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Patent GB-229238-A (GB)
Title: Cigarette case severing device for cigarette case-making machines
IPC: A24C5/46
Filed: 1924-05-17
Abstract: 229,238. Universelle Cigarettenmaschinen-Fabrik J. C. M³ller & Co. Feb. 13, 1924, [Convention date]. Cigarette-making machines.-A pair of shears 1, 2, for severing a continuous rod 3 of empty cigarette case, is actuated by the reciprocation of a member 8 in a direction perpendicular to the axis of the shears. The member 8 is U-shaped in plan, and carries a pair of rotatable rollers 9, 10, against which the shanks 5, 6, of the shears are pressed by springs 7. The member 8 is carried by a pair of rods 11, which slide in bearings 12, and are pressed towards the shears by a spring 14, which thus serves to maintain the shears normally open. The rods 11 are both connected to a hook-shaped member 17, which is connected to a hook 20 on a bell-crank lever 21 by a ring-like member 19. The, bell-crank lever 21 is oscillated by a cam 24 adjustably mounted on a shaft 25, and the oscillation is communicated through the ring 19, hook 17 and rods 11 to the member 8, which opens and closes the shears. The hook 17, rods 11, and the shears are mounted on an arm 28 which is oscillated about a pivot 29 by a crank and connecting rod (not shown) in such a manner that the shears will move at approximately the same velocity as the rod during the operation of cutting. The shears are pivoted on a sleeve 34 which is freely mounted between two collars on a rod 4, against one of which collars it is pressed by a helical spring (not shown). The shears are carried by a member 32, which may be angularly adjusted relatively to the arm 28 by slackening the nut of a bolt 33.
Patent GB-1441191-A (GB)
Title: Cleaning of cargo compartments of oil tankers
IPC: B63B57/00
Filed: 1974-03-20
Abstract: 1441191 Cultivating bacteria on residual oil in tankers RAMOT UNIVERSITY AUTHORITY FOR APPLIED RESEARCH & INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT Ltd 20 March 1974. [3 April 1973] 12365/74 Heading C6F [Also in Division A4] A process for cleaning a cargo compartment of an oil tanker and for converting the oil residues into an ecologically acceptable form, comprises flooding the compartment with water, e.g. sea water, adding a source of nitrogen, e.g. ammonium salt, urea, or a nitrate, and a source of phosphorus, e.g. potassium phosphate, and aerating continuously the contents of the compartment whilst growing bacteria therein. The bacteria may comprise those present in sea water and oil residues or may be provided by adding an inoculum of bacteria of the genus Arthrobacter. The emulsion obtained by the process may be discharged into the sea or further treated to harvest protein and other fermentation products therefrom.
Patent GB-1536395-A (GB)
Title: Vehicle having a pivotal driving cab
IPC: G05G1/04
Filed: 1977-03-24
Abstract: 1536395 Vehicle controls MASCHINENFABRIK AUGSBURG NURNBERG AG 24 March 1977 [31 March 1976] 12405/77 Heading B7H When the cab 200 of a vehicle is tilted about an axis C to a raised inoperative position a fork 2 fixed to a gear change lever 1 is disengaged from pins 3, 4 of a gear change linkage 5, 6, 7 mounted on the chassis 100 of the vehicle.
Patent GB-895724-A (GB)
Title: Improved apparatus for drying printed webs of material
Inventor: HALLEY ANGUS MURRAY
IPC: D21F5/02
Filed: 1958-04-18
Abstract: 895,724. Drying printed webs. HALLEY & SONS Ltd., JAMES. April 16, 1959 [April 18, 1958], No. 12445/58. Class 34(1) A printed web 10 is dried while passing over a drum 3 freely rotatable on a, shaft 5 by jets of hot air ionizing from slotted tubes 9 containing electric heating elements, a part of the air being subsequently passed through the drum to effect heating thereof. Specification 851,367 is referred to.
Patent GB-1530866-A (GB)
Title: Freely flowing powdered fresh baker's yeast preparation and method of producing it
IPC: C12N1/04
Filed: 1977-03-24
Abstract: 1530866 Yeast preparations VERSUCHSANSTALT DER HEFEINDUSTRIE EV 24 March 1977 [1 April 1976] 12467/77 Heading C6F  A free-flowing powdery baker's yeast preparation possessing exhanced stability to its fermentation during storage as compared to compressed yeast of the same residual water content, consists of a mixture of finely dispersed yeast having a residual water content usual for fresh compressed yeast (65 to 75%) with 0À01 to 5À0 wt. per cent, related to the yeast, of at least one hydrophobic additive of the group of substances which are known to create free-flowing properties in moist bulk material and 0À2 to 15À0 wt. per cent, related to the yeast, of at least one hydrophilic additive of the group of water binding substances. Hydrophobic additives: hydrophobic silicon dioxide in colloidally dispersed form, talcum or magnesium stearate. Hydrophilic additives: hydrophilic silicon dioxide in colloidally dispersed form, swelling starch, locust bean flour or an alginate.
