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Patent GB-458559-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to the manufacture of cereal substances for use in the preparation of beverages
IPC: A23L2/38
Filed: 1936-05-11
Abstract: A beverage of the barley water type is prepared by mixing cold water with a treated cereal substance produced by heating a cereal flour in the presence of water so as to rupture the starch cells of the flour, and thereafter drying the treated flour until it attains the condition of a dry powder.  Barley, oats, or other cereal flour may be used and sweetening, flavouring, colouring and substances such as flavouring essences, fruit juices, essential oils acids, dyes, sugars, gelatine, gums, or preservatives may be added.ALSO:A beverage of the barley water type is prepared by mixing cold water with a treated cereal substance produced by heating a cereal flour in the presence of water so as to rupture the starch cells of the flour, and thereafter drying the treated flour until it attains the condition of a dry powder.  Barley, oats or other cereal flour may be used and sweetening, flavouring, colouring &c. substances such as flavouring essences, fruit juices, essential oils, acids, dyes, sugars, gelatine, gums or preservatives may be added.
Patent GB-495708-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to slicing machines for bread and the like
IPC: B26D7/18
Filed: 1937-05-11
Abstract: 495,708. Slicing bread; cleaning machinery pneumatically. BAKER PERKINS, Ltd., and HARBER, L. S. May 11, 1937, No. 13357. [Class 5 (i)] [Also in Group XXVIII] In a bread-slicing machine, suction means are provided adjacent to the cutters for removing crumbs or particles of bread. The cutters may be rotary, or comprise two alternately arranged and oppositely reciprocating sets of knives, but, as shown, the machine has a single set of reciprocating knives with aligned circular saws in advance thereof to cut through the top crust. The loaves are fed by the conveyer 27 on to and over a table 5 having slots 7 in which the knives 6 work. The saws 14 work in slots in the top plate 11 which rides upon the tops of the loaves. The plate 11 and the slotted part of the table 5 are formed as parts of headers 8, 18 connected by pipes 9, 19 to a vacuum pump 10. The knives 6 may pass through slots in the plate 11 internally or externally of the header 18. The saws 14 may be driven by a motor mounted on the plate 11, or through a flexible drive which will permit adjustment of the plate 11, but as shown they are driven by a belt 17 from the shaft 24 carrying the crank for reciprocating the blades. The tension of the belt 17 may be maintained by a jockey pulley. The saws may be adjustable relatively to the plate 11 and rotate counter to the direction of the feed of the bread, i.e. counterclockwise in the Figure. Air jets may be employed to blow crumbs out of the cuts in the bread into or towards the suction slots. According to the Provisional Specification, the saws 14 may be employed without suction means, and, in some cases, vertical vacuum nozzles or slots may be arranged parallel with and between or enclosing each of the reciprocat- . ing blades or groups thereof.
Patent GB-437656-A (GB)
Title: Improved scanning apparatus for television and the like
IPC: H04N3/04
Filed: 1934-05-03
Abstract: 437,656. Television. ELECTRICAL RESEARCH PRODUCTS, Inc., 195, Broadway, New York, U.S.A.-(Assignees of Ives, H. E. ; 32, Laurel Avenue, Montclair, New Jersey, U.S.A.) May 3, 1934, No. 13375. Convention date, May 24, 1933. [Class 40 (iii)] Scanning apertures are formed by the intersection of transparent areas 12, 22 in two opaque films 11, 21 fixed side-by-side. The films are mounted on separate sheets 10, 20 of glass secured together with the films adjoining. Alternatively the films are on opposite sides of a single sheet of glass, Fig. 7 (not shown). The transparent areas 12 of one film are radial with respect to the axis of rotation and the transparent areas 22 of the other film are in a circle or a spiral, Figs. 3 and 4 (not shown), concentric with the axis of rotation. The films are of opaque paint, which is removed from the transparent areas by an engraving tool. The engraved lines are such that the resulting apertures are rectangular, Fig. 9 (not shown), or arcuate, Fig. 8 (not shown).
Patent GB-133905-A (GB)
IPC: A61K36/47
Abstract: 133,905. Dave, T. P. April 17, 1919. Fatty oils, extracting, purifying, &c.-15 lb. of castor seed and 1“ lb. of rose buds or rose leaves are crushed and boiled in water. The extracted oil is mixed with milk in the proportion of 7 lb. of oil to one of milk, and boiled again. After straining and cooling, glycerine is added in the proportion of ¢ drachm to 1 lb. of oil.
