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Patent GB-191121150-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to Chimneys.
Inventor: ZERKOWITZ JULIUS
IPC: E04F17/02
Filed: 1911-09-25
Granted: 1912-05-09
Abstract: 21,150. Zerkowitz, J. Sept. 25. Chimneys and flues; doors. - In systems of flues wherein the flue of each of a number of stories opens out from a main flue, handoperated valves are provided in each flue beneath the stove opening, but within the storey with which the flue connects, so forming a soot-pocket and a means of shutting off the flue in complete control of the occupant. In cleaning such flues, brushes are let down from the top and the soot transferred to the main flue by opening the valves, whence it is removed by a door at the bottom. The flues may, as shown in Fig. 1, each branch from the main flue a or, as shown in Fig. 2, may each branch from the flue from the storey below. The valves f, as shown in Fig. 3, are pivoted at h beneath a plate 2 and held by a cranked shaft i, which, on rotation, allows the valve to drop into a vertical position. As shown in Fig. 5, a lever k is so pivoted at 7 that, by pressing a knob &c. l at one end, a detent at its other end disengages from beneath the valve f and allows it to fall. In both forms, the valve is returned to the horizontal position by a handle 4. The valve shown in Fig. 7 is pivoted along its edge m and operated by a handle s through a shaft n carrying a frame o, of which the rod p slides in a guide q. By turning the handle s beyond the dead-points, the valve is retained closed or opened. Further, the length of the frame o is such that in the open position the valve lies beyond the vertical position leaving the thoroughfare of the flue quite clear.
Patent GB-191124811-A (GB)
Title: Process for the Rarefaction and Compression of Air and Gases.
Inventor: PETIT ANDRE
IPC: F04F3/00
Filed: 1911-11-07
Granted: 1912-10-24
Abstract: 24,811. Petit, A. Nov. 7, 1910, [Convention date]. Priming.-In a process for priming pumps, a pump a is provided with a water-circulating pipe-system b, c, d located at substantially the same level as the pump and adapted to be throttled, as by means of a tap f, to effect the removal of the air from the stand-pipe e. The reservoir c is not an essential part of the pipesystem and may be dispensed with. In a modification particularly applicable to the priming of rotary pumps having a variable volume (paddle pumps and annular-piston pumps), the reservoir c is closed and forms part of the pump delivery passage. Reference has been directed by the Comptroller to Specifications 9039/99, 26,609/06, and 10,404/08.
Patent GB-191202345-A (GB)
Title: Flying Machine.
Inventor: TROSSIN OTTO
IPC: B64C39/00
Filed: 1912-01-29
Granted: 1912-06-06
Abstract: 2345. Trossin, O., and Michaelis, A. Jan. 30, 1911, [Convention date]. Aerial machines without aerostats; planes, arrangement of; steering and balancing.-The radially-arranged supporting-planes g<3> of a flying-machine are freely rotatable on a fixed shaft a carrying the car c and motor b, and the outer sets of planes g, g<1>, consisting of radially-arranged planes connected at their extremities by peripheral planes, are mounted on the shaft a. One or both of the sets g, g<1> may be adjusted for steering vertically and horizontally. The radial planes g<3> are connected at their extremities by wires or rods n. During descent, the planes act as parachutes, and the machine follows a zig-zag path.
Patent GB-191204901-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Gun Mountings.
Inventor: DAWSON ARTHUR TREVOR
IPC: F41A27/08
Filed: 1912-02-27
Granted: 1912-11-14
Abstract: 4901. Dawson, Sir A. T., and Buckham, G. T. Feb. 27. Mountings; mounting, dismounting, and housing.-Relates to pedestal mounts, and consists in extending the trunnion bearing-block C rearwards in the form of an arm D which supports the elevating-gear d, and replaces the arm usually fixed to the side cheek of the carriage B. This construction enables the gun and cradle to be dismounted without disconnecting the elevating-gear.
Patent GB-191207149-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Centrifugal Fans or Blowers.
Inventor: FRAME WILLIAM JOHNSTON
IPC: F04D17/16
Filed: 1912-03-23
Granted: 1912-06-20
Abstract: 7149. Frame, W. J. March 23. Multi-stage centrifugal fans are constructed with impellers e having blades f increasing in width axially and delivering into volute chambers g, s, which completely surround the impellers and connect with divergent casing passages m, m<1>. The passages m, m<1> surround part of the periphery of the volutes, and connect with the next suction chamber p or the outlet by a port in the lower part of the fan casing. Double-disk impellers may be used in place of the single-disk impellers shown. End-thrust may be balanced by an external end-thrust bearing, or by the arrangement shown in Fig. 3, in which the impeller disk is pierced at v and provided with auxiliary vanes w.
