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Patent GB-190708389-A (GB)
Title: Improved Portable Roaster.
Inventor: ZIEGLER WILHELM
Filed: 1907-04-11
Granted: 1907-09-26
Abstract: 8389. Ziegler, W., and Voll, B. April 11. Roasting jacks and spits.- A portable roaster comprises a trolly on which is mounted a stove a and a T.shaped standard k, one end of the cross-bar u carrying a vertical spindle n on which is mounted a flying pinion r and a gear-wheel t. The heated gases, ascending from the stove, rotate the pinion r, and this rotation is transmitted by the wheel t to a wheel l, which is mounted on a bearing hand carries a bush v. The latter forms the female thread for a screwed spindle, which carries the meat to be roasted and is rotated by the above means during the roasting. The bush v carries a bevel-wheel s, which can be driven by another wheel p, mounted on a spindle and actuated by a cranked handle, for adjusting the height of the screwed spindle. A tank k b mounted on the stove can be used for cooking food or warming water, and the top of the stove may be used for frying. The trolly is provided with shafts to which a horse may be yoked. [Reference has been directed under Patents Act, 1902, to Specifications No. 2088, A.D. 1860, and No. 2234, A.D. 1864].
Patent GB-190710481-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Implements for Fixing Detonators or the like on Safety Fuse Cord.
Filed: 1907-05-06
Granted: 1907-08-01
Abstract: 10,481. Nobel's Explosives Co., and Ibberson, J. W. May 6. Blasting and mining cartridges.- Relates to an implement for securing detonators upon safety fuse cord and for cutting such fuse cord, being an improvement on the invention described in Specification No. 5507, A.D. 1906. Plates g, h, Fig. 1, are attached to spring-pressed jaws a, b, and when the detonator is inserted into the opening n and the jaws pressed together the detonator is indented to attach it to the fuse cord. In the construction shown, the plates slide on one another and reduce the opening n to a circular shape, stepped portions on each plate serving for guiding the other. An edge serves for cutting the fuse cord. In the modification shown in Fig. 4, the plates are guided by screws j which pass along slots r.
Patent GB-190710814-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Means for Securing Rubber Heels to Boots and Shoes and similar Wearing Apparel.
Filed: 1907-05-09
Granted: 1907-06-20
Abstract: 10,814. Barker, F. H., and Wilbar Manufacturing Co. May 9. Screw-sockets ; wo o d - screws.-A rubber heel is affixed to boots and shoes &c. by a screw l having a spherical head seated in a spherical or conical socket i in a plate h, provided with a raised bead to protect the screw head from wear. The head seats firmly in the recess even if the screw is inclined, and the entrance of water and grit is prevented.
Patent GB-190710867-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Water-heaters or Geysers.
Filed: 1907-05-09
Granted: 1907-09-05
Abstract: 10,867. Ewart & Son, and Ewart, G. H. May 9. Gas burners.-To increase the draught, the burner of a water-heating stove is in the form of a ring having in the central space a web n provided with an opening o.
Patent GB-190710963-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Carburettors for Internal Combustion Engines
Inventor: WINTON ALEXANDER
Filed: 1907-05-10
Granted: 1908-01-30
Abstract: 10,963. Winton, A., and Anderson, H. B. May 10. Gas or explosivevapour engines.- In carburettors of the type wherein slowly moving volumes of air are subjected to surface carburation and rapidly moving volumes to spray carburation, a deflector 10 is hung in the air admission passage. A screw 12 regulates the maximum opening of the deflector when raised by rapidly movin g volumes of air. To admit air at low velocity, the air in this case being directed on the liquid surface by the deflector, the deflector is either provided with a perforation 11, Fig. 1, or is raised by an adjusting-screw 13, Fig. 3. The supply of oil to the mixing-chamber is controlled by a valve 9, a float 2 preserving a constant liquid level. A throttle valve is placed in the delivery pipe of the carburettor. The adjustability of the deflector enables the carburettor to be applied to motors of different sizes.
Patent GB-190718017-A (GB)
Title: Improvements connected with the Picking Mechanism of Looms.
Inventor: WADDELL JOHN
Filed: 1907-08-08
Granted: 1908-05-07
Abstract: 18,017. Waddell, J. Aug. 8. Loom picking-mechanism.-In underpick looms, the usual leather picking-strip is replaced by a freely suspended metallic bracket i, Figs. 1 and 3, having an opening o, bushed with pieces q of leather, in which works the picking-lever h. The bracket i has two upwardly-projecting lugs j, between which is a bush l freely mounted on a spindle k held to one or both of the lugs j by means of set-screws p. Round the bush l is passed a strip m of metal of such size as to clear the lugs j, and having its two ends bent round to be secured, as by a nut n, to the picking-bracket d attached to the picking - stick a and rotatably mounted on a projecting spindle e of the rocking rail b.
