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Patent GB-1051945-A (GB)
IPC: H01H1/36
Abstract: 1,051,945. Regulating switches. E. SCHEUBECK, [trading as MASCHINENFABBIK REINHAUSEN GEBRUDER SCHEUBECK KOMM GES.]. Sept. 14, 1964 [Sept.18, 1963], No. 37491/64. Heading H2B. A tap-changer for a regulating transformer has a three-phase power change-over switch arranged centrally within the tap selector ,11, the power change-over switch members 10 and tap selectors of the individual phases U, V, W, with equal voltage potential lying in one plane, and fixed contact rings 14, 15 are secured around the circular housing 13 of the power change-over switch, while the tap selector 11 comprises rods 18 carrying the selector contacts K and 1 to 9 (Fig. 2, not shown), and two switch shafts 20, 21 for even-numbered and oddnumbered selector contacts K, 2, 4, 6, 8 and 1, 3, 5, 7, 9 respectively, which shafts are driven alternately via Maltese-cross wheels 22, 23, to change-over the connections between the selector contacts and the contact rings. The switch bridges 26 for shaft 20 and switch bridges 27 for shaft 21 comprise two metal shells 40, 41 (Fig. 3, not shown), spring- biased together to grip the fixed selector contacts and contact rings. A rotor drive (not shown), winds up a force store (not shown) for the power change-over switch and operates a worm-wheel 35 via a worm 37, wheel 35 driving toothed wheels 33 and 28 via a shaft 34 for a peg 30 on an arm 29 of wheel 28 to alternately move Maltese-cross wheels 22 and 23 (Fig. 2, not shown).
Patent GB-1052267-A (GB)
IPC: A23G3/02
Abstract: 1,052,267. Making lollipops &c. ROSE BROS. (GAINSBOROUGH) Ltd. Dec. 2, 1963 [Sept. 22, 1962], No. 36130/62. Heading A2B. The production of lollipops and like sweets involves feeding a rope of toffee axially downwards in register with successive waiting pockets on an intermittently moving feed-wheel or conveyer, receiving the leading end of the rope at each successive pocket and severing such leading end, the length of rope fed forward at each movement of the rope-feeding means being less than the depth of the pocket. The rope is preferably severed by a reciprocating, rotating disc knife, and is preferably fed into the pockets through a guiding tube.
Patent GB-1052846-A (GB)
IPC: F16L11/08
Abstract: 1,052,846. Synthetic braided hose. POLYMER CORPORATION. Aug. 16, 1963 [Sept. 6, 1962], No. 32487/63. Addition to 882,736. Heading F2P. A flexible hose comprises a nylon inner core, a braided nylon cover bonded to the inner core, and a thin flexible nylon outer cover bonded on to the braided cover. A machine for coating the inner core and braided cover assembly 10 comprises a heating oven 12 having infra-red lamps 15 for heating at least the outer surface of the assembly, a vessel 18 containing a solvent 16 and a crosshead extruder 21. The vessel 18 includes two seals at the inner ends of the conduit means 17, 20, the former conduit means being threaded into the vessel such that the distance between the inner ends of the conduit means may be varied. The vessel may also be provided with a heater 19. The outer cover of nylon may be from 2 to 20 mils. thick. The types of nylon include polyhexamethylene adipamide, polyhexamethylene sebacamide, polymers prepared from caprylactam, caprolactam and 11-aminoundecanoic acid, and copolymers. inter-polymers and mixtures thereof. The preferred solvent comprises 1 part resorcinol and 2 parts water by weight but polyhydric alcohols and phenols may also be used, the bath being at a temperature of about 50‹ F. less than the melting point of the braided nylon cover.
