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Patent GB-191313064-A (GB)
Title: An Electric Railway Signal Relay to be Operated by Alternating or Pulsating Currents.
Inventor: JOHNSON ARTHUR HENRY
IPC: B61L1/18
Filed: 1913-06-05
Granted: 1914-07-06
Abstract: 13,064. Johnson, A. H., and Thorrowgood, W. J. June 5. Electrical systems, automatic. - A switch or relay primarily designed for railway signalling, is operated by alternating or pulsating current through the agency of an electro-magnetic vibrator, the repeated vibrations being utilized mechanically or electrically to produce and maintain a displaced condition of the switch. The vibrator is constructed with a polarized armature and two electro-magnets or windings connected to two different circuits in such a manner that it is active only when currents are synchronously flowing in both circuits, one of which is completed through the track-rails, and the other is directly on the power feeders. One section of a railway-signalling system, according to the invention, is shown in Fig. 11. The section G fed from power lines x, y through a transformer t, energizes a winding 73, which together with a winding 74 energized directly from the power lines, and an armature 18 polarized by a battery 76 and coil 70, constitutes a vibrator of the kind described above, adapted to work as long as both windings are synchronously excited. A contact 68 attached to the vibratory armature continually makes and breaks auxiliary circuits through batteries 71, 72, a condenser 67 and the coil 66 of a slowlyacting relay controlling the magnet m of the signal S. Entrance of a train on the track section makes the winding 73 dead and stops the vibrator, the relay contact 65 then opens, the magnet m is cut out, and the signal moves to block the section. The corresponding magnet 73 of the next section is reversely connected to the track, so that leakage of current between adjacent sections de-energizes both magnets. The alternating current is preferably of low periodicity in order that it may be employed also for the direct current motors of the signals and points, and for the signalling lamps. Several different forms of polarized vibrator and several different mechanical devices through which the continual vibrations maintain the switch in a displaced position are described.
Patent GB-191314838-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Airship Shelters.
Inventor: ROGLER MAX
IPC: E04H6/44
Filed: 1913-06-27
Granted: 1914-01-22
Abstract: 14,838. Hogler, M. June 27. Shelters for housing aerial machines.-Air-ship shelters comprise landing-places A in the form of circular excavations, into which radial storage places B open and from which they can be shut off by sliding doors S. A passage C leads to the ground-level. The air-ships are received on carriages E running on rails K the wheels being so arranged as to be retained on the track against the lifting-impulse of the air-ship.
Patent GB-191320729-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Safety Pins.
Inventor: WADE HAROLD
IPC: A44B9/14
Filed: 1913-09-13
Granted: 1914-01-08
Abstract: 20,729. Wade, H., [Boye Needle Co.]. Sept. 13. Safety-pins.-Relates to pins in which the parallel arms 1. 2 are crossed above the coil and offset to form shoulders 1<a>, 2a. Hitherto, the wires have been interlocked or twisted at the crossing, but the present invention consists in extending the wires directly from the coil to the shoulders without interlocking.
Patent GB-191325832-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Machines for Treating Compound Rails.
Inventor: NOLL JOHN
IPC: B21B1/08
Filed: 1913-11-11
Granted: 1914-04-09
Abstract: 25,832. Noll, J. Nov. 11. Angular bending. - Compound rails have their parts assembled otherwise than in position on the track. The body portion is supported by means such as the table of a machine of the planer type, and the cap is secured by a roller head carried by the cross-slide and provided with holding-down rolls G and bending-rolls K with worm, screw, and toggle adjustment at P. For treating curved rails, the head may be free to traverse on the cross-slide, or the work may be free to move laterally on the table. Plain holding - down rolls of width equal to that of the machine may be employed, thus obviating the necessity for these rolls to traverse.
Patent GB-191326280-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Golf Clubs, Croquet Mallets and the like.
Inventor: SCOTT EDWIN HAMILTON WINCKWORT
IPC: A63B53/02
Filed: 1912-12-31
Granted: 1913-12-24
Abstract: 26,280. Scott, E. H. W. Dec. 31, 1912. Shafts.-The handles of golf clubs, croquet mallets, &c. are formed wholly or in part of metal tube of angular cross-section, so that the outer faces, which meet at an angle, form a straight line lengthways of the shaft. Fig. 1 shows a tube of square section with the method of attaching to it the head of a golf club. Figs. 2 and 3 show a tube of oblong section. The shafts may be parallel - sided, or tapered either internally or externally.
Patent GB-191327678-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Reversible Regenerative Furnaces, for use in the Manufacture of Steel, Glass and the like.
