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Patent GB-190722974-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or connected with Press Papering Machines for Cloths.
Inventor: TEMPEST CHARLES
Filed: 1907-10-17
Granted: 1908-08-27
Abstract: 22,974. Tempest, C., and Hardaker, J. T. Oct. 17. Feeding sheets.-Relates to improvements in the machine described in Specifications No. 4195, A.D. 1906, and No. 968, A.D. 1907, which relate to a method of feeding glazed sheets between the folds of a fabric &c. The glazed sheets c are fed forwards over guiding-fingers to nip-rollers a supported in spring-controlled bearings, and are engaged by guides e, which may extend the whole length of the centre table b, and which serve to prevent the sheets from riding up. The niprollers a are kept continuously rotating by suitable gearing. The fabric d is fed on to the centre table by a laying-device of suitable form.
Patent GB-190723751-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Card Clothing for Scribbling or Carding Machines.
Inventor: GAUNT JOSEPH
Filed: 1907-10-28
Granted: 1908-07-16
Abstract: 23,751. Gaunt, J. Oct. 28. Cards, wire.-The foundation of card clothing is formed with an irregular rough or coarse surface. The uneven leather or woollen felt, Fig. 1, rough surface-cloth, Fig. 2, or plush, Fig. 3, holds the card teeth at different heights, causing different vibrations of the wire, and keeping the dirt loose and on the move ready to fall out.
Patent GB-190728435-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Electric Signalling System for Railways
Inventor: GARDINER ALEC
Filed: 1907-12-27
Granted: 1908-09-17
Abstract: 28,435. Gardiner, A. Dec. 27. Signalling-systems; contacts, electric and mechanical; stopping engines and trains; recording signals. - In signalling- systems of the type described in Specification No. 22,357, A.D. 1905, in which insulated conductors and signal batteries are combined with a track circuit for giving cab signals controlled by a track relay, the conductors at the exit ends of the section are ramped. The signal circuit on the engine is broken by the ramp, and a train over-running a stop signal is thus prevented from receiving a 'clear' signal in the section in advance. Two pairs of plungers P, Fig. 2, are arranged on the engines, one pair at either end, and the front pair for any direction of running is switched into circuit. The plungers P only break circuit where lifted by ramps R at the ends of the sections, and at other times act simply as collectors. When a ramp is passed over, the local circuit of the auxiliary magnet M<2> is broken at C<1>2 or C<2>, and if the sectional conductor is dead, as is the case when the section is at 'danger,' the armature falls and exhibits the additional danger signal to the driver. The local circuit passes through the contact C' so that it cannot be remade at contacts C<2>, C<1>2, but remains broken until current passing through from the line to give a 'clear' signal, lifts the armature. The armature carries (1) a contact C<4>, which completes the circuit of a bell or buzzer Z when the armature falls, and also the circuit of a recorder magcet M<3>, which causes a pen to mark the duration of the signal on paper wound on the clock-driven cylinders W, (2) a contact C<3> in the circuit of the main signalling-magnet M, thus preventing signals from being given when the armature is down, (3) contacts C<6>, C<7> in the circuit of an electro-magnetic valve V for shutting off the power or applying the brakes, a secondary brake A in the circuit allowing the driver to close the valve circuit at any time through the contact C<7> by lifting the handle H. The recorder and stop valve may alternatively be controlled by the magnet M, and the local battery for holding up the armature may be replaced by a latch or pawl displaced by the rising of the plunger over the ramp. To adapt the system to single-line working, two insulated joints I, Fig. 3, are placed in the rail at the end of each section, instead of one, and the track conductor a, instead of having gaps, has two pairs of insulated joints on each side of each ramp R. One joint in the rail and one pair of joints in the conductor are bridged by the action of polarized relays having armatures P<1>, P<2> self-locking in the direction of last polarization, so that trains may be allowed from both directions alternately.
Patent GB-190801921-A (GB)
Title: Insoluble Condensation Products of Phenols and Formaldehyde.
