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Patent GB-935435-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in push together screw apart connector
IPC: H01R33/22
Filed: 1960-03-28
Abstract: 935,435. Electric connectors. GILBERT MANUFACTURING CO. Inc. March 28, 1960 [April 7, 1959], No. 10895/60. Class 38 (1). [Also in Groups XVII and XXVIII] A connector for detachably joining a mating threaded member comprises a body portion 13 having a cylindrical surface which can slide relative to the threaded member, flexible resilient means 31 mounted circumferentially on the cylindrical surface and being deformed by, and engaging the threads of, the threaded member on mating, the resilient means allowing straight - forward longitudinal movement in the assembling direction only, and ready separation only occurring upon unscrewing the threaded member from the connector. The side wall 28 on the open side of the connector is narrower than that 27 on the opposite side of the groove 26 housing the resilient means 31 so that the cavity bore on the open side is wider than that on the blind side, and on pulling the threaded member outwardly the resilient means will roll up on the inner wall of the cavity, thereby gripping the threads more firmly. Projections in the groove 26 prevent rotation of the means 31 which also provided a moisture-proof seal. The threads and resilient means can be interchanged.
Patent GB-907393-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to fuel elements for nuclear reactors
Inventor: BLAKE LESLIE REGINALD
IPC: G21C3/36
Filed: 1959-01-12
Abstract: 907,393. Nuclear fuel elements. UNITED KINGDOM ATOMIC ENERGY AUTHORITY. Jan. 8, 1960 [Jan. 12, 1959], No. 1141/59. Class 39 (4). A nuclear fuel element comprises fuel in the form of a plate enclosed in a sheath made from two sheet parts, the side edge portions of each part being turned inwardly and the two parts secured together so that the turned-in portions are capable of yielding outwardly on expansion of the fuel. Fig. 5 shows a cross-section of fuel plate 6 which is made from an alloy of uranium 235 or plutonium and arranged between two sheets 7, 8 of zirconium, niobium, or vanadium, thickened edge portions 10, 11 of which are turned in and welded at 13; the space 15 is filled with sodium or inert gas, or evacuated. Clearances are also provided between the ends of the sheath and the fuel. Curved longitudinal ribs 21 are provided on one or both sides of the sheath to space the element from adjacent elements and form a coolant flow path. The elements may be arranged side by side in a rectangular stainless steel container and incorporated in the core of a fast reactor. Figs. 6, 7 (not shown) illustrate modifications of the join at the edge of the sheath. The Provisional Specification refers to Specifications 907,391 and 907,392.
Patent GB-351901-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to electric warp stop-motions for looms
IPC: D03D51/00
Filed: 1931-01-13
Abstract: 351,901. Loom warp stop motions. WAGNER, T. C., 45, Hainstrasse, Chemnitz, Germany. Jan. 13, 1931, No. 1157. [Class 142 (i).] Relates to electric warp stop motions of the kind in which end loops on the healds are supported, in the upper shed, on insulated rails, but are lifted by intact warpthreads in the lower shed while current is supplied to the rails for stopping the loom on the occurrence of a broken warp, and consists in a rotary distributing drum a connected to the source of current and provided with a circumferential row of apertures for the reception of contact studs g for each set of healds, a spring e connected to the healds for any particular shed being arranged to contact with the studs which are inserted in the drum in accordance with the particular binding. An additional spring c connected to one pole of the current supply makes permanent connection with the drum, while all the springs are connected to an insulating plate d.
