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Patent GB-304883-A (GB)
IPC: C06F1/20
Abstract: 304,883. Kõppler, F., and British Booklet Matches, Ltd. Dec. 13, 1927. Matches.-Match cards or plates of wood, pasteboard, paper, &c, in the form of discs with the stems 1a integral with and extending radially from a central portion 1c, are made in a machine comprising punching apparatus 18, paraffin bath 43, heading mechanism on a frame 57 and a drying frame 60. The blank in strip form is passed between two pairs of rollers and an intermediate pair of stub-rollers at each edge of the strip. all of which are intermittently rotated from a shaft 7a a through the agency of a pinion 12a, ratchet 13 and pawl connected by crank and rod to a crank 16 on the shaft. A tool carrier 18 is reciprocated by rods sliding on cam discs on the shaft 7a and prior to its downward movement a spring-urged bar 19 is brought by levers 20 against straight portions of discs 17, 17a, 17b secured to one of each pair of rollers. The punched out discs are carried along by the strip during its succeeding movement and are separated by a plate 11<a> which is reciprocated by a lever 10 operated by the tool carrier. The match discs are collected on a rod 35 between spacing discs 36 of less diameter, a disc 32 carrying a number of rods 35 being caused to rotate at intervals to bring successive rods beneath the plate 11<a>. Spacing discs from a hopper 37 are inserted on the rods 35 alternately with the match discs by means of a lever 38 and slide member 39. Each rod has at its lower end a wheel 34 and a similar wheel is secured to its upper end when charged with discs to permit of its rolling along an inclined table 41 to the paraffining basin 43. Liquid paraffin from a heated receptacle 44 is supplied to the basin over which is mounted a movable frame 53 hinged at a pivot 49 to a stand 42. Cams 51 caused to rotate by means of a belt from a shaft 55a upon pressure of a coupling pedal 55 have peripheral grooves accommodating the roller wheels which are engaged by their hubs in bearings 56 and caused to descend as the cams rotate so as to apply paraffin to the head portions of the match stems. The frame 53 is then raised and the roller wheels, disengaged from the bearings 56, roll along the frame to a table 54 and thence to match head applying mechanism 57 of similar character to the paraffining device except that the igniting material is not heated and is transferred to the match discs by a partly immersed roller. The discs are then carried along a drying frame 60 and are separated from the spacing discs on a table 61, the rod 35 being withdrawn and the spacing discs falling through a grate into a hopper 64 whence they are conveyed to the hopper 37 by an elevator 38<a>.
Patent GB-508830-A (GB)
Title: Process for the production of phosphate fertilizers
IPC: C05B5/00
Filed: 1938-10-22
Abstract: 508,830. Refractory substances. ROCHLING'SCHE EISEN - UND STAHLWERKE GES. Oct. 22, 1938, No. 30615. Convention date, Oct. 23, 1937. Addition to 461,869, [Group III]. [Class 22] [Also in Group III] A hearth furnace for melting mineral phosphate with soda slag as described in the parent Specification is lined with a mixture of burnt dolomite or magnesite with tar or with bricks formed from such mixtures. Sharply burnt dolomite having a grain size of 5-8 mm. may be used with 8-10 per cent of tar having a specific gravity of 1.23 and an oil content of 22 per cent.
Patent GB-1045386-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in thermo-electric generators
IPC: F25B21/02
Filed: 1965-07-19
Abstract: 1,045,386. Thermoelectric devices. SOC. D'EXPLOITATION DES MATERIELS HISPANO-SUIZA. July 19, 1965 [July 29, 1964], No, 30649/65. Heading H1K. A thermoelectric generator comprises a plurality of hermetic units M each containing at least one thermoelectric element P of which one end is thermally connected to a. heat exchange member by means of a pressure device 20 consisting of a bunch of deformable metallic wires or threads held by a support constituted at least partly by an elastomer and arranged to give the pressure device 20 a longitudinal resilience. The elastomer is preferably a silicone elastomer, which may have a bundle of copper wires embedded in it or may be in the form of a rod within a hollow cylindrical copper tress or of a tube enclosing a copper tress. The tube 3 containing the thermoelectric element may itself have thermoelectric properties.
