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Patent GB-2471871-A (GB)
Title: Apparatus and method for a virtual dance floor
Inventor: MEAD JONATHAN SELWYN
IPC: A63F13/00
Filed: 2009-07-15
Abstract: A method of administering a virtual dance floor 1082 for an entertainment device 10, wherein the virtual dance floor is part of an online virtual environment that is operable to host a plurality of users each connecting to the online virtual environment using a respective entertainment device, and where each user is represented in the virtual environment by an avatar 1084-1090, and for each respective entertainment device, comprises the steps of receiving from an administrator of the online virtual environment an indicator of the music currently being played on the virtual dance floor, initiating playback of the music from a locally stored copy in response to a placement of the avatar of the respective user within the online virtual environment, detecting breakpoints in the currently played music, receiving from the administrator of the online virtual environment a music event signal, and in response to receiving the music event signal selecting the next detected breakpoint in the currently played music and substituting the currently played music at the selected breakpoint with a piece of music of a predetermined length that is substantially shorter than the currently played music it replaces.
Patent GB-2476640-A (GB)
Title: A seamless undergarment comprising an insert
Inventor: MCCRARREN COLLETTE
IPC: A41B9/04
Filed: 2009-11-23
Abstract: A seamless undergarment for ladies comprises an insert E to prevent bundling of outer clothing in the cleft of the crotch area. The insert may be formed from a material chosen to prevent visibility of the undergarment through outer clothing worn by a user, and may be curved to fit the area in which it is worn. The insert preferably comprises a moulded medical grade polymer such as ethylene vinyl acetate. Ventilation holes (B, figure 1) may be provided in the insert for breathability. The undergarment may be worn under tight fitting outer clothing such as jeans, leggings and sports clothing.
Patent GB-2476254-A (GB)
Title: An adjustment mechanism for a foot plate assembly
Inventor: TOWLE PHILIP MICHAEL
IPC: B63H16/02
Filed: 2009-12-17
Abstract: An adjustment mechanism 16 for a foot plate assembly (2, Fig 1) comprises a foot plate (4, Fig 1) mounted on a foot plate support (6, Fig 1), at least one adjustment channel 10 and engagement means (12, Fig 1), a first half of which is associated with the foot plate support and a second half of which is associated with the adjustment channel. The mechanism also comprises a releasable locking means moveable between a locked position in which the first and second halves of the engagement means are engaged, such that the foot plate support is fixed in position relative to the adjustment channel, and an open position in which the two halves of the engagement means can be spaced apart such that the foot plate support can be moved relative to the adjustment channel to adjust the position of the foot plate. A biasing means 26 is arranged to bias the first and second halves of the engagement means apart when the locking means is in the open position.
Patent GB-125985-A (GB)
Title: Concrete Buildings and Concrete Building Construction.
Inventor: ROSS HERBERT ERNEST
IPC: E04C2/04
Filed: 1919-04-22
Abstract: 125,985. Ross, H. E. March 13, 1918, [Convention date]. Concrete buildings, slab type.-One-storey slab buildings are formed of plain or reinforced concrete slabs of storey height and the skirtings, mouldings, and cornices are made integral with the slabs. The main slabs 23 are flat and those 58 for the corners and crossings are angled. The slabs are connected by bolts 45, 56 which are of the full length of the wall and are passed through holes 44, 45 lined with tubes. The bolts for end and transverse walls are just below the longitudinal bolts, four bolt holes being formed in each slab for use as required. The slabs are further joined by dowels 49 in sockets 48 on the edges, and the joints are grouted with cement or pitch poured into grooves 51. Examples of angle slabs are shown in Figs. 13 and 17; such slabs have equal sides to the angles. The roof plate is secured to the cornice 21 by means of bolts and sockets 48, Fig. 19, inserted in holes 22. Hinges 27, 41 are cast in the slabs for doors and casements. The bases 42 form seatings for the floor joists.
Patent GB-582130-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in electric frequency changing circuits
IPC: H03J7/32
Filed: 1941-09-08
Abstract: 582,130. Valve circuits for wireless reception. SCOLES, G. J., MILLER, C. W., and METROPOLITAN - VICKERS ELECTRICAL CO., Ltd. Sept. 8, 1941, No. 10142. [Class 40 (v)] In a frequency changer in which the tuned circuit of the local oscillator is associated with a reactor valve for varying its tuning, an amplifier valve, preferably having a flatly tuned anode circuit is interposed between the local oscillator and the input to the frequencychanging stage. The Figure shows oscillator and reactor valves 9, 1 associated with a tuned circuit 8 and an amplifier 11 which may be of the variable mu type and feeding via terminal 13 the grid of the mixer valve. The arrangement may constitute the reactor device in a " panoramic " radio receiver as described in Specification 582,125.
