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Patent GB-698553-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to machines for welding chains
IPC: B21L3/02
Filed: 1950-12-19
Abstract: 698,553. Welding chains. ESSER, P. [trading as MEYER, ROTH & PASTOR]. Dec. 19, 1950 [Dec. 19, 1949], No. 30905/50. Addition to 688,962. Class 83 (iv). A machine as claimed in the parent Specification for welding both hard and normal chains, having a control shaft with concentric discs upon which different cam swells corresponding to the heating and cooling angles provided in the respective control diagrams can be attached, the swells being in complete or partial sets for the different kinds of chain. A control shaft has discs 2-6 of varying thickness depending on the force to be transmitted, secured by hubs 7 on the spindle 1. Cam swells 9-16 bear against the hubs 7 and are secured to the discs by nuts and screws 8 which may be supplemented by dowel pins. Cam swells 9 and 15 lift the electrodes 10 and 14, the upsetting jaws 11 and 13, the swaging members and 12 the welding lever which acts on the upsetting jaws.
Patent GB-1091059-A (GB)
Title: Paper-dielectric electric condensers
IPC: H01G4/32
Filed: 1966-07-08
Abstract: 1,091,059. Capacitors. SIEMENS-SCHUCKERTWERKE A.G. July 8, 1966 [July 8, 1965], No. 30905/66. Heading H1M. In a wound capacitor 1 comprising aluminium foil electrodes 2 and 3 separated by impregnated paper strips 4 to 8 and 9 to 13, some of the paper strips in each set, but not all, contain a stabilizing additive such as aluminium oxide or other metal oxides or hydroxides. Such capacitors show improved puncture strength over those in which all of the paper strips contain additive.
Patent GB-189445-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to springs for mattresses and furniture
IPC: A47C23/053
Filed: 1922-11-11
Abstract: 189,445. Signolle, E., and Signolle (nÚe Jumentier), A. F. Nov. 23, 1921, [Convention date]. Helical springs.-In springs for mattresses and furniture and of the kind in which the coils a increase in diameter from the bearing point to the resilient surface, the end coil d is provided with a loop e to be engaged by a hook f at the extreme end, so that this coil can be opened for the insertion therein of elongated metal rings h which serve to connect the coil to the corresponding coils of adjacent springs in the mattress &c. In the case of a mattress spring, the smallest coil b, Fig. 1, is closed and its end c extends to the axis of the spring and is bent at a right-angle to engage a hole g in the bearing-bar of the mattress. In a furniture spring, a base piece i, Figs. 2 and 3, serves to secure the spring on the supporting webbing &c.
Patent GB-833635-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to cubicle type electrical switchboards
Inventor: WYLD DOUGLAS
IPC: H02B1/38
Filed: 1955-10-28
Abstract: 833,635. Switchgear structures. BRITISH THOMSON-HOUSTON CO. Ltd. Oct. 24, 1956 [Oct. 28, 1955], No. 30941/55. Class 38 (5). [Also in Group XXV] The doors of a row of cubicles comprising a switchboard have their adjacent edges close to one another in the closed position and their lower edges at ground level and each door 3a is carried by co-operating hinge members on the door and on its cubicle, the hinge members 5 being connected to the cubicle within the latter  by pivoted links 7 permitting bodily upward and outward movement of the hinge members and the door from the closed position of the latter. Co-operating abutment surfaces 10a, 8a, which are freed by the upward and outward movement are provided on each door and its cubicle to prevent normal pivoting of the door before such movement has taken place. The links 7 are pivoted to the hinge members 5 and the cubicle at 7b, 7a, respectively, and corresponding upper and lower links may be connected by a pivoted link 17. The outward movement of the door is assisted by an abutting spring-loaded rod 14.
