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Patent GB-1188420-A (GB)
Title: Postage Meters
Inventor: SIMJIAN LUTHER GEORGE
IPC: G07B17/00
Filed: 1968-11-01
Abstract: 1,188,420. Franking machines. L. G. SIMJIAN. 1 Nov., 1968 [15 Nov., 1967], No. 51824/68. Heading B6D. [Also in Division G4] A postal franking machine includes a descending credit register 28 which is coupled to printing mechanism in the machine for preventing franking when the remaining credit registered is less than the value of the next franking operation to be undergone, and is provided with a resetting knob 36 for increasing the amount of credit registered, the knob 36 normally being inoperative but being capable of being rendered operative in response to an electrical signal from a control location. The electrical signal acts to energize two electromagnetic clutches 82, 90 through a self-holding relay (K1), Fig. 5, not shown, thereby coupling the knob 36 with a register wheel 50A through gears 70, 68, 60. Rotation of the knob causes adjustment of the wheel 50A by a preselected amount governed by a cam 92 which deenergizes the clutch 90 through a switch 100 when the required adjustment has been effected. Further rotation of the knob 36 causes reinstatement of the initial position of the cam 92, whereat the clutch 82 is de-energized by a cam 94 acting on a switch 94. The register includes Geneva wheels 54 for actuating higher denomination register wheels. The wheel 50A is formed in two releaseably interconnected coaxial parts 60, 62 so that the Geneva wheel associated therewith can rotate the wheel, while rotation of the knob 36 for resetting does not cause rotation of the Geneva wheel. The releaseable coupling comprises a spring detent (66), Fig. 4, not shown. The signal to render the knob 36 operative may be in coded form and decoded to produce a signal operating the relay (K1), and may be transmitted by wired or wireless link from a remote control centre. The knob 36 may be turned manually, or may be replaced by a pivotable lever or push-button mechanism, or may be coupled to or replaced by a motor and one-revolution clutch mechanism. The franking machine further includes a camera (30), Fig. 2, not shown, which automatically photographs the descending register (28) and an ascending register (26) on receipt of a signal rendering the knob 36 operative, and on completion of the resetting operation. The camera may also be operated remotely at any time. The camera may be replaced by remote meter-reading means.
Patent GB-1138179-A (GB)
Title: A machine for washing and spin drying textile materials
Inventor: HERBERTZ HEINZ
IPC: D06F95/00
Filed: 1966-11-18
Abstract: 1,138,179. Washing-machine. H. KRANTZ VERWALTUNGS G.m.b.H. 18 Nov., 1966 [20 Nov., 1965], No. 51860/66. Heading D1A. The container of a washing machine is supported by rams 18, 21 which are slidably and pivotally connected to base 12 fastened to the casing in order that the front rams 18 can be raised to lift the front of the machine for filling and the rear ones raised to lower the front for emptying the washing from the machine. Micro switches 25, 26 are located at the top of the cylinders and are moved by cams 27, 28 to start appropriate timed operations such as spin drying. The cylinders are mounted on rubber blocks 23 and when washing takes place the cylinders are exhausted but they are all filled with compressed air for the spin drying operation.
Patent GB-1157990-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to Portable Stands or Supports
Inventor: BAKER HARRY JOHN
IPC: F16M11/24
Filed: 1966-11-25
Abstract: 1,157,990. Adjustable stands. RONFORD Ltd. 27 Oct., 1967 [25 Nov., 1966], No. 52783/66. Heading A4H. Each extensible leg of a portable stand for a camera, electrical apparatus or scientific instrument comprises a first pair of tubular members 34 slidable in a block 35 and secured to a body portion 39, and a second pair of tubular members 37 slidable in the body portion 39 and secured to the block 35, and a clamp 31 within the body portion 39 adapted to clamp the second pair of tubular members 37 to the body portion 39. The clamp comprises a locking member 41 screwed into the body portion 39 and provided with a conical surface 43 in abutment with two clamping members 47 slidably mounted in passages in the body portion 39 and having concave ends complementary to the conical surface 43 and to the second pair of tubular members 37. The upper end of each leg is U-shaped and each limb (14, 15, Fig. 5) of the U is pivotally connected separately to a wall of a recess (5) in the head of the stand by a bolt (21), the head (22) of which may be inside the recess (5) and the retaining nut (24) outside or vice versa. A flat on each head or nut engages the back plate (16) of the U-shaped upper end of the leg to cause the bolts 21 to rotate with the leg. A camera may be screwed on to a spring- urged threaded coupling (10) (Fig. 4) projecting from the top (8) of the pivoted head of the stand.
