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Patent GB-837036-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to staging devices for use in building
IPC: E04G11/22
Filed: 1957-06-05
Abstract: 837,036. Scaffolding; shuttering for casting walls. SIEMENS-BAUUNION G.m.b.H. June 5, 1957 [June 7, 1956], No. 17930/57. Class 20(2) Two platforms B, B2 one above the other are suspended by a detachable hoisting device H from a verticle girder T detachably mounted on a wall W. The wall is cast between shuttering S in which are shaped bricks to which the girder T is bolted and from which it may be released and secured at a higher position as the casting of the wall proceeds. The hoist H which is fixed in one of a number of holes O in the girder T supports a carriage G carrying the shuttering S and the lower platform B and channels u on both sides of the wall connected by members v which carry the upper platform B2 and platforms B1, B3 on the other side of the wall. The members u, v are adjustable for different widths of wall. Concrete is tipped between the shuttering from platforms B, B1 and reinforcing rods are inserted from platform B2, B3. In a modification, Fig. 2 (not shown), the shuttering and platforms are supported by two vertical girders one on each side of the wall, each having a hoist and carriage. In a modification, Figs. 3 and 4 (not shown), of Fig. 2 the shuttering is attached to the vertical girders between the upper and lower platforms. In Figs. 7 and 8 (not shown) two parallel walls are cast by means of the apparatus shown in Fig. 1 with two vertical girders for each wall and a superstructure is mounted on the upper platforms carrying a hoist for a container for materials.
Patent GB-261659-A (GB)
Title: Improved apparatus for use in playing race games
IPC: A63F9/14
Filed: 1926-07-17
Abstract: 261,659. Bell, R. A., and Sanguinetti, V. July 17, 1926. Race games, mechanical.-Apparatus for playing a race game comprise a plurality of toy boats b or other movable targets adapted to be propelled over the surface of liquid in a tank a by means of jets of liquid. The boats are guided by wires e disposed longitudinally of the tank. The jets of liquid may be projected by means of syringes d pivoted to the tank, or may issue from taps which are under the control of the players and communicate with a pressure supply system. Indicators in the form of electric lamps, bells or other audible or visible signals may be provided at the end of the tank remote from the jet producers, to indicate when the targets complete their courses.
Patent GB-224576-A (GB)
Title: Automatic indicating device for use on vehicles
IPC: B60Q1/34
Filed: 1923-07-11
Abstract: 224,576. Bullock, G. F. July 11, 1923. Drawings to Specification. Road-traffic signals on vehicles.-A stopping or turning signal for road vehicles comprises a weighted semaphore in the form of a white hand carrying a red or other coloured letter C and raised through linkwork by a separate foot lever. One such apparatus is mounted on each side of the vehicle, each having its own foot lever. Specifications 24513/02, 101,991, 139,379, and 160,310 are referred to.
Patent GB-828293-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to locks
Inventor: LEAT JAMES HARRISON
IPC: E05B37/00
Filed: 1955-06-21
Abstract: 828,293. Locks. MINISTER OF WORKS. June 19, 1956 [June 21, 1955], No. 17998/55. Drawings to Specification. Class 44 To prevent a radiograph, of a lock mechanism being obtained the mechanism is shrouded in lead masking plates which have perforations and/or recessed patterns formed in them so that only a confused reproduction of the lock can be obtained radiographically.
Patent GB-825493-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to vaporizing burners
IPC: F23C99/00
Filed: 1957-06-06
Abstract: 825,493. Liquid fuel burners. BAIER, O., BAIER, L., BAIER, W., BAIER, W., SCHLUMPRECHT, E., and BAIER, W., [trading as BAIER K.G., W.]. June 6, 1957 [June 22, 1956], No. 18022/57. Class 75(1) Vaporizing burner apparatus for use on vehicles e.g. to preheat the engine cooling medium or to heat the interior of the vehicle using a heat exchanger has the liquid fuel pumped from a storage tank 2 at the same or a lower level by an electromagnetic pump such as a diaphragm pump 1 feeding, as by a funnellike inlet 3a, the vaporizing chamber 4, which is heated solely by the burner flame, the vaporized fuel thereafter passing to a nozzle 7, shown fitted with a filter screen 6, and the vaporized fuel jet being directed against the vaporizing chamber and there burnt. A thermal element 10 through a relay 9 breaks the circuit to the pump should the flame become extinguished. The electromagnetic diaphragm pump ceases to operate if there is too high a back pressure and accordingly the feed of fuel stops until the pressure falls to the designed operating value.
