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Patent GB-190619090-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Pneumatic Tyres for Vehicle Wheels.
Inventor: OURADOU BENJAMIN CHARLES BONAV
Filed: 1906-08-27
Granted: 1907-06-27
Abstract: 19,090. Ouradou, B. C. B. Sept. 4, 1905, [date applied for under Patents Act, 1901]. Spring wheels.-A pneumatic tube is seated in a wooden ring enclosed in a metal trough carried by the felloe. An outer grooved wooden ring rests upon the tread of the tube and is surrounded by a metal tread-ring connected to the trough by pivoted links. Continuous stop-pieces and side plates are provided and are separated by ball bearings. The wooden or fibroid felloe K, Figs. 1 and 15, is fitted with a wide metal band R connected by bolts 5 to a metal trough V, in two portions fitted together by means of a tenon-and-mortise joint. Inside the trough rests a metal band E formed with two tenons, one opposite the other, which engage mortises in, and hold together, stop-rings P, continuous tapered plates T which support the tube 0, and a grooved wooden or fibroid ring H. A sockes secured to the ring H holds the valve, which passet through slots in the parts V, R, and K, in order to allow limited sliding movement of the band E and attached members in the trough. A box I, Fig. 15, fitted in the ring H is connected to the interior of the system by tubes 1, and to the interior by a ventilating- nozzle Q screwed to the band R. The steel tread ring U may be formed with a flange for use on rails, and is in two parts fitted together by a tenon-and-mortise joint. The parts are secured by bolts A which also hold together continuous plates X, stop-rings Y, ball-carrying plates B, plates Z supporting the tube 0, and a grooved wooden ring G. Balls I', held by rings, are carried by the trough V and rings P, and engage the plates X, and leather packing-rings S are fitted. The trough and tread ring U are connected by pivoted links L, alternately flexed and extended.
Patent GB-190624591-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to Belt Fasteners
Inventor: BAXTER DAVID
Filed: 1906-11-03
Granted: 1907-04-11
Abstract: 24,591. Baxter, D., Baxter, H., and Baxter, F. Nov. 3. Nuts.-Relates to belt fastenings of the type wherein a nut is required to be turned to secure or release the fastening. The turning-key is formed with converging projections a, Figs. 5 and 7. The nut e cannot be turned until the teeth of the key have been inserted so as to clear the corresponding eccentric inner sides g of the slots or recesses f. In this position, part of the teeth project below and towards the centre of the nut, and the tendency of the key to be forced with the exertion of tightening up is obviated. According to the Provisional Specification, the key may have divergent teeth, the outer edges of the key slots being eccentric.
Patent GB-190626609-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Centrifugal Pumps.
Inventor: REES EDMUND SCOTT GUSTAVE
Filed: 1906-11-23
Granted: 1907-10-10
Abstract: 26,609. Rees, E. S. G. Nov. 23. Centrifugal pumps.-The constricted part of a discharge nozzle or "Venturi " pipe, at which the pressure is considerably below atmospheric, is connected with the suction pipe of the pump, so that when water in a starting-circuit is circulated through the nozzle or pipe by the pump, the air is drawn out of the suction pipe, thus rendering the pump self-priming. The device may be employed to remove accumulated air from the eye of the impeller, or to produce a vacuum in the chamber in which the impeller rotates. In pumps havings impellers provided with peripheral nozzles, as described in Specification No. 4810, A.D. 1906, the impeller nozzles may produce the suction. Fig. 2 shows every fourth nozzle a<1> connected by a slit c' in the plane of maximum constriction with the interior of the blade d which opens into a side chamber, such as b, Fig. 3. A stream of fluid issuing at considerable velocity through the nozzle a<1> produces a partial vacuum within the obstructing-chamber, and withdraws the air from chamber b in which the impeller rotates. If this chamber is closed by end plates b<1>, as in Fig. 1<a>, air collected in the eye of the impeller may be extracted through ducts c<2>, or self-priming circuits may be arranged, as shown in Figs. 4 and 5. The effective nozzles a<1> are made of greater constriction than the others by obstructions or hollow bulbs d, Fig. 2, or are provided with jet producers e, Fig. 2<a>, to break up the stream of water. Each nozzle, instead of every fourth nozzle, may be effective, and where the impeller outlet is in the form of a continuous circumferential slit, the ducts c' may take the same form. The starting- circuit for the pump A, Fig. 4, comprises a storage tank C in the delivery pipe, and a pipe B connecting it with the pump inlet. The pipe F in which the vacuum is created joins the suction pipe D at a point beyond a clack valve E. When the suction pipe is filled with water, the starting-circuit may be cut out, or the flow of liquid in it reduced by the valve G. In the modification shown in Fig. 5, valves are dispensed with. The tank H in the U-bend is of such capacity that in transferring the water contained in it to the tank C by the pump, all the air is exhausted from the suction pipe D. According to the Provisional Specification, the device may be applied to pumps of ordinary construction, in which case the suction -producing nozzle or Venturi pipe is inserted in any convenient place in the circuit.
