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Patent GB-403098-A (GB)
Title: Method of measuring the relative displacement of two or more points of a body
IPC: B67D1/10
Filed: 1932-05-09
Abstract: 403,098. Linear-dimension gauges; dynamometers. LINCKH, H. E., 30, Merscheidstrasse, and KLUGE, J., 28, Englischestrasse, both in Charlottenburg, Berlin. May 9, 1932, No. 13302. Convention date, May 8, 1931. [Class 106 (ii).] Comprises a method of measuring length characterized in that the changes of length influence an elastic device through the medium of a pressure responsive measuring device and that the power of resistance of this elastic device itself is measured by the reaction of this power on to the pressure responsive device. The expansion chamber shown in Fig. 1 comprises a diaphragm M<2> clamped to a frame G and having a central ball by which pressure may be transmitted to a pressure plate D and in turn to quartz crystals Q on either side of an electrode E. The quartz is supported on a second diaphragm M<1> the stiffness of which may be changed by using interchangeable reinforcing rings R. The electrode is connected to a valve voltmeter. In Fig. 2 the device is used to measure the lateral movement of a shaft in its bearings. The shaft W bears against a lever H fulcrumed about a knife edge and the pressure exerted by by the shaft is transmitted through the lever H to an expansion chamber M containing piezoelectric crystals as in Fig. 1. In a third form for measuring large forces the force is applied to a structure and the forces due to the deformation of the structure only are transmitted to the expansion chamber. To avoid effects due to heat two pairs of quartz elements of opposite polarity are used, the force being measured independently of the conditions of heating.
Patent GB-133424-A (GB)
IPC: A23G3/28
Abstract: 133,424. Sonsthagen, A. Oct. 7, 1918. Depositing - machines. - In a machine for forming or decorating confectionery or the like, of the type in which a hopper contains the material and a grooved roller with co-acting scrapers delivers material through the aperture in the base of the hopper, and the hopper is universally mounted so as to be capable of movement in any direction, the movements of the hopper, or the speed of such movement, and the amount of material removed from the roller are hand controlled. As shown, a jacketed hopper 13 has a lower opening blocked by a roller 16 with circumferential grooves, from which material is removed by spring-pressed scrapers 32 mounted on a rod 28 oscillated by a handle 26. Movement is given to the hopper by the handle 26 or by a rod 36 secured to the hopper by one or two pins and connected to a rotating crank of adjustable radius. A brake on the mechanism rotating this crank is operated for varying the speed. The roller 16 is adjustable for wear. A plate shaped to fit the grooves in the roller may slide over a plate 24 to stop the flow when desired. The roller may reciprocate longitudinally. The scrapers 32 may be vibrated by a toothed disk. The roller 16 may be plain and co-operate with adjustable plates mounted in the hopper. The invention may be applied to the apparatus described in Specification 28948/13, [Class 28 (1), Bread-making &c.].
Patent GB-791802-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in flame-retarding compositions
IPC: C08K13/02
Filed: 1955-05-09
Abstract: A flame-retarding composition for application to textile fabrics comprises a dispersion in water of 10 to 20 per cent of antimony trioxide, 30 to 50 per cent of plasticizer and the rest polyvinyl chloride, polyvinylidene chloride, a vinyl chloride-vinylidene chloride copolymer or a mixture of these polymers, the proportions being proportions by weight of the total dispersed matter in the composition, and the plasticizer being a composite plasticizer containing at least 15 per cent by weight of chlorine and consisting of a mixture of a conventional plasticizer containing no chlorine, such as dioctyl phthalate or sebacate, and a chlorine-containing plasticizer such as a liquid chlorinated diphenyl or a liquid chlorinated paraffin wax.  The composition may also contain an emulsifying agent such as dioctyl sodium sulphosuccinate and an emulsion stabilizer such as sodium carboxy-methyl-cellulose and may be prepared by the method described in Specification 791,803.
Patent GB-108923-A (GB)
Title: Change-speed Gearing for Motor-cycles and the like.
