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Patent GB-756554-A (GB)
Title: A new or improved drying apparatus
Inventor: BROUGHTON GODFREY JOSEPH
IPC: A47K10/48
Filed: 1953-05-09
Abstract: 756,554. Drying hands. BROUGHTON & SONS (ENGINEERS), Ltd., J. April 29, 1954 [May 9, 1953], No. 13003/53. Class 81(2). [Also in Groups XXXVII and XL(c)] Drying apparatus for objects or parts of the person comprises a body extending around a drying zone and having an aperture for 'the insertion of hands or articles into this zone, means for delivering heated air into the zone and a sensitive primary control element initiating and controlling the operation of these means, this element being mounted in such a position that it responds to and becomes activated only by the presence of hands or articles within the body and is shielded from activation by members outside the body. A hand drier comprises a casing 10 secured to a wall or pedestal and provided with an aperture 17 for the insertion of the hands. The drying zone is enclosed by a cylindrical shell 18 of insulating material within the casing 10 and is provided with air through a duct 13 from an electrically operated fan within a housing 12. An electric heating element is disposed within the duct 13. A housing 14 in the casing 10 contains an electronic control unit (see Groups XXXVII and XL(c)). The electronic control unit comprises an oscillator circuit which is normally operative and which is connected with a relay circuit including a normally de-energised relay which controls heater and fan motor circuits for the air supply. The oscillator circuit is connected with a ring 24 arranged so that when the hands are introduced into the drying zone the capacity between the ring 24 and earth is altered sufficiently to stop or change the oscillations so that the relay is energised and the heater and fan motor circuits are closed. On removing the hands the oscillator operates normally and the relay circuit is de-energised to cut off the heater and fan motor current supply. The casing 10 shields the ring 24 so that the heater and fan motor circuits are energized only when the hands enter the drying zone. An additional air supply duct may be provided for drying the face. According to the Provisional Specification the operation of the air delivery means may be delayed after energisation of the heater by a bimetallic strip to exercise control over the starting time of the motor. The insulating cylindrical shell may be formed from material known, under the Registered Trade Mark " Texolex."
Patent GB-852349-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to vehicle seat suspension systems
IPC: B60N2/50
Filed: 1957-04-24
Abstract: 852,349. Resilient seat mountings. BOURCIER DE CARBON, C. M. L. L. April 24, 1957 [April 24, 1956], No. 13056/57. Class 52(1) In a resilient suspension for a vehicle seat the seat 1 is mounted on a lever-like frame 2 pivotable about a horizontal axis 3 and a damped suspension device 4 which automatically compensates for variations in load is disposed between the seat I and the vehicle body and consists of, in combination, a pneumatic, hydro-pneumatic or mechanical spring, an automatic load compensator to maintain the seat level, relative to its mounting, constant irrespective of the passenger's weight, and a shock absorber. The load compensator may be supplied with oil from the vehicle lubricating pump. Specification 828,349 is referred to.
Patent GB-131265-A (GB)
IPC: A63F5/04
Abstract: 131,265. Ross, R. June 2, 1919. Games of chance.-A disk adapted for fitting to the revoluble table of a talking machine is marked peripherally such that when brought to rest, the marking which is opposite a fixed finger 3 is counted for the purpose of the game with which the machine is used. A brake may stop the disk-table at arbitrary positions. In practice, the players hold cards representing the symbols on the disk, and the holder of the card which corresponds to the selection by the pointer wins the game. The disk may take the form of a record disk from which the machine makes audible announcement of numbers or letters, the last announcement when the table is arrested being counted in the game. Reference has been directed by the Comptroller to Specification 135,391,
Patent GB-1299533-A (GB)
Title: System for supplying electric energy to a railway vehicle
IPC: B60L1/00
Filed: 1970-03-18
Abstract: 1299533 Automatic control of speed L'ECLAIRAGE DES VEHICULES SUR RAIL 18 March 1970 [28 March 1969] 13143/70 Heading G3R [Also in Division H2] An electrical supply system, e.g. for railway coaches, comprises an A. C. generator 13 driven by a synchronous motor 6 energized from a D.C. or rectified A. C. supply through a smoothing inductance 3 and a thyristor inverter 4, the firing of the thyristors being carried out in dependence on the position of the rotor of the motor. The rotor position sensor shown comprises a dotted disc 14 co-operating with lamps 15 and photo-diodes or photo-transistors 16. The motor has stationary armature and field windings, one field winding 8 being in series with the armature winding 7 and a second field winding being energized from a battery 11 through a speed regulating device 12 which senses the output frequency of the generator 13. The inductor 3 has an earthed screen. Where the supply is of the order of 3,000 volts, the motor may include two armature windings and two inverters connected in series. The A. C. generator may be 3 phase producing 110 or 220 volts at 50c/s.
