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Patent GB-191113256-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Photographic Invisible Pictures, specially applicable to Photographic Advertising Devices.
Inventor: CAPSTAFF JOHN GEORGE
IPC: G03C5/40
Filed: 1911-06-02
Granted: 1912-05-09
Abstract: 13,256. Capstaff, J. G., and Teago, F. J. June 2. Photographs with latent images; plates, films, and papers; bleaching and other after treatment. -In the preparation of cards &c. bearing a latent image, such as a bleached photograph, which becomes visible on exposure to light, such image is treated with an auxiliary sensitizer, such as a nitrate or hydrazine salt, and is dried in the dark so as to accelerate the re-appearance of the image. A bromide print, bleached preferably with chlorine water, or an image printed mechanically by an ink consisting of a silver salt ground in a suitable vehicle may be employed to obtain the latent image, which, when not white, is formed upon a correspondingly tinted card.
Patent GB-191116595-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to the Method of and Apparatus for Finishing Textile Fabrics.
Inventor: RUSHWORTH FINCH
IPC: D06C3/00
Filed: 1911-07-19
Granted: 1912-03-07
Abstract: 16,595. Rushworth, F. July 19. Stretching.-To allow of fabrics being stretched and shrunk in the same machine, they are carried on chains through a tentering- machine, the rails of which first diverge, then converge, and then become parallel.
Patent GB-191117301-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Automatic Emergency Brakes.
Inventor: CHOUMBROT MAX
IPC: B60T7/12
Filed: 1911-07-28
Granted: 1912-01-11
Abstract: 17,301. Choumbrot, M. Aug. 12, 1910, [Convention date]. Lift valves; actuating; locking.-A venting-valve d, for automatically applying the brakes of trains in case of derailment, or the breakage of an axle, tyre, or spring, or other disturbance causing the car or locomotive frame to descend abnormally towards the axle-box, is normally retained on its seat f by a spring e and is provided with an adjustable stem h, i, the lower end of which is arranged above the axle - box. When the stem i contacts with the axle-box, the valve is opened and is retained open by a detent k, the train-pipe being vented through a port g. The stem i screws into the stem h, which, in turn, is screwed into the valve d. In order that an automatic application of the brakes may occur if the stem i is broken, or if the sleeve h is adjusted too high or too low, the valve d is provided with a passage n, the stem i is made hollow, and the sleeve h is formed with a hole o adapted to engage with vents q', q<2> when excessive adjustment is made.
Patent GB-191118388-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Rotary Engines.
Inventor: STERCQ ROBERT
Filed: 1911-08-14
Granted: 1912-03-28
Abstract: 18,388. Stercq, R. Aug. 13, 1910, [Convention date]. [Addition to 15,907/10.] Movable-abutment type; regulating. - Relates to improvements in the rotary engine described in the parent Specification having a series of pistons alternately locked to the casing and to the axle by means of a system of bolts, recesses, and stops. To obviate shocks, these bolts, recesses, and stops are provided with curved faces, Fig. 3, and to reduce idle motion, one bolt in two is dispensed with, and twelve recesses without play are arranged so that the six recesses 49 lag fifteen degrees behind the six recesses 48, Fig. 2. To vary the compression, the size of the recesses may be varied by adjusting the distance apart of opposite faces.
Patent GB-191119823-A (GB)
Title: An Arrangement for Producing Cinematographic Pictures with Plastic Effect.
Inventor: JUHASZ KARL
IPC: G03B35/00
Filed: 1911-09-06
Granted: 1912-03-21
Abstract: 19,823. Juhasz, K., and Haushofer, F. Sept. 6. Optical-projection apparatus. - In apparatus for projecting kinematograph and like pictures wherein the light is first projected on to a branslucent screen and is then reflected by a transparent mirror, the screen C and the mirror B are both arranged vertically, and the latter is arranged so as to bisect, or approximately to bisect, the angle, preferably a right-angle, between the screen and the stage A carrying a scenic background.
Patent GB-191120630-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Plastic Composition.
Inventor: SKILBECK FRANCIS
IPC: E01C7/26
Filed: 1911-09-18
Granted: 1912-09-12
Abstract: 20,630. Skilbeck, F. Sept. 18. Compositions containing bituminous and siliceous, and like materials.- The composition consists of Portland cement, pitch, coal tar, river sand, furnace grey slag, ground granite, and coke breeze heated together in substantially equal proportions.
Patent GB-191121671-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Locks or Latches.
