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Patent GB-1440516-A (GB)
Title: Apparatus for dispensing carbonated beverages
IPC: G01F11/22
Filed: 1973-06-19
Abstract: 1440516 Aerating liquids J-P D'AUBREBY 19 June 1973 [20 June 1973 [13 March 1973] 29015/73 Heading B1C Apparatus for dispensing a carbonated beverage comprises a carbonator 1 and a decompression chamber 15 connected at top and bottom through valves 21, 18 respectively. In operation the valves 18, 22 are first closed and valve 21 opened to pressurise the chamber 15 with carbon dioxide. Valve 21 is then closed and valve 18 opened; the pressure in chamber 15 falls slowly by venting through the calibrated restriction 23, and it fills with carbonated water through conduit 16. Valve 22 is then opened to reduce the pressure to atmospheric in chamber 15, which discharges by gravity through valve 25 into receptacle 26; at the same time valve 28 is opened for a predetermined time to dispense a metered quantity of flavouring concentrate. The valves are operated electrically, mechanically or pneumatically by a programme controller. The carbonator, Fig. 4 has a water injection nozzle 8 and a venturi 9 which induce carbon dioxide into the water flow. The mixture is ejected through apertures 13, 13' as jets which impinge on the plate 14 and breaks up into droplets thus increasing the contact surface of the liquid with the carbon dioxide atmosphere. The decompression chamber 15 may have retractable base and walls (30, 31, 31' Figs. 5-7, not shown) so that the receptacle may be inserted into it: there is a plunger (43) which is withdrawn when the receptacle is filled with water, to make room for the addition of flavouring concentrate. In a modification, Fig. 8 (not shown) the plunger is dispensed with, the venting outlet being arranged at a level at which it is closed by the carbonated water while there is still room for the addition of concentrate.  In another embodiment, there is a plurality of decompression chambers formed by axial bores (102-107, Figs. 9-11 not shown) in a rotatable barrel (101) and cooperating with supply and discharge conduits and ports (112, 115 and 113, 116) in end covers (109, 110); the throttling and venting restrictions are provided (by capillary bores (108). The end caps may be replaced by an annular stator surrounding the barrel (see Figs. 14-16, not shown). In a further embodiment, the plurality of decompression chambers is formed by transverse bores in a piston (130, Figs 12 and 13, not shown) slidable in a cleeve (131).
Patent GB-307520-A (GB)
Title: Improved apparatus for applying colouring substances or the like in lines or stripes
IPC: B44D3/22
Filed: 1927-10-31
Abstract: 307,520. Watson, L. G. Oct. 31, 1927. Coating-appliances, hand. - Apparatus for applying lines or stripes of colouring-materials such as lacquers &c. comprises slightly-projecting flexible points 4, Fig. 1<A>, fastened around a portion of an outlet aperture 2 through the end of a metallic tube 1, the aperture being closalhle by a needle valve. The flexible points may be of hair, bristle, fine wire, &c., either single or in clusters, and may be arranged in various ways around the aperture as is shown in plan in Figs. 1, 2, 3, and 4. Figs. 3, 3A, 4 and 4<A> show a double aperture and a double nozzle respectively for drawing wide or parallel lines. The nozzles are adapted to be attached to a hollow spindle 9, Figs. 7 and 9, containing the adjustable needle valve 10. A container or containers 18 are provided for the coating fluid or fluids, and also a guide 21, which is rendered adjustable by a moving clamp 20.
Patent GB-707258-A (GB)
Title: Cosmetic preparations
IPC: A61K8/06
Filed: 1951-12-12
Abstract: A cosmetic cream for application to dark complexions comprises a matured aqueous emulsion prepared from a major proportion of a non-drying animal, vegetable or mineral oil or fat, or a mixture thereof, and minor proportions of an oil-soluble emulsifying agent and a mucilaginous substance obtained by alkaline digestion of a pectocellulose or mucocellulose.  Specified oils and fats are lard, lard oil, hydrogenated fish oil, almond oil, olive oil, palm nut oil, palm kernel oil, arachis oil, hazel nut oil, cottonseed oil, rape seed oil, and petroleum oil.  Emulsifiers are partial esters of polyhydric alcohols with fatty acids containing at least 10 carbon atoms in the molecule e.g. glycol mono-oleate or monostearate, glyceryl mono oleate, glyceryl di-oleate, glyceryl monostearate, glyceryl distearate, glyceryl mono- and di-palmitate, and fatty alcohol containing at least 10 carbon atoms in the molecule e.g. cetyl alcohol, stearyl alcohol, lanolin and lanolin alcohols. Alternatively, the animal or vegetable oil may be partially hydrolyzed with e.g. dilute hydrochloric acid, and the emulsion so formed used without further addition of emulsifier.  The mucilage is prepared by digesting the rind of citrus fruits e.g. orange, lemon or grape-fruit, or commercial pectin with aqueous alkali metal hydroxide or carbonate e.g. by boiling 2 to 5 hours.  Other vegetable tissues which may be used are e.g. apples, pears, grapes, sugar beet, carrots, turnips, flax and rhamie fibre.  The mixture of oil-emulsion and mucilage is allowed to age e.g. 2 to 3 weeks, is mixed with further oil-emulsion and again aged until the desired dark colour is produced.  Optional additions are (a) glycerin, (b) preservatives, (c) perfumes, (d) antioxidants, (e) pigments, (f) waxes and (g) medicines e.g. estrogenic hormones, vitamin D, cholesterol, sulphur, boric acid and zinc oxide.
