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Patent GB-1144324-A (GB)
Title: Photographic compositions containing derivatives of diamino carboxylic acids
IPC: G03C1/38
Filed: 1966-03-25
Abstract: 1,144,324. Derivatives of diaminocarboxylic acids. KONISHIROKU PHOTO INDUSTRY CO. Ltd., and AJINOMOTO CO. Inc. 25 March, 1966 [29 March, 1965], No. 13365/66. Heading C2C. [Also in Division G2] Compounds of the formula wherein one of X and Y is a group -NR 1 R 2  (in which R 1  and R 2  are individually C 1-5  alkyl) and the other is a group -NHR 3  (in which R 3  is C 6-18  acyl), M is hydrogen or C 1-5  alkyl and n is 2, 3 or 4, or acid addition salts thereof may be obtained by converting a diamino-carboxylic acid (e.g. ornithine, lysine) having a di-C 1-5  alkyl substituent at either one of N<SP>α</SP>- and N<SP>#</SP>- positions into the copper salt or ester and reacting the resulting compound with a C 6-18  acylating agent (e.g. stearoyl, myristoyl, lauroyl, palmitoyl, oleyl or caproyl acid chlorides).
Patent GB-769282-A (GB)
Title: Halogen analogues of tropine benzhydryl ether and method of preparation thereof
Filed: 1955-05-09
Abstract: The invention comprises benzhydryl ethers of tropine in which either or both of the benzene rings of the benzhydryl variety is/are mono- or di-halogenated by chlorine, bromine or iodine, together with their acid addition salts and quaternary ammonium salts, and methods for their preparation by reaction of (a) a 3-halotropane with a halogenated benzhydrol, (b) tropine with a halogenated diphenyldiazomethane, or (c) tropine with a halogenated benzhydryl halide.  In examples: (1) 4-chlorobenzophenone is treated with hydrazine in anhydrous alcohol and the resulting 4-chlorobenzophenone hydrazone oxidized with yellow mercuric oxide or manganese dioxide in petroleum ether to 4-chlorodiphenyldiazomethane, which after filtration is concentrated and immediately reacted with tropine in benzene under reflux, yielding tropine 4-chlorobenzhydryl ether, isolated as the hydrochloride; (2) tropine is reacted with 4-chlorobenzhydryl chloride; and (3) 3-chlorotropane is reacted with 4-chlorobenzhydrol, both methods yielding tropine 4-chlorobenzhydryl ether.  Other tropine benzhydryl ethers mentioned are the hydrochlorides of 4-bromo-, 4-iodo-, and 4 : 41-dichloro-, the hydro-iodides of 2-chloro- and 4-chloro-, the hydrobromide, methobromide and methochloride of 4-chloro-, and tropine 2,4-dichlorobenzhydryl ether.
Patent GB-134071-A (GB)
IPC: B65G7/12
Abstract: 134,071. Leahy, B. Nov. 15, 1918. Parcel and like carriers.-A device for enabling a person easily to handle and carry a trunk &c. comprises a rope 9 passing longitudinally around the trunk and connected at one end by a link and snap hook 11, 12 with a chain 10 passing around one edge of the trunk, a handle 13 being provided between the other ends of the chain and rope. Two curved sleeves 14, slidably arranged on the rope 9, carry loops 15 secured to a second rope 18 and a short chain 16 passing transversely of the box. The connexion between the rope 18 and the chain 16 is adjustable by means of hooks 17, 19 and the links of the chain. The ropes are provided with pieces of leather 20 slidably arranged thereon to protect the edges of the trunk.
