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Patent GB-300980-A (GB)
Title: Suspended ceilings chiefly for covering furnaces, fireboxes and the like
IPC: F23M5/06
Filed: 1928-09-11
Abstract: 300,980. Bonet, A. N. de St. E. Borne-. Nov. 22, 1927, [Convention date]. Roofs. - A suspended roof for furnaces, &c. consists of rows of refractory bricks 1 pivotally suspended as from rods 2, the joints between the bricks having sides which are neither plane nor parallel. As shown the sides and ends of the bricks have concave surfaces adapted to form spaces between adjacent bricks for the reception of filling material 5, 6 which may consist of pulverulent, granular or fibrous material. The lower parts of the bricks are provided with grooves 7 for the reception of fibrous material such as asbestos or quartz threads. The grooves may be provided with recesses and projections and the sides 3 of the bricks may have recesses or projections such as inscriptions 8 to retain the filling material. The jointing material at 5, 6 may be omitted to provided air cooling.
Patent GB-353743-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or connected with apparatus for testing steel wire ropes
IPC: G01N3/32
Filed: 1930-09-01
Abstract: 353,743. Testing steel wire ropes. SMITH, MAJOR, & STEVENS, Ltd. and MAJOR, P. C., Abbey Works, Northampton. Sept. 1, 1930, No. 26045. [Class 106 (ii).] The apparatus comprises a stationary former, means for alternately bending a sample of rope around said former and straightening the sample, and means for stressing the sample while it is bent. The upper member A<1> of the frame A is provided with bearings for rocking levers B<1>, B2. Below the member A<1> is a tensioning lever C the long arm C<2> of which is acted upon by a spring C<6> the tension of which may be adjusted by a wheel nut C<5>. The short arm of the lever is connected by a pivoted link C<8> to a crosshead C<9> working on guides C<10>. The crosshead extends laterally and has fixed to each end an attachment C<11> for the lower end of a sample D<1> of rope. The upper end of the sample is attached to the upper end of the lever B<1> or B<2> after passing between two grooved quadrants E, F. The levers B<1>, B<2> are connected by rods G<1>, G<2> to crank discs H. These are rotated by power and cause the levers to rock and lay the rope samples over the quadrants. A counter (not shown) is connected to one of the pivots of the levers to register the number of bending motions imparted to a sample. By attaching the rod to the disc at the point H<3> the sample may be bent over both quadrants. The quadrants are mounted on pivots E2, F<2> to facilitate the placing the samples in and out of the device, but are held by pins in holes E<3>, F<3> during a test. The lever pivots are adjustable to and away from the quadrants to allow a certain amount of slip.
Patent GB-441715-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to circular knitting machines
IPC: D04B9/10
Filed: 1934-09-12
Abstract: 441,715. Knitting-machines. SPIERS, Ltd., W., XL Works, Walnut Street, Leicester, and KENT, A. W., Swithland, Leicester Road, Groby, near Leicester. Sept. 12, 1934, No. 26206. [Class 74 (ii)] A circular knitting-machine, for producing different half-round effects in a knitted tube or article, has means for supplying yarns simultaneously at different feeding points spaced apart in the needle circle at the same feed, while the needles are controlled to cause about half the number in the needle circle, to produce a partial course composed of one yarn or combination of yarns, and to cause the other half of the needles to produce a partial course composed of another yarn, or combination of yarns, at each of a predetermined number of courses. Patterning mechanism may be used to produce fancy effects on one half of the knitted tube, such as the instep portion of a hose or like article, while a solid colour effect is produced on the foot bottom. The machine may be of the superposed rotary needle-cylinder type, such as is described in Specifications 15008 /00, [Class 74], and 24290/12, [Class 74 (ii)], and the invention may be carried out in conjunction with the invention claimed in Specification 404,076. When the patterning is effected by reverse plating, jacks as described in Specification 366,185 are used. In some cases, an additional yarn is supplied in association with severing and trapping means. The guide 8, for supplying the additional yarn nearer the stitch cam at the feed, is moved at predetermined intervals by pattern mechanism controlling a clutch, whereby the severing and trapping means 46 is operated simultaneously with the guide. The guide is pivoted on a spindle 9 and is disposed above the stationary guide 10 for supplying the other yarns.