Patent GB-616555-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in television receivers and the like
IPC: H04N5/64
Filed: 1946-06-17
Abstract: 616,555. Television. BUSH RADIO, Ltd., and HARRISON, W. H. June 17, 1946, No. 18132. [Class 40 (iii)] [Also in Group XXXVI] A cabinet for television &c. apparatus is provided with an apertured panel 14 through which the tube screen is viewed and which is detachably secured so as to permit replacement by further panels, whereby tubes of different lengths and screen diameters may be accommodated in the cabinet. An adjustable support for the screen end of tubes of different sizes is described with reference to Figs. 3 and 4 (not shown,. Reference has been directed by the Comptroller to Specification 600,096.
Patent GB-516355-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to the manufacture of sliding clasp fasteners
IPC: B29D5/02
Filed: 1938-06-20
Abstract: 516,355. Sliding-clasp fastenings. CORNER, G. H. C., and LIGHTNING FASTENERS, Ltd. June 20, 1938, No. 18310. [Class 44] Sliding-clasp fasteners having non-metallic fastener members small in dimension on the visible side of the fastener are formed by securing a series of fastener members, of larger dimensions than required, in correct spacing on a mounting tape and then by a cutting operation removing material from the members so that the dimensions are smaller on one side of the tape. A series of fastener members 1 have a preliminary attachment to a tape 2 effected by a capillary adhesive solvent action in the tape and are then passed beneath a cutter wheel 4 whereby the front sides of the members are reduced to the small convex form shown in Fig. 6. The fastener stringer is'then subjected to an adhesive solvent action as described in Specification 444,405, for the final securing action. The slider used with such a fastener has only a small front plate which may be flat or have a grooving corresponding to the frontal shape 6 of the fastener members. Specifications 426,644, 426,961, and 516,354 also are referred to.
Patent GB-774572-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in apparatus for x-ray crystallography
IPC: G01N23/207
Filed: 1952-04-05
Abstract: 774,572. X-ray diffraction apparatus. LANG, A. R. July 2, 1953 [April 5, 1952], No. 18331/53. Divided out of 774,571. Class 98(1) An X-ray diffractometer includes means for supporting in the path of a primary X-ray beam diverging from a source of X-rays an X - ray diffraction transmission specimen in order that the X-rays may be transmitted therethrough by diffraction in the form of a diverging secondary X-ray beam having a virtual focus, a collimator provided with X-ray transmission channels converging longitudinally towards the virtual focus when the collimator occupies a predetermined position in the path of the diverging secondary X-ray beam, and a detector disposed in the path of the X-rays transmitted through the transmission channels. As shown, a divergent beam of X-rays 4 from a line source 1 perpendicular to the plane of the paper falls on a flat specimen 2 rotatable about an axis 3. It can be shown that the diffracted beam 5 appears to diverge from a virtual source 6 lying on a circle centered at 3 and passing through the source 1, and is received by a collimating device 7, comprising channels 9 formed between walls of X-ray absorbing metal convergent on the virtual source 6. The length and width of channels 9 is such as to render the divergence of the collimated beam very small. The collimated beam is received by a detector 8. The specimen 2 and the collimator 7 are rotatable about axis 3 in such a way that the flat surface of the specimen makes equal angles with the incident and diffracted beams. Means may be provided for adjusting the collimator 7 so that the channel walls converge accurately on the virtual source 6.
Patent GB-613322-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to high-frequency induction heating apparatus
IPC: H05B6/36
Filed: 1946-06-19
Abstract: 613,322. Induction heating. MORRIS MOTORS, Ltd., BRIDLE, J. H., and BROWN, R. J. June 19, 1946, No. 18340. [Class 39 (iii)] A method of detachably clamping an inductor to a high frequency transformer having a cylindrical sheet copper secondary a, Fig. 1, consists in providing the longitudinal edge portions of the secondary with a pair of jaws band c, each flanked by an insulating strip e and metal plate f. The jaw assemblies, separated by air gap d, are interconnected by clamping bolts g, each surrounded by an insulating bushing h. The inductor unit Fig. 2 comprises a liquid cooled copper ring i, the current connections to which consist of a pair of sheet copper plates j and k separated by a thin sheet of mica 1. Recesses m accommodate bushes h, and feed plates and k make contact over substantially the whole of the jaw surfaces. Specification 613,323 is referred to.
