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Patent GB-184209-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in shaping mechanism for grinding wheels
IPC: B24B53/06
Filed: 1921-02-26
Abstract: 184,209. Hanson, B. M. W. Feb. 26, 1921. Turning.-The sleeve 18 holding the tool 19 of a trueing device has an arm 26 which, as the carrier 17 is rocked in the bearing 15, coacts with stops 24, 25 to limit the amplitude of oscillation of the tool. To ensure symmetrical action on the two oblique faces of the grinding wheel, the sleeve 18 is turned through 180‹ when the carrier is indexed to act on the other face, stop pins 27 being provided to facilitate this adjustment. The carrier rotates on a pin 11 for indexing, and has a fixing plug 13. After dressing the wheel with the tool 19, a grooved roller e, of the kind described in Specification 183,505 is used for finishing.
Patent GB-217289-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to wooden tubular structures
IPC: H04R1/30
Filed: 1923-03-07
Abstract: 217,289. Green, J. March 7, 1923. Wood tubes.-Wooden tubes of the type formed from continuous strips ot veneer or thin wood wound spirally with abutting or overlapping edges are shaped with bends in the walls in the direction of the axis of the tube so as to be suitable for tone arms and " loud speaker " horns. For simple bends of unvarying diameter, the strip a may be shaped as shown in Fig. 2, and the edges abutting, but for the bends of varying diameter or flared portions, the edges of the strip overlap, and are cemented together.
Patent GB-124917-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Devices for Preventing the Unauthorised or Fraudulent Re-filling of Bottles and other Containers for Liquids.
Inventor: BALDWIN JAMES HEWITT
IPC: B65D49/06
Filed: 1918-04-19
Abstract: 124,917. Baldwin, J. H. April 19, 1918. Bottles and like vessels, non-refillable. -In a non-refillable bottle or other container for liquids, and of the type provided with a valve held on its seat by a depending weight, the valve - seat c, Fig. 1, is formed as a substantially flat ring or step having one or more slightly-projecting or upwardly-inclined portions to prevent the thin flexible valve-disk g from coming into close contact with the seat under normal conditions, any attempt to introduce liquid into the bottle &c. causing the valve to make close contact with the seat. Preferably, two diametrically-opposite radially-extending inclined portions c<1>, Fig. 5, are provided on the seat or ring. The baffle-disk q, which rests upon the top of the fitting b carrying the seat c, has arcshaped slots q<2> and a central partition q<1> of about the same size as the cork valve g. When the valve is wet and its upper surface comes into contact with the disk q, it adheres thereto until pulled away by the weight k. The weight k, suspended by a flexible cord h, is of substantially conical form and has upwardly-extending radial arms m between which are arched spaces p. The outer casing r with the pouring-orifice s rests upon the washer f on the top of the bottle and is secured by the sleeve n. Fig. 6 shows the invention applied to the filling-orifice of a petrol can. A fitting 13 with valve seating c and guide-ribs d has a flange 14 at the top to rest upon a shoulder in the nozzle 10. The baffling-device consists of a ring-plate 15 having downwardly-extending arms 17 carrying a disk 16. When the plate 15 is in place beneath the projecting beading 19 at the end of the nozzle, the metal of the plate is forced out to hold the device in position. An air-inlet tube 21 with a non-refillable fitting 23 at its lower end is provided.
Patent GB-569107-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to roadways, runways or the like and to a method of construction thereof
IPC: E01C9/08
Filed: 1943-04-28
Abstract: 569,107. Slat &c. fabrics. IONIDES, P. D., and McGILL, E. M. April 28, 1943, No. 6711. [Class 45] [Also in Group X] Roadways, runways and the like are formed by superimposing on the ground a transverse grid of flexible elements and a waterproof or substantially waterproof sheet of fibrous material such as fabric. In Fig. 5, a runway comprises upper and lower sheets 2, 1 of one or more layers of proofed fabric such as hessian impregnated with creosote and coated with a bituminous or tarry substance, and an intermediate grid of transversely extending flexible metallic elements 3, the sheets being bonded together and to the elements 3 by the bituminous &c. substance ; each sheet is formed of a number of strips similarly bonded where they overlap. In Fig. 4, the strips 3 are interlaced with and secured to longitudinal'steel strips 4 to form a lattice network, such network may be formed in panels, Fig. 2, in which the outer strips 3<1>, 3<11>, 4<1>, 4<11> are thicker than the remaining strips, and the strips 3, 4 extend beyond the outer strips 3<11>. 4<11>, so that they may be bent over to embrace the outer strips 3<1>, 4<1> of adjacent panels, the bent-over ends being then engaged by slidable steel loops 12 ; the strips 3 arc bent laterally adjacent the outer strips 4<1> to permit such a connection. Panels in adjacent rows are arranged to break joint. In each panel, the outer strips are fully welded together, the strips 3, 4 are fully welded to the outer strips 3<1>, 4<1> and spot-welded to the outer strips 3<11>, 4<11>, all the strips 3 are spotwelded to the fourth strip 4 from the outer strip 4', and elsewhere the strips 3 are spotwelded to the strips 4 at alternate crossings and in staggered rows. After laying, pickets may be driven into the ground adjacent the outer frame members 4<1>, 4<11> of a runway to maintain the panel members under tension ; the sheets of Fabric may be similarly pegged to the ground. A waterproof apron of fabric may be secured along each edge of the runway to maintain stability of the ground. Specification 558,162, [Group X], is referred to.
