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Patent GB-366699-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to brassieres and like protective and retaining devices
IPC: A41F1/00
Filed: 1931-01-19
Abstract: 366,699. BrassiÞres. MADSEN, V., 32, Rue Duret, Paris. Jan. 19, 1931, No. 1816. [Class 141.] A brassiÞre or surgical protective and retaining device for wounds, includes a pair of shields 1, 2, each having a rigid U-shaped frame 3, a separable flexible connection 5, 6 between the shields; and flexible bands connected to said shields adapted to pass round and be fastened about the body of the wearer. The connection may include one or more hooks, open rings, or like formations 5 connected together by one or more bands 6, which may be ribbon, elastic, or other resilient or non-resilient material.
Patent GB-961268-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to partitioning
Inventor: BLAKE VERNON CARLOS JACK
IPC: E04B2/74
Filed: 1963-01-15
Abstract: 961,268. Partitioning for clean-rooms. BLAKDALE PRODUCTS Ltd. Jan. 15, 1963, No. 1818/63. Heading E1V. Partitioning for a room sealed against the ingress of dust comprises adjacent wall panels 2, Fig. 1, having at least partly face-to-face flanges 6 the free edges and marginal portions of which are enshrouded by a dust-proof sealing member 7 of rubber or synthetic material. A number of alternative forms of sealing member 7 and co-operating flange terminations are described with reference to Figs. 2-6 (not shown). The flanges may be interlocked by means of interengaging formations formed therein. Outer skins 3 of the partitioning are provided with flanges 9 having out-turned ends 11 welded to the inner panels 2. Cover members 4 bridge adjacent outer skins 3. Connection to floor, wall or ceiling includes a channel 22, Fig. 7, having flanges 6a which co-operate with flanges 6 on the inner and outer skins 2, 3, the flanges being enshrouded by sealing members 7. Channels 23 in the channels 22 receive sealing compound or strip to effect a seal against the floor, wall or ceiling. The member 7 may be of non-porous rubber or synthetic rubber and may include a spring wire coil or steel strip. The member 7 may be secured by adhesive. The abutting flanges 6 may be welded or otherwise mechanically united.
Patent GB-341714-A (GB)
Title: A process for the production of imino ethers
IPC: C07D223/10
Filed: 1930-01-18
Abstract: Imino-ethers are made by allowing alcohols to act on the intermediate or end products of the Beckmann transposition of oximes or oximesters.  In an example the p-toluenesulphonic ester of cyclohexanone oxime is caused to undergo the Beckmann transposition by heating with absolute alcohol and the resulting iminoether of the formula <FORM:0341714/IV/1> is liberated from its combination with p-toluenesulphonic acid by adding potash.
Patent GB-189016-A (GB)
Title: Chicken feeders
IPC: A01K39/014
Filed: 1922-01-23
Abstract: 189,016. Quaker Oats, Ltd., (Quaker Oats Co.). Jan. 23, 1922. Feeding-appliances for animals.-A food trough for chickens comprises a number of sections 13, 16 which engage one another, for example, by a screw connection, so that the edge of the trough may be raised various distances above the ground according to the age of the chickens being fed. A guard 11 is used, the device being shown in Fig. 4 collapsed for packing. In a modification, the sections are connected by bayonet joints 18 - - 21, Fig. 6; the floor 16<1> of the trough may be integral with the top section. A grid-like follower or guards may be placed on the surface of the food.
Patent GB-1469362-A (GB)
Title: Manufacture of tube and fin heat exchangers
IPC: B23K1/00
Filed: 1976-01-19
Abstract: 1469362 Soldering; brazing BRITISH LEYLAND UK Ltd 19 Jan 1976 [17 Jan 1975] 2034/75 Heading B3R  In a method of sealingly soldering or brazing together tubes and a dished end plate of a tube and fin heat exchanger, flux is applied to the end plate which is pierced by the ends of the tubes, the plate is heated to a predetermined temperature and solid solder or braze is fed to the dished end plate so that it melts and, on cooling, forms fillets around the tubes. As shown the assembled tubes, fins and end plates are fed along a track 2 (right to left, Fig. 1) by a motor driven chain drive 3. Flux is supplied by a bath or, as shown, sprayed on the dished end plate by jets 6, surplus flux being recycled to a tank 7 from a sump 8 by a peristaltic pump 28. Two gas burners 9 heat the end plate to the required temperature and then on a switch 13 being lever triggered, solder wire is fed from two moving or, as shown, static dispensing nozzles 15, guided by two workpiece contacting rollers 11, on to the uppermost, i.e. dished, surface of the end plate. The wire is fed to the nozzles 15 through flexible pipes 14 which may be vibrated at a high frequency to reduce friction on the wire from either a first pair of feed reels 18 or, by actuating a solenoid switch, a second pair of feed reels 19 (Figs. 3, 4, not shown) to strengthening rollers 21. An extraction chimney 17 draws air over the workpiece to effect cooling. Infra-red heating may be used in place of burners 9. To sealingly solder or braze the second end plate, the workpiece is inverted and either recirculated or passed into a second identical apparatus in line with the first.
