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Patent GB-191211657-A (GB)
Title: Musical Instrument.
Inventor: ROYSTON ERNEST RICHARD
IPC: G10H3/22
Filed: 1912-05-16
Granted: 1913-02-13
Abstract: 11,657. Royston, E. R., [Lyrachord Co.]. May 16. Player-pianos; stringed instruments; expression, controlling.-In addition to the usual striking of the strings of a pianoforte it is arranged that they may be vibrated electromagnetically. Means are provided for regulating the ordinary piano action and the electromagnetic action together. Fig. 1 shows a piano adapted to be plaved by the keys 9 or the pneumatics 12 in the usual way. The strings are vibrated by the magnet 15<1>, which is in circuit with the vibrator 71, a string 74 connecting the vibrating element to the piano string. The circuit arrangements are shown in Fig. 2. The circuit of the magnet 15<1> passes over the normally-separated springs 29, 28, spring 26, wire 25, spring 23, contacts 24, 22. conductor 21, battery 19, and switch 18. The spring 71 connected to the vibrating contact 22 is stretched over soft bridges 73. When the abstract 6 is raised, the closing of contacts 28, 29 brings the electro-magnetic vibrating elements into action, and the closing of contacts 29, 32 closes a shunt circuit 38, 40 to regulate the action. In the position shown, the shunt circuit is made over the contact-plate 46 from the spring 39 to the spring 41. The drum 51 carrying the plate 46 may however be rotated to bring the resistance 42 or both resistances 42 and 44, into the circuit. When the instrument is played manually, the drum 51 is moved from the pedal 63, which rotates the shaft 52 through the rod 62. During automatic playing, the regulation is obtained by pneumatic action on the button 60<1>. The shaft 52 is connected by the rod 54 to the hammer rail 56, thus regulating the stroke of the hammers along with the variation of the electro-magnetic action. The shunt circuit may be entirely broken by rotating the block 47 carrying the springs 41 &c. through a button 50<1>, as shown in Fig. 3. The electro-magnetic action may be entirely cut out by the switch 18. It is stated that, by operating the hammers very lightly the electromagnetic action overpowers the hammer action and an organ effect is obtained, while by manipulating the regulating-buttons after the hammers have struck, a swell action is produced. When the hammer rail is in a number of sections shunt circuits and controlling-mechanisms are produced for each section. In modified forms of the vibrator, the wire 71 is replaced by a helical spring.
Patent GB-191217567-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Steam Generators.
Inventor: SHEPHERD SYDNEY HOWARD
IPC: F22B17/10
Filed: 1912-07-29
Granted: 1913-05-29
Abstract: 17,567. Shepherd, S. H. July 29. Water-tube boilers.-In a boiler of the kind comprising sets of straight horizontal tubes connected by bends and opening into a central steam and water chamber, as described in Specification 11,248/10, independent superposed sets of horizontal or slightly-inclined tubes open into the central chamber through bends provided with means, such as cocks, whereby a defective set may be readily put out of use. In the boiler shown, four series of superposed sets are arranged at right-angles to each other around a central drum d. Each set consists of two superposed groups of tubes a, a', a<2>, and b, b<1>, b<2> connected by a vertical bend c. The inlet and outlet tubes a<4>, b<4> of each set are arranged one above the other so that they support the central parts of the sets that cross them. The bends a<5>, b<5> connected to the inlet and outlet tubes are provided with cocks e and with screwed unions f, g. The other tube-bends may be provided with screw-unions at both ends instead of only at one end as shown.
Patent GB-191223111-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Feed Mechanism for Bar-stock.
Inventor: SMITH ALBERT HENRY
IPC: B23B13/12
Filed: 1912-10-10
Granted: 1913-06-12
Abstract: 23,111. Smith, A. H. Oct. 10. Feed - motions.-In a reciprocating gripper, adapted for use to feed bar-stock into machines, the gripping-means are adjustable, so that the device can be used with stock of different diameters. A body 1 has a double inclined head 3 slotted radially to receive the gripping-jaws 4, which are held to their seats by spring plungers 7. The jaws are provided with hollow chisel-pointed gripping-edges and inclined back edges which coact with an internally coned shell 10 for adjustment. This shell may be screwed on to the head or may slide longitudinally for adjustment. In a modification, Fig. 7, the jaws are forced outwards by a spring 14 instead of inwards by plungers, and in a further modification, the chisel-pointed jaw is replaced by a ball-pointed spring jaw, Fig. 9, in which case the spring 14 is omitted.
