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Patent GB-156452-A (GB)
Title: Improved safety device for razors
IPC: B26B21/02
Filed: 1920-05-06
Abstract: 156,452. Arbenz, A. May 6, 1920. Razors, safety. A razor guard, comprising a plate 1 adapted to be secured against the side of the blade with its lower edge forming an unbroken protective 'bar spaced apart from the edge of the razor and having an opening 4 adjacent to the edge, is formed with the lower portion 2 of less thickness than the upper portion 3, there being a longitudinal shoulder between the two portions. The lower edges of the portion 3 may be shaped as at 5 to form the shoulder, and the upper and lower edges of the part 2 may be rounded or bevelled, or one edge may be rounded and the other bevelled. The guard is secured to either side of the blade by a clip, and the part 2 may be corrugated transversely. The guard may be of aluminium, celluloid, &c.
Patent GB-104119-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and connected with Air Valves for Pneumatic Tyres.
Inventor: HILDING ERNST ALFRED
IPC: F16K15/20
Filed: 1916-09-06
Abstract: 104,119. Hilding, E. A. Sept. 6, 1916. Tyre-inflating valves; closure members.-In a tyre valve of the kind described in Specification 11100/15, the elastic valve sleeve 19, Fig. 1, is arranged in a recess in the valve stem 12 covering the lateral hole 17 of the air-passage 16. The head 13 has a cone-shaped cavity 20 to allow the sleeve to expand axially for the ready passage of air during inflation. An internal shoulder 8<a> is formed in the casing so that, when the stem is pushed inwards, the sleeve will be pulled away from the hole 17, in order that air can then pass back from the tyre to a gauge for testing the air pressure. In the modification shown in Fig. 5, the tubular stem 25 is screwed within an outer stem 24, and the elastic sleeve 19 fills the casing 3, so that when the members 24, 25 are pushed inwards, the washer is held and the lateral passages are opened for deflation or testing the tyre pressure.
Patent GB-592563-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in slicing machines
IPC: B26D7/01
Filed: 1945-05-21
Abstract: 592,563. Slicing-machines. BERKEL & PARNALL'S SLICING MACHINE MANUFACTURING CO., Ltd. (U.S. Slicing Machine Co.). May 21, 1945, 12696. [Class 28 (ii)] In a slicing machine having the usual reciprocating carrier and sliding pusher member, the pusher guide is telescopically extensible beyond the carrier, against spring pressure, to allow the pusher to pivot about the guide into a stowed position beneath the carrier (Fig. 2). As shown, the pusher 16 is carried on a bearing sleeve 17 sliding on the guide 13 which is tubular and normally pressed towards the knife 5 by a spring 9. The supporting rod 8 is carried by the boss 7, a resilient bumper 15 preventing actual contact between the tube and the boss 7. A slidable rod 20 having enlarged ends 22 is carried in ears 21 on the bearing 17 and prevents upward swinging of the pusher plate by engagement with the adjacent edge of the trough. A striker plate 24 guides the pusher into its stowed position under the action of spring 9 and a projection 26 protects the end of the trough against the teeth on the pusher when this is being pivoted into or out of the stowed position. The surface of the trough may be protected by a button 28 of fibre or like material.
Patent GB-592339-A (GB)
Title: Fishing reel
IPC: A01K89/015
Filed: 1945-05-22
Abstract: 592,339. Fluid-friction brakes. KING, J. T. May 22, 1945, No. 12759. [Class 103 (i)] [Also in Groups VI and XXIX] The spool 5 of a fishing reel embodies a selfcontained hydraulic drive and is supported in spaced apart bearings in a yoke frame 1 by the drive shaft 30 and a shaft 36. The inner ends of these shafts are supported in bushes 26 in a hollow shaft 21 supported in the spool by roller bearings 25 and fitted with impellers 22, 23. The spool has cupped ends provided with integral vanes 8 and closed by covers 9 and 17 to form liquid-filled chambers 7. The impellers are driven by means of planetary gearing comprising pinions 28 which mesh with a ring gear 14 secured to the cover 9 and with a driving pinion 31 mounted on the shaft 30. Leakage of liquid is prevented by annular packing rings 16 and 20. In a modification the gearing is omitted and shaft 30 is keyed to the bush 26. In a further modification the bushes 26 are omitted. Specification 585,835, [Group VI], is referred to.
