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Patent GB-409814-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to wind-screens for use on motor vehicles
IPC: B60J1/04
Filed: 1932-11-30
Abstract: 409,814. Hinges. PERFECTA MOTOR EQUIPMENTS, Ltd., and PINSON, V. H., Dartmouth Street, Birmingham. Nov. 30, 1932, No. 33860. [Class 65 (ii).] A vehicle windscreen a having an upwardly - curved upper edge provided with a projecting rubber beading b is supported by two or more bowed links c, each of which is connected at one end to the screen and at the other end to a fixed part of the vehicle roof, one of the connections being an adjustable screw-connection which permits the position of the upper edge of the screen relative to the roof to be adjusted. In the construction shown, a screw k fixed to the screen frame is engaged by an internally and externally-threaded sleeve h working in a boss g on one of the links c fixedly pivoted at d, an operating knob j being provided on the sleeve. The sleeve may work through a boss at the upper end of the link c and engage a screwed stud pivotally mounted on the roof, the lower end of the link being rigidly secured to the upper member of the screen frame. Alternatively, if only a relatively small adjustment of the upper edge of the screen is required, the screwed sleeve h may be replaced by a nut member which is free to rotate in a boss on the link, but is prevented from moving axially. To allow slight lateral adjustment of the screen, the brackets supporting the pivots d may have elongated holes for the fixing screws.
Patent GB-1036217-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to work drives for machine tools
IPC: B23B33/00
Filed: 1963-08-28
Abstract: 1,036,217. Lathe drivers and carriers. A. A. JONES & SHIPMAN, and J. HOULDSWORTH. Nov. 30, 1964 [Aug. 28, 1963], No. 33973/63. Heading B3B. A carrier for a grinding-machine or lathe for driving a workpiece supported by dead-centres 2, 3 comprises a member 7 attached to the workpieee and a transmission member 11 which can be coupled to the face plate and can assume various eccentric positions. The plate 11 bears against two pins 10 on the member 7 and is supported from the face plate by bolts 18 carrying links 15 connected to the plate 11 by pivots 14.
Patent GB-1159404-A (GB)
Title: Synthetic Resin Compositions and methods for the Coating, Printing or Decorating of Glass therewith
IPC: C08L63/02
Filed: 1966-07-28
Abstract: 1,159,404. Printing process. AUSTRALIAN CONSOLIDATED INDUSTRIES Ltd. 28 July, 1966 [28 July, 1965], No. 33992/66. Heading B6C. [Also in Divisions B2 and C3] Bottles or tumblers are printed with inks comprising an epoxy resin, an amine-aldehyde resin, an organosilane RSiX 3  where R is Y(CH 2 ) n -, n is at least 1, Y is a function group capable of reacting with the epoxy resin and X is a group capable of condensing with free silanol groups on the glass surface, a pigment and/or a dye and organic solvents using a silk screen made of nylon with the silk screen pattern made up of polyvinyl alcohol. The ink is cured by flaming or baking.
Patent GB-973097-A (GB)
Title: Power bogie for rail vehicles
IPC: B61C9/50
Filed: 1961-09-22
Abstract: 973,097. Railway vehicle undercarriages; mounting motors. SCHWEIZERISCHE LOKOMOTIVEUND MASCHINENFABRIK. Sept. 22, 1961 [Sept. 27, 1960], No. 34085/61. Headings B7H and B7L. A railway vehicle bogie has electric motors 16, Figs. 1 and 2, mounted on the bogie frame 3 so that their driving shafts extend transversely thereof, the motor housings being rigidly interconnected at 22 to form one block (alternatively they could be integral) and secured by members 23 only to the end members 18 of the frame and thus constitute a longitudinal frame member. The frame 3 has no usual central transverse member rigidly secured to its sides. The axles 1, 2 have axle boxes 5 supporting the frame 3 through springs 4, the frame having guide pins 6 engaging bushes in the axle boxes. A vehicle body 7 is supported on the ends of a cross-member 8 supported from the frame 2 through rubber spring stacks 15 on yokes 14 pivoted to rocker bars 13. The motor housings have at each side, pairs of pads 24 and 24a of which the adjacent pairs 24 are interconnected by a link 26. The outer pairs 24a carry bearings 25 for the axles 1, 2 which are driven through gears 17. Tractive and braking forces are transmitted by rod pairs 31, 32 jointed at 33 and pivotably connected at 27 to the link 26 and also to the body 7, in the manner described in Specification 969,919.
