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Patent GB-1012915-A (GB)
Title: Improved machine adapted to turn bottles, flasks and the like articles upside down
IPC: B01F9/00
Filed: 1963-06-17
Abstract: 1,012,915. Bottle inverting apparatus. R. PERRIER, and G. PERRIER. June 17, 1963 [July 9, 1962], No. 23954/63. Headings B8A and B8H. A machine for inverting bottles, e.g. to agitate the contents, is provided with pairs of jaws 3, 4, each pair of which can grip a bottle. The jaws engage the bottles by means of shoes 13, each pair of which is rotatable about a pair of aligned horizontal axes 10 and 11, the bottle being constrained to rotate about these aligned axes during transit of the bottle from an input of said machine where the jaws take hold of a bottle to an output thereof where the jaws release it. The illustrated embodiment of the machine is a rotary conveyer comprising a central drum or disc 2 seen in plan in Fig. 1, and each pair of jaws comprises an arm 3 fixed to the drum and an arm 4 pivoted on the drum and urged toward the arm 3 by a spring 14. A cam 15 opens the jaws as they pass the output of the machine and allows them to release at the input. The bottles are fed to said input and from said output by separate means, such as the star-wheels 18 and 21, whose actions are synchronized with the drive of the disc 2. During their movement in the jaws 3, 4, guides such as the bent rods 22 engage the bottles and turn them as shown in Fig. 2, the shoes 13 rotating freely on their axes. Alternatively, the guides may be omitted and the shoes positively rotated. The shoes are rotatably mounted on the axes 10 and 11 in boxes 8 attached to the ends of the arms 3 and 4, and may be made of, or at least faced with, rubber or the like; their bottle-engaging faces may be plane or curved,
Patent GB-351799-A (GB)
Title: Process for manufacturing steel rims and hoops used in wheels and hubs
IPC: B21K1/28
Filed: 1930-08-11
Abstract: 351,799. Billet piercing; perforating. DECHENNE, A., 65, Rue Colard-Trouillet, Seraing-sur-Meuse, Belgium. Aug. 11, 1930, No. 24005. [Class 83 (iv).] Forging dies and punches ; punches.-For making steel rims &c. an ingot m is supported with the piped narrow end in a recess e in the anvil g and flattened by a hammer a to disc form c, the piped portion being formed into a knob e. The disc c is then partly punched through by a punch band finally supported on a ring d to complete the punching and removal of knob portion e, a block h being interposed between the hammer and punch. A recess l in the hammer a forms a centring projection l<1> in the flattened ingot and the punch b has a corresponding recess l<1>.
Patent GB-302264-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and connected with variable condensers
IPC: H01G5/06
Filed: 1927-09-13
Abstract: 302,264. Burton, C. F., and Burton, H. Sept. 13, 1927. Condensers.-In variable condensers having a frictional brake applied to the rotor spindle, the brake is constituted by a sheet metal blank bent to form an incomplete ring b which encircles the lower part a of the rotor spindle g. Ears b<2> on the ring b are connected by a screw c by which the brake pressure is adjusted. The brake is situated on the inside of the end plate d of the condenser and is anchored to a frame pillar e' through an anchoring arm b<4>, being thereby connected to a terminal of the condenser. A connecting tag b<3> is formed by an extension of the arm b<4>. A bearing for the lower end a of the rotor shaft is constituted by the coned end i<1> of a screw i engaging a similarly shaped recess in the shaft. Stops n of insulating material serve to limit the movement of the rotor. In a modification, the lower end a of the shaft g may be tapered or coned and the band b be similarly shaped.
Patent GB-263537-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to machines for treating hides, skins, leather and the like
IPC: C14B1/46
Filed: 1925-09-29
Abstract: 263,537. Turner Tanning Machinery Co., Ltd., and Schettler, G. A. Sept. 29, 1925. Rotating-tool machines.-In a leather buffing and scouring machine of the kind having a positively driven work supporting element, e.g. as described in Specification 230,040, [Class 60, Grinding or abrading &c.], the work support comprises an endless band 1 carried by a positively driven resilient roller 2 and tensioned by a smaller roller 3. The roller 2 is mounted on a saddle 4 fixed by a screw 8 on a frame 9 pivoted on screws 10 on the main frame 11 and is driven through pulleys 21, 22, 26, 30, reduction gearing 25, 28, and belts 19, 23, 29 from the main shaft 13 actuating the work roller 12. The roller 2 is moved to and from the roller 12 by a treadle 34, the fulcrum of the frame 9 being so adjusted that the rocking movement of the frame has no effect on the drive.
