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Patent GB-2469460-A (GB)
Title: Cable reel with recessed and shrouded outlet sockets
Inventor: SMITH ANTHONY
IPC: B65H75/40
Filed: 2009-04-14
Abstract: A face plate 20 for a cable reel 10 includes at least one socket 22 provided with a protective shroud 24 and at least partly recessed within the face plate 20. The sockets 22 may be entirely recessed within the faceplate 20. The shroud 24 may be a hollow tube surrounding and extending outwardly from the socket 22 and may further be provided with a lid or cover 26 with a finger hold 29 to cover and protect the socket from water and dirt when used outdoors. The lid 26 may be hingedly, slidably or rotatably mounted on the shroud 24 and may be biased to a closed position. The faceplate 20, socket 22 and shroud 24 may be made from a single piece of moulded plastic material. The cable reel 10 may comprise a drum 14 having a length of cable 12 to be wound thereon, one end 15 of the cable 12 being fitted with a plug 16 for insertion into a complementary socket, while the other end of the cable being fed into the socket 22 in the face plate 20. The cable may be for electrical power, television, internet or networks. The drum 14 may be mounted upon a stand 32 or within a housing (62 fig 3).
Patent GB-2469648-A (GB)
Title: Traffic counting device
Inventor: TEAL STEVEN RICHARD
IPC: G08G1/042
Filed: 2009-04-21
Abstract: A traffic counting device comprises a housing (10), a power supply (40), a vehicle sensor (60), a data storage device (50), a wireless receiver (34), and a wireless transmitter (32). The housing will preferably be disposed in a road surface and may resemble a conventional road stud. The power supply may be a battery (42) chargeable by a solar cell (46). The vehicle sensor (60) is disposed within the housing and is operable to sense the passage of vehicles along the road surface and may be a magnetometer. An environmental sensor, such as a temperature sensor (70) may also be used to calibrate the magnetometer. The data storage device is operable to store sensed vehicle data. Preferably, the storage device may be a non volatile memory with the capacity to store several months of data. A radio clock such as a GPS receiver (80) may be used to associate a time with the sensed data. The wireless receiver (34) is operable to listen for the presence of a nearby external communication device and transmit using the transmitter (32) at least a portion of the stored vehicle data in response to a data request from a nearby external communication device. A corresponding method of collecting traffic data using a traffic counting device disposed in the road surface is also described.
Patent GB-456308-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in packing devices for shafts and the like
IPC: F16J15/32
Filed: 1936-04-06
Abstract: 456,308. Stuffing - box packing. ANDERSON, J. C., Brean House, Beech Hill Road, Wylde Green, Sutton Coldfield. April 6, 1936, No. 10053. [Class 122 (v)] In packing for preventing leakage of oil along a shaft, comprising a cup-leather 7 which is acted on by a conical ring 9, the latter is pressed axially by spring fingers 11, pressed from a flange 10 on the ring. The fingers 11 also extend beyond the outer periphery of the flange 10, in order to locate the ring centrally. The ring 9 is contained in an inner casing-ring 4, the flange 5 of which clamps the cup-leather, and the whole packing is contained in a casing ring 1 with turned-over flanges.
Patent GB-1300830-A (GB)
Title: Machine tool having a tool change mechanism with tool magazine positioning means
Inventor: BRAINARD WALLACE ELWOOD
IPC: B23Q3/157
Filed: 1970-03-03
Abstract: 1300830 Tool changers KEARNEY & TRECKER CORP 3 March 1970 10089/70 Heading B3B A machine tool comprises a tool storage magazine 11 having a plurality of tools selectively indexable to move a preselected tool to a predetermined variable position along a rectilinear path of travel; a spindle head 6 having a spindle movable along a rectilinear path parallel to the path of travel of the tool in the magazine; means operably connected to control the operation of the indexing of the tools to move a selected tool from a fixed tool select position a variable rectilinear distance as established by the existing and selectively variably spaced rectilinear position of said spindle head to locate said pre-selected tool in a predetermined fixed spaced tool change position relative to said spindle head; and tool change means to interchange the pre-selected tool positioned by said magazine with the previously used tool in said spindle. The machine tool is tape controlled and each tool is individually coded and when a required tool is sensed by fingers 40 of a reading head 16 the magazine conveying chain is stopped. A solenoid operated plunger 46 is actuated to push out a plunger 47. The chain is then re-started and when plunger 47 strikes a roller 64 of a switch 65 carried by the spindle head, the chain is stopped with the required tool aligned with the tool change means. The tool change means comprises a rotatable arm 24 mounted on the end of a pivotable arm 28. The arm 28 is pivoted to a housing 30 movable along the top of the spindle head. In operation a tool is gripped by one end of the arm 24, the arm 24 rotated 90 degrees, the arm 28 is pivoted to a vertical position, the housing 30 is moved towards the front of the machine tool, and the arm 28 is lowered to a forward position to perform a tool exchange. A ladder L and a platform P are provided for an operator.  Reference has been directed by the Comptroller to Specification 916,501.
