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Patent GB-190420093-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or connected with Thimbles.
Inventor: KEEN ALBERT
Filed: 1904-09-17
Granted: 1905-08-03
Abstract: 20,093. Keen, A. Sept. 17. Thimbles are fitted with magnets so as to enable them to pick up needles &c. A magnetic disc may be used as a cap to the thimble, or a magnet may be cemented in so that the pole or poles project through. Fig. 6 shows a thimble fitted with a small bar-magnet f. The thimble may be wholly or partially of steel and the steel can then be magnetized.
Patent GB-190421046-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Fireproof Floors and Ceilings.
Inventor: KLEINE JOHANNES FRANZ
Filed: 1904-09-30
Granted: 1905-10-30
Abstract: 21,046. Kleine, J. F. Sept. 30. Floors; ceilings.-Relates to constructions of the kind described in Specifications No. 2335, A.D. 1893, and No. 18,295, A.D. 1896, in which bricks or blocks and embedded iron members are used: Fig. 1 is a section in the longitudinal direction of the embedded iron bars, and Figs. 2, 3, and 4 are sections of three forms of floor in the transverse direction of the bars. Of the blocks b, those adjacent to the embedded iron bars a are inclined, as shown in Fig. 2, or provided with inclined surfaces, as shown in Fig. 4, so that the same effect is produced as if the floor were vaulted, as indicated in dotted lines, the tensional stresses being taken up by the iron bars. A concrete filling c is used to take the compression strain. In the form shown in Fig. 3, the 'blocks b produce actual vaulting in the concrete c, and they are preferably made in two or more parts jointed together.
Patent GB-190423515-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in the Manufacture of Stable Hydrosulphites
Inventor: JOHNSON JAMES YATE
Filed: 1904-10-31
Granted: 1905-06-29
Abstract: 23,515. Johnson, J. Y., [Badische Anilin & Soda Fabrik]. Oct. 31. Potassium and sodium hyposulphites.- Hyposulphites may be rendered anhydrous not only by the process described in Specification No. 7397, A.D. 1904, but, according to this invention, by treatment with a strong aqueous or alcoholic solution of caustic soda or potash, or with finelyground solid caustic soda or potash. The anhydrous hyposulphite is obtained as a granular precipitate, which is filtered, and may then be used as a paste ; or the caustic alkali may be washed away by liquids such as alcohol, and the hyposulphite left as a paste containing no alkali, or, after treatment with the alcohol or other similar liquid, it may be dried in vacuo. The pastes described and the anhydrous hyposulphite are characterized by great stability. If zinc hyposulphite or zinc sodium hyposulphite be treated with alkali as above, double decomposition takes place, anhydrous sodium hyposulphite being precipitated, while the zinc remains in solution.
Patent GB-190425863-A (GB)
Title: An Improvement in Pneumatic Tyres.
Inventor: VALE WILLIAM
Filed: 1904-11-28
Granted: 1905-05-25
Abstract: 25,863. Vale, W. Nov. 28. Tyres, pneumatic. -To prevent slipping, one or more non-extensible rings a of smaller diameter than the inflated tyre are put between the layers b of canvas of the tyre cover so that the inflated tyre has two or more treads c, c<1>. Fig. 3 shows a modification in which the ring a lies in the canvas loop b, b<1> within the tyre, and two air tubes d, d' are used. Fig. 4 shows a modification in which two treads are built on the outer cover and the ring a lies between the layers of canvas or in the material of the tread.
