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Patent GB-190505130-A (GB)
Title: The Manufacture of New Uninflammable Materials.
Inventor: PIERRE AUGUSTE DENIS PROST
Filed: 1905-03-11
Abstract: 5130. Prost, P. A. D., and Michey, E. March 14, 1904, [date applied for under Patents Act, 1901]. Void. [Published under Patents Act, 1901.] Drawings to Specification. Nitrocellulose.-Cellulose is slightly nitrated by means of a mixture of three parts of sulphuric acid to one part of nitric acid, and is dissolved in alcohol and ether, " methylene" or acetone, to which from one to twenty per cent of zinc, iron, aluminium, or ammonium chlorides or alum has added. The solvent is then distilled off and the plates of material pressed and treated in a bath of sodium carbonate or silicate.
Patent GB-190506053-A (GB)
Title: Improvements connected with Electric Lamps for Illuminating Time Pieces and for other uses.
Inventor: VICKERY JOHN COLLARD
Filed: 1905-03-22
Granted: 1905-10-05
Abstract: 6053. Vickery, J. C. March 22. Illuminated clocks.-Flexible conductors connecting an electric lamp to a portable switch of the bell-push type are wound on a spring reel having ratchet teeth and a detaining-pawl. The lamp (not shown) may be placed within the casing c of a timepiece, which occupies the front compartment of a portable case a, shown in sectional plan, a battery d and the spring reel respectively occupying the other two compartments. The reel consists of an annular piece of insulating-material and metal side plates e, e<1>, the latter plate having ratchet teeth engaged by the spring pawl (not shown). A rod m resting on the top of the pawl is provided at the top of the case with a pushbutton for releasing the reel. The axle g of the reel is attached to a plate a, and engages the plate e and a plate (not shown) situated within an aperture in the plate e<1> and insulated from it. A spiral spring is attached to the axle g and to the reel. When not in use, the switch k<1> is placed in a recess in the case, as shown.
Patent GB-190508563-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Electric Arc Lamps with Multiple Electrodes.
Inventor: GAMBLE WILLIAM
Filed: 1905-04-20
Granted: 1906-01-11
Abstract: 8563. Gamble, W. April 20. Advertising, electric arc lamps for. Two or more pairs of mineralized electrodes giving arcs of different colours are connected in parallel, and the electrodes of one sign are arranged so as to be moved simultaneously by one regulating - device, while those of the other sign can be adjusted by hand in order to produce an are between any desired pair. In the form shown, the lower electrodes S<1>, S<2>, S<3> are placed in sockets U<1>, U<2>, U<3> which can slide in slotted tubes T', T', T<3>. The sockets are raised or lowered by means of insulating handles V<1>, V<2>, V<3>, and can be secured in position by screwing the shanks of the handles into the sockets and thus pressing washers W against the tubes. When an arc is struck by movement of one of the lower electrodes, the are previously existing goes out. The holders of the upper electrodes C', C<2>, C<3> are carried by a rod L, which slides in a tube B and is engaged by a clutch K. This is connected by a link J and a counterweighted lever I to the core H of a series solenoid F. A shunt solenoid G is also provided. A flexible conductor N is attached to a split socket M on the rod L and to the inside of a slotted tube 0, which depends from the terminal plate D.
Patent GB-190512048-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Stopper for Bottles Jars or the like.
Inventor: LOWMAN JOHN
Filed: 1905-06-08
Granted: 1906-02-22
Abstract: 12,048. Lowman, J. June 8. Drawings to Specification. Stopper washers.-Cork disks, or superimposed disks, or other suitably-shaped pieces of thin cork, or of artificial cork, are compressed laterally to close the pores of the cork, and, while under compression, are assembled in capsules, caps, or covers. A machine for compressing cork disks edgeways is described in Specification No. 13,159, A.D. 1905.
Patent GB-190512554-A (GB)
Title: Head and Shoulder Support for Invalids in Bed.
Inventor: FURNIVALL FRANCES ELIZABETH
Filed: 1905-06-17
Granted: 1906-03-29
Abstract: 12,554. Furnivall, F. E. June 17. Bed-rests. - A support for invalids in bed consists of a rest J suspended from an arm F on a pillar C attached by clips to the head of the bedstead. The pillar may be mounted so as to revolve, and may be telescopic, o the connexion between the pillar and the hook G may be adjustable. The cords H, I may be adjustable in length, and may contain springs.
