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Patent GB-2471723-A (GB)
Title: Eye shade formed of partial tubes
Inventor: PICKERING PAUL
IPC: A42B1/24
Filed: 2009-07-10
Abstract: The "tube effect" has already been identified, it results in brightening and increased contrast when looking down tube held up to one eye. This invention makes use of the tube effect over BOTH eyes simultaneously to enhance the appearance of display screens including and not restricted to liquid crystal display screens, such as those found on laptop computers, digital cameras and mobile phones, making them easier to use in conditions of bright ambient light, including direct sunlight. The eye shade is formed by a pair of partial tubes, joined at a surface, that are held in front of the eyes in use. The device may have attachment means that can be attached to a hat or headband, or the device may have arms for wearing over the ears. The partial tubes may be formed having telescopic adjustment of length.
Patent GB-2462907-A (GB)
Title: Signal transmission system using a dual-purpose pin
Inventor: MILLER FREDERICK W
IPC: H04B10/155
Filed: 2009-08-12
Abstract: A signal transmission system 100 is implemented using a dual-purpose pin of an optical sub-assembly 105. The dual-purpose pin 112 is used to propagate an analog signal out of the optical sub-assembly and also for providing an access point where an external element may be coupled to the optical subassembly for modulating the analog signal. The optical sub-assembly houses a photodetector 140, a signal transmitter circuit, 115 and a signal receiver circuit 120. The photodetector receives light and generates a corresponding electrical signal indicative of the light intensity. The signal transmitter circuit converts the electrical signal received from the photodetector into the analog signal that is transmitted out of the dual-purpose pin. The signal receiver circuit located inside the optical subassembly is configured to monitor the modulated analog signal from the dual-purpose pin and generate therefrom, a control signal inside the optical sub-assembly. The invention allows input of a control signal to the assembly without needing an extra pin. The invention applies to receiver sub-assemblies (ROSA) and transmitter sub-assemblies (TOSA).
Patent GB-2473830-A (GB)
Title: Drinks bottle holder for a walking aid
Inventor: ROGERS ANTHONY MICHAEL
IPC: A45B3/00
Filed: 2009-09-24
Abstract: A crutch aid in the form of cage style drinks bottle carrier1, which includes attachment means2,3for attaching the device to a crutch or other walking aid to enable the user to carry a flask or water bottle or by using a plastic sleeve insert other objects may be carried. The attachment means may be formed of clips2and locating pins3. The lower mounting clip may adjust vertically on the bottle holder to align with holes in the walking aid.
Patent GB-204732-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to electrical condensers
IPC: H01G2/08
Filed: 1922-04-08
Abstract: 204,732. Telegraph Condenser Co., Ltd., Cole, W. J., and Brown, S. G. April 8, 1922. Condensers.-In a condenser comprising a number of coiled elements, each coil is wound over a tube or former of substantial diameter so as to leave a large central passage for the circulation of oil, the coils being so mounted that the oil passages are left unimpeded. The central tube or former B of each element A may be of non-circular form, as shown in Fig. 2, to provide for closer packing of the elements, and may also have projections b<1>, Fig. 3, to facilitate the mounting of the elements. A number of such elements A are mounted in rows in a wooden frame having pairs of horizontal slots c, Fig. 5, to receive the projections b<1>, and several frames may be assembled together in an oil box with bus-bars and connecting leads.
Patent GB-799932-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to sliding doors for vehicles
Inventor: PERNETTA CHARLES
IPC: E06B3/46
Filed: 1955-04-06
Abstract: 799,932. Doors for passenger vehicles. BECKETT, LAYCOCK & WATKINSON, Ltd. April 6, 1956 [April 6, 1955], No. 10143/55. Class 103(2) A pivotal and slidable vehicle door is provided with a pivotal support spaced away from the forward edge of the door and a second pivotal support at or near the rear edge of the door, both supports being slidable'in guideways for all positions of the door. In the construction shown in Figs. 4 and 5, an offside door 111 of the cab of a vehicle is supported by a front pivotal bracket 112 offset from the door and able to slide along a guide track 113, and a rear pivotal bracket 114 able to slide along a guide track 115. The lower edge of the door is provided with a spring roller-guide 124 for engaging a guide track 126 and a spring roller-guide 125 for engaging a guide track 127.
