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Patent GB-609606-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to ordnance
IPC: F41A21/14
Filed: 1946-03-18
Abstract: 609,606. Ordnance. BURNEY, Sir C. D. March 18, 1946, No. 8378. [Class 92 (ii)] A breech-loaded gun has one or more propellant chambers for the propellant charge or charges disposed by the side of and axially parallel with the projectile chamber, the rear portion of such lateral chambers being connected with a breech-chamber space behind the projectile, and such lateral chambers being closed at one end by breech-blocks. In the construction shown, three breech openings, fitted with breech-blocks 8 are provided, the centre one being for the insertion .of the projectile 3 into the chamber 2 of the barrel 1, and the outer two for the insertion of propellant charges into chambers 5 having permanently closed forward ends. The breech-blocks, which have interrupted threads, are all mounted on a carrier 9 which has rollers 10 running on guides 11, and the three breech-blocks may be geared together so that they may be opened and closed simultaneously. In a modification, the chambers 5 are not screwed into position as shown, but are formed integral with the barrel chamber, and these chambers have their breech-blocks mounted at their forward ends. The breech-blocks for the propellant charges and the main breech-block may be connected in series with a battery in a firing circuit as in Specification 594,577.
Patent GB-235672-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to carburettors
IPC: F02M17/28
Filed: 1924-04-03
Abstract: 235,672. Booth, J. H. April 3, 1924. Surface carburettors.-In a carburettor for an internal-combustion engine, in which the air intake is provided with an annular porous tube a dipping into a sump g containing liquid fuel, the tube a is formed with a tapered base to cooperate with a similarly shaped cone n. The latter is moved relatively to the porous tubes by a spring- controlled member m moving in a guide l and operated by a Bowden wire o or by the suction of the engine. Secondary air is admitted through an intake q having a revolving cover r with apertures s. The porous material may be recessed to receive wicks v. The porous tube may be mounted horizontally and several tubes may be used in one carburettor. Specification 207,217, [Class 55 (ii), Gas manufacture &c.], is referred to.
Patent GB-915607-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to travelling wave tubes
IPC: H01J23/087
Filed: 1961-03-08
Abstract: 915,607. Travelling-wave tubes. COMPAGNIE GENERALE DE TELEGRAPHIE SANS FIL. March 8, 1961 [March 29, 1960], No. 8425/61. Class 39 (1). In an M-type travelling-wave tube additional polepieces 13 are provided within the enclosure, secured to the lateral side walls, so that the strength of the magnetic field is relatively weak at least in the region of the collector 9 in order to aid the collection of the beam without necessitating variation of the electric field. The magnetic field may also be relatively weak in the region of the cathode 8. Additional polepieces may also be attached to the external main polepieces and alternatively, or in addition, an external field weakening shunt may be provided over the region including the cathode 8 and collector 9. The tube may be linear instead of circular.
Patent GB-1490267-A (GB)
Title: End blocks for computer tubes
IPC: F16C13/00
Filed: 1976-01-22
Abstract: 1490267 Rollers E REVELL & SONS Ltd 22 Jan 1976 [28 Feb 1975] 8454/75 Heading F2U An end block for a tube to be used as a core for supporting a roll of material in a computer comprises a ring 10 having an end 11 with depressions 15 for receiving adhesive when inserted into the tube. The ring may be made of plastics and slots 13 provided for engagement by driving dogs of the computer.
Patent GB-277876-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in binocular or astatic inductances and transformers
IPC: H01F27/00
Filed: 1927-03-29
Abstract: 277,876. Wildy, E. L., and London Electric Wire Co. & Smiths, Ltd. . March 29, 1927. Transformers.-A binocular or a static inductance or transformer comprises a pair of tubular formers a, b carrying the windings, and held between a recessed cover c and a recessed base-plate d by screws e passing through the cover and formers and screwing into the baseplate. The base-plate is of insulating material and carries the plug terminals g. A knob f is mounted on the cover.
Patent GB-662868-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in hydraulic pumps
IPC: F04B49/24
Filed: 1949-03-31
Abstract: 662,868. Reciprocating pumps. BEACHAM HYDRAULIC CO., Ltd., and BEACHAM, T. E. March 29, 1950 [March 31, 1949]. No. 8701/49. Class 102 (i). A swashplate pump of the type described in Specification 646,371 is combined with a low pressure pump shown in Fig. 1 as a gear pump 19, 20, the gear 19 being driven through a coupling 39 from an extension 7 of the shaft in which the swash plate 2 is mounted. Both pumps have a common inlet 12 and a common outlet 23 and a regulating valve 26 is provided to by-pass the delivery of the low pressure pump when the common delivery pressure exceeds a predetermined value. The outlet 21 of the gear pump is connected to the outlet 23 through a non-return valve 22 and'also to the chamber 24 which communicates with the suction 12 through the valve 26 and chamber 25. As the delivery pressure of the gear pump rises, the valve 26 is raised against the pressure of the spring 29 and when the common outlet pressure reaches the predetermined value, it acts through pipe 31 to raise the piston 33 and fully open the valve 26 so that the gear pump operates against a very low back pressure.