Patent GB-190428147-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Electric Vapour Apparatus especially Electric Lamps of the character known as Electric Vapour Lamps or Vapour Arc Lamps
Inventor: BASTIAN CHARLES ORME
Filed: 1904-12-22
Granted: 1906-01-22
Abstract: 28,147. Bastian, C. O. Dec. 22. Vacuum tubes. - Mercury and other vapour lamps, rectifiers, and circuit-breakers are constructed so that the quantity of mercury &c. at the electrodes is regulated during working without the passage of liquid between them, and so that, at starting, the mercury column is separated at a definite point. Air or other harmful gas which may get into the apparatus can be transferred to a small chamber, which may conveniently be situated above one of the electrodes so as to act as a cushion. Instead of running two lamps &c. in parallel, one lamp is used, in which a single arc is first formed and afterwards subdivided ; for instance, the lamp may have one negative and two positive electrodes, situated respectively in one wide and two narrower limbs, constituting the container, the pressure being regulated by means of enlargements behind the positive electrodes, into which enlargements the mercury is forced without necessarily altering the volume of the electrodes. The temperature of the luminous column may be regulated by forming the tube of constant bore but variable thickness. The tube may act as a switch for a starting electromagnet or resistance or other device to be cut out of circuit when the lamp starts. The tube a, Fig. 6, is of small bore, so that mercury is retained at the electrodes by surface-tension. The electrode pockets are covered by a heat-insulating or heatradiating device, arranged so that the surface of the electrode is cooler the smaller the volume of the electrode, or are constructed as shown at b<1>, so that as the volume diminishes the liquid surface increases. The bulb d which retains the excess of mercury may serve to produce a like result, and an additional pocket may be provided close to the pocket c. When the apparatus is used as a circuitbreaker, the pockets are so shaped that transference of mercury causes lengthening or shortening of the vapour path and consequent failure of the discharge through excessive lengthening, cooling, or heating. The tube may form a nearly complete circle ; or an inverted U -shaped lamp, with mercury sufficient or more than sufficient to fill the electrode bulbs, may be used. At the point where it is desired to separate the mercury column in starting the lamp, a projection h, preferably of glass, is provided, or the tube is constricted ; or there is attached a vertical tube terminating in a bulb, which may be used in the exhaustion and sealing of the lamp. Fig. 10 shows a lamp with an additional electrode j, connected by the mercury with the electrodes b, c when the lamp is not working, so as to close the circuit of an electromagnet &c. According to the Provisional Specification, the seals of the leading-in wires may be smeared, while hot, with seccotine or the like.
Patent GB-190502690-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Railway Signal Lamps and the like.
Inventor: O'DONNELL JOHN PATRICK
Filed: 1905-02-09
Granted: 1905-11-30
Abstract: 2690. O'Donnell, J. P., [Adams & Westlake Co.]. Feb. 9. Signal lamps.-In signal and like lamps in which two parallel beams of light are obtained by the double use of a vertical reflector such as 4, a convex converging-lens 6 is placed between this reflector and the source 3 of light to increase the power of this'second beam of light. [Reference has been directed under Patents Act, 1902, to Specification No. 10,911, A.D. 1904.]
Patent GB-190510034-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to Abdominal Massage Devices.
Inventor: BURNS SIDNEY HERBERT
Filed: 1905-05-12
Granted: 1905-08-10
Abstract: 10,034. Burns, S. H. May 12. Belts.-A massage device, which may also be used as an abdominal support, consists, preferably, of two helical wires A, D, secured by a belt to the body.
Patent GB-190510775-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Window Fastener
Inventor: GAVIN PATRICK
Filed: 1905-05-23
Granted: 1905-11-23
Abstract: 10,775. Gavin, P. May 23. Sash fastenings; sliding bolts.--A sliding window sash is held in any position by a sliding bolt C engaging with a notched plate P fixed to the framing R. The bolt C is drawn back, against the action of a spring H, by means of a knob J. The bolt C is guided by rollers K and by a pin E, Fig. 5, which engages with slots F in the fixed piece G. The piece N serves as a fulcrum when drawing back the knob J by means of the thumb. To prevent the bolt C from being operated from outside the window, a small cross-bar may be fitted which can be moved behind the head of the bolt.
Patent GB-190513103-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Attachments for Shuttle Spindles of Looms for Weaving.
Inventor: RAUSCH WILHELM
Filed: 1905-06-24
Granted: 1906-03-08
Abstract: 13,103. Rausch, W., and Gondolf, H. June 24. Loom shuttles.-In order that weft spools may be readily removed from and placed on a shuttle tongue, and be held firmly thereon when in the working position, the tongue c, which is adjustably pivoted on a pin b, is provided with a strip d, which is fixed to the front end of the tongue and passes through its butt end. When the tongue is raised, the strip d is not subjected to any strain and lies along the tongue, while, when the tongue is lowered, the end of the strip d is pressed by a spring f<2>, which may be adjustable by a set-screw, and the strip is bent outwards to hold the spool. A spring f<1> may be used to hold the tongue in the closed position. [Reference has been directed under Patents Act, 1902, to Specifications Nos. 1799 and 2916, A.D. 1855, No. 4742, A.D. 1884, No. 7999, A.D. 1886, and No. 5762, A.D. 1890.]
Patent GB-190517562-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Gear Cases for Motor Vehicles and the like.
