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Patent GB-1068413-A (GB)
Title: Shoe polish kit
IPC: A47L23/05
Filed: 1964-06-24
Abstract: 1,068,413. Cleaning footwear. KNOMARK Inc. June 24, 1964 [June 27, 1963], No. 26198/64. Heading A4F. A shoe polishing kit comprises a dauber 9, a polishing cloth (not shown), and polish paste container 1 of elliptical or other non circular or cylindrical form having a cover 4 adapted to telescope therewith and sealingly fit thereon. The cover 4 fits fluid tightly around a head 3 on the container 1. The dauber 9 is of sponge material and is secured to a hand hold 11 forming a container for the polishing cloth. In the embodiment illustrated the dauber 9 and the container 1 are of elliptical cross-section, the major elliptical axis of the dauber 9 being equal to or slightly greater than that of the container 1 and the minor axis being smaller. Thus when the dauber 9 is rotated in contact with the polish paste the inner side surface of the container 1 is maintained clean and the paste will not rotate with the dauber.
Patent GB-712224-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to the construction of rackets for sports games
IPC: A63B49/08
Filed: 1952-10-20
Abstract: 712,224. Tennis &c. rackets. BROOKS, E. J. Oct. 20, 1952 [Nov. 5, 1951], No. 26305/52. Class 132(2) A tennis &c. racket comprises a bow 16 carrying the stringing and having a groove 17 in which lies a frame 12 embracing the bow. the frame ends being extended to form part of the handle and being adjusably tensioned around the bow by a left and right threaded bolt 25 engaging parts 20 embracing the two arms of the frame at the position shown. The string- ing lies in a subsidiary groove 18 in the bow and is protected by a strip 17A of rubberized material, raw hide, vulcanized fibre or polyvinyl acetate. The frame may be made of steel or fibre glass and the bow of laminated material or woven fibre glass which may be bonded with plastic. The bow may have two or more grooves 17 each co-operating with a frame. The handle may be weighted with a plug made of rubber containing powdered metal. The handle comprises a sleeve 37 and end pressings 35, 36 of which plurality of different sizes may be provided to give a range of handle sizes. In modifications, the frame limbs may be rigidly connected at the throat and the arms may extend only part way round the bow and have their ends joined by a cable which is tensioned by means in the handle. Alternatively the frame may be split at the top of the bow, the ends being connected by a left and right threaded screw arrangement.
Patent GB-700301-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to integrators
IPC: G01D1/04
Filed: 1950-11-28
Abstract: 700,301. Planimeters. GREGG, C. V. Feb. 19, 1952 [Nov. 28, 1950], No. 26341/50. Class 106 (1) An integrator comprises a body having one or more convex curved portions on its perimeter and carrying a follower or index mark and a measuring wheel, said curved portion being so shaped and positioned relatively to the follower and the measuring-wheel axis that integration is performed by moving the follower around the curve to be integrated whilst maintaining the curved portion in contact with a straight edge arranged parallel to the axis of the curve to be integrated. In one arrangement for determining the volume of a body of revolution by tracing a section of the body, i.e. for determining #y<SP>2</SP>dx where the x axis is the axis of revolution, the body 2 is formed with two specially curved portions 6, 8 for measuring to different scales. The curves are tangential to a straight edge 4 to which the measuring-wheel axis is perpendicular. A straightedge guide 54 is placed initially against the edge 4 with the follower 25 on the axis 52. The body carries a measuring wheel 28 and also rests on two screws 38 on which are mounted rotatable knobs. A knurled ring 26 is rotatable on the lens tube associated with the optical follower 25. When the apparatus is not in use, the measuring wheel may be raised by a screw 42. A modified arrangement has three curved portions none of which is tangential to the straight edges of the body so that the operator can feel when the end of a curve is reached. Two of these curves are for determining #y<SP>2</SP>dx to different scales and the third is an arc of a circle for determining #ydx i.e. for measuring areas. One or more of the curved portions may be interchangeably secured to the body.
