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Patent GB-190326333-A (GB)
Title: Boot Peg Rasping Machine.
Inventor: BARTELS ALFRED
Filed: 1903-12-02
Granted: 1904-04-28
Abstract: 26,333. Bartels, A., and Knops, J. Dec. 2. Filing-machines.-Fig. 1 shows a machine for rasping pegs on the inner surface of the sole of a boot, in which a rasp-plate 19 is made to oscillate backwards and forwards by means of a lever 13. The oscillatory movement is imparted to the rod 13 from the pulley 1 by means of the crank 4 and a rod 5, which oscillates about a pivot 6 and is connected by means of a sleeve 7 with a rod 8. The latter is firmly connected to a shaft 9, to which the lever 13 is keyed and imparts to it the oscillatory motion derived from the rod 5. Connection between the lever 13 and rasp-plate is effected by means of a pin 16 which passes through a lug 21 on the plate, and at the same time through the forked end 15 of the lever, and eyes 17 in a square frame which bears loosely on the rasp-plate. A crescent-shaped yoke 23, Fig. 3, provided with a slot and adjusting-screws 24 enables the plate to be adjusted relatively to the lever 13. To enable the rasp to operate in different planes, the shaft 9 has rigidly mounted on its end a disc 11 having holes 20, Fig. 3. A casing 10 is mounted on the end of the lever 13 enclosing the disc and provided with a spring handle 22 and pin 12 which may engage one of the holes in the disc. The lever 13 is swung to or from the vertical for each adjustment.
Patent GB-190328747-A (GB)
Title: Razor Sharpening Machines.
Inventor: SCHEUBER AUGUST WILLIAM
Filed: 1903-12-31
Granted: 1904-04-28
Abstract: 28,747. Scheuber, A. W. Dec. 31. Sharpening razors. Relates to holders of the kind described in Specification No. 11,599, A.D. 1903, by which razor blades are manipulated when stropping. A pin 3 upon a plate 1 having a handle 2 carries a roller 6 to run along the strop, and a clip 7 to hold the blade radial to the roller. The disc 10 forming the end of the clip adjacent to the carrying-plate bears a toothed ring 11, and the roller bears a toothed wheel 12 so that the two are geared together by a pair of intermediate pinions 13 upon the plate. A spring 14 attached to a guard-plate 18 against the carrying-plate A and bearing against the lug 16 on the clip normally sets the blade upright but when the holder is drawn along the strop, the action of the roller gearing brings the blade down. The handle is a loose sleeve 2 upon a pin 20, which screws into the carrying-plate, but its freedom is checked by a spring 23 which occupies a socket at the inner end and bears against a disc 21 fast to the pin. This disc having lugs 22, and the ferrule of the sleeve having notches 24 to fit, the latter is available for use in upscrewing the pin.
Patent GB-190412623-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Electric Controllers
Filed: 1904-06-03
Granted: 1905-06-01
Abstract: 12,623. British Thomson-Houston Co., [General Electric Co.]. June 3. Motors, controlling. - Motor - starting rheostats with self-reducing resistances, (i.e. resistances with a negative temperat u r e coefficient such as are described in Specification No. 9842, A.D. 1904,[Abridgment Class Electricity, Measuring &c.]), are constructed so that the resistance is short - circuited when its value has fallen to a predetermined limit. Fig. 1 shows an arrangement whereby this is done automatically. The resistance 2 is connected to the terminals 22, 23, and the coil 21, which can be adjusted with reference to its distance from the pin 3, is connected in parallel with the resistance. The arm 4 mounted freely on the pin 3 is held as indicated by the spring 9, and carries beneath it the contact-spring 5 bearing on studs 6 so that it may slide smoothly on to the contact 7. The arm 12 carrying the magnetic head 13 is also mounted freely on the pin 3. When the arm 4 is turned into its lowest position, the circuit is closed through the spring 5, contact 7, resistance 2, and armature 25, the field magnet 26 being energized through the winding 11, which holds the arm down in position unless the voltage in the mains fall excessively, when the spring 9 opens the switch automatically. The coil 21, being of low resistance compared with the resistance 2, is at first so strongly magnetized as to hold the arm 12 in the position shown by the upper dotted outline ; as, however, the resistance grows less, less current flows through the coil 21, till at last it becomes so weak that the arm 12 drops into the contact 14, and so short-circuits the resistance 2 and the coil 21. For small motors the automatic device may be discarded and the resistance 2 may be cut out manually after its value has fallen by a certain amount. By arranging the connections as shown in Fig. 3, the switch may be operated from a distance ; in this case the switch arm is carried between the pole-pieces 36 of a differential relay fitted with non-magnetic pole tips 37 to prevent the armature from sticking. Normally the armature is in the lower position. When the cut-out 43 and the switch 49 are closed, the coil 40 of the relay, the armature 25, the field magnet 26, and the resistance 2 are energized, but, on account of the high value of the resistance 2, the voltage drop across the armature is small ; as, however, this resistance decreases and the motor speeds up, the drop becomes so great that the coil 41 is able to attract the arm 34 against the action of the coil 40, and so cut out the resistance and put the motor directly on to the mains.
