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Patent GB-190821766-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Signalling Systems for Railways and the like.
Filed: 1908-10-14
Granted: 1909-08-12
Abstract: 21,766. British Thomson-Houston Co., [General Electric Co.]. Oct. 14. [Patent of Addition to No. 20,542, A.D. 1906.] Automatic systems electric railways, signalling on.-In an electric system in which the track rails are electrically continuous for both power and signal current, as described in Specification No. 20,542, A.D. 1906, the point at which a train effects the operation of placing a signal to 'danger' is made definite by the use of a contact-device which is acted on by the train to open the signal circuit. In the arrangement shown, a short rail a is connected to a battery b and a relay I ; but any contact-maker may be used. The adjacent sections of line are supplied with current of different frequency from two generators D', D<2>, through transformers E<1>, E<2>, and relays F<1>, F<2> connected to the rails and to the line-wires respond only to one frequency. Thus, a train approaching the rail a tends to de-energize the relay F<2> while at some distance away from the transformer E<2>, and the relay F<2> therefore drops its armature. The coil of the signal relay I is in series with the contacts of its lower armature which are in shunt to those of relay F<2>, and the magnet I is therefore not de-energized until the train reaches the rail a and short-circuits the battery b. The signal is then put to danger.' The circuit of magnet I is not closed until the train has passed clear of the transformer E<1>, since while the train is in the section either the relay F' or the relay F<2> is de-energized and keeps open the circuit to the magnet I.
Patent GB-190822962-A (GB)
Title: A Sound Record, and Apparatus for and Method of Producing the same.
Inventor: FULLER PERCY WHEATON
Filed: 1908-10-28
Granted: 1909-05-06
Abstract: 22,962. Fuller, P. W. Oct. 28. Telephone signals, recording.-Relates to producing soundrecords by depositing electrolytically on a wire, plate, disk, or cylinder, a layer of non-magnetized material, such as iron or nickel, in varying thickness in accordance with the variations in the sound vibrations to be recorded. The iron-deposited record 3 is reproduced by passing between the poles 41, 42, Fig. 5, of a magnet having a constant magnetic strength, one of which poles constitutes an iron core for the coils 43 of a circuit of a telephone receiver 45. The varying amount of iron on the wire will alter the reluctance between the poles and cause a reproduction of the sounds in the receiver 45. The nickeldeposited record is passed between the poles of an electro-magnet and receives amounts of magnetism varying with the thickness of the deposited layer. It may then be reproduced in an ordinary telegraphone apparatus. Fig. 1 shows the apparatus for electrolytically depositing the layer of iron or nickel. The wire 3 has a small portion exposed within the plating-bath 5, the current of the batteries 9 being varied by a selenium cell 16. The recording-sounds enter a telephone transmitter 29 and vary the current in a transformer 27, 26, and oscillate a mirror 19 of an oscillograph 22. A beam of light from a lamp 25 is condensed upon this mirror and is reflected through a tone chart 18 of which the transparency varies from point to point and through a lens 17 upon the selenium cell 16. A speaking arc may replace the oscillograph, in which case the tone chart is dispensed with. Several wires may be plated or magnetized at the same time.
Patent GB-190900210-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Temperature Meters and Regulators.
Inventor: SANDVOSS HERMANN
IPC: G05D23/12
Filed: 1909-01-04
Granted: 1909-12-31
Abstract: 210. Sandvoss, H. Jan. 4. Thermometers.- In devices, in which heat expansion of mercury or the like in a vessel or bundle of pipes c causes a piston d to be depressed to give an indication of the temperature or to adjust a valve regulating steam supply &c., means are provided such as a piston p, the position of which decides the amount of movement given to the lower piston d. The position of the piston p can be decided by means of an arm s engaging at one end with a collar r on the piston spindle and at the other with corrugations on a scale. An adjustable diaphragm may be used instead of the piston p.
Patent GB-190900527-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Plug Cocks.
Inventor: WARD FRANCIS
IPC: F16K11/083
Filed: 1909-01-08
Granted: 1909-11-04
Abstract: 527. Ward, F. Jan. 8. Mixing-valves; casings; packing, methods of; drip from valves and cocks, preventing.-A mixing-valve comprises an inverted plug P situated in a casing E and having a single port R controlling two inlet branches N, N' in the casing, the outlet being through the open end T of the plug. Internal ribs V of the plug facilitate mixing. To prevent drip from the outlet T after closing the valve, the interior of the plug is vented by a hole M in the casing registering with an extension S of the port R in the plug. The plug is retained in the casing by a spring I enclosed in a cap J which takes up for wear. The spring bears on a washer G which is marked with the words " Hot," " Cold," &c. on both sides to provide for different dispositions of the hot and cold fluid pipes. The plug is provided with grooves Q, Q<1>, to ensure packing and lubrication. The integral outlet T may be replaced by a flanged detachable outlet for use with hose-pipes; this outlet is secured to the casing by a union nut.
