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Patent GB-119661-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Account Books.
Inventor: LEIF NISSEN
IPC: B42D12/00
Filed: 1918-10-01
Abstract: 119,661. Nissen, L. Match 4, 1916, [Convention date]. Void [Published under Sect. 91 of the Act]. Book-keeping; manuscript books.-An account book has intermediate pages a of shorter length than the pages b, c. Debit entries are made with the page a lying to the right in the ruled columns h to q. For credit entries the page a is turned over to the left, and the entries are made in columns on the back of it and on the leaf c. The end columns d, g and r, tare used for both debit and credit entries.
Patent GB-242228-A (GB)
IPC: G01K1/04
Filed: 1925-06-19
Abstract: 242,228. Fleischer, M. Nov. 3, 1924, [Convention date]. Thermometers. -The capillary tube f of a liquid-expansion thermometer is made of diamondshaped or quandrangular section. In the form shown this tube is arranged inside a glass casing a containing a glass &c. panel b bearing the graduations. The panel carries two sets of graduations, one on each side of the tube f, one set being reversed so that readings may be taken either from the front or from the back. The tube f is arranged so that one of its diagonals intersects the panel at right-angles, and it may be seated in a groove in the panel or it may project therethrough. The bore of the tube f may be of any desired section.
Patent GB-220759-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to doors
IPC: E06B7/23
Filed: 1923-06-20
Abstract: 220,759. Cammell, Laird, & Co., Ltd., and Bailey, A. S. June 20, 1923. Addition to 210,295. Sliding doors; draught and we,ather excluders. -The flexible attachments for the meeting edges of two sliding doors, or of a door and door pillar, described in the parent Specification, are made to meet with an overlapping joint to exclude draught &c. and light. The elastic strips a are formed with concave and convex meeting surfaces a<1>, a<2>, the outer covering b being stretched across the concave part a<1>. The attachments are secured by bolts and ribbed cover plates f to opposite sides of wood or like pieces c let into the edges of the doors &c.
Patent GB-937118-A (GB)
Title: Improved apparatus for sawing wall-board sheets
IPC: B27B29/08
Filed: 1962-04-26
Abstract: 937,118. Sawing. MOHOGS MEKANISKA VERKSTAD A.B. April 26, 1962 [May 9, 1961], No. 16036/62. Class 145. Wall board sheet is cut into strips by being pushed on to a roller table 2 and then fed into a number of saws 8 at one side of the table by feeding arms 20 on a carriage which is movable on rails 17 above the roller table. The sheet is held down on the roller table by roller means 4 which can be raised and lowered by a hydraulic or pneumatic cylinder 7 and in the vicinity of the saws is held down by roller means 13. The saws are driven by individual motors 9, 10 which are staggered to enable closer spacing of the saws to be obtained and each saw and motor is mounted on a carriage 28 adjustable by rack and pinion means 25, 26. The feeding arms 20 are adjustable along a girder 19 which can be raised and lowered on the carriage 14 by hydraulic or pneumatic cylinders 22. The carriage is driven by a motor 34 through chain, screw or toothed drive means. Where the sheets have already been sawn across before being moved on the roller table and it is desired that some of the past sheets should not be sawn further, a hydraulic or pneumatic cylinder 32 can be operated so that an arm 33 raises and pushes back one part sheet and creates a space into which the arms 20 can be lowered and cause feed of only some of the part sheets. The arms may be individually movable up and down.
Patent GB-529598-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to the control of electrically operated soot blowers
IPC: F28G15/00
Filed: 1939-05-31
Abstract: 529,598. Control of several motors. BRITISH THOMSON-HOUSTON CO., Ltd., and JEFFERSON, H. F. May 31, 1939, No. 16048. [Class 38 (iii)] An electrically operated soot blowing equipment comprising two or more sets of blower heads arranged for automatic operation in a predetermined sequence, with individual heads of different sets operating simultaneously is provided with relays controlled respectively by the simultaneously-operating heads which relays prevent starting of succeeding heads until each of the simultaneously-operating heads has completed its operation. Where it is desired to operate the heads of different sets simultaneously and in accurate step, relays are provided for all of the heads but where different sets, while operating simultaneously, need not keep in accurate step relays are provided only for the final heads of each set. Two heads are controlled respectively by controllers A1, B1, and when they have completed their operations they close switches A1a, and B1a, respectively. Thus relays Ra, and Rb are energized to close contacts Ra2, Rb2, and maintain themselves over contacts Ra1 Rbl, as their associated heads complete their operation. A succeeding head, controlled by a controller A2, thus receives a starting impulse only when both of the simultaneously-operating heads have operated their contacts Ala, B1a. A contact A2b sets the relays Ra, Rb, when the succeeding head has started. Where there are several simultaneously - operating succeeding heads their controllers each operate a contact corresponding to A2b, and the several contacts are connected in parallel. Where three heads operate simultaneously and control succeeding heads, the relay corresponding to one of them may be omitted but if provided it ensures correct action even if its contact corresponding to A1a, or B1a, is only closed momentarily. Specification 536,405 is referred to.
