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Patent GB-190603860-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Means for Shifting the Transmitting Devices for Variable or Change Speed Gear.
Inventor: WALLENBERG VICTOR HENRI
Filed: 1906-02-16
Granted: 1907-02-16
Abstract: 3860. Wallenberg, V. H. Feb. 16. Link-work; variablespeed d gearing.-Levers for shifting variable or change speed gearing have two separately operated detents or catches each operating with a separate quadrant, or operating alternately with one quadrant, so that the change from one speed to another is effected gradually. In Figs. 1 and 2, the lever 1 has two sliding catches 3, 4 which are operated through pivoted levers 7, 8 from rods 11, 12, and engage quadrants 15 or 16. Each quadrant has notches 17, 17<1> 17<2>, 17<3>, or 18, 18<1>, 18<2> which are arranged in a zigzag line so that one of the catches will engage the surface of one of the quadrants when the other catch engages one of the notches in the other quadrant. By pressing the projection 14 of the rod 12 when the lever is in the position shown in Figs. 1 and 2, the catch 4 is lifted and the lever may be moved until the catch 3 3 engages either the notch 17 or the notch 17'. If the projection 13 be now depressed, a further movement may be made. If it is desired to throw the lever right over, both projections 13, 14 are depressed. In the modification shown in Figs. 3 and 4, one quadrant 15 only is used and the catch rods 3, 4 extend along the lever and through a hollow part 2. The catch rods 3, 4 have catches 3<1>, 4<1>, situated one in front of the other, which engage alternately one of the notches 18x, 18, 18<1>, 18<2>, The two coil springs 39 press the catches upwards. The notches 17. . . 17<3> and 18 ... 18<2> may be provided on the same quadrant. Instead of two quadrants, three quadrants may be used. The apparatus may be applied to other variable-motion transmitting-devices.
Patent GB-190605366-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Metallic Packings.
Inventor: FULLER EDWARD JAMES
Filed: 1906-03-05
Granted: 1906-03-22
Abstract: 5366. Fuller, E. J. March 13, 1905, [date applied for under Patents Act, 1901]. Stuffing-boxes have several grooves or compartments each containing two segmental rings C, D, pressed on to the rod by circumferential springs. The rings C are divided radially and the rings D tangentially to the rod as shown in Fig. 2. The rings are secured to break joint by a pin from one ring projecting into a hole in the other. The box is bolted on to a flange on the cylinder head, and is packed by a washer b<2>.
Patent GB-190607821-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Alternate Current Motors, Generators, and Transformers.
Inventor: FYNN VALERE ALFRED
Filed: 1906-03-31
Granted: 1907-03-28
Abstract: 7821. Fynn, V. A. March 31. Dynamos and motors, altemating - current; dynamos, regulating. - In order to improve the power-factor of alternating - current motors and transformers, and to improve the regulation of generators, an auxiliary electromotive force derived from a practically non-inductive generating-winding is introduced into one or more circuits. The auxiliary generator consists of an armature G, wound with open or closed circuit winding, rotating in an alternating field produced by a winding F<1>. Armature reaction is compensated for by a winding N, either in series with the armature or closed on itself, the ampere-turns of which may be a little greater than those of the armature G. The application of the invention to a single-phase shunt induction motor is shown ; the terminals of the auxiliary generator are connected to brushes a, co-axial with the transformer field due to the stator winding S of the motor. In a modification, the armature of the auxiliary generator is mounted on the motor shaft, one winding extending over the two rotors and being short-circuited by the brushes a, while another winding, extending only over the main rotor, is short - circuited by the brushes f, f. The auxiliary electromotive force is opposed in phase to the electromotive force of selfinduction set up in the rotor circuit, and hence the rotor current can be brought into phase with the working electromotive force in that circuit, or can be made to lead. Applications of the invention to single and polyphase induction and conduction motors and transformers, and to the regulation of generators, are described, and also the application to the exciting-circuits of such generators as are excited by rectified currents.
Patent GB-190610148-A (GB)
Title: Improvements connected with the Rendering of Overhead Electric Wires "Dead", in the Case of Fracture.