Patent GB-719417-A (GB)
Title: Alicyclic 2-methyl-butynol ethers
Filed: 1952-05-16
Abstract: The invention comprises compounds of the formula <FORM:0719417/IV (b)/1> where one R is methyl and the others are methyl or hydrogen, and R1 is alkyl.  These are made by condensing the appropriate o-methylated cyclohexanones with alkali metal (preferably lithium) or Grignard derivatives of CH­ C-X-OR1.  They can be purified by distillation or chromatography and are intermediates for the synthesis of Vitamin A.  Examples show the production of 1-methoxy-2-hydroxy-2-methyl - 4 - (11 - hydroxy - 21 - methylcyclohexyl)-butyne-3 and 1-methoxy-2-hydroxy-2-methyl - 4 - (11 - hydroxy - 21 : 61 : 61 - trimethylcyclohexyl)-butyne-3.
Patent GB-1079491-A (GB)
Title: Cartons or containers for easter  eggs and other suitable articles
Inventor: MORGAN THOMAS REDPATH
IPC: B65D85/32
Filed: 1964-03-25
Abstract: 1,079,491. Cartons. ALF COOKE Ltd. March 24, 1965 [March 25, 1964], No. 12511/64. Heading B8P. An Easter egg carton is erected from a blank by superimposing panels 1, 5 and interengaging the end closure flaps 6-9, the panels 1, 5 having flaps 10, 12, 14 which can be pushed inwards by an article inserted therebetween into the carton after which they interlock in their inwardly-disposed position, Fig. 3 (not shown). An extension flap 24 may be used as an end closure or may be omitted. In an alternative embodiment for four eggs a pair of panels 1, 5 are superimposed, each panel having four sets of flaps 10, 12 which interlock in their inward position after the loading of the carton. The side panels 2, 4 of the carton are cut so that portions of these panels overlap inside the carton and support the eggs. In another modification the superimposed panels have two sets of interengaging flaps which may be circular or various other shapes. Tabs may be provided in these flaps to hold the articles in position.
Patent GB-1334631-A (GB)
Title: Support device and mounting for radiators pipe work and the like
IPC: F24D19/02
Filed: 1972-03-17
Abstract: 1334631 Brackets D GREGOROVIC 17 March 1972 [18 March 1971] 12511/72 Heading A4B [Also in Division F2] A device for supporting a radiator 23 or pipe comprises in combination a hollow fixing member 1 with an inner end for fixing in a hole in a supporting wall and provided with a slot 7 adjacent its outer end, and a support member 4 comprising a first flange 5 engaged through the slot 7 and supported against the inner surface 1A of the fixing member 1, a second flange 8 supported on an external surface 18 of the fixing member 1, a third flange 9 supported on the outer end of the fixing member 1, and a V or U shaped portion 14-16 in with the radiator 23 or pipe rests. The first flange 5 may be secured to the fixing member by a screw 20 and threaded part 21. The fixing member 1 may be perforated and may comprise a split tube.
Patent GB-383550-A (GB)
Title: Apparatus for renewing valve seats
IPC: B23G1/48
Filed: 1932-04-30
Abstract: 383,550. Removing valves and cocks. BURSTON, R., 30, Dartnell Avenue, Toronto, Canada. April 30, 1932, No. 12515. Drawings to Specification. [Classes 83 (ii) and 83 (iii).] Portable turning -apparatus; tapping; boring-heads; cutters.-Comprises apparatus for renewing valve seats by boring out and tapping the old seat for the reception of a new screwed seat, as described in connection with the method claimed in Specification 383,188.
Patent GB-184242-A (GB)
Title: Improved process and apparatus for distilling tar and other liquids
IPC: C10C1/04
Filed: 1921-05-02
Abstract: 184,242. Glossop, W., Bradley, L., and Willsdon, R. W. May 2, 1921. Progressive evaporators; film evaporators; column stills.-A still A, heated by a furnace chamber B and side flues A', A<2>, contains a series of trays E alternately sloping in opposite directions down which tar &c. from a pipe F flows in thin films, and from the lower edges of which the tar falls in thin curtains through which the rising vapours pass. The liquid passes in thin layers across the bottom of the still round vertical baffles G to the outlet G<1>.
