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Patent GB-120228-A (GB)
Title: Apparatus for Lifting and Floating Sunken Vessels or the like.
Inventor: AKAKI KANZABURO
IPC: B63C7/00
Filed: 1917-08-31
Abstract: 120,228. Akaki, K., and Itoi, M. Aug. 31, 1917. Sunken and stranded ships and objects, raising and moving.-Piles of lumbers are built up adjacent to the sunken ship, and an upper structure is then mounted on each pile and connected to the submerged object to bring the load on to the piles, whereupon means on the upper structure are operated to sink the piles; the building of the piles is then continued until the piles ground or become sufficiently buoyant to support the whole weight of the ship and on further operating the means by which the piles were sunk, the ship is raised. Fig. 1 shows one of the piles. Corner poles 1 connected by superposed and spaced frames E and an upper frame 2 are lowered to the sea bed and secured by anchor ropes connected to tubular clamps 47 which contain superposed rings 48, Fig. 9, alternate rings being connected and the two sets so formed being operated by screws 49 to grip the corner poles. Further superposed and spaced frames 29, provided on the inside with rollers and connected to the upper frame 2 and to anchors, are then positioned and a sliding frame 4 is suspended from the upper frame 2. Lumbers 5, connected to the frame 4 and to each other, are then built in layers on the frame 4, until the pile becomes buoyant, when the frame 4 is detached from the frame 2 and an upper frame B is placed on the pile. The frame B has upper and lower bracing structures 8, 10 and carries hangers 26, 27, 27<1> which engage a lifting-rod 28 secured to the submerged object, the hangers resisting upward, and permitting downward, movement on the lifting-rod. The frame B also carries a number of screw jacks arranged alternately to form two sets; the two sets are now operated alternately to depress the pile, the frames E being removed as required. Building of the pile is continued by placing further lumbers in the spaces below inactive jacks until the pile grounds or attains sufficient buoyancy. A deck structure 40 is then built in below the frame B and provided with upper and lower bracing structures 42, 46. Hangers 41, 45, 45' similar to the hangers 26, 27, 27<1> connect the deck structure to the lifting rod 28. The upper frame is now alternately raised and lowered by the jacks to give successive lifts on the rods 28, which is held after each lift by the hangers 41, 45, 45<1>. The jacks may comprise screws 58, Fig. 10, carrying pinions which slidably engage cylindrical gears 57; two diametrically-opposite cylindrical gears may be provided for each jack. or hand-operated jacks may be employed. Docks; floating-docks.-When a sunken vessel has been raised as described above, further piles of lumbers may be sunk and the piles connected by girders to form a dock in which temporary repairs may be effected; floors are laid on the girders.
Patent GB-637521-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to rotary cutting tools
IPC: B23D61/10
Filed: 1947-05-09
Abstract: 637,521. Rotary cutters and grinding tools ; saws. GOEHLE, E. G. May 9, 1947, No. 12602. Convention date, Sept. 27, 1945. [Classes 60, 124, 145 (i), and 145 (ii)] [Also in Group XXII] A rotary cutting tool, especially for use in cutting commutator slots, comprises a cemented carbide (e.g. tungsten carbide) disc or saw 10 mounted on the reduced portion 16 of a hub 12 and held between the shoulder 18 and a ring 22 which together form an annular pocket for the disc, the disc being permanently brazed to the walls of the pocket. The members 12, 22 are of bronze, copper or cold-rolled steel, whilst the exposed faces of the disc or saw may be tapered inwardly toward the hub as at 26 (see Fig. 4). Teeth 24 are preferably cut after the attachment of the disc 10 to the hub &c.
Patent GB-984798-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to window stays
Inventor: SANDYS RICHARD
IPC: E05C17/32
Filed: 1962-04-02
Abstract: 984,798. Window stays; hinges. TENSILE PRODUCTS Ltd. June 28, 1963 [April 2, 1962], No. 12616/62. Heading E2F. A window stay comprising two arms 15, 18, which are pivoted together at 19, and each of which is pivoted at its other end to a part 10, 11, respectively, secured to the sash frame 8 and fixed frame 9 of the window, is characterised in that the arm 18 is channel-shaped with substantially parallel flanges 23, the arm 15 is adapted to fold into the channel when the window is closed, and the arms are arranged to pass "over-centre" in both the closed and open positions of the window so that relative swinging movement has to be applied to the arms to release the sash. Preferably the arms and the parts 10, 11 are formed of nylon and the pivot pins 17, 19 and 25 of metal. The arm 15 may be detachably pivoted between the lugs 14 of the part 10 by means of the arrangement shown in Fig. 4, in which the pivot pin 29 has two small projections 30 at one end and a knurled manipulating knob 37 secured by a pin 38 at the other. The projections 30 engage in a screwthread in a hole 31 in one of the lugs 14. To detach the arm the pin 29 is first turned until the projections leave the screwthread and enter a circular recess 36 at one end of the hole 34 in the arm. The pin is then rotated to bring the projections into register with two axial slots 35 through the hole 34, after which it can be withdrawn clear of the hole to free the arm. In this arrangement the pivot pin 29 and its associated parts may also be formed of nylon.
