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Patent GB-1002544-A (GB)
Title: Steering wheels
IPC: B62D1/06
Filed: 1964-05-07
Abstract: 1,002,544. Steering wheels. GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION. May 7, 1964 [June 13, 1963], No. 19024/64. Heading B7J. A steering wheel comprises a rim 26, Fig. 2, connected by spokes 24 to a hub, a continuous ornamental metal band 34 disposedin a circumferential groove 32 extending around the region of maximum diameter of the rim, and a resilient member, eg a continuous tube 36 of rubber-like material between the bottom of the groove and the band to resiliently centre the latter with respect to the rim and maintain the external surface of the band substantially flush with the adjacent parts of the surface of the rim. The rim 26 is formed by a metallic spider portion 28 and a hard rubber or synthetic plastic covering 30. The resilient member 36 may be replaced by a solid ring of elastomeric material, a garter spring or a metal zig-zag spring or springs as described with reference to Figs. 3 to 6 (not shown).
Patent GB-274513-A (GB)
Title: A process and apparatus for the distillation of gas or coke oven tars
IPC: C10C1/04
Filed: 1927-07-18
Abstract: 274,513. Soc. des Etablissements Barbet. July 17, 1926, [Convention date]. Void [Published under Sect. 91 of the Acts]. Hydrocarbons, distilling; separate heater and evaporator apparatus.-Gas and coke oven tars are distilled by heating under pressure to 150- 170‹ C. and then reducing the pressure whereupon boiling occurs and the ammoniacal liquors and light oils distil over and are separated by decantation. Tar is pumped from a reservoir A into a heater B where it is heated under 10 kgs. pressure to 150-170‹ C. The pressure is then released by opening a valve C, the tar passing into a vessel E where it boils, the vapours passing through perforated plates, which retain the vesicular products, to a cooler G, the ammoniacal liquor being separated from the light oils in a Florentine vessel F, and the products being collected in vessels a, b.
Patent GB-183704-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to safety razors
IPC: B26B21/10
Filed: 1921-07-14
Abstract: 183,704. Little, C. W. G. July 14, 1921. Razors, safety. - A safety razor comprises a thin flexible blade 5, mounted in a carrier formed from a pair of plates 1, 2 pivoted together at 3 and having means to position the blade between them, the blade-holding portions of the carrier being contained between a guard 10 and backing- plate 9 which flex the blade. The ends of the parts 9, 10 are formed to interlock and engage the carrier, one end of the backing-plate having a depending loop 12 which engages the pivoted end of the carrier and an extension 15 on the guard, while the other end has lugs 14 straddling the guard. The ends of the carrier, guard, and backing-plate remote from the pivot 3 are formed to pass within a hollow handle 8 by which the parts are clamped together for shaving. The loop 12 may have extensions engaging beneath the guard, which has recesses engaging the limbs of the loop. The carrier may be clamped in the handle by itself for stropping purposee, and one edge of the blade may be protected by a cap which gives the correct stropping-angle.
Patent GB-463719-A (GB)
Title: Process for controlling hydrogen ion concentration of fermentation mashes
IPC: C12N1/38
Filed: 1935-07-04
Abstract: The insoluble basic neutralizing-agent controlling fermentation processes in apparatus in which the depth of the fermenting liquid is high as compared with the surface area of the layer of settled neutralizing agent, is employed in a form more finely subdivided and having a greater surface area than 200 mesh calcite.  The neutralizing agent may be precipitated calcium carbonate or barium or iron carbonate.  The process is applicable to the fermentation of inverted molasses by clostridium propyl butylicum, or clostridium inverto-acetobutylicum.  Specifications 415,312, 437,120, and 463,720 are referred to.
Patent GB-406188-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in tobacco pipes
IPC: A24F1/00
Filed: 1933-07-06
Abstract: 406,188. Tobacco pipes. LAVIETES, D. P., 198, Terrace Place, Brooklyn, New York, U.S.A. July 6, 1933, No. 19223. [Class 130.] In a pipe in which the bowl shank 11 and the mouthpiece 13 are connected by a unit consisting of a tapered plug 14 and a sleeve 27 with a space 29 between the end of the sleeve and a part of the plug, to allow wear to be taken up, a duct 30 admits air from the space 29 to the smoke bore 22. As shown, the plug 14 is formed with a flange 17, a threaded nipple 16 screwed into the shank 11, and a tubular portion 15 extending into a chamber 25 in the mouthpiece, into which also extends a tube 24. In a modification, the tapered sleeve is fitted in the end of the shank 11 and the tapered plug is mounted in the end of the mouthpiece.
