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Patent GB-299524-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to electric welding apparatus
IPC: B23K9/20
Filed: 1927-07-29
Abstract: 299,524. Handstock, Ltd., and Avery, F. July 29, 1927. Welding.-In welding studs f to metal plates by striking an electric arc and moving the stud in the path of the arc to the plate by a solenoid such as is described in Specification 156,836, the solenoid a is adjustable for height by securing it by set screws in a tripod k having adjustable legs k<3>. Attached to the solenoid core c is a plate q carrying a chuck e in which the stud f to be welded is held. An adjusting screw b also varies the height of the solenoid core. A handle l is secured by a bayonet joint to the solenoid but it may be detached and secured to one of the tripod legs passing through its socket l<5>. A switch m is also encased in the handle. The handle when fixed to a tripod leg, Fig. 8, may be fixed to an electromagnet as its base so that when switched on by switch n it may cling to the plate. The chuck comprises an internal and external threaded sleeve e passing through non-conducting washers q<3> above and below the plate q. Specification 134,393 also is referred to.
Patent GB-294381-A (GB)
Title: Improvements on motor coach construction
IPC: B62D29/02
Filed: 1927-07-30
Abstract: 294,381. Shire, L. G. W. July 30, 1927. Bodies. - To obtain lightness and relative strength the pillars a of a motor coach are formed of sheet metal and are bent into T cross section. The pillars are provided with feet b to secure them to the floor boards c and cross member h the latter being provided with flanged flitch plates j. The cross section of the pillar varies and the pillar is provided with lugs f, d, p for securing it to the longitudinal rails g, e, q of the body. Battens l may be secured to the pillars in order to secure thereto the outer panels m and inner linings n.
Patent GB-720515-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to electrically operated devices for indicating and measuring the level of liquids
Inventor: BOONDY JAMES REILLY
IPC: G01F23/00
Filed: 1952-08-13
Abstract: 720,515. Liquid-level indicators. EVERSHED & VIGNOLES, Ltd. Aug. 13, 1953, [Aug. 13, 1952], No. 20385/52. Addition to 639,339. Class 40 (1) Apparatus of the type described and claimed in the parent Specification wherein the level of the liquid in a container is communicated to an indicator 42 by a displacer 1 operating in conjunction with a spring-loaded followup switch 9, 10, 11, whereby a 2-phase induction motor 30 rotates the switch contact support member 16 to restore the switch contacts 10, 11 to their datum position relative to contact 9 when the liquid level is altered, is used to determine the lower as well as the upper level of oil 50 in a tank 51 containing water 52 at the bottom. As shown, the displacer 1 is now attached to the switch contact 9 via an insulated electric cable 2. To lower the displacer through the oil 50, a switch 70 is closed, whereby a relay 64 is energized to disconnect switch contact 10 at contacts 63, and to energize that field winding of motor 30 via contacts 65, 75 to rotate the member 16, reducing the tension in spring 17 and cable 2 to allow the displacer to drop until it reaches the water 52, when a circuit is completed through the cable and water to energize a relay 76 to break the motor-energizing circuit at contacts 75. The final position of the displacer 1 is determined by adding a predetermined resistor 86 into the motor-energizing circuit to act as an additional brake, Reopening switch 70 brings the apparatus back to its normal condition for determining the upper level of the oil 50 in the container 51.
Patent GB-656621-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to tape or film recorders and/or reproducers
Inventor: STONEHAM HERBERT GEORGE
IPC: G11B15/70
Filed: 1948-07-30
Abstract: 656,621. Sound-on-film recording and reproducing apparatus. NATIONAL RESEARCH DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION. July 30, 1948, No. 20392. Drawings to Specification. [Class 40 (ii)] A sound record or blank comprises a multiturn unmounted hank of tape or film (Fig. 1, not shown) with its inner and outer relatively twisted through 180 degrees and then joined so that both sides of the coil may be used for sound recording and/or reproduction. The coil may be untreated acetate film mounted over a concentric series of rollers with additional rollers including a drive sprocket and vibrating styli for embossed recording and reproducing in the centre, one or other stylus being traversed over the width of the film for every two passes of the length of the coil by a lead-screw. Handoperated cams on a common shaft simultaneously lower or raise the stylus carriage to or from the film and engage or disconnect the drive to the particular lead-screw being used. A microswitch may automatically connect up a second recorder shortly before the extreme limit of the recording carriage.
