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Patent GB-492386-A (GB)
Title: Knitting machines
IPC: D04B9/26
Filed: 1937-03-22
Abstract: 492,386. Knitting-machines. NOLDE & HORST CO. March 22, 1937, No. 8423. Convention date, Oct. 24, 1936. [Class 74 (ii)] A machine having a yarn feed head with a number of yarn feed members mounted thereon is provided with a device rigidly connected to the head for holding the free ends of the yarns initially in position for reception by the needles. The invention is described in connection with a rotary needle cylinder machine having a head F with finger H for supplying wrap yarns 50 to the needles, and the yarn-holding device comprises a member 63 secured by a screw-threaded portion 61 to a shaft 25 forming part of the head. The member 63 may be of frusto-conical shape as shown and have angularly disposed grooves 64 in its periphery. Alternatively it may be roughened or provided with teeth for holding the yarns in position. In operation, before commencing to knit, the operator knots the ends of the wrap yarns together below the member 63 so that when the yarn-feeding head is lowered into feeding position, the yarns are correctly positioned for reception by the needles. The yarn-holding device may be used on flat knitting-machines. Specification 460,771 is referred to.
Patent GB-825371-A (GB)
Title: Manufacture of shoes and like articles of footwear
IPC: A43B3/14
Filed: 1956-03-19
Abstract: 825,371. Moulding footwear. BRITISH BATA SHOE CO. Ltd. March 19, 1956 [March 8, 1955], No. 8432/56. Class 87(2). [Also in Group VII] A mould for forming a sponge rubber sole from a rubbermix and attaching it to a moccasin type shoe comprises a base plate and upper slides 13 having vertical side walls 14 curved to form lips bounded by outwardly and upwardly bevelled surfaces 16. The bevel is cut away at the toe and heel 17 to locate the lasted shoe which closes the mould before heat is applied to vulcanise the mix. Specification 714,241 is referred to.
Patent GB-435196-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to electric oscillators and the like
IPC: H03K4/10
Filed: 1934-03-19
Abstract: 435,196. Valve generating oircuits. JOHNSTONE, D. M., and BAIRD TELEVISION, Ltd., 58, Victoria Street, Westminster. March 19, 1934, No. 8576. [Class 40 (v)] Discharge of the condenser of a saw-tooth oscillation generator is effected through the plate-cathode path of a back-coupled valve which breaks into oscillation as the plate current starts. The condenser 4 is slowly charged from a HT supply source through a resistance or constant-current device 5 and is rapidly discharged through the anodecathode path of the triode or pentode valve 1. The valve 1 is back-coupled by the coils 2, 3 and the grid is biassed by a potentiometer 10 so that no anode current passes during the charging period of the condenser 4. At a critical value of the voltage on this condenser, the valve breaks into self-oscillation at high frequency, and the voltage swing on the grid rapidly discharges the condenser 4 through the valve 1, until self-oscillation ceases and the condenser 4 begins to charge up again. Synchronizing pulses may be applied from the line 8 through a transformer or across a resistance. The saw-toothed voltage wave developed across the condenser 4 is applied through a condenser 19 and potentiometer 20 to the grid of triode or pentode amplifier 11 which may have the coil of a magnetic scanning device 21 in its anode circuit. In an alternative arrangement for an oscillator operating at line frequency, the anode circuit of the valve 11 may include a transformer with a centretapped secondary coil connected to electrostatic deflecting-plates.
Patent GB-828136-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to the lubrication of rails
Inventor: HARDIE ALEXANDER
IPC: B66C7/00
Filed: 1958-03-18
Abstract: 828,136. Lubricating. POWER-GAS CORPORATION Ltd. March 18, 1958, No. 8593/58. Class 12 (3). Apparatus for applying lubricant to a crane rail 21 comprises a rotary cylinder 8 mounted on the crane and containing lubricant 23, a felt roller 13 secured to the base of the cylinder 8 and arranged to engage the rail 21, and a ballvalve 12 in the base of the cylinder 8 adapted, on rotation of the cylinder 8 caused by movement of the crane, to open the port 10 and allow lubricant 23 to flow through the roller 13 to the surface of the crane rail 21. The roller 13 comprises felt discs 13a, 13b, 13c and 13d provided with grooves radiating from an off-centre hole 17 so that the flow of oil is partly by gravity through the grooves and partly by capillarity. The cylinder 8 has a spindle 4 which is rotatably mounted by bearings 6 in a housing 3 which is pivoted at 2 on the crane. Alternatively, the surfaces of the base 9 may be convex or concave. In a modification, lubricant is supplied from a tank on the crane through a flexible pipe 26 to the housing 3 and thence through a bore 27 in the spindle 4 whereby the bearings 6 are continuously lubricated.
