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Patent GB-638883-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in bases for electric discharge lamps
IPC: H01R33/02
Filed: 1947-08-07
Abstract: 638,883. Lamp-caps. SYLVANIA ELECTRIC PRODUCTS, Inc. Aug. 7, 1947, No. 21698. Convention date, March 28, 1945. [Class 38 (i)] A base for a tubular discharge lamp of non- linear form having its ends oppositely disposed, comprises two hollow semi-cylindrical insulating parts 10, 11, held together by a screw 12 and formed with recesses 14 loosely embracing the ends of the lamp, thus permitting the base to rotate, the degree of rotation being limited by a stop 21 on the lamp engaging shoulders on the base. Two or four contact pins 20 are moulded in the part 11 and are connected to flexible lamp electrode leads 16. Fig. 6 shows a modification wherein the base comprises a pair of axially spaced discs 27, 28 which have conical ends 29 cemented in the lamp ends. An outer shell formed of semi-cylindrical parts 24, 25 held together by a screw 26, is rotatably fitted on the discs and carries pins 31 which extend inwardly through radial slots 32 in the discs into longitudinal apertures therein, the slots serving to limit the rotation of the outer shell.
Patent GB-815121-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to surgical dressings, bandages and the like
IPC: A61F13/00
Filed: 1956-07-13
Abstract: A cover for an absorbent layer forming a surgical dressing comprises a sheet of synthetic resin film in which there are a number of curvilinear slits, to permit the passage of wound exudate through the film to the absorbent material.  The slits are preferably arranged as rows and lines of arcuate cuts and alternate lines may curve in opposite directions, with adjacent rows mutually displaced.  The whole sheet may be finely perforated or provided with corrugations, to assist the passage of exudate.
Patent GB-420799-A (GB)
Title: Box or like container for polishing, cleaning, toilet and similar articles
IPC: A45C5/00
Filed: 1934-07-25
Abstract: 420,799. Boxes for toilet articles &c. BILKE, W., 2, Fundstrasse, Hanover, Germany. July 25, 1934, No. 21774. Convention date, July 28, 1933. [Class 18] A box or case for toilet and like articles has two hinged lids 2, 3 and an insert 6 which forms a false bottom and partitions dividing the two parts of the box into further compartments. One of the compartments, for material, such as soap, which becomes smaller in use, has a cover which fits within the compartment so as to clamp the soap in position. The partitions may be slidable to vary the capacity of the compartments. Clips 37 may be provided within one lid for holding post cards, a pencil, &c.
Patent GB-614724-A (GB)
Title: Thrust blocks
IPC: F16C17/06
Filed: 1946-07-22
Abstract: 614,724. Bearings. NAAMLOOZE VENNOOTSCHAP DE BATAAFSCHE PETROLEUM MAATSCHAPPIJ. July 22, 1946, No. 21837. Convention date, Aug. 4, 1945. [Class 12 (i)] A thrust bearing having self-adjusting or fixed pads to receive the thrust of a shaft collar and leaving oil channels between the pads has the pads shaped so that over the whole radial depth of the segments the ratio of the circumferential width at any point, to the radius measured to that point, decreases' as the said radius increases. The pads may be symmetrical as shown at B1, B2 and C in Fig. 1 or asymmetrical as shown at D in Fig. 2 for a clockwise rotating shaft, where both radial edges incline towards the same side with respect to radial lines drawn through the inner points of the edges, the lagging edge having a greater inclination than the leading edge. This latter inclination tends to direct the outflowing oil toward the outer edge of the segments whilst the inclination of the leading edge serves to scoop the fresh oil. A segment E is shown having an obliquely serrated lagging edge to achieve the outward expulsion of the oil. The leading edge of such a segment may be straight or serrated. Scrapers may be provided in the channels between the segments to remove the oil film sticking to the shaft collar. The bearing surfaces of the segments may be slightly concave to allow a thicker oil film at the centre than at the leading and lagging edges. Fig. 3 shows a wedge-shaped dam H formed in a channel between two segments to accelerate the oil velocity at the radially outer limits.
