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Patent GB-190626136-A (GB)
Title: The Propulsion of Vehicles
Inventor: STONEY THOMAS BUTLER
Filed: 1906-11-19
Granted: 1907-06-06
Abstract: 26,136. Stoney, T. B. Nov. 19. Propelling.-Vehicles on roads or railways are propelled by impacts given by a locomotive. The carriage is placed before the locomotive to which it is connected by chains, the two having air-buffers or "other perfectly elastic substances" on their abutting surfaces. The carriage, on being overtaken by the engine, is stated to proceed with an increased momentum which is double that lost by the locomotive, so that, by attaching a train behind the carriage, a small engine may be made to propel a heavy load by repeated impacts. The locomotive is driven by air which is compressed in a receiver during the periods when the train is running at full speed and the locomotive is trailed without working on the train, or during the periods when the train is at rest or on a down gradient.
Patent GB-190626349-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Locks.
Inventor: MCKENZIE HENRY
Filed: 1906-11-21
Granted: 1907-09-05
Abstract: 26,349. McKenzie, H., and Tivendale, W. Nov. 21. Locks, permutation.-In the lock described in Specification No. 25,645, A.D. 1905, the permutation locking-cylinders k are adjusted to the unlocking position by means of a removable dial plate, instead of by the usual ones fixed to the casing. The cylinder spindles a do not extend quite to the outside of the door, and are operated from the outside by a removable key c, which is adapted to take over the reduced ends a<1> of the spindles and engage a projecting pin a<2> thereon. To the key c is secured the dial disk c and a three-armed piece f, the position of which relative to the disk e can be adjusted by means of a pin g thereon engaging one of a series of holes e<1> in the disk. On the undersurface of the arms f are pins h placed at varying distances from the centre, to co-operate with corresponding pins b, Fig. 1, secured to the outside of the lock casing. To set the combination, the cylinders k are locked in their unlocking positions as described in the above-mentioned Specification, and the securing-nuts l are released. The key c, with dial &c. arranged, is then placed on the spindle a and turned until one of the arms f is stopped by its corresponding pin b on the casing, the spindle a being turned therewith in the cylinder k. The nuts l are then screwed up so as to secure the cylinders in place on the spindles, the cylinders are disarranged, and the key is removed. To unlock, the key, with the dial correctly set, is placed successively on the three spindles and turned till stopped by the pins b. In a modification, the piece f is placed in front of the disk e ., instead of behind it, the arms being extended beyond the disk as shown in Fig. 1.
Patent GB-190627339-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Jacquard and like Cards for Weaving.
Inventor: COUSEN SAMUEL WILLIAM
Filed: 1906-12-01
Granted: 1907-05-09
Abstract: 27,339. Cousen, S. W., and Ellerby, G. P. Dec. 1. Cards.-The peg, lace, and pattern holes of jacquard &c. cards are strengthened by brass or other metal eyelets or plates D, secured in the holes by turning over the edge D' of the eyelets.
Patent GB-190700086-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in connection with Uniting or Welding of Metals.
Inventor: SIMPSON WILLIAM SPEIRS
Filed: 1907-01-01
Granted: 1908-02-29
Abstract: 190786. Simpson, W. S. Jan. 1. Making chains.-Chains are made by uniting steel or iron by means of a softer metal such as copper, aluminium, tin, lead, zinc, or their alloys. Specification No. 27,628, A.D. 1906, [Abridgment Class Metals, Cutting &c.] is referred to.
Patent GB-190707357-A (GB)
Title: Method of Baking Bread and similar Food Products in such manner as to Completely Sterilise the same and to Maintain the same in Sterilised Condition.
Inventor: RUTTEN LOUIS
Filed: 1907-03-27
Granted: 1907-06-27
Abstract: 7357. Rutton, L. March 27. Preserving bread &c.-In order to preserve bread and similar foods for a long time in a sterilized condition, they are first baked in a vessel which has a perforated cover and is internally coated with an oily preparation and flour. The perforated cover is then replaced by an air-tight one which may be sealed, and the vessel is again heated in order to destroy germs and prevent fermentation. When the food is required for use, it may be made fresh again by heatiug the vessel for about forty minutes.
