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Patent GB-1487611-A (GB)
Title: Production of aerosols
IPC: B01D46/44
Filed: 1975-03-26
Abstract: 1487611 Aerosol DEFENCE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR 26 March 1975 [27 March 1974] 13680/74 Heading ClA A composition comprises a homogeneous coherent solid material of a refractory material which is non-volatile in a flame or material which decomposes in the flame to a refractory material; a polymeric cellulose-derived binder and a solid flame-volatile substance or material which decomposes in the flame to give the substance, and is preferably formed into a stick for use in producing an aerosol stream of the flame-volatile substance, which is generally an inorganic compound such as sodium chloride. The refractory material is preferably magnesium oxide but may be alumina or calcia and a material which decomposes to the refractory material may be calcium hydroxide or carbonate, and should suitably be present in at least 6 wt. per cent of the solid material. The polymeric binder, generally 1-3% wt. of the solid material, is preferably ethyl cellulose or sodium carboxymethyl cellulose. The flamevolatile substance generally comprises 20-85% by wt. of the solid.
Patent GB-337760-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to endless tracks for vehicles
IPC: B62D55/24
Filed: 1929-05-02
Abstract: 337,760. Chevreau, L. May 2, 1929. Endless-track vehicles.-An endless-track or chain for aircraft landing carriages or for vehicles comprises intermediate links having elongated holes, two series of large and small links having circular holes, and caps covering the said links, all combined in such a manner as to form a jointed endless chain flexible in one direction but rigid in the other. In the construction shown the chain is built up of central guide links 40 and a series of other links 38, 42, 44, and 47 arranged on both sides of the guide links, pivot pins passing through the elongated holes 39, 41, 46 of the links 38, 40 and 44, and through circular holes 43<1> of the links 42. Caps 47 cover the links and are connected thereto by pins passing through holes 49 of the caps and the upper holes 43, 45 in the links 42, 44. Fig. 10 shows the links asembled on one side only of the central guide links 40. A similar set of links is assembled on the other side of the guide links to complete the full width of the track. The elongated holes in some of the links permit limited flexing of the track so that it can pass round the end pulleys but cannot flex in the other direction beyond the straight line position shown in Fig. 8. The caps are formed with a central cut away flange 48 fitting in the gaps between the guide links, and with guiding flanges 55. The lower parts of the guide links project below all the other links, as shown in Fig. 8. The caps are made in halves secured together by bolts 50 which also secure a canvas and rubber tread band thereto.
Patent GB-162931-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in hinge structures
IPC: E05D3/02
Filed: 1920-05-20
Abstract: 162,931. Ledwinka, J. May 20; 1920. Barrel and cylindrical hinges which provide means whereby the hinged articles may readily be separated, particularly as applied to motor-car doors, of the type in which one hinge member is secured to one article to be hinged and the other is detachably locked in the other article to be hinged, comprise a curved arm 5 let into the door &c. 6 of the car and secured by screws 8. The arm 5 is pivoted on a hinge bolt 9 to a second arm 4 the free end of which is cylindrical in shape. A block-member 11 is screwed to the inside of the other member to be hinged, particularly to the inside of a door post 10 and is connected by screw bolts 12 to another block 14, both blocks being grooved to receive the cylindrical end-piece of the arm 4. The screw-bolts 12 are adapted to be tightened or loosened from the outside of the door-post, thus providing means for securing or removing the hinge member 4 and enabling the door &c. to be removed from or replaced in position.
Patent GB-1416075-A (GB)
Title: Vibratory equipment particularly for producing large moulded carbon bodies
IPC: B28B1/087
Filed: 1973-03-22
Abstract: 1416075 Vibratory moulding apparatus KLOCKNER-HUMBOLDT-DEUTZ AG 22 March 1973 [24 March 1972] 13950/73 Heading B5A Vibratory moulding equipment comprises a vibratory mould supported so as to be oscillatable relative to a base, the mould and base being connected by spring elements which are stressed in shear in the oscillation direction. As shown in Fig. 1, a mould 3 is held by grippers 4 on a table 1 oscillated in the direction of arrow 7 by counter-rotating eccentric masses 2. Table 1 is supported on the base by spring elements 6 inclined with respect to the base. Material in mould 3 is compressed during vibration by top cover weight 5. In the embodiment of Fig. 2 (not shown), spring elements (6) are arranged in pairs on holding devices (8) which have an inverted V-shape. The spring elements 6 are preferably rubber. In Fig. 4 (not shown) table (1) has vertical webs (12) clamped by claws (13) between rubber spring elements 6. In Fig. 5 (not shown), table (1) has conical supports (14) supported on annular rubber spring elements (15) in conical holding devices (16) on the base (10). The apparatus may be used for producing carbon electrodes for the aluminium industry.
