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Patent GB-190709994-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Digging Apparatus.
Inventor: ARDEN HARRY BAKER
Filed: 1907-04-30
Granted: 1908-04-30
Abstract: 9994. Arden, H. B. April 30. Excavating.-An excavator is mounted so as to permit of movement longitudinally and transversely of the cutting, and the conveyer is pivoted at one end to the excavator and is supported towards the other end so as to move in a corresponding manner to the excavator. The steam shovel 1, Fig. 1, is mounted on a frame 2 carried on trucks movable on a transverse frame 4, which is mounted on trucks movable on longitudinal tracks 5, 6, and the conveyer 3 is pivotally connected to the frame 2 and is supported by a pier 7 fixedly or pivotally carried on a truck 8 movable transversely on a frame 9, which is movable longitudinally on tracks 12, 13 arranged parallel to the tracks 5, 6. The conveyer comprises a travelling chain of buckets 19, Fig. 4, open at the forward side and provided with a central lug 26 in front and two side lugs 24, 25 at the back. The buckets are connected together with a minimum interval between them by spindles passing through the lugs and provided at each end with loose flanged wheels running on tracks on the conveyer. The shovel 1 delivers into a hopper 15, Fig. 3, fixed to the end of the conveyer frame and constructed with upwardly flaring sides and back, the narrower opening in the bottom delivering into the line of travelling buckets. As the buckets pass over the outer end of the conveyer frame, the contents fall on to the spoil pile.
Patent GB-190718344-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Fenders, Curbs, and the like for Domestic Hearths.
Filed: 1907-08-14
Granted: 1908-04-16
Abstract: 18,344. Smart, T. C., and Smart & Sons, T. Aug. 14. Fenders.-The main portion A of a telescopic fender or curb in two or more parts has secured behind it a slotted plate a', between which and the main portion the remaining parts B slide. Lugs b<1> formed on the ends of the sliding parts B engage in the slots a<2> and carry projecting screws upon which nuts b<3> are screwed to hold the parts securely in the required positions.
Patent GB-190722741-A (GB)
Title: Improved Method and Means of Locating Cutting Tools in Lathes and other Machines.
Inventor: LINLEY OWEN
Filed: 1908-04-15
Granted: 1909-02-25
Abstract: 22,741. Linley, O. April 15, 1908. Lathes; planing and shaping; tools.-Tools are located in the tool posts of lathes, planing and shaping machines, &c. so that a graduated cylinder on the feed-screw of the slide will always serve to indicate work diameter, length, thickness, &c. The tool post consists of a block E, Fig. 1, with au inclined upper surface with grooves to receive a tool K, Fig. 3, and with a low wall or stop F to locate the front edge of the tool. Two sets of tools are used, one set for the groove c and the other for the grooves l or r. The tools are ground so that the upper profile always overhangs the lower to a given extent, and they are made from parallel faced bar steel of constant thickness so that when the bottom of the tool abuts against the stop F the cutting-edge projects by a determined amount. The feed-screw carries a spirally graduated cylinder C co-operating with a pointer carried by the rest. Sharpening guides and rests.-To facilitate the grinding of the above tools a block H, Figs. 4 and 5, is provided having an inclined face correspondingly grooved at r, c, l to the block E. The tool is clamped to the block which is moved by hand on a bed J in front of a grinding-wheel G to impart the profile desired. Drills and cutters; tool-holders; milling.-Tool bars for internal turning are fitted into a groove in the slide-rest so that their relative position is always constant, and the cutter ends of the bars are provided with similar platforms, grooves, and locating-walls. The method of locating tools is also described applied to the construction of bits, cutter heads and milling-cutters having inserted blades, to facilitate the replacement of the blades after grinding without affecting the size of the cutter.
Patent GB-190726135-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Enclosed Arc Electric Lamps
Inventor: FARTHING GEORGE WASHINGTON
Filed: 1907-11-26
Granted: 1908-10-29
Abstract: 26,135. Farthing, G. W., and Steanes, T. K. Nov. 26. Arc lamps, clutch. Immediately above and below a central series or differential solenoid B are two dash-pots C, N, the upper one being closed by the cap D of the lamp casing and serving to support the solenoid. The piston of the dash-pot C is attached to the upper carbonholder E, and that of the dash-pot N to the tubular core L of the solenoid. This core carries a clutch of the camlever type. Two pillars connect the cap D and the baseplate, and aid in supporting the solenoid. The lower carbon - holder and globe - holder are carried by a yoke Y and screw y.
Patent GB-190726280-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in the Method of and Means for Propelling Ships and Boats.
