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Patent GB-190514446-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Machines for Inserting Nails or other Fasteners.
Filed: 1905-07-13
Granted: 1906-09-13
Abstract: 14,446. Briggs, T., and British United Shoe Machinery Co. July 13. Nailing.-Relates to nailing-machines of the type described in Specification No. 4471, A.D. 1903, in which nails or fasteners are fed along a raceway having a number of grooves, and consists in improved means for shifting the raceway relatively to the throat. The rock-shaft 7, which operates the awl of the machine, carries a fixed arm A and a loose lever B. The arm and lever are yieldingly connected by means of the bolt A' and spring A'. The free end of the lever B forms a V-shaped cam B', adapted to engage faces C<5>, C<6> on the pivoted block C, which is connected by slotted links D, K to the lever E and the lever L, gearing by means of bevelled segments with the shaft M, operated by the knee, foot, or hand. The lever E is mounted on the shaft E<1> carrying a cam, against which the raceway 1 is pressed by a spring. The operator, through the medium of the parts K, L, M, places the block in such position that on the next descent of the lever B the raceway 1 is shifted to the desired position. The slots in the links D, K provide for "lost motion" between the engaging parts. The raceway 1 may be moved by hand if desired, by means of the handle E<2> on the lever E. The device described may be used for moving the throat instead of the raceway.
Patent GB-190522484-A (GB)
Title: Locomotive Smoke Box Door Protector.
Inventor: ESHELBY JOHN
Filed: 1905-11-03
Granted: 1906-05-17
Abstract: 22,484. Eshelby, J. Nov. 3. S m o k e - boxes.- The usual plate B on the inside of the door A is fitted at the lower part with a fire-clay block D. The block is made in halves and secured i position by a plate E, angle-iron C, and brackets c.
Patent GB-190602743-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Washing Machines.
Inventor: FLUX WILLIAM
Filed: 1906-02-05
Granted: 1906-08-09
Abstract: 2743. Flux, W., and Flux, A. Feb. 5. Washing-machines; arrangement of apparatus in laundries and the like.- Clothes are washed in the innerrotary receptacles within the outer tubs, and these tubs are afterwards moved so that the receptacles can be taken out and the clothes s allowed to drain. A turntable A on which are secured a number of tubs D rotates on rollers about a fixed spindle d. Inner vessels E have rollers N resting on the rims of these tubs and allowing the vessels to rotate when caused to do so by the engagement of spurwheels M on their rims with a pinion 0 driven from a main shaft through bevel-gearing. This main shaft is cranked at H, and the cranks are connected, by rods K, with levers F pivoted on a fixed cross-rod G and passing through slots L in dollies working in the vessel which is being rotated; pins Q hold the dollies and levers together. The platform is afterwards rotated, the dollies being first removed, until the tub comes beneath a crane, when the inner vessel is removed and the clothes emptied, e.g. to a wringer. Water, steam, and compressed air are carried by pipes to a chest U and a fixed pipe V connected through a stuffing- box with a rotatable chest W whence pipes X carry the fluids to the tubs.
Patent GB-190603392-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or connected with Endless Conveyors.
Inventor: WATSON CHARLES PERCY
Filed: 1906-02-12
Granted: 1906-11-29
Abstract: 3392. Watson, C. P. Feb. 12. Conveyers. - Comprises improvements in discharge stations for endless chains carrying pivoted trays, in which the discharge is effected by causing one end of the tray to run on an auxiliary track descending beneath the main track. The trays 8 are pivoted at one end to an axle 5 extending between the chains 3 and carrying flanged or flat wheels running on the main track 1. The other end of the tray carries an axle 9 having wheels 10 with internal flanges running on the inside portions of the track 1. At the discharge stations, these inside portions are cut away and replaced by short sections or switches 11 pivoted on axes 12 and supported on each side of the track by lugs 19, which are operated by hand-chains 24 and governed by weighted levers 20 so as to shunt the rear portion of the tray on to the inclined track 13 suspended beneath the main track 1.
Patent GB-190607705-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Starch and Process for Producing the same.
Inventor: DRITLLER FREDERICK
Filed: 1906-03-30
Granted: 1906-05-03
Abstract: 7705. Drittler, F. March 30. Starch.-A, starch capable of swelling in cold water is prepared by adding to dry powdered starch a suitable quantity of an oily liquid hydrocarbon, then adding caustic alkali, and finally evaporating off the hydrocarbon. Hydrocarbons such as paraffins, clefines, and aromatic hydrocarbons, and nitro and halogen derivatives thereof, such as nitrobenzene, may be used, carbon tetrachloride being the body preferred, or mixtures of this substance with crude paraffin oil. If a neutral starch is required, a suitable acid is added prior to the removal of the hydrocarbon ; organic acids such as acetic, citric, tartaric, or oxalic acids are preferred; the acids may be added in solution or in the dry state. In some cases, the hydrocarbon is not removed from the product.
