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Patent GB-1127461-A (GB)
Title: Counting and registering system
IPC: B67D7/08
Filed: 1966-01-05
Abstract: 1,127,461. Counting apparatus. VEEDER INDUSTRIES Inc. 5 Jan., 1966 [5 Jan., 1965], No. 483/66. Heading G4D. A system, e.g. for self service petrol stations, for registering one or more multiple order counts comprises means 68, 70 for driving each counter 64, 66, a register 20 corresponding to each counter and means for transferring the total in each counter 64, 66 to the corresponding register and means 72, 74 for resetting the counters. As shown one of three pumps 14 has an associated fuel meter 24 which drives visual volume and cost counters 30, 32, which drive pulse generators 60, 62. Stepping motors 68, 70 fed by the pulse generators 60, 62 index a pair of storage counters 64, 66 simultaneously with visual counters 30, 32. A register system common to the pumps and their associated counters is connected to one set of counters by depressing the corresponding one of three 91-93 switches. Reset motors 72, 74 and connecting relay 96 are energized for one revolution of discs 86, 88 to reset the counters 64, 66 by rotation of their spindles. Each of the wheels 67 of counters 64, 66, in being reset operates an associated switch 100 a number of times corresponding to the count stored, so advancing print wheels 109 in the register. The register may be at a remote position or may be near the pumps to give a printed receipt. In a modification (Fig. 3, not shown) the storage counter is mechanically coupled to the visual cost counter.
Patent GB-396695-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in hook engaging and releasing apparatus for vehicles and other purposes
IPC: B61G3/02
Filed: 1932-01-07
Abstract: 396,695. Couplings for railway and road vehicles ; hooks. FERGUSON, H. J., Strathmore House, Ilford Avenue, Great Crosby, Liverpool. Jan. 7, 1932, No. 486. [Class 103 (v).] Relates to hooks for use in coupling rail or road vehicles, for releasing suspended bodies such as buoys, for attaching ropes or other binding devices, or for similar purposes, and of the kind in which a pivoted hook 1 is adapted to couple either with a similar hook or with a link and to be held in operative position by a trigger member 8, which is retracted to permit the releasing action of the hook. According to the invention the trigger member 8 is designed to co-operate with two spaced parts of the hook 1, one part 15 being in the form of a hook so as to form a positive latching or retaining means and the other part 14 being in the form of a stop or abutment to bear against a corresponding stop as an additional support for the hook in its operative position. Preferably the co-operating elements on the trigger member 8 comprise a hook or latch 12 and a stop 11, the latter entering the space 16 between the parts 14, 15 as the hook swings to its inoperative position and limiting the movement of the hook. In the construction, shown in Fig. 1, the hook 1 is supported between plates 3 pivoted about a bolt 4 on one rail or road vehicle, and is coupled non- automatically with a link 6 on the adjacent vehicle. The trigger member 8 is shown in its latching position, and is swung to its inoperative position about a pivot 9 against the action of a spring 17, thereby allowing the hook 1 to fall by gravity to its position of release. When the hook is used for detaching buoys, an arrangement similar to that shown in Fig. 1 is arranged vertically to swivel about a vertical axis, and the trigger member has an eye for connection of a release cord, while the link or loop 6 is attached to the buoy. Fig. 4 shows an arrangement in which two hooks 1 provided with bevelled faces are adapted to couple automatically, the coupling being effected with the trigger members in their operative positions against the action of springs 17 pressing on the plates 3, the trigger members being moved to inoperative position when the hooks are to be disengaged.
