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Patent GB-191310109-A (GB)
Title: Improvements appertaining to the Manufacture of Production of Driving Belts for use in connection with Cone Drums or Pulleys.
Inventor: THOMPSON JOHN
IPC: F16G1/04
Filed: 1913-04-30
Granted: 1914-04-02
Abstract: 10,109. Thompson, J. April 30. Belts. - A driving-belt for use with cone pulleys is produced by folding fabric or balata so as to form the central portion b, which engages the pulley, thicker than the edge portions c, c<1>. One or more fabrics may be employed, the folds being made to adhere to each other by india-rubber &c., pressing, and stitching. The belts are made endless, either in weaving, or by causing the various plies to overlap.
Patent GB-191311784-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to Vacuum Cleaning and Carpet Sweeping Devices.
Inventor: WRIGHT MORRIS SHELDON
IPC: A47L5/05
Filed: 1913-05-20
Granted: 1913-12-18
Abstract: 11,784. Wright, M. S. May 20. Pivoted handles; fixing by screwed sockets.- The pivoted handle-bail 27 of a combined vacuum cleaner and carpet sweeper has a screwed socket 28 to receive the handle. On the cover are bow springs 33 fixed at one end and formed with recessess 35 to engage the sides of the bail 27 and retain the handle in an upright position.
Patent GB-191319697-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to the Production of Oils from Coal, Cannels and Shales.
Inventor: ROLLASON ARTHUR
IPC: C10G1/02
Filed: 1913-09-01
Granted: 1914-02-19
Abstract: 19,697. 3ELollason, A. Sept. 1. Coking processes.-In coking coals, cannels, or shales which are rich in oxygen, to obtain light hydrocarbon oils, limestone or other carbonate is added to the charge which is slowly heated up to a temperature of about 500‹ C. Water is driven off between 85‹ C. and 105‹ C. and carbon dioxide is evolved at a low temperature and retards the evolution of combustible gases until a temperature between 130‹ C. and 175‹ C. is reached. Upon formation of the endothermic hydrocarbons the temperature of the charge becomes lowered and a large volume of light oils of the benzol series is produced.
Patent GB-191324009-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Check Tills.
Inventor: BRAYSHAW SHIPLEY NEAVE
Filed: 1913-10-23
Granted: 1914-10-01
Abstract: 24,009. Brayshaw, S. N., Brayshaw, E. R., and Browning, W. H. Oct. 23. Tills. - A coin - exhibitor for tills, such as is described in Specification 23,413/13, [Class 106(i), Calculating &c.], comprises a casing divided into a number of horizontal compartments by pivoted shelves, the alternate members of which are rocked by the opening and closing of the drawer. The pivoted shelves F are rocked upon their pivots by pins k on asliding link K, and the shelves G by pins m on a parallel sliding link N. Rigidly secured to the handlever of the drawer is a lever H' which engages a pin h, Fig. 3, on the lower independent shutter H. On depression of the hand-lever to release the drawer, the shelf H is raised, whereby a pin h' is withdrawn from underneath the projection k<1> on the sliding link K, which immediately falls and rotates the shutters F, permitting the coins d to fall downwards through one step on to the shutters G, as shown in Fig. 5. On now pulling out the drawer, an inclined face of the cam N<1> on the drawer raises the link K to its original position above the pin h<1>. Further withdrawal of the drawer permits the link N to slide down an inclined face on the cam N<2>, thereby rocking the shelves G to pass the coins downward on to the shelves F in front of the glass D. Closing of the drawer raises the shelves G and returns the link N.
Patent GB-191326636-A (GB)
Title: Improved Footwear.
Inventor: BINETTI GIOVANNI BATTISTA
IPC: A43B9/02
Filed: 1913-11-19
Granted: 1914-06-25
Abstract: 26,636. Binetti, G. B. Nov. 23, 1912, [Convention date]. Connecting uppers to insoles and soles.-In making boots &c. of the kind in which the lower edge of the upper is turned outwards and secured to the sole, an insole d is first secured to an inside sole c by a continuous seam h located near to the edge of the soles. The soles are then tacked to the last, and the upper is drawn into the angle formed between the edges of the soles, and is secured by a seam e.
Patent GB-191327618-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Motor-vehicle and like Lamps.