Patent GB-731352-A (GB)
Title: Winch
IPC: B66D1/06
Filed: 1951-12-12
Abstract: 731,352. Hand-operated winches. DEHN, S. G. (Safway Steel Products, Inc.). Dec. 12, 1951, No. 29116/51. Class 78 (5). Drum 18 is driven from handle 66 through a self-locking device 44 and a sun and planet gearing 30-46. Thus handle 66 is secured by screw 68 to threaded fitting 58 which co-operates with threaded shaft 48 so as to advance therealong and push ratchet disc 44 till the latter engages against flange 56 secured to the shaft, so that the clockwise rotation of the handle drives the shaft which, through sun pinion 46, and through planet gears 30 mounted on fixed spider 28, and through gear ring 22, drives the drum 18 mounted on fixed shaft 10 to elevate the load, pawls 40 and 78 preventing the running back of the load. If the handle is rotated in the anticlockwise direction the load descends under its own weight and the progress of fitting 58 along shaft 48 is checked by pin 72. Stop 82 co-operates with lug 86 on the handle to prevent the latter being accidentally turned anticlockwise, so that, before such turning can take place, stop 82 must be raised clear of pin 86, the raising of stop 82 at the same time lifting pawl 78 to free the drum for rotation. The rope is stripped off the drum (when there is no load) by rotating the handle anticlockwise to free disc 44, removing the handle by unscrewing screw 68 and replacing said screw in the hole shown in the handle diametrically opposite so as to fix the fitting 58 and to leave the drum free to rotate.
Patent GB-699401-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to apparatus for the detection and/or measurements of ionizing radiation
IPC: G01T1/18
Filed: 1948-11-10
Abstract: 699,401. Measuring radiation. GENERAL ELECTRIC CO., Ltd., JENKINS, R. O. and MICHAELIS, M. Dec. 1, 1950 [Nov. 10, 1948], No. 29271/48. Class 40 (iii). The G.M. counter tube 1 energized via a blocking oscillator 27, step-up auto-transformer 31, rectifier 33 and smoothing circuit 34 feeds pulses amplified by pentode 6 into a gas triode 9 in a rate-of-count circuit 11 so that meter 21 displays a reading indicative of pulse rate. The rate-of-count circuit 11 is as described in Specification 700,001.
Patent GB-1081346-A (GB)
Title: Sport shoe, especially for football
IPC: A43C15/16
Filed: 1965-07-09
Abstract: In a sports shoe having a moulded plastic outsole 1 (Fig. 2, not shown) on which cleats or studs 2 are removably secured, by means of anchoring members 3 inserted through the insole 5 into the outsole and anchored in the insole by a head 6 which is preferably flat and may be pronged, the upper side of the outsole at each anchorage is provided with a depression 7 into which the insole is drawn when a cleat is connected to an anchoring member. The recesses 10 formed above the insole may be filled with cushioning material, e.g. granulated cork.  The outsole shown has in alignment with each depression 7 a projection 9 of a thickness at least equal to the thickness of the outsole.  The side walls of depressions 10 merge gradually into the upper surface of the soles.  Conveniently a recess 10 may be arranged beneath the ball of the foot.
