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Patent GB-446043-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to rotary printing presses
IPC: B41F21/02
Filed: 1935-05-17
Abstract: 446,043. Printing-machines. WALE, B., 734, Mather Street, Chicago, U.S.A. May 17, 1935, No. 14519. Convention date, May 22, 1934. [Classes 100 (i) and 100 (ii)] A rotary printing-machine is constructed with means for feeding sheets to and through the machine comprising impaling pins 22 for engaging front edges of sheets which are placed by hand on supports 3 and registered against a ledge 33, and frictional means for carrying the sheets through the printing-couple 1, 2. The printing-cylinder 1 is fitted with a relief printing-surface 1<a>. The impression roller is fitted with a blanket 2a having a gap 7 between the ends of the blanket corresponding to the gap 6 for receiving the securing screws for the surface 1<b>. In the gap 7 are secured a central pin 21 and other pins 22 for starting the feed of the sheets. The pin 21 acts through a gap in the sheet support 3 and raises a pivoted flap 35 which lifts the front edge of the sheet over the ledge 33, and the pins 22 pass through slots 41 in sheet guides 4 arranged above the sheet and carry the sheet into engagement with the rollers 1, 2 which feed the sheet during the printing-operation with or without the aid of type-high friction rings arranged on the printing and impression cylinders. These rings may receive water or mercury to prevent ink from adhering to them, or the sheets may be trimmed after passing strippers 5 and delivering rollers 39, 39<a>. The pins 22 project through rubber pads 36 which assist in forwarding the sheet. The machine may be used for printing a continuous web in which case the pin 21 is not in action, and such a web or a long sheet may receive intermittent motions equal to the length of a segmental printing-surface 1a, and between the impressions the sheet or web is held by a stationary clamping device 42, 43 operated to clamp the web while a segmental member 46 equal to the non-printing segmental portion of the cylinder 2 passes the pivoted member 43 of the clamp. The sheet support 3 may be duplicated for wide sheets, and it is preferably fitted with an adjustable upper portion 31. An adjustable throat consisting of a roller 38 and a screw 37 arranged at each side of the support 3 may be set to allow two sheets to pass through at a time, the second and lower sheet being introduced while the sheet being printed is advancing. The lower sheet is carried forward by the upper one and is arrested by the registering device until the pins 21, 22 come into action. After printing, the web or long sheets may be treated by longitudinal trimming or transverse cutting apparatus.
Patent GB-477152-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to electric fuses
IPC: H01H85/044
Filed: 1936-05-22
Abstract: 477,152. Fusible cut-outs. GENERAL ELECTRIC CO., Ltd., and GIBSON, J. W. May 22, 1936, No. 14536. [Class 38 (i)] In a fuse for protecting apparatus, e.g. a transformer having a high thermal capacity, a fuse element is enclosed within a lagged housing having a high thermal capacity. The cartridge fuse 26 is contained in a cylinder 25 of steatite, with a plug 27 of the same material, to provide a mass of substantial thermal capacity in contact with the cartridge fuse. The cylinder 25 is enclosed in a lagging 29 of heat insulating material retained by a cover 30. In a cartridge fuse for use in the above apparatus, a steatite cylinder 2, bored to receive three silver fuse elements 1 of reduced section at the centre, is fitted with annular ferrules 5 over which the end caps 8 are passed to grip the ends of the fuse elements. The bore 31, filled with Calais sand, is closed by asbestos washers 6 and cement 7. An auxiliary wire 10 upon fusion ignites a charge 11, which chars the' label 13. In a modification separate bores are used for each element and a central resistance wire is employed. The fuse element may comprise a wire or tube of tin having a reduced central section of a metal of higher melting point which fuses first.
Patent GB-593304-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in stop motion devices for sewing machines
IPC: D05B51/00
Filed: 1945-06-08
Abstract: 593,304. Sewing-machines. DEHN, F. B. (Stop Motion Devices Corporation). June 8, 1945, No. 14574. [Class 112] Automatic stopping.-When the needle-thread breaks or becomes exhausted, a lever which is moved, when the thread is tightened in each cycle, in opposition to a slow-moving device, actuates a switch to stop the machine. In the form shown, a pivoted arm 35 has an eye engaging the needle-thread 20 where it passes between two guides 30, 31 in a direction inclined downwardly towards the pivot of the arm 35. The opposite end of the arm has suspended from it a plunger 49 which slides in a cylinder and which carries a contact arranged to close an earthing circuit to stop the machine when the plunger descends. The eye of the arm 35 is forced down against the thread-guide 31 every time the thread is tightened by the take-up, and its rise when the thread is slackened is retarded by the dash-pot action of the plunger 49, so that the latter does not descend sufficiently to close the contact during normal stitch-forming.
