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Patent GB-139089-A (GB)
Title: A new or improved vessel for use in washing clothes or the like
IPC: D06F1/08
Filed: 1919-06-10
Abstract: 139,089. Lavender, W. S. June 10, 1919. Washing-boilers. - A circulating-device comprises a vertical tube 4 secured to a domed central part 5 of a coned base member the periphery of which is downturned to fit the sides of the vessel 1. The clothes &c. may be held in position by detachable radial arms 13.
Patent GB-253541-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to adjusting devices for apparatus for telephony and telegraphy
IPC: H03J1/08
Filed: 1926-06-09
Abstract: 253,541. Aktiebolaget Baltic. June 13, 1925, [Convention date]. Condensers. - Gearing for condensers &c. in wireless systems is constructed so that the operating-spindle gives a movement proportional to changes in the frequency of the circuit. Both coarse and fine adjustment are provided for. In one construction, Fig. 2, a pinion 9 is carried on a slider 10 along a fork 7 and meshes with teeth 12 cut in a slotted dial member 4. Coarse adjustment may be effected by moving the handle 15 of the fork 7. In another construction, Fig. 3, coarse adjustment is effected by the knob 17 and fine adjustment by depressing the knob 28 to engage friction surfaces 34, 35. The friction disc 37 is provided with a groove 38 engaged by a pin 39 on the knob 17. In another construction, Fig. 6, gear wheels 44, 45 drive gear members 43, 48 having a progressively increasing radius. Friction cam discs may be substituted for the members 43, 48. In another construction, Fig. 7, the knob 28 is in screw threaded engagement with a sleeve 51 slidable on rods 52 fixed to a fork member 53 having pins 55 engaging a peripheral groove in the knob 28. The knob 17 has a hub 65 extending into the knob 28 and provided with a helical groove 56 engaged by a pin 57 on the sleeve 51.
Patent GB-1367259-A (GB)
Title: Electric arc welding apparatus
IPC: B23K9/007
Filed: 1972-03-29
Abstract: 1367259 Welding by fusion MARKETING ENG ET DEVELOPPEMENT INDUSTRIEL SA 29 March 1972 [31 March 1971] 14606/72 Heading B3R In an electric arc welding apparatus, a guide member 2, 3 includes an end part 4 which in use is held against the workpiece 20 and has a support 1 slidably mounted therein for movement towards the end part. An electrode carrier 7 is slidably mounted on the support and carries electrode 6 which is guided in insulating means 5, 8, 12 and a switch 17 is secured to the carrier, as shown by means of insulated bar 10, and is movable therewith between switch-actuating first and second stop members 14, 13 carried by the support. Means such as spring 22 urges the carrier 7, relative to the support towards the end part 4 and locking means locks the support relative to guide member 2 against movement towards the end part, said locking means as shown including stop 13 pivoted to support 1 and a screw 15 biased towards the end part by spring 16, the stop 13 having an aperture 21 whose sides frictionally engage a rod 2 of the guide member when the stop is inclined as shown. A circuit (Fig. 2, not shown) supplies welding current to the electrode and includes a time delay device, the circuit being connected to switch 17. In operation, the guide member and electrode carrier are held immobilized by abutment of the end part 4 and electrode 6 against the workpiece and the support is moved by hand or by a machine towards the workpiece until switch 17 abuts against the first stop 14 which switches on the welding current and also moves screw 15 upwardly so that the previously perpendicular stop 13, which allowed relative movement of the rod 2 of the guide member, is inclined as illustrated and prevents further movement of the support due to friction. Electrode 6 is consumed and carrier 7 and bar 10 moves downwardly under the action of spring 22, until switch 17 contacts stop 13, when the welding current after a predetermined time delay is switched off. The welding period may be adjustable by altering the spacing between stops 13, 14, stop 14 being threaded on screw 15. The time delay device may also be adjusted by selecting different values of resistor. A manual switch 18, Fig. 1, may be provided for switching on and off the current at will.