Inventor: LUTWYCHE EDGAR JOHN
Filed: 1913-12-01
Granted: 1914-05-14
Abstract: 27,618. Lutwyche, E. J. Dec. 1. Supporting.-Means for mounting a motor or other vehicle lamp on a bracket 35 comprises a pair of sockets 29 having stems 30 inserted through holes in the casing and held by nuts 31. The holes are each provided with a flanged rubber bushing 32 and a rubber washer 33.
Patent GB-191401156-A (GB)
Title: Manufacture of Cellulose Esters of Organic Acids.
IPC: C08B7/00
Filed: 1914-01-15
Granted: 1914-05-28
Abstract: 1156. Akt.-Ges. f³r Anilin Fabrikation. Jan. 15, 1913, [Convention date]. [Addition to 10,706/12.] Carboxylates; nitrates.-The process of preparing cellulose esters described in the parent Specification is modified by subjecting to the usual methods of esterification the cellulose derivative obtained by the action on cellulose of more or less concentrated nitric acid. The latter product is stated to have the same properties distinctive from ordinary nitrocellulose as had the parent material described in the above-mentioned Specification, and, in an example, is prepared by treating cotton with from 10 to 30 times its weight of 68-70 per cent nitric acid. The ester may be hydrolyzed, for example, by treatment with an acid.
Patent GB-191403705-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Alarm Clocks.
Inventor: LANDENBERGER PAUL
IPC: G04B23/02
Filed: 1914-02-12
Granted: 1914-04-23
Abstract: 3705. Landenberger, P. Feb. 12. Alarms.-In an alarm clock having a spring gong, one end of the gong is secured at or near the centre of the back of the casing. In the form shown in Fig. 3, the gong e is attached to a block d', so mounted within a central aperture in the back-plate that it may be turned by means of a key inserted in a hole i. The position of the gong may thus be adjusted with respect to that of the hammer f.
Patent GB-191405019-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Electric Distribution Systems supplied by a Variable Speed Generator in conjunction with a Battery.
IPC: H02J7/22
Filed: 1914-02-26
Granted: 1914-12-03
Abstract: 5019. British Thomson-Houston Co., [General Electric Co.]. Feb. 26. Lighting systems ; regulation, automatic systems and apparatus for.-A combined regulator and switch, of the kind described in Specification 13,570/11 for a supply system having a variablespeed generator and a battery, is adapted to connect the generator to the translating -devices through a resistance, and to connect the battery directly to the devices when the potential of the generator falls below a predetermined value. In the arrangement shown, the regulator is of the vibratory type and is provided with a shunt winding 8 and a series winding 9 wound to assist the winding 8 when the generator 1 supplies the battery 14. A switch 10 having two operative positions is placed between the generator and the battery 14 and translating- device 13. In the position shown, the battery 14 supplies the device 13 directly, the resistance 15 being short-circuited ; but when the generator is connected to the battery 14 and device 13, the short circuit is removed.
Patent GB-191410282-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Car Seals.
Inventor: ESTELL SAMUEL FENIMORE
IPC: B60R25/00
Filed: 1914-04-25
Granted: 1915-01-14
Abstract: 10,282. Estell, S. F. April 25. Seal fastenings.-A car seal 14 has a compressible hook 25 at one end adapted to enter and be retained in a chambered head 12 at the other end. The top 11 of the head 12 is recessed at 16 to receive a tongue 21 having a ridge 23 and an inwardly-turned spur 22. The hook 25 has apertures 19, 20 adapted to be engaged respectively by the spur 22 and the tongue 21 after the compression and insertion of the hook through the aperture 18 in the wall of the recess 16, the bars 29 raised on the base of the chamber serving as a guide to ensure the locking of the parts together. Transverse and longitudinal ridges 27, 26 close the aperture 18 against picking-tools and prevent the insertion of the end of the seal if the hook 25 has been cut off.
Patent GB-191410342-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Picture and like Frames.
Inventor: SOMMERMANN JULIUS
IPC: A47G1/06
Filed: 1914-04-27
Granted: 1915-07-22
Abstract: 10,342. Sommermann, J. April 27. Picture and like frames. - Picture and like frames are made from a strip of paper which is coated with glue or other adhesive and wound on itself and compressed so as to form a frame a of the desired shape, with a small ridge d projecting inwardly to serve as a support for the glass e. The front of the frame may be ornamented or painted in imitation of wood.
Patent GB-191413036-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Valves.