Patent GB-190517146-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in a Particular Type of Rheostat
Filed: 1905-08-24
Granted: 1905-10-19
Abstract: 17,146. Veritys, Ltd., and Gott, A. B. Aug. 24. Couplings; switches. - In rheostats of the type described in Specification No. 21,596, A.D. 1903, [Abridgment Class Electricity, Measuring &c.], the spring connectors on the back of the switch plate, arranged to connect the separate resistance frames in series, also serve to connect them to the contact-studs of the switch. For this purpose, either the connectors or the resistance frames with their terminals are arranged obliquely. The connectors are metal strips with bent-up resilient ends f<2>, ge. They are clamped between the switch plate and metal strips l by means of the bolts i, the heads of which form the contact-studs. Ribs m may be provided on the switch plate, which forms the cover of the ease containing the resistances, and is itself partially covered in by a sheath.
Patent GB-190517741-A (GB)
Title: An Explosive Coherer-powder.
Inventor: SCHNEIDER FERDINAND
Filed: 1905-09-01
Granted: 1905-10-26
Abstract: 17,741. Schneider, F. Oct. 24, 1904, [date applied for under Patents Act, 1901]. Coherers.-A composition for firing explosive mines or blasting cartridges by electric waves consists of a mixture of a coherer powder, such as is described in Specification No. 28,102, A.D. 1902, [Abridgment Class Electricity, Regulating &c.], with gunpowder. The current which passes, when the coherer powder is made conducting by electric waves, is sufficiently large to heat the coherer powder to incandescence and so ignite the gunpowder.
Patent GB-190517851-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Friction Ratchets.
Inventor: BURN LOUIS
Filed: 1905-09-04
Granted: 1906-09-04
Abstract: 17,851. Burn, L., and Goode, A. S. Sept. 4. Braces and other hand - drills. - Relates s t ratchet clutches for use with cycles, automobiles, and other machinery, and in ratchet-drill braces. Camrollers C bear between the cylindrical surfaces A, B, their inner parts D being cut away at the ends to receive springs E which tend to rotate. the rollers C and jam them between the cylindrical surfaces. Any looseness between the parts A, B will permit of slight eccentricity so that some of the rollers C will be rotated more than others to secure drive, thus equalizing wear. The form of roller shown in Fig. 5 may be used for transmitting heavy loads.
Patent GB-190522851-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Eaves Troughs or Roof Gutters.
Inventor: CRAWFORD CLAY
Filed: 1905-11-07
Granted: 1906-03-15
Abstract: 22,851. Crawford, C. Nov. 7. Roofs.-A roof gutter consists of a piece 3 of sheet metal bent to form a partially-flattened tube with the edges riveted together and secured beneath the roofing material 1. The upper surface is formed with inwardly-projecting tongues 6 produced by \/-shaped cuts, so that water freely enters the gutter, but leaves &c. are allowed to pass over and fall off.
Patent GB-190523454-A (GB)
Title: A New or Improved Ironing and Smoothing Device, particularly applicable for Ironing and Smoothing Silk Hats.
Inventor: GROSSI CHARLES
Filed: 1905-11-15
Granted: 1906-03-01
Abstract: 23,454. Grossi, C. Nov. 15. Bed-warmers. - A hollow hand-iron of the shape shown in Fig. 1, adapted to be filled with hot water, and d chiefly intended for use in ironing, may also be employed as a warming-pan.
Patent GB-190525903-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Machines for Carding and Preparing Wool and other Fibres.
Inventor: CORDINGLEY SAMUEL
Filed: 1905-12-13
Granted: 1906-11-01
Abstract: 25,903. Cordingley, S. Dec. 13. Carding-engines.- A scribbler for wool and other fibres comprises main cylinders 1 each having a series of workers 2, a fancy 3, two doffers 4, and between the latter a cleaner 5 also acting on the main cylinder as a fancy roller. In combination with each worker 2 is a stripper 6 and a small cleaner 7 disposed as shown and acting as indicated in Fig. 2. Doffers 4 are also provided with strippers 6 and cleaners 7. The fancy rollers are preferably encased in a shell 9. The fibres enter the engine at the licker-in 10. The direction of motion of the several rollers is shown by the
Patent GB-190602916-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Paper Cutting Machines.
Filed: 1906-02-06
Granted: 1906-05-31
Abstract: 2916. L a k e, W. R., [Beuthen, Count H. L. A. H. von Donners-Marck-]. Feb. 6. Cutting - machines for paper.-A serrated cutting-knife g is fixed to a base-plate a between two ledges d, d<1>, furnished on their inner sides with bars e, e', Fig. 2, supported on springs f, f<1>. The paper c is drawn from a roll b over the bars e, e<1>, which are depressed by the engagement therewith of bars l, l<1>, which also serve to clamp together bars k, k<1>, secured to a part i carried by rotatable arms m, m<1>. The paper is carried by the bars k, k<1> on to the knife, and the cutting is effected as shown in Fig. 2. The bars k, k<1> may be adapted to depress the bars e, e', the bars l, l<1> being dispensed with. As an alternative, the parts e, e' may be fixed, and the knife g vertically reciprocated.
