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Patent GB-190713526-A (GB)
Title: Method of and Apparatus for Rapidly Effecting Precise and Exact Weighing
Inventor: HARSANYI DESIDER
Filed: 1907-06-11
Granted: 1908-04-30
Abstract: 13,526. Harsanyi, D. June 11. Equi-armed balances; vibration, neutralizing.- Electric means are adopted for damping the oscillations of a chemical balance, which is provided with an auxiliary pendulum-weight apparatus for approximate measurement, and with special meana for taking up the weights, the whole being arranged for rapid weighing. Attached to the beam 6, Fig. 1, is a rod 13 which carries a closed coil 14 swinging in the magnetic field produced by an electro-magnet. The poles a, e are bent, and between them is arranged the iron core f. Similar means are employed for damping the oscillations. Relieving-mechanism; pendulum-weight machines. -The beam 6 and knife-edge 46 are raised until the latter bears against the bearing 46<1> of the loadpan by means of a crank handle 2, cam 3, and rod 4. The crank-handle also operates a cam 40 to raise a wedge 39 and tube 38, whereby the knifeedge 44 of the pendulum arm 43 is brought against its bearing 44<1> to obtain an approximate determination of the load. Indicating - mechanism. - Mirrors 16, 50 respectively reflect the light from incandescent lamps 51,52 to the corresponding prism of a telescope 17. The prisms are arranged side by side to enable the single telescope to be used for obtaining the readings on both the scales 15, 49. Weights; weights, method of using.-On a fixed sleeve 21, Fig. 6, are arranged two movable sleeves 22, 29, of which the former supports by means of a shoulder 23 a series of weights 23<1>, and the latter similarly supports weights 30'. Both series of weights are slotted as shown in Fig. 10, the slots j on each succeeding weight overlapping those on the weight adjacent to it. V-shaped grooves i of successive weights can thus be brought into engagement with the corresponding pins 26, 26<1> by a slight angular and vertical movement. This movement is obtained by rods 24 or 31, which engage notches in helical slots 24', 31<1> respectively. The pins 26, 26<1> are attached to rods 27, supported by a stirrup 9, Figs. 1 and 1A, which has a bearing 7<1> resting on a knife-edge 7. When the beam 6 is raised, the pins engage those weights that have been set in position for raising. Rider-like weights 35 are supported by arms 34, and by the operation of an arm 37 the weights are set in position to be engaged by arms 36 on the rods 27.
Patent GB-190714489-A (GB)
Title: Chain Driving Gear for Wringing and Mangling Machines and Kindred Machines.
Inventor: REAY THOMAS ANGUS
Filed: 1907-06-24
Granted: 1907-11-07
Abstract: 14,489. Reay, T. A. June 24. Hand driving- mechanism; chains, maintaining tension of.-Relates to chain gearing for mangling, wring - ing, and like machines. The chain engages wheels A, B on the mangle rollers, and passes round a wheel C mounted upon a block F fitted to slide in a guide D. The tension of the chain is maintained, when the rollers are turned down, by means of a screw E, which acts upon a block F<1>, a spring G being interposed between the blocks F, F<1>.
Patent GB-190715136-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Contact-breaker for Electrical Ignition Apparatus for Internal Combustion Engines.
Inventor: BOSCH ROBERT
Filed: 1907-07-01
Granted: 1908-01-16
Abstract: 15,136. Bosch, R. July 1. Gas and like engines, igniting in. With the object of keeping them clean, the sparking- terminals of electric ignition apparatus are so constructed as to move, relatively to each other, in two directions at right-angles. The terminal a, Fig. 1, is carried by a lever b, mounted on a knifeedge support e, and is therefore capable of moving vertically and horizontally to make contact with the fixed wedge-shape terminal c. Any dirt on the faces d<1>, d<2> is quickly removed by the terminal a, which may be of the forms shown in Figs. 4 and 5. Instead of a knife-edge, a ball-and-socket joint may be used as a support for the lever b. The terminal a may be carried by a reciprocating rod h, Fig. 7, which has sufficient lateral play. Instead of one being fixed, each terminal may have one of the movements imparted to it.
Patent GB-190716471-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Water Coolers for use with Condensing Locomotive Steam Engines.
Inventor: CRIGHTON JAMES DUNCAN
Filed: 1907-07-18
Granted: 1908-07-20
Abstract: 16,471. Creighton, J. D. July 18. Locomotives.-A specially constructed watercooler of the drip type for cooling the condensing-water of a condensing locomotive steam-engine is mounted on a truck connected to the locomotive. The cooled water drains into a tank F. An expansion chamber to remove moisture may be mounted upon the same truck or upon a following truck.
