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Patent GB-534258-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to washing machines
IPC: D06F13/00
Filed: 1940-01-19
Abstract: 534,258. Dish &c. washing machines. MUIR, A. R. Jan. 19, 1940, No. 1204. [Class 138 (i)] A washing-machine of the kind usually employed for washing clothes and comprising a cylindrical vessel provided with an agitator rotated in opposite directions, is fitted with a removable basket whereby it may be used for washing dishes &c. As shown. in Fig. 1 the basket 5 is of annular form and surrounds the agitator 2, being supported by clips 6a; the basket may be sub-divided by radial pratitions and may rotate with the agitator. The agitator may be provided with radial extensions 8 having upturned ends 9. In the form showh in Fig. 5 the agitator 15 is removable and the basket is of cylindrical form. For washing 'clothes an upwardly projecting agitator may be secured to the spindle 15a.
Patent GB-972055-A (GB)
Title: Manufacture of steel
IPC: F27D3/00
Filed: 1961-01-12
Abstract: 972,055. Charging scrap metal into furnaces. CALDERON AUTOMATION Inc. Jan. 12, 1961 [July 29, 1960], No. 1282/61. Heading F4B. [Also in Division B8] Scrap (Figs. 2 and 4) is fed into a steel making apparatus through a shoot 100 the shoot being formed of first part 101 and second part 102 carried by base 50. The part 101 is permenently carried by the base 50 being made with a frame 180 which is supported by the base at 167, 184 and resiliently at 168 (not shown). Shoot part 101 is bent through a right angle as shown. Shoot part 102 is removable from base 50 and is filled with scrap and dropped as shown on to the base 15 so as to be pivotable at 197 and to rest on the base at .195. Shoot part 102 is :to be pivoted about 197 so as to deliver scrap into shoot part 101. Shoot part 102 is raised by platen 155 pivoted at 153 the platen making engagement with shoot part 102 at 206 and in turn the platen 155 is raised by rack element 137. The rack element is pivoted at 136 an carries gear segments 140 driven by pinion 142 driven by motor 145. Operation, Fig. 1.-Shoot part of hopper 102 carried by car 108 is raised therefrom by crane 107 arid then lowered over the base 50 of the shoot apparatus 100 into the position shown in Fig. 4. The operator 110 then starts motor 146 to drive pinion 142 to cause rack element 137 to raise platen 155 which in turn pivots part 102 about pivotal point 197 so that the. scrap in the part 102 gravitates into shoot part 101, turns through a right angle, and then falls into steel making apparatus 104. Shoot part 102 is provided with steps 201, 202, 203 and 204 so that the scrap is delivered in four lots to shoot part 101 to give a more continuous delivery. Second embodiment, Fig. 11.-The shoot first part is made in two pieces 271 and 270, the piece 270 being carried by bearings 278 slidable along rods 275. The part 270 is therefore slidable forward towards the furnace, the movement being effected by a motor driving gear 284 operating bell-crank 282 via rack 238a. In this embodiment the shoot second part is pivotable as before relative to the shoot first part but is non-removable being permanently pivoted.
Patent GB-1464522-A (GB)
IPC: A01K87/00
Filed: 1975-01-13
Abstract: 1464522 Rod couplings CONOLON CORP 13 Jan 1975 [18 June 1974] 1342/75 Heading F2G In making a demountable rod, e.g. a fishing rod, a continuously tapered fibreglass tube 10, Fig. 3, is formed with a central externally thickened portion 11. The taper is smoothed at 15 adjacent the thickened portion 11 on the larger diameter side and a shoulder 16 may be formed on the thickened portion. The tube is cut in two, e.g. with a saw 17, adjacent the thickened portion 11 to provide a tapered butt portion 18 and a tip portion 19 whose larger end has the thickened portion 11. An opening 21, Fig. 1, is reamed in the thickened portion to a size greater than the smaller end of the butt portion 18, and moulding material 22 is placed in the opening 21. The smaller end of the butt portion 18 is coated with a mould release agent prior to insertion in the opening 21 while the material 22 hardens to provide a demountable socket joint. The moulding material may also furnish a plug 25 at the bottom of the opening 21, and another (not shown) at the end of the butt portion 18. Preferably part of the tip of the butt portion 18 is cut off after demounting the joint so that the tapered end may tightly jam in the socket.