Patent GB-1502729-A (GB)
Title: Illumination system incorporating an infrared filter
IPC: F21V9/04
Filed: 1976-08-17
Abstract: 1502729 Lamps INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORP 17 Aug 1976 [6 Oct 1975] 34136/76 Heading F4R An illumination system suitable for use in electrophotographic copying machines comprises a light source 10 and reflector 11 arranged to generate a light beam and a filter device which intercepts the beam and reflects an infrared component thereof back to the source. In the form shown in Fig. 1 the light source 10 is a tubular tungsten-halogen lamp located along the focal line of a cylindrical elliptical reflector 11 and the filter 13 is a planar hot mirror which reflects infra-red and transmits visible light on to the document plane 12. The edges of the elliptical reflector may be extended forwardly (Fig. 4, not shown) to join the edges of the filter 13, which is disposed along the minor axis of the ellipse, whilst in order to reduce the size of the system the planar hot mirror may be replaced (Fig. 5, not shown) by a concave hyperbolic cylindrical hot mirror (20). In an alternative embodiment, Fig. 6, the filter comprises a planar cold mirror 21 which reflects the visible light on to the document plane 12 and transmits the infra-red on to a convex hyperbolic reflector 22 the foci of which coincide with the foci of the elliptical reflector 11. The reflector 22 may be replaced by a plane reflector (23, Fig. 7, not shown) disposed along the minor axis of the ellipse. In a further embodiment (Fig. 8, not shown) a point source (10) is located at the centre of a spherical reflector (24) and at the focus of a paraboloidal reflector (11) which directs a beam of light on to a cylindrical parabolic reflector (25) arranged to focus the light on to the document plane (12). The filter is a planar hot mirror (13) inserted between the two parabolic reflectors. In a modification (Fig. 9, not shown) a cold mirror arrangement similar to that of Figs. 6 and 7 is disposed between the parabolic reflectors.
Patent GB-302574-A (GB)
Title: Process of employing cerium in the production of steel and iron
IPC: C21C1/00
Filed: 1928-11-21
Abstract: 302,574. I. G. Farbenindustrie Akt.- Ges. Dec. 17, 1927, [Convention date]. Purifying and refining.-Cerium alone or in the form of a ferro-alloy is employed for the refining of iron and steel in association with other elements having a similar action on the impurities, such as vanadium, titanium, aluminium, calcium, magnesium, and silicon. The addition may take the form of alloys, e.g. an alloy consisting of 25-60 per cent of vanadium, 5-15 per cent of cerium, and the remainder iron.
Patent GB-816680-A (GB)
Title: Polymeric foamed materials
Inventor: HAGGIS GEOFFREY ARTHUR
IPC: C08J9/02
Filed: 1955-11-30
Abstract: A solid foam is made by heating a polyester or a polyesteramide containing hydroxyl or amino groups with a dicarboxylic acid diazide. At the foaming temperature the diazide decomposes into nitrogen which causes the polymer to foam and a diisocyanate which reacts with the polymer.  Bis(diethyl-aminoethyl) adipate may be used as a catalyst. Specified polymers are (1) a polyester from adipic acid, diethylene glycol and pentaerythritol and (2) a polyesteramide from diethyleneglycol, pentaerythritol, ethanolamine and adipic acid modified with less than an equivalent amount of 2.4-toluylene diisocyanate.  Specified diazides are those of isophthalic, terephthalic, 5 - tertiarybutylisophthalic, 4-chloroisophthalic, 5-nitroisophthalic and pyridine-2 : 5-dicarboxylic acids.ALSO:The Specification describes the preparation of various diazides of dicarboxylic acids for use as foaming agents for polyester or polyesteramide resins (see Group IV (a)).  In examples: (1) 5-tertiary-butyl-isophthalic acid diazide is made by first converting dimethyl 5-tertiary-butylisophthalate into 5 - tertiary - butylisophthalic acid dihydrazide by reaction with hydrazine hydrate in the presence of methanol and then treating a solution of this dihydrazide in HCl with NaNO2 solution.  (2) 5-Nitroisophthalic acid diazide is made by first converting 5-nitroisophthalic acid into its acid chloride with PCl5 and then reacting a solution of this acid chloride in acetone with an aqueous solution of NaN3.  (3) 4-Chloroisophthalic acid diazide is made by first converting 4-chloroisophthalic acid into its acid chloride with thionyl chloride and then reacting a solution of this acid chloride in acetone with an aqueous solution of NaN3.  The Specification also refers to the dihydrazides of isophthalic, terephthalic and pyridine-2:5-dicarboxylic acid.
