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Patent GB-191022872-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Rotary Engines.
Inventor: CROFTON WILFRED BRERETON
Filed: 1910-10-03
Granted: 1911-10-03
Abstract: 22,872. Crofton, W. B. Oct. 3. Fixed-abutment type; cooling parts; packing drums and vanes; working-fluid supply. - Relates to internal-combustion engines, and consists in an improved construction of engine with sliding-rocking vanes, in which separate compartments with separate rotors are employed for compression and firing, the rotors having a common shaft. The rotors 1, 2 are eccentrically housed in casings 3, 4 separated by a plate 5 containing grooves 34, 35 for split packing-rings 36, 37. The casings have extensions 3a, 4<a> for extensions 1<a>, 2<a> of the rotors, packing-rings 10, 16 being interposed. The casing 3 is hollow or water-jacketed, while the rotors are also hollow, the space 22 in the rotor 1 being connected by flexible pipes 30, 31 to a sleeve 24 rotating on a fixed member 23. Pipes 26, 27 lead to holes in the member 23 communicating with annular grooves 28, 29 in the member 24. One of the pipes serves as an inlet and the other as an outlet for cooling-water. The rotors, Fig. 3, have sliding rocking vanes 46 at rightangles to one another, being recessed to receive segmental pieces 47, against which are held spring-pressed packing plates 49. The casings are recessed between points 42, 43 to receive the rotor to form a large are of contact, and are provided with recesses 41 adapted to co-operate with grooves 38, 39 in the sides of the plate 5, connected bv a hole 40. The mixture is drawn in at an inlet in the casing 4, the previous charge being simultaneously compressed until the recess 41 connects through the groove 38, hole 40, and groove 39, with the other casing. The charge is ignited through a spark aperture 53 as soon as the passage is closed, and the products escape through an outlet 52. The casing is recessed at 54 to allow the gases to escape after the vane has passed the outlet.
Patent GB-191025846-A (GB)
Title: Contrivance for Facilitating the Fastening of Electric Conductors to Walls or other Supports.
Inventor: JAMES THOMAS
IPC: F16L3/10
Filed: 1910-11-07
Granted: 1911-10-12
Abstract: 25,846. James, T., and Jones, C. Nov. 7. Suspending and supporting. - A device for securi n g conductors comprises a forked carrier and a wedge or c a m element. An aperture is provided in one arm, through which the cam element i s introduced. Such an aperture is shown at a<1> in Fig. 3, and on rotating the cam, it is made to grip the conductor as shown in Fig. 1. Seatings c3 of insulating - material may be employed between the cable and the grip, and to rotate the cam, its projecting head may be provided with tommy-holes or flats. The device may be secured by a spike a<2>, screw, or projecting lugs.
Patent GB-191026175-A (GB)
Title: A New Indoor Game.
Inventor: HALLAMORE EDWIN HOCKING
IPC: A63F3/04
Filed: 1910-11-10
Granted: 1911-06-01
Abstract: 26,175. Hallamore, E. H. Nov. 10. No Patent granted (Sealing fee not paid). Board games.-A game is played on a board divided into lettered and numbered squares as shown, of which the letters on every eighth square taken in order form a quotation or advertisement. Each player has a numbered disk which he moves eight squares when the number on the disk is indicated by a spinning pointer, teetotum, or other chance device. The player who first reaches the letter from which he started wins the game.
Patent GB-191026353-A (GB)
Title: Method of Checking the Copying of Documents.
Inventor: FRYDMANE JULES
IPC: B41L7/00
Filed: 1910-11-12
Granted: 1911-02-16
Abstract: 26,353. Frydmane, J. Nov. 17, 1909, [Convention date]. Copying documents &c.-Relates to the process of checking the copying of documents &c. by furnishing the copying-paper with marks, letters, or signs which are impressed upon the originals copied, and consists in employing perforated signs &c. on the paper, the sides of the perforations being coated with ink &c. In one form, a number of sheets A are punched with a suitable sign B, and the sides of the signs B are coated with a layer of indelible ink not liable to dry, such as an ink prepared from virgin linseed or castor oil. A similar sign may be radially punched through a roll of copying- paper, and the sides inked. In the case of loose sheets, one of the perforations used for binding may serve as the sign.
