baber/WOPTO huggingface dataset:
Patent GB-2469690-A (GB)
Title: A method of assignment of a TCP/IP address to a blade server in which the IP address is based on the number of the blade centre and blade slot.
Inventor: SCHEID MARTIN
IPC: H04L29/12
Filed: 2009-04-24
Abstract: A method for assigning a transmission control protocol/internet protocol address to a blade server when it is newly added to a blade centre. When a new blade server is added, a blade discovery module identifies the configuration data from the new blade server, which comprises a unique number of the blade centre, a unique number of a blade slot and a media access control address for a network interface of the new blade server. This data is then sent to an address assignment module, which then derives an IP address based on the unique blade centre and slot numbers and assigns it to the server.
Patent GB-2460327-A (GB)
Title: A detonation combustor cleaning device
Inventor: DEAN ANTHONY JOHN
IPC: B08B7/00
Filed: 2009-05-19
Abstract: A detonation combustor cleaning device 20 for cleaning the inner surface of vessels such a industrial boilers comprsies at least one combustion chamber 31 having combustion flow path and including a deflection member 75. An ignition device 150 operatively connected to the at least one combustion chamber is selectively activated to ignite a combustible fuel within the at least one combustion chamber 31 to produce a shockwave that moves in a first direction along the combustion flow path, impacts the deflection member 75, reverses direction and passes into a vessel (2, fig 1) to dislodge particles clinging to inner surfaces thereof. The deflection member 75 can either concave shaped (figure 2) or flat (figure 3).
Patent GB-2467810-A (GB)
Title: A non-birefringent polymer film for use in optically examining birefringent specimens
Inventor: JACKSON ANDREW ROBERT WILLIAM
IPC: B01L3/00
Filed: 2009-07-06
Abstract: A method of examination using the film comprises the steps of: collecting a specimen using a substantially non-birefringent polymer film having an adhesive surface; and examining, between crossed polars, the specimen attached to the film. The birefringent-free laminate film comprises a first birefringent polymer layer and a second birefringent polymer layer, the first and second layers being mutually oriented such that the birefringent properties of the two layers cancel each other out. A method of manufacturing such a film is also disclosed. The film may find application in the forensic sciences, where the specimens could typically be fibres from clothing etc.
Patent GB-2464374-A (GB)
Title: Noise reduction in x-ray emitter/detector systems
Inventor: DOBSON KURT
IPC: G06F17/00
Filed: 2009-09-18
Abstract: Systems and methods for reducing signal noise in an x-ray emitter/detector system are disclosed. A common clock is connected to at least two subsystems of the x-ray emitter/detector system to enable a plurality of noise sources associated with the at least two sub-systems within the x-ray emitter/detector system to be correlated with the common clock. At least one adaptive filter having a plurality of taps is configured to receive a desired signal and a correlated noise estimate signal and output an error signal. An update algorithm is used to update a value of the plurality of taps to minimise the error signal output to thereby substantially remove at least one of the plurality of noise sources at each of the at least one variable filters in the x-ray emitter/detector system to provide a more accurate display of the output of the x-ray emitter/detector system.
Patent GB-2475232-A (GB)
Title: Securing a button to a garment using stitches with a fusible element
Inventor: HALES JOHN
IPC: A41H37/00
Filed: 2009-11-09
Abstract: A method of securing a button 14 to a garment 10 comprises a first step of creating a stitch formation 16 which includes a fusible filament. A second step involves melting the fusible filament to bond portions 18 of the stitch formation 16 to one another, thereby ensuring that the garment 10 has a button 14 secured thereto by a stitch formation 16. The fusible filament may be part of a fusible thread formed of one or more carrier filaments. The thread may include a thermoplastic component such as copolyamide, or a thermosetting component. Either way the fusible filament is thermally activated so as to undergo a molecular change when heated to melt and form a bonding agent. This method of fastening reduces or eliminates the likelihood of the button becoming separated from the garment.
Patent GB-2476315-A (GB)
Title: Cleaning a stack of thin wafers
Inventor: HOMAYONIFAR POURIA
IPC: B08B3/02
Filed: 2009-12-21
Abstract: Apparatus for cleaning wafers in a stack comprising a multiplicity of wafers (Fig. 1; 10) comprises a horizontal trough 17 into which the stack of wafers is to be placed, the axis of the trough being perpendicular to the planes of the individual wafers; supports 12 within the trough to hold the wafers off lower parts of the trough, a fixed support 14 for one end of the stack; and sufficient space in a direction away from this end of the stack to allow the wafers to separate by a distance such that capillary action between them is broken. Jets of liquid are introduced upwardly from lower parts of the trough, whereby the jets of liquid maintain the wafers clear of direct contact with the supports 12 holding the wafers off the lower parts of the tough and separate the wafers laterally in a direction parallel to the axis of the trough by moving the wafers in a direction away from the fixed support, and whereby the jets of liquid also clean the wafers.