Patent GB-458574-A (GB)
Title: Apparatus for wrapping cords and like cores with tissue, skin, leather, artificial leather and like flexible material
IPC: D07B7/14
Filed: 1936-07-23
Abstract: 458,574. Covering cords and other cores by wrapping. NIEDER, R. G., 35, La Croisette, Cannes, France. July 23, 1936, No. 20413. Convention date, Aug. 26, 1935. [Class 109] A core comprising one or more cords or like is covered with a flexible sheath of tissue, skin, artificial leather or oilcloth in a machine provided with guiding means 7, 9 for the cords and the sheath, a wrapping device 16 for the sheath, and means 17, 18 for feeding adhesive to the edges of the sheath before the edges are brought together by the device 16. Tubes 10 .. 13 complete the folding operation.
Patent GB-204766-A (GB)
Abstract: 204,766. Odhner, V. J. July 3, 1922. Multiplying and dividing apparatus; transfer mechanism.-In machines of the cam-disc and pin-wheel type the transfer in the revolutions counter is initiated by a transfer finger on a numeral wheel or on a wheel gearing therewith and is taken up and completed by projections or discs on a shaft carrying also rigid with it the actuating member for this counter, the projections being helically mounted on the shaft and being duplicated for both directions of rotation. Each numeral wheel 2 has fast with it on one side a finger 4 and on the other side a wheel 3 gearing with a wheel 6 rigid with another wheel 5 cooperating with the finger 4 of the adjacent numeral wheel when this numeral wheel passes from 0 to 9 or from 9 to 0. The first wheel 6 is operated by the actuating finger 8 on the shaft 9 which transmits the rotations from the pinwheels to the revolutions counter, this shaft 9 also carrying a duplicate set of helically mounted projections 10, 11, 12 which co-operate with the wheels 5. According to Figs. 1 and 2 the actuating finger 8 has rotated the units numeral wheel 9 steps and upon the next rotation the finger 4 of the units wheel engages its respective wheel 5 and turns it and therefore the tens wheel slightly so that this wheel 5 can now be engaged and actuated by the projection 10 to complete transfer. In the opposite direction the other projection 10 would be utilised. During ordinary rotations when the numeral wheel is not passing from 9 to 0 and therefore, the finger 4 does not. slightly rotate the wheel 5, the finger 10 would rotate with the shaft 9 without touching the teeth of the wheel 5. In a modification shown in Fig. 4, the numeral wheels 2 with their gear wheels 3 and with the wheels 5 are mounted on the lower shaft nearer the shaft 9 and the fingers 4 are rigid with the wheels 6 on the upper shaft, the action being the same as in the first construction. The projections 10, 11, 12, in a further modification shown in Figs. 6 and 7, are replaced by discs 13<a>, 13<b> and 13<c>. The disc 13<a> extends from the edge 15<a> to the edge 16<a>, the disc 13b from the edges 15<b> to 16<b> and the disc 13<c> from 15<c> to 16<c>, the two edges of each disc thereby forming shoulders which co-operate with a wheel 5 in place of the two projections 10 or 11 or 12. Each disc has also a recess 17, these recesses coinciding in Fig. 7, so that the numeral wheels can be zeroized without the wheels 5 being hindered by these discs. The device is applied to a cam-disc and pin-wheel machine in such manner that the counter may be moved axially relatively to the shaft 9 in order that the actuating member 8 may be brought into position to actuate the tens or hundreds wheel instead of the units wheel.
Patent GB-277162-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to electric accumulators
IPC: H01M50/414
Filed: 1926-08-19
Abstract: 277,162. Heap, B., and Chloride Electrical Storage Co., Ltd. Aug. 19, 1926. Electrocles.-Cylindrical electrodes of storage batteries are provided on their outer surface with perforated covers which are vulcanized while in position to cause them to shrink on to the electrodes. The cover may be of perforated rubber and after being folded round the electrode it may be held in position before vulcanization by having its overlapping ends solutioned together. Fig. 2 shows an electrode b having a perforated rubber covering a which is held in position before vulcanization by means of its ends c which are held in a groove d in the electrode. The Provisional Specification states that the cover may be applied to the interior of the electrode.