Patent GB-560920-A (GB)
Title: Device for testing stop watches
IPC: G04F8/08
Filed: 1942-11-13
Abstract: 560,920. Testing time-pieces. KINGSTON-UPON-HULL, CORPORATION OF THE CITY & COUNTY BOROUGH OF, and MUSSON, S. F. Nov. 13, 1942, No. 16051. [Class 139] A device for testing stop watches comprises a holder and an electromagnetic device controlled by a time - piece, the electromagnetic device embodying a resilient element arranged to contact the controlling member of the watch under test. The controlling time-piece controls through a relay 10 a solenoid 4 having an armature 5 which operates the controlling member 6 of the watch under test in the holder 2, 3, the end of the armature being provided with a resilient element such as a block of rubber 7 at the place of contact with the controlling member 5. The armature is pressed tightly against the controlling member 5 by a block 9 of cellular rubber. Where the master time-piece produces impulses at, e.g. 30 sec. intervals, the solenoid circuit may be interrupted by a manually-operated switch 11 to allow the watches under test to run for a period longer than 30 secs. The switch 11 may be 'closed automatically after a predetermined number of 30 sec. impulses by an electromagnetically-operated ratchet-wheel mechanism controlled by the impulses. Alternatively, the switch 11 may be controlled by a synchronous motor or by clockwork mechanism.
Patent GB-701172-A (GB)
Title: Reciprocating engine frame
Inventor: CAPPELLEN JOHAN HENDRIK VAN
IPC: F01B1/12
Filed: 1951-07-06
Abstract: 701,172. Reciprocating-engine frames. NAAMLOOZE VENNOOTSCHAP MACHINEFABRIEK BOLNES VOORHEEN J. H. VAN CAPPELLEN. July 6, 1951, No. 16052/51. Class 122 (3). [Also in Group XXVII] A frame unit comprises a pair of similar main members 1, Figs 1 and 2, shaped from plate anc disposed parallel to a working cylinder axis, and an independently fabricated working cylinder guide unit disposed between the members 1 and consisting of a shell 15 welded between end plates 16, 20 themselves welded to the members 1. In a multi-cylinder internal combustion engine; intermediate members 1, Fig. 1, are common to two frame units. As shown, the shell 15 is cylindrical and has a thickened lower portion 17 acting, together with a bore in the plate 16, to support a cylinder liner (not shown). Cooling water is introduced via a pipe 18 to the space between the shell 15 and the liners, and passes to cooling spaces in a cylinder cover, (not shown) via grooves 19 in the plate 16. Holding down studs or bolts 24, Fig. 4, for the cylinder cover pass through the four corners of the plate 16 and through pipes 22 welded thereto and are received in nuts 23 welded to the .pipes and to the plate 20; bracing plates 26 perpendicular .to the members 1 being additionally welded in. A guide (not shown) for a piston-type crosshead is supported both in a ring 13 welded in a collar 12 itself welded to a plate 10, and in a ring 12<SP>1</SP> welded between front and rear parts of a plate 11. The plates 10, 11, which may-project outwards from the frame to act as end plates for a scavenging air chamber, are welded to a shell ;formed by U-shaped parts 6, 7 provided with openings' 8, 9 which act as delivery and pressure  ports if the crosshead is used as a scavenging pump. The unit formed of the members 6, 7 and 10. . . 13 may be independently fabricated and is secured, to the members 1 by welds 30, 31. The members 1 receive the crankshaft bearings 2, being initially formed with recesses 3 to allow crankshaft mounting, these recesses, which have welded-on strengthening strips 5, being later closed by welding-in a suitable member.
Patent GB-137244-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in luffing mechanism for jib cranes
IPC: B66C23/10
Filed: 1919-06-26
Abstract: 137,244. Goudie, J. N. June 26, 1919. Jib cranes.-The hoisting-rope I passes over pulleys D, E on the ends of a lever A pivoted to the fixed jib C, so that as this lever is rotated by screw gear H and an arm F, the load is traversed in approximately an horizontal path. A guard M prevents the rope from leaving the pulley E. The .crane is mounted by means of a turntable N on a base which has space between its feet 0 to permit the insertion of a " jack-up " truck, and may be temporarily secured to the floor by ties P.
