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Patent GB-190415763-A (GB)
Title: An Attachment to the Draw Bars of Vehicles, Thrashing-mills, and the like.
Inventor: STEVENSON GEORGE SEATON
Filed: 1904-07-15
Granted: 1904-08-25
Abstract: 15,763. Stevenson, G. S. July 15. Coupling.-An attachment is fitted to the drawbars of wagons and other vehicles, drawn by a traction engine or otherwise, to facilitate turning sharp corners. The attachment C consists of a length of angle-iron or a metal bar, having notches c on its underside. To turn a corner, the traction engine or the like is uncoupled from the draw-bar B and taken round the corner ; it is then connected to a rope D attached to the axle A, the rope being passed through one or other of the notches c according to the radius of the curve to be traversed.
Patent GB-190419245-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Automatic Signalling Electric Railways or Tramways.
Inventor: WILSON REGINALD PAGE
Filed: 1904-09-06
Granted: 1904-10-13
Abstract: 19,245. Wilson, R. P., and Marshall, A. G. Sept. 6. Automatic systems; electric railways and tramways, signalling on.-An automatic electric system for the use on sections of single track between turn-outs, or between sections of double track, employs the power current and trolley wire or live rail, dispensing with separate signalling-conductors. In a single-track section A B, a train entering the section from the end A receives current from the feeder main 8 through a lead 9, electromagnet 10, lead 11, switch 12, and a lead 13 passing to the trolley wire 7. Current is also supplied through a lead 16, electromagnet 17, lead 18, switch 19, and a lead 20. The energizer electromagnets 10, 17 actuate spring-controlled switches 14, 21, shunting a part of the current through a red lamp 23 at the end B and a white lamp 30 at the end A by completing a circuit including the lead 16, electromagnet 18, switch 19, lead 24, lamp 23, lead 25, switch 21, lead 26, unemployed section of the trolley wire 27, lead 28, switch 14, lead 29, lamp 30, and so to earth. The white lamp indicates the lighting of the red lamp to the driver of the train occupying the single-track section. A train entering the section from the end B uses the trolley wire 27, and is supplied with current through leads 37, 40, which current also lights a white lamp 42 and a red lamp 43 by actuating switches 12, 19. Extra sets of lamps and switches may be employed at cross-over roads.
Patent GB-190424399-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Electric Tools
Inventor: SCHIEMANN PAUL
Filed: 1904-11-11
Granted: 1904-12-31
Abstract: 24,399. Schiemann, P. Nov. 11. Motors, electromagnetic.-In an electric percussive tool, designed to prevent excessive spirking, the current is not interrupted when it is changed, but two solenoids 3, 4 are arranged in series in the circuit and one of them is alternately shortcircuited. Each coil is divided up into two or more parts, and by a suitable sliding contact device, Fig. 2, one portion alternately acts as a resistance. A flanged contact-slide 6 is moved by a plate 5 attached to, but insulated from, the cone 1 along the contact-bar 7. The latter consists of insulated contacts 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 connected with the windings as shown in Fig. 2, the connections being made through a central insulated core in the bar.
Patent GB-190427064-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or connected with Apparatus for "Shooting" Games.
Inventor: KUENZEL HUGO
Filed: 1904-12-12
Granted: 1905-09-21
Abstract: 27,064. K³nzel, H. Dec. 12. Games played with model guns and pistols, projectiles, and targets; scoring and marking.- Relates to a shooting game, in which the projectile, such as a coin or bullet, closes an electric circuit when a bull's-eye is made, and so causes a bell to ring. The projectile is fired from a movablymounted pistol d into the end f of a pipe g, and falls down a shoot n on to a spring p, by means of which it closes an electric circuit and sets a bell j ringing. At the same time, an electromagnet is energized and attracts its armatures, whereby a spring t is depressed upon a screw u, and so closes a second circuit also containing the bell j. By this means, the bell continues to ring after the first circuit is broken and the coin released by pressure on a spring-controlled pin w. The second circuit is broken, to stop the bell from ringing, by pressing a pin a<1> on a spring z, the armatures being then raised by its spring b<1> and so breaking the contact t, u. Both the bell and the electromagnet then remain out of action until the first circuit is again closed by a coin. In the form of invention shown diagrammatically in Fig. 6, the stopping of the bell is performed automatically by the coin. The coin passes down the shoot and closes the circuit at t<1>, u<1>, setting the bell ringing and energizing the magnet i. The coin then rolls on and falls down a tube d', and on emerging at the lower end of the tube falls on to a two-armed lever g<1>, pivoted at f<1>, and by moving the spring z' away from the contact m<1> breaks the circuit. The time during which the bell rings can be regulated by retarding the passage of the coin through the tube d', by pins &c. placed in its path.