Patent GB-385892-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to garments
IPC: A41F9/02
Filed: 1932-07-23
Abstract: 385,892. Wearing-apparel. FAULTLESS MANUFACTURING CO., Curtain Avenue, Baltimore, U.S.A. July 23, 1932, No. 20799. Convention date, Aug. 29, 1931. [Class 141.] A supporting band for a garment comprises a strip 2 of elastic sheet rubber enclosed in a sheath 1 of fabric material, which is preferably stretchable, the strip and sheath being anchored at their lower edges to the upper edge 6 of the garment 5 by a row of stretchable stitches 8, so that the upper part of the strip 2 and sheath 1 may move relatively to one another.
Patent GB-202647-A (GB)
Title: Improved method of and apparatus for producing mist or fog for irrigating or treating crops
IPC: B05B7/12
Filed: 1923-08-17
Abstract: 202,647. Balinsky, P. de, (Assignee of Djavakhow, A., and Hlasko, V.). Aug. 18, 1922, [Convention date]. Air and gas pressure sprayers; rotary apparatus.-Artificial mist or fog for irrigating a large area of land or similar treatment of crops is formed by pulverizing water or other liquid and submitting the pulverized liquid to the action of a current of air under pressure sufficient to produce an intimate mixture between the liquid particles and air. Such apparatus may be mounted upon a lower. Fig. 3. The atomizer may comprise a conical body 3, Fig. 1, against which liquid is pulverized and acted upon by compressed air issuing from a circular slot 4. As shown in Fig. 2, liquid fed from the chamber 18 is pulverized in the slot 14 and acted on by air from the cylindrical casing 11, the air being given a whirling motion by means of a tangential inlet 12. The mist may be acted upon by an adjustably-mounted aerial screw propeller or other pneumatic arrangements. The Specification as open to inspection under Sect. @91 (3) (a) comprises also means for atomizing water in which a rotating circular disc is supplied with water at its centre, a form, Fig. 3 (Cancelled), in which liquid is distributed over a cone 3 on to a rotating body 4, and a form in which a rotating fan skims the surface of liquid in a tank. It also describes a form shown in Fig. 6 (Cancelled) in which the liquid is atomized by explosion apparatus. A tube 1 of the form shown is mounted to pivot upon the bearing 3. Concentric with the tube 1 is a similar tube 5 provided with a water inlet tube 6 communicating therewith through an annular slot 7. Axially mounted is a tube 8 communicating with a combust on chamber 9, in which an explosive mixture fed by the tubes 12. 13 is exploded by means of a sparking plug 11. On explosion the gases escape through the pipe 8, atomizing liquid delivered through the tube 6 and at the same time inducing air between the tubes 8 and 5. The ejector action causes a fresh introduction of explosive mixture into the chamber 11 and the operation is repeated. This subject-matter does not appear in the Specification as accepted.
Patent GB-429340-A (GB)
Title: Optical device suitable for selectively transmitting non-parallel light rays
IPC: G02C7/10
Filed: 1933-08-25
Abstract: 429,340. Vehicle anti-dazzle screens. CILLIERS, A. C., University of Stellenbosch, Stellenbosch, Cape Province, South Africa. Aug. 25, 1933, No. 20946. [Class 103 (ii)] [See also Groups XX, X, XI, and XVIII] An optical device for modifying a beam of light consists of a transparent plate comprising a series of similar prisms having their light-entrance and light-exit faces respectively parallel with one another, transparent means spaced from the exit faces to recompose the rays leaving the said faces, a rarer transparent medium between the exit faces and the recomposing means, and means at the third faces of the prisms to intercept light rays reaching the said faces. In the form shown the plate 5 consists of a number of prisms 7 having a common light-entrance face 9 and parallel light-exit faces 10, and the recomposing means consists of a plate 6 having a series of prisms 8 inverted relatively to, and interdigitated with, the prisms 7. Air spaces 14 are left between the exit faces 10 of the prisms 7 and the entrance faces 12 of the prisms 8. Light-intercepting means are provided at the base faces 20, 21 of the prisms to prevent the passage of light across the faces, for example the faces 21 may be silvered or the faces 20 coated, or a strip of material 22 may be inserted between the faces, the coating or strip being continued around the angles 23 and being either opaque or translucent and coloured. A ray such as 19 incident on the face 9 in such a direction that it becomes incident on the face 10 at an angle greater than the critical angle is totally reflected at the face 10, and a ray such as 15 incident on the face 10 at an angle less than the critical angle is refracted at the said face and emerges from the plate 6 as a ray 15<a> parallel to the ray 15. If the refracting angle a of the prisms is equal to the critical angle and the face 9 is vertical, then all upwardly-inclined rays incident on the face 9 will undergo total reflection at the faces 10. The device may be used as a visor through which the driver of a vehicle looks to prevent glare from the lights of oncoming vehicles, the visor being mounted so as to be rotatable about an axis parallel to the refracting edges of the prisms so that the limiting inclination of transmitted rays can be varied.
