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Patent GB-910971-A (GB)
Title: Fibrous fruit product and process
Inventor: SWISHER HORTON E
IPC: A23L19/00
Filed: 1960-04-27
Abstract: Fibrous fruit substance, e.g. citrus peel flaredo or albedo, pomes, coconut meat, cranberries, pineapples, is preserved by adding it to an equal, or preferably 3 to 4 times, the quantity of a heated syrup comprising glycerol alone, or glycerol plus corn syrup solids, and vacuum hydrodistilling the mixture (preferably breaking the vacuum at least once during this step) at 40 DEG  C. to 130 DEG  C. to reduce the water content to 16% or less (preferably less than 8%) before removing the fruit from the syrup, e.g. by draining, centrifuging, vibration screening, the syrup being filtered for re-use.  The heated syrup may comprise, by weight, 15 to 40% corn syrup solids, up to 40% of dextrose monohydrate, and up to 20% of propylene glycol as a part substitute for the glycerol; in addition natural food flavours and colouring may be incorporated in the syrup, in particular when citrus peel albedo which has been completely separated from flaredo is being preserved.  The peel may or may not be removed from the fruit before preservation, the flaredo being pricked if desired to remove recoverable excess essential oil; it is then cut into small pieces, e.g. 1/4 inch cubes, for preservation.  The soft preserved peel contains 10% or more corn syrup solids, at least 22% of glycerol and less than 16% moisture, and, if a free-flowing dry peel is desired, it may be coated with starch, pectin, vegetable gums such as locust bean, acacia, guar, soluble dextrin or carboxy methyl cellulose. Peel which has been initially treated with glycerol alone may be subsequently impregnated with corn syrup solids/glycerol solution by a follow-on process.  The distillate may be treated to separate out any volatile oil it may contain, and this may be added to the dehydrated citrus peel before it is cut down to size.
Patent GB-840795-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to jacquard mechanisms
Inventor: DRACUP CYRIL THORNTON
IPC: D03C3/24
Filed: 1955-05-23
Abstract: 840,795. Loom jacquards. DRACUP & SONS Ltd., S. Aug. 23, 1956 [May 23, 1955], No. 14756/55. Class 142(2). A single cylinder, double lift jacquard has additional bars which retain selected hooks in a raised position so that a warp is retained in the upper position for two or more successive picks. In one form (Fig. 1), additional bars 36, 37 are moved sideways to engage one of two nebs 28, 29 on a hook raised by one of the griffes 34, 35, the hooks being selected by needles 22 which read cards 21 on a card cylinder 20. Each stem 25, 26 of each hook has a bulge 32, 33 which engages a rod 30, 31 to deflect the upper part of a descending hook so that it does not engage an ascending griffe. The bulges are not required if the cylinder presses against the needle ends until an ascending griffe has passed the descending nebs. To disengage the nebs from the bars the needle 22 is moved to the right (in Fig. 1) by the card 21 and if the stem 26 is engaged by one of the bars it is pushed therefrom whilst if the stem 25 is engaged by the other bar it bends about the rod 30 when moved by the needle and its upper end springs off the bar. In another form (Fig. 5) the card cylinder 55 and the reading needles 58 are arranged vertically, needles 54 which move the hooks being actuated by a needle block 52. The block 52 comprises horizontal bars 59 with slots therein which engage turned-up ends 60 on the needles 54. Alternatively, the needles may have discs secured to their ends which engage the slots. Each needle 54 has a recess 62 which embraces both stems of the corresponding hook and the block 52 imparts a "push" and "pull" motion to the needles. The needles may be articulated between the needle board 63 and the reading needles 58. In a modification, the ends of the needles 54 may be recessed to embrace the horizontal bars 59 of the needle block when lifted by the needles 58. In a further embodiment, both nebs 28, 29 face the same way and the bars 36, 37 are L-shaped. Specification 736,546 which relates to a doublecylinder jacquard is referred to.
Patent GB-1535913-A (GB)
Title: Planetary reduction drive unit
IPC: F16H47/04
Filed: 1975-10-28
Abstract: 1535913 Hydraulic motors EATON CORP 28 Oct 1975 [29 Oct 1974] 14769/78 Divided out of 1535911 1 Heading F1A The subject matter of this Specification is identical to the Parent Specification 1535911 but the claims are directed to an hydraulic motor and reduction gear combination in which a reversible drive-shaft 33 for the sun-wheel 37 of the planetary gear train 15 is provided, the shaft 37 having a splined end 137 for providing a normal drive connection between the motor output shaft 22 and the sun-wheel 37 and a plain end 141 for providing a journal for the sun-wheel when drive to the hub 13 is not required. This enables a vehicle fitted with wheels each mounted on the hub 13 of the described motor to be easily towed.
