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Patent GB-488380-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to boxes, packets and display arrangements
IPC: B65D5/42
Filed: 1937-02-03
Abstract: 488,380. Displaying. TUCK, D. A., and TUCK & SONS, Ltd., R. Feb. 3, 1937, No. 3199. [Class 3 (ii)] [Also in Group XVII] A decorative box or dummy packet is provided by a sheet 5 having a design thereon and a cut-out portion 8, a sheet 7 of transparent material, an article 9 completing the design on the sheet 5, and a cardboard &c. base 2 to which the sheets 5, 7 are directly secured. As shown, the base 2 constitutes the lid of the box, and the article 9 comprises a folded napkin backed by a paper d'oyley 10 and a sheet 11 of paper, all of which help to complete the design on the sheet 5. A coat of varnish or a film of cellulose derivative may be applied to the outer surface of this latter sheet. Specifications 410,890, [Group XVII], and 431,587 are referred to. According to the Provisional Specification, the box 2 is formed with a cut-out corresponding to that in the sheet 5 and the articles in the box constitute the members completing the design on the outside.
Patent GB-123408-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in the Arrangement and Operation of Vertical Gas Retorts.
IPC: C10B31/02
Filed: 1918-02-23
Abstract: 123,408. Firth Blakeley, Sons, & Co., and Shaw, E. J. A. Feb. 23, 1918, Retort furnaces; charging and discharging.- Vertical retorts are arranged in a circle or regular polygon and are charged by means of a rotary shoot, the end of which moves on a circular track. Fig. 1 (Sheet 1) is a vertical section through the upper part of such an arrangement, and Fig. 1 (Sheet 2) is a corresponding section of the lower half of one side. A bench may consist for example of six sets of nine retorts, each set being provided with a producer 10, and a radial flue leading to a central chimney 1. Mounted to rotate on the chimney is a hopper 3 fed by an elevator 8 and having a radial shoot 16 depending therefrom, the lower end being supported on a circular track. The main shoot feeds the producer hoppers 14, and an auxiliary shoot 21 rotatable about a vertical axis is provided for the retort hoppers 13. The hopper 3 and shoot 16 are rotated by a crank 18 and chain and sprocket rearing situated close to the operator's seat 17. The charging and discharging doors at the upper and lower end of a retort are operated from a hand-wheel 25 through a clutch and gearing. The doors of the retorts in the same radial line may be operated simultaneously. An annular tank 4 for quenching-water and a platform 6 may be mounted on the central support. In a modified form of bench with four sets of retorts, the producers are situated in the angles between the sets.
Patent GB-327228-A (GB)
Title: Apparatus for inspection of drains, sewers and the like
IPC: F21L19/00
Filed: 1929-01-31
Abstract: 327,228. Brown, R. Jan. 31, 1929. Inspecting interiors, apparatus for.-An acetylene lamp for inspecting drains, sewers, &c. com. prises a generator of spheroidal shape, a protected burner and a reflector, the generator having a threaded socket to receive a drain rod. As shown, the generator comprims a spherical carbide chamber 1 and an inner water chamber 2 communicating with the chamber 1 through an aperture 10. The generated gas passes to a burner 8 con. trolled by a cock 9, the burner being protected by a ventilated metal or wire tube 15 carrying a lens 16. A reflector 13 and a threaded socket 11 for a drain rod 12 are provided also, and in use the apparatus is combined with a separate reflecting mirror which as placed at the mouth of the drain &c.
