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Patent GB-190504762-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in the Manufacture of Dehydrated, Caustic Alkalies.
Inventor: JOHNSON JAMES YATE
Filed: 1905-03-07
Granted: 1905-06-01
Abstract: 4762. Johnson, J. Y., [Badische Anilin & Soda Fabrik]. March 7. Concentrating alkalies.-Caustic alkalies, solid at ordinary temperatures, but still containing water, are heated in vacuo to a moderate temperature, whereby they first liquefy if they contain sufficient water, and then become almost or quite dehydrated. No practical corrosion of the heating- vessel (which may be of iron) occurs, and the resulting caustic alkali consequently remains practically pure. Caustic soda is heated to 180‹ C., and, if stirred during heating, is obtained as a powder. Caustic potash may be heated to 260‹ C. while stirring, so long as any water distils off, or to 180-200‹ C. till about 40 parts of water, out of 100 parts of the hydrated potash used, have distilled off. In the latter case, technically pure caustic potash of about 90 per cent. is obtained. A mixture in equi-molecular proportions of caustic soda and potash, when heated while stirring to 260‹ C. in vacuo, gives a dehydrated product which is still fluid at the end of the process. Commercial caustic potash may be ground to a fine powder, and heated gradually to about 260‹ C. till no more water is given off. Reference is made to Specification No. 12,320, A.D. 1895, [Abridgment Class Steam generators], for another method of preventing corrosion of the containing vessel.
Patent GB-190507099-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Fastening and Lock for Doors.
Inventor: SCHWARZHUBER LEOPOLD ANTON
Filed: 1905-04-04
Granted: 1905-06-08
Abstract: 7099. Schwarzhuber, L. A. April 4. Hinges.-A bow 4 use in substitution for an ordinary door chain is pivoted to the door frame by means of the pin 6, which passes through the lugs 15 on the plate 20 and through the forked end of the bow. A spiral spring is placed round the pin within the fork, and bears against a projection on the bow.
Patent GB-190507517-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Globes and Draught Screens for use with Inverted Mantles.
Inventor: HELPS GEORGE
Filed: 1905-04-10
Granted: 1906-01-04
Abstract: 7517. Helps, G. April 10. Globes; incandescent gas lamps.-To break up the air supply, a baffle c is inserted in the lower orifice of a globe a for inverted incandescent burners, and projects downwards to complete the contour of the globe. The globe orifice has a serrated or twisted upturned edge b supporting the baffle c, which is provided with air inlets d. In a modification, the edge of the globe is not upturned, and in another the projecting baffle has no air inlets.
Patent GB-190512673-A (GB)
Title: Transfer Tube Systems
Inventor: SKIRROW JOHN FOSTER
Filed: 1905-06-19
Granted: 1906-06-14
Abstract: 12,673. Skirrow, J. F. June 19. Pneumatic dispatch apparatus. - A blower or pump driven by an electromotor is put into operation, or a valve communicating with a reservoir (for pressure or vacuum) is opened, by the insertion of the carrier, and is stopped or closed by an automatic timing-device. The two tubes may be arranged as a continuous air-way as in Fig., 1, or be joined to opposite ports of the fan. For a number of sub-stations, there may be separate tubes from one port of the fan and a single tube from the other, as in Fig. 3. When the carrier is inserted, a switch 15 or 15<b> temporarily closes the circuit of an electro-magnet which lifts a bar 16<a>, from a spring bridge 24 in a second circuit b. An electro-magnet 23 in the latter then opens the outlet valve of the reservoir or closes the circuit a of the electromotor. The lifted bar being toothed sinks under the control of a train of wheels 19 ending in a fly 21, and-so after a time, sufficient for the travel of the carrier, re-opens the second circuit.
