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Patent GB-1463851-A (GB)
Title: Electronic taximeter in a line taxi system
IPC: G07B13/00
Filed: 1974-06-20
Abstract: 1463851 Electronic taximeters KIENZLE APPARATE GmbH 20 June 1974 [26 June 1973] 27344/74 Heading G4T In an electronic taximeter, a plurality of movable elements are each associated with respectively each of a plurality of passengers, and are actuable to operate a fare calculating device and fare indicating means to display separately each of the computed fares corresponding to respectively each of the actuated elements. Preferably tokens 10-12 are removably located in receiving apertures 7-9 of an operating part 1 such that with all tokens present the operation of the taximeters is interrupted; but upon individual removal, a pulse is produced associated with that removal, so that as each token is removed and assigned to a passenger as he enters a taxi, the resulting pulses can be used to compute individual passenger fares and switch in fare counter stores in a store 4, each associated with a given token removal i.e. passenger. A tariff system is operative whereby incoming distance or time pulses 22, 23 are received and processed by a control part 2 which, by means of a logic circuit, selects a suitable parameter from the constant generator 6 to scale down, according to increasing numbers of removed tokens, the individual fares as calculated by a calculator part 3 and stored at 4. An indicator part 5 comprising displays 24-26 the individual fares, and the operating part 1 incorporates an on-off switch 19 and a key 20 which allows for resetting of the taximeter. A second embodiment (not shown) differs essentially in that only one display is used; the information in each store being either sequentially selected and identifiably displayed at the single display, or selected for display as required by the depression of one of a set of associated keys. An additional feature of this embodiment is the provision of two extra counting and storing facilities, one serving to record the total fare charge for a complete trip; whilst the other serves to sum fares over a plurality of trips, e.g. during a complete day. A further additional feature is a rotatable switch mounted upon the operating part 1 for the selection on one of four extra tariffs which are pre-settable at the constant generator 6. In the position "1" a "normal" tariff is selected; other positions being selected for e.g. night of holiday tariff.
Patent GB-1242824-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to resistors
Inventor: STANDING WALTER
IPC: H01C13/02
Filed: 1970-06-05
Abstract: 1,242,824. Resistor. DARSTAN Ltd. 5 June, 1970, No. 27405/70. Heading H1S. [Also in Division H2] A plug-in resistor comprises two resistive elements 1 spaced apart, having a common insulated base 2 and an electrical connection 3 between them. Tags 4 extend from the base, each being connected to the respective adjacent ends of the elements. The element may be wire wound, cermet, metal or carbon film &c. and the resistors, base and electrical connection 3 may be encapsulated (e.g. with silicone encapsulate) so that the gap between the resistors is retained. In modifications the bridge 3 is non conducting and conductive lugs project from these ends of the resistors, a fusible device linking electrically the two lugs (Figs. 2, 3, 4, not shown).
Patent GB-736703-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to electromagnetic and other instruments with spring suspensions
Inventor: ROMMEL FREDERICK EMIL
IPC: H01H50/34
Filed: 1952-10-31
Abstract: 736,703. Electromagnetic relays. TELEPHONE MANUFACTURING CO., Ltd. Sept. 1, 1953 [Oct. 31, 1952], No. 27454/52. Class 38(5). In a relay, the armature 13 is suspended from a torsion strip or wire 14 fixed at the ends to two resilient tensioned horns 28 forming part of blocks 12 fixed to the instrument. The strip is thus permanently under tension and distortion due to differential expansion of the various members with change of temperature is avoided. The invention is shown applied to a relay according to Specification 619,546 wherein the upper part of the armature carries contacts and the lower part moves between two poles 3 extending in opposite directions from two shanks 1, 2. The blocks 12 are arranged between the two poles 3 and serve to space them accurately. Screws 31 on the tips of the arms 28 bear against the plates 1, 2 and serve to facilitate the centring of the armature.
Patent GB-278302-A (GB)
IPC: C13B30/06
Filed: 1926-11-02
Abstract: 278,302. Raffinerie Tirlemontoise Soc. Anon. Sept. 30, 1926, [Convention date]. Liquoring and washing sugar.-Sugar crystals, after preliminary purification so that they are practically free from adhering syrup but not quite colourless, are decolorized by mashing with a saturated or approximately saturated colourless sugar solution for a time which is varied according to the depth of colour. The solution is then removed by suction, centrifuging &c., and may be used again after filtration through animal charcoal, decolorizing charcoal, &c. to remove the colour. The crystals may be given a second treatment if necessary. The decolorization of sugar crystals by using steam, water, and unsaturated sugar solutions is also mentioned. Specifications 8746/84 and 23134/99 are referred to.
