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Patent GB-502156-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to hair drying appliances
IPC: A45D20/22
Filed: 1937-05-26
Abstract: 502,156. Hair - drying appliances. BASILE, A. May 26, 1937, Nos. 14639 and 14640. Void. Convention dates, May 27, 1936 and July 30, 1936. [Class 81 (ii)] The helmet of a hair-drying machine is combined with acoustic apparatus such as loud-apeakers, telephones, talking-machines, &c., which may be constructionally united to the helmet or be used independently thereof. The sound waves may be conducted to the user's ears by pipes or channels in the walls of the helmet, and the user can hear the hairdresser therethrough. The pipes &c. may be provided with interchangeable disinfectant linings. Alternatively, earpieces are connected electrically to a sound-emitting apparatus, e.g. a wireless receiving apparatus, which may be common to a number of helmets. In Fig. 1, a loud-speaker 4 fixed to a helmet 3 is connected by. conductor 5 to a wireless receiving apparatus 6 controlled by the user. In Fig. 5, sound is conductedfrom a loudspeaker 10 by flexible or rigid pipes 11 to earpieces 8. Several other constructions are shown.
Patent GB-185189-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in chairs and seats
IPC: A47C7/42
Filed: 1921-05-27
Abstract: 185,189. Bowker, J. W. May 27,1921. Covers for exposed seat-bottoms.-A seat 7 with a hinged back 8 which folds down to provide a cover for the seat, has a spring catch for retaining the back in the upright position while the seat is in use. A flat spring 13 with a rear rib 13<c> is fixed to the seat and engages a rib 16a of a catch 16 fixed to the back to prevent the back swinging forward until the catch is released by a plunger 19 slidable in a hole in the seat. In a modification, the spring 13 is extended and bent to engage the lower bar 8<b> of the seat back.
Patent GB-929925-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to rotary duplicating machines
IPC: B41L19/00
Filed: 1962-04-17
Abstract: 929,925. Copying documents; tripping. W. RITZERFELD, and G. RITZERFELD. April 17, 1962 [June 5, 1961], No. 14735/62. Class 100 (2). A drum 1 carrying the master sheet is driven through a mechanical connection, e.g. a belt 31, by an electric motor 21 and carries a cam 4 which opens a switch 6 in the supply to the motor when the drum has completed a revolution and also interrupts the supply to a solenoid 28 holding brake shoes 26, 27 in inoperative position. This allows a spring 23 to apply the brake. In a modified form the brakes are held off by a spring and applied by a solenoid energized by switch 6 when it de-energizes the motor. In parallel with switch 6 are a switch 19 closed by the presence of one or more copy sheets 38 on feed-table 17, and, in series with switch 19, switches 10 and 9 of the self-releasing and selfholding types, respectively. For one copy, switch 10 is pressed to start the motor, if switch 19 be closed by the presence of a sheet, and is then released; operation continues until cam 4 opens switch 6 after one cycle. To copy a run, a pile of sheets is placed on the feed table and switch 9 is closed. The machine operates until the pile is exhausted, whereupon switch 19 opens, and the current cycle has been completed.
Patent GB-542257-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in valve operated variable reactors
IPC: H03C3/14
Filed: 1940-09-30
Abstract: 542,257. Wireless receiving apparatus. GENERAL ELECTRIC CO., Ltd., and STENNING, L. C. Sept. 30, 1940, No. 14740. [Class 40 (v)] In a variable re-actor of the kind varied by adjusting the mutual conductance of a thermionic valve the ratio of the potentiometer P in the valve input is substantially real and the output admittance and transfer ratio of the network A in the valve output is approximately a pure imaginary. The ratio may be an imaginary owing to the mutual inductance M in the network or alternatively to a condenser coupling between the upper ends of the coils L 1 , L 2 . The Specification gives a mathematical analysis of the circuit.
