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Patent GB-191111478-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or connected with Moving Figure and Scenic Targets.
Inventor: NORRIS JOHN
IPC: F41J7/06
Filed: 1911-05-12
Granted: 1912-02-01
Abstract: 11,478. Norris, J., and Hyde, S. A. May 12. Targets.-Figure targets d<1> ... d<4> of different kinds are clipped to square blocks d, which are mounted loosely, on square shafts e rotated by chains h, and are moved across the line of fire by carriages operated by endless wires, which may be driven at different -speeds by stepped pulleys. The target carriages may be mounted on rails or in guide grooves in the platform a. Trees or scenic objects c' are moved into view above a fixed front scenic screen c by a lever k<3> and wires passing round pulleys, and a scenic background may be movable in sections or as a whole.
Patent GB-191118358-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Fishing Reels.
Inventor: PLEVINS WILFRED MAURICE
IPC: A01K89/0155
Filed: 1911-08-14
Granted: 1912-04-04
Abstract: 18,358. Plevins, W. M., and Knowles, J. Aug. 14. Reels, rod.-A disk 1 is mounted on the reel spindle 2 and, during the first part of the cast, is frictionally driven in the same direction as the reel. As the tension on the line drops, the disk overruns the reel, and, by causing the reel to continue its rotation, prevents overrunning of the line.
Patent GB-191120445-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Protective Means for Jars, Bottles or the like.
Inventor: MATHEWS FRANCIS HENRY
IPC: B65D85/30
Filed: 1911-09-15
Granted: 1912-07-25
Abstract: 20,445. Mathews, F. H. Sept. 15. Coverings. - Bottles &c. covered with wickerwork have in addition a protective metal framework consisting of rings b, f, k connected by distance-pieces g, m, which may be bent over as shown, or screwthreaded into the rings. Feet e and a handle n are also provided.
Patent GB-191124562-A (GB)
Title: A Process for Reducing Soluble Metal Salts for the purpose of Subsequently Electrolytically Depositing the Metals Present in said Salts.
Inventor: MARINO PASCAL
IPC: C25D3/02
Filed: 1911-11-04
Granted: 1912-12-04
Abstract: 24,562. Marino, P. Nov. 4. Citric and tartaric acid glucose esters.- " Gluco-citric " and " gluco-tartaric " acids are made by mixing glucose with citric and tartaric acid respectively. Three molecular weights of citric or two of tartaric acid'are used with one of glucose.
Patent GB-191205850-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Railway Signalling Apparatus.
Inventor: MELLOR WILLIAM GEORGE
IPC: B61L13/04
Filed: 1912-03-08
Granted: 1913-03-10
Abstract: 5850. Mellor, W. G. March 8. Combined electrical a n d mechanical systems, non-automatic; track apparatus actuating signals other than on trains; slots, reversers, and like apparatus.-A manuallyoperated signal is released by an electro-magnetic latch controlled from the advance cabin, and the signal is reset by a passing train, but means are provided for holding the signal clear when the cabin is closed. The rod C is normally locked by the armature of a magnet L<1>, which is energized to release the rod by a local c i r c u i t controlled by a polarized relay in the circuit from the advance cabin, when the ' line clear ' signal is sent over the line wire. The handlever, which is connected by a wire to the hell-crank E, may then he pulled, and the rod C is moved to the position shown in Figs. 1 and 4. The rod D is thereby moved about its end D<1>, which is held in a slot B' in the plate B, and the signal is pulled off by a wire attached to the end D<2>. The passage of a train past a trea dle moves the plate B against the action of a counterweight F so as to release the end D<1> of the lever D from the slot B<1>, leaving the arm D and the signal free to return to ' danger ' by gravity, the lever D now pivoting about its connexion to the rod C. The plate B is held by the spring catch I until the hand-lever is replaced, whereupon the lug R disengages the spring. When the cabin is closed, the signal is pulled off and the magnet L is energized by a manually-controlled circuit passing through the spring M'. The armature J rocks the lever G, the end G<2> of which locks the lever D, so as to hold it after the passage of a train, and the end G' is lifted clear of the lug N<2> on the rod N<3> which, under the weight of the arm N of the bell-crank, is moved so as to hold the lever G in its locking position. The arm N of the bellcrank opens the circuit of the magnet L at the spring M<1>. When the cabin is re-opened, the hand-lever is replaced and the lever D moves the bell-crank N and the rod N<3> to their normal positions, and the apparatus is restored to normal.
