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Patent GB-190804533-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Body Bands.
Inventor: SCHULTE-UECHTING ELISABETH
Filed: 1908-02-28
Granted: 1909-02-18
Abstract: 4533. Uechting, E. Schulte-. Feb. 28. Corsets.-A corset comprises an upper part a tightly fitting the waist in front and provided with one or more lacings a<1> at the back, and having extended back parts c<2>. A lap part c' extends over the hips and connects the back parts c<2> together, and is joined to the under edge of the upper part a. The corset is thus securely fixed to the body at the waist and above and below the hips, without using shoulder braces and leg-straps. A smaller band b, provided with lacings b<1>, b<2>, may be added to support the abdomen in front. Lacings a<2> may also be provided in front as shown in Fig. 7. Specifications No. 4151, A.D. 1880, and No. 28,595, A.D. 1906, are referred to.
Patent GB-190805579-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Mortising and like Woodworking Machines.
Filed: 1908-03-12
Granted: 1908-07-02
Abstract: 5579. Haigh, W. B., Haigh, F., and Haigh & Co., W. B. March 12. Mortising; tenoning and dovetailing. - In a mortising or like, wood-working machine, two or more hollow-chisel mortising-tools o, g are mounted on independent slides a, b raised and lowered by hand-levers c, d. The chisel o may be rotated in any position by gear-wheels q, r, s and bevel-wheels p, p<1>, as described in Specification No. 25,569, A.D. 1905, for operating chain cutters. The chisel g may be attached to a holder h connected to a feathered spindle and rotated by bevelgear j, n. Either method of drive may be used for both spindles, and in the case of the first method, the driving-shaft carrying the spur-wheel s may be central with a set of spur-wheels q, r arranged on each side of it.
Patent GB-190810370-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or connected with Locking Bolts of Miners' Safety Lamps.
Inventor: BUCKLEY HARRY BAGSHAW
Filed: 1908-05-13
Granted: 1909-03-25
Abstract: 10,370. Buckley, H. B. May 13. Miners' and like safety lamps.-A spring-controlled locking-bolt of the kind which engages a rack or a tooth on the lamp frame, and is actuated by an electro-magnet, is entirely enclosed in the lamp reservoir to prevent tampering with the bolt and to exclude dirt. As shown, a spring-controlled bolt 3, which engages a tooth 5 on the frame 6, is arranged in a casing 2, which is enclosed by an integral base part 8 of the lamp bottom 1, so that the bolt is not exposed to view.
Patent GB-190810381-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Dormer-windows.
Inventor: MAUDERER CONRAD
Filed: 1908-05-13
Granted: 1908-06-18
Abstract: 10,381. Mauderer, C. May 13. Windows.-A dormer window i and shutter o are carried on a rocking bar c, which is mounted to turn on studs b on the frame a, and is provided with ribs f, g, which bear against the draught bar h when the window and shutter are closed. The window and shutter counterbalance each other, as shown in Fig. 4, and the window is held in the closed position by a turnbutton l, while the shutter may be held closed by any suitable means.
Patent GB-190811655-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Ventilating Device for use in connection with Windows.
Inventor: MARTIN ARTHUR WYNDHAM
Filed: 1908-05-29
Granted: 1909-03-18
Abstract: 11,655. Martin, A. W. May 29. Window appliances.-A device to be fitted to open windows to exclude dust and the like consists of slidable skeleton frames a, b enclosed by a cover f of muslin &c. The frames are braced by metal plates d, a pair of which are bent over in the form of hooks e, and serve as guides for the frames when they are extended or contracted to fit various sized windows. The edges of the cover are pinned or stitched to strips of fabric g secured to the ends of the frames a, b. In a modification, a central frame is provided with two slidable side frames.
Patent GB-190811802-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Cleaning Material or Cotton Waste Substitute
Inventor: HULDSCHINSKY FRITZ
Filed: 1908-05-30
Granted: 1908-11-12
Abstract: 11,802. Huldschinsky, F. June 19, 1907, [date applied for under Section 91 of Patents &c. Act, 1907]. Dusting-appliances.-A cleaning-material or substitute for cotton waste consists of a single narrow strip, or several such strips rolled side by side and loosely held together, of an absorbent paper which, when unrolled, can be easily formed into a ball.
Patent GB-190811921-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in "Link" Belting.
