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Patent GB-513756-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in injection molding machines
IPC: B29C45/66
Filed: 1938-05-25
Abstract: 513,756. Injection-moulding machines. WATSON-STILLMAN CO. May 25, 1938, No. 15602. Convention date, April 20. [Class 87 (ii)] An injection-moulding machine for thermoplastic material, having the mould-halves D, D<1> carried by plates 1, 2 has means for locking the plate 1, when the mould has been closed, to rods 15 adjustably carried by the plate 2. A piston 8 of a fluid pressure cylinder 7, carried by the base 3, is connected-by a rod 9 to a head 11 and plate 10 having holes 13, Fig. 2, engaged by rods 12 mounted on the plate 1 and carrying springs 14. When the piston 8 is moved to the right the springs 14 move the plate 1 on guide rods 37, Fig. 1, to close the mould and force it into contact with the nozzle 6, Fig. 2, and then the plate 10 moves over the rods 12, the springs being compressed, and, acting through the head 11 and toggle levers 32, forces sliding wedges 25 to engage under inclined heads 21 of the rods 15. The head 11 is supported by slides 35 mounted on the plate 1.In a modification short toggle levers 32a, Fig. 7, are pivoted to the inner ends of the sliding wedges. 25 while the heads 21 of the rods 15 are extended so as to engage the; ends of the wedges and prevent the action of the toggle until the mould is closed. In this ease the springs are reduced or omitted. :Thermo-plastic phenolic material, in the solid state may be liquefied and forced into a heated mould by a heated plunger or liquid material in a heated cylinder 4, Fig. 2, may be injected by a plunger.
Patent GB-272047-A (GB)
Title: Improvement in centrifugal machine
IPC: B04B5/02
Filed: 1926-06-21
Abstract: 272,047. Sansaricq, M. L. June 21, 1926. Strainer separators; driving. - A number of strainer separators are arranged about the axis of a centrifugal machine and each is rotated about its own axis as well as the machine axis. The apparatus can be used for the separation of sugar from molasses or any other similar purpose. The strainer drums are supported by arms 33<1> on a sleeve 33 at the bottom end of the hollow shaft 1; the upper end of the shaft is supported on ball bearings carried on the beam 9. A spindle 16 passes through the hollow shaft 1 and carries a bevel wheel 38 which engages toothed wheels on the strainer drums. The spindle 16 is operated from a disc 14 rotating with the shaft 1 by means of a friction wheel 23 and bevel gearing 19, 18. The rate of rotation relatively to that of the of the shaft 1 can be varied by moving the wheel 23 radially inwards or outwards over the disc 14 bv means of the guide 24 operated by the handle 32. The shaft 1 is driven by the belt 11. The external wall of each strainer drum consists of a perforated metal plate 46; inside this is a body 47 of wide wire netting, a body 48 of fine wire gauze or filter cloth, and then a cage consisting of bars 49 and rings 50. Each strainer contains a drum 51 partcylindrical in form with closed ends; it conforms closely to the cage 49, 50 and is supported by a radial arm from the central standard of the machine. An annular trough 53 is secured to the sleeve 33 and receives the material from the supply pipe 56. This material passes into the strainers through pipes 54 and the solid material remains encrusted in the grating 49, 50 at the same time travelling behind the drum 51 during part of each revolution and travelling down the drum during its treatment until it is discharged at the lower end. In a modification the retention drum 51 is replaced by a semi-cylinder 57, Fig. 13. Loose pinions 59 supported in brackets at each end of the cylinder 57 support chains 60 carrying an endless belt with slots 61. The chains are geared with crowns on the strainers to keep the belt moving.
