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Patent GB-190911745-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Light Printing Apparatus.
Inventor: WIEGAND HEINRICH
IPC: G03B27/22
Filed: 1909-05-18
Granted: 1910-05-12
Abstract: 11,745. Wiegand, H. May 18. Printing-apparatus, continuous. - Relates to printing-apparatus in which the paper and negative are carried over the surface of a transparent cylindrical surface by an endless apron. The negative and paper travel between the endless apron 4, Fig. 1, and the curved plate 1 supported horizontally in an inclined position as shown. The apparatus is adapted for use with daylight or artificial light. With artificial light, a detachable cover 2 with inner reflecting faces encloses one or more lights 3. To compensate for varying intensity of illumination across the paper, and in consequence for the unequal exposure that would result, a compensating mask or shield 7<1>, Fig. 4, is used, whereby the paper is masked for a longer period in the centre where the illumination is strong and a gradually diminishing period towards the edge and where the illumination is weaker. With several sources of light, the edge of the mask would be zigzag. Alternatively the plate itself may be coated with light-obscuring substances at the required places. With daylight illumination, rectangular masks or shields 7 are used so that the central section only of the cylinder is utilized, and, in order to compensate for the movement of the sun, the plate and shields mav be oscillated on the horizontal axis, or alternatively the shields alone may be moved and the curved plate kept stationary.
Patent GB-190912075-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Luggage Carriers to be Applied to the Head Ends or Steering Pillars of Cycles.
Inventor: EDLIN ROBERT WILLIAM
IPC: B62J7/00
Filed: 1909-05-22
Granted: 1910-05-05
Abstract: 12,075. Edlin, R. W. May 22. Luggage-carriers.- In a luggage-carrier for application to the head of a cycle, a main supporting - frame is formed of telescopicallyadjustable members e, one on each side of the wheel, which extend approximately from the axle to the head clip d, and support the luggage - container or basket - holder f. The members e are transversely stayed to one another by bars forming part of the upper and lower rails m<2>, n<2> of the holder, the upper lugs l serving also to clamp the telescopic members when adjusted. The rails are rigidly connected by bars s, and stays g are provided between the outer lower portion of the holder and lugs r or other points low down on the main frame.
Patent GB-190912912-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Opera Chairs.
Inventor: MILNER ALBERT RUSSEL
IPC: A47C7/56
Filed: 1909-06-01
Granted: 1910-02-03
Abstract: 12,912. Milner, A. R. June 1 Folding seats.-Relates to opera chairs, and particularly to a swivelling chair having automatically - folding back and seat. Lugs 9 on the pivoted seat bracket 24, which has lugs adapted to rest on the upper forked end 16 of the standard 6, engage, by a cam action, the ears 14, 12 of the pivoted back brackets 17 and lock the back in the open and folded positions of the chair respectively. The seat is urged upwards by a spring, not shown, which passes around the pivot bolt 18 and is connected to the bolt 20 and to the bracket 24 ; and the rearward movement of the back is limited by stops 7. The inclined parts 23 of the standard 6 and of the socket 2 of the base cause the chair normally to swivel into the front position. When the chair is turned to either side, its movement is limited by the engagement of the rib 4 with the finger 5.
Patent GB-190914185-A (GB)
Title: A New or Improved Combined Funeral Car and Coffin Van.
Inventor: HOLEHOUSE SAMUEL GEORGE
IPC: A61G21/00
Filed: 1909-06-17
Granted: 1910-03-31
Abstract: 14,185. Holehouse, S. G. June 17. Hearses; vans; bodies.-A funeral car is constructed with a light mortised or dovetailed framing and can be used as a van for conveying coffins by placing framed shutters over the glass panels. The angle risers b for the foot-plate are made in one piece with the side frames a, to which vertical corner pillars d and horizontal cross-pieces are connected by dovetailed or haunched tenon joints. The glass panels g are fixed in by beading on both sides, and are covered by removable shutters f when the car is used as a van. The body space extends beneath the driver's seat.
Patent GB-190914213-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Signalling Installations having Optical and Acoustic Apparatus.
Filed: 1909-06-17
Granted: 1909-10-14
Abstract: 14,213. Siemens & Halske Akt.-Ges. June 23, 1908, [Convention date]. Order apparatus.-In an electric order-telegraph system of the type in which connected armatures at the transmitting and receiving stations assume corresponding positions in single-phase or multi-phase current fields, some of the connecting-leads are used for telephony or for other audible signalling. In a modification one of the armature leads and one of the field-magnet leads are used as telephone conductors. In a second modification, shown in Fig. 2, one of the armature leads d is used as a telephone conductor, and one of the fieldmagnet leads is used as the conductor for an audible signal L, which is used for signalling that the transmitted order is being executed. The current for this signalling-device is supplied from the alternator E which energizes the fields of the order apparatus. Specification 1293/07 is referred to.
