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Patent GB-190424314-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Acetylene Gas Generators.
Inventor: WEBB ROBERT HENRY SLEEMAN
Filed: 1904-11-10
Granted: 1905-07-13
Abstract: 24,314. Webb, R. H. S. Nov. 10. Acetylene.- Water is supplied automatically to carbide on the fall of a gas holder. Gas is generated in chambers E at the bottom of the gasholder tank, water being admitted through pipes x<1>, x<2>. A tube A depending from the gas bell carries at its lower end a valve C connected by a lever to a float F, and on the descent of the gas bell the valve C is opened by the float, allowing water to pass down a flexible pipe x to the pipes x<1>, x<2>. The gas generated passes to the holder through pipes H closed by adjustable non- return valves T. When the carbide is exhausted, the gas holder continues to sink, when stops J, coming into contact with rods K, close cocks N. The carbide chambers having been refilled, the apparatus can be re-started either by admitting water merhanically by cocks P or by disconnecting the rods K from the cock levers L. The gas is purified by a cottonwool filter or the like, placed above the gas holder.
Patent GB-190427887-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Vapour Electric Apparatus for Wireless Signalling and other purposes.
Inventor: WEINTRAUB EZECHIEL
Filed: 1904-12-20
Granted: 1905-02-09
Abstract: 27,887. Weintraub, E. Dec. 21, A.D. 1903, [date appliedfor under Patents Act, A.D. 1901]. Telegraphs.-In a wave detector, for use in wireless telegraphy and other purposes, the passage of the waves through a vapour electric lamp ionizes the vapour sufficiently to start an ordinary arc in the lamp. The vapour lamp has carbon, platinum, and mercury electrodes 6, 5,4, respectively. When the wave passes from the antenna through the primary of the step-up transformer 8, 7, the induced current causes a spark between the platinum and mercury electrodes. The ionization of the vapour thus caused allows an arc to pass between the carbon and mercury electrodes. The arc is at once extinguished by a circuit interrupter or by arranging the resistance 12 so that the arc is unstable, or by using an alternating source of current
Patent GB-190500296-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Adapting Shot Guns for use as Rifles.
Inventor: SMITH WATSON
Filed: 1905-01-06
Granted: 1905-03-02
Abstract: 296. Smith, W. Feb. 20, 1904, [date applied for under Patents Act, 1901]. Adapting sporting-guns for ball cartridges.-A rifled tube, having an enlarged rear end 8, is fixed in a shot-gun barrel by means of springs 9<a> and a flange 9, which fits into the recess 10 formed at the end of the shot-gun barrel to receive the flange of the shot-cartridge. The shot-cartridge extractor 5 is formed with a recess 6 to receive a finger 15 of a sliding extractor 11, 12 for the ball-cartridge, which is thus extracted by means of the shot-gun extractor.
Patent GB-190506237-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in the Prevention of Steam Boiler Smoke
Inventor: LEWIS FREDERICK ALBERT
Filed: 1905-03-24
Granted: 1906-03-22
Abstract: 6237. Lewis, F. A. March 24. Drawings to Specification. Composition fuel.-Apparatus is described for spraying a solution of sodium nitrate or potassium chlorate in water on to the solid-fuel fire in a steam-boiler furnace to prevent smoke.
Patent GB-190511788-A (GB)
Title: Air Supply Devices for Submarine Boats.
Inventor: LAKE SIMON
Filed: 1905-06-05
Granted: 1906-01-04
Abstract: 11,788. Lake, S. June.5. Ventilating s h i p s; controlling automatically.-Air is admitted to a submarine vessel through a casing attached to the upper part of the conning-tower. The casing 7 is provided with air-inlet holes 8 supplying the air duct 9, at each end of which is placed a valve. The lower end of the casing is opened to allow any water which enters to escape. The valve 11 is normally held off its seat by compressed air in the cylinder 15 against the action of a spring 18. Should the water rise in the casing 7, an electric circuit is closed by the connexion of the mutually - insulated contacts 25, 26, and the solenoid 28 is energized, thereby operating the valve 21 bv the core 29 and exhausting the air from the cylinder 15. Should the electric controlling-device fail, the water raises the float 32 and operates by the lever 23 the valve 21, thus also closing the valve 11. The inlet aperture of the conning-tower is also provided with a valve 43 having a drip-pan 49 screwed on its stem. An inrush of water closes the valve 43 by filling the pan 49. The spring 51 is of sufficient strength just to keep the valve open when the pan is empty. The valve 43 may - be permanently closed by screwing the drip-pan 49 farther on to the stem.