Patent GB-193469-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to shaping heel ends of shoe uppers or of parts therefor
IPC: A43D8/04
Filed: 1921-11-21
Abstract: 193,469. British United Shoe Machinery Co., Ltd., and Ricks, F. Nov. 21, 1921. Uppers, machines for.-Relates to heel heel seat moulding, in a machine such as that described in Specification 154,708, and consists in the employment of an unflanged stiffener with its wings unmoulded and its rear portion bulged to conform to the rear of the last. An apparatus is described for preparing the stiffeners by bulging it locally by cooperating die and matrix members acting on the tensioned stiffener blank. This apparatus is of the type described in Specification 10429/12, and comprises a plunger 1 carrying an inner form 2 co-operating with an outer form 5 supported by stiff yielding means such as a rubber block 6. Cams 12 on the plunger operate movable jaws 8 of pincers gripping the wings of the stiffener blank as the plunger descends to stretch the wings. The top of the stiffener may be stretched more than the remainder by providing wide pincers which grip the top edge tightest, allowing slip elsewhere.
Patent GB-836167-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in driving keys for machine parts
Inventor: NOAR HUBERT THOMSON
IPC: B23B31/107
Filed: 1957-10-03
Abstract: 836,167. Coupling machine elements. BRITISH THOMSON-HOUSTON CO. Ltd. July 3, 1958 [Oct. 3, 1957], No. 31038/57. Class 80 (2). [Also in Groups XXII and XXV] A tapered tool shank 7 is connected to a socket 2 for rotation therewith by a key fitting in radial holes 2<SP>1</SP>, 7<SP>1</SP> formed in the socket and the shank. A tongue 4 is pivotally mounted at 5 in a slot 3 formed in the body 1 of the key, and is moved into hard contact with the wall of the hole 7<SP>1</SP> by a screw 6. Preferably the tongue is shaped to make contact near the middle of the wall.
Patent GB-1071442-A (GB)
Title: Neutron source forming a pulsed fast reactor
Inventor: KISTNER GUSTAV
IPC: G21C1/30
Filed: 1964-08-04
Abstract: 1,071,442. Controlling reactors. EUROPEAN ATOMIC ENERGY COMMUNITY (EURATOM). Aug. 4, 1964 [Aug. 15, 1963], No. 31040/64. Heading G6C. In a fast nuclear reactor, rapid or pulsed changes in the reactivity are effected by movable members adjacent to the core. The core reflector is provided with two apertures over each of which a member or screen is movable. Each screen produces a predetermined increase in reactivity when positioned over the associated aperture and the maximum increase, or pulse, of reactivity occurs when both screens are simultaneously covering the apertures. In a modification, one of the apertures and its screen may be slotted to provide a narrower pulse and fissionable material may be employed in the screens.
Patent GB-1247120-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to stamping presses or machines
Inventor: MOHRBACH ERNST
IPC: A43D8/04
Filed: 1970-06-26
Abstract: 1,247,120. Cutting-out presses. E. MOHRBACH. 26 June, 1970 [27 June, 1969], No. 31073/70. Addition to 1,246,367. Heading B4B. [Also in Division B3] The cutting-out press as claimed in Specification 38,456/69 is modified by providing a turning tool 78 below the punching plate 21 for machining the lower side of the plate while in situ in the press. The plate 21 is rotatable by means of a drive motor 71 via gears 72, 74, 75 and shaft 73. The turning tool 78 is mounted on a plate 77 which may be located in guides 18, 19 in place of a cutting-out tool; the tool is moved across the face of the plate by means of motor-and-screw means. In a normal operation of the press the plate is intermittently rotated after each punching operation. After the plate becomes worn the latter is rotated continuously and machined by the tool 78. The material to be cut is fed to the cutting-out tools by a gripper 22, the lower jaw 32<SP>1</SP> of which being moved to a gripping position by a pneumatically-actuated piston 81 and returned by a spring 82. The gripper is pivoted to a position clear of the plate 21 by means of a rack 83 engaging with a prism 83 mounted on the end of a piston-rod 23, the rack being actuated by pistons 85, 86.
