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Patent GB-411013-A (GB)
Title: Door and bonnet locking mechanism for automobiles
IPC: E05B65/36
Filed: 1933-10-02
Abstract: 411,013. Locking motor-car doors and bonnets. PASCOO, A., 783, Beck Street, New York, U.S.A. Oct. 2, 1933, No. 27090. [Class 44.] All the doors and the bonnet of a motor-car are fastened simultaneously by moving upwards a slide 30 mounted on one of the door posts and by locking it in its raised position. The doors are fastened by bolts 23 pivoted at 22 to vertical bars 21 and slotted at 25 to co-operate with pins 26 fixed to the door post whereby when the bars are moved upwards by the slide 30 the bolts 23 are pivoted into engagement with recesses in the doors. The two bars 21 on opposite sides of the car are coupled together to move in unison by levers 41 pivoted to the chassis at 42 and having pin and slot connections 43, 44 with one another and the bars 21. The bonnet 62 is secured by sliding rods 56 engaging with eyes 65, 66 thereon and coupled to the bars 21 by bell crank levers 53 and links 55. In the unfastened position, the rod 56 is disengaged from the eye 65 and a reduced portion 60 of the rod is aligned with the eye 66 and can pass through a slot 67 therein. The slide 30 which is connected to one bar 21 by a pin 28 loosely engaging in a bore in the end of a revolving barrel lock 31, is secured in its raised or locking position by sliding bolts 46 moved apart against springs 47, so as to engage recesses 50 in the door post, by a sliding wedge 48 operated by a cam lug 33 on the revolving- barrel lock 31. The key 38 passes through a slot 37 in an escutcheon plate 34 on the door post, circular openings 39 being provided to allow the key to be turned. The invention is also applicable to a motor-car having only one door on each side.
Patent GB-643086-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to infra-red analysing apparatus
IPC: G01N21/37
Filed: 1947-10-09
Abstract: <PICT:0643086/III/1> In a system for detecting the presence of a particular substance depending on the differential expansion of gases in two chambers i and j separated by a diaphragm k which acts as one plate of a condenser when heated by radiation passing respectively through a standard tube and a tube containing the substance under test the apparatus is adapted for the detection of organic vapours, which would attack the condenser insulation, by filling the detecting chambers with a hydrocarbon gas of low molecular weight, e.g. methane.  It is stated that chambers so filled will detect many organic vapours in the tubes e, f.  Where the indication must be specific for a particular vapour, however, filters q, v containing in relatively high concentration the vapours absorbing the unwanted frequencies are inserted in front of the sample tubes e, f.  Tube f, for example, contains the unwanted gases and the gas to be detected, while tube e might be filled with dry CO2. It is stated that the sample tubes may be filled with liquid or a thin layer of solid organic materials and that liquid and solid filters may be used.
Patent GB-1120712-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to the separation of gas mixtures by low temperature distillation
Inventor: ARREGGER JOHN EDWARD
IPC: F17C9/04
Filed: 1964-07-01
Abstract: 1,120,712. Cold separation of air. J. E. ARREGGER. 29 Sept., 1965 [1 July, 1964], No. 27207/64. Heading F4P. Cooling of a reflux condenser 23 at the head of an air rectification column 15 and cooling of a heat exchanger 17 having a pass 40 in which a gaseous side stream withdrawn from the column at 18 is liquefied and reintroduced to the column at 19 is effected by first and second closed auxiliary nitrogen circuits including compressors having a suction temperature below -100 C. and being after-cooled by an external refrigerant, e.g. liquid methane, constituting a heat sink. The first nitrogen circuit comprises a compressor 20 which discharges through a pass 25 immersed in the liquid methane bath, a heat exchanger 21 traversed by suction nitrogen, a heat exchanger 22 in which the nitrogen is liquefied in boiling liquid oxygen at the base of the column, an expansion valve 50 and a heat exchanger 24 wherein the auxiliary nitrogen vaporized in condenser 23 is cooled before being returned through heat exchanger 21 to the inlet of compressor 20. The second nitrogen circuit comprises a three-stage compressor 27, 28, 29 with interstage and after-coolers 30, 31, 32. A portion of high pressure nitrogen is withdrawn from heat exchanger 17 through a line 33 and after expansion at a valve 51 is returned to the inlet of the second stage compressor 28 whilst the remainder of the high pressure nitrogen is expanded at a valve 52 and returned through exchanger 17 to the first stage compressor 27. The liquid methane is pressurized by a pump 26 and the high pressure vapour leaving the heat sink is discharged through a consumer line.