Patent GB-1452781-A (GB)
Title: Treatment of sewage
IPC: C02F3/30
Filed: 1973-03-20
Abstract: 1452781 Treatment of sewage OXFAM ACTIVITIES Ltd 18 March 1974 [20 March 1973] 13452/73 Heading C1C A method of treating sewage comprises supplying it to at least one closed collapsible container in which the sewage is maintained under anaerobic conditions, withdrawing liquid from the container and subjecting the withdrawn liquid to biological filtration under aerobic conditions. The container(s) may be made of flexible material, including lay-flat tubing, and provided with baffle means. The biological filter material may be coke, brushwood or a suitable plastic material. Apparatus suitable for carrying out the process is also described and claimed. The method and apparatus may be used for permanent or emergency sewage disposal.
Patent GB-252730-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to channel shaped supporting bars for concrete ceilings
IPC: E04B1/41
Filed: 1926-05-27
Abstract: 252,730. Halfen, J. May 27, 1925, [Convention date]. Floors; reinforced concrete.-A channel-shaped load-supporting bar for embedding in concrete ceilings is provided with bolt-supporting member 2 on both sides of a longitudinal slot, and each member 2 has two vertically projecting ribs 4, 5, the groove between which is adapted to be engaged by clamping plates 7. The plates 7 have ribs 8 abutting against the inner ribs 4, so that the bolt-supporting members 2 will be held or stiffened by the pressure produced on the clamping plates by screwing against such plates the articles to be supported. The ribs 8 may be resilient and inclined to one another. Sleeves 10<1> may be inserted through holes provided in the bars in order to receive anchoring stirrups, or passages 10, Fig. 4, may be formed integrally with the bars for this purpose.
Patent GB-1298104-A (GB)
Title: Wall covering
IPC: E04F13/00
Filed: 1970-03-20
Abstract: 1298104 Laminated wall covering J B SCHAEFER GmbH 20 March 1970 [28 March 1969] 13518/70 Heading B5N A wall covering for the compensation of irregularities in an unplastered or roughly plastered wall, comprises a web of material made up of two layers the first of which 3 is formed with dimples 4 separated from one another and filled with a flexible foam material and the second of which 7 is bonded to the first layer in dimpleclosing relationship whereby the web has at one surface thereof numerous, discrete, closed elastic cells 2. The first layer is preferably of elastically deformable material, e.g. polyethylene and the second of a stiff but rollable material, e.g. hardened polystyrene or hardened polyvinyl chloride. The second layer which may be cemented or heat-sealed to the first layer may have a decorative surface or have a decorative surface material, e.g. a printed web of paper, a fabric or a foil applied thereto.
Patent GB-701675-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to apparatus for drying continuous lengths of flexible elongated articles
IPC: F26B13/00
Filed: 1952-05-28
Abstract: 701,675. Thread-storage and advancing devices; thread guards. AMERICAN CYANAMID CO. May 28, 1952 [June 23, 1951], No. 13541/52. Class 120(2) [Also in Groups XI and XIII] Apparatus for drying and advancing threads has two rolls 146, 148 mounted with their axes converging, each roll having a hollow stationary cantilevered shaft 10 and a hollow electrical heating unit 46 mounted on the shaft. The rolls have rear bearings 22 and front bearings' 56 and are rotated by means of drive gear 28 and gear 32 on a shaft 34. A seal 104 attached to the frame 106 prevents gear lubricant from passing on to the heating surface of the roll and also prevents any treating agent from flowing to the rear of the roll. The threads 142 are led over guide roll 144 to rolls 146, 148 and then when dried are led under tension through a guide 150 to a twister bobbin 156.
Patent GB-1486070-A (GB)
Title: Magnetic disc file including a clean gas system
IPC: G11B25/04
Filed: 1975-04-02
Abstract: 1486070 Gas filtering INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORP 2 April 1975 13544/75 Heading B1T [Also in Division G5] A gas flow circulation within a housing 2, 3, Fig. 2 and created by magnetic discs 7 and an impeller 8 on a rotary shaft 6 is filtered by a main filter 12 and creates positive pressure within the housing adjacent a bearing 5 for shaft 6 and adjacent a seal 4 between the base 2 and cover 3 of the housing, a negative pressure being established within the housing at a breather filter 14, Fig. 5, communicating with the exterior of the housing via apertures 16 in a top wall 15 of cover 3. The flow resistance through filter 14 is much less than that through the series combination of a path through bearing 5 and a labyrith path 9 adjacent thereto, so that gas flows into the housing primarily via filter 14 when the apparatus cools after use. The cover 3 and a housing of a filter unit combining filters 12, 14 are of transparent plastics. Filters 12, 14 have zig-zagfolded glass fibre paper strips to filter out all particulate matter, and for use in an environment having gaseous contaminants, filter 14 may include an activated charcoal element to remove such contaminants. The housing 2, 3 may contain a normal air atmosphere or nitrogen, and may have baffles (18), (19), Fig. 1 (not shown), located therein to establish the required gas pressure distribution.
