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Patent GB-1014038-A (GB)
Title: Air-cooled cylinder structure for reciprocating piston machines, more particularly internal combustion engines
IPC: F02F1/24
Filed: 1962-06-13
Abstract: 1,014,038. Air-cooled cylinders. MASCHINENFABRIK AUGSBURG - NURNBERG A.G. June 13, 1962 [July 1, 1961; July 6, 1961; Aug. 3, 1961], No. 22668/62. Heading F1B An air-cooled cylinder comprises a cylinder 1, closed at the upper end, of a material, such as steel, of low notch sensitivity, a ribbed cooling jacket 6 of material, such as aluminium, of high heat conductivity cast or force fitted on the cylinder, and a removable cylinder liner 9 preferably of cast iron. The cylinder is formed of parts 1, 2, welded together; alternatively it may be made as one integral member.
Patent GB-1089233-A (GB)
Title: Improved water-repellent additive for moulded articles
IPC: C08L97/02
Filed: 1965-01-19
Abstract: In a mass of organic fibrous substances and a binder to be hot-pressed are incorporated pulverulent solid vehicles coated with a waterrepellent agent in such a way that they do not coalesce, the vehicles being sorted as to particle size before or after coating. The vehicles may be finely comminuted fibres, e.g. sawdust, straw, or flax, or may be inorganic, e.g. silica, talcum, bentonite, or pigments.  The waterrepellent substance may be e.g. paraffin wax, asphalt, bitumen, or oxidized and polymerized fats or fatty acids, and may be dissolved in a volatile solvent, e.g. benzine, which may later be evaporated.  The fibrous substance may be wood chips.  The binder may be e.g. ureaformaldehyde or sulphite liquor.ALSO:Pulverulent solid vehicles are coated with a water-repellent substance in such a way that they do not coalesce, and are sorted as to particle size before or after coating.  The vehicles may be e.g. sawdust, straw, flax, silica, talcum, bentonite, or pigments. The water-repellent substance may be, e.g. paraffin wax, asphalt, bitumen or oxidized and polymerized fats or fatty acids, and may be dissolved in a subsequently volatilized solvent, e.g. benzine. The vehicles may be size sorted by grinding on a disc attrition mill or a beater mill, followed by screening.  In an example, sawdust and paraffin wax are pressed at 300 atoms, and 70 DEG -80 DEG C, and the resultant cake is then ground.  The product may be incorporated in c chipboard.
Patent GB-895995-A (GB)
Title: Mounting arrangements for electric instruments or relays
Inventor: BECKLEY JOHN DAVID
IPC: H01R13/70
Filed: 1959-01-21
Abstract: 895,995. Switchboards; mechanical switches, without quick action. ASSOCIATED ELECTRICAL INDUSTRIES Ltd. Jan. 20, 1960 [Jan. 21. 1959], No. 2285/59. Class 38 (5). [Also in Group XXXVI] A mounting frame for an electric instrument comprises a base 1 to which is removably secured a frame 4 carrying the instrument block 3 and having two guide-tubes 7 engaging pillars 6 on the base 1, matching between members 1, 4 being provided by the engagement of spacers 5<SP>1</SP> on the frame 4 with dowel pins 10 on the base 1. The block 3 carries an insulating member 11 slidable between uprights 2 on the base 1 and having contact-strips 14 engaging strips 22 on a movable insulating member 12, the strips 22 normally engaging strips 21 on a fixed insulating member 20 to connect the block 3 to terminals 18. The member 12 is operated by an insulating member 13, upward movement of which to separate strips 21, 22 brings a shoulder 23 above the top of the uprights 2 and allows spring-urged plungers 24 housed therein to force the member 13 away from the member 12. In this position the instrument may be connected with a test circuit by inserting a test plug between members 12, 13, engagement of the shoulder 23 with the uprights 2 preventing downward movement of these members. Normally the ends 28 of the plungers 24 engage recesses in the member 11 to prevent removal of the latter (and hence the block 3) until members 12, 13 have been raised. Removal of the member 11 allows spring-urged detents 15 to engage the ends 28 and prevent lowering of the members 12, 13 until the member 11 has been replaced, after which a cover for the base 1 may be fitted in position.