Patent GB-191028839-A (GB)
Title: Process for Manufacturing Concentrated Acetic Acid.
Inventor: BEHRENS JOHANN
IPC: C07C51/235
Filed: 1910-12-12
Granted: 1911-05-04
Abstract: 28,839. Behrens, J. Dec. 12. Acetic acid; aldehyde.-Acetic acid is produced by catalytically oxidizing alcohol to aldehyde by passing it over hot metallic oxides such as zinc oxide, then separating the aldehyde, and oxidizing it with molecular oxygen.
Patent GB-191030021-A (GB)
Title: Improved Construction of Gas Regulating Nipple for Atmospheric Burners.
Inventor: GLOVER THOMAS
IPC: F23D14/48
Filed: 1910-12-24
Granted: 1911-10-19
Abstract: 30,021. Glover, T. Dec. 24. [Cognate Application, 4901/11.] Atmospheric gas burners. - In nipple - regulating apparatus in which the regulating - valve 17 is screwed in a fixed part of the nipple and is operated by toothed gearing, a pinion 10 on a transversely - arranged operating- spindle 11 engages the toothed rim of a cup-shaped or equivalent piece 7 fitting over a square or other shaped part 6 of the regulating- valve 17. In order to prevent leakage of gas, the pinion 10, which preferably has a coned part, is forced against a corresponding seating in the gland 13 by a spiral spring 15 surrounding an extension of the spindle 11. Grooves in the nipple or the cup-piece 7, or in both, permit the passage of gas to the exit aperture 18. In a modification, the valve engages a curved seating 19, Fig. 4, inside the nipple and may have a ball or dome-shaped end.
Patent GB-191101538-A (GB)
Title: Improved Swingletrees and Attachments.
Inventor: HILL HILDEBRAND TERTIUS
IPC: B62C5/04
Filed: 1911-01-20
Granted: 1912-01-22
Abstract: 1538. Hill, H. T. Jan. 20. Whipple-trees. - Draught appliances for use with two or three horses are constructed with a main frame consisting of spaced flat plates between which the swingle-trees are pivoted by bolts. Means for attaching the apparatus to the vehicle or machine are also described. Fig. 2 shows a three-horse gear having a main frame consisting of two plates A between which at one end is secured a single tree C, and at the other end is secured, by means of a through bolt G, a double-tree consisting of two flat plates J. Between the ends of the plates J are pivoted two other single trees K, M. Lugs S are formed on the plates A in the position shown to take a bolt F passing through eyes d on a shackle W, Fig. 4. Or flat plates having pins at their ends to engage the eyes d may be secured to the plates A in place of the lugs S. A modification is described in which the bolts F, G are dispensed with, the plates J being secured between the ends of the plates A by two short bolts, and the plates A having holes formed in them to take the bent ends b of the shackle shown in Fig. 10. The plates A may be thickened at the ends by bosses. For two horses, a double-tree similar to J, J, Fig. 2, is used.
Patent GB-191102552-A (GB)
Title: A New or Improved Device for Electrically Igniting Miners' Safety Lamps.
Inventor: PRESTWICH JOSEPH
Filed: 1911-02-01
Granted: 1912-02-01
Abstract: 2552. Prestwich, J. Feb. 1. Lighting burners by electric devices.-A switch for use in electrically igniting miners' lamps without external sparks comprises a conducting barrel a carrying a terminal k, an insulating bush b, a spring- controlled spindle c adapted to make contact with an insulated terminal j, and an insulating cap i. The terminals j, k are connected by wires m, n to a portable battery. The lamp is provided with a copper ring p and a conducting plate x, which are connected through an igniting-wire. In use, the barrel a is placed in contact with the plate x, and the spindle c is pressed against the ring p, so that contact is made between the spindle c and the terminal j.
