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Patent GB-139570-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in spring forks for motor cycles and the like
IPC: B62K25/24
Filed: 1919-02-01
Abstract: 139,570. Bradshaw, G. E., and A.B.C. Motors, Ltd. Feb. 1, 1919. Spring devices.-In spring forks for motorcycles &c., wherein a link or other pivoted system is employed as the connexion between the fork and the main frame, the movement is controlled by one or more leaf springs which, at the thick end, are anchored to the fork or an extension thereof and, at the thin end, are connected with the steering-stem by a rolling, sliding, or pivotal connexion. As shown, the thick end of a laminated spring J is secured by a bolt M and a clip E to a member G which is carried by a bridgepiece E and on its underside conforms to the shape of the mud-guard H. The thin end of the spring may move on a roller, or between rollers, or in a slide, or be mounted on a shackle at the lower end of the steering-stem. The rear end of the member G is rigidly connected to the crossstrut B<1> of the fork.
Patent GB-1182918-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Adjustable Propeller Devices for Water-Going Vessels.
IPC: B63H23/04
Filed: 1969-01-16
Abstract: 1,182,918. Outboard drives. HOLLMING OY. 16 Jan., 1969 [18 March, 1968], No. 2557/69. Heading B7V. , At least two inboard motors M are arranged to drive a common angle drive gear in a housing 2 through individual cardan shafts 13 and gears engaging the common drive gear which is operatively connected in conventional manner with a propeller (not shown). Preferably the propeller device is carried by a parallel linkage for vertical adjustment. A further cardan shaft 14 may transmit steering motive to the propeller device.
Patent GB-369883-A (GB)
Title: Work-guiding devices for sewing machines
IPC: D05B35/02
Filed: 1931-04-27
Abstract: 369,883. Sewing-machines. SINGER MANUFACTURING CO., Elizabeth, New Jersey, U.S.A. April 27, 1931, No. 2576/32. Convention date, Aug. 30, 1930. Divided on 367,632. [Class 112.] Presserfeet.- A presser-foot 8 h a s laterally spaced edgeguides 19, 20 mounted for vertical yielding movements independently of each other and of the presser-foot during the operation of the machine, and one or both of the guides 19, 20 may be releasably latched in inoperative position, so that both may be used together, as when producing narrow beltloops, or one only may be used, as when producing relatively wide beltloops. The presser-foot comprises a foot plate 9 mounted on a pivot pin 13 which engages apertures 11, 12 respectively in the foot plate and shank of the presser foot so that the presserfoot may rock about an axis transverse to the line of seam formation. The edge-guides 19, 20 are mounted by pins 21 to slide vertically in slots 18 in the foot plate 9 against springs 24 in apertures 23 in the foot plate, the springs being retained by a cap plate 25. Pins 28, 29 on the guides 19, 20 limit the vertical movements of these guides, and the pin 28 projects a sufficient amount through a guide aperture 27 as to be engaged by a nose 30 of a lever 31 to lift the guide 19 with its lower surface flush with the underside of the presser-foot, in which position it is retained by a latch lever 33 in engagement with a nose 35 on the lifting lever 31.
Patent GB-341285-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to endless lines, cables or the like
IPC: D06F53/04
Filed: 1930-01-24
Abstract: 341,285. Clothes lines ; rope railways &c. MARRABLE, H. A., 134, Hudson Street, Hoboken, New Jersey, U.S.A. Jan. 24, 1930, No. 2602. [Class 52 (v).] An endless line, cable 6 &c., for use as a clothes line or for breeches buoys &c., is carried by end pulleys 3 and provided with a lower line 7, secured at its ends to the line 6 and attached thereto at intervals by short flexible elements 8, the arrangement being such that the line &c. 6 can be drawn through the pulleys with the clothes &c. still secured to the lower line 7, and connecting pieces 8 passing under the pulleys. The pulley frames 3 may have small grooved wheels which engage the pulleys to retain the line &c. 6 thereon. The line may be utilized for roundabouts.