Patent GB-191223945-A (GB)
Title: A New or Improved Variable Speed Transmission Gear.
Inventor: ROOTS JAMES DENNIS
IPC: F16H15/22
Filed: 1912-10-19
Granted: 1913-10-16
Abstract: 23,945. Roots, J. D. Oct. 19. Controlling-apparatus, arrangements of transmission gear in conjunction with.-In a variable-speed friction driving-gear for use on a motor-vehicle, a belt pulley A forms also a friction wheel in contact with a pair of driving- disks B<1>, B<2>. The wheel A is mounted on a lever P by means of which it can be traversed across the disks B<1>, B<2> to vary the speed. The front part P<Î> of the lever has a pivot Q and is arranged to separate the disks B<1>, B<2>, when depressed, before the lever is moved as a whole. For this purpose, the disks are connected by two screw-threaded sleeves T, T' rotated by links Q<1>, Q<2> pivoted to an arm Q<3> of the lever P<Î>.
Patent GB-191224077-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Pneumatic Tyres for Cycles, Motors, or the like.
Inventor: CARTER ERNEST PERCY
IPC: B60C19/12
Filed: 1912-10-22
Granted: 1913-08-28
Abstract: 24,077. Carter, E. P. Oct. 22. Jackets and covers; air tubes and chambers.- A puncture-preventing band A of spring steel, celluloid, vulcanite, leather, or other material, is formed with notched edges so that, when curved to the shape of the inflated tyre, the notches close up without puckering. The dimension of the notches a is determined by the difference between the circumference at the centre of the band and at the edges when the tyre is inflated. A second similar band may be arranged with the notches breaking joint. The continuous band may be replaced by a series of segments cut to the required shape. The device may be fixed inside the cover, or to a separate elastic band arranged between the airtube and the cover, or to the inside or outside of the air-tube, or it may be arranged without fixing between the tube and the cover.
Patent GB-191300182-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Heads for Siphon Bottles and other Vessels.
Inventor: TRIGWELL JAMES RICHARD
IPC: B67D1/04
Filed: 1913-01-03
Granted: 1913-12-24
Abstract: 182. Trigwell, J. R. Jan. 3. Siphon bottles.-In porcelain or like siphon heads of the kind described in Specifications 19,239/10, 510/11, and 27,095/11, the conical leakage - prevention washer e is sealed at its apex by a rubber washer e<1> on the valve stem and is supported on the outside by an ebonite or like ring g. To facilitate the charging of the bottle through the spout, the valve washer b<2> is provided with peripheral grooves b<3>, which allow passage of liquid when the washer is forced from its seating by incoming liquid. The washer may be circular, and grooves may be formed in the walls of the recess a<3>. The washer may be of smaller diameter than the recess. The head may be attached by a screwed metal ring a<10>, Fig. 14, spun into a recess in the head and engaging a thread on the outer surface of the bottle neck.
Patent GB-191302096-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in, or connected with, the Manufacture of Hydrogen and in Apparatus therefor.
Inventor: JOHNSON JAMES YATE
IPC: C01B3/06
Filed: 1913-01-25
Granted: 1913-10-23
Abstract: 2096. Johnson, J. Y., (Badische Anilin & Soda Fabrik). Jan. 25. Hydrogen-producing furnaces; gas-heating furnaces.-Hydrogen is produced by alternately passing over a ferruginous mass steam and a purified reducing-gas which have previously been heated by passage through regenerators situated outside the reaction furnace, so that practically no transference of heat by conduction takes place; surplus reducing-gas which leaves the furnace is used for heating up the regenerators by burning it with air, or pure oxygen, therein. Any reducing-gas may be employed which will not render the contents of the furnace inoperative, for instance generator-gas which has been suitably purified. In an example, one reaction furnace b is employed along with two regenerators a, c, for example of the Cowper type. The iron in the cylindrical furnace b being in the oxidized state and one regenerator a at a high temperature, having first been heated by 'the combustion therein of a mixture of generator-gas, or water-gas and air (waste gases passing to a chimney through a valve 8), purified reducing-gas is passed into the regenerator from a valve 10, whence it passes through a network of fireproof bricks 2, a combustion channel 1, a valve 12, a three-way valve d<1>, which can be cooled, and a passage 14, 18 to the top of the reaction shaft 3 in the furnace b. The gas passes down through the reaction mass in the shaft 3, reducing it to the metallic state, through a passage 17, a second three-way valve c', and a valve 13 to the combustion channel 21, being then mixed with air admitted through a valve 5, so that the second regenerator c is heated by the combustion. The burnt gases, passing down through the firebrick network 22, escape through a second chimney valve 9. Alternatively, the first three-way valve d<1> may be turned so that the reducing-gas travels up through the reaction shaft 3, instead of downwards on its way to the second generator c. When the temperature in the first regenerator a falls. the gases are passed in the reverse direction. There may be three or more regenerators arranged radially about one reaction furnace.
