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Patent GB-190403794-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in the Manufacture of Flash-lights for Photography.
Filed: 1904-02-15
Granted: 1904-12-01
Abstract: 3794. Abel, C. D., [Akt.-Ges. f³r Anilin Fabrikation]. Feb. 15. Lamps, actinic.-Photographic flashlight preparations are made by combining magnesium or aluminium with nitrates of the rare earths, or with the complex salts of these nitrates with other nitrates. Two different compositions are specified.
Patent GB-190407504-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Boot and Shoe Machinery.
Inventor: ADDISON HENRY
Filed: 1904-03-29
Granted: 1905-02-02
Abstract: 7504. Addison, H., and Everitt, F., [trading as Addison & Everitt]. March 29. Surfacing and polishing.-Relates to the construction of a compact multiple boot-finishing machine, by means of which the operator can perform such operations as scouring, brushing, polishing, &c., without having to shift from the one position. Three shafts 1, 7, T, carrying an assortment of finishing-tools, are mounted in a revoluble table B, which is normally locked by the engagement of a spring bolt Z with one of a number of holes in the bottom of the table. To turn the table, this bolt is released by depressing a treadle Y, and, when the particular tool has been brought into a position in front of the operator, and the table again locked, a hand-lever is moved so as to bring a lever 17, carrying a rotating pulley 16 driven by a belt 14 from a countershaft R, into such a position that a further movement of the lever throws the belt on to one or other of the driving-pulleys 6, 13, X of the shafts 1, 7, T respectively, as the case may be. The shaft 1 is preferably arranged at a lower leve 1 to that of the shafts 7, T, which are in the same plane, and in order that it can be driven by the belt 14 the diameter of its driving-pulley 6 is greater than that of the driving-pulleys 13, X. In another arrangement, the table B can be automatically raised and lowered bodily to move the shaft 1 into or out of its operative position. Other finishing-tools are also mounted on shafts D, F, carried by a bracket C bolted to an extension of the table B. These shafts are driven when required by belts K, N, the latter of which can be shifted from a pulley N' to a pulley M by means of a hand-lever P. This lever and the shifting- fork U of the belt N are, however, normally locked with the belt riding on the pulley N<1>, in which position the table B can be rotated. The dust &c. is withdrawn from the machine by means of a fan driven by pulleys 31, 32 and a band 33.
Patent GB-190416770-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in the Manufacture of Chenille for Pile Fabrics and in Looms therefor.
Inventor: WATZLAWIK FRITZ
Filed: 1904-07-30
Granted: 1904-10-27
Abstract: 16,770. Watzlawik, F. July 30. Chenille for use in the manufacture of variegated pile fabrics to imitate hand-made carpets, especially fine Persian carpets, is woven with ground warps 4, Fig. 1, and different-coloured wetts 5, which are bound to the ground warps by crossing threads 2, 3, and binding-threads 1. The threads 2, 3 pass under the wefts 5 and cross each other over the warps 4, and the threads 1 pass under the wefts 5 and over the crossings of the threads 2, 3. The threads 1 draw up the parts of the wefts 5 between the warps 4, so that, when the wefts 5 are cut and the fabric is divided into chenille strips, the wefts are drawn by the threads 1, 2, 3 into the shape of a W. Shuttleless looms.-In looms for weaving the above-described fabrics, which are to be cut into the chenille strips, the threads 1, 2, 3 are passed through the eyes of needles A, B, C, Fig. 4. The warp threads 4 are carried by rod D, which can be moved laterally, by means of a cam or otherwise, to separate the pairs of warps 4 for the passage of the needle A. When the needles A, B, Care raised, the needles B, C are moved past one another in a horizontal direction by suitable mechanism, so that the threads 2, 3 are brought alternately to the right and left of the warps 4. This crossing takes place while the needle A is moving down. The needles B, C are then depressed, and the weft 5 is inserted and beaten up by a comb 6, which is operated by any suitable beat-up motion. The weft threads are drawn through the sheds by means of a toothed carrier 10, which is reciprocated in the usual way by means of skew-wheels 11. The carrier is provided with a pair of nippers 9 at each end, so that wefts can be inserted from sources of supply at each side of the loom, instead of from one side only. The nippers are opened by spring- controlled levers. The differently-coloured weft threads are supplied through pivoted tubes 14, arranged in the shape of a pyramid in the usual manner, and carried by pivoted levers 16, which are connected by rods 17 and are oscillated to and fro, so that they come alternately into the working position. Each tube 14 may be drawn into the central position, to present its weft to the nippers 9, by means of a cord 25 connected to one arm of a T-shaped lever 30, pivoted on the lever 16. When a weft of a particular colour is to be inserted, a cord 28 from the jacquard acts on one of a series of pivoted bell-crank levers 26 at each side of the loom, so that the long arm of the lever 26 is raised against the action of a spring 29. When the lever 16 swings outwards, the lever 26 strikes the vertical arm of one of the levers 30, so that the corresponding cord 25 is pulled, and the required tube 14 drawn inwards to present its weft to the nippers 9. The displaced lever 30 is retained in its deflected position by a pivoted catch, until it is freed therefrom by the action of a pivoted lever 20, which is oscillated by a reciprocating rod 19.