Patent GB-948384-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to piston rings for internal combustion engines
IPC: C23C4/00
Filed: 1961-05-29
Abstract: 948,384. Making piston rings. RAMSEY CORPORATION. May 29, 1961 [June 6, 1960; April 25, 1961], No. 19314/61. Heading B3A. [Also in Division F2] A piston ring 20 having a porous wearresistant metal band 21 in its periphery is made by forming a groove 22 in the periphery, depositing the wear-resistant metal in the groove and removing excess metal. The wearresistant metal, which may be molybdenum or aluminium trioxide, is preferably deposited by spraying. As shown in Fig. 7, a number of rings 20, which may be of cast iron, are first clamped in end-to-end relationship on an arbor comprising rollers 31, 33 and a nut 36 and bolt 37, peripheral grooves are cut in the rings and the exposed surfaces are then covered with molybdenum 50 by spraying in a molten form from a spray gun nozzle 49. The surplus molybdenum is then removed by grinding, Fig. 13, so that the lands 52, 53 are of the piston ring material. The side faces 38, 39 of the ring may be coated with molybdenum, aluminium trioxide or chromium.
Patent GB-1408656-A (GB)
Title: Production of cine photographic film having a magnetizable layer thereon
IPC: G03C5/14
Filed: 1973-04-24
Abstract: 1408656 Photographic light-sensitive film having sound recording layer FUJI PHOTO FILM CO Ltd 24 April 1973 [24 April 1972] 19336/73 Heading G2E A magnetic recording layer is coated on top of an alkali-soluble anti-halation layer on the side of a photographic light-sensitive cine film opposite to that bearing the light-sensitive layer, by applying to the said anti-halation layer a coating composition for the magnetizable layer containing dispersed particles of a magnetizable substance and a compound having at least 2 isocyanato or thiocyanato groups, or by applying a solution of said compound containing at least 2 isocyanato or thiocyanato groups and then a separate coating composition containing dispersed particles of a magnetizable substance, or alternatively by applying a solution of said compound containing at least 2 isocyanato or thiocyanato groups to the portion of film where the magnetizable layer is to be coated before the antihalation layer is applied, and then applying the anti-halation layer and then the composition for the magnetizable layer. The compound containing isocyanato or thioisocyanato groups renders the anti-halation layer alkali-insoluble in the places where applied, and prevents removal of the magnetic recording layer when the remaining alkali-soluble anti-halation layer is removed during alkaline processing. Specified compounds include hexane-1:6- diisocyanate, 2:2:4-trimethyl-hexane- :6- diisocyanate and 3:5:5-trimethyl-3-isocyanatomethylcyclohexane-isocyanate.
Patent GB-1177865-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Thermo-Generators
IPC: G21H1/10
Filed: 1968-04-24
Abstract: 1,177,865. Thermoelectric generators. BÍLKOW G.m.b.H. 24 April, 1968 [29 April, 1967], No. 19385/68. Heading H1K. An electric thermopile generator having a radio-active isotope heat source is formed of a number of similar modules joined together, each module containing a separate heat source and at least two branches of a thermocouple. The heat source 4 in each module, of actinium 227 or curium 242, is contained in a cubic metal core 3 and surrounded by the branches 9, 10, 11 and 12 of the two thermocouples 13 and 14, branches 9 and 11 being P-type and 10 and 12 being N-type. The hot sides of the thermocouples are connected directly to the surfaces of the core 3, so that it forms the bridge between the branches of a thermocouple, and the cold sides are connected directly to the external walls of the module which have flanges acting as radiator plates. These plates are electrically insulated from one another at the flange joints 24, 25, 26 and 27. All hollow cavities are filled with a thermally insulating material 29 which also forms the end sealing of each module. In a further embodiment, Fig. 3 (not shown), the thermocouples consist of semi-cylindrical P-type and N-type branches mounted on opposite sides of the core, the radiator plates associated with the two thermocouples being in two parts so that each branch of the element is connected with its own plate.
