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Patent GB-190727484-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Relief Colour Stamping Presses
Inventor: SPROULE ROBERT FRITH
Filed: 1907-12-12
Granted: 1908-07-30
Abstract: 27,484. Sproule, R. F. Dec. 12. Printing from engraved plates.-Relates to the relief colour stamping-press described in Specification No. 23,309, A.D. 1895, in which the lower die engraved in intaglio is caused to travel under a colour brush and wiper, and then under an upper or counter die which is caused by a screw to descend upon the paper interposed between the dies, and comprises the use of a continuously-driven face cam instead of a drum cam for carrying the die to and fro, means for disconnecting the die-actuating mechanism from the operating-part of the press, and a wiping-off pad provided with one or more layers of suitably faced thin sheet steel fixed at one end and sliding free at the other end. The die n is moved with the die slide m by a rack h, driven by pinions f, g, i from a shaft e, which is rotated from the main shaft a by a cam b, rack c, and pinion d. The pinion f is loose on the shaft e, but may be engaged with it by operating a lover j and locking a pin l, provided on a keyed collar k, into a suitable hole in the loose pinion f. By this means the motion of the die may be stopped to permit another die to be inserted, or to enable it to be moved by hand. At one end of the travel of the die n, a brush o is given the necessary motion over it, and, at different intervals, also over the colour roller t, by means of a cam p on the main shaft a, a rack and pinion q, and a toothed segment r that drives the rack s on the block of the brush. While the die m is making the impression, the cam p causes the colour brush o to travel to and fro over the roller t of the colour box u. The wiping-off pad u is preferably provided with one or more layers of slightly-curved thin steel plate w, fixed at one end and sliding at the other, and provided with a covering of felt or rubber. The pad v is raised out of the path of the die n by means of a cam x, which is mounted on the shaft a, and operates a lever y and rod z attached to the back of the pad.
Patent GB-190800331-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Fare Collecting Devices.
Inventor: COLEMAN JOSEPH HENRY
Filed: 1908-01-06
Granted: 1909-01-06
Abstract: 331. Coleman, J. H. Jan. 6. Money-boxes.-Fare-collecting devices for public vehicles, adapted to be operated by the conductor or by the passenger on entering, are constructed with a receptacle 2, Fig. 2, having glass sides and provided with a base consisting of a segment of a cylinder formed with a flat portion- and grooved longitudinally to engage with a door 7. The base is pivoted at 11 and operated by a spring-controlled lever 8 or automatically on the entrance of the passenger. The receptacle 2 is formed with bevelled upper edges and projections at the corners and provided with staggered, grooved or otherwise roughened glass plates 13, 14. The fare, when inserted, falls past a pivoted plate 50 into a fare box 17 carried in a drawer .18 supported by rods 20 moving in guides 21 in the interior of the casing. Each fare box is provided with a hinged lid 24, which may be fastened by a spring lock 25. The box is inserted with the lid open as shown. in Fig. 5, and hooks are provided to engage the lid and raise it to the position shown in Fig. 2. The lid is prevented from being shut during insertion by a dog 29 on the box engaging a projection 30, Fig. 2, on the lid, a bar 31 serving to lower the dog when the box is in position. The lid is adapted to be closed automatically when removed by a rod 32, Fig. 5, carrying a roller engaging an inclined plane 47 on the lid. The rod 32 is carried by a cross shaft 35 carried by two levers 36 pivoted to the casing and provided with projections 39 engaging with an inclined plane 41, 40 carried by the drawer. The part 41 of the plane is pivoted and retained in a sloping position by a spring 43. When the operation of closing the lid is completed, the projections fall on to the part 44 thus allow a fresh drawer to be introduced without acting on the part 32, the inclined plane 41 rising to allow them to pass under. Each drawer has a projection 48, which prevents tampering with the part 44 during withdrawal. Fig. 12 shows the means for automatically operating the device on the entry of the passenger. A step 56 placed across the doorway is depressed and operates the lever 8 through a rod 59 and a bell crank 60.
Patent GB-190804756-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in, or relating to, Vehicle Fenders.