Patent GB-1396695-A (GB)
Title: Construction of silos and like cylindrical structures
IPC: E04H7/30
Filed: 1971-05-06
Abstract: 1396695 Silos; methods of erection E W BORROW 4 Aug 1972 [6 May 1971] 13462/71 Heading E1T A cylindrical container such as a silo is constructed by coiling in overlapping relationships 8 a strip 1 about drill and attaching same to a base made up from upright metal plates 6, the strip having a tapered portion 7 for attachment to the plate 6 and for producing the desired helix angle. The strip is carried by an adjustable arm 2 pivoted at 3 to a telescopic post 5 which may be mounted on or pivoted to a lorry, the arm 2 being provided with a counterweight 4 or a second strip 1. The arm 2 may carry a grooved roller to serve as a guide and a platform or platforms, carrying welding equipment may be mounted on the posts 5. The silo may be of durable construction with the inner and outer skins having the generatrices of the helices in the same or opposite directions; spacers are preferably fixed between the two skins and the space therebetween filled with glass wool. For minor details of erection, materials employed, reinforcing members, dimensions and welding the Specification should be referred to.
Patent GB-161853-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in floor coverings
IPC: E04F15/022
Filed: 1920-05-17
Abstract: 161,853. S÷rvik, N. R. May 17, 1920. Wood floors other than wood block, wood-block flooring, -In floor coverings of the type in which wooden strips are attached to a backing, the covering is detachably secured to the floor by means of pins or nails, which pass through the backing only. The backing 1, which may consist of so-called compoboard, i.e. wooden laths 1 secured to pasteboard 2, is provided with pins 4 which are covered by the wooden strips 3.
Patent GB-310861-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to wheels for vehicles
IPC: B60B1/08
Filed: 1928-03-20
Abstract: 310,861. Lavaud, D. S. de. March 22, 1927, [Convention date]. Divided on 287,506. Disc wheels.-A one-piece wheel cast in light metal or alloy, such as that known under the registered Trade Mark "Alpax," comprises a centre portion for attachment to a permament hub 229, spokes 35, a profiled rim without intermediate felloe portion, and a brake-drum 228.
Patent GB-901451-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to photocopying machines
IPC: G03G15/22
Filed: 1957-04-30
Abstract: 901,451. Printing processes. OZALID CO. Ltd., and ROBERTSON, A. L. July 30, 1958 [April 30, 1957], No. 13673/57. Class 100 (2). [Also in Group XX] Photo-copying apparatus comprises in a lightproof cabinet a supply roller for a flexible web coated with a photo-conductive insulating material, which is fed past an electrostatic charging station, an exposure station where it is exposed to an original or an image of an original to be copied, a developing station, and a fixing station where the image is permanently fixed on the web, which is then either rewound or cut into sheets. A web 20, of paper or like flexible material with a coating of photo-conductive insulating material is fed from a roll 14 by and round a roller 15 past a corona charging device 16 and thence past an exposure station defined by an adjustable frame 13. An original is placed on a transparent or translucent panel 5 and electronic flash tubes 7 operated to project an image of the original by means of a mirror 8 and lens 9 on to the web. A shutter 13a is closed when a hinged door over the panel 5 is open. The web is then led past a developer device 17 and a fixing device 18 comprising infra-red heaters. The web is then fed by rollers 31, 32, 33, 37 to a guillotine 19 to be cut into sheets, or to a take-up roller. The supply and take-up rolls and the guillotine, exposure station, developing and fixing devices are contained in a main light-tight housing 2, and the projection device in an auxiliary housing 1, the housings 1, 2 being connected by bellows 12. The frame 13 is adjustable for size of print. Cams on the shaft of the roller 15 actuate a control device comprising a series of decatron tubes to actuate the flash tubes 7 and guillotine 19 in accordance with the web feed and size of print. The web may be caused to be stationary during projection, forming a loop. In another form, the charged web is fed in contact with an original web past an exposure device comprising a transparent cylinder in which is centrally and axially disposed a tubular fluorescent lamp. The drive roller may be the take-up roller.
