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Patent GB-190720126-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Staples.
Inventor: CALLOW ANDREW EDWARD
Filed: 1907-09-09
Granted: 1908-01-16
Abstract: 20,126. Callow, A. E. Sept. 9. Staples.-The limbs of staples are formed to make them curl in predetermined directions when driven in. The limbs b, c of the staple a, Fig. 1, are formed with oblique downward cuts f, outward projecting ridges g, and curved points e which cause the limbs to curl, as shown in dotted lines, when driven in. The other sides of the limbs may also be notched as shown at f<2>. The staples are designed so that the limbs curl in the same or different predetermined directions. The points may be rounded as at e, Fig. 9, instead of curved, and the cuts f and ridges g may be on the outside of the curve, Fig. 9.
Patent GB-190721575-A (GB)
Title: Improvement in Helical Groove Cutting Machines.
Inventor: VOGT GEORGE HERBERT
Filed: 1907-09-28
Granted: 1908-09-17
Abstract: 21,575. Vogt, G. H. Sept. 28. Lathes; dividing- apparatus. - Apparatus for cutting multiple threads or helical grooves is constructed so that the material to be grooved passes in front of a fixed revolving cutter, and is provided with automatic spacing-apparatus for the grooves. A slidable bed 1, Fig. 1, carries a headstock and tailstock supporting the work. A loose pulley 7 carries several turns of a wire, which is preferably secured to the pulley at the central turn, passes round guide-pulleys 9, and is secured to a fixed abutment 10, so that as the bed 1 is traversed the wheel 7 is rotated. The wheel carries a spring detent 12 which engages notches in a dividing-wheel 14 fast to the spindle. The detent carries a pivoted latch 19 normally held radial by a spring 20 and notched to receive a projection 21, Fig. 7, on the detent. On the forward stroke the latch swings aside on encountering a cam 18, but on the return stroke the cam raises the latch, and with it the detent for a space of several notches, according to the length of the cam employed. To give sufficient friction to prevent the work from turning with the wheel 7 when the detent is raised, the tailstock spindle 22 is a sliding fit in its bearings, and is threaded at 23 to receive a nut 25 with arms 24 which embrace the tailstock. A spring 26 is confined between the nut and the tailstock, and imparts a yielding pressure to the work. The pressure on the spring may be imparted by a cam instead of by a screw.
Patent GB-190722805-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Easy Chairs, Theatre Seats and Ordinary Upholstered Chairs.
Inventor: MACKAY ARTHUR JOSEPH HIGNELL
Filed: 1907-10-16
Granted: 1908-06-18
Abstract: 22,805. Mackay, A. J. H., and Butcher, F. W. Oct. 16. Boxes combined with chairs and seats.-Theatre seats and easy and other chairs are provided with a part B beneath the seat, which can be used as a box.
Patent GB-190723952-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Clutches.
Inventor: BUTLIN GEORGE LOUIS
Filed: 1907-10-30
Granted: 1908-09-10
Abstract: 23,952. Butlin, G. L. Oct. 30. Clutches.-In claw clutches, for motor-vehicles &c., with pairs of diametrically-moving keys adapted to engage the outer clutch member, the keys 28, Figs. 3 and 5, are pressed outwards by a spring 30 into engagement with teeth 27 in the outer member 23. and inwards by bars 31 sliding on the shaft 21 and provided with wedge-shaped recesses 32 which permit the keys to be pressed outwards. In the modification shown in Fig. 11, the keys are positively actuated in both directions by the bars, which are inclined on both faces for that purpose.
Patent GB-190727569-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in connection with Electric Resistance Thermometers.
Inventor: JOHNSON JAMES YATE
Filed: 1907-12-13
Granted: 1908-08-06
Abstract: 27,569. Johnson, J. Y., [Heraeus, W. C.]. Dec. 13. Thermometers. - Relates to Wheatstone-bridge arrangements for use with electric-resistance thermometers. The arm W<3> is provided with a supplementary resistance E for shifting the zero point of the galvanometer, and the thermometer arm T has connected in parallel to it a substitution test resistance P corresponding to the resistance of the thermometer at any known temperature. The sensitiveness of the galvanometer is varied by the resistance Z. To absorb the fluctuations of potential which occur when lighting-current is used to operate the bridge, a polarization cell in series with iron resistances, such as are used with Nernst lamps, is employed. Fig. 3 shows an arrangement for compensating for the resistance of the thermometer leads by introducing a corresponding resistance in the arm U by adjusting the sliding contact SO along the loop DS.
