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Patent GB-1199134-A (GB)
Title: Method of Producing an Electrical Connection Between Two Laminated-Sheath Cables
Inventor: SCHEFFLER ERNST
IPC: H02G15/08
Filed: 1969-02-19
Abstract: 1,199,134. Electric couplings. KABELUND METALLWERKE GUTEHOFFNUNGSHUTTE A.G. 19 Feb., 1969 [20 Feb., 1968], No. 9010/69. Heading H2E. A method of producing an electrical connection between two telecommunication or other electric cables 1 each having a metal sheath 2 covered with an adherent thermoplastic layer 3 comprises cutting the ends of the sheaths and layers longitudinally along a number of lines around the cable peripheries, doubling back and securing the resulting strips 4 so as to expose the metal sheaths, and electrically connecting the sheaths of the two cables. As shown, wire collars 5 are used to secure the bent-back strips, a further integral length of wire 6 connecting the collars 5, which are soldered to the sheaths. The cable cores are interconnected at 9 and the connection is enclosed in a plastics housing 10. Alternatively, the bent-back strips may be secured by metal clips interconnected by metal bands or wires; in this case a metal ring may be inserted between each cable sheath and its strips to resist the compressive forces exerted by the clips.
Patent GB-332897-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to the treatment of road making materials
IPC: C08L95/00
Filed: 1929-03-20
Abstract: 332,897. Fox, C. G. March 20, 1929. Emulsions, making.-The spreading of' bituminous emulsions upon stone aggregate for roads or upon the road surfaces themselves is facilitated by treating the aggregate or the road surface with solutions of pyridine or pyridine bases or by adding such solutions to the emulsions. The. solutions may comprise industrial waste liquors containing pyridine or pyridine bases. According to examples-(1) A tar or bitumen emulsion has added to it 3 per cent of a 1 per cent solution of pyridine and is then mixed with 12-15 times its weight of 10-30 mm. chippings. (2) The chippings, before adding an untreated emulsion, are mixed with 0.5-1.0 per cent of a 0.5- 2.0 per cent solution of pyridine. or pyridine bases.
Patent GB-757995-A (GB)
Title: Adhesive bonding process
Inventor: BALFE BERNARD JAMES
IPC: C09J129/14
Filed: 1953-04-01
Abstract: An adhesive for bonding leather to leather or to resin-rubber leather substitute comprises shellac and polyvinyl butyral.  A phenolaldehyde resin and a plasticizer such as dibutyl phthalate, tricresyl or triphenyl phosphate may be added.  The phenol-aldehyde resin, which may be thermoplastic or thermosetting, may be made by condensing phenol, cresols, p-octyl phenol, p-tertiary butyl phenol, p-phenyl phenol, xylenols, resorcinol, diphenylol propane, or a phenol-terpene condensate, with formaldehyde, acetaldehyde, or butyraldehyde.  The adhesive is prepared as a solution in a solvent, e.g. methylated spirits.
Patent GB-963042-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to the locking of chassis members
IPC: B62D31/00
Filed: 1962-03-09
Abstract: 963,042. Vehicle frames. FABRIQUE NATIONALE D'ARMES DE GUERRE S.A. March 9, 1962 [March 10, 1961], No. 9069/62. Heading B7D. An open framework military vehicle has longitudinal frame members 1 and 2 in the front section and rear sections respectively, clamped together between a pair of brackets 19 and 20 by means of a pair of threaded bolts 25, 26 and butterfly nuts 29, 30. In the extended position, the brackets are located by plates 7, 8, 9 and 10 attached to the frame members. In the retracted position, in which the vehicle may be dropped by parachute, the front frame members 1 pass through stirrups 35 (Fig. 4), which form brackets for the rear wheels assembly. Specifications 859,577 and 962,692 are referred to.