Patent GB-761601-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to camera tubes
IPC: H01J29/48
Filed: 1954-05-05
Abstract: 761,601. Television pick-up tubes. PHILIPS ELECTRICAL INDUSTRIES, Ltd. May 5, 1954 [May 8, 1953], No. 13161/54. Class 39(1). A diaphragm is disposed in the gun system of a C.P.S. camera tube and its diameter is at least ten times the diameter of the beam at the crossover and is at such a distance from the latter that about ten per cent of the emitted electrons pass through the beam limiting aperture of the diaphragm. The control electrode 2 and the anode diaphragm 3 of a field electrode 4 concentrate the electrons from cathode 1 at a crossing point 5. The electrons diverging from point 5 move in helical paths in the magnetic field produced by focussing coil 7 but are constrained by aperture 9 in the diaphragm 8 and are focussed to a further crossing point 10. In an embodiment, the diameter of the aperture 9 is 0À3-0À5 mms. and the diaphragms 3, 8 are spaced by 8 mms.
Patent GB-738427-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to distributing devices at the intake end of plansifters
IPC: B07B1/38
Filed: 1953-05-12
Abstract: 738,427. Distributers for plansifters. BUHLER, GEB. May 12, 1953 [May 15, 1952], No. 13236/53. Class 78 (1). A distributing device for feeding a plansifter comprises two trays 1, 2 which are relatively angularly adjustable and are both formed with bottom openings 3 and with side openings 4, the angular adjustment varying the discharge of material. As shown, tray 1 is fixed to sieve frame 7, whilst tray 2 is pivotally mounted so that, by displacement of operating arm 6, the flow through the openings 3 to the sieve is varied. Damming-up collar 5 diverts any surplus material through the side openings 4, and baffle 10 helps to control the flow.
Patent GB-1423435-A (GB)
Title: Recording and/or playback apparatus
IPC: G11B27/34
Filed: 1973-03-20
Abstract: 1423435 Recording and playback; indexing devices PHILIPS ELECTRONIC & ASSOCIATED INDUSTRIES Ltd 20 March 1973 [23 March 1972] 13238/73 Heading G5R An indexing device for e.g. dictation apparatus includes two adjacent scribers 6, 7 with coplanar tips 17, 18, which are moved along an index strip 3 in synchronism with relative movement between a record carrier and a magnetic head and which can be moved towards the index strip 3 against the force of a single, common return spring 36 to make marks in respective parallel zones (4, 5), Fig. 4 (not shown), a locating device 48 being provided for at least one scriber 6 to retain that scriber in its rest position when the other scriber 7 is actuated and takes up the spring 36. As shown, the scribers 6, 7 are superimposed and obliquely mounted relative to the strip 3 in a groove of a support (9), Fig. 4 (not shown), which is moved along a rod 43, e.g. by a cord and pulley device, not shown. Brackets 26, 27 are pivotable about the rod 43 for engaging bent ends 24, 25 of the scribers 6, 7 to slide the latter longitudinally; the brackets 26, 27 may be actuated electromagnetically through tabs 34, 35 thereon. The platen 1 for the strip 3 is also pivoted about the rod 43 and yields under the scribers. The lower scriber 6 is located by a spring-loaded ball 48; a locating device for the upper scriber 7 is unnecessary since its tip 18 is further away from the strip 3 and the platen 1 also moves away under scriber 6. The upper scriber 7 acts as a pointer on a scale (41), Fig. 4 (not shown). In an alternative embodiment, Figs. 1, 2 (not shown), the scribers are side by side and the support (9) is advanced on a rotating lead screw (11), the brackets (26, 27) being pivoted on a rod (30) and the platen (1) being fixed. Both scribers are located by protrusions (39, 40) thereon engaging recesses (37, 38) in the support (9). The marks may be made by scoring, scratching or writing.