Patent GB-352630-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to wind-screen wipers
IPC: B60S1/34
Filed: 1930-05-15
Abstract: 352,630. Windscreen wipers. SOUTHARD, H. G., Corbiere, Wilton Crescent, and MEAGER, V. W., Droxford, Rampart Road, Bitterne Park, both in Southampton. May 15, 1930, No. 14897. [Class 138 (i).] To attach wipers to windscreens without drilling, the wiper arm is mounted on a pivot secured to a device adapted to be attached to the windscreen either by suction or by an adhesive. The method of attachment is particularly suitable for attaching a supplementary wiper by coupling it to an existing wiper actuated by suction, gearing, or other means. As shown in Figs. 2 and 3, a supplementary wiper arm 2 is connected to an existing wiper by a link 9, tubular connection 11 and clamp 12. The arm 2 is supported on a pivot 7 carried by a plate 6 supported on suction cups 4. A suction cup of the elongated form shown in Fig. 4 may be used, and may be provided with two bolts 5 for the attachment of the plate 6.
Patent GB-1113197-A (GB)
Title: Process for obtaining fresh water from alkaline saline water supplies
Inventor: MCILHENNY WILLIAM FRANKLIN
IPC: C02F1/04
Filed: 1966-04-04
Abstract: In order to prevent scale formation in the distillation of sea water, or other dilute aqueous alkali metal salt solutions also containing one or more alkaline earth salts, the water is boiled in the presence of an ion exchange resin containing carboxylic acid groups in a proportion at least stoichiometrically equivalent to the total alkalinity of the saline water.  Suitable resins are copolymers of styrene or divinylbenzene and acrylic methacrylic, or maleic acid. Oxidized coal is also mentioned as a suitable additive.  The resin may be recovered from the concentrated solution by sedimentation or filtration; the resin is then regenerated with mineral acid, rinsed with water, and re-used. Reference is made to the distillation of water in a multiple effect evaporator.
Patent GB-1059048-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to toilet room furniture
IPC: E03D1/00
Filed: 1965-04-08
Abstract: 1,059,048. Washbasins. I. R. REID. April 8, 1965, No. 14938/65. Heading A4N. In a washbasin arrangement a single piece of plastic, metal or ceramic is shaped to form two. open-topped receptacles (2, 3) arranged side by side with their top edges in a common plane, one receptacle (2) forming a basin and the other receptacle (3) forming a cistern for a W.C. and of which the lid may form a soap tray.
Patent GB-1354417-A (GB)
Title: Rangefinders
IPC: G03B13/20
Filed: 1971-05-14
Abstract: 1354417 Rangefinders POLAROID CORP 14 May 1971 [15 May 1970] 14970/71 Heading G2J A reticle 19 is projected into the field of view by a plane mirror 20 and semi-reflecting mirror 18. The mirror 20 is moved normal to its surface till the reticle is at the same apparant distance as a selected object in the field of view. The rangefinder may be coupled to a camera lens, as shown.
Patent GB-1018249-A (GB)
Title: Speed control for hand manipulated power tools
Inventor: GAWRON ALEX FLORIAN
Filed: 1964-04-13
Abstract: 1,018,249. Hand drills. SKIL CORPORATION. April 13, 1964, No. 15084/64. Heading B3C. [Also in Division H2J] A hand drill is driven by a series motor 12 connected to a silicon-controlled rectifier 15 which is associated with a variable resistor 23 for determining the voltage applied to capacitor 22 in the gate circuit of the rectifier. The rectifier 15 and associated control devices are mounted in the tool housing, the resistor 23 being adjusted by trigger 28. When maximum rectified voltage has been applied to the motor, switch 19 is closed to supply the motor with alternating current. An on-off switch 48 is adapted to be engaged by trigger 28 upon initial movement of the latter towards its inner position.
