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Patent GB-1520566-A (GB)
Title: Electric plugs
IPC: H01R4/28
Filed: 1976-10-05
Abstract: 1520566 Two-part couplings HUNG JUI JUNG 5 Oct 1976 41332/76 Heading H2E An electric plug comprises an insulating base 2, a contact 1 receivable in a recess of base 2, the contact having a wire engaging portion 11, and a cam member 3 retainable in base 2 and movable to a position in which a wire 4 to be electrically connected to the contact is gripped between portion 11 of the contact and a surface of the base, Fig. 8. In the embodiment shown the plug has two contacts, cam member 3 extending across both contacts and pressing the contacts downwardly so that portions 11, which are each in the form of a flange projecting from the side of the contact, engage and bend the wire 4 into a recess in the base. The wires 4 enter the base through respective holes 22.
Patent GB-1204135-A (GB)
Title: Process for the recovery of macromolecular silvachemical compounds from aqueous solutions thereof
Inventor: QUIMBY GEORGE ROBERT
IPC: C08H8/00
Filed: 1967-09-11
Abstract: 1,204,135. Recovery of macromolecular silvachemical compounds. ITT RAYONIER Inc. 11 Sept., 1967, No. 41381/67. Heading C2C . Macromolecular silvachemical compounds are separated and recovered from aqueous solutions thereof by adding a high molecular weight quaternary ammonium salt to said aqueous solution to precipitate macromolecular silvachemical derivatives of said quaternary ammonium salt, wherein the precipitate is separated from the solution and is then dissolved in a lower aliphatic alcohol, an alkali metal salt is added to the alcoholic solution of the macromolecular quaternary ammonium compound to precipitate an alkali metal salt of the macromolecular silvachemical compound and reform the quaternary ammonium salt, and the alkali metal macromolecular silvachemical compound is separated from the alcoholic solution, characterized in that the initial aqueous solution of the macromolecular silvachemical compound is a solution resulting from the pulping or bleaching of wood or from the digestion and extraction of polyphenolic compounds from coniferous tree barks, the quaternary ammonium compound is a quaternary ammonium chloride of the formula +NR 1 C1- wherein each R is an alkyl, aryl, alkoxy or aryloxy radical having from 1 to 20 carbon atoms and wherein at least one of the radicals R contains a minimum of 8 carbon atoms, in that the lower aliphatic alcohol is methanol or ethanol, the alkali metal salt is sodium or potassium chloride, after separation of the sodium or potassium derivative of the macromolecular silvachemical compound from the alcoholic solution, the alcohol content of the solution is recovered by distillation and the quaternary ammonium chloride content is recovered following removal of the alcohol therefrom, and the recovered alcohol and the quaternary ammonium chloride are recycled for reuse in the process. A preferred molecular weight fraction of said macromolecular compound or successive molecular weight fractions of decreasing molecular weight may be precipitated by adding a predetermined amount or amounts of water to the alcoholic solution of the macromolecular silvachemical derivative of the quaternary ammonium chloride prior to the addition of an alkali metal chloride to said alcoholic solution.
Patent GB-1110069-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to resilient plastics foam toroidal articles and the production thereof
Inventor: BROCKENSHAW HARVEY
IPC: B29C44/56
Filed: 1965-09-30
Abstract: 1,110,069. Moulding foamed plastics. PRICE BROS & CO. Ltd. 24 Aug., 1966 [30 Sept., 1965], No. 41494/65. Heading B5A. A resilient article e.g. a hospital ring cushion, is formed by pressing down on a slab of foamed plastics e.g. polyurethane, with welding electrodes 4, 5 carried by the movable one of two opposed platens 1, 2. The electrodes are heated by high frequency current during operation or pre-heated by electrical resistance heaters.
Patent GB-1487575-A (GB)
Title: Process for producing aluminium trichloride
IPC: C22B21/00
Filed: 1974-09-25
Abstract: 1487575 Aluminium trichloride TOTH ALUMINUM CORP 25 Sept 1974 [28 Sept 1973] 41657/74 Heading C1A Aluminium trichloride is produced by comminuting a clay and a solid carbonaceous reductant, either separately or together, admixing and bringing together the comminuted materials to form an extremely close and intimate mixture of the materials with smaller interstitial spacings between their particles than would otherwise occur without the bring- ing together, calcining the intimate mixture under a reducing atmosphere and at an elevated temperature and carbo-chlorinating the calcined intimate mixture with a gaseous stream containing chlorine and/or chlorine compounds. The bringing together may be carried out at a pressure up to 15 metric tons/cm.<SP>2</SP> to form tablets or briquets. The carbonaceous material may be low-grade or sub-bituminous coal, i.e. brown coal, lignite or coke therefrom or high quality low-ash coal, coke therefrom or charcoal. A halogen salt (e.g. NaCl) may be introduced into the materials prior to admixture. The comminuted materials may be mixed with a binder (carboxymethyl cellulose or glue-like organic material) to form a dough-like paste which is subsequently dried and granulated. The comminuted material may have a particle size of 2-200 microns in diameter.
