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Patent GB-631009-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to building material
IPC: C04B18/28
Filed: 1947-06-16
Abstract: A composition for use in making building materials comprises an intimate mixture of a comminuted vegetable fibrous material impregnated with an aqueous dispersion of a soap and with a solution of a metallic salt, and Portland cement as a binder, the filler being present in an amount at least equal to twice that of the binder.  The fibrous material, e.g. sawdust, wood pulp, coconut fibre or cork, is treated with an oleate or stearate of sodium or potassium in 5-10 per cent aqueous dispersion, preferably lukewarm, together, if desired, with an emulsion of an oil, e.g. paraffin oil, or a bitumen.  The material is also treated with a metallic salt, e.g. ferrous or calcium chloride. Cement, preferably in dry form is then added, preferably in the proportion of 1 : 2-6 of filler.  If the mixture is too wet, magnesium chloride may be added.  Pigments may also be included. The mixture is then filled into greased moulds.  The Specification as open to inspection under Sect. 91 describes also the use of animal and mineral fibres, and a mixture of calcium carbonate and hydrate as the mineral salt.  This subject-matter does not appear in the Specification as accepted.
Patent GB-475634-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to storage garages
IPC: E04H6/10
Filed: 1937-06-08
Abstract: 475,634. Garages. MOORE,-M. June 8, 1937, No. 15878. [Class 20 (i)] A multi-floor garage has two pairs of ramps connecting adjacent floors and disposed at opposite ends of an intervening storage space, each pair of ramps having up and down portions so arranged that travel is in the same longitudinal direction at each end of the building, the up-ramp of one pair and the down-ramp of the other pair being contiguous to the same intervening storage space. Odd floors are continuous from end to end, but the even floors are divided to provide end and intermediate runways such as 17W, 17E, 18 on the even floors, the intermediate floors each comprising central passages 20 flanked by storage spaces 22. To prevent confusion, the incoming cars are designated by colours and separate parking floors are allotted to each colour, so that the tracks of the different colours do not cross. Fig. 3 shows the path of a red car, to attain the parking floors marked in heavy horizontal lines, entering the inside up ramp 15 in column 14A, continuing ascent at this end until the 5th floor, then passing across the building along runway 17E and up the connecting ramps 15 at the other end to reach the succeeding floors. The descending ramps 16 are shown in disconnected lines. Cars having other colours allotted to them ascend different up-ramps of other pairs, one pair for each colour. Specification 254,594, [Class 20 (i)], is referred to.
Patent GB-151109-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and connected with the manufacture of metal window frames, sashes, casements, doors, forcing frames, greenhouses, lockers and like structures
IPC: E06B3/12
Filed: 1919-06-25
Abstract: 151,109. Speaker, G. R. June 25, 1919. Window frames; door frames.-Frames of windows, doors &c. are made of thin sheet metal rolled to the required shape cut and bent as shown at 4. Fig. 1 with lapping-pieces 4<1>. The sides 2 of the frame, are joined to the sill 3 by tongues 5 entering the sill and bent over. The casement frame 6 is formed from a single rolled bar cut and bent at three corners and joined by welding or by clips. The glazing-bars 7 are formed with overlapping meeting edges and are drilled to take pegs for holding the glass previous to applying putty &c. In doors, the panels may be made of thin sheet steel, asbestos, &c. secured by metal or other beading.
Patent GB-594581-A (GB)
Title: Radio antenna
IPC: H01Q21/20
Filed: 1944-08-28
Abstract: 594,581. Aerials. MARCONI'S WIRELESS TELEGRAPH CO., Ltd. Aug. 28, 1944, No. 16347. Convention date, June 17, 1942. [Class 40 (v)] An antenna giving a substantially circular radiation pattern in a horizontal plane and for use over a wide frequency band, e.g. in television, comprises a plurality of radiating elements arranged along the sides of a polygon in a horizontal plane, each of the said elements including a pair of conical members having their apices adjacent, and means coupled to the apices for energizing the elements in such a manner that at any instant current flows around the polygon in one direction. In Fig. 1, three radiating elements 10, 20, 30 are arranged in the form of a triangle and comprise respectively the conical members 11 and 12, 21 and 22 and 31 and 32. The conical members are fed at their apices by transmission lines TL1, TL2 and TL3 respectively, connected at a central point to a common transmission line TL. Conductive supports may be arranged at the angles of the triangle formed, which are the points of highest current. In Figs. 2 and 3 (not shown), the antenna is energized by connecting the main transmission line TL to the apices of one pair of conical members only and providing half-wave phasereversing loops between the apices of the other pairs. In Fig. 3, the conical members are arranged along the sides of a hexagon instead of a triangle. An array may be provided by arranging several antennµ axially one above the other. In the triangular form, the structure may be braced for mechanical strength along planes bisecting the angles of the triangle and in the case of a vertical array, cross-bracing may be provided in these planes. The Specification refers to the advantages of providing an antennµ system, the impedance of. which corresponds to that of a parallel tuned circuit. Specification 524,457 is referred to.
