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Patent GB-308177-A (GB)
Title: Package and method of producing the same
IPC: B65C1/02
Filed: 1929-03-18
Abstract: 308,177. Package Machinery Co., (Assignees of Smith, E, L.). March 17, 1928, [Convention date]. Packages enclosed in waxed paper are secured at the ends by adhesive labels applied after the wax has been heated. As shown, the package 10 is passed over a heated member 13, Fig. 2, to soften the wax, and afterwards over a rocking member 16 supporting a label 15 coated with a non-waxy adhesive. The label is pressed by rolling contact against the package end, and it is stated that the wax is forced aside so that the adhesive makes direct contact with the paper. The wax may be moistened, before or after heating, by a solvent such as carbon tetrachloride.
Patent GB-1385800-A (GB)
Title: Vehicle washing apparatus and method
IPC: B60S3/06
Filed: 1972-02-25
Abstract: 1385800 Vehicle washing apparatus AVW EQUIPMENT Ltd 26 Feb 1973 [25 Feb 1972] 8792/72 Heading B7J Vehicle washing apparatus, particularly for buses, comprises gantries 1 and 2 movable on tracks 5 and 6 and supporting vertically movable, rotatable, horizontal, cylindrical brushes 3 and 7, the gantry 1 supporting also a pair of vertical brushes 4, the apparatus operating such that a vehicle 11 driven between the gantries has, while stationary, its front and rear ends washed by brushes 3 and 7 respectively by vertical movement of these brushes with movement of the gantries along their tracks which causes the brush/vehicle contact pressure to remain at an optimum. The vehicle is then driven through gantry 1 where its top is washed by brush 3 and its sides by brushes 4. The operation of the gantries and brushes is controlled by photo-cells 8, 9 and 10, these cells also controlling a pre-rinse spray a final rinse spray and a washing spray. Traffic lights 12 and 13 control the movement of a vehicle through the apparatus.
Patent GB-671940-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to the injectors of compression-ignition engines
IPC: F02M61/16
Filed: 1949-03-31
Abstract: 671.940. Fuel injectors. HARTRIDGE, L. March 31. 1950 [March 31, 1949], No. 8803/49. Class 7(iii)  A nozzle pin d, axially-slidable in a body e and urged towards a delivery orifice g by a spring-loaded rod a of smaller diameter than the pin, is lifted by fuel pressure and engages the lower end of a sleeve 1 that surrounds the rod and is axiallyadjustable, e.g. by a screw-thread 2, so that the lift of the pin may be varied. Adjustment of the sleeve may be made by a tool inserted into radially-disposed holes 4 of a head 3 of the sleeve and the degree of adjustment may be indicated by a scale on the body. In a modification, the sleeve is axially slidable in the body and has a coned head engaged by a radially-directed and ,cone-ended adjusting screw.
Patent GB-526566-A (GB)
Title: Process for rendering rubber fire-proof
IPC: C08K9/04
Filed: 1939-03-20
Abstract: 526,566. Rubber compositions. SOC. FRANCO-BELGE DU CAOUTCHOUC MOUSSE. March 20, 1939, No. 8868. Convention date, Feb. 17. [Class 70] In rendering rubber mixes, especially those used in making multicellular rubber or ebonite, fireproof by admixture with powdered ammonium bromide, the powder is first impregnated with zinc stearate or other salt of a fatty acid. The impregnation is effected by mixing ammonium bromide and about 2 per cent. of zinc stearate in a rotating barrel.
