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Patent GB-191106277-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Flame Spreaders.
Inventor: WINDEMULLER JAN HENDRIK
IPC: F23D14/84
Filed: 1911-03-13
Granted: 1911-10-26
Abstract: 6277. Windemuller, J. H. March 13. Atmospheric gas burners; flameprotectors. - Flame spreaders are made in the form of screens, rings, cups, &c. for displacing the initial point of combustion by retarding the contact for the mixture of air and gas with the combustion air, so that the coldest zone of the flame is at the edge of the screen &c. which thus conducts a minimum amount of heat. As shown in Fig. 2, a partial screen 5 is added to the side of the ordinary Bunsen burner 1. The coolest zone is marked 2, and the medium and maximum zones of temperature are marked 3 and 4. As shown in Fig. 3, the screen 6 is in the form of a circular plate. In the form shown in Figs. 5 and 6, the burner head 12 is closed in at the top but perforated below it, and the screen is dished, in the case of the form shown in Fig. 5, one half being deeper than the other.
Patent GB-191112279-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Machines for Opening and Scutching or Cleaning Cotton and like Fibrous Substances.
Inventor: THORNLEY WILFRID
IPC: D01B1/04
Filed: 1911-05-22
Granted: 1912-05-02
Abstract: 12,279. Thornley, W., and Knowles, P. May 22. No Patent granted (Sealing fee not paid). Openers, cleaners, and scutchers.-Relates to machines of the Buckley type. In order to prevent the foreign matter, expelled through the upper part a<1> of the grid into the chamber c, from being drawn in at the lower part of the grid, a screen b is arranged, as shown, with its upper edge in proximity to or connected with the grid bars. The screen breaks up the inrushing currents of air and prevents them from carrying the foreign matter, while permitting them to carry any fibrous material that might otherwise descend into the chamber c<2>. Any fibrous material that may descend on the upper part of the screen is removed by a vibrating bar or brush d operated by levers and links from the stop-motion mechanism or from some rotating shaft. The bottom portion of the screen is solid. The bars in the upper part a<1> of the grid may be placed closer together than those in the lower part a<2> of the grid.
Patent GB-191113790-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Vessel for Containing and Discharging Materials of a Semi-liquid or Viscous Nature such as Mustard, Liquid Adhesives and so forth.
Inventor: SCRIVENER PHILIP HENRY JAMES
IPC: A47G19/18
Filed: 1911-06-09
Granted: 1912-06-10
Abstract: 13,790. Scrivener, P. H. J. June 9. Piston apparatus for discharging receptacles. -Relates to receptacles for mustard and other viscous liquids, of the kind in which there is a base delivery opening closed by a valve 3 carried upon an operating-rod which bears also an enlargement for extruding the contents, and consists in making the enlargement 11 engage with the walls of the vessel in the closed position so as to assist in preventing leakage. In the preferred form, the valve 3 is operated from the thumb-lever 9 by the mechanism shown; but in the Provisional Specification an alternative form of operating-mechanism is also described.
Patent GB-191127352-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Shorthand Notebooks and the like.
Inventor: BATCHELDER BERTRAM GEORGE
IPC: B42F3/04
Filed: 1911-12-06
Granted: 1912-11-07
Abstract: 27,352. Batchelder, B. G. Dec. 6. Post and like files. - In a loose-leaf notebook of the kind consisting of stiff outer covers and a number of leaves held together by two or more hinged rings passing through perforations in the leaves and covers, the halves of the rings are provided with stepped extremities x, y, the overlapping faces of which are slightly inclined so as to snap into engagement.
Patent GB-191208662-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Machine for Grinding Balls.
