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Patent GB-190508817-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and in the Manufacture of Pulleys and Wheels
Inventor: MCNAUGHER JOSEPH
Filed: 1905-04-26
Granted: 1906-04-26
Abstract: 8817. McNaugher, J. April 26. Making pulleys and wheels.-Relates to an improved form of split pulley or wheel, which can be cheaply and easily manufactured in most part by rolling. The rim is formed in two parts from rolled material the shape of which is shown in section in Fig. 2, a central thickened portion 5 serving as abutment for the spokes while the edge ribs 6 strengthen the member. The semicircular form of the rim members can be conveniently obtained when cold in suitable dies. The rim sections are secured to each other by means of clips or clamps 8 embracing the ribs and fixed to one or both sections by means of screws 9. The hub 2 is similarly formed from two semi-tubular sections which may be cut off an ordinary rolled bar. The parts are clamped together and on to the shaft by means of suitable collars or nuts 13 the inner annular surfaces of which are preferably screwthreaded and slightly tapered to engage the correspondingly shaped bosses of the hub 2. The collars 13 are partible and are cut, as in the previous cases, from semi-tubular rolled bars. They are provided with dovetailed or interlocking ends 14, in which the dovetails may both be on one member as in Fig. 1, or may be so arranged that each member has one dovetail and one groove. The spokes 3 are either entirely tubular or are provided with tubular ends. Countersunk rivet holes 7, 12 are provided in rim and hub respectively. The spoke ends are heated before assembling ; the rivets 19 are cold and are of such a size that when the spokes cool they contract upon the shanks of the rivets and form a secure connexion.
Patent GB-190512507-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Prepayment Mechanism for Electric Meters.
Filed: 1905-06-16
Granted: 1906-06-14
Abstract: 1 2 , 5 0 7. British Thomson-Houston Co., Lloyd, W. J., and Kingwell, K. F. June 16. Switches for coin-freed meters. The switch arm is jointed to an actuating-lever and is attached to a spring, but is otherwise free till prepayment has been made, although the actuating-lever turns with the handle. With the operation of the delivery-determining gear, bowever, an abutment is unmasked or set so that the switch arm is carried to the contacts, and a detent prevents return of the actuating-lever till the abutment is re-masked or unset by the reversal of the gear. In the arrangement shown in Fig. 3, the actuating-lever, 10, bearing the switch arm 9, is concentric with the coin-receiving drum, and a tail 8 with which the switch-arm is provided catches a lug 14 in consequence of a cam in the delivery gear letting drop a masking-lever 7. When the switch is closed, a detent 16 holds the actuating- lever by the joint till the masking-lever lifts the catch, whereupon the switch arm is jerked back and by its spur 23 lifts the detent. In the arrangement shown in Figs. 6 and 7, the actuating-lever 25 bearing the switch arm 26 is eccentric to the coinreceiving drum 30, but is provided with a hook 36 engaging a projection 35 on a loose concentric disk 34, a loose quadrant 33 constituting the abutment. An intermediate fast disk 29 having projections 31, 31<a>, one on each face, is turned first in one direction and then in the other to set the loose disk and quadrant, while latches 38, 40 are set free to lock them, by a cam on the intermediate shaft, which is only turned if a coin has been put into the drum.
Patent GB-190513000-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Valves
Inventor: WARREN MARION
Filed: 1905-06-23
Granted: 1905-08-31
Abstract: 13,000. Warren, M. June 23. Lift valves.-Relates to a device specially applicable for closing the tapholes of casks &c. and constructed so as to avoid breakage due to clogging by pitch &c. The cylinder A, shown screwed into the taphole, is provided with one or more cupshaped holes C in the solid inner end a. The spherical ends d' of bars D correspond with these holes. They are carried by plates e<1>, e<2>, Fig. 5, which enclose the smaller ends d, and are fixed to the spindle B. This spindle has a square end b which can be rotated by a usual faucet-wrench H. A soft-metal ring b<1> is held between corrugated faces to make a liquid-tight joint. When the spindle is rotated, the bars D are rotated upon their seats and then pulled sideways from the holes, as in Fig. 7, so opening them for the passage of fluid. In closing the valve, a cam-ring F guides the spherical ends into the holes.