Patent GB-628834-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to electrical measuring and control devices
IPC: G08C19/42
Filed: 1946-10-21
Abstract: 628,834. Electromagnetic current meters. LIQUIDOMETER CORPORATION. Oct. 21, 1946, No. 31197. Convention date, July 8. [Class 37] [Also in Group XXXVIII]  In an electric measuring or control device wherein a magnet returns the rotor of the device to an " off-scale " position during non-functioning periods of the device, the effect of the magnet upon the rotor during normal operation is cancelled by a balancing coil energized from a stabilized electric supply. Fig. 1 shows a resultant-field type receiver for indicating a physical magnitude, e.g. liquid level, wherein the effect of the " off-scale " fixed magnet 17 is balanced out by a coil 18 which may be structurally combined with one of the coils 16 for deflecting the magnet rotor 10. Fig. 5 shows a known kind of liquid-level transmitting system wherein the balancing coil 18 is seriesconnected with the star-point of the receiver windings 14-16, and with an iron-hydrogen lamp or other voltage-variable resistor 52 for maintaining constant current in the coil 18. De-energization of the liquid level indicator by opening switch 44, simultaneously de-energizes the coil 18 whereupon the magnet 17 takes over control. In a modification, Fig. 4 (not shown), the coil 18 and lamp are series-connected to the common point of three resistors, the other ends of which are connected, respectively, to the outer ends of the deflection windings 14-16. Any other voltage stabilizing arrangement may be used for the balancing coil 18.
Patent GB-1312512-A (GB)
Title: Apparatus for discharging gas
IPC: F17C13/02
Filed: 1970-06-26
Abstract: 1312512 Forcing gas into liquids; contacting gases with liquids JOHN ZINK CO 26 June 1970 [31 July 1969] 31198/70 Headings B1C and B1R [Also in Division G3] An apparatus for discharging gas below the level of a liquid such that the gas bubbles upwardly through the liquid, comprises a container 10 having liquid supply and exhaust passages 12 and 14 respectively, a gas supply pipe 18, and a gas-discharging head 20. The head is of inverted frusto-conical shape 21 the apex of which is intersected by an outlet duct 27 and the sides of which are formed with a plurality of evenly spaced discharge ports, [Fig. 2 not shown]. In use, gas from supply duct 18 discharges through the ports to bubble upwardly through the liquid 11 prior to being withdrawn from chamber 10 by way of port 17. In the event of the ports becoming blocked, discharge from the head tubes place through duct 27. The apparatus is said to operate without pressure surges.
Patent GB-1064432-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to heads or head-stocks of, or for, gear shaping machines
IPC: B23Q1/70
Filed: 1964-08-04
Abstract: 1,064,432. Gear-cutting. SCHIESS A.G. Aug. 4, 1964 [July 30, 1963], No. 31202/64. Headings B3B, B3K and B3L. A gear-shaping machine comprises a cutter spindle 106 reciprocable by hydraulic means in a sleeve 105 which can be adjusted vertically by means 108, 107 and also adjusted angularly by an eccentric bearing 112 and a worm 114 to tilt the spindle to compensate for cutting forces, to take up play, or to produce tapered gears. The cutter is relieved by a rod 130. An adjustable shaving attachment 115, Fig. 4 (not shown), may be fitted.