Patent GB-658990-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to rotary mills or drums
IPC: B02C17/18
Filed: 1948-05-20
Abstract: 658,990. Drying drums. SMIDTH & CO. AKTIESELSKAB, F. L. May 20, 1948, No. 13724. Convention date, June 6, 1947. [Class 34(ii)] [Also in Group II] In a method of treating material in a rotary drum air is caused to flow through the drum at a low velocity and is discharged through an inner pasage in an end trunnion, and powdered material is discharged through an annular passage surrounding the inner passage, the air being substantially entirely prevented from passing through the annular passage by means' of one or more conveying devices so constructed as to effect sealing of the annular passage by the outgoing material. An end trunnion 4 of a rotary ball mill drum 1 is divided by a concentric cylindrical partiton 12 into an inner air discharge passage 18 and a surrounding annular discharge passage for the treated material in which is provided a screw conveyer 14. Treated material passing from the drum 1 through a grid 9 at the end thereof is fed by blades 11 carried by the grid 9 to the conveyer 14. An extension 6 of the trunnion 4 is formed with slotted openings 15 each of which in its lowest position serves as a discharge opening for the material and in its top position allows air to pass through to the suction side of a fan.
Patent GB-1205062-A (GB)
Title: Improved thermally insulating material
Inventor: BRAMHAM ERIC
IPC: A41D31/00
Filed: 1968-03-21
Abstract: 1,205,062. Wet suits. E. BRAMHAM. 13 March, 1969 [21 March, 1968], No. 13758/68. Heading A3V. [Also in Division B5] A thermally-insulating material for making "wet suits" for sailors comprises, bonded together in the following order, a layer of closed-cell foamed elastomer, e.g. polychloroprene, a layer of open-cell foamed elastomer, e.g. polyurethane, and an extensible fabric layer.
Patent GB-999929-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to closure devices
IPC: B65D33/25
Filed: 1963-04-08
Abstract: 999,929. Closure devices for bags. P. X. M. ROCCHISANI. April 8, 1963 [April 9, 1962], No. 13807/63. Heading E2A. A device for closing the neck of a flexible container comprises a flexible body having two elongate parts 1, 2 for extending along the opposite sides of the flattened neck of a container 5, and means for locking the ends of the body together after the body has been bent into an arcuate form in which the sides of the neck are held together by the parts 1, 2. In one example of the device, see Fig. 6, the two separate parts 1, 2 are held in the fastened position by stud and socket means 3, 4, but in an alternative arrangement, see Fig. 24, a pivotable former 23 is rotated to press the parts together. The flexible body may be formed as a single piece of material, see Fig. 8, which is folded along line x-x to form the two elongate parts, or alternatively the single piece may be slotted to hold the bag neck, see Fig. 13 (not shown). In the embodiment shown in Fig. 21 the bag is held between parts 2<SP>1</SP>a, 2<SP>1</SP>b and 1<SP>1</SP>. Various other arrangements are described including one in which the elongate parts are integral with the neck of the bag.
Patent GB-378494-A (GB)
Title: A folding easel
IPC: A47B97/04
Filed: 1931-05-11
Abstract: 378,494. Easels combined with seats. WYLIE, R., 2, Carnarvon Street, Glasgow. May 11, 1931, No. 13855. [Classes 52 (ii) and 52 (v).] A folding easel has its parts constructed so that when folded up it resembles an attachÚ case. Pivotally mounted on side-pieces 14, 15 by means of thumb-screws 32, 33, are a support 10 for a drawing-block &c., and a structure 11 carrying a pivoted casing 37, Fig. 4, for a drawer 39 and having a dovetail groove 20 into which slides a seat 21, the members 10, 11 being adapted to fold together as in Fig. 1 between the side-pieces 14, 15, to form the front and back-of an attachÚ case. A pair of collapsable legs 42, Fig. 3, are pivoted at 21a underneath the seat 21, and a further pair 43 are pivoted to their middle at 45, their upper ends engaging undercut parts 26a of ribs 26 when set as in Fig. 4. A pair of articulated legs 24, 25, carrying terminal portions 24a, 25a, pivoted thereto at 28 and adapted to be held apart by folding struts 29, are pivoted to the ribs 26 at 26b. When the easel is arranged as in Fig. 4, the legs 24, 25 are bent back as at 241, 25<1> in Fig. 3, the end portions 24a, 25a being arranged at right-angles to serve vertical legs. When arranged as in Fig. 5, where the user is standing, the legs 42, 43 are closed together and extended as at 42<1>, 43<1>, in Fig. 3, and the legs 24, 25, with end-pieces parallel thereto are held in position by ties 30 engaging screws 22.
