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Patent GB-625960-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in devices for removing screw-on lids or stoppers of containers
IPC: B67B7/18
Filed: 1947-03-28
Abstract: 625,960. Wrenches. HORROCKS, J. March 28, 1947, No. 8400. [Class 61(iii)] A wrench for re-  moving screw-on lids or stoppers comprises a substantially square plate 1 having a hand grip 3 and a slot 4 with recesses 5 for adjustably receiving the pivot pin 6 of an elbow shaped lever 7 having a hand grip 8. The lid or stopper is gripped between the serrated edge 11 of a round hole 2 in the plate 1 and the serrated edge 10 on the jaw 9 of the lever 7, the latter being adjusted in the slot 4 according to the size of the lid or stopper to be unscrewed. The part 12 of the plate is raised to allow the serrated edges 10 and 11 to lie opposite one another.
Patent GB-915978-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in clips
IPC: B62J7/00
Filed: 1960-03-10
Abstract: 915,978. Releasable fastenings. SCOTT, A. March 7, 1961 [March 10, 1960], No. 8403/60. Class 44. A clip, particularly for use in attaching articles to a supporting member such as a cycle handle-bar, comprises a metal plate A lined with non-slip material E and provided with means D for attaching thereto an article such as a lamp, switch or bracket. The plate is formed at one end with a hole B for the attachment of a coil spring F which in use embraces the supporting member, the free end of the spring having attached thereto a hook G for engagement in a slot C formed in the other end of the plate A, a tab L being provided to facilitate manipulation of the hook. The expansible property of the spring F allows the clip to be used on supporting members of various sizes. The clip may be strengthened by using a plurality of springs F, each hooked on to the plate A, and may be modified to embrace very large supporting members by attaching an additional spring to the free end of the spring F.
Patent GB-997453-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to gas bearings
IPC: F16C32/06
Filed: 1963-03-04
Abstract: 997,453. Bearings. SOC. RATEAU. March 4, 1963 [Jan. 19, 1963], No. 8463/63. Heading F2A. In a fluid bearing having three slippers 2 disposed equi-angularly around a shaft 1, pressurized fluid is fed through a hole 4 in each slipper and into a recess 3 which is positioned adjacent the leading-edge 2a of the slipper. The recess 3 may have the trailing-edge 6 thereof chamfered and may have more than one hole 4 connected thereto. The hole 4 may be connected to the fluid supply source by a flexible pipe 5. The fluid may be pre-cooled, the same gas as the ambient atmosphere, of a completely different nature from that of the ambient medium, or the gas may be the same as the ambient atmosphere but having at least one characteristic, such as temperature for example, controlled independently of the ambient atmosphere.
Patent GB-110721-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Coupling or Shackle for Colliery and like Wagons.
Inventor: THOMAS JOHN LEWIS
IPC: B61G7/14
Filed: 1917-06-14
Abstract: 110,721. Thomas, J. L. June 14, 1917. Couplings, non-automatic.-The upper limb of the D-shackle a for use in coupling colliery wagons &c. is formed on each side of the hole for the coupling-pin d with projections b having undercut recesses c in which lugs f on the pin d are adapted to engage in a bayonet-joint manner so as to prevent axial movement of the pin, and the pin is locked in this position against rotary movement by means of a ring h carried by the pin and arranged to fall over one or other of the projections b as shown. In order to prevent loss of the pin d, it may be attached to the wagon by means of a chain, or formed with a burred end k which can pass through the lower hole in the shackle but not through the upper hole i.
Patent GB-467156-A (GB)
Title: Fittings for the cylinders of internal-combustion engines
IPC: F02B77/00
Filed: 1937-03-23
Abstract: 467,156. Lift valves. ROTHERHAM, K., and SMITH, H. N. March 23, 1937, No. 8496. Addition to 455,109, [Group XXVII]. [Class 135] [Also in Group XXVII] The means described in the parent Specification for venting the cylinders, when an engine is being stored, so as to facilitate rotation of the crank-shaft, e.g. by hand, to distribute the lubricant, is modified so that the venting is effective when either pressure or suction occur in the cylinder. Fig. 2 shows the fitting, described in the parent Specification, which replaces the sparking-plug &c., the disc 15 being replaced by the device 19, Fig. 3, which is lifted as a whole when pressure occurs in the cylinder, a ball 22 being unseated against a spring 23 when suction occurs. The action of the device 19 and the spring 16 may be reversed.