Patent GB-118599-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in the Manufacture of Cast-iron Pipes and the like.
IPC: B22D13/00
Filed: 1918-06-20
Abstract: 118,599. International de Lavaud Manufacturing Corporation, (Assignees of Lavaud, D. S. de). July 30, 1917, [Convention date]. Annealing; tempering. - Pipes &c. cast in centrifugal machines are cooled in the machine 1 in 3-6 seconds to a temperature of about 1500‹ F., the graphite thus separating out in very fine particles. The pipes 2 are then transferred, as by a crane 4, to a sloping oven 6, 7, where, in passing through a gas chamber 9, they are heated to a temperature of 1800-2000‹ F., the exact temperature chosen depending on the metal. This toughens the metal and, in the case of cast iron, converts it from the white to the grey variety, having very fine grain and dentrites of silico-ferrite and grains of fine graphite and ferrite in a matrix of pearlite. The pipes 2 after leaving the oven roll through a tar bath 14.
Patent GB-918005-A (GB)
Title: Hot sheet rolling mill
IPC: B21B1/34
Filed: 1961-03-21
Abstract: 918,005. Rolling. MOELLER & NEUMANN G.m.b.H. March 21, 1961 [March 24, 1960], No. 10241/61. Class 83 (4). A hot plate rolling mill comprises a reversing roughing stand 10, a reversing for high stand 13 having formerless reeling machines 14, 15 on each side, and a cooling bed, shears and a reel 20. Bending rollers 17 in the reeling machines cause the plate to be rolled on itself, the rollers being reversible. A second for high finishing stand may be added and also a second for high stand with reeling machines on each side, the two consecutive stands working in sequence are independently of each other as required. Edging rolls may be provided between two four high stands, the rolls being provided with a number of edging grooves.
Patent GB-175916-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and connected with loose leaf binders
IPC: B42F13/00
Filed: 1921-04-07
Abstract: 175,916. Downie, W. S. April 7. 1921. Locking-followers; locks and fastenings; covers. -In a loose-leaf binder of the kind in which a removable clamping-bar is locked to posts mounted on a lower plate by means of tubular members in the bar fitted with clutches, each clutch comprises balls or rollers e, Figs. 1 and 4, held in holes in the tubular member c and forced against the posts by a tapering nut f engaging internal screw-threads on the member c. Rotation of the nut f to operate the clutch may be effected by a reciprocable toothed rack g engaging a toothed pinion f<1> on the nut f. Two such clutches may be simultaneously operated by a toothed pinion h engaging the two racks g operating the clutches. In order to allow further rotation of one nut after the other has been sufficiently rotated to lock the corresponding clutch, the pinion h may be connected to an external rotary disc k<1>, Figs. 6 and 10, by a self-adjusting coupling allowing the pinion h to turn about one rack when the latter is held against movement. The self-adjusting coupling may be an Oldham coupling comprising an intermediate member j<1>, Fig. 6, provided with a diametral rib j engaging a groove in the pinion hand with a diametral groove j<2> at right-angles to the rib j and engaging a rib k on the member k<1>. The operating racks and pinions are mounted on a plate d, Figs. 1 and 4, provided with a cover q, Fig. 10, and with lugs m to which extensions n of the side cover o are pivoted.
