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Patent GB-129067-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and connected with Forged Anchors.
IPC: B63B21/44
Filed: 1918-06-01
Abstract: 129,067. Hingley & Sons, N., and Curry, T. J. June 1, 1918. Anchors.-Relates to anchors of the type in which the head proper, trippers, and arms or flukes form one solid forging. According to the invention, the trippers 4, Fig. 7, are extensions of the head proper 3, and extend over the backs or outer edges of the arms 2, which spring from points under and separated from the trippers in a downward curve. The series of operations by which the anchor is produced are as follows : A hole 1, Fig. 3, for the shank is made in a billet of metal of oblong form, which is then shouldered down at each side to form portions 2 adapted to constitute the arms and flukes. At the angle of the shouldered-down parts, the metal is hammered, or pressed and recessed downwardly into comparatively thin plates 4, which are cut along lines 5x to form the trippers. The arms 2 and palms or tips 5 are then forged to the shape required, and the trippers 4 severed from the arms by sawing along the line 6, Fig. 6. The arms are subsequently heated separately and bent over a former to the curve required, as shown in Fig. 7. The shank may then be connected to the head so formed in any known manner, such as hinging to a pin either passing directly into the arms 2 or secured in a recess in the head proper 3 by means of bolts.
Patent GB-234593-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to stands for bicycles
IPC: B62H3/00
Filed: 1924-04-09
Abstract: 234,593. Hodges, H. April 9, 1924. Stands.-A bicycle stand of the type in which the front wheels of alternate bicycles are held in a raised position, so that the handle-bars of adjacent cycles do not interfere with one another, comprises two sets of alternately-arranged wheelholders a, b, which are secured respectively to rails c, d and d, e, and are provided respectively with outwardly and upwardly bent upper parts a<1>, b<1> engaging the upper parts of the wheel tyres and with lower parts a<2>, b<2> pivoted to the rails c, d, the outer ends resting upon the ground or floor. The parts a<2>, b<2> are provided with stops m, k preventing backward movement of the wheels. The parts b<2> are provided with strips l, so as to serve as inclines up which the wheels are moved into position. The holders may be connected to the rails c, d, e by vertical pivots, so that they can be swung into any desired angular position relatively to the wall &c. on which the stand is erected. According to one Provisional Specification, the upper series of holders comprise pivoted frames adapted to be turned about their pivots to raise the front wheels of alternate bicycles to an elevated position.
Patent GB-104444-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Appliances for Facilitating the Putting-on of Wearing Apparel.
Inventor: BARRATT FRANK
IPC: A47G25/90
Filed: 1916-06-28
Abstract: 104,444. Barratt, F. June 28, 1916. Appliances for facilitating putting-on garments. -To put on a coat, it is held by clips C, Fig. 2, on a curved bar A which telescopes into a pillar B and is raised by a pedal D or by hand. The wearer puts his arms into the sleeves and raises the bar, the pivoted arms 7 of the clips being then released by links 32, Figs. 2 and 4, which are actuated by levers 22. The levers are connected by slotted links 23 to a rod 24 sliding in guidepins 30. By adjusting a nut 31 on the rod, the amount of lost motion allowed to the clipreleasing device before the levers 22 begin to operate can be varied. A separate pedal and operating-wire 36 may be employed for each clip.
Patent GB-345492-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to plug and socket devices for connecting mains-operated wireless sets and the like to mains
IPC: H01R13/645
Filed: 1930-03-21
Abstract: 345,492. Couplings. BELLING & LEE, Ltd. and LEE, E. M., Queensway Works, Ponders End, Middlesex. March 21, 1930, No. 9155. [Class 38 (i).] To permit the connection by a plug and socket coupling of the mains to the appropriate terminals on an electric apparatus which has provision for high and low voltage mains, the apparatus has three terminals one of which is common to the two voltage circuits, while the co-operating part connected to the mains is provided with two contacts only, adapted to engage with the common terminal and one of the different voltage terminals. One or both of the parts of the plug and socket device is so constructed that structural alteration or adjustment involving change in position of a plug or socket, screw or other component part of the device is necessary to enable contact to be made with the other of the two voltage connections. In the examples, Fig. 1 shows unequally spaced contacts, a socket 12 being movable from a hole 10a to the hole 9a when a voltage change is desired ; Fig. 3 shows equally spaced contacts, the plug contact 13 being movable to the position 3b ; while in Fig. 4 the contacts are again equally spaced, a three-contact socket piece is used, one socket 12a being dead, reversal of the contacts being only possible when a pin 14 is moved to position 14a. In modifications removable pins or screws on the body of the socket part 5 may be used to engage grooves in the counter-part to ensure coupling with the desired contacts.
