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Patent GB-190716691-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Taxameters.
Inventor: HERMANN KNOCHE
Filed: 1907-07-20
Abstract: 16,691. Knoche, H. July 20, 1906, [date applied for under Patents Act, 1901]. Void. [Published under Patents &c. Act, 1907.] Fares, registering; counting-apparatus.-Taxameters are provided with means for moving the units' dial step by step, means for returning the dial to the minimum-fare position when the indicator is put to "free," and means for preventing registering until the minimum fare has been worked off. The pence dial f, Fig. 7, is provided with a hollow shaft g in which is housed one end of a shaft e driven through a wheel d from the vehicle. A ratchet-wheel on the shaft e is connected by a pin p and a spring k with a disk i mounted on the shaft g and bearing projections semicircular in section and corresponding to the divisions on the dial f. One end of the spring k is secured to the disk i and the other engages with the pin p, which moves in a slot in the disk i. Engaging with the ratchet l is a pawl r, Fig. 3, forming part of a spring-controlled bell-crank m, which also carries a second pawl q, Fig. 6, and a spring pawl s lying normally in front of the plane side of the teeth j. As the wheel rotates, the pawl r moves along the curved portion of the teeth, the pawl s passing at the same time off the plane face of the corresponding tooth j and slipping over the rounded face. The disk is then held by the pawl q until the pawl r slips down to the next tooth of the wheel l, when the spring k forces the disk i forward. During a stoppage, the device is driven by a clock through a wheel on the shaft e, the vehicle being out of gear with the wheel d. When the disk is put into the cash position, the lever m is lifted by a cam y on the adjusting shaft v so that the parts r, s are out of engagement and the part q holds the disk i. When the indicator is set to "free," the cam y, Fig. 6, withdraws the pawl q from the disk i, and an arm z on the shaft v, Fig. 4, rotates an arm 6 loosely mounted on a shaft 3 so as to bring its broad part in front of a stop 8 on a wheel 9 secured to the shaft e. At the same time a wheel 4 on the shaft 3 is rotated by a spring 5, of which one end is secured to the wheel and the other is bent round the arm 6. The wheel 4 engages with a pinion h on the shaft e and rotates it until the stop 8 meets the arm 6, the pin p returning the disk to the minimum-fare position. A sector 11 on the shaft e is rotated at the same time in front of a stop 12, Fig. 6, on the arm m and prevents its return into engagement until the minimum fare has been worked off.
Patent GB-190720772-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Automatic Vending Machines for Pulpy Materials
Inventor: ROSENBAUM FRITZ
Filed: 1907-09-18
Granted: 1908-04-02
Abstract: 20,772. Rosenbaum, F. Sept. 18. Measured quantities, delivering.-Materials of the consistency of pulp are contained in the hopper l and adapted to be delivered by a suction arrangement through the discharge nozzle p into a vessel fed by the machine on to a shelf s. After prepayment, the operator pulls out the spring-controlled rod k and piston n, whereupon the material is sucked into the cylinder m, and a vessel t is pushed forward from a carrier u on an endless band e by the pin r, which is connected to the rod k by a link q. On the return of the rod and piston the material is discharged into the vessel, and the links q, x and pawl y rotate the ratchet z, which is geared to the spindle w, to feed the next wheel into position for delivery. A packing shoulder o completely closes the cylinder m as the piston is drawn forwards.
Patent GB-190724841-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Chemical Fire-extinguishers
Inventor: BINDLOSS JAMES BACKHOUSE
Filed: 1907-11-09
Granted: 1908-08-20
Abstract: 24,841. Bindloss, J. B. Nov. 9. Extincteurs.-In order to exclude broken glass &c. from the discharge pipe or passage without the use of wire-gauze, the inlet to the discharge pipe or passage is in the form of one or more narrow slits of length sufficient to provide the area necessary for the effective discharge of the liquid. The slits may be of undulating, zigzag, or other shape, and may be formed in the discharge pipe itself, or in a part f, Figs. 2 and 3, of larger diameter than the discharge pipe e and secured thereto by a screwed plag g ; a curved slit h is provided.
