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Patent GB-794887-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to a self-winding watch
IPC: G04B5/19
Filed: 1956-05-28
Abstract: 794,887. Watches. MANUFACTURE DES MONTRES UNIVERSAL PERRET FRORES. May 28, 1956 [May 27, 1955; March 26, 1956], No. 6394/56. Class 139 In a self-winding watch the rotor is mounted to rotate freely about an eccentric axis. The rotor 1, Figs. 1 and 2, is mounted on a pin 2 extending from a support fixed to a plate 3. Fixed to the rotor is a pinion 5 which meshes with the pinion 6 of two intermeshing pinions 6, 6<SP>1</SP> carried by a rocker 7. The arrangement is such that one or other of the pinion 6, 6<SP>1</SP> engages a gear 8 in accordance with the direction of rotation of the rotor and rotates it in a counter-clockwise direction The gear 8 is connected through the train 9, 27, 28 to the barrel ratchet 10. The upper surface of the rotor 1 is substantially flush with the upper surfaces of the bridges of the movement. In a modification of the going train to provide for an eccentric seconds hand of the arbor of the fourth wheel 18, Fig. 4, the centre wheel and pinion unit is mounted eccentrically and is driven from the barrel 10 via the gear 11, the centre pinion 12 and the gear 14, the gears 11 and 14 being mounted on the same arbor. In another modification, Fig. 6, the third wheel 17 is displaced so as to drive a pinion 23 on a central arbor 21 carrying a seconds hand which is steadied by a spring 22.
Patent GB-861564-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in flame responsive means
Inventor: PEGRUM JAMES WARING
IPC: F23N5/16
Filed: 1956-05-28
Abstract: 861,564. Controlling burners. BABCOCK & WILCOX Ltd. May 28, 1957 [May 28, 1956; Ang. 13, 1956]. Nos. 16416/56 and 24723/56. Class 75 (1). A microphone 23 responsive to the noise of the flame of a burner 6 is adapted to actuate an alarm 30 or to control a fuel valve when the noise exceeds a predetermined level which is varied in accordance with the rate of fuel supply to the burner. The rate of fuel supply is arranged to provide a D.C. voltage which is compared with a D.C. voltage derived from the microphone in a comparator 28 and the resultant voltage is fed to a relay 29 controlling the alarm 30. The D.C. voltage from the fuel supply is provided by a potentiometer 44 which is actuated by a piston 34 moved against spring action by the pressure difference across a restriction 42 in the fuel supply line 31. The signal from the microphone is fed to an amplifier 25 connected to a frequency filter 26 connected to a rectifier 27. The microphone 23 is mounted on the outer end of a listening tube 21 extending through the outer wall 9 of an adjustable air register surrounding the burner 6.
Patent GB-495844-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to rotary intaglio printing presses having enclosed ink housings
IPC: B41F9/06
Filed: 1937-05-21
Abstract: 495,844. Printing-machines. WEISS, A. May 21, 1937, No. 16430/38. Convention date, May 23, 1936. Divided out of 495,841. Drawings to Specification. [Class 100 (ii)] Inking-apparatus.-In a rotary intaglio printing-machine having an ink housing which is sealed from the outer atmosphere by means including a printing-cylinder and a support for a doctor mechanism, the support shields entirely the doctor mechanism from the interior of the housing and is mounted to swing about an axis towards and away from a position in which the doctor can engage the cylinder, the axis being adjustable transversely to itself while the support is arranged to lie in sealing engagement with a side wall of the main body of the ink housing in all positions within the range of adjustment of the axis when the support is in such sealing engagement. The construction is identical with that described in Specification 495,841. Specifications 440,748 and 495,842 also are referred to.