Patent GB-1507786-A (GB)
Title: Process and apparatus for forming flexible fold lines in thermoplastic sheets
IPC: B31B50/25
Filed: 1976-05-26
Abstract: 1507786 Forming fold lines in sheet material G SEUFERT [trading as SEUFERT-VERPACKUNGEN GERHARD SEUFERT] 26 May 1976 [17 Sept 1975] 21850/76 Heading B5A An apparatus for forming flexible fold lines in a thermoplastic sheet, so that it can be folded into a box, has rule-shaped forming tools 20 and a counter flat surface 24 on which the sheet is supported. The tool and flat surface are connected to means for creating a high frequency electric field between them which softens the sheet without melting and the tool is cooled to below the melting point of the sheet by a cooling fluid passing through ducts 17 in cooling plate 16 to which a holding plate 19 for the tools is attached. A controlled work cylinder 11 is used to bring the tools 20 and optionally cutters 21 into contact with the sheet.
Patent GB-1240967-A (GB)
Title: End wall for air curtain type refrigerated display case
Inventor: TOTH STEVEN J
IPC: A47F3/00
Filed: 1970-05-06
Abstract: 1,240,967. Refrigerators. STREATER INDUSTRIES Inc. 6 May, 1970 [7 May, 1969], No. 21892/70. Heading F4H. A wall assembly for use as an end wall in an air curtain type refrigerated display case comprises inner and outer plastics panels 12, 13 of generally planar section which are spaced apart by respective flanges 15, 25 on the panels, which flanges are in resting engagement. The panels are secured together by bolts 30 inserted through aligned holes 30, 31 in the panels and hardened polyurethane is disposed in the space between the panels in contact with the panels and bolts. The panels may be formed of fibreglass and the outer panel has an embossed or raised portion 16 for strengthening and decorative purposes.
Patent GB-1474171-A (GB)
Title: Releasable couplings and loose leaf binders incorporating them
IPC: B42F13/12
Filed: 1973-05-08
Abstract: 1474171 Loose-leaf binders &c ELKMARK HOLDINGS Ltd 7 May 1974 [8 May 1973] 21950/73 Heading B6E A loose-leaf binding device comprises a first member 1, Fig. 1, supporting at least one pivotally mounted post 6 disposed in an opening 11, Fig. 5, in the member 1 and a second member 2 having at least one opening 26 in which is disposed a projection 17 co-operating with a recess 22 on the post 6 which is held releasably in the opening 26 by a locking member 18 movable into and out of the opening. The members 1, 2 may be articulated to one another through the intermediary of a spine 3 and the device may be used on its own or associated with a loose-leaf binder. (For Figures see next column.)
Patent GB-531707-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to protective devices for liquid immersed electrical apparatus
IPC: H02H5/08
Filed: 1939-07-29
Abstract: 531,707. Protective cut-out arrangements; actuation of switches. BRITISH THOMSONHOUSTON CO., Ltd. July 29, 1939, No. 22076. Convention date, July 30, 1938. [Class 38 (v)] [Also in Group XXXV] A protective arrangement for liquid-immersed electrical apparatus such as transformers comprises a pair of floats 15, 19 on the surface of the liquid 11 carrying contacts 20, 25 which on relative movement between the floats co-operate to close an alarm or protective circuit. The float 15 is of annular form and carries a vessel 16 having an open-ended extension 17 surrounding the float 19 and dipping into the liquid. The vessel 16 has a restricted opening 23 at its upper end of such size that whilst slow changes in gas pressure due to expansion and contraction of the liquid under normal working conditions cause no relative movement between the contacts 15, 19, any sudden increase in gas pressure outside the vessel 16 due to a fault in the apparatus immersed in the liquid is not immediately followed by a corresponding pressure rise within the vessel 16, and the resulting relative movement of the floats causes closure of the contacts.