Patent GB-797430-A (GB)
Title: A ship's lantern
IPC: F21V19/04
Filed: 1955-03-23
Abstract: 797,430. Ships' lanterns. CARLANDER, J., and ELDOY, S. March 23, 1955 [March 24, 1954], No. 8523/55. Class 75(4) In a ship's lantern having a reserve bulb adapted to be energized when a main bulb fails and in which both bulbs are mounted on a spring actuated platform 4 held in a normal position with the main bulb at the axis of the lantern by a releasable locking device and adapted to be moved by the spring, when the locking device is released, to replace the main bulb by the reserve bulb, the releasable locking device is actuated by a plug 16 containing a heating coil and a metal which melts when the coil is energized by an electric current. The main bulb is disposed in a holder 5 and the reserve bulb in a holder 6. The platform 4 is mounted on the upper end of a shaft 2 rotatably mounted on a base plate 1. The spring for rotating the platform is contained in a box 3 secured to the shaft 2. The releasable locking device comprises a lever 11 urged by a weak spring 12 and having a shoulder 13 which in the normal position of the bulbs engages a pin 14 on the spring box 3. The free end of the lever 11 abuts an end of a rod 17 extending from the plug 16 and when the coil in the plug is energized by operation of a remote switch and the metal in the plug melts the rod is moved by a spring to disengage the lever 11 from the pin 14. The platform then rotates under the action of its spring until arrested by a shoulder on the platform abutting a member extending upwardly from the base plate. During rotation of the platform a cam on the shaft 2 operates a switch to energize the reserve bulb and de-energize the main bulb, and a second pin 20 on the spring box engages a second lever 19 connected by a link 18 to the first lever 11 and moves the first lever and the spring urged rod 17 back to their initial positions. The final position of the second pin 20 is a small distance beyond the axial plane at right angles to the second lever- 19. When the heating coil in the plug 16 is de-energized the metal therein solidifies to hold the rod in initial position. The platform is returned manually to initial position.
Patent GB-579412-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in velocity-modulated electron discharge tubes
IPC: H01J25/24
Filed: 1941-07-09
Abstract: 579,412. Electron oscillators. BRITISH THOMSON-HOUSTON CO., Ltd., SCOTT, W. J., SAUNDERS, R. G., and LATHAM, R. July 9, 1941, Nos. 8639/41, 2643/42 and 5168/42. [Class 39 (i)] In a velocity modulated electron discharge oscillator of the reflex type using a single resonator tuning is effected by adjusting the width of the annular gap 2 by flexing that wall 6 of the resonator which is nearer the electrode 4 for reflecting the electron beam and/or providing a secondary emission current. The electrode remains stationary and may be carried by a U-shaped glass support 14, Fig. 1, from the remote wall 5 of the resonator ; a flexible lead 12 to the electrode is carried by the envelope closure 10 which moves with the wall 6. The wall 6, Fig. 4, may be adjusted by nuts 30 about pillars 17 which unite the wall 6 to an upper frame plate 16 from which the electrode 4 is supported. To prevent defocusing of the returning electrons a perforated diaphragm 23 at resonator potential may be interposed between the electrode 4 and the gap ; the diaphragm may be carried by the plate 16. The flexible wall 6, Fig. 5, may be adjusted by rods 25 passing through the frame plate 16 or the resonator may be formed between two parallel plates, Fig. 6 .(not shown), the upper being adjustable.
Patent GB-169938-A (GB)
Title: Apparatus for mooring airships
IPC: B64B1/66
Filed: 1920-04-01
Abstract: 169,938. Ullmann, E. S. April 1, 1920. Anchoring; landing-places. - Dirigibles are moored by ropes secured to wheeled trollies running beneath circular and radial tracks on the ground so that the dirigible can swing round in the wind or be moved radially into hangars. Series of plates 12, 22, 24, 26, 28 are secured to concrete blocks in the ground so as to leave concentric circular slots 21, 23, 25, 27 and radial slots 13. Channel members 20, Fig. 4, are secured beneath each slot to support four-wheeled trollies having central stems 17 projecting through the slots and provided with swivelling eyes 18. Normally the dirigible is secured to a trolly at the centre of the device and to one or more trollies arranged beneath the circular slots, the plates preventing upward movement of the trollies. The channel members 20 at the junction of each radial and circular slot are flared to facilitate the turning of the trollies into a radial position when it is desired to run the dirigible into or out of a hangar, a hangar being arranged opposite to each radial slot.
