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Patent GB-190805842-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Internal Combustion Engines.
Inventor: PHILIPPE PICHARD
Filed: 1908-03-16
Abstract: 5842. Pichard, P. March 20, 1907, [date applied for under Section 91 of Patents &c. Act, 1907]. Void. [Published under Patents &c. Act, 1907.] Gas and like engines.-Compound engines, primarily for use on motor road vehicles, have their cylinders arranged in groups of three, each group comprising a pair of high - pressure cylinders which exhaust alternately into a larger low-pressure cylinder. In the example illustrated, the cylinders a, b, c are engaged by pistons connected to the common crank-shaft g, and the outer cylinders are connected to the central cylinder by valved passages k, n. The outer cylinders are worked on a fourstroke cycle, and are arranged to discharge the products alternately to the central cylinder, so that the piston in the latter receives an impulse each revolution of the engine. The products are exhausted through a valved passage q at each up-stroke of the piston f. The valves in the passages k, n are worked by cams carried on a shaft geared to the crank-shaft g.
Patent GB-190807606-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Elastic Fluid Turbines.
Inventor: PETERS THOMAS HENRY
Filed: 1908-04-06
Granted: 1908-06-11
Abstract: 7606. Peters, T. H., and Peters, T. H. April 6. Impact-wheels. - Elastic fluid impinges on recesses in the periphery of a drum provided with spring-controlled packing - pieces bearing against the inner surface of the enclosing cylinder. The engine is adapted for reversing and compounding. Fig. 1 shows a reversible impact wheel consisting of a cylinder a provided with drums b, d mounted on a shaft c, each drum being provided with recesses f, g, arranged in reverse positions so that one drum serves for the forward drive and the other for the reverse. A dividing or packing ring h loosely seated on the reduced ends of the drum serves to separate them. Each drum is provided with spring-controlled packing-bars i, Figs. 3 and 5, the outer edges of which are recessed to reduce the friction surface. The direction of the fluid supply is controlled by a two-way cock n, Fig. 6, which connects with both drums by the inlet pipes l, m. Exhaust takes place at k. Fig. 2 shows a compound engine in which three rings h divide the casing into two high and two low pressure chambers b, d and b<1>, d<1> respectively. Drums b, b<1> serve for the forward drive and drums d, d' for the reverse drive. Any number of peripheral recesses on the drums, or of spring-controlled packing-bars may be employed, and any suitable arrangement of inlet and exhaust pipes may be adopted.
Patent GB-190808173-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Screw-threading Machines.
Inventor: CARACRISTI VIRGINIUS ZEILINGER
Filed: 1908-04-13
Granted: 1909-04-08
Abstract: 8173. Caracristi, V. Z., and Troxler, G. W. April 13. Screwing.-A screw-threading machine for rods, bolts, pipes, &c. has a series of rotary heads, each carrying a number of chasers, which are mounted eccentrically on rock-shafts to release them from the work automatically. The spindle 9, Figs. 2 and 3, of each chaser head 11 passes eccentrically through a rock-shaft 10 provided with a cam-slot 15 through which the shaft is rocked. This is effected by a pin 16, Fig. 7, which is connected to a ring 17 moved on the die-head by a yoke 19 provided with pins engaging a groove in the ring. The yoke is connected at its lower end by links 40, 41, Fig. 2, and a third link on the shaft 42, to a pusher rod which is provided with stops, adjustable according to the length of thread to be cut, so as to be automatically moved to release the chasers by an arm attached to the sliding carriage 3 for feeding the stock 4. To separate the yoke quickly when the push-bar is moved rearward only a slight distance, a spring 46 is mounted on a rod 47 pivoted to the yoke. All the pins 16 pass through slots in the diehead and in the catch pieces 23, which are pressed by springs into slots in the rear of the chaser-heads and are only released when it is desired to change the tool by means of the screw 22 passing through the head of the yoke. To change the tool, the rear ends of the chaser-head spindles are provided with pinions engaging an internally toothed ring 14 screwed to the spindle 6, the teeth of the pinions also being long enough to engage the ring in any position of the spindles. The chasers 12, Fig. 8, are adjusted in their holders by screws 27 having bevelled heads 28, the chasers being correspondingly bevelled ; they are secured in position by screws 30, Fig. 3. In the form shown in Figs. 10 and 12, the cutting-dies 60, which are curved longitudinally and rectangular in shape and have cutting-teeth parallel to the longitudinal edges, may be set at an inclination, the base of the recess 62 in which they are mounted being inclined ; the dies are adjusted by wedge blocks through which the screws 66 are threaded, and are secured by screws 67.