Inventor: BAEKELAND LEO HENDRIK
Filed: 1908-01-28
Granted: 1909-01-07
Abstract: 1921. Baekeland, L. H. Jan.28. Samples furnished under Section 2 of Patents &c. Act, 1907. Formaldehyde compounds. -Condensation products are obtained from phenols and formaldehyde under the combined action of heat and pressure. The initial product of condensation is an oily, viscous, or solid mass, which by further treatment is converted into an intermediate product which is hard when cold but elastic when heated ; this by further treatment is converted into a final hard insoluble and infusible product, suitable for instance, as an electric insulating-composition. The initial mixture of phenol and formaldehyde may be dehydrated by the action of a salt, such as sodium or calcium chloride. Bases or basic compounds, or salts which by hydrolysis &c. produce bases, may be used as condensing-agents in quantities less than that sufficient to transform one-fifth of the phenol into phenolate. The following compounds are specified : ammonia, ammonium carbonate, caustic alkalis or their carbonates, barium, strontium, or calcium hydroxides, aniline, pyridine, amines, amides of weak acids such as carbamide, alkali sulphides, cyanides, or sulphites, 'boron, trisodium phosphate, and alkaline soaps. Alkali acetates may also be used as condensing-agents. The transformation of the initial condensation product into the final product may be effected by heating in an inert gaseous or liquid medium. Specifications Nos. 10,218 and 12,880, A.D. 1902, [Abridgment Class Paints &c.], and No. 8875, A.D. 1905, are referred to.
Patent GB-190803887-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Board Games
Inventor: STRAATEN FRITZ VAN
Filed: 1908-02-20
Granted: 1908-05-07
Abstract: 3887. Straaten, F. van. Feb. 20. G a m e splayed with boards and pieces or men.-A war game is played on a board shown in Fig. 1, which is preferably cast in some plastic material so as to show in relief the undulations of the ground. This board consists of two parts a, b separated from each other by the representation of a river c, the separation being preferably complete so that the two parts may be removed from the box or framed. The board is divided into squares which have central lozenge-shaped depressions f and diagonal grooves g. Three kinds of playing-pieces are used : (1) Pieces with flat bottoms; (2) pieces representing infantry and provided with feet having lozenge-shaped projections to fit in the recesses on the board ; and (3) pieces representing cavalry and provided with tongued feet to slide in the grooves. Some of the squares may be without grooves, as shown at l<1>, Fig. 6, so that the pieces representing cavalry cannot move across them ; others may be without the lozenge-shaped depressions. The direction of the lozenge shows which way the infantry pieces may move.
Patent GB-190803935-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and connected with Automatic Lathes and the like.
Inventor: HOPKINS JAMES HENRY
Filed: 1908-02-21
Granted: 1908-07-02
Abstract: 3935. Hopkins, J. H., and Smith, H. J. Feb. 21. Milling; lathes.- In an attachment for automatic lathes for producing flats on work such as screw-caps, a rotary cutter p is driven in the same direction as the work d and is controlled. from the tool-slide h of the lathe. In the case shown, the cutter has three cutting-points and rotates at twice the speed of the work. The cutter is mounted on a slide s and driven through a universal - joint coupling o from a shaft q feathered in a hollow shaft l on the tool -slide h. The shaft l is driven by gearing from the main shaft g, and a spring r takes up slackness in the connexions between the shaft l and the cutter. The slide s is fed as the slide h moves by means of levers w., x, y.
Patent GB-190810102-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Bells, Gongs, and the like.
Inventor: HOLLAND JOSEPH WILLIAM
Filed: 1908-05-09
Granted: 1909-03-18
Abstract: 10,102. Holland, J. W., and Latham, T. May 9. Gongs. - Gongs are made of a bar of metal of semicircular or approximately semicircular cross-section, as shown in Fig. 1, which is a plan of one form having open ends, and holes b for suspending. One or both ends may be plugged by a D-shaped piece d, Fig. 4, which may be struck at its convex or flat surface. Holes may be provided near both ends, the gong being then hung horizontally. The gong may be made by rolling, drawing, or casting, or by cutting a round tube in two. In the Provisional Specification, it is also stated that a striking surface may be formed by inserting a rivet near the upper end of the bar on a central line, both ends of the rivet projecting, and that the holes b may extend to the edges to form slots.
Patent GB-190810939-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Cooking Apparatus.
