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Patent GB-190804999-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to the Construction of Floating and Fixed Structures, Guns, Projectiles, and the like.
Inventor: STEWART WILLIAM JOHN
Filed: 1908-03-05
Granted: 1909-03-05
Abstract: 4999. Stewart, W. J. March 5. Locomotives.- Comprises a projecting structural frame which encases the shells of ships or other structures, stated to be applicable to railway engines. It consists of a series of reinforced concrete slabs of concrete and steel wire or strips, which are arranged so that intermediate spaces or pockets are formed. These pockets are filled with sand, springs, or other cushioning material, or liquid or semiliquid or gaseous fluids. The outer walls are preferably coated or incorporated in intermediate layers with waterproofing - material. The walls A, B, C are formed of reinforced concrete slabs a, b, c united by any convenient joint, several of which are described. The slabs are formed with ribs a<2>, b<2>, c<2> and are situated as shown, so that the various slabs break joint and also form intermediate pockets or spaces. The slabs consist of concrete in which is embedded steel wire or strips, arranged as shown in Figs. 12 and 13. The slabs may be kept apart by flat springs, or the pockets may be filled with sand, springs, springs embedded in concrete, or fluids.
Patent GB-190810378-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Electric Furnaces.
Inventor: CORNELIUS ERIK
Filed: 1908-05-13
Granted: 1909-04-01
Abstract: 10,378. Cornelius, E. May 13. Electric furnaces.-An electrode furnace applicable for cementing iron and steel, for making graphite and carborundum, or for reducing metallic oxides by carbon, has an electrode 4 secured to an arm 5 so that it can travel along a stationary annular or polygonal channel, the bottom of which is formed by a carbon electrode 3 ; a part of the furnace can thus be charged and discharged while working. In the construction shown in Fig. 3, the movable electrode 4 is held in a collar 8 carried by a saddle-piece 10, which is provided with a screw 11 passing through a hole in a trunnion carried by a light framework 13, having wheels 15 running in grooves on the top of the furnace. The electrode is adjustable vertically by a hand-wheel 12, and is connected with a contact-piece 21 sliding on a grooved conducting ring 18 carried by an overhead support. The furnace may be used for polyphase currents by using several movable electrodes, the annular electrode being connected to the neutral conductor.
Patent GB-190812203-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Metallic Waist Bands and other such Articles.
Inventor: SOUTHALL CHRISTOPHER
Filed: 1908-06-05
Granted: 1909-01-21
Abstract: 12,203. Southall, C. June 5. Belts.-Each link A of an ornamental metallic band, for example a lady's metallic belt, has an extension a', which is passed through a loop or slot a<5> in the adjacent link and then bent over and riveted at a<6> to the centre of its own link. Fig. 1 shows a back view of the belt. The extension a<1> may be stamped so that its design will register with that of the link proper.
Patent GB-190813274-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Stockings.
Inventor: MOLL PHEBE JOANNA
Filed: 1908-06-22
Granted: 1908-12-03
Abstract: 13,274. Moll, P. J. June 22. Stockings are provided with a continuous band of tape or webbing 2 secured to the top hem 1 at intervals by transverse stitches 3, so forming a number of loops 4 for engagement with the ordinary suspenders.
Patent GB-190814932-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Bicycle Coaster Hub and Brake.
Inventor: DOBBIN THOMAS
Filed: 1908-07-14
Granted: 1909-02-18
Abstract: 14,932. Dobbin, T. July 14. No Patent granted (Sealing fee not paid). Brakes; driving-mechanism.-In a bicycle coaster hub with back-pedalling brake mechanism of the kind wherein a screw-threaded driving-sleeve carries at its inner end a doubly-coned clutch-nut S for engaging the hub and for applying the brake, the driving-sleeve G is made approximately the length of the hub, while the nut is adapted to engage directly with an expansible brake ring V. This ring is loosely secured by studs X and slots to an end plate D anchored to the frame of the machine, ball bearings N<2> being provided between the end plate and the hub. Two light drag springs pressing against each side of the clutch-nut may be attached to the hub case and the end plate respectively.
Patent GB-190818941-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Gas Stoves.
Inventor: BROCK JOHN MAURICE
Filed: 1908-09-09
Granted: 1909-04-29
Abstract: 18,941. Brock, J. M. Sept. 16, 1907, [date applied for under Section 91 of Patents &c. Act, 1907]. Gas burners.-The burning jets of gas issuing from two rows of orifices of the burner meet in a circle near the inner surface of the body 6.