Patent GB-784440-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to mercury arc rectifiers
IPC: H01J13/26
Filed: 1955-05-13
Abstract: 784,440. Metal-vapour converters. SIEMENSSCHUCKERTWERKE AKT.-GES. May 13, 1955 [May 14, 1954], No. 13957/55. Class 39(1). In a mercury arc rectifier having a cathode container of metal, the bottom of which is closed in part by a glass seal, the container having an internal coating of enamel which is covered by an additional layer of insulation having a higher melting point than said enamel coating and consisting of enamel, glass, glassenamel or glass-like substances, the additional layer covers the coating of enamel in the neighbourhood of the glass seal to prevent damage to the enamel when the seal is being made. In the construction shown, a metal container 1 for mercury 12 has a coating of a number of layers of enamel 2 and an additional layer 3 of glass or enamel. A tube 7, forming a passage for a conductor (not shown) which leads to the mercury pool and which closes the tube 7 to prevent the escape of mercury therethrough, has a coating 8 of enamel and is sealed to the container 1 by a glass seal 5 resting on a graphite support 6 and surrounded by a pressure ring 11. In a further embodiment, a metal base carrying two cathode terminal lugs is sealed by means of a glass ring to a cylindrical metal container provided with an enamel coating and an additional insulating layer as specified above.
Patent GB-715034-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to flexible hoses and end-fittings therefor
Inventor: WILSON MARTIN WESTBURY
IPC: F16L33/16
Filed: 1951-06-12
Abstract: 715,034. Hose end fittings. ROLLS-ROYCE, Ltd. May 13, 1952 [June 12, 1951], No. 13958/51. Class 99 (1). In a hose end fitting of the kind in which the end of the hose is gripped between a sleeve 12 and insert 13, a separate packing ring 15, preferably of softer material than the hose, lies in a groove 14 in the insert, the ring being smaller than the groove so as to leave a space, the pressure of the fluid accumulating in the space assisting the compression of the ring. The fitting is assembled by screwing the sleeve 12 on to the hose end which has been bared to its reinforcement. The tapered insert is then screwed into the sleeve to cause initial compression of the ring 15 and to compress the hose end into the screw-thread of the insert. The ring 15 may be bonded in position at one end of the groove. A rubber protecting sleeve 23, preformed to the shape shown, is pushed into position over the sleeve 12. In another form the groove is formed in the tapered part of the insert and communicates with the bore of the fitting through holes 21, Fig. 3. The packing ring 17 is bonded to the insert at 18, 19 and a space 20 is left for pressure fluid.
Patent GB-1425936-A (GB)
Title: Display panel
IPC: G09F15/00
Filed: 1972-03-24
Abstract: 1425936 Display panels FORDS OF BRISTOL Ltd 26 March 1973 [24 March 1972]  14009/72 Heading A4X [Also in Division G5] A display panel comprises at least two layers 2 of sheet material the edges of which are enclosed in a synthetic plastics framing of channel shaped cross-section. As shown two corrugated boards 4 lie between the two outer lined boards 2. Display material is mounted on the boards 2. The panel may be used to form part of a display stand.
Patent GB-199907-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to economisers and like tubular apparatus
IPC: F22D1/02
Filed: 1922-05-18
Abstract: 199,907. Descy, A., Simon, L., and Soc. Anon. des Fonderies et Distributions d'Eau a Ciney. May 18, 1922. Plates, walls, and the like, jointing tubes to.- In an economizer or like tubular apparatus of the type in which upper and lower headers d, e are connected by a series of tubes a having turned cylindrical ends b, c of somewhat different diameter, the headers are provided with corresponding series of sockets f, g which have diameters slightly smaller than those of the end portions b, c of the tubes so that, in erecting the apparatus, the tubes are forced into the sockets to give metalto-metal fluid-tight joints. Openings h normally closed by plugs i are provided in the upper headers for facilitating the removal of a faulty tube and its replacement, under conditions identical with those of the initial construction, by a new tube.
