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Patent GB-191123530-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Devices for Stropping or Sharpening Safety Razor Blades and the like.
Inventor: MYATT WILLIAM JAMES
IPC: B24D15/08
Filed: 1911-10-24
Granted: 1912-12-24
Abstract: 23,530. Myatt, W. J. Oct. 24. Stropping - apparatus. -Relates to a stropping or sharpening machine, for razor blades, which is adapted to be held in the hands during operation, and in which the blade is moved endways across the edge of a rotating disk. The stropping or sharpening disk 1 is journaled between end-plates 3, 4 which also carry a helically-grooved shaft 8, the disk and the shaft being driven, through pinions on their ends, by an internally-toothed member 11. To this member is secured a hand-grip 12, a second grip being attached to the end-plate 3. The blade is carried by a holder comprising a jaw 23, and a jaw 24 fitting through an aperture in the jaw 23, the two jaws passing round the grooved shaft and being retained in position and pressed to grip the blade by a spring member having parts 28 passing round the grooved shaft, and ends 29 engaging between the ends of the jaws. Riveted to the jaw 24 is a fitting 33 carrying a ball engaging the groove in the shaft and serving to impart the endlong movement to the holder; when the direction of rotation is reversed, the blade swings over and presents its other edge to the disk. A modified form of blade-holder comprises a member sliding on the grooved shaft, and having two spring jaws which grip the blade, a leaf spring pressing the ball into the groove. The blade may be pressed on the disk by spring pressure which may be adjustable. According to the Provisional Specification the endlong movement of the blade may be dispensed with.
Patent GB-191124349-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Ball Bearings.
IPC: B62M3/00
Filed: 1911-09-22
Granted: 1912-02-22
Abstract: 24,349. Benz & Co. Sept. 2, [Convention date]. Ball bearings; dust, excluding; oil, retaining. -A ball bearing for the bottom bracket or the wheels of bicycles &c. comprises two sets of non-adjustable races separated by sleeves b, f, and clamped within a cylindrical hub bush n by end washers c, d, g, h screwed on to the spindle and bush respectively. The washers overlap, as shown, with a very small clearance so that the bearing is practically dust-proof and oil-tight. The washer c bears against an inner recess in the chain-wheel k.
Patent GB-191124404-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in the Packing of Stuffing Boxes.
Inventor: BRADLEY LEWIS EDWARD
IPC: F16J15/18
Filed: 1911-11-03
Granted: 1912-09-19
Abstract: 24,404. Bradley, L. E. Nov. 3. Glands; bushes; cup-leather packing.-In a stuffing - box for refrigerating - machinery &c. having a space packed by cup-leathers l, l<1>, leakage past the bush g and the gland b is prevented by packing f, d. The packing d is compressed by an outer gland a acted on by the cap c. The glands b, a may have bevelled surfaces for acting on the packing d. Packing k may be arranged between the lantern m and the cup-leathers l, l<1>.
Patent GB-191124768-A (GB)
Title: Improved Method of and Apparatus for Washing Out and Filling Locomotive and other Boilers with Hot Water.
Inventor: GROOM JOSEPH
IPC: B61C8/00
Filed: 1911-11-07
Granted: 1913-02-07
Abstract: 24,768. Groom, J. Nov. 7. Washing-out; filling.-Relates to apparatus for washing-out and refilling locomotive and other boilers, the steam and water blown-out in emptying the boilers being utilized. The apparatus, which comprises a storage-tank for the blown.-out products, a filter or separator, and a pump, is mounted on a railway truck or other wheeled vehicle. If the truck is self-propelled, the pump may be driven from the propelling- motor. In the apparatus shown, when the boiler 1 is to be emptied, a flexible pipe 22 is connected to the blow-out cock 21, and a cock 18in the pipe connexion 17 leading to the storage-tank 4 is opened. The blown-out products pass through a filter 8 into the storagetank. When the boiler is empty, the cock 18 is closed, and the suction and delivery valves 7, 26 of the pump 5 are opened. Hot water is then drawn from the tank and forced by the pump through the flexible pipe 25 into the boiler for washing-out and refilling. Water for washing-out the boiler may be drawn from the tender 2 through a pipe 29. The water in the tender may be warmed by steam from the boiler admitted through a flexible pipe 23, and by steam passing off from the storage tank through a flexible pipe 24. In a modification, Fig. 2, the pump delivery pipe 27 is branched, a branch 37 opening into a stand-pipe 33 communicating with the storage tank and filter. While the boiler is being emptied, water is drawn by the pump from the tender and is sprayed by the perforated end of the pipe 37 in contact with steam in the stand-pipe.
