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Patent GB-356470-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to open width dyeing machines
IPC: D06B3/32
Filed: 1930-09-03
Abstract: <PICT:0356470/IV/1> Two cylinders 2, 3, Fig. 1, on which the fabric is wound alternately, bear buoyantly against the driven conveyer drum 1 so as to be rotated by contact with the drum.  The cylinders may be constructed as closed hollow bodies, or may be pressed against the drum by means of separate floats.  Means may be provided to regulate the amount of buoyancy of the cylinders.  Small weights 14, 15 are built into the hollow cylinders in the vicinity of the points of attachment of the fabric length and in such position relative thereto that in initial turning they tend to roll up the section of the fabric length between the drum and the cylinders and to keep the fabric tensioned during reversal.  In operation, the cylinder 2, for example, is depressed by means of the members 10, 12 so that it no longer bears against the conveyer drum, which is so driven as to convey the fabric to the cylinder 3.  At the same time a very light braking action is applied on the shafts of the cylinders, more particularly in order to compensate for the excess weight of the more heavily loaded cylinder.  On reversal, the weights 12, 13 are so moved that the unwinding cylinder is kept out of contact with the drum.  This operation, as also the forward and backward movement of the conveyer drum, can be effected either by hand or automatically.
Patent GB-260585-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to apparatus for measuring the rate of flow of a fluid as a function of an independent variable
IPC: G01F9/00
Filed: 1926-10-22
Abstract: 260,585. Favre, W. E. Oct. 27, 1825. [Convention date]. Measuring consumption of fuel with respect to speed of motors.- The invention relates to apparatus for measuring the flow of a fluid as a function of an independent variable and comprises one or more tubes through which the fluid passes, the tubes being put into communication with the admission and outlet ports or openings of a distributor successively, the frequency of these successive operations depending on the momentary value of the variable. The ports divide the operation into periods, viz, the admission period feeding and filling the tubes and the outlet period when the fluid is put into communication with the apparatus consuming it. In Figs. 1 and 2, the element is composed of a series of vertical tubes 1 feeding in turn the fuel jet of the carburettor. The tubes are arranged to rotate with a shaft 9 actuated by the vehicle engine, the fuel being led from the float chamber by the channel 3 to the admission port 5. The successive passage of'the tubes across the outlet port 6 permit the fuel to flow through the port 4 to the carburettor. In a modified form the tubes are formed in a single block and communicate in turn with a glass tube forming a level indicator.
Patent GB-616390-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to fluid pressure engines for operating doors or gates
IPC: E05F15/04
Filed: 1946-09-03
Abstract: 616,390. Piston-rods. PETERS & CO., Ltd., G. D., and MASON, J. R. Sept. 3, 1946, No. 26436. [Class 122 (i)] [Also in Group XXVIII] A fluid-pressure engine for opening a door provided with other means for automatically closing it has a piston-rod formed in two relatively slidable portions connected respectively to the piston and the door or frame, so that the door can be opened manually without moving the piston of the engine. In the form shown the cylinder 1 has a cap 4, with fluid passage 6, ball-jointed to a bracket 21 on the wall and the piston-rod is pivoted at 14 to a bracket on the door ; the piston-rod comprises two telescoping tubes 2, 3, the outer of which is secured to the piston 7 and the inner, which abuts against the piston, to a member 9, with air passage 24, forming one member of the pivot 14. Normally the two parts of the pistonrod move together, being under compression by the fluid during opening of the door and from the door during closing, but if the power fails the piston and tube 2 remain stationary while the tube 3 can move freely with the door when the latter is opened manually, the passage 24 allowing air to pass freely to and from the interior of the tube. In a modification the tube 2 abuts against the member 9; in further modifications either or each of the tubes 2, 3 may be replaced by a smaller tube or a solid rod, and if the two tubes, or the outer tube (which may be either 2 or 3) and the cylinder, are not of a diameter to make contact over their whole length an annular guide member or spider is attached to one of the parts in question.
Patent GB-385918-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to kneading and mixing machines
IPC: B01F7/16
Filed: 1932-09-23
Abstract: 385,918. Kneading &c. machines. AESCHBACH AKT.-GES., F., 20, Industriestrasse, Aarau, Switzerland. Sept. 23, 1932, No. 26502. Convention date, Aug. 2. [Class 86.] A kneading &c. machine comprises a tiltable trough rotatable about a vertical axis and inclined rotary stirrers converging downwardly. The trough 2 is mounted to rotate in a frame 3 which is supported in standards 1 and provided with a toothed sector in mesh with a pinion 6 on a hand-operated shaft for tilting the container, a locking pawl 9, engaging a slotted disc on the shaft, being provided. The stirrers 11 are mounted on inclined shafts 10 carried by the frame and are driven in opposite directions by worm gearing 17, 17<1> from a shaft 15 driven in turn through a two-speed belt drive 13 from an electric motor 12 carried by the frame. The trough is driven from the shaft 15 by a chain gear 19 and worm gearing 22. One or both of the stirrers may be hoop shaped as shown, or half-hoop shaped.
