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Patent GB-190914857-A (GB)
Title: Water-weed Cutter.
Inventor: WAYTE HARRY
IPC: A01D44/00
Filed: 1909-06-26
Granted: 1910-05-05
Abstract: 14,857. Wayte, H. June 26. Weed-cutting machines. - Waterweeds are cut by cutter bars e, e<1> adjustably supported by hinged arms d from brackets a which are carried in the stem of a boat. The bar e can be raised and lowered by means of a rope passing over the end of the jib. The bar e' is hinged to one of the arms d to work at angles to suit the slope of the river bed and carries a wheel n. Motive power is derived from a shaft hand bevel-gearing &c, The bar e<1> is stayed by ropes p.
Patent GB-190915278-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Method or Process of and Apparatus for Treating Malt for Mashing Purposes.
Inventor: PORTEUS GEORGE
IPC: B02C4/06
Filed: 1909-06-30
Granted: 1910-06-30
Abstract: 15,278. Porteus, G. June 30. Processes for reduction of grain.-In preparing malt for mashing, the malt is roughly ground, the husks are separated, and the remainder of the malt is finely ground and mixed with the husks. The malt, crushed by rolls 2, passes into a stationary cylindrical sieve 4 containing revolving beaters 5. The flour passes through the sieve, and the husks and granular particles are driven into a second sieve 7 of such a mesh as to allow the passage of the granular particles. The husks pass down a trunk 9 together with the flour from the sieve 4 to an outlet 11, and the granular particles fall between rolls 10, by which they are finely ground and from which they pass to the outlet 11.
Patent GB-190917014-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Apparatus for Taking Soundings, more particularly for use at Sea.
Inventor: DYMOND GEORGE CECIL
Filed: 1909-07-21
Granted: 1910-07-21
Abstract: 17,014. Dymond, G. C., [Hudson, P. S.]. July 21. Sounding-apparatus. - In apparatus fitted with a sample-collecting cup having a serrated edge E and closed by a sliding stopper K as the device is being raised, a bag G is secured by a cap I in a recess H in the cup, the samples passing into and distending the bag as the cup is dragged along the bottom. Washers, stuffing- boxes, or an elastic cover N may be provided to ensure water-tight connexion. A spring S is fitted to the sounding line to prevent the lead from being detached from it. In a modification, Fig. 4, the cup A penetrates the bottom, and its edges coact with a resilient packing R<3> in the sliding member R to retain the samples.
Patent GB-190921303-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Selective Switch Systems applicable to Electric Traction Systems and for other purposes.
IPC: B60L9/14
Filed: 1909-09-17
Granted: 1910-09-15
Abstract: 21,303. British Thomson-Houston Co., [General Electric Co.]. Sept. 17. Electro-magnetic switches.-A selective switch is used in a traction system having sections of the line supplied at different potentials for automatically switching in a dynamotor carried by the car for reducing the potential when the car is on a high-potential section. The control circuits and lights are supplied from the dynamotor A, which is of the type described in Specification 5974/08, [Class 35, Dynamo-electric generators &c.], when the arm 12 of the selective switch S is on the contact 14. The arms of the switch S are operated by a solenoid 20 permanently connected between the trolly T and the ground. The arm 9 carries two pivoted contact-fingers 43, 44, Fig. 2, held apart by a spring 49 and co-operating with the fixed contacts 10, 11. Similarly the arm 12 has contacts 50, 51 co-operating with contacts 14, 13. The ends of the lever 12 and armature 36 remote from the contacts are pressed towards each other by springs 39, 38 in a framework 33 carried by the brackets which support the electro-magnet 20. The armature and lever have pins 61, 62 working in slots in links 54 pivotally connected to insulating links 57, and the slots are arranged so that, when the armature 36 is not attracted by the electromagnet 20, the switch arm 9 is in its central position. The piston 65 of a dash-pot is pivoted to a leg on a link 54, and the cylinder 68 is mounted on the switchboard by a pin-and-slot connexion. The gap between the core 29 of the electro-magnet 20 and the lever 36 is smaller than that between the core and the lever 12, so that the lever 36 will be attracted with a lower current in the coil 20 than is required to attract the lever 12. This adjustment may be made by inserting washers between the frame 33 and the springs 38, 39. Non-magnetic pieces 70, 71 may be used to prevent the levers from sticking to the core. When the car runs on to a low-potential section, the lever 36 is attracted by the electro-magnet 20 and the arm 9 drops against the retarding effect of the dash-pot. Current then passes from the trolly T through the lever 9, contact 11, contact 13, lever 12, and wires 18, 19 to the control circuits and the lamps. When the car is in a dead section, the parts return to the position shown, and when it reaches the highpotential section, the lever 12 is raised. The downward motion of the armature 36 is checked by the dash-pot, and the lever 12 raises the arm 9 until the circuits through the contacts 10, 14 are completed. The dynamotor A is thereby connected to the trolly T, and the control circuits &c. are connected to the low potential side of the machine through the lead 7. The contact 13 may be omitted, and the contact 11 connected directly to the wire 18. An adjusting-screw is then placed under the lever 12 to vary its position.