Inventor: BOULT ALFRED JULIUS
Filed: 1905-08-30
Granted: 1906-06-28
Abstract: 17,562. Boult, A. J., [Compagnie Belge de Construction d'Automobiles, and Pfaender, O.]. Aug. 30. Gear cases.-Relates to a tension-regulating arrangement for the wheel driving-chains of motor-cars, also adapted to form a support for a rigid chain-gear case as described in Specification No. 13,282, A.D. 1905, and consists in the combination with such chain strut of a rigid longitudinallydivided oil-tight and dust-proof gear case. As shown in Figs. 1 and 2, the connecting-rod or chain strut is made in two parts a, b, secured together by bolts. The front end terminates in a collar f, which fits on an externally ball-shaped eccentric adjusting-device g. The rear end takes the form of a disk o supported on the axle. The two halves of the gear case s are connected at their flanges by bolts, and are supported at one end by a projection u on the collar f, and at the other end by a projection v on the disk o. The gear case is mounted on the rotating part of the hub of the wheel by means of a bearing x rendered tight by felt packing.
Patent GB-190519154-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Three-speed Change Gears for Cycles and the like.
Inventor: FISHER WILLIAM THOMAS
Filed: 1905-09-22
Granted: 1906-05-24
Abstract: 19,154. Fisher, W. T., and Radford, W. Sept. 22. Variable-speed gearing.-In a three-speed hub gear for motor and other cycles &c., two sets of planet pinions b<2>, c' are adapted to gear with non- rotatable sliding sun pinions b<1>, c<1>. Thus, for the high speed, a sleeve e is drawn to the right so that the pinion b<1> is in gear with the pinions b<2>, when the hub is driven through the parts i, b<2> and the ring of teeth b<3>. By allowing the sleeve to be retracted towards the left by a spring k until a freely-mounted clutch ring d<1> meshes with teeth d' and with the pinions b', as shown in Fig. 2, the parts i, b<2> are locked and the hub is driven at the normal or middle speed. Further movement of the sleeve towards the left brings the sun pinion c<1> into gear with pinions c', carried by the hub, which is thus driven at low speed through the internallytoothed ring c<3> and the planet pinions c'. Ball bearings are provided between the parts i<1>, c'.
Patent GB-190522216-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Bearings for Shafts.
Inventor: GRAY JAMES HAMMOND
Filed: 1905-10-31
Granted: 1906-08-23
Abstract: 22,216. Gray, J. H. Oct. 31. Lubricating ; bearings for shafts. Bearings for shafts, especially applicable for use under water, such as for the shafts of bucket dredges or propeller shafts, are lubricated by water. Figs.2 2 and 3 show the application to a dredge tumbler shaft. The bearing-box 5, which is mounted in an hexagonal aperture between a plate 2. riveted to the bucket ladder and a sliding plate 4, contains a bushing 6, which is formed with a series of recesses 7 containing bearing - blocks 8 o f lignum vitµ or other durable material. In a wedge - shaped aperture behind each block is placed a wedge 10 to take up wear. The wedges have heads 11 with threaded sockets 12 to receive screw eyes to facilitate removal. End thrust is taken by an hexagonal block 13, placed in a recess in the cap 14 bolted to the box 5. The block 13 is adjusted by means of a plate 16, having a stem 17 screwed through the cap 14 and held by the nut 18. Lugs 20 on the cap 14 enter the spaces between the heads 11 of the wedges. Water is supplied to the bearing by a pipe having a flexible connexion with the pipe 26, and passes through the passages 27, 28 to the chamber 29. After lubricating the bearing, the water escapes at the end 22, which is loosely packed. Fig. 11 shows the application to the stern bearing of a propeller shaft. The bearing has flanges 31 bolted to the stern post 32, and a similar bearing may be secured to a special bulkhead 34. Tubes 36, 37 have flanged heads secured to the bearings, and slide one within the other to give access to the wedges 10. Water is drawn off from the tubular casing by the pipe 38, and lubricating-water may be supplied to the bearing by the pipe 39 in the manner shown in Fig. 2.
Patent GB-190522238-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Preparing Iron Pyrites for Desulpurization.
Inventor: WEDGE UTLEY
Filed: 1905-10-31
Granted: 1905-12-30
Abstract: 22,238. Wedge, U. Oct. 31. Moving-beater apparatus.-Relates to a device for mixing " pyrites fines " or " pyrites smalls " with iron or other metallic sulphate or mixture of sulphates. Blades or vanes 3, carried by a rotating shaft 2, operate in a trough 1, into one end of which the material is fed through feeders 4, 5. The blades have a combined stirring and feeding action on the material, which is discharged at the other end of the trough. 'The mixer may be provided with a steam jacket 6 or other heating-appliance.
Patent GB-190522543-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Life-saving Appliances for Sunken Submarines and the like.
