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Patent GB-469661-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to package sealing devices
IPC: B65D65/22
Filed: 1936-01-27
Abstract: 469,661. Postal &c. wrappers. JONES, N. H., MEEK, R. C. S., and JONES & CO., Ltd., S. Jan. 27, 1936, No. 2581. [Class 146 (ii)] [Also in Group XVII] A wrapper is provided with a strip of gummed paper 3 attached to and overhanging one end thereof, the gummed exposed surface 5 serving as the means by which the wrapper is secured around a package &c., and a weakened line for facilitating tearing the wrapper is provided either in the strip itself or in the edge of the wrapper above the strip. The wrappers may be made by securing a gummed strip along one or both edges of the whole length of a reel of paper and then cutting the wrappers therefrom.
Patent GB-395429-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in pouches for powder
IPC: A45D33/00
Filed: 1932-01-28
Abstract: 395,429. Pouches for face &c. powder. FOCH, H. G., 17, Rue de ChÚroy, Paris. Jan. 28, 1932, No. 2595. [Classes 18 and 133.] A pouch for face &c. powder comprises compartments 1, 3, Fig. 2, for a puff 2 and powdei respectively separated by a partition 4 permeable to powder, and one of the resilient walls of the compartment 3 includes an elastic plate 6 which can be deformed so as to impart shocks to the partition 4 and cause the powder held in the apertures of the partition to pass on to the puff. One of the sides of the mouth of the powder compartments is reinforced by a resilient strip 9, and the compartment is closed by doubling over the edges at the mouth ; the edges thus folded ara held by a channel-shaped strip, or by a flap which may have a press-button fastening, or by a resilient tongue. The plate 6 may comprise one or more strips fixed at one end and free at the other, a strip being deformed by acting on its free end by pins on a rotating shaft, or by forming teeth in the free end and moving a projection transversely across the teeth, or by moving a pivoted finger 22, Fig. 9, past the free edge by pressing a plate 18 on to the finger, or the plate 18 may press directly on the strip so that its free edge is moved past a pivoted stop. In further modifications, the plate 6 is circular and is provided with ribs or apertures which are acted upon by projections on a rotatable disc, and the plate 6 may be secured only at its periphery to the compartment 3, with the axle of the disc passing through it. A pouch may comprise two powder and two puff compartments.
Patent GB-347279-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to boots or shoes and methods of manufacture thereof
IPC: A43B23/22
Filed: 1930-01-27
Abstract: 347,279. Boots &c. UNITED SHOE MACHINERY CORPORATION, 205, Lincoln Street, Boston, U.S.A.-(Assignees of Ayling, F. C.; Syracuse, New York, U.S.A.) Jan. 27, 1930, No. 2701. Convention date, Jan. 28, 1929. [Class 17 (ii).] Shank stiffeners ; heels, attaching.-A combined shank stiffener and heel brace 1, Fig. 1, comprises a resilient metal arch support, preferably reinforced with a rib, and with an aperture 2 at its rear end, which extends over the heel seat. It is placed in position with the hole 2 in register with a hole a<1> formed in the insole a by a drill inserted through a hole b in a last B, and is held in this position by a plug of wood or similar material. The outer sole A<1> and heel C are next placed in operative position and a drill again inserted in the hole b to drill out the plug and form registering holes a<11> and 5 in the outersole and heel respectively. A bolt D with a collar d adapted to bear against the top of the last is inserted in this hole temporarily to secure the heel. On completion of the shoe, the bolt D and last B are withdrawn and a screw fitting closely into the aperture 2 in the shank is inserted to hold the heel and shoe in correct relative positions.
