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Patent GB-1380674-A (GB)
Title: Electric control devices with mechanical interlock
IPC: H01H50/32
Filed: 1973-03-20
Abstract: 1380674 Linkworks WESTINGHOUSE ELECTRIC CORP 20 March 1973 [28 March (2)] 13314/73 Heading F2K [Also in Division H1] A mechanical interlock used with two adjacently disposed contactors comprises a cross-beam 165 supported by a linkage, and two spring biased actuators 161 each associated with one of the contactors and actuatable by its armature and each co-operating respectively with opposite ends of the cross-beam such that operation of one of these actuators will move its associated end of the beam downwards and cause the other end of the beam to rise and lock the other actuator via the linkage and thus its associated contactor armature. The beam is supported at pivots 167b, 169b, by links 167, 169, which move about pivots 167a, 169a on the casing 157 to form a linkage such that in the neutral position the pivot points represent the corners of an isosceles triangle and the beam one of the parallel sides. In other embodiments, the actuators are connected to the beam via links (171, 172), Fig. 15, not shown, or by laterally projecting arms (173), Fig. 16, not shown, or the beam and links may be made in one piece of plastics material, when the pivot points are areas of reduced thickness, Fig. 17, not shown. In a further embodiment, Fig. 19, not shown, the actuators are at either end of a beam pivoted at its centre (162) to the interlock body, so that they move in an angular manner. An electrical interlock, Fig. 22, may be associated with the mechanical interlock when a moving contact 199 on a flexible strip conductor 196 is moved in or out of contact with a fixed contact 194 by flexing of the strip as a cam follower portion of the strip rides along a camming portion of the actuator 161.
Patent GB-371619-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in steam traps
IPC: F16T1/26
Filed: 1931-05-06
Abstract: 371,619. Steam traps. ROYLES, Ltd. and ROYLE, A. G., Dalham Engineering Works, Irlam, near Manchester. May 6, 1931, No. 13324. [Class 64 (ii).] A steam trap for superheated systems comprises a casing b with a steam inlet b<1>, water outlet pipe g and a pivotally mounted bucket or open float d with a projection e adapted to close the outlet f<1> from the trap and a buoyant counterbalance i connected to the float at the opposite side of the pivot d<1>. The counterbalance when not floating closes the outlet by raising the projection e ; and when sufficient water has collected to support the counterbalance the bucket float functions normally. Thus the valve f<1> is closed when the trap is substantially dry or superheated and open when the float is filled with condensation water. The turning moment of the counterbalance i may be varied by adjusting its weight or position on an arm h. A baffle k with ears l prevents incoming water from entering the float directly.
Patent GB-188287-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in loaded signalling conductors
IPC: H01B11/14
Filed: 1922-05-11
Abstract: 188,287. Western Electric Co., Ltd., (Western Electric Co., Inc.). May 11, 1922. Coating.-Iron and nickel are plated upon a conducting-core and the deposit subsequently heated to obtain an alloy. The deposit preferalbly contains at least 20 per cent of nickel. Specification 188,688, [Class 82 (i), Metals, Extracting &c.], is referred to.
Patent GB-889530-A (GB)
Title: A bearing assembly including a sealing member
Inventor: CURTIS GEORGE W
IPC: F16C33/78
Filed: 1958-04-28
Abstract: 889,530. Stuffing-box substitutes. TIMKEN ROLLER BEARING CO. April 28, 1958, No. 13364/58. Class 122 (5). [Also in Group XXXIV] A bearing assembly comprises an outer race 7 mounted in a housing 12 and an inner race 6 carrying a flexible sealing member 15 having a flange 28 adapted to bear against the housing 12 and a flange 25 adapted to bear against the end of the outer race 7 only after a predetermined amount of wear of the flange 28 has taken place. An annular groove 30 increases the flexibility of the flange 28 relative to the diaphragm 18. A mounting member 22 is adapted to be press-fitted on the inner race 6 and may be moulded or vulcanized into flanges 20, 21 of the seal.
Patent GB-1380293-A (GB)
Title: Jenction construction for liquid-tight plywood for low temperature use
IPC: F17C13/00
Filed: 1972-03-22
Abstract: 1380293 Cold liquefied gas storage tanks HITACHI SHIPBUILDING & ENG CO Ltd 22 March 1972 [9 July 1971 (2)] 13391/72 Heading F4P  The subject matter of this Specification is substantially the same as part of that described in Specification 1,380,294 but the claims relate to sealing of abutting liquid tight plywood sheets.
