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Patent GB-122216-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Lifting Jacks and the like for use on Motor Road and other Vehicles.
Inventor: RAPSON FREDERICK LIONEL
IPC: B60S9/22
Filed: 1917-12-17
Abstract: 122,216. Rapson, F. L. Dec 17, 1917. Jacks.-A lifting-jack for raising motor road and other vehicles is detachably connected to the vehicle by pins 6 which engage one or more hook members 5 secured to the axle or to the vehicle spring 2 adjacent to the axle. The pins 6, Fig. 1, are formed on an extension 7 of a sleeve 8 mounted in a casing 10 and fixed at its lower end to an internally threaded nut 11 which is engaged by a screw 12 rotated through bevel gears 18, 19 by the movement of a handle inserted in the socket 22. The handle is preferably of T-shape and may be constructed to fold up. Anti-friction balls 15 are held between semicircular grooves 13, 14 formed in the upper side of the thread on the screw 12 and in the lower side of the thread on the nut 11, respectively. The outer ends of the groove 14 are connected by a channel 16 which permits circulation of the balls. The sleeve is guided by a screw 17<1> which projects into a slot 17. Accidental lowering is prevented by a pawl and ratchet 24, 23. An annular cover-plate 25 renders the casing 10 dust-proof. An extension 9 on the sleeve 8 takes under the axle 3 when the jack is in operative position. The plate carrying the hooks 5 is secured to the spring 2 near the front axle by a U-shaped bolt 4, Fig. 4, and to the rear axle by a strap 28, Fig. 5. In the latter construction, the projection 9 on the jack bears against an extension 29 of the hooks. In a modification, the jack is secured to the vehicle by a head on the jack or vehicle which slides in rebates in a plate on the vehicle or jack.
Patent GB-595901-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to machines for washing screw stoppers for bottles and similar small articles or parts
IPC: A47L15/24
Filed: 1945-07-21
Abstract: 595,901. Washing bottle stoppers. DAWSON BROS., Ltd., DAWSON, D., and DAWSON, G. July 21, 1945, No. 18747. [Class 138 (i)] A machine for washing bottle stoppers and like small articles comprises a soaking section A and a washing and rinsing section B, through which the articles are fed in an endless conveyer to a draining section C. The articles are introduced through a feed hopper 1, having banles 2 to control their passage, on to a conveyer belt 3 which carries them through the soaking section A and thence upwards into the section B, crossangle pieces being provided on the belt to carry the articles up the incline. In the section B, the articles are sprayed from jet pipes 5x, supplied from a pump 10 driven by a motor 9 which also drives the conveyer. The soaking and washing tanks are heated by steam pipes 12 and the washing tank is fitted with filter trays 13 to prevent particles of labels returning into it. From the section B, the articles are carried through a shoot 6 into a wire mesh collecting basket 7 in the draining tank 8.
Patent GB-1045832-A (GB)
Title: Device for the production and emission of heat and light radiation
IPC: F21V9/40
Filed: 1963-05-13
Abstract: 1045832 Lamps A R LECAPLAIN 13 May 1963 [12 May 1962 4 Oct 1962] 18771/63 Headings H 1 F F2A 1 B and F2A 1 GX [Also in Division H5] A device for the production and emission of both light and heat energy comprises a casing 1 of cylindrical form having within it a holder 10 for supporting a source of light and heat i.e. an electric lamp bulb 6, and at least two reflectors each constituted by two or more coaxial parabolic segmental rings, the reflectors being disposed axially on opposite sides of the lamp 6. In Fig. 1 upper and lower reflectors 18, 17 are held in the casing 1 by fittings 21, 30 of spring steel wire. Air can enter the device through slots in the pedestal 2 supporting the casing and can pass round and through the reflectors and round the lamp 6 to be heated thereby. The heated air leaves at the open top end of the casing 1. Corrugations 5 may be provided to increase the heat exchange surface area of the casing. The upper reflector 18 has a central part 25 hinged at 28, so that it may be pivoted to allow light to pass direct from the lamp 6 out through the open top end of the casing 1. The holder 10 carries a collar consisting of small coloured plates 7, 8, 9 so that the light emitted may be of a desired colour selected by rotation of the lamp by means of a knurled rim 12. In alternative embodiments two or more lamps may be mounted in a cylindrical casing each with upper and lower reflector assemblies and openings with sliding covers may be provided in the sides of the casing to give direct illumination. Also, openings with pivoted flap-like covers may be provided to give colour illumination near the base of the device. Furthermore the device may be mounted for universal movement on a telescopic arm on a base so that the casing may be disposed horizontally or vertically as desired.