Patent GB-190702179-A (GB)
Title: A Recording Device for use in connection with Card Games.
Inventor: COOK JOHN WILLIAM
Filed: 1907-01-29
Granted: 1907-12-19
Abstract: 2179. Cook, J. W., [trading as Cook & Co.]. Jan. 29. Scoring and marking.-A recording-device for use in the game of " Bridge " consists of a base-plate A, on which is mounted a recording-plate marked with scales B, B', B<2>, B<3>, B<4> as shown in Fig. 1. Between the plates A, A<1> is a fixed shaft C, upon which is mounted a series of pulleys C<1> and a series of spiral springs, one end of each spring being attached to a pulley and the other end to the shaft. Pointers E are moved over the scales by screwthreaded shafts B which engage with small nuts G on the undersides of the pointers. Each pointer is attached to a cord H which passes over a loose pulley I and is wound round a pulley C, so that by depressing the milled head D<2> of the shaft D, the nut G is disengaged and the pointer is returned to zero. Some of the pointers have small disks E<1> on which numbers are engraved.
Patent GB-190706067-A (GB)
Title: Process and Machine for Continuous Manufacture of Welded Buckles.
Inventor: BOULT ALFRED JULIUS
Filed: 1907-03-13
Granted: 1907-12-31
Abstract: 6067. Boult, A. J., [Schar, F.]. March 13. Conveyers.-In an apparatus for making and assembling the welded frames and the tongues of buckles, a length is cut from a wire and, after being bent round a mandrel 5 into a four-sided frame, is gripped by jaws 12, 13, the mandrel is lowered, the shaft 11 in which the jaws are eccentrically mounted is rotated through an angle of 90 degrees by a wheel and sector 20, 21, and moved vertically by a cam to place the frame on a hook 26 depending from a block 38, which carries the frame through the heating-furnace to the welding-dies.. The blocks 38 travel along parallel guideways 39, being transferred from one to the other at each end of the machine by a wheel 41, which is locked in any of four positions by a pawl 52 controlled by a cam, and intermittently rotated a quarter of a revolution by bevel and ratchet gearing 43, 44, 46, 47, 50. At each end o the guideway frame is a slide 61 operated by a lever 62 and carrying a gripper frame 59 moved transversely by a lever 60. The gripper frame is moved so as to engage one pair of grippers 58 with a block 38, the slide 61 is moved to transfer the block from the guideway 39 to the guideway 56 in the wheel 41, and consequently bring the heated buckle frame into the position 66 ready for welding, the frame 59 is moved to free the block 38 and to engage a second one in the opposite guideway of the wheel, and then the slide 61 is moved to transfer the empty block 38 from the wheel to the second guideway 39, and to push all the blocks in that guideway on a step. The welding is effected in the position 66, and in the position 65 the welded frame is seized by jaws 70 and placed in a reciprocating tube 84. The jaws 70 are closed by a spring and opened by toggles 77, a rod 78, and a cam 79, and are mounted on a frame which can be moved vertically and-towards and from the position 65. The buckle frames are pressed against one side of the tubs 84. by springs, but on the return of the tube, these springs are depressed and the frames prevented from returning with the tube by projections 86 on a laterally reciprocated bar 85. At the end of the tube the tongue is attached to the buckle frame.
Patent GB-190706613-A (GB)
Title: A New and Improved Skeleton Tray for use when Developing Photographic Plates and the like.
Inventor: FORAN MICHAEL PARIS
Filed: 1907-03-19
Granted: 1907-10-17
Abstract: 6613. Foran, M. P. March 19. Lifters or holders, plate and like.-A plate lifter or holder for use in connexion with developing- dishes consists of an open skeleton tray, as shown in Fig. 1. The plate slides under the side ribs 5, and is prevented from sliding right through by end stop-pieces 4. The open bottom allows the negative to be examined, while the sides 6 allow convenient handling.