Patent GB-1429852-A (GB)
Title: Ethers and their use in the treatment of liver fluke infections
IPC: C07C233/16
Filed: 1973-02-23
Abstract: 1429852 Amides WELLCOME FOUNDATION Ltd 23 Feb 1973 [25 Feb 1972 28 Feb 1972] 8920/73 Addition to 1380882 Heading C2C [Also in Division A5] The invention comprises amides of the formula wherein L is -Z-A-Z-, where Z is when m is 0 or 1 and X 2 , X 3  and X 4  are H or C 1-3  alkyl; and A is -O.CO.O- or a divalent radical of a dicarboxylic or monocarboxylic acid containing 2 to 14 carbon atoms and having respectively two ester linkages or one ester and one other linkage, to the rest of the molecule, or -CH 2 -, -(CH 2 ) 2 -, or where X and X 1  are H or C 1-3  alkyl ; R and R<SP>1</SP> are H, optionally substituted saturated aliphatic hydrocarbon group having 1 to 7 carbon atoms or an unsaturated aliphatic hydrocarbon group having 2 to 4 carbon atoms; R<SP>2</SP> and R<SP>3</SP> are H, C 1-4  alkyl, R<SP>5</SP>CO, R<SP>6</SP>CO where R<SP>5</SP> and R<SP>6</SP> are H, optionally substituted aliphatic C 1-7  hydrocarbyl, or unsaturated aliphatic C 2-4  hydrocarbyl or together with R and R<SP>1</SP> respectively form C 2-4  alkylene, provided that when L is other than -Z-A-Z- at least one of R<SP>2</SP> and R<SP>3</SP> is, as appropriate, the group R<SP>5</SP>CO or R<SP>6</SP>CO and when one or more of the groups R, R<SP>1</SP>, R<SP>5</SP> and R<SP>6</SP> is a saturated aliphatic C 1-7  hydrocarbyl group substituted by NH 2 , C 1-4  alkylamino or di-(C 1-4  alkyl) amino, acid addition salts thereof. The compounds are obtained by one of the following methods:- (a) reacting in liquid mediums compounds of the Formula III wherein Alk is an alkali metal, D is R or R<SP>1</SP> and E is R<SP>2</SP> or R<SP>3</SP> with compounds of the Formula IV where B is a reactive nucleophilic group or atom; (b) acylating amines of the Formula V wherein at least one of T<SP>1</SP>, T<SP>2</SP>, T<SP>3</SP> and T<SP>4</SP> is H and otherwise T<SP>1</SP> and T<SP>2</SP> are R<SP>1</SP>CO or RCO and T<SP>3</SP> and T<SP>4</SP> are R<SP>2</SP> and R<SP>3</SP> respectively; or (c) reacting in liquid medium compounds of the Formula VII where D is R or R<SP>1</SP> and E is R<SP>2</SP> or R<SP>3</SP> and P is H or an alkali metal with compounds of the Formula VIII wherein G is the moiety of the group A that interconnects the two terminal oxygen atoms thereof. 4<SP>1</SP>-(2-Hydroxyethoxy)acetanilide is made by reacting 4-acetamidophenol with 2-chloroethanol.
Patent GB-636939-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to means for delivering printed metal sheets from conveyor ovens
IPC: B65G17/32
Filed: 1948-03-30
Abstract: 636,939. Endless-belt conveyers. BELL, W. March 30, 1948, No. 8965. [Class 78 (i)] In means for stove enamelling printed metal sheets wherein the sheets are carried through an oven on a continuously moving slow conveyer of the kind comprising endless chains 1 pivotally supporting closely spaced rearwardly sloping trays or frames 4 between which the sheets 6 are inserted so that they rest with their non-printed sides against the front surfaces of the frames, which are spaced apart at their free upper edges by projections 4a thereon, the sheets are delivered therefrom by lifting means, located in the vicinity of sprockets 2, which is adapted to engage beneath the lower edge of a sheet to lift it from the conveyer and which is operated in timed relation to the conveyer so that throughout the lifting movement a 'rearwardly sloping disposition of the sheet is maintained to avoid contact of the printed side with any part. As the frames passing over sprockets 2 separate dogs 5d on endless chains 5 supported on sprockets 5a, 5b engage beneath the lower edge of each