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Patent GB-153190-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to car bodies suitable for sidecars and other vehicles
IPC: B62K27/16
Filed: 1919-12-08
Abstract: 153,190. Burleigh, W. H. Dec. 8, 1919. Hoods and opening tops.-Relates to opening tops for side-cars, cycle-cars, &c. in which the top is detachably hinged to the lower portion of the body to give access to the car. According to the invention, the opening top comprises a top panel and the upper portions of the side and rear panels, while the wind-screen is carried by the lower portion of the body. In the arrangement shown, the top a is hinged at its rear end to the lower body portion c and the detachable hinges comprise pins e carried by brackets d on the top a and secured in slotted brackets f on the portion c. Springs &c. h<1> adjustable by wing-nuts i or levers and balance weights, may be arranged to assist the opening movement. A weather-tight. joint between the opening top and the body is obtained by furnishing the lower rails of the top with suitable packing-material or with a pneumatic cushion. The top may be hinged to the body at its front end. Fig. 6 shows an arrangement in which the top a and the wind-screen l are operated simultaneously. The screen l is carried by a hinged cover p, and arms r, s carried by the cover p and top a respectively are connected by means of links t, u to a hand-lever q.
Patent GB-1060803-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to a method of testing solids which cake on storage
Inventor: S BLOOM MARTIN
IPC: G01N33/00
Filed: 1963-08-02
Abstract: 1,060,803. Measuring shrinkage electrically. IMPERIAL CHEMICAL INDUSTRIES Ltd. Aug. 2, 1963, No.30709/63. Headings G1N and G1S. Apparatus for use in laboratory shrinkage tests on a solid material which cakes on storage comprises a mould to be filled with a sample 1 of the material, a movable member for applying pressure to the material, to cause it to shrink, and a device 17 for indicating the movement of the member. Pressure is applied to the sample by a plunger 12, the mould being sealed by a reentrant diaphragm 4 which prevents loss of liquid; and the device 17 may be a potentiometer. A plug 6 in the base plate of the mould may be removed and the force required on the plunger to push out a cylinder of the caked material measured, to give an indication of caking strength. Friction is reduced by greasing the walls of the mould and lining them with polythene or polytetrafluorethylene; and by embodying a flexible diaphragm between a plunger-actuating piston 9 and its cylinder 13, the piston rod 10 passing through a co-sintered polytetrafluorethylene and bronze bush 15. The apparatus may be used as in Specification 1,060,804.
Patent GB-820644-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to control mechanism for an injection molding machine
IPC: B29C45/82
Filed: 1956-10-09
Abstract: 820,644. Controlling injection-moulding machines. NATIONAL AUTOMATIC TOOL CO. Inc. Oct. 9, 1956 [March 5, 1956], No. 30725/56. Class 87(2). [Also in Group XXIX] A hydraulic moulding machine comprises two hydraulic motors (injection and mould opening and closing), a twin-port pump arranged to deliver to either port with an intermediate non-delivery position, hydraulic connections to convey fluid from the pump ports to a diverter and from the diverter to and from the hydraulic motors and means arranged to move the diverter to connect either of the two motors to the pump only when the pump is in its intermediate non- delivery position. A hydraulic motor X has a cylinder 18, piston 16 and a ram 14 carrying a mould half 12 arranged to abut a stationary mould half 10 with a fixed injection cylinder 20 with a plunger 24 attached to a ram 34 of a further hydraulic motor Y having a cylinder 38 and piston 36. Conduits 40, 42 convey fluid to either side of the piston 36 from a diverter D and conduits 44, 46 convey fluid to either side of the piston 16 from the diverter D, the conduit 46 having a pressure sensitive switch PS-21 and an electrically operated check valve 104. The diverter D has a ported piston 80, with three operating positions I, II, III, in a cylinder 78, the piston being normally centred in position II and movable in either direction by solenoids S-1, S-2. The pump P-RD, with ports A, B, is movable in its housing, to deliver to either port, by the action of fluid on plungers 84 and pistons 86 in cylinders 88. The fluid is conveyed to the cylinders 88 through conduits 64, 64 from a pump valve PV having a ported piston 92, with three operating positions I, II, III, in a cylinder 90, the piston being normally centred in position II and movable in either direction by solenoids S-3, S-4. Fluid is conveyed to the pump valve PV by conduits 72, 70, from a reservoir T, the conduit having a pump 94. The pump P-RD has conduits 52, 54 leading to a reversing valve RV with conduits 60, 62, the reversing valve RV having a cylinder 96 containing a ported piston 98 slidable in the cylinder by fluid pressure from the conduits 52, 54. The conduit 60 has a check valve 100 and leads to the reservoir T, the conduit 62 has a pressure relief valve 102 discharging into the reservoir T. In operation, the diverter D and the valve PY are actuated by an electrical control system including the solenoids S-1 to S-4 in such a manner that the diverter D can be moved from the position I to the position III only when the pump P-RD is in an intermediate non-delivery position.