Patent GB-190915421-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Current Collecting Devices for Dynamo-electric Machines.
IPC: H02K13/00
Filed: 1909-07-01
Granted: 1910-02-03
Abstract: 15,421. British Thomson-Houston Co., and Dawson, W. F. July 1. Commutators.-In commutators for dynamoelectric machines in which the segments are held together by shrink-rings, the end shrink-rings b are supported by rigid disks e with perforations f, and the insulation is omitted from between the segments a except in proximity to the shrink-rings. The perforations f may be provided with vanes or scopes which force the air into the annular space; or the air may be supplied by a separate fan, or from a supply under pressure. The disks e may be held in place by a spacing-tube h. The bars a may be undercut where there is no insulation, or they may be tapered towards their inner edges.
Patent GB-190916962-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Two-reel Sewing Machines.
Inventor: FLANAGAN DENIS
IPC: D05B57/26
Filed: 1909-07-21
Granted: 1910-08-22
Abstract: 16,962. Flanagan, D. July 21. S e w i n g - machines; lock-stitching by hooks. -In a two-reel machine having a reel - case b supported in a pivotally-mounted reel-case carrier c and a rotary disk hook, a spring m is provided to hold the reel-case away from the walls of the carrier and so maintain a free space for the passage of the needle-thread loop. The spring m is attached to the outside of the reel-case carrier c, and, passing through a slot c<1>, its end bears upon the reel-case. A thread-controlling pin is slidingly mounted in the carrier c and is pressed on to a cam-surface on the hook disk by a bent wire spring.
Patent GB-190917748-A (GB)
Title: A New Metal Alloy and Process of Manufacturing same.
Inventor: ADOLPHE JOUVE
IPC: C22C23/00
Filed: 1909-07-30
Abstract: 17,748. Jouve, A. Aug. 1, 1908, [Convention date]. Void. [Published under Section 91 of the Act.] Cast-iron and scrap processes.-The Specification as open to inspection under Section 91 (3) (a) comprises the statement that alloys of magnesium and silicon, with or without other metals such as iron, manganese, &c. are employed for refining and finishing steel.
Patent GB-190922331-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Mechanical Conveying, and Arrangements connected therewith.
Inventor: ADAIR JOHN
IPC: B65G67/00
Filed: 1909-10-01
Granted: 1910-09-15
Abstract: 22,331. Adair, J. Oct. 1. [Addition to 17,338/08.] Vehicles, manipulating.-Means are provided for discharging the skips described in the parent Specification into similar skips running on rails arranged beneath and at an angle to the upper rails. Fig. 1 shows an arrangement for charging the contents of a skip travelling on rails R<1> into a skip C<3> travelling along rails R<3> arranged beneath and perpendicular to the rails R<1>. As the upper skip runs against its dumping-block (not shown), it depresses a pivoted counterweighted angle-bar R<4> arranged in the track. This bar is connected by a link U to a catch V, which serves to hold the skip C<3> in position during the charging operation, and frees it when the upper skip commences its return run.
Patent GB-191005549-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Fastenings for Doors of Railway and like Wagons.
IPC: E05C19/08
Filed: 1910-03-05
Granted: 1910-08-18
Abstract: 5549. Midland Railway Carriage and Wagon Co., and Currall, J. S. March 5. Hasp fastenings.-Relates to means for fastening railway-wagon doors by means of a hasp bearing a key-operated spring catch. The hasp b carrying a spring catch c has the slot f which engages over the hasp h protected by a projection g. The hasp is also bent to form an operating-handle l.
Patent GB-191007011-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and connected with Means for Opening Tobacco and like Boxes.
Inventor: PAUL JOHN THOMSON
Filed: 1910-03-21
Granted: 1910-08-18
Abstract: 7011. Paul, J. T., and Paul, A. March 21. Opening by cutting.-A tagger-cutter for oval tobacco or like boxes consists of a blank having two prongs e, a diamond-shaped point e<2> and two turned-up edges e<3> as shown in Fig. 5. This is slidably mounted in the lid as shown in Fig. 2, the diamond-shaped point being bent down to form the cutting-edge.
Patent GB-191012179-A (GB)
Title: A Process for the Manufacture of Shoes, and more particularly Camel-hair Shoes.
