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Patent GB-648413-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to a joint structure
IPC: F16C11/06
Filed: 1948-03-13
Abstract: 648.413. Hinges. THOMPSON PRODUCTS, Inc. March 13,1948, No. 7711. Convention date, Oct. 24, 1947. [Class 65(ii)] A joint structure comprises a housing 11, a stud having a shank 25 and a head 26, a ring member 34 encircling said shank and having diametrically opposed trunnions 35, means in the housing tiltably mounting the trunnions, and anti-friction elements consisting of roller gearings 31 between-said ring member and head, the latter bearing on a closure plate 17. Said mounting means consists of a part-spherical member 37 which seats on a complementary surface in the housing and is formed with bearing surfaces for the trunnions. A pin 42 projecting from the housing engages a slot 39 in the member 37 to permit tilting of the latter in one direction only. A slot 37a in the member 37 is engaged by the stud shank in the aforesaid direction and is elongated in a direction perpendicular thereto. The stud can thus rotate upon the bearings 31, tilt upon the trunnions within the slot 37a, and also tilt perpendicularly to the latter slot with the member 37.
Patent GB-887063-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to guides for electromagnetic waves
Inventor: GENT ALFRED WALTER
IPC: H01P3/13
Filed: 1957-03-08
Abstract: 887,063. Making waveguides; coiling. STANDARD TELEPHONES & CABLES Ltd. March 7, 1958 [March 8, 1957], No. 7745/57. Classes 83 (2) and 83 (4). [Also in Group XL (b)] A circular wave guide is made by coiling wire on a cylindrical mandrel and securing adjacent turns of the coil together with adhesive. A second wire may be wound on to the first coil to lie in the grooves between its adjacent turns. Wire 32, Fig. 8, is wound on a rotated cylindrical mandrel 31, the thus wound coil 33 being pushed there-along and over a tapered end thereof by rollers 37 mounted on fixed axes. A second wire 34 of a slightly smaller diameter than the wire 32 is led through a bath 35 of molten resin and laid in the grooves between the turns of the inner coil 33 to form an outer coil 36. The mandrel 31 is electrically heated, current being supplied through a slip ring 39. The formed waveguide 41 is supported after leaving the mandrel 31 by rollers 43 driven a slightly greater peripheral speed than the waveguide, an idler roller 42 and pairs of idler rollers 49. The waveguide may be wrapped with tape or thermoplastic material may be extruded thereover. The outer winding could be of fibre glass. Insulating material may be applied to the outer surface of the outer winding. The wire may be bare or insulated by anodization or coating with shellac. The adhesive may be applied by a brush or spray as the wire is being wound. A fixed peg 5, Fig. 4, may push the coiled wire along a mandrel 3 which has an outer part of lesser diameter to reduce friction. A completed coil 25, Fig. 6, may be supported after leaving a mandrel 18 by a plug. 23 keyed on an extension 20 of the rotating mandrel and engaging the end of the coil. According to the Provisional Specification the wire may be coated with polyethylene and heat applied by a heated pad. Copper wire coated with solder may be used. Adhesive may be set by a gas flame. The outer coil may be of polyvinylchloride. A flange on the mandrel or on an idler parallel to the mandrel may push the wound wire there-along.
Patent GB-626999-A (GB)
Title: An improved mechanism particularly applicable to printing telegraph apparatus
IPC: H04L13/18
Filed: 1947-03-21
Abstract: 626,999. Linkwork. TELETYPE CORPORATION. March 21, 1947, No. 7803. Convention date, March 22, 1946. [Class 80 (iii)] [Also in Group XL (b)] In mechanism in which the movement of a member 11 is limited by a stop 13, the operating member 28 is connected to the member 11 through a toggle linkage 17, 26 and spring means 21, the link 17 having an arm 18 which engages the stop-13 before the member 11 so that the latter is gradually slowed down before being brought to rest by engagement with the stop 13. As shown for telegraphic apparatus the parts 11, 13 comprise a type carrier and stop bar respectively. The toggle is constrained to the inoperative position by the tension spring 21, its movement being limited by projections 23, 24 on the link 17 and type carrier 11 respectively. The drop bars are operated by a signal responsive selecter mechanism as described in Specification 235,561, [Class 40 (iii)]. In this a selector magnet 4, one of five, for example, in a five unit code, responding to a code impulse, causes, by its armature 5 and plunger 6, a latch 7 to trip a bell crank lever 8. This lever, acted upon by a spring 9 rotates a shift bell crank 30 thereby positioning its associated code bar 20. Following the permuted setting of all the code bars a stop bar 13 is presented in the path of the type carrier 11 as at 19
Patent GB-287525-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to the distillation and cracking of hydrocarbons particularly mineral oils and tars
Filed: 1928-03-14
Abstract: 287,525. Magnus, H. March 23, 1927, [Convention date]. Grant of Patent opposed. Hydrocarbons, cracking.-Mineral oils and tars are distilled and cracked under pressure in a vessel and the products are separated in a condensation plant into fractions, the more valuable fractions are withdrawn while the remainder are further heated under higher pressure in one or more further vessels. The liquid and vapourous products from each vessel are expanded and fractionated separately, and the energy produced by the expansion is used to drive turbines for circulating the materials through the plant. Auxiliary steam pressure is provided for starting the turbines at the commencement of the process.
