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Patent GB-190720774-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Electric Switches.
Filed: 1907-09-18
Granted: 1908-11-18
Abstract: 20,774. British Thomson-Houston Co., and Wedmore, E. B. Sept. 18. Switches. - Electricswitch operating-mechanism comprises a divided operating-rod with a spring connexion between the parts, operating-means attached to one part of the rod and adapted when actuated to store energy in the spring, and a selfsetting toggle or the like connected to the other part of the rod, adapted when tripped electromagnetically to release the spring for closing the switch. The handle a, mounted on a panel b, is connected to a link c through the toggle a', which is adapted to be tripped by the core of the solenoid m. The link c is connected to a bell-crank lever d pivoted on the rear side of the panel. A second bell-crank lever e is connected to a slotted link f passing through the panel and carrying a self-setting toggle g, which is adapted to be tripped by the core j of the solenoid h. The oil switch is connected to the bell-crank levers by means of a two-part rod k, the parts being connected by a spring l. The device is set by closing the handle ; this rotates the bell crank lever d and places the spring l in tension, the lower part of the rod k being prevented from movement by reason of the toggle g being slightly overset. The handle is held in the closed position by a catch a<3>, adapted to be released on operating the push-button a<4> in the handle. When the solenoid h is energized, the toggle g is broken, and the spring l draws up the rod k and closes the switch. The switch can be opened by energizing the coil m, thus tripping the toggle a<1> and allowing the weight of the switch parts to open the circuit.
Patent GB-190722105-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Receptacle or Holder for Rolls of Perforated Strips of Paper such as Postage Stamps or Adhesive Labels.
Inventor: HEGARTY VINCENT
Filed: 1907-10-07
Granted: 1908-07-02
Abstract: 22,105. Hegarty, V. Oct. 7. Bobbin, spool, &c. holders and cases.- In a holder for perforated strips of paper, such as strips of postage stamps, printed illustrations, o r adhesive labels, the strips are wound on reels or bobbins 1, Fig. 2, the spindles of which are mounted removably in angular slots 4. Friction rollers 7, actuated by turn - buttons, are used for winding or unwinding the paper strips, the reels 1 being kept in contact with the rollers 7 by springs 11. Guides 9 ensure the correct passage of the strips to the slots 6. A spring-pressed pin 14 engaging in a groove 13 serves to prevent rotation of each of the rolls 1 when stamps are being torn off. The pin 14 is released by a hand-lever 15 operating a cam. The end of each strip may be secured to its reel 1 by teeth 17, Fig. 4, engaging slots 18. A lever 19 operating a cam serves for opening the attaching-device. In an alternative method of securing the end of the strip, it is passed beneath a flexible toothed bar 21, Fig. 7, which engages in a slot 20 and is adapted to be held in place by the flange 22. A sponge holder 23, Fig. 2, may be fitted on the casing.
Patent GB-190728173-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Belts for Conveying Coal and other Minerals or the like.
Inventor: JOHNSON WILLIAM HENRY
Filed: 1907-12-21
Granted: 1908-04-23
Abstract: 28,173. Johnson, W. H. Dec. 21. Conveyers. - In a conveyer belt of the type in which a strip of flat metal c is laid between each series of loops b of the wire of which the belt is principally formed, means are provided for holding the metal strips in place. The strips, which may be perforated, are secured in place by links d, which are threaded upon the adjoining pairs of the wire rods a which connect the coils of the belt. The links d may be stamped from sheet metal, as shown, or may be of wire formed with loops at each end to thread on the rods, and adapted to press against the strips c.
Patent GB-190728384-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Draught, Rain and Dust Excluders for Street and other Doors.
Inventor: MORGAN LEWIS
Filed: 1907-12-24
Granted: 1908-09-03
Abstract: 28,384. Morgan, L. Dec:24. Draught excluders. - A triangular wooden weather strip a is provided with end plates b slotted at b<2> to receive pivots e, which fasten the device to plates d on the bottom of the door frame. The weather strip has a removable cover-plate a', which is held in grooves between the flanges b<3> on the plates b, and the upper face of the strip. The plates d are provided with front and rear projections d<2>, d<3>, which bear against the weather strip when in position. To turn up the weather strip, the cover-plate is removed and the strip lifted clear of the projections d<2>, whereupon it is free to be turned up on its pivots e. The weather strip may have an angular rubber strip a<3> to make contact with the floor.
Patent GB-190804162-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Tobacco Stemming Machines.
