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Patent GB-190808968-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Installations for Electrically Controlling Railway Points or the like.
Filed: 1908-04-24
Granted: 1908-10-22
Abstract: 8968. Siemens Bros. & Co., [Siemens & Halske Akt.-Ges.]. April 24. Drawings to Specification. Switches, locking. In a railway point or signal control system, the switches in the local and central cabins may be mechanically interlocked by the use of a key, which may only be withdrawn from the locking-apparatus of one switch when the switch is locked in position for allowing control by the other switch. The key is then taken to the other cabin, and the control switch there is unlocked and employed for operating the points or signals.
Patent GB-190809775-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Trucks for Railway, Tramway and like Vehicles.
Filed: 1908-05-05
Granted: 1909-05-05
Abstract: 9775. Magnolia Anti-Friction Metal Co. of Great Britain, and Peckham, E. May 5. Locomotive railway and tramway vehicles.-In a single-axle pivotal truck, the body is mounted upon the main truck frame through an intermediate frame. The mam frame is suspended, with lateral movement, from the axle-boxes, and the motor is mounted so as to accommodate itself to this movement. The trucks are connected together so as to permit independent swivelling, and brake mechanism is described which is not interfered with by this swivelling. The car body is mounted by side ball bearings 28 and a king-bolt on an intermediate frame 1, which is carried through springs 11 by the truck frame 2. The upper plate 27 of the bearings has a hook 29, which engages a projection 30 on the lower plate 28 to prevent unseating of the car body. The truck frame 2 is carried by the spring plank 24 suspended from the axleboxes 6 by links 7 so as to pennit lateral movement of the truck. The motor 4 is sleeved to the axle and is suspended also from the spring-mounted bar 25, which is arranged to move laterally relatively to the truck by the pivotal connexion of the bolts 33 to the bolt 34. The two trucks supporting the car are connected together by a rod 13 provided with rollers 14 auapted to run on radius bars 12 secured to the truck frames. Centralizing spring-controlled rods 15, secured to the body at 32, assist in returning the trucks to the normal position for running on a straight track. The brake rigging comprises a lever 16 and pull-rods 17 having a roller connexion 18 with radius bars 18<1>. A rock-shaft 20 is connected by rods 19 with the radius bar 18<1> and by rods 21 with the brake beam 23.
Patent GB-190813755-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Air Brushes.
Inventor: PAASCHE JENS ANDREAS
Filed: 1908-06-29
Granted: 1909-06-29
Abstract: 13,755. Paasche, J. A. June 27, 1907, [date applied for under Section 91 of Patents &c. Act, 1907]. Painting.-An air-brush for applying colour &c. comprises means for clearing out and adjusting the size of the colour discharge orifice, means for adjusting the relative position of the colourdischarge and air-discharge orifices and a special location of the colour receptacle. Fig. 2 shows the body 1 of the brush fitted with the air valve 13 operated by the plunger 17, and with the guard 22. Fig. 1 shows the arrangement of the colour receptacle 23 and the colour nozzle 24. The nozzle is adjustably mounted in the piece 25, Fig. 3, so that by the turning the knurled head 27 the distance between the nozzles 4 and 24 can be regulated. The head 30 carries a screw fitting into the body of the nozzle 24 and carrying a needle 29, which when rotated, adjusts the size of and clears the outer orifice of said nozzle. This needle may be adjusted by hand. The tube 32 attached to the colour receptacle has a tapered end 33 fitting into the head 30.
Patent GB-190816920-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in the Method of and Means Employed for Retaining Machinery and Machine Tools in Position.
Inventor: GARSED JOHN LAW
Filed: 1908-08-12
Granted: 1909-08-12
Abstract: 16,920. Garsed, J. L. Aug. 12. Platen presses ; cylinder machines with plane printing-surfaces ; rotary machines.-To secure printing-machines &c. in their working positions without constituting them fixtures, metallic shoes 1 with one, two, or three flanges 2 are screwed to the floor, and the feet 4 of the machine are slid under the flanges, being retained there by pins 6 passing through flange and foot as shown in Fig. 2, or into the shoe alone as shown in Fig. 4, or spring catches 11, Fig. 6, may be used.
Patent GB-190823361-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Mechanism for Pneumatically Controlling Parts, like Valves, Ignition Devices, or Detents.