Patent GB-354744-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to the production of magnesium alloys
IPC: C22C1/02
Filed: 1930-03-11
Abstract: In a method of alloying magnesium with one or more metals difficult to alloy therewith, specifically manganese, beryllium, vanadium, molybdenum, nickel, and cerium, molten magnesium is brought into contact, in a bath of molten diluent, with a reducible compound of the other metal or metals, by agitation, or preferably by electrolyzing a magnesium compound in contact with a reducible compound of the other metal or metals.  For example, a magnesium-manganese alloy or a magnesium-manganese-cerium alloy may be formed by the electrolysis of a bath of magnesium chloride to which manganese chloride or a mixture of manganese chloride and a cerium compound is added.
Patent GB-1130063-A (GB)
Title: Process for the separation of mixtures of aliphatic fluorine compounds
IPC: C07C19/08
Filed: 1967-02-20
Abstract: 1,130,063. Separation of fluorinated aliphatic hydrocarbons. CIBA Ltd. 20 Feb., 1967 [23 Feb., 1966], No. 7885/67. Heading C2C. C 7-18  aliphatic fluorine compounds are separated from mixtures thereof by azeotropic distillation with an inert organic solvent which has a water solubility of at least 5 grams per 100 ml. and isolating the products from the individual distillates. Specified organic solvents are acetone, ethylmethylketone, dioxan, ethyl acetate, tetrahydrofuran, a C 1-5  alkanol, tetrahydrofurfuryl alcohol and glacial acetic acid.
Patent GB-764746-A (GB)
Title: Electrical apparatus for providing a substantially noise-free control voltage on a wire
IPC: H03K17/54
Filed: 1955-03-18
Abstract: 764,746. Gating circuits. STANDARD TELEPHONES & CABLES, Ltd. March 18, 1955 [March 26, 1954], No. 7946/55. Class 40(6) A circuit in which a substantially noise-free voltage is produced when a control voltage which may have noise components changes from a first to a second value comprises a rectifier connected to a noise-free voltage source having a value intermediate the first and second value so that when the control voltage changes to its second value the rectifier conducts and a noise-free voltage appears at the output of the circuit. The Figure shows part of a differential gating circuit. Fig. 1 (not shown), which may be used for switching in and out main and standby carrier supplies in a multi-channel telephone system. The control voltage on lead 4a may be of either + 1¢ or -17¢ volts and have unwanted A.C. noise voltage components derived from external sources. When the control voltage has a value of +1¢ volts rectifier 13 conducts and the voltage on lead 4b is at substantially zero volts. When the control voltage has a value -17¢ volts rectifier 14 conducts and the voltage on line 4b is substantially that on line 15, i.e. of value -16 volts and derived from a noise-free source.
Patent GB-470625-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to invalid's tables
IPC: A47B85/00
Filed: 1937-03-18
Abstract: 470,625. Invalids' tables. FRAENCKEL, G. J. March 18, 1937, No. 7954. [Class 52 (iii)] An invalid's bed table comprises a top 3 and end supports 13 which are slidable in their own planes in relation to the top and one of which is formed as a platform so that when the supports are moved into the position shown in Fig. 2 the device can be used as a pedestal table by turning it through 90‹, the supports 13 then forming the top and base. The top 3 includes a pivoted flap 8 and has hinged to each end a rectangular member 10 maintained in extended position by a pivoted flap 16. Ribs on the sides of the members 10 engage slidably grooves 14 in the closed supporting frames 13. Bolts 19 on the top 3 engage holes 21 in the frames 13 to retain them in adjusted position, the holes 21 allowing of adjustment of the height of the top 3, when used as a bed-table. Bolts 17 secure the flaps in the extended position. To fold the table the end supports are turned to lie under the top 3.