sheet in timed relation to conveyer 1 and lift it out of its frame, the upper edge of a sheet being guided in a guide 7. The upper surfaces 5e of the dogs may be concave. As the dogs pass around upper sprocket 5a the sheets pass on to an inclined part 7a of guide 7 which facilitates their delivery face upwards on to endless chains 9 passing around sprockets 9b, this being ensured by a further guide 8. Dogs 9a on chains 9 control the passage of the sheets on to a horizontal conveyer 10 or a table. The two sets of sprockets 5a and 9b may be laterally displaced so as to overlap one another, guides 14 being provided to bridge the gap between their peripheries. Sprockets 9b may be mounted in a frame (not shown) for adjusting the inclination of chains 9. Preferably the rearward slope of the chain 5 is obtained by mounting sprockets 5a vertically above sprockets 5b, sprockets 5a being larger. Sprockets 5a are mounted on a shaft 5c driven in timed relation to conveyer 1 by means of a chains 15e connectng a sprocket 15f on shaft 5c with sprocket 15d driven through a train of gears 15, 15a, 15b, 15c from shaft 3. The conveyer 9 may also be driven in timed relation from shaft 5c by suitable gearing (not shown). The lifting means and its driving gear is carried by a pair of brackets 11 having capped journal bearings 11a adapted for pivotal mounting on shaft 3 and each having a forwardly extending triangular part pivotally supported by a vertical link 12 pivoted to a suitable anchorage 13 to accommodate movement of shaft 3 caused by expansion of chains I.
Patent GB-260851-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to steam generator and other furnaces
IPC: F23M7/00
Filed: 1926-04-06
Abstract: 260,851. Mellor, W. E. April 6, 1926. Doors; baffles; dampers.-In a steam-generator or other furnace in which air in its passage the fire-hole door is caused to travel along a substantially U-shaped path for the purpose of preheating it and causing it to be directed downwardly onto the fire at the front end of the furnace, the door, instead of being hollow, consists of a solid plate 1 provided with an aperture 3 in its upper half, a three-sided cowl 5 on its inner side, and a three-sided canopy 7 on its outer side. The aperture 3 is nearly the width of and extends to within a short distance of the top of the fire-hole 4, and when the latter has a curved top, the aperture 3 is correspondingly curved. The sides of the cowl 5 preferably are inwardly curved and the top curves downwardly and then slightly outwardly to form a downwardly and preferably inclined aperture 6 situated between the bottom of the aperture 3 and the bottom of the plate 1. The sides of the canopy 7 preferably are straight and perpendicular to the plate 1 and the top curves downwardly and then slightly outwardly to form an aperture 8 preferably above the bottom of the plate 1. The cowl 5 and canopy 7 may be cast integrally with the plate 1 or formed as separate attachments thereto, in which case the cowl may be made of fire-clay or any other suitable heat-resisting material. Fine lugs, or other baffle projections such as 15, 16 may be provided on any or all of the plate 1, cowl 5, and canopy 7, to assist the preheating of the air. A butterfly damper 9 may be mounted on a shaft 10 or gud- "eons inside the canopy 7 and at or near the aperture 8 to control the amount of in-coming air. An indicating pointer 11 may be mounted on a square part of the end of the shaft projecting through one side of the canopy, a hand-wheel 12 may be pinned to the extremity of the shaft, and a hand-operated lock-nut 13 may be screwed on to a screw-threaded part of the shaft to clamp the damper in its adjusted position when it is drawn against the side of the canopy.