Patent GB-948871-A (GB)
Title: Device for changing over two generators, particularly carrier-frequency generators in telecommunication systems, and circuit arrangement for the same
IPC: H03F1/54
Filed: 1962-01-12
Abstract: 948,871. Carrier wave systems; valve circuits. STANDARD TELEPHONES & CABLES Ltd. Jan. 12, 1962 [Jan. 13, 1961], No. 1216/62. Headings H3W, H4L and H4R. In a device for changing from one carrier frequency generator to a second, e.g. standby, generator in a telecommunication system the two generators are connected in parallel and then the first generator removed from the circuit, in addition to eliminate switching transients, the first generator is detuned slightly and the switching initiated by a phase comparison device to ensure that the change-over takes place when the phases of the two generators are substantially identical. The described embodiment shows a C.F. generator 2 connected to a line via contacts U1I and U2, if it is desired to switch from generator 2 to generator 1 switch H is operated, generator 2 is detuned slightly and when the phases of the two generators are substantially equal, as determined by a phase comparison device, relay P1 operates completing the circuit of polarized relay U1 which, via contacts U1I, connects generator 1 into the circuit in parallel with generator 2, in addition contacts U1II operate polarized relay U2 to disconnect generator 2 from the circuit. Level monitoring units 11 and 12 cause the operation of the appropriate relay P1 or P2 immediately on the failure of a connected generator.
Patent GB-345715-A (GB)
Title: Filling and capping machine for containers
IPC: B65B43/44
Filed: 1930-01-13
Abstract: 345,715. Filling and capping machines. VORTEX MFG. CO., 421, North Western Avenue, Chicago, U.S.A. Jan, 13, 1930, No. 1227. Convention date, Jan. 12. 1929. [Class 125 (ii).] In apparatus for filling and capping containers of the type in which the containers, positioned on a conveyer, receive predetermined quantities of material whereupon the rims of the containers are deformed by deflecting and crimping for sealing purposes, there is provided a source of containers together with means, driven by the actuating devices of the conveyer, for successively removing the containers, one after another, from said source. Conical paper cups 39, Fig. 33, are dispensed from a magazine 52, Fig. 1, and deposited in pockets 36 of a travelling endless conveyer 29, which is operated intermittently, by Geneva wheel mechanism, to advance the cups into a position beneath a hopper 97 containing ice cream or other substance to be dispensed to the containers. Disposed beneath the hopper 97 is a valve control mechanism, Fig. 8, which is arranged, by the operation of plungers 86 and the rotation of a valve 91, to permit a quantity of material to be deposited in a container positioned below. After completion of the filling operation, the cup is advanced by the conveyer to a position opposite the cup delivering mechanism 120 .. 127, Fig. 5, and beneath a rimdeflecting device 155, the dies of the latter being brought into operation, subsequent to the positioning of a flanged cap 133, Fig. 33, within the mouth of the container, to bend the rim of the cup inwardly over the cap. The filled container is then carried forward by the conveyer to a crimping mechanism 177, Fig. 1, which is automatically operated to complete the closure by crimping the inwardly deflected margin of the container over the flange of the cap. Additional movement of the conveyer permits the removal of the cups by hand, or allows them to fall from the container pocket into a receiving rack. The cups are dispensed by a pair of gripper arms 69, Fig. 9, mounted for reciprocal and oscillatory movement, on upright rods 63 located within the magazine 52, each arm being provided with a dog 70 for engagement with a connecting bar 65, which is pivotally mounted at one end and at the other end has a pivotal connection with a crank on a control shaft 49. The latter is provided with a pin 48 to coact with a pin 47 on the inner side of the sprocket 42 driven by a chain 41 from a shaft 18, Fig. 1, and during each advance of the conveyer the shaft 49 is rotated to actuate the gripper arms which seize the lowermost container of the stack and withdraw it from retaining means on the magazine.
