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Patent GB-553737-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to the concentration of ores
IPC: B03D1/26
Filed: 1941-08-15
Abstract: 553,737. Wet separating. BETHLEHEM STEEL CO. Aug. 15, 1941, No. 10430. Convention date, July 3, 1940. [Class 82 (ii)] A cell for the separation of minerals &c. by flotation is provided with a hood having pairs of spaced downwardly diverging baffles extending beneath the pulp level and perforated at their lower extremities, the majority of the perforations being below the pulp level The perforated baffles 46, 47 and 50, 51 extend downwardly from the top plate 36 of the hood 35 which together with the end plates 37, 38 form a chamber 48 closed to the atmosphere. Vent pipes or ducts 53, 54 lead from the chambers 55, 56 to the atmosphere, and splash plates 57, 58 are provided as well as additional splash plates 59, 60 outside the baffles 50, 51. The rectangular cell 11 is provided with diverging side walls 12, 13, 14, 15, the walls 12, 14 extending up to the top of the cell into extensions 21, 22 with froth lips 23, 24, while the walls 13, 14 terminate short of the top of the cell in the end walls 25, 26 provided with brackets 33, 34 to which the hood is attached.. The feed opening 27 in the side of the cell communicates with a passage formed between the top 28 of a hood and the wall 13, the hood also being provided with side walls 29, 30 to direct the feed to the bottom of the cell, and the exit side of the cell being provided with an opening 31. The base of the cell comprises side plates 17, 18, 19 and 20 and a base plate 16 through which extends upwardly an air pipe 32. Surrounding the pipe 32 is a cylinder 39 which depending from the plate 36 is secured to a plate 43 and is restricted in diameter below the latter. The cylinder 39 terminates at 40 above the base of the cell and is provided with openings 41 and is surrounded at its upper plate by a bell 42, of which the plate 43 forms the top and which is provided with perforated sides 44. The bottom 16 of the cell is provided with one or more perforations 61 through which air at high pressure may be forced if the cell becomes clogged. Launders 62, 63 are provided on each side of the cell, the pulp entering the latter through a duct 64 and the tailings being discharged through a conduit 65. An adjustable weir 66 controls the level of the pulp in the cell. heavy material passing through the aperture 67. A plurality of cells may be arranged together in series to form a tank of rectangular cross-section divided by laterally disposed partitions into a plurality of communicating compartments, the inlet opening of each cell after the first registering with the discharge opening of the preceding cell.
Patent GB-423076-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in electric current consuming devices in which are incorporated electric fuses
IPC: H01K1/66
Filed: 1934-04-06
Abstract: A fuse wire incorporated in an incandescent lamp, electric arc discharge lamp, rectifier, &c., is composed of a brass containing 0,25-8 per cent of aluminium, e.g. 67 per cent of copper, 32 per cent of zinc, and 1 per cent of aluminium.  This has a higher resistance, is non-oxidizable, and melts rapidly.  British Specifications 8861/92, [Class 82], 156,300, and 308,647, [both in Class 82 (i)], and U.S.A. Specification 1,851,140 are referred to.  The Specification as open to inspection under Sect. 91 comprises also the use of such fuse wire in lamp-holders and in general. This subject-matter does not appear in the Specification as accepted.
Patent GB-130120-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Dextrine.
Inventor: MCLAURIN WILLIAM WALLACE
IPC: C08B30/18
Filed: 1918-06-26
Abstract: 130,120. McLaurin, W. W. June 26, 1918. Drawings to Specification. Digesters.-Apparatus for dextrin making is described identical with that described in Specification 130,119.
Patent GB-885976-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to measuring devices for the female figure
IPC: A23L35/00
Filed: 1958-04-02
Abstract: 885,976. Measuring for wearing-apparel. TRIUMPH-UNIVERSA G.m.b.H. April 2, 1958, No. 10544/58. Class 141 A measuring device to be applied to the person in measuring for a brassiere comprises a size scale for taking the circumferential measurement directly below the bust and a cup shape scale for indicating the difference between the circumferential measurements directly below and over the middle of the bust. The cup shape scale, Fig. 1, is divided into a number of longitudinal strips corresponding to the number of cup shapes provided for each brassiere size, each strip having a series of spaced panels marked consecutively with the index numbers of the size scale, e.g. 2-16, the panels being staggered as shown. In one form, the two scales are provided on opposite sides or opposite edges of a single band, the zero points of the scales being relatively displaced by a distance equal to the smallest difference between the circumferential measurements below and over the middle of the bust. The band is first used to obtain the size measurement below the bust and the appropriate reading on the size scale 2-16 is noted. The band is then applied over the middle of the bust; there the zero point will intersect three differently numbered panels, the one bearing the noted size indicating by its row the required cup shape. In Fig. 2, the scales are on separate two-part bands 8, 8<SP>1</SP>; 9, 9<SP>1</SP> which can be drawn out of a casing 5 against the action of a spring. The bands are connected at their ends by transverse members 11, 12 with complementary fastening means 13, 14, so that the device can be applied to the bust and fastened at the back by the fasteners 13, 14. Windows 16, 17 in the casing allow the two scales to be read simultaneously. Given a size 4 on the lower scale, the row in which the number 4 appears on the upper scale indicates the required cup shape.