Patent GB-1192354-A (GB)
Title: Gas-lubricated Shaft and Bearing Assembly
Inventor: SIXSMITH HERBERT
IPC: F16C32/06
Filed: 1966-06-14
Abstract: 1,192,354. Bearings. NATIONAL RESEARCH DEVELOPMENT CORP. 13 Sept., 1967 [14 June, 1966], No. 26503/66. Heading F2A. A gas-lubricated bearing for a rotatable shaft 1 has at least one member 2 pivotally attached to a housing 4 by resilient plate-like members 5 and loaded by springs 11, anti-clockwise rotation of the shaft causing the or each member 2 to tilt, as shown. It is indicated that the bearing suppresses whirling of the shaft at a critical speed or when subjected to shock loading. The members 5 may be made of berylliumcopper alloy and are fixed to the housing by e.g. solder. Screw-threaded plugs 12 facilitate adjustment of the loads produced by the springs. Damping may be effected by a block of elastomeric material (not shown) between the or each member 2 and the spring. The spring, or springs, may be omitted. When a single member 2 is provided it is located beneath the shaft, which is horizontal, and subtends an angle of less than 180 degrees. In a second embodiment, Fig. 2 (not shown), the members 5 are replaced by a pair of mutually-perpendicular outwardlyconverging members (14); and in a third embodiment, Figs. 3 and 4 (not shown), said members are replaced by a single generally U- shaped resilient-member (21, 22) having slots 25s) therein to relieve heat-stresses. A gap 10 between the or each member 5 may be charged with gas (so as to obviate metal-to-metal contact) when the shaft is either stationary or rotating slowly by way of a member 36, Fig. 5, and a bore 32 sealed by a ring 37, which is rendered resilient to prevent hindrance of the pivotal movement of the member 5.
Patent GB-1123707-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to raschel knitting machines
IPC: D04B27/04
Filed: 1967-06-08
Abstract: In a Raschel warp machine in which the needles move in a direction perpendicular to their length, thus moving around a closed path in a direction opposite to the direction of movement of the yarns guides about their path of movement, the hold-down elements are stationary.
Patent GB-1239883-A (GB)
Title: Hydraulic system
IPC: F15B13/02
Filed: 1969-05-23
Abstract: 1,239,883. Valves. CATERPILLAR TRACTOR CO. 23 May, 1969 [3 Sept., 1968], No. 26517/69. Heading F2V. [Also in Division F1] An hydraulic system comprises a motor 10, a directional valve 14 controlling the supply and return of hydraulic fluid to and from the motor, and a valve 24 arranged to be operated by a member 28 movable with the motor, thereby to release a detent 16, 17 holding the control valve 14 in an actuated position. The valve 24, Fig. 2 (not shown), comprises a ball (36) urged by a spring to a position in which a detent release line 32 is vented. A plunger (38) is arranged to unseat the ball (36) to cause pressurization of the line 32 from a line 30. The plunger is moved by a cam surface (40) on a shaft carrying a lever 26 arranged for rotation by the member 28.
Patent GB-726303-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to photographic processing and image-transfer apparatus
IPC: G03D9/00
Filed: 1953-09-25
Abstract: 726,303. Photographic image-transfer apparatus. KODAK, Ltd. Sept. 25, 1953 [Sept. 27, 1952], No. 26518/53. Addition to 713, 729. Class 98 (2). In the transfer apparatus of the parent Specification, a second arm carrying a squeegee at its free end is pivoted at its other end to the first arm which carries the pressure device, the free end resting on means which serve to guide the squeegee into position against the sensitized sheet when the pressure device is rotated into its operative position. As shown, a pair of arms 23 (shown in their inoperative position) are pivoted at 24 and carry a pressure roller 21. A second pair of arms 34, pivoted to the first pair at 33 carry a squeegee 22 and are provided with pins 39, which rest on the guide means 38. When the arms 23 are rotated into their operative position by a handle (not shown) so that the roller 21 bears on the co-operating surface 17, the squeegee slides forward to press against the sensitized sheet as it is withdrawn over the surface 17. Pressure is exerted on the squeegee in this position by the notches 41 in arms 23, which bear against the pins 39. Each arm 23 is independently secured to the spindle 24 by means of a resilient rod 26, fixed in a bracket 28 on the arm. Specification 655, 274 is referred to.
