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Patent GB-431913-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in method of and apparatus for shaking out moulders flasks
IPC: B22D29/02
Filed: 1935-01-14
Abstract: 431,913. Discharging flasks. BEARDSLEY & PIPER CO., 2541, North Keeler Avenue, Chicago, U.S.A. Jan. 14, 1935, No. 1268. Convention date, Jan. 20, 1934. [Class 83 (i)] In a device for shaking out flasks, the flask 18 is supported on members 16 to which rapid blows are given by hammers 15. Each member 16 is free to move upwards and has a head 16b which rests on the upper end of the hammer cylinder 13 carried by rigid supports 10. The cylinder 13 has a large air inlet 21<a>, a small upper inlet 28 and exhausts 26. The hammer plunger 15 has two annular grooves 15<a>, 15b connected to the lower and upper end spaces respectively by passages 24, 25. A sheath 34 of asbestos belting &c. held by a wire 31 prevents sand from entering the cylinder. The supports 10 carry a grating 11 and stops 19, 20 to position the flask.
Patent GB-118782-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Scroll Guards for Self Acting Mules.
Inventor: CRABTREE GEORGE
IPC: F16P1/02
Filed: 1918-01-23
Abstract: 118,782. Crabtree, G. Jan. 23, 1918. Guards.-The middle portion a of a guard for the end scrolls of spinning- mules is formed by bending a sheet of metal into rectangular form, and is provided with bent flanges a<4> to hold the sheet-metal front b. A semicylindrical rear part c is detachably secured to the part 'a by hinges having slidable bent pins d or otherwise. The front b is secured in place by bolting together flanges a<1>, a<2> of the part a, and the guard is fixed in position by a bracket e and a slotted bracket adjustably secured to the slot a<8> by a bolt. The usual openings b<1>, b<2>, which may be provided with sleeves, permit the passage of the scroll ropes or bands, and the ends of the part a are cut away as at a<5> for the scroll shaft.
Patent GB-736525-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to load indicators and/or maximum load safety apparatus
Inventor: RHODES ALFRED
IPC: B66C1/40
Filed: 1953-01-16
Abstract: 736,525. Weighing apparatus. PRESTON & CO., Ltd., F. Dec. 21, 1953 [Jan. 16, 1953], No. 1310/53. Class 143. [Also in Group XIX] A tension load indicator consists of two relatively moveable components for connection to, say, a crane hook and a hoisting rope, one component having a ram 19 slideable in a cylinder 10 in the other component, the cylinder having a section closed by a diaphragm 11 and filled with liquid, pressure of the ram on the diaphragm being measured by a gauge (not shown) connected to the section. The cylinder incorporates a sleeve 12 clamping the diaphragm and a crosshead 13 having a connecting eye 13a. The ram is connected by three pins 20, passing through apertures in the cylinder, to an outer sleeve 14 secured to a crosshead 15, this crosshead carrying a swivel connecting link 17. A collar 22 on the crosshead 13 acts as a dust cover and carries a pointer 24 which, in conjunction with marks on the sleeve 14, indicates whether the cylinder is charged with liquid. Charging is carried out through a non-return connection 29. The gauge may operate an overload signal or cut off power supply.
Patent GB-855158-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to fuel cartridges for gas cigarette lighters
IPC: F23Q2/16
Filed: 1959-01-14
Abstract: 855,158. Pocket igniters. ZAHN, H. Jan. 14, 1959 [Jan. 16, 1958; April 3, 1958], No. 1321/59. Class 75(3). A fuel cartridge 4 in a gas cigarette lighter, the cover of which engages over the gas outlet of the fuel cartridge, contains a tube 8 which forms a gas passage connected to the interior of the cartridge through an aperture 11, the lower end of the tube being closed by a plug, the upper end of the tube being closed by a valve 12 and valve stem 14, the valve stem with the interposition of a spring 18 closes the valve in co-operation with the cover of the lighter through a hood 19 covering the valve. A screw thread 23 on the end of a pin 22 within the tube 8 closes the lower end of the tube. The upper end of the pin abuts a plug 21 on which rests the valve 12 having a bore 12<SP>1</SP> which may be restricted by a pin 5. A plug 13 of rubber and the like rests on the tapered upper surface of the valve 12 which is closed by one end of a valve stem 14. The value stem has a bore 16 communicating with the tube 8 by a groove 15 in the lower recessed end of the valve stem. The valve stem has an upper recess 141 engaging the upper inturned ends of the tube 8 to limit the movement of the valve stem when the valve opens or closes by movement of the cover of the lighter to open or closed position. When the cover opens the wick snuffer disengages the hood 19 allowing the spring 18 to lift the valve stem to open the valve to allow the gas to escape from the tube 8 by way of the grooves 15 and bore 16. The pin may be made of material which has a greater coefficient of thermal expansion than the material of the tube to automatically regulate the throttle plug 21 to keep the size of the flame constant.