Patent GB-190500893-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Mattresses and Bed-bottoms.
Inventor: EDWARDS DAVID PUGH
Filed: 1905-01-17
Granted: 1905-10-26
Abstract: 893. Edwards, D. P. Jan. 17. Mattresses. - To prevent two persons occupying a wire mattress from rolling to ether, each half of the mattress surface is supported by a chain d which is passed round chocks b on the bead and foot rails a of the frame, as shown, the ends of each chain being connected by a spring c. The whole mattress is tightened by the bolts e and rail f as usual.
Patent GB-190518749-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Mincing Machines.
Inventor: NYE HENRY SAMUEL
Filed: 1905-09-16
Granted: 1906-02-08
Abstract: 18,749. Nye, H. S., and Digby, H. Sept. 16. Mincing.-The cylindrical body b is formed in one piece. and is fitted with a saurage-filling tube h,' attached by a bayonet-joint. The knives f ar carried by a block e of soft metal attached to the casing by a wire g taking into lugs d. The knives project into the casing through holes in its side. The cramp k may be attached to the leg m of the machine by a swivel joint l.
Patent GB-190523106-A (GB)
Inventor: LEHMANN ADOLPH JULIUS
Filed: 1905-11-10
Granted: 1906-11-08
Abstract: 23,106. Lehmann, A. J. Nov. 10. Drying granular and pulverulent substances etc.; drying fabrics.-In a drying-chamber, a whirling circulation of air is produced as described in Specication No. 11,705, A.D. 1904. In the chamber illustrated, the roof and upper part of the walls are hollow, and air, in some cases heated or dried, may be forced into the hollow portions, and through inlets into the chamber as described in Specification No. 3645, A.D. 1905. The air may be drawn off from the floor through conduits leading to fans; the fans maintain a pressure less than atmospheric. Materials to be dried are arranged in tiers on trays or carriers, preferably perforated, resting on trestles c. The trays may be tipped over, when the materials fall on a sliding or hopper-shaped floor d and pass through trapped outlets d' and are carried away on trucks, wheelbarrows, or other conveyers. Flexible materials to be dried may be hung within the chamber.
Patent GB-190525055-A (GB)
Title: Improvement connected with Phonograph or like Horns
Inventor: FRYER TOM
Filed: 1905-12-02
Granted: 1906-03-15
Abstract: 25,055. Fryer, T. Dec. 2. Hinged valres.-A disk valve having a small central aperture and rubber circumference is pivoted within a phonograph horn for the purpose of modulating the tone. The disk rotates about a diameter.
Patent GB-190602641-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Electric Resistances.
Filed: 1906-02-02
Granted: 1906-08-09
Abstract: 2641. Physikalisch-technisches Laboratorium Ges. Feb. 2, 1905, [date applied for under Patents Act, 1901]. Resistances.-Wire resistances of high temperature-resistance coefficient, such as iron wire enclosed in a rarified or indifferent atmosphere, are stretched straight by weights or springs for the purpose of obtaining the same values for the resistances with rising and falling currents. The wire itself and the parts in connexion with and adjacent to it are made of small heat capacity, and it is placed at some distance from the sides of the container. The Specification in the original form as published under the Act of 1901 comprises also as an example the use in connexion with an arc lamp of four such resistances connected in series-parallel in two pairs. This subject-matter does not appear in the Complete Specification as accepted. [Reference has been directed under Patents Act, 1902, to Specification No. 11,557, A.D. 1900.]
Patent GB-190606806-A (GB)
Title: A Composition of Matter for Removing and Preventing Incrustation in Water Receptacles.
Inventor: RUBERT SANTIAGO
Filed: 1906-03-21
Granted: 1906-09-20
Abstract: 6806. Rubert, [known as Rubert-Laporta], S., and Rubert, [known as Rubert- Laporta], P. Dec. 9,1905, [date applied for under Patents Act, 1901]. Incrustation, preventing and removing.-A composition for this purpose consists of acid sulphates, neutral phosphates, potassium and sodium oxides, and a neutral colouring-matter. This mixture may be made up for use in a liquid, solid, pasty, granular, or pulverized state.