Patent GB-190520155-A (GB)
Title: An Automatic Device for use in conjunction with the Automatic Control of Electric Arc and Incandescent Lighting Circuits.
Inventor: TRIPPE CHARLES FREDERICK
Filed: 1905-10-05
Granted: 1906-08-16
Abstract: 20,155. Trippe, C. F., and Staniland, C. N. Oct. 5. Switches; distributing.-Electro-magnetic switching-apparatus, operating to switch on or off either series arc or parallel incandescent electric lamps in street lighting systems where both are used upon the same pillar, by the movement of a single handoperated switch, comprises an electro-magnetic switch with separate shunt and series solenoids which operate switching-mechanism for the arc or incandescent lamps, and a separate electromagnetic switch for each pillar to switch over from one set of lamps to the other. The main switch has terminals B, B<1>, normally short-circuited by the bridge-piece C carried by the cores H within the two windings G, which are connected across the contacts B, B<1>. The cores attract an armature I', which may be sustained in the raised position mechanically by a balanced pivoted catch-lever carrying an armature I at the other end of the core. Linked to the rod V, which connects the contact-arm C and the armature I<1>, is an arm J pivoted at J<1> and provided with a spring-pressed pawl N adapted to be engaged by an extension of the core E within a separate solenoid D. The arrangement of circuits for three sets of arc and incandescent lamps e, i, each set provided with an automatic switch U controlled by the main electro magnetic switch, is shown in Fig. 3. When the main switch S is closed, the current flows through the arc lamps and the series windings K of the cut-outs, raising the bridge-pieces from the contacts M, M', so that no current passes to the incandescent lamps i but passes through the electro-magnetic switch, the contacts B, B<1>, and the coil D, and back to the return lead. The core E is raised, its extension passing idly over the detent N. To substitute incandescent lamps, the main switch S is opened ; all the bridges L drop upon their contacts M, M', and the core E drops, rocking the lever J and raising the contacts C, which are retained mechanically in the raised position by the catches 0, Figs. 1 and 2. The main switch S is again closed, the windings G are energized, and the contacts C are maintained raised by the cores H, the armature I being attracted to withdraw the catch O. Current then passes from the switch S to the first bridge-contact L and through the incandescent lamp i, the second lamp i receiving current throngh the resistance r, which is arranged to take the place of the first arc lamp if it fails. By opening the main switch and again closing it, the arc lamps may be reinstated. After the armature has been pulled .over, by means of contacts at R, Fig. 2, a resistance T, Fig. 3, may be inserted in series with the shunt winding G to prevent overheating.
Patent GB-190601385-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Submarine Vessels.
Inventor: HECTOR ANDRE
Filed: 1906-01-18
Granted: 1907-01-03
Abstract: 1385. Hector, A. Jan. 18. Bellows.-Buoyancy apparatus for submarine vessels is supplied with air by bellows W actuated directly by hand, or in a modification, by a hand-lever and connecting-link.
Patent GB-190603959-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Heels for Boots and Shoes.
Inventor: BIRRELL ANDREW
Filed: 1906-02-17
Granted: 1906-08-02
Abstract: 3959. Birrell, A. Feb. 17. Heels; heel protectors.- The heel is recessed to receive a pad or plate 5 of rubber, leather, metal, or the like, which is provided with two wearing surfaces 8, 9 so that it can be reversed when worn. The pad is held in place by a screw 7, a bearing-washer 6 being provided when rubber &c. is used. [Reference has been directed under Patents Act, 1902, to Specifications Nos. 3404 and 27,642, A.D. 1902, and No. 6310, A.D. 1905.]
Patent GB-190605395-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Burglar Alarms.