Patent GB-375878-A (GB)
Title: Apparatus for playing a game of skill
IPC: A63F9/02
Filed: 1931-04-07
Abstract: 375,878. Table games. HEFFORD, H. R., 20, River Mount, Walton-on-Thames. April 7, 1931, No. 10154. [Class 132 (ii).] Apparatus for playing a game of skill comprises a horizontal surface 1 over which coins or discs are propelled by hand or by a spring projector with the object of passing through holes 2, 3 or 4 to fill and discharge the compartments of a rotatable drum 5, electrical means being provided to prevent the illicit discharge of the drum. The centralling arranged holes 2 in the surface communicate directly with the uppermost compartment of the drum by a shoot 6, while the hole 4 situated at the far end of 'the board communicates with the drum through a shoot arranged parallel to the shoot 6 and normally blocked by a stop 13. Should a coin pass through the hole 3 situated at one side of the surface, a lever 7 is rocked to release the drum, which rotates and delivers its contents to the outside of the casing. The rocking of the lever also serves to disable the stop 13 and allow any accumulated coins to pass into that compartment of the drum that has been rotated into the uppermost position. In the event of a metal strip being used to manoeuvre coins into the hole 3, an electrical circuit is completed between a contact 16 and one of two contacts 14, 15 to cause a shutter to be drawn across the hole.
Patent GB-255164-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to the process or method of producing carbon black for use in the manufacture of rubber and rubber goods
IPC: C09C1/44
Filed: 1925-04-20
Abstract: 255,164. Ward, H. H. April 20, 1925. Materials for making coke and other products. -Carbon black suitable for use as a filler in rubber is obtained by carbonizing a dry mixture of ground peat and cork, in the absence of air; a carbon black is also collected from the fumes evolved.
Patent GB-1253518-A (GB)
Title: Silver complex diffusion transfer process
Inventor: HOFMAN EMIEL ALEXANDER
IPC: G03C8/06
Filed: 1968-03-01
Abstract: 1,253,518. Photographic silver salt diffusion transfer processes and materials. AGFAGEVAERT. Feb. 18, 1969 [March 1, 1968], No. 10197/68. Heading G2C. A silver salt diffusion transfer process comprises imagewise exposing an integral material consisting of a support, an image-receiving layer, a silver halide emulsion layer and optionally an interlayer between the silver halide emulsion layer and receiving layer; the emulsion and/or the optional interlayer containing a macromolecular compound containing free hydroxy groups and developing with an alkaline processing solution in the presence of a silver halide solvent, a substance for converting the complex silver halide into a visible image and a compound providing borate ions and then rinsing in an aqueous bath to remove the emulsion layer without mechanical help. The invention also relates to integral materials as set out above which contain in one of the above-mentioned layers and/or in the support or in a water-permeable layer the compound providing borate ions. In the examples, a paper support, or a polyester support which has been subbed on both sides is coated with an imagereceiving layer containing gelatine, hardener, silver sulphide and optionally sodium alginate and borax, a hydroxyethyl starch interlayer which may contain boric acid (this layer may be omitted) and a silver halide-gelatino emulsion layer which may also contain polyvinyl alcohol, hydroxyethyl starch or gum arabic and boric acid. The processing solution generally contains developer, silver halide solvent and borax or boric acid. The image-receiving layer may contain inorganic pigment particles such as barium sulphate, china clay or silica, and a hydrophilic layer also containing such particles may be applied to the back of the support. Specified macromolecular compounds are gum arabic, mannans, galactomannans, alginates, monoglyceryl esters of pectic acid, hydroxyalkyl starches, hydroxyalkyl celluloses and polyvinyl alcohol.
Patent GB-849146-A (GB)
Title: Control system for machine tools
IPC: G05B19/40
Filed: 1958-03-31
Abstract: 849,146. Electric copying machines. MERGLER, H. W. March 31, 1958 [April 29, 1957], No. 10206/58. Drawings to Specification. Classes 38 (6) and 40 (1). A machine tool control system comprising a register which registers from a record information in digital form which represents the desired rate of movement of a movable element of the machine tool, is characterised in that the register converts the digital information into analogue information in the form of a voltage, which voltage is used to control a pulse generator such that the output pulses thereof have a frequency dependent upon the magnitude of the analogue voltage, the movable element being driven by a pulse responsive servomotor eneigised by the pulses produced by the pulse generator whereby the rate of movement of the movable element is determined by the frequency of such pulses. The invention also comprises a displacement register which displacement register comprises a pre-settable registering and counting circuit for registering from the record information which represents the required distance the movable element is to be moved. The slide of a lathe is driven in two co-ordinate directions in accordance with the information on a punched tape, the tape supplying information concerning the actual displacement, the rate of displacement and the direction of displacement in the two directions and also the duration of the operations, two rate registers and two displacement registers being provided, one for each of the co-ordinated directions. The pulse responsive servomotor comprises an electric motor for moving the slide which is controlled by an error signal derived from the positional disagreement of a follow-up synchro-element actuated in relationship to the movement of the slide and an input synchro-element stepped by an electronic resonant drive energised in response to pulses from the pulse generator, the resonant drive being controlled by a series of multivibrators to determine the direction of movement of the slide. The movement of the tape is also controlled according to information stored thereon and the information is read therefrom by a series of photocells. U.S.A. Specifications 2,496,391 and 2,538,122 are referred to.
