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Patent GB-471132-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to controls for mechanically-propelled vehicles
Filed: 1936-02-28
Abstract: 471,132. Controlling motor vehicles. FLIND, H. C., and OUGHT ON, G. R. Feb. 28, 1936, No. 6082. [Class 79 (v)] The accelerator or electric controller pedal of a motor vehicle is movable in one plane to control the engine or motor and in another plane to effect engagement and release of restraining means adapted to keep the engine or motor control in any desired position, a second control means being also provided to effect the release of the restraining means. The accelerator pedal may be mounted on the second control means which is preferably the brake pedal, so that when the brake is applied the accelerator is released and returns to the closed or " off " position. In the construction shown a bent wire accelerator pedal 5 is pivoted at 5a to a block 8 pivoted at 9 to a brake pedal 3, 4, the pedal 5 having a foot piece 6 projecting beyond the face of the brake pedal. When the driver rotates the pedal 5 about the axis 9 by rotary movement of his foot about his leg as axis, an arm 10 on the block 8 pulls a Bowden wire 11 connected to the engine throttle. The Bowden casing 12 is secured at one end to the brake pedal so that the throttle control is not affected by movement of the brake pedal. A spring 19 acting between a fixed point 20 and a lever 15, 16 pivoted at 18 on the brake pedal overcomes a spring 14 and urges a toothed sector 7 on the accelerator pedal against a corresponding sector 13 on the brake pedal. When the driver's foot is placed on the pedal 5, the latter is rocked about the pivot 5a and the sectors are separated ; rotation of the pedal about pivot 9 opens the throttle and release of the pedal allows the sectors to engage to hold the throttle in the selected open position. When the brake pedal is depressed to apply the brake, the lever 15, 16 moves nearer to the point 20 and the spring 19 is slackened allowing the spring 14 to separate the sectors 7, 13 so that the throttle, if open, is closed by its usual return spring.
Patent GB-1449693-A (GB)
Title: Self-supporting device for carrying a flexible cable or pipe
IPC: F16L3/16
Filed: 1974-02-11
Abstract: 1449693 Flexible tubes KATRAPAT AG 11 Feb 1974 [14 Feb 1973] 06084/74 Heading F2P A device for carrying flexible cables or pipes from a fixed connection point to a movable point comprises a flexible tube comprising a strip having two oppositely facing channels, each channel having a respective outer side wall 5, 6, Fig. 3, the two channels having a common inner side wall, the strip being helically wound on itself to form a plurality of windings, contiguous longitudinal portions of the strip forming adjoining windings, wherein the outer side wall portion of one channel portion of each winding of each pair of adjoining windings extends into the oppositely facing channel portion of the other winding of the pair; and means 8, Figs. 3 and 4, provided along one side of the tube for maintaining the length of one side constant, the other side of the tube being variable in length. The flexible strip 8 which may be positioned either when the tube is in the extended state, Fig. 3, or when in the compressed state, Fig. 6, and then fixed to the outside of the upstanding parts of the windings. With the strip 8 positioned as shown in Fig. 3 the tube can only bend in the peripheral region opposite strip 8 whereas when the strip is positioned as shown in Fig. 6 the tube can only bend on the side to which the strip is fixed. In a second embodiment the flexible strip may be fixed to the inside of the windings. In a third embodiment strip (8), Fig. 11 (not shown), may be fixed to the tube by its ends and the remaining part held against the windings by means of a flexible sheath (17), e.g. of metal webbing. In a fourth embodiment the restraining means are a series of spacer devices (9), Fig. 7 (not shown), which with the tube extended lie in grooves (4) and are each fixed to one of the edges (10) of the windings and are supported against edge (6) of an adjacent winding. In fifth and sixth embodiments the spacer devices (12), Fig. 8 (not shown), and (13), Fig. 9 (not shown), are wound-in during the manufacture of the tube so that they lie in grooves (4) of the windings in such a manner that the edges (6) engage in correspondingly shaped recesses in the spacer devices. In a seventh embodiment spacer devices 16, Fig. 12, are arranged on a flexible strip 15 so that each spacer engages in the grooves 4 and are fixed on one edge of the windings or held in place by a flexible sheath 17. In an eighth embodiment the spacer devices consist of notches 18, Fig. 15 arranged side by side in pairs on the upstanding part of the profiled strip from which the tube is wound. In a ninth embodiment, Fig. 17, the spacers may consist of projecting tongue-like sections 19 formed on the profiled strip from which the tube is wound in such a manner that the ends of the sections are supported against the edges of adjacent windings.