Patent GB-1435609-A (GB)
Title: Web forming machine having an inclined forming wire
IPC: D21F1/02
Filed: 1973-09-05
Abstract: 1435609 Forming sheet material SANDY HILL CORP 5 Sept 1973 41664/73 Heading D2A Fibrous sheets of, for example, paper are formed on apparatus including an endless forming wire 50 having an adjustably inclined reach between a breast roll 22 and a wire roll 32. A stationary headbox 82 is provided with a plurality of selectively employable pairs of side pond plate extensions 130 of differing dimensions, each extension having a rubber seal 146 at its lowermost edge, and a selected pair being mounted upon side walls 84 in overlapping relationship so as to take up the space between the walls 84 and the wire 50. One or more fibrous suspensions are delivered to the forming wire from one or more compartments of a flow control mechanism in the headbox 82, through one or more slices 104, 114, 124, the drainage occurring under vacuum or gravity. The inclination of the wire 50 is altered by pivoting table rail 18 about a pivot in bearing blocks 20 by means of a mechanical jacking mechanism 26.
Patent GB-1445413-A (GB)
Title: Cleaning brushes
IPC: A47L25/08
Filed: 1973-09-06
Abstract: 1445413 Cleaning pads and brushes NIPPON SEAL CO Ltd 6 Sept 1973 [9 Sept 1972] 41956/73 Heading A4F A brush member 8 is supported for use by a casing C, as illustrated in phantom lines in Fig. 4, and after use is inserted into the casing 2 where bristles 8' thereon are engaged and cleaned by bristles 7' on a brush 7 fixed within the casing C, the bristles 7', 8' both being inclined in a direction opposite to the direction of insertion. The brush member 8 is withdrawn from the casing C for use by pulling a flange 12 thereon, and pivoted to its operative position in which a projection 13 on the flange 12 engages a slit in the casing end-wall 5. On repeated insertion of the brush member 8 into the casing C dust collected on the bristles 7' is pushed by the bristles 8' into a collecting space 9 from which it is discharged by opening a pivoted casing cover 3. A detachable handle (17), Fig. 9 (not shown) may be mounted in either of two holders (16) on opposite sides of the casing 2. In a further embodiment the brush member 8 is not pivoted to its operative position but is slid thereto, having pins (10), Fig. 11 (not shown) for engagement in guide grooves (21) in the casing C.
Patent GB-1202934-A (GB)
Title: Method of and apparatus for the manufacture of serpentine-shaped workpieces
Inventor: BENIN LEONID ABRAMOVICH
IPC: B21D11/07
Filed: 1967-09-14
Abstract: 1,202,934. Angular bending; corrugating. VSESOJUZNY PROEKTNO-TEKHNOLOGICHESKY INSTITUT ENERGETICHESKOGO MASHINOSTROENIA. 14 Sept., 1967, No. 41986/67. Heading B3E.  A serpentine shaped workpiece particularly for steam boilers is made by bending a blank in a criss cross fashion around two rods 4, 5 to form a succession of coils which are removed from the rods and allowed to assume a planar serpentine shape. In one embodiment, the blank 1, Fig. 11, is passed through rollers 40, located in the lower groove of the rod 4 and clamped by a clamp 2. Grooved rollers 17, 18 are vertically positioned by a pitch control 19 and the rollers 17, 18 opposite the rod 4 eccentrically rotated by a drive 21 to contact the blank 1, whereupon a turntable 3 is rotated by a driven gear 25, Fig. 7, which simultaneously moves through gears 26, 28 and 30, 31 a bending head 13 carrying the rollers 17, 18 around the rod 4. A platform (39), (Fig. 8, not shown) carrying the rollers 40 is raised and then lowered by a piston-rod (41) to allow a bending device 9 positioned at the other end of the turntable 3 to pass beneath the blank 1. The rollers 17, 18 of the bending device 9 are then eccentrically rotated to contact the blank 1, after which the turntable 3 is rotated back in the opposite direction and the bending device 9 moved around the rod 5 to form a coil, Fig. 13. The cycle is repeated to form a number of superposed coils, which are removed from the apparatus by first moving the rollers 17, 18 off the blank 1. After clamping the formed coils by a clamp 64, the rods 4, 5 are turned through 90 degrees by a worm and gear 32, 33 and moved towards each other so that the  formed coils may be removed. Upon releasing the coils spring out into a flat serpentine. In another embodiment, each coil is removed from the rods before the next coil is wound by moving the rod 5 through 90 degrees by a rack (55) (Fig. 10, not shown) and gear (51) and moving a carriage 10 retaining lever (58) into an inoperative position. The carriage 10 is moved inwards causing the rod 5 to be lowered by a pin (53) riding in a cam slot of a cam (54). The coil is pushed upward by a pusher (61) and stored in the wound state above a spring loaded claw (50). Alternatively each coil removed from the rods is allowed to assume a planar configuration before the next coil is wound.