Patent GB-290450-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to furnace grates
IPC: F23H13/00
Filed: 1927-05-30
Abstract: 290,450. Fryer, J. H. May 30, 1927. Firebars and grates.-The bars 15<A>, Figs. 2 and 3, of a furnace grate are provided with tapered holes 15 in which are suspended heat. conducting rods 16 provided with ribs 20 which form vents 14 with the bars 15<A> and serve to convey air from the ash-pit which has been heated bv the rods into the fuel bed. The heads 18 of the. rods are tapened, as shown. In the modification shown in Fig. 9, the holes in the fire-bars 15<B> are provided with grooves 24 which form vents with the head 18<A> of the rod 16, the ribs of which terminate short of the top of the head. The heads 18, 18<A> terminate below the upper surface of the grate bars.
Patent GB-1500896-A (GB)
Title: Bath tub and hoisting gear combination
IPC: B66F3/36
Filed: 1976-02-27
Abstract: 1500896 Elevators H A V JOHANSSON 27 Feb 1976 14621/77 Divided out of 1500472 Heading B8L A bath tub 6 is elevatable by hoisting gear 1 which supports the tub in cantilever fashion through screw connected interengaging coupling plates 6d and 6e on the tub and coupling elements 4c and 4d on the hoisting gear, the coupling elements 4c and 4d, a fitting 6a including the plate 6d and a support 6b including the plate 6e being disposed entirely between the hoisting gear 1 and the side 6c of the bath tub facing the hoisting gear. The upper fitting 6a is attached to a stiffening flange 6f at the top of the bath tub and the interengaging faces of the plates 6d and 6e and the elements 4c and 4d lie in a vertical plane taken through the edge of the flange 6f facing the hoisting gear 1. The hoisting gear 1 in a casing 17 comprises two vertical guides along each of which two vertically spaced coupling elements 4c and 4d are propelled by an hydraulic ram between the guides, the ram engaging a device connecting all the coupling elements as described in the parent Specification.
Patent GB-261919-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to apparatus for the distillation or heat treatment of carbonaceous and other materials
IPC: C10B7/10
Filed: 1925-06-05
Abstract: 261,919. Marshall, F. D. June 5, 1925. Charges, conveying. - Carbonaceous or other materials are heated or distilled by being moved through an externally heated retort by archimedian screws whose axes are so spaced that the threads are located and rotate within one another but are not in contact so that the gases evolved collect within and are easily withdrawn from the space between the threads. A gaseous heating medium may be passed through the space. A metal retort or casing A contains two screws B the threads b of which are out of alignment and spaced apart, leaving a space C from which the volatiles are withdrawn through an outlet d<2>. The casing A can move vertically relatively to the outer casing, thus allowing for expansion of the retort, packing e being used to maintain a gastight joint. The screws are rotated in the same direction by gearing H, I and are of the same hand and they are suspended from glands G and rest on a crossbar at the bottom of the casing A. The retorts may be either vertical, horizontal or inclined. Specification 261,975 is referred to.
Patent GB-560913-A (GB)
Title: Composite wood boards
IPC: B27L5/02
Filed: 1942-10-21
Abstract: 560,913. Composite wood boards. WORSCHITZ, F. Oct. 21, 1942, No. 14772. [Class 145 (ii)] Relates to a composite board formed by interposing a corrugated or grooved sheet of wood a, Fig. 3, between two plane wooden sheets b to which it is glued. According to the invention, the grooves 1 in the sheet a are formed by a cutting tool and run transversely to the wood fibres, so that the -fibres keep the same direction as in the block or log from which the sheet was cut. The sheets a are made by the method described in Specification 560,912. In a modification, the composite board may include two of the grooved sheets a separated by a plane sheet if desired. In another construction, shown in Fig. 7, sections of a grooved sheet a cut to uniform thickness are glued by their edges to the outer sheets b.