Patent GB-586974-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in electron discharge devices
IPC: H01J19/46
Filed: 1944-08-02
Abstract: 586,974. Thermionic valves. M-O VALVE CO.. Ltd., and HOWE, A. H. Aug. 2, 1944, No. 14788. [Class 39 (i)] A thermionic valve comprises a tubular glass body 10 and two disc-shaped glass end elements 12, 12A, each of which supports at least one electrode ; the electrodes extend parallel with the axis of the tube and may be nested one within the other or. disposed side by side. The cathode 14 and grid 15 are mounted with the aid of jigs on the contact pins 17 sealed through the cap 12. The tubular anode 18 is similarly mounted on the pins 19. In assembly, the end elements are held coaxially in a jig and then fused preferably simultaneously to the tubular body placed between them.
Patent GB-1501705-A (GB)
Title: Dust collector apparatus
IPC: B01D46/30
Filed: 1975-04-11
Abstract: 1501705 Filter apparatus for hot gas REXNORD INC 11 April 1975 [23 April 1974] 14926/75 Heading BIT Downward - flow filter beds of sand or other granular material in respective housings 3 are stacked vertically around common inlet and outlet ducts for raw and filtered gas and reverse flow gas supply and receiver ducts, respective valves connecting the upper and lower sides of each housing in parallel to all four ducts so that beds may be reverse flow cleaned individually or in pairs while other beds remain on forward flow. Reverse flow cleaning is accompanied by raking the beds (Fig. 2 not shown). The inlet duct 32 has a lower outlet valve (34) to discharge solids settling therein, and the reverse flow gas receiver duct or ducts 37 deliver the gas to cyclones 40, which return the gas to the inlet duct and discharge the solids to conveyor 35. The reverse flow supply duct 46 may be sandwiched between inlet and outlet ducts to warm reverse flow gas and avoid condensation. Filter bed housings could be helically spaced instead of being vertically stacked.
Patent GB-457125-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in combined electrical signalling and telephone systems
IPC: H04Q1/442
Filed: 1935-05-22
Abstract: 457,125. Exchange systems. ASSOCIATED ELECTRIC LABORATORIES, Inc., 1033, West Van Buren Street, Chicago, U.S.A. May 22, 1935, No. 14938. Convention date, June 15, 1934. [Class 40 (iv)] Signalling, e.g. for fire and police alarm purposes, is effected by means of alternating, e.g. power, current over a simplex circuit using a telephone line which is fed as usual from an earthed battery at the exchange. The system shown is one in which nightwatchmen control an arrangement W which registers the time and origin of the signals it receives. In the case of the line shown in Fig. 1, the two line wires are grounded at the substation through circuits 5, 7 and 6, 8 tuned to the signal frequency and the secondary of signalling transformer TR. The receiving relay 14 at the distant end is similarly associated with the line and between the receiving point and the exchange circuits is provided a choke the windings 24..27 of which are differential as regards loop currents and additive as regards longitudinal currents. In the line shown in Fig. 2 the tuning arrangements and choke are omitted and the transmitter and receiver are associated with the line over neon lamps.
Patent GB-861084-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to gas cigarette-lighters
IPC: F23Q2/00
Filed: 1959-05-01
Abstract: 861,084. Pyrophoric lighters. ZAHN, H. May 1, 1959 [May 3, 1958], No. 14943/59. Class 75 (3). A gas-fueled pyrophoric lighter comprises a base 3 supporting the ignition mechanism and provided with depending members 4, 5 forming guides for the gas tank 2 which is slid upwardly into co-operation with the ignition mechanism, and an outer casing 9 which slidably fits over the guide members 4, 5. The guide members 4, 5 are U-shaped in cross-section and the gas tank has depressions for receiving the guide members, the depths of the depressions being equal to the thickness of the guide members so that the surface of the tank is flush with the guide members. Pimples 8 on the guide members 4, 5 engage in dimples in the gas tank.