Patent GB-965648-A (GB)
Title: Grinding plant
Inventor: KNUDSEN POUL ASKER
IPC: B02C21/00
Filed: 1963-07-24
Abstract: 965,648. Grinding. F. L SMIDTH & CO. A.S. July 24, 1963, No. 29358/63. Heading B2A. A plant for grinding quarried material, e.g. for making cement, comprises an air-swept crusher 2 immediately above and in series with an air-swept tube-mill 11, with gravity feed from the crusher to the mill, the crusher and mill being connected in parallel to receive separate air currents, and an air separator 17 to separate the material into two fractions of different size, pipes leading to the separator from outlets of the crusher and mill, and a pipe 31 to return the coarse fraction from the separator to the mill. As described, material to be ground is fed via a pipe 1 into the hammer-or-impact crusher 2, which is swept by hot air from pipes 3, 4, 5. Crushed material falls through an outlet 8 having a weightcontrolled flap-valve 9 into an inlet 10 at one end of the motor-driven mill 11, which is swept by air from pipes 15, 5. Air leaves the mill through an outlet 12 and a pipe 16 leading to a separator 17, which includes an outlet 18 for a separated coarse fraction and an outlet 19 for a fine fraction. The fine fraction is applied by a pipe 20 to a cyclone 21, which has a bottom outlet 22, separated air being withdrawn by a fan 25 through a pipe 24a, so that the air may be returned in a closed circuit through pipes 24b and 24c to the separator 17, or through a pipe 24d to an air-heating kiln (not shown). Coarse material leaves the mill 11 by an outlet 26 and passes via a conveyer 27 and pipe 28 to an elevator 29 and a wormconveyer 30 which feeds it into the separator 17. The coarse fraction leaving the separator 17 flows through a pipe 31 to the inlet 10 of the tube mill 11. The tube mill may be modified to permit all the ground material to be carried away by air flowing in the mill, in which case material is introduced tangentially at the top of the separator.
Patent GB-490637-A (GB)
Title: Process for softening textile materials
IPC: D06M13/405
Filed: 1937-10-27
Abstract: Textile materials are softened by treating with water-soluble salts of diacylated polyalkylenepolyamines of the general formula <FORM:0490637/IV/1> R being a higher alkyl radicle containing at least 8 carbon atoms, R1, R2 and R3 being hydrogen or lower alkyl radicles containing not more than 4 carbon atoms, n and m meaning whole numbers.  Preferred reagents are di- or tri-ethylenetetramine diacylated with stearic acid or the acids of hardened train-oil or of castor oil.  The treatment is preferably carried out in neutral or weakly acid aqueous solution at 20-100 DEG  C., and may be used in conjunction with other treatments.  British Specification 464,756 and U.S.A. Specification 1,915,891 are referred to.
Patent GB-867722-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to switches for code selective devices adapted to respond to particular call signals
IPC: H01H67/32
Filed: 1958-09-16
Abstract: 867,722. Switches responding to particular signals. SECODE CORPORATION. Sept. 16, 1958 [Sept. 23, 1957], No. 29646/58. Class 40 (1). A switch similar to that described in Specification 867,721, adapted to respond to a particular call signal in the form of a number of groups of pulses, each group representing a digit, has a number of extra contacts 32, 34, 36, Figs. 1 and 4, so that by completing different circuits the switch is made to respond to different call signals. The switch has a solenoid to which the call signals are applied, a fast-moving armature 9 operated by the separate pulses of the groups to step wheel 7 anti-clockwise against a spring, and a slowmoving armature 15, Fig. 2, which remains operated between the pulses of a group but is released for movement to the right in Fig. 2 after each group. When this armature moves to the right the wheel 7 is released to return to its initial position. The wheel 7 carries adjustable contact arms 25 and 25a and code arms 27, 27a and the operation is as follows : assuming the first digit to be three, three pulses are applied to the solenoid, armature 9 responding to step the wheel three places and the armature 15 being held in until after the third pulse, when it is released. The armature then starts to move towards the right (Fig. 2) but is prevented by the engagement between a pin 28 carried thereby and a pin 23 on the first contact arm 25. A contact is thus completed via bracket 17 to wire 19. This also prevents the wheel returning under the influence of its spring. If five pulses had been sent, the pin 23 would have registered with a contact pin 32 on an insulated mount 30 secured to bracket 17. This completes a circuit to wire 32a. Similarly, seven and nine pulses would have selected pins 34, 36. Code arms 27, 27a lock the wheel 7 when they register with a projection on the armature 15 but no contact is made. Supposing the first digit had been three, a following group of seven pulses brings arm 27 to the locking position, five more bring arm 27a to the locking position and a further three bring contact 23a into registration with pin 28. Here again the last group may be five, seven or nine to connect with leads 32a, 34a and 36a.