Patent GB-289788-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to change speed mechanism for automobiles and the like
IPC: G05G5/02
Filed: 1928-04-30
Abstract: 289,788. Fiat Soc. Anon. April 28, 1927, [Convention date]. Controlling variable-speed gearing.-A striker such as 16 in a variable-speed gear is immovably locked and is released by the initial free movement of a selector bar 14 with which the striker has a lost-motion connection 20. A locking spring bolt 23 passes through one of a series of conical holes 24 in the sleeve 17 of the striker and engages with its conical end 25 a conical recess 21 in the selector bar 14. If any lateral thrust is applied to the striker 16, the sleeve 17 presses against a cylindrical stem 25<1> on the plunger and fails to release it. When the rod 14 is moved, as by control lever 9, it moves sufficiently relatively to a ball 18 embedded in the striker for the coned recess 21 to raise the plunger 23 until its coned end 25 is engaged by the coned edge of the surface of the sleeve 17, which completes the raising of the plunger. Rod and striker then move together until the plunger snaps down through another hole 24 into the corresponding recess 21.
Patent GB-721776-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in precision belt drive for facsimile machines and the like
Inventor: COOLEY AUSTIN GEORGE
IPC: H04N1/14
Filed: 1952-05-19
Abstract: 721,776. Belt gearing. TIMES FACSIMILE CORPORATION. May 19, 1952. No. 12632/52. Class 80 (1). [Also in Group XL(b)]. In a belt drive for facsimile apparatus having one or more stylus members mounted on a belt and traversed across an area to be scanned, the belt is supported by a wheel having a flat facial periphery for supporting and frictionally engaging the belt and provided with means around its periphery for preventing lateral slipping of the belt, and a member, co-axial with the wheel, but independently rotatable, has spaced driving elements in register with corresponding spaced engageable elements on the belt to effect its drive. Each stylus 18 is mounted in a supporting member 32 carried by the belt 15 engaging the peripheral surfaces of idler discs 36 rotatable on bearings 38 mounted on the hub of the driving disc 44 formed with recesses 45 engaged by driving members 31, indicated as 31A ... 31D on Fig. 4, on the belt which also passes over a centrally recessed wheel 16. The disc 44 is driven by a motor 40 at a speed slightly above that desired and is held to the correct speed by a coupling to a shaft 39 driven by a synchronous motor. The belt is preferably of metal, such as a berylleum copper alloy.
Patent GB-576689-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in eddy current brakes, dynamometers and clutches
IPC: H02K49/04
Filed: 1942-09-08
Abstract: 576,689. Cooling electromagnetic clutches. HEENAN & FROUDE, Ltd., and HAYES, C. T. Sept. 8, 1942, No. 12633. [Class 35] [Also in Group XIX] An eddy current clutch, dynamometer, or brake of the kind having relatively rotatable toothed flux concentrating and smooth flux concentrating and smooth flux receiving members is cooled by liquid which is passed through the " air-gap " between the two members so as to be in contact with the flux receiving surface in which the eddy currents are generated. Figs. 1 and 2 show a dynamometer comprising a toothed magnetic rotor D driven by a shaft 1 mounted in bearings RB carried by end-plates 20 secured to a magnetic stator S, the bearings being carried by pedestals P which support the machine on bearings B and allow oscillation of the stator, movement of the latter being limited by a torque arm which may be connected to the stator at T. Excitation of the machine is provided by a coil 5 having a waterproof casing Y and secured by spacers 8 in an annular channel C in the stator. The stator is provided with flux receiving members in the form of steel or soft iron liners 11, 12. Water for cooling the machine is supplied through a pipe 28 to the annular channel C which is closed by a non-magnetic ring 6 having apertures through which the water is discharged into a recessed portion 9 of the rotor from which the water is driven by centrifugal action by the rotor teeth into contact with the liners 11, 12. The water passes axially along the liners and is deflected by blades 26 into a circumferential channel formed in each endplate and provided with a discharge opening 24. The blades 26 also serve to transfer to the stator any tangential forces imparted to the water by the action of the rotor. Lips 17 are provided on the liners to maintain thereon a thin film of water into which the rotor teeth dip. Water is prevented from reaching the shaft 1 and headings B, RB, by labyrinth seals formed by axial flanges 18 on the ends of the rotor and radial flanges 19 on the end plates. Diaphragms 290 serve as vacuum guards for the bearings. The ring 6 may be formed so as to supply water from the channel C nearer to the centre of the machine at a point of low pressure in the recess G. In a modified construction, Fig. 3, the water is passed axially of the machine in one direction only, being supplied through an inlet 220 to an annular channel 115 in the end-plate 52 from which the water passes over a weir 116 into the " air-gap " 118 and after flowing along the entire length of the flux receiving surfaces is discharged into an annulus 129 in the end-plate 55 which has an outlet 126. The exciting coil 45 is cooled by air blast. The depth of the rotor teeth and the overall rotor diameter may increase towards the discharge end of the machine, the stator bore being correspondingly tapered. The positions of the flux concentrating and flux receiving members may be reversed, the stator then being of toothed construction and the rotor carrying the smooth flux receiving surface.
