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Patent GB-1293999-A (GB)
Title: Boat drive arrangement
Inventor: BERGSTEDT KARL ABDON
IPC: B63H23/04
Filed: 1970-12-30
Abstract: 1293999 Outboard drive VOLVO PENTA AB 30 Dec 1970 [6 Jan 1970] 61910/70 Heading B7V A marine craft drive unit has an inboard driving motor 1 and a tiltable outboard propeller housing 12 carried by the transom 3 of the craft. Counter shaft 32 in the upper portion 13 of the housing is connected to output shaft 27 of the driving motor and drive shaft 42 extends downwardly and forwardly from within the upper portion of the housing into a lower portion 14 when the propeller housing is oriented for normal forward propulsion. The drive shaft is connected to the counter shaft by bevel gearing 40. The lower portion of the housing is connected to the upper portion for rotation of the lower portion about the axis of the drive shaft 42 and a second bevel gearing 57 at the lower end of the drive shaft drives horizontal propeller shaft 58. The angle between the axes of drive shaft 42 and propeller shaft 58 is between 45 and 70 degrees and the gearing ratio of bevel gearing 57 is the cosine of said angle.
Patent GB-1253750-A (GB)
Title: Method and apparatus for the preservation of sausage meat products
IPC: A23L13/60
Filed: 1969-12-23
Abstract: 1,253,750. Treating sausage-meat products. ERNST BRENDEL K.G. 23 Dec., 1969 [13 Feb., 1969; 2 Dec., 1969], No. 62978/69. Headings A2B and A2D. Sausage meat products are preserved by sterilising the sausage meat at approximately 120‹C, the meat being subsequently cooled and packaged in synthetic material which has also been sterilised. The synthetic material may be sterilised by exposure to ultra-violet radiation. The sausage meat may be sterilised in an appliance comprising a plurality of heated cylinders arranged in sequence through which the meat is pumped (Fig. 1, not shown). The sterilised meat is then passed to a machine 4 (Fig. 3) in which it is packaged in a foil of synthetic material 8 to form a tube 9 which may be severed to form sausage lengths. The ultra-violet radiation emitters 11 sterilised both sides of the foil. The packaged sterilised sausage meat may be placed in an autoclave and cooked at the sterilization temperature for 30 minutes at a pressure of 2.8 atmospheres.
Patent GB-756486-A (GB)
Abstract: 756,486. Plate rectifiers. SIEMENSSCHUCKERTWERKE AKT.-GES. Feb. 5, 1954 [Feb. 6, 1953], No. 3480/54. Class 37. A dry plate rectifier is assembled by placing a pile of rectifier plates with intermediate connecting elements and requisite insulation between the arms of a U-shaped connecting member, the ends of the arms of the U-shaped member being then bent over so that the member forms a housing for the pile and retains the elements in position. In Figs. 5 and 7, rectifier plates 7, 8, 9, 10 with intermediate connecting elements 11; 12 and 13 are secured by folded-over portions 17b, 17c of U- shaped member 15. A flat spring 16 on top of the pile provides pressure to ensure good contacts. The connecting elements 11, 12 and 13 have connecting tabs 11a, 12a and 13a, and the member 15 contacts the top plate of rectifier 7 and the bottom plate of rectifier 10 and has a connecting tab 17a. An arrangement comprising two rectifier plates is also described.
Patent GB-2000210-A (GB)
Title: Drilling fluids
IPC: C09K8/24
Filed: 1978-06-15
Abstract: Drilling through shale using K Cl/polyacrylamide mud involves controlling amounts as follows: 30 to 35 lbs. K Cl, 0.5 to 2.5 lbs of polyacrylamide both referred to barrel of mud and SG from 1.05 to 1.80, fluid loss below 8 ccs, bentonite less than 25 lbs/bbl, gel strength below 30 lbs/100 ft<2> and yield point above 15 lbs/100 ft<2>.
Patent GB-2025995-A (GB)
Title: Preparation of copolyether glycols
IPC: C08G65/30
Filed: 1978-06-28
Abstract: Ester end-capped copolyether glycols are prepared by copolymerizing tetrahydrofuran (which may be substituted by alkyl) and an alkylene oxide or cyclic acetal in a reaction mixture which additionally contains (1) a polymeric catalyst which contains  alpha -fluoro sulfonic acid groups, and (2) an acylium ion precursor such as acetic anhydride.