Filed: 1908-06-02
Granted: 1909-04-01
Abstract: 11,921. British Insulated and Helsby Cables, and Tennant, J. June 2. Belts and bands.-The links of a "link belt are each made of a number of laminµ of manilla paper or of material composed partly of textile material, the grain of the paper being arranged longitudinally of the links. The layers of papers c are joined by suitable means, and the links are connected by pins b riveted over metal side-plates e and washers d.
Patent GB-190815431-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Railway Rail Joints
Inventor: CROOKS JOHN
Filed: 1908-07-21
Granted: 1908-11-12
Abstract: 15,431. Crooks, J. July 21. Rail joints.-The rail ends are thickened and are provided with tongues and recesses so that they can be joined by an axial turning movement, no fish-plates or fish-bolts being used. The rail end B, Fig. 5, has a tapering tongue H, semicircular in section, and parallel tongues F, G with circular faces, all struck from a common centre. The meeting rail end A, Fig. 4, has a socket C' formed in its tread to receive the tongue H, and has tongues C, D, E receiving between them the tongues F, G.
Patent GB-190819663-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and connected with Internal Combustion Engines.
Inventor: HOUNSFIELD LESLIE HAYWOOD
Filed: 1908-09-18
Granted: 1909-05-13
Abstract: 19,663. Hounsfield, L. H. Sept. 18. Gas and like engines.-The admission, the exhaust, or both, are controlled in four-stroke cycle engines by pairs of co-operating pistons upon which the explosion acts simultaneously. In the construction shown in Fig. 4, both the inlet and the exhaust are controlled by the cooperative movement of the pistons, but in Fig. 1 the exhaust only is so controlled. In each modification the pistons A are driven from shafts L which rotate at half the speed of the crank-shaft. In Fig. 1, the inlet of the explosive mixture is controlled by a piston port D which opens the port B to the cylinder through the port C. The main exhaust takes place through a piston-controlled port E. During the instroke, the cylinder is again opened to the exhaust port by the combined action of a port G, in the piston F, which communicates with a port H and a port K in the piston A which opens communication between the port H and the cylinder through a port J. In the modification shown in Fig. 4 one piston slides in the interior of the other, the exhaust taking place simultaneously through ports P, Q and N, O. The latter ports, however, do not close until late in the instroke. The explosive mixture is admitted at the end of the suction stroke through ports R, S, but to reduce the vacuum created during the early portion of the stroke a portion of the mixture may be admitted through the non-return valve T. If desired, the supplementary exhaust ports P, Q may be dispensed with. Either construction of engine may be used as a road vehicle.
Patent GB-190822216-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Card and similar Tables.
Filed: 1908-10-20
Granted: 1909-05-20
Abstract: 22,216. Kobrow, C., [Firm of]. Nov. 18, 1907, [date applied for under Section 91 of Patents &c. Act, 1907]. Tables. - In card and similar tables having laterally-hanging flaps adapted to be turned up to enlarge the top, which is rotatable, the flaps are automatically raised by the rotation of the top relatively to the underframe. Fig. 1 shows a side elevation of a square table with the flaps hanging down, and Fig. 5 an underside view with the flaps partly raised. The square top a is rotatable about its centre on the underframe b, and its sides are provided with hinged enlarging flaps c, which are raised by, and supported when raised on, projections d arranged one at each corner of the frame. When the top a is rotated to enlarge the table, the projections d engage first the flaps c and then the inclined projections e on the undersides of the flaps, so as to raise them.
Patent GB-190826628-A (GB)
Title: Improved Construction of Pulleys.
Inventor: RYLAND THOMAS JAMES FRANCIS
IPC: F16H9/16
Filed: 1908-12-08
Granted: 1910-03-08
Abstract: 26,628. Ryland, T. J. F., and Louis, E.S. Dec. 8. [Cognate applications No.26,841, A.D. 1908, dated Dec. 10, and No. 28,455, A.D. 1908, dated Dec. 30.1 Motor road vehicles.-In an expanding pulley of the interpenetrating cone type, applicable as an element of a variable-speed gear for a motor-vehicle &c., the arms 4 of each half are set helically in relation to its boss or nave, so that the two halves move relatively with a screw action. Corresponding helical grooves are formed between the arms in the nave of each member to obviate friction when the members interpenetrate. The direction of the belicles may be such that the pull of the belt tends to screw one part into the other, serving to automatically grip the belt or to take up slack. One half of the pulley is keyed to the shaft, the other half being loosely mounted thereon, or, as shown in Fig. 4, being adapted to engage helical grooves 35 therein, such helices being of the same pitch as the helically formed arms 4 to guide the latter into engagement. The arms 4 may be formed with extension pieces 4<a>, Fig. 1. In the form shown in Fig. 4, a loose roller 30 retained in position by a spring or springs, or by a threaded shoulder on the shaft and retaining-rings 33, 34, is arranged to take the belt when the pulley halves are moved apart. As applied to a variable-speed gear the expanding pulley may be used in conjunction with a non-expanding pulley and a jockey pulley to take up slack ; or a pair of expanding pulleys may be used, in which case means are provided for simultaneously adjusting both pulleys so that the resistance of one pulley to open is balanced by the tendency of the other pulley to close. In an arrangement applied to a motor - vehicle, a variable-speed gear of this type is arranged between the motor and driven shafts. The adjusting-means in this arrangement comprise sliding rods connected through bell-crank levers to the pulley halves with play to permit the automatic gripping action.