Patent GB-190512750-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Blow-pipe Burners for Autogenous Soldering
Inventor: DUMESNIL PAUL
Filed: 1905-06-20
Granted: 1906-02-08
Abstract: 12,750. Dumesnil, P. June 20. Blowpipe burners.- Relates to a blowpipe burner for autogenous soldering, in which acetylene or other combustible gas and the supporter of combustion may be intimately mixed without risk of explosion or lighting- back. The supporter of combustion is admitted under pressure through a passage b in the handle a, and in issuing from a nozzle h induces a supply of combustible gas at lower pressure. The gas is supplied through a passage c to an expansion chamber c<1> from which a passage leads to a mixing-chamber between the nozzle h and a conical part h<1>. To prevent lighting- back, a chamber d is provided at the gas inlet and contains two metal or wire-gauze screens or baffles d<1>, d<2> between which are arranged tubes e coated with asbestos cloth or the like and packed in asbestos. The ends of the tubes are preferably bevelled as shown to prevent them from offering too great a resisance to the passage of gas. The burner nozzle j is connected as shown to the handle a, the various parts being screw-threaded to allow of relative adjustment so as to vary the pressure and relative proportions of the gases.
Patent GB-190513666-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Hawsers and the like.
Inventor: MUEHLSTEPHAN CARL WILHELM HEIN
Filed: 1905-07-03
Granted: 1906-01-11
Abstract: 13,666. M³hlstephan, C. W. H. July 3. Wire ropes or hawsers for towing vessels at sea or for other maritime purposes are formed of multiple-stranded steel-wire ropes A, encased with a single or double laid covering d of tarred hemp, and laid spirally without a core. The ropes A consist of a number of strands beach formed from several wires a. The compressibility of the fibrous wrapping d permits the hawser to extend slightly while under tension.
Patent GB-190514108-A (GB)
Title: Improvement in Laying Jointless Stone-wood Flooring.
Inventor: LANGGUTH PAUL
Filed: 1905-07-08
Granted: 1905-11-02
Abstract: 14,108. Langguth, P. July 8. Floors.-A "stone-wood" jointless floor e is prevented from cracking due to cracks extending upwards from the foundation a, by interposing a padding d consisting of squares of papier-mÔchÚ, cartonnage, or cardboard fitted in cells, the walls b of which are elastic and preferably composed of cork chips, asbestos, sawdust, and cement. The lower surface of the padding d is not cemented to the foundation.
Patent GB-190523601-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to the Breech Operating Mechanism of Ordnance.
Inventor: SCHNEIDER CHARLES PROSPER EUGE
Filed: 1905-11-16
Granted: 1906-03-29
Abstract: 23,601. Schneider, C. P. E. Nov. 16. Ordnance breech mechanism.-Relates to semi-automatic guns. Fig. 20 shows a longitudinal section of the apparatus, as applied to a screw-breech mechanism, and Fig. 2 is a transverse section, showing the disconnecting- gear for operating by hand. The gun, as it recoils, carries with it the cylinder d and a rack-bar c mounted therein. The rack-bar slides over a non-recoiling rod o, and, towards the end of the recoil, pawls h pivoted to the bar c engage in recesses q in the rod o. As the gun returns to battery, the pawls h arrest the forward motion of the bar c, while the pinion b on the operating- spindle a of the breech mechanism moves forward with the gun, and is thus rotated to open the breech. Towards the end of the return stroke, shoulders in the cylinder d trip the pawls h, but at the same time a bolt r engages with a slot s in the rack-bar, retaining the same in its rearward position during the loading operation. When the bolt r is disengaged by raising the lever t, the spring e drives the bar c forwards and closes the breech. Should the effect required to open the breech exceed the resistance of the spring buffer 10, the rod o is pressed forwards and raises a.pawl 9. The buffer 10 is then free to slide in the bearing p, and the gun returns to battery with the breech closed. The semi-automatic mechanism may be disconnected by sliding the pinion b, with its twopart sleeve 16, and hand-wheel 1, along the shaft a until the pinion is thrown out of gear The breech mechanism is then operated by the hand-wheel 1. To facilitate hand-working while the automatic mechanism is in gear, the rod o is formed with a rack 15, gearing with the pinion 17 of a second hand-gear. The rod o is first driven forwards until the pawls h snap into the recesses q; movement in the reverse direction will then actuate the breech mechanism through the rack-bar c and pinion b. Detail modifications are described, and also the application of the mechanism to segmental and wedge-breech mechanisms.
