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Patent GB-785213-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to garment hangers
IPC: A47G25/14
Filed: 1954-05-29
Abstract: 785,213. Garment hangers. ELSTON, E. P. May 27, 1955 [May 29, 1954], No. 15954/54. Class 52(5) The central part 6 of the rod-like yoke of a garment hanger moulded from synthetic plastic material is curved downwardly so that it is concealed within the garment. As shown in Fig. 2, the shoulder straps of low-necked dresses are received in further hooked parts 9. The hanger of Fig. 3 is for skirts, the elastic waist band of which is received in curved parts 11. A yoke for lingerie has end hooks to prevent the garment slipping off.
Patent GB-1031196-A (GB)
Title: Ferrosilicon as a deoxidizing, inoculating and/or alloying agent
IPC: C21C7/06
Filed: 1963-04-23
Abstract: A deoxidizing, inocculating, slag reducing and/or alloying ferrosilicon additive for steel or cast iron consists of granulated ferrosilicon particles containing 25-90% silicon having a smooth, round, preferably globular, surface hardened by chilling. The particles may be produced from a melt by atomization, spraying or granulating on a disc or groove, or ground ferrosilicon may be given the appropriate surface by superficial heating followed by chilling.
Patent GB-918249-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to a deck structure for ships
Inventor: DOWNHAM RALPH
IPC: B63B25/20
Filed: 1960-05-06
Abstract: 918,249. Car ferries. CAMMELL LAIRD & CO. (SHIPBUILDERS & ENGINEERS) Ltd. Feb. 17, 1961 [May 6, 1960], No. 16035/60. Class 113. In a car ferry, three main decks 11, 12, 13 and three aft decks 18, 19, 20, are provided for stowage, the decks communicating with one another by a series of ramps, 24, 26, 28 on the starboard side, and 25, 27 to port. Access to the ship is provided in each side, in the form of gates 15, 16, 21, 22, 23. The dividing walls 30 between the port and starboard ramps are angled with respect to the longitudinal centre line of the ferry so that the upper end of each ramp is wider than its lower end. The dividing walls may contain staircases. The arrowed chain lines on Fig. 6 show the paths of cars descending the ramps. Fig. 8 shows another embodiment of the invention, in which each aft deck 19 communicates with its corresponding main deck 12 by ramps 54, 55 sloping downwardly and forwardly and adjacent to the ship's sides, and the said forward deck 12 communicates with the next lower aft deck by inner ramps 52, 53 sloping downwardly and rearwardly. In Fig. 8 the arrowed chain line passing over ramp 55 indicates the downward path of cars, and that passing over ramp 54 indicates the upward path.
Patent GB-568225-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in taper plug and socket joints
IPC: F16B7/02
Filed: 1943-10-01
Abstract: 568,225. Sockets. BEAVON, A. W. Oct. 1, 1943, No. 16096. [Class 83 (iii)] [Also in Group XXVIII] Taper sockets for mounting drills, cutter bars and milling-cutters in spindles, have tight engagement without slip secured by a pin 3 passing transversely through the socket and engaging a groove 4 in the shank or plug 5. The axis of the pin at the point of tangency is at a slightly less radius from the axis of the shank than that of the conical surface at this point. A flat 6 enables the shank to be inserted by an axial movement followed by a part turn. In modifications, the helical groove is formed in a cylindrical extension of the taper shank and more than one pin may be employed. Taper shanks with broken tangs may be salvaged by providing a pin-and-groove connection.
Patent GB-497025-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to mercurial barometers
IPC: G01L7/18
Filed: 1937-06-10
Abstract: 497,025. Barometers. ABRAHAM, R. M. June 10, 1937, No. 16172. [Class 106 (ii)] In an instrument of the Fortin type, the upper part of the cistern A is formed of metal and is provided with a laterally extending pocket G in which is disposed the pointed projection H the pocket having apertures H<1>, H<2> for the viewing objective H<5> and for admission of light respectively, and communicating with the main part of the cistern at levels above and below the fiduciary point by passages G<2>, G<3> of small cross-section. The mercury can be lowered sufficiently to empty the pocket so that when it is again raised any scum will be removed as it passes through the lower passage and a clear surface obtained to bring in contact with the pin H forming the fiduciary point. The barometer tube B enters the cistern through a ball joint. Secured to the lower end of the cistern is a tubular housing D closed by a cap D<1> through a screw-threaded boss in which passes the adjusting screw E engaging a thrust member E2 secured to the wash leather or like flexible bag F connected to the part A by a screwed collar F<1> to which the upper end of the bag is secured.