Patent GB-309462-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in vehicle undercarriages
IPC: B62D13/02
Filed: 1928-01-06
Abstract: 309,462. Lloyd, G. E. Jan. 6, 1928. Suspending and mounting bodies; wheels and axles, arrangement of.-A vehicle undercarriage comprises two trucks 2, 3 each mounted on three or more wheels and the front wheel or wheels of each truck being steerable, a main frame 1 connected with each truck by a main turntable, a steering arm 13 extending forwardly from a pivot on the rear truck 3 and arranged to steer the front wheels of this truck, a steering bracket 14 carried by the front truck-frame 2, and connecting means, such as a pin 12, Fig. 7, adapted to allow relative longitudinal motion but to prevent relative lateral motion between the ends of the arm and bracket. In the construction shown the front wheels of each truck are connected to the truck frame by a turntable but Ackerman steering mav be employed. In order to prevent the arm and bracket from projecting beyond the main frame the arm 13, which is pivoted to the axle turntable 4R, and bracket 14 may be offset, as shown in Fig. 8, each being connected by a link to a pin 12, Fig. 2, guided so as to move transversely across the main frame. The pin 12 may be guided by means of two sets of rollers running on a transverse bar. Each main turntable comprises a plate 10<f> or 10<r> fixed to the truck frame and having a circular hole engaged bv flanged rollers 9<f> carried by the main frame. The load is transferred from the main frame to the truck frames by rollers 6<f>, 6<r> carried bv the. main frame and bearing on the turntable plates. The front truck can rock about a transverse shaft 7f on which the rollers 6<f> and members 8f carrying the turntable rollers 9f are pivoted. The rear truck can rock in a similar manner about a longitudinal shaft 7r and may also be arranged to rock about a transverse axis. The rear axle of each truck is mounted eccentrically in a turntable 5F or 5R which can be looked by grips 16 in either of two positions 180‹ apart; so that the distance of this axle from the front axle of the same truck can be varied. When two trucks are coupled together, as shown in Fig. 2, to form a single vehicle the axles of each truck are at the minimum distance apart; when each truck is to be used separately the axles are set at the maximum distance apart. In the latter case the arm 13 and bracket 14, Fig. 8, are reversed on their pivots 20 so as to bring these parts from the offset position shown into the central position shown in broken lines for the arm 13. The grips 16 which secure the rear axle turntable of each truck in either of its working positions may be arranged to allow a tilting movement of the axle relatively to the truck frama about a longitudinal axis, as shown in Fig. 4. For this purpose the grips are provided with knife-edges and rounded portions co-operating with notches in the circular edge 17 of the turntable.
Patent GB-1509901-A (GB)
Title: Hydro-plus fuels
IPC: F02B47/02
Filed: 1974-01-05
Abstract: 1509901 Aqueous hydrocarbon fuel emulsions P J W AYRES 4 April 1975 [5 Jan 1974 28 Aug 1974] 00537/74 and 37579/74 Heading C5G [Also in Divisions Fl and Bl]  A fuel mixture comprising an emulsion of water in hydrocarbon and containing a surfactant is fed to an internal combustion engine by a particular arrangement (see Division Fl). The hydrocarbon may be an octane petroleum fuel, a heavy petroleum fraction or a kerosine petroleum fraction. The surfactant may be a lipophile and/or hydrophile. In an example, a mixture of sorbitan monooleate, polyoxyethylene sorbitan monolaurate, water, and high octane petrol is referred to.
Patent GB-366244-A (GB)
Title: Process for the manufacture of hydroaromatic alcohols
Filed: 1931-01-07
Abstract: Hydroaromatic alcohols containing a preponderance of the trans-form are prepared by the catalytic hydrogenation of the alkali metal salts of aromatic hydroxy compounds in aqueous or alcoholic solution. Examples are given of the conversion of sodium p-cresolate into trans-4-methylcyclohexanol and of the sodium compound of thymol into the racemate of natural menthol by treatment with hydrogen at elevated temperature in an autoclave in the presence of nickel. Other aromatic hydroxy compounds mentioned are the naphthols and oxybenzoic acids.ALSO:Hydroaromatic alcohols containing a preponderance of the trans-form are prepared by the catalytic hydrogenation of the alkali metal salts of aromatic hydroxy compounds in aqueous or alcoholic solution.  Examples are given of the conversion of sodium p-cresolate into trans-4-methylcyclohexanol and of the sodium compound of thymol into the racemate of natural menthol by treatment with hydrogen at elevated temperature in an autoclave in the presence of nickel.  Other aromatic hydroxy compounds mentioned are the naphthols and oxybenzoic acids.  Reference is also made to the phenylurethane of trans-4-methylcyclohexanol.