Inventor: PERCIVAL LEONARD
IPC: E05B55/00
Filed: 1911-10-02
Granted: 1912-08-22
Abstract: 21,671. Percival, L. Oct. 2. Latches, sliding; cases; attaching. -Relates to the lock described in Specification 56/11. The latch-bolt comprises a forked sheet-metal part 18, to which the bolt proper 24 is secured by upstanding ears 23 and a screw, and is guided on a plate 8, secured to the door-plate 2, by means of side projections 13 and a lug 57 bent up from the material of the plate. The bolt-plate 18 has lugs 16, 17 on its limbs 19, 20, an extension 21 for retaining its actuating spring 22, and a bent-up projection 25 adapted to co-operate with the inside locking turnbutton 26. The latch is operated by a follower 11 engaging the projections 16, 17, and its inner end is enclosed in a cap 49 held in place by projections 51 thereon engaging beneath lugs 52 on the plate 8, and by a screw at the other end. Locking sliding latches.-The latch is locked by a transverse locking bolt 15 engaging one of the projections 16, 17 on the latch. The bolt 15 has an opening 36 within which a follower arm on the spindle 43 of the thumb-piece 42 works to operate the bolt from the inside, and is held frictionally against the plate 2 by means of a spring 33 secured to the plate 8. From outside, the bolt 15 is operated by a key inserted through a rotating cylinder 48 into engagement with ears 46 secured to the spindle 43, or by means of a revolving-barrel lock, the barrel of which is connected to the spindle 43.
Patent GB-191123927-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Clutches adapted for use on Motor Cycles, and the like.
Inventor: KIRBY JAMES
IPC: F16D13/08
Filed: 1911-10-28
Granted: 1912-09-26
Abstract: 23,927. Kirby, J. Oct. 28. Clutches, friction. - Relates to contracting coil friction clutches applicable to motor-cycles and three- or four-wheeled vehicles of the motor-cycle type. The driving-shaft 8, Figs. 1 and 2, carries a sleeve 7, formed integrally with a casing 4 which has recesses 5, into which project spurs 2, 3, on the ends of a stepped spiral coil 1 surrounding the boss 11 of the driven pulley 10. The spur 3 is adjustably held by a screw 28, and the spur 2 has an inclined edge engaged by a similar edge on one arm of a lever 16, the other arm of which engages an inclined surface on a sleeve 22 normally pressed outwards into the engaging position by a spring 21. A bolt, 27, engaging a slot 26 in the sleeve 7, prevents free rotation of the sleeve 22. A lever 34, operated by a Bowden wire, disengages the clutch. Two clutches employed in speed gearing may be actuated by a sliding rod provided with two cam-surface operating levers 16.
Patent GB-191126935-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in the Manufacture of Elastic Materials.
Inventor: OLSSON ZACHARIAS
IPC: C08L89/00
Filed: 1911-12-01
Granted: 1913-03-03
Abstract: 26,935. Olsson, Z. Dec. 1. Plastic compositions containing gelatine &c. - Fibrous strengthening-material such as cellulose, hair, or spun glass, is added to the composition described in Specification 20,404/06 and consisting of a mixture of gelatinous and hygroscopic materials, such as glycerine or calcium chloride, hardened by bichromate in the presence of opaque colouring-matter. Mineral oil, dextrin, sugar, starch, and the like may be added alternatively or in addition to fibres.
Patent GB-191202966-A (GB)
Title: Pick, specially adapted for Miners' Use.
Inventor: JONES WILLIAM EDWARD
IPC: B25G3/02
Filed: 1912-02-05
Granted: 1912-05-23
Abstract: 2966. Jones, W. E. Feb. 5. Fixing by T- sockets.-Relates to picks of the type wherein the blade 6 is detachably secured to the helve 1 by a socket in two parts 3, which may be hinged together, providing, when in the assembled position, an elliptical or other taper socket for the handle and a transverse space 5 at the top for the pick head, the latter being formed with a projection 8 adapted to engage with corresponding notches 7 in the transverse space. According to the present invention, the parts are secured together by a sleeve 9 driven tight over the half-sockets 3, and split pins or the like passing through the handle or pick head and the socket parts may be used. The two parts of the socket may be attached together loosely by flexible metal straps secured to their exterior faces.
Patent GB-191203383-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Expanding Pulleys for Light Motor Vehicles.
Inventor: CAIRNS AUSTIN PATRICK
IPC: B62M9/06
Filed: 1912-02-10
Granted: 1912-12-19
Abstract: 3383. Cairns, A. P. Feb. 10. Expanding pulleys, for motor-vehicles, are operated by fluid under pressure acting by way of expansible chambers f, which are isolated by thrust bearings s, s<1> from the revoluble pulley parts so as not to turn therewith. The chamber f exerts thrust upon annular plates p, p<1>. This thrust is transmitted through the bearings s, s<1> to the movable flange a of the pulley on the one hand, and to an abutment m fast to the fixed pulley flange c on the other hand. To operate the pulley, fluid is pumped into or allowed to escape from the chamber f. In a modification, one thrust bearing only is used, and the chamber is supported on the other side by a fixed frame.