Patent GB-1260771-A (GB)
Title: Imidazole derivatives
Inventor: JEANMART CLAUDE
IPC: C07D233/94
Filed: 1970-07-15
Abstract: 1,260,771. Nitroimidazole derivatives. RHONE POULENC S.A. 15 July, 1970 [18 July, 1969], No. 34329/70. Heading C2C. Novel compounds of Formula I (in which R is H or C 1-4  alkyl, R 1  is H, OH or C 1-5  alkyl and R2 is H or C 1-5  alkyl) and their acid-addition salts, are prepared by reacting a compound of Formula II (in which X is halogen, phenoxy or benzyloxy) with a compound of formula: HNR 1 R 2 , and optionally salifying the product. Compounds of Formula II in which X is phenoxy or benzyloxy, are prepared by reacting a compound of Formula III with phenyl or benzyl chloroformate in the presence of a tertiary organic base. Pharmaceutical compositions having amoebicidal and antitrichomonal activity comprise, as active ingredient, at least one compound of Formula I, or a non-toxic, acid-addition salt thereof, together with a pharmaceutical carrier or coating. The compositions may be in a form suitable for oral, parenteral, rectal, vaginal or topical administration.
Patent GB-1390056-A (GB)
Title: Pivotally mounted heat sealer
IPC: B29C65/00
Filed: 1972-07-25
Abstract: 1390056 Seaming CHAMPION PAPER CO Ltd 25 July 1972 [6 Aug 1971] 34626/72 Heading B5K [Also in Division B8] A heat sealer comprises a support 22, a support plate 20 pivotally mounted on the support 22 and swingably dependent therefrom, a heat head 7 mounted on the plate 20, and means mounted on the plate 20 for moving the head 7 into and out of sealing position. As shown, an assembly is provided for heat sealing a cap 2 to a liquid-containing bottle 3 which is moved into heat sealing position by a conveyer 4. The bottle 3 may be made of polyethylene or polystyrene and the cap 2 of aluminium foil coated with polyethylene or an aluminium foil-wax paper combination coated with polyethylene, the polyethylene coating becoming heat sealed to the bottle. The head 7 is secured to the piston rod 8 of a pneumatic cylinder 9 and comprises an insulating body 40, Fig. 5, surrounding a plurality of heaters 41 and a cap 42 having a work-engaging surface. The rod 8 may have cooling fins 6 thereon for heat dissipation. The assembly is mounted on a pedestal comprising a base 14 with levelling screws 15 and with a column 17 telescopically arranged therein and adjustable in height by means 12. The support 22 is secured to the column 17 and the plate 20 is pivotally mounted thereto by a bolt 21 inserted through one of a number of holes 29 in the plate 20. Leaf springs 30 bias the plate 20 towards an adjustable stop 33. A solenoid valve 39 controls the flow of air into and out of the cylinder 9. In operation, with the head 7 biased by the springs 30 into the position of Fig. 1, as a bottle 3 passes between a photo-cell 5A and a lamp 5B on a bracket 56, Fig. 4, and engages the head 7 the cylinder 9 is actuated to lower the head 7 until it reaches the vertical centre line of the heat sealer, Fig. 2 (not shown). Further pivoting of the head 7 about the bolt 21 continues until either (a) the appearance of another bottle at the photocell assembly 5 causes an electrical and mechanical reset of the system or (b) the expiration of the dwell time of the head 7 to which an electrical timing control circuit, Fig. 7 (not shown), has been adjusted. The head 7 is then raised and the springs 30 return it to the Fig. 1, position. An electrical control circuit for the supply of electricity to the head 7 is described, Fig. 6 (not shown).
Patent GB-638239-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in shelving
IPC: A47B57/42
Filed: 1947-12-30
Abstract: 638,239. Shelf brackets. SPARRING, B. Dec. 30, 1947, No. 34630. Convention date, Aug. 17, 1946. [Class 52 (v)] Shelving comprises a number of U-section rails 1 secured to a wall and having two series of elongated slots 4. The support for the shelves comprise brackets 5, of U-section, formed with hooks 7 which engage in a pair of slots 4. The lower edge of the bracket abuts against the web of the rail. A connecting rail 14 joining the two shelf members 11 is provided with a rib 16 which engages in the U- shaped bracket. The Specification as open to inspection under' Sect. 91 comprises also brackets of inverted U-shape. This subject-matter does not appear in the Specification as accepted.
