls may be used and may be masked by flanges of different widths.
Patent GB-190724517-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Processes of Melting in Electric Furnaces and their Application to the Extraction of Easily Volatilizable Metals.
Inventor: HERRENSCHMIDT HENRI
Filed: 1907-11-05
Granted: 1908-10-29
Abstract: 24,517. Herrenschmidt, H. Nov. 9, 1906, [date applied for under Patents Act, 1901]. Electric furnaces.-An arc furnace is used for obtaining in a molten state bodies which are volatilized at temperatures lower than that of the arc, especially metals such as lead, antimony, and tin, such bodies being prevented from volatilizing by a protective slag between them and the arc. Heat is absorbed by the fusion, and in some cases the volatilization, of materials in the slag, or these may react endothermically, and the effect may be increased by working under pressure. At starting, sufficient slag material is introduced to cover the hearth when fused, after which the body to be melted and the remaining slag material are added, the absorption of heat being regulated during working by addition or removal of slag. The process may be combined with that for extracting metals described in Specification No. 20,377, A.D. 1907, [Abridgment Class Metals and alloys]. Specification No. 8288, A.D. 1902, is also referred to.
Patent GB-190727911-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Apparatus for Drying Tea-leaf, or other Produce.
Inventor: JACKSON WILLIAM
Filed: 1907-12-18
Granted: 1908-05-14
Abstract: 27,911. Jackson, W. Dec. 18. Drying tea &c.-In a chamber in which tea &c. is dried on endless bands, louver trays, &c., and which is supplied at one end with air from a heater, this end or its upper parts only is left open, and the air escapes at the lower parts of the sides, preferably into spaces formed by a casing surrounding the drying-chamber. in the apparatus shown, the open end D of the chamber is controlled by a counterbalanced baffle-plate E. The air passes from a heater B through the open end into the drying-chamber, and escapes into a casing F surrounding the drying-chamber, or a part of it.
Patent GB-190801171-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in connection with the Lubrication of Internal Combustion Engines for the Propulsion of Boats and other Vessels.
Inventor: ANSTEY HENRY CHARLES
Filed: 1908-01-17
Granted: 1908-09-17
Abstract: 1171. Anstey, H. C., James, C., and Young, J. W. Jan. 17. lubricators. - A system of lubrication for internal-combustion engines for propelling boats &c. comprises a pump e, which draws waste oil from a well c in the crank chamber b and forces it to a filter i and tank j, whence the main lubricating-pump d draws its supply through a pipe k. The oil is cooled by radiation from the sides of the tank j and the pipes, and it may be cooled still further by passing cold water through a coil in the tank.
Patent GB-190801820-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Blasting and Mining Fuses.
Inventor: HARLE JEAN
Filed: 1908-01-27
Granted: 1908-04-09
Abstract: 1820. HarlÚ, J., Jan. 27. Blasting and mining fuses.-A compound fuse adapted to act as a detonator or as a slow-burning fuse, comprises a core b of trinitrotoluene or other detonating explosive within a lead sheath a, and an annulus c of slow-burning powder, such as is used for Bickford fuses protected by the usual plaited covering d. Various ways of making branches off a main fuse are described, comprising intermediate primers and wire or clip binders. Fig. 8 shows a method of connecting a length of slow-burning fuse q to a length of fuse o to be detonated. Fulminating primers p, n are attached to the end of the fuses, and are held against each other by a clip k having tongs l adapted to be closed in by means of rings.m. The primer n may sometimes be dispensed with.
Patent GB-190804189-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Pentagraph Engraving Machines applicable for the Engraving or Preparation of Flat Dies or Plates.
Filed: 1908-02-25
Granted: 1908-04-30
Abstract: 4189. Calico Printers' Association, Rawsthorne, J. T., and Pryke, J. Feb. 25. Engraving.-A pantographic machine, such as is described in Specifications No. 14,709, A.D. 1900, and Nos. 6150 and 12,679, A.D. 1907, is constructed so as to be capable of engraving flat dies or plates. The punch A, Fig. 2, or drill, is mounted on a pivoted bar B and is actuated in a known way. Rails E, E<2> which are moved by the pantograph are employed, and from the rails E<2> two standards S are supported. These standards are formed of lower parts s<2> bolted to brackets s<1>, and upper parts s<3> stayed by a bar s' and formed with sockets to receive bowls s, which support a plate-carrier S<1>. The carrier S' is moved longitudinally by disks E<1> which are actuated by the rails E, and is moved laterally by the rails E<2>. The sockets in the standards S may receive the brackets which carry a cylindrical die, so that the machine can engrave both plates and rollers.