Patent GB-986653-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to the production of steroidal cyclic acetals
IPC: A61K31/58
Filed: 1963-03-07
Abstract: The invention comprises compounds of the formula <FORM:0986653/C2/1> wherein R and R1 each represent a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group having not more than eight carbon atoms and a double bond exists between the 1- and 2-positions or the 6- and 7-positions, and the preparation thereof by reacting a compound of the formula <FORM:0986653/C2/2> wherein R and R1 are as defined above with dichlorodicyanobenzoquinone or tetrachloro-p-benzoquinone. The 16 - b - mercapto - 17BETA-hydroxy - 4 - androsten - 3 - one 16,17 - cyclic acetal may be obtained by ketalizing 16b -bromo - 4 - androstene - 3,17 - dione, treating the 3-ketal with potassium thioacetate to obtain a 3-ketal-16-thioacetate, reducing this compound to obtain a 3-ketal of 16-mercapto-17-hydroxy-4-androsten-3-one, which is treated with the ketone R-CO-R1 in the presence of p-toluene sulphonic acid.
Patent GB-540841-A (GB)
Title: Improved fans, propellers and the like
IPC: F04D29/34
Filed: 1940-05-24
Abstract: 540,841. Propellers ; fans. DELCO-REMY & HYATT, Ltd., CREWE, W. A., and MYNARD, L. M. May 24, 1940, Nos. 9162 and 12254. [Class 114] [Also in Group XXVI] Fans or propellers have straight solid blades a of aero-foil cross-section which are received in slots in the boss b by dowels h arranged parallel to the axis of the fan and passing through bores in the boss b and in the inner edges of the blades which are reduced in cross-section to fit the slots. In place of dowels, screws or bolts may be employed, and the blades may be additionally secured by means of glue or by means of bolts extending radially from the boss into the blades.
Patent GB-165533-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to ranges or stoves
IPC: F24B5/06
Filed: 1920-03-30
Abstract: 165,533. Smith, P. A., and Rutter, J. M. March 30, 1920. Combination sitting-room and cooking stoves; ranges.-A cooking-range comprises a boiler w<1>, w<2>, w<3> extending round three sides of the firespace and having vertical flues b arranged in it, together with a hot-plate l and oven o arranged above the boiler, the gases passing first downwardly through the boiler flues b and then into the oven flues. A damper g, when in the horizontal position, allows the gases to pass direct from the fire to the oven flues. By setting the boiler as shown in plan in Fig. 5, an open fire may be presented in an adjoining room. By reversing the boiler, the open fire may be presented in the kitchen. The grate bottom is vertically-adjustable by means of a rack and pinion. Hearth traps h are provided for cleaning the ashpit and the flues under the boiler.
Patent GB-198344-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in push button lifts or the like
IPC: B66B1/46
Filed: 1923-04-04
Abstract: 198,344. Waygood-Otis, Ltd., (Assignees of Larson, D. C.). May 24,1922, [Convention date]. Drawings to Specification. Electric pwsh-button systems.-Relates to pushbutton lifts of the kind in which the cage when on a journey, can be caused to stop by normal operation of the calling means, to pick up a passenger at an intermediate floor prior to completing the journey to its original destination. According to the present invention the operation of each pushbutton is registered by the setting of a floor-magnet switch, and the stopping of the cage is determined by a floor selector which closes the circuit of a stopping magnet through the several floor magnets in turn in the natural order of the floors. The cage is arranged to travel to, and to stop at any floors ahead when call-buttons corresponding to those floors have been pressed, such stops being independent of whether the cage has been directed there by an occupant or has been called by an intending passenger. The direction of travel cannot be changed until the cage has reached the furthest floor from which a call has been received, or to which an occupant wishes to travel, but when this limit is reached the cage returns automatically in response to calls in the opposite direction. If the person wishing to enter or alight from the cage does not open the gate within a predetermined period of time after the cage has stopped, an automatic time-delay switch restarts the cage on its interrupted journey. When all calls have been answered the cage may return automatically to a given) floor, up or down, depending on the position of a switch. An emergency stop button is provided inside the cage so that it can be stopped at any point. The cage is preferably of the movableplatform type, having a platform-switch operated by the weight of an occupant, so that the cagegate must be closed, to close another circuit, before he can control the cage. Each floor-magnet switch, which is energized by the pressing of a call-button to close the circuit of the up cr down reversing switch, comprises two coils having independent plungers normally connected together by a spring catch. When button is pressed one plunger is operated and frees the other which drops down by gravity, so closing the switch contacts. When the corresponding floor is reached the other coil is automatically energized by the floor selector, and its plunger is raised to open the contacts, the spring catch holding the plunger in its raised position.