Patent GB-1488243-A (GB)
Title: Underground mine slurry concentration apparatus
IPC: B01D21/00
Filed: 1974-11-01
Abstract: 1488243 Coal slurry separator in a mine CONTINENTAL OIL CO 1 Nov 1974 [15 April 1974] 06093/77 Divided out of 1481344 Heading BID [Also in Division Fl] A coal-water slurry is delivered from several coal faces by pipes 25 to a trench in the floor of a mine tunnel, wherein the water and coal separate by gravity, the water is recycled to the coal faces via a reservoir 50 and pump 66, and a concentrated coal slurry is picked up from the trench floor by a moving pump 18 and conveyed to the surface. Water is delivered from the trench by a pump 57 to a centrifugal separator, which returns fire solids to the trench and delivers water to reservoir 50, which is also provided with an inlet 71 for make-up water. Slurry pump 18 is suspended with its inlet 19 adjacent the trench floor from a trolley 40 which moves along the trench on rails 41. A flexible hose 21 from the pump outlet 20 is suspended from hooks 45 running on parallel rails 48 on the tunnel roof, a second trolley 47 feeding the hose from one rail to the other to allow for movement of trolley 40. The reservoir and trench are lined with plastics or concrete.
Patent GB-457549-A (GB)
Title: An improved process for making washing agents containing soap
IPC: C11D9/14
Filed: 1935-02-26
Abstract: Detergents are obtained by incorporating alkali polyphosphates, or complex-forming alkali metaphosphates mixed or not with alkali pyrophosphates, soda, or other alkali, into solid dry soap or hot liquid soap, glue or paste in such quantities that the pH value of the finished soap is not below 8,5.  Up to 20 per cent of metaphosphate relative to soap may be used without enhancing the hygroscopicity of the soap or loss of oxygen from oxygen-containing soaps.  German Specification 66976 is referred to.
Patent GB-124722-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Oil Stoves, Lamps and the like.
IPC: F23D3/00
Filed: 1919-03-12
Abstract: 124,722. Cleveland Metal Products Co., (Assignees of Chadwick, L. S.). March 23, 1918, [Convention date]. Wick operating devices; wicks.-The wick 1 of an oil stove, lamp, &c. is provided with a series of circumferential rows of eyelets 2, one row of which is snapped over inwardly projecting prongs 11 formed on the wick carrier 3, thereby correctly positioning the wick in the carrier and forming a detachable connexion allowing easy adjustment to the next row of eyelets as the wick is consumed. The wick carrier is formed with inward projections 4 along its upper edge and barbs at its lower edge, to maintain the wick in contact with the burner tube, and to enable it to be raised and lowered evenly throughout its whole circumference.
Patent GB-876944-A (GB)
Title: A receptacle for growing plants
IPC: A01G27/04
Filed: 1960-02-22
Abstract: 876,944. Plant-growing receptacles. ADAMS, L. A. June 30, 1960 [Feb. 22, 1960], No. 6225/60. Class 6(2). In a plant-growing receptacle a container 1 made from material permeable to air and water is enclosed by a polythene tube 2 so that a water film 3 is drawn up between the tube and container by capillary action, a band 6 of elastic material encircling the container at any level to which it is desired to restrict the water film. Air spaces may be provided between the tube and container by forming longitudinal grooves in the container or placing channel shaped strips between the tube and container. In a modification a number of upstanding porous tubes located above apertures in the base of a container may have an inner lining of flexible material impervious to water.
