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Patent GB-191124512-A (GB)
Title: Flushing Tanks.
Inventor: KERSEY EDWARD
IPC: E03D3/10
Filed: 1911-11-04
Granted: 1912-07-18
Abstract: 24,512. Kersey, E. April 28, [Convention date]. Valve-discharge water-waste preventers.-A closed cistern 1 is provided with a buoyant valve 7, the rod 8 of which is guided by a piece 10 depending from a screw-cap 3<a>. The valve is unseated by means of a rod 13 and a cranked hand-shaft 15. Reference has been directed by the Comptroller to Specifications 434/99, 14,721/99, and 14,963/04.
Patent GB-191128348-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Utensils for Roasting Chestnuts and the like.
Inventor: PAGE ALFRED RICHARD
IPC: A47J37/00
Filed: 1911-12-16
Granted: 1912-09-19
Abstract: 28,348. Page, A. R. Dec. 16. Chestnut and like roasters.-Comprises a perforated utensil for roasting chestnuts &c., the lid of which is moved in a plane parallel to the bottom of the receptacle through the medium of a supplementary stem on the handle. In one form, shown in Fig. 2, the utensil a is of oblong form, the sliding cover a<1> being provided with a handle a<4> sliding in guides on the main handle a<3>. In a modification, shown in Fig. 5, the utensil is circular, the lid being guided on a rod a' in addition to the handle guides. In a second modification, shown in Fig. 8, the lid is mounted on a pivot pin b secured to the utensil body, and is slid by a rack and pinion b<1>, b<2>, a curved slot and guide-pin ensuring proper engagement of rack and pinion. In another modification, shown in Fig. 10, the lid is mounted on a pivot pin as before, but is moved by a crank d actuated by the supplementary handle.
Patent GB-191204749-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Diaphanous Embroidery.
Inventor: GROETSCHEL JULIUS
IPC: D04C1/04
Filed: 1912-02-26
Granted: 1912-08-22
Abstract: 4749. Groetschel, J. Feb. 26. Embroidery.-Openwork embroidery is produced by utilizing, alternately with an ordinary sewing-thread, a thread made of material easily. destroyed by carbonizing; these threads being used for sewing upon the front or back of the foundation, or upon both sides. Several examples of the particular effects thereby obtained are described and shown, the foundation being either destructible or otherwise. Embroidery-machines.-The machine used for producing the embroidery may be of the type having two rows of needles alternately in use, or having two movable banks of shuttles. Three series of shuttles may however be used, the middle series carrying destructible thread. The driving means for these shuttles s<1>, s<2>, s<3> are mounted on a bar a in suitable bearings connected to a rod c having a roller d resting on a three - step slide e operated through a rod f either by hand or from the jacquard device. Either row of shuttles can thus be brought into working position with regard to a row of needles n. The shuttles are reciprocated by a rod g having a roller i engaging in a groove h in the bar a.
Patent GB-191205972-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Telephone Metering Systems.
Inventor: BOULT ALFRED JULIUS
IPC: H04M15/28
Filed: 1912-03-09
Granted: 1912-11-21
Abstract: 5972. Boult, A. J., [International Telechronometer Co.]. March 9. Counters of screw- and-nut type; zeroizing- mechanism.-For registering the charge for a telephone conversation, a screw 95 moving a nut 96 is rotated by means of a ratchet-wheel 86 and an electro-magnet 80 energized at equal intervals of time; at the end of a conversation the magnet 44 is energized and a retaining- pawl 88 removed from the ratchet-wheel, whereupon the screw 95 is reversed by a spring to return the registering-nut to zero. During this zeroizing-movement a series of current reversals corresponding to the amount registered is effected in the circuit of the subscriber's meter 6, which comprises a permanent magnet 120, the armature of which carries a coil inside a block of soft iron 124 on one pole of the magnet, and a pawl adapted to rotate a ratchet-wheel.
Patent GB-191209126-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or appertaining to Looms for Weaving Tufted or Chenille Fabrics.
Inventor: HOLLINGWORTH EDWARD
IPC: D03D39/00
Filed: 1912-04-18
Granted: 1913-02-27
Abstract: 9126. Hollingworth, E., [Crompton & Knowles Loom Works]. April 18. Shedding-motions. - In a loom for weaving chenille pile fabrics, the needles 8 which shed the catcher warps that bind in the chenille weft are carried by a frame 9 reciprocated vertically by rods 13 actuated by cranks 14<1> on a shaft 14, which is arranged to be turned intermittently by mutilated toothed-wheels 15, 16 driven, by spur gearing, from the loom crankshaft 12.