Patent GB-986056-A (GB)
Title: Camphor imide derivatives
IPC: C07D221/24
Filed: 1961-03-06
Abstract: The invention comprises camphor imide derivatives of the formula <FORM:0986056/C2/1> wherein (a) R is hydrogen or alkyl; (b) each R1, R2 (which may be the same or different) is hydrogen, alkyl, aryl, alkenyl, aralkyl or cycloalkyl; or (c) the group -R1 . . . R2- contains one or more hetero atoms between the radicles R1, R2; or (d) the group -R1 . . . R2- is the radicle -R1-R2-, and in cases (c) and (d) each R1 and R2 is the divalent radicle corresponding to the monovalent radicles defined in (b).  They are prepared by reacting camphor imide with an amide of the formula <FORM:0986056/C2/2> X being halogen; or by reacting camphor imide with an ester <FORM:0986056/C2/3> to give <FORM:0986056/C2/4> which is then reacted with ammonia or an amine <FORM:0986056/C2/5> Alternatively, an N,N-(camphoryl)-a -amino-acid-halogenide can be reacted with such an amine or ammonia.  Many examples are given and include piperidine, pyrrolidine and morpholine derivatives. The compounds can be connected into thin acid salts.
Patent GB-667842-A (GB)
Title: An improved remote control receiver
IPC: H02J13/00
Filed: 1950-03-30
Abstract: 667,842. Actuation of switches. LANDIS & GYR AKT.-GES. March 30, 1950. [April 14, 1949] No. 8023/50. Class 38 (v). In a switch of the kind which on receiving a starting impulse from a signal-receiving relay 2 is driven through a complete cycle by a synchronous motor under control of off-normal contacts 4, 5, 8 and which, by means of cam discs 12, 13, 14 operates contact sets 15, 16, 17 at various points in the cycle, the angular positions of the cam discs are readily adjustable. As shown, the discs are held by spring spiders 24, the feet of which engage between projections on the discs. The switch is for use in the wellknown "impulse-interval" method of selective signalling, the switch contacts being connected to tilting relays 18, 19, 20 which are operated in one direction or the other if a signal impulse is received by relay 2 while one or other of the relay windings is connected up.
Patent GB-1413750-A (GB)
Title: Valve grinding appliances
IPC: B24B7/16
Filed: 1973-02-19
Abstract: 1413750 Miscellaneous gripping tools S J GODDARD 17 May 1974 [19 Feb 1973] 8087/73 Heading B4W [Also in Division B3] A valve grinding appliance comprises a member 1 having a portion 2 engageable with a handle 4, and a head portion 5 with a flat surface 6 to which is adhered one side of a doublesided sticker member 7, the other side of the sticker being adhereable to the flat surface of a valve to be ground. A kit of such appliances may be provided including a handle 4 and a plurality of members 1 with the sticker members 7 and a plurality of spare sticker members. In a modification the handle 4 is integral with the member 1. The sticker member may be in the form of a resilient pad.
Patent GB-472263-A (GB)
Title: An improved vacuum milking machine
IPC: A01J5/04
Filed: 1936-03-18
Abstract: 472,263. Cow - milkers. JOHNSON, H. H. March 18, 1936, No. 8153. [Class 84] A vacuum - actuated milking machine with single-chambered teat cups 1 and a milk receiving unit 30 under constant vacuum is provided with a milk claw 16, Figs. 1, 6, connected to the teat cups 1, and with pulsatory means whereby air is intermittently admitted to and exhausted from the claw 16, a constant vacuum milk pipe 27 leading from the milk receiving unit 30 to the claw 16 with the interior 17 of which it communicates through a restricted passage 24 so that air admitted to the claw 16 by the pulsating means will be partially exhausted therethrough from the teat cups 1, the partial vacuum thus created in the teat cups retaining them on the teats during the period they are not under suction. As shown, the milk receiver 30 consists of a glass vessel into which depends a pipe 31 leading to the main milk pipe 32. The vessel is attached to a cover 37 by clips 40 screwed to the cover and a pin 42 which is under tension of a spring 43. The milk pipe 27 is connected to port 29 in the cover. The chamber 17 of claw 16 is connected through a nipple 18 provided with a small air opening 63, a pipe 33, and a nipple 34, Fig. 2, to pulsation means consisting of a slide valve 35 which is reciprocated over a valve face 44 formed on an extension 39 of the cover. The valve 35 has a hole 51 and a groove 48 by which the nipple 34 and consequently the teat cups 1 are alternately connected to the atmosphere and, through port 36, to the receiver 30 which is under vacuum through pipe 31. The valve 35 slides