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Patent GB-1131769-A (GB)
Title: Industrial trucks
Inventor: CHAPMAN HARRY VINCENT
IPC: B66F9/075
Filed: 1966-07-04
Abstract: 1,131,769. Lift trucks; rubber springs. CONVEYANCER FORK LIFT TRUCKS Ltd. 25 July, 1967 [4 July, 1966], No. 29931/66. Headings B7D and B7H. [Also in Division B8] An industrial lift truck of the counterbalanced type having rear steerable wheels 15 and a body which is substantially rectangular in plan has depending from its rear corners members 26 with reduced diameter portions 27 on which sleeves 28 are rotatable, there being within the sleeves below portions 27 rubber suspension rings 42 and adjusting washers 44 held in place by circlips 43. Each sleeve 28 carries a stub axle 45 on which is rotatably mounted a wheel 15. A steering arm 30 is connected to one sleeve 28 and the sleeves are interconnected by a track rod 31. The balance weights are mounted between the rear wheels 15 beneath frame 20 and also at the rear end of the truck. In a modification member 26 may surround the wheel support 23.
Patent GB-661156-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to rotary electric regulating switches
Inventor: TREADWELL CYRIL GORDON
IPC: H01C10/48
Filed: 1949-11-23
Abstract: 661,156. Regulating switches. STANDARD TELEPHONES & CABLES, Ltd. Nov. 23, 1949. No. 30023/49. Class 38 (v). An attenuator comprises a number of resistances such as R1 ... R6 connected to contact studs (not shown) moved over by a brush (not shown) operated by a shaft 17, the resistances being arranged in a circle enclosing further-resistances R12 ... RI7. The resistances R1 ... R6 are arranged between insulating plates 15, 16, supported by pillars 13, 14, and are connected in series between terminals A, D. The resistances R12 ... RI7 are arranged between plates 26, 27, the former carrying conducting segments 3, 4, connected, respectively, to a terminal C and the terminal A. The plate 26 is supported by pillars 13, 14 and carries tags 31 ... 36, 31 and 32 being connected together, and 33 ... 36 to the adjacent ends of resistances R12 ... R16 respectively. The further ends of resistances R14 ... R17 are connected together bv wires 37 ... 39, and the further ends of resistances R12 ... R13 are connected by a wire 40 and also by a wire 41 to the other end of resistance R14. The arrangement thus constitutes two T-type networks which may be selectively connected between the segments by screws 43, 44 inserted through selected pairs of tags 7-8, or 9-10, into holes, as 45, 46 in the segments. The segments may be directly connected together by inserting the screws through tags 5, 6. The resistances are enclosed by an end plate 20 and a metal cover 21 secured by a nut 52 on an extension 51 of a pillar 28 supporting the plates 26, 27.
Patent GB-827339-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in apparatus for measuring minute lengths
Inventor: PAPELLO KARL
IPC: G01B3/22
Filed: 1957-09-25
Abstract: 827,339. Linear-dimension gauges. ZEISS JENA C. VEB. Sept. 25, 1957, No. 30106/57. Class 106 (2). A linear-dimension gauge comprises a plurality of levers 1, 2, 3, 4 interconnected in series without play and constituting one integral part. The lever 1 is short, is guided by a flat spring 11 and forms a contact element, while the lever 4 acts as an indicating pointer or transmits movement to an indicating device. The levers are joined by thin elastic webs 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and the interconnected levers may be formed in one piece as a stamping or pressing.
Patent GB-691718-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to draught excluding devices for doors
IPC: E06B7/20
Filed: 1951-12-24
Abstract: 691,718. Draught-excluder. SOLBACH, E. Dec. 24, 1951 [Dec. 22, 1950], No. 30140/51. Class 20(iii) A draught-excluder comprises a resilient strip 5 having a pin 2 secured to its upper' edge and normally drawn upwardly into a recess 7 formed along the lower face of the door 1 by means of springs 8. The ends of the pin project from both sides of the door, and as the latter closes, they engage sockets in the jambs whereby they are lowered and force the strip downwardly into contact with the floor.
