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Patent GB-191000300-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Systems of Shore Protection for Preventing Erosion and the like.
Inventor: MURALT ROBERT RUDOLF LODEWYK D
IPC: E02B3/12
Filed: 1910-01-05
Granted: 1910-04-28
Abstract: 300. Muralt, R. R. L. de. Jan. 5. Facings and linings for river banks and the like.-Facings for the protection of shores, sea bottoms, river banks, or the like, are attached to a float, transported to the spot desired, and deposited by releasing them from the float. A facing a, made of ferro-concrete slabs a<1> connected by bolts through loops in the reinforcing- members which project at the corners, is, where practicable, assembled on a portion of the shore dry at low water, but submerged at high water, between supports f, on to which is floated at high water a float i. The float may consist of a hollow iron structure provided with wells j, Fig. 1, through which pass wire ropes k or the like, wound on drums l, m on a shaft q driven by worm gearing p, o. The ropes are attached by hooks l<1> to the facing, which is then raised into the position shown in dotted lines, and on the tide rising, the float and facing are towed to the required spot and the facing is lowered. The drum l is then freed from the shaft q by loosening the nuts r, the end of the rope is detached, and the rope is wound on the drum m, and unwound from the drum l. Where the difference between high and low water level is slight, the facing and float is assembled on a sloping support above the high-water line, and launched in the ordinary way. The slabs forming the facing may be flat or recessed on either face. As shown in Fig. 3, the float may be formed of blocks of wood a<2> suitably fastened together.
Patent GB-191006560-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Stop-motion or Breaking piece Mechanism or Appliances, for Drawing or Roving Frames and the like, for Jute, Hemp and other Fibres.
Inventor: GOVIER PERCIVAL FREDERICK
IPC: D01H13/14
Filed: 1910-03-16
Granted: 1910-10-27
Abstract: 6560. Govier, P. F. March 16. Stop-motions.-In drawing and roving frames for jute, hemp, &c. in which the driving is effected by a coupling provided with a " pitch " pin," the driven gear C is mounted upon a screw-threaded sleeve J on the pitch collar D, so that when the pitch pin E breaks owing to the overloading of the shaft A, the gear C is moved along the sleeve J away from the collar D and out of range of the driving-gear H.
Patent GB-191007028-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Jointless Fireproof Floorings or Coverings for Floors and the like.
Inventor: SCHUBERT ERNEST ALFRED
IPC: D06N7/00
Filed: 1910-03-21
Granted: 1911-03-02
Abstract: 7028. Schubert, E. A., and Stead, E. P. March 21. No Patent granted (Sealing fee not paid). Coating-compositions; impregnating-compositions. - A jointless flooring or covering for floors consists of an under-layer of sheets of felt soaked in a mixture of magnesite, magnesium chloride, asbestos powder, water, and leather or cork dust; the edges of the sheets abut, and may be straight or dovetailed, and the entire surface is floated over with the impregnating-mixture.
Patent GB-191007032-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Process for the Manufacture of Dextrine, and Apparatus therefor.
Inventor: WULKAN HENRY
IPC: C08B30/18
Filed: 1910-03-21
Granted: 1911-03-21
Abstract: 7032. Wulkan, H. March 21. Dextrin, containing a maximum percentage of water, is made continuously by supplying starch, uniformly impregnated with acid, to dextrin kept in motion, at the requisite temperature for the formation of dextrin, and withdrawing the finished dextrin at the rate of supply. About 5 per cent of the powdered starch to be treated is mixed as intimately as possible with the quantity of acid, highly concentrated, necessary for the conversion of the whole. The small quantity of starch so treated is intimately mixed with the rest of the starch in two vessels a, a1 provided with rotating vertical shafts n, n1 carrying stirring-arms p, p,. The acidulated starch is discharged through a segmental opening d in the side of one vessel a while the mixing proceeds in the other a1; it falls through a hopper e, a pair of rolls c, c1 which break up any small lumps, and a duct s to a third, larger, stirring-vessel &c. v, which must be already charged with dextrin. The finished dextrin is withdrawn through a door h. The supply to the lower vessel v is preferably regulated by the speed of a conveyer b in the hopper e. The dextrinating- vessel v is heated by a steam-jacket, and is provided with a hood fitted with an outlet pipe.