Patent GB-496670-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and connected with containers and distributors for fluid substances
IPC: A45D34/04
Filed: 1937-06-05
Abstract: <PICT:0496670/III/1> A device for applying liquid or semi-liquid substance to a surface, for instance dressing to machinery belts, comprises a container provided with a delivery aperture normally closed by a distributing roller which is adapted to be forced back to open the aperture upon the device being applied to the surface.  The roller 9 may, as shown, be mounted in an aperture 3 formed in a depression in the cover 2 of a container, which cover is preferably of domed formation to assist in the distribution of the substance. The roller, the ends of which are preferably of bevelled form so as normally to seal the opening effectively, is mounted by means of trunnions 8 in bearings in a carriage 6 guided to slide within a casing 5 and maintained pressed outwardly by a spring 12.  The trunnions project through guide slots 15 in the casing, the effective length of which slots may be adjustable, e.g. by screw stops, to vary the maximum amount the roller can be pressed back.  Instead of being arranged in the cover, the roller may be disposed in a delivery aperture provided in the base of a container.
Patent GB-291957-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in, or relating to centrifugal mills for the grinding, mixing, emulsification and incorporation of solids and liquids or, liquids
IPC: B02C13/22
Filed: 1927-06-13
Abstract: 291,957. Walker, C. P. June 13, 1927. Continuous-discharge apparatus with stationary containers.-Two parallel discs A<1>, A<2> are provided with intercalated pins or blades; materials for mixing or emulsifying are supplied at the periphery under pressure and discharged near the centre through the pipe G. Both discs may be rotated, or one may be rotated while the other is stationary. The three rows J, K, L of blades, Fig. 2, are carried by the disc A<2>; the blades .T impart an inward radial movement to the material and the blades L retard it. A chamber B surrounds the discs and communicates with the chamber D by a narrow annular passage. The outlet E from the chamber D enables any excess material to be led back to the supply: a relief valve H opens from the chamber B. The apparatus may be used for grinding or the like in the preparation of inks, paints, dyes, or pharmaceutical materials.
Patent GB-164238-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to toy boats
IPC: A63H23/02
Filed: 1920-06-10
Abstract: 164,238. Hobran Engineering Co., Ltd., and Morgan, A. F. June 10, 1920. Boats.-Toy boats are made of thin sheet metal in separate sections a, d, fixed together rigidly by pin joints e. A bow section and a stern section, fitted with a rudder c and propelling apparatus, are provided and the length of the hull may be increased by including one or more middle sections d.
Patent GB-1516902-A (GB)
Title: Regulator valve
IPC: F16H61/02
Filed: 1976-04-15
Abstract: 1516902 Change-speed control BORG-WARNER CORP 15 April 1976 [5 May 1975] 15743/76 Heading F2D [Also in Division G3] To reduce the load on an engine throttle pedal 44 due to operation of a throttle regulator valve 10, providing throttle pressure 22 for shift control of an automatic transmission on a motor vehicle, and for loading a main regulator valve 14, or for controlling an engine fuel injection system, the throttle valve 10 comprises a slidable outer spool 30 having differential lands 68, 66 to which regulated throttle pressure 22 is applied through a groove 56 in an inner slidable pilot spool 34, moved rightwards against a weak spring 35 by linkage, such as a cam 40, linked to the throttle pedal 44, such movement, through throttle pressure 22, opposed by a spring 36, causing a follow-up movement of the outer spool 30, which thereby regulates line pressure 20, by pots 50, 52, 54 to the throttle pressure line 22, or to exhaust 72, in accordance with the extent of pedal depression.
Patent GB-913292-A (GB)
Title: An improved method of producing sheets of glass from a continuous ribbon of glass
IPC: C03B33/037
Filed: 1959-05-07
Abstract: 913,292. Detecting flaws. COMPAGNIE DE SAINT-GOBAIN. May 7, 1959 [May 7, 1958], No. 15752/59. Drawings to Specification. Class 106 (2). [Also in Group XXIII] Flaws are detected in a continuous ribbon of glass in order to supply a programme to automatic sheet cutting means. The flaws are detected as follows: on leaving the lehr, visually over a trough of wetting liquid with a light source below; after grinding, by a scanning device utilizing electromagnetic waves as in Specification 888,331; after washing, by a large field interferometer and a further visual inspection. After polishing, washing and drying, a chemical solution is applied and evaporated and irradiated with ultra-violet rays to show final defects, internally or externally of the ribbon.