Patent GB-269485-A (GB)
Title: Improvement in race courses for dogs
IPC: A63K1/02
Filed: 1927-01-17
Abstract: 269,485. Heintz, G. W. April 16, 1926, [Conventioit date]. Dog - racing apparatus. - In a race course for dogs, an artificial lure 16, Fig. 1, is mounted on a horizontally rotatable arm 17 carried bv a truck 21 which travels within a housing 18 extending round a track 10, preferably on the inside. The arm 17 extends through a slot in the housing and is retracted within the housing by a spring 36, Fig. 3, when a trip member 41 engages the foot of a pivoted lever 33, Fig. 4, and thereby withdraws the upper end from a slot 31. in disc 27 secured to the arm 17. A portion of the housing 18 above the slot is hinged to allow of the passage of the lure. The trip member 41 is mounted on links 42 and can be moved into and out of the path of the lever 33 by flexible members 45, 46 operated from a control tower 14. Races may be started from extensions 12 of the track.
Patent GB-718960-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to electric transformer windings
IPC: H01F27/34
Filed: 1953-01-16
Abstract: 718,960. Transformers. SMIT & CO.'S TRANSFORMATORENFABRIEK N.V., W. Jan. 16, 1953 [Feb. 14, 1950], No. 1400/53. Class 38(2) An electric transformer winding comprising a number of double coils A each composed of a clockwise spiralled disc coil B formed from at least one pair of parallel wound conductors, and a similarly formed anti-clockwise spiralled disc coil B, the turns of the double coil A being so arranged with respect to one another that each of the disc coils has turns between which a strong capacitive coupling, indicated by the capacitors 19, exists and between which a potential difference is produced which is greater than the voltage induced in a single turn such that a predetermined stress distribution is obtained throughout the winding, is characterized in that the parallel wound conductors of the disc-coils B constitute two parallel branches of the winding and that at or near the beginning of one of the branches and at or near the end of the other branch auxiliary coils 3, 4 are provided. The turns in the auxiliary coils 3, 4 are made equal to those in a section 1 or 2 of of a disc coil B, thus a number of equipotential connections 20 may be connected between the parallel branches of the winding. As shown the parallel wound conductors are wound one around the other. In other embodiments the number of turns in the auxiliary coils 3, 4 are made equal to the number of turns in the parallel branches of a double coil, thus the equipotential connections are made between points in the parallel branches twice as far apart as in the previous embodiments, whilst the parallel wound conductors may be wound side by side. Specification 587,997 is' referred to.
Patent GB-1127309-A (GB)
Title: Toothed rack for inclusion in a building set
IPC: A63H33/04
Filed: 1967-01-11
Abstract: 1,127,309. Building set including a toothed rack. A. FISCHER. 11 Jan., 1967 [18 Jan., 1966], No. 1587/67. Heading A6S. A building set toothed rack 20 has along one outer surface a row of teeth 24 and a re-entrant groove or tenon along another surface to interlock in the building bricks. The rack may be hollow, of square cross-section, and have additional reentrant grooves and/or tenons along the side or end surfaces, facing either inwards or outwards. The teeth may be protected by lateral guide walls, and the toothed rack may be of the same width as a building brick; or may have internal width slightly larger than the external width of a building brick, so that the brick can be inserted into the hollow rack. It may be used to mesh with a pinion 30 carried on a shaft 31 carried by bricks interlocking with the similar bricks that carry the rack.
Patent GB-899362-A (GB)
Title: Quinazolone sulphonamides
IPC: C07D239/88
Filed: 1959-01-16
Abstract: The invention comprises 4-quinazolones having one of the tautomeric formulae <FORM:0899362/IV (b)/1> <FORM:0899362/IV (b)/2> <FORM:0899362/IV (b)/3> and alkali metal and alkaline earth metal salts thereof, wherein R1 is hydrogen, halogen, e.g. Cl, Br, F, C1-5 alkyl or alkoxy or a nitro or amino group, R1 is hydrogen or a C1-5 alkyl radical, R3 is hydrogen, an alkyl radical of 1-11 carbon atoms or a molecular aryl or a mononuclear aryl substituted C1-3 alkyl radical; and their preparation by (a) heating a sulphamoyl N-acyl-anthranilic amide, (b) heating a sulphamoyl anthranilic amide with formic acid or ethyl formate, or (c) heating a sulphamoyl anthranilic acid with formamide.  The anthranilic acid and amide derivatives used as starting materials are made by the processes of Specification 898,782.  Pharmaceutical preparations having diuretic and natriuretic activity comprise the above 4-quinazalones together with an inert, non-toxic diluent, suitably in the form of tablets, pills or capsules for oral administration or in solution in a dilute alkali or polyethylene glycol to provide injectable solutions for parenteral administration.  Tablets comprising 7 - chloro - 6 - sulphamoyl - 4-quinazolone, starch and magnesium stearate are described.
