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Patent GB-233633-A (GB)
Title: Improvements connected with watches or watch casings
IPC: G04B27/02
Filed: 1925-01-22
Abstract: 233,633. Wachter, F. Jan. 22 ,1925. Cases; keyless mechanism.-Watches in which the winding stem and crown act for the dual purpose of winding the spring and setting the hands are provided with means on the casing adapted when operated to lift the winding stem to disconnect the winding gear and throw the hand-setting mechanism into operative connection. The watch 9, Fig. 1, is provided with slidable members 12 formed with finger-pieces 15 and inclines 14 and adapted when pressed together to lift the winding crown 10, the members 12 automatically returning to their normal positions under the action of springs 17. As applied to a round watch-case the sliding members 19, connected to washers 24, may be disposed as shown in Fig. 2, while in a watch having a bow and pendant 25, Fig. 4. the members 30 are formed with pins 32 and are controlled by a tension spring 36. In a further modification, the crown raising means comprises levers 48, Fig. 6, pivotally mounted in brackets 49 secured on the watchcase 50, the inner ends 51 of the levers 48 being adapted to raise the crown 52 on depression of the outer ends of the said levers.
Patent GB-1490793-A (GB)
Title: Display stand
IPC: A47B96/02
Filed: 1975-01-17
Abstract: 1490793 Shelving R BOHNACKER 17 Jan 1975 [19 Jan 1974] 2140/75 Heading A4B A shelving structure comprises shelves 11 provided on their undersides with reinforcing strips 15 which have their ends cut away or deformed to provide shoulders which engage recesses in the upper edges of cantilevered shelf support arms. In one embodiment, Figs. 3, 5, shoulders 22a engage notches 19a in an arm 7 and flanges 18 engage in recesses 19b. In another embodiment, Fig. 7, the strip end is deformed and cut-away to engage recesses 26a, 26 b in an arm 25. In a further embodiment, Fig. 10, the end is deformed as shown. In a modification Fig. 9, (not shown) the parts 29, 30 of Fig. 10 are cut-away. In a further embodiment, Fig. 11, the deformed ends include reinforcing flutes 33.
Patent GB-125572-A (GB)
Title: A Tripod Stand with Detachable Legs.
Inventor: WIGHT ROBERT MURRAY
IPC: F16M11/22
Filed: 1919-01-29
Abstract: 125,572. Wight, R. M. Jan. 29, 1919. Tripod stands.-A tripod stand is provided with detachable legs B hooked into holes in the stand head C and connected by claws b<1> and bolts D to the base member A. The bolts pass through rubber blocks E attacted to leaf springs F bearing on the claws b<1>.
Patent GB-269688-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in cooling arrangements for the masonry of pulverised coal fired and like furnaces
IPC: F23M5/08
Filed: 1926-01-26
Abstract: 269,688. Reiser, H. Jan. 26, 1926. Addition to 259,681, [Class 51 (i), Furnaces and kilns, Combustion apparatus of]. Feedwater, heating.-A modification of the invention described in the parent Specification consists in utilizing the heat of the water traversing the closed cooling circuit for the furnace walls for indirectly heating feedwater for the boiler heated by the furnace or for another boiler or heating installation. The cooling circuit comprises the water jacket b of the furnace and the circulating pipe c which may include a pump d. Part of the pipe c passes in the form of a coil through a feedwater heater h arranged in the feed pipe i of the boiler k.
Patent GB-539320-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to electric motor controllers
IPC: H02P1/20
Filed: 1940-01-31
Abstract: 539,320. Master control of motors. IGRANIC ELECTRIC CO. Ltd. Jan. 31, 1940, No. 2039/41. Convention date, Feb. 1, 1939. Divided out of 539,268. Drawings to Specification. [Class 38 (iii)] Describes the same system for the motor control by means of sequential contactors timed by adjustable condensers and resistances across their operating circuits, as is decribed in connection with the sequential contactors of Specification 539,268 which is referred to in the Specification. Reference has been directed by the Comptroller to Specification 518,391.
Patent GB-1406484-A (GB)
Title: Synchronous replay and recording of audio signals with video  signals
IPC: H04N5/76
Filed: 1972-01-18
Abstract: 1406484 Associated working of audio and video playback apparatus EMI Ltd 27 Nov 1972 [18 Jan 1972] 2318/72 Heading G5R The recording medium, e.g. magnetic tape, of an audio signal recording and playback ap'- paratus, e.g. a tape deck 1, carries prerecorded control pulses which are applied to a clutch 2 for controlling the traverse of a pick-up 6 across a video disc record. As shown, the operation of a pause control 5 stops the tape and causes a still picture to be reproduced from the video disc. During the playback of recorded audio and video signals, a second audio track may be recorded on the tape, e.g. in another language.
