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Patent GB-190423742-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Lace and in the Method of Making the same
Inventor: BIRKIN THOMAS ISAAC
Filed: 1904-11-03
Granted: 1905-08-31
Abstract: 23,742. Birkin, T. I., Birkin, T. S., and Anderson, T. Nov. 3. Lace and lacemaking. - Crossnet fabric, with or without Swiss, combination, or openwork effects, and clothing, muslin, or Madras effects, can be made in a curtain machine from spool, fine spool, warp, and bobbin threads by moving the jacks by means of a tricked bar after they have entered the threads. Three guide-bars a, b, c are used to carry the spool threads d, fine spool threads e, and warp threads f respectively. Below the comb bars are jacks or pickers l oscillated at each half-motion by a cam n. A tricked bar for guiding the upper ends of the jacks rises and falls one gait on the back and front motion respectively after the jacks have entered the threads. Each jack can be held back by jacquard strings l<1>. The crossings p, q of the cross-net are produced by combining the warp thread f of one pillar r with the threads of an adjacent pillar and combining the spool thread e of the adjacent pillar with the threads of the former pillar. For this purpose, the jacks l are moved to the extreme position s through all the threads or to the position t through the spool threads only. To produce the combination work u, the jacks are passed through the spool and finespool threads to the position u on the front halfmotion, and take up the position s for the back half-motion. This enables the bobbin thread of one pillar to be laid round its own pillar and the warp thread of an adjacent pillar, while the bobbin thread of the latter is laid round its own pillar only. To produce the clothing or four-gait work w, the jacks stand clear of the threads in the position x during both half-motions. The muslin or two-gait work y is produced by passing the jacks through the spool threads d to the position t on the front half-motion and holding them in the position x on the back half-motion. The Swiss effect z is produced similarly from the thin spool threads e The jacks enter to the position u on the front half-motion and to the position t on the back half-motion. To produce the single-motion Madras effect e', the jacks enter to the position u during a first two front and back half-motions and then retire to the position t for the next two front and back half-motions. Where no effect is required, the bobbin thread pillars as at r with its own warps and spool threads. Openwork b<1>, b<2> can be produced between any two other effects by leaving the jacks at the position t for both half-motions of the machine.
Patent GB-190427233-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Straight Bar Latch Needle Knitting Machines
Inventor: SMITH JAMES HILL
Filed: 1904-12-14
Granted: 1905-12-14
Abstract: 27,233. Smith, J. H., and Hill, O. A. Dec. 14. Parallel knitting. machines; straight. bar knitting - machines. - Latch. needles are employed, arranged in sets. The distance of the butt from the hook-end is the same for all the needles in the same set, but is different in neigh. bouring sets. The cams are also arranged in tiers one behind the other, as shown in Fig. 3, so as to afford suitable knitting - grooves for simultaneously operating the corresponding sets of needles. To produce a continuous piece of fabric, the strips which would otherwise be formed are joined at the edges by separately-operated intermediate needles. In the case of machines with two beds, these joining-needles may be all in one bed. If divided among the two beds, the joining-needles require two thread. guides and separate driving-mechanism Where the width of a set of needles is less than the width of the operative portion of the corresponding cam, at least three tiers of cams are used. The cams are attached to separate cam-plates 4, Fig. 1, which are reciprocated by a shaft 5 and can be turned up on the latter in order to gain access to the needles. The needle-bed 1 can be shifted vertically or horizontally so as to vary the quality of the work, and is fitted with fixed holding-down bits. The shaft 5 is supported and guided by brackets sliding on a fixed shaft 7, and is actuated by one or two cams 6. The joining-needles 10, Figs. 1 and 3, are placed one at each edge of each set of needles 3 and are simultaneously actuated, independently thereof, through the rod 16, Fig. 1, engaging the ends of the needles, the supporting-arms 17, a rocking shaft 15, and intermediate connections operated by a cam. Fig. 4 indicates the manner of joining together the adjacent strips of work. Where two sets only of cams are used, the joining-needles 10 are operated as though they belonged first to one set of needles and then to the adjacent set. Where three or more sets of cams are employed, it is necessary to raise the needles 10 in advance of the needles 3 to the left of them, in order that they may be in time to receive the thread being fed to the set of needles to the right of them. The wale forming the seam, Fig. 4, has twice as many loops as there are courses, owing to the joining needle 10 by which it is made receiving thread from the guides belonging to both of the adjacent sets of needles 3. Where the width of a set of needles is small compared with the width of a cam, and the needles 10 rise in consequence much in advance of the needles 3, it is convenient to defer the knocking-over of the selvage loop until the next course (knitted by the adjacent needles). In this case, the wale or seam shows the same number of double stitches as there are courses.