Patent GB-464131-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to the cooling of motor vehicle engines
IPC: B60K11/02
Filed: 1935-08-06
Abstract: 464,131. Cooling motors. TRIGGS, W. W. (Daimler-Benz Akt.-Ges.) Aug. 6, 1935, No. 22203. [A Specification was laid open to inspection under Sect. 91 of the Acts, Feb. 5, 1936.] [Class 79 (iii)] In a motor vehicle having a rearwardly disposed engine and an inlet opening or openings for cooling air at the front end of the vehicle, the cooling air is conveyed to the engine by passages along each side of the vehicle. The passages are preferably formed in hollow longitudinal frame members e of the vehicle body which are bent upwardly and inwardly at the rear end to meet in front of the engine a or its radiator b through which the air is drawn by fan c. Air not required for cooling may be discharged through a bye-passage p by adjustment of a valve q. At the front end the side passages may extend forwardly over the mudguards, opening directly to the air at the front end of the vehicle. In the form shown, however, to minimize the formation of eddy currents, the front ends m of the side passages open into an intermediate chamber k into which air is drawn through a central aperture o. Water separators l with outflow openings n may be provided in the passages, which may also be provided with valves r for ventilating the interior of the vehicle. Specification 436,520 is referred to.
Patent GB-750919-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to scaffolding and like structural equipment
Inventor: DUBOIS WALTER MARCEL
IPC: E04G25/06
Filed: 1953-08-12
Abstract: 750,919. Scaffolding struts. BRITISH BUILDING & ENGINEERING APPLIANCES, Ltd. July 21, 1954 [Aug. 12, 1953], No. 22210/53. Class 20(2). In scaffolding equipment for, supporting floor beams, &c. temporarily, an adjustment device comprises a tubular barlike member 1 provided with a fixed stop 2 therein near one end which receives the top of a scaffold pole 4, and a short cylindrical member 7 slidable in the member 1, and adapted to be supported by a collar 11, forms an abutment for the tubular body 6 of a head member 5, the collar 11 being adjustable along the member 1, As shown, the member 7 has arms 8 which project through opposed slots 9, and the supporting collar 11 has screw-thread engagement with the member 1. Arms 12 pivoted on the collar assist the adjustment of the collar. The pole 4 is held within the member 1 by an eyebolt 3.
Patent GB-1470635-A (GB)
Title: Process and apparat's for cleaning the sbrface of wire products
IPC: B24B5/38
Filed: 1975-05-22
Abstract: 1470635 Grinding wire INCO EUROPE Ltd 22 May 1975 [31 May 1974] 22221/75 Heading B3D A method of cleaning the surface of a wire comprises feeding the wire W centrally through a grinding zone defined by grinding faces of a pair of grinding discs 33, 34 which are rotated in opposite directions about a common axis perpendicular to and passing centrally through the grinding faces whilst the pair of discs as a unit are simultaneously rotating about the longitudinal axis of the wire, contact being maintained between the wire and both grinding faces on each side of the axis of rotation of the grinding discs. In apparatus for carrying out the method, the grinding discs 33, 34 are mounted on shafts 45, 45A supported by bearing assemblies 52 for axial and rotary movement in a housing 31. The shafts 45, 45A are of square cross-section and engage square holes in sprockets 48 mounted for rotation in sprocket housings 46 bolted to the housings 51 of the bearing assemblies 52. The sprockets 48 engage the spacings between an array of rollers 28 on the side of a drive ring 26 supported for rotation by rollers 27 on a stationary ring 23 mounted on a frame 22 having cross members provided with bearing assemblies 37, 38 supporting the housing 31 of the grinding discs for rotation about axis of the wire. The bearing assemblies have guides 35A, 36A for the wire, and a coupling 35 connects the housing 31 to a pulley 39 belt driven from a motor 42. The drive causes rotation of the housing, and hence the grinding discs, about the axis of the wire W fed through the guides 35A, 36A, the engagement of the sprockets 48 with the rollers 28 of the drive ring 26 causing the grinding wheels to rotate in opposite directions. A supplementary means for rotating the grinding discs consists of a motor connected by a drive 67 to a sprocket 66 which engages a further series of rollers mounted on the drive ring 26. The grinding discs are pressed against the wire by fluid pressure cylinders 60 having pistons connected to rods 58 which extend through axial bores in the shafts 45, 45A and are secured to the grinding discs, the fluid pressure being supplied to the cylinders by a rotating union 43. Bellows 56 and a cover 57 protect the apparatus from grinding debris. With the pulley drive 39 disconnected, the apparatus can be used for grinding the opposed faces of rectangular wire. The grinding may be effected dry or in the presence of a liquid.
