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Patent GB-190918069-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Clasps or the like.
Inventor: EADY THOMAS ARTHUR CLAY
IPC: A44C5/20
Filed: 1909-08-05
Granted: 1910-03-24
Abstract: 18,069. Eady, T. A. C. Aug. 5. Stud-and-slot fastenings.-A fastening for necklaces &c. comprises an open-sided socket A having a transverse partition B, and a flat member C having a slot C<2> enlarged at C<3> into a square or other shaped opening. To engage the parts, they are brought together at right-angles, as shown in Fig. 3, until the partition B is in the enlarged part C<3> of the slot C<2>. The member C is then turned through a quarter-revolution so that.it is within the socket A. To prevent accidental disengagements through turning, projections D on the socket A engage indentations D' on the member C, or vice versa.
Patent GB-190919951-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Automatic Disappearing Target for Ranges.
Inventor: HORTI LUDWIG
IPC: F41J7/04
Filed: 1909-08-31
Granted: 1910-08-31
Abstract: 19,951. Horti, L., and Vilagossy, J. Aug. 31. Targets.-A pivoted drop target is constructed of a flexible shot-proof front plate a and a stout sheet-iron back plate b in circuit with a battery 7 and an electro-magnet 2 having a spring armature with a retaining-hook c engaging with the target. When a bullet strikes the front plate, the target is released and is tilted by a spring d to engage a guide 4 with its lower weighted end 3, thereby completing a circuit through a motor 6, which drives a winding-drum on which is wound a cord &c. 16 attached to the top of the target. The target is lowered until the end 3 leaves the guide, whereupon the top end is engaged by a hook 26; it is restored to its original position by closing a circuit through an electro-magnet 5, the armature of which withdraws the hook 26. The motor is reversed by a switch 15. In a modification, the target is mounted on the motor shaft, the motor being automatically stopped by the target breaking contact through a switch when in its lowest position.
Patent GB-190920631-A (GB)
Title: A Process of Extracting Nitrogen and Carbonic Acid from Combustion Gases.
Inventor: RIEDEL ROBERT
IPC: C01B32/50
Filed: 1909-09-09
Granted: 1910-02-03
Abstract: 20,631. Riedel, R. Sept. 9, 1908, [Convention date]. Nitrogen.-Relates to a modification of the process of Specification 16,963/08, for the production of nitrogen. Instead of regulating the air-supply of the furnace, the combustion gases are admitted with proper proportions of reducing gas or vapour, such as water-gas, lighting gas, or petroleum vapour, before being passed over the contact mixture of copper and copper oxide. The nitrogen and carbon dioxide are separated as usual after condensation of the steam formed. The reducing current is regulated according to tests made on the product.
Patent GB-190923980-A (GB)
Title: Improved Means for Supporting Electric Lamps.
Inventor: HARRISON HAYDN THIES
IPC: H01R33/975
Filed: 1909-10-19
Granted: 1910-10-13
Abstract: 23,980. Harrison, H. T. Oct. 19. Anti-vibration devices.-A holder c for an electric lamp having a tungsten or other brittle filament is securedina hood a by spiral springs radially arranged between peripberal holes in the hood and in a flange b fixed on the holder. The hood has a central threaded aperture e adapted to receive a conduit or other support. The hood may be of insulating- material, and the flange b of metal, or vice versa. A screw holder may be formed with one or more holes in its flange b to receive pins of smaller diameter provided on the hood so that the lamp may be inserted without straining the springs ; the pins do not normally touch the flange. Several hoods may be attached each to a metal link, bar, &c. provided at one end with a sleeve adapted to screw into the aperture e of a hood and threaded at the other end on a central tube carrying nuts to clamp the links &c. in position. A weather cap and reflector may also be provided, and, according to the Provisional Specification, the reflector may be concave underneath, and may be secured to a cap carried by the conduit, the hood and holder being located between the raflector and the cap.
Patent GB-190924556-A (GB)
Title: Web Coating Machines.
