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Patent GB-1082823-A (GB)
Title: Radiant gas burner assembly
Inventor: STACK THOMAS NOEL
IPC: F23C99/00
Filed: 1964-08-26
Abstract: In a gas burner assembly (see Division F4), the multiport refractory ceramic feed, combustion and radiation plates are formed, as described in Specification 931,096, of zircon mullite or alumina, thoria, zirconia, bonded silicon carbide, cordierite or magnesia, with or without fillers or insulating ingredients. The zircon mullite composition is:  67.54% zirconium silicate, 27.06% aluminium silicate, 4.05% mullite fibres, and 1.35% glass fibres. The plates comprise either corrugated sheets sintered together at their apices, or alternate flat and corrugated sheets sintered together; the flat and corrugated sheets being formed from a plasticized mixture containing sinterable particles, organic polymeric resins and volatile liquids, by knife casting, spraying, casting or calendering. The sheets are temporarily bonded into a plate by using volatile liquids to soften contact areas, the sheets being then sawed to shape and sintered.  The plates are mounted in a housing comprising refractory bricks having a composition:  71% Al2O3, 27% SiO2, 1% TiO2 and 1% iron oxide.  A refractory cement is used having a composition: 80% alumina, 15-20% calcium aluminate and up to 5% of kaolin clay.
Patent GB-654050-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to laminated glass
Inventor: HAWARD ROBERT NOBBS
IPC: B32B17/08
Filed: 1946-11-26
Abstract: An adhesive comprises a silicon-containing adhesive of the type described in Specification 654,049, admixed with a synthetic resin. The resins may be p-toluene sulphonamide, alkyds, polyvinyl acetate, polyvinyl butyral, polymethyl acrylate and methacrylate, polystyrene, copolymers of vinyl chloride and vinyl acetate and mixtures.  The silicon adhesives specified are polytetraethyl silicate, the silicon resin obtained by reacting silicon tetrahalide with cellulose acetate, or methyl cellulose or starch ether or polyvinyl butyral. The synthetic resin may be dissolved in an organic solvent, e.g. acetone.  Specification 654,051, [Group VIII], also is referred to.
Patent GB-965469-A (GB)
Title: Fan-fold card guide
IPC: G06K13/06
Filed: 1961-09-29
Abstract: 965,469. Feeding webs. SMITH-CORONA MARCHANT Inc. Sept. 29, 1961 [Oct. 24, 1960], No. 35130/61. Heading B6B. A guiding means for turning a continuous web (e.g. fan-fold card material) back along its direction of movement is shown in Figs. 3 and 4 respectively. The web enters and leaves the guiding means in the direction of the broken lines 80 and 82 respectively, thereby having its direction of movement reversed, and displaced transversely through an angle defined by the broken lines. The guide means comprises a portion 52 defining a surface of revolution 54, which can be either semi-cylindrical or semifrusto conical, with a tangential extension 56. A plate member 62 is integral with one side of the extension 56 or secured thereto by means of rivets 64, 66; and is spaced above the upper surface of the extension 56 with washers 68, 70, a sufficient distance to permit the web to pass therebetween. A flange 58 extending downwardly from extension 56, engages a slot in the surface on which the guiding means rests, so that it is rigidly held in the correct position. A plane through a line 60 defined by the flange 58 converges with the axis of revolution 53, to define the angle through which the web is displaced transversely. The plate 62 is of sufficient length to stop buckling of the web. The guiding means is used in apparatus using fan-fold sinuous web, Figs. 1 and 2 (not shown), and feeding is by means of a pin wheel 38, Fig. 1. The guiding means is of sheet metal or synthetic plastic material. The plate member 62 may be replaced by parallel wires.
Patent GB-297610-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to tobacco pipes and cigar and cigarette holders
IPC: A24F1/00
Filed: 1927-12-29
Abstract: 297,610. Civic Co., Ltd., (Hirsch, R.). Dec. 29, 1927. Tobacco pipes and cigar and cigarette holders.-A mouthpiece extension 8 is formed with a tapering stem 14 and a spherical end 9 which is lightly smaller in diameter than the chamber in the pipe stem and divides it into front and rear chambers 10, 2. Horizontal passages 11 pass through the spherical end 9, and an inclined passage 12 connects the chamber 2 to the bore 7.