Patent GB-573595-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to welding rods
IPC: B23K35/32
Filed: 1942-10-19
Abstract: 573,595. Making coherent masses from powders. CLARKE, E. J., and MUREX WELDING PROCESSES, Ltd. Oct. 19, 1942, No. 14607. [Class 82 (i)] [Also in Group XXII] In a process of making a weld rod, particularly for electric welding alloy steels, comprising sintering a mixture of powders containing one or more of the metals chromium, aluminium, titanium, vanadium, or niobium, which are liable to form a surface layer of refractory oxide, such metals are present in the form of a finely-divided alloy or compound which is resistant to such oxidation or which decomposes during the sintering or welding operation with the generation of free metal in a highly reactive condition. The weld rod may comprise at least one of the aforementioned metals together with one other non-ferrous alloying ingredient in the form of a sintered alloy powder or the powdered alloy may also contain or be sintered with other powder ingredients, e.g. iron powder. The whole rod may comprise such sintered ingredients or the sintered portion may form the sheath or case of the weld rod in a similar manner to the weld rod described in Specifications 573,336 and 573,337. In place of the alloy powder, a compound such as a metal hydride or a number of hydrides in powder form may be used. Such compound is decomposed at raised temperatures into metal and free hydrogen. Alloy metal powders may be made by crushing and milling a cast alloy or by sintering a mixture of metal hydrides and reducing the product to finely-divided form. The alloy powders may - comprise chromium with nickel, molybdenum, or tungsten, or chromium with nickel and either iron, molybdenum, titanium, niobium or vanadium, or nickel with iron and also vanadium, or titanium with manganese and iron, or copper with aluminium, or aluminium with silicon. An example may comprise 35 parts of 75/25 chromium-nickel alloy, 53 parts of iron, 5 parts of nickel, 2 parts of ferro-molybdenum, and 5 parts of fluorspar ball melted for four hours and mixed with sodium silicate solution to form a stiff paste which is extruded into rods at a pressure of 5 to 15 tons per sq. in. and sintered at a temperature of 1300‹ C. for three hours. Similarly-made weld rods comprise either 28 parts of chromium hydride, 10 parts of nickel, 56 parts of iron, 2 parts of ferromolybdenum, 2 parts of fluorspar and 2 parts of rutile, or 35 parts of 90/10 chromiummolybdenum alloy, 10 parts of tungsten carbide, 50 parts of cobalt'and 5 parts of fluorspar. An aluminium bronze rod may be produced by ball-milling for 2 to 4 hours with paraffin wax as a lubricant, a mixture of 20 parts of 50/50 copper-aluminium, alloy, 5 parts of ferro-manganese, 5 parts of nickel and 70 parts of copper, then extruding into rods at a pressure of 5 to 15 tons per sq. in. and sintering at 600‹ to 900‹ C. for two hours. Specification 320,596, [Class 82 (i)], is also referred to. According to the Provisional Specification, further examples of alloy powders may be nickel together with iron and manganese, and copper together with silicon.
Patent GB-395843-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to electric high tension switches
IPC: H01H33/12
Filed: 1932-05-23
Abstract: 395,843. High-tension switches. INTERNATIONAL GENERAL ELECTRIC CO., Inc., 120, Broadway, New York, U.S.A. -(Assignees of Allgemeine Elektricitõts- Ges. ; 2, Friedrich Karl-Ufer, Berlin.) May 23, 1932, No. 14629. Convention date, May 23, 1931. [Class 38 (v).] A combined oil-break switch and isolating switch comprises two insulators a each having at its upper end an oil chamber b containing a socket contact for receiving a plug contact e. The contacts e are operable by pushbuttons k through the medium of rack-and-pinion mechanism and a snap-action mechanism i. Isolating contacts n<1>, n<2> are mounted between the insulators. To close the circuit the insulators.are moved towards each other on rollers o as by pneumatic means p, and the isolating contacts meet first. Further movement causes the pushbuttons k to engage and close the oil-break contacts. In opening the circuit the oil-break contacts open first with a snap-action independent of the speed of the insulators. The insulators may be pivoted at r<1>, r<2> and move angularly apart instead of moving bodily, and only one insulator may be movable.
Patent GB-1336821-A (GB)
Title: Corona discharge device
IPC: H05F3/04
Filed: 1972-03-29
Abstract: 1336821 Corona discharge device RCA CORP 22 March 1972 [2 April 1971] 14736/72 Heading G2H A corona discharge device comprises an elongated corona electrode 32 disposed within a housing such that the corona discharge is directed towards a foraminous screen 26. A catalyst such as silver gold, nickel, platinum, iron, an alloy of these metals, nickel sesquioxide, barium monoxide, cupric oxide and silver peroxide is provided within the housing, e.g. as layers 54, for converting into oxygen any ozone produced during discharge. A second foraminous screen 30 may be provided and both screens may be coated with or comprise at least one of the catalytic materials. A baffle plate 28 prevents Ultraviolet light from reaching the photo-conductive surface 14 of the recording element 16. The screens 26 and 30 preferably have an optical transmission of less than 50%. In a further embodiment, Fig. 3, the electrode 72 is held on rods 76 between two foraminous screens 62 and 70 having an optical transmission of between 20% and 50%, the screens being either made of or coated with the catalytic material. Certain catalytic materials e.g. barium monoxide and silver peroxide may be held in foraminous screen containers 84. A fan 86 is arranged to draw any ozone through the catalytic material 82.