Patent GB-191215638-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Electrically Driven Tilling Machines.
Inventor: WORTMANN WILHELM
IPC: A01B3/74
Filed: 1912-07-04
Granted: 1913-03-27
Abstract: 15,638. Wortmann, W. July 4. Systems in which the supply conductor is paid out from a drum on the vehicle.-In electrically-driven agricultural machines in which the current is supplied through a cable wound on a drum on the machine, the drum is supported on a frame rotatably mounted in the main frame, and vertically adjustable auxiliary wheels are provided, so that the machine may be raised, turned round, and moved transversely at the end of a bout without turning the drum about a vertical axis. The auxiliary wheels c are mounted on a frame f and are normally raised out of contact with the ground, but may be lowered, so as to raise the main wheels b from the ground, by screws actuated by means of hand-wheels g. The drum h and frame fare carried by a frame i provided with rollers i' engaging with an annular part of the carriage frame a.
Patent GB-191217568-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Non-toppling Blocks.
Inventor: LUCKHURST ALLEN EDWARD JAMES
IPC: B63B23/18
Filed: 1912-07-29
Granted: 1913-06-05
Abstract: 17,568. Luckhurst, A. E. J. July 29. Pulley - blocks.-Relates to pulley - blocks used in connexion with tackle for hoisting and lowering boats and other weights, and more particularly to devices of the kind described in Specification 13,664/12 in which guides are provided on the blocks to prevent twisting or tipping when raised under no load, and consists in forming the rope guides from a stamped plate which is secured to the block. The plate a shaped to fit the block b has flanges extending tangentially to the block which are provided with holes through which pass the ropes from the sheaves, as shown.
Patent GB-191218716-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Fountain Pens.
Inventor: RIESENBERG FELIX
IPC: B43K5/04
Filed: 1912-08-15
Granted: 1912-09-12
Abstract: 18,716. Riesenberg, F. Jan. 10, [Convention date]. Reservoir pens. - A reservoir pen is provided with a filling-bulb 13 at the upper end of the reservoir and with an air-passage 6 which extends, either in the reservoir 1 itself, or in the wall of the reservoir, from the base of the pen near the nib to the upper end of the reservoir and is made of such small cross-section that, during the filling, the ink will not. rise in the air passage owing to the greater facility for entering the reservoir directly. The bulb 13 is attached to a nipple 8 in which is arranged a valve chamber 9 containing a small valve 10 which controls the communication between the reservoir on the one hand, and the air-passage 6 and bulb 13 on the other. The filling is accomplished by alternately compressing and releasing the bulb 13. During the compression of the bulb, the valve 10 closes and air escapes through the passage 6; on release of the bulb, the valve 10 opens and ink is sucked directly into the reservoir through the ink-passage 3<a>. In order that the bulb 13 may also serve as a portion of the reservoir for ink, the valve 10 is not adapted to fit tightly on its seat, so that in using the pen any ink contained in the bulb and valve chamber may leak past the valve into the reservoir.
Patent GB-191218978-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to Change-speed Gear.
