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Patent GB-190407942-A (GB)
Title: A Mechanical Sliding Floor for Shop Windows whereby the Goods on Sale may be Arranged & Dusted, the Windows Cleaned, or Ticketed Article Sold therefrom, without Disarrangement of other Goods.
Inventor: BURNS JOHN
Filed: 1904-04-06
Granted: 1904-09-22
Abstract: 7942. Burns, J. April 6. Window fittings.-A platform, on which the goods are arranged on wire shelves or brass standards, is run in and out of the window on flanged rollers, on iron rails ; the driving-axle 7 is actuated by the hand-wheel 1 through bevel gearing 2, 3, 5, 6.
Patent GB-190408758-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Ship's Propeller.
Inventor: CRAWFORD ROBERT SWAN
Filed: 1904-04-16
Granted: 1905-03-23
Abstract: 8758. Crawford, R. S. April 16. Screw propellers.-The blades are inclined aft from root to tip and are curved circumferentially, so that the tip of one blade overlaps the root of the following blade, as shown.
Patent GB-190414457-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Automatic Oil Saving Appliance for Railway and other Hand Lamps.
Inventor: WOOD JOHN
Filed: 1904-06-27
Granted: 1905-05-18
Abstract: 14,457. Wood, J. June 2. Signal lamps; lighting and extinguishing oil lamps or lanterns.-In guards' railway and like handlamps, a rack on a spring- controlled rod projecting below the bottom of the lantern raises or lowers the flame according as the lantern is carried in the hand or set down on a flat surface. A rod D passes through a tube in the reservoir and is normally pressed down, when the lamp is carried in the hand, by a spring d<3>. When the lamp is placed on the ground, the rod D is pushed up and raises the sleeve A, to which it is attached by a screw d<1> or in any other way, or actuates the wick-raising spindle by means of a rack and pinion or the like. The flame is thus lowered or extinguished, a pilot flame for re-ignition being provided in the latter case. By extending the adjustable legs h, the button d<2> may be kept off the ground and the rod rendered inoperative.
Patent GB-190414816-A (GB)
Title: Combined Guard and Springs for Vertical Spindle Moulding Machines
Inventor: SHAW RICHARD LAWRENCE
Filed: 1904-07-01
Granted: 1905-05-04
Abstract: 14,816. Shaw, R. L. July 1. Planing and moulding.-Adjustable fences or guards are used in spindle moulding machines to hold and guide the work. A post A having a slotted base B is mounted on the machine table, and upon this post is mounted an arm C which can be clamped in any position by the thumb-screw D. The arm C embraces, at its outer end, a bar E to which it can be clamped by a thumb-screw F. On this bar E is mounted a right-angled aim L which can be clamped to it by the thumb-screw K, and which embraces a horizontal bar N, clamped by a thumb-screw M. The ends of the bars E, N are connected respectively to springs G, 0 which are in turn connected respectively to cross-pieces H, P. The work T is held by the fence Wand by adjusting the arms C, L and the bars E, N so that the cross-pieces H, P bear against the surface of the work. If the work b: too small to be held by these, an additional cross-piece S of L-section is connected to the cross-piece P and holds work as shown in Fig. 6. The work may be held alone by either of the cross-pieces H, P, and when the apparatus is not required it may be easily swung round on the bar A to the back of the machine.
Patent GB-190414843-A (GB)
Title: An Attachment for Childrens Chair-carts, Mail Carts and the like.
Inventor: NEWMAN WILLIAM GEORGE
Filed: 1904-07-01
Granted: 1904-08-11
Abstract: 14,843. Newman, W. G., and Colgate, R. C. July 1. Children's mail carts and like vehicles.-In a folding attachment for children's chair carts, mail carts, and the like, which may be used as a child's chair, rocking or otherwise, a pair of curved or straight rails a are formed with extensions h provided with catches i adapted to engage the back axle of a cart, the fore part of the rails a resting on the front footstep k. Uprights b, pivoted to the rails a, are connected by cross-pieces g, d, the latter supporting the seat c. Stay bars e, pivoted to the seat, are slotted at their lower ends for attachment to the rails a, by means of screws, pins, or the like f. The cross connecting-pieces may be divided and hinged at the middle, so that the attachment may also be folded in the direction of its width.