Patent GB-191104487-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to Processes for Welding or Cutting Metals by Means of the Blowpipe Flame.
Inventor: KNOWLES ALBERT EDGAR
IPC: B23K5/22
Filed: 1911-02-22
Granted: 1912-01-25
Abstract: 4487. Knowles, A. E. Feb. 22. Blow-pipe burners ; gas supply.-A gas supplied to a blow-pipe burner for cutting or welding metal is dried before passing through a regulator, to prevent partial choking of the regulator by freezing of deposited moisture. The gas may be dried before it is forced into a container, or on passing from the container to the regulator, or both. The Figure shows a vessel b charged with a drying-agent, interposed between a gas-container a and a regulator d. Hydrogen, acetylene, ethane, pentane, or other gaseous hydrocarbon may be used; oxygen may be dried by calcium chloride or caustic soda.
Patent GB-191105005-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Electric Circuit Controlling Apparatus for Train Lighting and similar Systems.
IPC: H02J7/14
Filed: 1911-02-28
Granted: 1912-02-28
Abstract: 5005. Electric and Ordnance Accessories Co., Langley, E. H. M., and Price, E. W. Feb. 28. Switches, quickaction.-The snap action of a rotary switch is obtained by means of a four lobed cam R and one or more spring - controlled rollers S, Fig. 3. The contacts J, K, L, L<1>, Fig. 1, are arranged in a circle and are separated by insulating - segments F, G, H on which the movable contact M must rest when the handle of the switch is released.
Patent GB-191109419-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Frictional Igniter.
Inventor: TWIGG WILLIAM WALLIS
IPC: F23Q2/10
Filed: 1911-12-07
Granted: 1912-05-16
Abstract: 9419. Twigg, W. W., and Loeb, C. N. Dec. 7. Flame - protectors; extinguishing w i c k burners.-A windshield s is slidable in guides on the casing of the igniter, and carries an extinguishing - cap r. The wind - shield may be integral with or connected so as to move with the file e.
Patent GB-191113297-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Hats.
Inventor: MERMILLIOD EUGENE
IPC: A42B7/00
Filed: 1911-06-02
Granted: 1911-08-24
Abstract: 13,297. Mermilliod, E. June 2. Bandeaux.-To adapt hats larger in diameter than the head for wear, an inner cap 3 formed of a single piece of material stamped to the shape shown is fixed inside the hat.
Patent GB-191115700-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Means or Machinery for Manufacturing Nut Blanks and the like.
Inventor: REYNOLDS JAMES WILLIAM
IPC: B23B5/14
Filed: 1911-07-06
Granted: 1912-07-08
Abstract: 15,700. Reynolds, J. W., and Chapman, F. July 6. [Addition to 25, 162/10.] Forging nuts; shearin g - adjuncts. - T h e blank is pushed by a pivoted cutter d, Figs. 1 and 3, into the punching or forming position, and means are provided for stripping the blank from the cutter. The fixed cutter d<2> has a circular hole d<1>, and the moving cutter d a semicircular recess. The reciprocation of the cutter d is obtained from a cam d<5> engaging a spring- pressed lever d<6> pivoted to the cutter d. A projection d<8> serves, when struck by the cam, to jar the cutter for freeing the blank, if necessary. The rotary top e<1> of the shoot e also serves to withdraw the blank from the cutter if necessary. Another device for the same purpose is shown in Fig. 3, and comprises a spring-pressed detent l which is pushed aside by the blank and prevents its return with the cutter.
Patent GB-191117035-A (GB)
Title: Improved Protective Device for Closet Seats.