Patent GB-546016-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to the manufacture of poppet valves
IPC: F01L3/02
Filed: 1940-06-08
Abstract: 546,016. Making valves. EATON MANUFACTURING CO. June 8, 1940, No. 10052. Convention date, March 25. [Classes 83 (ii) and 83 (iv)] Forging; pipe-end closing.-A poppet valve having a hollow stem containing coolant e.g. as in Specification 224,288, [Class 7 (iv)], is made preferably from a rod having a diameter equal to that of the finished valve stem, by forming a hollow valve blank B, Fig. 4, e.g. by forging and drilling, and applying axial pressure to the free end of the stem 12 to upset it and close the bore. The portion to be closed is heated before inserting in the die 16. If easily oxidizable coolant 22 is to be introduced before upsetting, the bore may first be charged with nitrogen or other inert or reducing gas and be flooded therewith during the operation. If the coolant is not so introduced, the upset end is drilled axially and taper reamed at 28, Fig. 8, the coolant 22 is introduced, and the hole 28 is closed by a plug 30 preferably welded as in Specification 379,832. In either case a disc 26 may be welded on and the valve machined to final form.
Patent GB-216997-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to fluid-pressure engines
IPC: F01L21/04
Filed: 1923-04-13
Abstract: 216,997. Prime, W. A. April 13, 1923. Pistons (main), acting as sole valves; slide valves, cylindrical and piston.-In a compound engine, the high-pressure piston D has ports E, E<1> which alternately register with central opposed supply ports C, C<1> to supply pressure fluid to the cylinder ends which are exhausted through piston controlled ports P, P<1> communicating with the low-pressure cylinder, the piston D' of which also controls the inlet and outlet ports J, J', K', K<2> thereof. Starting may be effected by supplying steam from a passage M through the low-pressure piston to auxiliary passages N, N communicating with the high-pressure cylinder ends. The cranks are set at 90‹; the stroke of piston D is equal to twice that of piston D'.
Patent GB-542276-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to straight bar knitting machines
IPC: D04B15/64
Filed: 1939-03-31
Abstract: 542,276. Knitting-machines. LIEBERKNECHT, R., and LIEBERKNECHT, K. (trading as Lieberknecht, K.). March 31, 1939, No. 10186. Convention date, March 31, 1938. [Class 74 (ii)] A device is provided whereby the thread guide bars can be brought into or out of the working position without stopping the machine. The operation is effected with the aid of the slur bar movement. Fig. 6 shows the frontmost of nine thread guides 70 in the rest position, the brake bar 99 being disconnected from the frontmost carrier bar 21. To move the guide into the working position the bar 21 must be moved to the left so that a selected driving pin 124 on the bar 99 may engage a stop 142 on the bar 21. This is effected by two operations, viz. (1) a stop 26 on the bar 21 is engaged by a selected driving pin 17 mounted in a driving device 1 reciprocable on shafts 2 and 4, and (2) a lug 43 on the driving device 1 is engaged by a driving lug 41 on the slur bar 30 when the latter is in its extreme right position. On the ensuing stroke of the slur bar 30, driving device 1 and bar 21 to the left of the pin 124 engage the stop 142, the pin 17 jumps out of the oblique-sided notch 29 in stop 26, the driving lug 41 is disengaged from the driving device 1 and the slur bar continues its journey leftwards. The driving device 1 comprises cams 11 rotated by a pawl and ratchet 55 from the cam shaft 57 via rod 60, and a lever carrying a roller 59 running on cam 56. The cams 11 control levers 12 which move slides 15 having cam surfaces 19 to raise the pins 17 which are spring-urged downwards. The driving lug 41 is formed on one arm of a bell crank lever 33 rotatably mounted on a shaft 35 journalled in a member secured to the slur bar 30. The other arm of the lever 33 carries a roller 40 which, at the end of the leftward movement of the device 1, engages a cam 47, the lever 33 being thus rocked to disengage the parts 41, 43. The parts 41, 43 are engaged as follows :-A bar 37 is moved downward, a roller 36 then moves counter-clockwise and frees the lever 34 so that member 41 is brought in front of the lug 43 and the driving device 1 is thus traversed with the slur bar 30.
