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Patent GB-190700608-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to the Generation and Transmission of Motive Power.
Inventor: MASCORD GEORGE WILLIAM
Filed: 1907-01-09
Granted: 1908-03-09
Abstract: 608. Mascord, G. W. Jan. 9. Gas and like engines.- Consists in arrangements for automatically coupling one or more auxiliary prime-movers to the main prime - mover in a plant for generating motive e power, either at starting or else to take up the load when it reaches a predetermined value. The invention is described in connexion with a motor road vehicle or locomotive propelled electrically by a dynamo a which is driven by internal - combustion motors b, b<1>, b<2>, b<3>. The main motor b is directly coupled to the generator by gearing c, e, and the others are successively coupled in, at predetermined loads, by clutches f, f<1>, f<2> which are operated by the plungers of solenoids f<a>, f<b>, f<c>. These solenoids carry shunt or series currents supplied through solenoid switches k, k<1>, k<2>, &c. which are so adjusted and connected at the point l as to clutch in the motors in the required order. The clutches may be of the friction type having jaws also for positive engagement when the speeds and crank positions of the motors are correct. Clutches f<3>, f<4> are used if the drive is to be transmitted, through the pinion h at the other end of the generator shaft i. Mechanical means are provided for operating the clutches from the driver's seat, or a battery may be used. The automatic electrical operation shown may be replaced by hydraulic, pneumatic, or mechanical means. Where internalcombustion motors are used, their cooling-arrangements may be common, with valves for isolating any one. In an alternative arrangement, the motors and generator are co-axial ; or the motors may be separate from one another, being independently geared to the main shaft. Or tubular co - axial shafts may be employed with means for clutching any shaft to the one which surrounds it.
Patent GB-190700720-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Punching, Eyeletting, Lacing-hook-setting or Analogous Machines.
Filed: 1907-01-10
Granted: 1908-02-10
Abstract: 720. Jerram, A. E., and British United Shoe Machinery Co. Jan. 10. Eyeleting; lacing-fastenings. - In a punching, eyeleting, lacing-hook-setting, or like machine, the punch, which has a lateral oscillation to feed the stock, is operated by a toggle situated and remaining substantially in the axis of oscillation. The punch is mounted on the arm B' of an elbowlever pivoted at B<o> to a sleeve J, which is secured at J<3> to a shaft J<1> journaled in the machine frame A. The other arm B<2>, supported by the strut B<x>, is pivoted at B<3> to one member B<4> of a toggle B<4>, B<5> ; the other member B<5> has a pivot B<6>, which may be eccentrically mounted on the frame A and may be adjusted by means of a hand-lever B<9> moving over a notched scale B<11>. The toggle B<4>, B<5> has a universal joint B", Fig. 2. A roller B<7> bearing on a cam on the main shaft gives the vertical punching movement. The lateral feed is given by a lever K, K<1>, having at one end a roller K<3> in a cam-groove H<0>, and at the other end a double link K<4> connected to one of two guide-plates J<2>, between which the elbow-lever B<1>, B<2> moves. The pivot K<2> of the lever K, K' may be adjustable.
Patent GB-190701034-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Terminals for Electric Accumulators, Batteries and other Electrical Apparatus.
Inventor: SMITH KENNETH RAWLINGS
Filed: 1907-01-15
Granted: 1907-08-08
Abstract: 1034. Smith, K. R. Jan. 15. Connexions.-Relates to terminals for electric accumulators, batteries, or other apparatus, constructed so that the points of contact are protected against corrosion due to acid &c. A metallic cup A, Fig. I., permanently connected to the battery &c., receives an ebonite or other non-metallic screw stopper B through which the conductor C passes, the end of the conductor, when it consists of a strand of wires, being spread out radially and held against the base of the metallic cup ; or a conical or other metal piece may be attached to the end of the wire to form a contact. Oil or grease may be put into the cup for further protection. The cup may be of lead, brass, or other alloy, or carbon, or the base only of the cup may be metal, as shown in Fig. III., the body then being of porcelain, ebonite, &c., and containing, if desired, a little mercury. The stopper may be of porcelain, vulcanized fibre, celluloid, or other composition, or the parts may be reversed. Specification No. 12,773, A.D. 1906, is referred to.
Patent GB-190704824-A (GB)
Title: Improvements connected with Air Guns.