Patent GB-331672-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to gramophones and like soundreproducing machines
IPC: G11B3/00
Filed: 1929-06-14
Abstract: 331,672. Limit Engineering Co., Ltd., and Collins, N. June 14, 1929. Tone-arms.-Relates to gramophones and the like, in which the tone-arm has a fixed portion and a movable portion which is connected thereto, and carries the sound-box. According to the invention the fixed part of the tone-arm comprises a section 1 extending horizontally (or substantially so) from the point of connection 2 to the internal horn, a curved section 3 bent back downwardly upon itself, and a section 4 extending as shown, so that its smaller end 5, on which the movable portion 6 of the tone-arm is pivoted, lies on the opposite side of the horn inlet 2 to that on which the curved section 3 is located. The sections 1, 3, 4 may be integrally formed, but are preferably made of separate parts connected together. The part 6 may be mounted on ball bearings 7 at its junction with the fixed part 4. Specification, 330.505 is referred to.
Patent GB-129897-A (GB)
Title: Differential Feeding Mechanisms for Sewing Machines.
Inventor: FAIRWEATHER WALLACE
IPC: D05B27/02
Filed: 1918-11-09
Abstract: 129,897. Fairweather, W., (Singer Manufacturing Co.). Nov. 9, 1918. Sewing - machines; duplex feed by dogs.- Relates to differential feeding mechanism of the type wherein two feed - dogs are given equal feed-and-return movements and differential rising - andfalling movements as described in Specification 115,339, and is described as applied to a machine described in Specification 122,905. The primary feed-dog 49 is carried bv a lever 41 pivoted on swinging arms 43 and actuated for rising-and-falling movements by an eccentric rod 46, and for feed- and-return movements by an eccentric rod 57. bellcrank lever 56, and link 50. The secondary lever 59 is carried by a bar 61 with an offset end 62 straddling the bar 41 and pivoted thereto at 63. The bar 61 carries an adjustable slide 65 with a pin 66 adapted to engage a slot 71 in a member 68 which is pivoted to the bar 41 by the pin 69, and is connected to a .fixed part of the frame by a link 70. Adjustment of the pin 66 out of line with the pin 69 produces the differential rising- and-falling movements required.
Patent GB-1221809-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to mechanical oscillator control circuits
IPC: G04C3/06
Filed: 1968-04-19
Abstract: 1,221,809. Electric clocks. SIEMENS A. G. April 19, 1968 [April 19, 1967], No. 18384/68. Heading G3T. [Also in Division H3] A control circuit for a mechanical oscillator such as a clock pendulum or balance comprises a drive coil S from which control signals generated by a magnet system are passed to a transistor T1 controlling a transistor T2 from which drive signals are passed to the coil S, the transistors T 1 , T 2  being complementary and arranged in a multivibrator circuit having a capacitor C1 and resistors R 1  to R 7 , arranged as shown, the resistors R 5  and R 7  being optional.
Patent GB-345583-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to mercury boilers
IPC: F22B3/02
Filed: 1930-06-16
Abstract: 345,583. Mercury boilers. BRITISH THOMSON-HOUSTON CO., Ltd., Crown House, Aldwych, London.-(Assignees of Coulson, B. P.; 11, North Church Street, Schenectady, New York, U.S.A.) June 16, 1930, No. 18418. Convention date, June 14, 1929. [Class 122 (iii).] A mercury boiler of the kind described in Specification 319,220, [Class 122 (iii), Steam engines, Kinds &c.], is designed to reduce the quantity of mercury required to a minimum, and to ensure rapid circulation and heat exchange. The boiler comprises units 5 connected in parallel by pipes 6 to a drum 7 which is connected by pipes 8 to a second drum 9. Each unit comprises a drum with flared boiler tubes 14 depending therefrom. Each tube comprises a tube 15 with a spaced tubular core 16. The central passage 20 in the core communicates with an annular passage 21. The core comprises concentric tubes welded to endplates 22 with an insulating cavity between them. A block 23 mounted above the core 16 is spaced from the tube 15, and has a central passage 25 enlarged at the upper end and communicating with a tube 26 entering the passage 20. The outer surface of block 23 tapers inwardly and is provided with ribs 27. The extension 15a of tube 15 is provided with a head 28 with depending tubes 29, 30 forming between them an annular supply passage 31. The head 28 and tubes 29, 30 are supported by a block 32. The head 28 has an annular curved recess 34 through which pass tubes 35. A tube 37 connects the drum and tube 15. The drum contains filler blocks 38 which receive the tubes. Caps 41 are provided on tubes between the blades to prevent the upper ends of the tubes communicating directly with the liquid spaces in the drums. The blocks are recessed to receive mercury expelled from the tubes. Vapour and entrained mercury passing up the space 21 impinge against the curved surface 34 which turns the stream downwardly, the mercury particles falling into space 25. The excess pressure in the upper part of chamber 25 due to the restriction of the passages 36 ensures that the mercury level remains below the pipes 35. The length of the tube 29 ensures its end being below the mercury level.
