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Patent GB-2474677-A (GB)
Title: Door mounted mail collector
Inventor: COSTA ANIBAL AUGUSTO FERNANDES LEITE
IPC: A47G29/122
Filed: 2009-10-22
Abstract: A mail collector comprises a flexible web 1 with fasteners, such as rigid bars 3 having screw holes, for fastening the web above and below a mail slot 2 to define a pouch below the slot. The web is preferably a soft plastics or polymeric material and is preferably transparent. The mail collector pouch may have open sides and an end of the web may be configured so as to hang from the upper fastener and extend into the pouch. The mail collector prevents items of mail being deposited on the floor where they can cause persons to trip or slip and can be difficult to pick up. The use of a flexible soft for the pouch prevents damage being caused to an adjacent wall or user when a door having a mail slot to which the pouch is attached is opened.
Patent GB-2465690-A (GB)
Title: Collapsible tradeshow display with curved panel
Inventor: FRITSCHE MARK
IPC: G09F15/00
Filed: 2009-12-01
Abstract: A collapsible tradeshow display 10 includes a frame assembly 12 and curved end panels 100 that provide for easier attachment and eliminate the possibility of dramatic disengagement of the panel from the display. Each end panel 100 has a generally planar body comprised of a resilient material having a tendency to return to a generally flat configuration when in a curved configuration. A pair of side margins extend along opposing vertical sides of the body, each having a bridge portion 114, 116 attached thereto. A connecting means 118, 120 can connect the bridge portions 114, 116 to retain the panel 100 in the curved configuration. The connecting means may either comprise discrete points of attachment between the bridging portions, or a continuous attachment along edges of the bridging portions, preferably by means of a zip fastener. The side margins may comprise a magnetic material to connect to a magnetic material 22 on the frame assembly.
Patent GB-2475902-A (GB)
Title: Downloading a media element as part of entering a low power state on activation of a HID device.
Inventor: GUNN JEFFREY MATTHEW TITCHENER
IPC: G06F1/32
Filed: 2009-12-04
Abstract: A system for serving a media element to a device at a time when the device may not be connected to an external media server is provided. The computing device comprises a HID device (150) that can be activated by the user to place the device in a low power mode. The device initiates a program that downloads a media element, preferably to RAM, from the remote server prior to entering a sleep or low power mode. On reawaking to full power the media element is displayed, preferably as part of a splash screen, at a time when the computer may not be connected to the server. The selection of the media element downloaded may vary according to the location, demographics or preferences of the user or the supplier. The program may also continually poll the server during normal operation. The HID device may be a USB device. The program may also calculate an amount of money used, energy saved or carbon emissions for display on the splash screen.
Patent GB-2476467-A (GB)
Title: Apparatus for cutting hedges
Inventor: PULLAN ANDREW
IPC: A01D34/86
Filed: 2009-12-22
Abstract: Apparatus101for cutting hedges102or vegetation comprises a drive mechanism103, and a main body104mounted on the drive mechanism. An articulated arm105is mounted on the main body. The articulated arm comprises a plurality of portions113,105,106, each portion being pivotally joined to an adjacent one of said portions. The apparatus has mechanical means108,204for causing rotation of one of the portions with respect to an adjacent one of the portions. A cutting tool109is mounted on the articulated arm105. The main body104may be pivotally mounted on the drive mechanism103and the apparatus may further comprise a shaft114supported by the main body104which is rotatable about a vertical axis and an offset arm113is mounted on the shaft114such that the offset arm113is able to swing about a first axis. The articulated arm105may have an end portion extending along a swivel mounting110which is connected to the cutting tool109so that the tool can be rotated about the mounting.
Patent GB-1142741-A (GB)
Title: Earthboring drill bits
IPC: E21B10/18
Filed: 1966-03-08
Abstract: 1,142,741. Boring earth &c. REED ROLLER BIT CO. 8 March, 1966 [13 Aug., 1965], No. 10052/66. Heading E1F. A roller bit carried by a stem 14 has a hollow detritus intake 15 communicating with the interior of the stem for reverse flow of drilling fluid. The intake extends close to the bore hole bottom and may have flexible forward, rearward or -downward extensions. In an embodiment in which the air used as drilling fluid entrains water in the bore hole, the stem comprises coaxial tubes (32, 33 Fig. 4, not shown) and the air passes down between the tubes. Some of the air passes through openings (40) into the inner tube, and the remainder passes through conduits (35, 37) to be discharged adjacent the bore bottom.