Patent GB-190601516-A (GB)
Title: Improved Means for Obviating the Effect of Excessive Pressure in Presses.
Inventor: WILZIN ARTHUR
Filed: 1906-01-19
Granted: 1906-10-04
Abstract: 1516. Wilzin, A. May 27,1905, [date applied for under Patents Act, 1901]. Presses; shocks, preventing.-A device for preventing excessive strain in presses consists of a wedge, placed in the line of action of the thrust and held up by a spring coiled about a rod traversing the wedge, so that it yields on a certain pressure being exceeded. The wedge c is held in position by the spring g, the tension in which is adjusted by nuts f, f<1> on the rod d and may be placed between the ram and the tool block, as shown in Fig. 1, or beneath the matrix, as in Fig. 4.
Patent GB-190601957-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to Apparatus for Indicating the Deviation of Boreholes from the Perpendicular.
Inventor: ERLINGHAGEN CHARLES
Filed: 1906-01-25
Granted: 1906-11-15
Abstract: 1957. Erlinghagen, C. Jan. 25. Clinometers.-A guiding- device for a clinomoter used for indicating the inclination of a bore-hole consists of a telescopic tube, which is centred in the hole by means of clamping-plates e, and is provided with guideropes h, serving to prevent the instrument from turning. An electromagnet a at the top of the tube by attracting its armature b presses the upper plate e against the sides of the hole, and, at the same time, lifts the brake f of the spring- controlled bobbins g, upon which the guideropes are wound. As the lower parts of the tube fall down the hole, the guide-ropes unwind, and when the last element has extended, levers k are released, and they are pressed outwards by springs against the sides of the hole. The guideropes slide against grooved collars x fitted to the top of each tubular element.
Patent GB-190603423-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Railway Brakes.
Inventor: WOOD WILLIAM HADLEY
Filed: 1906-02-12
Granted: 1906-06-21
Abstract: 3423. Wood, W. H. Feb. 12. Brakes.-A railway-wagon brake is arranged to be applied from any corner of a vehicle, to be released from either side, and also to be operated by a person in the wagon. The usual hand-lever A is held raised, in which position the brakes are off, by a bolt E, which passes into a socket D on the hand-lever. This bolt can be retracted, to allow the hand-lever to fall and apply the brakes, by means of horizontal levers M, K, horizontal levers connected to links S, V at the other corners of the wagon, or a lever O which can be operated from the wagon and actuates a rocking plate W. The brake is released by raising the hand-lever A, either directly or by depressing a lever B pivoted to a bracket C at the end of the wagon, the bolt E being first pushed back by the socket D engaging its bevelled end, and then shot into the socket by a weighted bell-crank lever H, which engages a stop I thereon. The lever B may be in two separately fulcrumed parts, pivoted together so that the lever A is raised by raising the free end of the lever B. The lever B may be operated from the wagon by means of a bar X. This bar may be corrugated and adapted to be forced into engagement with a similar surface in the bracket through which it passes, so that the lever can be locked in any position, by a wedge which can be manipulated from either side of the vehicle. In some vehicles, a similar bar may be' fitted to the brake lever A.