Inventor: GREENE AUGUSTINE EDWARD
IPC: B24B11/10
Filed: 1912-04-12
Granted: 1912-08-29
Abstract: 8662. Greene, A. E. April 12. Balls, shaping and surfacing.-A machine for surfacing spherical objects such as balls comprises a work-holding chuck 56, Fig. 2, the axis 58, 55 of which rotates about a main axis 58, 52 and has its inclination to the main axis continually varied during rotation, the intersection of the two axes being the centre of the spherical object to be abraded. The machine shown in Fig. 5 consists of an intermittently rotated drum 9 carrying four spindles 52 with pinions which are continuously rotated by a spur-wheel 19, each spindle having a yoke 77 in which an electro-magnetic chuck 56 is pivotally mounted at 58. Each chuck 56 is also pivoted at its end 55 to a link 54 which is pivoted in turn to a cam sleeve 46 on the spindle 52. The sleeve coacts with a roller on the drum 9 to rock the chuck about its pivot 58 as it is rotating, and thus present various portions of the ball to the cup grinder 97. The electromagnetic chucks are energized from brushes 61 which contact with segments 60 on the drum, each segment being connected with a chuck. The drum 9 is intermittently rotated onequarter of a revolution and the grinder 97, which is mounted on a slide 11, is advanced and withdrawn by a cam 87. The sequence of operations is as follows. (i) A chuck is energized to take a ball from a feed-shoot 105. (ii) The drum is rotated a quarter of a revolution to bring the ball opposite a grinder, which is then advanced to the work and subsequently withdrawn. (iii) The drum is again rotated a step during which the chuck is deenergized, and a friction surface 100, with which the ball is in contact during this movement, causes the ball to rotate and turn its untreated surface outwards. At the end of this step the chuck is again energized to hold the ball, and a second abrader is advanced to the work and subsequently withdrawn. (iv) The drum 9 rotates a third step, after which the chuck is de-energized and the ball drops into a receptacle 108. Each chuck acts in succession in a similar manner. The balls are fed to the chucks from a hopper 108 whence they are taken one at a time by a wheel 104 which delivers them to a conveyer 107 having slanting blades coacting with a plate 119 to form pockets. When the blades pass away from the plate, the balls roll down the feed-shoot 105. For dealing with balls of wood or ivory, the electro-magnetic chucks are replaced by vacuum chucks in which the pivoted chuck is in communication through ducts in the pivots 58 with a pipe in the spindle. The spindle is rotatably mounted in a ring and communication is made at appropriate times with air ports so as to effect the sequence of operations above described.
Patent GB-191210192-A (GB)
Title: A New or Improved Pocket Typewriter.
Inventor: VIRY HEINRICH
IPC: B41J1/32
Filed: 1912-04-30
Granted: 1912-07-25
Abstract: 10,192. Viry, H. April 30. Pocket index typewheel machines; hammer-impression arrangements. - In pocket machines having the types carried axially on the resilient arms of a disk a rotatably mounted on a hinged plate c, and in which the type-disk is set and depressed by means of a handle d, the impression is made by a two-armed lever m pivoted at m<1> to the plate c. When the type-disk is depressed, the outer arm of the lever m abuts against a stop n, thus depressing the inner arm m<11> to effect impression.
Patent GB-191212585-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Coin Freed Apparatus Controlling Clock Mechanism.
IPC: G07F17/00
Filed: 1912-05-28
Granted: 1913-05-22
Abstract: 12,585. Aktieselskabet "Spareuret," and Nissen, O. A. May 28. Clocks combined with savings-boxes.-Relates to a clock combined with a coin-collecting device of the kind in which the insertion of a coin at predetermined intervals is necessary to prevent an arresting- member from engaging the balance and stopping the clock. According to this invention, a coin is held in reserve in the shoot, so that it is not necessary to insert another coin immediately after one has fallen. A spring-pressed lever 3, 4 pivoted in the coin shoot 1 has a coin-holder 6 at its lower end, and a plate 2 at the upper end adapted to support a coin 12 placed in the shoot. The lever is normally retained in the position shown in full lines by an arm 8 bearing against the edge of one of a number of sectors 9 fixed on an arbor slowly rotated by the clock, a second arm 13 being thus held out of engagement with the balance 15. When the arm 8 falls into a slot 11 between two sectors, the lever 3, 4 turns momentarily into the position shown in dotted lines, but is at once moved into an intermediate position by the coin 12, which drops from the plate 2 and rests on the coin-holder 6, being retained thereon by a weak spring 7. Shortly after, by the further turning of the sectors 9, the lever 3, 4 is forced again into-the full-line position, and the coin is discharged into the receiver. Another coin can then be placed in reserve on the plate 2. If there is no coin in readiness when the arm 8 falls into a slot 11, the clock is stopped by the engagement of the arm 13 with the balance.
Patent GB-191213373-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Explosives.
Inventor: ADDE SIMON
IPC: C06B25/30
Filed: 1912-06-06
Granted: 1913-03-06
Abstract: 13,373. Adde, S. June 8, 1911, [Convention date]. Explosives.-Consists in the use in explosives of the liquid mother lyes from the manufacture of nitroxylenes, nitrocumenes, and bi- and trinitrobenzenes; these alone or in admixtures are gelatinized with nitrocellulose with or without nitroglycerine and mixed with chlorates, perchlorates, or nitrates, and, in some cases, with carbonaceous substances, and ferro-silicon. An example contains: Mother lye from the crystallization of trinitrobenzene 28 per cent, nitrocellulose 1 per cent, perchlorate of ammonia 64 per cent, and ferro-silicon 7 per cent.