Inventor: COX JOSEPH HENRY
Filed: 1907-02-27
Granted: 1907-10-31
Abstract: 4824. Cox, J. H. Feb. 27. Pneumatic; magazines.-An air-gun of the type having a fixed barrel and a rotary loading - plug, is provided with a magazine which is preferably operated by the movements of the plug. In the construction shown, the magazine consists of an horizontal rotary disk e, having a ring of holes e<2> to receive the pellets. The disk is rotated step by step by a pawl-and-ratchet device operated m the following manner by the loading-plug a. A toothed part a<2>, Figs. 4 and 5, of the plug a engages a sliding toothed bar i carrying a spring pawl i<3>, which engages teeth e<3> on the underside of the disk e. The disk e is closed by a pivoted cover h having a hole h<2> through which the gun may be loaded in the usual manner. Instead of being connected with the plug, the disk may be arranged to be operated by a separate movement. A magazine plate having a sliding instead of a rotary movement may be employed.
Patent GB-190705066-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Electric Couplings or Connections.
Filed: 1907-03-02
Granted: 1908-01-23
Abstract: 5066. Hann, T. G., Ingle, A. E., and Drake & Gorham. March 2. Couplings. - A coupling for connecting an earth wire to a cable, conduit, pipe, &c., consists of a pair of gripping- plates b, provided with openings through which a metallic band a encircling the pipe &c. is passed, so that the band may grip the pipe on tightening the clamping-means, such as a screw d, to which the earth wire is connected. There may be two slots in each gripping plate. According to the Provisional Specification, a spare length of strip may be employed ; also, in certain cases, only one grip may be employed, and, again, the device may be used for coupling electric conduits.
Patent GB-190706259-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Looms for Manufacturing Woven Bags or the like
Inventor: BARLOW WILLIAM
Filed: 1907-03-15
Granted: 1908-01-23
Abstract: 6259. Barlow, W., and Cottam, O. March 15. Loom shedding- motions; let-off motions.-In weaving seamless bags or pockets, the jacks d ... d<7> connected to the healds for two-shed weaving, and the jacks e .. e<3> for single-shed weaving, are p u t into action alternately, so that double cloth with a double selvedge on one side and a single selvedge on the other, and single cloth, are alternately woven, the strips of single cloth being afterwards cut transversely to form. the sides of the bags. The jacks are carried by cranks k, l, k<1>, l<1> on shafts k<2>, l<2> carrying sprockets m, n, which are geared together by rods and chains. The jacks are connected by cords at one end to the healds g and at the other end to the treadles of the tappets. The shafts k<2>, l<2> are turned by a hand-lever q, so as to put either set of jacks into action, as required. The weighting-levers of the warp beam may be connected by a cord &c. to a pulley on the shaft k<2>, so that a drag may be put on the beam.
Patent GB-190706688-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Cinder Sifters.
Inventor: WHITEHEAD JOHN HENRY
Filed: 1907-03-20
Granted: 1908-01-09
Abstract: 6688. Whitehead, J. H., Layland, W. E., and Whitehead, A. R. March 20. Dust-bins.-A cinder-sifter of special construction is arranged in a casing 11 which fits as a cover upon a dust-bin 13 of ordinary construction.
Patent GB-190707320-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Arc Furnaces for the Electrical Treatment of Gases.
Filed: 1907-03-27
Granted: 1907-10-10
Abstract: 7320. Salpetersõure - Industrie - Ges. July 6, 1906, [date applied for under Patents Act, 1901]. Gases and vapours, treating electrically.-In an electric furnace, high-tension arcs 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 are operated in series by bridging all except one by high resistances or self-induction coils 6, 7, 8, 9. The resistances may be in parallel, as shown in Fig. 1, or in series, as shown in Fig. 4, and the arc gap which is not bridged may be at the end of the series as at 5, Fig. 1, or at the centre as at 3, Fig. 4. When there are no arcs across the gaps, and a high electric pressure is applied, the gap 5, Fig. 1, or 3, Fig. 4, is subjected to the full pressure and sparks pass, starting an arc. The next gap for the series is thus subjected to a high pressure, and sparks pass, and so on for the rest of the series. If alternating currents are employed, this procedure takes place twice in each period.