Inventor: MARSHALL RALPH JOSEPH
Filed: 1908-03-02
Granted: 1908-08-27
Abstract: 4756. Marshall, R. J., and Penman, W. H. March 2. Wheel guards and obstruction - removers. - An obstruction-remover for vehi, les, which can also be used as a road sweeper and snow plough, has roller brushes at its lower edges which are rotated in an opposite direction to that in which the vehicle is travelling. The plough-shaped fender comprises a curved sheet-metal frame a with upper and lower edges b, c of angle shape, connected together by curved ribs d. The two parts of the fender are connected together by a divided rib e, with a suspension eye f at its upper end and a bearing g for each of the brushes h. The rear extremities of the edge bar b are joined by a tie rod i, and suspension links mare connected to the rod i and the eyes f. By means of a hand-lever o, acting through links g, s, t, n, the fender can be held at any desired height. Other forms of linkage may be employed for effecting this. The brushes may be rotated by bevel-wheels 1 meshing with wheels 2, carried by a pair of supporting-wheels, or by rollers 3 rotating on a shaft 4 supported by the fender. The shaft 4 is carried in curved slots 5, which contain springs 6 adapted to force the rollers in contact with the track when the roller brushes are raised and the fender is acting as such. When the device is used as a track cleaner, the brushes are forced down on to the track by means of the hand-lever. The brushes may be rotated from a central track wheel. Screens 8 are provided to enclose the vehicle wheels. When the fender is used on a motor-car, it has a top plate to prevent objects from falling behind it.
Patent GB-190805754-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Firebar.
Inventor: ESPLEN ALEXANDER
Filed: 1908-03-14
Granted: 1909-03-15
Abstract: 5754. Esplen, A. March 14. Fire-bars.-A mid-feather A is formed in the trough B in the upper surface of a fire-bar to prevent the removal by the cleaning -tools of the dust and ashes which collect. The mid-feather projects for approximately half the depth of the groove. The sides of the bar taper slightly for a short distance and then curve inwardly to form the web E.
Patent GB-190808088-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to the Preparation of Yarn for Transport
Inventor: BOULT ALFRED JULIUS
Filed: 1908-04-11
Granted: 1909-04-13
Abstract: 8088. Boult, A. J., [Longmore, J., and Leslie, A. K.]. April 11. [Patent of Addition to No. 27,015, A.D. 1907.] Bobbins.-The flange B of a bobbin A which supports a light flanged bobbin when winding or beaming yarn, as described in Specification No. 27,015, A.D. 1907, is fitted loosely over the barrel of the bobbin, and is retained by a nut C. The flange may be prevented from rotating by a depending tongue B<2> which engages with a slot in the barrel. The barrels of the bobbins are made of iron or steel, and are provided with bushes at each end. The flange at the unscrewed end of the barrel is loose, and is supported by a steel or iron collar A'.
Patent GB-190810699-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Telegraphic Relays.
Inventor: MAXSE ERNEST GEORGE BERKELEY
Filed: 1908-05-16
Granted: 1909-01-07
Abstract: 10,699. Maxse, E. G. B., [Piat, J. T.]. May 16. Telegraphs; relays.-In a moving-coil cable relay, two horizontal moving coils carrying the local contacts are set one within the other in a magnetic field, and are so wound that they always move in opposite directions when a current flows through them. The two moving coils carrying the local contact-pieces l, o are horizontally mounted in unstable equilibrium on point-surface bearings h, i, but are sustained by a rod p held in a fixed pivot and passing through a slit in the contact arm s carried by one coil, and a fork t carried by the other. The coil system is mounted adjustably with regard to the pole-pieces of the field magnet on a sliding table b. The distance between the two contact-pieces carried by the coil g may be adjusted by means of the screw n. The resistances of the two moving coils are unequal.
Patent GB-190810802-A (GB)
Inventor: CHILD JAMES MARK
Filed: 1908-05-18
Granted: 1908-08-13
Abstract: 10,802. Child, J. M. May 18. Colour photography; printing; trays, and dishes etc.; enlarging &c.-A combined printing-frame and developing-dish for use in colour-photography consists of a frame A holding a colour-filter B, the original C, the printing- plate D with its film-side up, and a clamping-frame E having a rubber cushion F by which a fluid-tight joint is made against the plate D. To reproduce a coloured picture or pattern or a mosaic colour-screen, parallel light is passed through the colour-filter B, and the film d is then stained and developed, recoated, and exposed through another filter and so on without removal from the frame, difficulties of registration being thereby obviated. For enlargement or reduction the plates are separated by a substantial thickness of glass, divergent or convergent light being used ; reductions can also be made from large-sized colour-screws by focusing an image of the screen on the printing-plate alone. Colour blocks may be obtained by focusing successively through different light-filters with or without a mosaic colour-screen.
Patent GB-190810988-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or connected with Sliding and Hinged Partitions.
