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Patent GB-218684-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in mud-catchers or splash-aprons for wheels of motor-vehicles
IPC: B62D25/18
Filed: 1924-07-07
Abstract: 218,684. Massin, G. E. July 6, 1923, [Convention date]. Lateral-splash guards. - A rod supporting a splash guard for a steering wheel is in the ver. tical axis of the steering axle, and is turned by a connection to the steering rod so as to keep the splash guard parallel to the wheel. This rod 5 is supported in a sleeve 4 held by a bracket 3 attached to the chassis and is vertically located therein by a ring 6 fixed to the rod by a set screw 49. The rod is turned by a rod 8 adjustably and pivotally held in a slot in the end, a bracket 12 clamped to the steering rod adjustably and pivotally holding the other end of the rod 8. The guard 34 is vertically adjustable (1) by sliding bracket 28, supporting member 29, on member 24 held by a set screw in a hole in the rod 5, (2) by sliding bolt 31 in a slot in the member 29 and retaining it by one arm of a hook passed through transverse holes in the member 29, (3) by placing bolt 31 in different holes in a member 32. The member 32 to which the guard is riveted can swing on the bolt 31 and is retained vertically by a spring- pressed bolt on the member 29 engaging a vertical groove in the member 32. The bolt 31 can rise in its slot on the guard receiving a shock and is provided with a Grover washer and thumb nut 33. In a modification the rod 5 may pass through the vehicle mudguard and support a horizontal tube containing a spring tending to draw inwards a rod projecting from the tube and carrying the member 29. This rod is retained in position against the spring by a rod fixed to it, extending downwardly through a slot in the tube and having a fork on its end passed under a guide fixed to the vehicle mudguard. In a further modification, a slightly yielding rod connects this rod to the rod 5.
Patent GB-380070-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to picture or like frames
IPC: A47G1/08
Filed: 1931-06-04
Abstract: 380,070. Picture frames. GOTTSCHICK, M., 3, Domplatz, Halle, Saale, Germany. June 4, 1931, No. 1.6396. [Class 11.] An adjustable frame for pictures, plaques, &c. consists of corner-pieces and cross-pieces a, b, Fig. 3, of channel or like section and having open inner sides, the corner-pieces being provided with locking means such as screws i for engaging holes or recesses in the cross-pieces, or vice versa. In another construction, the cornerpieces 'and cross-pieces are connected by spring catches, the preferred construction consisting in providing the corner-pieces c, Fig. 7, with arms d which enter channels f in the crosspieces e and are provided with spring catches g2 for engaging recesses h.
Patent GB-638306-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to high temperature insulating material
IPC: E04B1/78
Filed: 1947-06-23
Abstract: 638,306. Non-conducting coverings. RAYBESTOS-MANHATTAN, Inc., June 23, 1947, No. 16504. Convention date, Oct. 12, 1945. [Class 64(ii)] A flexible heat insulating blanket comprises a layer 19<SP>1</SP> of loose heat-resistant material located between one or more layers 15, 20 of.. open-mesh corrugated flexible' metallic fabric and a covering 14 of woven heat-resistant fibrous material, the loose material 19<SP>1</SP> being separated from the corrugated fabric by a flat layer 21 of flexible metallic fabric of smaller mesh than the corrugated fabric, or by heat-reflecting metallic foil 22, or by both. When the blanket is applied to a high-tempeature surface with the metallic fabric innermost, air can flow through the corrugations. In the form shown, a covering 14 of woven fibres of asbestos, glass or a mixture thereof, is stitched at its edges to the upturned edge of the outer of two layers, 15, 20 of corrugated open-mesh steel or other metallic fabric which are separated by an intermediate layer 18 of smaller mesh metallic fabric. The layer 19<SP>1</SP> is of asbestos, glass wool, mineral wool, slag wool, or fibre-glass. In modifications, the foil 22 is omitted, and in one form the layers. 20, 21 are also omitted. The covering 14 may be coated with synthetic resin or synthetic rubber compound and the fibrous filling treated, to render them impervious, to water or oil. The Specification as open to inspection under Sect. 91 describes also a form in which the layer 19<SP>1</SP> of fibrous material is omitted. This subject-matter does not appear in the Specification as accepted.
Patent GB-109883-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Step Furnace Grates.
