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Patent GB-191216441-A (GB)
Title: A Method of and Apparatus for, Preventing the Spreading, and Reducing the Effect of Coal Dust and Fire Damp Explosions.
Inventor: KAHLER GEORG
IPC: F23M11/02
Filed: 1912-07-13
Granted: 1913-07-14
Abstract: 16,441. Kahler, G., and Junker, F. Nov. 16, 1911, [Convention date]. [Addition to 16,440/12.] Sprinklers, automatic.-Apparatus of the kind claimed in the parent Specification is connected to the device for firing the blasting-charge so that the apparatus is set into operation immediately before the explosion. In the form shown, an arm 25 on the shaft carrying the drop-block 21 is normally engaged by the nose 26 of an armature 27 of an electro-magnet which is energized by the firing-current so as to withdraw the armature and release the arm 25. In order that the apparatus may also be set in action by the air pressure arising from explosions, a pivoted disk with an arm 35 on its shaft engaging the armature 27 may also be provided.
Patent GB-191220709-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Oil-gas Generators.
Inventor: KPENZEL CHARLES AUGUST
Filed: 1912-09-11
Granted: 1913-05-08
Abstract: 20,709. Kuenzel, C. A. Sept. 11. Oil gas.-Comprises improvements in appara. tus for generating gas from liquid hydrocarbons, the apparatus being applied to existing furnaces. The door opening of the furnace is closed by the retort structure 3, Fig. 2, extending inwards sufficiently to be heated. Oil is forced from the drum 4, Fig. 1, by compressed air from the tank 6, through the pipe 9 to the injector 10; air is simultaneously supplied through the pipe 23, the mixture being delivered into the retort 12. The retort structure is fitted with an inner plate 16, and asbestos packing 17, through which extends a passage 20 for supplying cold air to the furnace. The gas mixture leaves the retort 12 at the opposite end, by a pipe 25 leading to an annular chamber 26 in the cap 27 of the mixing-casing 28. The pipe 40 leads from the compressed-air supply to the heater 13, the hot air passing by means of the pipe 41 to the casing 28, which it leaves by the pipe 42, re-entering it at the end cap 37. The hot air here meets the gas mixture that has traversed the tubes 3.5, and, mixing with it, forces it back through the tubes 32 and nozzles 33, to the superheating-retort 14, whence it passes to the expansion chamber 19 and thence to the burner tubes 44. The apparatus is applicable to boiler furnaces for stationary, locomotive, or marine engines, or to smelting and metallurgical furnaces.
Patent GB-191220938-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Charging Apparatus or Projectors for Coal or other Solid Materials.
IPC: C10B31/06
Filed: 1912-09-13
Granted: 1913-09-15
Abstract: 20,938. Williams, R. A., and Jenkins & Co., W. J. Sept. 13. Feeding-devices for granular and like materials.-In an apparatus for projecting coal or other solid materials, for example into retorts, and comprising an endless band c driven at a high speed, the materials are delivered on to the band between a pair of spaced rotary drums or rollers a by a hopper e fitted with a weighted door f, or other similar device for allowing the passage of different-sized materials.
Patent GB-191224410-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Capping or Capsuling Machines.
Inventor: BUHLES WILLIAM CRIST
Filed: 1912-10-25
Granted: 1913-10-27
Abstract: 24,410. Bubles, W. C. Dec. 1, 1911, [Convention date]. Capsules, applying. - The capsuling - head 26, Fig. 3, has two deformable rings 32, 35 adapted to be pressed by plungers against the head and side of the capsule, the arrangement being provided with a lost-motion device 37, which allows the outer plunger 33 to move downwards relatively to the inner plunger. The plungers are operated by linkage 43, 46, Fig. 2, connected by a lost-motion device 51 to a pair of levers 12, which are adapted to operate the table 15 through linkage 13 and are connected by an eccentric-rod 9 to power-driven eccentric and ratchet mechanism 4, which is thrown into and out of operation by a foot-lever 6. The levers 12 are provided with springs 25, 53 which regulate the pressure applied to the bottle. The machine is fitted with a suitable form of capsulefeeding appliance such as is shown in Fig. 8. The hopper 54 contains a revoluble plate 56 with circumferential spaced lugs 62 forming channels adapted to receive the capsules, those that are the wrong side up being removed by an ejector finger. An agitating plate 64 turns the capsules over by means of inclined surfaces 66. The capsules pass through the channels into a circumferential channel 68 leading to a feed-shoot provided with a lever device which feeds the capsules singly to the machine.