Patent GB-128139-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Washing Machines.
Inventor: TIMPANY JAMES CRICHTON
IPC: D06F13/00
Filed: 1919-01-18
Abstract: 128,139. Timpany, J. C. Jan. 18, 1919. Washing-machines with swinging rubbers in stationary receptacles.-In a domestic washing- machine employing an oscillating rubber 1 and a swinging bumper 4 connected by spring-coutrolled pivoted arms 9, the springs 12 are attached at one end to an arm 9 and at the other to a lever 13 pivoted on the rubber at 14. A pin 14<a> on each arm 9 engages with the cam edge 13<a> of the corresponding lever 13, and the arrangement is such that, when the bumper has moved forward, the further rotation of the rubber causes through the cam edges and pins an extension of the springs and a greater increase of pressure upon the clothes.
Patent GB-1078951-A (GB)
Title: A new or improved gas burner
IPC: F23D14/10
Filed: 1965-01-12
Abstract: 1,078,951. Gas burners. A. H. GREAVES. Jan. 12, 1966 [Jan. 12, 1965], No. 1334/65. Heading F4T. A gas burner comprises a hollow metal chamber 1 having an upper wall 6 formed with rows or groups of rows of burner ports 11 arranged transverse to the length of the burner. Smaller flame ports 14 are used to stabilize the main flames and ports 13 along the apex of the wall 6 interconnect the rows of ports 11 and serve as a ladder burner. Ports 11 and 13 have raised lips 12. 'The chamber 1 is formed from U and channel sections 4 and respectively with end plates 2 and 3, plate 2 supporting the outer end of a Venturi inlet 7 having a length less than four-fifths the length of chamber 1. An inlet nozzle 8 is supported in a box 9 which surrounds the end of the Venturi 7 and which has an air inlet opening 10 away from the burner ports 11. The box 9 may be replaced by metallic cloth or gauze. Below the wall 6 is a lining of metal gauze 15 held in place by :a closure plate 16 spaced from the wall 6 :by dimples 23 and having holes 18 corresponding to the ports 11. Spaced below the plate 16 is a perforated distributer plate 17. In an alternative embodiment, Fig. 4 (not shown), the burner body is oval and has a stabilizing plate 21 formed with notches 22 fastened at rightangles along each of its sides immediately below the end ports of each row. The reduced velocity of gases at the ladder and stabilizer ports 13 and 14 may be obtained by sealing off these ports from the rest of the burner by means of a long thin gas chamber beneath the ports in which gases are metered by small orifices from the main chamber 19. The jet 8 may have a shoulder which pushes on a spring- loaded air shutter an amount determined by the position of the shoulder.
Patent GB-554734-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to the coating of ferrous surfaces
IPC: C25D5/48
Filed: 1942-02-02
Abstract: 554,734. Modifying metallic surfaces. PYRENE CO., Ltd., (Parker Rust-Proof Co.). Feb. 2, 1942, No. 1382. [Class 82 (ii)] [Also in Group XXXVI] Ferrous articles, for example iron and steel sheets, are rendered resistant to corrosion by first coating them electrolytically with a zinc layer not more than 0.0001 inch thick and then forming thereover by chemical reaction a thin continuous fine-grained phosphate coating, not exceeding 1. 5 grams weight per square yard of surface, the plated articles preferably being passed between moistened india-rubber or like rolls immediately before or at the beginning of the coating process. The phosphate coating after baking is preferably rinsed in a dilute solution containing hexavalent chromium, i.e. chromic acid or a dichromate of metal other than an alkali metal. Specification 534,852 is referred to.
Patent GB-346759-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to delivery nozzles or caps for condiment and other containers
IPC: A47G19/24
Filed: 1930-01-16
Abstract: 346,759. Powder &c. distributers. BURTON, A., 22, George Street, Stroud, Gloucester. Jan. 16, 1930, No. 1539. [Classes 18 and 125 (iii).] In a delivery nozzle 4 for condiment &c. containers, wherein a gravity-controlled valve 9 rests on a seating 5 when the container is upright but opens when the container is inverted, the nozzle has an open outer end, constricted to retain the valve, and lateral outlets 7, located so that the valve passes beyond them when the container is tilted for pouring. The nozzle is formed as a tubular extension of a screwed cap 2, and the upper end has an inturned rim 8 or the nozzle may taper towards the top. The seating 5 may be provided with a washer of felt &c.
