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Patent GB-190401296-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Electrical Ignition Apparatus for Internal Combustion Engines.
Inventor: POSTANS ARTHUR JAMES
Filed: 1904-01-18
Granted: 1904-03-10
Abstract: 1296. Postans, A. J. Jan. 18. Gas and like engines.-Sparks for exploding the gases are produced by breaking a circuit of large self-induction. A revolving cam driven by the crank shaft closes a switch b, Fig. 1, in the circuit of a battery a. The wire from the battery goes to one terminal of a coil c having an iron core, while the wire from the key b goes to the plug f, which is screwed into the cylinder, and communicates with the bridge k<1> carrying one of the sparking terminals k. A metal rod h passing through an insulator inside the sparking-plug f is normally held in contact with the terminal k by springs d<1>, d<2> secured by a screw to an insulated bracket e, and communicating with the coil c by an arm d. The iron core of the coil c, when energized, attracts two counterweighted armatures l<1>, carried by an iron rod l mounted in suitable bearings. The armatures l<1> are normally held out of contact with the iron core by the action of a spring m on a suitably-formed part of the rod l. One end of a finger o pivoted in a slot in the rod l moves in a cam slot in the casing of the coil c or in an attachment. When the armatures l<1> are attracted, the finger comes in contact with an insulated collar o<1> mounted on the spindle h, and so makes a spark gap between that spindle and the terminal k. The finger o at the same time slightly rotates the spindle h, and so equalizes the wear. If the gases explode before the cam leaves the contact b the spark gap is broken by the pressure of the gases forcing the rod b outwards. Fig. 4 shows the arrangement of the battery circuit of a four-cylinder engine. Four contacts p which are successively acted on by a revolving cam are each connected to one terminal of the battery a.
Patent GB-190404918-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Automatic Circuit Breaking Safety Appliances for use in Trolley Wire Systems for Electric Traction.
Inventor: CARTER JAMES
Filed: 1904-02-29
Granted: 1904-11-03
Abstract: 4918. Carter, J., Hall, G., and Parsons, A. Feb. 29. Conductors.-Relates to automatic circuit-breaking safety-appliances or hanger cut-outs for use in trolley-wire systems of electric traction, and comprises a form of circuit-breaker and also a form of spring contact applicable to all forms of circuitbreakers. Figs. 1 and 2 show one form of hanger cut-out in its normally closed position, and Fig. 3 a side elevation of the same after the overhead trolley wire d, connected to the part b, has broken. The cut-out consists of two metal arms b, c and the supporting-swivel a into which the ordinary insulating-bolt is secured. The three parts are pivoted upon the stud f, and are insulated from each other and from the stud, where required, by the flanged insulating-bushes g and washers h. The arm b is connected electrically to the arm c by the spring brush contact k which consists cf a series of thin spring metal plates having their free ends bevelled off and bearing upon a corresponding incline on the arm c. When a wire breaks, the corresponding arm moves about the stud f thus breaking the circuit; the stop m, limits the movement of the part affected. The spring brush contact k may be applied to other forms of cut-outs. A modification is shown in which the brush k is replaced by a plain metal surface which contacts with another plain metal surface on the arm c.
Patent GB-190415456-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Door Latches and Fastenings
Inventor: CASWELL GEORGE WILBER
Filed: 1904-07-11
Granted: 1904-10-06
Abstract: 15,456. Caswell, G. W. July 9, A.D. 1903, [date applied for under Patents Act, A.D. 1901]. Latches for use alone or with locks for doors have the bolt 27, Fig. 6, connected to a spring slide 15 which is operated by wedges carried by rods 37, Fig. 4, attached to the knobs. The slide 15 has a projection 19, on the front end, carrying a rod 22, around which a spring is placed to hold the slide normally in its forward position. The rear end of the slide has a thickened cross-bar 18 carrying at the centre a friction roller facing into the slot 16. A block 29, working in the slot 16, has projecting sides to engage in the casing and is slotted, vertically, to receive the cross-bar 18, and horizontally, to receive the wedges 36 ; a friction roller 34 is set in the block. The tapering wedges 36, Fig. 4, are set on rods 37 which are screwed on their outer ends to engage adjustably in pusher blocks 13, springs 40 being employed to hold them normally in their outer positions. The sliding block may be fixed in its locked position by a pin inserted through a socket in the door and engaging in the slot 17, Fig. 6. The knobs or handles for carrying the wedge rods 37 are formed in two parts 9, 11, of which the part 9 is secured to the door by means of a neck socket 7 which is held by a rose plate 8. The part 11 screws into the part 9 and has a central opening to receive the shouldered pusher 13 which is adjustably screwed on to the rod 37.
