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Patent GB-190413729-A (GB)
Title: Improvements connected with Railway and Tramway Points Operated by or from the Vehicle.
Inventor: ZYLBERLAST STANISLAS
Filed: 1904-06-17
Granted: 1905-05-18
Abstract: 13,729. Zylberlast, S. June 17. Points and switches for railways and tramways are set by the wheels of a passing car or vehicle, and are replaced in their normal position when the vehicle has passed by a striker, fixed behind the last wheel of the car, operating a lever. In the form shown in Fig. 1, the point-tongue a has a downward projection b which is pivoted to a link c. A bellcrank lever d turning on a pivot e has a long arm d<1>, which is operated from the vehicle, and a short arm which is connected to the link c. The whole is enclosed in a box f, to which a smaller box h containing a spiral spring g is attached. The spring bears at one end on the box h, and at the other on the head of a stud i which is screwed into the point-tongue a. A car passing along the line pushes the point A in the direction shown, and sets the levers in the position indicated by dotted lines, in which position they are locked until the striker forces the end d<1> of the lever back into its horizontal position. As the arm d<1> is at right-angles to the path of the car, the striking part j must be provided with an oblique face. In the modification shown in Figs. 3 and 4, (Fig. 4 being a crosssection, on the line C-C), the arm d' is arranged to move parallel with the path of the car. The point a has a downward projection b which. is pivotally connected by a stud y to the short arm of a bellcrank lever s. The other arm is joined by a pin 1 to a telescopic link 2, which has two casings, sliding one within the other and pressed apart by a spring 3. The lever s also has attached to it a vertical link q which operates the triangular lever d through another link n. The cross-bar z has downward projections which serve as guides to the lever s. When the point a is moved to the left by a passing car, the levers are forced into a locking-position, from which they are liberated by the striker forcing down the arm d<1> of the triangular lever. Balance weights may be used instead of springs to maintain the point tongue in normal position.
Patent GB-190417047-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in the Governing Arrangement of Internal Combustion Engines
Inventor: LANCHESTER FREDERICK WILLIAM
Filed: 1904-08-04
Granted: 1905-06-08
Abstract: 17,047. Lanchester, F. W. Aug. 4. Oscillating pumps.-In internal - combustion engines governed by throttling the admission, the throttle val v e is worked by a hydraulic ram d, Fig. 1, loaded by a weight or spring and having oil forced beneath it by a pump driven by the engine. The governing is regulated by a band-operated needle valve, which opens to a greater or less extent an escape passage h from the ram cylinder to the oil reservoir c. The pump plunger a is driven by the eccentric-pin and works in an oscillating cylinder b. The latter is formed with one face pressed by a spring against one wall of the reservoir c. A port b<2> in that face communicates, alternately, as the cylinder oscillates, with a groove c<1> in the reservoir wall and a passage c<2> leading to the ram cylinder. Oil is thus alternately sucked in from the reservoir c and forced out through the passage c'.
Patent GB-190424151-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Coffee Packages
Inventor: TREMAINE WILLIAM BURTON
Filed: 1904-11-08
Granted: 1904-12-08
Abstract: 24,151. Tremaine, W. B. Nov. 8. Parcelling; paper and like bags; sacks and like bags.-Measured quantities of coffee are contained in pervious closed bags wrapped in airtight coverings and packed in boxes made up to definite weights of coffee, the bags being placed directly into water when an infusion is to be made. Fig. 1 shows a box 2 containing a number of the packages 1, which consist each of a closed bag 3 Fig. 2, doubled-up so as to go within a pasteboard or like box 4, over which is tin foil 5 or other airtight material, bearing a label 6 to indicate the contents and directions for use. Some of these wrappings may be dispensed with, provided the bag is protected from the air and bears printed directions. In use, the bag is spread upon removal from the box 4, in order to give a greater surface of coffee for the water to act upon. In a modified form of bag, there are two receptacles 8, 9, Fig. 5, which may or may not be of equal size, and are separated by two lines of stitching 10, 11 so that they may be cut apart without releasing the contents.
Patent GB-190426702-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in, or relating to, Barometers.
Inventor: SUTHERLAND ANDREW
Filed: 1904-12-07
Granted: 1905-09-07
Abstract: 26,702. Sutherland, A. Dec. 7. Barometers.-The scale of a barometer is modified to give true readings without preliminary adjustment of the mercury in the bowl. The cross-sectional area of the bowl is made, say, nine times that of the bore, and thus a rise of ninetenths of an inch in the bore necessitates a fall of one-tenth in the bowl. If the scale is graduated so that one "inch" is actually nine-tenths of an inch, no correction will be necessary for alterations in level of the mercury in the bowl.
