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Patent GB-1365641-A (GB)
Title: Device for loading baled goods such as wool
IPC: B66C3/00
Filed: 1972-09-20
Abstract: 1365641 Cradles FREMANTLE STEVEDORING CO PTY Ltd 20 Sept 1972 [22 Feb 1972] 8161/72 Heading B8H A drop bottom container for handling bales of wool has a pair of bottom panels 12 hinged at one end to respective side walls of the container and connected by ropes 14 to a spreader 13, itself connected to a lifting rope. A further rope 16 is secured to the container. In operation the container is loaded when the same is deposited on a support surface, the panel 12 being closed. The container is then lifted by the rope 14 until positioned above, e.g. the hold of a ship wherein on further paying out of the rope 14, the container is supported by the rope 16 and the panels 12 pivot to discharge the load.
Patent GB-215724-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in processes and apparatus for reducing iron ores
IPC: C21B5/00
Filed: 1924-03-31
Abstract: 215,724. Aarts, J. G. May 8, 1923, [Convention date]. Extracting. - In a process for reducing iron ores to produce pig-iron or steel the fuel, with or without additions, fed into a chamber c is delivered by a pipe f into an internal chamber b and the ore with or without additions fed into a hopper d is delivered by a pipe g into the annular space surrounding the chamber b of the furnace a. The fuel is reduced bv the gases rising from the lower part of the furnace and the ores are also reduced by gases passing into the chamber through openings l, the reduced fuel and ore descending into the lower part of the furnace, and being mixed, the mixture being acted upon by an air blast through tuyeres o to melt the iron and carburize it. Steam is injected into the lowermost highly-heated portion of the fuel pipes p thus producing water-gas which passes into the ore and fuel chamber and assists in the reduction therein. Waste gases from the fuel chamber are led by pipes to annular passages in the side of the furnace and thence by passages t into the bottom of the ore-reduction chamber t. The chamber a may be provided with staggered baffles and the gases from the ore-reduction chamber may be admixed with the steam introduced by the pipes p having openings i so that the gases are compelled to move in counter current to the descending ore so as to provide a very intimate contact with the same.
Patent GB-731401-A (GB)
Title: Improved method for making 3-aryl-1,1-dichloro-2-methyl-propenes
IPC: C07C17/26
Filed: 1953-03-25
Abstract: 3 - Aryl - 1 : 1 - dichloro - 2 - methyl - 1-propenes are obtained by the action of substituted benzenes on 2-methyl-1 : 1 : 3-trichloro1-propene in presence of aluminium chloride.  The benzene may be substituted by bromine, chlorine, alkyl or alkoxy of 1-4 C atoms, and is employed in excess.  In examples 2-methyl-1 : 1 : 3 - trichloro - 1 - propene is condensed as above with chlorobenzene, anisole, bromobenzene, and toluene, and other alkyl and alkoxybenzenes and phenols, to give the corresponding 3 - substituted - aryl - 1 : 1 - dichloro2-methyl-1-propenes.
Patent GB-456631-A (GB)
Title: Device for working on the soles of footwear
IPC: A43D43/06
Filed: 1936-03-20
Abstract: In a sole channel-opening machine having a rotary tool 12, the sole 10 is fed by a rotary domed member 9 and guided by a fixed member 24 and by rollers 18, 20 on a spring-pressed pivoted member 17, and colour is applied to the welt by the feed member 9. Colour is <PICT:0456631/III/1> <PICT:0456631/III/2> supplied to the member 9 by wheels, 27, 33 carrying pads 32, 34; the wheel 27 is mounted by a ball joint 28 on a hinged coverplate 29 and driven by gears 25, 26. The tool 12 is driven in opposition to the workfeed.  The bracket 1 carrying the feeding, guiding and colouring means may be withdrawn from the work by operating a treadle rod 39.
Patent GB-1253497-A (GB)
Title: Urinary collection device
Inventor: ELLIS JACOB PAUL
IPC: A61F5/455
Filed: 1970-02-20
Abstract: 1,253,497. Urine collecting devices. J. P. ELLIS. 20 Feb., 1970, No. 8398/70. Heading A5R. [Also in Division A4] A urine collecting device for women consists of a hollow plastics vessel suitable to be enfolded by the labia minora of the user. The hour glass shaped inlet in the top surface comprises a forward aperture 38a to receive fluids from the region of the urethral meatus, a narrow intermediate aperture portion 38b to receive fluid from the region of the vaginal orifice, and a distal aperture portion 38c to receive voided fluids from the ambient introital regions when the device is operatively positioned. The device may be worn by an ambulatory patient or used as a bed-pan. The lower surface of the vessel comprises a draining duct 32 and a fin-shaped projection 48 designed to facilitate insertion and removal. The vessel also comprises two upwardly extending U- shaped projections 40a and 40b that depress the vaginal introitus thereby creating a pool area which assists in directing fluid flow into the collecting chamber 46.