Patent GB-710440-A (GB)
Title: Process for reducing weak spots in resinous film or sheeting
IPC: B29C71/00
Filed: 1951-11-12
Abstract: <PICT:0710440/IV (a)/1> Weak spots in resinous film or sheeting, e.g. vinyl or ethylene polymer films, due to the presence therein of electrically conductive particles of extraneous matter, are eliminated by subjecting the film to a high-voltage electrical discharge to burn or otherwise disrupt the particles whereby holes are formed in the film and then calendering the film to disperse the remains of the particles and to eliminate the holes.  As shown, polymer 18 is fed to the nip between the top roll 10 of a calender and an offset roll 12 to form a film which is then passed around the middle roll 14, bottom roll 15 and cooling roll 16 of the calender. A high-voltage discharge is initiated between an electrode 25 and/or an electrode 35 and the earthed roll 14 and/or earthed roll 10 respectively, the electrode being in close proximity to the outer surface of the film.
Patent GB-1146318-A (GB)
Title: Apparatus for imaging an infrared-radiation field of view
IPC: H04N5/30
Filed: 1966-06-15
Abstract: 1,146,318. Television. AGA A.B. 15 June, 1966 [16 June,.1965], No. 26614/66. Heading H4F. Apparatus in which a field of view is scanned by an infra-red detector whose output is fed through a chain of amplifying stages to a synchronized image display device comprises means responsive to a predetermined level of the amplified signal at a first point in the chain to inject a control signal at a later point in the chain and thereby increase the luminosity of points of the displayed image which correspond to those points in the field of view which give rise to the said predetermined signal level. In the embodiment of Fig. 1, scanning of cathoderay tube display 10 is synchronized with the scanning of a field of view by infra-red detector 1 whose output is fed through calibrated A.C. amplifier 4, calibrated attenuator 6, amplification and detection stage 8 and D.C. amplifier 9 to intensity modulate the display. A calibrated unit 15 detects coincidence of the signal level at stage 8 output with a selectable reference voltage and injects a high level input voltage or a gain control voltage into amplifier 9. The persistence of phosphorescence of the display tube screen is chosen such that a continuousline image (isotherm) is displayed for those portions of the field of view giving rise to the predetermined signal level. A generator 14, synchronized with the display tube scan, may apply signals to stage 8 input to provide a grey scale appearing along a border of the displayed image. A series of photographs of the image may be taken, with unit 15 adjusted for the display of different isotherms.
Patent GB-940859-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in silencers for air pumping apparatus
Inventor: CHAMBERS DAVID MUNCKTON
IPC: F04B39/00
Filed: 1961-07-24
Abstract: 940,859. Compressors; exhaust silencers. S. T. DESIGNED DISPLAY Ltd. July 25, 1962 [July 24, 1961], No. 26692/61. Headings FIB and FIN. A closed silencing chamber 6 Fig. 1 is interposed between sections 4, 5 of the delivery pipe connecting a low pressure compressor 1 to a tank 3 containing liquid e.g., a tropical fish tank. Both sections of piping extend into the interior of the chamber 6 which also serves to trap liquid which may have seeped back from the tank 3. The chamber may also include an air filter (not shown) and may comprise a short length of open-ended tubing 9 closed at both ends by plugs 10 through which the pipe sections 4, 5 extend.
Patent GB-227929-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to electric synchroscopes and synchronising apparatus
IPC: H02J3/42
Filed: 1923-10-26
Abstract: 227,929. Reyrolle & Co., Ltd., A., and Haarris, P. F. Oct. 26, 1923. Sychronizing dynamo-electric machines.- F o r connecting a generator to bus-bars at synchronism, a rotary synchronoscope carries on its spindle two insulated long and short contacts D, F adapted respectively to bridge gaps in the circuit of a relay winding H and of a main switch winding K controlled by the relay the relay H being retarded by a dash-pot or other timing device, the long contact D causes the relay to close its contact J when the generator frequency is approximately correct, and the switch actuating circuit is thereafter completed by the contact F at the instant of phase coincidence.
Patent GB-1241693-A (GB)
Title: Shades for tubular electric lamps
Inventor: WEITZEL STANLEY LIONEL
IPC: F21V17/00
Filed: 1968-06-05
Abstract: 1,241,693. Lighting fittings. LINOLITE Ltd. 23 July, 1968 [5 June, 1968], No. 26867/68. Heading F4R. A lighting fitting of the type which comprises a tubular lamp supported by a base includes one or more decorative tubular shades of light transmitting material each of which surrounds a portion only of the length of the lamp and has a slot extending partway at least along its length for engagement with the base. The edges of the slot are formed with projections adapted to engage in notches in the base to support the shade. One end at least of the shade may be cut obliquely to expose some of the interior surface, which is preferably coated with light-reflecting material in the neighbourhood of the slot. The shade may be open at both ends so that it can embrace the central portion of a lamp or the adjacent end portions of two lamps, or it may be closed at one end to form an end cover for a lamp.