Inventor: HOFMANN ALBERT
IPC: F23H7/08
Filed: 1916-11-17
Abstract: 109,883. Hofmann, A. Nov. 17, 1916 Grates.-An inclined or step grate consists wholly or partly of steps built up of reciprocating bars. Fig. 1 shows a step grate each set of which consists of reciprocating bars h on axles k and cross-bars i in side bearers c. The bars are reciprocated, alternate bars in opposite directions, by eccentrics m on the axles, which are rotated by wheel and chain gearing u, t connecting the axles d, d'. To enable each bar to be removed, each axle k consists of a flat bar and carries slotted eccentrics m, and the bars h have slotted ends n. The bars are cooled by adjacent water tubes, and may have removable ends h<2>. The lowest step p is of longer bars which have small steps at their inner ends, in addition to steps on their outer ends. In a modification, only the two outermost fire-bars at each side of each step are moved by eccentrics; the ends h<2> of these bars are supported by rocking bars i, which move the inner fire-bars of each step; two bars i are fitted to each step, each bar i supporting alternate fire-bars and moving them in opposite directions. In another modification, a step of long bars, preferably formed with steps like the bar p, Fig. 1, is placed in the middle of the grate. Fig. 8 shows a grate consisting of a portion v with fixed bars, a step of reciprocating bars h<4> as described above, and two portions v<1>, v<2>, consisting of bars with two horizontal parts h<6>, h<8> and inclined parts h<7>; they are moved as described above.
Patent GB-543753-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to valves
IPC: F16K27/10
Filed: 1940-11-14
Abstract: 543,753. Valves. BARR, THOMSON & CO., Ltd., and REID, J. L. Nov. 14, 1940, No. 16509. [Class 135] A lift valve is actuated by a spindle 3 arranged at right-angles to the axis of the valve member and provided with screw-threads 4, 5 of opposite hands. Nuts 6, 7 on the threads 4, 5 are held against rotation by legs 23 engaging fixed guide rods and are connected to the valve member 1 by toggle-links 8. The links may be connected to lugs on the valve member by a single pin engaging lugs 13 or pinions may be made to permit the rotation of the valve member. One end of the spindle turns in a bush 14 carried by a socketed screwed plug 15 while the other end, which passes to the exterior of the casing through a stuffing box 16, is guided by a bush 19. Axial movement of the spindle is prevented by shoulders on the spindle engaging the lower part of the stuffing box and the upper end of the plug 15. The casing is made of forged parts welded together and may comprise a pot like part 2 which may be in two parts, inlet and outlet flanged connecting parts and a separate flange 18a for securing a cover 18.
Patent GB-919587-A (GB)
Title: A container with a flexible inner tank for liquefied gas
IPC: F17C3/02
Filed: 1961-05-08
Abstract: 919,587. Storing liquefied gases. CONCH INTERNATIONAL METHANE Ltd. May 8, 1961 [May 21, 1960; June 23, 1960; Sept. 22, 1960], No. 16611/61. Class 8(2). [Also in Group XXXIII]. A container for storing or transporting a liquefied gas at low temperature and at atmospheric pressure, ' comprises a rigid outer shell 2, e.g. formed by the inner hull of a double hull ship or by the inner hull in combination with the cofferdams of the ship, which is internally lined with a heat insulating material 6, e.g. balsawood or quippo, and an inner tank 11 consisting of a rigid top wall 10 and flexible side and bottom walls 8, 9 secured to the top wall, the latter being supported by the shell 2 and the side and bottom walls 8, 9 being supported by the inner surface of the heat insulating material 6. The inner tank is preferably made of aluminium or stainless steel, the side and bottom walls being in the form of foil. The top wall 10 is preferably supported on wooden blocks 12 secured to the shell 2, or is supported by cables or chains from a deck structure 4 of the ship, Fig. 2. (not shown); the space 15 between the wall 10 and the deck structure 4 is filled with glass wool. The wall 10 is provided with a trunk 17 which is insulated at 18 and may be secured to the deck structure 4 or slidably disposed relative thereto. The walls 8, 9 are preferably corrugated. A pump seat, Fig. 5 (not shown), located at the bottom of the tank 11 comprises two metal blocks secured to the respective sides of the bottom wall 9, the block facing the shell 2 having a projection which fits into a recess in a hardwood block on the shell.