Patent GB-620555-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to napkins or the like
IPC: A41B13/04
Filed: 1947-01-22
Abstract: 620,555. Napkins. LITTLEJOHN, D. H. Jan. 22, 1947, No. 2043. [Class 141] A napkin of the type comprising front and back flaps joined together by a shaped crotch piece, made of absorbent material and having means for supporting it.from the waist, is provided with an additional narrower outer layer of material extending the whole length of the napkin and having free side edges. As shown, loops D are provided at the upper edges of the back A and front B so that the napkin may be secured by straps passing over the shoulders, and tapes F, adapted to be tied round the legs, are provided at each side of the crotch portion C. The narrower outer layer is formed of pieces of towelling A<SP>1</SP>, B<SP>1</SP> and the raw edges and seams are bound with tape or thin material G.
Patent GB-100237-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and connected with Cigarette-making Machines.
Inventor: CANTOURIS GEORGE
IPC: A24C5/42
Filed: 1916-02-11
Abstract: 100,237. Cantouris, G. Feb. 11, 1916. Cigarette-making appliances. - In appliances of the kind comprising two substantially semicylindrical outer members 1 hinged together at 4, and fitted with inner slides 2 which form a mould for the tobacco and are projected from the cylinder 1 to enable a paper case to be slipped over them, the mould is adapted to open automatically for recharging when the slides are withdrawn from the cigarette, and the slides are held together throughout their length while a cigarette is being formed. This is effected by a ring 3 secured to one of the members 1 and adapted to embrace the slides 2 and hold the device closed except when the righthand slide shown in Fig. 2 is fully retracted. A number of these appliances may be mounted side by side and operated simultaneously by a lever connected to the slide-operating lugs 5. A cutter may be provided to sever loose strands of tobacco at the open end.
Patent GB-214716-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to devices for use in insetting, slip-sheeting or wrapping paper sheets and the like
IPC: B65H45/14
Filed: 1923-01-24
Abstract: 214,716. Johnson, H. T. Jan. 24, 1923. Set-off, preventing.-Sheets or pamphlets are associated with covers, or inserted in sheets during folding, or slip sheets are inserted between other sheets during delivery by means of a machine in which the forwarding of the insert or slip-sheet is controlled by the movement of the associated sheet. As shown, the device is an attachment to a folding-machine of the buckling type, comprising folding-rollers 36, 37, 38 and buckling-plates 42, 41 with a stop-plate 43. The attachment is in the form of a feed-table 1 over which the inset sheet 2 is to be fed, the, table being formed of two hinged parts supported by brackets and struts 5. The sheet 2 is normally arrested by stops 11 carried bv a bail 8 suspended by knife-edges 14, Fig. 7, resting on V-shaped recesses 15 in brackets 13. The bail 8 is fitted with a trigger bar 3 fitted with an adjustable spring 16 passing through a groove in the plates 42, 41, and the action of the sheet 40 on the spring 16 causes the bar 3 to release the stops 11, and the insert sheet is then advanced, by rollers 18, 28 to cause the sheet 1 to be associated with the sheet 40. The stops 11 are controlled by an eccentric 17 which adjusts the amount of protrusion of the stops. The rollers 18 are preferably driven from the buckling-rollers, and are mounted on a shaft 19 carried by arms 20 controlled bv screws 23 and springs 24. The ends of the shaft 19 are reduced so as to be received in diametrical grooves formed in bearing bosses on the arms 20. As shown in Fig. 9, two pairs of stops 11 are used which can be operated independently when a half-width sheet is to be inserted, or operated simultaneously for a full width sheet. Side-registering stops 45, adjustable in slots 46 are used for a full width sheet, and for a half-width sheet either of these stops can be employed in conjunction with pins inserted in holes 47, which permit half-width sheets with variable margins for pasting to be registered correctly. In addition to the single trip device described, an auxiliary trip device may be used which normally locks the main trip and must be released by the sheet before the main trip is operable.