Patent GB-876797-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in hydraulic pit props
IPC: E21D15/44
Filed: 1957-09-25
Abstract: 876,797. Pit props. GUTEHOFFNUNGSHUTTE STERKRADE A.G. Sept. 25, 1957 [Sept. 25, 1956], No. 30155/57. Class 20(2) A hydraulic pit prop comprises four telescoping parts 4, 1, 3, 2, a lower and outer part 2 provided with an enlarged sled-like base 5, an intermediate part 3 and an inner part 1 closed at its lower end to form a ram and open at its upper end to receive an extension member 4 which may have an enlarged head. The extension member 4 may screw into the part 1 or may have an abutment to engage a series of abutments on the part 1 or a screw ring 6 which abuts the upper end of the part 1.
Patent GB-1353931-A (GB)
Title: Manual deburring tools
IPC: B23B51/10
Filed: 1971-06-29
Abstract: 1353931 Deburring tool NEUMO ARMATURENFABRIK APPARATEBAUMETALLGIESSEREI GmbH 29 June 1971 [30 June 1970] 30297/71 Heading B3C [Also in Division B4] A manual deburring tool comprises a handle 1, a scraper blade 16 having a circular shank, a blade-holder 5 attached to the handle, and a head 8 having a longitudinal bore 10 and an intersecting transverse bore 11, the shank being selectively insertable and rotatable in either of the bores, a releasable locking device 12, 13, being provided adjacent the bores for holding the blade in the selected bore. Holder 5 has notches 19 which co-operate with a ball 20, so that the holder can be moved axially in the handle, and locked in the required position by a spring-urged device 3 which carries ball 20. Blade 16 has a reduced diameter portion 18, and is held in the required bore 10 or 11 by a ball 12 actuated by spring-urged member 13. The blade (16<SP>1</SP>) may be double cranked, Fig. 5 (not shown).
Patent GB-1274376-A (GB)
Title: Ionization smoke detector
Inventor: KOBAYASHI AKIHIRO
IPC: G08B17/113
Filed: 1970-06-23
Abstract: 1,274,376. Ionization detectors. NITTAN CO. Ltd. 23 June, 1970 [8 Aug., 1969], No. 30383/70. Heading H1D. [Also in Division G1] In an ionization smoke detector which includes a closed chamber 10 and an open chamber 20 each including a radio-active source 13, 23, a control rod 7 is screwed into the fixed outer electrode 22 to enable the sensitivity of the detector to be varied. The end of the rod 7 may be conical or frusto-conical.
Patent GB-925717-A (GB)
Title: Veterinary compositions for combating liver flukes
IPC: A23K1/16
Filed: 1960-09-02
Abstract: Veterinary compositions for combatting liver flukes comprise one or more of the compounds 1,3 - bis - (trichloromethyl) - benzene; 1,4 - bis - (trichloromethyl) - benzene and 1,3,5 - tris-(trichloromethyl)-benzene and one or more pharmaceutically acceptable wetting, thickening, dispersing and swelling agents. They may be in forms suitable for oral administration, e.g. powders for suspension in water, aqueous suspensions and admixtures with animal feedstuffs and may also comprise other known anthelmintics, e.g. phenothiazine, piperazine and cyanacetic acid hydrazide. Specification 464,859 is referred to.
Patent GB-979677-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to the dimerisation of alpha methyl styrene
Inventor: AITKEN THOMAS
IPC: C07C2/04
Filed: 1962-08-08
Abstract: A dimer of alpha-methylstyrene is obtained by emulsifying the monomer with sulphuric acid of strength 30-65% by weight and an inert surface active agent and heating to 15-105 DEG  C.  The surface active agent is preferably of the formula <FORM:0979677/C4-C5/1> in which R1 is a C8-C18 alkyl group, R2 and R3 are substituted or unsubstituted C1-C7 alkyl groups and R4 is a substituted or unsubstituted C1-C7 alkylene group, used in an amount of 0.001-1% by weight of the sulphuric acid. The weight ratio of acid to hydrocarbon may be 0.5-8: 1 and the emulsion is heated for 1-16 hours.