Patent GB-1018995-A (GB)
Title: Dibenz-[b,e]-oxepine derivatives
IPC: C07D313/12
Filed: 1963-01-14
Abstract: The invention comprises compounds of formula <FORM:1018995/C2/1> wherein X and Y are each a hydrogen, chlorine or fluorine atom or an alkyl, alkoxy, alkylthio, trifluoromethyl, acyl or dialkylsulphonamido group, R is hydrogen or a methyl group and R1 is an alkyl, alkenyl or cycloalkyl group, the hydrocarbon and acyl groups having 1 to 4 carbon atoms, acid addition salts thereof, and their preparation (1) by reaction of a compound of formula <FORM:1018995/C2/2> with (a) a 3-substituted-aminopropyl magnesium halide to give a compound of formula <FORM:1018995/C2/3> followed by optional dealkylation and by acidic dehydration, (b) an allyl magnesium halide to give a compound of formula <FORM:1018995/C2/4> followed by dehydration and amination of the double bond, (c) a 3-dialkylamino-propyne-1 in the presence of a condensing agent to give a compound of formula <FORM:1018995/C2/5> followed by hydrogenation of the triple bond and dehydration, (d) acrylonitrile, giving a compound of formula <FORM:1018995/C2/6> followed by reduction of the nitrile group to an aminomethyl group, dehydration and alkylation, or (e) sulphuryl chloride to give a sulphonyl chloride substituent and reacting this with a dialkylamine to give a dialkylsulphonamido substituent, and treating this as in (a) to (d) above, (2) by separation of cis- and transisomers or isomerization, or (3) methylation of separated isomers of the compounds wherein R is hydrogen.  Dibenzoxepinones of formula <FORM:1018995/C2/7> are prepared (a) by reaction of a compound of formula <FORM:1018995/C2/8> wherein D is displaceable substituent, e.g. a halogen atom or an organosulphonyl group, and R2 is an alkyl group, with a Y-substituted phenol to give a compound of formula <FORM:1018995/C2/9> followed by hydrolysis to the free acid and cyclization, or (b), where Y is a trifluoromethyl group, reacting 2-bromobenzyl alcohol with, for example, 2 - nitro - 4 - trifluoromethyl - chlorobenzene to give 2-(21-nitro-41-trifluoromethyl-phenoxymethyl) - bromobenzene, removing the nitro group by reduction to and diazotization of the corresponding amine followed by treatment of the diazo compound with hypophosphorous acid or sodium borohydride, replacing the bromine atom by a carboxyl group by treatment with magnesium and carbon dioxide, and cyclizing.  Ethyl o - bromomethylbenzoate is prepared by conversion of o-toluic acid to its acid chloride by reaction with thionyl chloride, brominating this to give o-bromomethylbenzyl bromide, and reacting this with ethanol.  The compounds of the invention have antidepressant, antiserotonin, antihistaminic, anticholinergic, appetite-stimulating and spasmolytic activity and may be used in pharmaceutical compositions in combination with a carrier, for example in forms suitable for oral or parenteral administration, such as tablets, capsules, or solutions.
Patent GB-157927-A (GB)
Title: The impulse of multi-propeller-flying machines
IPC: B64C11/00
Filed: 1921-01-10
Abstract: 157,927. Rumpler, E. Dec. 9, 1919, [Convention date]. Void [Published under Sect. 91 of the Act]. Propelling.-In multi-propeller flying-machines, &c. each propeller is driven by an air-expansion engine, for example a turbine, supplied with compressed air or gas from a central generator. The supply of air to the turbines is regulated at or near the generator. The compressed air may be produced by rotary compressors driven by a combustion engine. The cooling-water of the combustion engine may be used to heat the turbines or the pipes conveying air thereto, and be led back again to the engine. The exhaust gases from the engine may also be used to heat the turbines. The air or gas may be returned from the turbines to the generator.