Patent GB-946632-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in buoyant life-saving garments
IPC: B63C9/115
Filed: 1962-01-23
Abstract: 946,632. Buoyant garments. G INGRAM. Sept. 20, 1962 [Jan. 23, 1962], No. 2405/62. Heading A3V. A buoyant life saving garment comprises a sleeved or sleeveless open network vest or jacket (Fig. 1) constituted wholly or partly of buoyant strands of foamed plastic material or rubber, or closed air impermeable tubes containing air preferably at atmospheric pressure, the tubes being of self supporting rubber or plastic and of small diameter comparable with string or woollen yarns used in ordinary string vests. The tubes 7 (Fig. 2) are heat sealed at the end of each length and made into a corrugated or criss-cross network the points of contact 7a or overlap being heat sealed. The outer surface of the tube may have fibres deposited thereon. The vest may be combined with a hood of similar open network.
Patent GB-1191995-A (GB)
Title: A Process for Transporting Thermal Energy
Inventor: HILBERATH FRIEDRICH
IPC: C01B3/38
Filed: 1969-01-16
Abstract: 1,191,995. Cooling reactors. UNION RHEINISCHE BRAUNKOHLEN KRAFTSTOFF A.G. 16 Jan., 1969 [16 Jan., 1968], No. 2531/69. Heading G6C. [Also in Division C5]  A process for transporting heat from the place where it is produced, e.g. helium gas circulating at about 1000‹ C. in a nuclear reactor, to the place where it is needed, comprises using the heat to crack methane, or natural gas, catalytically, e.g. in the presence of steam, cooling the cracked gas, transporting it through pipe lines to the place of use, and there catalytically reforming it and using the heat liberated. The reformed methane may be recycled to the reactor.
Patent GB-269983-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to protective arrangements for duplicate feeder electricsystems
IPC: H02H7/26
Filed: 1926-01-28
Abstract: 269,983. Reyrolle & Co., Ltd.. A., Biles, R. W., and Piquet, J. Jan. 28, 1926. Cut-out arrangements. - In the protection of parallel feeders whereby a sensitive setting of the protective relays dealing with earth faults is afforded and a heavy setting for the relays dealing with interphase faults, a directional earth-leakage relay N, L has its current coils L connected in the circulating current circuit of two core-balance transformers in the parallel feeders and its potential coils N variably connected automatically on fault across the voltage of different phases depending upon which phase develops the earth fault. Interconnected current transformers B, B<1> in the parallel feeders supply the current coils F, F<1> of two three-pole reverse-power relays D, D<1> through the actuating coils P of auxiliary contactors O. The potential coils of these relays are supplied from potential transformers C, C<1>. For earth leakage protection the core-balance transformers M, M<1> are connected through a diverter relay R (to reduce the sensitiveness of the earth leakage relay during heavy straightthrough earth-fault currents) to the current coils L of the earth-fault relay, and its potential coils are energized from the potential transformers C<1> through that one of the contactors which has been closed corresponding to the earthed phase. In this way a potential of the correct phase to ensure sensitive action of the relay is chosen. The main circuit-breakers are associated with switches T, T<1> which, when the current-breaker is tripped, short-circuit the current coils of the relays and isolate the secondary side of the potential transformer.
Patent GB-779113-A (GB)
Title: Apparatus for use on vehicles for distributing active substances for the destructionof parasites
IPC: A01M7/00
Filed: 1956-01-26
Abstract: 779,113. Powder spraying machines. BERTHOUD, F. D., [trading as BERTHOUD & CIE]. Jan. 26, 1956 [Feb. 10, 1955], No. 2638/56. Class 6(1). [Also in Group XXIX] A machine for spraying powder by means of a blower comprises a frame 2 carrying a centrifugal blower 1a and a distributer and arranged to rotate about the vertically arranged axis of the blower. As shown in Fig. 1, the machine is mounted on a tractor and is arranged for spraying field crops. The distributer comprises a tube 7 with nozzles 7b connected to the blower 1a by a flexible tube 7a and adjustably mounted on a structure 8. The frame 2 is rotated by chain and sprocket gearing 12 operated by a crank handle 10. In a modification for treating tall growths such as trees a nozzle is mounted on the flexible tube 7a and is provided with a handle for manipulation by an operator seated on a seat attached to the frame 2, the operator actuating a handle for rotating the frame 2 by means of chain and sprocket gearing connected to a chain wheel 19 rigidly fixed to the tractor frame 5. The blower 1a is driven from the tractor power shaft.
