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Patent GB-705222-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in watertight closing device for doors, hatches or similar elements
IPC: B63B19/26
Filed: 1951-10-30
Abstract: 705,222. Hatch covers. KUMMERMAN, H. Oct. 30; 1951 [Nov. 7, 1950], No. 25397/51. Class 113(1) In a watertight closing device for steel hatch covers comprising sections adapted to be stowed vertically upon a tilting motion from their horizontal position about a central pivot, a U-shaped covering member 19 hingedly mounted at 20 on the batch 1 is adapted to cover and contact two adjacent projecting members, one of which, 13, is provided on the edge of the hatch 1 and the other (15, 16) on the adjacent edge of the cover section (section 2 or section 3). The projecting member 13 on the hatch is cut at 14 whereas the other member is provided with a channel member 17 fitting in the interruptions in the member 13 and adapted for draining any water leaking between the jointcovering member and the side edges of the hatch cover section. In the embodiment of Fig. 3 the wing 24 of the member 19 engages the member 15 to prevent excessive depression of the sealing 21, and a locking device 23 is provided to hold the assembly against motion. In another embodiment the sealing 21 engages the member 13 and the member 19 has an extension engaging sealing in the projection 15 on the cover section, a screw jack being provided for clamping the joint. The arrangement of Fig. 3 is also shown modified for a flushdeck arrangement. As shown in Fig. 4 adjacent sections 2, 3 (and the end cover and the end of the hatch) are sealed by a member 25 on one section engaging rubber 26 held in position on the other section by a member 27 welded thereto.
Patent GB-1020186-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to electroluminescent panels
IPC: H05B33/20
Filed: 1964-06-17
Abstract: The binder for the phosphor in an electroluminescent panel is a cyanoethyl starch, which may have a degree of substitution of 2.3-3. The phosphor layer may be 1-3.5 mil thick, the phosphor a copper-activated zinc sulphide, and the electrodes vacuum-deposited aluminium or the oxides of tin, indium, cadmium or zinc.  The starch may be amylose, amylopectin, or a mixture of these.
Patent GB-353294-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in driving gear for aircraft propellers
IPC: B64D27/00
Filed: 1930-08-26
Abstract: 353,294. Aircraft driving-gear. FIAT SOC. ANON., 250, Via Nizza, Turin, Italy. Aug. 26, 1930, No. 25466. Convention date, Aug. 31, 1929. [Class 4.] In an aircraft engine a sleeve 2 fixed to the engine shaft 1 carries an internally toothed rim 3 with which mesh planet wheels 4 fixed on spindles 5. The spindles carry pinions 6 meshing with a toothed wheel 7 on the engine casing, and mounted in bearings carried by a hub 9 which carries the propeller blades 11. The hub thus forms a part of a reducing gear. A cap 12 of stream line form encloses the gearing.
Patent GB-1530557-A (GB)
Title: Collation of articles into batches
IPC: B65G47/32
Filed: 1977-06-17
Abstract: 1530557 Grouping biscuits on a conveyer BAKER PERKINS HOLDINGS Ltd 17 June 1977 25496/77 Heading B8A Groups 12 of biscuits on a conveyer 21 are collated into batches of three groups by pushers 34 of a conveyer 36. The conveyer 21 comprises groups of pairs of pushers. Each group of biscuits is engaged between the pushers of a respective pair. Each of the latter comprises a pusher 19 carried by conveyer chains 21 and a pusher 25 carried by conveyer chains 26. Each pair of pushers is spaced a distance a from pairs of the same group, but the end-pairs are spaced from the end-pairs of an adjacent group by a distance A. The pushers 34 are arranged to enter the spaces A as each pusher approaches the conveyer 21. The biscuits are formed into groups by a pusher 14 as described in Specification 1,379,884. They are transferred to the conveyer 21 by a transfer member 15. The conveyer 36 leads to a wrapping machine 37.
Patent GB-288931-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to the refining of petroleum products
IPC: C10G29/12
Filed: 1926-10-13
Abstract: 288,931. Thole, F. B., Birch, S. F., and Norris, W. S. G. P. Oct. 13, 1926. Mineral oils, purifying.-In the refining of petroleum, kerosene, or benzine by alkaline solution of alkali or alkaline earth hypochlorite, the concentration of the free alkali is not substantially less than 1.5 per cent whereby the evil-smelling sulphur compounds are converted into others less offensive adapted to be removed with the remaining sulphur compounds by subsequent refining treatment. The hypochlorite treatment may be combined in various ways with redistillation, and treatment with sulphuric acid,.caustic alkali, and water. In an example cracked Pessian distillate is treated with 0.5 per cent by volume of concentrated sulphuric acid, washed with water, treated with sodium hypochlorite solution containing 1.6 per cent of caustic soda and 3.94 per cent of available chlorine, the proportion used being such as to give 1 gram of chlorine per litre of oil, washed, distilled up to 185‹ C., washed with soda, and water washed. Specification 139,233 is referred to.