Patent GB-190605294-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Washing Machines to be used in Laundries
Inventor: BARTELT FRIEDRICH LUDWIG
Filed: 1906-03-05
Granted: 1906-12-31
Abstract: 5294. Bartelt, F. L. March 5. Washing-machines; arrangement of apparatus in laundries and the like.-The processes of scouring, bleaching, and blueing, and other processes of treating linen, are conducted in a series of tanks or sections, the washing being carried piece by piece through each tank by the circulation of liquid or by a mechanical device, and from tank to tank by rollers. The first tank has a pair of feed-rollers d, preferably felt-covered and moistened by immersion, which deliver the linen to a zigzag channel e formed either by fixed plates or by plates in a box moved to and fro in the liquid so that water enters through perforations alternately at the apposite ends of the channel. In the form shown, the circulation is caused by the supply h, by the overflow pipe g, which is open at the bottom and at the bend, and by a paddle roller i. Rollers f and a guide n deliver the linen from one tank to the next. The tanks have sloping bottoms and plugs l, and they may each have feed-rollers d. According to the Provisional Specification, water and solution are separately delivered into tanks which automatically overbalance and deliver the mixture into the washing-tanks. '
Patent GB-190605759-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Plant for the Generation of Steam
Inventor: COWAN JOHN
Filed: 1906-03-09
Granted: 1906-12-31
Abstract: 5759. Cowan, J., and Baillie, R. March 9. Feed - water, heating ; superheaters, steam. - Installations for generating steam are fitted with a feed-heater and a superheater, the feed-heater being worked at a pressure greater than that in the boilers ; the steam generated in the feed-heater is passed into the superheater with the steam from the boilers. The Figure shows a feed-heater and a superheater arranged in the form of a five-drum Stirling boiler. The feed - heater, formed by the upper drum a, tubes c, and lower drum b, is arranged as a screen to the superheater, which is formed by the remaining tubes and drums. The feed is supplied to the lower drum b from an elevated hotwell or tank l by an injector m, which is worked by steam from the drum a or by superheated steam. In some cases, the drum a may be divided into two compartments and the feed-water introduced to one of them. A pipe j connects the steam space of the drum a with the rear drum e of the superheater ; a reducing-valve may be fitted in this pipe. The pipe leading from the boilers is shown at k. The hot water is supplied automatically to the boilers by the difference of pressure, the delivery being controlled by floats in the usual manner. If desired, the feedheater may be worked at the same pressure as the boiler but placed at a higher level. Flooding- connexions are provided to enable the whole apparatus to work as a boiler in the ordinary way.
Patent GB-190607363-A (GB)
Title: Machine for Breaking Anthracite Coal and the like.
Inventor: DEPEAUX FRANCOIS FELIX
Filed: 1906-03-27
Granted: 1906-12-31
Abstract: 7363. Depeaux, F. F., and Dupont, D. March 27. Apparatus for breaking anthracite coal, coke, &c. An endless table B, Figs. 1 and 2, formed of ribbed plates hinged together, conveys the material underneath picks carried by plates F bolted to a plate forming part of the vertically reciprocating hammer E. The picks are of unequal 1 lengths and are arranged at different distances apart, those at the inlet end being larger and spaced farther apart than those at the outlet end. The hammer is actuated by a rod G from a crankshaft H driven by gearing from the driving- shaft K, which carries a friction cone M moved into and out of gear with the loose pulley L by means of a pivoted lever N operated by a handwheel P. The table receives an intermittent motion from the shaft H by means of a rod actuating a pawl R engaging a ratchet-wheel S on the shaft of one of the drums C, the rod being connected to a pin adjustable in a slot in a plate on the shaft H.
Patent GB-190607804-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Internal Combustion Engines.
Inventor: PECK WILLIAM
Filed: 1906-03-31
Granted: 1906-06-21
Abstract: 7804. Peck, W. March 31. Gas or explosive-vapour engines.- To facilitate starting, the combustion or vaporizing-chamber is provided with a jacket into which hot gases are sent. These gases may be the exhaust from another engine or the products of combustion of a furnace. Fig. 2 is a plan of a two-cylinder engine showing the combustion chambers B, jackets A, and inlet and outlet pipes K and 0 respectively, for the accommodation of the heating-gases. The invention is applicable to the engines described in Specifications No. 4037, A.D. 1902, No. 23,493, A.D. 1903, and Nos. 2079 and 15,625. A.D. 1904,
Patent GB-190608424-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Grinding Mills for Clay and the like.
