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Patent GB-2475268-A (GB)
Title: Near field measurement adapter
Inventor: BAINS SATNAM
IPC: A61B5/00
Filed: 2009-11-12
Abstract: measurement adapter 1 having a substantially planar member incorporating a microprocessor and a near field communications transmitter with an antenna. A scale 5 is printed on a face of the planar member and means 7, 9, 13, 15 is provided for selecting a chosen value on the scale. The measurement adapter is able to transmit data, including the chosen value on the scale, to a near field communications enabled communications device. One or more buttons 7 may be provided on the planar member and connected with the microprocessor for determining a mode of operation of the adapter. The planar member may be made of disposable material, such as paper and/or plastics. The microprocessor and the near field communications transmitter may form part of an electronics module 3 incorporated into the adapter. The electronics module may comprise from one or more of a memory, an interface for the means for selecting a chosen value and a power source. Printed circuitry 11 may interconnect the electrical components on the adapter. A movable pointer 9 may be the means for selecting a chosen value, the pointer may be slidable. The selecting means may comprise of plurality of buttons, one of which may be actuated to select a chosen value on the scale.
Patent GB-196908-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to aerial machines
IPC: B64D7/02
Filed: 1923-04-12
Abstract: 196,908. Soc. Anon. Nieuport-Astra. April 29, 1922, [Convention date]. Void [Published under Sect. 91 of the Act]. Aeroplanes; cabins; guns, disposition of; propelling.-A tractor aeroplane has the pilot's seat arranged between the engine and the propeller and in front of the leading edge of the plane 3 so as to afford a clear view in front. The engine 1 is arranged beneath the plane 3 and drives the propeller through a shaft 4, which may be in alignment with the propeller axis, but preferably reducing-gear is interposed to enable a gun 6 to project through the hollow hub of the propeller. Flexible joints may be placed in the shaft 4 at 8, 9 to enable the propeller shaft to be set at an upward inclination.
Patent GB-422997-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to electric battery lamps
IPC: F21L4/00
Filed: 1934-04-03
Abstract: 422,997. Electric battery lamps. LIFSCHITZ, B. D., 87, Wiedner Haupstrasse, and SINGER, E., 14, Straussengasse, both in Vienna. April 3, 1934, No. 10027. Convention date, April 21, 1933. [Class 39 (ii)] An electric battery lamp is adapted to receive either a single battery unit or a series of separate cells which rest upon a resilient metal bridge piece 18, Fig. 1, on the bottom of a casing 1 of insulating material, the bridge serving to connect the poles when separate cells are used and also to press one battery terminal 16 against the centre contact of a bulb 5, the other terminal 17 being normally spaced from a resilient metal contact 6 which is connected to the lamp socket and can be depressed on to the terminal 17 by a switch lever 7 pivoted on the casing. The casing 1 is provided with a removable cap 3 formed with an inner wall 4 which acts to keep the battery 15 in position, a recess 8 being provided in the cap to receive the bulb 5 which is screwed through into an aperture 10, Fig. 3, formed with a screw-thread 11 in the plate 6. Two angularly bent resilient wings 12, around part of the edge of the plate 6 are provided with outwardly projecting pins 13 which extend through apertures in the cap wall 4 and the wall of the casing 1, thereby securing the cap 3 in position. The switch 7 consists preferably of insulating material, with its inner end wedge-shaped, so that it is maintained in either " on " or " off " position by the resiliency of the metal plate 6. In a modification the bottom end of the insulating casing is made removable and provided with a resilient metal bridge to connect two separate cells, the bridge being also formed with vertical extension strips from which lateral retaining tongues are pressed to engage apertures in the casing wall.
Patent GB-107983-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Wheel Hubs.
Inventor: MURRAY THOMAS EDWARD
IPC: B60B27/00
Filed: 1917-07-11
Abstract: 107,983. Murray, T. E. April 1, 1916, [Convention date]. Hubs.-A hub comprises a stepped outer shell A-B welded to an inner sleeve G, the end-piece F of the outer shell and the collar I of the member G being formed with polygonal openings to take a corresponding axle, or to receive a sleeve P having a taper bore to take an ordinary axlearm L. Projections H on the outer shell may be recessed into the sleeve G. A nut and washer M is fitted on the projecting end of the axle. A brake-drum N may be welded to the flange D on the outer shell.
