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Patent GB-190720459-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Lifting Jacks.
Inventor: JONES MORGAN LEWIS
Filed: 1907-09-13
Granted: 1908-07-16
Abstract: 20,459. Jones, M. L. Sept 13. Lifting-jacks, especially for use in lifting motorcars, of the type wherein a quadrant is employed, by the partial rotation of which the motorcar &c. is raised. A bar b having a fork at its upper end can work up and down in a tubular socket c, which is split and provided with a bolt and nut for locking the bar. The socket is carried by two diverging legs the lower ends of which are connected by a curved segment i. In use, the fork is placed under the axle of the car with the end j of the segment in contact with the ground. The car is then moved and the segment caused to roll until the projection k touches the ground. As the distance between the axle and the end of the segment is greater than the radius of the segment, the car will be lifted. One jack may thus be used to lift one wheel. According to the Provisional Specification, more jacks may be employed and the whole vehicle lifted.
Patent GB-190721085-A (GB)
Title: A Portable and Adjustable Stand to Allow of Drilling being Performed at any desired Radius or Angle.
Inventor: VANSTON THOMAS ALFRED
Filed: 1907-09-23
Granted: 1908-08-27
Abstract: 21,085. Vanston, T. A. Sept. 23. Drilling.-A drill stand that allows of drilling at any angle comprises a frame A taking a screwed spindle B, which has an enlarged portion F supporting a loose bar C to which the securing-chain I is attached by swivel books D. Another slotted arm E is adjustably supported on the spindle by nuts, and holds another slotted arm G by means of a pin C. The arm G can 'be inclined at any angle, and forms an abutment for the brace.
Patent GB-190721648-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Amusement Apparatus.
Inventor: RIEHL HENRY ELMER
Filed: 1907-09-30
Granted: 1908-06-11
Abstract: 21,648. Riehl, H. E. Sept. 30. Railways for recreation. -A rotating car runs down an inclined sinuous track ending in a helix which passes through a tunnel. The car, Fig. 4, is pivoted at F<3> to a trolly running on rails R, and is provided with pins F<4> which engage with springs J at the side of the track so as to rotate the car. Guards L serve to check the car in case it leaves the track. The track, Fig.2, has S-curves from C to C<1> and then winds down through a tunnel I to a platform E. The car is returned up an ascent G provided with a travelling chain.
Patent GB-190722349-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Electric Switches or Controllers.
Inventor: ETCHELLS JOHN CHARLES
IPC: D01H1/30
Filed: 1907-10-10
Granted: 1908-04-09
Abstract: 22,349. Etchells, J. C. Oct. 10. Switches.-The two contact-pieces of an electric switch are respectively a revoluble disk of carbon or metal and a spring shoe. In the construction shown in Fig. 3, the double-armed switch lever, which is pivoted at g<1> and actuated by the bar B, carries at each end rotatable disks or cylinders D<2>, which engage with the spring shoes A. The disks D<2> may form the fixed contacts, the spring shoes being carried by the switch lever. This construction of contacts is described with particular reference to the solenoid switch described in Specification No. 22,465, A.D. 1906.
Patent GB-190727653-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Turbine Driven Torpedoes.
Filed: 1907-12-14
Granted: 1908-05-07
Abstract: 27,653. Aktiebolaget de Lavals Angturbin. Dec. 15, 1906, [date applied for under Patents Act, 1901]. Torpedoes.-The turbine engine 2 is enclosed in a chamber 1, and exhausts thereinto through ports 4. The exhaust is led out of the chamber 1 by a pipe 5 to a small chamber 6, around perforations 9, 10 in the hollow shafts 7, 8. The object is to prevent the inflow of water to the air-tanks when the turbine stops, without having recourse to a valve.
Patent GB-190727790-A (GB)
Title: Improved Process and Apparatus for Oxidising Atmospheric Nitrogen by Electricity
Inventor: HELBIG DEMETRIO
Filed: 1907-12-17
Granted: 1908-06-25
Abstract: 27,790. Helbig, D. Dec. 17. Nitrogen oxides; gases, treating electrically.- Nitrogen oxides are produced by causing highpressure air-currents to impinge on opposite sides of an arc. The arc set up between the watercooled copper electrodes E, E', which may be traversed by a single-phase alternating-current, is spread out by air forced in upon it through the nozzles D, D, the common axis of which is at rightangles to the common axis of the electrodes. The air and oxides of nitrogen leave by the openings Z. The furnace is built of iron lined with fire-proof bricks. For smoothness of operation, three electrodes at angles of 120 degrees to each other may be used with a three-phase current.