Patent GB-636797-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to roller blind and like indicators
IPC: G01C22/00
Filed: 1948-06-01
Abstract: 636,797. Changing signs. G. H. PATENTS, Ltd., and KEIGHTLEY, T. June 1, 1948, No. 14781. [Class 3(1)] In a roller blind indicator of the type having two or more pairs of blind carrying: rollers 14 aligned on axial driving shafts 6 and with internal clutch means 16 for connecting the rollers to the shafts, the mechanism 22 for selecting a given pair of rollers is provided with a locking device 27 to hold it in the required position. The rollers are arranged and are provided with internal clutch means as described in Specification 636,784. The clutch means are connected to the selected rollers by moving the slidably-arranged axial driving shafts 6 through forks on a rock shaft 18. The rock shaft is connected by linkage 19, 20 to a lever of the selecting mechanism 22 and also through a lever 26 to a latch lever 25, Fig. 2, of the locking device 27. The lever 25 has a number of notches 29 one of which is urged into engagement with a pin 28 by a spring 30 to hold the selector mechanism in the desired position. In a modification, a pivoted notched disc or quadrant, which is connected by a link to the lever 26, co-operates with a spring- loaded plunger.
Patent GB-104311-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Device for Preventing Animals Breaking Through Enclosures, applicable also for Weaning Calves.
Inventor: MCDANIEL FRANK
IPC: A01K15/00
Filed: 1916-10-18
Abstract: 104,311. MeDaniel, F., and Holden, C. E. Oct. 18, 1916. Halters.-An appliance for attachment to the head of a calf or other animal to prevent it from breaking out of enclosures or damaging property, comprises a metal housing 5 in which is pivoted a rod 14 extending at one end through the housing and adapted to be engaged at the other end by a lever 37. The lever 37, which is also pivoted in the housing, is connected by a knuckle-joint 40 to a curved operative arm 41 provided with a head 44. The joint is normally held extended by a spring 42. A second operating-rod 22 projecting through a slot in the housing is connected to the rod 14 below its pivot. This rod can be pressed downwards against the action of a spring 27. A spring 17 normally forces the upper end of the lever 14 inwards. A sleeve 28 is adjustably mounted on the projecting end of the lever 14, and is provided with an inwardly projecting pin 33. When, by the movement of the animal, the arm 41 or bar 22 is brought into contact with the walls of an enclosure, the lever 14 is operated to force the pin, of which the projecting portion can be adjusted, into the animal's nose. The knuckle-joint between the arm 41 and the lever 37 permits the arm to yield freely if the animal withdraws its head after having passed it between the rails or wires of a fence. The device it attached to a headstall by cheek-straps 2 and head-straps 3.
Patent GB-477876-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in baking and drying ovens
IPC: A21B1/10
Filed: 1937-05-28
Abstract: 477,876. Bakers' &c. ovens. STUDER, A. May 28, 1937, No. 14875. [Class 51 (ii)] [Also in Group XIII] In a baking or drying oven of the kind in which the heating is effected by the circulation of hot oil or other liquid of high boiling-point through pipes 5 around the baking &c. chamber, the pipes are connected between upper and lower headers 7, 8 or 6, 7, and the bottom header 8 has flow and return connections 11, 12 to the heating-jacket 10 of a furnace. The products of combustion are exhausted to the stack through tubes 15 traversing the header 8. Vapour collecting in the uppermost header may be withdrawn, condensed, and returned to the circuit, or may be allowed to blow off through a safety-valve. The furnace may be electrically heated.
Patent GB-103971-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Stop Motion for Looms for Weaving Pile Fabrics.
Inventor: NORTON GEORGE HERBERT
IPC: D03D51/00
Filed: 1916-10-20
Abstract: 103,971. Norton, G. H., and Hellewell, G. T. Oct. 20, 1916. Stop-motions acting on derangement of pilecutting mechanism. A bowl 7 or a pulley on a two-armed lever 5, 6 rests on the band 1 carrying the pile-cutting knife. When the band breaks or becomes slack, the lever 5 rises and moves a tailpiece 12 on a bent wire lever 9 so that a part 9<a> of the wire engages the tail-piece 10 of the weft fork 11 to stop the loom. The tail-piece 12 normally rests against a stop 13.
Patent GB-1194153-A (GB)
Title: Display Stands for Potted Plants.