Patent GB-190902262-A (GB)
Title: Improved Device or Toy for Making and Building Seaside and Inland Damp Sand Bricks
Inventor: MARGETTS EDWARD WILLIAM
IPC: A63H33/00
Filed: 1909-01-30
Granted: 1909-05-27
Abstract: 2262. Margetts, E. W. Jan. 30. Moulds. -Relates to a modified form of the device or toy mould for making damp sand bricks described in Specification 7329/05. A slightlytapered sheet-metal casing, shown in Fig. 6, is divided into two compartments B, C by a fixed plate A. A movable plate F, slightly smaller in length and breadth than the casing, fits in the compartment B, and a tubular piece H secured to the plate F projects through a slot K in the fixed plate A into the compartment C, in which a handle is fitted. The edges of the slot K are formed with tongues M which enter the tubular piece H and limit the motion of the plate F. In use, the mould is placed with the compartment B upwards, and is filled with damp sand. The mould is then inverted in the place where it is desired to lay the next brick, whereupon, by pressing the finger on the tubular piece H, while drawing the mould upwards, the newly-made brick is discharged in position. The movable plate F may have letters or impressions formed thereon, and the fixed plate A may have perforations to allow sand, accumulating between the two plates, to be removed. The device may also be made of wood as shown in Fig. 3, in which case the tongues M are dispensed with, and the projecting piece H is formed with projections to limit the motion of the plate F.
Patent GB-190907078-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Phonograph and the like Driving Gear.
Inventor: COUADE MAURICE
Filed: 1909-03-24
Granted: 1909-04-22
Abstract: 7078. Couade, M. April 4, 1908, [Convention date]. Speed, regulating. - A device for rendering the speed of a gramophone or phonograph record constant consists of a coil spring C fixed to the arbor D of the turntable E and engaging frictionally the inside of a box A formed integral with a wheel B driven by an electric motor. The governor F is driven in the ordinary way and controlled by a brake G.
Patent GB-190908430-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Needle Threading Device.
Inventor: RIGNALL WILLIAM BLAKE
IPC: D05B87/00
Filed: 1909-04-07
Granted: 1909-11-25
Abstract: 8430. Rignall, W. B. April 7. Needle-threaders.-Relates to tubular hookoperated needle-threaders, and consists in an improved construction whereby the threaded needle may be released without severing the thread. The device comprises a tube a closed by a bevelled plug b at one end and having two transverse passages c, d therein, the first, for threading machine needles, extending right through the plug, and the second ending just below the centrally-bored passage f, so that a needle eye will rest in this passage to allow the hook g to pass through it. An open slot e is cut parallel to the slots c, d, and extends to the latter to allow the release of the thread. The hook g is mounted on a plunger h, which is normally held out by a spring i and is allowed a limited movement by a fixed pin a<1> on the case a engaging a slot h<1>. The needle to be threaded is placed in its slot, and the hook is passed through its eye and out at the bevelled end; the thread is then placed across the hook, and the hook withdrawn. In a modified construction shown in Fig. 6, the plunger h is shown as a pencil-holder in a case a*, and the slot k, in which the pin works, has a notch at the end for holding the hook in its protruding position.
Patent GB-190912113-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Ships.
Inventor: DINESEN HANS PETER
IPC: B63B1/38
Filed: 1909-05-22
Granted: 1909-11-18
Abstract: 12,113. Dinesen, H. P. May 22. Hulls.- Relates to that form of ship, under the bottom of which is a chamber filled with air and closed at the front, back, and sides. The ship is driven by an internal-combustion engine driving a propeller, and the invention consists in discharging the combustion gases into the chamber so as to replace the air which escapes during the movement of the vessel. The ship may consist of two narrow parallel hulls a, b, held apart by the deck c. An oblique plane d is situated at the fore part of the hull, and, at the after part of the hull, oblique planes g, h, are provided forming a chamber k. The recess under the hull may be divided by transverse and longitudinal divisions to diminish loss of gases when heeling. Air under pressure is supplied to the chamber k when the ship is stationary, and, when moving, the combustion gases are discharged into the chamber, but only during the first portion of the exhaust stroke. In one construction of engine cylinder for effecting this method of exhausting the combustion gases, the exhaust pipe is fitted with two valves, one of which is opened during a portion of the piston stroke and permits the gases to pass by way of a non return valve to the chamber k. During the remainder of the stroke, the gases discharge into the air. In the construction shown in Fig. 10, the port u leads by way of the valve r to the chamber k, and the port w leads to the atmosphere.