Patent GB-568784-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in automatic lubricating oil collecting and distributing devices for internal combustion engines and the like
IPC: F16N13/10
Filed: 1943-07-14
Abstract: 568,784. Automatic lubricating devices. CASTELLINI, A. P., and ROBEY & CO., Ltd. July 14, 1943, No. 15140/44. Divided out of 568,753. [Class 7 (ii)] [Also in Groups XXVI and XXXIV] An automatic lubricating system for an internal-combustion engine or the like comprises distributing shrouds which receive oil under centrifugal force, and a plunger pump with a positive drive on its delivery stroke for distributing said oil. In the application to the two-stroke engine described in Specification 568,753, oil is supplied to the big-end bearing through a passage 5 and grooves 6, while further channels 7 convey this oil to the small ends. The crank-pins have throwing collars 10 which deliver oil to channels 12 and thence to a cavity 13 with shroud walls 13a. From the cavity the oil passes to the plunger pump 23 formed within one connecting-rod and operated against a spring by a projection 32 on the second connecting-rod during operation of the engine. Oil from the pump is delivered past a valve 27 to a conduit 14a for supplementary lubrication of the small end and piston rings. In some cases the pump may be operated by a tappet in the crank-casing.
Patent GB-1496464-A (GB)
Title: Apparatus for decorating hollow cylindrical objects
IPC: F26B3/18
Filed: 1976-04-14
Abstract: 1496464 Coating and flame drying hollow cylinders SUN CHEMICAL CORP 14 April 1976 18 Feb 1976] 15231/76 Heading B2L A system for decorating/coating hollow cylindrical objects, e.g. cans, comprises means to supply cans 21 to a discharge region, means 22 for moving the objects into contact with an applicator of thermally settable coating medium 23, a continuously moving pin chain conveyor 31 for conveying objects 21 from the coating station via transfer means 28, said chain conveyer being disposed in a generally vertical plane, a flame drying oven 60 comprising an elongated chamber having gas burners therein located relative to conveyor 31 such that an open gas flame jet impinges on objects 21, the arrangement being such that after coating the material on the cans flows to an even, ridge free, layer before the cans are exposed to the flame, such exposure being for less than 3 seconds but long enough to thermally cure the coating. A plurality of coating sources 24 to 27 may supply coater 23. The pin chain conveyor may havea wire brush or resilient finger arrangement adapted to hold a can from inside, and the can may be rotated; alternatively the whole conveyor may be at some 10 to the vertical, the pins accordingly being at 10 above the horizontal, thus preventing cans from falling off. The oven may have burner heads above and below the line of the conveyor, as shown at 61 to 69 and 71 to 79; further burners may act on the base of the cans. Alternatively, burners may be above only, with heat deflector plates below the cans, or a single elongate burner at a small angle to the path of the cans may be situated below the cans; the furnace may turn through 90 so as to allow different parts of the can to be flametreated. The cans proceed from oven 60 via cooler 90 to station 92 where they are transferred to store, or further processing.
Patent GB-729808-A (GB)
Title: Manufacture of testosterone injection preparations
IPC: A61K31/568
Filed: 1953-06-01
Abstract: The invention comprises the enol butyrate of testosterone-17-butyrate, and the preparaation thereof by any method in actual use or described in the literature for the manufacture of a known enol ester of a testosterone-17-ester.  An example discloses the use of testosterone, sodium butyrate and butyric anhydride as starting materials.ALSO:An injection preparation comprises a solution of the enol butyrate of testosterone-17-butyrate in an oil e.g. sesame oil.
Patent GB-1108172-A (GB)
Title: Improved chain link connector
IPC: F16G15/02
Filed: 1964-04-13
Abstract: 1,108,172. Chain connectors. COOK'S (HOLDINGS) Ltd., J. A. COOK, and K. J. A. COOK. 13 April, 1965 [13 April, 1964], No. 15251/64. Heading F2Q. A chain link connector comprises a member 1 having semicircular ends 2 of circular crosssection and a boss 3 of substantially square cross-section, the end 4 of member 1 of square section having on opposite sides grooves 7, 8 and steps 5, 6 which co-operate with corresponding lands 16, 17 and grooves 14, 15 in opposed faces of slots in the head 12 of a member 10. A screw is inserted through bores 21, 22 in boss 3 to engage in bore 20 in member 10 to hold the members 1, 10 together. The members 1, 10 may be forged with or without subsequent machining so that the members have to be hammered together; the grooves and steps may be slightly tapered. In a modification, the shank 11 of member 10 may be a separate element, with the head 12 having a threaded bore engaged by a screw passing through boss 3 and element 11. Alternatively, the element 11 may have right-hand and left-hand threaded ends engageable in threaded bores in boss 3 and member 10 so that rotation of the element draws the two members together. The element may be screw threaded to a greater distance on one end than on the other, both being right handed; the longer end is screwed into member 1 and member 10 hammered into position to abut the short end, the element then being rotated to screw the short end into member 10 to hold the members together.
