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Patent GB-190510644-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or connected with Automatic Electro Magnetic Sanding Gear, for use on Electric Railway and Tramway Vehicles
Inventor: CUMMINS MARK
Filed: 1905-05-22
Granted: 1906-04-26
Abstract: 10,644. Cummins, M. May 22. Switches.-In electric railway or tramway vehicles, the sand-box valves at the ends of the car may be operated from either end by means of the current generated for rheostatic braking. Fig. 1 shows an ordinary controller in which the reversing- drum R, F is provided with contacts d, e and fingers a, b, c, whereby the braking-current is passed through one or other of the solenoids or other valve-operating devices g, according to the direction of travel. The contacts d, e may be mounted on a separate drum j, Fig. 5, the connexions being changed by means of links and cranks which are thrown over when the reversing- handle is moved. To produce an intermittent opening and closing of the valve, it is connected to the attracted element u, Fig. 10, of the magnetic device g. A switch t is also connected to the plate u by a rod t<1>, so as to cut the magnet out of circuit by short-circuiting the terminals v. A make-and-break arrangement may be used for the same purpose. For opening the sand-valves when the controller reaches a given braking-notch, a cam r, Fig. 8, is fixed at the bottom of the spindle so as to throw the switch from the direct-earth connexion p<2> to the solenoid connector p<1> when the given rotation has taken place.
Patent GB-190512602-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or connected with Traction Engines, Road Locomotives and the like.
Inventor: ALLEN ROBERT
Filed: 1905-06-17
Granted: 1906-03-22
Abstract: 12,602. Allen, R. June 17. Traction engines and road locomotives; motor road vehicles.-Relates to draw-gear or couplings for traction engines, road locomotives, and the like, and consists in mounting the draw-gear so that it is free to adjust itself vertically, and in providing springs to reduce shocks. Figs. 1 and 2 show one form in which side bars a are pivotally mounted at their forward ends on the main axle bearing hubs, and provided at their rear ends with side flanges b which form housings for springs c and guides for the coupling-bar d. Brackets k limit the vertical movement of the draw-gear. A weaker spring may be enclosed within each spring c to act for light loads and bold the cross-bar in its normal position. In the modification shown in Fig. 4, the side bars a are bifurcated to clear the axle, and are connected at their forward ends by springs f to the dead pins g. In further modifications, laminated springs connect the side bars a and coupling-bar d instead of the spiral springs shown in Figs. 1 and 2.
Patent GB-190513155-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Variable Speed Gearing.
Inventor: BOWRON WILLIAM MAJOR
Filed: 1905-06-26
Granted: 1906-09-26
Abstract: 13,155. Bowron, W. M. June 26. Motor road vehicles traction engines. -Relates to variable-speed gearing of the type in which the drive takes place through an epicyclic train, one member of which is controlled or driven in a variable manner. Reference is made to Specifications No. 8509, A.D. 1891, No. 12,554, A.D. 1897, and No. 3798, A.D. 1901, and the invention is stated to be applicable to motor cars, lorries, and other vehicles, and to traction engines. Power is transmitted from the engine by a shaft H to a bevel-wheel No. 2. A co-axially mounted bevelwheel No. 1 is arranged to be controlled through worm gearing D and a friction roller M, which may be moved by hand across a disk N driven from the engine by an auxiliary shaft S. Planet pinions B gearing with the wheels No. 1, No. 2 are mounted on radial pins J upon a gear-wheel A which drives a wheel E with variable speed. Reversal may be effected by any suitable auxiliary gearing or by suitably proportioning the friction controlling- gear. According to the Provisional Specification, the driving and driven elements in the above arrangement may have their functions interchanged, and epicyclic spur gearing may be used instead of bevel-gearing.
Patent GB-190519024-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Rotary Steam-engines
Inventor: NASS ROBERT
Filed: 1905-09-20
Granted: 1905-11-02
Abstract: 19,024. Nass, R. Sept. 21, 1904, [date applied for under Patents Act, 1901]. Crescent - shaped chamber type. - Relates to devices for supplying steam to the working chambers of a compound rotary engine. The casing a, Figs. 1 and 2, is fixed, and encloses two or more cylinders b, c so arranged as to form two working chambers d, e. A vane i, secured at one end to the cylinder c, passes through a slot f in the cylinder b, and has its opposite end secured to a rotatable ring h to which are attached rings k forming the end walls of the working chambers. Steam from the passage m passes to the hollow part s of the regulator slide w, and then through ports o, o' to the chamber e, to act expansively upon the vane i and rotate the shaft t. As the apertures p pass the recesses r in the side walls of the casing, the steam parses from the chamber e to the chamber d to act again upon the vane i, and finally to exhaust at the passage n. Several vanes i may be provided.
