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Patent GB-1455662-A (GB)
Title: Apparatus for continuous rectification of two-piece hard capsules
IPC: B65G47/14
Filed: 1974-01-11
Abstract: 1455662 Orienting articles ELI LILLY & CO 11 Jan 1974 [31 Jan 1973] 01511/74 Heading B8S An apparatus for the continuous orientation of two piece capsules having body portions telescoped into cap portions and being randomly oriented in a stationary receptacle 1, comprises a reciprocating, rotatable feeding element 8 below the receptacle 1 for receiving capsules therefrom, and a rotatable delivery element 15 for delivering randomly vertically disposed capsules from the feeding element 8 thereabove to a rotatable rectifying plate 28 therebelow, which plate 28 orientates the capsules into a cap uppermost orientation before discharge therefrom. The receptacle 1 has an annular conveying base 2, 5 directing the capsules to a ring of chamfered holes 9 in the feeding element 8, which comprises a plate driven in rotation about a shaft 3 and laterally reciprocable by an eccentric cam and slot mechanism 10, 12, 13 gear driven from a stationary gear 11 on the shaft 3. The delivery element 15 comprises a circular bank of tubes rotatable with and substantially aligned with the holes 9 of the element 8, the tubes receiving capsules in vertical orientation but with their caps randomly directed up or down. Over the majority of the periphery of the delivery element, the capsules are supported in the tubes by a flexible O-ring 17 received in slots 16 in the tubes, the ring being withdrawn from the slots to pass around an idler roller 19 and thereby allowing capsules to drop in the released tubes on to another O-ring 20 seated in a lower set of slots 21 in the tubes and passing over another idler roller 23 angularly displaced from the roller 19, about the delivery element 15. In the region where the O-ring 20 is withdrawn from the slots 21, the capsules gravitate from the tubes into vertical holes 29 set around the periphery of the rectifying plate for alignment with the tubes, and are arrested by a stationary stop plate 31, whereafter the capsules engage a stationary positioning plate 32 which rotates the capsules into a horizontal position extending from the holes 29 into radial slots 30 opening the holes to the outer periphery of the rectifying plate 28. The slots 30 are of a width slightly less than the outside diameter of both the cap and body section of the two piece capsules being oriented, and because the capsule caps are of greater diameter than the capsule bodies, the caps are frictionally gripped in the slots 30 as the bodies are pushed up or down by the positioning plate 32 into a body outwards orientation. With continued rotation of the rectifying plate 28 the out-turned capsule bodies engage an orienting bar 35 which pivots the capsules into body downwards position, after which free turning wheels or skids engage and push the capsules back into the rectifying plate holes 29 from whence they gravitate into receiving means in the desired oritentation.
Patent GB-1377421-A (GB)
Title: Air-cushion vehicles
IPC: B60V1/16
Filed: 1972-01-12
Abstract: 1377421 Air-cushion vehicles ETAT FRANCAIS MINISTER FOR NATIONAL DEFENCE 12 Jan 1972 [31 March 1971] 1527/72 Heading B7K An air-cushion vehicle has a first central cushion portion fed by a gas jet injected at its periphery, and a second cushion portion surrounding said first portion, the second portion being constituted by a plurality of juxtaposed cells having flexible walls 1, 2 inclined downwardly inwardly and arranged to be fed at least partly by leakage gas from the first portion. Flexible lamellµ 3 serve to recirculate gas contained in the central cushion. In an alternative embodiment, Fig. 6 (not shown), each cell is open at its upper zone and receives an adjustable direct gas feed which is supplementary to the leakage-gas feed from the central cushion.
Patent GB-302820-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to bowden mechanism
IPC: F16C1/24
Filed: 1928-01-17
Abstract: 302,820. Terry & Sons, Ltd., H., and Terry, C. Jan. 17, 1928. Channels and reservoirs in Bowden-wire mechanism.-A lubricating device for Bowden cables comprises a tubular housing a, the central part of which is of hexagonal section, provided with a central bore a<1> through which the cable b passes and with end bores a<2> to receive the adjacent ends of the sheath b<1>, a lubricating nipple d being screwed into a hole a<4> provided in one of the flat faces. The ends of the sheath aUut against the shoulders a<3> through washers c.