Inventor: PEACE JAMES BROTCHIE
Filed: 1908-05-21
Granted: 1909-04-29
Abstract: 10,988. Peace, J. B. May 21. Partitions. - Relates to the mounting of the pulleys on the bottom of the leaves of swivelling sliding partitions. Each pulley has a central flange a, and two side flanges b bearing upon a rail c, which has a channel way d, deeper than the flange a, into which the said flange projects. The pulley is mounted on a pin i carried by a housing f, which is pivoted within a casing h fixed in the leaf.
Patent GB-190811008-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Apparatus for Separating Cyanide, Alkaline and other Solutions from Slimes, Sand and the like.
Inventor: RAYNER GEORGE HENRY
Filed: 1908-05-21
Granted: 1909-02-11
Abstract: 11,008. Rayner, G. H., [Innes, Procter, & Hayles]. May 21. Hydro-extractors.-Relates to hydroextractors of the type in which the material is thrown by a distributor against the sides of a bottomless basket, especially for use in separating the cyanide solutions obtained in the recovery of gold from the slimes. The basket B is carried on a hollow spindle C, at the lower end of which is a hollow distributor E provided with impelling blades. The basket is formed of an outer layer A of perforated material, an inner layer A' of vertical wires, and an intermediate layer a' of cotton, fine metal screen, &c. A flange a round the bottom of the basket directs the expelled liquid into the casing M. Solids are removed from the inside of the basket by jets of air or water from the pipe j, which can be moved up and down. The jet is controlled by a valve connected to the operating-mechanism of a gate G controlling the supply of material to the basket, so that when a sufficient amount of solid has accumulated in the basket, the supply is cut off and the jet put in action. The gate G may be actuated by the spindle H and air spring g<2>.
Patent GB-190819928-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to the Manufacture of Fuel for Internal Combustion Engines of the Reciprocating Type.
Inventor: BARTH SIEGFRIED
Filed: 1908-09-22
Granted: 1909-04-29
Abstract: 19,928. Barth, S. Aug. 6, [date applied for under Section 91 of Patents &c. Act, 1907]. Dust engines.-In reciprocating engines of type in which ignition is effected by the heat of the compressed air, powdered cellulose is used as fuel. The cellulose may be obtained from wood, straw, peat, paper, flour, &c. and may be used alone or with substances rich in oxygen, such as the alkaline nitrates and manganese dioxide. The material is ground, dried, and sifted, and if resin is present, it may be removed by some solvent such as alcohol, acetone, or aniline. The fuel may enter the combustion chamber through one or more fuel nozzles.
Patent GB-190821917-A (GB)
Title: A New or Improved Scoring Device or Marker.
Inventor: TOMKINS MARIANNE
Filed: 1908-10-16
Granted: 1909-07-01
Abstract: 21,917. Tomkins, M. Oct. 16. Scoring and marking.-A device for scoring the number of honours when playing the game of bridge consists essentially of a base A of rectangular, round, or other convenient shape, upon the surface of which are marked the figures 0 to 5 or the words zero, one &c. to five. A sliding pointer a<2> or a rotating pointer is adjusted to the desired figure. In Fig. 3 is shown a scoring-device provided with a lid or cover B.
Patent GB-190902095-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Hand or Machine Sewing-needles.
Inventor: REEDER CLINTON VAN BURAN
IPC: D05B85/02
Filed: 1909-01-28
Granted: 1909-04-15
Abstract: 2095. Reeder, C. van B., and Patterson, M. E. R. Jan. 28. Sewing-machine needles; sewing-needles.-To facilitate threading, the eyes of sewing-machine or hand-sewing needles are formed as shown in Fig. 1, which illustrates a machine needle. A channel 3, open on the side of the needle at 10, communicates with the eye 5. The channel is normally closed by the part 8 which bears upon the wall 9 of the channel. The part 9 is lengthened by the slit 11, and is resilient so that the sewing-thread can be pulled past the constriction. The eye opens into the part 4 of the channel at about its middle so that the thread shall have the least tendency to slip out.
Patent GB-190902191-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Catch or Fasteners for Swing and other Doors.
Inventor: STACEY HENRY GEORGE
IPC: E05C3/04
Filed: 1909-01-29
Granted: 1909-04-22
Abstract: 2191. Stacey, H. G. Jan. 29 Turn - button and h o o k fastenings ; emergency-exit fastenings. - A swing or other door a is secured by a pair of turn-buttons or hooks d with handles b<1> secured to a spindle c and engaging studs or the like g. The parts d may be designed to break in an emergency, and are then attached by a set-screw or otherwise so as to be easily replaceable.