Patent GB-484419-A (GB)
Title: Improved appliance for use as a table, desk or the like
IPC: A47B13/06
Filed: 1936-11-11
Abstract: 484,419. Lap tables and desks. TOWNSEND, C. R., and TOWNSEND, C. M. Nov. 11, 1936, No. 30752. [Class 52 (iii)] A lap table l is hinged at one of its sides to fold within a leg frame x of inverted-U-shape, the vertical branches a, c of which are telescopic and secured in adjusted position by friction devices. As shown, pivots l<2>, l<3> on the table take into holes in the opposite sides of the frame and the legs are provided with non-slip feet j. In a modification the table is hinged to the top bar d. The friction device for the telescopic legs comprises a spring- pressed stud or a wire spring on the inner tube bearing against the inner wall of the outer tube.
Patent GB-237798-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to diaphragms for telephones and the like
IPC: H04R7/08
Filed: 1924-12-22
Abstract: 237,798. Lakhovsky, G. Dec. 22, 1924. Diaphragms.-A diaphragm for sound emitting .or receiving apparatus is formed of two thin metallic discs a, b having ribs e, f, g which fit one in another, a layer c of oily or viscous material being enclosed between the discs a, b. The assembled discs may be framed in a ring of caoutchouc d or may have two rings of caoutchouc or other non-sonorous material placed on opposite sides thereof.
Patent GB-299396-A (GB)
Title: Improved manufacture of self combustible mixtures
IPC: C10B57/18
Filed: 1928-10-24
Abstract: 299,396. Minimax Akt.-Ges., and Deutsche Pyrotechnische Fabriken Akt.-Ges., (Assignees of Thiecke, J.. and Herzog, H.). Oct. 25, 1927, [Convention date]. Generating combustion products under pressure. - Ammonium nitrate and blood charcoal are mixed in a state of fine division preferably in the proportion of 85 per cent to 15 per cent to form a self combustible material suitable for the production of compressed gases for various purposes. Wood charcoal may be added to the mixture.
Patent GB-867190-A (GB)
Title: A synthetic protein-lipid complex and method of producing the same
IPC: C11B1/06
Filed: 1958-09-26
Abstract: A protein-lipid complex is prepared by introducing a solid vegetable material containing proteins and lipids into a hammer mill suspended in a liquid aqueous carrier present in a liquid to solid ratio of at least 2:1, allowing the material to remain in the mill for a very short period of time i.e. from 2/3 to 10 seconds, the mill being run at the tip speed of at least 4000 feet per minute, raising the pH of the liquid to dissolve the specifically activated proteins whereby in the presence of the specifically activated lipids combination will occur to form the complex which is precipitated by acidifying the liquid to or near to the isoelectric point for the protein.  The pH of the liquid may be raised prior to introduction thereof into the mill, and after separation of the solids, the complex is recovered from the liquid phase.  The liquid may be acidified on introduction into the mill and after separation of the solids an oil rich liquid phase is separated from the aqueous phase and a protein rich protein-lipid complex obtained by extracting the solids with dilute alkali and precipitating the complex from the resulting solution. Specified vegetable materials are ground nuts, cereals, oleoginous and leguminous seeds, peanuts, tung, cashew, palm kernel, and shea nuts, walnuts and coconuts, copra, wheat, rye, oats, maize, soya and castor beans, cotton, sesame, flax, rape, sunflower, hemp, and rubber seeds, linseed, tree and carnuba leaves, potato and beet tops, kale and all wild and domestic grasses e.g. lucerne and rye. Specifications 714,671, 742,537 and 750,230 are referred to.