Inventor: COLLIER ARTHUR THOMAS
Filed: 1912-08-19
Granted: 1913-08-19
Abstract: 18,978. Collier, A. T. Aug. 19. [Cognate Application, 21,428/12.] Clutches, friction; controlling clutches. - Relates to electromagnetically-operated segment friction clutches in which the segments are connected to their carrier by springs, means being provided for supplying an intermittent current of variable frequency to the clutch coil in order to vary the speed of drive. The driven shaft a, Figs. 1 and 2, carries a solid magnet core b with pole pieces c provided with a radial slot filled with insulating material in order to prevent eddy currents. The parts may, however, be laminated as described in Specification 24,776/11. The armatures m are pivotally connected by links n. Springs o connect the chain of armatures to rods p on a carrier p' turning with the motor shaft. Rods p<2> and stop pins s prevent over-running of the chain. One of the joints of the chain on each side is insulated to prevent eddy currents. One or more of the links may be replaced by springs or made with loose joints to ensure satisfactory engagement of the armatures with the pole pieces. The armatures may have pivot pins or screws for the links at each corner, pins being passed through holes in adjacent screws in order to prevent unscrewing. An independent spring, advantageously of the elliptical or carriage-spring type, may be arranged between each armature and its tooth in a carrier of the kind described in Specification 24,776/11. A single light ring armature connected to the carrier by circumferentially extending spiral or other springs may be used. The terminals of the coil d are connected to rings e, f engaged by metal thimbles g, h connected to metal strips j, k, Figs. 1 and 5. Metal springs u, v connected to the strips j, k have contacts u<1>, v<1> normally engaging contacts y, z so connected to the terminals of an electric generator t that a current is sent through the coil. Projections 3 on a rotating cam 2 are adapted to press the contacts u<1>, v<1> into engagement with contacts 4, 5 to reverse the direction of the current in the coil. The shaft 6 on which the cam 2 is secured, and the parts immediately associated therewith, are carried in a frame which can be traversed by screw and nut gear in such a manner that a roller carried by the shaft 6 moves across the face of a rotating disk, thus adjusting the revolutions of the shaft 6 and the number of applications of the forward and reversed current to the coil d so as to vary the speed of the shaft a. Interchangeable cams 2 with projections 3 subtending different angles may be used. In a modification, the shaft 6 may drive a commutator carrying a pair of contact plates engaging stationary contact springs or brushes, suitable electrical connections being used. Three clutches such as described may be employed to connect the same parts simultaneously.
Patent GB-191225174-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Telephone Exchange Systems.
Inventor: MCBERTY FRANK ROBERT
Filed: 1912-11-02
Granted: 1913-09-25
Abstract: 25,174. McBerty, F. R. Nov. 3, 1911, [Convention date]. Spring power-storing mechanism.-The spring 208, for driving a shaft 202 of a controlling equipment of a semi-automatic exchange telephone system, is rewound after each revolution of the shaft by electro-magnetic friction gearing driven from a continuously rotating shaft 211. The spring 208 is secured at one end to the gear 207 and at the other to a spindle 210 carrying an iron disk 212, which, when the winding 214 is energized, is attracted and driven by an iron disk 213 secured to the rotating shaft 211. The circuit of the winding 214 is initially closed by a cam Q and is maintained over a contact 215 by a pawl 216 riding on the disk 212 until the latter completes a revolution.
Patent GB-191225943-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Portable Skid for Loading and Unloading Vans, Carts, Lorries and the like and for other similar purposes.
Inventor: MURDOCH FREDERICK TEED
IPC: B60P1/44
Filed: 1912-11-12
Granted: 1913-03-13
Abstract: 25,943. Murdoch, F. T. Nov. 12. Winch - actuated inclined - plane platform load-handling machines. -In brewer's ladder apparatus (1) the upper ends of the channelled side bars A, Figs. 11 and 19, are curved, and at the centre of the cross-stay F a bracket is pivoted which carries one or more pulleys V for the winch rope and also a screw-adjusted claw R forming with the hooked ends of the side bars a positive engaging-device with the lorry Z; (2) the angle between the pivoted load-sup. porting members B and the sliding carriage may be adjusted by means of eccentrically - mounted plates H or by screw- and - nut mechanism. Several modified forms of screw-and-nut adjusting-mechanism are described for use with both bent and straight levers B. In one case, plates carrying trunnioned nuts at their upper ends are bolted to the inner ends of the levers B to form substantially vertical flanges thereon; (3) the rope guide-pulleys J<2> mounted on the travelling carriage are pivoted similarly to furniture castors. In the form illustrated, the pivots J of the levers B are extended to form the pivots for the pulleys.
Patent GB-191227768-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Keyboard and Interlocking Mechanism for Cash Registers and the like.