Patent GB-190827318-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Apparatus for Automatically Measuring and Delivering Liquids.
Inventor: NEUMANN WILHELM
Filed: 1908-12-16
Granted: 1909-05-06
Abstract: 27,318. Sheaf, H. Dec. 16. Sundials.-Relates to a device for indicating day and night on any portion of the earth's surface and also the position of the sun at any time or place. A semicircular disk or globe b, painted black to indicate night, is pivoted about a disk or globe a bearing a representation of part or all of the earth's surface. An arm c is fixed to the centre of the semi-disk b, the axis being provided with a projection d for throwing a shadow of the sun on the disk, a radius e being drawn along the latter in extension of the arm c. In the case of a globe a semicircular arm is provided fitted with a tube through which the sun's rays pass, and the globe is pivoted about its polar axis to a curved arm adjustably fitted to the support a<1> and fixed in position by a set-screw. On the disk or globe are marked at g the months and signs of the zodiac arranged so that when the arm c points to the sun at noon its end indicates the month of the year. A line i drawn on the disk or globe is divided into minutes to indicate by its intersection with the diameter l, l of the semidisk or globe b the time of sun-set or sun-rise at the place marked 12 o'clock thereon. A movable arm k may also be pivoted to the pin d so that, when placed horizontally, it indicates the time of sun-set and sun-rise by a double index f on the semi-disk b. In the case of a globe the index f is placed close to the pin d, or, according to the Provisional Specification, the arm k is made semicircular and pivoted at each side to the centre. A compass t is fitted on 'the support a<1>. An artificial sun may be placed on a board, and the disk made to revolve about it, the semi-disk b being connected by an arm to the sun and the disk a held banging loosely in one position by a weight fixed to its lowest point.
Patent GB-190905138-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or appertaining to Mutiple Water Closet Systems or Installations.
Inventor: OATES WILLIAM
IPC: F16L53/00
Filed: 1909-03-03
Granted: 1909-10-28
Abstract: 5138. Oates, W., and Barber, F. P. March 3. Latrines; flushing ; basins and pans; water-waste preventers, protecting from frost.-To prevent damage by frost to cisterns and basins in latrines, a pipef passes from the first cistern b<1> along the row of cisterns, with which it is connected by pipes 9<1>, g<6>, to a cock k, and then, after similar connexion with each of the basin traps, to the soil pipe. Cisterns b<2>, b<6> are not fitted with ball cocks. The cisterns and basins are emptied by openmg cocks k, l, and the supply is cut off by closing a cock j in the service pipe.
Patent GB-190906655-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Machinery for Blowing or Manufacturing Bottles, Jars and the like.
Inventor: HARRISON WILLIAM
IPC: C03B9/16
Filed: 1909-03-19
Granted: 1910-01-20
Abstract: 6655. Harrison, W. Mar. 19. Blowing bottles. In a machine of the turnover type, the parison mould 4 is carried by a radial arm 3 fixed to a vertical column 2. The neck mould 28 and plunger 35 are carried upon a frame 22, 23, which is rotated about a shaft 21 capable of swinging horizontally around the column 2. The molten metal is placed in the parison mould 4, which is then opened by hand as usual, and the frame 22, 23 is swung around the column 2 until it is above a finishing-mould &c. 47. The fixed bevel-wheel 13 and gearing 18, 19 cause the frame 22, 23 to rotate during this movement until the parison is suspended within the open finishing-mould 47, which is then closed, the bottle being finished as usual. The parison mould &c. are cooled by air from a pipe 69. The halves of the finishing-mould 47 are geared together by toothed sectors 51 and fitted with a counterweight 62, which normally keeps them open. The finishing-mould is closed by a pedal 59.
Patent GB-190908674-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to the Manufacture of Soap.
Inventor: GRANT WILLIAM ALBERT
IPC: C11D13/02
Filed: 1909-04-10
Granted: 1909-11-04
Abstract: 8674. Grant, W.A. April 10. Soaps, apparatus for making.-In a soapmaking plant, the containers 6, 7, 8 for the alkali &c. are suspended from weighing-apparatus and are joined by flexible tubes 13 to a jacketed mixer or converter 3, so that the quantities used may be weighed. An air-compressor 17 is joined to a reservoir 18, which is joined by a pipe 19 to the converter 3 and, if desired, to the containers, so that the saponification in the converter takes place under air pressure. The air also serves to expel the finished product through a port 40. Within the heated converter are two sets of oppositely-rotating mixing-arms 33, 34, one set on a shaft 25, and the other on a frame 31.
