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Patent GB-233061-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to non-refillable bottles
IPC: B65D49/06
Filed: 1924-02-06
Abstract: 233,061. Clarke, W., (Tosi Soc. Anon., F.). Feb. 6, 1924. Bottles, non-refillable. -A non-refillable bottle is formed with an enlargement 1 in the neck so as to form an internal shoulder 3 of slightly less diameter than the neck. A tubular cork 4 is carried by the shoulder and supports a disc valve 6 held in place by a ball 7. The baffle device comprises a tube 8 closed at the lower end and held in place by the engagement of a spring 9 in a recess 11. Apertures 13 are formed in the walls of the tube below the level of a tubular cork 12. In a modification, Fig. 5, the ball is controlled by a casing 14, apertured at 15 and with grooves 18 to facilitate the flow of liquid. Specifications 4816/96, 5720/04, 13696/10, 25372/10, and 7505/13 are referred to.
Patent GB-396406-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to boxes or cartons used as display devices
IPC: B60B27/00
Filed: 1932-02-02
Abstract: 396,406. Display cartons. SHIRLEY, F. J., 33, Alexandra Grove, North Finchley, London. Feb. 2, 1932, No. 3136. [Class 18.] A carton adapted to be used as a display device of the type comprising a body with a shelf such as 30 substantially parallel to and spaced above the bottom extending partly across the body from one wall towards an opposite wall so as to leave a gap to give access to the contained articles, is provided with an upstanding display partition 31 at the end of the shelf which projects above the top of the box. The body is made from two blanks 12, 14, Fig. 3, secured together at 26, sections 16, 21 constituting the front wall, 15, 17, 23, 24 the side walls, 19 the back and 20 the base. The lap 26 is secured by staples or adhesives to one end of the side section 15, and a lap 25 to the side section 17, the sections 15, 17 carrying flanges 27, 28 inwardly directed in the erected box body. A shelf 30 and display flap 31 preferably integral therewith are arranged as shown in Fig. 1, a crease line 34 permitting the display flap to fold down level with the top. The box may be closed by a panel with its two ends turned down into the ends 16, 19 of the body. According to the Provisional Specification, the box body is made of two blanks, one consisting of an outer front wall and an outer end wall at either end, the other consisting of an inner front wall, a base and a rear wall in alignment, and two inner side walls hinged to the base, laps on the rear wall being attached to the outer end walls. The front wall is apertured and a third blank affixed by a lap, thus providing a shelf and a display flap. The rear wall may be apertured, or perforated and scored or otherwise weakened to permit a segment to be torn away to give access to contents. The shelf may be at the same height as the side walls. Cardboard, strawboard, sheet metal, &c. may be used for making the boxes.
Patent GB-1444093-A (GB)
Title: Pressure distributing device and a method and apparatus for making a pressed article using such a device
IPC: B21D47/00
Filed: 1973-01-22
Abstract: 1444093 Laminating press IMPERIAL CHEMICAL INDUSTRIES Ltd 27 Dec 1973 [22 Jan 1973] 3176/73 Headings B5N and B5F [Also in Division F2] An apparatus suitable for use in a method of making a pressed article by pressing a workpiece comprises (a) a press having at least two press platens 3, (b) a pair of press-plates 2 interposed between the press platens for receiving the workpiece 1 therebetween and (c) a pressure distributing device disposed between the press plates and one of the platens, the pressure distributing device comprising a supporting plate and a plurality of disc spring units disposed adjacent to one another over the surface of the supporting plate, each disc spring unit being located on the supporting plate by a rivet extending through the central orifice of the unit. A disc spring unit is defined as being either a single disc or a plurality of disc springs stacked one upon the other, a disc spring being defined as being a frusto-conical disc of metal, e.g. spring steel or phosphor bronze, having a central orifice, which disc may or may not have a circular perimeter, and which is able to elastically absorb deformations caused by an outside load. The disc spring units are preferably positioned on the supporting plate with the wider parts of their conical discs resting on the plate; alternatively, the units may be positioned with the narrower parts of their conical discs resting on the plate. The discs of a unit may be stacked all facing in the same direction; alternatively, they may be stacked facing in alternate directions. By using single disc springs or composite disc springs of differing characteristics, it is possible to provide preselected parts of the device, which in use, transmit differential pressures in a controlled and preselected manner. In the embodiment shown, wherein 12 polyvinyl chloride foils are laminated under heat and pressure, two pressure distributing devices are used, each device consisting of the spring units 4 sandwiched between steel sheets 5, the platens being drilled for the circulation of steam and cooling water.