Patent GB-259394-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to the treatment of cotton fabrics containing artificial silk
IPC: D06M11/38
Filed: 1925-10-29
Abstract: 259,394. Calico Printers' Association, Ltd., and Lantz, L. A. Oct. 29, 1925, Mercerizing.-Cotton fabrics containing acetylcellulose artificial silk are mercerized by the use of caustic alkali under condition of strength, time, and temperature normal for ordinary cotton fabric, substances being added to the mercerizing solution which have a protective action on the artificial silk to prevent its saponification. Suitable protective substances are chioride, chlorate, sulphate, thiosulphate, nitrate, nitrite, borate, acetate, chloracetate, and glycolate or sodium or potassium; zinc or aluminium oxide, chloride, sulphate, citrate, acetate; sodium zincate; sodium aluminate, polyhydric alcohols, carbohydrates, and phenols such as glycerol, sucrose, phenol, recorcinol, and acetine.
Patent GB-1058575-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to photographic and cinematographic cameras
IPC: G03B7/00
Filed: 1964-07-01
Abstract: 1,058,575. Photographic cameras; cine film magazines. AGFA A.G. July 1, 1964 [July 4, 1963; Oct. 25, 1963], No. 27221/64. Headings G2A and G2E. In a photographic camera, using film cassettes or magazines in which the film type and speed are separately identified by the positions of external formations on their casings, the correction of the reading of a built-in exposure meter for the film speed and the setting of an indicator for the type of film are both effected automatically, on inserting the cassette or magazine in the camera. As shown, formation 126 has faces 127 and 128 which engage probes 106 and 113 and, on insertion of the cassette in the camera, rotate the meter 104 and disc 111, respectively, in opposite senses against return springs 109 and 115. The meter 101, carrying film speed indicator disc 123, is turned bodily by an amount which will correct its reading for the film speed and disc 111 brings the appropriate indication of film type disc 119 beneath window 121. Rectilinearly movable probes displaced by pins projecting from a cassette, Fig. 5 (not shown), are disclosed. In another form, Figs. 1-3 (not shown), the meter and film type indicator are both moved rectilinearly by spaced projections on a film magazine. The meter need not be moved bodily but can be adjusted electrically or have a mask placed in front of its photo-electric receiver. The invention may be applied to cine cameras having the kind of magazine of Fig. 2 (not shown).
Patent GB-464385-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to metal windows
IPC: E06B3/12
Filed: 1936-10-07
Abstract: 464,385. Double casement windows ; frames. KOZICZ, J. Oct. 7, 1936, No. 27263. Convention date, March 7. Addition to 431,325. [Class 20 (iii)] The open-sided sash described in the parent Specification is formed into a closed sash by bending an edge 8 of the member 2 into a plane perpendicular to the plane of the window and connecting it with the other member 3. The bent-over edge of the member 2 may abut against the inner face of the member 3, or, as shown in the Figure, a portion 6, bent into the plane of the window, may engage a lip 7 of the member 3, which contacts with the window frame or an adjacent sash 5. The member 2 is formed with a doubled-over portion 4 which also engages the window frame or neighbouring sash, while the lip 10 which engages the pane 11 may be extended beyond the thickness of the extreme edge portion 9 of the member 2 to form a space 41 along the edge of the pane, which is filled with putty, or the like.
