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Patent GB-1221588-A (GB)
Title: A reinforced securing tape
IPC: C09J7/20
Filed: 1968-06-07
Abstract: 1,221,588. Laminated tape. CANADIAN TECHNICAL TAPE Ltd. 7 June, 1968 [8 April, 1968], No. 27097/68. Heading B5N. [Also in Divisions B1-B2] A reinforced securing tape 11 comprises a flexible base member 12 having a pair of opposed faces, a first adhesive 14 on one of said faces and a pressure sensitive adhesive 13 on the opposite face, reinforcing means 15 secured in said first adhesive on said one face, and a plastics film material 17 overlying said reinforcing means and adhesively bonded thereto, e.g. by pressure sensitive adhesive layer 16. The reinforcing means are preferably in the form of a series of parallel strands of glass or hemp fibres. The base member may be made of paper or plastics material, e.g. vinyl resins, polyethylene terephthalate or polyethylene. The film material may be polyethylene or plasticized polyvinyl chloride. The tape may be made by the method disclosed in Specification 1,221,589.
Patent GB-491122-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to belts for holding sanitary towels
IPC: A61F13/64
Filed: 1937-10-06
Abstract: 491,122. Catamenial belts. HERRMANN, E. Oct. 6, 1937, No. 27144. [Class 81 (ii)] A catamenial belt comprises a longitudinally extensible envelope a, enclosing a rubber insert b and front and back flaps d also of extensible fabric enclosing rubber inserts e. Preferably the envelope a is formed from an endless strip of creped gauze reinforced at the edges and along the centre line and folded longitudinally around the band b, the edges and the band b being secured by extensible stitches c<1>, c. The flaps d are formed by enclosing the inserts e between two strips f of extensible fabric and securing the whole by extensible stitches. The flaps carry securing clasps for a towel and the rear flap is longer than that in the front. The inserts b, e are perforated as at b<1>, e<1>.
Patent GB-911553-A (GB)
Title: A paint guard
IPC: B05B12/28
Filed: 1960-08-05
Abstract: A paint shield has a pair of abutments for <PICT:0911553/III/1> introduction into an intersection between two elements one only of which is to be painted, and a straight edge which in use is spaced away from the intersection providing a guide surface to facilitate painting one surface while preventing painting the other.  As shown, an arcuate shield 10 has abutments 18 at each end of straight edge 17 so that the edge is spaced from the intersection into which the abutments are inserted.  A rubber suction cup 23, supports 19 and a handle 21 may be provided.
Patent GB-425580-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in devices for grating and slicing vegetables and the like
IPC: A47J43/25
Filed: 1934-09-21
Abstract: 425,580. Grating vegetables and the like. KREBS, K., 96, Schandauerstrasse, Dresden, Germany. Sept. 21, 1934, No. 27176. Convention date, Sept. 23, 1933. [Class 28 (ii)] A device for grating and slicing vegetables and the like comprises a desk-shaped box 1 in which the grating or slicing tool 6 is arranged in inclined manner. The tool 6 consists of meshed wires of square cross section, supported on a wire frame, one end member 8 of which is engaged under a lip 7 on the front wall 3 of the box 1, whilst the other end member 9 snaps into engagement with a ridge or bead 11 on the rear wall 4 of the box. The walls 3, 4 are notched at 10 to accommodate the side members of the wire frame. In a modification, the side members of the frame are provided with inverted U-shaped brackets which hook over and are received in recesses in the tops of the side walls 2. In a further modification, the frame carries resilient clips which engage over the tops of the side walls of the box and snap into recesses therein. A handle is provided on the wall 4 of the box to facilitate the pouring out of the grated or sliced vegetable over the inclined wall 3 and lip 7.
Patent GB-207327-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to pruning devices
IPC: A01G3/025
Filed: 1922-10-09
Abstract: 207,327. Campbell, J. M. Oct. 9, 1922. Hand-shears.-A pruning-shears comprises sccketed sheet-metal handle members 10, 11 connected to fixed and movable blades 12, 13 respectively, and having their ends bent into substantially cylindrical form to accommodate wooden handles 15, the other ends of the members 10, 11 being flattened and bent to provide longitudinally spaced portions. The fixed blade 12 consists of spaced members secured at 17, 18 between the spaced portions of the handle member 10, the movable blade 13 being pivoted at 22 between the members of the blade 12 and having a portion 24 disposed at right angles to its cutting edge, connected by a link 28 with the handle member 11 which has spaced ears 27 by which it is pivoted at 18 in the handler member 10.
