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Patent GB-924611-A (GB)
Title: Stackable furniture
IPC: A47C5/12
Filed: 1960-10-24
Abstract: 924,611. Nesting furniture. STURGIS POSTURE CHAIR CO. Oct. 24, 1960 [Oct. 23, 1959], No. 36340/60. Class 52 (2). In nesting underframes on which seat members or table tops are mounted, the legs are joined by cross-webs having spacer blocks on their inner faces engageable with the legs of an adjacent frame so that the seat members or table tops do not abut one another. As shown, cross-webs 20 of sheet metal or plastic are fixed by adhesive to or made integral with spacer blocks 19 of linear polyethylene or " Tenite " (Registered Trade Mark) which are secured by screws to the legs 16, 17. To link the frames together side-by-side, hooks 21 are brought into engagement with apertures 22. A joint (Fig. 6, not shown) for connecting the seat members to the underframes is described.
Patent GB-1345888-A (GB)
Title: Air cleaner assembly
IPC: F02M35/04
Filed: 1971-08-03
Abstract: 1345888 Treating I C engine charge FORD MOTOR CO Ltd 3 Aug 1971 [2 Sept 1970] 36383/71 Heading F1B The subject matter of this Specification is substantially the same as that described in Specification 1345889 in which an I.C. engine air cleaner is associated with an externally located vapour absorbing means, but the present claims are concerned with an air cleaner assembly in which the vapour absorbing means is located within the air cleaner casing. Additionally, provision is made for venting crank-case vapours to the cleaner casing as well as venting fuel vapour from the carburetter and fuel tank. Moreover, the vapour absorbing means may comprise a carbon embedded mat (60), Fig.3 (not shown).
Patent GB-1003298-A (GB)
Title: Stress plane pulverizer
IPC: B02C19/00
Filed: 1962-09-24
Abstract: 1,003,298. Cutting tobacco. AMERICAN MACHINE & FOUNDRY CO. Sept. 24, 1962 [Feb. 23, 1962; June 15, 1962], No. 36231/62. Heading A4C. [Also in Divisions B2 and B4] Apparatus for cutting tobacco comprises a movable edge or ridge closely surrounded by a housing so that multiple pass cuts can be made upon tobacco passed between the edge and the housing and means for driving the edge at a speed sufficient to create a stress plane in the tobacco in the proximity of such edge. The apparatus shown in Fig. 1 comprises rotors 1, 2 provided with slightly interdigitating circumferential ridges 3 closely surrounded by a housing 4. Tobacco to be cut is supplied through an inlet pipe 7 and the cut tobacco is discharged through outlet pipes 10, 11. The rotors are driven at sufficient speed, i.e. so that the ridges have a speed in excess of 300 feet per second, to produce stress planes in the tobacco. In a modification, Fig. 3 (not shown), the rotors are interleaved and each comprises a large number of circular spaced discs. In other modifications, Figs. 4 and 5 (not shown), a single rotor having a plurality of integral circular projections is closely surrounded by a housing and slidable inlet and outlet closures are provided. In a further modification, Figs. 6 and 7, motor-driven rotors 22, 24 closely surrounded by a housing 20 are driven in opposite directions and are provided with helical projections of opposite pitch. The pitch of each helix may be variable and a plurality of helices may be used instead of a single helix The teeth of the projections may take various forms. The outlet of the apparatus may be adjustable. In another modification, Fig. 13 (not shown), the rotors are driven at different speeds. In a further modification, Figs. 14 and 15 (not shown), the rotors are conical and mounted on parallel axes. In another modification, Figs. 16 and 17 (not shown), the rotors are cylindrical and mounted on axes which converge from the inlet to the outlet of the pulveriser. The rotors are closely surrounded by a housing the cross-section of which diminishes from the inlet to the outlet of the apparatus. Stress plane cutting may be effected by an endless element disposed in relation to other elements and to the tobacco to be severed and travelling at a sufficient speed to create a stress plane. Reference has been directed by the Comptroller to Specification 902,067.
Patent GB-860049-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to the handlebar mounting of windscreens
Inventor: HARDWICKE DENNIS JACK
IPC: B62J17/04
Filed: 1958-11-13
Abstract: 860,049. Motor-cycle windscreens. BIRMINGHAM SMALL ARMS CO. Ltd. Nov. 13, 1959 [Nov. 13, 1958], No. 36471/58. Class 136(1). A handlebar mounting for a windscreen support rod 3 comprises two resilient members 11, 12 engaging the handlebar, held within limbs 4 and 9 of U-shaped members 1 and 2 which are also shaped to embrace respectively the windscreen rod and handlebar. Both extremities of each limb are connected to both extremities of the other limb. Lugs 6 may be formed at the ends of the limbs 4 and are connected by bridge pieces 7 through which pass the limbs 9 of the member 2, tightening of nuts 10 clamping the whole assembly. A modified construction described has one limb of the member 2 hinged between one of the pairs of lugs 6, the other limb being detachably connected to the other pair of lugs 6.