Patent GB-190417094-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Clothes-brushes.
Inventor: THIEMT ALBERT
Filed: 1904-08-04
Granted: 1904-09-29
Abstract: 17,094. Thiemt, A. Aug. 4. Brushes combined with scrapers; clothes brushes. -In order to provide a clothes brush with a scraper for removing mud from the clothing, one or more curved metal plates b, Figs. 2 and 3, are sunk into the back, either at the ends or sides. The plate may or may not project beyond the stock of the brush. It may be fixed to the brush by screws or by tubes c which are soldered to the underside of the plate and are flared out on the underside of the stock.
Patent GB-190418020-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Electrical Driving Mechanism for Machinery in General.
Inventor: HILL JOSEPH RICHARD
Filed: 1904-08-19
Granted: 1905-06-01
Abstract: 18,020. Hill, J. R. Aug. 19. Motors, gearing for.-A shaft is geared to the shaft of an electromotor by a worm and wormwheel contained in an oil box. Fig. 3 shows the driving-mechanism on a bed-plate. The shaft b of the electromotor a carries a flywheel c and a worm d gearing with the wheel e on the shaft f, the motion of which may be transmitted to any machinery. The worm d and wheel e are enclosed in an oil-containing case g, the shafts b,f rotating in packed or gland bearings.
Patent GB-190419438-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Seats for Water Closets.
Inventor: LEADLEY JOHN WRIGHT
Filed: 1904-09-09
Granted: 1904-10-27
Abstract: 19,438. Leadley, J. W. Sept. 9. Closet seats.- The back-rail a to which the seat c is hinged is formed in one piece with the earthenware basin. Bushed holes f are formed in it for the reception of pins e which are carried by plates or lugs fixed to the side of the seat or by projections c<1> as shown. Instead of being made integral with the basin, the rail a may dovetail with the back b of the basin as shown in Fig. 5.
Patent GB-190425282-A (GB)
Title: Improved Electrode for Apparatus producing Radiant Electrical Energy.
Filed: 1904-11-21
Granted: 1905-10-26
Abstract: 25,282. Siemens & Halske Akt.-Ges. Nov. 24, A.D. 1903, [date applied for under Patents Act, A.D. 1901]. R÷ntgen-ray apparatus.-The electrodes of R÷ntgen tubes are made of tantalum, this metal being particularly suitable for the anticathode owing to the high temperature at which it fuses. Tantalum may be used merely to support the electrodes, which may be made of a more easily fusible material, and cooling-devices of any suitable kind may be provided to prevent the anticathode from reaching too high a temperature.
Patent GB-190426180-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Motor Axles of Automobiles and the like.
Inventor: SPYKER JACOBUS
Filed: 1904-12-01
Granted: 1905-01-26
Abstract: 26,180. Spyker, J. Dec. 1. Motor road vehicles.-Inclination is given to the back wheels of motor vehicles, which are keyed to a live axle, and a Cardan joint is provided on each side of the differential gear as near the wheels as possible. The tube D encloses the central portion of the axle, and is provided with an inclined flange B on which fits a hollow barrel F containing the inclined portion A. This communicates motion to the wheel by a square hole C in the nave M. The Cardan juint is shown at K.
Patent GB-190501595-A (GB)
Title: An Improvement in Lenses.