Patent GB-119080-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Machines for Rounding or Rounding and Channelling Boot or Shoe Soles.
IPC: A43D43/02
Filed: 1917-09-19
Abstract: 119,080. British United Shoe Machinery Co., (United Shoe Machinery Co.). Sept. 19, 1917. Trimming; channelling.-A sole-rounding or sole-rounding and channelling machine is provided with means for varying the position of the sole rest, which determines the angle of the sole with relation to the path of the trimming knife, as the forepart guide is moved into and out of operation. The invention is described as applied to the machine described in Specification 13301/10, and comprises, in addition to the usual sole-supporting block 6 carrying the channel knife 4, a second sole support 44 which is pivoted to the slide carrying the block 6 and is held bv a spring 50 with an adjustable stop-screw 46 in engagement with a cam plate 48. This plate is formed on the end of a lever 52 which is supported on a pivot screw 54 and is slotted at its rear end to embrace the treadle rod 18 controlling the usual forepart guide 12; collars 56 adjustably secured to the rod serve to rock the lever as the guide is moved into and out of action. The movement of the support 44 serves to tip the shoe so that the edge of the sole will be trimmed substantially at right-angles to its tread surface.
Patent GB-254668-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to the manufacture of unsplinterable glass and other vitous cemented composite bodies
Filed: 1925-01-26
Abstract: 254,668. Hope, E. Jan. 26, 1925. Adhesives.-Composite bodies of glass and cellulose ester, or of other vitreous material, are united by a polymerized ester of itaconic acid. Before use, the itaconic ester is heated until it becomes viscous; the polymerization is completed by further heating after the composite body has been formed. The cement may also be used in forming other vitreous composite bodies.
Patent GB-595165-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to pressure accumulators
IPC: F15B1/18
Filed: 1945-05-31
Abstract: 595,165. Hydraulic accumulators. MERCIER, J. May 31, 1945, No. 13710. [Class 69 (ii)] In a pressure accumulator comprising a collapsable bag 12 for a buffer gas, a pressure vessel 10 surrounding the bag and providing a space 14 for the liquid to be stored under pressure, a conduit 28 and a closure 30 for said conduit, the closure has a surface that cooperates with the bag as the bag expands, characterised in that said surface is of different shape from the shape of the co-operating surface of the bag at the initial moment of co-operation and that the closure has a plurality of passages 36 so spaced that they are sealed progressively, thus enabling all the liquid to be expelled from the vessel by the expanding bag before all the passages are sealed. In the form shown in Fig. 2, the closure has a displaceable valve element 42 and a seat 44 therefor, means for attaching the bag to the element and a spring 40 normally holding said element off said seat until all the liquid is expelled from the vessel by the expanding bag.
Patent GB-237059-A (GB)
Title: Means for playing a game of skill
IPC: A63F9/02
Filed: 1924-06-05
Abstract: 237,059. Pinder, G. June 5, 1924. Table games.-Apparatus for playing a table game comprises a metal plate 2 mounted on a board 1 and connected to the positive terminal of an electric battery, and a number of brass studs 13 mounted on the plate 2 but insulated therefrom and disposed in concentric circles, the studs in each circle being cannected together and through a bell 10 and lamp 9 to the negative terminal of the battery. A metal disc 19 is thrown on to the plate 2 with the object of forming a contact between a stud and the plate, thereby causing a bell 10 to ring and a lamp 9 to illuminate a numbered translucent plate 12 indicating the score. The board 8 carrying the bells and lamps is hinged to the board 1.
Patent GB-1586737-A (GB)
Title: Closed loop machining system
IPC: B23Q7/00
Filed: 1978-04-07
Abstract: Three machine tools (10, 12, 14) are arranged at a distance from one another in a triangle. Each machine tool has a work table (22, 24, 26) which can slide along a horizontal axis and gradually about a vertical axis. Each work table has a guide device for accommodating a pallet (34) which carries one or more workpieces. One displacing unit (16, 18, 20) each for the workpieces is arranged respectively between adjacent machine tools and has a guide device for accommodating a pallet (34) and a hydraulically actuated slide which takes hold of the pallet and displaces it along the guide device from one machine tool to the adjacent machine tool. The loaded pallets are inserted into the loop at an operating station (46) and are transported in a controlled sequence to the next machine tool. The finish-machined workpieces are finally returned to the operating station, where they are then removed. The installation is compact and enables the workpieces to be fed and removed at a single operating station. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-892438-A (GB)
Title: Securing means for multi-storey concrete buildings erected on the 'lift-slab' principle
IPC: E04B1/35
Filed: 1960-04-19
Abstract: 892,438. Erecting multi-storey buildings. INTERNATIONAL LIFT SLAB CORPORATION. April 19, 1960, No. 13748/60. Class 20(1) In a multi-storey building erected by the "lift slab" method wherein roof and floor slabs are successively raised along vertical columns, collars 10 are embedded in each slab 16 so as to surround each column 26, and the slab is secured at the required level by driving wedges 34 between the lower face of each collar 10 and the upper inclined faces 38 of abutments 28 on the sides of the column. The upper edge 40 of each wedge may be V-shaped and engage in a complementary groove 42 in the collar, or alternatively it may be retained in position by a flange depending from the collar outwardly of the wedge. To prevent lateral movement, recesses in the inner face of the collar in alignment with the abutments 28 receive co-acting wedges 44, 46 or are filled with grout. On two opposite faces the collar has outward projections comprising vertical tubes 22 having keyhole slots 24 at their upper ends for receiving lifting rods. Specification 744,462 is referred to.