Patent GB-190718399-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Photographic Apparatus
Inventor: SEELE GEORG BRUNO
Filed: 1907-08-14
Granted: 1908-04-23
Abstract: 18,399. Seele, G. B. Oct. 8, 1906, [date applied for under Patents Act, 1901]. Military apparatus; kites.-Photographs from a kite, balloon, or the like are taken by a camera falling freely at the moment of exposure, thus eliminating the effect of the movement of the supporting-body. The apparatus may also be mounted on the end of a handle. The camera 1 is secured in a casing 2 having a slot 8, in which a rotary support 9 can be clamped to point the camera in any required direction. The shutter is operated by the friction of the cord 3 in an eye 14 after a certain amount of slack has run out. The camera is released by the withdrawal of a plate 7 from between the ends of spring levers 4, 5 which support the end 10 of the part 9. This withdrawal may be effected by the pressure of a runner 15 driven by the wind against a finger 17 which releases a spring trigger 21. A clock-work or other release may be fitted.
Patent GB-190719002-A (GB)
Title: Manufacture of New Gallocyanines.
Filed: 1907-08-23
Granted: 1907-10-03
Abstract: 19,002. Farbwerke vorm. L. Durand, Huguenin, & Co. June 4, [date applied for under Patents Act, 1901]. Dyes, artificial.-Sulphonated gallocyanines are produced by condensing a nitrosomonoalkylarylamine, a nitrosodialkylarylamine, or a nitrosodiarylamine, in the form of either base or salt, with pyrogallol sulphonic acid. The condensation can be effected by heating a mixture of nitrosoalkylarylamine hydrochloride and pyrogallol sulphonic acid, in a reflux apparatus in the presence of alcohol. A simpler method consists in dissolving in alcohol the mass obtained by heating pyrogallol with sulphuric acid, adding alkali and then the nitrosoalkylarylamine, and finally heating in a reflux apparatus.
Patent GB-190723037-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to Alternating Electric Current Motors
Inventor: CONRAD FRANK
Filed: 1907-10-18
Granted: 1908-03-12
Abstract: 23,037. Conrad, F. Nov. 3, 1906, [date applied for under Patents Act, 1901]. Switches for automatically changing the connexions of an electric motor comprise conducting- segments mounted upon a drum on the motor shaft and engaged by brushes which are moved axially by a centrifugal device consisting of pivoted levers normally spring-held in proximity to the motor shaft. In the arrangement shown in Fig. 1, an annular frame 11 secured to the motor shaft has arms 12, 13, to which are pivoted bell-crank levers 15, 16 held in the position shown by an adjustable spring 17 and adapted to move a sleeve 21 upon the shaft. Mounted upon the sleeve so as to slide longitudinally is a cylindrical frame 25, which carries insulated conducting- segments 28, 29, upon which bear brushes 30 ... 33, Fig. 2, connected to the windings as shown: The field winding comprises four coils 36 ... 39 connected in series-parallel so that, when the levers 15, 16 occupy the position shown, the switching-device being in the position shown in Fig. 2, eight field poles are produced. The adjustment of the springs 17 is such that, when a speed somewhat higher than the synchronous speed of the motor is reached, the levers 15, 16 take up the position shown in the dotted line, and the casing 25 carrying the contact segment is drawn over into the position shown in Fig. 2, in which the field sections 37, 39 are reversed, and the connexions are such that the field has four poles. The armature 41 is now short-circuited by the brushes 32, 33 and segments 28 so that the motor runs as an induction motor.
Patent GB-190725068-A (GB)
Title: Pneumatic Tyre for Wheels of any Vehicles.
Inventor: BOLESLAS-ANDRE GODEK
Filed: 1907-11-12
Abstract: 25,068. Godek, B. A. Nov. 14, 1906, [date applied for under Patents Act, 1901]. Void. [Published under Patents &c. Act, 1907.] Tyres, pneumatic; felloes or rims.-The felloe of the wheel is made hollow and is used as the air chamber. In the wheel shown in Fig. 1, the felloe a has overhanging outer edges, against which abuts a steel band e. The chamber thus formed is made air-tight by a leather or other band d, kept in contact with the sides of the felloe by the internal air pressure. The tread b is of solid rubber, and is threaded with steel bands or wires c connected at their ends, to prevent it from enlarging circumferentially. In a modification, the felloe is made of three separate parts bolted together. The overhanging outer edges of the felloe, and the steel band e are serrated to prevent creeping.
