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Patent GB-190606190-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Starting Gear for Explosion Engines.
Filed: 1906-03-14
Granted: 1907-01-17
Abstract: 6190. Anti-Attrition Metal Co., and Spark, H. K. March 14. Turning - gear. - In an automatically - wound, spring - motor turning gear for motor - cars, gas engines, &c., the spring d, Fig. 2, is wound by a pawl h, Figs. 1 and 2, which is actuated by an eccentric f on the shaft e engaging a ratchet-wheel c<1> attached to the drum. The shaft e and the main shaft b gear through a pinion k carried by a movable bracket m<1>, which receives detaining pins p attached to a screwed collar r withiu the drum during starting and winding. The pins are withdrawn when the spring is sufficiently wound to enable the pinion k to assume an inoperative position. The motor is started by rotation of the shaft s, which carries an eccentric o to throw the pinion into gear and a slide t to release the pawl h and detaining-catch i. The revolving drum drives the shaft e through the ratchet-wheel v. In large engines, the spiral spring is replaced by helical springs placed between flat plates connected to the drum by a steel-wire cable.
Patent GB-190611487-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or in connection with School Desk and like Seats
Inventor: BERTRAM WILLIAM
Filed: 1906-05-16
Granted: 1907-05-16
Abstract: 11,487. Bertram, W. May 16. No Patent granted (Sealingfee not paid). Desks; seats.-A school desk or seat is provided with a back adjustable in position according to the size of the occupant, The back is pivoted at c to a piece h, and may be secured in the positions f, e by inserting a pin in openings a, b, respectively. In the position d, the lower end of the seat bears against the piece h, The back may be folded forward on the seat, as shown at g.
Patent GB-190612517-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in the Removal of Colouring Matter from Dyed, or Naturally Coloured, Material.
Inventor: JOHNSON JAMES YATE
Filed: 1906-05-29
Granted: 1906-07-05
Abstract: 12,517. Johnson, J. Y., [Badische Anilin & Soda Fabrik]. May 29. Bleaching. - The colouring-matter is removed from dyed or naturally coloured material, such as dyed rags for use in making shoddy, by treatment with the basic zinc formaldehyde -sulphoxylate described in Specification No. 7592, A.D. 1905, in the presence of an acid, suitable acids including acetic acid, sulphuric acid, and especially formic acid. There is very slight decomposition in the case of the zinc salt in contradistinction to the like alkali salts. For example, woollen rags which have been previously treated as usual are added to a bath of basic zinc formaldehyde-sulphoxylate and formic acid, and the whole is slowly heated until it boils. Boiling is continued until a test portion of the liquid fails to reduce indigo car.nine solution. The acid may be added in small portions to the boiling bath, and another acid may be employed. Again, for removing the natural colour which persists in raw materials, such as linen, hemp, or jute, after extracting with boiling water, a bath is prepared by stirring the zinc salt with water and addmg sulphuric acid until the salt is dissolved to a slightly acid solution. The material is left in the bath until the desired effect has been attained. The bath can repeatedly be brought up to its original condition by adding correspondingly smaller quantities of the salt and acid.
Patent GB-190613482-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Military Field Kitchens.
Inventor: THIRION EDOUARD
Filed: 1906-06-12
Granted: 1907-04-18
Abstract: 13,482. Thirion, E., and Mottant, A. June 12. Cooking-stoves.-A field-kitchen comprises one or more boilers enclosed in a casing c, which is mounted by springs s on a carriage t, and has one or more furnaces and a hinged chimney. The furnaces are fed through the doors j, and taps m serve to draw off soup and the like from the boilers. Hinged to the top of the casing c are yokes p carrying screws for fastening the covers n, o of the boilers, the latter being provided with steam exitpipes r ending in valves v.
Patent GB-190613791-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Turbine Engines.
Inventor: TSCHINKEL ALFRED
Filed: 1906-06-15
Granted: 1907-05-30
Abstract: 13,791. Tschinkel, A. June 15. No Patent granted (Sealing fee not paid). Elastic-fluid turbines.-A turbine with auxiliary blades formed on the casing adjacent to the wheel is shown in Fig. 3. The wheel 13 has a peripheral row of blades 17, Fig. 6, and oppositely-arranged blades 11 are formed on the adjacent part of the casing 1. Pairs of rectangular nozzles 23, Fig. 5, are arranged round the casing, and one nozzle of each pair supplies the casing blades and the other nozzle the wheel blades. The jets of steam entering the channels 12, 18 between the blades unite where the channels cross and expad, thus producing motion. The exhaust takes place through a groove 31 and pipes 36.