Inventor: MORRIS JOHN ORR
Filed: 1908-02-24
Granted: 1909-02-24
Abstract: 4162. Morris, J. O. Feb. 24. Tobacco. - In tobacco - stemming machines of the kind wherein the stems of the leaves are clamped between gripping- bars mounted on sprocket chains and are carried thereby between stripping- devices, the strippers are substantially stationary and consist of belts 4, 7 having long flexible pins or teeth d, e. Fig. 6 shows the leaf being stripped and rolled up. The leaves with their butt ends foremost are placed on a feed-belt 2, Fig. 3, and fed to a positioning-device, which has a number of spring-controlled depending flaps or members 22, Figs. 3 and 7<a>, and positions the butt ends of the leaves to be seized by carriers a, b mounted on sprocket chains 16, 18. The upper stripper is raised by a cam 12, Fig. 1, to permit of the entry of the butt end of the leaf and is then lowered to effect the stripping. The upper stripping-teeth project into the lower stripping-teeth, which latter serve as supports for the upper teeth. In order that the stripped leaf may be cleared from the front of the strippers, the strippers are given a slow continuous clearing-movement in the direction opposite to that in which the stem moves. This clearing-movement brings the leaf under the action of a blower 3 by which it is blown into a receptacle &c. The clearing-movement may be intermittent and may be effected by two spring-pressed ratchet levers operated by a pin on a disk periodically engaging a connecting-rod, a spring ensuring the return of the ratchet levers. The strippers may be divided in order to provide a guide c for the carrier a, b. The feed-belt 2 may be dispensed with, the leaves being placed against the positioning-device. The portions of the leaf at the butt end that would escape stripping may be stripped previously by rolls 50, 51. The various parts of the machine are driven from the main shaft 24, as shown in Fig. 1.
Patent GB-190805547-A (GB)
Title: Improvements connected with Leather or similarly Covered or Lined Metal Boxes, Cases, and such like.
Inventor: CHENEY CHARLES WILLIAM
Filed: 1908-03-12
Granted: 1909-02-25
Abstract: 5547. Cheney, C. W., and Payton, E. L. March 12. Spectacles and eyeglasses, cases for. Metal cases, which are covered or lined with leather or like material attached to the metal by an adhesive, are made from perforated metal blanks, so that the cases are made lighter, and the coverings &c. are more securely attached thereto and are not wrinkled or puckered, since any air between the metal and the leather &c. can escape through the perforations. The edges of the metal blanks and the parts which have to be bent are not perforated. The edges m of the leather &c. f are turned over the edges of the body c and the lid a of the case, and the adhesive in the perforations binds together the outer parts and the turned-over parts of the leather &c.
Patent GB-190805673-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Apparatus for Discharging Gas Retorts and the like.
Inventor: JOHNSON JAMES YATE
Filed: 1908-03-13
Granted: 1909-02-04
Abstract: 5673. Johnson, J. Y., [Badische Anilin & Soda Fabrik]. March 13. Gas retorts, discharging. Apparatus for withdrawing the whole or part of the charge from gas retorts and the like comprises a scoop or rake c pivoted at the end of a tube or rod a so that the scoop can be brought into line with the tube for inserting into the retort and turned down to withdraw the charge. The preferred means for operating the rake from outside the retort comprises a rod b engaging at one end with a lever h attached to the back of the scoop, and at the other end with a lever d pivoted to the tube a and to the lower part of an endless chain i, which can be driven in either direction by an electric motor or otherwise. The lever d is formed with arms d', d<5> adapted to engage with notches b<6>, b<7> in the rod b, so that, when the lower part of the chain i is advanced towards the retorts. the lever d turns until the arm d' enters the notch b<6> and draws back the rod b, which operates the lever h and raises the scoop into the horizontal position. The tube a is then advanced by the chain for a sufficient distance into the retort. When the motion of the chain is reversed the lever d turns until the arm d<5> enters the notch b<7> and thrusts the rod b forward, turning the scoop into the vertical position when the tube a carrying the scoop is withdrawn, thus discharging the retort. Stops g may be provided at each end of the stroke or at an intermediate position to throw over the lever d. A rope, rack and pinion, or endless screw may be used in place of the chain i. The apparatus is mounted so that it can be brought opposite to any retort in the battery.
Patent GB-190805944-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Filter Press Frames.
Inventor: FEIX ERNST
Filed: 1908-03-17
Granted: 1908-12-10
Abstract: 5944. Feix, E. March 17. Bending.-Metallic press frames, particularly tin frames used in filtering beer, are cast with grooves having parallel walls, one of which is rolled inwards as shown in Fig. 2 after a dovetailed or similar shaped rubber packing d has been inserted. Fig. 3 shows a suitable form of rolling-apparatus. The frame z is clamped on the flange t of a disk s and is acted on by rollers m, m<1>, which compress the wall of the groove and the packing respectively. The rollers are mounted on the end q of a fork g bolted to the arm n<1> of a lever, the other arm of which is fitted with a removable tube g. The arrangement is rotated about a bolt b by means of a handle i.