Patent GB-1520876-A (GB)
Title: Surface coating for machine elements having rubbing surfaces
IPC: F16C17/12
Filed: 1974-08-20
Abstract: 1520876 Coated machine element ROLLSROYCE Ltd 6 Aug 1975 [20 Aug 1974] 36637/74 Heading B2E [Also in Division F2] A machine element e.g. a bearing comprising a relatively rigid component (2) and a relatively flexible component 6 adapted for relative rotation thereto and which in operation are in rubbing contact is provided with a surface layer of glaze forming oxide of 0.003 - 0.02 inches thick on the rigid component and 0.0001 - 0.0005 inches thick on the flexible component. Oxides of Ni, Cr, Fe and Co are suitable. The coating may be applied by plasma spraying.
Patent GB-786279-A (GB)
Title: Improvements connected with wire stays for weighing apparatus
Inventor: JONES WILLIAM
IPC: G01G21/06
Filed: 1954-12-20
Abstract: 786,279. Weighing apparatus. AVERY, Ltd., W. & T. Dec. 20, 1955 [Dec. 20, 1954], No. 36688/54. Class 143 A wire stay 1 for maintaining a pan of a weighing scale horizontal, is prevented from collapsing when the stay is subjected to excessive compressive or bending stresses by the provision of a sheath or strut loosely about or adjacent the stay. The sheath 3, Fig. 2, loosely surrounds the stay and abuts against members 2 in the event of a compressive force being applied to the stay. In Fig. 4 a strut 4 loosely engages the wire near its anchored ends. The strut 6a shown in Fig. 5 co-operates with a protrusion 5a formed on a leg 5 carrying the stay. Fig 6 shows a pair of co-operating struts 7. 8.
Patent GB-1468670-A (GB)
Title: Anodes
IPC: C25B11/02
Filed: 1973-08-02
Abstract: 1468670 Anodes IMPERIAL CHEMICAL INDUSTRIES Ltd 19 July 1974 [2 Aug 1973]  36692/73 Heading C7B An anode assembly for an electrolytic brine cell comprises a pair of sheets 1 of a film-forming metal (Ti, Zr, Nb, Ta, W or alloy thereof e.g. Ti- Zr, Ti-Pt, Ti-Rh, Ti-Ir, Ti-Nb or Ti-Ta) and interposed between a metallic interlayer 2 having a higher electrical conductivity than that of the filmforming metal, e.g. of Cu, Al, Fe or steel, or alloys thereof, and being electrically and mechanically connected to the faces of the sheets by an electroconductive cement 3, preferably comprising an epoxy resin (e.g. condensation product of Bisphenol A with epichlorohydrin hardened with a crosslinking agent such as an amine) filled with a conductive metal powder such as Cu, Ag or Zn dust, the outer surfaces of the sheets being coated at least partly with an electro-catalytically active coating such as comprising at least one Pt group metal (Pt, Rh, Ir, Ru, Os, Pd) and/or an oxide thereof and an oxide of a film-forming metal (e.g. RuO 2  + TiO 2 ), Re, ReO 3 , magnetite, Ti nitride or a Pt group metal boride, phosphide or silicide. The interlayer 2 may be a solid sheet inserted between the outer sheets 1 to form a sandwich, or a foraminous sheet such as woven gauze or mesh, drilled plate or expanded sheet. A plurality of holes 5 may be provided for connecting to a current leadin e.g. of Cu. The assembly may be formed by applying the cement 3 to the surfaces of the sheets 1 and interlayer 2, assembling to form a sandwich and heating to effect curing whilst applying pressure. The outer plates are preferably coated by known painting, e.g. of thermally-decomposable Pt group metal compounds, and firing. Up to 50% of the Pt group metal oxide (and film-forming metal oxide) may be replaced by SnO 2 , GeO 2  and/or Sb oxides. The brine cell may be used for manufacturing chlorate or hypochlorite or (with diaphragm) chlorine. Specifications 1384996 and 1237077 are referred to.