Patent GB-549387-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to the manufacture of soap
IPC: C11D13/04
Filed: 1940-06-08
Abstract: 549,387. Manufacture of soap. SHARPLES CORPORATION. June 8, 1940, No. 10059. Convention date, June 29, 1939. [Class 91] Soap is manufactured by a continuous process which comprises passing a fat and a saponifying agent through a mixer, where saponification takes place, to a centrifuge to separate the soap from the aqueous phase. In the preferred modification of the process the saponification takes place in a series of steps, the alkali lye from a succeeding step being used as the saponifying agent in the next preceding stage, with or without an addition of fresh lye. A mutual solvent for the alkali and fat such as ethyl alcohol may be added at the mixing stage if desired. A proportion of rosin or rosin soap may also be added at any stage in the process. The agitation in the mixer stage must be thorough in order to maintain the mixture in a substantially homogeneous condition until it reaches the centrifugation step. The soap phase from the centrifuge is preferably mixed at once with water. An embodiment of the invention is shown in the Figure in which a two-stage process is used. Neutral fat from tank 10 is mixed with partly spent lye from the second stage from tank 13, with the addition if necessary of strong lye from tank 14, in the multi-stage mixer 12. Salt solution is added in the latter stage of the mixer from the tank 16 to assist in the granulating of the separated soap. From the mixer 12 the product is passed to the centrifuge 18 when the soap is separated from the spent lye. The separated soap is at once treated with water from tank 19 to break down the hard outer surfaces of the soap granules and allow the saponifying agent to react with unchanged fat in the second stage of the process. The softened product is now passed to a second multi-stage mixer 23 and again subjected to the action of strong lye from tank 24. The product is grained by the addition of extra lye from pump 26, and passed to centrifuge 27, where the soap and lye are again separated. The halfspent lye is passed back for use in the first stage to tank 13. The soap from centrifuge 27 is again mixed with water in mixer 30, separated in centrifuge 32 and if desired mixed with sodium silicate solution in mixer 34. If desired a three or more stage process may be substituted for the two-stage process described above. It is preferred that the temperature in the mixer 23 should be maintained between 150 F. to 200 F. to effect the most efficient separation. An example is given of the operation of the process using as starting materials tallow and cocoanut oil. Specifications 410,959, [Group XXVI], and 549,386 are referred to.
Patent GB-291924-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in derby doublers or sliver lap machines
IPC: D01G27/00
Filed: 1927-04-13
Abstract: 291,924. Riding, A. G. April 13, 1927. Lap-forming apparatus. - In a Derby doubler or sliver lap machine in which a dividing-roller is arranged below the delivery table, thin flanges on the roller projecting through open slots at the end of the table, the dividing-roller D comprises discs d separated by washers d<1> the width of the sliver, and is arranged so that the slivers do not come in contact with the washers. A roller F accommodated in slots e in the side members E of the table A rests on the slivers before they pass between the discs d. The slotted end of the table A may be formed as a separate part and bolted to the main portion.
Patent GB-938761-A (GB)
Title: Method of producing dicalcium silicate clinker and/or products containing it
IPC: C04B7/345
Filed: 1960-03-22
Abstract: Dicalcium orthosilicate clinker, which is capable of disintegration by rapid cooling into a powder of grain size 0,5-20 microns, is produced by adding carbon or a material producing carbon, such as brown coal, coke, peat, tar, dry pitch or sawdust, to raw materials, e.g. mixtures of ashes, slates, smoke dusts, marls, clay, limestone or slags, which on sintering give a Ca2SiO4 clinker, heating the materials to the sintering temperature, e.g. 1250 DEG C., and adding water thereto to react with the carbon to form carbon monoxide and nascent hydrogen which effects reduction of highly oxidised stabilizers, i.e. ions at their highest valency or oxidation level such as Cr6+, As5+, Mn7+, Te6+, P5+, Ge4+, V5,, entailing an increase of their ionic radii which destroys their stabilizing action of inhibiting the transformation of the Ca2SiO4 from the b  to the g phase.  The raw materials are preferably selected to avoid formation of alite and reducing conditions are such that any iron compounds of the brownmillerite type are decomposed to CaO, FeO and metallic iron. For producing Ca2SiO4 powder of above grain size, the clinker, e.g. at 1250 DEG C., is rapidly cooled to a temperature e.g. 700 DEG C. to favour transformation from the b  phase to the g  phase, then rapidly cooled e.g. to 200 DEG C. to effect physical disintegration of the clinker.
