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Patent GB-1244386-A (GB)
Title: An extensible support for curtain rails
Inventor: KLEIN GERARDO
IPC: A47H/
Filed: 1968-12-31
Abstract: 1,244,386. Suspending curtains. G. KLEIN. Dec. 31, 1968 [Feb. 23, 1968|, No. 61940/68. Heading A4B. An adjustable support for two curtain rails comprises a wall bracket 1 with a horizontal arm 10, a plane member 2 carrying a pivoted suspension device 4 on its underside for supporting a first rail and slidably mounted for longitudinal displacement on the underside of the arm 10, and a plate 3 slidably mounted in a longitudinal recess 11 in the upper side of the plane member 2 and carrying a suspension device 4 for a second rail, the arrangement being such that the spacing of the rails from the wall and from each other is adjustable. The plane member 2 and the plate 3 are simultaneously locked in adjusted position by a screw 3 threaded through the plane member 2.
Patent GB-1293476-A (GB)
Title: Sugar products and dispersible food products
Inventor: SCHAPIRO ABRAHAM
IPC: A23L1/00
Filed: 1970-12-31
Abstract: 1293476 Sugar products; dispersible foods; cocoa A SCHAPIRO 31 Dec 1970 [31 Dec 1969 12 Nov 1970] 62026/70 Headings A2B and A2E A sugar product comprising sugar crystals coated with an oil-soluble surface-active agent is mixed with a water-insoluble or difficult-todissolve food product to form a product which is readily dispersible in water or an aqueous medium, e.g. milk. The dispersible product may be mixed with sugar syrup prior to dispersing. The sugar product may be formed by mixing sugar with the surface-active agent dissolved in oil (e.g. coconut oil, cottonseed oil, cocoa butter), alcohol or ether to form a dry product or paste which paste may if desired, be mixed with more sugar prior to use. The sugar product may comprise an agglomerate of sugar-crystals. The food product may be cocoa or one or more proteins (e.g. soybean protein, casein, calcium, sodium or potassium caseinate, seed meal protein or fish protein). The sugar may be sucrose, dextrose, fructose, lactose, levulose, corn syrup solids or mixtures thereof. The surface active agent may be lecithin, hydroxylated lecithins, refined phospholipids, polyoxyethylene sorbitan fatty acid esters, sorbitan fatty acid esters, propylene glycol mono-laurate and-stearate, glycerol mono-stearate and-oleate, safflower monoglycerides, polyoxyethylene nonyl phenol adducts, polyethylene glycol laurates, stearates and oleates, polyoxyethylene ethers, lauric and stearic diethanolamides, phosphotidyl choline glycerides, inositol phosphatides, cephalin fractions, sodium stearoyl-2-lactylate. dioctyl sodium sulphosuccinate and di-acetyl sodium sulphosuccinate.
Patent GB-631441-A (GB)
Abstract: 631,441. Calculating-apparatus. NATIONAL CASH REGISTER CO. June 3, 1946, No. 11115/48. Convention date, March 3, 1944. Divided out of 631,379. Drawings to Specification. [Class 106 (i)] A calculating-machine has two totalizers, means controlled by a travelling paper-carriage to cause the complements of items entered in one totalizer always to be entered in the other during adding and subtracting, and a common total-taking mechanism for the two totalizers so controlled by the carriage that a total is automatically taken from that totalizer having a true total therein. The total-taking mechanism is normally operative to take a total from one totalizer (the balance totalizer) and to add it into the other (overdraft totalizer). When the balance totalizer is in an overdrawn condition, the total is taken from the overdraft totalizer and added into the balance totalizer. A common subtotal-taking mechanism is provided adapted to take, under carriage or key control, a sub-total from the totalizer containing the true total, the selection of the balance or overdraft totalizer for this purpose being done automatically. The totalizer can also be controlled manually for adding and subtracting, the complements of items entered into the balance totalizer always being entered into the overdraft totalizer. Total-taking may be controlled manually as well as by the carriage, the totalizer carrying the true total being automatically chosen in this case also. The controlling functions of the carriage may be superseded by the depression of a non-add key. The embodiment described is a calculating machine the same as that disclosed in Specification 631,379.