Patent GB-762567-A (GB)
Title: Closing means of plastic for metal or other vessels fitted with inner lines of plastic
IPC: B65D77/06
Filed: 1954-12-21
Abstract: 762,567. Stoppers &c. ; portable containers. MARCENARO, G. Dec. 21, 1954 [Dec. 22, 1953], No. 36942/54. Classes 66 and 125(3). A metallic or other container 1 with a lining 3 of polyethylene, polyvinyl, chloride, polystyrol or like material has a bush 4 of the same material integral with the lining and screw threaded to engage the inner screw thread of a metal threaded bush 2, a screw plug stopper 5 with slot 6 being inserted into bush 2 to engage a step 7. In a modification, Fig. 3, a screwthreaded stopper 9 also engages the upper threaded part of bush 4.
Patent GB-1533804-A (GB)
Title: Method for the dissipation of surplus heat from a solar collector heating system and apparatus employing such metho
IPC: F24J2/46
Filed: 1977-09-06
Abstract: The method makes possible a temperature restriction in installations with solar collectors and serves to avoid damage as a result of excessive temperatures in the solar collector. To this end, a heat exchanger (11), by means of which the surplus heat in the solar collector (10) can be carried off, is arranged detachably parallel to the solar collector (10). <IMAGE>
Patent GB-909699-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to tobacco, reconstituted tobacco, or cigarette paper and products thereof
IPC: A24B15/28
Filed: 1958-11-18
Abstract: Tobacco, reconstituted tobacco or cigarette paper has incorporated therein a water-adsorbent material united with water, the water being releasable under the influence of heat during the combustion of the tobacco to lower the temperature in the combustion zone, the adsorbent material being present in an amount respectively of at least 20% by weight of the tobacco or reconstituted tobacco and from 5 to 10% by weight of the paper. The material may be e.g. activated alumina, activated bauxite, or crystalline hydrated alumina.  The material may be added to the cigarette paper at the beater stage before the slurry is formed into sheets.  The substance may be prepared in a fluffy form by admixture with an adhesive such as gum arabic and then grinding to 14 to 40 mesh size, and may be coloured to resemble tobacco.  A cigarette formed from the treated tobacco comprises a wrapper which incorporates the water-absorbing substance and is also coated internally and externally with a thin layer of aluminium or its oxide to strengthen the ash.  The water absorbing substance may also be added to a film of tobacco or a web in a process of making reconstituted tobacco.
Patent GB-368745-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in machines for fixing stamps, labels and the like
IPC: B65C11/04
Filed: 1930-12-09
Abstract: 368,745. S t a m p &c . a p p l y i n g machines. COGSWELL, A. G., Wapley Vicarage, Chipping Sodbury, Gloucestershire. Dec. 9, 1930, No. 37151. [Class 73.] A hand or power-operated machine for affixing stamps &c. comprises a reciprocating head to which the stamps are fed in a strip from a reel carried on an oscillating frame, the end of the strip being initially gripped while the reel frame is swung to unwind the strip ; gripping means are then actuated to hold the strip beyond the end stamp which is detached by the final movement of the head. A moistening device may be provided which is held out of action when the machine is inoperative. The machine comprises a frame 2, Fig. 1, to which is pivoted a U-shaped frame 11 carrying a reel holder 12 from which the strip is led over a rod 21 and between turned-in parts 37 on the frame 11. The frame 11 is moved about its pivot against the action of a spring 16 by rollers 8 on a spring- returned slide 6 engaging cam surfaces 15 thereon, the end of the strip being held by a heel-piece 36 against the surface to which the stamp &c. is to be applied. As shown, the slide is hand-operated, and the rollers 8 also engage cam surfaces 18 on a member 17 formed with members 20 which engage the bar 21 to grip the strip. The slide 1 is furnished with a spring-mounted foot 38 which affixes the stamp and is formed with fingers 40 which facilitate the separation of the stamp from the rest of the strip. The strip is moistened by a pad 24 fed from a pivotally-mounted receptacle 22 engaged by a strut 29 on the member 17 to hold it out of operative position when the machine is out of use. For this purpose, the member 17 is provided with a projection 31 which engages a sliding plate 30 on the side of the frame 2. The plate is normally projected beyond the heel 36, as shown in Fig. 1, by a spring trigger 32. When the machine is placed against a surface to apply a stamp &c., the plate 30 is slightly raised, and recesses therein allow the parts 31 to swing forwardly to allow the pad 24 to touch the strip. The trigger 32 is adapted to engage a projection 35 on the slide to prevent its return while the plate 30 is in contact with the surface. The machine may be operated by power and the moistening device omitted, the surface being moistened.
