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Patent GB-1479498-A (GB)
Title: Articles resistant to high-temperature corrosion
IPC: C23C4/08
Filed: 1975-04-09
Abstract: 1479498 Coated Ni Fe or Co base material BROWN BOVERI-SULZER TURBOMACHINERY Ltd 9 April 1975 [11 April 1974] 14576/75 Headings C7A and C7F An article comprising a substrate of a nickel, cobalt or iron based austenitic material having a coating of composition:- Si 3 to 15% Cr 10 to 30% Ni 50 to 87% Co 0 or 1 to 37% B 0 or 0À1 to 4% C 0 or 0À05 to 1% The substrate may be a Nickel base superalloy, which may be sand blasted and coated by electric arc, plasma or flame spraying, ion plating, chemical vapour deposition or thermal decomposition of a coating: binder slurry on the substrate. The resulting coated material may be heated up to the melting point of the coating at a rate of up to 200‹C per hour and furnace cooled using a nitrogen or argon atmosphere or in a vacuum. The resulting coated material may be ground or slurry blasted used a sand-air-water mixture to final smoothness, age hardened for 24 hours at 850‹C and may be used in gas turbine engines e.g. turbine blades.
Patent GB-352160-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to taps or cocks
IPC: F16K11/085
Filed: 1930-05-14
Abstract: 352,160. Two-level &c. taps. WHITTINGTON, R., (trading as WHITTINGTON & SONS, T.), 31, Sheepcote Street, Birming- ham. May 14, 1930, No. 14893. [Class 135.] Rotary cylindrical valves.-A single way, two way or two-level, or other rotary plug tap or cock comprises a plug having an inclined and/or stepped part which controls the inlet passage or passages. In the construction shown, the plug comprises a squared spindle 9, Fig. 3, with inclined endplate 11 and a cork sleeve 12, all secured in the tap &c. casing 1 by a spring ring 20 having an inturned end 22 entering the casing and engaging a groove in the collar 13. The application as a two-level petrol tap for motor vehicles is shown, the full and reserve supply inlets being indicated at 6, 8, Figs. 1 and 3, and the outlet at 2. The handle 14 has a pointer 15, and the casing is provided with index marks, as 26, showing the full, reserve, and all off positions ; the casing has two stops, as 17, locating the position in which one or other of the inlets 6, 8 is open. A modification is shown in which the outlet passage is inclined to the axis of the plug.
Patent GB-580955-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to suction cleaners
IPC: A47L9/10
Filed: 1944-08-04
Abstract: 580,955. Vacuum cleaner filters. HOOVER, Ltd. Aug. 4, .1944, No..14936..Convention date, Aug. 7, 1943. [Classes 8 (i) and 8 (ii)] In a suction cleaner, dusty air is drawn by a fan 27 driven by a motor 29 into a first separator such as a whirl chamber 11 and passed through a final separator or filter 34 which is cleaned by means, such as a pair of helical suction nozzles 42, driven by a separate slow-speed rotary electric motor 52, the dirt so removed from the final separator being returned to the first separator. The speed of the fan motor may be increased during the filter cleaning process and this increase, and the starting of the slow-speed motor, and the opening of a valve 23 which puts the nozzles 42 under suction from the fan through a conduit 47, may be simultaneously effected by switches controlled by a bellows 66 subject to the pressure inside the final filter space, which pressure rises as the filter becomes clogged. A dirt drawer 7, and a baffle 18 for this drawer, and a screen 19 protecting the fan from large dirt, may be provided.
Patent GB-890343-A (GB)
Title: Method and apparatus for processing shaving-like materials
IPC: F26B17/26
Filed: 1960-04-28
Abstract: 890,343. Drying shavings. FLEISSNER G.m.b.H. April 28, 1960 [May 14, 1959], No. 15005/60. Class 34(2) A method of processing. shaving-like material comprises the steps of shaking the material to free it, at least partially, of dust, and drying the material from which has been removed substantially without shaking it whilst it is being dried. In apparatus for processing shaving-like material, e.g. long-fibred wood shavings, the material is conveyed from a hopper 14 along a shaking sieve 12 to free it, at least partially, from dust to a housing 11 containing rotatable screen drum driers 17, 18 to the peripheries of which the material is sucked and carried by the rotation thereof until dropped on to a further shaking sieve 13 to remove further dust whilst being conveyed to a truck 29. Each sieve is shaken simultaneously in directions parallel and normal, respectively, 'to its upper surface by a motor driving an eccentric and connecting rod, and the amplitude and frequency of the shaking of each sieve is adjustable. Half the area of the drums is covered by the screens 19, 20 to convey the material on the uncovered surface and hot air is induced into the housing to produce a flow of air to hold the material on the surface of the drums by fans 23 which suck air from within the drums and return it to the housing via heaters 25 and guides 26.
