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Patent GB-190619008-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Calculating Machines.
Inventor: BOULT ALFRED JULIUS
Filed: 1906-08-25
Granted: 1907-04-11
Abstract: 19,008. Boult, A. J., [Gaither, W.]. Aug. 25. Typewriters and like machines.-The paper carriage of a printing adding-machine is made of great width and travel, and is provided with means for printing upon any portion of a long roll of paper for the purpose of adding-up and recording from day to day the hours worked by numbers of employers and readily calculating therefrom the wages due at the end of a month or similar period. The Figures show the apparatus applied to the adding-machine described in. Specifications No. 12,121, A.D. 1888, [Abridgment Class Registering &c.], No. 17,126, A.D. 1893, and No. 21,268, A.D. 1897, upon the frame of which side arms K, K<1> support the spindle L for a number of separated feed-rollers M, which are rotated by the pawl-and-ratchet mechanism and link-work shown as the pin-bearing arm X rocked at each operation of the main handle. To adjust the throw, two holes for the end of the link Q are provided in the arm R. Mounted in the same framework as this spindle are the two tracks A<1>, A<2> for the carriage, which contains the rubber-faced platen F with its adjusting-handles and pressure roller, and also, upon a framework g, h forming part of the carriage, the two reels i, k upon which the greater part of the paper sheet is retained, together with the guideplate K<2> and clamp for the sheet. Pulleys on these reels are connected by an endless band to produce equivalent motions of the sheet at both places, whether this is due to the feed-rollers M or to adjustment of either reel by means of the removable handle 0. The feed-roller spindle and the carriage tracks extend beyond the usual machine casing at each side.
Patent GB-190621950-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to the Manufacture of Metal Shavings
Inventor: GARBE CHARLES
Filed: 1906-10-04
Granted: 1907-06-06
Abstract: 21,950. Garbe, C. Oct. 6, 1905, [date applied for under Patents Act, 1901]. Metal shavings; lathes; tools. - Metal shavings are made from wire, tightly coiled on a rotating drum and cut by a traversing tool. The apparatus comprises a drum 1 rotated by suitable means, on which the wire is tightly coiled either before or during the cutting operation. The tool 3 has an inclined cutting-edge 6 so as to take several shavings off each convolution during one pass of the tool, and is adjustably secured by set-screws in a holder 2 traversed by a screw 4. The tool may be stationary and the drum traversed, or both may be traversed.
Patent GB-190622281-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Apparatus for Measuring or Apportioning Materials of a Granular or other suitable Form.
Inventor: MAY THOMAS HUGHES DELABERE
Filed: 1906-10-09
Granted: 1907-11-09
Abstract: 22,281. May, T. H. D. Oct. 9. Conveyers.-The hopper for feeding the screw conveyer of a mixing - apparatus for granular materials is formed with a barrel a open at both ends and surrounding the screw. The quantity delivered is regulated by adjusting the hopper casing a-over the screw, the depth of the threads of which varies on the tapered core b<2>. The hopper may be movable and counterbalanced or guided, and may be directly over the casing a or at the side ; or the screw may be longitudinally adjustable in sliding bearings. A screw of even depth of thread may be employed. A pair of hoppers may be employed to deliver definite proportions of material for a mixture, or several screws may be arranged on one shaft with hoppers, and enclosing casings for the screw may be fitted between the hoppers. Baffles may be arranged in the hoppers to prevent clogging. The jarring of the hopper by the screw is stated to facilitate the working.
Patent GB-190627506-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to Handle Bars for Cycles.
Inventor: BROADBENT JAMES KEWLEY
Filed: 1906-12-03
Granted: 1907-10-24
Abstract: 27,506. Broadbent, J. K. Dec. 3. Handle-bars. - Relates to reversible handle-bars for cycles, of the type described in Specification No. 3548, A.D. 1905. The handle - bar is formed integrally with the central forwardly - projecting lug or socket c which fits the upper end of the stem d. The parts are secured by a bolt m and cap l, which may be integral, the bolt being screwed into a plug n fixed in the upper end of the stem; or the plug may be dispensed with and the bolt m made sufficiently long to screw into the usual expanding-plug o, Fig. 2. The upper end of the stem and the interior of the socket may be formed with flats or otherwise fashioned to facilitate positioning. By slackening the bolt, the handle-bar may be turned into alinement with the machine ; on withdrawal of the bolt, the handle-bar may be reversed.
Patent GB-190627530-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Car Axles.