Patent GB-241836-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to apparatus for making coffee
IPC: A47J31/42
Filed: 1925-06-09
Abstract: 241,836. Mager, H. June 9, 1925. Coffee, apparatus for making.-Apparatus comprising means for roasting, grinding, and infusing coffee consists of a cylindrical casing 4 containing superimpoeed compartments for the green berries, the roasting and grinding devices, and for the ground coffee, the casing 4 being surrounded and carried at the level of the roasting device by an annular electric heater 3 detachably supported by means, of arms 2 in a vessel 1 containing the water for the infusion. The heater 3 supplies the heat for warming the water and for roasting the coffee. In the construction described, the casing 4 is inserted in the heating resistance 3 and is closed at the bottom by a receptacle 6 for the ground coffee and at the top by a cover 5 having bent tubes 18 which lead the aromatic vapours and volatile alkaloids set free in the roasting into the water to improve the flavour of the infusion. A rotatable tube 9 extends down the casing 4 and encloses a spindle 10 operated by a crank 11. The tube 9 and spindle 10 are locked together for rotation by a key 12, and to enable the spindle 10 to be displaced with relation to tube 9, its keyway 13 is made wider than that of the tube 9. A hollow cone 7 in the container 4 is closed at the top by a concave plate 8 having apertures 15 through which the green berries are expelled by blades 16 secured to tube 9 and fall on a helically wound strip 17 of copper or other good heat conducting metal, also secured to and rotating with the tube 9. The berries are rapidly roasted by contact with the strip 17 and cone 7 and fall into the grinder, one element of which is formed by a conical coarse grinding device 19 and a toothed fine grinding device 20 placed on the same shaft 10. The fineness of the grinding can be adjusted by means of a nut 14 on spindle 10. When the water has begun to boil the roasting device has acquired a suitable temperature, about 350‹ C. On withdrawal of casing 4 the receptacle 6 with the ground coffee is stripped off by heater 3 and falls into the water for infusion.
Patent GB-301846-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to supports for the head lamps of motor road vehicles
IPC: B60Q1/124
Filed: 1927-06-07
Abstract: 301,846. Barker & Co. (Coachbuilders), Ltd., and Ridlington, J. June 7, 1927. Vehicle lamps, directing.-The headlamps of a motor road vehicle are mounted on a rocking shaft 3, as described in Specification 248,478, and .one of the lamp stems 1 is provided with a finger 6 engaging a grooved cam 5 mounted loosely on the shaft 3, the stems 1 being connected together by a link 4, so that the lamps may be dipped by rotating the shaft 3 or swivelled by rotating the cam 5. The shaft 3 and the cam 5 are provided respectivelp with arms 8, 10 connected by links 9, 11 with independent hand operating means. The cam may be provided with two inclined grooves extending in opposite directions from a short straight groove or with a single inclined groove. The Provisional Specification describes also an improvement in or modification of the means for dipping and swivelling headlights, as described in Specification 248,478, in which the two inclined grooves of the cam are connected at their upper end by an extension into which the straight groove extends, the cam being adapted to be rotated from the driver's seat to bring any one of the grooves into operation. A neutral groove may be provided between, or at the ends of, the inclined grooves to allow for swivelling the lamps before or after dipping.
Patent GB-131760-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to the Manufacture of Tyres.
IPC: B29D30/06
Filed: 1918-09-14
Abstract: 131,760. Dunlop Rubber Co., and Macbeth, C. Sept. 14, 1918. Moulding wheel tyres. - For simultaneously moulding tyres of different diameters, the moulds are formed of uniform external diameter and with moulding spaces C of different diameters to suit the various sizes of tyres. In the construction shown, each mould is formed in halves A, B with centring-lugs H and a centring-core J. Recesses D, E are provided for reducing weight and to provide for steam circulation. Lugs L, L<1> may be provided for lifting &c.