Patent GB-212144-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in the manufacture and production of tanning materials
IPC: C14C3/08
Filed: 1923-04-18
Abstract: Humous substances of an acid character stated to be of use in tanning are obtained by the action of nitrogen oxides on solid coaly substances, preferably in presence of water or steam; the reaction may be effected in presence of a catalyst, such as ferrous sulphate. In an example, finely powdered moist brown coal made into a paste with a solution of ferrous sulphate is heated under reflux first to 70 DEG  C. and then to 90 DEG  C. and treated, while stirring, with a mixture of nitric oxide and air. The reaction is allowed to proceed until a test portion of the product is soluble or nearly soluble in alkali, and the product is then filtered and washed.
Patent GB-1417262-A (GB)
Title: Process for the preparation of nonconjugated dienic grignard reagents and their utilization in organic syntheses
IPC: C07C29/54
Filed: 1973-03-05
Abstract: 1417262 Preparing Grignard reagents SOCDES USINES CHIMIQUES RHONE-POULENC 5 March 1973 [6 March 1972] 10646/73 Headings C2C and C2J A Grignard reagent is prepared by reacting a mono (conjugated diene) magnesium and an allyl halide in an organic ether solvent under anhydrous conditions at 5-200 C. and at a molar ratio of diene Mg: allyl halide of from 1 : 1 to 10 : 1. The allyl halide may be of formula R 9 -C(R 8 )=C(R 7 )-CH 2 X and the resulting Grignard of formula  where R 1 -R 9  are each H or C 1-50  hydrooarbyl and X is Cl, Br or I. In the examples, magnesium and isoprene are reacted in THF optionally in the presence of CuCl 2  or FeCl 3  as Lewis acid and 3,3-dimethylallyl chloride added to the resulting diene Mg compound to form the Grignard Other dienes and allyl halides are specified. The Grignard of Formula IV is oxidized with pure O 2  and hydrolysed with HCl to form lavandulol of formula together with small amounts of other C 10  alcohols including geraniol and nerol.
Patent GB-1488551-A (GB)
Title: Device and method for forming pleats in drapery material
IPC: D05B35/08
Filed: 1975-03-14
Abstract: 1488551 Curtains HOME CURTAIN CORP 14 March 1975 [12 Sept 1974] 10660/75 Heading A4S [Also in Division D1] A pleat in drapery material consists of a pair of outer folds formed in the drapery material along an edge thereof and a false pleat 56 formed of a separate piece of sheet material, preferably the same fabric used to form the drape, positioned between the pair of outer folds. The false pleat 56 is formed by severing it from a supply, folding it transversely about a medial line thereof, subsequently folding longitudinally and positioning the formed false pleat between the pair of outer folds of the drape prior to sewing.
Patent GB-106835-A (GB)
IPC: H02P5/68
Abstract: 106,835. Dawson, Sir A. T., and Horne, J. March 7, 1916. Controllers, actuating-mechanism for. -The regulating switch or rheostat of an electric motor operating an hydraulic pump is moved automatically in accordance with the pressure in the pump system so that the speed of the motor is varied in conformity with the demand made upon the pressure liquid. The electric motor A on the shaft A' drives the pump shaft B<1> through a plate clutch E normally held in bv the springs e. The motor is controlled by means of two rheostat arms, D, D<1>: the former varies resistance in the field circuit to control from the full to half speed, and the latter varies resistance in the armature circuit to control from half to low speed. The switch spindle C<5> carries a pinion engaging a rack on the ram C<2> of a servo-motor controlled by a slide valve C<1>. This valve is connected to a spring loaded piston C<x> in a cylinder C connected by a pipe b<1> to the pump pressure main. The part E<1> of the clutch E can be lifted against the springs e to put out the clutch by pressure in the cylinder E<2> which is connected by an axial conduit in the shaft B<1> to the clutch control valve E<3> normally held in its exhaust position by a spring or by pressure in the pump system. The valve E<3> may be operated to throw out the clutch by the rack on the ram C<2>. The rheostat arms may be used for starting the motor if suitable interlocks with the main switch D<2> are provided. In a modification the pump and motor are on the same side of the clutch and the motor shaft passes through the pump shaft. In another modification two motors A are used, as shown in Fig. 6. The two clutches are controlled by two pistons in a single cylinder.