Patent GB-1501603-A (GB)
Title: Screens
IPC: B07B1/46
Filed: 1976-04-06
Abstract: 1501603 Sieves GREENINGS SOUTH AFRICA (PTY) Ltd 6 April 1976 [8 April 1975] 13790/76 Heading B2H A screen for a vibratory screening apparatus comprises a plurality of screening elements 22, 24 secured to a support frame by engagement of a lip 19 upstanding from the frame with a lug 28 formed by an undercut surface of a rib 26 depending from the peripheral region of each element. The frame may comprise ribbed members 14, Fig. 2, or channel shaped members having continuous side walls and may be formed of metal or polyurethane. The screen elements are preferably formed of polyurethane and have holes of frusto - rectangular pyramidal shape. Each screen element is preferably square with its rib extending continuously around its peripheral region.
Patent GB-831286-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in return tube boilers
IPC: F22B7/12
Filed: 1957-05-01
Abstract: 831,286. Return tube steam boilers. FARRAR BOILERWORKS Ltd., and PALMER, J. E. March 19, 1998 [May 1, 1957], No. 13807/57. Class 123(2) In a return tube boiler having a cylindrical shell 1 with a coaxially mounted, tapering flue tube 4 extending between front and rear tube plates 2, 3 the return tubes 7 fan out towards the rear plate 3 as allowed by the reducing diameter of the flue tube and are themselves of reduced diameter at their rearward ends. Consequently the tube holes in the rear plate are of smaller size and are more widely spaced than those in the front plate and the rear plate, which is disposed at a region of high gas temperature, is correspondingly strengthened.
Patent GB-419528-A (GB)
Title: A process for manufacturing a remedy containing an emanation
IPC: A61K51/12
Filed: 1933-05-12
Abstract: A radio-active medicinal preparation is made by incorporating a radio-active emanation in an edible fat e.g. butter, margarine or lard which is in a solid or congealed state at ordinary temperatures. The emanation is passed into a mixing vessel containing the fat, or it may be first taken up in water, oil or melted fat which is then mixed with the solid fat.
Patent GB-220987-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in metal shearing machines
IPC: B23D35/00
Filed: 1923-05-26
Abstract: 220,987. Donald, G., and Craig & Donald, Ltd. May 26, 1923. Shear - blades. - In machines for shearing scrap metal the upper blade is provided with one or more integral or attached stepped portions BC, EF at the open end of the shear for the purpose of crushing obstructions on the scrap. Reference has been directed by the Comptroller to Specification 1726/74.
Patent GB-293289-A (GB)
Title: An improved handle for brushes, mops and the like
IPC: B25G3/00
Filed: 1928-05-11
Abstract: 293,289. Axten, C. J., and Long, A. T. May 11, 1928. Sectional handles; loss-preventing attachments; grip-facilitating; fixing by self-grip sockets and tangs.-A brush, mop, &c. handle is in two sections 1, 2, the part 1 which has the socket 3 to take the stem 2 being shorter than the stem and of greater diameter and reduced in thickness at the middle part 5 for ease of handling. The socket may be slightly tapered and the upper end of the stem provided with a saw cut to hold the parts securely together and the two parts may be connected by a cord to prevent one being lost.