Patent GB-190516698-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Adjustable Portable Scaffold Platforms.
Inventor: KRUSE MAX
Filed: 1905-08-17
Granted: 1906-08-16
Abstract: 16,698. Kruse, M. Aug. 17. Brackets.-Consists of an adjustable platform capable of being suspended from a ladder leaning against a wall, or, in the case of a larger platform, from two ladders standing edgeways to the wall. Fig. 2 shows the first form. A rectangular frame a is provided with a floor b, a hinged flap c, three uprights e, a rail d, and diagonals f. A rope g is fixed in the middle of its length to a slide h on the central upright e, and passes round guiderollers, its two ends being secured to the upper ends of bars l, which at their lower ends are fixed to the frame a. In the bars l are bearings for a spindle m, which is fitted with handles n at the ends and with rollers o, adapted to run on the sides p of a ladder. Two hooks q for hooking on a rung of the ladder are fixed to the spindle m and pressed forward by flat springs r. When a workman wishes to raise the platform, he steps on the ladder and disengages the books q by turning the spindle m. Rollers u on a spindle t below the frame a also run on the sides of the ladder. When it is required to move the platform farther away from the wall in order to allow it to pass a projecting coping, the flap c is swung back, and pegs on the ends of latches v are raised out of corresponding holes in the frame a. These latches are connected by springs to the sides of a bail w, in which are semicircular notches to receive the spindle t, so that the position of the latter can be altered to make room for the attachment of an extension ladder to the ladder p. The upper end of the ladder is clamped between two cross-bars on a suitable frame. In the modification shown in Fig. 5, the frame a is suspended from two ladders p, standing edgeways to the wall. The floor b is provided with slots, through which pass pegs on the frame a, so that the floor can be made to slide transversely away from the wall. A frame consisting of bars 4, 5 can also be made to slide through staples 6 to clear a projecting coping.
Patent GB-190519302-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Furnace Grates.
Inventor: KRIDLO VACLAV ADOLF
Filed: 1905-09-25
Granted: 1906-04-26
Abstract: 19,302. Kridlo, V. A. Sept. 25. Fire-bars and grates.-Groups of perforations are formed in plates which are used in place of fire-bars, relatively large areas being left unperforated. To supply air to the points distant from the perforations, the plates may be divided into bars, Fig. 4<a>, which are arranged a short distance apart ; in this case strengthening-ribs are also provided. In another modification, the perforations are formed in detachable plates a<11>, Fig. 6, which rest in suitable hollows.
Patent GB-190520217-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Apparatus for the Electrolysis of Water.
Inventor: VAREILLE KARL JOSEPH
Filed: 1905-10-06
Granted: 1906-02-08
Abstract: 20,217. Vareille, K. J. Oct. 6. Hydrogen; oxygen.-Consists of special apparatus - for the electrolysis of water, constructed so as to prevent the gases from mixing. The metal vat 7, Figs. 1 and 2, is made in one piece with one or more vertical rows of V-shaped troughs 9, the top members carrying division plates 11 with flanges 12, to enable the cover sections 8 to be bolted in place. The electrodes 13, preferably of cast iron, and formed with corrugations, grooves, or projections, are carried by screwed rods 14, which pass through insulated bushings in the cover sections and form the terminal connexions 16, 17. The lower edges of the electrodes are placed a little above the apices 20 of the troughs 9, the faces-of which are insulated with glass, ebonite;- &c. 18, so that the gases are deflected upwards and prevented from mixing. The 'cover sections 8 are insulated from the vat 7 by india-rubber packing, and each one carries a liquid-supply trough and pipe 22, 23, and a glass gas chamber 26. The gas passes by way of pipes 24, 25, 27 to a gas-holder, the level of the water seal in the chamber 26 being adjusted for maintaining equilibrium with the pressure in the gas-bolder. The terminals 16, Fig. 1, are connected to the positive, and the terminals 17 to the negative, leads, so that the two outer chambers 26 receive hydrogen, and the inner one receives oxygen. An emptying-plug 28 and a projection 29 for holding a water-level indicator are provided.