Patent GB-447593-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to means for avoiding disturbances in the reception of electric oscillations
IPC: H03G11/04
Filed: 1935-10-04
Abstract: 447,593. Wireless receiving systems. PULVERMACHER, K. PULVARI-, 2, Parisiutca, Budapest. Oct. 4, 1936, No. 27478. [Class 40 (v)] In order to remove disturbances of greater amplitude than that of the envelope at any point of incoming low frequency currents, a diode 21 is shunted across the input circuit 11, 12 of an amplifier 13 and its biassing potential is varied in accordance with said envelope by rectifying and smoothing a portion of the output of the amplifier 13 in circuits 17, 18 and applying the output of the latter to a resistance 19 in the diode circuit. In a modified arrangement, Fig. 3 (not shown), two oppositely arranged diodes are controlled to suppress both positive and negative disturbing voltages. Other embodiments show gas-discharge tubes used as variable limiting devices.
Patent GB-1303140-A (GB)
IPC: G02B6/06
Filed: 1970-06-08
Abstract: 1303140 Light guides AMERICAN OPTICAL CORP 8 June 1970 [9 June 1969] 27506/70 Heading G2J [Also in Division C1] An optical fibre of unitary construction comprises a main body section 12 having a core 14 of high refractive index light conducting material clad with a material 16 of lower refractive index than the core 14, and light-absorbing filaments 22 extending along the length of the body section 12 and fused thereto one diametrically opposite the other. The filaments 22 may consist of a core of light absorbing material having a cladding 20 of the same material as cladding 16 of the main body section 12. The filaments are small in diameter relative to body section 12. An integral optical fibre assembly is formed from such fibres. The fibres are placed together to form a plurality of parallel rows 10' one upon the other with the light absorbing filaments filling the instertices between adjacent fibres. Preferably a square sectioned assembly is fomed in a suitable mould 38 the fibres being fused together. A plurality of such sections can then be further fused together. Such cross-sectioned assemblies can be used in making cathode ray tube face-plates.
Patent GB-655230-A (GB)
Title: A device for the adjustment of intervals of rest, more particularly intended for talking machines
IPC: G11B17/02
Filed: 1948-10-22
Abstract: 655,230. Automatic gramophones. KLINGLER, M. Oct. 22, 1948, No. 27549. [Class 40 (ii)] [Also in Group XXIV] In an automatic gramophone, a device for adjustment of pause intervals between playing of records comprises a ratchet-controlled clutch whereby coupling between a driving shaft 3 and a driven shaft 4 is interrupted by the appropriate setting of a ratchet wheel 14, and is recoupled when the ratchet position by a feeding pawl 23 operated step-by-step by an eccentric cam 26 on the driving shaft 3. The ratchet is set according to the amount of delay required by means of a knob 43 and lever 33 which sets a rotary control disc 15 to a position somewhere between that shown in Fig. 1 for a minimum period, and that in the other Figures, for a maximum period. The control disc 15 is coupled to the ratchet wheel 14 by a spring 17 connected to a pin 20 on the ratchet wheel 14 and a pin 19 on the control disc 15. At the end of the playing of a record the driving shaft 3, which is already in engagement with the driven shaft 4 operating the automatic mechanism, commences to revolve clockwise, as viewed in Fig. 1. One of the radial pins 30 on a disc 28 secured to the shaft 4 raises the feeding pawl 23 and a locking pawl 24 so that the ratchet wheel 15 is free to rotate from the position shown in Fig. 6 shown in Fig. 7, and in doing so the pin 20, which has supported an arm 6 by means of a pin 31 thereon, permits the said arm 6 to fall in front of a button 5. Figs. 2 and 3, which when pressed releases the clutch between the shafts 3 and 4. Subsequently, one of two diametrically opposed pins 29 comes into contact with an arm 13, Fig. 4, extending from a sleeve 7 rotatable on an axle 8 carrying the disc 15 and ratchet wheel 14. The axle 8 has a pin 10 extending into a helical groove 9 in the sleeve 7 which is thereby moved axially inwards under the influence of the pin 29 acting on the arm 13 so that the arm 6 presses the button 5, and the shaft 4 is unclutohed from the driving shaft 3. Rotation of the shaft 4 thereby ceases, but the cam 26 on the shaft 3, which continues to revolve, moves the ratchet wheel 14 one tooth at every revolution by means of a ratchet feeding lever 16, until the ratchet wheel 14 is returned to the position shown in Fig. 6, when the pin 20 lifts the arm 6 and the clutch releasing button 5 is freed again to restore clutching engagement between the shafts 3 and 4. At this moment the pick-up commences to play a fresh record and rotation of the driving shaft 3 ceases until the initiation of the next automatic cycle.
