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Patent GB-191005907-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Velocipede Chairs, more particularly for use by Invalids.
Inventor: RUPLEY DANIEL
IPC: A61G5/02
Filed: 1910-03-09
Granted: 1910-08-11
Abstract: 5907. Rupley, D. March 9, 1909, [Convention date]. Body-motion and weight of rider, propelling by.-In a velocipede chair, more particularly for use by invalids, the shaft of the driving- wheels B is driven through upper and lower racks A<2>, B<2> and spur-wheels R, S with pawl- and - ratchet clutches T, U, the racks being mounted upon a member V which is pivotally connected by a cross-pin h to the rocking-seat portion of the chair. The member V is slotted to engage an intermediate guide-block Y upon the shaft, the upper and lower edges of the slot being strengthened by plates Z. The rocking portion of the chair comprises members a, b, j, cross-rods f, g, h, i, k, a back e, and outstanding arms c with a seat d. To provide the bearings for the pivots of the seat portion, hangers H supporting a platform G are extended to the rear of the shaft and connected to the ends of brace members. The stem D of the steering- wheel fork is mounted in a block C and controlled by a handle F. When desired the vehicle may be propelled by turning the road wheels by hand.
Patent GB-191012187-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Screw Propellers.
Inventor: BLACKBURN HAROLD
IPC: B64C11/16
Filed: 1910-05-18
Granted: 1910-10-20
Abstract: 12,187. Blackburn, H. May 18. Screw propellers.-Comprises improvements in the type of screw propeller for aerial machines having the blades set at an angle to the shaft greater than a right-angle. The blades are made wider at the base D than at the tip E and are made hollow and reinforced by internal ribs F. Each blade is supported on an arm A which gradually flattens towards the tip and may be tied to the opposite blade by tension bars to increase rigidity. The efficiency of the blades is increased by slightly flanging the leading edges.
Patent GB-191013160-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to Life Saving Appliances.
Inventor: RIPIPINGILLE FRANK SIDEBOTHAM
IPC: B63C9/00
Filed: 1910-05-31
Granted: 1911-05-18
Abstract: 13,160. Rippingille, F. S. May 31. No Patent granted (Sedling fee not paid). Life-line attachments. -Relates to a waistcoat with life-line attachment to be worn by a swimmer when effecting a rescue. The waistcoat is fastened in the front by straps, and at the back is secured a stout cord on which slides a ring A on the end of the life-line B, the other end of which is held by a person on shore. The arrangement allows the ring to take up automatically a position suitable to the swimmer.
Patent GB-191014024-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Alternating Current Dynamo-electric Machines of the Commutator Type.
IPC: H02K27/12
Filed: 1910-06-09
Granted: 1911-05-18
Abstract: 14,024. Allgemeine Elektricitõts-Ges. June 19, 1909, [Convention date]. Alternating- current commutator machines. - In polyphase alternating - current machines of the kind described in Specification 23,288/02, the stator windings S, Fig. 2, are divided into sections provided with suitable tappings and adapted for supplying energy to the rotor r without the aid of an external transformer. In the arrangement shown in Fig. 4, each of the stator windings I, II, III is extended beyond its zero point to give speeds above synchronism. With a sixphase connexion for the rotor, the winding sections I', II<1>, III<1> may be employed for speeds both above and below synchronism. All the potentials supplied to the rotor may be varied at the same time, or they may be varied in cyclic succession, or in other ways. The steps on the stator winding may be made relatively coarse and finer graduation obtained by regulating a small potential transformer arranged between the steps, or by shifting the brushes.
Patent GB-191014835-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Rotary Engines.