Patent GB-191227158-A (GB)
Title: Improved Variable Speed Gear for use on Motor Cycles and for other purposes.
Inventor: RIGBY JOSEPH PEARSON
IPC: B62M25/00
Filed: 1912-11-26
Granted: 1913-07-10
Abstract: 27,158. Rigby, J. P., and Tilley, W. H. Nov. 26. Variable-speed epicyclic gearing suitable for motor-cycles comprises a combined spur gear and bush G having diametrically-opposite clutch keys H sliding in keyways in the engine shaft A<1>, Fig. 1. Secured to the pulley B to be driven is a hollow toothed gear Q, which has internal clutch teeth W adapted to be engaged for direct driving by the keys H. For the low speed, the gear G is slid outwards into mesh with pairs of pinions P, as in the configuration shown in Fig. 1. The pinions P, which then drive the gear Q, are carried by a revoluble casing C held stationary by a brake. The combined bush and gear G is moved outwards by a pair of rods N, which are moved simultaneously by a handle M and carry cams N<1> at their lower ends. The inward movement of the same part is effected by thrusting downwards a wedge O.
Patent GB-191306796-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in the Production of Shades on Fibre.
Inventor: JOHNSON JAMES YATE
Filed: 1913-03-19
Granted: 1913-11-13
Abstract: 6796. Johnson, J. Y., [Badische Anilin & Soda Fabrik]. March 19. Azo dyes, forming on the material.-Shades are produced on the fibre by applying the condensation product of acetone with 1 : 8-diaminonaphthalene-4-sulphonic acid, and developing with an excess of unsulphonated diazo compound ; coloured patterns are obtained by applying, simultaneously or otherwise, other substances capable of development, e.g. #-naphthol; p-nitraniline gives a blue-black shade, p-chloro-anisidine or alpha-naphthylamine claret shades. Specification 12,819/00, [Class 2, Acids and salts, Organic, &c.], is referred to.
Patent GB-191309883-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Apparatus for Storing and Delivering Inflammable Liquids.
Inventor: HOFFMANN HERMANN
IPC: B67D7/32
Filed: 1913-04-26
Granted: 1914-03-12
Abstract: 9883. Hoffmann, H. April 26. Direct liquid-pressure apparatus.-In an apparatus for storing and delivering inflammable liquid, the delivery being by displacement with a heavier neutral liquid, a by-pass is provided between the suction and delivery sides of the pump. The inflammable liquid B Fig. 1, is displaced by the heavier liquid A, which is transferred from one side of the tank to the other by the pump 1, when the pipe 6 is closed by the valve 5. The valve 5 is spring or weight controlled, so that, when released, it will open the passage 6, and no liquid can then be delivered. The pipe 7 communicates with the air, and the pipe 8 with the space above the liquid A. In a modification, Fig. 3, the pipe 7 is omitted, and a two-wav valve 5 sabstituted for the threeway valve. The vent pipe 8 would still be used.
Patent GB-191317174-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Electrical Fuses or Cut-outs.
