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Patent GB-882009-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to motion picture cameras having automatic exposure control means
IPC: G03B21/50
Filed: 1960-08-26
Abstract: 882,009. Photo-electric exposure control. KODAK Ltd. Aug. 26, 1960 [Aug. 31, 1959], No. 29471/60. Class 40(3). Means are provided to prevent operation of the electric motor of a cine camera when the prevailing light falls below a preset level. The perimeter at least of the camera diaphragm 14, positioned by a photoelectrically energised galvanometer, is of conducting material and completes, between rollers 36, 38, the circuit of the camera motor 42 when the release 44 is closed. When the diaphragm reaches its minimum light position an insulating segment 34 interrupts the circuit to stop motor 42. Manual override is provided by a switch either at 46 or 48.
Patent GB-173908-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to fish cleaning and dressing machines
IPC: A22C25/00
Filed: 1920-10-19
Abstract: 173,908. Waugh, E. H. Oct. 19, 1920. Tubular-saw machines. -Fishes are held on a rotary carrier 1 and the backbones and strips of flesh surrounding them are removed by a tubular saw 72, which is automatically brought into or removed from the operative position by an adjustable cam which operates the rods 91, 92, the saw being prevented from cutting too deeply by a presser lever 80 having a roller 8 immediately in advance of the saw 72. The saw 72 is secured to a rotary sleeve journaled in a frame 7 and is continuous with a tube 77, of the same internal diameter, through which the backbones &c. are discharged. The sleeve 70 is provided with bevel gearing 73, and is pivoted on and derives motion from a rotary sleeve 74 through which passes a shaft 9, secured to the frame 7 and oscillated by the rods 91, 92; by which means the saw 72 is oscillated about the shaft 9 into and out of operation. The presser lever 8 is pivoted to the frame 7 and is provided with screw-adjusting mechanism 85. Saws 72 and tubes 77 of varying diameters may be used.
Patent GB-838445-A (GB)
Title: Electric switching apparatus for controlling machines
IPC: G09F11/26
Filed: 1956-09-28
Abstract: 838,445. Stencil switches. DUNLOP RUBBER CO. Ltd. Sept. 28, 1956 [Oct. 21, 1955], No. 29624/56. Addition to 814,606. Class 38 (5). To indicate the particular operation being carried out at any moment by the apparatus of the parent Specification, visually indicating apparatus is provided comprising an endless band 1 driven step-by-step by rollers 4 at a speed proportional to the control band of the parent apparatus, the band 1 being translucent and having indications marked thereon at positions corresponding to the slots in the control band. The indications describe the particular operation being performed and the relevant indication at any moment is illuminated by a lamp 13 through a slot 16 in a guiding surface 15 and is viewed through a ground-glass screen 9.
Patent GB-1378547-A (GB)
Title: Straining device
IPC: B01D29/62
Filed: 1972-06-26
Abstract: 1378547 Pulp screening machine YHTYNEET PAPERITEHTAAT OY 26 June 1972 [3 Feb 1972] 29804/72 Heading B1D A screening machine for paper pulp comprises an inward-flow cylindrical screen 1 whose outer surface is cleaned by at least one blade 2 rotating about the screen axis, the blade having a hollow cross-section as shown so that rejected pulp held by the screen is carried into the interior space 3 of the blade and alongsaid space to a rejects discharge zone (6) at the top of the screen. Inlet (11) delivers pulp tangentially into the housing (Fig. I, not shown). Several concentric screens could be arranged each with their own blades.
Patent GB-227254-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to electric lamp-holders
IPC: F21V17/06
Filed: 1923-11-28
Abstract: 227,254. Barraclough, F. Nov. 28, 1923. Mounting shades directly on rods or tubes.- In " Home-Office " lamp-holders, the skirt E of insulating material carries a metal ring F which screws on to an externally-threaded metal sleeve A, attached to the composition body B of the holder, and the lamp shade J is nipped between the skirt E and the shoulder K of the holder body.