Patent GB-190718499-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Process for Rendering Vegetable Butter Capable of being Spread.
Inventor: KOLESCH PAUL
Filed: 1907-08-15
Granted: 1907-10-17
Abstract: 18,499. Kolesch, P. Aug. 15. Butter substitutes.-In order that vegetable butter may be easily spread, about 7-9 per cent of refined spirit is added when the coco-nut oil, palm oil, or the like has almost set. The mass is then stirred with ground-nut oil until set.
Patent GB-190726594-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Bricks for use in the Construction of Furnaces, Retorts and the like.
Inventor: RIES HANS
Filed: 1907-12-02
Granted: 1908-03-26
Abstract: 26,594. Ries, H. Dec. 2. Bricks for furnaces, retorts, &c. Relates to bricks for use in the construction of furnaces, retorts, &c., more particularly those employed in the manufacture of gas for lighting purposes and in the smelting or ores and the like, in which the walls are-built of bricks which form flues for tho heating-gases. In order to enable a damaged brick to be replaced without removing adjacent bricks and without interfering with the passages through which the heating-gases pass, a brick for replacing such damaged brick is formed of two parts a, b, which are adapted to be inserted from opposite sides of the wall, and which engage with each other in a suitable manner, as for instance by sliding one into the other in the manner shown. Rabbets h are formed at the angles of the adjacent ordinary bricks c to receive corresponding ribs at the edges of the parts a, b. When in position, the two parts are connected together by pins f passed through holes in their end walls. Openings are formed in the face of the part a in order to allow the pins f to be introduced from the outside, the:e openings being afterwards closed by plugs g.
Patent GB-190802607-A (GB)
Title: Improvement connected with Incandescent Street Lamps, Lanterns and the like.
Inventor: GLOVER THOMAS
Filed: 1908-02-05
Granted: 1908-12-31
Abstract: 2607. Glover, T. Feb. 5. Street and like lamps.-In order to facilitate the removal of the globe, reflector, and flue of an incandescent street lamp &c., the flue K rests on the splayed-out or flanged upper part E of the globe D supported by a reflector C, which rests on a flange B or lugs on the upper rim or ring A of the lamp casing. The flue K is loosely held at its upper end by clips L and a knob U, and the hood and the roof are hinged to the top ring A. The bottom of the globe D rests in or touches the gallery F on the burner, and the outer globe may be held between the rings A, P by bars S.
Patent GB-190803391-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Variable Speed Dynamos.
Inventor: LEITNER HENRY
Filed: 1908-02-14
Granted: 1908-11-05
Abstract: 3391. Leitner, H. Feb. 14. Dynamos, regulating.-In variable-speed dynamos of the type described in Specification No. 9655, A.D. 1905, which are used in conjunction with a battery d. Fig. l, chiefly for train-lighting, the main brushes e, f are given a lead in the direction of rotation of the armature, and the subsidiary brushes g, h are arranged closer to the main brushes instead of being approximately at right-angles thereto. All the brushes are permanently fixed, and on the reversal of rotation, by simply reversing the switches i, j the main and subsidiary brushes exchange their functions, so that a main brush in one direction of rotation becomes a subsidiary brush in the opposite direction of rotation, and vice versa.
Patent GB-190805223-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to Galvanic Gas Elements.
Inventor: JUNGNER ERNST WALDEMAR
Filed: 1908-03-07
Granted: 1909-04-07
Abstract: 5223. Jungner, E. W. March 7. Gas batteries; primary batteries.-A battery for obtaining current from the oxidation of sulphurous acid comprises an earthen ware or like vessel B divided by a porous partition P, each compartment containing a carbon electrode A, D packed round with small pieces of carbon K, saturated on one side with sulphuric acid and on the other with a solution of nitrosyl sulphuric acid in sulphuric acid. Sulphur dioxide is led into the sulphuric-acid side and air or oxygen into the side containing nitrosyl sulphuric acid by the pipes r, R respectively. The pieces of carbon are not small enough to retain liquid between them by capillarity, so that the sulphuric acid produced flows downwards and is drawn off at k. The sulphuric acid may be heated with carbon &c. to regenerate sulphurous acid.