Patent GB-1365646-A (GB)
Title: Apparatus for line by line photoelectric scanning of data media
IPC: G06K7/10
Filed: 1972-06-13
Abstract: 1365646 Statistical apparatus, &c. E SICK [trading as ERWIN SICK] 13 June 1972 [20 July 1971] 27589/72 Heading G4M [Also in Division G1] In a photo-electric apparatus for the line-byline scanning of data media 10 wherein the media is scanned by a light beam 20, a series of timing pulses, corresponding to the series of "bits" of data on each line, is generated with the aid of a light beam 28 scanning along a cylinder 32 having a timing strip with a set of converging striations provided on it. Thus by axial adjustment and/or rotation of the cylinder the phase and periodicity of the timing pulses may be matched to the data media. The striations may be formed (Figs. 1 and 2, not shown) from a film (42) produced by photographic reduction of a master, which is backed by a reversing reflecting film (44) the combination being adhesively affixed on a cylindrical roller 32. As shown in Fig. 3 a light beam 20 from a source 12 passes via an aperture 13 and is focused on to a rotating reflector wheel 16 from where it is reflected on to a concave mirror 18 and is focused by lens 22 on to the data media 10 thereby scanning the media. The light reflected back from the media along its incident path passes via an aperture 24 and a semireflector 25 on to two photo-electric receivers 26, 26<SP>1</SP> of different spectral sensitivities in order to permit colour recognition. A light beam 28 passes in a similar fashion to the beam 20 to and from the striated cylinder 32 to a photo receiver 42 thereby generating the timing pulses.
Patent GB-448602-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in clothes washers
IPC: D06F15/00
Filed: 1935-10-07
Abstract: 448,602. Washing apparatus. BIBRACH, R., 7, Graf Spee Strasse, Klotzsche, near Dresden, Germany. Oct. 7, 1935, No. 27656. [Class 138 (ii)] A diaphragm 7 clamped at its periphery by a ring 6 in an annular groove 5 in a bell 1, is vibrated between the positions shown in full and dotted lines bv means of levers 16 pivoted at 15 to a ring 14 secured to a tube 2 fixed on the bell. The levers are connected to the piston rod by links 13. In a modification the operating mechanism may be separated from the bell and may be connected to the diaphragm by a flexible transmission member such as a Bowden wire.
Patent GB-962188-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to pressboard panels
IPC: B27N3/14
Filed: 1962-07-19
Abstract: <FORM:0962188/C3/1> Chipboard comprising two inner layers of coarse shavings and two outer layers of fine shavings is produced by passing a supporting plate across separate streams of coarse and fine shavings coated with a bonding agent to form successive layers of fine and coarse shavings and then reversing the direction of travel to form successive layers of coarse and fine shavings, the layers then being pressed together in a hot press. As shown in Fig. 1, shavings are conveyed from a storage container 1 to an inclined rotary drying drum 3 wherein the shavings are sprayed with a bonding agent from an injection nozzle 20. After passing through a second storage container 8, coarse shavings are passed to a feeder 10 while fine shavings are passed to a feeder 22. The shavings may be separated into two streams on leaving drum 3. Alternatively, a drum for each of two separate streams may be employed. Plates 26, 27 and 28 are successively coated with the four layers and fed into a hot press 29. As shown in Fig. 3, a single feeder 37 which divides a mixture of coarse and fine shavings into two streams is employed. The weight of shavings to be mixed with a given weight of glue may be measured on an inclined pan (Fig. 5, not shown), since the proportion of shavings required is proportional to the coarseness of the shavings. Pressing may be stopped if more than a certain amount of steam is evolved (Fig. 6, not shown).