Patent GB-190615907-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to Processes for Imitating the Pattern of Natural Stones and the like.
Inventor: TRAUBE ISIDOR
Filed: 1906-07-13
Granted: 1907-07-13
Abstract: 15,907. Traube, I. July 13. Ornamenting.-Stone and the like, agate for example, are imitated by covering suitable surfaces, such as glass, celluloid, stone, and wood, firstly with an aqueous solution of a colloidal substance containing a salt, and then with an aqueous solution of another salt, so as to form a precipitate with the first salt. The second solution may also contain a colloidal substance and may merely-be poured by the side of the first so as to contact with it, and the layer may be varnished..Articles may be moulded from the mixture. When silver salts are used, the precipitate may be exposed to light and developed. Other substances, such as fluorescent bodies, naphthalene, mica, talc, mother-of-pearl, formaldehyde, tannin, glycerine, or antiseptics, may be added. Varnishes, the viscosity of which has been increased by the addition of suitable substances, may be used in place of the colloidal solutions. Specification No. 1972, A.D. 1866, is referred to.
Patent GB-190618633-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Mats or Carpets.
Inventor: BUESCH ULRICH
Filed: 1906-08-20
Granted: 1907-01-10
Abstract: 18,633. B³sch, U. Aug. 20. Ventilators.-A mat, made of small disks a of wood or other material connected by wire or cord passed through holes at right-angles, is used for ventilation, being substituted for glass in window frames of houses, hospitals, colleges, stables, &c. The disks may be coloured. [Reference has been directed under Patents Act, 1902, to Specification No. 19,668, A.D. 1903, [Abridgment Class Buildings &c.].]
Patent GB-190619192-A (GB)
Title: Head Light Attachment for Railway Cars and the like.
Inventor: RUBLE WESLEY WALTER
Filed: 1906-08-28
Granted: 1907-07-18
Abstract: 19,192. Ruble, W. W. Aug. 28. Lamp and gas brackets.-The head lamps of vehicles are directed in the line of travel by means of a mechanism connected to the driving-gear. The lamp 4 is mounted, on. a vertical rotatable post 2 having a cranked lower end 5, which is connected by a link 7 to a rocking-shaft 9. The rear end of the shaft 9 has a depending eye-lug 11 wherein engages a 'rod 12 secured to the driving-gear 13. The eye-lug connexion allows for vibration.
Patent GB-190621004-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Systems of Operating Electric Motors for Braking Purposes.
Filed: 1906-09-21
Granted: 1907-09-19
Abstract: 21,004. British Thomson-Houston Co., [General Electric Co.]. Sept. 21. Switches.-Railway &c. motors, particularly of the alternating-current series type, are operated as braking-generators to return energy to line, by dividing the motors into two groups during braking, one group containing one or more motors having their field windings connected to the supply and their armatures operating to excite the fields of the remaining motors, and the other group having its armatures connected to line through a transformer. The braking action is controlled by varying the points of connexion to the transformer. Fig. 1 shows four compensated series motors M<1>, M<2>, M<3>, M<4> connected to the line L through a transformer T', the connexions of which are varied by means of a controller C. RS represents a reversing-switch for changing the connexions between 'the armatures and the series field windings m<1>, m<2>, m<3>, m<4>; and S is a commutating-switch having left-hand running and right-hand braking contacts. When the controller C is turned into the first running position, the switches RS, S having been previously moved to bring the left-hand sets of contacts into engagement] with the stationary contacts r, s, the armatures, compensating-windings, and series field windings of all the motors are connected in series, together with the resistance R, between the point a of the transformer T<1> and earth. Further steps of the controller C, serve to cut out the resistance R, and to shift successively the point of connexion of the transformer to b, c, d, and finally to e. To cause the motors to act as braking-generators, the switch S is reversed, and, in the first position of the controller C, the armatures and compensating windings of the motors M', M<2>, M<3> and the field winding m<4> of the motor M<4> are connected between the point a of the transformer and earth, as shown in Fig. 3, while the field windings of the motors M<1>, M<2>, M<3> and the armature of the motor M<4> are connected in closed circuit. Further steps of the controller C serve to vary the transformer connexions a ... e, as before.
Patent GB-190625198-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in connection with Current Collectors for Vehicles, or Trains, Running on Electric Railways, or Tramways, with Overhead Conductors.