Patent GB-481777-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to the manufacture and production of artificial filaments and apparatus therefor
IPC: D02J1/22
Filed: 1937-01-08
Abstract: <PICT:0481777/IV/1> Artificial filaments and the like are produced by extruding viscous material, such as viscose, into a precipitating bath and leading the thread or bundle of threads from the nozzles over a guide, round two or more godets successively, each of which is rotating with a greater peripheral speed than the previous one, and then into a centrifugal box or other collecting device.  One or more of the godets is partly immersed in a hot liquid; those godets so immersed are substantially cylindrical for only a portion of their length and conical or tapered for the remainder, and they are so arranged that at least a part of the conical or tapered portion projects from the surface of the hot liquid.  Thus in the Figure, viscous material is extruded from a nozzle 2 into a coagulating bath 3, and the bundle of filaments 4 so formed is led over the guide 5 to the cylindrical part 13 of the rotating godet 7 round which it is passed twice, the guide 8 being used for this purpose; from the godet 7, which is partly immersed in hot water, &c., the filaments are passed twice round the second godet 10 with its accompanying guide 9, which is rotating at a greater peripheral speed than the godet 7, to a collecting box 11.  At starting, the operator then passes the filaments round the conical portion 4 of the godet 7, such portion being clear of the hot liquid.
Patent GB-1043210-A (GB)
Title: Manufacture of plastics material articles
Inventor: WEBB RONALD RICHARD
IPC: E05B1/00
Filed: 1963-01-05
Abstract: 1,043,210. Laminates. HOWARD CLAY. TON-WRIGHT Ltd. Feb. 25, 1964 [Jan. 5, 1963], No. 615/63. Headings B5A and B5N. An article, e.g. an automobile door handle, comprises an outer skin 16 of metal foil or metallized foil coated with a transparent or translucent plastics material, e.g. cellulose acetate butyrate; and an inner core 19 of rigid plastics material, e.g. cellulose acetate butyrate or phenolic resin. Nylon or " Delrin " may also be used and the core may incorporate a metallic insert 12. As shown, a sheet of metal foil 17 is coated on both sides with transparent plastics 18 and a rough preform of the door handle is made therewith and inserted into a mould the interior surface of which is shaped to define exactly the finished handle. Plastics material 19 for the inner core is charged into the mould and moulded under heat and pressure to form the door handle. Suitable adhesive may be applied to the inner surface of the outer skin or this may be shaped to form a mechanical key with the inner core. The invention may also be applied to a furniture castor.
Patent GB-665366-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to heat exchangers
IPC: F28F3/12
Filed: 1949-01-11
Abstract: 665,366. Cooling plates; radiators for heating buildings, ships and vehicles. BIRDS EYE (HOLDINGS), Ltd. Jan. 11. 1949 [Jan. 20, 1948], No. 720/49. Classes 29 and 64(ii) A flat heat exchanger, e.g. for use as a radiator for central heating or in a refrigerator, cold store or an installation for freezing goods under light pressure between such heat exchangers, is formed from two metal sheets 3, 4, of which at least one is corrugated, in juxtaposition to form a number of channels 5 for the passage of a heating or cooling fluid, the channels constituting a chamber whose sides are in thermal contact with two parallel plates 1, 2, there being a vacuum present or maintained in the spaces 10 between the sheets 3, 4 and plates 1, 2 to draw these members into close contact. The sheets 3, 4, stamped from sheet 1.5 m.m. thick, are secured together by electric welding 8 at their end flanges 12 and where there are distance pieces 9 which are arranged at spaced intervals between their adjacent crests. The medium flows, from a perforated distributer 6 extending along an end channel, transversely across the channels 5 and between the corrugation crests to a discharge conduit 7, each open end of the channels, and incidentally the spaces 10, being closed by a separate small plate if the channels extend the full width of the sheets. The plates 1, 2 are secured to the chamber by welding at the edges 11 and held in contact therewith by the vacuum applied by a valve passing through one of the small plates closing a space 10. The sheets 3, 4 may be arranged for the medium to flow longitudinally through the channels 5, the distance pieces 9 being omitted and the sheets joined by seam welds along the crests and edges. A corrugated sheet, for example, when secured to a similar sheet may form a series of channels connecting two gutters or headers. The channels 5 may also be interconnected for flow in series in a sinuous path. The Specification as open to inspection under Sect. 91, describes also a chamber formed from a single corrugated sheet and channels of zig-zag or spiral form. This subject-matter does not appear in the Specification as accepted.