Patent GB-191208064-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to the Regulation of the Pressure of the Steam Supplied for Operating Ejectors.
IPC: F04F5/44
Filed: 1912-04-03
Granted: 1913-01-23
Abstract: 8064. Soc. Anon. pour l'Exploitation des ProcÚdÚs Westinghouse Leblanc. Aug. 31, 1911, [Convention date]. Aspirating - apparatus, ejector; regulating; starting and stopping, automatic. - A steam ejector having a convergent-divergent mixing- nozzle is combined with a regulator so that the pressure p at the throat of the nozzle is always eqnal to a predetermined fraction of the pressure P obtaining in the space into which the nozzle exhausts. The regulator illustrated is adapted to work under the condition p=0À6P. Steam entering at A' passes through an orifice B' regulated by a valve C' and is then. supplied to the ejector through a passage D<1> after suffering a drop in pressure which varies with the position of the valve C'. This valve is balanced by a piston E<1>, the upper face of which communicates with the lower face of the valve C' by a channel F'. The valve is carried by a float G<1> moving in a cylinder H<1> provided with cooling-fins. The water of condensation accumulating in the cylinder H' raises the float and tends to close the orifice B'. The cylinder H<1> is connected to a chamber J<1> with a valve L' controlling the outlet, so that the position of the valve C' depends on the position of the valve L'. The rod of the valve L' is controlled by two diaphragms M', N<1> fixed to the walls of a chamber O<1>, which is thus divided into three parts P<1>, P<2>, P<3> communicating respectively with the discharge space, the exhausted space, and the neck of the mixing-nozzle. If the surface of the diaphragm M' is equal to 60 per cent of that of the diaphragm N', the valve L' remains stationary when p=0À6P, as the pressure in P<2> is very slight. In the case of a stoppage, the pressure in the chamber P<2> rises, causing the valve L' to be lowered and the valve C' to be opened.
Patent GB-191210799-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Detachable Connections for the Tapes of Venetian Blinds.
Inventor: HEAD WALTER CHARLES
IPC: E06B9/384
Filed: 1912-05-07
Granted: 1913-03-27
Abstract: 10,799. Head, W. C. May 7. Venetian blinds.-A means for attaching the tapes of venetian blinds consists of a plate B slotted as at C to engage with screws &c. D which are permanently secured in the lath A. The tape is threaded through a slot in the plate and suitably secured.
Patent GB-191211479-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Alarm Devices for use with Wireless Telegraph Systems.
Inventor: SHEPARD WILLIAM HENRY
IPC: H04M1/02
Filed: 1912-05-14
Granted: 1913-08-14
Abstract: 11,479. Shepherd, W. H., and McKechnie, A. E. May 14. Switches.-Relates to a telephone hook switch provided with an auxiliary contact-device for closing an alarm circuit when a call is received. In the form shown in Fig. 2, a contact-ball C is held by the normally energized magnet D. When a call is received, the circuit of the magnet D is broken by a relay, whereupon the ball rolls down the trough c' against the contacts b and closes a bell circuit. When the operator removes his telephone from the hook switch arm C<X>, the arm rises, and the ball rolls back against the magnet, a contact on the arm C<X> short-circuiting the relay. The circuit of the magnet D may pass through its core and the contact ball C, so that, once the ball is released, it cannot be re-attracted. In modifications (1) the magnet D is normally de-energized, but, when energized, removes a detent normally holding the ball ; (2) an armature actuated by the magnet may strike the ball and propel it along a flat trough. In the form shown in Fig. 3, the armature C is normally held up by the magnet D, and, when released, falls against the contact b; it is reset by the pin c<2> when the hook switch arm C<X> rises.
Patent GB-191211559-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to the Distribution of Electric Energy.