Patent GB-228000-A (GB)
Title: Device relating to corks, stoppers or lids for bottles, jars and the like
IPC: B65D45/16
Filed: 1924-01-17
Abstract: 228,000. Furness, J. A., and Richardson, W. L. Jan. 17, 1924. Fittings to indicate bottles containing poisons &c.-In an attachment for bottles, jars, &c. of the kinds in which a guard member is adapted to surround or enclose, wholly or partially, a cork, stopper, lid, &c. and is constrained by a spring to assume a position in which it will hinder the removal of the closure, the guard member 5 is arranged to be depressed in a direction parallel to the axis of the closure in opposition to a spring 3 to permit the cork or other closure to be gripped for removal, the spring returning the member 5 to its initial position when released. The spring 3 surrounds the bottle neck 2 and acts upon a band 4 secured to the channel-shaped member 5, the band bearing in turn against the flange of the bottle neck to limit the upward movement of the guard member which is provided on its upper edge with an annular beal 6. According to the Provisional Specification, the upward movement of the guard member may be limited by internal lugs, projections, or set-screws on the guard member or by a narrowing of its lower end, and means may be provided to facilitate the holding down of the guard member while the contents of the bottle are being poured out.
Patent GB-1100391-A (GB)
Title: Receivers for directional waves
IPC: H01Q19/19
Filed: 1965-01-12
Abstract: 1,100,391. Photo-electric arrangements. P. MALIFAUD. Jan. 12, 1965, No. 1432/65. Heading G1A. [Also in Divisions G2 and H4] A directional wave-energy receiver comprises a thin flat sensitive element or transducer and two wave-energy directing means (one at least of which is provided with a reflective member) each for concentrating part of the incident wave energy upon a respective one of two opposite flat sides of the said sensitive element. The said two directing means provide a common axis along which the wave energy is focused to a plane in which the sensitive element is disposed. In a bolometer, Fig. 2, a thermistor 13 is held between two totally reflecting germanium prisms 7, 8, with thin selenium films 16, 17 interposed. The front faces of the prisms are curved spherically or elliptically so that incident radiation is focused upon the upper and lower surfaces, respectively, of the thermistor. In a second embodiment, Fig. 3 (not shown) two photographic objectives (18), (19) illuminate the front and rear surfaces, respectively, of a sensitive element (20). Radiation is directed to the objective (19) by a totally-reflecting prism (21) which has coplanar entry and exit windows (22), (23) and three reflecting faces (24), (25), (26) inclined at 120‹ to each other. Bundles of suitably disposed cylindrical fibres may replace prisms in the foregoing embodiments. In a third embodiment, Fig. 1 (not shown) a sensitive element (2) is held between a lens (1), by which its front face is illuminated, and a plano-convex lens (6) with a silvered paraboloidal rear surface (3), by which its rear face is illuminated. In a fourth embodiment, a dipole 27, Fig. 4 is illuminated on one side by radio waves concentrated by a lens 29, and on the other side by radio waves concentrated by a paraboloidal mirror 28. In a fifth embodiment, ultrasonic waves are concentrated by two horns 30, 31, Fig. 5, upon the upper and lower faces, respectively, of a triplet 32 made up of a thin sheet of Piezo-electric crystal 33 clamped between two steel holding members 34, 35.
Patent GB-450389-A (GB)
Title: Presser means, particularly for hydraulic or pneumatic single-or multi-plate clutches or brakes
IPC: F16D25/10
Filed: 1936-01-16
Abstract: 450,389. Friction clutches. MULLER, H., 41, Ringstrasse, Dessau, Germany. Jan. 16, 1936, No. 1435. [Class 80 (ii)] [See also Groups XXXIV and XXVI] Fluid-pressure presser means for clutches comprises a diaphragm built up of thin rings 14 ... 17 of sheetmetal clamped alternatively at the inner and outer edges over an annular fluidpressure space 22 and bearing against a pressure transmitting member 12 when pressure fluid is admitted to the space 22. The rings act as a labyrinth packing when pressure fluid is first admitted until the pressure presses the rings together to form an effective seal. The rings are clamped by members 18-21 of conical form, the pitch of which corresponds to the line of flexion of the rings when pressure fluid is admitted. Spacer plates 26, 27 are clamped between the rings. Disengagement of the clutch plates is effected by springs. In pneumatic clutches a ring of rubber is clamped at both inner and outer edges between the rings 14-17. The particular construction shown comprises two clutches 3, 4 adapted to connect one or other of two bevel gears to the driving-shaft 1. These gears both mesh with a gear which one gear drives in one direction and the other gear drives in the opposite direction.