Inventor: TREUDE FRITZ
IPC: A47K13/00
Filed: 1911-07-25
Granted: 1911-09-14
Abstract: 17,035. Treude, F. July 25. Closet seats; seat guards.-In order that the seat may be encased by a paper cover, it is made in halves hinged at an angle so that, when raised, the parts 3, 4 separate and enable paper tubes to be put over them. The parts are connected by a pin and slotted link device 9, 10 so that they move together.
Patent GB-191129177-A (GB)
Title: Improvement in Shoes for Animals.
Inventor: ROWLEY MICHAEL JOHN
IPC: A01L1/02
Filed: 1912-01-15
Granted: 1912-11-21
Abstract: 29,177. Rowley, M. J. Jan. 15, 1912. Integral calks; fixing; sole-plates.-A shoe for animals is made with (1) two circumferential ribs, one plain and the other notched, on the tread surface, (2) nail holes between the ribs formed in the rolling, stamping, or casting process, and (3) a bevel concave surface leading from the inner rib to the inside edge of the shoe; a centre plate may also be provided. Figs. 1 and 2 show a shoe with plain and notched ribs A, B respectively, and a bevel concave surface C leading from the top of the notched rib. In a modification, the notched rib extends to the inner edge of the shoe, being formed with a bevel concave surface. Fig. 7 shows a shoe, adapted for race-horses, having an outer notched rib A, a plain rib B, a bevel concave surface C, and a centre plate D. The shoes are cast or stamped complete in iron, steel, aluminium, &c., or are rolled in bar form and afterwards bent to shape.
Patent GB-191129220-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to the Process of Manufacture of Artificial Fuel and Apparatus therefor.
IPC: C10L5/06
Filed: 1911-12-28
Granted: 1912-12-30
Abstract: 29,220. Graigola Merthyr Co., Yeo, F. C., and Goskar, T. A. Dec. 28. Composition fuel heated in traversing a retort A from which volatile components cannot escape, as described for instance in Specification 23,555/09, is discharged through a chamber E sealed at both ends and cooled artificially, in which the compressed mass emerging from the retort is broken up, but afterwards is compressed again, together with volatile components given off and condensed in the chamber E, before being discharged into the air, broken up, cooled if necessary, and pressed into briquettes. Plugs of fuel formed in the outlets from the retort and chamber may be cooled. The retort A may contain a screwconveyer B resting on the shell. A reduced extension of this screw, or a separate one, may discharge the fuel into the chamber E as a plug, through an outlet which may have a yielding side, a water-jacket, and a flap G to break up the emerging plug. The chamber E is cooled by curved pipes E<3> internally, or by a water jacket, or by both. It may be vertical or inclined, and may contain a conveyer; and its outlet may be similar to that from the retort, and may contain a cooled screw. Specifications 6853/96, [Class 87, Moulding &c.], 7905/00 and 7871/03 are also referred to.
Patent GB-191207569-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Variable-speed Friction Gearing.
Inventor: FOREST FERNAND
IPC: F16H15/46
Filed: 1912-03-28
Granted: 1912-08-29
Abstract: 7569. Forest, F. March 28, 1911, [Convention date]. Variable - speed friction gearing for motorvehicles &c. comprises a disk 1 with conical gear surfaces V<1>, V<2>, V<3>, V<4> and a bevel roller 2, which may be tilted to an inclined position to ensure correct rolling of the engaging- surfaces. In the arrangement shown in Fig. 7, driving and driven rollers 2<1>, 2 gear with an intermediate disk 1. The rollers are feathermounted on balls 7, 7<1>, which are feathered on shafts 6, 6<1>. The apical angles of the surfaces V<1> &c. increase from the centre of the disk 1 outwards. When the roller 2 gears with the surface V<4>, the apex of the surface of the roller's tyre 3 coincides with the apex of the surface V<4>. The rollers are steadied by springs 15. When the speed is to be varied by moving the roller 2, that roller and the disk 1 are disengaged, the ball 7 is slid upon its shaft 6, and the roller is tilted until its periphery, upon engagement, bears uniformly upon the surface V<3> or V<2> &c., as the case may be.