Patent GB-1135692-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to electric discharge tube arrangements incorporating lumped attenuators
IPC: C22C32/00
Filed: 1966-03-03
Abstract: 1,135,692. Ceramic compositions. SIEMENS A.G. 3 March, 1966 [4 March, 1965], No. 9286/66. Heading C1J. [Also in Division H1] A sintered body for use as a lumped attenuator in a travelling wave tube (see Division H1) is made from a mixture which includes a first powder of sinterable dielectric material and a second powder, constituting from 12% to 24% of the body by volume, of a conductive material. The dielectric material may be aluminium oxide, zirconium oxide, or boron nitride, and the conductive material tungsten, molybdenum, chromium, or molybdenum carbide. Two of the conductive materials may be included to form a mixed crystal, and silicon may in addition be added. The particle size of the basic powder lies between 1 and 30Á. A polyvinyl alcohol or tylose solution is added to the mixture, which is dried under vacuum at 100‹ C. to a moisture content of 10%, reground, pressed at between 500 and 700 Kg/cm.<SP>2</SP>, and dried under vacuum at 100‹ C. The mixture is then sintered by heating up at 10‹ C. per minute to between 1700‹ and 1950‹ C., under vacuum, nitrogen, or a reducing gas, and maintaining this temperature for one hour before cooling at 20‹ C. per minute.
Patent GB-1043645-A (GB)
Title: Magnetic tape machine
IPC: G11B15/46
Filed: 1964-03-05
Abstract: 1,043,645. Rollers; slip couplings. F. M. CURTIN. March 5, 1964, No. 9302/64. Heading F2U. [Also in Division G5] A spindle for the supply reels of magnetic tape recording apparatus, Fig. 3 (not shown), comprises a shaft 26 bolted to the chassis of the apparatus and provided with a keyway 39. A number of reels 14 are rotatable on the shaft and are spaced apart by spacers 42 made of low friction material, e.g. P.T.F.E., and locked against rotation by keys 43 engaging keyway 39. A clutch nut 44 is threaded on the end of the shaft to adjust the pressure on a spring 49 which presses an annular disc 48 against the end reel. The disc 48 is retained within the nut 44 by a snap ring 53 mounted within a groove in the nut. The spindle for the take-up reels is similar except that it is driven.
Patent GB-476931-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to exhaust pipes of internal combustion engines
IPC: F01N13/08
Filed: 1936-06-18
Abstract: 476,931. Withdrawing exhaust gases. KELLY, T. D. June 18, 1936, No. 9336. [Class 7 (ii)] A conical hood 2 is fitted over the end of the exhaust pipe 6 by means of a split ring 3 having corrugated radial arms connected to the inside of the hood, and by three centring- screws 5, so that air entering the wider end of the hood exerts an ejector action-on the exhaust gases. Air may be forced through the hood by the motion of the vehicle, or by the cooling-fan, or from the propeller in the case of aircraft, or from a cowl or ventilator on the deck of a ship or the roof of a vehicle.. When a fan is used, it may be declutched when the ship or vehicle is in motion. The hood may be made in halves connected together.