Patent GB-190524732-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Footwear and the like
Inventor: ARNIM ARNO ACHIM VON
Filed: 1905-11-29
Granted: 1906-02-01
Abstract: 24,732. Arnim, A. A. von. Dec. 20, 1904, [date applied for under Patents Act, 1901]. Uppers.-Wood wool is inserted between the two parts b of the upper of a boot, shoe, slipper, or the like. The upper is preferably quilted through with seams, as shown.
Patent GB-190600874-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Looms for Weaving Cane Fabrics.
Inventor: POHORZELECK ARNO
Filed: 1906-01-12
Granted: 1907-01-10
Abstract: 874. Pohorzeleck, A. Jan. 12. Cane fabrics ; fashioned fabrics ; fabrics with strengthening-strips ; loom warp threads, uniting ; weaving in warps periodically.-Cane fabrics for trunks are woven with twenty-five cane warps. The seven warps at each side are shed by two healds 26, 27, Fig. 3, and the eleven inner warps by other two healds 28, 29. The shedding is arranged in such a manner that only the inner warps 8-18, Fig. 4, are interwoven with the weft for a certain distance, then all the warps are interwoven with the weft for a certain distance, and so on alternately. The warps 9, 17 are stronger than the others, and pass through larger mails in their heald. The fabric used for one trunk is shown, and it is bent along the warps 9, 17, and along the first and last long wefts to form the trunk. The ends of the cane warps may be held, when desired, by a clamping-device comprising three rows of sticks 31, 32, 33, fixed to bars 36, 37, 38. The bar 37 is fixed and the bars 36, 38 pivoted to a standard 39, the bars 36, 38 are connected by rods 40, 41 to a suitable crank-motion, and a weight 42 may be attached to the bar 38. When fresh warps are to be fastened to the ends of the used warps, the clamp is closed, and the ends of the fresh and used warps are connected by wire hooks by means of a wire fastening-machine. When the clamp is closed, spaces are left between the interior surfaces of the outer rows of sticks.
Patent GB-190603923-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to the Manufacture of Seamless Metal Boxes and like Articles.
Inventor: GRIFFITHS HARRY ALBERT
Filed: 1906-02-17
Granted: 1907-01-03
Abstract: 3923. Griffiths, H. A., and Griffiths, R. H. Feb. 17. Box-making machines.-Metal boxes and similar cupped articles are trimmed, beaded, screwed, &c. in one machine. The blanks are fed down a shoot f on to a rocking arm g, which lifts the blank into line with a mandrel b, a cam-operated spring-controlled push-plate a<1> pushing it on to the mandrel. Screwing, corrugating, or beading and trimming tools i, m, driven from gearing on the main-shaft and mounted on a rocking arm j, are then moved by cam-operated levers l, z to engage the work. The annular piece of scrap metal is cut up by cutters m', q, the cutter m<1> being serrated and the machine being slightly inclined so as to cause the scrap to move towards the cutters. A tool for shouldering the end of the cam may replace the tool i, a suitable mandrel being also provided, and in a modification, Fig. 11, the sizing operation, subsequent to the shouldering is effected in a separate die 8, the rocking arm g being provided with two pockets to feed the blank to the finishing-die 8. The feed-shoot f is provided with a spring finger h which yields if a blank is placed incorrectly on the arm g. A cam-operated ejector s may remove the finished blank.
Patent GB-190604555-A (GB)
Title: Locking Device for Loose-leaf and like Files
Inventor: NICKERT ALBIN
Filed: 1906-02-24
Granted: 1906-10-18
Abstract: 4555. Nickert, A. Feb. 24. Fastenings for apparatus for filing papers and documents. A locking-device arranged on the outside of the cover of a loose-leaf file comprises a locking-bar d consisting of two arms hinged at e, each arm being provided with notches c<1> to fit into grooves on the projecting ends of the filing-pins. The free ends of the arms can be locked together by a pin f entering the hole g. Springs may be inserted beneath the bar to compensate for the varying thickness of. the file.
Patent GB-190605764-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and connected with Stays or Fastenings for Windows.