Patent GB-190802058-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Pencil Making Machinery.
Inventor: DORIZZI FRANK PHILLIPS
Filed: 1908-01-29
Granted: 1908-10-15
Abstract: 2058. Dorizzi, F. P., and Rowney, N. M. Jan. 29. Drawings to Specification. Grant of Patent revoked. Glueing.-In a pencil-making machine the glueing-apparatus consists of a bottomless box to which glue is supplied from a suitable source, and beneath which the pencil slats are fed. The lower edges of the two sides of the box are provided with projections which fit the grooves in the slats.
Patent GB-190808834-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Device for Cleaning Tobacco Pipes and the like.
Inventor: CARTER DANIEL
Filed: 1908-04-23
Granted: 1909-03-25
Abstract: 8834. Carter, D. April 23: Tobacco-pipe Cleaners.-Tobacco pipes and the like are cleaned by means of a device having a compressed-air holder provided with valve controlled inlet and outlet ducts and with coin-freed mechanism for controlling the valve-actuating means. The valve 10 is shown in its normal position in Fig. 7, in which position the airholder 1 is charged from a main 7. On the insertion of a coin into the shoot 33, a trip latch 24 releases an arm 22, which is then forced upwards by a plunger 30 in the holder 1, Fig. 5, and the valve is moved to the position shown, allowing the compressed air to escape and clean the tobacco pipe 15, 16. When the pressure in the holder diminishes, a spring 31 returns the plunger, and consequently the valve, to normal position to recharge the holder, the coin having dropped into a receptacle 35. A spring 37 prevents the plunger from returning to the normal position until the operation is completed. The movement of the arm 22, Fig. 3, feeds a strip of paper from the roll 40 by means of a ratchet and pawl, the paper being employed to remove the nicotine from the mouthpiece of the tobacco pipe. The paper can be divided into strips numbered consecutively, and may thus act as a record of the number of operations. The inlet 18 to the nicotine receiver 19 may be in two portions, namely a stationary portion and a movable one, the latter being caused by means of the tobacco-pipe mouthpiece to operate a rod 49 and remove a coin detent in the shoot 33. A pressure gauge 32, Fig. 3, the weight of which may replace the spring 31 of the plunger 30, may be mounted on the plunger rod, which is then made hollow.
Patent GB-190810975-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Employees' Time Recorders
Inventor: STANLEY ARTHUR HUGH
Filed: 1908-05-20
Granted: 1909-01-07
Abstract: 10,975. Stanley, A. H., [Newman, A. A.]. May 20. Tell-tales for checking workmen &c. Relates to time-recorders in which each workman by a special key makes a perforation &c. on a time chart, and consists in improved means for making these marks and simultaneously sounding a bell. A mark is also made on the dial when the case is opened. The time card C is secured to the arbor of a clock, as described in Specification No. 2526, A.D. 1908. The time records are made by means of keys h, each of which has a projection or recess h<5> in a distinctive position which fits a corresponding part in a swinging platen-plate E to mark or perforate the dial-sheet. The part h<2> on each key presses upon a part i of a lever I, by which a bell K is sounded, and by which also a lever M is operated, the other end of which presses the platen E against the record to nip it between the platen and the key. A point d<2> on an arm D<1> mounted on the spindle of the latch d marks the dial whenever the case is opened.
Patent GB-190813864-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Puncture Proof Tyres and Rims therefor.
Inventor: MCBRIDE THOMAS JAMES
Filed: 1908-06-30
Granted: 1909-02-18
Abstract: 13,864. McBride, T. J. June 30. Felloes or rims ; tyres, pneumatic.-The tyre cover A is formed with tapering flanges on which are formed projections S to engage with similar projections at the centre of the rim casing R. Inside the cover is placed a removable filler of leather or similar light elastic material. The filler may be formed with a projecting part B<1> which bears on the rim if the air tube J is punctured, or the air tube may extend into the filler as shown in dotted lines J<1>. The rim casing is tapered from its base outwards and the air-tube extends under the casing. In action the cover comes away from the sides of the casing, the filler or the rubber cover A being formed with feather edges K to prevent nipping of the air-tube. The rim casing is formed of two parts, one fixed on the felloe, the other being in two pieces and attached to the fixed part by tongues and grooves as shown. The leather filler may be replaced by a supplementary air-tube preferably non- expansive.
