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Patent GB-190527133-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Automatic Train-pipe Couplings.
Inventor: CARY LEWIS CLEVELAND
Filed: 1905-12-29
Granted: 1906-06-14
Abstract: 27,133. Cary, L. C. July 6, [date applied for under Patents Act, 1901]. Couplings, disconnectible.-Automatic train-pipe couplings which are carried by the car coupling- heads are shown in side view in Fig. 2, in section through the draw-bars in Fig. 3, and in section through the pipe coupling in Fig. 5. Coupling- heads 6 on the draw-bars 12 have a locking-device 7, 7<1>, and are also provided with right-angled triangular jaws 8 each having integral ribs 9. Pivoted locking-levers 10 have engaging shoulders 14 and outwardly curved ends 13, and are maintained in engagement by pivoted leaf springs 18. The coupling-heads are disengaged by a heel 17, shaft 15, and crank 16. Depending from the heads 6 are the pipe-coupling members 21, which have inclined engaging faces 23 and right-angled triangular lateral faces. The forward ends of the coupling - members have inwardly - projecting shoulders 25 adapted to make a locking engagement with hetols 26 on the other member. These shoulders also serve to keep the coupling-faces slightly apart while coupling, and protect the packing gaskets 34. Pivoted arms 27 facilitate the coupling by passing into a guideway 31 between lugs 32. The coupling-members 31 carry spring- controlled lugs 20 to permit relative adjustment. of the puts.
Patent GB-190527199-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Incubators.
Inventor: MOORE JOHN URSLY
Filed: 1905-12-30
Granted: 1906-02-08
Abstract: 27,199. Moore, J. U. Dec. 31, 1904, [date applied for under Patents Act, 1901]. Incubators.-Relates to means for removing the egg-tray so as to render it readily accessible, and for replacing it. The tray 12, which, as well as the incubator casing, is preferably circular, and is made with a solid bottom and wire-net sides, is supported on a bar 13 by a pivot bolt 14. To the bar 13 is attached a vertical piece 15 capable of rotation and vertical movement in bracket bearings 16, 17. On the bracket 17 rests a collar 20 carrying vertical arms 23 bearing at their upper ends a wheel 25, to which are attached the upper end of the piece 15 and a handle 30. By these means, the tray 12 can be raised and lowered and swung sideways. When it is in the raised position, the bar 15 is past the top of the wheel 25 so that it is locked.
Patent GB-190604729-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Locomotive Superheaters.
Inventor: DEELEY RICHARD MOUNTFORD
Filed: 1906-02-27
Granted: 1907-01-31
Abstract: 4729. Deeley, R. M. Feb. 27. Superheaters, steam. - The particles of unconsumed fuel which are drawn through the tubes of a locomotive boiler are burnt in the smoke-box, and the heat generated is utilized for superheating the steam. Figs. 1 and 2 show the arrangement. The lower part of the smoke-box is lined with refractory material forming a hearth. The air for the combustion of the small fuel is admitted through a perforated pipe g, protected by a perforated fire-brick covering h. A slide k controls the air supply. Two superheaters f are fitted directly over the hearth.
Patent GB-190605712-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Counting and Indicating the Mechanism for Knitting Machines.
Inventor: WALLWORK ROUGHSEDGE
Filed: 1906-03-09
Granted: 1906-07-26
Abstract: 5712. Wallwork, R., and Wallwork, C. H. March 9. Knitting-machines. -Two forms of counter are described as applied to a knitting- machine for showing the progress of the work by scale divisions and reference marks, the first being of the screw-and-nut type and the second a screw, worm-wheel, and disk combination. Fig. 1 shows an extension l of the yarn carrier rotating arms upon a hollow screwed spindle a fitting over the yarn stand rod. The nut for indicating the progress of the work upon the scale c is loose upon the screwed spindle, but has a removable engaging-piece i, Fig. 5, taking into the threads, and it is held from rotation by jaws embracing the scale. In the second form, there are upon the hollow spindle a few turns of a thread of much greater diameter which gear with a worm-wheel carrying the circular scale and suspended by spring-controlled pivoted arms. When these arms are pulled 'out, the screw and wormwheel are disconnected. The scales may carry appropriate reference marks.
Patent GB-190606109-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and Apparatus for Reproducing Sound Recorded on Discs for use in Sound Producing Machines.
