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Patent GB-379961-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to vulcanising apparatus
IPC: B29C35/00
Filed: 1932-01-13
Abstract: 379,961. Vulcanizing boots. WALTHER & CO. KOMM.-GES., H., Oberrad, Frankfort-on-Main, Germany. Jan. 13, 1932, No. 1073. Convention date, Sept. 23, 1931.. [Class 70.] In apparatus for vulcanizing shoe soles comprising a cushion inflated by constantly applied heated pressure fluid, a constant slow discharge of the pressure fluid takes place to maintain a steady pressure and temperature in the apparatus. A shaft 3, Fig. 1, in standards 1, 2, carries a series of radial brackets 4 on each of which is mounted an insulated pan 9 with steam &c. inlet 15 and outlet 16 and a flexible cover 12. The pressure fluid is controlled by a distributer, Figs. 3, 5 and 6, consisting of an outer member 30 rotating with the shaft 3 and connected to each vulcanizing pan by pipes 17, 18, and an inner member 24 fixed to the standard 1, with inlet and outlet channels, and also one connected to a pressure-controlling valve. The inlet channel a terminates in a groove all, Fig. 6, in communication with holes 28 in the member 30, and the pipes 17. The pressure cut-off 42 corresponds in position with the exhaust port b<1>, Fig. 5, section C, D of Fig. 3 : a slight overlap of groove all and port b<1> allows a blow-through of heating fluid just before a finished shoe is removed and a new one is placed in position. The channel c terminates in groove c<11> which allows of a slow discharge through an adjustable valve. In operation, a shoe is placed on the uppermost pan, and is clamped by the raising of a hand- or pedal-operated rod 57, Fig. 1, which bears on a roller 53 on a slide 47, and presses a stirrup 38 on to the shoe. The slide 47 is held in the raised position by a spring-controlled bellcrank lever 49. The apparatus is rotated one step, pressure fluid enters the pan, and another pan is brought into position for the reception of another shoe. During vulcanization, pressure and temperature are maintained constant by the discharge of heating fluid through the groove c<11>, and an adjustable valve, and admission of fresh fluid through the groove all. Just before completion of a revolution of the apparatus, each pan is in communication with the inlet all, Fig. 6, and outlet b<1>, Fig. 5, so that any condensed water &c. is blown out. At the same time a cam on the bell crank 49, Fig. 1, comes into contact with a roll 54 on the frame to withdraw the lever from engagement with the slide 47, and to allow a spring 50 to raise the stirrup 38 clear of the vulcanized shoe.
Patent GB-650873-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in planetary gear mechanism
IPC: F16H61/02
Filed: 1947-01-13
Abstract: 650,873. Electromagnetic clutches. SOC. E.P.I.C., ELECTRICITE, PRODUITS INDUSTRIELS & CHIMIQUES. Jan. 13, 1947, No. 1132. Convention date, May 30, 1945. [Class 35] [Also in Group XXIV] In a planetary gear system comprising sunwheel 24, planet carrier 32, and driven annulus 37, eddy current electromagnetic clutches 4, 5 provide the connecting means between a driving shaft 1 and carrier 32 or sun-wheel 24, and are combined with friction means to take up oscillations in the transmission. Coils 7, 9 disposed in pole members 8, 10 and spaced by a member 6, are carried on a drum 3 secured to the driving-shaft 1. Armatures 20, 25 secured to carrier 32 and sun-wheel 24 have teeth 21, 26 formed on their flanged peripheries and are disposed in close proximity to similar teeth formed on pole members 7, 8 but displaced slightly axially with respect thereto. Friction surfaces 22, 28 formed on the armatures 20, 25 cooperate with similar surfaces 23, 10<SP>1</SP> when the clutches are respectively engaged to damp the transfer of oscillations from the driving to the driven elements. Armature 20 is splined on to a hub 18 integral with the planet carriers 32, and a spring 19 maintains the armature in the disengaged position. An electromagnetic brake 41 is disposed on the casing 39 for braking the armature 25, and a toothed annulus 42 is adapted to co-operate with the teeth 36 of a cup member 35 secured to the planet carrier for braking the latter. Clutches 4, 5 are energized by current supplied to slip-rings 11, 12. The housing may be sub-divided by a partition 43, and the planetary gearing portion filled with oil. In operation, an over-drive is effected by engagement of clutch 4 and brake 41, a direct drive by engagement of clutches 4, 5, and a reverse drive by engagement of clutch 5 and braking means 42. Specification 612,320 is referred to.