Patent GB-670071-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to boxes or the like and especially collapsible boxes orthe like
IPC: B65D5/52
Filed: 1947-03-31
Abstract: 670,071. Boxes. GREGORY, G. E. March 23, 1948 [March 31, 1947], No. 8594/47. Class 18 [Also in Group XVIII] A collapsable or other box has attached to its rear wall a hinged cover flap that is slit and creased to provide two partly separable sections of which the outermost section can be folded back, about inclined crease lines, and pushed under the box to form a stand for supporting the box in an inclined display position. As described, the box is made from a one-piece blank, Fig. 1, cut and scored to form wall panels 11, 12, 13, that are bent upwardly about a base 10 to form a tray-like box, flaps 12A, 13A, that are bent within the end walls 11 and beneath inwardly bent flaps 11A, and an apertured top panel 14 having end flaps 16 which are caused to embrace walls 11 and are secured by tabs and slits 17, 18. Alternatively, the flaps 16 may be replaced by T-shaped or other tabs for engagement with slits in the end walls. Extending from panel 14 is a further panel that is glued to a flap 13B, adjacent the crease line, in the set-up box and is cut and scored at 21, 21A to form a stand portion 22 and a display panel 23, the portion 22 being scored also at 21B and provided with tabs 19. The inner display surface of the cover flap, the top surface of panel 14 and the outer surface of wall 12 are all on the same side of the blank for convenient printing or the like. When the box is to be set up for display purposes, the U-shaped portion 22, which, with the display panel 23, normally overlies the frame-like top 14 with the tabs 19 accommodated in slots 20, is folded over the back wall 13 of the box and the bulged base of the stand 22 is pushed inwardly so that it assumes an overcentre position beneath the box as shown in Fig. 5, the bulging being occasioned by the inclined score lines 21A and assisted by a central score line 21B. The limbs of the stand portion are also engaged by locking tabs 24 and they may have complementary notches for this purpose, insertion being facilitated by slits 24A. In a modification the frame 14 is cut away apart from triangular pieces at the corners and the flaps 11A are dispensed with. Alternatively, the frame portions between the triangular pieces may be folded inside the box.
Patent GB-431083-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to pipe couplings
IPC: F16L19/065
Filed: 1934-03-20
Abstract: 431,083. Pipe couplings. FORD CONE JOINTS, Ltd., and FORD, J., Tyburn Road, Erdington, Birmingham. March 20, 1934, No. 8680. [Class 99 (i)] A pipe 7 is jointed to a coupling member 3 by a coned sealing ring 5 which is forced between the pipe and a conical seating on the inner wall of the coupling member by a nut 4. The sealing ring 5 is loosely mounted within the coupling nut 4 and is secured therein, with the outermost face of a flange 5<a> on the sealing ring abutting against a shoulder 4<a> on the coupling nut, by a locking ring 6 screwed on the outer end of said sealing ring, the threads of the nut 4 and locking ring 6 being right- and left-handed respectively.
Patent GB-720858-A (GB)
Title: Sash balance torsion adjusting means
IPC: E05D13/00
Filed: 1953-03-30
Abstract: 720,858. Locking rods. DOWELL & SONS PROPRIETARY, Ltd., C. March 30, 1953 [March 31, 1952]. No. 8745/53. Class 80 (3). [Also in Group X]. A friction ratchet for finely adjusting the torsion of window sash balances (see Group X) comprises a spindle 12 which is inserted upwardly through a hole in a bracket 11, and a spring 13 which is of slightly smaller diameter than, and is fitted over, to grip the spindle 12, one hooked end 27 of the spring being engaged in a slot 18 in the bracket 11. The spring 13, which normally grips the spindle 12 to maintain it locked in its adjusted position, is released when the spindle is 'turned in a direction to increase the torsion of the sash balance springs, not shown, a decrease in the torsion of which can be effected by inserting e.g. a screwdriver through a hole 15 in the bracket 11 and moving the .end 25 of the spring in a direction tending to unwind it. A collar 28 is retained over the spring 13 by a split pin 29 which is also used to connect the spindle to the sash balance mechanism.