Patent GB-1392415-A (GB)
Title: Pulse register
IPC: G06M1/04
Filed: 1973-06-04
Abstract: 1392415 Electromagnetic counters EMAIL Ltd 4 June 1973 [2 June 1972] 26534/73 Heading G4D  An electromagnetic counter comprises a frame with upstanding wings supporting digit wheels, a base carrying an upstanding electromagnet 31 and an end 46 pivotally supporting an armature 44 parallel to the base and acting through a pallet 51 and star wheel to drive the digit wheels.
Patent GB-1375226-A (GB)
IPC: B01J8/06
Filed: 1972-06-07
Abstract: 1375226 Cracking hydrocarbons to give olefins FLUOR CORP and H F A TOPSOE 7 June 1972 [9 June 1971] 26568/72 Heading C5E Olefins are produced by passing a mixture of a saturated hydrocarbon feed and steam through a catalytic cracking zone (where some conversion to olefin occurs) and then directly to a thermal, catalyst-free, cracking zone (where further conversion to olefins occurs) sufficient heat being supplied to maintain the temperature in the catalytic zone at 200-850‹ C. and that in the thermal zone at 700-950‹ C., the pressure in both zones being maintained at 0À1-50 atm. abs. The reaction may be carried out in a plurality of tubes arranged in parallel in the catalytic cracking zone and at most the same number of tubes arranged in parallel in the thermal zone, the tubes being enclosed in a wall-fired box furnace. The catalyst may comprise at least one oxide of Hf, Zr, Al, Th, alkaline earth metals, alkali metals, Si, Ti, Cu, Ni, Fe, Co, Sb, Cr, Ag and the rare earth metals. When the feed is poor in sulphur a sulphur compound may be added so as to give a total sulphur content of 200 p.p.m. calculated as elemental sulphur. The feed may contain a minor amount of unsaturated hydrocarbons.
Patent GB-842583-A (GB)
Title: A releasable connecting means, in particular for connecting a typewriter to a support
IPC: B41J29/04
Filed: 1958-08-19
Abstract: 842,583. Clamps. TRIUMPH WERKE NURNBERG A. G. Aug. 19, 1958 [March 5, 1958], No. 26576/58. Class 44 In releasable connecting means consisting of cams 3 on one of the parts to be connected, a member 7 slidable on cam surfaces 4 thereof and an axially compressible resilient sleeve 10 which becomes deformed by the sliding of the slidable member 7 in one direction and is thereby held to the other of the parts to be connected, the cams 3 are in one piece with the first part and the slidable member 7 is loosely held thereon. As shown, for releasably connecting a typewriter to its case 1, the sleeve 10 and member 7 are mounted on a bolt 6 such that the sleeve projects through a hole 13 in the typewriter frame 12 and is axially deformed by rotation of the member 7. In a modification the member 7 may be replaced by a longitudinally movable slide and co-operating cam surfaces.
Patent GB-394386-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in elastic fluid turbines
IPC: F01D17/14
Filed: 1931-11-26
Abstract: 394,386. Systems for transmitting mechanical power. GENERAL ELECTRIC CO., Ltd., Magnet House, Kingsway, London, and POCHOBRADSKY, B., Goodwood, Lansdown Road, Sidcup, Kent. Nov. 26, 1931, No. 26698/32. Divided on 389,912, [Group XXVI.] [Class 38 (iv).] Governing means for a prime mover, such as a turbine, in electrical ship propulsion plant comprises a speed-responsive governor the setting of which may be varied, and means for interlocking the governor speed-setting device with the electrical control gear to ensure that the operation of the electrical gear is properly co-ordinated with the operation of the governor. The speed-governor is of the fluid-pressure type, and comprises an oil pump 1 driven by the turbine, and supplying oil to a spring- loaded piston 6 which actuates the pilot valve 27 of the servomotor 31 of the steam admission valve 29 through the linkage 23, 26. The leakaway valve 5 in the oil system, which determines the speed-setting, has three concentric ported rings 9, 10, 11. The ring 9 is adjustable by a hand-wheel 13 through gearing 12. This handwheel adjusts simultaneously the controller 21 of the electrical gear so as to secure co-ordination in operation. The outer ring 11 of the valve is actuated by a solenoid 19 which functions when a driven generator or motor is cut out. A pre-emergency speed governor 8 is provided. The governor gear may control two or more throttle valves arranged as described in Specification 389,912.