Patent GB-190808997-A (GB)
Title: Improved Means for Ventilating or Cooling Laminated Iron Cores Carrying a Magnetic Flux, whose Principal or only Component is a Simple Alternating Flux.
Inventor: LOW ARCHIBALD REITH
Filed: 1908-04-25
Granted: 1909-01-21
Abstract: 8997. Low, A. R. April 25. Transformerss.-Laminated cores, for transformers or other apparatus in which the principal or only component of the field is a simple alternating flux, are cooled by elongated and narrow slots having their length parallel to the flux and their least area transverse thereto. Fig. 1 shows a laminated transformer core with four slots ; eight or more slots, arranged as shown in Fig. 3, are used in the case of larger machines. Webs may be left as shown in Fig. 1, to strengthen the structure. In a modification, the slots may be made in an oblique direction by stepping the position of each slot in successive laminations. In the form shown in Fig. 7, the slots are continuous, thus dividing the core into separate portions spaced apart by distance-pieces C.
Patent GB-190811199-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to the Moulding and Vulcanizing of Motor Car or other Wheel Tyres.
Inventor: WALLWORK ROUGHSEDGE
Filed: 1908-05-23
Granted: 1909-04-08
Abstract: 11,199. Wallwork, R., and Wallwork, C. H. May 23. Moulding tyres. -The mould is formed of a fixed part b and a counterbalanced part b<1> movable on guides d. A tyre is placed in the fixed part b and an elastic core o inserted within the tyre. The mould is then closed, the parts clamped together by means of cotters passed through holes d<1> in the guides d, and the core o forced into the mould by means of radial hydraulic pistons c<2> carried by a head c. Steam is passed through cavities e in the mould parts to vulcanize the tyre. Fig. 4 show a modification in which a fixed undivided mould w is employed, the head c being movably mounted upon a support u connected by a link t to a lever s. The core o may be made of rubber, cork, &c., but is preferably formed from rubber treated by heating to a temperature above the vulcanizing point under pressure.
Patent GB-190814988-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in the Manufacture of Bottle Caps.
Inventor: WILCOX THEODORE BALDWIN
IPC: B21D51/46
Filed: 1908-07-15
Granted: 1908-09-17
Abstract: 14,988. Wilcox, T. B. July 15. Moulding bottle stoppers.-Plastic material consisting of ground cork and sawdust bound together with fish-glue and rubber is pressed direct into metal capsules for bottles to form packing. A rotary disk 3 receives the material at 10 from a hopper 8 and is rotated by a pinion 19, which engages with a mutilated rack 20 arranged with cut-out parts to allow stoppages for filling and for a cam 21 to press upwards a plunger 13 to compress the material direct into a capsule 14 as shown.
Patent GB-190816547-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Wood-cutting Appliances.
Inventor: WADKIN JOSEPH WILLIAM
Filed: 1908-08-05
Granted: 1909-06-24
Abstract: 16,547. Wadkin, J. W., and King, T. Scott-. Aug. 5. Carving ; trenching and slotting ; tenoning.-In connexion with wood working machinery such as is described in Specification No. 19,553, A.D. 1907, means are provided for cutting accurate semicircular, hemispherical, or elliptical recesses, slots, shoulders, and the like, such as are required in the core boxes used for making moulds for engine castings. An auxiliary cutter-spindle h is carried by an extension of a revoluble casing c, which is supported upon a housing d mounted on the housing j of the main cutter-spindle. The casing c is rotated within the housing d by a handle e 'or other means, or it may be locked by a screw f. The spindle h is driven by bevel-wheels. a, from the main cutter-spindle b, is bored at k to receive a trenching-bit or other tool, and is slotted to receive a fly-cutter or like tool. This is used to form hemispherical recesses by mounting the work upon a rotatable work 'table and maintaining the axis of the spindle h stationary. The housing d may be mounted on a revoluble head as in the above-mentioned Specification, so that the trenching-bit or other tool may be presented to the work at any angle. The spindle h is secured at its inner end by a cap o. In place of the cap, the spindle may be adapted to receive a cutter used to form hemispherical recesses; but for this purpose an additional auxiliary cutter spindle x is preferably provided, driven from the spindle h by spur-wheels p, v. The spindle x may be provided with a slot z to receive a fly-cutter, or with any other means for securing suitable tools. The cutter may be arranged to revolve in a circular path intersecting the axis of the spindle b in two points, so that semicircular slots may be cut when the casing c and the work are both stationary ; hemispherical recesses are cut by revolving the casing c by means of the handle e.
Patent GB-190818681-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Process of Producing Floors, Slabs and the like in Imitation of Marble.