Patent GB-127397-A (GB)
Title: Pads or the like for Concrete Sleepers and for other purposes.
Inventor: GRANT JOHN CAMERON
Filed: 1918-05-28
Abstract: 127,397. Grant, J. C. May 28, 1918. Sound and vibration, preventing.-Pads or slabs are made from a material woven from bitumenized paper thread and then further treated with bitumen, alone or mixed with sawdust, or with liquid Portland cement, or with both bitumen and the cement, the material being folded any required number of times and subjected to high pressure. Preferably, Trinidad bitumen is used and the threads are formed by twisting paper cut into strips and treated. The pads are tough, durable, and elastic, and may be used on concrete and other sleepers to absorb vibration, the bolt holes being drilled or punched and, if desired, lined with metal ferrules, while a binding of metal may be secured around the edges by pressure or rivets.
Patent GB-1180463-A (GB)
Title: Manifold
Inventor: KNOWLES JACK
IPC: F24D3/10
Filed: 1967-02-14
Abstract: 1,180,463. Junction pieces. J. KNOWLES (PLUMBERS) Ltd. 19 Jan., 1968 [14 Feb., 1967], No. 8858/69. Divided out of 1,180,462. Heading F2G. A manifold comprises a tube divided by a transverse partition into two manifold sections each of which is provided with a plurality of bosses and compression fittings for the connection of a plurality of pipes. As illustrated, a hot water central heating system comprises a circulating pump 14, a boiler 10 from/which water passes to inlet manifold sections 11, radiators connected to the inlet manifold sections and to outlet manifold sections 13 from which water is returned to the pump 14 through a line 25. Each manifold comprises a copper tube 14a to which is brazed a disc 15. Preferred pipe dimensions are disclosed.
Patent GB-570587-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to reinforced concrete floors
IPC: E04B5/06
Filed: 1943-06-02
Abstract: 570.587. Floors concrete beams. JONES, E. June 2, 1943, No. 8872. [Class 20 (iv)] An I-section concrete beam for floor constructions has all its flanges shaped to abut or nearly abut, without overlapping, the flanges of a similar beam placed alongside it, and has its upper flanges reinforced by L-shaped rods arranged at intervals along the beam, with one limb of each rod extending down through the web and the other limbs of the rods extending into one or the other flanges, alternatively, along the beam. In the floor construction shown the upper flanges of the beams 10 are reinforced by rods 16 and by the horizontal limbs of L-shaped rods 17 which hook over the centre rod 16. Adjacent rods 17 project in opposite direction, as shown, to reinforce both of the upper flanges, and the lower ends of all the rods are hooked around a longitudinal wire 15 disposed at the intersection of the lower flanges and the web. The upper flanges are chamfered at 14 to provide longitudinal recesses which enable an upper floor covering 19 to become keyed to the beams. The lower surfaces of the beams may be finished by applying plaster 20 to form a ceiling.
Patent GB-367603-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in sewage distributors
IPC: C02F3/04
Filed: 1931-03-23
Abstract: 367,603. Sewage distributers. HARTLEY, C. J., Kearsley Chambers, Shelton Old Road Stoke-on-Trent. March 23, 1931, No. 8929. [Class 69 (iii).] A standardized siphon block for travelling distributers to which inlet and discharge pipes of various lengths may be secured comprises a casting formed with one or more elbow pieces provided with machined flanges 2, 3 to which inlet tubes 4 and discharge tubes 5 may be connected. The casting also has an upright flange 8 for connection to a lattice girder 9 supporting the distributing pipe 6, and a bracket 10 to receive either a fixed wheel carriage or a swivelling bogey carriage 14. The discharge tube 5 is connected to the distribution pipe 6 either directly or through a valve casing 7. The Figure shows a single siphon block to feed a single distribution pipe but modifications may be made in which a single siphon feeds dual distribution pipes or in which two or more siphons each feed a distributer. A connection 16 for an air pump may be provided and the distributing pipes may be fitted with the inverted U -tubes described in Specification 363,079.