IPC: F16K27/08
Filed: 1914-05-27
Granted: 1915-02-04
Abstract: 13,036. Kilburn, R., and Hopkinson & Co., J. May 27. Lift valves; actuating; casings. - In a valve having the casing made from a solid block of metal having bolt-holes therethrough to receive the bolts for connecting the valve to pipe flanges, the bridge or nut P, for the screwed spindle C of the lift valve D, is supported by eye - bolts K disposed, preferably, one on each side of the valve body. The bolt-eyes are disposed in sockets B', and the connecting-bolts pass through them. The eye-bolts are fitted also with nuts 0 to tighten down the packing- gland, as shown. In another arrangement, the stuffing-box itself is secured to the valve body by corresponding nuts O, separate screw pins and nuts being used to tighten down the packing-gland.
Patent GB-191414792-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Steam Generator Furnaces.
Inventor: HITCHCOCK-SPENCER ARTHUR LINCO
IPC: F23L13/00
Filed: 1914-06-19
Granted: 1915-06-03
Abstract: 14,792. Spencer, A. L. Hitchcock-, and Sharman, P. A., [trading as Spencer & Co., W. H.], and Cabena, R. H. June 19. Dampers; air, supplying. - The uptake of a vertical boiler having cross water-tubes in the fire-box is provided at its lower end with a sleeve damper adapted to be raised or lowered to control the passage of the gases over the watertubes. The uptake is provided with an internal liner as described in Specification 3491/15 forming an annular passage for the admission of air to the upper part of the fire-box. Fig. 1 shows the sleeve damper e arranged at the lower end of the uptake b and inside the liner d, but it may be arranged so as to slide between the liner and the uptake or it may be arranged in alinement with the liner or extended so as to act also as the liner. The damper is raised and lowered by the spindle f provided with cranks f<1> attached to the damper by rods g. The damper may be made reversible and its lower end may be notched so as to engage with the tubes c. Other means may be employed for operating the damper consisting, as shown in Fig. 3, of a lever h mounted in supports on a branch flue and attached to the top of rods l connected to the damper. The damper may be raised and lowered by pinions engaging with racks upon vertical rods attached to the damper, suitable means being provided for locking the damper in any position. Fig. 5 shows the damper arranged in line with the liner d and connected to a sleeve tube p operated by rack-and-pinion gearing. The damper is made of metal with or without refractory material and may be made in sections bolted or riveted to the sleeve tube p, Fig. 5, or to a collar or hoop connected to rods g, Fig. 1. Air is supplied to the upper end of the annular space between the liner and uptake by a hit- and-miss ring valve or by means of a valve o, in which case the air is admitted under pressure. Specification 5646/05, [Class 123, Steam generators], is referred to.
Patent GB-191416956-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Drill Plough Markers and the like.
Inventor: RITCHIE CONRAD ALEXANDER
IPC: A01B69/02
Filed: 1914-07-17
Granted: 1915-07-01
Abstract: 16,956. Ritchie, C. A. July 17. Ploughs. - Consists of a track - marker for drill-ploughs comprising a main bar carrying a pivoted marker-arm which is connected by chains &c. to a three-armed lever supported by levers secured on the pivot of the main bar. The marker 12 is pivoted on a bar 3 loosely supported on a pin 2, to which are secured arms 4, one on each side of the bar 3, which support a three-armed lever 6, one arm of which is pivoted to lugs 8 on the bar 3, the other arms being connected to the marker 12 by rods or chains 9 passing through guides 10. The bar 3 can be clamped at either side or supported vertically by a spring bolt 15 entering one of the holes 17, and a rod is provided to turn the pin 2 when the bolt is withdrawn.
Patent GB-191419839-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Stamping Presses.
Inventor: WALLER WILLIAM
IPC: B21D22/00
Filed: 1914-09-16
Granted: 1915-12-16
Abstract: 19,839. Waller, W. Sept. 16. [Addition to 8428/13.] Stamping. - The pivoted die-holder f of a stamping - press as de. scribed in the pareni Specification is provided with a recess b which allows easy access to the nut e securing the pad c and which also allows of the use of a knockout lever g for ejecting the work from the die a.
Patent GB-191420618-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to the Pneumatic Control of In-flowing Water in Damaged Steam Ships.