Inventor: CHELL FRANCIS JOHN
Filed: 1906-03-09
Granted: 1907-02-28
Abstract: 5764. Chell, F. J. March 9. Stays.-The sleeve 9, Figs. 1 and 3, is eccentrically pivoted about a pin 4 so that the casement stay 2 may slide clear of the pin when disengaged. A handle or the like 12 prevents the window from opening beyond the limits of the stay, and a weighted book 14 and an abutment 13 secure the window when it is slammed to. Preferably, also, the sleeve 9 is slit at 15 to enable the parts to be readily disengaged.
Patent GB-190606818-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Protective Devices for Vapour Electric Apparatus.
Filed: 1906-03-21
Granted: 1906-12-20
Abstract: 6818. British Thomson-Houston Co., [General Electric Co.]. March 21. Vacuum tubes.-Each graphite anode 3 of a mercury-vapour tube is in a part of the tube surrounded by a conductive shell 9, and is connected to the shell, in order to keep the space round the anode at the same potential as the anode. The shell may be of copper, supported by a glass rod 13 and adjustable screws 15 of non- conductive material such as fibre. For proper ventilation, it is open at the top, or perforated as shown. The object of the device is to prevent discharges directly between the two anodes of a rectifier, or from an anode to the glass wall.
Patent GB-190609643-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Steam Heating Systems.
Inventor: SHURTLEFF FRANK
Filed: 1906-04-24
Granted: 1906-11-15
Abstract: 9643. Shurtleff, F., and Sleight, E. H. April 24. Heating buildings &c.-In a steam heating-system, a return pipe 10 communicates with each radiator 8 and the air and water of condensation are drawn by means of an ejector 13 worked by steam from the supply pipe 7, and delivered through a condenser 14. The steam is there condensed, and the water returns to the boiler through the pipe 18, the check valve 19 and a pipe, which runs inside the return steam-pipe. The air passes upwards through the pipe 17 and escapes through a number of air vents 20, placed inside a casing 21 which communicates by means of a pipe 22 either with the open air or with the valve shown in Fig. 3; the valve has a float 28 which rises and prevents the return of air to destroy the vacuum.
Patent GB-190610609-A (GB)
Title: Grey Tints on Furs, Feathers and the like and Production thereof.
Inventor: PANTIN HERBERT
Filed: 1906-05-05
Granted: 1907-04-04
Abstract: 10,609. Pantin, H., (Executor of Abel, C. D.), [Akt.-Ges. f³r, Anilin - Fabrikation]. May 5. Dyeing fast and clear grey shades on furs, feathers, and the like is effected with a dilute aqueous solution of a suitable salt of p.amidodiphenylamine, or of p-p-diamidodiphenylamine in the presence of an oxidizing-agent, e.g. hydrogen peroxide. The material may be mordanted, e.g. with an aluminium salt, such as alum, and then washed, before dyeing. In an example, the fur is first suitably treated with soap or an alkali, which is then thoroughly washed out, the water being preferably mixed with acetic acid towards the end of the washing. The fur is then treated in an alum bath for several hours and afterwards washed with water. The dye-bath is then prepared, and consists of a dilute aqueous solution of p-amidodiphenylamine hydrochloride and hydrogen peroxide. The dyeing is effected at the ordinary temperature in a few hours. In a modification, the aluming is omitted, and the dye-bath consists of a dilute solution of p-p-diamidodiphenylamine hydrochloride, hydrochloric acid, and hydrogen peroxide. In another modification, in which the diamido salt is used, the fur is mordanted as before and the acid is omitted. Dyeing is in this case effected at 20-25‹ C., alkali being entirely absent. Dyeing is followed by washing and drying. Specification No. 14,212, A.D. 1905, is referred to. According to the Provisional Specification, derivatives of p-amidodiphenylamine may be used.
Patent GB-190611250-A (GB)
Title: An Apparatus for the Control and the Registration of the Operations Performed by a Ticket Printing and Issuing Machine.