IPC: C03B5/237
Filed: 1913-09-22
Granted: 1915-07-15
Abstract: 27,678. Atkinson, J. S., Coke Oven Machinery Co., and Huessener, K. Sept. 22. Reverberatory f u rnaces. - Reversible regenerative furnaces for the manufacture o f steel, glass, &c. are provided at each end of the hearth with one or more outlet passages for the waste gases, separate from the gas and air inlet ports, which are thus not burnt by the outflowing gases. In the furnace shown, on each side of the gas and air ports 1, 2, there are outlet ports 3 which are connected through a slag chamber 7 and passages 5 to the regenerators 6. Valves in the passages 5 allow the regenerators to communicate either with the passages 3 or the ports 1. 2. The entrance to the outlet passages is as shown in advance of the ports 1, 2.
Patent GB-191327744-A (GB)
Title: A Process for Fusing Refractory Materials.
Inventor: PODSZUS EMIL
IPC: F27D11/08
Filed: 1913-12-02
Granted: 1914-06-25
Abstract: 27,744. Podszus, E. Dec. 2, 1912, [Convention, date]. Electrode furnaces for fusing refractory materials such as oxides of aluminium, thorium, and zirconium. Carbon or other electrodes 4, 5 are embedded in the granular material in a sheet-iron casing 3 having a refractory bottom 2 of chamotte or other material; after the arc is struck, the upper electrode is gradually raised. It is stated that a hollow space 6 forms round the arc having its walls of fused material, and that the lower electrode is covered by conductive fused material, which avoids contamination of the product by carbon. The fused material may be drawn . off at 8. The material should not be very finely powdered. In fusing zirconium oxide, electrodes of zirconium or zirconium carbide may be used. The voltage used may be 220, and the length of the arc may be 20 cms.
Patent GB-191328344-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Direction Indicators for Motor and other Vehicles.
Inventor: DUNN JOSEPH
IPC: B60Q1/34
Filed: 1913-12-09
Granted: 1914-11-26
Abstract: 28,344. Dunn, J. Dec. 9. Road-vehicle signals.-An horizontal hand 1, rotatable about a vertical axis, is arranged on the offside of a vehicle to indicate turning, while a similar vertical hand 2 indicates stopping. Each hand is rigid with an archimedean screw 6 working in a spring-controlled sleeve 11, which can be drawn downwards by a catch 15 to turn the hand into the displayed position. The sleeves 11 are prevented from rotating by studs 17 projecting through vertical slots. The hands may be painted red, and may be arranged with lights to shins through them at night, or may be provided with reflectors.
Patent GB-191328610-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or connected with Biplane Flying Machines.
Inventor: SHORT HORACE LEONARD
IPC: B64C3/56
Filed: 1913-12-11
Granted: 1914-09-10
Abstract: 28,610. Short, H. L., Short, A. E., and Short, H. O. Dec. 11. Planes, arrangement of.-In a biplane flying- machine having wings hinged to and removable from a central frame, a vertical strut 17 is provided between the upper and lower rear wing-spars 10, 11 adjacent to the hinge 12, in order to retain the spars at a definite distance apart when the wings are detached from the frame. The strut is fitted between lugs 16 on the hinge boxes 8, and may be permanently fixed or removable. In the former case, the frame strut 4 may be correspondingly reduced in thickness.
Patent GB-191402317-A (GB)
Title: Sausage Filling Machine.
Inventor: ROHWER FRANZ
IPC: A22C11/06
Filed: 1914-01-28
Granted: 1915-07-29
Abstract: 2317. Rohwer, F. Jan. 28. Fixed-chamber apparatus.-The valve c interposed between the measuring filling-cylinder a and the nozzle b of a sausage-filling machine is actuated in one direction by a rotary cam h and lever i and is returned to the chamberfilling position by the pressure of the meat in the supply cylinder f. The plunger of the filling-cylinder a is reciprocated by an eccentric y and rod z adjustably connected to a slotted lever. During the outward stroke of the plunger, the valve c is forced upwards by the pressure of the meat beneath it, which passes into the cylinder a; it is then depressed by the lever i until the passage e is in line with the nozzle b, and the inward movement of the filling-plunger forces the meat into a skin stretched over the fluted end of the tube b. In the modification shown in Fig. 3, a rocking three-way valve is substituted for the valve c, the valve being operated in one direction by the pressure of the meat on a piston 3 acting through a crank 2, and in the other direction bv a cam on the main shaft k.