Patent GB-1527194-A (GB)
Title: Brassieres
IPC: A41C3/04
Filed: 1977-01-14
Abstract: 1527194 Brassieres V MAYES & CO (UK) Ltd 14 Jan 1977 [19 May 1976] 01558/77 Heading A3V A brassiere intended particularly for maternity use allows exposure of either breast by providing the cups with elasticated front straps 12, 15 extending from their inner side edges and adapted to be releasably attached as by hooks 13, 16 and loops 17, 18 at or adjacent the outer side edge of the other cup.
Patent GB-1144429-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to automobile cooling arrangements
IPC: B60K11/08
Filed: 1968-01-11
Abstract: 1,144,429. Cooling vehicle engines. SOC. ANON. ANDRE CITROEN. 11 Jan., 1968 [16 Jan., 19671, No. 1577/68. Heading B7H. In a motor vehicle cooling arrangement, air for a fan 3 is led from an aperture in the vehicle bodywork 1 through a duct comprising an outwardly divergent rigid portion 4 having an inwardly directed flange 4a and a flexible portion 5 secured to the fan casing 2 and having a narrow lip 5a which bears on the flange 4a. An auxiliary duct 9 extends between apertures in the bodywork and rigid part 4 and is closed by a rubber flap valve 7 which opens when the pressure in the rigid part 4 falls below that in the duct 9. A grille 6 may be placed across the opening of the rigid part. The flexible part 5 may alternatively be secured to the rigid part with its lip 5a bearing against the fan casing.
Patent GB-828287-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to clearer and worker rollers of carding machines
IPC: D01G15/84
Filed: 1958-01-17
Abstract: 828,287. Carding engines. GOODWIN, W. A. May 30, 1958 [Jan. 17, 1958], No. 1631/58. Class 120(1) Clearer rollers of a roller carding machine are fitted at each end with a metal band ¥ inch wide; card fillet is wound between the bands, and after grinding stands higher than the bands by about 1/32 inch. The workers are card-clothed in the usual manner; the card teeth at each end of the roller are then clipped off close to the foundation over a width of inch, and the clipped ends are covered by leather or metal strips. Fibre migrating on to the metal bands on a clearer is transferred immediately to the swift which carries it past the clipped ends of the workers straight to the fancy. Migration of fibre on to the roller shafts and frame sides is thus avoided.
Patent GB-112831-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Forced Draught Arrangements for Boilers.
Inventor: OGAWA YEITARO
IPC: F23M20/00
Filed: 1917-02-01
Abstract: 112,831. Ogawa, Y. Feb. 1, 1917. Cleaning externally.-The outsides of the tubes of air heaters arranged in the uptakes of steamboiler furnaces are cleaned by perforated plates 33 which may be caused to travel over them by means of a screw.
Patent GB-1394152-A (GB)
Title: Apparatus for embossing moving workpieces particularly but not exclusively material webs
IPC: B41F19/06
Filed: 1973-01-12
Abstract: 1394152 Embossing; bed-reciprocating apparatus MADAG MASCHINENUND APPARATEBAU DIETKON AG 12 Jan 1973 [1 Feb 1972] 1654/73 Headings B6J and B6C A web W, or a flat or round workpiece, is colour-embossed through a foil 21 by means of an embossing member 10a carried on an arm 10 swingable about a shaft 9 by means of a cam 11 and link 16, the shaft 9 being eccentrically mounted in a member 8 which is oscillated by a cam 17 and link 20 so as to slightly raise the member 10a during its return leftward stroke. During the working stroke, the foil 21 is fed forwards, and is fed backwards to a lesser extent during the return stroke, by the cam 11 and links 16, 32, and by the cam 17 and link 58 to the take-up reel 23, the amount of advance being controlled by adjusting a link 34, joining arms 24, 25 carrying rollers 29, 31 over which the foil passes, in a slot 28 in the arm 24.