Patent GB-206112-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in oil burner constructions
IPC: F23D3/00
Filed: 1923-06-26
Abstract: 206,112. Cleveland Metal Products Co., (Assignees of Chadwick, L. S., and Resek, M.). Oct. 26,1922, [Convention date]. Wick burners, annular; wick-operating and wick-locking devices.-In burners having inner and outer wick tubes connected together to form an annular wick space and an oil reservoir, the wick-adjusting mechanism comprises an elevator 10, Figs. 1, 3 and 6, upon which the lower end of the wick rests, which is vertically movable within the wick space, and has upwardly extending means 55 connecting with the wick or wick carrier to hold the wick upon the elevator so that both the upward and downward movements of the wick are effected by the elevator. The elevator 10 terminates in extensions 12 at opposite points of the wick space 5 which has an enlargement 9 within which the elevator is movable. A rod 25 secured to am arm 17 of the elevator is guided at its upper end within a sleeve 30 forming an extension of the restricted portion 8 of the wick space. A wick member 35 secures a neck 33 of the rod in a keyhole slot 40 and is operated by a pinion rotated by a handwheel 50. The upwardly extending wick grips 55 are secured to the extensions 12 of the elevator and have inturned lips 57 which engage over the upper edge of a wick carrier 61 when the wick is turned down after insertion. When the wick is raised to its highest point the grips spread outwardly and release the carrier. Ribs provided on the outer wick tube act as guides for the carrier. In modifications, the grips are provided with teeth and the carrier may have a series of rectangular openings into which teeth fit or which coact with expanding portions of the grips in the manner of a glove fastener. The grips may also have a lateral extended part or detent 85, Fig. 12, spring- ing outwardly over the edge of the outer wick tube to arrest downward movement of the parts until it is pressed inwardly, which action results in the teeth 84 engaging over the top of the wick carrier 61. A removable shield 65, Fig. 1, en. gages at its upper end between a bracket 49, supporting the spindle 46, and the rack member, and at its lower end by a spring tongue 70, conceals parts of the wick stop mechanism D which extend below the burner tube. Reference is made to Specification 225,869 which includes claims for features and combinations of features of the above burner construction other than those claimed in the present Specification. Specifications 200,076. 206,545; 210,807, [Class 126, Stoves &c.] ; and 213,293, also are referred to.
Patent GB-426751-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to methods of manufacturing dulled filaments, films and like artificial products of viscose
IPC: D01F2/12
Filed: 1934-06-04
Abstract: Filaments, films, and the like of dull lustre are produced from viscose in which has been emulsified a mixture of a liquid paraffin, sulphonated mineral oil, and titanium dioxide.  Instead of liquid paraffin there may be used pinene, petroleum, benzine, benzene, tetraline, or decaline.  By this means a uniform spinning solution, free from deposits, is obtained without filtration.  In examples, titanium dioxide is mixed with a mixture of liquid paraffin and sulphonated mineral oil, the paste emulsified with viscose, and the solution homogeneized, de-aerated, and spun in the usual manner.
Patent GB-424391-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to earth trenching machines
IPC: E02F5/02
Filed: 1934-06-04
Abstract: 424,391. Trenching and tunnelling. FIEDLER, P., 33, K÷nneritzstrasse, Leipsic, Germany. June 4, 1934, No. 16628. [Classes 68 (i) and 85] A trench-excavator comprises a chassis 2 supporting a spindle carrying a rotary digging head 10, and an elevator 1 supported on the chassis and adjusted as by hand or power driven screw gearing 5 ; the elevator lifts the spoil directly from the bottom of the trench and deposits it on the side of the trench and is detachable to permit the machine to be employed for tunnelling. Scrapers 14 are adjustably carried by the head 10 and move the loosened soil for the elevator.
Patent GB-810963-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in wrapping machines
Inventor: CURTIS SIDNEY
IPC: B65B35/20
Filed: 1956-05-30
Abstract: 810,963. Wrapping-machines. ROSE BROS. (GAINSBOROUGH) Ltd. May 24, 1957 [May 30, 1956 ; Jan. 25, 1957], Nos. 16663/56 and 2709/57. Class 94(1). In a machine in which articles are removed in succession from pockets in an intermittentlymovable feed member, e.g. a wheel, by a reciprocating pusher which operates in timed relationship with a wrapper-nipping member to move each article and associated wrapper into a wrapping-member, e.g. a pocket of a rotatable mould wheel, the pockets of the feed member are each formed with a slot giving access to the pocket from the exterior of the member, the pusher is formed with an operative tip arranged to pass through the pocket and a connecting portion arranged to pass through the slot, and means are provided for moving the tip in a lateral direction after completion of its operative stroke to cause the pusher to move clear of the feed member during its return stroke. Sweets 11, contained in pockets 12 of an intermittentlyrotatable wheel 13, are transferred in succession to pocket 16 of an intermittently-rotatable mould wheel 17 by a reciprocating pusher 19 having a tip portion 18 which passes through each pocket in turn and is connected to the body of the pusher by a portion 29 which passes through a radial slot 14 associated with each pocket. The pusher operates in synchronism with a wrapper-nipping member 36 of known type. The stem 23 of the pusher is pivoted to parallel arms 21, 22 coupled at their other ends by a link 24 having an extension 31 carrying a roller 32 engaging a rotary cam 34. Upward and downward movement of the pusher is effected by an eccentric sheeve 27 having an arm 28 pivoted to the arm 21 and operating to swing the latter about a fixed pivot 26, the cam 34 operating at the end of the upward stroke of the pusher to swing the linkage as a whole about the pivot 26 so that the pusher moves clear of the wheel 13 on its return stroke. In a modification (not illustrated) the pusher is disposed clear of the feed wheel and mounted for rotation about its longitudinal axis so that the tip and connecting portion pass through the pocket and slot on the upward stroke of the pusher but are swung clear of the wheel on its downward stroke.