Patent GB-1513886-A (GB)
Title: Photographic camera
IPC: G03B7/20
Filed: 1975-06-27
Abstract: 1513886 Photographic cameras with interchangeable lenses EASTMAN KODAK CO 27 June 1975 [2 July 1974] 27350/75 Heading G2A In a photographic camera, when one lens is replaced by another of different focal length, the coupling between the diaphragm and its setting member is correspondingly altered. As shown, the diaphragm setting member 12 has a finger control 13 outside the housing 11 of the camera to slide it within the housing, and a flange 14 with stepped surfaces 15, 16. A lever 19 pivots on a pin 18 mounted on the housing, and carries a pivot pin 20 for a lever 21. Levers 19, 21 are both biased by a spring 27. Lever 21 has a roof-shaped bent-over portion 22 urged against a surface 23 of a shuttermounting plate 26, and against surface 15 of flange 14. When the diaphragm aperture is to be set, the setting member 12 pivots lever 19 through lever 21, and a pin 30 on lever 19 moves in cam slots 31, 33 formed in diaphragm plates 33, 34. The plates move in opposite directions, and have apertures which overlap in varying degree to form the diaphragm aperture 35 on the axis of a lens 36. Lenses 36, 37 are mounted on a single mount 38. To replace lens 36 by lens 37, mount 38 is slid to the left, whereupon a sloping shoulder 40 thereof moves the portion 22 downwards to engage the shoulder 40 and the surface 16 of flange 14. The coupling between the diaphram and the setting member 12 is now altered in accordance with the difference between the focal lengths of lenses 36, 37.
Patent GB-1128902-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to wheel embellishers for automobiles
IPC: B60B7/10
Filed: 1964-08-06
Abstract: 1,128,902. Wheel cover discs. R. A. HEATHCOLEMAN. 5 Nov., 1965 [6 Aug., 1964], No. 27362/64. Heading B7C. A pressed-metal wheel cover disc has a plurality of retaining members 2 detachably securing the disc to the usual hub-cap locating lugs H of a wheel. As shown in Fig. 3, each member 2 is of extruded aluminium alloy with projections D extending through the disc. By suitably rotating a screw 3 bearing against the free end F of the member a serrated portion G is urged against the associated lug H. In a modification (Fig. 5, not shown) the member 2 is a similarly-shaped roll-formed section of stainless steel, phosphor bronze or spring steel. In a second embodiment each member 2 comprises a moulded block of resilient material such as plastics or rubber secured to the free end of a leaf spring (Fig. 6, not shown) and in a third it comprises a clip with a rolled-over end enclosing a circular spring urging all the clip ends inwardly (Fig. 7, not shown). The disc may be of aluminium, stainless steel, or chromium-plated steel or brass.
Patent GB-756815-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in thermostats
IPC: G05D23/12
Filed: 1954-09-23
Abstract: 756,815. Thermal switches. JONES, W. F. Sept. 23, 1954, No. 27515/54. Class 38(5) A thermostat, e.g. for controlling a refrigerator, comprises a first lever 16 resting at a point intermediate of its length on a fulcrum 15 and at one end on a spring 17, the other end 19 of the lever engaging a second lever 20 connected at one end to the controlled element (e.g. switch contacts), of the thermostat, the second lever resting at an intermediate point on a fulcrum 25 movable by the thermal element and engaging at its other end a fixed fulcrum 23, the fulcrum of the first lever being adjustable lengthwise of said lever by an eccentric engaging a sliding plate carrying the fulcrum. The thermal element comprises a diaphragm 26 carrying the fulcrum 25 for the second lever 20 which engages at its left-hand end fixed knifeedges 23 and at its right-hand end carries a stud 33 acting on a movable contact spring 31 co-operating with a fixed spring 32. The lever 20 is also engaged at its right-hand end by knife-edges 19 on the first lever 16 which Divots about knifeedges 15 on a slidable plate 10. The lefthand end of lever 16 bears on an adjustable spring 17. The plate 10 has an aperture 11 in which is located the eccentric 9 which is rotatable by a knob 8 to adjust the position of knife-edges 15 relative to the length of the lever 16. An adjustable screw 36 has a member 35 acting on the contact spring 32 so as to vary the position of the latter.