Patent GB-190604021-A (GB)
Title: Improved Means for Equalizing the Wear on the Heels of Boots and Shoes.
Inventor: WAITE JOHN HASTINGS
Filed: 1906-02-19
Granted: 1906-03-08
Abstract: 4021. Waite, J. H. April 14,1905, [date applied for under Patents Act, 1901]. Heels; socks.-Relates to a pad or lining for preventing uneven wearing or running over of the heels of boots and shoes. The lining is preferably made from sheepskin or similar material, which is cut out in the form of the blank shown in Fig. 2. The flap 12 is folded over and pasted or otherwise secured to form a pocket enclosing a cushion 13 of felt or the like, Fig. 4. In use, the padded part of the lining is placed over the side of the heel which tends to be worn down.
Patent GB-190606229-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Steam and Gas Turbines and the like.
Inventor: BOSSHARDT FERDINAND
Filed: 1906-03-15
Granted: 1906-10-11
Abstract: 6229. Bosshardt, F., [Technisches Bureau, Frikart & Jaeger Ges.]. March 15. Elastic - fluid turbines. - Hollow blades a are made with a socket b in a single piece with the blade in one operation by pressing from a tube, or by bending and afterwards pressing a strip of sheet metal. The blade is attached to the rotor wheel by means of the foot which fits on to a projection c, a series of which are made by notching the rim. The foot is then indented as shown at e, Fig. 3. Alternatively, the foot fits into a groove f in the rim, and is then secured, e.g. by a rivet g, as shown in Fig. 4.
Patent GB-190607065-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Vulcanising Apparatus.
Filed: 1906-03-23
Granted: 1907-01-24
Abstract: 7065. Welch, W. H., and Frost & Co., H. March 23. Fastenings. - A hinged screw clamp G which bears against a lug F is used for joining the terminal members of a vulcanizer together.
Patent GB-190609954-A (GB)
Title: A New or Improved Chuck for Turning Cranks and for similar purposes.
Filed: 1906-04-28
Granted: 1906-08-09
Abstract: 9954. Tangyes, Ltd., and Walker, N. April 28. Chucks.-A chuck for use in turning crank-shafts has a tubular part c eccentrically mounted in a part a supported at one end in a bearing i and bolted to a face-plate at the other end a<3>. The axle of the shaft is placed in the eccentrically situated hole c<2> in the part c, which is rotatable in the part a by means of a worm e to bring either the crank-pin or the centre of the crank webs in alinement with the axis of the part a and the pin g<2>, which carries a web-holder h fitted with pinching-screws. The part a is slit transversely at b and longitudinally between such slits, to permit of the part c being clamped when adjusted.
Patent GB-190611408-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and connected with the Manufacture of Tubes.
Inventor: CRAWFORD ROBERT
Filed: 1906-05-15
Granted: 1907-05-15
Abstract: 11,408. Crawford, R. May 15. Paper and wood pipes and tubes; pipes and tubes of fibrous material; hinge and swivelling joints.- Light tubes, applicable for aerial apparatus, portable structures, shafting, tubular structures, and other purposes are formed from thin material, such as veneer or like fibrous or cellular material, reinforced and waterproofed by a suitable agglutinant and further reinforced by mechanical means. Suitable joints are also provided. One or more sheets of veneer are rolled round a mandrel which may be a hot tube of the required size and shape, the wood being preferably first steamed or wetted. The edges may be secured by an adhesive. If the wood is thin enough, the mandrel may be omitted. The tube is then preferably heated to 100‹ C., and treated with a hardening-liquid such as linseed oil, paraffin or turpentine, or a solution of gum, albumen, viscose, resinous substances, or the like, or of potassium or sodium silicate in any suitable solvent. Strings, threads, wires, or tapes b, Fig. 1, may be wound helically on the tube a, and the whole may be varnished. Rings c, Fig. 3, or disks or the like, secured or not by adhesive and formed of wood, metal, vulcanite, or pasteboard may be fitted internally. The rings c may be strengthened by strings e, Fig. 5, or strings may be passed through the tubes themselves, which are then preferably strengthened at those parts by internal or external rings or by both. The ends of the tubes are preferably provided with collars l or with internal rings. Thin metal or leaf, or paper which has been hardened with silicate may be used to strengthen the veneer. The paper or metal sheathing may have transverse ribs o, Fig. 29, or longitudinal ribs o<1>, internally or externally or both. Joints for the tubes may consist of a cone p, Fig. 1, prepared in the same manner as the tubes, surmounted by a block q, of solid material or sheet metal, having orifices r and oblique holes z to receive pivot pins s on the cones p, or tie-rod or cables ; or the block q may be mounted on a cap having an extension fitting the end of a tube a internally or externally, a rubber washer being interposed between the cap and the block. When made of veneers of limited length, the tubes may be formed into desired lengths by joining end to end with collars. Overlapping wooden edges are preferably bevelled, and if it is desired to balance the tube, as in quickly rotating shafts, strips of material are fixed on the side opposite seam.