Patent GB-136750-A (GB)
Title: A New or Improved Method of Manufacturing Cyanides.
Inventor: MELLERSH-JACKSON WILLIAM JOHN
IPC: C01C3/00
Filed: 1919-04-23
Abstract: 136,750. Jackson, W. J. Mellersh-, (Air Reduction Co.). April 23, 1919. Alkali cyanides. - In the production of alkali cyanides from an alkali carbonate, carbon, iron, and nitrogen, the quantity of iron used is about 2-5 per cent of the weight of the charge, so as to avoid the production of ferrocyanide when the product is leached with an aqueous solvent, which may contain an organic solvent miscible with water, such as alcohol and acetone. The iron is used in the metallic form or as an oxide or other solid reducible compound; for example, an iron salt solution may be absorbed in carbon, a precipitant being then added to precipitate the iron compound in the pores of the carbon, which is then washed and dried. The apparatus described consists of rotary retorts 3 receiving nitrogen through a pipe 14 passing through a stuffing- box 15 in the lower end, the retorts being set in a furnace 1 heated by producer gas from a producer 18, which passes through a channel 19 and parts 20. Air enters at 31, Fig. 3, and passes through the channels 28 in baffles 25, 26, 27, and thence by a passage 32 to a channel 21, Fig. 2, entering the combustion chamber by ports 22. The products of combustion leave the combustion chamber by a channel 23, Fig. 3, and, after passing around the baffles 25, 26, 27 to heat the incoming air, pass to a flue 29 connected with the chimney. A hand-operated damper 30 regulates the draught.
Patent GB-539475-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to radio-bearing or position indicating systems
IPC: G01S19/37
Filed: 1939-12-01
Abstract: 539,475. Radio direction finding. SPERRY GYROSCOPE CO., Inc. Dec. 1, 1939, No. 10209/41. Convention date, Dec. 9, 1938. Divided out of 539,321. [Class 40 (v)] [Also in Group XXXVIII] A pointer, light beam &c. is jointly controlled by a compass and by a directional antenna automatically positioned in accordance with the direction of received waves so as to indicate the bearing of the sending station on a map irrespective of yawing movements of the craft carrying the apparatus. The joint control may be effected by a differential gear 30 controlling a selsyn transmitter and acted upon jointly by a compass 10 which may be a directional gyro as described in Specification 366,764, [Group XX], and by a self-setting antenna operating as described in Specification 523,953. Alternatively an electrical differential arrangement may be included in the selsyn transmission system. The latter arrangement is shown in a system identical with that described in Specification 539,321.
Patent GB-166345-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to tills or receivers for currency notes, bills, or sheets of paper and the like
IPC: G07D11/00
Filed: 1920-04-13
Abstract: 166,345. Shrimpton, R. A. J. April 13, 1920. Clamping-devices; boxes and cabinets.-A till or receiver for bank or Treasury notes, bills, or other sheets of paper or the like, comprises a spring-controlled platform 8 on which the note &c. is placed and held. in position by two arms 17 on crank shafts 16. A crank 18 on each shaft 16 is connected to one end of a spring 19 the other end of which is secured to the base of the till. One member 20 of a spring-controlled ratchet clutch is secured to the shaft 16, the other member 21 of the clutch being secured to a pulley 22 and disc 23 mounted on the shaft 16. A cord 28 secured to and wrapped round the pulley 22 is secured at its other end to a p:voted frame 29 below the platform 8. A cord 26 secured' to the disc 23 is secured at its other end to a spring 27 which is fastened to the base of the till. A parallel motion 10 ensures the vertical rise and fall of the platform 8. When a note &c. is placed on the platform, with its end overlapping the arms 17, and the platform is depressed the frame 29 is depressed by the platform and the pulley 22 is rotated by the cord 28. The crank 16 is thereby rotated by the clutch 21, 20. When the crank is thus rotated beyond its dead centre, its rotation is completed by the spring 28, the arms 17 thereby smoothing out the ends of the note &c., and coming to rest in their lowermost position over the note, the pulley 22 being returned to its normal position by the spring 27. On the release of the platform, the note is held against the arms 17. Instead of one arm 17, each shaft may have two or more arms, a corresponding amount of rotation being imparted to the shaft by each depression of the platform, which may also actuate a mechanism for counting or recording the number of notes &c. placed on the platform.