Inventor: WILLIAMS OSCAR
Filed: 1906-12-03
Granted: 1907-04-25
Abstract: 27,530. Williams, 0., and Smith, W. H. Dec. 3. Bearings for rotary axles of vehicle wheels; lubricating. -The inner ends of a divided axle 1, 2 are formed with spaced shoulders 4, 4<1> connected by a tapering portion. The shoulders 4 are bevelled at 6 and are formed with channels 5<1> through which lubricant flows. The axles are connected by a coupling 7 formed in two parts and bolted together. The head of the coupling forms a reservoir 9 for lubricant, which is carried to the bearings by ducts 10, 11.
Patent GB-190701481-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Pulleys for Carrying Railway Signal Wires and like purposes.
Inventor: WILLIAMS LLEWELLYN WYNN
Filed: 1907-01-21
Granted: 1907-12-12
Abstract: 1481. Williams, L. W., Williams, O. R., and Williams, D. D. Jan. 21. Frame pulleys. - The frame of a pulley for railway-signal wires &c. is constructed of steel or other wire of any suitable section bent so as to carry the pin on which the pulley runs. Figs. 1, 4, and 5 show different forms of the frame. Two or more pulleys may be carried by the one frame. Fig. 7 shows a pulley attached by a clamp to the underside of a rail.
Patent GB-190706434-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Method of and Means for Printing Textile Fabrics.
Filed: 1907-03-18
Granted: 1907-12-19
Abstract: 6434. Calico Printers' Association, and Hindle, R. E. March 18. Printing fabrics. - Patterns are produced on woven fabrics by causing local variations in pressure between either a plain pad roller or an engraved printing-roller and the impression cylinder or bowl. The bowl a is covered with a blanket b formed with or having attached parts c forming a raised or recessed pattern with varying depths of relief. The blanket b may be in the form of an endless band, used either with or without the usual back cloth. More than one printing-roller d may be employed.
Patent GB-190709540-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Printing Presses of the Single Revolution Rotary Type.
Inventor: JUSTICE PHILIP MIDDLETON
Filed: 1907-04-24
Granted: 1908-04-23
Abstract: 9540. Justice, P. M., [Huber-Hodgman Printing Press Co.]. April 24. Delivery apparatus; rotary machines.-Relates to delivery apparatus for machines of the single-revolution rotary type. The apparatus, which in the form described is of the " drop- " sheet variety, is arranged to deliver simultaneously a number of sheets received one by one from a delivery cylinder. The machine comprises a printing cylinder 1 and an impression cylinder 2 from which the printed sheets are taken by a delivery cylinder 3. The sheets pass from the cylinder 3 on to travelling tapes carried by a frame 26 which is pivoted on a rod 28. The frame 26 is oscillated by levers and a cam 34 so that the sheets are delivered alternately to travelling tapes 27 and to a carriage 13 which is reciprocated by cranks 22 and links 24. The carriage 13 is provided with tapes which are sta-, tionary while the carriage moves to the right but are caused to travel during the return of the carriage so that the sheets are left upon a table 21. As the carriage moves to the right, two sheets are simultaneously laid upon it at different points by the frame 26 and tapes 27 respectively. During the return of the carriage, the right-hand sheet is delivered to the table 21 and the left-band sheet is advanced to the right-hand end of the carriage. At the next advance of the carriage, a second sheets is laid by the tapes 27 on top of the first, the two sheets being delivered simultaneously to the table 21.. Additional sets of tapes, 27 may be provided whereby. the sheets may be delivered in sets of three or more. The frame 26 may be provided with longitudinally-disposed guide-fingers placed above the travelling tapes. Clips 42, 44, operated in any suitable manner, may be provided on the carriage 13 to receive the forward edges of the sheets delivered by the frame 26 and tapes 27.
Patent GB-190714087-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Arc Lamps for Changing the Luminous Intensity in any Given Direction.
Inventor: FORTUNY MARIANO
Filed: 1907-06-18
Granted: 1907-10-31
Abstract: 14,087. Fortuny, M. June 19, 1906, [date applied for under Patents Act, 1901]. Arc lamps.-Electrodes are mounted so that they can be moved to vary the light given out in a partic u l a r direction without affecting the operation of the arc. In one construction, the positive carbon A, Fig. 3, is attached eccentrically to a disk C, which can be rotated about the axis of the negative carbon B by worm gearing. Alternatively, the negative carbon may be revolved about the positive one. In another construction, carbons are mounted in a frame E, Fig. 6, carried by an horizontal spindle in a second frame F which can turn about a vertical axis. In some cases, one rotary frame is sufficient. The adjustments may be effected by hand, or by clock-work, electric motor, or the like, which may be controlled directly or from a distance.
