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Patent GB-190502223-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Pads for Application to Operating-chairs, and the like.
Inventor: SARASON DAVID
Filed: 1905-02-04
Granted: 1905-06-29
Abstract: 2223. Sarason, D. Feb. 4. Chairs.-A pad formed of superposed sheets of paper is provided at each end with elastic means whereby it may be attached to the head-rest of a hairdresser's, surgical, or dental chair. As shown in Figs. 1 and 3, a pad a, consisting of sheets of tissue paper perforated at d, is provided with an elastic band b, having buttons c; this pad may be attached to the head-rest of a chair. Fig. 2 shows a pad having two elastic loops e, each provided with a button. The head-rest of the chair may in this case be provided with hooks or studs.
Patent GB-190502697-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Inverted Incandescent Gas Lamps.
Inventor: WOLFF LOUIS
Filed: 1905-02-09
Granted: 1905-08-31
Abstract: 2697. Wolff, L. Feb. 9. Incandescent gas lamps; reflectors; globes. - Relates to improvements on the inverted lamps described in Specification No. 13,488, A.D. 1904. A perforated or unperforated metal or wire casing c is arranged round the mantle so that the air supply is heated by passing through or in contact with the casing. The casing c, Fig. 3, may be carried by a fixed perforated ring d forming with a corresponding adjustable ring e a hit-and-miss valve for admitting cold air to the outside of the mixing-tube m. The casing may be funnel-shaped Fig. 5, so as to act as a reflector, or, when perforated, may completely enclose the mantle, Fig. 4.
Patent GB-190504566-A (GB)
Title: Registering Time Padlock.
Inventor: PHELPS EDWIN SANFORD
Filed: 1905-03-04
Granted: 1905-05-04
Abstract: 4566. Phelps, E. S. March 4. Locks, key ; padlocks.-Relates to a registering-padlock, in which the exact time of operation of either locking or unlocking is recorded. The registering - mechanism is the same as that described in Specification No. 12,753, A.D. 1898, [Abridgment Class Locomotives &c.], and is held to the back-plate 30 by eccentricallymounted buttons secured by screws. Within the lower part 35 of the case is mounted the locking-device, consisting of a Yale lock, the outer casing 46 of which is made in one with the case 35, and on the hub of which is mounted the disk 49, gapped as shown at 53 to allow the catch piece 62, Fig. 11, on the shank of the padlock bow 54 to pass when unlocked. The catch-piece 62 is slidably connected to the head 56 of the shank of the bow, and is controlled by the spring 64, so that the bow can be locked without the key being used. Fixed to the head 56 is a cam 55, Fig. 11, which, when the bow is pushed in, rocks the spring-controlled arm 58 on the shaft 59, Fig. 1, which in its turn rocks the lever 60, thus causing the punch to prick the indicator card 24. When the bow is withdrawn, the process is repeated. In the side of the case is a door 43, Fig. 5, which in opening causes the hook 68 to rotate the drum 72 and actuate the lever 60 and the punch 22. The card 24 being divided into spaces representing ten minutes for each day of the week, the exact time of operation of the lock is recorded.
Patent GB-190505885-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Steam Generators.
Inventor: OOSTERWYCK JEAN BAPTISTE VAN
Filed: 1905-03-20
Granted: 1905-08-17
Abstract: 5885. Oosterwyck, J. B. van. March 20. Water-tube boilers ; headers; tubes, water.- Series of horizontal tubes 1 closed at one end are connected to headers 2, the steam spaces of which communicate with each other through tubes 9, and the pipes 18, 19, connecting their water spaces, are so placed that, when the boiler is working, the tubes 1 are only partly filled with water. The headers may be formed in pairs, a single chamber 2 having an internal partition, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2; or they may form distinct chambers. In another modification, a series of headers has common walls to which are riveted internal partitions. The tubes 9 may pass through the water spaces of the headers, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2, or they may be placed externally. In the former case, baffles 2, Fig. 6, are placed inside the tubes in order to dry the steam. The upper parts of the water tubes are protected by fire-clay coverings, which, in alternate rows, are formed as caps 14, and in other rows constitute baffles 16. A fire-clay wall 22 protects the headers from contact with the hot gases.
Patent GB-190509441-A (GB)
Title: Improved Process and Apparatus for Recovering Volatile Solvents.