Patent GB-1112002-A (GB)
Title: Electrostatically shielded optoelectronic device
IPC: H01L23/60
Filed: 1965-06-08
Abstract: 1,112,002. Optoelectronic device. TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. 8 June, 1965 [29 June, 1964], No. 24233/65. Heading H1K. In an optoelectronic device comprising a radiation-sensitive diode and a radiation emitting device optically linked thereto, electrostatic shielding means are provided as integral part of the diode. A light emitting diode 12 of GaAs having electrodes 34 and 36 and an oxide film 32 thereon, sends light through transparent medium 46 to the radiation-sensitive diode 16. The Si diode 16 has Al electrodes 70 and 73, the former making connection to P-region 64 whilst the other is connected to N-region 62 via an N+ channel 66, the channel 66 being the only connection to N-region 62 which is otherwise surrounded by P-type material. Such an arrangement is said to shield the detector electrostatically from the radiation source and thus eliminate any distributive capacitance between the signal ground of the light source and the signal portion of the detector. Two equivalent circuit diagrams are given to illustrate device with and without shielding (Figs. 3 and 6, not shown). Another sectional view of the device together with a plan, an isometric view and Figures illustrating the manufacture of the detector by conventional masking, etching and diffusion techniques are given.
Patent GB-864454-A (GB)
Title: An improved solenoid-operated fluid control valve mechanism
Inventor: HOSKINS STANLEY WILLIAM
IPC: F16K31/40
Filed: 1956-08-08
Abstract: 864,454. Valves. I.V. PRESSURE CONTROLLER Ltd. July 22, 1957 [Aug. 8, 1956], No. 24308/56. Class 135. [Also in Group XXXV] An electromagnetically-actuated fluid-control valve comprises an inlet 1 of brass or other non-magnetic material with a boss 2 fitting in the top of a brass tube 3 into the lower end of which is inserted the boss 7a of a soft iron outlet 6 embodying a flange 7 that supports the solenoid 5 ; between the latter and the tube 3 are three aligned sleeves 21, 22 and 23, sleeve 21 being made of brass whilst the others are of soft iron. The sleeve 21 is positioned to cause a flux concentration around the tip of the polepiece or outlet 24. The tips 2a and 24 of the inlet and outlets, respectively, are joined by a brass tube 26 forming, with the tube 3, an annular space 29 enclosing an armature chamber 25 and incorporating one or more ports 28. Within the chamber 25 is a soft iron armature 32 with longitudinal slots 33 whilst slidable in a cavity 36 in the tip 24 is a main closure 41 having a stepped through-bore 46, the larger bore part being lined with a brass sleeve 43 ; ports 37 through the tip 24 enable fluid in the chamber 25 to enter the cavity 36. Co-operating with the smaller part of the bore 36 is an adjustable pilot-valve 49 connected to the armature 32 ; the valve 49 has flats 52 thereon and closure 41 is made of nylon, P.V.C., synthetic rubber or P.T.F.E. The armature 32 is acted upon in opposite directions by springs 34 and 53, the former being the stronger. With the solenoid de-energized fluid passes directly from the inlet 1 to the outlet 6 via inclined passages 31, space 29 and ports 38 but since the armature 32 is urged by spring 34 into its uppermost position the bore 46 is open so that fluid passing ports 28 acts on top of the closure 41 and the step in bore 26 but such fluid has undergone a pressure-drop and cannot seat the closure 41. Upon energizing the solenoid 5 the armature 32 and pilot valve 49 are drawn downwards towards the tip 24 whereupon the bore 46 is closed and the closure 41 urged on to its seat 40 in the outlet 6, which latter action is aided by fluid pressure building up behind the closure 41 and in the larger part of the bore 46 after passing the flats 52.