Patent GB-191125661-A (GB)
Title: Apparatus for Drilling, Punching or Stamping Constructional Metal Members and the like.
Inventor: KOLASSA ANTON
IPC: B21D28/24
Filed: 1911-01-18
Granted: 1912-01-18
Abstract: 25,661. Kolassa, A. Jan. 18. Drilling-machines.-Relates to machines of the kind described in Specification 1353/11, and consists in mounting the work stationary on the bed while the machine slides along the bed. The work 2 is secured to the bed 6, the spacing- bar 17, with its stops 18 secured thereon in the desired positions, is then attached, and the machine-slide 8 is moved along by rotating the wheel 9 until the slotted lever 14 engages one of the pins 16; at each position a hole is drilled &c. A templet may be used in arranging the stops 18, and these have lower pins 21 to assist in the spacing.
Patent GB-191128244-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in "Grinding Mills".
Inventor: EMERICK GEORGE STOCKHAM
IPC: B02C15/08
Filed: 1911-12-15
Granted: 1912-05-09
Abstract: 28,244. Emerick, G. S. Dec. 15. Ball-and-ring mills.-In a mill provided with means for sifting the ground material, the carrier 20, Fig. 1, that drives the balls 22 round the grinding-ring 12 is provided on its upper surface with a feed-pan 24 having tangential channels 25 terminating a slight distance in advance of the centre of each ball, and on its lower surface with scrapers 27 to discharge the ground material through a central opening 28 in the floor 16 of the grinding- chamber 15. The material falls on to a disk 29 carried by the vertical driving-shaft 17, and is delivered into the space between two concentric vertical screens 30, 31. The fine material is blown through the outer screen 31 into a chamber 38 by fans 39 carried by the shaft 17, while the coarse material falls to the bottom and is discharged through the outlet 41<a> by scrapers 42. The coarse inner screen 30 prevents any lumps of material from being struck by the fans and projected against the outer screen. To prevent the screen 31 from becoming clogged, the inner end of a screwed rod 51 which passes through the outer wall 41 of the chamber 38 and a bracket 52 on the screen 31, is engaged by one arm 53, Fig. 3, of a spring- pressed tappet 54 pivoted to a bracket 56 on the inner screen, the other arm 58 being struck by an arm 59 on the shaft 17. The screw 51 can be adjusted by a handle 61 so as to move the arm 58 into or out of the path of the arm 59. Scrapers 48 carried by the shaft 17 deliver the fine material from the chamber 38 to the outlet 47. The upper and lower ends of the screen 31 are supported by rings 32, 33 formed on the casting 9 and base part 5, respectively, and the rings 34, 35 which support the inner screen 30 are carried by arms 36, 37 on the rings 32, 33.
Patent GB-191205537-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Means for Indicating the Trajectory of Projectiles.
Inventor: CUSHING SAMUEL DEWEY
IPC: F42B12/38
Filed: 1912-03-05
Granted: 1913-01-16
Abstract: 5537. Cushing, S. D. March 5. Projectile fuses.-Relates to spring-actuated friction primers, set in action by the powder gases when the projectile is discharged, for igniting a ' tracer ' composition producing smoke or flame to render the trajectory of the projectile visible by day or night. According to the invention, a certain relative freedom of motion is arranged between certain parts, so that the operative part may acquire momentum before it comes into operative engagement. In the form shown in Fig. 1, the operative part is a piston C, which shears pins J and compresses air in a chamber L when subjected to the pressure of the powder gases. When this pressure ceases, the piston is driven back by the compressed air in the chamber L; at first, the piston moves freely, then it strikes on a nut N and jerks the stem of the friction primer F backwards, thereby igniting the ' tracer ' composition B. In other forms of construction, some of the powder gases are allowed to leak into the chamber L, a spring is placed between the piston and a disk D, and various alternative means are used for actuating and locking the piston C.
Patent GB-191211466-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Electric Control Systems.