Patent GB-917095-A (GB)
Title: Method of making tin plate
IPC: C25D5/10
Filed: 1961-05-19
Abstract: 917,095. Tin plate. UNITED STATES STEEL CORPORATION. May 19, 1961 [May 27, 1960], No. 18438/61. Class 41. A method of making tin plate consists in electrolytically oxidizing clean and pickled black plate and then coating with tin electrolytically from an alkaline bath, and subsequently electrolytically depositing a tin coating from an acid bath. In examples, a film of hydrated iron oxide is formed by anodizing the sheet using a strong caustic soda or sodium carbonate solution as electrolyte. The sheet, after rinsing, is given a flash coating of tin, using an alkali stannate bath at 170 F., is rinsed, and a heavier tin coating applied at 100 F. using an acid tin bath containing phenol sulphonic acid and dihydroxy diphenyl sulphone. The tin coating may be reflowed by melting.
Patent GB-160850-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to cinematographic apparatus
IPC: G03B21/26
Filed: 1919-07-24
Abstract: 160,850. Fiorillo, L. July 24, 1919. Drawings to Specification. Lantern slides.-A negative film for the fixed projection of text accompanying a kinematograph display is made by writing in lithographic ink or typewriting upon the film and then applying a liquid, composed of a water-colour or distemper, either by spraying or by application with a pad. The writing is then dissolved off by benzene or petrol by lightly rubbing with a soft brush.
Patent GB-1500379-A (GB)
Title: Heat exchanger and heat exchange element therefor
IPC: F28F3/04
Filed: 1975-05-02
Abstract: 1500379 Hollow-plate heat exchangers BORG-WARNER CORP 2 May 1975 [24 May 1974] 18490/75 Heading F4S A hollow-plate heat exchange element consists of two dished plates 14 (e.g. of aluminium or copper) having mirror symmetry and joined face-to-face at their peripheries, the plates being shaped to provide a main heat transfer core passage section 13 at each end of which is a chamber 12 extending transversely across the core passage section and being provided adjacent one end thereof with at least one port for conveying fluid to or from the hollow-plate element. The core section 13 may be a narrowwidth passage with flat or dimpled walls (Figs. 5 and 8) and it may incorporate fluid turbulating means (63, Fig. 9). Alternatively, as shown particularly in Fig. 3, the core section may consist of a plurality of tubular passages 24. A heat exchanger consists of a pack of spacedapart hollow plates arranged in two sets with the plates 11 of one set 33 alternating through the pack with the plates 11a of the other set 34 and with corrugated fin elements 29 disposed between adjacent plates. On assembly the endchamber walls of adjacent hollow-plates are in abutment as shown in Figs. 1 and 2 and are bonded together by welding soldering or brazing. In one intended use for providing conditioned air for a vehicle space the air for said space is heated or cooled as it flows between the hollowplates over the corrugated fin elements bonded to said plates. The air is either heated by the vehicle engine coolant circulated through one set of the hollow plates; or cooled by a refrigerant circulated alternatively through the other set of the hollow plates and in this latter case the non-circulating liquid in the first set of the hollow plates is said to act as a heat sink assisting the operation of the refrigerating system when working at less than full load.
Patent GB-259327-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in holders for disinfectants and the like
IPC: A61L9/12
Filed: 1925-07-21
Abstract: 259,327. Conway, A. G., and Flitcroft, A. H. July 21, 1925. Disinfecting.-Holders for disinfectants, moth balls, and the like consist of wire coiled or bent to provide a skeleton cylindrical or conical cage and provided at one or both ends with closing caps formed of wire and adapted to screw into the holder. In the form shown in Fig. 1, the holder consists of wire a helically coiled and formed with a loop c at one end. The holder so formed is closed by a cup b formed of helically coiled wire adapted to screw into the closely coiled end portion of the holder and provided with a loop c<1>. The container is flexible and suitable for placing inside upholstered furniture. In modifications the coils may be elliptical instead of circular. Fig. 5 shows a conical holder with a flat, spirally coiled base adapted to stand on a table or to be suspended by the loop c<1>, and Fig. 7 a modification in which the holder is formed of U-shaped wires held together at their upper ends by a ring d and corrugated so as collectively to form a screw thread to engage the cap b. The wire may be of metal, celluloid, or other resilient material, and the disinfectant may be in the form of balls or of crystals, leaves, &c,. contained in a muslin bag.