Patent GB-191009890-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Electric Switches.
IPC: H01H19/635
Filed: 1910-04-22
Granted: 1910-11-10
Abstract: 9890. Adams Manufacturing Co., [Cutler Hammer Manufacturing Co.]. April 22. Switches, quick-action. -Electric switches, especially for limiting the travel of motor-operated mechanisms, are constructed with a contactlever and a latching-lever both projecting into the path of a travelling- nut or other member, and a spring situated between the two levers, the spring acting alternately to throw off the contact-lever and reset the latch. In its latched position, Fig. 2, the contact-arm 30 pivoted at 32 bridges a pair of spring-pressed plunger contacts 48 mounted in a plate 20 and provided with nuts 52, Fig. 6, for adjusting their height, and nuts 53 for clamping on the leads. The plate 20 is, by means of a screw 23 on a baseplate 1, Fig. 1, adjustable parallel to the screwshaft 4 of the travelling-nut 12 in order to vary the distance which the motor driving the shaft is to run. The latching-arm and the contact-arm are provided with renewable latching-plates 35, 37 respectively. Beyond the pivot 33 of the latching-arm is a tail-piece 38 opposite a flat portion 40 of the contact-arm 30; and between the two arms at this point is fastened a compression spring 42. The roller 43, being pushed back by the nut 12, allows the arm 30 to be thrown off by the spring, the parts then assuming the position shown in Fig. 3. The ends of the shaft 4 are made plain to prevent the nuts from jamming if the device fails to work. The nut in its return stroke encounters a protruding roller 46 and pushes it back against the spring 42 until the latching-arm comes again into engagement.
Patent GB-191018429-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Fluid Pressure Motor Plants.
Inventor: HODGKINSON FRANCIS
IPC: F01D1/02
Filed: 1910-08-04
Granted: 1910-11-10
Abstract: 18,429. Hodgkinson, F. Sept. 1, 1909, [Convention date]. Exhaust, treating.-In a power system comprising a high-pressure motor, the exhaust from which is utilized in a low-pressure motor, a valve fitted in a by-pass between the exhaust passages of the two motors is adapted to vary automatically the amounts of fluid passing respectively to and around the low - pressure motor, and an additional valve device controls the passage of high-pressure fluid to the lowpressure motor, both valves being controlled by the governor of the low-pressure motor. The invention is shown applied to a high-pressure reciprocating engine 1 and a two-stage turbine 5, the exhaust passages 3, 8 being connected by a by-pass 7 fitted with a valve 12, the passage 8 leading to a condenser 9. The pipe 62 leads high-pressure fluid from the source 2, past the valve 44, to the high-pressure stage 56 of the turbine. In operation, a relay 38, controlled by the governor 30, determines the movement of a piston 22 linked to the rods 18, 45 of the valves 12, 44 respectively. A spring 16 tends to open the valve 12 with less force than a spring 47 tends to close the valve 44, so that, in the descent of the piston 22, after closure of the valve 12, the link 20 fulcrums about its pivot on the link 18 to open the valve 44. A relief valve 10 and throttle valve 6 are fitted as shown.
Patent GB-191018633-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Hoods for Landaus and like Carriages.
Inventor: PENMAN ANDREW CLARK
IPC: B60J7/12
Filed: 1910-08-08
Granted: 1911-06-21
Abstract: 18,633. Penman, A. C. Aug. 8. Double hinges. - The door pillar B of a landau or like hood is hinged upon a pin P, Fig. 5, which is carried by a rotatable pin 0 connecting the cant-rail A to a member D sliding on a bar F. When collapsing the hood, the pillar B can thus be swung outwards into the horizontal position, turned about its own length to bring the pin P into a vertical position and then be turned forwards to lie alongside the cant-rail A.