Patent GB-232743-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to seats for halls, schools, gardens, tramcars and the like
IPC: A47C11/00
Filed: 1924-03-12
Abstract: 232,743. Bennet, G. H. March 12, 1924. Frames. - Seats are constructed with frame members 1, each formed of a single piece of light rolled metal of H cross section, accessory parts being provided to give rigid support to the structure. The accessory parts may comprise seatsupporting bars 8, sheetmetal feet 12 and sheetmetal brackets 5 for supporting the back rest, and the members 12 and 5 may be provided with turned-in lugs engaging the channels of the frame members. Fig. 8 shows a modified form of bracket 26 for supporting the back rest 27. Specification 189,527 is referred to.
Patent GB-874014-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to the shaping of materials
Inventor: OPPENHEIM KURT AWIGDOR
IPC: B26D3/28
Filed: 1959-02-24
Abstract: <PICT:0874014/IV (a)/1> <PICT:0874014/IV (a)/2> A piece of resilient, rubbery material, e.g. sponge rubber, rubberized hair or foamed plastic has ribs 13, Fig. 5, or ribs 36, 37, Fig. 8.
Patent GB-1271373-A (GB)
Title: Current leakage circuit breaker device
Inventor: HARGRAVE MICHAEL JOHN ARTHUR
IPC: H02H3/33
Filed: 1969-02-06
Abstract: 1,271,373. Protective systems. B & R RELAYS Ltd. 2 Feb., 1970 [6 Feb., 1969], No. 6455/69. Heading H2K. [Also in Division H1] An earth leakage protective arrangement comprises a core-balance transformer 26 having its secondary winding 34 connected across the cathode and control electrode of a controlled rectifier SCR1. A trip coil 44 of a circuitbreaker (see Division H1) is connected in series with the rectifier SCR1. This series circuit is connected across a full-wave rectifier bridge D1 ... D4 in parallel with a circuit comprising capacitors C1, C2 resistor R1 and diode D6, the latter circuit keeping the rectifier SCR1 conducting when the rectifier has been triggered and the rectified current falls to zero between successive half cycles. The arrangement may be used to protect single phase circuits of three or four-wire three-phase circuits.
Patent GB-454487-A (GB)
Title: Process for the production of aqueous bituminous emulsions
IPC: C08L95/00
Filed: 1935-03-01
Abstract: Aqueous bituminous emulsions in very fine particle form are obtained by treating coarsegrained bituminous emulsions, obtained by the use as emulsifying agents of positive or negatively charged poly-silicic acids, or their salts so that the electric charge on the particles of emulsifying agent is increased to such an extent that their mutual repulsion causes splitting of the bituminous globules without any mechanized subdivision of the emulsion being necessary, e.g. by heating.  The silicic acids may be obtained by the ripening of colloidal clay suspensions having water added in the proportions of 1 to 3 for about 36 hours until suitable hydrages are formed.  Asphalt in the proportion of about 50--60 per cent by weight of the emulsion is then added to form a coarsegrained emulsion in which the colloidal particles have disappeared from the aqueous phase and settled on the bitumen particles.  This emulsion is then heated for 1 to 3 hours at a temperature of about 90 DEG  C. until the final emulsion is formed.
