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Patent GB-1478009-A (GB)
Title: Pharmaceutical compositions
IPC: A61K9/06
Filed: 1973-04-02
Abstract: 1478009 Pharmaceutical compositions GLAXO LABORATORIES Ltd 11 June 1974 [2 April 1973] 15758/73 Heading A5B Substantially oil-free pharmaceutical creams comprise (a) a topically active anti-inflammatory steroid/except 21-chloro-9α-fluoro-#<SP>4</SP>- pregnene-11#, 16α, 17α-triol-3, 20-dione-16, 17-acetonide) in (b) a vehicle comprising a dispersion of a hydrophobic wax in an aqueous phase comprising water, a surface active agent, and a water-miscible hydroxylic solvent, the wax, water, solvent and surface active agent being present in amounts of 5 to 30%, 7 to 75%, 10 to 80% and 0.1 to 10% respectively, based on the weight of the composition. The steroid may be corticosteroid. The hydroxylic solvent may be a propanediol, a dipropylene glycol, a liquid polyethylene glycol or glycerol. The wax may be a waxy triglyceride, a waxy fatty alcohol, a saturated fatty acid, an acetoglyceride or beeswax. The surface active agent may be a polyoxyethylene ether or ester, sodium lauryl sulphate or sodium dioctyl sulphosuccinate. The compositions may contain other drugs such as antibodies, local anaesthetics, bactericides or antifungal compounds.
Patent GB-1027624-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to can openers
IPC: B67B7/70
Filed: 1961-05-02
Abstract: 1,027,624. Can openers. V. G. R. DIXON. Aug. 2, 1962 [May 2, 1961], No. 15875/61. Heading B8D. An opener for a can of the kind comprising a tubular body and an end closure disc attached to the body by a bead formed by turning the edge portion of the disc first up, then over and under a lip around the mouth of the body so as to form an upstanding bead, is operable to cut through the outer thickness of metal of the bead of the can. A metal holder 10 has a length of metal punched out and bent over to form a bracket 11 and a flat-topped cutter 12 and stop wheel 13 are mounted between the bracket and holder. A traction roller 16 is mounted on a spindle, rotatable in a toggleplate 14 riveted to the holder and extending through an arcuate slot in the holder. To open a can the opener is placed with the can bead between the roller 16 and cutter 12. By turning a handle 18 the roller 16 turns, causing the opener to move around the can and the outer surface of the bead is cut through. The wheel 13 prevents the cutter penetrating the rim too deeply and ribs 19, 20 cause the cutter and roller to tilt, Fig. 4 (not shown). In another embodiment the roller and cutter are geared together for rotation.
Patent GB-1041956-A (GB)
Title: Combination shear and roll feed
IPC: B23D15/06
Filed: 1965-04-14
Abstract: 1,041,956. Shearing. F. J. LITTELL MACHINE CO. April 14, 1965 [Aug. 20, 1964], No. 15915/65. Heading B3W. Strip metal is fed to a cutting mechanism by a pair of rollers 20, 21 which are rotated intermittently by a mechanism including a pair of one-way clutches which are connected to a lever on a shaft 71 which is oscillated by a pair of conjugate cams. An electric motor 33 drives a main drive shaft 30 through a speed reducing unit 34 and belt drives 35, 40. The main drive shaft 30 is connected by two-to-one ratio gears 60, 61 (Fig. 5, not shown) to a cam shaft 62 having a pair of conjugate cams 64, 65 which oscillate a cam lever 70 keyed to a shaft 71, there being a dwell period between each oscillating stroke. A lever 75 (Fig. 5, not shown) keyed to one end of the shaft 71 is connected by links 78, 80 to a pair of one-way roller clutches 84, 87 on the drive shaft of the feed roll 20 and arranged so that the feed roll is rotated in the feed direction at each oscillating stroke of the lever 75. The feed stroke can be adjusted by moving the connecting rods 78, 80 along a slot in the lever 75. The strip material is fed by the rollers 20, 21 along fixed guides 16, 25 to a cutting device having a fixed blade 28 and reciprocating blade 28. The blade 28 is mounted in a frame consisting of end plates 48, 52 and rods 53 and which is reciprocated by a connecting rod 42 driven by an eccentric 41 on the main drive shaft 30. Both blades 27, 28 are pivotable in unison about a vertical axis on studs 45, 50 so that the strip may be cut in an oblique direction to produce trapezoidal, square or triangular pieces. The lower blade 28 is oscillated between cutting strokes by an arm 44 on its carrier 43 which is connected by a rod 101 (Fig. 4, not shown) to a lever 100 on the oscillating shaft 71. The upper blade 27 is rotated in unison by guide pins 58 on the carrier 43 for the lower blade 28.
