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Patent GB-680898-A (GB)
Title: A machine for printing and preparing for use adhesive identification tabs, labels and tapes for securing wrappings
IPC: B41K3/08
Filed: 1949-02-03
Abstract: 680,898. Label printing machine. SETRIGHT REGISTERS, Ltd., and ADSHEAD, C. W. Jan. 30, 1950 [Feb. 3, 1949], No. 3032/49. Class 100 (iv). A machine for printing and preparing for use adhesive identification tabs, labels and tapes for securing wrappings comprises a printing mechanism in a housing 10 having a rotatable cam 66 which effects impression under the action of a pivoted handle 85 driving a ratchet and pawl coupled to the cam 66; a second ratchet and pawl mechanism prevents return of the handle before a complete operating stroke is effected. The labels or tapes 8 are in web form supplied from a frictionally braked reel 4 to the printing mechanism and pulled over a damping or gumming bath 12, 14 to a tear-off position 16. The printing mechanism comprises ten printing wheels or flexible bands passing over rollers, carrying type faces. Five of the wheels carry matter which is frequently changed and these are mounted on five co-axial sleeves extending out of the housing so that notch-located finger discs 35, Fig. 1, fixed at the other end of the sleeves, can be rotated to set the type. The other five wheels carrying the more static printing matter are adjustable and locked in position from the inside of the housing. Platen impression arrangements.-The tape 8 is fed below the wheels 43, Fig. 2, between guides 54 and above a platen 52 extending across all the wheels 43. The platen 52 is mounted on a stem 56 and is urged upwardly by a spring 64 bearing against a collar 62 fixed on the stem 56, upward impressional movement being controlled by a two lobe cam 66, Fig. 8, having two radial surfaces 74 which when reaching and passing a cut-away portion 70 of the collar 62 allow the spring 64 to move the platen upwardly. The cam 66 is rotated by a shaft carrying a two-notch ratchet-wheel 92, Fig. 10, engaged by a pawl 96 mounted on a disc 88 rotated by a gear 80, Fig. 2, meshing with a quadrant 82 on an operating handle 86. A device ensuring a complete stroke of the handle 85 comprises a pawl 102, Fig. 10, normally resting in one of two notches 112 in a ratchet wheel 94 fixed to the ratchet wheel 92. When the pawl 102 is moved out of a notch 112 by the initial movement of the handle 85, pawl 102 moves anticlockwise, and, through spring connection 108 moves a pawl 104 into engagement with a ratchet wheel 90 attached to the side of the disc 88 carrying the pawl 96. Ink-ribbon feed mechanism.-An ink ribbon 44, Fig. 2, is wound slowly on a spool 48, Fig. 5, by the rotation of a ratchet wheel 134 engaged by a pawl 132 reciprocated by a slide rod 130 eccentrically connected to a toothed wheel 124 rotated by a pawl 122 pivotally mounted on the free end of a lever 114 rocked about 116 by a link 112 connected at 111 to the end of the platen 52. A yielding connection 136 prevents damage if the spool is stopped from rotation e.g. by the ribbon being wholly wound on reel 48 and its other end held by the supply reel.
Patent GB-746690-A (GB)
Title: Buffer system for railway wagons
IPC: B61G11/12
Filed: 1954-02-03
Abstract: 746,690. Buffers; combined buffer and draw gear. ONIONS, J. H. Jan. 31, 1955 [Feb. 3, 1954], No. 3174/54. Class 103 (5). A railway wagon has an underframe 10, a body 11 movable thereon within limits, and buffers 14 provided with rods 17 which pass through the frame 10 and brackets 12 depending from the body. When the truck is driven into a terminal stop the left-hand buffer, for example, is compressed and its rod 17 and stop 18 moved inwardly. The momentum of the body 11 then carries it to the left relatively to the frame 10 and compresses the righthand buffer. When the wagon is stationary however and is impacted, the frame 10 is knocked forwards relatively to the body and slides for the full length of the buffer stroke. A chain or the like may be used instead of the rods 17 which only transmit tension, or the buffers may be of the central coupler type. Draw bars at each end may be connected to the rods 17 to operate the buffers at the respective opposite ends when pull is applied, whilst if sufficient draw force is applied the movement of the body may compress the buffers at the near end. Alternatively, each draw bar may be connected by chains and pulleys to the rods 17 of the rear buffers, and the rods may be fitted with dashpots or cushioning materials. In a modification, the buffers are of double normal stroke and the rods 17 are fixed to both body and buffers so that upon impact the leading buffers by fully contracting extend the trailing buffers by the same amount. The buffer 19, Fig. 7, comprises an oil containing base 20, a head 24 slidable therein, and a rod 22 fixed to the head and slidable within a sleeve 26. The head 24 also comprises a sealing plate 27, a floating piston 29, and passages 30 through which compressed air may be supplied to the inside of the head. In operation, when the head moves to the right oil is forced from the base 20 through an aperture 28 to move the piston 29 relatively to the head. This piston movement further compresses the air in the head thus storing up return energy.