Patent GB-190818926-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Cloth Plaiting Machines
Inventor: FROST WALTER
Filed: 1908-09-09
Granted: 1909-03-18
Abstract: 18,926. Frost, W. Sept. 9. Piling fabrics in rope form.-Relates to apparatus for plaiting cloth in rope form and particularly to the machines described in Specifications No. 6910, A.U. 1905, and No. 3870, A.D. 1907, [Abridgment Class Fabrics, Dressing &c.]. To one of the machine girders f, Fig. 2, is secured a standard a carrying the driving-shaft band the pulleys c, c<1>, d, e ; the other end of the girder supports a tightening-pulley g mounted in a bracket h. The travelling carriage i carries rope pulleys by which the required motions are driven, that is, the pulleys j, k, l, all of which are driven by an endless rope m. The pulley drives by bevel-gearing the endless chain q, by means of which a to - and - fro motion is given to the pot-eye brackets r, r<1>. The pulley k drives the wince s, and the pulley l drives the worm l<2>. A cross shaft l<6> carries at its ends wheels m<1>, m<2>, which gear with racks m<3>, m<4>, fixed to the machine girders. This shaft also carries a pair of loosely - mounted clutch bevels m<6>, m<7> engaging with the bevel driving-wheel l<4>, and a clutch which can be moved into gear with either of them. Thus the shaft l<6> may be given a right or left hand motion and, further, by means of a timing-motion acting upon the clutch lever m<9> and operated through worm-gearing from the weighted tripping- shaft o<3>, Fig. 3, a backward and forward motion may be imparted to the travelling wince-carriage i. Means are also provided for enabling the carriage i to be moved along the rails by hand when desired. Modifications are described for use in cases where space is limited, in which circumstances the apparatus may be mounted on a centre pillar, about which it can be turned into various positions by the aid of suitable gearing.
Patent GB-190819713-A (GB)
Title: Improvement in Tapping Process and Machine
Inventor: SMITH OSCAR AUGUST
Filed: 1908-09-19
Granted: 1909-06-03
Abstract: 19,713. Smith, O. A. Sept. 19. Tapping. - Nut blanks or other articles are tapped by a double-ended tap, movable endways, and alternately rotated in opposite directions, cuts being made in each direction of traverse, and successive blanks being tapped from opposite sides with identical threads. The tap, which is described in Specification No. 19,712, A.D. 1908, [Abridgment Class Handtools &c.], has full teeth on the middle portion, which is tapered towards each end. It has flat portions on its shank and is alternately grasped by the correspondingly-shaped sockets 14 of spindles 2, 3, which work on opposite sides of the magazine 40. The spindles are moved backwards and forwards, and held stationary while tapping, by levers 23, 29 through cams 20, 26 which are mounted on a shaft 17 driven by a belt 19. The spindles are driven by spur-wheels 6 and elongated pinions 7 on a shaft 8, which is rotated by a crossed or open belt 13, 12. The tap, while held in the spindle 2, passes through the nut and is grasped by the spindle 3. The traverse of the spindle 2 is stopped by the magazine and the tap drawn backwards by the spindle 3 and by the threads partly cut. At this stage a cam 32 on the shaft 17 operates a lever 34 to shift the belts, aud the spindle 3 then moves forward to tap the next blank. The blanks 'are held in the magazine by a lever 41 operated by a cam 48 and links 46, 45, the part 44 acting as a stop for the second blank when the first is being released and also for aiding the descent of the first blank.
Patent GB-190820094-A (GB)
Title: Manufacture of New Sulphurised Vat-dyestuffs of the Anthracene Series.
Inventor: IMRAY OLIVER
IPC: C09B49/12
Filed: 1908-09-24
Granted: 1909-02-25
Abstract: 20,094. Imray, O., [Society of Chemical Industry in Basle]. Sept. 24. Samples furnished under Section 2 of Patents &c. Act, 1907. Dyes, artificial. - Sulphuretted vat dyes are obtained by heating 2-methylbenzanthrone with sulphur or alkali polysulphide ; the products dye cotton bluish-green, olive, greenish-black, and black tints.
Patent GB-190821088-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Valves for Controlling the Supply of Gas to Burners.
Inventor: JONES CHARLES JOHN
Filed: 1908-10-06
Granted: 1909-05-13
Abstract: 21,088. Jones, C. J., and Still, W. M. Oct. 6. Lighting and extinguishing gas. - A gas valve, controlled by the pressure in the supply pipe in such a manner as to open a passage to a main burner and close a passage to a pilot burner when the full pressure is on and to perform the reverse functions when the pressure is reduced, is constructed as shown in section in Fig. 2. The inlet pipe b leads to a chamber d closed at the top by a diaphragm e of thin metal, oiled silk, or leather. The diaphragm carries a slotted tube p supporting valves n, o of rubber, leather, &c., which control oppositely situated apertures in a block h which projects through the slot of the tube p. The upper passage in the block h leads to the main outlet c ; the other passage j leads, as shown in plan in Fig. 5, to a passage k connected to the pilot burner. High pressure in the pipe b lifts the diaphragm e against a spring u so as to open the way to the main burner and close the passage j. The pilot flame is however kept alight by reason of an aperture l, Fig. 5, which is adjusted by a screw w so that the passage k receives just sufficient high-pressure gas for the purpose. Another screw v controls the amount of gas. admitted to the pilot passage when the low-pressure passage is open to the chamber d. The device is specially applicable for use on railway trains.