Patent GB-106771-A (GB)
Title: A Curbless Horse Bit.
Inventor: WILTON JOHN STAINES
IPC: B68B1/06
Filed: 1916-11-13
Abstract: 106,771. Wilton, J. S. Nov. 13, 1916. Bits.-The object is to produce a riding-bit by the use of which a leverage is set up on the mouthpiece somewhat similar to that of a curb-bit, but without the use of a. curb-chain. The side cheeks B<2> are backwardly curved below the mouthpiece A and terminate in fixed rings B<3>, B<1>. When both reins C, D are pulled simultaneously, the required leverage is setup.
Patent GB-297343-A (GB)
Title: Improvements connected with the starting of motor converters
IPC: H02K47/06
Filed: 1927-06-18
Abstract: 297,343. English Electric Co., Ltd., and Wilson, J. C. June 18, 1927. Drawings to Specification. Synchronizing dynamo-electric machines.- Machines of the motor-converter type having asynchrons and synchronous elements in cascade connection are synchronized by suddenly shortcircuiting two or more sections of the secondary winding of the asynchronous element (the shortcircuit including intervening portions of the armature winding of the synchronous element) after running the machine up to speed by the use of resistance symmetrically connected winding to the secondary winding of the asynchronous element and prior to short circuiting the whole winding. Sections of this secondary winding may simultaneously be connected to resistances arranged external to the short-circuited path or paths and such resistances may be of higher value than those used for starting. The sections short-circuited may be selected so as to produce internal asymmetry as described in Specification 263,940.
Patent GB-474093-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in machine for and method of making paper cups
IPC: B31B25/00
Filed: 1936-06-10
Abstract: 474,093. Making paper cups. LUCUP CORPORATION. June 10, 1936, No. 16246. Convention date, Nov. 8, 1935. [Class 18] In a machine for making tapered paper cups from a web of paper, a roll of paper 9 is mounted in hangers 8 by a spindle 10, the web passing over a supporting roller 11 and guide roller 21 to form a loop shown in Fig. 10, the free end of the web is pushed through feed rolls 24 and 30, and punch 36 is actuated by hand to shape the end to that of the edge 41 of the die shown in Fig. 12. Gumming devices 115-120, Fig. 4, and 125- 128, Fig. 11, are then placed in position, the latter over rollers 21, 24, Figs. 1 and 10, and the machine started by driving pulley 113, Fig. 1. The web is fed by a driven roller 12 on the end of a heavy arm 16 so as to maintain the loop in the web, and passes beneath feed rolls 30, and between surfaces 33a, 25, Fig. 12, to the position shown in Fig. 1, which is occupied by blank 51, a strip 35 of gum being meanwhile applied by means of gumming disc 34. A shoe 62 is now pressed on to the web by a spring 65 which is released by a cam 67 on a shaft 55. A cam 43 then actuates lever 44, 46 and shaft 45 to cause punch 36 to descend and cut the blank by the edges 41, 42. An air pump 129 is then actuated by crank 131 to blow air through nozzle 132 to eject the waste cut-out through an opening 40 into a receptacle. Shoe 62 is now lifted by cam 43 and a creasing roll 54 coacting with a roll 52 with a flexible covering 52a creases the blank along the dotted lines 51a, Fig. 13. A guard 54a prevents the curling up of the edges of the blank. The blank then passes over a plate 78 and under a guide bar 78 to rolls 68, 70 after which the edges are engaged by fingers 80, 82 so that the ungummed side is folded a little ahead of the gummed side. Fingers 81, 83 then further fold the sides one on the other, and the blank passes between pressing and creasing rolls 84, 86. Creasing blade 92 on roll 86 coacts with grooves 91 on roll 84 to crease the blank on the dotted line 51c, Fig. 14, while the two sides are squeezed on the central portion as shown in Fig. 7, so that they adhere, the end of the blank assuming a folded position about line 51c. The grooves 84a and 86a allow the ends of the folds to remain in a slightly extended position. This end of the blank then moves through a clearance 97 in a roll 94 and past a gumming pad 98 to pressing rolls 93, 94, whence it passes beneath shoes 101 which, press the sides down on plate 100. A finger 103 then folds the end 51d of the blank on the gum 133. A guide 104 then passes the end between pressing rolls 105, 110 which press the end 133 upon the partly folded blank to cause it to adhere, and the blank, now in the form of a completed cup, is delivered to a trough 111 in nested formation, the sides of the trough squeezing the cups to cause the mouths to open. The trough may also be shaped to receive the cups in stacked formation. A cup of the modified form shown in Fig. 18, may also be formed. Cutting rolls may be used instead of the device shown.