Inventor: EDNEY ERNEST ALBERT
Filed: 1905-11-03
Granted: 1906-09-27
Abstract: 22,543. Eduey, E. A. Nov. 3. Coffer-dams.-In apparatus of the kind described in Specification No. 15,355, A.D. 1905, the tubular escape e, which is attached to the man-hole of a submarine vessel, is provided at its lower end with eyes, to which are shackled ropes o passing through eyes m on the vessel. By drawing on these ropes from above, the bottom ring d is pulled down on to the man-hole cover c and secured by hinged bolts. Ropes n guide the tubular escape in its descent, while a screwed lid f is fitted to the ring d to prevent the entry of water. A ladder r is provided and steps h formed on the ring d upon which a person stands to gain admission to the vessel.
Patent GB-190523586-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Apparatus for Charging Blast Furnaces.
Inventor: CROOKE WALTER
Filed: 1905-11-16
Granted: 1906-07-19
Abstract: 23,586. Crooke, W., and Crooke, A. Nov. 16. Charging.-Relates to blast-furnace charging- apparatus of the kind in which means are provided for rotating the hopper and bell, in order to distribute the charges more evenly. The hopper D, which is provided with an encircling jacket P' entering a water seal P, rests upon the bell E. The rod E<1>, which carries the bell, is supported on trunnions in the forked end
Patent GB-190524200-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Devices for Electrically Lighting Inverted Gas Burners.
Inventor: BENARD PAUL
Filed: 1905-11-23
Granted: 1906-03-29
Abstract: 24,200. BÚnard, P. Nov. 26, 1904, [date applied for under Patents Act, 1901]. Lighting inverted incandescent gas lamps.-To protect the platinum wire, for electric ignition, against the deteriorating action of the heat of the flame and of the waste gases, this wire s is held above the cone deflector b by means of claws h, i, cut out of a plate d secured on the burner; the coil s is enclosed within wire-gauze k provided with a small outlet opening m and secured by the claw l. The Bunsen nozzle a is protected by wire-gauze r.
Patent GB-190604349-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Combined Ventilating and Warming Apparatus.
Inventor: SAUNDERS SAMUEL
Filed: 1906-02-22
Granted: 1906-10-18
Abstract: 4349. Saunders, S. Feb. 22. Air, heating; ventilators. -A combined apparatus for heating and ventilating comprises a radiator fitted against a frame b surrounding an air inlet in the wall. The radiator sections are provided in the front with webs a<1> extending at the back to the frame b and at the front nearly to the top of the radiator, leaving spaces a<2> for the escape of the warmed fresh air. Webs a<3> are also provided at the back as shown. Fresh air enters through a grating e, and passes through a hit-and-miss valve f and through a filtering-screen c of gauze or fabric fitting into the frame b. The radiator is pivoted at one side, so that it may be turned away from the wall for cleaning purposes. Fig. 6 shows a modification in which the webs a<1> completely enclose the front of the radiator, the fresh air escaping at the back as shown, being deflected by the mantle h. The radiator sections are cast with the webs a<1> on each side, the webs butting together when the sections are fixed in position ; or they may be provided with webs on one side only, the web on one section butting against the face of the next section. Instead of the valve f, a valve may be fitted to the radiator.
Patent GB-190607902-A (GB)
Title: An Instrument for Holding the Blades of Safety Razors for the Purposes of Sharpening, Setting or Grinding.
Inventor: DREW ERNEST
Filed: 1906-04-02
Granted: 1906-08-09
Abstract: 7902. Drew, E. April 2. Razors and shavers.-The blades of safety razors, particularly those of the "Gillette" razor, are held for grinding and setting purposes between a pair of plates B riveted together at one end F, one of the plates being fixed in a handle while the other may be clamped to the first by means of a sliding ring A. To secure the blade in the plates, studs D, on one of the plates, pass through apertures in the blade and in the other plate.
Patent GB-190609117-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Magneto Electric Generators.
Filed: 1906-04-17
Granted: 1907-04-17
Abstract: 9117. Ateliers Thomson - Houston (Anciens Etablissements Postel Vinay). April 17,1905, [date applied for under Patents Act, 1901]. Gas and like engines, igniting in. Magnetoelectric generators, particularly suitable for ignition purposes in explosion motors, are constructed with magnets A, Figs. 1 and 2, having discontinuous polar surfaces, the bobbin B of the armature being fixed and mounted centrically round a revolving shaft T carrying shoulders C, D as shown in Figs. 4 and 5. For each revolution of the shaft there, will thus be four changes of flux. End views of inductors suitable for six and eight cylinder motors are shown in Figs. 7 and 9, respectively ; in addition to altering the number of projections on the inductor, the angles shown in Figs. 5, 7, and 9, which also correspond in each case to that of the interpolar space, Fig. 2, are varied according to the number of cylinders. An elastic drive, shown in Figs. 13 and 14, in which the driving-wheel 2 is joined to the inductor shaft 4 by a spring 5, automatically retards the spark at starting, and gradually advances it as the engine picks up, excessive displacement being prevented by a stop pin 7 coming against the sides of the opening cut in a disk 6 keyed to the inductor shaft. The elastic connexion also allows the inductor to swing round and act as an armature or keeper for the field magnets when the machine is not running. A special switch for obtaining a very sudden make and break is shown in Fig. 11. The break is produced between the screw V and a weak spring r, when the latter is pulled down by the head on a stud N carried by a stiff spring R, as this stiff spring flies down after leaving a cam on the wheel Q, with a number of steps corresponding to that of the cylinders. The springs and screw V may be placed on a lever which can be shifted round the centre of the cam.