Patent GB-511553-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to conveyors
IPC: B08B9/44
Filed: 1938-04-04
Abstract: 511,553. Endless-belt conveyers. HOPKINS, A. D., and HOPKINS & SONS, Ltd., G. April 4, 1938, No. 10272. [Class 78 (i)] In conveyers wherein containers or other articles are slidably propelled along a stationary platform by means of parallel push-bars connected to parallel endless chains, a gap is temporarily provided near the discharge end of the platform 3 through which the push-bars 18 pass below the platform, the gap being automatically formed and closed for each push-bar. The stationary platform 3 is continued by two reciprocating plates 29, 30 which move forward and backward at different speeds to open and close a gap therebetween. A push-bar 18 strikes an upright 34 projecting from the plate 30, and thenceforward moves the plate away from the plate 29, forming a gap through which the push-bar eventually disappears. The plate 29 is made to follow up and nearly close the gap by rollers 33 on the chain sprocket wheel 16 which abut against a lug 32 depending from the plate 29. After a batch of containers has been pushed on to a transverse conveyer 27 by the action of the push-bar 18 before it goes below, the plate 30 is reversed to close the gap, and eventually to press against and return the plate 29, by a bell-crank 37 operated by rolls 42 on a wheel on the sprocket shaft 17. The plates 29, 30 ride on idle rollers 31, and the conveyer 27 is of the type built up of metal discs. The push-bars 18 are loosely held in the chains 15, and the platform 3 extends through a heating and cooling tunnel 4 provided with tanks which receive liquid raining through the containers from a perforated ceiling. The platform 3 is sloped at intervals to cause the liquid to drain through side slots into its appropriate tank, each tank being kept at a uniform temperature which differs from that of the others. Pumps restore the liquid from'the tanks to the upper side of the ceiling, and the tunnel is provided with cleaning and inspection doors. A transverse conveyer feeds the containers on to the platform 3 at the inlet end, the containers grouping themselves indiscriminately till marshalled by an on-coming push-bar 18. Tension rollers are provided for the chains 15. Specification 500,614 is referred to.
Patent GB-148622-A (GB)
Title: An improved centering apparatus
IPC: B23B49/04
Filed: 1919-04-25
Abstract: 148,622. Picha, E. April 25, 1919. Drilling.-A jig comprises two angular members adapted to engage the periphery of the work and connected by links to arms on a pair of rings rotatable on a central body provided with an aperture adapted to receive a boring bit or other tool, the angular members being guided on rods carried by the central body. As shown, two members c with angularly disposed work-engaging arms c<1> are slidable on rods d secured to a central body a having an aperture a<1> to receive the drill. The members c are connected by links b<5> to arms b<2>, b<3> which project from two rings b, b<1> rotatable about the body a. The arms c' of one member c are in a plane parallel to that of the arms of the other member so that the arms may overlap when engaging objects of small size. The members c are provided with rings by which the tool may be held and operated by two fingers.
Patent GB-396867-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to tubular metal frames for buildings, tents, furniture, and other structures
IPC: F16B7/04
Filed: 1932-04-12
Abstract: 396,867. Fencing; hand-rails. HOFFMANN, H., 30, Neuendorferstrasse, Spandau, Berlin, and HEDTMANN, W., Kabel-Hagen, Westphalia, both in Germany. April 12, 1932, No. 10428. [Class 45.] Tubular frameworks comprise straight or curved tubular members e, f, and junction pieces a, c, of the same sectional shape and dimensions at their ends and adapted to be connected together by spring dowels i of slightly larger diameter than the internal diameter of the tubes and of substantially the same cross-section throughout their length. The dowels may be split tubes, Fig. 4, or metal bent to an S-formation, Fig. 9, or corrugated longitudinally, or metal sheet with tapered edges wrapped in spiral formation, Fig. 11. Reference has been directed by the Comptroller to Specifications 18544/92, [Class 45, Fencing &c.], and 1406/01, [Class 99, Pipes &c.].
Patent GB-1443396-A (GB)
Title: Device for facilitating recording data
IPC: G06K19/02
Filed: 1974-03-08
Abstract: 1443396 Sheet holders UPJOHN CO 8 March 1974 [9 March 1973] 10487/74 Heading B6A A sheet holder which facilitates the filling out of data sheets comprises a flat container having a pair of opposed, flat, parallel, outer walls 11, 12 and a flat, parallel, inner partition wall 13 spaced from the outer walls to define two sheet receiving areas within the container, the latter having only one open end, through which the partition wall projects, this projecting portion having a notch 46 to facilitate sheet removal and the outer walls being provided with apertures 38, 39, 40 and (49)-(54), Fig. 8 (not shown), through which the sheet can be marked. Two sheets may be provided, one being held in each container area and each having marked portions corresponding to the apertures to facilitate registration of the sheets in the holder. The outer walls have indicia, e.g. on pressure sensitive tape, applied adjacent the apertures to indicate the data to be marked through each aperture. The walls may be of metal or plastics held in spaced relationship by a matched strip 17.