Patent GB-191406068-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or connected with Loom Weft-replenishing Mechanism.
IPC: D03D45/50
Filed: 1914-03-10
Granted: 1914-04-16
Abstract: 6068. Maschinenfabrik Ruti, vorm. C. Honegger. March 25, 1913, [Convention date]. Shuttles, [changing bobbins. and the like in, automatically.-The weftends from the-bobbins or cops in an inclined guide-channel 1 are inserted between the rounded teeth of a short comb 8 on a holder 7 adjustably secured to a bracket 6, the weft-ends twisting together behind the comb owing to their inherent twist. The channel 1 has a flange 4 engaging over the outermost rings of the bobbins &c., the middle portions of which rest on a rail 3. The cut off weft-ends fall on to an horizontal guide-plate 9, which is secured to the bracket 6 and has a curved edge for guiding the weft-ends out of the range of the lay and picker.
Patent GB-191406468-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and connected with Gas Grilling Apparatus.
IPC: A47J37/06
Filed: 1914-03-14
Granted: 1914-12-03
Abstract: 6468. Richmond Gas Stove and Meter Co., and Jones, S. F. March 14. [Cognate Application, 12,593/14.] Grilling-stoves. - The horizontal grill plates e extend downwardlv at the sides and also if desired at the ends, the extensions f being either vertical or inclioed. Flanges h may be provided to support the grill pan i the sides of which are extended upwards and turned inwards to form flanges j. The back of the pan i is also extended upwardly.
Patent GB-191408361-A (GB)
Title: Improved Means for Sharpening Knives and the like.
Inventor: BERNHARDT FERDINAND
IPC: B24D15/08
Filed: 1914-04-02
Granted: 1914-06-04
Abstract: 8361. Bernhardt, F. April 2. Steels.-The sharpening-members 1, 2, each having a similar section, Fig. 3, are pivotally mounted by a pin 3 on a handle 4 with a guard shoulder 5 and are surrounded by a sleeve 6, having insertions 7 of india-rubber, felt, or like material, whereby adjustment for wear or of the angular position of the members may be made. When the inside edges are worn out, the members may be changed over and their other edges employed for sharpening, and the members may be simultaneously sharpened by removing the sleeve and superposing them. A whetstone 8 may be provided on the handle. In a modification, Fig. 5, a number of sharpening members 1, 2 are employed, the sleeve surrounding all of the members and having inner projections 10 filling the empty intermediate spaces. A steel plate or whetstone 11 may be provided on the base o.
Patent GB-191413470-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in the Treatment of Furs for Dyeing.
Inventor: RANSFORD ROBERT BOLTON
IPC: D06P3/30
Filed: 1914-06-02
Granted: 1915-08-05
Abstract: 13,470. Hansford, R. B., [Cassella & Co., L.]. June 2. Mordanting. - Furs are treated with chromium compounds and formaldehyde, together or successively, then with chloride of lime, and then dyed with acid wool dyes. According to examples:-(1) astrachan furs are treated with chrome alum. solution to which soda and formaldehyde are added, then treated with successive baths of dilute hvdrochloric acid, chloride of lime solution, dilute hydrochloric acid, and sodium thiosulphate solution, and then dyed in a bath containing naphthylamine black S, naphthol blue-black, glauber's salt, acetic acid, and sodium bisulphate ; (2) angora sheepskins are treated first with formaldehyde, then with a chrome alum solution containing soda, then chlored as described above, and then dyed in a bath containing anthracene chromate green KFF extra, bichromate, and acetic acid.
Patent GB-191413773-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Paper Feeding Mechanism for Machines for Making Perforated Sheet Music.
