baber/WOPTO huggingface dataset:
Patent GB-191227894-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in the Manufacture of Compositions for Impregnating or Coating Surfaces, Binding Colours, and Addition to Colours, Principally for the purpose of Rust Prevention.
Inventor: EBERHARD RUDOLF
IPC: C23F11/18
Filed: 1912-12-03
Granted: 1913-12-03
Abstract: 27,894. Eberhard, R. Dec. 3. Impregnating-compositions.-Chromium compounds soluble in oily, fatty, or volatile vehicles are used for making impregnating, coating, rust-preventing, and tanning compositions. The compounds are prepared by dissolving in animal, vegetable, or mineral oils, fats, or waxes, such as stearic acid, wool fat, train oil, beeswax, linseed oil, paraffin, &c., or in chlorinated oils or in phosphuretted oils (oils in which phosphorus has been dissolved), or in lac, resin, or products of distillation of them, or in coal or wood tar, asphalt, crude turpentine oil, or in volatile vehicles, such as carbon bisulphide, toluol, nitrobenzol, chloroform, ether, alcohol, &c., chromium compounds having the same degree of oxidation as chromic acid and particularly chromyl compounds such as chromyl chloride, fluoride, or acetate, trichromyl chloride, &c., or perchromic acid, or alkali salts of chlorochromic acid. Reaction generally takes place with production of brown or green solutions. The chromium solutions may be used in conjunction with solutions in oils, fats, or volatile vehicles of salts such as chromium phosphate, manganese perchloride, permanganic acid, permanganate of potash, arsenious acid, chrome arsenite, arsenic acid, chrome arsenate, antimony oxide or pentachloride, antimonic acid, tin oxide or tetrachloride, chlorides of mercury, lead, copper, calcium or strontium, or copper sulphate. Chromium compounds soluble in oils or volatile vehicles are also obtained by reacting with chromyl compounds, chromic acid, or an alkaline chlorochromate upon metal compounds such as chlorides of manganese, antimony, tin, mercury, zinc, or copper, sodium stannate, oxides of mercury or tin, or zinc carbonate, and by reacting with chromyl chloride upon suboxide of chromium. The chromium solutions mav be treated with metals such as mercury, zinc, or tin, which dissolve in small quantities in the solutions.
Patent GB-191229074-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Signal Lamps for Automobiles and the like.
Inventor: MELLERSH-JACKSON WILLIAM JOHN
IPC: B60Q1/44
Filed: 1912-12-17
Granted: 1913-05-01
Abstract: 29,074. Jackson, W. J. Mellersh-, [Wright, W. E.]. Dec. 17. Road-vehicle signals.-The slowing-down of a motor-car is signalled by the lighting of an electric lamp at the back of the vehicle. In the circuit of a lamp 17, provided with a green lens 18 and in front of that a white lens 18<a>, is a spring contact plate 14, which, when the brake equalizer bar 24 is moved to apply the brakes, is pulled by the spring 22 against a contact 13, so causing the lamp to glow. The switch is enclosed in a dust-proof casing 11. In a modification, the switch is operated from the clutchpedal.
Patent GB-191312256-A (GB)
Title: A Process of and Means for Regulating the Vacuum in X-Ray Tubes.
Inventor: SNOOK HOMER CLYDE
IPC: H01J35/20
Filed: 1913-05-26
Granted: 1914-05-26
Abstract: 12,256. Snook, H. C. June 18, 1912, [Convention date]. R÷ntgen-ray tubes.-The vacuum is reduced when required by the liberation of a monatomic gas, such as helium, argon, krypton, neon, or xenon, from a material occluding such gas in a vessel in open communication with the tube. The tube may be provided primarily with a residual monatomic gas instead of air. The monatomic gas is preferably derived from Clevite by heating or electrical discharge, but Broggerite, Fergusonite, Monazite, Malacone, Thorianite, Urananite, Samarskite, and Carnotite may be used. In the form shown, a mass of powdered Clevite 17, preferably mixed with a heat-insulating material such as asbestos wool, is disposed behind a mass 15 of asbestos wool in a hollow stem 14 communicating by way of a second stem 13 with the space in the X-ray tube at the rear of the target 12. A conductor such as a platinum wire 18 leads into the powdered mass. After the evacuation of the tube and stems, the stem 13 is sealed at 22, the seal being covered if desired by a rubber cap 23. Specification 24,164/11 is referred to.