Patent GB-987072-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to incandescent electric lamps
IPC: H01K3/26
Filed: 1962-02-21
Abstract: 987,072. Making incandescent electric lamps. H. W. BROWN. Feb. 21, 1963 [Feb. 21, 1962], No. 6734/62. Headings H1F and H1J. In a method of manufacturing incandescent electric lamps, a pair of lead-in wires connected to metal pins are held in a suitable clamp 2, a planet 4 is attached to the end of the wires, a glass bulb is placed over the assembly and the neck of the bulb is heat softened and pinched to form a gas-tight seal around the inner ends of the pins while at the same time an aperture 7 is formed in the pinched base, the aperture tapering inwards. The wires 1 may be provided with a separating glass bead 3. The lamps are then arranged with the pins uppermost and a mass of fusible substance, which may be a glass bead, glass powder or wire coated with glass, is inserted in the aperture 7 and the assembly located in a chamber which is heated, evacuated, if desired flushed with inert gas, filled with rare or inert gas to form the final gas filling and the temperature raised to soften the fusible substance and so seal the aperture. The final heating may be effected in the region of the pinch only, for example by locating the pins in a plate-like element which is heated. More than one filament with the corresponding number of pins may be used. The initial steps may be effected on an indexing turret or belt.
Patent GB-123231-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in the Preparation of Cocoa-butter for Cooking and like Purposes.
IPC: A23D9/007
Filed: 1918-04-22
Abstract: 123,231. Martin, G., and Co-operative Wholesale Society. April 22, 1918. Butter substitutes.-Cocoa butter is mixed with 10-20 per cent starchy matter such as rice flour, corn flour, potato starch, farina, &c., in order to render it easier to work. The starchy matter is added to the cocoa butter while melted and mixed therewith by a propellor apparatus. The mass may be broken up in a disintegrator when cool.
Patent GB-609055-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in hand-threading shuttles for looms
IPC: D03J5/24
Filed: 1946-03-05
Abstract: 609,055. Shuttles. DAWSON (SHUTTLEMAKERS), Ltd., T., (formerly DAWSON (BLACKBURN), Ltd., T.), and DAWSON, J. March 5,1946, No. 6765. [Class 142(iii)] The eye of a hand threaded shuttle comprises a disc B having a vertical slot b starting at the top and ending in line with a transverse weft tunnel a into which the weft is led by threading slits a<SP>1</SP>, a<SP>2</SP>, the periphery of the disc between the slit a<SP>2</SP> and the slot b being of smaller radius than the remainder of the disc to allow the weft to pass into the slot. The slot may terminate in a hole as shown, or may be of uniform width to act as a slub catcher.