Patent GB-203350-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in inflatable toy figures
IPC: A63H3/06
Filed: 1923-09-04
Abstract: 203,350. Hille, T. Sept. 4, 1922, [Convention date]. Inflatable toys.-An inflatable toy figure of rubber &c. which represents a human-like caricature, has its body and head made of rubber of different thicknesses, and is inflated by a tube extending through the legs or arms, or attached to the back. In the form shown in Fig. 2, the body a is more extensible than the head b, a perforated rubber, metal, or wood &c. member c being arranged in the neck. The figure is inflated through a tube e closed by a plug in the form of a metal foot f. The tube may be provided in one of the arms and closed by a detachable band, or by doubling the end of the tube. In the case of a tube extending from the back, closure is effected by clamping the end.
Patent GB-598092-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in change speed mechanism
IPC: F16H63/20
Filed: 1945-08-30
Abstract: 598,092. Change - speed gear selector mechanism. GUY MOTORS, Ltd., and ANDREWS, A. Aug. 30, 1945, No. 22316. [Class 80(ii)] The selectors 6, 6<SP>1</SP> of a countershaft change-speed gear have rigid therewith pairs of lugs 8, 8<SP>1</SP>, 9, 91, the lugs 8, 81 being engaged selectively by an arm 2 which may be turned and moved longitudinally by shaft 1, simultaneous movement of a plurality of selectors being prevented by a plate 3 splined to the shaft 1 and having a gap 10 which allows the passage of one pair of lugs 9<SP>1</SP> only as the plate 3 is restrained axially by the yoke 4. The rod 1 is located axially and radially by spring detents in notches 19, 17 respectively.
Patent GB-1372615-A (GB)
Title: Labels
IPC: G09F3/02
Filed: 1973-05-10
Abstract: 1372615 Labels NORPRINT Ltd 10 May 1973 [12 May 1972] 22318/72 Heading B8F A label 2 is provided with two parallel lines of perforations 12 and lead-in notches 20 defining end portions 16, which are coated with a pressure-sensitive adhesive, and a central portion 14 whereby the central portion may be separated from the label portions 16 securing the label to an item when the latter is sold to facilitate the current stock situation of the particular item to be assessed. A plurality of the labels are carried on a silicone-coated backing strip 4, which is provided with lines of perforations 8 and 10 and with lines of apertures 6 for engagement by mechanical feed means of a computerized labelling/stock-taking system. An aperture 18 is formed in the label central portion for registration purposes and/or to enable that portion, once detached, to be used as a tag.
Patent GB-723599-A (GB)
Title: Electrically driven fly-wheel starter
IPC: H02K23/52
Filed: 1952-09-05
Abstract: 723,599. Dynamo-electric machines. UHER, E. Sept. 5, 1952 [Sept. 5, 1951], No. 22348/52. Class 35. [Also in Group XXVII] An electric motor used for engine starting purposes (see also Group XXVII) comprises a rotor 6, freely rotatable about and axially movable with respect to the engine crank-shaft 1, and a stator 7, whilst a fly-wheel 4 is connected to the rotor 6 and extends radially therefrom; a friction clutch which is formed by cones 5, 8 is carried by the fly-wheel 4 so as to surround the stator. A handle 16 is provided for imparting the axial movement to the rotor 6, and it is arranged that the rotor, stator and clutch friction surfaces lie in substantially the same radial zone with the friction surfaces at a greater distance from the common rotational axis than the rotor and stator. The electric motor is preferably designed as a dynamotor, the commutator and brushes being indicated at 20 and 21, respectively. Specification 723,600 is referred to.
