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Patent GB-838543-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to printed circuit edge connectors
Inventor: GREASLEY ERIC ARTHUR
IPC: H01R12/72
Filed: 1957-01-18
Abstract: 838,543. Two-part couplings. CARR FASTENER CO. Ltd. Feb. 12, 1958 [.Tan. 18, 1957], No. 2012/57. Class 38 (1). A connector for a printed circuit panel comprises an insulating body 1 (Fig. 1) having a slot 3 extending partly through the body and joining enlarged channels 6 each of which extends through the body and accommodates a contact 19 (Fig. 4). A cover 14 is slidable on to body 1 with grooves 12, 13 accommodating ridges 10, 1], and has lugs 17 through which it can be secured to a printed circuit panel inserted into slot 3 of body 1 and fitting between the lugs 17 when the cover is in position. The lead wires connected to the contacts in body 1 pass in through cover 14 and may be assembled in the form of a cable harness. The resilient contacts 19 which form the subject of Specification 838,544, are held in channels 6 by shoulders 26, 27 which engage projections in the walls of the channels.
Patent GB-1428646-A (GB)
Title: Process for the production of fruit flakes and fruit flakes produced thereby
IPC: A23L19/00
Filed: 1974-01-16
Abstract: 1428646 Fruit flakes H H RABELER 16 Jan 1974 [18 Jan 1973] 02025/74 Heading A2B Fruit flakes consisting of a dry mass produced from a fruit pulp (as defined), sugar (as defined) and starch containing substances, said flakes having an irregular grooved, crimped or waffle-type structure of irregular thickness are produced by applying a moist homogenous mass of the essential components in at least one thin layer onto a hot smooth underlay, extracting moisture from the mass to form a coherent ductile or thermoplastic film, stripping the film off, the hot underlay and continuously damming-up, compressing, braking and/or drawing out or pulling the film so that it adopts a grooved, crimped or waffle-type structure, and finally cooling, drying and dividing the film into pieces to form substantially regularly shaped fruit flakes. The moist material may contain from 80-85% fruit pulp, 5-10% sugar and 5-10% starch-containing substances. The underlay may be heated by saturated steam at from 4-6 atmospheres pressure and at 110‹- 140‹C. The fruit composition may be applied as a layer of 1-2 mm thickness. At the end of the processing, the material may be cut into longitudinal strips of adjustable width and then transversely divided into flakes.
Patent GB-1476718-A (GB)
Title: Solo board games apparatus
IPC: A63F9/06
Filed: 1976-01-20
Abstract: 1476718 Board game G F WHITING 20 Jan 1976 02120/76 Heading A6H [Also in Division B8] A solo board game comprises a board having a starting area 25 leading to a turntable 24 and thence to a freely rotatable rotor 23 having at least three radially set blades 28 divided into sections which can be brought into alignment with "home" areas 22, and sets of playing pieces having coloured and numbered or coloured and lettered pieces corresponding to similar markings or subdivisions of the "home" areas.  There may be 4 sets of 5, 9 or 13 pieces. (The latter may represent the 52 playing cards of a standard pack.) 3 sets of 7 pieces are provided .when there are only 3 blades on the rotor and 3 "home" areas. (5 sets of. 7 pieces of 7 and 5 could also be provided.) A pointer may be provided for turning the table. The surface of the apparatus may be flush or the turn-tables and squares may project. The rotor blades have side fences 27 or the squares are dished. There may be up to seven squares on each rotor blade. The playing pieces may be wooden or hollow plastics dice and carry the same number on at least five faces. (The plastics dice may be open on its base.) The dice "6" and "9" may be distinguished by having "SIX" or "NINE" printed on them. A container, Fig. 7, allows the dice to be shaken out one-at-a-time through a sliding door but also has a removable lid. The dice may be replaced by pieces as in Fig. 15. These pieces are not shaken from a container but are selected by using a pack of standard playing cards.
Patent GB-212043-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or connected with bracelets
IPC: A44C5/08
Filed: 1923-01-24
Abstract: 212,043. Thompson, G. H. Jan. 24, 1923. Bracelets.-A spring-expanding bracelet comprises a series of curved box-like external links 11, with flat ends which are slotted, as at 12, for the passage therethrough of the spring-containing internal links 13. A bar 12<a> between the slots in each end forms an abutment for the corresponding spring 14 contained in the link 13. The internal links are initially divided longitudinally and the parts are jointed, as by soldering, after insertion in the links 11. The open bottoms 11<a> of the links 11, and slotted sides of the links 13, permit the springs 14 to be twisted into position in the links 13. The external links may be made of double width to accommodate two internal links side by side. Ornamentation may be employed on the links 11.