Patent GB-190911932-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to the Manufacture and Production of Anthracene Derivatives.
Inventor: NEWTON PHILIP ARTHUR
IPC: C09B1/36
Filed: 1909-05-20
Granted: 1910-03-24
Abstract: 11,932. Newton, P. A., [Farbenfabriken vorm. F. Bayer Co.]. May 20. [Addition to 2702/09.] Samples furnished. Benzoylaminoanthraquinones or derivatives thereof. -Vat dyes are obtained by condensing halogen substituted antbraquinones or derivatives thereof with benzamide or its homologues or derivatives substituted in the benzene nucleus. According to an example 1-bromanthraquinone is condensed with benzamide in presence of nitrobenzene, sodium acetate and copper chloride ; 1 - benzoylamino-4- chloranthraquinone, and the trimetbyl ether of gallamide are also specified as parent materials.
Patent GB-190913457-A (GB)
Title: Cuffs.
Inventor: BEVINGTON EDWIN LESLIE
IPC: A41B7/10
Filed: 1909-06-08
Granted: 1910-05-05
Abstract: 13,457. Bevington, E. L. June 8. Cuffs; cuff protectors. -Relates to cuffs which can be worn over the ordinary cuff like a cuff protector, or which can be used with a shirt sleeve provided with a wrist-band, like a detachable cuff, or which may be permanently attached to a shirt sleeve and used as an ordinary shirt-cuff. The cuff, Fig. 1, comprises two similar sheets of material 14 folded over about a line 21. A lining 17 may be inserted. Strips 20, 20<1> are placed between one or both outer sheets and the lining 17. They are curved to follow the line of fold, and are sewn along lines 21, 21<1>. The cuff is folded about these strips or about the space 22 between the strips. The lower part of the cuff may be provided with a flap similar to the flap 18. The cuff shown in Fig. 5 is provided with a notch 24. The flaps 25, 26 of the cuff shown in Fig. 7 are made of pieces of material separate from the main body of the cuff 19. One flap only 25 may be provided. Owing to the cut-away shape of the flaps, the cuff button does not pass through them. In the form shown in Fig. 16, adapted to cover the entire inner surface of the cuff, a portion 14 is cut away from the inner flap so as to expose the button-hole of the shirt cuff and avoid passing the cuff button through the inner flap. The edges of the cuff may be left open, or may be stitched from 33<b> to 34<b>, and also from 37 to 38 to form a pocket for the shirt cuff. Buttonholes 36 may be provided for use when the cuff is used as a detachable cuff. When the cuff shown in Fig. 1 is required to be used as a fixed shirt cuff, it is cut above or below the line 21, the shirt sleeve is inserted between the two sheets 14, and the three pieces of material are sewn together ; or the cuff may be cut above the line 21 and used as an ordinary detached cuff. The cuff shown in Fig. 16 may be attached to the sleeve by inserting the latter between the two sheets 14 and sewing together.
Patent GB-190918300-A (GB)
Title: Improved Means for Locking Nuts.
Inventor: MUSGRAVE HENRY ARTHUR FITZHERB
IPC: F16B39/10
Filed: 1909-08-09
Granted: 1909-10-07
Abstract: 18,300. Musgrave, H. A. F. Aug. 9. Locking nuts.-A device for locking nuts used on railway rail-joints, vehicles, motors, aeroplanes, &c., comprises a collar a, Fig. 1, which fits over the nut c and has a projection b engaging a notched projection g, Fig. 3, on a washer or plate e placed beneath one or more nuts.
Patent GB-190924190-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Illuminated Electric Signs.