Patent GB-190903079-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Apparatus for Automatically Regulating Water and other Liquid Levels.
Inventor: BUECHLER HANS
IPC: E02B7/18
Filed: 1909-02-08
Granted: 1909-07-22
Abstract: 3079. Buchler, H. Feb. 8. Levels, regulating.-To increase the rate at which a vertical or inclined open-ended pipe 1 in an elevated tank &c. carries off the liquid rising above the top of the pipe, the upper end of the pipe is provided with a cover 3, the rim of which is at or slightly below the normal level of the liquid. A small pipe 4 may be placed inside the pipe 1 to carry off air which may be drawn down by the liquid into the lower tank &c. Projecting plate may be fitted on the outer surface of the pipe 1 in order to prevent the formation of eddies in the liquid.
Patent GB-190904601-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Devices for Feeding Bottoms, Labels and the like to Box-making Machines.
Inventor: KAYSAN HEINRICH AUGUST
IPC: B31B17/00
Filed: 1909-02-24
Granted: 1910-02-24
Abstract: 4601. Kaysan, H. A. Feb. 24. Feeding she e t s and flat articles.- In a device for feeding box bottoms, labels, &c. to boxmaking machines, the labels are picked up by a series of suction nozzles 1 sliding radially in a rotating head 10, carried by a shaft 63. The radial movement of the rods 9 carrying the suction nozzles is effected by bell-cranks 65, one arm of each of which bears against a fixed guide 67 recessed at the positions where the sucker has to be projected outwards, i.e. adjacent to the pile-table and the boxmaking mandrel. The piston-rods 9 are prevented from turning in their bearings by a projection on the head engaging a recess in the head 10, or by other means. The piston-rods 9 are normally projected outwards by springs 70 engaging collars 81, which may be made large enough to form a dashpot-piston within the chamber 81<a>. The air suction in the nozzles 1 is controlled by valves 73, the spindles of which carry ratchet-wheels 75 rotated by rods 74 from each of the bell-cranks 65. The shaft 63 carrying the feed head is driven by a friction drive, so that, while the nozzle is removing a label &c. from a pile, the head 10 is held still by the engagement of the cranks 65 in the recesses in the guide 67. The cranks 65 are disengaged from the guide 67 by a collar 61, which is oscillated by a tight cord connected to a cam-oscillated lever. The labels and box-bottoms &c. are contained respectively in hoppers 11, 12, mounted on a carraige 76 reciprocated against a spring 99 by a cord 77 connected to a lever 95 oscillated by a cam 96, Fig. 5. The first nozzle having taken a bottom from the hopper 12, the carriage is moved so that the hopper 11 with labels is brought beneath the second nozzle. The labels &c. are supported on a piston 105, pressed upward by a spring 107 but adapted to be clamped by jaws 111, turned to grip the rod 106 by springs 112. As the nozzle approaches the hopper, it depresses the rods 113 and allows the spring 107 to feed the pile upwards.
Patent GB-190904632-A (GB)
Title: Improved Door Controlled or Belt Controlling Devices for Carding Engines.
Inventor: BUCKLEY ABNER
IPC: D01G31/00
Filed: 1909-02-25
Granted: 1910-02-25
Abstract: 4632. Buckley, A. Feb. 25. Guards, controlling.-Relates to a door-locking device for carding-engines. A feeler or finger, carried by a piece connected to the door, lies against the edge of the belt so that the door cannot be opened until the belt is moved on to the loose pulley; but, when the door is opened, the finger allows the belt to be returned on to the fast pulley sufficiently to drive the cylinder for stripping purposes, and also to be moved out of the way to allow the crossed belt to be placed on the fast pulley for grinding purposes and then to be replaced on the other side of the belt to prevent it from being returned on to the loose pulley until the finger is manually operated. A lever g, Fig. 1, is mounted in a bracket f and is rocked about its pivot by the opening and closing of the door through the medium of a sliding bar j and link h. The lever g carries at its free end a post n having at its upper end a stud q, which is parallel with the axis of the pulleys d', d<2>, and on which is mounted a boss o<1>, Fig. 8, carrying a finger o at right-angles to the belt e. The boss o<1> is provided with a slot o<2> having enlarged ends as shown, and engaging with a pin q' on the stud q. When the door is closed and the belt e is on the fast pulley d<2>, as shown in Fig. 4, the finger o is next to the cylinder, and the belt prevents movement of the lever g and the opening of the door. When the belt is transferred to the loose pulley, the finger o can be moved and the door opened. The finger moves into such a position that the belt can be placed partly upon the fast pulley to drive the cylinder for stripping purposes. The finger o can be rotated upon the stud out of the path of the belt, and then moved along the stud to take up a position on the other side of the belt, which in the meantime has been moved completely on to the fast pulley for grinding purposes. The finger, when released, is returned into its normal position by gravity or by a spring coiled round the boss o<1> and then prevents the return of the belt on to the loose pulley. Before the door can be closed, the operations must be repeated in the reverse order, the belt being shifted on to the loose pulley while the finger o is held out of the way, and the boss being then moved back along the stud. The finger may be fixed to the stud and when turned up out of the way may require to be moved back into its normal position by hand. The device may be used in combination with the devices described in Specification 6885/07, [Class 120, Spinning]. Specification 23,827/07 is also referred to.