Patent GB-881071-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to measuring and testing apparatus
Inventor: HAYNES ANTHONY CHARLES RENDELL
IPC: G01B7/12
Filed: 1959-01-30
Abstract: 881,071. Capacitors; determining physical dimensions. HAYNES & HAYNES Ltd. Jan. 20, 1960 [Jan. 30, 1959], No. 3364/59. Addition to 880,184. Class 37. Apparatus for measuring variation in wall thickness or eccentricity of a polythene tube P comprising a pair of capacitive electrodes 26, 28 between which the tested tube is passed and a reference capacitor as described in the parent Specification, the latter comprises a pair of electrodes 30, 32, the capacitance of which is manually adjustable by movement of an earthed conductive member 50 between them. As shown, the measuring head comprises a split cylindrical screening case 10 hinged at 14 and having cut-out portions 20, 22 to accommodate the polythene tube P. The tube P is supported by V-blocks 66, 68 of nylon loaded with molybdenum disulphide. The measuring head 10 may be self-supporting on a moving tested tube by PTFE blocks 70 mounted on levers 72, pivoted at 74 and biased towards the tube by means of springs such as 76. The measurement is dependent on variations in capacitance of electrodes 26, 28 due to variation in wall thickness, compared with that of a reference capacitor comprising electrodes 30, 32. The capacitive electrodes are formed by depositing silver on an insulating plate 24 of material known under the Registered Trade Mark " Perspex." The reference capacitor is adjusted by movement of a tapered earthed conductive member 50 between the electrodes 30, 32 under control of a knob 64 at the end of a screw 58. The measuring head 10 is rotated around the tested tube P for eccentricity measurements.
Patent GB-575055-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to self-priming centrifugal pumps
IPC: F04D9/04
Filed: 1944-02-23
Abstract: 575,055. Centrifugal pumps. DRYSDALE & CO., Ltd., and DRYSDALE, J. W. W. Feb. 23,1944, No. 3412. [Class 110 (i)] A self-priming centrifugal pump comprises at least one impeller 2 on a horizontal shaft 3 in a casing 1 which is divided in a plane substantially containing the shaft, the upper part of the casing providing a suction chamber 5 and a cooling-water chamber 9 accommodating an air-pump 10 driven from the shaft 3 ; in the arrangement shown the air-pump 10 is of the water-ring type, and its shaft 13 is connected to the shaft 3 by chain and sprocket gearing 15, 17. The cooling-water chamber constitutes a self-contained circulation for the air-pump 10, the water being cooled by the intake liquid of the pump 2 in the chamber 5. The suction of the air-pump 10 is connected to the upper part of the chamber 5 through a float-operated valve 25 which closes when the chamber 5 fills with liquid.
Patent GB-1134191-A (GB)
Title: Sewage handling system
IPC: G05D7/01
Filed: 1966-01-26
Abstract: 1,134,191. Fluid-pressure servomotor systems. UNION TANK CAR CO. Jan.26, 1966 [Feb.15, 1965], No.3496/66. Heading G3P. The outflow from a sewage wet well 11 is adjusted to the inflow by a valve 14 in response to the liquid level which is sensed through a dual bubbler arrangement. Control air from a first compressor 19 is supplied through a dip pipe 33 to a closed auxiliary liquid reservoir 32 whence a second dip pipe extends into the wet well 11. The pressure developed in pipe 33 is sensed at the signal port 34a of a conventional reversing pressure boosting air relay 34 supplied by a second compressor 22. The output of this relay is coupled to the signal orifice 38a of a conventional volume boosting air relay 38 also supplied by the compressor 22. The output of relay 38 is applied above a volume of liquid in a transducer 23 which operates the flexible sleeve type valve 14 through a fixed restriction 24. Pressure-sensitive switches connected to pipe 33 cut in and out a centrifugal pump 12 at pressures corresponding to high and low levels. The liquid head in reservoir 32 may be adjusted to vary the operating characteristics.