Patent GB-745387-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to devices for transmitting rotary motion
IPC: G05G7/02
Filed: 1953-04-14
Abstract: 745,387. Escapement mechanism; locking rotary elements. GENERAL ELECTRIC CO., Ltd., and SIMPSON, A. I. F. April 2. 1954 [April 14, 1953]. No. 10226/53. Class 80(4) In a step-by-step snap-action device a driven shaft 6 carries a chamfered plate 16 with six indentations 17 engageable in succession by a spring-pressed ball 25 located in fixed guides. A driving shaft 5 carries a plate 31 with six teeth 32, a pin 33 on said plate passing through an arcuate slot 34 in the plate 16. Springs 35, 36 connect the pin 33 to the plate 16. Upon manual rotation of the shaft 5 the shaft 6 remains locked until a tooth 32 has moved the ball 25 out of an indentation 17 whereupon the plate 16 is moved angularly with a snap action by the spring 35 towards its next position wherein the ball 25 engages the adjacent indentation. The peripheral segments of the plate 16 are curved to give the ball 25 a top dead centre position and assist the snap action. The device may be modified to provide any number. of locking positions, and the . spacing thereof need not be regular. The shaft 6 is connected, possibly through a universal coupling, to a rotary frequency-band switch or turret in a radio receiver, and if the connection is through reduction gearing only one locking position may be required for each revolution. Each indentation 17 is tapered-as shown the opposite edges are radial, but they may befurther inclined to one another-and in the locking position the ball 25 has fourpoint contact with these two edges and the edges of two bent-out portions 23 of a fixed plate 1 which form the fixed guides. Alternatively, a channel-shaped member may be secured to the plate 1. In the unlocked condition the ball is retained by a block 21 on a fixed plate 2. As shown, the pin 33 is carried by the plate 31 and the slot 34 is formed in the plate 16, but these positions may be reversed. The shaft 6 may have an end portion fitting into the shaft 5. In a modification the plate 31 may be ratchet-shaped to transmit motion in only one direction, and two such plates, oppositely acting, may be provided and be selected by sliding of a splined driving shaft. A pair of contacts may be operated by the leaf spring 28 which loads the ball 25, or by a spring replacing this spring, to complete an interlocking circuit, or the circuit of the receiver dial lamps, only when the shaft 6 is correctly located. According to the Provisional Specification, the plate 31 may be hexagonal, the sides of the hexagon being preferably concave and the corners rounded, and the block 21 may be replaced by a pressed-out portion of the plate 2.
Patent GB-1300964-A (GB)
Title: Thermoplastic resin composition
IPC: C08L33/12
Filed: 1970-03-04
Abstract: 1300964 Graft polymer compositions SUMITOMO CHEMICAL CO Ltd 4 March 1970 [6 March 1969 6 May 1969 10 July 1969] 10284/70 Heading C3G A composition comprises 1 to 99% by weight of a methacrylic resin which is a homo- or co-polymer of a C 1  to C 4 -alkyl methacrylate, and 1 to 99% by weight of ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymer grafted with vinyl chloride, with or without 10 to 99% by weight of a vinyl chloride polymer, based on the combined weight of the methacrylic resin and graft copolymer. In the examples, the graft polymer is blended with polymethyl methacrylate and polyvinyl chloride.
Patent GB-923384-A (GB)
Title: A jack
IPC: B66F5/02
Filed: 1959-03-25
Abstract: 923,384. Lifting jacks. DOWNBURY Ltd. March 25, 1959 [March 26, 1958], No. 10311/59. Class 78 (3). The linkage of an hydraulically-actuated lever jack is so constructed that the velocity ratio is reduced during movement of the jack in its lower range. In the construction shown in Figs. 2 and 3, the crutch 7 is supported on a pair of quadrilateral linkages 4, 5, 6, 8 and 1, 3, 4, 5, which are extended by an hydraulic ram 10 pivoted to the base and to the upper end of a link 9 pivoted at 4<SP>11</SP> to link 4. During initial extension of the ram the linkage is raised by the engagement of link 9 with a roller 11 carried by link 5, whilst after the ram and link have moved into alignment the linkage is raised directly through the action of the ram on links 9 and 4. In the modification shown in Figs. 5 and 7, initial extension of the ram causes link 9<SP>1</SP> to thrust against roller 11 until links 12 and 13 are aligned whereafter the ram raises the linkage directly through links 9<SP>1</SP>, 12, 13.
