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Patent GB-359079-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in electric connecting devices
IPC: H01R11/14
Filed: 1930-07-29
Abstract: 359,079. Couplings. BRITISH THOMSON-HOUSTON CO., Ltd., Crown House, Aldwych, London, TRENCHAM, H., Oakthorpe, King's End, Ruislip, and HEATH, H. C., 51, Kingsway, Wembley, both in Middlesex. July 29, 1930, No. 22832. [Class 38 (i).] To facilitate connection of a lead 11, Fig. 1, to a bare overhead conductor 18 a clip is provided comprising a U-shaped part 14 of stout wire or rod which is further bent to form an inverted V as shown in Fig. 2. This clip is mounted on a metal block 10 to which the lead 11 connects and on which is mounted a bent spring 16 which holds the conductor 18 in the crook of the V when the connector is in position. A mounting pole is provided having a socket which engages the extension 15 of the clip. In a modification the clip 14 is made of plate.
Patent GB-359974-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to yarn guides and clearers for textile machines
IPC: B65H63/06
Filed: 1930-07-30
Abstract: 359,974. Holders for yarn guides and clearers in winding and other machines. SCRAGG & SONS, Ltd., E., Paradise Works, and SCRAGG, S., 31, Knowsley Road, both in Macclesfield, Cheshire. July 30, 1930, No. 22919. [Class 120 (ii).] A holder for porcelain guides and clearers adapted to be mounted on the steel traverse rails of machines such as winding, reeling, doubling, twisting, and like machines, particularly for silk and artificial silk, is formed of spring steel and is provided with jaws 6, 5 for the procelain thread guide 7, a portion to clip on to the traverse rail 4, and a vertical socket 8 for the clearer plate 9.
Patent GB-203877-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in teeth-cleaning appliances
IPC: A46B7/04
Filed: 1922-08-23
Abstract: 203,877. Hansen, A. H. Aug. 23, 1922. Teeth-cleaning appliances.-Two U-shaped brush backs B united by a common base B<1> are provided with removable inserts Bx formed with tooth-rubbing medium. The inserts may be of resilient material adapted to be forrced into position, or they may be held in place by snap-fastenings. One form of insert, shown in Fig. 6, comprises a member with notches on two opposite sides for attachment of a piece of dental floss f.
Patent GB-441503-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in substances for use as foundations, pavement and the like surfaces, bankings, fillings and so forth
IPC: E01C7/36
Filed: 1934-08-09
Abstract: A composition for foundations, bankings, seawalls, roads, paths and the like fillings, &c. is made by mixing common soil or earth with pitch and creosote oil.  Heat is used to assist the mixing, and the composition is laid while hot.  Any hard material, such as stone rubble, may be introduced into the composition as a layer or layers sandwiched between layers of the composition.  In an example, in making a road, path, sports ground, &c., the foundations are dug out to the required depth and the stones are separated from the excavated soil; the soil is mixed with pitch and creosote oil in the proportion of 4 cwts. of pitch and 18 gallons of creosote oil to 24 cwts. of soil; a layer of the composition is laid at the bottom of the cavity, then a layer of stone rubble with the smaller stones at the top, and finally a wearing layer of the composition.
Patent GB-278333-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to means for maintaining distribution of load between ward leonard drives
IPC: H02P7/34
Filed: 1927-09-02
Abstract: 278,333. British Thomson-Houston Co., Ltd., (Assignees of Bushman, A. K.). Sept. 28, 1926, [Convention date]. Dynamos and motors combined for transmitting power.-In driving rolling-mills or other machines by two electric motors 10, 11 separately fed and controlled on the Leonard system by two respective generators 15, 16, a definite distribution of load between the two motors is automatically maintained by generator field-windings 25, 27 taking currents proportional to the loads on the respective generators. These windings are normally balanced against field-windings 24, 26' which take currents proportional to the combined load. Variable resistances are provided in order to adjust for the required distribution. A reversing and rheostatic controller C varies the separately excited generator field-windings 17, 18 in the known manner.