Patent GB-109157-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Dough Moulding Machines.
Inventor: STREICH FRANK
IPC: A21C7/01
Filed: 1916-11-15
Abstract: 109,157. Streich, F. Nov. 15, 1916. Feeding; rolling-machines. - Lumps of dough are fed by hand, one at a time, to a hopper 29 and are passed by feed-rolls 24, 25 to a sheeting-roll 32, adjacent to which is a curling or coiling roll 34, by which, with the aid of the roll 32 and a vibrating plate 54, the dough is kneaded and coiled up. From the space between the rolls 32, 34, the dough is passed by the hand 35, between a table or platform 38 and a presser-plate 39, whence it emerges a completed loaf. The presser-plate 39 is carried by a system of parallel levers 40, 53 and links 46 so that its height may be adjusted, and it is provided with side plates 52 which are adjustable laterally upon the rods 15 by which they are carried. The hopper and feed-rollers are mounted upon a frame 17, 18 which can turn at one end on the rod 15 and is supported by adjustable setscrews 19 at the other, while the feed-rollers and sheeting and coiling rollers are driven by chain gearing provided with a spring tension device, so that should an unusually hard piece of dough pass between the feed-rolls and the sheeting-roll, the frame 17, 18 will yield and so prevent excessive compression of the dough. Scrapers 70, 71, are provided, and a hopper 74 supplies the sheeting- roll with flour.
Patent GB-1428732-A (GB)
Title: Apparatus for displaying features having a predetermined  parameter occurring within a particular field of an image
IPC: G06M11/00
Filed: 1973-04-05
Abstract: 1428732 Automatic control of position; scanning microscope slides NUTRITIONAL RESEARCH UNIT Ltd [trading as HUNTINGDON INSTRUMENTS] 3 April 1974 [5 April 1973] 16387/73 Headings G2J and G3N An apparatus for displaying features having a predetermined parameter with a particular field of an image comprises a microscope, an optoelectronic converter, a detector, connected to the converter output, of features having the predetermined parameter a store for the co-ordinates of the features and a control circuit for a drive means of the microscope whereby each feature detected is sequentially displayed. As shown, a stage 2 of a microscope 1 is positioned by a stepping motor drive 10 in response to signals from a logic control 9 connected through a read circuit 8 to a MOS dynamic store 7, or directly to a feature store 17 and a manual positioning control 15. A slide to be examined is mounted on the stage 2 and positioned manually to a reference position by the control 15. A co-ordinate button 17 is then depressed to record the position in store 17. A zone of interest on the slide is then found and the store 17 updated. The zone of interest is scanned, at low magnification, by a T.V. camera 3, monitored by a screen 21, and the amplified video signals passed to a detector 5, set manually at the signal amplitude corresponding to a desired feature. The co-ordinate positions of detected features through a load control 6 are set in the store 7. During the subsequent read-out of detected features, at a high magnification selected by the actuation of an objective turret 12, via a logic control 9 an operative can decide on the nature of the detected feature, e.g. a type of bloodcell, and press an appropriate count button 22 to up-date counters in an accumulator 23, with associated display 33, or reject by depressing a button 16. A total count is maintained in an accumulator 28 and a desired number of bloodcell analyses set by a thumb-wheel; completion of a count being shown on an indicator 31 energized by a comparator 30. Facilities are provided for selecting a fresh zone of interest if the zone selected does not provide sufficient features for the desired number of analyses.