Patent GB-1186396-A (GB)
Title: Central Heating Radiator and Method of Making the Same
Inventor: JAGER WALTER
IPC: B21D53/04
Filed: 1967-04-06
Abstract: 1,186,396. Making radiators. HULL STEEL RADIATORS Ltd. 6 April, 1967 [6 April, 1966], No. 15921/67. Heading B3A. [Also in Division F4] A method of manufacturing a sheet metal panel radiator, said radiator having spaced manifolds which extend along the panel and are interconnected by ducts with external heatdissipating ribs fixed to at least one of the metal sheets, comprises separating the material for the ribs by a stamping machine 15 from a strip 14, and feeding the material at right angles to the feeding direction of the metal sheets 11 which run from a strip roll 12 through a press 13 in the direction in which the manifolds are to be formed; the ribs being positioned by automatic grippers 16 and fixed to the metal sheets in rhythmic synchronism with the stepwise pressing of the sheets to form the manifolds and ducts. The sheets after being cut to the desired length by a shear 17, are alternately slid and turned so that two inner surfaces of the sheets come together at 19 to be welded. The ribs may alternatively be fed in the same direction as the metal sheets.
Patent GB-272344-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in cylinder heads for internal combustion engines
IPC: F02F1/24
Filed: 1926-06-25
Abstract: 272,344. Bamford, J., and Bamford, C. J: June 25, 1926. Vaporizers, external. - In a water-cooled head having a deep central water - cooled valve-chest 1, and a surrounding shallow water-cooled portion 2, portions of the inlet and exhaust passages 4. 5 are integral with the head and have a common wall.
Patent GB-699482-A (GB)
Title: A multi-polar dynamo for pedal cycles, motor cycles and the like
IPC: H02K1/14
Filed: 1951-07-06
Abstract: 699,482. Permanent magnet machines. LOHMANN-WERKE AKT.-GES. July 6, 1951 [July 6, 1950; Dec. 18, 1950], No. 16048/51. Class 35. A permanent magnet generator such as used for cycles &c. has a permanent magnet rotor a and stator polepieces e, c surrounding alternately the outside and inside of a stator coil b in such a manner that the polepieces e lying inside the coil are bent at d so as to bring their upper limbs f in the same circle as those of the outside pieces c, the central parts m of the pole-pieces c, e cross each other and they are joined at that point by a bolt h which also serves as a terminal. While the formation of the pole-pieces c, e in Figs. 1-3 enables the crossing and joining of the central parts without holes in the latter, those shown in Fig. 5 must have holes through which the joining bolt or rivet passes.
Patent GB-1444897-A (GB)
Title: Process for the production of 2-alkoxy-4-propen-1-yl-phenols
IPC: C07C43/23
Filed: 1975-04-18
Abstract: 2-Methoxy- or ethoxy-4-propen-(1)-yl phenols are obtained in two steps by condensation of corresponding 2-alkoxy phenols with propionaldehyde in the presence of acidic catalysts followed by thermal cleavage of the condensation products in the presence of basic catalysts. The yields in this process are high, and the process is easy to carry out. The resulting compounds are used mainly as flavourings or starting materials for other flavourings.
Patent GB-599560-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to liquid-washed filters
IPC: F02M35/026
Filed: 1945-06-23
Abstract: 599,560. Air filters. AIR MAZE (GREAT BRITAIN), Ltd. June 23, 1945, No. 16085. Convention date, Oct. 16, 1944. [Class 8 (ii)] [Also in Group XXVII] A liquid-washed filter 11 connected to the intake 10 of a gas compressor is provided with a pressure relieving chamber 18 with openings 29 leading to atmosphere, a connection 18c to the filter outlet 17, and a plate valve 30 apertured at 30b for normal gas flow and having an imperforate portion 30d which when the valve is in the normal position closes the openings 29, and an imperforate portion 30a which when the valve is lifted by back pressure closes the filter outlet 17. In. a modification the valve is an apertured flexible diaphragm secured at the periphery to the inner wall of the chamber. Filters 24 clean air drawn in through openings 23 before the valve 30 recloses.