Inventor: DANIELS WALTER ALLEN
IPC: G03D15/00
Filed: 1909-10-26
Granted: 1910-09-15
Abstract: 24,556. Daniels, W. A. Oct. 26. Coating webs.-Webs such as kinematographic films, composed of celluloid and provided with marginal apertures, are coated on the gelatine surface with a solution of pyroxylin by means of apparatus comprising a guide-roller provided with sprocket-wheels 46 for engaging the apertures in the film X, and a coating-roller 39 dipping in a vertically adjustable pan 18. After passing over the roller 39, the web is led under a roller 44 the periphery of which is narrower than the film, so that the apertures register with nozzles 85 radially mounted in chambered disks carried on the hollow shaft 58 of 'the roller 44. The chambers of the disks communicate with the interior of the shaft 58, through which blasts of air are forced to prevent the pyroxylin from passing through the apertures to the back of the film: In passing round the drum 44, the web receives additional coating-material from brushes 42, 43 revolving in contact with rollers 40, 41, which dip into a vertically adjustable pan 19, and are mounted on adjustable arms 53, 54 pivoted en a 'shaft 55. The brushes 42, 43 and the rollers 40, 41 are driven by a gear-wheel 64 on the shaft 55. The web is drawn through the machine by means of a drying-tape &c. B. The guideroller carries a gear-wheel 47, which engages a wheel 48 on the drum 39 so that the periphery of the drum moves at the same speed as the web. The rollers 39, 40, 41 are provided with adjustable scrapers.
Patent GB-190926167-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Writing Implements and the like.
Inventor: PACE PERCY CURRALL
IPC: B43K29/10
Filed: 1909-11-12
Granted: 1910-11-14
Abstract: 26,167. Pace. P. C., Lamkin, A. E., and Hunter, L. Nov. 12. [Cognate Application, 2060/10.] No Patent granted (Sealing fee not paid). Supporting.-Relates to a combination comprising a writing-implement &c. a and an electric lamp d, for facilitating writing &c. in gas cupboards and other dark places, and of the type in which the lamp is enclosed save for its tip in a holder of a somewhat corresponding shape b, which is secured by a clip c to the implement &c. and is provided with a switch, connecting-wires, and a battery. The holder is made with a smooth exterior, and the switch d' is arranged at some point of the electric circuit other than in the lamp-holder. As shown, it is provided on the electric cell. The holder may be bell-mouthed, and it may be extended so that it can be slipped on one end of the pen, pencil, &c., or it may be attached thereto by a helical spring, a rubber band, a double clip, or by screwing. According to the Provisional Specification 2060/10, a reflecting-surface may be applied to the lamp, the tip being left plain.
Patent GB-190926289-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Electric Light Systems for Trains and other Moving Vehicles and Apparatus therefor.
Inventor: FERGUSON THOMAS
IPC: H02J7/22
Filed: 1909-11-13
Granted: 1910-11-10
Abstract: 26,289. Ferguson, T. Nov. 13. Electro-magnetic switches.-A switch, employed to control a lighting circuit in a system of electric supply from a dynamo and battery in combination, has one operating-winding constantly connected across the dynamo terminals, a second winding arranged to be alternately traversed by current from the dynamo and from the battery, and a magnetizable core so associated therewith as to effect a step-by-step operation of switch .members connected to this core by its continued movement. Two forms of this switch g are described ; that illustrated in Fig. 1 is arranged to operate in two steps and that shown in Fig. 4 in three. The operating-means is the same in both forms and consists of a shunt coil j constantly connected to the dynamo terminals and exciting the core h unidirectionally and a coil i connected between the battery and a point common to the dynamo and lamp circuits. When the dynamo is first switched in with its voltage equal to that of the battery, the current discharging from the battery to the lamps is arranged to excite the coil i in a direction which opposes the excitation due to the coilj. As the dynamo voltage rises, and the battery begins to charge, the current in the coil i becomes reversed and, assisting the coil j, exerts an increasing force upon the core h, which is utilized to operate switches p, s coupled to the core. In both forms the switch p is first opened, the switch s being arranged to allow sufficient movement of the core to effect this before the latter switch is engaged by an abutment v upon a tail rod attached to the core. The force of a spring w is then added to the weight of the core, and, when this is overcome, the switch s is operated. In the form shown in Fig. 1 the switch s is raised clear of two contacts t, u ; in Fig. 4 it is tilted so that its right-hand end leaves a contact wand engages with a contact y'. The mechanical advantage of the spring w, which is connected to the switch to the left of its abutment v, is increased in this position and after a further rise in dynamo voltage the switch s leaves the contact t and engages a contact x<1>. The switch bars and contacts may have carbon surfaces; the point of application of the spring w in Fig. 4 may be varied ; while in both forms the spring w, which may be adjustable, may be replaced by a weight.