Patent GB-273422-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to means for protecting food from dust
IPC: A47G19/26
Filed: 1926-04-19
Abstract: 273,422. Ansell, A. April 19, 1926. Covers for plates.-Shallow food plates, Fig. 1, for use with stands having ring-supporting arms or the kind described in Specifications 215,447, 224,345 and 257,527, are provided on the underside with a rubber ring a recessed into a flange b to afford a secure seat for the plates in the bracket rings. The plates may further be provided with rims c, Fig. 3, of rigid material flanged at f to fit the plates and at g to receive the edge d of a food cover. The rims and food cover edges are so flanged and rabbetted that one rim can be used with more than one size of plate and cover. For example, covers may fit inside the Bange g or outside. Various patterns. of rim c are described. In place of the covers d glass discs may be used, and a series of glass or other cylinders j, Fig. 12, rims c, and separating glass discs may be built up with a cover h at the top. Plates, Fig. 14, may be flanged at g in different designs and of different diameters to receive corresponding covers, and at g<1> to fit supporting ring arms of stands.
Patent GB-314603-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to multiple-filament electric lamps for vehicles
IPC: H01K9/08
Filed: 1928-04-04
Abstract: 314,603. Smith, A. G. April 4, 1928. Right to Patent relinquished. Multiple - filament lamps; screens within bulbs.-In bulbs for vehicle lamps, of the kind in which a main filament 12 is arranged to be located at the focus of the lamp reflector and an auxiliary filament 13 is placed either in front of or behind the main filament to give a dim light, and a screen 18 is associated with the auxiliary filament to shield one-half of the reflector from its rays, this screen is constructed to pass a useful proporation of rays to enable objects ahead to be seen when the main filament is extinguished The screen may be of translucent material, e.g. glass, quartz, silica, mica, &c., which may be tinted, or it may be formed of wire gauze, as. shown, or as a grating the front 17 of which may be turned up to diminish the direct light from the filament 13.
Patent GB-569509-A (GB)
Title: Apparatus for cleaning oil coolers or the like
IPC: F28G9/00
Filed: 1943-06-25
Abstract: 569,509. Cleaning oil coolers. DEHN, F. B. (Transcontinental & Western Air, Inc.). June 25, 1943, No. 10294. '[Class 99 (ii)] An apparatus for cleaning oil coolers, radiators, &c. particularly of internal-combustion aircraft engines comprises a reservoir 10 for cleaning liquid which is circulated to the coolers 8 by a pump 20, the coolers being intermittently shifted during the progress of the cleaning operation. In the form shown two coolers are simultaneously cleaned and the pump piston 22 is driven by a motor 24 through belt gearing 38 and further reduction gearing 32. The coolers are secured by clamps 52 in cradle portions 50 in a holder 46 carried in bearings 48 on a platform 40. Hose lengths 54, 56, are connected to fittings 42, 44 on the coolers. A pipe 60 connected to the pump outlet communicates with a hollow rotatable fitting 66 through which cleaning fluid passes to the hoses 54 and thence through the coolers 8, hoses 56 and further hose connections 80 to a screened catch basin 86. The screen removes solid particles before the cleaning liquid returns to the reservoir. A valve 94 in the pump intake pipe is periodically opened by a spring controlled rod 98 operated by a cam 100. The holder 46 is intermittently rotated in the bearings 48 by ratchet wheels 68 actuated by dogs 106, from a shaft 114 carrying a rocker arm 120 actuated by the crank arm 28 of the pump drive. By controlling the valve 94 the pump may be arranged to draw fluid from pipe 60 for the first part of its suction stroke and then to return this fluid, plus a certain amount of fresh fluid, to the coolers on the delivery stroke. These surges may have a frequency of about 20 per minute and the ratchet gearing is arranged so that the cooler position is reversed every two minutes. Before removal of a cooler a hose 78 loading from an expansion chamber 72 above the line 58 may be connected to a source of compressed air to clear the cleaning fluid from the cooler and hose connections.