Patent GB-595873-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to hair curlers
IPC: A45D2/24
Filed: 1945-07-23
Abstract: 595,873. Hair curlers. LITTLE, C. R. July 23, 1945, No. 18774. [Class 131] A hair curler comprises a V-shaped gripper 1, 1 and a retaining strip 4 which has an interposed loop 3 hinging it to the junction 2 of the limbs of the gripper and a second fastening loop 5. Each of the limbs of the gripper has a slot 6 one or both of which are engaged by a projection 7 on the fastening loop 5 when the curler is closed. Specification 558,575 is referred to.
Patent GB-666922-A (GB)
Title: Machine for disintegrating materials
IPC: B02C13/18
Filed: 1949-07-16
Abstract: 666,922. Impact pulverizers. SAFETY CAR HEATING & LIGHTING CO., Inc. July 16, 1949. [Aug. 13, 1948] No. 18786. Class 59. In an impact pulverizer for individual solid particles which are delivered on to a rotor having radial vanes which direct the material tangentially from the periphery of the rotor to discrete targets arranged annularly round the rotor, the targets are positioned in circumferentiallyspaced groups each forming a multi-target member, the individual targets of which form apertures between them extending in the tangential direction of flow of rotor. Each multi-target member 56 comprises three elongated targets 60, 62, 64 arranged with apertures 61, 62 bepart being fixed to a shaft 18 rotated by a motor 14, the centre of gravity of the lower part 38 coinciding with the centre of a bearing 17 for the shaft 18. The two parts 38, 40 of the rotor 36 are separated by radial vanes 44 between which particles supplied by a shoot 24 on the upper surface of the lower part 38 of the rotor 36 pass before being thrown in a direction tangential to the periphery of the rotor 36 against the target faces of multi-target members 56 arranged in a circle round the rotor. Each multi-target member 56 comprises three elongated targets 60, 62, 64 arranged with apertures 61, 62 between them in a holder which is supported in position in a hole 57 in the top wall of the casing 2 of the apparatus. The centre target 62 of each multi-target member 56 is tapered so that the apertures 61, 63 between the targets are tapered. Each multitarget member 56 is disposed so that the apertures 61, 63 lie on a tangent from the periphery of the rotor 36 and sufficiently closely to one another that no tangent from the rotor 36 passes between adjacent members 56. Pulverized material passes downwardly into the hopper 6. The supply shoot 24 is provided with a lip 30, which extends across the inlet opening of the apparatus, and a lip 29, the two lips 29, 30 together assisting the distributicn of particles over the upper surface of the lower part 38 of the rotor 36.
Patent GB-220149-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in machines for cleaning cotton-waste and other fibrous substances
IPC: D01G9/08
Filed: 1923-07-21
Abstract: 220,149. Hamer, J., and Cross, T. W. July 21, 1923. Interconnecting guard or protector with starting-gear.-In a machine for opening and cleaning cotton waste &c. a cleaning roller 15 is mounted on pivoted arms 16 and can be swung into position to operate on the roller 3, which is enclosed by a pivoted guard 26. The guard 26 and arms 16 are connected by a link 27. The arms 16 are locked in the inoperative position until the driving belt is placed on the loose pulley 37. A vertical rod 27a engages a notch in a quadrant 16a on the arm 16 and rests at its lower end on a cam 28 on a spindle 29 turned by the starting- handle 33. When the cam is turned the rod 27<a> is lowered and the arm 16 is free to move. When the roller 15 is in its operative position the rod 27<a> engages the curved part of the quadrant 16a and prevents the handle 33 being turned to restart the machine.
Patent GB-367696-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to internally illuminated signs
IPC: F21V33/00
Filed: 1931-06-30
Abstract: 367,696. Luminous signs. MANWOOD, G. A. and MANWOOD, A. F., of Manwood, Miller, & Co., Sandy Lane, Tame Valley, Dukinfield, Lancashire. June 30, 1931, No. 18835. [Class 3 (ii).] A sign comprises a casing 1 provided with light-transmitting facias 2 and a reflector 10 at the bottom of the casing in which a lamp 21 is arranged so as to illuminate the sign and serve also as a street lamp. Each facia 2 is preferably a translucent glass plate held in a removable frame 3 which is provided with slotted lugs 4 adapted to be engaged by hinged bolts 6 with nuts 7 mounted on the casing. The aperture 9 may be left open or closed by a glass disc having a central opening to accommodate the lamp. The lamp holder 13 is preferably held in a collar 19 provided with screwed projections 18 engaging slotted members 17 which depend from a central collar 15 on a bridge member 14, the lamp thus being vertically adjustable. The casing, which is preferably circular, is lined with a reflecting surface and may be enclosed in an outer shell of any desired form.
