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Patent GB-1453540-A (GB)
Title: Labelling of cans
IPC: B65C3/08
Filed: 1974-07-17
Abstract: 1453540 Labelling containers; cans AMERICAN CAN CO 17 July 1974 31618/74 Heading B8F and B8D A method of labelling a can body 10 having at least one necked-in end portion 12, 24 comprises applying a thermocontractive, thermoplastic label 22 to the can body and shrinking the label overlying the portion 12, 24 to form a bonded contact with the necked-in end portion. The can body may be a two-piece can, Figure 1, or a three-piece, side-seamed can, Figure 4. The label comprises a composite film of a thermocontractive, thermoplastic polymeric base layer and a heat-activated polymeric adhesive on at least one of its surfaces. The base layer may be a polyamide, polyolefin or alternating layers of each, and the adhesive may be an acidic ethylenic polymer. The can body is preheated to a temperature of from 185‹ to 350‹ F. and the can body is encircled with the label, which has been heated to activate the adhesive, with a leading edge of the label contacting the body along a line parallel to the longitudinal axis of the can. Bonding of the label takes place on the can body except at the necked in portions. The remainder of the label is bonded to the portions by application of the necessary heat to contact the label at the region of the portions. When the can has a side seam 26 the leading and trailing edges 23 of the label are arranged to overlie the side seam. The labels may be produced by coextending melts of respective polymers through a common die, withdrawing the resultant melt and uniaxially orienting the coextruded film. The film can then be heat set to provide a predetermined degree of shrinkability.
Patent GB-745056-A (GB)
Title: A new or improved strip material for use in defining the fold lines of collars
Inventor: BIHALY LAJOS
IPC: A41B5/00
Filed: 1952-12-15
Abstract: 745,056. Collars for personal wear. TRUBENISED (GREAT BRITAIN), Ltd. Dec. 2, 1953 [Dec. 15, 1952], No. 31724/52. Class 141. [Also in Group IX] Woven strip material for use in determining the fold-line of one-piece collars includes two substances with different adhesive characteristics. The warp threads may be of three different kinds, viz. cotton, cellulose acetate, and cotton coated with polythene, and the weft may be cotton. The weave is such that the cellulose acetate is exposed mainly on one face and the polythene on the other. The strip may include a narrow strip without adhesive material and some or all of the cotton yarns may be replaced by spun viscose rayon. In the manufacture of a collar, the strip is adhered to the interlining at the fold-line by means of the polythene without affecting the cellulose acetate of the interlining, and the usual fusing operation is subsequently effected so that the other face of the strip and the part of the interlining not covered thereby are secured to the backing by the cellulose acetate. Specifications 588,270, [Group IX], 689,786 and 740,887, [Group IX], are referred to.
Patent GB-208708-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to electric heating units
IPC: H05B3/46
Filed: 1923-12-19
Abstract: 208,708. British Thomson-Houston Co., Ltd., (Assignees of Tang, B. G.). Dec. 20, 1922, [Convention date]. Wire and ribbon resistances mounted on flat or curved surfaces, encased, cored.-An electric heating unit is made by folding a metal blank shaped as shown in Fig. 2 along the line x, y, inserting a heating element between the folded portions and finally bending or rolling it so as to bring the opposite edges 15 adjacent, for example in the form of a tube having an open seam 11, Fig. 1. The heating element is preferably made by winding a ribbon conductor 22, Fig. 9, zig-zag upon two rectangular insulating sheets such as mica. Before the heating element is inserted within the folded metal sheath, sheets of insulating material are placed on each side of it and also between the two sets of ribbon. The metal sheath is rolled so that the part 16 becomes the inside and the edges 15 which project are turned over the edges of the heating element thus forming the open seam 11. Alternatively the blank may be so shaped that no projecting edges are formed and the edges of the heating element thereby left exposed. The ribbon is placed parallel with the fold in the blank so as to avoid the inner lengths of ribbon becoming crowded on rolling the sheath. In a modification shown in Fig. 13, the blank from which the sheath is made is rectangular and is so folded that when it is rolled after insertion of the heating element the edges of the latter are enclosed and the edges of the blank 35, 36 come in the inner wall. The blank may be of such shape that projections are formed at either or both ends of the heating unit thus enabling the latter to be sealed. The tube may be of circular, rectangular or triangular section.