Patent GB-235094-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in lids for journal boxes
IPC: B61F15/26
Filed: 1924-12-22
Abstract: 235,094. Symington Co., T. H., (Assignees of Barrows, D. S.). Oct. 30, 1924, [Convention date]. Covers.-An axle-box lid 8, which is held either open or closed by spring action, has a hood 13 with side lugs 14 pivoted to a lug 2 on the axle-box 1. The lug 2 has bearing faces 7, 7a for one end of the spring 23 housed within the hood and outside the lid, the other end of the spring bearing against lugs 18 on the lid 8. The hood 13 has lugs 19 with curved bearing faces 20 for the spring coils, the parts being such that the spring is in tension when in position. The lid 8 which is curved at 17 to accommodate the spring 23 has side and top dust excluding flanges 8<a> a drip flange 12, and strengthening ribs 11. The part of the top flange 8<a> adjacent the lugs 2 is removed, the lid having a strengthening flange 29 to compensate therefor. Attached to the spring end bearing on the lug 2 is a wearing strip 26. Specification 174,842 is referred to.
Patent GB-203578-A (GB)
Title: Rotary stone-sawing machine
IPC: B28D1/02
Filed: 1922-11-10
Abstract: 203,578. Parker Rotary Stone Saw Co., and Parker, D. W. Nov. 10, 1922. Guards.-Telescoping guards 68<1> for rotating stone saws are carried by an adjustable bar 57 which supports guide blocks for the saws. Specification 129,277, [Class 124, Stone &c.], is referred to.
Patent GB-220533-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to locking bars for coupling devices of railway and like vehicles
IPC: B61G5/04
Filed: 1923-12-07
Abstract: 220,533. Mitchell, J., and Cossey, J. C. G. Dec. 7, 1923. Couplings, automatic. -In a coupler for railway and like vehicles in which the connection is effected by means of a locking bar adapted to slide, in the coupler head, as described in Specifications 16063/13, 161,837, 164,850, 176,086, and 187,020, means for preventing the unintended displacement of the bar into the uncoupling position comprise a latch pivoted to the locking bar and provided with a stop normally preventing this displacement by engaging with a fixed abutment formed by or provided on the coupler head, but which when manually rotated about its pivot allows the withdrawal of the bar. Fig. 1 shows the latch 10 applied to the wedge-shaped locking bar 7 of a rotary disc-hook coupler, the latch having been turned about its horizontal axis so that the tail 26, Fig. 3, bears against the side 27 of the coupler head and prevenrs movement of the locking bar. The end of the locking bar 7 is perforated to receive a pin 16 provided with trunnions 14 and secured to the bar by a cotter 24. The latch 10 is provided with inclined slots 12, the ends of which form bearings for the trunnions 14, and a palm-piece 11 for pushing the wedge out of engagement when the latch is turned into the vertical position, Fig. 3.
Patent GB-1049467-A (GB)
Title: Bobbin hanger
IPC: D01H1/18
Filed: 1964-08-04
Abstract: A bobbin hanger for mounting on an overhead carrier rail 12 (Fig. 1, (not shown)) comprises a bobbin holder 1 connected at its upper end by a ball joint 3, 4 to the lower end of an intermediate member 5 to permit the holder to tilt in any direction, the upper end of the member 5 being supported on a stationary member 10 carried by the rail 12 by means of a ball bearing 7 which permits free rotation of the member 5: one side of the ball bearing comprises a mushroom shaped member 8 whereby the member 5 may also tilt in an direction. A shield 16 on member 5 co-operates with a plastic shield 14 on the overhead rail to exclude foreign matter from the bearing 7, 8.  In Fig. 2, not shown, the intermediate member comprises a shaft 21 with a ball-head 20 at its lower end and a mushroom-shaped head 22 on its upper end.
