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Patent GB-693005-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to the catching and trapping of insects
IPC: A01M1/20
Filed: 1950-04-25
Abstract: 693,005. Insect traps. PEAT, C. H. July 24, 1951 [April 25, 1950], No. 10117/50. Class 5(i) A suction-type insect trap comprises a portable suction pipe A having an insect trap fitted to its inlet and comprising a reticulated container B with a perforated cone-shaped member G removably fitted to the outer end of the container with its apex projecting inwardly to form a restricted entrance for the passage of insects. The container B is secured to a flanged ring C which carries a sealing washer E between itself and the pipe A. The cone G is secured between the ring C and a further flanged ring F which also carriers a sealing washer I. The hole at the apex of the cone G is large enough to permit the passage of large flies but the remaining perforations are too small to allow the escape of small flies.
Patent GB-749066-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to babies' bibs
IPC: A41B13/10
Filed: 1953-04-14
Abstract: 749,066. Children's bibs. LEESE, F. B. April 14, 1954 [April 14, 1953], No. 10146/53. Class 141. A child's bib comprises a waterproof sheet 1, for example of P.V.C., to which an absorbent feeder 2 is releasable attached by snap fasteners 4. The sheet 1 and/or the feeder 2 are provided with attachment straps 5 having a number of snap fasteners at their ends 7 for adjustment. The various parts may be bias bound at 8.
Patent GB-489315-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to cloth guiders
IPC: B65H23/038
Filed: 1937-04-09
Abstract: 489,315. Guiding webs transversely. JENSEN, C. A. (Butterworth & Sons Co., H. W.) April 9, 1937, No. 10161. [Class 100 (i)] [Also in Group XXXV] Registration.-Means for governing the travel of a web comprise pairs of guide rolls 12, 14 between which the edges of the web pass, a contact device operated by the edge of the web to control the energization of electromagnetic means 30 operating one roll of a pair towards the other, and relatively heavy and light springs 37, 38 interposed between the electromagnetic means and the movable roll. The lighter spring projects slightly beyond the heavier when the electromagnet is de-energized, the springs being concentric. Normally both pairs of rolls are pressing upon the web but when one edge moves too far outwardly a feeler 29 moves to rock a mercury or other switch and de-energize the magnet operating the movable roll at that edge. This roll 14 is supported in a cradle pivoted at 16 and carrying a pad 10 on a cross-bar 18 against which the springs are adapted to bear. As shown in Fig. 4 these are carried in a head pinned to the end of an adjusting screw 35, which is threaded into a lever 31 pivoted at 32 on a bracket 25. The electromagnet may be secured to this bracket in a plurality of positions, enabling a rod 40 attached to its armature to exert pressure at different points along the lever 31. In a modified arrangement shown in Fig. 7 the rod 401 operated by the magnet 30<1> carries the springs, which are independently secured to collars 54, 55 separately adjustable on the rod. Fig. 3 shows a feeler 29 pivoted on the bracket 25 and engaging a lever carrying a mercury switch 57. This switch is mounted in a clamp 58, Fig. 1a, secured to an angularly adjustable member 59 on a rocker rod 62 which is pivoted in a stationary bearing 64 and maintained in engagement with the feeler 29 by a spring 66. Specification 489,342 is referred to.
Patent GB-958765-A (GB)
Title: Apparatus for stranding long members and for applying coloured distinguishing markings to them
IPC: B41F17/10
Filed: 1963-03-15
Abstract: 958,765. Identifying electric conductors. SIEMENS-SCHUCKERTWERKE A.G. March 15, 1963 [March 16, 1962], No. 10250/63. Heading H1A. [Also in Division D1] The strands of an electric cable, for example insulated conductors for telephone cables, are each marked, prior to stranding, by a marking surface 13 on a roller 12, the roller 12 receiving colouring material from a colour transfer roller 14 having a chamber for the marking substance either within the colour transfer roller itself or within a container fixed thereto so as to rotate therewith about the axis of the roller 12. The strand 10 passes between the roller 12 and a roller 11 both driven by the strand. As shown, the supply chamber 19 is within a cover 18 having a removable screw 21 through which the chamber 19 can be charged. The colouring material passes from the chamber 19 to a felt ring 16 via bores 22, the bores 22 housing needles 23 carrying weights 24 at their outer ends to cause the needles to carry out swinging movements during rotation of the roller 14 and so avoid blocking of the bores 22 by residues. The rollers are biased together by a system utilizing telescopic tubes 25, 26 and a spring 28. The marking surface 13 may print numbers, letters or special signs or a continuous or discontinuous straight line. The apparatus described is provided for each of the strands of the electric cable, the several units being secured to the stranding cage so as to rotate with the conductors and act on them at a point between the supply drums and the point at which the conductors to be stranded are brought together. If the strands 10 are to be printed at intervals with closed rings, two printing units are provided for each strand, each device applying half-rings to a strand, the marking rollers being adjusted so that the half-rings combine to form complete rings.
