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Patent GB-190416881-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Fire Extinguishing Apparatus
Inventor: MILLER WILLIAM
Filed: 1904-08-02
Granted: 1905-06-29
Abstract: 16,881. Miller, W. Aug. 2. Extincteurs.-Extincteurs of the kind in which carbonic acid, generated by the action of sulphuric or other suitable a c i d or an alkaline liquid is used, and of the type not fitted with stop-cocks, have a receptacle A fitted to the discharge pipe B into which the alkaline liquid may rise on a slight increase of temperature, the object of such receptacle being to prevent dripping of the alkaline liquid from the discharge pipe. Connected to the receptacle A is a knee C to which is fitted the hose D.
Patent GB-190418833-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Chain Pipe Wrenches.
Inventor: ALLDAY WILLIAM
Filed: 1904-08-31
Granted: 1905-06-22
Abstract: 18,833. Allday, W., and Allday, E. Aug. 31. Wrenches.-A chain pipe wrench, having a forked body, is provided with detachable jaws, with horns or hooks on the forks for engaging with projecting pins on the chain links, and with a screw pin or bolt, or a pair of screw pins in line, to secure the detachable jaws and to hold the end link of the chain. The handle a has forked ends a<1>, each of which has horns or hooks a<3> to engage with projecting pins j on the chain. Detachable jaws b, abutting against shoulders on the end portion a<2> and having shoulders b<1> which abut against the forked ends a', are secured to the forked ends by screw pins c. The end link d<2> of the chain has a pin e which works in axial holes in the screw pins c as shown in Fig. 3. The end link d<2> may be secured by working over the screw pin, or by a pin engaging in holes near the ends of the forks, and the Provisional Specification states that a single screw pin or bolt may be used to secure the detachable jaws and the end link d'.
Patent GB-190420178-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in the Manufacture and Production of Discharging Pastes for the Discharge of Dyed Textile Fabrics.
Inventor: JOHNSON JAMES YATE
Filed: 1904-09-19
Granted: 1905-06-15
Abstract: 20,178. Johnson, J. Y., [Badische Anilin & Soda Fabrik]. Sept. 19. Dyeing. - Discharging-pastes similar to those described in Specification No. 15,944, A.D. 1904, are made by using, instead of a large excess of caustic soda, a solution of certain soluble salts to keep most of the hyposulphite (hydrosulphite) undissolved. The salts used are chosen to suit the hyposulphite ; thus, if sodium hyposulphite is used as the active constituent, a sodium salt, such as sodium chloride, may be added for the above purpose. Any of the substances added to pastes described in Specification No. 3288, A.D. 1900, may also be added. An example is given of a discharging-paste containing sodium hyposulphite, glycerine, and caustic soda mixed with British-gum thickening and a saturated solution of common salt. The paste may be thinned if required by adding saturated solution of common salt. This paste is very stable, and can be used to discharge dyes from animal fibres.
Patent GB-190421367-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Apparatus for Photographically Copying Tracings by Means of Artificial Light.
Inventor: HALL BENJAMIN JAMES
Filed: 1904-10-05
Granted: 1905-05-04
Abstract: 21,367. Hall, B. J. Oct. 5. Printing; copying drawings and the like. -Tracings to be copied are passed over a bent glass surface together with the sensitized paper by feed-rollers which are driven mechanically. An endless band F is passed around a series of rollers comprising two feed-rollers D, D', from which it passes across the curved glass plate A to the discharge rollers E, E', and the guide-rollers G, one of these latter being adjustable to tighten the band F. The feed-rollers D, D<1> may be driven either by a falling weight acting through an escapement, by which the rate of feed may be varied, or by an electromotor or other engine. The tracing and sensitized paper are introduced under the guide h, and are carried forward by the band F across the glass plate A, which is mounted between the standards B, and are discharged on the table H<1> formed by the band F. The Provisional Specification describes the use of a large transparent flexible covering between the glass and the tracing when copying small tracings, or where great accuracy is required.