Patent GB-664425-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to method and apparatus for making laminated articles
IPC: B32B27/00
Filed: 1949-01-27
Abstract: 664,425. Embossing. BRIGGS MANUFACTURING CO. Jan. 27, 1949 [March 24, 1948], No. 2333/49. Class 100 (ii). [Also in Group VIII] Two panels A and B are formed by arranging a die between two sets of superimposed sheets containing a heat curable resinous bonding material and pressing the assembly between relatively movable heated press members to compress the sets against opposite sides of the die to cause the latter to consolidate the sets: The die may comprise forming portions defining a pattern, along the lines of which the sheets are bonded, and punch portions for forming holes in the panels. One form of die apparatus includes a die 30 comprising a skeleton frame consisting of a bar 31 having pattern forming surfaces to the ends of which are rigidly secured arms 32 and a U-shaped bar 33 a portion 33a of which and the bar 31 being rigidly connected together by transverse die-bars 34. The die 30 is hinged to a base plate 25 to which are secured arms 26 having handles 27 by means of which the apparatus may be transported between a loading position on supporting brackets 28 and the working position between the heated platens 22 and 24 (not shown) of a press 20. The frame 30 also carries pairs of punches 44, 46, 47 which are shouldered to compress the panel and hence form additional bonding areas. In loading the die apparatus a set of sheets 50-53 is positioned on each side of the die the sets being located and secured by gauge blocks 54 and clamps 55: during the subsequent hot-pressing treatment of this assembly the downward movement of the pressram 21 is limited by the blocks 54.
Patent GB-161348-A (GB)
Title: Combined bath and lavatory
IPC: A47K3/18
Filed: 1920-01-26
Abstract: 161,348. Jackson, J. M. Jan. 26, 1920. Addition to 134,703. Baths fitted with lavatory basins.-Relates to an improvement in or modification of the integral combination of bath and lavatory basin described in the parent Specification and consists in forming the basin 2 in one side 1 or end of the bath so that it projects both inwardly and outwardly.
Patent GB-328299-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to the simultaneous recording or reproduction of sounds and moving pictures
IPC: G03B31/00
Filed: 1929-01-23
Abstract: 328,299. Robertson, J. R., and Vielle, J. Jan. 23, 1929. Gramophones and the like associated with kinematographs; driving; speed-regulating.-Apparatus for reproducing sound from disc or cylindrical records, or for recording sound, is driven by a moving-picture film at a speed proportional to the linear speed of the film. In the arrangement shown, the film 1, after passing through a projector 2, passes round and drives sprockets 3, 4, which are fixed to the spindles of gramophone turntables 5, 6. The film is itself fed by a driving sprocket 7. The turntable may have flanges 8, 9, passing between the poles of magnets 10, 11, which thus steady the rotation of the turntables. Alternatively, friction brakes may be used to prevent the turntables over-running the driving film, the film may be engaged between the sprockets 3, 4 by another sprocket coupled with the sprocket 7. The wheels 3, 4 may drive the turntables through gearing. Means may be provided whereby the film may reproduce sound recorded thereon, in addition to, or as an alternative to, the gramophones. For the purpose, the film may pass through photo-electric, sound-reproducing apparatus 14 after leaving the picture projector 2.
Patent GB-848257-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to cattle stalls
IPC: A01K1/00
Filed: 1958-01-24
Abstract: 848,257. Cattle stalls. DE BROTHERTON, G. P. Jan. 20, 1959 [Jan. 24, 1958], No. 2421/58. Class 20(1) A cattle stall has a slightly sloping floor C for drainage purposes and is characterised by spaced proiections f which allow a beast to walk into the stall but prevent its rearward movement when lying down. The projections may be fixed or removable, may be faced with a soft or inflatable cushion of rubber and may be adjustable in size.
Patent GB-251031-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in linkages for transmitting mechanical movement
IPC: B66F5/00
Filed: 1925-01-28
Abstract: 251,031. Bourassa, J. C. E. Jan. 28, 1925. Jacks and the like. - In a lever linkage for operating lifting jacks &c., a plate or member 16 for carrying a load, applying pressure &c., is pivoted to a radius rod 5 and to a lever 7 having a sliding and rocking movement about a fixed abutment b preferably provided with an antifriction roller 11. Force is applied to the free end 10 of the lever through a rod 13 sliding in a guide 15 and actuated by hand directly or through a screw, or by steam or compressed air. The lever-end 10 is shaped so that the thrust is direct in all positions whilst the part 9 contacting with the abutment b is cam shaped so that the pressure transmitted through the plate 16 remains substantially constant.