Inventor: WOOD ROBERT EVELYN
Filed: 1906-05-01
Granted: 1907-05-01
Abstract: 10,148. Wood, R. E., and Wood, H. May 1. Cut-outs; distributing.-A broken overhead electric wire, such as a trolley wire, is rendered dead by connecting an adjacent live wire directly to earth so that the station circuit breaker is 'blown' and the current cut oft. Two solenoids are used, the upper part of each receiving current from one wire and being in series with the lower part of the other. Movable cores in the solenoids make the necessary connexions. In Fig. 1, current from wire x passes through the upper part a of one solenoid, and by wire a<2> to the lower part b<1> of the other solenoid, current from y passing similarly through parts b, a' of the solenoids by means of connexion b<2>. The lower ends of both solenoids are connected to the earthed wire z. When wire y breaks, the parts b, a<1> are de-energized, and the core k is drawn up by the part a. At the upper limit of its travel, a pivoted catch q of the switch shown in Fig. 4 is tripped, and the upper arm o<1> of a lever. o is released. The lever then moves so that contacts m, n are connected, this action connecting the part c, Fig. 1, which has the full current from wire x, with the part h, which is in direct connexion with the earthed wire z. The fuse then blows, and the current is cut off entirely. In the modification shown in Fig. 2, two trolly wires x, x<x> are used, and connected, one through wires x', x<2>, and the other through wires x<1>, x<3>, with the same parts of the solenoids as before. Each section of the trolly wire is supplied with current from a feeder 2 through pillar boxes 1 and cables 5, 6 leading to the right-hand extremity of the wires. On a break occurring, the left-hand end of the broken wire being attached to an insulator i or i<1> is dead, and corresponding parts of the solenoids are de-energized. A conductive counterpoise s, connected by a rope leading over a pulley t 'to one of the cores; is dropped as the solenoid rises, until it connects the live contact c with the earthed terminal h.
Patent GB-190610806-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Machines for Stretching Textile Fabrics
Inventor: FARNWORTH FRANK
Filed: 1906-05-09
Granted: 1907-02-28
Abstract: 10,806. Farnworth, F. May 9. No Patent granted (Sealingfee not paid). Stretching; ; straightening.-In stretching- machines in which rollers, bobbins, or tapered cones, revolving or bent shafts, or shaft s arranged at angles are employed, one or more of the shafts are arranged so that tension may be put on or taken off the centre or selvedge of the fabric, so that the weft may be straightened. In one form of the device shown in Figs. 1 and 2, the ends of the shaf t a on which the bobbins b rotate are secured in brackets c each provided with a pin d arranged to radius in end brackets e provided with adjusting- screws f, or, for preference, fixed to the end fixings g. Motion of the handle h raises or depresses the centre of the roller. In a modification, the handle h is replaced by a worm and worm-wheel, and the roller b may be in two separate portions, the end fixings e being connected by a straight bar.
Patent GB-190611699-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating Air-ships.
Inventor: DIPPEL CARL
Filed: 1906-05-19
Granted: 1907-03-07
Abstract: 11,699. Dippel, C. May 19. Propelling; steering and balancing; aerial machines with aerostats.-An aerial machine is provided with screws y, arranged in casings which direct the air to another propeller v, so that the screw v rotates in a medium of compressed air and is enabled to obtain a greater effect. The machine is steered by a rudder w to which the air is directed by vertical planes x, which are inclined to the centre line of the machine and provided with a number of horizontal vanes z. The balancing of the machine is controlled automatically by a pendulum g which effects the opening and closing of vanes o, p, situated above an air passage q over the balloon. The pendulum shaft is connected to a sliding rack c, gearing with a pinion d, which is connected by rods e,f to pinions n, m, respectively. These pinions gear with sliding racks l, k, and are provided with vanes p, o. The rack c is also connected by rods r to a series of vanes s, pivoted about an horizontal axis. The space between the roof a and the air channel q is provided with outlets t, t<1>, and is divided by a partition h. If the front of the machine should rise, the pendulum moves the rack c towards the rear, and, through the connexions described, brings the vanes o into a vertical position and the vanes p into an horizontal position. The vanes s leading to the air channel q are directed downwards so that the air striking the vanes s is directed downwards against the bottom of the air passage q. The air is then deflected upwards against the horizontal vanes p, and so tends to lift the rear part of the machine and restore the balance. The automatic balance may be rendered inoperative by closing the channel by suitable means u.
Patent GB-190612308-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Change Speed Mechanism.