Patent GB-324087-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to reinforced concrete floors for buildings and the like
IPC: E04B5/06
Filed: 1928-09-20
Abstract: 324,087. Bates, H. K.. Sept. 20, 1928. Floors and roofs formed of concrete beams. - Inverted channel-shaped reinforced-concrete beams laid side by side on joists are formed with grouting grooves a<1> on the sides, flanges a<3> on the lower edges, and transverse webs a<4>, a<5> at intermediate, points and at the ends; holes a<9>, a<15> may be provided in the webs and top for the passage of pipes and wires, and the holes a<15> may be closed by concrete plugs a<16>. Wooden or other railing pieces D may be inserted between the beams for the attachment of the flooring and ceiling. Gaps may be closed by slabs H at the top and bottom, or cross pieces H<3> may be used for open ceilings. The supporting haunches G, Fig. 4, consist of blocks or are cast in situ, and have a concave bearing face to receive convex ends on the beams. Stepped floors, Fig. 7, for cinemas and sports grounds have the joists B<1> laid on the slope, and the concrete beams are made with one side deeper than the other, the grouting grooves a<1> being then at the lower part of the deeper side. For roofs, Fig. 8, the beams have curved raised ends a<12> with half-round grouting grooves a<13>.
Patent GB-407979-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to jointing, packing, sealing and like materials
IPC: C08L7/00
Filed: 1932-09-28
Abstract: A sealing material for use as a cork substitute is made from a major proportion of hydrated silica, a minor proportion of one or more vegetable or ligneous materials such as wood pulp, and rubber added in the form of rubber latex.  When the composition is to be used to seal containers under high pressure a water insoluble body of oily fatty or wax-like character such as sodium stearate is added.  The hydrated silica may be added to the wood pulp in the form of a fine powder but the preferred method of addition is to mix it in the form of an alkaline silicate, and then to precipitate with an acid or preferably with an ammonium salt.  To the mixture of silica and fibre there is added rubber latex which may contain the fatty material if such is being added.  An acid is added to coagulate the latex and the product is dried and cured. The fatty material instead of being added to the latex may be mixed with the creamy paste of hydrated silica and fibre before the latex is added.  Alumina may be added to the composition if the product has to withstand high pressures.  A typical composition according to the invention is 100 parts of hydrated silica, 8 parts of wood pulp and 30 parts of rubber.
Patent GB-319006-A (GB)
Title: Surface ornamentation of metal, wood and the like, particularly for the purpose of imparting thereto the appearance of rare woods
IPC: B44F9/02
Filed: 1929-09-05
Abstract: 319,006. Masa Ges. zur Herstellung Kunst1icher Oberf1õchen. Sept. 15, 1928, [Convention date]. Ornamenting. - A method of ornamenting sheets of wood, metal, or other materia1, particularly applicable to graining in imitation of rare woods, consists in printing the ornamentation or grain on a thin flexible sheet of transparent material such as cellulose ester or celluloid, preferably in intaglio, applying the basic colour of the imitated wood to the printed surface by painting or spraying or by means of rollers, and then fixing the printed side of the sheet to the materia1, for example, p1ywood, to be ornamented by means of an adhesive. The adhesive may be mixed with the colour applied to the transparent sheet. Articles with curved surfaces, such as mouldings and tubes, may be similarly ornamented.
Patent GB-366994-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to steam boiler and like fluid heaters
IPC: F22B35/10
Filed: 1930-09-10
Abstract: 366,994. Feedwater regulators for steam boilers. JACKSON, L. MELLERSH-, 28, Southampton Buildings,. London.- (Doble, A. ; 4053, Harlan Street, Emeryville, California, U.S.A.) Sept. 10, 1930, No. 27063. [Class 123 (ii).] In a coiled tube boiler having coils 12 heated mainly by the radiant heat of the furnace and coils 11 heated by contact of the furnace gases, additional feedwater is supplied to the coils 12 through a pipe 27, the supply being controlled by a valve 26 operated by a thermostatic element 21 in the coils 12. When the main engine is shut off, the steam generated from the additional feed is utilized in auxiliaries. Valves 33, 32 are provided to control the deliveries of the main feed pump 14 and the additional feed pump 28.