Patent GB-682324-A (GB)
Title: Method of manufacturing tubular fabrics and apparatus for carrying out said method
IPC: D03D37/00
Filed: 1949-06-21
Abstract: 682,324. Circular looms; reeds; shuttles. SLOWAK, H. June 21,1949 [July 21,1948], No. 16487/49. Classes 142(ii) and 142(iii) The warp threads from beams 13, Fig. 1, disposed round the loom pass over tensioning wires 15 and through heddles 30 to an open-topped main reed 36, with which is associated an open auxiliary reed 37. The shuttles (of which Fig. 12 shows only the tip) have a warp deflector 46 which lifts the upper layer of warp threads out of the main reed 36 into the auxiliary reed 37 to enable a weft layer 27 to deposit weft on the fabric side of the main reed; also, the divergence of the shed by the deflector 46 and another deflector 44 draws the warp threads tight round the preceding weft thread and so beat it up.
Patent GB-820637-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in transition coupling devices for use with automatic couplers for railway vehicles
Inventor: WILSON ERIC JOHN
IPC: B61G5/04
Filed: 1957-05-24
Abstract: 820,637. Vehicle couplings. ENGLISH STEEL CORPORATION Ltd. May 24, 1957, No. 16487/57. Class 103(5) A transition device for a Janney type coupler has a rigid jaw and knuckle engaging portion 15 and is provided with lateral extensions 19, 20 similar to a conventional coupling for engagement with complementary extensions on the coupler head 9 to ensure vertical alignment. The lug 22 on the device 8 is apertured for the attachment of a screw-shackle or conventional coupling links and the handles 21 facilitate manipulation of the device. If the coupling 9 is not provided with aligning wings then the device 8 may be provided with top and bottom walls to engage the pivoted knuckle 10
Patent GB-144888-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to teat cups for cow milking apparatus
IPC: A01J5/08
Filed: 1919-07-02
Abstract: 144,888. Alexander, A. E., (Empire Cream Separator Co.). July 2, 1919. Cow-milkers. - A doublechambered teat-cup has the lower end of the lining 11 formed with a neck 15 and flange 17 to fit into a pocket 4 on the casing 1, being held in place by friction and the suction in the space below. The upper end of the lining is turned over a beading 22 and clamped by a cap 3 which is attached by an interrupted screw thread 23, 25. The lining 11 has longitudinal portions 26 thickened to localize the movement in collapsing.
Patent GB-399610-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in bicycle chain lubrication
IPC: B62J31/00
Filed: 1932-06-13
Abstract: 399,610. Bicycle-chain lubricators. SPHERE MOTOR PATENTS, Ltd. and WALSTER, J., High Street, Epworth, Doncaster. June 13, 1932, No. 16625. [Class 12 (iii).] A bicycle chain is lubricated by a wick E of woven cotton material fitted in a tube A projecting from an oil vessel D fixed to the bicyclechain guard or case. The amount of lubricant supplied to the wick E is controlled by a sleeve B screwed upon the tube A and adapted to vary the opening through a radial hole C in the tube A. Specifications 9036/93, 13363/96, [both in Class 12, Bearings &c.], and 201,376, [Class 12 (iii), Lubricators &c.], are referred to.