Patent GB-191024794-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Internal Combustion Engines.
Inventor: WOODWORTH LYMAN
IPC: F02B77/02
Filed: 1910-10-25
Granted: 1911-10-25
Abstract: 24,794. Woodworth, L. Nov. 10, 1909, [Convention date]. Drawings to Specification. Cylinders, controlling temperature of; cylinders, construction of. -The piston, cylinder head, and combustion chamber, or that part of the cylinder not traversed by the piston, are coated with nickel, electrolytically deposited on the surfaces, to retain the heat of the working fluid. Cooling-water is circulated on the back of the coated surfaces. Cobalt or palladium may be used in place of nickel. The piston is cooled by water circulating through telescopic or pivoted piping, or through the piston-rod.
Patent GB-191027957-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Rat-guards for Ships' Moorings and the like.
Inventor: CONOLEY BENJAMIN JOSEPH
IPC: B63B21/12
Filed: 1910-12-01
Granted: 1911-01-05
Abstract: 27,957. Conoley, B. J. Dee 1 Animals, catching and destroying.-In a ratguard for ships' cables, of the type described in Specification 5003/01, two conical guards a, b, Fig. 1, are each formed in halves, and are connected by a neck c, also formed in two parts. The halves are fastened together by bolts g, Fig. 3, pivoted to a lug e on one half and passing through a slot in a lug e on the other half and fixed by a nut h. If desired, the halves may be hinged together; one half is then made smaller than, and slides into, the other half, and the meeting edges are secured together by bolts g. The neck c may be provided with two sets of fastening-means instead of one bolt g and a hinge.
Patent GB-191028002-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Mowing Machines.
Inventor: PARKER JOHN LITTLEDALE
IPC: A01D34/13
Filed: 1910-12-02
Granted: 1911-05-25
Abstract: 28,002. Parker, J. L. Dec. 2. Reaping, mowing, and harvesting machines. -The fingers 1 are inverted and provided with flat under-faces 2 which rest on the ground, the knife 7 working against steel plates 5 secured by bolts 6 in recesses in the underpart of the fingers, which have turned - up points 3 and curved parts 3<a>.
Patent GB-191029554-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Rotary Radial Cylinder Pumps.
Inventor: HELE-SHAW HENRY SELBY
IPC: F04B1/10
Filed: 1910-12-20
Granted: 1911-12-20
Abstract: 29,554. Shaw, H. S. Hele-, and Martineau, F. L. Dec. 20. [Cognate Application, 16,626/11.] Revolving-cylinder pumps.-Relates to radialcylinder pumps as described in Specification 12,574/09 which revolve about a central valve and in which the pistons are reciprocated by an eccentric ring or cam, and consists in providing means for balancing, by liquid under pressure, the centrifugal force acting upon the cam. One method employed consists in making the pump double-acting as in Fig. 1, where the central valve 2 has two suction and two delivery ports, 8, 7, one set controlling the inner ends of the cylinders, and the other set communicating by passages 10 in the cylinder walls with the outer ends of the cylinders. The piston 3 may be hollow and of exactly the same weight as the liquid it displaces. In this way, the centrifugal force exerted upon the cam path 6 is balanced by liquid pressure. A valve 11 automatically cuts out the suction port controlling the outer ends when air only is being pumped, as when starting-up, since the pressure drops more quickly when, as with the inner ends, there are no lengthy passages or big clearances. Another method employed consists in using hollow differential pistons 12, as shown in Fig. 2, so that the pressure stroke corresponds with the suction stroke when the usual solid piston is used. In another construction, Fig. 3, liquid under pressure is forced through passages 15, 16 to an annular chamber communicating with the outer ends of the pistons. The liquid may be supplied independently of or taken from the pressure side of the pump. Specification 9402/10 is also referred to.