Patent GB-1073038-A (GB)
Title: Apparatus for bending glass sheets
IPC: C03B23/031
Filed: 1965-12-14
Abstract: In an apparatus for bending glass sheets by pressurized contact between a pair of complementary shaping members movable between a retracted position and a material engaging position, each shaping member 10, 12 comprises a relatively deformable metal plate 14, 24 of a shape corresponding to that desired for the glass sheet but sufficiently rigid to withstand deformation during the bending operation, a cover of flexible refractory fabric 50 (e.g. textured fibreglass cloth) in direct contact with the shaping surface of each plate 14, 24, a relatively rigid metal plate 16 substantially coextensive in area with that of the deformable plate and located in spaced facing relation to said deformable plate, attachment means 18, 19 distributed in spaced relation throughout the extent of the relatively deformable plate and the relatively rigid plate for connecting the plates in spaced relation to one another and for making slight alterations in the shape of the relatively deformable metal plate without altering the configuration of the relatively rigid metal plate.  The attachment means 18, 19 comprises two members, a first member being a threaded bolt 80 rigidly attached to the rigid plate 16 and having a clevis member with side pieces 73, 74 (Figs. 4 and 7, not shown) at its free end, and a second member 64 comprising a T-piece attached to the deformable plate.  The side pieces of the clevis have slots 76 cut therein through which a pivot member 70 is passed, said pivot also passing through a hole in the stem 68 of the T-piece 64.  In practice only the end clevis members are slotted, the central clevis members being provided with circular apertures so that the deformable member is always maintained in strict alignment with the rigid member.  The curvature of the deformable member can be adjusted by manipulation of the threaded bolt 80.  The rigid plate 16 is itself attached by adjustable screw means 22 <PICT:1073038/C1/1> <PICT:1073038/C1/2> to a further rigid plate 20 which plate 20 is removably attached by clamps to a piston plate 36 of a horizontal piston-cylinder assembly 26. Said assembly is mounted so that it may be adjusted to an angle to the horizontal dependent upon the manner of support of glass sheets to be bent. Further means are provided between the piston plate 36 and the actual piston means for varying the angle between the said two means. Reference has been directed by the Comptroller to the Specification 983,805.
Patent GB-1141396-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to applicators
Inventor: KOHN JOACHIM
IPC: B01L3/00
Filed: 1966-11-25
Abstract: 1,141,396. Electro-phoresis. SHANDON SCIENTIFIC CO. Ltd. Nov. 10, 1967 [Nov. 25, 1966], No. 52987/66. Heading C7B. [ Also in Divisions B1 and B2] An applicator for use in electro-phoresis comprises a body portion having a straight thin applicating edge provided by a number of straight spaced edge-elements aligned with one another and providing a number of co-linearly arranged liquidholding channels of the same cross-section. As shown, a thin rectangular plate 1 has one horizontal edge bent upon itself to form a handle portion 2, and the other longitudinal edge is formed with a series of notches 7 to define castellations 5 of equal length. An end castellation adjoins a wider notch 8. The outer edge 10 of each castellation is formed with a groove 11, the grooves 11 being colinear and identical in cross-section. The applicator is used in conjunction with a pallet, the upper surface of which may be formed with either a series of depressions or a series of grooves defining lands, the depressions or lands corresponding in number and spacing to the castellations. Samples of different liquids are placed in the depressions or smeared on the lands, and are transferred therefrom by contact to the grooves 11. The applicator edge is then touched lightly against the surface of a substrate to form co-linear streaks of the samples at one end of the substrate and at right angles to the direction in which the samples migrate thereon. In modifications, a slot extends inwardly from edge 10 to the base of each castellation, and the sides of the latter are apertured.
Patent GB-1284833-A (GB)
Title: Improved fastener
Inventor: PERROCHAT JEAN
IPC: F16B19/10
Filed: 1970-11-06
Abstract: 1284833 Releasable fastenings A RAYMOND 6 Nov 1970 [6 Nov 1969] 52989/70 Heading E2B A resilient plastics fastener comprises a hollow tubular body 11 and a pin 12 which can be forced into the bore of the body, an external circumferential bead 14 at one end portion of the body, an internal projection 15 at the other end portion of the body and an external circumferential flange 16 on the body spaced from the bead and from the projection, the arrangement being such that the pin can be forced into the body so as to expand the body outwardly in the region of the projection so as to clear the said one end portion of the body so that said one end portion of the body which is formed with the bead can flex inwardly. The fastener is used to secure a carpet to a support panel the fastener first being passed through an aperture in the support panel after which the pin is forced into the bore to secure the body in place; an eyelet in the carpet then being engaged over the bead which because of the disposition of the pin can flex inwardly. To assist the flexing the upper portion of the body is formed with a plurality of axially extending slots (not shown).