Patent GB-190800889-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Radio-telephony.
Filed: 1908-01-14
Granted: 1908-05-07
Abstract: 889. Amalgamated Radio-Telegraph Co. Jan. 14, 1907, [date applied for under Section 91 of Patents &c. Act, 1907]. Wireless telephony. -In a system of wireless telephony based un the change in the length of the waves radiated, the transmitting or receiving system, or both, are somewhat out of tune, the maximum effect due to change of wave length being obtained by working on the steep part of the resonance curve, as between A and B, or C and D, in Fig. 1. The points E, F correspond to the medium wavelength used. Since the rasonance-curve is steeper the less the system is damped, the detector is preferably inserted in a circuit loosely coupled with the antenna. The antenna-system, as well as the detector-circuit, may be put out of resonance, but the two systems must be put out of resonance in the same direction from the resonant-point in order that the effects produced may be additive. The circuits of the transmitting-station may also be put out of tune in the same direction as the circuits of the receiving-station.
Patent GB-190804452-A (GB)
Title: Improved Brake Gear for Railway and Road Waggons and the like
Inventor: SAMUELS WILLIAM GEORGE
Filed: 1908-02-27
Granted: 1909-02-25
Abstract: 4452. Samuels, W. G. Feb. 27. Brakes.-In brakes for railway and road wagons operated by right-handed levers on opposite sides of the vehicle, the levers, which move together, are provided with simultaneous locking and releasing mechanism and are supported in the ' off' position by automaticallyoperated rests. The mechanism may be used with wagons fitted with continuous brakes. At each end of the vehicle is a shaft E having a lever A fixed at one end. This shaft is connected by linkage F<1>, F<6>, F<8> to a shaft 0, which applies the brake block G by means of an arm F and rod F<2>. The brake block G is suspended by a bent arm W<1> pivoted at W, and is provided with a slot F' engaging with a pin F<3> on the rod F<2>. The shafts O at each end of the vehicle are connected so as to rotate in opposite directions by linkage H, H<1>. Pivoted at M and working in a slot J on each lever A is a lever B, having a forked end T contacting with a flange C formed on a sleeve L, Fig. 2, which surrounds the shaft E and is capable of sliding without rotation in a casing D on the vehicle. The sleeves L at opposite ends of the vehicle are connected, so as to move simultaneously, by means of pairs of transverse and longitudinal links I, P, Figs. 2 and 7, pivoted to the sleeve L at I<2>. The sleeve L has teeth K' which are normally kept in engagement with corresponding teeth K on the boss of the lever A by a weighted bell-crank lever Q, the vertical limb of which is slotted to engage a projection R on the link I. The lever Q works in a vertical guide U against the bottom of which it rests when the teeth K<1> are in full engagement. The teeth K' normally lock the lever A against upward movement, but when the outer end of the lever B is pulled towards the lever A, the sleeves L at both ends of the vehicle are moved and the teeth K<1> are brought out of engagement. When the lever A is raised against a stop g and the lever B is released, a sliding bar d is moved beneath the lever A to act as a rest. This is effected by an horizontal L-shaped piece a fixed to the lever B, which engages with vertical rods f, f<1> on an horizontal L-shaped lever b, pivoted at c and connected to the sliding bar d at h. To ensure the simultaneous movement of the bar d at the opposite corner of the vehicle, an L-shaped piece i embracing the flange C is secured to each lever B. It is stated in the Provisional Specification that spring clips may be provided for the levers A in the 'off' position, and that springs may be used instead of, or in addition to the weighted levers Q.
Patent GB-190809198-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Brushes
Inventor: HANAWAY FRANK MANLEY
Filed: 1908-04-28
Granted: 1908-08-27
Abstract: 9198. Hanaway, F. M. April 28. Stocks; bristles, fixing. - The back of a hair or other brush is made in two parts 6, 7, connected by a concealed hinge 8 and provided with h a concealed spring catch 9. Each part is provided with sockets 12 into which the ends 17 of the bristle heads 16 fit. The bristle heads are made by bending a strip of metal so as to form a series of tubes 15, each of which holds a tuft.