Patent GB-527303-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in apparatus for feeding fuel into continuous kilns
IPC: F27D99/00
Filed: 1939-03-31
Abstract: 527,303. Feeding fuel to kilns. PROCTER, J. March 31, 1939, No. 10168. [Class 51 (ii)] A portable apparatus for feeding fuel to the firing holes of continuous kilns has a hopper 12 communicating witha channelled upper portion 10 of a cylindrical shoot 11 in which is arranged a rotary shaft 13 provided with agitating and feeding elements 17, 17<SP>1</SP> and driven by pawl and ratchet and bevel gearing at its upper end. The ratchet gear may comprise one pawl or two pawls 25<SP>1</SP>, 25", as shown, mounted on an arm 24 which is oscillated through a system of links and levers from an eccentric which may actuate the shafts 13 of one or more hoppers and shoots. The agitating members 17 consist of helical vanes on spaced bosses 18 and are arranged in staggered relation. The feeding members 17<SP>1</SP> are arranged to provide a continuous helical vane on bosses 18 which are in contact. Alternatively, the shaft may be provided with a continuous helical worm. The lower end of the shaft 13 is supported in a disc 16, which is provided with discharge apertures 16'. The disc 16 is removable and replaceable by discs having apertures selected according to the size of the fuel being used. Instead of employing removable discs the apertures in the discs may be controlled by a shutter. The lower end of the shoot engages with a recess provided in a removable cover plate 31 having an observation aperture 33 and a projection 11<SP>1</SP> on the shoot bears against the top of the cover plate. The shoot is also supported in position over the firing hole by legs 30. Instead of using the cover plate 31, the lower end of the shoot may be provided with a flange for supporting it over the firing opening.
Patent GB-266928-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to the forging of ingots
IPC: B21J1/04
Filed: 1926-04-17
Abstract: 266,928. Mitchell, E. April 17, 1926. Castings. - Ingots a of magnesium or other light metal or alloy are, while hot, given a spherical form by forging between dies b, c before being forged into disc or other desired shape. This is stated to avoid the formation of cracks.
Patent GB-678183-A (GB)
Title: Cycloalkylbenzoylaliphatic acids and process of making the same
IPC: C07C65/00
Filed: 1950-04-26
Abstract: The invention comprises cycloalkylbenzoylaliphatic acids of the general formula <FORM:0678183/IV (b)/1> and salts thereof where R is a cycloalkyl radical, X is hydrogen or alkyl and A is a bivalent aliphatic hydrocarbon radical having from 2-8 carbon atoms.  The aromatic nucleus may also be substituted by alkyl and alkoxyl radicals containing not more than 5 carbon atoms.  Radicals mentioned which are denoted by R include cyclohexyl, cyclopentyl, cyclobutyl and cycloheptyl.  The compounds are prepared by reading a cycloalkylphenyl alkyl ether with a dibasic aliphatic anhydride or halide derived from an acid of the formula HOOC-A-COOH in the presence of a Friedel-Crafts type catalyst.  The reaction takes place in an inert solvent such as carbon disulphide or halogen hydrocarbons.  Dibasic acids of the above formula mentioned include succinic, glutaric, glutaconic, adipic, pimelic, suberic, sebacic, maleic and fumaric acids.  The salts of the acids of the invention are prepared by treating the acids with an aqueous solution of an inorganic alkali or an amine or an alkanol amine.  The invention also includes the conversion of the saturated acids formed as above into unsaturated acids by halogenation and elimination of hydrogen halide. In examples the following compounds are prepared: (1) b -(3-cyclohexyl-4-methoxybenzoyl)-propionic acid; (2) b -(3-cyclohexyl-4-methoxybenzoyl)-acrylic acid; (3) b -(5-cyclohexyl - 2 - methoxybenzoyl) - propionic acid; (4) b  - (5 - cyclohexyl - 2 - isopropoxybenzoyl)-propionic acid; (5) b  - (5 - cyclohexyl - 2-methoxybenzoyl)-acrylic acid; (6) d  - (2-methoxy - 5 - cyclohexylbenzoyl) valeric acid; (7) o  - (3 - cyclohexyl - 4 - ethoxybenzoyl) pelargonic acid; (8) b  - (5 - cyclohexyl - 2-methoxybenzoyl)-acrylic acid; (9) b -(2 : 4-dimethoxy - 5 - cyclohexylbenzoyl) propionic acid; (10) b -(3-cyclohexyl-4-methoxybenzoyl) propionic acid); (11) b -(5-cyclohexyl-2-hydroxybenzoyl)-propionic acid; (12) o -(3-cyclohexyl-4 - hydroxybenzoyl) - pelargonic acid; (13) d  - (5 - cyclohexyl - 2 - hydroxybenzoyl)-valeric acid; (14) b -(3-cyclohexyl-4-hydroxybenzoyl)-acrylic acid; (15) b -(5-cyclohexyl-2-hydroxybenzoyl)-acrylic acid; (16) b -(2 : 4-dihydroxy-5-cyclohexylbenzoyl)-propionic acid.