Filed: 1906-03-13
Granted: 1907-02-07
Abstract: 6109. Michaelis, W., Madaler, F. von, and Neophone, Ltd. March 13. Phonographs &c. -The sound - arm of disk machines is constructed in two parts, of which one a is rigidly fixed to the body of the machine, the other f, which carries the diaphragm and stylus, being bent as shown and sliding within the first, so that the needle moves radially as it follows the spiral track of the record. Rollers k, Fig. 5, are fitted to the part a, and a roller m to the part f. A bracket o serves to support the movable part f when not in use, or when records are being changed. The apparatus may be employed with either an horizontal or a vertical diaphragm.
Patent GB-190606114-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Turbines which are Operated by Expansible Fluid.
Filed: 1906-03-13
Granted: 1907-03-13
Abstract: 6114. Belliss & Morcom, and Jude, A. March 13. Elastic-fluid turbines.-The invention is based upon a consideration of the curvature of the absolute pat h of the fluid over the rotor vanes, and the relation n existing between the curvature and the permissible thickness of stream. Fig. 5 shows an application in which the space interval or thickness of stream between rotor blades in successive rings B<1>, B<2>, B<3> increases progressively as the velocity of the fluid decreases, and in which the axial width of these blades decreases progressively at the same time, this decrease being due to the use of blades of greater curvature. Specification No. 9417, A.D. 1904, is referred to.
Patent GB-190606315-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Machines for Making Metal Rods or Bars.
Inventor: LAKE HAROLD WILLIAMSON
Filed: 1906-03-15
Granted: 1906-06-07
Abstract: 6315. Lake, H. W., [Chase Rolling Mill Co.]. March 15. Squirting.-In an apparatus for squirting rods and bars, the receiver 7 for the billet is, surrounded by a ring 8 of non-beat-conducting material and is supported in a recess 6 in the internally tapered pocket 5 and by the plate 9 for retaining the ring and pocket. The die 15 is held by a bayonet fastening to a carriage 12 operated by a rack and pinion 13, 14 and locked in its foremost position by slides 19, 20 and a groove 30. The plunger 29 is hinged to its ram 28<a> so that it may be turned out of the way while an ingot is being introduced into the receiver 7.
Patent GB-190606601-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Process for Solidifying Fluid Greases, Tar or the like, and Increasing the Consistency of Solid Fats, Resins, Soaps or the like.
Inventor: BLASS GUSTAV
Filed: 1906-03-19
Granted: 1906-11-15
Abstract: 6601. Blass, G. March 19. Tar, pitch, and the like are solidified or increased in consistency by the addition of crude or purified anthracene or its homologues. The substances thus treated are retained between the crystals of the anthracene and preserve their individual characteristics. The products may be used as lubricants, insulating-compositions, &c.
Patent GB-190609725-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Machine for Cutting Circular Plugs of Tobacco.
Inventor: PHILLIPS ARTHUR
Filed: 1906-04-26
Granted: 1907-03-07
Abstract: 9725. Phillips, A., Hardie, J. P., and Brigham, G. L. April 26. Tobacco.-Relates to machines for cutting circular plugs of tobacco. Four feed-rollers B<2> pass the plug from a trough to the mouthpiece C, which may be adjusted to touch the side of the knife D. A receiver E, capable of being pressed back against the springs H by the knife passing over its inclined face, forwards the cut plugs to another trough I. The knife D is bolted to a disk O mounted on the main spindle M, which also carries a cam operating the feed-rollers by means of ratchet gearing. The upper rollers are mounted on a rocking lever N.
Patent GB-190612384-A (GB)
Title: An Improvement in and connected with Brooches and certain other Articles of Jewellery.
Inventor: COLLINS WALTER HENRY
Filed: 1906-05-28
Granted: 1907-01-31
Abstract: 12,384. Collins, W. H. May 28. Jewellery mounts and settings.-The glass front 1 of a brooch, pendant, finger or scarf ring, or other article of jewellery which is made of box form and adapted to contain a photograph or the like, is formed with a projecting lead 4, Fig. 1, and is made slightly conical to fit tightly in the recess 2. The bead forms a means for prising up the glass by the aid. of a knife &c. In a modification, the bead is dispensed with, as shown in Fig. 6, and ona or more notches 5 are provided to facilitate extraction of the glass.
Patent GB-190615529-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Packings for Filter Presses.
Inventor: ANKER LOUIS
Filed: 1906-07-09
Granted: 1907-02-14
Abstract: 15,529. Anker, L. July 9. Filter-presses.-Relates to the packing between the frames or head plates of beer or other filters. As shown in Fig. 1, the packing b of soft rubber fits into grooves on opposite sides of the frame a. Fillets of hard rubber c are vulcanized to the frame a and packing b, to fill up the angles which would otherwise afford lodgment for deleterious impurities. As shown in Fig. 2, the soft rubber packing b fits upon a ring of hard rubber g which is vulcanized both to the frame a and to the packing b. In this form, there is no angle for the accumulation of impurities.
