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Patent Number Date Title Name City Description
GB-190,200,341 Dec. 11, 1902 Improvements in screw thread milling machines James Archdale Birmingham, England
GB-190,420,923 Jul. 27, 1905 Lathe bed and saddle Fred Coxon Birmingham, England
GB-191,215,639 Jul. 03, 1913 Improvements relating to machines for performing cutting, grinding, and like operations on metals and other materials Fred Coxon Birmingham, England "This invention relates, more especially to machine tools such as lathes and milling machines... In semi-automatic machines of this character the work or tool is rapidly advanced by the operator to the cutting position and the automatic feed is then put into action. If performed carelessly the operated is attended with the risk of bringing the work into violent contact with the tool or the like, and in consequence tools are frequently damaged from this cause. The object of the present invention is to provide simple and reliable means for automatically bringing the automatic feed into action at a predetermined position so that any risk of the operator accidentally overrunning such position is eliminated..."
GB-191,225,611 Jul. 17, 1913 Improvements relating to drilling and boring machines Fred Coxon Birmingham, England "The variable speed and reversing mechanism d of a radial-arm machine is mounted on the top of the column, and the reversing-mechanism is controlled from the drill saddle by a handle n and vertical shaft m bevelgeared to an horizontal shaft l."
GB-191,506,150 Aug. 19, 1915 Improvements relating to drilling machines Fred Coxon Birmingham, England
GB-110,633 Nov. 01, 1917 Improvements relating to radial arm drilling machines Fred Coxon Birmingham, England
GB-117,174 Jul. 11, 1918 Improvements relating to radial arm drilling machines Joseph Jewsbury Birmingham, England
GB-121,037 Dec. 05, 1918 Improvements relating to radial arm drilling machines Joseph Jewsbury Birmingham, England
1,354,488 Oct. 05, 1920 Radial-arm drilling-machine Joseph Jewsbury Birmingham, England
GB-166,844 Jul. 28, 1921 Improvements relating to radial arm drilling machines Joseph Jewsbury Birmingham, England
GB-187,836 Nov. 02, 1922 Improvements relating to radial arm drilling machines Joseph Jewsbury Birmingham, England
GB-207,342 Nov. 29, 1923 Improvements relating to means for producing non-circular apertures in cylindrical and other metal bodies Joseph Jewsbury Birmingham, England "Primarily the object of this invention is to provide improved means for producing automatically non-circular ports, and especially quadrilateral or triangular ports, in cylindrical valves or other lines, though it is applicable to a variety of like uses..."
GB-288,754 Apr. 19, 1928 Improvements relating to fluid operated sliding mechanisms Isaac Henry Wright Birmingham, England
GB-296,292 Aug. 30, 1928 Improvements relating to milling and like machines or machine tools Isaac Henry Wright Birmingham, England
GB-343,367 Feb. 19, 1931 Improvements relating to hydraulically operated drilling and other machines Joseph Jewsbury Birmingham, England
GB-346,558 Apr. 16, 1931 Improvements relating to radial arm drilling machines Joseph Jewsbury Birmingham, England
GB-346,971 Apr. 23, 1931 Improvements relating to drilling machines Joseph Jewsbury Birmingham, England
GB-364,233 Jan. 07, 1932 Improvements relating to fluid operated mechanisms for machine tools or other purposes Joseph Jewsbury Birmingham, England
    Improvements relating to fluid operated mechanisms for machine tools or other purposes Isaac Henry Wright Birmingham, England  
GB-364,357 Jan. 07, 1932 Improvements relating to fluid operated metal cutting and like machine tools Isaac Henry Wright Birmingham, England
GB-369,364 Mar. 24, 1932 Improvements relating to the control of fluid operated apparatus Joseph Jewsbury Birmingham, England
GB-373,732 Jun. 02, 1932 Improvements relating to fluid operated metal or other cutting, grinding and like machines Isaac Henry Wright Birmingham, England
GB-375,007 Jun. 23, 1932 Improvements relating to clutches for drilling machines Joseph Jewsbury Birmingham, England
GB-376,487 Jul. 14, 1932 Improvements relating to radial arm drilling machines Joseph Jewsbury Birmingham, England
GB-382,791 Nov. 03, 1932 Improvements relating to the control of fluid operated apparatus Joseph Jewsbury Birmingham, England
GB-395,463 Jul. 20, 1933 Improvements relating to radial arm drilling machines Joseph Jewsbury Birmingham, England
GB-400,724 Nov. 02, 1933 Improvements relating to gear pumps Joseph Jewsbury Birmingham, England
GB-410,580 May. 24, 1934 Improvements relating to actuating mechanism for variable speed gears Joseph Jewsbury Birmingham, England
GB-414,456 Aug. 09, 1934 Improvements relating to variable speed mechanisms Isaac Henry Wright Birmingham, England
GB-414,468 Aug. 09, 1934 Improvements relating to clutches Joseph Jewsbury Birmingham, England
GB-436,810 Oct. 18, 1935 Improvements relating to radial arm drilling machines Joseph Jewsbury Birmingham, England Improvements to patent 395,463, specifically for the arm elevating and locking mechanisms.
