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Patent GB-342211-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to the coating of surfaces or articles
IPC: C09D101/12
Filed: 1930-04-09
Abstract: Surfaces particularly rough or porous surfaces such as those of wood, ceramic materials, metals &c. are first coated with a filler which comprises a substantial proportion of a non-drying oil or its fatty acid, and then with a cellulosic lacquer.  The filler may be in paste or liquid form, and in addition to the non-drying oil, may contain a small quantity of plasticizers such as camphor, triacetin, diethyl or dibutyl phthalate or tartrate, monomethyl xylene sulphonamide, or ethyl toluene sulphonamide, with or without synthetic resins compatible with the cellulose derivative to be subsequently applied. The filler may also contain pigments or fillers such as lampblack, silica, china clay &c., and solvents or diluents such as gasoline, benzine, acetone, benzene, toluene, xylene, &c.  Examples of fillers contain (1) cocoanut oil, china clay, silica, carbon black, gasoline; (2) cocoanut oil, diethyl phthalate, china clay, silica, carbon black and gasoline.  The cellulose lacquer which is subsequently applied may contain cellulose esters such as cellulose nitrate, acetate, formate, propionate or butyrate or cellulose ethers such as methyl, ethyl or benzyl cellulose; synthetic resins such as those from phenol or diphenylol propane or toluene-sulphonamide and formaldehyde; solvents and plasticizers such as those used in the filler and medium and high boiling solvents such as dioxane, ethyl lactate, ethylene glycol monomethyl ether, benzyl alcohol, diacetone alcohol &c.  An example of a suitable lacquer comprises cellulose acetate, diphenylol propane-aldehyde resin, diethyl phthalate, acetone, benzene, alcohol and ethyl lactate, with or without pigments.ALSO:Surfaces, particularly rough or porous surfaces such as those of wood, ceramic materials, metals, &c., are first coated, as by rubbing or pressing, with a filler which comprises a substantial proportion of a non-drying oil or its fatty acid, and then with a cellulosic lacquer. The filler may be in paste form, and in addition to the non-drying oil, may contain a small quantity of plasticizers such as camphor, triacetin, diethyl or dibutyl phthalate or tartrate, monomethyl xylene sulphonamide, or ethyl toluene sulphonamide, with or without synthetic resins compatible with the cellulose derivative to be subsequently applied.  The filler may also contain pigments or fillers such as lampblack, silica, china clay, &c., and solvents or diluents such as gasolene, benzine, acetone, benzene, toluene, xylene, &c. Examples of fillers contain (1) coco-nut oil, china clay, silica, carbon black, gasolene, (2) coco-nut oil, diethyl phthalate, china clay, silica, carbon black and gasolene.
Patent GB-498452-A (GB)
Title: Apparatus for gasifying finely granular fuel
IPC: C10B49/08
Filed: 1938-04-12
Abstract: 498,452. Gas - producers ; grates. SZIKLA, G., and ROZINEK, A. April 12, 1938, No. 11262. [Classes 51 (i) and 55 (i)] Apparatus for gasefying finely-ground fuel, for example coal dust of a size up to 5 mm., held in suspension in a rising current of air, comprises a lower opening 5 through which the air is introduced and the slag is discharged. This opening is occupied by a moving slotted surface which divides the air into jets. Above the bottom 7 of the gasefying chamber 1 is arranged a partition 8 on which collects a mixture of coke and slag in funnel form, so. that liquid slag flows through an opening 9, which is smaller than the opening 5, directly on to the moving surface below. The slotted surface may be formed by a rotating drum 16, the slots of which are engaged by the bars of an inner rotating drum 19 for the purpose of closing to the desired extent the openings for the passage of air. The internal drum is adjustable tangentially or radially with respect to the outer drum to vary the extent of the air gaps. Water-cooled edges 28 are provided on the partition 8. One lateral wall 24 may be tilted by movement of a lever carrying a counterweight 26, so that the air blast chamber may be inspected and cleaned through an opening 25. A reciprocating pusher 3 returns incandescent coke dust, which collects in chamber 2, through a passage 4 towards the opening 5. A scraper 23 removes any slag adhering to the periphery of the drum 16. Instead of a drum, a chain grate may be employed, or scalp-like members 31 as in Fig. 4, these members being pivoted on the drum, and having their inner ends in a guide groove 32 when adjacent the bottom of the fuel bed, but hanging freely at the lower part of their travel. Specification 421,312 is referred to.