Inventor: UGHETTO CORRADI
Filed: 1906-04-07
Granted: 1906-06-28
Abstract: 8424. Ughetto, C. April 7. Roller mills'; mills and-apparatus.-Apparatus for grinding earth or clay &c. consists of four rollers revolving as indicated in Fig. 1, the upper pair] E, E<1> being of larger diameter than and revolving faster than the lower pair I, I<1>. A preliminary grinding takes place in the feed-hopper A by pallet-wheels B, C, the wheel B having four pallets engaging with the eight pallets of the wheel C. The crushed clay passes out between the rollers E, I and E', I'. The upper rollers are provided with scrapers F, F<1>, and the lower rollers are carried by counterbalanced or spring-pressed levers J, J<1>. The rollers are driven by belts passing over pulleys L, L', Fig. 2, and M, M', respectively, and returning over pulleys N, N' mounted on levers O, O<1> carried by axles P, P<1>.
Patent GB-190609929-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to the Gas and Air Ports of Furnaces.
Inventor: THOMAS ALEXANDER SHIRREFF
Filed: 1906-04-28
Granted: 1907-03-28
Abstract: 9929. Thomas, A. S. April 28. Gaseous-fuel furnaces; air, supplying.-In order to prevent collapse due to heat expansion, the gas and air ports A of an open-hearth furnace are built of concentric courses C of bricks, and. are oval, egg-shaped, or horseshoe-shaped in crosssection. Specifications No. 16,433, A.D. 1886, Nos. 8342 and 20,083, A.D. 1889, and Nos. 13,050 and 22,828, A.D. 1900, are referred to.
Patent GB-190609979-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Jet or Injection Condensers.
Inventor: KLOOS CORNELIS
Filed: 1906-04-28
Granted: 1906-09-27
Abstract: 9979. Kloos, C. April 28. Air pumps, steamengine and like. - A jet or injector condenser a is provided with a waterjacketed air-pump k, arranged in the same casing above the level of the condensing-water.
Patent GB-190611079-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to the Manufacture of Ice, and Apparatus therefor.
Inventor: STURTEVANT GEORGE DWIGHT
Filed: 1906-05-11
Granted: 1907-05-09
Abstract: 11,079. Sturtevant, G. D. May 11. Actuating valves and cocks.-Water is admitted to the freezing-chamber of an icemaking apparatus by a valve controlled from the exterior of the apparatus. This valve may be operated intermittently by the arrangement shown in Fig. 5, to admit successive small quantities of water to the can C, so that the block is formed in layers. A star-wheel k, fitted with a detent lever r<1> and roller r, is arranged on the spindle j<1> of the valve, a rotary cock being in this case employed. This wheel k is operated by projections o on a chain n moving round a sprocket m, the projections being so arranged that the spindle is first given a quarter-turn to open the valve, and, after a definite interval, a second quarter-turn to close it. In. the apparatus shown in Fig. 5, the freezing-medium circulates through the chamber B directly around the ice-mould C.
Patent GB-190612147-A (GB)
Title: Apparatus for the Removal of Foreign Bodies from the Eye.
Inventor: JAUSSI EMIL
Filed: 1906-05-24
Granted: 1906-07-12
Abstract: 12,147. Jaussi, E. May 24. Eye instruments.-An instrument for removing insects or particles of dust from the eyes consists of a hair wiper b attached to a handle a. The handle may be inserted into a hollow protecting- shield, or may be made in several detachable parts ; it may also be attached by a hinge to a pocketknife.