Patent GB-433271-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to time indicators for washing machines
IPC: D06F34/32
Filed: 1935-03-21
Abstract: 433,271. Indicating-apparatus. TULLIS, Ltd., D. & J., and TULLIS, A. F., Kilbowie Iron Works, Clydebank, and BROTHERSTONE, W., West Thorpe, Newark Street, Greenock, Renfrewshire. March 21, 1935, No. 8800. [Class 106 (iv)] [See also Group VIII] The stage reached in a cycle of washing operations is indicated by the passage of a pointer 7 driven from the washing-machine over a scale 1 .... 6 graduated according to the operations forming the cycle. At the end of each operation the pointer engages contacts 17 to complete an electric circuit to light a lamp 8. A boss 14 on the pointer traverses a square guide 13 and is provided with a nut member 15 engaging a screw 9 driven from the machine through a pawl and ratchet 10. At the upper limit of travel of the pointer the nut may be released by a handle 16 and the pointer returns to zero position under gravity.
Patent GB-366333-A (GB)
Title: Grinding and stropping apparatus for razor blades
IPC: B24D15/08
Filed: 1931-03-23
Abstract: 366,333. Sharpening razors. GOLTL, A. STEINNER-, 88A, Schonbrunnerstrasse, Vienna. March 23, 1931, No. 8873. Convention date, Dec. 10, 1930. [Class 60.] Apparatus for sharpening razor blades consists of a box a in which is mounted a magnetized s t e e l spindle b driven by hand or power and having its upper end of cone shape. The blade to be sharpened is mounted on a carrier c of magnetic material, which rests on the lid of the box with its edge in contact with the spindle, the edge of the blade resting on the conical surface of the spindle ; the rotation of the spindle causes the carrier and the blade to move, the movement of the blade edge over the conical surface sharpening the blade, which also becomes magnetized. The conical end of the spindle may be recessed to receive a conical grinding-member.
Patent GB-1537017-A (GB)
Title: Ink roller vibrator mechanism
IPC: B41F31/15
Filed: 1977-03-03
Abstract: 1537017 Reciprocating rollers in inking systems ROCKWELL INTERNATIONAL CORP 3 March 1977 [30 April 1976] 08940/77 Heading B6C A device for reciprocating a roller or rollers in an inking system comprises a drive shaft 31 driven in synchronism with the printing press, a first eccentric 45 telescoped on to the shaft and connected thereto for positive rotation therewith but angularly adjustable thereabout; a second eccentric 58 telescoped over the first and connected to the drive shaft by means 59- 64, effective to positively rotate it with the shaft but allow angular and radial movement of the second eccentric upon adjustment of the first eccentric; and stop means 66, 74 surrounding the second eccentric and connected to the reciprocable roller or rollers. First eccentric 45 may be clamped to the shaft 31 by plate 54 acting against shoulder 51 at the end of sleeve 44, the other end coating with shoulder 47 on shaft 31. Release of plate 54 by loosening nut 49 allows rotation of sleeve 44, e.g. by a tool engaging axial slots 56 to effect adjustment. As shown, the strap means 66 reciprocates roller 18, and strap means 74 reciprocates rollers 19, 20 by bell crank 76.
Patent GB-1412890-A (GB)
IPC: B01D1/18
Filed: 1973-02-23
Abstract: 1412890 Magnetic powders GENERAL ELECTRIC CO 23 Feb 1973 [24 Feb 1972] 8950/73 Heading C1A [Also in Division B1] A slurry of magnetic powder is dried to form agglomerates in which the particles are magnetically aligned by spraying the slurry from 2 upwardly through magnetic fields formed by electromagnets 4 and 5 whilst hot gas from 6 passes down through chamber 1. The magnetic powder may comprise barium or strontium ferrite, e.g. BaFe 12 O 19 , cobalt rare earth or alnico powder. The formed agglomerates may then be pressed in an A.C./D.C. field to form magnets.