Patent GB-190714173-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and connected with Radiators for use on Motor-cars.
Inventor: HOWETT GEORGE HENRY HORATIO
Filed: 1907-06-19
Granted: 1908-06-19
Abstract: 14,173. Howett, G. H. H. June 19. Right to Patent relinquished. Gas and like engines.- A motor-car radiator consists of a number of spiral water tubes and a fan, surrounded by an annular water chamber, the coils having separate inlets from this chamber but discharging into a common outlet. In the form shown in section in Fig. 3, the coils c, which are preferably staggered; have their inlets d at the bottom of the annular chamber a, which may be of any shape and may have baffles, the heated water entering at the top by a branched pipe i. The common outlet e is provided with an air-escape pipe k and cock k<1> for use in filling. Gauze screens may be placed at the inlets d, and for cleaning purposes a screwed plug may be fitted at the bottom of the chamber a, or the front or bottom of this chamber may be detachable. A fan f is arranged in a space in front of the coils, and a second fan may be placed behind, in an extension of the casing. A removable perforated screen h in front conceals the fan f and forms a guard, a similar screen m being placed behind. The coils are preferably connected by conducting material, but, to prevent heating of the radiator by the bonnet, a layer of non-conducting material is interposed at the parts in contact, or these or other parts of the radiator may be made of non-conducting material.
Patent GB-190716880-A (GB)
Title: Improved Construction of Appliance for Securing Ladies Veils in Position upon their Head Gear, and for other uses.
Inventor: CARRUTHERS DOROTHEA FLORENCE
Filed: 1907-07-23
Granted: 1908-06-18
Abstract: 16,880. Carruthers, D. F. July 23 Clip fastenings.-A device for securing veils on ladies' hats comprises two hinged members A, B, the member A being provided with spring prongs D, for gripping the veil between them and the other member B. A catch E keeps the members closed, and a safety-pin F is provided for attaching to the hat or bonnet. The device can be used for fastening lace and other belts to garments.
Patent GB-190718265-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Safety Appliance for Pit Cages.
Inventor: MCCULLY CHARLES
Filed: 1907-08-13
Granted: 1908-05-28
Abstract: 18,265. McCully, C., and Farnsworth, W. Aug. 13. Safety suspending-apparatus.-Relates to pit cage safety appliances, particularly those of the kind described in Specification No. 6161, A.D. 1907, and consists in employing, in place of the lower sets of gripping-screws, a system of cam-actuated grips. Fig. 1 shows the general arrangement of the apparatus, and Figs. 6 and 7 are respectively elevation and plan of the grip. As described in the above-mentioned Specification, the breaking of the hauling-rope allows springs to rotate the shafts 5 and apply screw or cam grips to the guide-ropes 2. These grips are carried by a vertical bar 3 which is mounted in guides so as to slide vertically relatively to the cage. At their lower part the vertical bars 3 are fitted with brackets 14, through which the guide-rope passes, surface blocks 15, 15<a> being provided adjacent to the rope. Within each bracket is mounted a cam 17 carried on a shaft 18 which is fitted with a slotted lever 19 engaging a stud on the cage. When the vertical bars 3 are held by the action of the upper grips, the subsequent downward motion of the cage swings the levers 19, and, by means of the cams 17, forces the blocks 15, 15<a> into contact with the guides. A spring 21 may be arranged between the cam and the bar 3.
Patent GB-190722470-A (GB)
Title: Improved Gear for Rotating Forgings.
Filed: 1907-10-11
Granted: 1908-10-08
Abstract: 22,470. Davy Bros., and Holmes, T. E. Oct. 11. Forging. - In a forging-press working at high speed, the work is automatically rotated or kept at rest while a motor supplying the power is running continuously. One of the two gears for transmitting the rotation may be thrown out of operation. The motor 19, Fig. 2, drives by worm gearing 17, 16 and and claw clutches a pair of spurwheels 14 gearing with wheels 13, the whole forming one turning-gear. The wheels 13, Fig. 4, have wearing-rings 36 against which bear semicircular shoes 35. Spring-pressed wedges 39 tend to separate the shoes and thereby to maintain a friction-drive to hubs 33, on which is mounted a sprocket-wheel 11 for a chain 10. The clutches are thrown into or out of operation by means of a solenoid and linkage 27, 25, and when one of the turning-gears is to be used alone the clutches of the other are thrown out of operation, and the power transmitted to the chain 10 is then correspondingly altered.