Patent GB-373789-A (GB)
Title: Improved construction of apparatus for producing enlarged images
IPC: G03B27/36
Filed: 1931-06-04
Abstract: 373,789. Enlargers. HANA, G. H., 434, Bromley Road, Bromley, Kent. June 4, 1931, No. 16243. [Classes 97 (i) and 98 (i).] An apparatus for producing enlarged images of objects with varying scales of magnification comprises (1) a box 5 pivotally mounted at 47 on supporting brackets 48 ; (2) an extension of the base 5a fitted with a housing 6 for the object and enclosed lamps for illuminating it ; (3) sliding carriages 31, 34 on which the lens panel 33 and focusing screen frame 36 are mounted ; and (4) a crank lever 40 on a shaft 39, connected by links 41, 43 to the sliding carriages for varying the enlargement ratio with sufficiently approximate focusing. The shaft 39 is operated from an external handle which may be positioned by means of a notched plate on the side of the box. The rear housing 6 comprises bottom and top plates 7, 8, a front apertured plate 9, and curved side plates abutting against tubular lamp casings with illuminating slots. The top plate 8 is connected to the box by a plate 10. The rear plate of the housing is apertured and fitted with strips or stops 14 at its top and side edges. The aperture is closed by a flap 15 hinged to the base 5a and held in open or closed position by a spring 18. The object is mounted on this flap by means of a hinged glass panel 19 which abuts against the stops 14 when the flap is closed.
Patent GB-1179932-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Coupling Elements for Rotary Couplings.
IPC: F16D13/71
Filed: 1967-04-10
Abstract: 1,179,932. Couplings; friction clutches. SOC. ANON. FRANCAISE DU FERODO. 10 April, 1967 [7 Oct., 1966], No. 16245/67. Headings F2C and F2U. The pressure plate 12 and cover 14 of a friction clutch are coupled for relative axial movement without relative rotation by straps 13 extending substantially tangentially to the pressure plate 12 with their centres 39 riveted to radial lugs 30 on the pressure plate and their ends 37, 38 riveted to lands 27, 28 on the cover. Each of the three straps 13 has two straight portions 35, 36 tapered towards their ends 37, 38 and joined by an arcuate centre portion 39. Portion 35 is normally in tension and portion 36, which is normally in compression, is curved, corrugated, or twisted, as at 40, to improve its flexibility. Peripheral portions 25 of cover 14 are bolted to an input flywheel 10. The lands 27, 28 are offset axially from the portions 25 and form the boundaries of cut-outs 29 of the cover into which the lugs 30 extend. An output disc 16 is clamped between the flywheel 10 and pressureplate 12 by the action of a diaphragm spring 18. A thrust bearing 23 conveys the clutch disengaging force to levers 22 integral with the spring 18, brackets 24 on the lugs 30 holding the pressure plate to the diaphragm spring periphery. In a modification, brackets 24 are omitted and the portion 35 of each strap 13 is inclined to the plane normal to the axis of rotation to form a "Z" spring urging the plate 12 towards the disengaged position.
Patent GB-1160167-A (GB)
Title: Roving Frame
IPC: D01H1/04
Filed: 1967-04-10
Abstract: 1,160,167. Roving frame. N. SCHLUMBERGER & CIE. 10 April, 1967 [26 April, 1966], No. 16261/67. Heading DID. In a roving frame a sleeve or collar 3 is secured to the flyer 1, 18 and rotatably mounted in vertically spaced bearing 5, 6, the means for rotating and traversing the bobbin passing through the bearings. As shown a tube 15 is fixed with the flyer and encloses a tube 14 carying a cap 25 on which the bobbin core can be mounted. Tube 14 is rotated within tube 15 by a spindle 13 having a driving slot engaging a key 20 in tube 14. Tube 14 is mounted on a traversing rail 12 by a bearing 14 to be traversed. The rail carries a number of other tubes and is traversed by a nut on a rotating lead screw. The collar 3 has a gear 8 at its lower end which is driven to rotate the flyer. Bearing 5 is of the angular contact type and its outer race is urged away from the outer race of bearing 6 by a spring 7, a resilient ring 23 being interposed.
