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Patent GB-1236751-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to handling apparatus
IPC: A63B57/00
Filed: 1968-06-21
Abstract: 1,236,751. Automatic teeing device for golf balls. MERCHANT INVENTORS Ltd. and L. M. BALLAMY. 18 June, 1969 [21 June, 1968], No. 29747/68. Heading A6D. The lateral movement of a tee, caused by driving a ball from it, actuates an electric motor to lower the tee, to feed a ball to the lowered tee, and then to raise the tee to the driving position. The tee is carried by a parallel linkage so that it moves in a straight line. As shown, a tee 27 is moveable between the driving station shown and a reception station just below the level of a feed chute 38 for the balls by means of a tee carrier 28 clamped to the lower end of the tee and having two arms 10, 18, arm 18 bearing a roller 25 acted on by a cam 31 keyed to shaft 30 of motor 29 and biassed upwardly by means of springs 12 acting between the arm 10 and a stationary tube 14. The feed chute 38 is pivoted at its outer end and fed from a conveyor 39, in turn supplied by means of a paddle 45 driven by means of belt 49' and pulleys 49 and 50 through half a revolution per rotation of shaft 30 to deliver one ball to the conveyor. The motor is actuated by the lateral movement of the tee 27 moving arm 18 to trigger a trip switch 52; a parking switch 53 is triggered by arm 10 at its lower limit of movement; an insolating switch 54 is triggered by a ball depressing the feed chute 38, the circuit being broken and the apparatus closed down if no ball is present; and a limit switch 55 disconnects the power supply when the tee is at the delivery station, the height of this being adjustable by means of a screw 56 on switch 55.
Patent GB-484116-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to electric drum switches
IPC: H01H19/10
Filed: 1936-11-02
Abstract: 484,116. Drum controllers. GHAY, W. T., MILLAR, G. H., and METROPOLITANVICKERS ELECTRICAL CO., Ltd. Nov. 2, 1936, No. 29802. [Class 38 (iii)] A drum controller which may be employed in the system described in Specifications 469,958 and 470,065, comprises one or more metal carriers 7, 8, having an outer cylindrical or part -cylindrical surface on which a number of circumferentially extending grooves or ridges 13-21 corresponding respectively with contact fingers are provided, and contact segments 22- 35, provided with base portions engaging the grooves or ridges, are secured to the carrier members and located axially in position. The carrier members 7, 8, are mounted on a cylindrical drum 1 of insulating material which is mounted by means of spider members 4, 5, on an operating shaft. The carrier 7 has rectangular grooves 13-17, and into these grooves fit the base portions 36 of the contact segments, through which pass holding bolts 38. These bolts are asymmetrically arranged with respect to the base portion and the groove so that the contact segment can be mounted only with the off-set contact portion extending to the correct side. One or more grooves may be associated with two contact fingers in which case the contact segments are so formed that by reversal the contact portion is disposed to engage one or the other of the contact fingers. The two carriers 7, 8, are shaped with interfitting adjacent ends at 40-44 so that contact segments on either carrier may co-operate at different times with the same contact finger. Further insulating members 2 and 3 may carry further contact carriers 9-12. A number of contact segments 33-35 may be arranged together to form a single segment of the necessary length or a single long segment such as that shown at 22 may be used. Contact strips 45-47 are secured to ridges 49, 50, 51, where contact is required for a substantial part of the movement. A retaining plate carried by the cylinder 1 may be used for mounting the carriers, the initial establishment and the final disconnection of the circuit may be effected by a contact strip 56 secured to an axially extending lug on the carrier 7, and a similar contact strip 57 may also be provided. Bonds 59 located at the bottom of suitable grooves may connect adjacent carriers at the divisions between the insulating members 1, 2 and 3.
Patent GB-649564-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to racks for supporting plates to be immersed in processing baths
Inventor: HUSBANDS CYRIL WILLIAM
IPC: G03D13/08
Filed: 1948-11-16
Abstract: 649,564. Photographic processing racks. MINISTER OF SUPPLY. Nov. 16, 1948, No. 29812. [Class 98 (ii)]. A rack for supporting similar plates to be immersed in a processing bath consists of a framework comprising an array of parallel co-extensive members of I-section braced together to define rectangular-section slideways to give edge support for plates disposed alternately in each of the diagonal planes of each slideway, projections at one end of the array for supporting the rack in the processing bath, and a stop in the slideways at the other end of the array. As shown, I-section members 1 slotted at 9 to allow free passage of the processing fluid are tied at intervals of about the width of the webs 2 by strips 5, 6 having extensions cut away at 7 to rest on the opposite walls of the processing bath. Plates and films 10 are located by their edges engaging in the diagonally opposite angles between the webs 2 and the flanges 3, a bar 8 locating the lowest of the plates or films which are stacked on edge alternately along the two vertical diagonal planes of each compartment.' The integral I-section members may be replaced by equivalent groups formed of single angle, T-section or shallow channel-section members. The rack may be of nickel plated brass, stainless steel, or plastic material.