Patent GB-450765-A (GB)
Title: Rotary internal combustion engines
IPC: F02B53/00
Filed: 1935-01-23
Abstract: 450,765. Rotary engines. SHORE, B., 123, Burlington Road, New Malden, Surrey. Jan. 23, 1935, No. 2213. [Class 110 (ii)] A rotary engine or compressor has a rotor 3 which carries vanes 5 upon its periphery, and a number of pairs of abutments, spring-pressed on to the rotor periphery, but lifted by external cam gear. In one form, as an internal-combustion engine, Fig. 3, fuel gas at atmospheric, or higher, pressure enters a port 16, passes through a passage 19 and is induced into a working chamber 9 by a vane 5 moving to the right. Abutments 11 act as transfer means to lead compressed gas to behind a vane 5 before firing takes place in the chamber between a third abutment 12 and a retreating vane. Exhaust ports 20 are provided. The abutments 12 are held clear of the rotor except when firing occurs. A valve mechanism is provided, and controlled by a lateral valve operated upon by a cam, to ensure cut-off of the passage of compressed gas between the low and high pressure sides when a vane is passing under abutments 11, 12. The transferred gas passes via passages 29, to an inner chamber, and then through passages 38, 39, while they are in alignment. Spring-pressed sealing strips 41 are provided. The abutments are stepped at 42 to limit their downward travel. In a modified engine, the working chamber is deepened radially and spring-pressed, outwardly-sliding vanes are provided in the rotor. The vane and abutment tips are chamferred. Fig. 6 shows a rotary compressor with two pairs of abutments. An inlet 16 leads fluid through the abutment passage 19, and compressed gas is delivered through outlets 20. This compressor may supply an engine of the type shown in Fig. 3, and be driven thereby. Cooling water passages and air cooling fans may be provided. A further modification Fig. 8, has an oscillating abutment 53 actuated bv a roller 27<a> on a crank arm 56. The abutment has a curved surface 55 which, in one position, forms a continuation of the casing bore.
Patent GB-1419484-A (GB)
Title: Hand-operable reel assembly for the winding-up of lines such  as cords or ropes
IPC: A63H27/00
Filed: 1974-01-17
Abstract: 1419484 Hand-operable reel; fishing reels ALESSANDRO QUERCETTI & C-FABBRICA GIOCATTOLI FORMATIVI-SpA 17 Jan 1974 [2 Feb 1973] 2231/74 Heading A1A [Also in Division B8] A hand-operable reel assembly for cords or ropes e.g. kite ropes or fishing lines, comprises a central hub portion provided by a cylindrical element 2 surrounding a first diametrically extending handle 1, the element 2 being formed with an outwardly projecting flange 3 extending circumferentially thereof, and a flanged reel rotatably surrounding the hub portion and located relative thereto by the flange 3 projecting into a slot in the reel, a second handle 18 being provided on the reel for manual rotation thereof relative to the hub portion 2. The reel comprises two complementary halves which enclose the flange 3. Each half of the reel comprises a hub portion 4, 8, a flange 5, 9 and an annular wall 6, 10. The walls 6, 10 telescope one within the other and are held by complementary teeth 7 and recesses 11 form a winding surface for the cord. The handle 18 comprises a tube held on a pin 14 projecting from the flange 9. The reel is preferably made of plastics material, the hub and reel being of different materials.
Patent GB-556903-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to shock absorbers
IPC: F16F9/48
Filed: 1941-04-08
Abstract: 556,903. Shock absorbers. RIBBESFORD CO., Ltd., and THORNHILL, P. W. April 8, 1941, No. 2245/42. Divided out of 561,925. [Class 108 (iii)] [Also in Group XXVI] The tubular plunger 15 of a telescopic combined pneumatic spring and hydraulic damper is pressed inwards at its inner end to form an external peripheral groove 91 containing packing and an internal circumferential protuberance co-operating with the damping valve 42. The packing may consist of a soft rubber ring 93 and split rings 94, 95. The annular space 96 between the cylinder 10 and the plunger 15 is vented through holes 98 controlled by a spring ring 97 having circular and chord parts. A baffle 40 slidable freely upon rod 106 tends to prevent mixing of damping liquid and compressed gas, the periphery of the baffle being flexible. The baffle may be of rubber, and a stop 104 is formed on the end of the rod. Specification 542,142 is referred to. In a modification the groove 91 is widened and has a form trapezoidal in radial axial section.