Patent GB-371656-A (GB)
Title: Improved latch for gates and doors
IPC: E05B15/02
Filed: 1931-06-04
Abstract: 371,656. Latches, striking plates, &c. HOOPER, G. R. G., 98, Upper Shaftesbury Avenue, Highfield; Southampton. June 4, 1931, No. 16265. [Class 44.] A gate latch comprises a member 5 pivoted at 1, its shorter arm having a finger-piece 4 and its longer arm bevelled on the underside at 6, cooperating with a striker member 9 having three serrations 10 so that the latch may engage with the gate not fully closed.
Patent GB-612656-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to electrical delay devices
IPC: H01H43/30
Filed: 1946-05-29
Abstract: 612,656. Switching systems. AUTOMATIC TELEPHONE & ELECTRIC CO., Ltd., and ROSEBY, P. N. May 29, 1946, No. 16281. [Class 38 (iv)] [Also in Group XXXVII] In a combined electromagnetic and thermal device, contacts 32, 33, 34 are actuated for a period of time during which a thermal element heats up and cools down. On closing a contact device (not shown) between leads 43, 44 Fig. 3, circuit is completed from a source S through the relay coil 15 and the heating winding 25 of a bimetallic strip. The armature 18 is immediately attracted and by bearing on a roller 23 moves a strip 21 into engagement with a strip 22, thereby completing a maintaining circuit for the coil 15 and winding 25. The bimetallic strip 22 is also moved so as to operate the contact 33 by means of a buffer 31. The bimetallic strip is now heated and bends to the right till after a time the strips 21, 22 separate breaking the circuit of the electromagnet and the heater 25 so that the armature immediately returns to its original position and the bimetallic strip 22 bends back slowly, restoring the contacts 32, 33, 34 when it has reached its original position. The invention may be applied to the signalling system disclosed in Specification 593,378, [Group XXXVII], a preliminary signal of superposed high-frequency current initiating the operation and the switch 33 serving to open the initiating circuit and to connect up equipment for responding to the main signal during the delay period.
Patent GB-331656-A (GB)
Title: An improved process and machine for producing sand cores for use in casting metals
IPC: B22C13/12
Filed: 1929-05-28
Abstract: 331,656. Taylor, C. H. May 28, 1929. No Patent granted (Sealing fee not paid). Core-making; core-boxes. - In making cores one or both core-boxes 9 are provided with a resilient or removable member 10 to contain a surplus layer A, Fig. 3, of sand which, when the boxes are pressed together, is pressed into the body of the core. A number of pairs of boxes 9, Figs. 5, 7, are secured to the faces of members 16, 18 mounted on shafts rotatable in bearings 14<a>, 14<b>, the former adjustable and the latter slidable on guides 13. The upper boxes are filled with sand &c. from a tray 45 and struck off. The member 10, if not resilient, is removed and a handle 37 operated, against the action of springs 34a, Fig. 8, to withdraw bolts 34 from the members 16, 18 and actuate valves, B, Fig. 5, to cause a pneumatic cylinder 23 to flex a toggle 24 and move the member 18 to the right until a constantly driven clutch 31 engages a clutch 30 on a shaft 29 adapted to rotate the members 16, 18 in opposite directions. The handle 37 is then released so that when the bolts come opposite the next holes C they are forced in by the springs 34<a>, the valves B thus being reversed to cause the toggle 24 to be straightened and the core boxes to be forced together. The operation is then repeated on the next boxes 9 and as the boxes containing the compressed core separate, a tray 43, Fig. 8, is attached to the member 16, over the box which retains the core D, by studs 40, 44 so that at the next rotation the core falls into the tray. When the bolt 34 engages the hole C the stud 40, which is carried by a spring plunger 33, is disengaged from the tray 43 which falls on to a resilient support 42.
Patent GB-120272-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Guiding and Supporting Mechanism for Signal Transmitting Connections.