Patent GB-1306816-A (GB)
Title: Selective call transmitters
IPC: H04W88/18
Filed: 1970-03-23
Abstract: 1306816 Radio signalling ROBERT BOSCH ELEKTRONIK GmbH 23 March 1970 [21 March 1969] 13871/70 Heading H4L A selective call transmitter for radio-telephones in which an oscillator has two tuned circuits at different audio frequencies alternately switched into operation to provide a two-tone calling signal, comprises a counter circuit operative to disable the switch after a predetermined number of transmitted calling signals. As shown operation of call button 11 applies a signal to bi-stable circuit 17 to enable over 15 an astable multivibrator 19 and to switch an audio oscillator 6. The audio signal comprises two tones, the first being determined by tap 9 of inductor 7 when 23 is conductive, and the second tone by tap 10 when multivibrator 19 switches to make 24 conductive; 19 then switches back and 16 is switched off to disable 19 and 6, and a two state counter 25 is advanced to 1 whereby after a delay determined by 29 a signal over 31 repeats the operation, advancing 25 to 0. Thus only two two-tone signals are transmitted, with an interval determined by 29. Modifications enabling up to five signals to be generated are described and illustrated.
Patent GB-349751-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to electrical reflector radiators for the heating of rooms
IPC: F24C7/06
Filed: 1930-05-06
Abstract: 349,751. Electric radiators. MAXIM SOC. ANON. FABRIQUE D'APPAREILS THERMO-ELECTRIQUES, Aarau, Switzerland. May 6, 1930, No. 13926. Convention date, July 8,1929. [Class 39 (iii).] The reflector 1 is connected at its middle portion to a supporting member 2 hinged to the pedestal 7 and carrying a handle 5 by means of a screwed ring 4 engaging a screwed sleeve 3. The member 2 is of thicker metal than the reflector and both have flat central abutting portions. The supporting member carries the name plate 8 and is formed with arms 2b between which the handle is mounted. A projection on the reflector engages a groove 3b in the sleeve to prevent movement of the latter. The heating element and a guard grid therefor are carried by the sleeve 3.
Patent GB-1192136-A (GB)
Title: Para-Xylene Recovery
Inventor: HANIN JEAN
IPC: B01D11/02
Filed: 1968-03-22
Abstract: 1,192,136. p-Xylene. ESSO RESEARCH & ENG. CO. 4 March, 1969 [22 March, 1968], No. 13967/68. Heading C5E. p-Xylene is separated from hydrocarbon mixtures containing isomers thereof by (1) cooling the mixture by any convenient means to a temperature at which p-xylene crystals are obtained but above those temperatures at which o-xylene and m-xylene eutectics are formed; (2) passing the slurry containing said crystals into a multi-stage push centrifuge, and operating said centrifuge so that (a) mother liquor is removed from the crystals; (b) said crystals are washed with a wash liquor (as defined below); and (c) said wash liquor is removed from the crystals; and (3) any remaining wash liquor is substantially removed from the washed p-xylene crystals. The wash liquor is defined as a substance liquid between - 40‹ C. and - 80‹ C. being either a C 1-5  hydrocarbon or a liquid in which p-xylene is insoluble, e.g. water/methanol mixtures and brine. In the push centrifuge illustrated, feed mixture is fed by pipe 1 to the surfaces of perforated rotating cylinder 3, mother liquor being collected in channels 12 and crystals being retained. Periodically, a pusher 5 moves the crystals on to another perforated rotating cylinder 7 of increased diameter on which they are washed by wash liquor introduced via pipe 10 and nozzle 11. The washed crystals are freed from excess liquor in a further cylinder 8, and collected on grill 9. The numbers of cylinders can vary and may comprise more than one for each operation.