Patent GB-191312801-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Crossing Switches for Railway Tracks.
Inventor: WATTS WALTER
IPC: E01B7/14
Filed: 1913-06-02
Granted: 1914-02-05
Abstract: 12,801. Watts, W. June 2. Crossings with movable parts.-A railway crossing-switch is provided with two members connected by an elbow or knuckle joint, one member of which has a combined radial and oscillatory movement while the other has au oscillatory movement about a fixed pivot. In the construction shown, the switch members c, d are shown in the closed position, the open position in which the members are parallel to the near side of the frog member b being indicated by the broken lines. The member c is pivoted at f and the two members are connected by the elbow joint e. The member d at its other end traverses freely the guide blocks s, s<1> and is normally kept against the member b by the spring n.
Patent GB-191313885-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to Speed Indicators.
Inventor: ALLEMANN ARNOLD
IPC: G01P1/08
Filed: 1913-06-16
Granted: 1914-04-23
Abstract: 13,885. Allemann, A. June 14, 1912, [Convention date]. Road-vehicle signals.-Group-speed indicators for vehicles comprise a series of disks 57 pivoted at 56 and provided with numbers showing the speed in tens of kilometres, the speed below ten being indicated by a cross. Each disk moves between guides 58, and is provided with a projection 57<a> adapted to be engaged by one of a series of projections a ... e formed on a stepped cam 50, which is revolved in agreement with the speed-indicating hand through gearing 53, 54. As the disk 50 revolves, the plates are lifted and held in position by the periphery of the cam engaging a groove in the surface of the indicating-disks, the outermost of the remaining plates indicating the group speed at the time.
Patent GB-191316010-A (GB)
Title: Shutters for Moving Picture Machines.
Inventor: NILES ALLEN CURTIS
IPC: G03B9/10
Filed: 1913-07-11
Granted: 1914-01-08
Abstract: 16,010. Niles, A. C. July 11. No Patent granted (Sealing fee not paid). Kinematograph apparatus. - A. revolving shutter of the kind that is plain and unperforated towards one edge and perforated towards the other edge has recesses 15 arranged along the perforated edge, and the perforations diminish in size towards the centre of the shutter.
Patent GB-191318047-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Rat-traps for Ships.
Inventor: SIMPSON THOMAS GEORGE
IPC: A01M29/30
Filed: 1913-08-08
Granted: 1914-04-30
Abstract: 18,047. Simpson, T. G. Aug. 8. Animal traps; guards for preventing access of vermin.-A trap for rats which is attached to a ship's cable or to a pipe &c. in the ship or other structure comprises a saddle a which is secured to the rope &c. b and is provided on each side of the rope with a receptacle c having two trap-doors e pivoted at g and provided with side flanges. A step h protects each pivot g and a shield i is secured to the saddle a, its lower end being slightly cut away to form an opening to induce the rat to leave the step h and thus operate the trap-doors e. The receptacle c is provided with a hinged bottom m.
Patent GB-191319393-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Universal Self-centering Jig.
Inventor: HATTON ARTHUR
IPC: B23B47/28
Filed: 1913-08-27
Granted: 1914-05-21
Abstract: 19,393. Hatton, A. Aug. 27. Drilling.-Work to be drilled is clamped between coned members G, which may have notches to pass projections in the work and are mounted in interchangeable bushes E. Various lengths and shapes of bushes and members G may be employed. Clamping is effected by a rack-and-pinion F, and the upper lug is split for locking at H. Different lengths of pillars A<2> may be employed.
Patent GB-191322964-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Apparatus for Vaporizing Fuel for use in Internal Combustion Engines.
Inventor: PETTIT ARTHUR RAYMOND
Filed: 1913-10-11
Granted: 1914-10-08
Abstract: 22,964. Pettit, A. R. Oct. 11. Vaporizers, external.-In a method of vaporizing intended to avoid ' cracking,' t h e fuel or fuel and air are conducted through a passage m arranged in a s e r i e s of superp o s e conduits which successively approach a chamber b conveying exhaust gases. The fuel is thus brought gradually nearer to the source of heat. The fuel may be delivered by a pipe h containing a series of openings. In another form, the exhaust passage only partly surrounds the vaporizer, the first part of the heating being effected solely by conduction.
Patent GB-191324302-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Means for Fastening Suction Devices on Dental Plates.