Patent GB-190610990-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Chassis for Motor and other Vehicles.
Inventor: LAZERGES LEON
Filed: 1906-05-10
Granted: 1906-08-30
Abstract: 10,990. Lazerges, L. May 23, 1905, [date applied for under Patents Act, 1901]. Underframing of bodies; axle-trucks or undercarriages.-The frame of a motor or other vehicle is formed of two channel-irons a, b, of unequal size, fitting one within the other, and connected by rivets d or by other means. One of the flanges a<1> of the larger channel-iron a may be bent over as shown. The space c between the channel-irons may be filled with wood or other material. The depth of the channel-irons may be varied along the length of the beam.
Patent GB-190612390-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Oil or Spirit Lamps
Inventor: DUCELLIER GABRIEL
Filed: 1906-05-28
Granted: 1906-11-01
Abstract: 12,390. Ducellier, G. May 28. Carriage &c. lamps.-In a lamp in which part of the air supply is fed to the burner through an annular conduit surrounding a candle-shaped reservoir, the part of the air supply that enters through the holes 21 and ascends to the flame between the reservoir 11 and the tube 20 is totally distinct from, and does not communicate with, the chamber formed by the parts 18, 19, through perforations 23, 24 in which the remaining part of the air supply is introduced into the interior of the lamp.
Patent GB-190613955-A (GB)
Title: Electrically Operated Self Leveling Marine Tables.
Inventor: LASKAY CLARENCE WILBUR
Filed: 1906-06-18
Granted: 1907-02-21
Abstract: 13,955. Laskay, C. W. June 18. Chairs, tables, &c.-Tables, chairs, and rooms on a ship are maintained level by the action of an electric motor which is automatically controlled by a rocking switch. In the Figures, a supplementary deck 2 is shown supported above the deck of the ship and supports a table 3 and chairs 4. Standards 5 are bolted to the main deck 1 and supports a bar 6 on whieh standards 7 are loosely mounted. The table 3 is attached to arms 9 at the top of the standards 7 which have feet 8 at their lower ends connected by rods 19 to levelling-heads 18 working along a worm 17 and guide-rod 20. A tie-rod 10 connects the lower ends of the standards 7 and supports deck beams 11 which are also supported by links 12 attached to the standards. The electric motor 13 rotates the worm 17 through worm and worm-wheel gearing 15, 16. An insulating-plate 21 is attached to the table 3 and carries two sets of contacts consisting of plugs 23 in sockets 22, each plug 23 having a pin 24 which works in a slot 25 in its socket. The sockets are secured to the plate 21 by binding-posts 26, and springs 27 press the plugs 23 outwards. A shaft 29 is pivoted between two supports on the plate 21, and carries an arm 32 attached to a weight 31. When the ship rolls, the weight 31 swings the arm 32 and completes the circuit of the motor 13 across the contacts on one side of the switch. The motor then revolves the worm 17 in the heads 18 until the supplementary deck 2 becomes level, as in Fig. 6, when the switch contact is broken. When the ship rolls, the other side contact is made on the other side of the switch to reverse the motion of the motor. Instead of connecting the switch contacts directly to the motor 13, they may be connected to solenoids 35 which control the motor circuits. Carbon contacts 36 on spring plates 37 engage carbon contacts 38 and take the spark when the circuit is broken. Guards 40 working in guides 41 have hooks 42 which fit in loops 43 on the edges of the supplementary deck, and one of them is raised by it when it swings. Steps 40<b> are provided between the main and supplementary decks.
Patent GB-190614426-A (GB)
Title: An Improved System of Automatic Points for Tramway Tracks.
Inventor: SANTO NICOLAS
Filed: 1906-06-23
Granted: 1906-11-08
Abstract: 14,426. Santo, N., and Moulet, C. June 23. Points and switches.-Tramway points are operated from the vehicle by curved levers 1 pivoted to an extension of the brake shoe 4, which engage with inclined extensions 11 of the point tongue 10. The point tongues are cut away at 11, Fig. 3, to allow the passing of the wheel flange, and are connected by the rod 13, which engages with inclined surfaces 14, Fig. 1, or other means to ensure that the points are in one of their extreme positions. The lever 1 at either side of the car is lowered into the rail groove by a cord 6 connected to a lever 5. Electric tramways. - The overhead - conductor points are connected by a flexible cable 19 to the ground points.
Patent GB-190614809-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Electric Arc Lamps.
