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Patent GB-824154-A (GB)
Title: Portable hand-operated sewing device
IPC: D05B81/00
Filed: 1958-02-11
Abstract: 824,154. Sewing machines. SALTZ, B., and CAMPBELL, J. H. Feb. 11, 1958, No. 4474/58. Class 112 A hand-operated portable sewing machine adapted to be held in one hand while the work is drawn through the machine by the other hand comprises a base containing an oscillatory looper provided with a thread-retaining spring, a structure normally maintained in an uppermost position above the base, and supporting a needle and a thread spool, and means operatively connecting the looper and said structure, whereby on depression of the latter, the looper is swung and said spring catches the thread loop at the descending needle and holds the thread to engage it with the next-formed loop. Frames. The machine comprises a hollow base formed with a work-supporting surface 96 and provided with a cover 12, and a plate-like structure 14 normally maintained above the base by an interposed compression spring 42. Needle-holders. A boss 64 projecting downwardly from plate 14 is formed with an opening 66 of sector-shape in crosssection which receives a needle N, the latter being secured therein by a screw 76. Thread spool holders. A vertical wall 50 on plate 14 is formed with a boss 54 tapped to receive the screwed end of a spindle 56 having at its other end a knob 58. A spool S is mounted on the spindle between a pair of spring washers 60, whereby screwing in the spindle progressively brakes the rotation of the spindle to increase the thread tensions during sewing. Stitch forming. Rods 16 depending from plate 14 are slidably received in sockets 20 formed in base 10, and are formed with racks 22 which engage gears 24 carried by a shaft 26 journalled in the base. A gear 30 on shaft 34 engages a segmental gear 32 on a shaft 34 journalled in the base. A hook-shaped looper 38, carried by shaft 34, is formed with a deflected tip 108 and with a slot 106 which holds a looped portion 104 of a thread-retaining spring 102. The machine is held in the right hand and the work is drawn through it by the left hand. When plate 14 is depressed the needle descends and the looper swings anti-clockwise, the needle and looper respectively rising and swinging clockwise when plate 14 is released. Spring 102 serves to retain the seized loop of thread T when the looper moves anti-clockwise. Increased thread tension tends to shorten the stitch length. Presser feet; governing threads other than in stitch forming; thread cutting. A presser foot 98 is carried by a spring arm 80 pivoted frictionally on a rivet 82 by means of a spring 84 thereat. On completion of sewing a lug 88 on arm 80 is manipulated to swing the latter anti-clockwise, whereby the thread T extending upwardly from the work is engaged by a bevelled and sharpened edge 92 on the presser foot so as firstly to tighten the last stitch and then to sever the thread.
Patent GB-1457985-A (GB)
Title: Apparatus for compacting and tying coils
IPC: B65B27/06
Filed: 1975-02-03
Abstract: 1457985 Compressing and tying coils of wire BOTALAM 3 Feb 1975 [6 Feb 1974] 4540/75 Heading B8C Relates to apparatus for compressing and tying coils 1 of metal wire, in which coils to be tied arrive singly on palettes 2 borne on carriages 4 movable along a guideway 3, with the coil axes slightly inclined to the vertical. The apparatus includes a table 11 on to which a palette 2 can be moved from its carriage 4, the table being pivotable about a horizontal axis 12 by actuators 45 (Fig. 6) to bring the coil 1 on the palette to a position with its axis vertical, a tying unit 6 and a compressing unit 10 relatively movable between an aligned position, in which the compressing unit can compact a coil supported in the tying unit, and a displaced position, conveyer means 23 for transferring the coil with its axis vertical from the palette 2 on the table 11 to a position within the tying unit 6 while the latter and the compressing unit 10 are relatively displaced, and means for bringing the tying unit 6 and the compressing unit 10 into alignment. The tying unit 6 is movable along a pit 7, being supported on rails 9, and has a cruciform section mandrel 23 (the conveyer means) movable vertically by a rack and pinion drive 33, 32. Tying wire guides 18 with pivoted upper portions 19 are interleaved with the lobes of the mandrel when the latter is in its lower position, Fig. 3. The compressing unit 10 is mounted over the middle of the pit 7 and has an annular plunger 34 with four slots 38 to clear the guides 18. A receiving table 14 overhangs the end of the pit remote from the table 11 and is adjacent a guideway 16 on which carriages 17 are movable to carry away compacted and tied coils. Tables 11 and 14 and carriages 4 and 17 have powered rollers 5, 13, 15 to shift palettes and coils. In use, the table 11 is tilted to bring the axis of a coil 1 thereon vertical, a cradle 50 steadying the coil, and the tying unit is positioned under the table 11. The mandrel 23 is raised to fit inside the coil and lift it from its palette 2. The cradle 50 is swung clear and the tying unit 6 moved to a position 58 where the mandrel and coil are lowered before the tying unit is brought under the compressing unit 10. Meanwhile the table 11 is restored to the horizontal and the empty palette returned to its carriage 4 for removal. The compressing unit 10 is operated to compact the coil and the latter is tied. The tying unit is moved to a position 59, where the mandrel and coil are raised to a level at which the coil can be placed on the table 14 when the tying unit is moved under it. Concurrently a further palette 2 with a coil to be tied is positioned on the table 11. Finally the mandrel 23 is lowered to deposit the tied coil on the table 14, and the tying unit moved back to the table 11.