Patent GB-934073-A (GB)
Title: Rotary valve or distributor device for powdered or pulverulent materials
Inventor: IRWIN ROLAND
IPC: B65G53/46
Filed: 1961-04-26
Abstract: 934,073. Pneumatic conveyers. YORKSHIRE ENGINEERING & WELDING CO. (BRADFORD) Ltd. April 26, 1962 [April 26, 1961], No. 15024/61. Class 78 (1).  In a rotary valve for feeding granular &c. material the rotor is divided axially into separate compartments by walls 14, Fig. 1, so that the material is fed in separate streams to a series of outlets 21. The material inlet 3 may be similarly divided by walls 4 so that material from separate sources may be fed to the valve. The rotor comprises star-shaped end plates 12, Fig. 2, to which curved plates 13 are welded to form the pockets. The rotor shaft 10 extends through seals 26 in the casing 1 and through bearings 7 extended axially by arms 6 on end plates 5 so that the shaft 10 is supported at four spaced-apart points. Material is ejected from the pockets by compressed air &c. fed through passages 19 from a common supply line 20. The material is discharged through passages 21 to sight tubes 23 and hose connections 25. Separate rotary valves may be interconnected for rotation at the same or different speeds according to requirements for mixing different materials which may be fed at different rates in the separate streams.
Patent GB-624861-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in fluxes for treating magnesium-base lithium alloys
IPC: C22C1/02
Filed: 1946-05-17
Abstract: A flux for use in the preparation, refining, casting &c. of magnesium-base lithium alloys comprises a chloride and a fluoride component each of which is a salt of a metal of the group consisting of alkaline earth metal, potassium and lithium, the flux comprising at least 49 per cent lithium chloride or fluoride or both, and having a high affinity for sodium whereby an alloy containing less than 0.1 per cent sodium results.  The flux may consist of 60-98 per cent of a chloride component and 2-40 per cent of a fluoride component, the chloride being lithium chloride up to 50 per cent of which may be substituted by potassium chloride and up to 10 per cent by an alkaline earth metal chloride, the total proportion of alkaline earth metal chlorides and fluorides being less than 15 per cent of the flux.  A preferred flux consists of 75 per cent lithium chloride and 25 per cent lithium fluoride.  A specific alloy the treatment of which with the above flux is referred to, consists of 87 per cent Mg, 9 per cent Li, 4 per cent Zn with or without Na ranging from 0.04-2.5 per cent.  The Specification as open to inspection under Sect. 91 comprises also the preparation with the flux of the following alloys, Al 3 per cent, Zn 1 per cent, Mn 0.2 per cent, balance Mg; Al 6 per cent, Zn 0.7 per cent, Mn 0.2 per cent, balance Mg.  This subject-matter does not appear in the Specification as accepted.
Patent GB-826067-A (GB)
Title: Control device for a vehicle driven by a driving motor through a hydraulic pump and a hydraulic motor
IPC: B61C9/14
Filed: 1957-05-13
Abstract: 826,067. Locking rotary elements. BARTZ, G., [trading as BARTZ K.G., H.]. May 13, 1957 [May 12, 1956], No. 15183/57. Class 80 (4). [Also in Group XXIX] Means for adjusting the delivery of an hydraulic pump of a vehicle transmission system is locked in the position for zero delivery when a switch controlling the motor which drives the pump is in its " OFF " position. A contact arm 5 is actuable by a hand lever E to close contacts 2, 3 of an electric motor, the arm 5 having a spindle 4 the forked end 4a of which is located in a recess 11a in a locking disc 11 when the locking disc is in its zero delivery position. Rotation of lever E to close the contacts 2, 3 also rotates an arm 34 having a cam surface 35 bearing on a collar 36 of a rod 32, so that the rod 32 is withdrawn from a hole 33 in a quadrant 20 so that a lever R can now be moved. Lever R controls the setting of a reversing valve of the hydraulic transmission and in the forward and reverse position of this valve gaps in the quadrant 20 are brought into the plane of the disc 11 so that the disc can be rotated by hand wheel G to vary the delivery of the pump. The periphery of the disc passes through the space between the forks 4a of the contact arm spindle and thus prevents movement of lever E to its " OFF " position except when the disc is in the zero delivery position. Lever R is also locked by the disc 11 except the zero delivery position of the disc. In addition, lever E is held in its " ON " position by a catch 14 releasable manually through a lever A or by means of a timing device acting through a linkage 37. The lever E is spring biased to its " OFF " position, and disc 11 is biased by a spring 30 to its zero delivery position.