Patent GB-335248-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to loud speakers, telephones, microphones and the like
IPC: H04R19/00
Filed: 1929-06-20
Abstract: 335,248. Vogt, H. Oct. 4, 1928, [Convention date]. Condenser telephones.-Relates to an electrostatic loud-speaker, telephone, microphone &c. of the type in which a vibratable diaphragm is disposed face to face with a condenser plate as described in Specification 282,628 or between two condenser plates, the diaphragm being insulated from the plate or plates and consists in the employment of an insulating medium consisting of a varnish comprising a lacquer base and a more conductive pulverulent material, e.g., slate powder or lead oxide. The dielectric constant of the insulating medium is preferably greater than 4. The insulating medium preferably employed is a cellulose varnish e.g., a nitro-cellulose varnish and this is rendered slightly conductive by incorporating therewith 30 per cent by weight of slate powder. Such a composition has a dielectric constant of about 12. The slate powder may be replaced by lead oxide. The coating, which is preferably disposed on the condenser plate or plates, may be applied by spraying and preferably several layers are employed. The varnished surfaces are preferably smoothed after application by grinding. The Specification as open to inspection under Sect. 91 (3) (a) comprises also the use of lead compounds generally with a lacquer base. This subject-matter does not appear in the Specification as accepted.
Patent GB-1312862-A (GB)
Title: Method for recovering palladium and gold from residues
IPC: C22B3/26
Filed: 1971-06-04
Abstract: 1312862 Recovering palladium and/or gold GIRDLER-S DCHEMIE KATALYSATOR GmbH 4 June 1971 [4 June 1970] 19045/71 Heading C7D A method of recovering palladium and/or gold from impure acid solutions of their salts contaminated with other metal compounds and/or silica comprises treating the acid solution with an open-chain unsaturated alkine having 2 to 8 carbon atoms, together with air or oxygen. The method is particularly suited to the recovery of the noble metals from spent catalysts, the catalysts being treated with acid to provide solutions of chlorides, nitrates or sulphates. The alkine may be propylene or ethylene, which is supplied as a mixture with air; alternatively, a liquid alkine, such as octene-1 is used in the pressure of air.
Patent GB-201023-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in brush making machines
IPC: A46D3/06
Filed: 1922-07-11
Abstract: 201,023. Briton Brush Co., Ltd., and Page, E. B. July 11, 1922. Drilling brush stocks. -A modification of the brushmaking machine in Specification 177,879 comprises a turret 1 of pyramidal or conical form which is adapted to be intermittently rotated about a vertical axis and carries a number of angularly-disposed clamps, to each of which a brush stock is delivered at a predetermined point in a revolution of the turret, means being provided for closing and opening the clamps automatically to hold and release the stocks. The turret is mounted upon a vertical spindle 2 rotatable in bearings carried by frame members 4. The members are slidably mounted in the bed 13 of the machine and are reciprocated to and from the drills 12 by means of a rotating cam 14 and a connecting rod 15. A ratchet wheel 16 carried by the vertical spindle 2 is engaged by a longitudinally-immovable pawl 17 each time the turret moves away from the drills, the turret being given thereby an intermittent rotation to bring the clamps, in turn, into position for presentation of the stocks to the drills. To ensure correct positioning of the turret a registering plate 17<a> is provided which is formed with peripheral slots 17<b> for engagement with a fixed stop 17<c>. The clamps comprise each a fixed jaw 6 and a movable jaw 7, the latter being preferably in two parts connected by a screw and permitted a certain amount of play by the interposition of a spring (not shown). Each movable jaw is provided with a pin 9 which co-operates with' cams 10, 11 for the closing and opening movements, respectively, of the jaw. Each clamp is adapted to be closed when moving into the drilling position. The brush stocks are stored in a hopper, the bottom end of which is open and disposed so that each clamp, in turn, comes into registration with the opening to receive a stock. The finished stocks may be removed from the clamp by hand or automatically, as shown, by means of a sickleshaped cam 20, the plane of which is horizontal. The cam is of gradually-increasing width and is adapted to pass under the stocks through slots 21 in the side members of the clamps. The point of the cam enters the slots in a clamp when it has left the drilling position and ejects the stock before the clamp has reached the hopper.