Patent GB-658035-A (GB)
Abstract: 658,035. Striking plates. RUMBLE, R. W. May 5, 1949, No. 12023. Convention date, May 11, 1948. [Class 44] In an adjustable striking-plate arrangement for doors having frames of sheet metal, the rebate 4 of the frame is formed with a recess 6, the architrave 5 being apertured at 7. In the recess, the metal is cut away to provide a vertical slot 8 and four horizontal slots 9. The striking plate 10 is of sheet metal folded to U-shape, one limb having apertures 12 for the latch bolts, and four countersunk holes 13, while the other limb has four threaded holes 15 and an aperture 16. The striking-plate is inserted to straddle the metal at the base of the recess in the frame, and secured by screws in the holes 13, 15, adjustment being permitted by the slots 9.
Patent GB-674818-A (GB)
Abstract: 674,818. Ignition systems; casings. SMITSVONK, N. V. Dec. 19, 1950 [Dec. 20, 1949], No. 30907/50. Classes 7(ii) and 7(iv) In an ignition system for internal-combustion engines comprising a generator of current impulses, such as the battery 13, interrupter 14, and transformer 9, 10, having one or more condensers 15 adapted to be charged periodically to a tension of not more than 5,000 volts, one or more surfacedischarge sparking  plugs 4 for each cylinder of the engine through which the condensers are directly discharged, and conductors for the electric connection of the various parts of the apparatus, it is arranged that the conductors 5 and 17 leading to the plug or plugs of each cylinder are housed in a metal conduit 6 the outer diameter of which latter is not more than 0.28 inches. With the engine-operated interrupter 14 in the closed position the movable arm 12 of a magnetic switch abuts a contact 8 due to energization of switch solenoid 11 so that the condenser 15 is charged. Upon the interrupter breaking the circuit through the primary winding 10 of the ignition coil and solenoid 11 is de-energized and arm 12 abuts another contact 7, under the action of a spring 16, whereupon condenser 15 discharges through the sparking plug 4. The conductor 5 from contact 7 to the plug 4 ' passes through the conduit 6 secured to the engine 1 and the common connection between the condenser 15, interrupter 14 and a battery 13 is earthed on the engine by the second conductor 17 in the conduit 6; the second conductor 17 could also be used to energize a second sparking plug, not shown, the conduit or engine block providing the system earth. The conduits may pass through the engine block.
Patent GB-2027893-A (GB)
Title: Testing electrically conductive articles to detect changes therein
IPC: G01B7/14
Filed: 1978-06-07
Abstract: The invention relates to a method and device for detecting changes in electrically conductive articles. A change is detected by applying to the article 2 magnetic fields originating from an oscillator 7 having two different frequency outputs w1 and w2, to produce two corresponding signals Rw1 and Rw2 at a pickup probe 1. A constant difference  DELTA R between the signals Rw1 and Rw2 indicates no change in the article. A controlled detector 4 is fed with a variable compensating signal U and is arranged to detect changes in  DELTA R to indicate changes in the article. The compensating signal is such as to result in detection of the changes in the article being generally independent of the relative positions of the pickup probe 1 and the article 2. The invention can be used to measure disconformities in material being continuously fed past the probe; to measure the speed or simply as a metal detector. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2005412-A (GB)
Title: Device providing a spatial reference direction to a rotating body
IPC: G01C9/00
Filed: 1978-08-17
Abstract: A device for providing a reference direction in a rotating body 15 comprises a member 14 pivoted and immersed in a liquid of substantially the same specific gravity as itself and contained in a casing 15 which rotates about the pivot axis of the member and means 10-12 for detecting and determining the rotational drift of the member 14 induced through viscous drag. The device is useful in for providing a local vertical in a spin-stabilised self- rotating guided missile having a flight duration short enough for only a minimal drift to be induced. Intermediate members may be provided between the member 14 and the casing 15 (figures 2 and 4, not shown). <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2004735-A (GB)
Title: Cleaning cloth
IPC: A47L17/08
Filed: 1978-09-26