Patent GB-462527-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to mercury and like conducting liquid switches
IPC: H01H29/20
Filed: 1936-11-02
Abstract: 462,527. Mercury switches. BRITISH THOMSON-HOUSTON CO., Ltd. Nov. 2, 1936, No. 29773. Convention date, Nov. 1, 1935. [Class 38 (v)] A mercury switch comprises two dished metal members 1, 2 sealed together but insulated from each other by an insulating fillet 3 so as to form an enclosure which is divided into two compartments by an insulating barrier 4. The barrier 4 is formed with an aperture 6 which, by rotation of the casing, may be brought below or above the level of mercury 5 to make or break the circuit between the casing members 1, 2. In order to reduce the amount of energy and extent of movement necessary for the operation of the switch, the partition 4 is provided with recesses 12, 13 arranged on the opposite side of the axis of rotation to the aperture 6 so as to minimize the variation in mercury level due to the altered displacement consequent on the immersion of the aperture 6. In a modification, Fig. 6, this compensation is effected by protuberances 15, 16 on the casing members 1, 2 adjacent the aperture 6.
Patent GB-704747-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to apparatus for making perspective drawings
IPC: B43L13/14
Filed: 1949-11-21
Abstract: 704,747. Perspective drawing instruments. LEVITT, L. T. Feb. 15, 1951 [Nov. 21, 1949]. No. 29777/49. Class 97(3) [Also in Group XV] Apparatus for constructing perspective drawings comprises a board 10, three curved guides 11, each guide extending on both sides of one of three drawing axes 13 representing height, width, and depth, a T-square 19 for each guide attached to the board so that the head 18 of the square is supported by and movable along the guide 11, with the drawing edge 20 of the square always normal to the guide, and scales from which the perspective dimensions are obtained. The heads of the T-square are each provided with rollers 22 which run in the guides 11 against which they are pressed by the action of a leaf spring 24. A cam 27 is provided for locking the square in any position. In an alternative embodiment, Figs. 3 and 4 (not shown), the guides are provided on the underside of the board, the heads of the T-squares being mounted underneath the board and connected to the drawing edge 20 above the board by a. bridge piece extending over the edge of the board. Offset portions 15 are provided in the guides so that when not in use the T-squares may be moved to one side of the drawing. In a further embodiment, Fig. 5, one end of the guide 54 is left open and the head of the T-square is provided with a pin 59 running in a slot 58 so that the T-square may be moved to one side. In this embodiment the leaf spring 24 is provided externally of the guide 54 and is provided with a locking cam 62. Drawings may be constructed with the aid of scales 40 removably attached to the board along the guide 11. The scale 40 shown in Fig. 1 is adapted to give perspective dimensions along the axis 16 which correspond to depth, the other scales (not shown) giving perspective dimensions along the height and width axes 14, 23, respectively. In a second arrangement the scales corresponding to perspective height, depth, and width may be marked along the edge of the T-squares as at 45. In a third arrangement the three drawing axes are marked on the drawing board, and the perspective scales representing height, depth, and width are also marked on the board along the corresponding axes. In a further arrangement a perspective grid scale 47 is attached to the board adjacent any two of the guiding slots 11, each grid scale being positioned so that the intersection 50 of its axes lies on the drawing axis associated with its adjacent guide. The axes 48, 49 are directed each towards the vanishing point associated with one of the other two guides. A cursor 51 is provided on the T-square; and the axes are divided into perspective dimensions which when projected gives perspective dimensions along the drawing axis which passes through the vanishing point to which the particular grid axis is directed.
Patent GB-298114-A (GB)
Abstract: 298,114. Myers, L. C., and Royal Typewriter Co., inc. May 2, 1927. Divided on 298,095. Adding-apparatus; displaying items.-In a computing-mechanism operated by a single bank of keys, indicating-means are provided to show the value of the last digit entered. As shown embodied in the apparatus described in Specification 297,717, each actuating-rack 24 carries a lug 126 to rock a spring-controlled lever 125 formed with a digit-bearing flange 124 viewable through an opening 138. The levers are held in displaced position by the engagement with lugs 134 of hooked fingers 132 formed in a pivoted plate 131 linked to the master pinion pawl 46. When a key is properly depressed, therefore, the rocking of this pawl releases the last-operated indicator, and the indicator corresponding with the key is set by the lug 126 and then held by finger 132.