Patent GB-190416766-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to the Manufacture and Purification of Illuminating Gas.
Inventor: COLSON ALFRED
Filed: 1904-07-29
Granted: 1904-11-03
Abstract: 16,766. Colson, A. July 29. Tar oils.-In the preparation of an oil for removing naphthalene from gas, any tar obtained by the distillation of carbonaceous matter at a high temperature is distilled first in the usual way, and that portion which comes over at a temperature below about 270‹ C. is next subjected to one or more distillations to obtain an oil the chief constituents of which have a boiling-point between 170‹ C. and 215‹ C., and containing only small quantities of naphthalene.
Patent GB-190419183-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Producer Gas Manufacturing Apparatus.
Inventor: BROTHERHOOD CHARLES
Filed: 1904-09-06
Granted: 1905-07-13
Abstract: 19,183. Brotherhood, C. Sept. 6. Gas-producers.-Relates to a suction producer for gas engines, with means for regulating the admission of steam and air. Fuel is fed in by a hopper d and combustion started by blowing air in through the pipe f, a cap being placed over the proper air-inlet pipe j. When the producer is working, the gas is taken off at the outlet e, and air is drawn down the open pipe j, along a downtake pipe as shown, and through the grate c. The steam generator is placed on the top of the furnace, and contains the upper part of the downtake pipe. A sleeve i, provided with a rack, slides on this pipe, and the proportion of steam admitted according to the load on the engine is varied by adjusting the sleeve i by means of the pinion k and hand-wheel m. The higher the sleeve, the less is the quantity of steam admitted with the air. The throttling-sleeve i may be conical and work in a conical throat, or it may be of other shape ; it may also be arranged horizontally, and even dispensed with, the down-take being arranged to move.
Patent GB-190420842-A (GB)
Title: A New or Improved Alloy Employed in the Manufacture of Firebars.
Inventor: CROSTHWAITE WALTER GEORGE
Filed: 1904-09-28
Granted: 1905-08-03
Abstract: 20,842. Crosthwaite, W. G. Sept. 28. Alloys.-An alloy for making firebars, such as are used in the steam-boiler furnaces, is made by melting 10 tons of pig iron, adding 2 cwt..of aluminium, and then adding 10 cwt. of steel borings.
Patent GB-190422429-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Photographic Dark Boxes.
Inventor: MARSH JETHRO
Filed: 1904-10-18
Granted: 1905-09-28
Abstract: 22,429. Marsh, J. Oct. 18. Cameras; dark boxes.-The body of a dark box can be used as a camera either by the attachment of a camera to the front, or by fitting it internally with a lens and plate-holder. The box is also fitted to carry all necessary photographic apparatus, and has an extensible portion folding into the back of the box. This extensible part comprises the hinged lid 2, Figs. 1 and 2, of the box 1, and a flexible. non-actinic screen 3 with operating-sleeves 7 attached at 4 to the box and held extended by the folding frame 35, 12, which fastens to the lid at 6 and to the box at 37. The two pairs of flaps 9 provide an intermediate space for passing plates &c., without admitting light, or alternatively a single device may be attached to the inside of each operating-sleeve. The viewing-hood 13 is mounted on the support 23 by elastic material 24, and has a freedom of motion limited by weak springs 29. The view-holes 14 are normally closed by the shutter 15 pivoted to the spring-controlled lever 17, which itself is pivoted to the hood at 18. In pressing on the hood, the bulb 27 is compressed between a plate 25 and the shield 26 of the hood body, and expands the bulbs 21, forcing the plate on the lever 17 away from the loop 20 to raise the shutter 15. Shelves are fitted on either side of the front 30 for carrying any apparatus. When an attached camera is not used, the part 30 is fitted with a lens, and the inside of the box is fitted with an adjustable plate-support which can be focussed by a rack and pinion and folded up against the front of the box. The limbs 54, Fig. 6, of the plate-holder have spring clips 57, and are drawn together by springs 55 to enable the plate to be held by either its shorter or its longer side.