Patent GB-903371-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to electrical jacks
IPC: H01R24/46
Filed: 1960-04-24
Abstract: 903,371. Switches held set and freed mechanically. COLUMBIA BROADCASTING SYSTEM Inc. April 21, 1960 [April 23, 1959], No. 14049/60. Class 38 (5). [Also in Group XXXVI] A self-normalling jack for use in television systems, comprises a frame 11 carrying a pair of contact stacks 12, 13 and, at one end, a coaxial socket 23, 39. The centre pin 39 of the socket is connected to a contactcarrying arm 17 mounted on the stack 13 and co-operating with said arm is a second arm 15 carried by stack 12, and engaged by an actuator 22 on the end of a rocker arm 20 having a cam portion 24 projecting into the socket contact 23 so that insertion of a plug into the socket causes the rocker arm to alter the engagement status of the contact arms 15, 17. As shown, a third contact carrying arm 16 is mounted parallel to arm 17 with the arm 15 between them, said arm 16 being connected through a terminating resistor 30 to a flange 28 on a collar 26 surrounding the coaxial socket, the flange serving to mount the jack in a jackfield. Stacks 12, 13 also support a connector strip 18 connected at one end to the arm 17 and terminating at the other end in a terminal 35. In the arrangement shown, a pair of coaxial cables 33, 34 have their centre conductors connected to terminal 35 and arm 15 respectively and their outer conductors grounded to frame 11 by sleeves 37, 38. Thus, the cables are connected together across arms 15, 17 until a plug is inserted in the socket, whereupon arm 15 disengages arm 17 and engages arm 16 so that the plug is connected to cable 33 and cable 34 is terminated by resistor 30. Other examples of connections which may be made with the jack are described.
Patent GB-238833-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to apparatus for riveting tubes and similar hollow bodies
IPC: B21J15/36
Filed: 1925-05-28
Abstract: 238,833. Junkers, H. Aug. 27, 1924, [Convention date]. Riveting.-Holders-up or rivet inserting devices of the kind adapted to operate within the tube &c. to be riveted, are adjusted by means controlled directly from the riveting position. The abutment 5, Fig. 1, may be elevated within an anvil 2 by a wedge 4 having a rod mounted within the anvil handle and actuated by a pedal 14 and wire 10. Rivets may be inserted from the interior of the tube by mounting them in a magazine 16, Fig. 2, so as to be pushed endwise by a spring plunger 18, the end rivet in the row seating in a block 5 which is elevated by a wedge 4 controlled by a pedal and wire 10. In a modification, the abutment may be connected by rods to a wheeled base, and may be elevated by a wedge actuated through rods by a pedal on the wheeled base, a pointer being fitted on the latter to indicate the centre of the abutment. In a further modification the anvil and abutment may both be operated from the riveting position, the anvil handle being moved longitudinally by friction rollers mounted in a frame clamped to the work and rotated intermittently by a ratchet wheel and pawl, the latter being actuated by a pedal through a wire. The abutment may be actuated by a solenoid 41, Fig. 5, integral with an. anvil 2 and having an end stop 44 and spring- pressed pawls 47. The solenoid core 42 also has spring-pressed pawls 45. The abutment is normally pressed against the stop 44 by a spring 43. When the coil is energized the anvil moves to the left and being held from retrograde movement by the panels 47 the abutment tends to return to the stop 44 when the current is cut off. The solenoid is controlled by a switch comprising, a pivoted member 52 having a contact 53 and an insulated segment 54 and coacting with a line of contacts 50 as the pedal 14 is depressed. Current passes only while the pedal is being depressed; on its upward movement the insulated segment 54 wipes over the contacts 50. The pawls may be closed by a wire 56, and the anvil may also be connected to a wire so that the riveter may control the device in either longitudinal direction. The anvil and abutment may also be adjusted by pneumatic or hydraulic means in the manner of a pneumatic hammer, the power medium being conveyed within the tube by a' flexible tube.