Patent GB-720147-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to electrical signs and the like
IPC: G09F13/34
Filed: 1952-06-13
Abstract: 720,147. Changing signs. CALL, A. E. July 13, 1953, [June 13, 1952], No. 14889/52. Class 3 (1). [Also in Group XXV] A sign of the kind adapted to indicate one or other of two set pieces of information or other indications, comprises means for displaying the two set pieces of information, means for holding separate electric lamps for illuminating those pieces of information respectively, switch means, and means operated by door locking means for operating the switch means and thereby connect the holding means to a source of electric current alternately in the open and closed positions of the door locking means respectively. As shown a casing 1 is divided into two compartments 2, 3 by a partition 4 each compartment having a lamp to illuminate lettering on a panel 9 which is mounted in the front of the casing in slide channels 7, 8 so that one indication is in front of each compartment. The lamps are controlled by a switch 10, actuated in one direction by the bolt 15 of a door lock 16 and in the other direction by a spring so that only one of the two indications on the front is illuminated at a time.
Patent GB-691534-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to ironing boards
IPC: D06F81/00
Filed: 1950-06-15
Abstract: 691,534. Ironing boards. HANLEY, R. S. June 14, 1951. [June 15, 1950] No. 14969/50. Class 138 (ii). An ironing board is composed of two sections 1, 7 hingedly connected together by a double pivot hinge or hinges 9, the pivots of the or each hinge being connected by spacing means 10 such that the two sections become spaced apart when one section is folded over the other, as seen in Fig. 4, so as to accommodate a padding 11 folded upon itself, the section 1 being provided with a supporting base 2 carrying or embodying an extension 5 which can be brought out to project and thus provide a support for the section 7, and the extension being adapted to rest on a table or like surface which supports the base. The spacing means is a link of plate form and provides a level connecting portion of the board surface when the board is open. In one example the extension 5 has grooves 4 in its sides for slidably engaging ribs 3 on the portion 2. In modifications, the extension is pivoted to the base to swing in a vertical plane as shown in Fig. 8 (not shown) or a horizontal plane as in Fig. 9 (not shown). In a further example Fig. 10, (not shown), the extension is connected to the base by a lazy tongs device. Swivel-mounted fingers 19 can be turned to support the section 7 in an inclined position (Fig. 3) to enable a portion of a garment to pass underneath. A sleeve board 20 mounted to swivel about the axis of a pillar 21 can be used to hold the section 7 in folded position.
Patent GB-235395-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to metallic roller shutters or curtains
IPC: E06B9/11
Filed: 1924-06-20
Abstract: 235,395. Harvey, S. G. A., and Wright, H. A. June 20, 1924. Window - shutters. -Metallic roller shutters are formed of a series of slats of two different types alternately arranged, one type of slat being of split tubular form 1, and the other type being in the form of a strip 2 which is so shaped as to have enlarged rounded edges bent up towards one face 2. The edges 4 are of such a size and shape that they lie close to the interior sides of the tubular slats when the shutter is flat, Fig. 3, the angular space between the edges 4 of two adjacent slats being such as to allow the shutter to assume the desired curved shape as in Fig. 4.
Patent GB-956632-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to the manufacture of building bricks with transversely-directed perforations or recesses
Inventor: LENTON KENNETH WILLIAM
IPC: B28B3/26
Filed: 1962-04-18
Abstract: 956,632. Extruding bricks. K. W. LENTON, and F. G. BADGER. April 16, 1963 [April 18, 1962], No. 14996/62. Heading B5A. Building bricks having perforations and/or internal recesses are formed by extruding brickmaking material through a die provided with a core having a main portion 10 for bridging an upstream zone of a throat and through which the brick-making material is fed under pressure, and having secured thereto rods 18 having heads 19 at their down-stream ends for forming the perforations and/or recesses, and parts of the core are detachable and are thus replaceable when worn. In the illustrated embodiment the heads 19 are screw-threaded into the rods 18, and the latter are screw-threaded into the main portion 10.