Patent GB-979489-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to relieving deflection of loaded rolls in paper-making and other machines
Inventor: BEACHLER EDWARD DUSCHL
IPC: D21G1/02
Filed: 1961-03-14
Abstract: 979,489. Bearings; rollers. BELIOT IRON WORKS. March 14, 1961, No. 9336/61. Headings F2A and F2U. [Also in Division D2] There are provided, at each end of a rotatable hollow roll subject to axial deflection and capable in itself of supporting a load, a support member to support that end of the roll and a shaft that extends through two axially-spaced bearings outside the end of the roll and also extends inside the roll. Each shaft is connected, inside the roll, to a member for applying force to the inner surface of roll, and at least one of the bearings is associated with an actuating device to apply force to the bearing to control deflection of the roll. As shown in Fig. 5, the roll 31 is supported at one end by a rigid connection 33 welded to the shaft 32 and the inner surface of the roll, at a point about halfway between the end and the centre of the roll. The shaft is driven by means 34 and journalled in bearings 35 and 36 and support member 37. Bearing 35 is carried in a frame 38 secured to a piston of a double-acting hydraulic or pneumatic actuator 42, bearing 36 is rigidly attached to a support, and support means 37 is secured to the inside of the roll. A similar device (not shown) is provided at the other end of the roll. The " wire " 45 of a paper-making machine passes over and is driven by the roll 31. The resulting deflection of the roll can be counter. acted by applying suitable thrusts through the actuators 42 to the shafts 32 and hence through the connections 33 to the roll 31. In other embodiments (Fig. 6, not reproduced), actuators are applied to both bearings at each end, (Fig. 11, not reproduced), a single non-rotatable shaft runs right through the roll from end to end, the ends of the roll are mounted in bearings that are independent of the shaft, and the deflection-relieving force is applied through a single bearing member 101 at the centre of the roll; and (Figs. 8-10, not reproduced), the invention is applied to a felt-roll in the drying section of a paper machine, the king roll of a calender stack, and one roll of a press roll couple. The bearings 35 and 36 and 101 and support means 37 may be self-aligning bearings of the kind shown in Fig. 7. The annular strap 50 has a spherically concave face 51 that co-operates with the spherically convex face 52 of the outer race 53. The inner race 56 extends through the outer race. Balls 55 run in raceways 54 and 57, and the ball chamber D is sealed by means 59.
Patent GB-599386-A (GB)
Title: Improved form of water faucet
IPC: E03C1/08
Filed: 1945-04-16
Abstract: 599,386. Manually-actuated valves. WADSWORTH, A. S. April 16, 1945, No. 9432. [Class 135] In a faucet of the kind having a jumper valve 14 supported by a fluted member 11 and actuated by adjusting a threaded sleeve 5, Fig. 2, on a stem 2 on the faucet body 1, the jumper is formed with a shank 13 engaging a bore in the member 11. The upper end of the sleeve is closed by a gland part 9 which also serves to limit the opening of the valve, and the stem 2 houses a check valve 18 whose stem 19 normally rests on the jumper. To replace the jumper washer or clean the faucet, the nut 9 is removed to permit removal of the sleeve with the fluted member and the jumper and closure of the port 4 by the check valve. The stem 2 may be provided with a renewable seat for the jumper, and the fluted member ensures that the water issues from the faucet nozzle 6 in a non-splash jet.
Patent GB-474368-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in explosively actuated under water riveting and punching or like apparatus
IPC: B63C11/52
Filed: 1936-04-01
Abstract: 474,368. Guns and cartridges for use in salving ships. COX, P. April 1, 1936, No. 9575. [Classes 9 (i), 68 (ii), and 119] [Also in Group XXII] In an explosively-actuated apparatus of the kind set forth in Specification 141,406, [Class 9 (i)], for driving a bolt, rivet or punch into a resistant body and particularly designed for salving sunken ships, the barrel 1 has an extension 2 closed by a water excluding disc 5. On depressing a handle 20 the firing pin F explodes a charge 15 retained by a screw plug 12 and communicating by a passage, not shown, with a charge inside a piston 11 attached by a screw 10 to a screw ended bullet 8. The screw 10 is sheared at the part 12 and the bullet pierces a disc 4. When the piston reaches a recess 7 it is arrested and the screw 10 ruptures to allow the bullet to penetrate the body 21. In a modification in which the disc 5 is some distance from the end of the extension 2 ports are arranged in a securing ring 3 to allow of easy dispersal of water when the projectile is fired. A punch may be substituted for the bullet 8. Electrical means may be used for firing the charge. A short open-ended sleeve with radial posts and a locating plug, Fig. 12, not shown, may be substituted for the extension 2.