Patent GB-1485693-A (GB)
Title: Neon lamps
IPC: H01J61/24
Filed: 1976-01-21
Abstract: 1485693 Glow discharge lamps HIVAC Ltd 21 Jan 1976 [21 Jan 1975] 2502/75 Heading H1D A neon lamp exhausted and filled through the same end as the entry of electrode leads 16 comprises a foil sleeve 20, preferably of square section, inserted in the narrow glass filling tube 18 to prevent its collapse during sealing-in. The electrodes 14 can be close to the far end 12 of the lamp and of form, e.g. plane or lenticular, to improve end viewing. Incorporated in a multi-station indexing turret machine (Figs. 3, 4, not shown), a sleeve forming device (Fig. 2, not shown) folds metal foil strip, able to bond to the glass after oxidation-preferably Cu, over a mandrel, preferably square, and cuts the strip from the stock. The mandrel then advances to feed a sleeve into a glass tube at an indexing station, a stripper bar rising to prevent withdrawal of the sleeve, which also grips resiliently in the tube. At later stations the tube is sealed in the lamp, the electrodes having been set in place, and finally evacuation, filling with neoncontaining inert gas and tube sealing take place.
Patent GB-906569-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to the catalytic cracking of paraffin hydrocarbons for the production of gas containing carbon monoxide and hydrogen
Inventor: HAESE EGON
IPC: C01B3/46
Filed: 1961-01-21
Abstract: 906,569. Producing gas containing carbon monoxide and hydrogen. SIMON-CARVES Ltd., and OTTO & CO. G.m.b.H., C. Jan. 21, 1961, No. 2503/61. Drawings to Specification. Class 55 (2). In a cyclic process for producing a gas containing carbon monoxide and hydrogen by cracking paraffinic hydrocarbons in admixture with steam and in the presence of a nickel catalyst, during a heating period the catalyst is oxidized and thereby heated by passage therethrough of air mixed with a waste gas, e.g. recycled waste gas produced during a heating period, and during a gas making period a mixture of the hydrocarbon and steam is passed through the bed of catalyst in a direction opposite to the direction of flow of the air/waste gas mixture. In practice the nickel catalyst is initially oxidized with air only and the air/waste gas mixture is formed and used after this initial period. Towards the end of a heating period the air may be shut off and waste gas only passed through the heated catalyst further to extend the heated zone in the catalyst.
Patent GB-649078-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to machines for filling and capping bottles and like containers
IPC: B67C7/00
Filed: 1947-10-24
Abstract: 649,078. Reciprocating pumps for lubricants. ENOCH, A. GRAHAM-, and GRAHAM-ENOCH MANUFACTURING CO., Ltd. Oct. 24, 1947, No. 2526/50. Divided out of 649,036. [Class 102(i)] [Also in Groups XVII and XXXIV] A gear box 53 of a bottle filling and capping machine (see Group XVII), forms a sump for lubricating oil which is distributed by reciprocating-plunger pumps 56 located at positions 57 in the gearbox wall concentric with a cam 58 rotated by gearing from a motor-driven shaft 45 to operate the pumps successively. Each pump 56 delivers through a feed pipe to one of the machine parts to be lubricated. Specification 649,079, [Group XVII], is referred to.
Patent GB-239430-A (GB)
Title: Apparatus for cutting lard, butter or margarine
IPC: B26D1/553
Filed: 1925-01-29
Abstract: 239,430. Baker, M., and Marksway Patents, Ltd. Jan. 29, 1925. Butter and cheese cutters.--Relates to improvements in the apparatus described in Specification 221,897, and consists in the provision of a two-part pusher block, Fig. 6, having projections 33 adapted to maintain the block in upright position on the base board when inserted in slots 34, Fig. 1. A smoothing blade may be supported at the ends in the cutter frame 3 and an auxiliary bar 12. Additional slotted side bars 18 are also. provided.
Patent GB-176334-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in envelopes with transparent panels
IPC: B65D27/04
Filed: 1922-01-28
Abstract: 176,334. Demignot, M. Feb. 28, 1921, [Convention date]. Envelopes.-An envelope, of the kind having a transparent panel located lengthwise of the envelope, for exposing the address on the enclosure is provided with internal gumming, glueing, or like fastening-means for localizing a sheet of notepaper folded to smaller dimensions than the envelope. In the example, showing an envelope partly unfolded, the depth a, b is made equal to the length of the longest side of an ordinary commercial envelope, and the length b, c has any desired greater length. The top and bottom flaps C are notched at C<1> so that when the gummed side flap D is sealed over the flaps C it also adheres to the front of the envelope through the notches C<1>, and thus prevents access of the enclosure into the part of the envelope beyond the line A<1>, A<2>. In addition, the side flap D may be gummed transversely to adhere to the front of the envelope along the line A<1>, A<2>, or the notches C' may be omitted in this case.