Patent GB-682945-A (GB)
Title: Method and apparatus for forming laminated panels or like articles
Inventor: LYIJYNEN FRED
IPC: B29C67/00
Filed: 1949-01-27
Abstract: 682,945. Compound sheet materials. BRIGGS MANUFACTURING CO. Jan. 27, 1949. No. 2335/49. Class 140. [Also in Group XVI] Laminated panels, such as interior trim or finish panels for automobile bodies, are made by forming a flat panel by consolidating sheets treated with heat-durable resinous material between heated dies, removing the bonded assembly while the resinous material is incompletely reacted, and holding it on a form for sufficient time to shape the sheets and to further react the resinous material by utilisation of the heat present in the sheets. The sheets may be of alpha cellulose paper of different thicknesses and include a top decorative or design sheet and are impregnated, sprayed, or coated with a solution of thermosetting resin such as a phenol-formaldehyde, a urea-formaldehyde or a melamine resin or combinations thereof. The final stage of the process may be effected by means of the forming frame shown which comprises a male form 16, contoured to the required shape of the panel, over which the preformed laminated panel 15 is drawn and then clamped in position, until the curing of the resin is completed, by means of a clamping head 18 comprising a skeleton metal frame having border strips 19, 20, 21, 22 and being braced by strips 23 contoured to the outline of the form 16. Secured to reinforcing crossmember 24 is a head 25 to which is secured a shaft 26 which may be vertically reciprocated by means of a toggle mechanism comprising bars 28 pivoted at 29 to a shaft guide 27 and carrying an operating handle 30 and toggle link 31 pivoted thereto and to the shaft 26. As the head is forced down, locating pins 34 co-operate with slotted guide pieces 35, and on completion of this action the members 20, 21, 22 are additionally clamped by hand-operated toggle clamping members 36.
Patent GB-450858-A (GB)
Title: Television receiver
IPC: H03D7/08
Filed: 1935-01-24
Abstract: 450,858. Valve circuits for wireless reception. RADIOAKT.-GES. D. S. LOEWE, 10, Wiesenweg, Steglitz, Berlin. Jan. 24, 1935, No. 2347. Convention date, Jan. 25, 1934. Addition to 429,419. [Class 40 (v)] In a heterodyne receiver in which the aerial is connected as in the parent Specification to the moving plate of a differential condenser, the fixed plates of which are connected to the oscillating circuit so arranged that the aerial is decoupled from the oscillatory circuit, a resonance aerial is used having a length of a quarter or multiple thereof of the received wavelength. The Figure shows a frequency changer 10 and oscillator circuit 11, 12 associated with an aerial terminal 9 through differential condenser 14, 15. A quarter wave aerial 2 or a dipole 3 may be used in which case the transformer secondary 8 may be resonant to the received frequency while the primary is chosen to match the line impedance. The valve 10 is preferably of the screen-grid or interception grid type and long wave interference may be avoided by filtering devices 16, 17, 18 and 21. The amplitude of the local oscillation is maintained constant by grid resistance 20. The invention is shown applied to a short-wave superheterodyne television receiver incorporating automatic gain regulation.
Patent GB-898043-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to image converters
IPC: G03G15/05
Filed: 1961-01-20
Abstract: 898,043. Static electricity. DICK CO., A.B. Jan. 20, 1961 [April 5, 1960], No. 2445/61. Class 35. [Also in Groups XXXVI and XL (b)] In an apparatus, Fig. 2, for recording an image as an electrostatic charge image on a dielectric material 26, the image 31 is formed lineby-line on an array of photo-diodes 20 (see Group XXXVI) constructed as shown in Fig. 1 of a suitably doped and shaped block of semiconductor material 10, the diodes being connected in a circuit 22 and associated with a backing plate 24 for the material so as to control, in accordance with the resistance valve established for each diode, the magnitude of the charge laid down or leaked away from the surface of the material 26. The charge pattern is subsequently rendered visible by dusting and fixing in known manner in apparatus 32 and 34. The photo-diodes may be arranged either as shown in Fig. 3 to control the charge laid down on the dielectric material from a source 42, or as shown in Fig. 4 to control the amount to which a charge laid down in a different position by a source 64 is leaked away. The arrangement of Fig. 4 produces a negative of the image produced by the arrangement of Fig. 3. In Fig. 3 it may be desirable to arrange a conductive path 48 to the tips of the diodes which engage the dielectric material. This may be provided by depositing a conductive film on block 10. An embodiment is described with reference to Fig. 5 (not shown) where the electrostatic charge pattern is formed on an intermediate carrier in the form of a conductive drum with a dielectric surface layer, developed and subsequently transferred to a paper record strip.