Filed: 1907-11-02
Granted: 1909-05-06
Abstract: 23,361. Bachrich & Co. Nov. 2, 1907, [date applied for under Section 91 of Patents &c. Act, 1907]. Gas and like engines.-In operating valves, slides, ignition devices, detents, &c. through the medium of a gaseous power-transmitting fluid, a reservoir is incorporated with the gas transmitting-passage so that accidental operation of the valve &c. by shocks, or devices other than that designed to operate it, is avoided, the fluctuations of pressure in the passage caused by the shocks &c. being made exceedingly small. In the case of a lift valve b<1>, which is operated from a distance by a cam d through the medium of a gaseous column c set in motion by a plunger a<1>, a constant pressure is normally maintained in the column by connecting it with a beat-insulated reservoir h. The plunger, by passing over a port g, cuts out the reservoir during the operation of the valve. A single reservoir may be employed to maintain a constant pressure in the transmitting column of two or more valves &c. The Specification in the original form, as open to inspection under Section 91 (3) (a), contains also the following. To enable a liquid transmitting-medium such as oil and glycerine to be used, the relative cross - sectional areas of the plunger a<1> and the plunger connected to the valve &c., also the relative strokes and velocities of the plungers, are all proportional so that the velocity of the liquid is always small. The valve &c. may be given a variable lift or travel. For this purpose, the stroke of the plunger a<1> may be adapted to be varied, by the action of a governor through the medium of an auxiliary-movable cam acting on the plunger. Alternatively, the plunger a<1> has a constant stroke, but is hollowed out at the end and furnished with an inclined slot adapted to coact with inclined or straight ports in the wall of the cylinder adjacent to the port g leading to the reservoir. In this case, the governor is adapted to impart a rotary movement to the reciprocating plunger, which will vary the travel of the valve &c. in a well-koown manner. This subject-matter does not appear in the Complete Specification as accepted.
Patent GB-190824244-A (GB)
Title: Process for the Treatment of Steels for Industrial Purposes.
Filed: 1908-11-11
Granted: 1909-04-22
Abstract: 24,244. Soc. Schneider et Cie. Jan. 25, [date applied for under Section 91 of Patents &c. Act, 1907]. Tempering; annealing.-In a heat treatment for steel for the purpose of preventing the formation of blow-holes, the metal is heated, after rolling and forging, to a temperature higher than the critical point in heating, and then allowed to cool to a temperature of about 250‹ C. above the critical point in cooling. The cooling is then stopped or retarded, either by the aid of heat-retaining materials or by furnishing a supplementary supply of heat, and the metal is finally cooled, rapidly or slowly. In the case of thick plates, the retardation of cooling may be replaced by a re-heating to a temperature lower than the critical point in heating, or it may be followed by such a re-heating.
Patent GB-190824590-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to a Process of Treating Titaniferous Iron Ores.
Inventor: BORCHERS WILHELM
Filed: 1908-11-16
Granted: 1909-11-16
Abstract: 24,590. Borchers, W. Nov. 16. Blast -furnace charges and processes. - In the reduction of titaniferous iron ore, wherein a silicious pig-iron free from titanium is obtained beneath a slag rich in titanium but containing also some iron, the reducing-agent used consists principally of iron, titanium, and carbon, or a mixture of iron and titanium carbides, and is obtained by reducing the slag with carbon. The process is conducted in an electric furnace at a temperature of about 2000‹ C., and when a sufficient quantity of slag has collected this is heated in the same or another electric furnace to a temperature not less than 2500‹ C., and coke or charcoal is added. Any excess of reducing-agent obtained may be utilized in other metallurgical reducing and refining operations, or for the production of alloys such as ferrotitanium. When starting a plant, carbon is first used as the reducing-agent for the ore.
Patent GB-190900687-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Pendulum Electricity Meters.