Patent GB-100916-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Safety Devices for Electrically Operated Lifts and other Vehicles.
Inventor: CLARKE JOHN TEFFT
IPC: B66B13/22
Filed: 1916-01-25
Abstract: 100,916. Clarke, J. T. Jan. 25, 1916 Lift cages and doors, locking and unlocking and operating.-A safety device for use in lifts, trains and other vehicles, wherein movement of the lift &c. is impossible until the gate is closed, comprises a solenoid 9 in a local circuit 3, 8 with the door switch 6. As the gate is opened at any floor, the circuit is made so that the core 15 of the solenoid is raised against a spring resistance and breaks the main motor circuit 11, 12. A push. switch 5 is provided in the vehicle so that the solenoid circuit may be broken and the vehicle actuated when the gate is opened. A local circuit.. in which there is a lamp 55, is also provided and closed by the core of the solenoid when the main circuit is broken to indicate that the safety device is working. Elevator control magnets 28 - - 31 are actuated in pairs from the controller 25 to control the elevating-motor 26, and an accelerating device for starting the motor gradually is provided as shown at 32. A modified form of door switch is shown in Fig. 2. This knife switch may be retained in open position by a pin passed through the hole 43. A normally closed circuit may be used instead of a normally open circuit by reversing certain parts.
Patent GB-855256-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to garments with elastic bands
IPC: A41F9/02
Filed: 1959-01-13
Abstract: 855,256. Garment waistbands &c. NOBELT Ltd. Jan. 13, 1959 [Feb. 27, 1958], No. 1192/59. Class 141 [Also in Group VIII] In a waistband including an elastic strip 2 of sheet rubber or of woven material incorporating rubber threads, a non-elastic non-porous strip 1 of a synthetic plastic material &c. is provided on the surface of the elastic strip nearer the wearer's body. The non-porous strip may be part of a sheath completely enclosing the elastic strip. A strip 3 of elastic textile material may cover the surface of the strip 1 nearer the wearer's body, the layers 1-3 being secured together with the elastic strips under tension, so that pleats are formed in the non-elastic strip 1 when tension is relaxed. In alternative embodiments, the composite band 1, 2 is enclosed between separate textile strips or within an inverted U-shaped textile sheath or within a hem formed at the edge of the garment material.
Patent GB-682607-A (GB)
Title: An improved device for packing garments in suitcases, wardrobe trunks, wardrobes or the like
IPC: A45C13/03
Filed: 1950-01-17
Abstract: 682,607. Packing garments; suit-cases. LAUN- ' DER, J. A. Jan. 17, 1951 [Jan. 17, 1950], No. 1246/50. Classes 18, 94(i), and 133 A device for packing garments in suit-cases &c. comprises two or more rectangular wire frames 14, 17 pivoted together end-to-end at 18, the frame 14 having rigidly fixed thereto a hook 19 for a garment hanger. The garment is hung as shown in Fig. 1 to overlie the device, the frame 14 is then swung upwards until the rail 12 is at the top with the garment folded around it and the frame 17 depending from the rail 13. The frame 17 is then swung upwards folding the garment again about the rails 13, 16, and the folded device placed in a suit-case, wardrobe &c. The rails 12, 16 are cranked at 23 to provide abutments positioning the edges of the garment. The device may be hinged to the side or cover of a suit-case &c. to swing out therefrom. A third frame may be pivoted to the rail 16. A garment hanger may be permanently secured to the hook 19.
Patent GB-549958-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to circuit arrangements for directional radio transmitters
IPC: G01S1/02
Filed: 1941-01-31
Abstract: 549,958. Directive wireless systems. AGABALTIC RADIO AKTIEBOLAG. Jan. 31, 1941, No. 1292. Convention date, April 10, 1940. [Class 40 (v)] In a directional radio transmitter comprising at least one pair of dipole antennas 11, 12, Fig. 3, alternately coupled to the transmitter, a reflector screen 14 is provided between the halves of the dipoles to produce radiation characteristics 26, 27, 28, 29 defining two opposite course directions suitable for E-T-type signals by alternate switching in of the two parts of the dipole. To confine the course to one direction, an additional reflector 41, Fig. 8, is provided along one side of the dipoles. By proportioning the screen and the antennas the sensitivity of course detection may be adjusted and clicks may be reduced. Still further reduction of clicks may be obtained by suitable arrangements of the circuits. In one such arrangement, Fig. 5, the impedances between the screen 14 and antennas 11, 12 form a bridge circuit with impedances 32, 33 connected between the antennas and the screen. The impedance 33 is greater than the impedance 32 so that when a switch 34 is closed and puts the impedance 32 in circuit, the dipole antenna 11 is partly inactive ; whereas when the switch is open, the other dipole antenna 12 is inactive to a corresponding degree. By a suitable choice of impedances, the characteristics of the two conditions can be made symmetrical. In a modification, a variable condenser replaces the switch 34 and the impedance 32. In another form, Fig. 7, the antennas are made alternately operative by a differential condenser 35, 36, 37 driven in synchronism with the code by a device 43 ; and a pair of resistances 38, 39 connect the fixed plates 36, 37 of the differential condenser to a variable condenser 40 which is mechanically coupled to the movable plate 35 of the differential condenser to balance the load on the circuits.