Inventor: KEESEY JOHN ARTHUR
IPC: F16C1/10
Filed: 1917-11-08
Abstract: 120,272. Keesey, J. A. Nov. 8, 1917. Mechanical telegraphs.-The power transmitting connexions of a signalling system are housed in conduits comprising lengths of pipe or tube connected by junction boxes or receptacles in which pulleys individually supporting the connexions are provided. The connexions are positively prevented from being displaced from the pulleys. Figs. 1 and 2 show transmission rods &c. 16 housed in pipe lengths 10 and junction boxes 11. The rods &c. are prevented from leaving the pulleys by transverse bars 17. When desirable to economize space where a number of transmission connexions are used, the pulleys are arranged in groups in different horizontal planes as shown in Figs. 6 and 7. The pulleys may be arranged in staggered relation. The peripheries or hubs of one group of pulleys serve to retain the connexions on the pulleys immediately below. The connexions are retained on the uppermost pulleys by transverse bars or plates, or by the covers of the friction boxes, which may have depending projections for this purpose. The pulley axles 25, 26, 27 and retaining plate 28 are conveniently held in grooves in the sides of the box. Where there is a change in the direction of transmission, boxes 13 of T or elbow form are provided, the transmission over the pulleys being by chain. Groups of supporting pulleys may be provided in ring supports secured in the pipes by screws.
Patent GB-312915-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in the manufacture of artificial threads or the like
IPC: B60G11/36
Filed: 1929-05-28
Abstract: 312,915. I. G. Farberaiadustrie Akt.- Ges. June 2, 1928, [Convention date]. Void [Published under Sect. 91 of the Acts]. Cellulose xanthates, process for making filaments and films from.-A halogenated fatty acid or a mixture of such acids is added to the coagulating baths employed in the manufacture of artificial threads, bands, or films from viscose whereby the coagulating action of the bath is modified and the products have improved physical properties such as tensile strength, extensibility, lustre, and capacity for dyeing. The acid or mixture of acids may be added to any known coagulating bath for viscose in amounts limited by the solubilities of the acids. The effect of the halogenated fatty acid can be considerably increased by using the acid in an intermediate bath between the spinning bath and the spools. The use of these acids is specially advantageous when combined with a stretching of the products, for example, artificial threads may be stretched in the precipitation bath or after they have left it. In examples, monochloracetic acid or a mixture of mnno-, di- and trichloracetic acids are employed in amounts between 10 and 30 per cent of the bath.
Patent GB-234659-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in crank shafts
IPC: F16C3/12
Filed: 1924-07-09
Abstract: 234,659. A.C. Cars, Ltd., and Smith, S. July 9, 1924. Crank shafts are built up and the webs are secured to the shafts and pins by making the latter hollow and expanding them by forcing in conical plugs. In the form shown in Fig. 1, there is a conical screw plug 12 in the shaft section 10 and a like plug 8 in the pin 6. In a form shown in Fig. 2, smooth cone plugs 30 are driven in. In order to withdraw these plugs. they are provided with projecting ends 31 which are engaged by threaded plugs 32 for the purpose.
Patent GB-998619-A (GB)
Title: Attachments for use with knitting machines
Inventor: PICK BARRY
IPC: D04B35/18
Filed: 1963-04-26
Abstract: 998,619. Knitting-machines. WOLSEY Ltd. June 30,1964 [April 26, 1963], No. 16475/63. Heading D1C. A circular machine having stop motion mechanism adjacent the needle cylinder has a detector adapted to engage the latch of any needle which is sluggish in operation and thereby complete an electrical circuit which includes an electrode 8 mounted adjacent a metal drum 3 also included in the circuit and which carries a paper band 5. Completion of the circuit causes a spark to be produced between the drum and electrode thereby puncturing the paper. The drum is rotated in synchronism with the needle cylinder so that the position of perforation in the paper caused by the spark indicates the position of the needle in the cylinder whereby the needle is readily identified and can be replaced.
Patent GB-119736-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to Starters for Electric Motors.