Patent GB-987705-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to guide tubes for nuclear reactor fuel elements
Inventor: ALFILLE LUCIEN
IPC: G21C15/20
Filed: 1962-05-01
Abstract: 987,705. Metal tubes. COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE. May 1, 1962 [May 2, 1961], No. 16636/62. Heading F2P. [Also in Division G6] A composite guide tube for a fuel element housed in a fuel channel of a nuclear reactor comprises a central tubular element 1 for guiding the fuel element, a metal structure 2 of low absolute density at least partially covering the tubular element 1 and abutting the fuel channel 7, collars 3 for holding the structure on the tubular element 1, and a stop 8 fast with the fuel channel 7 to which the tubular element 1 is fixed so as to hold it in position. The structure 2 is applied to the tubular element 1 in the form of helically-wound bent metal strips, for example, strips corrugated with a transverse chevron pattern (Fig. 1, not shown), adjacent layers being wound in opposite directions. As shown in Fig. 2, the first layer comprises a short zirconium (or zirconium alloy) strip 2 1a  at the cool end and a long stainless steel strip 2 1b  at the hot end, the arrows indicating the direction of coolant flow. In the next layer, the zirconium strip 2 2a  is of greater length than the stainless steel strip 2 2b  while the outer layer is formed entirely of a zirconium strip 2 3a . The strips are welded together and on to the tubular element 1. The coolant flowing through perforations in the collar 3 and between the tubular element 1 and the fuel channel 7 is broken up into a large number of independent pockets by the bends in the metal strips and so provides thermal insulation between the fuel and the moderator. Heavy water moderator is contained in a tank 4 and is surrounded by a light water reflecting shield located between tanks 5, 6. The central portion 7a of the fuel channel 7 is of zirconium alloy, end portions 7b of stainless steel being welded to the tanks 4, 5 and 6, while the tubular element 1 has its central portion 1a of calcined magnesia, an end portion 1b of stainless steel being welded to the stop 8. The other end of the composite guide tube, not illustrated, is free in the fuel channel 7, thus permitting differential expansion between the latter and the tubular element 1.
Patent GB-1506952-A (GB)
Title: Gas turbine engine support structures
IPC: F01D25/16
Filed: 1976-04-20
Abstract: 1506952 Gas turbine mounting ROLLSROYCE Ltd 20 April 1976 [23 April 1975] 16737/75 Heading F1G A main support member 26 of a gas turbine engine includes flanged liners 27, 28 receiving ball joints 34 on the outer ends of spokes 24 which extend through selected guide vanes 25 and are secured at their inner ends to a flange 23 supporting the outer race of shaft bearing 22. The member 26, which can be of fabricated construction or a single casting, is of polygonal form and the casing 29 and the flanges 28 of liners 27 are clamped thereto by plates 30 of which some include engine mounting lugs 31. The spokes 24 as well as the member 26 have internal cooling passages, the spokes being tangential to a common circle and being welded to the flange 23.
Patent GB-243403-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in spring suspension devices for motor cars
IPC: B60G11/08
Filed: 1925-05-11
Abstract: 243,403. Cochrane, W. May 11, 1925. A x l e distance members and torquerods.-The castings 50 mounted on the stub-axles are connected to the frame by rods 53, Fig. 2, pivoted to the castings and frame, and the ends of the short springs 51 are connected to the frame by flexible torque plates 52. The front suspension is similar but the springs 51 are dispensed with and the flexible torque plates are connected to the ends of the remaining spring.
Patent GB-118744-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and connected with Tables for Supporting Indoor Growing Plants.
Inventor: BURNETT GEORGE
IPC: G04B37/14
Filed: 1917-11-15
Abstract: 118,744. Burnett, G. Nov. 15, 1917. Clocks combined with flower stands; dials and time indicators. -Consists of a stand for flower pots combined with a clock by which it is actuated so as to turn all parts of the plants successively towards the light. The disk C on which the pot is placed is supported on a central spindle K mounted in ball bearings L and connected by a movable slotted ferrule G to a cross pin F fixed in the clock spindle E. The circumference of the disk C is graduated to show minutes. A kicker N is secured to the underside of the disk C and operates pins O at the back of a vertical dial Q graduated to indicate hours, so that the dial Q is rotated to show the hour bv means of a fixed pointer R. Auxiliary disks C<1>, C<2> may be mounted at each side of the disk C and operated by belt or other gearing from the central disk.