Inventor: DAVY WILLIAM JAMES
Filed: 1906-06-28
Granted: 1907-06-27
Abstract: 14,809. Davy, W. J. June 28. Resistance coils. -An arc-lamp resistance consists of a coil t enclosed in an annular covered box u lined with mica.
Patent GB-190625210-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Telescopes
Filed: 1906-11-08
Granted: 1907-06-06
Abstract: 25,210. Optische Anstalt C. P. Goerz Akt. - Ges. Nov. 25, 1905, [date applied for under Patents Act, 1901]. Telescopes.-The reversing system is made up of two positive lenses 4, 5, which can be placed in either of the three positions shown, between the focal planes 6 and 7 of the object-glass and eyepiece, respectively, to obtain different magnifying powers. The dispositions shown in Figs. 2 and 3 give the maximum and minimum powers, respectively. The system may be used in a telescope in which the axes of the objectglass and eyepiece are laterally displaced.
Patent GB-190626979-A (GB)
Title: Improved Mortice Lock.
Inventor: ABBEY ALFRED THOMAS
Filed: 1906-11-27
Granted: 1907-02-21
Abstract: 26,979. Abbey, A. T. Nov. 27. Locks, key; latches.-In a tubular mortise lock, the latch bolt, under the control of the spring e, is operated by a push-and-pull motion of the knobs, an incline j<2> on the spindle co-operating with a roller d' mounted in a longitudinal slot d<2> in the bolt. The outer and inner knobs j, k are secured to two superimposed spindles j<1>, k<1>, respectively, and are so arranged that the inner knob can be operated without the outer one, each spindle being provided with an incline j<2>. Mounted to frictionally slide on the top of the bolt is a saddle plate g which, by means of a knob h on the inside of the door, can be moved so as to obstruct the passage of a pin j<3> on the upper spindle j<1>, and so lock the bolt against operation from the outside. The inside knob h will, however, still withdraw the bolt, thus enabling a person inside the room to open the door, and to leave the room locked until his return, when he can operate the saddle plate g by means of a key i in his possession.
Patent GB-190629541-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Bracelets and the like.
Inventor: BEK ERNST GIDEON
Filed: 1906-12-28
Granted: 1907-03-21
Abstract: 29,541. Bek, E. G. Dec. 28. Ornamental chains; spring links.-In a bracelet comprising main links A, Figs. 3 and 5, in which slide spring links B giving an equal expansion in - both directions, the spring links are connected by links C, which may be jewelled or otherwise ornamented. Cheapness and neatness are obtained by the arrangement of the springs b<2>, Fig. 5, acting upon the cross-bars b<1> with knobs guided in the main links.
Patent GB-190703268-A (GB)
Title: Improved Folding Metal Clothes Cupboard with a Number of Compartments.
Filed: 1907-02-09
Granted: 1907-10-31
Abstract: 3268. Treeck Ges., C., and Treeck, C. Feb. 9. Cupboards ; wardr o b e s.-A folding metal clothescupboard with h a number of compartments has front and back walls held together by hinged or folding struts and by a flanged cover wbich fits overprojections at the top of the front and back walls, the upturned edges of the struts and top piece serving to hold separating side walls of plaited wire or of hinged sheet plate. The side walls g, h, Fig. 2, are connected together by folding struts a, b and by rigid hinged struts c, d. The upper between-floors i of tin plate are supported in slots in hollow rods k upon the front and back uprights, so that when the front rod is withdrawn, these floors may be turned down. The lower floors m are bent round a rod n fixed to the back wall, so that they may be folded. The cover, which must be removed before the cupboard can be folded, has grooved q, r which fit round projections s, t upon the uprights. The between-floore d', Fig. 3, hinged by being bent round a rod fixed to the back wall, and at the front are secured by rivets v, the hinges being so arranged that the floors are capable of a slight lateral movement.
Patent GB-190703880-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Systems of Electrical Distribution.