Patent GB-190826001-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or in connection with Air-pumps.
Inventor: KJAERSGAARD AUGUST MARIUS
Filed: 1908-12-02
Granted: 1909-06-24
Abstract: 26,001. Kjaersgaard, A. M., and Wiese, C. S. J. Dec. 2, 1907, [date applied for under Section 91 of Patents &c. Act, 1907]. Exhausting.-In air-exhausting pumps of the kind in which a fluid such as oil is employed for filling the clearance space, the mixture of air and oil is passed into a crank-chamber above the pump cylinder, where the air is removed from the oil before re-use by a filter located at the entrance to the oil-inlet passage to the pump cylinder. In a form of pump that is particularly applicable for use in refrigerating-plant, the pump cylinder a is surmounted by a crank-chamber p partly filled with oil, and communicating with the cylinder by way of a channel 3, ending in a port which is just uncovered by the piston when in its lowest position. The flow of oil is controlled by a valve 4 which is actuated by a rotating cam 8 on the crank-shaft u against the action of a retracting- spring 10. Air drawn through a port b connected to the vessel to be exhausted is delivered along with the oil into the crank-chamber by way of a valve n, and ultimately discharged from the chamber through openings 2. The return of the air with the oil into the channel 3 is prevented by a filter 11 with perforated double walls packed with felt &c. A screw 12 effects an adjustment of the cross-section of the channel 3 at one point. On the down-stroke of the piston, air and oil pass through a valve k and ports h to the upper side of the piston. The fly-wheel z is mounted on a projection of the crank-chamber and is driven through speed-increasing gearing x, y. It may thus be made smaller than if located on the driving-shaft u. Ball bearings v may be provided at the places indicated. In a modification, the channel 3 is located in the piston-rod, and the filter is mounted on a sleeve carried by the cylinder cover and surrounding the piston-rod. The channel has an inlet port at the top and an outlet port at the bottom, the inlet port communicating with the interior of the filter at the end of the upward stroke when, for the moment, the outlet port is closed by the sleeve.
Patent GB-190826258-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Making Red Lead.
Inventor: ECKFORD WILLIAM
Filed: 1908-12-04
Granted: 1909-12-06
Abstract: 26,258. Eckford, W. Dec. 4. [Cognate Application No. 15,423, A.D. 1909, dated July 1.] Roasting-furnaces ; charging ; charges, agitating. -The bed G of a colouring-oven for making red lead is circular, and the oxide of lead is ploughed into furrows by rakes I, mounted on a vertical shaft H, which also work the litharge from the centre to the outside of the bed. The litharge is fed by a shoot E into a tube F, which is fixed to, and rotates with, the shaft H, and discharges into the centre of the oven. Or the shoot E may be arranged above an opening V<1>, Fig. 2, in the shaft H, the passage proceeding radially so as to distribute the charge.
Patent GB-190827344-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or connected with Shades for the Lights of Billiard Tables.
Inventor: REES LEONARD PERCY
Filed: 1908-12-16
Granted: 1909-10-21
Abstract: 27,344. Rees, L. P. Dec. 16. Lamp shades.-The lights of billiard tables are screened by a single shade of oblong rectangular shape with sloping sides and ends and suspended in a central position lengthways of the table: The body a of the shade is made preferably of sheet steel carried on a light steel frame, but it may be made of other material such as cardboard supported on a wire frame. Shields b of tinplate or other suitable material, preferably coloured green, are arranged transversely across the shade in the position shown so as to screen the player's eyes from direct rays from the lamp d. Guard wires e, e are placed transversely beneath the lamps d so as to protect them from the upward thrust of a cue. A fringe c preferably of a suitable green tint is hung from the lower edge of the shade a. The interior of the shade may be formed of, or coated with, any convenient reflecting-medium, and any source of light may be employed.
Patent GB-190902635-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Means for Filling Fountain Pens.