Patent GB-574589-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to plate clutches
IPC: F16D13/52
Filed: 1944-01-28
Abstract: 574,589. Friction clutches. FREEBORN POWER CONVERTERS; Ltd., FREEBORN, J. E., DEGENHARDT, W. R., and FRAINE, A. F. DE. Jan. 28, 1944, No. 1649. [Class 80 (ii)] A friction coupling having one or more discs 21, or sets of discs, mounted to rotate freely on one of the coupling members so that a portion only of each disc is in engagement with the other coupling member, is characterised in that the axes of the two coupling members are out-of-line. As shown, sets of discs 21 are mounted by ball bearings 22 on pins carried by a plate 19 on a driven shaft 8. The discs 21 engage clutch plates 12 and abutment and pressure plates 15, 14, carried by a member 11 on the driving shaft 4. The axes AB, CD, of the shafts 4, 8, are out-of-line. Springs 17 press the friction members together. Thus there is always sliding between the friction members and static friction is avoided. Instead of by springs, the presser plate may be actuated by centrifugal weights. Pedal means may be used to disengage the clutch. Specification 426,407 is referred to.
Patent GB-672035-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to the manufacture of sausages
IPC: A23L13/60
Filed: 1950-01-21
Abstract: 672,035. Food preserving. HARDIE, G., and HARDIE, B. G. Jan. 19, 1951 [Jan. 21, 1950], No. 1659/50. Class 49. A core 1 of sausage meat is provided with a skin 2 by coating the core with a liquid suspension of an alginate, e.g. sodium alginate, and then treating the coated core with an organic calcium salt e.g. calcium acetate which converts the alginate to a gel. The coatings may be applied by dipping, spraying or painting. Preservatives and/or colouring and/or flavouring may be incorporated in the coating. The alginate coating may be dried by a blast of cold or warm air. The skin thickness is controllable by varying the viscosity of the alginate.
Patent GB-699943-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to machines for printing or marking the surfaces of cans and other similar articles
IPC: B41F17/16
Filed: 1952-01-22
Abstract: 699,943. Printing. BURNS, T. Jan. 22, 1952, No. 1726/52. Class 100(ii) Printing on cans &c.-In a machine for printing on cans &c. the printing means, automatically operated each time one of the intermittently fed articles is brought to rest at a printing station, comprises a swinging type-carrier which, as a reciprocating slide on which it is mounted is moved toward and away from the article carrier, is swung by a fixed cam through 180 degrees from a position in contact with an inking pad to a position in which the type is pressed against the article, and then back again. The invention may be applied to machines in which the articles are presented by a rectilinear carrier such as a conveyer belt or a slide, or as shown to the rotary-carrier machine described in Specification 645,677, the type slide thereof being replaced by a slide 3, U-shaped in plan, which runs on lateral rollers 4, 28, Figs. 1 and 7, in slots 6 in spaced parallel brackets 7; the type head 21, which carries an interchangeable rubber &c. printing plate or stereo, has a plunger 18, Fig. 3, which is non-rotatably (by a pin 19 engaging a groove 20) and resiliently (by a spring 22) mounted in a block 16 having trunnions 27 journaled in the free ends of the slide 3, the trunnions forming the shafts of the rollers 28 and having cranks 29 (Fig. 1) and 41 (Fig. 7) on their ends. As the slide 3 is reciprocated, the pin 30 of the crank 29, moving in a cam slot 31 in a fixed bracket 32, encounters the central V of the cam which rotates the block 16 from the horizontal position wherein the type head 21 is pressed against an ink pad in a holder 35, through the Fig. 7 position with the type head facing upwards, to the position of Figs. 1 and 3 wherein the type head is pressed against the end of the can 1 to be printed. The crank 41 is connected by a slotted link 42, Fig. 7, to a fixed pin 44 to prevent reversal of rotation of the block 16 as the pin 30 reaches the bottom of the V of the cam. Inking-apparatus.-The holder 35, Fig. 3, fixed to the two brackets 7 and having an opening 36 for the type head 21, contains a pad 34. Ink from a reservoir is supplied through a regulator and a drip pipe 40 to a well 38 from which small holes 39 lead to the pad.
Patent GB-374154-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to tins or like metal containers
IPC: B65D25/16
Filed: 1931-03-19
Abstract: 374,154. Tins &c. DAVIES, T. E., Webton Court, Madley, Herefordshire. March 19, 1931, Neo. 1930. [Class 66.] Tins or cans for packing fruit &c. have the marginal edges of the tubular paper &c. body lining b and end discs a gripped and held between the inner parts of the curved edge flanges A<1>, B<1>, of the end and body portion A, B, the lining pieces not being continued into the seamed or folded joint formed between these flanges.