Patent GB-1063005-A (GB)
Title: Evaporator of the falling film type
IPC: B01D1/10
Filed: 1965-07-14
Abstract: 1,063,005. Evaporators; film-type. MACHINEFABRIEK J. & H. W. VANDER PLOEG, N.V. July 14, 1965 [July 15, 1964], No. 29813/65. Heading BIB. In an evaporator wherein the liquid flows in film-form down the inside surfaces of vertical tubes 6 surrounded by a heating- jacket, the top of the evaporator is provided with a perforated plate 3 disposed above the upper evaporator tube plate 5 but below the inlet 1 for the liquid to be evaporated, and tube sections 7 project upwards from the perforated plate, one tube section being above each evaporator tube. The lower ends of the tube sections 7 are flush with the underside of the distributor plate. The tube sections 7 are preferably arranged in concentric circles, and there is a perforation 4 in plate 3 between each pair of successive tube sections in each circle. Superheated liquid, e.g. milk, enters the evaporator through inlet 1 and some of it vaporizes. The liquid and vapour are then uniformly distributed into the evaporator tubes 6 through perforations 4 and tube sections 7, respectively. A centrifugal separator may be arranged at the top of the evaporator.
Patent GB-1438789-A (GB)
Title: Head mounted display system
IPC: G02B27/00
Filed: 1973-06-22
Abstract: 1438789 Head-up displays HONEYWELL Inc 22 June 1973 [28 June 1972] 29866/73 Heading G2J A display system e.g. for use in reconnaissance and weapons aiming comprises a mounting e.g. helmet 10 for wearing on the head; a partially reflecting paraboloidal, vizor 12 whose axis is above the wearers line of sight and light emitting means 18 held by the mounting to direct light on to the inner surface of the vizor whose curvature is such that it reflects and collimates the light to present an image at infinity to both eyes of the observer. In a modification Fig. 2 (not shown) the vizor 12 may be closer to the face since a mirror (34) is placed between the light source and the vizor.
Patent GB-809157-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to knitting machines
IPC: D04B9/26
Filed: 1955-10-19
Abstract: 809,157. Knitting - machines. PLANCK, A., [trading as FOUQUET-WERK, FRAUZ & PLANCK]. Oct. 19, 1955 [Oct. 25, 1954], No. 29918/55. Class 74 (2). In a rotary cylinder knitting-machine, in which the needles or needle sliders are operated by patterning bite 54 or 54a bearing butts into the path of which, at each selecting station, selecting cams 47 or 47a may be brought, under pattern control, each selecting cam is locked in its inoperative or its working position, as the case may be, immediately after each selection, and is subjected to the action of a first spring tending to return it to the inoperative position and a second, stronger spring, tending to move it into the working position this second spring being relaxed in the interval between consecutive selections and then, at the next selection, either tensioned to overcome the action of the first spring, or left relaxed so that the first spring may be effective. In Figs. 2 and 3, a slide 18 carrying feelers 20 is moved towards a card jacquard 15, 16, by springs 19. Any feeler which fails to find a hole in the operative card is forced to the right, Fig. 2, and locked in that operative position by a pawl 24 and, as the slide is moved away from the jacquard by a cam 32 rotating with the needle cylinder 11, any operative feeler rocks a corresponding lever 34 and so, through an associated wire 36, extends a spring 42 secured to the free end of one leg 44 of a corresponding member 46 of inverted U form, rockable about an axis 45. The extending of spring 42, which can overcome a weaker spring 50, prepares member 46 for movement to working position. The member 46 is temporarily held by abutment of a projection 64 on it with a bar 65 carried by levers 66. When, however, a cam 74, also rotating with the needle cylinder, depresses the bar, 65, through a bellcrank lever 72, 73, any member 46 whose spring 42 has been extended is rocked clockwise, Fig. 3, so that the cam 47 which is constituted by the free end of its other arm, is moved into the path of corresponding butts on the jailer 54, to rock any jacks bearing them. The pawls 24 are then rocked by a cam 76 to release their feelers for further selection. Each time the bar 65 is depressed, any member 46 whose spring 42 is relaxed, is retained in, or returned to its inoperative position by spring 50. A bar 71 acts as a stop in both positions of member 46. In the modification of Figs. 5 and 7, each pair of springs 42a, 50a controls movement, circumferentially of the machine, of an associated one of a series of arcuate members 82, which member, by reason of its inner profile 98, 99, can rock its selecting cam 47a inwardly to a position in which its nose 96 acts on any corresponding butts of rockable spring returned bits 54a. The members 82 are locked in each of their two positions by a detent 85, operated through a spring-returned stirrup 88 by a cam 90.