Patent GB-190900283-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Machines for Blowing Bottles or other Hollow Articles.
IPC: C03B9/16
Filed: 1909-01-05
Granted: 1909-09-23
Abstract: 283. Soc. Alphonse Tourres et Cie. Jan. 5. [Addition to 13,190/08.] Blowing bottles. The parison mould 9, which is suppotted on a carriage 7 running on a track 2, is filled with molten glass from a ladle 45, Fig. 9, having a hole 46 from which the hot glass below the surface can be poured. The handle of the ladle 45 is rested on a fork fixed to the machine frame. The neck is formed by a neck mould and blowpipe 1 of the kind described in the parent Specification. The parison, which is about the same length as the finished bottle, having been formed, the mould 9 is opened and the blowpipe is swung down on its trunnions so as to invert the parison. The finishing-mould 10 is drawn forward on its carriage 8 and closed around the parison, which is then blown by air from a pipe 13. A double valve, worked by a single handle 23,. Fig. 3, admits low-pressure air for preliminary blowing through a valve 21, and high-pressure air for final blowing through a valve 22. A valve 20 allows the air to escape from the bottle when the blowing is complete. Recesses 17, 18, 19, are formed in various parts of the apparatus and are packed with refractory material so as to retard cooling. Expansion of the parts due to heat is allowed for by screw columns 6, Fig. 1, and screw collars 52, 53, Fig. 11, which fix the position of the collar 54, to which the parts of the neck mould are attached by rods. The moulds are mounted on ball bearings 25, Fig. 3, so that they can be turned to avoid mould marks. A spring catch holds the mould in the desired position and prevents accidental rotation. The mould bottom 11 is supported by a balance weight 12, Fig. 1.
Patent GB-190912212-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Plugs for Hot Water Radiators.
Inventor: WATTS CHARLES JAMES
IPC: F24H9/12
Filed: 1909-05-24
Granted: 1909-07-22
Abstract: 12,212. Watts, C. J. May 24. Venting-apparatus.- A plug has an air valve c controlling a passage d. e, eccentrically placed. In order to ensure a tight fit while enabling the plug to be rotated until the valve is at the top, the thread b is tapered or has a pitch differing very slightly from that in the corresponding hole. A set - screw g may be provided.
Patent GB-190918539-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to Safety Razors.
Inventor: YATES HARRY
IPC: B26B21/18
Filed: 1909-08-11
Granted: 1910-04-28
Abstract: 18,539. Yates, H., and Smith, F Aug. 11. Razors, safety. The blade M and guard F have end notches which engage, when the parts are being locked in position, with snugs Q at the junction of the cap G and arms E of the U-shaped frame B, which is adjustably secured to a handle A by nuts D. The guard F is loosely mounted by a flanged pin &c. L on the top of a stem J, which passes through the handle and has one or more cross-pins P. These pins engage with a slot N in the handle when the parts are to be rapidly disconnected, Fig. 4, and with an inclined surface O on the end of the handle when the parts are being locked together, Fig. 5. By pushing the thumb-piece K up, the blade and guard are guided by the snugs Q, and, on rotating the stem, they are locked against the cap G. The blade may be flexible, and the cap and guard may be curved or flat. Adjustment of the edge of the bent resilient blade is obtained by rotating the stem, or by adjusting the nuts D. The snugs may be slotted to receive a speciallyshaped blade; or the blade may have end projections which engage with recesses in the sides of the frame; or the blade and guard or cap may have holes or indentations which engage with pins or the cap or guard. The incline may be in the form of slots in the wall of the handle, and there may be any number of pins, and the position of the pins and slots may be interchanged. The handle may be secured directly to a boss on the frame B, and the guard may be connected to a frame attached to a stem sliding outside the handle.