Patent GB-448231-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to combined electrode holder and nozzle for a gas-arc torch
IPC: B62D35/00
Filed: 1935-12-19
Abstract: 448,231. Holders for arc welding electrodes. BRITISH THOMSONHOUSTON CO., Ltd., Crown House, Aldwych, London. Dec. 19, 1935, No. 35241. Convention date, Dec. 28, 1934. [Class 39 (iii)] An electrode holder comprises a nozzle 14 having an internal wedging surface 20 at its discharge end, and an electrode clamping sleeve 17 within the nozzle is provided with a slotted end and an external wedging surface 21 at this end which co-operates with the surface 20 to clamp the end of the sleeve firmly around the electrode. Rotation of the screw plug 22 forces the wedging surfaces 20 and 21 together and effects the clamping of the electrode. The tip 15 of the nozzle is detachably screwed on. The holder is provided with a gas connection 26 so that it can be used as a gas arc torch. Two electrode holders are mounted on a handle to form the complete welding torch and the gas supply tube of one of the holders is provided with a bent resilient portion to enable the electrodes to be adjusted relatively to each other. Specification 237,898, [Class 39 (iii)], is referred to.
Patent GB-1461181-A (GB)
Title: Electrophoretic enamelling
IPC: C23C18/18
Filed: 1974-08-09
Abstract: 1461181 Electro-phoretic enamelling MIELE & CIE 9 Aug 1974 [4 Sept 1973] 35287/74 Heading C7B  Steel parts are electrolessly plated from a metal salt solution with a metal more electro-positive than Fe (e.g. Ag or Cu) followed by electrolytic zinc plating and finally electro-phoretic enamelling.
Patent GB-381407-A (GB)
Title: Radio-active compress for therapeutic purposes
IPC: A61M36/14
Filed: 1931-12-21
Abstract: 381,407. Therapeutic appliance for radio-active treatment. TREANOR, F., 27, Maze Road, Kew Gardens, Surrey, and RADIOPATHIC INSTITUTE, Ltd., 125, Strand, London. Dec. 21, 1931, No. 35316. [Class 81 (ii).] A radio-active compress comprises a suitable carrier having a radio-active substance affixed thereto or impregnated therein, encased within sheets of a porous absorbent material, and covered on one side of its outer surface with a sheet of fabric pervious to water, and on the other with a sheet of fabric impervious to water. A sheet of paper or other carrier A is pasted or impregnated with a radio-active substance B made moist with water or glycerine, for example. To each side is applied a sheet C, C<1> of fibrous material such as cottonwool, and a sheet D, D<1> of flannel, the whole being covered on one side by a sheet E of pervious material such as silk, and on the other by an impervious sheet F, for example of rubber fabric, and secured by quilting. The edges are bound with braid forming loops I at the corners for securing the compress on the body. In use, the pervious side is placed against the body, the outer impervious sheet preventing escape of moisture. The appliance can be moistened by absorption of water through the pervious surface.
Patent GB-157074-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in machines for cleaning milk-cans and other like receptacles
IPC: B08B9/08
Filed: 1920-12-15
Abstract: 157,074. Creamery Package Manufacturing Co. (Assignees of Valerius T. L., and Larsen, O.). Jan. 5, 1920, [Convention date]. Ca n s , cleaning and drying. - Consists in an improved device for cleaning milk and other cans, and comprises means for intermittently feeding the cans forward in an inclined inverted position by a bar mechanism, successively subjecting them to jets of water, steam, and hot air, and delivering the cleaned cans in an upright position at the delivery end. The cans are supplied to the machine on a fixed track of bars 29, 30, 31 and a. guide-rail 32, and are intermittently fed forward by a pair of forwarding bars 33, 34. The bar 33 has a lateral movement damped by a friction device 42, 43, 44, and is pivotally connected by a link 36, to the bar 34 having teeth 37 for engaging the cans, and a connection 40 driven through suitable gearing from an electromotor 45. During a forward stroke of the bar 34, the bar 33 is held, and the bar 34 swings out to engage a can and lift it clear of its track 29; the connection 40 then engages a fixed projection 41 on the bar 33, and both bars now move forward together. On the return stroke, the bar 34 swings in, and then both bars move back together. The cans first pass over a nozzle 64, to which the supply of preliminary cleansing water is regulated by a lever 66 pivoted on the bar 33 being pressed by a can into the path of the operating-rod of a quickacting valve 65. The cans then pass into a housing 9, fitted with partitions 10 with openings 27, baffles 68, and gravity-closed doors, and are. in a compartment 11, subjected to a cleansing by jets of water, continuously fed from drain tanks 13 to a header 21 and apertured pipes 26. In the next chamber 12 the cans undergo rinsing with hot water from pipes and header similar to the above and steaming by means of pipes 69, 73, steam being supplied from a valve 70 controlled from a lever similar to the lever 66. A steam jet is provided for blowing water from the bottom of the can. The cans pass out of the housing, and are dried by jets of air previously forced by a fan 76 over steam-pipes 78 in order to heat it. On leaving the drying-jets, the cans are delivered right end up on to a set of rollers (not shown) by means of the track 29, which is shorter than a resiliently pivoted shelf on which the cans now stand. A pusher rod facilitates the delivery of the cans, and is worked from a pivoted link 88 from the pitman 38. Jets are provided for cleansing the lids, which can be attached and carried along with the cans, or detachably propelled on a belt conveyer passing over sprockets 97, 98 intermittently turned through a pivoted dog on the bar 33.