Patent GB-594555-A (GB)
Title: Fireproof thermal insulation compositions and articles made therefrom
IPC: C04B28/00
Filed: 1945-02-12
Abstract: A fireproof thermal-insulating composition comprises expanded vermiculite, a fibrous substance such as asbestos and a binder consisting wholly or for the main part of a processed Fuller's earth in the form of sodium montmorillonite.  The latter may be made by displacing the calcium of Fuller's earth by sodium.  In an example, the following ingredients are mixed dry and then with water to form a workable plastic: Expanded vermiculite, 66 per cent. by weight; teased asbestos, 17 per cent. by weight; sodium montmorillonite, 12 per cent. by weight; ball clay, 5 per cent. by weight.  According to the Provisional Specification, the sodium montmorillonite may be derived from aluminotetra silicic acid. Specification 494,717 is referred to.
Patent GB-865629-A (GB)
Title: A protective device for reducing the effect of projectiles with bursting charges
IPC: F41H7/04
Filed: 1960-02-02
Abstract: 865,629. Armouring vehicles and other objects. BOFORS A. B. Feb. 2, 1960 [Feb. 4, 1959], No. 3665/60. Class 92 Relates to a protective device for reducing the effect of projectiles with bursting charges, in particular hollow-charge projectiles. The protective device, which may be applied to naval vessels, fortifications or as shown to a combat vehicle, comprises a screen 1 supported on two beams 2 carried on rollers 3 or that the screen can be moved between a front operative position 1 and a retracted position 4. The screen consists of a number of parallel heavy bars which together with a few connecting members form a grating. The arrangement is such that when the point of the projectile passes between the bars the thin wall of the hollow charge is damaged and the effect of the burst when the projectile reaches the combat vehicle is reduced.
Patent GB-100522-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to Safety Razors.
Inventor: MYATT WILLIAM JAMES
IPC: B26B21/30
Filed: 1916-03-11
Abstract: 100,522. Myatt, W. J. March 11, 1916 R a z o r s, safety. The front edge of the blade d of a safety razor is engaged at its end by clips c formed on a resilient plate e, which is secured on the handle b beneath an ordinary guard a. The rear edge of the blade engages in one of a set or grooves h in a pivoted clip g borne on by a spring-actuated plunger j and operable by a fingerpiece i. The blade rests on one or more rigid fulcrum-pieces f formed on the guard. By moving the rear edge of the blade from one groove h to another, it may be positioned as desired.
Patent GB-215436-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to vehicle head-lamps
IPC: B60Q1/14
Filed: 1923-02-07
Abstract: 215,436. Lloyd, H. J. Feb. 7, 1923. Lantern screens.-A screening device for vehicle head lamps comprises a screen or screens having both translucent and reflecting properties and adapted to be moved from a position parallel with the beam into a position extending across the beam so as to deflect a part of the light to the near side of the road. In the form shown, a translucent screen 11 and a reflecting screen 10 carried respectively in frames 20, 19 are mounted on pivots 12 carried by a ring 13 secured to the lamp front by a clamping-ring 15 and bolts 14. The operating means comprise a pair of levers 21, 22 pivotally mounted at 23 on a bracket 17 secured to the ring 13, the levers being connected respectively to the frames 19, 20 by links 24, 25. The levers 21, 22 are also connected by links 31, 32 to a draw-bar 28 adapted to be displaced longitudinally in opposition to a spring 33 by a Bowden cable 37 or other operating rod extending to a position adjacent the driver's seat, the arrangement being such that, on movement of the drawbar 28, the screens are moved from a position in which they lie parallel to the axis of the beam into the positions shown in Fig. 3. An additional translucent screen, pivotally mounted near the offside edge of the lamp may be provided. The screens 10, 11 may be replaced by a number of smaller screens movable on the louvre principle, or a single screen may be employed in which a part of the surface is translucent and a part reflecting or in which the whole of the surface has both translucent and reflecting properties and which may be inclined at will across the beam. Specifications 100,334, 162,952, and 198,179 are referred to.
