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Patent GB-191200410-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Electrical Selective Connecting Apparatus Operated from a Distance.
Inventor: BETULANDER GOTTHILF ANSGARIUS
IPC: H01H67/16
Filed: 1912-01-05
Granted: 1912-05-23
Abstract: 410. Betulander, G. A. Jan. 10, 1911, [Convention date]. Automatic exchange systems and apparatus.- Both the rotary and vertical movements of a stepby-step selector are produced by a single impulse magnet 6, Fig. 1, both pawls 18 and 13 being operated directly by the armature 9, and means being provided for rendering first the vertical and then the rotary pawl ineffective. The frame 2, 3, 4, carrying the switch shaft 1 with its wipers and the operating-mechanism and magnets 6, 7, is mounted on trunnions 57, so that it can be tilted by a magnet 60 to keep the wipers out of contact with the terminals during the setting and restoring of the selector. In operation, the magnet 7 is first energized to withdraw a catch 47 and to lift a rod 50 inset in the frame 4, so as to bring a finger 51 opposite to a downwardly projecting lug 54 of a controlling-lever 34. The magnet 60 is then energized and the first set of impulses passes through the magnet 6. The arm 10 of the armature 9 operates the pawl 18 to rotate the shaft 1 through a ratchet crown 20, ribbed cylinder 24, and sector 25, but the pawl 13 reciprocates idly owing to the engagement of a rear arm 37 with a lug 35 depending from the controlling-lever 34. At the first rotary step, a stop 31, Fig. 5, is moved away from the lever 34, but movement of the lever is still prevented by engagement of the parts 51, 54. At the end of the first series of impulses the magnet 7 is de-energized and re-energized, which oscillates the rod 50 and stop 51, permitting the lever 34 to move into a second position in which the pawl 13 is free of the lug 35 while an upwardly extending lug 36 comes into engagement with an arm 38 of the pawl 18. Consequently when the armature 9 is oscillated by the second series of impulses in the magnet 6, the pawl 13 lifts the shaft 1 while the pawl 18 reciprocates idly. The selector having been set, the magnet 60 is deenergized, allowing the wipers to move into contact with the selected terminals. The magnet 7 is also de-energized, but the retraction of its armature is limited by the pawl 13, pin 16, and incline 17. Release is effected by energizing the magnets 6 and 60. The lowering of the pawl 13, when the magnet 6 but not the magnet 7 is energized, allows the spring 46 to withdraw both the pawl 13 and the detent 44 from the ratchet 12, which was not previously possible because of the pin 16 bearing on the incline 17, so that the shaft 1 is free to drop to its lowest position, in which it is caught by the anti-vibration catch 47. At the same time, pins 55 on an arm of the rod 50 depress the rotary pawl 18 and its detent away from the ratchet crown 20, so that the shaft 1 and ribbed cylinder 24 turn back to normal position. A source of spring or pneumatic power may be used to operate the selector. The rotary movement may be obtained by a pawl acting on a ratchet-wheel slidably mounted on the shaft 1.
Patent GB-191202510-A (GB)
Title: Improvement in Eyelet-tape.
Inventor: WICKE GEORGE HENRY
IPC: A44B13/00
Filed: 1912-01-31
Granted: 1912-03-21
Abstract: 2510. Wicke, G. H. March 10, 1911, [Convention date]. Eyeleted fabrics.-A tape is woven with eyelets for receiving buttons, hooks, or similar fasteners and comprises upper and lower strips 10, 11, Fig. 1, each made of a single thickness of material, an interrupted selvedge 14 uniting the strips, and loops 16 also formed of a single thickness uniting the sections of the selvedge. Two shuttles are used in weaving the tape; between the eyelets, each weft weaves one strip, and both enter the selvedge, and one weft 19, Fig. 3, weaves the eyelets while the other weft 17 weaves both strips opposite the eyelets.
Patent GB-191205471-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Twist Drills, Reamers and the like.