Patent GB-618330-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in dryers for textile materials
IPC: D06C7/00
Filed: 1946-10-18
Abstract: 618,330. Drying-apparatus. ANCIENS ATELIERS V. CHARPENTIER & CIE, SOC. P.R.L. Oct. 18, 1946, No. 31007. Convention date, Jan. 18. [Class 34(ii)] A drier for textile materials comprises a drum divided into compartments rotating about a fixed central shaft provided with an air circulation flowing in the reverse direction from that of the displacement of the material. In the preferred embodiment, casing 1 contains a drum rotating about a fixed shaft 3, Fig. 3, divided into eight sector shaped compartments for the material 43, by partitions 14 with shelves 44. The central stationary chamber 28 is similarly divided by fixed plates 4, 10 and 37 serving as guides for the air circulation. Complete division of the casing is effected by further panels 27 and 29 which coincide with rotatable blades 11 secured to the drum and to bearing 12. Corner partitions 32 with inlets 45 each contain a ventilator 35, duct 331 and heater 36, Fig. 1. Compartments I, III, V, VII and VIII are closed at the top by plates 40. Ventilator VI, Fig. 1a, draws in air from opening 41 in the casing top, and passes it through its heater, under the drum between plates 37 to the central chamber, and then through the shelves, for example as shown by the arrows F2, F3 and F4, Fig. 2. A portion of this air is recirculated through V1 and the remainder drawn through opening 31 to ventilator V2 (arrows F5) which performs a similar air circulation through compartment V. The air then passes in the opposite direction through compartment VI, a portion being then drawn through a further opening 31 to V3, and similarly to V4 having an exhaust 50. Material is loaded into compartment VIII, the drum is then turned one compartment at a time in a clockwise direction. Alternatively the drum is driven continuously.
Patent GB-926771-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to carton transferring apparatus
Inventor: SIMPSON ALFRED MOUNCY
IPC: B31B50/92
Filed: 1960-09-08
Abstract: 926,771. Endless conveyers. METAL BOX CO. Ltd. July 18, 1961 [Sept. 8, 1960], No. 31020/60. Class 78 (1). Cartons are removed from the bottom of a die 1, Fig. 1, by an extractor 4 which deposits the cartons on supports 15, 16, Fig. 2, from which position they are pushed on to an endless conveyer 19 by an arm 17 which returns to the position shown in Fig. 2, after the extractor 4 has moved upwards again towards the die 1. The cartons are withdrawn from the die by suction members 3 mounted on a carriage 6 reciprocated by a cam and link mechanism. The pusher arms 17 are supported by rods 21 which move in paths exterior to the paths of the extractors 4 so that the extractors may be raised before the pushers are withdrawn. In a second embodiment, Fig. 5, the supports 15, 16 are mounted on a platform 27 hinged to a supporting member 29 which platform, in the event of a carton being jammed between the extractor 4 and the supports 15, 16, operates switch 32 to stop the machine.
Patent GB-291809-A (GB)
Title: An improved side curtain for sun blinds and the like
IPC: E04F10/06
Filed: 1926-12-07
Abstract: 291,809. Perks, C., Shields, C. E., and Murray, T. G. Dec. 7, 1926. Window blinds.-A side curtain for window blinds of the awning type comprises a canvas curtain a carried by a vertically mounted spring roller b, means being provided to unwind the curtain when required. In the arrangement shown the side curtain a is attached to an endless cord h guided by pulleys e, f, g carried by the radius arm d of the main blind ar.d driven by a motor or manually operated drum i. A spring &c. loaded jack pulley y maintains a proper tension in the cord. Interlocking means to ensure that the main blind and the side curtain are operated in proper sequence may be provided. The point of attachment of the curtain a to the cord h is such that, when the curtain is retracted, it coincides with the pivotal point of the radius arm so that this arm is free to move without displacing the curtain.
Patent GB-977962-A (GB)
Title: Preparation of pentafluorobenzaldehyde
Inventor: BUXTON MICHAEL WILLIAM
IPC: C07C47/52
Filed: 1960-09-09
Abstract: Pentafluorobenzaldehyde is made by reacting pentafluorophenyl magnesium bromide or iodide with N-methyl formanilide and hydrolyzing the compound so formed with an acid, for example sulphuric or hydrochloric acid.  In examples, (1) pentafluorophenyl magnesium bromide is made from bromo-pentafluorobenzene and magnesium in ether, N-methylformanilide is added and the mixture refluxed, sulphuric acid is added, the ether distilled off and pentafluorobenzaldehyde obtained by steam distillation; (2) pentafluorophenylmagnesium iodide is reacted with N-methylformanilide and hydrolyzed with hydrochloric acid. Pentafluorobenzaldehyde is characterized by mixing with aniline to form N-pentafluorobenzylidene aniline.  Specification 977,961 is referred to.