Inventor: DELHOTEL EDMOND
Filed: 1905-05-04
Granted: 1906-04-12
Abstract: 9441. Delhotel, E. May 4. Solvent-recovery apparatus. - Apparatus for recovering volatile solvents by means of a current of air moving in a closed circuit consists of an evaporator A, a fan D, a heat-exchanger B, and a frictional condenser C divided into three parts. The exchanger B is so situated that the hot solvent-laden air heats and is cooled by the solventfree air returning from the condenser. The condenser C contains three sets of coils, one c cooled by water at atmospheric temperature, and the other two d, e by iced water. The receiver may be partitioned, and separate draw-off cocks m provided.
Patent GB-190512029-A (GB)
Title: A New and Improved Device for Storing Photographic Film Negatives, Unmounted Photographs, Newspaper Cuttings or the like.
Filed: 1905-06-08
Granted: 1906-06-08
Abstract: 12,029. Wright, P. G. R., and Houghtons, Ltd. June 8. No patent granted (Sealing fee not paid). Envelopesfor storing films. - Envelope pockets for storing and filing photographic film negatives, unmounted prints, newspaper cuttings, and the like comprise a stiff cardboard backa, with a paper front b. The back a projects beyond the front b, leaving room for indicating the contents, and has an index tab c. The envelopes may be used with the storage box described in Specification No. 20,114, A.D. 1904. Specification No. 17,822, A.D. 1899, [Abridgment Class Writing-instruments &c.], is referred to.
Patent GB-190518427-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Apparatus for Purification of Water by Electrical Means.
Inventor: LESTER JAMES FRANKLIN
Filed: 1905-09-12
Granted: 1906-03-15
Abstract: 18,427. Lester, J. F. Sept. 12. Water, purifying; electrodes.-Water is treated by an electric current and filtered. The water enters a chamber 2, where the grosser impurities are deposited, and passes through a porous partition 9 and between two sets of electrodes 12, 13, disposed as shown so as to leave a zigzag passage between them. The chamber containing the electrodes is kept cool by a water chamber 15 which surrounds it. The ozone formed is mixed with the water in chambers 4,5. The water then passes down through a filtering-chamber containing layers 28, 26, 24, 22 of broken stone, charcoal, coarse sand, and fine sand, in felt bags separated by layers of felt and supported on a perforated bottom 21. The purified water escapes by the pipe 35. The apparatus can be cleansed by closing the pipe 35 and forcing in by the ordinary entrance pipe a stream of water, which escapes by pipes 37, 38, 39, 40, 41 to a waste pipe 36.
Patent GB-190525693-A (GB)
Title: The Preparation of New Products for use in Dyeing and Printing and as Pigments, and their Applications.
Inventor: FEILMANN ERNEST
Filed: 1905-12-11
Granted: 1906-09-27
Abstract: 25,693. Feilmann, E. Dec. 11. Emulsions, making.-Colloidal solutions of dyes or of like carbon compounds normally insoluble in water are obtained by forming the dye &c. in a solution of casein or para-casein.
Patent GB-190600321-A (GB)
Title: Improved Fastening Arrangements for Strapped Receptacles such as Japanese Hampers and the like.
Inventor: GREEN CHARLES
Filed: 1906-01-05
Granted: 1906-09-13
Abstract: 321. Green, C. Jan. 5. Hampers.-A Japanese hamper or similar receptacle is provided with a bar G having turned-up eyepieces F, which pass through the outer part of the hamper and through elongated perforations in the fastening-straps C, which are locked by the bar K and a padlock. The straps C have buckles E, and are doubled round and riveted about the bamboo batten B carrying the handle A.
Patent GB-190602332-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Punching or Punching and Shearing Machines.
Inventor: VERNET ARTHUR
Filed: 1906-01-30
Granted: 1907-01-10
Abstract: 2332. Vernet, A. Jan. 30. Punching; shearing.-A punching- machine or multiple-action punching and shearing machine having means for changing the punches and dies by a simple rotation comprises a standard 1, on which can rotate a table 2 having a number of radial arms 4, 3 supporting - the punches and dies. The dies 11 are held in claws 15 on arms 3 by screws 16, and the punches 10, fixed in punch - holders 8, are held together with distancepieces 9 in the forked ends of arms 4 by a plate 13. The punches are secured by screws 14 operated by a slide 7 recessed tc receive the head of a screw 18 in the punch-holder and sliding in a bracket 6 keyed to the upper part of the standard 1. The table is held in any desired position by pressing the blocks 20 on to its upper surface by a screw 19. To punch several holes simultaneously, the dies and punch-holders are mounted in slots in the arms.