Patent GB-329691-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to the manufacture of materials in thin sheet form
IPC: B29C48/91
Filed: 1929-01-25
Abstract: 329,691. Pease, W. H. Jan. 25, 1929. Fabrics composed of fibrous materials agglutinated by adhesives. - Solutions of cellulose products, casein, fibrin, maisin, rubber, or phenolic condensation products, are deposited in a thin layer from a hopper 23 through an adjustable slot 24 preferably at regulated temperature on to a temperature controlled drum 9 which rotates in a casing 2 in which the temperature and humidity are regulable, and carries the film material past a plurality of knife like spreading devices 28. Textile fibres or similar material are projected by a rotary fan through the slot 33 on to the film before it is dried so as to produce an artificial fabric. The film may also be made to pass under a goffering roller 32 so as to produce artificial lace or tulle. The dried material is stripped from the drum and wound on stock rolls 15. The casing 2 is preferably heat insulated by means of asbestos sheet, cork fragments, and plywood with a metallic exterior. The periphery of the drum 9 may be internally heated or cooled bv liquid supplied through the pipe 13 and hollow shaft 10. Heated air, water, or steam passes through pipes 12 arranged close to the surface of the drum 9. A revolving brush 16 and felt pad 17 clean the surface of the drum after the film 35 has been stripped off. Heated and conditioned air may be introduced into the casing 2 through the orifice 34. In some cases the metallic surface of the drum may be coated with a material such as gelatine which is not soluble in the solution of film forming material subsequently deposited thereon. Specifications 18697/98, [Class 98, Photography], 4601/13, [Class 32, Distilling &c.], and 22826/13, are referred to.
Patent GB-880082-A (GB)
Title: Expansion joints, for example, for pipe-lines
IPC: F16L51/02
Filed: 1960-01-26
Abstract: 880,082. Expansion joints. YUBA CONSOLIDATED INDUSTRIES INC. Jan. 26, 1960 [Jan. 26, 1959], No. 2763/60. Class 99(1). End members 1, 2 adapted for connection to pipe-line sections are secured to the ends of a length of tubing 5 having multiple annular corrugations 6 capable of axial expansion and contraction, and at least one annular member 11 is positioned between a pair of adjacent corrugations of the tubing in supporting relation thereto, the member being confined to that pair of corrugations and moving axially of the tubing during contraction and expansion thereof and having a portion projecting beyond the peripheral extent of the tubing and in engagement with guide means 13. The latter is supported in fixed relation to one of the end members and there are means for limiting expansion and/or contraction of the tubing, those means comprising a stop 16 and a sleeve 15 secured to the guide means and effective upon predetermined changes in the axial dimension of the tubing. As shown, the corrugations are supported and reinforced by rings 10, and the ring or rings 11 is or are in two or more sections welded together. The guide sleeve 13 is secured to a flange 14 and overlaps a flange 17 which may be provided with rings in sealing engagement with the sleeve 13. Means co-operating with indicia on the sleeve indicates the condition of expansion and contraction of the tubing.
Patent GB-1248285-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to apparatus for suppressing the transmission of mechanical vibrations
Inventor: SCHAUMANN FRITZ
IPC: B60G17/00
Filed: 1969-01-17
Abstract: 1,248,285. Vehicle suspensions. F. SCHAUMANN. 17 Jan., 1969 [18 Jan., 1968], No. 2770/69. Heading B7D. [Also in Division F2] To prevent a mass M from vibrating when an impulse P acts on it, the impulse is caused to act on a multi-stage spring-and-lever or spring- and-gearing arrangement. In Fig. 1, a first lever 1 is biased by a spring F 1  and is coupled by a rod R to the mass. It is also coupled by a link 2 to a second lever 3 which is in turn connected to the mass and to a second spring F 2  which is stiffer than the first. The output movement of the mass is much smaller than that of the point of application 1a of the impulse P. In Fig. 2 (not shown), there is yet a third lever (4) connected to the first lever 1 and to the mass M in parallel with the lever 3. In Fig. 3 (not shown) the levers of Fig. 1 are replaced by rack-and-pinion step-down gears, and there are three such spring-loaded gear stages acting in series between the point of application of the impulse and the mass, the springs of the three stages being successively stiffer. The mass M may be the spring mass of a vehicle, the springs and levers or gearing constituting the suspension system.