Patent GB-190927212-A (GB)
Title: Valves for Flushing and Storage Tanks.
Inventor: RYMER WILLIAM THOMAS
IPC: F16K31/34
Filed: 1909-11-23
Granted: 1910-05-19
Abstract: 27,212. Rymer, W. T. Nov. 23. Actuating valves; packing, special methods of.-The inlet valve of a Hushing or storage tank comprises a valve member 16, mounted on a spindle 15, which passes through a guide 18, and is provided at its upper end with a packing- collar 17, which seats in a recess 14 in the casing when the valve is open. The valve is operated by a spring 28 and a float 29 attached by a link 30 to a lever 24, which is pivoted at 30 to a bracket 23 and has a pin-and-slot connexion with the valve spindle at 25. The outlet 21 of the valve is arranged above the maximum level of the liquid. A draining-valve 9 is fitted on the inlet side.
Patent GB-191008307-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Boxes for Containing Mantles for Incandescent Gas Lighting.
Inventor: DRUMGOLD CHARLES THOMAS
IPC: B65D59/04
Filed: 1910-04-06
Granted: 1910-10-27
Abstract: 8307. Drumgold, C. T. April 6. Round or bevel edged boxes for gas mantles; hollow - walled round or bevel edged boxes; fittings, internal;. boxes externally marked to indicate disposition of contents. -Boxes for inverted incandescent gas mantles are made with rounded or bevelled edges to prevent damage to the mantles, the supports of which rest on the box edges, in rounded depressions e, Fig. 2, extending completely through the edges, in rounded depressions in the box body, on a rounded embossing or corrugation g, Fig. 10, or between rounded projections h,'Fig. 5. The walls of the box may be either solid, as shown in Fig. 2, or hollow, as shown in Fig. 10, with distancing corrugations c. The box may be grooved, corrugated, embossed, or otherwise marked on the exterior, to indicate the position of the mantle support.
Patent GB-191009957-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in the Control of Induction Motors of the Slip Ring or Equivalent Type.
Inventor: HEATHER HENRY JAMES SHEDLOCK
IPC: H02P25/26
Filed: 1910-04-23
Granted: 1911-05-23
Abstract: 9957. Heather, H. J. S. April 23. Alternating - current induction machines; indicators and alarms.-Contacts are arranged on an ammeter or other electro-magnetic device in the primary or secondary circuit of an induction motor for the purpose of producing signals whenever the current corresponding to the maximum torque of the motor is being exceeded, or of preventing the current from rising above this value by varying automatically the resistance in the secondary circuit, during. the operations of starting the induction motor and of braking it with reversed current. The contacts may also effect through relays or otherwise the automatic adjustment of the resistance in the secondary circuit in such a manner that the torque of the motor is quickly brought to its maximum value and maintained at that value until all the resistance has been cut out. In a further modification, in which the resistance controller is operated by hand, the contacts effect the operation of locking-gear to prevent the controller from being operated to increase the current above the predetermined value. In the arrangement shown in Fig. 1, the motor 11 operating the resistance switch 6 is controlled by a switch arm 8 actuated by an electro-magnet 7 in the primary circuit of the main motor 1. With the switch arm 8 in either of its extreme positions, the motor 11 rotates. to cut in resistance while intermediate positions of the switch arm bring about a rotation of the motor 11 in the opposite direction. The switch arm 8 is raised to its upper extreme position when the current exceeds that corresponding to the maximum torque of the motor.
Patent GB-191010347-A (GB)
Title: A Door Alarm capable of use as a Fire Arm.
Inventor: FEVRE NEVIN BUFFINGTON LE
IPC: G08B15/00
Filed: 1910-04-27
Granted: 1911-01-12
Abstract: 10,347. Le Fevre, N. B. April 27. Burglar and like alarms.-The opening of a door depresses a spring h, thus releasing a trigger c the head e of which strikes a cartridge in a barrel a'. The apparatus is held by projections a<2>. It may be used as a fire-arm by depressing the spring h by hand.
Patent GB-191013896-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to Recoil and Running out Gear for Ordnance.