Patent GB-688287-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to the manufacture of painters' brushes
IPC: A46B11/08
Filed: 1950-05-31
Abstract: 688,287. Brushes. HOLLINS BRUSH CO., Ltd., and EDWARDS, W. April 11, 1951 [May 31, 1950], No. 13550/50. Class 19. A painter's brush is made by assembling the bristles and a dividing wooden wedge in an ordinary ferrule, treating with rubber solution, and removing the assembly from the ferrule when the ends of the bristles are becoming set. The assembly of bristles 7 and wedge 8 is then inserted in a ferrule 4 having across it an internal web 5, and the whole is vulcanised and is finally mounted on a wooden handle by means of screws 11 which pass through the wedge 8 and holes 6 in the ferrule web 5.
Patent GB-200288-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to the springing of motor and other cycles
IPC: B62K25/20
Filed: 1922-05-13
Abstract: 200,288. Walters, L. F. P. May 13, 1922. Spring devices. - In spring mountings for the rear wheels of motor-cycles &c. wherein the wheel is carried on rearwardly-extending arms c<1> of bellcrank-levers c pivoted on a spindle d carried by the forks, the other arms c<2> of the levers extending downwardly and being connected by rods b and a spring to the frame, the levers are mounted exterior to the forks, and the rods b, which may be formed as a U-shaped member and may engage one of several pairs of holes f in the arms c<2>, are connected to a leaf-spring a clamped by means of bolts. g and plates i. j to an upright frame member such as that which supports the saddle.
Patent GB-232808-A (GB)
Title: Electric switches
IPC: H01H33/64
Filed: 1924-06-04
Abstract: 232,808. British Thomson-Houston Co., Ltd., (General Electric Co.). June 4, 1924. High-potential switches for distribution &c. circuits have contacts separable in a polyatomic gas of high dielectric strength and good heat conductivity, such as chlorine or hydrogen. As shown in Fig. 1 a switch has fixed contacts 7, 8 bridged by a movable contact-member 12 attached by a rod 13 to the core of an operating solenoid 15. The switch contacts are mounted within a gas-tight chamber 1 provided with pipe connections 2, 3 for removing the air within the chamber and substituting gas at the desired pressure. In a modified form shown in Fig. 2 the chamber consists of a metal cylinder 22 with end covers 23, 24 through which pass insulators 26 carrying the fixed contacts 28. The movable switch contacts 33 are operated by a double lazytongs device 41 which is connected bv a rod 40 to the core 39 mounted within the operating solenoids 35, 36. The chamber has an insulating lining 25. To assist the re-combustion of the atomic hydrogen or other gas formed during the arcing at the contacts which occurs on interrupting the circuit through the switch, catalysing members 45, 46 are mounted adjacent to the contacts, these members being formed of tungsten, ground quartz or other suitable materials. Instead of providing separate catylysing members the lining 25 may be formed of catalytic material. Pipe connections 30, 31 are provided for scavenging the switch chamber of air and filling it with gas, which may be maintained at a pressure of several atmospheres. In order to extract oxygen and water-vapour from the gas suitable agents may be placed within the switch chamber. In a further modification the gastight chamber is formed of two open-ended casings bolted together the lower of which is partially filled with a sealing liquid into which projects the upper open end of the upper casing, so that before gas leakage can take place the ejection of the liquid provides a visible indication of the faulty joint between the casings. The switch chamber in this form is connected to a gas-filled cushion tank to relieve the high pressures incident on the interruption of the circuit.
Patent GB-1048921-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to gas washing apparatus
Inventor: JAMISON ROBERT MACDONALD
IPC: B01D47/08
Filed: 1963-04-05
Abstract: 1,048,921. Gas scrubbers; spray-producers. AJEM LABORATORIES Inc. April 5, 1963, No. 13656/63. Headings B1R and B2F. A gas scrubber of the rotary-spray type has as a liquid impeller one or more horizontal plates mounted for rotation about a vertical axis, each plate having vanes on one or both surfaces. As shown the scrubber has impeller plates 11, 13 and 15, the plates 11 and 13 being supplied with washing liquid by a pump 37 and the plate 15 by a pump 17 rotating with the impeller plates. The vanes may be radial N curved (Figs 2A and 2B not shown) and may extend from the shaft 7 in which the plate or plates is or are mounted to the periphery or peripheries thereof. Preferably however alternate vanes do not extend to the shaft. The arrangement of the vanes on the two faces of a plate and in the different plates may be chosen to give a desired pattern. Liquid to the plates 11 and 13 is fed by pipes 30, 32 and 34 opening tangentially into housings 29, 31 and 33 which surround the shaft and have annular slots (Fig 4A not shown) through which liquid passes to the plates, the plates being slotted adjacent the shaft 7 (Fig 2C, not shown) to allow liquid to pass in to a surface or the surfaces thereof.