Patent GB-577355-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to film treating apparatus
IPC: G03D3/13
Filed: 1943-09-13
Abstract: 577,355. Photographic processing apparatus. TERRANEAU, R. Sept. 13, 1943, No. 15011. [Class 98 (ii)] [Also in Group XXXV] Apparatus for processing films such as motion picture films includes a treatment compartment or container a associated with which are five parallel shafts carrying rollers for conveying the film of which two d and e, are independently driven by electric motors and disposed above the liquid level or the highest level at which other treatment, e.g. drying, is effected, one, m, is free-running and spring or gravity-urged to apply tension to the film and to operate controlling means for the electric motor of roller e and two, u and v, are free-running rollers disposed below the treatment level. The controlling means, which may comprise a potentiometer, variable resistance or reactance, varies the speed of drive of roller e in proportion to the movement of the spring or gravity urged roller m. Any desired number of further sets of three parallel shafts or spindles may be added, associated with the same compartment or container, as n, f, w, or with further compartments or containers, as o, p, q, q, h, i, x, y,'z with container b. In each further set of three rollers, one free-running roller is disposed below the treatment level, and the remaining two are above this level, one being free-running and spring or gravity-urged and the other driven by an electric motor controlled by the movement of the spring or gravity urged roller. With the film 8 passing around successive rollers as shown, variations in the length of the film due to different successive treatments are compensated for, and a break in the film stops the feed of further film by switching off all the motors feeding in the film due to the drop in tension. Indicators may be'provided to show where the break has occurred. The motors driving rollers d, e,f, &c., may be direct current motors operable at variable speed and constant torque. The lower free-running rollers in a compartment, e.g. rollers 2, 3, 4 in compartment c may be mounted on a frame which may be raised or lowered to vary the length of time of exposure of the film to a particular treatment. Specification 497,864 is referred to.
Patent GB-595241-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to liquid pumping or transfer systems
IPC: F02M37/20
Filed: 1943-09-14
Abstract: <PICT:0595241/III/1> A device for ejecting air from liquid which is being pumped from a tank to a distant point comprises a funnel-shaped chamber 32 communicating at its wide end with the tank and at its narrow end with a delivery conduit including a pump, and having a propeller 26 rotating in the plane of its wide end.  On the inlet side of the device may be arranged an annulus 41 having a convex converging section.  The propeller is rotated to deliver liquid in excess of the capacity of the pump so that excess liquid and entrained air are ejected outwardly between the chamber and the annulus back into the main body of liquid.  The pump may be a centrifugal one attached directly to the narrow end of the chamber, and the propeller may be mounted on an extension of the pump shaft 56.  The apparatus may be used for supplying fuel from a tank to the carburettor of an aircraft engine.
Patent GB-907917-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to polyester binder compositions
IPC: D06N3/12
Filed: 1960-04-29
Abstract: A polyester binding material, suitable for use in the manufacture of plastic floor coverings (see Group VIII), is made by (1) reacting isophthalic acid with ethylene glycol, 1:3-butylene glycol, neopentyl glycol or diethylene glycol to form a polyester with an acid number of 10-40, (2) mixing the polyester with the pentaerythritol monoester of levulinic acid or the ingredients necessary to produce the monoester, so as to obtain a mixture containing about 50-80% of the polyester, (3) then adding to the mixture an aliphatic polycarboxylic acid containing at least 36 carbon atoms in an amount of from 40 to 70% by weight of the polycarboxylic acid based on the total weight of the mixture, and (4) heating this mixture at 150 DEG -225 DEG C. to form a gel.  The preferred aliphatic polycarboxylic acid is a dimerized and/or trimerized fatty oil acid or a hydrogenation product thereof. The gel is compounded with fillers, and preferably also an accelerator having the formula, <FORM:0907917/IV(a)/1> where n is 1 or 2, x is 2-4 and R is selected from the group consisting of -CyH2y + 1 and <FORM:0907917/IV(a)/2> where y = 1-30, z = 1-5 and n and x have the above meanings.  The whole mixture is then coated on a backing and stoved at 150 DEG -240 DEG F.  In examples the filling composition comprises (a) finely-divided calcium carbonate, hydrated silica, fibrous talc and pigments or (b) finelydivided calcium carbonate, asbestos, finelydivided silicon dioxide and kaolin clay.