Patent GB-543033-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to alkyl urea derivatives
IPC: C07C275/06
Filed: 1940-08-05
Abstract: 543,033. Hexylureas. LILLY & CO., E., SHONLE, H. A., and DORAN, W. J. Aug. 5, 1940, No. 12618. [Class 2 (iii)] Hexylureas are prepared by re-acting with ammonia on a tert-hexyl isocyanate, obtained by treating a tert-hexyl halide with silver cyanate. The products are useful as sedatives and hypnotics. According to the example, diethylmethylcarbinyl bromide is gently heated with silver cyanate, and after filtering off the silver bromide, the product allowed to stand with concentrated aqueous ammonia. The dimethyl-n-propyl carbinyl and dimethylisopropylcarbinyl ureas are similarly obtained.
Patent GB-443145-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to chairs, settees and the like articles of furniture
IPC: A47C7/72
Filed: 1935-04-29
Abstract: 443,145. Seats combined with receptacles. GRIFFITHS, J. P., Benita, Mauldeth Road, Heaton Mersey, Manchester. April 29, 1935, No. 12703 /34. [Class 52 (ii)] The side 1 of the frame of a chair settee or like article of furniture has a part cut away to receive a hollow member 14 having a lid 4 which fills up the cut-away part 13 and serves as a container for articles, the hinged lid forming the upper surface of the side which constitutes the arm. The hollow member may contain a liner 11 of wood or metal which can be removed by straps 12, and which is divided into compartments. Alternatively or in addition a collapsable book-rest may be provided in the cavity and hinged to the wall thereof. The liner 11 may also be provided with a lid. An additional lid 9 or 10 may be provided which is hinged oppositely to the lid 4 and acts as a book-rest. A link 8 connects the lid 4 with a slidable stop 6 guided on a projecting ridge 7 on the frame so that when the lid is opened the stop 6 projects from the side of the chair and supports the lid, but is retracted when the lid is closed.
Patent GB-735741-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to foundation garment
IPC: A41C1/00
Filed: 1953-05-07
Abstract: 735,741. Foundation garments. STEIN & CO., A. May 7, 1953 [Sept. 24, 1952], No. 12742/53. Class 141. In foundation garments such as girdles, panties, pantie girdles and garter belts made from stretchable fabric material united at the ends to form a tubular body section, the abdominal support panel is formed by uniting two ends of the fabric by stitching along a line 3 spaced inwardly from the extremities of the fabric to form flaps 5 and 6 which are folded away from each other along the line of stitching 3 and are stitched along their outer edges at 7 and 8 to the tubular section, the line of stitching 3 being inclined with respect to elastic warp threads of the fabric, which are disposed circumferentially substantially in horizontal planes in the tubular section and continue into the flaps, so that the elastic warp threads in the flaps are inclined with respect to the same threads in the tubular section. In the embodiment described a pantie girdle is formed from two identical blanks 1 and 2, Fig. 4, of two-way stretch fabric, stitched together along the lines 3 and 4. The blanks 1 and 2 have notches 9 and 10, one of which forms seam 11 and the other of which receives a slide fastener 12. The crutch of the garment is formed by stitching each of the sections along the inclined edges 14 of the blanks.
Patent GB-845658-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in the production of insulating coatings on metal
Inventor: DARLASTON ARTHER JOHN HALSTEAD
IPC: C25D13/02
Filed: 1958-04-22
Abstract: 845,658. Electric-heating resistances. SIEMENS EDISON SWAN Ltd. March 19, 1959 [April 22, 1958], No. 12771/58. ' Class 39(3). [Also in Group XXXVI] Wire to be used to make heaters for indirectly heated cathodes for thermionic valves is provided with an electrically insulating coating of alumina by electrophoretic deposition from an aqueous electrolyte containing zirconium nitrate.