Patent GB-120358-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Cigarette and like Cases Combined with Lighters.
Inventor: DOMENICONI ALBERT SAMUEL
IPC: A24F15/14
Filed: 1918-06-28
Abstract: 120,358. Domeniconi, A. S. June 28, 1918. Pocket igniters, fulminating- pellet and like.-A cigarette or like case is provided with means for partly ejecting a single cigarette and for lighting it The cigarettes are arranged with their ends resting on a platform 17, and the end cigarette is adapted to be partly ejected from the case bv a pusher 35 pressed upwards by a bent spring 37. As the pusher 35 rises, an igniting-pellet 22, resting on the end of the spring 37, is pressed upwards between two roughened surfaces 31 and is thus caused to light the cigarette The supply of pellets 22 is held in a compartment 21, which is formed by a partition 18 and is .adapted to be closed by an inner cover 32 mounted on the hinge-pin connecting the halves 13, 14 of the cigarette case. The pellets 22 are delivered singly from the compartment 21 by a finger 29, which is carried by the pusher 35 and is arranged to co-operate with guides 27, 28. The spring 37 is adapted to he depressed and to be held in its lowered position by a finger 39 on a rod 38 actuated by a button arranged outside the cigarette case. If a pellet fails to ignite, it can be removed through a hole 42<1> in the side of the cigarette case.
Patent GB-696355-A (GB)
Title: An improved baling press
IPC: B30B9/30
Filed: 1952-04-29
Abstract: 696,355. Baling-presses. SANDERSON & MURRAY; Ltd., and DAVIDSON, M. W. April 29, 1952. No. 10734/52. Class 94(i) A baling press comprises an inflatable bellows contained in a well and acting on a ram movable within the well to press material from the well into a receptacle inverted over the well. A base plate 5, Fig. 1, is supported by vertical tie rods 4 from a floor plate 1 having a square opening 3 communicating with a well 6 which is constructed of plywood lined with sheet metal and-contains a wooden ram 8 secured to the upper end of a bellows 7 fitted with an air inlet pipe 29 and exhaust and safety valves (not shown). The bellows consists of a series of rubber bags 27, fig. 3. with central apertures secured together by clamping rings, the peripheries of adjacent bags being interconnected by canvas ties 32 encircled by ropes 34 to limit the expansion of the bags. The upper bag is secured centrally and at its periphery to the ram 8 and the lower bag is anchored to the base plate by ties 33. After the well has been filled with material to be baled, a trolley 10 comprising a frame 11, Fig. 5, fitted with wheels 12 is moved into position above the well where it is located by the engagement of bars 9 on the plate 1 over flanges 13 on the frame 11. A bag for the reception of the compressed material is passed over corner bars 15 secured by quick-release clamp to the frame 11 and its lower end engaged by hooks 18, Fig. 7, on plates 17 which are locked in position on the trolley by bolts 19. A head frame 21, Fig. 1, supported by wire ropes 22 passing over pulleys and connected to counterweights (not shown) is then lowered until a flange 23 thereon encircles the upper ends of the bars 15 and is attached by chains 25 to the upper ends of the tie bars 4. Compressed air is then supplied to the bellows to cause the ram to force the material into the bag in which it is retained by skewers passed through holes 20 in the plates 17 and slots 35 in the upper surface of the ram. After removal of the trolley from the press, the bolts 19 and clamps are released, the bale is removed and the bars 15 withdrawn therefrom and replaced on the trolley frame. The skewers are withdrawn after closure of the open end of the bag.