Inventor: BALDOCK FREDERICK ROWLAND
Filed: 1906-03-06
Granted: 1906-04-12
Abstract: 5395. Baldcock, F. R., and Clark, E. F. March 6. Alarms, burglar and like.-Relates to apparatus for automatically taking photographs of burglars and at the same time closing an alarm circuit. The breaking of any of the contacts 9, Fig. 1, de-energizes a relay 3, thus closing the audiblealarm circuit 7 and also the circuit 4 controlling the shutter mechanism of the camera 10. The alarm circuit may start a phonograph as described in Specification No. 10,130, A.D. 1905. The clock- . work mechanism 21, Fig. 2, of the camera is normally held inactive by the lever 23 engaging the escapement wheel 24, but, when the magnet 28 in circuit 4 is energized, the mechanism is released and the disk 30 rotates until the pin 32 again engages the notch 31. A stud 35 on the disk 30 moves the arm 33 so that its end plate 38 lifts the lever 17 of the shutter, thus moving the sector shaped aperture 19 over the lens aperture 14. Further revolution of the disk 30 again disengages the plate 38 from the lever 17, and the shutter is then closed by a spring 16. The armature 25 of the magnet 28 carries a spring 39, which engages the disk 30 when the magnet is energized, thus completing the circuit of a flashlight 11, Fig. 1. The alarm contacts may be operated by threads stretched across the floor of the room.
Patent GB-190609012-A (GB)
Title: Folding Umbrella
Inventor: WOEHLER WILLY
Filed: 1906-04-14
Granted: 1906-11-01
Abstract: 9012. W÷hler, W., and Wohler, O. April 14. Folding, telescopic, and like umbrellas.-The uppermost tube of the telescopic umbrella stick is made large enough to contain the ribs and cover when folded, the stick 5 being guided in the tube by an enlargement 6. The cover is preferably made of thin rubber fabric.
Patent GB-190610000-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Pumps particularly adapted for use with Wafer Biscuit Machines.
Inventor: BAKER GEORGE SAMUEL
Filed: 1906-04-28
Granted: 1906-09-20
Abstract: 10,000. Baker, G. S. April 28. Moulding biscuits.-Relates to pumps particularly adapted for filling the moulds of wafer biscuit machines of the kind described in Specifications No. 11,899, A.D. 1885, and No. 20,043, A.D. 1898, [Abridgment Class Cooking &c.], and No. 15,777, A.D. 1901. The pump casing 5 is reciprocated on guides 7 by means such as are described in Specification No. 20,043, A.D. 1898, and during the forward travel the piston-rods 13 are given a quick suction stroke through a slide 14, link 16, and bell-crank lever 17, which is pivoted on the pump casing and abuts against a stop 21. During the return travel, the rods 13 are given a slow delivery-stroke by the travel of the lever 17 upon a cam-surface 24. The slide 14, to which the piston-rods 13 and link 16 are connected, travels on one guide 7 and in a guideway in the pump and casing. The pump is put out of action by lowering the stop 21, and the piston-stroke may be varied by means of the slotted connexion 40.
Patent GB-190611058-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Electric Circuit Breakers.
Inventor: STOUT GEORGE GALE
Filed: 1906-05-11
Granted: 1907-05-11
Abstract: 11,058. Stout, G. G. May 11. Current meters.- In an excesscurrent circuitbreaker comprising a shunt solenoid 28 acting on a balanced, adjustably weighted beam 16, a pointer 18<1> moving over a scale forms a simple volt-meter. Resistances are placed in series with the coil 28 and are contained in a box 2.
Patent GB-190613492-A (GB)
Title: Improved Toy
Inventor: MEIER WILHELM
Filed: 1906-06-12
Granted: 1906-09-06
Abstract: 13,492. Meier, W. June 12. Toy guns.-In a toy machine gun, a flat spring h attached to a shaft i is rotated by means of a crank-handle, the spring is put under tension by coming in contact with a stop g, and after escaping from the stop, projects a ball along the guides c through a barrel a. The balls fall into position down a funnel d. Instead of the two-armed flat spring h, several flat springs can be arranged on the shaft i.
Patent GB-190617558-A (GB)
Title: The Manufacture of Colouring Matters Containing Sulphur.
Inventor: JOHNSON JAMES YATE
Filed: 1906-08-03
Granted: 1907-07-11
Abstract: 17,558. Johnson, J. Y., [Badische Anilin & Soda Fabrik]. Aug. 3. Dyes, artificial.-Red colouring-matters, identical or closely analogous to the colouring-matters deserved in Specification no. 22,736, A.D. 1905, are obtained by heating sulphur with an o-carboxyarylthioglycollic acid, or its salts or ethers, of the formulain which R is a simple or a substituted benzene or naphthalene residue, and R1 represents hydrogen or metal, or an alkyl or an aryl group, with or with. out a diluting-agent or solvent. According to an example, o - carboxypbenylthioglycollic acid is heated with sulphur. The melt is ground finely, and the colouring-matter dissolved away from the free sulphur. According to another example, naphthalene is melted with sulphur, and then o-carboxyphenylthioglycollic acid is added. The mixture is heated and the colouring - matter separated.