Patent GB-248251-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in brake lining
IPC: F16D69/04
Filed: 1925-07-27
Abstract: 248,251. Mobley, L. K. July 27, 1925. Band.-Devices for attaching a lining Ex to a brake band Ax comprise narrow metal strips Cx extending at intervals across and embedded in the lining, the strips being provided with flexible ears C adapted to be bent over the edges of the band. The band may have slots or recesses D spaced apart at predetermined distances to accommodate the ears.
Patent GB-1149487-A (GB)
Title: Method of manufacturing bricks
Inventor: CONWAY ERIC VINCENT
IPC: C04B38/06
Filed: 1966-04-29
Abstract: 1,149,487. Fired clay bricks. REDLAND BRICKS Ltd. 29 April, 1966, No. 19073/66. Heading C1J. Building bricks are made by incorporating, in a clay mix, a proportion of fibres capable of being burnt out during firing, forming the mix into bricks, and drying and firing the bricks so as to burn out the fibres. The fibres are preferably chopped straw. The clay mix containing the fibres may be preheated with steam, prior to shaping and drying. The bricks may be dried at 225-250‹ F. by dielectric heating, and fired at, for example, 1050‹ C. In an example the raw mix comprises clay, ground chalk, crushed coke breeze and chopped straw.
Patent GB-503944-A (GB)
Title: Coating and method for applying same
IPC: C04B28/26
Filed: 1937-07-09
Abstract: 503,944. Coating-compositions; coating processes. SOC. DE PRODUITS IGNIFUGES ET REFRACTAIRES. July 9, 1937 No. 19080. Void. Convention date, July 10, 1936. [Class 95] A coating-composition comprises an alkali silicate, substances forming an insoluble compound therewith, e.g. charcoal ash, barium sulphtite, or clay, and aluminium powder or a compound of aluminium. The coating may be dried and hardened in carbon dioxide. The coating may be painted over with silicate paint, oil paint, or with lacs.
Patent GB-187032-A (GB)
Title: Improvement in entrance chambers for water turbines
IPC: F03B13/08
Filed: 1921-07-15
Abstract: 187,032. Armfield & Co., Ltd., J. J., (Honold, R.). July 15, 1921. Working-fluid supply.-A water turbine of known type, such as the " Francis " turbine, having the rotor 1 partly below the head-water line is provided with an entrance chamber 4, in which the upper boundary surface 5 is above the headwater line. The water enters the chamber 4 at a lower level than head-water line, and is caused to rise and fill the chamber either by the formation of vortices in the water or by some known form of ejector or pump operated either by external power or directly by the flow of water from the head to the tail-water levels. In a modification, the upper boundary of the entrance chamber is at or below the head-water line, but the water therein is at a pressure less than atmospheric by the velocity of the water passing to the turbine or by some known form of ejector or pump.
Patent GB-1501106-A (GB)
Title: Emulsifier systems
IPC: A23L29/10
Filed: 1974-05-01
Abstract: 1501106 Emulsifier blend UNILEVER Ltd 30 April 1975 [1 May 1974] 19106/74 Heading C5C A homogeneous emulsifier blend comprising 50-88% w./w. C 14 -C 22  saturated fatty acid monoglyceride, 2-40% w./w. C 14 -C 22  saturated free fatty acid, 0-30% w./w. C 14 -C 22  saturated fatty acid diglyceride and 2-6% w./w. ionic surfactant, e.g. a Na or K soap of a fatty acid. Exemplified is a monoglyceride with 63 wt. per cent stearate and 27 wt. per cent palmitate, a free acid with 54 wt. per cent stearic and 42 wt. per cent palmitic and a soap with 62% stearate and 32 wt. per cent palmitate.
Patent GB-352220-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in jars and like containers for toilet preparations
IPC: A45D40/18
Filed: 1930-06-23
Abstract: 352,220. Jars. McINTYRE, A. J., Tyssen Street, Dalston, London. June 23, 1930, Nos. 19112 and 31286. [Classes 125 (i) and 125 (iii).] A non-metallic jar 1, for face creams and the like, having a screw-threaded neck for engagement with a screw-threaded lid 2, is fitted with a mirror 3 secured to the underside of the base of the jar, or to the interior of the lid.