Patent GB-191204024-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Brackets or Support for Acetylene Motorcycle and like Lamps.
Inventor: MILLER FREDERICK JOHN
IPC: B60Q1/04
Filed: 1912-02-17
Granted: 1913-02-13
Abstract: 4024. Miller, F. J. Feb. 17. Brackets, gas.- Bracket arms A, B for acetylene lamps of the separategenerator type for use on cycles, motor cycles, and like vehicles are made integral with the segments of a twopart fixing-clip a, b, and are made preferably from sheet-metal stampings, but may be produced by casting or from drop forgings. The parts a, b of the clip are adapted to be secured around a handlebar stem, and are connected by transverse bolts f, g provided with clamping-nuts j and washers i. The stampings are made of a fluted or corrugated section, and the washers are grooved on their inner faces to seat on the ribs so formed. When used for supporting an acetylene lamp with a selfcontained generator, or a projector, or a generator, each of the segments b or c is dispensed with.
Patent GB-191207348-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Means for Securing Railroad Rails to Metal Ties.
Inventor: MORGAN WILLIAM HENRY
IPC: E01B3/22
Filed: 1912-03-26
Granted: 1913-03-26
Abstract: 7348. Morgan, W. H., and Hartzell, W. V. March 26. Chairs; chairs, securing to sleepers; chairplates.-Side flanges on the chairs engage the base of a rail and the top flange of a sleeper which has its ends bent parallel to the rails, and independent clip fastenings secure the rail to the chair and the chair to the sleeper. The flange 7 may be nearer the centre of the chair than the flange 9, so that the chair can be reversed to adjust the gauge. The clips 13, preferably those described in Specification 25,682/12, may have projections, Fig. 6, at each end engaging recesses in the chair flanges, and may engage ribbed plates 15, 16, which are held in place by lips 17 on the flanges 8. The sleeper may be recessed to receive the chair plate. Insulating-material 25 may be used between the chair and the sleeper, as shown, or the rail, and is preferably in two parts extending towards the centre of the chair.
Patent GB-191210211-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or connected with Means for Supplying Petrol to Carburettors.
Inventor: CARRUTHERS FRANK JAMES CHAMBER
IPC: C10J1/14
Filed: 1912-04-30
Granted: 1913-02-06
Abstract: 10,211. Carruthers, F. J. C. April 30. Norias.-Means for supplying petrol to a carburettor in a carburetted-air plant comprises a series of buckets b mounted on a revolving disk k, a fixed receiver a from which a pipe i leads to the carburettor, and an adjustable tripping quadrant c adapted to engage with projections d on the buckets. The petrol tank is connected by a pipe g to the vessel in which the buckets move. Specification 13,145/08 is referred to.
Patent GB-191210405-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or connected with Ships' Construction.
Inventor: JONES THOMAS TURTON
IPC: B63B3/20
Filed: 1912-05-02
Granted: 1912-09-26
Abstract: 10,405. Jones, T. T. May 2. Framing; compartments.-In ships composed of a number of large horizontally-disposed tubular members arranged to minimize the effects of a collision, the frames are attached only to the inner skin which constitutes the vital shell of the ship. The horizontal tubular members a are divided by transverse diaphragms, widely spaced and forming water-tight compartments. The tubes are connected to the inner and main skin d of the ship by web frames e and the outer skin c is attached to the outer side of the tubes a. In a modification, the tubular members are rectangular, the outer skin constituting one side of such members. The construction indicated extends some distance above the water-line.
Patent GB-191211461-A (GB)
Title: Improved Safety Block for Boat Falls and other purposes.
Inventor: EKBLOM EXEL
IPC: B63B23/18
Filed: 1912-05-14
Granted: 1912-11-28
Abstract: 11,461. Ekblom, E. May 14. Pulley-blocks and pulley-tackle.-Pulley-blocks for the falls of ships' boats have the bottom blocks provided with guide-plates for the ropes running through them, and the lower blocks are also connected by a rope or the like, thus preventing the blocks from toppling over when being raised under their own weight. An alternative or additional method consists of weighting the block. The block a has a double guide-plate b through which passes the central cord of the block. Weights d are also provided inside the block above the eye e. In the form shown, the guides are provided with extensions, and the two tackles of one boat are joined together by a weighted cord f.
