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Patent GB-190626354-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Snow Ploughs and the like Implements
Inventor: WILKINSON JOHN
Filed: 1906-11-21
Granted: 1907-05-30
Abstract: 26,354. Wilkinson, J. Nov. 21. Snow ploughs.-Fig. 2 shows in perspective view a right-handed plough which throws the snow &c. towards the foot-path V when drawn in the direction of the arrow. The working face B is corrugated longitudinally and is shod with steel C at the road surface, the curvature of which is accommodated by a central hinged joint D, shown in detail in Fig. 3. The part G carries a slotted plate F which engages a pin E on the part H. The joint is covered by the facing, the free edge of which points rearwardly. The back of the plough is supported by a wheel W adjacent to the driver's seat A and platform P, on which weights may be placed, the edge of the wheel being sharpened to prevent side movement and to enter tram rails. A chain and draught-bars T, T' are provided at the front, and a handle R is used for turning the plough round.
Patent GB-190628584-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Vehicle Wheels
Inventor: ARMITAGE ALFRED
Filed: 1906-12-14
Granted: 1907-12-12
Abstract: 28,584. Armitage, A., Elwes, P. F. C., and Andre, T. B. Dec. 14. Felloes or rims.- The detachable rim B<1> has lugs B<2> adapted to engage in tapered bayonet slots A<2> in the binding-ring A' on the felloe A. The rim is locked by means of wedge-bolts C. The valve stem D' is housed in a recess D, Fig. 1, and the security bolt nuts engage in angle slots in the ring A<1>. The security bolt has a shortened stem E<4>, Fig. 8, tapped to receive an extension E<2> for use in assemblage. In the form shown in Fig. 8, the security nuts E<5> are arranged in cups B<3> which constitute the projections for securing the rim on the wheel. Fig. 6 shows a modified form of locking-wedge. A bolt C<3> having a T-head passes through the wedge C, and when the bead engages behind the felloe A the wedge may be driven home by means of the nut C<6>. By slacking the nut and turning the bolt C<3>, the we'ge may be withdrawn. The arrangement of lug and slot on the detachable and fixed rim members may be reversed.
Patent GB-190705101-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Drilling Machines.
Inventor: WHITAKER STEPHEN SCOTT
Filed: 1907-03-02
Granted: 1908-01-16
Abstract: 5101. Whitaker, S. S. March 2. Drilling.-An arrangement for quickly engaging and disengaging the power feed-mechanism of a drilling-machine, consists of two sleeves A, B with mitred ends. The sleeve B is fixed to a lug C on the frame, while the sleeve A provided with a handle J, is loose on the feed-shaft D between the sleeve B and a collar G. on the feed-shaft. When the handle is turned, the feed-shaft is raised or lowered, shouldered flats M being provided on each bush to retain the shaft in its raised position with the worm L and wheel K in gear.
Patent GB-190706422-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Package Sealing Apparatus
Inventor: TUTTLE JOSEPH HALE
Filed: 1907-03-16
Granted: 1907-10-10
Abstract: 6422. Tuttle, J. H., and Frost, C. B. March 17, 1906, [date applied for under Patents Act, 1901]. Printing-apparatus combined with apparatus for wrapping-up for transit; printing on labels, tickets, &c. ; feeding-apparatus for webs; rotary machines; set-off, preventing; delivery apparatus cutting- apparatus. - Strips of paper, wound from a reel and kept in tension by a spring, are passed over printing and blotting wheels to a gumming or moistening device, after which they are wound round packages for sealing. The required length of strips is cut off by a specially-shaped knife outside the casing enclosing the whole apparatus. The two parts 1, 2 of the casing are held together by a hinge 4 and a spring clip 5, and all the working parts are preferably attached to the part 1 of the casing, but a duplicate set may be mounted in the part 2. The strip of paper A, previously gummed or not, is wound from a roll 6 and kept in tension by a brake 8 and spring 9. It passes round a guidepulley 10 to the printing-devices, comprising an impression roller 11, and a removable printing-roller of suitable but variable size, the spindle of which is slidable in the slot 32, and which is inked by the roller 30. After passing a blotting-roll 13 and guide-roll 14, the strip is led over a bar 15 projecting transversely from a weighted lever 16 pivoted at 17, and also over the transversely-positioned serrated outer end of the lever 16, thus being kept normally out of contact with the damping or gumming roll 24, which revolves in a trough 23 supplied with water or mucilage from a reservoir 18. When a packet such as B is to be sealed, the end of the strip A is dabbed on to the roller 24,and then stuck on to the parcel, and sufficient strip is then pulled out to seal the parcel. During this pulling action, the lever 16 is lowered, so that the strip comes into contact with the roll 23 for a greater or less distance according to the position of the guide-roll 25, which may be raised so far that the strip is not depressed sufficiently to touch the roller 24. When sufficient tape has been drawn out, it is severed against a pointed \/-shaped knife 27 adjustably attached to the outside of the casing, so that sufficient strip is left projecting to commence sealing the next package. The whole operation is performed without soiling the fingers with moistened gum &c.