in vertical guides secured to the face 44 and is actuated by the engagement with a fork 50 thereon of a rod 52 the top end of which is connected to a shank 53, which is held by a spring 55 against a cam 54, operated by a rotating rod 56 extending the entire length of the cow bails. The spring 55 is attached at one end to the bearing 57 of shank 53, and at the other end to a cup 56a which is adjustably secured on rod 52 to enable the tension to be varied and which serves as an oil-trap. Alignment is maintained by an angle-iron 58 extending between cover 37 and bearing 57. In a modification, Fig. 14, the pipe 27 is attached to a nipple 65 on a connection 66 of the main milk pipe 32, and pipe 33 to a nipple 67 on a base 68 of a slide-valve 71 similar to valve 35 and actuated by a reciprocating rod 72 and relating the nipple 67 alternately to the atmosphere and to the pipe 32. The teat cups may consist each of a body 1, Figs. 11, 12, of resilient material, e.g. moulded rubber, having at its upper end a flange 3 for gripping the teat 5 and a bulge 6 which acts as a stiffening and supporting means. The body is formed with four ribs 8 between which are grooves 9 outside one opposite pair of which are formed strengthening ribs 10, so that when vacuum is applied to the interior the body will collapse along the other pair of grooves and the ribs 8 will press on the teat 5.
Patent GB-116354-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Metal Boring Machine.
Inventor: PHILIP WILLIAM LITTLEJOHN
IPC: B23B41/12
Filed: 1917-06-08
Abstract: 116,354. Phillip, W. L. June 8, 1917. Lathes for boring large shells &c. have a saddle with a crossslide, carrying one or more tools, actuated by hydraulic or other fluid pressure. Fig. 1 shows a plan of a lathe having four tools. The roughing bar h for the cylindrical portion of the bore may have 3 or more tools while the bar i carries a single finishing tool. The bar k carries a tool for rough boring the nose, and the bar l a spade finishing-cutter. The slide e is actuated by hydraulic gear g preferably through mechanical multiplying gear m, n to reduce the movement of the piston, and has in addition an auxiliary mechanical actuating-gear, locating stop o, and locking-bolts p. The saddle f is also traversed by hydraulic gear. The feed movement of the saddle is effected by high-pressure water admitted and exhausted by valves which may be controlled automatically by adjustable stops, while the return movement is effected by a constantly-acting low-pressure water supply. The shell &c. is forced into the chuck by movement of the saddle. The chuck is opened by spur-gear operate by a hand-wheel r and ,spur-gear s at the headstock end. The saddle may be fitted with a device to grip the shell so that it can be removed from the chuck by movement of the saddle. The quick movement of the cross-slide e to change the tool in use is effected in both directions by high-pressure fluid, while the movement to feed the tools into the work is effected by mechanical gear, a screw for instance. A brake is provided on the countershaft to stop the lathe quickly.
Patent GB-310621-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to three-wheel motor trucks, trolleys, or like vehicles
IPC: B62D61/08
Filed: 1928-03-19
Abstract: 310,621. Whittome, J. T. March 19, 1928. Motor forecarriages.-In a three-wheeled motor truck of the kind having a motor and road wheel mounted on a rotatable foundation ring, the ring a is of L-section and the forward part of the vehicle frame is supported thereon by spaced anti-friction members, such as j, bearing on the top of the horizontal flange of the ring in conjunction with spaced bearing members k bearing on the under side of the ring so as to prevent the frame from lifting off the ring. The ring is supported on a road wheel g and carries an engine d driving the road wheel through chains e, f and a clutch. The road wheel axle m is mounted in plates o which may be fixed to the ring, or, as shown, the plates may be pivoted to the ring at p and springs g be interposed between the plates and the ring. The ring is centred relatively to the vehicle frame h by means of rollers or segments l. In a modification, instead of the rollers j, angle segments z, Fig. 5, fixed to the frame h are used, these segments bearing on the ring a and also serving to centre it. Blocks or rollers k prevent the frame from lifting off the ring. According to the second Provisional Specification the foundation ring may be of channel section engaged by a single set of rollers carried by the frame and working in the channel.