Inventor: RIESCH AUGUST
Filed: 1908-09-05
Granted: 1909-09-06
Abstract: 18,681. Riesch, A. Sept. 5. Stone, artificial; stone, colouring; cements. - Relates to an improved process for making floors, slabs, and the like in imitation of marble from the known composition of Sorel cement, wood meal, mineral filler, and colours. Instead of kneading the whole together as heretofore, a mixture of magnesium oxide, say 9 to 12 parts, sawdust 20 to 36 parts, and mineral filler, such as lime or asbestos, 1 to 6 parts, is moistened with just sufficient magnesium chloride, say 6À25 to 10 parts, and 7À75 to 10 parts of water, to form granules when gently stirred. The colouring-mass, consisting of colour, magnesium oxide, and mineral filler, is then dusted over the granules in such a way that the colours do not mingle, and the mass thus prepared is spread over a suitable ground, and the granules are flattened out so that the colour fills the interstices and gives the appearance of natural veining.
Patent GB-190820267-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Rock Boring Machines.
Inventor: SPENGEL HERMANN GEORG
Filed: 1908-09-26
Granted: 1909-09-27
Abstract: 20,267. Spengel, H. G. Sept. 26. Rock drills.-Relates to percussive rock drills of the type in which the percussion machine is adapted to enter the hole made by a short tool, and consists in employing an air-actuated machine. Means for feeding the tool and the machine into the hole are provided. Air, admitted at u to a cylinder s, acts on the piston r to feed the percussion machine a and the tool h into the hole. Air also passes through the feed-piston rod w, passages o, and an annular port p, to act on a shoulder c of the hammer piston d and move it backwards, then passing through a port f to return the piston. The exhaust passes through the tool h and passages k to remove dÚbris. A crank z and a rod 4 are used to rotate the drill cylinder and tool. The tool is held loosely by a set-screw l. Lengthening-pieces y may be used.
Patent GB-190820362-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Water-gauges.
Inventor: KAUFMANN WILHELM
Filed: 1908-09-28
Granted: 1909-04-08
Abstract: 20,362. Kaufmann, W. Sept. 28. Water levels, indicating.-Relates to gauges of the kind in which a float in the glass carries a spindle provided with contacts for closing an electric circuit for signalling purposes when the water falls to its lowest permissible height. According to this invention the spindle is guided within a telescopic tube, which is normally kept extended by a spring but is adapted to be pressed down by hand so that an arbitrary closing of the circuit may be produced at any time. As shown in Fig. 1, the spindle 3 of the float 2 carries metal disk contacts 4, and is guided within a tube 9 fitting tightly in a sleeve 8 but capable of axial movement. The tube is kept normally in the position shown by means of a spring 10. The sleeve 8 is screwed into a porcelain or other insulating-sleeve 7, which is provided with fixed contacts 5, 6, connected up through a source of current with an electric signal bell. When the water in the boiler falls to its lowest limit, the disks 4 on the spindle bridge the contacts 5, 6 and the circuit is completed, thereby ringing the bell. By pressing upon the top of the tube 9, the spindle 3 may be pushed down at any time to make contact and to ascertain if the apparatus is in working order. To prevent the sounding of the alarm when simply blowing off, the casing of the blow-off cock 12, Fig. 2, is provided with two contacts 14, 15 in the circuit of the alarm and adapted to be closed by means of conducting- strips 16 connected to the rotatable body of the cock, the arrangement being such that when the cock is closed the circuit through the contacts 14, 15, 16 is closed, and when the cock is opened the circuit is broken.
Patent GB-190821300-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or appertaining to Loom-dobbies.
Filed: 1908-10-09
Granted: 1909-09-30
Abstract: 21,300. Hodgson, Ltd., G., Nield, G. S., and Nichols, D. Oct. 9. Mounting and securing wheels on shafts.-A yielding coupling device is applied to any one of the wheels b, c, d through which the pattern barrel of a loom dobby is driven to prevent breakage when the motion of this barrel is obstructed. When the device is applied to the wheel c, Fig. 2, this wheel is formed with one part a<2>of a coupling- device, the other part a' forming part of an additional wheel c', which gears with the wheel b on the pattern-barrel shaft and slides on a collar m on the shaft g of the wheel c. A spring h, which is adjusted in compression by a screwed piece a<3> and a lock-nut k, normally keeps the parts a<1>, a<2> in engagement. When the device is applied to the wheel b, Fig. 3, this wheel is formed with one part a<2> of the coupling-device, and the other part a' can slide, against the action of a spring h, on a sleeve on an adjustable piece n on the patternbarrel shaft g'. A projection s on the sleeve engages a slot r in the part a<1>.