Patent GB-1379857-A (GB)
Title: Apparatus for use in determining respiratory airway resistance
IPC: A61B5/093
Filed: 1972-02-23
Abstract: 1379857 Measuring respiratory airway resistance W J SAYER 23 Feb 1972 [24 Feb 1971] 8436/72 Heading A5K Apparatus for use in measuring the nasal or tracheobronchial airway resistance of a person comprises means for measuring a patient's pharyngeal pressure, means for recording the flow of air in one direction through the patient's airway, and means responsive to the pressure-measuring means to operate the flow recorder only when the pharyngeal pressure is within a predetermined pressure range. The pressure is measured by a mouthpiece 46 connected to a pressure gauge 50 having a switch which closes when the pressure is within adjustable limits to energise a motor driving a drum 26 carrying a chart on which a pen 24 records the volume of an adjustable bell 8 of a spirometer 2, into or from which the patient supplies or receives air. The airway resistance R is calculated from the relation R=(P 0 -P D )/ CV/t), where P 0  is the atmospheric pressure, P p  is the pharyngeal pressure, and (V/t) is the air-flow rate. In inspiratory nasal airway measurement, the patient breaths in air from the bell 8 through the nostrils and exhales through the mouth around the mouthpiece 46, and, in expiratory nasal airway measurement, he breathes in through the mouth and out through the nostrils into the bell 8. When measuring tracheobronchial airway resistance, the nostrils are blocked off and a modified mouthpiece (68), Fig. 7 (not shown), is used which is connected through a main opening to the bell 8 and through a side opening to the gauge/switch 50. Two such gauge/switches may be used, one for inspiration and one for expiration, so that the switching limits do not have to be adjusted when changing from inspiration to expiration measurements.
Patent GB-686600-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to apparatus for producing caps for bottles, and bottle-capping machines incorporating the same
Inventor: FORD GEOFFREY EWART
IPC: B67B3/064
Filed: 1950-04-04
Abstract: 686,600. Photo-electric control systems. FORDS (FINSBURY), Ltd. March 30, 1951 [April 4, 1950; July 12, 1950], Nos. 8448/50 and 17489/50. Class 40 (iii). A cap-making machine supplying caps to a bottle capping machine at a rate greater than that at which the capping machine uses them is started after a time delay when the level of caps in the shoot falls below a predetermined level. As shown, the completed caps pass to the capping machine down a shoot 1 through an aperture 3 in which light passes from a source 4 to a cell 6. As each cap passes the aperture it interrupts the light to the cell but until there are sufficient caps in the shoot to block the aperture 3 the cap-making machine is not switched off. Each interruption of the beam opens contacts CD breaking the anode supply to a triode valve 36 in the cathode circuit of which is a charging circuit 41, 40a, feeding a condenser 44 shunting a relay 40. When the level falls so that contacts CD are closed condenser 41 charges on the positive halfcycles of the supply voltage until relay 40 operates to complete the circuit of one of contactors 25, 26 (selected manually by switches 30, 31) so that the cap-making machine runs. During the periodic interruptions of the light beam as each cap rolls down the shoot condenser 44 holds relay 40 operated. When the level of the caps rises sufficiently to break the light beam relay 40 drops out, stopping the cap-making motors. Should the periodic interruption of the light beam not occur owing to jamming of the cap-making machine, although one of motors 27, 28 is running, the motor is switched off. This is achieved by a further timing circuit comprising triode 45 in the cathode circuit of which are a charging condenser and resistor 49, 49a and a capacitor 51 shunting a relay 50. The value of condenser 51 is such that each interruption of contacts CD which cut off the anode supply from triode 45 is sufficient to prevent relay 50 operating. If these periodic operations do not occur, however, the relay opens its contacts in the circuit of the main contactor, rendering the whole machine inoperative. The machine is set in operation by on-off switches 15, 16 operating the main contactor 12. A further press-button switch 29 cuts out the photoelectric control. In a simpler embodiment, Fig. 1 (not shown), the thermionic control is omitted, contacts CD being.closed by the photoelectric cell to operate a time delay relay. The Specification mentions that the switching-off of the cap-making motor may be through a time delay. The apparatus may be switched off if the interval between the arrival of successive caps is too large, by a photo-cell in a balanced circuit, the cap-forming machine being driven only when the average cell illumination is at the correct value.