Patent GB-1117351-A (GB)
Title: Ball and socket and like joints
Inventor: BEAZLEY RODNEY THOMAS
IPC: F16C23/04
Filed: 1965-03-25
Abstract: 1,117,351. Bearings. GLACIER METAL CO. Ltd. 27 June, 1966 [25 March, 19651, No. 12745/65. Heading F2A. [Also in Division B3] A bearing assembly is made by placing a member 1, with a curved outer surface, inside a cylindrical blank inside a die 10, and deforming the blank by axial pressure so that its inner surface conforms to the inner member while its outer surface remains cylindrical. The inner member 1 is part-spherical, or may be ellipsoidal in axial cross-section. The blank is of ductile metal with a layer 9 of bearing material, e.g. acetal polymer or bronze impregnated with P.T.F.E., and may be formed from a flat strip. The die 10 may be removed or remain as a housing.
Patent GB-316601-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to distribution means for pulverulent material
IPC: F23K3/00
Filed: 1928-05-01
Abstract: 316,601. Skentelbery, C., and Alden, G. R. May 1, 1928. Closure members.-A valve for controlling the flow of pulverulent material of the kind having a series of plates pivoted in an annular recess has the plates shaped to a substantially triangular form with curved sides and has them so arranged that the angular points will meet to give a complete closure while in all positons some parts of adjacent plates are in contact. The plates 9 are mounted on pivots 10 in a recess 11 formed between the two parts 1, 2 of the casing and, in the form shown, are actuated by pins 13 on a ring 14 engaging slots 12 in the plates. The ring 14 is housed in a recess in the member 1 and is rotated by a hand lever 16 passing through a slot in the casing masked by a ring 18. Fibre packing-rings may be inserted at 20 and compressed air may be admitted continuously or intermittently to the space 11 to prevent clogging. One edge of each plate may be formed with a hardened knife-edge to seat on the adjustment plate. The plates may be actuated by a cam or by a worm driven by an electric motor which may be controlled by a. thermostatic switch. The casing is contracted at 19 to deflect the flow towards the centre of the passage-way. According to one Provisional Specification, ball or roller bearings may be associated with plane surfaces, and according to the other Provisional Specification the interior edges of the plates may be inclined to preserve as far as possible the stream line flow.
Patent GB-1008718-A (GB)
Title: Screw fasteners
IPC: F16B39/26
Filed: 1962-04-03
Abstract: 1,008,718. Self tapping screws; thread rolling. ILLINOIS TOOL WORKS Inc. April 3, 1962 [April 3, 1961], No. 12763/62. Heading B3M and B3N. A self tapping screw comprises a shank 122 having thread convolutions rolled thereon including first portions 132, 134 circumferentially spaced and which project radially at a greater distance from the screw axis than second portions 136, 138 such that the convolution crests are oval or elliptical in transverse section to the screw axis so as to facilitate the passage of the screw into an unthreaded aperture in a workpiece. The shank has an entry portion 124 which may be tapered and which is provided with a slot 144 having a cutting edge 146a. Means for rolling the convolutions on the screw shank comprises guides for feeding blanks 154 to die blocks 160 and 162 which are movable parallel relative to one another, so that the blank is rolled between them. Each die block is provided with thread forming ribs 164 and grooves 166 of such a configuration as to form oval or elliptical convolution crests as described above. Specification 1,008,720 is referred to.
Patent GB-844105-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to tailshafts for controllable-pitch marine propellers
Inventor: HARRY HENRY TWITCHEN
IPC: B63H23/34
Filed: 1958-04-22
Abstract: 844,105. Tailshafts. STONE MARINE ENGINEERING CO. Ltd., and HOLMES & CO. Ltd., C. D. April 10, 1959 [April 22, 1958], No. 12773/58. Class 114. A controllable-pitch marine propeller 1 is mounted on a flange 3 integral with a tailshaft 4 which is made short enough to clear the stern frame when the shaft is withdrawn after the removal of the propeller from the flange. The tailshaft is connected to the main shafting 7 by a releasable coupling comprising a flanged coupling piece 8 bolted to a flange 9 on the shafting 7 and keyed to and secured over the conical endsection 10 of the tailshaft by a nut 11 screwed to the end of the latter and located in a recess 12 in the coupling piece.