Patent GB-959198-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to cinematograph cameras, projectors and like apparatus
Inventor: TOLE DONALD KENNETH
IPC: G03B19/18
Filed: 1959-09-22
Abstract: 959,198. Cinematographic apparatus. SPECTO Ltd. Aug. 31, 1960 [Sept. 22,1959], No. 30012/60. Divided out of 959,197. Heading G2E. In cinematographic apparatus, the film advance mechanism is effected under the control of current impulses which are governed by two intermittently-operated current-passing devices, the rate of operation of one of said devices being a multiple of the rate of operation of the other. Fig. 1 shows a camera having an objective 11 and an additional housing 12 for a cathode-ray tube the image on which is photographed simultaneously with the main object with the aid of a beam combining element 14. The electric motor 20 drives, via pinions 21, 22, an overload slipping clutch 23 and further pinions 24, 25, a one-revolution clutch 26 which may be coupled against disengaging spring-loading 31 to the shaft 30 by an electric pulse which, as explained below, is applied at predetermined intervals to a solenoid 32. The armature 33 of the latter is linked via members 34, 35, 36 to the one revolution clutch, thus rotating drive shaft 30 with a speed reduction factor of 15. The pulses to the solenoid are controlled by a pair of series-linked switching drums 43, 50 which are of insulating material and carry a conducting strip for bridging, respectively, the pairs of conducting strips 45, 52 once each revolution. The drums are driven from the gear train at speeds on one revolution per second and one revolution per 15 seconds, respectively, so that the make-and-break is carried out rapidly once every fifteen seconds.
Patent GB-227582-A (GB)
Title: Improvements appertaining to looms for weaving carpets and like fabrics
IPC: D03D39/00
Filed: 1923-11-29
Abstract: 227,582. Crabtree, D., and Crabtree, T. H. Nov. 29, 1923. Picking-motions. - In weaving carpets with chenille or fur weft the picking is controlled by either of two cams a, b, Fig. 3, which are of different formation and operate respective levers b, b<1>, Figs. 1 and 3. By means of a pin w, either one or the other of these levers can be connected to a rod c, which operates lever-mechanism d, m, n, p, f<1>, f. The levers f, f<1> operate straps g, g<1> fastened to drums h, h<1>. These drums are thus turned so that cams 2 thereon acting on bowls s on picking catches t, t<1> allow or prevent these catches from being operated by hooked members q, q<1>, which effect the picking. The order of picking varies according to which lever b or b<1> is connected to the rod c. The fur weft carrier C, Fig. 7, is operated bv means of devices such as are described in Specification 213,369, [Class 142 (ii), Looms, Kinds &c.] from lever mechanism. 14, 13, 12, 11, 8 including a rod 8. This rod can be connected by a detachable pin 10 to either of two levers x<1>, y<1> which are operated by respective cams x, y. The cams x, y are of different forms and accordingly as the rod 8 is operated from the lever x<1> or the lever y' the order of operating the fur weft carrier is varied. For example this carrier can be operated at each alternate pick of the ordinary weft to produce a Chenille Axminster reversible fabric, or it can be operated at each third, or fourth pick to produce a " hard back " fabric.
Patent GB-885201-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to pedestals for colliery corves or mine cars
IPC: B61F17/32
Filed: 1956-10-02
Abstract: 885,201. Vehicle-axle bearings. COLLINS, W. C., and COOK & SONS (SHEFFIELD) Ltd., WILLIAM. Jan. 2, 1958 [Oct. 2, 1956], No. 30054/56. Class 12 (1). A pedestal for a colliery corve has grease reservoirs formed by walls 3 which curve downwardly and inwardly to points approximately level with the axis of the axle a so that a large area of the axle is directly exposed to the main body of lubricant. A bearing pad 7 is secured in position by a central stud 9 and nut 8. A spectacle 5 is retained by a split pin 6. In a modification, a bearing pad 27, having downwardly converging sides and being secured to a block 29, is adapted to slide into correspondingly shaped recesses in the pedestal and is retained therein by the ends of split pins 26 which support the spectacle 5. An alternative pad arrangement consists of a pad 27x, Fig. 9, having inclined sides, which is retained in its housing by pads 34 on a bar 32. The spectacle may be of flat rectangular-sectioned metal.
Patent GB-826301-A (GB)
Title: Improved collapsible floating containers for liquids
Inventor: ASHTON HERBERT MARTIN
IPC: B63B35/28
Filed: 1957-09-25
Abstract: 826,301. Collapsible barges. ESSO RESEARCH & ENGINEERING CO. July 14, 1958 [Sept. 25, 1957(2)], Nos. 30075 /57 and 30076/57. Class 113. A buoyant collapsible container 1 for a liquid of density less than water has a closed collapsible bag fixed to the skin of the container and filled with water to inhibit rolling. The bag may be affixed to the outside of the container ; in Fig. 3, the bag 3 is affixed internally ; and in Fig. 4, the bag 5 extends the length of the container. Straight rigid tubes or bars 7 attached to the outside of the container by attachments 8, 9 inhibit " snaking " of the container when being towed. The outside of the container may be supported by a net of manila or other material.