Patent GB-555399-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to folding mechanism for printing presses
IPC: B65H45/22
Filed: 1942-07-23
Abstract: 555,399. Folding-machines. GOSS PRINTING PRESS CO., Ltd. July 23, 1942, No. 10339. Convention date, July 26, 1941. [Class 100 (i)] The longitudinal folder of a printing-machine is constructed so as to be capable of folding single webs or a number of webs and has a main former 12 carried by a bracket 13 adjustable about a pivot 14 on the machine frame, and the former 12 has a pivoted nose portion 19 adjustable relatively to the former 12 by means of a lever-link-and screw mechanism comprising an operating link 46 actuated from a screw 38 fitted with an indicating device. This adjusting mechanism acts independently of an operating link 28, and a screw 26 which adjusts the main former about its pivot 14. The nose piece 19 is fitted at its end with a pivoted nose 21 pressed by a spring which causes an automatic adjustment of the nose in accordance with the number of webs being folded. The folder also comprises a pair of rollers 55, 56, Fig. 6, journalled in self-centreing ball bearings 57, 58, slidable upon guides 60 on the machine frame. The bearings may be adjustable simultaneously in opposite directions by nuts and a screw 61, 65 with opposite threads. The screw-mechanism is designed to permit of individual operation of the roller bearings. the adjustment of the portion 19 may be effected by screw-and-nut mechanism operated by a shaft having a universal-joint connection with the screw.
Patent GB-1116850-A (GB)
Title: Method of bonding and adhesive composition for use therein
IPC: C09J109/00
Filed: 1966-03-09
Abstract: A flexible adhesive tape comprises a mixture of a crystalline synthetic polymer of an aliphatic diolefin having 4 to 6 carbon atoms, said polymer having a molecular weight from 50,000 to 350,000 and a melting-point below 150 DEG  C., and a compatible resin in an amount between 0 and 100 parts by weight per 100 parts of polymer, the mixture being soft and flexible and capable of being adhesively activated at a temperature above the melting-point of the polymer. The crystalline diolefin polymer is preferably an isoprene polymer having at least 85% of the isoprene units in the trans-1,4 configuration, and suitable compatible resins are phenol - formaldehyde, coumarone - indene, terpene-phenolic and abietic-acid based resins.
Patent GB-1082923-A (GB)
Title: Photographic shutter
IPC: G03B9/08
Filed: 1965-03-11
Abstract: 1,082,923. Photographic cameras. AGFA A.G. March 11, 1965, No.10399/65. Addition to 1, 057, 230. Heading G2A. A photographic shutter as claimed in claim 1 of the parent Specification has pivoted shutter blades 109, 110 mounted in a shutter housing 101 actuated by blade-actuating rings 102, 103 which rotate counter-clockwise during running down of the shutter. A manual setting and release device 106, 107, 108 engages a setting pin 102b on ring 102. Ring 103 has an edge 103c engaging a pin 111a of retarding segment 111 set by shutter setting means (not shown). The rings 102, 103 are rotated clockwise against the action of springs 104, 105 by rotating the release device in the direction of arrow 112 until lever 108 disengages pin 102b and the ring 102 runs down counterclockwise. Blade 109 exposes shutter aperture 113 followed by blade 110 depending on the time exposure as set by segment 111.
Patent GB-221759-A (GB)
Title: Power transmitting devices
IPC: F16H3/00
Filed: 1924-04-28
Abstract: 221,759. Fairweather, H. G. C., (Pitt Railway Equipments, Ltd.). April 28, 1924. Reversing-gearing; securing wheels on shafts.-Gearing especially for driving electric generators such as 37 on railway vehicles drives a shaft 35 always in one direction whichever way the vehicle axle 54, which supplies the motion, may be running. In the arrangement described in Specification 194,992, a main helical wheel such as 52 on the axle is adapted to drive a single clutch-ended pinion, which is thrust axially on reversal of drive between two clutch-ended bevel gears such as 44, 45 so as to drive a middle gear 36 in one direction. In this invention, there are two helical pinions 46, 47 slidably splined on an intermediate shaft 11 with a stop 12 on the shaft between them. These pinions have clutch ends 49, 48, and are operative alternatively one for each direction of motion of the vehicle. The shaft 11, Fig. 2, is supported at a relatively low level in a casing 31, which has a depression 15 forming an oil bath. Recesses 68 are formed in the end of the casing which catch oil carried up by the wheel 52 and allow it to drain back to the bath 15. The wheel 52 may be mounted on an ordinary axle 54 by securing it to split sleeves 53, 53a, Fig. 1, the ends of which are clamped by split collars 55, Fig. 5. Taper keys 57 are recessed into the collars and bear on the axle. The collars are secured to the sleeves by studs 59.