Patent GB-591540-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to opening and cleaning machines for cotton or other textile fibres
IPC: D01G9/20
Filed: 1944-09-04
Abstract: 591,540. Preparing fibres for spinning. TWEEDALES & SMALLEY (1920), Ltd., TWEEDALE, N., and SMALLEY, E. G. Sept. 4, 1944, No. 16792. [Class 120 (i)] In machines for opening and cleaning textile fibres, such as cotton, the machine framing is built from steel plates in sections of uniform size to give a level top and to enclose dust extracting mechanism. The sections may be bolted together by angle bars welded or otherwise fixed to the plates and braced where required by stay rods. Movable covers G may be provided for openings F made in the plates to facilitate removal of operative parts. When applied to a hopper bale opener, the usual fan H is enclosed in an air-suction chamber J which extends across the full width of the feed end of the machine and is connected with another airsuction chamber J<1> at the discharge end by passages K. A hopper feeder, when equipped with framework according to the invention, also has a dust extracting cage which extends across the whole width of the machine. A change speed drive of the cone and belt type may be provided, enclosed in a box carried by brackets fixed to one of the plates.
Patent GB-116299-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Underwater Craft.
Inventor: MYERS GEORGE FRANCIS
IPC: B63G8/32
Filed: 1916-11-23
Abstract: 116,299. Myers, G. F. Nov. 23, 1916. Ballasting; buoys, receptacles and chambers for containing; leaking, removing. - Relates to submarine torpedo vessels of the type adapted to be discharged from a torpedo tube and afterwards steered and manoeuvred by a single operator. A water-circulating pump 35 is adapted also to draw in the air ducts and the hull through pipes 145. The engine exhaust is normally discharged just below the propellers, but may be discharged into the engine compartment through an electrically actuated valve in the exhaust pipe, which operation automatically opens a valve on the oxygen reservoir to allow oxygen to mix with the exhaustproducts. An oil tank 50 and a fuel tank 49 arc arranged in the stern of the vessel, the fuel tank being fitted with a, bellows and valve to admit sea-water to compensate for the loss of weight as the fuel is consumed without the water coming into contact with the fuel. Small trimming tanks 56, 57 are fitted fore and aft, and a compensating tank for the torpedoes is arranged just aft of the torpedo compartment. A signal buoy is fitted in the operator's compartment adapted to be automatically released by hydrostatic pressure operating a piston actuated catch 112 when a predetermined depth is exceeded. The float 31 contains some inflammable material and is connected to the vessel by a cable.
Patent GB-294566-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to film guide rollers
IPC: G03B1/42
Filed: 1928-06-11
Abstract: 294,566. British Thomson-Houston Co., Ltd., (Assignees of Tschopp, J.). July 26, 1927, [Convention date]. Feeding and guiding strip records.-A film roller comprises a flanged cylindrical member 5, and an axially-movable flanged cylindrical member 7, a light spring 12 being provided to keep the flanges in engagement with the edges of the film. The member 5 is rotatable on a stud 1 between a shoulder 2 and a wear plate 14 secured by a retaining member a provided with an oiler 4 supplying oil through ducts in the member 3 and the stud. The spring pressure is adjustable by means of a nut 13 threaded on the member 5. A recess 17 is provided round the film engaging portion 16, and the portion 16 may be detachable from the member 5.
Patent GB-996798-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to play building units
Inventor: MARK KENNETH WILLIAM
IPC: A63H33/08
Filed: 1963-04-30
Abstract: 996,798. Toy building elements. ST. PANCRAS METROPOLITAN BOROUGH COUNCIL. April 30, 1964 [April 30, 1963], No. 16906/63. Heading A6S. A toy building unit comprises an elongated body having a groove along one edge and a tenon along an opposing edge to effect mutual interengagement, and a series of equidistant transverse recesses of such dimension that units may be transversely interengaged by other units to form [right-angled interlocking walls of a building.
