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Patent GB-365023-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to the protection of metals
IPC: C23C22/73
Filed: 1930-10-25
Abstract: 365,023. Treating metallic surfaces to produce a modified surface. GÍTZL, W., 8, Tauentzienstrasse, Berlin. Oct. 25, 1930, No. 23132/31. Convention date, Oct. 25, 1929. Divided on 364,226. [Class 82 (ii).] In forming on the surface of a metal sheet, band, strip, &c. a protective or insulating coating consisting of a compound of the metal, e.g. a coating of oxide on aluminium or other oxidizable metal, defects due to irregular coating on the edges are avoided by securing to the sheet &c. a rounded embracing edging prior to the formation of the coating. A metal strip a is provided with a U-shaped embracing edging f which may be secured by friction, by binding agents such as cement, by mechanical means, or by soldering or welding and may be made of the same metal as the strip a. The strip is then treated chemically or electrolytically to form the coating and may be used in the manufacture of electric condensers or for constructional purposes, e.g. in the manufacture of airships. The Specification as open to inspection under Sect. 91 (3) (a) comprises some of the subjectmatter of Specification 364,226. This does not appear in the Specification as accepted.
Patent GB-757662-A (GB)
Title: Adjustable fastening device
IPC: A41F1/00
Filed: 1954-08-10
Abstract: 757,662. Releasable fastenings. JACKSON CO., Ltd., H. D. Aug. 10, 1954 [Aug. 10, 1953], No. 23172/54. Class 44. A fastening device for adjustably securing two parts 12, 23 together and including a track 10 comprising a flexible member formed by or connected to the part 12 and provided with a series of spaced-apart stops extending longitudinally of the track and including an adjustable co-operating member 20 having means 22 at one end for securing such member to the part 23 is characterized in that each of the stops has oppositely disposed transversely extending co-operating member-engaging portions 14 and that the co-operating member 20 comprises a top wall, and end wall and a bottom wall defining a housing 21, the end wall being located at the other end of the member and the forward end of the housing defined by the walls being open to enable the housing to secure a stop in the series, the bottom wall having a longitudinal slot 26 extending from the open forward end of the housing to provide two spaced longitudinally extending bottom wall portions 25 adapted to be inserted under the transverse engaging portions of a stop, and the bottom wall portions having a longitudinal length less than the distance between adjacent stops in the series. The housing has side walls 28 which are bent from the top wall and engage the bottom wall portions 25 to prevent the housing being crushed during laundering. The portions 14 of the stops can be separate parts as shown having teeth 15 which engage a flexible member 11 sewn to the part 12, or they can be opposite parts of the heads of studs which are fastened by prongs to the part 12, they can be parts clinched round the member 11 on integral transversely extending parts of the member 11 hardened by impregnation with shellac. When separate portions 14 are used and it is required to lock the housing to the track, each portion 14 can be provided with projections 36, Fig. 11, which engage recesses in the side walls of the housing. The resilience of the track permits the release of the projections and holds them in the recesses.
Patent GB-319881-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to ventilating and humidifying apparatus for cooling chambers applicable to refrigerator cars
IPC: F25D11/00
Filed: 1928-08-13
Abstract: 319,881. Thomson, A. L. Aug. 13, 1928. Cooling-chambers.-A refrigerator car or chamber is ventilated by air drawn by a fan 9 through inlets 7 in the space between the roof and the insulated ceiling of the car, and forced over the surface of the ice in a tank 11 through which the refrigerating pipes 3 pass to humidify it. The tank is provided with baffles 19, 20 and openings 14 in its end walls through which the air passes into ducts 15, which communicate through openings controlled by louvres 16 operated by rods 17 within the interior of the car. The car is provided with two compression refrigerating machines driven by electric motors supplied with current by generators driven by Diesel engines.
Patent GB-598779-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to work setting gauges for punching and other machine tools
IPC: B21D43/00
Filed: 1945-09-10
Abstract: 598,779. Gauging-devices ; punching. PAINTER BROS., Ltd., and PAINTER, R. A. Sept. 10, 1945, No. 23262. [Classes 83 (iii) and 83 (iv)] A work-setting gauge for punching and other machine-tools comprises an adjustable graduated cam 19 which positions a slide 1 carrying a work-engaging roller 11. The cam is graduated with <1>/32 inch and <1>/8 inch indices on opposite sides. The cam setting is viewed through stationary windows 34. Locking pins are secured in holes 36 and coloured pins to assist setting may be inserted in holes 39. A roller 18 on a bracket 41 adjustable in holes 43 in the slide is urged by a spring 20 into contact with the cam. A work-engaging roller 11 is selectively positioned in holes 9 on the slide corresponding with the tool station. In using the gauge for back-gauging from the edge 6 of an angle section, the roller 11 is positioned in alignment with the tool and the gauge rotated until a coloured pin in hole 39 is on the line III-III with index showing in the window 34..The cam is then locked by a pin in hole 36 and roller 11 then in position to locate the work.
