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Patent GB-547425-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to electric fuse-holders
IPC: H01H85/20
Filed: 1941-09-04
Abstract: 547,425. Mobile cut-outs. DORMAN & SMITH, Ltd., ATHERTON, T., and LUND, J. Sept. 4,1941, No. 11298. [Class 38(i)] The co-operating contacts of a bridge-carrier fuse comprise fixed contacts 6 of heavy metal with integral cable terminals mounted on the ends of the base 5 and floating contacts 13 in corresponding positions on the fuse carrier 11. The fixed contacts have inclined surfaces 8, 10 such that a constricted space is formed by the ridges 9 through which the carrier must be pressed. The floating contacts are secured to the carrier by engagement with undercut heads 12 and are pressed outwards by springs 14 located in registering recesses in the heads and contacts. When the contacts 13 have passed the ridges 9 they rock into contact with the surfaces 10 and so prevent the carrier from becoming detached from the base.
Patent GB-1169618-A (GB)
Title: Method of Manufacturing Knitted-Fabric Garments
IPC: A41D1/04
Filed: 1967-03-10
Abstract: 1,169,618. Knitted fabric garments. MARUNAO MERIYASU KOGYO K.K. 10 March, 1967 [16 March, 1966; 29 Nov., 1966], No. 11347/67. Heading A3V. Knitted fabric garments are made by cutting through a stack of flattened tubular members to form a plurality of garment blanks, which are seen to form seams at the lower edges of the sleeves and at the body sides. A continuous tubular length of material may be zigzag folded to form the stack Fig. 3, or a number of separate tubular pieces of material may be stacked, Fig. 2b. In the latter case, the stack is cut along the lines 12-11-12 to form a number of garment blanks A1, the areas L being scrap. The individual tubular blanks A1 are cut along the sleeve cuff ends C, after which the sleeve lower sides 12 and the body sides 11 are sewn together and a neck opening 13 cut out to form a shirt, Fig. 5a. Gussets (4) (Fig. 5b, not shown) may be sewn on to the armpit. When the stack is formed by a continuous tubular length of material, it is transversely cut along the line 12-11-12, Fig. 2a, to form the garment blanks B1 to A4 Fig. 3, the portions AX and BX being scrap. In other embodiments (Figs 6-10, not shown), the cutting lines 12-11-12 are differently positioned.
Patent GB-722837-A (GB)
Title: Device for indicating the operation of fire-extinguishing apparatus or installationsand the like
Inventor: KENNERSON CECIL
IPC: A62C37/50
Filed: 1952-05-05
Abstract: 722,837. Visible signalling apparatus. PYRENE CO., Ltd. May 5, 1953 [May 5, 1952] No. 11356/52. Class 118 (2). [Also in Group XXI]. In a fire extinguishing or other apparatus or installation employing a fluid under pressure, there is provided a device for indicating whether or not the apparatus has been operated, comprising a plunger 16 which is projected when fluid under pressure passes along a pipe 4. The plunger is held lightly in its inner position by a circlip 12 co-operating with' a conical enlargement 18 and is held positively in its projected position by another circlip 14. The plunger engages washers 20, 22 to prevent leakage of the fluid.
Patent GB-701605-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to cigarette holders
IPC: A24F13/14
Filed: 1951-05-16
Abstract: 701,605. Cigarette holders and extinguishers. BAUDECROUX, P. May 16, 1951 [May 16, 1950], No. 11495/51. Class 130 A cup 1 receiving a cigarette 2 has a pin 14 sliding in longitudinal grooves in a holder body 4 and is fast on an externally screw-threaded smoke tube 13 co-acting with a nut 16 rigid with a mouthpiece 5, so that on relative rotation of the members 4, 5 the cup and cigarette may be retracted within the body 4 as shown for cigarette extinguishing and storage. The members 4, 5 are retained axially by a ring 17, and the interior of the mouthpiece 5 adjacent the nut 16 acts as a saliva trap. In a modification the screw and nut arrangement is replaced by a radial pin on the smoke tube co-acting with axial and helical grooves in concentric tubular members fast with the members 4, 5, which are connected by a collar on the member 5 which may be inwardly flanged to co-act with a groove in the member 4 or plain to allow separation of the members as for the insertion in the member 5 of a smoke filter unit.