Patent GB-191100172-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Apparatus for Measuring or Indicating the Flow of Fluid through a Conduit.
Inventor: CHRISMAN HORACE
IPC: G01F3/12
Filed: 1911-01-03
Granted: 1911-03-09
Abstract: 1911172. Chrisman, H. Jan. 14, 1910, [Convention date]. Rotary meters; governing and regulating meters.-An abnormal flow of water due to an emergency demand is utilized to swing the meter out of the path of the flow and to operate an auxiliary indicator registering the duration of the abnormal demand. The meter 12, which may be of the disk-engine type, is suspended from a bracket 10 and is adapted to close by its flange 14 an annular groove 6 in the flange 5 of the water pipe 2. When the meter is swung out of the path of the water by an abnormal rush, the flange 14 uncovers the groove 6, and water is led therethrough to a pipe 7 and a time-indicator 8. On normal conditions being resumed, the weight of the meter returns it to its seat, the tell-tale meter 8 being cut out.
Patent GB-191105136-A (GB)
Title: Improved Isolating Screen for Rooms or Compartments in Hospitals, Public Buildings and the like.
Inventor: DOYLE JOHN
IPC: F24F9/00
Filed: 1911-03-01
Granted: 1912-02-15
Abstract: 5136. Doyle, J. March 1. Church furniture.- An antiseptic transparent screen or partition for use in a confessional box consists of two sheets B of metallic or fibrous gauze, woven glass, or perforated sheets of zinc or glass, mounted in a sliding frame A; air is drawn from the space between the two sheets and through channels H by suction or forcing.
Patent GB-191105289-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to the Control of Electric Motors.
IPC: H02K27/12
Filed: 1911-03-02
Granted: 1911-11-16
Abstract: 5289. British Thomson-Houston Co., [Allgemeine Elektricitõts Ges.]. March 2. Dynamos and motors combined for transmitting power.-In a system of motor control as described in Specification 23,288/02, [Class 35, Dynamo-electric generators &c.], the stator s and the rotor r are supplied from two separate mechanically-coupled generators g, g<1>, the exciting-currents of one or both of which may be varied. Permanent or temporary connexions between the stationary parts of the two generators may be employed to adjust the phase displacement between the stator and rotor currents. The phase displacement may also be adjusted by a booster z connected in one of the generator circuits to generate an electromotive force displaced in phase. For compounding, direct-current machines may be connected in one or both exciter circuits. The system may be used for ship propulsion, winding systems, rolling mills, &c.
Patent GB-191106098-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Circular Rib Knitting Machines.
IPC: D04B9/06
Filed: 1911-03-11
Granted: 1911-10-05
Abstract: 6098. Mellor & Sons, M., and Mills, J. A. March 11. Circular machines. - Transfer points 8 for facilitating the transfer of loops from the dial to the cylinder needles are provided with loop-engaging projections 10 on horizontally - cranked portions 9, and are mounted in the dial tricks so that the dial needles 6 slide upon them. The dial needles also have loop - engaging projections 7. When loops are to be transferred, the cylinder needles are lowered to the knocking- over position, and the corresponding dial needles 6 and transfer points are projected. The transfer points ride up an inclined portion 5 of the dial 4 and lift the dial needles, and assist in expanding the loops, which are held stretched between the loop - engaging projections 7, 10, while the cylinder needles rise to receive the loops.
Patent GB-191109429-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Automatic Firearms.