Patent GB-190923524-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to Bowls or Guide Pulleys as Employed on Yarn Winding Frames and like Machinery.
Inventor: APPLEBY JOSEPH
IPC: B65H75/14
Filed: 1909-10-14
Granted: 1910-08-04
Abstract: 23,524. Appleby, J., and Appleby, E. Oct. 14. [Cognate Application, 1282/10.] Bobbins.-Sheet-metal bowls, bobbins, drums, or guide-pulleys, applicable for quick-traverse yarn-winding frames, and doubling and gassing frames, consist of a tubular part a and flanges b suitably formed to fit the end of the tube. Preferably the engaging-surfaces are plain, but they may be reeded, fluted, or similarly treated. The end plates are pierced to admit a wire spindle d, and the ends are closed by a sheetmetal collar, plug, &c. e.
Patent GB-190924612-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Machines for Brushing and Washing Bottles, Jars, and like Receptacles.
Inventor: POWLEY MALLINSON
IPC: B08B9/36
Filed: 1909-10-26
Granted: 1910-10-26
Abstract: 24,612. Powley, M., Powley, R., and Powley, W. Oct. 26. Bottles, washing. - Relates to machines for brushing and washing bottles &c., of the kind in which the bottles, after being placed on reciprocating carriers, are automatically drawn in between revolving brushes and over a central interior brush, and are then pushed out again. Fig. 1 is an elevation of a machine for dealing with two bottles at a time, one at each end, and Fig. 3 is a section on the line A, A, Fig. 1. The machine is provided with a central revolving brush 12 and four surrounding brushes 13, which are driven at a slower rate than the central one. The lower brushes 13 dip into water contained in the trough 35. A sliding frame 19 is reciprocated by a shaft 18 through a crank 17, a link 24, and a connecting-rod 23, the link allowing a longer period of rest at the end of each stroke. A cross-head 20 is fixed at each end of the frame 19, which also carries two loose cross-heads 26 having conical holes 30 for the reception of the necks of the bottles. When a bottle is placed on a bracket 39 at one end of the machine, and the frame 19 moves to the left, a stiff brush 37 carried on an extension of the frames moves the bottle against the loose cross-head 26 and carries it into the machine, over the central brush 12 and between the outer brushes. While this bottle is being brushed, another is inserted at the left of the machine; the frame then moves to the right and carries the first bottle out again. In a modification, adapted for four bottles, the bottles are placed in pivoted carriers, which tip up when the sliding frame moves out, and allow the bottles to roll on to the frame. In another modification, adapted for two bottles, each bottle is acted upon by one internal revolving brush and two revolving and two fixed external brushes.
Patent GB-190924968-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Combing Machines.
IPC: D01G19/22
Filed: 1909-10-30
Granted: 1910-09-01
Abstract: 24,968. Fine Cotton Spinners' and Doublers' Association, Haigh, C. H., Haigh, L., Bunting, J. T., and Bunting, H. Oct. 30. Combing - machines. - In a device for removing short fibres and neps from the stripper brush of a Heilmann or other combing - machine, the waste is delivered from the brush B by centrifugal force, the brush being closely surrounded with a casing C, which is provided with an adjustable stripper blade E, over which the waste is delivered. A blade d is fitted on the damper D, and lies in close proximity to the brush to prevent an upward draught in front of the cylinder. The waste falls down a shoot C' into a perforated chamber F provided with a cover H, the waste falling from the chamber into a box, or being delivered as a sliver.
Patent GB-190928345-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Means for Checking the Impression and Inking and Damping Mechanism of Rotary Lithographic Printing Machines.
