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Patent GB-854701-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to couplers for trains of pushed vehicles
IPC: B63B21/62
Filed: 1958-08-12
Abstract: 854,701. Coupling and pushing trains of vessels. CHANTIERS NAVALS FRANCOBELGES, and VERNEAUX J. E. P. Aug. 12, 1958 [Feb. 4, 1958], No. 25810/58. Addition to 854,697. Classes 113 and 114. A coupler for a train of pushed marine and land vehicles as in the parent Specification comprises a steering and thrust bar 1 the ends of which are hingedly mounted around shafts 3, horizontal in alignment condition of the vehicles, said shafts being carried by transverse symmetrical thrust amplifying members 4 rotatably mounted around axes parallel to those of shafts 3, the latter being movable relative to the vehicles around the instantaneous centres of rotation of the members 4 one point of which opposite to the shafts 3 relative to said axes is connected (via bar 10) to the corresponding vehicle. The device may be used for coupling pairs of laterally joined boats, Fig. 3, or a pair of laterally joined boats and a single boat, Fig. 4. The thrust and steering bar may be replaced by a pantograph device or may be adjustable in length as in Fig. 1 wherein the bar 1 comprises two ports, one secured to the body 18 of a double acting hydraulic jack and the other to the piston 19, all jacks being connected to pipes ending at a central station.
Patent GB-373887-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to record cards for card indexes
IPC: B42F19/00
Filed: 1931-09-15
Abstract: 373,887. Card indexes. VANDERHOVEN, J., 32, Rue VinÔve-d'Ile, LiÞge, Belgium. Sept. 15, 1931, No. 25850. Convention date, Sept. 16, 1930. [Class 146 (i).] In visible card indexes having card-holders 1 with slots or notches for the attachment of the cards, the bottom edge of each holder is folded back on itself and secured near its ends by adhesive or other means and one or more of the slots extend to or beyond the fold so that the lower edge of the card is level with the fold and is thus exposed when the holders are mounted in overlapping formation. In one form, Fig. 2, the card 7 is attached to the holder by slots 2, 3, 8, 9, and two of these slots 2, 3 extend to the fold 4 formed by turning up the edge 5 of the holder so that the width of card exposed corresponds to the overlap of the holders. In a modification, the lower edge of the card may be slotted near the centre so as to engage additional slots in the holder. In a further modification, the slots may be perpendicular to the fold 4 and engaging tongues formed on the card by incisions on its side edges. In the form shown in Fig. 10, a single wide slot 18 is cut in the holder and provided with oblique extremities with which the corners of the card are engaged. A central reinforcing tongue 19 may project from the horizontal edge of the slot which causes the card to be bowed outwards slightly and thus gives greater rigidity. The slots such as 2, 3, Fig. 1, may extend symmetrically on both sides of the fold 4 to facilitate the manufacture of the holders.
Patent GB-242773-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to vehicle covers
IPC: B60R25/04
Filed: 1924-10-30
Abstract: 242,773. Abrahams, S. Oct. 30, 1924. Covers, wagon and like.-A vehicle cover 1 is shaped to cover the top sides, back and front of the vehicle and is provided with chains 4 attached to the corners 5 of one side and adapted to be passed diagonally under the vehicle and to be locked by padlocks to holes 8 in the corners of the opposite side, thus preventing tampering with the vehicle or its contents. Pockets 12 with flaps 13 may be provided on the inside of one side to receive the ends of the chains and to receive the padlocks when the cover is not in use. The cover is strengthened at the centre 18 so that it may be supported on a pole either during use with a vehicle or separately us a tent.