Inventor: GIBBS JOHN EDWARD
Filed: 1906-05-26
Granted: 1907-02-14
Abstract: 12,308. Gibbs, J. E., and Sheppee, F. H. May 26. Variable-speed gearing.-Relates to change-speed gearing applicable to motor road vehicles and velocipedes. A clutch member E slides on a squared portion C of the driving shaft B, by means of which the drive may be transmitted directly for the high speed to a similar member E' secured to the driven shaft F. The shafts B, F are arranged in line, the shaft B taking into an opening in the shaft F. The members E, E' carry gear-wheels K, I, respectively, which are. adapted to engage wheels L, J to produce the low speed. The wheels L, J are secured to a sleeve M sliding on a fixed countershaft N, and at the high speed they do not rotate. To effect the change from the high to the low speed, the member E is moved to the left and the sleeve M to .the right simultaneously by means of arms S extending from a sleeve U secured to a shaft V which, may be turned on its axis. The shaft V is mounted in bearings in the gearing casing. To obtain additional speeds, additional wheels are carried by the sleeve M and the member E.
Patent GB-190617351-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Three Speed Hub for Motor Bicycles, Bicycles, Tricycles, or the like.
Inventor: CLOUGH JOHN
Filed: 1906-08-02
Granted: 1907-06-06
Abstract: 17,351. Clough, J. Aug. 2. Driving-mechanism, three-speed, for motor and other bicycles, tricycles, &c. In a hub' three-speed gear of the type employing two sets of planetpinions D<1>, E' which are carried by the driving member or sleeve and gear constantly with internal teeth D<2>, E<2> within the hub and with freelymounted sun-pinions adapted to be held stationary to furnish the changes of speed, the direct drive being given by a one-way clutch between the driving-sleeve and the hub, one sun-pinion G is mounted upon the axle and the other sun-pinion F upon the driving-sleeve B, so that they may each be held stationary by means of a band brake applied to drums G<1>, F<1>, the planet-pinions being carried to the right of one disk D and to the left of a second disk E, or to the right and left of a single disk. As shown in Fig. 1, the free-wheel clutch is provided at J<1>, but when one disk only is used the boss J and the hub projection K are dispensed with.
Patent GB-190622762-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Variable-speed and Reversing Gearing for Motor Cars and the like.
Inventor: BISHOP GEORGE
Filed: 1906-10-15
Granted: 1907-10-15
Abstract: 22,762. Bishop, G. Oct. 15. Brakes.-In a variable-speed and reversing gearing applicable to give a direct drive on the axle of a motor-car &c., a hand or foot actuated band brake U is applied to the periphery of the driven disk D. Specifications No. 17,084, A.D. 1897, No. 11,583, A.D. 1900, and Nos. 28,097 and 28,412, A.D. 1902, [Abridgment Class Mechanism &c.], and Nos. 10,680, 16,289 and 22,817, A.D. 1905, [Abridgment Class Locomotives &c.], are referred to.
Patent GB-190700684-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Rubber Teats for Babies and the use of the same.
Inventor: COOP ALFRED
Filed: 1907-01-10
Granted: 1908-01-02
Abstract: 684. Coop, A., Rose, A., and Rayner, G. H. Jan. 10. Teats.-A perforated dummy teat A, containing a soluble food tablet or pastille D, is fitted with a solid removable stopper B which is secured in an air-tight manner.
Patent GB-190710833-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Revolving Cylinders for Drying Apparatus.
Inventor: CUMMER WILLIAM MYLES
Filed: 1907-05-09
Granted: 1907-09-05
Abstract: 10,833. Cummer, W. M. May 9. D r y i n g - apparatus. - A rotary drying - cylinder is composed of segments spaced apart at their edges to leave draught openings and provided internally with longitudinal shelves which lift and scatter the material and prevent its escape through the openings. In the apparatus shown in Fig. 2, the segments are spaced apart by pieces B having each a series of openings b through which furnace gases may enter. These openings may extend along the whole length, or near the ends only, or they may be dispensed with near the front end so that the material is partly dried and does not so readily clog the openings. The openings B are protected by casings formed by walls G, H, the longer walls G having guard portions 6. Intermediate flanged lifts L are provided. Fig. 3 shows a modification in which the segments are more numerous, the lifts L are curved, and the walls G are curved and project beyond the walls H.
Patent GB-190712447-A (GB)
Title: Improved Hygienic Window for Enquiry or Booking Offices and the like.
Inventor: KLAUSER HENRY OTTO
Filed: 1907-05-29
Granted: 1908-05-14
Abstract: 12,447. Klauser, H. O. May 29. Windows.- To protect occupants of booking-offices &c. from draught &c., the windows are provided with two apertures b, and hinged thereto or connected by parallel links e are glass baffle screens c which are let down when the window is in use, so that the opening d is equidistant from the openings b.