Patent GB-190709972-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Fanlight Openers and other like Openers
Filed: 1907-04-30
Granted: 1907-11-14
Abstract: 9972. Evered & Co., and Dolphin, J. April 30. Window-opening apparatus.-Relates to windowoperating apparatus of the type described in Specification No. 14,140, A.D. 1906. The worm thread m is formed to engage the teeth e of a chain wheel. One end of the chain is secured to the frame plate a of the opener, the other end being secured to the window frame b' or the window sash b according as the frame plate a is secured to the window sash or the window frame. The worm is driven by an endless cord p passing over a pulley on the worm shaft. As modifications, the chain wheel may be dispensed with, a worm wheel being used which has an annular groove adapted to engage the chain, worm teeth being formed on the side flanges of the wheel. Or the chain wheel is formed in one with but of smaller diameter than the worm wheel.
Patent GB-190714721-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Wheels for Vehicles.
Inventor: VAUGHAN FREDERICK PHILEMON
Filed: 1907-06-26
Granted: 1908-02-13
Abstract: 14,721. Vaughan, F. P. June 26. Starting.-To enable a vehicle to be started easily and to surmount obstacles on the road, the wheels are formed in two parts, the outer parts 1 of which rotate on bearings around the inner parts, and the load is applied by an axle 14 to the inner parts of the wheels near the ground, while the draught is applied by cross-bars 16 to these inner parts in advance of the axle 14. The cross-bars 16 are connected to a system of levers which tend to move the load-bearing axle forwards when the draught is applied.
Patent GB-190715285-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Collapsible Seats or Tables.
Inventor: O'BRIEN ALFRED HORATIO
Filed: 1907-07-03
Granted: 1908-06-18
Abstract: 15,285. O'Brien, A. H., and Nunney, A. H. July 3. No Patent granted (Sealing fee not paid). Chairs ; tables. - A collapsible seat or table especially for use in motor-cars and other vehicles is supported on jointed leg members and can be lowered into a well when not required, so that ho part of the mechanism is exposed when it is collapsed. In the form shown in Figs. 1 and 4, the seat D of a chair is supported by legs B jointed at their centres and pivoted at A to the sides of an opening in the floor. The legs are provided with notches which are engaged by a locking - bar E supported by a bar E' terminating in a T-piece G which engages in a slot f in a plate H on the underside of the seat. The locking-bar E is operated by a bar d<2>, pivoted to lugs on extensions of the sides of the back-rest d'. A screw d' carrying a spring passes through the centre of the bar d<3>, and fits in a slide d<5> which works in a slot in the bar E'. Stops g are provided to prevent the seat back from falling backwards, and a spring button g<1> to prevent it from moving forwards, unless desired. In the application of the invention to tables, the leg-joints may be increased in number as shown in Fig. 3, and instead of the locking-bar E', plates J, Fig. 3<a>, engaging slots in the legs are employed to keep the latter in extended position. The invention may be applied to garden and operating tables, and to deck seats.
Patent GB-190718821-A (GB)
Title: Radiators for Heating Habitation Rooms, Dryers etc.
Inventor: ENRICO ROGERRO
Filed: 1907-08-27
Abstract: 18,821. Roggero, E. Jan. 1, [date applied for under Patents Act, 1901]. Void. [Published under Patents &c. Act, 1907.] Heating buildings &c.- A radiator for hot-water or low - pressure steam heating-apparatus consists of inner air tubes 4 surrounded by concentric outer r tubes 3 which connect upper and lower headers 1, 2 containing hot water &c. The inner tubes 4 terminate at their upper ends in a chamber provided with a perforated plate 9. The tubes 4 may extend into a lower chamber which may be provided with dampers 13. The dampers admit either external cold air by the inlet 11 or air from the room through the opening 12.
Patent GB-190719718-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Woven Covers for Tyres
Inventor: MARTI JUAN MARCET Y
Filed: 1907-09-03
Granted: 1908-02-27
Abstract: 19,718. Marcet y Marti, J. Sept. 3. Fashioned fabrics; double and multiple fabrics; double and single fabrics combined; loom c r e e l frames; loom take - up motions. - Tyre c o v e r s are formed of multiple fabrics so woven that they normally assume the shape of the tyre, the ends being joined and wires or bands inserted to form the edge beads. The cover may be of uniform thickness throughout, or the tread portion may be of increased thickness obtained by increasing the number of warp threads at this part. The retaining wires or beads k may be fitted within folds g, h, as shown. For shaping the fabric, the warp threads are arranged on independent bobbins or spools each fitted with a brake for adjusting the tension of the thread. The fabric is drawn out of the loom by means of shaped pincers having an intermittent gripping action.
Patent GB-190722457-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Means of Electrically Connecting Dynamo-electric Machines with their Supply or Distributing Circuits.