Patent GB-190806218-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to the Manufacture of Sulphocyanides.
Filed: 1908-03-20
Granted: 1908-10-15
Abstract: 6218. British Cyanides Co., and Chance, K. M. March 20. Drawings to Specification. Sulphocyanides are produced by passing cyanogencontaining gases through a washer containing alkali polysulphide in solution, no free sulphur being present. By this means the tar is removed from the gas, which is next passed into ammoniacal or gas liquor, or water, and stirred with sulphur. If ammonia has been previously removed from the gas treated, an alkali base must be also added. The polysulphide acts on the cyanogen, producing alkali sulphocyanide and hydrogen sulphide, which latter passes with the gas to the vessel containing free sulphur where the hydrogen sulphide, sulphur, and the alkaline base react to produce alkali polysulphide, and any remaining cyanogen is absorbed. Specification No. 13,653, A.D. 1901, is referred to. One form or apparatus for carrying out the process consists of two vessels one above the other, the lower containing alkali polysulphide, and the upper containing water and sulphur and, if the gas has been freed from ammonia, an alkaline base in addition. The crude gas is delivered under the surface of the liquor in the lower tank, and the sulphuretted hydrogen and other gases are passed into the second tank, where the polysulphide produced overflows into the lower tank.
Patent GB-190812810-A (GB)
Title: Manufacture of a Violet Vat Dyestuff
Filed: 1908-06-15
Granted: 1908-07-30
Abstract: 12,810. Basler Chemische Fabrik. July 1, 1907, [date applied for under Section 91 of Patents &c. Act, 1907]. [Patent of Addition to No. 344, A.D. 1908.] Dyes, artificial.-A violet vat dyestuff is obtained by condensing acenaphthenequinone with indoxyl in alcoholic solution or suspension in presence of soda or a feeble base such as piperidine. Specificacation No. 344, A.D. 1908, is referred to.
Patent GB-190814993-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Tables used as Dining and Billiard or Bagatelle Tables.
Inventor: HUDGELL EDMUND GEORGE
IPC: A63D15/04
Filed: 1908-07-15
Granted: 1909-05-20
Abstract: 14,993. Hudgell, E. G., and Hudgell, H. H. July 15. Billiards &c.-In a combined billiard or bagatelle and dining table, the top b is supported by means of rails c upon cross-rails e which rest upon the frame members a. Pegs i on the bars c engage slots in the rails e. The rails e may take a raised position as shown in Fig. 1, and a lowered position wherein the rails are received in slots d in the frame members. The rails e are turned from one position to the other about pivots h to which the rails are connected by links g. The operation. of moving a rail e is effected by means of straps l, m attached at one end to the rail, the other ends being attached respectively to a lever k, mounted on the underside of the table top, and to the table top. In order to lower the table, the top is lifted and the lever operated to swing the bar e into the recesses d, and in order to return the top to the raised position, it is tilted into the position shown in dot-and-dash lines, thereby swinging the bar e out of the slot.
Patent GB-190818598-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Taps and Valves.
Inventor: PRATT RICHARD JOHN JAMES CAMDE
Filed: 1908-09-04
Granted: 1909-04-22
Abstract: 18,598. Pratt, R. J. J. C. Sept. 4, Repairing, facilitating.-To facilitate repairs, valves are provided with a removable double conical seat D, upon the underside of which a loose valve C engages when the main valve E is removed for repairs.
Patent GB-190820710-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Pneumatically Operated Players for Grand Pianos and other Table-shaped Instruments.
Filed: 1908-03-23
Granted: 1908-11-12
Abstract: 20,710. Hupfeld, Akt.-Ges., L. Dec. 17, 1907, [date applied for under Section 91 of Patents &c. Act, 1907]. Automatic instruments.-In a grand piano or other table-shaped instrument, the exhaust bellows a are arranged under the bottom of the instrument, and each is operated by one arm g of a bell-crank lever g, e which is rocked on a pivot f by a treadle c acting through a link d.
Patent GB-190906858-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Steam Traps.