Patent GB-190613204-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Saw Sharpening and Setting Machine.
Inventor: JOSS CHRISTIAN
Filed: 1906-06-07
Granted: 1907-03-07
Abstract: 13,204. Joss, C., and Hubacher, G. June 7. Saws, sharpening and setting.-The reciprocating file n of a machine for sharpening and setting saws, of the type in which the saw-blade is held in a vertical position, is automatically pressed against the saw by a bar i, which is moved transversely by a semicircular diak f on the shaft e, and returned by springs l, which are fixed between a plate k and supports j, in which move the guides h for the bar i. The bar is moved longitudinally in one direction by the engagement of lugs g on the disk with teeth i<1> on the bar, and is returned by a spring l<1>, fixed at the end i<3> to the bar and at the other end to a rod m attached to the frame plate b<1>. In order to obviate the breaking of teeth should they project too far, the file-holders o are held in brackets o<1>, which are fixed to the bar by spring- pressed bolts o<4>, held by screws p in short slots in the bolts. The saw is fed by a catch w<1> pressed up by a spring w<2> and held on a lever w, which is pivoted to an extension from the machine frame. The lever has a roller v which engages a projection u<1> on an arm u on the shaft e, the action of the lever being regulated by a screw y resting on the arm b<3> or by having the projection u<1> adjustable. The saw-setting apparatus consists of a doublenosed setting-catch s on a shaft r, oscillated by a slotted lever t through a rod t<1> from a shaft t<4>, the gear being adjusted so that the shaft e rotates twice as fast as the shaft t<4>, in order that the teeth may be alternately bent to the right and to the left. The machine may be driven by hand or power.
Patent GB-190613444-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Boots and Shoes.
Inventor: JOHNSON HARRY
Filed: 1906-06-12
Granted: 1907-04-25
Abstract: 13,444. Johnson, H. June 12. Insoles; welts and welting.-Relates to that type of boot or shoe in which a thin insole has a thick strip of leather all round, and consists in providing the space bounded by this strip with a soft filling of live wool felt. An inside welt 3 is stitched to a flexible insole 1, and an upper 4 is lasted over it in the usual manner. An outer welt 5 is sewn in position, and the filling 7 of live wool felt inserted, the usual outer sole 8 then being attached. In a modification, Fig. 2, the welt is shaped so that an edge 10 overlaps the filling 7, which may be enclosed by a waterproof covering 11. The cavity 12 is preferably filled with waterproof solution.
Patent GB-190614196-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and connected with Doors.
Inventor: MOSCHOS GREGORY JOHN
Filed: 1906-06-21
Granted: 1907-03-07
Abstract: 14,196. Moschos, G. J. June 21. Doors.-To permit admission and exit while preventing escape or ingress of air, a glazed second door b is detachably connected to a main door a, within a quadrantal casing c, by binges and a stay rod o.
Patent GB-190615029-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Typewriting Machines.
Inventor: FELL JOHN CORRY
Filed: 1906-07-02
Granted: 1907-01-10
Abstract: 15,029. Fell, J. C., [Smith Premier Typewriter Co.]. July 2. Typewriters.-Relates to the actions of typewriters, more particularly of front-strike machines. Two concentric type-bar segments 10, 11, Fig. 1, are arranged below an arched part 9 of the top plate 4 and carry sets of type-bars 12, 13 on ball bearings. The segment 10 is of less radius and is situated a little nearer the back of the machine than the segment 11, and the type-bars 12 are shorter than the typebars 13. The details of the type-bar bearings are shown in Figs. 10 and 11. The balls 51 run in a race formed by V-grooves 52 in the segment 11 and conical faces on two rings 50, screw-threaded in an annular strap 46 on the type-bar 13. The strap 46 is cut through and formed into lugs 47, 48 provided with an adjusting-screw 49. Depressions 53 to receive a suitable adjusting-tool 54 are formed in the outer flat faces of the rings 50. The typebars are normally supported in a segmental rest 40. A third segment 15, of greater diameter than the segments 10, 11, is arranged under the latter. Levers 16, Figs. 1 and 5, are pivoted in radial slots 17 in the segment 15 on a wire 18. The pivot member of the levers 16 is an open-ended slot 35, enabling the levers to be slipped over the wire 18. A notch 36 formed in the upper edge of the slot 35 prevents accidental displacement of the wire 18. Links 20, constituting toggles with the levers 16, connect the latter to the type-bars. Returning- springs 29 are connected to the levers 16 and segment 15 on hooks 30, 31. Links 22 connect the levers 16 to bell-cranks 25, 26 connected with the keys 28. The bell-cranks are formed of sheet metal, the part 26 consisting of two branches connected by a strip 45,;Fig. 7, and the part 25 being a downward extension of one branch 26. The keys are arranged in transverse and longitudinal rows between partition plates 42 on frame rods 43 with spacing-collars. The bell-cranks are pivoted on transverse rods 41 supported by the plates 42, and occupy substantially the entire space between two plates 42. The links 22 are connected alternately with long and short type-bars, the members 25 being correspondingly bent to right or left, as shown in Fig. 7, to avoid crossing and interference between the links. The keys near the front of the keyboard are connected with the shorter type-bars. The return movement of the parts under the action of the springs 29 is limited by collars 32 fixed to the key stems 27 ; felt or other sound-deadening washers are disposed above the collars.