Patent GB-190605755-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Calculating or Computing Machines.
Inventor: GRUNER JULIUS
Filed: 1906-03-09
Granted: 1906-11-22
Abstract: 5755. Gruner, J., and Jalley, W. J. March 9. Calculating-apparatus.-A keyboard machine for multiplying, of the ready-reckoner type in which all the required products are marked upon an endless flexible sheet, is provided with a spring for rotating the sheet-bearing rollers under the control of stops set by the keys. The spring tends to drive a main spindle 3, mounted in the casing and having a plate 15 for the key-engaging stop pins, which may be in one of two spiral arrangements, and also a spur-wheel for driving the rollers 9<a>, 10<a> for moving the two sheets, which they grip by small pins 13. Each sheet is carried by one of the two front rollers and by another behind it (not shown), also driven from the main shaft. The key-levers 17, numbered according to rates of wages per month, have downward hooks engaging with a detent bar 22, whereby a depressed key is held down until a second key is depressed, and at their rear ends have projections 19 for engaging the stop pins and thus determining the position of both sheets. The sheets are marked in columns with the wages due for various numbers of days at a rate, per month of twenty-six days, which is shown at the top of the column, and each sheet is visible through a glass window graduated with scales of days ; the lower values are on one sheet and the higher on the other. A sliding indicator marks a required number of days. Specifications No. 10,160, A.D. 1897, and No. 2484, A.D. 1903, are referred to.
Patent GB-190607171-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Printing Rollers and the Manufacture thereof.
Inventor: TERRY FREDERICK HERBERT
Filed: 1906-03-24
Granted: 1907-01-17
Abstract: 7171. Terry, F. H. March 24. Printing - rollers. - Relates to the making of printing-rollers comprising a copper or brass sleeve on an iron or steel mandrel or jacket. The sleeve is drawn, rolled, squeezed, or pressed directly upon the mandrel or jacket, and the ends of the sleeve are turned over or otherwise keyed or locked transversely or radially in or on the ends of the mandrel or jacket, or to bushes or caps formed or fitted thereon. Fig. 2 shows a sleeve drawn directly upon a mandrel b and provided at its ends with tongues or extensions c<1>, which are turned down into radial or transverse recesses or slots e formed in the ends of the mandrel. The mandrel is shown as provided with longitudinal grooves into which the metal of the sleeve is pressed in the drawing process to form nibs d. Fig. 4 shows a sleeve c drawn on a jacket f provided with bushes g on reduced ends. The bushes are formed with a longitudinal key or keys h fitting in a groove or grooves in the mandrel. Projections c<1> on the ends of the sleeve are turned over into recesses cut across or formed in the end faces of the bushes and jacket. A loose key may be fitted in a slot made through the bush and jacket, in which case the sleeve holds the key in position. The bushes may be dispensed with and the jacket formed with keys. According to the Provisional Specification, the sleeve may be first formed by drawing, and then forced endways upon a mandrel or jacket of slightly larger diameter.
Patent GB-190607585-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to Window Blind Fixtures.
Inventor: HOPKINS CHARLES LESTER
Filed: 1906-03-29
Granted: 1906-10-25
Abstract: 7585. Hopkins, C. L. March 29. Window blinds.-In a device for holding a spring-roller blind against upward movement, but which can be automatically released when the blind is pulled down, a plunger 12, actuated by a spring 14, is fitted into the hollow end 11 of the blind stick. The plunger carries a head 13 with antifriction rollers 15 and formed with depressions 19 so that a ring 16 held loosely in place by a pin 17 will, under the tension of the spring- actuated blind 10, jam itself in between the shoulder 20 of a depression and the window frame 18. The position assumed by the rings when the blind is being lowered is shown in Fig. 2. If desired, the depressions may be formed as shown in Fig. 3, or the head 20 may be actually cut away, so that the rings engage with the edges of the orifices thus formed, or wire pins may be fixed against the inside of the head so as to act as fulcra for the rings. By duplicating the holding- device in each head as shown, the heads are made reversible.