Patent GB-191215169-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Apparatus for Regulating the Supply of Liquid to Vapour Generators.
IPC: F22D5/22
Filed: 1912-06-28
Granted: 1913-05-29
Abstract: 15,169. British Thomson-Houston Co., [General Electric Co.]. June 28. Feed-water, controlling.-The feed to a steamgenerator or the like is controlled by a device responsive to changes in the rate of flow of the steam delivered by the generator. A Pitot tube or the like in the steam-delivery pipe is connected to a pivoted chamber containing mercury and adapted by its oscillations to operate a valve controlling the feed. A float attached to the chamber controls the feed in accordance with the water-level. A pitot tube 9, Fig. 1, and a trailing-tube 10 opening in the steamdelivery pipe 2 are connected by tubes 16, 17 to a pivoted annular chamber 14 containing mercury, which, as the velocity of the steam in the pipe 2 increases, is forced to one side of the chamber, thus tilting the chamber and opening the valve 7 regulating the steam-supply to the feed-pump. A float 20 is attached to the chamber. The chamber may be placed in a water-column 22, Fig. 2, in free communication with the generator. A suitably calibrated sector 32 on the spindle 12 of the chamber indicates, by comparison with the water-level in a gauge 25, the rate of flow of the steam. In this modification, the steam-supply valve 31 is operated through a relay 30, in which a piston 30<a> on the valve-spindle, and the valve 29 controlling the supply of pressure fluid to the relay are connected to a floating lever 40 pivotally attached to a rack 28 gearing with a pinion on the spindle 12. In place of the pitot and trailing tubes, the tubes 16, 17 may be connected to widely separated points in the delivery pipe, for example, to the opposite sides of an elbow 42, Fig. 5.
Patent GB-191216358-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Electric and other Supply Meters.
IPC: G01R11/56
Filed: 1912-07-12
Granted: 1913-04-10
Abstract: 16,358. Allgemeine Elektricitõts Ges. July 14, 1911, [Convention date]. Counters affording several rates of actuation. -An electric supply meter is provided with a counting-device actuated by clock-work whereby the time that the rate of consumption exceeds a predetermined adjustable limit is registered, for which purpose the meter and a constant-speed motor drive two elements of an epicyclic gear, and the third element thereof controls the clockwork. In the arrangement shown in Fig. 1, the meter spindle 1 actuates a counter 6 and drives one member 5 of a differential gear, the other member 7 of which receives its motion from a motor spindle rotated at a constant speed. If the meter spindle rotates faster than the motor spindle, a disk 11, which gears with the planet-wheel 17 of the differential gear, is rotated in a direction opposite to the arrow shown and, through a lever 13, thereby releases a hook 14 from the balance wheel of a clock mechanism 16 adapted to actuate a counter 18. According to a modification, the gear-wheel 7 is driven by clock-work and the counter 18 is coupled to and uncoupled from the clock-work when the rate rises above or falls below the predetermined limit.
Patent GB-191217116-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Tramway Points.
Inventor: CROSTA LORENZO WILLIAM
IPC: B61L5/00
Filed: 1912-07-23
Granted: 1913-06-19
Abstract: 17,116. Crosta, L. W., and Hill, W. T. July 23. Spring operation and control.-In spring-controlled points for tramways of the kind in which the spring is mounted upon a spindle attached to the point tongue, washers are mounted upon and attachable to the spindle whereby the point may be converted to a ' push,' ' pull,' or ' movable ' point as desired. In the arrangement shown in Fig. 1, the spindle 4 is adjustably connected to the point tongue 2 and fitted with one or more compression springs 17, fixed pins 13, 14, and loose washers 15, 16. When the point is required to work as a ' push ' point, the washer 15 is made to engage the stops 18 and the washer 16 is moved until its groove 22 engages the pin 14. To work as a ' pull ' point, the washer 15 is moved to engage the pin 13 and the washer 16 made to engage the stops 19. When either of these conditions hold, the spring-pressed member 10 is retracted or the member 8 reversed so that the recess therein engages the member 10. To convert the point to a ' movable ' point, the washers are held against the stops 18, 20 by a spring, the spindle being free to move through the washers and spring and the end 9 of the member 8 arranged to engage the member 10. In a modified arrangement one or both of the washers are adapted to be fixed to the spindle according as the point tongue is to be held in one position only or movable to both extreme positions.