Patent GB-436575-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to textile materials and a method and apparatus for usein the manufacture thereof
IPC: D01H5/36
Filed: 1933-08-21
Abstract: 436,575. Yarns; chenille. SINFRA AKT.-GES., St. Gallen, Switzerland. Aug. 21, 1933, Nos. 23280, 23281, 23285, and 23286. Void [Abridged as open to inspection under Sect. 91 of the Acts, Sept. 18, 1934]. [Classes 120 (iii) and 142 (iv)] A loop yarn comprising twisted carrier threads has one or more binding threads applied against the loops which are wound round one or more core threads, the whole being twisted together; the loops may be uncut, or cut, producing a chenille yarn. The loops may consist of a single or a number of threads. Two or more loop or chenille yarns may be twisted together, or may form the constituents of further similar loop or chenille yarns. Apparatus for producing the twisted loop yarn comprises a hollow rotatable conical member through which the core is fed, a wedge rotatable with the core and on which the loops are formed, and means for applying binding threads against the loops, the whole then being twisted. The core thread 1, Fig. 1, is drawn from the supply 4. The loop forming threads 31, 32 are drawn from bobbins 14, 15 and wound round the adjustable wedge member 13 to form loops which slide off the narrow end of the wedge. The bobbins 14, 15 are mounted on a plate 19 which is rotated about the central axis by gearing 20-23 and pulley 18. The thread 2 from the bobbin 6 is applied to and bound round the yarn, the bobbin 6 being mounted in a frame 11 which is rotated by the pulley 34. The finished loop yarn is drawn off by the rollers 26, 27 faced with carding and adjustable for distance apart. An alternative form of apparatus, Fig. 12, comprises toothed wheels 41, 42 which crimp the loop thread 39 ; the loops are fed on a conveyer band 43 together with the core thread 35, and are twisted with a binding thread 36 at the nip 49, 45 by rotation of the yarn as it is drawn off. Apparatus for producing the chenille yarn comprises a downwardly inclined feed trough 60, Fig. 4, down which the chenille elements. 59 are fed, a grooved conveying wheel 61 which feeds the chenille elements between the core and binding threads 52, 53 ; the draw-off rollers 57, 58 are rotatable about the axis of the yarn to twist the latter.
Patent GB-1060378-A (GB)
Title: Dosing methods and devices
IPC: C02F1/68
Filed: 1964-06-04
Abstract: 1,060,378. Mixing solids and liquids. E. F. PANTLAND. June 4, 1964 [June 6, 1963; Aug. 13, 1963; April 29, 1964], No. 23282/64. Heading B1C. Apparatus for the controlled dosing of water with sodium hyprochlorite comprises a container 10 having a support 12 for the granular or tabletted dosant; water is admitted through the conduit 13, washes the dosant as it passes over the support, and passes over the edge of the support or through perforations therein (see Fig. 4, not shown) and so out through a conduit 18 in the base of the container. The annular space between the support and the container, and the perforations in the support are of size to retain the smallest solid particles that may be present. There may be a float as at 17 which closes the outlet 18 until the liquid reaches a pre-determined level in the chamber, to prevent air from the chamber entering the outlet pipe.
Patent GB-1204122-A (GB)
Title: Novel bis-phenyl derivatives and the preparation thereof
Inventor: KING JOHN
IPC: C07D311/24
Filed: 1966-09-19
Abstract: 1,204,122. Bis-phenyl derivatives. FISONS PHARMACEUTICALS Ltd. 8 Sept.,' 1967 [19 Sept., 1966], No. 23314/70. Divided out of 1,204,121. Heading C2C. Novel bis-phenyl derivatives of the general formula wherein A<SP>1</SP> and A<SP>2</SP> either together form a or chain or are-OH and -COCH 3 , -COOH or - H; W is a COOH group or a group V convertible by oxidation and/or hydrolysis to a COOH group or a functional derivative thereof; X is a carbocyclic or heterocyclic ring or a straight or branched, saturated or unsaturated, substituted or unsubstituted hydrocarbon chain which may optionally be interrupted by one or more carbocyclic or heterocyclic rings, or by oxygen, sulphur or nitrogen atoms or by-SO-, -SO 2 -, -NH- or substituted -NH- groups; and P, Q, R, P 1 , Q 1  and R 1  are each a hydrogen or halogen atom or a nitro, amino, cyano, hydroxy, alkyl, alkenyl, alkoxy or alkenyloxy group; and functional derivatives thereof are prepared by acetylation of a compound of the general formula or an alkyl ether thereof using a Friedel-Crafts reaction 1,6 - Bis - (4 - methoxyphenyl)hexane is prepared by reduction of 1,6 - bis - (4 - methoxyphenyl) - hexa - 1,6 - dione with amalgamated zinc. 1,5 - Bis - (p - methoxyphenyl) - pent - 3- yl-acetate is prepared by treatment of 1,5-bis-(pmethoxyphenyl) - pentan - 3 - ol with acetic anhydride and sulphuric acid.