Patent GB-190812713-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Punching Machines and the like particularly intended for the Treatment of Metal
Inventor: BLUM EMIL
Filed: 1908-06-13
Granted: 1909-02-11
Abstract: 12,713. Blum, E. June 13. Punching.-In a punching-machine of the type in which the punch travels along the table, the standard carrying the punch is arranged on a laterally adjustable slide below the level of the table and automatic spacing and punch-operating means are provided. The plate 63 is clamped to the T-shaped table 58 which is supported by rollers 62 on the punch slide 2. The punch shaft 21 is driven from the main shaft 4 through gearing and an. automatically - operated clutch 28, and the slide is traversed from a cross-shaft 16 which drives, through a friction - clutch 48 and reversing bevelwheels 51, a pinion 52 engaging a rack on the frame of the machine. The spacing of the holes is controlled by a templet 67, with which engages a spring-pin 42. When the latter enters a recess in the templet it operates through levers 40, 41 a wedge-shaped piece 37 which releases a stop 38 and allows the clutch members to engage and thus drive the punch. A cam 29 on the clutch member 27 actuates a projection 35 on a ring 32 which operates the wedge 37 and lifts the bolt 42, so that after one revolution of the punch shaft the clutch is put out and the bolt is lifted, thus allowing the slide 2 to move longitudinally until the bolt engages the next hole in the templet. The punch is laterally movable on its slide by means of a screw shaft 24 and the slide has rollers 66 for assisting its motion along the bed. The main shaft 4 has tumbler bearings 6 operated by a deflector 9, and the table 58 has a similar support 61.
Patent GB-190815249-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or applicable to Time Recording Machines for Workmen and the like.
Inventor: DYSON HARRY
Filed: 1908-07-18
Granted: 1909-05-06
Abstract: 15,249. Dyson, H., and Gaunt, J. S. July 18. Time-checking apparatus for workmen, of the individual record-card type. The depth to which the card is inserted is controlled by a lever a which carries a stud a' resting on the stepped spiral edge of a cylinder e. The cylinder e is mounted on a shaft d, which carries an escape wheel m operated by pallets b on a shaft b<1> driven from the clock. The shaft b<1> may be geared to the hour type-wheel shaft g.
Patent GB-190816050-A (GB)
Title: Indicator for Signalling Intended Changes of Movement for Road Vehicles.
Inventor: NEFFLIER CONSTANT
Filed: 1908-07-28
Granted: 1909-04-01
Abstract: 16,050. Nefflier, C, and Thomarat, L. Dec. 20, 1907, [date applied for under Section 91 of Patents &c. Act, 1907]. Motor road vehicles.-Apparatus for indicating to other vehicles any change of direction or speed contemplated by the driver of a motor or like vehicle comprises two forms, one of the revolving- drum type as shown in Fig. 2, and one of the roller-blind type, as shown in Fig. 3. In either case a number of warning notices, colours, or the like can be exhibited one at a time at any given part of the vehicle by means of a cable controlled by the driver from the steering hand - wheel. Attention is drawn to a change in the indication by a bell or the like operated simultaneously with the changing-mechanism.
Patent GB-190816189-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Railway Rail-joints.
Inventor: HELSING OLOF
Filed: 1908-07-30
Granted: 1909-06-24
Abstract: 16,189. Helsing, O. July 30. Drawings to Specification. Locking nuts.-Railway joint plates are provided with small projections, teeth, &c. inclined in the direction of screwing up to engage the flat side of the fish-bolt nuts.
Patent GB-190818423-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Thread Controlling Mechanism for Sewing Machines.