Patent GB-1467053-A (GB)
Title: Apparatus for releasably latching a trailing vehicle to a leading vehicle
IPC: B60D1/46
Filed: 1974-02-13
Abstract: 1467053 Tractor hitch DEERE & CO 13 Feb 1974 [16 Feb 1973] 6549/74 Heading A1P Latching apparatus for coupling an agricultural implement to a tractor comprises a ball engaging member mounted on the implement towing bar 14 which engages a ball hitch on the draw bar 26 of the tractor, engagement being maintained by a keeper 48 movable between a latching and an unlatching position by a hydraulic ram. In one embodiment, Fig. 2, the ball engaging member comprises a socket 46, engagement being effected by a chain 62 connected between the draft links 22 of the tractor and which engages a hook 64 to raise or lower the towing bar thereby to lift the socket on to the ball hitch 36. The keeper 48 is movable, within a guide member 58, between an unlatching position (broken lines in Fig. 2) and a latching position (continuous lines) by a hydraulic ram 51. In another embodiment, Fig. 6 (not shown) the ball engaging member comprises a ring which passes over the ball hitch and engages its neck 38 and which is held in engagement by a surface 74 of keeper 48.
Patent GB-382846-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to the manufacture of soap compositions
IPC: C11D17/08
Filed: 1932-03-04
Abstract: Soft soap is mixed with a starchy material such as potato, maize or rice flour, and thereafter powdered caustic alkali is incorporated to form a dry soap composition, which may be used as an emulsifier or cleaning agent.  Colour, perfumes or a medicament such as sulphur may be added.
Patent GB-439547-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to television and like receiving systems
IPC: H04N5/16
Filed: 1934-03-01
Abstract: 439,547. Television receivers. MARCONI'S WIRELESS TELEGRAPH CO., Ltd., Electra House, Victoria Embankment, London.-(Assignees of lams, H. A.; 22, Merrick Villas, Collingswood, New Jersey, U.S.A.) March 1, 1934, No. 6638. Void [Abridged as open to inspection under Sect. 91 of the Acts, Sept. 3, 1934]. [Class 40 (iii)] The invention relates to a television system in which direct current components of the picture signals are automatically reinserted at the receiver. The received picture and synchronizing signals from the output of the alternating-current amplifier 34 are applied to members 22, 24 selectively responsive to the line and frame synchronizing impulses and to the control grid 26 of the cathode ray tube 10. Impulses of opposite sign derived from the anode 32, are applied to the grid 54 of a valve 56 normally biassed at the cut-off point so that it is operated solely by signals which are in the negative direction at the output of the amplifier 34. Current through the resistance 58 charges condenser 62 to a voltage, proportional to the peak amplitude of the signals relative to a zero axis, in the negative direction which is applied to bias the control grid 26 of the cathode ray tube to vary the average illumination. In an alternative arrangement, Fig. 5, (not shown), the phase shift of the signals applied to the grid 54 is obtained by a valve amplifier instead of being obtained from the anode 32 of the tube 10. Specification 395,499 is referred to.
Patent GB-840813-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to door or like handles
Inventor: HAYWARD FRANCIS VINCENT
IPC: E05B3/06
Filed: 1957-02-28
Abstract: 840,813. Handles for locks and latches. COOKE & SON Ltd., T. J. Feb. 14, 1958 [Feb. 28, 1957], No. 6662/57. Class 44. The handle 13 of a door lock' or latch has formed integral therewith a shaft 14 by means of which it is rotatably mounted in a door-plate 10, the shaft 14 having secured to its end a flat plate 16 provided with a nose portion 18 which, when the handle is turned, is adapted to compress a spring 20 housed within a metal tube 21, the latter being mounted on the door-plate 10 and having a longitudinal slot 23 for the passage of said nose portion. Further nose portions 26, 17 are provided on the flat plate 16 for cooperating with a projection 19 formed on the inside of the door-plate 10 to limit the movement of the handle 13. For the purpose of mounting the tube 21 it has a closed end with a projecting stud 24 for engaging a hole in a lug 25 on the door-plate 10. Preferably a small rivet 22 is provided between the end of the compression spring 20 and the nose portion 18. The handle 13 may be reversible, so that it can be used with left or right hand doors, in which case the doorplate 10 has a further lug 27 similar to the lug 25.