Patent GB-190610839-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Surface Condensers.
Inventor: DAY CHARLES
Filed: 1906-05-09
Granted: 1906-09-20
Abstract: 10,839. Day, C., and Dexter, W. A. May 9. Condensers.-The usual apertures in the division or baffle plates of surface condensers are shaped or arranged so as to prevent the water of condensation from passing through and obstructing the passage of the steam. Each hole may be surrounded by an upstanding lip either formed out of the plate itself or consisting of a short tube B attached to the plate, as shown in Fig. 5. In another construction, the plate may be corrugated and the perforations may be formed at the convexities.
Patent GB-190627416-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Ignition Devices for Explosion Motors.
Filed: 1906-12-01
Abstract: 27,416. Soc. Marcel, Masson, et Cie. July 12, [date applied for under Patents Act, 1901]. Void. [Published under Patents &c. Act, 1907.] Gas and like engines, igniting in. In the ignition system for a four-cylinder engine shown in Fig. 1, insulated disks i are secured to the shaft of the armature b, which is provided with a primary winding c and secondary winding d. Contacts j, k are connected respectively to the sparking- plugs m, p of the cylinders n, q. Contact-pieces h on the disks i are connected to the secondary winding d. The primary circuit is provided with a cam-actuated interrupter e and a condenser g. An ignition system for a two-cylinder engine is described in which only one pair of contacts j or k is required. Instead of two disks i, one disk with two contact-pieces may be used.
Patent GB-190627661-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Rims for Vehicle Wheels.
Inventor: PRIDEAUX-BRUNE GEORGE ERNEST
Filed: 1906-12-05
Granted: 1907-05-02
Abstract: 27,661. Brune, G. E. Prideaux-. Dec. 5. Felloes or rims. -The rim has a segment d of one side flange removable, the segment being form d with a block e adapted to be secured in a corresponding recess c in the felloe a by radial and transverse. bolts f, g.
Patent GB-190627691-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Centrifugal Liquid Separators
Inventor: HELLSTROEM CARL DIDRIK
Filed: 1906-12-05
Granted: 1907-05-23
Abstract: 27,691. Helstr÷m, C. D. 'Dec. 9, 1905, [date applied for under Patents Act, 1901]. Cream-separators.-Relates to the liner plates of a cream-separator and to the means for feeding the milk. Specification No. 12,114, A.D. 1905, is referred to. The milk flows by passages 3, 8, which may be made in the thickness of the bottom plate, as shown, or in the top plate, or in the liner plates, to passages 2, 7 in the liner plates ; one set of passages 2 may be at about the neutral zone of the separator, and the other set 7 may be near the inner edge of the plates. A flange 9 may be provided on the inside of the central pipe 18, so as to separate the milk from the openings 12, 11 in the inner feed pipe 10 and direct it to the two sets of passages 3, 8 respectively. Ridges 4, Fig. 2, are formed on the liner plates about the openings 2, 7 so as to impart motion to the milk in the desired direction ; these ridges may be of the form shown, or U- or V-shaped. They may be made by bending or stamping the plate, or by affixing separate pieces. Rings 13, with recesses 14 for the passage of the cream, may be threaded on the tube 18 to keep the line plates in place.
Patent GB-190711534-A (GB)
Title: Improved Window Blind Roller
Inventor: TILLING JOSEPH STOREY
Filed: 1907-05-17
Granted: 1908-03-05
Abstract: 11,534. Tilling, J. S. May 17. Window - blinds. -A blind roller 1 is provided with a longitudinal groove having one face 4 perpendicular to the base 2 and the other face 3 inclined inwards as shown, so that when a strip 5 of suitable material such as wood &c. is placed in the groove to secure the blind 6 to the roller, the weight of the blind always tends to wedge the strip against the inclined face 3. The strip and blind may be removed by simply pulling the free end 7 of the blind.