Patent GB-1196582-A (GB)
Title: Electrical control unit for synchronising flash illumination with camera shutter operations
Inventor: SEWARD ALFRED RUSTON
IPC: G03B9/70
Filed: 1966-06-10
Abstract: 1,196,582. Capacitor charging systems for photo-flash apparatus. A. R. SEWARD. 4 Sept., 1967 [10 June, 1966], No. 25906/66. Heading H2H. Cine camera apparatus is provided with means whereby the operation of a flash device is delayed after the opening of the camera shutter in order to ensure that the shutter is open at the time the flash is at peak intensity, the apparatus being provided with a frame counter. Closure of a switch in the supply line L of an A.C. source causes a capacitor 27 to be charged by way of a diode 24 and contact 26 of a pushbutton switch and at the same time a supply is established to an input terminal 18 of a control unit 10. Operation of the push-button switch connects the capacitor 27 both to the shutter operating contacts 30, 31 and the flash contacts 28, 29 thereby opening the shutter of the camera and energizing the main electrodes of the flash apparatus. Furthermore the closure of contact 25 of the push-button switch connects the capacitor 23 to the A.C. supply LN whereby the capacitor begins charging by way of the diode 24. When the capacitor reaches a certain charge, determined by the time constant of the capacitor 23 and resistor 22, a relay 16 is energized to close contacts 16a, 16b. Closure of contact 16b supplies a trigger potential to the flash apparatus to provide an exposure flash and closure of the contact 16a causes operation of the frame counter.
Patent GB-1448350-A (GB)
Title: Liquid developer for electrostatic latent image
IPC: G03G9/13
Filed: 1974-06-12
Abstract: 1448350 Electrostatographic developer CANON KK 12 June 1974 [14 June 1973 (2)] 26072/74 Heading G2H A liquid developer, particularly suitable for multi-colour electrostatographic reproduction, comprises a dispersion in an insulating carrier liquid of a toner, a surface active agent and a polyterpene resin. Many known toner components, i.e. pigments and resins, surface active agents and insulating liquids, for use in liquid electrostatographic developers are specified as being suitable for use with the developer of the invention. A number of suitable commercially available polyterpene resins are specified by their trade names, and have softening points of 50‹C and above.
Patent GB-818934-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to waist bands
Inventor: BOURNE ERNEST
IPC: A41F9/02
Filed: 1956-08-27
Abstract: 818,934. Skirt waistbands. BACON Ltd., F. J. Sept. 24, 1956 [Aug. 27, 1956], No. 26163/56. Class 141 A skirt waistband comprises a strip 6 of elastic, tape &c. extending through the interior of the waistband around at least part of the back, one end 8 being fixed and the other end 9 which protrudes through a slot 10 in the inner wall of the waistband being formed with a row of buttonholes 7 which can be selectively engaged over a button 11 adjacent the placket opening.
Patent GB-1526565-A (GB)
Title: Ultrasonic transducer
IPC: H03H9/145
Filed: 1976-06-24
Abstract: 1526565 Surface wave transducers TI (GROUP SERVICES) Ltd 24 June 1977 [24 June 1976] 26254/76 Heading H3U A surface wave transducer comprises a plurality of generally-parallel conductors 1 located close to the surface of a conducting body 2, so that an alternating current supply of particular frequency connected to the conductors produces surface waves in the body having twice that frequency. As shown, the conductors are part of a single strip and their total extent is not more than half the surface wavelength, see Fig. 2. Alternatively the conductors may be arranged in two groups (Fig. 4, not shown) each of extent #/2 and separated by #. In modifications the conductors may be part of a coil, wire, or printed circuit, and may surround body 2 (Fig. 5, not shown). The conductors may be curved to produce focusing of the surface waves. Two spaced transducers may be successively energized to produce in-phase waves forming a pulse CB, Fig. 8 (not shown).
Patent GB-322791-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in articles of clothing
IPC: A41D3/00
Filed: 1928-09-13
Abstract: 322,791. Searle, T. D. Sept. 13, 1928. Overcoats and the like.-Overcoats and the like, particularly ready-made overcoats and macintoshes, are provided with a belt which is maintained in position by a slide or slides fixed to the coat. As shown in Fig. 2, a slide C with crossbar E is fixed to the coat in the neighbourhood of the side seam S by means of a piece of material D. The belt A is slidably held in the slide but is prevented from twisting. One slide may be used at each side, or one slide may be used at one side and the belt sewn to the coat at the other.