Patent GB-1447756-A (GB)
Title: Method and apparatus for manufacturing a stone-faced surface  elemeng
IPC: B28D1/08
Filed: 1973-01-19
Abstract: 1447756 Stone faced laminates T P BOURKE 6 Sept 1973 [4 Sept 1972 19 Jan 1973] 40839/72 and 2795/73 Addition to 1215501 Heading B5N A composite surface element; suitable for use in cladding walls or ceilings or in the manufacture of furniture, comprises a lamina of natural facing stone, e.g. marble, granite or onyx, to one surface of which is affixed by adhesive, e.g. epoxy or polyester resin, a multicellular paper core of substantially greater thickness than the stone lamina, the core having a skin of sheet material of greater tensile strength than the core, e.g. resin impregnated glass fibre, aluminium sheet or oil-tempered hardboard, bonded to the surface of the core remote from the stone lamina. The cell walls of the multicellular core may be perpendicular to the plane of the sheet material. The core may be of Kraft paper impregnated with phenolic, epoxide or polyester resin. A further skin may be interposed between the core and stone lamina and a second lamina of natural stone may be bonded to the other surface of the core. The surface element may be made by bonding a slab of natural facing stone to the paper core and severing with a band-saw a lamina from the stone slab, a skin being bonded to the surface of the core remote from the stone lamina suitably after sanding the surface of the core with a sanding roller. In Fig. 4 a block of stone is loaded on to each of block carriages A and B mounted on rails, block B is passed through band-saw 1 to remove the rough back of the block, paper honeycomb is bonded by means of adhesive to the stone and its surface sanded with sanding roller 19 and bonded to a skin with adhesive and, while the adhesive is allowed to dry, carriage A is passed through the band-saw to remove rough back from the block. The saw is then raised and the two block carriages moved under the saw to the left. Carriage B is then passed forward again to remove a stone lamina from the surface of the block while a backing is applied to block A, which is then passed through the saw, and the process repeated.
Patent GB-805024-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to trailer bodies
Inventor: LEVITT SEMOND
IPC: B62D29/04
Filed: 1957-01-25
Abstract: 805,024. Trailer vehicle, body details. FRUEHAUF TRAILER CO. Jan. 25, 1957, No. 2858/57. Class 108(1) A trailer body has a side wall structure comprising interconnected pre - formed panels of a reinforced plastic, each panel being substantially rectangular and including one end portion 18, which is outwardly off-set a distance approximately equal to the thickness of the panel, said off-set portion 20, receiving and securing one end 24 of an adjacent section to provide a side wall having a substantially smooth and flat inner face; vertical hollow reinforcing posts 26 to strengthen and impart rigidity to the joints between the pre-formed panels; and main longitudinal load carrying members 54, 56 above and below and in abutting relationship to said side panels and said posts whereby to spread the load of the body uniformly among said panels and said posts, at least one of said load carrying members being in the form of a channel receiving a marginal portion of said wall structure, with one flange 72 of said channel overlapping and closely fitting the received portions of said panels and the other flange 74 of said channel overlapping and closely fitting the received portions of said posts. The roof comprises a number of pre-formed panels, one or more being translucent if required, the transverse edges of the panels overlap, a sealing strip being fitted between them. A transverse plate 64 is positioned below the joint and a further transverse plate 66 having a downturned edge 68 covers the overlap, the plates and panels being secured by rivets 70. The ends of the roof panels together with a sealing strip 76 are fastened over the inwardly turned flange extension 74 of member 56, the joints being covered by longitudinal metal plate 78, this plate having a downturned portion 80 enclosing the ends of the roof sections, rivets 82 form the fastening means for the cover plate and the roof panels. In an alternative arrangement, the vertical reinforcing post is integral with the off-set ends of the side panels, overlapping, and being secured to, the adjacent panel.