Patent GB-190809497-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Driving, Free Wheel and Braking Mechanism for Cycles and other Vehicles.
Inventor: GOTTSCHALK FRIEDRICH THEODOR
Filed: 1908-05-01
Granted: 1909-02-04
Abstract: 9497. Gottschalh, F. T. May 1. Brakes; driving-mechanism.-In a free-wheel and back - pedalling brake mechanism, the sprocketwheel d is rigidly connected with a sleeve e, Fig. 2, which carries arms f, adapted on forwarddriving to expand the segments l into engagement with the hub. On back-pedalling, the arms f engage with the projections g of a screw h, and an outer sleeve m is thus moved axially to expand the anchored brake segments o against the internal braking-surface of the hub. These braking. segments may be of the type described in Specification No. 24,452, A.D. 1904. A drag spring s, attached to the brake blocks and loosely encircling the sleeve m, sufficiently retards the sleeve m to ensure its axial movement on backpedalling, and the flange t on this sleeve serves to disengage the brake blocks on forward-pedalling.
Patent GB-190809800-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Electro-magnetic Sound Recording Apparatus.
Inventor: CHISHOLM CHARLES LOGAN
Filed: 1908-05-05
Granted: 1908-09-17
Abstract: 9800. Chisholm, C. L. May 5. Telephone signals, recording; phonographs.- Vibrations from a distant telephone are conveyed through wires 22, Fig. 2, to a telephone receiver 11, and are impressed upon a record A. Within the receiver casing 11 is secured a magnet 20, having coils 21, by means of screws 25 and an adjusting- screw 27 with a lock-nut 28. The stylus 15 rests upon the diaphragm at 18 and has its tension adjusted by a spring wire 19. The whole receiver 11 is carried by a frame 10 upon a supporting- shaft E, and the greater part of the weight of the magnet and casing is counterbalanced by a weight 30. In a modification, shown in Fig. 3, the magnet and its casing are supported rigidly, and the diaphragm 12 is held in an annular frame 40 hinged at 41 to the casing 11 and allowed a certain amount of movement which is limited by a hook 42. Bearing against this disk are weights 46 held in a frame provided with a pair of antifriction balls 49. A screw 61 allows adjustment of the receiver to take up wear in the record.
Patent GB-190809906-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Single Observer Rangefinders.
Inventor: BARR ARCHIBALD
Filed: 1908-05-07
Granted: 1909-05-07
Abstract: 9906. Barr, A., and Stroud, W. May 7. Range - finders ; prisms. - To prevent the deposition of dust &c. on or near the operative edge of a separating-prism for use in coincidence range-finders &c., the surfaces forming the edge are situated in the interior of a glass or like block. Fig. 1 shows one form in which two prisms A, B of different refractive indices have surfaces A<1>, B<1> in the same plane forming the separating-edge E, a third prism C being cemented on to protect the said surfaces and edge. The refractive index of the glass forming the prism B may differ from that of the other two, may be the same as that of the prism C or less than that of the prism A, or it may be greater than that of the prism A. The separating block or prism may be combined with known eyepiece prisms which collineate rays coming from different directions, and one or both surfaces of the block facing the separating-edge may be formed as lens surfaces. Specifications No. 13,507, A.D. 1893, and No. 1462, A.D. 1903, are referred to in the Provisional Specification.
Patent GB-190810628-A (GB)
Title: Improved Water Distributer.
Inventor: JOHNSON WALTER CLAUDE
Filed: 1908-05-15
Granted: 1909-04-29
Abstract: 10,628. Johnson, W. C. May 15. [Patent of Addition to No. 10,060, A.D. 1907.] Spray-producers and spreaders nozzles.-Relates to water-distributing and fire-extinguishing apparatus of the kind described in Specification No. 10,060, A.D. 1907, and consists in so mounting and actuating the nozzle of such apparatus that it is caused to rotate continuously about an axis inclined in a downward direction relative to the horizontal plane, the nozzle being inclined to the said axis which is itself caused to rotate continuously about a vertical axis. Fig. 1 shows the water-driven vane-wheel c arranged in the chamber a secured to the ceiling, which wheel operates the pinion d<2>. This pinion actuates the two wheels e, f, the former being secured to the elbow-piece e<1> and the latter having formed on it a bevel-wheel h which operates the wheel j secured to the nozzle k. The number of teeth on the wheel e differs slightly from that on the wheel f, so that the result is a gradual rotation of the nozzle k about the sleeve i as the whole rotates about the axis of the casing a.