Patent GB-1452006-A (GB)
Title: Conveyors
IPC: B61H9/04
Filed: 1974-04-05
Abstract: 1452006 Conveyers REDMAN FISHER ENG Ltd 21 March 1975 [5 April 1974] 15369/74 Heading B7L A conveyer comprises a fixed track 10 and a trolley having load bearing wheels 15, 16 which engage an upwardly facing surface of the track (flange 12) and a brake element 20 mounted on the rolley for continuous sliding engagement with a downwardly facing surface of the track (flange 13) so that contact pressure between the brake element and track tends to reduce during forward trolley movement but to increase during rearward trolley movement and thus prevent the trolley from running back. Forward movement of the trolley is effected by depending dogs 17 of an endless power-driven element engaging a driving dog 18 when the latter is pivotally moved into an operative position. The brake element 20 is a cam having a curved peripheral surface 22 and is pivotally mounted about an axis 21 on body 14 of the trolley, the element having a forwardly-projecting part 23 such that the centre of gravity lies forwardly of axis 21 to bias the element into contact with the flange 13 by gravity. The track 10 is formed by two channel section portions spaced apart horizontally with respective open mouths facing each other, the trolley having a respective element 20 between a pair of wheels 15, 16 on each side thereof to run in respective channels of the track.
Patent GB-184915-A (GB)
Title: Vehicles
IPC: B60P3/04
Filed: 1921-06-03
Abstract: 184,915. Guy, S. S. June 3, 1921. No Patent granted (Sealing fee not paid). Floors; cattle-trucks; doors, wagon.-To increase the carrying capacity, rail or other vehicles, particularly for the carriage of small live stock, are provided with one or more adjustable floors which may be raised and lowered, and when out of use rest on the vehicle floor. The adjustable floor 5, Fig. 1, is supported on screwed pillars 6 geared together and operated by a handle 9 or from the vehicle motor, to raise the floor from the floor of the body 4. The floor 5 may alternatively be supported by chains or cables. 23, Fig. 4, connected at one end to spaced drums on a shaft 25 driven through a worm, the chains passing up through tubes 34, 40 and over pulleys 36, 41 on vertical supports 37, 42, the ends being fastened to adjustable pins 38 on the floor 5. The floor 5 may, in another form, be raised by toggles operated by horizontal screwed shafts, the floor being guided by guide rods on the body engaging guide ways on the floor. The tailboard 57, Fig. 1, may have a folding extension 58 to facilitate loading of animals. When more than one adjustable floor is provided, the uppermost floor 5b, Fig. 8, is provided with ledges 60 to engage abutments 61 on the floor 5a, which is thus raised bv continued movement of the floor 5<b>. Similar ledges 62 engage abutments 63 to raise the floor 5, the movement of which is limited by stops 65. The adjustable floors may have sides and hinged tailboards, and these may be removable.
Patent GB-421572-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to slip hooks
IPC: F16B45/02
Filed: 1933-05-27
Abstract: 421,572. Hooks. PECK, H., Knitsley Lane Forge, and BROWN, R., 9, Palmerston Street, both in Consett, Co. Durham. May 27, 1933, No. 15371. [Class 89 (ii)] A slip hook has two side plates b between which is pivoted the hook a. The tail a<1> of this hook is retained in position by the pivoted latch d to which is also pivoted the member c. The hook is released by raising the handle h, which releases the safety catch k and then lifts the members c and d from the hook tail a<1>. The hook may be released from a distance by a string attached to the member c.