Patent GB-602599-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to the driving arrangements of endless-track vehicles
IPC: B62D55/125
Filed: 1945-05-07
Abstract: 602,599. Agricultural tractors. BERNARDMOTEURS. May 7, 1945, No. 11630. Convention date, Dec. 22, 1941. [Classes 79 (i) and 79 (ii)] In a tractor of the type in which the drive from the engine passes through a clutch and gear box to the rear of the engine and then forwardly by a driving shaft to the front of the vehicle, the track-driving pulleys are mounted on a shaft in front of the engine and are each driven by a toothed drive from a transmission shaft located in front of the pulley shaft, the transmission shaft being driven by a worm drive from the driving shaft which extends under the engine. The tractor comprises an engine 7, Fig. 1, clutch 8, gear box 9, forwardly directed driving shaft 14, worm and worm wheel drive 15, 16, a pair of transmission shafts 20, a pair of clutches 21, Fig. 2, and reduction gears 22 which drive the front driving pulleys 6 of the endless tracks. Operation of one of a pair of levers 28, Fig. 3, first moves lever 30 and rod 32 to disengage one of the clutches 21 and so disconnect the drive to one track, whilst further movement of the lever 28 maintains the clutch disengaged and through a lost motion linkage 33 and rod 34 applies a brake (not shown) to the appropriate driving pulley 6. The gear-box comprises an input shaft 11, having a rearwardly projecting extension 12 serving as a power take-off shaft, to which is splined a slidable collar 40 having two gears 41, 42 which can be engaged with the large gear 43 on the intermediate shaft 19 or with the gear 44, as determined by the gear lever 52, motion then being transmitted by gears 45 or 46 to gears 50 or 51, according to the position of the latter as determined by the gear lever 53, thence to the driving shaft 14. The rear end of the output shaft 13 is journalled in a partition 48 clear of the rear wall of the gear box, to provide clearance for the large gear 43, this arrangement enabling the necessary gear reduction to be obtained without unduly restricting ground clearance. Reverse speed is obtained by sliding an idler gear 54 into engagement with gears 41 and 43.
Patent GB-606012-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to electro magnetic vibratory devices
IPC: H04R1/40
Filed: 1946-04-16
Abstract: 606,012. Electromagnets. STANDARD TELEPHONES & CABLES, Ltd., and ROBERTON, J. S. P. April 16, 1946, No. 11669. [Class 35] [Also in Group XXXIX] An electromagnetic vibratory devicecomprises a permanent magnet 2, an armature 6, and alternating current coils 15, poles 4 and 4<SP>1</SP> of like polarity being adjacent to each end of the centrally pivoted armature and a third pole formed by the permanent magnet 2 being adjacent the armature pivot. The alternating current flux flows between the two firstmentioned poles through the magnetic yoke 1 without passing through the permanent magnet 2. The armature plate 6 is slotted as at 7 and the ends of the tongues 8 are supported on the yoke, thus permitting the armature to pivot virtually around axis AB. An extension 13 on the plate operates the diaphragm 9 through a rod 12.
Patent GB-166987-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to meat and the like skewers
IPC: A47J37/04
Filed: 1920-04-27
Abstract: 166,987. Ryde, W. Eskdaile-, Haigh, C. W., and Lea, L. H. April 27, 1920. Skewers.-A meat or like skewer is made of metal of channelled cross-section, the handle being formed by bending the channelled shank into a loop or the like or by attaching a button head to the shank. The loop handle may be cf various shapes and is preferably arranged to have the channel within the loop, as shown in Fig. 5, and may be reinforced by a solid filling around which the channelled shank is pinched to retain it within the loop, or by a channelled stiffener nested within the loop of the channelled skewer. A button head k, 'beaded at l, is attached to the shank by clinching over the shank projections g after they have been introduced in slots h in the head k. The projections may be formed on the head and attached to the shank. In a further modification, Fig. 7, the channelled shank is prcvided with a handle of double crescent form.
Patent GB-1503426-A (GB)
Title: Vending machine
IPC: G07F11/52
Filed: 1976-03-23
Abstract: 1503426 Article dispensing apparatus R W HOUSMAN 23 March 1976 11678/76 Heading B8U A vending machine comprises a housing (10), Fig. 2 (not shown), in which a member 14 is mounted for rotation about a horizontal axis, a plurality of merchandise-containing bins 16 being defined by partitions 18 of the member 14 and by an annular wall 12 which has an opening (82) in its lower portion, Fig. 3 (not shown), and when a particular bin 16 is above the opening (82) a dispenser cylinder 84 is rotated clockwise so that a recess 88 formed therein receives an item of merchandise from the bin 16 and transfers it to a delivery shoot 86 which leads to a delivery slot (34), Fig. 1 (not shown). Rotation of the member 14 to bring a particular bin 16 to a position above the opening (82) and rotation of the cylinder 84 is possible only after coins have been inserted into the machine. A wall part 96 of wall 12 is movable, to prevent jamming of an item between a recess 88 and the wall 12.