Patent GB-151933-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in self-driven endless-track vehicles
IPC: B62D49/06
Filed: 1920-09-25
Abstract: 151,933. Virel, A. de, and Cahen, M. E. Sept. 30, 1919, [Convention date]. Endless - t r a c k vehicles.-In endlesstrack tractors &c. fitted with road wheels, the road wheels and track rollers are mounted on pivoted frames arranged so that the change from road wheels to tracks, and vice versa, can be effected by running the vehicle over a pair of obstacles thus enabling catches to be operated to hold or release the pivoted frames. The tracks pass round rollers 6, 7 mounted on frames 4, 5 pivoted to the main frame 1 at 2 and 3. The rear road wheels 9 are carried on an extension of the frame 4 and may be co-axial with the driving sprockets for the tracks. The front road wheels 12 are carried on a frame extension 10 and are held in their inoperative positions by releasable catches 57 on the main frame. The road-wheel axles are connected to springs 48, 49 pivoted to the main frame and provided with extensions which, when the tracks have been flexed by means of wedge-shaped obstacles 60, can be engaged by hand-operated catches 50, 52. The road wheels are then held in their operative positions. To revert to track propulsion, the vehicle is again passed over similar obstacles to support the tracks and the catches 50, 52 are then released; on driving the vehicle forward to clear the obstacles the tracks are straightened and the wheels raised from ground engagement. The axles 8 on which, in the form shown, the driving sprockets for the tracks and the road wheels are mounted, are driven by chain gearing from sprockets on the pivots 2, clutches being provided for driving the wheels and tracks alternatively. The front wheels 12 are steerable, the operating-rod being fitted with a universal joint to permit the elevation and depression of the wheels. The tracks are tensioned by adjusting the bearings 31. Fig. G, by means of screws 35. The bearings slide in jaws 33, one of the jaws being provided with a pivoted rack 37 engaging a similar rack on the bearing 31 to maintain it in its adjusted position.
Patent GB-791252-A (GB)
Title: Process for the manufacture of materials containing radioactive substances in ultra-fine dispersion
IPC: G21G4/06
Filed: 1955-09-26
Abstract: An insoluble thermoplastic or thermosetting material, such as natural or synthetic rubber, has a water-soluble radio-active substance uniformly dispersed therein in the form of an aqueous solution of the radio-active substance.  The material is then treated to produce a waterinsoluble foam or sponge for use as a bandage, compress, pad or mat.  The material may be coated on one side with a layer of the plastic material to prevent passage of radio-active emanations therethrough.  Specification 352,757 is referred to.ALSO:Foam rubber for use as a bandage or compress is prepared from natural or synthetic rubber latex having dispersed therein an aqueous solution of a radioactive substance, e.g., radium chloride or bromide. Specification 352,757 [Group III] is referred to.ALSO:An insoluble thermoplastic or thermosetting material, such as natural or synthetic rubber, has a water-soluble radio-active substance uniformly dispersed therein in the form of an aqueous solution of the radio-active substance.  The material is then treated to produce a water-insoluble foam or sponge for use as a bandage, compress, pad or mat.  The material may be coated on one side with a layer of the plastic material to prevent passage of radio-active emanations therethrough.  Specification 352,757 is referred to.
Patent GB-1400214-A (GB)
Title: Amphibious bicycle
IPC: B60F3/00
Filed: 1972-06-13
Abstract: 1400214 Amphibious bicycles B C LOCHER 13 June 1972 [25 June 1971] 27457/72 Heading B7A An amphibious bicycle has three pontoons which can be pivoted between raised stowed positions and lower positions in which they support the bicycle for water use. A unit which provides for drive and steering during water use can be detachably coupled to the normal propulsion and steering devices of the bicycle. As illustrated, expanded polystyrene pontoons 5 and 7 are pivotable between raised positions shown in phantom and lowered positions shown in full lines. A curved surface 21 on the front pontoon 5 engages the front tyre when the pontoon is lowered to assist in retaining the pontoon in its required position. The rear pontoons 7 have components 7b which can be pivoted into extended positions to aid stability when the pontoons are lowered but which can be pivoted into recesses in the pontoon bodies for convenient stowage. For water use, a propeller 53 is driven from the bicycle pedals through gears 57, 58, 45 and 47 and hollow drive shafts 99 and 51. The propeller can be turned from side to side, for steering purposes, by the bicycle handle bars 31 acting through gears 35 and 37 and a steering rod 41, 43 which extends through the bicycle frame and through the hollow drive shaft. By unscrewing a sleeve 93 (Fig. 18) and a nut 82 (Fig. 1), the unit 11 providing for aquatic drive and steering may be detached and stowed for land use in the position shown in phantom in Fig. 1. In modifications, steering during water use may be effected by a hollow shaft through which the propeller drive shaft extends, Figs. 4 and 14 (not shown), steering during water use may be effected by a rudder operated through a cable mechanism, Fig. 15 (not shown), the bicycle may be motor powered, Figs. 4 and 6 (not shown), the front pontoon may be so pivoted that it is the same way up in its raised and lowered positions, Figs. 4 and 13 (not shown), and there may be two pontoons at the front and one at the rear of the bicycle, Figs. 6-8 (not shown).