Inventor: FERY CHARLES
IPC: G01R11/46
Filed: 1909-01-11
Granted: 1909-07-22
Abstract: 687. FÚry, C. Jan. 11. Meters having clock-work controlled electrically. - Two automaticallystarted and electrically - controlled pendulums b are arranged so that there is no solid friction during their oscillation, the circuits for maintaining the oscillation of the pendulums and for registering the differences in the numbers of their oscillations being closed by contacts made by auxiliary pendulums b<1>. Soft-iron cores a, a', carried by the main pendulums b, are magnetized by pressure coils B so as to have consequent poles A in the centre, and are influenced by fixed current coils D. The core limbs a are surrounded by fixed maintaining- coils C, and the limbs a<1> by closed copper rings d carried by the pendulums b<1>. Contacts v, v<1> are thus touched alternately by each auxiliary pendulum. The contacts v<1> are connected to pairs of coils e, e<1> on the stator M of a small rotary-field motor, the rotor of which carries an arm m moving between stops k, k<1>. The number of oscillations of the rotor R is equal to the difference between those of the main pendulums ; a pawl on the arm m actuates a counting-mechanism. The pendulums may be synchronized by known means, for instance by connexion to a slack thread carrying a grain of lead at its centre, or by uniting the actuating-coils of the two pendulums by an adjustable high resistance, or by inversion of the current to be measured without changing the current passing through the fixed coil through which the arm of the pendulum extends. Mechanical registering - means may be employed instead of the electro-magnetic means described.
Patent GB-190908060-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or connected with Hydraulic Classifiers for Metalliferous Slimes.
Inventor: HOLMAN JAMES MINERS
IPC: B03B5/62
Filed: 1909-04-03
Granted: 1910-04-04
Abstract: 8060. Holman, J. M., and Holman, J. L. April 3. Upward-current classifiers.-In an upward current classifier for grading metalliferous slimes of the kind having separate compartments wherein the slime is successively treated by different currents, the slime is supplied through a launder g and pipes e<1> to vertical launders f in a tapering vessel c, and is subjected to a current of water from a compartment d. The slime which does not gravitate passes with water through passages e', a launder h, and a pipe i into the vessel c, where it meets a second upward current from a compartment j, the water and light material passing into a discharge launder m. The two grades of concentrates from the compartments d, j are discharged into launders n, n<1> through passages o, o<1>.
Patent GB-190909770-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Bin or Receptacle for Bread and the like.
Inventor: HAAS MICHAEL
IPC: A47J36/10
Filed: 1909-04-24
Granted: 1910-04-25
Abstract: 9770. Haas, M. April 21. Covers for plates, dishes, and the like.-A bread or like bin or receptacle has several transparent sector lids 3, which are provided with a fastening-device of such a nature that only one lid can be opened at a time. This may be effected, as indicated in Fig. 4, by means of a string or elastic band 8 encircling the bin and of such a length that the opening of one lid tightens the string and prevents the opening of the others. According to another method, a flat circular spring is laid around the bin over the hinge ends of the lids, and has sufficient play to allow one only of the lids to be opened. In the device shown in Fig. 6, a circular spring 16 attached to projections 15 normally engages hooks 13 of the lids, but, when one of the projections 15 is pressed, the corresponding hook 13 is released, and the lid opens by virtue of the hinge spring, while at the same time the spring 16 presses outwards and fixes the remainder of the lids in place. According to the method illustrated in Fig. 1, there are a series of recesses 2 on a revolving centre-piece, so arranged that only one can register at one time with projections 4 on the lids. The projections may be arranged on the centre-piece and the recesses on the lids. A bayonet-joint is used to fasten the top part of the bin to the body.
Patent GB-190915898-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Governing Mechanism for Internal Combustion Engines.
Inventor: MATHOT RODOLPHE EDGARD
IPC: F01L13/00
Filed: 1909-07-07
Granted: 1910-07-07
Abstract: 15,898. Mathot, R. E. July 7, 1908, [Convention date]. Transmitting - mechanism.-In the variable-lift valve - gear for internal - combustion engines described in Specification 22,036/08, [Class 7, Air and gas engines], the pivoted member a is connected to the governor by means of a lever S, having a slot q which engages with a pin on the member a. The pivot of the lever S is in line with the pivot of the member a when the valve is on its seat. By this means, the member a is free to move with the valve without reacting on the governor. The arrangement is applied to each of the three constructions of valve-gear described in the above-mentioned Specification. The Specification in the original form, as open to inspection under Section 91 (3) (a), comprises also modifications in which a pivot or fork is used in place of the slot q or in which the member a is moved by a track-rod of sufficient length to prevent reaction on the governor by the movements of the valve ; and comprises the application of these devices to a form of variable-lift valvegear in which a roller is adjusted by the governor between two bell-crank levers. This subjectmatter does not appear in the Specification as accepted.