Patent GB-190715963-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Apparatus for Converting Metals.
Inventor: LLOYD RICHARD LEWIS
Filed: 1907-07-11
Granted: 1908-07-13
Abstract: 15,963. Lloyd, R. L. Aug. 4, 1906, [date applied for under Patents Act, 1901]. Converter furnaces.-Relates to apparatus for carrying out the process described in Specification No. 15,962, A.D. 1907, the apparatus being applicable for the conversion or refining of metals generally. The matte is delivered from the furnace to a feeding-barrel A, Fig. 1, communicating with a primary converter D, the blast from which passes through the feeding-barrel and keeps the matte molten. Slag is similarly kept molten in a second feeding-barrel A<1>, and the feeding-barrels are partly rotated, when necessary, to bring the openings A<2> into position to feed matte and slag on to the hearth C, whence they pass into the converter D, the tuyÞres of which are fed from a flexible pipe M. The copper sulphide and slag flow on to the hearth E, the slag passing off through an opening E' and the sulphide through a siphon dam E', E' similar to that shown in Figs. 7 and 7<a>, and an opening F', Fig. 1, into the secondary converter F, where it is again blown. The copper sinks below the unreduced sulphide, and passes by means of a siphon dam f, f<2> to a hearth G, when it may be poled or further refined. The temperature in the hearth G is maintained by the blast, which passes from the feeding-barrels over the hearth, through the secondary converter F to the stack J. The converter D is provided at the delivery end with a dam d, Fig. 6, which prevents the escape of the sulphide until the converter in partly rotated. The siphon dam f, f<2>, Figs. 1, 7, and 7<a>, in the converter F may be similarly raised by part rotation of the converter to allow the latter to be discharged. Each converter and feeding-barrel is provided with a motor to enable it to be rotated. Any slag passing off through the opening E', Fig. 1, which is still acid may be returned to the hearth C through openings C<1>, C<2>. A furnace B may be used to heat the materials and to start the process, the heat of oxidation in the converter D being afterwards sufficient to keep up the temperature. The various parts of the apparatus are provided with a magnesite, chromite, or other non-siliceous lining.
Patent GB-190718625-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Spinning Toys.
Inventor: ABRAHAMS GEORGES
Filed: 1907-08-17
Granted: 1908-07-16
Abstract: 18,625. Abrahams, G. Aug. 17. No Patent granted (Sealingfeenot paid). Spinning toys; tops.-A spool for the game of "dia- "bolo" consists of an open framework of rushes or cane secured to rims a of similar material. The rushes bare slightly curved, and are bent round so as to be secured between a hollow metal cup c and a conical plug d. A headed bolt e holds the several parts together. In a modification, the parts are held together by a bolt having loose nuts at each end, washers being placed between the nuts and the plugs d.
Patent GB-190719976-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Combined Internal Combustion and Compressed Air Engines.
Inventor: DESPINS LOUIS
Filed: 1907-09-06
Granted: 1908-04-09
Abstract: 19,976. Despins, L. Sept. 8, 1906, [date applied for under Patents Act, 1901]. Gas or explosive-vapour engines; compressed-air engines.-Some of the cylinders of an engine for motor road vehicles or for marine propulsion are worked only by explosions, some either by explosions or by compressed air. and some work either as compressors or as compressed-air motors. The air-motor cylinders drive in either direction and their cranks are coupled so that there are no dead-points. For large marine motors the explosion cylinders may be reversing. The engine described has four vertical explosion cylinders 1, 2, 3, 4 cast in pairs, working on the four-stroke cycle, and driving cranks c set at 180 degrees. The cylinder 3 is provided with a compressed-air admission valve h and a non-return valve. Two inclined cylinders b, b1, which may be cast in one with the cylinders 3, 4, drive on to the crank of the cylinder 4 and are provided with automatic valves for working as air-compressors and with compressed-air distributors d, d1 and exhaust valves j for working as compressed-air motors. The compressed air is admitted during the earlier part of each out-stroke and is used expansively. A camshaft f1 controls the four admission valves a, the compressed-air admission valves h, d, and an exhaust valve j ; a second cam shaft f controls the four exhaust valves e of the cylinders 1, 2, 3, 4 and the valves d, j of the cylinder b1. Both cam shafts are adjustable axially into four positions : in the first position, the cylinders 1, 2, 3, 4 work normally with petrol and the cylinders b, b1 are inoperative or act as air-compressors ; in the second position the cylinders 1, 2, 3, 4 work normally with petrol and the cylinders b, b1 drive forwards with compressed air; in the third position, which is used for starting, the valves a remain closed, the valves e of cylinders 1, 2, 4 are held open, and the cylinders 3, b, b, drive forwards with compressed air ; in the fourth position the operation is similar, but the engine is reversed. One of the cylinders 1, 2, 4 may also be arranged to drive backwards with compressed air. The cam shafts may have a fifth position for driving backwards by explosions.