Patent GB-190500866-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Rifle Sights and the like
Inventor: PEDDIE JOHN TAYLOR
Filed: 1905-01-16
Granted: 1906-01-16
Abstract: 866. Peddie, J. T. Jan. 16. Sights.-The bridge-piece of a lift-up leaf sight is made to swivel about its forward end for windage-allowance and can be locked in any position by a cam-roller. Fig. 2 is a plan of the bridgepiece carrying the ramp d and leaf e. Fig. 4 is a plan of the base a. The front end of the bridgepiece has a circular dovetailed bearing f which is fitted into the open-ended slot c in the base a. The rear end of the bridge-piece has a bearing g which fits into the arcuate dovetailed slot b in the base. The bridge-piece is locked in any desired position by a cam-roller k, shown separately in Fig. 6, placed in a transverse slot l of the base.
Patent GB-190506268-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Ice Lifters.
Inventor: YEATS GEORGE MALCOLM
Filed: 1905-03-24
Granted: 1906-01-04
Abstract: 6268. Yeats, G. M. March 24. Lifting-dogs.-An icelifter is made in two parts, one part 1 of which is allowed to remain in the ice after the ice has been lifted, so that the appearance thereof may not be damaged by breakage. This part consists of a cylindrical block of wood or other soft material provided with a central orifice 3. The outer surface may be corrugated in order to increase the grip. The removable member 4 consists of an iron screw provided with a ring 5, adapted to be engaged by a crane hook or the like. The portion remaining in the ice may be formed of two portions which are fastened round the screw before being placed in the water to be frozen.
Patent GB-190520509-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Double Cone Friction Clutches or Couplings
Inventor: BAUMGARTNER-MICA HUGO
Filed: 1905-10-10
Granted: 1906-01-18
Abstract: 20,509. Mica, H. Baumgartner-. Oct. 10, 1904, [date applied for under Patents Act, 1901]. Clutches.-In a double-cam friction clutch, a member B, fixed to a shaft II, is connected with a pressure ring C by bolt a. Springs b, adjustable by means of washers c and nuts d, tend to couple the ring C with the double cone A mounted to slide on the shaft I. By moving back the disconnecting sleeve h, the levers g are oscillated about bolts f<1> of the pulley B so that the cams g<1> of the levers push back the bolts e to disengage the ring C and double cone A. The part A is then drawn back against the ring k by adjustable springs such as l.
Patent GB-190520604-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Portable Ladders or Inclined Ways for Raising and Lowering Barrels, Casks, and other Goods.
Inventor: MAX JOHN
Filed: 1905-10-11
Granted: 1906-02-01
Abstract: 20,604. Max, J. Oct. 11. Inclined ladders for casks. - Relates to inclined ladders for sliding barrels from carts or from the ground floor into cellars, and consists in constructing the travelling trolly in two parts, namely, a table provided with wheels, and a twoarmed cradle hinged to the table. The inclined side members a of the ladder are of channel section, the rollers b<1> of the carriage b running within the channel, The cradle c upon which the barrel rests is pivoted on a pin c<1> to the carriage, and is provided with hinged extensions c<2>, c<3> to facilitate the removal of the barrel. When the barrel is to be raised or lowered, the cradle is locked in the position shown in Fig. 1, in which a spring pin e engages the transverse members c<4>, b<2> of the cradle and of the carriage, respectively. The pin e is arranged to engage automatically when the cradle is swung back, and it may be released by a chain or other means. Spring hooks h, are adapted to retain the carriage in its upper position. The carriage is raised by a winch and pulleys arranged on the fixed ladder and the travelling carriage. In a modification, the ladder is straight, and the extension arm c<3> is replaced by a small pivoted cradle.
Patent GB-190525582-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Internal Combustion Engines of the Turbine Type.
