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Patent GB-323114-A (GB)
Title: Process and apparatus for applying a coat of paint to profile bars
IPC: B05C3/12
Filed: 1928-12-28
Abstract: 323,114. Vereinigte Stahlwerke Akt.-Ges., and Zimmer, N. Dec. 28, 1928. Coating and damping machines; coating and damping appliances, hand, - Profile bars are passed through small troughs 2 containing paint. The bars are moved transversely through openings 6, 7 in the trough walls 3, 4 which correspond with the sections of the bar. The openings have flexible edges 11 - - 14 with lips 15 secured by thrust plates 8, 9 and screws 10 which automatically close the apertures, engage the bars, and spread the paint. The bars may be moved longitudinally, or in an inclined manner through a single opening. The bars may be placed in the path of a train of rolls and mechanically moved in succession through the troughs. The openings may be closed by a wooden model of the bar when the troughs are not in use. Funnels 18, 19 shaped like the bars facilitate their passage. Elastic, steel plates 20 assist the flexible lips 15. Excess paint passes by gutters 21 to a tank 23. In the arrangement shown in Fig. 3, unpainted bars are arranged on a grating 26, and painted ones pass to a grating 27. The bars pass along rollers 24, and by means of adjustable rollers 29 driven by a motor 31 through wheel gearing, are fed through the trough 25. The openings may be adjusted to suit different bars, and the flexible parts, e.g. of chrome leather, may be held by guides and springs secured by clamping screws. In painting articles with holes, additional, spaced, outside wipers may be arranged on the troughs which may be divided into parts containing different coloured paints.
Patent GB-1013845-A (GB)
Title: Catalytic conversion process for the production of low freezing point fuels
Inventor: KOZLOWSKI ROBERT HARRY
IPC: C10G47/00
Filed: 1963-09-30
Abstract: A nitrogen-containing hydrocarbon distillate feed stock boiling over a range of 50 DEG  F. and having a 5% boiling point above 475 DEG  F. is treated to yield a fuel boiling above the gasoline range by hydrofining to reduce the nitrogen content below 10 p.p.m., contacting with at least 1500 S.C.F.B. of hydrogen in a hydrocracking zone at 350-700 DEG  F. with a hydrogen partial pressure of at least 350 p.s.i.a., a catalyst of a nickel or cobalt compound on a solid, active, acidic support, a L.H.S.V. of above 0.2 v./v./hr. and with a net hydrogen consumption to obtain a 30 volume per cent per-pass conversion to products boiling below the initial boiling point of the distillate, and recovering from the effluent from the hydrocracking zone a fraction having an end point below 525 DEG  F and boiling between 360 DEG  F. and the 5% point of the feed, said fraction having an initial freezing point below -40 DEG  F. and being free from normal paraffins.  The catalyst support may be silica/alumina, silica / magnesia, silica / alumina / zirconia, acid treated clays and zeolites.
Patent GB-901247-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in doors, movable walls and similar closing means, of "accordion" type
Inventor: BUSNARDO FERNANDO
IPC: E06B3/48
Filed: 1959-11-13
Abstract: 901,247. Gates. AR-PLAST S.a.r.l. Nov. 13, 1959, No. 38550/59. Class 45. A foldable closure comprises a plurality of vertical elements 11 coupled along their vertical edges 20 by folding member 13, and a pantograph "lazy tongs" system 16, said vertical elements each having its own pivot 26 coupling said elements to and acting as a pivot e.g. 17 in the "tongs" systems. The pivots 26 are suspended from trolleys 25 running in a channel 24. In a modification the vertical elements may have their vertical edges hinged and/or the pivot 26 may be one of the edge pivots 18 in the tongs so that the parts 26 are all on one side of the pivots 17. The elements 11 and 13 may be plastic e.g. poly-vinyl-chloride.