Patent GB-190713301-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Miners' and like Picks.
Inventor: BROWN FRANK WILLIAM
Filed: 1907-06-08
Granted: 1907-08-15
Abstract: 13,301. Brown, F. W. June 8. Handles.-The handles or shafts of miners' picks and the like are secured to the socket A by a multiple wedge G situated in the enlarged inner end of the shaft opening D. The opening D has a narrow ledge E which engages the enlarged head formed by driving the shaft on to the wedge G. The wedge may be cast with or in the socket.
Patent GB-190715460-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Hair Washes.
Inventor: KERTZSCHER ARTUR
Filed: 1907-07-04
Granted: 1907-11-14
Abstract: 15,460. Kertzscher, A., and Lehn, F. July 4. Hair washes.-Hair washes are saturated with carbon dioxide under pressure and are supplied in siphons.
Patent GB-190715907-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Bucket Wheels for Elastic Fluid Turbines.
Filed: 1907-07-10
Granted: 1908-03-05
Abstract: 15,907. Warwick Machinery Co., [General Electric Co.]. July 10. Elastic-fluid turbines.-Rotors are formed of two opposed dished sheetmetal disks flanged to fit the shaft 11 and at the outer edges to grip the blades. The blades are formed with enlarged shanks 8 which are embraced by the outer flanges of the disks. The shanks of the blades also extend at right-angles to the axis as at 4, Fig. 1, so as to space the blades properly. The disks are secured together by tongues 9, 12 cut out of one disk and riveted through the other. When the blades are assembled and the disks secured, the shrouding-ring 3 is riveted in place.
Patent GB-190716852-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Fuse Setting Appliances for Projectiles.
Filed: 1907-07-23
Granted: 1908-01-09
Abstract: 16,852. Krupp Akt.-Ges., F. Oct. 31, 1906, [date applied for under Patents Act, 1901]. Fuses for projectiles.-In setting-keys of the type wherein the locking-belt follows the rotation of the key, the bolt is adapted securely to lock the key to the fuse until released by hand. A ring B is rotatably mounted in a ring A. A spring-controlled pawl b<4> is provided within the ring B for engagement with notches d' in the base D of the fuse, and a nose a<4> in the ring A for engagement with a notch e<1> in the revolving priming circle E of the fuse. A worm C is provided for rotating the ring B and thereby setting the pawl b<4> at the required position, which can be ascertained by means of a scale b<3> mounted on the ring B and visible through an opening a' in the ring A ; a reading-off pointer a<3> is marked on the edge of this opening. The key is locked as follows : A slide bolt F is controlled by a spring f<4> and is adapted normally to engage with a notch e<2> in the priming circle E. The head f<2> of this bolt has fins f<3> and is embraced by the forked end G<1> of a bell-crank lever G<1>, G', the other end G<2> of which abuts against a push-bolt H pressed against a shroud nut a<8> by a spring J and provided with a bell-shaped head h<2>. Thus the key cannot be released until the bolt F is unlocked by depressing the head h<2> by hand. This device is enclosed within the hollow handle A<1>.
Patent GB-190720542-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Exhaust Boxes for Motor Cars and Motor Cycles
Inventor: BOUSFIELD JOHN
Filed: 1907-09-16
Granted: 1908-04-02
Abstract: 20,542. Bousfield, J. Sept. 16. Exhaust - silencers are provided with partitions forming a zigzag path for the exhaust gases. The partitions 5 consist of metal plates 4 which have plates of asbestos or other incombustible material on each side covered by metal or other plates 9.
Patent GB-190720803-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and applicable to Knitting Machines.
