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Patent GB-810016-A (GB)
Title: Textile rub apron
IPC: D01G15/60
Filed: 1957-02-19
Abstract: A textile processing apron, e.g. a rubbing apron for a carding machine, comprises a matrix of elastomeric material having dispersed therein rounded particles, e.g. of frangible siliceous material, the textile contacting surface of the apron having been ground or otherwise treated to remove the particles embedded in the outer layer and to leave voids therein.  The frangible siliceous particles are preferably hollow spherical particles of fused and expanded clay. The elastomeric material may be a composition of natural rubber or of butadieneacrylic nitrile copolymer, polychloroprene, butadiene-styrene copolymer, or a polysulphide.  An apron is described (see Group IX) having a surface layer of a composition comprising (in parts by weight) chloroprene 100, coumarone indene resin 4, hydrated calcium silicate 40, vulcanizing ingredients, and 20 to 150 parts by weight of hollow spherical particles of fused and expanded clay of 0.001 to 0.09 inch diameter.  U.S.A. Specification 2,676,892 is referred to.
Patent GB-1374766-A (GB)
Title: Optical apparatus
IPC: G02B27/64
Filed: 1971-12-22
Abstract: 1374766 Stabilizing optical images RANK ORGANISATION Ltd 22 Dec 1971 [5 Jan 1971] 05528/74 Divided out of 1374765 Heading G2J Undesired image movement in optical instruments liable to vibrate in use, e.g. cameras, binoculars and telescopes, is prevented by an apparatus comprising a fibre optic element mounted optically to the rear of the image plane of an image-forming element, e.g. a spherically concave mirror with the output end of the fibre optic element fixed and its input end movable in the image plane, a detector responsive to vibration in the optical instrument, and drive means responsive to the detector for moving the input end in correspondence with the movements of the image resulting from the vibrations to provide a stable image at the output end. The input end of the  fibre optic element may be driven by a servodrive device coupled to a gyroscope responsive to the vibrations in the instrument, the apparatus being as described in Specification 1374765. A lens may replace the mirror as the image-forming element.
Patent GB-932009-A (GB)
Title: Hydraulic support system for supporting the roofs of face galleries in mines
IPC: E21D23/00
Filed: 1960-02-16
Abstract: 932,009. Hydraulic apparatus. GEWERKSCHAFT EISENHUTTE WESTFALIA. Feb. 16, 1960 [March 2, 1959], No. 5536/60. Class 69 (2). An hydraulic mine roof support system comprises props 9, 10 in support frames 6, 8 assembled to form frameworks 6, and spaced pumps 13 disposed along the seam, each pump feeding an interconnected group A, B of support frames. Each framework has an hydraulic or pneumatically operated shifting cylinder 11 for alternately advancing the frames, the props of which are supplied with hydraulic pressure from pipes 12 connected to the pumps 13. The pumps draw fluid from a low-pressure pipe line or containers 14, the pumps and containers being dragged forward as the frameworks advance. A conveyer 4 for coal removed from the face by a cutter 2 is advanced by cylinders 15 supported by the roof support sytem or separate props.