Patent GB-190715146-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Machines for Dealing Playing-cards
Inventor: BAKER BURTON LINWOOD
Filed: 1907-07-01
Granted: 1908-04-30
Abstract: 15,146. Baker, B. L. July 1. Card games.-Relates to card-dealing appliances of the type described in Specification No. 21,206, A.D. 1904, the present invention being constructed to deliver the cards to the rear of the rotating cardholder. As shown in Fig. 1, the card-holder 9 is mounted on a carrier 2 pivoted on a suitable base 1, and adapted to be rotated thereon by a handle 4. The cards a are delivered singly from the holder 9 by the roller 5, which is driven by a pinion 7 gearing with a rack 8 on the base, or by other suitable means, so as to deliver the cards to the rear of the holder 9. To ensure a uniform pressure of the cards against the roller, the bolder 9 is connected to a weighted lever 11 ; the free end of this lever may be formed as a weight, as shown ; or one or more weights, which may be adjustable, may be mounted on it. The weight also serves to counterbalance the holder. To prevent more than one card from being delivered at a time, an end stop 15 carrying a gauge 15<a>, Fig. 5, which is adjustable in height by means of a screw 18, is provided at the rear end of the bolder. The end stop is also adjustable in the direction of the feed, to adapt the apparatus for cards of different lengths, and to regulate the time and point of delivery &c. Fig. 6 shows a modified form of gauge, which has two operative parts 15<c> designed to engage the cards only near their corners. The feed-roller 5 may be covered throughout with rubber &c. ; or, as shown in Fig. 1, it may be provided with rubber sleeves &c. 5<a> at its ends only. In the latter case, the gauge 15<a>, Fig. 5, may be in line with, and a little less in length than, the uncovered part of the roller. A holddown roll 22 is provided to prevent the cards from tilting under the pressure of the roller 5, and the Upward movement card-holder is limited by stops 25.
Patent GB-190715876-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Machines for Crimping Webs of Wire Netting
Inventor: SHUMAN ARNO
Filed: 1907-07-10
Granted: 1908-03-12
Abstract: 15,876. Shuman, A. July 10. Corrugating.- Wire netting for use in the manufacture of wire-glass is crimped between dies F, M in a reciprocating head E and dies C, L on a table B. The dies M, L are adjustable towards and from the dies F, C. The initial crimping is effected by the dies F. C, and the final by the dies M and the first of the dies L. The die C preferably has grooves in its faces of different depths corresponding to the different thickness of material to be operated on. The material is fed by hand, and is positioned by a number of pins n on an adjustable bar N.
Patent GB-190717289-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Mode or System of Producing Rolling Motions, applicable to Wheel Gear Cutting, and like, Machines, requiring Circumferential Work of an Inter-related Character.
Filed: 1907-07-29
Granted: 1908-04-23
Abstract: 17,289. Buckton & Co., J., and Bruce, R. A. July 29. Embossing; milling; shaping.-A system of link-work is applied to produce a true rolling motion between a cylindrical and a plane surface, and the system is stated to be applicable for making or treating toothed gearing by milling, or shaping, or by grinding with reciprocating or revolving tools, and for embossing and for printing upon cylindrical or plane surfaces. In one arrangement, members D, E, F, Fig. 2, form a compound slide, and the member D carries an arbor A which supports a master wheel B and a blank b, and a slide C<3> carrying a worm, screw, or rack C. In the case of a worm or screw, a dividing- apparatus may be attached. A link G is centred on a pin C<4> carried by the slide C<3> with its axis in the plane of rolling of the master wheel, and is slotted to receive a block A<1> on the arbor A and a block on a pin H carried by the member F. The axis on the pin H is in a plane tangential to the blank b. If the slide C<3> is the fixed or anchored portion of the linkage, motion of the slide D in the direction of the arrow will produce a true rolling of the blank b with respect to the plane pp- In a modification the fixture may be the slide D, and in a further modification the pin H. In another arrangement, the slide C<3> moves on ways which are not parallel to the ways connecting the slides D, E, and the link G is replaced by a system of three links. Fig. 3 is an example of the mechanism as applied to cutting worm-wheels. The blank b, master wheel B, and arbor A are carried by the slides D, E, and the slide E is adjustable on the slide F by a screw f<1>, this adjustment being the only one necessary to set the machine for different blank diameters by bringing the central pitch circle into position over the fixed pin h<2>. The link G is shown fitted with worm gearing G' for oscillating the system. When arranged for cutting spur-wheels, the fly-cutter saddle is replaced by the slotting - saddle H<3>, Fig. 3A. More than one cutter may be used, and the apparatus' may be arranged for continuous working, in which case the worm C is given a continuous rotary movement in relation to the cutter speed in known manner. If cutting-tools are mounted on an arm on the arbor A, racks may be cut.
Patent GB-190721116-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Explosive Oil and Process for the Manufacture of the same.