Patent GB-264333-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in the control of hydraulically actuated devices
IPC: F03B15/02
Filed: 1926-01-29
Abstract: 264,333. English Electric Co., Ltd., Houston, T. R., and Deriaz, P. Jan. 29, 1926. Machines and apparatus.-In an arrangement for the control of hydraulically actuated apparatus, e.g. the valve of a turbine, wherein the pressure liquid passes through a throttling device, a bye-pass having an adjustable valve is provided sc that an independent adjustment may be obtained. The form described comprises the arrangement described in Specification 230,205, wherein the throttling device is provided with a bye-pass 14, 13, 12, 11 having a valve 15.
Patent GB-265582-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to plate glass sheets
IPC: E04D3/28
Filed: 1927-01-29
Abstract: 265,582. Neue Glasindustrie-Ges. Feb. 3, 1926, [Convention date]. Forming plates and sheets with surface designs. -A glass plate intended for use in glass walls or roofs, is formed with V-shaped channels or ridges 2, 1, along one edge and along the middle, respectively, the other edge 3 being inclined as shown to the plane of the sheet. When such sheets are assembled, the channels overlap and interlock. Holes 4 are formed at one end of each sheet to enable it to be secured to the supporting structure. The glass can be reinforced in the usual manner by wire netting.
Patent GB-201856-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in electric lamp fittings
IPC: H01R33/97
Filed: 1923-01-30
Abstract: 201,856. Archer, M. J. Jan. 30, 1923. Holders.-A fitting for preventing the unauthorized removal of bulbs either directly or by unscrewing the parts of the casing, and adapted to be applied to any standard lampholder without modification thereof, comprises a sleeve 4 provided with recesses 7 to engage the pins of the bulb, a shield for the nut 3 that secures the parts of the casing together either formed integrally with the sleeve 4 as shown at 5, Fig. 2, or adapted to be locked in position by it through the interposed shade and shade-ring, as shown at 12, Fig. 4, and a key-operated set-screw 10 or the equivalent mounted in the sleeve so as to bear against the outer surface of the holder and draw the sleeve into locking engagement therewith.
Patent GB-1173243-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Mining Machines
IPC: E21C25/14
Filed: 1968-01-19
Abstract: 1,173,243. Machines having drum cutters. EICKHOFF MASCHINENFABRIK U. EISENGIESSERET, m.b.H., GEBR. 19 Jan., 1968 [23 Jan., 1967], No. 2904/68. Heading E1F. In a mining machine having a verticallyadjustable drum-type cutter 5 and a spaceclearing plate 7, the latter has mounted thereon for movement relative thereto in a generally vertical or inclined direction a drop-plate 12 adapted to move under its own weight or to be urged into a position in which it bears on the floor of a mine working place. The plate 7 is pivoted about a vertical axis on the machine frame so that it can be moved between an inoperative position in which it lies parallel with the frame and the operative position shown in which it is held by a linkage 9. The plates 7, 12 are interconnected by bolts 10 engaging slots in the plate 7 and by pivoted links 15. In a second embodiment, Fig. 5 (not shown), the drop plate 12 is movable relative to the plate 7 by a hydraulic jack. In a third embodiment, Figs. 6, 7 (not shown), the drop plate 12 is movable by levers such that when the plate 7 is moved to its inoperative position the plate 12 is raised. In a fourth embodiment, Figs. 8, 9 (not shown), the levers are replaced by a cord and pulley system.
Patent GB-371891-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to overload responsive switches
IPC: H01H71/16
Filed: 1931-01-29
Abstract: 371,891. Protective cut-out arrangements. BRITISH THOMSON-HOUSTON CO., Ltd., Crown House, Aldwych, London, and HEATH, H. C., 51, Kingsway, Wembley, Middlesex. Jan. 29, 1931, No. 2930. Addition to 298,549, [Class 38 (iii), Electric motor control systems &c.]. [Classes 38 (iii) and 38 (v).] Switches partly electromagnetic; controllers.- The invention of the parent Specification is modified by the provision in the application to polyphase circuits of a single thermal bimetallic strip adapted to be heated jointly by heating elements connected in the circuits controlled by the contactor. The armature 2 carrying the movable contact 3 of the contactor solenoid circuit is provided with tongues 5 for engagemeut by pivot screws 4 and is biased in the closed position shown in Fig. 1 by a spring 7. A helical bimetallic strip 9 in an insulating tube 10 is anchored at one end to a supporting wire 11 for the tube 10 and provided at the other end with a cranked arm 13, which co-operates with a plate 14 which is adjustable transversely of the length of the armature 2 for setting purposes. The tube 10 has ribs 17 for separating the heating elements 18, one for each phase or conductor controlled by the contactor, the arrangement being that on a mild, sustained overload occurring in one or more phases, the strip 9 moves the armature 2 so that the contact 3 opens the circuit of the contactor solenoid.