Patent GB-628295-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in stabilisers for milk base food products
IPC: A23L29/238
Filed: 1947-04-28
Abstract: Milk-base food products such as ice-cream mixes comprise cream, milk, and sugar into which is mixed a stabilizer consisting wholly or in part of guar seed gum.  An ice-cream of cream, milk, skim condensed milk, and sugar, containing 0.2 per cent. of a stabilizer of composition guar seed gum 55 parts, refined Irish moss 10 parts, and dextrose 35 parts, shows no separation, whips easily, and melts uniformly.
Patent GB-760514-A (GB)
Title: Loading coil case
Inventor: HALLETT LEONARD WALTER
IPC: H02G15/12
Filed: 1954-04-21
Abstract: 760,514. Inductors. STANDARD TELEPHONES & CABLES, Ltd. April 15, 1955 [April 21, 1954], No. 11444/54. Class 38 (2). [Also in Group XXXVI] A water-tight gland for the entry of a stub cable 12 into a loading case 1 comprises a detachable terminal plate 10 carrying terminals 11 to which the individual cable conductors 16 are connected, a thermoplastic body 19 being moulded around the end of the stub cable so as to adhere to the thermoplastic sheath 13 of the cable and to the splayed out thermoplastically insulated cable conductors 16, a metal flange 17 with a threaded boss 18 keyed to and surrounding the plastic body 19 and passing through the wall of the case 1 so that when a metal nut 21 is threaded on to the boss 18 an 0-ring 20 is compressed between the flange 17 and the wall of the case 1 to provide a water-tight joint; a conical ferrule 22 then being threaded on to the boss 18 so as to compress the plastic body 19 and finally a gland nut 24 screwed into the end of the ferrule 22 to compress a resilient ring 23 on to the cable sheath 13. When assembling the gland with the case the stub cable must be passed through the wall of the case from the inside before the containers 6 with the loading coils therein are assembled in the case.
Patent GB-811139-A (GB)
Title: Polymerization of olefins
IPC: C08F10/00
Filed: 1957-04-09
Abstract: Ethylene and/or propylene are polymerized in a solvent with copper, silver or mercury acetylide.  Specified solvents are butanes, pentanes, hexanes, heptanes, decanes, isooctane (preferred), mixtures thereof, benzene, toluene, xylene, and ethylbenzene and mixtures thereof.  The acetylide may be used in the range from about 0.001 to 1 per cent by weight based on the olefin present, while the polymerization may take place at the decomposition temperature of the acetylide.
Patent GB-1029612-A (GB)
Title: Improved antibiotic-containing feeding stuffs
IPC: A23K20/195
Filed: 1963-03-22
Abstract: 1,029,612. Feed supplement. FARBWERKE HOECHST A.G. March 22, 1963 [March 22, 1962], No. 11524/63. Heading A2B. As a growth-promoting animal feed supplement is employed the antibiotic moenomycin derived from the mycelium of Streptomyces. 0.1-50 mg. of moenomycin is incorporated in 1 kg. of feed. The examples are of tests on chicks and include comparisons with zinc bacitracin, penicillin and chlorotetracycline. The moenomycin may be obtained by the process of Specification 977,327.
Patent GB-233362-A (GB)
IPC: B22D31/00
Filed: 1925-05-04
Abstract: 233,362. Polak, J. May 2, 1924, [Convention date]. Casting-machines; moulds. - In a die-casting machine the runner is severed by rotation of the mould or of a mouthpiece arranged between the mould and nozzle. A mould 1, Fig. 3, is arranged over a nozzle 4, with an internal groove 11, so that when it is rotated the runner is severed. In another modification, the groove 11 is formed in a separate rotatable mouthpiece 9, Fig. 1, both mould and nozzle remaining stationary. After removal of the mould &c. the solidified metal in the nozzle may be thrown back into the melting pot 8 by a light blow. The Specification as open to inspection under Sect. 91 (3) (a) states also that a series of moulds may be arranged on an intermittently rotated table 2, Fig. 1 (Cancelled), so that they are brought successively over a nozzle 4. This subject-matter does not appear in the Specification as accepted.
Patent GB-290812-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in surface condensers
IPC: F28G9/00
Filed: 1927-04-30
Abstract: 290,812. Johnsen, E. A. April 30, 1927. Headers. - In a surface condenser having headers 16, 17 to which cooling water is supplied through pipes 57, 67 in a constant direction, the flow of water through the banks of tubes F, E is reversed by orientation of flap valves 26, 34, 39 governing the flow of water to or from the compartments formed by dividing the headers by partitions 24. Modifications are described for multi-pass condensers, and for condensers to which the cooling water is supplied by several pumps. A curved baffle plate 71 directs the flow of vapour to the cooler parts of the tubes.