Patent GB-829027-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and apparatus for the preliminary treatment of tea leaf
IPC: A23F3/12
Filed: 1956-12-19
Abstract: 829,027. Tea manufacture. SAYAMA TEA ESTATES Ltd., and WORTHINGTON, W. R. Dec. 18, 1957 [Dec. 19, 1956], No. 38654/56. Addition to 668,013. Class 129. [Also in Group XXX] A preliminary treatment of tea leaf is carried out by conveying a resilient layer of the leaf between two travelling bands with substantially non-resilient surfaces and, at the same time, subjecting it to a series of nipping operations. As shown, conveyers 1 and 2 comprise respectively conveyer bands 3, 6, e.g. of leather, cotton, hair, steel, or other non-resilient material on pulleys 4, 5 and 7, 8 keyed, respectively, on horizontal shafts 9, 10, 11, 12 rotatably mounted in bearings 14 in frame 13. Pulley 7 is driven in the direction of arrow B from a shaft 16 rotatably mounted in frame 13. A stepped pulley 18 keyed to shaft 16 drives, through a belt 20, a stepped pulley 19 which through gearing drives shaft 11, from which the drive is transmitted through further gearing to shaft 10 of pulley 5. Pulleys 4 and 8 are idler pulleys. Chain conveyer 27 is mounted between the upper and lower flights of conveyer 1 and comprises a pair of sprocket wheels 28 keyed in spaced relationship on driving-shaft 16, a pair of sprocket wheels 29 keyed in spaced relationship on the shaft 30 and chains 31 mounted on the sprockets. Supported between chains 31 all along their length are a plurality of rotatable rollers 33 with axes substantially horizontal and parallel to shafts 16 and 30. A slat conveyer 34 mounted between the upper and lower flights of conveyer 2 comprises a pair of sprocket wheels 37 keyed in spaced relationship on a shaft 36 and a pair of chains 39 mounted on the sprockets. Shafts 36, 38 are mounted in bearings 40 in frame 13 and shaft 36 is driven by a chain-and-sprocket drive from shaft 11. Chains 39 travel at substantially the same speed as conveyer band 6 and support between them throughout their length a plurality of slats or backing-plates 44. Tea leaf is fed continuously into a hopper 45 and falls on to band 6 which carries it in direction F under a rotating spreader 46 driven from conveyer 34. The spread tea leaf is carried between conveyers 27, 34. Scrapers 55, 56 remove any tea leaf which adheres to bands 3 and 6. The vertical separation between conveyers 27, 34 may be adjustable. In modifications, conveyer 34 may be replaced by a stationary table and conveyer 27 may be replaced by a reciprocating frame containing rollers.
Patent GB-387119-A (GB)
Abstract: 387,119. Accordion's. LUTTBEG, M. B., 2909, South Jefferson Avenue, St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.A. Jan. 26, 1932, No. 2408. Convention date, Jan. 26, 1931. [Class 88 (ii).] Relates to an accordion having treble and bass piano-like chromatic keyboards each key playing a single note, though some of the bass notes may also be provided with octave reeds. Fig. 2 shows the bass keyboard, which is of a width substantially equal to the span of a human hand. The chromatic series of keys from E1 through middle C to A sounds single notes. The keys from C1 to A are arranged as the black.and white notes of a piano keyboard. The keys E2 to B2 including F2#' G2#, A2# are arranged as shown and may be distinctively coloured. Keys from E2 to D1# sound notes combined with notes an octave lower. The key-levers 47 of the notes G2 C1#, D1# and A2# are arranged in a set separate from and at an angle to the key-levers 31 of the other notes. The keys 41, Fig. 4, pivoted at 33 in slots 29 in a board 27 actuate the valves 61 bv guided rods 51 and bell-crank levers 65. The lower components of the doubled notes are produced by inverted reeds 80 weighted at 97. Baffles 99, 101 are provided in the chambers 55 of the doubled notes to shield the reeds 80 of the lower components from the reeds 89 of the upper components and to form longer air columns. A pair of reeds, for pressure and suction, is provided for each note, each reed having a corresponding closing-piece 87.