Inventor: DAWSON ARTHUR TREVOR
IPC: F41A25/20
Filed: 1910-06-08
Granted: 1911-05-18
Abstract: 13,896. Dawson, Sir A. T., and Buckham, G. T. June 8. Recoil apparatus.-Relates to hydro-pneumatic apparatus of the kind in which the liquid and air in the air-compressor are separated by a floating-piston, and in which a plain rod, connected with the floating piston, is employed for indicating the position of the piston so that any leakage of the liquid may be detected. The invention consists in providing a graduated scale and pointer in connexion with the rod. As shown, the rod D, which is attached to the floating-piston and extends through a gland D<1> in the end wall of the compressed-air reservoir C, is graduated, and a reader d<Î> is provided upon one of the supporting-brackets d, d<1>. The arrangement of the scale and reader may be reversed.
Patent GB-191015645-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Steam Turbines.
Inventor: PROCNER JAN
IPC: F01D1/02
Filed: 1910-06-29
Granted: 1910-12-15
Abstract: 15,645. Procner, J. June 29. Regulating; exhaust, disposing of.-Exhaust steam, from a turbine in which the number of stages is constant, is used in manufacturing processes, and the supply of steam is controlled by the pressure in the exhaust chamber and by a centrifugal governor, so as to keep the exhaust pressure constant whatever power is required from the turbine and however the demand for steam in the manufacture may vary. The whole or only a part of the steam may be controlled by the pressure - controlled and speed - controlled valves. The steam supply may be throttled, and multiple-ported valves may be used to supply a number of nozzles of the first stage of the turbine. As shown in Figs. 5 and 6, the steam from the pipe 10 passes to the turbine by ports of the piston valves 28, 37. The valve 28 is controlled by steam pressure of the exhaust chamber' acting upon the piston 15, which it depresses against the spring, and admits oil under pressure through the valve 19 to the cylinder 25, the piston of which is integral with the valve piston 29. As the pressure in the pipe 13 falls, the piston valve 28 admits steam to more ports, and thence to more nozzles of the turbine. The valve 37 is controlled by the governor 36 actuating an oil-valve 31 controlling the flow of oil to the cylinder in which the piston 34 moves, so that, if the speed of the governor increases, the ports to the turbine are closed and some nozzles put out of action. A throttle valve 39, also operated by oil controlled by a valve connected to the speed-governor, may be added. In a further modification, in order to meet a large demand for exhaust steam while small power is required for the turbine, part of the steam may pass directly from the steammain to the exhaust through a valve controlled by the exhaust pressure, and the whole of the steam to the turbine may be throttled by a valve controlled by the centrifugal governor.
Patent GB-191017935-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Screw Propellers.
Inventor: HALLIDAY JAMES
IPC: B63H1/12
Filed: 1910-07-28
Granted: 1911-06-29
Abstract: 17,935. Halliday, J. July 28. Screw propellers. -The blades of screw propellers are of approximately rectangular section with rounded corners 3<c>, the thrusting face being an untwisted plane. Transverse curved grooves 2 are formed in the face of the blades to prevent radial movement of the water. These grooves are curved eccentrically with reference to the shaft axis, and are deeper at the centre of the blade than at the edges. The grooves are about twice the radial depth of the intervening ridges, and, in some cases, are not carried out to the extreme edges. The blades may be cast with the boss, or separate from it, and may be used in feathering- propellers.
Patent GB-191021394-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Pneumatic Tyres.
Inventor: URE JOHN FRANCIS FREDERICK WHA
Filed: 1910-09-14
Granted: 1911-09-14
Abstract: 21,394. Ure, J. F. F. W. Sept. 14. Tread bands, projections, and surfaces. - A pneumatic tyre cover is provided with short transverse protecting metal plates c, and with longer, but otherwise similar, plates d, which enable the tyre to run over tram lines without skidding. The inner surfaces of these plates are curved to suit the tyre, and their outer surfaces, in the plane of the wheel, are curved to a smaller radius than the wheel tyre.
Patent GB-191022670-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Machines for Dressing Rails.