Inventor: DAWSON PHILIP
Filed: 1906-11-08
Granted: 1907-06-06
Abstract: 25,198. Dawson, P. Nov. 8. Collectors for use on electric railways or tramways with overhead conductors. The collector, which is preferably formed as a bow or analogous figure, is mounted so that its lateral position is determined by its height. In the arrangement shown in plan in Fig. 2, the bow standard is mounted on the centre c, and the bow is provided with a pinion d which runs on an angularlyarranged curved rack e on the vehicle roof. In the modification shown in Fig. 4, the rack and pinion are replaced by a projection f on the bow and an angularly-arranged guiding-device g on the vehicle roof. The guiding-device is mounted in curved guides h so that it can be set at any desired angle. In the arrangement shown in side elevation in Fig. 5, the collector is carried on an horizontal shaft, mounted in fixed bearings a<3>, to the ends of which the collector arms are jointed,as shown at b<2>. One of the collector arms moves in an angularly-arranged guide g. Instead of rotating the bow shown in Fig. 4, the carrier may be caused to slide on the upward movement of the bow ; or, as the how ascends, valves may be operated to cause pneumatic or other apparatus to move the collector laterally, or in a direction of which lateral movement is a component.
Patent GB-190625793-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Railways for Recreation
Inventor: SHEPHERD HEBER
Filed: 1906-11-15
Granted: 1907-10-31
Abstract: 25,793. Shepherd, H., and Shepherd, J. Nov. 15. Drawings to Specification. Switchback railways.-The cars of a straight or curved switchback railway are fitted with an electric or petrol motor, so that the cars may be driven up the inclines instead of moving solely by gravity. When an electric motor is used, the track is electrified under any system, and the movements of the cars are controlled from any external place. A double track may be used. When the track is straight, it may for safety rise to a higher level than the station. [Reference has been directed under Patents Act, 1902, to Speci6cation No. 5888, A.D. 1898.]
Patent GB-190627502-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Rotary Apparatus for Frictional Massage Purposes.
Inventor: VIAL HIPPOLYTE CLAUDE
Filed: 1906-12-03
Granted: 1907-11-21
Abstract: 27,502. Vial, H. C. Dec. 23, 1905, [date applied for under Patents Act, 1901]. Foot-operated mechanism for driving apparatus other than vehicles, general arrangement of.-In an appliance for frictional massage treatment the friction rubber is driven by means of a belt working in a central pulley 3, and is mounted in the support shown in Fig. 2. The support consists of a rod 6 to which are attached end frames 9 formed with bearings 10 for the rotary device. A belt guard 16 and wire circles 17, 18 prevent injury to the springs, and rollers 11, 12 regulate the distance of the rubber from the surface on which it is acting. A pedal motor, shown in Fig. 4, consists of an horizontal frame 30, 31 to which is hinged a frame 27, 29 carrying pulley-wheels 42, 43. A pedal 35<a>, mounted on cranks R turning in trunnions 35, is controlled by a spring 38 and drives a pulleywheel 36, which in turn drives the wheel 43 by means of an extensible belt 44<a>. A second extensible belt drives the massage rubber from the pulley-wheel 42. The hinged frame facilitates packing and allows tension to be applied to the belt 44<a>. A belt guard 44 is attached to the framework carrying the pulleys 42, 43. Pieces of caoutchouc placed in the lower helix of the spring serve to deaden the shock when the latter comes in contact with the frame.
Patent GB-190628762-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in, or in the Fittings of Waist Belts.
Inventor: SPITTLE WALTER CLEMENT
Filed: 1906-12-17
Granted: 1907-11-28
Abstract: 28,762. Spittle, W. C. Dec. 17. Belts.-Fittings are attached to waistbelts without sewing, so that they are interchangeable. This is effected by constructing the fitting with a retaining-bar which (1) is pivoted to and swings in the same plane as the fitting, or (2) is fixed thereto at both ends; or (3) is completely detachable.. Fig. 4 shows half of a clasp fitting, which is attached by first placing, the belt between the pivoted bar c and the clasp a, and afterwards locking the free end of the bar by a spring or other retaining-catch a<2>. Two bars such as c may be applied to the inside of the back ornament, as shown in Fig. 6, the belt lying between the bars and the fitting. As shown in Fig. 7, a runner-loop. a has a similar bar c surrounded by a tubular sleeve e. The bar may be independent of the fitting, Figs. 8 and 9, and may be held in place either by transversely channelling its ends, in which case they are detachable, or by threading the ends through loops a<1>, a', Fig. 9, stuck up from' the fitting, and then flattening the loops. The belt ends have vertical pipings to receive the bars c.