Patent GB-1467790-A (GB)
Title: Coupling arrangement for the relay of video signals
IPC: H04Q3/00
Filed: 1975-02-18
Abstract: 1467790 Video signal cross-bar switch LICENTIA PATENT VERWALTUNGS GmbH 18 Feb 1975 [19 Feb 1974] 6840/75 Heading H4R Coupling arrangement for the interconnection of video transmitter and receivers uses a cross-bar type switch with the transmitters S1 and receivers E1 connected to respective longitudinal bars s1 and e1 which can be interconnected via pairs of switching elements X and cross-bars vs1 and ve1, in which the longitudinal bars and the cross-bars are formed as strip lines the characteristic impedance of which match the characteristic impedance of the subscriber lines. As shown in Fig. 2 the longitudinal bars s1 to Sn, e1 to en, are individually formed as strip lines 21 on a panel 10, the line having an appropriate impedance, when considered relative the backing earth plate 50. Screened tuned reed relays are mounted on the panel, at X, to interconnect the line 21 with selected ones of the strip conductors 31, 32 &c. and the panel is mounted on a connector panel Bs or Be, Fig. 3, with plug pins 61 to 6k engaging sockets carried by the connector panel, to connect the strip conductor 31 to 3i to strip lines forming cross-bars vS1 to vSi, or ve1 to vei. Screening conductors are provided on panels A, Bs, and Be between the strip conductors and cross-bar strip lines to reduce cross-talk. A number of panels Bs and Be can be connected in parallel to increase the capacity of the system. Cross over switches K1 to Kn are provided to connect subscriber go and return lines S1-n and E1-n to the longitudinal bars s1 to sn and e 1 to en respectively when the subscriber is the calling party and change over the connection, so that Si to Sn is connected to e1 to en and E1 to En connected to s1 to sn. when the subscriber is the called party.
Patent GB-788696-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to laminated magnetic core structures
IPC: H01F27/245
Filed: 1956-03-05
Abstract: 788,696. Transformers. SMIT & CO.'S TRANSFORMATOREN-FABRIEK N.V., W. March 5, 1956 [March 15, 1955], No. 6905/56. Class 38 (2). A laminated magnetic core structure of the type in which each of the leg and yoke members comprise at least two juxtaposed longitudinally extending laminations, the laminations in the leg members and those in at least the upper yoke member being spaced apart by cooling gaps is characterized in that one of the laminations in an intermediate leg member extends to the upper surface of the upper yoke member. In Figs. 1, 2, the lamination 3 extends to the upper surface of the upper yoke and also extends to the lower surface of the lower yoke whilst in Figs. 3, 4 one lamination 21 of the intermediate leg extends to the upper surface of the upper yoke whereas the adjacent lamination extends to the lower surface of the lower yoke. The cooling gaps between the laminations do not extend into the regions occupied by the, joints between the yoke members and the intermediate leg member. In a core construction using magnetically oriented material mitre joints as shown in Figs 1, 2 are used whilst in constructions using non-oriented material square joints, as shown in Figs. 3, 4, are used. A further cooling gap 30 (Fig. 7) extending at right-angles to the surface of the laminations may be provided between the laminations in the upper part of the upper yoke member. In one construction according to the invention certain of the laminations need to have a greater width than the remainder.
Patent GB-140070-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to telephone transmitters
IPC: H04R1/38
Filed: 1920-03-08
Abstract: 140,070. Miessner Inventions Corporation, (Assignees of Miessner, B. F.). March 12, 1919, [Convention date]. Microphones ; mouthpieces; magnetic instruments. - Relates to microphone transmitters of the type in which sound is admitted equally to both sides of the diaphragm, and consists in supporting this diaphragm within a protective casing and in screening the microphone itself from sound. In the form shown in Figs. 1 and 3, the casing 25 and cap 29 are pierced with holes, or the cap 29 may have an open centre. The main diaphragm is damped by padded springs. The carbon button and mica diaphragm 20, Fig. 3, are screened by a cylinder 31 with interior flange 32, and by a rubber disk 33. In a simpler form, the microphone is mounted at the centre of a spider with two or more radial arms which forms the back of the instrument, and co-operates to support the diaphragm with a cap which has its centre obstructed by a spider and is provided with spring fingers adapted to clasp the periphery of the spider, which is formed as an annular casing. In the form shown in Fig. 6, the microphone is screened by a casing 50 provided with a hollow neck 53 which contains a stem 57 connecting the carbon button 19 to the diaphragm D'. The latter is arranged in a flat head 55 so that an equally effected area is exposed on either side through holes 61. The capsule 52 is screwed on to the stem 57 by means of the saw-cut 59, and is clamped in position by a set-screw. The Specification as open to inspection under Sect. 91 (3) (a) describes a magnetic instrument, Fig. 8, supported on an open spider frame, the which raises the wipers to the desired level, which coils 6 being short in order to reduce their screening effect on the diaphragm, and the aperture 2<b> being so sized as to equalize the pressure on the two sides of the diaphragm. This subject-matter does not appear in the Specification as accepted.