IPC: B41F13/28
Filed: 1909-12-04
Granted: 1910-12-05
Abstract: 28,345. Waite, F., and Waite & Saville. Dec. 4. Tripping-arrangements; inking and damping apparatus.-Arotary offset lithographic printing-machine is so constructed that the tripping of the transfer cylinder automatically trips the messenger rolls of the inking and damping apparatus by means of mechanism which permits these rollers to be put into operation for inking-up before the offset cylinder is returned to printing position. The eccentric bearings 3<Î>, Fig. 1, of an offset cylinder 3 are operated to trip the cylinder by a bell-crank 18 <Î> connected to a handlever 18, and to a rod 19 with a hook 19<Î>, which is brought into engagement with a pin 20, on an arm 20<Î> oscillated by a constantly-revolving cam 21, when the rod 19 is depressed by a treadle 26 which lowers a trigger 23 normally held raised by a spring 24. In its raised position, the trigger 33 keeps the rod free from the pin 20, and, when the trigger is depressed, the lever 18<Î> is operated to trip the cylinder 3. Simultaneously with the tripping of the cylinder 3, spring-controlled rods 31x, 31, Figs. 1 and 2, connected respectively to the bearings 3x and to trip arms 29, 30, Fig. 2, cause these arms to engage arms 32, 33 on rock-shafts 13, 14, which actuate messenger rolls 11, 12 supplying the inking and damping rollers. The rod 31<Î> is connected to the bearings 3 <Î> by a cam-adjustment 36, Fig. 1, which permits the rollers 11, 12 to be thrown into action before the cylinder 3. The shafts 13, 14 are actuated by cams on a constantly-revolving shaft 17, the cams transmitting the motions through freely mounted arms 27<Î>, 28<Î>, which actuate fixed arms on the shafts through adjustable springs so arranged that the fixed arms may remain stationary when the trip arms 29, 30 engage the arms 32, 33, so that the arms 27<Î>, 28<Î> may oscillate without rocking the shafts 13, 14.
Patent GB-190930021-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to the Sinking of Mines Shafts and the like.
IPC: E21D1/16
Filed: 1909-12-23
Granted: 1910-08-11
Abstract: 30,021. Entreprise GÚnÚrale de Foncage de Puits Etudes et Travaux de Mines, and Koepe, A. Dec. 23, 1908, [Convention date]. Drawings to Specification. Hardening ground.-In the cementing method of sinking shafts in water-bearing strata, two or more series of holes are bored and cemented, an inner series within the area of the projected shaft, and one or more outer series surrounding the same. The outer holes may be bored after the inner holes have been cemented, or the boring and cementing of all the holes and the excavation of the shaft may be simultaneous.
Patent GB-191002029-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in the Method of Joining Metal Bars, and in the Construction of Fences, Railings, Frame-work, or the like, from Bars so Joined.
Inventor: HADDAN HERBERT JOHN
IPC: E04H17/14
Filed: 1910-01-26
Granted: 1911-01-26
Abstract: 2029. Haddan, H. J., [Dorling, S.]. Jan. 26. Rail and vertical-bar fencing; trellis-work.- The horizontals, slotted at c, receive the uprights, the sides of the slot being forced on to the uprights by hammering, and the uprights are slotted at f to receive a projection g when the sides of the slot are closed. The bars a may be united to the standards by forming tongues m thereon, inserting them in slots l, and bending them over as shown in Fig. 5. The method of connexion is stated to be applicable to trellis.
Patent GB-191006507-A (GB)
Title: Improvement connected with Inverted Incandescent Gas Burners.
Inventor: GLOVER RICHARD BOWIE GASKELL
IPC: F23D14/30
Filed: 1910-03-15
Granted: 1911-03-09
Abstract: 6507. Glover, R. B. G. March 15. Incandescent gas burners.-The gaseous mixture is heated in an enlarged chamber 1 in the mixing-tube by the ascending products of combustion and bv the heat conducted bv a hollow or solid core-piece 2, which also prevents back-firing. The core-piece corresponds approximately with, but is slightly smaller than, the inside of the enlarged chamber, is pointed at its upper end, and has a curved extension at its lower end terminating at or near the end of the burner mouth. The core-piece may be positioned by studs on the core-piece or the chamber, or by screws 10.
Patent GB-191006635-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or connected with "Forced" Draught Furnace Fittings or Apparatus.
IPC: F23M7/00
Filed: 1910-03-16
Granted: 1911-01-12
Abstract: 6635. Economic Forced Draught and Engineering Co., and Downie, T. March 16. Dampers; doors.-In connexion with a forceddraught furnace, a sliding bolt f fitted inside the hollow front is operated by a crank arm o on the damper spindle j to prevent the opening of the door d until the dampers i, controlling the supply of air to the ash-pit, have been closed. The bolt engages with a lug g fixed on the inside of the door.