Patent GB-137454-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to sewing machines
IPC: D05B27/02
Filed: 1919-04-24
Abstract: 137,454. Flanagan, J. A. April 24, 1919. Sewing-machines; feed by dogs.-The feed-dog f is slidingly mounted in a radial slot d<3> in a lever d. The lever is oscillated to give the feeding movement, and the feed-dog is' raised and lowered in the slot by a cam e. The shaft a carrying the lever d is tubular and is concentric with the shaft c carrying the cam. The latter shaft also carries the shuttle g. Work-supports; frames.-The work-supporting arm is tubular and has a bulbous extremity h surrounding the shuttle and feed-motions. Additional flat-work supporting plates i are provided for use with flat work
Patent GB-978319-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to regenerated cellulose filaments
Inventor: SLOAN FREDERICK RICHARD WILFRE
IPC: D06M15/39
Filed: 1960-03-23
Abstract: Threads or yarns of regenerated cellulose filaments, which exhibit a high abrasion resistance, strength, resiliency, stability against shrinkage and a soft handle when incorporated into fabrics including pile fabrics such as carpets, are obtained by impregnating a continuous regenerated cellulose filament tow with a chemical cross-linking agent alone or together with an extra-fibre polymer, such as polyvinyl alcohol, hydroxyl-containing cellulose derivatives, unsaturated polyester or acrylic resins and vinyl acetate-vinyl stearate copolymers, drying the tow while maintaining the filaments in continuous relative movement as, for example, by treatment in a hot flue drier or loop drier, and finally converting the tow into thread or yarn.  If the heat applied during drying is insufficient for curing of the impregnants, further heat may be subsequently applied, if desired after the yarns have been woven into fabrics when a mechanical effect may also be applied.  Impregnation is preferably effected in the presence of an acid catalyst such as a triethylene glycol citric acid polyester.  The yarns may also be crimped before curing, and if desired the crimp may be subsequently removed, the crimp serving to reduce the tendency of the filaments to become welded together.  A suitable cross-linking agent is dimethylol ethylene urea.  A washing step may be applied after curing and a water-repellant may be applied before drying.  Specification 978,320 is referred to.
Patent GB-231336-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to rotary "grate" screens for x-ray photography
IPC: G21K1/02
Filed: 1924-04-26
Abstract: 231,336. Siemens & Halske Akt.-Ges., Janus, F., Eichler, F., and Bohm, H. April 26, 1924. R÷ntgen-ray and like apparatus.-A rotatable grate screen for shutting out secondary rays in X-ray photography is constituted by strips of material impermeable to X-rays and strips of material permeable to them, alternately arranged to form a flat disc. The screen disc 1 which as shown in Fig. 1 is supported at the circumference on three rollers 2 and is rotated by means of a cord 4 and crank 6 is built up of sectors 7 each comprising a large number of alternately arranged strips of e.g. lead-foil and celluloid, either glued or cemented together or secured to a bedplate of a material permeable to X-rays and provided at its edge with a groove for the driving cord. The strips may be so arranged that the central strip of each sector is exactly radial or the strips may form chords or be parallel to an edge of the sector. They may be arranged at right angles to the plane of the disc or in planes passing through the focus of the X-ray tube. As shown in Fig. 7 a metal spindle 15 passing through the screen centre is supported by guide bushes 16, the ends being provided with balls 17 to reduce bearing friction in the axial direction. The bushes are inserted in plates, 18 of material, such as pressed impregnated cardboard, permeable to X-rays, the plates being secured at both sides to a frame 19. A sleeve 21, provided with a steel band loop 23 rubber-covered on its outer side, is movably arranged on a guide rod 22, and when a handle 20 secured to the sleeve is quickly moved in the direction shown, the loop is forced in by the disc which is caused to rotate. A pin 24 at each end position of the loop retains it in that position to prevent its acting as a brake. In a modified form, movement is imparted to the screen disc by means of a friction wheel which is rapidly rotated through the agency of a train of gears and a rack, means being provided for releasing the friction wheel from the screen disc to allow the disc to continue rotating.