Patent GB-190501834-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to the Steering Gear of Boats, Launches, and like Vessels.
Inventor: WALFORD HUGH SELWYN
Filed: 1905-01-30
Granted: 1905-11-23
Abstract: 1834. Walford, H. S., [Fairlie, C. E.]. Jan. 30. Steering-gear.-In order to maintain the steering rope or cord in a straight line, the head of the rudder-post carries a fixed tiller A, on which slides a block B. The wire or cord C from the steering- wheel is attached to the block B, provided with antifriction rollers b. The tiller A is tapered, so that the rollers b are always in contact. In a modification, the tiller A is secured to the rope C and is free to slide in a sleeve placed on the rudder-head.
Patent GB-190502563-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Carburettors for Petrol and the like Engines.
Filed: 1905-02-08
Granted: 1906-01-04
Abstract: 2563. Brown, C., Olai, F., and Brown & Barlow. Feb. 8. Gas or explosive-vapour engines, carboretting in. Liquid fuel is admitted to the mixing-chamber C, from the float chamber B, through concentric or eccentric grooves a' in a removable and adjustable cylinder A, Fig. 5, situated in a recess or seat which communicates with the float - chamber through the passage a'. The air supply enters through ports (not shown), situated below the flap valve E, which turns about the pivot e'. The valve is closed by an adjustable spring, its movements being damped by a dash-pot J, containing water, the liquid fuel, or mercury. When the fuel is used, the Provisional Specification states that it may be supplied from the float-chamber through a small valve. The cylinder A may be replaced by others having a greater or less number of grooves.
Patent GB-190511146-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in the Manufacture of Electrical Resistances
Filed: 1905-05-27
Granted: 1906-04-26
Abstract: 11,146. Electric Equipment and Securities, Ltd., and Ruzicka, C. May 27. Heating by electricity.-A resistance material, particularly adapted for heating purposes, consists of a mixture of one or more refractory metals, such as tungsten or molybdenum, with compounds such as oxides, chlorides, or carbonates of such metals, and with one or more refractory substances of the character of stones, minerals, or clays such as alumina or magnesite, rare earths such as monazite, or certain metallic oxides. The powdered mixture is worked into a paste, which is moulded or squirted into the required form, and dried. It is then heated in presence of a reducing-agent until the metallic constituents are partly or entirely reduced, and may be afterwards baked. A composition suitable for a radiator consists of nickel 38 parts, nickel oxide 20 parts, feldspar 4 parts, and fire-clay 16 parts.
Patent GB-190512381-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Seizing or Clamping Device for Charging Apparatus for Furnaces.
Inventor: REUTER WOLFGANG
Filed: 1905-06-14
Granted: 1906-02-15
Abstract: 12,381. Reuter, W. June 14. Lifting-dogs.-To allow ingot-charging apparatus for furnaces to be rotated in either direction about its longitudinal axis, the nut, which operates a horizontally-guided spindle carrying one of the clamping-jaws, is yieldingly mounted, so that the gearing is protected from shocks, while, at the same time, retractive motion of the spindle with the consequent release of the ingot is prevented. The ingot is held between jaws e, f in the front part of a clamp a which is mounted in a bearing h and turned by means of a worm-wheel c. A wheel k, driven from a motor or the like, transmits a rotary movement to a shaft i and nut g, so that a sliding motion is imparted to the non-rotatable clamping-spindle h. At the rear end of the hollow shaft i is mounted a loose, horizontally-displaceable collar m, which carries bolts for the reception of springs n. These bolts engage a ring o mounted rotatably but not displaceably upon the clamp a. Two steel collars p, having hardened steel balls between them, are arranged as shown for transmitting the pressure.
Patent GB-190513930-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Apparatus for Operating Steering Engines and like Gear from a Distance.