Patent GB-880300-A (GB)
Title: Process for the splitting of bis-(hydroxyphenyl)-alkanes or -cycloalkanes by hydrogenation
IPC: C07C37/52
Filed: 1959-03-16
Abstract: In a process for the preparation of phenols comprising splitting by hydrogenation bis-(hydroxyphenyl)-alkanes or cycloalkanes or by-products obtained in the production of said bis-(hydroxyphenyl)-alkanes or -cycloalkanes by the condensation of aldehydes and ketones with phenols in the presence of acid catalysts, the alkane, cycloalkane or by-product in the form of vapour and in admixture with hydrogen is passed at an elevated temperature over a catalyst containing nickel sulphide, chromium sesquioxide and aluminium oxide and optionally copper, tungsten and/or molybdenum sulphide.  The reaction mixture may also contain water vapour. Starting materials specified include bis (hydroxyphenyl)-methane, -ethane, -propane and -butane.  In examples: 4-Ethyl-phenol and phenol are obtained from 1,1-bis-(4-hydroxyphenyl) ethane (1); 4-isopropyl phenol and phenol from 2,2-bis-(4-hydroxyphenyl)-propane (2); 4-isopropyl phenol, phenol, a high boiling phenolic compound and a resinous residue are obtained from by-products obtained in the production of 2,2-bis-(hydroxyphenyl)-propane (3) and 4-isobutyl phenol and phenol are obtained from 2,2-bis-(4-hydroxyphenol)-butane (4).
Patent GB-687076-A (GB)
Title: Apparatus for fluid treatment of yarn, ribbons and shaped products of indefinite length
IPC: D01D10/04
Filed: 1950-04-13
Abstract: <PICT:0687076/IV (a)/1> Running lengths of artificial yarns, ribbons and like products prepared from materials such as vinyl polymers, e.g. acrylonitrile, polyamides, cellulose derivatives, and regenerated cellulose, are subjected to treatment with a fluid (e.g. to treatment with a hot plasticizer such as steam during a stretching operation, or to treatment with air, water, or formaldehyde vapour, or such substances as alcohols or ketones in liquid or vapour form) by passing them through a vessel comprising an inlet tube or tubes in one end thereof and having an extension therewithin; a cell passage or passages mounted within the vessel so as to be slidably super-imposed over the extension; an outlet or outlets at the other end of the vessel co-operating with the inlet(s) and the passage(s); restraining means for keeping said passage(s) in the vessel and means for controlling the flow of fluid in the passage(s).  The apparatus shown provides inter alia means for placing the passages in inoperative position and initially feeding yarn therethrough either collectively, or individually without interfering with the fluid treatment in the remaining passages: it comprises a cell-body 1, for containing the fluid under pressure, closed by plates 2 and 3 attached to aspiration chambers 5 and 7 both of which are open at one end and to the other end of which suction is applied; each inlet tube 15 tapers to a tube 18 over which fits the tapered entrance end of a slidably supported cell tube 19, the other end of which is joined to or integral with an outlet tube 16 which is free to slide in the plate 3.  In order that the initial feeding of a yarn may be effected, a tube 19 is moved by means of an inserted suction tube 26 into the position in which the upper tube is shown so that a valve seat 25 contacts a valve seat 24 to isolate the cell passage from the fluid; a tube 27 positioned by bushings 28 is extended into the tube 15 so that the tubes 27, 15, 19, 16 and 26 form a continuous closed passage.  The yarn treatment is initiated by withdrawing the tube 26, retracting the tube 27, and opening the fluid port to the cell passage by retracting the tubes 19, 16, into the position in which the lower tube is shown.  An auxiliary valve seating for the end of the tube 27 is provided on the plate 2 by a recess 32 so that the tube 15 may be removed for cleaning or replacement without interrupting the treatment in adjacent passages.
Patent GB-875384-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to dispensing devices
Inventor: CLARK RONALD
IPC: B65D83/14
Filed: 1957-03-20
Abstract: 875,384. Dispensing liquids by gaseous pressure. UNILEVER Ltd. March 18, 1958 [March 20,1957], No. 9194/57. Class 102(2). A dispensing device comprises a container 1, provided wirh the usual outlet valve 2 and dip tube 3, containing the product 11 to be dispensed. A receptacle 6 containing the volatile liquid propellant 12 is provided with a tube 8 having inlet and outlet orifices 10, 9 of capillary size such that the orifice 10 is above the liquid level of the propellant for all positions of the container 1. The propellant vapour passes from the receptacle to the container through the orifices and the tube 8 constitutes an expansion chamber to prevent liquid propellant passing to the container. The receptacle may be arranged outside the container.