Patent GB-190520974-A (GB)
Title: Apparatus for Clearing the Rails of Tramways and the like.
Inventor: QUERTIER HILARY
Filed: 1905-10-16
Granted: 1906-08-30
Abstract: 20,974. Quertier, H. Oct. 16. Tramcars; rail-cleaners; wheel-guards and obstruction-removers.-Railcleaners are fitted so as to be applied by the driver or automatically by an obstacle. A frame 1, Figs. 1 and 2, pivoted at 2, 3 to the vehicle frame supports a pair of rail ploughs 15, pivoted to spindles 16, Fig. 8, and normally pressed down by springs 21, Fig. 1, threaded on the spindles, which pass through sockets in the frame. A pair of bristle or wire brushes 31 are carried by an axle 33 in bearings in the frame, and are driven by chain gearing from a short axle 45 baving a pinion 47, which gears with a toothed wheel 48 on the running axle when the frame 1 is lowered round its pivots 2, 3 ; or friction wheels may be employed instead of the toothed wheels 47, 48. The frame 1 is supported at the front end by spindles 9, 10, Fig. 5, passing through the vehicle frame 11 and by springs 7, 8. The frame 1 can be lowered by a treadle 52, the spindle of which passes through a guide-bracket 54 and is connected to the frame 1 by a spring 55. A hand-wheel 59 attached to a screwed spindle passing through a fixed nut 60 and fitted with a spring 60b may be employed. An obstacle encountering the front of the device will also lower a frame round its pivots 2, 3, Figs. 1 and 2, and bring the rail brushes into action by the engagement of the wheels 47, 48. The grooves of the rails are cleared by projecting parts 32, 26 of the brushes and ploughs, the latter having also rearwardly diverging wings 29 to throw the dirt to the side. The plough is kept horizontal by a spring 77, Fig. 8, threaded in a curved bolt 78. The dirt is thrown forwardly by the brushes into boxes 79, 80, Fig. 2, carried in brackets. The brushes in an electric car may be driven by a motor attached to a bar carried by the bearings of the brush axle and thrown into action by a switch actuated either by the driver or automatically by a link from the frame 1.
Patent GB-190522839-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and connected with Lubricators
Inventor: WARD WILLIAM FREDERICK CHARLES
Filed: 1905-11-07
Granted: 1906-11-07
Abstract: 22,839. Ward, W. F. C. Nov. 7. Lubricators.-A multiple lubricator for the engine cylinders and other parts of motor-cars and motorbicycles, and for other purposes, consists of a plug or feeder a, Fig. 2, rotating in a barrel band provided with one or more helical grooves c, of varying pitch or depth, to convey lubricant contained in the reservoir d from openings e to a number of outlets f. As shown in Fig. 2, the grooves c are right and left handed. Valves may be provided to close the openings e or the outlets f. The plug b may be in sections connected by tongue-and-groove joints g. Fig. 4 shows an arrangement in which the reservoir is. replaced by a number of glass tubes l secured by rods m, the barrel b being in short lengths bolted together. An injector pump q supplies an additional charge of lubricant to each outlet f when necessary. Fig. 6 shows a modification in which the rotating feeder a is cup-shaped and provided with a helical groove c through which lubricant is conveyed from the channel s to the outlets f. The helical groove may be formed on the vertical walls of the cup a, or a spiral groove may be formed on the base conveying lubricant outwards from openings near the stem r. The rotation causes dirt to be separated centrifugally from the lubricant. A number of barrels b may be combined in one lubricator, the feeders a being geared together. The helical groove may be formed in the barrel instead of or in addition to in the feeder, and the barrel may be rotated. The barrel and feeder may be plain with a helical spring inserted between them. A series of barrels may be arranged concentrically, each one serving as a feeder for the one enclosing it. In every case, the helical groove is of varying pitch or depth. As described in the Provisional Specification, the helical grooves may be of uniform pitch and depth.
Patent GB-190523882-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Revolving Doors.
Inventor: MILANITCH-OROVIAN SAINTAUBE
Filed: 1905-11-20
Granted: 1906-04-19
Abstract: 23,882. Orovian, S. Milanitch-, and Ristic, C. H. Nov. 20. Hinges, rising. Revolving doors are constructed with a pair of radial wings mounted on pivots b in a cylindrical casing. To the base of the door is fixed a metal bar e turning on a fixed ring f provided with radial retaining-grooves g and inclines h. The door rises on the inclines when it is opened, and slides down into the grooves when it reaches its closed position.