Patent GB-1208191-A (GB)
Title: A process for the preparation of unsaturated nitriles
Filed: 1968-11-08
Abstract: 1,208,191. Preparation of acrylonitrile and methacrylonitrile. NITTO CHEMICAL INDUSTRY CO. Ltd. 8 Nov., 1968 [17 Nov., 1967], No. 52997/68. Heading C2C. Acrylonitrile or methacrylonitrile are obtained by contacting propylene or isobutylene respectively in gaseous admixture with ammonia and molecular oxygen with an oxidizing fluidized solid catalyst in the gaseous phase at a temperature of 350‹ to 600‹ C. and under a pressure of atmospheric to 5 kg/cm<SP>2</SP>. gauge, by supplying feed olefin and ammonia to a fluidized bed reactor by at least two supply inlets distributed along the height of the reactor, the uppermost supply inlet being located at a height in the range of 1/30 to 2/3 of the fluidized bed height as measured from the location of the lowermost supply inlet, supplying 50 to 95% of the total amounts of said fed olefin and ammonia to said reactor at a position lower than the middle between said uppermost and lowermost supply inlets, and supplying a feed molecular oxygen to said reactor at a supply inlet located at a position not higher than the location of said lowermost supply inlet for said olefin and ammonia. Water in the form of steam may also be employed in the reaction and, if used, is supplied to said reactor by an inlet located at a height which is the same or lower than the height of the lowermost supply inlet for olefin and ammonia. The catalyst employed is a conventional catalyst of the type employed in ammoxidation reactions and it may be supported on or impregnated in a carrier, a preferred catalyst being bismuth phosphomolybdate supported on silica. Air may be employed as the source of oxygen and the mol. ratio of oxygen to olefin is suitably 1 to 4, the mol. ratio of ammonia to olefin is suitably 0À5 to 3, and the mol. ratio of water (if present) to olefin is suitably 0À5 to 10.
Patent GB-1534868-A (GB)
Title: Glass substrates with pre-attached sealing media
IPC: H01J17/49
Filed: 1975-12-31
Abstract: 1534868 Sealing glass substrates OWENSILLINOIS Inc 31 Dec 1975 [2 Jan 1975] 53257/75 Heading C1M A glass substrate carrying electrical conductors, suitable for making gas panels, is coated near the edge with a solder glass comprising 71-72% PbO, 10-15% B 2 O 3 , 2-4% SiO 2 , 0-5% Al 2 O 3 , 4-15% ZnO and 0-1À1% SnO 2  and having a softening point between 400 and 810 F. and then refired to permanently attach the solder glass thereto in a highly sintered or glassy state which will reflow at the required sealing temperature. The solder glass my be vitreous or crystalline and may be applied to the substrate as a powder in a liquid vehicle or in rod form.