Patent GB-190615922-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or connected with the Production of Fertilizers, Filtering Materials and the like.
Inventor: BRIGHTMORE JAMES
Filed: 1906-07-13
Granted: 1907-10-12
Abstract: 15,922. Brightmore, J. July 13. Sewage and foul waters, treating; filtering-media; reagents; manures.-Relates to the treatment of lime, lime-kiln refuse, slag, and the like to form a filtering-block or reagent for the treatment of sewage. The block when saturated with sewage or other liquid containing nitrogen compounds is pulverized and used as a fertilizer. The lime is pulverized, moistened, and made into blocks, which are heated and simultaneously subjected to the action of an electric current to ionize or energize the lime. The block may in some cases be then subjected to pressure in an atmosphere of air or nitrogen, and finally bo subjected to the action of superheated steam and allowed to cool gradually. When the block is used to de-nitrify sewage or other liquid, it is immersed in the sewage and then allowed to remain in the air, and this operation is repeated until the block has become saturated.
Patent GB-190617725-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Coin-freed Automatic Delivery Machines.
Inventor: TAYLOR ALEXANDER
Filed: 1906-08-07
Granted: 1907-07-04
Abstract: 17,725. Taylor, A., and Chipchase, C. Aug. 7. No Patent granted (Sealingfee not paid). Sale apparatus for picture post cards, tickets, programmes, &c. Delivery mechanism.- The cards &c. F are piled in a front compartment D and rest on a slide G having a gauge plate H and coin slot R, a top weight W being provided if desired. A handle L withdi aws a sliding frame, formed by a pair of side bar r J connected by a bridge-piece I, to which is attached a coil spring M. Coin action.-The coin inserted at P is guided by the shoots Q, Y to the slot R, where it couples the slide G to the sliding frame. As the slide G is drawn out, notches V in the horizontal partition A prevents its premature return, until the coin has fallen through the aperture T into the receiver below. A guard-plate or receptacle S intercepts smaller coins and other articles.
Patent GB-190620548-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to the Treatment of Ossein.
Inventor: HELBRONNER ANDRE
Filed: 1906-09-15
Granted: 1907-09-14
Abstract: 20,548. Helbrouner, A., and Vallee, E. A. Sept. 26, 1905, [date applied for under Patents Act, 1901]. Size; finishes for fabrics and the like.-Plastic .substances &c. can be produced from the transformation product obtained by digesting ossein in caustic alkali solutions, for example caustic soda. The product is soluble in cold water, and may be dissolved in any liquid suitable for the process, for example acetic acid or alkali (caustic or carbonated) solutions and ammoniacal solutions of metallic oxides (copper or nickel), and may be precipitated or coagulated by means of certain mineral or organic products, for example sulphate of ammonia, zinc chloride, copper sulphate, alkali persulphates, sodium chloride, alcohol, &c. The solution in caustic soda will take up cellulose.
Patent GB-190622217-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Electric Motor Controlling Apparatus.
Inventor: KRIZIK FRANZ
Filed: 1906-10-08
Granted: 1907-10-03
Abstract: 22,217. Krizik, F. Oct. 8. Switches.-Motors M<1>, M<2> working on a threewire system of continuous-current distribution are placed, at the starting period, between the negative lead and a neutral lead with resistances W<1>, W<2> in the circuit. These resistances are gradually cut out, Fig. 1, but, in order to put the motors acrossthe outside leads, the resistances or certain parts thereof are again switched in, and the motor M<2> is simultaneously or subsequently short-circuited through the resistance W<2>, Fig. 2. The motor M<2> then acts as a generator ; the weakened brake current generated by it is switched out, and the motor M<2> and the resistance W<2> are connected to the positive lead, Fig. 3. To cut the motors out, the above operations are repeated in the reverse order.