Patent GB-190418984-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to Mechanical Stokers for Furnaces.
Inventor: ERITH CHARLES
Filed: 1904-09-02
Granted: 1905-07-20
Abstract: 18,984. Erith, C. Sept. 2. Mechanical stoking.-A recurring series of intermittent blasts of steam or air of different intensity distribute successive small charges of fuel to different portions of the furnace grate. The fuel is delivered from a hopper C through a measuring-device D of any suitable form to a plate E, at the back of which is a blast nozzle F, preferably wedge-shaped. This nozzle is fed with steam or air through a continuously-rotating valve M, which bas a series of radial ports of different widths. The mouth of the nozzle is fitted with an adjustable regulating-plate G. The fuel plate E is preferably fitted with adjustable deflectors J, which assist in spreading out the fuel sideways.
Patent GB-190419634-A (GB)
Title: Improved Hairpin
Inventor: HENDY ARTHUR MAURICE
Filed: 1904-09-12
Granted: 1904-10-13
Abstract: 19,634. Hendy, A. M. Sept. 12. Hair-pins.-The connection between the legs of hair-pins is formed with one or more U or V shaped indentations 5 lying in the plane of the legs.
Patent GB-190420335-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Screening or Sifting Apparatus
Inventor: JACK CHARLES ARTHUR
Filed: 1904-09-21
Granted: 1904-12-01
Abstract: 20,335. Jack, C. A., and Tarrant, W. J. Sept. 21. Separating or sorting coal &c.-In an arrangement for separating the different grades or sizes of coal or like material, one or two gratings B, B<1> are employed. The screen is placed in an inclined position, a staging G being provided for the men to stand on while tipping the material on to the screen. Separate shoots E, F are provided at opposite sides of the machine for conveying away the material which falls through one or both of the gratings B, B<1> respectively. The largest lumps pass over the grating B to an outlet D. When only one grating is employed, the material passing through is collected in an under shoot or receptacle. When mechanical tipping-apparatus is employed, the staging G may be dispensed with.
Patent GB-190421041-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Testing Machines.
Inventor: SPEIRS CHARLES WILLIAM
Filed: 1904-09-30
Granted: 1905-08-03
Abstract: 21,041. Speirs, C. W., and Petch, A. F. Sent. 30. Testing strength of materials. - Mechanical and hydraulic apparatus are shown for applying intermittent, tensile, compressive, torsional, and transverse stresses to test-pieces. To the ram of a hydraulic cylinder b, Fig. 1, operated as described in Specification No. 21,188, A.D. 1903, is attached a crosshead c, c<1>, c<2>, c<3>, the lower member of which grips the upper end of the specimen d. The lower end of the specimen is attached to a crosshead reciprocated by connecting-rods and cranks on a power shaft g. By means of slots at the small ends of the connecting-rods and stopsj, it may be arranged that the specimen shall only come under tensile stress during a portion of each revolution of the shaft. An inverted arrangement is described for compression, and a combination of two cylinders and two crossheads for applying tension or compression at will, maximum and minimum effects being obtained by the use, in each case, of a pair of cylinders. Fig. 5 shows a modification consisting of connecting-rod h, rack t, and ram cooperating with a sector arm s to twist a specimen carried between the head r and the fixed framework, while, in Fig. 7, the form of head x for the ram and pressing-edge v for intermittently loading a beam u are shown. In modifications, fixed rams and moving cylinders may occur, or fluid-pressure sacks or diaphragms in connection with an accumulator, which can be arranged to load the specimen to varying degrees. The loads are found by calculation from the pressure and dimensions or directly by a suitable lever system. Counting- apparatus, registering the number of times stress is applied, is worked preferably from the ram or other part which will cease to move when the specimen yields greatly or breaks.