Patent GB-520642-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to the collection, treatment, and disposal of staple fibre produced by cutting continuous filaments
IPC: D01G1/04
Filed: 1938-10-26
Abstract: 520,642. Stapling filaments. TAYLOR, W. I., and GIBBONS, L. B. Oct. 26, 1938, No. 30963. [Class 120 (iii)] Staple fibres are cut from continuous filaments and are removed from the cutting point by suction applied in such way that they are discharged into a liquid below its surface; here they are agitated while they are travelling to the end of the liquid chamber from which they may be continuously removed. In the apparatus shown in Fig. 1, the bundle 1 of continuous filaments passes from the nip rollers 2 to the funnel 3 and the cutting machine 5. The cut fibres are drawn down the conduit 8 which terminates below the surface of the liquid 10 in the closed chamber 9. Suction is applied to the'air above the liquid by the pump 11 and pipe 12, and the fibres become thoroughly wetted, while the bundles become broken up by the action of the liquid. A cover 13 with handles 14 permits removal of the fibres. Continuous operation is provided by the alternate use of two chambers 9 controlled by a valve with a counterweighted handle so that one chamber may be emptied while the other is being filled. Various modifications can be made to prevent clogging. In the form shown in Fig. 3, the conduit 8 opens below the liquid surface in a bottomless chamber 19 supported in a trough 22 through which runs a band 24. This band carries the fibre to the nip rolls 25, which remove surplus liquid, and the fibre is discharged when the band reaches the roller 26. Doctor blades 27 assist in removing the fibre from the band. Suction is applied by the pipe 23. In other modifications the liquid is contained in a funnel shaped chamber and the fibres are drawn through the neck of the funnel; they are then carried by circulating liquid until they rest against a perforated screen. In another modification the fibres are conveyed from the chamber containing the liquid into a trough containing a reciprocating rake used to open up the fibres and to carry them towards the discharge end. The liquid may be such as to modify the properties of the fibres.
Patent GB-249781-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in double deck passenger vehicles
IPC: B62D31/04
Filed: 1925-12-08
Abstract: 249,781. Forrester, M. J. Sept. 11, 1925, [Convention date]. Omnibuses; bodies - Omnibuses and other vehicles have in combination with a lower deck an upper deck having two longitudinal floors disposed respectively at different levels and a longitudinal member extending between and connected to the inner ends of the upper deck floors. The lower deck aisle is disposed beneath the floor 2<a>, Fig. 3, of the upper deck, while the upper deck aisle is disposed on the inner edge of the upper deck floor 2<b> so that the height of the bus may be reduced without affecting the headroom of the aisles. A longitudinal beam 6, Fig. 8, supports the inner ends of the two upper deck floors, the outer ends being supported by beams 19, 26, Fig. 6 respectively forming parts of the side structure of the vehicle. The beam 6 is supported by posts 14, 16, Fig. 8, and a transverse beam 15. The upper deck flooring 20, Fig. 6, rests on transverse rails 18 reinforced by metal straps 22, while the flooring of the upper section 2a rests on transverse rails 25 reinforced by metal straps 27. The lower section 2<b> is discontinued at the driver's seat and a slightly higher section for that seat is supported on rails 34, Fig. 8, the under part of the beam 6 being recessed at 32 at that part.
Patent GB-501083-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to engine suspensions for motor vehicles
IPC: B60K5/12
Filed: 1937-11-12
Abstract: 501,083. Motor vehicles. HARE. T. G. Nov. 12, 1937, No. 31117. [Classes 79 (iii) and 79 (iv)] A motor vehicle comprising a power unit, consisting of an engine, transmission gear and differential, pivotally connected at the engine end to a vehicle frame supported by springs from non-rotating driving-wheel journals or bearing housings. with the differential end of the power unit spring-supported from said housings, is characterized in that the engine end is spring-supported upon a. part which is suspended from the vehicle frame by a universal joint and that means are provided for holding the power unit against rocking movement about its longitudinal axis. As shown, the main frame 1 is supported on rear driving wheels 7 by springs 5 attached to bearing housings 6 connected by a dead axle 8. A U-shaped sub-frame 11 is suspended from a transverse part 3 of the frame 1 by a univer. sal joint 10, its arms being secured to the housings 6. The power unit, comprising the engine 15, radiator 21, gearbox 16 and differential 17 is supported at the engine end by springs 13 on a transverse member 12 of the subframe and at the differential end by a transverse spring 9 carried by the dead axle . or wheel housings, the drive being transmitted to the wheels through articulated half-axles.. To restrain transverse oscillation of the power unit, a transverse torsion shaft 22 with rigid crank arms 23 is mounted between the engine and radiator, the ends of the crank arms being connected through shock absorbers 24 to brackets 25 on the sub-frame. A modification is described in which the subframe 11 is dispensed with, the engine being, instead, provided with a bracket or extension suspended from the universal joint 10 through a connection including a compression spring. The shock absorbers to which the arms of the torsion shaft 22 are connected are, in this case, carried by the main frame. Specification 464,826 is referred to.