Patent GB-1469275-A (GB)
Title: Method and apparatus for separating seeds
IPC: B07B13/00
Filed: 1974-03-15
Abstract: 1469275 Separating seeds RANKS HOVIS McDOUGALL Ltd 10 March 1975 [15 March 1974] 11692/74 Heading B2H Desirable seeds are separated from spurious seeds or bodies by feeding a mixture of the desirable seeds and spurious seeds or bodies on to, and at a lower level of, a concavely curved surface lined with a material having an outwardly extending pile and moving upwardly along a path defined by the curvature of the surface so that the mixture is elevated from the lower level towards an upper level of the surface, the surface retaining the spurious seeds or bodies and permitting the desirable seeds to fall back down the surface, removing the spurious seeds or bodies at an upper level of the surface and removing the desirable seeds at a lower level of the surface. In Figs. 1 and 2, the mixture is deposited at 9 on a lower portion of the inner surface of a rotating inclined drum 1 adjacent its upper end. Part of the inner surface of the drum is coated with a material 5 in the form of plastics bristles extending radially or in the direction of rotation 4 of the drum. The spurious seeds or bodies, because of their hairy or rough nature, are carried by the bristles to an upper level 11 where they are removed from the bristles by a rotating brush 6 and deposited in a trough 8 for removal at its lower end. The desirable seeds are carried partially up the inner surface of the drum but, because of their smooth nature, are not caught by the bristles 5 and fall back to the lower part of the drum to be finally discharged at its lower end 13. In another embodiment, Fig. 4, the concavely curved surface is provided by the upper run or runs of one or two endless conveyor belts 14, 15 the outer surface(s) of which is/are coated with the same material as the material 5 of the previous embodiment. The axes of the rollers 18 supporting the belts may be inclined to the horizontal.
Patent GB-516563-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in antenna systems
IPC: G01S3/08
Filed: 1938-04-21
Abstract: 516,563. Aerials. TRIGGS, W. W. (Pan American Airways Corporation). April 21, 1938, No. 11948. [Class 40 (v)] Relates to means for balancing the opposed dipoles of an Adcock aerial with respect to each other, and for equalizing the capacity-toearth of each antenna, so as to eliminate nighteffect. In Fig. 1 the four dipoles 10 are elevated well above the ground, so as to minimize differential earth capacities, and the "balancing" is completed by adjusting the capacities of the condensers 25 and the points at which the horizontal transmission lines 11, 12 are tapped to the transformers 24. The adjustments are made as each pair of aerials is energized. in turn, by a local oscillator, and the searchcoil 18 of the radiogoniometer is set for maximum signal strength. In Fig. 5, the aerials 28 are grounded, and the balance is effected by means of the condensers 25. Fig. 8 shows an alternative arrangement. The transmission line may be divided into sections which are coupled. together, and the coupling transformers and transmission lines may be completely screened as shown in Fig. 10. The upper and lower halves of each dipole may be made of different diameters, and the lower limb may be fitted with a projecting screw to provide a fine adjustment of its effective length.
Patent GB-238593-A (GB)
Title: Sucker rod
IPC: E21B17/042
Filed: 1924-05-15
Abstract: 238,593. Marks, E. C. R., (Axelson Machine Co.). May 15, 1924. R o d couplings; spigot - and - socket screwed joint. - In order to connect two sucker rods 11 by a coupling-member 14, the adjacent ends of the rods are provided with a screwthreaded portion 13 and an unthreaded portion 22 of truncated conical form, the greatest diameter of said portion 22 being less than the diameter at the base of the thread of the portion 13, and the coupling-member 14 is provided with a socket at each end, said sockets having a threaded part to engage the threaded portion 13 of the rod and an unthreaded part of the same conicity as the portion 22. The thread of the screw-threaded portion 13 is of subsantially uniform outside diameter but of decreasing depth towards the base thereof, while the length of the threaded socket portion is less than that of the corresponding portion of the rod, so that the end of the rod, when screwed home in the socket, seats against the bottom of said socket. The coupling-member is preferably formed with flat portions as shown in Fig. 3.