Patent GB-1283072-A (GB)
Title: Diazasteroids
IPC: C09K23/00
Filed: 1969-05-06
Abstract: 1283072 3,4-Diazasteroids E R SQUIBB & SONS Inc 6 May 1969 [17 May 1968] 23108/69 Heading C2C [Also in Division C5] The invention comprises 3,4-diazasteroids of formula wherein Y is C 1-6  alkyl, C 1-6  haloalkyl, aryl, halo-aryl, aryl-C 1-6  alkyl or (halo-aryl)-C 1-6  alkyl; R is hydroxy or acyloxy; R<SP>1</SP> is hydrogen, C 1-6  alkyl, vinyl, halovinyl, ethynyl, haloethynyl or trifluoro-1-propynyl; or R and R<SP>1</SP> together are oxo; R<SP>11</SP> is hydroxy or acyloxy;  R 111 is hydrogen; or R<SP>11</SP> and R<SP>111</SP> together are oxo; with the provisos that (i) when R<SP>11</SP> and R<SP>111</SP> are oxo, then R<SP>1</SP> is other than hydrogen; and (ii) when R<SP>11</SP> is acyloxy, then R is other than hydroxy. The term " aryl " signifies unsubstituted or alkyl-substituted aryl radicals, and the term "halo-aryl" signifies aryl radicals substituted by halogen or trifluoromethyl and optionally by alkyl. Preparation of the above is by enzymatic 6#- hydroxylation of the corresponding 6-unsubstituted compounds (R<SP>11</SP>=R<SP>111</SP>=H) using Colletotrichum linicola, followed, when required by oxidation or acylation of hydroxy groups. 3,17α - Dimethyl - 17# - hydroxy - 3,4 - diazaandrost-4-en-2-one is prepared from 3-methyl- 17# - hydroxy - 3,4 - diazaandrost - 4 - en - 2- one via 3 - methyl - 3,4 - diazaandrost - 4 - ene- 2,17-dione.
Patent GB-461438-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to indicating and registering mechanisms
IPC: G01F15/07
Filed: 1935-08-17
Abstract: 461,438. Registering mechanism. WAYNE CO. Aug. 17, 1935, No. 23164. Convention date, May 27. [Class 106 (i)] In mechanism of the type comprising quantity indicating means, a price per unit indicating means, a variable speed mechanism, and a total cost indicating means, the elements of the unit price indicating means are automatically adjusted by the movement of gears into engagement with the appropriate gears of the variable speed mechanism. In the form shown as applied to a liquid dispensing apparatus wherein the liquid is delivered through a meter by a motor-operated pump the meter driving a shaft 56, Figs. 2 and 3, of a registering mechanism indicating through windows 60, 62, the quantity and total cost of the liquid dispensed. The shaft 56 carries a variable speed gear cone 64 with which is associated a set of transmission gears selectively adjustable in accordance with the price per unit quantity, say for tens, units, and tenths of cents. The selection mechanism comprises three shafts 66, 68, 70 carrying slidably mounted gears 90, 92, 94 and having levers 72, 74, 76 supporting gears 102, 104, 106 which can be engaged with selected pinions of the cone gear by adjusting the levers along and around the shaft and holding the levers in set position by means of locking devices engaging appropriate apertures in quadrant plates 84, 86, 88. The movement is transmitted through the shafts 66, 68, 70 by gears 108 and differential mechanism 110 to the shaft of the cost registering mechanism. A visible indication of the unit price set up is given at each side of the device by means of indicating drums 150, 192, 218. Each of the adjusting levers is formed with an arm such as arm 130, Figs. 3 and 5, which has a recessed end embracing a bail member 136 journalled on the corresponding shaft 68 and provided at the upper end with a stub shaft 120. The three stub shafts 118, 120 and 122 shown in Fig. 4 are operatively connected by sectors and linkages to pinions carrying the indicating drums 150, 192, 218 and oppositely disposed indicating drums 168, 176, 200. Various modifications of the mechanical connections between the stub shafts and the drums are described. One of these modifications is shown in Fig. -10, the stub shafts 118, 120, 122 are geared to spindles 356, 388, 370, operatively connected to concentric dials 372, 394, 408, the outer two being of dish form.
Patent GB-420587-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to the prevention of sparking in the control of electric circuits
IPC: H01H9/54
Filed: 1934-08-11
Abstract: 420,587. Sparking - preventing in switches. BRITISH THOMSON-HOUSTON CO., Ltd., Crown House, Aldwych, London. Aug. 11, 1934, No. 23255. Convention date, Aug. 12, 1933. [Class 38 (v)] In a D.C. circuit 1 having make and break contacts 2, 3 therein and a condenser 4 connected across the contacts to reduce sparking on breaking the circuit, the condenser is prevented from discharging across the contacts, when remaking the circuit, by means of a unidirectional conducting device 5. An impedance, in the form of a high ohmic resistance 6, is preferably shunted across the condenser. In the arrangement shown in Fig. 2, the contacts 2, 3 form part of a vibratory regulator 10 for keeping constant the voltage of a dynamo-electric machine 7 having a shunt winding 8 in series with the resistance 6 which is alternately cut in and out of circuit by the regulator 10.