Patent GB-1358436-A (GB)
Title: Communication adapter
IPC: H04L1/00
Filed: 1971-11-17
Abstract: 1358436 Digital transmission INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORP 17 Nov 1971 [14 Dec 1970] 53414/71 Heading H4P An interface for sending and receiving data also generating check characters concurrently comprises a shift register into which a byte of data is loaded, also first and second check character stores into which the shift register contents are circulated alternately each time a bit is shifted therefrom. Data from a processing unit CPU through bus 21 is temporarily stored in register 20 connected to a decode unit 23 also through OR 24 and a write bus 26 to buffers 28, 30, 32, 34 which supply information to a read bus 36 into exclusive OR 50 also receiving signals from buffers 42, 44, 46, 48. Encode unit 38 feeds into OR 39 which supplies registers 52, 58 and comparison circuit 40 also receiving signals from OR 24. Data is received into register 20 and transferred in parallel into buffer 42 and thence into register 58 from which it is shifted one bit at a time towards position 1. As soon as one bit has been shifted from register 58 the remaining seven characters are transferred back through bus 60 into buffer 44 and which is subsequently shifted back into register 58 the second bit now in position 1 passing to line 70. The generation of check characters is performed by shift register 58 acting in conjunction with buffers 46, 48 and alternately by means of similar circuitry at the receiving end also performing a check bit calculation, errors can be detected. Bits in stage 1 of register 58 are placed in parallel trigger circuits 62, 64 and the remaining seven bits are circulated as described above and when they re-arrive in register 58 the bit in circuit 64 is placed in position 8. This operation continues for each of the other seven bits and results in a unique association of bits in buffers 46, 48 by the time a message has been completely transmitted. Sync. characters are provided by circuit 38. Received characters are modulated at 74 and bits are placed one at a time in register 58 starting at position 8 with a circulation as above described for each bit the first bit being placed in position 7 after circulation and the next bit being placed in position 8 &c. When a complete character has been received this is passed into register 52 on receipt of an instruction from the CPU. Compare circuit 40 indicates whether the transmitted and locally generated characters are the same, and if so the next character is received into register 58. If the characters do not compare the message is retransmitted. Shift register 58 effectively provides a check character 16 bits long one half of which is contained in buffer 46 and the other half in buffer 48 the two halves compared in turn. Detailed operation of the arrangement is described in the Specification.
Patent GB-1354801-A (GB)
Title: Structure of a warning bell assembly
IPC: G10K1/064
Filed: 1971-11-18
Abstract: 1354801 Electric bells INTERNATIONAL STANDARD ELECTRIC CORP 18 Nov 1971 [26 Nov 1970] 53540/71 Heading G5J A polarized magnetic ringer comprises a core, coil, permanent magnet, armature carrying a hammer, and a support structure for the above made entirely of thermoplastics material. The spool, Fig. 2, comprises an upper portion 1 and a lower portion 3 which accommodate the laminated core 2. In the frame, Fig. 3, a permanent magnet 6 is held.between a box 5 and base 7 and the armature 10 pivots on the pins 12, the angular displacement of the armature being limited by stops 14. The common surfaces joining the sections 1 and 3, 5 and 7 and finally 3 and 7 joining the box to the frame are all ultrasonically  welded. In separate embodiments the spool is formed as a single piece and the core is accommodated in the central portion of the spool, two pole-pieces being secured to the core on the outside of the spool.
Patent GB-1136224-A (GB)
Title: Process and apparatus for separating negatively charged particles from positively charged particles in a medium
IPC: H02K44/02
Filed: 1965-12-20
Abstract: 1,136,224. Electrostatic separation. R. R. SNYDER. 20 Dec., 1965 [28 Jan., 1965], No. 53853/65. Heading B2J. An electrode is made having a dielectric jacket 20, Fig. 1 of barium titanate or a material having a dielectric constant not sub stantially less, and a steel, aluminium or copper core 10 and dielectric material 30, Fig. 3. The electrode has a convex surface. A voltage is applied between the core 10 and a layer 31, which may be derived from an electrical or ferroelectric material. Concentric circles 15, Fig. 4, are rectifier surfaces, to charge the electrode, of copper/copper oxide, cupric sulphide/magnesium, selinium &c., so arranged that for a cathode electrons flow from an inner core 10 to an outer dielectric 20. The rectifier surfaces contact a layer 31, Fig. 3, which contacts a conductive ring 32. In operation electrodes are inserted in wet soil to be desalted, to a depth (h), and the concentrate solution thereafter purged out. Electrodes may be arranged in groups to desalt a field. Alternative arrangements permit pumping whilst the electrodes are in situ, as in desalinating sea water. In the embodiment of Fig. 11 fluid flows past the electrodes in the direction of the arrows in Fig. 11a. A magnetic circuit causes cation to move to the cathode and anions to the anode. A diaphragm 26 prevents charged particles, by-passing the end electrode groups. Where the fluid is stationary the electrodes may be grouped in circular sections with a dielectric jacket of variable thickness for each electrode; or the electrodes may be rotated. Alternating and direct electric and magnetic fields may be applied via a solenoid in the separation of molten ore. The embodiment of Fig. 17 for desalinating sea water includes a grounded electrode 13 in a chamber 33 between cathode 37 and anode 38. The electrode may be of carbon and have a roughened surface and/or catalyst layer to deionize impinging charged particles and convert them to atoms; nozzles 57 direct fluid parallel to the electrode surfaces into openings at the opposite end of chamber 33, which communicate with a pump or blower 49. The diaphragms 23, 24 are respectively cation-and anion-pervious and made of asbestos or asbestos cement, with slots 12 between them. Devices to prevent a flow of charged particles in a conduit 58, Fig. 18, are inserted at E, F, G, H. They operate as in Figs. 8 and 10 by moving a sleeve 34 Fig. 8 or operation of a check valve, Fig. 10, so that a voltage is applied to a ring 35 causing a potential gradient between the ring 35 and a section of a conductive tube 17. The system of Fig. 18 employs containers 59 one filled with fluid and the other with solvent with charged particles. It is stated that charged particles are deionized in a chamber 33, and burnt (in the form e.g. of oxygen and hydrogen) to produce heat.