Patent GB-1512692-A (GB)
Title: Process and apparatus for cooling down a gas
IPC: B01J19/02
Filed: 1975-06-16
Abstract: 1512692 Direct contact cooling of a gas SHELL INTERNATIONALE RESEARCH MAATSCHAPPIJ BV 16 June 1975 [17 June 1974] 25539/75 Heading F4K In apparatus for cooling a hot product gas containing sticky particles which lose their stickiness on cooling by direct contact with a cooling gas, the hot product gas is prevented from contacting the wall of a tubular zone 2 of a collar 1 connected to a lower reactor for carbonaceous material (not shown) by a protective gas shield. The protective gas is introduced tangentially through inlets 5 in an annular channel 3 and the cooling gas is introduced radially as jets into the product gas in the zone through inlets 9, 10 equally spaced around the tube circumference downstream but adjacent the annular channel 3. The shielding and/or cooling gas may comprise particle-free product gas after cooling or consist at least partly of steam, and oil, soot or coal may be added to the cooling gas. The shielding gas may be heated to prevent deposition of the particles and oxygen may be introduced through additional inlets 8 to combust particles or constituents of the product gas and heat the rim 7 of the collar 1.
Patent GB-601406-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to fluid-fuel burning means
IPC: F23C5/00
Filed: 1945-10-02
Abstract: 601,406. Pulverulent and gaseous fuel burners. BABCOCK & WILCOX, Ltd. Oct. 2, 1945, No. 25545. Convention date, Oct. 11, 1944. [Class 75(i)] [Also in Group XII] In a pulverulent or gaseous fuel burner, fuel and carrier air are discharged from nozzles 23, Fig. 3, secondary air being supplied through the portions of intertube space 31 between the burners, and oppositely inclined additional secondary air streams converging from the intertube spaces 53 on either side of the nozzles to impinge on the fuel and air streams. The blocks 33 on which the burners are mounted have longitudinal portions 33a, 33b of different cross sectional shape, such as a triangular portion 33a, Fig. 5, and a parallelogram portion 33b, so that when two similar blocks are arranged side by side, but with corresponding ends reversely arranged, passages 52 are formed between the blocks, the passage in one portion of the block being inclined laterally in one direction and the passage in the other portion being inclined laterally in the opposite direction. The nozzle tips 23 may be detachable and may have projections 48 to space them from the blocks 33 and allow secondary air to mingle with the issuing fuel and air streams, or the tips may be formed in two halves 60, 61, Fig. 9, integral with the blocks 62, 63 respectively. The burners may be mounted in a port enclosed by an insulated casing, and this port may be divided to provide a number of separate series of burners by division walls 16 provided with extensions 55, Fig. 5, which are alternately inclined to one side or the other to separate the secondary air into a series of streams which serve the corresponding nozzle tips of the burners, triangular plates 56 being welded to the ends of adjacent extensions 55. Two of the blocks 33 may be modified to provide an opening 57, Fig. 3, through which an oil burning torch may be inserted to light the fuel, and the tubes 11 on which the blocks rest may contain water.
Patent GB-394297-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to water-tube generators for steam-or other vapour
IPC: F22B35/10
Filed: 1931-09-14
Abstract: 394,297. Regulating boiler pressure ; feedwater and fuel regulators. SULZER F R ’ R E S SOC. ANON., Winterthur, Switzerland. Sept. 14, 1931, No. 25685. Convention date, Oct. 20, 1930. Void [Published under Sect. 91 of the Acts]. [Class 123 (ii).] The steam outlet valve 9 of an instantaneous generator is so operated in accordance with the pressure in the generator as to prevent a rapid increase in the flow through the generator upon an increase in the steam demand. The valve lever 12 is operated by a piston in a cylinder 10 connected to the generator by a pipe 14. The lever may operate a relay 26 controlling the feed supply valve 21 and the fuel and air supply valves 19, 20. When the pressure in the generator falls, the valve 9 is closed to throttle the steam outlet, and the supplies of water, fuel and air are increased.