Patent GB-509846-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to fire alarm systems or the like
IPC: G08B17/00
Filed: 1938-01-22
Abstract: 509,846. Fire-alarm systems. AUTOMATIC TELEPHONE & ELECTRIC CO., Ltd., and BROWN, W. J. Jan. 22, 1938, No. 2196. [Class 40 (i)] In a fire-alarm or like system arranged for markings characteristic of a calling point to be recorded on a moving tape, an indication of the time which elapses before a particular action such as the fire engine turnout takes place in response to a call, is recorded on the same tape. Impulses received from a calling point by the fire alarm equipment are repeated to operate slow-to-release relay G, which remains operated throughout the receipt of the code, causing relay B to operate to prepare a circuit for relay S, completed every second, for half a second, when contacts 13 close under the control of a clock. Upon S operating, driving magnet DM is energised and relay A operated, S releasing, when contacts 13 open, causing the step-by-step switch associated with magnet DM to step rotating a type wheel which prints on a moving tape when the magnet PSM is entergised during the release period of A. When the engine leaves the station, contacts 14 are momentarily closed, and, if the code is still being received so that G is still operated, slow-to-operate relay C operates and locks up, magnet EPM printing an indication on the tape that the engine has left. At the termination of the code, G, B, and C release in turn, completing a homing circuit for driving magnet DM including relay X which prevents the reception of a. further call until this operation is completed. If the code terminated before contacts 14 closed, G will have been released, B remaining operated so that the driving magnet will have stepped on the type wheel without, however, the printing magnet PSM being energised. Upon the contacts 14 closing, C will operate, releasing B, in turn releasing C, as above, and causing the type wheel to print and the apparatus to return to normal. Fault indication. If contacts 14 should remain closer, a delayed alarm circuit is completed over line 12, while if they fail to close, a relay, (not shown), locked up when the call was received and normally released upon relay C operating, brings in a delayed alarm.
Patent GB-524148-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to sewing machines
IPC: D05B15/00
Filed: 1939-01-23
Abstract: 524,148. Sewing-machines BRITISH UNITED SHOE MACHINERY CO., Ltd., (United Shoe Machinery Corporation). Jan. 23, 1939, No. 2207. [Class 112] In a hook-needle chain-stitch shoe inseam sewing-machine the take-up 12 co-operates with a thread tension device 178 arranged to increase the tension on the thread gradually, during the formation of each stitch, from a relatively small value to a maximum value as the take-up reaches the limit of its thread tightening movement. The tension wheel is braked by a block 182 pivotally mounted on one arm 42 of a lever and a tensioning spring 46 is interposed between an adjusting screw on another arm 54 and a pin 48 on the take-up lever 12. Specifications 28985/10, [Class 112], 418,823 and 513,070 are referred to.
Patent GB-925476-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to safety door systems
IPC: E05G5/02
Filed: 1961-01-19
Abstract: 925,476. Trapping bandits. A. V. SIMMONDS. Dec. 12, 1961 [Jan. 19, 1961], No. 2227/61. Class 106 (3). [Also in Group XXV] A safety locking door system for a bank comprises at least two doors 1, 2 in series so as to define a space therebetween and an electrically-operated remotely-controlled overriding locking device which may be operated to trap a person in the space between the doors. Each door is locked by a spring-loaded armature 6 which is retracted when a solenoid A is energized, the retracted armature A closing contacts AS to thereby close a holding circuit for maintaining the solenoid energized. The solenoids are energized from the power or a battery arranged in parallel therewith and adapted to function only in the event of a power failure. The circuit for details of which, Fig. 2, (not shown), should be referred to incorporates alarm buttons and a reset switch housed in a locked armoured box disposed, if desired, outside the building. The doors may be replaced by a partioned .revolving door supporting along its top a cam ring adapted to be engaged by a solenoidoperated spring-loaded locking bolt (see Figs. 3 and 4, not shown), the circuit incorporating a switch actuated by a foot mat which when actuated together with an alarm button effects locking (see Fig. 5, not shown).