Patent GB-923611-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to silencers for exhaust gases
IPC: F01N1/24
Filed: 1959-05-09
Abstract: 923,611. Exhaust silencers. F. H. KYFFIN. Aug. 5, 1960 [May 9, 1959; Oct. 20, 1959], Nos. 15995/59 and 35416/59. Class 7(2) An exhaust silencer comprises an outer casing 10 and an inner unit 20 comprising inlet and outlet pipes 22, 23, connected together by a perforated web 24. Plates 25, 26, connected to the tubes 22, 23, form chambers 27, 28, on opposite sides of the web 24. The gases; entering at 17, flow through tube 22 and apertures 29 therein into chamber 27, through apertures 31 into chamber 28, and through aperture 30 into tube 23. The tubes 22, 23, and plates 25, 26, may be provided with small perforations and the space around the unit 20 may be filled with a round absorbent. The tube 23 may pass through a round absorbent chamber 33 to the outlet 18.
Patent GB-1136805-A (GB)
Title: Wire rope and method of making the same
IPC: D07B1/06
Filed: 1966-04-12
Abstract: 1,136,805. Wire ropes. UNITED STATES STEEL CORP. 12 April, 1966 [30 April, 1965], No. 16017/66. Heading D1T. The wire rope has an independent wire rope core (2), Fig. 2 (not shown) and a plurality of strands (6) surrounding the core, one strand (6) being received in each of the valleys (4) of the core (2), the lay of the outer wires in each strand (6) being a maximum of six times the diameter of the strand (6). The lay is preferably between four and six times the diameter of the strand (6). The lay of the strands (6) is preferably between six and eight times the diameter of the rope, and the wires of the strands (6) are preferably laid in the same direction as the strands of the rope.
Patent GB-206110-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in oil burners for furnaces and the like
IPC: F23D11/00
Filed: 1923-06-21
Abstract: 206,110. Yggeseth, M. Oct. 25, 1922, [Convention date]. Spray burners.-A spray burner comprises a deflector 10 in the form of a spherical segment and axially adjustable, by means of rods 11 passing through a plate 5, along an oil nozzle 1 secured in a stuffing-box 4 attached to the plate 5. Air is admitted through inlets 6 in the plate 5 to a flue 3 surrounding the nozzle 1 and is given a whirling motion by vanes 9 arranged in an opening 8 in a screen 7. The outer diameter of the deflector 10 is preferably substantially equal to that of the opening 8. The Specification as open to inspection under Sect. 91 (3) (a) states also that the deflector may be partly in the form of a spherical segment or may be flat. This subject-matter does not appear in the Specification as accepted.
Patent GB-520622-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to superheterodyne radio receivers supplied by alternating current
IPC: H04B1/10
Filed: 1939-05-31
Abstract: 520,622. Transformers. PHILIPS LAMPS, Ltd. May 31, 1939, No. 16078. Convention date, June 3, 1938. [Class 38 (ii)] In order to reduce interference noises in a superheterodyne radio receiver due to capacity coupling between the windings of the mains supply transformer, the secondary winding 10 supplying anode voltage to the valves of the receiver is screened from the primary 9 by arranging therebetween the winding 11 supplying cathode-heating current to the receiver valves, and in addition the winding 11 is screened from the primary by interposing a winding 13 supplying cathode-heating current to the rectifier valve associated with the anodevoltage winding 10. The screening effect of the winding 13 is extended over the required length by adding dead turns 13<SP>1</SP> to each end thereof.
Patent GB-1034517-A (GB)
Title: Application of coatings of paint, lacquer or the like, by electrophoresis
IPC: C09D5/44
Filed: 1965-04-14
Abstract: A method of coating an object with paint or lacquer comprising immersing the object to be coated in an aqueous bath containing a suspension of resin, to which has been added a powder of electrically conductive material, applying an electric current to produce a primary conductive coating, polymerizing this coating, e.g. by baking, and repeating this process to produce a final coating.  The electrically-conductive powder added to the resin suspension may be graphite or metal powder in a proportion of 1-3% by weight of the resin suspension, which may comprise alkyde and urea or melamine resins maintained at a pH of 7.2-8.