Patent GB-893274-A (GB)
Title: Polymerization of olefin oxides
IPC: C08G65/14
Filed: 1958-03-20
Abstract: Alkylene oxides are polymerized under anhydrous conditions in the presence of (a) a catalyst comprising an alkoxide or aryloxide of a coordinating di-, tri- or tetra-valent metal having an ionic radius of 0,2 to 0,98  , an atomic radius of less than 1,6  , an atomic weight of less than 66, and being selected from chromium and Group 2, 3, 4 and 8 of the Periodic Table, in which only alkoxide or aryloxide groups are attached to the metal, and (b) a co-catalyst which is an oxide, chloride or bromide of a mono- or di-valent metal having the same atomic characteristics as above and being in Group 1, 2 or 8 of the Periodic Table.  The alkylene oxides are those having a ring of 2 carbon and 1 oxygen atom, and mixtures may be used.  Specified catalysts of class (a) are the alkoxides of aluminium, chromium, iron, magnesium, titanium, cobalt and nickel, particularly the methoxide, ethoxide, isopropoxide and butoxide of aluminium and their halo-substituted derivatives.  The co-catalysts are preferably chlorides, e.g. of p  zinc, beryllium, lithium and cobalt.  In addition, an auxiliary catalyst may be added, consisting of an alkyl alkoxide of aluminium or zinc.  Examples of alkylene oxides are ethylene, propylene, butylene, pentylene, hexylene and duodecylene oxides and butadiene monoxide.  They may be substituted by groups which do not react with alkaline materials.  Proportions of each catalyst component and of catalyst mixture may vary over wide ranges, as may the temperature and pressure.  Solvents such as hydrocarbons, chlorinated hydrocarbons and ether may be present. The catalyst may be removed from the polymer by recrystallizing the polymer from solution by lowering the temperature. Hydroxy- or amine-substituted polymers may be cured with isocyanates or dicarboxylic acids. Examples are given, specifying intrinsic viscosities (of the order of 2 to 4) and, in Example 1, a molecular weight of 220,000. Specifications 765,054, 859,257 and 893,275 are referred to. Reference has been directed by the Comptroller to Specifications 785,053, 785,229 and 793,065.
Patent GB-270875-A (GB)
Title: Improvements appertaining to carburettors for internal combustion engines
IPC: F02M19/12
Filed: 1926-04-06
Abstract: 270,875. Manners, W. H., Reynolds, J. C., Merwe, S. J. van der, and Rayner, E. G. P. April 6, 1926. Spray carburettors. - The throttle valve, the air valve and a screw-threaded fuel needle valve are actuated simultaneously by a single control from the dashboard, and the air valve may be actuated independently. The nozzle. 19, supplied from the float chamber, is controlled by the tapered end 18 of a needle valve 5 carried by a stem 12, an enlarged part 13 of which engages a screw-thread in a part 15 screwed into a boss 16 on the carburettor body. The needle valve stem carries a disc 20 and one arm of an L- shaped member 21, the depending arm of which is connected through a link 26 to a pin 9 on an arm 6 secured to the spindle 7 of the throttle valve 8. The control means 10, extending to the dashboard, is also attached to the pin 9. The disc 20 can be rotated relatively to the arm 21 and secured thereto by a screw 22 engaging one of a number of recesses 23 in the edge of the disc. The arm 21 is formed at its end as a pointer 24 and is adapted to be clamped to the disc by a nut 14. The air valve 11 is mounted on a spindle 29 which is under the influence of a spring 42 and carries a lever, the arms 30, 31 of which are secured by bolts 34, 35 to one side 33 of a yoke member 32, the other and shorter side 36 of which is connected by a link 37 and bolt 38, which may enter one of a number of holes 39, to the pin 9. The link 37 is slotted at 41 to pass over the bolt 38, against which bears an adjustable screw 40 provided with lock-nut 43. The spring 42 keeps the screw 40 and bolt 38 in contact, but the air valves may be moved independently of the link 37 by a connection 44, the bolt then sliding in the slot 41.
Patent GB-104443-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Shade-holders for Gas or Electric-light Fittings.
Inventor: MCLACHLAN ROBERT WILLIAM
IPC: F21V17/00
Filed: 1916-06-27
Abstract: 104,443. McLachlan, R. W. June 27, 1916. Globe and shade holders.-An annular device, such as a split ring, is secured round the neck of the globe or shade and is attached to the gallery by bayonet-slots, preferably by hooks on the split ring engaging the ordinary screws or pins on the outside or inside of the gallery. In one form, a triangular resilient wire ring B, B<1>, B<2>, having loops B<4> at its corners and an eye B<6> at one free end sliding on an extension B<5>, is sprung over the edge of the globe, and is provided at its corners with inverted hooks C with upwardly-turned ends C' for engaging the screws on the gallery. In other forms, the free ends of the ring are hooked together or are interlocked by bending when the ring is in position. Reference has been directed by the Comptroller to Specifications 24757/08, 25587/08, 29425/10, and 100,525.
