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Patent GB-1001748-A (GB)
Title: Process for making household slippers
IPC: A43B3/10
Filed: 1964-05-12
Abstract: 1,001,748. Slippers. SCHOLL MFG. CO. Ltd. May 12, 1964 [May 27, 1963], No. 19772/64. Heading A3B. A slipper comprises a foam sole layer 1 and a foam upper 2 joined by a heat seal seam 3 and reinforcing means 6 secured to the upper around the foot opening 5. The foam is preferably an organic synthetic resin foam such as polyvinyl chloride foam, isocyanate, polyester or polyurethane foam. The reinforcement 6 is secured to the upper by a heat seal seam defining the opening 5 and by a broken bar seal seam 7 giving the appearance of stitching. The colours of the sole, upper, and reinforcement may be different and the reinforcement may have a shape other than that shown. The sole is preferably twice as thick as the upper. The slipper shown in Fig. 7 has a wide heat seal seam 10 with spaced elevations 11 which give the appearance of a welt.
Patent GB-445460-A (GB)
Title: Process of manufacturing stucco, plates, panels and the like covering and building elements
IPC: C04B18/02
Filed: 1934-07-05
Abstract: A plaster or cement composition, suitable for plastering and for the manufacture of plates, tubes, and the like, is made by mixing finely divided paper with cement or plaster and water, allowing the mass to set, grinding the set mass to powder and mixing with further cement or plaster and water.  Colouring matter, silicate of soda, or linseed oil or mixtures of these may be added.
Patent GB-498861-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to machines for verifying statistical records
Filed: 1937-07-16
Abstract: 498,861. Statistical apparatus. JOHNSON, W. E. July 16, 1937, No. 19817. [Class 106 (i)] Verifying perforated cards.-A machine for verifying record cards wherein each record is formed in complementary stages, includes a column comprising as many sensing elements as there are hole positions in a card column, so located that a complete hole in the card permits a sensing element to pass freely through it, whereas an incomplete hole causes lateral displacement of the element, together with means for testing the position of each sensing element after each sensing operation and means for giving an indication when any sensing element has been displaced. Specification 363,431 is referred to. The cards are fed from a magazine 3 by means of a picker 1 actuated from an eccentric 8 on the mainshaft 6 and by feed rolls 2, driven through the usual skew gearing 11, to a sensing device comprising a frame 4 reciprocated by eccentrics 5 on the mainshaft 6 through connecting rods 7. The sensing pins 13 are guided in holes in a plate 14 and between rods 15 at their upper ends. On each pin, a collar 16, Fig. 6, is normally held flush against the plate 14 by a spring 17. A pin sensing a double punched hole remains vertical, but, if only one punching is present the pin is rocked to one side and its upper end displaced. The testing device comprises a frame 21, carrying a number of slides 29, slotted to receive the upper ends of the sensing pins. The device is reciprocated by a cam 27 on the mainshaft, through links 24 forked at 25 to embrace the mainshaft. When a pin is displaced, the testing device is prevented from descending fully, and a roll 53 on the link 24 fails to cam a bellcrank 48 to lift a lug 49 thereon from a depression 47 in a link 46, whereupon, the bellcrank, which is mounted on an eccentric 51, oscillates an arm 45b to feed a signal card from a magazine 43. The testing plates 29, Figs. 2 and 4, are each held by springs 33 against a control plate 31 which, on being slid longitudinally by means of a handle 34, cams the corresponding plate into operative or inoperative position. Instead of inserting a signal card the testing device may be arranged to stop the machine, or punch or mark the incorrect card, or deflect it into a separate receptacle. Moreover, the testing operation may be carried out after the sensing pins, their setting retained, have been withdrawn from the card.
Patent GB-1131992-A (GB)
Title: Punched card reading apparatus
IPC: G06K7/04
Filed: 1967-05-01
Abstract: 1,131,992. Card readers. AMP CORP. 1 May, 1967 [20 May, 1966], No. 19910/67. Heading G4M. [Also in Division H1] Sensing pins 20 are arranged in a staggered array such that pins 20a and 20b in adjacent columns of the array engage different areas of the corresponding index positions 12a and 12b on a punched card, whereby the separation between the pins may be increased. The card is inserted between an insulating plate bearing the pins 20 and an insulating plate bearing contacts 36 interconnected by printed circuit busses 37. Each column bus 37 may be divided in two to increase the current available to the pins. In an alternative arrangement, Fig. 4 (not shown), pairs of contacts in adjacent columns are bussed together so that pairs of pins 20 perform a switching operation. Each pin comprises a conductive tube 68, Fig. 2, in which a sensing tip 83, 84 slides, the tip being biased outwardly by a spring 82. The spring bearing surface 81 is inclined to the transverse axis of the pin whereby the tip 83 is deflected against tube 68 to make good electrical contact therewith. The contact plate and punched card may be reciprocated by a cam on to a stationary array of sensing pins.