Filed: 1912-05-14
Granted: 1913-04-03
Abstract: 11,466. British Thomson-Houston Co., [General Electric Co.]. May 14. Drawings to Specification. Dynamos, regulating. - To protect directcurrent and other systems from the effects of abnormal conditions of voltage and current, the generator is provided with two separate and independent sources of field-magnet excitation. When the generator is working under normal conditions, its field - magnet is energized by a separate exciter, but when the terminal voltage undergoes an abnormal rise or fall, the exciter is automatically cut out of circuit and the second source of excitation is placed in the fieldmagnet circuit. This second excitation may be furnished by a storage battery, or by the generator itself, in which case the generator becomes self-excited. The invention is described in its application to a generator regulated by apparatus of the Tirrill type. An additional voltagecoil connected across the bus-bars is adapted to close a relay circuit when the voltage exceeds or falls below certain values, and this relay circuit causes the operation of a reversing- switch for changing the source of excitation. Resistances are connected across the opposite poles of the reversing-switch to prevent sparking, and the core of the voltage-coil is provided with a pivoted counterbalanced catch for keeping its contact-member upon either the ' low ' voltage ' or ' high-voltage ' contact.
Patent GB-191212828-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to Driving Mechanism for Motor Cycles and the like.
Inventor: REILLY ARTHUR HENRY
IPC: B62M25/00
Filed: 1912-05-31
Granted: 1913-02-27
Abstract: 12,828. Reilly, A. H. May 31. Variable-speed epicyclic gearing.-In variablespeed driving-mechanism for motor-cycles &c., coaxially-mounted planet-pinions c, d of different diameters are adapted to rotate together or separately according to the gear, and an annulus h, which is the driving - member of the train, is provided for one set only of the planet-pinions. The smaller pinions d slide upon the carrier studs e under the control of a spider or plate n engaging grooves in the pinions, but are constantly in mesh with a driven pinion j forming part of a member k of a multiple-plate clutch b, which transmits the drive to the hub; the sunpinion g and plate n are moved together along the axle by means of a central rod q and by the action of compression springs p. For the low gear, the sun-pinion g is engaged with a fixed clutch l and the pinions d are locked to the larger pinions c; a double speed reduction is thereby obtained. For the intermediate drive, the smaller planet-pinions are slid out of engagement with the larger pinions and are locked by the engagement of teeth o on the spider with teeth within the sun-pinion j, the pinion g remaining fixed to the clutch l. For the top speed or direct drive, the smaller planet-pinions remain locked to the pinion j, and the sun-pinion is disconnected from the clutch l and engaged with internal teeth on the carrier f or the annulus, so that the gear turns solidly. To permit of back-wheeling without necessitating the disconnexion of the plate clutch, a free-wheel device is provided in conjunction with the last member of the gear train. According to the Provisional Specification, the one-way clutch for permitting back-wheeling is formed by means of rollers and is provided between the last member of the train and the part carrying the engine-starting pedal or an equivalent element.
Patent GB-191214800-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Water Heating Apparatus.
Inventor: BRIERLEY RICHARD
IPC: F24B9/00
Filed: 1912-06-25
Granted: 1912-10-31
Abstract: 14,800. Brierley, R. June 25. Water-tube boilers.-A single water-tube A of U-shape is bent forward at a so that its lower end may project through the space leading from the flue to the fire, the legs or upright portions a' extending partly up the flue at the back of the range.
Patent GB-191215277-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Machine for Working Dough and the like.
Inventor: TEICHMANN OTTO
Filed: 1912-07-01
Granted: 1912-08-29
Abstract: 15,277. Teichmann, O. July 10, 1911, [Convention date]. Rolling-machines. - In machines for working dough and other plastic material in shape, of the type comprising a rotary carrier and an obliquelyarranged forming-surface, the carrier a is formed as a frustum of an hyperboloid and the forming-surface f consists of a twisted blade formed with a straight edge which is disposed along one of the straightline generators d, e of the hyperboloid. The blade f can be adjusted about its edge by means of a guide g curved in the arc of a circle, the centre of which lies along the generator d, e. If desired, a trough may be used instead of the blade. A series of troughs may be employed, so arranged that the dough portions leaving one trough fall into the next, and are thus subjected to repeated working.
Patent GB-191216785-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Liquid Power-transmitting Apparatus
Inventor: ZAMBON GIOVANNI
IPC: F16D33/00
Filed: 1912-07-18
Granted: 1913-01-02
Abstract: 16,785. Zambon, G. July 18. [Addition to 6787/12.] Clutches and speed-varying mechanism. - In hydraulic clutches of the type described in the parent Specification, the casing 4, Fig. 1, carries, in addition to the vanes 5, radial vanes 10, which are adapted to utilize the pressure energy generated by the rotation of the drum 2, 3. Alternative forms are described in which (1) the ribs on the drum and casing are curved, so that liquid strikes the vanes on the casing normally; (2) the vanes on the drum are helical; (3) the drum and casing are made in the form of a double cone.