Patent GB-932001-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to means for interconnecting and disconnecting adjacent pipe lengths
Inventor: MOSELEY PHILIP JOHN
IPC: F16L37/088
Filed: 1962-03-07
Abstract: 932,001. Pipe joints. STANTON & STAVELEY Ltd. March 7, 1962, No. 8737/62. Class 99(1). [Also in Group XXIII] A pipe joint comprises a socket 2 formed at the end of one pipe co-operating with a spigot 1 of a second pipe, a spring anchoring ring 7, having a chamfered inner peripheral edge 9, engaging shoulders of both pipes to limit relative axial movement. A rubber, lead nosed sealing ring 3 is locked in the mouth of socket 2 by a gland ring 4 and nut and bolt assembly 5. The anchoring ring 7 is removed from its groove 6 by a tool 10 comprising a number of metal strips curved in lateral cross section which slide between the spigot 1 and socket 2 to engage the chamfered portion of the anchoring ring 7 and so expand the ring 7. The form of the outer periphery of ring 7 may be conical, conoidal or cylindrical which surfaces co-operate with a conical, conoidal or right angular shoulder respectively of socket 2. Figs. 1, (5 not shown), 6 (not shown). Specifications 898, 884 and 932,002 are referred to.
Patent GB-192351-A (GB)
Title: Improved change-speed-gear
IPC: B62M9/04
Filed: 1922-03-27
Abstract: 192,351. Motosacoche Soc. Anon. Jan. 24, 1922, [Convention date]. Variable-speed gearing comprises a number of toothed or chain gears 1, 2, 3 adapted to be. selectively clutched to a driving or driven shaft 4. In the boss of each gear is an expanding friction clutch 10, 11, 12, and the selector means slides within the shaft 4. This means consists of a cam-sleeve 31 movable as a whole by toothed gearing 38, 32 within which sleeve slides a cam plunger 39 for operating the selected clutch. Rollers 30 set in the wall of the sleeve 31 are brought into the plane of a clutch and there engage the inner ends of radial wedge plungers 14 which expand the clutch segments 11 &c. Subsequent movement to the left of plunger 39 thrusts out the rollers and clutch plungers. This clutch-engaging movement may be effected through a pair of pedals 47 and screw-and-nut gearing 44<1> and a thrust bearing 43. The rack 32 is adapted to let the sleeve 31 turn within it.
Patent GB-558954-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to containers for bitumen or bituminous materials
IPC: B65D25/14
Filed: 1942-06-26
Abstract: 558,954. Containers for asphalt &c. STANDARD OIL DEVELOPMENT CO. June 26, 1942. No. 8790. Convention date, Aug. 27, 1941. [Class 21] The interior surface of a container for bitumen or bitumenous materials is, for preventing adhesion, coated with a slurry consisting of about 4 parts of clay, 4 parts of water and ¢ to 2 parts of calcium chloride, proportions being by weight and the clay and chloride the commercial variety. The clay may be bentonite, Fuller's earth, fire clay or potter's clay. The slurry is sprayed on the inside of the drum and dried, e.g. at 400‹ F. and stored prior to filling, the time of storage being up to several days.
Patent GB-1338361-A (GB)
Title: Conveyor chain
IPC: B65G17/42
Filed: 1972-02-25
Abstract: 1338361 Endless chain conveyers CROSS CO 25 Feb 1972 [26 March 1971] 8834/72 Heading B8A A roller chain conveyer comprises a pair of spaced roller chains which support respective ends of a pallet 14. Each chain carries a load supporting plate 64 (Fig. 3), connected thereto by a washer 76 and riveted pin end 78. The axis of this connection is positioned off-centre, in a longitudinal direction, of the plate 64, so as to result in the plate having an attitude such that its leading edge is slightly nose down (Fig. 5). This enables the plate 64 to slide easily under the leading edge of any stationary pallet. Also grease is not scraped off the surface of the plate 64 as easily as it would be if the plate had a horizontal attitude. Each chain is mounted to run on rails 23 between parallel side plates 24, 25. The pair of chains may be disposed in an elongated oval configuration in plan (Fig. 1, not shown).
Patent GB-335545-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in soldering and metal-coating lead alloy
IPC: C22C11/00
Filed: 1929-03-19
Abstract: 335,545. Marks, Sir G. C., (American Machine & Foundry Co.), March 19, 1929. Alloys; dry processes of refining lead.-A soldering or metal-coating lead alloy or deoxidized lead consists of lead containing an amount of phosphorus predetermined in accordance with the rate of oxidation and the oxygen contents of the metals with which it is to be used in contact. The lead may contain 1-3 parts of phosphorus to 10,000 parts of lead. Reference has been directed by the Comptroller to Specifications 25705/98, 140,278, 234,648 and 296,584.