Patent GB-696020-A (GB)
Title: A process and apparatus for forming metallic articles
Inventor: THIEL CAROLUS ANTONIUS VAN
IPC: B21K1/64
Filed: 1949-04-04
Abstract: The method and apparatus relating to the removal of scale from heated blanks is the same as that described in the parent Specification but the method is applied to other shapes of blanks. The shoot through which the blanks are conveyed to the forging dies is made of a cross-section substantially the same as that of the blanks so that the scale is knocked off during the passage of the blanks through the shoot.
Patent GB-707217-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in fuel injection pumps
Inventor: FRIEDLANDER WILLIAM
IPC: F02D1/00
Filed: 1949-06-17
Abstract: 707,217. Speed governors. MONO-CAM, Ltd. June 14, 1950 [June 17, 1949], No. 16237/49. Class 57 [Also in Group XXVIII] In a fuel injection pump having a plurality of plungers 7 whose effective delivery strokes are controlled simultaneously by a common regulating member 14 which adjusts the point in the stroke at which fuel is spilled from the cylinders 5 into a chamber 3 communicating with the pump inlet or other low pressure region, the chamber communicates with the low pressure region through a restriction 34 so that a pressure, which is a function of the speed and loading of the engine supplied by the pump, will be built up in the chamber, and a pressure responsive flexible member 38 is exposed to the pressure and causes the regulating member to reduce. the delivery as the speed increases. The pump is of the kind described in Specification 580,354, [Group XXVIII), in which the plungers are actuated by an axial cam through a push rod 23 and in which sleeves 17, secured to the axially movable regulating member 14, co-operate with the radial spill bores 31 in the plungers. The restriction is provided by an annular space between a bore 34, communicating with an inlet chamber 10, and a restrictor pin 37 which may be straight or tapered and may be spring loaded or adjustable manually in order to vary the flow resistance. The pin may be of a metal having a higher expansion coefficient than that of a sleeve 32 containing the bore in order to compensate for lower fuel viscosity at higher temperature. A metallic bellows 38, secured to the regulating member and to a fixed partition 20, is subjected externally, to the pressure in chamber 3 and its interior is connected with the intake manifold of the engine through passages 54, 55, 56, 57 in order to provide an additional governing effect. The bellows may alternatively be connected to the engine exhaust and act on the member in the opposite direction. The regulating member, which is loaded by a spring 50 is also adjustable by a lever 41 through a rod 39 to determine the delivery setting of the pump. Spacing washers 52 between the rod and the member are used to vary the spring loading. A collar 46 on the rod co-operates with a shoulder 47 and with an adjustable sleeve 48 to limit the minimum and maximum delivery respectively. Specification 707,218 also is referred to.
Patent GB-847719-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in lapping machines
Inventor: CROFT CHARLES THOMAS
IPC: B24B15/02
Filed: 1958-05-21
Abstract: 847,719. Lapping valve seats. DEWRANCE & CO. Ltd. May 21, 1959 [May 21, 1958], No. 16289/58. Class 60. In a portable machine for lapping a flat valve seating, for example the seating of a safety valve or stop valve, a support member carrying a rotary member provided with driving means is adapted to be secured to the valve. body at an opening thereof opposite the seating with the axis of rotation of the rotary member normal to the plane of the seating. a fluid pressure device having cylinder and piston elements is adapted to urge a lapping tool mounted on one of the elements against the seating and the other of the said elements is mounted eccentrically on a spindle itself eccentrically rotatably mounted on and extending parallel to the axis of rotation of the rotary member and provided with means whereby the spindle may be secured to the rotary member at selected angular positions to give different eccentric movement to the lapping tool The flat angular valve seat 3 is lapped by a circular disc 6 having on its lower face grooves to retain lapping paste. A screw 44 passing through a central aperture in the disc engages a threaded hole in a rod 41. The contacting surfaces of the rod 41 and disc 6 are part spherical. The