Patent GB-1276226-A (GB)
Title: Temperature sensors
IPC: G05D23/12
Filed: 1970-07-01
Abstract: 1276226 Temperature responsive actuating devices LANDIS & GYR AG 1 July 1970 [11 July 1969] 31908/70 Heading G1D In a temperature sensor 1 comprising a temperature sensitive device 6 mounted in a housing 4 and connected to a capillary tube 2, the housing 4 provides storage space for surplus capillary tube which forms a connection between the sensor 1 and a remote regulating device 3. The housing which is formed by a covering member snap engaged with a base-plate member 5 has the surplus of the capillary tube 2 coiled around either member, the base-plate member 5 being of plastics material and provided with holes to allow screw attachment to a wall 9. One end of the capillary tube 2 which preferably is of nickel-plated copper is arranged within a chamber which forms part of the temperature sensitive device 6 and which is filled or partially filled with a liquid while the other end is connected to a spring bellows box of the regulating device 3 which may be located on a regulating valve of a heating radiator.
Patent GB-168808-A (GB)
Title: Building blocks for erecting toy buildings
IPC: A63H33/04
Filed: 1920-11-11
Abstract: 168,808. Mahlberg, P., and Mahlberg, B. Nov. 11, 1920. Building - blocks. - Toy building-blocks are made of coloured glass or similar transparent or semi - transparent material and have shapes derived from a regular octagon. The block 1, Fig. 1, is half an octagonal prism having a length b equal to one side of the regular octagon. The forms 2, 3, 4, Fig. 2, are related to the octagon as shown in broken lines. The faces of the blocks may be roughened so as to reduce the liability of the blocks to slip over each other. Fig. 5 shows an example of a building made with the above forms and two additional forms, namely, a sphere 5 with two flats and a long block 6, similar to the block 3, but 3.4 times its length.
Patent GB-1198293-A (GB)
Title: Production of Aluminium
IPC: C22B21/02
Filed: 1967-07-12
Abstract: 1,198,293. Producing aluminium. SHOWA DENKO K.K. July 12, 1967 [July 13, 1966], No.32064/67. Heading C7D. Producing high purity Al by reducing Al 2 O 3  with carbon in an arc furnace and maintaining the molten product at 1400-2000‹ C. so that a porous skeleton of precipitated aluminium carbide is formed through which the Al is filtered. In the reduction process a temperature gradient may be maintained in the product melt from about 2400‹C. near the arc reaction part of the furnace, to the required 1400-2000‹ C. in the vicinity of the tap hole. The process is said to be suitable for batch or continuous operation.
Patent GB-654388-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in hot-water supply systems
IPC: F24D17/00
Filed: 1947-12-05
Abstract: 654,388. Supply and delivery arrangements for hot-water storage chambers. GAINSBOROUGH ENGINEERING CO., (OLDHAM), Ltd., and FIELDING, W. Dec. 5, 1947, No. 32107. Addition to 652.236. [Class 64(i)] [Also in Groups I and XXIX] The invention consists in providing a partition p<SP>1</SP> in the discharge means of the hot water supply system of the parent Specification and connecting the discharge passage p<SP>3</SP> to the hot water storage tank outlet pipe X by the conduit p<SP>4</SP>. Thus on opening the valves L<SP>1</SP>, L<SP>2</SP>, mains water flows via a pipe W, valve body passage Q' and discharge passage p<SP>2</SP>, while mains water via pipe Y, valve body passage Q<SP>2</SP> and pipe Z displaces hot water from the tank which then flows via pipes X, p<SP>4</SP> to the passage p<SP>3</SP>. Thus hot and cold water are prevented from mixing.