Patent GB-304272-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in the manufacture of heat exchange apparatus
IPC: F28F1/30
Filed: 1929-01-18
Abstract: 304,272. Beck, E. F. A. D. Jan. 18, 1928, [Convention date]. Tubes; radiators.-Tubes b for hot medium are fitted with plates a, for example of iron, having two down-turned edges c or cupped portions f so that longitudinal compression can be applied to the series of gill-plates without deformation. This compression is obtained by internal hydrostatic pressure in the tubes so as to expand the tubes between the plates and thus shorten the total length. In one form, Fig. 8, the plates are of tapering thickness. The Specification as open to inspection under Sect. 91 (3) (a) comprises also a means for obtaining the compression by clamping the plates as by tie rods prior to securing them to the tubes by soldering &c. This subject-matter does not appear in the Specification as accepted.
Patent GB-403819-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to solid fuel heating apparatus
IPC: F24H1/34
Filed: 1933-01-20
Abstract: 403,819. Boiler &c. furnaces. VANDEVELDE, A., 25, Avenue Jacques Sermon, Brussels. Jan. 20, 1933, No. 1984. Convention date, Sept. 22, 1932. [Class 51 (i).] Air, supplying ; fire-bars ; stoking.-In a furnace, particularly for central heating apparatus and domestic use, small coal is fed continuously to an open-topped trough having inclined side walls 15 and an imperforate bottom 24, primary air for combustion being supplied under pressure from water-cooled nozzles or passages 8, 9 in the side walls which direct the air downwardly. In the construction shown in Fig. 1, the fuel is fed from an external hopper by a distributing nozzle 17 with a control valve 18‹ to a trough of convergent-divergent section, the hollow walls of which are connected to the water space of the boiler. Air from a blower 12 is supplied to chambers 5 formed between the trough and boiler walls, and is delivered to the fuel by one or more rows of inclined nozzles 8, 9 passing through the walls of the trough. Additional air-supply nozzles may be provided above the fuel bed. A thermostat 20 switches the fan motor in or out at predetermined temperatures. To remove slag, a plate with a toothed front edge is pushed into the fuel on the upper of two sets of guides 16, the slag above it being then either removed through a side opening or pushed into a space at the rear of the fuel bed and dumped by drawing the plate 24 forward on the lower set of guides. Fig. 3 shows a modified form of fuel trough, the air chambers 5 being arranged inside the waterspaces, and the walls of the fuel-space being stepped to provide the guides for the bottom plate 24 and the upper slag-removing plate. The fuel trough &c., may be formed as a separate structure for insertion in an existing firebox.