Patent GB-1153870-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Antennas
Inventor: VOLKERS WALTER KARL
IPC: H01Q9/30
Filed: 1966-06-09
Abstract: 1,153,870. Aerials. W. K. VOLKERS, and E. N. WILLIE. 9 June, 1966, No. 25716/66. Heading H4A. A substantially rectilinear aerial is provided with heavy capacitive top loading which is defined as being such that the ratio of the projected area of the loading member or members to the cross-sectional area of the aerial element exceeds 50:1 or the said projected area in square inches exceeds the aerial height or length in inches by at least 25%. The invention may be applied to monopoles or to dipoles and end- or centre-feeding arrangements are described.
Patent GB-696989-A (GB)
Title: Coloration of textile fibers with nitroketoarylamines
IPC: C09B51/00
Filed: 1951-11-05
Abstract: Textile fibres of organic derivatives of cellulose or of nylon are dyed by means of an aqueous dispersion of a compound having the formula <FORM:0696989/IV (c)/1> wherein R is an alkyl group of 1 to 5 carbon atoms and X is a cyclic radical, either aromatic or heterocyclic, having a basic nitrogen joined by the single valence bond to the benzene ring, said compounds containing no water-solubilizing salt-forming substituents.  The invention comprises also the dyestuffs of the general formula <FORM:0696989/IV (c)/2> wherein R is an alkyl group of 1 to 5 carbon atoms and Y is a member of the group consisting of aliphatic ether and aliphatic-substituted amino radicals containing 1 to 4 carbon atoms, said dyestuffs containing no water-solubilizing salt-forming group. Examples are given of dyestuffs of this formula obtained by condensing 3 - nitro - 4 - chloroacetophenone with (1) p - anisidine, p - phenetidine; (3) p - (2 - hydroxy - ethoxy) - aniline; (4) N,N - diethyl - p - phenylenediamine; and (5) N - acetyl - p - phenylenediamine, and the dyeing of cellulose acetate and nylon fibres with aqueous dispersions of 2-nitro-4-acetyl-diphenylamine and of the five new dyestuffs obtained as above.  The dyestuffs are dispersed by means of N,N-oleylmethyltaurine sodium salt.  Other new dyestuffs of the formula given above are obtained by condensing 3-nitro-4-chloroacetophenone with p-aminophenyl-trimethyl silane, cyclohexylamine, 2 - methylcyclohexylamine, morpholine, 3,4,5 - trimethoxyaniline or 2,6 - dimethoxyaniline; and instead of 3-nitro-4-chloroacetophenone the corresponding propiophenone, valerophenone or caprophenone may be used.  Other dyestuffs which may be used for dyeing the cellulose acetate or nylon are those obtainable by condensing 3-nitro-4-chloroacetophenone with p - toluidine, m - xylidine, N,N - bis - (2 - hydroxyethyl) - p - phenylenediamine, methyl p - aminobenzoate, N - (21 - hydroxyethyl) - aniline, aminobi - phenyl, aminodiphenyl methanes, 1 - (p - aminophenyl) - 3 - methylpyrazolone - 5, p - (N1 - morpholino) - aniline, a  - and b  - naphthylamines, aminomethylpyrazole, aminopyrrole, 3 - aminopyrazolone - 5, 2 -, 3 - and 4 - amino - quinoline, 2 - aminothiazole, a  - aminothio - phene and piperidine.
Patent GB-639986-A (GB)
Title: Machine for moulding artificial cement stones or other agglomerated bodies
IPC: B28B5/02
Filed: 1946-08-28
Abstract: 639,986. Endless-chain block-moulding-machines. JOUANNY, L. Aug. 28, 1946, No. 25856. Convention date, Nov. 15, 1944. [Class 87 (ii)] [Also in Group XXX] A continuously-moving endless belt 3 carries mould ends 9 and bottoms 10 between stationary moulds sides 11. As each bottom arrives below a pallet hopper 14, a pallet 15 is dropped on to the bottom (see Group XXX). As the belt moves from right to left, cement &c. is dropped from a hopper 12 into the mould spaces between the ends 9 and the cement is compressed by a vertically-reciprocating head 29 which travels with the belt during the pressing stroke, then rises and is finally retracted to the right in preparation for another pressing stroke. In a modification (not illustrated) complete moulds may be fed past the hopper and pressing head. The pressing head 29 is mounted, through the intermediary of stress-limiting springs 30, on a support 31 suspended on parallel links 32 pivoted at 33 on a carriage 34 having wheels which run on rails. The head is depressed by means of a pinion 46 and rack 44 carrying a roller 40 journalled at the end of an arm 41 pivoted on a fixed shaft 43. The rack slides in a pivoted guide 48, and the roller 40 bears on the support 31. When the head is engaged between two ends 9 the carriage 34 is pushed along by the conveyer until a stop 61 tilts a lever 57 and declutches the drive to the pinion 46. Counterweights 39 on the links 32 then raise the head, and springs 38 (which have been stretched during the forward movement of the carriage) retract the carriage to the position shown. As the belt advances, an edge 13 on the hopper levels the material in the moulds.