Patent GB-743773-A (GB)
Title: Full fashioned knitting
IPC: D04B11/00
Filed: 1952-01-21
Abstract: 743,773. Knitting. WILDMAN MANUFACTURING CO. Jan. 21, 1952 [April 3, 1951], No. 1668/52. Class 74 (2). During part of the knitting or narrowing cycles, the fabric is held down by either the jack sinkers only or the dividers only as necessary to prevent a splicing yarn from falling off the nose of the outside sinker or having its standing points incorrectly positioned in relation to sinkers and dividers after the lateral shift of narrowing points and from then being wrapped around the nose of the outside sinker on the return trip of the splicing yarn carrier and perhaps pierced by an additional needle, to produce unsightly enlarged or additional loops LSL, KISL or KISLW. The sinkers and dividers are operated by separate catch bars SCB, DB. During yarn laying, the sinkers are actuated from above the fabric which is held down by the advanced dividers only, whilst, during stripping of transferred stitches from the narrowing points and subsequent rise of the needles through the sinker throats, the dividers are wholly or partly retracted and the sinkers advanced to overlie the fabric. For this purpose, during ordinary knitting, the sinker catch bar is reciprocated and moved vertically by cams 12, 16 on the main cam shaft MS, whilst the divided bar is independently operated by a cam 19 on that shaft; but during loop transfer operations, the cam shaft is shogged so that these cams are replaced by appropriately shaped cams 12a, 16a and 19a. Short-nosed sinkers S and dividers D may be used, the top edges 26 of the dividers being lower than the upper edges of the brows 24 of the sinkers to accommodate the yarn guides during the loop transfer operation and to receive certain of the yarns in position to be engaged by the brows of the advancing sinkers and swept down into their throat 22 and into alignment with the divider throats 23. The forward ends of the edges 26 may be relieved at 27. The divider noses may be provided with slits 28 into which the turned portion of the yarn at the selvedge will be drawn, to provide a tighter selvedge. Specifications 683,826 and 722,318 are referred to.
Patent GB-412135-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to starting means for internal combustion engines
IPC: F02N99/00
Filed: 1934-01-17
Abstract: 412,135. Turning - gear. FAIREY AVIATION CO., Ltd., Cranford Lane, Hayes, Middlesex, and FORSYTH, A. G., Venlaw, Burdon Lane, Cheam, Surrey. Jan. 17, 1934, No. 1696. [Class 7 (v).] In an engine starter in which a worm b is moved axially on a starter shaft c into engament with a worm wheel a on the engine shaft or a shaft geared thereto, the worm is connected to the shaft c through frictional means until it engages the worm wheel, and then through positive means. As shown, a spring-actuated plunger n in the shaft c engages a longitudinal groove o in the bore of the worm until the axial movement of the worm brings splines d in the worm into engagement with splines e on the shaft c. The worm is thus enabled to slip on the shaft c if its teeth clash with those of the worm when moving into engagement. The shaft c may be driven by a handle or a starting motor, and the worm may be normally held in the disengaged position by a spring plunger h carried by a fixed support j.
Patent GB-297445-A (GB)
Title: Improvement in retort structures
IPC: C10B29/02
Filed: 1928-01-18
Abstract: 297,445. Blackwell, E. G. Sept. 22, 1927, [Convention date]. Retorts.-A retort chamber has its walls made in sections, the adjacent abutment faces of which converge in the same direction as the forces acting upon the walls so as to resist outwardlydirected stresses, as well as inward pressure. The chamber 10 is arranged between walls 11 and opposed tiles 12 having inwardly-converging faces 16 and comprises courses 17, 18, 19, each alternate course 18 having a central end brick 20 and adjacent corner bricks 21, the intervening courses 19 having adjacent corner bricks 25. The side bricks 30, 31 have abutment faces 33 which lie in converging planes radial to lines external to equidistant from and parallel to the retort axis so that the corner and side bricks tend to wedge and prevent displacement from bursting stresses. A course 17, Fig. 4, may be arranged to resist compressional stresses. The outer face of each corner brick may have a recess 26, 27 to increase its lightness and heat conductivity.
Patent GB-734271-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to disc brakes
Inventor: ORLOFF GEORGE
IPC: F16D65/14
Filed: 1952-01-22
Abstract: 734,271. Disc brakes. BRITISH MESSIER, Ltd. April 17, 1953 [Jan. 22, 1952], No. 1764/52. Class 103 (1). In a disc brake, a brake-yoke-carrier has a cylindrical bore which extends in a direction transverse with respect to the brake disc within which slides a cylindrical brake-yoke having a return arm which spans the edge of the disc and is provided with friction pads to engage opposite faces of the disc, the movable mounting of the yoke relatively to the carrier permitting axial movement to equalize the braking forces on opposed sides of the disc. In the embodiment shown in Fig. 1, a brake disc 14 is rotatable with the vehicle wheel through an adaptor 10. A non-rotatable brake carrier 15 comprises a plate which carries two hollow guide cylinders 19 inside which are assembled brake yokes 20 which have a sliding movement in the guide cylinders parallel to the wheel axle; rotation of the yokes being prevented by keys 120. Each yoke has an arm 21 which terminates in a return arm 22 to which is secured a friction pad 26. The main body of the yoke is bored through coaxially with its exterior to house a piston 24 which carries a brake pad 25. A cover 27 is secured to the yoke 20 and supports a lever and plunger means 28, 29, 30 for manual actuation of the brake in event of failure of the hydraulic system. In operation, hydraulic fluid under pressure is forced into the space between the piston 24 and the cover 27 to apply the friction pad 25. The reaction forces the yoke arms axially in the opposite direction to apply the brake pad 26, so that the pressure exerted on the two sides of the disc is equalized. The Provisional Specification describes alternative constructions to that shown in Fig. 1 in which the yoke is pivoted to the non-rotatable axle, or alternatively, is made to slide longitudinally upon it on splines.