Inventor: COX CHARLES WALTER
IPC: H01H85/20
Filed: 1913-07-26
Granted: 1914-07-02
Abstract: 17,174. Cox, C. W. July 26. Fusible cut-outs. -An electric cut-out comprises a base B having a recess b<1> in which the sockets D, D<1> are housed, and a carrier A having a central projecting tongue-piece a<1> through which the fuse wire G is threaded so as to leave a central bare part, the tongue-piece being completely enclosed in the recess b<1>. One of the sockets D is fixed in the base and connected to a bus-bar H, the other socket D' is held loosely in position in the base and is screwed into a terminal-piece d<2>. A number of bases can be threaded on a transverse bar F, which is removably mounted in the fuse box E.
Patent GB-191318639-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Means for Regulating the Raising and Lowering of Windows.
Inventor: THOMAS DAVID
IPC: E05F11/00
Filed: 1913-08-16
Granted: 1914-04-09
Abstract: 18,639. Thomas, D., Williams, T., and Skinner, W. r. Aug. 16. Window holders for sliding sashes. -Spring bolts g, mounted on the window frame f or sliding sash d, and formed with pyramidal noses with convex facets, engage square holes c<1> in plates c on the sash or frame respectively; for the purpose of holding the sash in any position.
Patent GB-191322127-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Electric Switches for Railways.
IPC: B61L1/06
Filed: 1913-10-01
Granted: 1914-04-23
Abstract: 22,127. Soc. d'ElectricitÚ Mors. Oct. 30, 1912, [Convention date]. Retractive switches.-An electric switch operated by the deflexion of a rail under a passing train consists of a pivoted multiplying-lever operating a co-axially pivoted rocking body, and electric contacts disposed between the lever and the body so that the switching is effected by their relative movement. The lever 3, of which the short arm 3<b> is depressed by a bar 1 clamped to the rail 2, carries spring contacts 9, 10, 11 on its long arm 3<a>. The heavy rocking body 5 supported by knife-edges 6 coincident with the pivotal axis of the lever is slightly overbalanced to the right-hand side, so as to rest upon the lever-arm 3<a> and carries an insulating-finger 8 which holds the spring 9 in contact with the spring 10. Deflexion of the rail 2 jerks up the right-hand side of the heavy body, allowing the spring 9 to come in contact with the spring 11. The original contact is restored after an interval depending on the slow return of the rocking body. A permanent displacement of the rail, due for example to a change in the level of the track, does not alter the relative positions of the switching parts.
Patent GB-191323987-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Draught Excluding Device for Doors and the like.
Inventor: GINESI SAM
IPC: E06B7/20
Filed: 1913-10-23
Granted: 1914-07-30
Abstract: 23,987. Ginesi, S. Oct. 23. Draught-excluders.- A bar A, pivoted at C to the hinged side of a door B and held off the floor by a spring K when the door is open, is pressed down, when the door is closed, by the engagement of a plate H on the bar A with an inclined striking-plate G on the doorpost F. The spring K is. carried by a bracket J on the door, and guides E, E<1> are provided for the bar A. The bar A may also be raised by a spiral spring carried by the pivot C.
Patent GB-191403421-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Chimney Cans.
Inventor: CRUIKSHANK PETER
IPC: F23L17/02
Filed: 1914-02-10
Granted: 1914-11-12
Abstract: 3421. Cruikshank, P. Feb. 10. Chimney tops. - The shaft of a chimney top has upright top and bottom portions a, e respectively, with the same axis, a middle upright portion c the axis of which is at a distance from the axis of the top and bottom portions, slightly greater than the diameter of the shaft, and inclined portions b, d connecting the upright portions. A removable cover f in the inclined portion b facilitates cleaning. A solid block at g, between the portions a, e, and webs h, i are provided to strengthen the top. According to the Provisional Specification, the portions b, d may be inclined at twelve degrees.
Patent GB-191403865-A (GB)
Title: Process for the Treatment of Fats and Oils.