Patent GB-1521911-A (GB)
Title: Computerized system for effecting actuation of stop and coupler keys of an organ
IPC: G10H1/24
Filed: 1975-07-25
Abstract: 1521911 Organs S W GRIFFIS 25 July 1975 [4 Oct 1974] 31236/75 Heading G5J An organ (electronic or pipe) having stop and coupler keys 12 and a plurality of pistons 11 whose operation results in energization of groups of actuators 14 to automatically set groups of the stop and coupler keys employs a computer system consisting of input/output modules 15, 17, a C.P.U. 19, a R.O.M. storing a program and a R.A.M. storing the required relationships between pistons 11 and keys 12. Upon operation of an additional "setting" piston (not shown) the C.P.U. is instructed to read into the R.A.M. details of the stop and coupler keys currently set (manually) and the set piston and thereafter operation of that particular piston causes that particular group of stops and couplers to be set. Each stop key 12 has a bistable actuator 25 which can be shifted manually or by a pair of electromagnets 30, 31 controlled by respective latch circuits 51a, 51b of the output modules 17. The state of contacts 26, 27 operated by the key is sensed by circuit 32 of the input module 15 for reading to the memory. The invention is described in relation to a multi-keyboard (Pedal, Great, Swell and Choir) organ with groups of pistons associated with each keyboard and groups of general application and further pistons whose operation is equivalent to operating all the pistons of another group. The last cannot be reprogrammed but merely read from the RAM 21. Extensive details of the computer and its program are given.
Patent GB-1403367-A (GB)
Title: Tyre stitching apparatus and process
IPC: B29D30/28
Filed: 1972-07-04
Abstract: 1403367 Photo-electric cam followers UNIROYAL 4 July 1971 [13 July 1971] 31250/72 Heading G1A [Also in Division B7] During operation of a tyre stitching machine (see Division B7), two stitching discs (10a, 10b) are each maintained substantially normal to the tyre blank on building drum 2 at the point of contact, as the discs are moved along the drum, by appropriately pivoting (by means of electric motors) the units 6a, 6b, carrying the discs, about vertical axes in response to a cam detector 61a 61 b on each unit coacting with a respective fixed orientation cam 81a, 81b. A jack (65a, 65b) Fig. 17 (not shown) on each unit can be actuated to vary the vertical location of the cam detectors so as to align the latter with cams corresponding to a desired stitching operation.
Patent GB-1017446-A (GB)
Title: Titanium dioxide pigment and polymeric compositions containing the pigment
Inventor: STANLEY ROBERT HOLROYD
IPC: C09C1/36
Filed: 1962-08-15
Abstract: Polymeric compositions containing titanium dioxide pigment particles the surface of which carries trimethylol propane, and polystyrene or a polyolefine for example polyethylene or polypropylene are prepared by either milling the liquid monomer and the trimethylolpropane-treated pigments in the presence of a surfactant, then polymerizing the monomer round the pigment particles; by milling or tumbling the finely-divided polymer with the treated pigments and subsequently extruding or injection moulding the pigmented polymer; or by incorporating the treated pigment into a plasticizer and then incorporating the resulting mixture into a polymer.ALSO:Titanium dioxide pigment is treated with trimethylolpropane The pigment may be anatase or rutile, coated or uncoated.  The trimethylolpropane may be milled with dry pigment or dissolved in a solvent and the pigment slurried in the solution; if the pigment is produced by a vapour-phase method the trimethylolpropane may be added to the prestream containing the pigment.  Normally enough additive is used to ensure the retention of 0.02% to 5% by weight of final pigment, but the amount of trimethylolpropane may be up to 50% by weight of final pigment.