Patent GB-1385678-A (GB)
Title: Apparatus for monitoring the flow rate of fluid material
IPC: G01F1/30
Filed: 1971-04-16
Abstract: 1385678 Weighing apparatus EH BENTALL & CO Ltd 4 Feb 1972 [16 April 1971] 9689/71 Heading G1W The flow-rate of a fluid material such as a particulate solid is monitored by directing the material against a baffle biased against the flow. As shown in the figure, granular material discharged from vessel 4 down chute 8 impinges on a baffle in the form of another chute 10 pivoted at 12 and counterbalanced by an adjustable weight 14. A change in flow-rate will cause the chute 10 to pivot about a central balanced position, and a magnet 18 will move away from a reed switch 22 thereby opening the switch and thus cutting off the supply of material and/or operating an alarm. If several such apparatuses are used as described in Specification 1369588, each discharging a different material at a pre-set rate so as to provide a mixture of predetermined proportions, the reed switches 22 of all the apparatuses are seriesconnected so that a deviation in the flow-rate of one material cuts off the supply of all the materials.
Patent GB-659937-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to bottle-washing machines
Inventor: GILLETT THOMAS
IPC: B08B9/42
Filed: 1949-04-11
Abstract: 659,937. Bottle washing machines. ANDRE RUBBER CO., Ltd. April 11, 1949. No. 9753. [Class 138(i)] 'In a bottle washing machine of the kind where dirty bottles at the feed end of the machine are laid manually side by side upon bottle rests consisting of substantially concave plates or bottle slides carried by a feed platform or similar supporting member moved intermittently in order to deposit the bottles into compartments or other receptacles in which they are subjected to the cleansing elements of the machine, the bottle rests or slides are composed of moulded or synthetic rubber and are provided with means for attachment to the normal movable feeder or feed platform of the machine. The rubber bottle rests do not cause so many breakages as frequently occur with metal bottle rests, and also greatly diminishes the volume of noise created by the contact of bottles with the rests. As shown in Figs. 1 and 4 the rest or slide comprises a cradle of rubber having a base 1 and side walls 2 moulded therewith to form a V-shaped trough the apex of which is curved upwardly at 3 towards one end of the cradle which is chamfered as at 4 to receive the neck and shoulder of a bottle. Embedded in the base 1 are two metal plates 5 each having a topped aperture 6 to receive a bolt by which the rest is attached to the bar or other member of a movable feeder. A drain aperture 7 is provided at the centre of the cradle. An apron at the feed end of the machine against which the open necks of the bottles are brought into contact during their movement may be provided with a rubber or synthetic rubber surface to act as a cushion and serve to further reduce noise and risk of breakage.
Patent GB-449577-A (GB)
Title: Motor vehicle steering lock indicator
IPC: B62D15/02
Filed: 1935-03-29
Abstract: 449,577. Steering-indicator for motor vehicles. HATTON, R., Holly House, Portland Road, Selston, Nottinghamshire. March 29,1935, No. 9757. [Class 79 (v)] A steering-indicator mounted on the dashboard comprises a drum A operating the indicator finger and round which pass cables or chains F connected at their ends by clips N to the track rod T. The cables F pass through flexible tubes L fixed at one end to the indicator and at the other to a stay M near the track rod. The cables are connected to the ends of a chain fastened at C to the drum A so that its ends pass off the drum in opposite directions. The shaft of the drum carries a pinion G gearing with a wheel H on the shaft I of the indicator finger the ratio of the gearing G, H being 1 : 3, and the finger being arranged to move to the same angle as the steering wheels.
Patent GB-849877-A (GB)
Title: "improvements in or relating to alternating-current rectifying circuit arrangements"
IPC: H04B15/00
Filed: 1959-03-20
Abstract: 849,877. Valve circuits. PHILIPS ELECTRICAL INDUSTRIES Ltd. March 20, 1959 [March 25, 1958], No. 9757/59. Class 40(6). [Also in Group XXXV] A smoothing arrangement comprises a number of smoothing elements, each comprising a series resistor 3 and a parallel capacitor 4, there being a resistor 13 in series with one of the capacitors, resistor 13 also being in series with a further resistor 14, such as the cathode heaters of associated apparatus, across the A.C. input. A large D.C. output is taken from 15 and a smaller D.C. output from 11 after further smoothing.