Patent GB-223467-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to garages
IPC: E04H6/10
Filed: 1924-02-07
Abstract: 223,467. Pistor, F. Feb. 7, 1924. Garages.-A circular or elliptic garage is provided with two tracks a, a<2>, inclined in the same direction, with storage compartments f between and communicating at both ends with the tracks. The walls of the compartments may be curved to correspond to the movement of a car entering and leaving. Business premises or dwellings may be erected around the garage, the floors of which may be accessible from the outer track.
Patent GB-1177452-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to Monorail Conveyors
IPC: B61H13/00
Filed: 1968-01-22
Abstract: 1,177,452. Track brakes. BECORIT GRUBENAUSBAU G.m.b.H. 22 Jan., 1968 [20 Jan., 1967], No. 3207/68. Addition to 1,109,046. Heading F2E. [Also in Division B7] A vehicle for running along a monorail 1, 2, 3, Figs. 1 and 2, comprises a bogie having side plates 4, and provided with two pairs of running wheels 11, 11, arranged on opposite sides of the rail web 1 and engaging the upper surfaces of the lower rail flange 3, the invention consisting in that within each wheel 11 and coaxial therewith is a brake shoe 16 urged towards the web 1 by spring rings 18 and retractable from the web by pressure fluid acting on a piston 12 connected to the shoe 16. The brake shoe 16 is secured on a piston-rod 13 passing through a bearing 9 in a piston and cylinder unit 5 secured to the respective side plate 4 by bolts 8. The chamber 21 between the bearing 9 and the piston 12 is connected by a duct 20 and a feed connection 19 to a source of fluid pressure. In another form, the shoe is urged against the web 1 by fluid pressure and retracted therefrom by springs. Guide wheels 27 and 26 are provided at the ends of the bogie, the wheels 26 being pivotally connected to the bogie at 29 and urged by springs 30 against the web 1. Either one or both of the axles of the wheels 26 can be connected, in any suitable manner, to a speed dependent brake applying device (not shown). The device may comprise a centrifugal clutch arranged to open a valve in the pressure fluid circuit.
Patent GB-123314-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Device for Varying the Point of Ignition in Electric Ignition Apparatus.
IPC: F02P5/02
Filed: 1919-02-10
Abstract: 123,314. Akt.-Ges. Brown, Boveri, et Cie. Feb. 9, 1918, [Convention date]. Addition to 117,447. R o t a r y interrupters; timing-devices.-In ignition timing-apparatus comprising an intermediate member f between the cam h and the interrupter lever d, as described in the parent Specification, the member f is a bell-crank, h a v i n g its pivotal axis g at right-angles to the axis of the cam h; the arm f bears on the edge or face of the cam, and the arm f<1> engages the lever d at a point on the cam axis, so that the leverage of the interrupter lever remains constant. The pivot g is formed on a disk l controlled by a handle i.
Patent GB-776198-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in electric accumulators
Inventor: GRAY ROBIN
IPC: H01M10/04
Filed: 1955-02-04
Abstract: 776,198. Batteries. CHLORIDE ELECTRICAL STORAGE CO., Ltd. Nov. 16, 1955 [Feb. 4, 1955], No. 3316/55. Class 53. A storage battery comprises a lower compartment b containing the plates c and separators d and an upper compartment a having a gas vent h to atmosphere and a restricted gas vent f from the upper part of compartment b, the lower parts of the compartments being connected through ducts g. At the normal charging rate, the gas evolved passes through the restriction f and through the vent h to atmosphere. If the charging rate is too high, the abnormal amount of gas evolved is unable to pass through the restriction f quickly enough and the gas pressure in the compartment b forces the electrolyte through the ducts g into the compartment a until the gassing is at the normal rate. The restricted gas vent may be one or more holes f as shown or may be a microporous plug in the upper end of the tube e.