Inventor: BORINSKI LEO
IPC: A43D19/00
Filed: 1910-05-17
Granted: 1910-09-29
Abstract: 12,179. Borinski, L. May 17. Slippers; attaching uppers to soles.-Shoes, and more particularly camel - hair shoes, are made without an insole, and have the out-sole attached without nails. The upper b is drawn over a last a by a cord d<1> passing through a hem at the edge of the upper. A stitch e draws in the upper at the waist. After the upper has been drawn over the last, the sole is glued on the doubled-over edge of the upper and the last removed. The sole and the upper are then stitched together.
Patent GB-191016407-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Process of and Means for Extracting Rubber or Gums from Rubber Vines, Shrubs, Bulbs or the like.
Inventor: BRIDGE ROBERT
IPC: B29D23/24
Filed: 1910-07-09
Granted: 1911-07-10
Abstract: 16,407. Bridge, R. July 9. India - rubber, extracting f r o m shrubs. - Relates to the treatment of rubber vines, shrubs, bulbs, &c. to separate the rubber or gum from the woody or barky matter. The vines &c. are subjected to the crushing action of one or more pairs of rollers or reciprocating plates, first in a dry state and afterwards in a wet state, and while treating them in the dry state they may be subjected to a current of air to remove the woody matter. The vines may be steeped in water and then crushed between plates, while being simultaneously subjected to a shower of hot or cold water, or water and steam. The rollers may be arranged horizontally, vertically, or at an inclination, and may be smooth or provided with longitudinal, circumferential, or helical grooves. When the rollers are arranged in pairs, succeeding pairs may each have a greater peripheral speed than the preceding pairs. A machine with a number of pairs of rollers arranged in two tiers at an inclination to each other, and a machine with three pairs of rollers arranged vertically one above the other and fitted with adjustable scrappers, are shown. Both machines are provided with an endless chain of buckets to feed the vines to the machine and receive them after passing through the machine, so that they are passed several times between the rollers. The feeding-device may be provided with means for regulating the thickness of the material passing into the machine. Fig. 10 shows a machine with the rollers a arranged in staggered relation, with an endless conveyer band z passing around rollers a<1> to transfer the product to the feeding-device. The dry crushing may be carried out by means of a pair of plates, one or both of which reciprocate. Fig. 11 shows an upper inclined stationary plate band a lower plate b<1>, suspended at a less inclination by links e', and operated by an eccentric. The plate may be hollow and heated by steam, or air may be passed through or between them to remove the barky matter.
Patent GB-191020367-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Automatic Small-arms.
Inventor: WHITING WILLIAM JOHN
IPC: F41A15/16
Filed: 1910-09-01
Granted: 1911-08-31
Abstract: 20,367. Whiting, W. J. Sept. 1. Breech actions, sliding breech-block; sights. - Relates to automatic guns having twin spiral return springs, and consists mainly (1) in utilizing the guide-rods of the springs as ejectors, and (2) in providing an auxiliary abutment for retaining the springs in the breech-block when the gun is disassembled, this abutment being utilized as the back sight. The guide - rods 35 project, as shown in Fig. 2, through holes in the breechblock 22 and strike the base of the cartridge case, when the breech-block is in its recoiled position. The auxiliary abutment consists of a detachable plate 31, Figs. 1 and 8, at the rear end of the breech-block. The rear sighting-notch 42 is formed in this plate.
Patent GB-191026198-A (GB)
Title: Improved Construction of Differential Windlass, Capstan or the like.
Inventor: ARCHER CHARLES FREDERICK
IPC: B63B21/16
Filed: 1910-11-10
Granted: 1911-03-16
Abstract: 26,198. Archer, C. F. Nov. 10. Toothed gearing.-Comprises adaptations of the reducing-gearing described in Specification 19,042/08 to winches, capstans, &c., in which the differential gear is located within the drum. Fig. 1 shows the invention applied to a winch. The driving-shaft 3 of the motor is cranked at 4 to carry toothed wheels 12, 13 bolted together and mounted on ball bearings 14, 15. The wheels 12, 13 differ in their number of their teeth and gear respectively with toothed rings carried by the fixed housing 20 and by the drum 24. Counterbalance disks 7, 8 for the cranked portion 4 are provided, the disk 8 running on ball bearings on a fixed shaft 11 and forming a support for the free end of the driving-shaft. In the case of a capstan, as shown in Fig. 2, the wheel 13 gears with a toothed ring 23, which is fixed to a disk 30 on the short shaft 11, which in this case is live and is keyed to the capstan barrel.