Patent GB-766300-A (GB)
Title: An improved draftsman's table
IPC: A47B27/18
Filed: 1955-02-08
Abstract: 766,300. Draughtsman's tables. GHIGLIOTTI, G. C. Feb. 8, 1955, No. 3711/55. Class 52 (3). A draughtsmari's table has the board 13 mounted on a frame 12, pivoted at 11 to uprights 7 and 8 which telescope into channel shaped uprights 1, 2, means being provided to balance the weight of the movable structure, together with first and second pedal-operated mechanisms respectively for locking the board at any desired height and for releasing the board about its horizontal axis to permit angular variation. Pairs of crosspieces 3, 4 connect uprights 1, 2 and crosspieces 9, 10 connect uprights 7, 8. Between the crosspieces 4 is pivoted a two grooved pulley 16, over which (Fig. 2) passes a cable 17, 18 fixed at its ends 19, 20 to the uprights 7, 8. Cams 27 are arranged concentrically on the outer faces of pulley 16 and a cable 28 attached at its ends to spring assemblies 31 passes over each cam and through a hole in the pulley. Vertical locking of the board is obtained by cams 35 carried by a spring biased rod 33 bearing against the uprights 7, 8. The rod 33 extends between cam covers 34 and has a lever arm 38, attached at one end, which is linked to a pedal 40. Angular locking of the board is effected by means of a curved rod 43, semicircular in cross-section and pivoted at one end to the board frame 12, which slides diametrically through a cylindrical block 44. A rod 46 shaped at its end to accommodate rod 43 is fixed longitudinally in the block 44 and has a lever arm 47 spring biased to rotate the cylinder thus firmly gripping rod 43. A cable 49 is attached to the lever 47 and extends downwards, passing between two rollers 51 mounted on a disc 52, the other end being secured at 50 to upright 7. A lever arm 54 linked to a pedal 56 is secured to the disc 52 so that on depressing the pedal the disc rotates, tightening the cable 49, turning the cylindrical block 46 and so releasing rod 43 enabling the board 13 to be angularly adjusted.
Patent GB-1256445-A (GB)
Title: Spinning solutions and filaments produced therefrom
IPC: D01F1/10
Filed: 1970-01-26
Abstract: 1,256,445. Acrylonitrile polymer filaments. JAPAN EXLAN CO. Ltd. 26 Jan., 1970 [27 Jan., 1969], No. 3752/70. Heading C3P. Filaments comprising (1) a polymer of at least 70 weight per cent of acrylonitrile and (2) 1 to 15 weight per cent of monoglyceride or derivative thereof of formula where R is C 10-22  alkyl or alkenyl and m + n is 0 to 10, may be prepared by spinning solutions of the polymer containing 0.2 to 20 weight per cent of said monoglyceride, based on the weight of the polymer. The polymer may also contain units of acrylic and methacrylic acids, esters and amides, alkenyl ketones, vinyl carboxylates, vinyl ethers, styrenes, unsaturated heterocyclic compounds, vinyl and vinylidene halides, unsaturated sulphonic acids and lactones. The solvent may be organic, or an aqueous solution of a metal halide or thiocyanate. The glyceride may be derived from lauric, myristic, palmitic, stearic, arachidic, behenic, myristoleic, palmitoleic, petroselenic, vaccenic, oleic, linoleic, linolenic, elaidic, eleostearic, parinaric gadoleic and arachidonic acids. In examples fibres are spun from aqueous ammonium thiocyanate solutions of acrylonitrile/methyl acrylate/sodium methallyl sulphonate copolymers containing (1) glyceryl monostearate, ethylene oxide adducts thereof, glyceryl monooleate or glyceryl monolaurate, and (2) glyceryl monostearate.