Inventor: HAGE ALOYS
Filed: 1908-05-20
Granted: 1908-10-22
Abstract: 10,939. Hage, A. May 20. Cooking-stoves.-In apparatus of the kind consisting of cooking-vessels in a liquid heating-bath, the bath consists of several chambers, each containing a cooking-vessel, connected by short pipes. Fig. 3 shows a plan of a cooking-apparatus consisting of two vessels 1, 2 each in its bath or jacket 13, 14, heated by front or rear flues 6, 9, and a flue 16 between the baths 13, 14 which are connected by short tubes 15. The combustion products from the fire 4 pass under and between the baths 13, 14, and round a partition 18 near the chimney 20. The outlet to the chimney is divided by partitions 22, 23, 24, shown also in Fig. 5, and dampers are fitted so as to heat the baths to different temperatures. The flues 6, 9 may be omitted. In the modifications shown in Figs. 6 and 7, the three baths 13, 14, 25 contain respectively five and three cooking-vessels 1, 2, 28, and are connected by short pipes 15, 26. The chimney 27 is near the junction of the flues.
Patent GB-190811546-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Method of and means for, Separating the Components of Gaseous Mixtures.
Inventor: MAZZA EDOARDO
Filed: 1908-05-27
Granted: 1908-10-22
Abstract: 11,546. Mazza, E., and Murrieta, C. de May 27. Separators for gaseous substances.-Mixtures of gases, such as air, are separated into their components by being passed at a high speed through an annular space C between two concentric cylinders A. B. The space C is interrupted by a stop R, on one side of which the mixture is introduced, the separated gases issuing on the other, as indicated by the arrows. The invention is distinguished from those described in Specifications No, 7421, A.D. 1906, and No. 13,598, A.D. 1907.
Patent GB-190812443-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or connected with Sleepers for Permanent Way.
Inventor: FABER OSCAR
Filed: 1908-06-09
Granted: 1909-06-09
Abstract: 12,443. Faber, O. June 9. Chairs; sleepers.-Sleepers of reinforced concrete are providedwith chairs having lugs &c. attached to the reinforcement of the sleeper. The sleeper a, Fig. 3, is wider at the ends and may be deeper at the middle, and is reinforced by round bars c, d, e, f, of which d, e are bent up to the top of the sleeper near its centre. These bars may be tied together, and may be keyed to the conrete by indenting them or bending their ends, or by providing their ends with screw - threads and nuts. The chair g of cast iron has two sets of three lugs i through which the reinforcement bars pass, or only the central lugs may be provided. The sleeper may be strengthened by a sheet k of expanded metal or the like placed under the chair. The chair may be formed of a metal skeleton 3, roughened or stamped to form projections for a filling, preferably of more or less neat cement reinforced by expanded metal &c. 6. The two lugs 5 may be slit to provide two sets of three lugs. In a modification the reinforcement bars are bent around projections or pins provided on the chair. The edges and corners of the sleeper are preferably rounded or chamfered.
Patent GB-190816888-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Combined Abdomen Compress and Hose Supporters.
Inventor: TAYLOR THOMAS PORTER
Filed: 1908-08-11
Granted: 1909-02-18
Abstract: 16,888. Taylor, T. P. Aug. 11. Belts; stocking- suspenders.-An abdominal belt combined with hose-supporters comprises a vertical steel strip 1, Fig. 2, provided with h a hole 2 for attachment to the stud of a corset clasp below the waist line, and lateral steel strips 3 inclined upwards. The strips 3 are attached to the lower end of the strip 1, and are provided with a belt 5 and buckle 4. The strips are partly or wholly covered by cloth 9, and the hose-supporters 7 are either attached to the cloth 9 or directly to the strips 3 by attachments 8. As shown in Fig. 7, the vertical strip comprises two short plates 23, 24, to the upper of which are attached two metal bands 25 connected to the lateral metal bands 26. The vertical strip may be in one piece, as shown in Fig. 2. As shown in Fig. 6, there are no lateral strips, the straps 5, 18 being attached directly to the lower end of the strip 1. Adjusting-straps 21 may be attached to the upper end of the strip 1 and pass through rings 22 on the straps 5, 18.
Patent GB-190824011-A (GB)
Title: Method of Bringing Two Dissimilarly Contoured Printing Surfaces into Register.