Patent GB-965018-A (GB)
Title: Glass composition
IPC: C03C13/00
Filed: 1962-05-24
Abstract: A glass composition for fibres in reinforcing plastics materials consists essentially of in percentages by weight:-SiO2 42-56; B2O3 4-10; Al2O3 4-12; Na2O 4-13; K2O 0.5-4; CaO 3-10; MgO 0-5; BaO 5-14; ZnO 2-7; ZrO2 3-10 and CaF2 1-4.  Impurities up to a total of 0.5 may be present, including Fe2O3; TiO2; Cr2O3; V2O5 P2O5.
Patent GB-999245-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to a method of and apparatus for separating solid particles from a fluid current
IPC: B03C1/032
Filed: 1961-06-02
Abstract: 999,245. Valves. G. H. JONES. May 28, 1962 [June 2, 1961], No. 20050/61. Heading F2V. [Also in Division B21 Pulses are imparted to the flow of wash and/or scour water in a magnetic separator by subjecting a spring-loaded valve in the scour water feed to repeated operation. In Fig. 1, collector plates 14 are disposed in a box 13 into which the feed is passed through a valve 12. The wash and scour water are fed to the box 13 through a valve 20, the wash water being fed from a passage 17 through a non-return valve 16 into a chamber 15. The scour water, under a greater pressure than the wash water is fed to a chamber 18 by way of a spring-loaded valve 19. The valve 19 may be actuated by the mechanism shown in Fig. 5, which has a main rotary cam 22 and an auxiliary cam 21 rotated at a higher speed. Cam paths 32, 33 on the cam 22 engage a roller 25 to depress a pivoted lever 23. This pulls down a rocker 27 against a coil spring 28 so that a cam path 34 on the cam 21 engages a roller 31, and whilst the cam path 32 engages the roller 25, the cam 21 will cause repeated operation of the valve 19 to produce the impulses in the wash water during the wash period. In this period magnetic patches on the plates 14 are washed off the plates by the impulses but are attracted back to the plates after each impulse. The cam path 33 is of such a shape as to ensure that the valve 19 is open for all positions of the cam 21, the degree of opening being greatest when the cam path 34 engages the roller 31. Thus during the scour period them agnetic particles are washed from the plates 14. The additional flow of water in the scour period may alternatively be obtained by the provision of a further separately operable valve between the chambers 8, 15 (Fig. 2, of the Prov. drawings, not shown), and the operation of the valve 19 may alternatively be effected by use of an electromagnet (Figs. 3, 4 of the Prov. drawings, not shown), or by hydraulic or compressed air means. Further, alternative constructions of the cam mechanism are given (Figs. 6, 7, not shown), using pivoted bell-crank levers. Specification 963,193 is referred to.
Patent GB-1081061-A (GB)
Title: Specific heat monitor
IPC: G01N25/00
Filed: 1964-05-14
Abstract: 1,081,061. Measuring specific heat electrically. BRITISH PETROLEUM CO. Ltd. and J.R. WILES. March 24, 1965 [May 14, 1964], No. 20099/64. Heading G1N. To determine the specific heat of a flowing fluid, the fluid is passed through a tube 1 at the ends of which are mounted the thermoelectric junctions of a differential thermocouple 5 the output of which is indicated or recorded at 7. The tube is heated, as by a coil 8 surrounding it, and the specific heat determined by calculation from the heat input (metered at 15 in terms of the power supplied to the heating coil), the (presumed known) rate of flow, and the thermocouple indication of the temperature difference between the inlet and outlet ends of the tube. To identify the mean temperature at which the specific heat has been determined, a single junction thermocouple 4 is attached to the inlet elbow 2 and its output metered separately. The tube is surrounded by thermal insulation 9 and situated within an evacuated housing 11.
Patent GB-1156406-A (GB)
Title: Buckle for Safety Belts
Inventor: KACEREK JAROSLAV
IPC: A44B11/25
Filed: 1967-05-02
Abstract: 1,156,406. Buckles; latches. MORAVAN NARODNI PODNIK. 2 May, 1967, No. 20175/67. Heading E2A. A safety belt buckle comprises a part 1 formed with a shaped recess 3 in which a complimentarily shaped end portion Fig. 2 (not shown) of a second part 4 may be fitted and automatically fastened by a sliding bolt 9, the bolt being urged into its fastening position by a leaf-spring 10. A spring-loaded push-button, 6 is operable to withdraw the bolt through co-acting oblique surfaces 8 and 15". A modification includes two bolts for securing the second buckle part, the bolts being operable by two opposed push-buttons.