Patent GB-191211977-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Sliver Cans having Metallic Bases or Coverings.
Inventor: PARKER ARTHUR TOWNLEY
IPC: B65H75/16
Filed: 1912-05-21
Granted: 1913-05-15
Abstract: 11,977. Parker, A. T. May 21. Bodies; ends. - The base A of a sliver can B is stamped or drawn from sheet metal and provided with a depending flange a, which is turned up to form a U-shaped channel a<1> into which the lower edge b of a vulcanizedfibre body B<1> is inserted and clamped. The top of the can is provided with a metal ring C, which may be formed similarly to the base with the central portion removed. Specification 13,107/92, [Class 120, Spinning], is referred to..
Patent GB-191212974-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Telephone Switching Systems.
Inventor: AITKEN WILLIAM
IPC: H04M9/00
Filed: 1912-06-03
Granted: 1913-06-04
Abstract: 12,974. Aitken, W. June 3. Electrically released switches.-In a telephone system, a two-way switch b is held in either of its operative positions by an electro-magnet 10 included in the circuits controlled by it, so that the switch is automatically released when the circuit is broken elsewhere. The rollers 13 which operate the contact-springs have an iron core, which, when the switch is operated in either direction, is moved to the corresponding end of slots 17 formed in extensions of the polepieces 11 of the magnet 10. Mechanically interconnected switches.-A second hand-operated two-way switch a is so placed in relation to the switch b described above and to the telephone hook-switch switch that the switch a is returned to normal from the position shown in dotted lines when the switch b is moved to its upper position, and is returned to normal from its alternate position by a bell - crank lever 3 controlled by the switch-hook.
Patent GB-191213330-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and connected with Laundry Washing Machines.
Inventor: HARVEY WILLIAM ROSS
IPC: D06F37/04
Filed: 1912-06-06
Granted: 1913-01-16
Abstract: 13,330. Harvey, W. R. June 6. Washing-machines with closed or enclosed rotary receptacles.-The clothes-containing hollow cylinder B of a washing-machine A is divided by transverse partitions b<2>, of vulcanite, into a number of compartments b<1> wherein clothes of different kinds or from different customers may be placed and after washing may be returned without sorting to the bags or receptacles in which they were brought to the machine. Further subdivision may be effected by longitudinal partitions, also of vulcanite, containing or uniting at the axis of the cylinder ; in this case if, for instance, three such partitions are employed set at angles of 120 degrees, three doors will be necessary in each section for the insertion &c. of the clothes.
Patent GB-191215054-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to Light-sensitive Layers, Emulsions or Plates for Photographic Purposes.
Inventor: FISCHER RUDOLF
IPC: G03C7/30
Filed: 1912-06-27
Granted: 1913-04-10
Abstract: 15,054. Fischer, R. June 27. Plates and films with multiple sensitive layers.-In order to obtain any desired degree of graduation, whether hard or soft, from subjects varying greatly in contrast, a sensitive film or coating is used consisting of a combination of two colour-sensitive layers either of which can be made effective. One layer which works hard is blue sensitive, and the other layer which works soft is green sensitive. The particular layer required is selected by using a colour filter. In lieu of having two separate layers, the emulsion may be mixed.
Patent GB-191218135-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Parachutes for Aerostructures.