Patent GB-190817756-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Means for Separating Comminuted Ores or other Solid Matter from Liquids.
Inventor: ARBUCKLE ALEXANDER JOHN
Filed: 1908-08-24
Granted: 1909-02-18
Abstract: 17,756. Arbuckle, A. J., and Osborne, A. Aug. 24. Decanting and settling. -Rotatable drums partly close an aperture through which solid matter is continuously discharged from a settling-tank stated to be specially applicable for separating comminuted ores, sands, or slimes, from a solvent solution, wash-water, or other liquid. The settling-tank 1 has an extension 6 of truncated pyramidal form below which are situated drums 13, 14, with a space 15 between. The drums are slightly longer than the bottom 6, and the latter has vertical extensions with curved sides at its ends. A joint is made at each end by means of a vertically-adjustable wedge 33 which presses curved and flanged side plates 32, movable horizontally relatively to the extensions, against the peripheries of the drums. Wedges 24 covered with canvas, rubber, &c. allow of tight joints being made between the drums and the longitudinal edges of the part 6. The space 15 can be closed by means of a wedge 43 moved vertically below the drums. In operation the space 15 and the joints are tightly closed until sufficient solid matter has collected. The wedges are afterwards loosened, and the drums are rotated at such a speed that a constant level of solid matter is maintained in the vessel. Rotation is transmitted from the shaft of one of the drums to the other by means of spur-wheels of different diameter, so that one drum is driven the faster and the solids are subjected to a squeezing action. The material is removed from the drums by means of pivoted and weighted scraping-plates 55. The drums, which may have roughened surfaces or be covered with canvas &c., may be washed by water delivered by a pipe 54, Fig. 8, to the interior of the wedge 43 and through slots 52.
Patent GB-190818538-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Vulcanising
Inventor: DRURY WILLIAM
Filed: 1908-09-03
Granted: 1909-03-18
Abstract: 18,538. Drury, W., and Grimston, James Walter, Viscount. Sept. 3. Compound fabrics.-An element which may or may not be vulcanizable is attached to a fully cured element by applying solution and then steam-curing the whole at a low temperature for a long period. Over-curing of the fully cured element is thus avoided. In making leather-treaded tyres, a strip a of leather and the tread b, which in this case is nearly cured, are both coated with solution, and when the solution is dry, the strip is laid on the tread, and the whole is rolled. The tread is then studded and attached by solution to the body of the tyre d, and the whole is taped on to a core and placed on a perforated tray in a receptacle into which steam is admitted slowly. In an example, steam at a pressure of about 10 lbs. per square inch above atmospheric pressure is admitted, and when the receptacle has warmed up, the pressure is allowed to fall to about 2¢ lbs. per square inch above atmospheric prfssure, the cure being completed in about 4 hours. By this process the curing of the partlyvulcanized element is completed without over-curing.
Patent GB-190819051-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Apparatus for Adjusting Railway Vehicle and like Brakes.
Inventor: CHAVERIAT VICTOR
Filed: 1908-09-10
Granted: 1909-06-10
Abstract: 19,051. Chaveriat, V. Sept. 10. [Patent of Addition to No. 12,087, A.D. 1908. Brakes.-An apparatus for adjusting the brakes of railway vehicles of the type described in Specification No. 12,087, A.D. 1908, is arranged to adjust the whole of the brake rigging of a vehicle or of a bogie-truck. The brake-cylinder lever 20 is connected by a rod 19 to a double lever 12, the upper end of which is connected to the pull-rod 15 of the brakes. Between the parts of the lever 12 are arranged two arms 12<a>, 12b, connected together at 14 and pivoted respectively at 15<a> and 24 to the lever 12. The lower end of the lever 12<b> is fixed. A cam 6 provided with a ratchet-wheel at each side is pivoted to the lever 12 and bears against the lever 12<a>. The ratchet-wheels 9<a> are engaged by pawls 7 carried by a pivoted arm 17 connected by a link 18 with the rod 19. When the brakes are applied, the levers 12, 12<a>, 12<b> move as one lever about the pivot 13, and the pawl is moved to and fro, by the rod 18, on the tooth of the ratchet with which it is in contact; but, when the rod 19 is moved more than a predetermined distance owing to slackness in the rigging, the pawl is moved into engagement with the next tooth. On the release of the brakes, the cam 6 is turned to adjust the angle between the levers 12, 12<a>, and the rods are moved into the position shown in broken lines.
Patent GB-190821066-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to Cash Delivery Machines.