Patent GB-1053007-A (GB)
IPC: B29C39/00
Abstract: 1,053,007. Continuous tube polymerization. SOCIETE NATIONALE DES PETROLES D'AQUITAINE. July 6, 1965 [July 24, 1964], No. 28646/65. Heading B1X. [Also in Division C3] An apparatus for continuous polymerization of caprolactam in a tube, comprises means for introducing discs at intervals into the polymerization mixture as it enters the tube so that they are carried through the tube with the mixture and remove deposits of solid polymer adhering to its walls. Said introducing means comprises a disc feeder, a disc centering device and means for conveying the discs one at a time from the feeder to the centering device and then to the inlet of the polymerization tube. As shown in Fig. 1, disc 12a, which may be made of nylon 6, is carried to centering device 17 by movement of shaft 2 to the right. On movement of the shaft to the left, the disc is centered by piston 18 and falls into recess 2d. A second movement of the shaft to the right carries the disc to the base of polymerization tube 10 where it is forced upwards by the polymerization mixture fed from pipe 28. The feed mechanism is surrounded by water jacket 80 at about 80‹C. and the polymerization region by steam jacket 31 at 150‹C. In Fig. 3 (not shown) a battery of such apparatus is fed by a single supply tank of polymerization mixture.
Patent GB-1054146-A (GB)
IPC: B64C29/00
Abstract: 1,054,146. Aircraft engine mounting. ROLLS-ROYCE Ltd. Aug. 20, 1965, No. 35919/65. Heading B7G. [Also in Division F1] A gas turbine by-pass jet engine comprises support means for supporting the engine from fixed structure, the support means being connected directly to the by-pass duct outer casing of the engine and to the rear main bearing housing thereof, passing through the exhaust dust casing, whereby static and dynamic forces are transmitted from the engine to the structure without passing through the exhaust duct casing. The engine shown comprises an annular by-pass duct 11 defined between an outer casing 20 and an inner casing 21, also an annular exhaust gas passage 22 defined between an outer casing 24, disposed radially inwardly of the casing 21, and an inner casing 25 of conical form. The casings 24, 25 are secured together by means of radially disposed vanes 26. The casings 21, 24 are secured to the engine main casing 32 by means of bolts 31. The engine is supported from fixed structure 18 by means of links 41, 42 pivotally connected to the structure 18 by a spherical joint 40 and to flanges 45, 45<SP>1</SP> integral with the by-pass duct outer casing 20 by spherical joints 43, 44. The by-pass duct outer casing 20 is also provided with thickened boss portions 47 to the radially inner surfaces of which are secured shoes 48 each of which is formed with an axially extending recess 50. V-shaped strut members 52 extend between the inner and outer casing walls of the by-pass duct, the strut members having bosses which are received in a recess 50 of a shoe 48, the ends of the limbs of the V- shaped strut members being pivotally connected at 54 to radial flanges 55, 56, 57 provided on the outer surface of the easing 21. Certain of the V-shaped strut members 52<SP>1</SP> are restrained against excessive radial movement by means of bolts 71 which extend axially between the limbs of the V-members, the bolts passing through holes in fish-plates 70 secured at the sides of the shoe 48 (Fig. 5, not shown). Struts 61 extend radially across the exhaust gas passage 22 through the hollow vanes 26, the radially outer ends of the struts being secured by the by-pass duct inner casing 21 between adjacent V-shaped strut members 52, while the radially inner ends 62 are secured between ring members 65 which together form a housing for the engine rear main bearing 66. The engine jet pipe 12 (Fig. 1, not shown) is secured to the outer wall of the by-pass duct, the jet pipe having rearwardly and downwardly directed nozzles 13, 14, flow through which is controlled by a valve member 15.