Patent GB-190500520-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to Weighing Machines.
Inventor: SCALES WILLIAM SOULE
Filed: 1905-01-10
Granted: 1906-01-10
Abstract: 520. Lake, H. H., [Scales, W. S.]. Jan. 10. Automatic-feed weighers; feeding-devices; relieving-mechanism. -Belt gear or intermittently-renewed spring power rotates a shaft with stirring- blades, partially closes the hopper gates at predetermined times by means of mechanism independently started by the operator, unlocks the scale beam after the loading stream has been reduced, and cuts off the feed as the beam tilts. The stirrers are driven by a chain from the main shaft 40. By actuating a lever 49 against a spring 51, a toothed sector 43 is enabled to drive a shaft 40-through intermediate ratchet gear. The pivoted hopper gates are connected by arms 36, 38, links 37, 39, a three-armed lever 35 and link 53 to a pivoted lever 52, which, to open the gates, is shifted by a projection 54 on a ratchet-driven disk on the shaft 40. The disk is built up of two portions one of which has a shoulder 60, the angular position:of which can be adjusted. This shoulder presently engages a projection on the link 53 and moves it to the right so as to diminish the feed. About the same time, a stud 90 engages the end of a rod 88, rocks a bell-crank lever 84, lifts the link 83, and frees the scale pan from a two-armed stop 80. The beam by tilting, rocks a lever 75, trips a lever 74, and allows the weight of a link 71 to rock a bell crank 68 and lower a pawl on the link 53 on to the rotating ratchet-wheel 64 on the shaft 40. The ratchet then closes the gates by shifting the link 53 which, by means of a pin 78, lifts the pawl 65 and sets the lever 74 into the tripping position again. After the shaft 40 has nearly completed a revolution, the ratchet-driven disk which opens the feed-gates is unclutched by a stop ona pivoted lever 93. At the commencement of a new weighing, the handle 49 is depressed until a cam on the arm unlatches the lever 93. Previous to this, the lever can be moved through a small arc to store power for completing the drip feed, as often as required without opening the feed gates. To maintain an unvarying speed of rotation of the shaft 40, the latter is connected through gearing to a governor, which may consist of weighted spring arms connected to a friction disk, which, by the outward motion of the spring arms, is brought against an adjustable friction member.
Patent GB-190500865-A (GB)
Title: Method of Extracting Moisture from Air or other Gases for use in the Arts.
Inventor: GAYLEY JAMES
Filed: 1905-01-16
Granted: 1905-07-13
Abstract: 865. Gayley, J. Jan. 16. Drying air &c.-In a method of supplying dry air or other gases, such as that described in Specifications No. 20,207, A.D. 1894, and No. 13,892, A.D. 1904, wherein a series of chambers 3, 3<a>, 3<b>, 3<c>, 3d are used for refrigeration and one of such chambers can be rendered inoperative at a time, the whole or a part of the incoming warm air may be passed through the inoperative chamber and then through the refrigerating-chambers. A deflector 17, movably mounted on supports and located below the chambers, causes the air issuing from the inoperative chamber to be distributed in any desired proportion to the other chambers. Each chamber, which is provided with a coil of refrigerating-pipes 9, is connected to an airinlet pipe 8<1> through pipes 12 and valves 14, and to an air outlet pipe 5<1> through pipes 13 and valves 15. In order to thaw off the frost on the pipes 9, the warm air, which is supplied through a pipe 16, is admitted to the particular chamber by opening its inlet valve 14 and closing its outlet valve 15, and the supply of refrigerant is cut off from its coil 9. The air leaves this chamber at the bottom and passes upwardly through the remaining chambers. Part of the warm air supply may be passed through the apparatus by means of an inlet pipe, which opens below the chambers, and distributing-fans.