Inventor: HADDAN HERBERT JOHN
Filed: 1907-09-23
Granted: 1907-11-14
Abstract: 21,116. Haddan, H. J., [Lehmann, J. F.]. Sept. 23. Glycerides.-An explosive oil is obtained by nitrating with fuming nitric acid, pure glycerine disulphuric acid or its salts at a temperature not exceeding 30‹ C. The fuming nitric acid may be mixed with sulphuric acid, but the yield is not so satisfactory as when nitric acid alone is used.
Patent GB-190722561-A (GB)
Title: Manufacture of an Improved Liquid Combustible.
Inventor: HENSE RUDOLF
Filed: 1907-10-12
Granted: 1908-09-24
Abstract: 22,561. Hense, R. Oct. 12. Lamp and fuel oils; mineral oils; fats and fatty oils; turpentine substitutes.-A fuel for internalcombustion engines, vapour lamps, &c. is made from a mixture of hydrocarbons of high and low volatility, such as a mixture of kerosene and benzol, benzine, or some of the final product of the process, by agitating the mixture with potash and, after decanting, adding a material rich in carbon, such as a resin or gum, and a nitro-compound, for example picric acid. The mixture is purified with sulphuric acid and with a solution of Glauber's salt or Epsom salts and distilled. The fraction which distils below 250‹ C. is suitable as a fuel for internal-combustion engines, and the heavier portion as a solvent for fats and a substitute for turpentine. Specification No. 14,671, A.D. 1907, is referred to.
Patent GB-190724549-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to the Handles of Cricket Bats, Hockey Sticks, Base-ball Clubs, Golf Sticks, and such like.
Inventor: QUAIFE WALTER
Filed: 1907-11-06
Granted: 1908-11-05
Abstract: 24,549. Quaife, W., and Quaife, W. [trading as Quaife Bros. & Lilley]. Nov. 6. Bats; golf; hockey; baseball.-The handles of cricket bats, hockey sticks, golf clubs, baseball clubs, &c. are constructed of three sections f, g, h shaped to form a central hollow c in which are situated pneumatic balls d preferably spaced a little distance apart. Tubular rubber insertions e may be added. The top and bottom portions of the handle are wrapped in the usual manner, but an india-rubber or other sheath is used to cover the portion adjacent to the hollowing.
Patent GB-190725458-A (GB)
Title: Process for the Production of Cantharadinic Acid Derivatives containing Iodine and Mercury.
Inventor: KLEIN ALEXANDER
Filed: 1907-11-16
Granted: 1908-11-12
Abstract: 25,458. Klein, A. Nov. 16. Samples furnished under Section 2 of Patents &c. Act, 1907. Cantharidinic acid derivatives which can be applied in the veterinary art as a remedy fur ossification and the like, is produced by heating tincture of cantharides or cantharidinic acid solution with a large quantity of mercuric chloride and iodine. A brown clear liquid results, from which, after removing free iodine by addition of sodium sulphite, the mercury-iodine-cantharidinate deposits as a yellowish - white precipitate. If mercuric chloride and iodine are added to tincture of cantharides or cantharidinic-acid solution in the cold, the mixture rapidly dissolves, but on standing yields a white precipitate of mercury cantharidinate.
Patent GB-190800576-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Mechanical Rammers for Paving
Inventor: QVIST NIEL CHRISTIAN
Filed: 1908-01-09
Granted: 1908-04-23
Abstract: 576. Qvist, N. C., and Nordistr÷m, W. H. Jan. 9. Roads and ways, making and repairing.-A machine for ramming paving-stones is mounted on a wheeled frame 1 with rear guiding-handles 2. The frame 1 carries bearings 6 for a shaft 7, on which two pinions 8 are mounted so as to slide but not rotate. The pinions 8 may be brought into gear with toothed wheels 5 carried by the road wheels 4, by means of pivoted levers 10. The shaft 7 also carries a bevel-gear 12, which may be actuated through a handle 16, shaft 14, and pinion 13 so as to cause the wheels 4 to move. By putting the pinions 8 out of gear, the machine can be wheeled by hand. A vertical shaft 19 passes through holes in a cross-bar 17 and a strut 18, and carries a small wheel 20, which is guided between the two rows of paving - stones to be rammed. On the squared upper end of the shaft 19 is mounted a cranked arm 22, with a handle 23 having a lever 24 with a spring bolt 25. The position of the wheel 20 is fixed by the engagement of the bolt 25 with a hole in a fixed quadrant 26. The inner ends of the separate axles 3 of the wheels 4 are journaled in the two side-walls of a box 27 enclosing the ram 28. The enlarged upper end of the box 27 carries mountings 29 for bolts 30, on which rotate rods 31 extending through holes in a cross-bar 32 and connected by a transverse piece 34, which forms the nut for a screw 35 journaled in cross-pieces 32, 36. A handle 