Inventor: DUNGEY ROGER HARVEY
IPC: A01G27/00
Filed: 1968-03-28
Abstract: 1,194,153. Plant support. THOMAS ROCHFORD & SONS Ltd. 14 March, 1969 [28 March, 1968], No. 15005/68. Heading A1E. A display stand for potted plants comprises a frame carrying tiers of display trays, each tier comprising two trays 4 side by side. The trays 4 are of fibre glass and are formed with a wide shallow portion 6, a deeper trough portion 7 running parallel to the front of the tray, and contains sand 8 as porous material. Each tier has a water tank 9 feeding the trays via pipes 12. Water is supplied to tanks 9 from a header tank 14 via pipes 15 and 16. The inlets 17 of water tanks 9 are controlled by ball cocks so that the water level in each tank is between the bottom of the tray shallow portion 6 and the top of the sand. Water is then drawn by capillary action into the pots 19. The tiers are illuminated by fluorescent strip and/or tungsten spot lighting.
Patent GB-993310-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to clay pigeon traps
IPC: F41J9/20
Filed: 1961-04-26
Abstract: 993,310. Trap shooting. C. C. AFFLECK. April 26, 1962 [April 26, 1961], No. 15028/61. Heading A6D. A clay pigeon throwing arm comprises an elongated supporting surface for a clay pigeon trap and a strip of resilient material overlying a portion of the surface and engageable by the trap so that the pigeon is constrained to move lengthwise of the surface during a throwing action of the supporting surface. A metal plate 1 has one edge turned upwards to form the portion 3 which carries the resilient strip 5. The stepped clay pigeon 6 is held in contact with the strip 5 on the elevated end of the plate 1 by a spring clip 8. The plate is rotated about a pivot 14 by manually releasing a spring mechanism 18. The clay pigeon is constrained by the upturned portion 3 and resilient strip 5 to move lengthwise of the plate 1 before disengaging from the plate. The plate 1 is mounted to pivot on a tripod 15 for initial setting to determine the trajectory the pigeon is to follow.
Patent GB-296143-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to packing machinery
IPC: B65B19/10
Filed: 1927-06-07
Abstract: 296,143. Molins, W. E. June 7, 1927. Packeting-machines.-Relates to a machine for packeting cigarettes in two or more superimposed rows having a picture or card between the rows. The cards 4 are fed from a hopper between conveyer bands 12 and deposited on a platform 13 at the side of a guideway 1 in which one layer of cigarettes is disposed. A plate 19, which has been in a raised position, falls to the position shown, and a plunger 14 forces the card through a slot 3 so that it lies upon the cigarettes. A second layer of cigarettes is added and the batch removed to a packing apparatus. The slot 3 is approximately level with the upper surface of the layer of cigarettes to be covered, and is deflected upwards so that the card does not foul the cigarettes. A presser plate may be employed to even each layer before the card is fed. The cigarette feeding apparatus may be as described in Specification 238,355, and the card feed as described in Specification 181,983 [Class 100 (1) Feeding and delivering webs &c.].
Patent GB-1108201-A (GB)
Title: Typesetter system and apparatus
IPC: B41B27/00
Filed: 1965-04-09
Abstract: 1,108,201. Photographic type-composing; strip-perforating; typewriters. AMERICAN TYPE FOUNDERS CO. Inc. 9 April, 1965 [3 June, 1964], No. 15166/65. Headings B6F and B6W. In a combination of a character code recording machine such as the strip-perforator disclosed in Specification 763,463 and a character reproducing machine such as the photocomposing machine disclosed in Specification 906,113, or a proportional spacing typewriter, the characters are each assigned a width comprising an integral number of units and optionally a fraction (e.g. 1/ 3  or 2/ 3 ) of a unit. In the reproducer, the integral and fractional spacing is applied to the film or typewriter carriage by main and supplementary electromagnetic escapement devices. In the recorder, which also produces a typewritten copy for reference, the integral spacing is applied to the carriage and the fractional spacing stored until it amounts to an integer, when the carriage is moved through the additional integer.
Patent GB-152818-A (GB)
Abstract: 152,818. Fuller, G., Fuller, L., and Fuller, G. J. A. Aug. 13, 1919. Electrolytes; electrodes; absorbents. - A dry cell contains a non-hygroscopic excitant such as ammonium chloride in a dry state mixed with a dry absorbent such as tragacanth or tapioca. When the cell is required for use, water is added, causing the materials to gelatinize. A small quantity of zinc chloride may be added to the depolarizing-material, the mixture being dried before the cell is sealed. Specification 102,294 is referred to.