Patent GB-351969-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to knitting machines
IPC: D04B11/32
Filed: 1930-04-01
Abstract: 351,969. Straight-bar knitting- machines. HOSIERY MACHINE CORPORATION, Cumberland, Rhode Island, U.S.A.-(Assignees of Miller, M. C.; Cumberland, Rhode Island, U.S.A.) April 1, 1930, No. 10351. Convention date, April 2, 1929. [Class 74 (ii).] An automatic welt turning device applicable to machines of the Cotton type comprises a carriage 58 having sliding elements 52 which take from and return to the needles the initial welt course and co-operate with pairs of fixed transfer elements 54 mounted in the same slots of the carriage. The hooks carry butts 62 engaged by a slotted control bar 60 slidable on the carriage. The elements are shouldered to form stops for the transferred loops and have spring free ends the points of which are received in the sides of the hooks. During the knitting of the setting-up course the carriage 58 is moved towards the needles 10 and the hooks are advanced beyond the elements 54 until they are between the needles and the loops of the first course of the welt are formed against the shanks of the hooks as the needles are depressed. A lateral movement of the carriage brings the hooks in line with the needles. The carriage is then gradually withdrawn as the knitting proceeds by the action of a weight until a position is reached at which the welt rod can be placed in the fold of each piece of fabric knitted. Finally the carriages are advanced again to allow the needles in moving upwards to remove the loops from the transfer elements. To relieve the tension exerted by the weight during the pressing and yarn sinking portions of the cycle, an upward extension 208 of a lever 206 engages an arm 204 to free a latch 190 and thereby release pawls 182 from engagement with a sliding rack 170. A screw stop 210 on the lever 206 then pushes the rack 170 forward and with it the carriage &c.
Patent GB-251617-A (GB)
Title: A reproducer for phonographs and the like
IPC: H04R7/12
Filed: 1926-04-20
Abstract: 251,617. Resonator, Ltd., (Assignees of Davis, C. H.). May 4, 1925, [Convention date]. Diaphragms.-A sound reproducer is constructed with a diaphragm of thin sheet material, mounted peripherally in a channelled ring which carries a needle adapted to track a disc record. The diaphragm 1 made of wood, and of conical, disc, parabolic or semi-spherical form, is secured in the channel of a cane ring 3 by bridge pieces 4 of cork or wood glued to the diaphragm and to one side of the channel, or by fixing directly to one side of the channel and inserting a filler piece.
Patent GB-671168-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to closure means for vacuum chambers
IPC: F16J13/02
Filed: 1950-04-28
Abstract: 671,168. Lids for resisting fluid pressure. GERAETEBAU-ANSTALT. April 28, 1950 [April 29, 1949], No. 10522/50. Class 123(i) A vacuum chamber 1 is closed by a lid 2 which is located on a shoulder 1a within the wall of the chamber, the joint 3 between the lid and chamber being covered by a rubber, &c. sealing ring 4, which is compressed by a pressure ring 5 secured to the housing by belts 6. Preferably the sealing ring is inserted in a groove extending across the joint 3, and the pressure ring 5 may have an elevated portion 5a to mate with the said ring 4.
Patent GB-1212597-A (GB)
Title: Electrical malfunction detection apparatus
Inventor: JNR JOHN KLYSA
IPC: H02H7/08
Filed: 1968-03-05
Abstract: 1,212,597. Protective arrangements; control of D.C. motors. SPERRY RAND CORP. 5 March, 1968 [30 March, 1967], No. 10545/68. Heading H2J and H2K. A protective arrangement for a pulse-width modulation controlled D.C. motor 17, e.g. a servomotor or the motor of a gyroscope platform 11, the operation of which is dependent on the sense and duration of the applied pulses, comprises two integrator circuits 30 responsive respectively to pulses of one and the other sense, each integrator circuit providing an output proportional to the duration of the pulses of the appropriate sense, and detector means 40 producing a signal when an integrator output exceeds a predetermined value. In the arrangement shown, a control gyroscope 10 provides an output which acting through an amplifier 12, a pulse-width amplifier 14 and a switch network 18 causes the application of pulses of alternate sense and variable duration to the motor 17. The integrator circuits comprise resistance/capacity circuits 31, 32, 33 and 34, 35, 36, the capacitors 33, 36 being charged alternately by the pulses and each being discharged through a diode 37, 38 while the other is charging. Should a fault in the motor control system result in a pulse of excessive length, e.g. the pulses becoming a continuous unidirectional signal, then a capacitor 33 or 36 is charged sufficiently to cause a Schmitt trigger 40 to change its state and cause the operation of a circuit 41 to effect the opening of a switch 24 in the D.C. motor supply and the operation of a failure indicator 42.