Patent GB-1193015-A (GB)
Title: Coated Iron Oxide Pigments and Process thereof
IPC: C09C1/24
Filed: 1968-05-10
Abstract: 1,193,015. Coating iron oxide pigments. CHAS. PFIZER & CO. Inc. 10 May, 1968 [5 June, 1967], No. 22387/68. Heading C1A. Iron oxide pigment coated with a hydrophobic aliphatic monocarboxylic acid (HAMA) or a mixture of such acids is prepared by mixing a water wet iron oxide pigment pulp and a water solution of at least one HAMA, said HAMA having from 6-24 carbon atoms, using morpholine as solubilizing agent, where the acid is present in at least 0À06 parts by weight and the morpholine is present in at least 0À006 parts by weight per part of dry Fe 2 O 3  ash content of the pigment, the pigment product is separated from the liquid and dried by heating to 70-170 F. The acid may be saturated or ethylenically unsaturated; coconut oil or lauric acids are preferred-a comprehensive list is given. Any degree of opacity in the pigment may be obtained by the process depending on the size of iron oxide pigment pulp used; however for transparent pigments (i.e. particle size less than 100 mÁ) the pigment pulp is best obtained by precipitating Fe(OH) 2  from a solution of a ferrous salt with an alkaline metal hydroxide solution at 65-75 F., oxidizing the precipitate with air and washing with water. The oxide pulp may however be prepared in situ by precipitation or from previously prepared oxides. The preferred quantities of morpholine and HAMA expressed as percentages of the Fe 2 O 3  in the pigment pulp are 0À8-5% and 6-70% respectively.
Patent GB-632710-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to the preparation of compounds derived from polynuclear organic acids and phenols
IPC: C07F1/00
Filed: 1946-07-27
Abstract: Organometallic salts or salt-like complexes are manufactured by reacting compounds of the general formula AR-X-RA, wherein A represents -SO3H, -COOH or -OH, R represents any mono- or polynuclear aryl group, substituted or unsubstituted, and X represents -O-, -S-, -S-S-, -SO2-O- or (where A is -COOH) -CH2- or -CH(CH3)-, with salt- or salt-complex-forming organometallic compounds, preferably possessing bactericidal, fungicidal, rot- or moth-proofing, timber preserving or seed-dressing properties, especially those defined in Specification 584,196.  The reactants need not be used in stoichiometric proportions, excess of the acid component producing in some cases a solution of the salt or salt complex, which is also soluble in an aqueous solution of a diarylmethanesulphonic acid.  In examples: (1) 1-naphthol-2-sulphonic acid is heated with sulphur (the mixture being moistened with sulphuric acid), and the resulting bis-(naphthalene-2-sulphonic acid) sulphide is boiled with a solution of phenyl mercuric hydroxide prepared by treating basic phenyl mercuric nitrate with sodium hydroxide in aqueous solution; (2) naphthalene is heated with sulphur and excess of sulphuric acid and the product is added to a hot solution of phenyl mercuric acetate; (3) an alcoholic solution of phenyl mercuric acetate is added to an aqueous solution of bis-(naphthalene-2-sulphonic acid) sulphide; (4) salicylic acid is condensed with acetaldehyde in the presence of sulphuric acid and the resulting bis-(o-hydroxybenzoic acid)-methylmethane is boiled with phenyl mercuric acetate in alcohol; (5) naphthalene is heated with sulphur and sulphuric acid p and the product is boiled with an alcoholic solution of phenyl mercuric acetate.  Specifications 547,564, 552,751, 603,463, 603,616 and 613,040 also are referred to.ALSO:As bactericidal and fungicidal agents may be employed, salts or salt-like complexes of organometallic (e.g., organo-arsenic or organo-mercury) compounds with compounds of the general formula AR-X-RA (wherein A represents -SO3H, -COOH or -OH, R represents any mono or polynuclear aryl group substituted or unsubstituted, and X represents -O-, -S-, -S-S-or -SO2 -O-, or, where A is -COOH, also -CH2- or -CH(CH3)-), dissolved in an aqueous solution of the parent acidic component or of a diarylmethanesulphonic acid.  Specifications 547,564, 552,751, 584,196 [Group IV], 603,463, 603,616 and 613,040, [both in Group IV (b)] are referred to.