Patent GB-1019886-A (GB)
Title: Tunnel-boring machine
IPC: E21D9/11
Filed: 1964-01-29
Abstract: 1,019,886. Tunnel-boring machines. JAMES S. ROBBINS and ASSOCIATES Inc. Jan. 29, 1964 [March 18, 1963], No. 3754/64. Heading E1F. A tunnel-boring machine (Fig. 1, not shown) having a rotary cutting head (11) is steered during cutting by means of rearwardly extending trunks 36A, 36B which are slidably received in a steering box or carriage 34 which is adjustable transversely of the tunnel relative to tunnel gripping anchor means 27. In use, shoes 27, pivotal about axes 46, 52 in cross-heads 30 are moved by four jacks 32, each engaging both cross-heads, to engage the tunnel wall. The machine frame with power driven cutting head (11) is then advanced by four jacks (37) (Fig. 1) which are universally pivoted to shoes 27 (Figs. 2, 9, not shown). Steering jacks 33 act between one cross-head 30 and lugs 72 of a muff 31, and serve to slide muff 31 horizontally. Muff 31 carries a centrally pivoted axial beam 77 (Fig. 6, not shown) whose ends verticallyslidably engage side walls 80, 81 of carriage or steering box 34. Four jacks 38 move carriage 34 vertically relative to muff 31 and thereby also pivot it about the tunnel axis and about the horizontal axis perpendicular thereto, and carriage 34 receives trunk bars 36A, 36B of the machine frame. Independent and/or collective actuation of hydraulic jacks 33, 37, 38 enables the machine to be steered by re-alignment of its frame with respect to the tunnel axis. As shown, shoes 27 are acted on by springs 56 to urge cross-heads 30 into the normal relative orientation and springs (91) (Fig. 6, not shown) tend to do the same between muff 31 and carriage 34. Fig. I further illustrates buckets (13), flexible dust shield (12), disc cutters (18) conveyer (17), crane (24), hydraulically operated shoes (20), (21) which slide along the tunnel wall, and support (26) which is extended to support the machine while shoes 27 are being shifted along the tunnel in preparation for a further forward step.
Patent GB-926319-A (GB)
Title: Cable stranding machine
IPC: D07B7/02
Filed: 1961-02-01
Abstract: 926,319. Unwinding spools; braking spools. GEOFFROY-DELORE S. A. Feb. 1, 1961 [Feb. 1, 1960], No. 3890/61. Class 120 (2). [Also in Group XXV] A machine for twisting wires 11 into cables and for winding the resulting cable on to a spool 26a (see Group XXV) includes means for exchanging spool 26a, when filled, with an empty spool 16b and for then unwinding the cable from the filled spool and transferring it to a take-up drum 59. Brake for the spool being unwound.-The spool 26b, whilst, being unwound, is coupled to a shaft 50 carrying a brake-drum 52. Over this drum passes a braking belt 53 one end of which is connected by a rod 54 to a rocker 55 carrying a pulley 56 over which the cable from the spool passes before being wound on the drum 59. An adjustable spring 57 tends to apply the belt 53 to the drum to brake it. The rocker 55 tends to displace the rod 54 against the action of the spring and thus regulates the action of the brake. Specification 926,320 is referred to.
Patent GB-470024-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to prepayment mechanism for meters
IPC: G07F15/02
Filed: 1936-02-08
Abstract: 470,024. Prepayment mechanism for meters. PEET, A., and ALDER & MACKAY, Ltd. Feb. 8, 1936, No. 3914. [Class 27] Coin action, thrust, with delivery proportionate to value of coin; coin-slit closing-devices.-In a meter prepayment mechanism for optional use with different coins, the rotary coin pocket has an initial free movement during which a pawl thereon, operated by the coin insertion, is brought into engagement with the striker elements to engage them selectively with the quantity wheels. As shown, the coin-pocket comprises spaced plates 1 carried by a circular disc 2 mounted behind the price-change disc 3, and adapted to be turned by a handle constructed as described in Specification 446,177. Two strikers for selectively driving corresponding quantity wheels are carried by plates 10 and 11 slidablv mounted on a further disc 17 behind the coin-pocket disc 2. A coin inserted into the pocket 1 depresses a slide 6 and with it a pawl 8. After initial rotation of the handle, during which the disc 2 masks the insertion slot in the price-change disc 3, the pawl 8 engages the lower edge of an aperture 23 or 24 in one of the slides 10 or 11 to displace the slide, and cause its striker to engage the respective quantity wheel, the particular slide displaced being determined by the position of the pawl 8 and the size of the inserted coin. With continued rotation, the coin pocket 1 meets the end of an arcuate clearance slot 18 in the disc 17 which is consequently now rotated, and with it the quantity wheel engaged by a striker. The coin pocket 1 is held in driving engagement with the disc 17 by a pivoted pawl 25 on the coin pocket having a recess 27 engageable with a catch 26 on the disc 17. When the coin is discharged at the completion of the forward rotation, the pawl 25 is disengaged by an abutment 29 on the slide 6 as the latter is restored by a spring 7.