Patent GB-556380-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in gauges, more particularly for knitting needles
IPC: G01B5/00
Filed: 1942-09-10
Abstract: 556,380. Linear-dimension gauges. NOCK, J. T., and COPLEY-SMITH & SONS, Ltd., L. Sept. 10, 1942, No. 12793. [Class 106 (ii)] A device for gauging knitting-needles, wires &c. comprises a triangular housing composed of front and back plates 1, 2 separated by a marginal fillet 3 and provided with tapered slots 10 through the large ends of which is introduced the needle B to be gauged. The needle is moved along the slots until arrested pushing in front of it a spring-pressed pointer 7, a mark or edge 9 on the end of which reads over a scale 6 provided on the bevelled lower edge of an arcuate slot 5.
Patent GB-854262-A (GB)
Title: Improved anti-snarl device
Inventor: MAMNICKI KAZIMIERZ
IPC: B65H59/06
Filed: 1956-04-26
Abstract: 854,262. Anti-snarl devices for let-off packages. HOSIERY & ALLIED TRADES RESEARCH ASSOCIATION. May 16, 1957 [April 26, 1956], No. 12797/56. Class 120(2). An anti-snarl device for a let-off package comprises a cylinder, 1 with a rim 1a at its lower end and a ring 2 around it, the diameter of the ring being slightly larger than that of the cylinder but less than that of the rim, so that the yarn &c. F may be drawn off over the edge of the rim between the ring and the cylinder. The diameter of the ring may equal that of the upper part of the package and the ring, the rim and the outer surface of the cylinder may be polished, while rings of various weights to suit different yarns may be provided. The cylinder may be mounted on the core of the package either by means of a plug depending into the core, or as in Fig. 2, by fitting it over the top of the core. To adjust the position of the ring in relation to the top of the package, the cylinder may contain a stop 5 resting on the top of the core and having a plug 5a depending into the core, the position of the stop within the cylinder being adjustably determined by a split-ring 5b, or spring-urged balls. In Fig. 4, the cylinder is used with a larger package by means of a conical adaptor 9a, with an upper diameter equal to that of the rim and a lower one big enough to fit on top of the package, a plug 11 and a securing-screw 10 being provided.
Patent GB-1015711-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to forging presses
Inventor: KNOWLES KEITH
IPC: B21J13/10
Filed: 1962-04-04
Abstract: 1,015,711. Forging. BRITISH IRON & STEEL RESEARCH ASSOCIATION. April 4, 1963 [April 4, 1962], No. 12840/62. Heading B3H. A forging manipulator, Fig. 9, has a peel 12 mounted for longitudinal movement relative to the carriage by drive means independent of the carriage drive. This enables the elongated workpiece 13, Fig. 5, to remain stationary during its actual forging whilst the carriage moves forward with constant speed. Upon release of the workpiece by the forging tools the peel moves rapidly to its original position on the carriage. An hydraulic drive 30, Fig. 14 (not shown) and control system for the peel is described using mechanical or preferably solenoidoperated valves. The peel, Fig. 9, is reciprocable upon splines 17 within a tube 11 rotatable in bearings 16 through gearing 15 by hydraulic motor 21, and is movable transversely by hydraulic rams 20. Longitudinal movement of the carriage which runs along rails is effected by pinions 22 co-operating with fixed racks 23, Fig. 11 (not shown). All the hydraulic motors are supplied by a common electrically driven pump from a single reservoir and accumulator assembly. The workpiece 13, Fig. 5 (not shown), is gripped between master and slave manipulators 9, 10 whilst being forged between the tools of a double-acting horizontal hydraulic press, Fig. 8 (not shown). A flat horizontal roller table 25, Fig. 7 (not shown), with driven rollers capable of supporting the workpiece is rotatable about a vertical axis and is adjustable vertically. Rams 27 are provided to move the press tools from a magazine 28 past hinged flaps and into the press axis where they are secured to the crossheads 3 by spring-loaded locking devices. The crossheads 3 each slide along tierods 2 and are driven by an assembly of hydraulic motors 4, Fig. 3 (not shown), having some cylinders in the fixed head 1 and others in the movable crosshead 3. Retraction motors 7 are also provided. In an alternative embodiment three rams of equal or different areas are provided to move each crosshead. Equal volumes of pressure liquid are supplied to each motor assembly 4 to enable synchronous movement of the crossheads 3. Water cooling passages 2a, Fig. 4 (not shown), are provided on the tie-rods 2. The manipulators are controlled from the movements of the press by control signals responsive to the tool position whereby they move the workpiece stepwise between the tools.