Inventor: ATKINSON JOSEPH
Filed: 1907-11-28
Granted: 1908-04-09
Abstract: 26,280. Atkinson, J. Nov. 28. Prcpelling by reciprocating plates.-Ships are propelled by means of blades hinged to the fore and aft ends of shafts g, h, Fig. 3, which pass longitudinally through the ship and are reciprocated longitudinally by cranks and connecting-rods from an engine. Fig. 2 shows the aft r The blades a work on vertical hinges b and bear in their open position against vertical stops e on the shaft d when this shaft is moving in the direction of the arrow B. On reversal of the shaft, the blades close into the position shown by the dotted lines with the studs f thereon in contact. Fig. 5 shows the fore propeller, the arrangement being such that the blades of both propellers are open when the shaft is moving in the direction opposite to that in which the ship is moving. As shown in Fig. 3, a shaft i is provided with a propeller 2 at the aft end, to propel the ship astern when necessary.
Patent GB-190727608-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Thermostats.
Inventor: GEISSINGER HARRY GRANT
Filed: 1907-12-14
Granted: 1908-12-14
Abstract: 27,608. Geissinger, H. G. May 29, [date applied for under Patents Act, 1901]. Thermostats.-The thermal couple of a thermostat is formed by an expansible rigid element and a less expansible flexible element. Fig. 1 shows two thermostats mounted on one frame 15. Specification No. 25,036, A.D. 1908, is referred to. Each thermal couple consists of an expansible rigid channel-shaped bar 1, provided at its ends 2, 3 with screws 4, 5. between V-shaped grooves in the heads of which is sprung a flexible strip 10 of spring steel or other material less expansible than the bar 1. The heads of the screws 4, 5 are also provided with square grooves, at right-angles to, and deeper than the V-grooves, in which tongues at the ends of the flexible strip 10 engage to prevent lateral displacement. The screw 4 is adjustable for varying the curvature of the strip 10, and a pin 13 prevents reverse curvature. The flexible strip 10 is adapted to close a circuit through an insulated contact-screw 14 carried by the frame 15. The screw 14 is preferably of iron, and may form one pole-piece of an electro-magnet 26 in the regulating-circuit, and by its attraction on the strip 10, may prevent the circuit from being broken until a definite change of temperature has taken place. The other pole-piece 27 is of considerable area, so as to exert only a small attraction on the strip 10. The bar 1 is pivoted at its upper end 2 to an arm 18, pivoted to the frame 15 by a screw 19. To the lower end 3 of the bar 1 is loosely pivoted a bell-crank lever 22, the shorter arm of which abuts against a screw 24, while the longer arm is adjustable by a calibrated screw 25 for adjusting the temperature at which the device operates. Springs 20, 21 prevent vibration of the bar 1 and lost motion at the pivots 17, 23. The strip 10 may be concave to the contact-pin 14, so that contact is made on expansion of the thermal couple.
Patent GB-190813836-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Reversible Internal Combustion Engines.
Inventor: GRUNWALD CARL
Filed: 1908-06-30
Granted: 1908-11-12
Abstract: 13,836. Grunwald, C. Sept. 16, 1907, [date applied for under Section 91 of Patents &c. Act, 1907]. Gas or explosive vapour engines, starting and reversing. The valves are operated from two cam shafts, and the cams on both shafts are adjusted axially at the same time by a single hand-wheel which is rotated always in the same direction to bring the cams into the positions for forward starting, forward running, backward starting, and backward running, successively. One cam - shaft G carries forward and reverse cams for the admission of compressed air on a two-stroke cycle for forward or backward starting, and has an intermediate position in which the valve is not operated. The second shaft F carries three axially adjustable camsleeves B', C', D<1> having forward and reverse cams for the suction valve, fuel valve, and exhaust valve for normal running on a four-stroke cycle. In the intermediate position of this shaft the suction and fuel valves are not operated, but the exhaust valve is opened by cams d<6>, d<7> at every revolution for the discharge of compressed air during forward or backward starting. The three cam - sleeves are mounted upon a sleeve F<1>, Fig. 4, which is shifted axially along the shaft F by an internal rod F<2>. This rod rotates with the shaft, and is connected by a ball-joint o<3> to a link o<2>, which is, adjusted by a bell-crank lever 0<1> 0, link M, and crank-disk H<1> on a shaft H. The shaft G is connected by a balljoint and similar connexions P P<1> and N to a crank H<3> at the other end of the shaft H, the two crank-pins being set at right-angles. To adjust the cams, the shaft H is rotated through successive angles of 90 degrees by means of a hand-wheel J<1> and worm gearing ; the hand-wheel also moves a pointer Q over a dial to indicate the position of the cams. A cam s<4> on a separate shaft actuates the plunger of the fuel pump R, and is moved into an inoperative position during forward or backward starting by means of the cam-like faces h<5>, h<7> on the periphery of the crank disk H<1>.