Patent GB-524539-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in mudguards, wings, and like attachments for vehicles
IPC: B62D25/16
Filed: 1939-02-01
Abstract: 524,539. Mudguards &c. DUNLOP RUBBER CO., Ltd., and SADLER, S. Feb. 1, .1939, Neo. 3367. [Class 136 (i)] A vehicle mudguard or wing is formed in two or more portions at least one of which is composed of rubber yieldingly and separably attached to the adjacent portion of the wing by connecting-members adapted to be sprung into and out of resilient engagement with apertures formed in the portion or portions composed of rubber, whereby damage due to accidental impacts is minimized, and damaged parts may be readily replaced. As shown, two segmental portions 1, 2 of vulcanized rubber are formed with integral flanges 3, 4 adapted to abut and pierced with apertures 5, 5a which register with one another and receive the connecting- members. A downwardly-extending bead 7 on the portion 1 overlaps the joint between the flanges and excludes dirt &c. One form of connecting-member, Fig. 2, comprises a threaded stem part 8 secured to the flange 3 by washers 11 and a nut 12 and provided with an extension 9 terminating in an enlarged head 10 of rounded conical shape adapted to be sprung through one of the holes 5, 5a in the flange 4. In the form shown in Fig. 3, a rounded head 10 is formed at both ends of the stem 9. The rubber flange 4 may be formed with a keyhole slit 13 to allow the trailing portion 2 to yield more readily to accidental impacts.
Patent GB-1028251-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to a hinge mounting for pivotal and tiltable windows
IPC: E05D7/085
Filed: 1964-01-27
Abstract: 1,028,251. Window pivots. V. B. K. RASMUSSEN. Jan. 27, 1964 [Jan. 31, 1963] No. 3381/64. Heading E2F. In a friction hinge mounting for pivotal and tiltable windows comprising interengaging arcuate guide members 7 and 12, a section 7<SP>1</SP> of the arc shaped guides 7 is pivotable about a pin 15, such that when the frame and sash members 3 and 4 are relatively positioned as in Fig. 4 (not shown), the sash may be further swung open about the pin 15. Anticlockwise movement of the sash member is arrested by an end portion 20 of an arcuate guide member 19, whereas clockwise movement is governed by a shoulder 18. In a modification, Figs. 6 and 7 (not shown), the arc shaped guide 7 is wholly secured to the frame member 3, whilst the coacting arcuate rail 12 is located on a bowl sector 13 which is pivoted about the pin 15 secured to the sash member 4. Pivotal movement in the vicinity of the closed position is similar to that of the previous embodiment with relative rotation of the sash member 4 and rail 12 being prevented by a locking pin 21 sliding within the guide member 7, until it is released at the position corresponding to Fig. 6 (not shown). The sash is further opened about the pin 15. A pin 24 is secured to the base plate 4 and extends through an arc-shaped aperture 25 in the bowl sector 13, to ensure that the plate 13 is arrested in relation to the guide 7 until the base plate 4 has been rotated to the position indicated in Fig. 6 (not shown), before the sash is closed.
Patent GB-854267-A (GB)
Title: A process for the degasification of fuel dust
Inventor: SCHUSTER ERNST
IPC: C10B49/12
Filed: 1957-01-31
Abstract: 854,267. Coking coal. STEINMULLER G.m.b.H., L. & C. Jan. 31, 1957, No. 3389/57. Class 55 (1). Coal dust is blown through a nozzle 2 into a cylindrical degasefying chamber 1 in an axial jet by means of a propellent gas heated above the coking temperature of the dust, the jet being surrounded by a veil of gas formed by introducing an oxidizable gas tangentially through port 3 into the chamber 1 so that it moves in a spiral along the jet from its root, the veil being made sufficiently hot and oxidizing to cause such superficial oxidation of the dust particles that later agglutination does not occur, by mixing the oxidizable gas entering by pipe 4 just before or at its entry into the chamber 1 with an oxidizing gas entering through pipe 6 and then raising the particles to such a temperature that they are degasefied in the chamber 1. The oxidizing medium, which may be air, oxygenenriched air or oxygen, and the oxidizable gas may be preheated to 1000‹ C. by a heat exchanger. In a modification the pipe for the oxidizable gas is concentrically within the pipe for the oxidizing medium.
Patent GB-965940-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to lighting devices
IPC: F21S8/00
Filed: 1962-01-30
Abstract: 965,940. Lighting devices. ANCIENS ETABLISSEMENTS TUZET, and J. WETZEL. Jan. 30, 1962 [Feb. 3, 1961], No. 3416/62. Heading F4R. A lighting device in which the intensity of the emitted light can be gradually increased or decreased comprises a fixed substantially rectilinear light source, shutters disposed in front of the source which by moving in a direction parallel thereto uncover an aperture of adjustable width and reflecting means receiving the rays from the source and dispersing them throughout the illuminated surface irrespective of the width of the aperture. In the form shown, a lamp 2 having a long axial filament is disposed in a casing on front of a cylindrical reflector 5, a series of reflecting blades 4 being arranged in front of the lamp. A pair of shutters 6a, 6b are arranged between the source 2 and the blades 4 being moved symmetrically towards or away from one another by nuts engaging oppositely-threaded screws 8a, 8b which may form part of a single shaft. The screws are driven by a motor 9 through reduction gearing 10. The motor may also drive a fan 14 for cooling the light source. In a modification, the blades are arranged between the shutters and the light source.