Patent GB-190723581-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Means for Producing Circulation in Liquid-tanks.
Inventor: HEUSCHER JEAN
Filed: 1907-10-25
Granted: 1908-03-19
Abstract: 23,581. Heuscher, J., and Stierlin, E. Weber-. Oct. 26, 1906, [date applied for under Patents Act, 1901]. Aerating liquids.-In an aquarium or the like fitted with a filter as shown, the liquid passes from a chamber a through the filter h and pipe d to a chamber e, into which air or other gas is forced from the pressure chamber f. The liquid is then forced through the flexible pipe p, and it is stated that this pipe and its connexions may be fitted with any well-known means for intimately mixing the gas and liquid.
Patent GB-190800547-A (GB)
Title: Improved Means for Securing Milk-cans to Doors and the like, and for like purposes.
Inventor: NOAD JAMES
Filed: 1908-01-09
Granted: 1908-07-02
Abstract: 547. Noad, J., and Townsend, E. J. Jan. 9. No Patent granted (Sealing fee not paid). Milk, delivering to houses.-A bolt a is rotatably mounted in a casing f<1>, f<2>, which passes through a thickness of the door and is caused to return to its disengaged position by a spring plunger b<3>, b<4> attached to the bolt at b<1>. A spring detent c, which may be held out of action by a pivoted catch engaging behind a knob c<1> on the inner side of the door, engages with a recess a<3> in the bolt when the bolt is caused to rotate by insertion of a milk-can handle h into a slot a' of the bolt through a radial sectoral slot g in the casing. A stop f prevents excessive movement of the bolt in either direction, and a pin k, when inserted through holes in the casing, prevents rotation of the handle h.
Patent GB-190803813-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Crochet Hook.
Inventor: YEOMANS WILLIAM HENRY
Filed: 1908-02-20
Granted: 1908-07-09
Abstract: 3813. Yeomans, W. H., [trading as Morris & Yeomans], and Yeomans, B. Feb. 20. Crochet-hooks.-A crochet-hook handle 1 of cork or like substance is formed with a longitudinal hole 3 in which the hook 4 fits by friction alone, a knob 5 or other enlargement being formed at the end of the hook to fit against the end of the handle.
Patent GB-190804789-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in a Process and Device for Regulating the Inclination of an Oblong Aerostat or Air-ship by Means of Two Air-bags.
Filed: 1908-03-03
Granted: 1908-05-14
Abstract: 4789. Motorluftschiff-Studienges. May 14, 1907, [date applied for under Section 91 of Patents &c. Act, 1907]. Aerostats; steering and balancing.-In an elongated aerostat having an air compartment at each end and provided with means for regulating the flow of air into one and from the other of the compartments for balancing, the inlet and outlet valves for the compartments are so arranged that when the inlet valve of one compartment is opened its outlet valve is closed. The passages leading from the blower c, Fig. 1, to the compartments b are controlled by the inlet valves d, and spring-pressed or weighted valves e control the outlets. The valves may be variously arranged. In one form, when the valve d is fully opened by pulling a cord f, Fig. 3, the tail-piece of the valve e is engaged by the valve d to hold the valve e closed. In another form, the valves are controlled by a bifurcated cord f, Fig. 6, having its shorter branch connected to the valve d so that this valve d is fully opened before the finger i comes into contact with the tail-piece of the valve e. Springs g close the valve d when the cord is released. As the air enters one of the compartments, the increased pressure of the gas in the balloon forces out the air contained in the other compartment through the valve e.
Patent GB-190807990-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Bacon and like Cutting Machines.