Patent GB-190820480-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Typewriting Machines.
Inventor: FELL JOHN CORRY
Filed: 1908-09-29
Granted: 1909-02-18
Abstract: 20,480. Fell, J. C., [Smith Premier Typewriting Co.]. Sept. 29. Typewriters. - Inking-mechanism shown as applied to a frontstrike typewriter of the kind described in in Specification No. 4277, A.D. 1908, comprises a ribbon spool 7, rotatable on a collar 6 on a shaft 5 which is turned towards the rear of the machine as the paper-carriage moves towards tne left, and a spool 10 removably mounted in the machine upon the collar 11 of a rod 13 movable endways. Fig. 3 shows the rod withdrawn against the action of a spring 15 to permit removal of the spool, but the collar 11 normally enters a shallow depression 16 formed on the end of the collar 6. The ribbon leads from the spools over guides to a vibrator. Ratchet teeth 20, Fig. 10, stamped up from the adjacent metal flanges of the spools, are adapted to be engaged by a dog 21 pivoted at 22 on the shaft 5. A grooved roller 23 on the dog is engaged by the point of a spring 24 in such a manner that the dog is held in either of its two positions. The dog is moved to either position by a wire 26, 27, movable endways, which is laid in a groove in the shaft 5. The drum 35, Fig. 10, of each spool consists of a sheet of metal bent into cylindrical form and having ears riveted through holes 38 in the flanges. A ribbon-clamp inside the drum comprises a spring 40 of sheet metal bent to cylindrical form, the oblique end 42 of which bears against the flat end 41. Ears on the spring project into openings 44 forming branches of the openings 38 in the flanges. The ribbon is inserted through the slot in the drum between the ends 41,42 by a suitable tool 46. Cam devices are provided for automatically reversing the feed of the ribbon when one of the spools is nearly empty. Mounted in ears 52 of a frame 50 is a pivot rod 53 carrying yoke frames 54, 60 provided respectively with flat arms 55, 62 pressed upwards between the flanges of the spools by springs 56, 61, and with arms 58, 64 the ends of which are camshaped. When either spool is almost empty, the corresponding arm 58 or 64 is raised into the path of the roller 23 and the cam rocks the dog 21 into engagement with the ratchet teeth of the empty spool. The flat arm 55 is extended so that, when the spool 10 is to be removed from the machine, the arm may be pressed down by hand; this depression brings a bracket 65 on the arm 58 into the path of the arm 64 and is large enough to prevent the arm 64 from rocking the dog 21 into engagement with the spool 10 to reverse the ribbon feed.
Patent GB-190822788-A (GB)
Title: Central-draught Kettle for use on Gas Stoves.
Inventor: LETTS FRANK
Filed: 1908-10-27
Granted: 1909-07-29
Abstract: 22,788. Letts, F. Oct. 27. Kettles.-A kettle having a central, plain or corrugated, vertical flue, and intended for use on gas stoves, is provided with one or more perforated disks A in the flue to promote quick heating, the upper opening being covered by a disk B having a wavy or corrugated edge. The filling-aperture is placed at one side.
Patent GB-190823439-A (GB)
Title: A New or Improved Self Driving Motor.
Inventor: BLAKE FRANCIS THOMAS
Filed: 1908-11-03
Granted: 1909-11-03
Abstract: 23,439. Blake, F. T. Nov. 3. Drawings to Specification. No Patent granted (Sealing fee not paid). Self-driving motors.-A wheel bears peripherally a number of semicircular weights combined with star-wheels and ratchet-wheels engaged by pawls. At any given instant the weights on one side of the vertical diameter being external, the wheel turns and as the bottom weight passes a fixed rack it is set into an internal position, while by a similar action the weight at the top is turned into an external position.
Patent GB-190826072-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Pillows, Bolsters or Cushions and in Cases or Coverings therefor.