Patent GB-1060326-A (GB)
Title: Gas purifier
Inventor: DOLFL JAMES JOSEPH
IPC: F01N3/04
Filed: 1965-05-07
Abstract: 1,060,326. Purifying gases. J. J. DOLFI, H. BAKERJIAN and S. BAKERJIAN. May 7, 1965, No. 19481/65. Heading B1R. [Also in Division F1] Gases e.g. exhaust gases from an I.C. engine, are led through a perforated pipe 68, Fig. 4, so that some escape through holes 70 and pass together with drawn in ambient air down a tube 86 whilst the remainder drive a turbine 62. Upon leaving a perforated turbine exhaust pipe 78, the direction of flow of the gases is reversed and they pass together with drawn in ambient air down another tube 86. The end of pipe 78 may be bent through 180 degrees. The gases leaving the two tubes 86 are bubbled through cleansing liquid 90, Fig. 3, and pass through openings 52 in the top wall of the cleansing liquid reservoir to be discharged through pipes 102, 104 under the influence of an air pump 58 which is driven by the turbine. A vaned wheel 54 creates turbulence in the upper part of the cleansing liquid reservoir. When the gases to be purified are unpressurized, rotor assembly 36 may be driven by an external power source, Fig. 7 (not shown) in which case rotor 62 acts as a compressor.
Patent GB-1420180-A (GB)
Title: Translucent insulating mats based on foam plastic
IPC: B32B7/022
Filed: 1973-04-24
Abstract: 1420180 Translucent foam-fabric laminates H PIFFKO 24 April 1973 [27 April 1972] 19481/73 Heading B5N [Also in Division F2] Heat-insulating light-diffusing material comprises combined layers (1) of transparent or translucent closed-cellular polyethylene and (2) of transparent or translucent fabric of higher tensile strength than (1). Layer (1) may be white or colourless and may incorporate glass fibres or glass fabrics for tear- and fire-resistance. The material may be stabilized by surface compression, and may be shaped by deep drawing. Individual structures may be joined to form larger structures. Specified uses are: erection of tent-like buildings and shelters; protection of buildings; storage and transport containers and vehicles; water hoses.
Patent GB-147527-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to brushes and the like for rubbing purposes
IPC: A47L13/256
Filed: 1920-07-08
Abstract: 147,527. Deberry, A., and Paris, G. March 26, 1914, [Convention date]. Pivoted handles.- The handle of a brush or the like for rubbing and polishing floors, walls &c. is connected by a universal joint formed bv two axes in the same plane. As shown, the brush &c. 1 has secured on its upper surface a plate 2 having bearings 3 for a pivot shaft 4, and to this shaft the handle 5 is pivoted at right-angles by a pivot 8 in a member 6 secured to the handle by means of the socket 7. In place of two pivot shafts or axes as shown, two rings pivoted at right-angles may be used.
Patent GB-422351-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to electrical shaving apparatus
IPC: B64D17/00
Filed: 1933-07-10
Abstract: 422,351. Safety razors. TELEPHONAPPARAT-FABRIK E. ZWIETUSCH & CO. GES., 6, Salzufer, Charlottenburg, Berlin. July 10, 1933, No. 19512. Convention date, March 6. [Class 30] In a safety razor having an electrically-reciprocated blade 5, both the rotary motor driving-unit 2 and the source of electrical energy therefor are contained in the razor handle. The source of energy is one or more flash-lamp batteries 7 arranged as shown in Fig. 2 in a case 1 screwing on the end of the motor-casing 2. In a modification a flashlamp battery is arranged on one or both sides of the motor 2 in a common casing. The handle has a switch at its base or side. In the form shown in Fig. 2, the guardplate 3 is carried on a sleeve 10 which is removably slipped over the motorcasing 2 and has an inpressed yielding tongue to grip it frictionally. The blade 5 is located by projections 21 on a carrier-plate 4 which moves with it and is guided in a channel 15 in the guard 3 by engagement of projections depending from it into rectangular openings 16 in the guard. Reciprocation of the carrier-plate 4 is effected bya three-sided cam 19 on the end of the motorshaft which projects through the guard to engage a parallel-sided central opening 17 in the carrier-plate. A cover-plate 6 has spring- clips 25 which clip over the ends of the guard.
Patent GB-1302103-A (GB)
IPC: F16K17/18
Filed: 1970-04-23
Abstract: 1302103 Valves RANSBURG CORP 23 April 1970 [23 April 1969] 19575/70 Heading F2V [Also in Division F1] Valve device 10 comprises a first check valve 14 in a fluid line, and a second valve 20 which vents the downstream side of the first check valve under reversed pressure conditions. As shown, the device constitutes a suction valve device for a pump 32 e.g. of piston, vane, or centrifugal type supplying a spray gun 35, the device being immersed in a container 60 of synthetic resin, paint or the like. The first valve may be as loose ball, piston, or sliding spool. The second valve is an elastomeric ring which embraces the housing 11 and closes openings 21 through the wall thereof. An additional check valve 31 may be provided between the device 10 and the pump 32.