Patent GB-309735-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in wire-weaving looms
Filed: 1928-04-12
Abstract: 309,735. Jõger, E. April 12, 1928. Stop-motions acting after every pick. In a wire weaving loom, ribbed wheels 4, 5, Fig. 1, which bend the weft wires and also feed these into the shed are driven by gearing described from a pulley 19 connected by a clutch 26 to a loom shaft. When the lay is at rest in its rearmost position, the clucth 26 is engaged and the wire from a reel passes through a guide or straightening device to the wheels 4, 5. After the wire has passed through the shed, it strikes an electric contact 28, Fig. 5, thereby closing a circuit and energizing an electromagnet 29. An armature 31 fixed to a clutch lever 30 is attracted, the clutch 26 is disengaged and by means of a link 32 and lever 33, a clutch 34 is engaged whereby the loom is started. The lay beats up the inserted weft which is then cut. When the lay returns, an abutment 42 therein actuates a lever 43 connected to the lever 33, whereby the clutch 34 is disengaged to stop the loom, and the clutch 26 engaged so as to drive the weft wire bending and inserting mechanism. Instead of the lay being at rest whilst the weft wire is being bent, it may move slowly.
Patent GB-390328-A (GB)
Title: Card dealing apparatus
IPC: A63F1/14
Filed: 1932-04-15
Abstract: 390,328. Dealing cards. LUX, L. A., 17827, Lake Avenue, Lakewood, and TREMMEL, H. G., 13705, Shaker Boulevard, Cleveland, both in Ohio, U.S.A. April 15, 1932, No. 10884. [Class 132 (ii).] In a card-dealing device of the kind wherein the pack is carried in a frame 8, upon rotation of which relatively to a base 1 a roller 12 is actuated through a train of gears to deal the cards from the top of the pack in four directions, the base is provided with a circular series of openings 3 engageable by a gear 30 of the actuating train and means are provided to disable the actuating means upon reverse rotation of the frame. The base is mounted on a layer 2 of felt or rubber to prevent slipping and the frame is rotated by a handle 36. The cards are supported on a platform 13, that is maintained in substantially horizontal condition by frames 15 connected by pivots 15<1> and is urged upwardly by a spring 14 to press the uppermost card into engagement with the roller. The cards are ejected one at a time over a relatively narrow lip 34 by the roller which comprises a rubber body having a smooth insert 23. The spindle 31 of a gear 27 of the actuating means is mounted in slots 32 and moves out of mesh when the frame is rotated in reverse direction. To compensate for cards of different thickness, the supporting means for the platform and the platform itself are tiltable transversely by adjustment of a lever 37.
Patent GB-1501282-A (GB)
Title: Elongate members of resin-bonded inorganic fibre
IPC: H01B17/40
Filed: 1975-03-15
Abstract: 1501282 Insulator REBOSIO INDUSTRIA ELETTROTECNICA SpA 15 March 1975 10889/75 Heading H2C A resin bonded inorganic fibre rod 1 is shaped to form a flared end portion with a substantially radial flange. A two-part metal fitting 5, 15 is secured, e.g. by bolts, around the end, the mating surfaces being complementary. The rod may be moulded, the mould removed and the metal fittings applied or a 3-part mould comprising the fittings (Fig. 1, not shown) may be used, a tubular section for forming the rod part being removed after curing. Alternative methods, e.g. soldering and use of a cover plate, of securing the end fittings together are described, the threaded hole 19 in the fitting 15 being provided for attaching it to a base. A completed insulator with sheds and a fitting on its other end is described (Fig. 7, not shown).
Patent GB-963969-A (GB)
Title: Process for producing oil-modified alkyd resins
IPC: C08G63/46
Filed: 1963-03-19
Abstract: Oil modified alkyl resins are made by (1) reacting a mixture of an ester of an olefinically unsaturated acid containing at least 10 carbon atoms, hydrogen peroxide and phthalic anhydride to produce a reaction mixture containing the epoxidised ester and phthalic acid and (2) reacting this mixture with a polyhydric alcohol.  Before stage (2), the reaction mixture is preferably heated to 100-110 DEG C to remove water and unreacted hydrogen peroxide.  Specified esters are soyabean, linseed, castor, perilla, fish, safflower, hempseed, sunflower, tung and octicica oil. Specified polyhydric alcohols are glycerol, trimethyol propane, trimethylol ethane, pentaerythritol, ethylene glycol, 1:2- or 1:3-propylene glycol and mixtures of pentaerythritol and ethylene glycol.  The alkyds may be dissolved in mineral spirits and catalysed with lead and cobalt naphtherates to form coating compositions.