Patent GB-190908681-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Reinforced Concrete Joists for use in the Construction of Floors, Roofs and the like.
Inventor: WERNER HEINRICH CARL
IPC: E04C3/20
Filed: 1909-04-10
Granted: 1909-12-16
Abstract: 8681. Werner, H. C. April 10. Girders, concrete.- Concrete joists for sup-. porting independent floor, roof,._and like slabs, are formed with the portions above, and just below, the neutral axis of greater width than the remaining portion; and shoulders d, which may slope, are formed to receive the slabs.
Patent GB-190911437-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Advertising Devices.
Inventor: EVANS FREDERICK
IPC: G09F23/00
Filed: 1909-05-14
Granted: 1909-09-30
Abstract: 11,437. Evans, F. May 14. Rotary apparatus, internally - illuminated; rotary disk and like apparatus.-In an advertising-device having a slotted drum 7, Figs. 1 and 3, enclosing a source of light 8, and adapted to illuminate intermittently advertisements on a surface 2, the drum has between it and the surface 2 a tapered compartmented chamber 14, provided with opaque bars between its compartments so that the parts of the screens 10 fronting the compartments are illuminated in a step-by-step manner. The rotating drum 7 may also be employed in conjunction with a frame 17, carrying a series of coloured screens 18 capable of being successively interposed between the drum and the advertisements; for example, by the contact of projections on the drum 7 or spindle 5. The motive agent may be clock-work, or a hot-air fan 6, Fig. 1. Parabolic reflectors within the drum 7 may assist in the illumination of the screen 2, and lenses may be employed at the narrow ends 12, Fig. 3, of the tapered compartments.
Patent GB-190914148-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Lasting Machines for Boots and Shoes.
Inventor: SEFTON-JONES HERBERT
IPC: A43D23/02
Filed: 1909-06-16
Granted: 1909-10-21
Abstract: 14,148. Jones, H. Sefton-, [Nollesche Werke E. Nolle]. June 16. Lasting.-Relates to means for controlling the pincers of lasting-machines. The pincers 1, 2, Fig. 1, have the usual spring-controlled closing and lifting movements to effect the updraw, while the overdraw is effected by a spring-pressed rod 20 actuated from a cam 9 on a shaft 7. This rod is formed with ears 32 through which pass spring- pressed rods 36. The latter are formed with eyes 35 to receive slidable bolts 16, 17, which support a ring 15 through which the pincers slide. The lateral movement of the pincers to effect the foredraw is caused by a fork 29, which surrounds the pincers and is pivoted at 27 to a bracket 28. The fork is connected by links 26, 25, 24 to a knee lever 23, and carries a bar 34, which is adapted to be engaged by rollers mounted in the ears 32 of the rod 20. The fork is normally held in its central position by springs 30, 31, Fig. 2, but, when a foredraw movement is required, the fork and bar 34 are swung to one side by the knee lever, as shown in Fig. 3, in which position the pincers grip the work. When the rod 20 moves forwards, one or other of its rollers engages the bar 34 and swings it back again to its central position, thus effecting the foredraw. while the continued forward movement of the rod 20 effects the overdraw. In the case of a narrow or inelastic upper, the springs 37 yield and there is no overdraw.
Patent GB-190914557-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or connected with Caps for Bottles and like Receptacles.
Inventor: TAYLOR CHARLES EDWARD
IPC: B65D47/18
Filed: 1909-06-22
Granted: 1910-04-07
Abstract: 14,557. Taylor, C. E., Taylor, E., and Head, W. June 22. Opening by cutting &c.-Sprinklers for bottles &c. containing volatile cleaning liquids &c. have the usual metal screw cap a indented or weakened at b opposite a central hole c in the washer d, so that a pin or nail may be used to make an outlet for the contents.