Inventor: ABBOTT JAMES HERMAN
IPC: A61C13/24
Filed: 1913-10-27
Granted: 1914-10-27
Abstract: 24,302. Abbott, J. H. Oct. 27. Teeth, artificial. - A suction disk 12 is cupped and secured to a plate 1 by clenching a rivet 15 over a washer 3 of curved cross-section, so that the main pressure is at some distance from the aperture in the disk. The bearing-surface 10 in the plate is preferably flat, but may be convex, and the underside of the plate is preferably cut away to form a chamber 16 for the solid head 17 of the rivet, with or without cement or a gasket. The outer face of the rivet is more sharply inclined than the inner or than the suction disk. Both the rivet and washer are preferably of aluminium. The riveting-pliers preferred have jaws 22, 23 which are bent at B to enlarge the space 24 and are pivoted as shown to have a parallel action. The jaw 22 has an anvil die 25, and the jaw 23 a turning die 26 with an annular projection 27 and with. a central pin 33 to prevent collapse of the walls of the rivet.
Patent GB-191325851-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Safety Signalling and Controlling Devices for Railways.
Inventor: COOPER DONALD ANGUS
IPC: B61L3/04
Filed: 1913-11-11
Granted: 1914-05-21
Abstract: 25,851. Cooper, D. A. Nov. 11. Track apparatus actuating signals on, and other than on, and for stopping, trains.-The ramp A described in Specification 22,829/13 has its stop c arranged to hold the ramp short of the vertical, and the spring d of the engine shoe is strengthened, so that when the line is clear, the ramp is depressed against its counterweight. When the signal is raised, a locking-bar E passes in front of the ramp to lock it and cause the shoe to be raised. The bar E extends across the support B when this is depressed, so that the ramp cannot be locked in its lowered position. To ensure return of the ramp after depression, the train wheels depress a treadle which raises a quadrant F to return the ramp, while a spring catch G is provided to lock the treadle if the locking-bar E is not operated. The catch has a nose g<1> whereby it is returned by subsequent operation of the bar E, and is normally held out of action by a plate f<3> on the quadrant F. The locking-bar is arranged tr close a break in the signal indicator circuit, so that no indication of correct operation of the signal will be given unless the bar is engaged.
Patent GB-191327366-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Apparatus for Actuating Signals on Trains and for Stopping Trains Independently of Drivers.
Inventor: BIDDLE WALTER HARRISON
IPC: B61L3/04
Filed: 1913-11-27
Granted: 1914-11-26
Abstract: 27,366. Biddle, W. H. Nov. 27. [Cognate Application, 8475/14.] Track apparatus actuating signals on trains and for s t o p p i n g trains; audible signals. - A hinged track ramp B actuated in conjunction with the semaphore engages a pivoted traincarrier contact K provided with a brush end J, so that the contact K is moved and releases a slide H, which falls by its own weight or is assisted by a spring to open a valve N in a pipe o connected with the vacuum brake pipe and so apply the brakes. A visual or audible signal may be operated by the fall of the slide H, or the movement may be employed to cut off steam. The inlet of the pipe o may be regulated to adjust the distance within which the train may be stopped. A whistle may be placed at the inlet of the pipe o to be sounded by the inrush of air when the brakes are applied. The device may be arranged so that it cannot, after operation, be restored to its normal position except by the driver dismounting from the engine to replace it; or a chain P may be provided leading to the cab to allow replacement therefrom. The chain P may also be used for actuating a visual signal or a whistle or for shutting off steam. The lever K is arranged so that if the lower end is broken off the upper end becomes the heavier end and the lever K will not return to normal position. The bar H may be horizontal or inclined and be spring-actuated. The track ramp may be moved horizontally instead of vertically as shown, in which case the lever K is moved sideways. The ramp may be arranged at one side or duplicated at both sides of the track, or may be arranged in the centre of the track, in which case it is made in two parallel strips with a space between for the passage of coupling-chains. The movement of the bar H may operate an electric audible or visual signal, which may be repeated at two or more parts of the train. An indication that the signal has been lowered to ' safety ' may be given to the driver through a wire arranged between the rails and in contact with a cradle on the engine. When the signal is lowered, an electric contact is closed to transmit a current through the wire and cradle either from a local source or from a source on the train to give the indication on the engine.