Patent GB-514939-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in devices for securing together the parts of internal combustion engines
IPC: F02F1/10
Filed: 1938-02-14
Abstract: 514,939. Cylinder mountings. JAMESON, J. L. Feb. 14, 1938, No. 4587. [Class 7 (ii)] In securing a cylinder 10 to a crankcase 12 the abutting flanges have inclined surfaces 3, 4 which are engaged by corresponding surfaces in a channel ring 1, the halves of which are bolted together to procure a wedging action to force the flanges together. The half-rings may each comprise a number of pivotally connected' segments. Specification 504,204 is referred to.
Patent GB-983482-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to rubbing aprons for carding machines
IPC: D01G15/60
Filed: 1964-02-04
Abstract: 983,482. Carding machine rubbing aprons. PIRELLI S.p.A. Feb. 4, 1964 [Feb.23, 1963], No. 4615/64. Heading D1N.  Guide devices for laterally locating rubbing aprons of carding machines are mounted to be freely rotatable. Guide device 5 may be formed from a naturally occurring material or a synthetic resin, e.g. polyurethane, and is rotatably mounted on a pin 6 carried by the edge of the apron 1.
Patent GB-1072872-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to pipe couplings
Inventor: WATTERSON CECIL MARK
IPC: F16L19/065
Filed: 1963-02-05
Abstract: 1,072,872. Releasable pipe-couplings. MANNIN ENGINEERING Ltd. Dec. 30, 1963 [Feb. 5, 1963; May 3, 1963], Nos. 4737/63 and 17492/63. Heading F2G. A fluid-pressure coupling comprises a screwthreaded nut 13 and an externally tapered collar 10, held captive within the nut, which grips a pipe and holds it against movement under pressure. The collar is forced into contact with the pipe by a fitting 15 which screws into the nut to force the collar against a tapered internal surface of the latter. In the embodiments shown the collar is of metal and is split longitudinally, and serrated internally to grip the pipe and a resilient, deformable sealing member 17 is interposed between the fitting 15 and the inner face of the collar. The sealing- member 17 is larger in outside diameter than the internal diameter of the screw-thread 14 and is forced into the nut. The split collar may be of larger or smaller diameter than the external screw-thread; springing outwards to be retained in position in the nut, if larger, or being retained by the sealing member, if smaller. In a modification, Fig. 4, not shown, the collar has a radial projection (23) which engages in a shoulder on the nut (24), and the sealing member (27) has an undercut lip (30) for gripping the corresponding end of the collar (20).
Patent GB-943598-A (GB)
Title: New aminomethyl- and aminomethylene-steroids and process for their manufacture
IPC: C07J43/00
Filed: 1960-02-10
Abstract: The invention comprises D 4-2-tertiary aminomethyl-and D 4-2-tertiary aminomethylene-3-ketosteroids in which the tertiary amino group is a dialkylamino or alkyleneimino group, and salts thereof; and their preparation by reacting a D 4-2-hydroxymethylene-3-keto-steroid with the appropriate amine and, when required, reducing the 2-tertiary aminomethylene steroid so formed with a metal hydride.  The steroids may be of the cholestane, sitostane, ergostane, spirostane, cholane, nor-cholane, bis-nor-cholane, pregnane or androstane series, and they may contain free or functionally converted hydroxyl, oxo or carboxyl groups, methyl and ethynyl groups and further double bonds.  In the reduction process free oxo groups are reduced to hydroxyl groups, free and functionally converted carboxyl groups to hydroxymethyl groups and ethynyl groups to vinyl groups.  Ketalized oxo groups may subsequently be hydrolysed. Examples describe the preparation of the 2-pyrrolidinyl-methyl and -methylene derivatives of testasterone, D 4-3-keto-cholestane, 17a -methyl-testosterone and cortisone, and reference is also made to the preparation of derivatives of 17a -ethynyl-testosterone, progesterone, 17a -acetoxy-progesterone, and D 4-3-keto-spirostene.