Patent GB-190702889-A (GB)
Title: Improved Automatic Electric Switch.
Inventor: ALBERT SCHAEPPI
Filed: 1907-02-05
Abstract: 2 8 8 9. Schõppi, A. Feb. 5, 1906, [date applied for under Patents Act, 1901]. Void. [Published under Patents &c. Act, 1907.) Alarms, fire and temperature. - Switches for breaking a circuit at a predetermined time are operated by a cam which raises a contact from a mercury cup. The spindle i is supported by brass rods g, h, fastened to a brass ring f on the casing a. A rod h is forked and carries two fibre wing-pieces l, to one of which is secured a plate n with an iron cylinder m -containing mercury. An aluminium rod p, pivoted to the ring f, carries a copper pin r with an iron point which dips into the mercury through the porcelain casing o. Two insulated wires pass through the casing a, one being connected to the cylinder m and the other to the contact-pin r. An alarm may be connected by the screws c, and at the end of a certain time, the spindle i and cam k are rotated by means of the pins e. The cam works on rollers q, raises the arms p, and breaks the circuit.
Patent GB-190706856-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Elastic Fluid Turbines.
Filed: 1907-03-21
Granted: 1908-01-09
Abstract: 6856. Warwick Machinery Co., [General Electric Co.]. March 21. Elastic-fluid turbines. - The step and lower guide bearings for vertical-shaft turbines are supported by a base independent of the turbine casing and therefore unaffected by temperature changes in the casing. Fig. 1 shows the annular base 3 which may be divided at one or more points to prevent splitting in cooling. Two long ribs 4, Fig. 3, extend across the base and are supported throughout their length by the masonry foundation 1. Two short ribs 5 connect the ribs 4, the central aperture being cylindrical for the reception of the casing G of the combined step and guide bearing. An opening 2 is left in the foundation to render the inner parts accessible. The base 3 is well grouted to keep it in position, and the bottom wall of the turbine is secured by short bolts 24 and foundation bolts 25 On removing nuts, the turbine together with the base 3 can be lifted with a crane ; or the turbine alone can be lifted without disturbing the base and grouting, and replaced by another. A plate 27 encircling the shaft is arranged to be lifted by jackscrews 37 and so takes the load off the step bearing when desired, by bearing against a shoulder 28 on the shaft. A bearing-block 12 rotates with the shaft 11, and the other block 14 is carried by a part 18 secured to the base by bolts 19. The lower end of the shaft has axially-extended pins 13 to assist in guiding the parts on assembling. The bolts 19 pass through a flange on the casing 6 containing the guide bearing-sleeve 8 and the bearing 7, which is of Babbit or other suitable metal. The casing 6 is also secured to the base by bolts 10. The ends of the sleeve 8 are spherical to preserve alinement, and the bearing-surface of the blocks 12, 14 is also spherical and concentric with the ends of the sleeve 8. Lubricant under pressure is supplied to the chamber 15 by a pipe 16 in the adjusting- screw 17, and finds its way through the guide bearing to a chamber 21 in the cap 20, from which it exhausts through the pipe 36. A shell 22, made in sections, contains packing for preventing leakage of air into the exhaust chamber 23 in the base of the machine.
Patent GB-190711243-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Pulleys or Ends for Blind Rollers.
Inventor: PORTEMONT PIERRE HENRI DE
Filed: 1907-05-14
Granted: 1907-11-28
Abstract: 11,243. Portemont, P. H. de. May 14. Mounting and securing pulleys on shafts.-Metal roller-ends a are attached to window-blind rollers b by radial projections 3 stamped out of the cylindrical part of the drum. The sides of the projections are bevelled, and an eyelet 4 is stamped in the drum or flange to receive the cord.
Patent GB-190711389-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Marine Boilers and Furnaces.
Inventor: WALKER ROBERT LOUDEN
Filed: 1907-05-15
Granted: 1908-03-05
Abstract: 11,389. Walker, R. L. May 15. Steam - generator furnaces; baffles.- In boiler furnaces of the kind having a water-cooled deflector arranged above the grate, the deflector is provided with cooling- pipes protected by specially formed bricks and is connected with the boiler in such a manner as to ensure better circulation. The deflector 11 is arranged above a dumping grate 4, and its lower por tion is made up of fire-bricks 28, 30, which are grooved to receive waterpipes 21. These pipes communicate at one end with the water leg 17 of the boiler 12, as shown, and at the other end with a box 20, which is bolted to the water leg 18. The box 20 communicates by means of the pipe 27 with the steam space of the boiler.
