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Patent GB-872849-A (GB)
Title: Rotary multi-colour offset printing machine
Inventor: CLAES ALLER
IPC: B41F7/10
Filed: 1958-02-07
Abstract: 872,849. Offset printing machines. ALLERS ETABLISSEMENT A. S., CARL. Feb. 7, 1958 [Feb. 8, 1957], No. 4086/58. Class 100(2) In a rotary offset printing machine for printing in three or more colours and having forme cylinders, blanket cylinders, and an impression cylinder, one blanket cylinder being in contact with and receiving printing ink from formes on two forme cylinders, two blanket cylinders are provided and positioned diametrically opposite to one another in relation to the impression cylinder. As shown, an impression cylinder 30 co-operates with two blanket cylinders 40, 42, and the latter each receive printing ink from two printing cylinders 60, 62 and 64, 66, respectively. The cylinders 30, 60, 62, 64 and 66 rotate in fixed bearings, but the bearings of the blanket cylinders 40, 42 are arranged in horizontal slides and are movable by hydraulic means 54, 56 respectively. The machine is driven by a motor through a main shaft which by bevel gears drives a vertical shaft extending to the top of the machine frame and in alignment with the axis of the impression cylinder 30. This vertical shaft drives a roller 38 for drawing the paper web through the machine, and also drives the shaft 28 of the cylinder 30; the other cylinders and the inking trains of the press are all driven by gearing directly, and indirectly from the cylinder 30. Since the printing cylinders are arranged with their axes in vertical alignment with the axis of the corresponding blanket cylinder, when each blanket cylinder is moved horizontally, away from the impression cylinder 30, it is still possible to maintain toothed engagement between the gear wheels of the blanket cylinders and those of the corresponding printing cylinders; thus, registration is preserved between the cylinders when the blanket cylinders are moved away from the impression cylinder 30 for a short distance to relieve the pressure between the cylinders during prolonged non-printing periods. Further, to ensure that each cylinder 40, 42 cannot be rotated on its axis independently of the impression cylinder 30 when the blanket cylinders are moved away, two small gear wheels in mesh with the gear wheel on the cylinder 30 are arranged to mesh with the gear wheels on the printing cylinders 62, 64 respectively. These small gear wheels are arranged to be displaced axially so that they share no part in driving the machine. The printed web may pass from the roller 38 to a similar machine for printing on the reverse side of the web.
Patent GB-321618-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in headlight operating mechanisms for motorcars and the like
IPC: B60Q1/124
Filed: 1929-02-07
Abstract: 321,618. Doms, J., Wolter, H., and Simon, R. Feb. 7, 1929. Vehicle lamps, directing; vehicle-lamp support.-In means for directing vehicle headlights from the driver's seat, the headlights are separately rotated in a horizontal plane by means of gear wheels 3, 4 in mesh with pinions 6 on spindles 9 in an annular bipartite casing 1 secured to the steering hand wheel, dash board &c. and are simultaneously rotated in a vertical plane by means of a crank 7 on a spindle 8 extending through the casing 1, the spindles 9 being connected by flexible shafts 9<1> and worm gearing 26, 25 with the tubular lamp supports 17 rotatable on ball, bearings in casings 21 and the spindle 8 being connected by a flexible, shaft 8<1> and a worm gearing 46, 44 with a transverse rotatable tube 36 to the ends of which the casings 21 are secured. The operating handles M, M<1> of the gear wheels 3, 4 are arranged one above the other in the normal positon of the lamps to allow for simultaneous operation. The gear wheels 3. 4 are held in any adjusted position by a spring engaging the teeth and the tube 36 is held by a flexible band or spring 48. The flexible shafts 8<1>, 9<1> are secured by means of lock nuts 14<1> in the preferably longitudinally-slotted bevelled extension 14 of nuts secured on the spindles 8, 9 and the wormshafts. The tube 36 is rotatable on balls 41 in bearings 38 mounted on the front mudguards or on parts 49 carried by the frame of the vehicle, casings 40 secured to the bearings enclosing the worm gearing 46, 44 and the band 48 respectively. The lamp stems are secured in the split upper end of the tubes 17 by clamping collars 18.
Patent GB-485785-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to the platen and shift mechanism of typewriters
IPC: B41J11/14
Filed: 1937-02-12
Abstract: 485,785. Typewriters. JARDINE, Ltd., J., and BALL, H. J. Feb. 12, 1937, No. 4181. [Class 100 (iv)] Carriage shift mechanism.-The platencarriage J of a portable machine runs on a bed A which can rock for shift on pivots B and is connected by short links G<2> to short arms G<1> on a rock-shaft G arranged below the bed. Preferably, the arms and links are in alignment and lock the bed when the platen is in normal position. Links H operated by the shift-keys may be connected to the pivotal connections G<3> of the arms and links. To permit of adjustment of the platen E, the pivots B may be mounted in adjustable brackets C. An arm A<1> on the bed co-operates with adjustable stops D<1>.