Patent GB-1451978-A (GB)
Title: Electrophoretic painting
IPC: C25D13/16
Filed: 1974-01-11
Abstract: 1451978 Electro-phoretic painting BERGER JENSON & NICHOLSON Ltd 11 Jan 1974 [11 Jan 1973] 01440/74 Heading C7B A layer of resinous film-forming material is deposited electro-phoretically on to a conductive surface 6 by employing a reservoir of electrolyte 9 including the film-forming material, a counterelectrode 4 in contact with the electrolyte and an applicator of electrically insulating material 5 permeable to and impregnated with the electrolyte and positioned in contact with the electrolyte in the reservoir. In operation the applicator is brought into contact with the surface to be electro-coated whilst passing an electric current between the surface and the counter-electrode. The counterelectrode 4 may be of metal frit or metallic grid or plate. The insulating material 5 may be of polyimide fibres, felt, glass frit or bristles. Examples include coating aluminium or brass with acrylic resin and TiO 2  pigment; and coating iron with alkylphenol resin and TiO 2  and carbon black pigments. Strip or foil (e.g. Al or steel) may be coated continuously by passage under two or more (three shown in Fig. 2, not shown) applicators as shown in Fig. 1, the potential difference between the strip and each applicator increasing in the direction of travel of the strip. The process may be used with A.C. or pulsed current.
Patent GB-157785-A (GB)
Title: Electrolytic process and apparatus for the separation of platinum from other metals contained in platiniferous materials
IPC: C25C1/20
Filed: 1921-01-10
Abstract: 157,785. Slatineanu, E. Dec. 19, 1919, [Convention date]. Wet processes of recovering gold and palladium. -In the separation of platinum from other metals, there is obtained a solution containing also gold and palladium, which are then precipitated by means of hydrogen previously treated with ultra-violet light, for instance by passing the gas through a helical silica tube surrounding a silica mercury-vapour lamp. If a plate of gold or palladium is placed in the solution, a voltaic couple is stated to be formed with the hydrogen. In obtaining the solution of platinum, gold, and palladium, there may be employed broken ingots of impure platinum, or sludges resulting from electrolytic treatment of impure gold anodes in nitric acid solution, the silver being deposited on the cathode and platinum, iridium, palladium, gold, and lead precipitated. The impure metal or sludge may be treated with diluted aqua regia at 70‹ C. in a closed vessel A provided with a stirrer b. Only the platinum, palladium, and gold dissolve. An alternative method of obtaining such a solution consists in treating an impure gold anode in acid auric chloride solution or aqua regia, silver, iridium, rhodium, ruthenium, &c., remaining undissolved. A part of the gold may then be deposited electrolytically, say in the same cell. Treatment with the hydrogen is effected in a closed vessel B, excess of gas escaping by a pipe f, and the solution being removed by a pipe g extending downwards through one-third of the height of the vessel. Specification 154,213, [Class 1 (i), Chemical processes &c.], is referred to.
Patent GB-328200-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to steam generators
Filed: 1929-01-16
Abstract: 328,200. Pattison, M. R. Jan. 16, 1929. Scum apparatus; sediment collectors and settling chambers. - A feedwater purifier comprises a chamber 1 with. an inlet 2 communicating with a volute 3 from which the water is led down one annular passage, 4 and up another 5 before passing to an outlet 9. A pipe 8 down which the water is led after ascending the passage 5 has a branch 13 communicating with a scum collector in the boiler, the pumped feed inducing a scum - carrying current therethrough. The mixture deposits sludge at the bottom of the chamber and ascends an outer annular passage 24 in which it is heated by a steam coil 15. A ring 11 for collecting impurities may be disposed below the annular passages 4, 5. Means for pre-filtering the feedwater may be, provided, including separators to which sludge from the purifier is withdrawn through blow-off cocks. Specification 299,949 is referred to.