Patent GB-550703-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in the degreasing of metal articles
IPC: C23G5/028
Filed: 1941-07-18
Abstract: 550,703. Degreasing non-porous articles. BOOTH, W. E., and IMPERIAL CHEMICAL INDUSTRIES, Ltd. July 18, 1941, No. 9094. [Class 91] In the removal of solvent from a metal or like non-porous article degreased in a bath of a liquid chlorinated aliphatic hydrocarbon solvent capable of forming an azeotrope with water of boiling point lower than that of water, the article is withdrawn from the bath of solvent through a supernatant layer of water of substantial depth at a temperature of below its boiling point but above that of the azeotrope, a zone of vapour consisting of the vapours of water and solvent in azeotropic proportions being maintained above the water layer. Of suitable solvents comprising chloroform, ethylene dichloride, dichloroethylene, and trichloroethylene, the last is preferred, its azeotrope with water boiling at 73C. In the usual type of apparatus in which the vapour zone in the upper part of the open topped degreasing vessel 1 is limited by condensing coils 2, the space between the latter and the upper surface 21 of the water layer is connected by a wide duct 4 with a distillation vessel 3. The latter is supplied in azeotropic proportions with water from the aqueous layer overflowing a sloping wall 20 and with solvent from the lower liquid layer through a valved pipe 18, the respective layers in the degreasing vessel being continuously supplemented by the return of water and solvent through pipes 16 and 17 respectively from a separator 14 which collects the mixed condensate from a trough 11 arranged below the condensing coils. The temperatures of the layers of liquid are controlled by a heating coil 10 and a cooling coil 9. The apparatus is particularly applicable for the degreasing and subsequent drying from solvent of metal wool, metal swarf, metal pressings, wire cloth, and wire gauze. Specification 525,995 is referred to.
Patent GB-375404-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to kilns and associated plant for the heat treatment of materials
IPC: F27B13/02
Filed: 1931-03-26
Abstract: 375,404. Brick-making plant; continuous kilns. ERITH, H. C., 46, Albion Road, Sutton, Surrey, and ERITH, R. C., 9, Warwick Street, Regent Street, London. March 26, 1931, No. 9224. [Class 51 (ii).] In a continuous kiln for making bricks &c. comprising kiln chambers D on opposite sides of a central corridor B<1>, overhead transporting means such as a crane N of the traversing type is located above the corridor for raising, lowering and transporting the brick presses J to any kiln chamber, and an endless band conveyer I extending through the corridor receives raw material from the mills H and feeds it into the hoppers J<1> of the presses. The crane N runs on rails N<2> extending along the corridor which is open at both ends. Waste material or damaged bricks from the presses are collected in buckets O and periodically transported to the hoppers H<2> of the mills H by the crane; these buckets may be used for feeding the presses during stoppage of the band conveyer. Portable gravity roller conveyers P in sections adapted for transport by the crane, are employed for delivering bricks from the press to the chamber or for removing the burnt bricks and loading them on to railway wagons D<2>, lorries or barges. Coal is transported by the crane from a wagon D<1> to hoppers R above the level of the kiln for top firing or to low level furnaces. Movable deflector troughs M operated by rods from the ground level deflect the material from the endless band I to the presses J in operation and a similar trough M<1> deflects surplus material to the lower run of the band for return to the grinding mills H. From the grinding mills the material is supplied by elevators H<3> to screens H<4>, which return coarse material to the mills and deliver fine material to the band I, which is provided with a mixing trough L where additional moisture can be introduced. Cross flues G at the ends of the kiln allow of ring flow of the heating medium. The combustion products are removed by chimneys B or suction fans. Provision may be made for gas or oil firing.
Patent GB-766031-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in earth scraper apparatus
IPC: E02F3/815
Filed: 1955-03-30
Abstract: 766,031. Excavating earth and rock. GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION. March 30, 1955 [April 20, 1954], No. 9256/55. Class 68 (1). Earth scraper apparatus comprises a pair of alternatively operable blades 30, 37, the blade 30 being effective during forward operations and the blade 37 being effective during operations in the reverse direction. The blades with mould boards 23, 35 are mounted on a frame each end of which is pivoted to a beam 15 which is pivotably connected to the chassis 10a of a tractor. The frame is raised and lowered by an hydraulically operated ram 19 and turned about its pivots relative to the beams 15 by hydraulically operated rams 45 attached at 45a to the beams 15 so as to engage either the blade 30 or the blade 37 with the ground. The blade 37 and mould board 35 can be moved sideways relative to the blade 30 by an hydraulically operated ram 43. A number of scarifying teeth 51 mounted in guides 50 may be raised or lowered together by an hydraulically operated ram 55 which operates a rocker shaft 52 having rocker arms 52b to which the teeth 51 are attached. In a modification the blade supporting frame carries at one side a knife edged rooter tooth which is lowered or raised by an hydraulically operated ram. The scraper blades may be tilted. The scraper blades may be inclined to the direction of travel by steering the tractor, which has four wheel steering, in such a manner that its longitudinal axis is inclined to the direction of travel.