Patent GB-593314-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to hair coloring preparations
Filed: 1945-06-13
Abstract: Dry free-flowing powders capable of being dissolved in water to form hair colour rinses comprise an acid soluble hair dye and recrystallized, preferably cold washed, sulphamic acid.  Boric acid may also be present as well as soluble diluents such as sucrose and mannitol.  In examples, rinses are made by dissolving in water (1) Peacock Blue, Medium Orange, Amaranth, Dark Yellow and recrystallized sulphamic acid; (2) Medium Orange, Amaranth and recrystallized sulphamic acid; (3) Black, Medium Orange, Ponceau and recrystallized sulphamic acid; and (4) Medium Orange, Amaranth, recrystallized sulphamic acid and boric acid.
Patent GB-769665-A (GB)
Title: Hydraulic braking system more particularly for motor vehicles
IPC: B60T13/24
Filed: 1955-05-25
Abstract: 769,665. Hydraulic brakes. TEVES, H., and TEVES, E. A., [trading as TEVES MASCHINEN - UND ARMATURENFABRIK KOMM-GES., A.]. May 25, 1955 [June 5, 1954], No. 15107/55. Class 103 (1). In a motor vehicle hydraulic brake system having continuously acting pressure transfer means in one of the two pipes leading to the wheel brake cylinders, are described in Specification 732,955, a pneumatic servo unit is interposed in the conduit 2 from the master cylinder 1, the pressure in chamber 10, which is operative on both front and rear wheel cylinders, being thus amplified. Reference has been directed by the Comptroller to Specification 550,450.
Patent GB-193764-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in stay-like members for holding casement and french windows in an open adjusted position, and for preventing slamming
IPC: E05C17/40
Filed: 1922-05-30
Abstract: 193,764. Golby, E. H. May 30, 1922. Stays.-French and other double or paired casement windows may be held in a set-open position by means of a wooden stay C, laid horizontally over the upper edges of the windows which take into grooves A formed on the lower surface of the stay and lined with soft material. When out of use, the stay may be folded about a central hinge E and may be hung up by the provision of a metal eye B fixed to one of the parts of the stay at the joint. Stays oi different dimensions are used for different degrees of opening.
Patent GB-565470-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in gun aiming mechanism for aircraft
IPC: B64D7/00
Filed: 1942-10-28
Abstract: 565,470. Range finders. BENDIX AVIATION CORPORATION. Oct. 28, 1942, No. 15156. Convention date, Jan. 23, 1942. [Class 97 (i)] [Also in Groups XXI and XXIV] A sighting device used in conjunction with guns mounted on aircraft comprises a film 234 wound on reels 245, 247, the image of a part of the film being projected by a lamp 138 through lenses 244, 246, on to a glass screen 249. The film, the negative of which is shown in Fig. 14, has markings on one side indicating the known width of the hostile aircraft and markings on the other side indicating the range. The range is known when the wing tips of the target touch the projected images of two lines 250 formed on the film. Movement of the film drives the sprocket 232 on a shaft connected to a potentiometer, adjustments of the latter when the film is moved producing the unbalancing of a bridge circuit ; thereby driving a motor which moves the guns to the appropriate elevation for the particular range.
Patent GB-706891-A (GB)
Title: Improved means for making roads
IPC: E01C19/21
Filed: 1952-06-17
Abstract: 706,891. Road-scavenging. VALANTIN, L. June 17, 1952 [June 21, 1951], No: 15203/52. Addition to 661,336. Class 107. [Also in Group XXXII] In the road tarring arrangement of the parent Specification, the trailer is drawn by a dump truck 3 and draws a tank truck 5. The trailer comprises a frame 6 on a single wheel 7 and four wheels 8, a hopper 9, a binder spray element 12 and a gravel distributer 13. The spray is supplied by a pump 14 with its associated engine, the exhaust gases of which heat the conduits carrying the binder. The lateral branches of the frame 6 consist of U-irons the open side of which is closed by a welded flat iron forming flow-and-return passages 6a for the binder. A hook and co-operating element 32 are provided to couple the dump truck and can be released by a foot-pedal (see Group XXXII). A shutter 60 is provided in the hopper 9 to control the gravel distribution width, and the gravel is fed by roller 43 driven from wheels 8. Sectors 48 are also provided to vary the passage through which the gravel falls. The spraying nozzles 12a on the spray element and the sectors 48 are controllable individually and collectively.