Patent GB-190723235-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in the Manufacture of Metallic Tubes.
Inventor: COWPER-COLES SHERARD OSBORN
Filed: 1907-10-21
Granted: 1908-10-15
Abstract: 23,235. Coles, S. O. Cowper-. Oct. 21. Making metal tubes.-Metal tubes, chiefly copper tubes of small diameter with plain, corrugated, or ornamented surfaces, are made by electro -deposition on a flexible cathode by a continuous process. The cathodes d, which may be metal ropes or the like covered with a coating of, for example, beeswax, Venice turpentine, and plumbago, with a conducting surface of plumbago, are led between grooved anodes a. The electrolyte is supplied to the space e between the electrodes preferably by a perforated pipe f at the centre, and flows in both directions, escaping through holes j, k in the end of the vat into wells g, g<1>. The cathodes are held taut by pressure rollers i, l, and are supported in the vat by adjustable supports q pivoted at q<1> and connected with rods r' operated by a lever s and a screw t. The anodes are preferably adjustable by means of rods n, nuts o, and screwed rods p which have right and left handed threads, so that on turning the screws the upper and lower anodes are moved towards or away from one another. The supports q may also act as burnishers. The tubes may be removed from the cores by melting the wax.
Patent GB-190727713-A (GB)
Title: The Manufacture of an Improved Composition for Preventing the Formation of Scale in Steam Boilers.
Inventor: WEGENER GEORGE
Filed: 1908-06-02
Granted: 1908-11-05
Abstract: 27,713. Wegener, G. June 2,1908. Incrustation, preventing.-Terra cutch is boiled and extracted with quercetin, oak bark, ratanhia root, and borax, and the substance obtained is placed in the water of the boiler.
Patent GB-190728624-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Safety Razors.
Inventor: LOEB LEON NAPOLEON
Filed: 1907-12-30
Granted: 1908-05-14
Abstract: 28,624. Loeb, L. N. Dec. 30. Razors, safety. The frame of a safety razor, comprising a blade support a, Figs. 2 and 3, guides b, a spring lug c and stops d for holding the blade in position, a guard e, and a perforated lug f for the attachment of a handle, is formed from one piece of sheet metal by a stamping or like process. With double-edged blades a holder h is used to protect the rear edge of the blade.
Patent GB-190800198-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Lubricators and the like.
Filed: 1908-01-03
Granted: 1908-02-20
Abstract: 198. Pugh, J. V., and Rudge-Whitworth, Ltd. Jan. 3. Oil-holes, covers for.-A lubricator for the hubs of velocipedes &c. comprises a flanged tube a, screwed or otherwise fitted in a hub barrel &c. b, and a cap e provided with an extension f, which is hinged upon the outwardly turned ends d of a spring c. The spring is secured beneath the flange on the part a, which it encircles, and is arranged to hold the cap e in the open and closed positions, as shown in Figs. 2 and 3. The cap completely encloses the oil-hole and the spring.
Patent GB-190800365-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Flooring and Bench Cramp.
Filed: 1908-01-07
Granted: 1909-01-07
Abstract: 365. Pollard & Co., G., and Bowerman, H. Jan. 7. Cramps.-A floor cramp of malleable or cast iron has two upwardly projecting lugs on the base-plate, rounded at the top and with hollows cast or worked in their circumference. The lugs are tapped to receive the operating-screw provided with a rotatable clamping-plate at the end, and the base-plate has dowels or spikes on its under surface, set at right - angles or obliquely, for fixing the cramp.
Patent GB-190802146-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Metal Roof and Eaves Trough.