Patent GB-1197404-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to Rotationally Elastic Clutch Discs
IPC: F16D13/68
Filed: 1968-05-31
Abstract: 1,197,404. Damped resilient couplings. DAIMLER-BENZ A.G. 31 May, 1968 [2 June, 1967], No. 26248/68. Heading F2U. In a rotationally resilient clutch disc for a motor vehicle friction clutch, wherein a friction lining carrying disc part 14 is connected to a substantially co-planar hub part 15 by spring elements, and means is provided for limiting relative rotation between said parts, the spring elements are disposed, so as to act in radial, inclined or tangential lines, in planes normal to the clutch disc axis on both sides of the parts 14, 15, are each secured at opposite ends to said parts, are distributed circumferentially uniformly, and consist of bendable springs of irregular cross-section. As shown, the disc part 14 comprises stop, damper, and cover rings 19, 20, 21. The hub part 15 comprises outwardly projecting lugs 30 co-operable with inwardly projecting lugs (29) of the stop ring 19 to limit relative rotation, and a shoulder 32 accommodating damping friction rings 33 which, bear on the damper ring 20 and are acted on by a disc 34 loaded by a dished spring 35 reacting on the hub part 15. Spring pivot pins 22, pass through the disc and hub parts 14, 15. Flat steel springs 24, of arched C-shape and reducing in width towards their ends, have eyes 27, 28 pushed on the pins 22, 26 and secured by circlips 25. The springs may be pre-stressed. The springs may be of strip, square or round steel. They may be of open or closed, triangle, box or trapezium shape, C (as shown), O, S or 8 shape, or zig-zag, helical or spiral shape, or have watch-spring-like ends connected by a straight section.
Patent GB-858705-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to buckrakes, pike lifters and like agricultural implements
IPC: A01D87/08
Filed: 1956-08-29
Abstract: 858,705. Tractor load-handling attachments. STONE, A. G., and JOHN, W. R. Aug. 28, 1957 [Aug. 29,1956], No. 26354/56. Class 78 (3). A buckrake has curved tines 1 which, as the rake is lifted by the tractor draft links, pivot in an anti-clockwise direction and so form a pocket for the load. The tines are interconnected by cross-members 2, 3 which are secured to a member 5 to which a latch-carrying stirrup 7 is pivoted at 6. The lower draft links are pivoted to a pair of spaced lugs 4 and the upper link is pivoted to the stirrup.
Patent GB-601183-A (GB)
Title: Process and apparatus for finishing fabrics to reduce shrinkage
IPC: D06C7/02
Filed: 1945-10-10
Abstract: 601,183. Finishing fabrics. REDMAN, F. R. Oct. 10, 1945, No. 26412. Convention date, Jan. 8. [Class 42(i)] Textile fabrics, especially piece goods in strip form, which have been shrunk by the process of Specification 571,821, are finished and shrunk by moistening the fabric and passing it between driven calendering rolls, depositing it on a movable surface directly from the rolls, and substantially free from tensional stress, moving the surface at a speed less than the peripheral speed of the rolls, so that the fabric thereon is completely relaxed, and applying heat to dry the fabric while it is in a relaxed condition on the surface. As shown in Fig. 1, a tubular knitted fabric S passes between power-driven rolls 6 and 7 over a spreader frame 5 of open construction, which separates the plies, steam or hot water from sprays 8 is applied to it, and it then passes between calender rolls 1, 2 and stripper blades 10, 11, and on to an apron 15 in a heated chamber 26, where it is dried. The apron 15 is driven at a lower speed than the peripheral speed of the calender rolls 1, 2. The fabric is then delivered by rolls 16, 17 to a core or mandrel for forming a roll, or to a reciprocable flat piling table 20. Alternatively, the fabric, after passing through the calender rolls may descend vertically into the heated chamber to rest directly on the apron, suitable guide or calendering rolls being provided. The spreader may be arranged either horizontally or vertically, and the fabric may be moved along the spreader by endless foraminous belts driven at the same surface speed as that of the calender rolls.
Patent GB-607703-A (GB)
Title: An improved machine for sealing bottles, jars and like containers
IPC: B65G47/84
Filed: 1945-10-10
Abstract: 607,703. Steam superheaters. ANCHOR HOCKING GLASS CORPORATION. Oct. 10, 1945, No. 26436. Convention date, Oct. 11, 1944. [Class 123(iii)] [Also in Groups XVII and XXX] In a superheater for applying superheated steam to a machine for sealing bottles, jars and like containers (see Group XVII), steam is admitted through pipe 331 and then passes through tubes 328 in contact with electric heating units 329, through aperture 334 in partition 326, and over the outer surfaces of tubes 328 to outlet conduit 121. A thermostat 335 may be utilised to fix maximum and minimum temperatures of steam leaving the superheater. 500‹F. or 600‹F. of superheat may be provided.
