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Patent GB-190715690-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Automatic Safety Device for Mine and Lift Cages Inclined Railway Vehicles and the like
Inventor: UNDEUTSCH HERMANN
Filed: 1907-07-08
Granted: 1908-03-26
Abstract: 15,690. Undeutsch, H. July 8. Safety suspending - apparatus for use on mine cages, lifts, hoists, inclined railways, &c. comprises a pair of forked levers pivoted to a cross-head on the draw-bar, and engaging beneath catch-arms of various forms. Figs. 2 and 3 are plan and elevation respectively of one form of the invention. The draw-bar h is-connected by a spring l to the cage, and has a cross-head n to which are pivoted a pair of forked levers p. These levers are bent as shown in Fig. 3 and rest on angle-irons i secured to the cage. The outer ends of the levers engage the underside of the catch-arms d pivoted on the crossstays u. To each of the guide-rails a are secured a pair of U-shaped bars b<1>, the sides of which are elastic and are adapted for engagement by the heads g of the arms d. When the suspending-rope breaks, the arms d are thrown upwards, and the heads g wedge against the sides of the bars b<1> and bring the cage to rest. The heads g are preferably formed thicker in the middle than at the top and bottom, as shown in Fig. 6. The upward movement of the arms d is limited by a detachable stop f<1>, Fig. 10. In a modified form, the ends of the arms d are detachable, and are provided with cutting-teeth similar to metal planing-tools. Their faces may have a number of vertical grooves, divided, if preferred, by one or more horizontal or inclined cuts. When the guides are of wood, the heads of the levers are provided with several sharp points. To render the arms d adjustable, they may be mounted on eccentric bushes v secured to the shaft by a set-screw, as shown in Fig. 10.
Patent GB-190719694-A (GB)
Title: Improved Means for Consuming Smoke in Furnaces
Inventor: DUQUETTE NAPOLEON JOSEPH
Filed: 1907-09-03
Granted: 1908-03-19
Abstract: 19,694. Duquette, N. J. Sept. 3. Smoke-consuming; cooling.-Air is supplied by steam-jets to the ash-pit of a furnace, and is led thence, through pipes in the furnace wall, to the space above the fire. Air is also supplied directly to the furnace chamber, and is delivered in sheets to prevent the too rapid escape of the products of combustion. In the arrangement shown, air is supplied to the ash-pit through bent conduits 9, 10, partly embedded in the furnace wall, and directed towards different parts of the ash-pit. The air is heated in contact with the grate, and passes through pipes 22, 23, at the sides of the fire-door, into the furnace chamber. Air is also supplied through flared nozzles 24, 34, situated above the fire-door and in the bridge respectively. The supply of air through the various pipes is induced by steam jets. The fire-door 5 is cooled by air passing from the ash-pit through openings 35 in the dead-plate.
Patent GB-190724473-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Rotary Engines.
Inventor: POULSON PAUL OLUFF
Filed: 1907-11-05
Granted: 1908-03-26
Abstract: 24,473. Poulson, P. O. Jan. 4, [date applied for under Patents Act, 1901]. Movable-abutment type with abutments sliding axially. The abutments 21, Fig. 5, each consisting of two parts pressed together by springs 25, are operated by lugs 27 on the rotating disk carrying the pistons 20. These lugs are in the same radial lines as the pistons, and are adapted to coact with corresponding lugs 28 carried by each part of the abutments. The operative parts of the abutments are about half the thickness of the outer portions. The distributing and reversing valve is formed as a ring 36, Fig. 2, and is provided with ports whereby the ports 30 in the casing can be put in communication with the exhaust pipes and the ports 31 with the supply opening 37, as shown in Fig. 2, or conversely.
Patent GB-190800069-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and in the Manufacture of Refractory Substances.
Inventor: CASPAR CARL
Filed: 1908-01-01
Granted: 1908-08-27
Abstract: 69. Caspar, C. Jan. 5, 1907, [date applied for under Section 91 of Patents &c. Act, 1907]. Refractory substances.-Relates to a refractory material manufactured from siliceous binding-clay and pure amorphous alumina with or without magnesia &c., and consists in forming small pieces of pure amorphous aluminium hydrate by the addition of water, then drying, heating in closed vessels to 1600‹, cooling, pulverizing, and mixing with water. The powder thus obtained is mixed with the other materials. The product may be used for making crucibles.
Patent GB-190802741-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Method and Means of and for use in Making Air-gas.