Patent GB-1151154-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Travelling Cranes for carrying Casting Ladles to and from Continuous Casting Plant.
IPC: B66C7/00
Filed: 1967-02-22
Abstract: 1,151,154. Overhead traveling cranes. SCHLOEMANN A.G. 22 Feb., 1967 [24 Feb., 1966], No. 8453/67. Heading B8B. An overhead travelling crane for handling casting ladles has a trolley composed of beams 6-10 which support crabs 11, 12. The crabs run on rails on the beams 6, 7, 8, and the trolley runs on rails at right-angles thereto. The crab 11 supports full ladles and the crab 12 supports empty ladles.
Patent GB-213427-A (GB)
Title: An improved tyre lever
IPC: B60C25/02
Filed: 1923-03-26
Abstract: 213,427. Righton, W. H. March 26, 1923. Tyres, elastic, and tyrecovers, tools for removing and replacing.-A tyre lever comprises two members a, b, pivoted together, the upper end of each member being formed with a semi-circular jaw e, e<1>, one jaw being integral with a lip f formed with transverse grooves g, g<1> at either end. The lip f is lined with felt, leather or the like and the handles c, C<SP>1>, which may be held closed by a pivoted clip j, are normally forced apart by a coiled leafspring i. Specification 11093/11 is referred to.
Patent GB-738327-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to liquid fuel burners
Inventor: ADAMS GEOFFREY TURNER
IPC: F23D11/36
Filed: 1953-03-27
Abstract: 738,327. Mounting and controlling liquid fuel burners. THORNYCROFT & CO., Ltd., J. I. Jan. 27, 1954 [March 27, 1953], No. 8535/53. Class 75 (1). In a liquid fuel burner assembly for a boiler or other furnace of the kind comprising a burner holder including a fuel duct controlled by a shut-off valve, clamping means for pressing the burner body laterally into engagement with a coupling for connecting the fuel duct to the burner, and valve operating means arranged so that release of the clamping means is prevented except when the fuel valve is closed, a locking device operable on lateral movement of the burner body away from the coupling locks the valve operating member in the shut-off position and disengages said member when the burner body is again moved into engagement with the coupling. The burner 12 is removably mounted in a holder 1 having a passage 4 controlled by a shut-off valve 3 for supplying fuel to the burner 12 via a coupling 13, and when the operating handle 6 of the valve 3 is in the ON position a sector-shaped part 19 thereof prevents the engagement of the square end 17 of the burner clamping screw 15 by its operating key 18, and when the handle 6 is in the OFF position, a cut-away part 20 of the sector 19 permits operation of the clamping screw 15 to release the burner. During the preliminary lateral movement for release of the burner, a projection 22 beneath the latter is disengaged from a shoulder 9 on a piston 8 and a spring 11 moves the latter so that an end 23 thereof passes into a hole 24 in the handle 6 to lock the latter in the OFF position. On re-insertion and lateral movement of the burner 12, the projection 22 coacts with the shoulder 9 to press back the piston 8 to free the handle 6 for rotation. The clamping screw may, alternatively, extend through an arcuate slot in the sector-shaped part of the valve operating handle. According to the Provisional Specification, the locking piston co-operates with a projection on the valve-operating handle to prevent turning of the latter.
Patent GB-733163-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in toilet roll holders
IPC: A47K10/38
Filed: 1952-04-03
Abstract: 733,163. Roll-holders. STEAD, C. April 2, 1953 [April 3, 1952], No. 8581/52. Class 18. A toilet roll holder comprises a member 12, for mounting on a wall, and providing a pivotal mounting for a roll carrier consisting of a length of wire 7 of inverted U-shape the free ends of which are formed into U-shaped loops 8 to support the pivots 10 of a roller 9, and to facilitate the removal of the roller. To prevent accidental lifting of the roller the sides of the loops 8 may be slightly contracted one towards the other. The member 12 may be a length of sheet metal bent to a flattened tubular shape, one end being bent inwardly as at 13 to accommodate the carrier 7. Alternatively small sections may be bent inwardly at the top to support the carrier 7. In a modification, the wall mounting member is formed of wood or moulded plastic and is provided with a groove at the rear for the carrier 7.