Inventor: THOMPSON GEORGE
Filed: 1908-04-10
Granted: 1909-02-04
Abstract: 7990. Thompson, G. April 10. Right to Patent relinquished. Slicing meat.-Relates to the general construction of a meat-slicing machine of the kind in which a table carrying the meat is reciprocated to and from a rotating circular knife, and in which the feed is automatic and adjustable, and the feednut may be raised from the feed-spindle. The table 14<a> is given a slow forward movement and a quick return. The driving-wheel 10 is geared to a wheel 17 bearing a crank-pin 16, which rocks a slotted lever 20 connected to the table by a pivoted rod 22. The feed is obtained by means of a nut 34 attached to the carrier 14 of the table 14<a> and mounted on threaded spindle 32, which is rotated intermittently by means of a ratchet-wheel 38 engaged by a pawl 39 pivoted to a rocking arm 40 connected to a slotted lever 41, which is attached to the table 14<a> and rocked in one direction by engagement with a fixed adjustable stop 45 and in the other direction by a spring 42. The knife is actuated from the wheel 10, and is preferably mounted obliquely so that the meat may clear all except the cutting-edge. The holding-device comprises a gripper plate 31 secured to a cross-bar 26, which is adjustably mounted in the notched uprights 24, 25 of the carrier 14 by a pin 28 and a spring-controlled pawl 30. Guides 47, 48 respectively keep the meat to the cutting-edge and clear the slice from the face of the knife.
Patent GB-190808033-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Rotary Steam Engines.
Inventor: BOMMEL OSKAR
Filed: 1908-04-10
Granted: 1908-07-30
Abstract: 8033. Bommel, O. April 10. Fixed - abutment type, piston having outwardly sliding vanes. The vanes d comprise several independent plates which are separately pressed outwards by contact with a fixed eccentric e. Steam is admitted at one or other of the ports, as determined by a slide valve h.
Patent GB-190812028-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Change Speed and Reversing Gear and Mechanism for Operating the same.
Inventor: UMPLEBY FRED
Filed: 1908-06-03
Granted: 1909-05-06
Abstract: 12,028. Umpleby, F. June 3. Motor, road vehicles.-Relates to variable speed and reversing gearing suitable for motor-vehicles of the class comprising sliding toothed wheels under the control of selecting and locking means and a single operating-lever. The driving-shaft 29, Fig. 1, carries a toothed clutch 30a and a gear-wheel 30 which constantly drives a countershaft 26 through a gear 31. A group of gears 22<b>, 23<b>, 24<b>, 25<b> bolted together are loosely carried on the shaft 27. A sliding double claw clutch a may engage the clutch 30<a> for direct driving, or it may engage a clutch 24<c> on the group of gears 22<b> &c. for indirect driving through the shaft 26. Gears 22, 23, 24, 25, loose on the shaft 26 and constantly in mesh with the gears 22<b> &c. corresponding, carry claw clutches 22<a>, 23a, 24<a>, 25<a> capable of being brought into engagement with clutches 26a, 26<b>, 26<c>, 26<d> preferably cut solid with the shaft 26. The gears 25, 25<b> are connected by an idler for reversing. The four clutches sliding on the shaft 26 and the clutch a are selectively operated and locked by a lever 75, Figs. 2 and 3, through a pair of parallel slotted plates 57, 58 and suitable striking-forks 70 &c. Rods 70<a>, 71<a>, 72<a>, 73<a>, 74a extending vertically from the forks 70 &c. pass vertically through holes in the plates 58, 57. The plate 58 is for locking the rods not to be operated. The holes in this comprise transverse slots such as 68, Fig. 3, with perpendicular branches such as 65 in different positions. As the plate 58 is moved across the shafts 26, 27, the branches 65 &c. come one at a time opposite the rods 71<a> &c. so as to allow one rod to be operated by the plate 57, the other rods being locked. A rod 75<a> jointed to the lever 75 is connected to the plates 58, 57 so that while it moves them together transversely of the shafts 26, 27, it can move the plate 57 alone longitudinally. The plate 57 is cut away so as to leave tongues such as 68<b>, which are always vertically over the branch slots 65 &c., and serve, when brought opposite their particular rod 71<a> &c., to operate the striking-fork and clutch beneath.
Patent GB-190813645-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Rope or Cable Grips for Haulage Purposes.
Inventor: PHILLIPS JOHN
Filed: 1908-06-27
Granted: 1909-04-08
Abstract: 13,645. Phillips, J., and Cokeham, S. June 27. Rope and cable grips for hauling wagons, tubs, and other vehicles in mines comprise an open-sided metallic block provided with angular and tapered grooves or recesses, adapted to receive and to grip the travelling rope. The metal block A is slotted at one side B so as to allow it to be placed on the rope. The slot B opens into a pair of angular tapered recesses C, shaped so as to grip the rope E when the load is attached to the rod or link G. In a modified form of the clip, shown in Fig. 7, the open side B is placed at an angle opposite to that of the recesses C.