Patent GB-535095-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to resilient mountings for fixed and mobile machinery
IPC: F16F1/42
Filed: 1939-09-27
Abstract: 535,095. Machinery supports ; vibration dampers. SOC. ITALIANA PIRELLI. Sept. 27, 1939, No. 26745. Convention date, Oct. 27, 1938. [Class 80 (iv)] [Also in Group XXXII] A resilient mounting for machinery comprises a rubber strip which is formed with one or more internal or external cavities or grooves extending along the length of the strip and of such pronounced dimensions as to result in the strip being subjected in use both to compression and to flexion stresses. The strip, ignoring the recesses, has a cross-section of approximately quadrilateral outline and has secured thereto a plate, e.g. of metal, wire-net or hard rubberized fabric, whereby it may be attached to the machine and its support. Figs. 1, 3 and 5 show three examples of suitable cross-sections of strips.
Patent GB-638440-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to machines for cutting potatoes or like objects into chips or slices
IPC: B26D3/18
Filed: 1947-10-06
Abstract: 638,440. Potato-chipping machines. ABBOTT, G. J. Oct. 6, 1947, No. 26796. [Class 5 (i)] In a potato-chipping machine of the kind described in Specification 379,800, wherein potatoes are fed between parallel slitting blades, such as G<SP>2</SP>, and then against a transverse slicing blade D, the slitting blades are mounted so that they remain rigid against the forces encountered during normal operation, but can move if struck by a hard foreign body. The machine, incorporating the features shown in Specifications 614,998 and 614,999, includes a rotor B rotating within a casing A, the rotor having throats B<SP>1</SP> which carry the potatoes round to be slit by the knives G<SP>2</SP> and sliced by the blade D mounted on cover-plate A<SP>1</SP> pivoted on the casing. The slitting blades G<SP>2</SP> are mounted on vertical pivots G on a holder F<SP>1</SP> pivoted at F to the casing. The holder is normally latched to the casing by a latch H and catch H3, and includes a cam slot F4 which accommodates a roller E2 carried by an extension E of the coverplate A<SP>1</SP>. A leaf-spring A3 engages the fixed end walls of the casing A and tends to move the coverplate outwardly about its pivot. The latch H is adequate to resist the forces of normal operation and the shape of the cam slot F<SP>4</SP> is such that the pressure of the spring A<SP>3</SP> acts substantially through the pivot F, but if a stone strikes the knives G<SP>2</SP>, the latch H opens, and the spring A<SP>3</SP> then acts to press the roller against the cam surface F<SP>8</SP>, forcing the knives G<SP>2</SP> and D to fly outwardly about their pivots.
Patent GB-1249977-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to straight bar knitting machines
Inventor: STRONG BARRIE
IPC: D04B15/00
Filed: 1968-06-06
Abstract: 1,249,977. Knitting-machines. WILLIAM COTTON Ltd. 29 May, 1969 [6 June, 1968], No. 26903/68. Heading D1C. A method of doubling loops on a straight bar knitting machine comprises simultaneously transferring a plurality of spaced groups of loops 1L-7L form doubled loops 10L-60L in spaced groups of loops and thereafter successively transferring progressively smaller numbers of the spaced groups of loops so as to progressively close up the groups. The successive transfers result in additional doublings 70L-110L between those originally formed. The transfer points 19 are selectively moved to an operative position by control elements 3 frictionally mounted in beds 13 over each half of the needle bed. When the narrowing head is raised before the first transfer, element butts 3a, 4a strike slides 20a, 21a above all but a centre group of elements. All elements are thereby projected, but spaced groups are retracted, when the head lowers by engagement of butts 3b with projections of a bar 28. The stitches are transferred one needle space. Before each of the following transfers all elements are raised by a bar 29 and strike the slides which are progressively moved outwards. The slides are moved by engagement of racks fixed thereto with a rotated pinion (38 Fig. 3 not shown) and abut limit stops. Transfer over two spaces to close the gaps and double again, then occurs, 2TS to 6TS. The slides may be connected to lead screws when required for fashioning.