Patent GB-1247115-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to hollow inflatable articles
Inventor: KERR DOUGLAS SCOTT
IPC: A63B39/04
Filed: 1970-03-05
Abstract: 1,247,115. Inflatable balls. METTOY CO. Ltd. 5 March, 1970 [20 Oct., 1969], No. 10659/70. Heading B5A. Hollow inflatable articles, e.g. balls are made by forming a hollow body from a plastisol containing discrete lengths of fibres evenly distributed therein and inflating the body while plastic, thereby reducing its wall thickness. The hollow body is preferably formed by rotational casting about a plurality of axes, the gelled layer deposited then being fused. The plastisol is preferably a vinyl composition.
Patent GB-128741-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Geometrical Instruments more especially for use in Marking-out Casting-patterns for Parts used in Shoe Making Machinery.
IPC: A43D8/12
Filed: 1918-06-28
Abstract: 128,741. Marks, E. C. R., (Blake Inc., C. C.). June 28, 1918. Pantographic apparatus for use in the manufacture of casting patterns, which are more particularly intended for use in automatic shoemaking machines, comprises a tracer arranged to follow the edge of a sole secured to a last, the tracer being so connected to a scriber that the scriber is moved to form an equal or slightly enlarged projection of the edge of the sole upon a plane, the enlargement being for the purpose of allowing for shrinkage of the metal in casting. The sole 1 is secured to the bottom of a last 2. The tracer is formed by a spindle 10 carrying at its lower end a frustro-conical roller 7 and a cylindrical roller 8 adapted to be moved by a handle 14 to engage the face and edge of the sole respectively. The spindle 10 is loosely supported in bearings 19 so as to move up and down and to rotate about its axis, which intersects the edge of the sole. The bearings 19 are secured to a truck 20 moving over a rail 22, such movement being limited by pins 22<A>. To permit the tracer to move laterally in respect to the sole, the rail 22 is mounted on a base 23 pivoted on a post 24. A rail 29 similar to the rail 22 carries a second truck 30 which loosely carries a scriber or pencil 31 adapted to travel over a paper sheet secured to an horizontal table. Connected to the trucks 20, 30 are racks 34, 41 guided between rollers 35 and meshing with wheels 38, 40 mounted together on an axis 39 concentric with the post 24, The horizontal components of the movements of the tracer are thus transmitted to the scriber. To allow for the shrinkage of metal in casting and consequent necessarily greater plan area swept out by the scriber, the wheels 38, 40 are of different sizes, which are calculated according to known tables of metal shrinkage.
Patent GB-855571-A (GB)
Title: Synthetic tanning agents
IPC: C08L61/00
Filed: 1958-04-02
Abstract: Synthetic tanning agents are obtained by dispersing a condensation product of an aldehyde with a mono- or polyhydric phenol in a mixed condensation product of a polynuclear aromatic sulphonic acid, a halogenated phenol and an aldehyde.  The dispersed phenolic resin may be the condensate of phenol itself, a cresol, a xylenol, a naphthol, 4, 41-dihydroxydiphenyl sulphone, 4, 41-dihydroxydiphenyl methane, 4, 41 dihydroxydiphenyl dimethyl methane, pyrocatechol, resorcinol, hydroquinone, o-chlorophenol, guaiacol, salicyclic acid, or salicyclic acid methyl ester with formaldehyde or a formaldehyde donating substance, acetaldehyde, crotonaldehyde, benzaldehyde or furfural; especially advantageous are the formaldehyde condensates of the phenol mixtures obtained from lignite pyrolysis.  In the preparation of the dispersed resin urea, thiourea, melamine and dicyandiamide may partially replace the phenol.  A minor amount of water solubilizing groups, especially sulphonic acid groups, may also be present in the dispersed resin.  In the first of the ten examples an acid-catalysed phenol-formaldehyde resin is prepared, dehydrated and dispersed in a mixed condensate of a naphthalene sulphonation melt, o-chlorophenol and formaldehyde to give a clear syrup soluble in water.  In another example, the phenolic resin is chlorinated before dispersion.  In a further example, the dispersed resin is prepared under alkaline conditions from empyreumatic oil and formaldehyde, and added to the condensate of phenanthrene sulphonic acid, o-chlorophenol and formaldehyde.  Other halogenated phenols used in the mixed condensation products used in the examples are p-chlorophenol and 6-chloro-o-cresol.  Specifications 695,374, 747,675, 799,224 and 855,572 are referred to.