Patent GB-1077010-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to automatic servo actuators
Inventor: MIDGLEY PETER JOHN
IPC: F15B9/08
Filed: 1963-10-03
Abstract: 1,077,010. Fluid-pressure servomotor systems. BRITISH AIRCRAFT CORPORATION (OPERATING) Ltd. Oct. 5, 1964 [Oct. 3, 1963], No. 39081/63. Heading G3P. A gyro controlled servo-actuator for autostabilization of ground-effect vehicles or aircraft comprises an air-driven gyroscope (1) having a gimbal mounting (2) whose shaft (6) extends into a housing 3 and supports the inner end of a spiral spring 7, the outer end of the latter carrying a valve head 8 which controls the efflux of oil from a passage 10 in a piston 11. An arm 27 of shaft (6) carries a dashpot piston 18 and is loaded by a spring 19. The head 8 carries a dashpot piston 15 working in a cylinder 16 carried by piston 11. The pre-loading of spring 19 causes the actuator to adopt a normal mid-stroke position. When the gyroscope precesses in the direction causing an increased force on head 8, the latter moves towards the piston 11 to cause the pressure in chamber 30 and passage 10 to increase until the increased force of the efflux from passage 10 balances the increased force on head 8. Piston 11 moves upwardly, with the head 8 remaining at a constant distance therefrom, until the force in a spring 14 balances the increased pressure in chamber 30. If the precession causes a decreased force on head 8, the latter is moved away from the piston by the efflux and the piston moves downwardly, the head again following this movement, until the reduced force in spring 14 balances the lowered pressure in chamber 30. In either case, spring 7 applies a restoring force to the gyroscope to prevent substantial displacements of the latter from its starting position. The piston 11 controls the valve of a power control. In the alternative embodiment of Fig. 4 (not shown), spring 14 is replaced by a spiral spring (207a) fixed at its inner end and carrying a further valve head (208a) which co-operates with a passage (210a) in piston (211) leading to a chamber (222a) above piston 211 supplied via restriction (234a). The piston moves until the pressure in chamber (222) is balanced by the pressure in chamber (222a). In Fig. 5 (not shown), spiral spring 7 is replaced by helical spring (326) and an integrating piston (336) is provided, chamber (328) of the latter being connected to working chamber (330) of piston (311) by capillary tubing 339 whilst chamber (329) is maintained at a constant pressure the value of which is determined by the manually adjustable load on a relief valve 337. Pistons (311), (336) are connected by floating lever (331). In Fig. 6 (not shown), head (438) co-operates with a fixed orifice (439) and is connected to differential piston (443, 444) by helical spring (446). The smaller area of the piston is exposed to a constant pressure and the larger area is exposed to the back pressure of orifice (439). No spring such as 14 is required. In Fig. 7 (not shown), the actuator of Fig. 6 is combined with an integrating piston (450) and springs (447a, 447b) are provided to oppose movement of piston (443, 444).
Patent GB-1092836-A (GB)
Title: Process for producing quick-cooking rice
Inventor: TONSETH ERNST IVAR
IPC: A23L7/196
Filed: 1965-09-14
Abstract: A process for producing a quickly cooked rice product comprises heating hulled, polished, conditioned rice grains in a dry atmosphere to 140 DEG C., maintaining the grains at 140-225 DEG C. for 1-10 minutes, and then cooling the grains to produce cracks in the grains. The rice grains have a high content of amylose when the product is to be cooked in water.  When the product is to be cooked in milk, the rice grains have a low amylose content and after having been treated as described above, they are coated with gelatinised rice starch.
Patent GB-342474-A (GB)
Title: Process for the production of superior wood and marble imitations on inferior surfaces
IPC: B44F9/02
Filed: 1929-12-23
Abstract: 342,474. Ornamenting. HœSERICH, F., 12, Gartenstrasse, Elberfeld, Germany. Dec. 23, 1929, No. 39262. Convention date, Jan. 17. [Class 93.] Imitations of superior wood or marble are produced on surfaces of wood, metal, or other material, by applying thin paper foil printed first with the ground colour and then with the grain of the wood &c. and provided on both the back and the front surfaces with a coating of oil lacquer, cellulose ester lacquer, or the like. The surface to be treated may be coloured in the ground tone of the wood &c. to be imitated. In an example, a piece of printed foil is cut off from a continuous strip, the surface to be treated, after polishing, if necessary, is coated with an oil lacquer diluted with turpentine, and, while the coating is sticky, the foil is moistened with a mixture of water and spirit and is applied. The foil may be affixed by its front surface under a glass plate, which is used as a cover for washing- apparatus, wall coverings, &c.
Patent GB-872382-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to the coiling of strip
IPC: B21C47/06
Filed: 1959-11-19
Abstract: 872,382. Winding and reeling. UNITED ENGINEERING & FOUNDRY CO. Nov. 19, 1959, No. 39266/59. Class 83 (4). A method of coiling continuous metal strip upon a rotating reel includes the step of bending at least the leading end of the strip, immediately prior to arrival at the reel, beyond its elastic limit concavely with respect to the reel. Metal strip from a rolling mill is guided by rollers 104, 105 and retractable guides 15, 16 to bending rollers 72, 73, 74, which curve the leading end of the strip, and then on to a rotated reel 11, an endless belt 39 assisting in the coiling of the first few turns.. The belt 39 is supported in a carriage 10 on rollers 23, 24, 25, on a roller 32 on an arm 28 pivoted at 18, on a roller 35 on an arm 37 pivoted at 38 and urged by adjustable spring means 47 to keep the belt taut, and on the bending rollers 73, 74. The belt 39 is driven by contact with the reel 11 and in turn rotates the rollers 73, 74. Prior to winding the strip the carriage 10 is moved, by piston and cylinder means 63, from an inoperative. position to the reel 11, an arm 56 pivoted on the carriage 10 being rocked by engagement with a dog 61 to pull a rod 52, 52a and swing the arm 28 upwardly so that the belt 39 encircles a large part of the reel 11. The bending rollers 73, 74 are rotatable in a cradle 77 movable about a shaft 84 mounted on eccentrics 83 in the cradle 10, turning of the shaft 84 adjusting the position of the rolls 73, 74. Movement of the rollers 72 and the pull of the belt 39 cause the cradle 77 to rock about the shaft 84 until it strikes an adjustable stop 93 so that the rollers 73, 74 are in position to effect the desired bending. The carriage 10 is retracted after the first few turns have been wound. In a modification, Fig. 6 (not shown), the top two bending rollers are driven by a separate motor instead of by the wrapping belt.