Patent GB-1421859-A (GB)
Title: Rotary-piston internal-combustion engine
IPC: F02B75/02
Filed: 1973-03-22
Abstract: 1421859 Rotary piston internal combustion engines H SABET 22 March 1973 [22 March 1972] 14022/73 Heading F1F A rotary piston internal combustion engine of the intermittent abutment type comprises, two pairs of pistons 9,9' and 10,10', one pair 10,10' rotating at uniform angular speed and the other pair 9,9' rotating at cyclically varying angular speed, and the pistons 10,10' each having a circumferential width greater than the width of each piston 9,9', the circumferential faces of the pistons 10,10' being each formed with two axially spaced, radially open grooves which open in respective opposite circumferential directions into respective ones of said chambers on opposite sides of the respective piston, said casing 1 being formed with an intake port, and an exhaust port axially spaced therefrom, for communication with respective ones of said grooves during engine operation, a housing 2, 3 mounted on casing 1 outside the cavity and enclosing a pre-combustion chamber 4 therein, the housing 2, 3 being formed with an aperture extending axially substantially between the same transverse planes as the intake port and connecting the chamber 4 with the cavity, the circumferential width of the aperture being substantially equal to the corresponding width of the circumferential face of each piston 9,9', and a partition member extending axially in the aperture to divide it into two circumferentially spaced openings 7, 8. The "land" width of each piston 10,10', i.e. between the end of a groove and the opposite side of the piston, is also equal to the circumferential width of the aperture containing openings 7, 8. A seating 5 for a spark-plug and a fuel injection nozzle 6 are provided i:n chamber 4. Piston 10 or 10' compresses the air in front thereof into chamber 4 where fuel is injected and the mixture ignited to thrust the piston 9' or 9 in front of the respective piston 10,10' away from the latter.
Patent GB-1391283-A (GB)
Title: Device for the framing of photographic slides
IPC: G03D15/10
Filed: 1972-03-24
Abstract: 1391283 Mounting transparencies P FLORJANCIC 24 March 1972 [26 March 1971] 14090/72 Heading A4X [Also in Division B8] Photographic film 20 is fed from a stationary guideway 5 to a slide feedway 4 which is mounted on pins 6 so that it can pivot transversely to the feeding direction, the slides 2, 3 being cut by a knife 13. Slide 2 is pushed forward by a rod 7 and it is fed into a frame 1, whose edges are held open. As push-rod 7 retracts, feedway 4 is lifted by a cam 17 pivoted by limit dogs 22', 22" mounted on a rod 18 rigid with push-rod 7. As the front slide is pushed into frame 1, the next adjacent slide is pushed forward by a spring-loaded gripper 8 on push-rod 7. The leading edge of film 20 is pulled forward by a pull rod 14 slideable in a bore in the push-rod 7 and having fixed and adjustable dogs 15, 16. The pushing edge 10 of rod 7 comprises grooved side portions 12 and a recessed smooth central portion 11, Fig. 3(not shown). In a modification Figs. 5-7 (not shown), the frame 1 has bevelled edges (1') and is mounted in a holder (23) having guides (24) with bevelled edges (24'). The slide feedway 4 may pivot about a longitudinal axis or transversely, or move vertically or horizontally.
Patent GB-942013-A (GB)
Title: A mangling machine, especially a padder having two or more rollers
IPC: D06B3/10
Filed: 1962-04-12
Abstract: 942,013. Textile treating apparatus. MASCHINENFABRIK FRIEDRICH HAAS G.m.b.H. April 12, 1962 [Dec. 11, 1961], No. 14114/62. Heading D1L. A mangling machine having two or more rollers in which at least one roller is carried in a movable bearing is characterized by the provision of expansible flexible tubes located adjacent the bearings of the movable rollers, in a housing, the tubes when placed under pressure by a pneumatic or hydraulic medium serving to press the rollers adjacent one another. Fig. 1 shows the invention applied to a dye padder which consists of a main frame 1, dye bath 2 and rollers 6, 7 carried by two laterally spaced discs 5. The upper part of frame 1 is trough shaped as at 8 so that discs 5 are capable of being pivoted in various working positions i.e. so that rollers 6, 7 are horizontally opposed, vertically one above the other or at some angle therebetween. Each disc 5 is constructed mainly as a cylindrical housing 17 (Fig. 3) housing therein a fixed bearing 20 for one of the rollers and and a movable bearing 21 for the other roller. The bearing 21 is connected with a movable shell like housing part 25 which together with a fixed part 27 forms an annular chamber 28 in which is situated an annular air tube 29. By inflating tube 29 pressure is exerted on the movable housing 25 and thence to bearing 21 so that pressure is exerted between the two rollers. In a second embodiment there is a fixed centre roller and two movable rollers on the outside thereof. A third embodiment has the movable roller bearing mounted by a pivoted lever and acted upon by an inflatable tube and in a fourth embodiment two pairs of rollers arranged at right angles and having one fixed and one movable roller in each pair, are provided.