Patent GB-214494-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in card index cases
IPC: B42F17/02
Filed: 1923-06-12
Abstract: 214,494. Reinisch, R. June 12, 1923. Boxes and cabinets.-A cabinet for holding index cards &c. comprises a box 1 having a folding front 3 and sides 4, and a top divided into two portions 6, which are hinged to, and fold outwards with the hinged portions 4 of the sides. Recesses 10 contain supports 9, which swing outwards to support the portions 6; or alternatively the portions 6 may fit into recesses made in the sides of the box.
Patent GB-1073306-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to buildings and framework therefor
Inventor: SCOTT KENNETH ELI
IPC: E04C3/32
Filed: 1963-02-19
Abstract: 1,073,306. Building frameworks. RIGID FRAME CONSTRUCTION Ltd. Feb. 17, 1964 [Feb. 19, 1963], No. 15350/65. Divided out of 1,073,303. Heading E1W. Each of two or more storeys of a building framework comprises vertical pillar units a at each corner and cross members e extending between, supported by and bolted to adjacent pillar units a, the cross members e of each lower storey supporting in turn and each being bolted to the pillar units of the next higher storey, the framework elements together making up a series of complete interconnected rectangles extending throughout the structure in both vertical and horizontal planes. Each cross member may have a composite construction of preferably wood chords 14 and a rectangularly corrugated web 12 as disclosed in Specification 1,011,093 or as described and claimed in Specification 1,011,092. The pillar units a each comprise at least two interconnected limbs 4 extending in divergent planes and incorporate the construction forming the subject matter of Specification 1,073,304. At the tops of the upper storey pillar units a cross members e', e", similar to the cross members c are provided, the members e" being of reduced height to accommodate ceiling joists f. The roof rafters g may be supported by a purlin h which is of a form described and claimed in Specification 1,073,305.
Patent GB-632523-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to electric power supply systems
IPC: G05F1/32
Filed: 1947-06-11
Abstract: 632,523. Rectifying; automatic control systems. STANDARD TELEPHONES & CABLES, Ltd., and KELLY, R. June 11, 1947, No. 15378. [Classes 38 (ii) and 38 (iv)] In a supply network in which a number of rectifier systems each supplies its separate load, each system is regulated by means in the input to the rectifier responsive to the load current of that rectifier and to the terminal output voltage of another rectifier. Loads connected at 16, 17 and 18, 19 are supplied through rectifiers 5, 9 from transformers 4, 5 connected to the single input auto-transformer 3, connected to a regulated A.C. source. The transformer input currents pass through seriesconnected pairs of saturable chokes 6, 7 and 10, 11, each of which has two D.C. windings, 6b, 6c; 7b, 7c; 10b, 10c and 11b, 11c. The b windings carry the D.C. load current of the rectifiers with which they. are respectively associated, and the c windings are connected, in series with non-linear resistances 20, 21 to improve the control if desired, across the output terminals of the other rectifiers. By this arrangement the voltages of the systems are kept substantially equal and constant. By earthing terminals 17, 18 the output becomes a three-wire system balanced to earth. Specification 560,230 is referred to.
Patent GB-552599-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to soot-blowers
IPC: F28G15/00
Filed: 1941-11-28
Abstract: 552,599. Soot -blowers. WILSON, A. M. Nov. 28, 1941, No. 15384. [Class 99 (ii)] Relates to switch-gear for soot-blowers of the type comprising a cleaning-fluid ejector reciprocated a predetermined number of times by an electric motor, as described in Specification 516,009. Push switches 11, 12 control relays in the switch-gear and are arranged around a rotatable cam 13, which turns in timed relationship with the cleaning-fluid ejector and acts on the switches in sequence so as to set the switchgear in readiness for restarting the motor and to stop the motor at the end of a work period. As shown, the cam 13 is adjustably mounted on a shaft 15 rotatable step by step by means of a star-wheel 17 and retained in successive positions by a spring ball engaging recesses 22 in a wheel 18 on the shaft 15. Switch members 11a, 12a are actuated by pressers 24, 25 on spring blades 26, 27 pressing against the cam 13 and adapted to enter a notch 14 therein. In the starting position, Fig. 1, the blade 26 is in the notch 14, so that the switch 11 is open and the switch 12 closed. On pressing a starting button for the relays, the rotation of the cam allows the switch 11 to close and reset the relay connections ; when the notch 14 comes under the blade 27, the switch 12 opens the circuit of one relay without affecting the motor, and when it comes again under the blade 26 it opens the circuit of the other relay and thus stops the motor.