Patent GB-328323-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to talking machines
IPC: G11B17/16
Filed: 1929-01-26
Abstract: 328,323. Davies, J. Jan. 26, 1929. Magazine gramophones. - A gramophone adapted automatically to play a number of records in succession and to play both sides of the records in succession, has a movable platform which in'one extreme position receives a record from the turntable, and means actuated by the arrival of the record on the platform for causing the platform to move to a second extreme position in which it deposits the record the other way up on to a member leading to the turntable. The invention is shown applied to a gramophone as described in Specification 311,713, in which the tone-arm 1 is mounted on a table 6 which is raised about a hinge 7 by an electric motor 12 to remove the played record from the turntable 9 and discharge it, a fresh record from the magazine 40 then passing on to the table which is lowered to place such record on the turntable. As in the prior invention, the tone-arm carries a branched member 16, one arm 17 of which controls electric contacts for switching in at appropriate times the motor 12 and the turntable driving-motor 11; the other arm 18 engages stops 31 or 32 to limit the return movement of the tone-arm to suit the size of record to be played. The reversing platform 62 provided by the present invention is supported on a pivot 59 by arms 60, 61, a gear-wheel 26 driven by the motor 12 being provided for slowly moving the platform in anti-clockwise direction from the position shown in Fig. 3, where it engages a cradle 53 for releasing a record from the magazine 40, to the position shown in Fig. 1 where it engages a spring stop 62<a>. Arms 65, 64 on the platform engage the gear-wheel 26 to clutch and declutch it to and from the sector 63 on the arm 60 when the arm is in its extreme positions. The records are released from the magazine 40 by depressing a spindle 39 through the medium of a link 45 connected with the hinged padded cradle 53 by a link 52 and lever 49. This lever carries a spring-controlled member 46 having a rollerrace 47 engaging the uppermost record. When the platform 62 engages the cradle 53, Fig. 3, a fresh record is released and moves against a stop 56 projecting from the table 6, the record moving to a waiting position against a stop x when the table returns to the horizontal position for playing tha reverse side of the previous record. After this has been played, the table is raised to discharge the finished record on to a platform 67, the platform 62 being then in an intermediate position. Further rise of the table 6 causes the release of the waiting record from the stop x, and when the table 6 is lowered, one side of this record is played. The next rise of the platform 6 causes the discharge of this record on to the reversing platform 62, which has in the meantime returned against the stop 62a. The impact of the record against the stop 62a causes the reversing platform under the influence of counterweights 71 to swing quickly over against the cradle 53, the reversed record passing on to the table 6 which is then lowered to effect playing.
Patent GB-324805-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in playing pieces for games
IPC: A63F3/02
Filed: 1929-01-28
Abstract: 324,805. Gaunt, C. F. Jan. 28, 1929. Board games; dominoes, dice. - Playing pieces for games, such as dominoes, draughtsmen and dice. comprise a thin metal body formed of an upper and a lower metal member connected together and spaced apart. A domino, Fig. 2, comprises two anged plates 1, 7 separated by a box-shaped distance piece 9 to which the flanges are clinched. A second, U-shaped distance piece 11 is disposed within the piece 9. The surface of the distance piece 9 is blackened and is viewable through holes 5 in the upper plate 1 to form the necessary spots. A roundheaded rivet additionally secures the parts and serves as a pivot about which the domino may be caused to spin. In a modification, Fig. 5, the domino comprises a box-shaped member 23 closed by an apertured top plate 1 and containing a filler of wood, metal, plaster of Paris or other material. Alternatively the casing may be made of one piece of sheet aluminium or other material. The pieces may bear advertisements embossed, stamped or cut in the material of the casings.
Patent GB-233399-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to fittings for electric lights
IPC: F21V23/04
Filed: 1924-02-04
Abstract: 233,399. Harrison, W., and Eyre, E. Feb. 4, 1924. Globe-holders. - An electric lamp fitting provided with a glass carrying ring 15 comprises a top-plate 5 lying flush with a cover-plate 1 secured to the flange 4a of a terminal box 4, the plate 1 being provided with a central aperture 2 through which the lamp-holder 3 passes, the plates 1, 5 being connected together by studs and segmental bavonet slots for mechanical and electrical separation of the parts. The cover glass 21 is seated between rubber washers 17. Locking-bolts 18 are provided.
Patent GB-379973-A (GB)
Title: Variable-speed transmission gearing
IPC: F16D47/06
Filed: 1932-01-30
Abstract: 379,973. Variable-speed gearing. ALVIS CAR & ENGINEERING CO., Ltd., and CLARKE, G. T. SMITH-, Alvis Works, Holyhead Road, Coventry, Warwickshire. Jan. 30, 1932, No. 2825. [Class 80 (ii).] Variable-speed gearing suitable for vehicles comprises a fluid coupling the driving-member 4 of which is directly connected to a sun pinion 15 while the driven member 7 of the coupling is connected through a friction clutch 11 to an annulus 12, the driven shaft 18 of the gearing carrying planet pinions 16 meshing with the sun 15 and with the annulus 12. When the clutch 11 is disengaged, the driven coupling member 7 is perfectly free and no power is lost although an engine shaft 2 is still rotating, the drive being disconnected. An extension 14 of the shaft 2 carries the pinion 15. The clutch 11 is held in by a presser plate 10 adapted to be withdrawn to free the clutch when a collar 27 is slid to the right. An arrangement is described by which a pedal acts on the collar 27 to open the clutch and subsequently to apply a brake band 29 on a drum 28 connected by a sleeve 26 to the annulus 12, so as to effect a definite wholly mechanical reduced drive useful in starting a vehicle. With the friction clutch engaged, the hydraulic coupling is operative to effect a drive which varies automatically with the load. The gearing may be arranged between the engine and conventional change gearing, in which case means are provided to arrest the shaft 18 to facilitate operation of the change gearing.