Patent GB-822521-A (GB)
Title: Improved switch control system for electric battery charging circuits
Inventor: GRIFFITHS LEONARD
IPC: H02J7/14
Filed: 1957-03-15
Abstract: 822,521. Systems for charging batteries. BRITISH THOMSON-HOUSTON CO. Ltd. March 14, 1958 [March 15, 1957], No. 8636/57. Class 38 (4). In a battery charging arrangement having a circuit for controlling the connection of a battery to a charging source a pilot device is included to ascertain the poling of the battery and to prevent the connection of a battery to the source when the poling is incorrect. The generator voltage is applied between terminal 3 and earth, energizing coils 5 and 10. The coil 10 is not able by itself to close the contact 8 but must be assisted by the coil 11 energized by the battery. If the battery is wrongly connected to the terminals the winding 11 opposes the winding 10 and the contact 8 will not close. If the battery is correctly connected the coils 10 and 11 are together able to close the contact 8 which energizes the coil 7, which, together with the coil 5, is sufficient to close the contact 2. A further contact 2a may be provided for the connection of another battery. An additional switch may be used to avoid the coil 11 being permanently connected to the battery, this may be the ignition switch if the circuit is used on a motor vehicle.
Patent GB-1429280-A (GB)
Title: Perfluoroalkylalkylcarobxyl acids, process for their manu facture and their use
IPC: D06M13/02
Filed: 1974-02-26
Abstract: 1429280 Perfluoroalkylalkyl carboxylic acids CIBA-GEIGY AG 26 Feb 1974 [5 March 1973] 8643/74 Heading C2C [Also in Division D1] Novel perfluoroalkylalkyl carboxylic acids of formula where R f  is an unbranched or branched C 3 -C 18  perfluoroalkyl radical, R 1  is H or F, and m is 1, 2 or 3, are prepared by hydrolysing a perfluoroalkylalkyl nitrile of formula in the presence of an inorganic or organic acid.
Patent GB-216977-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to dwelling houses
IPC: E04H1/02
Filed: 1923-03-27
Abstract: 216,977. Thomson, R. March 27, 1923. Dwellings and rooms, arrangement and design of.-A two-storey dwelling-house, rectangular in plan, and shown in Fig. 1 as semi-detached, is provided in one corner of the ground floor with a kitchen-scullery 1 and entrance hall 2, over which is a bathroom 14, water closet 15, and landing 16. The hall is shortened and more space is available for the living rooms and bedrooms. Preferably, the floor of the landing 16 and rooms 14, 15 is raised above the general floor level of the upper storey, and is approached by a short fight of stairs 27 so that further storage space may be provided in the scullery. A combined cooking stove and fire-grate. 13 in the room 4 also heats an oven and hot-plate in the dining room 3.
Patent GB-349198-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to capsules or covers for bottles, jars and like containers, also applicable to headrests for chairs and the like
IPC: B65D41/22
Filed: 1930-03-18
Abstract: 349,198. Head-rests. JOHNSON & JOHNSON (GT. BRITAIN), Ltd., Slough. -(Johnson & Johnson; New Brunswick, New Jersey, U.S.A.) March 18, 1930, No. 8737. [Class 52 (ii).] A capsule 5, formed with a depending skirt 6 pleated at 7, is provided with an elastic binder 8 so as to have spaced points of adhesion 9, with intervening portions 10 bridging the pleats. The binder may be applied in a fluid state while the capsule is collapsed with the skirt disposed inwards so that the capsule will normally assume this position to facilitate packing. The capsule is applicable to the head-rests of barbers' and dentists' chairs.
Patent GB-1455975-A (GB)
Title: Multiple flash bulb unit
IPC: G03B15/04
Filed: 1975-03-03
Abstract: 1455975 Flash-bulb units PHILIPS ELECTRONIC & ASSOCIATED INDUSTRIES Ltd 3 March 1975 [6 March 1974] 8745/75 Heading G2X A multiple flash-bulb unit has two rows of flashbulbs 3 with associated reflectors 4, in which the main direction of light emanation of one row of bulbs is opposite to that of the other row; the bulbs are arranged inside a transparent cover 6 which has two independantly removable opaque strips 7. The strips may be attached to the cover by parallel edge portions 9, the strip 7 being bounded by weakenings e.g. grooves or perforations 10. The strips are made from paper, plastics material or an electrically conductive material. In the latter case they may form part of a Faraday cage surrounding the unit. The strips may have lugs 11 to facilitate removal and the adjacent edges of the strips may be inter-connected by an intervening strip 8.