Patent GB-277607-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in draft couplings for tractors and trailers
IPC: B60D1/04
Filed: 1927-01-10
Abstract: 277,607. Clark Tructractor Co., (Assignees of Burrows, R. J.). Sept. 17, 1926, [Convention date]. Couplings for road vehicles.-A draft bar 11 pivoted to a bracket 35 clamped to one of the vehicles is formed with a hook-like projection 13. A hoop 14 pivoted to a bracket secured to the other vehicle rides up the face 13<a> of the part 13 when the vehicles approach one another. The bar 11 is guided into coupling position by a V- shaped part 25b..
Patent GB-1076981-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in the manufacture of lead 2:4-dinitroresorcinate
Inventor: TAYLOR GEORGE WILLIAM CHARLES
IPC: C07C201/12
Filed: 1963-01-07
Abstract: A process for the manufacture of normal lead 2:4-dinitroresorcinate in a granular free-flowing form comprises interacting at an elevated temperature, e.g. 50-100 DEG  C. a solution containing 2:4-dinitroresorcinol and sufficient alkali, e.g. sodium or potassium or magnesium hydroxide to give a pH value between about 3.3 and 6.6 with a solution containing a quantity of a soluble lead, less than the stoichiometric quantity to convert the 2:4-dinitroresorcinol salt, to normal lead 2:4-dinitroresorcinate, whereby the latter is precipitated as a mixture of colloidal and crystalline forms, the colloidal form being present in small proportion and acting as a binder for the crystalline form.  Examples are given.
Patent GB-966519-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to insulating coatings on metals
Inventor: KENNEDY ANGUS GEORGE
IPC: H02K15/12
Filed: 1960-01-08
Abstract: A selected area of a body is coated with a suitable plastics material by protecting the remaining area of its surface with a removable mask in the form of a jig, and immersing the masked body in a fluidized bed of particles of the plastics material, the body being heated to a selected temperature sufficient to cause the particles adjacent the selected area to coalesce and form the layer.  The mask is so dimensioned that ingress of the plastics material between the opposed faces of the mask and the body is prevented; the clearance gap at the edges of the mask should not exceed 0,005 inch.  The body may be heated before the mask is applied thereto, and the selected area of the body may be pre-coated with an insulating varnish to improve adhesion of the plastics material, which may be, e.g., polyethylene, polystyrene, a polyamide or a thermosetting epoxy resin.  The invention is described as applied to rotors and stators for dynamo-electric machines, the mask consisting of outer and inner rings supported by diametral die members provided with pins for supporting the article to be coated away from such members. Specifications 759,214 and 916,099 are referred to.
Patent GB-303805-A (GB)
IPC: G01V7/10
Filed: 1929-01-09
Abstract: 303,805. Jenny, W. P. Jan. 9, 1928, [Convention date]. Gravity, measuring force of.-An E÷tv÷s torsion-balance is mounted on a support permitting it to be continuously rotated in azimuth and at the same time continuously raised or lowered. The plate 1 on which the balance is mounted is carried by an externally-threaded tube 2 engaging in an internally-threaded tube 4 which is mounted in a column 5 secured to a base 6. A bevel wheel 10 on the tube 4 gears with a pinion 11 which can be turned by a wrench. A pawl 14 engages ratchet teeth 15 on the wheel 10 so as to permit rotation of the latter in one direction only. Mounted coaxially with the tubes 2, 4 is a shaft 16 having longitudinal grooves 17 with which engage projections on a collar 18 carried bv the tube 2. The shaft 16 is connected by gearing 20 - - 24 to a shaft 25 which is connected to the axis of a pendulum 31. In operating the device, the pendulum 31 being stationary, the wheel) 11 is turned and the tube 4 acts as a nut to the tube 2 which consequently moves upwards, the collar 18 sliding along the slots 17 until it reaches their highest point. The pendulum 31 is then started and the consequent rotation of the shaft 16 is imparted by the collar 18 to the tube 2 which consequently causes the plate 1 to rotate in azimuth and at the same time to move downwardly through the tube 4, rotation of the latter being prevented by the pawl 14.