Inventor: WOODS MICHAEL
IPC: E01B31/13
Filed: 1910-01-03
Granted: 1911-01-03
Abstract: 22,670. Woods, M., and Gilbert, T. J. Jan. 3. Milling-machines.-A carriage carrying one or more vertical milling- tools is adapted to be removably and pivotally attached to a rail-dressing machine such as is described in Specification 126/10. The frame a of the carriage has bearings for trunnions on the machine, and carries supporting- wheels c, which are adjusted for different gauges by a variable distance-piece j, and are adjusted vertically by screws f operated by worm - gearing from hand - wheels i. The cutters o are mounted on slides m adjusted transversely along shafts k, l by screw gear; they are driven from a shaft p through reversing bevel - wheels r, q and wheels t, u, w, x, and are adjusted by toothed nuts z, operated from hand - wheels 3 and engaging screwed projections y on the spindles. Spring - pressed steadying-rollers 11, 16 are carried from brackets 17.
Patent GB-191028183-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to Self-tipping Carriers for Aerial Ropeways and Runways, Tramways and the like.
Inventor: WHITE JOSEPH WALWYN
IPC: B61D9/02
Filed: 1910-12-03
Granted: 1911-10-26
Abstract: 28,183. White, J. W. Dec. 3. Tip-wagons. - Comprises self-tipping carriers adapted equally for running on tramways and for suspension from overhead runways. The receptacle a pivots on pins r, which rest normally in hollows formed in bars s attached to frames b. When the catch c is released, the receptacle tips, and the pins r slide down the bars until stopped by guards u. Where the bucket need be tipped to one side only, guards t, shown in broken lines, are provided on the other side close to the central position of the pins. In a modification, the receptacle is provided with toothed wheels which roll on racks which it is prevented from leaving by guards engaging with pins at the centres of the wheels. The frames b rest on the trucks so that they can be lifted off and suspended from depending hooks on hangers carried by rollers on the runway.
Patent GB-191100015-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or connected with Automatic Weft Replenishing Mechanism of Looms for Weaving.
Inventor: HOLLINGWORTH EDWARD
IPC: D03D45/20
Filed: 1911-01-02
Granted: 1911-09-28
Abstract: 15. Hollingworth, E., [Crompton & Knowles Loom Works]. Jan. 2. Shuttles, changing bobbins and the like in, automatically.-A bobbin released from one of the compartments 3<1>, Figs. 3 and 6, of a stationary magazine is positively moved to the discharging end 3<2> of the magazine and properly positioned under the transferrer by blades 34, 39 on rods or wires 33, 38 on the lower links of chains 31, 36, which are guided by guides 32, 37 secured to the magazine and open at their lower ends. The chains are connected by rods or wires 30, 35 to levers 26, 28 mounted on a stud 29 on the magazine projection 3b and pivoted to rods 23, 24 connected to ears 9<2> on the usual lever 9, which is rocked downwards by a hook 8 on one of the vertically-sliding bars 7 when a bobbin is to be released from one of the compartments 3<1>. The rods 30, 35 are thus lowered, and the chains and blades are operated to engage and position the released bobbin. A coiled spring 40, connected to extensions 23<2>, 24<2> of the rods 23, 24, yieldingly holds the levers 26, 28 in their two positions. The bars 7 operate blades 5, 6 provided with projections 5', 6' to engage the tips and heads of the bobbins and release them singly from the selected compartments. The upward movement of a particular bar 7 causes a preliminary movement or partial release of a bobbin, while the downward movement of this rod causes the bobbin to be completely released, whereupon the bobbin-positioning device is operated as described.
Patent GB-191106391-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Slip Sheet Feeding Devices for Printing Presses.
Inventor: LAKE WILLIAM EDWARD
IPC: B41F23/06
Filed: 1911-03-14
Granted: 1911-11-16
Abstract: 6391. Lake, W. E., [Cottrell & Sons Co., C. B.]. March 14. Delivery apparatus.-In a rotary printing- press the printed sheet is transferred by a cylinder 17 to a cylinder 22, where it is associated with a slip sheet and delivered by suitable delivery devices. At every revolution of the cylinder 11 one sheet is taken by the gripper 12 from the feeding-cylinder 15, and after printing is delivered to the transfer cylinder 17 to be transferred to the associating-cylinder 22, where it is associated with a slip sheet fed from the cylinder 25. The sheets are fed together past guides 27, 28 to suitable delivery devices. Fixed guides keep the sheets close to the cylinder 17. Cam-operated stops are provided to operate the various grippers at suitable times and also operating-devices for the front stops 31, 32.