Abstract: A cleaning cloth for mounting on a base plate of a cleaning device has a cleaning surface, part of which is formed from a tangled fleece 2a, 2b the fibres of which are substantially non- wettable by a cleaning fluid, the remainder being formed from a material 8 which readily absorbs the cleaning fluid. The first part which may be formed from plastics fibres or metallic threads provides a scouring action and the other part a mopping action. The latter part may be formed from a pile fabric or a sponge. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2012325-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in tufting machines
IPC: D05C15/24
Filed: 1978-11-08
Abstract: A knife bar, for use in a tufting machine which produces cut pile fabric at two levels, including knife blocks 11, each carrying knives 15, 16 which project upwardly from the block to different extents to enable them respectively to cut high pile and low pile loops of yarn. The cutting angle at which the knives are presented to loopers in the machine is determined by the inclination of faces of the knife blocks against which the knives are pressed by clamping screws 27, 28. The knife blocks are mounted on a common knife bar 10. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2014858-A (GB)
Title: Programmable demand heart pacer
IPC: A61N1/372
Filed: 1978-11-16
Abstract: An implantable R-wave inhibited cardiac pacer has integrated digital logic circuits including programmable registers 12, 16 (210, 262, Fig. 4) to determine the pulse rate and width. A 5-3-4 code applied by an external pulsed electromagnet to a reed switch 20 (400, Fig. 5) unlocks a digital lock 18 so that rate register 12 can be reprogrammed to any value between 30 and 120 BPM. A 5-3-2 code allows the width register 16 to be reprogrammed, and the circuitry ensures that the programmed width can only lie between set limits. If a main timing circuit failure gives rise to a rate above 130 BPM, a protection circuit 32 feeds pulses to the heart 32 at half the rate from generator 28. A refractory circuit 42 prevents the generator being reset by a heart signal for 256 or 320 msec following a sensed natural beat or a pacing pulse respectively, noise sensing circuits operating from the last 64 mec of the refractory period and the pacer operating uninhibited, at its programmed rate in the presence of noise. Closure of switch 20 by a permanent magnet causes uninhibited operation at 100, 90 or 85 BPM depending on whether the battery is new, half-discharged or should be replaced, the pacer giving six uninhibited pulses at the programmed rate on removal of the magnet. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2011576-A (GB)
Title: Flexible metal hoses
IPC: H02G11/00
Filed: 1978-12-11
Abstract: A flexible metal hose comprises a metal strip (1) which has two oppositely-opening longitudinal channel portions and which is coiled helically into a series of overlapping convolutions (2) such that the channel portions engage each other across adjacent convolutions (2). A second metal strip (4) is secured externally along the length of the helically coiled first metal strip (1) which is either in the longitudinally compressed or extended state. The second metal strip (1) is secured to some only of the convolutions (2) of the first metal strip (1) by spot welds (5). <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2045275-A (GB)
Title: Method of and Apparatus for Heat Processing of Pulverized Solid Fuel
IPC: C10B49/08
Filed: 1979-03-26
Abstract: Pulverized solid fuel is heated to a temperature at which thermal decomposition of the fuel begins and then heated to a temperature at which an intense thermal decomposition of the fuel takes place to form a vapour- and-gas suspension containing pulverized particles, gas, tar vapours and pyrogenic water vapours. The resultant vapour-and-gas suspension is cooled by water and/or pyrogenic water to 360 to 140 DEG C when pulverized solid particles adsorb heavy tar. The vapour-and-gas suspension may be cooled for a second time to 80 to 20 DEG C when the intermediate and light tars fractions are condensed and a pulp is formed. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2015127-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or Relating to Target Apparatus
IPC: F41J5/06
Filed: 1979-03-30
Abstract: In a target equipment in which transducers are provided to detect the pressure wave generated by a projectile the transducers being connected to a timing and calculating device adapted to calculate from the time delays between the instants of reception of the pressure wave the trajectory of the projectile, a signal transmitter, comprising a spark generator, is used to transmit sonic signals which are detected by the transducers. The signal transmitter can be used to indicate the precise location or shape of the target and this information is stored in the computer memory.