Inventor: HADDAN HERBERT JOHN
Filed: 1908-11-09
Granted: 1909-03-25
Abstract: 24,011. Haddan, H. J., [Southgate Machinery Co.]. Nov. 9. Drawings to Specification. Making printing-surfaces.-In a method of producing duplicate flat and cylindrical printing-surfaces for use in the same machines, the two backed surfaces are similarly and equally bent to the desired cylindrical shape, and one of them is then restored to the flat condition without restoring its superficial distortion. In one process, the two backed surfaces are pressed upon a convex surface equal in curvature to the cylinder upon which one of the surfaces is to be used. This bending elongates the printing - surfaces to some extent. The cylindrical surface requires no further treatment, but the other surface is denuded of its backing by heating, flattened out without shortening it, and then backed-up again in the usual way. Cylindrical and flat surfaces are thus obtained which register exactly. In one of several modified pro. cesses described, one of the plates is given a backing twice the thickness of that given to the other, and the thicker plate is bent upon a cylinder having a radius of curvature equal to one half of the radius of the other cylinder. The processes described may be used for producing cylindrical surfaces of different curvature as well as flat and curved surfaces. Instead of using a fusible backing, a detachable flexible backing or a metallic backing softened by heat, or an organic backing softened by water, may be used.
Patent GB-190825299-A (GB)
Title: Improved Process for the Preparation and Treatment of Peat.
Inventor: BOULT ALFRED JULIUS
Filed: 1908-11-24
Granted: 1909-11-24
Abstract: 25,299. Boult, A. J., [Bradley, W. H.]. Nov. 24. Excavating peat. In a suction excavator rotary cutters are mounted in an adjustable casing at the end of a swinging arm 2 on a scow which carries an engine and pump. It simultaneously excavates, breaks-up, and suspends the peat in water, preparatory to treatment in mixing, grinding, and drying apparatus. Specifications No. 25,300, A.D. 1908, [Abridgment Class Centrifugal drying &c.], and Nos. 8540 and 8541, A.D. 1909, [Abridgment Class Drying], are referred to. [Reference has been directed under Section 7 of Patents &c. Act, 1907, to Specifications No. 29, A.D. 1869, No. 2714, A.D. 1873, No. 5036, A.D. 1891, No. 3215, A.D. 1901. No. 6308, A.D. 1904, and No. 21,321, A.D. 1906, [Abridgment Class Fuel, Manufacture of], and No. 16,978, A.D. 1907, [Abridgment Class Drying].]
Patent GB-190827226-A (GB)
Title: Improved Means for Effecting the Sterilization of Water by Ozonation.
Filed: 1908-12-15
Granted: 1909-12-09
Abstract: 27,226. Ozonair, Ltd., and Joseph, E. L. Dec. 15. Liquids, sterilizing.-Apparatus for sterilizing water by means of ozone comprises a tower A containing water-sprayers d, glass or other balls E of uniform size, and evenly-distributed nozzles f for injecting the gas beneath the surface of the water. The liquid flows off through a siphon G, which may be connected to a series of apertures in the part C. The gas may be circulated by means of a pipe J which may contain an enlargement O for separating moisture, a drying-apparatus K, a cooling-apparatus N, a blower M, and an ozonizer H of the kind described in Specification No. 7836, A.D. 1907, [Abridgment Class Acids, alkalies, &c.]. Fresh air may be admitted through a valve m and cleaning-apparatus L. Separated moisture may be returned through a pipe P, and means for automatically cutting off the water supply and giving an alarm when the gas supply fails may be provided. The water may finally pass over riffles &c. so as to make it give up any gas that may have been absorbed. If the gas supply is regulated so that the gas is entirely absorbed, the valve may be kept shut. According to the Provisional Specification, the cleaner L may be in the path of the circulating gas.
Patent GB-190827858-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in the Distribution of Electric Energy and in Cables therefor.