Inventor: WATERS ERIC GORDON
IPC: H02H7/26
Filed: 1912-05-15
Granted: 1913-05-15
Abstract: 11,559. Waters, E. G. May 15. Protective arrangements. -The parallel feeders of an alternating-current distribution system are protected against faults by providing the respective feeders x, x<1>, Fig. 1, with series transformers a, a<1>, the secondaries of which are connected in opposition in a closed circuit containing reverse-current relays c, c<1> which operate separate circuit-breakers e, e<1> in the respective feeders according to the direction of out-of-balance current. The relays may be in the form of watt-meter, dynamometer, or induction devices, and a single relay adapted to deflect in two directions may replace the two single-acting relays shown in Fig. 1. In order to accentuate the out-of-balance conditions, a choking effect may be set up on the occurrence of the fault either by means of a transformer i inserted in a sub-station bus-bar and having its secondary short-circuited by a fuse k which blows upon the occurrence of a fault, or by series transformers l, l<1> in both feeders having their secondaries m m<1> cross - connected as shown in Fig. 2. Additional protection at the sub-station ends of the feeders may be given by additional arrangements as above described, or by ordinary reverse current relays energized by series transformers g, as shown. In order to prevent the cutting-out of the sound feeder, each relay is provided with auxiliary contacts in the trip-coil circuit of the feeder controlled by the other relay. The application of the invention in two-phase and three-phase systems, including ring-main systems, is described with wiring diagrams.
Patent GB-191212893-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to the Construction and Erection of Concrete or other Walls or Structures.
Inventor: BARKER GEORGE
IPC: E04G11/32
Filed: 1912-06-01
Granted: 1912-10-10
Abstract: 12,893. Barker, G., [Lane, F. A., Martinsen, A. E., and Crawford, C. H.]. June 1. Moulding walls in situ. - Concrete walls are cast in horizontal or inclined moulds, which are rotated under the action of gravity to erect the walls in the desired positions. In one form of apparatus, the walls a, b are cast in moulds supported by arms 8, which are pivoted to a braced framework 4 and carry racks 11 operated by toothed gearing. The concrete of the walls may be anchored to the moulds by reinforcing channel-irons and bolts. In another form of apparatus the moulds 46 are supported in inclined positions by braced frames 42 mounted on toothed segments 40 engaging racks 38, which can be adjusted in height by levers 64, provided with adjusting-screws 67. The segments are provided with detachable weights 53, to assist in erecting the mould. The concrete may be anchored to the moulds by bolts and nuts. In another form of apparatus the mould is mounted on wheels 75, 77 running on inclined tracks 76, 73, the mould being retained, while the concrete is setting, by the wheels 75 resting on ledges 72. The moulds are withdrawn from the ledges 72 by cords and windlasses 74, which can be moved along a platform 79 to place the mould in a vertical position.
Patent GB-191215883-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Combined Washing Boilers and Hot Water Circulating Tanks.
Inventor: REES ALFORD PHILLIP
IPC: F24D3/08
Filed: 1912-07-08
Granted: 1913-05-22
Abstract: 15,883. Rees, A. P., and Bush, A. W. July 8. Washing-boilers; heating water. - A jacket A surrounding the wash-boiler C is connected by circulating-pipes K, H with a kitchenrange boiler. The wash-boiler may be heated by a fire in the furnace 0 and can be drained by a stop-cock N. A valve L allows of filling the pan from the surrounding jacket. The jacket is narrowed at the back at the place where the flue from the fire 0 goes up within the casing D. Connexions G, E serve respectively to supply hot water to a bath &c. and to receive cold water from a supply tank.
Patent GB-191219233-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Signature Gathering Attachment for use in connexion with Sewing-Machines.
Inventor: VERBUENT WILHELM
IPC: D05B81/00
Filed: 1912-08-22
Granted: 1913-02-27
Abstract: 19,233. Verb³nt, W., and Ostermann, W. Aug. 22. Signature gatherers.-An attachment to be used in conjunction with a book-sewing machine for gathering signatures &c to be sewn into books consist of a drum B which is intermittently rotated from the sewing-machine and is provided with a series of carriers in which the piles of signatures are arranged. The drum B is arranged at the front or side of a sewing- machine and is intermittently rotated by gears d, c operated from the sewing-machine. The piles h of signatures are carried by carriages x which move over rails on the drum and are prevented from backward movement relatively thereto by means of pawls p, Figs. 4 and 5, engaging racks o on the drum. The carriages can slide forward on the drum after they move past the central position shown in Fig. 1, and the pawls p then serve as brakes. Buffers may be attached to the carriages. The signatures are supported on triangular supports e, and are pressed down by similarly - shaped spring-pressed plates f, which are raised by a fixed cam plate n to enable the signatures to be fed by hand or automatically to the sewing- machine.
Patent GB-191227042-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Gramophones, Phonographs and like Instruments.