Patent GB-1461961-A (GB)
Title: Method of cleaning the internal surfaces of copper tubes
IPC: C23G5/00
Filed: 1974-07-05
Abstract: 1461961 Making copper tubing SOC ANON DES USINES A CUIVRE ET A ZINC DE LIEGE 5 July 1974 [6 July 1973] 29981/74 Heading B3A [Also in Division C7] A method of making copper tubes in coil form comprises drawing a copper tube, passing therethrough steam to which a degreasing substance has been added, whereby to remove a residual stretching lubricating film which would on reheating in manufacture be cracked and give rise to formation on the internal surfaces of the tubes of an undesirable carbonaceous film, and subsequently annealing the tube. The degreasing agent may be petrol, benzene, a surfactant, soda solution, or preferably trichlorethylene or perchlorethylene. A typical sequence after drawing is (1) inject degreasing agent, (2) inject steam, (3) inject further degreasing agent, (4) inject further steam, (5) blow with compressed air to evaporate residual water, (6) purge with gas to prevent oxidation during annealing and (7) introduce coil into annealing furnace.
Patent GB-1082253-A (GB)
Title: Fastener device
Inventor: SLAN JACK
IPC: E05B65/52
Filed: 1964-07-28
Abstract: 1,082,253. Releasable fastenings. DOMINION LUGGAGE CO. Ltd. July 28, 1964, No. 29993/64. Heading E2A.  A fastener device comprises a housing 1 a bolt 3 slidably mounted in said housing, a lever 25 having a flange 31 turned down at a first end thereof with a slot 32 in said flange, a pair of spaced apart lugs 12 struck up from the housing between which lugs said flange is introduced into said housing, spring operated means 15 carried by said housing and projecting through said slot to hold said lever flange to said housing for hinging movement of the lever, and a linkage 7 connected between said lever and sliding bolt, said housing having an opening and said bolt engaging and releasing a keeper tongue 5 when it is introduced through said housing opening. In the construction shown the housing has two openings at opposite sides either of which can receive the keeper tongue 5 and the bolt 3 is symmetrical about its centre line so that the device can be used for right or left hand operation. The lever 25 is a stamping of generally channel shaped formation and a second stamping 26 is secured within the channel by turned-over portions of the stamping 25; the stamping 26 provides a housing 29 in which is mounted a key operated bolt 30 adapted to cooperate with a keeper lug 10 of the housing 1 to lock the lever 25 to the housing. The stamping 26 is formed with a roll hinged barrel 33 within which is hinged the central portion of the linkage 7 which is of rectangular C shape and the end portions of which engage in notches in the bolt 3. The bolt 3 is formed with two hooks either of which can engage the keeper tongue 5 and it is biassed to the releasing position by two springs 22 which are trapped between wings of the bolt and a shoulder of the floating plate 13 on which the bolt slides. The means 15 which retains the lever 25 to the housing is part of the plate 13 and the springs 22 in addition to holding the bolt in the releasing position hold the means 15 through the slot 32 in the flange 31 and above the lugs 12 to prevent separation of the lever and housing. Reference has been directed by the Comptroller to Specification 959,060.