Patent GB-1195102-A (GB)
Title: Transducer Apparatus.
Inventor: KADLEC C
IPC: G01G19/07
Filed: 1967-05-05
Abstract: 1,195,102. Weighing electrically. BLH ELECTRONICS, Inc. May 5, 1967 [June 17, 1966], No.2635/70. Divided out of 1,195,101. Heading G1N. The description is identical with that of the parent Specification 1,195,101, but the claims relate to a feature of the load sensor, comprising a hollow, tubular, deformable portion inside which electrical strath gauges are sealed, being bonded to the surface of the deformable portion.
Patent GB-674421-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to methods of making moulds and cores for casting metals, and parts of such moulds and cores
Inventor: HOPKINS JACK ROWLAND
IPC: B22C9/12
Filed: 1947-01-28
Abstract: A composition for making moulds and cores for casting metals comprises 100 parts by weight of sand passing a sieve having 100 meshes per linear inch and 9 parts by weight of thermosetting phenol-formaldehyde resin.  For casting aluminium, 4 parts by weight only of resin may be used.
Patent GB-983180-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in liners which are subject to wear by abrasion
IPC: B02C17/22
Filed: 1963-01-22
Abstract: 983,180. Mats. R. F. BOURNE, and D. G. CHEYNE. Jan. 22, 1963 [March 8, 1962; Sept. 24, 1962 (2)], No. 2653/63. Heading A4S. [Also in Divisions B2, B8 and E1] A mat comprises renewable rod-like liner members of rigid abrasion-resisting metal such as steel, locked together by key elements. The invention is shown in Fig. 3 as applied to the lining of a grinding mill, the rod members 2 being keyed together by rubber elements 7 and applied to a rubber backing pad 1 which may be of trough-shape to embrace a group of rods; in the latter case, the keys can either engage ribs 4 or be bonded to end flanges 5 of the backing pad 1. Several groups of liners, each group embraced by a pad 1, may be arranged side-by-side, the liner members 2 extending over the end flanges of the pad so as to form a continuous surface with the adjacent liners. As shown in Fig. 11, the liner members 17 can be bolted to a casing or drum 20 by a pair of key plates 21 wedged by a bolt 22, a rubber pad 19 being interposed between the members 17. and the casing; alternatively, only one key plate may be provided bolted direct to the casing.
Patent GB-714784-A (GB)
Title: Improvements to garden cloches
Inventor: JARAY FRANCIS FERDINAND
IPC: A01G13/02
Filed: 1952-02-01
Abstract: 714,784. Horticultural cloches. GARDEN PLASTICS, Ltd. Jan. 14, 1953 [Feb. 1, 1952], No. 2669/52. Class 20 (1). A light weight cloche is formed from a flexible light transmissive material, e.g. polyvinyl chloride by blowing the material into a mould, by rolling, or by pressing, and is provided with a series of strengthening creases 4 arranged to resist flexure of the otherwise flexible material. In order to allow end-to-end interlocking of the cloches each cloche, at one end, is reduced, or enlarged. The cloche, which may be closed at its ends, has outwardly directed flanges 5. In a barn type cloche, Fig. 3, the angular relationship between the surfaces is maintained by gusset-like creases 10.
Patent GB-1379250-A (GB)
Title: Catalytic hydrogenation of adiponitrile to hexamethylenediamine
IPC: C07C209/00
Filed: 1973-01-19
Abstract: 1379250 Hexamethylene diamine E I DU PONT DE NEMOURS & CO 19 Jan 1973 [21 April 1972] 2898/73 Heading C2C Hexamethylene diamine is made by hydrogenating adiponitrile at 70 to 260 C. and under superatmospheric pressure in the presence of (a) ammonia, (b) a substantially elemental iron catalyst in granular form which has been activated with hydrogen and optionally ammonia, (c) from 10 to 500 p.p.m. based on the weight of the adiponitrile of an aliphatic, cycloaliphatic or aromatic polyhydroxy compound containing 2 to 12 carbon atoms and optionally, (d) a small amount of water. Preferred polyhydroxy compounds are sorbitol, ethylene glycol, glycerol, trans-1,2-cyclohexanediol and hydrated glyoxal and others specified are mannitol, catechol, pyrogallol, galactose, glucose, 1,2- and 1,3-propanediol, cis-1,2-cyclohexanediol and tetra-(hydroxyethyl)-ethylenediamine.