Inventor: WOODWARD CHARLES RICHARD
Filed: 1907-09-19
Granted: 1908-07-02
Abstract: 20,803. Woodward, C. R., and Shaw, F. Sept. 19. Straight-bar knitting-machines.-Pattern bits of uniform size are employed for selecting threadcarriers, lace-points, shogging-cams, and for other purposes requiring greater power and extent of movement than is conveniently obtainable direct from a pattern-chain. Fig. 2 shows the application to the selection of striping thread carriers. The pattern chain or wheel elevates one or more levers 4, 5, 6, 7 normally resting on a bar 8. A rod 9 normally passing over the hollows 9<a> is brought to rest, after selection, by a spring against a selected lever. During selection, the rod 9 is held clear of the levers by cam action. The rod 9 is connected to a shaft 13 which acts on the thread - guide selecting shaft 19 by means of an arm 16, a knuckle-joint, a link 17<a>, and arm 18 ; the position of the rod 9 after selection determines which thread-carrier rod 22 is engaged by the arm 21, which is traversed on the shaft 19 by the ordinary means. In another form, applicable to the selection of cams, cam trucks, &c., the pattern levers are provided with bell-crank arms which in the selected position come under and hold out of action the corresponding levers. Those levers not held out of action are acted on by cams to perform the operations required.
Patent GB-190721617-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and connected with Apparatus for Raising Liquids by Means of Compressed Air or the like.
Inventor: PLATH GOTTFRIED
Filed: 1907-09-30
Granted: 1908-03-05
Abstract: 21,617. Plath, G. April 13, [date applied for under Patents Act, 1901]. Direct gas - pressure apparatus.-In a single - chamber apparatus for raising liquids by means of compressed air or the like, of the type described in Specification No. 18,885, A.D. 1901, the liquid enters the single chamber a by pipes c, c1, until it lifts the float valve e1from its cup-shaped seat on the end of the compressed-air or like pipe h2. The valve e1 at the same time closes the exhaust pipe k. The liquid in the chamber a is then forced through the pipes b, b1, the valve e rising to close the pipe c. After the liquid has been discharged, the valves e1, e drop back and the cycle is reproduced. In a modification, the pipe c1 leads directly into the chamber a. The cock i is always kept closed, the object of providing it being merely to have the valve parts on each side of the apparatus interchangeable.
Patent GB-190722914-A (GB)
Title: Hose Couplings.
Inventor: HALEY ROBERT MADISON
Filed: 1907-10-17
Granted: 1908-02-27
Abstract: 22,914. Haley, R. M. Oct. 17, 1906, [date applied for under Patents Act, 1901]. Couplings, disconnectible.-A hose coupling of the bayonet type is locked by a fastening controlled from the exterior which lies in a pocket formed by recesses on the male and female members. The female member 11 has a number of ribs 14 having cam-shaped recesses to receive corresponding lugs on the male member 12. After the parts have been coupled together, a quick-threaded screw 24 carried by the female member 11 is screwed into one of the recesses 15 to prevent retrograde movement of the lugs 19. The thumb-piece of the screw lies in a pocket formed by recesses 28 on the two members.
Patent GB-190724758-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Non-refillable Bottles and like Containers
Inventor: PITNER MARION WILLIAMS
Filed: 1907-11-08
Granted: 1908-11-09
Abstract: 24,758. Pitner, M. W. Nov. 8. Measured quantities, delivering.- The non-refillable bottle &c. A is fitted with a transverse plug 5 having one or more cups or recesses 5<1>, which receive the contents from the interior of the bottle &c. and, by the rotation of the plug, deliver the material so separated to the outlet. The plug fits in a seating 4 formed in the neck, or in a bushing therein, and serves to protect the contents from the entrance of foreign matter &c. It is operated by means of the revoluble cap 6, to the stem 12 of which it is connected by means of the collar 15, the engaging parts of the stems and collar being of non-circular section. When the cap has been placed in position on the boss 7, it is locked against withdrawal by the divided spring ring 10, which engages in corresponding annular recesses in the boss and cap. The cap is intended to be broken by the bottler or packer, to allow the plug to be withdrawn for the purpose of refilling the vessel, a new cap being placed in position after the vessel has been filled and the plug reinserted. A spring 17 is employed between the plug and the cap, to press the plug on its seat. The collar 15 may be integral with the plug or the cap, or with a turning key or knob which projects through the cap, and the spring 17 may be located otherwise.- To prevent the plug from being turned except when the vessel is in an inverted position, a ball 37 is employed, which acts as a stop against one or other of the projections 36 on the collar 15 When the vessel is inverted, the ball rests in the recess 34 in the boss 7, and does not act ; but, in any other position of the vessel, the ball is caused, by the conical surfaces of the collar 15, to move to one side to engage with one or other of the projections. As a further safeguard against refilling, the neck is formed with a seat for a ballvalve 40, between which and the movable tubular weight 43 a light spring 42 is interposed. In the position shown, the valve is held seated by the spring ; but when the plug is turned through half a revolution, the flat 44 on the plug permits the weight and valve to drop, so that the central space of the weight &c. becomes filled. On the next rotation of the plug, this material enters the cup 5<1>, the valve 40 being then closed, and is discharged on the further rotation of the plug. In a modi6cation, the ball-valve 40 &c. is dispensed with.