Patent GB-318849-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to processes for obtaining soaps and oils from sewage
IPC: C11B13/00
Filed: 1928-06-06
Abstract: 318,849. Springborn, E. von. June 6, 1928. Materials for purifying. - Chemical deodorizing agents are used for treating gases and vapours evolved by heating sewage sludge in a retort. The vapours are forced by a fan a into a chamber c containing bleaching powder B. The deodorized vapours are led by a pipe d beneath a solution of soda or potash or other alkali in a chamber e whereby soaps are formed from the heavier vegetable and mineral oils. The vapours are then condensed fractionally, in oils in a series of chambers h - - l. The temperatures fall in steps from about 300-200‹ F. in chamber e to 80-60‹ F. in chamber l. The oils used may be those produced in the process, and the bleaching powder may be replaced by potassium perman. ganate, or by charcoal produced in the retort. The outlet pipes d, m, n, o, p have bell-mouths f, while the outlet from the chamber e is fitted with a safety valve q. Two or more chambers c or e may be used with one or more series of chambers h-l to admit of continuous working. The conduits m, o are preferably kept red hot to decompose the steam present.
Patent GB-642127-A (GB)
Title: An improved method of and apparatus for vacuum distillation
IPC: B01D3/10
Filed: 1947-06-23
Abstract: Vacuum distillation is carried out by continuously distilling a liquid from a boiler through a fractionating column into the closed evacuated space at the top of a barometric column, continuously removing distillate from the foot of the barometric column, and intermittently putting the evacuated space into communication with an evacuated chamber during the process.  The loss of distilled vapour through a vacuum pump is thereby eliminated.  The exhaustion of aqueous-alcoholic liquids to an ascertainable degree of alcoholic-exhaustion is referred to.  The distilland is supplied from tank 112 via preheater 107 to ring-packed fractionating column 90 which it enters through valve 113.  The column is connected at the base to boiler 87, and at the head to condenser 92, <PICT:0642127/III/1> container 93, test-piece 94 and barometric column 95.  Prior to the admission of distilland to the column, the apparatus is evacuated by pump 122 but when this has been completed, all communication between the apparatus and a vacuum pump is cut off. During the distillation, the container 93 is periodically put into and out of communication with an evacuated chamber (not shown) by device 125 (see Group XXVIII).  The hot distillation residues leave the boiler and pass through container 106, pre-heater 107, and hydraulic column 108.  The vapour-space of the boiler is connected to condenser 100, container 101, test-piece 102, and hydraulic column 103.  In the distillation of alcoholic liquids, test-piece 102 indicates, by calibrated adjusting gear, whether distillation is being performed to the desired exhaustion. If this is not the case, the rate of boiling is increased, or the rate of feed is diminished. Containers 101 and 106 are both connected to the boosting device 125. The plant may be constructed of iron, galvanized copper, or aluminium.
Patent GB-120613-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Internal Combustion Engines.
Inventor: RICARDO HARRY RALPH
IPC: F02B1/00
Filed: 1917-11-13
Abstract: 120,613. Ricardo, H. R. Nov. 13, 1917. Four-stroke-cycle engines.-The distribution of the charges in an engine having a pair of inclined cylinders with a common combustion space is controlled by a centrally-disposed inlet valve E' and a pair of exhaust valves F<1>, G<1> all of large diameter. The valves are actuated by an overhead cam-shaft, the inlet valve directly and the other valves indirectly. Pairs of cylinders may be arranged around the crank-shaft.
Patent GB-256374-A (GB)
Title: Improved manufacture of metal baths, buckets, and like articles of holloware
IPC: B21D51/00
Filed: 1925-06-29
Abstract: 256,374. Hill, E. June 29, 1925. Hollow-ware. -Baths, buckets, &c. are made in two parts, a 'body part a having a flange b. which is adapted to seat on the lip e of a flanged bottom c. The lip e is rolled over the flange b to form a beaded edge, and the lower part of the body is then rolled into contact with the flange d of the bottom part c.
Patent GB-746341-A (GB)
Title: A light brake regulator with a reduced interval between the tying and coupling points
IPC: B61H15/00
Filed: 1954-06-04
Abstract: 746,341. Brake adjusters. SOC. GENERALE ISOTHERMOS. June 4, 1954 [June 11, 1953; April 2, 1954], No. 16647/54. Class 103 (1). The operation of an automatically adjustable brake linkage rod is generally similar to that described in Specification 671,663 except that when the rod is stressed, outside the braking periods, by shocks of such force as to cause a slight backward motion ot the spring 32 towards the ring 13, a spring 31 acting through the take-up dish 30 and tubular push element 51 holds the dishes 19 against the rollers 41 and prevents the bar 34 from moving out. The rod is also modified in that it has a simple light protection tube 11 at one end and the return spring 32 is of smaller diameter and surrounds the tube 23 of the sheath, the walls of which since they have only to withstand the tension of the return spring, may be made thin. Since the enclosing body comprising the tube 11 and box 12 is not mobile grease plugs may be mounted thereon to lubricate the internal mechanism. Furthermore when the regulator is lengthened, the distance by which the protection tube 36 protrudes from the head 25 indicates immediately the length by which the regulator has been lengthened.