Patent GB-568447-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to atomizing apparatus
IPC: A01M13/00
Filed: 1943-08-10
Abstract: 568,447. Spraying disinfectants &c. TANGLEFOOT CO. Aug. 10, 1943, No. 12905. Convention date, Sept. 14, 1942. [Class 69 (iii)] Insecticides, disinfectants, &c. in a container C are sprayed from a nozzle A supplied with steam from a boiler B heated by a gasolene burner 42 on the top of a fuel tank T, the whole being mounted on a platform 10 and provided with a handle 28 for convenient operation. The burning gases from 42 pass through a flue 18 surrounded by water and then are deflected upwards by a baffle 43 to warm the nozzle A. The steam generated in the boiler passes through the nozzle tube 40 and at the same time sucks out disinfectant through the passageway 39 and the tube 37 which has a sharp lower end for piercing a fresh can of disinfectant. A check valve 41 for access steam is provided in the nozzle element. The boiler is filled through a spout 50, with an enclosing cap, when the device is held on end. The burner and fuel chamber is surrounded by a detachable sheet metal hood H. The fuel chamber T being held in position by clamping spring 44. The boiler rests in semicircular openings in end headers 20 and is held in position by sheet metal walls 21 hooked under the base and secured at the top by interengaging flanges of a plate 25 to which the handle is attached. The hood is provided with louvres 47. The nozzle structure is detachably fitted in an opening 33 at the top of the boiler. The boiler is surrounded by an asbestos covering 27. Air can also flow rearwardly between the boiler and the base of the apparatus to supply the burner, baffles being provided for quietening down the air flow before it reaches the burner.
Patent GB-246708-A (GB)
Title: Card index device
IPC: B42F19/00
Filed: 1925-05-18
Abstract: 246,708. Rand, J. H. May 18, 1925. S h e e t material, binding edges of. - In card-index devices of the kind wherein a sheath of celluloid or the like forming a pocket along one edge of a card or card holder is secured in position by tongues or projections which extend from the rear portion of the sheath through slots in the card &c., the front or pocket-forming portion 11 of the sheath has a part or parts 18 projecting inwardly into the pocket to co-operate with the inturned securing-tongues 14 to retain a card or other insert 12 in the pocket. The rear portion 13 of the sheath from which the tongues 14 are cut may be of less height than the front portion 11, and the ends of the pocket may be closed by staples 17 or the like, which may also be attached to the card-holder 10. The tongues 14 may be of less width than the slots 16 in the card holder, thereby allowing a slight lateral movement of the sheath relatively to the card holder.
Patent GB-852832-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to cabinets or cubicles for storing electronic and otherequipment
Inventor: NORTH GEORGE HENRY
IPC: H05K5/04
Filed: 1957-04-24
Abstract: 852,832. Cabinets. RITHERDON & CO. Ltd. Sept. 9, 1957 [April 24, 1957], No. 13001/57. Class 52(1) The frame members of a metal cabinet consist of preformed L-sectioned bars I1, 12, 13 with rounded angles which are secured at the corners by welding, the meeting ends being preferably notched 20, 21 to interfit and the corner completed by a filling piece 22.
Patent GB-581463-A (GB)
Title: An improved means for measuring loom settings and effecting their standardisation
IPC: D03J1/20
Filed: 1944-07-07
Abstract: 581,463. Looms. BRITISH COTTON INDUSTRY RESEARCH ASSOCIATION, CUMMINGS, E. W., GROGAN, G., and THOMAS, I. H. July 7, 1944, No. 13014. [Class 142 (ii) ] [Also in Group XIX] A device for measuring the rotation of the hand wheel of a loom in measuring or adjusting the loom settings comprises a plate 26 graduated angularly and friction tight upon a spindle 10 mounted eccentrically to the hand wheel, and a gravity biassed pointer 15 rotatably mounted upon the spindle and bearing an index mark working on the scale of the graduated plate. The plate 26 may have adjustably mounted upon it indicating members 27, 28 which can be set at the position at which the picker band becomes taut and the shed-closing positioning. The speed of projection of the shuttle can be determined from the distance moved by the picker during 30‹ rotation of the top shaft immediately after the picker strap becomes taut, and a measuring tape 7 is provided with a hook 39 arranged to pass around the end 40<1> of the picking band and under the usual peg 41 so as to measure the movement of the picker. A sector 19 of the necessary angle is mounted upon the spindle 10 so that the movement of the top shaft can be readily ascertained.