Patent GB-198788-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to protective arrangements for alternating current electric circuits
IPC: H02H7/26
Filed: 1922-03-10
Abstract: 198,788. Reyrolle & Co., Ltd., A., and Biles, R. W. March 10, 1922. Protective arrangedments. - Three-phase feeders are protected against faults by an arrangement comprising line transformers D, E and leakage current protection transformers G<1>, G<2> at both ends of the feeder, and connections to earth from the neutral points of the secondaries of the line transformers, the connection at one end being made through a normally closed switch J and at the other end through a spark gap or equivalent device L traversable only by high potential. Out-of-balence current due to a fault opens the switch J and thereby increases the potential across the spark gap to the discharging point. Coils H, H' connected to the respective leakage transformers are energized, and switches F, F<1> are opened to cut-out the feeder at both ends.
Patent GB-284491-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to arm-rest devices for use in vehicles
IPC: B60N2/75
Filed: 1927-03-15
Abstract: 284,491. King, C. H., Wareham, S., and Logan, P. March 15, 1927. Pests, arm. - In an arm-rest device for use in vehicles, and of the kind d comprising a spring-pressed pad f which automatically fills in the recess in the seatback upholstery when the pivoted arm-rest R is in its position of use, the spring device for actuating the pad f comprises a, coiled spring h enclosed within a fixed cylindrical casing a, and acting upon a double-armed adjustable support c, d, carrying the pad. When the arm-rest is turned up to its out-of-use position, within the upholstery recess, the pad f is pushed backwards against the action of the spring h.
Patent GB-165151-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in recording apparatus for use with kinematographs and the like
IPC: G03B31/02
Filed: 1920-03-10
Abstract: 165,151. Mosley, F. E. March 10, 1920. Recording particular operations; photographic recorders. -In apparatus for producing a graphic record of the duration of sound or successions of sounds or interval of silence corresponding to the periods of activity or inactivity of a talking machine or machines working in association with a kinematograph machine whereby a selector switch is produced for the purpose of controlling the operation of the talking machine or machines as described in Specification 168,821, [Class 40 (ii), Phonographs &c.], a plurality of marking-discs comprising pencils, scribers or perforators &c. 32 are individuallv movable under the control of an operator, into and out of engagement with a record-strip 2 mounted on a rotatable drum 1 carried in a predetermined position on a mandrel 30 mounted on a shaft 3 which is connected through reducing-gear with the film-reeding mechanism of the kinematograph machine. The reducmggear comprises a series of bevel-wheels, a worm 5, and worm-wheel 4, the worm being mounted on a shaft 6 which can be lowered to disconnect the drum from the driving-mechanism by means of a lever 16 under the control of the operator and normally engaging a bearing of the shaft 6. The drum is secured in position by means of a boss 2G on a flange 27 which engages a a recess in the end of the drum and by means of a nut 28 engaging a boss 29 on the mandrel 30. To bring the drum to the same starting position, a spring-controlled pin mounted on a fixed part is adapted when depressed to enter a notch in a disc 22 mounted on the shaft 3 when the latter is rotated by the milled head 25. The markers 32 are mounted in a frame and are normally retracted from the record-strip 2 by means of springs 33 interposed between fixed strips 34 and collars 35 on cradles 3@ to which the pencils are clamped. To each cradle is connected one end of a spring 43 and to the other end thereof being attached a cord 38 which passes over guide-pulleys 39, 40 and is connected to an armature 41 of a corresponding electromagnet or solenoid 42. The electromagnets 42 are in circuit with corresponding keys 46 of a keyboard and with a source of current 44; the keys are under the control of an operator who fellows the representation of the picture and manipulates that key assigned to a particular character who is vocal and produces a record so long as the key is held depressed. Mechanical, pneumatic or hydraulic connections may be substituted for the electrical transmission means, or the markers may be operated manually, and the drum instead of moving in a circular path may describe a rectilinear, helical, or other path. The record may be produced photographically by means of a sensitized paper-strip and electric-lamp whose circuits are closed by the keys or the lamps may be provided with shutters operated by the keys.