Patent GB-1304789-A (GB)
IPC: H03H17/02
Filed: 1971-05-24
Abstract: 1304789 Active filters SANDERS ASSOCIATES Inc 24 May 1971 [22 June 1970] 16713/71 Heading H3U A digital filter comprises: means for providing information signal samples E i  during an interval T which is equal to the reciprocal of the filter band width; a clock source 21 for producing clock signals, means 18 for deriving a set of weighting signal samples with values which are: (a) equal to R<SP>n</SP>, where R is the radix and n is selected to suppress the filter sidelobes; (b) constant for time durations which are R<SP>m</SP> submultiples of T n and m being integers; radix point translating means 28 responsive to the weighting signal samples to translate the radix points of the information signal samples a number of orders equal to the current values of n; and means 29 for summing the resulting products over the interval T. A complete digital filter, Fig. 1 (not shown), comprises quadrature and inphase paths (12, 10) in each of which the signal to be processed (E i ) is multiplied by quadrature and in phase reference signals (B i , A i ) and the weighting signal (W t ) for side lobe suppression. The single bit data signal E i  and a single bit, for example, B i  signal are fed to EXCLUSIVE OR circuit 22 which produces outputs CS and CS. The weighting signal is formed as a three bit signal W1 + W5, W3, W2 + W4 and each bit is applied to two AND gates 31,38 32,37 33,36. The other inputs to AND gates 31,32,33 are supplied with the CS signal, those of gates 36,37,38 with the CS signal, and both group of gates are connected to up counter 29a and down counter 29b respectively. The outputs from the two counters are applied to subtractor 29c to produce the required output product E i B i W i  or E i A i W i  which is applied to a root mean square circuit (14).
Patent GB-705485-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to the bonding of metal to rubber or the like for footwear
IPC: C08J5/12
Filed: 1949-06-23
Abstract: Rubber is bonded to metal particularly in the manufacture of footwear (see Group VII), by first coating the metal with nickel and then vulcanizing the rubber in contact with the nickel.  In an example, a rubber mix consisting of smoked sheet or smoked sheet and reclaim, softeners, reinforcing agents, fillers, pigments, antioxidant, sulphur and mercaptobenzthiazole or zinc mercaptobenzthiazole, was sheeted and then applied to malleable iron tips, previously electrolytically coated with nickel.  After cutting to shape the rubber-coated tips are moulded at 55 lbs. per sq. inch steam pressure for 15 minutes at a mould pressure of 1 ton per sq. inch.
Patent GB-515552-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to electron discharge devices
IPC: H01J19/50
Filed: 1938-06-03
Abstract: 515,552. Thermionic valves. STANDARD TELEPHONES & CABLES, Ltd., and MOSCRIP, W. R. June 3, 1938, No. 16776. [Class 39(i)] In an electron discharge device wherein the high-frequency field existing during operation between an electrode and an adjacent lead sealed into a vitreous stem tube is such that the seal or stem tube might be damaged if subject to the field, a metal screen connected to the lead is disposed over the outer surface of the stem tube and seal to shield them from the field. The screen may only partly surround the stem tube. In the form shown, the lead F is sealed through a pinch E on a small stem D mounted on the main stem C. A shield L connected to lead F. screens the pinch from the high-frequency field between the screen-grid SG and the lead F. A bent metal strip K connects the lead F, which may be double, to rods (not shown) supporting the anode A. Specifications 301,355, [Class 39(i)], and 508,494 are referred to.