Patent GB-1368724-A (GB)
Title: Coil-winding apparatus
IPC: H01F41/10
Filed: 1973-02-05
Abstract: 1368724 Attaching connecting lugs to coils; shearing ANO-COIL Ltd 5 Feb 1973 [5 Feb 1972] 5581/73 Headings B3A and B3W Coil winding apparatus having means for attaching connecting lugs 24a, 24e, i.e. conductors extending from the side of the wound coil and electrically connected thereto, comprises a table 16 providing a guide path for the coil material, e.g. metal tape 12, a tool for attaching the lugs to the coil material, a feed slide 31 reciprocable transversely of the guide path, a reciprocable cutter slide 30 located between the feed slide and table 16, means for moving the slides from an inoperative position up to the table, means for operating the lug attachment tool and means for actuating a cutter 50 on the slide 30 to sever the coil material after the feed slide has returned to the inoperative position. When a coil 20 has been wound, the apparatus is stopped and pressure cylinders 38, 46 are actuated. The cylinder 38 moves the feed slide 31, which holds the lug material in slots 48 by means of a clamp actuated by the cylinder 46, and the cutter slide 30 until the latter abuts the table 16. Movement of the slide 31 is continued until it abuts the slide 30, thereby compressing a spring 40. The lug material now overlies the metal tape 12 and it is clamped to it by a press ram 17. Projections on the ram 17 electrically and mechanically connect the lugs 24a, 24e to the tape 12. The pressure cylinder 46 unclamps the lug material on the slide 31 and the cylinder 38 is actuated to withdraw the slide 31 while the spring 40 maintains the slide 30 in abutment with the table, until it is engaged by a stop 56 when both slides move in unison. At the end of the return stroke of the cylinder 38, the slide 31 engages a limit switch 60, which actuates a cylinder 52 to cut the lug material by means of a cutter 50 and shear-edge 51 and winding of the next coil 20 commences.
Patent GB-1173601-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to the Manufacture of Cartons and Packets.
Inventor: SMITH HARRY WILLIAM
IPC: B31B50/16
Filed: 1966-02-09
Abstract: 1,173,601. Creasing; embossing; Cutting. PEMBROKE CARTON & PRINTING CO. Ltd. 3 Feb., 1967 [9 Feb., 1966], No. 5608/66. Heading B6J. Cutting; creasing.-In the manufacture of cartons in which a number of identical carton blanks are cut and creased in a single operation in a press using cutting and creasing dies cooperating with bottom dies on the platen of the press, a " master " of a desired bottom die is produced (identical in form and outline shape with said bottom die) and a plurality of identical bottom dies are produced from the master (e.g. by moulding, electroforming, cutting or etching) a required number of these reproduced bottom dies is secured to the platen, one in register with each of a plurality of cutting and creasing dies made up to conform to the bottom dies, so as to match and co-operate with them and mounted in the press. In a preferred embodiment a mould is produced directly from the " master " which has been formed as an engraving on brass or steel and the identical bottom dies 13 are produced from the mould. The bottom dies are position on the platen by locating them on the cutting and creasing dies (in correct register therewith) and with spacers 32 between them and the cutting and creasing dies and closing the press with a layer of adhesive between the bottom dies and the platen so that they become correctly registered thereon. In an alternative embodiment the " master " may be formed directly as a mould. Cutting and creasing dies.-The cutting and creasing dies are made up in a frame 25, Fig. 4, mounting cutting blades 27 and creasing rule 28. Blades 27 and rules 28 are spaced apart and gripped by blocks 30 of laminated wood. In use the rules co-operate with channels 15 in the bottom dies and the blades with a hardened surface of the platen. Embossing.-Embossing pieces may be present, between the rules on the bottom dies, which co-operate with counterparts 43 on the cutting and creasing dies simultaneously to emboss the blanks as they are formed.
Patent GB-789373-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to valve control devices
Inventor: LONG CHARLES
IPC: G05D11/00
Filed: 1954-02-25
Abstract: 789,373. Valves. POWER JETS (RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT), Ltd. Feb. 25, 1955 [Feb. 25, 1954], No. 5609/54. Class 135. A linkage mechanism for operating two or more valves simultaneously whilst maintaining substantially constant the ratio of openings of the valves, and providing for individual adjustment of any of the valves to alter the ratio, con - sists of links 7, 8 pivoted together at B and connected respectively by a pivot at A to a link 9 which is connected to one valve 4 and at O to a fixed pivot on a member 13. A second valve 41 is connected to a similar linkage, whilst a member 12 interconnects both linkages at their points A and is linked to a lever 10 pivoted at 15 for operating the valves simultaneously. For the individual adjustment of the valves the points B are connected by links 14, 14<1> with adjusters 5, 51. For obtaining a closer approximation to a constant ratio of valve openings two modifications are described, in one of which each link 8, instead of being connected directly to the member 13, is connected to one end of a lever which is pivoted at its mid-point to the member 13 and whose other end is pivoted to a link which has a cross-connection parallel to the member 12 and passing through a point in the lever 10 to the left of its pivot 15. In the other modification the member 12 is connected to the points O of the links 7, 8 whilst the point A of each link 7 is pivotally connected to a further link which is pivoted to the fixed member 13. The invention is applicable to the control of valves supplying liquid fuel to nozzles.