Patent GB-607261-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in electron discharge devices
IPC: H01J29/88
Filed: 1946-01-30
Abstract: Coating material applied to the wall of an electron discharge device to inhibit arc-discharges comprises a finely-divided powder such as ferric oxide dispersed in alkali-metal silicate. The ferric oxide may be replaced wholly or partly by chromic oxide, or metals such as iron, nickel or copper which form insulating surface oxides may form the powder in the silicate. Where the coating is a strip adjacent an electrode wall coating, it may comprise finely-divided metals such as silver, gold or platinum and must be free of carbon in any form.  In an example, the coating material is prepared by dissolving sodium silicate in distilled water which may be heated if desired, and adding slowly with constant stirring, ferric oxide.  The weight of ferric oxide is preferably from about two to five times the weight of sodium silicate.  A binder such as gelatin with ammonium hydroxide may be added.  Potassium silicate may be used instead of sodium silicate.
Patent GB-940993-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to plant pots and boxes
IPC: A01G27/00
Filed: 1962-01-25
Abstract: 940,993. Flower pots. R. SIBBRING. Aug. 27, 1962 [Jan. 25, 1962], No. 2944/62. Heading A1E. A plant pot or box comprises a plant container 1 of impermeable material and an internal fitment consisting of a perforated portion 5 which forms a false bottom for the container, and a passage 8 extending upwardly from the edge of the fitment parallel to the side of the container, the passage providing a communication between the space 7 below the portion 5 and the atmosphere. The fitment may rest on a ledge 3 or projections formed on the container or be provided with a surrounding flange or spaced feet whereby it is supported above the base of the container proper. The fitment may also have the form of a container adapted to fit inside the container 1 and having a rim or projections which overhang the rim of the container 1 to support the fitment above the base thereof, the passageway being formed by a groove in the side of the fitment. The container 1 may be rectangular in which case the fitment is provided with two tubular passage-ways one at each end.
Patent GB-1376821-A (GB)
Title: Advertising devices
IPC: G09F19/12
Filed: 1973-01-19
Abstract: 1376821 Illuminated signs OUT-OF-SPACE Ltd 19 Jan 1973 [21 Jan 1972] 2969/72 Heading G5C An advertising device in the form of a rocket has a stationary base 1 containing a motor which rotates a centre section 3 and possibly a nose section 7, the section 3 containing lamps 10 to illumine advertising matter placed in longitudinal rows of windows 9. Slip ring 12 provides electrical contacts for the lamps.
Patent GB-427666-A (GB)
Title: Apparatus for playing a table game simulating tennis
IPC: A63F7/06
Filed: 1934-01-29
Abstract: 427,666. Table games. INSALL, A. T. C., and ANDREWS, F. E., 193, Richmond Road, Twickenham, Middlesex. Jan. 29, 1934, No. 3021. [Class 132 (ii)] Apparatus for playing a table game simulating tennis comprises an inclined playing surface 5, a ball-supporting ledge 6 and a central obstacle 14 from one side of which to the other a ball 3 is propelled by strikers 10 slidably mounted to move along the ledge on opposite sides of the obstacle. The strikers are slidable in the space between the ledge 6 and the playing surface, and are operable by knobs 9 projecting through a slot 7 in the ledge. Each striker has a curved striking-face 12 and is rockable to vary the angle of this face to the ledge. The game is started by placing the ball on one of two uprights 12<*> from which it is displaced by the rearward sliding and rocking of a striker.