Inventor: PLANT THOMAS GUSTAVE
Filed: 1908-09-02
Granted: 1909-08-12
Abstract: 18,423. Plant, T. G. Dec. 26, 1907, [date applied for under Section 91 of Patents &c. Act, 1907]. Boot - sole sewing - machines governing needle thread. - The auxiliary take-up is constructed to have two movements, (1) a limited spring-controlled movewent of the take-up head, and (2) a yielding of the resilient take-up arm. The thread tension is automatically released when the machine is stopped, and is re-applied during the first revolution of the machine shaft on re-starting. In the construction shown, the auxiliary takeup roller 25 is mounted on the resilient arm 24 carried by the head 7. The outward movement of the take - up head under the influence of the spring 27 is limited by the contact of the stops 21, 31, and the thread-releasing movement of the head is limited by the contact of the stop 31 and the screw stop 32 attached to the head. Instead of a spring arm 24, 26, the thread-roller carrier may be pivoted to a rigid arm and held in its normal postion against a stop by a spring. To prevent the snapping of the thread when the main take-up begins to pull off thread from the supply, the thread is given an initial forward movement. This is attained in the example by rotating the thread tension wheel 41, Fig. 3. On the front side of the hub of this wheel is a ratchet clutch, and a projection on the clutch sheave 61 fits between projections 22, 23 on the auxiliary take-up head, so that the tension wheel is rotated with the auxiliary takeup head. The thread tension is released when the machine is stopped, and is re-applied during the first revolution of the machine on re-starting, by the means shown in dotted lines in Fig. 1. In stopping the machine, the rod 72 is depressed, and through the lever 84, rod 87, and the toe-lever 91, the friction disk 55 is, by means of the push-rod 89 moved laterally and the tension wheel is freed. The rod 72 and other parts are held in the tension-release position by a latch-lever 74, the end 81 of which falls over the end 73 of the lever-plate 70, until the first subsequent rotation of the cam 2 when the latch-lever is tripped. Specification No. 1917, A.D. 1903, is referred to.
Patent GB-190820271-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Clamping Mechanism for Printing Presses.
Inventor: LAKE HAROLD WILLIAMSON
Filed: 1908-09-26
Granted: 1908-12-31
Abstract: 20,271. Lake, H. W., [Goss Printing Press Co.]. Sept. 26. Printing - surfaces. - In a plate-clamping mechanism for rotary printing-machines, an arm 14, slidingly mounted on the surface of the plate cylinder, carries the screws 34 of three clamps 13, which can be adjusted independently for receiving plates of different sizes, and can also be adjusted simultaneously by moving the arm 14 through toggle-mechanism 16, 17. In the machine described, two arms 14, Figs. 1 and 3, are provided at each end of the cylinder, and have shoulders 15 which engage and slide in slots 12 in the cylinder. The clamps 13 also slide in the slots 12, and are threaded to receive screws 34, the reduced heads 35, Fig. 5, of which are journaled m the heads 31 of pins 28 mounted in the openings 29, Fig. 3, in the shoulders of the arm 14. The clamps 13 are adjusted independently by a key engaging holes in the head 38 of the screw 34, which is pressed forward by the spring 30 to accommodate itself to any unevenness in the plate. The toggle-mecbanism by which the three clamps are finally adjusted has the link 17 pivoted in a lug 18 on the arm 14, and the link 16 is mounted between the shoulders 41 carried by the hub 8 of the cylinder. The surface of the link 16 is provided with a cam portion having a notch adapted to receive a lug 26 on a spring 27 when the toggle is extended, the spring being raised by hand when the toggle is to be unlocked.
Patent GB-190823820-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Processes of Transferring Designs to Cylindrical Surfaces.
Filed: 1908-11-06
Granted: 1909-06-03
Abstract: 23,820. Marks, E. C. R., [Weave-Print Co.]. Nov. 6. Etching ; transferring designs.-Relates to means for transferring a design from a flat plate to a roller so that no visible break may occur on the roller between the two ends of the pattern, particularly applicable to transferring a design in resist prior to etching as described in Specification No. 23,819, A.D. 1908. The plate e is made of yielding material and has a portion of the design repeated so that the two ends of the design exactly coincide. The roller a supported on pivoted arms b is then lowered on to, and rolled over, the plate for slightly more than a complete revolution. If the circumference of the roller and the length of the design are different in length, the roller is given a motion relative to the plate by means of a pinion c and a rack d capable of a longitudinal motion. After rolling over the plate, the roller is lifted by arms b.
Patent GB-190824578-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Carburettors for Internal Combustion Engines.
Filed: 1908-11-16
Granted: 1909-10-28
Abstract: 24,578. Morgan, W., and Daimler Motor Co. Nov. 16. Gas or explosive-vapour engines, carburetting in. Mixture from a carburettor passes through a centrifugal separator, which separates the heavier particles of fuel and also acts in conjunction with an unobstructed additional air supply as a compensating-device to maintain the mixture-strength constant. Mixture enters a separator a circumferentially and is discharged axially along a pipe c to a chamber d communicating by holes e with an air-inlet pipe f. The separator a and the pipe e may be exhaust-jacketed. The air and mixture then pass the throttle g. The quantity of mixture passing through the pipe c and of air through the pipe f may be regulated separately. The air passing over the jet to produce the mixture may be heated.