Patent GB-918694-A (GB)
Title: A device for rotating tubes
IPC: F16D7/08
Filed: 1959-03-26
Abstract: 918,694. Screwing-up. SOODNIZIN N.V. March 26, 1959, No. 10538/59. Class 83 (3). A device for causing relative rotation between two coaxial tubes T comprises two clamps FC, RC, one of which (RC) can be held out of engagement with a tube while a rotary part for rotating it accelerates. The clamps are carried on a carriage 3 movable by fluid-pressure means 4 on a column 1, about which the device can be swivelled for serving two adjacent drilling rigs. Each clamp, such as RC, Fig. 3, has jaws 30 held in a rotatable bush 29 urged to a release position in a C-shaped frame 27 by a spring- pressed plunger 8. When moved in the opposite direction, the bush 29 causes balls 10 on the jaws to move up cams 9 and clamp the tube. The jaws of the fixed lower clamp FC can be closed by rotating a bush 21 by a fluid-pressure device 45 through a lever 15. The lever can be held in a central position by pins 14. The bush 29 of the upper clamp is held in a neutral position by a detent 33 or can be locked by a pin. Rollers 36 on the lower clamp support a ring gear 24 which can be rotated by a motor 40 through gears 42, 43, 44. To close the upper jaws while the clamp RC and ring 24 are rotating, a fluid-pressure piston 16 is operated to raise a ball 18 which engages a ball 19 connected to the bush 29. The latter is thereby retarded and the jaws closed. For entering the clamps around a tube, the upper clamp and ring are centred by a fluid-pressure device 39, 37. Flywheel. The motor 40 drives through a flywheel 47 which embodies an inclined ball clutch 50, 49, Fig. 5, such that the limiting torque in the loosening direction is higher than in the tightening direction. The device may carry a pair of spring-loaded tongs to hold a pipe to transfer it from one position to another.
Patent GB-539850-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to brakes
IPC: F16D65/52
Filed: 1940-03-18
Abstract: 539,850. Vehicle brakes, adjusting for wear. CLEVELAND, F. J. (Hydraulic Brake Co.) March 18, 1940, Nos. 10540/41. Divided out of 539,821. [Class 103 (i)] An internal shoe drum brake, having an automatic adjusting device comprising a push member carried by the shoe and engaging with the drum and a stop member on the shoe engaging with a fixed abutment to limit the "off" movement of the shoe has the stop member 244 pivoted on the shoe and in the form of a bell-crank lever with the shorter arm engaging by a pin 250 and square washer 252 with an edge of a slot 258, formed in the push member 256 and inclined at a small angle to the direction of movement of the push member with respect to the shoe as wear takes place.
Patent GB-527245-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in electrical protective circuits
IPC: H04M1/74
Filed: 1939-04-05
Abstract: 527,245. Electric Switches &c. ELECTRICAL RESEARCH PRODUCTS, Inc. April 5, 1939, No. 10587. Convention date, April 7, 1938. [Class 38 (v)] In a current-carrying circuit containing an inductive member and contacts adapted to open and close the circuit successively, a condenser and a heat sensitive resistive element are connected in series across the contacts. The resistive element assumes relatively low and high resistances at the opening and closing of the contacts to protect them against excessive current surges. The value of resistance may be controlled by means actuated by the contacts. The temperature variation may be made by a heating coil associated with the element. The invention may be applied to a telephone circuit, as shown in. the figure, wherein the resistive element 7 and the condenser 9 protect the contacts 10 and 11 ; the resistance having a negative coefficient and being heated during impulses on relay 2 by heating coils.
Patent GB-315288-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in devices for sprinkling or distributing powdered material
IPC: A23G3/20
Filed: 1928-04-10
Abstract: 315,288. Smith, J. K. April 10, 1928. Powder distributers.-A device for sprinkling or distributing powdered material upon articles comprises two screens or sieve-like elements of different mesh maintained in superposed relation to the receptacle or means receiving the articles and arranged to slide respectively to one another within a predetermined range of movement. As shown, the one screen 9 of fine mesh is stretched across a frame 6 supported by uprights 5 from a base member 4 in which is mounted a tray 2 containing the articles 16. The screen 9 is supported by stays 11 on a coarse wire cloth 10 and the other screen 13 is carried by a frame 12 resting loosely on the ledge 7 of the frame 6 and provided with handles 15 by which it may be moved to and fro within the frame. The frame 12 is provided with partitions 14 dividing it into sections and ensuring equal distribution of the powder.