Inventor: CRAIG ALEXANDER
Filed: 1908-02-07
Granted: 1909-01-21
Abstract: 2741. Craig, A. Feb. 7. Carburetting.-In a plant for making carburetted air, air is drawn by one or more double-acting pumps A through a drying chamber E, pipes B, b<3>, a carburetting-chamber C, pipe b<4>, and chamber b<5> containing gauze screens, and is forced through pipes F to a storage-chamber f<1> and service pipe. The pipes b<3>, b<4> pass through a float c<5> in the carburetting- chamber C and are surmounted by sleeves c<6>, c<7> attached to the float, the upper end of the sleeve c<7> being curved downwards. A by-pass b<8> controlled by a tap t4 is arranged between the tubes b<3>, b<4>, by which any desired proportion of uncarburetted air may be mixed with the carburetted air. Gauze strainers are inserted in the pipe F at the points G. The piston of the pump A is reciprocated by any suitable means, such as a weight motor provided with suitable automatic reversing-means.
Patent GB-190804939-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Apparatus for use in Gathering Fruit.
Inventor: DORMAN MILTON BEST
Filed: 1908-03-04
Granted: 1908-08-06
Abstract: 4939. Dorman, M. B. March 4. Shoots.-Apparatus for use in gathering fruit consists of an adjustable trough-like shoot and a flexible shoot provided with internal deflectors or baffles. The flexible shoot a is square in cross-section, and is composed of short lengths of fabric. It is provided with means for connecting it to a branch of a tree. The deflectors b consist of stuffed bags or cushions sewn to the fabric so as to incline alternately in opposite directions. The shoot a leads the fruit into the trough-like shoot e, which discharges on to the ground or into a basket. The shoot e is provided with legs c at one end, and is adjusted by means of a cord f fastened to the tree.
Patent GB-190810277-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Filtering Oils, Fats, Waxes and their Products, and in the Apparatus used for that purpose.
Inventor: DOULL JAMES
Filed: 1908-05-12
Granted: 1909-02-11
Abstract: 10,277. Doull, J. May 12. Pneumatic filters; heating; clean8ing;filtering- media - media, discharging ; media, regenerating.- A perforated wood floor 4 of a filter for oil, fats, or waxes, is covered with coco-nut matting and canvas duck and supported by girders 5. The top 2 rests on columns 25 within the tank and has an upward extension 3 at the centre for giving a head to the liquid. The filtering-medium, which may consist of fuller's earth or magnesium silicate, is passed in through man-holes 18 closed by plates tightened against angle-iron frames by means of studs working through bridge-pieces. The filtered liquid is drawn off through a pipe 16 connected to a pump. When the medium requires cleansing slide-valves 12 are opened by means of handles 14, a hose is inserted through one of the manholes 18, and the medium is washed through pipes 11, 13 to a pit where it is treated with boiling water or steam. It is afterwards conveyed to drying-floors and subsequently calcined. The filter may be steamjacketed or otherwise heated. According to the Provisional Specification the top of the filter is provided with man-holes, the foundation is of stone, brick or concrete into which the sides are preferably carried down and embedded, the spindles of the valves 12 may be carried above the top of the tank, and the medium may be cleansed within the filter by means of saturated steam or boiling water.
Patent GB-190811772-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Flash Advertising Signs.
Inventor: SWEETSER GEORGE
Filed: 1908-05-30
Granted: 1909-03-25
Abstract: 11,772. Sweetser, G. May 30. Signs.-An advertising-sign comprises a semitransparent screen 1 and two or more multi-coloured lamps, which are placed behind the screen and are connected to thermal or other switching-devices in such a manner that the switching on or off of each lamp is irregular, and an irregular blinking or total extinction is arranged between some of the flashes. Preferably three or more particoloured lamps 3, Fig. 2, are employed, producing a kaleidoscopic effect on the screen 1. The lamps, examples of the colouring of which are shown in Fig. 3, are enclosed in a reflector 2 of regular or irregular form having a number of angles in its construction. Each lamp may be connected to a thermal switch 4, or a mechanical switch driven by a motor may he used.
Patent GB-190812906-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Apparatus for Filling Bottles, Tins, Jars and the like with a Predetermined Weight of Liquid, Semiliquid or like Substances.