Patent GB-191027945-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Sound Boxes for Talking Machines.
Inventor: LUMIERE LOUIS
IPC: H04R7/18
Filed: 1909-12-30
Granted: 1911-04-27
Abstract: 27,945. LumiÞre, L. Dec. 30, 1909, [Convention date]. Stethoscopes. - The invention relates to methods of mounting the diaphragm of a talking-machine sound-box, and the Specification as open to inspection under Section 91 (3) (a) states that the invention is applicable also to stethoscopes &c. In the sound-box shown in Fig. 1, the diaphragm b is hinged to the fixed wall a at one end, and connected at the other by flexible folding material c. The flexible material may extend all round between the wall and diaphragm. A rubber tube g, Fig. 3, may be arranged to roll between the cylindrical surfaces of the wall a and diaphragm b. The Specification as open to inspection under Section 91 (3) (a) comprises also a modification in which the diaphragm is dished, flanged, and corrugated. This modification and the reference to stethoscopes do not appear in the Specification as accepted.
Patent GB-191029611-A (GB)
Title: Improved Means for Temporarily Connecting a Rudder and Steering Device.
Inventor: NILSEN JOHAN ROLAND
IPC: B63H25/10
Filed: 1910-12-20
Granted: 1911-05-25
Abstract: 29,611. Nilsen, J. R. April 6, [Convention date]. Steering-gear. - Means are provided for establishing an anxiliary connexion between the rudder and the steering-gear in case of emergency. An endless chain B, Fig. 2, passes through an eyebolt C or a hole in the rudder. A rope D is fastened to the chain, pulled through the hole, and secured. The end of the rope is brought over the pulley E. This operation is repeated with -another rope which is brought up on the other side of the ship. The rudder can then be worked by means of the two ropes.
Patent GB-191100624-A (GB)
Title: Safety Retaining Apparatus.
Inventor: LEWIS EDWARD THOMAS
IPC: B66B5/24
Filed: 1911-01-10
Granted: 1911-06-08
Abstract: 624. Lewis, E. T. Jan. 10. Catch gear of mine-cage type. - Safety retaining-apparatus for pit cages, lifts, inclined tramways, &c. comprises a wedge E normally pressed downwards out of engagement with the guide D by a lever L against the action of a spring K. A roller F is arranged between the wedge E and a thrust-block G, which is suspended by links H from the side plates a: When the suspending-rope breaks, the guide D is gripped between the wedge E and cap B, and the guide D' is gripped between the block G and cap B'. Specifications 676/72 and 14,475/90 are referred to.
Patent GB-191108747-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to the Affixing of Parts in the Pillars and Hollow Members of Metallic Bedsteads and Cots.
IPC: A47C19/02
Filed: 1911-04-08
Granted: 1912-02-01
Abstract: 8747. Taunton, J. & J., Taunton, R. P., and Stevens, T. J. April 8. Joints and connexions.-In attaching securing- screws d for terminal ornaments to bedstead pillars by casting, a cup b having flanges c is inserted in the end of a bedstead pillar in order to prevent the molten metal from falling into the interior of the pillar. Coincident holes a<1>, b<1> in the pillar and cup may be arranged, or the parts may be indented as at g, g<1> for securing purposes.
Patent GB-191109364-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Fluid Pressure Relay for Amplifying Sounds.
IPC: G10K9/04
Filed: 1911-04-15
Granted: 1912-01-11
Abstract: 9364. Soc. des Etablissements Gaumont. April 18, 1910, [Convention date]. Sound-magnifying appliances.-Relates to a fluid-pressure relay for amplifying sounds. Fig. 1 illustrates diagrammatically the mode of operation of the relay. Compressed fluid passes through a chamber 2 from an inlet 1 to an outlet 4, and a small portion escapes to the atmosphere round the periphery of a thin disk or washer 3, and thence through an orifice provided with an obturator 9. If the orifice is closed, the excess pressure behind the washer 3 closes the outlet 4, but by making the passage round the periphery of the disk, the space behind the disk, and the orifice all sufficiently small, a very small sonorous movement, which may have its origin in an instrument, voice, telephonic apparatus, &c., on being imparted to the obturator 9 will produce a corresponding movement of the washer and so amplify the sonorous movement. The outlet 4 and orifice 7 may be simple or multiple, and may take the form of holes or slots with a pleated contour (so as to increase the periphery without increasing the section), or stars, parallel slots, herring-boned slots, &c. A double, triple, cr multiple relay may be formed by utilizing the movement of the washer 3 to effect the movement of a larger washer, and. so on. The washers may be made of steel, aluminium, celluloid, india-rubber, paper, &c., according to the nature of the fluid, also either soft or rigid, and of any desired form other than circular. If the washer is soft, the outlet need not be perfectly plane. Fig. 3 shows an apparatus as commercially constructed. The casing 14 is constructed so as to provide an annular seating for the washer 17 when it obturates the outlet 13. The limited space behind the washer is formed by a screw-plug 18 provided with a curved face 19 in which are formed radial slots communicating with the orifice 22.