Patent GB-191303164-A (GB)
Title: A Process of and Apparatus for Manufacturing Malt.
Inventor: KAMMER JOHN VON DER
IPC: C12C1/033
Filed: 1913-02-06
Granted: 1913-10-09
Abstract: 3164. Kammer, J. von der. Feb. 6. Malting.-The grain, without being steeped, is placed in a rotatable drum consisting of an inner perforated cylinder a and an outer imperforate corrugated casing b, and is covered with a nutrient solution containing lime, nitrogen in the form of ammonia, potash and carbohydrate such as sugar. A solution of nitride of lime, or Knopp's solution consisting of calcium and potassium nitrates, magnesium sulphate, potassium phosphate, and potassium chloride may be used. Excess of the solution is run off, and the drum is closed to prevent the entrance of air and rotated. After some hours, the grain is again covered with nutrient solution. This treatment is repeated three or four times, and the grain is finally left in the closed tank until it becomes mealy, whereupon it is discharged and dried.
Patent GB-191305810-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to the Manufacture of Briquettes.
Inventor: BLOXAM ARTHUR GEORGE
IPC: C10L5/20
Filed: 1913-03-08
Granted: 1913-10-30
Abstract: 5810. Bloxam, A. G., [Hoesch & Co., and Platsch, M.]. March 8. Waste products, treatment and utilization of.- Concentrated sulphite cellulose liquor is treated in the cold with a slight excess of sulphuric acid and the precipitated calcium sulphate is removed, the liquor being cooled if necessary to prevent decomposition. The product is used as a binding agent for briquettes, for example of coal or ore.
Patent GB-191307890-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Conveyors.
Inventor: FLOTTMANN HEINRICH
IPC: B65G27/00
Filed: 1913-04-03
Granted: 1913-08-07
Abstract: 7890. Flottmann, H. April 3. Engines with two or more pistons reciprocating oppositely within same cylinder. - A jigging conveyer is actuated by a motor 2 attached to the underside of the trough 1 and comprising a cylinder 3 containing two pistons 4, the pivoted rods 5 of which are connected to the joints of toggle-links 7, 11. The links 7 are connected to the jigging-trough while the links 11 are connected to a cross-bar 10 attached by screwed shackles 13 to a member 14 connecting the props 15. The cylinder has exhaust ports 20 at the ends, and a cylindrical admission valve 16 at the centre, operated by a lever connected to the cross-bar 10 by the turnbuckle< >19.
Patent GB-191313102-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Valves.
Inventor: ROSSITER LEWIS JAMES
IPC: F16K29/02
Filed: 1913-06-05
Granted: 1913-11-13
Abstract: 13,102. Rossiter, L. J. Aug. 23, 1912, [Convention date]. Check valves usable as stop valves; rotating to ensure even wear; regulating rate of flow.- A non-return feed check valve 12 of the lift type for steam-boilers &c. is provided with a cylindrical guiding-element 15 operating in a seating-hush 7 and having on its periphery double or triple helical channels 16 terminating in an annular groove 17 below the valve 12. The guide 15 is preferably made hollow with apertures 19 opening into the annular groove 17. This construction causes the valve to rotate during operation thereby evenly distributing the wear. The screw spindle 10, which is hollowed to receive the valve stem 13, serves to limit the lift of the valve and to close down the valve.
Patent GB-191316693-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Swivel Lamp Supports for Automobiles, Locomotives and other Vehicles.