Patent GB-1496127-A (GB)
Title: Device for moistening air flowing through a space
IPC: F24F6/04
Filed: 1976-03-08
Abstract: 1496127 Moistening gas SVENSKA FLAKTFABRIKEN AB 8 March 1976 [11 March 1975] 09212/76 Heading B1R A device for moistening gas comprises a chamber and means for supplying gas to be moistened and water to the chamber, wherein in the chamber is a contact body comprising a plurality of parallel corrugated plates 1 separated by spacers 2, each fold in the plates having a concave valley whose radius of curvature is small enough to allow retention of water therein as a film by capillary action. Preferably the folds are vertical and the gas enters horizontally in direction 3. The plates are wetted from pipes 6.
Patent GB-780709-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to filters for removing suspended particles from gases
Inventor: GREEN HENRY LIONEL
IPC: B01D39/14
Filed: 1953-04-02
Abstract: 780,709. Filtering gases. MINISTER OF SUPPLY. June 28, 1954 [April 2, 1953], No. 9235/53. Class 8(2). A filter element of high filtering efficiency and low resistance to gas flow, prepared from fibrous material, comprises fibres of thermoplastic material of a few microns diameter bonded into a coherent form by heat and limited pressure, the heating being so controlled that the essential fineness of the fibres is not destroyed and they are only lightly sealed together at points of contact. The filter may comprise fine fibres of polystyrene, polythene or nylon of about 3 microns diameter, or it may comprise a mixture of coarse thermoplastic fibres such as cellulose acetate with fine fibres such as asbestos. Specification 780,710 [Group VI] is referred to.
Patent GB-459040-A (GB)
Title: Soap preparations
IPC: C11D10/04
Filed: 1935-03-25
Abstract: Soap preparations contain a soap and a water-soluble salt of an aliphatic carboxylic acid containing an aliphatic radical of at least 10 carbon atoms which is linked to the carboxyl group through at least one atom of the group nitrogen, oxygen and sulphur, but not through two or more different atoms of the group. Specified salts are the alkali salts of laurylpropylamino-acetic acid, of oleylsarcoside, of the sarcoside of palm nut oil fatty acid, of the carboxylic acid obtained by reacting 1 mol. of docecylamine with 1 mol. of maleic acid anhydride, and of heptadecylamino-acetic, hexadecyloxy-acetic and dodecylmercaptoacetic acids.  Inorganic salts, albuminous substances, vegetable gums, starch, glycerine and odoriferous substances may be added.  According to an example, a soap preparation is made by mixing the soda soap of palm nut oil fatty acid with the sodium salt of the sarcoside obtained by condensing oleic acid chloride with sarcosine in alkaline solution.  According to the Specification as open to inspection under Sect. 91, the water-soluble salt used may be that of any aliphatic carboxylic acid which contains at least 10 carbon atoms and in which there is at least one nitrogen, oxygen or sulphur atom between the radical carrying the carboxyl group and the aliphatic radical.  The carboxylic acid obtained by reacting a -stearyl-b -diethylethylenediamine with monochloracetic acid is specified.  Further, the alkali salts of stearyl-benzyl-aminopropionic, dodecylmethylamino-acetic, dodecylmenaphthylamino - acetic and dodecylphenylamino - acetic acids, and of the acids of the formulae C12H25.O.C2H4.O.CH2.COOH, and <FORM:0459040/III/1> , where R is the radical of hardened fish oil, are specified. Alkali salts of dodecylaminobenzoic acid and of the semi-amide obtained by reacting dodecylmethylamine with phthalic anhydride are also mentioned.  This subject-matter does not appear in the Specification as accepted.  Reference has been directed by the Comptroller to Specification 421,532.
Patent GB-1073043-A (GB)
Title: Counting circuit
IPC: H03K21/02
Filed: 1965-03-04
Abstract: 1,073,043. Counting apparatus. LABORATORY FOR ELECTRONICS Inc. March 4, 1965 [March 6, 1964], No. 9269/65. Heading G4D. [Also in Division H3] Counting apparatus for road vehicles comprises a counter A supplied with input, pulses from a plurality of vehicle detectors 10, 20 &c., a second similar counter B, a comparator 159 which supplies an output whenever the counts stored in A and B differ, and a multivibrator 175 which operates in response to an output from the comparator and supplies pulses to the counter B and to an output circuit 176. In this way input pulses from the vehicle detectors, which may succeed each other very rapidly, are in effect slowed down to the frequency of multivibrator 175 which is suitable for feeding an external recorder or counter. The counters A and B may be binary counters each comprising three flip-flops which are connected as shown to AND gates 160-165 in the comparator. The AND gates feed OR gates 166- 168 feeding a NOR gate 172 the output of which releases a clamp 174 which inhibits the oscillation of multivibrator 175. If desired a switch 151 may be operated to include a 2 : 1 ratio scaling flip-flop 150 between the detectors and the input of counter A; a corresponding pulse doubling circuit may be associated with the output of multivibrator 175 to restore the final count to its true value.