Patent GB-735304-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to saturable reactors
IPC: H01F29/14
Filed: 1952-05-13
Abstract: 735,304. Inductors. WILLHEIM, R. May 12, 1953 [May 13, 1952], No. 12090/52. Class 38 (2). [Also in Group XXXIX] A saturable reactor or magnetic amplifier comprising a core 501 having three limbs 502, 503, 504 carrying two A.C. windings 505, 506 on the outer limbs 502, 503 respectively, these two windings and a load device 519 being connected in series and supplied with alternating current and a controlling D.C. winding 507 carried by the centre limb 504 and fed with a controlling direct current, is characterized by the provision of three auxiliary windings 511, 512, 513 which are connected in delta and serve to suppress or substantially decrease the leakage fluxes which extend from yoke to yoke of the reactor in paths other than those formed by the core limbs. Thus, any unbalance of the fluxes in the limbs 502, 503, 504 will cause a current to circulate in the delta connected auxiliary windings 511, 512, 513 which tends to restore the flux balance in the limbs so that the leakage fluxes are eliminated. The delta connected auxiliary windings may have a low impedance such as a resistor 514 or a capacitor 515 included in circuit thereby reducing the retarding effect on the operation of the reactor of transient changes in the D.C. flux. D.C. may be injected into the delta connected windings across the winding on the centre limbs, thus these windings may also serve as D.C. biasing windings. A feed-back winding 516 may be provided, fed with direct current over a potentiometer 518 from a rectifier bridge 517 included in the series connection between the A.C. windings 505, 506. In other embodiments certain of the windings on the outer links may carry 100 per cent feed-back current whilst a winding on the centre limb carries a feed-back current suitably modifying this value. In a further modification the A.C. windings and the feed-back windings are combined and placed in series with half-wave rectifiers thereby producing a so-called " selfsaturated" reactor. Biasing windings fed with D.C. may also be provided. Two or more saturable reactors may be used in a cascade arrangement, which reactors may, or may not, be of similar construction.
Patent GB-350656-A (GB)
Title: Improved guard for meat-slicing and bread-slicing machines
IPC: B26D7/22
Filed: 1930-04-17
Abstract: 350,656. Machinery guards. BIDDULPH, A., of Biddulph & Co., Lingard Street, Hulme, Manchester. April 17, 1930, No. 12131. Grant of Patent opposed. [Class 80 (iv).] A guard for the revolving and reciprocating parts of a meat- or breadslicing machine comprises a base C, cast integral with or bolted to the top of machine frame D, two side members, one of which is shown at E1, rigidly attached to the base C or cast integral with the machine frame, and a front panel F which extends the whole width of the machine and, as shown, is hinged at its lower edge to lugs on the side members. The panel is held in the upright guarding position by finger-lifted spring plungers B engaging lugs on the side members. The panel F may, instead of being hinged, be removable bodily and be held in position by spring-loaded ball and plunger fasteners. The parts may be decorativelv formed.
Patent GB-149736-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to means for covering or coating electric conductors, wire, and the like with liquid or plastic materials
IPC: B05C3/12
Filed: 1919-05-14
Abstract: 149,736. Cook, F. C. May 14, 1919. Coating-machines.-Relates to apparatus for coating wire &c. of the kind in which the wire is fed by means of removable inlet and outlet nozzles through a casing to which the coating material is introduced under pressure and circulated from a reservoir by means of a pump, and comprises driving means for drawing the wire or the like through the casing, and provision for throwing the pump out of gear with said drive so that pressure and circulation of the covering or coating material can be prevented, together with a valve to regulate the flow and pressure. The casing 3, fitted at the ends with inlet and outlet exchangeable nozzles 7, S for the wire &c. to be coated, is supplied with coating liquid by a pump 15 which draws it from a reservoir through a pipe 16 and circulates it through a pipe 18 back to the reservoir, the flow and pressure being controlled by a needle or other valve 17. The wire &c. to be coated is threaded through the nozzles 7, 8, and is pulled through the casing 3 by connecting its front end to the lower run of an endless cord passing over a pulley 31 and over a second pulley some distance away. The pump 15 is coupled to a shaft 19 on which are loosely mounted pulleys 20, 21 rotated continuously in opposite directions. By moving the clutch 22 to the left, the pump is set in motion so as to fill the casing 3 with coating material at the same time as the pulley 31 is rotated by means of the worm-wheel 28, worm 29, pulley 25, belt 24, and pulley 23, the latter being integral with or operatively connected with the pulley 21. A clutch 30 is interposed between the worm-wheel 28 and the pulley 31 so that the pulley can be connected to and disconnected from the drive when the forcing operation of the pump commences and ceases. By moving the clutch 22 into engagement with the pulley 20 the pump 15 is reversed so as to lower the level of the coating liquid in the casing 3 to prevent its escape from the nozzles 7, 8 when coating is not in progress.