Patent GB-1165811-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Machines for Applying Protective Liquid Coatings to Strip or Sheet Material
Inventor: MITCHELL ROBERT THOMAS
IPC: B05C5/00
Filed: 1967-03-23
Abstract: 1,165,811. Coating apparatus. RICHARD THOMAS & BALDWINS Ltd. 21 May, 1968 [23 March, 1967], No. 13671/67. Heading B2L. [Also in Division D1] Droplets of liquid are deposited on the upper surface of sheet or strip 4 and are subsequently spread uniformly to form a coating when strip 4 passes between a pair of rollers 1, 2. The upper roller 2 is covered by felt and is driven via reduction gearing 6 by a motor 5. A header 8, arranged above strip 4 upstream of the rollers, is supplied with oil from a reservoir 9 either by gravity via a pipe 10 and a cock 17, or under pressure via pipes 11, 12, a positive-displacement pump 15 driven by motor 5, and a cock 18. Oil issues from header 8 through needle valve-controlled outlets 19 and flows over a knife edge 22 drop by drop onto a splash bar 23 to be disintegrated thereby into droplets and deposited on strip 4. Surplus oil is caught in a trough 24 of the same width as bar 23 and arranged thereunder. From trough 24 oil drains via a trough 26, arranged beneath strip 4, into a tank 28 from which it is returned by a pump 29 to reservoir 9. Each end of roller 2 is journalled in one arm of a respective bell crank lever 33, the other arm of which is coupled to a hydraulic ram 34, actuation of which thereby serves to raise roller 2.
Patent GB-995615-A (GB)
Title: Switching circuits employing semi-conductor controlled rectifiers
Inventor: WILLIAMSON KEITH HAROLD
IPC: H02M7/515
Filed: 1961-04-17
Abstract: 995,615. Inverting. ROTAX Ltd. March 26, 1962 [April 17, 1961], No. 13697/61. Heading H2F. [Also in Division H3] In the inverting circuit illustrated, ScR's 23, 25 are rendered alternately conducting by pulses applied from a source 33, the duration of conduction of each ScR being determined by means of further pulses applied to ScR 24 which when it is rendered conductive operates through a commutating capacitor 30 or 31 to switch-off whichever ScR is conducting; in this circuit dissipation of energy by conduction through ScR 24 is reduced by the provision of a further ScR 29 and inductor 28. ScR 29 is fired by a pulse from 33 immediately after the each firing of the ScR's 23 and 25 so permitting the capacitor 30 or 31, depending upon which ScR is conducting, to charge resonantly through inductor 28 to a voltage in excess of the supply voltage between terminals 21, 22, ScR 29 switching off when the current therein attempts to reverse. Subsequent firing of ScR 24 switches off the conducting ScR through its respective commutating capacitor which then charges in the reverse direction to the voltage of the supply, ScR 24 thereupon switching off.
Patent GB-182997-A (GB)
Title: Adjustable music rest
IPC: A47B19/06
Filed: 1921-05-17
Abstract: 182,997. Cotten, F. G., and Luffman, W. J. May 17, 1921. Book &c. rests; desk adjustments.-A music rest comprises a framework A. hinged at C to a pianoforte and provided with grooves D for slides E jointed to a top rail K and carrying a music ledge L. Sockets M attached to the ledge L are adapted to slide over the parts A, E to afford vertical adjustment of the ledge L, which can be held in adjusted position by clamping-screws F.