Patent GB-410704-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to files or binders for documents
IPC: B42F11/02
Filed: 1933-12-15
Abstract: 410,704. Filing papers. TOLLIT & HARVEY, Ltd., and MAY, W. F., 44, Southwark Bridge Road, London. Dec. 15, 1933, No. 35341. [Class 146 (i).] In files or binders for documents, booklets &c. in which wires 27 detachably mounted in the file engage the folds in the documents, the ends of the wires are engaged in end-caps 1, each formed in one piece and of convex form and having a convex slot 25 to receive the ends of the wires and a flange 11 adapted to hook over the file back A. The slot 25 is formed in a projecting-wall 5 which is extended to form a chamber 3 terminating in the flange 11. At the opposite end of the cap 1 is an inclined wall 21 and a lug 19 riveted at 23 to the back A. In the case of heavier files, plates adapted to be riveted to the covers B, C may be hinged to the sides of each cap 1, the hinge being adapted to lie in the groove D between the back A and covers B, C. The plates may extend the full depth of the back.
Patent GB-774725-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to cooling systems for internal-combustion engines
Inventor: EDGE STANLEY HOWARD
IPC: F01P7/08
Filed: 1954-12-07
Abstract: 774,725. Cooling cylinders. CLAYTON DEWANDRE CO., Ltd. Nov. 22, 1955 [Dec. 7, 1954], No. 35456/54. Class 7 (2). [Also in Groups XIII and XXIV] In an engine liquid-cooling system in which a fluid-pressure operated clutch 1, Fig. 1, in the drive to a radiator fan 7 is engaged and disengaged under the control of a thermostatically-operated fluid-pressure valve 36 as the coolant temperature respectively rises above and falls below a predetermined value, the valve 36 controls a fluid-pressure motor 42 actuating radiator shutters 40 to open and close them when the clutch is respectively engaged and disengaged. The clutch comprises a driven presser plate 16, Fig. 2, slidably splined on a fan shaft extension 6 and co-acting piston-wise with a floating casing 11 to enclose a space 20 containing a clutch-release spring 24 and a driving clutch plate 21 splined on a shaft 5 connected to the engine crank-shaft directly or via a transmission. The clutch is engaged either by vacuum supplied from the valve 36 to the space 20 via passages 32, 29, 28, 27, the main clutch casing 3 being permanently vented, or, as shown, by compressed air or hydraulic pressure supplied from the valve 36 to the main clutch casing 3 via the pipe 35 and port 34, the space 20 being then permanently vented by the aforesaid passages. Radial grooves 39 assist clutch disengagement.
Patent GB-959190-A (GB)
Title: Process of treating and improving tobacco
IPC: A24B15/26
Filed: 1960-10-17
Abstract: Limited nicotine reduction in leaf, cut or ground tobacco of normal moisture content is effected by non-pressurized extraction with a hot non-polar solvent so that the tobacco loses not more than 7% of its weight.  The solvent may be passed continuously through the tobacco, or successive baths of the solvent may be used, excess solvent then being removed and the tobacco returned to normal moisture content by a stream of moist air.  The solvent used may be normal hexane at 62 DEG -65 DEG C., toluene at 50 DEG -60 DEG C. or 80 DEG -85 DEG C., or methylene chloride at 35 DEG -38 DEG C.  Quantitative process examples are given.
Patent GB-985972-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to electrical terminal assemblies
Inventor: FLOYD GERALD WILLIAM
IPC: H01B17/30
Filed: 1960-10-17
Abstract: 985,972. Mounting terminals. ASSOCIATED ELECTRICAL INDUSTRIES Ltd. Oct. 9, 1961 [Oct. 17, 1960], No. 35500/60. Heading H2E. A terminal assembly comprises an insulating body 1 housing a terminal member 2 and having at least one flange 4 which positions the body in an aperture 5 in a supporting plate 6 such as a motor stator shell and locating means, e.g. a flange 8 on the body, with a U-shaped clip or other retaining member 7 between this flange and the plate. Two assemblies side by side may be retained by a single E-shaped clip. Location of the body in the plate aperture may be achieved by use of a spring clip in a groove on the body.