Patent GB-815423-A (GB)
Title: Method for fabricating pipe
IPC: B29C53/60
Filed: 1957-09-03
Abstract: 815,423. Making pipes. GANAHL, C. DE. Sept. 3, 1957 [Oct. 12, 1956], No. 27724/57. Class 99(2). The apparatus is identical with that described in Specification 750,768 but the glass fibres are immersed in the liquid plastic while still at a temperature above 200‹F. and preferably in the range 250‹F. to 450‹F. Specification 687,552 also is referred to.
Patent GB-408315-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to sewing machines
IPC: D05B65/00
Filed: 1932-10-06
Abstract: 408,315. Sewing-machines. BRITISH UNITED SHOE MACHINERY CO., Ltd., and GOULDBOURN, J., Belgrave Road, Leicester. Oct. 6, 1932, No. 27744. [Class 112.] The needle and shuttle threads of a bootoutsole-sewing machine are severed close to the work by a knife 22, the boot-sole being used as a cutting block. The knife 22 is carried on a rack-bar 24 slidingly mounted in a bracket 26. The tapered end 30 of the rackbar is held in engagement with a roller 32 by a spring plunger 34 and a downward movement of a treadle-rod 46 swings the knife 22 rearwardly and downwardly to the operative position, Fig. 5. Slidingly mounted on the lower end of the rack bar is a shuttle-thread pull-off 48, which carries an oblique finger 52 to deflect the thread into a slot 54 in the presser-foot where it is trapped by a spring-pressed pin 50. The needle thread is clamped before severance against the work plate 6 by a spring-pressed lever 98 which is actuated by the treadle rod. The severed end is withdrawn to the level of the work-plate to be used up in the next seam, by an eccentric pin 60. The pin is mounted on a shaft 64 which is oscillated by the treadle rod. In a modification, instead of withdrawing the needle thread, the excess is removed by a fixed knife as the shoe is fed along the work plate. Specification 174,440, [Class 112], is referred to.
Patent GB-1371400-A (GB)
Title: Method of heating blood
IPC: A61M5/44
Filed: 1972-06-14
Abstract: 1371400 Microwave heating CAMPH ENG CO AB 14 June 1972 27759/72 Heading H5H [Also in Divisions G3 and A5] Blood is heated to transfusion temperature by microwaves. As shown a sterile flexible tube 2 associated with a pump 3 conveys blood from a container 1 to a microwave cavity 4 supplied from a microwave generator 6. The temperature of the emergent blood is monitored and used to control the energization of the generator. The monitor comprises a temperature responsive device in a measuring bridge which feeds a regulator via a preamplifier. A temperature setting device is also connected to the regulator and the output from the regulator is fed to two comparators in which the signal is compared with the voltage of a sawtooth voltage generator. The outputs of the comparators is connected to triacs controlling the voltage of the anode and cathode respectively of the microwave generator.
Patent GB-633460-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to gymnastic apparatus
IPC: A63B5/12
Filed: 1947-10-17
Abstract: 633,460. Gymnastic apparatus. FENTON, J. V. Oct. 17, 1947, Nos. 27829/47 and 13136/48. [Class 132 (i)] Gymnastic apparatus comprises two readily detachable sections which fit together one above the other and when assembled form a whole comprising a padded vaulting top mounted on four outwardly splayed legs, a number of wall bars extending between the legs on each of the longer sides of the apparatus, the lower section having horizontal end members which support a balance beam extending centrally and lengthwise of the section. A third section may be fitted below the lower section, either similar in construction to the upper section or in the form of a box with open top and bottom. The wall bars are preferably of oval section with the greater diameter vertical. As shown in Fig. 2 the upper section 10 has horizontal end members 15 and one pair of wallbars 16, the middle section 11 has end rails 18, end bars 27, and three pairs of wall bars 19, and the lower section 12 has end bars 31 and one pair of wall bars 32. The middle section has also a horizontal balance beam 26 of square section secured to the end rails 18. On assembly, the legs 14, 17 and 28 of the upper middle and lower sections respectively, come into alignment. The joint between each of the leg parts 14 and 17 is notched to receive the end of the top wall bar 19 which thus connects the upper and middle sections. The other wall bars are secured to the legs by pins.