Patent GB-1460601-A (GB)
Title: Cleaning device for vehicle headlight lens
IPC: B60S1/52
Filed: 1974-02-27
Abstract: 1460601 Cleaning vehicle head-lamps CIBIE PROJECTEURS 27 Feb 1974 [2 March 1973]  8950/74 Heading A4F A vehicle head-lamp lens is cleaned by a device comprising a drive element 20 that is reciprocable in a plane parallel to the front of the lens, a nozzle 18 fixed to and movable therewith for spraying washing liquid on the lens, and a wiper carried by a support 36 connected to the drive element 20 by a pair of pivotal parallel links 32, 34. The support 36 has two extreme positions in each of which it engages the drive element 20, the nozzle 18 being located between these positions. During the initial movement of the element 20 in either direction, the support 36 moves from one extreme position to the other, due to friction between the wiper and the lens, and the nozzle 18 is arranged behind the nozzle 18 with respect to the direction of movement of the drive element 20. As described, the reciprocating movement may be substantially linear, as shown, or rotary about a pivot that is fixed with respect to lens 10.
Patent GB-182182-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in hydro-carbon burners for heating steam boilers, furnaces and for other heating purposes
IPC: F23D11/10
Filed: 1921-03-24
Abstract: 182,182. Murphy, F. A., and Davies, G. March 24, 1921. Spray burners.-A liquidfuel burner for steam boilers, furnaces, &c. comprises a tube C having a bent end delivering oil in front of the end of a tube B supplying compressed air to atomize the oil. The tubes B, C are arranged in a larger tube A, to which air is supplied for further mixture with the atomized oil and to carry it into the furnace. According to the Provisional Specification, a conical baffle-plate or a propeller or paddle-wheel fan may be fixed inside the larger air-tube, and the air may be heated before reaching the burner. Reference has been directed by the Comptroller to Specifications 2650/72, 2740/90, 11109/96, [Class 50, Fuel, Manufacture of], 20476/10, and 147,240.
Patent GB-116710-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Artificial Hands.
Inventor: O'CONNOR EDWARD LOUIS
IPC: A61F2/58
Filed: 1918-06-03
Abstract: 116,710. O'Connor, E. L. May 24, 1917. [Convention date]. Limbs, artificial.-A hand comprises fingers having basilar phalanges 36 mounted on a shaft 35 pivoted in bearings 24, 25 supported by a bar 19 connected to the wrist block 13 of a socket. A thumb member 27 is mounted on a shaft 26 pivoted in bearings 20, 21, and is secured to a finger-actuating rod 28. The rod 28 is connected to the shaft 26 by a link 29 pinned thereto and, when actuated by means of a cord 31 connected to the link 29, rotates the shaft 35 through the action of a link 38 and lever 37. The fingers are controlled by a spring 39 and the thumb by a spring 41 so that they are in a closed or gripping position when the arm is bent, but opened when it is straightened by the tension of the cord 31 which is secured by diverging straps to an upper arm band 16. The upper phalanges of the fingers have ratchet teeth on their inner ends which are engaged by sliding spring-controlled pawls 42, the outer ends of which are pivoted to links 44 connected by elongated slots to the rod 28. The phalanges 36 are bent by the other band to the desired position and retained by the pawls 42 which are released when the cord 31 is sufliciently actuated allowing the fingers to be straightened by the action of elastics 45. The wrist block 13 is secured to bars 12 attached to a sleeve 11 of canvas and connected by pins 15 to slotted bars 14 pivoted to side members 17 attached to the band 16.
Patent GB-195649-A (GB)
IPC: C09B29/033
Filed: 1923-04-03
Abstract: Monoazo dyes which dye cotton in pure red shades of good fastness to water and light are prepared by coupling a diazotized aromatic aminothiazole sulphonic acid described in Specification 6644/14 with a mixed urea derived from 2 : 5 : 7-aminonaphtholsulphonic acid or a derivative thereof and an acidyl-p-arylenediamine or a derivative thereof; suitable 2 : 5 : 7-acid derivatives are the 2 : 5 : 1 : 7-disulphonic acid and 1-chlor-2 : 5 : 7-acid; suitable acidyl-p-arylene-diamines mentioned are p-amino-acetanilide, p-aminoformanilide, p-amino-oxalylanilide, p-aminophenylurea, or derivatives or homologues substituted in the ortho position to the acidyl-amino groups by, for example, chlorine, methyl, or methoxy, 4-amino-2-methoxyacetanilide, and 4-amino-acet-1-naphthylamine. As diazo components are mentioned dehydrothiotoluidine disulphonic acid and dehydrothio-m-xylidine-o-monosulphonic acid; in an example, the former compound is diazotized and coupled with the urea from 2 : 5 : 7-acid and p-aminoacetanilide described in Specification 5895/02.