Patent GB-947851-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to the storage of a liquefied gas
Inventor: FRENCH MICHAEL JOSEPH
IPC: F17C3/02
Filed: 1962-11-06
Abstract: 947,851. Carrying liquefied gases. CONCH INTERNATIONAL METHANE Ltd. Nov. 6, 1962, No. 41989/62. Heading B7A. [Also in Division F4] A prismatic liquefied gas container 10, Fig. 1, is located within a plywood facing 9 of balsa wood blocks 8 lining a liquid-tight housing 7 within the inner hull 3 of a ship 1 by engagement of spaced keys 19, Fig. 2, welded to the outer edges of a framework 11 of the container, (see Division F4) with wooden blocks 23, Fig. 4 slidably mounted between jaws of clamps 21 bolted to blocks 22 secured along the corner edges of the facing 9 and the blocks are adjustably positioned against the action of leaf springs 20 welded to the frame 11 by cam rods 24 which extend through the surrounding insulation and whereby during filling the tank frame 11 is held in abutment with said blocks 23.
Patent GB-1284754-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to signal actuated mechanical positioning apparatus
Inventor: ROSENBAUM HAROLD MATTHEW
IPC: G05D3/14
Filed: 1969-08-22
Abstract: 1284754 Positioning devices MARCONI CO Ltd 11 June 1970 [22 Aug 1969] 42035/69 Heading G4H The position of an object is determined by two flexible belts, wires or cords, each anchored at one end and attached to the object at the other and in between looped around electrically operated actuators which vary the length of the loops and so move the object in one or the other of two opposite directions. In Fig. 2 a machine tool platen 1 is moved positively right or left by two flexible members 3, 3A which are looped around the pulleys of two double-acting solenoids 11A and of two single acting solenoids. According to the pattern of solenoids operated the platen is moved to the right or left to one of a number of positions. The exact position being finally determined by two toothed members, one, 12, on the platen and the other, 13, fixed which are brought together by solenoid 14. The arms 10A of the double acting solenoid move together in the same direction but in either direction. Pneumatic or hydraulic actuators may be used. The use of two such arrangements to position an object on other than a single straight line is contemplated.
Patent GB-1476153-A (GB)
Title: Preparation of 5-oxo-carboxylic acids
IPC: C07C59/76
Filed: 1974-09-27
Abstract: 1476153 Oxo-carboxylic acids HOECHST AG 27 Sept 1974 [27 Sept 1973] 42044/74 Heading C2C 5-Oxo carboxylic acids of formula wherein R 1  and R 2  which may be the same or different represent a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl, cycloalkyl, aryl or aralkyl group or R 2  represents hydrogen and R 1  has one of the above meanings, or R 1  and R 2  together with the carbon atoms form a substituted or unsubstituted 5- to 12-membered carbocyclic ring and R 3 , R 4  and R 5  represent a hydrogen atom or a substituted alkyl, cycloalkyl, aryl or aralkyl group or R 3  has one of the above meanings and R 4  and R 6  represent a substituted or unsubstituted 5- to 12-membered carbocyclic ring are prepared by reacting in the presence of a catalyst comprising ammonia, a compound bearing a primary amino group, or a compound yielding a primary amine group, or an imine. The process may be in a solvent such as acetonitrile, tetrahydrofuran or benzene and many catalysts are listed. Examples describe the reaction of acetone or methyl ethyl ketone with acrylic acid.