Patent GB-783100-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in gasholders
Inventor: STANSFIELD SIDNEY
IPC: F17B1/00
Filed: 1954-10-28
Abstract: 783,100. Gas holders. OXLEY ENGINEERING CO., Ltd. Oct. 7, 1955 [Oct. 28, 1954], No. 31134/54. Class 54. A multi-lift gasholder includes guide rollers 17 mounted at intervals around the bottom edge or cup 11 of each lift 4, 5, 6, guide rollers mounted at intervals around the top of the tank 14 and each dip 12 of a lift, and vertical guide rails 2, 3 to co-operate with the guide rollers. The latter may have spring-loaded spindles while the rails are welded or otherwise secured to rail plates 4 which form part of the lift walls. Rails to serve solely as stiffeners may be secured to the inside of the inner lift 13 and to the outside of the tank 14. The invention may be applied to a single-lift gasholder.
Patent GB-802714-A (GB)
Title: Bis-imino-compounds
Filed: 1956-10-12
Abstract: The invention comprises bis-(o-hydroxyphenylimino)-alkanes of the formula <FORM:0802714/IV (b)/1> where R is one of the groups =CH-CH=, =CH-CH2-CH= and =CH-(CH2)2-CH= and R1 is hydrogen, methyl, nitro or chlorine.  The compounds are made by the reaction of an o-aminophenol on a substitution product thereof with a dialdehyde, or with a compound which readily splits off a dialdehyde, suitably by heating the reactants in a solvent under an inert atmosphere. The products are useful as therapeutic agents.  Examples describe the reaction of glyoxal with (1) o-aminophenol to give 1 : 2-bis - (o - hydroxy - phenylimino) - ethane; (2) 2 - amino-p-cresol to give 1 : 2-bis-(2-hydroxy-5-methyl - phenylimino) - ethane; (3) 4 - chloro2 - aminophenol to give 1 : 2 - bis - (5 - chloro - 2 - hydroxy - phenylimino) - ethane; (4) 4 - nitro - 2 - aminophenol to give 1 : 2 - bis - (2-hydroxy - 5 - nitro - phenylimino) - ethane; and (5) malonic dialdehyde is reacted with o-aminophenol to give 1 : 3-bis-(o-hydroxy-phenylimino)-propane.
Patent GB-290315-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in cinematographic apparatus
IPC: G03B1/42
Filed: 1926-12-09
Abstract: 290,315. Oehmichen, E. Dec. 9, 1926. Kinematograph apparatus. -In apparatus having means for pressing the film in the gate into a flat position during its stationary periods, means are provided for producing a slight pressure on the film during the feeding periods, or during the final portions of such periods, so as to prevent loss of contact between the feed teeth and the film perforations. As shown in Fig. 1, a rigid transparent plate 3 or other pressure member is intermittently pressed against the film in the gate during its stationary periods by a spring 4 under the control of a cam 5 and linked levers 6, '7. A second pressure member 9 exercises a slight constant pressure on the film, and the pressure may be adjustable. Fig. 2 shows a construction in which one pressure member 3 is provided and is acted upon constantly by springs 10 and intermittently by a spring 4. Fig. 4 shows a single pressure member 3 which is engaged by rod 8 carrying a spring 4 extending between a disc 13 formed on it and a sleeve 12 slidably carried by it. The sleeve 12 is controlled by a cam 5 which is shaped so as to cause the sleeve to engage a pin 14 and move the rod from the member 3 during feed movements, so as to produce a slight pressure at the end of the feed movements, and so as to produce a greater pressure during the stationary periods. A modification is described in which a single pressure member is operated by a cam and levers, either through a cushion of elastic material, or directly, the system being elastic. The pressure members &c. may be carried by a movable gate member which may be substituted for an existing gate. As shown in Fig. 5, the intermittently acting pressure members have push rods 8 acted upon by springs 4 which may be lifted by levers 4a engaged by tappets 21 on the hinge pin 16 of the gate. The pin 16 is rocked by a pin 20, lever 6, and cam 18 on a shaft 17 driven by the projector, the arrangement being such that the gate may be freely opened or closed. Modifications are described in which the hinge pin is continuously rotated by bevel gearing, and in v.hich the pressure members are controlled by a longitudinal sliding rod, the rod being carried by the movable gate member or by the body of the projector.