Inventor: EDWARDS ARTHUR ERNEST
Filed: 1908-01-30
Granted: 1908-05-14
Abstract: 2146. Edwards, A. E., [Carter, J.]. Jan. 30. Roofs.-Roofs of railway cars &c. are formed of metal sections 1. Each section is provided with two rolls 2, 3 terminating in an upstanding flange 4. One end of the section is folded back on itself and bent at right-angles to form the securing flange 6. The roll on one edge is arranged to slip within the corresponding roll of the adjacent section. The eaves trough consists of a series of bent sheetmetal troughs of the section shown in Fig. 5. The gutter 8 is inclined throughout its length, while the bottom is inclined towards the outside of the car, Fig. 3. The wing 9 fits under the folded portion of the roof section, and the wing 10 rests against the flange 6. Fastenings are passed through the vertical portions of the roof plates and eaves to secure them to the structure.
Patent GB-190802345-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Sketching Easels and the like
Inventor: SCHWARZ HENRY
Filed: 1908-02-03
Granted: 1908-12-31
Abstract: 2345. Schwarz, H. Feb. 3. Tripod and like stands.-A collapsible sketching- easel, music stand, photographic tripod, &c. is fitted with a head formed of a flat metal plate 2, on which the front legs 1 are pivoted and between lugs on which the back leg 1<a> can swing. On the top of the plate is an extension 10, against which can be adjustably clamped an arm 12 carrying at the top a hooked rod 14. This rod 14 can be adjusted by a wing nut to hold the stretching-board at any angle, the board resting on pins on brackets 4, which pins are extended to form studs, which engage in holes in the legs 1. Each leg is hinged at the middle, and is held in alinement by a pivoted catch 9. The legs are fitted with rods 5, which pass through a hole in the bottom of each leg, and are attached to double angle-plates 7, which slide in slots in the legs and can be clamped at any position therein by a wing-nut.
Patent GB-190805635-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Machines for Carving Wood, Stone and the like.
Inventor: RYLAND THOMAS JAMES FRANCIS
Filed: 1908-03-13
Granted: 1909-03-15
Abstract: 5635. Ryland, T. J. F. March 13. Carving and shaping by cutting.- Relates to the carving - machines described in Specifications No. 13,703, A.D. 1893, No. 4999, A.D. 1903, and No. 244, A.D. 1906, [Abridgment Class Stone &c.], and consists in passing the tool - operating bands round pulleys carried by a frame pivoted to the counterweighted tool carrying frame so as to increase the range of movement of the latter above an horizontally-movable work-carriage. The tool-carrying frame h is adapted to rock about and travel along a bar d, which is vertically-adjustable between frames c adapted to run on rails b on the main frame a. The frame i along which the tool is slidable is pivoted in one end of the frame h, the angle at which the tool operates being adjusted by tilting the frame i by means of adjusting-screws l. Pulleys ware carried in a frame x pivoted on a bar y in the frame h, pulleys z being carried by the bar y. The tool-operating bands u pass under the pulleys w, over the pulleys z, and round a pulley on the tool spindle. A chain 14 is provided to catch the frame z if the band u breaks. A pattern follower or feeler o is also carried by the frame i. The travelling work-table 2 runs on rails 1 carried by the frame a. If the work and pattern are required to be revolved about their axes, they are mounted between centres 7, 8 in brackets 6, the position of which is adjustable on the table 2. Pawls 10 and toothed disks 9 attached to the centres 8 enable the work and pattern to be turned through the same angles. The movements of the carriages c, 2 are limited by stops 11, 12.
Patent GB-190812030-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Internal Combustion Engines.
Filed: 1908-06-03
Granted: 1909-02-18
Abstract: 12,030. Anderston Foundry Co., and Hatch, F. G. June 3. Gas and like engines.-In vertical engines in which the lower end of the trunk piston is reduced in diameter and works in a guide-ring at the end of the cylinder, thereby forming an enclosed chamber in which air or. gas is compressed for various purposes, the guide-ring is attached to the base of the engine beneath the cylinder flange so that it does not materially increase the height of the engine. The reduced portion a' of the piston works in a guide-ring C having a flange c<1> beneath the cylinder flange b<1>, and also having a junk ring and'packing to ensure an air-tight joint with the piston. The flange c' is bolted to the framing preferably by the same bolts that secure the cylinder in position. Slots D in the piston, which provide for the free movement of the connecting-rod, may be altered in length to vary the maximum pressure iri the chamber E. A relief cock F may be opened to facilitate starting or to drain away any lubricating- oil collected in the recess on the upper surface of the ring. In some cases this recess may be omitted, the oil being allowed to escape through the slots D into the crank chamber.