Patent GB-1219345-A (GB)
Title: Pharmacologically effective substance and process for isolating it
IPC: C07G11/00
Filed: 1968-06-04
Abstract: 1,219,345. Plant extracts. FARBWERKE HOECHST A.G. 4 June, 1968 [3 June, 1967], No. 26464/68. Heading A5B. A pharmacologically active substance is isolated from Ravensara aromatica (also known as Laurus aromatica and Agatophyllum ravensara) by extracting the bark thereof with a lower alcohol containing 1 to 3 carbon atoms, e.g. methanol or ethanol, to extract a substance which is soluble in the lower alcohol and, isolating the active substance from the extract and, if, desired, treating the product obtained, which is a hydrochloride, with a base to give the free base. The active substance may be isolated from the extract by evaporating the extract to dryness, purifying the solid residue by chromatography, e.g. using aluminium oxide or silica gel as absorbent and an organic solvent system containing from 2 to 30% by volume of a lower alcohol as eluent, and isolating the active substance from the eluate. Undesired accompanying substances may be removed from the bark by extraction with petroleum ether, chloroform or carbon tetrachloride before the active substance is extracted. The extracted active substance in the free base form has a mpt of 223-224C. contains C 62.7%, H 6.5%, N 4.1%, O 26.7% has a mol. wt. of about 355 (by mass spectrometry), U.V. (in methanol) maxima at 270 (1g# 1 =4.622) and 300 mÁ, (lg# 2 =4.249), a specific rotation of [α]<SP>D</SP> 20 =+172 (in ethanol) and an 1.R. spectrum in KBr as shown in the attached chart. Pharmacological preparations having blood pressure lowering activity comprise the extract in the form of a free base or a physiologically tolerable salt thereof in admixture or conjunction with a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier. The preparation may be administered orally or intravenously in the form of tablets, dragees or aqueous solutions.
Patent GB-1088372-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to steam power plants
Inventor: WOOTTON WILLIAM ROBERT
IPC: F01K3/26
Filed: 1963-07-04
Abstract: 1,088,372. Direct contact steam boilers. BABCOCK & WILCOX Ltd. July 6, 1964 [July 4, 1963], No. 26495/63. Heading F4A. In a power plant that includes a prime-mover 4 and a boiler arrangement 2 the steam is raised by a method described in Specification 966,971 in which superheated steam from superheaters 16, 16A, 16B, 16C and 16D is passed through vapour generators 14A, 14B, 14C and 14D that are fed with raw water heated in direct contact heat exchangers 38 by steam bled from the stages 31A, 31B, and 31C of the primemover 4, the resulting saturated steam in the vapour generators being fed into the superheater of the following stage. To initiate the operation of the plant a starting up boiler 18 of conventional type is provided to supply steam to the superheater 16 and then on to the vapour generator 14A. A pump 12 and circuit 11 is arranged to draw saturated steam from the first stage of the boiler to enable the system to become self-continuing. The superheaters are connected into a closed circuit 24 which is fed with the coolant from a nuclear reactor 6. The steam output from the final superheating stage 16D is fed into the prime mover 4 and then through a condenser 32 where pure or potable water is obtained and removed by pump 34 to a reservoir. A distillation unit 10 may be added to the plant to use part of the steam from the boiler 2 when the turbine is on low load to produce pure or potable water from sea water. The power plant may also be used on board ships where the sea water can be used as feed water. In another use the power plant feeds large quantities of steam into old oil wells to reduce the viscosity of its contents to facilitate their removal.