Patent GB-430456-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to electric discharge tubes
IPC: H01J5/32
Filed: 1934-05-30
Abstract: 430,456. Discharge apparatus. NAAMLOOZE VENNOOTSCHAP PHILIPS' GLOEILAMPENFABRIEKEN, Emmasingel, Eindhoven, Holland. May 30, 1934, Nos. 16152 and 16153. Convention dates, June 3, 1933 and April 12, 1934. [Class 39 (i)] A positive column discharge tube has the ends juxtaposed and provided with a common cap, only one of the ends of the tube being connected to the cap in a rigid manner, to allow for thermal expansion of the tube. Alternatively, both ends of the tube may have a floating connection with the cap. A U-shaped discharge tube may have one end cemented into a bayonet cap of insulating material such as asbestos cement, the other end being free. Each end of the tube is provided with an anode and a cathode heated by the discharge. In the modification shown, both ends of the tube 10 are supported non-rigidly in the cap by stiff lead wires 13, provided with expansion bends 14. The electrodes 11 are wound in a bifilar way and the connections are taken to bent metal rods 15 screwed into the contacts 16. Fillings of sodium, lithium, magnesium or zinc may be employed. Specifications 392,796, 414,018, and 415,358 are referred to.
Patent GB-633739-A (GB)
Title: A new or improved fluid-tight closure for a cylinder or other container
IPC: F16J13/02
Filed: 1947-06-19
Abstract: 633,739. Stoppers. GIRLING, Ltd., and HOGG, W. June 19, 1947, No. 16165. [Class 125 (iii)] [Also in Groups XXII, XXVI and XXXII] A cylinder or other container is sealed by forming a I counterbore c and a recess d at the end of the counter-bore and inserting a disc a of convex shape and having a cylindrical periphery of the same diameter as the counter-bore c. Pressure is then applied to the disc a to cause it to flatten or assume a concave shape as shown in Fig. 5, the coned peripheral surface e forming a seal with the edge of the recess d.
Patent GB-612647-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to high frequency dielectric heating apparatus
IPC: H05B6/60
Filed: 1946-05-28
Abstract: 612,647. Dielectric heating. BRITISH THOMSONHOUSTON CO., Ltd. May 28, 1946, No. 16204. Convention date, May 29, 1945. [Class 39 (iii)] Material in long lengths 1, impregnated with a volatile substance is heated by continuous passage between electrodes 4, 5. Connected to a source of HE power by leads 12, 13. Power loss from the electrodes by corona discharge is prevented by surrounding each electrode with insulating material, as shown in Fig. 2, where the electrode 15 is enclosed in a quartz or pyrex tube.
Patent GB-1270811-A (GB)
Title: Color modulating method and device
IPC: G02F1/05
Filed: 1969-03-27
Abstract: 1,270,811. Modulating light. HITACHI Ltd. 27 March, 1969 [30 March, 1968; 13 Sept. 1968; 7 Oct. 1968], No. 16217/69. Heading H4F. The disclosure and claims are generally similar to that of Specification 1,270,812 but are not limited to applying the electric field only in the c-axis direction. A mechanical stress above a coercive value may be applied in lieu of the electrical field to switch the crystal between states, an example being given in the Specification referred to above. The c-axis of the crystal and the optical axis of the arrangement are not necessarily parallel.
Patent GB-859004-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to information storage means
IPC: H05B33/12
Filed: 1957-05-22
Abstract: 859,004. Electroluminescent devices. SOC. D'ELECTRONIQUE ET D'AUTOMATISME. May 22, 1957 [June 13, 1956], No. 16249/57. Class 39(1). [Also in Group XIX] Electrical information to be stored is converted into a light pattern and projected on to a storage. element comprising a first photoconductive layer 2 and an electroluminescent layer 3 so as to influence localized areas of the photoconductive layer, these layers and a second photoconductive layer 5 being connected with a source 4 of luminescence-activating potential such that the activation of the various regions of the electroluminescent layer 3 is controlled by the resistance conditions of both photoconductive layers, means also being provided for controlling optically the resistance condition of regions of the second layer 5. The electrical interconnections may be series, as shown, or the layer 5 may be in parallel with the series combination of layers 2 and 3. The incoming electrical information may be supplied to crossed grids 13, 14 of an electroluminescent input converter 12, the resulting light pattern 6 falling on the first photoconductor 2 and permitting activation of the electroluminescent layer 3 only if the corresponding region of photoconductive layer 5 is subjected to light 7 from an electroluminescent device 16 provided with region defining electrodes 18, 19. Once activated the areas of layer 3 luminesce until the optical activation of layer 5 via device 16 is terminated. The stored information may be read out by a translucent photoconductive layer 20 located between crossed-grids 22, 24.