Patent GB-1191311-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to Variable-Geometry Aircraft
Inventor: BIRD WALTER JOHN
IPC: B64C3/40
Filed: 1967-02-06
Abstract: 1,191,311. Variable geometry aircraft. BRITISH AIRCRAFT CORP. Ltd. 29 Jan., 1968 [6 Feb., 1967], No. 5619/67. Headings B7G and B7W. [Also in Division F2] A variable geometry aircraft comprises a fuselage 10 and wings 11 relatively movable to vary the sweep back, each wing being connected to the fuselage by members 14, 15 secured to the wing root 111 engaging an arcuate trackway 16, 17, 19 (e.g. via rollers 21, 30, 18 or sliding shoes) disposed in the fuselage the trackway having a centre of curvature 104 located outside the fuselage and any fixed appendage thereto, this centre 104 being effectively the centre about which the wings are rotated. Wing movement may be controlled by a single hydraulic motor (34), Fig. 6 (not shown), driving, via bevel gearing (35, 37), a cordan shaft (38), a worm (42) and worm-wheel (43), a pinion (44) engaging a rack (45) mounted on a rail 40 on the wing. When the wing 11 and fuselage 12 meet there may be retractable doors as in Specification 1,086,151 to close the varying gap in the fuselage aft of each wing and forward of each wing a two-part retractable fairing 112 which moves rearward when retracting, a mechanism for performing this is described. Mechanical, fluid and electrical services from the fuselage may be taken by telescopic connections 20 having pivot joints at their ends.
Patent GB-900774-A (GB)
Title: Electrically conductive arrangements capable of exhibiting the thermo-electric or peltier effect
IPC: H01L35/00
Filed: 1959-02-18
Abstract: 900,774. Thermo-electric arrangements. SIEMENS & HALSKE A.G. Feb. 18, 1959 [Feb. 19, 1958], No. 5631/59. Class 37. At least one of the members of a thermoelectric arrangement consists of particles of doped semi - conductor material separated by a normally insulating material, the spacing between the particles being small so that the insulating material becomes conductive by tunnel effect whereby the Lorenz number (i.e. ratio of heat conductivity to electrical conductivity) of the whole substance is low compared to the Lorenz number of the particle material. The insulating material may consist of organic varnishes, synthetic materials, glass or ceramic materials and the semi-conductor of doped A 3 B 5  compounds, silicon, silicon-carbide or germanium and the doping impurity of boron or antimony. The required distribution of the particles may be obtained by means of supersonic waves electrophoresis, or by providing chemical compounds such as oxides, fluorides, hydrides, carbides and nitrides on the surfaces of the particles and sintering under pressure. A further reduction in the Lorenz number can be achieved by embedding gas bubbles in the suspension. The particles may be 1 Á in size and the spacing between 5 and 100 . Fig. 5 shows an arrangement for employing the Peltier effect comprising, a pair of metal elements 12 separated by an element 13 of material consisting of the separated semiconductor particles as described above.
