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Patent GB-1399697-A (GB)
Title: Automated audio interrogating and reporting system
IPC: G09B7/04
Filed: 1973-05-29
Abstract: 1399697 Question and answer systems WESTINGHOUSE ELECTRIC CORP 29 May 1973 [16 June 1972] 25478/73 Heading G4H An automated interrogating and reporting apparatus comprises speaker means driven by audio question tape player means to audibly present questions, means responsive to answers for generating audio tone code answer signals, means using such signals to control dictionary tape player means, and means printing out information in response to audio code command signals from the dictionary tape player means. Answers to the audio questions can be entered on push-buttons for " yes ", " no ", " don't know ", " repeat " and the numerals 0-9. The question tape has 4 tracks. Selection of track, playing direction and stopping of tape are under the control of audio tones on the tape and the non-numeric push-buttons. Audio tones corresponding to the button actuations are transmitted, directly or via a buffer tape, to a print-out station, where a dictionary tape is controlled similarly to the question tape to provide identification statements (headings), and narrative answers corresponding to the non-numeric buttons actuated (e.g. if the question was " do you smoke cigarettes? " and the " yes " button was pushed, the narrative answer would be " smoked cigarettes "), all this information being printed out. The information from the numeric buttons is also printed (directly). The system is used for medical history interrogation. More than one questionanswer station may share a common print-out station. Telephone lines may be used in various parts of the system.
Patent GB-879608-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in power-operated presses for garments and the like
Inventor: RICHARDSON JOHN ROBERT STANLEY
IPC: D06F71/06
Filed: 1959-07-24
Abstract: 879,608. Ironing presses. WHITAKER Ltd., R. G. June 6, 1960 [July 24, 1959], No. 25484/59. Class 138 (2). A garment press comprises a pivoted head (Fig. 1, not shown), which is closed on to a buck in two stages by means of a compressed-air unit 4 comprising coaxial cylinders 7, 8 with pistons having oppositely extending piston rods 20, 21 operated in succession to close the press. One piston-rod is pivotally connected to the press framework 2a and the other to toggle linkage 5. In operation, a lever 23 is depressed to open and close supply and exhaust valves 14 and 24 respectively, to supply compressedair to cylinder 7. When piston 11 has reached its limit of movement, depressing a second lever 26 will open a valve 17 and allow air to pass from a port 27 to cylinder 8 to complete the press closing. Lever 23 is held in depressed position by a plunger 28 which is moved upwardly when valve 17 is opened.
Patent GB-905254-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to fittings for fluorescent lamps
Inventor: SIMMONDS RICHARD WALTER FRANK
IPC: F21S8/04
Filed: 1960-07-21
Abstract: 905,254. Electric light fittings. ASSOCIATED ELECTRICAL INDUSTRIES Ltd. June 8, 1961 [July 21, 1960], No. 25488/60. Class 75 (4). A fitting for tubular fluorescent lamps comprises a troughshaped lamp housing including a framework of sheet-metal suspended at each end from a ceiling fitting supporting the control gear, and having easily removable decorative panels fitted at least to the long sides thereof. The lighting unit 10 is of the usual type and supports the control gear and two fluorescent lamps 11, 12. Channelshaped supports 14, 15 are provided at the ends of the unit to engage brackets 6, 7 at the ends 4, 5 of a trough-shaped fitting 1, the long sides 2, 3 of which have narrow ledges 8 at the lower edges forming with the ends of the fitting shallow recesses into which decorative panes 31, 33, e.g. of wood, metal or plastic or a combination of these are fitted. Similar panels 30, 32 are applied to the ends 4, 5. The sides 2, 3 may be downwardly divergent to assist in supporting the panels 31, 33. All the panels may be further supported by projectors, e.g. woodscrews engaging in keyhole slots 9 in the sides and ends of the trough. The base of the trough is closed by a light diffusing panel 20.
Patent GB-485753-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to the surface hardening of hollow metal articles
IPC: C21D9/08
Filed: 1936-09-19
Abstract: 485,753. Hardening hollow bodies. DENNEEN, F. S., and DUNN, W. C. Sept. 19, 1936 No. 25511. [Class 72] A tube 1, the interior surface of which is to be hardened, is moved relatively to a surround ing heater 3 and an interna quenching device 5. The heater may be an electric induction device or an annular burner. The device 5 has a spray head 4 with oblique discharge passages 8.