Inventor: NEHRING ULRICH
Filed: 1905-01-26
Granted: 1905-06-29
Abstract: 1595. Nehring, U. Feb. 15, 1904, [date applied for under Patents Act, 1901]. No Patent granted (Sealing fee not paid). Lenses.-With the object of securing uniform definition over a photographic plate, an auxiliary lens is introduced laterally to the objective to shift its focus axially during the time of exposure. The auxiliary lens 4 is mounted on an axis 5 fitted with a short arm which is acted upon by a pneumatic push 9 to move the lens 4 into position before the objective 3. The lens 4 may be of coloured glass to act as a colour-screen ; it may also be operated automatically and simultaneously with the shutter. Specification No. 1594, A.D. 1905, is referred to.
Patent GB-190502457-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Fountain Pens
Inventor: JOHNSON JAMES YATE
Filed: 1905-02-07
Granted: 1905-04-13
Abstract: 2457. Johnson, J. Y., [Eagle Pencil Co.]. Feb. 7. Pens, reservoir. In a self-filling pen, the collapsible rubber or other reservoir E, Fig. 4, is fixed to the pen point B, and is compressed prior to filling by a presser I, having a shank engaging with a recess j in the plug F at the end of the tubular handle A. Sliding longitudinally in the plug F is a plunger G with a head H ; the narrowed end g of the plunger is coupled to the bar I by a pin l working in a slot i<4>, by a link, or by other means, in such a manner that the outward movement of the plunger G causes the reservoir E to be compressed.
Patent GB-190505284-A (GB)
Title: An Improvement in Carpet Sweeper Handles
Inventor: STARKWEATHER DELL FAYETT
Filed: 1905-03-14
Granted: 1905-08-10
Abstract: 5284. Starkweather, D. F. March 14. Ferrules for handles. - Broom handles A &c. are provided at the end which fits into the stock with a metal ferrule B, the ends C of which fit into a slot D passing half way or entirely through the handle end. The ferrule is then pressed to conform to the shape of a screw already cut in the handle, and is ready to be fitted into a screw-threaded socket.
Patent GB-190508925-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Buttons.
Inventor: KAPP OTTO
Filed: 1905-04-27
Granted: 1905-09-28
Abstract: 8925. Kapp, O. April 27. Buttons and button-fasteners.-Buttons are made in several parts and fixed without thread, the distinguishing feature being the pyramidal head c on the stem b. The head c cuts through the material and is secured within the button by the forked plate g.
Patent GB-190514412-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Circular Knitting Machines.
Inventor: TUSELL JOSE
Filed: 1905-07-12
Granted: 1906-02-15
Abstract: 14,412. Tusell, J. July 12. Circular knitting-machines.-Relates to a patterncontrolled thread-guide changing and threadsevering mechanism. The cutting-blade E, Fig. 10, on a sleeve I is moved by a vertically sliding plate F operated by a cam and roller, the tail W on the blade E being previously released from the adjustable end A<14> of a lever A', Fig. 15. The latter is rocked by the engagement of an adjustable cam A<3> with suitably arranged catches R<3> on a rack ring R, Fig. 3, moved on at each revolution of the camcylinder, against the friction of a brake, by a truckactuated pawl-carrying arm which can be locked out of action by hand. The pattern barrel, Fig. 16, is a ratchet-wheel carrying on an extended boss a number of disks C<2> steadied by a spring B<3>. The disks are grooved and carry dogs C<4>, C<8>, Figs. 16, 22, and 23, arranged to lift up corresponding bellcrank thread-guides D', D<4>, &c. which are mounted on an axle in a casing fitting accurately on the machine. The dogs C<4> have one, and the dogs C<8> have two, lateral extensions, which fit against and in the latter case pass through and lock the pattern disks. The pattern-barrel is driven by a pawl A<10> on the rocking lever A', the motion of which also disengages the shear blade.
Patent GB-190520420-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Steam Engine Valves and Valve Gear.