Patent GB-163053-A (GB)
Title: Pipe couplings
IPC: F16L37/18
Filed: 1921-05-10
Abstract: 163,053. Schrader's Son, Inc., A., (Assignees of Kraft, H. P.). May 10, 1920, [Convention date]. Couplings, disconnectible; tapered spigot-and-socket joints.-A readily disconnectible coupling particularly intended for use in steam-pipes of vulcanizing- apparatus comprises coupling-members C, F respectively secured to the pipes A, B to be coupled, the member C having a tapered socket H co-operating with a tapered spigot on member F, the two being forced into tight engagement by a lever L having fulcrum pins O taking a bearing against hook members J on the member C, and having cam surfaces N which bear against the rear shoulder of member F. Two hooks J are provided between which the pipe B passes, and lever L, which has two limbs, one at each side of pipe B, is removable. Preferably, member C has a cylindrical socket I within which the cylindrical exterior of member F is guided.
Patent GB-127583-A (GB)
Title: Improved Apparatus for Removing a Gun Barrel from its Mounting for Transport and for Replacing upon its Mounting.
IPC: F41A23/26
Filed: 1919-05-27
Abstract: 127,583. Schneider et Cie. May 27, 1918, [Convention date]. Mounting and dismounting; field carriages. - Relates to transport vehicles for dismounted barrels of heavy ordnance, and to means for dismounting and remounting the barrels on the gun mounting. According to the invention, fore and rear carriages, as described below, are used in combination for the transport of the gun barrel; and to facilitate the transfer of the barrel on to these carriages, slide extension-pieces are hinged to the front end of the gun-cradle, and are supported at their outer ends by jacks which enable the extension-pieces to be raised or lowered on their hinges to position the breech-end of the gun barrel during its transfer to or from the transport carriages. The fore-carriage B, Figs. 1 and 10, which receives the chase of the gun barrel G, comprises a wheeled axle A, undercarriage B. and a vertical pivot D for a two-part collar E, F, in which the chase is supported by rollers e' on spring-mounted arms e. The upper part F of the collar is hinged to the lower part. Ribs g on the barrel G embrace the lower part E. The rear carriage J, Figs. 6 and 10, comprises a wheeled axle H, bolts j to engage projections g<2> on the gun barrel, and a screw-traversed transversely-movable block J<1> which engages a projection g<3> on the barrel. Ribs g<1> on the barrel embrace the carriage J. The cradle L of the gun mounting L - - O has two extension-pieces Q hinged to it at R, the forward ends of which are supported by jacks S, T. To dismount the barrel, it is disconnected in known manner from its slide, the cradle L is bolted at m to the mounting M, and the fore and rear transport carriages B, J are placed below the gun chase, the carriage J being run on to a ramp U connected by rods u to the gun mounting. The chase is secured in the carriage B by the strap F and the ribs g. By moving the carriage B forwards and paying out a tackle v, the gun barrel is slid forwards into the position shown in Fig. 10, in which rollers P<1> on the barrel engage stops on the slide extensions Q. The jacks S, T are then lowered, permitting the extensions Q to turn downwards about the hinges R until the breech-end of the gun is seated in the rear transport carriage J. To remount the barrel, these operations are reversed, the barrel being rotated, if necessary, about its longitudinal axis by the transversely movable block J<1>. The barrel may also be moved laterally to aline it with its slide by running the fore-carriage B on to ramps W, Fig. 13, the wheel supports w on which are adapted to be traversed sideways by screws w<2>. To enable the two transport carriages to be moved from place to place when not conveying the gun barrel, the slide extensions Q may be used as connecting members between the carriages B, J as shown in plan in Fig. 15, the carriage J having connecting-lugs J<4> and the carriage B a hook Y to permit the connexion to be made.
Patent GB-905086-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to fuel injection system for internal combustion engines
IPC: F01L25/08
Filed: 1960-04-14
Abstract: 905,086. Control systems. BOSCH G.m.b.H., ROBERT. April 14, 1960 [April 15, 1959], No. 13357/60. Class 40 (1). [Also in Group XXVII] In a fuel injection system for internalcombustion engines (see also Group XXVII), the fuel quantities to be ejected through the injection valves 211-216 are greater the longer the pulses 31 last. For changing and adapting the pulse length to the fuel requirements of the engine an electronic regulating circuit 32 is provided. The latter is coupled to the camshaft and the accelerator 35 of the engine. In addition, the regulating circuit also has circuit components (not shown) which are dependent on the air pressure, the cooling water temperature and the air temperature and are used for varying the duration of the control pulses 31.