Patent GB-1344875-A (GB)
Title: High-tensile strength steels and process for producing the same
IPC: C22C38/04
Filed: 1971-04-19
Abstract: 1344875 Alloys NIPPON STEEL CORP 19 April 1971 [26 March 1970 15 Oct 1970] 25599/71 Heading C7A A high tensile strength steel comprises Al (acid soluble) 0À0005-0À1% C 0À03-0À23% Mu 0À5-2% N 0À003-0À012% Si 0À02-0À8% Ti 0À004-0À07% B 0-0À006% V 0 or 0À02-0À2% Ni 0-5% Cu 0-2% Cr 0-0À35% Mo 0-0À35% with balance Fe. Preferably more than 0À004% of the steel is Ti in the form of Ti N particles less than 0À05Á in diameter and the acid insoluble N content is greater then 0À005%. If the steel is cooled from pouring to 1100‹C. at less than 5‹C . /min it should subsequently be heated above 1050‹C. once only, preferably in the range 1050- 1250‹C. on the other hand if the cooling rate from pouring to 1100‹C. is greater than 5‹C. /min the steel may subsequently be heated once in the range 1100-1250‹C. The steel may be normalized at 890-920‹C., hardened from a temperature in the range 850-950‹C. and tempered at 500-690‹C. The steel is particularly suitable for automatic welding at heat inputs greater than 50,000 3/cm.
Patent GB-883418-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in footwear
Inventor: MINIHAN FRANCIS GERARD
IPC: A43B23/02
Filed: 1957-08-14
Abstract: 883,418. Boots &c. DUNLOP RUBBER CO. Ltd. Aug. 8, 1958 [Aug. 14, 1957], No. 25618/57. Class 17(2) A shoe upper comprises a vamp and quarters 1 consisting of a single piece of material having a central slot 2, standings 3 with eyelet holes 4 attached to the face of the vamp at each side, and a separate tongue 5 attached to and overlying the front end of the slot and covering the slot and adjacent parts of the vamp. The tongue comprises a shaped piece of foam rubber covered with canvas on the upper side and twill on the underside, and flat, bound around the edges with a strip of canvas.
Patent GB-577848-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to fuse-carriers for electric fuses
IPC: H01H85/143
Filed: 1944-12-22
Abstract: 577,848. Fusible cut-outs. LAWSON, C. S. Dec. 22, 1944, No. 25739. [Class 38 (i)] A fuse-carrier comprises two caps 1, 2 of insulating material adapted to engage opposite ends of and enclose the metallic parts 4 of a fuse link 5. Each cap may have a contact 3 to engage both with the contact 4 of the fuse link and the fixed contact of a fuse base. Alternatively, the link itself may have contacts for engagement with the fuse base and the caps may be slotted to receive them. The caps may have means for securing them one to the other as to the fuse link, and may be slotted for viewing a fuse-condition indicator.
Patent GB-1262380-A (GB)
Title: Flaw detection in laminated structures using vibration response
IPC: G01N29/04
Filed: 1969-05-20
Abstract: 1,262,380. Acoustic inspection of laminated structures; ultrasonic probes. BOEING CO. 20 May, 1969 [20 May, 1968], No. 25742/69. Headings H4D and H4J.  Apparatus for detecting flaws in a laminated panel comprises a first transducer capable of inducing physical vibrations at a frequency f in a localized area of the panel when energized with an electrical signal of frequency f/n (n being an integer), a second transducer disposed close to the first for sensing panel vibrations, and a frequency selector which passes frequency f signal components from the second transducer to an indicator but rejects signal components of frequency f/n. In the Fig. 1 embodiment panel P comprises a honeycomb core 10 bonded to aluminium skin layers 12, 14. A probe electromagnet 16 on ferromagnetic core 18 in dielectric housing 22 is energized with an oscillatory signal of selectable frequency f 1  by source 24 which may be pulsed by interrupter 25. Eddy currents in skin 12 set up panel vibrations of frequency 2f 1  which are sensed by the probe's capacitance microphone 26 overlying a bore 20 through core 18 and housing 22. Signal components at the energizing frequency f 1  in the microphone output are rejected by tuned amplifier 42 and the 2f 1  components are fed to the Y-plates of oscilloscope 44, the X-plates of which receive the electromagnet energizing signal whereby phase changes indicative of disbonds can be detected from the Lissajou pattern display as the probe is moved over the panel. The X-plate signal may also be frequencydoubled and phase-compared with the Y-plate signal in a phase-difference meter circuit. The pulsing of source 24 broadens the vibration frequency spectrum and permit testing of a wide range of panel types. The microphone output amplitude may be monitored on an R.M.S. indicating meter. In the Fig. 2 embodiment the electromagnet is replaced by a magnetostrictive transducer with coupling horn 64, and a further sensing transducer 55 (e.g. a contact type) may be used to measure the through-transmission of energy to detect a crushed core.