Inventor: ALLTREE ARTHUR
IPC: B62M25/00
Filed: 1916-09-21
Abstract: 108,923. Alltree, A. Sept. 21, 1916. Variable - speed toothed gearing.- In change - speed gearing for motorcycles &c., four toothed wheels on a hollow shaft and on a sleeve thereon gear with wheels on a lay-shaft and are clutched to the shaft or sleeve by a pair of doubla clutches, the direct top-speed drive being obtained by clutching together the shaft and sleeve. The driving or driven shaft 1 is connected to a sprocket-wheel by a clutch 10 and carries a driven or driving sleeve 4 carrying a sprocket-wheel 11. Spur-wheels 17, 16, 15, 14 on a lay-shaft 13 gear with wheels 7, 6, 5 loose on a sleeve 4, and with a wheel 3 which may be fixed to the shaft 1 or may, as shown, be connected to it by a clutch 12. Clutches 8, 9 are employed for connecting the wheels and the shaft 1 to the sleeve to give solid drive and three lower speeds. When the clutch 8 has engaged the shaft 1, further movement causes the end 18<a> of the clutch lever 18 to strike a spring-pressed sleeve 19 and disengage the clutch 12, so that the lay-shaft 13 remains stationary during solid drive. The sleeve 4 may be shortened so that the wheels 6, 5, 3 are carried on the shaft 1, the wheel 7, or, if the sleeve is the driver, the smallest wheel, being clutched to the shaft 1 for solid drive and being unclutched from the sleeve 4 by an auxiliary clutch operated by a bell-crank lever. The central wheels 6, 5 are retained in position by a flange and a spring ring on the shaft or sleeve. The clutches are controlled by a lever 27 pivoted on a rockshaft 24 and swung laterally to engage cupped levers 23, 26, which have spring or pivoted upper ends and operate the clutches through rods or wires 22, 25. The lever 27 is swung from the neutral position shown and presses the levers 23, 26 into the slots 33, 34 in the gate, along which they are moved to operate the clutches.
Patent GB-573697-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to multiple metal hose clips
IPC: F16L21/00
Filed: 1943-08-17
Abstract: 573,697. Band clips. JAMIE, R. C. S., and HUNT & TURNER, Ltd. Aug. 17, 1943, No. 13397. [Class 44] In a multiple metal hose clip the separate bands, wires or cables forming the clip are connected together in spaced relationship at one or more points intermediate their ends by one or more flexible strips or wires. Figs. 1, 2 show four bands 1-4 of metal strip connected together by transverse strips 10 spot-welded to the bands at 11 and corrugated at 12. Tightening may be effected by any suitable means such as screw 6 engaging nut 7, or by provision of slots or projections at one end of the band engaged by a worm mounted in a housing carried by the other end of the band. The bands may be of wire or cable looped at their ends to receive transverse members as described in Specification 573,695, and when the bands are of wire or cable the connecting members may be of wire looped around the wire bands and soldered in place. The pap between the ends of a band is bridged by a curved strip 9 spot-welded to one end of the band.
Patent GB-135301-A (GB)
IPC: F02B75/24
Abstract: 135,301. Lanchester, F. W. Nov. 22, 1918. Compression engines, cylinders, cooling; driving-gear.-To obtain a balanced engine, four cylinders are disposed, as shown in Fig. 1, with their pistons connected in pairs to two crank-pins provided upon shafts each carrying a fly-wheel and geared together by double-helical teeth formed upon the crank-disks, or otherwise. Balance weights are fitted to the crank-disks. In a fourstroke-cycle engine, ignition occurs at intervals of 180 degrees. The engine may, however, operate upon a two-stroke cycle. One of the fly-wheels of the engine shown in Fig. 1 carries fan blades for circulating cooling-air around the cylinders. Specifications 15045/95, and 13960/96 and 10836/98, [both in Class 122, Steam engines], are referred to.