Patent GB-265647-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in mechanism for operating electric oil switches or for analogous purposes
IPC: H01H3/46
Filed: 1926-07-12
Abstract: 265,647. Statter, J. G., and Marston, G. S. July 12, 1926. Automatic circuit-breakers.-Relates to operat ing mechanism for electrie switches and circuit breakers of the type having a pair of toggles con sisting of two members adapted to be locked together by a catch pivoted on the pivot of one of its members and when so locked forming one of the members of the other toggle. As shown in Fig. 2 the crank 18 is connected by links 21, 22 to the arm 14 of a pivoted bell-crank operating the contacts, the toggle links 21, 22 being lockec together by a hooked detent 27 engaging an ex tension 26 of the link 21. When the tail of the link 27 is moved by an overload or no-volt device the release of the detent 27 permits the collapse of the underset toggle (Fig. 1) so that the switcl opens. In reclosing the switch the toggle is first locked by clockwise rotation of the forked operating handle 5, a projection 20 on this handle co-operating with a projection 19 on the crank arm 18. On reversing the handle rotation the projection 20 bears directly on the crank 18 so that the locked toggle 20, 21 transmits the operating force to the bell crank 13, 14 and forms with the crank-arm 18 an overset toggle held in position by a projection 29 secured to or integral with the arm 18 bearing on a member 28 of the fixed framework 11. The circuit-breaker may be opened by hand either by tripping of the catch 27 or by clockwise-rotation of the handle 15, lost motion between it and the crank-arm 18 permitting a quick opening movement independently of the movement of the operating handle.
Patent GB-383329-A (GB)
Title: A new or improved method and apparatus for the taking of x-ray photographs
IPC: G03B42/02
Filed: 1931-08-19
Abstract: 383,329. R÷ntgen-ray photography. GARDNER, R. A., Zamalek Building, Zamalek, Cairo, Egypt. Aug. 19, 1931, No. 23413. [Class 98 (i).] In a method of taking individual X-ray photographs the image is projected by the X-rays on to a flat fluorescent screen and is then photographed on a reduced scale by means of a lens on a sensitive surface of small size. In the form shown the camera 8, Fig. 1, is carried at the lower end of a light-tight casing 6a closed by bellows 8a at the base and by the fluorescent screen 1 at the top. The screen is carried by rollers 3 running on rails 4 on the underside of the operating table 5 above which the X-ray tube 6 is mounted. The film feeding mechanism of the camera comprises supply and take-up rolls 12, 13, Fig. 4, the latter being driven by an electric motor fitted with a pawl and ratchet mechanism to prevent reverse movement. The film passes over a roller 24 carrying a cam plate 25 co-operating with a pawl 26 controlled by a solenoid 27 so that each time the solenoid is energized the pawl 26 is released and a fresh length of film is fed into exposure position. The solenoid and the electric motor may be operated by a common switch. The use of plates and film packs is referred to.
Patent GB-297208-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to steering or vibration dampers for use upon motor cycles and the like
IPC: B62K21/08
Filed: 1927-09-08
Abstract: 297,208. Webb & Co., Ltd., H. C., Chinn, H., and Knowles, V. A. Sept. 8, 1927. Steering-mechanism.-In a steering-damper for motor-cycles &c. of the type having a friction-disc damper a at the lower part of the steering-head, adjustable by a hand-wheel &c. g at the upper part of the head, a cone-shaped plate spring e with radial prongs e<1> projecting from its outer edge is associated with the hand-wheel and the upper part of the steering-stem d in such a manner as to provide for a " click " retention of the position of adjustment. As shown, one of the prongs e<1> engages between two projections f<1> on the underside of a plate f rigid with the handwheel g and transmission rod c, so that the spring e rotates with the wheel g and rod c, its lower part being provided with a projection adapted to engage with a " click " action any one of a series of cavities d<2> in a nut d<1> on the upper end of the steering-stem d.