Patent GB-813851-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to wave modulating and demodulating circuits
IPC: H03C1/58
Filed: 1956-05-15
Abstract: 813,851. Amplitude modulating systems; radio receiving circuits. WESTERN ELECTRIC CO. Inc. May 15, 1956 [May 16, 1955], No. 15106/56. Class 40 (5). A modulator comprises a lattice of four asymmetric conductors 10-13 to which a carrier source 2, modulation source 8 and output circuit 5 are connected as shown, and potentiometers 14, 15, 16 and 20, 21 connected across opposite sides of the lattice and to a D.C. bias source 9 so that the conductors 10-13 taken in pairs 10, 12 and 11, 13, rendered conducting alternately by the carrier, are balanced as regards forward resistance. Resistors 28, 29 each of resistance equal mately to that of each of the conductors 10-13, and resistors 30, 31 are provided to prevent the transformer windings short circuiting the potentiometers. If potentiometer 18 and equal shunt resistors 17, 19 are made equal to corresponding elements 15, 14, 16, and resistors 20, 21 made equal but each of twice the resistance of resistor 25, then the movable taps of potentiometers 15, 18 may be mechanically gauged, and the system is balanced for all settings. Equal resistors 23, 24 with junction connected to earth provide a D.C. path to earth for the bias currents. The circuit may act as a demodulator (Fig. 2, not shown), by replacing the output circuit 5 by a modulated carrier source, and the source 8 by a detected signal output circuit. In this case the resistors 17-19 and 25 are omitted and resistors 20, 21 replaced by a shunt potentiometer circuit corresponding to 14, 15, 16.
Patent GB-451140-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in twist tubes and like twisters for use in machines for operating on fibrous material
IPC: D01H7/92
Filed: 1935-05-24
Abstract: 451,140. Twist tubes and like twisters. AMBLER, Ltd., F., Dumb Mills, and ALBUT, A., 12, Wharncliffe Road, both in Frizinghall, Bradford, and GREENWOOD, H., 439, Keighley Road, Morton, near Bingley, both in Yorkshire. May 24, 1935, No. 15131. [Class 120 (ii)] Twist tubes and like twisters for use in machines for operating upon fibrous material comprise a primary tube or like part band an eccentrically mounted tube or rider d which is movable in a slot c under centrifugal force relatively to a resilient or other supporting bar e, the sliver passing through the tube being thereby nipped against the bar. In the driving-head shown, the slots c of adjacent tubes are spaced at right angles to prevent fouling of the tubes b. Such twisters may be used instead of rubbing rollers or leathers.
Patent GB-1058307-A (GB)
Title: Bowling pin and method of its manufacture
IPC: B29C44/14
Filed: 1964-04-13
Abstract: 1,058,307. Bowling pins. POLYMER CORPORATION. April 13, 1964 [April 12, 1963], No. 15147/64. Heading A6D. [Also in Division B5]. A bowling pin comprises a foamed polylactam core and a solid polylactam cover, and is formed by a moulding process. One method of making the pin comprises forming the core first by inserting into a heated mould a lactam monomer, a catalyst, a promotor and a blowing agent, the core being formed by the simultaneous blowing of the blowing agent and polymerization of the core material by the heat of the mould the completed core is then placed in a second heated mould having a larger cavity than the first, and is coated with a polymerizable mixture composed of a lactam monomer, a catalyst and a promoter. Alternatively, the cover (of nylon for example) is moulded first about a temporary core. the latter being subsequently removed from the cover, which is then filled with a polymerizable mixture to make a foamed polylactam core as above.
Patent GB-254697-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in apparatus for the distillation of fuel, roasting ores and like heating purposes
IPC: C10B1/04
Filed: 1926-06-17
Abstract: 254,697. Plassmann, J. June 30, 1925, [Convention date]. Retort and like furnaces; roasting- furnaces. - The low temperature carbonizing - apparatus described in Specification 240,800 is modified by building the annular heating chambers or cells of segments of refractory material. This construction allows higher temperatures to be employed, so that apparatus can be, used for the production of coke and for roasting ores. As shown the heating- structure is built up of a number of superposed rings of segments 2, which are so shaped and formed that the assembled structure provides a central space or combustion shaft 5. and two series of vertical flues 3, 4 connected by tortuous passages formed in the segments as shown in Fig. 2. The heating-gases from the shaft 5 pass through openings 7 to the flues 4, which are closed at their lower ends, and thence through the tortuous passages to the flues 3. The radial joints between the segments are staggered so that in adjacent rings the circumferential flow of the heating-gases is in opposite direction, as indicated in the left and right hand halves of Fig. 2. The flues 3 discharge at their lower ends into an annular space 8, from which the gases either pass to an exhaust flue or are returned as indicated by the arrows for recirculation through the flues. A mass of heat-equalizing brickwork 6 mav be fitted in the shaft 5. The apparatus may be modified so that the material is charged into the heating-chambers from the middle instead of from the outside as in Specification 240,800.