Patent GB-646135-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to pumping systems comprising hydraulic pressure transformers
IPC: F04B9/117
Filed: 1947-04-08
Abstract: 646,135. Reciprocating pumps; gas compressors. MONOYER, M., and ATELIERS DE CONSTRUCTION D'ENSIVAL SOC. ANON. April 8, 1947, No. 9321. Convention date, April 16, 1946. [Classes 8(i) and 102(i)] In a pumping system comprising a differential-piston hydraulic pressure transformer in combination with a centrifugal pump 76, the driving liquid from the latter is led periodically to the opposite Working faces of double-acting driving pistons 82, 83 all of equal diameter and the same or a different liquid is led to the high pressure pump cylinders 88, 90 of different diameter by a rotary distributor 81 which is actuated independently of the movement of the driving pistons. Each. differential piston comprises pump pistons 84, 85; 86, 87; reciprocable in co-axial cylinders 88, 89; 90, 91 respectively and disposed on each side of a central driving piston 82, 83 respectively. The pump pistons are preferably parallel and half of them 84 are of a larger diameter than the other half 86, the two sizes being spaced alternately around the central distributor which is driven through epicyclic gearing by an electric motor 95 which also drives the centrifugal pump. The latter receives liquid from a reservoir 77 through a filter 78 and delivers it to an annular cavity 80 from which it is distributed to the driving pistons and through passages 84a, 86a and valves 84b, 86b to the pump cylinders. For use in operating an hydraulic press or the like, the centrifugal pump 76 first delivers direct to the common main 70<SP>1</SP> through pipe 94 until pressure in the main increases and the valve 71 is closed. The liquid then passes through the transformer and is delivered by the larger pistons 84, 85 through pipe 92 and pressure operated valve 72 until the pressure in the main is sufficient to open a valve 73 when the liquid is then delivered by the smaller pistons 86, 87 and the larger pistons are immobilized. The Specification as open to inspection under Sect. 91 comprises also a transformer using a gaseous driving fluid and also refers to its use as a gas compressor operated either by liquid or gas. A transformer having multiple solid differential pistons with the pump pistons of equal diameter is also described, the liquid being led from the distributor, which is driven by a separate motor. to the pump cylinders through external pipes. A single solid differential piston transformer is also described. This subject-matter does not appear in the Specification as accepted.
Patent GB-978514-A (GB)
Title: Method and means for aging alcoholic beverages
IPC: C12H1/22
Filed: 1962-03-12
Abstract: In a process and apparatus for ageing an alcoholic beverage, such as whiskey, brandy and wine, contained in wooden barrels 14 having charred inner surfaces, a bladder 24, e.g. of polyethylene, located in each barrel, is inflated, e.g. intermittently, with a fluid, such as compressed air, supplied through a pipe 38, a valve 40 and a pipe 34, to bring the beverage 42 into contact with the whole charred inner surface of each barrel and, for example, to agitate the beverage.  Any gas in a barrel is expelled through a conical hole in its upper <PICT:0978514/C6-C7/1> side, which hole is then closed by a conical plug 54, hinged inside the barrel.  The plug is preferably covered with soft plastic material and provided with a wooden or cork base, so that it floats on the rising beverage and is urged into the conical hole to close and seal it and thus prevent leakage of beverage.
Patent GB-526710-A (GB)
Title: An improved means for storing and sterilising the instruments, apparatus, and utensils required for service in an operating theatre
IPC: A61L2/26
Filed: 1939-03-25
Abstract: 526,710. Hospital cabinets. THOMAS, B. M. G. March 25, 1939, No. 9390. [Class 52 (i)] [Also in Group X] A service room adjoining an operating theatre is divided by an incomplete partition or baffle incorporating a two-sided cabinet for instruments &c. the side remote from the theatre being fitted with means 15 for sterilizing instruments &c. and drawers 5, 6 for storing instruments to be sterilized. Liquid containers 8-10 with gauge glasses, cupboards 7, 12, and sliding doors 14 giving access to the sterilizing compartment are provided. The sterilizing compartment is heated by steam coils 15a, 16a and is fitted with a hood 25 to deflect vapours to a flue 17. The liquid containers may be heated by a steam coil 11  and their compartment has a flue 20. The drawoff taps of the liquid containers are accessible only from the other side of the cabinet, which is also fitted with drawers &c. for sterilized instruments and with sliding doors giving access to the sterilizing vessels.