Inventor: MCAVOY ARTHUR RICHARD
IPC: B63B13/00
Filed: 1914-10-06
Granted: 1915-10-06
Abstract: 20,618. McAvoy, A. R. Oct. 6. Leakage, detecting and removing.-In vessels in which compressed air is used to remove water after the ordinary pumps have failed to check its rise, one or more continuous ventilation and inspection shafts 5 passing through the decks 3 and fitted with ladders 11 are arranged between pairs of ordinary vertical bulkheads 4. Each shaft is fitted with top and bottom closing doors and ports 6 communicating with the compartments and fitted with slides 7 and doors 8. Pet-cocks 10 indicate the height to which the water has risen. The Specification describes pipe lines for supplying compressed air to any or all of the compartments. By opening the doors in the shafts 5, compressed air may be used for ventilating the vessel.
Patent GB-191503091-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and pertaining to Hand Grenades.
Inventor: HALE FREDERICK MARTEN
IPC: F42B27/08
Filed: 1915-02-25
Granted: 1915-11-25
Abstract: 3091. Hale, F. M. Feb. 25. Projectile fuses.- Relates to time-fusesfor hand grenades of the kind in which a spring striker is released by the centrifugal force set up by the hurling of the grenade, and consists in arranging the striker and the locking-device to be movable independently of each other and to be influenced by separate springs. In the form shown, the striker 1 is movable within a tube 7 and is influenced by a spring 10, and a locking-sleeve 2 surrounds the tube 7 and is influenced bya a spring 4. The sleeve 2 holds the striker cocked by confining balls 3 in front of the striker in the manner described in Specification 4925 /11. The sleeve 2 is fixed to a handle 8 by rivets 11, the heads 5 of which serve as internal abutments. When the grenade is hurled after the removal of the safetypin 16, the centrifugal force acting on the body 9 of the grenade compresses the spring 4 and brings the balls 3 out of the sleeve 2, whereupon the striker 1, under the influence of the other spring 10, pushes theballs aside and strikes a percussion cap 12 igniting a slow match 13 leading to the detonator 14 of the grenade. The balls 3 are prevented from falling completely out by the internal wall of the handle 8. The products of combustion from the fuse are vented bv holes 19, groove 20, and holes 21. The Provisional Specification also describes the use of a rope attached to the sleeve 2, instead of a handle 8, to throw the grenade.
Patent GB-191504109-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Stamping Presses.
Inventor: WALLER WILLIAM
IPC: B21D28/00
Filed: 1915-03-16
Abstract: 4109. Waller, W. March 16. Stamping.-The frame of a cutting and forming press as described in Specification 8428/13 is formed to serve as a work bench and as a receptacle for hand-tools required for use directly upon the press or its dies. The brackets A to which the press C is pivoted are provided with a shoulder D to serve as a bench, and this is provided with holes G, Fig. 3, a drawer H, Fig. 4, or a box having a hinged lid in which the tools are stored.
Patent GB-191508820-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Methods of and Means for Utilising the Heat of the Exhaust of Internal Combustion Motors.
Inventor: WILHELM SCHMIDT
IPC: F02B1/00
Filed: 1915-06-15
Abstract: 8820. Schmidt, W. June 16, 1914, [Convention date]. Void. [Published under Section 91 of the Act.] Motor power plant.-In internal-combustion engines of the type in which the air is in part or wholly compressed before entering the combustion cylinder, the exhaust gases are utilized in succession for generating steam and for driving a hot-gas engine or turbine. The gases may finally pass through a feedwater-heater, and, in order that the feedwater may be in sufficient quantity to cool the gases; a generator may be employed, heated by fuel as well as by the exhaust gases. The temperature in the engine cylinder is lowered by increasing the air charge without increasing the fuel supply. The power obtained from the exhaust gases is preferably used for precompressing the air for the internal-combustion engine. An engine or turbine driven by the steam generated by the exhaust gases may drive on the shaft of the internal-combustion engine, thus assisting in starting and manoeuvring, or, in the case of a marine plant, may drive a second propeller shaft. In the plant shown in Fig. 1, the exhaust gases from the internal-combustion engine A pass by the pipe J to the combined feedwater-heater and generator B, and then by the pipe K to the hot-gas turbine D. Water is withdrawn from the generator B to supply a generator G containing a superheater H, through which the steam from the generators B, G passes. The steam from the superheater H passes by pipes 0, P to turbines C, E. The steam turbine C and the hot-gas turbine D drive a rotary compressor E supplying the engine A, while the turbine E drives a second propeller shaft. In another arrangement, piston compressors are employed, connected to cranks on the shaft of the internal-combustion engine and driven also by steam cylinders in tandem with them and supplied with steam from the generators B, G. The hot-gas turbine drives an independent shaft. In a third arrangement, the shaft of the internal-combustion engine drives the compressors, while the hot-gas turbine and a steam turbine supplied by the generators B, G drive an independent shaft.