Patent GB-897330-A (GB)
Title: Vehicle power transmission mechanism
Inventor: LAWRENCE OWEN NAPIER
IPC: F16H47/04
Filed: 1960-03-25
Abstract: 897,330. Hydraulic transmission. LUCAS (INDUSTRIES) Ltd., JOSEPH. March 15, 1961 [March 25, 1960], No. 10614/60. Class 79(2). In a motor vehicle hydraulic transmission comprising an engine driven pump and a motor for driving the vehicle wheels wherein the stroke of the motor and/or the pump may be varied to provide a variable ratio transmission, the engine is connected with the wheels by mechanical gears suitable for high torque and low speed conditions, and clutch means are provided whereby only the hydraulic drive is operative at high speeds. The engine 12 drives a pump 10, Fig. 1, through gear 11. A motor 13 is connected in a closed circuit to the pump 10 which is of the swash plate type having a cam plate which may be manually or automatically adjusted through servo mechanism or other means to vary the engine/wheel speed ratio. The motor 13 is connected through gears 15 to the input shaft of the driving wheels differential gear. The gears 15 are also connected to the engine via gears 16 and a one-way clutch 17 which over-runs when the drive is taken over by the hydraulic transmission as the speed increases. Alternatively Fig. 2, driver operable clutches 18 and 19 are provided in both the mechanical and hydraulic connections to the gears 15. In a further modification, Fig. 3. the variable stroke engine driven pump 20 is connected in a closed hydraulic circuit with a hydraulic motor 21 mounted about the propeller shaft 22 of the vehicle. The pump shaft 23 is connected through a clutch 24 to a sun wheel 25 meshing with planet gears 26 mounted on a carrier 27 secured to the propeller shaft 22. The planet gears mesh with an internally toothed annulus 28 integral with a gear 29 which meshes with a gear 30 connected through a clutch 32 to a gear 31 which meshes with a gear 33 connected to the output shaft of the motor 21 and connectible with the propeller shaft through a clutch 35. On starting, clutches 24 and 32 are engaged and 35 is disengaged, the engine drive thus being imparted to the propeller shaft through the epicyclic gear. The motor 21 tends to drive the annulus 28 in a direction to increase the speed of the propeller shaft. At a predetermined speed, clutches 24, 32 are disengaged and 35 is engaged whereby only the hydraulic transmission is operative. The clutches may be operated manually or automatically.
Patent GB-569256-A (GB)
Title: Photographic reflex cameras fitted with exposure meters
IPC: G03B7/099
Filed: 1943-07-02
Abstract: 569,256. Photographic reflex cameras; exposure meters. BOLSEY, J. July 2, 1943, No. 10773. [Class 98 (i)] A photo - electric exposure meter is mounted on the top of a reflex camera so that it may be moved either into a position in which it receives light from the object directly, or into a position in which it receives light from the viewed image of the object formed in the camera. Co-operating scales on the meter and camera may be provided to facilitate adjustment of the diaphragm of the camera lens in accordance with the indication of the meter. As shown, the meter 18 having on one side the photo-electric element 19 and on the other side the indicating pointer 20 is hinged at 17 to the top of the camera 11 so that it may be erected as shown to direct the element towards the object, or folded down to bring the element into close parallel relation with the ground glass screen 14 on which the viewed image of the object is formed by the lens 12 and mirror 16. The photoelectric element may consist of a series of small cells connected in parallel. The pointer 20, or a scale associated with it on the edge 23 of the meter, may co-operate with a scale for adjusting the diaphragm of the lens 12 ; this scale may be provided near the top front edge 15 of the camera, on top or front, and adjacent to a slot through which protrudes an index mark linked or geared to the diaphragm setting ring on the lens mount, or it may be provided on the camera front around said ring, its markings being extended upwards to the edge 15. The meter casing may be of square or circular section parallel to the element, and in the latter case the end of the pointer 20 may be turned down over the edge of the casing.