Patent GB-1530141-A (GB)
Title: Structural displacement monitor
IPC: G01B7/16
Filed: 1976-03-11
Abstract: 1530141 Displacement monitor NATIONAL RESEARCH DEVELOPMENT CORP. 11 March 1976 [12 March 1975] 10209/75 Headings G1M and G1N A displacement monitor has a frangible detector element 22, which is a glass strip with a conductive coating 36, bridging the gap between two heavy metal plates 38, 40 with pegs 42 which engage the ends of the strip when the plates are moved apart to cause it to fracture at a predetermined relative displacement of the structures in which pins 50, 52 are secured. Pin 50 locates the plate 40 at a reference position of one of the structures. The other pin 52 provides a lost motion linkage with slot 48 to the plate 38. The amount of lost motion is pre-set by means of nuts 62 on screwthreaded rods 58 carrying a stop 54. A notch 34 provides a consistent starting point for cracking of the plate under tension. As a result point 78 rises in potential and a voltage-responsive device 76 operates an indicator or alarm. A failure in the circuit prior to cracking of the element is signalled by extinguishing of the lamp 80. Several monitors may be connected in a series circuit from a station 70 with a Zener diode having a different characteristic across each element whereby the foiled element may be identified from the volt drop. Resistors of different values may replace the diodes.
Patent GB-250754-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in tipping wagons
IPC: B60P1/14
Filed: 1925-11-03
Abstract: 250,754. Fox, J. W. Nov. 3, 1925. Tipping - wagons. -In tipping motor lorries &c. of the kind in which the pivoted body is tipped by means of tension applied to flexible means from the source of power, the tipping-mechanism comprises one or two vertical pillars 7, Figs. 1 and 2, slidably supported in guides or sleeves 6, the lower end of each pillar carrying a pulley 9 around which is passed a cable 10 or the like fixed at one end by abutments 11 on the frame 5 and connected at the other end to winding-means whereby the pillars are caused to rise and tip the body. As shown in Fig. 1, the cable 10 passes round pulleys 14, 15, 16 the centre one 15 of which is carried by a movable block which is moved by means of a cable 19 attached to the winding-drum 21. In Fig. 6, the shaft 26, which is driven from the engine by means of a friction clutch, operates the shaft 35 in either direction by means of gears and a dog clutch 39 as shown, the shaft 35 driving the winding-drum shaft 40 through worm gear. The dog clutch 39 may be returned to neutral position at the limiting positions of tipping by means of Bowden wires &c. connected to the body. Specification 237,811 is referred to.
Patent GB-667657-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to high frequency heating systems
IPC: H05B6/48
Filed: 1950-04-26
Abstract: 667,657. Dielectric heating. WESTING- HOUSE ELECTRIC INTERNATIONAL CO. April 26, 1950. [April 30, 1949] No. 10246/50. Class 39(iii). Electrode plates 2, 3, shunted by tuning means 4, are fed from a high frequency voltage source 5 via an inductor winding 13 shunted by a capacitor 14, and an inductor winding 12 and capacitor 11, and through a coaxial transmission line 6 having a length which is between one-eighth and one-quarter of the wavelength of the voltage source. The dielectric material 1 may comprise blocks of sponge rubber carried on a conveyer.