Patent GB-719369-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to tractor-drawn disc harrows
IPC: A01B21/08
Filed: 1951-03-09
Abstract: The subject-matter of this Specification is identical with that described in Specifications 719,299, 719,368 and 719,370 but the claims differ.  Specification 470,069 also is referred to.
Patent GB-844715-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to stapling appliances
Inventor: KLOPSTOCK HANS
IPC: B25C1/06
Filed: 1958-05-02
Abstract: 844,715. Stapling machines. GRYMAK Ltd. April 16, 1959 [May 2, 1958], No. 14166/58. Class 89(3) A portable power-operated stapling-machine is of, pistol-like-form with a barrel 1, Fig. 1, containing an ejector for driving staples from a guideway 2 fed by a magazine 4, and a handle 3 located approximately at the centre-of-gravity of the machine and containing a trigger-controlledclutch for transmitting a drive from an electric-motor, situated externally of the machine, to said ejectormechanism. The motor is connected to the handle through a flexibledrive 13 coupled to a shaft 14 carrying a worm 17 driving a wormwheel 18. The wormwheel is connectible by the clutch to a peg 19 engaging a block 20 having a tongue 20a sliding in a slot 21 in a lever 22 pivoted in the handle at 23. The upper-end of the lever carries a pawl 11 which, as the lever turns to the right, engages a part 6a and moves a block 6 against a spring 8 until the pawl is tripped from said part by a fixed-roller 12. The block is then returned by the spring to drive a staple. The wormwheel is secured on a sleeve 32, Fig. 6, having notches 32a and a hole containing a pin 33 recessed at 33a to allow the sleeve to rotate on a hub 26 until the pin is turned to engage, with one edge, one of the notches 32a. The pin is urged to the latter-position by a spring 35. Fig. 5. engaging an arm 34, and is held in the former-position by a rod 37 movable against a spring 38 by a trigger 39a and lever 40. A rotatable-cam 41 is positionable so that. when the trigger is pressed, either the lever 40 is moved off rod 37 after initiating a single-stroke of block 6, or the block reciprocates, driving one staple after another until the trigger is released. Reference has been directed by the Comptroller to Specification 805,125.
Patent GB-1416972-A (GB)
Title: Optical apparatus
IPC: B23K26/00
Filed: 1973-03-23
Abstract: 1416972 Endoscopes AMERICAN OPTICAL CORP 23 March 1973 [24 March 1972] 14244/73 Heading A5R [Also in Divisions F2 and G2] A stereomicroscope for use in micro-surgery has a plate 6 which has two spaced apertures through which the stereo axes a, b pass, and a central reflecting portion 18 between the apertures for directing an infra red laser beam 27 onto the work site 12. A sheath (30), see Fig. 1, not shown, encloses the axes a, b, when the apparatus is used in the body in surgery. The portion 18 may be of gold, and the apertures are covered by beam splitters 20, 22 which direct light beams from a marker source (32), Fig. 3 (not shown) or from the emitting end 36 of a light guide 34 illuminated at 42 by the internal light (not shown) of the microscope, along the axes a, b, through the objective 15, a lens 38 forming a virtual image of the end 36 at the site 12, see Fig. 4. Alternatively, see Figs. 5, 6 (not shown), the beam splitters 20, 22 are replaced by a ring (40) of trapezoidal crosssection cemented to the reflecting side of the plate 16, centred between the apertures and crossing each aperture, so that light from the end 36 is reflected from the back of the ring along the axes a, b. In another modification, the ring is replaced by two flat bars spanning each aperture. A handle 66 universally pivotable about 68 enables the assembly 16 (i.e. the parts 18, 20, 22) to be pivoted about 30 about the axis 44, 46 and about an axis at right angles thereto through the point 75. The assembly 16 is mounted in a box-shaped outer gimbal 52 mounted in bearings (54, 56) in a housing 24, see Fig. 3 (not shown). The ends 36, 42 of the light guide 34, which may be a single strand, are each adjustable in three dimensions, see Figs. 10 to 12 (not shown), and the end 42 includes a lens system (120).