Inventor: DUNCAN EDWARD MACGREGOR
Filed: 1907-10-11
Granted: 1908-08-06
Abstract: 22,457. Duncan, E. M. Oct. 11. Couplings. - For connecting a dynamo-electric machine to the supply leads, flexible conductors are employed enclosed throughout their exposed length within a casing so arranged that relative movement for adjustment purposes is possible between the machine and the casing. The enclosing metal casing a has a slotted flange base c, by which it is adjustably secured by bolts &c. d to the top or side e of the dynamo-electric machine. The supply or distributing leads are led into the casing through a tubular entrance, and connected to the terminals k mounted upon a bar j secured to the casing. The terminals k and the dynamo terminals i are connected together by flexible conductors, which may consist of flat woven-wire bands m bent zigzag so as to allow of the relative movement of the casing and machine. The casing may be permanently secured to the machine,.and the circuit-leads board mounted so as to permit of relative movement between the two in the desired direction.
Patent GB-190724993-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Controlling Mechanism for Electric Motor-operated Signals for Railways and the like.
Filed: 1907-11-11
Granted: 1908-09-10
Abstract: 24,993. British Thomson-Houston Co., [General Electric Co.]. Nov. 11. Switches. -In a switch for the motor of an electrically-operated semaphore railway signal, the arm A carries a contact F, which comes into engagement with a contact E having a pair of spring fingers, and is adapted during movement from the danger to the clear position to pass between these fingers, and during the reverse movement to deflect them both to one side. The contact F is bevelled at both sides, as shown in Fig. 3, and, as it passes upwards between the two fingers, a quick break in the motor circuit takes place on its passing the upper finger.
Patent GB-190808854-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Metal-bound Boxes
Inventor: FLORA ELLSWORTH EPHRAIM
Filed: 1908-04-23
Granted: 1909-04-15
Abstract: 8854. Flora, E. E. April 26, 1907, [date applied for under Section 91 of Patents &c. Act, 1907]. Wood boxes; cardboard b o x e s ; straps &c., strengthening.-A m e t a l binding - strip for boxes of veneer, fibreboard, or analogous material is made from the blank shown in Fig. 1, which is bent along the lines 9, 10, 13 to form a trough with flanges 14, Fig. 3. The edges of the sides, top, and bottom are secured in the troughs preferably by eyelets 21, the blank thus formed is folded into box form, and the ends 22 are similarly secured to 'the flanges 14. When the lid 18<1> is bent into place, the flanges 14 thereon are fastened to the ends, and the tongues 12 are fastened to the side 16'. In an alternative method of assembling the parts, the strips are first secured to the box ends as shown in Fig. 4, and the caps thus formed are secured to the sides. The body may be formed from a creased sheet of material.
Patent GB-190811163-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Submarine Signalling Cable
Filed: 1908-05-22
Granted: 1909-03-04
Abstract: 11,163. Fetersen, T., and Callender's Cable and Construction Co. May 22. Diving.-Electric conductors extensible with and forming part of a haulage rope, life-line, diver's air tube, &c. are made with a central core a, Fig. 3, of elastic material with conducting-wires b laid. around it and ,covered with a sheath c of rubber or other elastic insulating-material. The conductor is combined with an air-tube by passing it through the die forming the tube so that the conductor is embodied in the wall of the tube. Figs. 1 and 2 show methods of combining the conductors with life-lines. The Provisional Specification states that the conductors may be insulated with vulcanized rubber and used as the core of a life-line as shown in Fig. A of the drawings accompanying the Provisional Specification.
Patent GB-190812541-A (GB)
Title: Safety Locking Arrangement for Railway Carriage Doors.
Inventor: PARKINSON CHARLES FREDERICK
Filed: 1908-06-11
Granted: 1909-06-10
Abstract: 12,541. Parkinson, C. F. June 11. Fastenings, railway-carriage door.-A rod a', actuated by the vacuum or pressure brakes, is pivoted to a lever a secured to the centre of a spindle A, which passes under the carriage and carries at its ends levers a' pivoted to rods a<4> which run the whole length of the carriage and actuate the levers B of the locks shown in detail in Fig. 3. Each lock contains a spring-pressed bolt B<3> carried in the bearings b<1>, b<2>, of the lock casing and provided with a stop to limit its outward movement when shot by the spring B<4>. The head B' of the lever B works in a slot B<6> of the bolt B<3>, which slot is of sufficient length to allow the bolt to be pressed back when the door is closed. The bolts are withdrawn by the levers B when the rods a<4> are moved in the direction of the arrow through the application of the brakes. [Reference has been directed under Section 7 of Patents &c. Act, 1907, to Specification No. 25,255, A.D. 1899.]