Patent GB-587982-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to resilient mountings
IPC: B64D27/04
Filed: 1944-08-11
Abstract: 587,982. Resilient mountings. LORD MANUFACTURING CO. Aug. 11, 1944, No. 15379. Convention date, July 15, 1943. [Class 108 (iii)] A resilient mounting, particularly for aircraft engines, comprises a pair of attachment members separated by resilient means and'adapted to be secured respectively to the engine &c. and to its support, a pair of relatively-movable contacting friction members, and a yielding backing having spaced faces fixed respectively to one of the friction members and one of the attachment members, providing for limited shear action 'of the backing on initial relative movements of the attachment members without imparting relative sliding movements to the friction members which are brought into operation on further relative movements of the attachments members. As shown, an aircraft engine is secured to the usual mounting ring 3 by a number of resilient mountings 4 each having a cover 5 from which a shank 6 extends through a clamp 7 secured to the ring. A housing 11 is bolted to the cover 5 forming a shell enclosing the disc end 13 of a shank 20 which is secured in a bracket 22 on the engine base 23, the disc being bonded between resilent devices 14, 17 of the sandwich type which in turn are bonded to plates centred by shoulders 16, 18 in the cover 5 and housing 11 respectively. A friction surface 26 on the end 25 of the housing 11 is engaged by one face of a friction disc 27 the other face of which is engaged by an actuating plate 29 locked thereto by an annular shoulder 30. A rubber or like pad 31 is arranged between the plate 29 and a plate 32 fixed, preferably adjustably, on the shank 20, lips 35 on the pad engaging the housing 11 to protect the friction surfaces from moisture. The parts are apertured as shown so that when the shank 20 moves laterally, the pad 31 first yields in shear without moving the friction disc 27, but with increased movement of the shank, the friction disc becomes operative. The disc may be replaced by a friction surface applied directly to the pad 31.
Patent GB-975572-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to paper winding apparatus
Inventor: WENER JOSEF
IPC: B65H23/18
Filed: 1961-04-28
Abstract: 975,572. Feeding webs. B. KIRSCH. April 28, 1961, No. 15455/61. Heading B6B. Paper winding apparatus comprises a holder 1 for a web supply roll, a feed roller 2, and a winding spindle 5, the speed of rotation of the feed roller being automatically controlled to correspond with the rotation of the winding spindle. The roller 2 is driven through a pulley 13 and belt 14. The pulley 13 is formed of two parts spring-loaded together. A control roller 4 is mounted on a shaft 41 having a threaded end 42 engaging a shaft 43 carrying a pulley 44. The shaft 43 is driven at a speed proportional to the winding spindle 5 through pulleys 44, 51. The slip of clutch 51 driving the belt 14 is adjusted by a lever 47 actuated by the rounded end 50 of shaft 43 according to whether the roller 4 is driven, by the web being rewound, at a rate faster or slower than the speed of the winding spindle. Variations in such speeds causes adjustment of the shaft 42 in shaft 43 to actuate lever 47. The web supply roll is mounted between tapered members 7 and 8, the member 8 being adjustable along a screwed shaft 6 to suit various widths of roll. The supply roll is braked by a brake band 28 engaging a drum 29.
Patent GB-529215-A (GB)
Title: A device for coupling together a series of blind rollers to enable them to be controlled by a single operating means
IPC: E06B9/50
Filed: 1939-05-25
Abstract: 529,215. Shaft couplings. DEAN, C. B., (trading as IRVING & CO.), and HART, P. F. May 25, 1939, No. 15506. [Class 80 (ii)] A series of blind rollers C are coupled together for simultaneous operation by co-operating members A, B fixed to adjacent ends of the rollers, one member having a flattened extremity a' to engage a correspondingly shaped socket b in the other member, and a shank or bearing portion a<1> between two shoulders a<2> a<3>, to engage in bearing recesses d, d' formed in a supporting plate D and in a strip D' removably secured in a recess d<2> in the plate D. If the rollers C are spaced widely apart, an intermediate rod having members A and B may be arranged between the rollers.