Patent GB-145952-A (GB)
Title: Improved hand substitute for use with artificial limbs
IPC: A61F2/58
Filed: 1919-06-02
Abstract: 145,952. Dean, A. June 2, 1919. Limbs, artificial.-A device for attachment to an artificial arm and adapted to hold tools comprises a socket 1 made in halves hinged together at 2 and holding a ball 3. A stud 4 is provided on the socket for attachment to the arm and a stud 5 on the ball 3 for securing the tool. A bolt 6 serves to clamp the ball or allows free movement. In modifications, the bolt 6 is surrounded by a spring tending to press the parts of the socket apart and the ball may have an internally screwed stud capable also of retaining unscrewed shanks of tools by means of a spring bolt. The ball itself may be bored or the tools may have balls formed on them for engagement in the socket.
Patent GB-960323-A (GB)
Title: Auxiliary wheel
IPC: B60B11/10
Filed: 1962-04-11
Abstract: 960,323. Auxiliary wheels. REPUBLIC AVIATION CORPORATION. April 11, 1962 [April 27, 1961], No. 13951/62. Headings B7C and B7D. An auxiliary wheel 15 to raise and help to support a mass, such as a vehicle with a wheel 10 having a flat tyre, without the aid of a jack, comprises an originally eccentrically-disposed axle stud 16 to engage with the vehicle, a connection 18, 19 between the stud and vehicle to prevent relative movement, and means such as a cable 36 to rotate the auxiliary wheel to a position where it is coaxial with the stud, thus transferring part of the load of the vehicle to the auxiliary wheel. The wheel 15 comprises an outer ring 20 to which is tangentially secured an inner ring 22 having a substantially smaller diameter, as shown in Fig. 4, and within which ballbearings 27 facilitate rotation of an axle ring 26. An axle 17 from which the stud 16 extends is similarly free to rotate within a boss 29 welded to the inner periphery of the axle ring 26. Rods 47, 48, whose ends are received in apertures 50 in the ring 26, are normally held telescoped together by a dog 63 engaging in a step 61 of a sector plate 60 mounted on a pin 56 and connected to the rods through a system of levers 55, 54, 53. The wheel 15 is connected by means of the stud 16 to the axle of the wheel 10, Fig. 1, and is then rotated by applying a towing force to one end of the cable 36 until its other end, which is releasably secured to the wheel 15 and is initially adjacent its point of contact with the ground, reaches the highest point of the wheel. The axle 17 is thus raised so that it is coaxial with the wheel 15, Fig. 4. As it approaches this coaxial position, a projection 69 on the ring 22 strikes a reciprocable rod 65 mounted on a diametrically-disposed rib 57 welded to the ring 26, causing the dog 63 to be disengaged from the step 61. A spring 58 is thus permitted to move to force the rods 47, 48 into apertures 52 in the ring 22, and the sector plate 60 is thereby caused by the levers 53, 54, 55 to rotate about the pin 56 until the dog 63 engages a further step 62. The rings 20, 22, 26 having been thus locked together, the vehicle may move with the wheel 15 acting in place of the wheel 10. To disengage the rods from the apertures 52, a lever 70 projecting from the pin 56 is rotated, which in turn causes the rods to move back into their telescoped position and the sector plate 60 to rotate until the dog 63 again engages the step 61, locking the rods in this position. In a modification to give increased traction on soft ground, Fig. 6, plates 74 disposed between the tread 21 and rim 20a of the wheel 15 are provided with conical projections 72 received in complementary recesses 71 in the rim.
Patent GB-1312035-A (GB)
Title: Electroslag furnaces
IPC: H05B7/102
Filed: 1971-05-10
Abstract: 1312035 Electroslag remelting apparatus CONSARC CORP 10 May 1971 [11 May 1970] 14011/71 Heading B3F [Also in Division H5] In order to prevent stirring of the molten metal pool 56 by the interacting magnetic fields of the main process current and the current in the supply conductors of an electroslag furnace 10, it is arranged that the current conductor to the top of the electrode 50 and the return conductor from the base of the ingot 53 form a vertically orientated coaxial conductor arrangement. The return conductor is a plurality of discrete conductors 58, 60, 62, 64 or is the crucible 12 itself, in the latter case the crucible being electrically connected to the base 20 as well as to the head 22. Head 22 is reciprocably and rotatably supported above the crucible 12 by a pin 24 which is lifted by an hydraulic cylinder 97. A water cooled conductor 34 is supported on the head 22 by hydraulic cylinders 36, and electrode 50 is supported at the end of conductor 34 by a clamp 48. Power is supplied to conductor 34 via a sliding contact assembly 52 in head 22 and via a pair of water cooled conductors 54 from the power supply 200. Each of the return conductors 58-64 is in two separable sections 66, 68, 70, 72, and 82, 84, 86, 88, with coupling parts 92, 94, and locking means 96.