Filed: 1906-05-14
Granted: 1906-10-11
Abstract: 11,250. Soc. Universelle des Appareils Controleurs. July 19, 1905, [date. applied for under Patents Act, 1901]. Cutting-apparatus; feeding-apparatus for webs; inking - apparatus; platen presses; printing on tickets; printing-apparatus combined with fare and admission-fee registering and checking apparatus.- In a machine for printing at each operation one of a number of different tickets, such as railway tickets, summing the monetary values thereof, and printing sufficient data on an auxiliary strip to enable the register to be checked, a hand-wheel and indicator are provided for rotating the shaft 2, Fig. 7, to bring the required type block 59 into the printing line, and the downward stroke of the printing-lever 37 presses the platen frame 62 on to the type by the link-work and gearing shown. A pivoted handle upon the setting-lever withdraws the bolt 12 at the commencement of the stroke, and the lever is kept down by the bolt 53 until the printing-lever at its lowest position operates the rod 55 and releasing- wedge 56. Normally, the flanged end of an arm 45 engages a groove in a block on the printing- lever and locks it, but the setting operation displaces the arm and frees the lever which is provided with a full stroke mechanism 102, 103. The descent of the platen frame prints the matter special to the ticket upon a cardboard sheet passing over a feeding-roller 63 and also the date and other matter set upon a fixed type block ; a line of type at the side of each ticket block is also printed upon a check-strip 81. As the platen descends, the scissors 65 are opened and the check-strip feed-pawl 86 retracted, and a pin on the feeding-roller slips beneath the end of the pawl 93 and the inking- roller 73 is drawn over the types to one side. Upon the return, both rollers feed and the scissors sever the ticket. Associated with each type block is a platen - operated counter showing the number of tickets of each kind printed, and, when the auxiliary check strip on its roller 107 is brought into contact with the type blocks and the handwheel is rotated, there will be printed thereon this number together with the matter special to the ticket. The passage of the type block feeds the , strip ; there is an inking-roller 112.
Patent GB-190613350-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Apparatus for Indicating Races.
Inventor: SCHADE MORITZ
Filed: 1906-06-09
Granted: 1906-11-01
Abstract: 13,350. Schade, M. June 9. No Patent granted (Seading fee not paid). Indicating races; speed indicators.- In apparatus for indicating the progress of races on rotating platforms &c., the latter are put in gear with alternating - current dynamos which operate synchronous motors ; the motors operate devices for showing optically or otherwise the relative motion of the racers as shown. Wheels R, Fig. 1, connected with the rotating platforms drive dynamos D, which are connected through switches S<2> with synchronous motors SM. The exciting current is supplied through a switch S' by a battery B. The motors operate worms K which rotate the concentric transparent disks S at speeds proportional to the speeds of the platforms. The disks are supported on roller bearings N, Figs. 2 and 3, in front of a lens O, and the shadows of opaque objects on the disks are projected on a screen, thus displaying the progress of the race. A plate Y with scale markings shows the distances coveted. The inner portion of the picture may be occupied by animated pictures projected from kinematographs operated by the motors. The motors may also operate counting- devices. For adjusting the positions of the disks and starting them at the correct time, the motors may be worked by a handle H, Fig. 1, and may be thrown into gear with the worm shafts by means of an electro-magnetic clutch E operated from the battery B by a switch S<3>. The motors may operate mechanical figures on rotating platforms. Transformers T may be put in the motor circuits.
Patent GB-190613845-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Magnetic Separators.
Inventor: NEWTON CHARLES ANDREW
Filed: 1906-06-16
Granted: 1907-05-30
Abstract: 13,845. Newton, C. A., Newton, H., and Newton, R., [trading as Newton Bros.]. June 16. Magnetic separators.-In a magnetic separator, applicable especially for extracting iron from the raw materials used in the manufacture of earthenware, china, and the like, a series of electromagnets a have their cores 0 attached to or formed integrally with iron cheeks or plates e, or each core may be provided with separate plates. The plates on each side may be provided with soft-iron studs h, which intermesh with those of the opposite plates and extend nearly to the latter. The separator may be placed in a trough f through which the slip or other material to be treated is flowing, a handle g being provided so that the separator may be lifted out for cleaning or repairs. Should the supply of current to the magnets fall below a predetermined limit, a valve m, which is normally held clear of the trough by a magnet o wound in series with the other magnets, falls and prevents any untreated material from passing into the treated material, and also prevents the magnetic particles adhering to the plates and studs from being carried amongst the separated material. The apparatus may be placed vertically or in other positions, material such as powdered flint dust falling through it by gravity.