Patent GB-346464-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to the construction of vehicles, in particular to bodies and drivers' cabs of petrol engine driven vehicles
IPC: B60P1/10
Filed: 1930-01-16
Abstract: 346,464. Tipping carts. DU CROS, Ltd., W. & G., 177, The Vale, Acton, London, and TOWNSEND, W. I. C., 88, Harrow View, Harrow, Middlesex. Jan. 16, 1930, No. 1533. [Class 108 (i).] A vehicle having a driver's cab, or its equivalent, and a main body portion, is provided with means for connecting the cab to the body and disconnecting it from the chassis so that the cab and the body are movable as a unit about a pivot on the chassis in order to expose portions of the vehicle such as the engine or the transmission. In one form, the body 3A of a refusecarrying vehicle is pivotally mounted about a transverse axis 4 and the cab 6A is normally attached to the vehicle frame 9 by rubber pads 5 which engage sockets 1 on the frame. The cab may be detachably secured to the body by means of several pairs of eyes and pins, or by a vertical channel on the back of the cab engaging a vertical T-bar on the body, pins being passed through the engaging flanges; in the latter case rubber buffers may be provided between the flanges. A lifting gear 2, carried on the vehicle, is provided to facilitate tilting.
Patent GB-408920-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in apparatus for use in permanently waving hair
IPC: A45D4/10
Filed: 1933-07-12
Abstract: 408,920. Hair - waving appliances. McCONKIE, W. R., 24, Montgomery Street, and CADDIES, R. F., Chesterfield, both in Irvine, Ayrshire. July 12, 1933, No. 1555/34. Divided on 407,733. [Class 131.] Apparatus for supplying hot air, steam, and/or other vapour to perforated hair-waving mandrels comprises a boiler and an air heater and blower connected to a heated mixing vessel containing a bottle adapted to receive vaporizable material, the vessel being provided with outlet nozzles to which the mandrels are connected. The mixing vessel 23, Fig. 1, is supplied with steam from the boiler through a steam pipe 35, 35<1> surrounded by an air jacket 22, 22<1>, steam being admitted also to the upper part of the vessel through a pipe 47 connected to the upper end of the steam pipe 35. The vessel 23 is provided with a perforated basket 48 containing a glass or metal bottle 24 in which is placed chemical material to be vaporized by the steam or hot air. The bottle 24 is provided with an outlet pipe opening into the vessel 23 at 54 and is supplied with hot air from the jacket 22 through a pipe 52 which may be connected through a valve 53 with the steam pipe 47. The boiler and vessel 23 are heated by electric or other heaters. The air blower 25, Fig. 5, is provided with an electric heater in the delivery pipe 40 which is surrounded by an air preheater 26 and is connected to the air jacket 22 by a pipe 42. The air preheater 26 is connected to the intake 44 of the blower and is provided with air inlet apertures 57 and with a valve controlled conduit 43 connected to the lower end of the air jacket 22. The vessel 23 is provided with a plurality of nozzles 46 to which the perforated mandrels are connected, and may be used to superheat the steam and the vapours from the vessel 24 or may be supplied with water or other liquid, e.g. oil, and used as a vaporizer.
Patent GB-538283-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in lighting fittings
IPC: F21V11/18
Filed: 1940-01-25
Abstract: 538,283. Lamps. GILLARD, F. G., and PLESSEY CO., Ltd. Jan. 25, 1940, No. 1561. [Class 75 (iv)] A lamp screen comprises two shutters which are movable in opposite directions to vary uniformly the aperture by means of a single pinion and co-operating racks on the shutters. The lamp-housing 14 shown in Figs. 2 and 3 carries semi-cylindrical revoluble shutters 19, 20 formed with tongues 23 having racks 24 co-operating with a pinion 25 which is rotatable to move the shutters in opposite directions and thereby adjust the aperture between the edges 21, 22 of the shutters. The racks are held in engagement with the pinion by co-operation of each tongue 23 with a tongue 29 on the other shutter. A knob 28 for rotating the pinion is connected thereto by a spindle 26 which is mounted in a boss 27 on the housing and in a plate 30 which extends across the tongues 23, 29, and has end lugs engaging the edges of the tongues 29. The tongues are held against the housing by a spring 32 which is arranged between the plate and tongues and has retaining-fingers 34 engaging slots in the plate. The shutters are mounted at the ends in recesses 18 in end caps 12, 15. A lamp-holder 16 is mounted in a member 11 on a tube 10.