Filed: 1914-02-14
Abstract: 3865. Strobentz Testverek VegyÚszeti FestÚk-, TÚrmÚny-, Maz Ús Kencegyßr RÚszvÚnytarsßsßg, and Kreybig, L. Feb. 17, 1913, [Convention date]. Void. [Published under Section 91 of the Act.] Fats and fatty oils, purifying and oxidizing. Oils and fats are decolorized or transformed into fatty bodies having other constants by treating with air or oxygen in the presence of an oxide of a metal of the iron group, particularly cobalt, nickel, or manganese. The oil is mixed with the finely-divided catalyst, heated to 120-130‹ C., and a current of air blown in. A suitable catalyst is obtained by igniting pumice which has been impregnated with cobalt or nickel nitrate solution.
Patent GB-191404739-A (GB)
Title: Improved Toy Spring-gun.
Inventor: SCHOENEMANN ALBERT
IPC: A63H5/04
Filed: 1914-02-24
Granted: 1914-03-12
Abstract: 4739. Sch÷nemann, A. Oct. 24, 1913, [Convention date]. Projectors; targets.-A toy spring gun has a target 6 attached to the wire 2 that forms the projectile guide. The wire 2 has one end bent back to form a trigger 3 and is fastened at the bend 7 to the stock 1. A wire spring 4 is secured at one end to the stock and has its free end formed into an eyelet 10 which embraces the projectile guide. When the eyelet 10 is drawn back, it is retained by a bend 12 in the guide. By pressing the trigger 3, the spring is released and forces the projectile 5 along the guide. The free end of the guide is bent at right-angles to the main portion and a target 6 pivoted to this end. The projectile strikes the target and causes it to turn on its pivot.
Patent GB-191407571-A (GB)
Title: Improved Variable Speed Gear for Self Propelling Vehicles, Machines and the like.
Inventor: MARIUS BERAUD
IPC: F16H9/06
Filed: 1914-03-25
Abstract: 7571. Beraud, M., and Hallot, P. March 25, 1913, [Convention date]. Void. [Published under Section 91 of the Act.] Controlling-apparatus, arrangements of hand and transmission gear in conjunction with.- Relates to variable-speed belt gearing, suitable for motor-vehicles in which a stepped conepulley drive is used, and comprises means for shifting the belt from any pair of pulleys to the next pair. In the form shown in Figs. 1 and 2, the engine shaft has two pulleys 2, 4 and a drum 5, and the driven shaft has pulleys 6, 7, 8, a loose pulley 9, and reversing-pulley 10. The belt 3 is shifted at the engine end by lateral plates 11, 12, and at the countershaft end by plates 11<1>, 12<1>, which plates are mounted on carriers furnished with rollers running in slots in pairs of supporting-guides f. The guides are shown in plan in Fig. 5. The carriers are adjusted by chains or bands 20. Several mechanisms operated by a hand-wheel, such as 27 or 21, are shown in the drawings but imperfectly described in the Specification, for moving the carriers on which the belt-shifting plates are mounted. These are all arranged to operate so that the carrier at the end of the belt which is to take step down is first actuated, and thereupon the carrier at the other end is actuated. Another form of the apparatus, similar in action but differing in constructional details and not fully described, is also shown in the Specification.
Patent GB-191408482-A (GB)
Title: New or Improved Method of Making Fissured Water-bearing Strata Watertight.
Inventor: FRANCOIS ALBERT
IPC: E02D19/16
Filed: 1914-04-03
Granted: 1914-09-10
Abstract: 8482. Francois, A. April 3. Hardening the ground.-In the method of making fissured water-bearing strata watertight by the injection of cement, the fissures are prepared to receive the cement by introducing into the same a gelatinous precipitate obtained in the known manner by mixing together suitable chemical solutions.
Patent GB-191408689-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in the Manufacture and Production of Preparations of Indigo White.