Patent GB-574613-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to template or pattern-controlled machine tools
IPC: B23Q35/10
Filed: 1944-02-07
Abstract: 574,613. Milling-machines. ARON, E., and POLLAD, E. Feb. 7, 1944, No. 2235. [Class 83 (iii)] In a copying machine-tool, such as a routing-machine, in which a rotary cutter is moved in unison with a tracer, the toolholder is mounted so as to be freely movable directly by hand in one plane and is provided with feeding means for moving it in a direction transverse to said plane, the feeding means taking the thrust during cutting. The tool (not shown) and the tracer 16, 17 are both carried by a slide 14 mounted for vertical movement in a supporting frame 10 having at each end vertical rods 11 by which the frame is supported by levers from a base-plate so as to be freely movable by hand in a horizontal plane. Feed moveinent in a vertical direction is imparted to the tool and tracer slide 14 by a lead screw 31 mounted in the frame and engaging a half-nut 27 slidingly mounted on the slide, a spring mounted between the half-nut and a shoulder on the slide urging the slide in a downward direction to provide a resilient in-feed of the tool. The lead screw is rotated by a worm-wheel 33 engaged by a worm 52 on a horizontal shaft 34 mounted in the frame 10. For a comparatively slow down-feed of the slide, the shaft 34 is rotated through bevel gears 36, 38, one-way clutch 41, 42, shaft 39 and manually-operable' crank 49. A more rapid up-feed is obtained by rotating the shaft 34 through gears 54 and a hand wheel 57.
Patent GB-564485-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to ship construction of reinforced material
IPC: B63B1/04
Filed: 1943-02-10
Abstract: 564,485. Reinforced concrete &c. ships. YOURKEVITCH, V. Feb. 10, 1943, No. 2243. Convention date, April 15, 1942. [Class 113 (ii)] A ship's hull made of reinforced material, such as concrete or plastic, comprises bow and stern sections 12, 13 connected by a number of substantially tangential parallel tubular units which have,their adjacent portions connected 'together. Each tubular unit may comprise a number of cylindrical sections 7 secured to each other end to end, whilst a deck 14 and a bottom 15, with or without a keel or fins, are secured to the parts 7, 12, 13 by means of radial anchorages 8, 9. Each section may be formed by centrifugal moulding ; the projecting portions of the reinforcing bars 2 are welded together and enclosed in concrete, as at 11. Alternatively, the sections may have flanges 19 bolted together, some being formed to provide bulkheads with reinforcing ribs 18. The anchorages 8 may comprise horizontally or vertically overlapping lugs bolted together with resilient material to provide flexibility. In the modification shown in Fig. 15, two tubular sections 20, 21 are cast integrally with a deck section 24 and a bottom section 23.
Patent GB-1444708-A (GB)
Title: Valve for a compressor
IPC: F16K15/16
Filed: 1975-01-17
Abstract: 1444708 Valves BORSIG GmbH 17 Jan 1975 [26 Jan 1974] 2243/75 Heading F2V [Also in Division F1] A delivery valve for a compressor comprises a seat plate 1 having a number of slots controlled by a steel valve plate 4 having a number of resilient fingers 6 and a lift limiting plate 7 having a number of rigid fingers 8 making a sharp angle at 9 with the remainder of the plate. The distance b to the root of the valve fingers is equal to or smaller than the distance a (not shown) to the end of the slots but the distance c to the root of the fingers of the lift-limiting plate is greater than b. It is stated that by this arrangement the valve member will flex as shown and not pivot about the point 9 with resulting fatigue failure. The lift-limiting fingers are made wider and longer than the valve fingers and may have slots or holes through them to assist in preventing the valve fingers from sticking to them. Fig. 5 (not shown) illustrates a method of installing the valve in a planetary piston rotary compressor. The valve is held in place by a cup-shaped clamping member (20) itself held in place by an outlet spigot (19) screw-threaded into the compressor casing.