Inventor: BRUNDRETT HARRY
IPC: B23B31/00
Filed: 1912-03-05
Granted: 1913-02-10
Abstract: 5471. Brundrett, H. March 5. Drills; reamers. - A shank is fixed to a drill, reamer, or the like made from section steel, by forming one or more recesses a<1> in the drill, fitting over the drillend a hot steel sleeve b, and pressing the sleeve to fill the recess and grooves of the drill and to form a cylindrical or conical shank. According to the Provisional Specification, the recesses may be omitted.
Patent GB-191205633-A (GB)
Title: A New or Improved Apparatus for use in Drying Copra.
Inventor: BRIDGE ROBERT
IPC: F26B9/10
Filed: 1912-03-06
Granted: 1913-03-06
Abstract: 5633. Bridge, R. March 6. Wheeled trucks; chambers. - A copradrying plant comprises a series of chambers a closed by doors band having rails d extending for some distance beyond the doors. The copra is brought from the store or temporary drying-rooms i by trucks j running on rails k. The trucks c, which are made of laths or perforated material, are charged from the trucks j and are pushed into the heated chambers a. The dried material is discharged on the opposite side into trucks r. The chambers are heated by steam or water radiators m and are provided with airexhausting means q and fresh-air inlets. Hermetically-sealed vacuum drying - plant may be used in conjunction with a condenser, water-receiving tank, and vacuum pump.
Patent GB-191206612-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Pen Holders.
Inventor: BECK ERNEST
IPC: B43K3/00
Filed: 1912-03-18
Granted: 1912-10-31
Abstract: 6612. Beck, E. March 18. Penholders; finger-guides; preventing cramp. -A penholder, of the type having an adjustable elastic connexion between the handle and nib, comprises an ordinary nib-carrier B, Fig. 1, a socket F and handle G of ordinary type, and an elastic connexion E in the form of a coiled spring capable of being adjusted as regards length by screwing either directly or by means of a screw attachment I, Fig. 2, into the internally screwed socket F. A finger-rest K is arranged on the socket F to prevent the finger coming into contact with the coil E. In a modification, the nib-carrier B and handle G are connected by a piece of india-rubber tubing, the effective length of which is varied by pushing-in or withdrawing either the handle G or the nib-carrier B. The object of the invention is to prevent writers' cramp.
Patent GB-191207887-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Power Transmission Devices for Motor Driven Vehicles.
Inventor: VORHIES LEROY
IPC: F16H15/30
Filed: 1912-04-01
Granted: 1912-09-26
Abstract: 7887. Vorhies, L. April 1, 1911, [Convention date]. Variable - speed frict i o n gearing. - In friction - disk driving- gear for motor-vehicles, the motor fly-wheel 30 has a concave face which engages with a disk 20 geared to the road wheels through bevelgearing 26 and a telescopic cardan shaft 11. The disk 20 is carried by a triangular frame 16 pivoted on arms 14 carried bv a rotatable shaft 13 which contains the centre of curvature of the fly-wheel face. The frame 16 is raised or lowered to alter the speed-ratio and direction of drive by linkage 35 and a hand-lever 36; the hand-lever may be retained in any position by means of a notched quadrant 39 and a sliding bolt. The shaft 13 can be rotated so as to adjust the pressure of the disk 20 upon the fly-wheel 30, by a rod 33 and pedal 34.
Patent GB-191208534-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Closet-seats.
Inventor: GAUTSCHY FELIX
IPC: A47K13/00
Filed: 1912-04-10
Granted: 1912-05-30
Abstract: 8534. Gautschy, F. April 10. Closct basins; closet seats. - To minimize risk of contagion, the body rests on blocks f screwed to brackets g formed on the basin, which is of the shape shown.
Patent GB-191215028-A (GB)
Title: Improved Means for Controlling Action of Electrical Alarm Apparatus for Cash Boxes Jewel Boxes and like Receptacles.