Patent GB-908029-A (GB)
Title: An automatic control system
IPC: G05B9/03
Filed: 1959-04-15
Abstract: 908,029. Measuring electrically. LICENTIA PATENT-VERWALTUNGS-G.m.b.H. April 15, 1959 [April 15, 1958], No. 12787/59. Class 40 (1). In an automatic control system the output of a plant 1 is detected by units 2 and 3 respectively in analogue and digital form, the outputs of these units are compared with the desired values, as set on units 4 and 5, in units 6 and 7 and the difference signal passed via control unit 8 to the regulating units 9 and 10. The analogue channel handles only signals up to a maximum value corresponding to one digital step and the two control channels act simultaneously. The control channels may have integral or derivative characteristic.
Patent GB-479918-A (GB)
Title: Process for the manufacture of cellulose esters and cellulose ethers
IPC: C08B1/00
Filed: 1936-05-07
Abstract: Cellulose esters and ethers are prepared by esterifying or etherifying rasped or pulverized ligno-cellulose.  Examples are given of the nitration of cellulose in powder form and of the acetylation of finely rasped cellulose.
Patent GB-143219-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in transport and storage vessels for liquid air or liquid gas
IPC: F17C3/02
Filed: 1920-05-10
Abstract: 143,219. Wendel et Cie, Les petits fils de F. de, (formerly De Wendel' sche Berg und Huttenwerke). Nov. 7, 1916, [Convention date]. Cold and heat retaining vessels.-Relates to receptacles for liquid air or other gas and consists in an inner vessel a, a number of thin metallic nested vessels b with a. corresponding number of air spaces c between. and a rigid outer casing d provided with carrying-means g. The vessels b are bent to form a neck into which is fitted a tubular neck piece e. For use as a storage vessel for cartridges used for blasting in mines, which require to be kept immersed in liquid air, the neck piece e is widened and a cap is fitted to close the mouth thereof, but to permit the escape of vapour.
Patent GB-557649-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to electric switches for railway and like signalling purposes
IPC: B61L19/14
Filed: 1942-09-14
Abstract: 557,649. Actuation of switches. SIEMENS & GENERAL ELECTRIC RAILWAY SIGNAL CO., Ltd.. and CANDLER, J. E. Sept. 14, 1942, No. 12949. [Class 38 (v)] A switch suitable for railway signalling comprises a drum 1 which carries segmental contacts 2 adapted to bridge pairs of contacts 3 and is provided with a shaft 6 carrying an arcuate gear sector 14, the skew-teeth of which co-operate with a skew-teeth rack 16 on a slide ear 17. The lower shaft-bearing 10 is arranged in a base 11 detachably secured in seatings 12 on the main base 13, the arrangement being that the switch is removable as a unit from base 13 by separation of the gear 14 from the rack. The sector can be moved by the slide bar to .a neutral position permitting removal .of the bar from the base 13, the extreme teeth of the sector and extreme gaps 16<SP>1</SP> on the rack being made deeper to ensure correct meshing when the bar is replaced. Cabling for an electrical lock for the bar 17 enters through insulator bush 20 and passes through apertures 2.1, 22 in the base 11 and in a conduit 19, respectively, and on to the lock. Lubricating orifices 23, 25 are provided.
Patent GB-783809-A (GB)
Title: A device for the mechanical transmission of movement
IPC: F16C1/20
Filed: 1955-05-04
Abstract: 783,809. Bowden and like mechanism. PIETERSE, M. C. May 4,1955, No. 12993/55. Class 80 (3). In a remote control transmission comprising a series of balls or rollers 16, Fig. 1, and rods 21 movable in guide tubes connecting a receiver 23 and a transmitter 1, the balls 16 in the curved parts of the tubes are spaced by members such as 26, Fig. 2, so that the balls may roll on the outer curve in the tube without interfering with each other. Each member 26 is of low friction material such as bronze and has a central bore connecting its concave faces, the whole system being filled with lubricant. The transmitter comprises a disc 1 rotatable in a casing 3 and carrying two rollers 17 engaging the balls 16. A handle actuating the disc 1 is retained in set position by a pawl 5 engaging detents in the side wall of the casing 3, the pawl being released by depressing a spring-loaded button 8. The receiver 23 is similar to the transmitter and may actuate a valve for varying the pitch of a vessel's propeller. In a modification each member 26 fits slidably in the tube and has rotatable therein a small ball protruding to contact both adjacent balls 16. Alternatively balls 16, Fig. 5, may be spaced by smaller balls 30 rolling on the inner curve in the tube, and the balls 30 may or may not contact the distancepieces 31. The tube in this arrangement may be of circular, rectangular or square section, and in one form a square-section tube is curved in a plane through a diagonal of the square. In a construction dispensing with distance-pieces, balls or rollers fitting movably in a tube alternate with balls having a slightly smaller diameter. Specification 108,536, [Class 80 (iii)], is referred to.