Patent GB-190427706-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in the Manufacture of Nitro-glycerine
Inventor: MIKOLOJCZAK ANTON
Filed: 1904-12-19
Granted: 1905-08-10
Abstract: 27,706. Mikolajczak, A. Dec. 19. Explosives.-A product rich in dinitro-glycerine is obtained by adding to 100 parts by weight of glycerine a mixture of 180 parts of sulphuric acid and 250 of nitric acid, the mixture being constantly stirred and cooled. After dilution with cold water, the acid liquid is rendered alkaline and the dissolved oil precipitated by the addition of calcium carbonate or a soda solution.
Patent GB-190428383-A (GB)
Title: Sliding Guide for Curtains.
Inventor: MUEHLENFELD WILHELM
Filed: 1904-12-27
Granted: 1905-08-24
Abstract: 28,383. M³hlenfeld, W. Dec. 27. Curtains, drawing and suspending.- The curtains are attached to sliding bars f, g, Fig. 3, in a frame a placed in front of windows &c. To guide the bar f, it is attached by a metal extension l, bent at h, to a horizontal bar n carrying guide-rollers r running in a groove in the plate t. In a similar manner, the bar q is guided by rollers g running in the groove in the bar b and attached to the bar d. The bar b, plate t, and separating-bead m are all clamped together by screws, and the cover v fastens the parts b, t more firmly together. Additional guides, in the shape of headed pins w, 3, sliding in the slotted rails x, 4, are provided for the bars f, q, the rails x. 4 being cut away at certain points to allow of the insertion and removal of the pin heads. A hook and eye may be provided on the bars f, q to fasten them together.
Patent GB-190428468-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Systems of Electric Distribution, and in Conductors therefor.
Inventor: GATI BELA
Filed: 1904-12-27
Granted: 1905-12-14
Abstract: 28,468. Gßti, B. Dec. 27. Telephone systems.-In telephone systems, induction effects, particularly those between the telephone circuit and adjacent circuits, are eliminated, and thinner wires and weaker battery power may be used, by arranging the " out " and " return " members of the circuit on the circumference of a circle, or on the circumferences of concentric circles, so thatthere are equal numbers of conductors on each side of any diameter and on connecting the lines regular polygons are formed. Lines at the same potential are arranged at the opposite ends of the same diameter as in Figs. 2 and 9, the first of which shows to the left an eightwire single circuit, or two four-wire independent circuits. If the two sets of conductors are arranged concentrically, the inner set may, as shown in Figs. 8 and 11, be merged into a single conductor. Telegraphs.-Simultaneous telephony and telegraphy may be carried out by using the four-wire system shown in Fig. 3, wherein B, C, D, E are the telegraph lines, and I, II the telephone circuit joined to condensers as indicated.
Patent GB-190429002-A (GB)
Title: Improved Motor using Hot and Cold Compressed Air
Inventor: SMAL PIERRE
Filed: 1904-12-30
Granted: 1905-04-13
Abstract: 29,002. Smal, P. Dec. 30. Hot-air engines. - Closed - circuit single and double acting engines using compressed hot and cold air and occupying a comparatively small-space are described. Each engine has a hot and a cold reservoir communicating, in the case of the single-acting engine, with each of the two cylinders, and in the case of the double-acting engine with the single cylinder. The reservoirs 3, 1, Fig. 4, are preferably circular in form, the latter being heated by a hearth 2. The air in both reservoirs is slightly compressed to the same pressure. The cylinders are provided with any form of expansion valve gear 9, 16. The crank arms are parallel and on the same side of the shaft, as shown in Fig. 4. The communications 10, 17 are opened, thus admitting hot air to the piston 5 and cold air to the piston 13. The hot air may be expanded to a pressure lower than that existing in the reservoir 3. The pistons 5, 13 are then in the positions 5<1>,13<1> and at this instant or a little later, in the return stroke, the exhaust valves 19, 20 are opened and the expanded hot and cold air enter the reservoirs 3, 1 respectively. It is stated that equivalent weights of hot and cold air must be exchanged or continuous disturbances will be set up. In the double-acting engine described, one side of the piston is actuated by hot and the other side by cold air. A modification is shown in Fig. 3, in which a single cylinder 4 is employed and the hot and cold air are alternately admitted to the left side of the piston 5. The air may be used expansively or at full pressure throughout each stroke, in each of the engines.
Patent GB-190500540-A (GB)
Title: Improved Electrically Heated Curling Tongs.