Inventor: JOHNSON JAMES YATE
IPC: C09B67/28
Filed: 1914-04-06
Granted: 1915-07-01
Abstract: 8689. Johnson, J. Y., [Badische Anilin & Soda Fabrik]. April 6. Indigo-white preparations are obtained by mixing together indigo-white, a paste-forming medium such as molasses or glycerine, and a solid organic substance which assists fermentation, such as bran, flour, dextrin, woad, or sugar; zinc dust may be added. According to an example, indigo-white is mixed with molasses and bran. Specifications 4647/05, 1954/06, 24,605/08, and 30,197/09 are referred to.
Patent GB-191414477-A (GB)
Title: Rotary Engine.
Inventor: FAIRWEATHER HAROLD GEORGE CRUI
Filed: 1914-06-16
Granted: 1915-03-04
Abstract: 14,477. Fairweather, H. G. C., [Tree, E. B.]. June 16. Fixed-abutment type with piston having sliding-rocking vanes. In a multiple-cylinder engine, the piston drums 30 are secured together and to a central web 29 on the shaft 1. The shaft 1 runs eccentrically through the cylinders 7, 8, the eccentricity of the end cylinders 7 being the same, and opposite to that of the middle cylinders 8 in order to secure balance. The piston vanes 40 slide in rocking members 34 and have hubs 42, Fig. 8, embracing bushes 39 on stationary bosses 25, which surround the eccentric shaft 1. The bosses 25 are secured to one another and to the casing end walls 7<a> as shown. Each piston-vane hub 42 has integral balancing - webs 44, the webs of the vanes in each cylinder being internested as shown in Figs. 4 and 9. To facilitate manufacture, the vanes may be cast in pairs with their hubs and webs, and then separated by cutting on the lines x, y, Fig. 9. The drums 30 have flanges 35, 37, 38 engaging suitably packed casing recesses. Each cylinder is provided with reversing valve-gear as shown in Fig. 5. The duplicate supply ports 14, 15 are controlled by a slide valve 19, and the duplicate exhaust ports by hinged valves 22, 23. The reversing-lever controls all of the valves of the engine by rocking the cam shafts 65, 66 through rack- and-pinion gear. The exhaust valves are closed by cams 67 or opened by springs 46 as desired, and the valves 19 are moved by rod and lever connexions 74, 75.
Patent GB-191418314-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Signalling Apparatus such as is Employed in Collieries and the like.
IPC: B66B19/06
Filed: 1914-08-07
Granted: 1915-07-08
Abstract: 18,314. Davis & Son, J., and Mac Donald, F. F. Aug. 7. Centrifugal switches.-A centrifugal switch for controlling the signal indicator used in connexion with colliery winding comprises a series of cages formed of inclined rods adjustably hinged to lugs on a shaft b and insulated therefrom. The central parts n of the lower pairs of rods are connected to slip-rings e, f, g on the shaft b. A ball m in each cage normally rests on insulated end sections l, of the rods d, but when the engine starts or stops, the balls m move up or down the inclined way and bridge the contacts n.
Patent GB-191423236-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in X Ray Apparatus.