Patent GB-1075826-A (GB)
Title: Process for surface finishing of metal
Inventor: BREYER NORMAN NATHAN
IPC: B23D79/00
Filed: 1964-07-29
Abstract: 1,075,826. Broaching; drawing; rolling. LASALLE STEEL CO. July 29, 1964, No. 30136/64. Headings B3L, B3M and B3P. A method of finishing a bar comprises passing the bar through a lead die 14, a shaving tool 10 and a finishing die 12, the reduction in the finishing die being at least 4%. One or both of the dies may be extrusion dies or roller dies instead of draw dies. A lubricant as described in Specification 844,178, was used at 900 p.s.i. with a bar speed of 190 ft./min. with reduction varying from 1.3 to 6.5%. The reduction in the lead die may be 3 to 15%.
Patent GB-958504-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to wall constructions for furnaces or the like
IPC: F23M5/06
Filed: 1960-09-01
Abstract: 958,504. Furnace wall bracings; suspended furnace roofs. MAERZ OFENBAU A.G. Sept. 1, 1960 [Sept. 3, 1959], No. 30232/60. Heading F4B. Reinforcement members 20 welded to the web of the I-section carrier beams 19 supporting the refractory brickwork of a furnace wall extend below the beam 19 and the forked ends of members 20 rest on support rods 12 on the hearth reinforcements 5. The upper ends of the members 20 carry bearing surfaces 9 cooperating with bearing surfaces 13 on the furnace girders 10. The furnace roof is spaced from the upper end of the wall to form an expansion joint 6 parallel with the bearing surfaces 9, 13, and on undue expansion the brickwork the wall can pivot about the support rods 12, and lift off them, the surface 19 sliding over the surface 13. The wall may be curved inwardly, or upright, and the members 20 may be formed in sections, plates between the sections carrying part of the weight of the brickwork. Each carrier beam 19 supports four rows of bricks frcm hangers 18, each engaging two metal-cased unbaked bricks, Fig. 6, and the passages 22 between the webs of the carrier beams 19 and the outer surface of the brickwork are supplied with coolant, which escapes over the outer surface of the brickwork between the flanges of the bearers and the bricks. The reinforcement members 20 act as cooling fins, and similar reinforcing and cooling fins are welded to the roof carrier bearers, which also form coolant passages. The supporting assemblies of adjacent sections of the furnace may be linked by cross-members at the top and bottom, Fig. 3, not shown.
Patent GB-1384616-A (GB)
Title: Push-button electric switches
IPC: H01H1/029
Filed: 1972-06-28
Abstract: 1384616 Retractive switches T ARVAI 28 June 1972 [27 July 1971] 30261/72 Heading H1N A retractive push-button switch comprises an electrically conductive elastomeric layer 3 carried by one end of a push-button 2 which co-operates with conductive bodies, e.g. balls 7, seated in an insulating plate 5, the bodies 7 contacting an array of conductors, e.g. printed circuit conductors, mounted on a board 4 beneath plate 5 so that when the push-button 2 is depressed the elastomeric layer 3 bridges the bodies 7 and completes a circuit between conductors of the array. Above each body 7 a recess 2b is provided in the push-button 2 so that the elastomeric layer 3 can conform to the shape of the body 7 when the push-button 2 is depressed. A plurality of seats are provided in the plate 5, at least two containing conductive balls, e.g. silvered or gilded steel balls, and a third an insulating, e.g. glass ball. The seats are arranged to coincide with the conductors of the array. One conductive ball 7 may be smaller than the rest so that it is contacted after the other ball. An air tight film or fabric 8 may be provided above a keyboard composed of the switches, and it may be transparent or provided with legends to indicate the functions of the switches.