Patent GB-243695-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in a process of manufacturing woven pads particularly for the permanentway of railways
IPC: E01B9/68
Filed: 1925-11-02
Abstract: 243,695. Chemico, Ltd., (Assignees of Bial & Marx Ges., Dr.). Dec. 1, 1924, [Convention date]. Compound fabrics.-Woven pads for railway permanent way are made up of layers of fat-free jute impregnated with bituminous material having a high melting point, the layers being united by a pressure exceeding the normal workmg pressure. The layers may be wound upon a drum to the required thickness, then cut through and removed in one piece to be cut to size and then pressed. The pads may be used to insulate the rails from the sleepers.
Patent GB-1338784-A (GB)
Title: Colour former compositions for pressure-sensitive recording
IPC: B41M5/132
Filed: 1971-06-11
Abstract: 1338784 Colour-former compositions FUJI PHOTO FILM CO Ltd 11 June 1971 [13 June 1970] 27611/71 Heading C4A [Also in Division D2] A colour former composition for pressuresensitive recording comprises in solution a colourless colour-former capable of forming a colour with a developer, and a colourless and non-colour forming phenothiazine compound. Microcapsules may be formed of the colourformer phenothiazine/solvent solution, or separate microcapsules of the phenothiazine in solution and the colour-former in solution may be coated on a support. The colour-former may be Crystal Violet lactone, 3-methyl-2,2<SP>1</SP>-spirobi- (benzo[f]chromene), 3 - diethyl-aminofluoranep - nitroanilino lactam, 3 - benzylamino - 7- diethylaminofluorane or a mixture thereof. Numerous phenothiazines are listed, for use in an amount 10-200% by wt. of the colourformer, or 2-10% of the developer. Conventional acid developers, e.g. clays, are employed. In the examples a solution of colour-former and phenothiazine compound in chlorodiphenyl and kerosene is emulsified in an aqueous solution, and coacervated with acetic acid and then formaldehyde and NaOH to form microcapsules.
Patent GB-699591-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or connected with vegetable washing machines
Inventor: COOCH JOHN HENRY
IPC: A23N12/02
Filed: 1951-11-26
Abstract: 699,591. Vegetable washers. COOCH & SONS, Ltd. Nov. 26, 1952 [Nov. 26, 1951], No. 27638/51. Class 28 (ii). Vegetables dropped into a soaking.tank 7 are conveyed by a roller conveyer 8, 9 through a washing chest 4 having oscillated spray pipes 5 the vegetables being turned over during spraying. To turn over, each roller 9 has a pinion 15 engaging a fixed rack 16 in a trough 3 as the endless chains draw their rollers along. An electric motor 17 drives the conveyer and also oscillates the pipes 5 through a crank and links 19. The washed vegetables drop through a chute 16a into a receptacle e.g. a sack. 20 is a filler and 21 is a grid. The machine may be mounted on wheels 2.
Patent GB-174684-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in milk cans and containers for like purposes
IPC: B65D47/34
Filed: 1920-09-30
Abstract: 174,684. Paget, G., and Jackson, C. Sept. 30, 1920. Measured-quantities apparatus, valve systems for.-Relates to apparatus for delivering measured quantities of milk or the like, and consists in a can having, in combination, piston-operated means for transferring milk from a container to a measuring chamber from which it is dispensed, and a sediment collecting chamber such as described in Specification 174,683, [Class 66, Hollow-ware]. As shown in Fig. 7, a can 1 with a bottom plate 26 containing a perforation 25 has a sediment-collecting chamber 24 with an emptying-hole 27. A pump 13 fixed to the lid of the can delivers milk to a measuring-chamber 20, from which it is dispensed through a cock 21. In a modification, the liquid is raised by putting the contents of the can under air pressure by means of a hand-pump. In a further modification, the measuring-chamber and separate pump are replaced by a graduated glass cylinder 2, Fig. 3, with a piston 3 and an inlet and outlet cock 6, allowing a variable quantity of milk to be drawn into the barrel and to be discharged through the outlet 8.