Inventor: EDWARDS ANDREW ARTHER
IPC: F01C1/44
Filed: 1910-06-20
Granted: 1910-12-01
Abstract: 14,835. Edwards, A. A., and Olson, A. E. June 20. Fixed-abutment type; valve-gear.-A cylindrical drum with double hinged vanes pressed outwards by steam pressure to run against the concentric casing, has ports through which steam enters and exhausts from the cylinder, the direction of the steam being determined by a reversing-valve 23 which supplies steam to either passage 18, 18<1>. Cut-off valves 28 control the expansion of the steam; and exhaust takes place through the other passage 18, 18<1> and the port 23<1>. The hinged vanes 16 are forced outwards by steam from the auxiliary port 32<1>. The abutments have a convex central portion, and concave side portions which merge into the inner face of the cylinder casing.
Patent GB-191015424-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Electric Incandescent Lamps.
Inventor: HARRISON FRANCIS
IPC: H01K1/18
Filed: 1910-06-27
Granted: 1911-03-09
Abstract: 15,424. Harrison, F. June 27. Filaments, supports for.-A central stem consists of parts normally connected rigidly b u t capable of adjustment or substitution to vary the effective length. Parts b, c, Fig. 1, of the same thickness may be connected in line by a slit steel tube g or a coiled or plaited wire or strip, in which they can slide; or the parts may be out of line, or of different thickness, for instance, the connecting tube may be slit across the middle for parts of different thickness, or made as shown in Fig. 3 to hold parts parallel but out of line. Slots or openings in the connector allow gas to escape during exhaustion. The divided stems may be made of one size for various lengths of filament, and broken parts can be utilized. Residual gases.-Phospham or other substance to prevent blackening may be placed in the connector. Repairing.-A fresh end-piece of a stem may be substituted in renewing the filaments.
Patent GB-191018752-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to Bottles of Cylindrical or like Shape for Liquids.
Inventor: SCHMIDT EDUARD
IPC: B65D1/02
Filed: 1910-08-09
Granted: 1911-01-12
Abstract: 18,752. Schmidt, E. Aug. 9. Bottles, special shapes of.-Bottles are formed with longitudinal ribs a to prevent rolling.
Patent GB-191020035-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Slab and like Gauging Machines.
Inventor: DEGELOW MAX RUDOLF
IPC: B41F17/24
Filed: 1910-08-27
Granted: 1911-03-09
Abstract: 20,035. Degelow, M. R. Aug. 27. Type-bar and type-lever machines for recording readings in gauging-machines.-A slab or like gauging-machine of the kind in which the weight of the slab operates a pivoted calliper arm 8 and pointer 5 to indicate the measurement, is combined with type-bar or type-lever devices for printing the measurement on the back of the slab &c., which devices are automatically released by the gauging-mechanism, and may then be operated by hand or automatically, with mechanical or electric selection and electric actuation. Type-lever actions; pad inking-arrangements; electric keyboard operators; keys.-(1) The slab 7, Fig. 4, is placed on a ledge 3, and by means of a slide 10 and lever arm, tilts the pointer 5 until the arm 8 touches the top of the slab. The pointer indicates the size of the slab on a scale, and also through a spring 77 lifts an inking-pad 65 to release the type-levers 62, so that the corresponding type-lever 62 may be actuated by means of the keys 57 and connexions 60, 61. (2) The pointer 5 may operate a slotted plate sliding above the keys 57, so that only one key at a time is exposed for operation. (3) A laterally sliding plate 47, Fig. 4, worked by the pointer 5 through a slide and bell-crank lever, carries a pin 49 engaging an arm 52 on a spring-supported solenoid core 54 provided with an arm 58, which is thus rotated until it stands over the correct key 57. Mounted on the calliper arm 8 is a pin 28, which contacts with a strip 30 when the arm 8 touches the slab, and thus completes an electric circuit by which the core 54 is operated to depress the lever 58 and the selected key 57. (4) The side edges of the keys 57 and the arm 58 are grooved as shown in Fig. 8, to form bevelled guides for preventing depression of more than one key at a time. Electric type-bar actions.-The pointer 5, Fig. 3, is arranged to pass over a number of contacts 20 each in circuit with a solenoid 22 for actuating a sliding type-bar 25 retracted by a spring 33 or another solenoid. The circuit is closed by a pin 28 as described above, when the arm 8 touches the slab.