Patent GB-999050-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to the treatment of textile fabrics
IPC: D06L4/70
Filed: 1962-01-29
Abstract: Textile fabrics, e.g. cotton and wool fabrics, are desized and/or bucked and/or bleached by steeping them in water, preferably at an elevated temperature, pressing them to reduce their moisture content to 80% or less by weight, passing them through a chemical solution appropriate to the required treatment at substantially room temperature (e.g. 20 DEG -30 DEG C.), subjecting them to a further pressing operation to eliminate excess solution, the moisture content after pressing being 10-40% by weight higher than that obtained before impregnation, and then bringing them to the temperature necessary for the reaction and maintaining at that temperature until the end of the reaction when a final washing is carried out.  The water in which the fabric is steeped may contain an inorganic salt, e.g. sodium chloride, ammonium chloride and sodium phosphates, an organic salt, e.g. sodium acetate or formate, aluminium formate or sodium alginate, or a wetting agent, e.g. an alkyl-aryl sulphate or condensation product of a fatty alcohol with ethylene oxide.  For carrying out the desizing enzyme solutions may be used, for bucking alkaline solutions, and for bleaching hydrogen peroxide, sodium chlorite or sodium hypochlorite.  The fabric may be impregnated with the various chemical solutions with pressing and heating in between impregnations but with no washing between the undividual treatment stages.  Bleaching solutions may be thickened by the addition of starch.  The alkaline bucking solutions may contain salts of persulphuric acid, hydrogen peroxide or alkali metal peroxides and condensation products of albumen degradation products with fatty acid chlorides.  Heating of the fabric after impregnation with the chemical solution may be effected by steaming with saturated or superheated steam, or by infra red radiation.
Patent GB-679367-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in covering compositions
IPC: C04B18/24
Filed: 1949-02-07
Abstract: 679,367. Fibrous compositions. CORDOVA, M. R. DE. Feb. 7,1950 [Feb. 7, 1949], No. 3326/49. Class 70 A composition comprises banana or cane trash, bagasse, cocoanut fibre, cocoanut husk or bracken which has been treated with a solution of magnesium chloride or calcium chloride. The composition may be set with magnesite and used as a covering for floors and walls. The fibrous material may be dehydrated after treatment with the chloride solution. A vegetable of mineral oil or gypsium or plaster of Paris may also be added.
Patent GB-419058-A (GB)
Title: An improved method of, and machine for, surfacing printing-face-equipped bodies
IPC: B41B11/00
Filed: 1933-02-03
Abstract: 419,058. Milling-machines. LUDLOW TYPOGRAPH CO., 2032, Clybourn Avenue, Chicago, U.S.A.-(Assignees of Hedly, A. H.; 2032, Clybourn Avenue, Chicago, U.S.A.) Feb. 3, 1933, No. 3335. Convention date, Feb. 4, 1932. [Class 83 (iii).] In a machine for trimming the printing-face of printing-surfaces, the printing-surface holder and the trimming-element are guided for relative reciprocatory movement along a substantially rectilinear path. The printing-surface 28 is supported against a shoulder on a plate 24, Fig. 5, secured in a carriage 21 reciprocable on rods 19, 20 secured above the base-plate 16 of the machine. The plate 24 is formed with a series of obliquely-disposed grooves to enable it to be maintained as clear of chips as possible. The carriage is pivoted on the rod 20, and is supported by means of a hard-metal plate 23 on the rod 19, the plate and rod being adjustable to provide new bearing-surfaces in case of wear. The work is held in place by a spring-pressed holder 35 having a convex lower face to give a line contact,-and pivoted on a shaft 32 arranged at a higher level than the work so that the holder tends to push the work against the shoulder on the plate 24. The work is operated on by a member 42 provided with cutters 40, the cutters projecting at each end from the member 42 which is reversible on its support 45 to provide additional cutting-surfaces. The support 45 is mounted on the end of a shaft 43 rotating in ball bearings 51, 52 in a support 47, the shaft being acted on by a spring 57 to prevent play. The support 47 is slidable towards and from the work, and is adjusted in position by a screw 70 secured to the support and working in a part of the baseplate. The work is arranged to engage a lubricating- device before reaching the cutter, the lubricating-device being mounted in a U-shaped bracket 72, Fig. 11, pivoted on a pin 73 in the baseplate. The device consists of a tube 79 closed at its lower end and