Patent GB-1449531-A (GB)
Title: Winding device for automatically exchanging tubes
IPC: B65H67/048
Filed: 1974-01-22
Abstract: 1449531 Continuous winding machines; doffing and donning MASCHINENFABRIK RIETER AG 22 Jan 1974 [22 Jan 1973] 02959/ 74 Addition to 1332182 Heading D1J A continuous winding apparatus of the kind in which a rotatable arm 9 carries a pair of parallel tube supporting mandrels such that as one tube becomes fully wound the arm 9 is rotated through 180‹ to saving the fully wound package on one mandrel away from the surface of the drive drum and an empty tube on the other mandrel into engagement with the drive drum, there being a support for the arm 9 movable towards and away from the drive drum; is characterized in that the apparatus includes a shaft 87 on which is a sleeve 81, the sleeve 81 having tube receiving means 90, 91 such that when the shaft 87 is rotated the tube receiving means 90, 91 swing to a setting in which they engage the tube 20 on which a package 21 has been wound and swung away from the drive drum by the arm 9, the sleeve 81 being then slid along the shaft 87 to remove the tube 20 from its mandrel and deposit it upon receiving means 105, the now empty receiving means 90, 91 then proceeding to pick up an empty tube 114 and swing it up into alignment with the empty mandrel. Thereafter the sleeve 81 is moved back along the shaft 87 to place the empty tube 114 on the mandrel. The receiving means may be scoops 91 on arms 90. As the arms 90 swing downwardly, the fully wound package 21 lands on a pair of inclined rails 105 and rolls away from the scoops 91. The arms 90 and scoops pass downwardly beyond the rails 105 to pick up an empty tube 114 from inclined rails 113. The scoop 91 force down an inclined flap 112 so that an empty tube 114 can roll into the scoop 91. As the scoops rise the flaps 112 rise to hold back the other empty tubes 114. In its upward motion the empty tube 114 in the scoops 91 temporarily lifts a hinged section 105' of the rails 105. A pneumatic circuit and associated limit switches for controlling the above described sequence of events is described and illustrated.
Patent GB-840576-A (GB)
Title: Breathing apparatus with cam controlled valve
IPC: B63C11/22
Filed: 1958-01-29
Abstract: 840,576. Respirators. LA SPIROTECHNIQUE. Jan. 29, 1958 [Jan. 31, 1957], No. 2969/58. Class 81 (2). Breathing apparatus comprises an elongated casing 10 with, at one end, a coaxial pressure regulator diaphragm 22 having a cam body 24 interposed between the free ends of operating levers 80 which are operatively associated with an inhalation valve at the other end of the casing so that on inhalation through a mouthpiece 16 connected between the ends of the casing, deflection of the diaphragm causes opening of the inhalation valve. The casing 10 has an enlargement 12 at one end, across which a flexible annular diaphragm 22 is secured by an apertured cover 26 and a rubber clamping ring 28. A rigid conical cam body 24 having apertures 91 and an inwardly-directed stem 39 is secured to the centre of the diaphragm and to a support 42 for an exhalation valve 36. At the other end of the casing is a recess 57, for the connection of a gas supply, and an inhalation valve comprising a stem 70, a head 72 and a seat 68 which surrounds a bore 64 connecting the recess 57 with the casing interior. The levers 80 have bent ends 82 which are recessed to fit around the end of the valve stem remote from the head 72, and which are retained in a flanged collar 90 on the valve stem by a spacer 92 and a clip or washer 94. Free ends 84 of the levers bear against the cam body. The synthetic plastic mouthpiece 16 is made in one piece with a sleeve 14 in which the casing is mounted and communicates with the interior of the casing intermediate its ends through an opening 18. Movement of the diaphragm and the cam body due to inhalation and increased ambient pressure spreads the free-ends of the levers, thus rocking the bent ends of the levers so that they lift the inhalation valve from its seat 68 against a spring 78. Exhaled air passes to the ambient medium through the apertures 91 in the cam body, the exhalation valve 36 and the apertured cover 26. U.S.A. Specification 2,747,572 is referred to.
Patent GB-1492617-A (GB)
Title: Method and plant for the production of butter
IPC: A01J17/00
Filed: 1975-01-23
Abstract: 1492617 Making butter DE DANSKE MEJERIERS MASKINFABRIK AmbA 23 Jan 1975 [6 Feb 1974] 3016/75. Heading C5C An apparatus for making butter comprises chum cylinders 1, 2 for churning cream, a screw press section 4 for separating butter milk from butter grains and a kneading unit comprising a positive displacement pump 10 with rotors 11a, 11b, the unit acting both as a first kneading zone and a conveyor to a second kneading zone, the latter comprising a vacuum butter worker 11 with closed expansion tank 12 so dimensioned that the dwell time of butter therein will be at least 2 minutes, kneading members 14 and vacuum pipe 13; in use the kneading in the second zone is longer and less vigorous than in the first zone. A damper 15 controls the butter ingress to 10. Brine may be added via inlet 16. In a further embodiment (Fig. 3, not shown), the churn and first butter working zone are combined.