Patent GB-1096791-A (GB)
Title: Machine for thinning out rows of plants
IPC: A01B41/04
Filed: 1965-01-15
Abstract: 1,096,791. Plant thinning machines. G. GUGENHAN, [trading as H. F€HSE & CO.]. Jan. 15, 1965 [Jan. 17, 1964], No. 1830/65. Heading A1B. A machine for thinning out rows of plants comprises three tool units 16-18 each consisting of a rotatable tool member 34 mounted on a rearwardly extending housing 23. Each member is connected to a shaft 32 driven by a hydraulic motor 29, and comprises hoeing tools 47 pivotally mounted thereon and displaceable between positions substantially radial and substantially parallel to the axis of the member. Each unit is connected by a toggle linkage 21, 22 to a main frame 1 and is supported by wheels 25, 26. The tools include projections 59 engaged by recesses 57a in spring urged slides 57, and the slides are normally held in their rearmost position by stops 62 mounted on shafts 63 which are rotatable about their axes by means of a roller 68 engaging projections thereon. The roller is mounted on a swinging arm 67 which is actuated by an electro-magnet 66. When the stops are released the ends 60 of the slides engage an inclined swash plate 42. The tool shanks may be mounted in holders with the aid of rubber blocks (Fig. 8, not shown). A ground wheel 83 drives electric control means in a control box 92, which means is connected with a feeler member 81 of a unit. The control means is actuated by the ground wheel to activate an electro-magnet 66 and thus swing the stop 62 out of engagement with a slide 57 upon sensing of a plant in one plant row by the feeler member after the machine has travelled a predetermined distance from the previously sensed plant. A hydraulic circuit comprising an oil pump 97, an oil source 101, an oil flow governor 110 (Fig. 11), and a relief valve also includes the three hydraulic motors 29 in series, which drive the three tool members via shafts 32. The oil pump is driven via gearing by a tractor p.t.o. In alternative embodiments, the circuit may exclude an oil flow governor (Fig. 9, not shown), or a circuit including an oil pump operated at a constant speed may include an oil flow governor including valve controlled by a centrifugal governor which is driven by a ground engaging wheel (Figs. 13 and 15, not shown). The frame has steerable wheels 7, 8 mounted thereon, although the machine may be hauled by a tractor.
Patent GB-811569-A (GB)
Title: Method for the preparation of improved resinous aromatic polyetheralcohols and products thereby obtained
IPC: C08G8/28
Filed: 1957-01-18
Abstract: Phenol-formaldehyde novolaks derived essentially from phenol and having 3-10 phenolic units per molecule are etherified in the presence of an alkali metal hydroxide catalyst and at 100-220 DEG  C. with (i) 0.05-1.0 moles. of styrene oxide per phenolic unit and then (ii) 1.2-0.25 moles. per phenolic unit of (a) an alkylene oxide containing 2-4 carbon atoms, (b) a hydroxy alkylene oxide containing 3-5 carbon atoms or (c) an aryl glycidyl ether, by continuing the reaction until at least 70 per cent of the novolak phenolic hydroxyl groups are etherified.  In the examples, 0.82 moles. of formaldehyde are reacted with 1 mole. phenol in the presence of phosphoric acid and water; the resultant novolak is dissolved in dioxane, mixed with alcoholic KOH and placed in a high-pressure rocking-type reactor; varying quantities of styrene oxide within the permitted range are heated at average temperatures of 105-120 DEG  C. for 12-48 hours with the novolak; there are then added varying quantities of ethylene oxide (Examples 1, 2 and 6), propylene oxide (3), phenyl glycidyl ether (4) or hydroxy propylene oxide (5) which are heated at average temperatures of 140-155 DEG  C. for 3-5.75 hours; finally the product is cooled, neutralized with citric acid, devolatilized to remove solvent, washed and dried.  Specifications 811,567 and 811,568 are referred to.