Patent GB-764117-A (GB)
Title: A sound recording arrangement having means for controlling the distance between the centres of sound tracts
IPC: G10K1/08
Filed: 1955-01-11
Abstract: 764,117. Sound recording apparatus. TELDEC SCHALLPLATTEN GES. Jan. 11. 1955 [Jan. 21, 1954], No. 864/55. Class 40 (2). The Specification relates to a sound recording apparatus of the kind described in Specification 764,116 and the main claim is directed to the use, already described in the above Specification of one motor VM for producing the normal radial advance of the recording member Ao and a control motor StM for varying the radial advance, said motor StM being coupled to motor VM through a differential gear D, so that the net radial advance corresponds to the algebraic sum of the movement of the motors. The normal advance motor VM drives the feed screw Sp through a wormgear Sch1, a friction clutch R, the differential gear D and a variable gear U, while the control motor StM drives the housing of differential gear D through a wormgear Sch2. The friction clutch R enables the radial advance to be operated by hand so that run-in and run-off grooves may be cut, while the variable gear U enables records of different speeds to be made. Details are given in the Specification of the function of rectifiers G3 and G4, filters F1 and F2, differentiating members D1 and D2, and rectifiers G3 and G4, already referred to in the above mentioned Specification. Fig. 5 shows the circuit arrangement, the function of which is described with reference to Fig. 3. In Fig. 3, diagram a indicates a frequency/time voltage, diagram b the two halves of the envelope obtained by rectification in rectifiers G1 and G2, diagram c the pulses obtained by members D1 and D2, while diagram d shows the result when the pulses of unwanted polarity are suppressed by rectifiers G3 and G4. Fig. 4 shows a modification in which the main winding of a Ferraris motor used for the control drive, instead of being fed from the mains, is fed with the modulated alternating voltages with a phase shift in relation to the voltages supplied to the auxiliary windings. To avoid fluctuations, an eddy current brake may be applied by means of a D.C. voltage source Q through resistance W3.
Patent GB-939580-A (GB)
Title: Method for the production of hollow bodies of thermoplastic material
IPC: B29C65/06
Filed: 1960-01-13
Abstract: 939,580. Seaming non-metallic sheet. M. SCHMIDT. Jan. 13, 1960 [July 14, 1959], No. 881/62. Divided out of 939,579. Class 42 (1). A method of manufacturing thin-walled hollow bodies of thermo-plastic synthetic material by placing together two dish-shaped parts and welding them together at the contact faces of their edges by means of frictional heat by rotating one part and pressing it on the other, is characterized in that the edge of one of the dishshaped parts before the welding is moistened with a liquid. The liquid is preferably oil. In the apparatus shown, a strip 1 of thermoplastic material in which individual dish-shaped parts 2 have been formed, is separated into individual dish-shaped parts by stamping-out apparatus 3, 4, 5. One dish-shaped part is then secured in the upper part 6 while another is held in the lower part 7 which is associated with a slipping clutch. The part 6 is set in rapid motion by means of motor 8 and then lowered so that the edges of the two dish-shaped parts rub on each other. Before this happens one of the edges is wiped with a liquid to act as a lubricant. Sufficient heat is developed by the edges rubbing together to cause the parts to weld together. When this happens the slipping clutch yields and the two parts rotate together. A suction transfer device 9 transfers the welded-together parts to a stamp 10 which cleans off the projecting edges and the hollow body may be ejected from the stamp 10 by compressed air.
Patent GB-719855-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to electric circuit breakers of the oil immersed type
Inventor: UPTON ARTHUR
IPC: H01H1/38
Filed: 1951-01-12
Abstract: 719,855. Oil-blast switches. JOHNSON & PHILLIPS, Ltd. April 15, 1952 [Jan. 12, 1951], No. 924/51. Class 38(5) An oil-immersed circuit-breaker has a fixed contact A comprising component contacts 5, 6, 7 resiliently mounted on a conducting rod 1, and a movable contact B comprising a "poker" 12 mounted on an arm 13 pivoted at 14 to the lower end 15 of a conducting rod 2. The contact 12 is of rectangular section and first engages contacts 5 which are drawn together by magnetic forces to grip contact 12 which then engages contacts 6 and, finally, 7. Contact A is arranged in a pressure chamber 16 communicating with an insulating box 17 only through an aperture 20 which is normally closed by contact 12 so that the blast only occurs when the contact 12 clears it, the blast venting through a side port 23. The electrical connection to arm 13 through pivot 14 is augmented by a flexible connection 47 and by a spring-urged contact 49 co-operating with a fixed contact 48. The breaker may comprise three phases simultaneously operable by mechanism 40 over links 35 and rods 31. Specifications 719,856 and 719,857 are referred to.