Patent GB-191208055-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Platform Ladders.
Inventor: CLARK WILLIAM
IPC: E06C7/16
Filed: 1912-04-03
Granted: 1912-08-08
Abstract: 8055. Clark, W., and Andrew, J. P. April 3. Ladders; scaffolding and staging.-Relates to ladder scaffolding of the kind in which an inclined ladder, supported on the ground or from the ridge of a roof, carries an adjustable platform supporting a second ladder. The platform 1 engages the inclined ladder sides, is clamped to the rungs by hooked bolts 4 and nuts, and is adjusted to be horizontal by side struts 9 and pivoted ties 13. The struts 9 are connected by a cross-bar 10 engaging the ladder sides, and are notched at the upper ends to engage studs 12 on the platform. The ties 13 consist of two telescopic slotted bars with serrated engaging faces, and clamped together by bolts and nuts. The ladder 3 is secured to roof ridges by a hook 22, clamped to the rungs by hooks 23, 24, with or without an additional hook 25, the hooks 24, 25 being secured in position by clamping-nuts. A roller 26 on the hook 22 assists the movement of the ladder on the roof. The second ladder rests against a bar 18 damped to the platform by hooked bolts 19.
Patent GB-191212147-A (GB)
Title: Radiators.
Inventor: WARREN JAMES LOUIS
IPC: F24D19/00
Filed: 1912-05-22
Granted: 1912-10-10
Abstract: 12,147. Warren, J. L. May 22. Radiators.-In radiators made of cast sections, the sections are formed at their upper ends with flanges which, when the sections are assembled, form a pan which contains water to moisten the air of the room. Means are provided for keeping the pan full of water. The bottom of the pan is formed by the tops 12 of the sections, the sides by the flanges 15 and the ends by flanges 19 formed on the end sections only. The pan is provided with a perforated cover 26. In a water-heated radiator, the pan is kept filled by a valve controlled by a float and opening from the radiator into the pan. In a steam-heated radiator the pan is kept filled by the device shown in Fig. 5. A pipe 30<a> from the radiator leads to a conical nozzle 29 provided with perforated partitions 30. Steam condenses in the nozzle 29 and flows into the pan. The size of the perforations in the cover 26 may be regulated by a sliding perforated plate 37 operated by a chain and handle 42. Another form of cover is not perforated, but is separated from the body of the radiator by legs. A detachable pan may be placed in the pan formed by the radiator.
Patent GB-191212864-A (GB)
Title: Flier Mechanism for Machines for Making Rope, Twine and other Products.
Inventor: NORMAN THOMAS WOOD
IPC: D07B3/10
Filed: 1912-05-31
Granted: 1912-09-26
Abstract: 12,864. Norman, T. W., and Delaney, R. May 31. Machines for making.-Flyer-mechanism for machines for making smooth clean rope, twine, or other products is provided with means for giving an excess twist to the entering sliver, and means within the flyer for untwisting and retwisting the rope &c. and winding it upon a spool. Fig. 1 shows flyer-mechanism in which the sliver delivered from the combing-machine and nippers passes through a primary whirl B comprising a pair of rolls 101, 102 on a pulley 103, which is independently rotated at a greater speed than the main flyer in the same direction, for instance at twice the speed of the main flyer. A twist in excess of the normal is thus given to the sliver between the whirl B and the nipper to prevent it from breaking, but this excess twist comes out of the sliver as it leaves the whirl B. Connected main flyer-heads 6, 7 mounted on tubular shafts 4, 5 carry guide-rolls 50, 51, 52, 53, and are rotated by a belt-pulley 9. A cradle 12 mounted on the shafts 4, 5 within the main flyer comprises end arms connected by rods 15, and is maintained stationary by planet gearing 16, 17, 18, 19. A spool 22 carried by a spindle 23 supported at one end by a spring arm 24 is rotated through friction disks 32, 35 mounted on the cradle, one 35 of which is formed as an internal gear and is driven by gearing 36, 37 from the shaft 5. The disks permit the speed of the spool to decrease as the diameter of the rope &c. on the spool increases. A guide 41 is traversed by a reverse screw-shaft 42 on the cradle, the shaft being driven by worm and bevel gearing 43, 44 from the gear 36. Au auxiliary flyer A, Figs. 1 and 7, journaled in the shaft 4 and a bracket 63 on the cradle is rotated through gearing 66, 67, 69, 70 at a greater speed than the main flyer in the same direction, for instance at twice the speed of the main flyer, and thus first untwists the sliver until its fibres are brought parallel and then remakes the rope &c. by giving it a further twist. A grooved member 64 and a sheave 65 provided with a central blade 71 give a sinuous form to the sliver and divide it as it passes, the twist afterwards given to the sliver having a tendency to pass into the separate divisions thereof. The re-made rope &c. passes to a pulldown mechanism comprising a pair of grooved capstans 90, Figs. 1 and 5, which are carried by the cradle and are each rotated by gearing 93, 94 from a pinion 95 on the shaft 68 carrying the auxiliary flyer gears 67, 70. Segmental slots 110 in the supporting-bracket enable the gears 94 to be adjusted to various sizes of the gears 93.