Patent GB-1217462-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to dry cells
IPC: H01M6/06
Filed: 1969-02-21
Abstract: 1,217,462. Dry cell. HITACHI MAXELL Ltd. 21 Feb., 1969 [23 Feb., 1968], No. 9494/69. Heading H1B. In a LeclanchÚ type dry cell the electrolyte comprises an aqueous solution of ZnCl 2 , and NH 4 Cl, the concentration of ZnCl 2  being not less than 17% by weight and that of NH 4 Cl being not more than 10% by weight. In the examples a depolarizer mix of MnO 2  acetylene black, and part of the electrolyte is shaped to a cylindrical form and inserted in a zinc can which acts as anode. The rest of the electrolyte is formed into a paste with wheat starch and fills the space between the mix and the zinc can. The zinc can may be coated with a mixture of wheat starch and polyvinyl acetate and then lined with kraft paper.
Patent GB-589540-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to cistern barometers
IPC: G01L7/18
Filed: 1941-07-28
Abstract: 589,540. Barometers. SCHOUTE, C. July 28, 1941, No. 9578. [Class 106 (ii)] A cistern barometer is compensated for temperature errors by introducing into the closed space 3, above the level of the mercury, a gas, such as neon, the pressure p of which, at a predetermined value P of atmospheric pressure, is equal 273a / 1+(273+t)a P + A/D, in which p 1+(273+t)a D and P are measured in cm. of mercury at 0‹ C., t is the temperature value in ‹C. at which the indication of the barometer must be equal to the indication thereof at 0‹ C., and A, D, and a represent respectively the quantity of mercury in cubic cm., the inner area of the cistern 2 less the inner area of the tube 1 in square cm., and the coefficient of expansion of the mercury.
Patent GB-1304451-A (GB)
IPC: B24B11/02
Filed: 1970-02-27
Abstract: 1304451 Grinding balls VYZKUMNY USTAV STROJIRENSKE TECHNOLOGIE A EKONOMIKY 27 Feb 1970 [28 Feb 1969] 9635/70 Heading B2D A method of grinding, lapping or superfinishing ball bearings 3 comprises-placing a ball into a working tool in which after the beginning of a working operation the ball is rotated about one of its axes by a driving moment bigger than a resistance moment, the driving moment is interrupted so that the ball is displaced by the resistance moment, and the driving moment is again activated to rotate the ball about another of its axes. In apparatus for carrying out the method, a number of balls 3 are located in seats 2 in a disc 1 which is carried by a shaft 4 connected by gearing 5, 6 to a reversible motor 7. The shaft is also axially movable by a piston-and-cylinder device 9, 10 between an operative position, as shown and a withdrawn position, determined by abutment of the disc with stops 20, which permits removal of the disc for loading and unloading. The driving mechanism for the balls consists of an endless belt 11 which is driven over rollers 14 by an electric motor 15 and carries flexible resilient boards 12 on its outer surface, the lower run of the belt being backed by a board 13. In operation, the balls are dusted with abrasive material and the shaft 4 and disc raised to the operative position. The motors 7 and 15 are started so that the disc rotates and the boards 12 cause intermittent rotation of the balls about different axes. The motor 7 may be reversed to achieve uniform working of the balls. In another embodiment, the belt 11 is fully covered by the boards and the shaft and disc lowered and raised to effect the intermittent rotation under the control of a timer 17.
Patent GB-908634-A (GB)
Title: Pharmaceutical compositions containing pararosaniline or derivatives thereof
IPC: C09B11/12
Filed: 1960-03-18
Abstract: Orally administrable therapeutic compositions in dosage unit form comprise a pharmaceutical carrier and, as active ingredient, pararosaniline or a salt thereof with a mineral acid or with a p monobasic organic acid containing a single carboxyl or sulphonic acid group.  Suitable salts are the hydrochloride (parafusehin), hydrobromide, hydroiodide, acetate, sulphate, palmitate, stearate, salicylate, hydroxynaphthoate and 2-hydroxy-6-naphthalene sulphonate, the compositions preferably containing from 50 to 500 mg. of pararosaniline per dosage unit, e.g. as tablets, powders, capsules, solutions, suspensions and enterically coated forms comprising conventional solid and liquid carriers, diluents, preservatives and flavouring agents.