Patent GB-803291-A (GB)
Title: Vehicle door fastenings
Inventor: JEAVONS PHILIP SWINGEWOOD
IPC: E05B65/32
Filed: 1955-11-02
Abstract: 803,291. Door latches. WILMOTBREEDEN, Ltd. Oct. 23, 1956 [Nov. 2, 1955], No. 31318/55 Class 44 A vehicle door fastening comprises the combination of a body part 4 adapted to be mounted at the free vertical edge of the door 5, a catch 12 pivotally mounted about a substantially vertical axis 11 on the body part 4 and spring loaded in a keeper-engaging direction, a separately spring loaded lever 16 also pivotally mounted on the body part about a substantially vertical axis 17 and extended to form a handle 19 at the inside of the door, means whereby angular movement of the lever against its spring loading will effect release of the catch, and a press button 20 operable from the outside of the door for effecting a release of the catch independently of the lever. As shown, the catch and lever 16 are interconnected by parallel links 15 which have a pin and slot connection with the catch to permit angular movement from the outside of the door by means of the press button 20 thereof without imparting movement to the lever 16. The press button is mounted on a handle 21 secured to the door and includes a key-operated barrel lock 22 to which is attached a stem 23. A peg 24 on the stem 23 bears on the parallel arms of the catch, in the position of the stem, to permit release of the catch by the push button. Rotation of the stem 23 through 90 degrees by a key allows the peg to pass between the arms of the catch. The inner end of the stem engages telescopically with an extension 25 extending through the inner side of the door, the extension being located by a pair of arms 28 on a part 27 which are engaged in slots 29 in an aperture in the body part 4, subsequent rotation of the part 27 through 90 degrees, locating the arms 28 in recesses 30 in the body part, against a spring 31 which also loads the press button 20. A knob 26 is secured to the extension 25. If the door is to be locked from the inside, a lock is not incorporated in the press button and the knob 26 is in the form of a rotatable handle whereby the stem 23 may be rotated through 90 degrees, the extension 25 being adapted to impart rotation to the stem. The body part 4 is formed with a pair of ears 4a to which is secured a latch plate 6 having upper and lower edges formed as channels 6a which are adapted, when the door is closed to engage the edges of a dished keeper plate 8. A pair of nylon pads 10 moulded into the keeper plate engage the channels 6a to prevent movement of the door upwardly and downwardly and horizontally in its own plane.
Patent GB-408900-A (GB)
Title: Lathes or like machine-tools having air-operated chucks
IPC: F16K27/00
Filed: 1933-11-10
Abstract: 408,900. Fluid - actuated valves. HERBERT, SIR A., and LLOYD, A. H., c/o Herbert, Ltd., Canal Road, Edgwick, Coventry. Nov. 10, 1933, No. 31355. [Class 135.] In a control valve for the air supply to a fluid-operated chuck, such as that described in Specification 383,234, [Group XXII], a supply pipe 11 leads to a filtering chamber 14 provided with a drain plug 15 and thence to a handoperated control valve 18. In the position shown, air passes to a lightly loaded reducing valve 24 which supplies air at a slightly reduced pressure to the outlet 29 for giving a high gripping pressure to the chuck. In the other position of the valve 18, air passes through a plug 21 and one or more of the bleed-ducts 23 to a heavily loaded reducing valve 25 which supplies air at a greatly reduced pressure to the outlet 29 for causing the chuck to grip lightly, such as for finished work &c. Both valves 24, 25 are adjustable by screws 26 and the light gripping pressure may be finely adjusted to compensate for variations in the supply pressure by screwing the plug 21 in or out and thus altering the number of ducts 23 in use. A pressure gauge is mounted in the space 27<1> between the valves 24, 25 to indicate the pressure of flow through either of these valves, the space being momentarily exhausted through a passage 30 each time the valve 18 is moved from one position to the other. The outlet 29 leads to a distributing valve 33 communicating with opposite ends of the chuck cylinder.
Patent GB-1186600-A (GB)
Title: Magnetic Tape Cartridge
IPC: G11B23/087
Filed: 1967-07-07
Abstract: 1,186,600. Tape cartridge. BADISCHE ANILIN- & SODA-FABRIK A.G. 7 July, 1967 [8 June, 1967], No. 31437/67. Heading G5R. A cartridge 1 for magnetic tape wound on hubs 2, 3, is formed with top and bottom liners 4, 5 of a plastics material faced with a thin metallic layer. The liner reduces friction between the tape and cartridge and the electrical noise produced by static electrification.