Patent GB-190500847-A (GB)
Title: Manufacture and Production of New Tetrazo-dyestuffs
Inventor: NEWTON HENRY EDWARD
Filed: 1905-01-16
Granted: 1905-11-02
Abstract: 847. Newton, H. E., [Farbenfabriken vorm. F. Bayer & Co.]. Jan. 16. Dyes, artificial.-Tetrazo-dyes, dyeing wool fast orange to yellow shades, are obtained from benzidine- and tolidine - disulphonic acids of the formulµ: Or a molecular proportion of tetrazotized disulphonic acid is combined with (1) two molecular proportions of 4-nitro- 1 : 3 -phenylenediamine, giving yellow shades, or with (2) one molecular proportion of the nitrodiamine and one molecular proportion of one of the indole derivatives of Specification No. 12,444, A.D. 1902, or of a pyrazolone derivative capable of combining with diazo-compounds, both giving yellow shades, or of #-naphthol, giving orange shades, or vice versa, or with (3) one molecular proportion of one of the above-mentioned indole or pyrazolone derivatives and one molecular proportion of #-naphthol, also giving orange shades, or vice versa. For example, the disulphonic acid is diazotized as usual and the tetrazo derivative obtained is mixed, while cooling, with a solution of the calculated quantity of nitrodiamine in dilute hydrochloric acid. An excess of sodium acetate is added and after twelve hours the mass is made alkaline with sodium carbonate and the dye, dyeing wool greenish-yellow, is isolated as usual. If only one molecular proportion of the nitrodiamine is taken, a molecular proportion of 1-phenyl-3-methyl-5-pyrazolone may be similarly added, a dye giving yellow shades resulting. The same dye is obtained if the pyrazolone is combined first and then the nitrodiamine added.
Patent GB-190502360-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or in connection with Scrap-books or the like.
Inventor: THOMPSON WILLIAM PHILLIPS
Filed: 1905-02-06
Granted: 1905-11-30
Abstract: 2360. Thomgson, W. P., [Cooke, W. A.]. Feb. 6. Picture and like mounts. - Albums for scraps, cuttings, &c. are made up of leaves, to which strips of paper, gummed on one or both sides, are fixed as shown in Figs. 6 and 7. The strips b are folded, and one part is hinged to the leaf-to enable the cutting &c. to be inspected on both sides. The strips b may be close together or spaced apart, and of any convenient length. A convenient binding is shown in Fig. 10. Each leaf is folded twice at right-angles, the distance between the folds h increasing with the distanca of the leaf from the centre of the book.
Patent GB-190502653-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Furnaces.
Inventor: JONES RICHARD LEWIS
Filed: 1905-02-09
Granted: 1905-11-09
Abstract: 2653. Jones, R. L. Feb. 9. Smoke-consuming. - In steam-boiler and other furnaces in which the smoke and gases are directed into a combustion chamber by means of a bridge, one or more air-supply pipes e are provided below the grate, opening into a chamber d behind the bridge a, and each having at its outer end an airsupply regulator h. The chamber d is preferably provided with perforated plates d' which serve to heat the air. Steam or hot air enters each pipe e by means of a nozzle m, and the heated air or air and steam escapes from the chamber d by means of pipes i which are provided with outlets j, l directed so as to cross and be in the same direction as the draught of the furnace respectively. According to the Provisional Specification, in a modification, the pipe e passes through the bridge and is turned vertically upwards, terminating in a chamber near the top of the flue. The chamber is provided with branch pipes directed across, at an angle to, or in the direction of the draught.
Patent GB-190513297-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Treatment of Rifle and Gun Barrels and other Metallic Surfaces for the Removal of Fouling therefrom.
Filed: 1905-06-28
Granted: 1906-03-15
Abstract: 13,297. King's Norton Metal Co., Bayliss, T. A., Brownsdon, H. W., and Smith, H. M. June 28. Cleaning pipes and tubes.-A solution for removing metallic fouling from gun-barrels consists of an oxidizing agent preferably ammonium persulphate with or without ammonium carbonate dissolved in an aqueous solution of ammonia. The ammonium persulphate and carbonate may be compressed into tablets ready for making the solution.
Patent GB-190515998-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Fuse.
Inventor: DEISENHOFER GEORG
Filed: 1905-08-04
Granted: 1906-02-01
Abstract: 15,998. Deisenhofer, G. Sept. 3, 1904, [date applied for under Patents Act, 1901]. Couplings; cut-outs.-A fuse specially suitable for telephone exchanges consists of a sleeve round which current flows and a soldered-in pin, inserted between two insulating lugs, An insulating foot 1 carries two slotted lugs 2, 3, which support the sheath 4 with the heating-coil 5 and the soldered-in fuse pin 6. The pin 6 carries a spring 7 which bears against the lug 3, and a collar 8 on the sheath 4 takes up the pull of the spring. A sleeve 15 protects the fuse and spring. When an excessive current flows through the coil 5, the sheath 4 is heated and melts the soft-solder connexion between it and the pin 6, which is then pulled out of the sheath by the spring 7. One end of the coil 5 is connected to a metal sleeve 10 by the wire 9, and the other end to the pin 6, which is connected to the metal sheath 12 by the spring 7 and wire 11. The sheaths 10,12 are pushed over the circuit plugs 13, 14, which are preferably split at the top.