Patent GB-1020903-A (GB)
Title: A plug-type connector for electric cable
IPC: H01R13/453
Filed: 1962-11-09
Abstract: 1,020,903. Two-part couplings. TELEFUNKEN PATENTVERWERTUNGS G.m.b.H. Nov. 9, 1962 [Nov. 10, 1961], No. 42411/62. Heading H2E. A connector for a multicore telecommunications cable consists of two identical mating assemblies, each provided with a pivoted sealing lid 6 having round threads on the two end faces 6c and on one half of its outer surface 6d, which screw into the inner thread of a connecting sleeve 7 so that the lid acts either as a coupling member when it lies parallel with the plug axis, Fig. 1, or as a water-tight closure when it lies in the plane of the end of the plug, Fig. 2. The resiliently mounted contact socket 2 carries two resiliently movable contact blades, 2a, and two fixed contact plates 2b. A flat shielding plate 8 is provided between each two contact pairs with its outer end projecting to make contact with the other plug member. At the point where the cable is introduced into the member there is a hose-like sleeve of resilient plastic material 17, which prevents buckling and also acts as a seal and is provided with an external trapezoidal thread 17b. A retaining nut 22 has a corresponding thread, and is also secured to the plug casing 1 by means of a thread connection with a smaller pitch so that when screwed together the sleeve is elongated and increased sealing action results.
Patent GB-1202238-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to tyre building machines
IPC: B29D30/26
Filed: 1967-09-19
Abstract: 1,202,238. Tyre building machines. CONTINENTAL GUMMI - WERKE A.G. 19 Sept., 1967 [6 Dec., 1966], No. 42664/67. Heading B7C. A tyre building machine comprises a drum having a hub 5, end walls 6, 7 and an inflatable diaphragm 8 fixed to walls 6 and 7, the walls being mutually axially adjustable symmetrically to remain evenly spaced from the drum midcircumferential plane, wall 6 by axial movement of support shaft 1 and wall 7 by sliding on hub 5. Shaft 11 with oppositely threaded parts 13, 14 engaging a disc 15 rotatable on shaft 1 and a sleeve 17 fixed to wall 7 is rotated by shaft 12 to move the walls. Member 22 carried by hub 5 is turned to engage wall 7 with bayonet connection by sleeve 23, whereafter sleeve 20 may be moved to the right freeing hooked ends 18 of sleeve 17 to spring out of groove 19 in wall 7. Thus the drum may be removed entire from the shaft 1 after removal of a lock ring 10.
Patent GB-1209698-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to pressure gauges
Inventor: KUBECKA JAN
IPC: G01L17/00
Filed: 1968-09-09
Abstract: 1,209,698. Tyre pressure gauges. CHIRANA, ZAVODY ZDRAVOTNICKET TECHNIKY, OBOROVY PODNIK. Sept. 9, 1968 [Sept. 7, 1967], No.42825/68. Heading G1L. In a tyre pressure gauge the air-pressure applied to a piston 2, freely movable in a transparent graduated cylinder 1 closed at one end, is indicated by the piston position relative to the graduated scale 15. A spring-loaded valve 6, 7, 8 for application to the tyre valve is provided at the lower end of the gauge and a manually operated pressure release valve provided on the tube 1, intermediate the piston 2 and the spring-loaded valve, effects adjustment of the tyre pressure.
Patent GB-1489749-A (GB)
Title: Partitioned box and blank therefor
IPC: B65D5/4805
Filed: 1975-08-18
Abstract: 1489749 Boxes ASHTON CONTAINERS Ltd 18 Aug 1975 [2 Oct 1974] 42854/74 Heading B8P A partitioned box folded from a blank, e.g. of corrugated fibreboard, comprises two pairs of opposed walls 11-14 hinged to a base 10 and interlocking slotted partitions formed by hinged extensions 16-18, 21-23 of three of the walls 11-13, a fourth wall 14 having an extension 25 defining a lid. In forming the box, the walls 11- 12 are folded upwardly and the extensions 16- 18 inwardly, Fig. 2, whereupon the extensions 21-23, folded to a generally U-shaped configuration, may be engaged over the extensions 17, the extensions 18 passing through slots 24. The wall 14 is then folded upwardly and the lid 25 inwardly, a tuck-in flap 26 being insertable between the front of the box and dust flaps 15.
Patent GB-984337-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in driving mechanisms of roller conveyors
IPC: B65G13/00
Filed: 1963-10-30
Abstract: 984,337. Power driven roller conveyers. RAPIDS-STANDARD CO. Inc. Oct. 30, 1963 [Dec. 21, 1962], No. 42883/63. Heading B8A. Rollers of a roller conveyer are rotated by resilient blocks mounted on links of an endless chain, the blocks frictionally engaging the peripheries of the rollers. The conveyer in Figs. 1, 3 comprises a plurality of tapered rollers 16 which are engaged by drive blocks 24, preferably made of a rubber-like resilient material. The arrow-like configuration of the blocks holds them in steady alignment with one another and causes pressure of any one of the rollers to be gradually transferred from one block to the next. The configuration also permits the endless drive arrangement to be interchangeably used on a horizontal plane or in a vertical plane. The metallic links 34, 36 of the endless chain 22 rub against a rail 32 of a self-lubricating material such as nylon, and rotatable sleeves 40 of the links 36 of the driving run of the chain roll on a riding rail 38. The return run of the chain is supported by engagement of the blocks 24 with rollers 46. The blocks are connected to the chain by a tube 78 and plates 76. The rub rail 32 may be on the left or right of the chain to enable the conveyer to be built in the form of an S, the blocks 24 then being made to engage the centre of the rollers 16. In the embodiment shown in Fig. 4, the chain 22 runs in a horizontal plane, and the blocks 24 supported by an annular lip 64 of a turntable 58 are pressed against the underside of the rollers 16. The turntable is adjustable vertically.