Patent GB-906872-A (GB)
Title: An improved alarm clock radio
Inventor: MAIRE AURELE
IPC: G04C21/28
Filed: 1959-03-25
Abstract: 906,872. Clocks. MANUFACTURE D'HORLOGERIE FREY & CO. S.A. March 25, 1959, No. 10394/59. Class 139. [Also in Group XL (c)] An alarm clock radio comprises, in combination, a clock 1, Fig. 4, an alarm unit and a radio unit. The alarm unit includes a control switch 2, operated at a pre-set time to start an electronic oscillator 7 connected to an amplifier 69 to which is also connected a radio receiver 60, 61. The output of the amplifier 69 includes a loudspeaker 16. The oscillator may include a multivibrator which by actuation of a switch can be operated to provide a discontinuous signal to the amplifier which is provided with a volume control potentiometer. A six push-button switch arrangement is provided so that the radio can be operated on medium or long wave bands, the oscillator can be operated at either of two frequencies and the oscillator and/or the radio can be switched on by the alarm unit. One of the push-buttons, when depressed, switches off the oscillator and the radio.
Patent GB-1182526-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Cross-Linked Polymers and the Process for their Preparation
Inventor: BRESLOW DAVID SAMUEL
IPC: C08G63/685
Filed: 1968-03-04
Abstract: 1,182,526. Cross-linking polymers with sydnones. HERCULES Inc. 4 March, 1968, No. 10467/68. Headings C3P and C3R. Polymers are cross-linked with a polyfunctional sydnone having the formula wherein R is a polyvalent hydrocarbon radical, R<SP>1</SP> and R<SP>11</SP> are H, alkyl, cycloalkyl, aryl, alkaryl or aralkyl and R<SP>1</SP> may additionally be halogen, and x is 2 or more. Polymers which may be cross-linked are those containing unsaturation, including addition and condensation polymers, as well as epihalohydrin polymers and copolymers with alkylene oxides. Among the unsaturated type are polybutadienes, styrene- and acrylonitrile-butadiene copolymers, butyl rubber, natural rubber, maleate-containing polyesters, ethylene-propylene-diene terpolymers, polychloroprene, polyisoprene, tall oil alkyds and copolymers of allyl glycidyl ether with propylene oxide and with ethylene oxide/ epichlorhydrin. Elevated temperatures, e.g. 100‹ to 300‹ C., are necessary. The sydnone may be mixed with the polymer by milling or by addition to a solution of the polymer.
Patent GB-247038-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in methods of working upon surfaces of ebonite and other vulcanized rubber articles
IPC: B29C37/00
Filed: 1925-04-22
Abstract: 247,038. Namiki, R. April 22, 1925. Ornamenting.-A hard skin is formed on the surfaces of articles such as fountain-pen barrels or electric insulation formed of ebonite or other vulcanized-rubber compositions by forcing Japanese lacquer prepared from the juice of the "Rhus vernicifera " into the skin portion of the material. The vulcanized-rubber composition may have added to it a small quantity of Japanese lacquer and ferrous sulphide. Figured surfaces may be obtained by impressing a pattern on the vulcanite, then filling the impression with Japanese lacquer, and heating to 70‹ C. or 80‹ C., when the pressed-in parts recover their initial positions, causing the pattern to appear in relief.
Patent GB-610440-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to the production of preferred crystal orientation in thin gauge silicon steel
IPC: C21D8/12
Filed: 1946-04-05
Abstract: In a method of production of thin gauge silicon steel, silicon strip is cold rolled, annealed at about 925 DEG C. in hydrogen, cold rolled a second time, annealed at about 800 DEG C. in water vapour and again in hydrogen at about 925 DEG C., cold rolled a third time and finally annealed in hydrogen at about 1175 DEG C.  Hot rolled bands of the steel about 0.1 inch thick are cleaned and cold rolled to about 0.016 to 0.064 inch thick, normalized in a hydrogen atmosphere at about 925 DEG C., cold reduced to about 0.004 to 0.016 inch thick, normalized at about 800 DEG C. in a decarbonizing atmosphere of air, cracked hydrocarbons, nitrogen or hydrogen, saturated with water vapour, pickled if desired, renormalized at about 925 DEG C. in hydrogen, cold rolled to the final gauge of 0.001 to 0.004 inch, and after coating with an inorganic separator insulator, annealed at about 1175 DEG C. in pure dry hydrogen.  The silicon steel strip used preferably contains 3.5 per cent silicon, 0.03 per cent or less carbon, 0.08 per cent or less manganese and 0.02 per cent sulphur.  It is stated that the final and intermediate cold reduction steps in the process are quite critical and for best results should not vary by more than 10 per cent of the preferred values given.  The final anneal is carried out at 1175 DEG C. as being the highest temperature for good commercial annealing, but higher temperatures could be used.  The Specification as open to inspection under Sect. 91 comprises also a process whereby a strip of 0.001 inch final gauge is produced by a method as above, but with a fourth additional cold roll, the cold rolls being to gauges of 0.064, 0.016, 0.004 and 0.001 inch respectively, and an additional normalizing at 925 DEG C. in hydrogen between the third and fourth cold roll steps.  This subject-matter does not appear in the Specification as accepted.