Patent GB-208175-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to the continuous rectification of hydrocarbons and other liquids containing constituents of high boiling point
IPC: C10G7/00
Filed: 1923-12-11
Abstract: 208,175. Soc. des Etablissements Barbet. Dec. 11, 1922, [Convention date]. Film evaporators. - In rectifying hydrocarbon oils, phenols, cresols, chlorobenzols, nitrobenzols, and other liquids containing constituents of high boiling- point, the material, as a whole and mainly or entirely in the state of vapour is passed into the rectifying coloumn, whence the more volatile constituents are withdrawn as a plurality of fractions. The vaporization is effected in a tubular boiler M the tubes D, Fig. 1, of which have slotted extensions C above the upper tube plate B. The hydrocarbon is fed through an inlet A on to the plate B and trickles down the tubes D. Vapours pass away from the outlet F at the lower end to a rectifying column, which is surmounted by a condenser. The residual liquid from the base of the column may be used to preheat the oil. The apparatus may be maintained under reduced pressure. The liquid and vapours from the evaporator M, Fig. 3, may be separated in a vessel O. The vapours are passed into the column P. The liquid passes to a second evaporator M<1> heated by superheated steam circulated by a pump Q through a superheater R. The vapours and residual liquid are passed into the column near its base. Different fractions are withdrawn from the column through cocks P<1> - - P<5>. Specification 27005/11 is referred to.
Patent GB-212221-A (GB)
IPC: B60G11/08
Filed: 1923-12-11
Abstract: 212,221. Bugatti, E. Feb. 27, 1923, [Convention date]. Addition to 205,488. Axle-guides.-The resilient axle-mounting de. scribed in the parent Specification is inverted by mounting the axle 1 within a transverse framemember 14 of U-shaped cross-section, the axle carrying a central spindle f which slides in vertical slots e in the transverse member and serves as a pivotal axis for the axle. The mounting of a front axle is shown, but a modification applicable to rear driven axles is also described.
Patent GB-275066-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in ladies' riding saddles
IPC: B68C1/06
Filed: 1926-12-09
Abstract: 275,066. Pinder, E. Dec. 9, 1926. Riding saddles. - The near side and leaping heads of a side saddle are adapted to yield to abnormal pressure and fold down flatly against the saddle, in order to diminish the danger in the event of the horse falling and rolling upon its rider. The mounting for each head consists of a metal boss d with screw-threaded holes e to receive a ribbed stud h on which the forked part of the head f is pivoted. A leaf spring i, secured to the head, bears on the stud h and holds it either in the upright position or the depressed position. The holes e, not in use, may be closed by plugs.
Patent GB-314074-A (GB)
Abstract: 314,074. Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co., (Assignees of Davis, R. L.). June 23, 1928, [Convention date]. Void [Published under Sect. 91 of the Acts]. Television. - In a television receiver, the viewing means 6 and the variable light source 4 are adjustable radially, relative to the scanning disc 1, so that the received picture may be correctly framed when the scanning discs at transmitter and receiver are out of phase. The scanning disc is provided with a double spiral of apertures so that the picture is always seen in its entirety. The preferred variable light source consists of flat electrodes 20 21 mounted in a bulb 22 containing neon under reduced pressure. The distance between the electrodes is less than the mean free path of the gas molecules. Specification 269,658 is referred to. In a modification the scanning disc and motor are adjustable relative to the viewing assembly.
Patent GB-537226-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to soaking pits
IPC: C21D9/70
Filed: 1939-12-04
Abstract: 537,226. Soaking pit covers. BLAW-KNOX, Ltd. Dec. 4, 1939, No. 31464. Convention date, Dec. 2, 1938. [Class 51 (ii)] A soaking pit cover which is adapted to be traversed laterally away from the pit opening is provided with sealing flanges which co-operate with sealing channels adjacent the pit opening. The sealing flanges on the sides of the cover parallel to its direction of movement are fixed while those on the sides at right angles to the direction of movement are vertically movable into and out of the sealing channels. In a modification the sealing flanges on all sides of the cover are vertically movable as a unit. As shown in Figs. 2a, 3, the cover 11 is provided on the sides parallel to its direction of movement with fixed flanges 30 engaging with sealing channels 25 and extensions thereof 29. The other sides of the cover have sealing plates 31 which dip into the sealing channels 25 and may be raised and lowered by chains 32 secured to drums 33 mounted on shafts 34 carried by the cover and driven by an electric motor through reduction gearing. The cover is supported on rails 23 with which engage wheels 22 on shafts 20, 21 driven by an electric motor 42 through gearing. The shafts are supported in bearings adjustable by screws to obtain clearance between the cover and pit mouth. In the modification shown in Fig. 6, sealing troughs 58, 59 are provided around the cover and pit mouth and vertically adjustable sealing plates 60, 61 surround the cover and pit mouth and are movable as a unit by chains 62 connected to levers 63 on shafts 65 which are actuated by an electric motor through reduction gear. The sealing troughs 25, 59 are provided with cooling jackets for the circulation of water.