Patent GB-1038001-A (GB)
Title: Electric measuring device for cameras
Inventor: NOACK ROLF
IPC: G03B7/085
Filed: 1964-03-11
Abstract: 1,038,001. Photo-electric control of camera exposure. PENTACON DRESDEN KAMERA-UND KINOWERKE VEB. March 11, 1964, No. 10274/64. Addition to 1, 001, 856. Heading G2A. [Also in Division G1] An electric measuring device for cameras as claimed in the parent Specification includes a photo-electric cell which is connected to the moving coil by means of a contact spring one end of which is fixed and the other end of which is connected to the other end of the return spring.
Patent GB-101404-A (GB)
Title: Detachable-compartments, or Safety Chambers, for Submarine and other Ships.
Inventor: MIDDLETON HENRY
IPC: B63G8/41
Filed: 1915-09-01
Abstract: 101,404. Middleton, H. Sept. 1, 1915. Submarine vessels; conning-towers.-Surface or submarine vessels, and particularly submarines of the type propelled and manoeuvred by a series of vibrating fins, have the sonning-tower and gun casemates detachably connected to the main structure, a connecting-passage being formed through interfitting tubes The detachable conning-tower a is shaped as a prolate spheroid and is provided with a simple form of steering screw propeller. Access to the tower is obtained through a tube y provided with trap-doors l, m and fitted within a tube z fixed to the conning-tower. Suitable packing is inserted a@ i to prevent the inlet of water. The entrance to the tube y may be surrounded by a wall having a side opening near the top reached by ladders on either side. The compartment is detached by admitting compressed air, stored in tanks in the conning-tower, into the space between the trap-doors, or a slow-burning powder may be introduced and fired, or the compartment may be made buoyant and released by electrically-actuated catches. The detachable compartment may be fitted with engines and a steering screw propeller, as described in Specification 101.280, [Class 114, Ships &c., Propelling &c.]. The forward gur. is mounted in a second detachable compartment, to which access is obtained through a similar arrangement of tubes and trap-doors. This compartment is capable of being oscillated slightly about the axis of the tube q by a long pinion engaging a rack formed on the back of the compartment. The gun g is slidably mounted in a pivoted tube k provided with a segmental member making a tight sliding joint with a cylindrical surface m<1>. Small hydraulic presses may be fitted for steadying the compartments, and the sides of the compartment may be corrugated or domed. An anti-aircraft gun may also be mounted in a detachable compartment capable of being completely rotated by rack-and-pinion gearing, and another detachable compartment may be fitted to facilitate the escspe of the men working the torpedo tubes. The detachable compartments may be raised without detachment and held in the raised condition by electrically-actuated bolts. Specification 5399/91 also is referred to.
Patent GB-977841-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in gramophone record pick-up arms and mounting and supports thereof
Inventor: PYKE PETER JOHN
IPC: G11B3/14
Filed: 1960-03-24
Abstract: 977, 841. Supporting gramophone pick-ups. ELECTRIC & MUSICAL INDUSTRIES Ltd., March 22,1961 [March 24, 1960; May 3, 1960]; Nos. 10405/60 and 15467/60. Heading G5R. A pick-up arm 1, particularly for mounting the stereo pick-up described in Specification 950, 587, is integral with a rotatable cylindrical boss 3 supported on a unipivot 6 with thimble members 13, 15 interleaved to provide interaction with a viscous fluid 17 in the range 20, 000 to 40, 000 centistopes providing horizontal damping by shear resistance and vertical damping by fluid displacement. The thimble 13, may be locked upward against a resilient sealing washer 18 to prevent loss of the fluid intransit. A lifting and lowering arm 23, integral with radial pick-up locating cursor 34, is supported by a blade spring 30 and operated by an eccentric rotary member 26, treated with the same viscous fluid. The scale-member 24, Figs. 5a, 5b, may have means 32, 33 incorporated at one end to act as an arm-lock. A stylus-brush (not detailed) may be arranged to intercept the stylus in moving from locked to playing position.