Patent GB-190725187-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Bathing Tubs for the Treatment of the Human Body by the Application of Electric Currents.
Inventor: BRAUN FRIEDRICH
Filed: 1907-11-13
Granted: 1908-04-09
Abstract: 25,187. Braun, F. Nov, 13. Baths for the treatment of the body by electricity are divided into two portions by a partition b. The patient is placed in the part d with his legs in the part c, the partition, the top of which may be upholstered, serving to support the knees. Current passes between the electrodes e and f.
Patent GB-190801207-A (GB)
Title: A Tram Shackle with Automatic Means of Securing the Pin thereof
Inventor: HEAL WILLIAM JAMES
Filed: 1908-01-18
Granted: 1908-05-14
Abstract: 1207. Heal, W. J. Jan. 18. Shackles.-To prevent accidental uncoupling of the shackles of colliery trams &c., the shackle pin b is prevented from rising by a small link e, which slides through inclined holes in a projection d on the pin and engages under a hook c on the shackle a. The pin is raised by means of the link e, and is made oval in cross-section to prevent rotation.
Patent GB-190803045-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Washing Machines.
Filed: 1908-02-11
Granted: 1908-06-25
Abstract: 3045. Bosch, J. M., and Import Maatschappij, voorheen A. van der Laan & Co. Feb. 11. Washing-machines.-In a washing-machine having a rotary dolly k at the lower end of the spindle i suspended from the hinged cover d, the driving- mechanism comprises sprocket-wheels o, n and a chain q actuated by a handle s. The wheels are mounted on screwed spindlesp, i supported by ball bearings in tubular standards r, h secured to the cover.
Patent GB-190803510-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Targets.
Inventor: ROSS CHARLES HENRY
Filed: 1908-02-17
Granted: 1908-08-20
Abstract: 3510. Ross, C. H. Feb. 17. Targets.-Fig. 2 is a sectional plan view of the whole apparatus, and Fig. 3 is a rear view of indicating-apparatus, which is set in motion when a bullet or shot passes through a central aperture 14 in a front target plate 11 and strikes a spring plunger 15 carried by a detachable plate 10. An indicator 20 is carried by a sliding rod 19 which is retained in a lowered position by projections 17, 18 on the plunger and rod respectively engaging with one another. When the plunger is forced back by a bullet, the rod is raised by a slotted weighted lever 22 acting on a pin 21 on the rod. The end of the lever carries a stiff spring 27 with a knob 26 adapted to strike a bell 28, or it may complete a circuit through an electric bell. A spring 25 presses against the weight and gives an impetus to it when the projection 17 is forced back clear of the projection 18. The target plate 11 is hinged to a wire frame 8 secured at the front of a casing 7, or it may be mounted in slides. Resonance of the target plate is deadened by strips 13 of wool, cloth,- rubber, &c. Shots passing through the bull's-eye aperture collect in the space between the plates 10, 11.
Patent GB-190808417-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Ventilating Devices for Railway and like Vehicles.
Filed: 1908-04-15
Abstract: 8417. Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits et des Grands Express EuropÚens. May 15, 1907, [date applied for under Section 91 of Patents &c. Act, 1907]. Void. [Published under Patents &c. Act, 1907.] Ventilating. -A ventilating-device for railway &c. vehicles comprises vertical, adjustable louvers pivoted to a frame secured outside the window. The vertical louvers 8 are mounted in thimbles 9, 10, which are pivoted to cross-bars 6, 7. The louvers are adjusted by a connecting-rod 13 to which arms 12 on the thimbles are pivoted. The connecting-rod is operated by a handle 14 through a crank 16 and link 17, the crank hub being provided with stop faces 18, against which a spring 19 bears. The window moves in vertical guides in front of the ventilator, and may be secured in a raised or lowered position by bolts engaging in slots in the cross-bars.