Patent GB-865639-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to apparatus for sealing packages
IPC: B65B51/06
Filed: 1958-04-29
Abstract: 865,639. Affixing adhesive tape. BARRACLOUGH, Ltd., R. W., and BARRACLOUGH, R. W. April 27, 1959 [April 29, 1958], No. 13536/58. Class 73. Package sealing apparatus advances the leading edge of a continuous adhesive strip to a package top where a presser member acts through distortable non adhesive strip to apply the adhesive leading edge to the package top, holds the package and adhesive strip stationary whilst it forces the tape on to the side of the package, advances the adhesive strip to be cut and applies its severed end. Strip 26 from a roll 16 on a horizontally reciprocating carriage 14 passes over rollers 22, 23 and its free end projects beyond the nip between a' roller 29 and a leaf-spring 30 guided by the check-plates of a member 27. The member 27 can pivot on a pin 31 within limits allowed by a slot 33. An adjustable band-brake 18, 19, 20, 21 checks rotation of the roll 16. A package 10 advances along a conveyer (not shown) between the carriage 14 and the presser assembly. Synchronously with the advance, the carriage 14 is reciprocated to protrude the end of the strip 26 over the package top. A cam-operated linkage 45, 47 then depresses the presser arm 45 to press on and hold the strip. The carriage 14 then moves back thereby withdrawing more strip. A non-adhesive web 59 extending resiliently from the presser pad around rollers 57, 58 to an anchor spring 60 on another cam-operated linkage 56, 46, 52 moves down as shown in Fig. 3B constraining the strip and, simultaneously, causing a length of it to be severed by a stationary blade 36. Final downward movement of the arm 56 causes the web 59 to press the severed adhesive strip on to the side of the package.
Patent GB-1299928-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to burner assemblies
Inventor: ETCHELLS DAVID ROWLAND
IPC: F23D17/00
Filed: 1970-03-20
Abstract: 1299928 Fluid fuel burners DAVID ETCHELLS (FURNACES) Ltd 19 April 1971 [20 March 1970] 13561/70 Heading F4T A burner assembly comprises means for supplying liquid (13) and/or gaseous (20) fuel, a passage 15 containing a plurality of vanes 16 to swirl the combustion air, and a ceramic heating element 11 having a central passage 21 with one end 27 adjacent to but spaced from the fuel supply means for receiving the fuel and air mixture, the element also having auxiliary passages 22 which surround the central passage 21 and extend from adjacent one end 23 of the element to the other end where they open into a diverging surface 26. The liquid and gaseous fuel supply means are a nozzle 13, and a ring of apertures 20 surrounding the nozzle respectively, control means, not shown, being operable to supply liquid and gaseous fuel alternatively. The auxiliary passages 22 improve combustion due to flow therealong, however it is not certain whether this flow is from ends 28 to ends 26 and comprises a fuel/air mixture which is consequently preheated or whether it is from ends 26 to ends 28 and comprises hot air and combustion gases which preheat the mixture of combustion air, leaving the passage 15, and oil or gas leaving the nozzle 13 or apertures 20 respectively.
Patent GB-326396-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to the receiving terminals of pneumatic despatch systems
IPC: B65G51/30
Filed: 1929-05-01
Abstract: 326,396. Lamson Pneumatic Tube Co., Ltd., and Burl, H. May 1, 1929. Pneumatic dispatch apparatus.-A receiving terminal for pneumatic dispatch apparatus is provided with a valve for controlling the suction or pressure in the system. The terminal comprises a casting having two parallel sleeves on sockets 3, 4. One socket 3 is connected to the suction pipe 5, whilst the other socket 4 is connected to the transit tube 6. The sockets communicate by means of the opening 9, the size of which is controlled by a rotary plug valve, provided with a slot 10 or other means for adjustment purposes. The pressure or suction in the transit tube may thus be controlled by operation of the valve, a stop 11 being provided and the flange of the valve head being cut away, to give two limiting positions for the valve.
Patent GB-1526904-A (GB)
Title: Analogue-to-digital encoder
IPC: H03M1/24
Filed: 1977-03-31
Abstract: 1526904 Position encoding ISLEF & HAGEN AS 31 March 1977 [1 April 1976] 13568/77 Heading H3H The angular position of a shaft is indicated over a range of n revolutions by a pair of Gray-coded discs or drums gear-coupled in the ratio n:(n-1), having numbers of unit steps in the same ratio, mutually offset by half a unit step. Because the gear ratio is nearly unity, errors are reduced.