Patent GB-671057-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to electric flatirons
IPC: D06F75/24
Filed: 1949-06-24
Abstract: 671,057. Thermal switches. BRITISH THOMSON-HOUSTON CO., Ltd. June 24, 1949. [June 26, 1948] No. 16838/49. Class 38 (v). [Also in Group XI] A bimetallic switch located in a recess 7 at the rear of an electric iron (see Group XI), comprises a currentcarrying frame 30 attached to one end of the heating element 8, a spring arm 33 lying alongisde and spaced from the frame 30, and a bimetal strip 35 arranged between the parts 30 and 33 which at one end carry respectively contacts 31, 32, normally engaging. A rivet 36 at the other end secures the parts together, suitable insulation 34, 38 being provided. On flexing the bimetal 35 engages a set-screw 40 on the arm 33 to cause opening of the contacts 31, 32. The rivet 36 completes the circuit from the arm 33 to a plug pin on the iron. The switch is in effect carried by the element 8. Specification 144,767, [Class 38 (i)], is referred to.
Patent GB-1346004-A (GB)
Title: Collimator for collimating a radiation beam
IPC: G21K1/093
Filed: 1972-04-12
Abstract: 1346004 Collimating neutron beams LICEN-  TIA PATENT - VERWALTUNGS GmbH 12 April 1972 [16 April 1971 27 Jan 1972] 16902/72 Heading G6P A neutron beam is collimated by passing it through an aperture comprising an arrangement of cells which can be filled selectively with neutron absorbing material. In Fig. 1 there is shown a collimator block 3 comprising concentric layers of screening material and housing a target 2 which can be bombarded by ions from an accelerator to produce neutrons. A beam exit aperture 4 receives a structure which is made up of a number of hollow, wedge-like cells 5.1 to 5.n. By filling selected cells with a neutron absorber (of which several are specified), the emergent beam can be shaped as required. By controlling the degree of filling of individual cells, the dosage in corresponding zones of the beam can be varied. In the embodiment of Fig. 5, solid cores 13 may be located in selected cells; each core comprises magnetic material whereby, upon energization of a coil 12 to produce a non-homogeneous field, the cores are urged into the cells. Alternatively, mechanical locking can be provided.
Patent GB-334277-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to a reversing gear for internal combustion engines
IPC: F01L13/00
Filed: 1929-06-04
Abstract: 334,277. Hemmingsen, T. V. June 4, 1929. Reversing. - In an engine provided with reversible cam gear, the valves or fuel pumps being actuated by cams 2 on a shaft 1 through levers 3 carrying cam rollers 12 lifted during reversal, the lifting is effected by a lever 16 controlled from the manoeuvring shaft 4 on which the levers 3 are pivoted. In one form, Fig. 1, the actuating lever 3 of a pump 10 is lifted by means of a lever 16 having at one end a roller 17 engaged by a cam 18 on the shaft 4 and at the other end a pad 19 for engaging an adjustable screw 20 on the lever 3. The valve levers may be mounted on eccentrics on the shaft 4. On turning the shaft 4, the roller 12 is lifted from the cam 2 by the lever 16 and the cam shaft may then be moved axially for reversing. The fuel pump 10 may be provided with means for relieving the fuel pressure when the lever 3 and plunger 9 are lifted for reversing. In a modification, the lever 16 is fixed on the shaft 4 and is provided with an adjustable screw for engaging a valve lever.
Patent GB-1076340-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to milk measuring apparatus
Inventor: WEST JOHN HOWARD
IPC: G01G19/00
Filed: 1963-05-01
Abstract: 1,076,340. Displaceable shoot. WRIGHT HARGREAVES ENGINEERING CO. Ltd. May 1, 1964 [May 1, 1963], No. 17121/63. Heading B8S. [Also in Division G1] The contents of milk churns which are successively emptied at a tipping position are directed into one of two weigh bowls by means of a double shoot which is so moved that while one shoot directs milk from one churn in the tipping position to one weigh bowl the other drains the milk from the preceding churn to the other weigh bowl. As shown, the double shoot which may be of unitary construction having a wall 14 separating its shoots 12, 13 is provided with rollers 19 and is so moved in time relationship to the tipping of successive churns along rails 20 by means of a pneumatic or hydraulic ram 21 that the shoots 12, 13 are alternately supplied with milk from successive churns but are always positioned to direct milk to their respective weigh bowls 17, 18 through outlets 15, 16.