Patent GB-528345-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to electrical frequency wobbling arrangements
IPC: H03C7/02
Filed: 1939-05-04
Abstract: 528,345. Radio-altimeters. MARCONI'S WIRELESS TELEGRAPH CO., Ltd., and WITT, B. J. May 4, 1939, No. 13369. [Class 37] [Also in Group XL] A frequency-wobbling system, designed for use with an altimeter of the radio reflection type, comprises a pair of Lecher wires or the like la, Fig. 2, with arcuate extensions ba which form the fixed plates of condensers, the moving plates comprising a series of radial arms r1, r2 &c. rotating with a hub H. The arm r1 enters between the Lecher wires at a point A which is a nodal point for the frequency at which the system is then resonant, and as the arm r1 rises the frequency falls linearly until the arm emerges at the point B. The frequency then rises suddenly to its original value, and the next arm r6 enters at the point A. Fig. 3 shows, in transverse section, an arrangement in which the Lecher strips ba, bg are each of triple form, and the moving vanes r2a, r2g embrace the triple strips. Each of the moving vanes is narrow in a circumferential direction. Height of an aircraft is ascertained by mounting the oscillator on the craft and measuring the pitch of the interference note caused by the emission wave and the wave received after reflection by the earth.
Patent GB-1206075-A (GB)
Title: Interpolymer compositions and film-forming compositions and materials coated therewith
Inventor: STONE RAYMOND ARTHUR
IPC: D21H19/22
Filed: 1969-03-13
Abstract: 1,206,075. Coating paper. DOVERSTRAND Ltd. 13 March, 1969 [19 April, 1968], No. 13403/69. Heading B2E. [Also in Division C3] Substrates, especially cellulosic materials, e.g. paper cotton, are coated with a composition comprising (a) latex formed by emulsion polymerisation of (1) 10-30% by weight of an aliphatic conjugated diene, preferably butadiene, (2) 89-60% by weight of a copolymerisable (a) monovinyl aromatic compound, preferably styrene or (b) mixture of monovinyl aromatic compound and up to 40% by weight of a C 1-3  alkyl acrylate, a C 1-3  alkyl methacrylate and/or vinylidene chloride or (c) a mixture of monovinyl aromatic compound with up to 30% by weight of acrylonitrile and (3) 1-10% by weight of an N-C 1-4  alkyl acrylamide, preferably N-methylolacrylamide, or acrylamide precursor thereof, and (b) a normally liquid volatile organic azeotrope-forming film coalescing agent, preferably butoxy ethylene glycol acetate, butoxy diethylene glycol acetate, ethylene glycol diacetate or 2-ethylhexyl acetate.
Patent GB-1004115-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to relays
IPC: H01H50/42
Filed: 1962-04-06
Abstract: 1,004,115. Electromagnetic relays. B. LAZICH. April 6, 1962, No. 13409/62. Heading H2B. An electromagnetic relay comprises a coil 5 wound on a non-magnetic bobbin 6 having a flange 7 at one end, an axially magnetized permanent magnet ring 27 coaxially mounted with the coil adjacent the flange, a cylindrical magnetic shell 14 encasing the circumference of the coil and its other end and magnetically connected to the end of the permanent magnet adjacent the coil, a polepiece 30 connected to the other end of the permanent magnet, and a pivotally mounted armature 21 which is normally held in engagement with the permanent magnet polepiece. The armature is mounted within the coil and in the normal position engages polepiece 30 at one end of the coil and the polepiece 28 of an axially magnetized permanent magnet ring 26 at the other end of the coil. The armature is coupled to a contact actuating slide 37 by a pivoted arm 35. The relay is enclosed in a sealed magnetic casing 1. The relay shown in Figs. 3 and 4 is similar to that of Fig. 1 except that only one permanent magnet is provided and the armature 64 is pivoted on a soft iron core of the coil. The armature 64 is multi-limbed and is movable between the limbs 63 of the polepiece secured to the permanent magnet and the limbs 69 of a polepiece secured to the magnetic casing 45. The armature is normally held in engagement with limbs 63 by the permanent magnet. An insulating disc secured to the armature 64 has a plurality of circumferentially spaced abutments 72, between which pivoted hairpin contact springs 75 are located. Each spring is engaged alternately by its adjacent abutments 72 and moves between fixed contacts 82, 83.