Patent GB-190728681-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or connected with Tea Rolling Machines.
Inventor: PARRY ALFRED
IPC: A23F3/12
Filed: 1907-12-31
Granted: 1908-06-11
Abstract: 28,681. Parry, A. Dec. 31. Tea.-In a machine for rolling tea leaf &c., the relative rotary motion of an inner roller &c. 1 and an outer casing 11 about an axis common to both, or approximately so, operates in conjunction with a longitudinal to-and-fro motion given to the roller and casing about the axis. The casing 11 is inclined, and is carried in bearings 18 and a stationary casing 12 supporting a feed-hopper 13 having a vibrating valve 14. The roller is reduced and provided with spiral ribs 2 at the intake, and is attached to a shaft 4 rotated from a shaft 20 through bevelgearing 21, 22, and reciprocated therefrom through a rod 33 and a bell-crank lever 31 upon a shaft 32. The shaft 20 rotates the casing 11 through a countershaft, and reciprocates it through the shaft 32 and levers 36, 38, 37. The lever 37 also reciprocates the valve 14 through levers 41, 15. The roller and casing may be helically ribbed, and may taper &c. They may be covered near the discharge end with fine brass or like gauze for producing closely rolled leaf, or throughout their length. The roller 1 may be flattened, Fig. 3, and may have oblique ribs 3 arranged to beat the leaf backwards, the axis of the roller being concentric with or above the axis of the casing. The roller 1 is attached to the shaft 4 by a sleeve 7 and keys 8, and by a sleeve 9 and cotter 10, so that the roller may be removed by screwing a shaft 43 into the shaft 4, removing the cotter 10, and sliding the upper part of the bearing 6 and the roller 1 down the shaft.
Patent GB-190803440-A (GB)
Title: Improved Means for Surrounding Cases, Bales and other Packages with Hoops or the like Ties.
Inventor: PATRY RAYMOND MAURICE AUGUSTIN
Filed: 1908-02-15
Granted: 1908-06-11
Abstract: 3440. Patry, R. M. A. Feb. 15. Straps and bands, strengthening. -Relates to means for surrounding cases, bales, &c. with hoops &c. A rack bar a with oppositely cut teeth supports two slides b provided with links k and levers c. A pawl f prevents backward movement, and a pawl g is provided for holding the ends of the hoops. The link k may engage a bar of the section shown at j, Fig. 5. The under part of the slides may be provided with rollers. The slides may be forced together by means of revoluble toothed wheels in place of the levers c.
Patent GB-190804729-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Press-button Fasteners
Filed: 1908-03-02
Granted: 1908-09-03
Abstract: 4729. Richter, A. F., [Firm of]. Jan. 31, [date applied for under Section 91 of Patents &c. Act, 1907]. Stud-and-eye fastenings.-A press-button is made of an elastic material, such as celluloid, galalith, &c., which can be coloured, so that the use of metal parts is avoided and so that the fastening may match the garment. The disk a or stud d is slotted to produce a spring action. [Reference has been directed under Section 7 of Patents &c. Act, 1907, to Specifications No. 9608 A.D. 1901, and No. 1348, A.D. 1903, [Abridgment Class Weaving &c.].]
Patent GB-190805130-A (GB)
Title: Web-feeding Mechanisms for Envelope Machines
Inventor: MACKENZIE JOHN WILLIAM
Filed: 1908-03-06
Granted: 1908-12-17
Abstract: 5130. Mackenzie, J. W., [Cupples Envelope Co., S.]. March 6. Feeding - apparatus for webs. - A device for feeding a web of paper from a reel comprises a roller 5 mounted in bearings in the standard 4 and driven by spur-gearing, and a roller 12 carried by arms 11 on a rock-shaft 10. The rollers 5, 12 are provided with intermeshing gears 9, 13. The roller 12 is held in contact with the roller 5 by means of a spring 14. In order to separate the feed-rollers, a pin 15, formed with a. conical portion 17, a part 17<1> of reduced section, and a head 18, and passing through holes in the arm 11 and the frame 4, is pressed inward so that the part or larger section engages the hole in the frame, Fig. IV.