Patent GB-167635-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in circular rib knitting machines
IPC: D04B9/06
Filed: 1920-06-04
Abstract: 167,635. Johnson, J. Y., (Fidelity Machine & Manufacturing Co.). June 4, 1920. Circular machines.-A locking-device for preventing the rotation of the dial relative to the cylinder, while supporting the dial in its correct position, permitting the delivery of yarn to the needles, and avoiding the use of movable dogs, pawls, &c. comprises an eccentric disc 23 between which and a centring-ring 21 carried by fixed spider arms 8 is mounted an externally flanged yarn-carrier ring 22. The ring is driven round by means of a pin 29, a link 28 and a pin 20 which passes through the revolving ribber arm 12. The dial post 16 carrying the dial 17 is attached by a, pin 25<a> to a cap 25 resting on the eccentric 23, which rests on a bushing 14 attached by screws 15 to the yoke 12. When the screws 30 that hold the ring 21 in place and the nuts 31 securing the yoke 12 to the pillars 11 are removed, the dial post and its associated parts can be lifted away from the machine. Specifica. tion 168,285 is referred to.
Patent GB-237701-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in wheeled hand carriers for small parcels
IPC: B62B3/10
Filed: 1924-06-25
Abstract: 237,701. Sweetser, G., and Bremner, A. C. June 25, 1924. Hand-propelled vehicles for goods.-A wheeled carrier for parcels comprises a tubular upright a of the form shown, the upper part b serving as the handle and wheels c arranged in tandem fashion, being mounted on the lower end. Brackets e are provided for supporting suit-cases which may be secured by a strap passed through a slot f. The device may be carried if desired bv handles d which serve also for suspending panels. According to the Provisional Specification the wheels may be mounted on cranks which may be turned to raise the wheels within the framing.
Patent GB-318510-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to railway rail supporting plates or chairs
IPC: E01B9/40
Filed: 1929-05-16
Abstract: 318,510. R³ping, M. Sept. 4, 1928, [Convention date]. Chairs, securing to sleepers; sound and vibration preventing.-Chair plates a have integral tubular projections e for engaging the sleepers, the projections being formed around the bolt holes j and from the metal pressed out in making the holes. The projections e are produced by a mandrel d ha.ving stepped parts d' with rounded edges, and a shoulder h forming a seat for the screw or bolt head. The projections may be rectangular or cylindrical for spikes or screws, and the ends may be inclined downwards from the rail. Projections c are also formed for retaining wooden rail seats.
Patent GB-184620-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in adjustable window screens
IPC: E06B9/52
Filed: 1921-06-03
Abstract: 184,620. Foster, S. G. June 3, 1921. Fly-screens.-An adjustable window screen comprises a rectangular frame formed of slidablyconnected hollow members 1 of substantially rectangular section with one side longitudinally split at 2 one flange 4 being outwardly offset, a sheet of woven wire, having diagonal strands free of attachment to each other, being secured to the frame by its edges being abruptly bent into the split 2 and hooked around the flange 3. The four corners of the wire sheet are cut away at 8 and the corners of the frame are provided with corner clips 9 which hold in position a pair of diagonal braces 11 pivoted together at their centres.
Patent GB-992495-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in metering devices for liquids
IPC: G01N1/38
Filed: 1962-04-24
Abstract: 992,495. Delivering measured quantities of liquid. A. ANSCHERLIK. April 24, 1962 [April 24, 1961], No. 15457/62. Heading B8N. A metering device for delivering predetermined volumes of liquid comprises a metering reservoir 1 having its lower end connected to a siphon delivery tube 1A, means for initiating the siphoning action of the tube 1A, a dischargeable reservoir 8 connected to a liquid storage tank 3 and having its lower end connected to a siphon discharge tube 8A, and a U-tube 2 connecting the upper ends of the two reservoirs 1, 8 at a level below the normal level of the liquid in the storage tank. The level of liquid in the tank 3 is maintained at a constant height below that of the upper bends of the siphons 1A, 8A. The impulse for starting the siphons is given by air pressure produced in a tube 6 by liquid flowing in a constricted pipe 4 and causing the liquid to rise above the upper bends of the siphon tubes. As a result, liquid is siphoned from the reservoir 1 into a vessel 5 and from reservoir 8 into a drain 9, further influx from the reservoir 8 into the reservoir 1 being prevented as soon as the level in the reservoir 8 falls below the junction of this reservoir with the U- tube 2. Liquid siphoned from the reservoir 8 to the drain 9 may be pumped back to the tank 3. The diameter of the tube 7 connecting the tank 3 and reservoir 8 is constricted to ensure that the amount of liquid passing to the reservoir 8 at any time is less than that leaving the reservoir.