Patent GB-190417789-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Protectors for Pin Tickets
Inventor: HACHERELLE LOUIS EMILE
Filed: 1904-08-16
Granted: 1904-09-29
Abstract: 17,789. Hacherelle, L. E. Aug. 16. Ticket fastenings.-A soft-metal, paper, cloth, or other protector is placed on the prong or prongs 2, 3, Fig. 8, of the fastening-pin 4 of a ticket 1 after inserting the prongs through an article and before bending them down into the position shown in Fig. 7. A U-shaped protector 6, 8, 7, Fig. 8, with bent ends 11, 12 is, however, preferred.
Patent GB-190417843-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or applicable to Spinning Mules
Inventor: DAWSON JOHN WILLIAM
Filed: 1904-08-17
Granted: 1905-07-06
Abstract: 17,843. Dawson, J. W. Aug. 17. Mules; stop-motions.-The object is to prevent the holding-out catch from being released and the taking-in friction from being engaged either when the rim band breaks or frays or when a set of cops is completed. In either case, the holding-out catch-rod l, between the holding-out catch and the taking-in friction, is blocked by a spring rod e, which is normally held in the withdrawn position shown by a bell-crank lever h, i. When the rim band breaks &c., the loose part thereof engages with a finger g on the arm f, thereby releasing the rod e ; when a set of cops is completed, the lever h, f is operated bv means of the arms or levers n, m operated by a block o on the rod p which connects together the copping-plates.
Patent GB-190418721-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Liquid Fuel Fittings for Steam Generator Furnaces
Inventor: TUCKER EDWIN WARREN
Filed: 1904-08-30
Granted: 1905-03-16
Abstract: 18,721. Tucker, E. W., and Grundell, C. L. Sept. 19, A.D. 1903, [date applied for under Patents Act, A.D. 1901]. Liquid -fuel fittings. - In a liquid-fuel system as applied to the furnace of a steam generator A, the oil fuel, before passing to specially constructed burners arranged in the furnace front F, is heated, by steam from the boiler, within a heater C supplied with oil from a reservoir by means of a pump D. Compressed air from a reservoir B<3>, which is fed by an air-compressor B, passes by means of the pipes B<12>, B<8> to the oil heater C, where, with the oil, it is heated by a steam coil arranged within the heater. Before passing to the heater. the oil is pumped through strainers D' arranged between valves D' in the conduit D<3>, in such manner that the oil may be diverted while one set is inoperative without interrupting the flow to the heater. Oil passes from the heater by means of the pipe D<11> through swivel joints E<3>, located on the axis of the hinge of the furnace fronts F, to the oil conduits of the burners. The joints E<3> also act as valves to shut off the flow of oil when the furnace front is swung outward. Air from the distributing - pipe B<8> passes through swivelling joints B<9> to the chamber F<3> in the furnace front as shown in Fig. 2, from which it escapes in a heated condition to the air-conduits of the burners, one of which is shown projecting through the furnace front into the conical opening F<7>, which is lined with graphite or cast iron. A burner is shown separately in Figs. 5 and 7. It is provided with valves M, L, for air and oil respectively, adapted to be actuated simultaneously by the throttle lever N to supply air to the space enclosed by the outer shell H and the oil conduit J', which, at the same time, is supplied by oil through openings G<2> in the end of the oil conduit. The oil conduit is removable and is provided with a mixing-head K having spiral grooves, as shown in Fig. 6, and outlets K<1>. Air passing through the outer conduit passes through the spiral passages, comes in contact with the oil as it escapes from the outlets K<1>, and carries it in through the tip of the burner I. For an attenuated flame of great length, a coarse-pitch groove may be used while, for a quick-diffusion flame, the form of tip shown in Fig. 9 may be adopted.
Patent GB-190421425-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Valves and Valve Gear for Tandem Pumping and other Steam Engines.
Inventor: FEWSTER EBENEZER
Filed: 1904-10-06
Granted: 1905-07-06
Abstract: 21,425. Fewster, E. Oct. 6. Drawings to Specification. Steam pumps.-A cylindrical slide valve and a combined mechanical and fluid-actuated valve gear, especially applicable to compound tandem pumping-engines, are described.
Patent GB-190507595-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Means or Apparatus suitable for Indicating Leakage of Electricity.