GB-451,526 Aug. 07, 1936 Improvements relating to the lubrication of vertical machinery spindles Joseph Jewsbury Birmingham, England
GB-452,165 Aug. 18, 1936 Improvements relating to hydraulically operated machine tools Fritz Wegerdt Chemnitz, Germany
GB-457,517 Nov. 30, 1936 Improvements relating to screw tapping machines Joseph Jewsbury Birmingham, England
    Improvements relating to screw tapping machines Benjamin Laurence Pierce Birmingham, England  
GB-463,756 Apr. 06, 1937 Improvements relating to tool extractors for drilling and other like machine tools George Feather Worcester, England
GB-467,767 Jun. 23, 1937 Improvements relating to vertical drilling machines George Feather Worcester, England
GB-468,009 Jun. 28, 1937 Improvements relating to feed mechanisms for drilling machines George Feather Worcester, England
GB-469,511 Jul. 27, 1937 Improvements relating to radial arm drilling machines George Feather Worcester, England
GB-474,176 Oct. 27, 1937 Improvements relating to milling machines Isaac Henry Wright Birmingham, England
GB-474,531 Nov. 03, 1937 Improvements relating to radial arm drilling machines George Feather Worcester, England
GB-480,132 Feb. 17, 1938 Improvements relating to means for actuating the slides of metal cutting and like machine tools Isaac Henry Wright Birmingham, England
GB-492,208 Sep. 16, 1938 Improvements relating to radial arm drilling machines Joseph Jewsbury Birmingham, England
GB-495,901 Nov. 22, 1938 Means for eliminating back-lash in the feed screws of machine tools Isaac Henry Wright Birmingham, England
GB-496,591 Dec. 02, 1938 Improvements relating to means for reversing the movements of hydraulically operated machine tool slides Isaac Henry Wright Birmingham, England
GB-515,599 Dec. 08, 1939 Improvements relating to radial-arm drilling machines Joseph Jewsbury Birmingham, England
GB-517,106 Jan. 19, 1940 Improvements relating to screw-thread milling machines Fred Archdale Birmingham, England
GB-529,970 Dec. 02, 1940 Improvements relating to power transmitting mechanisms Geoffrey Russen Wilson Birmingham, England
GB-530,922 Dec. 24, 1940 Improvements relating to contour forming machines Isaac Henry Wright Birmingham, England
GB-548,957 Oct. 30, 1942 Improvements relating to backlash eliminators for machine tools Isaac Henry Wright Birmingham, England
GB-596,022 Dec. 24, 1947 Improvements relating to traversing mechanisms for the work tables of milling, drilling, and like machine tools Wilfred Wright Birmingham, England
GB-616,462 Jan. 21, 1949 Improvements relating to ratchet-type mechanisms Geoffrey Russen Wilson Birmingham, England
GB-619,540 Mar. 10, 1949 Improvements relating to clutches Peter John Wilson Birmingham, England
GB-627,231 Aug. 03, 1949 Improvements relating to rams for hydraulic mechanisms Peter John Wilson Birmingham, England
GB-652,511 Apr. 25, 1951 Controlling means for variable speed power transmission mechanisms Geoffrey Russen Wilson Birmingham, England
GB-720,494 Dec. 22, 1954 Multi-tool-head machine tools with rectilinearly movable work-holding platens Wilfred Wright Worcester, England
    Multi-tool-head machine tools with rectilinearly movable work-holding platens Arthur Joseph Allen Hanbury Park, England  
GB-771,790 Apr. 03, 1957 Machine tools having platen transfer means Arthur Joseph Allen Hanbury Park, England
GB-856,717 Dec. 21, 1960 Drilling machines and the like Frederick Charles Raine Droitwich, England "In the manufacture of condenser tube (i.e., vacuum tube) plates, flanges, and the like it is often required to form a plurality of holes or recesses in the work-piece at predetermined spacing and dispositions, and the object of the present invention is to provide means forming part of a machine, or for an attachment to a machine whereby these holes or recesses may be formed without the necessity for previously marking the position of the holes or recesses, and without the use of jigs or templates..."