Patent GB-847775-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to the production of hollow bodies from powder
IPC: B22F3/08
Filed: 1959-03-25
Abstract: 847,775. Powder metallurgy. DU PONT DE NEMOURS & CO., E. I. March 25, 1959 [April 21, 1958], No. 10430/59. Class 82(1) [Also in Groups V and XXI] Hollow articles, e.g. pipes, are produced from a powder such as iron or chromium compactible by pressure to form a selfsupporting structure, by surrounding a mass of the powder containing a solid mandrel with a high velocity detonating explosive layer, firing the explosive, and thereafter removing the mandrel. A steel mandrel 3 is axially centred with respect to an iron pipe 2 which is welded to a steel base plate 8 and the annular space filled with electrolytic iron powder 1. A clay cone 5 is fitted to the open end of the tube and the tube and cone covered with a single layer 4 of sheet explosive which is fired with the whole assembly under water by blasting cap 6 at the cone apex having leads 7. The mandrel 3 is removed from - the compacted iron powder with a punch and the compressed powder product may be sintered if required. Since the explosive was initially fired from the cone apex, converging shock waves are avoided. Cores of complex shape, Figs. 2 and 3 (not shown), which may be dissolved or melted from the compacted powder, may be used and powdered aluminium, titanium, zirconium, and non-metal powders may be compacted by this process. The explosive layer may comprise P.E.T.N. blended with butyl rubber and a thermoplastic terpene resin.
Patent GB-473548-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to absorption refrigerating apparatus
IPC: F25D11/00
Filed: 1936-04-14
Abstract: 473,548. Refrigerating. FITZPATRICK, H. J. (Naamlooze Vennootschap Enkes) April 14, 1936, No. 10675. [Class 29] Absorption machines and systems.-An absorption machine comprises a stationary part having a generator 1, condenser 3, receiver 4, and weak liquor tank 16 and adapted to be connected or disconnected by a coupling 21 to a second part mounted, e.g. on a vehicle and comprising an evaporator coil 13, header 12, and an absorber 15 slung beneath the vehicle. In use, the vapour evolved in the generator passes through the pipe 2 to the condenser which discharges into the receiver 4 and, at the end of generation, the weak liquor is forced up to the tank 16, while the condensate is passed from the receiver to the evaporator. At this point the parts are uncoupled, the vehicle being driven away and the vapour from the evaporator absorbed by the weak liquor in the absorber 15. On the return of the vehicle, the parts are recoupled, the strong liquor returned from the absorber to the generator and the weak liquor in the tank 16 passed to the absorber. A partition 20 in the vehicle separates the driver's cabin from the refrigerated storage space.
Patent GB-1053902-A (GB)
IPC: C09B43/32
Filed: 1965-03-15
Abstract: 1,053,902. Aminomethyl-naphthol derivatives. CIBA Ltd. March 15, 1965 [March 13, 1964; Feb. 1, 1965], No. 10797/65. Heading C2C. [Also in Division C4] Compounds of the formula where R 2  represents a naphthalene residue in which the ACH 2 -, -OH and carboxylic acid amide groups are in 1,2,3-positions, R 3  represents a phenylene residue, R 4  represents an aryl residue, X represents a carboxylic acid amide group and A represents the residue of an amine are obtained by reacting a compound of the formula with formaldehyde and a primary or secondary amine. The compounds are useful as dyestuff intermediates (see Division C4).
Patent GB-1112543-A (GB)
Title: Diazonium compounds
IPC: G03C1/54
Filed: 1966-03-11
Abstract: The invention comprises compounds of the formula <FORM:1112543/C2/1> where X is an anion, Y is a halogen, R10 is substituted or unsubstituted alkyl, unsaturated hydrocarbon, cycloalkyl, or aralkyl, R11 is substituted or unsubstituted alkyl or aralkyl, and R12 is substituted or unsubstituted cycloalkyl or aralkyl.  The compounds are prepared from those compounds which contain a nitro group in place of the diazo group by reduction and diazotization.
Patent GB-104821-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Life Saving Pillow.
Inventor: BINNIE ALEXANDER
IPC: B63C9/115
Filed: 1916-08-01
Abstract: 104,821. Binnie, A. Aug. 1, 1916 Body attachments; buoyant. - In folding life-saving pillows of the general type disclosed in Specifications 13325/88, 4422/94, and 24444/97, the pillow is made double the length and half the thickness of an ordinary pillow, so that when folded it can be inserted in an ordinary pillow slip. The casing of the pillow 1 is sewn transversely across the middle at 2 to form the folding line, and the two compartments so formed are filled with kapok, feathers, &c. When used as a life-belt, the shoulder tape 4 is passed round the neck and secured to the loops 3, and the tapes 5, 6 are tied round the body: the latter tapes are attached some little distance from the ends of the pillow to allow for overlapping when worn by thin persons. When in ordinary use as a pillow, the tapes 5, 6 are tucked through the loops 7, 8, and the whole folded with the tapes inwards.