Patent GB-2047550-A (GB)
Title: Doll's eyes
IPC: A63H3/40
Filed: 1979-05-01
Abstract: A head assembly for a doll comprises a head portion formed in two detachable parts (1) and (2) of which the front part (1) is provided with eye apertures and a mounting (11) for a pivotable eye carrier, said eye carrier comprising two eye members (5) rigidly connected to each other and to a counterweight (8) by arms (6) and (7) forming the base and sides respectively of an isosceles triangle. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2025609-A (GB)
Title: Determination of concentration of an analyte in a sample
IPC: G01N21/76
Filed: 1979-06-08
Abstract: The apparatus comprises a movable member 10 which carries a plurality of cuvettes containing material under test. Control means 32 cause the member to be moved to bring the cuvettes successively into register with a photomultiplier 16, and in that position reagent is automatically added to a cuvette (Figure 4), giving rise to a luminescent reaction. Light from the reaction is detected by the photomultiplier 16 and the resultant signal processed and recorded. The control means is triggered to stop the member, add reagent, record the signal from the luminescent reaction, and restart the member, from a photocell 28 which is illuminated by a light source 27 through the member 10 only when a cuvette is in register with the photomultiplier. The sample material containing the analyte for determination is mixed with a known amount or concentration of the same analyte labelled with a substance which is capable of taking part in a luminescent reaction. The mixture is then reacted with a known amount of another substance, capable of reacting with the analyte and giving rise to a luminescent reaction with the labelling substance. From quantitative observation of the light from the luminescent reaction the amount or concentration of the analyte in the sample material may be deduced. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2023788-A (GB)
Title: Lighter mechanism
Inventor: LOW P G S
IPC: F23Q2/46
Filed: 1979-06-22
Abstract: A lighter mechanism comprises a lid assembly 7 which rotates a flint wheel 14 and has one or more cams 12 which bear against cam guides 13; the shape of these cams and guides are such that a spring 19 produces a turning moment on the lid assembly which keeps the lid assembly closed when in the closed position and open when in the open position. A second spring can be provided which acts directly to bear the cams against the cam guides, thereby increasing the turning moment on the lid assembly without increasing friction between the flint and the flint wheel. The cam guides can be formed as part of the body of the lighter, guides 13, or they can be provided in a separate structure housed within the lighter body. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2053316-A (GB)
Title: Loading equipment for mineral mining machines
IPC: E21C25/14
Filed: 1979-06-22
Abstract: A loading cowl (1) for a shearer type mining machine is provided with guide plate formations (10) upstanding from the working surface (2) of the cowl. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2059026-A (GB)
Title: Water storage tank containing thermostat
IPC: F24D11/00
Filed: 1979-09-27
Abstract: The thermostat (14) of an auxiliary heating element in a cylindrical water storage tank (10) for a solar heater is disposed at such a level in the tank (10) that 60 to 80% of the useful volume of the tank is located below the level of the thermostat. This helps to ensure that the auxiliary heating element is not used excessively. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2059340-A (GB)
Title: Process for producing a laminated sheet structure
IPC: B32B37/00
Filed: 1979-09-28
Abstract: A laminated sheet structure is produced by continuously bonding metal foils 1, 5 to a polyolefin sheet 3 by means of adhesive films 2, 4, the adhesive films being transversely tensioned before they are is bonded to the metal foil, and the polyolefine sheet in molten form being then bonded to the films. The films may each be tensioned by passage over a curved roller. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2034622-A (GB)
Title: Explosive welding under water
IPC: B23K20/08
Filed: 1979-10-08
Abstract: First and second underwater tubular members (1, 2) are assembled together so that the outer surface (4) of the first tubular member (1) and the inner surface (3) of the second tubular member (2) are spaced apart to form an annular cavity. The cavity is closed by seals accommodated in portions of the tubular member (2), and is then cleaned and dried and filled with a gas at a pressure greater than the surrounding water pressure. The pressure in the cavity is reduced prior to detonating an explosive charge within the first tubular member (1) to weld the members (1, 2) together. The second tubular member (2) may include portions for receiving further seals (6) so as to subdivide the cavity into a plurality of zones (8, 9). The pressures in the zones can then be separately adjusted so as to be able to control the pressure difference across each seal. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2035312-A (GB)
Title: Oxygen containing heterocylics
IPC: C07D215/48
Filed: 1979-10-19
Abstract: There are described compounds of formula I   <IMAGE> in which an adjacent pair of R5, R6, R7 and R8 from a chain -CZC(G1)=C(G2)-Z-, R4, R9 and the remainder of R5, R6, R7 and R8, which may be the same or different, each represent hydrogen, alkyl, halogen, alkenyl, -NO2, -NR1R2, -OR3, -S(O)nR3; or alkyl substituted by hydroxy, amino, alkoxy or carbonyl oxygen,     n is 0, 1 or 2, R1 and R2, which may be the same or different, each represent hydrogen, alkyl, -CONHR3, phenyl or phenyl substituted by alkyl or halogen, or R1 and R2 together with the nitrogen atom to which they are attached form a 5 or 6 membered heterocyclic ring, R3 represents hydrogen, alkyl, alkenyl or phenyl, one of G1 and G2 is hydrogen and the other is a group E, each E, which may be the same or different, is -COOH, a 5-tetrazolyl group, or a carboxamidotetrazole group, each Z, which may be the same or different, is oxygen or sulphur, and one or two of the atoms a, b, c and d are nitrogen atoms and the remainder are carbon atoms, R<9> having no significance when two of a, b, c and d are nitrogen, (with certain exclusions>    and pharmaceutically acceptable derivatives thereof. There are also described methods for making the compounds and pharmaceutical, e.g. anti-allergic, compositions and mixtures containing them.