Patent GB-736113-A (GB)
Title: Foot-operable electric switches
Inventor: FOXALL HORACE HENRY
IPC: H01H13/16
Filed: 1953-02-02
Abstract: 736,113. Snap-action switches. LUCAS (INDUSTRIES), Ltd., J. Jan. 28, 1954 [Feb. 2, 1953], No. 2867/53. Class 38 (5). A foot-operable switch suitable for controlling the headlamps of a vehicle, has a hollow cylindrical casing a containing fixed spring contacts e with which co-operate contacts j on a spindle k connected at its ends to a cap g which closely surrounds the casing a. When this cap is pushed down against the force of spring h spindle k moves down in slots m in the casing a and near the end of the stroke cooperation between the moving contacts j and a fixed contact e rotates the moving contacts or spindle k to a new position. The switch may be enclosed in a rubber cover n.
Patent GB-170233-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in connection with the means employed for the admission of steam to thecylinders of locomotives
IPC: F01B25/00
Filed: 1921-01-22
Abstract: 170,233. Broomfield, P. Jan. 22, 1921. Steam supply, method of; steam and exhaust pipes, branches, and pas s a g e s. - The cylinders d, e of two or four - cylinder locomotives are provided with separate admission steam pipes g between the regulator a and the valve-chests b, c. The combined capacity of a chest is approximately one-fourth that of a cylinder.
Patent GB-107548-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Hair Curlers.
Inventor: THORNTON ALFRED AUGUSTUS
IPC: A45D2/14
Filed: 1917-02-27
Abstract: 107,548. Thornton, A. A., (Peppard, M. J.). Feb. 27, 1917. Hair-curling appliances. - A hair-curler consists of a single piece of wire bent as shown with its ends, which meet at 6, immediately below an eye B, enclosed in a fastening 7. A rubber ring E enclosed by the eye may be stretched so as to be held by a crotch A.
Patent GB-328577-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and connected with pillows, bolsters and the like
IPC: A47G9/10
Filed: 1929-01-29
Abstract: 328,577. Cotterell, T. S. Jan. 29, 1929. Mattresses, bolsters, pillows. - A bolster or pillow c is provided or associated with projections d to shield the sleeper from draughts. The projections may be integral with or detachably connected to the bolster &c. or may be provided on the mattress to coact with an ordinary bolster &c. In a modification the bolster &c. may be integral with the mattress.
Patent GB-900936-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to dyeing or printing processes
Inventor: KRUG PAVEL
IPC: D06P1/22
Filed: 1960-01-28
Abstract: In the dyeing or printing of cellulosic textiles with vat dyestuffs, the material is impregnated separately with an aqueous solution or paste containing equivalent proportions of thiourea dioxide and an alkali metal or alkaline earth metal hydroxide or an alkali metal carbonate and with an aqueous solution or paste containing an alkali, one of the solutions also containing a vat dyestuff, and is then heated to above 90 DEG C., e.g., by steaming or by employing the molten metal technique, and subsequently treated to reoxidise the dyestuff.  Examples are given.
Patent GB-1021205-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to towel rails
Inventor: PARKINSON ALLEN HINCHCLIFF
IPC: D06F57/12
Filed: 1964-01-24
Abstract: 1,021,205. Towel rails. SAINSBURY & PARKINSON Ltd. Jan. 25, 1965 [Jan. 24, 1964], No. 3091/64. Heading A4U. A towel rail for hanging on a radiator 11 has two brackets 1, 2 each formed with a boss 3 to receive the ends of a tube 4 retained therein by a resilient O-ring accommodated within a circumferential groove in the bore surface of the boss.