Patent GB-190719279-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Spinning Flax, Hemp, Jute, and the like.
Inventor: GUILLEMAUD ARTHUR
Filed: 1907-08-27
Granted: 1908-02-06
Abstract: 19,279. Guillemaud. A. Aug 27. Mules are adapted for the spinning of flax, hemp, jute, &c., either wet or dry. The roller head of an ordinary flax-spinning frame is applied to a mule, so that, for dry spinning, the material passes either horizontally or at a slight inclination through drawing and delivery rolls 1, 2, 3,4 and over guidebars, as shown. In the arrangement shown in Fig. 2, the sliver passes through a water trough 8 and thence between drawing-rolls 10, 11 of copper or bronze. The thread is wound on tubes of card, wood, or light metal.
Patent GB-190721408-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Detector for Wireless Telegraphy.
Inventor: THOMPSON WILLIAM PHILLIPS
Filed: 1907-09-26
Granted: 1908-04-09
Abstract: 21,408. Thompson, W P., [Ges. f³r drahtlose Telegraphie]. Sept. 26 Wireless telegraphy.-A thermo-electric detector for wireless telegraphy comprises two suitable metals separated by a film of copper oxide. The copper disk a is bevelled off at the edge, which carries a layer of copper oxide, produced by artificial means. The disk a, which can be rotated, is connected through the frame b to a terminal c. The other element d is made of tin, bismuth, or the like, and is pressed against the disk by a spring, the pressure being adjustable by means of a screw f. Specification No. 19,794, A.D. 1907, is referred to.
Patent GB-190800438-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Circular Saw Machines for Cutting Girders and the like in a Cold State
Inventor: NIELSEN HERMAN
Filed: 1908-01-07
Granted: 1908-07-16
Abstract: 438. Nielsen, H. Jan. 16, 1907, [date applied for under Section 91 of Patents &c. Act, 1907]. Sawing. - A circular-saw machine for cutting girders &c. in the c o 1 d state, driven by hand or any suitable means, consists of a frame with two circular end flanges 2 to rest in the girder to which it is fixed by hooked bolts 16 mounted in ball sockets at their upper ends. The shaft 3, which may be driven by a handle 6 through worm gear, is provided with a pinion 7 engaging a spur-wheel 8 connected to the saw 12. The saw and wheel 8 are mounted to rotate freely on a gudgeon 9. The gudgeon 9 is mounted in a disk 10, which may be turned round the shaft 3 by hand-worked bevel, spur, worm, or other gear for feeding the saw.
Patent GB-190802363-A (GB)
Title: Improved Heald and Shuttle-box Operating Mechanism for Looms.
Inventor: SMITH ALFRED
Filed: 1908-02-03
Granted: 1909-01-28
Abstract: 2363. Smith, A. Feb. 3. Loom dobbies; shedding -levers; change-box motions.-Healds and shuttle boxes are controlled by an arrangement of toothed sectors constituting toggle-levers. A toothed sector b is actuated by push-catches 19, 20 and operating - bars 21, 22, 21<a>, 22<a>, the catches being controlled by pattern lags 18. The parts 2, 3 of the sector b act upon toothed sectors c, d pivoted on the jacks f, the arrangement being such that, when the jacks are in their extreme positions, they are locked by the sectors being in the dead-centre positions. The pitch-curves of the sector teeth are such that the jacks commence and finish their movements slowly. Jacks f or equivalent levers are used to operate the shuttle boxes through a suitable system of levers, the movements of the parts being effected quickly by suitably arranging the pitch-curves of the sectors. The engaging surfaces of the various parts are as broad as the full width of the jacks or their equivalents.
Patent GB-190805141-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Cartridge Feed Mechanism for Automatic Guns.