Patent GB-837410-A (GB)
Title: A method for coating articles of food
Inventor: WIRT JAMES ROBERT
IPC: A23L1/00
Filed: 1958-04-24
Abstract: Foods, particularly cuts of meat and meat products, are provided with readily strippable coatings by applying an enveloping film of a composition, in molten form, of 19-70% of an ethyl cellulose of ethoxyl content 47.5-50% and of viscosity, in a 5% solution in a 4 : 1 toluene-ethanol mixture, of 6-200 cp., 15-65% of refined mineral oil of Laybolt viscosity 80-400 units at 100 DEG  F., 5-30% of a colourless, odourless plasticizer which dissolves ethyl cellulose, and up to 5% of a wax ingredient melting above 100 DEG  F., e.g. a paraffin wax, hydrogenated castor oil, ceresin, ozokerite, carnauba wax, beeswax, and hardening the film by cooling.  The plasticizer is exemplified by acetyl tributyl citrate, phthalyl butyl glycolate, refined and deodorized castor oil, diisobutyl adipate, di-2-ethyl-hexyl phthalate, glyceryl mono-oleate and mono-stearate, alkylaryl phosphates. The composition may contain: an epoxidized long-chain fatty acid triglyceride, e.g. epoxidized soya bean oil, to inhibit hydrolytic degradation of the ethyl cellulose; an antioxidant for the ethyl cellulose and any fatty acid triglyceride present, such antioxidant being exemplified by butylated hydroxyanisole, nordihydroguaiaretic acid, 2,6-ditert. butyl-4-methyl phenol; a substance which assists in retention of clarity in the coating, e.g. citric acid, tartaric acid, or an organic phosphite such as tricresyl phosphite.
Patent GB-1418148-A (GB)
Title: Wheel trim for a vehicle wheel
IPC: B60B7/10
Filed: 1973-06-25
Abstract: 1418148 Vehicle wheel trims YMOSMETALLWERKE WOLF & BECKER GmbH & CO 25 June 1973 [26 June 1972 10 Oct 1972] 30033/73 Heading B7C [Also in Division E2 A vehicle wheel trim 2, Fig. 1, is provided with spring elements 1 which are located in respective sockets 10 of the wheel trim and which are for securing the wheel trim to a wheel 4, each spring element comprising a web 5 held within the associated socket by a retaining leg 9 and further comprising a securing leg 7 provided with claws 11 for engaging an axially extending flange of the wheel 4, the securing leg being further provided with a nose 12 for engaging the axially extending wheel flange during wheel trim removal to limit the extent to which the claws cut into the wheel flange. In an alternative embodiment, Fig. 2 (not shown), the spring element (23) is provided with a tongue (24) which engages a depression (26) in the wheel trim socket (25). In the embodiment of Fig. 3 (not shown), the spring element (37) has a projection (33) for facilitating correct positioning of the wheel trim. The embodiment of Fig. 5 has a spring element 51 provided with a release lever 53 enabling detachment of the claws 55 from the wheel rim 56.
Patent GB-851522-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in bituminised fibrous sheet materials
IPC: D06N5/00
Filed: 1956-10-03
Abstract: A bituminous composition, for coating or impregnating fibrous sheet material (see Group VIII), contains exfoliated vermiculite. Up to 20% of natural rubber may be added either as latex or in powdered form.
Patent GB-324111-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in steam boilers
IPC: F22B9/04
Filed: 1928-10-18
Abstract: 324,111. South Metropolitan Gas Co., and Carpenter, C. C. Oct. 18, 1928. Vertical boilers; heating by indirect contact of hot waste gases. - Hot gases are led into a smokebox 5 between the upper and lower parts of a vertical boiler through a central flue 6 in the lower part and are led from the smokebox to the outlet chamber r 10 through smoke-tubes 9 also in the lower part, the upper part being provided with tubes 11 closed bv removable plugs 12 to afford access to the smoke-tubes. The two parts of the boiler communicate with one another through apertures 17 in the tube plate 3. In a modification the upper and lower parts are of the same diameter and are in communication with one another at their upper and lower ends through external tubes.
Patent GB-461207-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in clips or holders for surgical towels
IPC: A61B17/28
Filed: 1935-11-01
Abstract: 461,207. Surgical forceps. SCHRANZ, R. Nov. 1, 1935, No. 30207. [Class 81 (ii)] Clips for holding a towe round the edge of a wounc during an operation, and of the type comprising a pair o: pivoted handles extended be yond the pivot to form gripping jaws, each of which is formed with two or more prongs, are characterized in that the pivot axis 3 is inclined relatively to the plane of the handles, the jaws being also turned so that the line of contact of the prongs 8, 9 lies in a plane parallel to that of the handles, including in the plane of the handles, or approximating such a position, for example, within 15‹ thereof. The angle between the pivot and the plane of the handles may be from 45 to 65‹. The rack device 5 may be of the usual design, or may be set at an angle to correspond with the position of the pivot 3.