Patent GB-281475-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to hose couplings
IPC: F16L37/252
Filed: 1926-12-01
Abstract: 281,475. Swinburne & Sons, Ltd., M. W., and Pulman, H. N. Dec. 1, 1926. Couplings, disconnectible.-In a hose coupling of the kind consisting of two similar half couplings each comprising a tail-piece h and a rotatable member d provided with the usual lugs c and segmental spiral flanges g, accidental uncoupling of the members d is prevented by a. screwed stud a which is mounted in one or both of the lugs c or in an extension b thereof and is adapted to engage the flange g, or one of a series of recesses f therein, of the opposing member. When the stud merely bears on the periphery or abutting face of, the flange, it may be provided with a foot to increase the area of the bearing face.
Patent GB-397333-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to dielectric materials
IPC: H01B3/18
Filed: 1932-10-31
Abstract: 397,333. Dielectric compositions. BRITISH THOMSON-HOUSTON CO., Ltd., Crown House, Aldwych, London.-(Assignees of Clark, F. M. ; 12, Concord Parkway, Pittsfield, Massachusetts, U.S.A.) Oct. 31, 1932, No. 30558. Convention date, Nov. 2, 1931. Drawings to Specification. [Class 140.] A dielectric composition comprises an aryl or ester phosphate and a phenolic material mixed or associated together without heat treatment, for instance, tricresyl or triphenyl phosphate and cresol or phenol. Paper such as kraft paper is impregnated with the mixture, and used as the dielectric in condensers. Specification 371,492, [Group IV], is referred to. The Specification as open to inspection under Sect. 91 describes the heat treatment of aryl and ester phosphates in order to produce mixtures of these phosphates with phenolic or alcoholic compounds. This subject-matter does not appear in the Specification as accepted.
Patent GB-1113412-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to multi-purpose apparatus for separating,chamfering and welding
Inventor: KITTEL REINHARD
IPC: B23K9/028
Filed: 1965-07-19
Abstract: 1,113,412. Welding and cutting by fusion. ROHRWERKE BITTERFELD VEB. 19 July, 1965, No. 30594/65. Headings B3R and B3V] A machine for arc-welding, cutting and chamfering the periphery of a tube comprises a split ring carrier 1a, 1b, adjustable clamps 8 for securing the carrier to the tube 2, one or more arc-welding or cutting torches 99 interchangeably mountable on the carrier so as to be driven in an orbital path around the tube 2 and gas and current supplies connected to a stationary part of the carrier which has means for passing the supplies to the torch 99. The torch 99 may be an arc or plasma arc torch for cutting or welding and have a consumable or non-consumable electrode 75. The torch 99 is adapted to be fitted with a collet or a contact tube for a non-consumable or consumable electrode respectively. The ring carrier is in two halves 1a 1b connected by removable hinge pins. The carrier mounts three clamps 8 actuated by threaded rods and loaded by springs 16. Ring halves 17a, 17b mounted in a groove in the carrier are rotated by a worm 21 driven by a motor on the carrier or by a flexible connection to a remote motor. Half annular plates 25, 26 are attached to the ring halves 17a, 17b and carry one or more torch mountings 52 adjustable radially and longitudinally of the tube 2. The torch 99 and a guide wheel 69 engaging the tube 2 are adjustably secured to a plate 60, adjustably urged by a spring 59 towards the tube 2. The plate 60 may be secured in two positions so that the torch and the guide wheel may be side-by-side or in tandem. The plate 60 has a lockable hinge 108 to enable chamfering to be performed. Current for the torches is picked up by brushes mounted on the plates 25, 26 and engaging slip rings 41 mounted on the carrier. Gas is fed to a groove 30 in the ring halves 17a, 17b and passes through one or more bores in the ring halves 17a, 17b to the torch or torches. In similar manner current may be supplied to a torch having a feed motor for a consumable electrode. In a modification for welding tubes to plates, the torch is mounted at a suitable angle to the axis of the ring carrier, which is secured on a support received in the tube to be welded.