Patent GB-977091-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to a disposable gas operated cigarette lighter
IPC: F23Q2/16
Filed: 1962-08-07
Abstract: 977,091. Liquefied gas fuelled lighters. MERIDIAN PRODUCTS (BERMUDA) Ltd. Aug. 7, 1962 [Aug. 17, 1961], No. 30275/62. Heading F4F. A cigarette lighter using liquefied gas comprises a transparent moulded plastic body 23 having a fuel chamber 21, a manually-operated valve 39 adapted to close the discharge end of a passageway 27 in the body and a choke 30 controlling the flow of fuel to the passage. The choke comprises a disc of rubber having a thread 31 extending therethrough. The fuel is fed to the underside of the choke 30 by a polythene tube 32 extending to the bottom of the fuel chamber. The valve 39 comprises an insert 33 having a flexible diaphragm 34 which seats on a raised boss 29 at the outlet of the passageway 27 and which has openings 36 for the fuel. The valve 39 is rotatable and slidable within a well 26 in the body and has a cylindrical stem portion adapted to fit into the insert 33 and abut the diaphragm 34. Rotation of an operating lever 54 integral with the valve 39 from a position at the front of the lighter to a position at the side of the lighter causes the diaphragm 34 to close the passageway 27 through cam surfaces 46, 47 on the valve 39 coacting with cam surfaces 50 on a coverpiece 57 and cam surfaces on the body 23. The lever 54 extends through an arcuate slot 53 formed between the upper surface of the body 23 and the lower surface of the coverpiece 57. The cover-piece is secured to the body by a pin 61 and a pin 60 which also forms the spindle of a flint wheel 59. A flint 64 and its spring 65 are located in aligned openings 62, 63 in the cover 57 and the body 23. A fuel loading passageway 66 in the body 23 is closed by a resilient sealing plug 68 urged by a spring 69. A slot 70 extending along one wall of the passageway permits fuel to be admitted. Alternatively, the fuel may be admitted under refrigeration before the bottom of the body 23 is inserted. The bottom is joined to the body by a suitable solvent or cement and the mating surfaces are N-shaped to provide a large contacting surface (Fig. 1, not shown).
Patent GB-231557-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in air pistols, air guns or the like
IPC: F41B11/646
Filed: 1923-12-01
Abstract: 231,557. Clarke, F., Johnstone, D. V., and Fearn, J. W. Dec. 1, 1923. Pneumatic; small - arms combined with other articles. -The piston of an air gun or pistol is cocked by screwlike or cam mechanism. In the air pistol shown, a rotatable sleeve 3 surrounding the depending cylinder 1 has studs 4 projecting through helical slots 2 in the cylinder into engagement with a shoulder 7 on the piston 5. When the sleeve is rotated, it slides down the cylinder and depresses the piston until the latter is enga.ged by the sear 8. The sleeve is then pushed up so as not to obstruct the stroke of the piston. The invention may be applied to a walking-stick air gun.
Patent GB-1112591-A (GB)
Title: Scaffolding bosshead clamp
IPC: E04G7/14
Filed: 1964-07-31
Abstract: 1,112,591. Bosshead clamps. B. W. HARRISON. 12 July, 1965 ,[31 July, 1964], No. 30346/ 64. Heading E2B. A bosshead clamp having two open channels 1, 2 wherein a pair of laboratory scaffolding members can be secured along perpendicular axes is characterised in that respective securing means for the channels are arranged to apply securing forces to the scaffolding members along directions which converge at an acute angle so as to be applicable both from the same side of the clamp. In the embodiment shown the securing means are thumbscrews 7 acting along coplanar axes and each thumbscrew acts towards the apex of a V- shaped portion of one of the channels 1, 2. In a second embodiment the thumbscrews act along skew axes. In both these embodiments the channels are formed in a one piece structure. In other embodiments the thumbscrews are replaced by hexagonal-headed bolts or allen screws.
Patent GB-628482-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to measuring instruments
IPC: G01S1/30
Filed: 1946-10-11
Abstract: 628,482. Calculating-apparatus. DECCA RECORD CO., Ltd., and HUNTLEY, W. P. Oct. 11, 1946, No. 30443. [Class 106 (i)] A measuring-instrument for ascertaining the position or location of a point between points or lines on a chart comprises a scale, a support for said scale, a pivotal mounting for a pointer on said support so mounted as to be movable towards and away from said scale, and means on said support for locating said scale symmetrically with relation to said lines, the said pointer being arranged to extend on either side of the pivotal mounting so that one end may traverse said scale while the other end may be brought opposite said location. The device is applicable to navigating systems having charts with sets of hyperbolic lines as described in Specification 620,479, [Group XL (c)]. As shown in Fig. 1, an arcuate scale 10 has pivot pins 13 supporting slotted arms 12 the free ends of which are formed with pointers 16. The slots are formed with toothed racks 15 that mesh with a pinion 17 on a hollow spindle 18, Fig. 2, to which is secured a manipulating knob 26, the whole being adjustably retained by washers 19, 21 and a clamping member 23, 25, 28 on the arms 12. A diametricallyextending hole in the member 23 slidably supports a pointer 30, the upper end of which is bifurcated to co-operate with both sides of the scale 10. In use the device is adjusted with the pointers 16 on adjacent hyperbolic lines along a line passing through the position to be determined. The end 33 of the pointer 30 is set to this position and read off on the scale 10. In a modified form, Fig. 3, the arcuate scale 35 is formed on a transparent sheet 34 having a symmetrically-arranged radial slot 36 and with a straight scale 37 at right angles to the slot. A pivot member 39 is adjustably mounted in the slot and carries a pointer 38 for co-operation with both scales.