Patent GB-1332885-A (GB)
Title: Sewing machine having a hand-driven mechanism
IPC: D05B69/04
Filed: 1972-02-25
Abstract: 1332885 Sewing machines B TAKETOMI 25 Feb 1972 [27 Feb 1971] 8876/72 Heading D1G Hand operation. A sewing machine which may be driven electrically or by foot power has hand driving mechanism comprising a small gear 33 on the arm shaft 18 engaging a larger gear 31 on an intermediate, shaft 29, a first bevel gear 32 on the intermediate shaft 29 engaging a second bevel gear 27 mounted on one end of an actuating shaft 25 provided at its other end with a rectangular hole 26 for a handle (34, Fig. 2 not shown). The looptaker shaft 46 is driven from shaft 29 by bevel drive members 42, 41, 43 and a belt 49. Frames. The front cover 19 of the machine frame is made of plastics and is attached to the front edges 20 of the bracket arm 11 and the standard 12. Attachments. A speed indicator 37, not further described, is driven from a worm formed on shaft 29.
Patent GB-991825-A (GB)
Title: A conveyor
Inventor: SUCKANOV DONAT KONSTANTINOVICH
IPC: B65G17/34
Filed: 1963-03-06
Abstract: 991,825. Endless conveyers, reciprocating conveyers. VSESOIUZNY NAUCHNO-ISSLEDOVATELSKY INSTITUT PODIEMNO-TRANSPORTNOVO MASHINOSTROIENIYA. March 6, 1963, No. 8900/63. Heading B8A. In a paternoster type of conveyer each carrier 4 has a platform 21 which can be held at rest at a predetermined unloading station without stopping the conveyer. Each carrier comprises frame members 17 attached to a beam 19 carrying stub axles 7 mounted in pairs of parallel chains 8. Each platform 21 is mounted on a ram 25 of a dash-pot 26 and carries a drum 35 with a spring tending to wind up a flexible band 36 passing round a pulley 37 on the platform 21. a pulley 38 on the beam 19 the free end of the band being attached to the platform 21. One of eleven unloading stations is selected by depressing one of eleven rods 41 shown unset in Fig. 9 and retained by a sprung plate 48 in Fig. 10. At the correct station the rod 41 trips a switch (not shown) actuating a solenoid 54 to push a lever 59 from its rest position (Fig. 14) into the path of a slide 39 (Fig. 15) which brings a lever 60 pivoted to the lever 59 to hold a lever 57 to engage with an extension 34 on the platform 21 (Fig. 16). The platform 21 is thus held at rest at the station while the chains 8 continue to move. Separation of the platform 21 from the beam 19 (Figs. 16, 17) causes the band 36 to unwind so that books 68 previously placed on the platform while the conveyer was stopped are unloaded on to a roller conveyer 66. At the same time the bar 48 is separated from the destination rod 41 which is zeroed by a spring 45. When a roller 63 on the lever 59 clears the guide 39 the levers return to their inoperative position while the platform returns to its initial position with respect to the beam 19.
Patent GB-451617-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in the combustion of refuse and similar fuels of low calorific value
IPC: F23G5/00
Filed: 1935-03-22
Abstract: 451,617. Refuse destructors &c. WOODALL-DUCKHAM (1920), Ltd., and REBER, J. W., 136, Victoria Street, Westminster. March 22, 1935, No. 8973. [Class 51 (i)] In burning refuse and like fuel in a furnace where the entire combustion process is effected on the one combustion grate, waste gases of reduced temperature are supplied above the grate and also, mixed with air, below the grate, with the result that maximum rate of combustion can be maintained without undue clinkering-up of the grate. As shown in Fig. 1, in which charging is intermittent, waste gases supplied at 10 are delivered above the grate and to the under-grate supply fan 7 under control of dampers 11a and 10a respectively. The application of the method to a continuous-feed destructor is also described, the grate 16a in this case being rotatable at intervals through 360‹, so that in passing from its normal working position, Fig. 3, clinker and ash are separated from the fuel mass, Fig. 6, to be dropped into a truck below as the grate again reaches its normal position. Optimum limits for the proportion of waste gas to air and for the waste gas composition are specified. The invention may be regarded as a development of that described in Specification 423,273 in which combustion carried out on the above lines is completed in a rotary furnace.
Patent GB-541344-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in oil recuperators
IPC: F16N39/00
Filed: 1940-05-21
Abstract: 541.344. Separating liquids and gases. GUEUX, J. J. M. May 21, 1940. No. 9031. Convention date. May 24, 1939. [Class 1 (i)] [Also in Groups XXVIII and XXXIV] A device for recovering oil from the air issuing from the crankcase of an engine comprises a casing 10 having a tangential inlet 11 and an exit 15 for the air, a screen 16 disposed between the inlet and outlet, and an oil outlet 14. Conical diffusers 18, 19 form concentric converging passages above and below the screen. The upper diffuser rests on a plate 17 surmounting the cylindrical screen, and the whole assemblage is held in the upper part of the casing by a spring 25.