Inventor: BROWN ROBERT
Filed: 1908-12-03
Granted: 1909-12-02
Abstract: 26,072. Brown, R. Dec. 3. Bolsters and pillows; bolster and pillow slips and the like; cushions.-The front edge of a bolster, cushion, or pillow A is provided with a narrow pillow a made of circular cross-section or otherwise shaped so that it can be thrown over on to the part A to form a support for the user's neck. The pillow a may be attached to or formed out of the pillar A by stitching, or it may be buttoned or otherwise removably secured thereto. In a modification, the pillow a may be held in the folded-over position by a button and a tab. In the form shown in Fig. 4, the pillow a can support either the user's neck or his head, and by the division of the part A the filling-material is kept in its proper place. The device may be covered by an ordinary pillow-case. A pillow-case may be so formed with an auxiliary pocket as to receive an ordinary pillow and a small pillow ; the pocket may be formed by stitching through the case or otherwise ; or it may be attached by a tab stitched to the top or the edge of the case. According to the Provisional Specification, the pocket may be so attached along the edge as to fold back, and it may be retained in position by a tab.
Patent GB-190827035-A (GB)
Title: Steam or Hot Air Apparatus in Combination with a Bath.
Inventor: MAYER RICHARD
Filed: 1908-12-12
Granted: 1909-10-28
Abstract: 27,035. Mayer, R. Dec. 12. Baths.-Fixed baths are converted into vapour or hot air baths by means of a rigid enclosure b and a canvas cover i. The bather sits upon a seat d hung by chains from the enclosure b which it thus keeps in position upon the edge c of the bath. The cover i is fastened to the front of the enclosure by buttons, and encloses part of the bath only.
Patent GB-190900721-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Leggings.
Inventor: BROOMFIELD HERBERT
IPC: B29D99/00
Filed: 1909-01-12
Granted: 1909-12-02
Abstract: 721. Broomfield, H. Jan. 12. V u l c a n i z i n g , mandrels for.- Leggings are formed of rubberproofed canvas coated with indiarubber and vulcanized on a former in a stretched state. The former is made in four parts a', guided when opened out by means of pegs b in one part engaging in holes in the other, and held together by rubber rings c lying in grooves. A rod e screwed at the ends passes through the middle, and carries cones f, f<1> fitting conical recesses in the ends of the former. The canvas is first placed around the legging and the seams are sewn or cemented, it is then covered with rubber sheet the joints being covered by rubber strips; or a strip of proofed canvas may be lapped helically around the former and then covered with sheet rubber. The former and legging are then placed in a mould l, made of two hinged parts, and the former is expanded by drawing the cones together by means of nuts g, g<1> so as to stretch the legging into its final shape and press it against the mould. It is then vulcanized in the stretched state in a pan, or the mould itself may be jacketed for heating it with steam After vulcanization, the legging is slit along the outer side and provided with fastenings. The mould may be provided with a pattern. The leggings may be lined with baize &c. The rubber may be mixed with colours so as to obtain coloured leggings.
Patent GB-190902829-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Supporting Devices for Wearing Apparel.
Inventor: SCHOFIELD MARY GRAHAM
IPC: A41F19/00
Filed: 1909-02-05
Granted: 1909-06-17
Abstract: 2829. Schofield, M. G. Feb. 5. Skirt and blouse grips.-A plate a, strapped round the waist, is provided with a safety pin b to hold up the skirt, and downwardly-pointing projections a<1>, which are rounded and may be covered with kid, to retain the blouse. Slots a<2>, with serrated boundaries a<3>, are used to receive the ends of the waist straps c.
Patent GB-190902924-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Steam-generator Furnaces.
Inventor: SANNE AGNES
IPC: F23M20/00
Filed: 1909-02-06
Granted: 1910-01-13
Abstract: 2924. Sanne [nÚe Haase], A. Feb. 6. Baffles; air supply.-In the flue of an external or internal furnace for a steam-generator, baffles c are arranged as shown and mounted on a single support d, or a separate support may be provided for each baffle. Air is delivered behind the bridge through a dampered pipe f. Reference has been directed by the Comptroller to Specifications 23,872/92 and 11,961/07.
Patent GB-190905908-A (GB)
Title: Improvement in Method of Treating Wood.
Inventor: CHISOLM WILLIAM BACHMAN
IPC: B27K3/32
Filed: 1909-03-11
Granted: 1909-08-05
Abstract: 5908. Chisolm, W. B. March 11. Impregnating - compositions.-Wood is preserved bv treatment with a liquid prepared by boiling four parts of sulphur and one part of lime in water, and decanting the supernatant red liquid. The wood is impregnated at the boiling-point of the red liquid, which contains calcium hydrosulphide and uncombined sulphur in solution. Instead of lime, an oxide, hydrate. or salt, of an alkaline earth or alkaline metal may be heated with the sulphur. The surface of the impregnated wood may be coated with a fused mixture of lime and sulphur.