Patent GB-369860-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in pipe joints
IPC: F16L19/065
Filed: 1931-08-21
Abstract: 369,860. Pipe joints. KAY, F., Bolton Brass Works, Blackhorse Street, Bolton. Aug. 21, 1931, No. 23595. [Class 99 (i).] A pipe v is jointed to the socketed end d of a second pipe or union member a in a fluidtight manner by a ferrule e which is forced into a conical recess f in the pipe end d by a nut c. The ferrule projects out of the recess f for an appreciable distance and its outer end is formed with a conical face g to seat against a like face on the nut c. The conical face i of the ferrule is very acutely tapered in relation to the axis thereof and the face g is disposed at or about right-angles to the face i.
Patent GB-845313-A (GB)
Title: Cigarette lighter
IPC: F23Q2/06
Filed: 1957-07-25
Abstract: 845,313. Cigarette lighters. KOLLISCH, J., and KOLLISCH, B., [trading as KOLLISCH GEB]. July 25, 1957 [July 25, 1956], No. 23628/57. Class 75(3). In a cigarette lighter provided with a sparkproducing mechanism comprising a friction wheel 4 and with a hinged cover 10 displaceable to the open position by a spring 13 acting about an axis 12 parallel to the friction wheel axis 6 the displacement of the cover 10 to the open position is effected by at least one frictionroller 7, disposed on the same axis and with the friction wheel 4, co-operating with contact member 8, 9 on the cover 10.
Patent GB-601226-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to the manufacture of polymeric materials and the employment thereof
Filed: 1944-11-27
Abstract: Hydrocarbon copolymers are prepared by copolymerizing an aromatic monoolefin and an aliphatic monoolefin the aromatic monoolefin comprising from 50 to 80 per cent by weight of the mixed olefins, in the presence of a Friedel-Crafts catalyst at a temperature below -70 DEG  C.  Specified aromatic olefins are styrene and its homologues, indene and terpene and specified aliphatic olefins are isobutylene and isopentene.  The copolymerization is preferably carried out at between -70 DEG  and -105 DEG  C. in the presence of methyl or ethyl chloride as a solvent and/or diluent. The catalyst may be boron fluoride, aluminium chloride, aluminium bromide or titanium chloride preferably in solution in methyl or ethyl chloride.  The resulting copolymers have an intrinsic viscosity greater than 0.6 and are all soluble in aromatic solvents and insoluble in aliphatic solvents. Specified aromatic solvents are benzene, toluene, xylene, isopropyl benzene, tetrahydronaphthalene, dihydronaphthalene, dihydrobenzene, chlorbenzene, 6-bromo-toluene and 1,4-dihydroxy naphthalene. These solutions are particularly useful for forming protective films on such surfaces as metal, wood, paper and cloth, while self-supporting films may be produced by stripping off the film-a stripping aid such as polysilicone may be used.  Specification 513,521 is referred to.
Patent GB-1013044-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to an insulating plate having an electrical wiring pattern secured to its surface
IPC: H01R4/02
Filed: 1962-06-20
Abstract: 1,013,044. Binding posts. PHILIPS ELECTRONIC & ASSOCIATED INDUSTRIES Ltd. June 20, 1962 [June 23, 1961], No. 23727/62. Heading H2E. [Also in Division H1] A terminal 9 for a printed circuit consists of a pin of circular cross-section having a head 11 with a flat underside which is soldered to the printed circuit, a portion with a multi-start coarse pitch helical thread 7 which is pushed into an aperture in the insulating panel 1 which carries the wiring 3, and a plain cylindrical portion 13 to which the connecting wires 15 of components 5 may be soldered. The top surface of the head 11 of the pin is convex so that the pin can rotate when pushed into the circuit panel by die 17. The pitch of thread 7 is such that when developed it encloses an angle of less than 45 degrees, e.g. 30 degrees, with the longitudinal axis of the pin.
Patent GB-260930-A (GB)
Title: An improved strip or stringer for flexible closures or fasteners
IPC: A44B19/34
Filed: 1926-05-04
Abstract: 260,930. Mills, C. K., (Binns, E. H.. and Binns, R. H.). May 4, 1926. Fastening strips. - The stringer for a flexible strip interlocking fastening device is formed from the material 10 to which the fastening elements are to be applied by folding such material back and forth upon itself, as shown in Figs. 7 and 9, to form the bead 11, Fig. 10, to which the elements 5 of the fastening are secured, Fig. 11.