Patent GB-981452-A (GB)
Title: Method for the preparation of optical sensitizers
Inventor: DEPOORTER HENRI
IPC: C09B23/10
Filed: 1961-04-12
Abstract: 1 - Methyl - 2 - methylmercapto - 5 - cyanobenzimidazole is prepared by refluxing 3-nitro-4-bromobenzonitrile with methylamine to give 2 - nitro - 4 - cyano - N - methylaniline, reducing the nitro group to the corresponding amine and cyclizing with carbon disulphide in potassium hydroxide to give 1-methyl-2-mercapto-5-cyanobenzimidazole, and then treating a sodium hydroxide solution of this with dimethyl sulphate. The product is then quaternated by heating with dimethyl sulphate.  1 - Methyl - 2 - methylmercapto - 5 - fluorobenzimidazole is similarly prepared by first preparing 2 - nitro - 4 - fluoro - N - methylaniline by treating the sodium salt of 2-nitro-4-fluoroacetanilide with methyl iodide to give 2-nitro-4-fluoro-N-methyl-acetanilide and then hydrolysing the acetyl group with hydrochloric acid, the product then being reduced, cyclized with carbon disulphide and methylated as above. The methyl sulphate salt is also prepared as above.  Specifications 955,961, 955,962, 955,964 and 981,451 are referred to.ALSO:Mono-methine and merocyanine dyes are prepared by condensing a 2-methylmercaptobenzimidazolium salt having a 5-cyano or 5-fluoro substituent with a heterocyclic quaternary ammonium salt having a reactive a - or g -methyl group or with a heterocyclic ketomethylene compound respectively.  Examples are given wherein the heterocyclic quaternary salt is 1,3-diethyl - 2 - methyl - 5 - cyano or 5 - carbethoxybenzimidazolium iodide or the corresponding 5:6-dichlorobenzimidazolium iodide, and wherein the ketomethylene compound is N-ethylrhodanine or N-allylrhodanine. Specifications 955,961, 955,962, 955,964 and 981,451 are referred to.
Patent GB-1534937-A (GB)
Title: Fluid control valve assembly
IPC: F16K17/10
Filed: 1976-04-01
Abstract: The valve arrangement is used for closing the live-steam pipe in the secondary circuit of a pressurised water reactor. It comprises a main valve, the valve piston (6) of which is acted upon by an internal medium. Provided on the main valve is a storage space (26) for the internal medium which is connected to the pressurised pipe at the inlet of the main valve. The storage space (26) is connected to the pressure space (8) above the valve piston (6) by control lines in which magnetically pilot-controlled valves (30, 33) operated by the same pressure medium are arranged. Above the piston seat, the valve piston (6) of the main valve contains a relief space (12) which is provided with lateral outlet openings (14) and the central inlet opening (13) of which is closed by a conical part (15). In the closed position of the main valve, the conical part (15) can be raised from its seat independently of the valve piston (6) by way of another magnetically pilot-controlled auxiliary valve (35) and a piston secured on the spindle (16) of the conical part (15). By means of this independent safety device, it is possible to ensure that the pressure in the evaporator does not rise excessively with the main valve closed. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-163989-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in gasoline pumps
IPC: B60K25/04
Filed: 1921-05-09
Abstract: 163,989. Barbarou, M. J. B. May 28, 1920, [Convention date]. Springs; actuating by vibrations of vehicles; actuating by weights; auxiliary actuating -gear; single - acting bucket pumps. - A pump for lifting petrol from a lowlevel tank to the carburettor &c. of an Internal - combustion engine comprises a casing J carried by the chassis or other suspended part of a vehicle, and a body A serving as a piston and mounted between two pairs of springs B, C in the casing. The casing is connected by a pipe R to the low-level tank and by a pipe K to the carburettor &c. When, owing to inequalities on the road, the chassis and casing J descend, the weight A, in virtue of its inertia, tends to remain in its position, and the space between the bottom of the casing and the weaght increases, while the space between a. valve E in the weight and a valve F in a tube D carried by the casing decreases. Fuel is thereby drawn into the space S through a valve H, and the fuel already in the space T is forced through the valve F and tube D to the carburettor &c. When the chassis and casing rise, the space S decreases, the space T increases, and liquid passes from the space S through the valve E into the space T. A strainer P may be arranged in the suction of the pump. An auxiliary actuating piston O may be arranged in the top of the casing. If the pump is immersed in the fuel tank, the bottom of the casing may be omitted. The weight A may have a number of circumferential grooves.