Patent GB-1225850-A (GB)
IPC: F16L59/16
Filed: 1968-12-17
Abstract: 1,225,850. Pipe joints. A. I. HELLSTROM. 17 Dec., 1968, No. 59896/68. Heading F2G. A method of interconnecting two or more protective tubes 2 enclosing pipe-lines 1 for water or steam and at the locations of tube bends junctions or branches where the ends of the tubes 2 terminate short of one another, comprises the steps of placing a thin-walled openended shell over the tubes such that the tubes pass through slotted apertutes in the walls of the shell beneath the connecting location with a bottom cover, sealing the tubes in the slotted apertutes in the shell and injecting into the chamber so formed a foam of plastics material of a type that is subject to an increase in volume so as to fill out the cavities of the chamber, and then closing the upper open end of the shell with a perforated top cover to form a casing. As shown, the casing is of glass fibre reinforced plastics or stainless steel and is formed from a sleeve 5, and the top and bottom covers 7, 8 are provided with flanged edges; the cover 8 has apertures therein to facilitate the egress of excess plastics foam. Sealing means 12 having holes for the tubes 2 are secured by a contact adhesive to the inner sides of the sleeve. The spaces between the ends of the tubes 2 are sealed off by netting 15.
Patent GB-1228247-A (GB)
IPC: E21B25/18
Filed: 1968-05-08
Abstract: 1,228,247. Subaqueous drilling. INSTITUT FRANCAIS DU PETROLE DES CARBURANTS ET LUBRIFIANTS. 8 May, 1968 [8 May, 1967], No. 21837/68. Heading E1F. Apparatus operable from a surface installation 1 for driving into the underwater floor 2 an elongated member constituted by a plurality of elements 14a-c adapted to be connected end to end, includes a base member 4 seated on the underwater floor and provided with a central aperture 5 for the passage of the elongated member and with upstanding rigid guide columns 6 and 7, substantially parallel guide cables 8, 9 connecting the surface installation to the respective tops of the guide columns, a drill head 16 slidable along the guide columns and provided with means for gripping the elongated member and with a submersible motor for driving the elongated member into the underwater floor, and a connecting element 83 provided with guide means 81, 82 arranged to ride down the guide cable and to be seated onto the top of the guide elements, the connecting element being adapted for detachable connection with the top of an element of the elongated member and being suspended by a flexible line for successively lowering the elements constituting the elongated member. The drill head is moved up and down columns 6, 7 by chains 19, 20 driven by a hydraulic motor, or by the columns being constituted either by racks engaging driven pinions on the head or by rotatable worms having non-rotatable nuts secured to the head. The gripping means comprise spring urged shoes which prevent longitudinal movement of the elongate member and which are releasable by a hydraulic cylinder. The drilling head has a rotor with further gripping elements which, when the rotor rotates in one direction, are cammed inwardly to grip and thus rotate the elongate member. Lowermostelement 14a has a drill crown 15. The apparatus may be used to produce core samples, for in situ measuring, or to obtain a lined borehole to be filled with reinforcements and cement to constitute a underwater anchorage. In the apparatus shown a pipe 72 feeds flushing liquid to the bore hole and carries a core barrel 64 with a tubular cutting element 93. The core barrel has fingers movable outwardly to engage element 14a below shoulder 88 when pipe 72 is supplied with fluid under pressure.
Patent GB-1228545-A (GB)
IPC: B24B3/36
Filed: 1969-04-16
Abstract: 1,228,545. Cutting machines. CINCINNATI MILLING MACHINE CO. 16 April, 1969 [6 May, 1968], No. 19524/69. Heading B4B. [Also in Division B3] A cutting machine comprises a reciprocable blade 16, sharpening means 47, 48 disposed on either side of the blade 16, means for disengaging the blade from the material to be cut, means 80, 81 for moving one sharpening device 47 into contact with the blade 16 during disengagement and the other 48 into contact during subsequent re-engagement, and actuating means for the sharpening means. A frame 23 bearing the blade 16 and its driving motor 21 is slidable on rods 24 by means of a cable 46, to engage or disengage the blade; a motor 35 governed by a feedback resolver 36 may rotate a box 37 supporting the blade 16 in guide means to change the heading of the blade, the axis of rotation being adjustable between two alternatives by lateral movement of the guide means under the action of a solenoid 44. Grinding wheels 47, 48 are supported on a vertically fixed plate 50, rotatable in synchronism with the box 37 through gear means, Fig. 8 (not shown), including a ball spline 61. Birfurcated wheel supports 55, 57 are pivoted to a frame 52 located on a stud 51, a spring loaded detent 53 biasing the frame 52 into the position of Fig. 3, wherein the wheels 47, 48 are spaced from the blade 16. For sharpening, a solenoid 80 or 81 is activated to pivot the frame 52 and bring the wheel 48 or 47 into engagement with the blade, a spring-comprising linkage 85 ensuring the correct grinding pressure irrespective of wheel/blade wear; one wheel 47 operates during the blade up-stroke, and the other 48 during the downstroke. The wheels 47, 48 are driven by a motor 68 through a belt 69, intermediate members (71)-(75), Fig. 5-6 (not shown), and a further belt 76 during their operation. The support rods 24 depend from a plate 25, transversely slidable above a longitudinally fed input sheet (14), Fig. 1 (not shown),  and numerical control apparatus (49) automatically governs the cutting process and sharpening cycles.