Patent GB-1391281-A (GB)
Title: Devices for compressing crop
IPC: B30B11/16
Filed: 1972-03-23
Abstract: 1391281 Pelleting feeds C VAN DER LELY NV 23 March 1972 [26 March 1971] 13756/72 Heading A2B [Also in Division B5] A device for compressing crops comprises at least two movably arranged, relatively co-operating members 90, 93, having extensions or teeth 91, 92 so that near the contact area between the members at least one compression space is formed which is bounded by the extensions at least two boundary faces of this space diverging towards one or both ends of this space so that the compacted crop is forced out of the space through one or both ends. The two members may be gear wheels forming a plurality of compression spaces, each space being formed between the top of a tooth of one wheel and the base between two teeth of the other wheel. The diverging faces may be formed by the top of a tooth and/or the base being cut away towards an end or ends, by convex side walls of the teeth, and/or a cavity whose size increases towards one end, being formed in the top tooth. The teeth may be undercut to form a circular cross-section cavity in each bore. The wheels may be bevel gear wheels. A plurality of gear wheel sets may be formed by planet wheels and either a sun gear or an internally tooth ring. Two sets of wheels may be arranged side by side so that the compressed crop is pushed out of the spaces into a gap between the sets. The shafts of the wheels may be adjustable to vary the degree of divergence, or one gear wheel may have one face formed by two relatively inclined surfaces with the other gear wheel, of smaller width than the first, axially adjustable to vary the extent of compression against the more sharply inclined surface. The strand emerging from each compression space is broken into lumps by its own weight, by vibration or by a cutter. The compression device may be mounted on a trailer having a worm wheel 73 arranged transversely of the trailer to feed crop via a feed wheel 88 onto the pair of wheels 90, 93. Lumps falling from the wheels are conveyed by a conveyor 96, a ladder conveyer, and a worm conveyor into a trough at the back of the trailer. The bottom of the trough is formed by a rolling floor. In another embodiment a plurality of pairs of gear wheels are arranged across the width of a trailer, the mat of crop picked up being longitudinally cut into strands, one strand per pair of wheels.
Patent GB-138075-A (GB)
Abstract: 138,075. Boucherot, P. M. J., and Soc. Alsacienne de Constructions MÚ- caniques. May 1, 1914, [Convention date]. Protective arrangements.-The effects of resonance produced by accidental arrangement of resonant mountings in a network with armoured cables are avoided by arranging secondary circuits to enclose the magnetic armouring of the cables, the induced currents in the circuits tending to decrease the flux in the armouring and to assist the current which limits the excess voltage. In the arrangement shown in Fig. 1, the lead sheath A forms part of the secondary circuit, and this is completed by a conductor B which joins the ends of each length of cable. The conductor B may be coiled round the cable after the iron armouring has been applied, and may consist of wires, bands, or foil. In a modification, the ends of each length are connected to earth through a resistance. In another modification, Fig. 4, the magnetic armouring F has a layer of copper deposited electrolytically or otherwise, and has a strip of foil wound round it to take the place of the lead sheath in carrying the induced currents. The resistances employed may be constructed of iron wire. Instead of applying a resistance to each cable length, the cable leads may be electrically connected and a resistance connected across the first and last of them.
Patent GB-363602-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in x-ray installations
IPC: H05G1/02
Filed: 1931-05-09
Abstract: 363,602. X-ray installations electric resistances. NAAMLOOZE VENNOOTSCHAP PHILIPS' GLOEILAMPENFABRIEKEN, 13D, Emmasingel, Eindhoven, Holland. May 9, 1931, No. 13810. Convention date, May 21, 1930. [Class 98 (i).] In an X-ray in stallation compris ing a variator, e.g. a gas-filled lamp with a tungsten, nickel, &c. resistance wire, for keeping the dose output constant, arranged in the primary circuit of the transformer, the lamp holder of the variator is attached to the transformer envelope to obviate the use of separate connecting mains and to reduce risk of fracture. As shown, the lamp holder 10 is fixed to the cover of the transformer 1 and is surrounded by a perforated protecting-cap 9.
Patent GB-138302-A (GB)
Abstract: 138,302. Pember, H., and Pember, A. H. Oct. 24, 1919. Atmospheric gas burners.-The air regulator of an atmospheric burner for gas stoves, gas cookers, gas fires, &c. comprises one or more adjustable sheet-metal tongues or baffles 3 carried by a holder 1 adapted to be fitted within the mixing- tube of the burner, each tongue or baffle 3 being adapted to be bent by hand to any desired angle prior to the holder being inserted in the mixing- tube. In one form, the tongue or baffle 3, Fig. 1, is integral with the holder 1, which consists of a sheet-metal blank bent into a more or less cylindrical form and having an integral finger-piece 4 extending outside the mixing-tube 2. In a modification, a cylindrical holder 1 is provided with integral spring arms for engaging against the inner side of the mixing-tube. In a second modification, a substantially U-shaped spring strip 5, Fig. 8, is.secured to the underside of the regulator, such as by passing it through slits in the underside of the regulator, and its free end engages the inside or outside of the mixing-tube.