Inventor: DOWNING GEORGE
IPC: A45C13/24
Filed: 1912-06-27
Granted: 1913-04-10
Abstract: 15,028. Downing, G., and Moulton, P. S. June 27. Burglar and like alarms.-Relates to improvements in the alarm apparatus for jewel-boxes &c. described in Specification 25,446/11 in which a ball 12, Fig. 1, closes an electric circuit when it falls off the pin 15, and can be reset by a ring raised by the lever 8. In the present invention, the resetting-ring is combined with the ring contact previously used, and the lever 8 is operated by the bolt 21 of the lock of the box. The ball 12 is normally balanced on the pin 15 which is connected through the plate 19 to one side of the electric circuit. When the ball falls off the pin, it closes the circuit between the pin and the arm 9 by resting against the edge of a hole 14 therein. The ball is set in position again by the ebonite cup 13 mounted on the arm 9, which is pivoted at 10 and can be raised by means of the lever 8. The closing of the alarm circuit is rendered secure by the spring 16 mounted on the piece 9, which is released by the first stroke of the bell-hammer 6 and makes contact with the pin 18 also mounted on the conducting-plate 19. The end of the lever 8 passes through a staple 20 in the bolt 21, which is capable of three positions. In the unlocked position, Fig. 8, the stump 24 of the bolt lies in the right-hand gating of the levers 25, and the projection 27 on the rotatable keyhole-boss 26 rests against the stop 31. When the box has been locked, the stump 24 lies in the gating 30; but in order to set the alarm, the boss 26 is turned and the stump is pressed further into the grating 28 by the projection 27, as in Fig. 11. The boss 26 is then turned back to its original position, and the bolt 21 can, when necessary, be unlocked and the alarm unset by a single turn of the key.
Patent GB-191217502-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Malting Drums.
IPC: C12C1/033
Filed: 1912-07-27
Granted: 1913-06-19
Abstract: 17,502. Kn³ttel, F., and Berliner Akt.- Ges. f³r Eisengiesserei und Maschinenfabrikation. July 27. Malting.-In a malting - drum, rotatable on rollers s, and having axial air-supply and discharge pipes f, which supply air to peripheral conduits l and discharge through a central tube m, in order to obtain an air-tight closure of the drum, flanged rings b attached to the drum and projecting into the pipes f are fitted with disk-valves d which ro tate with the drum. The valves are operated through doors g in the pipes f.
Patent GB-191219467-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Means for the Regulation or Control of Railway and like Traffic.
Inventor: KRAMER HANS VON
IPC: B61L3/22
Filed: 1912-08-26
Granted: 1913-08-21
Abstract: 19,467. Kramer, H. von. Aug. 26. Electrical systems, automatic ; track apparatus actuating signals on trains and for stopping trains.- In systems having a live wire on the track and an inductive frame carried on the engine, means is provided whereby the warning is given by the absence of induced current. The live wire 3, Fig. 4, may be continuous or in sectional lengths fed from a generator 5, and the outward and return lengths may be crossed at intervals as described in Specification 25,407/09, [Class 40 (v), Wireless signalling &c.]. Immediately in front of each signal 6, the live wire is divided by the addition of a part 7 so that the parts 3<a>, 7 induce currents on opposite sides of the wire frame 2, Fig. 3, carried on the engine, and these currents neutralize one another. As described in Specification 5952/12, the frame 2 is in circuit with the coil wires 8 of a relay as described in Specifications 10,856/11, 5950/12, [both in Class 40 (iii), Telegraphs, Electric], to cause a reed 9 to vibrate to break circuit between the springs 10 in a circuit includiog a battery 11 and a solenoid switch 12. By the breaking of this circuit, the switch 12 closes contacts 13 in a third circuit, in which a solenoid switch 14 normally raises the lever 15 of a warning device or stopping 16. Failure of induced current in the frame 2 thus causes the device 16 to operate. As shown in Fig. 3, these supplementary warning-devices are arranged in front of the signal 17, whereby a bell is rung. Contacts 18, 19 are also provided to be engaged by the arm at danger to complete a circuit through wires 3<b>, 24, contacts 18, 19, 21, wire 25, to the wire 3. Wires 3<b> and 7<a> are thus energized and induce opposite currents whereby the engine apparatus is operated, the length of the part being sufficient to cause complete stoppage. When the arm is 'off,' a circuit is made through wires 3, 27, contacts 20, 21, and wire 25. Thus only the wire 27 is energized at this part, and the warning- apparatus is not operated. The wire 3 may alternatively be rendered non-inductive by carrying away, shielding or bringing outward and return wires together. Fig. 6 shows an alternative engine arrangement in which absence of current in the coils 2 energizes the solenoid 30 to operate a visual signal 32 and close, at the contact 33, the circuit controlling the waining-device 16. The apparatus may be used to give warning at curves, levelcrossings, &c.