Patent GB-307808-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in the manufacture and production of artificial rubber
IPC: C08F136/06
Filed: 1927-09-12
Abstract: 307,808. Johnson, J. Y., (I. G. Farben industrie Akt.-Ges.). Sept. 12, 1927. Grant of Patent refused. Caoutchouc synthetic; butadiene. - In the process of obtaining polymerized products of butadiene and wherein the butadiene is obtained from acetylene by converting acetylene into acetatdehyde, the latter into aldol, reducing the aldol to 1-3 butyleneglycol and splitting off water from this by treatment with phosphorus pentoxide or catalysts to form butadiene, the acetylene, or gases containing it, are produced from methane or gases containing methane so as to obtain the acetylene free from substances deleterious to the subsequent reaction e.g. A gaseous mixture containing methane is passed through a flaming arc, and the resulting acetylene is converted by treatment with a aulphuric acid solution of a mercury salt into acetaldehyde which is stirred with dilute alkali to effect the condensation to aldol. The aldol is treated with hydrogen under a pressure of about 100 atmospheres and at about 100‹ C. in the presence of finelydivided nickel and the resulting 1 3-butyleneglycol is passed at an elevated temperature over diatomite which has been treated with phosphorus pentoxide. The butadiene obtained is liquefied by compression and treated with 1 per cent of metallic sodium to effect the polymerization. Specifica.- tion 17193/13 is referred to.
Patent GB-285754-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in disintegrating machines
IPC: B02C13/286
Filed: 1927-09-12
Abstract: 285,754. Addicks, D. C. Sept. 12, 1027. Impact pulverizers. - In a disintegrating- machine comprising a crushing-chamber with a grating at the lower part and containing a rotor co-operating with a breaker-plate, a pendant hinged plate forms a movable bottom for the feed-hopper and feeding-means comprising a moving plate is positioned between the movable bottom and the breaker-plate, the lower end of the moving plate having reciprocating movement on the breaker-plate and sliding contact with the movable bottom. As shown, the rotor in the crushing-chamber 3 consists of a series of discs 5 mounted on a shaft 6 and carrying hinged hammers 7, and the feeding-plate 11, positioned between the breaker-plate 8 and a plate 9 hinged at its upper end on a transverse rod 10 in the upper part of the hopper 2, is mounted at its upper end upon a crank 12 on a shaft 14 driven by gearing 15, 16 from a shaft 17 driven from the driving- shaft 6. A shoe 13 on the lower end of the plate 11 has its outer portion tapered to a sharp edge to bear upon the plate 8, and the lower end of the plate 9 bears upon the plate 11 adjacent its lower end. On its downward movement, the plate 11 scrapes the breaker-plate 8, and on its upward movement its upper surface is scraped by the plate 9. The invention is particularly applicable in the treatment of wet or sticky materials.
Patent GB-1147029-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to washing machine detergent dispensers
Inventor: STEELE JONATHAN PETER
IPC: D06F39/02
Filed: 1966-05-27
Abstract: 1,147,029. Washing machines. HOOVER Ltd. 27 May, 1966, No. 24029/66. Heading D1A. A washing machine is provided with a detergent dispenser 12 comprising a compartment 40 having an inlet 45 and an outlet 27 for water, an access opening having a lid 67 and a movable baffle 75 arranged in operative position to extend across the compartment at least while the lid is open to separate temporarily and at least partially the outlet from the portion of the compartment into which detergent may be poured.
Patent GB-1089978-A (GB)
Title: A pipe joint and a clamping band for use in making a pipe joint
IPC: F16L27/113
Filed: 1965-06-04
Abstract: 1,089,978. Band clamps. UNITED STATES PIPE & FOUNDRY CO. June 4, 1965 [July 17, 1964], No. 24048/65. Heading E2B. [Also in Division F2] A clamping band for joining pipes, end-toend in alignment comprises two coaxial split rings disposed side-by-side and joined together over only a portion of their circumference, each end of each split ring having projecting lugs 6, 7 each with an opening to take a bolt to draw the lugs together and a tongue 12 which projects from the lug end into a groove (shown dotted at 13) on the inside surface at the other end of the ring so that the inside of the tongue forms a continuation of the inside of the ring. An elastic sleeve 4 inserted between the pipes and the ring has an internal flange which separates the ends of the pipes. Recesses inside the band correspond to flanges around the ends of the pipes.