Inventor: HEWITT PETER COOPER
Filed: 1907-02-16
Granted: 1907-06-13
Abstract: 3880. Hewitt, P. C. March 14, 1906, [date applied for under Patents Act, 1901]. Distributing; converting alternating and direct currents.-Each phase of an alternating-current circuit is provided with two or more vapour rectifiers in series, one of them being common to all the phases and connected to the direct-current circuit. The transformer secondary 2 is connected to the positive electrodes 7, 8, preferably of iron, in chambers 9, 10, which communicate by tubes 11, 13 with exhausted globes 12, 14 containing the negative electrodes 15, 16 of mercury. The negative electrodes 15, 16 are connected through impedances 24, 25 to the positive electrodes 19, 20 in tubes 21, 22, communicating with the chamber 23 of a vapour rectifier. In addition to the negative mercury electrode 26, the rectifier 23 is provided with an auxiliary positive electrode 27 of mercury, connected to one of the circuit conductors through a resistance 29. The negative electrode 26 is connected through the direct-current work circuit, shown as composed of a storage battery 35 and lamps 36, to an intermediate point in the secondary 2 of the transformer. The rectifier 23 may be started by tilting, or in any other preferred way, while the others 12, 14 are provided with starting bands 31, 32, 33, 34 so that they may be started on the line potential.
Patent GB-190704926-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to Railway Couplings.
Inventor: PAVIA NICOLA
Filed: 1907-02-28
Granted: 1907-07-11
Abstract: 4926. Pavia, N., and Casalis, G. March 29, 1906, [date applied for under Patents Act, 1901]. Couplings, automatic. - The coupling described in Specification No. 1330, A.D. 1906, in which vertical pins or links engage with hook-shaped recesses formed in horizontally rotating tumblers, is modified for use upon tramways and light railways. Each coupling-member is pivoted at 25 to the draw-bar, and carries a vertical pin 9 and also a tumbler 3, pivoted at 4, having a recess 6 and tail 7, and being retained in the open position shown in Fig. 1 by a weighted lever 10, pivoted at 61 and connected to the tumbler by a link 60. A locking-plate 68, operated from a rod or chain 69, is mounted on a pivot 65, and is normally held raised by the engagement of a cam 67, . also fixed upon the pivot 65, with the upper end 64 of the lever 10 ; but, upon the rotation of the tumblers 3 by the engagement of the pins 9 with the recesses 6 during coupling, the lever 10 is swung into the position shown in Fig. 2, thereby allowing the cam 67 and plate 68 to fall, the plate engaging in a groove 70 and locking the tail 7 of the tumbler. The cam 67 engages behind the upper end of the lever 10, and prevents it from swinging downwards until the plate 68 is raised for uncoupling. The rods or chains 69 are adapted to be manipulated from the platform of the carriage, and may be provided with means for retaining the plates 68 in the raised position.
Patent GB-190708189-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and connected with Tobacco Pipes.
Inventor: GILMOUR ALEXANDER REID
Filed: 1907-10-08
Granted: 1908-09-17
Abstract: 8189. Gilmour, A. R. Oct. 8. Tobacco pipes.-In tobacco pipes fitted with a tapered plug of the kind which projects under the bottom of the bowl and in which a chamber for the reception of nicotine is formed beneath the plug when the latter is in position, the plug is provided with a perforated head D having a layer of absorbent and non-conducting material E, and is held in position by means of a split pin H which passes through a slot G in the plug. The pin and slot allow the plug to be raised for cleaning purposes and for discharging the nicotine.
Patent GB-190708377-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Sound Reproducing Apparatus for Phonographs and other Talking Machines.
Filed: 1907-04-10
Granted: 1907-11-07
Abstract: 8377. Compagnie GÚnÚrale de Phonographes, CinÚmatographes, et Appareils de PrÚcision. Nov. 15, 1906, [date applied for under Patents Act, 1901]. No Patent granted (Sealingfee not paid). Phonographs &c.-A sound-box for a cylinder or disk record has its diaphragm 2 mounted in a casing 5 separated from the bottom 6 of the box by an elastic material or washer 7. The washer is secured in a recess 8 in the casing 5 and by a ring 9 and screws 10 in the bottom 6, thus securing independency of movement of the two parts.
Patent GB-190709120-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Method of Bleaching Flax, Hemp and like Textile Materials.
Inventor: JARDIN LOUIS CHARLES PHILIPPE
Filed: 1907-04-19
Granted: 1908-04-09
Abstract: 9120. Jardin, L. C. P. April 19. Bleaching.-Flax, hemp, &c. fibres are bleached with dilute aqua regia at atmospheric temperature under a diffused light, as distinct from the known treatment of jute &c. with dilute aqua regia at the boiling-point. Subsidiary operations are bleaching with alkaline lyes, rinsing, souring, as with sulphuric acid, &c. In an example, the sequence of applications is : aqua regia, rinse, boiling alkaline lye, alkaline lye, rinse, chlorine, rinse, aqua regia, chlorine, rinse. sour, rinse.