Patent GB-1027263-A (GB)
Title: Thiocarbanilides and process for preparing them
IPC: C07C335/18
Filed: 1963-01-23
Abstract: <PICT:1027263/C2/1> The invention comprises 3,5-dichloro-41-fluorothiocarbanilide and processes for its preparation comprising reacting p-fluorophenyl isothiocyanate with 3,5-dichloroaniline, or reacting 3,5-dichlorophenyl isothiocyanate with p-fluoroaniline.  Pharmaceutical compositions having anti-inflammatory and antifungal activity comprise the compound of the invention and a carrier. The compositions may be in the form of pomades and ointments.
Patent GB-733413-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to starch derivatives and their conversion products
IPC: C08B31/00
Filed: 1951-02-06
Abstract: In making starch derivatives, powdered starch is condensed with an etherifying or acetal-forming reagent under substantial vacuum, at elevated temperatures and with continuous evaporation of water to form a starch ether or starch acetal which, in the absence of oxygen, can then be heated at a higher temperature and cooled to yield a conversion product.  Water may be evaporated partially or completely. The reagent may be added to the starch under vacuum. It may be gaseous.  Suitable reagents are diazomethane, formaldehyde, paraformaldehyde, chloroacetic acid, ethylene oxide, glyoxal, hexamethylene tetramine, mono- or polymethylol-carbamides and aldehyde-bisulphite compounds. Catalysts such as hydrochloric acid gas, sodium chloride, ammonium chloride and aluminium chloride may be present.  Heating at the higher temperature and cooling may be performed in vacuo, in an inert atmosphere, e.g. nitrogen, or in a non-oxidizing medium.  Hydrolytic degradation may be effected before, during or after condensation.  Sodium starch, or starch pretreated with sulphurous acid, alcoholic aqueous sodium hydroxide, ferments, ultrasonic waves or radioactive influences may be used. Specifications 630,914 and 733,450, [both in Group V], are referred to.ALSO:Powdered starch is condensed with an etherifying or acetal-forming reagent under substantial vacuum, at elevated temperatures and with continuous evaporation of water to form a starch ether or starch acetal which, the absence of oxygen, can then be heated at a higher temperature and cooled to yield a conversion product.  Water may be evaporated partially or completely.  The reagent may be added to the starch under vacuum. It may be gaseous. Suitable reagents are: diazomethane, formaldehyde, paraformaldehyde, chloroacetic acid, ethylene oxide, glyoxal, hexamethylene tetramine, mono- or polymethylol-carbamides and aldehyde-bisulphite compounds. Catalysts such as hydrochloric acid gas, sodium chloride, ammonium chloride and aluminium chloride may be present.  Heating at the higher temperature and cooling may be performed in vacuo, in an inert atmosphere, e.g. nitrogen, or in a non-oxidizing medium. Hydrolytic degradation may be effected before, during or after condensation. Sodium starch and starch pre-treated with sulphurous acid, alcoholic aqueous sodium hydroxide, ferments, ultrasonic waves or radioactive influences may be used. Specifications 630,914 and 733,450 are referred to.
Patent GB-853374-A (GB)
Title: Benzimidazolium compounds
Filed: 1959-01-27
Abstract: The invention comprises compounds of the general formula : <FORM:0853374/IV(b)/1> (wherein R1 is an unsaturated C1-4 aliphatic hydrocarbon radical, R2 and R3 are like or unlike aryl, aralkyl, halogenaralkyl, heteroaryl or heteroaralkyl radicals, and X-is a halogen ion), and the preparation thereof by reacting a compound of the general formula :  <FORM:0853374/IV(b)/2> with a reactive ester of an unsaturated C1-4 aliphatic hydrocarbon radical; or, when R3 is an aralkyl or heteroaralkyl radical, reacting a compound of the general formula :  <FORM:0853374/IV(b)/3> with a reactive ester of a hydroxymethyl-halogenaralkyl or hydroxymethylheteroaryl compound. Specification 849,793 is referred to.