Patent GB-441911-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in fuel injection devices for internal combustion engines
IPC: F02M61/06
Filed: 1935-03-23
Abstract: 441,911. Fuel injectors. SOC. PROVENCALE DE CONSTRUCTIONS AERONAUTIQUES, 3, Rue De La Baume, Paris, and VAUDET, P. L., Saint Sernin-du-Plain, Saone-et-Loire, both in France. March 23, 1935, No. 9151. Convention date, April 17, 1934. [Class 7 (iii)] In a fuel injector, spraying orifices 1 which are located in a central zone of the nozzle 4 are controlled by a needle valve 2 whilst a plurality of permanently open orifices are arranged laterally of the central zone. The orifices 1 are closed during slow running of the engine. The orifices 3, Fig. 9, may be formed as grooves in the bearing surfaces of the needle valve and the nozzle and a cylindrical end on the needle valve is withdrawn to open the aperture 1.
Patent GB-1500847-A (GB)
Title: Antibiotic a process for its preparation and its use as a medicament
IPC: A23K20/195
Filed: 1976-03-08
Abstract: 1500847 Antibiotic BAYER AG 8 March 1976 [8 March 1975] 09180/76 Heading C2A A novel antibiotic is characterized in the following manner: (a) it is a neutral substance and does not migrate on electrophoresis; (b) it consists of carbon, hydrogen and oxygen; (c) it has a specific rotation of [α]<SP>20</SP> D  = -6À6 degrees in a solution which contains 1% by weight of antibiotic in methanol; (d) it exhibits a maximum at # = 307 nm. in the U.V. spectrum; (e) it is readily soluble in chloroform, acetone, ethyl acetate, acetonitrile, dimethyl formamide, dimethyl sulphoxide, methanol and ethanol and is sparingly soluble in water, diethyl ether, petroleum ether and cyclohexane; (f) it contains methoxy groups; and (g) it eliminates reducing sugars on hydrolysis with 10% strength by weight sulphuric acid at 80 C. The antibiotic is further characterized by the spectra indicated in Figs. 1-4 (not shown). The antibiotic may be prepared by culturing one or both Actinoplanes strains SE 73 (ATCC 31058) and SE 73/B (ATCC 31060) under aerobic conditions in a culture medium containing assimilable sources of carbon, nitrogen and mineral substances. The antibiotic may be incorporated into pharmaceutical and animal feed compositions.
Patent GB-566588-A (GB)
Title: Gas safety device
IPC: F16K17/00
Filed: 1943-06-10
Abstract: 566,588. Valves. FEHR, E. June 10, 1943, Nos. 9297 and 9298. Convention dates, June 17, 1942, and Feb. 9, 1943. [Class 135] In a safety cut-off for a gas conduit comprising a valve 5 formed with a byepass passage 28, the valve is connected to the membrane 4 by a ball-joint and telescopic rods 8, 22, and locking levers 19 engage the rod 8 when the valve is in the closed position. Disengaging movement of the levers is limited by stops 21, so that their ends may not escape from the sphere of action of a bell-shaped guide 13 carried by the membrane. When the valve is open, a spring mounted plate 32 is depressed so that a pin 35 carried thereby enters the passage 28.