Patent GB-191328246-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Foot Motors for Driving Rotating Machines.
Inventor: EVERITT ROBERT ARTHUR
IPC: F03G5/00
Filed: 1913-12-08
Granted: 1914-12-08
Abstract: 28,246. Everitt, R. A. Dec. 8. Variable-speed epicyclic gearing.-In footoperated mechanism for driving machines, such as emery grinders and sewing-machines, of the kind in which a planet-wheel R is non-rotatably secured to a connecting-rod G to engage with a sun-wheel O, a high-speed driving-or fly wheel M is rotatably connected to the sun-wheel and a low-speed wheel N, co-axial with the highspeed wheel, is connected with the planet-wheel so that it turns at its orbital speed. The link carrying the planet-wheel may be enlarged to form the low-speed wheel, or this wheel may be secured to the link. In one construction, shown in Fig. 5, the high and low speed wheels are arranged closely adjacent to one another and are both driving-wheels, and, if one or more grooves be provided in the low-speed wheel of the same size and corresponding grooves in the high-speed wheel, a belt may be transferred from one wheel to the other to effect a change of speed. Means may be provided for causing the high-speed wheel to turn with the low-speed wheel, and for this purpose the pin P<1> may be removable from the connecting-rod and a hole be arranged in the wheel N into which the pin may be inserted to lock the spindle P to this wheel; or the planet-wheel, freely mounted on its spindle, may carry projecting pins and be reversible so that the pins may lock the wheel to the boss of the connecting-rod or to the wheel N; or, as shown in Fig. 3, the freely-mounted planet-wheel L<2> may be pinned to the boss of the connecting-rod and the sun-wheel be disconnectible from the sleeve A' of the high-speed wheel M by the removal of a screw A<3>, the wheels M, N being then locked together for the direct drive by the screwing forward of a bolt A<4> to engage a hole A<2>. The weight of the treadle may be counterbalanced by weights on the link or wheel N. According to the Provisional Specification, a single driving-wheel is employed and means may be provided whereby this wheel may be driven either at high speed through the gearing or turn for turn with the end of the connecting-rod. Such means may comprise a removable cotter-pin as P<1>; or a removable screw may be passed through the connecting-rod into the planet-wheel for the high speed, or withdrawn and passed through the crank or link into the planet-wheel for the direct drive; or a screw as A<3>, Fig. 3, inserted for the high speed in a hole formed partly in the sun-wheel and partly in the driving-wheel hub or sleeve, for the low speed may be screwed through the crank or link and made to enter a corresponding hole or depression in the driving-wheel or its sleeve.
Patent GB-191400313-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Electric Switches.
Inventor: WADE HAROLD
IPC: H01H43/26
Filed: 1914-01-05
Granted: 1915-07-01
Abstract: 313. Wade, H., [Kaisser, C.]. Jan. 5. Mercury switches. - In a switch comprising a mercury container pivoted on an horizontal axis and divided into two or more compartments in communication through openings 9 of variable cross-section, the compartments communicate with one another bv means of tubes 25 adapted to lead the mercury to the opposite ends of the compartment into which each tube penetrates, the flow of the mercury from the end towards the centre of the compartment closing successively a number of external circuits by means of contacts in the container. In the motor controller shown in Fig. 1, one side of the movable container is formed by glass tubes connected to one another by metal rings 2, which form the contacts and are connected to the resistances 17. The container is moved in one or the other direction for starting or stopping the motor by means of electro-magnets 13, 14, the circuits of which are controlled by push-buttons 22, 26. The sparking takes place outside the container in a mercury cup 20, the mercury in which is preferably covered with a layer of oil. The right-hand compartment 24 of the container may be provided with two metal rings connected in series with the electromagnet 13 in order to prevent a re-starting of the motor before the mercury has returned into the compartment 24. A modification adapted for flash advertisements is shown in Fig. 4, in which tubes 45, 46 convey the mercury to the ends of the two compartments, contacts connected to the lamp circuits being placed on both sides of the container. The apparatus is rocked continuously by the electro-magnets 13, 14, as long as the main switch A remains closed. In a further modification adapted for lighting a lamp for a predetermined period, the contacts are placed in one compartment, the outlet tube from which is of larger diameter than the inlet tube. On completing the circuit of one of the actuating electro-magnets by means of a push-button, mercury flows into the compartment containing the contacts and completes the lamp circuit, which remains closed until sufficient mercury has passed to complete the circuit of the restoring electro-magnet.