Inventor: MACLEAN JOHN
Filed: 1905-01-11
Granted: 1906-01-11
Abstract: 540. Maclean, J. Jan. 11. Hair-curling, toilet appliances for.-Electrically-heated tonga have insulated spring or other contacts in the hinge, through which the current passes to resistance coils in the detachable legs. The hinge, shown in Fig. 6, consists of two hollow plates l containiug insulating plates l<1> to which are fixed curved contact-springs m, m<1> which press together when the parts are united by the pivot pin d. In a modified form, the springs are dispensed with, the connecting- wires being loosely coiled round the pin d. The hollow legs h, Fig. 3, one of which is circular and the other semicircular, fit on to extensions i on the hinge casing. Each leg has an insulating- block k having holes into which fit pins secured to an insulating block k<3> fixed in the extension i. The resistance coils consist of strips of mica, notched on their edges, around which is wound a high-resistance wire. The current is led in and out through one handle, the resistance coils in the two legs being connected in series.
Patent GB-190504188-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Fluid Turbine Engines.
Inventor: MCCOLLUM JAMES HARRY KEIGHLY
Filed: 1905-02-28
Granted: 1906-02-01
Abstract: 4188. McCollum, J. H. K., and Forster, J. W. L. Feb. 28. Impact-wheels.-A turbine suitable for water, steam, or other fluid consists of a drum round which a number of wave-like passages are formed, the working fluid being blown through them. Figs. 2 and 3 are sections of a reversible steam turbine, in which the wave-like passages are formed by a number of corrugated plates d<2>, d<3>, of smaller and greater diameter alternately. The nozzles B are of expanding section when steam is used, and a two-way cock on the steam pipe enables one or the other to be used as desired. The space between the end-plates D' and the casing may be filled with steam or other packing.
Patent GB-190504603-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Elastic Fluid Turbines
Inventor: WILSON LIDA
Filed: 1905-03-06
Granted: 1905-08-24
Abstract: 4603. Wilson, L. March 6. Elastic-fluid turbines.-The blades and guides of an elastic-fluid turbine of the parallel-flow type are made straight, inclined to the axis of the wheel, and with reversed lips on their edges, the use of these lips being to counteract end thrust due to a propeller. Preferably, the inclination of the blades is about 7¢ degrees and of the guides 45 degrees, as shown in Fig. 2. To fix the blades or guides, slots are cut in the drum of such a size as to permit the insertion of the blades when the drum is heated. The blades are thus firmly held on cooling. The ends of the blades may then be electrically welded to the drum, and the corners slightly bent over. If desired, an outer ring may surround the blades, as described in Specification No. 12,184, A.D. 1903. The above arrangement of blades and guides allows the turbine to be readily reversed. Suitable valves are provided for this purpose to admit the steam at one end or the other.
Patent GB-190505933-A (GB)
Title: Machinery for use in Making Metal-bound Packages
Inventor: FAIRWEATHER WALLACE
Filed: 1905-03-21
Granted: 1905-07-20
Abstract: 5933. Fairweather, W., [Healy, W.]. March 21. Stapling.-Boxes, made from blanks composed of strips of veneer secured at their ends to cleats, and reinforced by metallic binding, have their end walls stapled or otherwise secured to the cleats. The blank is first bent into shape and the end walls 7, Fig. 10, adjusted inside the cleats 6. It is then placed over the rest D, Fig. 1, which has a recess d<4>, Fig. 5, at its end immediately under the stapling-mechanism B, which is operated by the reciprocating bar C, and a staple is driven through the end and the cleat. A projection on the crankplate e' then engages the arm d<11> of a lever pivoted at d<10> and connected with the bell-crank lever d<7>, causing the sliding piece d<3> to move outwards and bend over the points of the staple 8, Fig. 5. The sliding piece may be replaced by a pivoted piece F, Fig. 6. The box is so held as to permit the staples to be driven crosswise of the grain of the cleats, and the machine is started by depressing a pedal operating a friction clutch in connexion with the pulley e'.
Patent GB-190508167-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Mechanical Cashiers.