Inventor: SOWDEN CHARLES NEVILLE
IPC: B60Q1/124
Filed: 1913-07-21
Granted: 1914-07-02
Abstract: 16,693. Sowden, C. N., and Wood, D. July 21. Vehicular and like lamps, directing.-Headlights for motor-vehicles, locomotives, &c. are provided with means whereby, when the vehicle turns, one of the lights is automatically turned in the same direction, and the other lamp can be turned in the opposite direction by hand or foot-operated means. In the form shown. as applied to motor-vehicle headlights, each lamp-fork 10 is pivotally mounted, and is connected by a rope 15, 15<a> to a post 19 on the arm 18 of the steering-knuckle of the opposite frontwheel. The part 15<a> of each rope 15 is connected at 20 to a rope 21, which has branches 23, 25 extending to a controlling-handle 24 and a pedal 28, so that either can be used. When the car is steered to the right, the right-hand lamp is turned to the right by the rope 15, while the tension on the rope 15 of the left-hand lamp is released, and this lamp can be turned to the left by means of the corresponding handle 24 or pedal 28. At the base of the lamp-fork 10 is a groove 11, Figs. 3 and 5, in which a rope 12 is fastened at 12<a>. The rope also passes partly around one of a pair of pulleys 13, 13<a>, and is secured at 12<b>. Secured to the pulley 13 is a depending lever 14, to which the end of the control rope 15 is secured. The lamp-fork 10 turns on a table 33 on a bed-plate 30, which carries the pulleys 13, 13<a>, and is secured by a bracket 29 to the chassis 17. The lamp-fork is returned to its normal position by a spring 35 in a groove in the table 33, which engages washers 37 at each side of a lug 38 on the underside of the yoke 10. To enable the normal position of the lamp-fork to be adjusted, a pin 39 projects from the bracket 29 through the bed 30, and can engage any one of a series of recesses 39<a> in the table 33. In a modification, Fig. 5<a>, slack in the cord 15 is taken up by a flat coil-spring 30 in a recess in the pulley 13. The spring 30 is weaker than the spring in the yoke 10, and is connected to a lug 31 on an adjacent pulley 13<a>, which lug it tends to bring into engagement with a lug 32 in the pulley 13.
Patent GB-191327401-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Overhead or Revolving-needle Sewing Machines.
Inventor: MACDONALD DAVID JOHNSTON
IPC: D05B55/08
Filed: 1913-11-28
Granted: 1914-11-26
Abstract: 27,401. MacDonald, D. J., and Melville, A. Nov. 28. Running - stitch machines.-In a revolving- needle machine such as is described in Specification 3493/74, the nut that engages with the screwed thread - barrel feed - spindle is formed of two half - nuts 8, 9 pivoted at 20 and having slotted extensions 11, 12 surrounding pins 13 on a slide 10. By manually raising the slide, the half-nuts may be separated to free them from the spindle.
Patent GB-191327994-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or in connection with the Expressing of Oil from Seeds, Nuts and other Oil-containing Materials and Substances, and Liquid from Liquid-containing Materials, Substances and the like.
Inventor: SCHUELER GEORGE RICHARD
IPC: B30B9/06
Filed: 1913-12-05
Granted: 1914-12-03
Abstract: 27,994. Schueler, G. R., and Wright, H. V. Dec. 5. Fatty oils, extracting by pressure. The seeds, nuts, &c. are compressed in chambers which widen from the inlet end, at which pressure is applied, to the outlet end from which the compressed material is caused to extrude. The chambers preferably widen in steps and the perforations for the escape of the oil &c. are formed in the angles of the steps. The chambers 7 may be formed by plates 6 having openings of increasing diameter. Pressure is applied by pistons 4, 5. Cones 10, 11 are adjusted to regulate the outlet from which the material is extruded. The chamber may he formed in one piece of metal, or may be formed annular by the use of two series of rings.
Patent GB-191328430-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Means for Supporting Hats, Parcels and other Light Articles on Seats and the like.
Inventor: WOODINGTON JOSEPH HENRY
IPC: A47C7/64
Filed: 1913-12-09
Granted: 1914-11-26
Abstract: 28,430. Woodington, J. H., and Coles, E. H. Dec. 9. Hat-holders and like supports.-Relates to means for supporting hats, parcels, and other light articles on seats, and comprises at one end an open framework or cage b and at the other end a spring- pressed clip d which is mounted so as to swivel or slide or both. Strings, cords, or elastic bands h may be arranged as shown to receive a cap or other soft article, and a pad for hat-pins &c. may be arranged at u. In a modification, the open framework or cage b is replaced by a fixed or a spring- pressed slidable clip with lugs bent to form a socket to receive the rim of a hat.
Patent GB-191401266-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Process of and Apparatus for Purifying Sewage or any other Liquid.