Patent GB-1422641-A (GB)
Title: Retarding rubber vulcanization
IPC: C08K5/00
Filed: 1972-08-23
Abstract: 1422641 Retarding vulcanization MALAYSIAN RUBBER PRODUCERS RESEARCH ASSOCIATION 23 Aug 1973 [23 Aug 1972] 39354/72 Heading C3E Rubber compositions comprising a sulphur vulcanizing agent and a thiazole accelerator contain as inhibitor of premature vulcanization a cyclohexa-2,5-diene derivative of formula wherein X is O or NR<SP>1</SP> and R and R<SP>1</SP>, which may be the same or different, are inert groups. The natural rubber, cis-polyisoprene and SBR formulations vulcanized in the examples contain a retarder selected from N-phenyl-4-iminocyclohexa - 2,5 - diene - 1 - one; N - (1,3 - dimethylbutyl) - 4 - iminocyclohexa - 2,5 - dien - 1 - one; N - isopropyl(cyclohexyl, 1 - methylheptyl or 1,3 - dimethylbutyl) - N<SP>1</SP> - phenylcyclohexa- 2,5 - diene - 1,4 - diimine; and N,N<SP>1</SP> - diphenyl [or di - (1 - ethyl - 3 - methylpentyl)]cyclohexa- 2,5-diene - 1 4-diimine. Mixtures of the retardant with an antiozonant, e.g. N,N<SP>1</SP>-dicyclohexyl-p. phenylenediamine are used in some cases.
Patent GB-815555-A (GB)
Title: Gas shielded arc welding
IPC: B23K9/16
Filed: 1956-12-27
Abstract: 815,555. Welding by fusion. UNION CARBIDE CORPORATION. Dec. 27, 1956 [Jan. 16, 1956], No. 39359/56. Drawings to Specification. Class 83 (4). In welding the seam of tubing formed from stainless steel or stainless non-ferrous alloy, e.g. chrome-nickel or copper-nickel, strip up to <SP>3</SP>/ 16  inch thick using a gas shielded arc welding head, the shielding gas used is hydrogen or a mixture of an inert monoatomic gas and more than 10 per cent hydrogen, and a gap is left between the tube edges under the welding head, the fused edges being subsequently brought together before solidifying. The gap facilitates the escape of water vapour produced by oxidation of the hydrogen and is closed by rollers. Examples of welding with hydrogen or mixtures of hydrogen with helium or argon are described. Tungsten or water-cooled electrodes may be used.
Patent GB-885925-A (GB)
Title: Independent pneumatic suspension for motor vehicles
IPC: B60G15/08
Filed: 1958-12-08
Abstract: 885,925. Pneumatic springs; spring suspensions. SOC. APPLICAZIONI GOMMA ANTIVIBRANTI S.p.A. Dec. 8, 1958 [April 19, 1958], No. 39483/58. Classes 108(2) and 108(3). In an independent suspension system a spring 30, Fig. 1, acts between a lower link 15 and a frame member 10. The spring 30 comprises a metal helical spring 31, embedded in a helically undulated rubber casing 32. Annular beads 33, 34, Fig. 2, are formed at each end of the casing 32. The metal spring 31 is doubled at its ends. The beads have ribs on their end faces and their side faces which form seals with members 11a, 23b. A conventionally hydraulic shock absorber is mounted concentrically with the spring 30. An eye 27 connects the cylinder of the shock absorber to a pin 24, whilst the piston is attached by a rubber bushing 27 to the member 11b which is attached to the frame member 10 of the vehicle. A neck portion 38 of the spring 30 is clamped to a sheath 26a of the shock absorber by a collar 39. A nipple 40 is provided for pressurizing the inside of the spring. Specification 734,549 is referred to.