Patent GB-1086397-A (GB)
Title: Signature handling mechanism
Inventor: ZUGEL VICTOR ALBIN
IPC: B65H5/22
Filed: 1965-07-27
Abstract: 1,086,397. Feeding sheets. HARRIS-INTERTYPE CORPORATION. July 27, 1965, No. 32128/65. Heading B6B. In apparatus wherein signatures are separated from several magazines, opened out, and placed on a saddle for conveyance to a binding or stapling station, the opening means 80 and the saddle 170 are on the same side of the apparatus as that on which the operator stands to replenish the magazine, and the devices which open the signatures can be readily adjusted to suit the depth of signatures. Each magazine supports a pile of signatures on edge, with their folded edges lowermost, by spaced plates between which feed belts 23 are arranged, the front signature being urged by the belts against a front plate 24. Known mechanism for separating the signatures sequentially from the magazine includes oscillating suckers 31 and a gripper cylinder 40, and each signature is deposited on curved guides 55, Figs. 1 and 6 (not shown), by cam-operated grippers 43 on the cylinder. The signature is conveyed from the guides 55 by lugs 75 on two endless chains 61, 62 supported on rear driven sprockets 63, 64 and front sprockets 65, 66, Fig. 3 (not shown), the upper runs of the chains being supported by guides 71 having the same configuration as the guides 55. The signature is conveyed by the chains, in a direction opposed to the rotation of the cylinder 40, to the opening means 80 where the opposite sides of the signature are gripped, respectively, by suckers 83 on a drum 81 and suckers 84 on a drum 82, and the opened signature is deposited on the saddle 170 of a pusher conveyer 11. The drum 81, Figs. 3-5 (not shown), comprises a central disc 85 carrying the suckets 83 which is adjustably secured to a shaft 87 by friction shoes which are pressed against the shaft by springs 89b. Side discs 90, 105 are secured by screws to the disc 85, and a sleeve 111 attached to the disc 105 carries a suction valve 120 in a hose 114 which communicates between the suckers 83 and a valve mechanism 124. The valve 124 includes a disc 125 which is secured to the shaft 87 and urged by a spring 129 into sealing contact with a stationary plate 125a having suitable openings to source of suction. This arrangement allows the discs 85, 90, 105 to be adjusted about the shaft 87 relatively to the feed lugs 75 on the chains 61, 62 to suit different sizes of signatures, without any adjustment of the valve connections in the suction line to the suckers 83. The drum 82 carrying the suckers 84 is similarly adjustable about a drive-shaft 130, and the suckers have a similar valve connection to the source of suction. In a modification, the suckers on the opening means 80 are replaced by pins, or pins may also be provided on the drums 81, 82 for optional use.
Patent GB-669322-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to processes for manufacturing magnetic materials for use at high frequencies constituted by very thin magnetic wires electrically insulated from one another
Inventor: PRACHE MARIE-PIERRE
IPC: H01F17/04
Filed: 1948-12-14
Abstract: 669,322. Making metal wire and fibres. LIGNES TELEGRAPHIQUES ET TELEPHONIQUES. Dec. 14, 1948 [Jan. 16, 1948; Oct. 14, 1948], Nos. 32371/48 and 32372/48. Classes 83 (ii) and 83 (iv). [Also in Group XXXV] A process for making magnetic material for use at high frequencies, such as magnetic cores or windings, and constituted by bundles of thin insulated wires comprises drawing primary metal wires enclosed within a metal sheath, the wires being separated from one another and from the sheath by small-grain powder of insulating material which is not removed from the final product. The separating medium may be a metallic oxide such as magnesia or a metal salt such as a silicate and may be applied by dipping or by surrounding the wires by tubes or discs of the separating material; alternatively, an oxide or salt may be formed directly on the wire, or on a coating of another metal, by heat or chemical action before or after the wire is enclosed in the sheath. After insertion of bundles of the wire into the sheath, more powdered separating material may be added to ensure adequate filling. The sheath may be a tube with one or two longitudinal slits and may be surrounded by a second longitudinallyslit tube of which the slit or slits do not coincide with those of the first sheath, in order to retain the separating material. The sheaths may be removed, if necessary, by mechanical means or by melting or they may be transformed into an oxide or salt. If the longitudinally-split sheaths are retained in place, the slit edges and the inside of the sheath are insulated, to avoid leaving a closed circuit for eddy currents, or a gap is left between the edges, or a metal strip is inserted in the gap and later transformed to an insulating oxide or salt. To avoid the use of small dies, the drawing process may be carried out in stages, the sheath being removed after each stage and a new, larger sheath made up with bundles of drawn wires. The bundles may be twisted or compressed to increase their mechanical strength or rolled to give them a shape other than circular. The Specification as open to inspection under Sect. 91, describes also producing thin wires from a number of wires or from a mixture of metal powder and insulating material, for use in the coil windings of measuring instruments, as flexible conductors in moving devices or for wire fabrics. This subject-matter does not appear in the Specification as accepted.