Patent GB-190700177-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Machines for Filling and Corking Bottles containing Effervescent Water and the like.
Inventor: DEUTSCH PIETRO
Filed: 1907-01-03
Granted: 1907-04-11
Abstract: 177. Deutsch, P., and Vannini, C. Jan. 3. Bottling ; corking. -Relates to a device for stuffing the india-rubber packing in the headstocks of machines for filling bottles with aerated liquids and corking them. The packing-ring a is compressed between a metal washer c and the lower flange f of a vertically-movable thimble e. The thimble is connected to, and raised by, two levers i<1>, i<2>, pivoted at l', l' to the headstock of the machine and resting at their free ends on a cam m, cut from a round axle and provided with a crank n. A tappet o on the crank is adapted to engage a stop p on the lever i<2>, and so limit the rotation of the cam m. Flanges g<1>, g<2> on the thimble slide in grooves in the headstock.
Patent GB-190701093-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Calendar and Tide-time Indicator.
Inventor: HARPER SIDNEY CHARLES
Filed: 1907-01-15
Granted: 1907-09-12
Abstract: 1093. Harper, S. C. Jan. 15. Signals, indicator or visible.-A tide - time indicator is combined with a calendar and is formed of a base-plate carrying a date rack d and stamped with clock dials a, b, the bands of which can be set to show the time of high water, morning and evening. A celluloid tablet f is also attached with week days and spaces for engagements. Advertisements may be printed or impressed on the base-plate.
Patent GB-190703094-A (GB)
Title: Superheater for Steam Boilers.
Inventor: HORSEY ARTHUR WILMOT
Filed: 1907-02-07
Granted: 1907-08-22
Abstract: 3094. Horsey, A. W., and Vaughan, H. H. Feb. 7. Dampers. - In steam superheaters, particularly for use in locomotive boilers, of the type in which the superheating-tubes are inserted in the fire-tubes, special damper mechanism is provided for cutting out the superheater simultaneously with the closing of the throttle valve. The headers of the superheater are completely enclosed by partitions, the damper 22 controlling egress of the combustion products to the smoke-box. This damper may be closed to throw the superheater out of action, either independently or automatically and simultaneously with the closing of the throttle valve. This latter operation is effected through the medium of a cylinder 30 in communication with the steam-chest, so that, when steam is turned on, the piston of the cylinder 30 opens the damper, and when steam is shut off the damper closes under the influence of a spring or of a counterweight 32. To indicate to the driver the position of the damper or whether it has been destroyed, the other end of its shaft extends outside the shell and carries an arm and indicator 35.
Patent GB-190709662-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Safety Appliances for Motor Vehicles.
Inventor: SCHLICHTER GILES
Filed: 1907-04-25
Granted: 1908-04-16
Abstract: 9662. Schlichter, G., and Franko, G. April 25. Wheel guards and obstruction-removers.-A lifesaving apparatus applied to tramway vehicles comprises three parts. (1) The space between the rails and the underframe is made high and wide by providing wheels of suitable size or by arranging the entire motor 3 and other parts usuallylocated in the passage 2 outside the same, and the passage is covered with protecting-plates 5. 6, 7, Figs. 2 and 3, so that a person lying between the rails will be passed over untouched. The plates 5, 6, 7 together with the outer protecting-plates 8, 9 are combined to form a single framework suspended from the wheel axles 4. The top plate 6 is bent upwards at both ends of the vehicle to form a funnel-shaped entrance for the passage 2. (2) At each angle of this framework is a safety shoe 10, Figs. 1 and 4, guided by a roller 11 held on to the rails by a spring 14. The shoe is connected to the frame by links 12, 13, the cheeks of the links 13 being connected by means of a slot and stud to allow for irregularities of the track. Also the cheeks of the links 12,13 are made convex on the sides directed towards each other so that the shoes can move about a vertical axis and so take the curves. Shockabsorbing plates 19 are mounted on springs 18 on the outer edge of the shoes. (3) A safety basket 20 is detachably suspended by belts 21 from the front of the vehicle and by wires 22 from brackets 23. Side belts 24 prevent lateral movement. The basket is preferably composed of spiral springs fixed on hempen bands and covered with sailcloth, and its bottom is on a level with the upper plate of the passage 2.
Patent GB-190710849-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Gas and like Stoves.