Patent GB-191218137-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Smoke Helmets and like Protective Head Coverings.
Inventor: BAUSCHER AUGUST
IPC: A62B18/04
Filed: 1913-02-06
Granted: 1913-11-20
Abstract: 18,137. Bauscher, A., and Bauscher, C., [trading as Eeds & Co.]. Feb. 6, 1913. Drawings to Specification. Firemen's dress.-A protective smoke-hood or head-covering of the kind described in Specification 14,232/03 is fitted with a wire cage or guard to protect the head of the wearer.
Patent GB-191225445-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Sliding-shutter Devices of Pedestal Writing-desks and the like.
Inventor: MURPHY ALBERT JOHN
IPC: A47B17/04
Filed: 1912-11-06
Granted: 1913-06-19
Abstract: 25,445. Murphy, A. J. Nov. 6. Writing-desks.-A pedestal writing-desk or the like having a roll top 2 is provided with one or more additional shutters 4 covering the front part of the desk. The shutters 2, 4 are connected together at the rear and are operable simultaneously.
Patent GB-191310304-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Electric Arc Lamps.
IPC: H05B31/00
Filed: 1913-05-01
Granted: 1914-03-26
Abstract: 10,304. British Thomson-Houston Co., [General Electric Co.]. May 1. Arc lamps. - In a standard or other lamp, particularly of the flame-arc type, a chimney is mounted on a support which allows it to be raised and turned away from the vertical axis of the globe, to facilitate trimming. The globe is ventilated from below without disturbance of the are. The globe 9 is mounted on an insulating- ring 8 attached to a flange on a baseplate 2 which is supported by rods from the top of the standard 1. From the baseplate 2 rises a h o l l o w cone 3 having at its upper end holes under a baffle ring 5. Air passes to the cone from a narrow gap between the insulating-ring 8 and the upper edge of a casing 10 enclosing the mechauism. The lower electrode, which may be of magnetite, passes axially through the cone 3. A copper or other upper electrode may be provided with wings attached to the chimney 13. A globe cover 18 is fitted with packing rings engaging the globe and chimney. Above the chimney is a cap 29, preferably consisting of an upper plate spun over a lower one, and supported by bolts and spacing tubes from a casing 28 around the chimney. The lower edge of the casing 28 springs over the rim of the globe. The chimney is supported by a rod 12, sliding within a vertical tube 11 and grooved to receive an arm 23 projecting into the tube. When the rod 12 is raised and turned about, its notched lower end can rest on the arm 23, leaving the globe accessible from above. In its normal position, the chimney is centred by the entrance of a V-shaped projection on a locked nut 17 on the top of the tube 11 into a similar recess in the edge of the chimney. Where it passes through the base-plate 2, the tube 11 is surrounded by an insulator having ears clamped to the base-plate. An insulating- sleeve resting on this insulator prevents contact between the tube and an ash-pan. The lower electrode-holder 37 is attached to a sleeve 38 which slides on a vertical rod and is surrounded by a lifting clutch and a retaining clutch. Resistances 45 are attached to the underside of the baseplate 2.
Patent GB-191317099-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Horse Shoes and Pads.
Inventor: CLEWER ERNEST FREDERICK
IPC: A01L7/02
Filed: 1913-07-25
Granted: 1914-07-27
Abstract: 17,099. Clewer, E. F. July 25. No Patent granted (Sealing fee not paid). Renewable treads.-A rubber or like pad b in one or more parts is secured to a metal horseshoe by means of a dovetail projection engaging within a corresponding channel a<1> in the shoe a. The channel is open at its ends, and the pad is of even width throughout and equal to that of the metal shoe. The metal shoe is first nailed to the hoof, and then the pad is inserted, for example by placing its ends within wider front parts of the channel and then sliding them along.
Patent GB-191320230-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to the Electric Lighting and Starting of Motor Road Vehicles and other Motor Driven Bodies.
