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Patent GB-991631-A (GB)
Title: Method and apparatus for washing articles
IPC: A47L15/20
Filed: 1962-01-23
Abstract: 991,631. Dishwashing machines. G. M. GIBSON. Jan. 23, 1962 [Jan. 23, 1961], No. 2415/62. Heading A4F. In a dishwashing machine a jet 28 of washing liquid emitted from a nozzle 17 impinges upon a deflector 23 to rotate it about a double screw-threaded rod 19 and to cause it to travel to and fro along the rod 19 whilst generating a transversely directed sheet of washing liquid on to the dishes to be washed. The surface of the deflector 23 upon which the jet impinges may be partially convex and partially concave, and provided with curved vanes upon which the jet acts to rotate the deflector. Alternatively the deflector may have an operative surface of wave form, or be provided with an annular shield to limit the area of its operative surface upon which the jet impinges, or be in the form of a cup which receives the jet and discharges the washing liquid through a tangential spout thereby causing rotation of the cup by reaction. The jet orifice may be circular, square, or rectangular, and the jet may comprise a plurality of orifices. In a further construction the jet is directed vertically upwards to cause a deflector to travel up and down a vertical rod.
Patent GB-955632-A (GB)
Title: Electrical cord connector having an improved protective covering
IPC: H01R13/595
Filed: 1962-01-23
Abstract: 955,632. Two-part couplings. HARVEY HUBBELL Inc. Jan. 23, 1962 [Feb. 21, 1961], No. 2474/62. Heading H2E. A pair of co-operating electrical connectors are enclosed by protective covers which seal the cable entries to the connectors and the connectors themselves when the two parts are in engagement. As shown, the rear end of each connector is conically tapered at 40, and has a sleeve 42, through which the connecting cable is forced. The front end of the socket cover has an overhanging portion 44 which carries flanges 48, 50. The plug cover has a lip 86 and groove 84 at its front end. On insertion of the plug into the socket the flange 48 and the lip 86 are deformed until the lip passes the flange and comes into sealing contact with the face 59 of the flange 50. The flange 48 is bent inwards by this action and presses against the outside of the conical portion 82, thus forming a second sealing region. In a modification, Fig. 9 (not shown), the flange 48 extends further radially inward so that in the sealing position its end presses against the back of the lip 86 and thus forms a third sealing region. The covers may be used with connectors which have curved L-shaped blades which are inserted and then rotated to lock under the face of the socket to prevent axial separation of the two parts. The connectors may be provided with strain relief clamps and the covers are provided with ribs to grip the connector bodies.
Patent GB-547430-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to milling and routing machines
IPC: B23Q35/00
Filed: 1941-02-24
Abstract: 547,430. Milling-machines. PRESTWICK, J. A. Feb. 24, 1941, No. 2483. [Class 83 (iii)] A milling machine comprises roughing and finishing cutters which for most of the operation act simultaneously in grooving a ring for a shell fuse &c. The hollow spindle 2 is driven through worm gearing and a friction clutch from a shaft 3 and carries an adapter to hold the work which is secured by a C washer and draw bar. An operating handle 8 is connected by rods 10 to a collar on the draw bar. When the rods 10 are angularly displaced by movement of handle 8 the draw bar is moved outwards by a spring to release the work. The roughing cutter 20 is mounted on an inclined spindle 21 driven from a pulley 22 and mounted on a longitudinal slide 23 actuated to give depth feed to this cutter by a cam 28 acting through a lever 25. The finishing tool is an end milling cutter 35 mounted in a sleeve 37 and driven from a pulley 45, the sleeve being fed axially by a cam 44 and lever 41. The cams are formed on a drum 48 on a counter-shaft 49 carrying a stud 50 coacting with a lever 52. The countershaft also carries cams 60 ... 63, the cam 60 actuating a roller 70, Fig. 3, on a lever 71 carrying the pivot pin 65 of a lever 64, having a roller 63 actuated by cams 61, 62. The end 66 of lever 64 coacts with stop plates 67, 68 on the work spindle 2. The starting handle 80 is connected through lever mechanism to a yoke 83 carrying the movable clutch member 86 which connects a pulley 87 to a shaft 92 connected by worm gearing 93 to the countershaft. When, in operation, the clutch 86 is engaged by the handle 80, the end of lever 52 engages behind stop 88 to hold the clutch in. The cam 28 then feeds the roughing cutter to depth. While this feed is taking place the lever end 66 holds the work stationary and the headstock clutch slips. The cam 61 now disengages the work spindle and the work rotates until the second stop 68 is engaged by the lever, again stopping the work. The finishing cutter is now advanced to depth by its cam after which the lever 71 is actuated to give a slow rotation to the work with lever 66 still engaged. The cam 62 then disengages lever 66 and the work rotation continues at normal speed until the roughing cutter is withdrawn by its cam. Later, the plate 67 is engaged by lever 66 which is then returned slowly to full line position, Fig. 3, rotating the work while the finishing cutter completes the groove. The finishing cutter is then withdrawn and the projection 50 operates to shift the lever 52 and allow the clutch to disengage.