Patent GB-105509-A (GB)
IPC: F16H21/34
Abstract: 105,509. Clerget, Blin, et Cie, and Clerget, P. Oct. 12, 1916. Channels in connecting-rods.-The ends of the connecting-rods in a radial-cylinder engine are provided with cross-superposed helicoidal guides 2 - - 5, the ends of which engage in circular grooves 6 - - 9 in carriers 10, 11 arranged around the crank-pin. The carriers are arranged around a double coned socket 12, and are held in place by nuts 13, 14. Lubricant passes through holes 15 to the space between the carriers.
Patent GB-574921-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to gas-turbine plants
Filed: 1944-06-02
Abstract: 574,921. Gas turbine plant. SULZER FRERES SOC. ANON. June 2, 1944, No. 10595. Convention date, June 8, 1943. [Classes 110 (i) and 110 (iii)] Make-up air to a plant having a hot air turbine 6, driving compressors 1, 3 ; and a usefuloutput turbine 8 driven by combustion gases, is supplied by a compressor 11, the air sucked from the atmosphere passing through a turbine 9 and being maintained at a temperature of about 4‹C. to prevent freezing at the compressor inlet. Air passing to the turbine 9 and thus to the plant is regulated by deflectors 10. A by-pass 31 with a valve 17 is provided. A thermostat 13 controls the temperature at the inlet to 11 by regulating valves 14, 15. Heating medium for 12 may be taken from a cooler 7, used for cooling the air entering the L.P. compressor 1, or other coolers. A valve 16, admitting coolant to the cooler 7, is controlled by a thermostat 30 in the pipe 27. For a low plant load, valve 16 is almost closed. The turbine 9, instead of being geared to an output shaft, may be coupled by electric, magnetic, hydraulic or other means. The exchanger 12 may be heated by exhaust gases. Air from compressor 11 enters heat-exchanger 4 at a point at which air passing back from the turbine 6 is at approximately the same temperature as the make-up air.
Patent GB-705686-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to syringes
IPC: A61D7/00
Filed: 1951-05-05
Abstract: 705,686. Piston packing, COOPER, Mc- DOUGALL & ROBERTSON, Ltd., and LEE, P. H. D. F. April 16, 1952 [May 5, 1951], No. 10627/51. Class 122 (1). [Also in Group VI] A syringe, primarily for administering medicine to animals, has a piston g as a disc of synthetic rubber, the thickness of which is reduced towards the outer edge so as to leave a relatively narrow contact surface g<SP>1</SP> engaging the bore of the barrel a. The disc is held on the piston rod c by threaded plates h, i so that the degree of compression of the disc may be varied and thus the tightness in the cylinder bore may be adjusted as necessary.
Patent GB-245054-A (GB)
Title: An improved artificial tooth
IPC: A61C13/00
Filed: 1925-04-24
Abstract: 245,054. Essig, N. S. Dec. 29, 1924, [Convention date]. Teeth, artificial. - An artificial tooth is formed with an elongated cervix 2 the faces of which conform to the contour of a natural root, and are formed with a slight flare 3 which constitutes a circumferential dovetail adapted to be enveloped by the rubber 4 of the plate to form an external attachment, and makes a distinct line 5 to limit the rubber in finishing. The internal attachment comprises a hole 6 of rectangular cross section which is engaged by a part 8 of the plate 4. Small holes 7 allow air to escape when the rubber is packed in.
Patent GB-1458084-A (GB)
Title: Closures for vessels
IPC: B65D41/04
Filed: 1974-03-11
Abstract: 1458084 Closure cap KAUTEX-WERKE REINOLD HAGEN GmbH 11 March 1974 [13 March 1973] 10692/74 Heading B8T A closure cap 10 comprises a lid portion 11 connected to a rim 15 which is divided into sections 16 having thread sections 26, 27, 28 which engage the thread sections 29, 30, 31 of the neck 13 of a container when a stressing band 21 presses the sections 16 inwardly. In the unstressed condition, only the thread sections 26, 29 engage and on application of the band 21, the cap 10 moves a distance 34 to compress the sealing ring 32. The band 21 is retained by recesses 24, 25 at the rear of bridges 22 and beads 23 or by bridges and pin-shaped projections forming closed retaining means. The thread sections 26, 27, 28 may be provided with a roughened surface or a tooth configuration for producing a frictional effect. The rim 15 is preferably formed from a thermoplastic material and may be formed separately from the lid portion 11. The thread sections can be multi-start thread sections.