Patent GB-1249054-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to continuous envelope assemblies
Inventor: PERRIMAN VICTOR HERBERT
IPC: B42D5/02
Filed: 1969-02-07
Abstract: 1,249,054. Envelopes. LAMSON PARAGON Ltd. 2 Feb., 1970 [7 Feb., 1969], No. 6692/69. Heading B6A. A continuous envelope assembly, e.g. for sending envelopes to employees giving details of salary, comprises at least three webs 1, 4, 7, with marginal feed perforations 11, the web 1 constituting a file copy and having spaces 2, 3 for entering the name and address and salary details respectively and a carbon coating 6a on its back under the space 2 so that the name &c., is copied on a space 5 of the second web 4, and the second web 4 having a carbon coating 6 on its reverse side and registering with the space 3 of sheet 1 so that the salary details are copied on a space 8 on the third sheet 7, the second and third sheets being divided into envelope lengths each sealed by adhesive strips 9, 10 to form envelopes having the address on the outside of web part 4 and the salary details on the inside of web part 7. A line of perforations 13 in the webs 4, 7 facilitates opening of the envelope by the employee. Tear-off lines of perforations 12 are located within each line of feed perforations 11.
Patent GB-1193883-A (GB)
Title: Herbicides
Inventor: SHIPTON GORDON OWEN
IPC: A01N59/00
Filed: 1968-02-10
Abstract: 1,193,883. Herbicides comprising alkali metal azides. G. O. SHIPTON (P.G.G. Industries, Inc.). 10 Feb., 1968, No. 6695/68. Heading A5E. [Also in Division C1] A solid herbicidal agricultural formulation comprises sodium azide, potassium azide or a mixture thereof and an alkaline material selected from alkali metal oxides, carbonates, silicates, borates, aluminates, the corresponding compounds of barium and strontium, trisodium phosphate, tripotassium phosphate, trisodium phosphite, tripotassium phosphite, sodium acetate, potassium acetate, primary, secondary and tertiary alkyl, aryl and alkyl aryl amines and alkaline salts thereof, the amount of said alkaline material present being at least 1/10 mole per mole of the alkali metal azide.
Patent GB-769129-A (GB)
Title: Method for the casting of sheets of a fusible material
IPC: B29C48/08
Filed: 1955-03-08
Abstract: 769,129. Casting-processes; drawing. FROMSON, H. A. March 8, 1955, No. 6732/55. Classes 83 (1) and 83 (4). [Also in Groups V and XXIII] Sheet-material of e.g. metal, plastic or glass, is cast in the horizontal interface between two bodies of liquid which are immiscible with each other and the material being cast, and which are at a temperature high enough to allow the material to spread into a horizontal layer while still in the liquid state, the mould-liquids being of low volatility at the casting temperature, and one having a lower S.G., and the other a higher S.G., than the material being cast. The mould-liquids may be molten inorganic salts, or salt mixtures, oxides, metals or mixtures of metals, and numerous examples are quoted. In a continuous process, the molten-material to be cast is introduced between mould-liquids 9, 11 through a conduit 2, the flow being regulated by a gate 3. The mould-liquids near the entrance are heated by gas-flames from a conduit 6, and are cooled near the exit by coolant from a conduit 7, so that a solidified sheet is withdrawn by rolls 5 through a die 4 which effects a slight reduction in the thickness of the sheet to maintain a seal against leakage of the mould liquids. The mould may be cooled by a circulating coolant such as steam. In a non-continuous process, a predetermined volume or weight of material to be cast is introduced into the mould, as by pouring into the surface of the lighter of the two mould-liquids, the material positioning itself under the influence of gravity between the two mouldliquids, and sheets of any desired perimeter may be produced. In a specific example, stainless steel at a temperature of 2900 F. is introduced between lead, and barium chloride at a temperature of 2600 F., the mould is cooled to 1800 F., and the stainless steel sheet removed.