Inventor: MILLER LEONARD
IPC: H01H43/24
Filed: 1909-10-21
Granted: 1910-04-07
Abstract: 24,190. Miller, L. Oct. 21. Electro-magnetic interrupters.-The circuits for the various elements of an illuminated advertising sign are closed successively by a gravity-operated body, which is adapted to travel along an electromagnetically - operated oscillating frame. The frame 2 comprises two vertical plates 3, 4, pivoted at 6 to the base 1 and separated from each other by a longitudinal strip of insulating-material 5, on which are mounted a number of pairs of ter minals 12, 12<a>. Each terminal 12<a> is connected to a conductor 15 extending the length of the strip 5 and connected to a binding-post 17, the other terminals 12 being connected through binding-posts 18, to the various elements of the sign. Each pair of terminals 12, 12<a> is adapted to be bridged by a tubular switch arm 10 which is pivoted on insulated bolts 9 carried by the plated 3, 4. Each switch arm 10 contains a movable ball 11, which is adapted to hold either end of the switch arm in the depressed position, insulating blocks 14 being provided on which the end of the switch arm rests when its position is reversed to break the circuit. The circuits to the various letters or elements of the sign C are closed successively when a ball 20 rolls along the upper edges of the plates 3, 4 and operates the arm 10. The frame 2 is oscillated by two electro-magnets 25, 26, which alternately attract armature blocks 23, 24 mounted on a bracket 21 carried by the plate 4. When the ball 20 reaches one end of the frame, it strikes one of the switch levers 28, 33, thereby breaking the circuit of one electro-magnet and closing the circuit of the other, so that the frame is made to tilt in the reverse direction. The two switch arms are connected by a rod 35. When the ball 20 is at the left end of the frame in Fig. 2 (corresponding to the right end in Fig. 1) the whole sign is illuminated. In order to prevent the letters of the sign from being extinguished in reverse order on the return movement of the ball, a switch 34 is closed when the ball strikes the arm 28. When the frame tilts in the opposite direction, shunt circuits through each element of the sign are closed through a metal plate 37 and spring contacts 40, so that the whole sign remains illuminated until the ball 20 strikes the arm 33 and opens the switch 34, thereby breaking the circuits through all the elements of the sign. Mercury switches.-Fig. 5 shows a modification in which a mercury switch is employed to control the shunt circuits, the circuits through the contacts 45 connected to the binding-posts 18 being closed by mercury when the tilting of the frame 2 depresses the plunger 49. Instead of using individual switches at each end of the frame 2 for controlling the circuits of the electro-magnets, a single switch may be placed near the coils and connected to the rod 35.
Patent GB-190924306-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Continuous Current Motor Generators or Transformers.
IPC: H02K47/12
Filed: 1909-10-22
Granted: 1910-03-03
Abstract: 24,306. Allgemeine Elektricitõts-Ges. Oct. 22, 1908, [Convention date]. Motor - generators and rotary transformers.-A continuous - current motor - generator or rotary transformer, for transforming current of constant potential into current the potential of which decreases with increasing current-strength, has the main field winding of the differentially-wound generator element excited by a current which varies inversely as the generator or load current. In the arrangement shown in Fig. 3, in which the motor field winding b and generator field winding a are connected in series with the generator D, the main field winding e is connected in series with the motor M. The motor and generator may be combined into a single machine as shown in Fig. 5. In this arrangement, the field windings b, e act in the same sense as the armature fields and may be dispensed with. The motor and generator elements may have separate armature windings, as shown in Fig. 7. The motor and generator may be connected in economy connexion, as shown in Fig. 4. With economy connexion, the shunt excitation of the motor may be effected by the line potential or by the motor potential, and the compounding of the motor or the differential compounding of the generator may be effected by the motor current. Reversing-poles and compensating windings may be used, and the machine may be started by shifting the brushes.
Patent GB-190926457-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Lanterns for Vehicles.
Inventor: OHE OTTO VON DER
IPC: F21S13/00
Filed: 1909-11-15
Granted: 1910-02-03
Abstract: 26,457. Ohe, O. von der. Nov. 15. Brackets, lamp.-Relates to that type of carriage lamp which is securely fixed and prevented from turning in its support. The depending part a, Fig. 4, of the lantern is made with a blade spring b which has a nipple c. The supporting-sleeve d has a slot cut in it, as shown in Fig. 3, which receives the spring b, and so prevents rotation of the lamp. The nipple c engages a cut-away part e.
Patent GB-190929208-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Ordnance Elevating Gear.