Patent GB-514305-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in flow meters
IPC: G01F15/075
Filed: 1938-04-28
Abstract: 514,305. Speed-indicators. KENT, Ltd., G., and DALL, H. E. April 28, 1938;.No. 12774. [Class 106 (ii)] [Also in Group XXIX] A flow is measured by intermittently displacing a member from a datum position at a constant speed for a period dependent on the rate of flow, and adjusting a second measuring member to a position related to that occupied by the first member at the end of the time period. The apparatus shown is operated by cycles of three impulses, which may be derived from a meter operated by the flow and closing a switch by a cam on the meter spindle, the current energising ,a magnet which operates a selector ratchet determining the operation of the mechanism. At the first impulse, a zeroizing lever 7 is removed from a cam 5 on the spindle 4 and a clock mechanism is started which drives the gears 1, 2 at constant speed. During this period the indicator 17, which is carried by the sleeve 16, is held still by a brake 12 bearing on a brake disc 10 secured to the sleeve. and a cam 6 secured on the shaft 4 turns in relation to a spring-urged arm 8 pivoted on the disc 10. At the second impulse, the clock is stopped and the brake 12 removed from the disc 10. The arm 8 then slides back over the edge of the cam until it again rests in the hollow of the cam, thus turning the disc 10 and indicator 17 through the same angle as that through which the shaft 4 has been turned. This angle is a measure of the rate of flow, since the shaft 4 has been turned at constant speed for a time interval which is determined by the rate of flow. Hence the position of the indicator 17 represents the rate of flow. The third impulse causes the brake 12 to be reapplied to the disc 10 to retain the pointer 17 in position while the shaft 4 is returned to its datum position by application of the zeroizing lever 7 to the cam 5. A suitable signal frequency is 7¢ seconds for the maximum rate of flow and 30 seconds for the minimum rate. The apparatus may be made to operate by cycles of two or four impulses instead of three.
Patent GB-611345-A (GB)
Title: Improved fluid tight joints or mechanical seals for revolving shafts
IPC: F16J15/36
Filed: 1946-04-29
Abstract: 611,345. Stuffing-box substitutes. FLEXIBOX, Ltd., and PORGES, F. April 29, 1946, No. 12808. [Class 122 (v)) A seal for a rotating shaft m comprises a bellows a connected through a flange ring b to the fixed body d and through a flange ring c to a stationary seal ring f. The rotating parts consist of a ring j and nut n screw-threaded onto the sleeve i. Contact between the stationary and rotating seal rings f and j is maintained by the spring g, and the nut b limits the extension of the bellows. Alternative constructions are described for securing the rotary seal ring j to the shaft m. Means are provided for supplying lubricant to the sealing surface through channels in the ring f and for relieving any excess pressure.
Patent GB-1185820-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Hose Couplings
Inventor: EDDELBUTTEL EITEL-FRITZ
IPC: F16L33/28
Filed: 1969-03-11
Abstract: 1,185,820. Hose couplings. EITEL-FRITZ EDDELBUTTEL and K. SCHNEIDER. 11 March, 1969 [14 March, 1968], No. 12827/69. Heading F2G. A flexible fabric reinforced hose 1 e.g. of rubber or rubber-like material has an internal diameter at the end thereof which is larger than the maximum diameter of a bead 4 on the end of a rigid spigot or pipe and includes a reinforcement 2 which serves to maintain the diameter of the hose and to absorb forces transmitted by the hose fabric, the hose being constricted between the bead and reinforcement 2 by a clip-like member 5, 6 without the inner wall of the hose making direct engagement with the outer wall of the spigot or pipe. As shown, the hose is formed with a socket, and the clip comprises a number of pressure plates 5 adapted to the shape of the hose constriction and a tensioning member of strip steel, a cable or a chain.
Patent GB-1111987-A (GB)
Title: Ribonucleosides
IPC: C07J1/00
Filed: 1966-03-23
Abstract: Novel compounds of the formula <FORM:1111987/C2/1> in which R is an acyl residue of an organic carboxylic acid or an alkyl or aralkyl group and R1 is a hydrogen or halogen atom or an alkyl, amino, alkylamino, dialkylamino or trifluoromethyl group, are prepared by treating a compound of the formula <FORM:1111987/C2/2> with an acylating agent which will react with a <FORM:1111987/C2/3> group to produce a <FORM:1111987/C2/4> group at a temperature of less than 110 DEG  C. The acylating agent may be bis-(imidazol-1-yl)-thione, or thiophogene in the presence of a tertiary amine.