Inventor: SIMMONS HARRY
Filed: 1908-06-16
Granted: 1909-06-16
Abstract: 12,906. Simmons, H. June 16. Automatic-feed weighers.-In a device for weighing definite quantities of liquid &c. into jars &c., the liquid passes from a tank c through a main valve p and is discharged through an automaticallyoperated valve a into the jar &c. which stands on a scale pan f. A rod e rests upon the pan f and falls with it when a definite quantity of the liquid has entered the jar. This causes the upper end of the rod e to disengage itself from a notch n in a lever j pivoted to the lever d, which then falls and closes the valve a. A screw o in the lever strikes a detent k in passing and deflects the lower end of the lever j clear of the rod e. In a modification, suitable for weighing grain &c., the valve a is replaced by a spring slide in the bottom of the grain hopper.
Patent GB-190818587-A (GB)
Title: Improved Means for Fastening Neck-ties.
Inventor: HOLTHUSEN WILHELM
Filed: 1908-09-04
Granted: 1909-08-26
Abstract: 18,587. Holthusen, W. Sept. 4. No Patent granted (Sealingfee not paid). Neck-tie retainers; studs.-Relates to a neck-tie fastener of the class consisting of two studs sliding one within the other, one stud fastened to the tie being provided with a groove so that, when the studs are pressed together, a claw on the collar stud snaps into the groove. The fastener comprises a plate e sewn through holes e<1> to the tie and bearing a hollow pin f notched at f<1>, the pin being adapted to be pushed into the hollow shank b of a collar stud. The stud has an enlarged head c which snaps into the notch f<1>, the head being made springy by a slot d. [Reference has been directed under Section 7 of Patents &c. Act, 1907, to Specification No. 207, A.D. 1900.]
Patent GB-190820129-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Non-slipping Surfaces for Elastic Tyres and other Elastic Goods.
Inventor: SLOPER THOMAS
Filed: 1908-09-25
Granted: 1909-09-23
Abstract: 20,129. Sloper, T. Sept. 25. Tyres, pneumatic&c.-Relates to non-slipping studs or blocks of metal or other material the embedded bases of whichare formed with transverse passages which intersect other transverse passages or open channels, or wi h passages perpendicular to the wearing surfaces of the studs &c., so that when the studs &c. are embedded and vulcanized in the elastic material of the tyres &c., cores of the material are formed in the passages and securely lock them in position. In some cases, the passages are filled with rubber which readily unites with metal before the studs &c. are embedded in the elastic material. Vent holes are provided in the wearing surfaces of the studs &c., to allow the air to escape from the cavities in them when they are embedded in the elastic material. In the form shown in Fig. 1, the stud B<2> has an axial cavity B and intersecting transverse passages A, A<1>, and is provided with flanges A<3>, A' the latter of which is flush with the surface in which it is embedded. In the form shown in Fig. 3, the block C is formed with several cavities B, which are intersected by passages A, A' at right-angles ; and in the form shown in Fig. 7. open channels D in the base of the block are intersected by passages A at right-angles to them. According to the Provisional Specification, the studs &c. may be held in position prior to vulcanization and may be further secured by the means described in Specification No. 20,180, A.D. 1906 ; the studs &c. may also be made from sheet metal, and may be threaded on cords passing through the passages formed in them.
Patent GB-190821243-A (GB)
Title: Method of and Apparatus for Electro Plating.
Inventor: LUTZ GEORGE AUGUSTUS
Filed: 1908-10-08
Granted: 1909-02-18
Abstract: 21,243. Lutz, G. A. Oct. 8. Switches.-In electro-plating hollow bodies such as pipes, arrangements are made for regulating the duration of the current supplied to the internal and external anodes respectively so as to regulate the thickness of the deposits. The wire 13 supplying the anodes 6 and 4 may be divided, one part making contact with a contact 13<b> permanently contacting with a metal disk 15 rotating with the hour hand of a clock 16, while the other is secured to a spring 13<a>, which makes contact with the exposed metal parts 15<b> of the edge of the disk 15, but is adapted to break the circuit when in contact with insulating- parts 15<a> of the edge of the disk.
Patent GB-190822123-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Attachment to Corsets.
Inventor: SHANKLAND GERTRUDE FLEMING
Filed: 1908-10-19
Granted: 1908-12-17
Abstract: 22,123. Shankland, G. F. Oct. 19. Corsets.-An attachment for corsets consists of a plate 2, preferably of buckram stiffened by flexible strips 2<a> of featherbone or the like, and having looped strips 3 secured to the outside. The plate is secured at the back of the corset by the back lacing 4 passing through the loops in the strips 3, thus serving as a back support. A flexible strip 5, which may be of different lengths, as shown in Figs. 2 and 4, is secured to the plate, to the upper end 5<a> of which the shirt-waist is secured by pinning or otherwise.