Patent GB-183143-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to the manufacture of metal-coated paper
IPC: D21H19/06
Filed: 1922-07-17
Abstract: 183,143. Wickel (nÚe Holecek), K. July 15, 1921, [Convention date]. Bronze foil.-In the preparation of metal-coated or metallized paper impermeable to water, oil, and air, and suitable for packing food or as a substitute for gold leaf, bituminous substances are employed as a binder. The purified product obtained from Mexican bitumen may be employed in the melted condition; or it may be dissolved in hydrocarbons, carbon tetrachloride, trichloride of ethylene, or similar solvents, and the powdered metal (bronze), may be mixed with the solution and applied by rollers, brushes, or scrapers, or by atomizers; or the dry process may be used. The product may be made pliable or stiff according to the hardness of the bitumen used. By applying high temperatures as by heated dies, the metal coating may be transferred to other articles.
Patent GB-1365308-A (GB)
Title: Method of making a plastics bag and bags produced by said method
IPC: B65D75/58
Filed: 1971-06-09
Abstract: 1365308 Plastics bags; packaging H G JENTSCH 9 June 1971 [11 June 1970 30 March 1971 1 April 1971] 19631/71 Headings B8K and B8C [Also in Division B5] A bag (28, Fig. 4) having a rectangular bottom wall 16 is made by folding a rectangular blank (10, Fig. 1) in half, welding the superjacent longitudinal edges to produce a pouch (Fig. 2) having welds 12 which converge towards the mouth of the pouch, gripping and then pulling apart the walls of the pouch using suction platens 22 to form a bag having four walls, a rectangular bottom wall 16 and two triangular flaps 20, each flap 20 comprising two layers of bag material which are welded together adjacent the bottom wall 16 and cut-off beyond the weld (26, Fig. 4) so formed. The blank may be a sheet or film of plastics material or a sheet of laminated film having at least one surface of plastics material. When filled the bags may be closed by a straight transverse weld seam (32, Fig. 5) extending between the longitudinal seams 12 or by an angled transverse weld seam (Fig. 6) having a horizontal portion (34) extending partway across the bag from one seam 12 and a downwardly inclined portion (36) completing the closure. Once a straight transverse seam (32) has been formed, the top of the bag may be provided with a flat top closure (Fig. 7) by pulling two opposed bag walls apart to produce two double walled triangular flaps and welding the flaps to form seams (40) extending perpendicularly to the seams 12 and (32).
Patent GB-740578-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in looms
IPC: D03D49/24
Filed: 1953-07-15
Abstract: 740,578. Looms. VALENTIN PATENTGES. GES., and TEXTILMASCHINENFABRIK SCHWENNINGEN GES. July 15, 1953 [July 17, 1952], No. 19654/53. Drawings to Specification. Class 142 (2). To reduce inertia effects tending to bend the slay beam, the shuttle box bottoms and sides, the shuttle swells, and the picking spindles are made of tetrafluoroethylene (with or without a reinforcement of paper) and the shuttle box end plates are made of " Tufnol " (Registered Trade Mark).
Patent GB-1523533-A (GB)
Title: Shutter control circuit for a camera
IPC: G03B7/26
Filed: 1976-05-13
Abstract: 1523533 Shutter control circuit ASAHI KOGAKU KOGYO KK 13 May 1976 [16 May 1975] 19670/76 Heading G2A A shutter control circuit has an electromagnet 9 for holding a shutter-closing blind, a timing section 1 to 7 producing a 1 output for energizing the electromagnet and a O output for de-energizing it, a battery check section 11 producing a 1 output when battery voltage is sufficient to operate the control circuit and a O when it is insufficient, and an AND gate 19 having its inputs connected to the timing and battery check sections and its output connected to the electromagnet 9 so that when battery voltage is insufficient, energization of the electromagnet 9 is not possible. Preferably an LED 19 is energized and de-energized in synchronism with the electromagnet to provide a warning. By this arrangement, the battery voltage does not have to fall to the minimum holding voltage of the electromagnet before exposure is prevented.
Patent GB-1006596-A (GB)
Title: Curing polytetrahydrofuran
IPC: C08K5/14
Filed: 1962-02-19
Abstract: The invention comprises compositions comprising a blend of a polymer of tetrahydrofuran having an inherent viscosity of at least 0.8, and a polymer of a 1-olefine containing 2 to 8 carbon atoms.  The composition may also comprise 0.5 to 10% by weight of a ditertiary peroxide of formula R1R2R3C-O-O-CR4R5R6 or R1R2R3C-O-O-C(R9)R10) -R11-C(R7)(R8)-O-O-CR4R5R6, wherein the R radicals are alkyl, alkenyl, cycloalkyl, cycloalkenyl, aryl, aralkyl and/or substituted aryl except that R11 has one less hydrogen and is divalent; many peroxides are specified. The composition may further comprise 5 to 80%, by weight, of carbon black or silica; other ingredients, e.g. clays, processing oils, waxes or tackifying or reinforcing agents. The tetrahydrofuran polymer may be a homopolymer or a copolymer comprising 1 to 20% of a comonomer, e.g. an aliphatic epoxide. The 1-olefine polymer may be a homopolymer or copolymer.  The example describes the preparation of a homopolymer of tetrahydrofuran using a BF3 catalyst, and of an ethylene/ propylene copolymer using alkylalumium-vanadium oxychloride catalyst; these polymers and blends thereof are cured with di-tertiary peroxide and sulphur. Uses.-Coating wire and fabrics, preparing moulded articles.