Patent GB-191218356-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Automatic Telephone Circuits.
Filed: 1912-08-09
Granted: 1913-04-03
Abstract: 18,356. Siemens Bros. & Co., [Siemens & Halske Akt.-Ges.]. Aug. 9. [Addition to 27,458/09.] Automatic exchange systems. - Relates to a modification of the system described in the parent Specification, in which a calling line is connected to an idle group selector or connector through two intermediate switches, such as call-finders or preliminary selectors, in succession. In systems of this kind in which a connexion is first made through a call-finder, if all the group selectors to which the callfinder has access are engaged, the call-finder would be operated without being able to complete the connexion with a group selector. According to the present invention, this useless movement is prevented if all the group selectors are engaged, and another call-finder, having access to a different set of group selectors, may be set in action to receive the call. The normal contacts k of all the selectors of a group are connected in parallel to a relay G, which disconnects at g<1> the battery lead from the relays and magnets of the call-finder when all the selectors of the group are engaged. The invention is described as applied to the system shown in Fig. 3 of the parent Specification. in which a calling line is connected to a selector through a two-co-ordinate call-finder AS', AS<2>, and a preliminary selector VW<I>, VW<II>. The wipers of the various call-finders in one group normally rest opposite different horizontal rows of contacts, so that when a subscriber calls, the call-finder belonging to the row of contacts in which the subscriber is represented, is alone set in action, and reaches the calling line in a maximum of ten steps, no vertical movement being necessary. As soon as any call-finder leaves its zero position, the call-finders serving the lower horizontal rows move up one step, and a call-finder from the reserve sets itself upon the lowest row. The subscribers T<2>, T<14> are connected to different rows of the callfinders AS<1>, AS<2> of the same group, the leads ll of these finders being connected to preliminary selectors connectable to different groups of selectors. When a subscriber T<2> removes his receiver, his call-relay AR<2> is energized, and connects a resistance w<1> in parallel with one of the resistances w, thus increasing the current flowing through the winding r<1> of a relay B sufficiently to energize this relay, which brings into circuit the rotary magnet D of the callfinder which is in position on the corresponding row. If any of the selectors, accessible from this finder, are idle, the connexion proceeds as described in the parent Specification. When all the selectors of a given group are in use, the relay G opens a contact g<1>, thus disconneding the battery lead from the relay B, magnet D, &c., and closes a contact g<2>, thus energizing the release magnet P of the callfinder having access to that group, whereupon this finder is released, and another finder having access to a different group of selectors is substituted for it.
Patent GB-191223151-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Laces for Boots, Shoes, Corsets and other Articles of Wearing Apparel or the like.
Inventor: BRAYSHAW MARY MARTHA
IPC: A43C9/04
Filed: 1912-10-10
Granted: 1913-01-30
Abstract: 23,151. Brayshaw, M. M. Oct. 10 Laces.-The end of a lace b is provided with two tags a, a' attached within a short distance b<1> of each other, so that if the first tag comes off, the second tag may be used by cutting-off the short portion of lace in front of it.
Patent GB-191306266-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Sliding Carriage Windows.
Inventor: MASUI THEO
IPC: E05F11/38
Filed: 1913-03-13
Granted: 1913-07-31
Abstract: 6266. Masui, T. March 13. Vehicle windows. - Frameless sliding window panes are held in any position by an H-shaped frame a, a', a<2>, faced with velvet &c., and hinged at its upper or lower ends d to the door c and adapted to be pressed against the glass pane e. The means for operating the H-shaped frame comprise a pair of rods j', j<2>, adjustably connected at their adjacent ends to sliding bolts j<3>, j<4> operated by pins j<5> on a disk j<6> turned by an operating-handle j<3> on its shaft j<7>, the other ends of the rods being pivoted to links k carried by brackets k<1> fixed to the door. The links k may be adjustable in length; and rubber blocks d<1>, Fig. 5, are interposed between the hinges d and door c to prevent injury to the pane e, when raised. The velvet or other packing g, applied to the door c and H-shaped frame, preferably consists of a metal strip h, provided with securing-pins h<2> and covered with a velvet strip h<3>, as shown in Fig. 8.
Patent GB-191310262-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Process for the Production of an Extract of Coffee.