Patent GB-779569-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to buoys
IPC: B63B22/02
Filed: 1955-08-12
Abstract: 779,569. Buoys. GARLAND, N. Aug. 12, 1955, No. 23312/55. Class 68 (1). A mooring shackle for a buoy comprises several eye shackles 14, 15 mounted about a common pivot 16 carried by a member 7 that is so mounted on the buoy that it may have a universal rocking movement with respect to the buoy. The pivotal movement of each shackle may be limited by an abutment surface 24, 25 provided on each of the bifurcated jaws of the shackle engaging the upper surface of the member 7. The member 7 may be such as the cable support member described in Specification 485,173, which is referred to.
Patent GB-1209996-A (GB)
Title: Wettable powders
Inventor: MARRS GORDON JAMES
IPC: A01N25/14
Filed: 1968-05-16
Abstract: 1,209,996. Wettable powders. IMPERIAL CHEMICAL INDUSTRIES Ltd. 14 April, 1969 [16 May, 1968], No. 23336/68. Heading A5E. A wettable powder composition comprises a water-insoluble liquid pesticidle, a highlyabsorbent filler having an oil absorption value of at least 100, a water-soluble polymer, a dispersing agent and a wetting agent. The pesticide may be a herbicide, fungicide or preferably an insecticide such as an organophosphorus insecticide, e.g. parathion, methylparathion, malathion or fenitrothion; the filler may be silica; the water-soluble polymer may be polyvinyl alcohol, polyvinyl pyrrolidone, vinyl alcohol-vinyl pyrrolidone copolymer, hydroxy ethyl cellulose, sodium salt of polyacrylic or polymethacrylic acid, polyvinyl pyridine hydrochloride, polyvinyl methyl ether or acrylic acidstyrene copolymer; the dispersing agent may be a purified lignosulphonate or an aryl sulphonic acid/formaldehyde condensate; and the wetting agent may be anionic, e.g. sodium alkyl-benzene sulphonate, cationic, e.g. cetyl trimethyl ammonium chloride or non-ionic, e.g. a condensate of ethylene or propylene oxide with an alkylphenol or long chain alcohol or amine. The composition may contain a second filler such as kaolinite, china clay, bentonite, talc, Hewitt's earth or Fullers earth. The composition may contain from 15 to 40% of pesticide; from 5 to 10% of water-soluble polymer; 3 to 7% of dispersing agent; and 1 to 4% of wetting agent by weight of the composition, the amount of absorbent filler being the same or greater than the proportion of pesticide present. The composition may be prepared by initially mixing the filler, polymer, dispersing and wetting agents, thereafter adding the pesticide and dry-grinding the composition to give particles.
Patent GB-1426517-A (GB)
Title: Electrostatic fluidised bed
IPC: B05B5/08
Filed: 1973-05-16
Abstract: 1426517 Fluidised coating apparatus ELECTROSTATIC EQUIPMENT CORP 16 May 1973 [18 May 1972] 23336/73 Heading B2L Articles 116 to be coated with powder are moved through a channel 86 by means of an overhead conveyor and receive the powder material from electrostatic fluidised beds being separated from the channel by means of walls 58 which act as weirs or baffles to control the flow of coating powder to the articles. The fluidised beds have plenum chambers 36 with porous plates 48 thereabove. The plates 48 incorporate electrostatic grids 52 which change the fluidised powder material relative to the articles on the conveyor which are normally earthed. The baffles 58 as shown are inside the booth and are downwardly inclined in the direction of conveyor movement so that progressively more of the article is exposed to the conveyor. A third fluidised bed may be provided at the end of the booth directly below the line of travel of the articles. This bed is independant of the other two and operates at a lower voltage to coat the bottom of the articles. Powder may be fed in through pipes 73 and excess powder collected in hoppers 74 below the passageway 86. Instead of being inclined, the baffle may be slotted to act as a mask or the baffle may be horizontal with the conveyor inclined.