Patent GB-190806361-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Transmission Dynamometers and Dynamometric Governors
Inventor: FARCOT FRANCOIS PIERRE AMBROIS
Filed: 1908-03-21
Granted: 1908-07-02
Abstract: 6361. Farcot, F. P. A. March 23, 1907, [date applied for under Section 91 of Patents &c. Act, 1907]. Dynamometers. - A rotary transmission dynamometer has clutch parts with helicoidal engaging surfaces ; the force required to prevent relative axial displacement of the clutch parts is a measure of the torque. The driving-shaft a has radial arms m<1> which enter longitudinal gaps in the clutch sleeve c and thereby drive it, the pressure being transmitted by spring-controlled balls o. The sleeve in turn is provided at the opposite end with helicoidal gaps into which enter helicoidal arms m<2> upon the driven shaft b, the pressure being similarly transmitted by balls. To resist the tendency of the sleeve to move in the direction of the arrow, an adjustable force is applied, such as that given by a weight u upon a bent lever e, d, of which the two vertical arms d have rollers pressing against a flange on the sleeve. The dynamometer may be employed to regulate steamengines or turbines.
Patent GB-190809708-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in the Coin-passage for Automatic Machines for the Sale of Tickets, Postcards and other Articles.
Inventor: WISTOFT SOEREN
Filed: 1908-05-05
Granted: 1908-10-29
Abstract: 9708. Wistoft, S. May 5. Sale apparatus for tickets, post cards, &c. Two coins must be inserted to free the delivery mechanism. Money shoots; fraud, preventing; returning coin. -The first coin t<1> enters a counterweighted pocket d, which is pivoted at c and turns it into the position shown in Fig. 2, being retained in the pocket by the bent end h of a pivoted lever n. The second coin t<2> is then directed to the left by the curved edge s of the pocket, striking the lever n in its passage, and thereby withdrawing the bent edge h and permitting the discharge of the first coin. The portion 3 of the coin shoot comprises a fixed side u, Fig. 5, and a pivoted side w, provided with a ledge b along which coins of the correct size run, being supported by a parallel ledge z on the side u ; smaller coins fall laterally through an aperture y. Thin coins fall through a slit below an upwardly extending portion of the coin shoot just in front of the ledge b. To prevent choking of the coin shoot by the simultaneous insertion of two coins, the pivoted side w is opened at each operation of the mechanism, as shown in Fig. 5, causing the coins to be returned to the operator.
Patent GB-190811662-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Looking Glass and like Movements.
Inventor: ROLLASON JOSEPH GEORGE
Filed: 1908-05-29
Granted: 1909-01-07
Abstract: 11,662. Rollason, J. G. May 29. Pivot adjustments. -Relates to movements or pivot fittings for swing looking-glasses and other pivotally hung articles, of the kind in which two parts dovetailed in section, namely the pivot element and an opentopped taper-sided bearing-element, are separable by direct lifting action and frictionally resist the angular displacement of the glass or other article relatively to its support. The pivot a and bearing b are each made from single sheet-metal blanks, shown in Figs. 11 and 12 respectively. The opposite sides a<2> of the pivot cup are separated from each other by gaps a<3> so as to produce lateral flexibility. The pivot pieces may be made of a domed, conoidal, or similar cupped section, and the walls may be slit or gapped helically or in any other manner at convenient points. Instead of connecting the pivot piece to the mirror by attachment ears a<1>, a single central screw and prongs taking into the wood of the mirror may be used, or it may be connected to the attachment plate by a rivet. The edge of the pivot may be provided with a tongue which serves as a stop for limiting the movement.
Patent GB-190812103-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Valves for Stopping and Controlling the Passage of Steam and other Fluids.
Inventor: THOMPSON WILLIAM HENRY
Filed: 1908-06-03
Granted: 1909-05-13
Abstract: 12,103. Thompson, W. H., and Thompson, R. June 3. [Cognate Application No. 24,607, A.D. 1908, dated Nov. 16.] Lift valves; seats.-The hand-wheel of a screwoperated lift valve is arranged so as to operate between the usual gland on the bonnet and the valve body. In one form, shown in Fig. 1, the valve seat c<2> is formed on the underside of a perforated cup c held in position by a nut D engaging a screwed shank c<4>. The valve stem B passes through a stuffing-box E formed in the shank, and is connected by a washer f<4> and nut f<3> to the handwheel f which has a screwed boss F engaging the screwed shank. A spring f<2> is inserted between the nut and the hand-wheel to allow for expansion of the spindle. In a modification, a removable seat is secured to the cup and a separate sleeve is screwed on to the shank to receive the hand-wheel. In a further modification, the sleeve passes into the valve body, where it is secured by a flange and nut. In another modification, the hand-wheel has a second screw-thread, of different pitch, to engage with a screw-thread on the end of the valve spindle, which is provided with a square part to prevent it from rotating. In the form shown in Fig. 5, the hand-wheel engages a screw-thread on the end of the valve spindle and is rotatably mounted on the coupling-nut D, where it is retained by a flanged ring d' which also carries the bolts d<2> of the gland.