Inventor: VIETINGHOFF KARL BARON VON
IPC: A23F5/06
Filed: 1913-05-01
Granted: 1913-06-19
Abstract: 10,262. Vietinghoff, Karl, Baron von. May 1. Coffee preparations.-An extract from raw coffee beans which have been ground and deprived of fat by means of henzol, petroleum other, &c. is dried, roasted, and mixed with a dried extract prepared from the roasted residue.
Patent GB-191313472-A (GB)
Title: A Combined Watch and Pyrophoric Lighter.
Inventor: ZEISLER LEOPOLD JAKOB
IPC: G04B47/00
Filed: 1913-06-11
Granted: 1914-03-19
Abstract: 13,472. Zeisler, L. J. June 11. Pocket ignitcrs, frictional.-In a combined watch and pyrophoric igniter, the annular mounting t for the watch glass u is constructed as a fuel reservoir, carrying a wicktube v, and the friction wheel c is loosely mounted on the stem of the winding-knob b. In the form shown, the friction wheel e is between the knob b and the plate g, and is coupled to the knob by a spring pin s, which engages the vertical face of a recess r when the knob is rotated in the opposite direction to that of winding the watch. The pyrophoric stone o is engaged by a finger m secured to a pin h on a sleeve e, which is upheld by a spring p. In order to change the pyrophoric stone, the pin h is withdrawn into the horizontal part of an L-shaped slot i. A cover w is connected to the wick-tube v by a pin and slot, and can be turned down when in its outermost position.
Patent GB-191313738-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Burners for Gas Fires.
IPC: F23D14/04
Filed: 1913-06-13
Granted: 1913-11-06
Abstract: 13,738. South Metropolitan Gas Co., and Chandler, D. June 13. Atmospheric gasburners.-In a gas-fire burner of the type in which several nozzles are cast on a common distributing - chamber a, the mixing-tube d is connected to the central part of the chamber a, and the nozzles b near the gaseous-mixture inlet are each formed internally with a conical construction of smaller cross-section than the nozzles at the ends, the outlet ends of the nozzles being of equal area. Each nozzle is provided with a perforated detachable cap. A baffle c, extending partly across the chamber, prevents the direct rush of the mixture to the end of the chamber. A tube, closed at its end and perforated on its periphery j, projects from the gas-supply passage into the conical nipple h, so that foreign matter is retained by the trough-shaped interior of the nipple. The nipple is provided with a shield l.
Patent GB-191314412-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Jet Nozzles for Carburettors for Internal Combustion Engines.
Inventor: GELDER WILFRED EDWARD
IPC: F02M19/035
Filed: 1912-12-14
Granted: 1913-10-30
Abstract: 14,412. Gelder, W. E. Dec. 14, 1912. Spray carburettors.- A spraying-nozzle comprises a tube 4 terminating in a grooved head 5, with perforations 6, and surrounded by a grooved conical cup 3, and an hexagonal tube 11 closed at the bottom. Fuel passes to the tube 4 from a passage 8. An hexagonal nut 10 is provided on the tube 4 so that, by loosening a screwthreaded collar 13 and rotating the tube 11, the tube 4 which is screwed into the cup 3 can be adjusted relatively thereto.
Patent GB-191316265-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Hoods or Head-coverings for use in Impure Atmospheres.
Inventor: GARRITY THOMAS JOSEPH
IPC: A62B18/04
Filed: 1913-07-15
Granted: 1914-02-05
Abstract: 16,265. Garrity, T. J. July 15. Respirators.-Relates to a hood or head-covering, for use in impure air, and more particularly for painters working in the hulls of ships, of the type comprising inner and outer helmets 1, 2 spaced apart by blocks &c. 3, and provided with connexions 18, 19 for a flexible air-supply pipe and with a flexible apron 10. The apron 10, which is removably secured between flexible strips 6, 7 by snap-buttons, is freely open at the bottom for the escape of vitiated air, and has a celluloid or like window 10<a>, which is removably secured by snap-buttons. The apron is cut out at 15 to receive the arms of the wearer, overlapping tabs 16 being fastened under the arms by snap-buttons 17. The air-supply pipe is secured to a clamp on the wearer's belt. In a modification, the inner and outer helmets 1, 2 are spaced apart by ribs radiating from near the top of the inner helmet, which has a depending apron to protect the back of the neck and the ears from the downward air-current. The user can control the pressure of air by means of a cock in the supply pipe.