Inventor: DRIVER JAMES FREDERICK
Filed: 1905-04-10
Granted: 1906-03-01
Abstract: 7595. Driver, J. F. April 10. Current meters; testing.-Apparatus for indicating leakage of electricity from a live conductor to a body such as the trolly standard of an electric tram comprises an electro-magnet connected in series with a resistance between the body to be tested and earth, or the return conductor, and controlling a visible or other indicator. The armature lever d<2> of the electro-magnet e has a catch which normally holds a lever, weighted at b<1> and carrying the indicator disk a, in the position shown, in which the disk is hidden. The indicator is set by means of a press-button, causing a collar f<1> to act upon a pin b<4> on the lever b<1>. The circuit of an electric bell m is completed when the indicator falls, by a pin a<2> on an arm a<1>, which then bridges a pair of contact-pieces n<2>. The bell circuit may be interrupted by means of a switch q from a hand-lever outside the casing. A pin q<1> is so arranged on the switch lever and a collar f<3> on the push-rod, that the re-setting of the indicator closes the switch. The apparatus may be tested by means of a spring switch t which normally bears against a contact-piece connected to the trolly base or other body. By pressing an external push-button, the lever may be forced into contact with a piece connected to the trolly wire or other live conductor ; the apparatus may be regulated by adjusting the resistance in series with the electro-magnet. The apparatus may be shunted as a whole by a low-resistance fuse to provide for a limited amount of leakage.
Patent GB-190508937-A (GB)
Title: Apparatus for Supplying Measured Quantities of Liquid from Air-tight Vessels.
Inventor: HARRIS ALEXANDER CHARLES
Filed: 1905-04-28
Granted: 1906-01-11
Abstract: 8937. Harris, A. C., and Whitaker, E. April 28. Emptying bottles. - A bottle containing liquid is connected by a rubbercovered cone H and a pipe S', which may be partitioned as shown in dotted lines, to a measuring-chamber J provided with a delivery pipe T<1> and an annular plunger N. The apparatus is attached to a tube D, and is pivoted at K to a fixing M to enable the apparatus to be inverted for the exchange of a bottle at H without a spilling of liquid. A ring B supports the bottle, and a fork-piece with a tail Q holds the apparatus in its working position. A bottle to be filled is placed on a table R mounted on a tube L, sliding in the tube D as controlled by a spring C, and connected by a pin S to the support of the plunger N. Depression of the table R causes the plunger to displace a definite amount of liquid, which is made good on the rise of the plunger by a further supply from the bottle at H. A set-screw F enables the quantity to be regulated by varying the stroke of the plunger. A counter U operated by the reciprocation of the tube L records the number of bottles filled.
Patent GB-190511415-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Apparatus for Measuring Electrical Resistances.
Filed: 1905-05-31
Granted: 1906-05-03
Abstract: 11,415. Evershed &. Vignoles, and Evershed, S. May 31. Switches.-A resistance box of the dial type is provided with switches w having welllaminated contacts x, enclosed in a dust-tight cover y, and having outside handles z. The position of the switch arms and the resistance in circuit are self-evident from figures on dials z<1> which appear through holes in the cover.
Patent GB-190512352-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Railway Signalling Apparatus.
Inventor: PORTMAN PETRUS JOHANNES
Filed: 1905-06-14
Granted: 1906-05-10
Abstract: 12,352. Portman, P. J., Diepenbrock, W. M. M., and Meinen, G. H. A. June 14. Automatic systems; contacts, electric; crossing - gate signals.- Conductors, either overhead or on the track, are connected to the track rails, through engine-circuits, through connexions moved by points, crossing-gates, bridges, &c., or through a mechanically-driven intermittent contact, as a testing- signal and a distinguishing-signal for front and rear parts of the block on singletrack systems, and through these conductors and the track the circuit is completed from a magnetic inductor on the engine through a bell on the engine and also if desired in a signal cabir. The point levers operate contacts 11<a>, 12<a>, 13<a>, 14<a>, Fig. 5, by which, in case of open points, the conductor is connected to the track, thereby closing a circuit from a dynamo on the engine through a bell, the conductors 1, 2, the contacts 11<a> &c., track rails 3, and the engine frame, to which the dynamo is connected. In case of two engines being on one block section of the conductor, signals are given on both engines. In order to allow the train to be pulled up in safety, the auxiliary conductor 2 runs alongside the main conductors 1 for any required length. To inform drivers that the system is in good order, the rotating arm 26 is moved over long and short contacts as shown in Fig. 7. The arm 26 is connected to the track, and at each set of bars connects all the conductors 1, 2 in series and the ends of the long conductor so formed alternately to the track, giving a long signal on engines to signify that one portion of the track is in good order, and a short signal for the other end.