Inventor: EASTWOOD WILLIAM
Filed: 1905-10-10
Granted: 1906-05-31
Abstract: 20,420. Eastwood, W. Oct. 10. Valves and valve-gear; valves, expansion.-The cylinder is provided with two vertically-working inlet piston slide valves having internal cut-off valves; and with two exhaust valves. The main valves are jointly or independently actuated from a lay shaft by cam, eccentric, or equivalent mechanism. The cut-off valve is worked either independently or by the main valve spindle through releasing-gear. The admission valve of an horizontal engine is shown in Fig. 1. The rods 6 of the valve 3 have cross-heads 7, 8. The crosshead 8 slides on the rod 9 and carries a trip-lever 11<2> engaging a reciprocating tappet 12 controlled by the governor. The cut-off valve spindle 13 carries a dash-pot piston 14 and a slide 15 which engages the catch 11<1>. The valves move together until the catch is withdrawn, when the cut-off valve closes the ports. The admission-valve chambers are situated above and the exhaust-valve chambers below the axis of the cylinder. In an arrangement for a vertical engine, the cut-off valve spindle passes through a hollow admission-valve spindle attached to a reciprocating slide which carries levers provided with catches engaging a cross-head on the cut-off valve spindle. The catches are thrown out of gear by an oscillating rod provided with cams for the purpose.
Patent GB-190521449-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Automatic Controlling Gear for use with Hydraulic Accumulators.
Inventor: MCKINLAY ROBERT
Filed: 1905-10-21
Granted: 1906-08-30
Abstract: 21,449. McKinlay, R. Oct. 21. Governing pumps. - Relates to automatic controlling-gear for use with hydraulic accumulators. The steam valve of the pumping-engine is operated by means of a loaded piston a, which is normally raised by means of the ram g, the cylinders and their connexions being filled with a working fluid by means of the pump q. When the accumulator rises to its highest position, the bracket o lifts the tappet m and raises the ram g, allowing the piston a to fall and close the valve e and thus stop the pump.
Patent GB-190522919-A (GB)
Title: Improved Method and Apparatus for Estimating and Recording the Quality of Gases.
Filed: 1905-11-08
Granted: 1906-11-08
Abstract: 22,919. Cambridge Scientific Instrument Co., and Burton, C. V. Nov. 8. Drawings to Specification. Photometric apparatus.-The quality of a gas is automatically recorded by introducing it into a chamber of which one wall is porous and connected to a pressure-measuring device, and causing the movements of the measuring-device to give a record. Atmospheric pressure is momentarily established in the chamber at starting. The records may be made continuously.
Patent GB-190607132-A (GB)
Title: A Safety Device for Railways.
Inventor: MAUSSHARDT MICHAEL
Filed: 1906-03-24
Granted: 1906-10-25
Abstract: 7132. Mausshardt, M. March 24. Indicators, station, stopping-place, and like.- Fixed tract contacts mechanically actuate contacts on the engine to actuate miniature signals and electric bells indicating the importance of the next station. A track contact q actuates one or other of the pivot levers a, b on the engine according to whether the next station is a large or small one and actuates both levers at a terminus or junction. The lever a raises a vertically moving rod f, which raises a pivoted indicating- flap g, which also closes the circuit of a bell i, and similarly with the lever b and its attachments. The bells i, k are of different tones, and clockwork devices o actuated by levers l, m from the vertically moving rods register the amount of vertical movement.
Patent GB-190610861-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Electric Meters.
Inventor: FERY CHARLES
Filed: 1906-05-09
Granted: 1907-01-03
Abstract: 10,861. FÚry, C., and Grassot, E. May9. Energy and quantity meters.-The effects of friction in motor and pendulum meters are eliminated by arranging the meters to run at uniform speed without load and registering the amounts of variation in speed due to the passage of current. In the arrangement shown in Fig. 1, the armatures a, a' of two compound-wound iron-cored motors are both connected to two differential gears d, d' ; the gear d drives a counting-train z in proportion to the difference of speeds, and the gear d' drives a train of wheels in proportion to the mean of the speeds of the armatures. This train effects periodic reversals of the current in the shunt and armature windings, and also of the meter train z by means of the sliding gears e, e'. In the arrangement shown in Fig. 2, the armature a of the motor meter runs at about half speed without load, and drives the counting-train z in either direction, through worms s, s<1> and wheels r, r' according to the position of a lever l<1> carrying a connecting-wheel r<2> and a reversing-switch f, f<1>. The lever l<1> is moved periodically by a cam piece g, actuated by means of a spring pawl on a lever l from a constantspeed motor m in a shunt circuit, or by means of independent clock-work. The current in the armature and sleeve coils c, c<1> is reversed as in the previous arrangement. In the arrangement shown in Fig. 4, the switch f, f<1>, actuated by the constantspeed motor m, reverses the current in the shunt field coils c, c<1> only, and thus the direction of rotation of the armature changes at each reversal, the meter train being connected directly to the armature in this case. This modification can be applied to the arrangement shown in Fig. 1.