Patent GB-228897-A (GB)
Title: Means for regulating the draught in a smoke flue common to a plurality of boilers
IPC: F23N3/08
Filed: 1925-02-03
Abstract: 228,897. Roucka, E. Feb. 6, 1924, [Convention date]. Draught, regulating.-An outlet flue common to a number of boiler furnaces is provided with means for maintaining a constant draught in the flue despite any variation in the flow of gases from one or more of the individual furnaces, and means are also described for regulating the draught in accordance with the steam pressure. As shown, a range of boiler furnaces deliver, through outlets controlled by dampers 4, into a common flue 6, 8 provided with a damper 12 coupled by a chain 16 to an air admission valve 14 and by rods 18 to a servo-motor 20, the valve gear 22 of which is operated, through a pivoted lever 30 and rod 34, by a bell 26 in communication with the flue 8 through a pipe 28. A spring 36 attached at one end to the lever 30 is connected to a rope 38 passing round a pulley and joined to a rope 40 which has weights 42, 44 at each end, and is connected to a control lever 46 within reach of the stoker. A draught gauge 54 is provided for ohecldng purposes. In operation, any variation in the flow of gases from one or more of the boilers 2 affects the draught in the flue 8, which, however, is returned to normal by the opening or closing, through the bell 26 and motor 20, of the dampers 12, 14. The arrangement for regulating the draught in accordance with the steam pressure is shown in the top right-hand part of the Figure, and comprises a casing 66 which communicates with a steam pipe 62 and is provided with a membrane which acts on a pivoted lever 68 operating the valve gear 72 of a servo-motor 56. The piston 76 of the motor has secured to it a rod 58 which carries a rope 78 attached to the free end of an anchored spring 84 and is provided at its end with a clip 60 for attachment to the rope 40. Any variation in the steam pressure affects the membrane in the casing 66, and this movement is transmitted to the rope 40, thus altering the tension of the spring 36 and consequently causing movement of the dampers 12, 14.
Patent GB-860751-A (GB)
Title: Jaw centering device for chucks
IPC: B23B31/36
Filed: 1959-01-29
Abstract: 860,751. Chucks. SKINNER CHUCK CO. Jan. 29, 1959 [Feb. 3, 1958], No. 3168/59. Class 83 (3). A chuck comprises a body 10 having radiallyslidable jaws 12 which are operated by a scroll 15 rotated by a bevel-wheel 20 journalled at 21 and fixed radially by a key 26. A member 18 is secured to the body 10 by screws, and a backplate 32, secured to the machine-spindle by a screwed-bore 36, is adjusted radially of the body 10 by wedges 40 which abut the flat faces 38 on the plate 32, each wedge being moved by a differential screw 42 to centre the chuck-jaws on the machine-spindle. The wedges force the member 18 and back-plate 32 into contact at 35 to drive the chuck.
Patent GB-593130-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to indicator boards for indicating progress and other particulars in sub-divided production work
IPC: G07C3/12
Filed: 1944-02-21
Abstract: 593,130. Indicator boards. BULLEN, J. A. Feb. 21, 1944, No. 3181. [Class 118 (i)] Apparatus for use for indicating progress and other particulars in sub-divided production work comprises units capable of being assembled in groups and provided with means to present a visible indication of the initiation and progress of a sub-operation of the work. As shown in Figs. 2 and 3, the unit comprises a metal body a forming a receptacle to receive the operatives' time cards or other identification means and on the front are display indicators such as slides, clock faces with pointers, or numeral bearing drums c for showing the time of working or other detail of a sub-'operation.. For temporary attachment to form an assembly of units, the metal body is formed with slots and tongues constituting the interengaging means. Instead of employing independent separate units, a unit may be formed as a number of sub-units. These multiple units as shown in Figs. 4 and 5, are composed of sheet metal standards g connected by an intermediate strip k or joined together by rivets i, j. The standards are punched with a series of holes h for the reception of wires in the bent-over ends of adjustable platforms arranged horizontally or in an inclined manner to form separate compartments. Each compartment has a boxlike structure o for the reception of the display indicators.
Patent GB-430588-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to gas-operated machine guns
IPC: F41A19/18
Filed: 1934-01-31
Abstract: 430,588. Automatic guns. BIRMING- HAM SMALL ARMS CO., Ltd., NORMAN, G., and WYKES, C. C., Armoury Road, Small Heath, Birmingham. Jan. 31, 1934, No. 3188. [Class 92 (ii)] Relates to doublebarrelled gas-operated guns having separate trigger-sear mechanisms for each barrel, each trigger 11 pivoting, as shown in plan, in parallel relation with its sear 1. According to the invention, each trigger - sear combination is mounted in a casing 13 detachably secured to the breechbody and provided with a depending grip 15, the trigger, mounted in a forward extension of the casing, being connected to its sear by arms 14, 6 on a transverse rocking shaft 7.