Patent GB-1383547-A (GB)
Title: Container of flexible material
IPC: B65D88/16
Filed: 1972-06-27
Abstract: 1383547 Containers NICOLON NV 27 June 1972 [28 June 1971] 30001/72 Heading B8K A container 1 comprises a tube 2 of flexible material constricted at at least one end around a rigid insert closure member 3, 4 which is narrower in a central area than at at least one end. Both tube ends may be constricted about members 3, 4 by cable, cord or rope 5, 6, as shown, the tube being turned inside out after application of the closure member 3. A thin plastics foil bag 7 may be attached to the closure member 4 which has a longitudinal filling passage 8 closed by a valve 9. The closure member 4 may have a lifting eye (11). The members 3 and 4 may be connected by a member extending through the container. The cords 5, 6 may be replaced by a clamp ring or self gripping sling. In modifications, the base of the container is closed by a constriction of rope (15) after which the container is turned inside out; by a rigid annular ring (18) received in a hem of the material, the aperture (20) so formed being covered by sheet of material (19); by a circular piece of rope or cord (28) received in a hem (26) at some distance from the tube end, which tube end is passed through the aperture formed and tightly constricted by rope (31); or by two concentric annular rings (37, 38) around which the material passes before passing through their central aperture and being constricted by cord (41). The tube may be of olefin fabrics which may be coated with natural or synthetic rubber or PVC, or of reinforced or non-reinforced paper laminates or foils. The closure member may be of wood, plastics, or metal and may be slightly resilient at its outer periphery.
Patent GB-668541-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to driving means for fuel booster pumps
Inventor: BOWNS DESMOND EDWARD
IPC: H02K49/02
Filed: 1948-11-18
Abstract: 668,541. Dynamo-electric machines. ROLLSBOYCE, Ltd. Dec. 15, 1949 [Nov. 18, 1948], No. 30057/48. Class 35. The parts of a polyphase induction motor or electromagnetic clutch for driving a fuel pump are separated by a non-magnetic impervious screen 14, 15. In the electromagnetic clutch shown, the driving shaft 10 carries a rotor 11 comprising a permanent or electromagnet having radial poles of alternate polarity. The driven shaft 16 carries a rotor 17 composed of a series of L-shaped radial laminµ 18, 19 of which the inner surface is grooved to receive a squirrel cage 20, 21. In modifications, the field current of a driving motor is also used to excite the rotor 11.
Patent GB-537972-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to processes for canning vegetables containing naturally occurring polysaccharides
IPC: A23L19/12
Filed: 1939-11-14
Abstract: 537,972. Preserving vegetables. RAFUSE, B. L. Nov. 14, 1939, No. 30060. [Class 49] Potatoes and other similar starch containing vegetables are cooked, at least partially, in an aqueous solution containing a proportion of an acid of a fruit of the citrius family, such as citric acid, prior to canning the potatoes &c. in a hot saline solution. The juice of a citrus fruit may be used. In an example, the peeled potatoes are heated nearly to boiling point in a solution containing 1 per cent by weight of citric acid, and after decanting the liquid therefrom, the potatoes are canned in a salt solution containing .75 per cent by weight Nacl, the cans being heated to 100‹ C. before sealing.
Patent GB-669287-A (GB)
Title: A device for the continuous cutting of blocks of stone and rock masses in the quarry bed
IPC: B28D1/18
Filed: 1948-11-19
Abstract: 669,287. Cutting stone. SAVORNIN, A. L. M. Nov. 19, 1948 [June 25, 1948], No. 30129/48. Class 124. A device for the continuous cutting of blocks of stone or rock comprises a number of freely rotatable impactor bits of conical or cylindrical form indirectly mounted on the periphery of a rotatable disc, the faces of the bits being inclined alternately in opposite directions. As shown, a disc 1 driven by gearing 2 has, mounted on its periphery, brackets carrying freely rotatable toothed impactor bits 4-7, which may be mounted on roller or ball bearings and which have their axes of rotation slightly inclined to the plane of rotation of the disc. Various forms of bracket are illustrated, Figs. 4-9 (not shown). The sizes of the bits may vary but they should all be tangential to the same internal circle. Specification 25734/06 is referred to. The Specification as open to inspection under Sect. 91, includes also a chain saw having freely rotatable impactor bits mounted thereon and a dressing and polishing machine having similar bits. This subject-matter does not appear in the Specification as accepted.
Patent GB-364636-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in means for supporting articles on wearing apparel
IPC: A45F5/02
Filed: 1930-10-08
Abstract: 364,636. Supporting fountain - pens &c. in pockets. HOUGHTON, A. E., 8A, Richmond Parade, East Twickenham, Middlesex. Oct. 8, 1930, No. 30162. [Classes 43 and 141.] In a device for supporting f o u n - tain-pens, pencils, or similar articles within a pocket of wearing apparel from a clip on the article, the articles together with the clips c are supported behind the front edge e of the pocket on a supporting member a permanently fastened within the pocket or detachably fastened, for example by spring clips b1, b2, safety-pins, or " snap-on fasteners. The supporting member may be a sheet of stiff resilient material, or spring- metal, or metal covered with leather or other fabric, or may comprise a sheet of material folded at its top edge over a strip of thin metal, whalebone, or the like, or over a split tube, or over a flattened or oval spiral spring which may be integral with or have its ends secured to the clips b1, b2.