Patent GB-1249287-A (GB)
Title: Pyrazolone colour couplers
IPC: G03C7/384
Filed: 1970-02-05
Abstract: 1,249,287. Monoazo dyes. KONISHIROKU PHOTO INDUSTRY CO. Ltd. 5 Feb., 1970 [6 Feb., 1969], No. 5662/70. Heading C4P. [Also in Divisions C2 and G2] Monoazo dyes of formula wherein R is a C 8 _ 18  alkyl or alkenyl group, A is -NHCO- or -NH-, each X is halogen or a methyl, alkoxy, aryloxy, alkaryloxy or alkoxycarbonyl group, n is 1, 2 or 3, Y is hydrogen or halogen and Z is an arylazo or alkoxyarylazo group are prepared by (a) reaction of a 1- (substituted phenyl) 3-(aminobenzamido or aminoanilino)-5-pyrazolone with an alkyl or alkenyl succinic anhydride, followed by cyclization, or (b) reaction of a compound of the above formula wherein Z is hydrogen with a diazotized amine. An exemplified product is 1-(2,4,6- trichlorophenyl) - 3 - (3 octadecylsuccinimidobenzamido) - 4 (4 - methoxyphenylazo - ) - 5 - pyrazolone. The products are used in silver halide photographic emulsions (see Division G2).
Patent GB-509343-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in soap products and in the manufacture thereof
IPC: C11D9/02
Filed: 1938-02-23
Abstract: 509,343. Soap compositions. LEVER BROS. & UNILEVER, Ltd., THOMAS, R., and OAKLEY, H. B. Feb. 23, 1938, No. 5687. Addition to 492,719. [Class 91] Sodium soaps derived from polyethylenic fatty acids or mixtures thereof with monoethylenic fatty acids are admixed with alkali metal polyphosphates in the ratio (anhydrous polyphosphate/fatty acid) of from 1. : 4 to 1 : 2, the products being produced in powder, flake puffed or other rapidly soluble form. Soaps of saturated fatty acids may be included, but the proportion of saturated acids must not exceed 40 per cent of the total fatty acid content. The products give a clear solution in water, even on boiling, and avoid scum formation. Ingredients which do not affect these properties, e.g. sodium chloride, sulphate, borate, perborate, acetate or silicate may be added. The soaps may be derived from groundnut, olive, kapok, rape, soya bean or sunflower oil, or commercial oleins, or slightly hardened groundnut or sunflower oil. The groundnut oil may be mixed with coconut oil, and a small proportion of rosin may be included in the fatty acid mixtures. The products may be admixed with those prepared according to the parent Specification. Specifications 435,710, 435,861 and 443,731 are referred to.
Patent GB-928957-A (GB)
Title: An improved method for manufacturing compound press tools
IPC: B21D37/20
Filed: 1961-02-15
Abstract: 928,957. Making punches and dies. ATVIDABERG-FACIT A.B. Feb. 15, 1961 [Feb. 15, 1960], No. 5700/61. Class 83 (2). In a method of making press tools a die is formed in a known manner and is used to impress a contour on to a face-plate temporarily secured to a roughly machined punch blank and the punch blank is then accurately machined to this contour. A ground top face of a punch blank 5 is coated with a marking paint and the outline 7 of a finished die 1 is transferred to it by pressing them together. The blank 5 is rough machined to the outline and a metal plate 9 of a slightly larger form is temporarily fixed to the face as by soldering or cementing. The blank 5 and the die 1 are again forced together so that the die form is impressed on to the plate 9 and then blank 5 is cut transversely into two and the faces ground, the top carrying the plate 9 becoming an ejector 10 and the bottom a punch 11. The die 1 is inverted and the ejector 10 located therein by the die contour of the plate 9 and the holes 12, Fig. 8, are jig drilled followed by the rejoining of the punch 11 to the ejector 10. The punch 11 is now drilled using holes 12 as guides followed by the removal of the plate 9 and the separation of ejector 10 and punch 11 which are hardened, annealed and ground. The plate 9, ejector 10 and punch 11 are re-assembled, dowelled and finish ground to the contour on plate 9 after which they are separated and the punch is pickled to obtain the required clearance. They are then assembled together as shown in Fig. 15.