Patent GB-493419-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in fish dressing machines
IPC: A22C25/16
Filed: 1938-01-26
Abstract: 493,419. Dressing fish. LAURIN, L., and LAURIN, S. L. Jan. 26, 1938, No. 2492. [Class 28 (ii)] In a fish-dressing machine, the fishes are conveyed with their backs against the conveying-means, and are traversed past two knives which make two incisions embracing the entrails and backbone of each fish, and past other knives which separate the meat from the skin of the side portions of the fish, As shown, the fish is gripped by the tail between two drums 6, 6a to which it is fed along a trough 7 having at its front end a decapitating disc knife 10 mounted on a frame 9 which is oscillated across the trough by a handle 11. The knife 10 is driven by a shaft 61 and universal couplings 60. The drums 6, 6a are separable, by means described below, to enable the tail to be inserted. The fish is conveyed to the disc knives 16 which are set at an angle to each other and substantially touch at a point near the circumference of the drums. The shafts of the knives are connected by a universal joint 15. The fish is guided for presentation to the knives 16 by plates 20, one on each of two shafts 18 having intermeshing toothed quadrants 19 at their upper ends. A spring 22 tends to swing the plates 20 towards each other. Behind the knives 16 is a trough 26, the front end of which embraces the knives, and is shaped to catch and divert the backbone and entrails cut away by the knives. Curved plates 27 deflect the sides of the fish over the surfaces of the drums. Two obliquely arranged knives 29 cut between the meat and the skin of the side pieces of the fish, the skinless fillets being discharged over a shoot 30. The skin of the fish, attached to the tail, is then released by the separation of the drums. The drums 6, 6a are mounted on a shaft 4. The drum 6 is driven by a cone clutch 32, 33 having a spring 34 which tends to disengage the clutch. A spring 31 is positioned between the drums and tends to separate them. The drum 6a is driven by the drum 6 by the fishtail jammed between the drums and is provided with a cam track 35 which is contacted by a roller 36 on a plunger 37 urged towards the drum by a spring 40 which is strong enough to overcome the springs 31, 34. The plunger 37 has a head 38 and a reduced part 39, and a slotted member 41, pivoted on the shaft 4, is swingable by a handle 43 and connecting link 44, to engage behind the head 38 and retain the plunger in its retracted position. A spring 45 tends to bring the member 41 towards the plunger 37. In operation, when the member 41 is withdrawn from the plunger, the spring 40 closes the gap between the drums and engages the clutch against the action of the springs 31. 34. The handle 43, being released, allows the member 41 to engage behind the head 38 when the cam 35 forces the plunger backwards, and to hold the spring 40 compressed when the cam 35 recedes from the roller 36. thus allowing the drums to separate and the clutch drive to cease.
Patent GB-327487-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in electric connector plugs
Filed: 1929-01-25
Abstract: 327,487. Marks, Sir G. C., (Belden Manufacturing Co.). Jan. 25, 1929. Couplings.-A plug connector comprises a main body member 10, preferably of resilient material such as rubber, a closure plug 11, also preferably of rubber, and a pair of contact prongs 12, 13. The body 10 has an enlarged front portion 14 and a shank portion 15 having an inwardly projecting shoulder 35 which makes a weathertight joint with the duplex conductor cord 34. The ends of the conductors are connected to the prongs 12, 13 by screws 30, 31, the ends of which are received in recesses 43, 44. The parallel inner end portions of the prongs 12, 13 fit into long narrow parallel recesses 24, 25 in the body 10. The plug 11 is tapered from its inner to its outer end, the aperture into which it fits being correspondingly shaped, so that the plug can be forced into place owing to the resilience of the rubber. The plug 11 has recesses to take the heads of the heads of the screws 30, 31, by which the prongs 12, 13 are held against longitudinal displacement. The plug also has at its inner end a fin 45 which separates the two conductors.