Inventor: FOSKETT SAMUEL
Filed: 1907-05-09
Granted: 1908-05-11
Abstract: 10,849. Faskett, S. May 9. Atmospheric gas burners.-In a stove constructed as described in Specification No. 778, A.D. 1902, [Abridgment Class Stoves &c.], the gaseons mixture from the Bunsen burner b passes into and mixes with more air in the tube a, and the resulting mixture burns at the perforations d formed in the annular surface e round the cone c. A heat-insulating ring n prevents transmission of heat to the main part of the tube a, and the latter may be provided with a perforated diaphragm f.
Patent GB-190711518-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Pistons for Internal Combustion Engines.
Inventor: LAKE HAROLD WILLIAMSON
Filed: 1907-05-16
Granted: 1908-01-16
Abstract: 11,518. Lake, H. W., [Vereinigte Augsburq und Maschinenbauges. N³rnberg Akt. - Ges.]. May 16. Pistons.-The piston of an internal-combustion engine has a removable head b, and adjustable pieces i for taking up wear. The head is preferably of malleable iron or ingot iron. It forms a tongue- and-groove joint with the piston body and is secured by bolt studs f near the periphery. The pieces i are secured by bolts l, and are adjusted by varying the thickness of the packing between them and the body of the piston.
Patent GB-190714858-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Surfaces for Drawings intended to be Reproduced Photographically or Photomechanically.
Inventor: DODGE OZIAS
Filed: 1907-06-27
Granted: 1908-02-20
Abstract: 14,858. Dodge, O. June 27. Negatives for photo-mechanical printing, producing.-Designs are drawn on a semi-transparent sheet material, and the material is then rendered transparent so as to be suitable for use as a positive for photo-mechanical reproduction. A gelatine film is first produced and may be formed on a glass plate, previously ground to the requisite grain by sand of suitable fineness and washed and rubbed with powdered talc and turpentine. The film, semitransparent on account or its acquired grain, is stripped, and the drawing made on its grained surface, preferably with a hard red pencil, erasure being possible. Flexible collodion is then flowed over the gelatine sheet, permanently fixing the drawing, and at the same time rendering the gelatine transparent. The sheet may then be used as a positive to a sensitized copper plate or otherwise.
Patent GB-190716874-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to Starting Devices for the Compressed Air Motors of Self Propelled Torpedoes
Inventor: JONES ALBERT EDWARD
Filed: 1907-07-23
Granted: 1908-07-23
Abstract: 16,874. Jones, A. E. July 23. Reducing - valves. -Relates to a combined retarding and starting device for compressed-air motors of selfpropelled torpedoes. A cylinder a contains two pistons d, e bearing against one another with a clearance f which communicates with the atmosphere or with a source of compressed oil according to the position of a slide or other valve x. The piston e forms a valve at o which is pressed against a seat p by a spring q and the pressure, on a collar y, of compressed air fed by a passage b; the spring q is not essential. The piston d has a stem g, i, j, and is controlled by a spring m which abuts against a collar k at one end and against a screw ring n at the other; said ring n fits a square part i of the stem, so that the compression of the ring and therefore the air pressure can be adjusted by rotating the piston d by means of a square head z and a spanner.
Patent GB-190720035-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Blending and Washing Butter and other Material.
Inventor: MACKAY FREDERICK NOEL
Filed: 1907-09-07
Granted: 1908-11-09
Abstract: 20,035. Mackay, F. N. Sept. 7. Butter and butter substitutes.-Butters &c. to be blended are chilled in bulk, cut into blocks or slabs in one or more machines, and then forwarded either mixed or separately to other machines in which the blocks are scraped. The shreds may be washed with milk, cut or scraped again, blended with more butter, and then passed to ordinary butter workers ; the operations are performed at a low temperature, and the apparatus is maintained at a temperature different from that of the butter, to prevent the butter from adhering to the scrapers or its grain from being destroyed. The cutting and scraping machines are shown combined in Fig. 2. The different butters are placed in shoots e, being pressed against sets of parallel saws d by plungers e. The <p>utvs are reciprocated by a crank-shaft q, and the slabs of butter come into contact with the drum f having perforations g, the edges of which are pressed out at one side to form claws. The shreds fall inside the drum and pass from one end to a conveyer of one or two screws which feeds them to a second drum m, from which the butter passes through a drum m<1> of metal or wood, driven independently,. to washing or moulding apparatus. The butter may be washed during shredding by passing the washing-liquid through the machine with the butter, or by injecting it upon the scrapers. When the butter is shredded twice, water may be used during the first shredding, and milk, cream, or a prepared liquid, which is used repeatedly, during the second. A machine having one shoot for receiving previously cut slabs, which are pressed down by a weight raised by a windlass, may be employed, the blocks being so arranged as to be scraped successively by the drum. The shoots may be jacketed with freezing-mixture, and the whole apparatus is cooled by air currents. In small machines, chipped ice may be mixed with the butter to cool the apparatus and wash and harden the butter.