Patent GB-2030731-A (GB)
Title: Vibratory Conveyors
IPC: B65G27/32
Filed: 1978-09-20
Abstract: A vibratory conveyor, such as a bowl feeder, is provided with a drive to cause generally vertical and horizontal vibrations. The drives are preferably independently controllable in amplitude and of adjustable frequency. Control circuits are provided to produce vibrational amplitudes selected as appropriate to the load conveyed. An excess horizontal vibration amplitude is sensed for example via an electromagnetic transducer SC, providing a signal (FCin) for use with a reference signal (REF) to cause the supply of more load (FA, FG) to the conveyor for a prescribed time, enabling substantially constant load operation for consistent conveying. An excess vertical amplitude signal which may be derived from the drive energization, may be used similarly to maintain a selected vertical vibration by altering energisation (VUver) as load reduces, thereby providing efficient conveying conditions while emptying the bowl of the conveyor. The vertical signal is also usable to cause the supply of more load to the conveyor. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2030455-A (GB)
Title: Sports rackets
IPC: A63B49/10
Filed: 1978-10-03
Abstract: A sports racket, particularly a badminton racket, has its head frame reinforced by graphite fiber 14, 15 which fills grooves formed on opposed sides of the head frame. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2006942-A (GB)
Title: Fluidizer Bed Apparatus
IPC: B01J8/18
Filed: 1978-10-20
Abstract: A fluidised bed apparatus has a body 2 (or 102 Fig. 2 or 202 Fig. 3) containing a fluidized bed of particulate material and means such as plenum chambers 8 (or an array of tubes such as 108, 123, Fig. 2) disposed within the body to define flow paths for the bed material, and gas inlet means (e.g. stub pipes projecting out of the chambers 8; or a perforated pipe 20) for assisting circulation and flow of the bed material along said paths. The body may comprise a combustion space in which fuel is burnt to heat water in a space surrounding the body, and in tubes disposed in the bed or comprising the arcuate walls 10 of chambers 8. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2019821-A (GB)
Title: Dispensing escapement device
IPC: B65G59/06
Filed: 1978-12-11
Abstract: An escapement device for the high-speed separation of piled blister panels (1) composes a magazine (2) in which the panels are piled, a plurality of supporting needle-shaped upper and lower rests (5a, 5b) at the bottom of the magazine (2) moved by a drive (6a, 6b) between panel support position in which each panel is supported by the upper rests (5a) and a panel releasing position in which each panel is supported by the lower rests (5b) for the discharging onto a removing belt (4). <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2009019-A (GB)
Title: Maintaining Alignment of Magazine and Driver in a Stapling Machine
IPC: B25C5/02
Filed: 1978-12-12
Abstract: In a stapling machine the magazine arm and steady 7 are interconnected by hook shaped lugs 12 on the magazine arm which engage a rod 14 carried by the steady. The steady is mounted by a pivot pin 4 which passes through an elongate aperture 15, fig. 2, not shown, and the steady moves against the bias of a spring 11 when the rod and hook engage and disengage. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2013253-A (GB)
Title: Devices for storing material in continuous form
IPC: B65H51/22
Filed: 1979-01-30
Abstract: A weft storing drum in a loom, comprises a winding tube (23), a sensing device, e.g. a light source and light sensor (3), and control means controlling the winding tube (23) in dependence on the output of the sensing device, the sensing device being mounted on a support (45) which is slidably mounted within a guide (6) of U-shaped cross-section containing a plastics anti-friction insert (46). The support (45) and the sensing device are thus easily and accurately adjustable by a fine adjustment comprising a rack (4) and a pinion meshing therein, so that the sensing device can first be moved manually (coarse adjustment), whereupon it can be accurately moved into the required end position by means of the rack and pinion (fine adjustment). <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2013647-A (GB)
Title: Compacting mixtures of gypsum and plaster to obtain water- repellent materials
IPC: C04B28/14
Filed: 1979-01-30
Abstract: A compacted material with excellent mechanical and damp-proof properties is obtained by intimately mixing gypsum, plaster and water, all or part of which may be provided by moist gypsum, with a substantially water-insoluble metal salt of a fatty acid, placing the resulting mixture in a mould, applying pressure such that the plaster sets within a very short time, and removing the resultant article from the mould without drying it.