Patent GB-741944-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in colour-selector devices for colour lighting installations
Inventor: LEBLANC GEORGES
IPC: F21S10/02
Filed: 1952-12-22
Abstract: 741,944. Supply systems for consumption apparatus. COMPAGNIE GENERALE DE TRAVAUX D'ECLAIRAGE ET DE FORCE. Dec. 22, 1952, No. 32422j52. Class 38 (4). [Also in Group XI] In a colour selector device for lighting installations, comprising means for regulating the intensities of the sources of several base colours which it is desired to blend in order to display a coloured lighting effect, the said regulating means are actuated simultaneously by a single control member mounted for free two-dimensional exploration of a colour chart or diagram over which the control member is displaceable, the lighting effect obtained corresponding to the position given to said control member. In the device illustrated four potentiometers 21, each controlling the electric supply of a lamp or a group of lamps providing a base colour, are adjustable simultaneously in varying amounts by the movement of a control member 1 movable over a chart 2 indicating the blend of colours resulting from a selected position thereof. The member 1 is carried by an arm of a U-shaped support 4 and is guided in its displacements by a parallel linkage 6, 7 pivoted to a bracket 8 secured to the casing 9 of the device. The other arm of the support 4 is secured to a hollow shaft 5 carrying four blocks 10, which by operation of the member 1 are displaced along slots in links 11, freely pivoted at their ends on shafts 12, and actuate chains 13 engaging sprockets 14 to rotate the shafts 12. A pinion 16 on each shaft 12 then rotates through gearing a pinion 22 on the spindle 20 of one of the potentiometers 21. The control member 1 is carried by a shaft 3 rotatable in the support 4 and may. be turned to rotate, through a belt 25 and pulleys 26, 27 a shaft 28 passing coaxially through the shaft 5 and actuating a rheostat 29 controlling the current supply to all the lamps comprising the base colour sources. A further embodiment is described in which the control member actuates a movable frame of conductive material to vary simultaneously the effective values of four resistances wound on bar supports radiating from a centre, each resistance controlling the intensity of an electric lamp providing one base colour source.
Patent GB-1049099-A (GB)
Title: Travelling wave tubes
Inventor: FROOM JOCELYN
IPC: H01P5/18
Filed: 1963-08-16
Abstract: 1,049,099. Travelling wave tubes. STANDARD TELEPHONES & CABLES Ltd. Aug. 16, 1963, No. 32476/63. Addition to 906,206. Heading H1D. A slow wave structure for a travelling wave tube includes a pair 2, 3, Fig. 3, of parallel opposed metal side walls and a slotted metal sheet 1 joined at right angles to each of the side walls so that the side walls extend above and below the sheet, the sheet having a set 5, Fig. 2, of similar transverse slots extending alternately from one or other side wall beyond the centre of the sheet so as to form a stub-supported meander line, the portions 6 of the sheet beyond the end of each slot and the opposite side wall being left unslotted. As shown, Fig. 3, two similar structures are disposed parallel to each other so that a ribbon-shaped electron beam 9 may be projected between them. The metal sheet may be formed by a photo-etching or a spark erosion technique.
Patent GB-271126-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to the control of electric orchestral instrument of the organ type
IPC: G10C5/00
Filed: 1925-12-23
Abstract: 271,126. Barbieri, A. Dec. 23. 1925. Electromagnetic switches. - In a combined pianoforte and electric organ, the connections from the keyboards to the stops of pipes are controlled by sets of contact drums rotated through determined angles by solenoids with multiple windings. The contact-drums 15 have ring-portions 17, with which springs 18, 18<1> contact, the springs being mounted on movable insulating bars 19 held by the pressure of screws 22<1> and bars 22 carrying contact points 21 engaging in split sockets 20 on the bars 19. The spring contacts are connected to the key switches 37 and the solenoids 12 of the sounding-pipes. Each drum 15 is rotated to its various positions by the movement of the core 24 of the corresponding solenoid 23 whose windings are controlled by switches 44. Specifica - tion 218,333 is referred to.