37 serves to turn the screw and so adjust the angular position of the box 27 pivoted on the axles 3. The piece 34 carries a pointer 39, which is moved over a scale 38 corresponding to the various gradients. The ram 28 is carried by a rack 40 ending in a ball, which moves in a semicircular socket in the ram. A guiding - piece 45, with a roller 46 against which the rear surface of the rack 40 bears, is fixed at the top of the box 27, and engages with grooves 44 in the rack 40. A toothed sector in three pieces 48, 49, 50, gears with the rack 40. The piece 48 is fixed to a shaft 51 jonrnaled in bearings in the box 27, and a number of its teeth are cut off by a chord. The pieces 49, 50 are arranged to slide along the shaft 51 to be used with the piece 48 in order to increase the number of teeth in the sector. Each is connected to a circular disk 54 with a ring 55 attached to a slide 57, and may be operated through links 58, 59 from a lever 60 with handles 62. A toothed wheel 63 on the end of the shaft 51 gears with a pinion on a parallel shaft 65 carrying a ratchet-wheel 67 with pawl 68 and at each end a handle 66. By turning the handles 66, the toothed sector is turned, and the ram 28 is raised, but the ram falls when the last tooth is disengaged from the rack 40. The handles 66 may be replaced by a motordriven fly-wheel. The ram 28 is connected by strong helical springs 69 with screw-threaded rods 70 passing through holes in fixed plates 71 and through hollow nuts 72, adjustment of which allows the fall of the ram to be stopped at any desired level.
Patent GB-190809142-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Steam Boilers.
Inventor: PARKER STEPHEN JOHNSON
Filed: 1908-04-27
Granted: 1908-10-01
Abstract: 9142. Parker, S. J. April 27. Steam - generator furnaces.-Relates to a form of firetube boiler which has two fire-boxes, one above the other, each having double walls forming water - chambers. Combustion takes place simultaneously in the fire-boxes D<7> and H. The main products of combustion pass over the tubes F, perforated at F<1>, which project through the furnace front and admit air. Secondary combustion takes place as the gases pass downwards, and is assisted by the combustion products from the lower furnace, which pass over the water-walls H<1>. The mixed gases pass into the chamber 9 and the space 3 and then through the tubes E. Perforated tubes, similar to those shown at F, may be placed on each side of the walls H<1>.
Patent GB-190809649-A (GB)
Title: Improved Sterilising Apparatus.
Inventor: RICHTER ALEXANDRA
Filed: 1908-05-04
Granted: 1908-12-17
Abstract: 9649. Richter, A. May 4. Preserving.-A sterilizing-apparatus comprises a casing a, which receives a framing consisting of legs c attached to a bottom d and fitted with adjustable shelves e. The receptacles fit into saucers f having pins g, which pass through holes in the shelves into tubes r upon the closures h, so that displacement and tilting are prevented. The pins g slide in grooves in the saucers f and are held in place by plates i, Fig. 3. The shelves e are provided with depressions into which fit plates d', so that taller receptacles can be placed in the middle, and the shelves, plates, and bottom are perforated to allow circulation of the heating-medium.
Patent GB-190810798-A (GB)
Title: Improved Mechanical Feeder for Bucket Conveyors.
Inventor: WEST JOHN
Filed: 1908-05-18
Granted: 1909-03-04
Abstract: 10,798. West, J. May 18. Conveyers; elevators; shoots. - Relates to a rotary filler for feeding bucket conveyers, elevators, and the like, and comprises special means for regulating the supply of materials to the buckets. Figs. 1 and 2 show vertical sections of one form of the apparatus. The filler a is provided with spouts a<1> and is fed by a hopper c and shoot d. The filler is fixed on a shaft l, and is rotated by a sprocket-wheel g actuated by the conveyer chain rollers h. Slidably keyed on the shaft l is a disk k provided with openings k<1> for the material conveyed. The distance of the plate from the face of the shoot is adjusted by means of a screw m fixed to the plate, and a nut n which can rotate in an arm a<2> of the filler but is prevented from longitudinal movement by a collar. The screw is made of such a length that the length of the portion projecting beyond the nut is equal to the distance between the disk k and the face of the shoot. The openings in the disk serve the purpose of keeping the material in motion. In a modification, the invention is shown applied to a filler fed by two shoots, one on each side. In this case two disks are provided, one for each shoot.
Patent GB-190815208-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Weighing Apparatus.