Patent GB-877803-A (GB)
Title: Method for logging wells
IPC: G01V3/20
Filed: 1959-06-18
Abstract: 877,803. Determining characteristics of earth strata. JERSEY PRODUCTION RESEARCH CO. June 18, 1959 [July 17, 1958], No. 21022/59. Class 37. A permanent record of the presence of hydrocarbons in sub-surface earth formations is prepared by drilling a well, injecting into the drilling fluid at selected intervals, a solution of a water-soluble salt having a surface-active cation which causes wetting of the pierced earth by hydrocarbons rather than by the aqueous drilling fluid, then plotting the resistivity or selfpotential against depth. As shown, drilling fluid is circulated via a hollow drill 20 up the sides of the borehole 22 into a pit 25 and via a valve 27 to a pump. At selected intervals, a quantity of the required wetting agent is injected into the fluid by opening valve 31. After the drill string is removed, the resistivity or self-potentials are plotted by a known method (Fig. 2, not shown) the preferential wetting of the earth by hydrocarbons in the presence of the selective wetting agent causes these regions to have a pronounced high resistivity as indicated in Fig. 3. A large number of suitable organic salts are specified.
Patent GB-238899-A (GB)
Title: A method of and apparatus for the distillation of carbonaceous material
IPC: C10J3/00
Filed: 1925-08-24
Abstract: 238,899. Frõnkl, M. Aug. 23, 1924, [Convention date]. Charging and discharging.-Fuel is fed to a carbonizing apparatus from a reciprocating hopper 12 and the residue is removed by a belt conveyer 6 to a slidable ash receptacle.
Patent GB-697645-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in television devices
IPC: H04N11/12
Filed: 1949-08-15
Abstract: 697,645. Kinematograph films; colour kinematography. FRANCE, H. G. M. DE. Aug. 15, 1949 [Sept. 14, 1948], No. 21191/49. Classes 97 (i) and 98 (ii). [Also in Group XL (b)] The Specification as open to inspection under Sect. 91 describes kinematograph arrangements wherein certain frames or portions of frames are recorded or projected with less definition than the remaining frames or portions of frames. In an arrangement for producing, from a film recorded at 16 frames per second, a film for projection at 24 frames per second, alternate frames are repeated, being blurred when repeated. This is stated to improve the appearance of continuity. Fig. 16 (Cancelled) illustrates a four-colour additive kinematograph system wherein one component image 17 is larger, and consequently sharper, than the other three. A four-colour disc 16 rotates once in every four frames, so that the large image is recorded or reproduced successively in the four component colours. A similar three-colour system is also described wherein the smaller colour record images are also, apparently, distorted. This subject - matter does not appear in the Specification as accepted.
Patent GB-696729-A (GB)
Title: Improved arrangements of scavenging air blower driver in two-stroke internal combustion engines
IPC: F02B33/00
Filed: 1951-09-07
Abstract: 696,729. Centrifugal blowers. LIST, H. Sept. 7, 1951 [Sept. 13, 1950; Sept. 13, 1950], No. 21208/51. Class 110(i) [Also in Group XXVII] A blower 1 delivering scavenging air to a twostroke diesel or other engine, and driven from the engine crankshaft by a gear train including gear pairs 2, 3 and 4, 6, is constructed together with the gear pair 4, 6 and the bearings thereof as a self-contained unit 7, 8 which is mounted on the main gear casing 34 as by bolts 14. The unit 7, 8 comprises a blower casing 7 and a cover plate 8 attached thereto by screws and cotters. To ensure accurate location of the unit 7, 8 on the casing 34, a bush 15 on the cover plate 8 enters a recess 17. The gear 2 meshes a crankshaft gear (not shown). The gear 3 drives the gear 4 resiliently through an elastic coupling 27 consisting of segmental rubber blocks located between vanes 30 alternately connected to the shaft 24 of the gear 3 and a shaft 20<SP>1</SP> splined to the gear 4. A seal 33 prevents leakage of lubricant into the coupling. A gear 23 meshing the gear 3 powers a fuel injection pump drive shaft 35. The space 36 acts as a scavenging air receiver for the blower 1, a fluid-tight packing tube 37 being provided. In Fig. 1 (not shown) the coupling 27 is dispensed with, the shafts 20<SP>1</SP>, 24 being wholly contained within the casing 34 and being splined together at their left-hand ends so that torsional flexibility of the shaft 20<SP>1</SP> alone provides drive resiliency.