Patent GB-1352826-A (GB)
Title: Manufacture of cigarette packets
IPC: B65B19/22
Filed: 1973-03-20
Abstract: 1352826 Making cigarette packets MASCHINENFABRIK FR NIEPMANN & CO 20 March 1973 [21 April 1972] 13211/73 Heading B5D Packets for cigarettes are formed from blanks 11 fed from a magazine 10 past a segmented glue wheel 14 to mandrels 6 mounted on an endless chain 7. Folders 20, 21, 22, 23 fold the sides and one end of the packet and heat is supplied from a heater 24. A further heating zone 25 is provided and also a presser bar 26. The packet then moves to a cooling zone 26. At a transfer station 30 a lever 31 lifts a retainer 29 away from the packet and a gripper 32 withdraws the packet vertically, turns it through 90 and deposits it on a conveyer 1. An abutment 5 locates the packet whilst a cigarette block 3 is fed by a member 2 into the packet. The wheel 14 and a transfer roll 15 have electric heating cartridges 18 therein and a heater 17 is provided for the glue tank 16.
Patent GB-132664-A (GB)
IPC: A43B23/08
Abstract: 132,664. Wilkinson, C., Pulford, W. C., and British United Shoe Machinery Co. Nov. 11, 1918. Stiffeners.-Box-toe and counter stiffeners comprise blanks of textile fabric, such as " gaiter cloth," impregnated with a composition comprising resin, pitch, and fat. An example of the compositions as " amber " resin 8 parts, vegetable pitch, such as " Swedish " pitch, 2 parts, and fat, such as Russian tallow, linseed oil, or castor oil, 1 part. Specification 125,027 is referred to.
Patent GB-552723-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to horse shoes
IPC: A01L5/00
Filed: 1941-10-17
Abstract: 552,723. Horseshoes. WONDEGRIP PRODUCTS (HOLDINGS), Ltd., and KING, G. A. A. Oct. 17, 1941, No. 13381. [Class 67] A horseshoe made of resilient material has each heel arm 4 formed at its end with an upstanding stop 10 adapted to engage in a lateral cleft of the frog of a horse's hoof to prevent lateral spreading of the shoe. Each arm 4 is provided also with a clip 14 to prevent the arms from moving inwardly. The resilient material from which the shoe is made is described in Specification 533,916.
Patent GB-832981-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to printed circuits
IPC: H05K3/10
Filed: 1956-05-01
Abstract: 832,981. Ornamenting. YOUNG, L. J. April 1, 1957 [May 1, 1956], No. 13420/56. Class 93 A printed circuit is produced by applying to the surface of a base of electrical insulating material a layer of a non-tacky curable adhesive over an area, corresponding at least to the circuit pattern, applying to the coated part of the base a layer of finely-divided metal, applying pressure by means of an unheated die over an area corresponding to the circuit pattern to compact the metal and consolidate it with the adhesive and base substantially in the cold removing any uncompacted metal and thereafter curing the adhesive or allowing it to cure. A female die, corresponding substantially to the circuit pattern, may be placed on the adhesive-coated base, the openings in the die filled with metal powder, excess being removed by a doctor knife, and a male die in the form of the desired pattern lowered thereinto, pressure being applied to the male die; or a frame placed around the base may replace the female die. The metal powder may be copper or silver-plated copper, the base may be a synthetic plastic, e.g. polyvinyl chloride or a resin-impregnated laminate based on paper, cotton fabric, glass fabric or an asbestos filler; and the adhesive may be a cold pressing adhesive, e.g. a non-tacky "A" stage phenol-formaldehyde resin varnish, a urea-formaldehyde resin varnish, or a partially cured epoxide resin.
Patent GB-1069636-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to methods and apparatus for analysing substances,especially gases by selective absorption of a single beam of infra-red radiation
IPC: G01N21/37
Filed: 1965-05-30
Abstract: 1, 069, 636. Infrared gas analysis. USTAV PRO VUZKUM A VYUZITI TUHYCH A PLYNNYCH PALIV. March 30, 1965 [April 7, 1964],  No.13444/65. Heading G1A. A single-beam infrared gas analyser comprises a source of radiation 1, Fig. 1, a chopper 2 a sample chamber 3, a short absorption chamber 4 and a longer absorption chamber 6 connected to either side of a conventional diaphragm capacitor 7, 8, and a compensation chamber 5, the chambers 4, 5 and 6 all being filled with the substance to be tested for. The A. C. signal from the detector 7, 8 which is indicated on a meter 10 is zeroed by adjusting the pressure in the chamber 5. In a modification for 'null' working, Fig. 2 (not shown) the output of amplifier 9 is fed to an electropneumatic converter which varies the pressure in chamber 5 to reduce the output to zero. A manometer indicates the pressure in chamber 5, which is related to the concentration of test gas in claim 3.