Patent GB-1510937-A (GB)
Title: Method of making electrically conductive indium oxide patterns on insulating supports
IPC: G02F1/01
Filed: 1976-08-04
Abstract: 1510937 Making printed circuits PHILIPS ELECTRONIC & ASSOCIATED INDUSTRIES Ltd 4 Aug 1976 [6 Aug 1975] 32502/76 Heading H1R In a method of making an electrically conductive pattern containing at least 80% mol. indium oxide on an insulating support, e.g. forming an electrode in an electrochromic display device, a layer consisting of at least 80% mol. In2O3 is formed on the support, an etchresistant coating is applied in the desired pattern and the remaining unwanted layer areas are dissolved in an acid solution containing from 0À01 mol/litre to saturation of ferric chloride and the etchant-resistant coating is removed. The In2O3 may be doped or undoped. In one example, the acid solution consists of 18% by weight HCl and contains 66 g. per litre of FeCl3. A layer 0À1 Á thick of In2O3 is dissolved at 45 C. in 1À5-8 minutes. The rate is diminished in further examples with lower temperature or lower FeCl3 concentration.
Patent GB-337590-A (GB)
Title: An improved method of washing spinning cakes of artificial silk
IPC: D01D10/04
Filed: 1929-10-25
Abstract: 337,590. British Bemberg, Ltd., (Assignees of Bemberg Akt.-Ges., J. P.). Nov. 9, 1928, [Convention date]. Apparatus for making filaments.-Wet cakes of artificial silk containing acid are removed from the spinning pots and placed upon supports having a yielding periphery and are then subjected to a wet treatment by immersion in treatment baths. The supports may comprise bobbins having peripheral bars mounted so as to be radially displaceable and adjustable, or reels having yielding and displaceable arms; and may be rotated during the immersion treatment. The treatment includes washing and saturating with soaps, fatty emulsions &c. After treatment, the cakes may be dried on the supports. The dried filaments are unwound in known manner.
Patent GB-205379-A (GB)
Title: Combined cultivators and harrows
IPC: A01B51/00
Filed: 1922-11-28
Abstract: 205,379. Harvey, E. C. Nov. 28, 1922. Implement frames. - A cultivator frame is formed from a single bar bent, intermediate the ends, to form a transverse portion 10 and rearwardly directed parallel portions 11, and then rearwardly to form diverging steps formed with transverse and longitudinal sides 13, 12. The ends are joined by a member 15 stiffened by braces 17. The transverse parts of the frame carry clamps 18 by which may be attached harrow teeth or cultivator shovels.
Patent GB-392236-A (GB)
Title: Folding arms for the projection of sun blinds
IPC: E04F10/02
Filed: 1931-11-24
Abstract: 392,236. Sun blinds. ANN, P. D., Pinners, Burnham-on-Crouch, Essex. Nov. 24,1931, No. 32546. [Class 52 (v).] The bottom lath F of a sunblind has at each end a rectangular recess in which slide carriages K pivoted at E to sliding shoes D adapted to slide on arms A mounted to swing outwards about pivot pins C on brackets B fixed in the blind box, the carriages sliding in the recesses as the blind is extended and folded. The Figure shows the left-hand arm A in the folded position and the right-hand arm extended. Longitudinal metal bars G are mounted between cross-pieces H in the recesses and pass freely through holes bored through the carriages K. The shoes D may be fitted with wheels or rollers to enable them to run easily on the bars A. Where the sunblind box has no end closures the brackets B can be fixed on the back of the box as shown at the right-hand side in the Figure. Instead of folding to a position below the lath F as shown the arms A may fold above the lath. According to the provisional Specification the arms A are pivoted to side runner bars fixed on the face of the window frame and when folded can be raised with the lath into a blind box above.