Patent GB-190825380-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Weighbridges.
Inventor: HODGSON WILLIAM
Filed: 1908-11-25
Granted: 1909-05-13
Abstract: 25,380. Hodgson, W., and Hodgson, W. Nov. 25. Weigh-bridges for railway vehicles.-Relates to a machine for weighing railway wagons &c., of the type having two platforms which may be coupled up for the purpose of obtaining the combined load thereon, or may be used separately. Such a machine is described in Specification No. 24,385, A.D. 1906, in which three steelyards are used, one for each platform, and a third to determine the combined load ; the present invention consists in dispensing with the third steelyard, and in providing mechanism for coupling-up the two platforms to one of the remaining steelyards. The levers c, d, Fig. 8, from the platforms, are connected to the steelyards by rods j, p respectively, and, to couple up the platforms to one steelyard (in this case the steelyard used in connexion with the rod p and beam d), a system of links b<1>, z, f<1> operated through arms x, y is used. The arms are fixed to a shaft w journaled in the pillar containing the steelyards, and may be turned by means of a hand-lever v. In the position shown by full lines, the lever c is in its lowest position and its platform is inoperative, while the lever d is in its highest position and its platform is in weighing position. If the suspension rod and its steelyard are then raised by the means described in the above-quoted Specification into operative position, as shown by dotted lines, and the hand-lever v is turned to the right, the link f is caused to engage, at one end, a notch t in the rod p, and at the other end a knife-edge o. The link j is then slightly lowered, and the combined weights on the platforms may be ascertained on the one steelyard, namely that connected to the rod p. Relieving-mechanism of the kind described in the above-mentioned Specification is provided.
Patent GB-190826748-A (GB)
Title: Apparatus for Indicating Speed Distance and Petrol Consumption for use with Motor Cars and the like.
Inventor: JOY DOUGLAS GLOVER
IPC: B60Q1/54
Filed: 1908-12-10
Granted: 1909-12-09
Abstract: 26,748. Joy, D. G. Dec. 10. Drawings to Specification. Clocks combined with speed indicators, odometers, and level-indicating apparatus.-An indicating- instrument for a motor road vehicle furnishes measures of the distance travelled, rate of travel, time, rate of petrol consumption, and gradient. The engine draws petrol from a tank of definite capacity, filled when empty from the main tank, the level in the subsidiary tank being indicated by means of a float therein rotating a pointer on the petrol scale of the indicator as the liquid falls. Over appropriate scales upon the dial of the instrument, hour, minute, and distance hands also move ; the total mileage is registered by counting- wheels.
Patent GB-190902182-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or connected with Soda Steam Boilers.
Inventor: EQUEVILLEY-MONTJUSTIN RAYMOND
IPC: F22B1/20
Filed: 1909-01-29
Granted: 1909-05-27
Abstract: 2182. Montjustin, R. d'Equevilley-. April 11, 1908, [Convention date]. [Addition to 26,794/07.] Caustic soda and like boilers. -Relates to modifications in the boiler described in the parent Specification. According to the present invention, means are provided whereby the soda and water compartments can be heated independently of each other for the purpose of concentrating the soda or generating steam in excess of that normally required. Fig. 1 shows a boiler with one water compartment C and two soda compartments B. Sleeves or jackettubes F isolate the fire-tubes e' of the compartment C from the compartments B, and the tubes d<1> of the compartments B from the compartment C. The sleeves are widened out towards their respective compartments. For increasing the heating-surface, tubes G extend from the compartment C into the compartments B. The number of furnaces D, E in operation depends on the level of the liquids in the compartments.
Patent GB-190902371-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Steam Condensers.
IPC: F28B3/00
Filed: 1909-02-01
Granted: 1909-10-14
Abstract: 2371. Korting Akt.-Ges., Geb. Feb. 1, 1908, [Convention date]. Jet condensers; condenser systems.-A spray condenser is divided into two or more compartments A, B, to each of which condensing-water is admitted through chambers C, C<1>. The steam enters by a pipe I, the air and uncondensed vapours pass away by a pipe M, and the water flows away through a liquid seal N to a centrifugal pump R. The uncondensed gases may be removed by the pump R, or by means of an arrangement of two or more steam ejectors 3, 11. The ejector 3 discharges beneath a sieve 9, to the upper surface of which water is admitted by a pipe 7 for the condensation of the steam.