Patent GB-287335-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to gas heated radiators, cookers, boilers, geysers and other like apparatus
IPC: F23L17/04
Filed: 1927-04-14
Abstract: 287,335. Davis, H. N., Twigg, W. R., and Radiation, Ltd. April 14, 1927. Air supply for combustion; outlets to chimneys. -In connection with gas-heated apparatus employing outer and inner pipes a, b for the supply of air to the burners and for the removal of waste gases, a pair of flanges e, d forming between them an outwardly-flaring passage are provided on the end of the inner pipe, whilst the end of the outer pipe is fitted with a dished flange g extending towards the flange d. Seating-strips h for the flange d are preferably provided on the flange g. In the construction shown, the inner end of the pipe b is screwed into a plate k accommodated in an enlarged end of the pipe a, which is formed with a flange l for bolting to the stove. Specification 137,705 is referred to.
Patent GB-578900-A (GB)
Title: Improved slider operated fasteners
IPC: A44B19/34
Filed: 1944-05-31
Abstract: 578,900. Slider-operated fastenings. AERO ZIPP FASTENERS, Ltd., and ENGEL, E. May 31, 1944, No. 10428. [Class 44] In a slider-operated fastening the stringer tapes or flexible supports on which the fastener members are mounted are secured by an adhesive to the articles to which the fastening is applied, either permanently or as a preliminary step followed by sewing, riveting or other means. The tapes may be coated or impregnated with suitable adhesive which may become tacky or tackier under heat, in which case the tapes may be secured by heat and pressure, as by ironing. A glue having cellulose acetate or similar plastic as a basis is mentioned. As a modification, instead of being coated or impregnated, threads of plastic material becoming tacky on heating may be interwoven in the tape. Alternatively, adhesive which is tacky when cold may be used, the tapes and articles being united by pressure. In this case, the tape may have a covering of paper, cloth or similar material which is removed before attachment. The invention is applicable to .fasteners in which the fastener elements have complementary means brought into and out of engagement by the slider and to fastenings in which the fastener elements are permanently and slidably mounted on adjacent edges of the tapes and are displaced along said edges by the slider.
Patent GB-1198751-A (GB)
Title: Substituted Acylanilines and their Conversion to Indolylacetic Acid Compounds
Inventor: CHEMERDA JOHN MARTIN
IPC: C07D209/28
Filed: 1968-03-04
Abstract: 1,198,751. Indolylacetic acid derivatives. MERCK & CO. Inc. 4 March, 1968 [9 March, 1967], No. 10445/68. Heading C2C. Indolylacetic acid derivatives of the general Formula (I) wherein R is a methoxy or dimethylamino group is prepared from a m-R-substituted phenylacetone via the novel intermediates II and VIII as follows: the phenylacetone is nitrated to yield a compound of Formula (IV) which is reacted with a lower alkyl C 1-5  haloacetate to give a compound of Formula (VII) wherein R<SP>1</SP> is a lower alkyl C 1-5  group or alternatively the compound of Formula (IV) is reacted with pyrrolidine to give a compound of Formula (V) and treatment of this by an α-haloacetic acid ester followed by hydrolysis again yields compounds of Formula (VII), reduction of the nitro group of which yields the corresponding amino compounds of Formula (VIII) which on N- acylation with a p-chlorobenzoyl halide yield a compound of Formula (II) and treatment of this with an acidic ring- closure agent yields the corresponding indolyl acetic acid derivative. The compounds of Formula (II) may also be prepared by oxidizing the corresponding 4- hydroxy valeric acid with chromium trioxide.