Patent GB-758153-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to mercury dispensing devices
IPC: H01J9/395
Filed: 1954-07-09
Abstract: 758.153. Stuffing-box substitutes. SYLVANIA ELECTRIC PRODUCTS, Inc. July 9, 1954 [July 14, 1953], No. 20222/54. Class 122(5) [Also in Group XVIII] In a mercury dispensing device (see Group XVIII) for use in the manufacture of electric discharge lamps a tubulation 126 of the lamp is gripped by a resilient collar 64 to form a gas-tight seal with the device. The tubulation is released when a cap 72 in screw-threaded engagement with a boss 62 is rotated through gearing 80, 78 by a lever 82.
Patent GB-401816-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to refractory bodies used in the construction of glass-meltingand other furnaces
IPC: C04B41/86
Filed: 1932-07-16
Abstract: A refractory block, brick or other body for use in the construction of glass-melting or other furnaces is formed during manufacture with a resistant coating by applying to the surface a coating consisting of a mixture of the constituents of the glass or other material to be melted and of the material from which the body is made, which coating becomes vitrified when the body is fired.  In a modification the body is made wholly of the usual refractory constituents admixed with the glass or other material to be melted, and when the body is fired a protective coating is formed.
Patent GB-148365-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and connected with controls for change speed gears for motor vehicles adapted to be driven in either direction with equal facility
IPC: B60K26/00
Filed: 1920-07-09
Abstract: 148,365. Daimler-Motoren-Ges. April 28, 1915, [Convention date]. Controlling gear for driving in either direction. -The change-speed levers of vehicles adapted to run both ways with equal facility are interconnected so that the same control movement of the driver from either of his driving positions will produce the same effect. The Figure shows an arrangement in which the vehicle is driven from positions at its ends. The hand-levers 11, 12 are connected either directly through a link 14, or indirectly through a centrally pivoted lever 30 and link 21, with the ends 15, 22 of a floating lever 16 the centre of which operates the gear-control bar 24. A forward movement of either hand-lever will move that end of the lever 16 to which it is connected to the right, the other end being held stationary by placing the other hand-lever in neutral position. A similar arrangement is employed when the driving positions are central and the hand-levers are co-axial and on opposite sides of the vehicle.
Patent GB-941648-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in ball or roller bearings for dynamoelectric machines
IPC: H02K5/173
Filed: 1962-05-28
Abstract: 941,648. Bearings. HEENAN & FROUDE Ltd. May 28, 1962 [June 8, 1961], No. 20411/62. Heading F2A. A ball or roller bearing for dynamo-electric machines has means to increase the reluctance of magnetic path through the bearing and to provide a low-reluctance magnetic path or shunt around it in order to divert the flow of magnetic flux from the bearing to reduce hysteresis and heating effects thereon. In a liquid-cooled eddy-current coupling with a horizontal shaft 20 (Fig. 1) a non-magnetizable liner 52 is interposed between the housing 2 and the outer race 38 of a ball bearing 18, the balls 42 being between the races 38, 40. Relatively movable magnetizable members 28, 32 are arranged close enough to provide a short air gap 118, the member 28 contacting the housing 2 and both members (28, 32) providing a low-reluctance magnetic path for magnetic flux around the bearing 18. The bearing 18 carries a shaft 84 passing through an end-bell 4, a magnetic flux circuit extending through a portion of the shaft 84 and portions of the end-bell 4. In an aircooled vertical-shaft-type eddy-current coupling (Fig. 3) the shaft 84 extends through a bore in the housing 119 supporting two bearings 120, 122 having non-magnetizable liners 142 and is surrounded by a magnetic shunt sleeve 144 forming a low-reluctance flux by-pass adjacent the bearings.