Patent GB-191509811-A (GB)
Title: Automatic Danger Signal Train Stopper.
Inventor: WIGLEY DAN
IPC: B61L3/04
Filed: 1915-07-06
Abstract: 9811. Wigley, D. July 6. Track apparatus for stopping trains.-The air - brake valve and a steam-brake valve and the throttle lever are actuated when a pendant arm 36 engages a track contact. B y means of links 33, 28 and a rock-shaft 29, the member 27 is moved from beneath the weighted rod 43, which draws downwards the levers 10, 11. The lever 11 opens the air-brake valve 17, and the lever 10 moves a four-way valve so as to pass steam from the pipe 5 to the steam - brake cylinder 23 and to the throttlelever operating cylinder 1. The driver's steambrake valve 7 is also shown in the Figure, and the four-way valve normally puts this valve in communication with the cylinder 23.
Patent GB-191510281-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Combined Apparatus for Melting and Casting Metal.
Inventor: HALL ISAIAH
IPC: F27B14/00
Filed: 1915-07-15
Abstract: 10,281. Hall, I. July 15. [Addition to 2220/15.] C a s t i n g - m a c h i n e s ; metal-pouring. - Casting machines of the type described in the parent Specification are arranged so that the melting-pot rotates relatively to the body of the furnace. The rim of the pot issupported by rollers 9 or by a ball race, and the furnace casing is slotted to pass the spout.
Patent GB-191511283-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or connected with Centrifugal Laundry Extractors.
Inventor: OVERHOLT FRANK MARION
IPC: B04B9/10
Filed: 1915-08-04
Abstract: 11,283. Overholt, F. M., and Steiner, F. M. Aug. 4. Gearing for stopping machinery.-An hydroextractor for laundry use is automatically stopped when the volume of waste water discharged falls below a predetermined limit. Figs. 1, 3, and 5 show the application to a belt-driven machine, and Fig. 9 to the switch of an electric motor. The belt 3 is driven by a countershaft 5 having fast and loose pulleys 6, 8 driven by a belt 7. On starting, the belt-shifter rod 9 is pulled against the action of a spring 14, to shift the belt from the loose pulley 8 to the fast pulley 6. In this position a notch 15, Fig. 5, in the rod 9 is engaged by the upper edge of a slot 20 in a slide 17, and held. The slide 17 is connected to a float 22 by a rod 21. This float works freely in a vessel 23, which receives the discharge from the separator 2. The vessel 23 has a valve-controlled waste-pipe 27 and an overflow 25. When this vessel fills with wator, the slide 17 rises and the lower edge of its slot engages the notch 16 in the bar 9 and locks the bar. The bar remains locked until the flow of water is so small that the float 22 drops and pulls down the slide 17. The spring 14 then acts to shift the belt 7 to the loose pulley 8. The belt can be shifted to stop the machine during the extraction by a lever 31, Fig. 3, having a tongue 30 adapted to engage a fork 29 on the slide 17. In a modification, the slide 17 is replaced by a rocking arm actuated by a lever having a weight at one end and a vessel receiving the discharged liquid at the other. The vessel has a valve-controlled discharge in the bottom. Fig. 9 shows an electric-motor switch arm 51 pivoted at 52 and engaging contacts at 53. A spring 58 normally opens the switch, but a locking-bar 54 is provided, passing through a slot in a slide 46 and having notches 55, 56. The slide 46 is normally held up by a spring 47 and locks the bar 54 when the switch is first closed, by engaging the notch 56. On the bottom of the slide 46 is a bucket 48 receiving the discharge from the centrifugal extractor 2. The bucket has a valve-controlled discharge 49 in the bottom. As the bucket fills, the slide drops and locks the switch by engaging the upper notch 55. Towards the end of the operation, the bucket empties and allows the slide to rise and free the locking-bar 54, the switch then opening under the action of the spring 58.