Inventor: HADDAN REGINALD
Filed: 1912-12-02
Granted: 1913-11-27
Abstract: 27,768. Haddan, R., [National Cash Register Co.]. Dec. 2. Cash registers with operating-means; keyboard interlocks; drawer interlocks; interlocking.-The plunger keys have pins 18 engaging slots in hooked pawls 13 pivoted on the frame adjacent to them, the pawls bearing against pins 34 on the sliding detent plates. Thus depression of the keys rocks the pawl up to catch a corresponding pin 64 on the differential segment of its bank, which has been freed by a pin 236 on the detent plate as it rises, clearing a notch on the segment. The foot of the detent-plate is caught on a shoulder 30 of a holding-pawl mounted with lost motion on a grooved shaft 33, which can be rocked by a release lever yoke 43, or by the machine through a lever 39, to restore the keys to normal. The rear ends of the numeral-key detent-plates are double-notched to be engaged by arms 47 fast on a shaft 50, which, however, is not free to rock till both a clerk's and transaction bank detent-plate have moved, since the corresponding arms 59 are resting on projections 58 of their detent-plate. The proper keys, however, having been depressed, the shaft 50 is rocked by its spring 53, raises an arm 75 and lets fall a weighted yoke 71; the shaft 50 being at the same time locked in its new position by an arm 54 thereon engaging a latch lever 56. All detent-plates are thereby held fast to lock the keys. The falling yoke 71 strikes a drawer-releasing lever and permits actuation of the machine. Main - shaft cams rock the shaft 33 to release the latch 56 and the key detents and rock the yoke 71 to initial position. During the rocking of the shaft 33, the controlling-springs of the differential segments are slackened so as to ease their return by the yoke 71. Separate springs for the keys are dispensed with, each detent-plate having one spring and restoring the key through its pin-and-slot connexion with the hooked pawl.
Patent GB-191300271-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to Vacuum Cleaning Apparatus.
Inventor: GILL JAMES FRANCIS
IPC: A47L5/04
Filed: 1913-01-04
Granted: 1914-01-05
Abstract: 271. Gill, J. F., aud Chaviara, J. N. Jan. 4. Vacuum cleaning-apparatus; flexible-tube pumps. -A vacuum cleaner comprises a body portion j of rectangular cross-section having a filter l at one end, and a flexible-tube pump consisting of two flexible ducts a attached to the sides of the body j, as shown in Fig. 4, and operated so as to give a progressive contraction and expansion by a flat spiral d within which works a wave-shaped crankshaft c. When the crank-shaft is rotated, air is drawn into the ducts through the filter l and is discharged through outlets a<6>. The space outside the ducts is connected to the suction port so that the ducts may expand easily.
Patent GB-191302469-A (GB)
Title: Storage Battery Charging.
Inventor: SIMON LOUIS JOHN
IPC: H02J7/00
Filed: 1913-01-30
Granted: 1914-01-29
Abstract: 2469. Simon, L. J., Roberts, A. F., and Chadwick, E. H. Jan. 30. Arc lamps.-A secondary battery serves as the series resistance of a projection arc lamp and is connected to a work circuit. Such a battery D or E, Fig. 2, may be wholly or partly shunted by a variable resistance L or M through a switch 80 or 81 ; to allow of compensation for variation in resistance in the batteries, the switch contacts connected to the resistances are more numerous than those connected to the batteries. Regulating- resistances N, O are also in series with the arcs C, B and generator A. The switches for both kinds of resistances may be operated either manually or by means of current or pressure coils. A switch P may connect a work circuit 89 across both batteries while one of them, E, is in series with one of the arc lamps so that both batteries supply any additional current required by the work circuit, and the battery E takes any arc-lamp current not required by the work circuit. Either lamp and battery is connected in circuit by a switch K. In the arrangement shown in Fig. 1, this switch is replaced by a switch F which connects pairs of contacts 1, 2 and 5, 6 or 3, 4 and 7, 8, and additional switches G, H are provided. The blades of the switch G are insulated from one another; the switch H has six blades of which two pairs 42, 43 and 46, 47 are conductively connected respectively. With the switches in the positions shown, the generator A is connected through one battery E to one arc lamp B. By reversing the switch H so that contacts 34, 35, 38, 39 are all connected and contacts 36, 37 and 40, 41 are connected in pairs, the lamp B is supplied with current by both batteries in series, the generator A being cut out. In either position of the switch H, reversal of the switch F causes substitution of the lamp C for the lamp B, and in the former position also the substitution of the battery D for the battery E. Both batteries may be charged in series directly from the generator, by reversing the switch G and opening the switch F.
Patent GB-191305152-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Hydraulic Transmission.
Inventor: CONSTANTINESCU GOGU
IPC: F16H43/02
Filed: 1913-02-28
Granted: 1914-02-19
Abstract: 5152. Constantinescu, G. Feb. 28. Hydraulic transmission of power.-For transmitting energy from one point to another, a number of pistons in a transmitting-element are hydraulically connected to a number of pistons in a receiving element, the liquid being given a series of pulsating movements by the piston movements of the transmitting-element. Fig. 1 shows a transmitting-element provided with a number of pistons delivering into three compartments a<1>, b<1>, c<1> which are connected to similar chambers in the receiving element through pipes connected at a, b, and c. The pistons are operated by the eccentric d, which is driven through a pulley.