Inventor: KELLY ALEXANDER
Filed: 1905-07-06
Granted: 1906-03-08
Abstract: 13,930. Kelly, A., and Hansen, C. D. B. July 6. Steering - engines &c.- The controlling-valves of steam steering - engines &c.are operated from the steering-station by fluid pressure in such a manner that the whole apparatus is brought back to the mid or neutral position by means of the constant pressure of fluid stored - in a tank. In one arrangement, four cylinders are employed cast in one piece and having a central box e. Two of the cylinders A, A<1> are of greater diameter than the remaining cylinders C, C<1>. The pistons B<1>, D' and B, D are secured together by rigid piston-rods provided with studs I, I', which operate the floating lever K to which the controlling-valve rod M of the steering-engine is attached. The smaller cylinders C, C' are connected by pipes P, P<1> with the cylinders a, a<1> at the steering-station, and the larger cylinders A, A<1> are connected by pipes 0, 0<1> with the accumulator W. When the steering-wheel p is put to hard-over in one direction, the spur-wheel h rotate3 about one-fourth of a revolution. The crank-pin 3 moves to the position 2 and the crank-pin 2 moves to the position 1. The piston b is thus caused to travel downwards, forcing the liquid into the cylinder C as soon as* it passes completely over the groove r in the side of the cylinder a. The piston D then moves downwards and actuates the controlling - valve. The liquid in the cylinder B is forced through the accumulator W into the upper part of the cylinder A. The piston b<1> during the movement of the steering-wheel moves slightly upwards and then downwards again along that part of the cylinder a<1> which is provided with a groove r<1>, so that the liquid is only transferred from one side of the piston to the other and then back again. The steering-wheel is automatically returned to its mid position by the difference of the total pressure in the cylinders A, C. Should any leakage occur, the wheel does not quite reach its neutral position when the piston D reaches the end of its stroke, and further movement of the wheel causes the valve s to lift and admit liquid into the lower end of the cylinder from the accumulator W. A small hand-pump Y is fitted to supply the accumulator with liquid to replace any loss by leakage. The pipe v, Fig. 3, may lead into a tank open to the atmosphere, instead of to the accumulator W. In another arrangement, only one cylinder is used - at the steering-station, the pipes P, P' being led to each end and the pipe v led from the middle portion of the cylinder. Stop-cocks are. provided where several steering - stations are fitted. In other arrangements, the four cylinders at the steering-engine are replaced by two double-ended cylinders.
Patent GB-190518845-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Coal or Grain Distributing Apparatus for Loading Ships
Inventor: TURNER CHARLES AUGUSTUS
Filed: 1905-09-18
Granted: 1906-04-12
Abstract: 18,845. Turner, C. A. Oct. 5, 1904, [date applied for under Patents Act, 1901]. Loading and unloading.-Relates to apparatus for distributing coal or grain or other matter evenly throughout the hold of a vessel. Two parallel channel-irons of adjustable length are fitted over the hatchway, and support a hopper 4 fed by a shoot. The trimmer, which comprises a table 7 with upper and lower surfaces convex, and a series of radial wings 10, is rotated by a vertical shaft, driven through bevel-gearing by a motor 20. The trimmer is supported on ball bearings on a bracket 14, suspended by rods of adjustable length. The radial wings are preferably four in number, and are formed of castings of V-shaped section as shown in Fig. 6. The shaft 6 is kept vertical by a bearing fixed to the channel-irons 1, and the bevelwheel 17a is adapted to slide along the shaft, to allow the trimmer to be worked at various heights.
Patent GB-190519124-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to Leaded Lights, Lead Glazing and the like.
Inventor: COATES BENJAMIN
Filed: 1905-09-21
Granted: 1906-06-28
Abstract: 19,124. Coates, B., and Brown, J. D. Sept. 21. Glazing.-Strengthening-strips b in lead cames are coated with tin, zinc, lead, or similar metal to facilitate the soldering of the exposed ends and protect them from rust.
Patent GB-190519425-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Electro capillary Apparatus.
Inventor: OLDENBOURG ERNEST
Filed: 1905-09-26
Granted: 1906-10-25
Abstract: 19,425. Oldenbourg, E. Sept. 26. Recording electrically at a distance.-In electrocapillary apparatus having a plurality of capillary tubes so as to increase the displacement of the mercury or of the electrolyte, the multiple capillary tubes may be integral with a single vertical tube narrowed down in the region of the top of the mercury column, the movement of which is then substantially the aggregate of the movements in the individual capillary tubes. The movement may be communicated to a body of marking-fluid, which is thereby exuded on to a travelling tape, or it may raise a float and thereby operate a recording- device. In the arrangement shown in Fig. 5, a lever 3 is actuated by a float y*, and makes a record on a travelling tape 5 by means of a marker 6, or actuates a siphon through fibres 7. If the measurement is made by means of one of the electrode tubes k, Fig. 8, the upper end thereof may be connected to an ink vessel 9, separated from it by a flexible diaphragm 8, ink being exuded through an aperture 11 by the forward movement of the mercury and drawn from a reservoir through a slightly larger aperture 13 by the backward movement. By arranging the capillary tubes as dripping electrodes, the tube k may communicate directly with the closed ink-vessel, the accumulating mercury being periodically drawn off through a three-way cock at the bottom of the tube, and ink allowed to flow into the ink vessel through a cock on a supply pipe.