aperture in the disc is of greater diameter than the screw and the disc is not clamped tightly by the head of the screw. The rod 41 has screwthreaded engagements with a boss 39 on a piston 36 working in a cylinder 30. The cylinder is secured to the lower end of a spindle 28 and is eccentric thereto. The spindle 28 is mounted eccentrically in a sleeve 20. After a nut 32 has been loosened, the spindle 28 can be rotatably adjusted in the sleeve 20 so as to alter the eccentricity of the cylinder 30 relative to.the sleeve 20. A pointer 33 secured to the spindle 28 co-operates with a scale on a top cap 23 of the sleeve 20. The sleeve 20 is rotatably mounted by bushes 12, 16 in a tubular member 9 secured to a plate 8 and in register with a central aperture therein. The plate has slots 10 to receive bolts 11 by which it is secured to the valve body - 1. A worm wheel 25 keyed to the sleeve 20 meshes with a worm 61 rotatably mounted in a casing 62 attached to the tubular member 9, the worm having at one end a rectangular slot 63 to receive a driving key held in the chuck of a hand-operated electric or pneumatic drill. Compressed air from a bottle 60 passes through a valve 59, flexible pipe 58 and banjo coupling 49 to a bore 28<SP>1</SP> in the spindle 28 and thence to the space in the cylinder 30 above the piston 36. Pressure can be relieved, after closing the valve 59, by operating a valve 67.
Patent GB-395500-A (GB)
Title: Electrical suspension switch
IPC: H01H15/02
Filed: 1932-06-10
Abstract: 395,500. Switch cases. NETTL, R., 13, Hulme Hall Avenue, Cheadle Hulme, Cheshire. June 10, 1932, No. 16366. [Class 38 (v).] An electric switch of the type which is suspended on a flexible conductor comprises an insulating housing formed of two parts m, n which are screwed together to enclose a base p which carries on its underside the switch mechanism operated by pushbuttons. The contacts and other parts of the switch mechanism are held to the base by the wiring terminals t<1>, t<2>, t<3> which are situated in the angles between the arms of a cruciform extension c<1> of the base. This extension is pointed at its upper end and co-operates with the conical cover member n to grip the cord on which the switch is suspended.
Patent GB-693405-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to endless band conveyors
IPC: B65G17/06
Filed: 1951-07-11
Abstract: 693,405. Endless conveyers. EICKHOFF, MASCHINENFABRIK UND EISENGIESSEREI, GEB. July 11, 1951. [July 22, 1950] No. 16388/51. Class 78 (i). An endless-band conveyer is formed from a series of plates one end of each of which is connected to a carrier member carried by endless driving means while the other end of each plate is supported directly or indirectly by the next adjacent plate for movement both laterally and longitudinally with respect to said adjacent plate. As shown, Fig. 3, a pair of endless chains form the driving means and each carrier member is a cross bar 12, which together with one end of each plate 9 is secured on a stud welded on a link 14 of each chain, by of a nut 13. The other end of each plate is slidable longitudinally and laterally with respect to a preceding cross bar 12 by means of a bracket 17 secured to the plate and forming with the plate a slot into which the horizontal flange of cross bar 12 projects. Alternatively, adjacent plates may overlap, the overlapping ends being provided with a hole and a slot respectively through which the stud on link 14 projects in which case the bracket 17 may optionally be dispensed with. Cross bar 12 may in this form be of L-section. In another form the link 14 is U-shaped to form two studs on which the overlapping ends of adjacents plates are placed. The endless chains 15, 16, are guided with lateral play in guides 19, 20. Fig. 1, mounted on the division plate 18 of a double casing for two superposed conveyer runs. The cross bars 12 have lateral play between guards 2 and the lateral edges of the plates work in slots 7, 8 of the casing with lateral play. Plates 9 may be trapezoidal with the free end as the shorter side or may have curved lateral edges. The plates 9 may be supported between the chains by idler rollers in which case cross bars 12 are downwardly concave. In a second embodiment, Fig. 7, the chains are placed together and interconnected by bars 28 at intervals, which are guided by guides 30, 32. Portions 33 of guides 32 support the plates 9. Guides 34 having mating'ends support cross bars 12 on the return run.