Inventor: GATTIE ALFRED WARWICK
Filed: 1908-07-17
Granted: 1909-07-01
Abstract: 15,208. Gattie, A. W., and Seaman, A. G. July 17. Steelyard apparatus; electric weighing - apparatus. - The steelyard of a weighing - machine is suspended b y links c, and the pull on the rod g<1> is automatically balanced by the winding of a chain &c. l from a drum h, journaled in the casing and clear of the steelyard, on to a drum k journaled in adjustable bearings in the steelyard. The chain is wound on to the drum k by an electro - motor m and returned b y a spring h<1>. A suitable indicating- device n, Fig. 3, is connected through a clutch p, q to the drum h. When the steelyard reaches the position of equilibrium, it breaks an electric circuit, thus cutting-off the current from the motor m ; at the same time it de-energizes an electro-magnet o, thereby disengaging the clutch p, q and applying a conical friction brake p<1> to the indicating- mechanism. Simultaneously, the circuits are broken through electro magnets u<2>, t<2>, Fig. 1, allowing a spring-actuated band-brake u to be applied to the drum k and a pawl t to prevent the return of the drum h. The drum may be released to wind back the chain by lifting the pawl by hand, or by operating a switch and thereby re-energizing the electro-magnet t<2>. The same switch may be used to complete the circuit through the motor m for another weighing operation. The apparatus may be modified by utilizing the chain to draw a weight along the steelyard, or the drum k may be rotated by means of a handle instead of a motor.
Patent GB-190819934-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to the Manufacture of Matrices for Stereotype.
Inventor: NOVI GIOVANNI
Filed: 1908-09-22
Granted: 1909-09-22
Abstract: 19,934. Novi, G. Sept. 22. Stereotype-matrix machines.-Relates to machines of the kind in which a flong is impressed by means of a typewriter having a stop for arresting the type-levers and thereby obtaining a uniform depth of impression. A typewriter of known form is employed having types of hard material in higher relief than usual. The platen is replaced by a rectangular frame 1 grooved at the sides to receive a flong 8 which is secured by screws. The frame 1 is secured by means of a dovetailed groove to a carrier 2, which may slide vertically on guide-rods 4 supported by the carriage 12. The carrier 2 is moved vertically for linespacing by means of a rack and a pinion which is rotated by a hand-wheel 3<1>. A slotted bar 7, which extends across the flong, limits the depth of impression, the type-levers being provided with enlarged heads 6 which strike the bar. The carrier 2 can be adjusted longitudinally on the carriage 12 by means of a micrometer screw 14, for the purpose of dividing words at the end of a line. To facilitate division the bar 7 may be formed with a scale and a space counter may be provided. When the flong has been impressed, the frame 1 is slid out of the carrier 2 and taken to the casting- box, and a fresh flong and frame are placed on the carrier 2.
Patent GB-190820012-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to the Construction of Buildings.
Inventor: ABEL FRIEDRICH
Filed: 1908-09-23
Granted: 1908-11-26
Abstract: 20,012. Abel, F., and Kux, H. Sept. 23. Dwellings, general construction of; buildings with wooden skeletons; walls. - An inner framework carrying the ceiling and roof timbers is erected and is subsequently enclosed by a massive outer shell i, by means of which the inside of the building is insulated from extremes of temperature, and from seismic shocks &c. The inner walls comprise lathing p, boards e with air spaces between, boarding f, cartonpierre g, and woven wire h. The outer shell i may be of masonry secured to the lathing p or a dividing-layer k of carton-pierre ; or the shell may consist of lathing, carton-pierre, woven wire, and plaster with insulating air-spaces.
Patent GB-190820018-A (GB)
Title: Improved Mattress.
Inventor: SIDLER CARL
Filed: 1908-09-23
Granted: 1909-03-18
Abstract: 20,018. Sidler. C. Sept. 23. Mattresses. - A spring mattress comprises a series of flexible wooden laths d, supported at each end by bars g mounted in tte frame so as to be capable of rotation, and resting centrally on springs c supported by cross-bars b. The laths are connected to the bars g by pins entering longitudinal slots in the former. The springs are attached at their upper ends to cross - pieces e which may consist of hemp bands.
Patent GB-190820519-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Rings for Racing Pigeons.
Inventor: DOOLEY JAMES DIXON
Filed: 1908-09-30
Granted: 1909-08-12
Abstract: 20,519. Dooley, J. D. Sept. 30. [Cognate Application No. 20,744, A.D. 1908, dated Oct. 2.] Labels &c.-To prevent fraud by the cutting and rejoining of marking- rings for the legs of pigeons, the rings are formed with a beading b<1>, b<2> at one or both edges. Holes a<1>, a<2> or notches or indentations are also formed at or near one or both edges. A number &c. may be stamped upon the plain part c.