Inventor: SIMMS CHARLES EDWARD
Filed: 1913-09-08
Granted: 1914-07-30
Abstract: 20,230. Simms, C. E. Sept. 8. Starting prime-movers, dynamo-electric machines with control circuits for.- A dynamo - electric machine for lighting a vehicle and starting the engine is provided with a pair of poles b having a shunt winding, a pair of poles c having a series winding, and two pairs of commutator brushes b<1>, c<1>. The machine is caused to run as a shunt dynamo by closing the contacts p<1>, and as a series motor, supplied with current from a battery e, by closing the contacts s<1>, s<2>. Gearing, controlled by the operation of the switch controlling the dynamo-electric machine, may be placed between the machine and engine.
Patent GB-191322696-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Ring-spinning and like Machinery.
IPC: D01H1/30
Filed: 1913-10-08
Granted: 1914-01-15
Abstract: 22,696. Siemens-Schuckertwerke. Oct. 9, 1912, [Convention date]. Driving-arrangements.-The speed-regulator of ring spinning and like machinery is operated by gear so arranged that the operative is able to vary the speed manually only after the machine has been driven at a predetermined speed during the formation of the base of the cop. The regulator is connected to a lever 2, which is provided with an arcuate portion 4 coupled by a link 7 with a lever 9 operated by a cam 13, which is driven from the ratchet shaft of the machine and is so shaped that the lever 9 is maintained in the position shown during the formation of the base of the cop. In this position, the centre of the portion 4 coincides with the point of connexion of the lever 9 and link 7, so that any adjustment of the link along the arcuate portion does not affect the position of the lever 2. As the cam rotates, the lever 2 is shifted, and its position can be further adjusted by the operative by sliding the link 7 along the portion 4.
Patent GB-191323541-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in the Manufacture of Sulphuric Anhydride and of Catalytic Agents for use in the said Manufacture.
Inventor: JOHNSON JAMES YATE
IPC: C01B17/79
Filed: 1913-10-17
Granted: 1915-06-24
Abstract: 23,541. Johnson, J. Y., [Badische Anilin & Soda Fabrik]. Oct. 17. Catalytic agents, preparation of; sulphur trioxide, catalytic production of.-Catalytic agents for use in the manufacture of sulphuric anhydride are prepared by bringing vanadic acid, or a compound thereof, on to a very finely divided indifferent carrier, for example finely ground pumice the granules of which have a diameter of not more than 20 microns. The vanadic acid is precipitated on to the carrier from a suitable solution, optionally in the presence of other catalytic bodies; or the ingredients are merely mixed together, with or without binding-agents, and, if desired, the mixture can be formed into any suitable shape. It. is advantageous to heat the catalytic agent for some time in gases containing sulphur dioxide. Should the catalytic agent be hygroscepic, for instance, after heating in sulphur dioxide, this property is removed by heating in the presence of air and in the absence of sulphur dioxide. Alkali, either as such or as a salt, may be added to the catalytic agent to impart stability thereto against increase of temperature. In examples, pumice powder, with grains of the diameter of about 1 micron, is mixed with ammonium vanadate, and the mixture heated first in air to drive off ammonia and then in gases containing sulphur dioxide; kieselguhr or precipitated silicic acid is mixed with a solution of potassium vanadate or ammonium vanadate and potassium hydrate or alkali carbonate, or nitrate, and the mixture granulated, and afterwards heated in burner gases and, if desired, in air.
Patent GB-191326329-A (GB)
Title: A Sociable Seat for Motor Cycles.
Inventor: COOK WILLIAM THOMAS
IPC: B62K3/00
Filed: 1913-11-17
Granted: 1914-10-01
Abstract: 26,329. Cook, W. T. Nov. 17. Motor-cycles.-A single seat with footboards for an existing motor-cycle, and of sufficient size to accommodate two persons seated side by side, one on each side of the machine, and both facing forwards is mounted approximately in the normal saddle position on a framework detachably secured to the cycle frame, as shown. The structure may be sprung as a whole or springs may be arranged in the seat cushion. A single rider occupies the centre of the seat, riding astride in the ordinary manner.
Patent GB-191328448-A (GB)
Title: Improved Device for Holding the Point of a Screw Driver in the Notch of a Screw Head during Screwing.
Inventor: ROBINSON JOHN WALTON
IPC: B25B23/10
Filed: 1913-12-09
Granted: 1914-08-13
Abstract: 28,448. Robinson, J. W. Dec. 9. Screwdrivers.- The screwdriver g is provided with means for holding it in engagement with the slotted head of the screw j, comprising a frame or stirrup a having a tubular guide c at one end for the passage of the screwed shank d of the driver, and at the other end a recess e for the screw j, with side notches f which permit of the flattened end g of the driver being projected beyond the frame a when desired. A nut h on the shank d forces the driver down into engagement with the screw head. A spring may be placed between the nut h and the top of the frame a.