Patent GB-190725206-A (GB)
Title: Improved Method of Homogeneously Uniting Metal Bodies by Heat.
Inventor: HARRISON GEORGE
Filed: 1907-11-13
Granted: 1908-06-04
Abstract: 25,206. Harrison, G., [Electric Railway Improvement Co.]. Nov. 13. Brazing; welding; working by electricity. - In a method of uniting metals of unequal heat - conductivities and fusing - points, heat from an external source is concentrated on the metal of greater conductivity and lower fusing-point, the other metal being heated chiefly by conduction, so that the contacting edges of the metals are fused almost simultaneously. The process is particularly applicable to joining copper bonds to steel rails. A laminated copper bond is provided w i t h a strip B, Fig. 1, of brazing- material, the strip having indentations b which serve to reduce the area of contact and to provide pockets for fluxing material. The bond is pressed against the cleaned rail by a heating-device D consisting of a block of carbon adjustably mounted and connected with a source of electricity. The current flowing over the junction first melts the brazing-material, and the block D then becomes highly, heated so that the heat is conducted through the bond and molten brazing- material. The final position of the block D is somewhat inclined, Fig. 5, so as to preserve the thickness of the lower portion of the bond. The block D may be attached to a conductor d', Fig. 7, flexibly connected with a slide E which is mounted on a segment H pivoted about a shaft G. The segment is tilted by worm gearing operated by a hand-wheel H<5>. The segment is moved along the shaft G by a rack and pinion G<1>, G<2> and is guided by rods H'. The process may be performed without a brazing-material, and the electric current need not pass through the rail &c., the block D merely acting as a heated body.
Patent GB-190806549-A (GB)
Title: Means for Facilitating the Study of Geography
Inventor: CANNON HORACE
Filed: 1908-03-24
Granted: 1909-02-11
Abstract: 6549. Cannon, H. March 24. Drawings to Specification. Geographical games ; puzzles.-In a device for teaching geography, of the kind in which differently coloured balls are adapted to be shaken into holes in a map arranged within a casing, edible balls of sugar &c. are used, and the case is fitted with a movable transparent lid. The map may be marked out in a playground, and the balls may be bowled along the ground. Disks may be used instead of balls. In a modified game, a player stands in each division of the map while another player throws coloured balls or hoops, which emit different musical notes during flight, into the divisions for the occupants to catch and place in the positions representing towns. The hoops are thrown and caught by two sticks.
Patent GB-190807723-A (GB)
Title: A New or Improved Button.
Inventor: COWGILL FLORENCE VAUGHAN
Filed: 1908-04-07
Granted: 1908-10-08
Abstract: 7723. Cowgill, F. V. April 7. Buttons.-In buttons of the type in which a screwed stud provided on a disk is screwed into the button, the disk 6, Fig. 1, is stamped so that the central portion 9 forms the projecting stud. The button 5 is formed of a single piece of sheet metal and is hollow, the underside being depressed to form a threaded socket 11. In a modification, Fig. 4, the button is made of glass, celluloid, or similar material, and has embedded in it a hollow nut 15 with wings 16 to prevent rotation. The stud 9 is screwed into the nut.
Patent GB-190807798-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to the Handle-bars of Bicycles.
Inventor: SIMON JULIEN
Filed: 1908-04-08
Granted: 1908-05-28
Abstract: 7 7 9 8. Simon, J. Sept. 28, 1907, [date applied for under Section 91 of Patents &c. Act, 1907]. Handle-bars.-The central lugs of bicycle handlebars are so constructed that for purposes of adjustment the bar may be turned within the sleeve of the lug, or the sleeve and the bar may be turned together in an horizontal plane upon the stem, a single bolt being used to clamp the parts in position. The split sleeve a carrying the handle-bar has a collar c which engages a corresponding groove or recess in a part b. This part has an open slot and hole d so that it may be sprung open to receive the collar, the parts being secured, when the handlebar has been adjusted, by means of a screw-bolt e.
Patent GB-190809114-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Apparatus for Indicating the Water Level in Baths.