Patent GB-197364-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to protective devices for enclosed electrical apparatus
IPC: H01H9/04
Filed: 1922-10-31
Abstract: 197,364. British Thomson - Houston Co., Ltd., and Clough, F. H. Oct. 31, 1922. Cases.-A flame-arresting venting device for electrical apparatus, for example switch cases, used in an explosive atmosphere comprises a hollow cylindrical plug with a flange 3 the portion beyond the flange being screw-threaded to receive a perforated cap 4 whereby the plug may be secured to the casing and the interior of the plug being fitted with a spiral made up of two thin metallic ribbons 6, 7, one of which is corrugated and the other plain. The ribbons and the interior of the plug are tinned and when the spiral has been inserted the plug is heated up to melt the tin and secure the ribbons together and to the plug. The outer end of the plug has orifices 2 which are covered by a spun metal cap 8 which excludes dust and is blown off when the pressure becomes sufficiently high, the escaping gases being cooled by passage through the spaces between the ribbons.
Patent GB-948579-A (GB)
Title: Apparatus for use in coating the interior of tubes
Inventor: CLIFT ALFRED
IPC: B05B13/06
Filed: 1962-01-25
Abstract: 948,579. Coating apparatus. STEWARTS & LLOYDS Ltd. Dec. 13, 1962 [Jan. 25, 1962], No. 2901/62. Heading B2B. An apparatus for coating the interior of pipes and tubes comprises a casing 1 adapted to be inserted into the interior of a tube or pipe 6 and within which casing 1 is disposed a screwtype conveyer 3, rotated by means 4, for carrying powdered or particulate material supplied by hopper 5, along the interior of the casing 1, a conduit, e.g. bore 10 extending along the length of screw 3, for carrying compressed air or other gas entering by inlet 9, to the delivery end of said conveyer, and diverting means, e.g. diffuser head 8, for diverting the material picked up by the air or gas issuing from the conduit to cause the material to flow in directions transvere to the axis of the tube or pipe 6 and thereby cause it to impinge on to the interior of the tube or pipe 6. The casing 1 may be kept cool by having a hollow wall to receive cooling fluid, e.g. air or water. If air is used as a cooling fluid, part of it may be used for picking up the powder at the delivery end of the conveyer.
Patent GB-367539-A (GB)
Title: Means for protecting electrical installations, particularly heavy current installations
IPC: H02H1/00
Filed: 1931-01-30
Abstract: 367,539. Protective cut-out arrangements. SIEMENS-SCHUCKERTWERKE AKT.-GES., Siemensstadt, Berlin. Jan. 30, 1931, No. 3109. Convention date, Feb. 10, 1930. Addition to 319,242, [Class 38 (v), Electric switches &c.]. [Class 38 (v).] Relates to the protection of heavy current installations by superimposing on them a frequency dependent on that of their natural frequency so that when the natural frequency changes on fault a change in the superimposed frequency takes place, and, acting on a relay isolates the faulty circuit or apparatus, as described in the parent Specification. According to the present invention, instead of employing filter circuits to separate the protected part from the remainder of the plant a high-frequency oscillation generator H impresses by inductive coupling equal tensions (with a phase displacement of 180‹ in relation to each other) on the one hand on the part of the plant to be protected W, and, on the other hand, upon a winding W2 in the connection between W1 and the remainder of the plant. The points A and C are thus points of equal potential in respect of the superimposed frequency and external faults do not affect the action of the relay R which responds only to a fault in the protected part W1.
Patent GB-867561-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to carrier bags
IPC: A45C5/14
Filed: 1960-01-28
Abstract: 867,561. Carrier bags. FOLKMANNI. Jan. 28, 1960, No. 3188/60. Class 133. A carrier bag comprises a flexible trunk portion 1 and a rigid base 7, the latter being provided with wheels 8 and means, e.g. sockets 11 and studs 10, to secure the base outer bottom surface to either upper side of the trunk portion 1. The sides 2, 3 of the trunk portion 1 are connected by pleats 4, 5 ; handles 6, a purse 12 and press stud closure means 13 are provided.