Inventor: MYERS EDGAR WILLIAM
IPC: B21D53/82
Filed: 1914-06-06
Granted: 1915-06-07
Abstract: 13,773. Myers, E. W. June 6. Feeding webs. - In a machine for reproducing perforated music sheets from a master sheet, of the kind in which the sheet to be perforated is drawn through the machine by automatically - operated travelling sheet-clamping devices which engage the opposite edges of the sheet, the sheet clamps are mounted so as to be adjustable to suit sheets of different widths, and are provided with springs to hold them normally in the open position, a cam rail being arranged to close them on to the sheet. A sheet-supporting plate is arranged between the two sets of clamps. The sheet S is drawn from a roll over a guide 12 and between the punches 11 and dies 10 by clamps comprising blocks 19 fixed to endless chains 18 and blocks 20 pivoted to the blocks 19. The clamps are normally held open by coil springs on their pivots and are closed to grip the sheet by the engagement of pins 22 on the blocks 20 with cam rails 23 adjustably secured to shafts 26 journaled in frame plates 28. When introducing a new sheet, the shafts 26 are turned by handles 32 against the action of springs 30 to allow the clamps to open, and the shafts are held in that position by spring latch studs 33 engaging holes in the shafts. The frame plates 28 are provided with grooves 35 to guide the clamps, and have bifurcated ends embracing the sprocket-wheels of the chains, so that the chains and their associated parts may be moved towards or away from each other to suit the width of the sheet. A plate 380 of corresponding width is placed across the frame plates 28 to support the sheet. The driving-shaft 16 is driven intermittently by a ratchet-wheel 40 and pawl 41 carried on an arm 42 connected by a link 43, lever 44, and link 45 to a rod 46 driven by an eccentric 47. The rod 46 is also connected to the pawl-carrying arm 50 of the ratchet-wheel 51 that feeds the master sheet. By changing the ratchet-wheel 40 or the stroke of the link 43, the copied sheet may be made longer or shorter than the master sheet.
Patent GB-191414279-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in the Breech Mechanism of Ordance.
Inventor: BACON REGINALD HUGH SPENCER
IPC: F41A5/36
Filed: 1914-06-13
Granted: 1915-06-14
Abstract: 14,279. Bacon, R. H. S., and Redpath, R. June 13. Ordnance breech mechanism. - Relates to the semi-automatic type in which the breech is automatically opened by a ram acted upon by the fluid pressure set up when the gun moves forward after recoil. The invention consists in mounting the ram in the rear end of a cylinder moving with the gun. In the form shown, the gun carries an hydraulic cylinder a which, during recoil, moves with respect to a piston b slidably mounted on the rear of a rod attached to the cradle. The piston b acts as a valve which opens to allow free passage of liquid during recoil, but closes during run-out so that a pressure is set up in front of a ram d, which is thereby moved to lower the wedge through the toothed sectors f, g, the latter acting upon the arm h. An arm m on the sector g engages with a spring-controlled bar l on the cradle and stores up energy to close the breech after the insertion of a new cartridge has caused the toes n on the extractor to leave the recess o in the wedge. The breech may be closed by hand through the lever k.
Patent GB-191414520-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in, or connected with, Wall Paper Printing or Staining and such like Machines.
Inventor: WOOD JOHN
IPC: B41F13/30
Filed: 1914-06-17
Granted: 1915-05-13
Abstract: 14,520. Wood, J. June 17. Tripping, throw-out, and like arrangements. -In wall-paper or calico printing and like machines of the kind described in Specification 13,507/05 wherein the backing-bowl may be lifted without disengaging the gear - wheel, means are provided for lifting those printing- rollers on the top half of the bowl simultaneously with the bowl. The bowl is raised by means of a hand-lever a through links b, c, h, i. The printing-rollers 1, 2, 3 are simultaneously raised by means of links n, o, p connected to levers m which are operated bv a cross-head k<2>; the cross-head is raised by links k<1>, and arms k from the rock-shaft d which also carries the bowl-operating arms g. The printing-rollers are mounted in spring-controlled bearing - blocks by means of which they are returned to printing position, or positive returning-means may be provided.
Patent GB-191418633-A (GB)
Title: New or Improved Apparatus for Controlling the Order or Sequence of Operations in Apparatus for Discharging Matter from Ships particularly Valvular Devices employed in Ships' Ashes Expellers.
IPC: B63B17/06
Filed: 1914-08-13
Granted: 1915-08-12
Abstract: 18,633. Stone & Co., J., and Parsons, W. S. Aug. 13. A s h e s , discharging ; drainage ; lealcage, removing. - Comprises means for discharging matter from ships in which manually or mechanically operated primary device when adjusted to start one operation produces a change of fluid pressure, this change permitting the adjustment of a secondary device for starting another operation. In the application to an hydraulic ash-expeller, as shown, the shaft g is geared to operate the plug of the discharge cock or primary device c. This plug carries a cam m, which causes the rod n to open the self-closing valve l at or about the completion of the opening movement of the cock c. When the valve opens, the pressure at the back of the loose piston a of the secondary device is relieved so that it lifts and opens the flushing-valve b. On closing the cock c, the cam m moves away from the rod n so that the valve l is closed by the spring o, and the rising pressure at the back of the piston a seats the valve b. A similar apparatus is used to operate a switch for controlling an electric motor which drives a centrifugal pump. Specifications 19,626/10 and 3955/12 are referred to.