Filed: 1914-11-28
Granted: 1915-11-25
Abstract: 23,236. Cox & Co., H. W., and Donnithorne, H. E. Nov. 28. R÷ntgen-ray apparatus.-In apparatus for localizing a bullet and finding the embedded depth, a frame A, Figs. 1 and 2, with cross-wires a a known distance apart and situated at a known distance from the X-ray tube, is utilized for determining the point on the body vertically above the bullet and the depth of the bullet. The crosswires a, together with a transverse wire a<1>, are situated across an opening A' in the frame A. The frame is fixed at a known distance from the tube box by means of screwed shanks d' which have plates d for attachment to the box, threaded balls d<3> on which the frame A rests, and clamping- nuts d<4>. The tube is adjusted vertically below the intersection point a<2> by means of a removable frame b with a sight-hole b<4>, the frame b fitting an angular block C on the frame A so that the sighthole b' is vertically above the point a<2>. A second frame F, Figs. 4 and 5, is fitted with a fluorescent screen E and with cross-wires e, e<1> which carry a graduated transparent scale H, with its zero point H<0> at the intersection of the wires e, e'. The frame F is also fitted with an adjustable wire f the ends of which can be independently moved so that the wire f can be adjusted in any position and at any angle across the frame. To locate the bullet, the frames A, F are adjusted so that the image of one wire a coincides with the cross-wires e and until the images of the points a' and of the bullet coincide with the zero point H<0> of the scale H, as shown in Fig. 7. The bullet will then be vertically below the point. The body is marked by a marking 'point, using the notch f<x> on the frame F which is in alinement with the cross-wire e' and the ruling- edge F<3>. The point of the body required is at a distance from this line marked equal to the distance of the notch f<x> from the zero point of the scale H. The frame A with the tube box is then moved in a direction parallel to the cross-wire e, whereupon the image of the bullet will travel along the wire e to a point G, and the image of the crosswire a<1> will move away from the line e' as shown in Fig. 7. Finally the wire f is adjusted to pass through the point G and the intersecting images of the cross by transverse wires a, a<1> opposite the wire e. The distance H<0>-H<1> bears to the depth of the bullet below the screen the same ratio as the distance between the wires d bears to the distance of the X-ray tube below these wires. This latter ratio being a known constant, the scale H can be graduated to give the depth directly.
Patent GB-191423325-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Remedy for Indigestion.
Inventor: YORKE EDWARD
IPC: A61K36/9068
Filed: 1914-12-01
Granted: 1915-06-10
Abstract: 23,325. Yorke, E., and Mordin, S. Dec. 1. Medicines for internal use.-A remedy for indigestion consists of ginger, rhubarb, P. bismuth carbonate, Columba root, bicarbonate of soda, bicarbonate of potash, oil of peppermint, and sugar.
Patent GB-191501284-A (GB)
Title: Electric Controlling Apparatus for the Tool Carriers of Metal Working Machines.
IPC: B23D7/00
Filed: 1915-01-26
Abstract: 1284. Vulkan " Maschinenfabriks Akt.-Ges. Feb. 2, 1914, [Convention date]. Switching systems.- A crank-disk B receives motion as controlled by an electro-magnetic clutch F. When the clutch is disengaged, a brake L prevents rotation. The clutch is controlled by two switches N, 0 in series. The switch N is controlled by the machine to which the device is applied, and serves to engage the clutch, and the switch o is rotated by the crank-shaft A and serves to disengage the clutch. The switch N may also actuate electromagnetic clutches for a reversing-mechanism, and an auxiliary switch Q<2> may be employed, actuated through ratchet gearing from the switch N, with the result that the disk B is actuated only on alternate reversals. The switch 0 is angularly adjustable to vary the positions of rest of the disk B. More than one disk may be actuated.
Patent GB-191502073-A (GB)
Title: Improved Locking Gear for Hand Lifts or Hoists and the like.
Inventor: MEDWAY MATTHEW THOMAS
IPC: B66B13/06
Filed: 1915-02-09
Granted: 1915-09-30
Abstract: 2073. Sly, A. M., and Medway, J. M., [Executors of Medway, M. T.] Feb. 9. Lift cages, locking.-The operating-mechanism of a hand-lift is automatically locked upon opening a door at a landing. The cage is worked from a rope pulley D placed inside, or, as shown, outside, of the lift casing. Upon the shaft of this pulley is fixed a locking-wheel E having pockets which may be engaged by a pawl G carried by a weighted pivoted lever H. A cord K attached at its upper end to a light weight M passes over a pulley L and down to a heavier weight N. A clip P on this rope is provided for and adapted to be engaged by each door, and a clip P' for the lever. When any door is open, the weight N is raised and the clip P<1> freed from the lever H, which swings and locks the pulley D. When all doors are closed, the rope is pulled down by the weight N, and the clip P<1> swings the lever to disengage the pawl G. In a modification, the weight M and clip P<1> are dispensed with, and -the end of the cord connected to the weighted end of the lever H.