Patent GB-757819-A (GB)
Title: Moulding compositions and the production of mouldings therefrom
IPC: A61K6/083
Filed: 1954-04-09
Abstract: A moulding composition comprises a finely divided polymeric compound admixed with a partially polymerized compound or a monomer, and a particulate activator substance giving off oxygen and/or a reducing agent coated with a natural or synthetic resin or film-forming substance which is soluble in organic solvents, and which coating breaks up when in contact with the partial polymer or monomer.  The coatings may be of chlorinated rubber, cellulose ethers or esters, copals, or polymers of methyl methacrylate, or styrene.  The activator may be benzoyl peroxide, sulphinic acids such as benzene-, toluene- and naphthalene sulphinic acids, aldehyde addition products of sulphinic acid or the salts of the sulphinic acids described in Specification 753,597, e.g. the morpholine salt of p-toluene sulphinic acid. The finely divided polymeric compound may be a copolymer of methyl methacrylate and methyl acrylate.  Monomers mentioned are methyl methacrylate, methacrylic acid, and mixtures. The compositions may be used in dentistry.
Patent GB-297367-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in safety inhalators
IPC: A61M11/04
Filed: 1927-04-20
Abstract: 297,367. Schuler, J. April 20, 1927.. Boiling rings.-An electric heating element C for the boiler A of an inhaling device is embedded in heavy insulation D and is carried on a bracket C' within a bowl B.
Patent GB-309150-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in gyroscopic apparatus for defining a vertical reference plane on a moving vehicle
IPC: G01C19/38
Filed: 1929-04-05
Abstract: 309,150. Sperry Development Co., (Assignees of Carter, L. F.). April 5, 1928, [Comvention date]. Gyroscopic apparatus.-Apparatus for use on a moving vehicle for defining a base line or reference plane and therefore available for indicating angular movements of the vehicle about a selected axis consists of a gyroscope G rotating about a horizontal axis 10 and suspended by wires within a frame F supported on horizontal pivots 13 in a frame 12 which is supported on horizontal pivots 15, at right-angles to the pivots 13, in a frame B secured to the vehicle. To centralize the) gyroscope within the frame F a bracket 16 on the gyrocasing is provided with a trolley T cooperating with contacts 20 - - 21<1>, Figs. 4 and 7, controlling the circuits of solenoids S, S<1> adapted to exert torques about the axis 13 and thus to cause the gyroscope to precess about the vertical axis into the plane of the frame F. When the trolley T is on one of the contacts 20, 20<1>, which are insulated from the contacts 21, 21<1>, a resistance R or R<1> is inserted in the circuit of the corresponding solenoid, and when the trolley reaches the contact 21 or 21<1> the resistance is cut out bv a relay L. With this arrangement the torques exerted bv the solenoids are diminished when the gyroscope is near its centralized position with respect to the frame F. To maintain the frame vertical, a pendulum P mounted on the axis 13 is provided with a trolley T<1> co-operating with contacts 27, 28 carried by the frame.F to control the circuits of solenoids M, M<1> adapted to exert torques about the vertical axis and thus to precess the gyroscope about the axis 13. When the vehicle turns in azimuth the pendulum P indicates a false vertical, and to prevent the solenoids from operating during such turning an insulated contact 30, Fig. 7, is provided centrally between the contacts 20, 20<1>, this contact and the trolley T being in the circuit of the trolley T'. The pivots 15 permit the frame 12 to remain horizontal when the vehicle tilts about an axis at right-angles to the axis 13. The frame F engages a frame 61 pivoted to the frame B about an axis normally coincident with the axis 13 and provided with a run-way 60 permitting it to tilt relatively to the frame F about the axis 15. Assuming the axis 13 to be in the fore-and-aft direction of the vehicle, a pen &c. P<1> connected by the linkage shown in Fig. 2 to the frame 61 will record the lateral tilting of the vehicle.