Patent GB-619287-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to the cylinders of locomotive engines
IPC: F01B17/04
Filed: 1946-11-29
Abstract: 619,287. Locomotive engine cylinders. MARTEN, E. W., and ASSOCIATED LOCOMOTIVE EQUIPMENT, Ltd. Nov. 29, 1946, No. 35515. [Classes 122 (i), 122 (ii) and 122 (v)] A locomotive engine cylinder wherein the barrel 1 has a lateral flange 2 for securing it to the locomotive and a platform 19 on its upper surface to receive a cam-box for operating vertical admission and exhaust poppet valves, is provided with a longitudinally extending live steam chest 3 and steam admission valves closely adjacent to and at the opposite side of the barrel to the lateral flange. The steam chest has inlets 11 and horizontal flanges 12 at each end and communicates through inlet valve seats 9 with intermediate chambers 7 disposed at each end of the cylinder and in constant communication with the ends of the barrel. Separate exhaust chambers 4 at each end of the cylinder communicate through exhaust valve seats 10 with the intermediate chambers, and discharge through ports 6 in the lateral flange. A removable table 13 may be fixed to the cylinder to receive the cam-box during repairs. The lower ends of the valve spindles are under steam pressure through passages 28 to maintain the valves against their seats, and the exhaust valve spindles rest in stuffuig-boxes 23 formed in two parts 24, 25 secured together and containing metal packing washers with side clearance to facilitate valve spindle alignment.
Patent GB-1520279-A (GB)
Title: Dispersion for electrophoretic analysis
IPC: G01N27/447
Filed: 1975-08-28
Abstract: 1520279 Determining the immunization status of cells BEHRINGWERKE AG 28 Aug 1975 [30 Aug 1974] 35528/75 Heading G1B A process suitable for the in vitro determination of the immunization status of cells by electrophoretic measurement of changes in mobility of indicator particles comprises incubating lymphocytes with an antigen and admixing the incubation mixture or its cell free supernatent with a dispersion of indicator particles or the lymphocytes, an antigen and indicator particles are incubated together and then measuring the mobility of the particles in an electric field; the indicator particles used are those which show uniform mobility in an electric field and which undergo interactions with the supernatent or incubation mixture to modify the mobility of the particles in the electric field. The indicator particles may be denatured or tanned erythrocytes or latex particles. The antigen may be tetanus toxoid, tuberculin or encephalogenii factor. The dispersion comprising indicator particles and the incubation mixture or its cell free supernatent defined above is claimed per se.
Patent GB-1057887-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to electrical terminals and electrical components fitted with terminals
Inventor: VIOL JOHN MALCOLM
IPC: H01C10/32
Filed: 1962-09-19
Abstract: 1,057,887. Binding posts. ELECTRIC & MUSICAL INDUSTRIES Ltd. Sept. 9, 1963 [Sept. 19, 1962], No. 35610/62. Heading H2E. [Also in Division H1] A terminal post 3, for mechanically connecting the end of a C-shaped track of a variable resistor 2 (see Division H1) to an insulating plate 1, and also making electrical connections to the end of the resistor, consists of a metal stud passing through holes in the resistor and the plate, the resistor being held between the head 17, of the stud, and a collar 19 located on the stud, which collar 19 is housed in a recess in said plate 1. The collar 19 is made of a material, e.g. steel, with a smaller temperature coefficient of expansion than the material of the terminal post, e.g. brass, 3, so that when a circuit wire is soldered to the terminal post the rise in temperature will not cause appreciable relative movement between collar 19 and head 17, or loosen the grip of these members on resistance element 2. The stud has its end 15 away from the track deformed to hold it against the plate.
Patent GB-1095268-A (GB)
Title: An improved method for the oxidation of starches and other polysaccharides
Inventor: MEHTA PRIYAVADAN CHHAGANLAL
IPC: C08B15/02
Filed: 1964-09-01
Abstract: In a process for the oxidation of neutral polysaccharides, the polysaccharide is oxidized with alkaline hypochlorite (pH 9-12) or with chlorine in water at a pH below 7 in the presence of a multivalent metal salt or salts at a temperature below 70 DEG  C. or, for starch, below the gelatenization temperature, and the oxidized polysaccharide is recovered by neutralization, or by acidification, or by precipitation with alcohol, or by precipitation as an insoluble metal salt, followed by filtration and drying.  The polysaccharide may be starch, cellulose or the polysaccharide contained in tamarind kernal.  Specified multivalent salts are MgCl2, ZnCl2 NiSO4 and CuSO4. Either sodium or calcium hypochlorite may be used. The oxidation introduces carboxylic acid groups with a minimum of depolymerization. The oxidized products are easily dispersible in water to give pastes having little or no tendency to retrograde.