Patent GB-190805790-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and connected with Steam Generators and the like.
Inventor: MOORE-IRVINE GEORGE MATTHEWS L
Filed: 1908-10-16
Granted: 1909-04-08
Abstract: 5790. Irvine, G. M. L. Moore-. Oct. 16. Steam-generator furnace flues and fire-boxes.-The internal furnace flue of a Cornish or the like boiler is formed with vertical parallel sides, and the top of the flue, or, in the case of a locomotive boiler, the crown of the firebox, is formed with longitudinal channels a having vertical parallel sides and curved tops. The channels may be enclosed by plates a<2> to form water spaces or steam-superheating chambers. One or more water or steam pipes may be placed in the corrugations inside the flue for the purpose of heating feed-water or superheating steam. Water or fire tubes a<3>, Fig. 3, may be placed across the channels.
Patent GB-190807496-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Fluid Pressure Brake Apparatus for Railway and like Vehicles
Inventor: CLOUD JOHN WILLS
Filed: 1908-04-04
Granted: 1909-04-01
Abstract: 7496. Cloud, J. W. April 4. Brakes.-A local-venting valve, for fluid-pressure brakes and of the type described in Specification No. 14,783, A.D. 1900, is so constructed that it can be attached to the triple-valve in place of the cap which closes the end of the triple-valve piston chamber. The accelerator comprises a casing 1, connected to the triple-valve casing 14 and containing a reservoir 3, a piston 4, and slide valve 5. Air admitted to the train-pipe passage 7 passes the feed-port 13 and through a passage 12 to the reservoir 3. When a large reduction of train-pipe pressure takes place, the piston 4 moves the valve to the left to uncover an outlet 9 to vent the trainpipe, and to connect the reservoir with an exhaust port 8. The piston returns and closes the outlet 9 as soon as the pressure in the reservoir falls below train-pipe pressure.
Patent GB-190814571-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Boot Protector and Means for Fixing the same.
Inventor: SCRIVENER WILLIAM ERNEST
Filed: 1908-07-09
Granted: 1908-11-05
Abstract: 14,571. Scrivener, W. E. July 9. Awls.-A tool for use in fixing protectors for the heels of boots, is provided with a bradawl f.
Patent GB-190814949-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Sound-signalling.
Inventor: SEFTON-JONES HERBERT
Filed: 1908-07-14
Granted: 1909-07-14
Abstract: 14,949. Jones, H. Sefton-, [International Marine Signal Co.]. July 14. [Patent of Addition to No. 14,693, A.D. 1907.] Check valves.- In a gas-explosion signalling-apparatus, a check valve E is normally held up against a bar 30 by a spring in a tube 27, in which the stem of the valve slides, the tube 27 being supported by a spider from the wall of the passage 20. The valve is thrown on to its seat 25 by the explosion. There is another check valve which acts similarly but is controlled by gravity.
Patent GB-190814955-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Spinning Rings.
Inventor: CHAPMAN FRED HILDRETH
Filed: 1908-07-14
Granted: 1909-02-11
Abstract: 14,955. Chapman, F. H. July 14. Spindle apparatus.-A spinning-ring is made in two parts which may be reversible as shown in Fig. 6. The parts are connected by a pin and slot 10, 11 so as to allow slight vertical motion or both vertical and horizontal motions of one part relatively to the other. The fixed part of the ring is separate from or integral with the holder, which is split so that the ring may be sprung into place. The flange which carries the traveller is formed entirely on the movable part, as shown in Fig. 17, or partly on each, as shown in Fig. 6. The parts may be connected together by a lever 19 carrying pins engaging each of them, the foot 22 of the lever limiting the movement of the ring. An entire ring may be arranged inside the holder 14. In some cases the traveller alone forms the connexion between the two parts, the pin and slot being dispensed with.