Patent GB-191026648-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Tube-cleaners for Steam-boilers.
Inventor: FRAISSINET ALFRED
IPC: F28G1/16
Filed: 1910-11-16
Granted: 1911-03-02
Abstract: 26,648. Fraissinet, A. Nov. 16. Cleaning, fluid - pressure processes for. - A fluid-pressure cleaner for the smoke or water tubes of boilers consists of two similar pipe ends a, b screwed against the flange f of a nozzle c which is surmounted by spiral ribs i, and is supplied with gaseous fluid from the pipe a. Hot air, which rises from the boiler front, enters at openings h, and is given a whirling motion, which it imparts to the compressed fluid. A screen p is adjustably mounted on the tube a to prevent the entry of adjacent cool air, and it may have spiral ribs q to give an initial rotary motion to the hot air. When used for cleaning smoketubes, as shown in Fig. 1, the device is supported by a boss m, which is locked on the tube b, and has forwardly-tapering ribs n which enter the tube and are preferably oblique to the boss, to impart rotary motion to the air drawn in between the ribs.
Patent GB-191026835-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to the Conversion of Metallic Lead into Lead Oxide.
IPC: C01G21/06
Filed: 1910-11-18
Granted: 1911-04-27
Abstract: 26,835. Bergmann & Simons Ges., and Lindgens & S÷hne. Dec. 11, 1909, [Convention date]. Lead oxide.-In the manufacture of lead oxide from metallic lead, the oxidizing-pot in which the melted lead is subjected to the action of superheated steam and air is made considerably higher than wide so as to provide a large free oxidizing space in which there are no surfaces upon which crusts of lead oxide can form, and the stirring-device can therefore be driven at a higher speed. The lead is fed in in smaller quantities and at shorter intervals than usual. With this improved pot a vertical uptake is unnecessary, and it is sufficient to provide an upwardly-inclined exit pipe.
Patent GB-191027620-A (GB)
Title: An Improvement in Garden Shears.
IPC: A01G3/02
Filed: 1910-11-28
Granted: 1911-05-04
Abstract: 27,620. Clark, Ltd., W., and Clark, W. T. Nov. 28. Shears.-One or each of the blades of garden shears is provided with a plate d attached thereto by screws, bolts, rivets, or the like f and having a serrated or notched edge e projecting beyond the edge of the blade or blades so as to grip boughs or the like which are being cut.
Patent GB-191029366-A (GB)
Title: Machine for Grinding Skived Toe-caps and like Parts of Boots and Shoes.
IPC: A43D95/08
Filed: 1910-12-17
Granted: 1911-05-11
Abstract: 29,366. Maschinenfabrik Moenus Akt.-Ges. Jan. 6, [Convention date]. Boots and shoes, treating.-Relates to a machine for grinding skived toe-caps for boots and shoes, and consists in means for passing the toecap between a counter-roller and guide-rollers, upon the axes of which latter are grinding- rollers which operate upon both ends of the toe-cap simultaneously to remove the irregularities left by the skiving operation. The skived toe-cap a is passed between a counterroller b and guide-rollers c upon the axes of which are grinding-rollers d. The angle between the grinding - rollers and the counter - roller is adjustable by means of screw-rods l, and the distance between the grinding - rollers by the screw-rod i.
Patent GB-191029416-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Hydrometers.
Inventor: JONES EDWARD
IPC: G01N9/12
Filed: 1910-12-19
Granted: 1911-12-14
Abstract: 29,416. Jones, E., [trading as Dring & Fage]. Dec. 19. Drawings to Specification. Specific-gravity estimating-apparatus.-With the object of increasing its sensitiveness, a Syke's hydrometer or like instrument is provided with a long stem having a cross-sectional area of approximately five square millimeters.