formed with a series of perforations over each of which a disc 84 of felt or other absorbent material is clamped. The carriage 21, Figs. 4 and 5, is formed with a depending arm 97 carrying a roller 96, and a lever 100 carrying a roller 95, the rollers running on the lower and upper surfaces respectively of a bar 90 secured in the machine and formed with a raised portion 91. As the carriage moves towards the cutter, the roller 95 engages the inclined part 92 of the bar 90 and is raised against the action of a spring, but on the return movement, a projection 102 on the lever 100 is in contact with a pin 103 on the arm 97, so that the lever 100 is prevented from swinging when the roller engages the inclined part 94 of the bar. The carriage is thus raised off the bar 19, and the work is removed from position to be engaged by the cutter. Pins on the carriage fit slidably in openings in collars 105 on the rod 19, these collars moving along the rod with the carriage to remove chips from the rod.
Patent GB-922819-A (GB)
Title: An improved perpetual calendar
Inventor: HARTHEIMER OTTO LEOPOLD
IPC: G09D3/06
Filed: 1961-01-28
Abstract: 922,819. Perpetual calendars. F. J. MUNSTER & CO. Ltd. Jan. 24, 1962 [Jan. 28, 1961], No. 3355/61. Class 139. A perpetual calendar comprises a hollow member a shaped to provide seven distinct sides or faces and having a corresponding end cap c capable of rotary adjustment, numerals as a whole indicating a monthly period of thirtyone days being arranged serially round the body in successive rows so as to form seven columns and superimposed on or at each side or face of the body and the names of the seven days of the week disposed on the seven sides of the cap which may be set correctly with respect to a whole monthly period according to the calendar requirements of that particular month, the cap being spring loaded and provided on the underside with depressions c<SP>3</SP> which index with complementary projections a<SP>1</SP> on the body. The body is of transparent plastic and contains an inserted card b bearing the numerals. The device is formed as an ornamental lantern-style pendant e.g. for use on a motor-car key ring.
Patent GB-794196-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to dry contact rectifiers
IPC: H01L21/108
Filed: 1955-02-04
Abstract: 794,196. Selenium rectifiers. WESTING- HOUSE BRAKE & SIGNAL CO., Ltd., and COOPER, G. Jan. 5, 1956 [Feb. 4, 1955], No. 3368/55. Drawings to Specification. Class 37. A selenium rectifier comprises a layer of selenium on a base-plate, a lacquer artificial barrier layer formed by dipping and surrounding the selenium covered base-plate, a counterelectrode and a layer of sulphur, selenium or tellurium or any mixture thereof formed by vacuum deposition on the barrier layer beneath the counter electrode. In the embodiment a barrier layer of ethoxylene resin is deposited over the Se layer and base-plate by dipping the plate in a solution of the resin in xylene and withdrawing it slowly at 110‹ C. with its plane vertical. A second layer of Se is then vaporized on the resin layer over the first Se layer at 250‹ C. and under a pressure of 1-3 Á of mercury, and a tin cadmium alloy counter electrode applied in known manner.
Patent GB-620969-A (GB)
Title: Heat fusible material spray guns of the wire feed type
IPC: B05B7/20
Filed: 1947-02-05
Abstract: 620,969. Metallizing spray - producers. METALLIZING ENGINEERING CO., Inc. Feb. 5, 1947, No. 3430. Convention date, Oct. 5, 1946. [Class 69 (iii)] In a heat-fusible material spray gun of the wire feed type having a gear train from an airdriven turbine, a worm 9 co-operates with a tubular member 71 of the housing 14 to form a lubricant pump. The air-driven turbine drives a shaft 3 carrying a worm which drives a worm wheel 5 mounted on a shaft 6 between bearings 7 and 8. The shaft 6 has formed on it a worm 9 which drives a worm wheel 10 and its shaft 11 to which is attached a knurled feed roller in contact with the wire 22 fed to the nozzle of the gun. The worm 9 is longer than is necessary to drive the associated wheel 10 and extends towards the bearing 7 within a tubular casing 71. In operation the worm, which is right-handed and rotates in a clockwise direction viewed from bearing 7 end, forces lubricant from oil reservoir 71a via passage 72 along the space between the worm and casing 74 and 76 and discharges it at the gap 73 between the casing and the worm wheel 5 where it is distributed by centrifugal force from the periphery of the worm wheel 5 in a fine mist lubricating bearing 7 and the bearings associated with shaft 3. The oil level is maintained to the centre line of shaft 6 with the gun held horizontal, a dip stick 78 being provided for this purpose.