Patent GB-790918-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in bookbinding
Inventor: KITCAT ALFRED JAMES
IPC: B42C9/00
Filed: 1954-09-10
Abstract: 790,918. Bookbinding. BOOK MACHINERY CO., Ltd. Sept. 1, 1955 [Sept. 10, 1954], No. 26345/54. Class 16 For binding unsewn books in which successive leaves are joined together by glue, the books are conveyed in a train lengthwise of their backs, glue is exuded on to their back edges while being conveyed and the glue is worked intimately on to extremely narrow - marginal parts of the leaves by upsetting the marginal parts at a multiplicity of points transversely and longitudinally of the back. edges of the books. The glue is worked into the leaves by a hard durable plate 16a. b or 17a, b having sets of protruberances 18 formed by intersecting lines of V-grooves to form diamond shaped teeth of cross-section v. As shown in Fig. 6, the pitch x of the teeth is 1/16th of an inch and the lines of the teeth are at an angle of 5 degrees to the edge of the 'plate so that when in position in the machine the vertical distance between any two teeth of the same line is about 0.0015 inch. Two pairs of plates 16a, 16b and 17a, 17b are used having respectively diverging and converging lines of teeth so that each page of a book 1 is glued along its edge. As in Figs. 3 and 4, the books 1 are conveyed by belts 2, 3 with their backs vertical from a back edge trimming or fibrillating cutter 5, the rotor of which has teeth 5a so that all the leaves are slightly roughened. The rear of the books 1 adjacent the backs are supported on a guide 4 as they pass a glue spray 6, the two pairs of .plates 16a, 16b and 17a, 17b, opposed rollers 8, 9 and a further glue spray 7. The rollers 8, 9 are journalled on pintles 10, 11 adjustable in a slotted arm 12 by nuts 10a, 11a so as to engage the rear edges to close the leaves together before the final gluing. Each pair of plates 16a, 16b or 17a, 17b is detachably. secured to a back plate 19 by screws 19a, the plate 19 being clamped in a slot 22 in a post 20 by headed screws 21 which are adjusted so that the line between the plates is central of the books 1, the plates 16a. 16b causing a divergence of the leaves and the plates 17a, 17b causing convergance. To regulate the pressure of the plates against the book backs, each post 20 is carried on a sleeve 24 slidable on a stem 25 fixed in the machine frame 14 by a reduced end 24a. the stem 25 being threaded at each end at 23a, 23b to receive lock nuts 26. the post 20 being kept vertical bv a guide post 27 engaged by an upstanding finger 20a. A guard 29 protects each stem 25 and nuts 26 from dropping glue. Preferably a synthetic glue is used. According to the Provisional Specification, one single wide plate and one pair of plates are used, the pair of plates being tilted to engage the outer edges of the book back more than the middle. Specifications 723,649, 723,652 and 723,736 are referred to.
Patent GB-846244-A (GB)
Title: Method and apparatus for building air springs and the like
IPC: B29D22/02
Filed: 1958-08-18
Abstract: 846,244. Building tyres. GOODYEAR TIRE & RUBBER CO. Aug. 18,1958 [Jan. 28, 1958], No. 26440/58. Class 144 (1). [Also in Group XXXII] When tubular-shaped articles, e.g. green tyre carcases, are to be built on the apparatus shown in Fig. 1, a turret 46 is turned so that a cylindrical fixture 60 is aligned with the axis of a drum 23. A carriage 43 is moved towards the drum 23 until the fixture 60 abuts against a removable member 31, Fig. 4. A number of rubber-coated cord plies 56 are then applied to the surface of the drum 23, with their marginal edges 57 lying on the outer surface of the fixture 60. An endless belt 49, Fig. 1, is then raised against the outer surface of the plies with sufficient pressure to stitch the plies together and remove entrapped air from the ply material. The carriage 43 is then retracted to remove the fixture 60 and the turret 46 is turned through 90 degrees so that a ply turn down member 62 is axially aligned with the building-drum 23. The ply turn-down member 62, Fig. 6, consists of two layers of flexible strips 66, 67, secured at one end to a frusto-conical base 68. To contract the end 57 of the air spring and set a small bead ring 58, Fig. 10, members 62 and 63 are moved towards the cylinder 23 until they are in the position shown in Fig. 6. Member 63 is then urged further towards the drum 23 to push the small bead ring 58 over the turn-down member 62, thus compressing the member 62 radially inwardly, until the small bead abuts the member 31. Members 62, 63 are now moved away from the drum 23. To turn the end 57 of the air spring outwardly about the small bead ring 58, a bladder 36, Figs. 4, 10, is inflated. Whilst the bag 36 is being inflated, the turret 46 is turned to position a pusher plate 77 in axial alignment with the drum 23. The pusher-plate 77 is then moved towards the drum 23 to engage the bag 36, Fig. 10, and roll the bag radially outwardly over the bead ring 58 to carry the ply endings 57 about the bead ring. The turret 46 is next turned to align a second bead setter 80, Fig. 1, with the axis of the drum 23. The bead setter 80 is moved across the length of the drum 23 to position a larger bead 59a, Fig. 12, a predetermined distance from the marginal edge 59 of the plies 26. A bag 24 is now inflated to expand the end of the plies 59 outwardly about the bead ring 59a. A pusher-plate 83 turns the plies back over the bead ring 59a. Air springs may also be built in a similar manner.