Patent GB-819872-A (GB)
Title: The new antibiotics p.a. 114a and p.a. 114b
Inventor: SOBIN BEN ARTHUR
Filed: 1956-01-25
Abstract: <PICT:0819872/IV (b)/1> <PICT:0819872/IV (b)/2> A new antibiotic designated PA114 is prepared by cultivating Streptomyces olivaceus in an aqueous nutrient medium under submerged aerobic conditions, preferably for 1 to 4 days at 24 DEG  to 30 DEG  C.  The nutrient media contains (a) a source of carbon, e.g. sugars, starch, glycerol and corn meal; (b) a source of organic nitrogen, e.g. casein, soybean meal, peanut meal, wheat gluten, cottonseed meal, lactalbumin, enzymatic digest of casein and ryptone; (c) a source of growth substances, e.g. distillers' solubles, yeast extract, molasses fermentation residues; (d) mineral salts, e.g. sodium chloride, potassium phosphate, sodium nitrate, magnesium sulphate; (e) trace metals, e.g. copper, zinc and iron.  The broth may be used as such or dried.  Antibiotic PA114 is isolated from the clarified broth by solvent extraction at pH 6 to 10 with a water-immiscible organic solvent such as diethyl ether, benzene, ethyl acetate, butyl acetate, methyl isobutyl ketone, butanol and chloroform.  The extract is washed with an aqueous solution of alkali, e.g. sodium bicarbonate and the antibiotic is recovered by removing the organic solvent or by adding a non-solvent such as hexane.  The crude PA114 may be further purified by dissolving in methylene chloride and adding carbon tetrachloride to precipitate impurities.  Alternatively, the antibiotic may be adsorbed on charcoal, eluted therefrom and developed on alumina.  Antibiotic PA114 is a mixture of two antibiotics designated PA114A and PA114B having distinct properties. PA114 is separated into its components by (a) fractional crystallization from an organic solvent solution or (b) countercurrent distribution in a solvent system of (1) benzene, methanol and water; (2) toluene, methanol and water. Antibiotics PA114A and PA114B are white crystalline solids active against gram positive micro-organisms and mycobacteria and having the following characteristics:-ALSO:A pharmaceutical composition effective against gram positive microorganisms and mycobacteria consists of a mixture of antibiotics composed of 5 to 99 per cent by weight of antibiotic P.A. 114A (Group IV (b)), the balance being antibiotic P.A. 114B (Group IV (b)).  The compositions may be used parenterally or orally in admixture with pharmaceutical carriers.
Patent GB-1247182-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to textile drawtwisting machines
Inventor: FRANCE JOSEPH
IPC: D02J1/22
Filed: 1968-01-17
Abstract: 1,247,182. Driving spindles. T.M.M. (RESEARCH) Ltd. 9 Jan., 1969 [17 Jan., 1968], No. 2541/68. Heading D1D. [Also in Divisions G3 and H2] In a textile drawtwisting machine the armatures of a draw rolls motor 11 and a take-up spindle motor 12 are both supplied from a common controllable source S.C.R. 1 (thyristors) while their fields are individually controlled at least one of them automatically. Each motor has a tachogenerator 17, 22 for the field voltage control and for the spindle motor 12 the reference voltage is varied by a cam 21 so as to slow the spindle motor as the thread builds up. The common source SCR1 supplies a low voltage initially for a predetermined time, for threading the machine, and thereafter a full speed voltage. In addition a resistance 23 is initially inserted in series with the armature of draw motor 11 so as to give the spindle motor a "lead." The motors are dynamically braked by a common armature resistance 24 and an overload device 25, 26 is provided in each armature circuit. The machine is for processing synthetic fibres which are drawn by successive feed and draw rolls and are wound by a ring and traveller onto a rotating spindle in a take-up and twisting zone.
Patent GB-932419-A (GB)
Title: Process for polymerizing and copolymerizing olefins
IPC: C08F10/00
Filed: 1960-01-25
Abstract: Polymers of olefins containing 2 to 8 carbon atoms are made by polymerizing one or more olefines in the presence of a catalyst obtained by reacting a heavy metal compound of a transition element, e.g. titanium tetrachloride, with an organometallic compound of an element of Group I to III of the Mendel<\>aeeff Periodic Table, and after-treating the reaction mixture with a mixture of an aluminium trihydrocarbon and a metal fluoride.  The reaction product obtained from the heavy metal compound may be heat-treated at 40 DEG -150 DEG C. prior to the after-treatment.  The metal fluoride may be an alkali, alkaline, or heavy metal fluoride, such as lead fluoride. The olefin may be ethylene, propylene or butene-1.  The polymerization may be effected in bulk or in the presence of a hydrocarbon diluent.  The aluminium compound may be aluminium trimethyl, triethyl, tripropyl, triphenyl, tributyl, tripentyl, or trihexyl, or diethyl aluminium monochloride.