Patent GB-191113707-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Electrical Measuring Instruments of the Dynamometer Type.
Filed: 1911-06-08
Granted: 1911-07-20
Abstract: 13,707. Siemens Bros. & Co., [Siemens & Halske Akt.-Ges.]. June 8. Electro - magnetic current meters; power meters.-Instruments of the dynamometer type have iron cores with diametrical slots through which the moving coils can be removed. In the form shown, the diametrical slot d in the iron core a is arranged in a direction parallel to the flux induced by the fixed coils f, and with the field-gaps c forms a Z-shaped opening. In an ammeter or voltmeter, the field gaps c are tapered, as shown; in a watt-meter they are of uniform width.
Patent GB-191118351-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to the Manufacture of Metal Filaments for Electric Lamps.
Inventor: GROTE EDWIN RUDOLPH
IPC: H01K3/02
Filed: 1911-08-14
Granted: 1912-08-14
Abstract: 18,351. Grote, E. R. Aug. 14. [Cognate Application, 27,290/11.] Filaments.-An uncarbonized metal filament is passed through an arc, directly from a press or after being rolled upon a drum; or a stick is passed through an arc from a press or after drying, and subsequently worked into filament by drawing and annealing, and cut to length. Such filaments may be shaped when laid across a wire by heating until the ends fall, or by heating the wire, or pressing the ends. The Figure shows a press a from which a mixture of tungsten and a carbonaceous or other binder is extruded at a suitable speed directly through a high-pressure arc between tungsten electrodes d and heated above 2000‹ C., an enclosing chamber being supplied with an inert or reducing gas at normal or reduced pressure, or exhausted, by a pipe f. According to the Provisional Specifications, other than arc furnaces may be used.
Patent GB-191118676-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Heat Storage Devices.
IPC: F24C15/34
Filed: 1911-08-18
Granted: 1912-10-18
Abstract: 18,676. British Thomson-Houston Co., [General Electric Co.]. Aug. 18. Resistance ovens; heating by electricity. - An electrically-heated stove has a heatstoring mass, the whole or a part of which can be moved within or through a heatinsulating enclosure to enable the heat to be transferred to a cooking or other vessel. In the arrangement shown in Figs. 2 and 4, a block of iron placed between two ovens 5, 8 is fitted with an electric heater 3, and contains two iron plungers 9, which can be raised by means of pistons 17 to lift a heat-insulating cover 11 and expose the surface. The plunger 9 may either be in direct contact with a vessel, or at a distance below it, so that the rate of heating may be regulated. The piston 17 is raised by water supplied through a cock 14, and lowered by connecting the cock with an exhaust pipe. The heat-insulating material 4 surrounding the block and ovens may be silica, powdered lamp-black, or infusorial earth. The opening 10 is lined with a metal of low thermal conductivity, such as that described in Specification 26,940/07, [Class 82, Metals and alloys]. The rim 23 of the oven door, the lining 22, and braces 29 for supporting the oven walls are made of similar material. The thickness of insulating- material between the block 1 and the ovens is reduced, so that heat passes to the ovens. The oven 5 has an internal heater at the top, and may also be provided with a heater 6 beneath it. In the arrangement shown in Fig. 5, a single plunger 9 is used, which is provided with a heater 3, and is surrounded by a block of iron 1. The relative sizes of the parts 1, 9 may be varied. The block 1 is surrounded by a double jacket having walls 33, 34, 35 of lowconductivity metal, containing lamp - black or silica 32, the seams being brazed, and the space exhausted of air. The outer wall 34 is surrounded by heat-insulating material 31. The oven door has a metal plate 25 mounted on pins 26 with springs, and held in place by wing-nuts. When the door is closed the plate bears against a flat part 27<1> of the lining. A two-way switch connects in circuit the heater 3 or the heater inside the oven, and a time switch is arranged to break the circuit during peak hours. Specifications 3289/05 and 22,598/08, [Class 64, Heating], are referred to.