Patent GB-673014-A (GB)
Title: New or improved process and apparatus for finishing fabrics
IPC: D06C15/02
Filed: 1949-11-25
Abstract: 673,014. Finishing fabrics. BLEACHERS ASSOCIATION, Ltd., TAYLOR, E. P., MELVILLE, A., LOCKERS (ENGINEERS), Ltd., and WHITELOCK, J. H. Nov. 25, 1949, No. 30215/49. Addition to 669,985. Class 42 (i). Fabric, while being subjected to beating action in accordance with the parent invention, is led back and forth between the rollers of a bank of two or more rollers arranged vertically above one another beneath the beater so that beating action is transmitted through the fabric from one roller to another and acts upon the fabric each time it passes between adjacent rollers. As shown, Fig. 2, the machine described in the parent Specification is modified in that a bank of rollers 215 is mounted between the facing 213 of beater 31 and the large supporting roller 212. The spindles 216 of rollers 215 are located in vertical slots in brackets 217 extending from beater 31, so that rollers 215 are free to move vertically. Facing 213 may be replaced by a roller 223, Fig. 4, journalled in brackets 217. Rollers 215 and 223 (where used) are belt-driven in alternate directions, via, an intermediate pulley 220, from the shaft of roller 212 at the same peripheral speed as roller 212. Facing 213 may be of hardwood, rubber, or rubber-like synthetic plastic; rollers 223, 215 and 212 may have surfaces of rubber or rubber-like synthetic plastic. Fabric 11 fed from a roll 211, beneath facing 213 or roller 223, back and forth alternately between successive rollers 215, and around roller 212 to a take-up roll 214, is subjected to a plurality of high-speed beatings as the action of beater 31 is transmitted from one to another of rollers 215.
Patent GB-917707-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to storage and packing containers
Inventor: PRESTON JOHN WILLIAM
IPC: B65D85/68
Filed: 1958-09-23
Abstract: 917,707. Ammunition packing. ENGLISH ELECTRIC CO. Ltd. Sept. 18, 1959 [Sept. 23, 1958], No. 30308/58. Class 9 (1). [Also in Group XVII] The homing head of a guided missile is mounted in a carriage 14 sliding in guides 17 mounted on a welded tubular structure 13 having resilient projections 18 by which the structure is secured in corrugations 11a of an oil drum 11. Locking members 14b secure the carriage at its inward position. The drum is enclosed in a wooden crate 10 and cushioned by pads 10a, 10c of rubberized hair. The top 12a of the drum is hermetically sealed by an 0-ring seal and a locking band 19. A breather device 21 is provided to overcome the problem of pressure differentials arising during air transportation and may include a desiccating agent, visible from outside the container, to indicate the state of the interior.
Patent GB-303129-A (GB)
Abstract: 303,129. Clavel, R. Dec. 29, 1927, [Convention date]. Liquids, treating with.-A continuous process for loading with metallic compounds fabrics composed of natural or artificial silk comprises treatment in successive baths with all or at least two of the solutions which yield. insoluble compounds, trays being provided between some of the baths wherein the fabric may rest for a period. The fabric 2 is led through a bath 2 containing mancrchloracetic acid to a rest tray formed of plates 9, 10 set at an angle opening towards the next bath. The fabric then passes through a bath 11 of water, squeeze rolls 15, and a bath 16 of stannic chloride to another rest tray 20. There follow another bath 22 of stannic chloride, rest tray 25, stretcher 26, squeeze rolls 27, bath 28 of mono-sodium di-hydrogen phosphate, tray 31, stretcher 32, bath 33 of di-sodium mono-hydrogen phosphate containing a little sodium carbonate, and a bath 35 of running water. Parts of the foregoing process may be repeated. Subsequent silicate treatment may be as usual, or the fabric may next pass through stretcher 37, squeeze rolls 38, bath 39 of codium silicate and soap, bath 43 of sodium silicate only, heated chamber 47 with tray 46, bath 48 oi sodium silicate, heated chamber 52 with tray 51, stretcher 53, and a soft water bath 54. The acid bath 3 may be incorporated with the metallic salt bath, or if a matte lustre is desired may be omit. ted. The fabric may be arranged to rest in the washing troughs.