Patent GB-190919214-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Machines for Operating Upon the Soles of Boots and Shoes.
Inventor: BOULT ALFRED JULIUS
IPC: A43D43/02
Filed: 1908-06-18
Granted: 1909-09-20
Abstract: 19,214. Boult, A. J., [United Shoe Machinery Co.]. June 18, 1908. Channelling &c.-A channelling-machine having a reciprocating lip-forming or channelling cutter is provided with an edge-gauge arranged to move with the cutter to facilitate the guiding of the work by the operator. To support the margin of an insole at any adjustment of the edge-gauge transversely of the line of feed, the work support is mounted for movement across the line of feed in conjunction with the edge-gauge, but so as to permit independent movement of the gauge in the line of feed. The invention is described as applied to an insole channeling and edgeslitting-machine, which also bevels the unchannelled surface of the insole, of the type in which the cutting of the sole is performed on the backward stroke of the cutters, the work being held meanwhile by a work-retaining foot. The cutters with their co-operating presser gauges feed the work on the forward stroke. Figs. 2 and 3 show vertical sections in two planes at right-angles through the head of such a machine. The channelling-cutter and its presser-gauge and the edgeslitting knife and its presser-gauge are carried in brackets projecting from two spring-pressed slides 36, 38 arranged within a frame 34, which is reciprocated to cause the feeding and cutting of the work by suitable mechanism. The work-retaining device is not shown. The edge-gauge 210 and bevelling- knife 228 are each mounted for independent adjustment in a slide 218 arranged for movement in the line of feed. The slide 218 is mounted on a slide 212 arranged transversely of the line of feed. Simultaneous adjustment of the edge-gauge and the bevelling-knife to vary the width of feather is obtained by operating the slide 212 by means such as are described in Specification 25,730/06. [Class 17, Boots &c.l. A pin 222 is arranged in the slide 218 in a direction at right-angles to the line of feed, and a vertical pin 224 projectiog into a recess in the frame 34 encircles the pin 222. The reciprocatioos of the frame 34 are thus communicated to the edge-gauge, which moves in unison with the cutters and is yet, by virtue of the pin 222, capable of transverse adjustment. To support the margin of the insole in all adjustments of the edge-gauge, the worksupport 120 is mounted in a transverse slide 242 arranged on a plunger 122. A rod 244 is connected with the work-support, and may be clamped in any position of adjustment on the slide 218 by a screw 246. To permit the movement of the edge-gauge in the line of feed, while allowing the work-support to remain stationary, the engagement of the worksupport with the rod 244 is by a tongue 248 on the work-support and a longitudinal groove on the rod.
Patent GB-190920587-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to Electric Generating Systems.
Inventor: LIVESAY ARNOLD GRANT
IPC: H02J3/36
Filed: 1909-09-08
Granted: 1910-07-14
Abstract: 20,587. Livesay, A. G. Sept. 8. Systems depending on the use of auxiliary machines.-To equalize the load upon two prime movers, one of which drives an alternator and the other a direct-current generator, means are provided by which energy is transferred from one electric system to the other according to the load conditions of the systems. One prime mover is supplied with the exhaust fluid of the other. In the arrangement shown in Fig. 1, a reciprocating engine 1 is coupled to a direct-current generator 4 ; and a turbine 3, supplied with exhaust steam from the engine 1, is coupled to an alternator 7. Between the direct-current leads 6 and the alternating-current leads 9, a rotary converter 10 is placed. The converter is excited by a series winding 14 and a shunt winding 13 fed from an exciter 15 mounted upon the converter shaft. When the loads upon the generators 4, 7 are normal, the converter is running idle. If, however, the load upon the direct-current circuit increases, energy is transferred from the alternating-current circuit through the rotary converter. If the load upon the alternating-current circuit increases, energy is transferred from the directcurrent circuit through the converter. The rotary converter may be replaced by a motor-generator of the synchronous type. In a modification, the rotary converter is replaced by an alternating- current machine placed upon the shaft of the direct-current generator 4. Under normal conditions, the machine runs idle, but upon an increase of load on the alternating-current system, it runs as a generator assisting the alternator 7 ; upon an increase of load on the direct-current system, it runs as a motor to assist the engine 1. In a further modification, a direct-current machine is placed on the shaft of the alternator, this machine acting in the same manner as the alternating- current machine of the previous modification. In the arrangement shown in Fig. 4, the machine 4 is a double-current machine having slip-rings 22 connected to the alternating-current system. When the load upon either system varies, the machine 4 acts as a rotary converter conveying energy from one system to the other. In a modification of the arrangement shown in Fig. 4, the machine 7 is made as a double-current machine having a commutator connected to the direct-current mains 6. Specification 19,246/98 is referred to.