Inventor: BOEHM LUDWIG
Filed: 1908-10-06
Granted: 1908-12-31
Abstract: 21,066. B÷hm, L. Oct. 6. Money-delivering apparatus.-Relates to cashdelivering machines which have a cash plate fitted with adjustable tappets and which deliver coins one after another on to the plate from the several coin tubes, and consists in an arrangement for adjusting any desired number of tappets so as to obtain more or less coins at a time. The cash drawer a is disposed beneath the coin tubes b and has a series of tappets n for each tube. Adjustable blades r in the drawer have slots w having differently-disposed inclined portions so that when the blades r are moved, the tappets n, which are engaged in the slots by means of pins c, are not all raised at once. By thus moving the blades to different extents, different numbers of tappets may be raised and the corresponding number of coins delivered when the drawer is pulled out. The stops r<1>, r<2> of the slides r are urged by springs f against a slide A secured on the drawer, which slide has slots z along its edge. The slide is adapted to be moved laterally to allow different slots and different combinations of slots z to be brought adjacent to the stops r<1>, r<2>, so that the necessary number of coins of different denominations may be ejected from the various tubes. Separate slides A are preferably provided for coins of different metals and the slides are provided with forks o engaging studs x so that they may be more easily moved. The blades also have stops i, which normally engage a mutual stop i<1>, which is suitably released when the drawer is moved, further movement of the drawer causing the stops i to strike a stationary bar R and so to be forced back into engagement with the stops i<1>.
Patent GB-190821398-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Apparatus for Electrically Operating or Controlling Railway or Tramway Points, Bars, Frogs, Signals and such like Appliances.
Filed: 1909-03-26
Granted: 1910-01-06
Abstract: 21,398. Edmonds, C. H. W., and McKenzie & Holland. March 26,1909. Switches. - For automatically placing a highresistance in the circuit of an electric motor used to operate railway points, signals, and like appliances, when too great a current flows, due for example to the motor sticking, an electromagnetic switch is employed having two windings and normally closed contacts short-circuiting the highresistance winding, the armature when attracted opening the short circuit and placing the windings in series, until the abnormal current is reduced The switch is enclosed in a box 1 provided with an inspection window 26. The high-resistance coil 4 and the low-resistance coil 3 are mounted on a common core and attract a pivoted armature 6, which lifts a guided spring-retracted rod 9 linked to the contact-carrying member 11. The contact is composed of carbon or other blocks 17 a attached to a conducting bridge-piece 13 carried on a spring plate or strip 14, which is bolted or screwed to the lever 11. Separate fixed contacts 18<a> are mounted in an insulating manner and connected to the ends of the high-resistance coil. The arrangement is shown diagrammatically in Fig. 3. If the motor 28, which is controlled in the ordinary way by a reversing-switch N R, sticks or otherwise takes an excessive current from the battery 27, the attraction due to the low-resistance winding 3 opens the short circuit 17, 17<a> round the high-resistance winding 4, .and the switch remains in its displaced condition until the current is reduced. The movement of the switch may be made to ring a bell, mechanically or electrically.
Patent GB-190822720-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Medical Syringes and the like
Inventor: KAYSAN HEINRICH AUGUST
Filed: 1908-10-26
Granted: 1909-04-29
Abstract: 22,720. Kayson, H. A. Oct. 26. Spray-producers.-To the mouth of a syringe for washing cavities of the body is detachably secured a solid or hollow piece a to soften and distribute the jet of fluid and to supply medicaments thereto. Fig. 2 shows an example in which a hollow body a charged with a medicament is provided with a projecting rod or tube b held in the syringe outlet by elastic ports e. The rod b may also be provided with screw-like projections. Fig. 3 shows a further example in which a solid body a is used in conjunction with a piece of cotton-wool a<1> saturated with medicament and held in place by the lower portions of the spring arms b<1>. In the case of syringes with a number of outlet apertures, a body a, Fig. 7, is sprung over the syringe head and is held in place by an elastic rim h. A partition i may divide the body into two ports, the upper of which may contain a medicament.
Patent GB-190823968-A (GB)
Title: Improved Method of and Apparatus for Drawing Glass.
Inventor: IMRAY OLIVER
Filed: 1908-11-09
Granted: 1909-03-18
Abstract: 23,968. Imray, O., [Window Glass Machine Co.]. Nov. 9. Drawings to Specification. Drawing.-To secure uniformity of thickness in the walls of drawn glass cylinders, the bait and the drawing-pot are made relatively movable so that, should one wall tend to become thin during drawing, the bait is moved so as to bring this side of the cylinder nearer to the side of the pot. The glass at the side of the pot being cooler, and hence more viscous than that nearer the centre, corrects the tendency to thin drawing at this point. The temperature and hence the viscosity of the glass in the pot maybe varied locally, with the same object, by means of gas jets &c. Apparatus is described in which the blowpipe is secured to the usual vertically-sliding carriage by adjusting-screws which facilitate the lateral movement referred to above.