Patent GB-191421600-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Warp Knitting Looms.
IPC: D04B23/02
Filed: 1914-10-27
Granted: 1915-09-23
Abstract: 21,600. Wirth, F. E., and Schubert & Salzer Maschinenfabrik Akt. - Ges. Oct. 27. Warp machines.-Relates to machines of the kind described in Specification 24,252/10. The sinker hooks g are bent as shown to form a throat which is capable of enclosing the rows of loops on its own and on the opposite needles. In addition to the usual up-and-down motion, the sinker bars move in such a way as to cause the hooks g to execute a small circular motion. From the position shown in Fig. 1, in which the needles of the right-hand bed are inoperative, the thread-guides rock between the needles n, shog endways iu opposite directions, again rock between the needles, shog again, and then rock to the position shown in Fig. 4. The upper sides of the hooks of the sinkers lay the thread under the beards. The needles n then descend and are pressed. The sinkers then execute the circular motion indicated by the arrow v in Fig 7, and the loops are knocked over as indicated in Fig. 9. The parts then move to the position shown in Fig. 10 for a row of loops to be made on the needles m.
Patent GB-191424840-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Package for Tobacco.
Inventor: BARON BERNHARD
IPC: A24F23/02
Filed: 1914-12-31
Granted: 1915-04-15
Abstract: 24,840. Baron, B. Dec. 31. Paper and like bags.-A paper or cloth packet for tobacco, serving also as a pouch, is of wallet form and has a fiap c, of such length as to envelop the pocket on both sides when flat. A string or other fastening-means is carried by the flap.
Patent GB-191501767-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Diving Chambers.
Inventor: SISSON WILLIAM DAVID
IPC: B63C11/44
Filed: 1915-02-03
Granted: 1915-04-29
Abstract: 1767. Sisson, W. D., and Buchanan, J. L. Feb. 3. Diving; sunken ships, raising.-A diving- chamber with electric equipment is provided externally with slidable supports on which are mounted elect.ro-magnets, whereby the chamber may be attached to and moved along a sunken vessel. The chamber is used for attaching pontoons to the vessel to be raised. The chamber 1, Fig. 1, is spherical and has an eye-bolt 2 for the lowering and raising cable. Its fittings comprise an air-pump for expelling foul air, an airpressure gauge, a compass, lenses 3, a switchboard 20, a man-hole 133, a hand-operated rudder 145, a screw propeller 146 operated by gearing from an electric motor 25, a drill 121 operated from the same motor through a clutch 28. an air-supply hose, and a weight 162 held up by pawls 159 which can be turned for releasing the weight by screwing up the rod 154. Brackets 95, Figs. 5 and 6, are fixed to the shell and have T-grooves with which engage projections on the beams 99. Four open box-like members 102 are mounted on the beams 99 and carry the poles 53 of electro-magnets, Fig. 5. The pole-carrying beams can be traversed by bevel and rack-and-pinion gearing from positions such as are shown in full lines to those represented by dotted lines, Fig. 5, the gearing being operated from the motor 25. By demagnetizing one set of poles at a time and traversing the carrier, it is possible to shift the whole chamber in stages along the surface of the sunken ship. The drill 121 can thus be brought opposite any desired place on the hull. For forcing a hook or lifting-bolt into the hole, an electro-magnet 58, Fig. 11, with conical hole is used. The bolt has a similar coned head 59, Fig. 12, so that it can be forced in by the hand-gear 66, 68, 22, tongues 63 anchoring the bolt in the hull. The bolt is attached by a chain 56 to an eye-bolt 55, Fig. 15, in a lifting-pnntoon 41. The pontoon is cylindrical and has end brackets 42, 52 with electro-magnets 43, 53 for provisionally holding it to the ship's side. A pump 50 is used for discharging water from the pontoon, which is braced bv stays 48. When the water is discharged, the pontoon lifts the hull by the hooks 57.
Patent GB-191512855-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Rings.
Inventor: CELLE LEONIE
IPC: A44C9/00
Filed: 1915-09-08
Granted: 1915-11-04
Abstract: 12,855. CellÚ, L. Sept. 8. No Patent granted (Sealingfee not paid). Finger-rings.-A finger-ring a, Fig. 1, is made with a flattened top provided with undercut grooves to receive and hold a small plate b adapted to bear the name of a person or place, or a date. The parts a, b are made of different metals, or of metals differently coloured. They may be held together by screws or pins as shown in Fig. 4. In another form, Fig. 6, the ring a is partly split, and the gap between the parts is bridged by the plate b.