Patent GB-182272-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in appliances for use in making astronomical observations, for demonstrating purposes, solving problems and so forth
IPC: G01C21/02
Filed: 1921-05-19
Abstract: 182,272. Riddle, J. W. May 19, 1921. Globes.-Celestial globes adapted for solving astronomical problems, demonstration purposes, &c., and of the kind which are rotatably mounted at the poles in a meridian-ring that can turn about an east-and-west axis in an horizon table, are provided at the poles with time-dials or a single reversible dial co-operating with a pointer which is frictionally adjustable on the axis of the globe. The globe a, Fig. 1, is mounted to rotate in a meridian-ring c which is supported so as to turn in a box d, Fig. 3, the top b of which forms an horizon table. The ring c may rest in a groove in a block r, its height being adjustable by means of screws s, and guide-pins t with eccentric bases being provided. The pivot-pins e at the poles of the globe project into cup-shaped recesses in the ring c to enable the split end of a socketmember carrying a pointer g to fit frictionally on the pivots. The time-dial h, over which the pointer works, may be scoured to the meridianring by means of a clip i, Fig. 7, having forked ends l which embrace the ring, notches m, n, Fig. 8, in the edge of the dial engaging headed pins o on the clip. The hours are reversely marked on the two faces of the dial to enable it to be used at either pole. Slots w are formed in the horizon table to permit the dial to pass. The globe is marked with an equatorial circle x graduated in degrees or hours, and with an ecliptic circle y divided into months and fractions of a month. A graduated arc for measuring altitudes may be provided.
Patent GB-776068-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to vats, becks and like heating or boiling vessels
Inventor: FARNWORTH RICHARD
IPC: D06B23/22
Filed: 1954-05-14
Abstract: <PICT:0776068/IV(b)/1> A mixing vat for breaking down the solids in and boiling a water based starch mixture for treating fabric, comprises an outer closed topped tank 10 lagged and provided with a lid, an inner open topped tank 11 spaced therefrom and providing spaces 12, 15 for containing steam under pressure, interleaved mixing paddles 16, 17 driven by gearing from a motor 20, and a pump 20a to discharge the mixture from the tank 11 to treating plant as required, the pump being driven by an eccentric rotated by the motor 20.  The steam pressure supply to the spaces 12, 15 and steam traps &c. are external of the vat and may be in accordance with known practice, and the mixture in the tank 11 may be heated by steam injected from a perforated steam pipe or coil (not shown).  There should be no thinning of the proportioned mixture after boiling point has been reached because there will be evaporation of steam into the steam circulation system to compensate for any condensate falling into the mix.  Initial proportioning of the mix should take into consideration condensation into the mix before boiling point is reached.
Patent GB-703442-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in stands and racks for the suspension of garments
IPC: F16B12/40
Filed: 1951-06-15
Abstract: 703,442. Garment stands. SIEGER, H. W. F. June 15, 1951 [Feb. 9, 1951], No. 14217/51. Class 52(5) A garment stand comprises upright members 1 supported by laterally projecting tubes 2 the upright members 1 being interconnected by detachable. transverse tubes 4, 5, 6. Connecting members between the uprights and transverse, tubes are formed by a sleeve 7 or 8 which fit on the upright 1 connected to a transverse strip 9 carrying pins 10 which fit into eyes 11 on the ends of the transverse tubes. The connecting members and the eyes of the transverse tubes may be held in position by screws 12,13. The upper tubes may be fixed a little below the top end of the upright and a hat rack mounted on the upright with the aid of conecting members.