Patent GB-526301-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to mechanism for applying adhesive patterns to two sides of fibrous sheet material and the like
IPC: B41F9/00
Filed: 1939-06-09
Abstract: 526,301. Coating webs. AMERICAN CAN CO. June 9, 1939, No. 16922. Convention date, June 9, 1938. [Class 140] [Also in Group XVI] In machine which is especially applicable to applying adhesive in similar patterns such as E, Fig. 4, to the ends B of a container, the fibrous material A from which the ends B are cut is prepared by passing between a pair of similar intaglio rollers L in which designs are cut corresponding to the patterns E. The web A is led over a roller 12 and is drawn through the rollers L by feed rollers 16. The rollers L rotate in separate troughs 29 containing thermoplastic adhesives, and heated by steam, hot oil &c. circulating round heating jackets 31. The rollers L are preferably heated by circulating fluid, and vanes 45 stir this fluid. Each roller is applicable to produce containers as in Specification 470,098, [Group XVII].
Patent GB-119941-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Moulding Machines for Foundry Use.
Inventor: NEESHAM JOHN BIRCH
IPC: B22C15/10
Filed: 1917-11-17
Abstract: 119,941. Neesham, J. B. Nov. 17, 1917. Moulding-machines. - Relates to moulding- machines of the jarring type, such as described in Specifications 14468/09 and 27200/11, and consists in providing a pilot-valve to control the jarring-valve, and means for locking the jarring-valve when a pattern is being drawn, for instance. As shown in Fig. 1, the jarring-valve a is cylindrical and has two heads of different diameters separated by a neck c. It moves in a casing provided with pressure-admission ports d and m<1>, a port e leading to the jarring-ram and an exhaust port e. The port d is in communication with a pipe D, by which pressure is supplied to lock the valve when the mould is being lowered from the pattern. The pilot-valve k is tubular and supplies fluid from the pipe to the valve a through the port m or the port m<5> and the port m<1> and exhausts it through the channel m<3> and the port m<2>. The valve passes through the top of the casing and is provided with a cap k<3> to protect it from falling sand. Its movement is limited by a screw the end of which co-acts with the slot k<1> or the slot k<4> according to whether the port m or the port m<5> is in use. Fluid under pressure is supplied to the pilot-valve by a pipe d and through it to the valve a which controls the ram cylinder A. The upward movement of the pilot-valve is arrested by a rod a<4> moved by the moulding table, in a position to exhaust fluid from the valve a until the table rises.
Patent GB-959514-A (GB)
Title: New cation exchange resins
Inventor: BACHMANN REINHARD
IPC: C08F8/34
Filed: 1962-05-03
Abstract: Substantially abrasion-resistant cation exchange resins are prepared by sulphonating copolymers obtained by polymerizing one or more monovinyl aromatic compounds with one or more polyvinyl compounds and with vinyl or epoxy-group containing polymerizable polar compounds, the latter being present in amounts of 0.001 to 0.2 mol. per mol. of monovinyl aromatic compound or compounds, the polar compounds being different from the monovinyl and polyvinyl compounds.  Monovinyl and polyvinyl compounds mentioned are styrene, vinyl-toluene, vinyl-ethyl-benzene, vinylanisole and divinyl-benzene, divinyl-ethyl-benzene, trivinyl-benzene, divinyl-acetylene, butadiene and divinyl ketone.  Polar compounds mentioned are acrylic and methacrylic acids and their derivatives, especially acrylo- and methacrylo-nitriles, methylvinyl ketone and its homologues, vinyl halides, vinyl-benzene halides, methyl-vinyl ether and its homologues, vinylsulphonic acid and its derivatives, styrene-sulphonic acids and their derivatives, vinyl pyridine and its homologues, esters of vinyl alcohol such as vinyl acetate and propionate, maleic acid and its derivatives, styrene oxide, vinyl-toluene-oxide, ethyl-styrene oxide, ethylene and propylene oxides and epichlorohydrin. In the examples copolymers are produced from styrene and divinyl benzene with one of the following: methylmethacrylate, epichlorohydrin, methylvinylketone, acrylonitrile, methacrylic acid, maleic anhydride, propyl ester of styrene-sulphonic acid, ethyl acrylate, vinyl-sulphonic acid, vinyl pyridine, vinyl chloride or styrene oxide, in an aqueous suspension containing magnesium silicate, hydroxy-apatite, methyl-cellulose or magnesium hydroxide, the catalyst being diacetyl, dibenzoyl or dilauroyl peroxide or azo-bis-isobutyric acid nitrile.  The copolymers which may first be swelled with a chlorinated hydrocarbon are sulphonated with sulphuric acid monohydrate, oleum, chlorosulphonic acid, oleum and chlorosulphonic acid or liquid sulphur trioxide.