Inventor: HOUGHTON EDWARD WILLIAM
IPC: B43L25/00
Filed: 1909-02-03
Granted: 1909-10-21
Abstract: 2635. Houghton, E. W. Feb. 3. Fountain-pen fillers.- An ordinary collapsible tube a is adapted for filling fountain-pens by being fitted w i t h a curved nozzle d provided with a screw-cap e.
Patent GB-190904866-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Process for the Production of Colour by Heating Certain Substances.
Inventor: TINKLER CHARLES KENNETH
Filed: 1909-02-27
Granted: 1910-02-10
Abstract: 4866. Tinkler, C. K. Feb. 27. Samples furnished. Thermometers.-Substances which change in colour when their temperature is raised to a given point and become practically colourless again on cooling are obtained by melting together a primary or secondary aromatic amine and a nitro compound. The specified amines are diphenylamine, p-ditolylamine and p-toluidine; the specified nitro compounds are om- and p-chlornitrobenzene, p-bromnitrobenzene, pnitrotoluene, m-or p-nitrobenzaldehyde, m-nitrobenzonitrile, and nitronaphthalenes. The substances are preferably mixed in the proportions necessary to give an eutectic mixture. Unstable compounds are apparently formed at the high temperature. The substances are applicable for thermometric purposes, or as temperature indicators.
Patent GB-190906246-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to Bearings for Vertical Shafts.
IPC: F16C17/04
Filed: 1909-03-16
Granted: 1909-12-02
Abstract: 6246. Taylor, Lang, & Co., and Watts, W. T. March 16. Vertical-shaft bearings; oil, catching and removing. - vertical shafts, such as the beater or cylinder shafts of cotton-opening machines of the Crichton type, are provided at both ends with self-alining bushes, comprising sleeves e, Fig. 1, and k, Fig. 2, formed with central swells g, which rock on fixed supports. A disk a on the lower end of the shaft f rotates upon a disk b supported in a container c, which is adjusted in a frame d by a screw h. Oil is pumped through a pipe i passing through the screw h and disk b to the space between the disks a, b, which are grooved. Tho oil travels up between the shaft f and the bearing e and returns to the pump through a pipe j. At the upper end of the shaft, the bush k, Fig. 2, is fitted with liners m, n. The bush rests upon a collar o on the shaft, formed with a flange p which deflects surplus oil into a channel q. Oil is supplied to a chamber r at the upper end of the bush.
Patent GB-190910793-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to the Production of Electric Currents.
Inventor: SCHWERIN GRAF BOTHO
IPC: H01M6/50
Filed: 1909-05-06
Granted: 1910-04-14
Abstract: 10,793. Schwerin, Graf B. May 7, 1908, [Convention date]. Endosmotic action.-Electric currents are generated by forcing liquids through plates or layers of certain substances, the conductivity of the layer and liquid being regulated by means of suitable electrolytes. In the apparatus shown in Fig. 3, a layer of finely-powdered sugar-carbon g is supported on a brass plate c provided with fine apertures, over which is stretched a fine wire-netting d and a piece of thick silk e, forming the filter proper. Over this is stretched fine wire-netting f forming one pole. The other pole consists of wire-netting n stretched over a ring h. The diaphragm is placed within a casing i connected to a pump m so that the liquid, such as distilled water containing ammonia, can be forced through the diaphragm in a continuous manner. Substances for use in the diaphragm which send the current in the direction of movement of the electronegative water are stated to be silicic anhydride, burnt clay, sulphur, blue ultramarine, and wood charcoal; while electro-positive substances which send the current in an opposite direction to that of the water are red ultramarine and anthracite. Suitable electrolytes for electronegative bodies are bases, and for electro-positive bodies are acids. Finely-ground quartz may be used as the diaphragm substance, and the liquid may consist of water containing pyridine.
Patent GB-190918998-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Healds for use in the Production of Leno Fabrics.
Inventor: KING JOSEPH
IPC: D03C7/02
Filed: 1909-08-18
Granted: 1910-08-18
Abstract: 18,998. King, J. Aug. 18. Leno and like motions; healds and leashes.-In a loom for weaving leno fabrics, each doup heald b engages openings 4, 5 in a metal, glass, or other mail f, and is secured to the enlarged head d of a lingo a passing loosely through a hole in a shaft or lath c. When the lath c is raised, it lifts all the lingoes a and allows the warps to rise.
Patent GB-190920060-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Liquid-combustible Burners of the Inverted Type.
Inventor: ALTMANN FRITZ
IPC: F21V17/00
Filed: 1909-09-01
Granted: 1910-06-23
Abstract: 20,060. Altmann, F. Sept. 1. Incandescent vapour burners.- A wire-gauze capsule h is secured in a groove c<1> on the burner head.