Inventor: FULLAGAR HUGH FRANCIS
Filed: 1905-12-08
Granted: 1906-12-06
Abstract: 25,582. Fullagar, H. F., and Bottomley, J. F. Dec. 8. Gas turbines.-A combustion turbine adapted to resist high temperatures is shown in Figs. 1 and 4. Three turbine wheels a mounted on a common shaft are acted on by a current of combustion products passing through a passage e formed in a refractory non-corrosive material f, such as fused silica, and shaped so as to direct the current advantageously on to the blade of each wheel. The passage is enclosed in a water-cooled metal casing g, and it is segmental in cross-section. A cooling fluid may be squirted on to the uppermost wheel blades through apertures m. In a modification, the passage is formed in a cheaper refractory material lined with plates of fused silica or the like. Another modification has the water jacket lining the sides of the channels in the refractory material through which the wheels pass. Specifications No. 19,920, A.D. 1901, and Nos. 10,670, 18,437, and 21,018, A.D. 1904, [Abridgment Class Glass], are referred to.
Patent GB-190602255-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Machines for Manufacturing Celluloid Combs
Inventor: TORGUE JEANNE MARIE
Filed: 1906-01-29
Granted: 1906-11-15
Abstract: 2255. Torgue, J. M. Feb. 4, 1905, [date applied for under Patents Act, 1901]. Combs, hair.-Relates to a construction of dies for cutting or moulding twin combs from a plate of celluloid, rendered plastic by heating. Each of the dies, which are of identical construction, comprises a steel support e, to which is bolted a central part having the outline 1 ... 13. This central part is provided with a series of cutting- edges h, Fig. 10, adapted to stamp out the required teeth in the hollows o between the cutting- edges. The hollows and cutting - edges end at K in a step l, the ends K forming a curve m, n, Fig. 1, and the steps l a sinuous line 9, 10. The remainder of the die comprises a part A of outline 9, 10, 20, 21, which fits between the sinuous line 9, 10, and another part E of outline 10, 11, 26, 27, 8, 9, 21, 20, which is secured to. the die support e by bolts p<1>, q<1>, r<1>. A third part D of outline 14 ... 19 is also bolted to the support e, and carries in intaglio and relief the design which is to be stamped on the back of the comb. The part A of each die is adapted to be moved vertically relatively to the remainder of the die to free the combs. This is effected by the engagement with a part B, Fig. 3, beneath the part A of a wedge-shaped piece C, screwed to a rod F which is moved longitudinally to release the comb and returned by a spring G.
Patent GB-190604702-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to the Charging and Discharging of Secondary Batteries.
Inventor: FIEDLER LOTHAR
Filed: 1906-02-26
Granted: 1907-02-21
Abstract: 4702. Fiedler, L. Feb. 26. Distributing; lighting, systems of; switches.-Relates to apparatus comprising a secondary battery in association with a source of electricity, the arrangement being such that the battery is automatically recharged when depleted, the circuits being made by electro-magnetic switches. When the source of electricity is a dynamo driven by an internal-combustion engine, the residual charge of the battery serves to start the engine. The Figure shows one arrangement with the switches U, V in the position for charging the battery A. from a generator B, the work circuit S being in parallel through a resistance T. When the battery is fully charged, the cores u<3> v<3> are drawn into the solenoids, the switch U being opened and cutting out the dynamo B, and the switch V closed, connecting the battery direct with the circuit S, the resistance T being short-circuited. At the same time, the coil v<2> is short-circuited, the switch U being held in its new position by the coil u<2> only. The lever X to which the switches are connected is provided with adjustable weights x<1>, x<2> and a dash-pot Z. The switch U is also provided with contacts 5, 6, for closing the ignition circuit of a gas engine C, which is started by the machine B running as a motor..
Patent GB-190605125-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or connected with Covers for Blinds, Maps, Plans and the like.