Inventor: TANNER ALBERT EDGAR
Filed: 1909-04-08
Granted: 1910-04-08
Abstract: 27,858. Tanner, A. E.. and Claremont, E. A. April 8, 1909. Distributing.-In electric distribution systems involving the use of cables containing pressuredistributing conductors connected to sources of electric potential with the object of equalizing the stress throughout the dielectric, the said pressuredistributing conductors D are composed of layers of tape of, for instance, copper or aluminium, wound spirally so as to overlap one another, and are connected to their pressure-supplying devices T, at both ends, or at intermediate points, or at the ends and at intermediate points. The cross sectional areas of the main conductors and of each of the pressure-distributing conductors are in proportion to the current carried, the cross-sectional area of the pressure-distributing conductors being graded so as to be inversely proportional to the distance from the point of connexion to the source of electric potential. Should the pressure-distributing conductors be evenly spaced through the insulation at a distance equal to the radius of the inner conductor, the said conductors (excluding the outer one in the case of a non-concentric cable) are of equal cross-sectional area. The outer conductor in a concentric cable has to be capable of carrying in addition to the working current the sum of the capacity currents of all the pressure-distributing conductors and of the inner conductor ; in a non- concentric cable, the outer pressure-distributing conductor has to be capable of carrying the sum of the capacity currents of all conductors contained within it. Formulµ are given in the Specification for calculating currents in the various conductors, and for determining the correct cross-sectional area of these conductors. In alternating-current systems, to reduce the current which has to be supplied from the devices furnishing electric potential at points on the pressure-distributing conductors, choking-coils A may be used between these conductors D and the main conductors I, O.
Patent GB-190900336-A (GB)
Title: Automatic Apparatus for Feeding Boilers.
Inventor: JUENGER AUGUST
IPC: F22D5/22
Filed: 1909-01-06
Granted: 1910-01-06
Abstract: 336. J³nger, A. Jan. 6. Alarms, low-water; levels, regulating. - Relates to improvements in automatic feeding-apparatus for boilers of the kind in which a float within a closed chamber either inside or outside the boiler is caused to open or close a steampipe through which steam passes to the feedpump or injector or to an alarm. The invention consists chiefly of improved means for guiding the float without the use of stuffing- boxes. The chamber G is connected to the steam and water spaces of the boiler, and contains a bottle-shaped float s which surmounts a steam-pipe a connected to the feed-pump or injector. The float s may be guided by the walls of the chamber G and by a ring r sliding on the steam-pipe; or two rings on the pipe a may be employed. The pipe a carries a valve casing g, the equilibrium valves v<1>, v<2> of which are attached to a partition q in the float. The equilibrium valve may be fitted at the upper part of the chamber, the neck of the float being correspondingly lengthened. The pipe a passes through a stuffing-box b, and is adjustable in height. The apparatus may be used as a lowwater alarm by causing the steam to pass to a whistle and by arranging the valves v<1>, v<2> to open when the water falls somewhat below the normal level. Reference has been directed by the Comptroller to Specification 8629/98.
Patent GB-190908119-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Rotary Engines.
Inventor: WICKS FREDERICK
Filed: 1909-04-05
Granted: 1910-02-10
Abstract: 8119. Wicks, F. April 5. No Patent granted (Sealing fee not paid). Fixed-abutment type; packing vanes. - Relates to rotary engines of the fixed-abutment type with piston having outwardly-sliding vanes. An engine with a slotted piston drum 2, Fig. 2, rotating eccentrically in a circular casing, is provided with a compound vane comprising several plates 8, 9, 10, 11 pressed apart from their complementary plates 8<a>, 9<a>, 10<a>, 11<a> by centrally-arranged springs, the divisions being out of register to prevent leakage. The inner plates are provided with side packing-bars 12, Fig. 5, pressed outwards by springs 14. The invention is applicable to pumps, meters, and the like.
Patent GB-190909432-A (GB)
Title: Metallic Stuffing-box Packing.
Inventor: RHODES JOHN MASON
IPC: F16J15/28
Filed: 1909-04-21
Granted: 1909-07-08
Abstract: 9432. Rhodes, J. M., and Whittenberg, J. N. April 21. Packing, metallic.-In packing consisting of flexible metal rings pressed on to the rod by rubber backing, the backing is protected from oil by asbestos rings 6, Fig. 1, moulded with the backing-rings, or by compound metal rings 11, shown in elevation and in section in Fig. 4. Each metal packing consists of two segmental rings, flat on one side and curved on the other, and arranged to break joint. The segments are secured together by wires.