Patent GB-585094-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in apparatus for winding material in strand form
IPC: B65H54/28
Filed: 1944-06-19
Abstract: 585,094. Winding glass &c. fibres. THURSTON, A. P. (Owens-Corning Fiberglass Corporation). June 19, 1944, No. 11631. [Class 120 (ii)] Apparatus for winding glass &c. strands, including a source of supply for the strands, a rotatable spool on which they are wound into a package and traversing means disposed between the supply and the spool, is characterized in that the traversing means consist of a pair of opposed cams 23 of conical spiral form supported on a shaft 19 for rotation about their axes of generation, each of the cams extending through at least 180 degrees of a convolution. Glass filaments 11 from a furnace 10 are gathered into a strand 13, over a guide 14, and wound on a rotating spool 12 by the traversing guides 23 rotating with the shaft 19 driven by an electric motor 20 which is also reciprocated in a slideway 22 through gears 20a, b and a link 22a. The major diameter of the cam 23 preferably substantially overlies the minor diameter of the other. Specification 516,953 is referred to.
Patent GB-997734-A (GB)
Title: Improved vulcanizing plant for electric cables
IPC: B29C48/06
Filed: 1964-03-19
Abstract: <PICT:0997734/C3/1> A vulcanization plant for electric cables comprises a tubular enclosure containing steam at a temperature permitting vulcanization, a second tubular enclosure of less length than the first tube containing cooling water, and a cable return pulley rotating inside a fluid-tight annular casing connected with the ends of the two tubes, wherein the two tubes are in different directions.  Preferably, the two tubes are mounted in one vertical plane to form a hairpin shape and the water/steam interface is kept at the level of the pulley axis by a system of pumps, pipes and thermocouples.  In a modification, the downstream branch may be in two parts, the first horizontal and the second at a slope, with the water/steam interface kept in the sloping portion.
Patent GB-118148-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Cork Cutting Machines.
Inventor: TYRIE JAMES
IPC: B27J5/00
Filed: 1917-08-14
Abstract: 118,148. Tyrie, J., and Gregg, A. Aug. 14, 1917. Cork, cutting.-In a machine for docking or cutting bottle corks to definite lengths, of the kind wherein the corks are fed down a tube b<1> to the cutters, the length is determined by an adjustable support c arranged beneath the tube, and clamps d', d<2> carry the corks to the cutting position away from the support c, but maintain them during the cutting operation at the level they occupied while on the support. When a cork 1 is dropped upon the support c, the next cork 2 in the tube is impaled upon a pin g, and when the cork 1 is carried forward a rod d<4> carried by the slide d moves to position to support the cork 2 in the tube when it is released by the pin g retiring with the clamp d<1>. In the machine shown, the apparatus is duplicated, two cutters a<1> being carried by a slide a reciprocated by a crank. The clamping-bars d are slidable in the slide a, and after they are arrested by pressing the corks and clamping- blocks d' against a spring c, the cutter-slide a continues to move and exerts pressure on them through springs l. When the bars d move back, the corks fall into a receptacle, and their upper severed portions are prevented from returning by a pivoted flap k. A rod d' enables the slides d to draw back the blocks d<1>, and at the end of the return movement the pin g impales the cork 3 and the rod d' releases the cork 2.
Patent GB-610781-A (GB)
Title: Improved siphon
IPC: H01F27/14
Filed: 1946-04-16
Abstract: 610,781. Siphons. BRITISH THOMSON. HOUSTON CO., Ltd. April 16, 1946, No. 11686. Convention date, Oct. 9, 1943. [Class 69 (i)] [Also in Group XVII] In the oil reservoir A of a tank, the short length J of a normal siphon H, I, J is extended by a second elbow K, L in a reverse direction so that the outlet into the reservoir is above the highest level attained by the liquid on the tank warming up, whilst an auxiliary pipe M of reduced diameter is connected to the siphon tube at any point between the highest point of the normal elbow and the outflow of the siphon into the reservoir, the auxiliary pipe dipping into the liquid below the lowest level normally attained by the latter. During expansion of the oil in the main tank, the oil flows through tubes H, I and M and also through tubes J and K, so priming the siphon. On reversal of flow, the siphon starts and the oil normally flows through the tubes H, I and M, but if the rate of flow is greater than the capacity of the tube M oil flows from the tubes L and K and the siphon is broken.