Patent GB-190603909-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Anti-theft Devices for Motor Vehicles.
Inventor: OTTINGER LEON
Filed: 1906-02-16
Granted: 1906-11-15
Abstract: 3909. Ottinger, L. Feb. 16. Motor road vehicles.-Relates to a device for preventing unauthorized tampering with the motor, by means of which a locking-mechanism for the bonnet or hood is operated when the electric ignition circuit is broken ; the locking-mechanism may also be applied in connexion with a closure for the fuel tank, or for locking any other part of the vehicle. Figs. 1, 2, and 3 show the general arrangement of the apparatus, and Figs. 4,5, and 6 show in detail the arrangement of certain parts on the dash-board. A switch or ignition circuit plug 7 consists of a metal bolt 11 sliding in an insulated guide 12, the lower end of the bolt being provided with a block 13 of non-conducting material, which lies between the two yielding contacts 14 when the bolt is raised, thereby breaking the circuit. The bolt is operated by means of a key inserted into the-keyhole.9 or by a combination knot 10. Above the guide 12 is arranged a rotatable member 15 turned by a knob 19 and having on its periphery a cam-groove 16, which engages pins 29 in fever arms 26, pivoted at 27, and connected by an arched member 28. The lower ends of the lever arms 26 operate sliding latch bars 20 having wedging faces which engage lugs on the interior of the bonnet as shown at 24, 25, so as to lock the bonnet in its closed position. The sliding bolt 11, when raised, engages one of two oppositely-arranged recesses 17 in the rotatable member 15, so that the ignition circuit cannot be broken unless the rotatable member is in a position in which the bonnet is locked. A rod 30 is also shown which simultaneously operates a closure 32 for the fuel tank, this closure being preferably a supplementary one serving to hold the main closure in position.
Patent GB-190606314-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to the Manufacture of Nitroglycerine-explosives.
Inventor: LAKE HAROLD WILLIAMSON
Filed: 1906-03-15
Granted: 1906-06-28
Abstract: 6314. Lake, H. W., [Dynamit Akt.-Ges. vorm. A. Nobel & Co.]. March 15. Ethers; nitroglycerin.-Nitroglycerin explosives, which do not congeal when cooled to 18‹ C., are produced by heating glycerin under atmospheric pressure in a reflux condenser to form diglycerin, and nitrating the product, or a mixture thereof with glycerin. When the diglycerin itself is nitrated, the tetranitrodiglycerin so produced is mixed with ordinary trinitroglycerin.
Patent GB-190608042-A (GB)
Title: Improved Means of Pivotally Attaching Handles to Sheet Metal Bake-pan, Dripping Pans, Baths, Washups, Milk-pans, Linings for Coal Vases, and other Sheet Metal Utensils requiring similar Handles.
Filed: 1906-04-03
Granted: 1906-05-17
Abstract: 8042. Farmer & Chapman, and Lee, C. R. April 3. Milk pans.-Relates to a method of attaching handles to milk pans and like utensils. The invention is shown in the Figures applied to a baking- pan. The blank is formed with tongues or extensions a, Fig. 1, the flange b being wired in the usual manner. Each of the extensions a is afterwards formed into a loop a<2>, in which are inserted the ends of the handle d. The tongues a are then bent under the wired edge and against the body of the pan as shown in Fig. 6. The tinning operation is next performed, and subsequently the ends of the handle are eased in the holders in the usual manner.
Patent GB-190609188-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Devices for Demonstrating and Comparing the Efficiencies of Carpet Sweepers.
Inventor: HODSON WALTER DAVID
Filed: 1906-04-18
Granted: 1906-09-27
Abstract: 9188. Hodson, W. D. April 18. Carpet-sweepers. -As a means for testing and comparing carpet - sweepers, a number of bases 3, 4, 5, adjustably connected by dowels or otherwise, are provided with different floorcoverings. At one end they are recessed to receive a frame 12 over which coarse fabric 13 is stretched ; the bottom of the recess may be covered by a finer fabric. The bases and the frame are secured to an outer frame, to which the bases are detachably secured, and the frame 12 may be hinged. The efficiency of a sweeper may be tested on the various floor coverings. The relative amounts of dust taken up from and forced through the fabric 13 by different sweepers may be determined by sprinkling sand over it.
Patent GB-190609344-A (GB)
Title: Improved Means for Casting Ingot Iron Blocks.