Patent GB-190822255-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Elastic Bearings and Elastic Vehicle Wheels.
Inventor: BECHTOLSHEIM CLEMENS FREIHERR
Filed: 1908-10-20
Granted: 1909-05-13
Abstract: 22,255. Bechtolsheim, C. F. von. Oct. 21, 1907, [date applied for under Section 91 of Patents &c. Act, 1907]. Supporting or mounting bearings.-Bearings for centrifugal machines &c. are yieldingly supported by rings or blocks of rubber, leather, &c., which are attached to the surfaces of the relatively moving parts without being held in recesses, and are subjected to lateral distortion. A bearing a, Fig. 1, has a flange b placed between rubber rings c, d, which are distorted by lateral oscillations of the bearing. The surfaces e, f of the flange, rings, and frame, are corrugated or roughened to increase the hold ; or the rubber is vulcanized to the surfaces with an intermediate layer of vulcanite. When the shaft has a fixed centre of oscillation, the flange b, the rings c, d, and the frame have spherical surfaces struck from the same centre. To enable the bearing to have a limited inclination to the axis, a rubber ring g, Fig. 4, is inserted between the bearing a and the flange b. The ring g is a segment of a hollow sphere, or it may be of circular section. In a modification, the rings c, d, g are made in one piece and are encircled by a band of canvas &c. Fig. 7 shows a construction having two bearings equidistant from the centre of oscillation, and connected by a spherical member b. The frame supporting the rubber rings c, d is of spherical or other shape. A modification is described in which a hollow shaft rotates about a vertical pillar provided with a ball-joint. The lower part of the bearing is supported by a spherical segment of rubber.
Patent GB-190824982-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Device for Locking Wheels and other Rotary Bodies Against Rotation.
Filed: 1908-11-20
Granted: 1909-07-22
Abstract: 24,982. Thomson, T., and Anderson, Boyes, & Co. Nov. 20. Brakes.-In order to lock rotary bodies, such as wheels, disks, shafts, pulleys, &c., against rotation, a stray D, having one or more projections G, surrounds the wheel A, which has corresponding indentations H. The strap is tightened by means of a nut F and a screw E so that the projections engage in the indentations and lock the wheel. The projections may be made on the wheel and the indentations in the strap.
Patent GB-190825204-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and connected with the Fabric of Tyres.
Inventor: JENKINS MINNA
Filed: 1908-11-23
Granted: 1909-11-18
Abstract: 25,204. Jenkins, Lady M., and Kempshall, E. Nov. 23. Compound fabrics for tyres include layers a of thin fabric and single layers b of ordinary thickness embedded in rubber or other elastic material. Several layers of the thin fabric may be arranged between two layers of thick fabric ; or several of the composite layers a, b may be separted by thick layers of rubber.
Patent GB-190825386-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Variable Speed Gears.
Inventor: VEULLE FREDERICK HENRY DE
Filed: 1908-11-25
Granted: 1909-08-19
Abstract: 25,386. Veulle, F. H. de. Nov. 25. Variable-speed and reversing gearing.-A variable sun-and-planet gear is combined with worm gearing so that a gearing-up device helps to transmit a reduction of gear to the driven shaft, with a direct drive and reversal. The sun-and-planet gear illustrated is of the class described in Specification No. 26,031, A.D. 1905, which comprises a planetcarrier B, Fig. 1, upon a driving-shaft A supporting pinions C, which mesh with a driven pinion D. The pinions C are actuated by one-way clutches F, Fig. 3, the centres G of which carry arms H trailing upon a non-rotary eccentric J of adjustable eccentricity, as before. The pinion D is connected by a shaft E to a toothed wheel K, which drives planetary gears L, M, Fig. 2, secured in pairs upon spindles L<2> also mounted in the carrier B. The gears M drive other gears M' on transverse spindles N, which also carry worms O. The worms 0 mesh with a central worm-wheel P upon the driven shaft P<2>, and when the eccentric J is adjusted to zero eccentricity, the entire gear rotates solid, producing the direct drive. When increasing eccentricity is given to the eccentric J, the pinion-centres G are oscillated with increasing amplitude, and the pinion D and worm gearing O, P are driven with increasing speed in such a way as, in effect, to substract from the speed of the shaft P<2>. The speed of the shaft P<2> may thus be reduced to zero. Further adjustment of the eccentric J causes reversed driving. Modified arrangements of worm gearing are described.
Patent GB-190825708-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in the Shedding and like Levers Employed in Loom Dobbies and Spring Top or like Motions.