Patent GB-1344435-A (GB)
Title: Nonrefillable fountain pen
IPC: B43K5/00
Filed: 1972-02-25
Abstract: 1344435 Reservoir pens PHILIPP MUTSCHLER 25 Feb 1972 [7 July 1971] 8851/72 Heading B6P A non-refillable fountain pen has an ink reservoir provided by the interior of its barrel 1 which is closed at one end 1a and plugged at the other end by the nib mounting assembly. The nib mounting assembly comprises a hollow tube 2 wholly contained within the barrel 1 and within which is mounted a nib 4 and a feed bar 3 with ink distribution channels 7 and (8, Fig. 4). The assembly is frictionally held within the barrel and stops (2d, Fig. 4) prevent relative rotation between the nib and the feed bar. A peripheral bead (2a, Fig. 2) on the tube 2 seals against the internal surface of the barrel 1. The protective cap 5 is an air-tight fit.
Patent GB-1058772-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to coin freed-vending machines
Inventor: DEAN HARRY
IPC: G07F11/24
Filed: 1963-03-06
Abstract: 1,058,772. Automatic vending machines. DEAN BROS. (ENGINEERS) Ltd. June 5, 1964 [March 6, 1963], No. 8867/63. Heading G4V. A coin-freed machine has means for testing at least two different types of coins, and means guiding unrejected coins of different types into projecting engagement with different recesses in a rotary delivery member subject to normally engaged stop means having coin engaging formations requiring engagement by at least two different kinds of coins to release the stop means to permit delivery. Fig. 2 shows means for testing coins by size, comprising a plate 14 and a guide track 18 down which the coins roll, leaning against plate 14. The plate has raised tracks 19, 20, with shoulders 19a, 20a, so that pennies and halfpennies lean on tracks 19, 20, and roll to the end of track 18, and fall into a shoot, while undersize coins are held by shoulders 19a, 20a, and are subsequently dropped into a reject container by moving track 18 away from plate 14. Sixpences drop through an aperture 22, to similar mechanism rejecting undersize coins. Accepted pennies and halfpennies pass to a shoot 28, Fig. 6, having an aperture shown in broken lines through which halfpennies fall by their own weight and that of a hinged tongue 29, pennies sliding the length of the shoot. The delivery mechanism is operated by manual rotation of a shaft 42, Fig. 6, on which is a drum 38 normally prevented from rotation by three side-by-side pawls such as pawl 47 co-operating with shoulders 55. The drum has, at each of three stations, a set of three side-by-side slots 39, 40, 41, which are for receiving a halfpenny, a penny, and a sixpence respectively. The appropriate coin in each slot can raise its corresponding pawl 47 when shaft 42 is rotated, to permit delivery. Any pawl 47 may be rendered inoperative by an official, so that delivery can be permitted by different combinations of halfpenny, penny and sixpence. The drive between drum 38 and the delivery mechanism includes a lost motion dog tooth mechanism, normally stopped by a radial finger which is withdrawn with the pawl 47 operated by the sixpence. Figs. 11-13 (not shown) show configurations of pawls and drum slots such that more than one coin may be needed in a given slot, or a pawl can be raised by, say, either three pennies in one slot or a threepenny piece in another, or such that two pawls can be raised either by three pennies in one slot or by two pennies in that slot and a halfpenny in another. Delivery mechanism for flat packets is shown in Fig. 14, where two parallel discs 13 on shaft 42 each have teeth 13a, and one has pins 60 co-operating with a block 59 on the web 58 of a lever 56 pivoted at 57. When shaft 42 is rotated, a pin 60 engages the block 59, and deflects the lever 56 to effect partial delivery of the lowest packet of a stack, until block 59 moves out of the path of the pin 60. A tooth 13a on each disc completes the delivery.