Inventor: COLE WILLIAM EDWARD TURNER
Filed: 1906-03-02
Granted: 1907-02-21
Abstract: 5125. Cole, W. E. T. March 2. Window blinds.-Window blinds, maps, plans, and the like are provided with cylindrical casings for excluding dust in conjunction with special brackets or fittings at each end. The casing consists of a cylinder of metal or other suitable material having a slot slightly longer than the width of the blind. The end fitting at one side consists of a disk having a depression g, Fig. 4, for the blind roller, a groove f for the casing, and central aperture h for the roller pivot secured to a plate d having screw-holes e. The fitting at the other side of the blind is attached to the wall by means of a thumb-screw and clamping-plate j, Fig. 7, as shown. If the maps &c. do not require to be attached to a wall, internally-screwed rings, one of which has a slit, are inserted in each end of the casing to receive the end fittings shown in Figs. 10 and 14. The cylinder may be corrugated, and the end of the map &c. is secured to or turned over a strip or rod to prevent dust from entering the slot.
Patent GB-190607961-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Dynamo-electric Machines.
Inventor: SIEBERT WILHELM
Filed: 1906-04-03
Granted: 1907-04-03
Abstract: 7961. Siebert, W. April 3. Brush - holders. - In low - voltage commutating machines, to arrange the brush spindles close to each other and to avoid separate brush-carriers and collecting-rings for brushes of the same polarity, all the brush spindles of the same polarity are fixed uninsulated to a collecting-ring and carrier, the carrier as a whole being insulated from the frame of the machine ; in order to increase the number of brush spindles, the brushes of each polarity extend only over half the commutator, Fig. 1, the brushes of one polarity being attached to the carrier A, and the other brushes to the carrier B, each carrier being separated from the frame by the insulation C. The commutator may be split in two, each part being of one polarity and placed one at each end of the armature. In this case, two separate magnet frames D, E, Fig. 2, insulated from each other and from the frame, form the carriers and collecting-rings. For machines of large output, the armature consists of two cores and windings having either a common commutator between them, or a common commutator between them and one at each end of the armatures. In either case, two separate magnet frames would be used, one for each polarity, separate portions of the commutators being similarly reserved.
Patent GB-190608225-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Stanchions.
Inventor: WILLIS PERCY RICHARD JULIUS
Filed: 1906-04-05
Granted: 1907-02-28
Abstract: 8225. Willis, P. B. J., [McCarthy, T. E.]. April 5. Lifting-jacks.-An ,adjustable head for a column comprises a head-piece 11 bored to receive a boss on the head 7 of a screw 6 which turns in a cap 2 fitting over the top of the column: The screw after adjustment is prevented from rotating and assisted in supporting the weight by set-screws 13- passing through a flange on the head 7 and resting on the top of the cap 2, or, by the bevelled upper surface of a collar 18 which is made in two parts secured together by bolts 21, a suitable packing- piece being inserted.. In a modification, this collar instead of having its upper surface bevelled is perforated, to allow bolts or steel bars to be inserted just below the head 7.
Patent GB-190611160-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Tube Cleaners for Steam Generators and the like.
Inventor: RESTUCCI GIUSEPPE
Filed: 1906-05-12
Granted: 1906-10-11
Abstract: 11,160. Restucci, G. May 12. Cleaning pipes and tubes.-In a tube cleaner that removes incrustation by scraping, two or more pairs of hard beveledged sectors e, e and f, f are mounted resiliently on wires i between disks b, c, d which are firmly fixed to the spindle a.
Patent GB-190613217-A (GB)
Title: Process of Desulphurising Saccharine Fruit Juices.
Inventor: BARBET EMILE AUGUSTIN
Filed: 1906-06-07
Granted: 1906-11-15
Abstract: 13,217. Barbet, E. A. Oct. 27, 1905, [date applied for under Patents Act, 1901]. Purifying saccharine liquids and syrups.-An apparatus for removing sulphur dioxide from molasses is shown. The molasses from a vessel A passes through a preliminary heater R, thence down the plates of a column B to a heater C. The molasses, now freed from gas, passes on the outside of the tubes of the preliminary heater R to a cooler D and thence to a fermenting vessel H. The apparatus is kept under a reduced pressure by a pump L, and air is admitted to the apparatus through a valve P. To prevent the molasses acquiring a metallic taste, the plates of the column B are formed of sandstone and the central openings are covered with slotted sandstone caps attached by silver-plated bronze bolts. The heater C and heat exchanger R have their upper and lower portions formed of sandstone, and the plates and tubes of tin, and the cooler D has its upper and lower portions formed of sandstone and tubes of tin with an outer sheet-iron casing. Carbon dioxide may be admitted to the apparatus through the valve P instead of air.