Patent GB-1035852-A (GB)
Title: Washing machines, particularly for cleaning machine parts
IPC: B08B3/04
Filed: 1964-01-17
Abstract: <PICT:1035852/C6-C7/1> In a washing machine, e.g. for cleaning machine parts, the material to be washed is fed by a helical conveyer through three zones in series in which it is (1) sprayed with detergent liquid, (2) spray rinsed and (3) dried by heating.  Parts to be washed are fed by a stationary hopper 12 (Fig. 1, not shown) and vibrating hopper 13 (Fig. 1) to a rotating perforated drum 1 and through the drum 1 by a helix 11 (Fig. 4 not shown) fixed within it. In zones 15, 16, 17 they are respectively washed with detergent, rinsed with water and dried.  The drum is rotated on rollers 3 and is provided with lifting baffles 30 (Figs. 4 and 5 not shown).  The detergent and rinse water are sprayed from jet orifices in a stationary rigid pipe 19 within the drum 1, the pipe being blocked between the washing and rinsing zones and being fed with detergent at 28 and with water at 29.  The drying in zone 17 is by electric heating bars mounted on insulating material 18. Partition assemblies 20, 21 (Fig. 7 not shown), which divide the drum 1 into the zones 15, 16, 17 are secured to the stationary pipe 19, each partition assembly comprising two pairs of flanges 22, 23 and rubber rings 24 which contact the inside of the helix.  Bins for supplying to the drum 1 parts to be washed are themselves similarly washed in a tunnel 47 above the drum.  The bins 49 (Fig. 3, not shown) are pushed mouth downwards along rollers 48 and spray treated from nozzles in a pipe 53. Used liquid from the bins and parts being cleaned is filtered at 39 (Fig. 3 not shown) as it drains into sumps 41, 42, is heated in the sumps at 43, 44 and recirculated.
Patent GB-547296-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to electric measuring instruments
IPC: G01R5/14
Filed: 1941-02-20
Abstract: 547,296. Current measurements. SANGAMO WESTON, Ltd., and TAGG, G. F. Feb. 20, 1941, No. 2340. [Class 37] In an electrical measuring instrument of the moving iron type, the torque producing means comprise a main component and one or more auxiliary components excited similarly to, but displaced from, the main component the auxiliary component &c. assisting the main component when the elements of the torque producing means of the latter have certain angular relationships and opposing when the said elements have other angular relationships. The auxiliary component may consist of a coil acting on the same moving iron as the main coil or on a different one. The pointer 2 is carried by a shaft 1 on which is mounted a moving iron 3 of the spiral type embraced by a pole 6. The main coil 4 and auxiliary coil 5 are arranged symmetrically on opposite sides of the shaft 1, and are so connected in series or in shunt that their magnetic fields are in the same general direction. The fields of both coils tend to rotate the part 3 in the direction of the arrow 7 until the part X of the cone 3 reaches the line A-B and for greater currents after the part X has passed the line the coil 4 is still producing a torque in the direction of the arrow 7 while the coil 5 exerts an opposing torque. In a second form, Fig. 3, the coil 5 is arranged behind the coil 4 and is provided with its own moving iron 8 in the shape of a sector mounted on the shaft 1 ; both coils exerting a torque in the direction of the arrow 7 until the sector 8 reaches the position shown and then for further turning the torque of the iron 3 is opposed by that of the iron 8.
Patent GB-346858-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in the production of carbon and hydrogen chloride
IPC: C01B31/00
Filed: 1930-01-23
Abstract: Carbon black and hydrogen chloride are produced by treating with chlorine the products resulting from the cracking of heavy hydrocarbon oils in the vapour phase in the presence of hydrogen chloride.  Crude petroleum is vaporized in a heated silica cylinder together with hydrogen chloride and passed to a cracking chamber, the products, with or without the separation of some of the constituents, being caused to react with chlorine in the manner described in Specification 317,165, [Class 1 (ii), Inorganic compounds, other than &c.].  The carbon black so removed and a quantity of hydrogen chloride equivalent to the chlorine used is separated and may be treated as described in Specification 343,676 to regenerate the chlorine, the excess of hydrogen chloride being returned to the cracking process.  The cracking temperature is 600 to 700 DEG  C., the pressure may be atmospheric and an excess of hydrogen chloride, e.g. five times the volume of hydrocarbon vapour, may be employed, the process being continuous. Less than the theoretical amount of chlorine may be used, hydrocarbons in excess being returned to the cracking stage.
Patent GB-328268-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to pressure fed vaporiser apparatus
IPC: F23D99/00
Filed: 1929-01-23
Abstract: 328,268. Shell-Mex, Ltd., and Richardson, A. W. Jan. 23, 1929. Single-acting piston pumps. -A pressure-fed vaporizing apparatus is fitted with a pump for suppying oil to the starting cup. The pump barrel 26 is mounted in a fitting 27 which screws into the fuel container 1 and also carries a tube 28 closed at its lower end by a cap 29 with a non-return valve 31. Oil forced out bv the piston 19 passes from the annular space between the barrel and the tube 28 past a non-return valve 35 to the starting cup.