Patent GB-715916-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to apparatus for manufacturing voltage breakdown devices
Inventor: CARMICHAEL CHARLES HALLY
IPC: H01T21/00
Filed: 1952-03-20
Abstract: 715,916. Cold-cathode tubes. GENERAL ELECTRIC CO., Ltd. March 4, 1953 [March 20; 1952], No. 7232/52. Addition to 715,685. Class 39(1) An apparatus, Fig. 3, for the manufacture of voltage breakdown devices, Fig: 1, of the kind described in the parent Specification and comprising a glass tube 1 closed at each end by a dished disc' 2 of an iron-nickel-cobalt alloy and filled with argon at a pressure of less than 100 mm. of mercury, comprises two intersecting glass tubes. A metal delivery channel 4 for the supply of the assemblies to be sealed is held in position by plates 22 and 23 and a leaf spring 24 in a portion 3 of one tube, and a portion 6 of the other tube houses carrying means for lifting the assemblies into a sealing head formed by a portion 5 of the said other tube which is surrounded by an eddy current heating coil 40. After sealing, the assemblies are released into a portion 7 of the first tube. Detachable caps 8 and 9 are attached to the tube 3, 7 by greased ground-flange joints 10 and 11, and a side tube 12 is provided for evacuating and filling the enclosure. The tubes are supported by clamps 13 and 14 with the tube 3, 7 inclined to the horizontal to ensure gravity feed of the assemblies along the delivery channel 4 or alternatively a spring may be provided to urge the assemblies along the delivery channel. The channel 4, Fig. 4. is of rectangular cross-section with an open top and has one open end 15 projecting into the cap 8 and the other end closed to form a stop 16. The base of the channel is continued by a platform 19 which together with the side.walls of the channel is provided with slots 20 and 21. The carrying means, Fig. 5, comprises tweezers 17 and 18 pivotally supported on a mild steel head 25 and biased together by a spring 33 against a stop 34. A soft iron armature 26 carried by the head 25 co-operates with the pole-pieces 27 and 28 of a magnet 29 carried on a collar 30 so that by sliding the collar along the exterior of the tube, the tweezers can be moved axially along the tube. The tweezers are provided near their free ends with curved prongs 38 and 39 forming supports for the assemblies, and are formed with shoulders 34<SP>1</SP> and 35<SP>1</SP> adapted to engage within the dished parts of the discs 2 and sloping ramps 36<SP>1</SP> and 37<SP>1</SP> enabling the shoulders to slide out of the dished parts against the bias of the spring 33 on retraction of the tweezers. The tweezer assembly is supported at one end by the engagement of the armature 26 with the inner surface of the tube and at the other end by the engagement of the tweezers with the slots 20 and 21 in the delivery channel 4.
Patent GB-1012952-A (GB)
Title: Apparatus for controlling the position of a member in accordance with the ratio between two fluid pressures
Inventor: SUTTON ARTHUR EDWIN
IPC: G05D11/035
Filed: 1961-02-28
Abstract: 1,012,952. Fluid-pressure servomotor systems. JOSEPH LUCAS (INDUSTRIES) Ltd. Feb 16, 1962 [Feb 28, 1961], No. 7245/61. Heading G3P [Also in Division F1] Apparatus for controlling the position of a member in accordance with the ratio between two fluid pressures, as shown the static pressure P 0  and ram pressure P 1  at the air intake of a gas turbine engine, comprises bellows 17, 19 or diaphragms subject to these pressures and acting on levers 20, 21 which are pivoted at 22, 23 and act in opposition to each other on a roller 16 carried at the free end of an arm 15 pivotally mounted on a lever 8 which has a fixed pivot 10 and is loaded by a spring 14 to maintain an arm 9 in contact with a member 12 moved by a servopiston 6. The servopiston is governed by a valve 24 consisting of nozzles controlled by the lever 20 so that any change in the ratio P 1 /P 0 , resulting in deflection of the levers 20, 21, causes the servopiston to move the lever 8 and arm 15 to restore equilibrium. The apparatus may give an indication of the pressure ratio, or of mach number, by the provision of a pointer actuated by the servopiston or by the lever 8. Alternatively, it may control further apparatus, and as shown it is applied to the control of apparatus forming the subject-matter of Specification 1,012,953 in which a ratio P i /P o , when P i  is a pressure dependent in part on the position of a part 36 movable in the engine air intake, is varied in accordance with a function, dependent upon the shape of a cam 29, of the ratio P 1 /P 0 . The pressures P i , P o  act on bellows 35, 34 which operate levers 38, 37 bearing on a roller 33 carried by an arm 32 which is pivoted to a lever 25 of which an arm 27 coacts with the cam 29. The free end of the lever 37 coacts with nozzles to control a shuttle valve 42 which controls a servopiston 43 operating the part 36. Alternatively the lever 37 may act on the shuttle valve through a spring transmission.