Patent GB-476677-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and connected with electric cooking apparatus
IPC: F24C15/18
Filed: 1936-05-08
Abstract: 476,677. Electric cooking apparatus. ROGERS, R. H. May 8, 1936, No. 13036. [Classes 39 (iii) and 126] An electric cooker comprises an oven b, heating or grilling chamber c, and at the back a supplementary cooker d. The heating unit e comprises a series of spaced bars e<2> supporting refractories e<3> having cross-members e<4> which support resistance heaters e<5> extending lengthwise between the bars. The resistance is disposed over substantially the whole area of the hot plate or hob, the bars e<2> being adapted to support cooking utensils, and of sufficient area to support several. Splash plates fare fitted below the heating unit and are provided with runners g for grill pans or shelves h. These plates may be bent over at the top into a pocket formed by bending the casing c. The hob is adapted for grilling by providing a removable plate n which may form part of a lagged cover o which covers the hob when not in use. The cover o is hinged to form a rest for cooking utensils, when the resistance is exposed for boiling purposes. The cooker d comprises an insulated vessel wound round with a heating resistance as in Specification 408,216, and a similar cover r may be provided. The oven u may be heated in a similar manner by a surrounding resistance wire and longitudinal corrugations 31 may be provided to take up expansion. The oven door v is of the fall-down type, and when open forms a shelf. The base a comprises insulated chambers w, x for plates or utensils, with a space y for switches, plug sockets and indicating lights. The cooker is constructed of enamelled sheet metal panels secured without externally projecting screw heads. Additional ledges l may be provided, and may have heating resistances. In a modification, the cooker d may be omitted and the hob and chamber c extended backward to the rear of the casing. Two heating units may be employed in this case. Specifications 475,038 and 476,735 also are referred to.
Patent GB-769809-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to washing machines
IPC: D06F21/04
Filed: 1955-05-05
Abstract: 769,809. Automatic control systems for Washing-machines. GEHRIG, J. May 5, 1955 [May 7, 1954], No. 13049/55. 'Class 38 (4). In order to prevent excessive foam forming in the container 1 of a washing-machine, a diaphragm 3 moves against spring action, in response to a critical foam pressure in the space outside the washing drun 2, to close a switch 4 and thus energize a relay 5 to open an outlet valve 6 for the suds. As the liquid level in the container falls, a float-operated switch 7 energizes a second relay 8 to open a water inlet valve 9. The concentration of the suds is therefore decreased and the liquid level maintained constant: When the foam pressure drops below the critical value; both valves are reclosed and the machine operates with a lower suds concentration.
Patent GB-879994-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in flame failure or heat source detectors
Inventor: PEARSON EDGAR
IPC: F23N5/14
Filed: 1959-04-17
Abstract: 879,994. Burner control by radiation-sensitive devices. ASQUITH ELECTRICS (COLNE) Ltd. April 6, 1960 [April 17, 1959], No. 13090/59. Class 40(3) [Also in Group XI] In a circuit, for detecting the failure of a flame or of a source of heat, comprising a resistance element energized by direct current through a transformer and rectifier from an A.C. source in series with a relay coil, the current through which varies with the temperature of the resistance element to detect the presence or absence of heat, a contact member operated by the relay coil directly controls a valve to shut off the fuel supply in the event of flame failure at a burner or to control directly the operation of a switch for a fuel pump or electricity supply. As supplied to a spark ignition system in which gas supplied to a burner BU through a valve V is ignited by a plug P, the resistance element E heated by the flame F is in series with the operating coils of relays Rl, R2 fed with D.C. voltage from a rectifier D and transformer T<SP>1</SP> energized from mains A.C. when a switch S is closed. The relay R2 energized when switch S is operated, closes contact r3 and the ignition system is brought into operation by the actuation of a push-button B<SP>1</SP> after the switch S has been closed. At contacts b2 the transformer T2 is energized so that its winding t is operative to ignite the sparking plug P, and over contacts bl a relay coil V1 is operated to open the valve V to allow gas to pass to the burner BU which becomes operative. The flame F increases the resistance of the element E with the result that relay R1 releases closing contacts r1, r2 so that an indicating lamp L is illuminated. The button B<SP>1</SP> is now released, and the coil V1 is energized to hold the valve V open over closed contact rl. If the gas supply, heat source, or ignition fails, relay R1 is energized under control of the element E, and at contact rl the coil V1 is de-energized so that the valve V closes. At contact r2 the lamp L is extinguished. If the element E should fail, relay R2 is de-energized so that at contact r3 the circuits of the lamp L and of relay V1 are broken.