Patent GB-190516637-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Railroad Ties.
Inventor: SNYDER JOHN GIVENS
Filed: 1905-08-16
Granted: 1906-03-01
Abstract: 16,637. Snyder, J. G. Aug. 16. Sleepers; chairs; sound and vibration, preventing.-Relates to railroad sleepers, means for securing rails thereto, and a cushion for deadening the noise and vibration. Fig. 1 shows a sectional side view of the sleeper with a rail fixed in position. The sleeper consists of a metal casing or shell A filled by, or supported on, a substance such as concrete, and having near each end a recess B. The rails rest on cushions, each consisting of an upper steel plate L, an intermediate lead plate K<1>, and a lower zinc or deadening plate K, which are fitted into the chairs H seated in the recesses B. Plates E, retained in position by the bolts N, secure the rails to the chairs H and to the sleepers.
Patent GB-190520511-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Speed Indicating and Alarm Devices for Automobiles.
Inventor: PARRISH JOHN ELLWIN
Filed: 1905-10-10
Granted: 1906-03-15
Abstract: 20,511. Parrish, J. E., and Smith, R. H. Oct. 10. Speed indicators. - A visible indication of the running speed of vehicles, particularly automobiles, is given together with an audible alarm on the attainment of a predetermined speed. At night, the scale is illuminated, automatically when the alarm sounds, and at pleasme by a push-button. A special arrangement of toothed ring and pinion is used for driving the indicator. A ring K, Fig. 8, is attached to the spokes by D-section clips O passing through the ring K and drawn tight by nuts 88. The pinion arbor is carried in a swivel head 194, adjustable for height at 97 in a clip Q angularly and laterally adjustible on a member such as the part P of the steering-knuckle. The arbor is axially adjustable by loose collars 95, and communicates motion to the spindle o, Fig. 1, of a governor by a flexible shaft H. The governor is enclosed in a two-part casing A jointed at 18 and formed with pockets d, e for an electric battery D and buzzer C. The governor sleeve 27 is adjustably loaded 'by a spring and loose collar 31<a>, and thrust collars 21, 22 are formed on the spindle, 'the collar 22 being adapted to rest on a feather washer 23. The spindle is hollow from near the bottom to its upper end, and receives an indicating- spindle q, pinned to the sleeve 27 through slots in the spindle o at 32. The spindle q projects into a casing E attached at 16 to a sunk boss on the main casing A and slotted to receive from below interchangeable scale cards j, graduated according to the size of the car wheel and slotted, from below, at h to pass a pointer n secured to a non- rotating head r held by a nut on the doubly reduced end of the spindle q. The casing E carries a second scale at right-angles to the scale j and provided with a pointer adjustable by a thumb-nut to any scale division and attached to an insulating- block 55, Fig. 4, carrying a slide 52 to make contact between the head r and a bar 50 secured to an insulating-slab 43 and terminating in a spring 49. A lamp G protected by a hood F illuminates the scale j. A plate 42 forms one lamp terminal, the other being an angle-plate 92, 93 connected to one pole of the battery and of the buzzer. The other pole of the battery is connected to the casing and by this means to the head r, which thus completes the circuit through the buzzer by the wire 77 connected to the bar 50. At night, a screw w on the casing A is turned to depress an insulating-strip 66 to make contact with the plate 42, throwing the lamp in parallel with the buzzer. A contact-spring 60 secured to the casing and operated by a protruding buttou v enables the lamp to be switched on at pleasure. The bottom of the pocket d may be hinged to allow the battery to be removed without disturbing the governor casing A.