Patent GB-191220854-A (GB)
Title: Improved Batea or Clean-up Pan.
Inventor: KEMP LESLIE CHARLES
Filed: 1912-09-12
Granted: 1913-09-12
Abstract: 20,854. Kemp, L. C. Sept. 12. Amalgamating.-A batea is mounted at one end on a roller b and is flexibly supported at the other end by two converging rods c. The batea is oscillated by means of two rods d connected at one end to ball pins a<4> on the pan and at the other to two cranks or eccentrics which are set at different angles on a shaft e and may be adjustable. When the pan is in use, loose steel or like balls are provided.
Patent GB-191224408-A (GB)
Title: Improvements connected with Electric Telephones.
Inventor: HAMMER LESTER GUSTAVUS
IPC: H04M1/05
Filed: 1912-10-25
Granted: 1913-07-24
Abstract: 24,408. Hammer, L. G. Oct. 25. Telephone head sets.-A head-band for supporting a telephone receiver, more particularly for the use of deaf persons, is so constructed that the part carrying the receiver can be detached without removing the head-band, which is wholly concealed in the hair. The receiver is pivotally mounted in a frame b having a socket d, which receives a spigot c integral with the part a<2>, which is attached to the head-band a at the swivel a<1>. The spigot c is split and is provided with a rim c' so as to snap into a groove d<1> of the socket d, which is capable of rotation. Alternatively, the spigot may be formed on the carrier b and the socket on the part a<2>.
Patent GB-191226134-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Coupling Device or Union for Connecting Flexible or other Tubing to Gas Brackets or Pipes, Water Pipes and the like.
Inventor: SHARPE WILLIAM CHARLES
IPC: F16L37/407
Filed: 1912-11-14
Granted: 1913-10-09
Abstract: 26,134. Sharpe, W. C. Nov. 14. Overlap joints with packing at base of socket; with valves.-A coupling or union for gas tubing, water-pipes, &c., is arranged so that the act of making the joint opens a valve; when the joint is uncoupled, the valve closes. The coupling is in two parts 1, 2, Fig, 7, and the reduced portion 3 of the part 1 sockets in the annular space between outer and inner tubular portions 11, 12 of the part 2, packing 18 being fitted at the bottom of the recess. One or more projections 15 on the part 1 register in bayonet slots in the portion 11. When the parts 1, 2 are coupled up, the portion 12 having perforations 16 presses a ball, cone, or the like 6 off its seat 5 against a spring 7 and opens the valve. With gas-tubing supplying a lamp, stove, &c., two of the couplings may be used, one near the gas-supply pipe and the other near the lamp &c.
Patent GB-191228471-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Perfecting Rotary Web Printing Presses.