Filed: 1906-04-20
Granted: 1906-09-06
Abstract: 9344. Rheinische Metallwaaren und Waschinenfabrik. May 17, 1905, [date applied for under Patents Act, 1901]. Casting.-Iron ingots are produced substantially free from bubbles by casting the metal from below in tapering moulds which widen towards the top. Specification No. 1167, A.D. 1868, [Abridgment Class Iron &c.], is referred to.
Patent GB-190700041-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Cement
Inventor: BARNETT WILLIAM THOMAS
Filed: 1907-01-01
Granted: 1907-12-31
Abstract: 41. Barnett, W. T. Jan. 1. Cements.-Suitable quantities of earth minerals and fresh bullock's blood are thoroughly incorporated, and the cement is coloured by the addition, during manufacture, of lime green, raw sienna, yellow ochre, Venetian red, or other colouring- matters. [Reference has been directed under Patents Act, 1902, to Specifications No. 3052, A.D. 1868, [Abridgment Class Starch &c.], No. 21,734, A.D. 1894, and No. 9070, A.D. 1905, [Abridgment Class Starch &c.].]
Patent GB-190701182-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to the Propulsion of Vehicles.
Inventor: HUGO LENTZ
Filed: 1907-01-16
Abstract: 1182. Lentz, H. Jan. 17, 1906, [date applied for under Patents Act, 1901]. Void. [Published under Patents &c. Act, 1907.] Drawings to Specification. Electric locomotives and motor-vehicles.-Relates to a system of power transmission and storage for self-propelled road or railway vehicles, and consists in storing the whole of the energy produced by a generator in a central accumulator carried on the vehicle, and in feeding the propelling-motors from the accumulator. The motor medium may be compressed air, electricity, liquefied gas, or steam or other vapour. For electric traction, a secondary battery is charged by a generator and the driving- motors are fed solely through the secondary battery.
Patent GB-190703002-A (GB)
Title: Improved Method of and Apparatus for Manufacturing Stamps Dies and the like.
Inventor: BUIGNE FRANZ DE
Filed: 1907-02-06
Granted: 1907-12-19
Abstract: 3002. BuignÚ, F. de, and Schreiner, J. Feb. 6. Type.-Stamps, dies, and type are made of hard metal by softening or melting locally by a reducing- flame &c. and pressing with a comparatively soft negative die. In a machine for carrying out this process, blanks 3 are fed down a slide 4 on to a turret work - holder 1, in which they are held by a segment 5. They are brought round to the position 28, and a burner 6 is then swung down to soften them at the desired point. They then come to the position 29, where they are given a sharp blow by the die 8. The machine is operated by a hand cam-lever 16. When the lever 16 is raised, the work-holder is rotated through one step by a pawl operated by a lever 25, and the die head 9 is raised by a rack and pinion 32 and kept in raised position by a pawl 22. When the lever 16 is lowered, the head 9 is released and a sharp blow is struck, a spring 15 quickly raising the head. An ejector 27 is operated by the lever 25. Fluxes or other means may be used to prevent oxidation of the softened metal and the heating may be performed electrically. When operating upon large blanks, they may be rotated to ensure uniform softening. When making lead type, a negative die is made of nickel by electro-deposition and set in hard lead.
Patent GB-190708075-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Photographic-printing Apparatus
Inventor: SABROE THOMAS THOMASSEN
Filed: 1907-04-06
Granted: 1907-08-22
Abstract: 8075. Sabroe, T. T. April 6. Printing.-The negative and paper are wrapped round a fixed cylinder with a flexible covering apron, and one or more vacuum arc lights are mounted within the cylinder. The lamps are started either by having a form of tube with a depending globe at the end and turning the lamp on its axis, or by a tilting movement either of the lamp inside the cylinder or of the whole frame and cylinder. Figs. 4 and 5 illustrate the construction in which the lamp f is supported on forks i, which may be connected with lever mechanism for tilting the lamp. The pressure apron j is fixed at one end to the rod k which engages under projections p, p<1> of the frame, and at the other end winds on to a ratchet roller l. The inner screen s may either be mounted on draw-rings movable towards one side of the cylinder, or may be in the form of a spring roller blind wound on the spring roller t. The end rod of the blind can be fixed at various intervals to screen off any desired portion of the cylinder. As the apron is removed by a manipulation in the same direction as that by which the screen is pulled forward, both these operations may be combined into one single movement by connecting the rods of the apron and the screen together in a suitable manner.
Patent GB-190710198-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Kettles, and the like, in order to Facilitate the Boiling of their Contents.