Patent GB-1248289-A (GB)
Title: Cassette adapter
IPC: G11B25/06
Filed: 1969-03-18
Abstract: 1,248,289. Cassettes; adapters. MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL CO. Ltd. 18 March, 1969 [19 March, 1968; 3 April, 1968], No. 14017/69. Heading G5R. An adapter 21, enabling a cassette to be used with a cartridge player 11 for which it was not designed, includes an insertion opening for the cassette, a tape transport and a head 44 and pinch roller 43 mounted on a plate 42 movable towards the opening by engagement of knobs 47, 48 with a wall of the opening as the adapter is loaded to the player. The tape is thereby pressed against a capstan 34 arranged to be belt-driven from a roller 39 itself driven by the player capstan 17 when a switch 18 is operated by the adapter to energize the motor, and the spool spindles are driven by belts 33, 35 from the capstan 34. Electrical connection to the head 44 is made by contacts 20, by capacitive coupling, or by electromagnetic coupling with the player head 15, in which case the contacts 14 normally used for auto-stopping provide the power supply to the coupling device. The adapter may alternatively contain a motor connected to the contacts 50 and may have a lug on its front face to operate a switch in the player energizing only the audio amplifier.
Patent GB-595116-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in internal combustion turbine plant
IPC: F01D25/24
Filed: 1942-10-06
Abstract: 595,116. Gas turbines. SMITH, D. M., and METROPOLITAN-VICKERS ELECTRICAL CO., Ltd. Oct. 6, 1942, No. 14042. [Class 110 (iii)] Two unsplit turbine stator rings 43, 44 are united by means of rings 41, 44a which overlap, or interfit, and are secured together by two or more push fit dowel pins 50. The dowel pins have reduced shanks 50a which pass freely through screwed pugs 51 and have heads 52 secured to them. Specifications 589,541 and 589,542 are referred to.
Patent GB-783257-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in tubulous boilers arranged to be fired with residual liquors
IPC: F22B31/04
Filed: 1956-05-08
Abstract: 783,257. Water-tube steam boilers. BABCOCK & WILCOX, Ltd. May 8, 1956'[May 9, 1955], No. 14230/56. Class 123(2) A boiler arranged for the recovery of chemicals and - the utilization of the heat of combustion of residual liquors from paper pulp manufacture comprises a liquor incinerating furnace 16 and, within the same setting, an oil-fired furnace 17 for supplementing the steam generated in the furnace 16, both furnaces being lined with steam generating tubes extending from lower headers to a common steam and water drum 10. The furnaces are separated by a gas-tight division wall 15 comprising generating tubes 13 also discharging into the drum 10. Liquor is projected into the furnace 16 through a spray 37, (see Fig. 3) and deposits as a dry char on the walls 15, 18, 30, the char falling on to a hearth 31 where it burns in air introduced through ports 40, 42. Hot gases carrying dust and sublimed chemicals pass upwardly through a throat 44 and then laterally over rows of superheater tubes 45 which are widely spaced for ease of cleaning. The gases then flow around a baffle 50 and through widely-spaced rows of steam generating tubes 48 extending from a lower water drum 11 to the drum 10 and forming a boiler convection section to an outlet 51. The furnace 17, (see Fig. 2) is oil-fired through ports 85, hot gases flowing upwardly and then laterally over rows of narrowly-spaced superheater tubes 73. They then flow around a baffle 78 and through narrowly-spaced rows of steam generating tubes also extending between the drums 10, 11 and forming a boiler convection section 77 to an outlet 81. A partition forming a continuation of the wall 15 separates the gas flows from the furnaces 16, 17 to the respective gas outlets 51, 81. Thereafter the gas streams may unite for flow through a common air heater.
Patent GB-901510-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to flexible metallic bellows
Inventor: BATES LOUIS THOMAS
IPC: F16J3/04
Filed: 1960-04-22
Abstract: 901,510. Stuffing-box substitutes. PALATINE (SURBITON) Ltd. April 7, 1961 [April 22, 1960], No. 14245/60. Class 122 (5). A fluid sealing bellows comprises a series of coaxial rigid metal rings 1 interconnected by flexible sheet-metal diaphragms 5, 6, each having a circular arc-shaped portion 8 and a reversed curved portion 10, the arc-shaped portion or portions between adjacent rings 1 subtending an angle more than 180 degrees and being either all concave or all convex outwardly in cross-section. The diaphragms 5, 6 are connected to the rings 1 by welds 11 and are also welded to each other and to a subsidiary ring 7 at 12.