Patent GB-1220061-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to multistage rotary elastic fluid flow machines, e.g. compressors
Inventor: HOOPER ALAN THOMAS
IPC: F04D17/02
Filed: 1967-01-31
Abstract: 1,220,061. Centrifugal and axial-flow compressors. UNITED KINGDOM ATOMIC ENERGY AUTHORITY. April 29, 1968 [Jan. 31, 1967], No.4771/67. Headings F1C and F1T. In a multi-stage rotary elastic fluid flow machine, e.g. a compressor as shown, each stage A, B, C comprises axial-flow blading 3 and a centrifugal wheel 4. Flow from the wheel 4 of the first stage A passes through vaned passage 24, chamber 25, outlet port 26 and, if desired, an interstage cooler (not shown) to the entry port 27 of stage B, whereafter it passes around baffle 28 and through the rotor blading of stage B and is subsequently delivered to the entry port 27 of stage C. The inlet passage 32 of stage B is partly defined between walls 30 and 34, the wall 30 separating the inlet and outlet passages 32, 33 respectively of stage B. Stage C has its flow passages defined in a similar manner. The rotor is supported by bearings 15, 18, and the compressor casing is positioned by guides 20 and partly supported by bearing support pedestal 19. The machine may be associated with interstage reheaters.
Patent GB-419804-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to means for preventing the unauthorised refilling of bottles or other liquid containers
IPC: B65D49/04
Filed: 1933-02-16
Abstract: 419,804. Non refillable bottles &c. MAUSSENET, J. W. J., 8, Rue de Varenne, Paris. Feb. 16, 1933, No. 4795. Void [Abridged as open to inspection under Sect. 91 of the Acts, Jan. 5, 1934]. [Class 125 (i).] A non-refillable bottle comprises a valve 24 and an arrangement of apertured partitioned baffles 22, 32 and sieves 31, 34 disposed in the path of the liquid flowing from the bottle and of the air entering the bottle to constrain them to follow a sinuous course so to prevent the refilling of the bottle by immersion. A closing cap 36 may be provided. In a modification, the stopper member may be held to the neck of the bottle by the intermediary of a ring turned in under a bead on the neck of the bottle, frusto-conical sieves and baffles being provided. The stopper members may be formed by punching, casting &c. from metal, glass, or the material known under the Registered Trade Mark " Bakelite," &c.
Patent GB-800328-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to fire-extinguishing systems
Inventor: BEDFORD HOWARD EDWIN
IPC: A62C3/10
Filed: 1956-02-16
Abstract: 800,328. Detecting and extinguishing fires. PYRENE CO., Ltd. Feb. 1, 1957 [Feb. 16, 1956], No. 4887/56. Class 47 In a combined smoke detecting and fireextinguishing apparatus in a ship, a source 6, Fig. 1, of combustion gas and a smoke detector 24 are both connected to a pipe system having outlets 17 in the lower parts of the spaces A, B, C, D, E, constituting points of risk, the pipes containing non- return valves 18, Fig. 3, for permitting the flow of the gas through the outlets, and having inlets 22 for air flowing through the pipe system to the smokedetector, the inlets being upstream of the valves 18 and in the upper parts of the spaces. The air inlets may be small in relation to the outlets and may be adjustable and formed in collecting heads 22A connected by branches 21A to the pipe system, or may simply be holes in the pipes. Outlets 16 associated with non-return valves 18 are also provided in the upper parts of the spaces A, B, C, D and E. Drainage openings for condensate may be provided at any points where condensate is likely to collect, and such openings are closed by an absorbent pad which will allow water to seep through but prevent entry of air. The system includes a smoke indicator 25 which shows whether a fire is located fore or aft, and a further smoke indicator 30, Fig. 2, which shows in which of the spaces A-E the fire is located. The indicator 30 is associated with a bank of valve 12 in the individual pipe 13 leading to the spaces A-E, and with a charge-over valve 33 in the pipe 8 which connects the pipes 13 to the gas source 6 via a normally closed valve 10 and to the smoke detector 24 and indicator 25 via a normally open valve 28. The valve 33 may be linked with valves in the pipes 31 from the smoke indicator 30 in order to prevent entry of combustion gas into the indicator 30.