Patent GB-1368100-A (GB)
Title: Heat transfer device
IPC: F28F5/02
Filed: 1971-08-24
Abstract: 1368100 Heat transfer devices XEROX CORP 24 Aug 1971 [31 Aug 1970] 39618/71 Heading F4U [Also in Division F2] A heat pipe 11 comprises a hollow cylindrical drum 12 mounted on a hollow supporting shaft 13, the space within the drum defining an evacuated gas tight chamber having an electrical heating coil 19 therein and a porous wick structure 15 saturated with a volatile liquid which extends from the vicinity of the coil 19 to the inner side walls of the drum. The wick structure comprises an inner cylindrical section 16 forming a sleeve about the shaft 13, a cylindrical section 17 forming a liner about the inner side walls and radial rib sections 18 connecting the inner and outer sections. The heater 19 is wound about the section 16 and connected by leads 21, 22 to slip rings 23, 24. The drum may be of aluminium with a wick structure of aluminium mesh and water as the working fluid. The drum could be used as the heat fusing roller of a xerographic copier. Reference has been directed by the Comptroller to Specification 1,337,072.
Patent GB-1346804-A (GB)
Title: Arrangement in load yokes for cranes
IPC: B66C1/10
Filed: 1971-08-24
Abstract: 1346804 Self-levelling load spreaders AB HAGGLUND & SONER 24 Aug 1971 [27 Aug 1970] 39715/71 Heading B8H A load yoke 2 suspended from a load line 1 is provided with a sensor 10 sensing deviations of the yoke 2 from the horizontal both in the longitudinal and transverse directions. The sensor 10 gives signals for displacement of movable units 8, 9 of displacement member 7 to bring the load yoke 2 horizontal.
Patent GB-865734-A (GB)
Title: Christmas tree balls and hollow decorative or packing articles made of plastic material
IPC: B29C48/10
Filed: 1958-12-10
Abstract: 865,734. Ornaments. SCHMIDT, M. Dec. 10, 1958 [Aug. 4, 1958], No. 39864/58. Class 93. A Christmas tree ball or other hollow ornamental decoration or a packing article (e.g. an animal figure to be filled with confectionery) is made of two complementary shaped portions of thermoplastic synthetic material each formed from a sheet by the vacuum drawing process and cut out of the sheet to leave a marginal edge, which edges abut and project outwardly when the two portions are brought together. The portions may be subsequently connected together by high-frequency welding or remain joined by a flexible hinge. The sheets may be previously metallized by evaporation technique but are preferably metallized after vacuum drawing, the edges to be welded being left unmetallized. The finished balls may be sprayed with paint and/ or artificial snow. Where the two parts are joined by a flexible hinge, they may be turned together and held by a band or other means. One or both of the half portions may be shaped with a recess or with undulations or other decorative forms. As shown in Fig. 2, after welding together of the two half portions the superfluous material of the sheets is stamped off to provide an ornamental weld edge 4 with a fixing projection 5.
Patent GB-1202905-A (GB)
Title: A process for the production of relief ornamented plastics sheets
Inventor: ANDRE MARC ANTON
IPC: B44C5/04
Filed: 1967-08-31
Abstract: 1,202,905. Embossing. DEKORPLATTENWERK HIRSCHHORN ANDRE & GERNANDT. 31 Aug., 1967, No. 39888/67. Heading B6J. Sheets of fibre plastics materials are embossed by a die manufactured from a laminated sheet, softened by heating, of a fibrous material and a curable but non-hardened synthetic resin. According to the invention a negative impression is taken from the original using a multi-layer material consisting of layers of paper impregnated with a curable but uncured resin, 5 to 6 layers normally being sufficient for preparing the laminate. The original is then pressed under heat into the resin-impregnated laminate which has been softened by heating. Separating layers, of a kind known per se, e.g. separating paper or metal foil or powered material, may be interposed between the original and the resinimpregnated laminate. The duration and intensity of heating are adjusted in such a way that, after the laminate has been formed, the resin hardens. The original is then separated from the matrix thus produced. The matrix is surprisingly firm, to such an extent that a large number of positive impressions can be produced on suitable laminates, e.g. of layers of paper impregnated with a curable synthetic resin. These impressions are also made under the influence of heat, so that the sheet material to be decorated softens to an adequate extent, is provided with the relief pattern, and then hardened.