Patent GB-190825630-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to the Outer Covers of Tyres for Vehicles.
Inventor: HECTOR HARMEL
Filed: 1908-11-27
Abstract: 25,630. Harmel, H., and Toussaint, C. Nov. 28, 1907, [date applied for under Section 91 of Patents &c. Act, 1907J. Void. [Published under Patents &c. Act, 1907.] Tyres, pneumatic.-Covers for the tyres of motorcars and other vehicles are formed by placing on edge and side by side circular strips a of some material capable of being coated with india-rubber. Longer strips d are then placed at the sides of these strips, the whole being secured together by lacing. A rubber coating g, h is placed on the strips and the whole vulcanized, either separately or when applied to a pneumatic tube. The tread may be armoured.
Patent GB-190909330-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Crushing and Pulverizing Apparatus.
IPC: B02C2/06
Filed: 1909-04-20
Granted: 1910-01-06
Abstract: 9330. Marks, E. C. R., [Kennedy, J. E.]. April 20. Crushers with gyratory heads.-The upper end of the shaft A of a gyratory crusher a carries a collar 1 resting upon an annular bearing 2 supported by an adjustable sleeve 3. The lower end of the shaft is journaled in a convex bearing. 5 seated in a concavity 6 in the sleeve 7 carrying the bevel-wheel 8. The bearing 5 is free to adapt itself to the inclination of the shaft A, and is held against transverse movement in the seat 6 by one or mure keys 9, or by forming the bearing with recesses which fit ribs on the seat 6. TLe bore 4 of the bearing 5 may be eccentric and the bearing seated centrally in the sleeve, or the bore 4 may be central and the bearing seated eccentrically in the sleeve. The sleeve is made in two or more parts rigidly secured together and to the wheel 8.
Patent GB-190911241-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Stocking Suspenders.
Inventor: AMSDEN FRANK
IPC: A41F11/02
Filed: 1909-05-12
Granted: 1910-03-24
Abstract: 11,241. Amsden, F. May 12. Stocking - suspenders are made in two parts a, b detachably connectible by a spring lever fastening c, so that the parts a, b can always remain attached to the corsets and stockings respectively.
Patent GB-190916633-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to Lamp Brackets for Motor Cycles and other Vehicles.
Inventor: LUCAS HARRY
IPC: B60Q1/04
Filed: 1909-07-16
Granted: 1910-04-14
Abstract: 16,633. Lucas, H., and Edwards, W. H. July 16. Brac7cets, lamp.-Acetylene lamps for motorcycles and other vehicles are provided with a bracket a carrying a lamp f and generator d at opposite ends, a socket, clip, or other device k securing the bracket to the vehicle. For the purposes of adjustment, the ends b of the rods a serve as bearings for trunnions c, the opposite ends of the rods being shaped for engagement with sockets e ; or flat bars may be used for the bracket, the clips being dispensed with and a bolt used instead. As an alternative to the trunnion supports c, a socket l, Fig. 6, and attachment piece m pivotally secured by a bolt n to the bars a may be used. The lamp may also be provided with means for securing an angular adjustment with regard to the bracket.
Patent GB-190917377-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Temporary Binders or Loose Sheet Holders.
Inventor: PINK FRANK
IPC: B42F13/04
Filed: 1909-07-26
Granted: 1910-07-21
Abstract: 17,377. Pink, F., and Petty, J. P. July 26. Drawings to Specification. Straps.-A composite tension strap for use in a loose-leaf binder is made up of two strips of leather sewn together with a tempered steel strip in between, the whole being, if desired, perforated at intervals.
Patent GB-190917411-A (GB)
Title: Method of Building Roads, Streets and the like.
Inventor: AMIES JOSEPH HAY
IPC: E01C7/18
Filed: 1909-07-27
Granted: 1910-02-10
Abstract: 17,411. Amies, J. H. July 27. Macadamized roads; roads and ways, special materials for.-Consists in covering a layer of local stone, earth, or sand with a layer of an asphaltic binder, and then sprinkling with pulverized calcium oxide or hydrate. These layers are repeated to the required depth, and a final layer of local material, sand, or stone dust is added, the whole being then rolled.