Patent GB-190521623-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Expanded Metal Machines.
Inventor: PITKIN FRANK HOLTON
Filed: 1905-10-24
Granted: 1906-10-18
Abstract: 21,623. Pitkin, F. H., and Thompson, J. Oct. 24. Making trellis and lattice work.-A sheet 1<a> of metal is fed from a shoot 24 between oiling-rollers 23, along a tapering table 1, and is slit by substantially circular cutters 7 arranged in pairs at gradually decreasing distances apart on a series of shafts 2, the slit portions being partially distended by the cutters and finally by stepped wheels 17 on the shafts 2 and wheels 49, 50 chain-driven from one of the shafts 2. When the sheet is completely slit, a wedge at the narrow end of the table and a shoe 55 centrally mounted on a crossbar 56 coact to open out the inverted V-shape which the sheet has assumed, 'the opening-out being completed by the wheels 49,50, which stretch the sheet over a spherical roller 54, a guide 63a, a wedge-shaped plate 59, and an idle roll 60 ; the distended plate is flattened by rolls 61 chaindriven from the shaft 2<c>. The slitting operation is represented in Fig. 25. The shafts 2 are driven by worm gearing from a shaft 64, the worm-wheels 66 being loose on the shafts 2 and secured by bolts working in slots to fixed collars 67 to permit of the angular adjustment of the cutters 7. The abutting ends of the wheels 66 and collars 67 may be serrated. The shafts 2 carry distancepieces 12 which are grooved at 25 to accommodate the stripper-bar 26, feed-disks 9 which have serrated peripheries with chamferred edges, cutters 7, and collars 16 or stepped stretching- wheels 17. Beneath each shaft 2 the table is provided with a block 29 carrying a disk cutter 8 which coacts with the cutter 7 and feed-disk 9 on one end of the shaft 2. The blocks 29 rest on vertically adjustable plates 34, and are kept in position by plates 32 made with steps 41 ... 44 whit h form downwardly inclined continuations of the top of the table, and on which the unslit or lobeconnecting parts of the distended sheet are pressed by the stepped wheels 17, thus ensuring uniform expansion of the sheet. The stepped wheels and plates 49, 50, 48 near the end of the machine are mounted on vertically adjustable frames 85, the hanging-down sides of the expanded sheet being directed between them by guides. The roll 54 is in two parts as shown in Fig. 8, and is carried by a bracket 64 on which one end of the plate 59 rests.
Patent GB-190523582-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Electrical Switches.
Filed: 1905-11-16
Granted: 1906-11-01
Abstract: 23,582. McGeoch & Co., W., and Barber, W. L. Nov. 16. Switches.- In rapid-moving lever switches, the lever is joined to a pivoted handle by a spring or springs in such a way that it remains at rest in the 'on' or 'off' position until the springs have been carried across the pivotal line, and is then suddenly acted upon by the maximum tension and caused to fly to the other extreme position. A typical form is shown in Figs. 2 and 3. The contact-lever a is of fork-like shape, and engages the outer parts of the spring contacts e. The pivots b<1>, b<2> also carry the handle f. One end of the spring g is pivoted to the lever at a<2>, and the other end to the handle at f<2>. On moving the handle towards the left, Fig. 2, the spring is carried outwards over the line joining a<2> and b<2>, and then becomes operative to pull the lever off. A bent lever h, acted on directly by a projecting part f<3> of the handle, is preferably utilized to give the lever a an initial push, enabling a weaker spring to be used. The lever h may be replaced by a link or other equivalent device. A similar action of the spring takes place in moving the handle back. In a modified form, the switch lever is a plain blade with one or more springs at the sides. The lever and the handle may be separately pivoted. The fixed contacts may be differently arranged.
Patent GB-190523972-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Inkstands.