Patent GB-190613155-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to Milling Cutters
Inventor: BANNISTER ROBERT
Filed: 1906-06-07
Granted: 1907-06-06
Abstract: 13,155. Bannister, R. June 7. Tools and tool-holders. -Rotary cutters for use on metal or other materials have small cylindrical cutters b fixed in corresponding holes in body-parts by cylindrical cotters c. The cutter and cotter holes intersect, and inclined flats are formed on the meeting faces. The cotter holes extend, in mills of the type shown, to the arbor hole, and in the case of side mills from side to side.
Patent GB-190615940-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or connected with Self-propelled Vehicles.
Inventor: EVANS NEVILLE
Filed: 1906-07-14
Granted: 1907-01-17
Abstract: 15,940. Evans, N. July 14. Motor road vehicles.-A motor-car is provided with a wheel device which can be raised and lowered by means of a screw so as to allow the vehicle to be turned in a narrow space. An axle a is provided with two wheels b, and is carried by a vertical screwed shaft c working in a nut d fastened to the frame e of the car. The device is arranged in such a position on the body of the car that, when there is no load on the back portion and the device is moved down on to the road, it will lift the rear wheels clear from the road and the car can be turned about in its own length upon these auxiliary wheels and the front wheels.
Patent GB-190627343-A (GB)
Title: Improved Process and Apparatus for Obtaining Wort from Unmalted Grain.
Inventor: BAILEY RICHARD DOUGLAS
Filed: 1906-12-01
Granted: 1907-05-16
Abstract: 27,343. Bailey, R. D. Dec. 1. Digesters.-A vessel for boiling together dehusked maize grits with sulphuric acid in the production of brewers' wort consists of a vertical or horizontal cylinder formed of steel rings a, b, c and end plates e coated internally with glass fused on to the metal. The vessel is fitted with a perforated pipe u connected to a water supply o, an axial wooden shaft s carrying wooden stirring-arms t, and steam and hot and cold water inlets and discharge pipes. The vessel may be surrounded wholly or partly with a steam or hot-water jacket, or with a non conducting covering.
Patent GB-190701002-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Pneumatic Hammers and similar Fluid Pressure Operated Tools and Machines.
Inventor: STOCKS HARRY BENWELL
Filed: 1907-01-15
Granted: 1908-01-09
Abstract: 1002. Stocks, H. B., and Webb, J. R. Jan. 15. Actuating valves.-The admission of motive fluid to pneumatic tools is regulated by a lift valve i actuated against the pressure of a spring k by a combination of levers m, n.
Patent GB-190702916-A (GB)
Title: Improved Method for the Ventilation and Humidification of Work or other Rooms and Apparatus therefor.
Inventor: LAMBERT CHARLES GUSTAVE
Filed: 1907-02-05
Granted: 1907-04-25
Abstract: 2916. Lambert, C. G., and Lambert, A. G., [trading as Lambert FrÞres]. Feb. 6, 1906, [date applied for under Patents Act, 1901]. Air, moistening forced ventilation.- Relates to the ventilation and humidification o f workrooms &c. Fresh air is supplied through pipes T' and is distributed through lateral orifices. Water is supplied through atomizers P by which it is distributed in a layer above the air layer, so that the particles of water in sinking are surrounded by air. Compressed air is led into pipes T<2> from which it flows through the atomizers P, inducing a current of water therethrough. The water is supplied to the atomizers P by pipes T<3> connected to sealed reservoirs R, and the amount is regulated by the pressure of air in the pipes T' and in the reservoirs. The pressure of the air in the reservoirs R is governed by regulators M comprising a chamber x connected by pipes t, t<1> to the air pipe T' and the reservoir R respectively, and fitted with a pin-hole valve p and a regulating- valve M. The valves M are' weighted and the load on them can be adjusted by a spring controlled by a handle y. By means of the regulators, the air pressure can be adjusted to be the same at all points. The apparatus may be used for humidification alone.