Patent GB-907672-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to machines for winding the armature slots of commutatormotor rotary armatures with coil windings
IPC: H02K15/09
Filed: 1959-04-17
Abstract: 907,672. Coil making apparatus. PHILIPS ELECTRICAL INDUSTRIES Ltd. April 17, 1959 [April 21, 1958], No. 13177/59. Class 35. In a machine for winding coils in the slots of commutator motor rotary armatures 1 wherein the armature shaft 8 is so mounted as to be rotatable in a plane which is parallel with the rotor axis, loops of wire brought out from the coils are anchored by a device which comprises a member 10 coaxially securable to the armature shaft and having fixed to it a series of pins 12 equal in number to that of the slots and arranged in alignment with the slots but inclined relatively to the shaft so that they have one end further from the shaft than the other, whereby a loop can be passed around the one end of a corresponding pin, together with stoppins 14 co-operating with the pins 12 to hold the loop near the end of pin 12, and means which move the stop-pins to enable the loop to slide further along the inclined pin and thereby relieve the wire tension after the winding has commenced. The stop-pins 14 are carried on resilient rods 13 movable in slots 16 in a member 15 and as shown the means comprises a dished member 22 whose circular wall 24 embraces all the ends of the pins 12 except one which is in a re-entrant part 25. In operation, one end of the wire is temporarily secured to a hook 35 and a first complete coil is wound. The other end of the coil is looped either manually or by an automatic wire guide, not shown, over the corresponding pin 12, and the machine is restarted to wind the next coil, at first slowly. During initial restarting either an electric relay, not shown, or a weight 30 biased by a spring 32 pivots a spring-biased pawl 26 to depress the rod 13 and thereby release the loop from the stop-pin 14. After winding the entire rotor, all the rods 13 are depressed to allow the loops to be released, for subsequent securing to a commutator, not shown. A detent 33 locates the winding positions.
Patent GB-1259969-A (GB)
Title: Feeding and affixing clips
IPC: B23P19/00
Filed: 1969-03-13
Abstract: 1,259,969. Vibrating conveyers; feeding C- clips. U.S. COMPONENTS Inc. 13 March, 1969, No. 13187/69. Headings B8A and B8S. [Also in Divisions B3 and F2] A machine for feeding and affixing C-clips to work comprises a feed hopper 12 and a vibrating guide rail 14 leading from the hopper to a clipping tool 16 for affixing the C-clips to the work 20. The clips are fed from a ramp 30 of the vibratory hopper 12 on to the upper end of the guide rail 14 having a rectangular cross-section 44, Fig. 10. The clips are fed down the vibrating guide rail 14 which changes from a rectangular section to a cross-section having a bead portion (54) (Fig. 11, not shown) intermediate its ends and to a T-shaped cross-section at its lower end whereby the clips are precisely aligned. The lowermost clip on the guide 14 is pushed forward by a solenoid operated blade 66, Fig. 8, on to an electrical connector 24 received within a V- notched plate 86.
Patent GB-132084-A (GB)
IPC: B60B3/08
Abstract: 132,084. Killen, E. B. Sept. 26, 1918. Disk wheels.-Disk wheels of the type described in Specification 127,379, comprise two similarly-shaped stampings 1, placed together as shown to form a rim 2 and a central cavity 5 for the reception of wood or like filling-material, and secured by bolts and nuts 7. The width of the central part of the wheels may be adapted to the particular hub fittings to which it is to be applied by the addition of distance-pieces which may be plates of metal 11 or metal stampings 13 with wood filling 14. Additional strengthening-plates 9 may be attached between the edges of rim and the central part of the wheel, as shown. Apertures 15, 16 may be formed in the disks.