Patent GB-191100162-A (GB)
Title: Controlling Mechanism for Variable Speed Gearing.
Inventor: PARKER CLARK WARNER
IPC: F16H59/04
Filed: 1911-01-03
Granted: 1911-03-16
Abstract: 162. Parker, C. W. Jan. 3. Controlling variable - speed gearing. - Means for controlling changespeed and reversing gearing comprises three hollow shafts 14, 12, 13, Fig. 2, surrounding a through shaft 15, the arrangement being such that a handlever 10 can impart a rocking movement to the shaft 12, and simultaneously to any one of the other shafts. Forked arms 16, 17, 18 extend upwards from the shafts 14, 15, 13, respectively, and embrace the lever 10. The lever 10 is pivotally connected at 11 to the shaft 12, so that that lever can be moved into engagement with any one of the arms 16, 17, 18. Subsequent movement of the lever 10 at right-angles, to rock the sleeves, is limited by a guide-plate 24, Fig. 4, which has slots 26, 27, 28, 25 for four such movements, and a ' pass-over ' slot 29. Leaf springs 20 with backward-turned ends 21 press upon the lever 10 from opposite sides. The springs 20 follow the selecting movements of the lever 10, and serve to lock the two of the arms 16, 17, 18 that have not been selected. To prevent a wrong movement of the lever 10, a catch 32, Fig. 2, is provided, liftable by a latch 34.
Patent GB-191103263-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in, and relating to, Tanks or Pits used in the Bacterial or Septic Treatment of Sewage.
Inventor: DAPINO EUGEN
IPC: C02F3/28
Filed: 1911-02-08
Granted: 1912-01-11
Abstract: 3263. Dapino, E. Feb. 8. Filter-beds.-Apparatus for the septic treatment of sewage comprises anaerobic tanks 1, 2, an aerating filter 3, and an outlet chamber 4. The liquid passes from the tank 2 to the filter through a connexion 10 beneath the liquid-level so that air cannot pass through. The filter 3 is provided with partitions 11 which cause the sewage to flow through by a sinuous course, and with means at the top for the admission of air.
Patent GB-191106019-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Apparatus for Hydrating Pulping or Reducing Material in a Wet or Semi Liquid State.
Inventor: JACKSON HAROLD
IPC: B02C13/00
Filed: 1910-10-28
Granted: 1912-01-29
Abstract: 6019. Jackson, H. Oct. 28, 1910. Pulping-engines.-Apparatus for pulping or reducing fibres for paper pulp, paints, and cocoa, according to the method described in Specification 25,051/10, comprises a rotor A, Figs. 5 and 6, fitted with flexible beaters C which expand by centrifugal force against ribs or projections D on a casing B in which they revolve. The beaters consist of pivoted blades with hammer-shaped ends, or they may be fitted with rollers or with pivoted links or solid blocks; chains, flexible arms or balls attached flexibly, springs, or other devices may be used. In a modification, the rotor is ribbed, and flexible spring beaters are attached to the casing. The casing may be arranged horizontally, vertically, or inclined, and the ribs may be longitudinally or spirally arranged, or a number of separate projections may be used. The beaters are arranged radially or tangentially to the periphery of the rotor and set in rows or spirally, or they may be inclined in the direction of rotation to assist the flow of the material through the casing; the rotor may carry a screw propeller D<1> to force the material through the casing, which is fitted at intervals between the beaters with inclined vanes E which also assist in conveying the material. A pump may circulate the material through the casing round into a hopper G, Fig. 1, and back into the casing.
Patent GB-191106620-A (GB)
Title: Candy Forming and Cutting Machine.