Inventor: PLACE ROBERT HENRY
Filed: 1908-11-28
Granted: 1909-11-29
Abstract: 25,708. Place, R. H. Nov. 28. Loom shedding-levers.-Companion pairs of dobby shedding-levers or spring top-motion or undermotion levers are formed with fingers 1<1>, 2<1> having their meeting faces formed epicycloidal and hypocycloidal and merging into plain or horizontal surfaces. The width of the fingers may be the same as the width of the hubs of the levers, and quadrant extensions may be provided to act as guides. One of the fingers may work in a groove in the other finger.
Patent GB-190903658-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in the LUffing Gear of Cranes.
Inventor: WYLIE HAMILTON NEIL
IPC: B66C23/10
Filed: 1909-02-15
Granted: 1910-02-10
Abstract: 3658. Wylie, H. N. Feb. 15. Jib cranes.-Comprises means for balancing jib cranes and their loads, thereby securing horizontal traverse of the load when the jib is luffed. Fig. I shows a method of balancing the jib only. The jib is pivoted at 0, and is connected to a flexible link L which passes over a curve C on a counterweighted lever R pivoted at X. The curve is so constructed that the jib is balanced in all positions. A graphical method of constructing the curve is described. In connexion with this device, the arrangement shown in Fig. VI for balancing the load is used. An arm L<1> is pivoted to the end of the jib and carries a pulley Q, over which the hoisting-rope passes from the drum D and forms a triple purchase between the blocks Q, G. A flexible stay U is pivoted at X<1> and is secured to the arm which it upholds. The stay passes over a curve C<1>, which is constructed, according to a graphical method described in the Specification, so that the load is always balanced, and therefore travels in an horizontal line when the jib is luffed. In some cases the two curves described become so small that they may be dispensed with. In Fig. II the load-line H passes over a pulley Q<1> suspended from a line C' which passes over a pulley P on the end of the jib, and is secured to a fixed point X<2>. A position of this point can be found by trial which will give approximate balance of the load. In a modification, the pulley Q<1>, in addition to being suspended from the line C', is carried on the end of an arm pivoted to an intermediate point on the jib.
Patent GB-190912450-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Hot Water and Electric Supply Systems.
Inventor: HERZFELD RUDOLF
IPC: F24D3/10
Filed: 1909-05-26
Granted: 1910-05-26
Abstract: 12,450. Herzfeld, R. May 26. Drawings to Specification. Heating water.-In a plant for producing electricity and hot water for domestic purposes, highpressure steam on its way from the boiler to the water-heater is utilized in a steam-engine coupled with a dynamo, which is thus practically continuously driven. This dynamo is of a capacity smaller than that required to supply the demand for electricity direct, accumulators being provided to meet the intermittent electrical demand from the cumulative charge from the small generator.
Patent GB-190914247-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Bicycles and Motor Bicycles.
Inventor: BROWNING JOHN
IPC: B62K27/02
Filed: 1909-06-17
Granted: 1910-06-17
Abstract: 14,247. Browning, J. June 17. Springs, arrangement of and mounting bodies and undercarriages on; guiding vertical play.- In bicycles and, according to the Provisional Specification, motor road vehicles, the springs are mounted so as to turn with the wheels in steering. Steering-blocks n are pivoted to the outer ends of the arms k, and the wheel axles n<1> are fixed in blocks o having vertical guide pins p passing through the steering-centres. The leaf springs p' are bolted to the blocks o at their centres, and at their ends are secured to a long bearer-plate p<2>, the centre of which is bolted to the block n.
Patent GB-190914602-A (GB)
Title: Method and Machine for the Fecundation of Plants.
Inventor: DENNIS JAMES MONROE
IPC: A01H1/02
Filed: 1909-06-22
Granted: 1909-10-14
Abstract: 14,602. Dennis, J. M. June 22. Plants, treatment of growing.-In order that fertile seeds may be produced, growing clover &c. is fecundated or pollinated by mechanical means. A machine for distributing and interchanging the pollen comprises twisted wire fingers E loosely connected to crossed wires on a rectangular frame A, which is vibrated vertically as the machine is drawn over the crop. The two branches of each finger E are covered with fibrous down, lint, &c. which has been waterproofed by dipping into liquid rubber. The frame A is hung from spring bars 18 pivoted in stirrups 14, which carry rollers 26 engaging cams 6 on the axle 1. The frame may be lifted to avoid obstructions by moving the front ends of the bars 18 along slotted standards 20 by means of a foot-bar 24. It may be engaged by a notch z in a lifting-lever I.