Patent GB-1079996-A (GB)
Title: Production of hydroxy carboxylic acids and derivatives thereof
Inventor: SCHLOSSMAN IRWIN
IPC: C07C51/00
Filed: 1964-08-04
Abstract: Hydroxy carboxylic acids and their derivatives are prepared by contacting a peroxide precursor obtained by the oxidation of an alcohol of formula <FORM:1079996/C2/1> or a ketone of formula O = C(C-2R)n wherein n is an integer from 4 to 11, and each R is independently hydrogen, an alkyl, aralkyl, hetero-aromatic or carboxylic group, with a catalytic compound of chromium, molybdenum, tungsten, vanadium, selenium or tellurium. The compounds may be acid anhydrides, or heteropoly acids, an alkali metal, ammonia, or alkaline earth metal salt or acid salt thereof, e.g. selenic, telluric, chromic, molybdic, and tungstic acids, phosphotungstic, orsanotungstic, bismotungstic, molybdotungstic, selenotungstic and tellurotungstic acids, and the acetates and naphthenates of the metals.  The peroxidic precursors may be dissolved in the corresponding alcohol or ketone, or other solvents such as t-butanol and a pH of from 4 to 8 is preferred. Examples describe the treatment of a cyclohexanol oxidate, cyclohexanone peroxide, and methylcyclohexanol and cyclopentanol oxidates to form mega-hydroxycaproic, 6-hydroxyheptanoic acid and omega-hydroxyvaleric acids. The products may be converted to lactones or to lactams, e.g. by heating under pressure with ammonia.
Patent GB-632939-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to target detecting systems
IPC: G01S7/12
Filed: 1946-10-15
Abstract: 632,939. Radiolocation. SADIR-CARPENTIER. Oct. 15, 1946, No. 30725. Convention date, Nov. 7, 1945. [Class 40 (vii)] In a pulsed radar system employing a continuously rotating directional receiving device, the single echo pulse produced when the direction of the target corresponds with the orientation of the receiving device is selected from the train of reflected pulses received by the said device by differentiating twice the envelope of said train and utilizing the positive peak contained in the resultant curve to effect the selection. In an embodiment of the invention (Figs. 4 and 5), the pulse train a received by the rotating directional aerial 3 is detected in the receiver 4, the output from which is fed to a low-pass filter 5 which separates out the envelope b of the pulses and passes it to a first differentiating circuit 6 (producing curve c) followed by a first limiter 7 (producing curve d) and thence to a second differentiating circuit and limiter 8, 9 (producing curves e and f respectively). The pulse f is fed to a device 10 to which is also applied the original received pulsations a over connection 11, the device operating to pass to the brightness control electrode of the cathode-ray tube 12 only that pulse (contained in train a) which coincides in time exactly with the occurrence of the pulse of curve f.
Patent GB-1153791-A (GB)
Title: Hydraulically Controlled Plow
Inventor: MORKOSKI JAMES
IPC: A01B3/46
Filed: 1966-07-08
Abstract: 1,153,791. Agricultural implements. INTERNATIONAL HARVESTER CO. 8 July, 1966, No. 30749/66. Heading A1B. A plough having a main frame 15 is connected to a tractor 10 by means of a hitch frame 27 which is adjusted relative to the main frame 15 by means of a hydraulic ram 57 which operates a lever 54 which is connected to the hitch frame 27 by means of an adjustable link 44. The ram 57 also operates a shaft 25 through a link 61, the shaft 25 raising or lowering a furrow wheel by means of a parallel linkage. A steerable rear wheel is also provided on the plough.