Patent GB-1478536-A (GB)
Title: Water insoluble monoazo dyestuffs
IPC: C07D277/82
Filed: 1974-06-21
Abstract: 1478536 Water-insoluble mono-azo dyestuffs from benzthiazoles PRODUITS CHIMIQUES UGINE KUHLMANN 21 June 1974 [21 June 1973] 27589/74 Heading C4P  Novel dyestuffs of the formula wherein R is CH 3  or C 2 H 5 , R 1  is an optionally substituted alkyl group, R 2  is H or an optionally substituted alkyl group and the nucleus A is optionally substituted are prepared by conventional diazotization and coupling. They are used in the coloration of textiles based on linear polyesters, cellulose acetates and polyamides and in the bulk coloration of varnishes, oils, synthetic resins and synthetic fibres spun from their solutions in organic solvents. Specification 1,125,222 is referred to. The diazo components are described in Specification 1,478,537.
Patent GB-1517584-A (GB)
Title: Methods of making reactive metal silicide or reactive metal-silicon alloys
IPC: C22B5/04
Filed: 1975-07-01
Abstract: 1517584 Metal silicides CABOT CORP 1 July 1975 [2 July 1974] 27614/75 Heading C1A [Also in Division C7] A method of making rare earth metal (such as La, Ce, Y) silicides comprises reducing metal oxides either singly or as mixtures thereof with a metal-silicon alloy metal silicide, or silicon in an ESR furnace using a non-consumable electrode, and separating the resultant oxide slag from the alloy. The metal silicide is preferably Ca, Al or Zr silicide or mixtures thereof. The reactive metal oxide is preferably mixed with metal silicide or silicon and fed into a slag pool formed between a carbon electrode and the base of a water-cooled crucible to form a pool of reactive metal-silicon alloy covered with slag. The electrode is raised as the molten bath rises in the container during continual addition of the feed mixture, and the slag is then separated from the reactive metal-silicon alloy. A fluxing agent, such as fluorspar, may be added to the furnace during melting.
Patent GB-392814-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to disinfectants and disinfectant detergents
IPC: A01N59/10
Filed: 1932-10-06
Abstract: Cleansing agents are obtained by mixing alkali hypochlorites in solid or dissolved form with alkali salts of aryl-sulpho-N-halogen amides, for example sodium paratoluene sulphochloramide, in solid or dissolved form.  The components are preferably mixed in equal parts, and other alkaline substances such as soda, phosphates, or waterglass may be added.ALSO:Disinfectant and cleansing agents are obtained by mixing alkali hypochlorites in solid or dissolved form with alkali salts of aryl-sulpho-N-halogen amides, for example sodium paratoluene sulpho-chloramide, in solid or dissolved form.  The components are preferably mixed in equal parts, and other alkaline substances such as soda, phosphates, or water glass may be added.
Patent GB-601045-A (GB)
Title: A safety valve attached to a kettle or kettle lid to prevent scalding whilst being refilled
IPC: A47J27/21
Filed: 1945-10-24
Abstract: 601,045. Tea kettles. GRABHAM, M. Oct. 24, 1945, No. 27989. [Class 66] The body or lid of a kettle has a filling opening normally closed by a spring-pivoted dished flap Y which is pressed downwardly by the spout of a water-tap. Specifications 211,087 and 302,120, [both in Class 66], are referred to.
Patent GB-1066178-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to electrical signalling circuits
Inventor: BELL HAMISH VERNON
IPC: H03F3/343
Filed: 1964-07-08
Abstract: 1,066,178. Transistor circuits. AUTOMATIC TELEPHONE & ELECTRIC CO. Ltd. July 8, 1964, No. 28072/64. Heading H3T. When coupling an emitter follower to a twisted-pair or coaxial transmission line, a resistor equal to or less than the characteristic impedance is interposed between the emitter and the line so as to minimize the effect of variations in transistor output impedance. The remote end of the line is correctly terminated in a resistor which forms the emitter load. In a pulse transmission circuit, the line may feed an inverting, limiting amplifier via a further emitter follower.