Patent GB-1194774-A (GB)
Title: Counter
IPC: G06M1/04
Filed: 1968-03-21
Abstract: 1,194,774. Counters. H. MUELLER and S. MUELLER, [trading as J. HENGSTLER K.G.], 21 March, 1968 [23 March, 1967], No. 13610/68. Heading G4D. The add key 5o or subtract key 5u of a reversible counter makes less than the normal movement, a spring-pressed detent 2 camming the numeral wheel on to complete the step. The numeral wheel has a pin 7 for each digit. When a key is pressed a lug 6 engages a pin, such as 7b, and rotates the wheel rather more than half a step until a pin, such as 7a, passes the apex of detent spring 2 which then assists the movement to complete the step after the key has restored under the action of spring 12. The numerals are read through a magnifying window 19a. The wheel carries a brush connecting to read-out contacts (Figs. 2, 3).
Patent GB-880512-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to washing machines
IPC: D06F39/08
Filed: 1960-04-19
Abstract: 880,512. Washing-machines. MASCHINENFABRIK P. PFENNINGSBERG G.m.b.H. April 19, 1960 [May 20, 1959], No. 13674/60. Class 138 (2). A washing drum 1 which is rotatable about a vertical axis at a varying speed during operation, has a perforated frusto-conical bottom 3 with circumferential washboard-like corrugations. As the speed varies the articles move up and down the sloping bottom 3. The direction of rotation may be periodically reversed. Liquid forced outwardly through the perforations flows upwardly between the drum 1 and a closely spaced outer container 10, inwardly between a baffle plate 21 and the upper part of the container 10, and returns to the drum 1 through its opening 5. For spin-drying, a valve 16 is opened and the drum is rotated at a still higher speed.
Patent GB-701608-A (GB)
Title: Improved method of and means for supplying packing machines with cigarettes
IPC: A24C5/356
Filed: 1951-06-08
Abstract: 701,608. Feeding containers to endless conveyers. ARENCO AKTIEBOLAG. June 8, 1951 [June 28, 1950], No. 13675/51. Class 78 (1) [Also in Group XVII] In apparatus for feeding cigarettes to the hopper 13 of a packaging machine (see Group XVII) each container 8, 9 for the cigarettes is placed in a pivoted holder 24, which is fitted with a container-retaining latch 12 and is adapted to be swung manually from the dotted line position to an upright position where slide bars 31 on the container engage guide rails 7 on the machine and the container is removed from the holder and fed to a discharge station B above the hopper by pushers 6 on an intermittently-operated endless chain conveyer 1.
Patent GB-495457-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to the production of photo-mechanical printing plates
IPC: G03F7/04
Filed: 1937-05-14
Abstract: 495,457. Photographic dye-impression processes ; colour photography. DAWSON, H. E. May 14, 1937, No. 13709. [Class 98 (ii)] In a process for producing printing plates for printing in colour, a surface coated with a bichromated fish-glue layer is exposed through a half-tone dot screen, the unhardened parts are removed, the resulting plate is dyed and printing is effected on a dye-receptive surface. The receptive surface may be a photographic print and the process used for applying lettering thereto. The fish-glue layer may be exposed in a camera or under a positive original which may be a tracing or a stencil. In the production of coloured pictures, printing plates may be prepared from three colour record negatives or from the records produced from a multicolour screen original by printing through colour screens. Alternatively, for colouring a photographic print, all except the areas to appear in one colour may be blocked out in the negative and a printing plate made from the resulting stencil. The process may be repeated for other colours and the resulting plates used to apply dye to the print. One of the colours may be produced by toning the image in the print. Thus, two negatives produced in a bipack may be used, the panchromatic negative for making a bromide or gaslight print which is toned blue, and the orthochromatic negative for making a printing plate for applying red dye. A yellow stain may then be applied to the whole print or the latter may be on a yellow tinted base. The printing plates may be of glass, celluloid or metal, e.g. copper or zinc.
Patent GB-201526-A (GB)
Title: Process for the treatment of hydrated celluloses to diminish their absorptive capacity
IPC: D01F11/02
Filed: 1923-05-24
Abstract: The affinity for absorbing water of hydrated cellulose products in any form such as films, or artificial fibres or fabrics, is reduced by treatment in the air-dry state with dry saturated steam in a closed vessel at atmospheric or higher pressure, the duration of treatment being dependent on the temperature (and therefore pressure) of the steam.  It is stated that the treatment reduces the affinity of the materials for dyes and renders possible the satisfactory dyeing of fabrics composed of artificial threads and cotton; and it reduces the distortion, particularly of films, that occurs on moistening.  The Specification, as open to inspection under Sect. 91 (3) (a) refers also to the treatment of mercerized cotton and fabrics containing it; and it also includes a modification in which the material is treated in a closed chamber under reduced pressure. This subject-matter does not appear in the Specification as accepted.