Patent GB-1230619-A (GB)
IPC: A61G5/04
Filed: 1968-07-26
Abstract: 1,230,619. Invalid carriages. A. C. R. ARMSTRONG JONES. EARL OF SNOWDON. 21 Aug., 1968 [26 July, 1968; 8 Aug., 1968], Nos. 35763/68 and 37946/68. Heading B7H. A carriage for use by an invalid comprises a low level platform 11 capable of supporting any suitable chair to be occupied by the invalid and having two rear wheels in housings 12 and a driven steerable front wheel in a housing 15. The front wheel is steered by a detachable column 27 having an adjustable head 36 and an adjustable hand lever 37 containing a trigger 41 controlling an electric motor driving the front wheel. The column 27 is a push fit on a steerable housing 16, 17 mounting the front wheel in the housing 15 and has an electrical contact making surface 33 at its lower end which engages a contact 34 attached to the motor to connect or disconnect the supply from a battery in a housing 43 on the platform when the column is replaced or withdrawn, Fig. 3. The motor drives the wheel through a reduction gearing in a gear-box which may incorporate a simple worm or spur wheel reduction gearing or it may incorporate change-speed gearing or some other form of variable drive.
Patent GB-1251050-A (GB)
IPC: E21B3/025
Filed: 1968-11-21
Abstract: 1,251,050. Pile driving and withdrawing. R. LONDAIS. 21 Nov., 1968 [21 Nov., 1967], No. 55311/68. Heading E1H. A pile (e.g. a hollow pile 8) is driven and/or withdrawn by apparatus comprising a head 1 which is subjected to alternate rotation about the pile axis between stops (e.g. by block 4 on the head hitting stops 6, 7 on a collar 9 secured to the pile) to give the pile torsional impacts, the head being oscillated by two pneumatic jacks 10, 11 supplied alternately by a valve 20 controlled by pneumatic pilot valves 12, 13 operated alternately when the rotational movement changes direction. The jacks 10, 11 and pilot valves 12, 13 may be mounted on the head 1, the member 18 operating the valves being mounted on the collar 9. Restrictors 21 in the lines 19 actuating the change-over valve 20 act to retard the change at the end of each stroke.