Patent GB-1059304-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to lubricating systems
Inventor: ASTIN GEOFFREY RAYMOND
IPC: F16N7/38
Filed: 1965-01-25
Abstract: 1,059,304. Lubricating. ASSOCIATED ELECTRICAL INDUSTRIES Ltd. Dec. 30. 1965 [Jan. 25, 1965]. No. 3173/65. Heading F2A. In a lubricating system for use in, or in conjunction with, a rotary machine, a first lubricating pump 2 and an emergency pump 14 are submerged in a tank 6 containing lubricant 4 therein. The first pump 2 is driven by an electric motor 8 and supplies lubricant to the required lubrication-points of a turbine 7, via a pipe 12, having a non-return valve 10 therein. The emergency pump 14, having a waterturbine 18 connected thereto, is driven by water supplied from a tank 22, via a pipe 20 and a valve 24. The latter is actuated by an actuator 26 which is responsive to the lubricant delivery pressure in the pipe 12 and is connected to the latter by a pipe 13 so that, upon failure of the pump 2, the water from the tank 22 rotates the water-turbine 18 to drive the pump 14 and force lubricant, through a non-return valve 16 and the pipe 12, to the turbine 7. The water, having driven the water-turbine 18, passes to a collecting tank 15, via a pipe 17. Steam, instead of water, may be used to drive the water-turbine 18.
Patent GB-1205951-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to pneumatic tyres
Inventor: GROSSETT ALFRED HARRY
IPC: B29D30/58
Filed: 1967-01-21
Abstract: 1,205,951. Moulding tyres. DUNLOP CO. Ltd. 19 Jan., 1968 [21 Jan., 1967], No. 3249/67. Heading B5A. In a process of manufacturing a pneumatic tyre using a mould comprising radially movable patterned segments, the segments are loaded with tread forming rubber before their assembly and application to the carcass. The mould segments 16, Fig. 2, are loaded in a press 19 and pressed by a plunger 20 which forms a curved inside surface. The filled segments are transferred using a block and tackle mechanism, from the press to the mould where they are arranged as a discontinuous ring around the mould 11, 12 in which is located a beaded carcass. The segments are then moved radially inwardly by downward movement of a surrounding ring 29, the ring and segments having co-operating conical surfaces. The carcass is then expanded, e.g. by an inflatable core to engage the tread with the carcass. The mould is then moved to a curing unit. Part of the tread rubber may be applied to the carcass, the remainder being loaded and pressed into the mould segments. To compensate for shrinkage the mould segments may be loaded with a slight excess of rubber. To allow for the escape of air, channels or grooves may be provided on the tyre carcass or on the inside curved surface of the tread rubber. The tread rubber may be heated before application to the carcass.
Patent GB-831385-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to electric generators of the induction type
Inventor: DETTMER DEREK EDWARD GORDON
IPC: H02K17/42
Filed: 1957-01-30
Abstract: 831,385. Induction generators. GENERAL ELECTRIC CO. Ltd. Jan. 30. 1958 [Jan. 30, 1957], No. 3290/57. Class 35. An induction generator excited by condensers is rendered synchronous by slotting its rotor to provide salient poles 6. Some of the squirrel-cage bars 4 lie in the poles and some in the spaces between the poles.
Patent GB-858180-A (GB)
Title: Kitchen grinding or mixing device
IPC: A47J43/046
Filed: 1957-02-04
Abstract: 858,180. Mixing machines; driving mechanisms. BAERMANN, M. Feb. 4, 1957 [April 28, 1956], No. 3310/60. Divided out of 858,179. Class 86 [Also in Groups VI. XXV and XXXV] A kitchen grinding or mixing device comprises a horizontal plate 4 supporting a base 11 which rotatably supports on a vertical axis a shaft 13 extending into a housing 15 on the upper side of the base, a mixing or grinding head 14 in the housing and coupled to the shaft to be driven thereby, and for transmitting a drive to the shaft a magnetic coupling comprising a ring of vertically magnetized circumferentially spaced permanent magnets 2 arranged on disc 1 rotatable on a vertical axis below the plate 4 and, in inductive relationship to certain of the magnets, an electrically conductive disc 16 mounted on the lower end of the shaft 13 and of a diameter appreciably less than that of the ring of magnets. As shown the axes of the shaft 13 and disc 1 are offset laterally, the disc 16 has a ferromagnetic coating 17 to improve its flux conductivity, and the base 11 carries a ferromagnetic plate 12 by which a radially magnetized permanent magnet ring 10 having pole pieces 7, 8 holds the base on the plate 4.