Patent GB-502591-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to starting devices for internal combustion engines
IPC: F02N15/06
Filed: 1938-06-03
Abstract: 502,591. Turning - gear. LENYGON, A., and WILLIAMS, B. J. June 3, 1938, No. 16664. [Class 7 (v)] An engine starter comprises a pinion 6 splined on a sleeve 4 threaded on a sleeve 2 mounted on the shaft 1 of a starting motor, the pinion being normally held against a spring clip 9 or the like by a spring 7 interposed between the pinion and a flange 8 on the sleeve 4. On rotation of the shaft 1, the sleeve 4 and the pinion travel axially, to engage the pinion with the teeth of the engine flywheel, against the resistance of a light coil spring 11 between a collar 12 fixed on the sleeve 2 and a slidable collar 13 abutting against the flangeless end of the sleeve 4. Specification 420;306 is referred to.
Patent GB-616698-A (GB)
Title: Suspension systems for motor-vehicles
IPC: B60G21/067
Filed: 1945-07-02
Abstract: 616,698. Road-vehicle suspensions; dashpots. UNITED INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGISTS, Ltd., YOUNG, H. R., and WALKER, G. E. L. July 2, 1945, No. 16745. [Classes 108 (ii) and 108 (iii)] A suspension system for motor vehicles having a plurality of separate road - wheel suspension-means, comprises devices associated respectively with two separate suspension means, which are interconnected in such manner that when either wheel rises relatively to the chassis frame, the device associated with the other wheel, will, by reason of the interconnection, exert a force tending to lower the wheel with which it is associated, but so that there will be no operative interconnection of the two devices when either wheel falls relatively to the chassis. In the construction shown in Fig. 3, each device, Fig. 2, comprises a hydraulic shock absorber having a pair of integral pistons 17, 18 connected by an arm 24 to the inner end of a swinging arm 221 which carries the road wheel. The pistons 17, 18 are slidable in cylinders which have a common central reservoir space 27 which is connected with each cylinder head by respective one-way ball valves 19, 20 and spring-loaded damping-valves 32, 33. The valves 32, 33 are of the sleeve type having ports 36, 37. The upper cylinder head is connected by a pipe 15 to the upper head of the device associated with the other suspension, and the reservoirs of both devices are connected by a pipe 40. Operation.-Upward movement of the road wheel 22 causes upward movement of the piston 16 of the associated shock absorber 13, liquid being forced through the orifices 36 of the valve 32 to the reservoir 27. The increased pressure thus produced in the upper cylinder head is transmitted by the pipe 15 to the upper-cylinder head of the other shock absorber 14 and thus causes the chassis adjacent the corresponding wheel 23 to rise. Downward movement of either road wheel is damped by the corresponding valve 33. After either upward or downward movement of the road wheel, liquid flows back to the cylinder heads through one way valves 19, 20. The bottom of one reservoir 27 is connected to the top of the reservoir of the other shock absorber 14 so that topping up can be effected entirely from the former. The devices may be applied to the front and rear wheels in order to prevent pitching or may be applied to respective ends of an axle in order to prevent rolling. Alternatively, devices associated with all four wheels may be interconnected according to the invention.
Patent GB-167872-A (GB)
Abstract: 167,872. Ledwinka, J. May 20, 1920. Hoods: bodies.-In a top or roof structure for automobiles, a metal foraminous or screen body is used which is pressed into shape and is supported at its edges by uprights and requires no other support. The pressed wire screen body 3 may be provided with a rim 4 and a covering 5 of leather or other material.
Patent GB-598653-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to the coating of metals with metals and alloys
IPC: C23C24/00
Filed: 1943-10-13
Abstract: In the coating of metals with other metals and alloys, the metals &c. are coated with a suspension of a mixture of one or more metals in powdered form and powdered compounds of the metals in a solvent having a low vapour pressure at room temperature and a relatively high vapour pressure at moderately elevated temperature, the coated metal being then subjected to a temperature sufficient to volatilize the solvent and dry the coating on the metal and then to a higher temperature in a hydrogen atmosphere sufficient to decompose and volatilize the metal coating, reduce the metal compounds and sinter the coating metal on to the base metal.  The metal compounds used are the oxides, oxalates, carbonates and nitrates in a solution of nitrocellulose dissolved in a solvent such as a mixture of diethyl oxalate and diethyl carbonate.  Examples describe the production of a copper or nickel coating on an iron wire using a mixture of the metal and oxide, the production of a "Monel" (R.T.M.) coating by using nickel powder and copper oxide or a mixture of nickel powder, and nickel oxalate and copper oxide powders, a silver alloy coating on an iron wire using a mixture of silver and copper oxalate powders, and a platinum-nickel alloy coating on a molybdenum wire by using a mixture of platinum black and nickel oxide powder.