Patent GB-211043-A (GB)
Title: Weighing scales
IPC: G01G1/00
Filed: 1923-05-01
Abstract: 211,043. Marks, E. C. R., (Toledo Scale Co.). May 1, 1923. Compound-lever apparatus.-A weighing scale comprises a base housing, a pair of non-swinging fulcrum bearings and a pair of swinging fulcrum bearings supported within the base housing, a pair of platform levers of the first order having load pivots, one of the platform levers being fulcrumed on the non-swinging bearings, the other platform lever being fulcrumed on the swinging bearings, and a platform non-swingingly supported on the lever with non-swinging fulcrum bearings and swingingly supported on the lever with swinging fulcrum bearings. The platform 26, preferably of sheet metal, is secured to a frame 24 by screws 27 and is additionally supported by a transverse fin 29. The frame is slung by links 23 from a spider 14 which is supported at one end directly upon the knifeedges 16 of a lever 11, and is supported at the other end upon links 21 slung from a lever 12. These supports lie nearly below the corners of the platform to minimize tipping. The adjacent ends of the levers 11, 12 are each coupled to a transfer lever 36 connected to a tare beam 43 and to automatic load-balancing mechanism (not shown). The fulcrum 13 of the lever 11 is supported on a cross bar 4 secured to the base housing, and the fulcrum 35 of the transfer lever 36 is mounted on a member 34 supported partly on the base housing and partly on the cross bar 4. The member 34 is provided with three separate sets of fulcrum bearings so that transfer levers of various leverages may be fitted the resulting displacement of the zero position of the indicator being rectified by adjusting the weight of a loading box 59. The end pivot 42 of the lever 36 may be adjusted endways. The tare beam 43 is actuated by a pivot bar 54 projecting from a bowed link 53. The bowed link is coupled through a swivel 52 with the dial mechanism so that the dial may be turned to face in any desired direction.
Patent GB-370199-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in electrical insulation suitable for paper condensers or other apparatus
IPC: H01B3/18
Filed: 1931-04-21
Abstract: 370,199. Condensers. LAHOUSSE, J. E. G., 84, Avenue Jean Jaures, Lyons, France. April 21, 1931, No. 11817. Convention date, April 22, 1930. [Class 38 (ii).] A dielectric material for a condenser consists of paper or the like impregnated with trichlorethylene.
Patent GB-1177478-A (GB)
Title: Musical Train Carrying Xylophone Unit.
Inventor: CARVER RICHARD NELSON
IPC: A63H5/00
Filed: 1968-03-12
Abstract: 1,177,478. Musical train carrying xylophone unit. LOUIS MARX & CO. Ltd. 12 March, 1968 [28 March, 1967], No. 12028/68. Heading A6S. [Also in Division G5] A musical toy comprises a vehicle carrying a xylophone, each bar of which when struck makes a note, a track coacting with the vehicle to guide it round a predetermined path, a plurality of hammers, each of which co-acts with one of the bars, a plurality of actuating pegs distributed on the track which coact with the hammers when the vehicle moves over them to cause the hammers to strike predetermined bars to produce pre-determined notes. The xylophone may have 8 bars arranged transversely across the vehicle and transverse to the direction of movement of the vehicle. The vehicle may be propelled by an electric or spring driven toy train attached to the vehicle or the vehicle may be part of a model truck which is self propelling by battery or spring. The track may be circular or other continuous shape and it may be in the form of toy railway or as a flat bed with a groove to take a pin depending from the vehicle. The actuating pegs may be removable pegs inserted in predetermined holes in the track, the position of the pegs on the track in order to play a specific tune may be indicated by a chart. The hammers may be caused to strike several bars simultaneously to play chords. The vehicle may be used as a manual xylophone.
Patent GB-580289-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to apparatus for binding watercress and other articles into bunches
IPC: A01G5/02
Filed: 1944-06-24
Abstract: 580,289. Bundling watercress &c. KNOWLES, A. G. June 24, 1944, No. 12040. [Class 94 (i)] In an apparatus for bundling water cress, flowers &c. comprising a tube 1 to receive the stems having a semi - cylindrical end portion 2 adapted to be closed by a hinged cover 3 to clamp the stems while a rubber ring is passed over the tube 1 on to the stems adjacent the head of the bunch, a sleeve 16 is secured within the inner end of the trough having a portion 18 to form an abutment for the cover 3 in its closed position. The sleeve 16 has a semicylindrical portion 19, the edge 20 of which also forms an abutment for the edge 21 of the cover 3.