Patent GB-190610023-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Packing Rings for Metallic Packing of Steam or other Engines
Inventor: BERTRAM JAMES
Filed: 1906-04-30
Granted: 1907-05-30
Abstract: 10,023. Robson, J. B. L. April 30. Stuffing - boxes.- A packing-ring is divided by tangential cuts into segments B, C, Fig. 2. The segments are braced together by two springs, which lie each in a groove D, one of which is shown, and are secured to pins E. There may be four springs, in which case each segment has pins E. In some cases the ring has parallel grooves each containing springs. One arrangement of this packing is shown in Fig. V. Two rings A with washers F and a compound ring G containing springs J for axial adjustment are contained in a box H, supplied with lubricant by a passage X. The rod is further packed by a grooved sleeve I adjusted axially by springs L. In another arrangement, three rings A, Fig. VI, are held in a removable casing L. Usual adjustment is effected by the compound spring ring M.
Patent GB-190610145-A (GB)
Title: Machine for Cracking the Shells and Extracting the Kernels from Palm and similar Nuts
Inventor: SMITH GEORGE
Filed: 1906-05-01
Granted: 1907-04-25
Abstract: 10,145. Smith, G. May 1. Cracking nuts.- Relates to a machine for cracking palm and similar nuts by the action of two pivoted serrated j a w s. The jaw A is pivoted at its upper end and the jaw B at its lower end, and they are operated,respectively, by the cams l, k, which cause the jaws to approach each other and then allow the jaw A to be drawn away from the jaw B by the action of the spring z, so that the cracked nut can fall into a receptacle placed below. The nuts are fed automatically to the jaws from the hopper f by a pivoted shoot e having an adjusting-plate w and an opening covered by a rocking tray i, which when turned up into the position shown in dotted. lines discharges its contents between the jaws, and at the same time acts as a stop in the shoot e, The tray i is operated by a link v from a rod u operated intermittently by the gearing shown from the shaft of the cam k. The gearing also imparts a shaking motion to the shoot e.
Patent GB-190613881-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Reinforced-concrete Beams, Girders Floors Columns, Tunnel-linings and the like.
Inventor: RIDLEY MARTYN NOEL
Filed: 1906-06-18
Granted: 1907-07-18
Abstract: 13,881. Ridley, M. N., and Cammell, T. I. June 18. Sewers.-Relates to the type of reinforcedconcrete structures described iu Specification No. 19,467, A.D. 1903, [Abridgment Class Buildings &c.], in which corrugated metal sheets are stiffened by metal bars, and consists in flattening the corrugations at the parts where the bars are connected, and preferably bending the flattened portions over the angle or like bars. The invention is applicable to sewer linings, the curved sections being formed with flanges. Figs. 3 and 4 show a girder and floor slab. The angles or flat bars b are riveted to the flattened edges of the sheet c, and flat or bent sheets d may be provided in the flanges; these beams may be moulded on or off the site without the use of moulding-boards. Holes are provided in the curved sections, and when a cylindrical length has been placed in position, grouting is forced through to the outside. The sheeting may be perforated when concrete is applied to both sides.
Patent GB-190614794-A (GB)
Title: Method of and Means for Raising Sunken Vessels.
Inventor: LAKE SIMON
Filed: 1906-06-28
Granted: 1907-06-27
Abstract: 14,794. Lake, S. June 28. Sunken ships, raising.-Water in the interior of the vessel is displaced by pumping in a solid buoyant material, such as pieces of waterproofed cork, or a liquid, such as paraffin, capable of being partly or completely solidified. In one method, paraffin or a mixture of paraffin and cork is pumped in to form a lining to strengthen and close any openings in the deck; air, cork, or other buoyant material are then introduced. Buoyant material from a hopper F, Fig. 1, is forced by a pump E through the inner of'two concentric tubes B, which are passed into the sunken ship, Fig. 2, and secured to a hatch C. This hatch is .held in position by means of beams extending underneath the hatch coamings of the lower decks and connected by vertical tie-bolts. The pipe B is surrounded, inside the vessel, by a series of working-platforms, which can be reached by means of a ladder.- The paraffin is heated in a tank provided with steam coils and is passed into the feed-hopper F through a pipe f. It is prevented from cooling in the pipe B by pumping air into the outer section of the double pipe B by means of a pump I and tube i. When cork is used, it is carried from the hopper F by water drawn through a suction pipe provided with a valve e.
Patent GB-190614870-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Relief Valve.