Patent GB-190724074-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to the Measurement of Electrical Power.
Inventor: ARCIONI VITTORIO
Filed: 1907-10-31
Granted: 1908-05-21
Abstract: 24,074. Arcioni, V. Oct. 31. Transformers.-A transformer T' for a wattmeter has a magnetic circuit of high reluctance and a secondary circuit of great resistance, the effect being to give a secondary current proportional to, but leading in phase by 60 degrees from, the current in the supply main 2.
Patent GB-190724730-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Receptacles for Food Stuffs or the like and the Sealing of same.
Inventor: MARSH ARTHUR LOUIS
Filed: 1907-11-08
Granted: 1908-08-06
Abstract: 24,730. Marsh, A. L., and Marsh, A. L. Nov. 8. [Cognate Application No. 5722, A.D. 1908, dated March 14]. Stoppers, vacuum-closing.-In vacuum closures, the vessel is provided with a shoulder B upon which the lid is adapted to rest, an annular tapering recess D, Fig. 1, being left between the lid and the wall of the vessel, in which a packing-ring G is located. In exhausting the vessel, air escapes past the ring, the closure being subsequently completed by the atmospheric pressure forcing the ring more and more into the recess, as shown in Fig. 3. In the modification shown in Fig. 4, notches H in the lid provide access to the ring for breaking the closure, and these notches also permit the ring to rise more freely at these points during the exhaustion of the vessel.
Patent GB-190724978-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Printing Sulphurised Dyestuffs.
Inventor: IMRAY OLIVER
Filed: 1907-11-11
Granted: 1908-02-27
Abstract: 24,978. Imray, O., [Society of Chemical Industry in Basle]. Nov. 11. Right to Patent relinguished. Dyeing.-Sulphurized dye-stuffs are printed by a process in which the sulphide colour is mixed with a solution of sodium sulphide of such high concentration as to produce no blackening effect on copper or brass rollers. For a portion of the sodium sulphide may be substituted strong caustic alkali, or a strongly alkaline thickening may be used with or without the addition of a hydrosulphite or sulphoxylate.
Patent GB-190726368-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Centrifugal Pumps.
Inventor: ROSSITER JAMES THOMAS
Filed: 1907-11-28
Granted: 1908-11-30
Abstract: 26,368. Rossiter, J. T. Nov. 28. Centrifugal pumps.- The crosssectional area of centrifugal-pump impeller-passages is diminished gradually from the suction-eye to the periphery so as to increase the velocity of the fluid gradually, and the surrounding casing passages are divergent. The impellers may be formed in two sections which may be separated axially to vary the discharge. The impeller shown in Fig. 1 comprises a hub e carrying four blades f to which side disks g are attached by screws. The disks are further connected by intermediate blades which do not extend to the hub. The disks are formed separately to facilitate turning to the required shape, and polishing to reduce friction. The casing consists of two sections a, a<1>, machined to form a bladeless diverging nozzle b and a good running joint at b<1>. The flow of liquid through the rotary and stationary passages resembles the steady flow in a Venturi tube. The velocity at the periphery of the impeller is high, and the injector action reduces the pressure in the region a<8>, thus minimizing leakage. This effect is intensified by fixing small blades g<1> on the outside of the disks. The impeller shown in Fig. 4 is divided into two sections in a plane at right-angles to its axis. The duty of the pump may be varied by separating the side disks g by threading washers on the shaft and on the screws holding the disks and blades together. The arrangement of these holding - screws may be modified in detail. In the modification shown in Fig. 7, the disks g are rendered axially adjustable by being screwed to rings c<*> carried by the hub e. In another modification, the impeller is cast in one piece and a slot is turned in the peripheral portion. Adjustment is obtained by means of screws which spring the disks g together at the periphery. According to the Provisional Specification, one disk g may be fixed and the other movable. The impeller shown in Fig. 4 is fitted with blades of the form shown in Fig. 5 so that the pump may be run in either direction. Such pumps may be arranged in parallel or in series. Fig. 12 shows a multi-stage arrangement in which the first impeller is divided along the line n<1>, succeeding impellers being divided along the line n.