Patent GB-190613831-A (GB)
Title: Shirt Starching & Wringing Machine for Fronts & Cuffs
Inventor: BENSON FREDERICK BENJAMIN
Filed: 1906-06-16
Granted: 1907-02-28
Abstract: 13,831. Benson, F. B. June 16. Starching clothes; wringing-machines.-The fronts and cuffs of shirts are squeezed between flat surfaces in a starching-tub and afterwards withdrawn by wringing-rollers. In the tub b is fixed a rubberfaced plate o, while another reciprocating rubberfaced squeezer p is connected by a spring piece r to one end of a lever r<1> pivoted on a fixed part g of the lid, the other end of the lever being reciprocated by a connecting. rod s and a crank-disk s<1> on the driving-shaft. One of the wringing-rollers c is mounted in bearings e on the movable part of the lid, while the other roller d is keyed on a spindle d' mounted in bearings sliding in guides d<2> on the fixed part g. A transverse spring i is compressed centrally by a device j, and its ends bear against the ends of guided rods k bearing at their other ends on cams m on the spindle d<1>. When the rollers are not in operation, the pressure on them is released by the entry of the ends of the rods k into recesses m<1> in the cams, so deep that the spring comes against fixed stops. The parts f, g of the lid are fastened by catches f<1>. A handle h turns the roller d. According to the Provisional Specification, the face of the squeezerp is of metal, the rollers are arranged one over another, the lower roller has fast and loose pulleys, and the closing of the lid is arranged to lock the gearing so that the wringer can only operate when the tub is open.
Patent GB-190617732-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Railway & like Rail Joints
Inventor: LEECH LUCIAN BONAPARTE
Filed: 1906-08-07
Granted: 1906-10-04
Abstract: 17,732. Leech, L. B. Feb. 14, [date applied for under Patents Act, 1901]. Rail joints; chairs.-Railway and like rail-joint chairs consist of a bed-plate 3 and side plates 4 secured by suitable fastenings 7. The cut-away portions 2 at the end of the rails are made long enough to allow for contraction and expansion of the rails.
Patent GB-190619722-A (GB)
Title: An Improvement in the Method of Fixing Heel Protectors to Boots and Shoes.
Inventor: SCHROEDER FREDERICK WILLIAM
Filed: 1906-09-04
Granted: 1907-07-11
Abstract: 19,722. Schroeder, F. W. Sept. 4. Heels; heel protectors. - A h e e l protector b of india - rubber, leather, or other yielding material is let into the heel, and secured by a screw c inserted from the inside of the boot or shoe. The protector, Fig. 5, is slightly rounded on its upper and lower surfaces, to fit a corresponding channel in the heel. The screw is inclined at a slight angle, so that, on tightening up, the protector is drawn tightly against the cut-away portion of the heel, and a portion of the material of the protector is drawn into an enlargement of the screw hole, as shown in Fig. 2. When worn, the protector may be reversed on the heel. Metal protectors of the same shape may be similarly attached.
Patent GB-190700207-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Reducing Valves.
Inventor: FAIRBAIRN JOHN URRY
Filed: 1907-01-03
Granted: 1907-05-02
Abstract: 207. Fairbairn, J. U., and Smith, J. W. Jan. 3. Reducing-valves.-A reducing-valve comprises a metal chamber containing two valves b, e, which open in the direction of the current and are connected to a lever c mounted on a shaft d passing to the outside of the casing. The valves open against the resistance of an adjustable spring p, the action of the spring being supplemented by a piston j which works in a cylinder actuated by fluid on the low-pressure side of the valve. The control by the piston j and spring p is transmitted through a lever m mounted on a shaft n, which is connected to the shaft d by levers and links. Should the pressure on the delivery side of the valve increase unduly, this presssure opens the spring-closed valve g and, acting on the piston j, moves the valves b, e so as to restrict the passage of the fluid.