Inventor: DAVIS PERCY WATES
Filed: 1905-04-17
Granted: 1906-04-12
Abstract: 8167. Davis, P. W. April 17. Moneydelivering apparatus.- In mechanical cashiers of the kind described in Specification No. 9766, A.D. 1904, modifications are introduced (1) to enable one hand to operate a purchase lever and its corresponding release key, (2) to prevent overrunning of the mechanism in either direction, (3) to prevent the operating- crank from being turned unless all the purchase levers are definitely in purchase positions, and (4) to prevent movement of the crank unless all controller levers are in their normal returned positions, and to prevent the movement of any controller lever after the movement of the crank has begun, until such movement is completed. Fig. 2 shows the modifications in the machine. (1) The release key 1 is pivoted to the purchase lever 2, and has pivoted to it the link 4, which is bifurcated to embrace the shaft 5 and has inclined surfaces 6 at its end co-operating with inclined surfaces on a sleeve sliding on the shaft 5. This sleeve has a conical collar 9 which engages a coned collar 10 on the shaft 11. The pinion 12 on the shaft 11 is normally withdrawn from the pinion 13 on the shaft 14, but when the release key is pulled down the pinion 12 engages with the pinion 13, against the action of the spring-urged lever 15, and the purchase-lever can be depressed. The disposition of the purchase lever interlocking plates is altered, and the locking-plates 18 are displaced in the guideway 19 by the movement of the locking- levers 15. (2) A position stop device is effected by the cam projections 21, 22 on the selector sleeves 20 of the machine and the rocking levers 23, 24, which can engage with the toothed wheels 26. (3) The inner ends of the purchase levers 2 have notches 28, corresponding to purchase positions, for engagement with the projections 29 of the levers 30. These levers 30 are formed with catches 32 adapted to engage the shoulders of cam disks 33 fixed on the shaft 34 of the operating- crank. (4) An arm 35 attached to a locking-plate 36 is coupled to the bent arm 37, which is connected to the spring lever 39. This lever carries a pin 41, which is projected into a hole in the disk 42, fixed on the crank-shaft 34, when the locking-plate 36 is moved by the operation of the controller.
Patent GB-190508285-A (GB)
Title: A Process for the Preliminary Treatment of Blast Furnace Slags for the Production of Cementitious Material.
Inventor: BRUHN BRUNO
Filed: 1905-04-18
Granted: 1906-04-18
Abstract: 8285. Bruhn, B. April 19, 1904, [date applied for under Patents Act, 1901]. Cements; slags, treatment of.-Slags and other silicate mixtures in a molten state are mixed with a very small quantity of alkali or alkaline salts for the production of cements. Specifications No. 24,092, A.D. 1894, and No. 18,623, A.D. 1903, are referred to.
Patent GB-190508917-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Shoe Sewing Machines
Inventor: RHOULT JOSEPH A
Filed: 1905-04-27
Granted: 1905-12-14
Abstract: 8917. Rhoult, J. A. April 27. Drawings to Specification. Sewing, methods of.-A sewing-machine is described, by which an outer sole may be readily sewn to an upper while they are in their proper relative position, and hence turning the shoe after the sewing is accomplished is entirely dispensed with.
Patent GB-190512641-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Corn, Seed and Manure Drills.
Inventor: BROWN WILLIAM GRAY
Filed: 1905-06-19
Granted: 1906-03-01
Abstract: 12,641. Brown, W. G., and Brown, E, W. June 19. Drawings to Specification. Tyres, non-elastic. - A castor wheel for an agricultural drill is made with one or two clodcutting ridges round its periphery.
Patent GB-190516687-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Boxes for Matches, Cigarettes, and like Articles.
Inventor: WINSTANLEY-MOUNSEY WILLIAM
Filed: 1905-08-17
Granted: 1905-11-09
Abstract: 16,687. Mounsey, W. Winstanley-. Aug. 17. Cigar and cigarette boxes; contents, delivering and withdrawing.-A device for delivering matches, cigarettes, &c. one by one, is shown applied to a match-delivering apparatus. The cigarettes, matches, &c. are contained in a hopper a, a', the bottom of which is formed by a roller b, furnished with a slot c which is large enough to hold one of the articles. The roller is provided with a milled head d at each end, and is furnished with a stop e which bears against the wall a of the hopper and so stops the rotation of the roller.
Patent GB-190521822-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Devices for Returning Condensed Exhaust Steam to a Boiler.