Patent GB-461730-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to films and foils of cellulose or cellulose derivatives
IPC: B32B27/00
Filed: 1936-05-29
Abstract: To obtain a foil or sheet-like product having a crystalline or crackled appearance, a plurality of sheets of foil at least one of which contains a cellulose derivative such as cellulose nitrate or acetate or a cellulose ether, are stuck together; the laminated product is roped, twisted, crushed or otherwise creased; and the wrinkled material is then smoothed as by hand or by passage between heated calendar rollers, and may be used for decorative purposes in its laminated form, or the combined sheets may be separated and used as single sheets. To obviate adjacent layers adhering during the roping operation, a layer of muslin, netting, &c. may be interposed, or a sheet of regenerated cellulose or of a foil containing chemically-treated rubber may be used as one of the outer layers. Shellac is a suitable adhesive, and the solution used may contain a solvent for the cellulose derivative; or the shellac may be replaced by triacetin, tetrahydrofurfural alcohol, or an alkyd resin and a low viscosity cellulose ester. The sheets may be secured at the edges as by sewing or binding. The foils used may contain dyes, lakes, pigments, fire retardants, waterproofing-agents, and plasticizers in small or large amounts; effect materials may be incorporated in the adhesive, and they may be applied to the moistened surface of the foil. The products obtained are suitable for lamp shades, screens, or as window panes; the foils may be pleated or embossed, and they may be laminated with or veneered on to wood, metal, paper, fabric, leather, etc.; if the adhesive is of a permanent character, the laminated products may be used for upholstery purposes. The materials may be applied to glass; thus, dye solutions may be applied to the crinkled foil, the excess of dye wiped off, and the coloured foil laminated with glass plates. Specification 370,913, [Group VIII], is referred to.
Patent GB-151329-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to suction gas generators
IPC: C10J3/00
Filed: 1919-06-18
Abstract: 151,329. Franklin, J. June 18, 1919. Washers.-In a gas-washer 34 water is supplied to a cup 36 provided with a mushroom-headed distributor 37, the water being ejected against the mushroom head and sprayed in counter current to the gas which enters by a pipe 33 and leaves by an outlet 35.
Patent GB-804754-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to sliding clasp fasteners
Inventor: LONGMORE CLARENCE FREDERICK
IPC: A44B19/38
Filed: 1955-05-27
Abstract: 804,754. Sliding clasp fasteners; stops. LIGHTNING FASTENERS, Ltd. May 16, 1956 [May 27, 1955], No. 15325/55. Class 44 An open-end fitting for a sliding clasp fastener comprises a die-cast metal box member 7, Figs. 2 and 3, adapted to be secured to part of the end portion of one stringer tape 2 and a die-cast metal pin member 8 comprising a hollow pin 13 adapted to receive the end portion of the beaded edge 3 of another stringer tape 1 to which the tape 2 is to be connected, and two spaced reinforcement plates 14, the space 21 between the plates 14 communicating with the interior of the pin and being adapted to accommodate part of the end portion of the tape 1 adjacent the beaded edge 3. The plates 14 are joined at 22, Fig. 4, at their lower edges, and the member 8 is secured to the tape 1 by indentations 17. The box-member 7 is formed with two blind sockets 11, 15 the latter having a reduced tubular prolongation 12 whilst the socket 11 has a slot 20 to receive the plates 14. Indentations 16 in the member 12 secure the member 7 to the tape 2 and the socket 15 is slotted at 19 to receive the tape 2. Reinforcement tapes 9, 10 are provided on the tapes 1, 2.
Patent GB-475663-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to the dehydration of oils
IPC: C10G33/06
Filed: 1936-06-02
Abstract: <PICT:0475663/III/1> Fuel and other oils are freed from water by passing them at a temperature above 100 DEG  C. through a series of towers tall relative to their width, and maintaining a depth of oil in each tower sufficient to prevent puking, steam and oil vapours being withdrawn from the top of each tower and dry oil at the end tower. Preferably the oil is heated in stages to above 100 DEG  C. and then exposed in stages at successively higher temperatures.  In an example, fuel bottoms is pumped from the last of a series of settling tanks 10 through a filter 12 and a series of heaters 13, whereby its temperature is raised in stages to above 100 DEG  C.; and through a pipe 16 to a heat-insulated tower 17; steam and volatiles pass out by a pipe 18 to a condenser 19 and settling tanks from which any oil separating is led to storage tanks and mixed with the final water-free oil.  The oil passes through a pipe 20, heaters 21 which raise its temperature to 230 DEG  F., a tower with a jacket supplied with the exhaust steam from the heaters 13, and finally through heaters, which raise its temperature to 260 DEG  F., and a steam-jacketed tower.  The towers are about 60 ft. high, 2--6 ft. wide; the depth of oil maintained therein is about 7ft.