Patent GB-1120336-A (GB)
Title: Apparatus and process for locating and/or testing equipment that is being transported through a pipeline
Inventor: BOSSELAAR HENDRIK
IPC: G01M3/24
Filed: 1967-01-24
Abstract: 1,120,336. Acoustic leak-detection. SHELL INTERNATIONALE RESEARCH MAATSCHAPPIJ N.V. 24 Jan., 1967 [26 Jan., 1966], No. 3467/67. Heading H4D. [Also in Division G1] Apparatus and process for locating/or testing equipment that is capable of being transported with the flow of matter through a pipe-line, which equipment is fitted for the observation and, possibly, further processing of acoustic vibrations, for instance, for the purpose of examining pipe-lines for leaks, comprises sources of vibrations placed in predetermined places on the outside of the pipe-line which sources are capable of generating acoustic vibrations such that they can be observed by the equipment. Properly working equipment will record these sources of vibrations when passing them, by which uncertainty as regards the equipment not functioning properly is removed. Moreover the location of a leak can be confined to the interval between two successive sources of vibrations. The sources could be of the type to produce sonic or ultrasonic vibrations.
Patent GB-702633-A (GB)
Title: Stabilizing vinylidene chloride-vinyl chloride copolymers
Inventor: HAVENS CARL BRADFORD
IPC: C08K5/13
Filed: 1952-02-11
Abstract: A copolymer of 85 per cent. to 95 per cent. vinylidene chloride and 15 per cent. to 5 per cent. vinyl chloride and which contains at least 0.1 per cent. of an organic peroxide residue calculated as benzoyl peroxide, is stabilized by mixing with from 0.15 to 3 parts by weight for each part of peroxide, of a dihydric phenol selected from pyrocatechol, resorcinol, hydroquinone, or para-t-butyl catechol, from 0.5 to 3 per cent. based on the weight of the copolymer of an inorganic heat stabilizer selected from tetrasodium pyrophosphate and disodium orthophosphate, and from 3 to 15 per cent. by weight of the copolymer of a plasticizer.  Specified plasticizers are the alkyl, the mono-alkyl, mono-benzyl and the mono-alkyl mono-cyclohexyl diesters of adipic, azelaic and sebacic acids, the diesters of diethylene glycol, dipropylene glycol or triethylene glycol with saturated aliphatic monocarboxylic acids having from 3 to 8 carbon atoms, dibutyl phthalate and ethyl phthalyl ethyl glycollate.
Patent GB-123187-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Shuttle Checking Appliances of Looms for Weaving.
Inventor: MOORE ROBERT
IPC: D03D49/52
Filed: 1918-03-01
Abstract: 123,187. Moore, R. March 1, 1918. Swells. - A spring swell is pivoted at its rear end and has its front end free to slide, the incoming shuttle causing the rear end to turn about its pivot and force the intermediate portion more tightly against the back of the shuttle. A spring swell A in an aperture c in the box back has its bent rear end a bolted &c. to a block a<1> pivoted in a bracket a<2> fixed to the box back or the lay by a bolt passing through a slot in the bracket so that it may be adjusted vertically. The bracket may be made in two parts with lugs a<5> secured together by a bolt a<6>, one lug having a transverse or longitudinal slot a' for adjustment. The swell is cranked at a<8> and its free end a', extending along the box back or its spring hinge-plate, is prevented from outward lateral displacement by a plain or flanged roller a<10>, while an abutment on the bracket a<2> may prevent inward movement. The intermediate portion of the swell is normally inclined inwards towards the outer end of the box, and the incoming shuttle B acting on this portion causes the swell to travel with the shuttle and its rear end to turn on its pivot, thus forcing the intermediate portion more tightly against the shuttle. The pivoted block a' may be connected to the bracket by a light spring to prevent rattling. The rear end nf the swell may be coiled around a pivot or stud; or it may be directly connected with the pivot, the block being dispensed with.
Patent GB-124022-A (GB)
Title: Improved Construction of Gas and Electric Fittings, Candlesticks and Ornaments Generally.