Inventor: TAYLOR JOHN HOWELL
Filed: 1905-10-26
Granted: 1906-05-31
Abstract: 21,822. Taylor, J. H. Oct. 26. Feed-water, supplying.-Relates to that class of apparatus for automatically returning water of condensation to boilers in which a counterbalanced receptacle is adapted by its movements to operate valves, and comprises among other things the provision of an automatic vent valve for reducing the pressure in the receptacle. The receptacle 2, fitted with a water gauge 3, is mounted and guided in a frame 1, being counterbalanced by weights 13 as shown. Communication with the receptacle is made by two flexible pipes 18, 19 connected to a partitioned chamber 14 secured to the bottom of the receptacle. A lever 31 pivoted at 30 is 'attached to the tank and operates the valve 20 which controls the admission of live steam. A lever 32, connected to lever 31 and pivoted at 33, actuates the spindle 27 of a vent valve 26. Exhaust steam and water of condensation enter the receptacle through the pipe 19, which is provided with a non-return valve 23, the vent valve 26 being open and the valve 20 closed. When the tank descends owing to the weight of the accumulated water, the levers 31, 32 operate the valve 20 and vent valve 26 respectively, thus admitting live steam to the receptacle and forcing the water back to the boiler through the pipe 28, which is fitted with a check valve 29. On the ascent of the cylinder, the live steam is shut off and the vent valve is opened, thus reducing the pressure in the tank and again permitting the entrance of the exhaust steam and water. By means of the nuts 8, 38, the position of the weights 13 and the vent valve 26, respectively, may be adjusted.
Patent GB-190526481-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Automobiles and other Vehicles.
Inventor: CLIFF EDWARD
Filed: 1905-12-19
Granted: 1906-12-19
Abstract: 26,481. Cliff, E. Dec. 21, 1904, [date applied for under Patents Act, 1901]. Motor road vehicles.-The axle of an automobile or other vehicle is supported on coiled springs within the hub of the road wheels, and the bearing- springs for supporting the body of the vehicle are contracted so as to minimize recoil. Fig. 5 shows one of the wheels in vertical section. The wheel hub 17 is hollow and is bolted at its inner end to an annular sprocket-wheel and brake drum, the outer end being closed by a cap 31. The spokes of the wheel are secured at the inner end to flanges on the hub, and the rim is provided with a metal tyre 22 of the shape shown, around which the rubber tyre is clamped by rings 24 and bolts. The wheel rotates on ball bearings on a casing 41, which is constructed in two parts divided horizontally and connected by vertical bolts, and is provided with a vertical cylindrical chamber 42. The end of the axle 11 is also of cylindrical form, and coiled springs 12 are provided within the cylinders. The axle is guided vertically by fitting within the recess 50, and by a flange 51 working in a groove 49. The semi-elliptic springs 14 for supporting the body of the vehicle are constructed so that the upper plate 60 is shorter than the other parts of the spring, and tends to bend in the opposite direction.
Patent GB-190602817-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to the Manufacture of Celluloid like Masses.
Filed: 1906-02-05
Abstract: 2817. C h e m i s c h e Fabriken vorm. Weiler-ter Meer. Feb. 6, 1905, [date applied for under Patents Act, 1901]. Void. [Published under Patents Act, 1901.] Amides, acid.--Acidyl derivatives of secondary aliphatic aromatic amines are purified by fractional distillation and subsequent treatment with organic solvents such as ligroih, benzene, and the like. The treatment with solvents serves to remove impurities which otherwise colour products such as celluloid made from these substances. Specification No. 22,662, A.D. 1901, [Abridgment Class Indiarubber &c.], is referred to.
Patent GB-190608913-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in the Manufacture, and Production, of Compound Metal Ingots and other Bodies, and Apparatus to be used in such Manufacture.
Inventor: MONNOT JOHN FERREOL
Filed: 1906-04-12
Granted: 1907-04-11
Abstract: 8913. Monnot, J. F. April 12. Metal pipes and tubes.-Compound tubes of metals that are difficult to unite by ordinary means are made by dipping a tube of one metal into a bath of a second metal heated to a temperature considerably above its melting-point, such metal being described as in a "supermolten" condition. In this manner a film coating is obtained, and, if necessary, such coating is subsequently increased in thickness by dipping in a bath at ordinary casting temperature, or by casting.