Patent GB-201886-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in looms and shuttles for enabling all looms to be worked as looms having a continuous weft feed
IPC: D03D47/24
Filed: 1923-05-25
Abstract: 201,886. Boitel, A. Aug. 2, 1922, [Convention date]. Weft inserters not carrying bobbins &c., looms with.-In order that all looms may be supplied with weft from bobbins arranged at each side of the loom, a " shuttle '' or weftinserter 1, Fig. 1, operated by ordinary picking-mechanism is provided with fixed hooks 4 which have their points 5 bent horizontally towards the reed and are arranged parallel to an axis passing through the shuttle tips. This axis is arranged to make the shuttle non-symmetrical, so that the pickers 6 do not come into the paths of the hooks. A shuttle-positioning device is provided to ensure that the hooks shall be disengaged from the inserted loops at the correct time and without damaging the selvedge. This is effected by an arm 11, Figs. 5 and 7, on a spring-controlled shaft 10 which is mounted on a bracket 8 on the lay and carries an arm 12 having an antifriction roller 13. The arm 11 passes through a notch 19 in the shuttle-box. When the lav moves backwardly, the arm 11 enters a slot 7 in the shuttle and is rocked by the engagement of the roller 13 with a projection 15 on a ramp 14 secured to the loom framework. When the hook has been disengaged from the loop of weft, the shuttle is moved further to the left by the engagement of the roller 13 with a second projection 16 on the ramp 14. the hook being thus held clear of the selvedge during the beat-up. The weft thread 24 is adapted to lie in a notch 25 in the lay and passes through a porcelain or other guide 26 and a similar guide in a vertical bar 23 on the lav. At the moment of picking, the bar 23 is raised by a cam-controlled lever 27 to lift the weft into the path of the hook on the shuttle.
Patent GB-234824-A (GB)
IPC: B61K7/08
Filed: 1925-05-28
Abstract: 234,824. H³tte, A. T. [Firm of]. May 28, 1924, [Convention date]. Pressure - regulating valves. - A valve-controlling device for establishing a pressure in a brake cylinder or other receiver in accordance with the setting of a hand-lever or equivalent comprises in one construction, Fig. 1 a lever f pivotally connected at g to the hand-lever h and at f<1> to a piston c subject to the opposing pressures of a spring e and of the fluid in a cylinder A which as shown is the lifting cylinder of a rail brake B for vehicles. The lever f is arranged to actuate supply and outlet valves b, m. If the hand-lever h is moved through a given angle to the right, the lever f is turned about the pivot f<1> and the valve b is opened until the pressure established in the system is such as to move the piston C to a sufficient distance against the pressure of the spring e as to cause the lever f turning about the pivot g to re-close the valve. If for any reason the pressure in the system should rise above the value corresponding to the setting of the lever h, the outlet valve m is opened by the lever f until the correct pressure is reestablished. Fig. 3 shows a modification in which the valves m, b are controlled by aT-lever n connected by a link o to a lever f pivoted upon the rod r of a piston corresponding to the piston C, Fig. 1, and connected at v by a link (not shown) to a hand-lever h pivoted upon the opposite sideof the casing x.
Patent GB-129028-A (GB)
Title: Improvement in Means for Lubricating Ammunition in Guns.
Inventor: THOMPSON JOHN TALLIAFERRO
IPC: F41A29/04
Filed: 1917-09-28
Abstract: 129,028. Thompson, J. T. June 16, 1917, [Convention date]. Ordnance, lubricating; machine guns.-Relates to guns having means thereon for lubricating the ammunition. According to the invention, the lubricating means comprises a lubricant carrying body arranged to contact with the ammunition. In Figs. 1 and 2, the invention is shown applied to a rifle. Porous pads 24 moistened with lubricant are placed inside the breech-body so that each cartridge wipes against a pad as it passes from the magazine. In a modification, Fig. 6, a pad 24<b> is on the incline at the front of the magazine.. Fig. 21 shows a magazine extension lined with porous material 24<h> moistened with lubricant. The lubricant may be in a liquid, semi-liquid, powdered, or solid state.