Patent GB-272361-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to holders or sockets for thermionic valves or electron discharge tubes
IPC: H01R33/76
Filed: 1926-08-28
Abstract: 272,361. Stevens & Co. (1914), Ltd., A. J., and Willson, H. C. Aug. 28, 1926. Vacuum tubes.- Thermionic valve-holders comprise an insulating panel 6 drilled with holes 7 to receive the parallel pins 4 of the valve 1 and plain resilient metal contact strips 8 each secured at one end to the underside of the panel 6 and first turned awav from the panel and then upon itself to form a free end directed towards the rear of the panel and contacting resiliently with a pin 4, the strips 8 having no conductive connection with any metal part extending through the holes 7 to the upper side of the panel to prevent contact of the strips 8 and pins 4 unless the valve is correctly inserted. The holes 7 are slightly larger at their lower parts than the pins 4 and are enlarged as shown at their upper parts. The strips 8 may be of hard drawn copper and may be secured by rivets 9 or screws to the panel 6.
Patent GB-441551-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to indicating mechanism for use with liquid measuring and dispensing apparatus
IPC: B67D7/08
Filed: 1934-07-20
Abstract: 441,551. Dispensing liquids. AVERY - HARDOLL, Ltd., and FRASER, J., Avery House, Clerkenwell Green, London. July 20, 1934, Nos. 21238/34 and 3914/35. [Class 116] Liquid measuring and dispensing apparatus of flow-meter type, having an indicating mechanism which is zeroized prior to each delivery operation, has the indicating mechanism driven from the flow meter through a coupling which is normally maintained in driving relationship, the zeroizing effort being generated during indicating and applied when the drive between the meter and the indicating mechanism is disengaged consequent upon the actuation of a control governing the supply of liquid to the flow meter. The indicating mechanism comprises a quick-motion shaft 15 and a slow-motion shaft 27 driving the fractions and units pointers (not shoun), these shafts being frictionally driven by wheels 14, 26 which are positively driven at the required relative speeds by gears on a shaft 7, Fig. 2, coupled to the flow meter (not shown), and are adapted to be thrust into driving contact with collars 16, 28 on the shafts by a member 43 pivoted on one arm of a bell-crank 45, which is under the constant influence of a spring 52. At the commencement of rotation of the indicators, clock springs 23, 37 are tensioned to a predetermined amount, but on movement of the handle 51 to initiate a fresh delivery operation, a plunger 46 coupled to the bell-crank 45 is actuated by a catch 50 on the handle, to disengage the indicating shafts from the meter drive, whereupon these shafts are rotated by the tensioned clock springs to zeroize the pointers. Fly-wheels 24, 29, loose on the shafts 15, 30, apply a frictional inertia torque to retain the pointers at the zero position. After release of the plunger 46, by the tripping of the catch 50, return of the bell-crank 45 to re-establish the drive of the indicating mechanism is delayed by a dashpot 47, 48. The mechanism for setting the apparatus to deliver a predetermined quantity of liquid, and the operation of the valve 73 to cut off the delivery of liquid in two stages, are described in Specification 426,267.
Patent GB-1068315-A (GB)
Title: Improved tool for applying mastic
Inventor: KNOPS MICHAEL OLIVER
IPC: E04F21/12
Filed: 1964-05-22
Abstract: 1,068,315. Tools for applying mastic. NEECO TOOLS Inc. May 22, 1964, No. 21252/ 64. Heading E1S. In a tool for applying mastic &c. the mastic is supplied by means of a tube and ball joint 38 to a recess 53 in the tool above a baffle 54 from which it passes between the baffle and a base plate 70 to an outlet adjacent a smoothing blade 59, a short connecting pipe mounted on the ball joint and connected to the mastic supplying tube being connected to the tool body by a linkage to control its movement. The linkage comprises two links pivoted together one end of each link being connected to the short pipe and a clevis 46 on the tool body respectively. The tool has plates 27 one on each side adapted to engage the edges of a long narrow surface as guides. The blades may be held retracted against springs by means of right angle slots engaging studs. The blade 59 engages an inclined part of the baffle 54 and is held against inclined surfaces on the tool by means of inclined surfaces on the ends of members 63 screwed to the tool.