Patent GB-1302166-A (GB)
IPC: F02M25/00
Filed: 1970-11-12
Abstract: 1302166 Treating IC engine charge; venting crank-cases ALFA ROMEO SpA 12 Nov 1970 [24 Jan 1970] 53998/70 Heading F1B In an I.C. engine fuel vapours from a tank 16 are stored temporarily within the crank-case 11, valve gear housing 10 and connecting passages, Fig.1 when the engine is inoperative and when the engine is running both the fuel vapours from the tank and fuel vapours evolved in the crankcase, valve housing and connecting passages, are drawn into the engine cylinders. The fuel vapour passes through conduit 15 into duct 13, valve gear housing 10 and crank-case 11 when the engine is inoperative. When the engine is running the gases from the crank-case 11 entrain the vapour emerging from the conduit and both are drawn into the cylinders.
Patent GB-1394700-A (GB)
Title: Pharmacologically active isoquinoline derivatives
IPC: C07D217/24
Filed: 1972-11-25
Abstract: 1394700 1 - Alkylsulphonyl - 3 - hydroxyisoquinolines ASPRO-NICHOLAS Ltd 23 Nov 1973 [25 Nov 1972] 54558/72 Heading C2C The invention comprises the title compounds which may contain in the alkylsulphonyl group (which term includes unsaturated analogues) or in the nucleus a therapeutically compatible substituent, e.g. the nucleus may contain halogen, CF 3 , alkyl or alkoxy (or their unsaturated analogues). These compounds are prepared in examples by (a) oxidizing the corresponding thioethers, which are in turn made by (b) reacting together the appropriate phenylacetyl chloride and alkyl thiocyanate in presence of SnCl 4 . Specified by-products of these processes are (a) 2H,4H-isoquinolin-1,3-dione, and (b) 3-benzyl-6-methylthio-1-oxo-2-phenyl- 1 -H-pyrano[2,3-c)isoquinoline. Therapeutic compositions having cardiovascular and especially anti-arrhythmic activity comprise the title compounds, and may be administered orally, parenterally or rectally.
Patent GB-1432501-A (GB)
Title: Vehicle passenger restraint system
IPC: B60R21/02
Filed: 1973-11-27
Abstract: 1432501 Protecting vehicle occupants FORD MOTOR CO Ltd 27 Nov 1973 54893/73 Heading B7B An energy absorbing occupant restraint member 16 is mounted in front of a forward facing front seat 15 so as to be normally spaced from an occupant of that seat, the forward part of the member 16 being connected to a position of the body 12. On frontal impact the body 12 is crushed, such that the member 16 is moved rearwardly relative to the vehicle interior to reduce the distance between the occupant and the end 19 of the restraint member and thereby increase the distance over which the restraint member is effective for restraining the occupant. The member 16 may be of plastics foam, e.g. phenolic or polyurethane. In another embodiment, Fig. 3, the member is formed of sheet metal with holes, convolutions or corrugations to control its collapse and may be shaped to act both as a chest and knee restraint.
Patent GB-1380754-A (GB)
Title: Pharmaceutical compositions comprising semi-esters of dicarboxylic  acids
IPC: A61K31/415
Filed: 1972-11-29
Abstract: 1380754 Pharmaceutical composition LABORATORIOS DEL DR ESTEVE SA 29 Nov 1972 [29 Nov 1971] 55109/72 Addition to 1271584 Heading A5B A pharmaceutical preparation suitable for application to the skin or transcutaneous injection comprises (a) a compound of formula:  wherein m and n are 1-5 and (b) a carrier therefor. The preferred compound is the semisuccinate of 1,2-diphenyl-4-n-butyl-4-hydroxymethyl-3, 5-dioxopyrazolidine.