Patent GB-1062306-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in dispensers for toilet requisites and the like
Inventor: GILBERT-ROLFE HENRIK WILLIAM
IPC: A45D40/04
Filed: 1965-03-15
Abstract: 1,062,306. Toiletry dispenser. LUSTROID Ltd. Jan 5, 1966 [March 15, 1965], No. 10913/65. Heading A4V. [Also in Division F1] A dispenser for toilet requisites, Fig. 1 (not shown), comprising a tubular container (1) having one open end (2) which may be closed by a removable cap and a piston (9) which is mounted on a screwthreaded spindle (6), one end of the spindle protruding through the closed end (3) of the container and fixed to a wheel (12), which when turned will rotate the spindle, moving the piston towards the open end of the container thus discharging the contents; a collar (7) for the spindle in engagement with the inside surface of the closed end, of the container to prevent movement of the spindle in an axial direction and the spindle and its collar being one integral moulding of polypropylene while the wheel is another, is assembled by inserting the spindle in the container with one end protruding as described, with this end fitting into a socket (13) in the wheel, and rotating the wheel relatively to the spindle so that the heat generated by friction melts the polyproylene and welds the spindle in place in the socket. Oil may be applied between the wheel and the container so that the heat generated by friction here causes the end of the container to expand and become domed, thus pressing firmly against the collar on the spindle, whilst causing no welding.
Patent GB-1384199-A (GB)
Title: High-voltage spark plug for internal combustion engines
IPC: H01T13/18
Filed: 1973-03-06
Abstract: 1384199 Sparking-plugs; ignition systems NIPPON DENSO CO Ltd 6 March 1973 [6 March 1972 21 April 1972] 10950/73 Heading FIB A sparking-plug for an internal-combustion engine comprises a central electrode 11, 19 formed of an electrically conductive sleeve defining an inner chamber 25 in which a heating coil 26 is located, one end of the heating coil being connected to a base 20 of the conductive sleeve, located opposite to and spaced from a casing electrode 18, the other end of the heating coil being connected to a terminal screw 27 which projects from and is electrically insulated from the sleeve, and the heating coil being embedded in and enclosed by radially compressed electrically insulating powder 29 having a high heat conductivity. Owing to interlocking (not shown) closure of the switching members 43, 44 is only possible when the engine is stopped. When these switching members are closed the switching member 52 of the relay 40 is opened thereby ensuring that starting is impossible.
Patent GB-1215826-A (GB)
Title: Self-healing capacitor assembly
Inventor: BUICE JOEL BLACKMON
IPC: H01G9/08
Filed: 1968-03-06
Abstract: 1,215,826. Electrolytic capacitors. GENERAL ELECTRIC CO. 6 March, 1968 [19 April, 1967], No.10979/68. Heading H1M. Electrolytic capacitors 14, 15, 16, 17 each containing liquid or gelled electrolyte in a sealed casing have their anodised valve metal anode leads 18 connected together by a conductor 20, preferably of anodised valve metal, which is in turn connected by means of insulated lead 30 to conductor 27 extending through ceramic- or glass-metal seal 25 in lid 12 of the hermetically sealed housing 11 for the assembly. Cathode leads 19 are connected via conductor 21 and insulated lead 22 to the lid 12. Insulating members 24 and 32 may be provided between the capacitors and conductor 20, and between conductor 20 and the housing lid, and the empty space within the housing may be filled with epoxy resin.
Patent GB-918718-A (GB)
Title: Electron beam furnace
IPC: C22B9/22
Filed: 1961-03-27
Abstract: 918,718. Electron beam apparatus. STAUFFER CHEMICAL CO. March 27, 1961 [June 21, 1960], No. 11007/61. Class 39 (1). In an electron beam furnace a ribbon beam produced by the elongated gun 23, Fig. 1, for bombarding the molten pool 27 is reduced in width and guided in a curved path by a deflecting magnetic field comprising arched lines of force. A beam produced by a gun 21 is also deflected on to the melt stock 18 by the magnetic field. As shown, the guns are disposed behind the bombarded surfaces. Shields 28, 29 are provided to protect the guns. As shown in Fig. 3, the gun 23 includes a directly heated emissive filament 31, a focusing electrode 32 and an accelerating electrode 33. The magnetic system includes a rectangular yoke 41 with polepieces on each side of the molten pool 27 and an energizing winding 42. The magnetic field has a convex boundary which assists in focusing the electron beam. The gun may have an indirectly heated emitter and may be disposed so as to direct the beam horizontally away from the pool or downwardly so that the beam is curved through an angle between 180 degrees and 360 degrees.