Patent GB-630156-A (GB)
Title: Ice cream cone dispenser
IPC: A47F1/08
Filed: 1947-02-13
Abstract: 630,156. Boxes for ice cream cones. SHAPIRO, A. H. Feb. 13, 1947, No. 4215. [Class 18] A dispensing container for ice cream cones comprises a dispensing plate 13 interlocked with the container walls 1 and provided with holes 14 to accommodate stacks of cones, the material of the plate at the margins of the holes being bent downwardly to form stiffening flanges 15 and stamped to provide depending spring fingers 17 which yield when a cone is withdrawn downwardly from the stack. In order to increase the resiliency of the fingers, the plate is notched back from the openings as at 16, Fig. 2, whilst embossings 18, 20, with ventilating openings 19, 21, are provided for strengthening purposes. The plate has upturned flanges 23 for engagement between inwardly directed ribs 3 in the walls 1 to which, if desired, it can be welded. The container is provided with a hinged bottom plate 10 that can be closed, when not in use, to take the weight of the cones off the spring fingers, and with a corrugated back plate 5 having keyhole slots for suspension purposes. In use, an open carton containing stacks of cones is inserted, open end first, into the container where it is supported by plate 13 and the cones allowed to gravitate into the holes 14.
Patent GB-438241-A (GB)
Title: Apparatus for playing a game of skill
IPC: A63B67/10
Filed: 1935-02-09
Abstract: 438,241. Games; toys. KELLY, T., 170, Craigton Road, Govan, Glasgow. Feb. 9, 1935, No. 4228. [Classes 132 (ii) and 132 (iii)] Apparatus for playing a game comprises a stationary base B, Figs. 1 and 2, to which is fixed a panel A of wood having circular apertures E of the same or different diameter and having a wood or metal member C from which is cut out or to which is fitted an eye D having connected to it by a clip F an elastic or rubber cord G to which is fixed by solution or other means a rubber, air or other ball H. A portable form of apparatus is shown in Fig. 3 provided with a handle J.
Patent GB-413232-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to alternating current motors
IPC: H02K21/46
Filed: 1934-02-08
Abstract: 413,232. Induction motors; motors. ELECTRICAL APPARATUS CO., Ltd., and BARBOUR, R. H., Vauxhall Works, South Lambeth Road, London. Feb. 8, 1934, No. 4250. [Class 35.] In a synchronous motor for clocks &c. of the type in which the rotor comprises an induction member actuated by a rotating field and a permanent magnet co-operating with a toothed stator, the stator projections with which the magnet is co-operating at any moment are all of the same polarity. The induction member 10 consists of a metal plate with a turned-over edge and is actuated by the rotating field produced by two plates 6, 7 mounted on the core 2 of the energizing coil 3, provided with pole-pieces 6<a>, 6<b>, 7<a>, 7<b> and separated by a shading-plate 8. The magnetic portion 11 of the rotor is formed with north and south poles, as shown in Fig. 6, and co-operates with polar projections on a ring 14, attached to the magnetic casing 1 of the machine. A soft iron disc 13 with projecting arms between the member 10 and the magnet 11 distributes the flux and assists in keeping the rotor spindle in the end bearing 17.
Patent GB-562451-A (GB)
Title: Improved ship propulsion
IPC: B63H5/16
Filed: 1943-03-17
Abstract: 562,451. Propelling ships. ANDREWS, W. R. March 17, 1943, No. 4317. [Classes 113 (ii) and 114] A ship is propelled by means of one or more propellers A set forward of the stern within an openbottom trough B which is formed in the bottom of the after part of the hull with its rear end below the rudder post, whilst external channels C formed in each side of the after part of the hull direct water to the rudder D.
Patent GB-195497-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in softening wood
IPC: B27K5/06
Filed: 1922-02-14
Abstract: 195,497. Johnson, J. V., (Badische Anilin & Soda Fabrik). Feb. 14, 1922, Wood, treating with liquids.-Wood is softened by treatment under pressure with aqueous solutions of soapy compounds with or without watersoluble dyestuffs and waxes, fats and the like. The term " soapy compounds " includes sulphonates of fatty acids.