Patent GB-578058-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to lifting slings
IPC: B66C1/16
Filed: 1944-05-02
Abstract: 578,058. Lifting-slings. STOKES, R. R. (Stokes, A. S.). May 2, 1944, No. 8244. [Class 78 (iv)] A sling comprises a length of chain A, Fig. 1, having a hook B at one end and a hook member D secured to a guide C through which the chain is passed. The member D has arms D<1>, D<2> disposed at different distances from the guide in order that two different quantities of sheets E can be engaged. The guide C is slightly curved in plan and locks frictionally on the chain when the latter is under tension due to the load. In a modification the guide has a slot G<1>, Fig. 3, within which is mounted a plunger H. This plunger has a foot H<4> at one end which bears on the sheets and a roller H<2> at the other over which the chain passes. A spring H<5> tends to hold the plunger away from the sheets.
Patent GB-511549-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in package fabricating machines
IPC: B65B9/04
Filed: 1938-03-17
Abstract: 511,549. Wrapping-machines. FORGROVE MACHINERY CO., Ltd., and BENNETT, W. D. March 17, 1938, No. 8260. [Class 94 (i)] A strip 10 of cellulosic material is fed by a pulley 14 between rollers 15, 20, of which the former is formed with a series of spaced pockets and the latter, which may be heated, with corresponding projections 22. Pockets 23, Fig. 3, are formed in the strip, belts 24, 25 holding the edges on to the roller 15. A feed wheel delivers an article 29 into each recess and a second strip 11 is applied to the first and secured by a pressure roller 21. The pressure roller is heated and is formed with recesses 31 to protect the articles 29 from the heat. The roller 15 is formed with peripheral ribs to prevent inward movement of the edges of the strip and to allow longitudinal movement The roller 21 has corresponding peripheral ribs and transverse grooves to effect the final seal 135 shown in Fig. 3.
Patent GB-569653-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to storage tanks
IPC: E04H7/06
Filed: 1940-05-09
Abstract: 569,653. Tanka. CLAYTON, SON, & CO., Ltd., and STANSFIELD, F. May 9, 1940, No. 8326. [Class 69 (i)] A cylindrical tank, more particularly for underground storage of liquid fuel &c., has a rigid circular bottom and a built-up cylindrical wall supported inside by spaced, vertical stanchions which carry the outer ends of radial, roofsupporting girders which are carried at their inner ends by a central pillar, the roof comprising tangentially arranged and overlapped flat plates carried by and between adjacent radial girders. The bottom comprises an annular series of butt-welded plates 1, Fig. 7, filled in with rows of plates 2 with staggered lap welds 3 at the ends and sides and tapered packing pieces 4, Fig. 8, welded in to three-ply joints. An angle curb 5 is welded to the plates 1, and the bottom wall plates 6 are welded thereto at 7, 8, Fig. 3. Further annular rows of wall plates 6 are lap-welded end to end, and each row is secured inside the row below by welded steel plugs 9, and welds 10, 11, a curb 12 being welded and plugged outside the uppermost row. Spaced inside the wall are stanchions each comprising flange plates 14 of different thicknesses secured to the lower rows of plates 6 by welds, and plugs and a vertical web plate 15 welded to the plates 6, 14, and strengthened by transverse angles 16, vertical angles 17 and channels 19 cut away to accommodate the flange plates 14. Cap plates 17x are welded above each stanchion and carry the outer ends of radial roof girders 18 supported by a central column 20 and preferably by intermediate rows of stanchions 21. Girders 18 support roofing comprising overlapped tangential plates 22, Fig. 9, welded to the girder flanges and each formed with a depending flange 22x which are secured to the webs of the girders by brackets and, in the outer rows, have the lower edge bent outwardly. The roof girders incline sufficiently to secure drainage only.
Patent GB-526468-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to oven-door fastenings
IPC: E05C19/06
Filed: 1939-03-17
Abstract: 526,468. Door fastenings. JACKSON ELECTRIC STOVE CO., Ltd., and WINN, H. J. March 17, 1939, No. 8523. [Class 44] An oven door fastening comprises a bulbous headed stud m adjustably mounted by screwed stem n on the fixed frame o and adapted to engage between two elongated members d (shown as of roller form) mounted in a recess a at the rear face of the door b, and laterally slidable along guide abutment ribs c against which they are retained by cover-plates e secured by screws f. Members d are biassed towards each other by springs i of V-form disposed about bosses j in which the screws f engage and bearing against the ends of the members d as shown. The springs yield sufficiently to allow passage of the head m to fastening or release position by appropriate force applied to the door. Members d are held slightly apart by stops g formed as tongues on the plates e. The stud may be arranged on the door and the members d on frame o, and helical or other springs may replace springs i.