Patent GB-206525-A (GB)
IPC: F22D1/02
Filed: 1923-11-06
Abstract: 206,525. Hartmann, M. & E. Nov. 0, 1922, [Convention date]. Feed-water, heating. -In an economizer, a part of the water is circulated continuously through heating coils a<1>, a<2> by a pump bl in such quantity in a given time that only a small rise in temperature occurs in the heating coils a<1>, a<2>, the main rise in temperature of the cold feed taking place in the vertical mixing pipe by contact with the already heated water. For this reason gases are liberated only outside the heating coils and escape by the vent d. Specifications 27311/06 and 1026/14 are referred to
Patent GB-1277140-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to structures including a plurality of platform sections
Inventor: SAWRIE HEWLETT MALONE
IPC: B65G17/12
Filed: 1970-06-10
Abstract: 1277140 Endless conveyers H M SAWRIE 10 June 1970 [11 June 1969] 28009/70 Heading B8A An endless conveyer platform structure 25 (Fig. 1) is adapted to be supported in a rigid operative position 25<SP>1</SP>and has a plurality of rigid load-supporting members 33 (Fig. 3), an elongated rigid bridging member 34 fixed to, and disposed transversely of, the member 33, so that it projects on opposite sides of the member 33. All the members 33 are disposed transversely of the platform with the bridging member 34 of each member 33 extending over the immediately adjacent load-supporting member or members 33. By this means, and by virtue of connecting means 36 being provided between adjacent members, in the operative position of the platform, all the members 33 of each platform are maintained rigid against relative movement above the operative platform position, and the sections may swing in a longitudinal plane to an inoperative position below the operative platform position. The conveyer may be of the kind described in Specification 1,008,554. In Figs. 1-4, the load-supporting members are bars or slats, and the connecting means 36 comprises a flexible sheet secured to immediately adjacent members 33. In Figs. 7-9 (not shown), the flexible member is formed by interlinking the members 34 to form two laterally-spaced endless chains. The members 33 may be plain slats or alternatively (Figs. 8, 9, not shown) may be of T-shaped cross-section.
Patent GB-928216-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to gas-sampling means for a gas-cooled nuclear reactor
Inventor: MCCULLOCH DONALD GEORGE
IPC: G01T7/02
Filed: 1958-09-01
Abstract: Gas sampling means for a gas-cooled nuclear <PICT:0928216/III/1> reactor comprises selector valves 11 each associated with a group of fuel channels of the reactor core and arranged to withdraw gas samples from the individual channels in sequence, the valves being operated in sequence by electric motors 16 regulated by a controller 22.  The samples are supplied through a discharge pipe 18 to a common fission products detector 13, the output signals from which are transmitted by a circuit 26 to the corresponding one of four recorders 24.  Each valve has an off-position 20, and is associated with a gas flow indicator 30 (see Group XXXVII) in the pipe 18. These indicators detect the beginning and end of gas flow through each valve and electrical signals produced at these times are transmitted to an alarm 31 which also receives signals from the recorders 24.  The alarm is automatically operated if any valve 11 gets out of step with its associated recorder 24.
Patent GB-1256066-A (GB)
Title: Flame tubes for gas turbine engines
Inventor: JACKSON SQUIRE RONALD
IPC: F23R3/26
Filed: 1967-11-10
Abstract: 1,256,066. Gas turbine combustion chambers. JOSEPH LUCAS (INDUSTRIES) Ltd. Dec.13, 1968 [Nov.10, 1967; June 13, 1968], Nos. 51293/67 and 28092/68. Heading F1L. An annular flame tube for a gas turbine engine having an annular primary combustion air passage 30, Fig. 1, with an annular intake 33 and annular secondary combustion air passages 31 with annular intakes 34, 35 has vanes 36, 37, 38 mounted on a series of angularly spaced common shafts and arranged so that when each shaft is rotated in a given direction vanes 36 increase the flow area of primary passage 30 but vanes 37, 38 simultaneously decrease the flow area of secondary passages 31 and vice versa. The vane shafts are controlled by pneumatic actuators (39), Fig. 3 (not shown), connected between circumferentially extending pipes (40, 41) and arranged to turn alternate shafts in one direction and remaining shafts in the opposite direction so that the vanes 36, 37, 38 do not introduce any swirl into the primary or secondary air. In a modification, Fig. 5, the air-flow control is effected by annular restricting members 65, 66, 67 joined by radial arms 68 and arranged to be axially movable by means of rods 69 between the full and dotted line positions. In further modifications, Figs. 7, 8 (not shown), the air-flow is controlled by flaps (74, 75 or 81) which are pivotally mounted about tangential axes at the inlet of the flame tube and actuated by an axially movable member or through bell-cranks (83).