Patent GB-637467-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in crosscut sawing machines
IPC: B23D45/10
Filed: 1947-08-14
Abstract: 637,467. Circular saws. AKTIEBOLAGET S. STENBERG & CO. Aug. 14, 1947, No. 22636. Convention date, Dec. 6, 1944. [Class 145 (ii)] A cross-cut sawing machine comprising two co-planar circular saws 5, 6 mounted on a slide 4 displaceable relative to the work, the saws being displaceable relative to each other and arranged so that the tangents 15, 16 to the saws (which tangents are parallel to the motion of the slide) are either collinear or parallel and such as to intersect one saw, has one saw 5 mounted at the outer end of an arm 10 pivotally mounted on the slide at 7, which arm has means (e.g. bolts 14) for clamping it to the slide in adjusted position. The pivot 7 may serve as common driveshaft for both saws, whilst the bearings 17, 18 for the arbors of the saws are preferably on opposite sides of the common plane of the saws, Fig. 4. For cutting work obliquely, either the clamp 8 for the work 9 is rotatable and possibly also displaceable in relation to the plane of the saws, or the arbors of the saws may be mounted on a bracket rotatable in a horizontal plane in relation to the slide 4.
Patent GB-919829-A (GB)
Title: An active composition with therapeutic power for diabetes mellitus and hypoglycemia and a method of preparation thereof
IPC: A61K35/39
Filed: 1959-07-02
Abstract: Therapeutic compositions for the treatment of pancreatic diseases comprise active alpha or beta cells of the hangerhans islets of the pancrease of (i) a healthy, sexually immature vertebrate, (ii) the foetus of a healthy mother mammal; or (iii) the embryo of an egg of a healthy bird.  Either the alpha or the beta cells may be in numerical excess or they may be numerically equal with one type of cell being in hyperactivity with respect to the other such hyperactivity being induced before removal of the pancreas e.g. in the case of (ii) above by inducing a pancreatic disease in the mother by Bernard's puncture or the administration of alloxan.  The cells may be obtained from the pancreas by mechanical disintegration followed by digestion with trypsin to give a suspension of living cells from which at least some of one type of cell may be removed, e.g. by filtration or centrifugation particularly if the alpha and beta cells are of different sizes as is preferred and is so in the case of ducks (large alpha cells) and rodents (large beta cells).  The free cells obtained may be suspended in a suitable parenterally administrable vehicle e.g. sterile Ringer's solution or preserved e.g. by freeze drying for subsequent administration either after re-suspension e.g. in sterile isotonic saline or encapsulation of the dried product. Specification 887,228 is referred to.
Patent GB-752606-A (GB)
Title: Garden hand rake
IPC: A01D7/02
Filed: 1954-08-05
Abstract: 752,606. Hand rakes and hoes. HULEY, P. Aug. 5, 1954, No. 22710/54. Class 6 (2). A garden hand rake is provided with end teeth 2 which are sharpened to form hoe blades, the cutting faces 8 being disposed at an angle of less than 90 degrees to the rake handle 5. As shown, the teeth are wider than the remaining rake teeth 3 and are formed with verticallyextending grooves 6.