Patent GB-1070990-A (GB)
Title: Apparatus capable of permitting the transfer towards the outside of parts or apparatus from pressurized vessels or from vessels confining contaminated contents
IPC: G21C13/028
Filed: 1965-03-05
Abstract: 1,070,990. Grippers for lifting articles. SNAM S.p.A. March 5, 1965 [March 12, 1964], No. 9560/65. Heading B8H. [Also in Division G6] A device for transferring an article from a contaminated pressurized vessel comprises a connector fitted with a closure and a transportable container, also fitted with a closure; the connector is mated with an opening in the vessel and the container is mated with the other end of the connector. The concrete pressure vessel 1 of a gas-cooled reactor contains a tube 3 in which is housed a coolant gas circulating pump, the end flange 5 of which is bolted to a flange 6 of the tube 3. The connector 8 has its closure 9 driven by a motor 10 so as to be movable transversely of the connector axis. The container 12 has its end received in a socket 14, and a spigot 11 engages a hole 15 in the closure 13 so that the closure 13 is moved transversely with the closure 9. Depending on the pressure in the vessel 1, the bolts retaining the flange 5 may be removed either before assembling the connector and container, or, after they have been assembled, by remote control. The closures 9, 13 are opened and a grapple in the container 12 lifts the pump by means of a spigot 7 into the container. After the closures have been shut, gas in the space between them is exhausted via valve 17, and the container 12 released.
Patent GB-122811-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Multiple Disc Brakes.
IPC: B66D5/12
Filed: 1918-06-12
Abstract: 122,811. Schneider et Cie. Feb. 1, 1918, [Convention date]. Self-sustaining gear. - In multiple-disk brakes the set of disks which are usually keyed to the casing are mutually interlocked for example by interengaging projections formed on the disks. This arrangement is particularly applicable to brakes for winding-engines, enabling the casing to be kept stationary instead of rotating during the raising of the load with consequent stirring up of the mud in the oil bath and increase of the wear of the disks. The disks A are keyed to the shaft C as usual by projections a engaging a groove in the shaft. The alternate disks B are interlocked by peripheral teeth B' formed thereon which overlap the edges of the disks A. The spaces B<2> between the teeth are preferably greater than the length of the teeth so that the edges of the disks A are not completely covered and passage of lubricant between the disks is facilitated. A vent d<2> in the bottom of the casing D<2> enables the mud to be drawn off. The upper half D' of the casing can be removed for inspecting the disks. A winding-engine brake is shown in which there is a disk J having teeth J<1> engaged with the teeth on the last disk B and helicoidal inclines j coacting with inclines k carried by a sleeve k coned at k<1> to engage the inner surface D<1> of the casing D<2>, D<3> which is normally held stationary as by a band brake L. The motor is geared to the pinion F on a sleeve M and the load to the pinion E on the shaft C. Assuming the load to act counterclockwise and that the motor comes to rest, the disks A, B and the coned surfaces k<1>, D<1> are respectively forced into contact by the action of the inclines j, k so that the load is sustained without reaction at the pinion F. To lower the load sufficient force must be applied to the pinion F to overcome the friction between the disks A, B. When the load is raised the disks A, B are still forced together, owing to the axial travel of the sleeve M on the threaded end of the shaft C, but as the inclines j, k are now disengaged both sets of disks turn with the shaft.
Patent GB-169415-A (GB)
Title: Fire alarm and like apparatus
IPC: G01K3/12
Filed: 1921-04-01
Abstract: 169,415. Roquette, J. C. F. April 1, 1921. Alarms operated by expansion of gases.-Relates to fire-alarms of the type in which an enclosed volume of air, when expanded by a sudden rise of temperature, acts upon a flexible diaphragm to close an electric circuit, and consists more particularly in the construction and arrangement of an adjustable air vent through which the air passes on normal gradual changes of temperature. The air is enclosed between two sheetmetal cylinders 2, 3, the cylinder 2 being open at the top and the cylinder 3 provided with vertical corrugations to increase the heating-surface. The air, on expansion, passes through a passage 9 into a dilatable chamber 10 having a flexible diaphragm 11 provided with an air-vent 12 packed with cotton-wool or other porous material. On a sudden rise of temperature, the diaphragm 11 depresses a blade spring 28, thus closing a circuit at 29, the vent being wholly or partly closed by the engagement of an adjustable screw 18 with a central aperture in a washer screwed on to the bottom of the vent. The frame of the apparatus comprises uprights 25 surrounded by a gauze screen 36.