Patent GB-2016639-A (GB)
Title: Drainage pipe
IPC: E02B11/00
Filed: 1979-03-13
Abstract: A drainage pipe is assembled from pipe pieces 10 perforated in their upper regions and circumferentially corrugated, and separate support members 11, 12 with projecting support portions 20 to support the pipe on the ground. The bottom of each pipe piece is smooth and projects radially beyond the corrugated portion to form a deep, narrow trough 14. The support members have internal profiles matching the external profiles of the corrugated pipe pieces 10 so that when the support members and pipe pieces are fitted together, relative rotation is not possible. The perforations are in the troughs of the corrugations in an upper region of the pipe bounded by projections 17 which block the troughs of the corrugations. (Figure 1). <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2016627-A (GB)
Title: Tube connections
IPC: F16L21/06
Filed: 1979-03-13
Abstract: A connection for telescoping tubular members comprises an outer pipe 11, an inner pipe 13 whose one end is telescopically received within the outer pipe 11, and a resilient gasket 23 sealingly disposed between an end of the outer pipe 11 and the outer peripheral surface of the inner pipe 11. The gasket 23, which is urged against the end of the outer pipe and the surface of the inner pipe by a V-band clamping device 24, also holds the pipes in spaced relation to each other. The free end of the telescoped inner pipe 11 is provided with an inwardly turned lip 19 which produces a venturi effect under fluid flow conditions for reducing the pressure and temperature of the fluid acting on the gasket 23. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2023041-A (GB)
Title: A feeder model
IPC: B22C7/02
Filed: 1979-05-23
Abstract: An integral feeder pattern comprising a gasifiable core (1) having a rigid, self-supporting casting shell (5) for mechanical moulding and a partition core (8) to aid separation of the feeder from the casting after completion of the casting process. A "pneumatic" core 3 is preferably provided, and the shell 5 may be of insulating or exothermic material. The pattern is retained in the mould after moulding. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2036102-A (GB)
Title: Method and apparatus for producing measuring values corresponding to the linear density of fibre slivers
IPC: D01H5/38
Filed: 1978-10-17
Abstract: The inventive method is used for producing of measuring values depending on the linear density of a fibre sliver transported through a measuring funnel. A measuring signal transmitted from the measuring funnel (2) is transformed into a proportional electric voltage signal and is continually integrated. The inventive apparatus comprises the so-called measuring funnel connected pneumatically with a pneumatic/electric transducer (4). The transducer transmits its signal to an integration circuit arrangement (6). A control logic device (13) on one hand cooperates with a gear (11) of a gear arrangement (10) of a spinning preparatory machine and on the other hand is connected with the integrating circuit arrangement. A proximity initiator (12) transmits an impulse to the control logic arrangement at each passage of a tooth. The integrating circuit supplies measuring values suitable as a control signal for spinning preparatory machines, which signal is independent of the speed of the fibre sliver.