Patent GB-1479798-A (GB)
Title: Electrostatic developing apparatus
IPC: G03G15/09
Filed: 1975-06-18
Abstract: 1479798 Developing apparatus GRAFOSOL SpA 18 June 1975 [28 June 1974] 25993/75 Heading G2H  A sheet 11 bearing an electrostatic latent image is fed through a guide channel 12 on to the surface of an anti-clockwise, as viewed in Fig. 1, rotating drum 2 to which it is held by cam actuated clamps 10, 22 while it is transported past a magnetic developing roller 7. After the rear edge of the sheet 11 has passed the roller 7, clamp 22 is released by the action of cam 28, the rotation of the drum stopped and then reversed, and finally clamp 10 is released by cam 28 allowing the thus released sheet 11 to fall downwards for further processing.
Patent GB-425693-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to the production of aluminium fluoride
IPC: C01F7/50
Filed: 1933-09-20
Abstract: Aluminium fluoride is obtained by heating hydrate of alumina through a gradually increasing temperature range in an atmosphere of hydrofluoric acid gas for a period of at least one hour, the lower limit of temperature being 175--300 DEG  C., preferably 250 DEG  C., and the upper limit 500--600 DEG  C.  The process may be carried out continuously in an externally heated rotating tube made of iron, steel, or aluminium.  The conditions of the heat treatment for the production of aluminium fluoride are those best suited for the dehydration of aluminium hydrate.  Specifications 328,688, [Class 1 (iii)], and 383,780 are referred to.
Patent GB-743186-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to load-lifting attachments for tractors
Inventor: MCNEICE JAMES CURTIS
IPC: A01D87/00
Filed: 1952-10-17
Abstract: 743,186. Scoop-arm loaders. MASSEY-HARRIS-FERGUSON (SALES), Ltd., [formerly FERGUSON, Ltd., H.]. Oct. 16, 1953 [Oct. 17, 1952], No. 26055/52. Class 78 (3). A load-handling attachment for a tractor comprises a pair of braced arms 13 which are provided with downwardly extending arms 12 interconnected by a cross-beam 9, and which are luffed about a pivot 18 by a single hydraulic thrustor 6 connected to the centre of beam 9 by a vertical pivot pin 7. As shown, pivot carrying forks 17 are supported from the rear axle by members 19, 20, but in a modification (Fig. 5, not shown) they are further supported by forwardly extending bars secured adjacent the front axle. Lateral stability is obtained by inserting adjustable abutments (not shown) between the forks 17 and the normal tractor foot-rests (also not shown). The beam 9 is of recumbent U shape in cross-section, but in a modification (Fig. 7, not shown) it is of H section. The load fork 28 is pivoted to arms 13 at 29 and is provided with a releasable catch mechanism 30 operable by a cable 31 and hand lever 33. Specification 665,827, [Group XXXII], is referred to in the Provisional Specification.
Patent GB-1092275-A (GB)
Title: A friction stay
Inventor: FOSTER GEORGE EDWIN
IPC: E05C17/22
Filed: 1964-06-24
Abstract: 1,092,275. Window stays. CODE DESIGNS Ltd. Sept. 22, 1965 [June 24, 1964], No. 26094/64. Heading E2F. A window stay is held by friction by a rotatable block 11 of nylon, P.V.C. or polystyrene in which the stay 1 is a tight sliding fit. In a modification, the block has a slot in one side and a screw is provided across the slot so that the frictional grip on the stay can be adjusted to take up wear. A recess 13 in the block accommodates a spacer on a pivot 7 when the window is fully closed. By releasing a screw 20 a handknob 19 may be removed so that the window can be opened to its fullest extend. In a modification, a neck beneath the knob is turned to line-up with a slot in the block 11 and so pass therethrough without removing the handknob.