Patent GB-502092-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to air-space insulated trunk communication cables with one or more concentric or stranded lines
IPC: H01B11/18
Filed: 1937-09-07
Abstract: 502,092. Cables. SHEVLIN, J. T. (Siemens & Halske Akt.-Ges.) Sept. 7, 1937, No. 24411. [Class 36] in an air space insulated cable having one or more lines formed by stranded or coaxial conductors, the airspace insulation of at least one of the conductors is formed by two or more air-space layers separated by insulating sleeves, each layer comprising one or more spacing elements and the spacing elements of adjacent layers being longitudinally or cireumferentially displaced so as to avoid a radial bridge of solid insulation at any point along the length of the conductor. Fig. 1 shows a line comprising coaxial conductors 10, 15 separated by helical spacers 11, 13 and insulating sleeves 12, 14, the spacers, which may be in the form of cords, thin-walled tubes, chains of beads, or spiral string windings, being applied with the same direction and length of lay and relatively displaced by a phase angle of 180 degrees. The outer conductor 15 is formed of strips held together by a binding 16, over which is applied an insulating winding 17 and a water-tight sheath 18. In a modified construction, spacers in the form of annular insulating discs spaced apart along the length of the cable replace the helical spacers 11, 13, the discs applied over the insulating sleeve 12 being longitudinally displaced relatively to those applied directly over the central conductor. Fig. 3 shows another construction in which the air-space insulation between coaxial conductors 30, 33 is built up by insulating sleeves 31, 32 each having longitudinally spaced annular indentations which serve to maintain the sleeves and the two conductors in coaxial arrangement. The indentations in the sleeve 32 are longitudinally displaced relatively to those in the sleeve 31 and engage the unindented portions of the latter sleeve. As shown in Fig. 4, longitudinal indentations 44 constituting spacing elements are formed in insulating sleeves 41-43 disposed between coaxial conductors 40, 45, the indentations being angularly displaced in adjacent sleeves. In a modified construction, the longitudinal indentations are replaced by longitudinal ribs which connect the insulating sleeves, the sleeves and ribs being formed as a unitary structure by extrusion. Reference has been directed by the Comptroller to Specification 478,100.
Patent GB-272368-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in centrifugal extractors
IPC: B04B9/12
Filed: 1926-10-02
Abstract: 272,368. Parker, H. J. Oct. 2, 1926. Pneumatic springs.-A pneumatically sustained diaphragm supports a centrifugal extractor and the electric driving motor. The base 1 has a bowl part 6 with a raised rim 7 closed by the diaphragm 8 having a core 11 of rubber. Bolts 14 secure the block 12 beneath the diaphragm to the block 13 which supports the stem 16 and flange 17 attached to the field structure of the motor 18. Air can be pumped into the bowl through the valve 21 and the pneumatic cushion thus formed supports the motor 18 and extractor 27.
Patent GB-459840-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to playing cards
IPC: A63F1/02
Filed: 1936-09-08
Abstract: 459,840. Playing-cards. WOLF, J. W., 178, Selsdon Road, South Croydon, Surrey. Sept. 8, 1936, No. 24430. [Class 132 (ii)] In a pack of playing-cards having the four suits, hearts, diamonds, spades, and clubs, each card also bears a coloured or shaded portion b so placed that when the hand has been played and the cards correctly disposed they comprise four associated groups, and the coloured or shaded portions form a predetermined figure, for example a cruciform figure the four arms or limbs of which are undulated as shown, each of the groups containing one of the arms or limbs of the figure. The cards bear corner indications designating the suit and value, and some of the cards bear representations c of a card or cards of other value. The representations c on adjoining cards match one another when correctly assembled. The coloured or shaded parts are provided at intervals with card representations. During play the cards are assembled round a central " king " or " major " card a bearing representations of four kings. The outside cards are provided on the outer edges with thick black lines.