Patent GB-583064-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in machines for labelling bottles and other containers
IPC: B65C9/18
Filed: 1942-03-11
Abstract: 583,064. Labelling-machines. BRASS-CAV SOC. A. R. L. March 11, 1942, No. 3205. Convention date, Dec. 19, 1940. [Class 73] A machine for labelling bottles and the like while supported in a horizontal position in a trough 6 or on a step-by-step c.onveyer, comprises a vertical cam shaft 1 mounted at the rear of the machine and supporting a series of superposed cams each of which effects one of the labelling operations. Cam 5 acts to raise and lower the trough 6 for loading and unloading. A friction plate 24 drives, through a sprocket 25, chain 27 and spindle 30, a turret 29 carrying three pairs of plates 28 adapted, in successive positions, to be pasted on their upper surface by a pasting roll reciprocated horizontally by a cam 20, to receive a label from a label magazine 9 reciprocated vertically by a cam 8, and to position the label 33 above a bottle. The turret is locked and indexed in its operative positions by a finger 19 operated by a cam 17. The label is applied to the bottle by wipers 32 on scissors-like fingers 13 which are lowered between the plates 28, Fig. 3, by a cam 12 acting through a lever 15 and are spread, to smooth the label, by contact with the bottle. The turret 29 and fingers 13 are supported by a bracket 34 which is vertically adjustable for bottles of different sizes.
Patent GB-676286-A (GB)
Title: Record discharging mechanism for automatic phonographs
IPC: G11B17/16
Filed: 1951-02-09
Abstract: 676,286. Automatic gramophones. PHILCO CORPORATION. Feb. 9, 1951. [March 11, 1950] No. 3218/51. Class 40 (ii). In an automatic gramophone in which records are supported on a non-rotating stepped centre post 26 and on a stepped support 17 beside the turntable 11, records are unseated one by one from the step on the centre post by the movement of the centre post towards the support 17. The turntable is mounted on a sleeve 18 which rotates on a thrust bearing 23 about a stationary sleeve 20. The centre post has a small ridge 28 by which it rests on the upper end 29 of the sleeve 20. During an automatic cycle the lower end 37 of the centre post is moved right and then left, as viewed in the figures, by an aperture 38 in the end of a lever 39 pivoted at a fixed point 40 and movable under the influence of a cycling cam 45, through the medium of a cam follower 44 on an arm 41 coupled to lever 39 by a spring 43 which prevents excessive movement or pressure being applied to the centre post 26. The support 17 is rotatable to three separate positions to enable three stepped shelves at different distances from the centre post to be brought into operation for the accommodation of different size records.
Patent GB-123569-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or in connection with Lifting or Hauling Gear.
Inventor: WALKER JOAH HAIGH
IPC: B66C9/14
Filed: 1918-02-23
Abstract: 123,569. Walker, J. H. Feb. 23, 1918. 0 v e r h e a d transporters.-In lifting-gear wherein the load is suspended from a carrier b<1> travelling on a flexible cableway b, the cableway b is attached to the two ends of a beam or strut a of sufficient strength to resist the horizontal or inclined pulls of the sagging cableway. The ends of the beam may be directly supported upon walls or other supports, or supported by tackle in travelling towers g, g<1>, Fig. 4. The tackle on the tower g is connected to a carriage h so that it hangs vertically at all inclinations of the beam which is luffed by ropes i, i<1>. The beam may be in two sections connected by a hinge j, Fig. 5, which permits the sections to take up the position shown in dotted lines but prevents movement of the joint in the upward direction from the position shown in full lines. The hinge is supported by the rope k. The beam can be mounted upon two pairs of sheer-legs carried upon a truck and hinged thereto and to the beam, or one end of the beam can be mounted in a wheeled carriage and the other end supported by a rope.
Patent GB-873858-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to refuelling machines for nuclear reactors
Inventor: KNIGHTS HERBERT CHILVERS
IPC: G21C19/02
Filed: 1959-01-29
Abstract: 873,858. Handling nuclear fuel elements. UNITED KINGDOM ATOMIC ENERGY AUTHORITY. Jan. 22, 1960 [Jan. 29, 1959; April 22, 1959], Nos. 3292/59 and 13785/59. Class 39(4). A shielded reactor refuelling machine supported on rails so that there is a gap between the shielding and the reactor charge face has additional movable shielding whereby when the machine has been brought to the selected position on the charge face the additional shielding may be lowered to close the gap. As shown, the lower end of the shielding 12 of a refuelling machine 10 is spaced from the charge face 36 and has an annular cut-away part 13 accommodating the additional shielding 14. The shielding 14 comprises a steel ring 17 attached to the machine by four vertical shafts 25 threaded at their lower ends (Fig. 2, not shown), and engaging in internally-threaded bushes 16 secured to lugs 39 on the ring. The shafts 25 are driven conjointly to cause vertical displacement of the ring by an electric motor 40 driving through shafts 41 and reduction gear units 31. To accommodate for irregularities on the face 36 the underside of the ring 17 has secured to it by bolts 34 a series of interlocking pads 33, the pads being mounted for limited movement in the vertical direction by sliding on the bolt shanks. To carry out a refuelling operation a cap 37 in the face 36 is removed and a retractible nose unit 11 inserted through the aperture 38.