Patent GB-963151-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to apparatus for the continuous deodorisation of vegetable or animal fat or oil
IPC: C11B3/14
Filed: 1960-10-28
Abstract: <PICT:0963151/C4-C5/1> <PICT:0963151/C4-C5/2> Animal or vegetable fats and oils are steam-deodorized in an apparatus 1 (Fig. 1) which comprises several compartments each having a chamber 4 into which steam is passed by line 6 before passing through the permeable sintered or perforated metal upper surface 5 of each chamber.  Fat enters by 8 and is fed to the innermost part of the channel forked in the uppermost of the compartments by guide plates 9 (see Fig. 2). Steam percolates up through the fat while the fat circulates along the channel formed by the guide plates; the fat eventually leaves each compartment in turn through overflow 12 and is passed to the innermost part of the channel in the next lower compartment. The deodorizing steam is sucked through aperture 11a in each compartment into a central pipe 11.  Each steam chamber 4 contains a fine apertured tube 13 which acts as a safety device, and each compartment is provided with steam coils 15 to compensate heat losses.  For high temperature deodorization, steam pressures of up to 150 atmospheres are required.
Patent GB-1396738-A (GB)
Title: Door hinge unit
IPC: E05D11/10
Filed: 1972-08-09
Abstract: 1396738 Vehicle door hinges AISIN SEIKI KK 9 Aug 1972 [11 Aug 1971] 37157/72 Heading E2F A door hinge provided in a vehicle comprises a pair of plates 10, 11 mounted on the door and pillar, respectively, a pair of rollers 16, 17 rotatably mounted on one plate 11 and a resilent member 20 mounted on the other plate 10, the member 20 including a substantially horizontally-extending portion 20c which is kept in pressure contact wih at least one roller during door-opening and closing operations so as to provide a rotational movement between the plates. The constructional relationship between the member 20 and rollers 16, 17 is such that when the door is in the half-open position shown in Figure 4, the net rotational movement is zero, and, for example, further opening of the door about the hinge axis 12 causes the point of contact P 2  between the roller 17 and the member 20 to move outside the connection line B-B, while at the same time relieving contact between the roller 16 and the member 20, to provide a rotational movement which assists the opening of the door and tends to retain the door in its fully-open position, Figure 5 (not shown). Closing of the door is assisted in a similar manner, Figure 3 (not shown). The resilient member may take the form of a substantially S-shaped or U- shaped torsion bar, Figures 1 and 7 respectively (not shown), or a linear spring plate (206), Figure 11 (not shown).
Patent GB-368399-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to razors and razor blades
IPC: B26B21/18
Filed: 1930-12-10
Abstract: 368,399. Safety razors. LANCASTER, F. J., 101, Snow Hill, Birmingham, and CHARLES, A. E., 11, Sandwell Park, West Bromwich, Staffordshire. Dec. 10, 1930, No. 37202. [Class 30.] To improve the cutting qualities of the blade in a safety razor of the clamped-blade type, the guard and/or clamping plates is or are magnetized and either formed of a combination of a non-magnetic with a magnetic material, or provided with projecting poles which alone contact with the blade to increase the intensity of magnetization in it. The poles of each plate may extend along its longitudinal or transverse edges or both. A magnetized guard plate may co-operate with a clamping plate which is either magnetized, of magnetic material to form part of the magnetic chain, or of non-magnetic material. Either the clamping or guard plate may be recessed to form polepieces at its ends and such recesses may or may not be filled in with a mouldable non-magnetic material such as synthetic resin, or vulcanized or other rubber. The clamping plate shown in Fig. 2 has transversely curved polepieces 6 along its transverse ends and a recess housing non-magnetic material 8 which may be moulded around the usual pins 9, 10, 11, but which, as shown, is maintained in position by shoulders on the pins which are riveted to the plate. The clamping plate shown in Fig. 7 has poles extending along all its four sides and is formed as a rectangle with an open centre filled in with material 19 in which the enlarged or conical ends of the pins are moulded. The plate has bevelled inner edges 20 to retain the moulded part 19. Either pair of opposing edges may be formed as projecting polepieces in which case the non-magnetic material 19 covers the other pair. The guard shown in Fig. 10 has curved transverse polepieces 24 and an intermediate recess 23 which may be left free or be filled in with non-magnetic material having an upper convex face conforming to that of the polepieces. In a modification the recess 23 is longitudinal the polepieces lying along the edges 25 which may be plain or toothed. In a further form of guard also shown curved polepieces are pressed up from a magnetized sheet metal strip moulded in non-magnetic material having curved untoothed guarding edges. Only the polepieces project from the non-magnetic material. In a modification of this form the magnetized plate is narrower than the non- magnetic one which has a longitudinal recess in its lower face accommodating the magnetized plate. The polepieces lie beyond the ends of the non-magnetic material and have inwardly projecting parts which overlie the said ends to secure the parts together. The blade may be supported by curved members additional to the polepieces. In all the constructions the magnetic parts may be wholly covered by insulating material so as to be out of contact with the blade.