Patent GB-191221315-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Wheels for Wheelbarrows and the like.
Inventor: HIRST TOM
IPC: B60B9/00
Filed: 1912-09-19
Granted: 1913-07-31
Abstract: 21,315. Hirst, T. Sept. 19. Spring wheels with continuous outer rigid ring and rubber-ring and like cushions. - A wheel for wheelbarrows, handtrucks, &c. A has a central aperture C with a flange B on each side supporting a solid rubber cushion D. Two plates E are secured on the axle between a collar and a nut, and are formed with flanges overhanging the cushions. A spacing-sleeve may be placed between the plates. Reference has been directed by the Comptroller to Specification 18,694/94.
Patent GB-191223064-A (GB)
Title: Improved Method of Making Hollow Bodies of Concrete.
Inventor: PLUTA CARL
IPC: B28B7/18
Filed: 1912-10-09
Granted: 1913-04-10
Abstract: 23,064. Pluta, C. Oct. 9. Moulding pipes and tubes ; moulds.-To produce long hollow concrete masts, poles, pipes, mineprops, &c., short, hollow concrete sections a, formed by stamping, are placed on edge, end to end, in a channel mould c, surrounded by reinforcing iron, and covered with concrete. The cores are formed with rounded corners and with projections b at each end to space them apart from the sides of the moulds. Tapering bodies may be formed by using cores of different sizes. The cores a are produced by means of the sectional mould and core shown in Fig. 9, each consisting of cornerpieces h of fixed dimensions and interchangeable intermediate pieces i.
Patent GB-191224873-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Objectives of Three Colour Cinematographic Projection Apparatus.
IPC: G03B33/00
Filed: 1912-10-30
Granted: 1913-03-27
Abstract: 24,873. Soc. des Etablissements Gaumont. Nov. 16, 1911, [Convention date]. [Addition to 3220/12.] Optical - projection apparatus. - Relates to further adjustment of the objective described in the parent Specification. The whole system is transferred axially till the image projected by the centre lens B is in focus; the outer objectives A, C are axially displaced till the outer images are clear; and the rear portions of their mountings are then adjusted till the three images are in a vertical line when by turning the button R the screws t force the lenses A, C to turn about their axes D to secure registration.
Patent GB-191227656-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in the Frames of Umbrellas and the like.
Inventor: BRADBURY JOHN
IPC: A45B25/02
Filed: 1912-12-02
Granted: 1913-08-21
Abstract: 27,656. Bradbury, J. Dec. 2. Ribs and stretchers for umbrellas and sunshades are formed from flat wire having thickened sides or edges. The thickening b may be at the extreme edges, as shown, or at any position on the side or sides, and either on the inside or outside of the groove; or it may be distributed over the entire side or sides. The web or back a may be correspondingly reduced in thickness to avoid increase in weight.
Patent GB-191229048-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Apparatus for Cooling Soap.
IPC: C11D13/12
Filed: 1912-12-17
Granted: 1913-04-17
Abstract: 29,048. Jacobi, A., [Firm of]. Sept. 17, [Convention date]. Solidifying liquids other than water.-Nickel surfacing-sheets are attached by means of cement to the cast-iron cooling-plates used in cooling and solidifying soap in chambers built up from such plates. A tough cement which is fluid when hot is preferably used, the castiron plate being heated, covered with cement, and the nickel sheet pressed on.
Patent GB-191229988-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Tube Unions or Couplings.
Inventor: FORST SAMUEL GRUNDY
IPC: F16L37/252
Filed: 1912-12-30
Granted: 1913-08-14
Abstract: 29,988. Forst, S. G. Dec. 30. Butt joints; bayonet and like joints.-Flexible tubes are coupled together by semicylindrical members a, b which are clamped together in pairs, one pair a' having a spigot end with flanges l, while the other pair b<1> was a socket end with locking-lugs m. Clamping-rings f are employed to hold the semicylindrical sections together. The sections have interlocking means such as projections and indentations k formed along their edges, and are also provided with pointed projections d, or are roughened, on the inner walls. One pair of members is provided with a channel formed in the inner wall to receive a thimble o, to the centre of which the ends of the tubes to be connected are brought.
Patent GB-191301144-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Water Softening or Purifying, or both Water Softening and Purifying Plants.