Patent GB-1209076-A (GB)
Title: Antifouling compositions
Inventor: SHIMIZU KATSUJI
IPC: C09D5/16
Filed: 1969-04-23
Abstract: 1,209,076. Anti-fouling compositions. K. SHIMIZU and K. SEKIYAMA. 23 April, 1969 No. 14313/68. Heading ASE. [Also in Divisions B1-2, C3 and C4-5] An antifouling composition comprises a dispersion in a carrier of a powdered mixture of a substance toxic to sea organisms and a complex of a non-crystalline sodium silicate and a colloidal aluminium silicate, each of the powder grains being coated with a water-soluble synthetic resin so that the surface of each said grain is in a gel state. Conventional organic and inorganic toxic agents are specified.
Patent GB-235186-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to adjustable wrenches
IPC: B25B13/16
Filed: 1925-06-02
Abstract: 235,186. Ferroni, F. June 6, 1924, [Convention date] Void [Published under Sect. 91 of the Act]. Sliding - jaw wrenches; shanks.-A double-ended adjustable wrench is formed of a flat metal body member a with jaw openings b, e of different sizes at the ends and movable jaws m, n secured to the ends of an adjustment screw l, which is actuated along a slot h by a nut y mounted in a transverse slot i. The movable jaws m, n are formed of pairs of spaced plates o, p and q, r, the jaw portions of which are bent inwards and secured together at s, t.
Patent GB-855114-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to counting devices
IPC: G06M1/02
Filed: 1959-04-28
Abstract: 855,114. Counting-apparatus. MORRIS & CO. Ltd., B.R. April 28, 1959 [April 28, 1958], No. 14453/59. Class 106 (1). An electromagnetic counter is provided with pins connected electrically to the electromagnet and adapted to engage in conductive bushes in a mounting socket. The energization and subsequent de-energization of a solenoid 12 is adapted to oscillate an armature 10, one end of which engages a spring-biased yoke 7, a single complete reciprocation of which is arranged to rotate a star wheel 6 to step the counter by one. Electrical connections are taken from the solenoid 12 to pins 15, the counter being capable of being removably held in a mounting socket 17, Fig. 3, by co-operation of the pins 15 with bushes 16 connected to the pulse source to be counted. The solenoid 12 may be removed for replacement by unscrewing a screw 14 which normally holds the solenoid in position. The socket 17 may be provided with dovetail formations on its exterior so that a number of such devices may be arranged adjacently by sliding them together. One or a number of sockets may be fixedly mounted by locating a slot formed in the socket base on a bar 19, Fig. 6, firm engagement being maintained by an overlapping plate 18 held by a screw which also retains the bushes 16. The socket and counter casing are provided with apertures to allow air circulation. The socket 17 is provided with a further aperture in its base to allow passage of a coupling bar 20, Fig. 9, for the zeroizing arrangement, the details of which are not described. Zeroizing is effected manually by a button 3, Fig. 9, or by energization of a solenoid 22, Figs. 7 and 9. The end of the coupling bar 20 is provided with a recess co-operating with a notch 26 in a spring-biased lever 24 pivoted on the armature 23 of the solenoid 22. When the counter is removed, the ends 25 of the spring-biased lever 24 prevent the armature 23 from moving should the solenoid 22 be energized so that when a counter is replaced in its socket, the end 20 of the coupling bar can be engaged in the notch 26. When the counter is pressed home, the lever 24 is moved against its spring bias to disengage its locking ends 24. To prevent unauthorized removal of a counter, an apertured cover 28 may be clamped to the socket 17, and a screw 30 which is either normally inaccessible or arranged to be unscrewable only by a special key, may be provided to fasten the counter 1 to the apertured cover, removal of the screw permitting withdrawal of the counter through the aperture.
Patent GB-115365-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or connected with Flange Couplings of Tubes, Pipes and the like.
IPC: F16L23/028
Filed: 1917-10-06
Abstract: 115,365. Mechans, Ltd., and Thomson, J. Oct. 6, 1917. Butt joints.-In couplings for flanged pipes in which loose rings are arranged on the flanges and secured together by eye-bolts, locking-pins are provided to limit the play of the collars. In the construction shown in Figs. 1, 2, and 3, the collars E, E<1> on the flanges D, D<1> are fitted with pins F, F' having heads F adapted to fit against shoulders D<2> to limit longitudinal movement, or to fit in a recess to limit peripheral movement. In another construction, Fig. 6, the pin F, the head of which need not be cylindrical, serves to secure the pivot pin G of the eye-bolt X of the kind described in Specification 110,079.