Patent GB-2041527-A (GB)
Title: Fluid pressure indicator
IPC: G01L7/08
Filed: 1978-09-07
Abstract: Disclosed herein is a fluid pressure indicator for providing visual indication of the magnitude of a fluid pressure condition. The indicator comprises an optical element (14) including a front surface (53) for receiving ambient light and a rear, light-reflecting portion having three mutually perpendicular surfaces (56, 58, 60) which define a cube corner having an apex (62) remote from the front surface, and a one-piece, resilient, imperforate diaphragm (16) in cooperative relationship with the rear, light-reflecting portion of the optical element, to provide a chamber (76) between the interior of the diaphragm and the three perpendicular surfaces. The diaphragm is normally not in optical engagement with the three perpendicular surfaces, but is resiliently deformed into such optical engagement upon the application of a positive fluid pressure differential to the exterior of the diaphragm. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2025307-A (GB)
Title: Extrusion Head for Sheathing a Core
IPC: B29C48/06
Filed: 1979-06-28
Abstract: The extrusion head for sheathing e.g. a wire with a layer or layers of an insulation material, has a passage (25) for the wire through a mandrel (23), to around which the material flows, via passages and guide means (13 to 18) and a mixing device (40) arranged in series in the radial direction to remove weld lines. The mixing device (40) may consist of a cross-groove mixer. The head may be of considerably shorter axial length that known heads thus reducing problems in wire guidance, especially where a plurality of extruded layers are to be applied. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2037456-A (GB)
Title: Automatic control
IPC: H01L41/04
Filed: 1979-10-10
Abstract: A control circuit adapted to monitor the signals from a speed sensor comprises a first comparator circuit having positive feed back, being adapted to actuate a relay or other switch when the signal from the speed sensor falls below a given value; and a second comparator circuit having positive feed back the output of which is connected to a time delay means which in turn is adapted to actuate another relay or other switch when a given time has elapsed. The description refers to control of a centrifuge, spin-dryer etc or of the doors of a vehicle wherein opening of a lid, door etc is enabled on speed being sufficiently reduced, and brakes are released. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2038633-A (GB)
Title: Composite granules
IPC: A01N25/26
Filed: 1979-11-05
Abstract: The invention relates to a method of preparing composite granules containing a finely divided or powdered material which is to be presented in a granular form. The method comprises reacting with a reactant and water a granular substrate capable of forming therewith granules having on their surface a non-hygroscopic, hydrated salt reaction product, in the presence of the finely divided or powdered material to be attached thereto whereby the finely divided or powdered material is entrapped by said reaction product on said surface to form composite granules. The resulting composite granules are then dried.
Patent GB-2041689-A (GB)
Title: Vehicle movement sensing
IPC: G01P3/80
Filed: 1980-01-22
Abstract: A system for measuring the speed, direction or distance travelled by an aircraft 1, uses a television camera 4 mounted to view the ground beneath the aircraft. The system has a store 12 which receives from the camera signals representing a small area Ao of ground within its field of view during one scan of the camera. The system also includes a correlation unit 14 which correlates the contents of the store with the signals from the camera during a later scan so as to identify the same area of ground displaced within the field of view owing to the aircraft movement. By measuring the displacement within the field of view and the distance of the aircraft from the ground, the system obtains a measure of the distance travelled relative to the ground. The speed of the aircraft is calculated from knowledge of the time between scans. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2072051-A (GB)
Title: Resistive passive electrode for corona discharge devices
IPC: B03C3/38
Filed: 1980-03-18
Abstract: A resistive passive electrode is used in a corona discharge device, particularly in the charging stage or collecting stage of a two-stage electrostatic precipitator, or in a single stage electrostatic precipitator. The resistive passive electrode suppresses back corona and prevents sparkover being produced by dielectric breakdown of particle layers which normally build up on the passive electrode. The resistive passive electrode is formed by a conductive electrode (204) covered with a coating of resistive material (206) having a primary outer layer of at least 0.25mm thick in which the material has a high dielectric strength, is homogeneous within specified limits and has a predetermined resistivity. A resistive passive electrode of this construction may be employed in conventional wire- plate and wire-cylinder precipitators, as well as in high intensity ionizers utilizing a planar discharge electrode concentrically mounted in a tubular passive electrode. Resistive materials specified are epoxy resins, aluminium oxide, glasses and ceramics. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2049490-A (GB)
Title: Applying lines or stripes to plates or bowls
IPC: B05C13/02
Filed: 1980-04-25