Patent GB-884726-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to electro-magnetic devices
Inventor: ROBINSON ALFRED ALEXANDER
IPC: H01F7/122
Filed: 1957-11-29
Abstract: 884,726. Electromagnets; magnets. ENGLISH ELECTRIC CO. Ltd. Nov. 27, 1958 [Nov. 29, 1957], No. 37232/57. Class 35. A bi-stable magnetic actuator comprises a tubular permanent or electromagnet 1 with pole pieces 2, 3 which, with a core 4, define annular air gaps in which are arranged coils 6, 7. One or other of the air gaps is bridged by one of two soft iron armature discs 12, 13 which are connected by a spindle 14 and supported by flexible spiders or diaphragms 20 for axial movement. The armature is maintained in either of its two stable bridging positions by the flux due to magnet 1, and change over is initiated by a D.C. pulse through the coils in a direction that weakens the flux at the bridged end while strengthening it at the other. The core 4 has a non-magnetic spacing piece 5 shrunk on it, while the magnet and the spiders 20 are clamped between spacing rings 8, 9 by screwed end caps 11. The core, the pole pieces and the armature have radial slots to reduce eddy currents which would slow the movement of the armature.
Patent GB-344073-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in protective devices for use in telephone or like systems
IPC: H01T4/08
Filed: 1929-12-05
Abstract: 344,073. Protective arrangements. STANDARD TELEPHONES & CABLES, Ltd., Columbia House, Aldwych, London.- (Devaux, L. ; 46, Avenue de Breteuil, Paris.) Dec. 5, 1929, No. 37308. [Class 38 (iv).] A fusible element 4, a heating coil 5, and a lightning arrester 6 are mounted in a single insulating housing, and an alarm indicator 7 may also be included. The housing, preferably moulded of a phenol condensation product, comprises two similar elements 1, 2 formed with mating recesses adapted to enclose between them two protector units as described and each carrying external terminal contact members (not shown). The fuse 4 is secured by a screw 8 to one contact member, and is soldered to a metal rod 10, embraced by a spring plate 32, forming one terminal of the lightning arrester. The heating coil is wound on a metal core 11, between fibre washers 14, 15, secured by burring over the core arches, and is covered with cotton. It is secured with a heat insulating washer 16 to one end of the rod 10 to which one end of the coil is soldered, the other end being soldered to the core 11. A german-silver wire 19 is soldered between the core 11 and a plunger rod 21 having a shoulder 22. A spring 25 is compressed between this shoulder and projections 23 from the other contact member. The plate 32 has projections 33<1> which spring over moulded parts of the housing, and the lightning arrester comprises two carbon discs separated by an annulus of mica, held between one disc 28 and a shoulder surrounding an aperture in the housing; the second disc 27 is removable for cleaning, being held in the aperture by one limb 35 and a spring plate 33 which holds the housing parts 1, 2 together, and forms the earthing connection for the lightning arresters. A series of protector units as above described are removably secured in a mounting frame comprising a base 44 to which are hinged angle-plates 48. Contact springs 50 .. 54 are carried by the mounting frame ; access to the soldering tags of contacts 50, 51 is obtained by releasing screws 49<1> and hinging back the plates 48. The protector units are inserted into the contact springs and rigidly positioned by projections 55 on the plates 48, and by annular projections, on the units, engaging holes in the plates 48. Screws 61 secure beneath the plates 48 an insulated U-shaped alarm plate 59 and forked springs 62 in contact with the earthed mounting frame. The release of any indicator 7 presses a spring 62 into contact with the plate 59 to complete an alarm circuit which is continued by abutting spring-blades 63 secured on the adjacent ends of each mounting frame, so that an insulating wedge may conveniently be inserted to assist in locating a fault.
Patent GB-989836-A (GB)
IPC: F25D3/00
Filed: 1963-09-23
Abstract: 989,836. Refrigerators. LAVORAZIONE LEGHE LEGGERE S.p.A. Sept. 23, 1963 [Sept. 24, 1962], No. 37333/63. Heading F4H. A container for eutectic mixtures comprises a light metal alloy casing formed of two halves 3 continuously welded together and to a light metal alloy insert containing a conduit 2 formed by the roll bond process. An opening 7 is provided for filling the container with eutectic. Connections 5 and 6 are provided for connecting a refrigeration circuit to the conduit 2 to cool the eutectic mixture, the container then being disconnected and used for cooling purposes, particularly in vehicles.