Patent GB-190815831-A (GB)
Title: New or Improved Method of and Appliances or Devices for Indicating Temperatures.
Inventor: BARRY ARTHUR
Filed: 1908-07-25
Granted: 1909-06-03
Abstract: 15,831. Barry, A., and Ferrand, F. July 25. Thermometers.-The heat generated in a circuit Y is arranged to affect a thermometer T, in which the movement of the mercury cuts in or out the resistance of a platinum wire G, the change in resistance being measured by a Wheatstone bridge. Several thermometers of this type may be provided and arranged in such a way that a switch L can throw any one of them into the circuit of a Wheatstone bridge. When the switch is not in, an alarm may be sounded.
Patent GB-190817132-A (GB)
Title: Manufacture of New Therapeutic Compounds
Inventor: NEWTON PHILIP ARTHUR
Filed: 1908-08-14
Granted: 1909-05-06
Abstract: 17,132. Newton, P. A., [Farbenfabriken vorm. F. Bayer & Co.]. Aug. 14. Samples furnished under Section 2 of Patents &c. Act, 1907. Dibrombehenic acid salts.-The calcium, magnesium, and strontium salts of dibrombehenic acid for use in medicine as substitutes for potassium bromide, are prepared by converting free dibrombehenic acid or its alkali salts into the salts required, for example by the action of alcoholic calcium chloride solution, freed from chloride by ammonia, on an alcoholic dibrombehenic acid solution; by double decomposition of the potassium salt with aqueous calcium chloride solution ; by the action of an aqueous solution of calcium hydroxide on molten dibrombehenic acid ; or by the action of magnesium chloride solution on the potassium salt. The acid itself is prepared by the action of bromine on erucic acid.
Patent GB-190817540-A (GB)
Title: Method of & Apparatus for Automatically Igniting & Extinguishing Electric & other Lamps by the Action of the Sun's Rays.
Inventor: NORMAN HENRY
Filed: 1908-08-21
Granted: 1909-06-10
Abstract: 17,540. Norman, Sir H., and Reader, T. B. Aug. 21. Extinguishing and lighting gas.-The apparatus is placed in an electric circuit containing a battery B and a switch governed by a solenoid D. The solenoid D is placed in series with a seleniuin cell A across the cell C. When the resistance, of the cell A is reduced, the solenoid D operates to open the circuit of the igniting and extinguishing apparatus, thereby extinguishing the lamps.
Patent GB-190820958-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to Burners for Furnaces Fired by Carburetted Air.
Inventor: EAST WALTER
Filed: 1909-04-05
Granted: 1910-04-05
Abstract: 20,958. East, W., Dobbs, A. E., and Howkins, J. S. April 5, 1909. Atmospheric vapour burners; vaporizing- apparatus. - A multiflame burner is provided with a mixing-chamber f, Fig. 1, supplied with gaseous mixture from a mixing-tube a through a port e and with several tubular burner elements m or perforated or slotted ridges 30, Fig. 13, extending upwards from a carrying-plate l, Fig. 1, above nipples i or conical perforations in a plate h, which closes the upper end of the chamber f, the latter being provided with perforated baffle plates or grids n to distribute the gaseous mixture. Hot or cold air is admitted to the air space surrounding the lower parts of the burner elements m through holes w regulated by a hit-and-miss regulator y, and is distributed by means of a tubular or solid grid u carried by a ledge z. The air supply or steam may, however, be supplied through the perforated tubular grids. In some cases, the bars of the grid are reduced in width in three steps towards the centre, or grids having no middle portions may be arranged above the first grid. A tubular slide 10 for regulating the admission of air through apertures 13 to the mixing-tube and the passage of gaseous mixture through the port e carries the needle-valve c for regulating the nipple b, and is connected by a sliding rod 7 to a hand-lever 2, which also operates the air regulator y through a lever 3 and an adjustable block 4. The regulation, however, of the apertures 13 may be effected by a slide 40, Fig. 11, and additional air is then admitted through a hole 42 in a plug at the top of the globular part of the mixing-tube. The liquid fuel is fed through a pipe coiled twice around the combustion chamber to the vaporizing-coil above an auxiliary burner, the gaseous mixture and the air supply to which are controlled simultaneously with but inversely to the corresponding supplies to the main burner. The main burner is fed through a by-pass passage when the port e is closed. The main burner elements m may-be formed with a narrow upper portion p, Fig. 6, provided at the top with two very small openings, or may consist of vertical tubes connected by perforated tubes or each carrying perforated cross-tubes 33, Fig. 16, the gaseous mixture in the last case being conveyed through a nippled pipe 35 and a larger pipe 50 connected with tubes 33. In a further modification, a pipe 37, Fig. 18, conveying the gaseous mixture is provided with branch pipes 38 having burner tubes m..