Patent GB-190814134-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to the Regulation of the Speed of Machinery.
IPC: B66B1/12
Filed: 1908-07-03
Granted: 1909-01-21
Abstract: 14,134. Siemens Bros. Dynamo Works, [Siemens-Schuckertwerke Ges.]. July 3. Switches. - Machinery, such as lifts and hoists, the speed of which varies in a predetermined manner according to the work being performed, is controlled automatically by employing the difference in movement of the said machinery and of an auxiliary motor rotating at a uniform speed to control the speed of the motor by which the machinery is driven. Various arrangements of mechanism for carrying out the invention are described, but in all of them, as shown in Fig. 2, a constant-speed motor h drives a shaft l through differential gearing d', one member of which the motor actuates directly, and the other through gearing h<1> and friction gearing r, s, which is adjusted by the driven machinery. The.speed of the shaft l forms the guide speed, and any difference between this speed and that of the shaft g of the main motor b actuates through a gearing box d' the regulator t of the motor b. The apparatus as shown in Fig. 2 is adjusted by the depth indicator n, n<1>, n<2> of a mine. The regulator t may be worked through a fluid-pressure or electric relay. The relay may be controlled by a switch, Fig. 6, in the gear box d<2> a cranked pin n on the shaft l engaging one or the other of two contacts k<1>, k<2> on the shaft g, along which they can slide to avoid damage by an excessive relative displacement of the parts n and k<1>, k<2>.
Patent GB-190815079-A (GB)
Title: Improved Method of Decarbonizing Filaments for Electric Metallic-filament Lamps.
Inventor: ARON HERMANN
Filed: 1908-07-16
Granted: 1908-10-22
Abstract: 15,079. Aron, H., and Geiger, A. July 16. Right to Patent relinquished. Incandescent lamps.-Crude metallic filaments are decarbonized by heating them by current in an exhausted space containing a regulated amount of water vapour produced by a substance having a definite vapour pressure, for instance potash lye or sulphuric acid containing a little water.
Patent GB-190819564-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in the Manufacture of Apparatus and Tools.
Filed: 1908-09-17
Granted: 1909-06-24
Abstract: 19,564. Siemens & Halske Akt.-Ges. Sept. 26, 1907, [date applied for under Section 91 of Patents &c. Act, 1907]. Tool edges.-The points of pincers and other parts of tools and apparatus which are liable to mechanical or chemical attack are made of alloys of tungsten and nickel, containing more than 60 per cent tungsten and more than 1 per cent nickel which are capable of being mechanically worked. An alloy which is particularly suitable contains about 10 per cent nickel, and is obtained by the process described in Specification No. 17,438, A.D. 1908.
Patent GB-190825744-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Clothes or Hat Hanger or Stand adapted also for Attachment of a Stick or Umbrella Stand.
Inventor: STAMBOIS CHARLES EDWARD
Filed: 1908-11-28
Granted: 1909-05-13
Abstract: 25,744. Stambois, C. E. Nov. 28. Hat, coat, and umbrella stands.-Relates to a hat or clothes hanger or stand, to which an umbrella stand may be attached. Legs h, provided with hat pegs or the like r, are connected to a central pillar of cruciform cross-section by a number of arms or links k, l, m, which are provided with clothespegs or the like s and are loosely pivoted at t by pins &c., so that the legs can be folded against the pillar, as shown in Fig. 2. The pillar preferably comprises three pieces of wood a, b, b<1> connected by bolts c. The pillar may be fixed rigidly in or to the heavy base d, or it may be revolubly mounted thereon. A metal tray or trough q for umbrellas or sticks, and suitable castors n, p, may be provided.
Patent GB-190904003-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Tuyeres.
Inventor: ROBSON JOSEPH
Filed: 1909-02-18
Granted: 1909-11-25
Abstract: 4003. Robson, J. Feb. 18. Tuyeres.-The rear end of a tuyere, of the kind that is arranged within a water tank in such a manner that water surrounds the blast pipe and the nozzle, is secured to the back of the tank in a special manner. The blast pipe or tuyere iron a has its rear end enclosed within the tank f, and its nose is flanged at c and turned back at d to engage with a socket g bolted to the tank. The rear end has a flange h, which is clamped and bolted to a wood backing k. The socket g is protected by fire-brick.