Patent GB-188700-A (GB)
Title: Excavators
IPC: E02F3/18
Filed: 1921-06-14
Abstract: 188,700. Freda, T. J. June 14, 1921. Digging-apparatus; endless-chain machines.-A ditch-digging machine comprises a series of cutters rotating on vertical axes and connected to advance in unison, each cutter widening the ditch cut by the preceding cutters. In the form shown, a series of central beams 1, each supported on a central tractor 2, are connected to form a stepped platform, each step supporting a rotary cutting tower and a..shaft 10, while lateral tractors 11 are arranged at the foot of each shaft 10 and driven from the latter; the cutting towers increase in diameter rearwardly and each tower comprises a desired number of superposed units comprising end members 4, 4a, Fig. 2, vertical connecting members 5, and one or more spiral platforms 6 carrying scoops 7 which cut the earth and pass it to the interior of the tower. Stationary drums 3, 8 support the cutting units and are themselves supported by lattice work connected to vertical beams 16 carried by the lateral tractors 11; each cutting tower is driven by chains 9 from the next rearward shaft 10 and communicates the drive bv chains 9<a> to the next forward shaft 10. An overhead transverse bridge 19, supported on tractors 20, is preferably provided for each cutting tower. At the forward end of the machine is a cutting screw 21 which excavates a path for the forward tractor 2; a pair of longitudinally-arranged bucket elevators 27 connect each pair of cutting towers to enlarge this path for the larger tractors 2 and to remove debris, while in the rear part of each cutting tower a laterally-arranged bucket elevator 24 assists in removing debris. The bucket elevators dump through chutes on to a horizontal endless-belt conveyer suspended from the bridges 19. Within each cutting tower, and driven thereby through pinions 17a, are a number of vertical shafts 17 which drive the tractors 2, the bucket elevators 24, 27, and the cutting screw 21. To cut paths for the drum members 3, 8, a belt 31, Fig. 20, with cutters 34, is passed round each drum and wound on vertical shafts 32, 33; these belts are reciprocated by driving the shafts 32, 33 from a shaft 37, Fig. 23, which is driven from one of the shafts 17 through bevel reversing gearing 36, the clutch member 40 of the reversing gearing being oscillated by a grooved cam 43 driven by the adjacent shaft 10. In a modification, the paths for the drums are cut by providing each drum with a series of small vertical bucket excavators arranged round the rim of the drum. In a further modification, each cutting tower after the first one is replaced by a pair of smaller towers, each of which cuts one side of the ditch only.
Patent GB-955969-A (GB)
Title: Complex organo-silicic compounds and method of preparing same
IPC: C07F7/08
Filed: 1960-05-09
Abstract: A method of making organo-silicon complexes of the general formula [(R1)nSi(OMe)4-n-x], [A]y, 2H2O, where n=1, 2 or 3; x, y and z have finite values which may be the same or different; R1 is a linear or branched chain aliphatic radical or an aromatic radical; Me is hydrogen or an alkali metal and A is an organic or inorganic acid or derivative thereof, comprises slowly adding an aqueous solution of an alkali metal siliconate to an organic or inorganic acid or a derivative thereof, with vigorous agitation, whilst maintaining the aqueous reaction medium at a pH between 1 and 8.  Specified acids are formic, acetic, propionic, sebacic, a -naphthalene-acetic, citric, tartaric, lactic, glutamic, nicotinic, ascorbic, forbic, salicylic, acetyl salicylic, gentisic, pentothenic, hydriodic and phosphoric acids. In the examples, complexes are made from:- (1) and (3) potassium siliconate and ascorbic acid; (4) sodium siliconate and ascorbic acid; (5) potassium siliconate and nicotinic acid; (6) potassium siliconate and hydriodic acid; (7) potassium siliconate and phosphoric acid; (8) potassium siliconate and acetyl-salicylic acid; (9) potassium siliconate and salicylic acid; (10) and (11) potassium siliconate and the disodium salt dihydrate of ethylene-diamino-tetraacetic acid; (12) potassium siliconate and sebacid acid; (13) and (14) potassium siliconate and potassium acetyl-salicylate; (15) potassium siliconate and sodium heparinate; (16) potassium siliconate and sodium benzyl-penicillinate; (17) potassium siliconate and the sodium salt of carboxymethyl cellulose; (18) potassium siliconate and glutamic acid; (20) potassium siliconate and potassium iodide; (21) potassium siliconate and sodium citrate; (22) potassium siliconate and the disodium salt of desoxyribonucleic acid; (23) potassium methyl siliconate and calcium pantothonate.
Patent GB-704097-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in the impregnation of fibrous materials such as cardboard, wallboard and chipboard
IPC: D21J1/08
Filed: 1951-07-11
Abstract: 704,097. Impregnated fibre-board. AKTIEBOLAGET STATENS SKOGSINDUSTRIER. July 11, 1951 [July 14, 1950], No. 16400/51. Class 96 Cardboard, wallboard, or chipboard &c. is impregnated, during manufacture, e.g. with tall oil modified with maleic acid anhydride and esterified with glycerol, glycol. sorbitol, or pentaerythritol or with linseed oil, or phenol-, urea- or melamine-formaldehyde resin etherified with alcohol, the impregnant being applied to the side of the material turned towards the polished plate of a hot press, the other surface of the material contacting a wire-mesh to allow water, displaced by the impregnant, to escape. The impregnant may thus penetrate part-way, or entirely through the board. The impregnant may be mixed with a drying, or a semi-drying oil, and a siccative, e.g. manganese or iron naphthenate, linoleate, or rosinate which accelerate the hardening and give. characteristic colouring. The impregnant may be applied as an aqueous emulsion using ammonium compounds as emulsifying agents but the emulsifying agent, or at all events the part of the board contacting the press-plate should be acidic to avoid sticking. The board may be hot-pressed at 15 to 50 kg/sq. cm. at 130 to 220C. and hardened in air at 150 to 200C. Insecticides or fungicides, e.g. tetra- or pentachlorphenol or chloronaphthalene may be incorporated.