Patent GB-372710-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in apparatus for supplying spinning solution to artificial silk spinning machines
IPC: D01D1/06
Filed: 1932-01-16
Abstract: In an artificial silk spinning-machine, the pipe which carries the spinning nozzles is supplied with spinning solution at several points from a common feeding device.  In one construction, a gear wheel pump delivers solution into a conduit which forks into a plurality of branch pipes which open into the spinning pipe at intervals along its length.  In the construction shown in Fig. 1, a gear wheel pump 1 is connected to a conduit 2, from which conduits 3<1>, 3<2>, 3<3>, &c. lead to a pipe 4 to which the spinning points 7<1>, 7<2>, 7<3>, &c. are attached.  The arrangement results in uniformity of supply of the solution to the spinning nozzles.  The effect is enhanced by inserting nozzles of graded cross section, adapted to the fall in pressure, at the connecting <PICT:0372710/IV/1> <PICT:0372710/IV/2> <PICT:0372710/IV/3> points between the supply pipe and the spinning pipe or in the connecting pipes 5 for the spinning nozzles.  In the construction shown in Figs. 2 and 3, the pipe 2 passes through the interior of the spinning pipe 4 and communicates therewith by a number of bores 8 spaced along its lower side.  The sizes of the orifices at 8 may be graded to compensate for the fall in pressure along the pipe 2.
Patent GB-625969-A (GB)
Title: Knitting machines
IPC: D04B23/08
Filed: 1946-01-15
Abstract: 625,969. Knitting. DEHN, S. G. (Vanity Fair Mills, Inc.). Jan. 15, 1946, No. 1380. [Class 74 (ii)] [Also in Group IX] A bearded-needle, straight bar warp knitting machine, with knock-over sinkers, sinker nibs, thread guides and thread guide traversing means, has projecting between adjacent needle paths, fingers over which the threads are laid. Fabrics comprising threads knitted through a woven base fabric are produced on a warp knitting machine having fixed fingers over which yarns can be laid. The needles 21 are given long or short strokes by rollers 50, 61, Fig. 5, moving between long stroke and short stroke surfaces of leader and follower cams on a shaft 12, the rollers being carried on arms 18 secured to a rock-shaft 14 and carrying the needle bar 18a. In harmony with this, sinker nibs 77 and beard pressers 80 are given long or short strokes by moving a roller 38, Fig. 3, between long and short stroke surfaces of another cam on the shaft 12, the roller being carried by an arm 36, secured to a rock-shaft 16, to which is also secured arms 72 carrying the nibs and pressers ; on a short forward stroke the pressers do not press the needle beards. Thread guides 71 are borne on a bar so mounted on arms 65, secured to a rock-shaft 29, that the thread guides may be traversed along the needle line. The guides are swung across the needle line leader and follower cams 98, 99, Fig. 7, also on shaft 12, engaging rollers 96, 97 on an arm 33, loose on shaft 14 and acting through a pin and slot connection 34, 35, on an arm 32 secured to the rock-shaft 29. The rollers 50, 61, 38, are moved, according to pattern requirements, by a fork carried on a rod 43, Fig. 10, connected to a yoke 111 reciprocated by a cam 110 on a shaft 107. The cam 110 may be rendered inoperative and the yoke fixed in the position in which the rollers are on the long stroke cam surfaces. The thread guide bars are reciprocated against the action of springs by pattern wheels 122, on a shaft 118 driven from shaft 107 and acting through bell-cranks 124 and rods 126, the effective length of which may be adjusted. Fixed knock-over sinkers 25, Fig. 3, are carried by arms 23 on a fixed shaft 22. In making the fabrics of Specification 595,195, the threads are laid across the fingers 28 as the thread guides are traversed along the needle line (the fingers keeping under even and moderate tension those parts of the threads forming the knob-like elements) laid about the needles by the traversing and swinging of the guides and drawn into loops and knitted ; the needles knit only on every other stroke. To make the astrakhan fabric of Fig. 37, the cam 110 is made inoperative and the rod 43 fixed, guide eyes 71a are used for the chain forming threads 9 and guides 71 for the worsted yarns 1x, 2x. The fingers 28 are adjusted to give the proper sized loop or curl to those parts of the worsted yarns lying between adjacent chains. With appropriately designed fingers 28 and pattern wheels, the machine may be used to make a pile fabric.