Patent GB-1515844-A (GB)
Title: Artefacts incorporating load limiting means
IPC: F16B31/02
Filed: 1974-06-03
Abstract: 1515844 Bolting; load limiting devices NATIONAL RESEARCH DEVELOPMENT CORP 2 June 1975 [3 June 1974] 24507/74 Headings F2S and F2H [Also in Division F1] The Specification discloses a number of embodiments of an artefact including screwthreaded means and used as a clamping device which incorporates load limiting means. In the embodiment of Fig. 1, a block 5 is a sliding fit in a cavity 4 in a rectangular nut member 3 and has a screw-threaded recess 8 with which a bolt 9 engages. The block 5 serves to anchor an assembly of crimped wires 1 which extend through another cavity in the nut member 3 between spacer elements 2. The bolt 9 passes through holes in plate members 10, 11 and when it is screwed into the recess 8 the member 3 is moved with the block 5. Turning of bolt 9 brings plate members 10, 11 together and wires 1 are eventually caused to be deformed and block 5 is drawn along the cavity. Such a clamping device may be used to clamp a pressure release cap on a pressure vessel. In the embodiment of Fig. 2 (not shown) crimped wires (21) pass through tubes (22) and are anchored in a block (24) passing through holes in plate members 10, 11 and having a screw-thread extension (24a) engaged by a nut member (25). A washer member (26) may be provided between nut member (25) and plate member (10). In the embodiment of Fig. 3 (not shown) the crimped wires (31) which pass through tubes (36) are anchored in a cylindrical block (32) which is of larger diameter than the hole in plate member 10. A retaining tube (33) for tubes (36) is threaded to be engaged by a nut member (34). In the alternative embodiment of Fig. 4, a stud member 40 is screwed into a plate member 41 and extends through a plate member 42 which it is desired to clamp to member 41. The stud member 40 comprises a core 43 anchored at the bottom and a tubular extension 45 with a screw-threaded upper end portion 44 engaged by a nut member 46. As the nut member 46 is tightened dupile deformation will commence at the lower end 45 of the extension. In the embodiment of Fig. 5 (not shown) a bolt (50) passing through plate members (51, 52) engages a screw-threaded portion (53) in a core tube (54), a deforming tubular member (55) being secured to the lower end portion of the core tube (54). The end of the tubular member (55) is secured to the end of a reaction tube (57) which acts as a nut member to engage the plate member (51).
Patent GB-1354184-A (GB)
Title: Tobacco processing machine and method of supervising same
IPC: A24C5/32
Filed: 1971-04-19
Abstract: 1354184 Cigarette making-machines HAUNIWERKE KORBER & CO KG 19 April 1971 [16 April 1970] 24532/71 Heading A2C [Also in Divisions B8 and G4] The invention concerns a supervising arrangement for machinery producing and/or packaging cigarettes. Apparatus is provided for determining what the machinery is producing and relating it to what it is capable of producing. In Fig. 1 a cigarette rolling machine ZM feeds a filter adding machine FA. A device MGT produces clock pulses at a rate proportional to the maximum speed at which the machines could run. A device MGT produces pulses at a rate proportional to actual machine speed. Photoelectric detectors MSZ, MSF, MGF (Figs. 5, 6, 7, not shown) produce pulses for each faulty cigarette rejected from the machines ZM, FA and for good cigarettes leaving FA respectively. Counter ZT counts the check pulses. Counter ZJ counts the machine speed pulses. Counter Z counts the clock pulses only while the machines are running. These three counts are fed to ratio forming circuits QT, QJ which feed signals to registers AT, AJ representing the ratio of actual production cycles to the number of cycles if the machine were runing continuously at full speed, including and excluding total stoppages respectively. Counters ZSZ, ZSF and an adding circuit AS count the total number of faulty production cycles and counter ZGF counts the good ones. A ratio forming circuit QS supplies a signal to register AS representing the ratio of good to faulty cycles. Similarly register AG receives the ratio of good cycles to maximum possible production cycles. The latter ratio is also fed to multiplier MGP which multiplies it by a value DP which represents a target output for a supervising period (e.g. a single shift) and which reduces over said period so that a register AP indicates the probable production over the period if the machine continues to operate in the same way. A further multiplier MGM multiplies the output of counter ZT by a value DM representing the average efficiency of such machines and from the output of MGM is subtracted the number of articles produced (ZGF) to supply to register AM a value representing the loss of production. Similar arrangements are provided for a cigarette packaging machine (Fig. 8, not shown). Brief constructional details of the machines (Figs. 2-4, not shown) and of the photoelecetric detectors (Figs. 5-9, not shown) are also given in the Specification.