Inventor: OSGOOD ERNEST J
Filed: 1905-11-21
Granted: 1906-02-22
Abstract: 23,972. Osgood, E. J. Nov. 21. Inkstands. - An ink bottle, Fig. 1, consists of a vessel 1, provided with a cover. 3, which supports a perforated plug 9 and a dipping - well 5 formed with an external flange 6 ; a tube 13, restricted at the lower end to prevent a rush of ink, passes through the bottom of the dipping-well ; an india-rubber disk 14, to prevent injury to the pen nib and to hold the tube 13, is placed in the well 5, and a flexible air-com pressor 11, having an orifice 12, secured over the plug 9. When the flexible part is depressed by the finger, ink is forced through the tube 13 into the well 5. A modified form of tube 13 is described having a closed upper end and a downwardly-projecting side orifice. The parts 1, 3, 5, 8 are of glass and all joints are made air-tight by cement or other means. Ink is supplied by removing the block 8.
Patent GB-190601210-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Fastening for Doors and the like.
Inventor: WAKE ROBERT
Filed: 1906-01-16
Granted: 1906-04-05
Abstract: 1210. Wake, R. Jan. 16. Casement fasteners; obstruction bars; fastenings for lids. A dour, window sash, lid, or the like is fastened by means of a flat or angle bar a, the ends d of brackets c on the door &c. frame engaging slots b. The end g of the bracket, and the corresponding end of the slot, are bevelled to wedge together in the fastened position. When unfastened, the bar is turned back, about the rounded edge e of the slot b, by means of the projecti n h, to release the door &c.
Patent GB-190601523-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Control Cash Boxes.
Inventor: MARTIN WILHELM
Filed: 1906-01-19
Granted: 1906-11-08
Abstract: 1523. Martin, W. Feb. 8,1905, [date applied for under Patents Act, 1901]. Tills.-In cash boxes or tills having an horizontal view-compartment containing a star of spokes d which carries the money round to a shoot g, the opening into the latter is closed by a sector l on the drawer h being opened, and is opened to drop the money when the drawer is closed. The sector l is fast upon a bow k, which with the aid of a spring m is worked about the spindle c of the star by the drawer striking and leaving a projecting pin o, while the spindle is simultaneously turned without reversal by a pawl p acting on a ratchet-wheel i.
Patent GB-190603977-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Machine for Making Cigarettes, Cheroots and the like.
Filed: 1906-02-17
Granted: 1907-02-07
Abstract: 3977. Williams Syndicate, and Gregory, C. H. Feb. 17. Cigarette-making machines; cigars and cheroots.- In a cigar or cigarette making machine in which an endless band passes around a drum and in which the tension of the band is adjustable by a roller the position of which is controlled by setscrews, the drum is of smooth surface throughout and free from transverse peripheral channels, while the pocket-forming device consists of a roller d' mounted on a shaft d and a spindle f parallel thereto and mounted in crank arms or lugs e secured to the shaft d. The shaft d carries an arm g, to which is pivoted an operating lever i provided at its inner end with a pin l which enters a slot n in the frame b and locks the pocketforming device in its closed position. The apparatus is intermittently driven by a toothed wheel and pawl v by means of a lever t and a treadle. A tension roller q is added.
Patent GB-190612304-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Electromotors.
Inventor: YOUNG FREDERIC WILLIAM
Filed: 1906-05-26
Granted: 1907-05-25
Abstract: 12,304. Young, F. W., and Boothroyd, H. T. May 26. Casings; ventilating.- Electric motors, particularly such as are used to drive pumps in wrecksalvage operations, are enclosed in a fluid-tight casing, which is provided with inlet and outlet branches 3, 4 adapted to take lengths of pipe 3<b>, 4<b>, and air is propelled through the pipes and motor by an electricallydriven air-propeller located in one of the lengths of pipes. The motor of the propeller may be a polyphase motor supplied from slip-rings connected to tappings on the main motor armature. The air inlet and outlet pipes may be rigid and made in convenient lengths with fluid-tight connexions, or they may be made of hose or flexible tubing. To prevent the entry of rain, the ends 3<c> of the pipes are turned over, or, where the casing 4<a> is uppermost, a depending cover 4<c> may be provided. The centrifugal action of the armature within the casing 1, supplemented by vanes on the armature, may take the place of the air - propeller 8. The internal surfaces of the motor casing may be covered with a paint or coating containing disintegrated cork or the like.