Patent GB-415957-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to multiple spindle lathes
IPC: B23B7/10
Filed: 1934-02-14
Abstract: 415,957. Lathes. SCHUTTE, A. H., 76, Rheinallee, Deutz, Cologne, Germany. Feb. 14, 1934, No. 4899. Convention date, April 19, 1933. [Class 83 (iii).] In a multiple-spindle automatic chucking machine a friction disc brake provided on each spindle has two or more pairs of braking surfaces. Chucks 15 carried by the indexable drum 1 are rotated through friction clutches 11 controlled by levers 12 raised by the inclines on sleeves 13 which are moved in the loading position by a shoe on the end of a cam-operated lever 19. Floating brake discs 10, Fig. 2, are interposed between the clutch-operating sleeves and the chuck faces 16 and are prevented from rotating by serrations on their peripheries engaging recesses in a member 5 which is fixed to and rotates only with the spindle drum 1. The cam 23, Fig. 1, moves the lever 19 to disconnect the clutch 11 of the spindle as it reaches the loading station and further movement of the upper end of the lever towards the right, produced by the spring-pressed block 25 on the cam drum, forces the sleeve 13 against the brake disc 10 and the chuck 15 is thus braked by both sides of the stationary disc.
Patent GB-918491-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to vacuum flasks
IPC: A47J41/02
Filed: 1958-02-14
Abstract: 918,491. Vacuum-jacketed vessels. LESLIESMITH, L. Feb. 12, 1959 [Feb. 14, 1958], No. 4976/58. Class 64 (2). [Also in Group XVII] The metal or polyethylene shoulder 2 of the canister of a vacuum flask has a pouring lip over which engages a flange 12 on a stopper 9 having a bung portion 11 and screw-threads for engaging threads 6 on the shoulder; the flask bottle 7 is located on a base support and by a resilient sealing-ring 8 (of rubber if it is not integral with the shoulder) which may be applied lower down the top end of the bottle than as shown. The stopper may be of synthetic resin and constructed as described in Specification 885,987. The bevelled lip edge of a cylindrical extension 5 of the shoulder 2 may bite into the stopper rim to form a seal. The shoulder threads 6 may be on the outer surface of the extension 5, Fig. 3 (not shown), in which case the stopper flange is extended as in Fig. 4 to be formed with the complementary threads. In Fig. 4, the sealing ring 8 is contained in the inturned rim of the shoulder 2. The ring 8 may be integral with the shoulder 2 if the latter is of synthetic resin, and comprise at least one flexible flange.
Patent GB-915109-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in the feeding of blanks or the like from a stack or pack
Inventor: WELVAERT CLAUDE ALEXANDRE CHAR
IPC: B65H5/12
Filed: 1958-02-15
Abstract: 915,109. Feeding sheets. ROSE BROS. (GAINSBOROUGH) Ltd. May 14, 1959 [Feb. 15, 1958], No. 4990/58. Class 100 (1). Carton blanks 11 are separated sequentially from a stack 12 by an oscillating sucker 13 and transferred to one of a set of grippers 17, 18 on a rotatable carrier 19, and discharged on to a conveyer chain 52 provided with pusher members 53 thereon for conveyance to a cartoning machine. The carrier 19 has three arms 21 each having a set of grippers thereon, and it is driven such that the grippers decelerate and stop at a position beyond the blank-receiving position, then move rearward to receiving position, and finally moved forward to the sheetrelease position at an accelerated rate. Each gripper jaw 17 is fixed, and each jaw 18 is pivotally mounted at 39 and formed with an arm 41 carrying a roller 42 which is urged by a spring 44 against a control cam 43. The cam 43 is secured on a shaft 46 adapted to be rocked by an arm 47 carrying a roller engaging a rotatable cam 49. The carrier 19 is secured to a sleeve rotatably mounted on the shaft 46, and a driven gear 27 secured on the sleeve meshes with an intermediate gear 28 carried by an arm 31 which is freely mounted on the sleeve. A link 32 is pivoted at one end on the shaft of the gear 28, and at the other end to a crank-pin of a crank which is driven in timed relationship with the sucker 13. A driving gear on the crank-pin meshes with the gear 28, whereby rotation of the crank causes the driving-gear to orbit about the axis of the crank-shaft to drive the gears 28, 27, and hence the carrier 19. The grippers 17, 18 are bifurcated to receive the sucker 13 during sheet transfer, and the pivot 14 about which the sucker rocks is coincident with the top edge of the leading blank 11 in the stack. When a blank is released by the grippers, a rotatable member 57 engages the leading edge to position the blank on support rails 56 prior to engagement by a pusher 53 on the conveyer chain 52.