Inventor: MENTEYNE PAUL MARIE
IPC: F41A17/36
Filed: 1911-04-18
Granted: 1911-08-17
Abstract: 9429. Menteyne, P. M., and Degaille, P. A. April 18. Breech action, sliding barrel and breechblock.-Relates to recoil-operated guns, and consists in a special magazine cut-off with which is combined a device for holding the breech open either when the magazine is empty or when the cut-off is in the operative position. The cut-off comprises a U-shaped piece 14 sliding on the rear end of the magazine and gripping the upper cartridge between the arm 18 and the spring arm 15. This cut-off can occupy one of two positions, in the lower of which it holds the cartridges below and out of the path of the breech-block. The device for holding the breech open comprises a spring-controlled lever 4 which, at the end of the recoil, engages a lug on the firing-pin and retains it, and the breechblock, until the barrel reaches its forward position. The lever 4 is released by an inclined lug 11 on the barrel which engages a lug 9 on a lever 7, laterally pivoted to the lever 4. This lever 7 has a forwardly-projecting nose 8, which engages a cam-surface 16, 17 on the spring arm 15 of the cut-off. When the cut-off is in its lowered position, or when the magazine is empty so that the spring arm 15 of the cut-off moves inwards, as shown in Fig. 5, the arm 7 is swung sideways so that the lug 9 is not engaged by the lug 11 on the barrel, and hence the lever 4 remains in engagement with the firing-pin, and holds the breech open.
Patent GB-191111696-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Apparatus for ther Observation of Gas Caps and Testing Miner's Safety LAmps.
Inventor: OLDHAM ORLANDO
IPC: G01N25/54
Filed: 1910-11-15
Granted: 1911-10-19
Abstract: 11,696. Oldham, O. Nov. 15, 1910. Miners' safety lamps.-Relates to portable self - contained apparatus for testing miners' lamps in currents of known mixtures of gas and air. The apparatus is similar to that described in Specification 26,534/10. Air and gas are supplied to a mixing-fan a by an airinlet a' and a gas-pipe b, or they may enter the box d and be mixed by perforated baffleplates. Means are provided for ascertaining the proportions of the mixture, which passes along an horizontal box d open at the end, and escapes by a pipe h. The lamp is placed in the box d opposite a window f, and rests on a platform d', which is rotated by the motor c that drives the fan a. The platform d<1> can be tilted to allow the current to strike the lamp at various angles, or a handle i may be used to vary the direction of a nozzle or an inclined deflector plate. Inclined plates k, Fig. 2, may be used to concentrate the current upon the lamp. Coal dust may be fed to the air duct a<1> by a belt--driven wheel and shoot.
Patent GB-191113997-A (GB)
Title: Flying Machine.
Inventor: VEREY MARC JANIS
IPC: B64C3/38
Filed: 1911-06-13
Granted: 1912-07-15
Abstract: 13,997. Verey, M. J. June 13. Floats for aerial machines.-The machine is fitted with skids 43, 44, Fig. 1, between which and the body may be arranged a padding of light material, such as kapok &c., to absorb shocks and provide buoyancy for floating on water.
Patent GB-191118126-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Automatic Grabs particularly applicable for Coarse Material.
IPC: B66C3/02
Filed: 1911-08-10
Granted: 1911-10-05
Abstract: 18,126. Pohlig Akt. - Ges., J., and Ellingen, W. Aug. 18, 1910, [Convention date]. Grab-buckets.-A baffle-plate m is provided so that, when dealing with coarse material, the meeting together of the cutting-edges of the bucket parts a, b is not essential for preventing spilling of the material. The baffle-plate is arranged at such a level that it does not interfere with the cutting operation of the grab.
Patent GB-191118393-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Apparatus for Carbonizing Peat.
Inventor: EDGEWORTH KENNETH ESSEX
IPC: C10F5/06
Filed: 1911-08-15
Granted: 1912-03-21
Abstract: 18,393. Edgeworth, K. E. Aug. 15 Peat, preparing.-In the wet carbonization of peat, the heat contained in the product is utilized to raise the temperature of fresh material, the final increase of temperature being effected by steam from a boiler. In practice, a number of vessels is used containing peat in various stages of the treatment; the temperature of the fresh peat is first raised to say 80‹ C. by circulating water through the containing-veesel and through one of several vessels in turn containing carbonized peat, and the temperature is then raised to, say, 140‹ C. by steam from other vessels containing carbonized peat. Specification 20,420/03 is referred to.