Inventor: VESSOT SAMUEL
IPC: C13B45/00
Filed: 1911-03-16
Granted: 1912-02-01
Abstract: 6620. Vessot, S. March 16. Stream-cutting machines; rolling-machines.- Candy forming and cutting machines, of the type in which peripherally grooved spindles move intermittently towards each other to form and cut candy automatically discharged from an overhead trough supplied by feed-rolls, are provided with means for automatically stopping the feed-rolls to produce an intermittent feedmotion, and are improved in constructional detail. Plastic material is fed by rollers 24 into a divided trough 54, cut off in lengths, and then dumped on to the forming-spindles, which pass it in its final shape on to reciprocating drying-screens. The lower feed-roller is driven from the countershaft 15 through chain gearing. The feed may be momentarily stopped by oscillating the arm 47, which carries tensioning- rollers engaging both runs of the chain. While the feed-motion is stopped, the material is cut by a knife on a swinging arm 67. The knife is provided with a spring adjacent to the cutting- edge to raise it partly after the cutting operation and thus release it from the material. The cut strip is then dumped on to the cutting and forming spindles 70 ... 72 by separating the hinged side of the trough from the fixed one. A cam on the countershaft is arranged to operate three levers in succession for stopping the feed, operating the knife, and opening the trough. The spindles are shaped peripherally to produce the required form of sweets, and are provided with registering slots and ridges to cut the stick of material into portions forming separate sweets. The shafts of the spindles pass through a T-shaped slot in a fixed member as shown in Fig .5, and also through a Y-shaped slot in an outer movable member as shown in Fig. 10. By gradually lowering the movable member by means of a second cam 197 on the countershaft, the two upper spindles are drawn together to compress and cut the material, and the spindle 72 is lowered so that the finished sweets can be delivered to the drying-screens. In a modified arangement, the spindle 72 is lowered before the upper spindles commence to separate. The spindles are chain-driven from the main shaft 8, and the chain for driving the movable spindle 72 is tensioned by a roller arm 89. The sweets are delivered from the spindles to the upper member of a series of three screens inclined alternately in opposite directions and reciprocated by an eccentric 101. A current of air is passed along the screens by a fan 103 to dry the sweets.
Patent GB-191109056-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Two-stroke Cycle Internal Combustion Engines.
Inventor: SANGSTER CHARLES THOMAS BROCK
Filed: 1911-04-11
Granted: 1912-04-11
Abstract: 9056. Sangster, C. T. B., and Evans, W. April 11. Two-stroke-cycle engines.-In an engine which compresses in an annular chamber formed by a piston extension 2 working in a guide 5, charges are induced through an automatic or mechanically-actuated valve 9 and transferred to the combustion chamber through a series of elongated piston-controlled passages 10, the exhaust products being discharged through a port 11 located behind which is a mechanicallyactuated valve 12.
Patent GB-191109968-A (GB)
Title: A Process for the Electrolytic Production of Metallic Antimony from Antimony Ores or Compounds.
Inventor: WHITFIELD RALPH CYRIL VERNON
IPC: C25C1/22
Filed: 1911-04-25
Granted: 1911-12-30
Abstract: 9968. Whitfield, R. C. V. April 25. Metals, powdered, obtaining coherent masses from. -Antimony obtained electrolytically in nodules or otherwise is melted under Glauber's salt or caustic soda.
Patent GB-191115461-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Safety Razors.
IPC: B26B21/56
Filed: 1911-07-03
Granted: 1912-01-18
Abstract: 15,461. Soc. GÚnÚrale de Coutellerie et OrfÞvrerie. July 8, 1910, [Convention date]. Razors, safety. In razors having thin but non-flexible blades, such as those described in Specifications 684/09 and 21,116/09, each edge of the blade f is formed of two concave surfaces f<1>.
Patent GB-191116500-A (GB)
Title: Cork Composition & Method of Making same.