Patent GB-407959-A (GB)
Title: Manufacture of fondants
IPC: A23G3/00
Filed: 1932-09-16
Abstract: Fondant is made by bringing a mixture of dry dextrose hydrate and water to the boil and then cooling and beating the mass, a grain retarder being added before the grain is highly developed, i.e. at a stage when the mass will still flow readily from a spoon, but wholly or in part after boiling.  The mass may be allowed to cool preferably to below 90 DEG  F. before beating.  The development of the grain may be accelerated by dusting in a small quantity of dry dextrose or old fondant.  Colouring and/or flavouring may be added in the beater. The grain retarder may comprise cane or beet sugar syrup, corn syrup, invert sugar, l vulose, glycerine, a liquid preparation of invertase, malt extract or preparations containing malt extract, maltose, honey, colloidal substances such as gelatine, agar-agar, gum arabic, Irish moss extract or egg albumen, or mixtures thereof.  When a syrup is used it may be added in amounts of from 25 to 140 per cent of the dextrose in the mass, but any portion added before beating should not exceed about half the weight of the dextrose. The malt extract may be added in amount up to 50 per cent of the mass, but it should be added only after the temperature has fallen to 140 DEG  F.  When the grain retarder comprises a colloidal substance it is only added in small quantity.  The beaten mass may be cast straight from the beating machine or it may be kept as a stock fondant, in which case it may be warmed before casting or a little cold boiled water or corn syrup may be added.  When a stock fondant is found too liquid for working, a quantity of liquid boiled dextrose cooled to 90 DEG  F. may be mixed therewith.  The cast fondant is preferably given an airtight covering to prevent drying, e.g. with gum arabic or gelatine &c., hard butters such as cocoa butter, or chocolate.  According to the first Provisional Specification, the grain retarder may be omitted and according to the second Provisional Specification all the grain retarder may be added before beating.  Reference has been directed by the Comptroller to Specification 368,447.
Patent GB-926962-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to drive units with internal combustion engine supercharged by mechanically engine-driven compressor
IPC: F02B33/00
Filed: 1959-07-28
Abstract: 926,962. Charge pumps; driving-gear. W. GLAMANN. July 28, 1959 [July 28, 1958], No. 25834/59. Class 7(2). [Also in Groups XXIV and XXXI] A planet carrier 12 on a motor vehicle engine shaft 14 divides the engine output between a sun wheel 3, driving via gears 9b, 9a a supercharger 2, and an annulus 16 fast with the pump 20 of an hydraulic torque converter having a turbine 21 on the output shaft 5 and a reactor 22 allowed by a freewheel 23 to rotate forward above a predetermined speed so as to lock up the converter to act as a coupling. The supercharger 2 draws in combustion air via a filter 7. The converter may be additionally locked up by a clutch, and may be followed by an auxiliary gearbox with reverse gear and an emergency forward gear.
Patent GB-158048-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in systems for the utilisation of tidal energy
IPC: F03B13/26
Filed: 1919-10-22
Abstract: 158,048. Hutchinson, G. Oct. 22, 1919. Tidal energy, utilizing.-In a system for utilizing tidal energy in which turbines, built into the wall of a tidal pound and working for a limited period of both flow and ebb of the tide, pump water to elevated storage reservoirs from which high-pressure turbines are supplied, means are provided for economically utilizing the decreasing head available for working the tidal turbines by decreasing, either in pressure or in volume, the output of the pumps. In one arrangement, the tidal motors A, Fig. 1, are coupled directly to the pumps C, which supply successively the reservoirs D', D<2>, D<3> at different levels according to the power available, or one storage reservoir and pumps with variable stroke may be used, by which means the volume of output may be varied while the delivery pressure is maintained constant, or both these methods may be combined. The mains K<1>, K<2>, K<3> from the pumps to the reservoirs are also used for the supply of the high pressure turbines E', E<2>, E<3>, branch or by-pass pipes k<1>, k<2>, k<3>, being arranged so that any turbine may be supplied directly by the pumps simultaneously with the filling of the reservoir, the pressure on the turbine being thus equal to the head due to the height of the reservoir. In another arrangement, separate pipes are used for the delivery of water to the reservoirs and for the supply of the turbines therefrom.