Patent GB-190823800-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Method for Coupling Dynamos and Electric Motors.
Inventor: ZUMSTEG ALBERT HEINRICH
Filed: 1908-11-06
Granted: 1909-06-03
Abstract: 23,800. Zumsteg, A. H., and Zumsteg, R. E. Nov. 6. Drawings to Specification. Self-driving motors.-A dynamo and a motor or motors mounted on the same shaft are connected together in a closed electric circuit, the shaft being driven at starting by an auxiliary electric motor. The dynamo or preferably another indepndent dynamo worked from a motor driven by the firstmentioned dynamo or mechanically connected to the shaft of the latter, serves to charge batteries, which may supply current to the auxiliary motor to re-start the plant. A fly-wheel is mounted upon the shaft. The batteries may be fed continuously from the dynamo, and more than one dynamo may be employed.
Patent GB-190826239-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Electric Clocks.
Inventor: MURDAY THOMAS JOHN
Filed: 1908-12-04
Granted: 1909-09-30
Abstract: 26,239. Murday, T. J. Dec. 4. Electric clocks.- In a secondary clock, a pivoted lever c carrying a driving-pawl h rests on a cam d fixed to the arbor of the centrallypivoted armature b of an electromagnet. When the magnet is energized, the lever c is raised by the cam, and when the current ceases, the parts are returned to the normal position by the pressure of a spring m, a ratchetwheel f being thereby. driven by the pawl h. Springs n, n', adapted to strike against the polepieces of the magnet, are attached to the armature to limit its motion. In a modification, the driving- pawl h is attached directly to the eccentric d, the lever c being then dispensed with.
Patent GB-190827258-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Solder-cored Wire.
Inventor: KAMMERER FRIEDRICH
Filed: 1908-12-15
Granted: 1909-08-05
Abstract: 27,258. Kammerer, F. Dec. 15. Wire; soldering. - In wire in which solder is enclosed by a harder metal jacket, the solder is in the form of continuous veins b, Fig. 2, or is star-shaped in crosssection as shown in Fig. 3. The solder may be placed in passages bored in thick wire, and the wire drawn to the required cross-section.
Patent GB-190828137-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or connected with Pudding and the like Bowls.
Inventor: BROWNE WILLIAM PERCY WILSON
Filed: 1908-12-24
Granted: 1909-12-24
Abstract: 28,137. Browne, W. P. W. Dec. 24. Stoppers, plain cap.-The depending rim of a cover a for a pudding-bowl or the like is provided on one side with projections c, which fit into recesses b<1> in the rim of the bowl, and on the other side with a finger-screw d, which engages under the rim of the bowl to secure the cover. As an alternative, the bowl may have projections to engage recesses in the rim of the cover. According to the Provisional Specification, the projections on the cover may fit under the rim of the bowl.
Patent GB-190900272-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Make and Break Devices for Electrical Purposes.