Inventor: GWIAZDOWSKI PAUL STERN VON
Filed: 1908-04-27
Granted: 1908-07-02
Abstract: 9114. Gwiazdowski, P. S. von. April 27. Water levels, indicating.-Relates to means for indicating when the desired level is reached in a bath, the apparatus being adapted to be put out of operation in such a manner as to leave the bath unobstructed. A board b is fixed on the wall below the usual electric push a, and bears guides c, c' for a float rod d' which is pivoted to the rod d, to which a float h is attached by a set-screw i. When the float rises, it causes the rod d to bear upon the arm f of a crank-lever f, f<1>, so that the hammer f<1> contacts with the push a. A tube m is inserted between the rod d and the guide c<1> for the purpose of stiffening the rods d, d' when in use. When the tube m is drawn up to bear against the guide c, the part d<1> of the float rod, together with the float, can be lifted out of the water and attached to the wall by a chain. The part d of the float rod then drops, leaving the push free for ordinary signalling.
Patent GB-190809888-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Couplings for Railway Vehicles
Inventor: SCHEIB LUDWIG
Filed: 1908-05-06
Granted: 1908-11-05
Abstract: 9888. Scheib, L., and Scheib, L. May 7, 1907, [date applied for under Section 91 of Patents &c. Act, 1907]. Couplings, automatic.-In a coupling of the Janney type, the knuckle tail e is locked in the coupled position by a piece b, d, which is pivoted at f to a rod h under the influence of a spring g which is unstressed when the parts are in the locked position. The locking-piece is further pivoted upon a pin c, engaging a slot m in the draw-head. The knuckle is unlocked by moving the locking-piece b, d backwards by means of the pin c, thereby compressing the spring g. A stop n on the drawhead prevents the locking-piece from rotating under the influence of the spring g, until completely disengaged from the knuckle tail e but when thus disengaged, the locking-piece is free of the stop n and rotates about the pivot c, the part d acting as a knuckle-opener.
Patent GB-190812278-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Gas Fittings principally for use with Incandescent Gas Burners.
Inventor: BOOTH JAMES
Filed: 1908-06-05
Granted: 1909-03-18
Abstract: 12,278. Booth, J., [trading as Booth & Co., S.], and Simpson, R. J. June 5. Gas brackets.-The lower part of the bracket arm is connected by a joint so that it can be rotated to carry an upright or inverted burner. The arm b fits over the conical plug c and is held by a washer e and screw d. On loosening a set-screw at the back of the joint shown, the arm can be rotated to the inverted position. Alternatively, the bracket arm may terminate in a horizontally-directed plug which enters a coned sleeve screwed into a fixed socket.
Patent GB-190813008-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Carding Engines.
Inventor: LEBE SERVAIS
Filed: 1908-06-18
Granted: 1909-06-17
Abstract: 13,008. Lebe, S. June 18. Carding-engines are provided with two sets of flats 4, 5, a support 6 for each set, an angle roller 3, strippers 7, 10, fancy rollers 8, 11, and rollers 9, A.
Patent GB-190814071-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Clocks.
Inventor: HERSCHEDE EDWARD FREDERICK
Filed: 1908-07-02
Granted: 1909-07-02
Abstract: 14,071. Herschede, E. F. July 2, Chimes; striking-mechanism.-The cylinder B is provided with two sets of pins, the hammers which sound the quarters being operated by means of one set c, c<1>, c<2>, c<3>, and the hour-hammer by the other set d. The cylinder, mounted on a slidable shaft b carries at one end a spring-pressed pivoted arm b<3>, Fig. 3, having a pin b<2> which bears against a fixed circular track M, Fig. 4, within which a ring N with an annular groove n<6> is rotated once in 12 hours. The minute-track M, the hour track N, and the groove n<6> are concentric. In chiming the quarters, one of the four pins h on the hour-wheel h' raises a lever G which-lifts a detent F clear of the pins e<3> of the locking-wheel E of the chiming-train. The train is free to run when the pin h has allowed the lever G to fall again, the piece F being held in its raised position by a notched arm K. After a chime has been given by a partial rotation of the cylinder, one of three pins f<4> engages the bent end f of an arm F' of the detent F, lifts it from its supporting- piece K, and then allows it to drop and relock the wheel E. This does not occur at the end of the fourth quarter, since a fourth pin f<5> cannot engage the finger f<3> until the cylinder has been shifted as described below. The pin b<2> has by this time reached a notch m by which it is guided on to the hour-track N, and the cylinder is shifted longitudinally by the spring a', so that the chiming pins c, c<1>, &c. are clear of the arms c' and the pins d are in position to engage the arm d<1> and strike the hours as further rotation occurs. The number of strokes is determined by the position of the notch n<7> on the hour-track N, further sliding of the cylinder occurring when the pin b<2> reaches the notch and is guided into the groove n<6>. The rotation of the cylinder is then completed silently until the pin f<5> re-sets the detent F in the manner already described. A pivoted lever P, operated by a pin r on a wheel which rotates once an hour, moves the cylinder back to the position for chiming. The hammers are connected by cords to the arms c<4>, d<1>, which are pivoted on movable blocks c<5>, d<2> so that the arms can be shifted out of the path of the pins on the cylinder, thereby rendering the apparatus silent. It will be seen that discrepancy between time and chime arising from setting the hands back or forward is ultimately self-corrected.