Patent GB-148724-A (GB)
Title: Process of making emmenthal or swiss cheese
IPC: A23C19/05
Filed: 1920-01-21
Abstract: 148,724. Doane, C. F. Jan. 21, 1920. Cheese.-In a process for making Emmenthal or Swiss cheese, the milk is preliminarily heated to a temperature between 134‹ and 155‹ F., preferably 143‹ F., for approximately 30 minutes and then cooled to about 88‹ F. Salt or hydrochloric acid is then added to the milk, a suitable proportion of acid being 110 c.c. of commercial acid to 1650 lb. of milk, the acid being diluted with two gallons of water before addition to the milk. Bacterial cultures of two different organisms are then introduced, the first culture being bulgaricus which is added to the batch in the proportion of two quarts of milk, in which the culture has been made diluted with two gallons of water; the secosd culture for adding to each batch is provided by adding 30 grams of ground Swiss cheese to 1500 c.c. of sterilized whey and developing for 24 hours. The temperature of the milk is raised to 95‹ F. and about 110 c.c. of rennet extract added to each batch. After allowing to set for 30 minutes, the curd is cut and stirred until the particies are about the size of kernels of corn. The curd is then heated up to approximately 130‹ F., and during this heating, which takes about 30 minutes, and for 40 minutes after the desired temperature has been attained, the curd is stirred by a standard whip stirrer. The curd is then dipped with a line cloth of open mesh, and the curd is placed in a hoop and pressed to give form to the cheese. The formed curd is turned and the cloth changed four times at intervals of about one hour and the pressing continued for twenty hours longer. The cheese is placed in a brine tank for 48 hours and then in a cold room at about 56‹-60‹ F. After this it is placed in a warm room, 68‹-72‹ F., until eyes are fully developed, and then returned to the cold room to develop flavour and texture.
Patent GB-1460442-A (GB)
Title: Detergent bars
IPC: G03C/
Filed: 1973-01-15
Abstract: 1460442 Detergent bars UNILEVER Ltd 10 Jan 1974 [15 Jan 1973 25 July 1973] 1994/73 and 35528/73 Heading C5D Detergent bars for personal washing comprise (A) as moisturizer from 5 to 55% by weight of (i) a compound of formula COOHY-COOH, wherein Y is an acyclic hydrocarbon group having 1 to 8 C atoms, or a watersoluble salt thereof, (ii) a compound of formula R 1 R 2 C(OH)COOH, wherein R 1  and R 2  may be H, C 1 -C 4  alkyl or alkenyl, -CH 2 COOH or -CH(OH)COOH, or a water-soluble salt thereof, or (iii) a compound of formula wherein R 1  and R 2  may be H, alkyl, alkenyl, hydroxyalkyl, hydroxyalkenyl, amino alkyl, amino alkenyl, the alkyl and alkenyl groups having 1 to 4 C atoms, and (B) from 45% to 80% by weight of a detergent, including soap, sodium coconut isethionate, alkane sulphonates, sulphates of branched chain alcohols, alkaryl sulphonates, salts of sulphonated fatty acids, ethoxylated alcohols, alkene sulphonates, alkyl sulphates, polyoxyalkylated amides and alkanolamides and alkylene oxide block polymers, polyol esters and acyl alkanolamides; with the provisos: (a) that when compounds (A)(i) are not used in admixture with compounds (A) (ii) or A (iii), then the dicarboxylic acid or salt thereof is present in an amount of at least 20% by weight, and (b) that when compounds A(ii) are not used in admixture with compounds A(i) or A(iii), they are present in an amount above 10% by weight.
Patent GB-906934-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to methods of and means for the production of designs
Inventor: MACKENZIE FREDERICK WILSON
IPC: B44C1/16
Filed: 1958-01-21
Abstract: 906,934. Transfers; transferring designs. LETRASET Ltd. Jan. 21, 1959 [Jan. 21, 1958], No. 1999/58. Class 100 (2). In means for transferring designs, such as letters 12 or musical notes, from a primary carrier sheet 13 to a secondary carrier sheet 10, the sheet 13 is of paper, board, or plastic film, coated or treated with a paraffin &c. wax containing a silicone, and the letters &c. 12 are printed thereon with a filmforming ink. The sheet 10 is transparent, and may comprise cellulose acetate film coated on one side with a transparent flexible waxy adhesive 11, such as a compound of paraffin wax and polyisobutylene,which will remove the inked letters &c. 12 from the sheet 13 when the sheet 10 is pressed hard on the sheet 13 and rubbed in the vicinity of the letters. Guide lines 14 imprinted on the sheet 10 enable the particular letters to be selected and accurately transferred. When the design on the sheet 10 is complete, the coating 11 is neutralized by the application of a wax polish containing a silicone compound, or dusted with a powder; alternatively, the sheet 10 may be pressed on to a base support. In a modification, the sheet 10 is not coated, and the letters &c. 12 are themselves coated with the waxy adhesive. The film-forming ink may comprise carbon black, aluminium hydroxide, lead, cobalt, and linseed oil modified glycerylphthalate alkyd containing a fatty acid and phthalic anhydride.