Patent GB-490673-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to a method of and apparatus for the reception of radio signals
IPC: H04B1/26
Filed: 1937-02-13
Abstract: 490,673. Valve circuits for wireless reception. MUSSETT, R. D. G. Feb. 13, 1937, No. 4359. Drawings to Specification. [Class 40 (v)] In a radio receiver of the superheterodyne type employing a local oscillator tunable to produce a number of fixed fundamental frequencies of which one is preselected, the preselected fixed frequency is outside the range to be received and the intermediate-frequency circuit is made tunable over a range equal to the range of frequencies to be received. The arrangement prevents interference between two or more adjacent receivers operating from a common or adjacent aerial-earth systems. In an example, for reception on a range of 12 to 14 megacycles, the oscillator frequency is 15 megacycles and the intermediate-frequency circuit is tunable from 1 to 3 megacycles.
Patent GB-1219326-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to blinds, curtains or the like
Inventor: KENDRICK VICTOR EDWARD HAROLD
IPC: E06B9/36
Filed: 1968-01-27
Abstract: 1,219,326. Slat-type blinds. V. E. H. KENDRICK and J. A. BAKER. 24 Jan., 1969 [27 Jan., 1968], No. 4374/68. Heading E1J. In a vertical slat louvre-type blind the flexible louvres or strips 1 are suspended at their upper ends by hook members 5 from a support 4 and at the opposite side of the support 4 to the hooks 5. The members are cranked. at 6 and connected to a coupling member 8 which may be displaced in opposite directions to turn the strips 1 about their vertical axis equally and simultaneously - between the fully open and fully closed positions. The pair of cranks 6 extend completely through the member 8 and are retained therein by heads 9.
Patent GB-380352-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to gas fires
IPC: F24C3/04
Filed: 1932-02-15
Abstract: 380,352. Gas fires; burners. SOUTH METROPOLITAN GAS CO., CHANDLER, D., and EVANS, E. V., 709, Old Kent Road, London. Feb. 15, 1932, No. 4501. [Classes 75 (i) and 126.] In a gas fire having burners 1, 5 supplying respectively non- luminous and luminous flames, the burners 1, or, as in the construction shown, both the burners 1, 5, discharge into hollow perforated supports 10 carrying loose radiants 11 and supported on a fireclay foundation 9. In the fire shown the radiants 11 are hollow and perforated, and the supports 10, which are also of refractory material to serve as radiants, are of hollow wedge shape and comprise skeleton front walls 15, substantially imperforate studded rear walls, conical projections 16 on the top, and a lip 17 shielding an opening 14 extending along the top of the rear wall. The luminous flame burners 5 may, as shown, extend through the atmospheric burners 1 or, in modifications, may be outside and adjacent them, or may discharge into passages 21 in the firebrick. The two sets of burners may be controlled by separate taps or by a single tap.
Patent GB-124051-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in the Manufacture of Boats and Ships.
Inventor: THOMAS OSCAR
IPC: B63B5/16
Filed: 1918-03-14
Abstract: 124,051. Thomas, O. March 14, 1918. Moulds for building.-Ship-like forms for the hulls of ships, motor boats, flying boats, hydroaeroplane floats, &c., or the shuttering for use in the construction of ferro-concrete ships' hulls, are made of rubber compounds, such as ebonite, vulcanite, or the like, either as a whole or in standarized sections. The material is moulded in the plastic state, and then vulcanized or cured in situ, and may be reinforced. For small hulls a simple two-part steam heated mould is used. For larger hulls, such as motor boats or the like, a hollow two-part mould 1, Fig. 2, is used, which is constructed of metal plates supported, for example, by rollers 8 on rails 9, the two parts being forced together by screw jacks 10. A core 4 of metal plates suitably stayed is raised and lowered on chains 12 by craves, and is guided by runners 14 on the steam pipes 13. Shuttering 15, Fig. 3, for concrete, is preferably made in sections, each in halves, as shown. For use it is supported in light framing 16, or it is made selfsupporting by shaping the moulds to produce horizontal heels or bases, which may be reinforced by metal rods or meshwork. For still larger hulls or shuttering, cores may be coated in layers by hand with plastic rubber, the layers breaking joint. The coatings are then finished off by heated tools, and the cores run on rails into a vulcanizing chamber.