Patent GB-191008047-A (GB)
Title: Improved Knot Tying Device.
Inventor: COOK JOHN WILLIAM
IPC: B65H69/04
Filed: 1910-04-04
Granted: 1911-05-04
Abstract: 8047. Cook, J. W., [trading as Cook & Co.]. April 4. Tying or knotting.-In a hand-carried apparatus for tying knots, the knot is tightened and drawn off the usual revolving bill I by an additional revolving hook O. The hook spindle has a helical-toothed wheel gearing with the toothed quadrant which rotates the bill. This quadrant carries a toothed pinion which is rotated by a second toothed quadrant rotated by the usual thumb-lever. The gearing is enclosed in a case A.
Patent GB-191011012-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Wooden Rollers for use in connection with Calenders and like Machines.
Inventor: FISHER RICHARD SMITH
IPC: D06C15/08
Filed: 1910-11-04
Granted: 1911-03-16
Abstract: 11,012. Fisher, R. S. Nov. 4. Rollers.-A wooden roller for calendering and like machines is built up of a number of sections a<1>, which may be coated with glue or cement and compressed between end plates c, c<1> on a spindle b, in such a way that the natural grain of the wood is not continuous. Layers of cotton or like material d are placed between the end sections and the end plates to allow for slight expansion and to prevent unevenness of pressure.
Patent GB-191019851-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to Electrical Cut-outs.
IPC: H01H85/143
Filed: 1910-08-25
Granted: 1911-07-27
Abstract: 19,851. Reyrolle, A. C., and Reyrolle & Co., A. Aug. 25. Contacts.-A contact is pivotally secured to its carrying member in order to be self-adjusting with respect to a stationary clip contact between the jaws of which it is to be inserted. The invention is described in connexion with a fusible cut-out, the contact a consisting of a hollow brass casting with a pressed-out seating c. The surfaces of the seating are engaged respectively by a concave nut g and the convex head e of a screw d, of small cross-sectional dimensions by which the contact a is secured to its support h.
Patent GB-191023283-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Sheet-feeding Apparatus.
Inventor: HEIDE HENRY CONRAD
IPC: B65H3/54
Filed: 1910-10-07
Granted: 1911-10-09
Abstract: 23,283. Heide, H. C., [Autopress Co.]. Oct. 7. Sheet separators. -Relates to sheet-feeding apparatus of the kind wherein the sheets are combed or fanned out and fed off from a pile, and in particular to the devices for holding the second and lower sheets while the top sheet is removed. The invention is described as applied to the sheet - feeding apparatus described in Specification 16,887/08. The sheets are fanned out by combing-rollers 11 in a frame 10, which act on the rear of the pile, and the top sheet is fed off by rollers 38, which are prevented from rotating during the feeding - stroke by pawls 42. The rollers 38 and combers 10 are both carried on a carriage 25 reciprocated on rollers 26. The combers 10 are adjustable to and from the feeders 38, for acting on sheets of different sizes, by means of cross-connected screws 78. The feeders 38 are held in contact with the pile by springs 43, and are raised at intervals by a roller 69 reaching the elevated portion of a stationary cam-bar. The combers 10 are pivoted on levers 13, and the pressure of the rollers 11 on the pile can be adjusted by a nut 22 on the rod 20, against which abuts a helical spring 19. The combers are depressed on to the pile by a spring 15, and are raised therefrom during the return stroke by rollers 32 running on a cam-bar actuated as in the before mentioned Specification. The remainder of the pile is held, during the removal of the top sheet, by a series of laminated spring fingers 50 having abrupt contact edges. The fingers are attached to brackets 51 pivoted to lugs 52 which are secured by set-screws on a transverse shaft adjustable longitudinally of the pile by two cross - connected screws 60. The pressure of the fingers upon the pile can be adjusted by means of screws 71. Preferably two combing-devices are provided, and aholding- finger located close to and on each side of the combing-device. Two additional holding-fingers, projecting forward beyond the outer pairs, are arranged at the centre of the pile. The top of the pile of sheets 1 is kept at a constant level by a ratchet-operated elevating-gear controlled by a feeler resting on the pile.
Patent GB-191026192-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in connection with Compressed Gas Motors.