Patent GB-190905535-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or connected with Means for Setting Clinical Thermometers.
Inventor: DULLEY DAVID
IPC: G01K5/06
Filed: 1909-03-08
Granted: 1909-11-04
Abstract: 5535. Dulley, D. March 8. Thermometer.- To facilitate the re-setting of clinical thermometers, the case a is made with two pairs of lugs c, c<1> to which are attached cords d, d<1>. Alternate tightening and slackening of these causes the case &c. to rotate violently. A clip with eyelets for the attachment of the cords may be slid and fixed on to cases not fitted with the lugs The thermometer is supported in the case by a spring-pressed pad, and a leaden pellet &c. may be inserted in the end of the case as a counterbalance.
Patent GB-190913156-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or connected with Stands or Supports for Quick Firing or Machine Guns or the like.
IPC: F41A23/12
Filed: 1909-06-04
Granted: 1910-01-20
Abstract: 13,156. Deutsche Waffen-und Munitionsfabriken. April 8, [Convention date]. Tripod mounts for machine guns.-Consists in pivoting the front legs of the tripod to the frame by independent universal joints, and also in providing special catches for fixing the legs. In the construction shown in Fig. 2, front legs f are pivoted, by means of independent universal joints h<2>, to a frame v, so that they can be fixed in position by locking- screws s, the heads s<1> of which engage behind segmental recesses v<1> in the frame v, and by spring-controlled levers k carrying detents k<2>, which engage with notched segments b<2> on the frame v. Modifications are described, (1) in which projections on the parts f<1> of the legs f engage behind, and may be clamped to the recesses v<1>, (2) in which the levers k carry,in addition to the detents k<2>, locking-surfaces which engage behind segmental surfaces on the frame v.
Patent GB-190913314-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Machines for Sewing Boots and Shoes.
Inventor: PLANT THOMAS GUSTAVE
IPC: D05B15/04
Filed: 1909-06-07
Granted: 1910-06-02
Abstract: 13,314. Plant, T. G. June 7. Boot-sole sewing - machines; fair - stitching; presser-feet.-Means are provided whereby the line of stitches in a boot-sole may be properly disposed the desired distance from the sole edge on both faces of the work. The outsole t, Fig. 1, is provided with a groove l located a distance from the edge corresponding to the desired distance of the stitching, and in this groove engages a nose 6 provided on the presser-foot 4, which is mounted on the presserfoot carrier 3 pivoted at 5 to the frame. The nose may consist of a small projection on the foot, or may be formed on a carrier 6<Î> suitably mounted for movement relative to and preferably also in unison with lever 3, as described in Specification 18,235/08. The engagement of the nose in the groove causes the work to adjust itself automatically according to the varying positions of the groove with respect to the sole edge, thus causing the line of stitching to be correctly positioned on the upper surface of the work. To position the line of stitches correctly on the lower surface also, a tilt-preventer is provided, consisting of an inverted U-shaped arm 10 carrying a roller 20 against which the work is pressed. The lever 10 is carried by a pivoted lever 9, being adjustably connected thereto by a double pin-and-slot connexion as shown in Fig. 1, whereby the position of the tilt-preventer may be adjusted as desired. Since at the shank portion of the shoe the groove will be far back from the edge, it is desirable that the operator should be able to tilt the shoe at the point. The tilt-preventer is therefore provided with means for moving it in and out of position, for which purpose the lower end 28, Fig. 4, of the lever 9 is slotted. In the slot engages the rounded end 27 of an operating-cam 24, which is secured by a split sleeve 25 to a shaft 21, which passes through the stitch-regulating lever B<10> and is provided with a handle 22. The slotted end 28 is caused to bear constantly on the arm 24 by the spring 29, and seats 32, 33 are provided for the end 27 the latter of which acts in connexion with this end to form a yielding locking-means for the tilt-preventer. The lever B<10> is mounted on a stud 17 carried by the feed-slide B<3>, and carries a block 15 which engages with a slot formed in one arm B<9> of a two-armed lever E<6> operated from a cam B on the main shaft, and the length of stitch is thus regulated by the position of the lever B<10> as defined by stop-pins b adapted to any one of a series of holes in the plate b<2>. Thus, horizontal movement of the handle 22 regulates the length of stitch; while by turning the handle, the tilt-preventer can be thrown out. This concurrent action is frequently desirable at the shank portion where the stitches require to be lengthened and the tilt-preventer thrown out of operation By placing pins b in appropriate holes to prevent horizontal movement of the lever B<10>, the tiltpreventer may be thrown out of action alone.