Patent GB-190611957-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to Teleautographs
Inventor: RITCHIE FOSTER
Filed: 1906-05-22
Granted: 1906-10-18
Abstract: 11,957. Ritchie, F. May 22. Telegraphs; telephone systems.- When telautographs are used on telephone lines, means are provided for automatically disconnecting the telephone and connecting in the telautograph receiver at the receiving-station, when the master-switch of the telautograph at the sending-station is placed in the transmittting position. In Fig. 1, A represents the terminals of the telautograph transmitter, B those of the receiver, and D the telephone receiver. The magnet C has two coils, one connected to line l and contact d and the other to line l<1> and contact d<1>. The contacts d, d<1>, carried by the armature of the magnet C, normally rest against the contacts g, g<1>, thus connecting the telephone D to line. A telephone call current passing in series through the two magnet coils does not energize the magnet, but, when the transmitter switch of the telautograph at a distant station is brought into action, current passes over the line-wires in parallel, through the magnet coils, contacts d, d<1>, g, g<1>, and inductances h, h' to earth, thus energizing the magnet C and causing the contacts d, d' to engage the contacts f, f<1> connected to the terminals of the telautograph receiver.
Patent GB-190614302-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Optical Device for use in the Investigation of Psychical Phenomena
Inventor: CLIFTON DREW
Filed: 1906-06-22
Granted: 1906-11-29
Abstract: 14,302. Clifton, D. June 22. Reflectors.-A mirror for the investigation of psychic phenomena is made by squeezing between two glass calottes a mixture of pitch, white lead, and oil. A "black" glass concave reflector is thus produced into which the investigator gazes.
Patent GB-190614969-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in the Construction of Ornamental Glass Surfaces for Table Tops, Splashers, and the like.
Inventor: GARBETT WILLIAM
Filed: 1906-07-02
Granted: 1907-06-13
Abstract: 14,969. Garbett, W., and Davis, A. J. July 2. Slabs; tiles.-Glass mosaics for table tops, splash screens, &c. are formed by placing differently coloured pieces of thin sheet glass on a plane surface. A backing of cement, glue, pitch, or the like is spread upon the glass, a sheet of canvas, wire netting, &c. is placed on the cement &c., and a further layer of cement &c. is then applied and the whole is allowed to set.
Patent GB-190619124-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Briquette Making Machines.
Inventor: MISNER EDGAR DESCUM
Filed: 1906-08-27
Granted: 1907-03-21
Abstract: 19,124. Misner, E. D., and Renfrow, W. C. Aug. 27. Moulding briquettes.- Relates to mixing and moulding in a machine of the hopper-and-plunger type. The briquette material, suitably fed into twin hoppers 54 and mixed with steam, is broken up and fed forward by spirally-arranged oblique blades 58 to be delivered through openings 61 into a hopper 49. Oppositely-rotating sets of inclined blades 50 break the material up further and force it through an opening regulated by a hand-actuated slide 51 into a second hopper, where it is similarly treated by blades 42, before delivery into the pockets 29 of a reciprocating feedslide 23. Fig. 4 shows one of two alternatelyactuated sets of brushes 33 feeding the material from one of the pockets 29 through an opening 30 into the die-housing 24, which is adjusted horizontally by set-screws 14<a>, held up by springs 14<b>, and reciprocated from the main shaft 1 by means of wrist-pins 7 and rods 5. The dies 9, 10, cooperating with the dies 8 in the housing 24, are carried in die-blocks 12, 13, connected together and operated by a cam 16 on the shaft 1, which acts on an idler 17 situated on a frame 15, connected to the block 13 by rods 14<d> and suitably guided. The movement of this frame also serves to reciprocale the slide 23. The spring-pressed face 8<a> of the dies 8 detaches the briquettes which are carried away on the band 68. The mixers may be operated independently of the moulding-mechanism.
Patent GB-190619286-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Lubricating Devices.