2,992,570 Jul. 18, 1961 Drilling machines and the like Frederick Charles Raine Droitwich, England
CA-636,544 Feb. 13, 1962 Drilling machines and the like Frederick Charles Raine Droitwich, England
GB-934,075 Aug. 14, 1963 A tool for performing a finishing operation on a bore surface in a metal workpiece Douglas Ernest Graham Worcester, England "A rolling or burnishing tool in accordance with the present invention comprises a perforated cylindrical cage in which is contained a quantity of loose hard balls having a diameter greater than the diameter of the perforations in the cage, so that some at least of the balls can partially project through said perforations..."
GB-1,001,046 Aug. 11, 1965 Broken tool detection in machine tools Aubrey Hudson White Worcester, England This broken-tool detector uses the tool "to complete a magnetic coupling between a pair of coils of which one is in an a.c. bridge circuit, so that when the tool is broken the coupling is not completed and the bridge circuit is unbalanced..."
GB-1,042,779 Sep. 14, 1966 Nut assemblies Norman Middlemiss Worcester, England
GB-1,048,595 Nov. 16, 1966 Change-speed power transmission mechanisms Charles James Dayus Worcester, England
GB-1,073,431 Jun. 28, 1967 Control means for machine tools Aubrey Hudson White Worcester, England This "control means" uses a bridge circuit similar to that of patent 1,001,046, which is for broken-tool detection. In this patent, the bridge circuit is used to detect when a tool or part of the machine reaches a given position. An example is given of detecting when a spindle a multi-spindle drilling machine has drilled to the desired depth. See also patent 1,073,432.
GB-1,073,432 Jun. 28, 1967 Detector device for a static switch Aubrey Hudson White Worcester, England This patent is a companion to patent 1,073,431.
CA-795,513 Oct. 01, 1968 Setting of cutting tools Arthur Joseph Allen Hanbury Park, England See also US patent 3,504,442.
3,412,633 Nov. 26, 1968 Indexing mechanism Eric John Huntley Malvern Link, England
GB-1,139,217 Jan. 08, 1969 Locking nuts Kenneth William Haynes Worcester, England
    Locking nuts George Brodie Grandison Worcester, England  
CA-815,805 Jun. 24, 1969 Indexing mechanism Eric John Huntley Malvern Link, England See also US patent 3,412,633.
GB-1,162,113 Aug. 20, 1969 Induction hardening of gear teeth Aubrey Hudson White Worcester, England
GB-1,186,371 Apr. 02, 1970 Adjustable current sensitive relay Aubrey Hudson White Worcester, England
3,504,442 Apr. 07, 1970 Setting of cutting tools Arthur Joseph Allen Hanbury Park, England
GB-1,189,650 Apr. 29, 1970 Adjustable current sensitive relay Aubrey Hudson White Worcester, England
GB-1,217,317 Dec. 31, 1970 Gun reaming tool Alan Crockett Worcester, England
    Gun reaming tool Donald Denniss Tilt Worcester, England