Patent GB-193765-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to friction drive
IPC: F16H15/12
Filed: 1922-05-31
Abstract: 193,765. White, G. H. May 81, 1922. Variable-speed friction gearing comprises a driving roller 23 and an idle supporting roller 24 between a driven disc 5 and a coaxial idle disc 7. The friction between the disc 5 and the rollers may be adjusted independently of the friction between the disc 7 and the rollers. The discs 5, 7 are respectively splined and loose upon the driven shaft 3 and are pressed forward by springs 10, 11 backed by adjustable collars 9, 12. The speed may be varied by moving the roller 23 along with its motor 16 as by a screw 19. The dervice is specially applicable to apparatus for agitating the contents of tanks, as for dairy products.
Patent GB-119563-A (GB)
Title: A New or Improved Differential Gearing for Steering Motor Vehicles.
Inventor: BLACKSTONE GEORGE MILLS
IPC: B62D11/10
Filed: 1917-10-22
Abstract: 119,563. Blackstone, G. M., Carter, F., Carter, E., and Watts, R. E. Oct. 22, 1917. Compulsory differential driving, and differential braking.- Steering mechanism, more particularly for endless - track vehicles, and of the kind that operates by means of a differential drive, consists of an irreversible driving mechanism comprising worm-gearing which normally drives straight ahead, the steering movements being effected by braking one element of the driving mechanism. The track pinions m are mounted on sleeves a clutched to sleeves b<1> on which sun wheels bare mounted. The sun wheels b engage planet wheels c co-axial with worm wheels d in mesh with worms f, carried in a casing e. The worms fare mounted on spindles f<1> having bevel gears g meshing with a gear h on a brake drum h<1>. The casings e are driven from the main shaft and the drive to the track pinions m is normally solid, the track pinions being differentially driven by braking one or other of the brake drums h<1>.
Patent GB-250424-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in pipes or conduits for electric cables
IPC: H02G1/08
Filed: 1925-06-12
Abstract: 250,424. Callender's Cable & Construction Co., Ltd., and Wilson, A. E. June 12, 1925. Conduits and casings. - Doublesocketted connecting pieces d for use in joining pipes through which a main underground cable is to be drawn, are provided with rollers e to assist the drawing-in of the cable. Recesses h are provided in the connecting pieces to receive the roller trunnions f, and the rollers can be readily dropped into place and secured by wooden dowels g. The rollers are of wood, gun-metal &c., and the sockets are of iron, stone-ware or the like. In a modification a single socket is provided at the end of a pipe, and a roller provided adjacent thereto.
Patent GB-515116-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to loaded electric conductors for verbal communication cables
IPC: H01B7/16
Filed: 1938-05-24
Abstract: 515,116. Cables. SOLUTION TRUST, Ltd. May 24, 1938, Nos. 15484 and 15485. Convention dates, May 24, 1937, and April 28, 1938. [Class 36] Loaded conductors for communication cables are manufactured by disposing preformed compressed blocks of ferro-magnetic particles insulated from each other over a conducting core so as to lie between said core and an outer metal sheath, and mechanically reducing the work-piece so produced to the required dimensions, preferably by successive drawing operations with intermediate annealing. Prior to such reduction, rings or tubes of compressed pulverulent insulating material, e.g., magnesia, may be arranged to form an insulating layer between the sheath and blocks of ferromagnetic particles. The Specification as open to inspection under Sect. 91 comprises also the use of more than one conducting core in a single sheath. This subject-matter does not appear in the Specification as accepted.