Patent GB-944943-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to semiconductor devices
IPC: H01L23/488
Filed: 1960-01-20
Abstract: <PICT:0944943/C1/1> <PICT:0944943/C1/2> <PICT:0944943/C1/3> In a semi-conductor diode, Fig. 1, a silicon wafer 11, coated with a gold layer 15, is sealed to a ceramic ring 17, the undersurface of which is gold-plated, by the interposition of a gold electrode 16 and a gold disc 19.  Sealing is effected by fusion in an inert atmosphere, e.g. a rare gas, N2, CO2, CO, or in an active atmosphere such as O2 or water vapour, or in a vacuum.  In Fig. 6, a silicon wafer 54 is sealed to a cover 51 of glass or ceramic, through which two metal conductors 52 are sealed, by a glass or metal ring 57. In Fig. 8, a silicon wafer 85 mounted on a molybdenum plate 86 is sealed to two blocks 83 of ceramic or glass, each block having a foil electrode 81, 82 of Mo-As and Mo respectively bonded thereto, by glass seals 84, 87 between the electrodes and around the periphery of the wafer respectively.  In addition to Mo, tantalum, tungsten and "Kovar" (Registered Trade Mark), are compatible in expansion properties with silicon and with glass such as "Corning" (Registered Trade Mark) 7052, the approximate composition of which is said to be B2O3, 15% by weight; SiO2, 65%; Al2O3, 8%; Na2O, 2%; BaO, 2%; Li2O, 8%. A suitable ceramic for use with the above is:  California talc (approximately 3MgO.4 SiO2.H2O), 80 parts by weight; Florida plastic kaolin (approximately Al2O3.2 SiO2.2H2O), 20 parts; MgCO3, 10 parts; BaCO3, 23.4 parts.  A further set of matching metal, glass and ceramic is Dumet alloy (46% Ni, 54% Fe, plated or sheathed with Cu), "Corning" (Registered Trade Mark) glasses 0080, and ceramics Alsimag 35 and 196.
Patent GB-212360-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to folding mechanism applicable for use in the manufacture of wallets or cases of paper or the like
IPC: B31B41/00
Filed: 1923-01-23
Abstract: 212,360. Dickinson & Co., Ltd., J., and Ellens, W. E. Jan. 23, 1923. Envelopes and the like, making.-Relates to machines for making wallets or cases of the type used for carrying photographic films or prints, a cut blank of the type shown in Fig. 1, being employed. The blank is forced by a plunger 47, Fig. 1, through an opening 40, which turns up the flaps F, G of the blank, the flaps then being folded flat on the body of the blank by folding- plates 4. Adhesive H is applied to the flaps F in the usual manner prior to folding. The blank is folded along the centre-line J by means of two thin arcuate arms 29, 30, Fig. 2, which carry the blank through a slot in the plate 2 between pairs of rollers 9, 11 and 10, 12, which complete the creasing. The rollers are driven by spur pinions 20 - - 24 from a sprocket-wheel 19, and the rollers 11, 12 are pressed by springs 17, 18 against the rollers 9, 10. Where stiff paper is employed, the plate 2 may take the form of a pair of hinged plates which swing downwards as the blades 29, 30 engage the blank, thus assisting the central folding, or the blank may be transferred after the pockets have been formed to separate central folding apparatus in which a reciprocating blade descends to bend and force the blank between the rollers 9 - - 12.