Patent GB-960145-A (GB)
Title: Apparatus for transporting card-type data carriers
IPC: H01L21/00
Filed: 1963-02-05
Abstract: 960,145. Delivering sheets. SIEMENS & HALSKE A.G. Feb. 5, 1963 [Feb. 5, 1962], No. 4592/63. Heading B6H. Record cards which are transported from a machine to a delivery stack are decelerated so that they overlap, and the overlapping operation is facilitated by causing the trailing edge of a preceding card to be depressed by two devices which engage the sides of the cards to allow the leading edge of a following card to over-ride it. As shown, the cards are fed by sets of rollers 3, 4, the latter having a peripheral speed of onethird of that of the former and being urged together resiliently, and the side edges of the cards 1, 2 engage in grooves 11 in rollers 10 which rotate in the direction of the arrows 13. Each incoming card 1 passes into different slots 11 from the preceding card, and is moved downward and forward towards the decelerating rollers 4 : thus the card 1 enters the slots 11 at a higher level than the trailing edge of the card 2 which is gripped by the rollers 4. In a modification (Fig. 1, not shown), the trailing edge of the first card is depressed by counterrotating vaned wheels which rotate about vertical axes inclined to the plane of travel of the cards, so that the vanes &c. engage over the side edges of the card. The vaned wheels could be replaced by helical gears or wormwheels. Instead of using decelerating rollers 4, the preceding cards can be braked by spring- pressed guides.
Patent GB-811250-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to storage racks
IPC: G11B23/027
Filed: 1957-02-11
Abstract: 811,250. Racks. ROSS, H. H. Oct. 4, 1957 [Feb. 11, 1957], No. 4601/57. Classes 52(1) and 52(3) A rack for the storage of reels of magnetic recording tape comprises end plates 1 and division plates 2 defining storage compartments and the outer face of each end plate is provided with a lifting bar 5 extending from the lower front edge to the upper rear edge of the end plate. The plates are connected by rods 12 faced with rubber or like resiliant material and have rubber or like pads 16 cushioning the reels from the sides of the plates.
Patent GB-178615-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to springs for perambulators, mail carts and the like
IPC: B62B9/18
Filed: 1921-02-09
Abstract: 178,615. Lines, W. Feb. 9, 1921. Springs, arrangement of; frame construction.- Perambulator springs of the kind permitting the body to lie between them comprise cee-shaped end portions 2, Fig. 2, connected by an integral central portion which is bent at 3 so that the ends are inclined outwards when viewed in plan. The bend 3 is preferably at or near the centre and forms an obtuse angle, but the central portion may be curved or provided with more than one bends. In the modification shown in Figs. 3 and 4, cee-springs 4 are rigidly secured to frame members 6, which are bent in a similar manner to the central portions of the springs in Fig. 2.
Patent GB-1193592-A (GB)
Title: Lifting Apparatus.
Inventor: MILLER NORMAN HOWARD
IPC: B66F7/16
Filed: 1969-01-28
Abstract: 1,193,592. Platform elevators; hydraulic jacks. N. H. MILLER. 28 Jan., 1969, No. 4646/69. Headings B8H and B8J. Lifting apparatus, particularly for maintenance work on airplane engines, comprises a base structure 10 supporting an L-shaped platform 19 on hydraulic jacks 20, 22. A first rectangular frame 35 is also mounted on hydraulic jacks 36, 38 supported by the base 10 so as to be able to pass freely through the cut-out in the platform 19. The vertical positions of the platform 19 and the frame 35 are adjusted by a control panel 94 mounted on the platform 19. A second rectangular frame 74 is mounted on the first frame 35 by four hydraulic piston and cylinder assemblies 76 to 79, each of which is pivoted at either end to a respective corner of the two frames 35, 74. The attitude and elevation of the frame 74 may be controlled by a valve 90 of known form mounted on the frame 35. The frame 35 has cradle-like supports 92 for an engine to be handled and attached to an airplane. The hydraulic jacks 20, 22, 36, 38 may be as illustrated in Fig. 2. As shown, the jack is fully extended and comprises an hydraulic cylinder 50 mounted within a telescoping rectangular sleeve element 51. The upper end 58 of piston 56 supports two idler pulleys 59 carrying cables 60, 61 anchored to lugs 62, 63 on sleeve member 51 and to lugs 64, 65 on sleeve member 53. The sleeve member 53 has two idler pulleys 66 mounted at the upper end thereof around which cables 67, 68 are trained and are anchored to lugs 69, 70 on the sleeve member 52 and to lugs 71, 72 on sleeve member 54. Interlocking flanges on the sleeve members prevent any of the sleeves from being elevated too far.