Patent GB-1251746-A (GB)
IPC: C08L67/02
Filed: 1969-07-02
Abstract: 1,251,746. Thermoplastic moulding composition. FARBWERKE HOECHST A.G. 2 July, 1969 [2 July, 1968], No. 33465/69. Heading C3R. A thermoplastic moulding composition comprises (i) a linear saturated polyester of a hydroxycarboxylic acid or an aromatic dicarboxylic acid and, optionally up to 10% by wt. of an aliphatic dicarboxylic acid with a saturated aliphatic or cycloaliphatic diol, (ii) either 0.05 to 2% by wt. of an inert inorganic solid material or 0-3 to 4% of an ionic copolymer containing units of an alpha-olefin and a salt of an alpha, beta-unsaturated carboxylic acid with a uni-, bi- or tri-valent metal, and (iii) 0.05 to 2% by wt. of at least one of the silicon cornpounds : R m Si(OR) 4-m  wherein m = 0-3; wherein R, R 1  and R 2  are C 1 -C 20  alkyl, cycloalkyl, aryl or aralkyl, and R<SP>1</SP> is alkylene, cyeloalkylene, aralkylene or arylene of up to 10 carbon atoms and optionally containing one or more ether oxygen atoms. Specified are: polyesters-polyethylene terephthalate optionally containing units of isophthalic, naphthalene (1,6)-dicarboxylic or adipic acids, neopentyl glycol or butanediol-(1,4) and poly-(cyclohexane - (1,4) - dimethylol terephthalate); nucleating agents-glass powder, talcum, kaolin, magnesia, antimony trioxide, titania, alumina, calcium carbonate, alkali metal fluorides and alkaline earth metal fluorides; ionic copolymers-salts of copolymers of ethylene and acrylic, methacrylic, ethacrylic, maleic or itaconic acids.
Patent GB-1252474-A (GB)
IPC: A47G25/06
Filed: 1969-12-02
Abstract: 1,252,474. Clamps. A. HUG. 2 Dec., 1969 [5 Dec., 1968], No. 58809/69. Heading E2B. [Also in Division A4] A clamp comprises two pivoted jaw portions 3, 12 with jaws 1, 2 which are urged together by and spring 8 between the jaw portions and, when the clamp is opened by hand, a ball 11 falls under gravity from recesses 10, 10' and the jaw portions into further recesses 15, 15' to hold the jaws open. Insertion of an article to be clamped between the jaws moves the ball again into the recesses 10, 10' and the jaws grip the article under the pressure of the spring 8. The jaw portion 3 has a semi cylindrical member 9 with a flange 18 and the jaw portion 12 has an extending end portion 13 for supporting further articles. The clamp is usable as a clothes hanger. The jaw portion 3 has self sealing adhesive tape portions 4, 5 and screw holes 6, 7 for mounting the clamp on a support. When the clamp is supported otherwise than in a vertical position the ball 11 is urged downwardly from the recesses 10, 10' by a weak spring secured to one jaw portion. The portions 3, 12 may be made of wood or plastics and the ball 11 of glass.
Patent GB-1257338-A (GB)
IPC: B01L3/00
Filed: 1969-11-18
Abstract: 1,257,338. Cutting-out apparatus. XEROX CORP. 18 Nov., 1969 [22 Nov., 1968], No. 56396/69. Heading B4B. [Also in Divisions B1, B8 and G2] A piston P stored in a rigid chamber 100 has a cavity 52 in its lower portion and a bevelled cutting edge 60 which on application of pressure to the upper part of the piston shears a layer 92 of plastics material so allowing a reagent tablet T to fall into compartment 104 for use in analysis (see Divisions B1-B2). The bevel may be outward or inward in the upward direction, and may be formed on only part of the lower periphery of the piston, the remainder of the periphery being blunt and incapable of shearing layer 92 (Fig. 9, not shown). Chamber 100 may be of polystyrene or polyvinylchloride and the piston may be sealed into the chamber by means of a shearable membrane across the top of the chamber or using hot wax as sealant.
Patent GB-1258386-A (GB)
IPC: F16L3/13
Filed: 1970-09-01
Abstract: 1,258,386. Clips. A. RAYMOND. 1 Sept., 1970 [12 Sept., 1969], No. 41806/70. Heading E2B. A plastics clip for securing a pipe &c to a support 17 comprises a base 11 having a pair of reversely bent upstanding arms 18, 19 having opposed gripping recesses 22, 23. The clip is secured in a hole 15 by shank 14 which is expanded by a pin 16 driven in.