Patent GB-561103-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in straight-bar knitting machines
IPC: D04B15/64
Filed: 1942-08-29
Abstract: 561,103. Knitting-machines. BLACKBURN & SONS, Ltd., G., START, H. W., and START, E. 'Aug. 29, 1942, No. 3021/44. Divided out of 561,082. [Class 74 (ii)] A straight-bar machine has each of one or more thread carrier bars A connected to an associated member B slidably mounted on a bar and positively reciprocated between end stops by a reciprocating bar. The member B may be slidably mounted upon the driving bar C which may be the friction bar normally provided and which a reciprocates with the slur bar. Each member B has mounted on it two oppositely disposed levers L<1>, M<1> having ends L, M engaging abutments N on the bar C. The levers are controlled by springs which normally hold the ends L, M in engagement with the abutments, and are disconnected from the abutments by, 'the engagement of the levers with cam surfaces arranged close to the end stops. Detents P<2> are provided upon the end stops to engage the levers to prevent rebound from the end stops. Each member B is connected to its thread carrier bar A by a latch D ; the latch is mounted upon a slide H connected to the member B by a finger K<1> pivoted upon the slide and engaging a recess -in the member.
Patent GB-795270-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in the low temperature separation of gas mixtures
IPC: F25J3/02
Filed: 1956-01-31
Abstract: 795,270. Cold separation of gas mixtures. STAMICARBON N.V. Jan. 31, 1956 [Feb. 4, 1955], No. 3085/56. Class 8(2). In a low temperature gas mixture separation process wherein cooling of the mixture prior to its separation into gaseous and liquid fractions is effected by passage through a heat exchanger 2 traversed by a reverse flow of said separated fractions, a sufficient portion of the liquid fraction from a tank 3 is vaporized in a duct 11 within the exchanger 2 so as to saturate at least a portion of the gaseous fraction when added thereto through a duct 12 prior to its entry to the cold end of the exchanger 2 through a duct 8 and at a temperature intermediate the freezing point and boiling point of the liquid fraction ; the remainder of the latter being added to the saturated gaseous fraction through a duct 13. As shown a 4 to 1 hydrogen-nitrogen mixture is cooled to 66À5K in the exchanger 2 so that most of the nitrogen condenses and collects in the tank 3. The remaining nitrogen is deposited in that section of an accumulator 5 not being derimed by hydrogen returning through a duct 6a from a deuterium extraction column (not shown) and the nitrogen-contaminated hydrogen in a duct 6 and at 62À5K is divided into a major portion which traverses a duct 7 of the exchanger 2 and into a minor portion which traverses the duct 8 and to which is added the vaporized and liquid nitrogen portions.
Patent GB-965114-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to starting and operating circuits for high pressure mercury vapour lamps
Inventor: CARTER FRANK
IPC: H05B41/231
Filed: 1962-01-29
Abstract: 965,114. Control circuits for high pressure mercury vapour lamps. LAMES BROS. Ltd. Jan. 29, 1963 [Jan. 29, 1962], No. 3264/62. Heading H2H. A system comprising a high pressure mercury vapour lamp X is provided with a thermostat T in the lamp starting circuit, the thermostat being sensitive to the lamp temperature to open its contacts when the lamp is above a predetermined temperature thereby inhibiting attempts to start the lamp when its temperature is above this predetermined temperature.
Patent GB-987240-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to surface grinding machines
Inventor: CLARKSON WILLIAM RONALD
IPC: B24B47/16
Filed: 1961-01-30
Abstract: 987,240. Surface grinding machines. CLAMEDELL Ltd., [trading as SOUTHERN ENGINEERING & MACHINERY CO.]. Jan. 15, 1962 [Jan. 30, 1961], No. 3424/61. Heading B3D. A surface grinding or other profiling machine comprises a worktable 1 mounted on a rotatable spindle 3 and a cam mechanism including a profiled member 12 and co-operating cam follower member 15, one of these members being carried by the spindle so that during rotation of the worktable the cam mechanism effects an axial displacement of the worktable along a path corresponding to the contour of the cam. As shown, the cam 12 is keyed to the spindle 3 which is driven through a longitudinally-keyed sleeve 4 by worm gearing 5, 6, the cam being spring-urged into contact with a roller 15 carried on a fixed part 18 of the machine. The profiled surface of the cam may be provided on either the upper or lower side of the cam, the roller 15 being correspondingly positioned, or the surface of the member 12 may be flat and engaged by the profiled surface of the roller 15 which, in this case, is large enough to provide for one single rotation of the worktable corresponding to one rotation of the roller.