Patent GB-209302-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to pneumatic tyres for vehicle wheels
IPC: B60C5/18
Filed: 1923-01-26
Abstract: 209,302. Wallis, S. A. Jan. 26, 1923. Air tubes and chambers.-A tyre comprises a series of hollow balls A each fitted in a hemispherical cup B having a grooved rim in which engages a beaded edge D formed on an outer cover section C. The tread portions of the sections C preferably abut as shown in Fig. 1. The air chambers A may be formed with nipples E for inflation by a needle pump. In the construction shown, one side flange of the wheel rim K is formed in sections J detachably secured by plates L and transverse bolts M.
Patent GB-547298-A (GB)
Title: Improved method of and means for disintegrating and reclaiming fabrics of jute and the like for re-use
IPC: D04B17/00
Filed: 1941-02-22
Abstract: 547,298. Opening or unravelling woven fabrics; cutting fabrics. TAIT, J. D. Feb. 22, 1941, No. 2428. [Class 120 (i)] [Also in Group VIII] Woven fabric of jute &c. is disintegrated by cutting it into strips of predetermined width at an angle to the warp and weft and then unweaving the strip or strips by successively and angularly drawing out the warps and wefts so that separate sets of threads of the same or different uniform length are obtained; the separated threads may be opened up by agitating them in a water or other bath or by mechanically treating them and may then be dried and picked, carded or otherwise treated to form a loose mass of fibres or a sliver or roving. As shown the fabric is fed by rollers 17, Fig. 4, to pairs of circular cutters 16 adjustably mounted on shafts 30, 30a for varying the width of the cut strips the fabric 19, Fig. 1, being presented to the rollers so that it is cut at an angle to the warp and weft threads which may be of the same or different length in the strips 20 or 21; the fabric is guided and controlled before and after it is cut by endless bands 41 passing around the rollers 17 and rollers 21, by which the cut strips are fed from the cutters, and running in contact with flanges on the cutters. The rollers 24 feed the parallel strips over supporting members 27 to a pair of rollers 26 having radial spikes which are relatively staggered in the two rollers and from the rollers 26 the strips pass to a pair of nip rollers 29, preferably formed as twin elements 29, 29a, Fig. 8, which rotate faster than the rollers 26 and draw out the weft and warp threads which have been penetrated, and held back, by the spikes 28 of the rollers 26. The nip rollers are carried on an adjustable frame 49 pivoted at its lower end so that the rollers may be set at any desired distance from the spiked rollers and are each formed with a series of undercut sockets carrying strips 68, Fig. 8, of rubber or other frictional material. The pairs of nipping rollers may be replaced by discs 70, 70a, Fig. 10, having ratchet-like teeth of curved undercut form which catch the threads and drag them downwards; the teeth on adjacent discs may be relatively staggered and a sloping or horizontal shelf 74 recessed opposite the discs to form shoulders 76 may be arranged at the level of the disc shaft to support the threads as they are dragged out of the strip. A partition may be arranged to separate the drawn out warp and weft threads and lead them to separate containers with the assistance of air pressure or a vacuum. The nip rollers 29 or discs 70 may be driven from the cutting means or independently by a separate drive and the rotary cutters may be replaced by a guillotine.
Patent GB-145815-A (GB)
Title: Apparatus for playing a game of skill with a captive ball
IPC: A63B69/00
Filed: 1919-01-31
Abstract: 145,815. Linley, C. M. Jan. 31,1919. Outdoor games.-In a game apparatus wherein the players strike a captive ball E, the support for the ball comprises a tubular standard formed of sections A, A<1> rigidly secured to an adjustable base B and containing a central rod C curved at the top to form a support for the ball and connected through the tubular standard to a scoring-device F. The rod C, which is of rectangular cross-section, carries a sleeve, coupling A<4> which slides within a short tube A<3> secured to the section A and fitting into the section A<1>. A lower rod c<1> also of square cross-sections fits into a hole in the coupling, the entrance to the hole being enlarged as shown to facilitate engagement. The rods C and c<1> are supported on ball bearings so as to rotate during play. The scoring-device F is actuated by the rod c' and may be arranged concentrically therewith as shown in Fig. 3. A projection c<2> on the rod rotates a plate J by means of intermediate gearing. In engagement with the plate are two oppositely-acting pawls attached respectively to indicating-pointers M, M<1> which are thus advanced in opposite directions over a dial G according to the direction of rotation of the rod c<1>. The leading pointer displaces a catch o<1> from a support o', and a hammer o<3> falls against a bell Q, thus signalling the termination of a game.