Inventor: LENHART PHILIP FREDRICK
IPC: C08L97/00
Filed: 1911-07-18
Granted: 1912-04-04
Abstract: 16,500. Lenhart, P. F. July 18. No Patent granted (Sealing fee not paid). Fibrous plastic compositions; compositions containing gelatine, starch, &c.-A composition to replace natural cork is made by mixing cork waste, sliced or ground up, with an agglutinant consisting of gum arabic, starch, gelatine, white sugar, glue, and glycerine. In an example, 2 oz. of gum arabic, 1¢ oz. of starch, 1 oz. of gelatine, 1 oz. of white sugar, and 2 oz. of glue are dissolved separately in water. These solutions are mixed and heated in a steam-jacketed vessel, 1 oz. of glycerine being added when the solution boils. When this solution reaches the consistency of paste, it is added to 10 lb. of ground or sliced cork waste, and the composition is moulded and pressed.
Patent GB-191117764-A (GB)
Title: Splash Guard for Motor Vehicles.
Inventor: STOCK PERCY
IPC: B62D25/18
Filed: 1911-08-04
Granted: 1912-01-25
Abstract: 17,764. Stock, P. Aug. 4. No Patent granted (Sealing fee not paid). Lateral-splash guards.-A rubber flap g is attached to the bottom of a frame h supported by a long nose-piece or nut b, which is screwed on to the end of the axle-bar and passes through the cap a of the wheel. An outer nut c holds the splash-guard in position upon the nose-piece, and a screw f provides for adjustment of the guard as the rubber wears.
Patent GB-191124263-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Shelving for Displaying Goods.
IPC: A47F5/04
Filed: 1911-11-01
Granted: 1912-08-08
Abstract: 24,263. Merkham Trading Co., Freeman, W. F., and Walker, H. Nov. 1. Shelves and shelf fittings. -Shelving, comprising an upright having horizontal grooves on two sides engaged by tongues on the shelves or shelf supports which are arranged to form, with additional pieces carried by the end portions of the tongues, a continuous shelving around the upright, is formed with a U-shaped or three-sided shelf or shelf support which co-operates with another loose member to make the shelving continuous round the upright. The U-shaped shelf a has tongues b to engage the grooves in the upright c, and the single shelf i is supported by the end portions of these tongues. The whole continuous shelving is then locked in position by the bar e provided with tongues f and set-screws h. In the case of glass shelves shown in Fig. 5, the threesided supporting-member a<1> has one tongue b, and the tongued fourth side i<1> is hinged thereto at k, and is fastened in place by the pin l. The glass slabs m are then supported on arms o fixed to the members a<1>, i<1>. Mirrors, pictures, advertisements, or the like n may be fitted as shown.
Patent GB-191124764-A (GB)
Title: Combined Screen and Stove or Radiator.
Inventor: BROWN EDGAR WILLIAM
IPC: A47G5/04
Filed: 1911-11-07
Granted: 1912-09-12
Abstract: 24,764. Brown, E. W., and Watts, C. J. Nov. 7. Flower stands.-A combination fire-screen and gas &c. stove is adapted, when the heating-apparatus is removed, for use as a stand for ferns or flowers. Fig. 1 shows a screen a fitted with a shelf c upon which a gas-heater b, described in Specification 29,220/09, [Class 126, Stoves &c.], is placed. When the radiator is removed, the shelf may be used as a stand for ferns or flowers. In a modification, Fig. 3, the gas-heater b has feet h which are adapted to be secured by spring tongues g<1> in a shelf g on legs m, to which the screen a is secured by brackets a<1>. In both forms, a space j is left between the shelf and the screen to allow air to pass upwards and cool the screen.
Patent GB-191126499-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Form of Step Ladder.
Inventor: ROBERTS HENRY MANN
IPC: E06C1/20
Filed: 1911-11-27
Granted: 1912-10-10
Abstract: 26,499. Roberts, H. M. Nov. 27. Ladders.-Tripod stepladders for gardening and other purposes are constructed with the steps c projecting beyond the sides, which may be extended at the upper ends to form hand - rails. The back legs are retained in the closed position by guides i on one of the steps, and are provided with hooked arms to engage wall or other surfaces, or to support baskets &c. The lower ends of the ladders are provided with metal disks j to prevent sinking into soft ground.