Patent GB-190617870-A (GB)
Title: Improvements appertaining to the Bearings of the Axles of Tramcar and like Vehicles.
Inventor: FEATHER GEORGE ROBERT
Filed: 1906-08-09
Granted: 1906-12-31
Abstract: 17,870. Feather, G. R. Aug. 9. Lubricating.-The bearing a of an axle-box for tramcars &c. is provided with cavities c to contain semi-solid lubricant. The cavities communicate by passages c' with grooves d in the bearing-surface. The bearing a fits within the axle-box b in such manner as to allow the box to be raised for the purpose of refilling the cavities c. Lubricant may also be placed in the chamber h and may be introduced through a covered opening in the cover k.
Patent GB-190623146-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or applicable to String Bags
Inventor: THOMSON JOHN HORSBURG
Filed: 1906-10-19
Granted: 1907-07-11
Abstract: 23,146. Thomson, J. H. Oct. 19. Hand-bags.-The depth of a string market bag may, when desired, be reduced by folding the bottom portion upwards inside the bag and engaging rings &c. b with hooks c. A stiff band d may be inserted in the bottom of the bag.
Patent GB-190625109-A (GB)
Title: A New Rat Trap
Inventor: FOULKES ROBERT
Filed: 1906-11-07
Granted: 1907-09-26
Abstract: 25,109. Foulkes, R. Nov. 7. Traps for animals. The trap consists of a rectangular box having a door a sliding in vertical grooves e. A cord l supports the door in its open position, aod passes over one of the hooks n, consisting of a wire bent horizontally at its lower end, to the bait hook m, which has its end bent obliquely downwards. The bait is placed on the hook with the cord l beneath it so as to be disengaged when the bait is removed. To prevent the door a from being re-opened when the trap is sprung, a piece of metal protrudes by its own weight through an orifice above the door, being pivoted to a wire in front of the trap. It may be fixed to a second wile when setting the trap. One side of the box consists of a wire door hinged at the bottom and fastened by hooks, the other sides being of sheet metal. A handle v is provided.
Patent GB-190709227-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Turbine Pumps.
Inventor: ALLEN WILLIAM HENRY
Filed: 1907-04-20
Granted: 1908-04-21
Abstract: 9227. Allen, W. H., and Allen, R. W. April 20. Centrifugal pumps.-In order to balance the end thrust in multi-stage centrifugal pumps having the inner portion of the return passages formed in the bosses of the preceding disks, water from the last disk is allowed to leak into a chamber formed with two radial walls, one fixed and the other rotating. The water leaking from the periphery of the last disk a' passes into the chamber d, of which the side e, fixed to the spindle b, works in contact with the radial surface f fixed to the casing c. To ensure a sufficient supply of water, holes el are provided in the moving surface to permit of communication with the entrance side of the disk a'. The inner walls of the return passages g' are formed in the bosses of the preceding disks.
Patent GB-190710927-A (GB)
Title: A New or Improved Exhaust Silencer for Gas Motors
Inventor: WEBER AUGUST
Filed: 1907-05-10
Granted: 1907-10-03
Abstract: 10,927. Weber, A. May 10. Air, drawing-off, method of.-The exhaust gases of a gas engine escape through a pipe c of uniform bore into a channel d' of gradually increasing crosssection opening into a flue e. The plate covering the pit b may be perforated, in order that the engine-room may be ventilated by the aspiration of the exhaust through the channel d enclosing the pipe c. [Reference has been directed under Patents Act, 1902, to Specification No. 25,421, A.D. 1904.]
Patent GB-190719682-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Pneumatic Dispatch Tube Apparatus.