Patent GB-1157841-A (GB)
Title: An Apparatus for Producing from Tubular Stock a Tapered Roller
IPC: F16C33/64
Filed: 1967-01-13
Abstract: 1,157,841. Lathes. TIMKEN ROLLER BEARING CO. 13 Jan., 1967 [23 May, 1966], No. 2062/67. Headings B3B and B3T. A machine tool for making the inner race members of rolling bearings comprises a frame 15 having a front face 16 which supports a plurality of cutting tools on slide assemblies 18-21 which are operable by respective cams and levers 22-30 in a controlled sequence to facilitate the removal of stock from a workpiece S mounted in the chuck on the rotary spindle of the machine. Slide assembly 18 carries a boring tool 44 mounted for movement longitudinally of the machine spindle on slide 37 and a rough turning tool 53 mounted on slides 39a and 50 for longitudinal and transverse movement, respectively, the slides being actuated by a bellcrank 55, cam 67 and levers 61, 64 and 70 so as to produce controlled simultaneous movement of the tools 44 and 53. The initial machining of the workpiece is carried out by the tools 44 and 53 by which the maximum amount of material is removed from the workpiece and the initial conical forming is effected. The operation of the slide assembly 19 is then initiated whereby forming tool 83 and facing tool 84 mounted on slide block 81 are fed simultaneously transversely to the workpiece to effect the finished forming operation. Slide assembly 20 is then actuated which carries a breakdown tool 95 in a slide 90 and a relieving tool 105 pivotally mounted on a slide 98 by means of links 101- 103 so as to effect a slight rocking action to accomplish the relieving operation, the relieving and breakdown operations being effected simultaneously. Finally the slide assembly 21 is actuated and which carries a parting-off tool so that the finished race member can be parted off from the stock and the cycle of operations recommenced. A draw bar feeds the stock through the machine spindle up to a stock stop after each operation cycle. The stages of the machining operation are set out in Figs. 8 to 11 (not shown).
Patent GB-1269581-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to pneumatic drills
IPC: E21B4/14
Filed: 1970-01-15
Abstract: 1,269,581. Percussive tools. STENUICK FRERES SPRL. 15 Jan., 1970 [23 May, 1969], No. 2088/70. Heading B4C. [Also in Division E1] In a pneumatic drill having a supply of flushing fluid separate from the supply of operating air, the path for flushing fluid comprises a tube 36, a bore 16 through a shock absorbing piston 4, a tubular extension 41 on a member 40 carried by the valve 10 controlling the air supply to the cylinder formed by a liner 11 and containing a hammer piston 15, bores 42, 43, 44, grooves 47 between drill casing 1 and the liner, ports 49, chamber 50, ducts 51, grooves 23, a chamber 32 and ducts 33 discharging about the bit 8. Where water is the flushing fluid it mixes with exhaust air in grooves 23 to form a spray.
Patent GB-1036122-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to combined washing and spin drying machines
Inventor: SIBBALD FREDERICK ROY
IPC: D06F39/12
Filed: 1962-01-19
Abstract: A combined washing and spin-drying machine comprises a single moulding of a thermoplastic material (e.g. high-density polypropylene) forming both an open-topped washing container and a casing for a vertical-axis spin-dryer basket, the container and casing having a common wall adjacent their upper ends.  A horizontal-axis impeller is supported in the back wall of the washing container by at least one tie-rod 94 (Fig. 8, not shown) supported from a cross beam fixed to an outer housing.  The moulding has a flange 22 (Fig. 8, not shown) around its top periphery which supports it at front and sides by hooking over the top edge of the outer housing.  The back wall of the moulding is supported by the cross-beam.  The moulding is held down by rubber grommets 42 (Fig. 5, not shown) fitting, radially compressed, in holes in the moulding and screwed to tongues welded to the upper edge of the outer housing. The shaft of the impeller is supported in a bearing housing which passes through a resilient radially-compressed bush fitting in a hole in the back wall of the washing container.  The impeller is backed by a stationary plate inside the container.  An outlet hose from the container is clamped on a metal sleeve 48 (Fig. 6 not shown) which fits through a hole in the container and has a flange inside the container, there being a radially-compressed resilient flanged bush fitting around the sleeve and in the hole.  Fig. 7 (not shown) shows the shaft of the spin-dryer basket in a bearing passing through a corrugated rubber diaphragm fitting in a hole in the casing.  The impeller may alternatively be supported by a thickened portion of the back wall or be mounted in an inclined or bottom wall of the container.