Patent GB-267838-A (GB)
Title: A method of applying skirted closure caps to the mouths of milk bottles, and the like
IPC: B65D55/08
Filed: 1926-11-08
Abstract: 267,838. Tevander, O. N. Nov. 8, 1926. Capsules, applying; wiring stoppers.-A bottle is sealed by placing a ring around the skirt of the cap 6, drawing it tight by means of the relatively movable portions 8, 9, and fusing a metallic cement in the vicinity of the parts 8, 9 by means of an electric current &c. The ring is held in the contracted state by the cement when cooled. The ends 8<1>, 9<1> are left free, to facilitate tearing apart when opening the bottle. The electric current may be supplied by a battery of dry cells 11 controlled by a switch 14.
Patent GB-1159463-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Pressure Reducing and Desuperheating Valves
Inventor: HELLINGMAN ARTHUR WILLIAM ERNE
IPC: F16K47/04
Filed: 1967-06-19
Abstract: 1,159,463. Treating gases with liquids. COPES REGULATORS Ltd. 19 June, 1967, No.28144/67. Heading B1R. [Also in Division F2] A desuperheating valve has an inlet 2 for the superheated steam and an inlet 4 for water which issues from an annular chamber 15 and is entrained by the steam in a turbulence chamber 13 where the water droplets are evaporated. Closure member 8 is controlled by a steam pressure controller (not shown) and is connected to a balancing piston 9 subjected on one face to the steam inlet pressure and on the other face to the outlet pressure which is communicated from outlet 3 via a bore 10.
Patent GB-863799-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to cylindrical ampoules for surgical injection
IPC: A61M5/28
Filed: 1957-09-06
Abstract: 863,799. Surgical syringes. FARBWERKE HOECHST A.G. Sept. 6, 1957 [Dec. 1, 1956], No. 28272/57. Class 81 (2). A cylindrical ampoule for use in a surgical syringe casing has a projecting integral or attached adaptor 3 for entry into and frictional engagement with a correspondingly recessed portion of an injection cannula. The ampoule 1 has at its forward end a rubber or synthetic plastic plug 5 having an axial bore in which a bored adapter 3 for receiving a hypodermic needle is fitted. The plug is shouldered to prevent it sliding into the ampoule and the adapter has a toroidal projection to prevent it sliding in the plug. The adapter may be integral with the plug. A cover 8 of rubber or synthetic plastic is secured to the plug or the ampoule by a flanged ring 9. The ampoule may have a neck-like opening, the plug being located inside the ampoule and the adapter projecting through the opening but having a flange to prevent it sliding into the ampoule. The adapter has either a tapered or a cylindrical needle-receiving end. The adapter may be integral with the ampoule, the plug being omitted. Reference, has been directed by the Comptroller to Specification 830,513.
Patent GB-1255787-A (GB)
Title: Unsaturated sulphonyl ether hardener for hydrophilic colloid compositions
Inventor: BURNESS DONALD MACARTHUR
IPC: G03C1/30
Filed: 1968-11-08
Abstract: 1,255,787. Bis - (vinylsulphonylmethyl) ether. EASTMAN KODAK CO. 8 Nov., 1968 [13 Nov., 1967], No ,28504/71 Divided out of 1,255,786. Heading C2C.  The novel compound bis-(vinylsulphonylmethyl) ether is prepared by reacting HOCH 2 - CH 2 SNa with ClCH 2 OCH 2 Cl to give (HOCH 2 - CH 2 SCH 2 ) 2 0 which is oxidized with H 2 0 2  to (HOCH 2 GH 2 SO 2 CH 2 ) 2 0, treating this with, e.g. SOCl 2 , to give (CICH 2 CH 2 S0 2 CH 2 ) 2 0 and dehydrochlorinating this to give the desired product, which is used as a photographic hardener.
Patent GB-941836-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to detergent compositions in tablet form
Inventor: WARD NORMAN ERNEST
IPC: C11D10/04
Filed: 1960-08-17
Abstract: Detergent tablets comprise (a) a preformed alkaline earth metal, magnesium, zinc or aluminium salt of a C14-18-alkyl benzene sulphonic acid, (b) a performed soluble soap derived from a fat composition containing 20-40% by weight of a vegetable coconut-type oil in which 50% by weight of the fatty acids present have 12 and 14 carbon atoms, and (c) C12-18-saturated fatty acid, the weight ratio of (a):(b) being 4 : 1 to 1 : 4, and (c) comprising 1-10% by weight of the total composition.  (a) is preferably the calcium or magnesium salt of hexadecylbenzene sulphonic acid while soap (b) is suitably the sodium soap derived from a 30% coconut oil/70% tallow mixture; fatty acid (c) is preferably lauric acid. According to the Provisional Specification, perfume, colour, opacifying agents and superfatting agents may also be present.