Patent GB-839157-A (GB)
Title: Glass bending apparatus
IPC: C03B23/027
Filed: 1958-04-16
Abstract: 839,157. Bending glass sheets. LIBBEY-OWENS-FORD GLASS CO. April 16, 1958 [May 3, 1957], No. 12056 /58. Class 56. In a multi-section bending mould for glass sheets a pin 33 is provided adjacent the apex of each V-shaped wing, section. The pin extends very slightly above the shaping surface of the rail 23 of the wing and its upper end is provided with a flat portion a merging into a portion b curved gently downwards. When the mould is open, as in Fig. 8, the under face of the end of the glass sheet 44 laid across the mould rests on the surface b. As the mould closes there is relative sliding motion between the sheet and the pin and when the mould is fully closed contact between sheet and pin is along the surface a. This minimises marring of the under glass surface by the mould. Locating plates 35 may be provided on the outer support bars 24 of the shaping rail of the wing sections, the plates being spaced a short distance from the pin on opposite sides thereof. The longitudinal marginal edges of the glass sheet 44 are initially supported by support blocks 41, Fig. 4, which are lowered while the mould is closing, until when the mould is completely closed, they are below the shaping surface of the mould centre section. The support blocks may be replaced, as in Fig. 7, by ceramic rollers 46.
Patent GB-542765-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to the insertion of fasteners into workpieces
IPC: A43D69/02
Filed: 1940-07-24
Abstract: 542,765. Riveting. BRITISH UNITED SHOE MACHINERY CO., Ltd., HAZELTON, G., and POTTER, S. W. July 24, 1940, No. 12079. [Class 43] The device described in Specification 491,498 for engaging a hollow rivet from a raceway 9 over a pin 25 for insertion into a hole into a workpiece, is improved by the addition of a device for engaging the outside of the rivet during transfer, to keep it from falling off the pin. As described in the prior Specification, the end of the raceway is caused, by a hand lever, to move axially of the pin to place a rivet thereover and then to move in a curved path away from and to the rear of the pin. A bracket 111 carries at each side springs 123 urging a pin 125 inwardly and forwardly. This pin passes through a finger 105 guided between opposing members 109 of the bracket and formed with a nose and notch 23 adapted to co-operate with the flange of the rivet. As the raceway is withdrawn from the pin 25 the nose passes behind the flange and holds the rivet to the pin. As the rivet is inserted in the hole in the workpiece, the finger yields against its springs to allow the rivet to be fully positioned. In a modification, a bracket secured to the raceway carries a pair of parallel fingers 153 urged toward each other and also towards the end of the raceway by springs. As the raceway is retracted the ends of the fingers slide over the flange, but they do not disengage it until they are forced away from it by contact with the work.
Patent GB-1027987-A (GB)
Title: Autotransformers
Inventor: HIRST SIDNEY
IPC: H01F29/02
Filed: 1964-03-23
Abstract: 1,027,987. Transformers. HIRST ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES Ltd. Oct. 19, 1964 [March 23, 1964], No. 12170/64. Heading H1T. An auto-transformer has its turns arranged on a core 11 (which may be ring shaped) in several layers 12, 13, 14, 15, the outer layer 15 having a bore track over which a sliding contact 16 moves whilst tappings 19, 20, 21, brought out to a tap-selector switch 18, divides the rest of the turns into sections preferably each containing the same number of turns as the outer layer 15. In its polyphase form the transformer has such a winding arrangement on, each of several limbs, the tap selector switches being ganged together and the sliding contacts also being ganged together.
Patent GB-1193888-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to the Refining of Impure Metals
Inventor: QUINTIN ALBERT
IPC: C22B19/32
Filed: 1968-03-13
Abstract: 1,193,888. Fractional distillation columns. COMPAGNIE DES METAUX d'OVERPELT -LOMMEL ET DE CORPHALIE. 13 March, 1968, No. 12201/68 Heading B1B. [Also in Division C7] A fractionating column for refining metals has an upper part containing trays (e.g. of SiC) arranged in a conventional fashion and a lower part which is divided into two parts by a tight sealing partition wall 2 (in the Fig.). The feed is through pipe 3 and is refluxed in the part column 1b by means of the furnace heater 4. The metal containing the high boiling impurities being removed at 6. The vapour escaping from part column 1b is further refluxed in the upper part of the column, the gaseous offtake, containing most of the more volatile impurities, going to condenser and the liquid therefrom being led to part column 1a by means of the edge 5 of the partition 2 where it is further refluxed, the liquid bottoms containing substantially no impurities being taken off at 7. The trays in part column 1b above the feed level may be heat insulated or subjected to a gas blast depending on the purity required with regard to the lead content of the bottoms.