Inventor: LINDEN LUCIEN
IPC: C02F1/52
Filed: 1914-01-16
Granted: 1914-08-07
Abstract: 1266. Linden, L. Jan. 16. Liquids, purifying; filters; travelling-band filters.- In purifying water, sewage, &c., the liquid is passed through a filterbed formed of separated sediment and then flows as a current through a liquid mass at a gradually decreasing speed, so that further settling takes place. The apparatus comprises a tank with an upwardly inclined bottom formed of a series of funnel-shaped pockets 1, 2, &c. The liquid is admitted through a pipe 15 and hood 14 and flows upward in the collector through a bed of the separating-mud, then over a partition 17 into a collector 2, which is divided by a vertical partition 20 and also contains mud serving as a filter. The filtered liquid flows as a current 25 through apertures 19 of successively increasing size in partitions 18, which separate consecutive funnels. A vertical pipe 16 serves for the introduction of substances to sterilize the mud, or of carbonic acid to combine with lime previously added to the liquid, the chalk formed promoting the filtering action. The funnels have cylindrical extensions 7 with discharge pipes 8. Above the extension in the collector 2 is a rod 12, which can be reciprocated in a guide 11 and has a head 13 to force out the solid matter from the extension. Mud from the pockets 1, 3 can be passed into the pocket 2 through the valved pipes 23, 24. Endless filter bands 27, Fig. 3, may be arranged to travel round rollers 28 at the top and bottom of the partitions 18. Trays 29 are arranged within the bands to collect and discharge impurities. The bands are cleansed by means of brushes 30 and by boiling water or sterilizing-solution in troughs 31. Light impurities are discharged by means of troughs 26.
Patent GB-191403663-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Delivery Apparatus for Milk and other Liquids.
Inventor: ENGELHARDT LEOPOLD
IPC: G01F11/10
Filed: 1914-02-12
Granted: 1914-07-23
Abstract: 3663. Engelhardt, L. Feb. 13, 1913, [Convention date]. Moving - chamber apparatus; controlling passage of air for.-A container for milk and other liquids, capable of rotation on rollers d, Fig. 5, is provided with an internal wall g extending in the direction of the axis of rotation and dividing the vessel into a main chamber a<1> and a measuring-chamber h, from which the liquid is drawn off. The chamber h is filled by rotating the vessel in the direction of the arrow i, the liquid being thus stirred and entering the chamber through holes in one limb of the wall g, or through a space g<1>. The delivery tap is carried by a removable lid, which closes one end of the vessel and is provided with a sight-glass and with apertures which admit air when liquid is being drawn off. These apertures are controlled by india-rubber flap valves, weighted pivoted valves r, s, Fig. 9, or weighted sleeves n, o, Fig. 8. The rotation may be controlled by a coin-freeing mechanism.
Patent GB-191403977-A (GB)
Title: Improved Means for use in Making Display Cards and the like.
Inventor: GRAY GEORGE WILLIAM
IPC: G09F7/16
Filed: 1914-02-16
Granted: 1914-07-30
Abstract: 3977. Gray, G. W. March 19, 1913, [Convention date]. Affixing by adhesives.-A machine for fixing letters upon show cards by means of adhesives comprises a base-plate A, a rod E extending across and above it and made adjustable in angle and position thereon, and a gripping- appliance M for gripping symbols and adjusting them upon the card. The pillars C supporting the rod E can slide to and fro in the guides B and rotate therein for the adjustment of the rod E, and they have a screw F which forces the rod E down in the slot D and on to a nut G' screwed upon a collar G, which presses upon the guide B. This pressure clamps the head C<1> of the pillar C in the guide-member B. The rod E, which is curved or straight, is thus adjusted in position. A show card is clamped upon the bed A by a clamp H controlled by a spring K, Fig. 5, and a wing-nut J The bed may have a rotary inset, Fig. 1, to enable the letters to be placed around a card. The gripping-appliance M is tipped up so that its spring 5 engages the side 9 of a cam 6, held slidably within the gripping-appliance, but non- rotatably, upon the rod E. The lever 23 is depressed, and its extension 22 moves a frame 18 out against the reaction of a spring 19, so that the arms 11, 13 are rotated about their pivots 12, 15, and the jaws 10, 14, which are adapted to be projected out between bars lying parallelly along the length of the bed A, are moved asunder. The letters &c. are then placed between these jaws, and the gripping-appliance is then moved along the bed A to a gumming or damping space N, and the letters &c. depressed on to it. The appliance M is then raised and slid along the rod E into position and lowered, the jaws 10, 14 are separated, and the press 1 and its bars forced upon the bed A so as to press the letters on to the card. The guides B may be provided with a graduated scale, and the sliding cam 6 may have a downward extension 26 carrying a gauge bar 25 and an adjustable rod 27 for indicating the distance through which the appliance M has to be moved along the rod E to pass from one lettering position on the card to the next.