Inventor: STILL WILLIAM MUDD
IPC: F16T1/24
Filed: 1909-03-22
Granted: 1910-02-24
Abstract: 6858. Still, W. M., and Adamson, A. G. March 22. Steam-traps.-In a trap of the type in which a valve, normally held on its seat by the pressure in the trap, is opened by float-controlled means and is kept open until the water falls to a certain level, the valve c is operated by a spring-pressed sliding bar e controlled by a trigger m, so that the valve opens and closes suddenly. A pin p on the float lever, working in a slotted link, withdraws the trigger when the float reaches the upper limit of its travel, and at the lower limit the float lever acts upon the trigger-lever n. The valve opens when the steam pressure in the trap is cut off. A blowoff cock may be fitted to the trap, and a supplementary outlet may be controlled by a thermostatic device. A removable gauze tube may be used to collect sediment, or the mechanism may be surrounded by a perforated screen.
Patent GB-190907317-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Slow Combustion Stove for Greenhouses, Forcing-houses and the like.
Filed: 1909-03-26
Granted: 1909-12-16
Abstract: 7317. Duckworth, H. C., and Twelve Hours Stove Syndicate. March 26. Closed solid-fuel stoves; air, supplying for comb u s t i o n; air, moistening. - To adapt slow - combustion stoves for heating greenh o u s e s, forcing- houses, and the like, the air for combustion is supplied from outside the building by one or more pipes g leading to the space behind the fire-door f, and the base of the stove is fitted with a water-trough d for moistening the air. Dampers may be fitted in the pipes g.
Patent GB-190911281-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Metal Pilings.
Inventor: MCGILL JOHN ISAAC
IPC: E02D5/04
Filed: 1909-05-12
Granted: 1910-05-12
Abstract: 11,281. McGill, J. I. Aug. 20, 1908, [Convention date]. Piling.-Metal piles are provided at one edge with two backwardly-bent bearing-terminals 15, 16, and at the other with a receiving-recess 20, formed by two lateral curved wings 17, 18. This recess is capable of receiving one or both of the hooked flanges 15, 16 as shown in Figs. 1 and 2.
Patent GB-190911936-A (GB)
Title: Improved Construction of Peg for use in Playing Croquet and other Outdoor Games or Making or Indicating Extent of Ground.
Inventor: BRYANS HAROLD MONTAGUE
IPC: A63B59/10
Filed: 1909-05-20
Granted: 1909-09-02
Abstract: 11,936. Bryans, H. M. May 20. Croquet posts.- A croquet or other peg consists of a socket portion 1, 2 adapted to be driven into the ground flush with the surface, and of an upper portion 4 to which a tube 5 is attached by a tensioned spring 6. Thetube5is dropped into the socket, and thus provides a peg which gives way on being struck, but springs back to its original position.
Patent GB-190912598-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Belt-fasteners.
Inventor: HARPER HENRY
IPC: F16G7/00
Filed: 1909-05-28
Granted: 1910-03-03
Abstract: 12,598. Harper, H. May 28. Belt - fastenings.-A belt-fastener is made in pivoted halves, held together by a screw through the belt and gripping the belt on opposite sides at points not opposite one another. Fig. 6 shows the halves of one fastener, 1, 2, and a link 10 for joining the two fasteners ; Fig. 1 shows the fastening in use with a belt grooved on the underside, in which case a flange 8 is used on the lower half of the fastening. The closed end 11 of the link 10 is threaded on the pin 4 forming the pivot before the fastener is put together ; the other end of the link may be booked on subsequently.
Patent GB-190917702-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Dumping Wagons.
IPC: B61D7/26
Filed: 1909-07-30
Granted: 1910-07-28
Abstract: 17,702. Midland Railway - Carriage and Wagon Co., and Currall, J. S. July 30. Drawings to Specification. Hopper wagons.-A dumping-wagon has inclined surfaces extending from the upper part of each end of the wagon to the lower edges of a central transverse ridge, in the slopes of which discharge doors are arranged operated by mechanism disposed beneath the ridge. Short inclines also lead to the doors from the sides of the wagon.
Patent GB-190918032-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Steam or like Superheaters.
Inventor: GLOGNER ROBERT
IPC: F22G3/00
Filed: 1909-08-04
Granted: 1909-12-16
Abstract: 18,032. Glogner, R. Sept. 4, 1908, [Convention date]. Fire-tubes with superheating-jackets.-Steam is superheated in the annular space between two co-axial tubes, this space being divided into chambers by metal rings. To get from one chamber to the adjoining chamber, steam has to pass through transverse tubes across the inner or flue tube. Steam passes from the header b to the header a through the chambers g formed by the rings f between the tubes c, d. Communication is provided between one chamber g and the next by the tube c. The tubes c, d may be oval or polygonal, and may be coned or waved. The tube d is made wider at one end than the tube c in order to allow the latter tube to be removed through the opening for the tube d.