Patent GB-473295-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to power-operated pile-drivers, rammers and the like apparatus
IPC: E02D7/12
Filed: 1936-04-09
Abstract: 473,295. Pile - drivers. DELMAG DEUTSCHE ELEKTROMASCHINEN- & MOTOREN-BAU-AKT.-GES. April 9, 1936, No. 10447. Convention date, April 9, 1935. [Class 68 (ii)] [Also in Group XXII] An internal-combustion piledriver, rammer, or like hammer is operated so that half the available work due to the drop of the hammer is employed in the compression of the gases in the cylinder. Fig. 1 shows a cylinder d with a piston c seated on a cap b for driving a pile a. The cylinder is driven upwards by the explosion, and then drops, the degree of compression in the cylinder being determined by a distance piece f between the parts d, b. This is kept in place by springs g, and is made in two parts or is slotted to facilitate changing. At the end of the drop the compression is substantially higher than that necessary to ensure ignition, and the pressure thus generated is transmitted to the pile a. In modifications, the compression is adjusted by adjusting a cylinder head, which screws into the head of the cylinder d, or by re-setting the piston c in the cap b.
Patent GB-1224972-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to cigarette-making machinery
IPC: A24C5/18
Filed: 1969-02-27
Abstract: 1,224,972. Treating tobacco; cigarettemaking machines. BRITISH-AMERICAN TOBACCO CO. Ltd. 13 Feb., 1970 [27 Feb., 1969], No. 10509/69. Heading A2C. [Also in Division H5] Cut tobacco in a cigarette-making machine is heated to increase its flexibility by subjecting the tobacco in the form of a stream of strands carried in a stream of air to microwave energy in a radiation chamber. Tobacco is fed, via rolls 22, 23, a toothed roll 24 and a rotating, suction backed, gauze drum 26 or other conventional means, to the bottom of a path 14 formed by arcuate polypropylene walls 12, 13, which path 14 terminates at its upper end with a conventional rod-forming perforated band in a groove 17 of a guide 18. The walls 12, 13 of the path 14 pass through a radiation chamber 1 which comprises top and bottom walls 4, end walls 5, and side walls of nearly square trapezium shape 2, 3. An opening 9 in the wall 2 communicates with a guide 8 housing a magnetron 7. The chamber 1 also includes an electric fan 10, and has microwave retaining filters  15, 16 at its lower and upper ends respectively. The tobacco is carried up the path 14 by an air flow which is produced by a combination of suction applied to the perforated band in the groove 17 via a suction chamber 19 and suction applied via a duct 21a, a perforated metal filter 21 and a grill near the upper edge of the wall 13.
Patent GB-946947-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to measuring systems
IPC: B23Q7/16
Filed: 1961-03-22
Abstract: 946,947. Measuring displacement electrically VYZKUMNY USTAV OBRABECICH STROJU A OBRABENI. March 22, 1961 [April 21,1960], No. 10510/61. Heading G1N. In apparatus for determining the linear displacement of the controlled moving part of a machine tool in coarse and fine components wherein the coarse dimensions are obtained by stepdown gearing OSH, the fine dimension is obtained from a transducer comprising an outer member 5 coupled to the driving pinion 2, and an inner member 6, the two members having an equal number of magnetic teeth, and the reluctance of the magnetic path being used to produce an error signal which energizes servomotor SM to drive the inner member 6 to maintain the reluctance at its minimum value, simultaneously driving the five digits of an indicator OP. The magnetic reluctance is determined by the inductance of coils wound on member 6 and connected as a differential transformer or in an A.C. bridge.
Patent GB-551474-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to protective spectacles
IPC: A61N5/06
Filed: 1941-08-20
Abstract: 551,474. Colour filters. DUFAY-CHROMEX, Ltd., and CLYNE, A. CORNWELL-. Aug. 20, 1941, No. 10629. [Class 97 (i)] Ultra-violet filters, for use in goggles or otherwise, comprise laminated glass embodying, in addition to a normal interlayer, one or more intermediate layers of gelatine in which is incorporated a dye or dyes absorbent of ultraviolet light ; a dye imparting a neutral grey tint to the filter may also be embodied in the same or other gelatine layers, and gelatine layers having dyes as in Specification 551,473 may also be embodied. The ultra-violet absorbing dye may be #-naphtholdisulphonic acid or #-methyl unchalliferone ; the neutral grey may be produced by higrosine K. The dyed gelatin may be coated on to one or more glass layers, on to a normal interlayer, or on to both glass and interlayer, or may be made up as a separate sheet or sheets subsequently embodied in the laminated glass.
Patent GB-180641-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in metal pens, or nibs
IPC: B43K1/02
Filed: 1922-04-13
Abstract: 180,641. Wager, H. W. May 25, 1921, [Convention date]. Reservoir nibs.-A reservoir pen comprises two nibs 1, 2 of the same, or about the same, shape arranged one beneath the other and soldered together, or secured by tongues or similar means. The point 3 of the lower nib 2 is disposed to the rear of the point 4 of the upper nib 1, and the space 5 between the nibs provides an ink reservoir.