Patent GB-190917098-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to the Regulation of Centrifugal Machinery, such as Pumps, Fans and the like.
Inventor: KELLER HULDREICH
IPC: F04D15/00
Filed: 1909-07-22
Granted: 1909-10-14
Abstract: 17,098. Keller, H. Feb. 23, [Convention date]. Regulating.-Centrifugal pumps and fans are regulated by one or more adjustable blades situated in the suction pipe, which correct to a variable extent the rotary motion imparted to the entering stream by the impeller blades The speed of the pump remains constant. Fig. 3 shows one blade f, adjustable about a radial axis by a pawl-locked handle g, placed in the suction-eye e of an impeller b. When the blade is in an axial plane as shown, the entering fluid possesses no rotary motion and the pump gives maximum delivery. The delivery falls off as the blade is turned into a transverse plane. The axis of the blade may be longitudinal or oblique, and it may be actuated in any way, by hand or by a governor directly or from a distance.
Patent GB-190917376-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Stapling and like Machines.
Inventor: BONNESEN FRITHIOF
IPC: B27F7/23
Filed: 1909-07-26
Granted: 1910-07-21
Abstract: 17,376. Bonnesen, F., and Engblom, G.A. July 26. Stapling.-Wire is drawn from a reel 60 and fed by rollers 63 through a guide 31 beneath holding, cutting, and driving plungers 24, 23, 21 respectively. The plungers 23, 24 project from a slide 20, and the driving-plunger 21 is connected to a slide 22. Both slides reciprocate vertically in the machine frame, and are operated by a slotted plate 13 pivoted at 14 and engaging a roll on each slide. The plunger 21 drives the cut length of wire into one of a series of recesses in a rotating annular hammerwheel 25, thus forming a cramp. The wheel 25 is moved step by step to bring a recess under the plunger 21, at each operation, by means of a rotating pawl 7 co-operating with teeth on a ratchet-wheel to which the hammer-wheel is secured. In each recess is a hammer 39, the stem of which projects radially inwards and carries a roll 35. A spring holds the hammer in its innermost position until the hammer-roll meets a fixed projection 28 carrying a roll 29, whereupon the hammer is pressed outwards to drive the staple into the work. The apparatus is adapted to drive cramps into a material consisting of cardboard and straw, and is driven from a shaft 4, which carries the pawl 7 and is geared to a shaft 9 carrying a crank-disk 10, which operates the plate 13. The feed-rolls 63 may be driven from the shaft 4. Two or more machines may be used on the same sheet of material, being timed so as to drive cramps alternately.
Patent GB-190918980-A (GB)
Title: Improved Dust Tight, Oil Bath Gear Case for Cycles.
Inventor: HUNT CORNELIUS
IPC: B62J13/04
Filed: 1909-08-18
Granted: 1910-06-09
Abstract: 18,980. Hunt, C. Aug. 18. Gear cases for cycles are formed of shaped tubes and plates, which are built into, and made part of, the cycle frame. The housing for the chain-wheel E is made of two stamped metal plates F' which are brazed together at their outer edges, and provided with a detachable metal disk R. The housing J may similarly be made in two pieces brazed together, or it may be stamped out in a single piece, which is bent over and brazed at the top or bottom. The tubes A, A are of oval section, as shown at B, and are brazed to the chain-wheel housings. The end cap K is detachably held in place by the chainadjuster L. The gear case is secured to the cycle by means of lugs M, G, P. Reference has been directed by the Comptroller to Specifications 22,801/92, 1562/97, 6855/97, 8726/97, 29,083/97, and 17,251/99.
Patent GB-190921015-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Means for Regulating the Fuel Supply to Water Heater.
Inventor: HUMPHREY HERBERT SIDNEY
IPC: F24H9/20
Filed: 1909-09-14
Granted: 1910-07-14
Abstract: 21,015. Humphrey, H. S. Jan. 15, [Convention date]. Actuating valves; combinations of interdependent valves. - The fuel-supply valve of a geyser or the like is operated directly both by a valve actuated by the flow of water and by a thermostat placed in the flow. In the form shown in Fig. 2, the thermostat contained in the outer tube 9 operates the stem 22 of the fuel valve 20 by means of links 29, 24, and the water valve by means of a member 23 with wedge-shaped edges 27. In modifications, the water-valve stem and that of the gas valve are in alinement; in one case the intervening member 23 is borne as shown in Fig. 2 by the water-valve stem, and in the other by the thermostat linkage. A by-pass may be provided as at 36 with a stem 37 engaged by a lever 38. A trip 40 opens the pilot valve before the wedge 27 operates the main gas valve, and a wedge 41 can make contact with the part 42 independent of the position of the water valve.