Patent GB-243922-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in steam boiler plants
IPC: F23C99/00
Filed: 1925-01-19
Abstract: 243,922. V÷lcker, E. Jan. 19, 1925. Water-tube boilers.-Two or more upper drums 2, 3, Fig. 1 and a lower drum 1 are connected by nests of vertical or inclined tubes 5, 6, and the furnace gases traverse first the uppermost nest of tubes 6 and then travel in a zig-zag path around the tubes of the lower nest or nests towards the chimney. The upper drum 3 is connected by down pipes 1 to a feeding drum 4, which is connected to the lower drum 1 by downcomer tubes 10 outside the furnace. The intermediate drum is connected by ascending tubes 7 to the upper drum, which is connected with a drum 8 from which steam is taken. The drums are partly or wholly insulated from the combustion chamber. The boiler is fed at the drum 4 or through the downcomer tubes 10, and the drums 2, 4 are connected by pipes 9 of large diameter. In modifications, all the nests of heating-tubes are vertical with the drums vertically above one another. The tubes may be of gradually increasing diameter and length but of diminishing number from below upwards. In the arrangement shown in Fig. 4, two boiler systems are connected in parallel to common steam and feed drums 36<a>, 31<a>, with external downcomer tubes 34, 34<a> connecting the feed drum to the lower most drums. The furnace gases meet first the uppermost nest of the left hand system and after passing in a tortuous path around the lower nests rise through a flue to the uppermost nest of the right-hand system. The tubes of the right-hand system are smaller in section but more numerous than those of the hotter left hand system. By means of an adjustable damper 37 some of the hot gases may be led direct to the second system. Two boiler systems with independent water and steam circulations may be heated by a common coal dust furnace, as shown in Fig. 5. The furnace gases pass in two tortuous paths, indicated by arrows f, from the centrally arranged combustion-chamber 40.
Patent GB-1080262-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to lubricating oils
Inventor: JONES NEVILLE MURRAY
IPC: C07C39/15
Filed: 1965-01-14
Abstract: Lubricating oils contain an anti-oxidant composition comprising a mixture of phosphosulphurized terpene and an aralkyl phenol of formula <FORM:1080262/C4-C5/1> where R is an aralkyl group, n is at least 1, R1 is an alkyl group and m is 0, 1 or more and n + m \sO 5, provided that where R1 is ortho to the phenolic group it is a primary or secondary alkyl group (many examples given).  The oil may be mineral or synthetic, e.g. polyolefin and may contain a fatty oil, e.g. lard or castor oil. The composition may also contain alkaline earth metal derivatives of phosphosulphurized polyolefins, alkali or alkaline earth metal salts of petroleum or alkylbenzene sulphonates, amine salts of olefin/maleic anhydride copolymers, and tricresyl phosphate.
Patent GB-1377092-A (GB)
Title: Detergent compositions
IPC: C08L67/02
Filed: 1971-01-13
Abstract: 1377092 Detergents containing anti-redeposition agents UNILEVER Ltd 7 Jan 1972 [13 Jan 1971] 1650/71 Heading C5D  Detergent compositions for washing polyester fabrics comprise, as anti-redeposition agent, a copolymer of polyoxyethylene glycol and polyethylene terephthalate and a nonionic detergent selected from (A) ethoxylated alkyl phenols wherein the total alkyl substituents contain 6 to 12 C atoms and the ethylene oxide is present in the molar ratio from 5 : 1 to 25 : 1 with reference to the alkyl phenol; and (B) ethylene oxide (5 to 30), condensation products with (i) a C 10 -C 16  straight chain saturated aliphatic alcohol, (2) a C 10 -C 20  branched chain saturated aliphatic alcohol, (3) a C 10 -C 20  branched unsaturated aliphatic alcohol or (4) a C 10 -C 18  straight chain unsaturated aliphatic alcohol. Up to 80% of the nonionic detergent may be replaced by dodecyl benzene sulphonate. Soap may be present, together with builders such as sodium tripolyphosphates and other anti-redeposition agents. The copolymer may be admixed with organic extrudable solids to form granules. The composition may be in liquid or solid forms. Specifications 1,088,984, 1,154,730 and 1,204,123 are referred to.