Filed: 1909-12-14
Granted: 1910-09-01
Abstract: 29,208. Krupp Akt.-Ges., F. March 1, [Convention date]. Field carriages. -Relates to elevating and loading gear in which the operating-devices are carried on opposite sides of the gun carriage, and consists in connecting them through differential gearing so that, when one gear is locked and the other is rotated, a different ratio of transmission is obtained from that when the first gear is rotated and the other is locked. Fig. 2 shows a sectional plan of one arrangement, in which a handwheel f<1> mounted in one side of the trail C operates worm - gearing f<2>, g<1>, attached to a shaft G, which carries an arm g<3> on which a bevel-wheel g<2> is free to rotate. The bevel-wheel g<2> gears with a bevel-wheel a<4> forming part of the elevating- pinion a<3> and with a bevel-wheel c<2> mounted on a hollow shaft E rotated by a worm e<1> from a hand-wheel d<1>. When the hand-wheel d<1> is operated, the shaft G is locked by the wormgear f<2>, g<1>, the wheel a<3> is rotated at the same speed as the shaft E, and the gun and sight are moved on to the target. When the hand-wheel f<1> is rotated, the wheel e<2> being locked, the shaft G and the arm g<3> revolve, and the wheel a<3> is rotated to elevate the gun alone at twice the speed of the shaft G, the sight being moved through an eqaal, but opposite, angle to the gun by gearing g<6>, g<7>. In a modification, the gearing a<4>, g<2>, e<2>, is replaced by epicyclic spurgearing. In a further modification, shown in Figs. 4 and 5, the sight H is carried on the trail and the quick and fine movements are given to the gun by differential - screw gearing. The worm-wheel g<1> in this case is connected to a quick-threaded spindle g<10> engaging with internal threads a<6> on the elevating-pinion a<3>, which has an externally-threaded extension a<8> engaging internal threads on the worm-wheel e<1>, to which is attached a bevel-wheel e<8> connected with the sight. The slow movement is given, to move the gun and sight together, by the hand-wheel d<1>, and the quick movement is given to the gun alone by the hand-wheel f<1>. In each modification, by rotating the hand-wheel f<1>, the gun may be brought quickly from any elevation to the horizontal position for loading without taking the sight off the target. Specification 235/01 is referred to.
Patent GB-191004358-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in the Manufacture of Portland and like Cements.
Inventor: HOLDEN THOMAS
IPC: C04B7/38
Filed: 1910-02-22
Granted: 1911-03-22
Abstract: 4358. Holden, T. Feb. 22. Fixed - chamber apparatus for granular materials. - Apparatus for regulating the amounts of limestone and shale or clay, in a cement mixture, consists of alternately reciprocating slides 11 and a shaft 8. By connecting the upper slide to one or other of the cranks 13 the amount of limestone &c. discharged in relation to the amount of shale &c., which passes through a similar measuring-device, may be varied.
Patent GB-191004431-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Safety Device for Small Arms.
Inventor: MOORE ROBERT ALEXANDER
IPC: F41A17/10
Filed: 1910-02-22
Granted: 1910-09-29
Abstract: 4431. Moore, R. A. Feb. 22. Safety appliances applicable generally. - Relates to devices for preventing the firing of a gun except at a predetermined elevation, and consists in controlling the trigger by a plunger mounted to move radially on a shaft, the plunger carrying means for controlling its movement relative to the shaft. For setting the device for different ranges, the shaft is rotated by means of an indicator wheel and interposed gearing. In the construction shown in Fig. 1, the plunger 25 is mounted on an abutment 23, fixed to the shaft 18, and carries a roller 27 which registers with a notch 23<a> when the gun is held at the correct elevation, but which otherwise locks the mechanism as shown in Fig. 5. A bell-crank lever 12 is interposed between the trigger 10 and the plunger 25. Rotation of the shaft is effected by means of the graduated wheel 22, Fig. 2. The device is put out of action by rotating the shaft until the plunger is disengaged from the bell-crank lever, or until a projection on its foot registers with a notch 12<1>, Fig. 7, in the bell-crank lever.
Patent GB-191007080-A (GB)
Title: School Box for Facilitating Learning to Read, Write and Calculate.
Inventor: WACHTER ERNST
IPC: G09B19/02
Filed: 1910-03-21
Granted: 1910-08-04
Abstract: 7080. Wachter, E., and H³gle, S. March 21. Word - building, number - building, and like strips and apparatus. - Relates to school boxes of the kind in which, in addition to a receptacle for writing - materials, there is provided an abacus adapted to erect itself by spring-pressure and normally held down by a catch, and the box with its lid is utilized as a book-rest or copyholder. The box is further equipped with a frame and tablets for word-building, numberbuilding, &c. Fig. 5 shows a box fitted with a frame f and tablets a under a hinged lid h, and an abacus m and a receptacle l for pencils &c. under a sliding lid k. The tablets a are in the form of spring clips fitting in correspondingly marked spaces on ledges b on a base c and a slide d under the base. Reversible tablets may be used, consisting of a piece bent up at both ends to fit in a slotted support provided with a spring - pressed retaining - bar. The frame f, made of wire carrying one or more rails g for the tablets a, is pivoted on the base c so that it can be turned up into position shown for use.