Patent GB-190809691-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Process of and Apparatus for Treating Grain Preparatory to and in Milling.
Inventor: BECK ADOLF
Filed: 1908-05-04
Granted: 1909-04-15
Abstract: 9691. Beck, A., and Angerm³ller, E. May 4. Conveyers ; elevators.-In the production of flour, meal, groats, &c. the grain is first passed into a cleaning-drum below which is a water bath in which light grains are floated off and heavy particles separated, the grain passing into a short horizontal drum 9 of large diameter, in which wings 10 of wire gauze rotate and lift the grain from the bath into the trough 11. The brush 12 carries the grain along a perforated drum to remove the superfluous moisture and passes it into the hulling-machine. Specification No. 1895, A.D. 1869, [Abridgment Class Drying], is referred to.
Patent GB-190814672-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to the Driving Mechanism of Motor Cars.
Filed: 1908-07-10
Granted: 1909-06-17
Abstract: 14,672. Selbach, O. C., and Etablissements Selbach. July 10. Motor road vehicles.-Comprises an isolating- device in which a friction clutch of known type is used, by which the action of disconnecting the engine and the transmission mechanism by means of the ordinary clutch simultaneously and automatically disconnects the change-speed gear and the road wheels. Fig. 1 is a sectional view of the device. The driving-shaft e is formed with a screw thread carrying a nut c having two conical surfaces adapted to engage with two similar surfaces on a casing a connected by a universal joint with the driven shaft b. The nut c is acted upon by spring-pressed plungers k which tend to prevent it from rotating with the shaft e, so that, when the engine clutch is first engaged, whichever way the driving-shaft rotates the nut screws itself along the shaft e until one of its faces engages with the casing a and drives the shaft b. When the engine clutch is disengaged, the shaft e tends to lag behind the shaft b, and so the nut screws along its shaft until it is disconnected from the casing a and takes up a position intermediate between the inclined surfaces of the casing.
Patent GB-190817096-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Bedsteads for Hospitals and like Institutions.
Inventor: MACKINTOSH DONALD JAMES
Filed: 1908-08-14
Granted: 1908-11-19
Abstract: 17,096. Mackintosh, D. J. Aug. 14. Bedsteads for use in hospitals, asylums, &c. are provided with castors and with block feet adapted to be brought into use alternatively, so as to enable the bedstead to be moved readily or supported in a stationary position. A bedstead having block feet is shown provided with supplementary legs A carrying castors C and adapted to slide in castings B, with which they have a pin-and-slot connexion. A cam E operated by a lever D is mounted in a slot in the casing B so as to engage the top of each of the legs A or a revolving disk mounted thereon, whereby the leg A may be forced downwards so as to bring the castor C into operation.
Patent GB-190818431-A (GB)
Title: Improved Gymnastic Appliance.
Inventor: CHAMPPASSIN PAUL DE
Filed: 1908-09-02
Granted: 1908-10-01
Abstract: 18,431. Champtassin, P. de. Sept. 3, 1907, [date applied for under Section 91. of Patents &c. Act, 1907]. Exercising-apparatus. -In an exercising -apparatus, force is exerted to overcome the friction of a cord I wound on a pulley A, and to lift a weight J attached to the cord. The pulley is prevented from rotating during the raising of the weight by a pawl H and ratchet E, but turns freely to allow the weight to descend again. The cord may be wrapped once and a half or more round the pulley, and the resistance may be increased by using a heavier weight.
Patent GB-190822747-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to Anti-ballooning Devices for Ring Spinning and Doubling Frames.
Inventor: VALLELEY FREDERICK
Filed: 1908-10-27
Granted: 1909-10-27
Abstract: 22,747. Valleley, F. Oct. 27. No Patent granted (Sealingfee not paid). Anti - ballooning arrangements.-A number of separator plates are mounted on an angle-bar, which slides in inclined slots in brackets when operated by the ring rail and so withdraws the plates, and is returned to its operative position by a series of levers on a common shaft. The angle-bar is carried in brackets B secured to the roller beam and is provided with pieces P which, when the separator plates are tilted by the ring rail, engage projections G on the brackets B and guide the plates into the position shown in dotted lines, in which they are retained by stops F. The plates are raised into the operative position by adjustable levers J, which are actuated from a shaft O and are so shaped at their ends that, as the plates are raised in the brackets, they are also turned until they are supported by the top part of the projections G.