Patent GB-190815373-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Razors.
Inventor: SUFFERT ADOLPH ALBERT
Filed: 1908-07-20
Granted: 1908-10-08
Abstract: 15,373. Suffert, A. A., and Myers, F. July 20. Razors.-A razor blade A is made circular and is preferably provided with a circular guard B. A keyhole slot A<2> in the blade engages a headed stud B<2> on the guard, and projections B' on spring fingers B<3> pressed up from the guard may engage holes A<3> in the blade. The handle C has a bent split portion which is adjustably held in a socket B<5> on the guard, and the handle and socket may have indicating-marks D to show what portion of the blade has been used. The blade may be marked so that it is always placed in the same position on the guard, or only one spring finger B<3> may be used, or one projection B<4>, and the corresponding hole A<3> may be larger than the other projection and hole.
Patent GB-190815462-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Conical Plug Cocks.
Inventor: GUNNING JOHN
IPC: F16K5/00
Filed: 1908-07-21
Granted: 1909-02-04
Abstract: 15,462. Gunning, J. July 21. [Patent of Addition to No. 3560, A.D. 1908.] Lighting gas.-Relates to improvements in plug cocks of the kind described in Specification No. 3560, A.D. 1908, [Abridgment Class Valves &c.], and consists partly in rotatably mounting the base of the shell a on a coned fixed thimble m, a screw passing through the casing and engaging in a groove m<1> in the thimble to retain the burner in position. The by-pass ducts are so arranged that the pilot light and main burner flame are never extinguished simultaneously, and each is completely closed when the other is fully opened. The screws f, h<1> that regulate the by-pass supply can be adjusted from the front of the burner.
Patent GB-190816097-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and in connection with Stoppers for Liquid Receptacles.
Inventor: CROSS WILLIAM
Filed: 1908-07-29
Granted: 1909-04-22
Abstract: 16,097. Cross, W., [Walder Kottusch Stopper Security Co., E.]. July 29. Bottles &c., non-refillable.-In a stopper of the kind consisting of a integral hollow plug a containing a valve kept on its seat by a ball e guided by a conical part h, the part h is secured to the plug by a pin k. The ball e is guided by the part h so as to close the valve even when the stopper is horizontal. In a modification, the plug instead of being retained by a washer o is screw-threaded for insertion into a paraffin can &c.
Patent GB-190816997-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to the Control of Dynamo Electric Machines.
Filed: 1908-08-12
Granted: 1909-08-12
Abstract: 16,997. British Thomson-Houston Co., and Carter, F. W. Aug. 12. Motor control systems.-Regeneratively-controlled compound - wound motors are provided with a shunt circuit about the series field coils, which is closed by a switch controlled by overload and reverse-current relays. The reverse-current relay A has a shunt coil a and a series coil c. The current in the series coil opposes that in the shunt coil when the machine shown runs as a motor, but the two currents aid each other when the machine runs as a generator. The overload relay B has a series coil d and shunt coil b wound to assist each other, but the circuit of the latter is only completed by the contact e when the relay has operated ; or the contacts may be arranged to close the circuit of the coil b when the switch C is opened. An additional coil f in series with the shunt field S may be employed to oppose the action of the series coil d. This enables the relay to operate with a smaller current when the field S is weak than when it is strong. The normal positions of the relays are shown in Fig. 1. On the occurrence of an overload, the relay B operates to break the circuit of the coil of the switch C. The switch then breaks the short-circuit about the series field F, and shortcircuits the coil f by closing the contacts g. The same changes occur when the motor acts as a generator, as the current through the coil c reverses and the relay A operates.