Patent GB-512884-A (GB)
Title: An improved apparatus for teaching music
IPC: G09B15/02
Filed: 1938-02-15
Abstract: 512,884. Teaching music. CARRICK, J. M. Feb. 15, 1938, No. 4715. [Class 88 (ii)] Depression of a pianoforte or dummy key 10 makes a contact by which one or two lamps 7 corresponding to the note are illuminated behind apertures in a board (not shown) bearing a five-line staff. Each aperture is marked with the note-name if natural, or with the symbol b' or # for an enharmonic equivalent. The key contacts also illuminate respective lamps 8 over which may be moved an apertured slide 5 bearing the sol-fa names, thus providing a variable "doh." An apertured slide 15 may be moved by a cord 18 against the action of a spring 19 to mask either or both of the enharmonics on either side of a natural. The lamps may be of more than one colour.
Patent GB-667618-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to the separation of gases
IPC: B01D53/12
Filed: 1950-02-23
Abstract: <PICT:0667618/III/1> In the fractionation of a gaseous mixture by countercurrent contacting with a fluidized solid adsorbent, followed by passing the adsorbent downwardly through a rectification zone where different fractions are separated, and partial desorption with steam in a lower zone, the fluidized adsorbent is then passed upwardly through a heating zone to effect further desorption.  In the apparatus shown, using charcoal as adsorbent, a mixture containing hydrocarbons is introduced under pressure at 4, methane, hydrogen, and nitrogen are removed at 14, C2 hydrocarbons at 8, and C3 and higher hydrocarbons at 9.  The charcoal is partially desorbed at 330-365 DEG F. by reflux gas containing steam introduced at 31, and is then removed at 17, heated to 500-600 DEG F. by passing upwardly through heater 20 containing tube bundles surrounded by diphenyl or a mixture of diphenyl and diphenyl oxide, treated with steam at about 500 DEG F. in vessel 22, and dehydrated in vessel 25 with dry gas removed overhead from the adsorption zone.  The charcoal passes via cooler 34 back to the top of the adsorption tower.  The feed gas may be purified before treatment, and part of the charcoal may be regenerated during the process.  The process is also applicable to the separation of paraffins, naphthenes, olefins, diolefins, and aromatics, using a silica gel adsorbent, the separation of organic vapours of different degrees of polarity, the recovery of hydrocarbons and oxygenated compounds from hydrocarbon synthesis gas, the separation of methane from nitrogen and the recovery of acetylene from the gases of the Wulff process.
Patent GB-305997-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in reflectors
IPC: F21V7/04
Filed: 1929-02-12
Abstract: 305,997. Naamlooze Vennootschap Glasfabriek Leerdam vorheen Jeekel, Mijnssen, & Co. Feb. 13, 1928, [Convention date]. Reflectors.-In order to obtain a predetermined distribution of illumination a source of light is surrounded by a reflector of glass or other transparent material, one or both surfaces of which are finely dulled or otherwise treated to cause a partial diffusion of the rays reflected by the silverplated or like outer surface thereof, the reflector being so shaped as to avoid reflecting the rays back through the source of light or on to another part of the reflector. In the form shown in Fig. 2, the reflector comprises an upper part 9 and a smaller lower part 10 both parts being elliptical in cross-section. The centre of a table 11 is illuminated only by direct rays from an electric lamp bulb 8, the portion within the cone 13 is illuminated more strongly by direct rays and by reflected rays such as 14, whilst the extreme edges of the table are illuminated only by reflected rays such as 15. The ceiling 22 is illuminated by direct rays and by reflected rays such as 16, 17. In the form shown in Fig. 4, the reflector comprises three parts 18, 19, 20, the illumination of the ceiling decreasing from the centre towards the sides. The part 20 may be left transparent so as to produce a downwardly-directed cone of direct light.
Patent GB-269284-A (GB)
Title: Utilizing kinematograph and like films for mounting objects for microscope, and optical projecting apparatus
IPC: G03D15/00
Filed: 1926-02-19
Abstract: 269,284. Bland, H. B. Feb. 19, 1926. Microscopes.-Shallow recesses are formed in a kinematograph or other film strip to receive microscopic objects; titles. or kinematograph pictures may also be provided on the film, and the film may be viewed by means of a microscope in conjunction with a special holder. The recesses may be of round, oval, or square shape, and may be arranged consecutively at sixteen to the foot or in alternation with titles. A thin cover film, with or without marginal perforations, may be cemented over the recesses, or separate cover discs may be employed. The Figure shows a microscope 11 having a holder 14 clamped on its stage and comprising a pay-out spool 12, a take-up spool 13, and a feed sprocket 17, the spool 13 being rotated by a knob 21 which is also geared to the sprocket. The film is drawn through a gate comprising spring-controlled runners.