Patent GB-565202-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to electrical vibrators
IPC: H02M7/62
Filed: 1943-07-05
Abstract: 565,202. Converting. MASTERADIO, Ltd., POLLOCK, R., and ROBINSON, S. L. July 5, 1943, No. 10879. [Class 38 (ii)] [Also in Group XXXVII] The energizing coil w of an interrupter r has a number of tapped points 1, 2... 6, whereby it is suitable for operation by sources of different voltage. The interrupter is shown in a converting system for producing high tension current from a low tension source b, contacts c<SP>1</SP>, c<SP>2</SP> of the interrupter being connected to the two ends of a transformer primary t<SP>1</SP>. A plug- and-socket device is interposed as shown, movement of an arm a on the socket device serving to connect a central socket s<SP>7</SP> to a selected socket s<SP>1</SP> to s<SP>6</SP> and so connecting the appropriate tapping into circuit. If it is desired to rectify the A.C. produced at the secondary t<SP>2</SP> appropriate connections, not shown, are made to sockets s<SP>9</SP>, s<SP>10</SP>, which engage plugs p<SP>9</SP>, p<SP>10</SP>, connected to contacts c<SP>3</SP>, c<SP>4</SP> on the interrupter.
Patent GB-331856-A (GB)
Title: Means for reproducing designs in metal by the aid of photography
IPC: C25D1/00
Filed: 1929-04-09
Abstract: 331,856. Miller, F. W. April 9, 1929. Stencils.-In a process for producing an openwork metal design (1) a sensitized plate (e.g. onecoated with dextrine, glucose, or gum arabic sensitized with a bichromate), is exposed undera transparency of the design; (2) metal or other conducting material is dusted on and adheres to the unexposed parts; (3) a layer of collodion is coated on the design; (4) the original coating is washed off, leaving the design of conducting- material on the collodion; and (5) metal is then electrolytically deposited on the design to obtain the metal design desired. This design can then be stripped off and pressed into wood or other mouldable material for ornamental purposes.
Patent GB-1215885-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to lighting units for use with hydraulic equipment
IPC: F21S9/04
Filed: 1968-03-06
Abstract: 1,215,885. Lamps with built-in generators. OLDHAM & SON Ltd., and C. D. J. STATHAM. 3 March, 1969 [6 March, 1968], No. 10938/68. Heading F4R. [Also in Division H2] A lighting unit for use with hydraulic equipment e.g. in a mine, comprises a casing 1 enclosing a generator 4 and an hydraulic driving motor such as a turbine 7, one end of the casing having a glazed cover 2 covering a light source 3, supplied by the generator, and the other end having connections for pipes 21, 23 which supply hydraulic fluid to the motor from the circuit of the hydraulic equipment. The unit may be attached to a mine roof support of the selfadvancing type; the fluid supply pipes being connected in the supply lines (26a, 26b), Fig. 5 (not shown) to the hydraulic chocks between a pump and a distribution block (46). In a modification the light source is separate from the generator and turbine.
Patent GB-109439-A (GB)
IPC: F02B25/00
Abstract: 109,439. Binche, G., Dupuis, C., and Prignol, H. Aug. 12, 1916, [Convention date]. Addition to 103,470. Two - - stoke - cycle engines.-The engine forming the subject-matter of the parent Specification is modified so that scavenging air enters the combustion space in advance of the combustible mixture. The air is compressed in the pump space r, being stored in the chamber s during the down-stroke of the piston a and entering the combustion space when ports v register with a port u in the wall of the cylinder. The air forms a layer between the burnt gases and the fresh charge.
Patent GB-398764-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to electric connectors
IPC: H01R13/506
Filed: 1933-04-12
Abstract: 398,764. Plug couplings. BRITISH THOMSON-HOUSTON CO., Ltd., Crown House, Aldwych, London.-(Assignees of Benander, G. B. ; Main Street, Yalesville, Connecticut, U.S.A.) April 12, 1933, No. 10952. Convention date, April 13, 1932. [Class 38 (i).] The insulating body of a plug coupling is made in two similar halves 10, 11 secured together by spring clips 30, 31, with or without a split ring 32, to hold the contacts between them in recesses 14, 15. The clips 30, 31 slide into grooves 35, 36 and are retained by latches 40 that snap into recesses 41. The ring 32 fits over an annularly grooved extension 23 within which the coiled conductor support 25 is gripped. A handle 45 is attached to the support 25.