Patent GB-190712191-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Detachable Rims for Vehicle Wheels.
Inventor: PAINTER GEORGE HENRY
Filed: 1907-05-27
Granted: 1908-03-05
Abstract: 12,191. Painter, G. R. May 27. Felloes or rims.-The detachable rim A and fixed binding-ring B have correspondingly - c o n e d surfaces, the rim A being secured by means of a single flange plate D and transverse bolts. The inflating-valve stem passes through a radial hole in the ring B and felloe C, the security bolt nuts being fitted in recesses G as shown. According to the Provisional Specification, the detachable rim has metal pieces attached at each side of the valve stem to engage slots cut in the binding-ring.
Patent GB-190717695-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Space Telegraphy.
Inventor: STONE JOHN STONE
Filed: 1907-08-02
Granted: 1908-03-19
Abstract: 17,695. Stone, J. S. Aug. 3, 1906, [date applied for under Patents Act, 1901]. Telegraphs.-In a receiving system for wireless telegraphy, the elevated conductor system is given a pronounced natural rate of vibration which differs from the wave frequency, but is highly responsive to persistent wave trains of said frequency, such natural oscillations as may be developed in the antenna by waves of other frequencies or by abrupt electric forces being led to earth through a separate circuit. In the arrangement shown in Fig. 1, the antenna V is earthed at the same or different points through parallel circuits, which include capacities C, the primary coil I<1> of a transformer, and an inductance L. The oscillation detector W is in circuit with the secondary I<2> of the transformer, this circuit also including a condenser C<2>, telephone T, and potentiometer B R. The circuit O L C E has zero reactance at the frequency at which the antenna V o has zero reactance. The circuit I' C has a reactance equal and opposite to the resultant reactance of the antenna V o and the circuit O L C E for the frequency to which the circuit C<2>, I<2> is tuned. Hence for persistent electric oscillations of the frequency to which the circuit C<2>, I<2> is tuned, the elevated conductor system has zero reactance, and is highly responsive to waves of said frequency. The circuit O L C E has zero reactance for the frequency for which the reactance uf the antenna is zero, so that the elevated conductor system is given a pronounced natural rate of vibration which differs from that of the waves the energy of which is to be received. In a modification, a loading coil is connected in series with the antenna. Specifications No. 28,826, A.D. 1904, and Nos. 9417 and 9422, A.D. 1906, are referred to.
Patent GB-190718147-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Centrifugal Separating Apparatus.
Inventor: SPENGLER PETER
IPC: B04B11/02
Filed: 1907-08-10
Granted: 1907-09-12
Abstract: 18,147. Spengler, P., and Sommerschuh, E. Aug. 10. Hydro-extractors. - Relates to centrifugal machines for drying potters' slip and the like. A drum c contains a series of radially-disposed chambers f, preferably conical, with open outer ends, inlet passages d, and water outlets h. The open ends are closed, and the machine is set in motion until a solid plug of clay is formed in each of the chambers. The ends are then opened and screw conveyers g situated in the chambers set in motion, so that the clay is driven out. The speed of the conveyers g is so adjusted with relation to the speed of the machine and to the feed that the ends of the chambers are always closed by the clay and the action is continuous. The ejected clay strikes against a rotating ring m, whence it is removed by the scraper n.
Patent GB-190720089-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Fasteners, particularly applicable for Securing Trees and the like to Walls.
Inventor: WEST CHARLES EDWARD
Filed: 1907-09-09
Granted: 1908-06-25
Abstract: 20,089. West, C. E. Sept. 9. Fastenings, strap. A fastening for securing a tree to a wall consists of a strap a provided with slotted holes b. To secure the tree one end of the strap is passed over the nail head and, after being bent round the tree, the other end is passed over the nail head, pushed along till the nail stem is in the narrow part of the slot, the end e of the square part being then folded over to prevent the head from being withdrawn. The tree may also be secured as shown in Fig. 6. The ends of the strips may be notched beyond the slots.
Patent GB-190722092-A (GB)
Title: An Improvement in the Manufacture of Cellulose Products from Solutions of Cellulose in Cuprammonia.
Inventor: BRONNERT EMIL
Filed: 1907-10-07
Granted: 1907-11-14
Abstract: 22,092. Broanert, E., and Fremery, M. Oct. 7. Cellulose.-In the manufactureof artificial silk, artificial horsehair, ribbons, films, &c. from cuprammonia cellulose solutions, caustic alkali heated to 45-65‹ C. is used as tne precipitating- agent.