Patent GB-428465-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to the winding and subsequent rewinding of yarns
IPC: B65H54/02
Filed: 1933-11-11
Abstract: 428,465. Winding and warping yarns; yarn packages. BRITISH CELANESE, Ltd., 22, Hanover Square, London, MONCRIEFF, R. W., and RICHMOND, A., c/o British Celanese, Ltd., Spondon, near Derby. Nov. 11, 1933, No. 31479. [Classes 120 (ii), 120 (iii), and 142 (iv)] A number of yarns are wound into a textile package by conducting them to a continuously rotating winding surface and traversing them synchronously with, but out of phase with, one another along the whole length of the winding surface during the continuous rotation thereof ; the phase relationship between the yarns is preferably irregular so as to prevent " piling " or " ribboning." As shown yarns 4 ... 8 are guided by a reed 9, 10 to independent traverse guides 11 .. 15 mounted on separate bars 16 and wound on a bobbin 17 which is driven by friction wheels 18, 18<1> or the bobbin may be driven by a drum as described in Specification 413,025 or 417,596. The yarns may each consist of one or more threads and may be assembled in warp form, processed and wound on to a number of continuously rotating winding surfaces ; the processing may comprise a stretching operation e.g. that described in Specification 371,461, or a saponification or dyeing operation. The yarns may be rapidly traversed to produce a cross-wound package or slowly to produce a parallel-wound package on a flanged bobbin. In unwinding the yarns from the bobbin 17 substantially the reverse procedure of that followed in the winding operation is preferably followed, each yarn being led away from the bobbin independently of but simultaneously with the other yarns and may be twisted or doubled in rewinding.
Patent GB-285604-A (GB)
Title: Silencer for internal combustion engines
IPC: F01N1/08
Filed: 1926-12-13
Abstract: 285,604. Kerrill, J. M. Dec. 13, 1926. Exhaust silencers. - The silencer comprises a flat tapering box-like structure with internal baffles c, d cast therewith. The box is provided with a cover, shown removed in the Figure, but which, when in position, forms with the baffies c, d rectangular passages, alternately at the side and the centre of the box. The inlet end is at a and the outlet at b. No bolts or rivets, except for securing the cover, are used in the construction, a large cooling surface is provided and cleaning is facilitated. Specifications 27043/98, [Class 122, Steam engines]; 11716/15, 124,898, 149,510, 216,044, 216,065, and 243,455, are referred to.
Patent GB-821657-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to guidance means for reciprocating pistons, e.g. in vacuum brake cylinders
IPC: F15B15/14
Filed: 1956-10-17
Abstract: 821,657. Pistons. STABEG APPARATEBAUGESELLSCHAFT. Oct. 17, 1956 [Sept. 1, 1956], No. 31548/56. Class 122 (1). A vacuum brake or other piston 2 is characterized in having as its sole guiding-means, apart from a packing-ring 5, at least three long narrow guide-bars 7 extending in the direction of movement of the piston and having an aggregate width which is but a small fraction of the circumference of the cylinder wall or lining. The guide-bars 7 are shown as provided on the extremities of radial ribs 8 and may extend axially or helically of the piston. The piston is lipped at 4 and grooved to hold the packing-ring 5 which is of the type described in Specification 752,324.
Patent GB-281100-A (GB)
Title: An improved angling bait or lure
IPC: A01K85/14
Filed: 1926-12-13
Abstract: 281,100. Milne, J. Dec. 13, 1926. Artificial bait; spinning tackle.-A bait consists of sheets of coloured or plain: celluloid or similar waterproof transparent material secured together by adhesive or by rivets or other means, with, if desired, colour or colouring material such as tinsel in powdered form between the sheets. Suitable backing material, such as sheet metal, may be inserted behind the colouring material. The composite sheet material is cut to the. shape desired and, for a spinning bait, celluloid fins 13 may be secured near the head-end or the tail may be bent out of the plane of the body. Hooks may be secured by passing a cord through one or more holes arranged as desired. A swivel 14 is secured to a loop pivoted on a rivet 15.