Abstract: Apparatus for applying lines or stripes to plates, bowls or similar articles having a circular flange includes a decorating station with three waisted double cone rollers 12, 13, 14 [see also Figure 4] for engaging the flange and thereby holding the article. A drive 15 [Figure 1] is coupled to roller 13 to rotate the article and one or more applicator tools 20 apply the lines or stripes. The rollers are mounted on a support 8 which is pivotable about a horizontal axis 7 by an actuator 9 [Figure 4] and vertically movable by an actuator 5 [Figure 3]. The articles are supplied to the decorating station by a conveyor 1 [Figure 4]. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2075471-A (GB)
Title: Cardboard boxes
IPC: B65D3/28
Filed: 1980-05-07
Abstract: A cardboard box or lid comprises a bottom board 15 and a side wall 13 formed by a strip or series of strips of material joined in a loop by the engagement of tabs 9 in slits 8. The wall 13 may be joined to the board 15 by tab-and-slot connections or by engagement of the board 15 within a groove 12 adjacent an inwardly-rolled flange 11. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2055758-A (GB)
Title: Metered dispenser system
IPC: B67D1/12
Filed: 1980-05-29
Abstract: A metered system for dispensing carbonated alcoholic beverages comprises a container for storing, under pressure, the liquid to be dispensed and a dispensing unit (20) remote from the container. In order to obtain an adequate flow rate from the dispenser unit and to prevent excessive fobbing of the liquid a plurality of passageways (18) are provided which define parallel flow lines and whose cross-section is such that whilst the flow of liquid in each passage is restricted to prevent excessive fobbing, the provision of several passageways maintains the desired flow rate. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2057177-A (GB)
Title: Multichannel magnetic head for a transducer system
IPC: G11B5/187
Filed: 1980-08-15
Abstract: In a multichannel head 10 of the type wherein a plurality of transducers 12, 14, 16, 18 scan signal tracks of information across a magnetic tape, and wherein each transducer includes a magnetic core having two pole pieces between which a transducing gap 20, 22, 24, 26 is disposed and at least one turn of a conductor 28, 30, 32, 34 magnetically coupled to the gap, the plurality of transducers are sequentially bonded together in an integral unit with their gaps disposed at essentially tandem locations. This avoids wasting recording space, increases accuracy of the head dimensions, and reduces length of contact travel between the head and a record medium e.g. tape. The transducer may be identical and bonded to a stepped carrier 50 (Figures 3a, 3b), or the transducer may be located in tandem along a longitudinal axis of the head, this axis being located at an angle to the tape transport direction (Figure 4a). <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2056747-A (GB)
Title: Disc record clamping device
IPC: G11B17/028
Filed: 1979-06-29
Abstract: A disc (11) is placed on a spring biassed support ring 5 and a retaining clamp 1 is placed on the disc 11 to press it and the support ring downwards until the disc engages the turntable 4. The clamp is retained in this position by a magnet (7). During the movement downwards a frustoconical member (6) which is co-axial with the rotation axis engages a central hole in the disc and thereby centres the disc with respect to the rotation axis, (the member 6 also being movable parallel to the rotation axis to enable subsequent engagement of the disc with the turntable). <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2065467-A (GB)
Title: Shower bath fittings
IPC: B05B1/16
Filed: 1980-11-11
Abstract: A handle 1 is receivable in a holder socket 7 for example on a wash basin. The handle 1 encloses a water passage. A shower head 2 is attached at an angle to a head 2. The head 2 contains a water shut-off valve 9 and has shower openings 25 to the left and a rotatable knob 10 for operating the valve 9 to the right. The shower openings 25 are in a bush 23 rotatable with respect to the head and including a larger opening 26 leading from a guide tube 21 engageable in one orientation with a water outlet 28 and in another with a closing cam 32. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2064596-A (GB)
Title: Clothes washing machine
IPC: D06F31/00
Filed: 1980-11-20
Abstract: A tunnel-type industrial clothes washing machine is formed by interconnecting individual modular elements 4, 5 and 6 which are identical to each other. Each modular element is formed by three separate internal chambers 18, 19, 35 which communicate with each other by way of holes 27, 28 formed in the respective dividing walls, of which the first two consecutive chambers 18, 19 perform separate phases of the wash cycle and the third chamber 35 is connected to the conduit for introducing the washing liquids. The chambers 18, 19 communicate with each other by way of 'spoon-type' laundry conveyor means 21, 22. In addition, each element is provided laterally with respective apertures 11, 12 for the introduction and discharge of the laundry, with respective frustoconical circular walls 29, 30 being removably fixed to the apertures, for sealingly connecting each element to two adjacent elements. Each modular element is sealingly connected to a discharge conduit by way of an annular collecting channel 40 which is provided around the chamber 18, to provide for discharge only in given phases of the cycle. <IMAGE>