Patent GB-190922720-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to the Manufacture of Metal Studded Bands and Treads for Elastic Tyres.
Inventor: O'BRIEN JOHN
IPC: B60C11/16
Filed: 1909-10-05
Granted: 1910-06-30
Abstract: 22,720. O'Brien, J. Oct. 5. [Cognate Application, 2/10.] Tread bands, projections, and surfaces.-Non- skid studs h and two-part eyelets a, bare secured to a tread band, preferably of rubber compound and canvas, and perforated to receive them by an operation which simultaneously splays out the tubular shank g of the stud and the tubular part c of one part of the eyelet over the other part of the eyelet, which preferably has spikes e to enter the treadband. The operation is carried out by the press-tools j, shown in Fig. 7, the head of the stud being placed in the recess i, and the tubular part a of the eyelet placed over the shank of the stud with its base in the recess k; the tread band is then placed in position with the second part b of the eyelet. Preferably, a canvas strip n is placed inside the tread band, so that it is held between the splayed ends of the shanks and the parts b of the eyelets.
Patent GB-190922878-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and connected with Electric Telegraph Insulators.
Inventor: BALL JAMES
IPC: H01B17/20
Filed: 1909-10-07
Granted: 1910-09-15
Abstract: 22,878. Ball, J., and Readman, C. F. Oct. 7. Insulators of the telegraph type are constructed with a metal head A covered with vitreous enamel, for securing two metal petticoats D, F, covered also with vitreous enamel, against a flange K<1> on the support K. The head A is fixed to the screwed support K by a screwed sleeve or bush C of vulcanized fibre or the like, and washers H, I, J are interposed between the various units.
Patent GB-190924187-A (GB)
Title: Aerial Resonator for Receiving Apparatus of Electrical Wireless Systems.
Inventor: BARDELONI CESARE
Filed: 1909-10-21
Granted: 1909-12-09
Abstract: 24,187. Bardeloni, C. Oct. 21. Wireless telegraphy; aerials.-In an arrangement of an aerial for wireless signalling, with the object of obtaining accurate syntony and freedom from di s t u rbances, conductors or groups of conductors 6, 7, in the circuit of which the detector is connected, are disposed with relation to the U- shaped earthed portion 1, 2 of the aerial so as to be inductively acted on by the cutter. Instead of the U-shaped primary portion, a conductor arranged asymmetrically with regard to the secondary portions may be used.
Patent GB-191000390-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Portable Camp Kitchens.
Inventor: MARINITSCH ALEXANDER
IPC: F24B1/20
Filed: 1910-01-06
Granted: 1911-01-05
Abstract: 390. Marinitsch, A. Jan. 6. Field, camp, and like cooking-apparatits. - A camp cooking-apparatus which is adapted to be transported on a wheeled carriage, or by pack-horses, is arranged so that the two methods of transport may be readily interchanged. Fig. 18 shows the method of transport on a wheeled carriage, and Figs. 19 and 20 the method when employing pack-horses. As shown in Figs. 19 and 20, the boiler is suspended by chains from two poles carried by trestles which are strapped to pads supported on ordinary cavalry saddles. Intermediate distance-pieces with stapled ends are fitted over the poles. A spare pair of trestles, the wheels and axle of the carriage, the boiler supports, the harness, and the driver's seat and footboard, are loaded on to a third horse. As shown in Fig. 18, the poles form the shafts of the carriage, and support the boiler by means of metal cross-members having holes which are engaged by snugs on the bottom of the boiler. The ends of the shafts are secured by cottars in the holes d', Fig. 5, of the axle-board. Diagonal braces k' and a footboard for the driver are used to position the shafts in addition to the cross-ties described in connexion with the pack-. horse system of transit. One pair of trestles is utilized to form the seat support, and the seat comprises a flat board shaped to fit the upper portion of the trestles. The spare pair of trestles is still carried by a pack-horse.