IPC: F01B17/02
Filed: 1910-11-10
Granted: 1912-02-12
Abstract: 26,192. Pintsch Akt.-Ges., J. Nov. 16, 1909, [Convention date]. Compressed-gas engines.-In a system wherein illuminating or other gas drives a motor h in expanding prior to being utilized, say at a burner k, the exhaust pressure is kept uniform by means of a diaphragm d subject to the exhaust pressure and connected to a throttle valve in the exhaust-pipe i or in the admissionpipe b, or to a brake w for controlling the speed of the motor.
Patent GB-191027135-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or pertaining to Bedsteads.
Inventor: VENN EDITH ELIZABETH
IPC: A47C21/02
Filed: 1910-11-22
Granted: 1911-06-08
Abstract: 27,135. Venn, E. E. Nov. 22. Bedclothes, airing.-In arrangements for airing bedclothes of the type comprising a light folding framework mounted at the foot of the bed, the framework 1 is supported on a level with the bedbottom, and may be supported by chains or tie-rods 4, eyes 7 on the bedstead engaging hooks 8 on the frame when folded. In alternative constructions, the frame is supported by struts, or is slidable beneath the bed frame, and is supported in the extended position by folding legs.
Patent GB-191028988-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Valves for Steam Engines and in Gear therefor.
Inventor: ABBOTT ALFRED
Filed: 1910-10-25
Granted: 1911-10-25
Abstract: 28,988. Abbott, A., Perry, G. V., and Lucas, A. S. Oct. 25. Rotary and oscillating valves; link - motions and linkage gears.-A hand-operated four-way reversing - valve 39, described in Specification 24,826/10, [Class 122 (iv), Steam engines, Regulating &c.], controls passages 40, 41 leading to the distributing-valve 1, which is oscillated from the eccentric 38. The valve 1 controls the main inlet and exhaust ports 6, 7 and the cylinder ports 10, 11, and its amplitude of oscillation is adjusted by shifting the link 24 along the curved arm 21 by hand or by the governor. The distributing-valve may be fitted with spring rings or spring-pressed panels as described in connexion with the reversing-valve in the abovementioned Specification.
Patent GB-191101364-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to the Manufacture of Quartz Ware.
Inventor: BURCKHARDT FRANZ WOLF
IPC: C03B19/10
Filed: 1911-01-18
Granted: 1912-01-18
Abstract: 1364. Burckhardt, F. W. Jan. 18. Silica, in the form of a fine powder, is produced by condensing silica vapour, generated as described in Specification 25,886/11, in a cooled chamber.
Patent GB-191108136-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or connected with Gas Meters.
Inventor: GLOVER THOMAS
IPC: G07F15/00
Filed: 1911-03-31
Granted: 1912-01-18
Abstract: 8136. Glover, T. March 31. Gas meters. - To enable a gas meter to be used with or without coin-freed mechanism, one of the usual fixed gas pipes, projecting from and depending down the outside of the meter casing, is replaced by a projection 1 with a gas-way, and a shaft 2 is provided, driven by the meter and projecting through a stuffing-box in the side of the meter casing, with a slot or the equivalent at its end to engage the coin-freed mechanism. When coin-freed mechanism is not to be used, a gas pipe 12, Fig. 4, connects the projection 1 with the outside piping, the pipe being secured by a nut 16 and screw 9, and having a projection 17<a> to protect the end of the shaft 2. When coinfreed mechanism is to be used, the pipe 12 is replaced by a casing 10, Fig. 3, secured in the same way and containing a valve with an actuating-lever 15 operated by the coin-freed mechanism. This mechanism is of any ordinary construction, preferably of the kind described in Specification 22,830/94, a blade thereon engaging the slot at the end of the shaft 2. The casing containing the coin-freed mechanism is secured either to the casing 10, or to the meter casing, or to both.
Patent GB-191111741-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Nut Locks.
Inventor: SARGEANT ARTHUR LAUREN
IPC: F16B39/02
Filed: 1911-05-15
Granted: 1911-11-09
Abstract: 11,741. Sargeant, A. L. May 21, 1910, [Convention date]. Locking nuts.-For the purpose of locking a nut, a wedge-shaped or parallel-sided slot is cut across the end of a bolt and filled up by a suitably-shaped threaded part attached to a spindle running through the bolt. After the main nut is screwed up, the spindle is tightened by means of an auxiliary nut seated on the bolt head. Figs. 4 and 5 show the form with a parallel-sided slot and locking-piece 8b attached to a spindle 4, screw-threaded at the other end 5 and tightened by a nut 6. Fig. 1 shows the form with a wedge-shaped locking-piece 8.