Patent GB-1462746-A (GB)
Title: Sewage treatment
IPC: C02F1/02
Filed: 1975-02-11
Abstract: 1462746 Disinfecting sewage VSES N-I INST VETERINAR VIRUSOL I MIKROBIOL 11 Feb 1975 5788/75 Heading C1C Micro-organisms in sewage are inactivated by subjecting the sewage sequentially to: (i) heating to not more than 100‹ C. (e.g. 80-90‹ C.), (ii) pressurisation, (iii) a pressure drop by passing through a nozzle, (iv) steam injection to produce a temp. above 100‹ C. (e.g. 130-140‹ C.), (v) holding under pressure at above 100‹ C. for a period sufficient for inactivation. The above steps (which may be preceded by comminution of dispersed solids to a size of 4-6 mm.) are preferably effected thus: (i) by heat exchange with the inactivated product, or by passing steam through the nozzle of a "jet apparatus" to provide a vacuum which draws sewage into the chamber of the apparatus; (ii) by pumping; (iii) and (iv) by passing the sewage through the nozzle of a "jet apparatus" to provide a vacuum which draws steam into the chamber of the apparatus; (v) by passing for ¢-15 min. through a coiled pipe whose outlet is controlled by a valve, and which contains cyclones (fastened metallic helical inserts) to impart a helical motion to the sewage.
Patent GB-912697-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to domestic coffee or tea machines
IPC: A47J31/44
Filed: 1961-02-16
Abstract: 912,697. Coffee and tea infusers. ORTEX A.G. Feb. 16, 1961 [Feb. 19,1960], No. 5809/61. Class 129. An evacuated and partly liquid-filled container 22 for an electric heating coil 23 has an upper wall 24 forming the base of a sheet metal water container 2 and a lower wall 25 forming a pressure-sensitive diaphragm actuating a cut-off switch 26. As shown, a glass beverage container 5 seats via a seal 20 on the container 2 and has a handle (not shown), a spout 6, a lid 8, a spray distributer 9 and a filter insert 10 for coffee powder through which water is passed from the container 2 via a pipe 13, pressed down against a spring 17 on raising a handle 15 of a retaining yoke 4, in which the tube runs, so that a bore 13b coacts with an insert entry pipe 12. Seals 18, 19 are provided. There is a pressure-equalizing bore 13c, which may be covered by a leaf spring 21, and steam outlets 31.
Patent GB-945972-A (GB)
Title: A process and apparatus for separating the components of gas or vapour mixtures
IPC: B04B5/08
Filed: 1959-02-20
Abstract: 945,972. Separating gases by liquid solvents. L. A. G. ATTECK. Feb. 19, 1960 [Feb. 20. 1959], No. 5830/59. Heading B1L. The components of a gas mixture are separated by passing said mixture into an area of an annular face at one end of a cylindrical or frusto-conical body of an inert particulate or porous material rotating about its axis, providing a liquid in a channel passing through and coaxial with said body and recovering at least one separated gas component from an annular face at the other end of said body. The gas may be separated by elution technique by feeding the mixture to the outer edge of the channel for liquid and feeding the eluting gas over the remainder of the face of the body, or by frontal technique by feeding the mixture over the entire face of the body. Fig. 5 shows an apparatus suitable for performing the process wherein the body b is frustro-conical and supported by a chamber a having a porous or perforated member c defining the channel for liquid. Gas is admitted to face d through inlet m and separated components are collected in chambers h. Liquid entering the channel through inlet i flows under the influence of the centrifugal force outwardly through the body and is recovered at j for recycling to inlet i. The chamber and body are rotated by device g and seals for the rotating parts are provided at x. Detectors k are placed in the gas outlet streams and the apparatus has a stationary vapour jacket I which strips most of the dissolved gas before the liquid is recycled.