Patent GB-190920075-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Railway and Tramway Rails.
Inventor: BAXTER WILLIAM
IPC: E01B5/04
Filed: 1909-09-02
Granted: 1910-04-14
Abstract: 20,075. Baxter, W. Sept. 2. Rail sections.- Rails with a web corrugated on one or both sides have t h e corrugations coinciding in width to and immediately below the tread of the rail. The corrugations may be replaced by ribs or extensions on one or both sides of the web.
Patent GB-190923142-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Ships' Rudders.
Inventor: KERR ROBERT
IPC: B63H25/38
Filed: 1909-10-11
Granted: 1910-06-09
Abstract: 23,142. Kerr, R., Kerr, W., and Kerr, J. Oct. 11. Hinges readily separable about hinge pin.- Hinges for ships' rudders have a bearing-washer H of hard steel or, according to the Provisional Specification, of white metal, or other material secured by a tapered and dovetailed key G, which is driven into a corresponding slot in the top face of the gudgeon D and held by a set-screw I.
Patent GB-190927507-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in the Construction of Steelyards.
Inventor: HIPKINS WILLIAM EDWARD
IPC: G01G1/26
Filed: 1909-11-26
Granted: 1910-09-01
Abstract: 27,507. Hipkins, W. E. Nov. 26. Steelyard apparatus.-The head is formed of two grooved parts b, between which the arm a is fitted. All three parts are of wrought, drawn, or rolled iron or steel, and are riveted together. The poise-carrier h is similar to that described in Specification 11,585/06, except that there are two rollers j or slide pins. The small poise d has a #-shaped stem for engaging in a groove of the same shape. The arm a may be of I-section.
Patent GB-190929317-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Rotary Engines.
Inventor: CAMPBELL ADDERLEY WILLCOCKS
Filed: 1910-01-26
Granted: 1910-09-22
Abstract: 29,317. Campbell, A. W. Jan. 26, 1910. Fixed - abutment type, piston having outwardly-sliding vanes. A piston drum 5, with cam - guided outwardly sliding vanes 14, is situated within an oval casing 2 so as to form two crescent - shaped working chambers connected by a passage 12 so as to permit working in series. A valve 25, controlling ports 23, 24, renders the engine reversible. Circular side plates 16 are secured to the ends of the piston drum, and revolve in grooves in the casing.
Patent GB-191008535-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Furnaces for Drawing Glass.
Inventor: GREGORY VICTOR HERBERT
IPC: C03B5/06
Filed: 1910-04-08
Granted: 1911-04-06
Abstract: 8535. Gregory, V. H. April 8. Glass furnaces.-In a glass-drawing furnace with a reversible pot 5, the outlet passages 1 for the furnace gases are formed with a sloping floor 2 so that threads of glass 4 descending from the underside of the pot fall towards the hole 3 and are prevented from choking the outlet passages. To reduce the velocity of the outgoing gases, the mouth of the passage may be widened by forming the upper part with an upward slope and providing inwardly diverging sides ; or a recess may be made at the top, as shown in Fig. 6, or at each side.
Patent GB-191009740-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Cells or Cases for Electric Batteries.
IPC: H01M50/262
Filed: 1910-04-21
Granted: 1911-03-23
Abstract: 9740. Float Electric Co., and Sandy, W. J. L. April 21. Cases.-A case has a cover held by a catch against a powerful internal spring so that it cannot be removed without using a press or other power. In the form shown, a flanged cover is pressed against a ring f on a rubber ring c and held by a band g passing round the case and having its ends engaging in a groove in the cover.
Patent GB-191018443-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Electro-mechanically Operated Switch.
IPC: H01H50/32
Filed: 1910-08-04
Granted: 1910-11-10
Abstract: 18,443. Adams Manufacturing Co., [Cutler Hammer Manufacturing Co.]. Aug. 4. Electrically-tripped switches.-A remote-control switch of the kind having a setting-solenoid 10, self-locking toggle-links 36, 40 for maintaining the switch closed, and a tripping-solenoid 23, is provided with a pivoted weighted lever 33 linked to the core 27 of the tripping-solenoid and having bifurcated arms 34, 35 embracing a part of the toggle. When the switch is closed, the weight 33 causes the arm 34 to throw the toggle past its centre to lock it and to bear against the links as shown. When the tripping- solenoid is energized, the arm 35 strikes a hammer-blow against the opposite side of the toggle joint, thus unlocking it and releasing the switch.