Patent GB-378133-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to air cleaners
IPC: F02M35/026
Filed: 1931-06-05
Abstract: 378,133. Centrifugal gas cleaners. CARTMELL, J., South 209, Ferrall Street, Spokane, Washington, U.S.A. June 5, 1931, No. 16436. [Class 23.] An air cleaner for the carburetters of motors, compressers, &c. comprises a baffle 13, Fig. 4, directing air downwards from an inlet 8 to a subchamber 23 containing oil or oil-soaked waste, and arcuate baffles 15 leading to the outlet 7 ; the top of the inlet member 8 is slotted to admit additional air, and a baffle 12 coacts with the baffle 13. The baffles 13, 15 are formed with ribs 18 punched out from plates enclosing between them oil-soaked felt &c. The inlet and outlet are integral with an outer chamber into which the baffle chamber fits; the subchamber 23 is contained in a bottom pan which may hold oil. The entering air may be preliminarily cleaned by a T-piece 26, Fig. 2, containing an inner casing filled with steel wool, horsehair &c. and removably secured by bolts 31.
Patent GB-203420-A (GB)
Title: Improvements connected with the rendering of line capacity of telephone cables uniform
IPC: H01B11/12
Filed: 1922-06-14
Abstract: 203,420. British Insulated & Helsby Cables, Ltd., and Mercer, F. June 14, 1922. Drawings to Specification. No Patent granted (Sealing fee not paid). Repeating systems; loading circuits to improve transmission.-In order to simplify the construction of the balancing networks used with telephone relays, condensers are inserted in each section of the line, between loading points, across each pair. to bring up to a standard value the mutual capacities between the wires of each pair. Additional condensers may be inserted in each section between the wires if it is desired to balance the plumtom circuit capacities. The condensers for this purpose are made in a suitable range of values, and are sealed in metal containers connected to the lead sheath of the cable.
Patent GB-562380-A (GB)
Title: Process for the recovery of antimony trichloride
IPC: B01J27/06
Filed: 1942-11-23
Abstract: Antimony trichloride is recovered from organic substances treated therewith, e.g. in the solvent extraction of lubricating oils, using the trichloride as solvent or in the polymerisation of alkylisation of olefines using the trichloride as catalyst, by stripping the phase containing the trichloride with a normally gaseous medium, e.g. methane or hydrocarbon gases so as to vaporize the trichloride and contacting the gaseous mixture obtained with the substance to be treated in which the trichloride is absorbed.  Lubricating oil preheated in heater 2 is extracted in extractor 4 with a counter-current of antimony trichloride admitted through line 5.  The extract phase is passed through heater 7 into a stripper tower 8 <PICT:0562380/IV/1> where it is stripped by a counter-current of methane admitted through line 15.  In a similar manner, the raffinate phase passing off through line 37 and heater 38 to tower 39 is stripped of its content of antimony trichloride by a counter-current of methane fed through line 34.  Heaters 11, 13 and 50, 51 are provided to vaporize the chloride in the towers 8, 39.  The methane and chloride vapours pass through lines 18, 54 to condenser 19, the antimony trichloride condensate being collected in vessel 20 from which it is in part recycled through line 5 to provide the initial supply of trichloride for the extractor 4.  The gas is passed through line 22 into an absorber 23 through which it flows in counter-current to the initial material to be treated which absorbs the trichloride vapours from the gas, the material being passed through line 24 and 26.  Specification 358,068 is referred to.
Patent GB-1502735-A (GB)
Title: Method of applying an integral sealing member and the resultant products
IPC: B29C55/00
Filed: 1976-04-23
Abstract: 1502735 Moulding non-planar gaskets FORD MOTOR CO Ltd 23 April 1976 [27 May 1975] 16541/76 [27 May 1975] 16541/76 Heading B5A A method of applying a gasket to a non-planar surface 24 of a member 20 comprises casting the material 6, e.g. foamed polyurethane elastomer or plastisol for the gasket in a groove 4 lying in a single plane, partially curing the material 6 so that it does not flow, adjusting the disposition of the groove so that the surface 24 of the body can lie in contact with the partially set material 6 and fully curing the latter so that it becomes bonded to the surface 24. The disposition of the groove 4 may be adjusted by providing it in a mould 2 comprising a pair, as shown, or a plurality (Fig. 9, not shown) of hinged parts or in a mould (Fig. 2, not shown) of elastomer adapted to be curved by a cam (40). The body 20 may be positioned by a guide pin 22 and held in place by brackets 28 or pins (42, Fig. 2). The body 20 may be a vehicle lamp housing, deck lid, door, window, lens, air cleaner or drip rail.