Inventor: GOOD HAROLD
IPC: C02F1/68
Filed: 1913-01-15
Granted: 1913-07-17
Abstract: 1144. Good, H. Jan. 15. Actuating.-Apparatus for mixing chemical with water in definite proportions comprises a double-chambered oscillating receiver D and a chemical reservoir A provided with a cock G, which is opened by the engagement of the receiver with a lever arm and is closed automatically by the lever arm, which swings idly when moved by the receiver in one direction. Water is delivered to the receiver D by a pipe F, and the receiver discharges into end compartments of a filter C. When the receiver D falls over, its upper part E<2> strikes a lever arm M pivoted on a member L which turns the plug of the valve G. A stop L<1> on the member L communicates the motion of the arm M to open the valve plug when the arm M swings in one direction. The valve is closed by the weight of the arm M and the movement of the arm in the other direction from the vertical is idle.
Patent GB-191303369-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Motor-driven Vehicles.
Inventor: NORTON TOM
IPC: B62D39/00
Filed: 1913-02-10
Granted: 1914-02-10
Abstract: 3369. Norton, T. Feb. 10. [Cognate Application, 7340/13.] Springs, arrangement of; guiding vertical play.-In a motor road vehicle of the cycle-car type a pair of body units of side-car pattern are mounted side by side upon the underframe. In one arrangement, Fig. 1, each body unit A, B is rigidly fixed to an underframe which is suspended by springs from the axles. The underframe comprises side tubes a, a<1>, which are connected by cross-tubes b, b<1> and are inwardly inclined at their forward ends a<2>, a' and connected to form a bracket c for the front cross spring. The ends of the front axle are connected bv radiusrods g<2> to the frame members a<2>, a<3>, and the rear of the frame, which is supported upon the rear axle by quarter elliptic springs h, h<1>, is connected to the ends of the rear axle by radiusrods i. In a modification, Fig. 6, the body units A, B are independently spring-mounted upon the underframe. Beneath each body unit are fixed four vertical pins q adapted to slide through holes in transverse members p, p' fixed to the underframe, bearing-springs v and check springs v<1> being disposed about the pins q. In a further modification, the body units A, B, each spring-mounted on the underframe, may be rigidly connected together.
Patent GB-191305539-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Corner Bindings for Boxes and the like.
Inventor: DAVIDSON JOHN EDWIN
Filed: 1913-03-05
Granted: 1913-12-11
Abstract: 5539. Davidson, J. E., Nightingale, J. T., and Hood, A. N. March 5. Drawings to Specification. Lumber.-A material used for corner bindings consists of a number of strips of veneer with the grains crossed, and permeated and united by cement.
Patent GB-191308224-A (GB)
Title: Improved Guard for Cropping and similar Machines used in the Treatment or Finishing of Fabrics.
IPC: D06H7/02
Filed: 1913-04-08
Granted: 1914-03-26
Abstract: 8224. Bradford Dyers' Association, and Siddons, W. S. April 8. Guards, controlling.-An interlocking guard device for the cutter or similar part of a cropping or like machine is so constructed that the guard, although locked, can be moved together with the cutter to a limited extent to allow joints in the fabric to pass under the cutter. For this purpose, the guard 2 is pivoted about a shaft 3, and when raised actuates an eccentric 7 and thereby moves a bar 8 interlocked with the belt-fork. The eccentric 7 turns about a pivot in line with the pivot of the arm 18 carrying the cutter B, so that a slight movement may be given to the guard and cutter by means of the handle 18<a> without materially affecting the bar 8. The device may also be applied to a machine with several cutters.
Patent GB-191308283-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to the Manufacture of Artificial Silks and a Celluloid like Product.
Inventor: SHRAGER CECIL
IPC: D01F2/26
Filed: 1913-04-08
Granted: 1913-11-06
Abstract: 8283. Shrager, C., and Lance, R. D. April 9, 1912, [Convention date]. Plastic compositions containing cellulose esters. - Products resembling celluloid are obtained by the addition of large quantities of metal resinates, particularly aluminium resinate, to viscose and nitro-cellulose solutions.
Patent GB-191309141-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to Apparatus for use in Compressing Plastic Materials.
IPC: B30B15/00
Filed: 1913-04-18
Granted: 1913-09-04
Abstract: 9141. Harburger Eisen-und Bronzewerke Akt.-Ges. April 25, 1912, [Convention date]. Extrusion machines; presses and moulding-machines with fixed mould tables or moulds.-A device for withdrawing air from plastic materials during compression in extrusion or block presses, consists of a cap c attached to the end of the mould shell or cylinder a and closely surrounding the plunger e ; the cap communicates with a suitable vacuum through a pipe b. Where two plungers are employed, a cap is arranged over each. The press shown is applied to the manufacture of electrodes.