Patent GB-1258702-A (GB)
IPC: H01B11/00
Filed: 1970-02-27
Abstract: 1,258,702. Electric cable. HUGHES AIR. CRAFT CO. 27 Feb., 1970 [27 Feb., 1969], No. 9538/70. Heading B5N. [Also in Division H1] A flexible electric cable comprises a flat layer of dielectric material 14 sandwiched between a flat signal conductor layer 18 and a flat ground conductor 19, means attaching the two conducting layers together and leaving the dielectric loosely disposed between the two conducting layers. The dielectric layer comprises at least two superposed solid, woven or perforated sheets of dielectric material. The signal conductor comprises a coplanar array of strip conductors 18 and the ground conductor layer comprises either solid or perforated foil. The signal and ground conductor layers are secured together by either staples, rivets, grommets, bonded by adhesive, staked, heat sealed in spots, a spiral spring (50, Fig. 5, not shown) or by continuous stitching with nylon or metallic thread (75, Fig. 7, not shown) in electrical contact with the ground conductor layer which also extends beyond the end of the cable and can be used to terminate the ground conductor layer (77, 78, Fig. 7, not shown). The ground conductor ineludes a drain line 16. The dielectric layer may have spaced tabs (34, Fig. 3, not shown) formed along the longitudinal edges with said joining means passing through the tabs so as to join the dielectric layer with the signal and ground conductor layers. The conductive layers 18 and 19 may consist of copper, aluminium or nickel alloy, and the dielectric layers of polyimide, tetrafluoroethylene fluorocarbon resin, polyester film, epoxy glass or polyvinyl chloride Adhesive bonding between the layers 11, 12, 13 and 14 may be provided using amid-imid, epoxy, polyester or phenolic butyrol as the adhesive bonding material.
Patent GB-1259120-A (GB)
IPC: B65D41/06
Filed: 1968-12-20
Abstract: 1,259,120. Caps for containers. REFLEX CORP. OF CANADA Ltd. 20 Dec., 1968 [22 March, 1968], No. 32405/70. Divided out of 1,259,118. Heading B8T. An integral moulded plastics cap 11 has an annular inner flexible member 26 which engages the open end of a container C biasing the cap away from the container. The end of the member 26 adjoining the cap base 11 has at least as large a diameter as its outer free end. The cap skirt 12 has internally projecting lugs 13 which engage in a bayonet type closure with lugs 20-21 spaced around the outside of the container lip. Engaging surfaces 136, 226 between the lugs 13 and 20 may be inclined or curved. When opening or closing the package the member 26 is flexed to allow disengagement of the lugs 13, 20. In further embodiments the inner flexible member may be substantially cylindrical and may have a wedge shaped free end which engages a tapered surface or a V-shaped groove around the inside of the container rim.
Patent GB-1290030-A (GB)
IPC: G01N21/51
Filed: 1970-10-30
Abstract: 1290030 Measuring turbidity or particle content of liquids A R LINDBERG 30 Oct 1970 [3 Nov 1969] 51744/70 Heading G1A In an apparatus for measuring the turbidity of a liquid the liquid is projected from a nozzle 6 to form a free jet 5 which passes through the path of a series of light pulses created by a source 1, lens 52 and rotating sectioned disc 3, the light  reflected from particles contained in the liquid is then received by a photo electric element 7. The intensity of the reflected light is a measurement of the particle content or turbidity of the liquid and is determined by a bridge arrangement whereby the signals due to light being received (measuring current) and the signals due to ambient light when the light pulses are screened off (dark current) are alternately applied in synchronism to capacitors (C 1 , C 2  respectively Fig. 2 (not shown) in separate parts of a bridge circuit, the difference in voltage on the capacitors being amplified and applied to a meter.
Patent GB-1290445-A (GB)
IPC: G05D23/13
Filed: 1969-02-25
Abstract: 1290445 Valves W T HAWKLEY and A J PAVELEY 19 Feb 1970 [25 Feb 1969] 5427/70 Divided out of 1289542 Headings F4U U42D1B U42D14 U42D2C U42D4B and U42D4F A system for the circulation of a heated fluid, particularly a domestic hot water or central heating system, includes a primary flow circuit, a secondary flow circuit, and a valve connected to these circuits and comprising a valve body.