Patent GB-236233-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to the cooling systems of internal combustion engines
IPC: F02B19/14
Filed: 1925-06-26
Abstract: 236,233. Aktiebolaget Avancemotor.. June 26, 1924, [Convention date]. Cylinders receiving liquid fuel.-In an engine having a cooling jacket 8 for the combustion chamber and a valve 16 for controlling the supply of water to the jacket, a drain cock 22 is provided, interlocked with a sleeve 24 on the handwheel 23 of the valve 16 in such manner that the drain cock must be opened before the valve 16 is closed. The water is rapidly evacuated from the jacket when the drain cock 16 is opened by the pressure of steam generated in the jacket as a result of stoppage of the cooling water circulation. The drain cook 22 may be replaced by a spring- pressed valve opened by steam pressure in the jacket; in this case the draining of the jacket on the closure of the valve 16 is effected automatically. The valve 16, which controls both ingress and egress passages 9, 10, Fig. 4, is provided with flat projections 19 which coact with a partition 13 to prevent leakage between the passages. The jacket 8 is supplied with water from the cylinder jacket 2, Fig. 1, and discharges to a jacket 6 for the upper portion of the cylinder head : when the valve 16 is closed, the water passes direct from the jacket 2 to the jacket 6. The jacket 8 is provided with an air relief valve 20.
Patent GB-515280-A (GB)
Title: Apparatus for decorticating or scraping aloe leaves, fourcroea, sisal and other leaves and stems or stalks and the like
IPC: B27J3/00
Filed: 1938-06-02
Abstract: 515,280. Decorticating fibrous leaves &c. RAFFRAY, R. June 2, 1938, No. 16580. [Class 120 (i)] In apparatus for decorticating or scraping fibrous leaves, skins or stalks, e.g., leaves of aloe, sisal &c. in which the leaves are fed into jaws on an endless conveyer and are carried thereby to a scraper, the jaws each comprise a pair of hinged plates of which one is fixed to the conveyer while the other is free and acts gravitationally to grip and release the leaves, pressure bars being provided to maintain the necessary gripping action of the jaws on the leaves &c. between the opening andclosing of the jaws. As shown in Figs. 2 and 4, the leaves are deposited by hand from platforms 10 onto a plate arranged between endless chains 11 carried by sprockets 12 between girders 13, 14 the thin ends of the leaves being directed towards the scraper 15 and the stalks dropped on to the spikes of a counterweighted stalk-support 16. The stalks are gripped by jaws comprising hinged plates 17, 18, Fig. 7, and a curved guard plate 17<1> may be provided on the bottom plate 17. When on the lower side of the chains 11 the free plates 18 hang down but on rising each free plate 18 is held open by a guide 20 to catch the stalk at the support 16 and then closes by gravity. The plate 17 runs on rollers 26 while rollers 21 on the plate 18 are pressed downwardly by bars 22 the ends of which are fitted with a small adjustable member which can be shortened or lengthened to allow the jaws is arranged at one end of a lever 23 pivoted at 24 to open at the correct moment. The stalk-support a vertical plate 25 being provided at the other end and pressed down by the end of each jaw thus causing the stalk support to rise sufficiently for the fixed plate of the succeeding jaw to pass thereunder. A leaf guard 27 and a counterweighted guide plate 27<1> are also provided. If the stalks are not to be scraped the fibre may be discharged and carried to washing tanks. Alternatively the treated material is deposited on a platform 28, Fig. 12, from which it is removed by jaws 33, 34 the jaw 33 being fixed to a chain 31 and the jaw 34 hinged on a vertical pin 35 having a horizontal tail-piece 36 which is pressed by a plate 37, to close the hinged plate 34 on to the fibre. The jaws are held closed by a roller 39 pressing upon a bar 41 and the stalks are scraped against a breast-plate 44 by beaters 43. Curved plates 45 are provided to guide the fibres on to the platform 28 and a stop having six radial arms mounted below the platform to limit the width of the bundle hanging over the edge. As the gripper jaw leaves the bar 41 it is forced open, e.g., by a stop or trigger 48 engaging the upper end of the pin 40 or by similar means.