Patent GB-880245-A (GB)
Title: New polypeptides
IPC: A61K38/00
Filed: 1959-06-15
Abstract: The invention comprises L-arginyl- or L-ornithyl- or L-lysyl-L-a -lower alkyl-a -amino-acetyl-L-tyrosyl-L-a -lower alkyl -a -aminoacety L-histidyl-L-prolyl-L-phenyl-alanines, in which the lower alkyl groups each contain 1-5 carbon atoms, and physiologically tolerable acid addition salts thereof.  The L-a -lower alkyl-a -aminoacetyl residue is L-valyl, L-norvalyl, L-leucyl, L-isoleucyl, L-nor-isoleucyl, or L-alanyl.  The peptides are obtained by methods known per se for making peptides, the amino acids being linked together in the aforesaid series singly or after being linked in small peptide units.  Thus, N-carbobenzyloxy-L-arginine is condensed with L-valyl-L-tyrosyl-L - valyl - L - histidyl - L - prolyl - L - phenylalanine methyl ester in the presence of dicyclohexylcarbodiimide to give the N-carbobenzyloxy heptapeptide methyl ester which is hydrolysed by acid to the free heptapeptide. Similarly N-carbobenzyloxy-nitro-L-arginine is reacted with the same hexapeptide ester to give the corresponding N-substituted heptopeptide ester which is hydrogenated to give the free peptide ester then hydrolysed to the free peptide.  Specification 876,571 is referred to.ALSO:Pharmaceutical preparations having hypertensive action comprise lambda-arginyl or lambda-ornithyl-or lambdalysyl - lambda - a  - lower alkyl - a  - aminoacetyl - lambda - tyrosyl - lambda - a  - lower alkyl - a -aminoacetyl - lambda - histidyl - lambda - prolyl - lambda - phenylalanines and physiologically acceptable acid addition salts (wherein lower alkyl groups contain 1-5 carbon atoms) in admixture or conjunction with a pharmaceutical carrier suitable for enteral or parenteral administration.  Lower alkyl-a -aminoacetyl groups include lambda-valyl, lambda-nouvalyl, lambda-leucyl lambda-nor-isoleucyl, lambda-iso-leucyl or lambda-alanyl.  The preparations may be in the form of tablets, dragees, powders, salves, creams, suppositories, solutions, suspensions or emulsions.  They may contain other therapeutically active substances.  Specification 876,571 is referred to.
Patent GB-685876-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to labelling machines
Inventor: BECK NORMAN
IPC: B65C9/14
Filed: 1950-08-18
Abstract: 685,876. Feeding sheets. CROWN CORK CO. Sept. 1, 1950 [Aug. 18, 1950], No. 20560/50. Class 100 (i). Sheet - separators. - In a labelling - machine wherein a suction pad on a movable arm takes a label from a stack and feeds it through a gumming-device to a bottle &c. to which it is to be applied, the pad 39, Fig. 3, is connected to an arm 18 by means which includes a length of suction tube 41 which passes through the pad and is provided with clamping means comprising a collar 42 and a nut 43 whereby the pad can be clamped in any chosen angular position on the tube. The tube 41 is bent into substantially U-shaped form, the lower part having welded thereon a sleeve 46 from which projects a stem 47 fitting rotatably into an offset portion 48 of the arm 18 and secured in any chosen position by a nut 49. A locking pin 52 is inserted in aligned holes in the portion 48 and sleeve 46. Suction at the pad 39 is established through a passage 36 in the arm 18, a passage 50 in the stem 47, the tube 41, and a port 44 in the tube communicating with suction apertures 45 in the pad. As shown in Fig. 2, two suction pads 39 carried, respectively, by arms 18, 19, are engaging the bottom label in a stack 17. These arms are carried on one end of a shaft 29 which is mounted in a cross-head 16, and has a pinion 30 (not shown) at the other end engaging a rack 31. The cross-head is carried by the piston rod 15 of a piston in a cylinder 11, and is guided for vertical movement on standards 13, 14. Gumming-devices 24, 25 are'supported by the standards 13, 14, and a table 26 supports the bottles 27 to be labelled. When piston rod 15 moves downwardly, the shaft 29 and arms 18, 19 are swung through 180 degrees, and the arms carry the label through the gumming-devices 24, 25 and apply it to a bottle 27. Specification 670,216, [Group XV], is referred to.
Patent GB-1073881-A (GB)
Title: Ferroelectric ceramic and transducer embodying same
IPC: C04B35/46
Filed: 1965-05-14
Abstract: <PICT:1073881/C1/1> In order to improve the mechanical Q, an amount of manganese corresponding on a mol. basis to 0.05 to 0.8 wt. per cent of manganese oxide is added to a basic PZT ceramic.  The PZT ceramics include all ferroelectric compositions lying within the phase diagram shown.  Up to 20 atom per cent Sr, Ca, Mg or Ba may be substituted for Pb.  Two preferred basic compositions are described, viz. Pb1- aSra(Zr1- bTib) O3 and Pb1- a Mga(Zr1- bTib)O3 where A is from 0 to 0.15 in the first composition and from 0 to 0.10 in the second, the value of B being from 0.40 to 0.65 in both compositions. A number of compositions lying within these ranges and containing quantities of Mn within the range defined are given.  Some of these also contain Cr or U in a quantity corresponding on a mol. basis to 0.1 to 1.5 wt. per cent of chromic oxide and some contain Fe in a quantity corresponding on a mol. basis to 0.1 to 1.0 wt. per cent of ferric oxide. The basic compositions (together with additives) are pre-sintered at 950 DEG  C. for 2 hours and then milled, after which MnO2 or KMnO4 is added. The final composition is then moulded and fired.