Patent GB-190812604-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Change Speed Mechanism.
Inventor: GRETTON JOHN
Filed: 1908-06-12
Granted: 1909-06-10
Abstract: 12,604. Gretton, J., McLeod, J. G., and Hampson, F. G. June 12. Motor road vehicles. - Relates to change - speed and reversing gearing of the constant-mesh type suitable for motor-vehicles. The driving-shaft A terminates in a disk A' which has clutch claws A<2> constantly in mesh with claws C<2> upon a toothed ring C. The ring C meshes with a wheel H fast on a countershaft N. The shaft N and the driven shaft B of the gear carry pairs of mutilated hubs N', B', which support loose gear-wheels such as K, F for reduced speeds and a reverse. The shaft B carries an additional hub B', Fig. 2, clutchable to the ring C for direct driving. Inside the shafts N, B, which are hollow, slide rods O, P connected externally by a yoke Q. These rods are provided with recessed portions O<1>, P<1> in the same transverse plane for allowing pairs of spring - actuated ratchet clutches to come into action simultaneously, thus effecting driving connexion between the shafts. These clutches carried by the hubs N', B<1> are formed as shown in section in Fig. 2. Rollers &c. R in inclined recesses in the hubs are pressed outwards by spring plungers R<2> into one-way driving engagement with the toothed rings unless they are held inoperative, as they normally are, by the ends S' of pivoted levers S. Small plungers S<3> passing through the shafts N, B and normally resting on the thick parts of the rods O, P engage and hold the other ends S' of the levers S. When the recesses O<1>, P<1> come into the plane of any pair of speed wheels or into the plane of the wheel C the plungers S<3> drop inwards, releasing the levers S and the rollers &c. R.
Patent GB-190814428-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Well Sinking Apparatus.
Inventor: NOLET PAUL
Filed: 1908-07-07
Granted: 1909-04-08
Abstract: 14,428. Nolet, P., and Verwilghen, J. July 7. Wells.-A wellsinking apparatus operated by hydraulic rams comprises conical piercing-part 1 surmounted by a truncated conical and cylindrical part 2 and by a cylindrical part 6 and stuffing-box 8 surrounding the tubbing 9. T h e plungers 12 of a series of rams 7 engage in cavities 13 in a ring 14 beneath the tubbing 9. The part 2 contains a slidable receptacle 15 formed with apertures 19 which register with openings 3 in the part 2 when the receptacle is in its lowest position. In use, the first sections of the tubbing 9 are mounted on the ring 14 and the rams 7 are operated to drive the cone 1 into the ground, after which the plungers are allowed to move down and a new 'section is added to the lower end of the tubbing, the operations being repeated. Materials entering the part 15 may be removed and raised to the surface. If a piece of rock or the like should stick in one of the apertures 19, the receptacle 15 is raised by a ram 21, which may be utilized for driving the cone, so that the edges 19, 5 cut through the obstruction. In passing through water-bearing sand or quicksand, the apertures 19 may be kept closed. In a modification the conical part may be rendered independent of the cylindrical part. The external portions of the part 2 may be left in position and abandoned, for which purpose plugged holes may be provided, through which cement may be.injected. In another modification, a closed chamber is formed between the bottom of the tubbing and the piercing- cone, into which chamber water may be admitted. In sinking wells of large size, the rams are moved down two by two, and the new ring inserted in sections.
Patent GB-190815532-A (GB)
Title: Means for Lubricating Sleeve Bearings.
Inventor: MCGAULEY WILLIAM HENRY
Filed: 1908-07-22
Granted: 1908-10-29
Abstract: 15,532. McGauley, W. H. Sept. 16, 1907, [date applied for under Section 91 of Patents &c. Act, 1907]. Lubricators.- Spinning and other spindles are lubricated by o i l which is circulated by centrifugal action. Oil which passes through the bearing b collects in a rotating cup h, and is forced by centrifugal action into the open end r of a pipe q, passing thence through a pipe p to a cup c at the upper end of the bearing. The pipes p, q are screwed into a valve casing n which is detachably secured to the rail a by a bracket l. A valve o controls the flow of oil. The bearing b is formed with a vertical oil duct s. A cover v fixed to the bearing prevents the entry of lint &c. into the cup h.