Patent GB-322710-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to oil retaining apparatus for ships' stern tubes
IPC: B63H23/36
Filed: 1929-03-22
Abstract: 322,710. Ferguson, L., Ferguson, P., and Ferguson, R. March 22, 1929. Stuffing-boxes, substitutes for.-In packing for stern-tubes of the type comprising channelled rings 1, formed in segments bolted together, and pressed apart by an interposed rubber or like sleeve 7, the rings 1 fit the shaft. closely, and relative rotation of the rings is prevented by means of lugs 11 on one ring engaging slotted lugs 12<1> on the other ring. The rings are formed with oil grooves 19, and one ring may be secured to the propeller boss or to the stern tube. Speci. fication 249,055 is referred to.
Patent GB-1403102-A (GB)
Title: Metallising compositions
IPC: H01C17/28
Filed: 1972-02-29
Abstract: 1403102 Metallizing composition for ceramics R J COOK 29 May 1973 [29 Feb 1972] 9281/72 Headings C7A and C7D A metallizing composition comprises powder or flakes of an alloy or mixture consisting in wt per cent of 20-80 Ag, 10-60 Ni, 4-16 Cr dispersed in a vehicle comprising a flux and an organic binder. The flux is preferably a zinc or lead borosilicate glass and the binder a solution of ethyl cellulose in low vapour pressure tertiary alcohol. Small amounts of Ti, Rh and Al e.g. 0À05% Rh, 0À001% Ti may be present in the alloy or mixture. The composition is used for coating ceramic substrates e.g. barium titanate and fired to form capacitors.
Patent GB-232231-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in flat web knitting machines with two needle beds
IPC: D04B11/04
Filed: 1925-04-07
Abstract: 232,231. Soc. GÚnÚrale de Bonneterie. April 11, 1924, [Convention date]. Straight-bar machines. - To facilitate the fashioning of rib fabrics, particularly the kind known as Derby rib, by transferring loops from machine needles 3 to frame needles 9, a set of hooked instruments 8 mounted in a bar 7 is employed. Each hook has an eye or groove a, b, c extending from near the point along the stem. When it is desired to transfer loops the web is pushed back by the needles 9, and the hooks 8, moving in the direction of the arrow, enter the loops on the stems of the needles 3. The hooks 8 then rise somewhat and the needles 3 are brought back, leasing their loops on the hooks. The bar 7 is then moved sideways to bring the hooks over the needles 9, which are then moved upwards to bring their beards into the vertical parts of the grooves of the hooks and into the loops thereon. The bar 7 is again moved sideways, to bring the hooks out of line with the needles 9, and is swung in the reverse direction to the arrow shown in Fig. 2, thus removing the hooks from the loops, which remain on the needles 9. Loops are transferred from needles 9 to others in the same row by ordinary means.
Patent GB-804646-A (GB)
Title: Submarine position recording system
IPC: G01S15/89
Filed: 1955-03-30
Abstract: 804,646. Echo distance measuring. ATLASWERKE A.G.- March 30, 1955 [March 30, 1954], No. 9304/55. Class 118 (2). A continuous map of objects in a strip of sea running parallel to a ship's course is produced by mounting two or more fixed transducers 133 and 134 on the ship which transmit and receive sound pulses in the water directionally, and providing two styli 137 and 138 which can mark a moving paper strip 136, and each associated with a particular transducer, the styli being moved in synchronism with the pulse emissions, along straight lines originating from a point on the strip corresponding to the ship's original position, and forming an angle with the inverse direction of the motion of the recording strip equal to that formed between the direction of radiation of the corresponding transducer with the course of the ship, the ratio of the paper feed to the speed of the ship being made equal to that of the speed of the styli to half the velocity of sound in water. In a modification a third transducer 135 is added which can be oscillated. The corresponding styli 139 of this transducer is then mounted on a guide that oscillates in synchronism with the transducer. More than two fixed transducers can be used so that areas of seas are explored more than once. The starting points of the styli for the successive pairs of transducers are adjusted so that the maps produced superimpose in coincidence. In Fig. 1 the arrangement of the oscillating transducer and its stylus is shown. The fixed transducer arrangements are produced simply by the omission of the oscillating means. The transducer 1 is oscillated by a cam disc 6 and linkage 10 connected by an electric synchronous connection 42 and 43 with guide 23 for the stylus. The latter is connected to a moving band 29, which also carries a cam 30 operating contacts 31 which, when the stylus reaches the starting point, cause the emission of a sound pulse from the transducer 1. The speed of the belt is adjusted to satisfy the ratio given above.