Patent GB-1517650-A (GB)
Title: Cooling of electronic devices
IPC: F28F9/26
Filed: 1976-06-29
Abstract: 1517650 Cooling electronic packages HONEYWELL INFORMATION SYSTEMS Inc 29 June 1976 [2 July 1975] 26928/76 Heading F4U [Also in Division H1] An electronic device 10, e.g. a micropackage or multi-chip IC, is cooled by a heat exchanger 26 of the circulating fluid coolant type having a flexible wall 31 which is urged into good thermal contact with the device by the internal pressure of the heat exchanger coolant. As shown, the arrangement is mounted on a panel 22 by a mounting frame 28. A connector frame 20 has spring contacts 18 against contacts 16 on the device 10. Baffles within the heat exchanger evenly distribute the coolant over the flexible wall surface. The heat exchanger is demountable by releasing screws 32 without stopping coolant flow from an input manifold 40. The arrangement may be one of an array of similarly cooled devices on panels (22, 122, 222) (Fig. 1, not shown) supplied with pumped coolant via the manifold 40. Coolant passes through three heat exchangers in series before entering an - outlet manifold (42).
Patent GB-269685-A (GB)
Abstract: 269,685. British Thomson-Houston Co., Ltd., Young, A. P., and Salisbury, A. G. Jan. 26, 1926. Vehicle lamps; electric-lamp lanterns; lensholders special to lanterns.-In a motor-vehicle &c. lamp having a casing, moulded from plastic or insulating material, the switch for controlling the electric-lamp bulb is formed integrally with or detachably connected to the moulded casing. Fig. 1 shows a switch member 2 secured bv screws 3 &c. to the moulded casing, the bulbholder 4 being carried from the switch by a focussing-screw 6 as described in Specification 236,029. The front glass is retained in position by a moulded cover 8 screwed on the moulded casing and may be moulded into the cover.
Patent GB-972372-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to information recording devices
Inventor: HILL JOHN FRANCIS
IPC: G09F7/02
Filed: 1960-08-04
Abstract: 972,372. Indicator boards. SELF-ADHESIVE SIGN CO. Ltd. May 4, 1961 [Aug. 4, 1960], No. 27048/60. Heading G5C. An indicator board 3 consists of a pocket of transparent plastic material for the reception of a datum card 4, carriers 5 being provided for sliding indicators 6. The board 3 may be provided with a set of carrier and datum sheets secured on each outer face thereof and may be mounted in a folder or ring type file. The board may be subdivided by vertical welds to form a series of foldable pockets,see Fig, 3 (not shown) and may be used in association with endless cards extending along the front of the carriers and disappearing round the back of the sheet.
Patent GB-327371-A (GB)
Title: Improved means for anchoring railway sleepers
IPC: E01B13/00
Filed: 1929-09-05
Abstract: 327,371. Andreyanoff, B. P. Sept. 5, 1929. Sleepers are anchored by compression rafters 4 bearing against the sleepers 2 and fitted to a foundation slab or plate 1 below the track. The slab 1 may consist of two sleepers 13 connected by boards 15, the sleepers 13 being notched to receive the toothed ends of the rafters 4 and also a wooden key 7. A reinforced-concrete slab may also be used.
Patent GB-1114902-A (GB)
Title: Tiltable converter for refining crude iron
IPC: C21C5/50
Filed: 1965-06-25
Abstract: 1,114,902. Metallurgical converters. VEREINIGTE OSTERREICHISCHE EISENUND STAHLWERKE A.G. 25 June, 1965 [29 June, 1964], No. 27084/65. Heading F4B. A tiltable converter 1 may be removed with no vertical movement thereof from a support structure 2 comprising a horseshoe-shaped element 3, as described in Specification 993,573, the shanks (4), 4<SP>1</SP> thereof being connected by a horizontal cross-member 5 detachably secured thereto and mounted on the converter shell. Support lugs (8), 9 at respective ends of member 5 are eccentric of the converter axis in a plane perpendicular to the tilt axis thereof and seat in recesses 10 in the said shanks 4, 4<SP>1</SP>, wherein they are held by key-shaped lugs 17 on hinged brackets 11 held in place by adjustable screws 21. A car 12 supports the converter which is removed from the support structure 2 by removing the screws 21 and unlocking the brackets 11 which are hinged back, while the element 3 is tilted through an angle less than 90 degrees, Fig. 4 (not shown), to free the lugs (8), 9, when the car may be moved away with the converter. In a modification, Figs. 6, 7, 8 (not shown), bolts rigidly connected to the converter shell space the member 5 therefrom, to which they are releasably connected by brackets 11 as described above. The member 5 is connected to the shanks (4), 4<SP>1</SP> of the horseshoe-shaped part 3 by screw-threaded bolts (18) which are removed in order to detach the member 5 prior to moving the converter away from the support structure 2.