Filed: 1907-05-01
Granted: 1908-05-01
Abstract: 5141. Hotchkiss Ordnance Co., [BenÚt, L. V., and MerciÚ, H. A.]. May 1, 1907, Machine guns.-Relates to the feed-mechanism of gas-operated guns. The cartridge feed-strip O, which is shown in dotted lines in Fig. 5, and is of the kind described in Specification No. 5426#, A.D. 1896, or in Specification No. 12,093, A.D. 1899, is fed forward by a feed-arm M<2>, Fig. 19, carried by a vertical spindle M', which is supported in a bracket C<m> secured to the side of the receiver C. Projecting arms M<4>, M<5>, Fig. 21, upon the spindle M<1>, are engaged by two oppositely-inclined camsurfaces f<10>, f<9> upon the side of the motor-piston F, so that, as the latter reciprocates, the feed-arm M<2> is oscillated and the strip 0 is fed into the gun. A plate spring N, secured in the forward loading- guide R', presses upon the upper end m<0> of the spindle M', and, when the feed-arm M<2> is not supported by the feed-strip, presses the spindle downwards into a position in which the arm M<5> blocks the forward motion of the piston F and is locked against angular movement by a shoulder in the bracket C<m>. The breech is thus held open until the spindle M<1> is raised by hand, or by the insertion of a feed-strip into the gun. A downwardly bent portion N<2> of the spring N prevents the feed-strip from moving in the reverse direction, by engaging with holes o in the strip. The gun is caused to fire single shots, or continuously, by a cocking-piece J as described in Specification No. 5142, A.D. 1908.
Patent GB-190810577-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Alternating Current Regulators
Inventor: DONATI LUIGI
Filed: 1908-05-15
Granted: 1909-04-22
Abstract: 10,577. Donati, L. May 15, 1907, [date applied for under Section 91 of Patents &c. Act, 1907]. Transformers.-Alternating currents are regulated by means of a subdivided auto-transformer, the turns in the primary and secondary circuits of which are capable of being varied. The terminal A<1> is connected to one end of the auto-transformer winding, while the terminal B<1> is connected to another part of the winding by means of a switch having contacts B, B1, B2, &c. The terminal A<11> on the consumption side of the circuit is connected to the same end of the transformer winding as the terminal A<1>, while the terminal B<11>is connected to the winding by a switch having contacts B, B1, B2' &c. By varying the position of the switch arm on each side of the transformer, the pressure upon the translating-devices may be varied.
Patent GB-190812978-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Road Vehicle Suspension Arrangements.
Inventor: WALTON FREDERICK
Filed: 1908-06-17
Granted: 1909-04-22
Abstract: 12,978. Walton, F. June 17. Motor road vehicles.-The bodies of road vehicles are' mounted upon tubular pneumatic cushions of annular or similar shape, which are arranged endways and are unsupported at their inner peripheries by any rigid connexion. In one form, Fig. 2, the cushions A are arranged above the axle C, being mounted between brackets b, c fixed to the chassis and axle respectively. The axle is connected to the chassis by radius rods c<1>, adjustably secured to the brackets c and pivoted to brackets on the side frames B. Lateral movement of the chassis may be limited by rods E', pivoted at E to the side frames B and connected at the other end to tubes E<2>, which are formed with slots engaging pins E<5> on the axle. The tubes E<2> are provided with springs E<3>, Fig. 6, which bear against blocks E<4> on the pms E<5> and are adjusted by means of screw plugs E<7>, locked in position by screws E<8> passing through lugs on the tubes E'. Emergency springs may comprise cylinders F, hollow plungers F<1>, and springs F<2>, the plungers F<1> being adapted, in case of deflation of the cushion A, to come into contact with plates F<4> extending from brackets F<3> secured to the axle. In another form. Fig. 5, the cushions A are arranged around, although normally out of contact with the axle, being supported by brackets c connected to the axle by bolts. These bolts may be fitted with rubber washers to provide additional resilience. The normal resilience of the cushions A, when arranged in this manner, is supplemented at a predetermined point in their deflexion by the compression of the cushions due to the contact of their inner peripheries with the axle. The emergency opening c<1> may be arranged in a cylinder c<9> on the axle, the plunger c<10> being adapted to contact with a projection b<4> on the bracket b<2> fixed to the frame B. The upper supporting-member b may be arranged to slide in the bricket b<2>. A radius rod pivoted at each end and formed in two parts connected by an adjusting- nut, may be provided. A three-point suspension may be obtained by employing on the front axle only one cushion arranged parallel to the axle. Creasing of the cushion may be prevented by means of a flexible metal ring encircling the inner periphery, or by reinforcing the cushion at the parts likely to be affected. In some cases, the material forming the cushion may be sufficiently stiff and resilient to be operated without inflation. In a modification, the cushions may comprise tubular vessels connected to the chassis and axle somewhat after the manner of the ordinary elliptic or semi elliptic springs. According to the Provisional Specification, the cushions may in some cases be reinforced with a metallic rim externally as well as internally.