Patent GB-694920-A (GB)
Title: Mobile support for display stands
IPC: A47F7/17
Filed: 1951-07-18
Abstract: 694,920. Stands. HOUSTON, A. J. C. July 18, 1951 [July 31, 1950], No. 17108/51. Class 52(iii) A supporting frame comprises upright legs 7 on which are mounted horizontal frames 6 by means of three-way connecting brackets 10, rubber rings 12 being provided to hold the brackets until they are secured in position by screws 11. Lateral supporting rods 14 are removably secured to the frames by being extended into blind holes in one side of the frame and through-holes. in the other side and held in position by screws 15. The rods 14 are so spaced and sized that channel members on a display stand base plate may be fitted and supported thereon. The lower frame may have a base plate with a spigot to support a tubular upright. drapery display member 19. Specification 634,836 is referred to.
Patent GB-677003-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in grilles
IPC: F21V11/06
Filed: 1949-06-28
Abstract: 677,003. Making grilles. THORN ELECTRICAL INDUSTRIES, Ltd., ANDERSON, L. T., BELL, T. F. P., and KEMBER, R. C. June 27, 1950 [June 28, 1949], No. 17119/49. Class 83 (ii). [Also in Group XI] In a grille in which a series of parallel slats are engaged with a series of transverse slats by means of slots extending part-way across each slat (egg-box construction), at each intersection of two slats the slot of a slat is provided with an enlargement 14 part way along its depth and the co-operating slat has a projection 13 projecting out of the plane of the slat into the enlargement; and in assembly the projection is forced through the part of the slot between its mouth and the enlargement. As shown, each slot has both an enlargement and a projection. The projections are formed by cutting the slat either along a straight line or along an arc and then displacing the cut edge outwardly. The enlargements may be rectangular or arcuate or undercut and they may extend as shown on both sides of the slot.
Patent GB-947869-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in commutator cone retaining band
IPC: H01R39/04
Filed: 1960-05-16
Abstract: A tape impregnating composition comprises (1) a polymerizable unsaturated alkyd resin e.g. diethylene glycol maleate; (2) a copolymerizable different monomer, e.g. styrene in the ratio by weight of about 1 to 3 parts of (1); (3) a catalyst for accelerating the copolymerization of the ingredients of (1) and (2), e.g. benzoyl peroxide; (4) a polyvinylacetal resin, specifically a polyvinyl formal resin, in an amount corresponding to from 15 to 75% by weight of the total of (1), (2) and (4); (5) a volatile solvent for the ingredients of (1) (2) and (4) e.g. ethylene dichloride, a mixture of ethyl alcohol and l-nitropane, a mixture of ethyl alcohol and toluene &c. and (6) an inhibitor such as quinone or hydroquinone in an amount of approximately .001% to .01% of the weight of the reactive materials of (1) and (2). Specification 531,273 is referred to.
Patent GB-906890-A (GB)
Title: Means for displaying numerical values in a decimal notation
Inventor: GOODAY ROBERT ALLAN HERBERT
IPC: G06C11/02
Filed: 1960-05-17
Abstract: 906,890. Counters. BUSH & RANK CINTEL Ltd. May 17, 1961 [May 17, 1960], No. 17366/60. Class 106 (1). The several denominations of a decimal counter are indicated by pointers traversing a clocktype, i.e. duodecimal scale.