Inventor: KNOTT FRANK WHELLING
Filed: 1907-09-03
Granted: 1908-03-05
Abstract: 19,682. Knott, F. W. Sept. 3. Pneumatic dispatch apparatus.-In a suction system, the receiving end of the transit tube 9 being closed by a hinged cover 14, the driving atmospheric air is admitted through a branch 10 having a valve 25, which is opened and closed by a piston 23 in a cylinder 22, which acts under automatic control adjusted to suit the time of transit. The piston is raised to open the valve, when the carrier is inserted, by atmospheric pressure admitted through a small pipe 28, the outer end of which is normally closed by a stopper 19 on the hinged cover 14. It then descends gradually as the pressure in the cylinder is equalized and reduced by slow flow through the side passage 26, containing a valve 27, and by suction through the tube 29. The hinged cover 14 has a heavy handle 16, so that it opens automatically when the internal pressure is momentarily raised by the opening of the cover at the distant receiving-terminal.
Patent GB-190723982-A (GB)
Title: A New or Improved Cramp especially applicable for use in Drilling Girders.
Inventor: HENDERSON DAVID GOW
Filed: 1907-10-30
Granted: 1908-02-06
Abstract: 23,982. Henderson, D. G., and Williams, J. T. Oct. 30. Drilling.-A drill stand for use in drilling girders comprises a base-plate 2 with a fixed jaw 3 and a movable jaw 4 adjustably held in a slot 5 by a key 6 engaging branch slots 8. Mounted on 'the base-plate is a quadrant-shaped fin 10 to which is rotatably attached by a bolt 11 a yoked arm 13 carrying a bar 14, which can be thus swung into three positions and held by a bolt 15 fitting into holes 16 in the quadrant. The bar may serve as an abutment for a ratchet brace, or may carry a geared drill clamped directly to it.
Patent GB-190728549-A (GB)
Title: Medicine Chute.
Inventor: CARPENTER EDWIN JAMES
Filed: 1907-12-28
Granted: 1908-06-04
Abstract: 28,549. Carpenter, E. J. Dec. 28. Drinking-vessels.-A vessel 5 for administering liquid medicines, is provided with a laterally-extending tapered spout 10, the end of which is curved downwards. The whole of the spout lies below the level of the top of the container, and its inner end 12 is shaped so as to form a continuous curve with the interior surface of the container 5. A flange 9 covers the forward portion of the container. In use, the spout is passed to the back of the patient's throat.
Patent GB-190801071-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Lamps particularly adapted for use on Motor Vehicles.
Inventor: DUCELLIER GABRIEL
Filed: 1908-01-16
Granted: 1908-03-12
Abstract: 1071. Ducellier, G. Jan. 16. Velocipede, carriage, and like lamps.-A motorcar or like headlight is provided with (1) a reflector which allows the depth or thickness of the lamp to be reduced, (2) a hood or cowl presenting a smooth and imperforate outer surface designed to prevent the escape of light, and (3) a spring-pressed bolt for closing the door. The parabolic reflector 2 is provided with a spherical rear-part 3, which is reduced so that the actual reflecting- surface 10 is formed by a spherical part concentric with the part 3, or the rear-part may be formed by several concentric reduced spherical parts. Moreover, the spherical part 10 may be replaced by an elliptical part 11, the.foci of which are at 6 and 12, the focus 12 being so chosen that the rays intersecting in it diverge to light things at the side and in front of the vehicle. A hood or cowl presenting a smooth and imperforate outer surface is obtained by connecting the parts by lugs 13, 17, 18, and the curved section of the windguard 14 prevents the escape of light. The spring bolt 23, Figs. 3 and 4, of the door is arranged in a curved tube 21, and is inclined at its edge 27 to correspond with the inclined edge of the staple 26. To open the door, a knob 24 on the bolt is pressed towards a similar knob 25 on the door. The spring compensates for any wear of the inclined surfaces 27.
Patent GB-190805857-A (GB)
Title: Process and Apparatus for the Sterilisation of Water by Means of Hydrogen Dioxide (Oxygenated Water) with Subsequent Decomposition of the Excess of the Reagent not Utilised in a Special Manganese-dioxide Filter.
Inventor: LUCIEN EILERTSEN
Filed: 1908-03-16
Abstract: 5857. Eilertsen, L. March 15, 1907, [date applied for under Section 91 of Patents &c. Act, 1907]. Void. [Published under Patents &c. Act, 1907.] Drawings to Specification. Liquids, sterilizing.-Water is sterilized by hydrogen peroxide, and the excess of reagent is removed by filtration through manganese dioxide. The filtering-material may be prepared by impregnating felt, cotton, &c., with an alkaline solution of a permanganate, which decomposes on standing. The fabric is then washed and dried in the cold.