Patent GB-190625206-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Windings for Dynamo Electric Machines
Inventor: STORER NORMAN WILSON
Filed: 1906-11-08
Granted: 1907-03-28
Abstract: 25,206. Storer, N. W. Nov. 13,1905, [date applied for under Patents Act, 1901]. Commutators.-The conductors that connect the armature windings to the commutator in a dynamoelectric machine are arranged so that they serve at the same time to connect together those points in the armature which normally are at the same potential. The arrangement is best adapted to machines in which the diameter of the commutator is less than that of the armature core at the bottom of the slots, although the invention is not restricted to this application: The lap winding shown in Fig. 1 is made up of former-wound coils 3, 4 inserted together as a single coil, or separately as in Fig. 2, into slots 7. 8. One free end of the coil 3 is connected to the terminal 11, and the free end, in the other slot, of the coil 4 is connected to a terminal 12 situated immediately below the first terminal. The terminals 11, 12 are connected together by one end of a V-shaped conductor 13, the apex of which is connected to the correct commutator segment, the other end of the conductor 13 being connected to other two non- corresponding terminals 15, 16 of adjacent coils 17, 18 occupying the same position with regard to the pole 19 that the coils 3, 4 occupy with regard to the similar pole 20. Each commutator segment is similarly connected by a V shaped conductor.
Patent GB-190701555-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to Motor Road Vehicles.
Inventor: TAYLOR WILLIAM ALLEN
Filed: 1907-01-21
Granted: 1908-01-09
Abstract: 1555. Taylor, W. A., and Abbott, A. R. Jan. 21. Universal joints.-The steering-wheels of motorvehicles are each driven through a universal joint 'in which a spring-actuated plate compensates the looseness of parts resulting from wear and thereby prevents rattle of the parts. The hub of each wheel is provided with a cylindrical enlargement B which rotates within a part rotatably mounted on the pins D in the fixed fork E A spherical enlargement I on the driving-axle G fits in a corresponding recess in the part B, driving connexion being maintained by a pin J passing through both parts. The neccessary freedom for steering is obtained by means of a slot K in the part I. The pin J preferably fits in a sleeve L sliding in this slot. A cupped plate M is pressed against the spherical part I by a spring in order to prevent rattling when looseness of the working parts results from wear.
Patent GB-190706511-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Detachable Wheels for Motor Vehicles and the like
Inventor: PUGH JOHN VERNON
Filed: 1907-03-18
Granted: 1908-01-23
Abstract: 6511. Pugh, J. V. March 18. Spanners.-A spanner 16 has attached a cam lever 17, 18, the object being to facilitate unscrewing of an axle-cap which is locked by means of a spring - pressed bolt.
Patent GB-190718075-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Securing Detachable Rims to Vehicle Wheels.
Inventor: SMITH WILLIAM THOMAS
Filed: 1907-08-09
Granted: 1908-07-30
Abstract: 18,075. Smith, W. T. Aug. 9. Felloes or rims.-A detachable tyre-carrying rim is secured to the felloe by an expansible ring H held against the felloe by transverse bolts K working in sunk nuts k<1>. Slots h cut in the ring to permit expansion are covered by eccentric heads k of the bolts. The ring may be adjusted by any means such as right and left handed screws, cams working against the free ends of the ring, or toggle links M', Fig. 4, carrying a plate m<2> which fits into the gap between the free ends when the ring is fully expanded.
Patent GB-190724501-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Automatic Musical Instrument Players.
Inventor: LAKE WILLIAM EDWARD
Filed: 1907-11-05
Granted: 1908-03-19
Abstract: 24,501. Lake, W. E., [Electrelle Co.]. Nov. 5. Automatic instruments. - Instruments having flexible tape or cord connexions between the automatic playing-mechanism and the sound-producing devices are provided with means for taking up slack in the connexions. The invention is described in connexion with the expression -regulating devices for the automatic pianos described in Specifications No. 25,101, A.D. 1904, and No. 13,894, A.D. 1905, but is not confined thereto, The tapes 9 pass over a bar 21 divided into two or more sections pivoted together at their adjacent ends. The hammer rest-rail 12 is similarly divided, aud the corresponding sections are so connected as to be operated together by means of finger-levers (not shown). The bar 21 is carried by levers 23 pivoted at 24 to brackets 25 and connected by adjustable bolts 31 to forked arms 28 mounted on rock-shafts 14, 15, to which are attached the arms 17 carrying the rest-rail 12,
Patent GB-190726175-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Rails, Tyres Wheels and like Articles subjected to Wear by Rolling, Pressure or Impact.