Patent GB-682403-A (GB)
Title: Gaseous fluid turbine
Inventor: RAINBOW HORACE SINCLAIR
IPC: F01D21/02
Filed: 1950-01-25
Abstract: 682,403. Elastic-fluid turbines; governors. ARMSTRONG-SIDDELEY MOTORS, Ltd. Nov. 20, 1950 [Jan. 25, 1950], No. 1934/50. Classes 57 and 110(iii) In a gas turbine in which the motive fluid is supplied through a ring of stationary nozzles 19, which are tangential to a coacting rotor disc 11 disposed within the ring, the disc is mounted on a shaft 12 so as to be movable axially to a position in which the effectiveness of the motive fluid is reduced by centrifugal means, when a predetermined speed is exceeded. The turbine casing 15 is in two parts 15a, 15b which define, together with a ring 18, an annular turbine inlet 16. The ring 18 is pinned to the casing 15b and has slots with throat-producing portions rivetted therein to form, together with the casing 15a, the nozzles 19. The rotor disc 11 is splined to its shaft 12 and is urged against a governor by a spring 49. The governor comprises a frusto-conical ring 52 which coacts with balls which are carried in slots in a cage 55 and react against an abutment 56 on the shaft 12. The cage may have radial arms which engage grooves in the ring 52 and ensures radial movement of the balls. The turbine drives a pump 26. The turbine-pump construction forms the subjectmatter of Specification 682,402.
Patent GB-232350-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in methods of casting metals and alloys
IPC: B22D27/04
Filed: 1924-01-24
Abstract: 232,350. Schwartz, H. A. Jan. 24, 1924. Castings; moulds; casting processes; castings, extracting.-In a method of casting metals, a casting C formed between mould d members 1, 2 is removed from the mould bv mechanism which acts automatically at a predetermined point in the cooling of the casting. The mould is cooled by liquid passing through the chambers 3 and the mould members are moved to allow the casting to fall into a receptacle 28 containing asbestos, by means of a pneumaticallyoperated plunger 12 controlled by a valve 13 actuated by a rack 15. Electrodes 25, 26 in contact with the casting are arranged in circuit with a magnet 22 controlling a switch 20 in a second circuit which includes magnets 16, 17 controlling the valve-operating rack. At a predetermined point in the cooling of the casting, the current in the magnet 22 reaches a value sufficient to close the switch 20 and thus open the valve to causethe ejection of the casting. In another form the valve may be manually operated when the current in the circuit containing the casting reaches a predetermined value. In a modification, Fig. 3, the invention is applied to a mould having a core- 30 and pouring spout S both mould and core being cooled by circulating liquid. The mould is disassociated from the casting by means of a plunger 12 which lifts the core 30 and simultaneously acts through gearing comprising a wheel engaging racks R<1> to move the mould members horizontally to free the casting.
Patent GB-383801-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to processes of refining mineral oils
IPC: C10G21/20
Filed: 1932-01-22
Abstract: Petroleum and its products are separated into paraffinic and naphthenic fractions by one or more extractions with aromatic cyanides or mixtures thereof; the naphthenic compounds are the more soluble.  Dewaxing may precede or follow extraction.  For example, 100 litres of Gulf coast crude distillate of s.g. 0,9303 is dissolved in 100 litres of benzonitrile by warming to 25 DEG  C.; the solution is separated into two layers by cooling to 10 DEG  C. and standing; the layers are isolated, and freed from benzonitrile by vacuum distillation.  The production from mixed base crude of lubricating stock of viscosity 150 secs. or more Saybolt at 210 DEG  F. and a s.g. of 0,910 or less is especially referred to.
Patent GB-1280442-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to jolting press moulding machines
Inventor: HOEBER HASSO
IPC: B22C15/10
Filed: 1970-01-16
Abstract: 1280442 Moulding machines GISAG KOMBINAT FUR GIESSEREIAUSRUSTUNGENUND GUSSERZEUGNISSE VEB 16 Jan 1970 2168/70 Heading B3F A jolting press moulding machine in which the mould material is compressed by simultaneous or separate jolting and pressing actions comprises a turnover arm 1 carrying the jolting 2 and pressing 3 devices mounted on a shaft 4 which is resiliently mounted in a pedestal 5, and a supporting device 6 which is selectively operable by a pressure medium and which supports the turnover frame against the pedestal. The shaft 4 is mounted at one end in a resilient bush 7 or compression or cup springs and at the other end in a self aligning roller bearing 8. It is rotated by means of a piston rod 10 acting on a toothed segment 11 which engages a gear-wheel 12 mounted on the shaft. A braking cylinder 13 regulates the speed of rotation. The supporting device 6 is operative to brace the turnover frame against the pedestal during the preliminary jolting and lifting-out operations and is then rendered inoperative to permit rotation of the turnover frame while allowing jolting to continue.