Inventor: WALKER ARTHUR HENRY
IPC: B41F5/06
Filed: 1912-12-10
Granted: 1913-06-26
Abstract: 28,471. Walker, A. H., [Duplex Printing Press Co.l. Dec. 10. Rotary presses. - A perfecting rotary web press, of the type described in Specifications 16,247/0.5 and 2073/08, is arranged so as to allow the pressman easy access to the plate cylinders, inking - mechanisms. and the webs. The webs are led downwards from rolls 13 mounted in supports 14, the cores of the rolls 13 being arranged at the height of an average pressman so that he can control the tensions of the webs readily. As shown, there are three perfecting couples, each with the printing- cylinders 2 outside the impression cylinders 1, the whole being arranged at a common level, but each perfecting couple being spaced apart sufficiently to allow the pressman to pass between the couples. The webs, when printed on, pass downwards over guide-rollers 17, 18, and after being slit centrally, they are passed to two similar longitudinal folders, and thence to two rotary folders as shown in Specification 11,074/07, or the halves of a slit web may be associated by turning-bars before passing to the longitudinal folders, or the webs may be associated after being folded longitndinally; in either case, all the sheets printed by the press can be delivered by either of the rotary folding and cutting devices, or the full product may be divided in various ways between the last two devices. A series of tapes 21 may be used to prevent the printed sheets from sagging before reaching the rollers 18. All the couples are driven from a shaft 10, suitable gearing 11, 12 being provided, and the folding and delivery mechanism is also driven from the shaft 10. The inking-mechanisms are arranged to be accessible to the pressman, and are similar to that described in Specification 16,247/0.5. except that the distributor rollers 7 are outside the distributing-drum 8. The machine is fitted with supports for rolls 35, which are to be used when the rolls 13 are exhausted.
Patent GB-191300909-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Regulators suitable for Gas Burners.
Inventor: PRICE THEOPHILUS EDWARD
IPC: F23D14/48
Filed: 1913-01-13
Granted: 1913-10-16
Abstract: 909. Price, T. E. Jan. 13. Atmospheric gas burners.-In a nipple-regulator the part a of the nipple carrying the gasorifice a<1> slides relatively to a fixed needle b<1>, and is operated by a rotatable member which has no motion of translation. In one arrangement, a crank-pin on a transversely-arranged rotatable shaft c engages a circumferential groove on or an aperture in the sliding element a, which slides on a central gas-tube b relatively to a fixed needle b<1> at the extremity of the tube. In a modification, a projection on the sliding element engages in a hole in the rotating operating-member.
Patent GB-191304645-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Rackets for Tennis and the like.
Inventor: BROWN SUMMERS
IPC: A63B51/12
Filed: 1913-02-24
Granted: 1913-06-05
Abstract: 4645. Brown, S. Feb. 24. Rackets. - The frame of a tennis or like racket, of the kind having means for allowing the frame to expand and contract as the tension of the gut varies with climatic changes, is severed at one or more places or is composed of separate parts, and the abutting ends are fitted with sockets and ferrules b, c between which are interposed springs d of rubber, metal, or other suitable material.
Patent GB-191305553-A (GB)
Title: Process for the Preparation of Nitrocellulose.
IPC: C08B5/02
Filed: 1913-03-05
Granted: 1914-01-08
Abstract: 5553. Vereinigte Kunstseidefabriken Akt.-Ges. March 5, 1912, [Convention date]. Nitrates.-The spontaneous combustion of nitrocellulose during preparation is prevented by washing the material immediately after nitration with cooled acid which exerts no further nitrating action. Suitable acid is the waste acid from a previous nitrating operation or an acid of similar composition. The cellulose is suitably nitrated in cells d contained in a vessel a. Nitrating-acid is circulated by a pump c through the material, and when the nitration is effected cooled waste acid is allowed to 'flow over the material from a tank f until it is sufficiently cooled. It is then centrifuged.
Patent GB-191307512-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Air Compressor.