Patent GB-590751-A (GB)
Title: Improved mixing or batching plant
IPC: B28C7/04
Filed: 1945-04-13
Abstract: 590,751. Transportable mixing plant. BLAW KNOX, Ltd., and CONACHER, J. E. April 13, 1945, No. 9298. [Classes 78(i), 78(iii) and 78(iv)] Mixing plant comprises a framework 11 mounted on wheels 12, 13 and supporting a bin 16 for materials to be mixed, a jib 30, a skip 31 to receive materials from bin and means, e.g. rope 42 driven by motor winch 44, for elevating the skip up the jib and discharging its contents, the framework being so constructed that when in position for travelling it is disposed with the lower end 32 of the jib just clear of the ground and is adapted to be elevated with jib into operational position, in which elevated position only is there room for the movement of the skip. In the embodiment shown, Fig. 1, the skip, which may be divided to part of its depth, has outlet gate 39 with latches 40 operable to discharge contents in the discharge position; and has rollers 36 adapted to move either in a double pair of tracks 34, 35 or in a single pair of tracks (not shown) so as to deposit material in chute 38. Framework 11 in its operational position, is lifted off wheels 12, 13 by pedestals 15. Bin 16 is divided into four compartments 17, 18, 19, 20 of which the cement compartment 19 is fed from hopper 26,. Fig. 3, by screw conveyer 27, detachable bucket elevator 25, and canvas chute 29. Weighing apparatus 46 may be associated with bins 16 as shown or with skip 31 in its loading position, and is fitted with dual drop bottom gates 47 to receive material from outlets 21, 22, 23, 24 which may be closed by valves operable separately by levers (not shown) and drop into the skip. Extension 45 (against weather) telescopes into the framework. The jib 30 may be hinged at 33 so as to give ground clearance when travelling and may be hingedly or detachably jointed towards the top so as to allow reduction of height at the same time. The jib 30 may also luff or swivel.
Patent GB-1222833-A (GB)
Title: Method of treatment of human hair
Inventor: JOOS BERNARD
IPC: A61Q5/00
Filed: 1968-02-27
Abstract: 1,222,833. Treating hair. B. JOOS. 27 Feb., 1968 [2 March, 1967], No. 9302/68. Heading D1P. [Also in Division A5] The strength of human hair is improved by treating it with a solution of a dimethylolalkylene urea or dimethylol alkylene thiourea. The solution may be an aqueous solution and may also contain a disinfectant and/or antidandruff agent.
Patent GB-474366-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in closures or seals for collapsible tubes and like containers and in their method of manufacture
IPC: B65D47/20
Filed: 1936-03-30
Abstract: 474,366. Making collapsable tubes. FELDMAR, A. B. March 30, 1936, No. 9371. [Classes 83 (ii) and 83 (iv)] [Also in Group XVII] Caulking.-The closure or seal for a collapsable tube comprises a head 20 secured to a piston 10 and a sleeve 21, which is slidable in a member 30, and a spring 12 between them, the assembled parts being introduced into the neck 3 and the rim 35<1> turned in by means of the balls 58 mounted in a cage 59 rotatable in the die 50. Specifications 301,448, [Class 125 (iii)], and 413,505, [Group XVII], are referred to.
Patent GB-1498499-A (GB)
Title: Benzotriazines
IPC: A23K20/195
Filed: 1975-03-06
Abstract: 1498499 3 - Imino - 4 - acyloxy - 1,2,4- benzotriazine-1-oxides CIBA-GEIGY AG 6 March 1975 [15 March 1974 15 Jan 1975] 9439/75 Heading C2C [Also in Division A5] Novel 3 - imino - 4 - acyloxy - 1,2,4 - benzotriazine-1-oxides of the general formula wherein R is an alkyl, alkenyl or haloalkyl group or a phenyl or aralkyl group optionally substituted by an alkyl, alkoxy, haloalkyl, halogen or hydroxy radical and one of X and Y is a hydrogen or halogen atom or an alkyl or alkoxy group, or a phenoxy or phenylsulphonyl group optionally substituted by a halogen, alkyl, haloalkyl and/or alkoxy radical, and the other is a hydrogen or halogen atom or an alkyl or alkoxy group, are prepared by reacting a 3- amino - 1,2,4 - benzotriazine - 1,4 - dioxide of the general formula in the presence of a diluent, either with R-CO- halogen in the presence of an acidbinding agent or with (RCO) 2 O.