Patent GB-485901-A (GB)
Title: Device for controlling the driving of motor cars or like vehicles
Filed: 1937-08-26
Abstract: 485,901. Controlling motor vehicles. BERGVALL, B. O. M. Aug. 26, 1937, No. 23381. [Class 79 (v)] The clutch pedal 1, brake pedal 2, and accelerator pedal 3 which closes the throttle when in its lowest position, may be independently operated when desired and can also be simultaneously controlled by one foot on the brake pedal, through inter-engaging members on the three pedals. In the construction shown an arm 4 on the clutch pedal 1 engages under the brake pedal 2, and an arm 7 on the accelerator rod 3 is adapted to be engaged by an arm 15 on a foot-piece 5 pivoted at 6 to the brake pedal. The rod 3 is drawn towards its lowest position, to close the throttle, by a spring 12, and may be rotated by means of a handle 10 to remove the arm 7 from the path of the arm 15. When the brake pedal is fully depressed the brakes are applied, the clutch is disengaged, and the throttle is closed. As the brake pedal is allowed to rise the brakes are first-released, and then the arm 15 engages the arm 7 to lift the rod 3 and open the throttle to an extent depending on the position of the brake pedal. The clutch pedal rises with the brake pedal and allows the clutch to engage. If the driver removes his foot from the footpiece 5 on the brake pedal the throttle is closed by the spring 12, the arm 7 rotating the parts 5, 15 about the pivot 6. The arm 7 may be made flexible or resilient. The arm 4 may be replaced by an arm on the brake pedal overlying the clutch pedal, or the arm 4 may be removable to allow the clutch pedal to be operated entirely independently if desired. In a modification the throttle rod 3 is horizontal.
Patent GB-446721-A (GB)
Title: Awnings
IPC: E04F10/06
Filed: 1935-08-21
Abstract: 446,721. Daylight reflectors. NEUMANN, F., 24, Hohenzollernstrasse, Wannsee, Berlin. Aug. 21, 1935, No. 23457. Convention date, Aug. 31, 1934. [Class 20 (iii)] [See also Group XIV] An awning for shop windows of the kind adapted to admit light to the upper part of the window, consists of a lower opaque part A B, an upper light - permeable part B C, and a second opaque part B D sloping down towards the window and forming with the part A B a saddle roof when the awning is in extended position. The light-permeable part B C consists of straps connecting the part A B with the roller C and the part B D may have a reflecting upper surface. Adjustable reflectors or mirrors E F, El F<1> are provided within the window to reflect downwardly the light from the part B D.
Patent GB-806867-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to container closures
Inventor: SACHOT RAYMOND
IPC: B65D47/36
Filed: 1957-07-24
Abstract: 806,867. Container closures. RICAL, S.ar.l. July 24, 1957, No. 23459/57. Class 125(3). A capsule cover of deformable plastic for containers has an annular border 1, skirt 2, annular shoulder 3, grooves or lines of weakness 4, 5, inner circular rib 8 and central head-piece 10, a tongue 7 being moulded with the assembly so that the band 6 between grooves 4, 5 can be torn off the outer part remaining thus forming a seating for the inner part of which rib 8 cooperates with shoulder 3. A slot 7b, left when tongue 7 is torn off, permits the passage of the shank of a spoon, spatula, &c.
Patent GB-943429-A (GB)
Title: Photographic cameras having built-in exposure meters
Inventor: WIESSNER MANFRED
IPC: G03B7/06
Filed: 1961-06-29
Abstract: 943,429. Photographic cameras. KAMERAUND KINOWERKE DRESDEN VEB. June 29, 1961, No. 23581/61. Heading G2A. A photographic camera has a built-in exposure meter, including a photo-electric cell, which is coupled with at least one exposure factor setting member, a detachable or hinged rear wall which on removal or hingeing open effects the rebore of a film sensitivity setting member which returns to an unset rest position, a switch in circuit with the photo-electric cell and a cam disc operatively connected with said film sensitivity setting member, said cam disc having a nose which, on return of said film sensitivity setting member into its rest position, actuates said switch. As shown, a spring urged follow-up pointer 6 is coupled to an exposure time setting number 3 and to a diaphragm setting member 35 by way of a pivoted lever 5, a nut 4 in screw threaded engagement with an axially movable and rotatable spindle 2, the nut being constrained to move only axially by a pin 25 engaging in a slot 24, a pinion 26 on the spindle 2 and a cam surface 27 on the member 35. In order that film sensitivities may be taken into account, the lever 5 is mounted on a slide 7 which adopts a position determined by the angular position of a cam disc 108, as set by a knob 33. The disc 108 is loaded by a spring 11 and connected to a pinion 9, the arrangement being such that upon opening or removing a rear wall 13, a member 14 is pivoted outwards by a spring 15, a spring catch 10 is removed from engagement with the pinion 9 and the pinion and disc 108 run down to their inoperative position determined by the engagement of a nose 108a with a stop 12 as shown in Fig. 2. In this inoperative position, a switch 45a is closed to short circuit the exposure meter moving coil 46. The meter pointer 36, as a result, moves out of the field of view of a window 34.