Patent GB-190928175-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Speed Governing Mechanism for Motor Vehicles.
Inventor: RENAULT LOUIS
IPC: B60K31/12
Filed: 1909-12-02
Granted: 1910-08-04
Abstract: 28,175. Renault, L. Dec. 19, 1908, [Convention date]. Centrifugal governors.-A governor 3 geared to the driving-shaft of a motor-car is adapted, if the. speed is excessive, to cut off the driving- medium, which may be steam, petrol, or electricity, by a central rod 7 engaging a lever 8, and subsequently the masses 3 engage frictionally with a loose drum 4 geared to a sliding rack-bar 15 operating the vehicle brakes.
Patent GB-190929098-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Apparatus for Heating and Purifying Boiler Feed Water, also applicable for Cooling Liquids.
Inventor: MUCHKA JOSEF
IPC: F22D1/30
Filed: 1909-12-13
Granted: 1910-09-15
Abstract: 29,098. Muchka, J. Dec. 13. Feed-water, heating.-Apparatus for heating boiler feed-water by direct contact with steam consists of a series of troughs, through which the water flows, and over which the steam passes in the direction opposite to that of the water, the troughs being so arranged that the steam and water are brought into the closest contact where they are moving fastest. The troughs a, b, are of triangular cross-section as shown, and are so arranged that the deepest portion of each is over the shallowest portion of the one below it, thus leaving a narrow space through which the steam passes on its way upwards, coming into intimate contact with the water which overflows at the deep end of the trough. Solids are deposited in the troughs, the last traces being removed by a filter p in a collecting-vessel d at the bottom of the casing c containing the apparatus. The supply of water is regulated by the amount in the chamber d by means of a diaphragm m and valve n.
Patent GB-190929144-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Spinners for Tops, Flyers and similar Devices.
Inventor: GILMORE WILLIS BRIDGHAM
IPC: A63H27/127
Filed: 1909-12-13
Granted: 1910-12-13
Abstract: 29,144. Gilmore, W. B. Dec. 13. Tops; flying toys. - Relates to a device for spinning tops or projecting flying toys of the revolving - vane type. A hollow s p i n d l e 6 is mounted on a bearing 2 at one end of a handle 1, and is adapted to be rotated by a cord 4 passing along the bore of the handle and over a pulley 7, the ends of the cord being prevented from becoming entangled by a cross-bar at the end of the handle remote from the pulley. Each end of the spindle 6 is formed with ratchet teeth; and wedges 13, 14, Fig. 2, projecting through the wall of the spindle and held in place by elastic bands 16, 17, are provided to grip the article to be rotated. The stem 27 of the top is provided with pins 30 to engage the ratchet teeth when the stem is inserted in the spinner. In operation, when the spindle 6 stops, the pins 30 ride over the ratchet teeth, and the top is ejected. For projecting flying tops, a clutch 18, Fig. 2, is ininserted in one end of the spindle 6, and held by the wedge. The clutch is formed with a central pin 19 and hooked arms 20, 21 adapted to engage respectively a central hole in, and blades 24, Fig. 5, of, the flying toy. The clutch is rotated by the ratchet teeth which engage the arms 20, 21.
Patent GB-190930480-A (GB)
Title: Manufacture of New Anthraquinone Derivatives.
Inventor: ULLMANN FRITZ
Filed: 1909-12-30
Granted: 1910-02-24
Abstract: 30,480. Ullmann, F. March 15, [Convention date]. Anthraquinonethioxanthones, which are vat dyes, are obtained by treating anthraquinonylthiosalicylic acids with condensing-agents ; according to examples : - anthraquinonylalpha - thiosalicylic acid is converted into the acid chloride by means of phosphorus pentachloride and the chloride is treated with aluminium chloride ; 4-methylanthraquinonyl- 1-thiosalicylic acid is treated with concentrated sulphonic acid ; #-anthraquinonylthiosalicylic acid is treated with sulphuric and glacial acetic acids. Anthraquinonylthiosalicylic acids are obtained by condensing alpha- or #-chloranthraquinones or derivatives thereof with thiosalicylic acid ; the acid chlorides are obtained as described above.