Patent GB-467319-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to the registering of sheets during feeding to printing or other sheet working machines
IPC: B65H9/00
Filed: 1936-11-17
Abstract: 467,319. Feeding sheets. SPIESS, G. Nov. 17, 1936, No. 31496. Convention date, Nov. 19, 1935. [Class 100 (i)] . In a sheet-feeding device for printing, and other machines capable of operating on sheets of different sizes in which only a part of the printing-cylinder is fitted with a printing-surface, the sheet-feeding and registering devices are capable of adjustment so,as to allow the registration &c. of a sheet to be effected in a greater fraction of each revolution of the cylinder, and thus allow of speeding up of the machine when dealing with shorter sheets. To this end the front stops 4 of a printing-machine are operated by an adjustable two-part cam 13, 14 on the shaft 11 of the impression cylinder 12, and lever-and-link mechanism 6, 7, 8, 9, and the side-registering device 26 may be similarly controlled by an adjustable cam 22. The sheetseparating and feeding device is driven from the printing-machine by bevel gearing 17 and a shaft 18 fitted with an adjusting coupling or clutch 20.
Patent GB-266841-A (GB)
Title: New or improved method of and apparatus for shredding or shearing fibrous material such as sugar cane
IPC: C13B5/04
Filed: 1925-12-14
Abstract: 266,841. Morgan, W. H. Dec. 14, 1925. Cutting sugar cane &c.-Sugar-cane or like fibrous material is fed in short lengths into hoppers 17 from which it is carried by worm conveyers 28 into the spaces between a middle rotating dise 23 and stationary discs 18. Each disc 18 forms one side of a hopper 17 and is coned so that the space between it and the rotating disc is greater at the centre than at the periphery. Curved blades 24 are secured in recesses in the disc 23 and co-operate with straight radial blades 25 secured in the disc 18, the blades being adjusted with their cutting edges approximately in contact. The stalks of canes are so guided in their passage to the knives that they are presented for the cutting operation with their long axes perpendicular to the shaft of the rotary disc and are so out lengthwise. The edges of the fixed discs are shaped to form a circular channel 20 into which the shredded cane is forced by centrifugal action and along which it is pressed by blades 23<a> secured to the rotary disc 23. The channel 20 leads to an outlet 21. Air inlets 22 are formed in the stationary discs. The shaft 14 carrying the rotary disc is driven by motors 28<a>.
Patent GB-485297-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to apparatus for drawing plastic material
IPC: A23G3/06
Filed: 1936-11-18
Abstract: 485,297. Moulding toffee &c. by rolling-machines. ROSE, A. G., and ROSE BROS. (GAINSBOROUGH), Ltd. Nov. 18, 1936, No. 31518. [Class 87 (ii)] A machine for rolling toffee &c. into bar form comprises in combination a plurality of long rollers forming a tapering horizontal cradle, and a plurality of feed rollers arranged to rotate in planes radially disposed about a common horizontal axis to form a nip engaging the small end of the cone of material formed by the roller cradle. The rollers 10 forming the cradle are conical and are detachably mounted in end bearings 11, 12 and driven by gearing 13 from a motor 14. The big ends of the rollers 10 have spigots 40 which are keyed in sockets 41 attached to the driving pinions. The small ends have journals 32 retained in slots in the bearing 11 by a pivoted arcuate bar 34. The feed rollers 21 are mounted in a fixed frame near the small end of the cradle and are grooved so as to co-operate to form a nip of circular cross-section. The rollers are driven by bevel gearing through a clutch 30 from the shaft 28. Two further guide rollers 31 are provided which feed the toffee to a cutting and wrapping machine.