Patent GB-902213-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to fluid-tight seals
Inventor: SCOLES GRAHAM JOHN
IPC: F16J15/10
Filed: 1960-03-23
Abstract: 902,213. Joint-making packing. ASSOCIATED ELECTRICAL INDUSTRIES Ltd. March 17, 1961 [March 23, 1960], No. 10318/60. Class 122 (3). A rod 3 is sealed where it projects from a bore 2 by compressing a sealing ring 6 in an annular space 7 of conical configuration formed by the rod, the surface 8 surrounding the bore and a bush 10 fitted on to the rod so that the ring makes sealing contact with the bounding surfaces of the space 7 without at any time completely filling that space. The bore 2 is formed in a high tension insulating bushing 1. The rod 3 and the bush 10 are of metal and the ring 6 may be of oil-resistant synthetic rubber. The bush 10 has an internal chamfered surface 9 and is forced on to the ring 6 by a nut 5 screwed on the rod.
Patent GB-655116-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to supersonic inspection particularly adapted to the measurement of thickness of bodies
IPC: G01N29/34
Filed: 1948-04-14
Abstract: 655,116. Supersonic inspection devices; electric indicating systems. SPERRY PRODUCTS, Inc. April 14, 1948, No. 10345. Convention date, June 7, 1947. [Classes 40 (i) and 118 (ii)] Relates to methods of determining the thickness of an object or the depth of a flaw in an object by means of supersonic vibrations in which the frequency of the vibrations is adjusted for resonance in the object, whereupon d=n #/2, where d is the required thickness or depth and n is any integer. According to the present invention the frequency of the vibrations is cyclically varied through a wide frequency range so that each frequency sweep includes a plurality of resonance points, the recurrence frequency of the resonance points being indicative of the quantity d. As shown in the Figure, the frequency of an electrical oscillator 10 is cyclically varied by a motor 11 and the output is applied to a piezo-electric transducer 12 in contact with the object 15 under test. At each resonance point the oscillator output will exhibit a sharp maximum and the output is applied to a detector and lowpass filter 20 giving an electrical wave of frequency equal to the recurrence frequency of the resonance points which is indicated on a meter 21.
Patent GB-493712-A (GB)
Title: Improved hand tool for dental and other uses
IPC: A61C1/14
Filed: 1937-04-12
Abstract: 493,712. Handle fixings. AMAL. GAMATED DENTAL CO., Ltd., and BAXTER, C. April 12, 1937, No. 10346. [Class 61 (i)] [Also in Group VI] In a dental tool or other hand instrument of the kind comprising a tubular shank or handle a into which the end d<1> of the tool d is inserted, and a cap b screwed on to the shank having an inwardly projecting flange b<1> between which and the end of the shank pins c, lugs or projections upon the tool are securely gripped, the flange is provided with slots b<2> through which the pins c may be passed, so that on relative angular movement of the parts, the tool is prevented from being withdrawn after which it is locked in place ; and the cap is cut away at e to co-operate with a screw f on the shank to limit the extent of its angular movement. A grub screw g may be screwed in the cap b to contact with the pin c on the tool as the latter is rotated and thus to cause the cap to rotate and lock the tool. The handle may contain electric leads and a switch when the device is to be used as a hand light or cauterizing instrument.
Patent GB-252847-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to adjusting devices for chain gearing and the like
IPC: B61C9/10
Filed: 1925-04-21
Abstract: 252,847. Howard, Ltd., J. & F., and Jones, L. W. April 21, 1925. Pin wrenches.-In eccentric adjustments for tensioning driving-chains, used for example in locomotives driven by internal combustion engines, a pin spanner F, Fig. 5, with pins F<1> projecting on both sides is provided for engagement with holes D<6> in an extension D<5> of a casing D which is required to be rotatably adjusted.
Patent GB-539087-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in devices for holding and fixing adhesive tape
IPC: B65H35/00
Filed: 1940-06-14
Abstract: 539,087. Holders for adhesive tape. DREXLER, G. June 14, 1940, No. 10366. Addition to 477,418. [Class 18] The invention of the parent Specification is modified in that the edge 5 of the blade 4 which projects through the slit by which the adhesive tape emerges is bent as shown to facilitate contact of the strip with the cutting edge.
Patent GB-930157-A (GB)
Title: Apparatus for applying patching material to industrial furnaces
IPC: F27D1/16
Filed: 1961-03-22
Abstract: 930,157. Supplying slurry for patching furnaces. HARBISON - WALKER REFRACTORIES CO. March 22, 1961 [Nov. 1, 1960], No. 10407/61. Class 20 (2). [Also in Group XII] Apparatus for applying refractory patching material to a furnace comprises a tank 20 from which a patching slurry is forced through an outlet pipe 22 and a hose 23 by compressed air supplied by a pipe 30 under control of a valve 27, the consistency of the slurry being controlled by compressed air supplied by a pipe 32 under control of a valve 31 to the outlet pipe 22 and the slurry being supplied to the tank from a mixer by a conduit removable from a valve controlled filling opening in the tank so that the tank can be moved to the furnace requiring patching. The slurry in the tank may be mixed by compressed air from a pipe 32 by connecting this pipe to an inlet 34 in the pipe 22 below a valve 35 which is closed for this purpose. The slurry in the mixer may also be mixed by compressed air and is heated by steam. A sleeve 24 adjusts the distance of the end of the pipe 22 from the bottom of the tank.