Patent GB-1347164-A (GB)
Title: Current-collecting carriage
IPC: H01R41/00
Filed: 1971-04-22
Abstract: 1347164 Current collectors ELMETAC ELEKTRO UND METALL ARMIN CARPGmbH & CO KG 22 April 1971 [22 April 1970] 10759/71 Heading H2E A current collection system comprises an elongate cage 13 of C-shaped transverse crosssection containing conductor rails 16-20 and two flanges 15 situated one each side of the slot 14 formed by the C-shape and a carriage collector which comprises an upper portion 10 movable within the cage and a lower terminalbox 11 portion without the cage, the two portions being interconnected by a neck 12 extending through the slot 14, the upper portion having resiliently mounted brushes 24, 25 contacting the conductor rails and skids 40 slidable along the flanges 15. The carriage collector comprises a one-piece plastics casing (22) with guide projections 42 adapted to slide in grooves 21 in the cage 13, and chambers (23) in which the brushes 24, 25 are mounted and urged outwardly by springs (29), movement being limited by stop pins 34 and a screw (35) abutting against the bottoms (35) of grooves (33). Cables (26) connect the brushes to contact plates 27, 27<SP>1</SP> which are connected to terminals in the box 11 by lines 30 extending in a recess in the neck 12. Wheel sets (50), Fig. 6, not shown, comprising a body (60) and plastics wheels (58) may be slipped into plug-in projections (52) in the upper portion, such that the wheels (58) and not the skids bear on the flanges.
Patent GB-1189352-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to Cocks
Inventor: STRINGER JOHN
IPC: F16K11/083
Filed: 1967-03-07
Abstract: 1,189,352. Valves. STRINGER BROS. & MATTY Ltd. 7 June, 1968 [7 March, 1967], No. 10760/67. Heading F2V. A plug 13 for a plug cock comprises a hollow generally cylindrical portion having a frustoconical external surface and a sleeve 35 having a number of apertures 34, 40, 41 or 32, 33, 42 which can be aligned with apertures 19, 20, 21 in the plug, at least one of the apertures in the sleeve being of smaller size than the corresponding aperture in the plug. The sleeve may be screwed into the plug, as shown, or have a closed upper end and be secured by a single central screw. Pins, such as 36, co-operate with a flange or recesses in the sleeve to locate the sleeve in either of two positions which are separated by 180 degrees and correspond to alignment between the plug apertures and one of the two sets of sleeve apertures. A circumferential track in the outer surface of the plug terminates at a position beyond the peripheral apertures to provide a by-pass flow from the inlet 10 to a port 12. A spring-loaded ball 30 engages notches in the plug to locate it in predetermined positions. The sleeve 35 enables the cock to be converted for use with natural gas.
Patent GB-768513-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to devices for automatically cleaning the rectilinear comb of rectilinear combing machines for textile fibres
IPC: D01G19/22
Filed: 1955-04-14
Abstract: 768,513. Cleaning arrangements in textile combing machines. SOC. PER AZIONI OFFICINA MECCANICA ST. ANDREA-NOVARA. April 14, 1955 [April 14, 1954], No. 10818/55. Classes 120 (1) and 120 (3). In a rectlinear combing machine a brush, acting in conjunction with the nippers to automatically clean the top comb, is carried by a support adapted to rock about the upper jaw of the nippers and to be subjected to the action of a control synchronized with the closing and opening movement of the nippers in such manner as alternately to bring the brush into contact with the circular comb during the operative step of the latter and with the top comb at the conclusion of the combing step performed thereby. During the operative step of the comb A, the comb B is in its raised position and a brush 7 carried on a frame 6 adjustably fixed to bosses 5 of rocking supports 3 bear against the top jaw D of the nippers and just touch the needles of the comb A to press fibre therebetween in the normal manner : as opening of the nippers commences, a feed gill E will have almost performed its normal return stroke, and at the end of the opening step of the nippers, during which the top comb has lowered, the feed gill E moves forward to cause gradient portions 22 of adjustable blocks 20 to engage heads 17 on plungers 15 and rock the supports 3 so that the brush 7 is advanced, and, during the next lifting step of the comb B, the simultaneous closing movement of the nippers causes the brush to wipe the comb B needles : when the nippers are almost closed, the heads 17 having been released from the gradient portions 22, springs 19 return the brush to the position shown.