Patent GB-191123355-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Starting Mechanism for Engines.
Inventor: TALBOT CHARLES LEON
IPC: F02N15/02
Filed: 1911-10-23
Granted: 1912-06-06
Abstract: 23,355. Talbot, C. L. Oct. 23. Clutches, ratchet. - A motor 10 carries a pinion 11 gearing with a toothed wheel 8 connected to a flange 7, which drives the automobile &c. shaft 3 through the medium of the roller ratchet clutch shown in Fig. 5.
Patent GB-191124642-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to the Manufacture and Production of Oxyanthraquinones.
Inventor: NEWTON PHILIP ARTHUR
IPC: C07C46/00
Filed: 1911-11-06
Granted: 1912-11-06
Abstract: 24,642. Newton, P. A., [Farbenfabriken vorm. F. Bayer & Co.]. Nov. 6. Oxyanthraquinones.-Alizarin is produced by replacing in the process of Specification 2354/11 the anthraquinone sulphonic acids or sulphites by other bodies which yield sulphites in an alkali melt, such as sulphonic acids, sodium nitrilosulphonate, hydrosulphites, thiosulphates, polythionic acids or salts, or sulphides. According to examples, anthraquinone is heated with caustic soda lye, sodium nitrate, and sodium hydrosulphite or thiosulphate. Sodium sulphide and sodium-1:3:5-naphthalenetrisulphonate are also specified as suitable materials. Other oxyanthraquinones, such as #-oxyanthraquinone, anthraflavic acid, flavopurpurin, &c. are produced by carrying out the reaction under milder or more energetic conditions, similar to those described in Specification 11,915/12.
Patent GB-191126229-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Lamp Supports or Brackets for use on Motor Cars and in other situations.
Inventor: DRAKE JOHN
IPC: B60Q1/124
Filed: 1911-11-23
Granted: 1912-07-04
Abstract: 26,229. Drake, J., and Goff, H. A. Nov. 23. [Addition to 2623/11.] Brackets, electric-lamp. - The construction of motor-car and like electric-lamp brackets of the type in which the lantern is displaceable in both horizontal and vertical planes is simplified. The angular adjustment of the arm a working in a sleeve f attached to the dashboard or car is effected by the engagement of projections gX on a spring- pressed washer g on the arm a with recesses ix on a washer i secured to the sleeve f. The complete revolution of the arm a in the sleeve f is prevented either by the engagement of a stop a<3> on the arm with a projection f<3> on the sleeve, or by a screw g<2> working in a groove g<1> which does not extend entirely round the circumference of the washer g. The groove g' is of sufficient width to enable the projections gX to be disengaged from the recesses i<x> when it is desired to adjust the arm a. In a modification, the sleeve f is replaced by an elongated tubular bracket provided at each end with a lug for attachment to the dashboard.
Patent GB-191128335-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Rotary Apparatus for use in Heating and Cooling Gases and Liquids and Humidifying or Drying Gases and the like.
IPC: B01D47/08
Filed: 1911-12-16
Granted: 1912-10-10
Abstract: 28,335. Heenan & Froude, and Bliss, J. Dec. 16. Drawings to Specification.. Scrubbers.-Relates to apparatus for heating or cooling gases or liquids or humidifying or drying gases of the type in which a rotating drum constructed of plates or windings of sheet metal or other material is partly immersed in liquid, and consists in driving the drum by a friction wheel mounted thereon and engaging one or more driven friction wheels. The drum may be supported at the driven end by two friction wheels. The liquid-circulating pump and the driving-mechanism for the fan and drum are preferably arranged together at one end of the apparatus, outside the main casing.