Patent GB-546357-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to glass coatings
IPC: C03C17/02
Filed: 1941-03-14
Abstract: 546,357. Coating article with glass ; electric conductors. WESTINGHOUSE ELECTRIC INTERNATIONAL CO. March 14, 1941, No. 3505. Convention date, March 16, 1940. [Class 56] [Also in Group XXXVI] A coated article consists of a base member with a coating composed of a solution of a glass in a polyhydric alcohol. The solution, which is composed and prepared as described in Specification 544,734, [Group III], consists of a lead borate glass with or without alkali, alkaline earth, or silica, dissolved in ethylene glycol or diethylene glycol, for example. The solution may be applied to the base by any suitable means, and the solvent is then driven off by heat. At temperatures below 250‹C. a gelatinous film is obtained but by heating to 500-550‹C. a glaze is obtained. Porous or friable material, such as asbestos or carborundum, may be impregnated with the solution. Felted asbestos treated in this way and heated to drive off the solvent, is readily wetted by and absorbs additional glazes and glass in a fused state. The drawing shows the section of an electric cable composed of copper conductors 10 insulated with felted asbestos 12 which has been impregnated with the lead borate solution and dried. Vitreous enamel is then applied and fused and is absorbed by the asbestos, a final external coating 14 of enamel being applied to form a solid glass insulator. Members formed of powdered or sintered metal with porous structure may be impregnated with glass.
Patent GB-510680-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to the passivation of stainless steel
IPC: C23C22/50
Filed: 1938-02-04
Abstract: 510,680. Coating stainless steel. BUDD MANUFACTURING CO., E.G. Feb. 4, 1938. No. 3561. Convention date. Feb. 23, 1937. [Class 82 (ii)] Stainless steel is rendered resistant to corrosion by sulphuric acid by pre-exposing the steel to sulphuric acid to form a smudge thereon, washing the steel in water, and removing the smudge. In an example the smudge was formed by 3 per cent. sulphuric acid acting for about 24 hours at 80‹F. and was removed by non-abrasive scrubbing. It is applicable to stainless steel containing respectively 18 and 8 per cent. of chromium and nickel and to nickel-free chrome steel.
Patent GB-675095-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to braking means for trailers
IPC: B60T15/42
Filed: 1949-02-10
Abstract: 675,095. Fluid-pressure brakes. SERVO-FREIN DEWANDRE SOC. ANON. Feb. 10, 1949 [Feb. 13, 1948], No. 3649/49. Class 103 (i). In an automatic compressed air brake system for tractor-trailer units, the brake cylinders on the trailer are of the twochamber type normally having compressed air supplied by the trailer auxiliary reservoir 8 to both sides of the pistons 28. Actuation of the brake pedal 30 operates a reaction control valve 4 to release air from the main brake pipe 6. This reduction of pressure is transmitted to the chamber 14 of a relay valve 11 on the trailer, so that its piston 23 moves downwardly owing to the auxiliary reservoir pressure existing in the chamber 17 above it. Downward movement of piston 23 first causes closure of a valve 27 which cuts off the auxiliary reservoir 8 from the brake cylinder discharge chambers 20 and then opens a valve 26 so that the brake cylinder chambers 20 may discharge to atmosphere through central port 25 in the piston 23, the brakes being applied by the full auxiliary reservoir pressure existing in the chambers 17. The trailer brakes will be automatically applied in the event of breakage of the connecting pipe 22. A three-way cock 10 is provided for transmitting by pipe 21 auxiliary reservoir pressure to chamber 14 below the piston 23 in order to release the trailer brakes after such an emergency application.
Patent GB-100160-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Closing Devices or Lids for Receptacles.