Patent GB-833924-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to moulds for uniting shoe uppers with shoe soles
IPC: B29D35/00
Filed: 1957-11-15
Abstract: 833,924. Moulding uppers to shoe soles. GHIGNATTI, U. Nov. 15, 1957 [Dec. 13, 1956], No. 35673/57. Class 87(2). A mould for bonding soles of rubber, plastic, or the like to uppers has two mould portions 1, 2 which co-operate when the mould is closed to form a frame for the sides and/or the top edges of the sole and which meet along two planes la, 2a each being offset from and on opposite sides of the centre plane of the mould (i.e. a plane perpendicular to the sole and bisecting the toe- and heel-forming portions of the mould cavity). Each portion 1, 2 of the mould is carried by a pair of parallel links 5, one end of each link being pivotally connected to the associated mould portion and the other end pivoted about a spindle 6. The two mould portions are displaceable by a common hydraulic control system incorporating two pairs of pistons, each pair operating within an associated cylinder, and both cylinders being connected to a common source of pressure fluid.
Patent GB-1270964-A (GB)
Title: Synthetic zeolite and method of preparation thereof
IPC: C01B33/26
Filed: 1969-07-15
Abstract: 1,270,964. Zeolite molecular sieve. W. R. GRACE & CO. 15 July, 1969 [15 July, 1968], No. 35700/69. Heading C1A. Zeolite Z-21 is characterized by a pore diameter of 17 A, a unit cell size of 36À7  0À3 , an X-ray diffraction pattern as given in Table II (not shown) and including a strong line at 21À1  0À2 ; and has the composition, expressed in terms of moles of oxides, where M is Na, Ca, Mg or NH 4 , or a rare earth metal, w is the valence of M, n = 1À7-2À1 and x = 0-9. The sodium form of the zeolite is made by preparing an aqueous alkaline sodium aluminosilicate mixture of composition and maintaining it at 50-140 C. for a time in the range 0À2-8 hours sufficient to form crystalline zeolite Z-21. Sodium aluminate solution may be added to the sodium silicate solution, and the mixture heated to 70-110 C. The sodium ion may be exchanged with ammonium or metal cation (other than alkali metal). Metals of Groups II, III, IV, VIa, VIIb and VIII are specified. Examples describe the preparation of
Patent GB-1462357-A (GB)
Title: Method of metal working
IPC: C09K23/00
Filed: 1973-07-27
Abstract: 1462357 Metal working lubricant IMPERIAL CHEMICAL INDUSTRIES Ltd 27 July 1973 [27 July 1973] 35840/73 Heading C5F A metal working lubricant emulsion comprises a major proportion of water and a minor proportion of a diester of a dicarboxylic acid andof a monohydrocarbyl ether of a glycol. The acid may be succinic, glutaric, adipic, a mixture thereof or sebacic acid. The monohydrocarbyl ether of a glycol has the structure ROR<SP>1</SP>OH in which R is C 4- C 30  alkyl, alkyl phenyl, or aralkyl and R<SP>1</SP> is C 1 -C 30  alkylene or an olefin oxide chain derived from a C 2 -C 6  olefin oxide and containing up to 30 oxide units. The emulsion may be used in the rolling or cutting of ferrous or non-ferrous metals.
Patent GB-302154-A (GB)
Title: Bearing propelling and steering apparatus for aircraft operating by centrifugal force
IPC: B64C29/00
Filed: 1928-12-05
Abstract: 302,154. Chappedelaine, J. de. Dec. 10, 1927, [Convention date]. Machines supported by rotary propellers; propelling; steering.-A machine is supported by two rotary propellers on transverse axles 4. each having curved blades 14 which draw in air axially from both sides of a casing and deliver it through gaps in the lower part of the casing. The two casings are placed on opposite sides of the body and are driven in opposite directions through free wheel clutches from a single engine. A third rotary propeller 8 disposed on the bottom surface of the fuselage on a vertical axis is adjustable by the pilot to set the gap in the casing in any direction for steering, braking, or reversing the craft.