Patent GB-191403018-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Carpet Sweepers and the like.
Inventor: FERGUSON LEONARD LEVI
IPC: A47L5/05
Filed: 1914-02-05
Granted: 1915-01-14
Abstract: 3018. Ferguson, L. L. Feb. 5. Carpet-sweepers.-In a machine of the traction type, bellows 9 mounted on a base 14 are actuated by the movement of the travelling wheels 4 through links 6. Detachably secured below the base 14 is a dust receptacle 19 in the form of a sweeper with brush 43 and pans 21. The action of the bellows causes dustladen air to be drawn in through distributed openings 44 in the pans and between the pans and the brush. The dust is retained by a filtering-screen held in a frame 58 between the base 14 and the end walls of the sweeper which is supported by a curved metal plate 25 attached to a block 24 depending from the base. The front of the sweeper is provided with an upwardly extending part 22 adapted to contact with the front end 23 of the bellows casing 1 and containing a spring-pressed latch 28 which engages with a notched plate 29 secured to the base. Small rubber rollers 42 on the ends of the brush shaft engage with rollers 41 on a shaft 40 journaled in a lever 39 pivoted at 38 to a bracket 37. The brush shaft is carried on pins 45 fixed to springs 46 pivoted at 47 to the bracket 37 so as to be removable. The pins 45 pass through elongated slots in the brackets 37 to permit the brush shaft to rise or fall while the lever 39 and spring 46 rock on the pivots 38, 47. The axle 40 is pressed down by springs 50 and rearwards by an adjustable spring 53.
Patent GB-191403115-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and connected with Appliances for Compressing Valve Springs of Engines.
Inventor: SMITH THOMAS ALFRED
IPC: B25B27/26
Filed: 1914-02-06
Granted: 1914-12-10
Abstract: 3115. Smith, T. A., and Owen, W. H. Feb. 6. Prizing-tools; clamps.-A valve-spring lifter, which is also adapted for use as a clamp in repairing tyres, is provided with two parallel jaws h<2>, h<3>, one of which is provided with a guiderod i sliding through a tubular portion j on the other jaw, and the jaws are operated by a handscrew m<3> pivoted in the jaw h<3> and threading through the jaw h<2>. The clamping-plates r, s may be attached to the forked ends of the jaws, as shown in Fig. 4, or they may be pivoted on the adjusting-screw, as shown in Fig. 7.
Patent GB-191414297-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Apparatus for Cleaning Dishes and similar Articles.
Inventor: FAGERLUND ERICK ARTUR
IPC: A47L15/39
Filed: 1914-06-13
Granted: 1914-12-24
Abstract: 14,297. Fugerlund, E. A., Borjeson, A. A. H., and Svalling, G. E. June 13. Plates, dishes, and the like, washing.-Machines for washing dishes, of the kind in which the articles are placed on a conveyer and travel between brushes, are modified in the following respects. (1) Two adjacent brushes are mounted so that the bristles do not interpenetrate, but one or both sets of bristles project through the conveyer. (2) A pressure member presses the articles against the projecting bristles of a brush mounted under the conveyer. (3) The articles are delivered from the main conveyer to a return conveyer, which passes them through the tank back to the entering point. Fig. 1 shows a construction in which two brushes g are mounted on parallel shafts under the conveyer a with their bristles projecting therethrough so as not to interpenetrate the bristles of the upper central brush e. The articles are placed on the ropes or chains forming the conveyer a and are pushed forward by hooks l. While passing the first brush g, they are pressed down by the weighted pivoted plate m. After leaving the conveyer a, the articles fall down an inclined shoot d on to an inclined return conveyer b, which carries them through the tank.
Patent GB-191422170-A (GB)
Title: A New or Improved Top Clearer for the Drawing Rollers of Preparing and Spinning Machines.
Inventor: VARLEY THOMAS WILLIAM
IPC: D01H5/74
Filed: 1914-11-07
Granted: 1915-07-01
Abstract: 22,170. Varley, T. W. Nov. 7. Rollers and roller heads.-The top clearer a for the drawing-rollers of preparing and spinning machines has a strip b of felt &c. wound thereon in an open spiral, after the cvlindrical surface has been polished and varnished. The ends of the strip may be secured in slots in the ends of the clearer, and free portions b<1> may project beyond the slots and serve to clean the bearings and ends of the drawing- rollers.