Inventor: SANDERSON HERBERT WILLIAM
IPC: H01H3/00
Filed: 1909-01-05
Granted: 1910-01-05
Abstract: 272. Sanderson, H. W. Jan. 5. Stencil switches.-In a switch for signalling, or controlling disappearing targets, contact is made through slots in a moving band. An endless band E with slots E<1> is passed around a pulley B on a motor-driven shaft C, and a weighted pulley D. As the band moves forwards, the roller F drops into the slots E<1> and makes contact with the pulley B, thus completing the circuit between the terminals I, I<1>. Reference has been directed by the Comptroller to Specifications 22,231/97, [Class 3, Advertising &c.], 27,120/97, 12,135/06, and 14,815/06.
Patent GB-190900605-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to the Electrolysis of Aqueous Saline Solutions
IPC: C25B11/16
Filed: 1909-01-09
Granted: 1909-09-16
Abstract: 605. Siemens Bros. & Co., [Siemens & Halske Akt.-Ges.]. Jan. 9. Zinc and copper, obtaining; electrodes; connexions. -Anodes used in the electrolysis of aqueous solutions of zinc sulphate, copper nitrate, and sodium chloride are made of blocks of crystalline manganese dioxide. Contact with a terminal is made by depositing on the end of the anode a coating of lead peroxide, on which a cap of fusible metal may be cast or a holder fixed. The anode may be coated with ceresine or paraffin wax.. The blocks of manganese dioxide are made by heating manganese nitrate in a mould at 150-200‹ C., or by compressing crystalline manganese dioxide in a mould with manganese nitrate as a binding-agent and heating. The oxides of nitrogen given off in this process may be conducted with steam into water in which are suspended manganese dioxide and manganic and manganous oxides, either pure or as ores, the solution of manganese nitrate thus obtained being afterwards concentrated.
Patent GB-190904899-A (GB)
Title: A Device for Effecting the Synchronous Working of Two Machines.
Inventor: THORMEYER FRANZ EWALD
Filed: 1909-02-27
Granted: 1910-02-24
Abstract: 4899. Thormeyer, F. E. Feb. 27. Winding - mechanism.- Relates to the synchronous driving of two apparatus, such as musical instruments driven by separate motors. The invention is described as applied to the synchronization of a phonograph and a kinetograph. A motor is provided with a speedindicator common to it and the phonograph, and controls the driving of the kinematograph. A phonograph spring motor 1 driving a record turntable 4 is synchronized with a kinematograph 7 driven by an electric motor 6, by the aid of a spring motor 1<a> detachably coupled with the phonograph spring motor and driving a distributing-gear 5 which supplies electric current to the polyphase synchronous motor 6. The spring motors 1, 1<a> are connected respectively by bevelgear with a disk 8 marked with lines and an index finger 8<a>. When want of sychronism is indicated by the finger 8<a> and the disk 8, the speed of the spring motor 1<a> is altered by its brake lever 3<c> controlling a brake 3<a> and having a conical surface which moves a spring-controlled right angled lever 3<d> and causes its pointer 3<e>, which has moved away from a movable pointer 3<g> on a graduated scale 3<f> to return to its initial position. A more accurate readjustment of speed is then obtained by altering the brake lever 3<c> until the finger 8<a> and disk 8 are rotating uniformly. Elastic coupling- rods 9, 9<a> on the spring motors 1, 1<a> respectively are used to prevent the motors from getting more than one revolution out of synchronism. Stopping- levers 13, 14 are provided on both spring motors. Synchronism may also be obtained by rotating the brush bridge 5<c> relatively to the distributing- commutator 5 through an angle indicated by division lines 16 on a disk 15 on the shaft of the bridge 5<c> by the aid of a pointer 18. A spring- controlled finger 17 holds the disk 15 and the brush bridge in any desired position. The divisions 16 on the disk 15 correspond to the number of pictures which pass the kinematograph window for one revolution of the distributor 8. The spring motors 1, 1<a> may be replaced by other motors, or other driving-means controlled by the distributor may be substituted for the electro-motor 6.