Patent GB-190913966-A (GB)
Title: An Adjustable Spanner.
Inventor: READER WILLIAM
IPC: B25B13/18
Filed: 1909-06-26
Granted: 1910-04-14
Abstract: 13,966. Reader, W. June 26. Wrenches.- The ends of the plates a, b are connected by pairs of links i, j and k, l to the reduced ends h of blocks f, g, which are threaded internally to engage with right and left handed screws e, d, integral with h a milled head c. When the bead c is turned, the jaws m, n are expanded or contracted.
Patent GB-190914781-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Stoves or Firegrates.
Inventor: TATHAM BENJAMIN JAMES
IPC: F23L9/00
Filed: 1909-06-24
Granted: 1910-06-23
Abstract: 14,781. Tatham, B. J. June 24. Fuel - economizers. - A false grate back comprises two plates a, b spaced apart by vertical ribs d cast on the back plate a and secured by a bolt c, the front plate having perforations h and arched bottom openings i. A baffleplate g deflects the smoke &c. passing up within the false-back horizontally into the fire, and may serve as a support for pans &c.
Patent GB-190915289-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Trumpets for Gramophones, Phonographs, and the like.
Inventor: SPENCER MURIEL
Filed: 1909-06-30
Granted: 1910-06-30
Abstract: 15,289. Spencer, M., and West, C. June 30. Sound - directing appliances. - Gramophone, phonograph and like trumpets are made from a strip of material adapted to be coiled into a conical helix, the contiguous edges of the strip so coiled being connected together by devices such as glove-fastening studs e, e<1> capable of being readily disengaged. When not required for use, the strip can be wound up in a cylindrical form of a width not execeeding the width of the widest part of the strip. To facilitate the proper reproduction of certain notes, the trumpet may be formed with one or more holes along its length.
Patent GB-190920713-A (GB)
Title: Tube Bender.
Inventor: PRIDDIN JOHN
IPC: B21D7/06
Filed: 1909-09-10
Granted: 1910-07-07
Abstract: 20,713. Priddin, J. Sept. 10. Angular bending.-In a machine for bending pipes, of the type in which the pipe passes through guide-rollers, is heated at the bending-point, and is bent by radius bars to which it is clipped, the pipe is secured by clamping-jaws in a saddle 1, which is traversed by a split nut and screw 8 rotated by spur and mitre gearing and is adjusted to position by a rack 9 and a hand-operated pinion. The rollers 3, the upper one of which is adjustable by screws 16, and also the radius bars, are mounted on removable pins so that they may be interchangeable to suit the size of pipe. The radius bar 2 consists of two rods having screwed ends provided with a clamp. The pivot of the radius bars is carried on a slide 6 adjusted on a graduated standard by screws through mitre gear and a hand-wheel 10, and fixed in position by set-pins. The pipe passes through an oil or gas fuel burner 5, which has a removable sector-shaped cover to admit the passage of flanged pipes without dismantling and which is vertically adjustable by rods to take pipes of varying dimensions.
Patent GB-190920893-A (GB)
Title: Improved Manufacture of Concentrated Formic Acid from Formates.
Inventor: IMRAY OLIVER
IPC: C07C51/02
Filed: 1909-09-13
Granted: 1910-07-28
Abstract: 20,893. Imray, O., [Farbwerke vorm. Meister, Lucius, & Br³ning]. Sept. 13. Formic acid is produced by mixing concentrated sulphuric acid with a formate at a low temperature, then raising the temperature, and finally distilling off the resulting formic acid, preferably in vacuo.
Patent GB-190921024-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Dyeing and Washing Machines.