Patent GB-630919-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to shaft-couplings
IPC: F16D3/18
Filed: 1947-04-11
Abstract: 630,919. Universal joints. DAVIS, C. A. April 11, 1947, No. 9757. [Class 80 (ii)] In a universal joint for a gas turbine engine, one shaft 4 is formed with an internal spherical seating 6 and with external splines 16 in the same transverse plane, the second shaft 2 having a sleeve 14 rigid therewith and in splined connection 15 with the splines 16, and also having an externally spherical seating ring 7 secured on it by a nut 17 entered through the first shaft 4. The nut 17, which may be locked in the manner described in Specification 630,918, [Group XXV], clamps the spherical ring 7, the splined sleeve 14 borne in the bearing 19 and a washer 12 against a shoulder 13 on the shaft 2.
Patent GB-732339-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to drawing mechanisms for spinning and roving frames
IPC: D01H5/50
Filed: 1952-10-16
Abstract: 732,339. Drawing mechanism. SACOLOWELL SHOPS. Oct. 16, 1952 [Oct. 20, 1951], No. 9816/54. Divided out of 732,259. Drawings to Specification. Classes 120(2) and 120(3). The subject-matter of this Specification is substantially the same as that described in Specification 732,259, but the claims differ.
Patent GB-1504473-A (GB)
Title: Movable mountingplate for detachable elements having a safety system for monitoring the positioning of the elements
IPC: A61B6/10
Filed: 1976-03-11
Abstract: 1504473 Device for mounting radiation filters CGR-MEV 11 March 1976 [14 March 1975] 09854/76 Heading H5R A device for mounting radiation filters or targets 6 comprises a mounting plate 1 having a number n of openings 4 for receiving the filters 6, and having n slots 3 in its rim 2, a monitoring system comprising n studs 13 receivable in respective slots 3, with means for retracting retracting each stud from its slot when the corresponding opening 4 is fitted with a filter, and a locking system comprising an index 20 which can be introduced into a slot 3 after retraction of its stud 13, on mounting a filter 6, for immobilizing the plate 1 in a required position in its travel, such engagement of the index 20 controlling via a switch, in use, operation of a radiation beam. The mounting plate 1 may be circular and rotatable, as shown, or rectangular and linearly displaceable, (Fig. 3, not shown). The stud 13 may be spring-biased outwardly, and movable inwardly by a lever 7 having a follower 9 bearing against the filter 6. The index 20, which may carry a roller 32, is at one end of a lever 21, and is kept in contact with the rim 2 of the plate 1 by a spring-biased rod 25; when the index 20 enters a slot 3, the end 29 of the rod 25 operates a switch 30 in the radiation beam control circuit.
Patent GB-1470711-A (GB)
Title: Holographic data recording systems
IPC: G03H1/00
Filed: 1974-04-01
Abstract: 1470711 Holograms SIEMENS AG 1 April 1974 [30 March 1973] 9960/74 Heading G2J A non-axial hologram for use as a data store on a moving medium has the two incident light beams arranged as co-ordinates the intersections exposed as: - where O and R represent co-ordinates in the dimensions and & = +1 with a convergent and divergent beam, subject to the exlusion of mirrorsymmetrical systems and & = -1 if both beams are convergent or divergent. One beam is pulse-modulated in conventional manner.
Patent HU-T62950-A (HU)
Title: Method and apparatus for collecting floating fluid
Inventor: BURT DAVID ALAN
IPC: E02B15/04
Filed: 1990-11-06
Abstract: PCT No. PCT/GB90/01702 Sec. 371 Date May 21, 1992 Sec. 102(e) Date May 21, 1992 PCT Filed Nov. 6, 1990 PCT Pub. No. WO91/06711 PCT Pub. Date May 16, 1991.A skimmer device for recovering a first liquid which is floating on a second liquid, e.g. oil on water, uses one or more discs rotating in a plane transverse to the liquid surface (preferably inclined at 70 DEG  or less to the liquid surface). Particular benefits accrue, especially when operating in open water, when an inclination angle of 45 DEG  or less is used. With a disc inclination angle of 25 DEG -30 DEG  to the liquid surface a near optimal compromise is reached between oil take-up rate and ease of collection. Further advantages are obtained with skimmer discs of polymethyl methacrylate resin.