Patent GB-436630-A (GB)
Title: Drawer-and-shell containers, particularly for cigarettes
IPC: B65D85/10
Filed: 1935-03-04
Abstract: 436,630. Cartons for cigarettes &c. UNIVERSELLE CIGARETTEN - MASCHINEN-FABRIK J. C. MULLER & CO., 48, Zwickauerstrasse, Dresden, Germany. March 4, 1935, No. 6740. Convention date, Jan. 7. [Class 18] Cigarettes &c. are held in position in a drawer- and-shell carton by a piece of corrugated papei a which is adhesively secured to a paper backing b. This positioning member can be attached to the flap of the drawer of the carton, as shown, or may be loosely placed on the cigarettes. The ends of the corrugated paper are doubled under and also attached to the upper surface of the backing strip.
Patent GB-876721-A (GB)
Title: New steroid compounds
Inventor: CAMERINO BRUNO
IPC: C07J1/00
Filed: 1959-02-26
Abstract: The invention comprises steroid compounds of the general formula <FORM:0876721/IV (b)/1> wherein R represents hydrogen or an acyl group derived from an aliphatic, cyclic or partly cyclic carboxylic acid containing not more than 9 carbon atoms, and the preparation of 4,11b -dihydroxy-17a -methyltestosterone by dehydrating 4,5,11b ,17b -tetrahydroxy-17a -methyl-4-androsten-3-one in alkaline solution, e.g. by means of a methanolic solution of potassium hydroxide, and if necessary, neutralising the alkaline solution, e.g. with acetic acid and, when required, esterifying the 4-hydroxy compound with the required carboxylic acid chloride or acid anhydride, e.g. in the presence of a tertiary amine such as pyridine.  Esters mentioned are the benzoate, b -phenylpropionate, b -cyclopentylpropionate, acetate, and propionate.  In an example 11b -hydroxy-17a -methyltestosterone is treated with osmium tetroxide and the resulting 4,5,11b ,17b -tetrahydroxy-17a -methyl-4-androsten-3-one is dehydrated as above to form 4,11b -dihydroxy17a -methyl-testosterone which is then esterified to form the particular esters referred to above.ALSO:A therapeutic composition comprises at least one steroid of the general formula <FORM:0876721/VI/1> wherein R represents hydrogen or an acyl group derived from an aliphatic, cyclic or party cyclic carboxylic acid containing not more than 9 carbon atoms, and a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier therefor.
Patent GB-435017-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in cloth covered tables for billiards and like games
IPC: A63D15/00
Filed: 1935-03-04
Abstract: 435,017. Billiard tables. CALLEBAUT, L. E., 8, Blakeney Road, Beckenham, Kent. March 4, 1935, No. 6787. [Class 132 (ii)] Spot marks. A clothcovered table for playing skittle-snooker, Russian billiards and like games is provided beneath the spot mark or each spot mark with a resilient insert 13 situated in a recess 14 which communicates with the bottom of the bed 12 by means of a hole 15 having a countersunk lower end 16. The insert is formed of a material such as rubber, pressed felt, cotton or wool, or soft wood, and is held in place by a fixing compound such as bitumen, sulphur, resin or plaster. The fixing compound may flow into a central hole 17 in the insert.
Patent GB-714635-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to bowie knives
IPC: B26B3/06
Filed: 1952-03-17
Abstract: 714,635. Knives. HANCOCK, S. June 17, 1953 [March 17, 1952], No. 6795/52. Class. 30 [Also in Group XXI] A bowie knife is formed with two notches 12, 15 in .the thick back of the blade, one 12 near the point with the notch edge 14 remote from the back sharpened to form a can opener and the other 15 near the guard 8 and at an angle to the edge of the back to form an opener for bottles with crimped caps. One end 17 of the guard 8 is formed as a screwdriver bit and the other end 18 is pointed for piercing a can before using the can opener.