Patent GB-465211-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to rotary fluid pressure engines
IPC: F01C1/063
Filed: 1935-11-12
Abstract: 465,211. Rotary engines. MASON, F. R., and METROPOLITAN-VICKERS ELECTRICAL CO., Ltd. Nov. 12, 1935, No. 31315. [Class 110 (ii)] A rotary engine of the geared-vane type is provided with two or more pairs of pistons secured upon concentric shafts 8, 10, the ends of the latter being driven by a shaft 12 through two Hooke's joints 13, 15 and 17, 16. The working chamber 1 may be rectangular or other shaped within a casing 2, 3, having water jackets 22, 23. Lubricating oil is supplied through a pipe 24 to a conduit 25 leading to a nozzle 26 and pipes 27. The oil may pass through the pistons for cooling purposes. Additional piston cooling may be secured by providing an air blast transverely from the casing sidewalls. The engine may operate on the Diesel principle, and on either two-stroke or fourstroke cycles. The Hooke's joists may be arranged separately on each end of coaxial shafts. The cooling water through the pistons may be pumped, or the alternate to-and-fro motion of each piston, and the inertia of the water, used to operate non-return valves. Reference has been directed by the Comptroller to Specification 241,520, [Class 110 (ii)].
Patent GB-1191832-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to the Manufacture of Footwear
Inventor: MARTIN WILLIAM ERNEST
IPC: A43B3/12
Filed: 1966-07-12
Abstract: 1,191,832. Boots &c. CLARKS Ltd. 12 July, 1967 [12 July, 1966], No. 31339/66. Heading A3B. [Also in Division B5] Footwear of the type having the upper formed by straps or bands e.g. sandals or mules, and having a moulded sole has the straps or bands secured to the sole by having their ends embedded in the moulded sole. As described sandals are made by closing a sole mould 10 (Fig. 1) by a flat jig 11 on which are assembled the straps 19, 20, 21, 22 (Fig. 3) which form the upper, the ends of the straps projecting into the mould cavity 10. A sock 17 and heel block 18 may also be assembled on the jig 11. The jig 11 is located on the mould 10 by pins 13 and holes 14 and the mould is filled e.g. by injection, to mould the sole on the upper. Alternatively the mould cavity 10 may be filled with expandable material prior to being closed by the jig 11. The jig 11 may be rigid or may be of flexible material e.g. rubber, in which case a cover plate 12 may be placed over the jig 11. The jig 11 has slots 16 in which the straps are positioned and slits 26 which can be opened out to allow insertion and removal of the straps. In a modification (Fig. 6) the jig 30 is provided with a recess to form a sandal having a platform sole. The recess may have a lining 32 which provides a cover for the platform sole. The lining 32 may be of thermoplastic material which is conformed to the shape of the recess by vacuum moulding or by heat and pressure during the sole moulding operation. In making a mule (not shown) or other footwear in which the straps or bands extend over the foot without any joint, the jig and cover plate are reduced in size in the region of the straps so that they can be placed inside the continuous straps.
Patent GB-1176618-A (GB)
Title: Isopropenylphenyl Dimethylcarbinols
Inventor: KRIMM HEINRICH
IPC: B65G65/46
Filed: 1968-07-01
Abstract: 1,176,618. Disinfectants containing isopiropenyl phenyldimethylcarbinols. FARBENFABRIKEN BAYER A.G. 1 July, 1968 [1 July, 1967], No. 31372/68. Heading A5E. [Also in Division C2] A disinfectant composition contains as active ingredient m and/or p isopropenylphenyldimethyl carbinol in admixture with a solid diluent or carrier or in admixture with a liquid diluent or carrier containing a surface-active agent.
Patent GB-1040227-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to wood shearing machines
IPC: B27L5/06
Filed: 1965-07-23
Abstract: 1,040,227. Woodworking. A. CREMONA. July 23, 1965 [April 3, 1965], No. 31527/65. Heading B5L. A wood shearing machine comprises slideways on which the pressure bar and cutter unit of the machine are adapted to run, the slideways having detachable elements E secured to shoulders S which support the slideways. The slideways may be of flat or V-shape and the elements are secured to the slideways by screws V.