Patent GB-768387-A (GB)
Title: Electric switching apparatus
IPC: H01H3/00
Filed: 1954-11-30
Abstract: 768,387. Rotary switches. BENDIX AVIATION CORPORATION. Nov. 30, 1954 [Dec. 1, 1953], No. 34684/54. Class 38(5) A switch comprises a rotatable flat insulating cam adapted to be interposed between two pairs of normally-closed spring contacts to open them, the arrangement being such that the open and closed conditions of the contact pairs are reversed over different angular intervals of the cam's position. Two pairs of normallyclosed spring contacts 16, 17 and 18, 19 are mounted on a conducting ring 12 to which the contacts 17, 19 are connected, the contacts 16, 18 being connected to terminals 25, 26 respectively. The contact faces of springs 16, 17 are nearer to the axis of ring 12 than are those of springs 18, 19. An insulating member 28 on a rotary shaft 27 is shaped so as to provide a 90 degrees sector HABC which passes between contacts 18, 19 to separate them during part of the rotation of the shaft. Similarly, the member 28 has a cut-away portion DEFG permiting closure of contacts 16, 17 during part of the rotation of the shaft.
Patent GB-939256-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in the finishing of cellulosic textile materials
Inventor: EVANS JOHN GWYNANT
IPC: D06M15/21
Filed: 1960-10-10
Abstract: Cellulosic textile materials, e.g. fabrics consisting wholly or in part of cotton, regenerated cellulose or cellulose derivatives which contain reactive or replaceable hydrogen atoms, are crease-proofed by treating them in a swollen state with at least one polyfunctional compound able to exist in the form of a crystalloidal aqueous solution and capable of chemically modifying the cellulose together with a catalyst therefor and alwo with at least one water-insoluble polyvinyl substance containing reactive side chains, maintaining them in the swollen state during the treatment withthe polyfunctional compound until reaction betweenthe cellulose and the polyfunctional compound has taken place, removing the catalyst and any unreacted polyfunctional compound by neutralization and/or washing and then drying. Suitable polyfunctional compounds are methylolated nitrogen compounds, e.g. dimethylol dihydroxy ethylene urea, polyfunctional epoxy compounds, e.g. epichlorhydrin and reactants of a related type, e.g. dichloropropanols, divinyl sulphone, divinyl ketone and formaldehyde.  The reactive side chains in the polyvinyl substance may be hydroxyl, carboxyl, amide, methylolamide, alkylated methylolamide, hydrazide, epoxy, vinyl, aziridinyl or isocyanate groups and may be substances prepared by the polymerization of acrylamide, methacrylamide, methylolated acrylamide, methylolated metacrylamide or an ether thereof or by the copolymerization thereof with styrene, acrylic or metacrylic esters, acrylonitrile, vinyl chlorides, vinyl acetate or vinylidene chloride.  The materials may be treated with the polyvinyl substance and polyfunctional compound simultaneously or the two reagents may be applied separately in either order.  After treatment with the polyfunctional compound the material may be maintained in the swollen state whilst reaction with the cellulose takes place by wrapping it in a polyethylene sheeting. Specification 905,044 is referred to.
Patent GB-769602-A (GB)
IPC: D01H5/56
Filed: 1954-11-30
Abstract: 769,602. Roller weighting apparatus. VEB SPINNEREIMASCHINENBAU KARLMARX-STADT. Nov. 30, 1954, No. 34726/54. Class 120 (2). A drawing head for textile spinning machines having a supporting arm for the saddle carrying the top roller, which saddle is articulated to the arm, the latter being rockable about a shaft and loaded by means of a weight lever with a sliding weight, is characterized in that the weight lever is mounted independently of the saddle supporting arm and is located above the arm, the weight lever being carried by a link mounted on the shaft carrying the supporting arm and during use pressing on the supporting arm between the shaft and the point of articulation of the saddle. In the arrangement shown the arm 2 is mounted on shaft 1 and carries, pivoted at 3, a saddle member 4. The saddle 4 carries the delivery roller 8 and a support for drawing rollers 6, 7. These latter rollers can be adjusted in their support and the support can be adjusted relative to the saddle member 4 by positioning of the finger 19 in one of the notches shown. Loading is effected by lever 11 carrying a sliding weight 12 and mounted at 10 on a link 9 carried by shaft 1, the loading being transmitted to the arm 2 through arm 13 and roller 14.