Patent GB-1025823-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in key generators for cryptographic systems
IPC: H04L9/22
Filed: 1963-01-30
Abstract: 1,025,823. Generating quasi-random digits. C.S.F.-COMPAGNIE GENERALE DE TELEGRAPHIE SANS FIL. Jan. 30, 1963 [Jan. 31, 1962], No. 3924/63 Heading G4D. Quasi-random digits are generated on leads C1-C5 from binary digits representing letters in clear stored in M and from apparatus A10 described in Specification 1,008,390. The digits on C1-C5 are used as a key to encipher a message. Substantially as described in said earlier Specification a clock pulse generator H supplies clock pulses to main advance counters C1-C5 of different radius, selected output terminals of which feed assemblies of decoders, permutators, OR-gates and AND-gates A1- A6. The outputs of A1-A6 are combined with different sets of clock pulses from H to control auxiliary counters K1-K6 and therefor decoders A7-A9. Further clock-pulses from H control further auxiliary counters K7-K9, the first of which is also controlled by permuted combinations of the letters in clear through OR-gates O1-O3. Finally, apparatus described in Specification 924,382 operates on the signals from A10 and M to give the output signals on leads L1-L5.
Patent GB-107942-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Parallel Vices.
Inventor: MORRIS FRANK GEORGE
IPC: B25B1/22
Filed: 1917-03-19
Abstract: 107,942. Morris, r. G. March 19, 1917. Vices.-To permit of angular adjustment horizoutally through 360 degrees, a parallel vice is carried by a vertical spindle a provided with a groove b in which engage the points of locking- screws c passing through the standard d.
Patent GB-1390566-A (GB)
Title: Resilient mountings
IPC: B60G11/22
Filed: 1973-01-26
Abstract: 1390566 Vehicle suspensions HAHN FAHRZEUGBAU GmbH 26 Jan 1973 [1 Feb 1972] 3972/73 Heading B7D [Also in Division F2] A resilient mounting, e.g. for an arm 5 on which a wheel of a two-wheel single-axle trailer vehicle is rotatably mounted, has a squaresectioned tube 3 part-rotatable in a tube 2 against the resistance of a resilient member, e.g. one of four initially cylindrical rubber bodies 6, and reinforced by a close-fitting inner tube 4. The one- or two-part supporting tube 2 is mounted on a support 1 on the vehicle and extends over the vehicle width. The distance between the sides of the reinforcing tube 4 is larger than that between those of the tube 3 so that there is a tight fit on assembly and these tubes may be joined by welding.
Patent GB-715218-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to boiler furnaces
IPC: F23J7/00
Filed: 1952-02-14
Abstract: 715,218. Preventing furnace corrosion. CHARRINGTON, GARDNER, LOCKETT & CO., Ltd., RUSSELL, A. M., and BOOKEY, J. T. B. May 13, 1953 [Feb. 14, 1952], No. 3998/52. Drawings to Specification. Class 51 (1) A method of operating a boiler fired with oil or with pulverized fuel comprises injecting into the furnace chamber of the boiler an organic inhibitor which forms a cloud of carbon particles and inhibits oxidation of the sulphur in the fuel to SO,. Specification 697,861 is referred to.