Patent GB-357548-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to carbon and like processes employed in colour photography
IPC: G03C7/20
Filed: 1930-06-23
Abstract: 357,548. Photographic processes. OLIVER, L. W., CLARE, W. G., and COLOUR PHOTOGRAPHS (BRITISH & FOREIGN), Ltd., Victoria Road, Willesden, London. June 23, 1930, No. 19127. [Class 98 (ii).] Bichromated colloid and catatype processes; photomechanical printing surfaces.-In the production, more especially for colour photography, of colloid relief images by a differential hardening process such as the carbon or " carbro " process, the colloid image layers are carried during development on temporary supports of regenerated cellulose (e.g. " cellophane "), which is transparent, homogeneous, permeable to water, and retentive of its strength and toughness when wet, and are transferred after development to a final support of paper, ivory, glass, canvas, silk, metal, &c. The transfer process comprises (1) soaking the developed sheet in water, (2) placing it face downwards on the final support after coating this with an adhesive such as dilute gelatin solution, (3) drying partially or completely, and if desired immersing in a hardening bath of alum, formalin or acrolein, and (4) stripping off the temporary support. If the intermediate drying step is carried-to completion, stripping may be preceded by immersion in water only. The relief images may be used as etching resists for photogravure, after transfer to metal supports, and may be used, in particular, for producing roller printing- surfaces. Specification 340,605 is referred to.
Patent GB-209441-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to titanium compounds
IPC: C22B34/12
Filed: 1922-07-12
Abstract: Titaniferous material such as ilmenite is heated with the theoretical quantity or less of sulphuric acid and the product is treated at a temperature near the boiling point with a limited quantity of water, some of which may be added as water of crystallization in ferrous sulphate.  At the same time iron is added to reduce any ferric compounds.  Preferably the surface of the liquor is covered with a layer of inert liquid such as paraffin, vaseline, or oil to prevent evaporation, and the temperature is maintained near to the boiling point until the bulk of the titanium sulphate has been hydrolyzed with the production of titanium oxide.  The titanium oxide is separated from the unchanged ilmenite, if any, by decantation or levigation and from the mother liquor by filtration.  The mother liquor is cooled to crystallize out ferrous sulphate and the remaining liquor which contains free sulphuric acid and some titanium sulphate is used to add to a new batch.  Specifications 102,059 and 159,532 are referred to.
Patent GB-1367404-A (GB)
Title: Self-reeling hose winch
IPC: A01G25/09
Filed: 1972-04-25
Abstract: 1367404 Winches FARROW IRRIGATION Ltd 24 April 1973 [25 April 1972] 19208/72 Heading B8B [Also in Division A1] A self reeling winch for a flexible hose 11 comprises a horizontal winch drum 1, a guide 3 for guiding the hose from below the drum to the upper surface thereof and means for reciprocating the upper end of the guide 3 across the width of the drum in response to rotation of the drum. The arcuate channel shaped guide 3 is mounted in bearings 5 for pivoting movement about the axis B to permit the said reciprocation of the upper end of the guide. The reciprocation is produced by a cam follower 6 of the guide 3 engaging a spiral cam groove on a cylinder 7 driven by the drum 1. The upper end of the guide includes a lever arm 9 pivoted to a bracket 8 at the end of the channel section of the guide, a base guide member 12 and guide ring 10 and a spring loaded jockey pulley 13. A further pulley 14 is provided for guiding the base when it extends away from the drum without passing under the drum. This arrangement permits winding or unwinding hose to or from the drum irrespective of which direction the hose extends from the drum. Fillets are provided on side flanges 2 of the drum to elevate the guide ring 10 once a layer of hose has been laid, ready to commence the next layer, and the drum may have a helical groove thereon. The drum is driven by water pressure through a slipping clutch.
Patent GB-192632-A (GB)
Abstract: 192,632. O'Neil, P. P. March 15, 1922. Vehicle lamps. - In a rear lamp for cycles provided with the usual red glass h, one or both side windows b are constructed of transparent glass, the edge c of which may be coloured. Such coloured portion may be blown or cast with the lens or may be otherwise applied.
Patent GB-701233-A (GB)
Title: Bio-oxidation of steroids
IPC: A61K31/573
Filed: 1951-08-15
Abstract: 11-Oxygenated steroids having a pregnane carbon skeleton are obtained by aerobically incubating a steroid having a pregnane carbon skeleton and which is unoxygenated in the eleven position of the steroid nucleus, with previously comminuted mammalian adrenal gland tissue, in an aqueous nutrient medium and separating by known methods the 11-oxygenated adrenal cortical steroid from the incubation reaction mixture.  The incubation may be effected at 20-40 DEG C.  As steroid starting materials there may be used 11-desoxycorticosterone, progesterone 3-hydroxy-pregnane-20-one, 3-hydroxy-D 5-pregnene-20-one, 17-hydroxyprogesterone, 11-desoxy-17-hydroxycorticosterone and acylated and alkylated derivatives thereof.