Patent GB-1445672-A (GB)
Title: Process for the preparation of titanates fixing device
IPC: C04B35/468
Filed: 1974-07-11
Abstract: 1445672 Titanates; liquid phase preparation MURATA MFG CO Ltd 11 July 1974 [13 March 1974 24 May 1974] 30833/74 Heading C1A Titanates are prepared by a process in which an aqueous solution containing ions of titanium and ions of at least one of Ba, Ca, Sr, Zn, Cd and Pb is mixed with an aqueous alkaline solution of hydrogen peroxide, the precipitate being recovered and then decomposed by heating at a temperature not lower than 100‹ C. The titanate may be modified by the addition to the aqueous solution of one or more of the following: Al, Sn, Y, Zr, Sb, Nb, Ta, Mn, Fe and rare earth elements. Amorphous or crystalline particles of uniform size (about 0À1 Á) are obtained depending on whether the decomposition temperature is below or above 600‹ C.
Patent GB-941505-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in regenerative coke oven batteries
IPC: C10B5/16
Filed: 1962-08-10
Abstract: 941,505. Coke ovens; thermal regenerators. ALLIED CHEMICAL CORPORATION. Aug. 10, 1962 [Sept. 27, 1961], No. 30835/62. Headings F4B and F4K. A regeneratively heated coke oven battery fired by rich gas through ports 74, Fig. 6, comprises ovens 14 alternating with heating walls 15 formed by hair-pin flues, regenerator partition walls 24 below the heating walls, and regenerators 23 below the ovens divided longitudinally at 31 and transversely at 34 by the chequers themselves and served by sole flues 35, 36. Each chequer 25, Fig. 7, is formed with vertical passages 30 and in juxta-position to neighbouring chequers forms the walls 31 and 34 defining regenerator compartments 33, one to each heating flue. Ducts 45, 45<SP>1</SP> lead from compartments 33 to oblong ports 46 and risers 52 in the flues, and the risers may be of variable height in alternate flues, Fig. 6. The widths of ports 46 are graduated from the pusher side to the coke side of the battery to take into account oven taper, and slider bricks 55 are provided to control the riser orifices. Each sole flue 35, 36 communicates with a regenerator 23 through a replaceable stainless steel plate 44 having ports graduated to supply the largest amount of air to compartments 33 contiguous with the sides of the battery and progressively more air to the respective interior compartments from the pusher to the coke side of the battery. The plates 44 are made in sections individual to each compartment 33 and joined end to end for ease of replacement.
Patent GB-796106-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to cooling towers
IPC: F28B1/06
Filed: 1955-10-28
Abstract: 796,106. Cooling towers. LICENCIA TALALMANYOKAT ERTEKESITO VALLALAT. Oct. 28, 1955 [Dec. 22, 1954], No. 30868/55. Class 64(3) In a cooling tower comprising heat exchange elements 2 in which condensate from a steam power plant is cooled by a current of air drawn thereover by a fan 4, partitions 10 are provided within the tower and extend through the full height of the tower to compel air after flowing through one set of elements to flow upwardly and out of the tower. The tower shown is provided with a diffuser tube 6 mounted above the fan and may be square (as shown), polygonal or circular in cross-section.