Patent GB-191305271-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or applicable to Packing Cases, Crates or Boxes.
Inventor: SHAKESPEARE JOSEPH THOMAS
IPC: B65D45/24
Filed: 1913-03-03
Granted: 1913-12-11
Abstract: 5271. Shakespeare, J. T. March 3. Hook fastenings; double-bolt fastenings. - The lids of packing-cases, crates, or boxes are secured in position by means of a pair of bars b, sliding in battens d on the lid a, the outer ends of which are formed as hooks h to engage the body i of the case. The turned-up inner ends of the bars are drawn together and secured by means of screws f, or other devices. The inner ends, however, may alternatively be secured by bolts or padlocks.
Patent GB-191305681-A (GB)
Title: Improved Apparatus for Testing Piston Rings and the like.
Inventor: CAMPBELL DONALD JAMES
IPC: G01M13/00
Filed: 1913-03-07
Granted: 1913-11-27
Abstract: 5681. Campbell, D. J. March 7,1912, [Convention date]. [Addition to 23,182/12.] Piston packing. - The apparatus for testing piston-rings described in the parent Specification is provided with a bearing 8, which allows the upper movable member of the testing-device to rotate round a vertical axis and to co-operate with an horizontal scale 15 ; the piston-ring 17 in addition to undergoing the tests for tension and compression previously described, can thus be tested for tension, so as to determine the extent it can be deflected from its own plane without becoming permanently twisted or set. The vertical scale 13 may be used to determine the amount of metal to be removed from the severed ends of the ring to allow it to be closed without receiving permanent strain.
Patent GB-191306249-A (GB)
Title: Improvements connected with Liquid Delivery Apparatus.
IPC: B67D1/08
Filed: 1913-03-13
Granted: 1913-11-13
Abstract: 6249. Parkhurst, S. W., Murray, T. S. S., and Murray Foundry Co. March 13. Direct gas-pressure apparatas, non automatic.- A fitting for use in delivering beer by fluid pressure comprises a bored stem 1, which is forced through a shive, a branch 4 controlled by a cock 5 for the supply of the pressure fluid, and a safety-valve 9. The safety-valve is adjusted by a nut 12 acting on a spring 11, the bore 2 of the stem 1 communicates with a number of small horizontal bores 13 and a removable screw plug 14 is provided.
Patent GB-191307040-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Show Cards, Window Tickets, Calendars, and like Articles.
Inventor: ANDERSON WILLIAM JOSEPH
IPC: G09F11/10
Filed: 1913-03-25
Granted: 1914-03-25
Abstract: 7040. Anderson, W. J. March 25. Menu cards.-Menu cards &c. are provided with integral collapsible stands or supports constructed of such material as cardboard or sheet metal. The stand comprises flat collapsible members i, j, k with creased or hinged joints, the base member k being creased or jointed at the middle and recessed to receive the lower edge of a flap l cut out of the member j to form a central strut. The flap l may be cut out of the base member k and when turned up enters into locking engagement with the joint at b. The rear part of the stand may be extended in the form of a card g<1>, Fig. 3, to form a stage effect behind a card a with cut-away parts. The upper part of the stand may be provided with a groove n, Fig. 5, to support a reservoir pen or other article to be displayed; or a flat top p, Fig. 8, may be provided with apertures q to receive articles to be displayed.
Patent GB-191308859-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Extending Tables.
IPC: A47B1/06
Filed: 1913-04-15
Granted: 1914-01-08
Abstract: 8859. Fritsche & Co., H. April 15, 1912, [Convention date]. No Patent granted (Scaling fee not paid). Expanding tables.-An extensible table comprises a central frame a and fixed top b supported by legs, and movable frames f, g supported by legs x and guided by bars h, i which support roller extensions d, e. The roller extensions are secured at one end to the fixed portion of the table top and are connected at the other end to traction bands q, r, which pass over pulleys l, l<1>, k on the extension frame and over pulleys p, o on guide-frames n, m, and are attached to the fixed part of the table. The frames n, m are attached to the extension parts of the table and serve to support the roller top when drawn beneath the table. Hinged end mouldings s, t locked by catches u fit flush with the table top.