Patent GB-191213444-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Control Devices for Vehicles.
Inventor: SULSONA JOSEPH DOMINGO
IPC: G07B13/00
Filed: 1912-06-07
Granted: 1913-05-15
Abstract: 13,444. Sulsona, J. D. June 8, 1911, [Convention date]. Taximeters; flag and setting-spindle mechanism; time of use of vehicle, registering; seat apparatus. - Controlling-devices for motorvehicles, particularly those provided with taximeters, are adapted to stop the vehicle, or to render its running abnormal, for example by the sounding of an alarm, after a certain distance has been traversed if the vehicle is occupied and the flag has not been lowered. The device is contained in a sealed box 5. Fig. 2. and is driven by a shaft 8 from the vehicle, the drive to the taximeter proper being from the shaft 8 through a clutch 12 and bevel-gearing 13, 14 to the shaft 17. The controlling-device is operated by a wheel 22 driven from the shaft 8 and mounted on a shaft 23, which drives a shaft 27 through a clutch 25, 26. The shaft 27 rotates a shaft 31 through a third clutch 29, 30, the clutches being so arranged that the clutch 25, 26 is open and the clutch 29, 30 closed when the vehicle is unoccupied. The floor of the vehicle is formed in two parts 46, Fig. 6, hinged at the outer edges and supported in the centre by springs 47. Downward movement of the floor depresses one of two bell-crank levers 58, Fig. 5, mounted on the same shaft and carried by the central beam 48, which supports the centre of the floor. Movement of the bell-crank lever 58 is communicated through a Bowden wire to a slide 70, Fig. 2, carrying a fork 73, which closes the clutch 25, 26 and allows the shaft 8 to drive the shaft 31 and rotate, through bevel-gearing, a spring-controlled switch 36 formed with an insulated part 39 and a conducting-part 40. The wheel 33 is mutilated so that the switch may be returned to its zero position by the spring 36<1>, stops 37, 38 being provided to limit the movement. A spring contact 41 is so connected to the ignition device that, when the conducting- portion 40 of the disk engages therewith, the engine is short-circuited. To prevent this, the clutch 29, 30 is arranged to be opened when the flag is lowered through a Bowden wire 83 connected to the strap 80, Fig. 10, of an eccentric 81 carried by the flag. The other end of the wire is secured to a slide 87 formed with a notch 89, in which engages a pivoted arm 90 connected to a spring-controlled slide 94 carrying a fork 96. Upward movement of the slide 87, due to the lowering of the flag, forces the slide to the right and so opens the clutch 30. The total time the vehicle is occupied is registered on a clock 101, from the balance of which a brake 103 is removed by a slide 102 when the clutch 25 is closed. The floor, when depressed, is fastened by catches 50, 57 which are freed by rotating, by means of a key. a shaft 53 connected to the catches by arms 51.
Patent GB-191216588-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in the Construction of Great Wheels and the like.
Inventor: SULLIVAN TIMOTHY GERALD
IPC: A63G27/00
Filed: 1912-07-16
Granted: 1913-05-29
Abstract: 16,588. Sullivan, T. G. July 16. Ferris wheels and the like.-Relates to Ferris wheels of the type in which passenger cars N, Fig. 4, run on rails C arranged on the periphery B of the wheel. The invention consists in arranging the tracks to cross each other at intervals, as shown, and in so constructing the wheel that its direction of motion may be reversed. The wheel is built up of a number of straight sections I, Fig. 3, and the ends of each section are attached to the hub flange H by radial spokes G and by tangential spokes F. The spokes G are designed to carry the weight of the wheel and the tangential spokes F are designed to take the driving strain, one being in tension and the other idle or in slight compression.
Patent GB-191219082-A (GB)
Title: Traction Engine.
Inventor: FORD HENRY
IPC: B62D49/00
Filed: 1912-08-20
Granted: 1913-07-24
Abstract: 19,082. Ford, H. Aug. 20. Forecarriage turning-arrangements; springs, arrangement of and mounting bodies and undercarriages on.-The front end of a casing forming the framing of a traction engine is supported upon the front wheels through the medium of a ball joint 8, spring 11, and rod 9 sliding in the axle 4, which is kept in position by means of radius rods 13, the inner ends of which are united to form a yoke, which engages by a ball bearing with the underside of the frame.
Patent GB-191219607-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Furnaces of the Tunnel or Channel Type.