Inventor: FERRANTI SEBASTIAN ZIANI DE
Filed: 1907-11-26
Granted: 1909-02-26
Abstract: 26,175. Ferranti, S. Z. de. Nov. 26. Making parts of railway and tramway permanent way and wheels for vehicles.-Rails, tyres, wheels, and the like are formed with cores for resisting the structural stresses, and with wear-resisting portions of nickel or cobalt steel, which harden, when " working" by rolling, pressure, or impact during use. In the case of wheels, the tyre is formed of ordinary steel with a high nickel steel ring welded thereto, the necessary. heating being -preferably : performed electrically, precaution being taken to prevent carbonization of the nickel. In the case of rails, the heating is performed electrically, preferably in a furnace such as described in Specification No. 530, A.D. 1909. A 30 per cent nickel alloy is suitable for the purpose.
Patent GB-190727402-A (GB)
Title: Improved Tool for Removing Burrs from the Ends of Metal Tubes.
Inventor: RAWLINGS JOHN JOSEPH
Filed: 1907-12-11
Granted: 1908-03-12
Abstract: 27,402. Rawlings, J. J., and Smith, R. T. Dec. 11. Reamers. - A handtool for use in removing the burr from the ends of a tube after it has been sawed or filed, consists of steel strips B, C, grooved at E to receive the tubes and inserted into transverse slots in a hollow body A, which is formed with a hole D of two sizes for tubes of different diameters.
Patent GB-190800084-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Steerable Aerodynamic Air-ships
Inventor: NEYEN EMIL
Filed: 1908-01-01
Granted: 1908-06-25
Abstract: 84. Neyen, E. Jan. 1. Aerial machines without aerostats; aeroplanes; framework; parachutes; shock of landing, deadening; propelling; steering.-The aerial machine is raised and propelled forwards or sideways by screw propellers fixed to a framework 1, mounted on pneumatic-tyred wheels 44 and three longitudinal floats 28, to support the machine when travelling on land or water. The frame comprises vertical supports 31, 32, 33 fixed to the floats, arches 34, and beams 36, 37, 38, which are connected to the vertical supports. The whole forms a skeleton box-shaped structure and supports the propellers. Five or more lifting propellers 2 are used, and the machine is propelled horizontally by propellers 7, 8, 9, arranged on a shaft 26 at each side of the machine and driven in opposite directions. Two propellers are arranged, one on each side, at the rear of the machine, and assist the forward move-' ment. Propellers 19, 20 are arranged at the side of the machine, and may be connected by clutches to the motor shaft to move the machine laterally. The propellers are driven by belts or bevel-gear. and clutches are provided for disconnecting any of the propellers. A rudder 45 is placed at the rear, and consists of a number of laths 47, which may be adjusted to vary the effective surface. The propellers have a cylindrical hub 46, Fig. 3, with conical ends 47, and the propeller blades are supported by rods 49 secured to the hub 46. Wires 50 secured at one end to the tips of the rods 49, are passed through rings on cones 48, and are secured at the other end to the hub 46. By turning the cones 48 to tension the wires 50, the structure may be made rigid. The blades of the lifting-propellers have end pieces 61, Fig. 5, which are less inclined than the other parts of the blades, and form horizontal bearing-surfaces resting on the air compressed by the propeller. In order to prevent a rapid descent if the propellers stop, parachute surfaces 71, 72, Fig. 6, are arranged under the arch 36. The parachutes are mounted on curved ribs 52, which slide on rods 51, and are operated by cords 55. The parachutes may also form aeroplane surfaces for supporting the machine, and for utilizing winds to drive the machine forward.
Patent GB-190800256-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Fastenings for Boots, Shoes and Clothing.
Inventor: CAMPBELL ALVA VINCENT
Filed: 1908-01-04
Granted: 1908-08-13
Abstract: 256. Campbell, A. V. Jan. 4. Stud-and-eye fastenings.-A fastening of the pushbutton type, for various kinds of wearing-apparel, is characterized by means for attaching the disk d, which has radial slits and a central hole for receiving the head of the stud g. The disk is held by internal projections e in a ring a, which is clamped to the material by a second pronged ring c. The ring a is provided with a screwed cover f, having a central hole through which the correct position of the corresponding stud may be noted.