Patent GB-190906304-A (GB)
Title: Improved Warming Floor-mat.
Inventor: ROBTON ANTOINE LEON
IPC: H05B3/34
Filed: 1909-03-16
Granted: 1909-07-15
Abstract: 6304. Robton, A. L. Dec. 31, 1908, [Convention date]. Mats or scrapers a made of metallic fabric are heated internally by electricity. A conducting - wire b is arranged in serpentine fashion in the wire coils of the mat, and is threaded with porcelain, glass, or amianthus cylinders or balls c, which are disposed within the meshes of the fabric.
Patent GB-190906437-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or connected with the Furnaces of Steam Boilers and other Furnaces.
Inventor: MASON JAMES
IPC: F23L7/00
Filed: 1909-03-17
Granted: 1910-03-17
Abstract: 6437. Mason, J., and Masters, R. March 17. [Cognate Application, 14,714/09.] Combustion products, returning to furnaces.-A portion of the combustion products is returned from the flues by a blast either to the ash-pit or to the rear of the bridge. In one arrangement, Fig. 1, a pipe 3 extends through the bridge and some of the gases are delivered to the ash-pit by a steam or air jet 8. Baffles 11, 13 are preferably fitted as shown. In another arrangement, Fig. 5, the gases are returned through a bell-mouthed pipe 14 in the extended flue and a pipe 18 in the ash-pit, and are delivered through an extension 21 behind the bridge. A steam or air blast is admitted through the pipe 9, and additional air may be supplied through openings 24. In a modification of this arrangement, the gases are delivered through a distributing-box, which forms the dead-plate, to hollow fire-bars and a box in the bridge. The fire-bars may be perforated. Reference has been directed by the Comptroller to Specifications 12,765/92 and 18,575/97.
Patent GB-190912452-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Electric Plugs.
Inventor: FISHER HARRY JOSEPH
IPC: H01R13/703
Filed: 1909-05-26
Granted: 1910-07-26
Abstract: 12,452. Fisher, H. J. May 26. Plug couplings, mechanically associated with electric switches. Relates to plugs and plug boxes used for connecting electric conductors to electric machines where the main switch is controlled by means of a secondary switch in a subsidiary circuit, which operates the main switch when closed. To ensure that the automatic make or break of the subsidiary circuit shall be immediate on the sockets to which the subsidiary conductors are connected being fully inserted or otherwise in the plug box, a switch is provided to work automatically, by which such circuit is broken and kept broken if and so long as the plug is partly but not fully inserted in the plug box. Both the main conductors C and the subsidiary conductors E<1>, E<2> are connected to sockets on the plug A. If a sheathed cable be used, the sheathing may be used as the return for the subsidiary contact. The switch S, T is actuated by the insertion and withdrawal of the plug. For this purpose, the framing of the machine carries, pivoted to it, a bell-crank 0, the upper end of which engages with an insulating- plug Q, which forces back the contact spring S attached to the plug M<2>. The lower end of the bell crank carries a tooth P, which engages a slot in the plug A when it is forced home.
Patent GB-190912571-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Cinematographic Apparatus
Inventor: AUDOUARD PABLO
IPC: G03B1/22
Filed: 1909-05-27
Granted: 1910-01-06
Abstract: 12,571. Audouard, P., Lle¾, A., and Baradat, C. May 27. [Addition to 5336/08.] Kinematograph apparatus.-An intermittent feed-mechanism comprises a rod 58 pivoted eccentrically on the crank-disk 56 at 57 and terminating in prongs 59 to engage with the film-perforations. The rod 58 rests on the fixed projection 60, so that the counter-clockwise rotation of the disk 56 moves the prongs 59 away from the film as the rod rises, and into engagement as the rod falls. A spring-controlled lever 62 with a roller 61 ensures the engagement of the prongs with the film.
Patent GB-190915255-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Fuel Economiser for Internal-combustion Engines.
Inventor: HENDERSON THOMAS ELTRINGHAM WI
Filed: 1909-06-30
Granted: 1910-02-10
Abstract: 15,255. Henderson, T. E. W. T. June 30. Spray carburettors. - Fans placed in the mixing-chamber or outlet pipe of a carburettor are provided with a flywheel to maintain their rotation uniform, notwithstanding the intermictent suction of the engine. The fans B, F may run on pivots A, or the fly-wheel D may be grooved to form a race for the bearing-balls L. In the larger forms of apparatus there is a gauze cage C.. Springs K support the mixer in the mixing-chamber. The fan F may be dispensed with.