Patent GB-1430476-A (GB)
Title: Pulp-forming particles and paper-like sheets made there-rom
IPC: D01D5/40
Filed: 1973-03-30
Abstract: 1430476 Mica/polymer particles TEIJIN Ltd 30 March 1973 [31 March 1972] 15546/73 Heading C3R [Also in Division D2] Pulp-forming particles consist by wt. of 50- 90% mica dispersed in 50-10% of a polymer (P) of an aromatic N-containing heterocyclic compound or precursor thereof. Polymer (P) is a polyamideimide, amideimidazole, imide, imidazole, oxazole, thiazole, quinazolinedione, oxazinone, quinazolone, quinoxaline, oxadiazole, hydantoin, parabanic acid, amideacid, hydrazide, or urea; or a copolymer of a precursor thereof with an aromatic dicarboxylic acid or derivative thereof. The particles are made by dissolving polymer (P) or precursor in a solvent, adding mica particles to the solution, and mixing with a precipitating agent. The solvent is preferably water-soluble and dissolves (P) but not the mica; it may be, e.g. H 2 SO 4 , H 2 S 2 O 7 , ClSO 2 H, FSO 3 H, polyphosphoric acid, dimethyl sulphoxide and/or an N- methylated amide. The solvent may also contain LiCl or CaCl 2  to increase polymer solubilizing power. The solution preferably contains 2-15% wt. (P). The mica may be muscovite, sericite, phlogopite, or biotite. Uses.-In paper-like sheets, for electrical insulation or building materials.
Patent GB-159116-A (GB)
Title: Combination pocket powder container and distributor
IPC: A45D33/00
Filed: 1920-06-09
Abstract: 159,116. Warneford, A. C. June 9, 1920. Powder distributors; boxes combined with pads and mirrors; contents, delivering. - A pocket powder - container comprises a body 1 having a detachable bottom 2 above which is a backing 5 of cardboard faced with washleather &c., the powder 7 being contained between this backing and a layer 4 of soft porous fabric which projects slightly above the top of the box body and is held in position between the body and a detachable tube 3. The fabric 4 forms a part for applying the powder to the skin. The box has a detachable cover 8 fitted with a mirror 9.
Patent GB-1081651-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to liquid cooled electric transformer/rectifier equipment
Inventor: SINCLAIR WILLIAM DONALD
IPC: H01F27/40
Filed: 1964-04-15
Abstract: 1,081,651. Transformer/rectifier equipment. ASSOCIATED ELECTRICAL INDUSTRIES Ltd. April 13, 1965 [April 15, 1964], No. 15602/64. Heading H1T. [Also in Division H2] Semi-conducting rectifiers 7 (and/or 12, Fig. 2) are electrically insulatingly mounted on a metal part of a transformer tank wall, e.g. a metal plate 6, or hollow metal trunking (10 and/or 11, Fig. 2), the metal part being provided internally with cooling fins and contacting the transformer cooling oil. A disc or washer (22, Fig. 3), of an electrically insulating but good thermally conducting material, e.g. sintered berylia or alumina (see Specification 1,026,716), is disposed between the flanged base (19) of the rectifier (14) having electrodes (17 and 18) and the metal part (13) of the transformer tank. The rectifier is mounted on the metal part (13) by nuts and bolts (15, 16) and a metal clamping plate (23) insulated from the base (19) by a polyethylene washer (25), a tagged copper ring (20) providing connection to one electrode (17). The olamping plate (23) and washer (25) may be replaced by a fibre glass washer. The rectifiers 7 (or 12) may be interconnected and are connected to the transformer windings by external terminals 8.
Patent GB-568311-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in compressed air turbines particularly for driving small agitators
IPC: F01D1/02
Filed: 1943-09-23
Abstract: <PICT:0568311/IV/1> <PICT:0568311/IV/2> The turbine is designed to drive a stirring device such as an agitator on a glass rod, and comprises a rotor 22 of plastic material, such as phenol-formaldehyde or urea formaldehyde or a methyl methacrylate polymer or polystyrene mounted in bearings 20, 21 and driven by one or more jets 35 of air supplied through a tube 33 which supports the turbine.  Air is exhausted through an annulus 37 and tends to prevent the ingress of any fumes rising from the liquid being stirred.  The casing is formed of two parts 13, 15, secured together by rivets 16 or the like, and a cover 17 supporting a fixed axle 19.  A cup leather 24 prevents fumes (or moisture from the compressed air) from reaching the bearings, but allows oil from a lubricator 25 to seep through.  A boss 28 has a lateral opening 30 in which can slide a clutch member 31 (such as an arcuate block of plastic).  A member such as a rubber ring 32 is positioned as shown.  This presses the block 31 against the side of the agitator spindle when the latter is inserted.  The casing and all exterior metal parts are coated with synthetic resin.