Patent GB-190512868-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to the Detinning of Tinned Plates.
Inventor: GOLDSCHMIDT KARL
Filed: 1905-06-21
Granted: 1906-06-21
Abstract: 12,868. Goldschmidt, K., and Weber, J. June 21. Drawings to Specification. Tin chlorides.-Tin tetrachloride is formed in a process in which tinned scrap is compressed and subjected to the action of chlorine in a closed vessel, the pressure in which is altered during the process. The pressure in the vessel is gradually increased so that the chlorine penetrates into all the crevices between the scrap. It is of importance to avoid a great increase of temperature. Instead of the pressure being simply increased, it may be first diminished and then increased. The chlorine may be employed pure, but it is preferably mixed with neutral or inert gases such as dry air.
Patent GB-190513615-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Curtain Rods.
Inventor: BARNES JABEZ
Filed: 1905-07-03
Granted: 1906-03-08
Abstract: 13,615. Barnes, J. July 3. Making apparatus for suspending curtains.-The ends of telescopic curtain rods such as are used for carrying short curtains are supported by brackets 3, 4 provided with pivots 6. One of the brackets 4 is detachably connected to the rod by a socket piece 5 provided with a bayonet-slot 7, in which engages a pin 8 on the rod. The socket 5 is formed from a blank of the form shown in Fig. 5.
Patent GB-190517011-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Coupling for Bicycles and the like.
Inventor: WRIGHT WILLIAM
Filed: 1905-08-22
Granted: 1906-01-04
Abstract: 17,011. Wright, W., and McJerrow, T. Aug. 22. Coupling, arrangementsfor; clips.-For coupling two or more bicycles, more especially pedal-propelled machines to a motor-bicycle, an adjustable front-fork connecting rod or tube D and three tubular cross-bars C, B, A are made with increasing diameters, so that when not required they may be telescoped and clipped like an inflating-pump to one of the machines. The cross-bars may be detachably secured by a pin or otherwise to sockets upon hinged clips L, while, for adjustment, the bars may be in two parts, one screwing into the other or connected by a threaded rod adapted to be turned by a tommy-bar. The clips H carry arms with sockets to receive the bar D. The clips L upon the rear forks may be adapted to embrace both limbs, in which case the rounded portions m, Fig. 9, hinged to a U-piece n are bolted to a second U- piece o. The Provisional Specification states that brackets upon the front forks have upwardly-projecting pins for connexion to the bar D, and that the brackets may be used to carry a lamp.
Patent GB-190521744-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and connected with Resilient Wheels.
Inventor: GAIGNARD RAOUL
Filed: 1905-10-25
Granted: 1906-02-15
Abstract: 21,744. Gaignard, R., and Amelot, A. Oct. 25. Sp r i n g wheels.-An inner channelled rim A, which may rest on wooden felloes or be directly connected to the spokes, and an outer H-shaped rim B enclose springs 5, which are preferably of a double conical form. The springs are fastened to and bear against nipples 8 or the like on T-pieces 6, connected to the inner rim, and on wedge-shaped pieces 7 fixed to the outer rim, the pieces 7 being such that the springs adjacent to a T-piece which is in a horizontal position bear normally against them. Side plates 9, which may be secured by bolts through the wedge-shaped pieces, hold by flanges 11 a tread 4 of leather or the like, and laterally strengthen the wheel. In a modification, cylindrical springs bear against shoulders on tubes which are jointed to parts corresponding to the T-pieces 6 and the wedge pieces 7, and which slide one within the other.
Patent GB-190526683-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or in connection with Apparatus for Preparing Tobacco Leaves.
Inventor: SALOMON FREDERICK
Filed: 1905-12-21
Granted: 1906-12-20
Abstract: 26,683. Salomon, F. Dec. 21. Conveyers.-Fig. 11 shows a conveyer belt with inclined teeth or prongs used for feeding forward tobacco leaves in a machine for treating such leaves.
Patent GB-190526694-A (GB)
Title: Improved Means and Method of Securing the Spokes of Wheels to the Rims or Felloes.
Inventor: HORA MANUEL HERRERA DE
Filed: 1905-12-21
Granted: 1906-05-24
Abstract: 26,694. Hora, M. H. de. Dec. 21. Spring wheels; spokes.-Spring spokes arranged to bend in a plane transverse to that of the wheel, as described in Specification No. 14,682, A.D. 1905, are attached to tbe rim by a. spring connexion allowing circumferential motion of the end of the spoke C, Figs. 1 and 2, which is bent over and slides upon a pin H held by a wrist-plate G, attached to the rim. Springs P, or other cushioning-devices, are placed between the spokes and lugs J holding the pins H.