Patent GB-246420-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to pneumatic vehicle wheels
IPC: B60B5/02
Filed: 1925-10-28
Abstract: 246,420. Atwood, H. N. Oct. 28, 1925. Disc wheels. - A wheel comprises two sections 1, each section being made up of veneer plies 2 alternating with plies 3 of soft uncured or semi-cured rubber or of rubbered fabric. The peripheral portions of the sections 1 are outwardly bowed to accommodate a pneumatic tube 10, a soft rubber filling 7 being placed between the sections as shown, and soft rubber packing being interposed between the tube 10 and shoulders 9 on the sections, which are formed by folding projections portions of the plies 3 upon themselves and upon each other. Plies 14 of rubbered fabric are placed over the shoulders 9 and the tube 10, and covered with a mass of soft rubber 15 to form the tread. The pneumatic tube 10 may be permanently embodied in the wheel structure or may be removable through an annular opening 16 formed in one wall of the chamber 6, a closure member 18 being secured in position by stud bolts 21 as shown. In a modification, the inner tube extends at its outer side beyond the rounded peripheries of the sections 1, soft rubber fillings taking the place of the shoulders 9. Specifications 204,279 and 246,418 are referred to.
Patent GB-1061626-A (GB)
Title: Stretching polymethylene terephthalate filaments and yarns
IPC: D01F6/62
Filed: 1964-07-01
Abstract: 1,061,626. Stretching polymethylene terephthalate filaments. FIBER INDUSTRIES Inc. July 1, 1964 [July 5, 1963], No.27129/64. Heading B5B. Polymethylene terephthalate filaments and yarns having randomly spaced thick and thin sections are produced by stretching an undrawn filament or yarn of the polymer having a birefringence of 0À0005 to 0À011 to from 2À8 to 3À6 times, preferably 3À0 to 3À5 times, its original length, at a temperature within the range from 15‹ C. to the second order transition temperature of the undrawn material at a " stretching speed " of from 75 to 1600 feet per minute. The " stretching speed " is defined as the rate at which the final product is taken from the stretching roller, i.e. the peripheral speed of the draw roller. The polymer may be polyethylene glycol terephthalate. The birefringence is preferably in the range 0À007 to 0À009 and the stretching temperature is preferably 30‹ to 65‹ C. The preferred stretching speed is 1100 to 1500 feet per minute. The filament or yarn may subsequently be heat treated at a temperature between 100‹ C. and 280‹ C., preferably between 200‹ and 220‹ C. for a period of time sufficient to provide a filament or yarn which will not shrink more than 10% of its original length. The heat treatment may be effected under a controlled tension or in the freely relaxed state.
Patent GB-853664-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to plants for, and methods of, cooling foundry moulds
IPC: B22D35/06
Filed: 1957-08-28
Abstract: 853,664. Casting-plant. FISCHER A.G., G. Aug. 28, 1957 [Aug. 28, 1956], No. 27174/57. Class 83 (1). [Also in Group XXX] Apparatus for cooling foundry moulds requiring different cooling- times, comprises a number of cooling conveyers, such as gravity roller conveyers 5-8, and means for leaving each mould on a particular conveyer according to the cooling-time required. Moulds 2 are carried in groups of four (each mould requiring a different cooling-time), from a casting-station, by a conveyer 1. They are pushed off the conveyer 1, in their groups of four, by fluid-pressure operated means 4 actuated by a valve 47 engaged by projections 46, 50 on the conveyer. The valve simultaneously releases holding-devices 23, which allow a mould from each conveyer to move on to a roller conveyer 10, guided by rollers 11. The conveyer 10 is then raised by a fluid-pressure piston 21, connected to frame members 14 by bell-cranks 20, and a motor 16 is started to rotate the rollers 12 through chain-gearing 17, thus moving the moulds on to a delivery conveyer 13. Before using the apparatus, a number of empty mould-boxes are placed on the conveyers, as shown in Fig. 1, the number depending on the cooling time required for the moulds to be pushed on to that conveyer, i.e. the more empty boxes on a conveyer, the longer time a mould will stay thereon. The conveyers may follow U-shaped paths as in Fig. 3, and the push-off devices may be operated individually. The moulds are guided round the corners by a set of driven rollers 41 level with each other, and a set of driven rollers 43. Each mould then continues by gravity over rollers 44, after actuating a switch 45 to stop the rollers 41, 43, to prevent moulds piling-up on the corners.