Inventor: SCHULTZ DAVID LIVINGSTONE
Filed: 1906-08-29
Granted: 1907-08-29
Abstract: 19,286. Schultz, D. L., and Evans, W.P. Aug. 29. Pumping-engines; pistons. -Relates to means for lubricating steam-engine &c. cylinders. A casing a, Figs. 1 and 2, contains a differential piston b, c in a cylinder which is open to the atmosphere through a hole h and communicates by a pipe g with the exhaust side of the cylinder of the main engine. Steam from the steam-pipe is led into the casing a by a passage e, and enters the space f between the pistons b, c. The oscillations of the 'differential piston due to changes of pressure actuate a lever i carrying a pawl engaging a ratchet-wheel on a shaft k, on which is mounted a disk m provided with a port n and a groove m<1>, Fig. 3. The port n intermittently registers with a stationary port o admitting steam to a pipe p, and the groove m<1> forms a communication between the pipe p and an outlet m'. The steam passing through the pipe p acts upon a piston s<1> carrying a central tube s<2> and a ball valve v. When the steam-pipe p communicates with the outlet m<2>, the piston s<1> is returned by a spring w. The oscillations of the piston s<1> draw oil from a reservoir q past a non-return valve r into a chamber s<3>, and force it through the tube s<2> to a nozzle x in a union t<1> screwed into the cylinder cover of the engine. The holes b<1> in the nozzle x deliver the oil:in the form of a conical spray or a number of oblique jets, forming a complete ring of oil on the cylinder walls. The number of strokes of the piston s' may be varied by adjusting the ratchet gearing, or by forming two or more ports n in the disk m.
Patent GB-190619728-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Apparatus for Reducing Garbage and Sewage.
Inventor: HADDAN HERBERT JOHN
Filed: 1906-09-04
Granted: 1907-03-21
Abstract: 19,728. Haddan, H. J., [Edson Reduction Machinery Co.]. Sept. 4. Digesters.-Garbage or sewage is disintegrated by digesting and drying it in the chambers A, H. To prevent the separation of ammonia and glycerine vapours, the material under treatment in the digester, which is of the class described in Specifications Nos. 18,742 and 18,743, A.D. 1902, and No. 7519, A.D. 1903, is submitted to an air pressure at least ten pounds per square inch in excess of the steam pressure in the jacket, the air pressure b e i n g obtained by means of a pump Q, connected to the digester by pipes P, R. The material can be agitated by air admitted by the pipe L and orifices 37. A drum J surrounding the pipe L is connected to the steam-jacket by pipes N, I. The digester is provided with an air-escape valve 29 and a water - supply pipe W. Steam under a pressure of about sixty pounds to the square inch and at a temperature of about 300‹ F. is admitted to the jacket surrounding the receptacle A, which is free to elongate downwards through the stuffing- box 22. The material is discharged to the steamjacketed drying-chambers H through valves V, v, the casings of which are connected by telescoping pipes x, y. A valved pipe 85 allows of the equalization of pressure in the digesting and drying chambers during the charging of the latter. The pipes x, P are connected by a valved pipe 83, so that an air pressure equal to that in the digester may be maintained below the valve V.
Patent GB-190623890-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Apparatus for Indicating at a Distance Rise or Fall of Temperature and for Automatically Operating Registers, Fire Alarms and the like.
Inventor: HUYSMANS GEORGE
Filed: 1906-10-26
Granted: 1907-10-03
Abstract: 23,890. Huysmans, G., and Hankin, N. Oct. 26 Controlling automatically.- In thermometers, thermostats, automatic fire-alarms, ventilators, &c., in which the expansion device consists of a metal bar fixed at both ends and operating by its central lateral deflexion, the ends of the bar are held in supports by means of angular parts arranged on both sides of the bar and adapted to enter corresponding recesses in the supports. Angle-pieces 3 are secured to the casing 1 at its lower corners 2, Figs. 1 and 2, and engage the angular projections 6, 7 on each end of the bar 5 to prevent these ends from moving. The centre of the bar 5 is connected by a link 8 to a lever 12 pivoted at 13, Fig. 1, the movements of this lever being transmitted by a chain 17 to the lever 19 of the indicating, fire-alarm, or other device. The pointer 19 may indicate temperature on a scale 22, or by touching the adjustable contacts 32 give an alarm. The weight of the chain &c. is counterbalanced by a weight 15 on the lever. The single lever may be replaced by the compound system shown in Fig. 2. The bar passes through an eye in the link 8 and is secured to the latter by a wedge 10. Fig. 1, driven into the eye. If the expansion device is to control apparatus at a distance electrically, the contacts 31, Fig. 2, of the electric circuits project into the casing 1 and a brush attached to the end of the lever 12 sweeps over them.