Patent GB-437574-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and connected with flushing and like apparatus
IPC: E03D1/20
Filed: 1935-03-21
Abstract: 437,574. Water - waste preventers. PESSELL, R. C., 4, Widcombe Crescent, and PESSELL MANUFACTURING CO., Ltd., 7, Old King Street, both in Bath, Somerset. March 21, 1935, No. 8887. [Class 26] [See also Group XXVI] The actuating mechanism of a flushing or other apparatus of the type in which a receptacle is adapted to be tilted for delivery and then to rotate back to a filling and/or normal position, comprises a member adapted to be rotated by hand, and spring-means adapted to rotate another member for tilting the receptacle, the spring-means yieldingly opposing rotation of the hand-operated member up to a predetermined amount when it is automatically released to reassert itself to rotate the other member. In a form of flushing apparatus, a rotatable receptacle 2, Fig. 6, is mounted within a casing 1 having a discharge outlet and has an enlargement 2a serving to restore the receptacle to normal position when full, in which position a member 2d closes a cap 2c on a filling-pipe 2b. The spindle 3, Fig. 2, or a trunnion upon which the receptacle 2 is mounted, carries a member 10 and has mounted thereon a sleeve 7 carrying a member 9 and an arm 8. Between the members 10, 9 and secured thereto or to the shaft and sleeve is a coiled torsion-spring 11, and when the arm 8 is lowered the spring is wound until a detent holding the member 10 against rotation is released by a projection 16 upon the member 9. Simultaneously with this, the member 9 and the sleeve 7 are looked against rotation by a second detent, so that the member 10, shaft 3 and the receptacle are then rotated until the second detent and the members 9 and 7 are released by a cam-shaped member on the member 10. The return of the receptacle is controlled by a fluid checking-device such as a dashpot 19, or as a dashpot constituted by a radial blade 24, Fig. 4, within a cylindrical space disposed about the shaft 3. Specification 428,857 is referred to.
Patent GB-195863-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to money tills or storage apparatus
IPC: G07D1/00
Filed: 1922-03-28
Abstract: 195,863. Chaplin, B. C., Rolfe, W. 0., and Baxter, F. A. March 28, 1922. Money-delivering apparatus.-Tubes b, each having a longitudinal slot b<1> fit apertures in a base-plate a. The lower edge of each tube is cut away at the front to the extent of half the circumference, forming a horizontal slot b<2> and on the underside of the plate a, metal strips c, spaced from the plate a, metal strips c' form ledges c<2> which support the coins in the tubes. A finger inserted under a tube will withdraw the lowermost coin. The tube tops fit apertures in a plate a<2>, and above the open tops of the tubes b may be fitted a cover-plate. In a modification a disc, cut-away in the centre to provide finger space for the removal of the coins, is secured to the lower end of each tube to support the coins.
Patent GB-547590-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to wire coating dies
IPC: B05C3/12
Filed: 1941-07-16
Abstract: 547,590. Coating wires. BRITISH THOMSONHOUSTON CO., Ltd. July 16, 1941, No. 8966. Convention date, July 17, 1940. [Class 140] A die for use in coating wire of rectangular cross - section with enamel or the like comprises two substantially L- shaped members 12, 13, the outer extremities of the limbs of these members being shaped to slidably interlock so that the members may be moved with respect to each other to form die openings of varying size. The members are built up of laminations 15, 16 spaced by slightly thicker short armed or rectangular members' 17, 18. Rivets 19, 20 make each assembly rigid and fine wires 21, 22 soldered in place centre the wire within the die opening. A helical spring passes round' grooves 24, 25 to urge the sections together. The die is placed on an ascending run of rectangular wire leaving the bath, and is prevented rising with the wire by stops. In a modification, projections from the laminations are substituted for the wires 21, 22. In another modification, the die is circular when completely collapsed.
Patent GB-1130727-A (GB)
Title: Foamed plastics slab with embedded reinforcement
IPC: E04C2/20
Filed: 1966-03-01
Abstract: 1,130,727. Reinforced floor slabs. ROHPAPPEN-FABRIK WORMS ZWEIGNIEDERLASSUNG DER DEUTSCHE LINOLEUM-WERKE A.G. 1 March, 1966 [9 June, 1965], No. 8995/66. Heading E1W. A foamed plastics elongated slab for building floors, ceilings and the like comprises reinforcing members constituted by vertical sheet metal sections 1, 2, 3 extending lengthwise of the slab and transverse wires 4 connecting the sheet metal sections. The sections 1, 2, 3 may have horizontal flanges to which the wires 4 are welded. The wires 4 may be interconnected also by longitudinal wires 5. The sides of the slab, which may be narrower than the faces extending therebetween, may be formed by sheet metal sections 1, 2.
Patent GB-558625-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to rods for drain cleaning, cable laying chimney sweeping and the like purposes
IPC: B08B9/04
Filed: 1942-07-02
Abstract: 558,625. Cleaning drains, chimneys &c. ROBEY, A. E. L., and CAKEBREAD, ROBEY, CO., Ltd. July 2, 1942, No. 9159. [Class 99 (ii)] A flexible rod for drain cleaning, chimney sweeping, cable laying &c. comprises a number of solid metal outer rods 2 secured to and helically arranged about a straight central rod 1, the composite rod having a degree of flexibility similar to that of a malacca or rattan cane rod. The rods 2 are preferably of 4 I.S.G. and arranged with a right-hand pitch of about 8 degrees. The rod sections are secured together by joint members 3 soldered or otherwise secured to the rods.