Patent GB-352193-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to means for mechanically coupling elements together
IPC: B61G1/02
Filed: 1930-05-30
Abstract: 352,193. Hook couplings. GRIFFIN, E., 57, Pantycelyn Road, Town Hill, and DAVIES, T. J., Austhorpe, Lon Mafon, Sketty, both in Swansea. May 30,1930, No. 16827. [Classes 44 and 89 (ii).] A coupling hook applicable to brackets &c. comprises a pivoted eye 1, having a tongue 8 which fits in a recess in the bar 2 and is secured by the sliding collar 3. The plate spring 4 prevents the return motion of the collar.
Patent GB-497399-A (GB)
Title: Device for attaching non-skid chains on wheel tyres
IPC: B60C27/08
Filed: 1937-06-17
Abstract: 497,399. Wheel tyres. MONNING- HOFF, E. June 17, 1937, No. 16858. Convention date, June 18, 1936. [Class 144 (ii)] Non-skid chains are fitted to wheel tyres by attachment to hooks provided on discs or rings which are mounted, rotatably or otherwise, on the brake-drum, the axle cap, or other portion of the wheel adjacent the axle. As shown in Fig. 1, the attachment means comprises a disc 2 secured to the wheel by bolts 4, and a split ring 5 clamped, or rotatably secured, to the brake-drum 5 by a bolt 7, the disc and ring being fitted with hooks 3 for the reception of the chains. In a modification, the hooks on the outer side of the wheel are carried by a ring rotatably mounted on the disc 2. Figs. 5 and 6 show a modification in which the chains 18 on the inner side of the wheel are fitted with ball-ended hooks 19 for assemblage in a slotted flange 15 on the wheel-rim, the disc 2 carrying the hooks 3 on the outer side of the wheel being mounted on a flanged ring 11 secured to the wheel-centre. In the modification shown in Fig. 8, the flange 15 at the inner side of the wheel is formed on a separately-attached disc 21 to which a hooked ring 22 is fitted. At the outer side of the wheel, the hooks 3 are formed on springs 20 fitted over pins 19 projecting from a ring 18 which is fitted over the axle-cap 12.
Patent GB-530694-A (GB)
Title: Safety casement windows
IPC: E06B9/06
Filed: 1939-06-09
Abstract: 530,694. Window guards. STEWART, J. June 9, 1939, No, 16860. [Class 20 (iii)] A window guard for casements consists of a collapsable grid formed of links 11 pivoted to a frame 12 hingedly mounted in the window opening, and having at their ends rollers or the like engaging in channels in the window and the side rail of the window. Horizontal members of the frame at top and bottom of the window carry sliding sleeves 14 to which are pivoted the ends of links 13 the other ends of which are pivoted tc the frame or free edges of the window
Patent GB-568458-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to valve seat inserts for fluid-pressure engines
IPC: F01L3/22
Filed: 1943-10-14
Abstract: 568,458. Valves. SANDERS, A. F. Oct. 14, 1943, No. 16901. [Class 7 (vi)] [Also in Group XXIX] A valve seat insert comprises a relatively hard seating 21 firmly secured to a rubber or other resilient damper element 22 which is also secured to a hard backing element 23. The seating may extend around the inner face of the damper element 22 and the backing 23 be embedded centrally therein. In other forms, the backing extends up the outer face of the element which, in all forms, provides the sole interconnecting means between the seating and the backing.
Patent GB-256027-A (GB)
Title: Improved construction of trousers press
IPC: A47G25/72
Filed: 1925-07-02
Abstract: 256,027. Everitt, J. July 2, 1925. Trouser presses.-A trouser press comprises a bottom board a with tapering edges and carrying lugs c, c<2> forming portions of transverse bers, and two independent narrow strips e, each carrying longitudinally-arranged bowed limb springs f engaged by transverse rods d which engage a hole c<4> in one lug and a gap c<5> in the other. The springs f are anchored at one end to the strips e.