Patent GB-260754-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in, or relating to, accumulator plates
IPC: H01M4/72
Filed: 1925-10-16
Abstract: 260,754. Haddon, W. Oct. 16, 1925. Electrodes.-A storage battery grid comprises two sets of parallel bars 3 having a tapering cross-section and disposed towards the two sides of the grid. Both sets of bars 3 are cut by a number of horizontal bars 2 which may have a cross-section tapering towards both sides of the grid. A number of grids may be. joined together edge to edge to form an electrode as described in Specification 221,539.
Patent GB-926532-A (GB)
Title: New cyclopentanophenanthrene derivatives and processes for the preparation of same
IPC: C07J75/00
Filed: 1959-07-28
Abstract: The invention comprises compounds of the formula:- <FORM:0926532/IV(a)/1> (wherein R is hydrogen or an acyloxy radical derived from a hydrocarbon carboxylic acid of less than 12 carbon atoms) and a step in the process of preparing these compounds consisting of reacting an estratriene derivative of the formula:- <FORM:0926532/IV(a)/2> (wherein R is the same as above) with hypochlorous acid or a substance capable of forming hypochlorous acid in acid medium, particularly N-chlorosuccinimide in admixture with dimethyl formamide and aqueous acetic acid or an alkali or alkaline earth metal hypochlorite.  The invention is illustrated by 14 examples.
Patent GB-269069-A (GB)
Title: Means and method of strengthening boxes or packing cases
IPC: B65D6/36
Filed: 1926-10-18
Abstract: 269,069. Morgan, H. R. Oct. 18, 1926. Corner strengthening-pieces. - The corners of a box or packing-case are strengthened by internal corner pieces A which extend the whole depth of the box and have flanges a - . which are held between the box frame E and the cover and bottom when these are nailed to the frame; the flanges a - - d may be made wider than the thickness of the frame E, the extra width being turned over the edges of the cover and bottom of the box and nailed to the exterior surfaces thereof when such cover and bottom are secured to the frame. The corner pieces are made from rectangular blanks folded at right-angles as shown and cut transversely at each end of the blank a distance equal to the thickness of the frame E so as to form the flange portions.
Patent GB-924858-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to semi-conductor materials
Inventor: WARREN RALPH EDGAR
IPC: C23C14/04
Filed: 1960-07-26
Abstract: 924,858. Coating by vapour deposition. ASSOCIATED ELECTRICAL INDUSTRIES Ltd. May 5, 1961 [July 26, 1960], No. 26009/60. Class 82. [Also in Group XXXVI] Two activator materials are evaporated On to spaced apart portions of a semi-conductor body through a grid of parallel wires in contact with the surface of the body. The sources of the two materials are disposed one on each side of the axis of the wires outside the projected area normal to the surface of the grid and any extension thereof in the longitudinal direction of the wires. A plurality of mesa transistors are made from a suitably doped germanium wafer 1 by evaporating aluminium and gold-antimony alloy successively from sources B and A respectively through a grid of closely spaced parallel wires 2 to form parallel emitter and base strips which are then alloyed to the wafer.
Patent GB-742526-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to electronic digital computing machines
Inventor: THOMAS GRAHAM ISAAC
IPC: G06F1/04
Filed: 1950-05-18
Abstract: 742,526. Digital electric calculating-apparatus. NATIONAL RESEARCH DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION. May 18, 1951 [May 18, 1950], No. 26036/51. Divided out of 742,522. Drawings to Specification. Class 106 (1). An electronic digital computing machine includes an arrangement for determining the position of the most significant digit of a number whose respective digits are represented in ascending power order by the successive signal components of an electric pulse signal train, the arrangement comprising counter means arranged to have its count state increased by unity at each occurrence of a signal component of digit value " 0 " in the train and to have its count state reset to a starting count state at each occurrence of a signal component of digit value other than " 0." The description is substantially the same as is contained in Specification 742,522 but the claims differ. Specifications 645,691, 657,591, 682,156, 692,853, 705,474, 705,477, [Group XL (b)], 705,479, 707,634, 707,635, 712,172, 731,341, 734,072, 734,073, 734,075, 734,483, 737,863, 737,864, 742,524 and 742,525 also are referred to.