Patent GB-1484764-A (GB)
Title: Production of cast metal objects
IPC: C22C1/08
Filed: 1975-10-20
Abstract: 1484764 Casting processes FONDERIE D'ARDON SA 20 Oct 1975 [22 Oct 1974 19 Nov 1974] 42944/75 Heading B3F A method of casting a metal object in a mould having a surface defining an outer shape of the object comprises partially filling the mould with a plurality of bodies of various shapes and dimensions of a non-fusible material which at least after casting is friable, with at least some of the bodies in contact with the surface of the mould to define communicating interstices between the bodies and with the surface of the mould, pouring molten metal into the mould to fill the interstices, and removing the friable material of the bodies so as to provide an object having a shape defined by the mould and a complex of cavities. The mould may be in two parts 1, 2 of agglomerated foundry sand formed with a cavity having a surface 3 having the shape of the object to be cast. The cavity is partly filled with lumps 4 also of agglomerated foundry sand to define the communicating interstices, the external lumps 4 preferably penetrating the surface 3. A large piece 5 of agglomerated foundry sand may be placed in the centre of the cavity. Molten metal, such as cast iron, bronze or various alloys, is poured into the mould through holes 6 to fill the interstices and, after cooling, the object is removed from the mould and the lumps 4, 5 are removed by breaking and shaking out the sand to produce an object of open skeletal structure such as a work of art or structural member. In another embodiment, a mould 12, which may be of wood, metal or plastics material, is filled with lumps 11 of agglomerated foundry sand and a fusible material 13, such as wax or paraffin wax, is poured into the mould to flow into the interstices between the lumps. After solidification, the block is removed from the mould and shaped by chisel, milling, abrading or the like to a desired shape 14. The outer surface of the shape may also be engraved or provided with motifs or inserts. The shaped block is then placed in a bed of foundry sand to form a mould and ducts are provided for pouring the molten metal and removal of molten wax and gases. An assembly of lumps may be stuck together without the use of a mould and shaped to the desired configuration, the outer faces of the lumps being obturated with wax, paper or combustible fabric stretched over the interstices to prevent entry of sand during forming of the mould. The object may be finished by oxidation, varnishing or enamelling, electrolytic polishing or anodizing.
Patent GB-936470-A (GB)
Title: Anodes for the cathodic protection of iron parts in water
Inventor: RUMP LEIF
IPC: E21D15/00
Filed: 1959-12-17
Abstract: 936,470. Preventing incrustation and corrosion. H. F. A. TOPSOE. Dec. 17, 1959, No. 42955/59. Class 123 (1). In a system for the cathodic anti-corrosion protection of submerged iron parts, e.g. steel sheet piling in quays, harbours, canals &c., sacrificial anodes, made, e.g., of graphite iron, are accommodated in wells or buried vessels formed of water porous ceramic material and located inshore in the neighbourhood of the metal parts it is desired to protect, the wells or vessels being kept at least partially filled with water. As shown in Fig. 1, an anode well 4, formed of porous ceramic rings and located inshore from three to ten metres from the sheet piling 1 it is desired to protect, accommodates a graphite iron anode 1, the well 4 being connected by a narrow plastic tube 6 to the sea below the ebbtide level to effect a certain amount of renewal of sea water. If the expected variations in sea level are small, the desired quantity of water renewal can be obtained by increasing, to the desired amount, the cross-sectional area of the well in the vicinity of the mean sea level. In a modification, Fig. 3, a number of anodes 5 are accommodated in a porous ceramic conduit 9 which communicates with the lower ends of two anode wells 7, 8. The well 7 is partitioned at 12 into two chambers 13, 14, a pump 10 drawing water from the sea through a plastic tube 15 and a strainer 16 delivering it from the chamber 13 into the chamber 14. The ceramic conduit 9 is placed in a trench having a lower layer, e.g. of fine gravel or sand. The well 8 has an overflow pipe 11 leading to the sea.