Patent GB-161530-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to player mechanism for musical instruments
IPC: G10F1/02
Filed: 1920-07-17
Abstract: 161,530. Watson, W. A., and Eustis, W. Aug. 19, 1919, [Convention date]. Drawings to Specification. Expression-controlling; actions; exhausting air; bellows, arrangement of; wind-trunks; playerpianos; tempo-regulating means; winding-mechanism.-A pneumatic player-mechanism for musical instruments such as upright pianos comprises a wind-chest structure consisting of a series of longitudinal wind-chests connected at one or each end of a hollow end cheek or " header '' having a single joint by which the lowest wind-chest, situated below the key-bed, is removably secured to the other wind-chests. The construction described is the same as in Specification 149,952.
Patent GB-893390-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in cardan couplings
IPC: B21B35/14
Filed: 1960-03-24
Abstract: 893,390. Universal joints. TACKE, K., and TACKE, F., [trading as TACKE MASCHINENFABRIK KOMM.-GES., F.]. March 24, 1960 [March 24, 1959], No. 10488/60. Class 80 (2). A gear-type coupling comprises an externally and internally spherically-toothed sleeve 7 engaged by straight internal and external teeth 4, 9 of shaft-hubs 2, 10. The external teeth 5 of the sleeve are formed on a part-spherical portion of the sleeve which is housed in a correspondingly-shaped part of the hub 2. The teeth 9 are long to permit axial movement of the hubs, and this movement may be limited by stops at each end of the teeth 9 abutting the ends of the internal teeth 8 of the sleeve, or as shown, the outside stop may be dispensed with and a toothless part 20 of the hub 10 of reduced diameter can be brought into line with the teeth 8 to disengage the coupling. The hub 2 is formed with a collar 22 loosely embracing the sleeve 7 to support it when the coupling is disengaged. The internal teeth 8 may be formed on a ring secured to the sleeve instead of being integral therewith.
Patent GB-139678-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in gearing specially suitable for turbines
IPC: B63H23/00
Filed: 1919-04-28
Abstract: 139,678. British Thomson - Houston Co., (General Electric Co.). April 28, 1919. Motor power plant; driving and transmission mechanism; oppositely-running rotor type.- In gearing for turbines having two rotors revolving in opposite directions and each driving the same shaft through toothed gearing, a pinion such as 9, Fig. 3, on one rotor shaft gears through two intermediate wheels 11 with a wheel such as 10. As shown in Fig. 1, the shaft 6 of one rotor of the turbine 5 gears through wheels 16, 17, 18 with the wheel 15 on the propeller shaft 13, whilst the oppositely-rotating shaft 7 of the other rotor is geared through wheels 9, 11, as shown in Fig. 3, with the wheel 10, on the shaft of which is a wheel 14 gearing with the wheel 15. In a modification, the rotor shaft 6 is geared to a driven shaft 19, as shown in Fig. 1, and the shaft 7 is geared through wheels 9, 11 to a wheel 10, which is fixed on the shaft 19, the rest of the gearing shown in Fig. 1 being omitted. In this arrangement, a propeller is fixed on the shaft 19. A reversing turbine 20 may be used, and the wheels 11 may be flexible, as described in Specification 28804/10, [Class 80 (i), Gearing, Belt &c.].
Patent GB-128021-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Mops.
Inventor: HODSCHAR FREDERICK
IPC: A47L13/46
Filed: 1918-06-26
Abstract: 128,021. Hodschar, F. June 26, 1918. Mops.-A mop is formed of a felt or similar absorbent material folded into layers with the hair or wool outwards and mounted on a support so as to extend in all directions to enable the mop to bend round the sides and ends. Fig. 2 shows the mop 13 on a T-shaped support, and Fig. 1 shows a method of folding so that the edges are turned in, one face forming a pocket 14 in which cleansing-composition can be placed so as to apply the same to the surface to be treated. When a wire loop is employed as an attachment, the mop is slit at each end to receive the wired sides.