Patent GB-999549-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and methods of manufacturing electric cables
IPC: H01B7/02
Filed: 1963-07-12
Abstract: 999,549. Electric cables. GENERAL CABLE CORPORATION. July 12, 1963 [July 18, 1962], No. 27736/63. Heading H1A. In order to increase the breakdown voltage of a cable consisting of concentric sheaths of rubber having suitable dielectric properties, voids between adjacent sheaths are obviated by chemically bonding them firmly together using a bonding composition consisting of oil lubricant and organic peroxide. Such a cable is constructed by extruding a sheath 12 of semiconducting rubber material around the conductor 10. After vulcanizing, an oil lubricant which carries between 7 and 15% of organic peroxide and which acts as a cleaning agent and tackifier is applied to the surface of the vulcanized rubber. A further sheathing 14 of peroxide curable rubber which forms an insulating composition is then extruded on to the first rubber sheath and on heating, vulcanization takes place and a chemical bond between the adjacent rubber layers is achieved. A further semi-conducting peroxide curable rubber insulation 16 is bonded, in a similar manner, to sheath 14 and then a copper braid 18 and a natural rubber jacket 20 are consecutively applied. Examples of peroxide materials and suitable lubricants are given in the Specification.
Patent GB-187236-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to squares provided with scales for any kind of calculations
IPC: G06G1/02
Filed: 1922-10-13
Abstract: 187,236. Claeys, A. H. Oct. 13, 1921, [Convention date]. Void [Published under Sect. 91 of the Act]. Logarithmic calculators.-Consists in a drawing square formed as an isosceles right-angled triangle with logarithmic scale graduations marked on the equal sides and lines drawn through the graduations at right angles to the sides and hyptenuse as shown for the purpose of effecting calculations involving multiplication, division, extraction of roots, powers, &c. The hypotenuse is marked with a second scale uniformlv divided for the numbers to which the logarithms correspond and the sides are provided with a second scale representing the series of angles. The reverse side of the square may be marked in a similar manner with evenlv divided scales for performing addition and subtraction.
Patent GB-788225-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to welding rods and alloys therefor
Inventor: TIBBENHAM FRANK ERIC
IPC: B23K35/30
Filed: 1954-09-27
Abstract: Welding rods are made of an alloy having good flow and tinning properties and capable of producing a strong, ductile weld, the alloy having the percentage composition: Cu 58.0-59.0, Fe 1.0, Mn 0.25, B 0.01-0.1, Zn the balance with Pb and Si in ordinary impurity proportions.
Patent GB-196311-A (GB)
Title: Process for determining the exact position of losses in electric cables or lines
IPC: G01S1/02
Filed: 1921-10-20
Abstract: 196,311. Loth, W. A. Oct. 20, 1921. Leader gear for assisting navigation.-In locating faults in submarine or other electric cables or lines by exploring the electromagnetic field generated by a current sent into the cable &c. to be tested, the detectors for exploring the field are lowered from a ship or other moving object to within inductive distance of the cable &c. and comprise a combination of three coils each at right-angles to the other two, the coils being electrically connected to an indicator on board the moving object. In the arrangement shown, the moving object is also provided with detecting apparatus described in Specification 167,184 in connection with the directing of ships &c., but also applicable to locating faults in cables &c., this apparatus comprising two horizontal or vertical lateral coils c, d and two vertical coils a, b at right-angles to one another with one coil a in the longitudinal plane of symmetry of the moving object as shown or at 45‹ thereto. A switch f is provided to connect the coils a - - d individually in tuned circuits through an amplifier e to a telephone receiver t or other current detector, and a second switch h is used together with switch f to connect the coils a, b in series with or without reversal of connections. In the case of cables at great depth, this apparatus is inaccurate, and the moving object is now provided with a towed or lowered detector g comprising two vertical coils and one horizontal coil, the three coils being electrically connected to the switch f and to corresponding coils on board the object. A repair ship can thus follow the cable &c. without other navigational means and can locate a loss or fault. In the case of long cables, current may be induced in the cable bv means of inductive coils connected to a current generator and towed by a moving object. The. same object may carry both the emitting coil and the receiving coils.