Patent GB-190521450-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Moulding and/or Pressing Machines
Inventor: STIDDER JAMES GEORGE
Filed: 1905-10-21
Granted: 1906-10-18
Abstract: 21,450. Stidder, J. G. Oct. 21. Moulding cement, concrete, and clay blocks &c.- Blocks such as those described in Specification No. 21,902, A.D. 1903, for paving or building generally,are cast or pressed from cement, concrete, or clay in moulds having a removable side and an opposite reciprocable side or false side to deliver the moulded block. The side d can be run off on the rollers e, Fig. 1, the false side c<1> then advancing and pushing out the block into the path of the side d, which, as it returns, pushes it to the side. In a modification, Fig. 7, the side walls a are extended behind the side c, which is advanced as a whole to deliver the block. The side d may be in two hinged parts or, as shown, be vertically movable on guides i, with inclined faces i<1>, a handle j<3> operating a cam j to force a wedge j<2> against the guide. Or, again, the walls a may be hinged near the top so that they can swing out after the side c has moved forward. Fig. 10 illustrates the use of moulds with vertically-movable end walls. The stop j<4> engages the handle j<3>, the cam q loosens the blocks in the moulds before delivery, and the ratchet o forms part of the mechanism for raising and lowering the walls d.
Patent GB-190521639-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Centrifugal Ore Concentrators.
Inventor: ADAMS PHINEAS HAZEN
Filed: 1905-10-24
Granted: 1906-10-24
Abstract: 21,639. Adams, P. H. Oct. 24. Separators for granular bodies.-Relates to means for removing the middlings from a separator for ores &c. of the kind in which the material mixed with water is fed into the annular space a<4> between two concentric conical drums a<4> rotating at different speeds. Radial holes 32 are formed in the lower part of the inner drum or deflector so that water supplied by a pipe, falling downwards, is forced upon the middlings, which collect on the lower part of the separating - surface b. Some of the holes 32 may be closed by a rubber ring 38, which may be adjusted vertically by a nut 35 suppoiting the piece 33 carrying the ring. To prevent the drum a from filling with water above the level of the middlings during their removal, apertures 39, Fig. 2, are provided with hinged stoppers 41, which are forced open by springs 42 when the speed of rotation is decreased, as is necessary during the operation. The material and water are fed by the pipe 16 through an annular chamber 15 and apertures 14 upon the top of the deflector, which is formed with radial ribs 19. The separated materials are discharged through nozzles 23, Fig. 2, provided with converging guide-pockets 24. Overflow apertures 25 for excess material and water may be formed in the bottom of the outer drum.
Patent GB-190526128-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to the Manufacture or Preparation or Treatment of Tubes or the like or Portions thereof Preparatory to Bending or Coiling same.
Inventor: CROWTHER DAVID
Filed: 1905-12-15
Granted: 1906-08-30
Abstract: 26,128. Crowther, D. Dec. 15. Bending.-A pipe to be bent or coiled may be filled with an alloy having the same coefficient of expansion as the pipe, but preferably the outside a<1> of the bend-to-be is bulged outwards so that, in bending, the tube will return approximately to its original cross-section. A filling of sand &c. may be used.
Patent GB-190610655-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Elbows for Conduits for Electric Wires.
Inventor: SIBLEY CLARENCE CLIFFORD
Filed: 1906-05-07
Granted: 1906-11-08
Abstract: 10,655. Sibley, C. C., and Lutz, G. A. May 7. Conduits. -Relates to hinged elbows for use with conduits, more especially for that type of conduit having channels provided with removable covers. The channel-shaped parts 1, 2, provided with extended portions 1<b>, 2<b>, are hinged at 5 and have their side walls grooved to receive the correspondinglyshaped end portions of the conduits 3, to which they are attached by slots, and bent metal tongues 9. Within the members 1, 2 are short portions 6, of a shape corresponding to the conduits 3, against which they abut, the grooved part 6<a> forming a continuation of the grooves 3<a> along which the covers 4 slide. The inner ends of the side walls of the members 1, 2 are at a distance from the hinge 5 to permit the members 1, 2 to turn through an angle, and the sections 6 are extended over the pivot 5 as at 6<b>. To close the space opposite the part 6<b> when the elbow is straightened out, a flexible strip 7 is provided which is secured to the member 2 by being bent round through a hole, while the free end slides between the member 1 and the section 6.
Patent GB-190611065-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or connected with Sofas, Couches and the like.
Filed: 1906-05-11
Granted: 1906-11-01
Abstract: 11,065. Searle & Son, H. J., and Searle, S. C. May 11. Chairs; sofas; bedsteads. - Sofas, couches, easy chairs, and the like, adapted to be converted into bedsteads, are formed with a recess b in the seat frame a, in which lie the sections c of the bed hinged to each other at d, d and to the frame a at i, the upholstered seat and scroll f being hinged to the seat frame at g and held, when turned back, by the strap h. The legs e of the bed frame are so hinged to the sections c as to lie flat against them when turned up.