Patent GB-383868-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to rolling mills
IPC: B21B23/00
Filed: 1932-04-16
Abstract: 383,868. Rolling tubes &c. KOCKS, F., 93, Schlesische Strasse, D³sseldorf, Germany. April 16, 1932, No. 10964. Convention date, April 29, 1931. [Class 83 (iv).] Skew-rolling ; mandrels.- A number of hyperboloidal skew rolls W are directly backed by the enclosing shaped ring St the rolls acting to reduce a solid bar or to reduce or expand or contract the diameter of a tube H on a mandrel. In Fig. 1 the mandrel and tube thereon is driven from a motor M, whereby the connecting rolls W rotate and rotate the backing ring St, the ring St having a toothed ring K3 which drives a gear Z3 on a shaft w, other gears Z1 Z2 on the end of the shaft w gearing with toothed rings K1, K2 on casing rings L1, L2 which in this drive are held by screws S2 to the frame G so that the shafts w can rotate epicyclically round the framing. The casing rings L1, L2 abut axially and are coupled by screws S. The rolls may be journalled by thrust bearings in these casing rings L1, L2 and the axial thrust is taken by bearings l4, l3. The rolls are long and thin and at least 10 are used and they may be driven by gear teeth cut in them and gearing with teeth on the support ring St or in the casing rings L1, L2. The rolls may have bearings to prevent axial displacement only. The shaft w may be directly motor driven and the supporting body St may be fixed in the framework. The rolls then have bevel gears at their ends driven by a fixed bevel ring on the framework. The supporting body St may have holes for dropping the scale through, or air or steam may be used to blow or suck scale through inclined holes therein. The blower may be positively driven from the mill driving means. Large tubes may be contracted to tubes of lesser diameter by the mill shown in Fig. 10 with modified mandrel. The gear teeth formed on the roll may also act on the work as cogging rolls.
Patent GB-146671-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to reinforced concrete girders, beams, joists and the like
IPC: E04C3/20
Filed: 1919-05-02
Abstract: 146,671. Calvert, J. A. May 2, 1919. Reinforced-concrete girders and beams. - A concrete beam or girder of I-section is reinforced at the top and bottom by three rods 1 - - 6 which are clamped by plates 12 and bolts 13 to the bent ends of a strap 7. The ends of the centre bars 2, 5 are bent up and down into T-shaped slots 14 to facilitate the attachment of bonds 15. Holes 16 are formed in the web for bolting blocks to carry floor joists, and holes 17 in the flanges for pipes or electric cables. The bars may be wired to the straps 7 with or without clips 18, Fig. 6. In a modification, the ends of the centre bars 2, 5 are bent down and up diagonally and enter the slots 14 on the opposite face.
Patent GB-1376951-A (GB)
Title: Device for storing two products separately and dispensing them  simultaneously
IPC: B65D51/28
Filed: 1972-03-09
Abstract: 1376951 Portable containers; container closures L'OREAL 9 March 1972 [15 March 1971 25 Jan 1972] 11027/72 Headings B8D and B8T A device for separately storing constituents 2 and 7 comprises a container 1, a cup 5 held on the rim of the container neck, and a slidablymounted trocar 16, which is adapted to pierce both a cover 9 of the cup and the cup base on movement of the trocar from a stored position and thus facilitate mixing of the constituents and which is restrained from inadvertent piercing displacement. As shown, a removable safety clip 17 is releasably disposed between the rim of a cap 14 carrying the trocar and a container wall abutment to prevent inadvertent piercing trocar movement. The cap provides a dispensing spout 15 and slidably engages a screwed sleeve 10 retaining the sealed cup on the neck rim. In a modification, Figs. 3 and 4 (not shown), the spout, which is sealed at the tip, extends from the base of the container. The cup cover 9 is of aluminium foil and the other components of the device are of plastics. In another embodiment, Figs. 5-8 (not shown), a sealed aluminium foil cup is crimped to the container neck rim, and the trocar is mounted for sliding movement on the container by a pair of arms 155 which extend from a dispensing spout member and which are adapted to slide in a pair of axial container wall recesses 150 after a safety clip 156 has been removed and the arms rotated to align the arms with the recesses. In a final embodiment, Figs. 9-12 (not shown), the trocar is carried by a dispensing spout member, which co-operates with projections 250 on the container wall to prevent piercing of the cup until cut-outs 251 are rotatably aligned with the projections.