Patent GB-434041-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in means for controlling the supply of hot liquid to a container applicable to the feeding of molten metal to extrusion presses and to other purposes
IPC: B21C33/02
Filed: 1934-06-02
Abstract: 434,041. Delivering measured quantities of liquid. BEAVER, C. J., Bell Place, Stamford Road, FAIRFIELD, T. J., Newlands, Talbot Road, both in Bowdon, Cheshire, and GLOVER & CO., Ltd., W. T., Trafford Park, Manchester. June 2, 1934, No. 16449. [Class 135] [See also Group XXII] The supply of hot liquid from a vessel to a second relatively movable vessel is initiated by means actuated by the relative movement, and is cut off when a predetermined quantity has been delivered by a device responsive to the temperature of the liquid. Molten metal is delivered from a chamber f through a valve g and channel h to the vertically movable vessel d of an extrusion press such as described in Specification 394,427, [Group XXII]. The valve g is opened by a thrustor comprising a motor m and a centrifugal pump and piston device, the motor being energized from mains l. A switch n is closed to open the valve g when a projection s movable with the container a and vessel d strikes an arm q<1>. A thermometer bulb v in the upper part of the vessel d communicates through a capillary tube u with a Bourdon tube t to rock a switch p, when a predetermined quantity of metal has been delivered, to open the circuit to the motor m and close the valve g. On the return of the vessel d, the switch n is opened by an arm q<2> before the switch p again closes. Warning lights x, y, z indicate successive stages in the operation.
Patent GB-877120-A (GB)
Title: Antibacterial agents
IPC: C07D499/60
Filed: 1960-05-10
Abstract: Relates to acids of the general formula <FORM:0877120/IV (b)/1> where R1, R2 and R3 are the same or different and each is a hydrogen atom or a nitro, amino, lower alkylamino, lower dialkylamino, lower alkanoylamino, lower alkyl, chloro, bromo, iodo, lower alkoxy, hydroxy, sulphamyl, benzyl, cyclohexyl, phenyl or trifluoromethyl group and R4 is a lower alkyl or phenyl group or phenylalkyl group containing not more than ten carbon atoms, such as 6(a -phenoxypropionamido), 6-(a -phenoxybutyramido), 6-(a -phenoxyvaleramido), 6-[a -(2,4-dichlorophenoxy)propionamido], 6 - [a -(2,4-diisoamylphenoxy) - n - butyramido], 6-[a -(4-trifluoromethylphenoxy) - n - butyramido], 6-[a -phenoxy - y - phenylbutyramido], 6-[a -(2,4-dichlorophenoxy)-n-butyramido], 6-(a -phenoxyphenylacetamido) and 6 - [a -(p-tertiary-butylphenoxy)propionamido]-penicillanic acid, and non-toxic salts thereof.  The Specification contains examples of many more compounds of the above formula.  The compounds may be prepared by reacting 6-aminopenicillanic acid, or a neutral salt thereof, with an acid chloride of the general formula <FORM:0877120/IV (b)/2> or with a functional equivalent thereof as an acylating agent for a primary amino group, such as the corresponding carboxylic acid bromides, acid anhydrides and mixed anhydrides with other carboxylic acids.
Patent GB-240920-A (GB)
Title: Improved method of and electronic valve for modulating electric currents
IPC: H01J21/08
Filed: 1924-07-09
Abstract: 240,920. Fisk, E. T. July 9, 1924. Transmitters. - One of the electrodes of a thermionic valve is mounted vibratably and is controlled by sound waves that impinge on t h e envelope. As shown a grid 20 is mounted between a filament 14 and an anode 16 on a flexible bracket 23, and is connected by a stud 21 with a tympanum 11 forming part of the envelope of the valve. A sound shield 22 of cork surrounds the valve. In a modification the movable electrode consists of a wire wound spirally or helically to form a solenoid which is operated by an electromagnet controlled by sound vibrations.