Patent GB-1069222-A (GB)
Title: Manufacture of doll's apparel
IPC: A63H3/52
Filed: 1965-06-23
Abstract: 1,069,222. Making garments. MATTEL Inc. June 23, 1965 [April 14, 1965], No. 26531/65. Heading A3V. [Also in Division A6] A kit for making dolls' clothes comprises fabric 22 printed on the "wrong" side with an outline pattern such as a bolero 23 and markings such as lines 28 and dots 30 to indicate edges to be joined together, and contact adhesive strips 18 for joining those edges. The strips 18 are removed from a masking strip (16), Fig. 1 not shown, and pressed on to both the edges to be joined, coloured markings (21) on upper side of the strips indicating the extent of the adhesive (19) on the lower side. The bolero is cut out along outline 23, the strips 18 are removed by means of flanges (20) leaving the adhesive 19 behind and the thus coated edges are pressed together. The garment so formed is then turned inside out
Patent GB-1153040-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to an Auxillary Fuel System Especially for Aircraft
Inventor: PAULIS GEORGE JOSEPH
IPC: B64D37/00
Filed: 1966-06-14
Abstract: 1,153,040. Aircraft fuel systems. UNITED AIRCRAFT CORP. 14 June, 1966, No. 26546/66. Heading B7W. [Also in Division G3] An aircraft fuel system comprises a main fuel tank (not shown) and at least one auxiliary fuel tank 52a, 52b, 52c provided with means for controlling the amount of fuel received therein, the tanks being connected together by piping including a valve 76 operable to enable fuel to fill the main and auxiliary tanks together or the main tank alone, fuel to be transferred from one or more auxiliary tanks to the main tank, and fuel to be transferred from one auxiliary tank to another. In the embodiment described the aircraft is a helicopter, Fig. 1 (not shown), having a pair of main tanks disposed in sponsons located either side of the fuselage in which three auxiliary fuel tanks 52a, 52b, 52c are releasably installed. Each auxiliary tank is a self-contained unit comprising a vent line 72, a transfer line 80 including a conduit extending to the bottom of the tank to a fuel pump, and a pressure fueling line 92. To fill the tanks fuel is supplied through a fitting 42 and lines 44, 46 connected to the main tanks. If the auxiliary tanks also require filling the valve 76 is positioned, Fig. 9 (not shown), to direct fluid through lines 78, 92 into the tanks until valves (see Division F2) operate when a predetermined fuel level is reached to prevent further filling. When it is desired to transfer fuel from an auxiliary tank to a main tank the valve 76 is positioned to connect transfer line 80 to the line 68 and the pump within the auxiliary tank requiring emptying is started whereby fuel flows through the line 80, a tee-connection 94, and lines 77, 68 to the main tanks. For transfer of fuel from one auxiliary tank to another the valve 76 is moved to a third position, Fig. 7 (not shown), and the pump in the tank to be emptied is started.
Patent GB-616271-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in a looper for control of travelling elongated material
IPC: C23C2/36
Filed: 1945-10-11
Abstract: 616,271. Automatic control systems for strip loopers. CARNEGIE -ILLINOIS STEEL CORPORATION. Oct. 11, 1945, No. 26552. Convention date, June 22. [Class 38 (iv)] Tension control in elongated material.-An automatically-controlled mechanical looper for travelling elongated material (e.g. steel strip) gathers a local excess of material and pays it out under control of the tension in the outgoing material to compensate for irregularities in the supply and demand. A continuous strip passes from a coil into motor-driven rolls 12, 14, over rollers 62, 78, 66 in a series of loops and through motor-driven rolls 16, 18 into a processing line. A carriage 30 movable vertically on guide wheels and rails and carrying rollers 62 is supported by counter-weighted cables 38, 46, which pass round drums 40, 4, driven by reversible motor 54 through worm gearing. Limit switches 86, 88 break the hoist motor circuit when the carriage reaches the top or bottom of its travel. Roller 66 is yieldably mounted on rod 70 of piston 106 sliding in a top vented cylinder fixed to the carriage 30. Compressed air may be admitted to the cylinder below the piston through a reducing valve and a stop valve 110 opened by a cam 122 carried by the roller mounting, when the piston falls below the midway point in the cylinder, which is connected by airline 112 to a relief valve 114, a pressure-operated stop and reversing switch 144, and pressureoperated rheostats 116, 120. Strip is threaded through the looper when the carriage is in its lowest position, and compressed air is admitted to the cylinder after the carriage has been raised by manual control (not shown) of hoist motor 54, with piston 106 in its lowest position from which it rises against strip tension until the valve 110 is closed by the cam. The pressure falls as the piston rises until at a critical value the pressure switch starts the motor 54 to hoist the carriage to the top of its stroke, controlled by rheostat 116 so that speed increases with falling pressure. On a rise in strip tension, as by cessation of input, the piston is pulled down by the roller 66 and compresses the air in the cylinder so that the pressure switch first stops and then reverses the hoist motor, lowering the carriage under control of the rheostat 120, speed increasing with rising pressure. Strip is thus payed out until the carriage reaches its lowest position. On cessation of output, the strip tension on roller 66 slackens and the carriage is raised as before to absorb the excess input. The time of travel of the piston in its cylinder is proportioned to allow the hoist motor to run up to compensating speed before the piston reaches its limit. Strip breakage causes a rapid rise of roller 66, and the forked ends 98 of arm 92 are lifted to open switch 90 in the circuit of the motors driving the rolls 12, 14, 16, 18. In a modification (not shown), the control circuit regulates the downward carriage movement only, upward movement being manually controlled.