Patent GB-2066868-A (GB)
Title: Roofing systems
IPC: E04B7/02
Filed: 1980-01-04
Abstract: A method of re-roofing a house in which the primary supports of the original roof comprise metal purlins 1 generally of L-shape, one leg of the L lying parallel to and forming a support for the original roof panels and the other leg of the L extending inwardly of the roof, which comprises erecting a network of rafters 2, each rafter having cut-out portions 3 arranged to receive the purlins, placing at each intersection of a rafter and a purlin a locking plate 4 having an aperture 5 such that the plate can be bought into contact with a rafter with the purlin received in the aperture, the aperture in the plate being such that when the plate is fixed to the rafter relative movement between the rafter and purlin is restricted and the rafter cannot be lifted from the purlin, and fixing said plates to the rafters. The method preferably also includes the step of attaching a heel plate to the lower ends of the rafters to anchor them against the lowermost purlin 1a or the roof edge. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2043523-A (GB)
Title: Pelletising infusion material
IPC: A23L1/00
Filed: 1980-02-07
Abstract: Infusion material, such as fired leaf tea, is prepared for storage and/or transport by being pelleted using a roller and ring extrusion press. The pelleted material can be stored for long periods without suffering undue spoilage through the growth of bacteria and moulds, and its increased bulk density facilitates transport. In the case of leaf tea, the pellets can be crushed to yield material suitable for use in tea bags or in the manufacture of instant tea. The leaf tea has a moisture content of at least 10%, and preferably not greater than 15% prior to extrusion. The extrusion head and/or the emergent pellets, are cooled.
Patent GB-2070892-A (GB)
Title: Telecommunication networks
IPC: H04Q11/04
Filed: 1980-02-19
Abstract: A telecommunication network includes a number of exchanges of different hierarchical levels, these being local exchanges (LE) to which subscribers' lines (ST) are connected, principal local exchanges (PLE) to which the local exchanges are connected, and main network switching centres (MNSC) to which the principal local exchanges are connected. Some subscribers' lines are also connected to the PLE's and possibly MNSC's. In the exchanges the switches (SW) and the processors (RP, CP, SFP, MTCE, MB) and their stores (CS, IS) are LSI chips, as far as possible standard modules, and the exchanges and their elements are interconnected by optical fibre links operating at standard multiplex rates and using common channel signalling. Also the subscribers' terminals are connected to the exchange by optical fibre links. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2047321-A (GB)
Title: Pedestal for raised floors
IPC: E04D11/00
Filed: 1980-03-12
Abstract: An adjustable pedestal element for raised floors comprises two substantially cylindrical elements (1, 5) screw threaded into each other, the first (1) having a base flange (2) to secure to surface (3) and the second (5) having an annulus (6) acting as a bearing surface for the corners of four panels (7) of a raised floor. From the annulus four lugs (8) arranged 90 DEG  provide abutments for centering the panels (7) laid on the pedestal. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2075692-A (GB)
Title: Valve testing apparatus
IPC: G01M3/02
Filed: 1980-06-19
Abstract: Clamping apparatus (1, 1a) adapted for testing a flanged device (2) having a casing (3) defining a chamber (3a) and at least one annular end flange (4) disposed on a horizontal test plate (22) having a fluid inlet (23). At least one clamping unit (10) is provided which comprises a lever (18) disposed in a radial direction relative to the center of the annular flange (4). The lever has an outer end (18a) detachably resting on an underlying support (17a, 38a), and an inner end (18b) contacting a portion of the flange (4). A fulcrum is fixedly mounted above the lever intermediate its inner and outer ends about which the lever pivots. A hydraulic ram (15a, 40a) exerts a vertical force against one end of the lever, thereby causing the inner end of the lever to exert a predetermined clamping pressure on the flange, so as to obtain a fluid-tight connection between the flange and the plate. <IMAGE>