Patent GB-303459-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to the manufacture of sulphuric acid
IPC: C01B17/76
Filed: 1927-10-03
Abstract: 303,459. Robson, S., Lambert, B., and National Processes, Ltd. Oct. 3, 1927. Sulphur trioxide, catalytic production of.-In preparing sulphuric acid by use of the contact material described in Specification 301,853, sulphurous gases obtained by roasting ores &c. are subjected only to such purification as is necessary to remove dust or suspended matter. The gases from the roaster are passed while still hot through electrostatic dust separators or filters and are then led directly with the contact chamber.
Patent GB-1590270-A (GB)
Title: Electronic timepiece
IPC: G04C9/00
Filed: 1978-05-31
Abstract: An electronic timepiece having a stepping motor and a drive circuit responsive to a control signal for applying electrical drive pulses having polarities determined by the control signal for rotating the rotor of the stepping motor. The control circuit normally operates in a mode for applying a control signal to the drive circuit effective to control the drive circuit to apply alternate polarity electrical drive pulses to rotate the stepping motor rotor in a normal direction. Resetting circuitry is operable for correcting the time kept by the timepiece. A detecting circuit detects whether the stepping motor rotor is in a position to be rotated by a forthcoming drive pulse after resetting. If the stepping motor rotor is not in a position for rotation a detection circuit signal is applied to the control circuit so that the control signal controls the drive circuit to apply an electrical pulse effective to rotate the stepping motor rotor after resetting. Consequently, after resetting the immediately forthcoming drive pulse will have a polarity effective to rotate the stepping motor rotor and no time will be lost.
Patent GB-991785-A (GB)
Title: Sedative and choleretic medicine
IPC: A61K31/045
Filed: 1961-07-19
Abstract: The invention relates to a gelatine coated pill containing 1-cyclo-hexyl-1-propanol.  The 1-cyclohexyl-1-propanol has choleretic and sedative activity and potentiates the action of barbiturates.
Patent GB-280840-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to steam generators and furnaces therefor
IPC: A47C4/14
Filed: 1926-06-18
Abstract: 280,840. Brand, J. J. C., and Laing, B. June 18, 1926. Dampers for controlling superhearters.-In a boiler having upper and lower annular drums a, b, connected by tubes d surrounding the combustion space superheating tubes f<3> through which steam is led off from the upper drum to an annular steam collector f<4> are enclosed by a casing f surrounding the boiler tubes. The passage of combustion gases through the superheater casing is controlkd by dampers h, f<7> at inlet and outlet apertures in the walls of the casing.
Patent GB-297057-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to absorption refrigerating apparatus
IPC: F25B15/10
Filed: 1928-09-12
Abstract: 297,057. Electrolux, Ltd., (Assignees of Lenning, A.). Sept. 13, 1927, [Convention date]. Refrigerating, absorption and special processes for.-The rectifier 24 between the generator 1 and the condenser 6 of an absorption apparatus is cooled by the evaporation of volatile liquid into an inert gas, both contained in a closed system independent of the refrigerating system. The invention is described as applied to a continuous-cycle inert gas system comprising, in addition to the generator, rectifier and condenser, an evaporator 10, absorber 14, a gas heat exchanger 9, and a liquor heat exchanger 16. The rectifier contains staggered baffles and is surrounded by a jacket 26 constituting with a coil 28 and connecting pipes 27, 29 the independent system for the cooling-medium. The pressure of the inert gas used in this system is chosen so that the extent of evaporation of the volatile medium is sufficient to condense solvent vapour in the chamber 24 but to allow the refrigerant to pass on as vapour to the condenser. The vapour produced in the jacket 26 passes to the coil 28 and is there condensed by the action of the cooling-water pipe 30 leading from the main condenser jacket. In the modification of the rectifier shown in Fig. 2, the coil 28 is dispensed with and the cooling-water pipe 31 is formed into a coil welded to the wall of the jacket, which is fitted internally with an open-ended baffle 33. When the contained medium evaporates, the vapour rises inside the baffle and is condensed on the outer cooled wall of the jacket. Air may be employed as the cooling-medium for the independent system. which may contain hydrogen and liquefied ammonia, or nitrogen or methane combined with propane, butane, ethylchloride or other substance as the volatile medium. Specification 222,142 is referred to. The Specification as open to inspection under Sect. 91 (3) (a) comprises also the application of the closed system to the cooling of heatdelivering parts generally of absorption refrigerating machines. This subject-matter does not appear in the Specification as accepted.