Patent GB-442363-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to fluid power transmission
IPC: F16H47/08
Filed: 1934-05-03
Abstract: 442,363. Hydro-mechanical variablespeed gearing. FRASER, R. P., 20, Margravine Gardens, Baron's Court, London. May 3, 1934, No. 13429. [Class 80 (ii)] [See also Group XXIX] A power-transmission system comprises a hydraulic torque converter with each of its three parts connected to an element of an epicyclic train, so that during forward drive the converter elements move in the same direction. In the form shown in Fig. 5, the driving shaft D is connected to the converter element A and the sun-wheel E, the element B to the planet carrier F, and the element C through a freewheel G to the annulus H on the driven shaft M. An alternative arrangement is shown in Fig. 6. The torque converter may be of ordinary construction, or may comprise triangular vanes, the radial impeller vanes 12, Fig. 1, being flat, the turbine vanes 15 being concave, and the reaction vanes 2 being tangential to the central axis and flat in form with a forwardly turned edge 6. Each turbine vane is thick at its base and becomes progressively thinner towards its apex.
Patent GB-1370962-A (GB)
Title: Turbine housing with two inlet passages
IPC: F01D9/02
Filed: 1972-03-22
Abstract: 1370962 Gas turbines CATERPILLAR TRACTOR CO 22 March 1972 13465/72 Heading FIT A housing for the turbine rotor of an I.C. engine turbocharger comprises two voluteshaped gas directing passages A, B each communicating with the entire rotor periphery 16 but out of phase with each other by an angle other than 180 degrees. The passages are separated by a radial wall 14 and have a common inlet flange 10 connecting them to the exhaust manifolds of respective groups of engine cylinders.
Patent GB-1104433-A (GB)
Title: Apparatus for desalination of water
IPC: B01J47/04
Filed: 1965-02-23
Abstract: A mixed bed ion exchange column for desalinating water comprises an inverted truncated cone below and above the line dividing The relative volumes of the parts of the truncated cone below and above the line dividing the two resins of the mixed bed when they have been separated for regeneration by back-flushing are 1:4.  The inverted truncated cone configuration of the column is stated to reduce the necessary column height otherwise necessary, and to assist separation and regeneration.
Patent GB-771026-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in drill rods for deep drilling
IPC: E21B17/04
Filed: 1955-05-10
Abstract: 771,026. Jointing. HEMSCHEIDT, H. May 10, 1955, No. 13502/55. Class 83 (4). [Also in Groups XXI, XXIV and XXVIII] The end of a tube 3 for a drill rod is frozen in liquid air or nitrogen, or carbon dioxide ice, and inserted into the socket of a heated coupling element 1, after which the joint thus formed is allowed to cool to obtain a rigid connection between the tube and element.
Patent GB-135134-A (GB)
IPC: F23H9/02
Abstract: 135,134. Price, T. May 21, 1919. Fire-bars and grates.-A furnace fire-grate is composed of transverse bars 3, 2, alternately rotating and fixed, the former consisting of square spindles carrying spaced square plates or flanges, Figs. 2 and 8, and the latter being of herring bone form, Figs. 4 and 5, having central air spaces at right-angles to the length and side air spaces at an acute angle thereto. One end of each rotating bar, projecting through the furnace wall, carries a star ratchet-wheel 5, Fig. 9, engaged by a pawl 7 mounted between a pair of plates 6 loose on the fire-bar spindle connected to a common reciprocating bar 9, Fig. 7. The two bars 9 of a pair of furnaces are operated through a common rockshaft 10 from a crank-pin 14 on a disk 16 secured to a shaft 17 rotated by a ratchet wheel 18 and pawl from an eccentric 23 on a shaft 24. When the gearing just described is duplicated for an adjacent pair of furnaces the two shafts 17 are alined, their adjacent ends being loosely socketed together as shown in Fig. 6, and to allow of individual adjustment, the crank-pins 14 are radially adjustable and each ratchet wheel 18 is fitted with an adjustable pawl mask.