Inventor: FOLKERSEN AXEL JOHANNES
IPC: B64D17/00
Filed: 1912-08-06
Granted: 1913-01-30
Abstract: 18,135. Folkersen, A. J. Aug. 6. Parachutes.-A parachute is pivoted to an aerial machine and is normally carried horizontally in a folded position. It is moved into a vertical position by one spring and simultaneously opened by another spring. Fig. 1 illustrates the folded position of the parachute, in which the spring 30 is compressed. The parachute axis 16 is pivoted at 19 to a link 13 pivoted about an axis 20 at right-angles to the axis 19. The parachute is lowered by winding up a cord 38 on a drum 37, a pawl 41 and ratchet-wheel 36 maintaining the parachute in position. The wheel 36 gears with a mutilated pinion 32 fixed to a drum 33 on which a cord 34 is wound which passes to a ring 25 on the axis 16. When the ring 25 is forced up by the spring 28, the ribs 26 connected to the ring are spread out and with them the parachute. The turning of the drum 37 causes the ring 25 to be drawn down the axis 16 until the mutilated part of the pinion 32 is reached, whereupon further rotation of the drum causes only the axis 16 to be lowered.
Patent GB-191221923-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to Furnaces.
Inventor: HILL JOSEPH ALBERT
IPC: F23H3/02
Filed: 1912-09-26
Granted: 1913-05-01
Abstract: 21,923. Hill, J. A. Sept. 26. Grates.- Trough bars or bar - supporting troughs a having openings extending the whole or part of their length which are controlled by pivoted valves d, are provided with strengthening - strips k along the edges of the openings, and flanges i are formed on the edges of the valve. The faces of the strips k are machined and preferably form an angle with the vertical. The flanges i may be chamfered or tapered as shown.
Patent GB-191224992-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Blocking and Ironing Machines for Laundry and similar purposes.
Inventor: BELL LAZARUS
IPC: D06F63/00
Filed: 1912-10-31
Granted: 1913-10-30
Abstract: 24,992. Bell, L., and Bell, T. A., [trading as Bell, C.]. Oct. 31. Ironing - machines with reciprocating-tables ; ironing - machines with rollers.-In machines employing a pressure roller a and a work-support in the form of a reciprocating bed or another roller, the pressure roller, supported on strong springs c, is forced down to its work by cams k mounted on a spindle j connected by a link m with a weighted handlever n held in position by a rack p. In case of accident, the lever can be knocked aside so that it falls, turning the spindle i to remove the cams k from engaging rollers h on the bearings of the roller a, which is thereupon raised by the springs c. Toggles may be employed in place of the cams k, and weights instead of the springs c.
Patent GB-191301956-A (GB)
Title: A New or Improved Water Heater.
Inventor: TURNER THOMAS JOHNSTON
IPC: F24H1/16
Filed: 1913-01-24
Granted: 1913-11-06
Abstract: 1956. Turner, T. J. Jan. 24. Water-tube boilers.-The tubes A are arranged with coils horizontal and lying eccentrically so as to baffle the rising combustion products.
Patent GB-191306477-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to the Feeding of Fuel in Internal Combustion Engines.
Inventor: ROOTS JAMES DENNIS
IPC: F02M67/12
Filed: 1913-03-15
Granted: 1914-02-26
Abstract: 6477. Roots, J. D. March 15, Tappet-actuated pumps; stroke, varying.-In fuelinjecting-apparatus for internal-combustion engines, the fuel valve C is integral with the piston B<2> of the fuel. pump, and is tapped open by the piston L. Screw mechanism G<1>, worked by hand or governor, adjusts the vertical position of the valve-seating G, and thus varies the stroke of the fuel-pump. The pump piston is hollow and carries a spring-pressed delivery valve at the lower end.
Patent GB-191309241-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Flushing Apparatus for Water Closets.
Inventor: KERSEY EDWARD
IPC: E03D3/10
Filed: 1913-04-19
Granted: 1913-07-03
Abstract: 9241. Kersey, E. April 19. Valve-discharge water-waste preventers; scat actions.-The flush is given to the bowl 5 on vacating the seat 6, which, by a rocking lever 24, cross-head 21, and stem 20, displaces the buoyant ball valve 19. The seat is slightly raised normally by the spring-pressed stem 12 and finger 8, and when depressed by the user opens the valve 28 by the finger 32 and allows the tank 15 to fill. The tank has an airvent 15a.