Patent GB-796803-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to oil burners
IPC: F23D5/00
Filed: 1956-08-13
Abstract: 796,803. Oil burners. STRUIJK, A. A. Aug. 13, 1956 [Aug. 12, 1955], No. 24656/56. Class 75(1) An oil burner has at least one rectangular oil reservoir 1 with which is connected a correspondingly rectangular shell having double longitudinal walls 7-8 open at their lower edge. The inwardly directed perforated wall portions 7 of the shell being integral with the corresponding longitudinal walls of the reservoir 1 and the upper edge 9 of each outwardly directed closed wall portion 8 closing the space between the double wall 7-8 by being connected to the upper edge of the associated perforated wall 7. In one of the reservoir walls perforations 3 are provided above which perforations is secured a screen 4 covering a starting reservoir 5. A zig-zag metal strip is placed in the reservoir 1. An ignition aperture 11 covered by a pivoted plate 10 is provided in one wall 7. If a plurality of burners are arranged in side-by-side relationship the adjacent wall portions 8 may be omitted. The burners may also be arranged end-toend.
Patent GB-245226-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to machines for cleaning cotton, and the like, fibres
IPC: D01G9/00
Filed: 1924-10-17
Abstract: 245,226. Prestwich, F. Oct. 17, 1924. Openers &c.-In a machine for scutching cotton &c. the material is fed by the roller m to a number of toothed large working cylinders a, b. A small cylinder c running in the contrary direction to the cylinder b clears the fibres from it and directs them against an adjustable comb e, whence they pass over the dust grid g to the collecting-cages h. Grids d are arranged under the cylinders a, b. The grid bars may be finely serrated and their ends may project into cavities formed in the side plates of the machine. A baffle plate f is provided. Air is drawn in at openings l. In an alternative arrangement an additional small working cylinder is arranged above the clearing cylinder c and runs in the same direction as the cylinders a, b.
Patent GB-324616-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in overhead ropeway and like conveyors
IPC: B66C21/00
Filed: 1928-08-28
Abstract: 324,616. White, J. W. Aug. 28, 1928. Overhead travellers and transporters.-A carriage 6 running upon the ropeway 3 is traversed by ropes 9, 10 attached to it at 14 and operated by independent drums 11, the rope 9 serving also for hoisting a grab 8 of the kind in which the buckets are held closed by detent mechanism. A hook 7 is pivoted on the carriage and is operated automatically by engagement of its arms 16, 17 with stops 12, 13. on the rope 3. In the position of the hook shown, an eye &c. 15 on the grab engages with the hook so that the load is supported by the carriage during traversing. The load is automatically transferred to the rope 9 for lowering the grab, when the arm 16 strikes the stop 12, and the hook is returned to the operative position when the arm 17 strikes the stop 13. Guides 20 on the carriage bring the eye 15 into engagement with the hook on hoisting the grab. A trigger or stop member (not shown) is mounted on the rope 3 at an intermediate point to release the detent mechanism of the grab and open the buckets. whilst the grab is suspended from the hook.
Patent GB-787465-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to sheet separating and forwarding machines
IPC: B65H5/00
Filed: 1954-08-25
Abstract: 787,465. Feeding sheets. BACKHOUSE, H. T. Nov. 18, 1955 [Aug. 25, 1954], No. 24786/54. Class 100(1) In apparatus for separating sheets by their rear edges one by one from the horizontal top of a pile 12 and forwarding them by means operating at the rear on to a conveyer 14 which slopes downwardly, in order to avoid an abrupt change of angle of the sheets there is provided a feed roller 10 between the pile and the conveyer whereby the change of angle is effected in two stages, one stage as the sheets pass over the roller 10 and the other as they pass on to the conveyer 14, the upper end of the conveyer being at a small distance below the level of the roller 10. The apparatus shown is substantially as described in Specification 774,875, and includes a telescopic table or feed-board 22 and overlying smoother strips arranged between the conveyer and feed roller 10. The tape conveyer 14 is arranged for pivotal movement about the axis of its rear roller 15, during which the table 22 telescopes automatically, and the conveyer can also be removed bodily. The feed roller 10 is positively driven. Presser wheels 11 and 16, 17 cooperate with the roller 10 and conveyer tapes, respectively.