Patent GB-103233-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Joining Together Glass Surfaces.
IPC: C03B23/20
Filed: 1916-04-20
Abstract: 103,233. Hilger, Ltd., A., Twyman, F., Parker, R. G., and Dalladay, A. J. April 20, 1916. Drawings to Specification. Joining glass surfaces; forming lenses; forming silica-glass articles.-Glass or silica-glass surfaces are joined together in the manufacture of prisms, lenses, polarimeter tubes, and other tubes and cells for use in optical measurements, by cleaning the surfaces, pressing them together in optical contact, and then submitting them to a sufficiently high temperature to cause them to join without causing permanent distortion. For example, in the manufacture of an optical cell from a glass having a melting-point of 1100‹ C. and an annealing-point of 600‹ C., the cleaned surfaces are clamped together in optical contact under a pressure of 15 lb. per sq. in., and the cell is maintained for two hours at a temperature of 500-520‹ C.
Patent GB-1412257-A (GB)
Title: Complexes containing phosphorus
IPC: C07F15/00
Filed: 1972-02-09
Abstract: 1412257 Binuclear metal-phosphorus complexes containing organo-silicon groups DOW CORNING Ltd 31 Jan 1973 [9 Feb 1972] 5940/72 Heading C3S The invention comprises complexes of the formulae in cis or trans form, and wherein M denotes Pt or Pd, X denotes Br, Cl, I; or -SCN, R<SP>1</SP> denotes R 3 SiQ- in which R denotes alkyl, aryl, aralkyl or alkaryl having less than 19 carbon atoms or not more than one R may also denote (CH 3 ) 3 Si-; and Q denotes a C 1-6  divalent hydrocarbon radical, R<SP>11</SP> and R<SP>111</SP> denote R 3 SiQ- or alkyl, aryl, aralkyl or alkaryl groups having less than 19 carbon atoms, Y denotes Br, Cl, I, -SCN or -SZ in which Z denotes phenyl or C 1-17  alkyl. Compounds in which M denotes Pt and X and Y denote halogen are prepared by reacting mononuclear complexes Pt(PR<SP>1</SP>R<SP>11</SP>R<SP>111</SP>) 2 X 2  with platinum II halides PtX 2 . Compounds in which M denotes Pd and X and Y denote chlorine are prepared by reacting mononuclear complexes with an ammonium or alkali metal chloropalladite. Compounds in which M denotes Pd and X and Y are Br or I are prepared by reacting together a phosphine PR<SP>1</SP>R<SP>11</SP>R<SP>111</SP>, sodium tetrachloropalladite hydrate and an alkali metal bromide or iodide. Compounds in which Y denotes -SZ are prepared by reacting an appropriate thiol with corresponding compounds in which Y denotes Cl. Compounds in which X and/or Y denote -SCN are prepared by the reaction of alkali metal thiocyanates with corresponding complexes in which X and Y denote Cl. An example describes the preparation of Uses.-As catalysts for the hydrosilation of aliphatic carbon to carbon double bonds and for hydrogenation reactions, and as intermediates in the reaction with primary and secondary amines to form nitrogen and phosphoruscontaining complexes.
Patent GB-1087768-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to the production of uranium tetrafluoride
Inventor: BERTHOT JEAN
IPC: C01G43/06
Filed: 1965-02-11
Abstract: UF6 is reduced to UF4 by a reducing gas in the presence of 0.1 to 3% by weight of ClF3. 1 to 4 times the stoichiometric quantity of reducing gas is used.  The UF4/ClF3 mixture and the reducing gas, e.g. H2 or cracked ammonia, are separately preheated to 150 DEG  to 400 DEG  C. The mixture is introduced first into the upper part of a reactor, at 500 DEG  to 600 DEG  C., followed by the reducing gas. The uncompacted density of the UF4 is varied, e.g. to 0.1 or 0.5 grams/c.c. by adjusting the amount of ClF3.