Patent GB-456865-A (GB)
Title: Continuous-rod cigarette-making machine
IPC: A24C5/39
Filed: 1936-02-04
Abstract: 456,865. Cigarette-making machines. UNIVERSELLE CIGARETTEN MASCHINEN-FABRIK J. C. MULLER & CO., 48, Zwickauerstrasse, Dresden, Germany. Feb. 4, 1936, No. 3355. Convention date, Feb. 9, 1935. [Class 130] To reduce the longitudinal dimension of a continuous-rod machine, the tobacco spreader 2 or the raking drum is disposed obliquely to the direction of the rod channel 14 and deposits tobacco obliquely on a conveyer belt 12 which delivers it to the rod channel.
Patent GB-1389851-A (GB)
Title: Organic photoconductive materials
IPC: G03G5/07
Filed: 1972-01-25
Abstract: 1389851 Polymer-blends XEROX CORP 25 Jan 1972 [25 Jan 1971] 3399/72 Headings C3P and C3G [Also in Division G2] An organic photoconductive composition comprises a photoconductive organic polymer and an elastomer, the elastomer being present as a dispersion of discrete particles in a continuous photoconductive polymer phase. The photoconductive polymer may be polyvinyl carbazole, derivatives thereof, polyvinyl dibenzofuran, polyvinyl naphthalene, polyvinyl anthracene, polyvinyl pyrene, poly-N-substituted acrylamides or copolymers of the corresponding monomers. The elastomer may be polybutadiene, polychloroprene, polyisoprene, polyisobutene or copolymers of the corresponding monomers with vinyl monomers. The weight ratio of photoconductive polymer to elastomer should be above 1 : 1, preferably from 2 : 1 to 4 : 1. To make the composition, elastomer particles maybe blended with the polymer using heat and shearing, or the polymer dissolved in a solvent may be blended with the elastomer optionally suspended in a compatible solvent. Alternatively, a monomer may be emulsion polymerized in the presence of the elastomer emulsion or emulsions of the photoconductive polymer and elastomer may be blended and coagulated. The monomer may alternatively be polymerized in the presence of elastomer to form a product which includes both homopolymer and a graft or block polymer on the elastomer. This product may itself constitute the composition according to the invention, or may constitute elastomer phase when blended with further photoconductive polymer. Modifying the elastomer by graft or block polymerization may aid in preventing phase separation. The composition may be used as a self-supporting photoconductive layer or applied to a base in conventional electrophotographic processes.
Patent GB-266327-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to time stamping clocks
IPC: G07C1/06
Filed: 1927-02-07
Abstract: 266,327. Dornheim, F. Feb. 20, 1926, [Convention date]. Platen machines; time-printing apparatus. - A stamp m is fixed in a frame k to which are fixed swivel pins i supported by levers g, which rock about fixed pivots k and are connected together by a handle f, whereby the stamp m may be moved from its normal position resting on an ink-pad c into printing position on a sheet laid on a resilient bed d. The stamp is guided in this movement by gearing comprising segments r, s fixed on the pins i, h respectively and an intermediate wheel t. The frame k is open at the front to expose a clock-face m<1>. and at the bottom where lugs are provided to engage grooves in the sides of the stamp. At the top of the frame a screw p, Fig. 3, normally concealed by a cap x and operated by a special key, screws into a boss o on the top of the stamp m, and, to prevent interference with the printing-hands from the front, a guard v, Fig. 1, is provided.
Patent GB-196126-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to the construction of electric storage batteries
IPC: H01M10/04
Filed: 1922-02-06
Abstract: 196,126. Wagner, H. G. Feb. 6, 1922. Electrodes; separators.-Block electrodes made as described in Specification 196,127 are separated from one another in the battery cell by insulators 19 secured to one of the electrodes as shown in Fig. 5. Each electrode is formed with a recess 26 so that when two electrodes are placed in a cell a cavity is formed at the top as shown in Fig. 3 to receive a testing instrument or to serve as a filling opening. Grooves 27 are formed in the electrodes to increase the surface area.
Patent GB-242834-A (GB)
Title: A ground anchor
IPC: E02D5/80
Filed: 1925-02-07
Abstract: 242,834. Robinson, L. Feb. 7, 1925. Ground augers.-For boring a hole in the ground preparatory to inserting an anchor, a bit 13 is detachably secured to the free end of the shank 6 of the anchor.