Patent GB-373366-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or connected with sound reproducing instruments
IPC: G11B3/08
Filed: 1931-04-24
Abstract: 373,366. Gramophones. ROSTON, J. and LINGUAPHONE, Ltd., 24, High Holborn, London. April 24, 1931, No. 12174. [Class 40 (ii).] Comprises a device for use with a soundreproducing machine which enables the needle to be set back to any desired part of the record so that the reproduction from any portion of the record may be repeated. A standard d, Fig. 1, is mounted within a socket b having a set-screw c and carried on a baseplate a which is fixed to the machine casing. The standard d carries a guide e for a sliding rod g which has a retaining screw h and is provided at its other end with a bent plate i which is adapted to fit partly around the tone-arm. The plate i is normally spring-pressed into contact with the tone-arm to follow the movement thereof by a spring j, and when it is desired to repeat any part of the reproduction a screw f is screwed down to fix the rod g. The record continues to be played and, when it is desired to reproduce the portion just completed, the tone-arm is moved back up to the plate i. In the modification shown by Figs. 4 and 6, the guide e has fixed on its upper surface a plate n having a slot o along which slides a pillar q carried by the rod g and adapted to contact with the tone-arm. The plate n may be provided with a scale s and the pillar q may have an index line t to enable the pillar to be replaced to any desired position. A further modification is shown by Fig. 7, in which the plate n is lengthened and the guide e, rod g, spring j, pillar q and set-screw fare duplicated. The springs j retain the pillars q in contact with the opposite sides of the tone-arm and either one or both of the pillars can be fixed with respect to the plate n. By fixing the pillars q in close contact with the tone-arm, before closing the cover of the machine casing, damage to the tone-arm during carriage is prevented. An adjustable brush w may be carried by one of the pillars q to clean the record.
Patent GB-454328-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to gas-heated radiators
IPC: F24C3/00
Filed: 1935-04-23
Abstract: 454,328. Gas-heated radiator stoves. GAS LIGHT & COKE CO., DIETERICHS, W., ANDREW, L. W., and VOICE, E. W., 84, Horseferry Road, Westminster. April 23,1935, No. 12179. [Class 126] A gas heater comprises in combination a chamber through which the hot gases from one or more burners pass, the cross-sectional area of the chamber at right angles to the direction of flow diminishing from the inlet to the outlet zones, a heat-radiating wall in said chamber in contact on the inner side with the gases and on the outer side with the atmosphere, and means for heat-insulating or jacketing other parts of the chamber in direct contact with the gases. Fig. 1 shows a heater which, as shown in Fig. 2, may be attached in an inclined position by a bracket 31 to the upper part of a wall to radiate heat downwardly. It comprises a sheet metal casing the front of which is formed by a radiating panel 14 held between the two parts 15, 16 of a rectangular frame. A tapering firebrick back 20 forms, together with the front panel, a space of upwardly-diminishing cross-section, upon which the gases from burners 25 flow to an outlet 28 in the top of the casing, over which is a deflector plate 30. The radiating panel 14 may be made of vitreous enamelled sheet iron. Fig. 3 shows a radiator in which the gases from jets 41 flow up the space between part-spheroidal bowls 35, 36 to outlets 37 round the upper edge of the inner bowl. The inner bowl is of greater radius than the outer, so that the space between them is of upwardlydiminishing cross-section. The centre of the inner bowl is formed by a firebrick disc 38 through which the gas pipe 39 extends and at the centre of the outer bowl is provided an air inlet grid 43 secured to a screwed stem on the burner. Discs 48 and 49 extending across the inner bowl from between them an air jacket, or the intervening space may be lined with heat insulating material. Between the disc 48 and an upper disc 51 is formed a flue box, into which the gases pass from the apertures 37, and which they leave by a flue spigot 52. A reflector 53 extends above the heater. The apparatus may be suspended by the gas pipe 39 or from a frame attached to the upper edges of the bowls. A modification of this form of heater is described, which is of elongated shape in plan, and heated by jets on a burner tube extending lengthwise of it.