Filed: 1912-08-27
Granted: 1913-05-22
Abstract: 19,607. Marks, E. C. R., [Electric Smelting and Aluminium Co.]. Aug. 27. Tunnel furnaces.-The air for cooling the trucks is kept separate from the products of combustion by a shield, which is arranged to follow the truck as it is fed forward into the combustion chamber. The kiln shown comprises two inclined parallel tunnels A, B, the former for the burning, and the latter for the preliminary heating of the goods, and cross rails C, D with traversing trollies P, Q for effecting the transfer of the trucks from one tunnel to the other. The trucks are loaded at the press 12, run down-hill through the tunnel B on to the traverser Q, forced up-hill through the tunnel A by a ram, unloaded automatically by a scraper X, and finally returned to the press rails by the traverser P. The burning gases are introduced at the upper part of the tunnel A, and are withdrawn and delivered to an apparatus for recovering valuable constituents through a flue 17. The cooling-air is forced by a fan 13 through the space beneath the floors of the trucks and is delivered to the tunnel B by the flue 14. The vestibule V at the lower end of the tunnel A is provided with vertically sliding doors by which it can be isolated from the atmosphere and the main body of the tunnel, and communication between the upper and lower parts of the tunnel round the end of an ingoing truck is prevented by a shield 18 passing through the end wall 21 of the vestibule and suitably mounted on wheels to move with the ram 26. Angle-plates 28, 32, on the traverser Q and the side wall of the chamber respectively, are arranged to co-act with depending fins on the truck, and sand seals are provided in connexion with the shield plate 18.
Patent GB-191224891-A (GB)
Title: Apparatus for Flushing Closets.
Inventor: NEYER JOSEF
IPC: E03D3/08
Filed: 1912-10-30
Granted: 1913-07-17
Abstract: 24,891. Neyer, J. Oct. 30. Valves closing after predetermined interval or flow.-In a flushing- apparatus of the kind comprising a flushing- valve for delivering a given quantity of water at each operation of the lever, the closing of the valve 10 is retarded by the friction of a train of gears 40, 42, 44, &c. The valve is opened against a spring 18 by means of a chain 27, a lever 33, and a ratchetwheel, a lever 20 pressing up the valve-rod 9. The spring 18 on release of the operating-lever 33 presses the valve back on to its seat against the retardation of the train of gears.
Patent GB-191301229-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Appliances for Cleaning by Vacuum.
IPC: A47L9/02
Filed: 1913-01-15
Granted: 1913-12-11
Abstract: 1229. Griffiths, W. Jan. 15. Vacuum cleaning-apparatus.-A suction nozzle comprises a casing a open underneath, which contains a sliding brush or pad b. As the nozzle is moved over the floor in any direction, friction causes the brush or pad to move backwards relatively to the casing a and leave a section orifice c at the front which communicates by an aperture c' in the back of the casing with the suction tube d. The sides of the casing may be provided with strips of felt a' and the sliding part b may have elliptical bearings to allow of a simultaneous rocking motion.
Patent GB-191305211-A (GB)
Title: Improved Hinge Jointed Grip Covers for Jugs and other Domestic Vessels.
Inventor: HALL WILLIAM
IPC: A47J36/12
Filed: 1913-03-01
Granted: 1913-12-04
Abstract: 5211. Hall, W. March 1. Lids and covers.-A detachable cover for jugs, basins, &c., and adapted for use with vessels of varying sizes, is secured by being hinged to a clip formed from a blank shaped and slit as shown in Fig. 4. The tongue A and cross-bar C are bent downwards so that the rim of the vessel may be clamped between them. The tongues B are turned upwards, and hold a hinge-pin on which the lid H, Fig. 5, is secured, an integral part L of the lid forming a thumb-piece. A cord G passed through holes or hooks F serves further to secure the lid by passing under the handle or round the body. Corrugations E are formed on the cross-bar C. Specifications 946 / 92, 1884/94, 14,696/97, and 4329/04, [all in Class 128, Table articles &c.], 1045/97 and 17,912/97 are referred to.
Patent GB-191305763-A (GB)
Title: A New or Improved Method of Electrically Governing the Speed of Engines at Sea.
Inventor: FITHIAN ARTHUR WILLIAM
Filed: 1913-03-08
Granted: 1914-02-26
Abstract: 5763. Fithian, A. W. March 8. Pendulum governors; transmitting-mechanism. - A device for governing the speed of marine engines comprises a balanced throttle valve operated by an electro-magnet B, the current through which is gradually varied by a gravity-controlled rheostat E, F, in accordance with the motion of the ship tending to raise the level of the propeller in the water. In the arrangement shown, the gravity contact-arm E varies a resistance in the field winding D of a small generator C which supplies current to the electro-magnet B. The current in the electro-magnet B may, however, be obtained from the ship's lighting supply or from accumulators.