Patent GB-735320-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to fluid manometers
Inventor: SHAW HARRY
IPC: G01L7/18
Filed: 1952-10-21
Abstract: 735,320. Pressure gauges. NATIONAL RESEARCH DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION. Sept. 9, 1953 [Oct. 21, 1952], No. 26461/52. Class 106 (2). A multiple limbed manometer comprises a backing block 1 formed with a number of parallel grooves 2, and a fluid-tight transparent cover or covers 7 over the grooves to form the limbs or tubes of the manometer. From the upper end of each groove 2 a bore 5 extends to a hippie 6 affording separate external connections to the sources of pressure to be measured, an external supply of manometric fluid being supplied through an orifice 4 to a lower transverse groove 3 forming a common supply passage to the grooves 2. In a modification, Fig. 4, upper and lower connections to the grooves are made through blocks 15 and 11. The cover or covers 7 may be of glass secured to the backing member 1 by adhesive.
Patent GB-210125-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in, or relating to, stringed musical instruments
IPC: G10D3/16
Filed: 1922-10-02
Abstract: 210,125. Page, T. S. Oct. 2, 1922. Bowed instruments; bows and like playing-means; bridges. - A stringed instrument comprises groups of unisonal strings E, lying in depressions formed in two bridges C and played by a pair of rotary friction discs A which are driven by electric motors D, or pneumatically, and are mounted on hand sticks B. The discs may be applied to the strings parallel to them.
Patent GB-151274-A (GB)
Title: An improved electric current generator for high-voltage ignition and lighting
IPC: H02K21/10
Filed: 1920-09-16
Abstract: 151,274. Gehrig, J. Sept. 16,1919, [Convention date]. Magneto - electric machines.-The armature of a high-tension magneto carries in addition to the primary and secondary ignition windings w1, w2, a third winding w3 for generating a low-voltage current for lighting etc.; the magnetic axes of the ignition and lighting coils are at right-angles so that the two sets of coils may be magnetically independent. The pole-pieces of the permanent magnet m are laminated and, to prevent armature reaction of the ignition currents, the circuit of the primary winding w1 is interrupted in the position of the armature shown on the drawing. The winding w3 may be joined to a commutator for giving a continuous current.
Patent GB-224081-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to collapsible wardrobes, book cases and like furnitureapplicable also to packing cases and the like
IPC: A47B47/05
Filed: 1923-10-25
Abstract: 224,081. Sandford, L. G. Oct. 25, 1923. Knock-down bores. - A collapsable packing- case or like article is formed with front and rear parts hinged &c. together so as to he capable of being collapsed by parallel motion of these parts, the structure being held together in its position of use by sliding side panels. Fig. 1 shows a wardrobe in which the side edges a<2>, b of the front and rear parts respectively are grooved to receive the side panels e. The panels may he locked in position by removable pins, or by the engagement of spring-catches g, Fig. 4, under the shelf d.