Inventor: KEMP NINIAN
IPC: D06B5/00
Filed: 1909-09-14
Granted: 1910-02-17
Abstract: 21,024. Kemp, N. Sept. 14. Circulating or passing fluids through materials.-In wool and yarn dyeing and washing machines wherein the material is carried in a cage b with a perforated bottom, and the liquor is circulated up through the space between the cage and the containing-tank a and down through the materials, this circulation is produced by placing upwardly-directed nozzles d on the usual steampipe c. Instead of relying on the steam from the nozzles d to maintain the circulation and keep the liquor boiling, a supplementary steam pipe, with the ordinary perforations, may be used along with the pipe d, and when the liquor boils, used alone. When boiling is not required, compressed air may be used, either in the pipe c, or in a separate nozzled pipe; sufficient steam may issue from the steam-pipe to keep the liquor at the desired temperature. Preferably two sets of pipes, Fig. 3, are used to equalize the steam pressure. Such pipes may be graded for the same purpose. Funnel-shaped pipes e, Fig. 5, may be used for assisting the action of the nozzles d.
Patent GB-190922864-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Sewage Purification Plant.
Inventor: ADAMS SAMUEL HENRY
IPC: C02F3/04
Filed: 1909-10-07
Granted: 1910-07-07
Abstract: 22,864. Adams, S. H. Oct. 7. Processes; tanks and containers. - The more solid matter is continuously removed from settling-vessels while still fresh and passed on to a separate filter, preferably that used for storm water. The sewage enters a chamber d, Fig. 2, by a pipe b and passes over a weir c on to a paddle f which breaks up the solid matter. Thence it passes through a screen g into a channel comprising a series of funnels p of variable cross - section provided with screens or dashboards. One of the funnels may be provided with a bed of iron turnings or other precipitating-agent. Or the iron turnings may be contained in a revolving drum with shelves which are continuously lifting the filings and allowing them to fall, and which are curved so that the liquid causes the drum to revolve. The sediment passes through connexions r into a pipe m through which it is flushed by storm water or other liquid. The connexions r may be fitted with non-return valves. Pipes t, n deliver respectively to the filter for the effluent and to the filter for the thicker liquid. Fig. 8 shows apparatus in which a rotary distributor supplying the effluent to the filter S operates by means of a cord X and pulleys R, T an archimedean pump H which raises the solid matter from the settling-tank J to a chamber G, from which it passes to another filter. Fig. 9 shows a closed chamber with screens H and an agitator Y. Liquid is supplied by the pipe B and leaves through the pipe D, and the solid matter leaves through the pipe F.
Patent GB-190922867-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Gulleys.
Inventor: FACON WILLIAM HERBERT
IPC: E03F5/04
Filed: 1909-10-07
Granted: 1910-10-06
Abstract: 22,867. Facon, W. Oct. 7. No Patent granted (Sealing fee not paid). Traps.-The body of a gully trap is divided by a partition D into chambers B, C. Silt collects in the chamber B, and a dip-plate H forms a trap in the chamber C. Reference has been directed by the Comptroller to Specifications 250/77 and 11,211/93.
Patent GB-190923323-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Machines for Manufacturing Electric Welded Wire Chains.
Inventor: GRAVES CHARLES LOUIS
IPC: B21L99/00
Filed: 1909-10-12
Granted: 1910-05-19
Abstract: 23,323. Graves, C. L. Oct. 12. Making wire chains; shearing-adjuncts; welding. In a machine for making electrically-welded wire chains, the forming, threading, welding, and twisting of the links are affected in one and the same machine. The wire 41 is fed through a block 42 against a stop 43 by a cam-operated lever 35, Fig. 1, provided with a pivoted grip-lug 40. A slide 2 which carries two tools 9, Fig. 9, one of which severs the wire, is then reciprocated by cams 5 to bend the wire round the pins 18,19 which are mounted on levers 10, 11 controlled by the outer grooves in cams 6, 7. The levers then move downwards, and the tools 9 bend the blank into the form shown in Fig. 10 round a pin 34, which is mounted on a lever 29, Fig. 6, pivoted by an elongated slot 30 to the main slide 2 so that it may have relative longitudinal motion and be also rocked on its pivot 31 by a cam-surface 33 on the cam 7. An auxiliary slide, which carries a die 26 with an inclined groove, is now reciprocated by a cam-groove 24 and a rod 22 to overlap the ends of the blank, and at the same time thread them over a completed link which is being held in the welding-jaws 44, 45, Fig. 11. This slide and the lever 29 are now retracted, with the slide 2 stationary, to remove the completed link from the welding-jaws, and they aro then again advanced to move the blank into the welding-jaws, Fig. 12, when they are then again retracted. The movable welding-jaw 45, Fig. 14, is connected by a spring 54 to the lever 47 so as to provide a yielding pressure to permit withdrawal of the link. The lever 47 is rocked by a cam 49. The period required for welding is determined by a removable cam 60, which acts on a spring-pressed head 58 to press the terminals 56, 57 together, which terminals are connected by wires 61, 62 to the conductors 55. On the completion of the welding operation, the die 26 is again advanced, and tong levers 67, which are closed by a cam 70 against the action of a spring, are clamped on the link. The slide carrying the die 26 is revolubly connected to its operating-rod and is provided with an elongated pinion 21 which is rotated when the die has taken hold of the link to twist the free end of the link into the form shown in Fig. 10. This rotation is produced by a rack bar 63 reciprocated by a cam 65. The tong levers then exert a final squeezing against the welded ends as they are withdrawn from the electrodes.