Patent GB-438342-A (GB)
Title: An improved illuminated vanity case
IPC: A45D33/32
Filed: 1935-07-19
Abstract: 438,342. Cases with electric illuminating devices. WEISSENBECK, F., 22, Prinz Eugenstrasse, Vienna. July 19, 1935, No. 20608. Convention date, Aug. 7, 1934. [Class 18] [See also Groups XI and XXV] A vanity case equipped with self-contained lighting means is characterized in that the case, preferably box-shaped, is provided at one edge with a reflector 9 adapted to receive the bulb 11, the reflector and bulb being rotatable by a milled head 12 and adapted to shine into or out from the case, the reflector being adapted to co-operate in two positions about 180 apart with the catch 19 on the hinged lid 2 when the latter is closed. An extension 13 of the refector serves for the reception of a lip stick &c. 14 manipulated by a milled head 15. A mirror 3 is provided in the lid and a powder receptacle 4 is hingedly attached to the case. The batteries 5, 6 are connected in series through a yoke 7, the casing 8 and the bulb filament by a long contact member 17.
Patent GB-303534-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to electric arc lamps
IPC: H05B31/00
Filed: 1927-08-05
Abstract: 303,534. Siemens - Schuckertwerke Akt.-Ges., Krell, O., and Gerdien, H. Aug. 5, 1927. Arc lamps.-The positive electrode is surrounded by a tube to the interior of which water is supplied for cooling the electrode, the tube being formed coaxiallv with the rotor of an air, water, electric or other motor by which it is rotated, so that the water forms a laver on the inner surface of the tube. The motor may also drive a pump supplying the cooling liquid. In the arrangement shown in Fig. 1, the tube 2, insulated by enamel, is mounted on a hollow spindle 3 mounted in ball-bearings 4, 5 and carrying buckets 6 against which jets of air are directed from hollow rings 7, 8. Water is admitted to the interior of the spindle from a hollow ring 11. To prevent the current of the arc from being switched on when the tube is not rotating, loaded springs 17 are provided which, when the tube is stationary, close the circuit of an electromagnet 20 which holds open a switch 19 in the circuit of the are. When the tube has acquired sufficient speed, the springs 17 rise under centrifugal force and break the circuit of the magnet 20, allowing the switch 19 to close. An electrically-driven arrangement provided with a guard device depending on the strength of the current in the motor circuit is also described. The spindle may be spirally grooved in order to ensure the water travelling along it. In the arrangement shown in Fig. 3, the tube 47 is rotated by a turbine 48 driven by compressed air &c. and the used driving medium passes through a hollow arm 56 to cool the negative electrode 46, escaping through openings 58, which are so arranged and, if necessary, shielded, that the escaping gases do not disturb the arc. A lamp so constructed can be suspended in a searchlight casing 66, Fig. 4, by means of three sets of wires 67, arranged in planes 120‹ apart, and secured by elastic members to take up expansion. The arm carrying the negative electrode is preferably arranged horizontally.
Patent GB-181262-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in machines for balling yarn, thread, twine and the like
IPC: B65H54/66
Filed: 1921-08-04
Abstract: 181,262. Baines, E. N., and Schmidt, J. W. Aug. 4, 1921. Balling-machines.-The top end of the ballspindle cap a of a balling-machine is formed with a number of serrations b so as to retain the end of the thread &c. f on the end of the cap a during winding and to leave it clearly exposed within the central hole when the ball is doffed. A colouring-pad may be placed at the bottom of the serrations, for colouring the end of the thread.
Patent GB-148910-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to reinforced concrete for marine purposes
IPC: E02D5/30
Filed: 1920-07-10
Abstract: 148,910. Ferguson, L. R. March 8, 1917, [Convention date]. Drawings to Specifrcation. Piles etc.; walls.-Reinforced-concrete piles, columns, cylinders, &c., used in the construction of docks, wharves, piers, and other structures which are partially submerged in sea-water have the reinforcements above low-water level formed of, or coated with, a non-corrodible or rustresisting metal, metals, or amalgam, such as tin, zinc, copper, &c., whereby disintegration of the concrete is prevented.