Patent GB-190615971-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Pumps or Chargers, Compressors and Distributors for Explosion Engines.
Inventor: PARANT JULES RENE
Filed: 1906-07-14
Granted: 1907-01-31
Abstract: 15,971. Parant, J. R. Sept. 11, 1905, [date applied for under Patents Act, 1901]. Gas and like engines.-A compressing-pump, by the application of which to a fourstroke-cycle engine it may work on a two - stroke cycle, comprises two barrels a, b divided by a block c containing two opposite passages leading from the beat admission valves and at right-angles to their discharge passages o, p. The outlet valves are in the form of two rods m, n, which are attached to the pistons d, e and enter and leave the boxes t. The admission passages mayintercommunicate by means of a by-pass with a stopcock for regulating compression.
Patent GB-190619717-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Alternating Current Electric Machines.
Filed: 1906-09-04
Granted: 1907-02-21
Abstract: 19,717. Felten & Guilleaume - Lah - meyerwerke Akt.-Ges. Sept. 4, 1905, [date applied for under Patents Act, 1901]. Commutators; regulating.-The currents between brushes of the same sign, in multipolar alternating- current machines, are used for exciting or varying the excitation, or for compensating. In the arrangement shown in Fig. 2, the currents between the brushes a and b pass respectively through the two primary windings f, g of a transformer, and the current in the secondary h is used for compensating by means of additional brushes c. The working current is taken from the middle of the windings f, g so that it has no effect.
Patent GB-190621052-A (GB)
Title: An Equilibrium Counter-balance for Ships, to Counteract List and also to Reduce Rolling.
Inventor: DONALD WILLIAM
Filed: 1906-09-22
Granted: 1907-07-18
Abstract: 21,052. Donald, W. Sept. 22. Rolling, preventing; stability, increasing.-To counteract list and to reduce rolling, two segmental or other weights A, B, each cast with a pinion a', b<1>, are mounted as shown with the pinions in gear. The rim b' of the weight B is formed with teeth b<3> gearing with a pinion c mounted on the shaft c'. The weights are rotated to the opposite side of the centre-line of the strip to that to which it tends to list, either by a handle c' or by an auxiliary engine or other power. The apparatus may be arranged on its side with the axes a, b vertical.
Patent GB-190627335-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to Reversible Sliding Window Sashes.
Inventor: RHODES THOMAS WEBBER
Filed: 1906-12-01
Granted: 1907-11-14
Abstract: 27,335. Rhodes, T. W., and Rhodes, F. R. C. Dec. 1. Windows.- Reversible sashes are locked at the top and bottom to the sliding stiles a<1>, to which they are pivoted by hook-shaped spring catches c operated by a square key. The lower catches c are provided with teeth c<4> meshing with teeth d<1> formed on the underside of boltsd. When the catches are disengaged, the bolts d are simultaneously shot into holes e in the pulley stile, so that the sliding stiles are locked to the pulley stile while the sash is being reversed.
Patent GB-190629271-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Electric Transformer Furnaces.
Inventor: FRICK OTTO
Filed: 1906-12-22
Granted: 1907-06-27
Abstract: 29,271. Frick, O. Dec. 27, 1905, [date applied for under Patents Act, 1901]. Electric furnaces. - In an induction furnace having an iron core the outer part of which is remote from most of the primary winding, the latter is placed on more than one side of the melting-bath to minimize magnetic leakage. Fig. 1 shows two coils 1, 3 situated, respectively, above and below the annular crucible 2, aud connected in series or in parallel. The two leakage fields formed by these coils do not include much iron. In other arrangements, parts of the coil are placed adjacent to the inner side and bottom, the inner side, top, and bottom, or the inner and outer sides and bottom, of the crucible ; or the latter may be nearly circular in cross-section and may be surrounded by a tubular coil. The coils may be subdivided, the parts above the crucible being arranged so as to be readily removable. Specifications Nos. 700, A.D. 1887, and No. 14,884, A.D. 1905, are referred to.
Patent GB-190707762-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Flexible Couplings.
Inventor: MCGOWAN JOHN
Filed: 1907-04-03
Granted: 1908-02-13
Abstract: 7762. McGowan, J. April 3. Bushes, bolt-hole. -In a flexible insulated coupling bolts b connecting disks a are provided at one end with rubber buffers c.