Patent GB-241659-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to the distillation or heat treatment of carbonaceous and other materials
IPC: C10B51/00
Filed: 1924-08-20
Abstract: 241,659. Nielsen, H., and Laing, B. Aug. 20, 1924. Bulk evaporators.-Apparatus for the distillation of heat treatment of carbonaceous or other materials, especially adapted for determining the nature and amount of volatile constituents of liquids or solids comprises an inner chamber in which a sample of the material is heated, the heating medium such as steam or combustion gases or an inert gas such as producer or water gas, being used to heat the charge, firstly externally and secondly by passage tbeiretlirough. The material is supplied to the inner chamber A which has a perforated bottom E and is enclosed in an outer chamber B heated by the hot gases passing through a coil C, these gases entering by a pipe M the space D surrounding the chamber A and passing upwards through the charge, the gases and vapours escaping by the pipe G to a condenser. Thermometers G<1> and J are provided in the gas outlet pipe and charge respectively. The bottom of the chamber B mav be heated by a gas burner H. When treating liquids the inner chamber may be provided with a vertical tube the lower end of which opens into the space D, the upper end being covered by a hood the skirt of which extends to the base of the inner chamber and is perforated, the hot gases passing) through the liquid. The hood may have spiral fins on its exterior to prolong contact between the gases and liquid.
Patent GB-1060097-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to the flow of a cooling fluid
Inventor: COWLEY EDGAR GEORGE
IPC: F23R3/08
Filed: 1964-05-13
Abstract: 1, 060, 097. Gas turbine engine combustion equipment. ROLLS-ROYCE Ltd. May 6, 1965 [May 13, 1964], No. 19804/66. Divided out of 1, 060, 095. Heading F1L. The invention relates to an assembly comprising inner and outer tubular members which are telescoped into each other with an annular space therebetween, the invention being described with reference to gas turbine engine combustion equipment which comprises outer and inner air casings 11, 12 Fig. 1 (not shown), which define an annular space in which are disposed a series of flame tubes. Each flame tube comprises a series of sections 14, 15, 16, 17 which telescope one into the other to define annular air spaces 26, 27, 28 therebetween. In Fig. 2 the flame tube sections 14, 15 are formed integrally with a radially extending wall 40 and a series of radiallyextending holes 42 are formed in the flame tube section 15 being adapted for the flow therethrough of cooling air which then flows axially through the annular space 26 to effect film cooling of the inner surface of the tube section 15. Means are provided for reducing the tendency of the cooling film to break away from the surface of the section 15, which means in Fig. 2 comprises a series of axially-extending holes 41 formed in the radiallyextending wall 40 for the flow of cooling air therethrough, the holes 41 being axially-aligned with the radial holes 42. In a second embodiment the axial holes 41 are not in alignment with the radial holes 42. In further embodiments, the part 20 of the tube section 14 converges towards the tube section 15 so that the annular space 26 is of convergent form. In a further embodiment the annular space 26 is again of convergent form but the axially-extending holes 41 in the radial flange 40 are not provided.
Patent GB-817699-A (GB)
Title: Weld backings
IPC: B23K9/035
Filed: 1957-06-24
Abstract: 817,699. Laminates; adhesive coated fabrics. MIDLAND SILICONES Ltd. June 24, 1957 [Aug. 30, 1956], No. 19824/57. Class 140. [Also in Group XXII] Sheet or strip material for use as a weld backing consists of a heat resistant base coated with silicone adhesive. The base may be rigid or flexible, e.g. steel strip. The base may be in the form of silicone adhesive bonded laminations of, say, glass cloth, asbestos, mica or metal foils such as aluminium. A compound sheet consists of layers 10 of silicone adhesive coating and interposed between a layer 11 of glass cloth and a layer 13 of metal or silicone resin or silicone rubber. The adhesive may be as described in Specifications 740,573 and 767,797.