Patent GB-154276-A (GB)
Title: An improved mechanical starter for internal combustion engines and the like
IPC: F02N3/00
Filed: 1919-07-26
Abstract: 154,276. Simpson, H. J. July 26, 1919. Turning-gear.-A starting handle or pedal is connected by a link and a cross-bar 18 to parallel rods 14 sliding in guides in a casing and provided with pins 16, 17 engaging in double endless helical grooves 8, 9 in a rotatable drum 2. The reciprocation of the handle and the rods 11 gives a continuous rotation to the drum, which is connected to the engine by sprocket gearing, including a sprocket-wheel 27 mounted on the shaft 3 of the drum by means of a free-wheel connexion. A ratchet .wheel 24 and pawl 28 prevent backward rotation of the drum.
Patent GB-233942-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in window regulators
IPC: E05F11/38
Filed: 1924-08-06
Abstract: 233,942. Marks, E. C. R., (Dura Co.). Aug. 6, 1924. Vehicle-window opening and closing apparatus. -A vehicle window is operated by a lever 7 which is locked in any position by a spring- pressed toothed member 23 thereon adapted to engage a fixed quadrant-shaped rack on the mounting plate 6. The lever is actuated by a member 17 on the handle bush, lost motion being allowed between the spaced operating lugs 20 and the edges of the lever. The idle movement of the handle withdraws the locking member 23 by means of inclined faces in an opening 32 of the member 17 which engage a. pin 25 of the locking member. The arm 17 is retained in mid-position by the spring 28 controlling the locking arm which engages in an opening between the ends 33 of the arm. In a modification, the arm 17 is retained in its mid-position by a wire spring, the two ends of which embrace the arm and are positioned by the pivot 16. A balancing spring 10 is provided. A keeper plate 30 maintains contact between the arm 7 and quadrant 22.
Patent GB-462583-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to the reduction of the effects of unwanted reactance introduced in electric circuit arrangements by certain circuit elements
IPC: H03F3/36
Filed: 1935-07-08
Abstract: 462,583. Impedance networks ; valve amplifying circuits. BLUMLEIN, A. D. July 8, 1935, No. 18754/36. Divided out of 462,530. [Classes 40 (iii) and 40 (v)] The inherent shunt capacity or inherent inductance of circuit elements are compensated by building-out means so that a complex network is constituted which simulates a substantially pure resistance, the added elements being such that the condition L = CR<2> is satisfied. Fig. 1 shows an arrangement in which the self-capacity 5 of theanode load resistance 4 is compensated by an inductance 7 shunted by resistance 6. Additional capacity 8 in shunt to resistance 4 may be provided to enable the conditions to be satisfied. The self-capacity of an anode choke may be compensated by series inductance and shunt resistances, Fig. 2 (not shown). Fig. 4 shows an arrangement in which the series inherent inductance 20 as well as the shunt inherent capacity 5 is compensated, the former by the resistance-condenser combination 21, 22 and the latter by the resistance-inductance combination 6, 7. An arrangement is also described, Fig. 3 (not shown), in which the load is in the cathode circuit and the cathode-earth inherent capacity is compensated. The Provisional Specification describes means for compensating the earth capacity of coupling elements and for compensating for the self-capacity of the load resistance in a cathode-follower type of amplifier.
Patent GB-1110911-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to vibratory conveyors
Inventor: WHITE ROBERT CHARLES
IPC: B65G27/00
Filed: 1965-05-05
Abstract: <PICT:1110911/C6-C7/1> <PICT:1110911/C6-C7/2> Metal articles are cleaned by being introduced at 32 and, after falling to the bottom 34 of vibrating conveyer 30 which is suspended and oscillated about a vertical axis at 24, the articles climb the spiral chute of the conveyer and are discharged down chute 62, the cleansing liquid being introduced at 64 so that the vapour thereof affects the cleaning of the article.  Additional treatment may be given to the articles at the portion (Fig. 4) of the spiral which is bent outwards, the treatment being effected by sprays 76, the track of the spiral having apertures formed therein to drain away the material.  A further treatment may be given at a further portion of the track which again is bent outwards and again provided with apertures to allow treating material to drain away.  Additionally the track may be subdivided as shown to allow for two or more streams of materials to be elevated side by side.