Patent GB-517931-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in daylight photographic developing apparatus
IPC: G03D13/06
Filed: 1938-08-10
Abstract: 517,931. Photographic developing apparatus. I. G. FARBENINDUSTRIE AKT.-GES. Aug. 10, 1938, No. 23590. Convention date, Aug. 10, 1937. [Class 98 (ii)] A daylight tank for use with a film having no protective backing or leader and trailer strips comprises a rigid body 4 having a male screw thread 5 adapted to be screwed into a female thread 3 on the interior of a cylindrical container 1, and simultaneously to wind the film 19 helically round that part of the body which has entered the container. The body has a funnel 7 by which treating liquid may be fed to the container through a labyrinthine passage 8 and tube 9, the container being drained through a passage 11. The base of the funnel is screw-threaded at 7a to provide a hose connection for washing. The film cassette is placed in daylight in a chamber having a hinged cover 14 and located opposite an aperture 13 in the container. After rotating the body 4 until pins 10 thereon are adjacent the aperture 13, the perforations on the end of the film 19 are threaded on to the pins, and the body is secured into the container, the film being wound helically on to the body and guided by ribs 6 adjacent to the thread 5.
Patent GB-793226-A (GB)
Title: 6-dimethylamino-4:4-diphenyl-3-heptanone n-oxide and its salts
IPC: C07C291/04
Filed: 1956-07-31
Abstract: The invention comprises 6-dimethylamino-4 : 4 - diphenyl - 3 - heptanone N-oxide and its acid addition salts formed with pharmacologically acceptable acids, such as hydrochloric, hydrobromic, hydriodic, sulphuric, phosphoric, nitric, acetic, benzoic, salicylic, glycolic, succinic, nicotinic, tartaric, maleic, malic or lactic.  The compounds are made by oxidizing 6-dimethylamino - 4 : 4 - diphenyl - 3 - heptanone with a peroxidizing compound such as hydrogen peroxide and, if desired, converting to an acid addition salt by the action of a pharmaceutically acceptable acid.  The products are used as narcotics or analgesics.
Patent GB-1119628-A (GB)
Title: Dyeing shaped articles of polyacrylonitrile
Inventor: SCHMITT ERNST
IPC: G03B7/085
Filed: 1967-05-22
Abstract: Quaternization products are obtained by reacting olefins of formula R-CH2-CH = CH2 with maleic anhydride to give the alkenyl-succinic anhydrides of formula <FORM:1119628/C2/1> which is then reacted with a diamine of formula <FORM:1119628/C2/2> to give a compound of formula <FORM:1119628/C2/3> which is then quaternized, in the above formulae R is an alkyl radical of 6-22 carbon atoms, R1 and R2 are alkyl radicals of 1-3 carbon atoms and n is 2-6.  In examples the compounds <FORM:1119628/C2/4> <FORM:1119628/C2/5> are prepared.ALSO:Polyacrylonitrile materials including copolymers (as defined) are dyed with cationic dyes in the presence of a quarternisation product of an alkenyl-succinic acid imidamine of the formula <FORM:1119628/D1-D2/1> in which R is an alkyl radical of 6-22 carbon atoms, R1 and R2 are independently of one another alkyl radicals of 1-3 carbon atoms and n is 2-6.  Any conventional cationic dye may be used, the quarternisation product being generally present in amounts of 0.5-2.5% by weight of the polyacrylonitrile material. The polyacrylonitrile material may be dyed by dyeing processes in which the dye is added with the quaternisation product or afterwards. Conventional salts e.g. sodium acetate or sulphate and acids e.g. formic and acetic may also be used.  Very level dyeings are obtained.
Patent GB-150545-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in guards for power presses
IPC: F16P3/04
Filed: 1919-09-26
Abstract: 150,545. Phillips, J. E., and Phillips, W. H. Sept. 26, 1919. Addition to 116,066. Guards, controlling.-A guard for presses of the type described in the parent Specification, in which two collapsible frames are mounted vertically at an angle with each other, is positively collapsed by the plunger of the press when rising, and returned to the protective position by a spring when freed from the plunger. In the form shown in Fig. 1, the angularly adjustable guards 1 are pivoted to a fixed adjustable bracket 3 and to a slidable bracket 5 on the vertical stem 26. A link 15 pivoted in an arm 16 is pivoted to the bracket 5 and to a rod 19 passing through an opening in an adjustable bracket 23 on the plunger of the press. When the plunger rises, the bracket 23 comes in contact with the nut 24 and raises the bracket 5, thus collapsing the guard, and when the plunger descends the bracket 23 leaves the nut 24 and a spring 12 pulls down the bracket 5 and extends the guard. In modifications, a catch on a depending spring blade carried by the plunger raises the bracket 5 to collapse the guard as the plunger rises, and this catch is withdrawn from the bracket to allow the guard to be opened by a spring, by a wedge, cam or lever &c. connected with the clutch lever or treadle of the press.