Inventor: SHAW JOHN JOSEPH
Filed: 1907-05-02
Granted: 1907-10-03
Abstract: 10,198. Shaw, J. J. May 2. Kettles, pans, &c.-Kettles, pans, and like utensils are provided with a fixed or detachable casing C, Fig. 1, to facilitate heating. Apertures A are formed for the escape of gases. In a modification, Fig. 3, a false interior F is placed iu the casing, the outer portion D' of the original base being cut away. The existing spout S may be continued into the false interior, or a new one may be added in which case the original one is used for the escape of gases. [Reference has been directed under Patents Act, 1902; to Specifications No. 3045, A.D. 1876, and No. 20,443, A.D. 1893.]
Patent GB-190711657-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Mandrel or Device for Holding Pulleys or other Articles during the Operation of Turning
Inventor: DARGUE ALGERNON WILLIAM
Filed: 1907-05-18
Granted: 1908-02-27
Abstract: 11,657. Dargue, A. W., and Simpson, J. May 18. Mandrels.-A mandrel or device for holding pulleys, hand-wheels, or other articles during turning is provided with a tapered portion and with oppositely-working nuts for gripping the article. In the form shown in the Figure, for motor-cycle pulleys, which usually have tapered holes, the part 3 of the mandrel is tapered off to approximately the mean taper of ordinary pulleys, and has a screwed end portion 4, formed with a right-hand thread. A portion 1<1> has a left-hand thread, and both portions receive nuts. The pulley is placed on the tapered portion and the nut 5 screwed up to the face 7<1> ; the nut 6 is then tightened up. The inner face of the nut is coned at 5" to receive the portion 3 in cases where the pulleys have narrow bosses, and the nut 6 is made long enough to extend some way over the portion 3. The mandrel has a flat 2 for the attachment of a lathe carrier &c. For holes of large diameter, loose tapered bushes may be slipped over the portion 3, or the latter may be parallel and carry loose externally tapered bushes.
Patent GB-190715298-A (GB)
Title: Improved Apparatus or Devices for use in Submarine Signalling.
Inventor: GARDNER JOHN
Filed: 1907-07-03
Granted: 1908-05-21
Abstract: 15,298. Gardner, J. July 3. Signals, marine.-In a submarine sound-signalling apparatus of the type in which the indicating. device is actuated by the change in current passing through a microphone when ita electrodes are vibrated by the signalling sound, both electrodes are mounted on the vibrating diaphragm or tuned strip or on adjacent strips. The strip may be tuned by an alteration of the tension of the strip or of the effective length of the strip, either by damping or by changing one of its points of support. The base C of the instrument is rigidly attached to the plates of the ship in such a manner that the plane of the strip A carrying the electrodes E, F, E<1> is about parallel to the ship-plates. A magnet placed near the magnetic tube H which unites the fixed electrodes F effects the damping out of interfering vibrations. The strip may be tuned by varying the weight G, or by a change in one of the points of support of the strip. The electrodes may be of the granular carbon type, and in a modification, one etectrode is rigidly attached to a pillai D while the second electrode, possessing inertia, is movably attached to the same pillar. The strip A may be transversely divided between the pillars D. Specification No. 11,021, A.D. 1906, is referred to.
Patent GB-190715627-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Sieving or Screening Machines, such as Middlings Purifiers and the like.
Inventor: VERNON THOMAS THORNYCROFT
Filed: 1907-07-08
Granted: 1908-08-10
Abstract: 15,627. Vernon, T. T. July 8. Roller mills, combined with sifting and separating apparatus. The invention is shown applied to a scalping-machine fitted directly beneath a roller mill. The ground wheat falls from the rollers 1 on to inclined sieves a, b, c carried by a frame 4, which is suspended by hangers 4<1> and vibrated in a direction at right-angles to the flow of material by an eccentric. A rotary vane or valve 13 is fitted in a partition 12 between the sieves and the pipe 11 leading to the exhaust fan, and air maybe admitted below the sieve a, when the valve 13 is closed, by a reciprocating valve 20 on an air casing 19 so as to reverse the direction of the air through the sieve, or a continuous stream of air may be admitted below the sieve. The auxiliary air supply may be introduced either on the suction or on the pressure side of the sieve. The break flow passes through the sieve a and is discharged by a worm 17, while the coarser and finer tails pass over the sieves b, c respectively and through passages 16, 15 to a mill below and the semolina which passes through the sieve c falls on to a conveyer 14. The finer particles carried past the valve 13 by the air current fall on to a worm conveyer 18. A feed adjuster 8 regulates the feed on to the top sieve a, and the sieves are fitted with knockers 9. The fan may be connected to the air inlet 21 below the sieve so as to force air through the sieve. Or the fan may force air through a chamber, the volume of which can be varied intermittently, and which is arranged as near the sieve as possible.