Inventor: ROUX JULES
Filed: 1912-11-25
Granted: 1913-11-20
Abstract: 27,042. Roux, J. Nov. 24, 1911, [Convention date]. Phonographs; multiple machines; trumpets, supporting; driving.-For the consecutive or simultaneous reproduction of two or more records, a trumpet K has a collector M connected to the sound-boxes J which are lowered on to the records I when in use ; the records are driven from a single motor A, but each turntable has a separate control comprising a clutch D and lever E operated by hand. Each sound-box J is supported and adjusted by a slider X on a graduated arm Y of a frame W which is lowered by a foot d through a series of levers c. The feet d are operated by hand or by projections on rings k carried by a depressibte sleeve h. The trumpet is carried by a hood Q which is movable so as to bring the trumpet over any tone-arm O or over the centre. When less than the full number of records are being reproduced, the hood Q may carry a disk T with as many apertures as there are records in use at one time.
Patent GB-191227966-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Casings for Sausages.
Inventor: LAKE WILLIAM EDWARD
IPC: A22C13/00
Filed: 1912-12-04
Granted: 1913-12-04
Abstract: 27,966. Lake, W. E., [Davies Co., W.]. Dec. 4. Plastic compositions containing amorphous cellulose.-Skins for sausages &c. are formed of dried non-fibrous cellulose hydrate, which may be impregnated with a softening-material, such as glycerine. The skins may be strengthened by incorporating therein proteins, such as blood fibrin. The tubular skins mav be formed by coating a hollow mandrel with viscose, passing steam through the mandrel until the coating hardens, and then wetting the coating to facilitate its removal.
Patent GB-191301800-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Fire Escapes.
Inventor: GROHMANN FRIEDRICH WILHELM
IPC: E06C5/28
Filed: 1913-01-22
Granted: 1914-01-22
Abstract: 1800. Grohmann, F. W. Jan. 22. No Patent granted (Sealing fee not paid). Lazy-tongs load-handling machines. - Fireescapes, of the kind in which a revoluble and tilting platform carrying extensible lazy-tongs or lattice bridges is mounted on a tapered lazytongs structure operated by gearing engaging toothed segments connected to the lowest links, and is steadied by guy ropes wound on spring drums, and which may be partly raised and supported by a central hydraulic telescopic tube, are provided with mechanism for locking the structure at any height. Figs. 1, 4, and 5 show the apparatus, which is mounted on a vehicle fitted with adjustable screw sprags 4, and comprises a platform c, bridges b, and a lazy-tongs structure steadied by guy ropes t. Pinions e on an elevating-shaft are geared with segments on the lowest links of the structure, and the elevating-shaft is geared to an upper operating-shaft i through a pinion mounted on a sleeve carrying a clutch element r. By operating the handle m, a sleeve l is rotated to wind up a spring k secured to the shaft i and the movement is transmitted to a clutch nut o causing it to travel axially on the screw n and engage the clutch element r. Further rotation of the handle then elevates the structure. The engaging movement of the nut also is transmitted through levers p and links z to sliding clutch elements y which unlock the spring drums, carrying the guy ropes, leaving them free to rotate. Reverse movement of the handle is prevented normally by a brake 3. When the brake is released, the spring k unwinds, thus declutching the nut o and automatically re-locking the spring drums. A pawl and ratchet 2 may be used to assist in maintaining the structure at any desired height.
Patent GB-191306647-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Apparatus for the Manufacture of Insulated Conductors or Coils for Electrical Purposes.
IPC: H01B13/00
Filed: 1913-03-18
Granted: 1913-08-14
Abstract: 6647. Siemens Bros. Dynamo Works., [Siemens Schuckertwerke]. March 18. Transformers.-The insulation of transformer coils is smoothed and compressed by passing the coils between bands upon which pressure is exerted at right-angles to the direction of motion. In the arrangement shown in Fig. 1, groups of conductors b, covered with insulations i, are fixed between blocks p, p<1>, which may be made wedge shape. A band consisting of plates e, hinged together, and with rollers w at the hinges, is passed in opposite directions between fixed guides g above and below the coils b, so as to compress the insulation. These rollers and plates preferably form a continuous band running always in one direction; or they may reciprocate, acting, however, only in the direction to produce tightening of the insulation. In modifications, the rollers and plates, either of which may be used separately, are stationary and are pressed inwards by springs &c., a metal band being drawn between the plates or rollers and the coils, in opposite directions above and below the latter. In the modification shown in Fig. 7, the coils are inserted at b<1> between the distance-blocks p, which are then moved toward the left, the coils being removed at b<2>. Heat may be applied during the process.