Patent GB-190823975-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Mechanism for Actuating the Type Levers in Typewriting Machines
Filed: 1908-11-09
Granted: 1909-01-21
Abstract: 23,975. Marks, E. C. R., [Stecher, G.]. Nov. 9. Typewriters.-In type-lever actions in which a pin or antifriction roller e on the key-lever or an intermediate lever g engages a guide-slot in the type-lever a, the . guide-slot d is made crescentshaped, the two surfaces d<1>, d<2> being of different curvature so that the return movement is quicker than the forward movement.
Patent GB-190824684-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Work Supports.
Inventor: STEWART WILLIAM CULLEN
Filed: 1908-11-17
Granted: 1909-01-21
Abstract: 24,684. Stewart, W. C. Nov. 20,1907, [date applied for under Section 91 of Patents &c. Act, 1907]. Nailing.-A work-support, particularly for use in connexion with loose-nailers, sluggers, and protector-drivers, is constructed so that its free end may be moved universally in a single plane, while normally it is held in such a position relatively to the machine head that the jacking &c. of the work is facilitated. The invention is described with reference to that type of support in which the jackpost 20 is carried by a bracket 3 secured to the vertically-movable jack spindle 2. The jack-post 20 is provided at its lower end with a gimbal joint, which is in two sections connected by a pivot-pin 23, while the upper section is secured to the jackpost by a pivot pin 22 at right angles to the first pin. The curved faces of the two sections limit the movements of the post. An adjustable spring 25 normally holds the jack-post in the position shown in full lines in Fig. 2. The lower end of the jackpost is mounted on a collar 8 secured to a pin 5, which passes freely through a collar 6 and a table 4 formed on the lower end of the bracket 3. The collars 6, 8 have complementary cam-surfaces 7, 9, which are held in contact with each other by a spring 10. To adjust the height of the jack-post and to lock it in its adjusted position, there is provided a handle 13 having a pair of depending hook-shaped lugs 14, Figs. 2 and 4, at its inner end. This handle is pivoted about a screw 12, which engages a lug 6<a> extending from the collar 6. The lugs 14 project past and overlie a bar 15 extending laterally from a pin 16, which is located in a recess in the collar 6. This bar is provided with a wedgefaced dog 18, which is held in engagement with ratchet teeth 4<a> on the periphery of the table 4 by a spring-pressed plug 19 mounted on the handle 13. If the handle is moved transversely in either direction, one of the lugs 14 engages the bar 15 and moves it so that the dog 18 is withdrawn from engagement with the ratchet teeth 4<a>; further movement of the handle rotates the collar 6, and thereby raises or lowers the collar 8 and the jack-post.
Patent GB-190824746-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Hames.
Inventor: KILBURN BERTRAM EDWARD DUNBAR
Filed: 1908-11-17
Granted: 1909-01-14
Abstract: 24,746. Kilburn, B. E. D., [Cameron, C. E.]. Nov.17. Collars, neck.- Hames are formed by fitting together two U-shaped metal troughs. In a hames of the Scotch type, Fig. 1, the main trough or shell a receives the filler shell d, the two being secured together by the shanks of the draught fittings which form rivets. At the lower end of the hames, the sides of the main shell a overlap and enclose the filler shell, and a cap k encloses the upper end.
Patent GB-190826740-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Pulverizers or Machines for Breaking Stones or the like.
Inventor: BARTHELMESS EMIL
Filed: 1908-12-09
Granted: 1909-06-10
Abstract: 26,740. Barthelmess, E. Dec. 9. Crushers with vibrating jaws; feeding-devices.- The swing-jaw k of a stone or rock breaker or crusher is constructed with an upper tray or panshaped extension m, which serves as a charging- hopper and feeds the material between the jaws as the swing-jaw is operated by the eccentric e.
Patent GB-190900884-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Process for the Manufacture of a Solid Coffee Extract.
Inventor: BAKONYI SIGISMUND
IPC: A23F5/38
Filed: 1909-01-13
Granted: 1909-12-16
Abstract: 884. Bakonyi, S. Jan. 13. Coffee preparations; chicory.-A solid coffee extract is prepared by boiling coffee with water in a closed vessel, reducing the temperature to 60-70‹ C., and filtering and mixing the extracts (also in closed vessels and at the same temperature) first with an extract of a coffee substitute, such as French coffee, and then with sugar. The extraction may be hastened by the use of sodium benzoate, and the aromatic principles may be absorbed and returned by sugar supported on a perforated plate above the boiling coffee. According to the Provisional Specification, the extract of French coffee is prepared by boiling with water, constantly withdrawing the vapours, filtering in a closed filter-press, and concentrating in vacuo.