Patent GB-190504953-A (GB)
Inventor: YOULTEN WILLIAM
Filed: 1905-03-09
Granted: 1906-06-09
Abstract: 4953. Youlten, W. March 9. Openers, cleaners etc.; separating or sorting fibres.-Relates to means for separating dirt &c. from materials such as the refuse or waste of cotton-cleaning machines, hair or wool. The material is subjected to a combined blowing and beating operation by rotating blades in a chamber from which the dirt can escape as it is liberated, and from which the cleaned material can be removed by hand or automatically. Fig. 1 is a sectional elevation of an apparatus or plant comprising four chambers a which contain rapidlyrotating vanes c and communicate below, by means of grids h, with a dirt-collecting chamber z, and above by means of valves 6 operated by hand with a shaft n through which the cleaned material is drawn. The shaft n may be heated by a steam pipe p surrounding it, and may be perforated with rows of apertures at different levels opening into concentric chambers q, in one or other of which the cleaned material collects according to its density. The apparatus is supported upon a platform 7 provided with trap-doors which are approached by a ladder &c. ; and the chambers a are supplied with waste material by the operative standing on the platform 7, who feeds the material into the hoppers 5. The cleaned material is removed from the chambers q through doors 3 and is deposited into trucks 2 running on rails 1. Various arrangements of chambers are described.
Patent GB-190508149-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Wrapping Machines
Inventor: HEIDE HENRY CONRAD
Filed: 1905-04-17
Granted: 1905-08-03
Abstract: 8149. Heide, H. C., [Borden's Condensed Milk Co.]. April 17. Parcelling caramels &c. - Relates to a machine for folding wrappers round caramels &c., and especially to the folding - mechanism and to means for holding the first folds in position while the other folds are being formed. The plunger P, Fig. 1, forces a caramel from the feed-shoot F into one of the moulds e of the carrying-wheel E, thereby causing the wrapper V, which has been fed into position by any suitable mechanism, to close round three sides of the caramel. The intermittently-rotating wheel E then carries the caramel forward until it comes opposite the folding-blade A, the wheel E being actuated by the pawl k, Fig. 2, which is carried by a pivoted arm K oscillated by means of a crank Z on the main shaft C. The first side flap v<1> is folded over, in the manner shown in Fig. 6, by means of the spring-pressed blade A, which is pivoted to the arm a<9> and is governed by an adjustable stop a<17> bearing against the projection a<18>. The spindle a<a>, on which the arm o<9> is pivoted, is rocked by a rod a<5> pivoted to the arm K. As the spindle a<2> rocks, the projection a<12>, Fig. 12, moves in the slot a<13>, thus allowing the spring a<10> to lower the arm a<9> and operate the blade A. The stop a<19> limits the forward motion of the arm a<9>. As the caramel is again moved forward, the second side flap v<2> is folded down by the pivoted arm M, pressed by the spiral spring d<2>. During the subsequent operations, the flaps v', v<2> are held in place by the circular brush N. The first end folds are formed by the descent of the arm T<5>, carrying side blades t<5>, and the second and third end folds are formed by pivoted blades T<8>, T<9> operated by the fixed cam-disk E<1>, Fig. 2. The caramel, which is then clear of the brush N and has been wrapped-up as shown in Fig. 10, is ejected from its mould e by means of a plunger o. The blade A may be formed integral with the arm a<9>. The mechanism for folding the flaps v', v<2> and the brush N, which parts form the essential features of the invention, may be used with machines of different types.
Patent GB-190510830-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Apparatus for Starting and for Regulating the Speed of Compensated Single Phase Electric Motors.
Inventor: ARNOLD ENGELBERT
Filed: 1905-05-24
Granted: 1906-05-24
Abstract: 10,830. Arnold, E., and La Cour, J. L. May 24, 1904, [date applied for under Patents Act, 1901]. Motors, controlling.-A compensated single-phase series or shunt-wound motor has an auxiliary divided stator winding for purposes of starting and speed regulation, the magnetic axis of the winding being perpendicular to that of the main stator winding and coincident with that of the portions of the armature winding which are not shortcircuited. The main winding of the stator S, Fig. 1, of a series motor provided with four brushes per pair of poles, is connected in series with the auxiliary winding HW and with the rotor winding, the brushes B', B<2> and B<3>, B<4> being short-circuited. The fields due to the non-short-circuited portion of the armature winding and to the auxiliary winding may be co-directional or opposing, so that a very strong or a very weak field may be produced together with a strong cross-field, produced by the main winding S. A point A of the auxiliary winding is connected to one main, and a contact C moves over the winding to vary the number of turns in circuit, the direction of the auxiliary field changing as this contact parses the point A. The auxiliary winding may be divided into a number of coils, which may be connected up in various ways. The motor with the same position of brushes, or with two diametrically-opposite brushes only, may be run with continuous current, in which case the number of auxiliary turns should be the same as the number of non-short-circuited armature turns. As shown in Fig. 2, the current through the auxiliary winding is varied by the variable shunt resistance R<1> or by a shunt reactance. Figs. 3 and 4 show a motor with three brushes, distributed windings being used. Figs. 5 and 6 show the adaptation to a shunt-wound motor, in which the auxiliary winding is placed in series with the main winding as before, but, as the speed increases, the auxiliary winding is gradually cut out. In Fig. 6, the auxiliary winding is connected in series with the armature winding, and the speed is controlled by varying the turns in the auxiliary winding.