Inventor: HARRINGTON JAMES
IPC: B28B23/00
Filed: 1918-03-01
Abstract: 124,022. Harrington, J. March 1, 1918. Materials, special. - Gas and electric fittings and ornaments are made of reinforced plaster or like cementitious material such as hydrated plaster of paris, or Keene's or Parian cement, alone or mixed with other material such as a glue solution, coated with copper or other metal or metals electro-chemically deposited. The reinforcing means, which may consist of metal coils or mesh, plates, strips, tubes, or the like or a combination of these, is placed in the mould in which the article is cast. The cast article is polished and in some cases ornamented by a graver or other tool before coating with copper &c. The article may have a second coating of silver, nickel, &c. In the manufacture of an electric or gas standard, wrappings or plates of expanded metal, a wire coil, rods, &c. are arranged round a metal tube, rod, or strip screwed at its ends for attachment to the support and to the fittings, and the composition is cast round the tube &c. A wire coil may replace the tube.
Patent GB-789962-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to the burning of cement, ores and the like
Inventor: ALLESO KARL ABSALON
IPC: F27B7/20
Filed: 1954-02-08
Abstract: <PICT:0789962/III/1> Lime is formed into nodules or agglomerates and introduced into a stream of hot gas to flow concurrently with and in suspension with the gas and to be preheated before being burnt.  The average diameter of the nodules is not greater than 2 mms. and the hot gas may be that from the rotary kiln in which the burning occurs. As shown in the Figure, nodules pass from a noduliner 1 to a pipe 14 inserted in a riser pipe 6.  Hot gases from a kiln 2 pass successively through a pipe 4, a cyclone 5, pipe 6 and cyclone 7 to an exhaust fan 3.  The nodules fed through pipe 14 are entrained in the rising hot gas from the kiln in pipe 6, are disengaged in cyclone 7 and pass into pipe 15 inserted in pipe 4. Here they are again entrained and are then disengaged in cyclone 5 from the bottom of which they are fed to the kiln 2 by pipe 17. Specification 789,964, [Group II], is referred to.ALSO:Cement is formed into nodules or agglomerates and introduced into a stream of hot gas to flow concurrently with and in suspension with the gas and to be preheated before being burnt. The hot gas may be that from the rotary kiln in which the burning occurs.  The average size of the nodules or agglomerates is not greater than 2 mms.  Specification 789,964 [Group II] is referred to.
Patent GB-844548-A (GB)
Title: Rotary tilting furnaces
IPC: C21C5/50
Filed: 1958-02-04
Abstract: 844,548. Rotary tilting furnaces. DEMAG A.G. Feb. 4, 1958 [Nov. 11, 1957], No. 3683/58. Class 51 (2). A rotary drum furnace 1 of the type mounted in a tilting cradle 3 rocked by an hydraulic cylinder 4 is provided at the charging end 6 with a cover 7 for use when the furnace is tilted to discharge through opening 5 or through a tap hole (not shown). The cover 7 may be carried by an hydraulic ram 12 on a truck 10 by which it is held against the drum and thereafter secured in position. The drum may be rotated about a vertical axis in turn between a charging device, a waste gases duct and the truck carrying the cover, Fig. 2 (not shown). The truck may be replaced by a fixed support for the covercarrying ram.
Patent GB-1044593-A (GB)
Title: Sulfenyl halides-thionophosphoramido reaction and products thereof
IPC: C07F9/24
Filed: 1965-01-27
Abstract: Compounds of formula <FORM:1044593/C2/1> where n is 1 or 2, R is a C1- 18 organic radical R1 is a C1- 18 organic radical bonded to the phosphorus atom by C, O or S, and R2 and R3 are each hydrogen or organic, are prepared by reacting at 0-125 DEG  C. <FORM:1044593/C2/2> where R4 is a group bonded to oxygen by a saturated aliphatic carbon atom, with R(S)nX, where X is Cl or Br. Many examples are given and those compounds in which R1 is C1- 6 alkoxy, R2 is C1- 8 hydrocarbyl or (C1- 6-alkyl) carbonyl, R3 is H, and R is C1- 6 polyhaloalkyl containing at least 3 halogen atoms, one of which is alpha, with the proviso that one of the halogen atoms may be replaced by (C1- 6 alkoxy) carbonyl, are claimed per se.ALSO:Fugicidal compositions comprise organophosphorus compounds of formula <FORM:1044593/A5-A6/1> where n is 1 or 2, R is a C1-18 organic radical, R1 is a C1-18 organic radical bonded to the phosphorus by C, O or S, and R2 and R3 are each hydrogen or organic (including acyl and hydrocarbyloxycarbonyl).  Solutions, dusts, wettable powders, and emulsions are mentioned.