IPC: H02P1/02
Filed: 1917-11-10
Abstract: 119,736. Electric & Ordnance Accessories Co., and Langrish, N. G. Nov. 10, 1917. Controllers, actuating-mechanism for; with auxiliary switches.-In a loose-handle motor starter, the limited return movement of the handle operates a clutch device in order to trip a circuitbreaker. The. operating-handle is rigidly attached to the shaft 1 which carries a disk 5 with a finger 6 having a downwardly projecting lug 7 working between two stops 8, 9 on a plate 10 attached to the starter barrel. A spring 12 holds the lug 7 against the stop 8. A sector member 13 pivoted on a swinging-link 14 carried by an arm 15 is held against the disk 5 by a spring 17 and thereby forms a one-way friction clutch. During the movement of the handle to cut out resistance, the spring 12 is compressed and the disk 5 slips by the segment 13, but when the handle is released and makes its limited return motion, the clutch acts and the arm 15 is operated to cause a circuitbreaker to open. The disk 5 is cut away for a short distance so that the clutch does not operate in the ' on ' position of the starter. In a modification, a ball or roller moving in a wedgeshaped recess may engage the edge of the friction disk 5, or the disk may be replaced by a ratchet-wheel which causes a pawl to open the circuit-breaker when the controller is moved backwards. If the handle be left in any position other than the full ' on ' position, the circuit-breaker will be tripped. Where electrically operated circuit-breakers are used, the operating-coils 26 are energized through contacts 27, 28 on the starter barrel, and a switch 30 which is opened on the return movement of the handle. The switch 30 is short-circuited by a contact on the barrel in the full ' on ' position of the starter. In another modification, the circuit-breaker is closed by a cam operated by the starter handle, and is held closed by a coil in circuit with a switch opened by the backward movement of the handle, or the circuit-breaker may be held closed by a switch tripped mechanically. In another modification, the circuit of the no-volt coil of the circuit-breaker is completed by an auxiliary switch on the circuit-breaker and an auxiliary switch closed in the ' off ' position of the starter. The circuit-breaker has a loose handle and the tripping-lever opens a switch in the circuit of the no-volt coil.
Patent GB-1460729-A (GB)
Title: Device for changing the amount of linear movement in a linkage
IPC: B60Q1/08
Filed: 1973-04-06
Abstract: 1460729 Linkwork LUCAS ELECTRICAL Ltd 2 April 1974 [6 April 1973] 16524/73 Heading F2K A movement attenuator link for changing the amount of linear movement in a linkage system of a vehicle headlamp levelling system (not shown) comprises a fixed body 1 housing adjacent ends of input and output members 2, 3 respectively, the input member 2 having an end flange 4 which via a 1st compression spring 8 engages an end flange 7 of the output member 3, the input member 2 being slotted at 6 for axial movement of the flange 7 and hence output member 3 relative thereto, whilst a 2nd compression spring 9 is disposed between the flange 7 and an inturned portion 10 of the fixed body 1. The arrangement is such that rightward movement of the input member 2, from the static position shown, produces corresponding reduced movement of the output member 3, the reduced movement being dependent on the relative sizes e.g. ratings of the springs 8, 9 and resultant reestablished equilibrium of the springs and hence position of flange 7. In the simple case where the springs 8, 9 are of equal size, flange 7 and output member 3 will only move half the distance that the input member 2 is moved before equilibrium between the springs 8, 9 is again reestablished. Viscous material 13 within a sleeve 11 of the body 1 opposes sudden movements of the output member 3 so that only relative slow movements of the output member 3 can occur whereby the vehicle headlamps are not subjected to sudden movement or oscillations as a result of oscillations in the springs 8, 9 or oscillations in input member 2 caused by passage of the vehicle over rough surfaces. In an alternative similar embodiment of Fig. 2 (not shown), the fixed body (101) is coaxially arranged centrally between the input and output members (102, 103) respectively.
Patent GB-353988-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in the means of securing for display printed or other matter
IPC: G09F1/12
Filed: 1930-05-29
Abstract: 353,988. Boards for notices. JOHNSON, J. J., 209, Plymouth Road, Redditch. May 29, 1930, No. 16562. [Class 3 (ii).] . A holder for notices &c. comprises a preferably rectangular plate b having bent over edges c, d forming channels for retaining the edges of the notice, and a hinged wire member a adapted to hold the notice in position when its ends are sprung into the oppositely disposed channels c. The member a passes through an upper rolled part d of the plate b, and is preferably coiled at e to increase its resiliency ; in holders for larger notices, two such members may be provided. The plate b may be attached to an article in any desired manner, and may be provided with an aperture behind which a permanent, identification card is exhibited.