Patent GB-1063872-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to prolonged acting pharmaceutical compositions
Inventor: STEPHENSON DOUGLAS
IPC: A61K9/24
Filed: 1962-08-11
Abstract: A tablet capable of giving prolonged acting medication, but not including a tablet as claimed in the parent Specification, comprises a substantially homogeneous mixture of a water-soluble medicament, e.g. procyclidine, hydrochloride, benzhexol hydrochloride and methylamphetamine hydrochloride, in a medium comprising a pharmaceutically acceptable solid substance, e.g. casein, zein or soya bean protein, which is sparingly soluble in but slowly digestible by the gastrointestinal fluids and is present in amount of from 10 to 70% by weight of the mixture, and a sparingly soluble pharmaceutically acceptable hydrophobic waxy binding agent which is solid at body temperatures, said binding agent being optionally mixed with a solid fatty acid or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof.  The tablet may be in the form of compressed granules or may be in the form of an inner core also containing medicament around which is a layer of the above mixture.  The mixture may itself be coated with non-medicated and/or medicated layers.  The binding agent consists of one of the following or a mixture thereof:-vegetable and animal waxes, e.g. beeswax, Japan-wax, spermaceti, paraffin wax, carnauba wax and wool fat; or a solid hydrogenated fixed oil or fat e.g. castor, palm or lard oils.
Patent GB-1088845-A (GB)
Title: Means for determining the position of a mining machine in a mineral seam
Inventor: MACREA RONALD LOUIS JOHN
IPC: E21C35/08
Filed: 1963-08-02
Abstract: 1,088,845. Fluid-pressure servomotor systems. COAL INDUSTRY (PATENTS) Ltd. July 31, 1964 [Aug. 2, 1963], No. 30782/63. Heading G3P. [Also in Division E1] Means are associated with a mining machine for permitting of the determination of the position of the machine in a mineral seam and for subsequent regulating of the advance of the machine to maintain this position. The means comprise two reference units 1, 2 from one of which is obtained a signal indicative of the hardness of the mineral of the seam, whilst from the other is obtained a signal indicative of the hardness of the material at an interface between the seam and an adjacent stratum. The signals are compared in means 7 to provide an output signal to initiate appropriate operation of means controlling the advance of the machine. In the preferred form reference units each comprise a pivoted pick 3 associated with a piston-cylinder unit 4, 5, the output pressures from which are applied to opposed faces of a piston type valve 9 in a pressure supply line to a jack 13 arranged in the machine to raise or lower the cutting means thereof as appropriate.
Patent GB-676383-A (GB)
Title: Preheaters for furnace air
IPC: C21B9/10
Filed: 1949-12-01
Abstract: 676,383. Hot-blast stoves. SABAS, F. A. Dec. 1, 1949, No. 30876/49. Class 64(i) A hot-blast stove comprises a metal shell 9 lined with refractory material and containing a combustion chamber 3 at one end and three heat-absorbing masses 7, 8, which each occupy substantially the whole crosssectional area of the stove and have holes 7<SP>1</SP> substantially parallel to the longitudinal axis of the stove, the first two masses 7 in the direction of flow of hot gases being composed of silicon carbide or material of equivalent thermal conductivity, and the third 8 being composed of metal. A further mass of conventional refractory material, e.g. silicious or aluminous materials or materials containing magnesite or chromite, may be inserted between the masses 7 and the combustion chamber. The masses may be composed of blocks, the upper and lower surfaces of which have interfitting projections 12 and recesses 11. Alternatively, an agglomerated mass which may comprise clay and 87 per cent silicon carbide, is tamped in situ, the holes being formed by removable cores which preferably taper towards the cold end.
Patent GB-276545-A (GB)
IPC: A47L9/10
Filed: 1926-12-06
Abstract: 276,545. Mauz, W., Pfeiffer, P., Faber, E., and Hahn, L., (trading as Mauz & Pfeiffer). Oct. 8, 1926, [Convention date] . Filtering. - The dustcollecting bag of a vacuum cleaner is folded to form two concentric, conical chambers which collect the dust in succession. A housing a encloses a motor b, a fan c, and a bag comprising an inner conical wall e<1> arranged opposite to the inlet d and collecting the coarser matter, and a second chamber formed with walls e<2>, e<3>. The relative positions of the chambers are maintained by a conical wire frame f which is fixed on the inner wall e<2>, is carried by the outer wall and itself carries the walls e<2>, e<1>.