Patent GB-191318643-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to the Local Hardening of Iron and Malleable Iron Castings.
IPC: C21D5/00
Filed: 1913-08-16
Granted: 1914-08-13
Abstract: 18,643. Vickers, Ltd., and Sumpter, C. L. Aug. 16. Hardening; malleableizing.-The local hardening of iron and malleable-iron castings is effected by retaining in, or restoring to, the surface of the casting the necessary amount of combined carbon to ensure the subsequent hardening, and then subjecting the article to the surfacehardening process described in Specification 5588/10. In the case of cast iron, the retention of the combined carbon is effected by keeping the silicon content of the iron low, and in the case of malleable cast iron, the decarburizing- annealing is stopped before completion, or the surface is recarburized after annealing; or the surface may be protected from decarburization by covering it with a paint or powder. In carrying out the hardening process, the greater part of the casting is preferably immersed in water or other liquid with the part to be hardened just above or just below the surface of the liquid; or liquid may be directed upon or caused to flow across the surface.
Patent GB-191323288-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Printing Processes and Apparatus therefor.
Inventor: JOSE DURA GIL
IPC: B41M1/20
Filed: 1913-10-15
Abstract: 23,288. Gil, J. D. Oct. 16, 1912, [Convention date]. Void. [Published under Section 91 of the Act.] Offset machines.-An offset multicolour printing-machine comprises an offset cylinder f which receives a number of superposed impressions in different colours from a number of printing- rollers a ... c, and transfers them to a web i or other article to be printed, which is passed between the cylinder f and an impression roller h. The circumference of the cylinder f is a multiple of that of each of the printing-rollers, so that each of the portions 1 ... 6 of the cylinder f receives a similar multicoloured impression.
Patent GB-191328541-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Feed Water Heaters.
IPC: F22D1/32
Filed: 1913-12-10
Granted: 1915-07-22
Abstract: 28,541. Knorr - Bremse Akt. - Ges. Sept. 19, [Convention date]. U-tube apparatus. - In a feedwater-heater comprising a steam-chamber closed at one end by a water-chamber, partitions i, k, l, m, n divide the water-chamber into concentric spaces c, d, e, f, g connected in series by U-tubes in the steam-space, which may be similarly divided by partitions. The orifices of the several water-tubes are arranged radially and obliquely for the purpose of utilizing space to the greatest extent. The cross-section of the heater may be varied as desired.
Patent GB-191329410-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Advertising Devices.
Inventor: PROULX JOSEPH ALFRED
IPC: G09F11/34
Filed: 1913-12-20
Granted: 1914-11-12
Abstract: 29,410. Proulx, J. A. Dec. 20. Plates and the like, travelling.-An open frame 2, Fig. 1, contains two parallel groups of advertising card-holding frames 3, 4 with resilient means at one opposite end of each group, and means for transferring a card-frame from one group to the other so as to circulate them. The frames have pairs of rollers 7, 8 in their upper and lower edges to enable them to travel from one group to the other and through a group respectively along rails in the frame 2. Rollers are also set in the face of the lower rail and in the opposite face of the upper rail so as to engage the frame-work 2 or the next advertising frame 3, 4 in a frictionless manner. Spring- urged centrally pivoted levers 16 force the cards of the two groups in opposite directions. A driving-chain 27 effects an intermittent operation by projections 31 on it periodically carrying round a sheave 32 by means of its oppositelydisposed projections. The sheave is geared up by a system of sprocket-wheels and chains and intermeshing pinions so as to move projections 22 on front chains 20 in one direction, and those on the corresponding rear chains in the opposite direction. The projections engage recesses 23 in the rails of the frames 3, 4, and transfer them from one group to the other. The projections 22 may be set so that the front transfer movement does not occur at the same time as the movement at the back of the machine.
Patent GB-191404609-A (GB)
Title: An Apparatus for the Threading of Weavers Shuttles.
Inventor: ASPINALL THOMAS
IPC: D03J3/04
Filed: 1914-02-23
Granted: 1915-02-18
Abstract: 4609. Aspinall, T. Feb. 23. Weavers' shuttle-theaders. - Apparatus for threading loom shuttles comprises a bellows having fixed and movable sides b, d and normally closed by springs o. A pipe c secured to the movable side d is provided with a rubber nozzle j having a rib m adapted to fit closely into the groove in the shuttle. Reference has been directed by the Comptroller to Specification 4678/11.