Patent GB-150225-A (GB)
Title: Appliances for playing a game
IPC: A63F3/04
Filed: 1920-01-16
Abstract: 150,225. Statler, J. Jan. 16, 1920. Card games.-Cards, Fig. 1, depicting mapsections and showing geographical points of interest are used in combination with index cards, Fig. 3, bearing names corresponding to the points of interest on the map-sections. The sections are dealt out to players and an index-card picked up at random. The index-card is placed upon the corresponding name on the section. When the points of interest are covered by the index-cards, the holder of that map-section is accounted the winner. When a point of interest occurs on more than one section, one under-card only carries the name corresponding to that point, the other undercards being blank. 85
Patent GB-207078-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to speedometers
IPC: G01P3/495
Filed: 1923-01-17
Abstract: 207,078. McKellen, S. D., and Speedometer Co., Ltd., A. T. Jan. 17; 1923. Electric and magnetic speed indicators.-The cylindrical armature 1 of a speedometer of the type described in Specification 154,298 is carried upon a spindle 2 mounted in bearings 3 and 4, of an armature supporting unit. The unit comprises a downwardly extending arm 5 having a hollow cylindrical extension 8 which projects into the interior of the armature. A slot is formed in the extension to permit the spindle and the armature to be fitted in position on a bearing 4 screwed into the end of the extension. The arm 5 is integral with an annular plate 9 that is concentric with the axis of the extension 8 and which carries a radial arm 6 with a hole 12 formed concentric with the plate and screwthreaded to take the upper bearing 3. The upper surface of the plate is formed with a recess in which is fitted an annular disc 13 of paramagnetic material. In a modification the disc 13 is formed with the radial arm 6 carrying the upper bearing.
Patent GB-342497-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to electric contact making relays
IPC: H01H50/54
Filed: 1930-01-16
Abstract: 342,497. Light current relays. COVENTRY AUTOMATIC TELEPHONES, Ltd., and WILMAN, C. W., of General Electric Co., Stoke, Coventry. Jan. 16, 1930, No. 1549. [Class 38 (v).] The contact blades of telephone relays are eaoh provided with a plurality of contacts so that contact is established and broken between one pair of contacts of one material or materials such as are suitable for resisting the effects of sparking and is maintained by a pair of contacts of another material or materials, which are of low resistance. As shown in Figs. 1 and 2 one of the blades 10 is divided in known manner at its end each bifurcation carrying a separate contact adapted to be engaged by a co-operating contact on the blade. One of the bifurcations is bent down as shown so that the contacts 6 corresponding to the bent-over portion are engaged in advance of and disengaged subsequently to the closing and opening of the contacts 7. Thus the contacts 6 act as sparking contacts and are made of materials such as tungsten adapted to resist oxidization and the maintaining contacts 7 are made of low-resistance material e.g. platinum, gold, iridium, silver or alloys thereof. In an alternative form (Fig. 3) the sequential operation of the contacts is produced by making one or both of the sparking contacts 8 larger than the maintaining contacts 9.
Patent GB-615910-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to the construction of walls
IPC: E04C3/34
Filed: 1946-01-17
Abstract: 615,910. Walls. TREVOUX, G. Jan. 17, 1946, No. 1626. Convention date, Jan. 17, 1945. [Class 20(iv)] In a hollow or cavity wall structure as in Specification 529,803, the elements of the blocks comprise a common end element 3a for two adjacent blocks an upper member 2a of U-section, a lower member 2 having two holes 20 and converging and diverging grooves 5 in the lower face, the ends of the upper and lower elements being formed with single dovetail their length. A reinforced concrete tenon to join adjacent elements 2 or 2a is preformed or cast in situ. Grooves 11 in the end elements may be of dovetail or semicircular shape. The sides 4 which are reinforced by ribs 22, and window frames 12 are received in grooves 7 in the elements 2, 2a, and in grooves 10 in the end members. Beading 9 on the end members fits into grooves 6 in the elements 2, 2a. To change the direction of the wall through 45 degrees or 90 degrees use is made of corner elements 13, 14 respectively, which may be formed integral with end elements 3 on one or two faces as indicated in Figs. 3, 7. Supplementary elements formed similarly to members 2, 2a, e.g. 13c, 14c, are placed below and above the corner members and grouted to adjacent members 2, 2a. When two walls cross or join at right angles members 15a are used in positions corresponding to 2, 2a. The Specification as open to inspection under Sect. 91 comprises also members 15b for use above members 15a. This subjectmatter does not appear in the Specification as accepted.