Patent GB-727245-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in wool, yarn or like winding devices
IPC: B65H54/66
Filed: 1952-02-26
Abstract: 727,245. Winding yarns &c. COOPE, J. W., and HARRISON, A. Feb. 25, 1953 [Feb. 26, 1952], No. 5006/52. Class 120 (2). A yarn winding device includes a guide eye through which the yarn to be wound is passed, two arms arranged in cross formation which together form a yarn holder, one arm being withdrawable from the other to allow withdrawal of a wound ball, one end of the non- withdrawable arm being pivotally mounted on the end of a driving spindle adapted to rotate said holder to wind yarn onto the holder and to allow manual movement of the yarn holder at will to either of two positions substantially at right angles in the plane of the holder. As shown the device comprises a yarn holder 1 pivoted by a pin 5 to the end of a driving spindle 6 which is cranked at the other end 15. The holder 1 can be pivoted about the pin 5 and held in either. of two positions by a retaining spring 9 engaging either of grooves 7, 8. The spindle 6 is carried in a bearing 16 to which is attached an arm 13 formed into a guide eye 10 at one end and into a handle 17 at the other. The spindle 16 may be arranged to be motor driven. It is stated in the Provisional Specification that the guide eye may be rotated about the holder which then has only pivotal movement and that arrangements may be provided by which the holder is automatically pivoted between two extreme positions.
Patent GB-355365-A (GB)
Title: Means whereby an internal combustion engine may be used either as a side-side valve engine or as an overheadvalve engine
IPC: F02F1/36
Filed: 1930-11-14
Abstract: 355,365. Lubricating internal-combustion engines. GREENSLADE, R. J., GREENSLADE, R. G., and GREENSLADE, A. J., 14, Bond Street, Swansea. Nov. 14, 1930, No. 5064. [Class 12 (iii).] The valve gear of an overheadvalve internalcombustion engine, converted from a side-valve engine by replacing the cylinder head, is lubricated by oil mist which rises from the crank - case through a pipe 26. The valve gear is enclosed by a cover 25 and the. crank -case breather is closed.
Patent GB-794615-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to woodworking machines
IPC: B27C9/02
Filed: 1956-02-18
Abstract: 794,615. Drilling-machines. PORTER, V. T. W. Feb. 13, 1957 [Feb. 18, 1956], No. 5094/56. Class 83 (3). [Also in Group XXIII] A woodworking machine for such operations as routing, sawing or drilling comprises a toolunit 25 pivoted at 24 on a single bar or forked member 21, which is slidably and rotatably carried by a sleeve 15 supported by rollers 16 for sliding movement and rotation on a guide-tube 14. For drilling, the member 21 is rotationally adjusted in the lug 17 of the sleeve 15 so the tool spindle 28 is parallel to the guide-tube 14, as shown in Fig. 4, and the drill can then be fed into the work by moving the sleeve 15 along the tube 14, the free end of member 21 being adjustably supported by a strut 38 thereon carrying a roller 39 engaging a guide 42. The tool spindle is driven by a flexible shaft or belt from a motor 29, and the tool unit is clamped in its angularly adjusted position about the pivot 24 by a clamp engaging a disc on the pivot. Alternatively, the unit may be adjusted by a pinion 46 engaging an arcuate rack 48 and held by a plate 52 screw clamped against the side of the rack, or there may be a pivoted screw-and-nut arrangement between the unit and the member 21. A counterweight 43 partially balances the member 21 and a clamp 23 holds it in adjusted position in the sleeve 15.
Patent GB-723557-A (GB)
Title: Fire grate ash-space covers
Inventor: SMITH WILLIAM HERBERT
IPC: F24B1/191
Filed: 1952-02-27
Abstract: 723,557. Fireplace frets. KEYSTONE TILING CO., Ltd. Feb. 19, 1953 [Feb. 27, 1952], No. 5120/52. Class 126. A fret which at its ends b is extended to overlap and fit closely against the front faces of the surround c is provided with side flanges d which can enter between, and be closely alongside, the side edges of the surround. The vertical depth of the fret is made similar to that of the front usually employed in the continuous all-night burning type of open firegrate. The fret is provided with a slidable flap e controlling the air flow through an aperture f, rotation of a cam g by a knob h providing the necessary positional adjustment of flap. A rack and pinion may be used in lieu of the cam and its abutment surfaces on the flap.