Patent GB-1196416-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Synchronous A.C. Dynamo Electric-Machines
Inventor: HAWLEY ROBERT
IPC: H02K3/42
Filed: 1966-08-03
Abstract: 1,196,416. Dynamo-electric machines. C. A. PARSONS & CO. Ltd. 26 June, 1967 [3 Aug., 1966], No. 34769/66. Heading H2A. In a synchronous A.C. dynamo-electric machine, e.g. large turbo-generator, having stator winding end portions emerging from a stator core 4 whose laminations are clamped together by means e.g. plates 8, at least one liquid cooled electrically conducting member 11 separate from the clamping means and winding extends substantially radially outwardly from adjacent the winding end portions points of emergence and is disposed closely adjacent the core. The member forms a screen permitting the insulation of eddy currents and in the embodiment shown comprises a Cu annulus having attached to its inner edge a duct 12 supplied via an inlet and an outlet 13, 14 with either the same liquid as that used to directly cool the hollow winding conductors 6, or a separate liquid; the liquid may be water, or liquefied oxygen or nitrogen, and may vapourize. The screen alternatively may incorporate coolant passages, and in Figs. 4 ... 6 comprises boxes (17) interconnected by segments (18). If plates 8 are provided, they are indirectly cooled by the screen, and there may be a screen on each side of each plate.
Patent GB-1334415-A (GB)
Title: Method and apparatus for broiling strips of comestibles
IPC: A47J37/04
Filed: 1971-07-23
Abstract: 1334415 Grilling-apparatus W P LE VAN and R WYON 23 July 1971 [24 July 1970] 34776/71 Heading A4D [Also in Division B8] Apparatus for grilling strips of food such as bacon comprises a conveyer 26 which conveys the strips through a preheating oven P, a grilling oven B and a chamber G wherein excess liquefied grease is removed from the strips. The conveyer 26 comprises two belts 20, 21 connected to an endless flexible drive chain (27), Fig.8 (not shown) which drives the two belts at the same speed. Both belts 20, 21 are heat-pervious, being constructed of wire mesh. The belts 20, 21 are guided by tracks (32), (33), Fig. 2 (not shown) so that at both ends of the conveyer 26 the belts are perpendicular to each other to allow insertion or removal of bacon strips therebetween, belt 20 being horizontal and belt 21 being vertical, and between the ends of the conveyer 26 the belts 20, 21 are angularly rotated to lie together at an acute angle to the vertical, thus holding the bacon strips therebetween. Belt 21 is in the form of sections 21A. Belt 20 is reinforced by transverse rods (30), Fig. 2 (not shown). In the preheating oven P the bacon strips are heated to a predetermined temperature by steam sprayed from nozzles (41), Fig. 7 (not shown). Grilling takes place in one or more ovens 45, each consisting of two sections 46, (47), Fig.3 (not shown) which define a chamber (48). Both sections 46, (47) are mounted on rollers 51 on rails 52 to enable the sections to be separated for cleaning. Heaters, e.g. infra-red lamps (49), are mounted in both sections 46, (47). In the oven chamber (48) the conveyor 26 passes between spring-loaded bars (55) which press the conveyor belts 20, 21 together to prevent shrinkage of the bacon strips. In the chamber G excess liquefied grease is removed form the grilled strips by suction through openings (61A), (62A), Figs. 5 and 6 (not shown), in the side walls of the chamber G. After leaving the chamber G the belts 20, 21 separate and bacon strips adhering to the now-vertical belt 21 are removed by a brush 67B or by air jets (75), Fig.11 (not shown). The bacon strips lying on the now-horizontal belt 20 are blotted on one side by rollers 68 to remove further grease. Rollers 68 consist of layers of paper 72 on cores 71. The bacon strips then fall on to a second conveyer 75, being thus turned over. Rollers 77 then blot grease from the other side of the strips M. As in Fig.10 (not shown), a further pair of conveyer belts (20A), (21B) similar to belts 20, 21 may be attached to the other side of the drive chain (27).
Patent GB-896422-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to the heating in tunnel furnaces of various substances by very high frequencies
IPC: H05B6/80
Filed: 1959-10-14
Abstract: 896,422. Dielectric heating. PHILIPS ELECTRICAL INDUSTRIES Ltd. Oct. 14, 1959 [Oct. 16, 1958], No. 34838/59. Class 39(3) [Also in Group XL(b)] A tunnel furnace employing dielectric heating for heating foodstuffs or drying powdery or solid substances has inlet and outlet opening 4, 5 with inner cross-sectional dimensions exceeding the operational wavelength # each of which is provided with three pairs of #/4 stubs 9 to prevent radiation leakage. The openings may be internally coated with a lossy substance and may be further screened by grid rods protruding only a short distance into the openings. High frequency energy from a magnetron 1 is introduced into the treatment space 3 by a radiator 2. The substance 7 to be treated is passed through the space 3 on dish-shaped supports 8 by a conveyer belt 6.