Patent GB-191405818-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Priming Devices for Internal Combustion Engines.
IPC: F02N99/00
Filed: 1914-03-07
Granted: 1915-02-25
Abstract: 5818. Daimier Co., and Berriman, A. E. March 7. Starting.-A p r i m i n g - d e v i c e consists of a m e a s u r i n g - chamber 2 from which is delivered a measured quantity of petrol to the horizontal part of the induction pipe. The chamber is c l o s e d except for the passage 4<a> which communicates with passages in a valve 3; the valve is first turned by a pedal &c. through levers to bring the passage 4<a> into communication with the petrol supply pipe 6, and then it is returned to its normal position as shown by a spring. An air-release cock may be placed on the chamber.
Patent GB-191408976-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Balls for Practising Golf.
Inventor: MARTIN HELEN LOUISA
IPC: A63B69/36
Filed: 1914-04-09
Granted: 1914-10-15
Abstract: 8976. Martin, H. L. April 9. Balls.-A soft ball, particularly for use in practising golf, comprises a core of sawdust, cork chippings, or the like wrapped with layers of cotton-wool or wood wool bound or stitched with thread and covered by windings of jaconet applied in strips, the ball being completed by coating with rubber solution and painting with white enamel.
Patent GB-191414148-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to the Mounting of Bells in Belfries and the like.
Inventor: WARNER ROBERT
IPC: G10K1/38
Filed: 1914-06-12
Granted: 1915-02-11
Abstract: 14,148. Warner, R., and Greening, W. A. June 12. Spring and other yielding supports; pedestals. -To minimize and absorb the shocks and strains produced by swinging bells mounted in towers and belfries, their bearings are mounted on vertical stanchions so constructed and proportioned as to deflect and bend under the strains; springs or buffers may also be placed between the bearings and the supports. In the construction shown in Figs. 1 and 3, each bearing is carried on one or two vertical members b attached to the underframes a. Fig. 4 shows the arrangement of springs o between the horns l of a bearing of the kind described in Specification 18,896/13, and the support k carried by the vertical members b. The springs may be replaced by rubber or other elastic buffers, which may be arranged between brackets on the members d so that the whole bearing may slide.
Patent GB-191415391-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Rotary Motors.
Inventor: HAUER ELMER ELSWORTH
IPC: B08B9/04
Filed: 1914-06-26
Granted: 1914-11-26
Abstract: 15,391. Hauer, E. E. June 26. Fixed-abutment type. -A rotary engine for driving boiler - tube cleaners &c., and adapted to follow the cleaner in the tube. comprises a drum 24 carrying outwardly-sliding vanes 30 and journaled at one end in the head 2 of the casing 1 and at the other end in a fixed block 7 closed by a cap 32. To relieve the pressure of the motive fluid at this end of the drum shaft 25, an escape conduit 40 is formed in the shaft. The working chambers are formed by a fixed sleeve 4, and the motive fluid is admitted by an inlet 19 and passages 18 formed in ribs 17, Fig. 4, carried by the hollow head 12 of the casing. The passages 18 communicate with ports 11 in the block 7 and ports 10 in the sleeve 4. Exhaust is effected through ports 9 in the sleeve 4, ports 5<a> in the wearing- plate 5, and ports 3 in the head 2. A lubricant chamber 16 with a feed-hole 20 is formed in the head 12 and connected to the working chamber by a conduit 33; a cross conduit 34 controlled by a needle valve 35 supplies lubricant to the rear journal bearing, and a duct 39 and chamber 37 in the head 2 conveys lubricant from the working chamber to the front bearing.
Patent GB-191419805-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Locking Devices for Nuts and the like.
Inventor: BROWN FRED
IPC: F16B39/32
Filed: 1914-09-15
Granted: 1915-02-11
Abstract: 19,805. Brown, F. Sept. 15. Locking nuts. - In a device for locking nuts comprising a spring- pressed plunger or locking-pin located in a recess in the nut and engaging with wedge action between two consecutive threads of the bolt, the locking-pin C is released by inserting a pin E in a bore a<3> in the nut parallel to the axis of the bolt. The pin E has a wedge - shaped point, which engages the bevelled or rounded end c<1> of the pin C. A stop a<2> limits the movement of the locking-pin C.