Inventor: GIBBS JOHN EDWARD
Filed: 1906-06-30
Granted: 1906-12-13
Abstract: 14,870. Gibbs, J. E., and Sheppee, F. H. June 30. Safety - valves; instantaneous generators; steam generators for motor road vehicles.-A relief valve especially applicable to generators for steam motor cars of the type described in Specifications Nos. 27,735, 27,736, 27,737, and 27,738, A.D. 1904, consists of a spring-controlled balance escape valve, which releases the steam, combined with a valve which opens a water passage from the generator to the condenser, or to waste, the latter valve being operated from the spindle of the steam valve, and being chiefly of use where too much water has been pumped into the generator. In its preferred form, inlets I, L from the generator allow the steam to act on a piston C', Fig. 1, in a cylinder C, and on a valve K, the piston and valve spindles being connected by a coupling B, and being acted on by springs A, A<1>, which are adjustable by means of a nut F and screwed sleeve E respectively. When the steam pressure becomes too great, the piston C' rises, and the valve K opens and connects the generator through a pipe M to the condenser. If the pressure is even greater than that at which the valve K opens, the spindles rise further and pins Q on them act on a forked lever R, which raises a similar lever f connected to a pointed rod U arranged in a cylinder, and the rod U opens a ball valve W, which allows water to escape from the generator to an outlet Y controlled by a hand valve. The levers R,f are provided with holes, through which freely passes a bolt having nuts for connecting the levers, and the levers may each be operated by hand independently to relieve the steam or water.
Patent GB-190619143-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Frictional Variable Driving and Reversing Gear.
Inventor: ROOTS JAMES DENNIS
Filed: 1906-08-27
Granted: 1907-08-27
Abstract: 19,143. Roots, J. D. Aug. 27. Variable-speed and reversing gearing.-In change-speed gearing of the disk-and-roller type, applicable to motor-vehicles, a driving-shaft carries two rollers between two disks and the shaft may be oscillated about a central pivot to effect reversal. The rollers C, D, sliding on a driving-shaft A, are operated simultaneously by levers L, L' connected by link - work, as shown in Fig. 1, so that pressure on pedals M, N serves to augment and to diminish the velocity ratio respectively. The driven disks E, F are secured to sleeves E<2>, F<2>, which are loosely mounted on a fixed through shaft J, and communicate the power through sprockets E' &c. The shaft J is in two parts connected by a box K, which supports the pivots B about which the shaft A is oscillated to reverse the positions of the rollers with respect to the disks. The shaft A rotates within a ballbearing ring A<1> connected to the pivots B. The outer end of the shaft A is deflected to effect reversal through a link O and an eccentric.
Patent GB-190619446-A (GB)
Title: Locking Device to Secure Accuracy in Measuring Apparatus for Coal Corn, Powders, and the like
Inventor: KETTLE LAURENCE JOSEPH
Filed: 1906-08-31
Granted: 1907-07-04
Abstract: 19,446. Kettle, L. J. Aug. 31. Measured quantities, delivering.-In apparatus for delivering measured quantities of coal, corn, &c., of the type in which a measuring-chamber has upper and lower valves, the bolt that ensures one valve being closed while the other is opened is geared to one of the valves so as to be operated automatically. As shown in Fig. 1, the locking-bolt r passes through apertures at h in guides g and a slide s, a rack f on the other end of the bolt engaging with a pinion c on the spindle of the lower rotary valve, which is operated by a lever l. When the lower valve is open, the bolt r is raised and prevents the slide s from being opened ; when the slide s is open, the bolt engages with its under surface and prevents the lower valve from being opened, since a stop prevents this valve from being turned except in one direction. The slide s is operated through a rack and pinion by the rope n and pulley p.
Patent GB-190621945-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Short-circuiting Overhead Electric Conductors, or Cables.
Inventor: GIRAUD EMILE
Filed: 1906-10-04
Granted: 1907-03-28
Abstract: 21,945. Giraud, E. Oct. 6, 1905, [date applied for under Patents Act, 1901]. Cut-outs of the type described in Specification No. 29,064, A.D. 1904, for overhead conductors, are constructed with a fixed metal cap 2, Fig. 1, mounted on an insulating-head 1. The conductor or trolly wire is nipped in a clip 8, 5<1> on an arcshaped arm 5, which pivoted to a vertical pin 4 on the cap, and is grooved to recieve the wire. On breakage of the wire, the arm 5 swings out, and a metal extension on one of two lugs 10 , 10<1>, on the arm, contacts with an earth connexion or with another conducting-wire, so that the generators at the station are short-circuited. For three phase conductors, the pivot 4 is placed obliquely so that the arm of the broken conductor contacts with another conductor If the conductor does not change its direction, it may be supported in a vertical plane, as shown in Fig. 3, the arm 5 resting on the top of the cap with the pivot 4 horizontal. In this case, the cap passes round the recess in the head, and consists of two symmetrical half-collars.