Patent GB-190923726-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and connected with Clocks or Apparatus for Timing and Recording Pigeon Races or the like.
Inventor: HALL GEORGE ALBERT
IPC: G07C1/26
Filed: 1909-10-16
Granted: 1910-10-13
Abstract: 23,726. Hall, G. A. Oct. 16. Portable checking and recording clocks for pigeon races. A voucher taken from a bird on arrival is placed within one of a series of receptacles arranged around an operating- spindle which is then partly rotated and thus causes clock-hands, carrying needles, to move against and puncture a fixed paper dial. Means are described for preventing untoward movement of the recording-mechanism and for automatically locking and unlocking the apparatus in its casing. A number of drums M supported between disks L are arranged around an operating - spindle G, and are adapted to register in succession with an opening N in the casing. Each drum contains a spring- mounted cup P provided with a projection R normally serving to prevent rotation of the drums by engaging a stop T. A disk H is secured to the spindle and carries projections J which, when the spindle is operated, are adapted to shift a bar 13 connected through spring-controlled rods 12 with a ring 10. Recording particular operations.-In operation, the voucher is placed in a cup P, which is then forced back until its projection R clears the stop T, whereupon the spindle G is turned to bring the next cup P opposite the opening N. The turning of the spindle shifts the bar 13 and rods 12 so that the ring 10 forces the needles on the clock hands U, V into a paper disk F, thus recording the time thereon. In order that successive perforations representing minutes may not be made at the same radial distance, the minute hand is mounted on its arbor by means of a pin X and slot, and is shifted radially at each oscillation by a spring W<1> and a rack 7 on the hand, which rack cooperates with two fixed pins 8, 9. Preventing tampering. In order to prevent undesirable movement of the recording-mechanism, a slidable spring-controlled cam-plate 14 is so mounted that normally it abuts against the bar 13 but is moved out of the way by the action of a pin 16 on each projection J, whenever the spindle is turned. The apparatus is locked within its casing by a T-bolt 22, which is operated by a notched disk when the spindle is first turned. At the completion of the operations the notch in the disk allows the bolt to drop, so as to free the apparatus from its casing.
Patent GB-190925001-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Amusement Devices.
Inventor: LAMB JOHN ALFRED
IPC: A63G31/16
Filed: 1909-10-30
Granted: 1910-06-23
Abstract: 25,001. Lamb, J. A., Battersby, A., and Kershaw, W. H. Oct. 30. Exhibitions, scenic.-In an amusement device, a platform representing the deck of a ship is caused to heave, and is surrounded by revolving platforms carrying scenery and representations of waves. The platform E is mounted loosely on the central shaft C but is prevented from rotating by a stop. The platform E is secured to another platform or disk E', the face of which is inclined to the platform E. This disk E<1> rests on ball bearings on a similar disk D which is rotated by suitable means. Thus, when the disk D is rotated, the platform E oscillates or heaves. The disk D, and two other revolving annular platforms F carry imitation waves, ships, &c. The outer platform F also carries sockets F<3> for the reception of posts which support a tent-like covering.
Patent GB-190926668-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Storm and like Valves.
Inventor: LOW ARCHIBALD
IPC: B63B29/00
Filed: 1909-11-17
Granted: 1910-05-05
Abstract: 26,668. Low, A. Nov. 17. Check valves.-Relates to improved means for removably mounting storm and like valves in their casings. Fig. 1 is a section of a valve and casing, Fig. 2 is an elevation at rightangles to Fig. 1, and Fig. 4 is a plan of the valve and spindle. The valve a has a hollow sleeve f at its hinged end through which passes the spindle h secured at its ends in bearings i. The bearings i are bevelled at their top and bottom faces and slide in corresponding grooves j in the casing b. A weight g tends to keep the valve normally closed.