Patent GB-785250-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to electric cable terminations
IPC: H02G15/06
Filed: 1955-09-19
Abstract: 785,250. Connection fittings. SIEMENSSCHUCKERTWERKE AKT.-GES. Sept. 19, 1955 [Sept. 20, 1954], No. 26756/55. Class 38(1). In order to enable a cable to be led into a machine from any desired direction, the cable socket 10 is secured to the cable termination box 2 housing the terminals 3 by means of an intermediate wedge-shaped member 7 which can engage the face 8 of the box 2 in a number of positions. The box 2 and machine 1 have square or annular engagement surfaces, and four fixing screws 5 are arranged at corners of a square so as to give in addition four possible positions of the box on the machine.
Patent GB-426862-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to engine starters
IPC: F02N15/06
Filed: 1934-09-19
Abstract: 426,862. Toothed gearing. CLAYTON, C. E. EVERY-, 51, Chancery Lane, London.- (Charter Drive, Inc. ; Chicago, U.S.A.) Sept. 19, 1934, No. 26971. [Class 80 (i)] [See also Groups XXVII and XXXII] In an engine starter in which a pinion 36 is moved axially into and out of engagement with an engine gear 40 by means of a coiled spring structure through which the pinion is driven, the spring structure comprises two spring strands 30, 30<a> placed side by side and forming a helical way for a tracking member 28 which serves first to move the pinion axially and then to drive it. The spring structure at one end presents free ends 30b that are coupled to the pinion, and at the other end 32 is adapted to be engaged and rotated by the tracking member 28. As shown, the ends 30b are bent to form hooks for engagement with T-shaped slots 34 in a flange on the pinion, so that either a right-hand or a left-hand spring may be employed. The pinion has a smooth bore freely mounted on a loose sleeve 16 interlocked with a sleeve 18 keyed to rotate with the shaft 20. The tracker 28 is a radial projection secured to or integral with the sleeve 18. The pinion 36 is normally held out of engagement by a spring 38, the loop 32 in the retracted position engaging an abutment 46 on the sleeve 18.
Patent GB-463480-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to washing machines
IPC: D06F45/12
Filed: 1935-09-30
Abstract: 463,480. Washing-machines. BRITISH THOMSON-HOUSTON CO., Ltd., WILLIAMS, G. A., and MACKAY, K. M. Sept. 30, 1935, No. 26978. [Class 138 (ii)] A washing - machine unit comprises a tub 1 wherein an agitator is oscillated from a motor 5 through transmission gear contained in a casing 7. The tub, motor and gear casing form an integral structure which can be placed bodily within or removed from a cabinet 17, the tub being provided with a flange 3 which rests upon the tops of the walls of the cabinet. A table cover 10 may be placed over the whole. The control handles 15 for the washer and the pump 33 and drain tube 31 are also carried by the unit. A vertical drive shaft for a wringer 21 removably positioned along one side of the top of the tub is housed in a casing 23 carried by the unit, an aperture 25 being provided in the flange 3 to give access thereto. When the wringer is not in use it is housed in a cupboard 29 provided by the lower part of the cabinet. The upper end of the drain tube 31 projects into the tub, and when the tub is to be drained a length of tubing is connected thereto.
Patent GB-339314-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in oil fuel burners, and supply apparatus therefor
IPC: F23D11/00
Filed: 1929-09-05
Abstract: 339,314. Shell-Mex, Ltd., Lubbock, I., and Joyce, J. R. Sept. 5, 1929. Relief-valves.-A relief-valve 46 in the oil supply to a burner comprises a spring - pressed piston 50 tending to close the inlet 47 and a passage 56 for delivering any oil which leaks behind the piston to the outlet 48. The liner 49 is held in position by a spring 55.
Patent GB-225531-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in door hinges
IPC: E05D3/02
Filed: 1924-11-12
Abstract: 225,531. Salin (nÚe Levy), R. Nov. 30, 1923, [Convention date]. Barrel and cylindrical hinges.-In order to render the hinge silent when in use the hinge pin c engages a metal sleeve f faced with rubber or like elastic material g, as shown, the sleeve may be of any suitable alloy, such as bronze. The device is particularly applicable for hinges used in motor vehicles. Reference has been directed by the Comptroller to Specification 157,244.