Patent GB-239092-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in the construction of reinforced concrete slab walls
IPC: E04B2/02
Filed: 1924-12-18
Abstract: 239,092. Underdown, D. G. Dec. 18, 1924. Slabs. - Reinforced-concrete wall slabs A are provided with flanges A<5> and recesses A<3> for concrete columns to be cast in situ. The flanges are shaped to leave a gap which is closed by a batten B to which the inner lathing is secured.
Patent GB-918905-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to furniture underframes
IPC: A47B13/04
Filed: 1961-08-24
Abstract: 918,905. Seats. ABRAMOVITZ, G. G. Aug. 24, 1961 [Aug. 25, 1960], No. 30560/61. Class 52 (2). A chair has a body part 11 carried on a support 12 constituted by two side pieces 14 and a cross rail 15, each piece 14 comprising an upright 16 integral with an armpiece 17 and legs 18. The cross rail 15 has a tapered lug at each end which joins tightly into a boss 21 formed integrally with each side piece at the junction of parts 16, 18 but the rail 15 is capable of torsional movement to accommodate unevenness of flow surface.
Patent GB-941126-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to curable epoxy resin compositions
IPC: C08G59/32
Filed: 1961-08-25
Abstract: 941,126. Co-polymers from ethylenically unsaturated diepoxy diesters. UNION CARBIDE CORPORATION. Aug. 25, 1961 [Oct. 5, 1960], No. 30642/61. Headings C3B and C3P. A curable, polymerizable composition comprises (a) an ethylenically unsaturated diepoxy diester of the formula:- where either each R, individually, is a vicinal epoxy cycloalkyl radical in which the vicinal epoxy group is at least one C removed from its ester group, a vicinal epoxy cycloalkyl alkyl radical, a 3-oxatricyclo [3.2.1.0<SP>2,4</SP>] oct-6-yl radical, a 3-oxatricyclo [3.2.1.0<SP>2,4</SP>] oct-6-yl alkyl radical, a 4-oxatetracyclo-[6.2.1.0<SP>2,7</SP>0<SP>3,5</SP>] undec- 9-yl radical, or a 4-oxatetracyclo-[6.2.1.0<SP>2,7</SP>.0<SP>3,5</SP>] undec-9-yl alkyl radical, or one of said Rs is as above and the other is a vicinal epoxy alkyl radical in which the vicinal epoxy group is at least one C removed from its ester group, and X is such that the ester is a maleate fumarate or itaconate, and (b) a monomeric ethylenically unsaturated compound which contains at least one polymerizable ethylenic group and which does not contain any other functional groups which are reactive with vicinal epoxy groups; in such amount as to provide 0À1-3 ethylenic groups of (b) per ethylenic group of (a). Long lists of suitable compounds are given, and also of suitable acidic catalysts, free radical peroxy generators, metallic activators and polyols which may be added. The following compounds are used in the examples:-(a) bis(6-methyl-3,4- epoxy cyclohexyl methyl) maleate, fumarate, and itaconate, bis(3-oxatricyclo [3.2.1.0<SP>2,4</SP>] oct-6-yl methyl) maleate, bis(2,3-epoxycyclopentyl) maleate and fumarate, bis(4-oxatetracyclo-[6.2.1.0<SP>2,7</SP> 0<SP>3,</SP> <SP>5</SP>]-undec-8-yl methyl) maleate, and bis(4- oxatetracyclo [6,2,1,0<SP>2,7</SP>.0<SP>3,5</SP>]-undec-8-yl methyl) itaconate; (b) styrene, vinyl acetate, propionate and benzoate, dialkyl phthalate, allyl 2-ethyl hexanoate methyl acrylate, methacrylate and carbonate, and methyl methacrylate. Other additives specified in the examples are:-BF 3 - piperidine, with or without 1,2,6-hexane triol, BF 3-ethylamine, and phosphoric acid.
Patent GB-1120609-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in land mines
IPC: E04G25/08
Filed: 1966-05-19
Abstract: 1,120,609. Land-mines. INDUSTRIE WERKE KARLSRUHE A.G. 19 May, 1966 [19 June, 1965[, No. 30661/67. Divided out of 1,120,608. Heading F3A. A land-mine as in Specification 1,120,608. The claims are directed towards the internal stiffening member 1b and the sealing diaphragm la.