Patent GB-527904-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to wave transmission systems for television incorporating channels utilising pulse modulation
IPC: H04N7/084
Filed: 1939-01-31
Abstract: 527,904. Pulse transmission. KOLSTERBRANDES, Ltd., and BEATTY, W. A. Jan. 31, 1939, No. 3311. [Class 40 (iv)] [Also in Group XL] Fixed edge pulses of a double-pulse transmitting system are suppressed at the transmitter as described in Specification 511,222 and 523,575 and their generation at the receiver is synchronized by the line-synchronizing pulses in a simultaneously radiated television signal. The accompanying sound is translated to double pulses representing respectively the beginnings and ends of periods, whose duration depends on the momentary amplitude of the sound wave, and one pulse of each of the double pulses has a definite time relationship with the linesynchronizing pulses and is suppressed. The reinserted fixed edge pulses are set up in the output circuits of targets 12, 13 in a cathode-ray tube, the beam of which is deflected by a timebase circuit synchronized by the line synchronizing signals. In order that the fly-back stroke 14 does not cause the spot 10 to recross the plates 12, 13, the two symmetrically deflecting coils 16 are enclosed in a magnetic cylinder in two halves 18, 19 with a small gap 20 between them. This gap is asymmetric relatively to the deflecting field.
Patent GB-195816-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to talking machines
IPC: G11B17/02
Filed: 1922-02-04
Abstract: 195,816. Barnett, C. J., and Davis, K. O. Feb. 4, 1922. Starting and stopping; lamp in cabinet gramophone.-In a gramophone, the brake is applied to the turntable, or a switch in the circuit of an electric driving motor is operated, when a spring- controlled sliding bar is released from a trigger directly actuated by the tone-arm, the bar having a pin or the like projecting into the path of the tone-arm. This pin enables the bar to be reset to the inoperative position by the engagement of the tone-arm therewith, when the latter is moved back to the starting position. In the brake device shown, a slidable bar 4 which carries a brake-pad 6 is normally held against the action of a spring 8 by a trigger engaging with a notch 5 or the equivalent in the bar. The trigger comprises a pivoted spring-controlled member 9 having frictionally pivoted thereon an adjustable arm 11 which is set so that the tone-arm strikes it when at the end or other desired point of a record, thereby releasing the brake-bar 4 from the trigger. An upstanding resetting-pin 7 is provided at the outer end of the bar. The application of the device to a switch of the kind described in Specification 158,967 is described, this switch controlling a driving-motor and also a lamp for illuminating the record. The lamp may be switched off bv hand when not required, or may be switched on and off by opening and closing the lid of the cabinet: Specification 179,613, [Class 38 (iii), Electric motor control systems &c.], also is referred to.
Patent GB-414413-A (GB)
Title: Processes of and apparatus for regeneration of contact masses
IPC: B01J38/12
Filed: 1933-02-03
Abstract: <PICT:0414413/III/1> The regeneration of catalysts is effected by purging the reaction chamber with an inert gas to remove reaction materials and adjust the temperature, supplying an oxidizing agent while maintaining the temperature within safe limits, and purging again to remove oxidation products and restore the temperature to that required for the catalytic reaction.  The temperature during oxidation is controlled by first supplying the oxidizing gas alone and subsequently diluting it with inert gas to the required extent. Preferably the supply of oxidizing gas is maintained constant and that of diluent is varied.  The heat of the fumes produced by oxidation of contaminants may be utilized to produce steam which is available for purging the contact mass while the fumes themselves may be used to dilute the oxidizing agent.  In the illustrated apparatus steam for purging the reaction chamber A is generated in a boiler 8 heated by the fumes exhausted from the chamber through pipe 7, and is forced through the chamber by blower 17, further supplies being added at 16 if required.  The oxidizing medium supplied by pipe 14 is diluted as required by the fumes from the chamber and is driven through the catalyst by blower 13.
Patent GB-234871-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to the springing or spring suspension or support of vehicles
IPC: B60G11/36
Filed: 1924-02-08
Abstract: 234,871. Thomas, S., and Peckham Truck & Engineering Co., Ltd. Feb. 8,1924. Spring shackles.-In rail or road vehicles, particularly four-wheeled. trucks or tramcars, in which pitching movements of the body are counteracted by an arrangement of levers and springs, a double armed laminated spring c. c<1> pivoted towards the end of the under frame or truck side a has one arm c bearing against the sole-bar f of the body, the other arm c<1> being pivoted to a cup d supporting a coil spring e which bears against a cup g fixed to the bar f. In a modification, the coil spring bears against a cup pivoted beneath the truck side a and is suspended from the arm c<1> by links. The coil spring is sufficiently strong to require greater force to compress it than to impose normal running flexure on the arms c, c<1>.