Patent GB-483736-A (GB)
Title: Tins or metal boxes
IPC: B65D25/04
Filed: 1936-10-22
Abstract: 483,736. Tins &c. GILFELLON, G. Oct. 22, 1936, No. 27180. [Class 66] A rectangular or round tin or metal box for tobacco &c. is divided into compartments A by fixed partitions the upper edges of which are provided with marginal strips B to which, after filling, tinfoil closure strips are soldered ; the compartments are separately exhausted of air and sealed by solder applied to openings in the tinfoil closures which are provided with pull tags C to enable them to be torn away when required. The container is provided with a hinged lid.
Patent GB-778086-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to shoe upper shaping machines
IPC: A43D21/16
Filed: 1954-09-21
Abstract: 778,086. Shoe upper shaping machines. BRITISH UNITED SHOE MACHINERY CO., Ltd. (United Shoe Machinery Corporation). Sept. 20, 1955 [Sept. 21, 1954], No. 27232/54. Addition to 723,134. Class 17 (1). The machine described in the parent Specification is modified as follows (a) the sole pressing means includes a member 110 the work supporting surface of which has a recess 116 which is generally complemental to the bottom of the forepart of the last,. (b) this member is adjustable in the general plane of the shoe bottom to position the recess with respect to the wipers, and (c) means are provided for augmenting the force with which the side wiper 24 at the inner side of the shoe is urged fheretowards. The latter is brought about during the toeward movement of the side wiper carriers 36, with slides 28, by engagement of the inclined faces 44 on the inner side wiper carriers with abutment rolls 42, 46, freely rotatable on arms 50, 54 which are held against angular movement, are adjustable individually widthwise of the shoes by screws 74 and slots 76, and are adjustable in unison lengthwise of the shoes by movement of slide 58 in guideway 60 being then secured by clamping screw 78 fitted with a capstan head. Bed plate 108, adjustably secured to the work supporting head 102 by screws 106, 107, supports any one of a plurality of plates 110 on which one of a plurality of seat plates 112 is removably mounted by dowel pins 114. These seat plates are of different thicknesses to provide support for shoes having different heel heights. The recess 116 is located widthwise of the machine by adjusting bed plate 108 on head 102 by means of screw 107 and slot 118, oversized bores providing for clearance of the bed plate relatively to screws 106. Plate 110 is located on the bed plate at the toe portion by a dowel 120 and at the heel portion by a dowel 122 extending from the bed plate into an ornate member 126 adjustably secured in a groove 128 in the bottom of plate 110. The angular position of plate 110, and hence of recess 116, is adjusted by swinging about dowel 120 with member 126 sliding in groove 128, and locked by screws 130. The toe wipers 20 are slidably mounted beneath top plate 88 which takes the upward pressure against the toe wipers during lasting and heel attaching, the pressure in the portions of the plate adjacent rolls 42, 46 being taken by the arms of a yoke 90.
Patent GB-455432-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to supplying air in internal combustion engines
IPC: F02B25/00
Filed: 1935-08-15
Abstract: 455,432. Two - stroke - cycle engines. SAMMONS, H., Briardene, Wylam-on-Tyne, KADENACY, M., 120, Rue Lecourbe, Paris, and ARMSTRONG WHITWORTH SECURITIES CO., Ltd., Thames House, Westminster. Aug. 15, 1935, No. 27291/34. [Class 7 (ii)] A supplementary charge preferably under pressure is introduced during a short period either at the be ginning or the end of the main charging, the main and supplementary inle1 ports 4, 6, being at oppositE ends of the cylinder. The main charge may be com pressed in the crank-case the main inlet port being fed by a compressor giving a high output at a low pressure, while the supple mentary inlet is fed by a compressor giving a smal output at a relatively higl pressure.