Patent GB-190511037-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Steam Boilers.
Inventor: TALLMAN JAMES WALLACE
Filed: 1905-05-26
Granted: 1906-02-22
Abstract: 11,037. Tallman, J. W. May 26. Steam receivers ; priming, preventing.-The steam receiver B of a marine or portable-engine boiler is connected by pipes 12 to the ends of the boiler and provided with valves 5 so controlled by a pendulum 9 that, when the boiler tips, steam is taken only from the highest end of it. The circular valves 5 are connected to the lower part of the pendulum by links 17 held by pivots 18, 15, 16, the pivot 18 being placed below the pins 14 upon which the valves turn. The pendulum is guided and its motion limited by a roller 20, which engages with the side walls of a restricted part of the receiver. A hole 28 allows condensed steam to drain back into the boiler. The steam-pipe connexion 8 and a safety-valve 28 are fitted on the upper part 6 of the receiver.
Patent GB-190514211-A (GB)
Title: Starting Apparatus with Controller Drum for Induction Motors.
Filed: 1905-07-10
Granted: 1905-11-09
Abstract: 14,211. Siemens Schuckertwerke Ges. Aug. 3, 1904, [date applied for under Patents Act, 1901]. Switches.-In induction-motor starters, height is reduced and the number of regulating steps is increased by placing the contact-fingers in two adjacent parallel columns. Those of one column. meet step-shaped drum contacts respectively in advance of those of the other, so that resistance is altered not simultaneously but successively in the different phases. The forward and reverse halves of the drum may be symmetrical or not. Fig. 2 shows the developed arrangement for a twophase rotor r, having contact fingers a<1> ... a' for one phase and b<1> ... bl for the other, c being a contact-finger connected to the neutral point. The forward and reverse halves v, v<1> of the controller are alike. The remaining contact-fingers d, e, f, g govern the direction of the current through the stator s. Fig. 3 shows a tri-phase rotor with unsymmetrical controller, as for working a crane. The row of contacts b<1> ... b<8> contains those belonging to two of the phases, the drum-contact x being shaped so that the cutting-out is successive. On the other side, the contact y serves for braking, and then comes a space during which the motor current is cut off, followed by reversing-contacts. Specifications No. 24,264, A.D. 1895, and No. 5247, A.D. 1901, are referred to.
Patent GB-190516008-A (GB)
Inventor: ROLOFF MAX
Filed: 1905-08-04
Granted: 1906-09-04
Abstract: 16,008. Roloff, M. Aug. 4. Secondary batteries.-The capacity of new uegative-pole electrodes is increased and maintained, and that of old ones renewed, by adding to the electrolyte solutions of the following natures, namely, gluey matters such as gelatin ; albuminous matters such as egg albumen, plasmon, . &c. ; carbohydrates such as sugar or starch etc.; tanning-matters such as tannic acid ; phenols with one or more hydroxyl groups, such as resorcin, or their homologues or derivatives, e.g. phenol sulphonic acid ; dicarboxylic fatty acids such as oxalic and succinic acids ; all bodies which yield this latter class of body on oxidation, e.g. glycol.
Patent GB-190517740-A (GB)
Title: Apparatus for Exploding Mines by Means of Electrical Waves.
Inventor: SCHNEIDER FERDINAND
Filed: 1905-09-01
Granted: 1905-10-26
Abstract: 17,740. Schneider, F. Oct. 25, 1904, [date applied for under Patents Act, 1901]. Exploding mines by electro-magnetic radiations ; coherers.-Metal strips b, c, as described in Specification No. 28,102, A.D. 1902, [Abridgment Class Electricity, Regulating &c.], are fastened to the board a so that the coherer gap is formed at 1. When the apparatus has been set, the gap is bridged by covering it with an explosive coherer powder such as is described in Specification No. 17,741, A.D. 1905, which when rendered conductive by electro-magnetic radiations becomes incandescent by the passage of a strong current and ignites the explosive powder mixed with it. In order to prevent premature firing, the circuit is kept open until closed by the rotating key n of an alarm clock which pushes the spring l into contact with the spring i. The powder is decohered previously to the completion of the circuit by the hammer v of the alarm striking against the anglebends d, e of the metal strips b, c.