Patent GB-1269293-A (GB)
Title: Rotating turnover assembly
IPC: B21D43/10
Filed: 1970-06-02
Abstract: 1,269,293. Stamping. ISI MFG. Inc. 2 June, 1970 [8 Dec., 1969], No. 26661/70. Heading B3Q. Apparatus for turning-over workpieces, e.g. to form a stack of stampings from a press, comprises a support 10 for a body 36 carrying a shaft 70 on which is mounted a work-gripper 96, a slide-guide 54 extending through the body 36 and supporting a slide 62 which carries a toothed rack 64 and is moved by a pneumatic &c. cylinder 56, and a pinion 74 on the shaft 70 meshing with the rack, movement of the rack being limited to produce 180 degrees of rotation of the gripper-shaft 70. The apparatus is mounted on an arm 20.
Patent GB-267424-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to locomotives
IPC: B61C1/02
Filed: 1926-10-25
Abstract: 267,424. Thormann, W. Oct. 25, 1926. Railway locomotives of articulated construction. -A two-part articulated locomotive comprises a boiler section 2 and a tender section 5, driven by cylinders 8, 7 respectively, the tender section supporting the over-hanging rear end of the boiler section at 6, and the firebox 3 and ashpan 4 depending below the overhanging end of the boiler section so that their sides are clear of the rear wheels of this section. Water and coal supplies are carried in tanks or bunkers 9, 10, 11.
Patent GB-1151711-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Heat Treatment of Sludges
IPC: B01J8/32
Filed: 1966-06-15
Abstract: 1,151,711. Controlling combustion. CHARBONNAGES DE FRANCE. 15 June, 1966 [16 June, 1965], No. 26727/66. Heading F4B. Partially combustible solids in the form of paste or sludge are fed by a screw 10 to a distributer 11 to disperse them over a zinc above a fluidized bed 12. Air and/or oxygen is supplied from a wind box 3 through passages in a hearth 4 having flared outlets. Supplementary fuel or a vaporizable non-combustible liquid acting as a coolant is introduced into the narrower part of the air outlets. The temperature of the bed is maintained by regulation of the supply of fuel or coolant, and the temperature above the bed is maintained at a constant higher level by regulating the input of paste or slurry.
Patent GB-1209409-A (GB)
Title: Epoxy resin surface coating compositions and their use
Inventor: ALLEN ROY ANTHONY
IPC: C09D163/00
Filed: 1969-05-27
Abstract: 1,209,409. Coatings. SHELL INTERNATIONALE RESEARCH MAATSCHAPPIJ N.V. 27 May, 1969 [29 May, 1968], No. 26757/ 69. Heading B2E. [Also in Division C3] Steel sheets are coated with dispersions containing as solid components: (I) a solid polyepoxide and (II) a solid curing agent for I which are dispersed in (III) a liquid hydrocarbon thinner, b.p. <250‹C. which contains at least 70 % by volume of saturated hydrocarbons and at least 30% by volume of aromatics. I may be a polyglycidyol ether of bisphenol A. II may be 3, 3', 4, 4'-benzophenone tetracarboxylic dianhydride, trimellitic anhydride, a heat reactive phenolformaldehyde resin, a stannons salt of a C 5-30  monocarboxylic acid or triphenyl phosphine. In examples dispersions are applied by drawing down, are first air dried and then cured by heating, e.g. for up to 20 mins. at 177‹C or up to 5 mins. at 240‹C.
Patent GB-142402-A (GB)
Title: Improved gyroscopic toys
IPC: A63H11/14
Filed: 1919-10-31
Abstract: 142,402. Askam, J. F. Oct. 31, 1919. Mechanical toys.-A gyroscopic toy capable of propulsion along a floor &c. without the use of guiding-rails &c. comprises a gyroscopic balancewheel d rotating on a horizontal or inclined axis e and carried in a frame a fixed to the body of the toy, which is supported by a single driving-wheel h and a rigid strut k, on which the toy is unstable when at rest. The balance-wheel is geared to the driving-wheel, so that when it is rotated the toy will run along the floor. An additional strut may be arranged in front of the wheel h. According to the Provisional Specification, the driving-wheel may be driven by string, clockwork, &c., the driving and balance wheels may be separately driven, and the rear strut or tail piece may be hinged vertically and provided with a small wheel.