Patent GB-667275-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to the manufacture of crystalline potassium penicillin
IPC: C07D499/16
Filed: 1948-10-07
Abstract: Crystalline potassium penicillin is produced by treating an aqueous n-butanol solution of potassium penicillin, of a purity of at least 800 (preferably 1000) u./mg., with activated carbon in amount not exceeding 10 per cent (e.g. 4 per cent) by weight of the solution, separating off the carbon, adjusting the pH of the solution, if necessary, to 5.0-7.5, preferably 6.4-6.6 (by addition of an alkaline potassium compound), evaporating the solution by more than one pass through a film evaporator, the water content of the solution being maintained at a value of at least 5 (preferably 20) per cent by volume until the penicillin concentration of the solution is at least 15 (preferably 20-35) mg./ml., and then continuing the evaporation (preferably by one or more further passes through the film evaporator) without further addition of water, until crystallization takes place.  The product may be recrystallized, e.g. by dissolving in aqueous n-butanol and then adding dry n-butanol (preferably in two or more stages at 0 DEG  C.) to bring the n-butanol concentration to about 95-99 (but preferably not above 97) per cent by volume.  The mother liquors from the first crystallization may be worked up to obtain a further amount of potassium penicillin (mainly F), whilst those from the recrystallization may be recycled to an earlier stage of the process.  A detailed example is given.  Specification 658,415 is referred to.  Specification 649,743 also is referred to in the Provisional Specification.
Patent GB-1095710-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in compressed air driven impact devices
IPC: B25C1/04
Filed: 1965-06-21
Abstract: 1,095,710. Stapling and nailing machines. D. HAUBOLD. June 21, 1965 [June 20, 1964], No. 26140/65. Heading B4C. A compressed-air actuated stapling or nailing machine comprises a driving piston 9 mounted in a cylinder 7, a resilient retaining means 14 being mounted in the cylinder in such a manner that when the piston returns to its initial position after completion of a working stroke, a partial vacuum is created between the cylinder head and the end of the piston on which the compressed air acts during the working stroke. The resilient means is in the form of a suction cup 14 mounted on a removable cylinder head 13; alternatively the cup may be mounted on the piston crown for engagement with the head.
Patent GB-825796-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in sheet glass bending molds
IPC: C03B23/027
Filed: 1957-08-20
Abstract: 825,796. Bending glass sheets. PITTSBURGH PLATE GLASS CO. Aug. 20, 1957 [Aug. 27, 1956], No. 26244/57. Addition to 768,982. Class 56. The inboard edge 68 of the heat absorber 64 positioned beneath the outboard ends of the pivoted end sections 38 of a glass bending mould M that produce relatively flat ends of the concavely bent sheet is made substantially parallel to the transverse axis a ... a connecting the points of sharpest longitudinal curvature in the sheet instead of lying along the line 641 as in the parent Specification. The edge lies outboard of the axis and it may be curved so that its extremities are nearer the axis than is its central part.
Patent GB-188484-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in drinking glasses
IPC: A47G19/22
Filed: 1921-10-05
Abstract: 188,484. Ratner, R. I., (Pick, H.). Oct. 5, 1921. Drinking-vessels.-A drinking-glass or the stem type Has the stem 3 drawn out from the bowl portion and is provided with a sharp bulge 2 near the top of greater diameter than the base 5, the glass 1 above the bulge being substantially straight in section.
Patent GB-1433789-A (GB)
Title: Method of dispensing carbon dioxide
IPC: C01B32/50
Filed: 1973-06-01
Abstract: 1433789 Producing carbon dioxide snow AIRCO Inc 1 June 1973 [3 Oct 1972] 26258/73 Heading F4P In a method for converting a slurry of liquid and solid CO 2  containing 14-85% solids by weight to CO 2  solid and gas, the liquid or slurry is fed from a source at a pressure greater than 60 p.s.i.g. to a lower pressure zone via a positive displacement metering device. The latter is preferably a meshing gear wheel which may be driven, having a downwardly directed outlet. A filter prevents any oversize particles in the slurry entering the device. The CO 2  'snow' produced may be converted to pellets by conventional means.
Patent GB-284571-A (GB)
Title: Adjustable portable wireless aerial
IPC: H01Q1/14
Filed: 1927-10-05
Abstract: 284,571. Hyams, W. Oct. 5, 1927. Aerials.-In a portable aerial, particularly suitable for indoor use, the various strands a, after being passed through a spreader b, are bunched together and clamped into an eyepiece e, forming an end loop whereby the overall length of the aerial can be adjusted to any desired length. Alternatively the strands a may be threaded back from the end spreader through the centre of an intermediate disc h, Fig. 3, which can be moved to and fro to shorten or extend the aerial length. The rings d, k are for suspension. The strands a may consist of a single wire folded backwards and forwards on itself.