Inventor: STURMEY JOHN JAMES HENRY
Filed: 1913-03-31
Granted: 1913-12-04
Abstract: 7512. Sturmey, J. J. H. March 31. Cylinders, attachments to for compressing air. -An air-compressor for inflating motor-vehicle tyres comprises tandem cylinders 3, 2 fitted with connected pistons 5, 4, which are reciprocated by the fluctuations of pressure in one of the cylinders of the engine to which the pump is applied in place of the spark-plug. According to the invention, the pure air which is supplied in the tyres, that is to say air which does not enter the engine cylinder, is drawn into the hollow piston-rod 6 through a valve 14 in a central tube 11. The hollow piston-rod is provided near its extremities with ports 9, 10 respectively, the ports 10 communicating by way of a valve 25 with the space below the cupleather piston 5. It will be seen that the pump is single-acting, both stages of compression taking place on the upstroke. Air is drawn into the engine cylinder by way of a valve 22. In one modification the valve 14 is replaced by a flap valve on the end of the tube 11, and the tube is provided externally near its end with a cupleather which serves as a non-return valve between the ports 9, 10 either in addition to, or instead of, the valve 25. In a second modification, the valve 14 is located in a tube attached to the piston 4 and adapted to slide upon the tube 11.
Patent GB-191311572-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Valves and Valve Mechanism.
Inventor: BROWN CHARLES ROBERT BARRINGTO
IPC: F16K31/44
Filed: 1913-05-19
Granted: 1914-04-09
Abstract: 11,572. Brown, C. R. B. May 19. Rotary disk valves; sliding valves.-Rotary disk and other sliding valves are constructed so that, when they are operated to open them, the whole or part of the pressure of the valve on its seating is transferred by suitable levers to ball or roller bearings. In the rotary disk valve shown in Fig. 1, the valve spindle F carries a cross-head with thrust blocks K connected by toggle levers H to a lower thrust block, which rests on ball or roller bearings M. On rotating the block K by means of a handle P, the toggle levers raise the upper block and transfer the weight of the valve to the bearings M. The motion of the valve is secured by the binding of the toggle links in their sockets J, guide grooves R engaged by pins S on the links being provided to assist in maintaining the levers in a vertical position during the opening and closing of the valve. In Fig. 3, a toggle lever is shown applied to a slide-valve to transfer the weight of the valve C to bearings M when actuated by a rod F.
Patent GB-191313773-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Display Stands more particularly for Boots and Shoes.
Inventor: SOUTHALL HAROLD WILLIAM
IPC: A47F7/08
Filed: 1913-06-14
Granted: 1914-03-05
Abstract: 13,773. Southall, H. W., Wynn, F. V., [trading as Burt Bros.], and Harris, F. n. June 14. Pedestal, pillar, and like stands; brackets, adjusting and securing.-In a display stand for boots &c., the lower arm e on which the boot rests is provided with a socket member 1 enclosing the free end of a spring tongue f, which bears against the standard a and tilts the socket member to provide a friction grip at the points 3, 5. The spring is attached to the arm e by a rivet 4. Lugs 11 on the bracket e are bent round the rod a to form the socket, and teeth 10 are provided to engage the sole of the boot &c.
Patent GB-191315082-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Lighting System for Railway Cars.
IPC: B61D29/00
Filed: 1913-06-30
Granted: 1913-10-02
Abstract: 15,082. Pintsch Akt.-Ges., J. June 30. [Convention date, April 30.] Burners, regulating and controlling.-In order to enable the gas burners, of a railway car to be turned down by the passengers or from the end of a car by a railway attendant, gas is supplied from the gas cut-off c to the burners through a main conduit e and an auxiliary conduit f, the branches e', f<1> from the conduits e, f uniting at each burner. The conduit e is provided with a main cock d at the end of the car. The branches e<1> are provided with gas cocks g or the like for enabling passengers to regulate the burners, and the branches f<1>, provided with throttling-devices k<1>, supply gas to the burners when either or both the cocks d, g are closed.