Inventor: GROS BENJAMIN
IPC: B65D45/32
Filed: 1916-03-11
Abstract: 100,160. Gros, B. April 14, 1914, [Convention date]. Capsule closures and retaining-bands for special closures.-A bottle, jar, or can is closed by a cap d, Figs. 2 and 3, having an upper cylindrical part d' and a series of depending lugs g with enlarged ends which engage a groove b in the bottle or like neck. The lugs are formed by turning in the lower edge of the flange of the cap and cutting a series of slots f in the head thus formed and the flange. A packing-ring c is interposed between the bottle mouth and the cap, and the lugs are pressed into engagement with the groove by applying a ring h. As shown in Fig. 1, this ring may be formed of a strip h, the ends of which are connected by a tongue h<1> and grooves h<3>, the tongue being turned back over the bridge-piece h<1> to secure the ends. In a modification, the packing-ring is placed in a rebate surrounding the mouth. In the case of metal cans, a bead is formed on the edge by turning the metal inwards or outwards, and the groove is formed by corrugating the body of the can. The slots f may be T-shaped
Patent GB-1245736-A (GB)
Title: A loading tray for a rocket launcher
IPC: F41A9/38
Filed: 1970-01-26
Abstract: 1,245,736. Rocket launchers; projectiles. WERKZEUGMASCHINENFABRIK OERLIKON-BUHRLE A.G. 26 Jan., 1970 [7 Feb., 1969], No. 3700/70. Headings F3A and F3C. A loading tray 2 for a rocket launcher is provided with a longitudinally extending groove 15 in which is mounted a rail 16 for radial movement with respect to the tray inwardly of the groove 15, the rail 16 having a guide groove 20 for guiding the twist lug of a rocket in the loading tray. In the construction shown the rail comprises two parts 17, 18 their adjacent ends being connected to the tray 2 such that the ends abut the base of the groove 15. A spring 26 is provided towards the outer end of each rail part to hold the outer ends of the parts 17, 18 away from the base of the groove. Thus, if the loading tray should buckle under extreme temperature conditions existing during firing rail 16 in its raised position will always form a guide for the twist lug of the rocket to be fired. The rockets are guided into the loading tray by a shaped guide rail which co-operates with stop pins on the rear end of the rockets and are urged into the loading tray by a conveyer roller (Fig. 1, not shown).
Patent GB-110866-A (GB)
Title: Improved Key-operated Device particularly for use as a Locking Fastener.
IPC: E05B35/06
Filed: 1917-03-15
Abstract: 110,866. Veritys, Ltd., and I'Ons, T. March 15, 1917. Covers and lids; handles.-A door or cover a is secured to the frame c of an electric fitting by a key-operated screw bolt d, which may serve to actuate a switch lever or other part mechanically connected to it. The bolt d is mounted to rotate in the cover and is provided with an extension comprising a threaded end part e, a reduced neck f and a squared part g, this extension being concealed within a tube h. To remove the cover, the internally-threaded portion i<2> of a key i is screwed past the threaded end e, the key is moved in wardly until its squared portion i<3> engages over the squared part g and then rotated, causing the bolt d and cover a to move outwardly. The cover may be the cover of a switch-box.
Patent GB-162814-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in means for connecting electric light and power cables with junction boxes, distribution boxes and the like
IPC: H02G3/06
Filed: 1920-02-07
Abstract: 162,814. Woods, R. S. Feb. 7, 1920. Junction boxes. - Electric cables are secured to junction and distribution boxes &c. by means of a short tube of soft metal or alloy connected to the box and through which the cable is passed, the projecting end of the tube being compressed firmly on to the cable. A tube c of lead or other soft alloy having a flange g is screwed into a hole in the box or in a projecting boss h. After leading in the cable b a suitable tool is used to press the outer end of the tube into an oval shape upon the cable and the laterally projecting portions i, Fig. 3, are then further pressed together close up to the cable to lock the latter in place. The internal cross section of the tube may approximate to the shape of the cable to be secured.
Patent GB-483719-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to pivots for scissors and the like
IPC: B26B13/28
Filed: 1936-10-22
Abstract: 483,719. Pivots. BARTLETT, B. G. W., and GOLDING, R. R. Oct. 22, 1936, No. 3803/37. Divided out of 483,246. [Class 65 (ii)] A pivot pin for scissors and the like comprises a hollow tubular member 32 longitudinally slotted or split at 33 for the whole of its length and adapted to be sprung into aligned bores in the blades of the scissors, the ends 34 of the member 32 being turned over on to the faces of the blades, which may be recessed as shown to avoid projection of the ends 34. The ends 34 are preferably slotted at a number of pivots to form a series of bendable tabs.