Patent GB-764433-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in gas-stabilized heads
IPC: G11B5/60
Filed: 1955-01-20
Abstract: 764,433. Springs &c. INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION. Jan. 20, 1955 [Jan. 25, 1954], No. 1748/55. Class 108(3). [Also in Groups XXXIV and XXXVIII] A gas-stabilized head 10 for recording apparatus or the like has a hollow body with a working face 18 of which a portion is of porous material for co-operation with a surface of a record carrier 20 or the like, and means for feeding gas to the interior 11 of the body at a pressure above that of the ambient atmosphere, the gas escaping through the porous material to a space between the face 18 and said surface. As shown, the head carries a magnetic recording element 19 in a support member 13 and is maintained spaced from the carrier 20 by an amount predetermined by the oppositely acting pressure of air which is fed through a tube 17 and a compression spring 33 adjustably bearing upon a pivoted yoke 27 in arms 26 of which the head 10 is journalled by bosses 24. The invention provides that should the carrier surface move toward or away from the head, as would be the case with an eccentric drum, a tape of varying thickness, or a disc which is not flat, the element 19 is automatically repositioned to maintain the desired spacing. The porous material may be sintered stainless steel.
Patent GB-595727-A (GB)
Title: An improved caliper gauge for use in measuring the core diameter of splined, toothedand like workpieces
IPC: G01B3/40
Filed: 1945-01-23
Abstract: 595,727. Linear - dimension gauges. JONES, W. E. Jan. 23, 1945, No. 1779. [Class 106 (ii)] In a hand held calliper gauge for measuring external diameters of the type comprising a fixed and a movable anvil and wherein the movable anvil has lever means for bringing the movable anvil into contact with the workpiece, the movable anvil is formed with a slot which is engaged by one end of the controlling lever. The gauge comprises a body 5, a fixed anvil 7 and a spring-controlled movable anvil 6 slidably mounted in a vertical bore 5b. Towards the upper end of this anvil is a slot 6b engaged by one end of an even-armed lever 14, the other end of which engages the plunger 8a of a dial indicator 8. The lever 14 is fixed to a spindle 15 which in turn is fixed to one end of the operating lever 16. In a modification shown in Fig. 3, the lever 14 is loosely mounted on the spindle 15 which is provided with an arm 14a which engages the slot 6b. In a further modification, the plunger of the dial is in direct contact with the movable anvil.
Patent GB-1406121-A (GB)
Title: Method of and transporter for carrying goods
IPC: B66C1/30
Filed: 1973-01-12
Abstract: 1406121 Grippers; straddle carriers BOFORS AB 12 Jan 1973 [14 Jan 1972] 1840/73 Heading B8H Straddle carrier has a vertically movable frame 1 to which are pivotally mounted a series of pairs of gripping arms 5 actuated by hydraulic rams 8 to engage and lift a load 7 to be transported. A series of pair of support arms 9 are also mounted on the frame, for extraction by hydraulic rams 10, to be inserted beneath a load, once lifted, to support same during the transportation thereof, when the grippers have been released. A device (not shown) in the driver's cab indicates the relative position of the arms and the load.
Patent GB-539269-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in filters
IPC: B01D25/24
Filed: 1940-01-31
Abstract: 539,269. Filtering gases. CHEMA MANUFACTURING CO., Ltd., and SIGMUND, M. Jan. 31,1940, Nos. 1925 and 4134. [Class 8 (ii)] A single sheet of filter paper &c. or a laminated sheet is rolled to form a scroll filter which is divided axially into compartments each closed at one end. The axial partitions 2<SP>1</SP> and the end closures may be constituted by cardboard strips applied to the sheet before winding, e.g. in such positions as to form a composite radial partition. Alternatively, the axial partitions may be formed of the material itself, as in Fig. 10, by reversing the direction of winding of successive convolutions as 20, 21.