Patent GB-190602106-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to the Take-up Mechanism of Small-ware Looms.
Inventor: HAMEL FELIX SHAW
Filed: 1906-01-27
Granted: 1907-01-26
Abstract: 2106. Hamel, F. S. Jan. 27. Loom take-up motions.-The take-up mecbanism of smallware looms, particularly those for weaving narrow fabrics of silk or other delicate material, is so made as to avoid injuring the material. Two endless bands of soft yielding material, such as leather, india-rubber, or cloth, each passing around one of the take-up rollers and a further idle or carrier roller, grip the fabric. The carrier rollers may be made adjustable, one band only may be used, and to prevent slip the rollers may have small spurs. The invention is applicable to the looms described in Specification No. 21,874, A.D. 1902. Specifications No. 3377, A.D. 1872, and No. 5115, A.D. 1879, are also referred to. [Reference has been directed under Patents Act, No. 1902, to Specification No. 3377, A.D. 1872.]
Patent GB-190607984-A (GB)
Title: Detachable Safety Attachment for Brooches and the like.
Inventor: IVES HERBERT AUGUSTUS
Filed: 1906-04-03
Granted: 1906-08-23
Abstract: 7984. Ives, H. A., and Jeffery, D. W. April 3. Safety-pins.-The fastening of a brooch or the like pin h is safeguarded by a bent spring- metal plate, having apertures e, d, and an indentation i, to receive the hook catch f. A groove j aids in retaining the plate in position.
Patent GB-190609509-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in connection with Electrically-operated Valves.
Filed: 1906-04-23
Granted: 1907-04-04
Abstract: 9509. Elektrizitõts Akt.-Ges. vorm. W. Lahmeyar & Co. May 3, 1905, [date applied for under Patents Act, 1901]. Actuating valves and cocks.-Relates to electricallyoperated valve mechanism suitable either for direct or for alternating currents, the armature in which is connected to the valve so as to allow a certain amount of play, so that the vibrations of the armature are not communicated to the valve proper. The Figure shows a distributing valve mechanism in which the passage e can be put into communication through the valve a and passage f with the compressed air, gas, or liquid reservoir, or through the valve b with the exhaust g. The stem of the valve a is fitted with adjustable stops h to limit the free play of the valve. The stem of the valve b has a stop i. In operation, one of the valves is always closed. If the valve a is closed, the admission of fluid is cut off and the magnet presses the valve b towards its seat, acting through the spring k. Before the valve has reached its closing position, it is energetically closed by the pressure of the fluid.
Patent GB-190610586-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Method or Process of Washing, Drying, Starching, and Ironing Clothes, and Machinery or Apparatus therefor.
Inventor: EMERSON ALFRED STUTSON
Filed: 1906-05-05
Granted: 1907-02-14
Abstract: 10,586. Emerson, A. S. May 5. Washing-machines; starching clothes; ironing- machines. - The clothes &c. are fed through a series of machines between pairs of conveyer belts. The belts are perforated or of open mesh and are pressed together. The clothes from a table y are fed between the first of a series of pairs of belts c, d which pass over pulleys i. The clothes are passed through the various sections of a washing-machine of the kind described in Specification No. 10,587, A.D. 1906, in which they are in turn treated with lukewarm water and soap, and with hot water and soap, and are rinsed and blued. The sections of the machine each comprise upper and lower tanks a, b, valved jet pipes e discharging liquid from the tank a through the clothes to the tank b, a pump f, and a heating-coil in the tank a. The belts are pressed together by rollers j. The tanks a may be altered in height to provide pressure for the jets, or a pump may be used. The hot-water section may have reciprocating brushes k. After leaving the blueing section, the bulk of the water is extracted by air blown from a pipe l, and the clothes then pass into a drying- chamber m of the kind described in Specification No. 10,588, A.D. 1906, [Abridgment Class Drying &c.), and having heating-coils and fans o which draw the air out at.the top. The clothes are next carried through a starching-machine, in which the belts are guided by pulleys s, again dried, carried through a damping-machine, the belts of which pass through vessels t, u of water, and finally are ironed in the machine w. In some cases, the belts may reciprocate transversely through a short distance, the top and bottom belts moving in opposite directions.