Patent GB-957343-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to expansion joints for pressurised fluid circuits
Inventor: KNIGHTS HERBERT CHILVERS
IPC: G21D1/02
Filed: 1961-08-09
Abstract: 957,343. Expansion joints. UNITED KINGDOM ATOMIC ENERGY AUTHORITY. July 19, 1962 [Aug. 9, 1961], No. 28750/61. Addition to 896,985. Heading F2G. An expansion joint comprises an inner flexible joint 11, e.g. a bellows, an outer sliding joint 14 incorporating sealing means 21, 22, and means for pressurizing the space 24 between the joints to reduce the pressure differential across the flexible joint. As shown, gaseous coolant under high pressure is passed through the ducts 12, 13 between a pressure vessel and a heat-exchanger of a gas-cooled nuclear reactor and a connection is made between a union 23 and a supply of fresh coolant, for making good any leakage from the coolant circuit in the pressure vessel, so that the space 24 is pressurized to a pressure equivalent to that in the ducts. A connection is made between the union 25 and exhaust through a valve sensitive to the coolant pressure within the pressure vessel so that in the event of a pressure drop in the vessel the excess pressure in the space 24 is exhausted througn the valve and to prevent rupturing of the bellows. A joint for coaxial ducting incorporates a second inner bellows coaxial with the bellows 11.
Patent GB-1105307-A (GB)
Title: Crimped synthetic staple fibres
Inventor: ROBINSON JOSEPH COURT
IPC: D02G1/00
Filed: 1964-07-13
Abstract: Crimped staple fibres are produced by passing a tow of continuous filaments of a polyamide, polyethylene terephthalate or polyolefin at least twice across the same or separate surfaces (provided by one or more bodies) heated to a temperature above the melting point of the filaments so as to heat the tow on two opposing sides continuously along its length, cutting the tow into short fibre lengths and relaxing the continuous filaments or the cut fibres by subjecting them to a shrinkage, e.g. heat, treatment.  The temperatures of the surfaces may be similar or different.
Patent GB-722818-A (GB)
Title: An improved antistick coating composition and building materials treated therewith
IPC: C09D101/26
Filed: 1951-12-07
Abstract: An antistick composition for application to tacky bituminous surfaces comprises a water-soluble cellulose ether or alginate (see Group III) as film-forming material and a normally liquid water-soluble polyalkylene glycol and/or mono-ether derivative thereof as plasticizer, the hygroscopicity of the latter being not substantially greater than that of the film-forming material alone.  The glycols used may be polyethylene glycols and the water-soluble ethylene and propylene glycol copolymers of U.S.A. Specification 2,425,845.  The preferred mono-ether derivatives of such polyglycols are the C1-C4 alkyl ethers.  Typical suitable copolymers and their ethers are the members of the 75-H series (diols) and the 50-HB series (mono-butyl ethers) of fluids marketed under the Registered Trade Mark "Ucon." An example of an antistick coating is a film deposited from a water solution of 2 parts by weight of a water-soluble methyl cellulose and 1-4 parts by weight of a polyalkylene glycol mono-ether derivative having a low hygroscopicity, e.g. "Ucon" 50-HB.  This composition may be applied as an aqueous solution, which may contain as little as 3 per cent by weight of the composition.  The compositions may be applied to bitumen-surfaced metal building sheets (see Group VIII). Specifications 410,305 and 583,241 are referred to.ALSO:An antistick composition for application to tacky bituminous surfaces comprises a water soluble alginate (or water soluble cellulose ether (see Group IV a) ) as film-forming material, and a normally liquid water-soluble polyalkylene glycol and/or mono-ether derivative thereof as plasticizer, the hydroscopicity of the latter being not substantially greater than that of the film-forming material alone.  The glycols used may be polyethylene glycols and the water soluble ethylene and propylene glycol copolymers of U.S. Specification 2,425,845.  The preferred mono-ether derivatives of such polyglycols are the C1-C4 alkyl ethers.  Typical suitable copolymers and their ethers are the members of the 75-H series (diols) and the 50-HB series (mono-butyl ethers) of fluids marketed under the Registered Trade Mark "Ucon." An example of a composition in the form of a solution suitable for application is made by dissolving in water 2 per cent by weight of sodium alginate, 1 per cent of soap and 1 to 2 per cent of "Ucon" 50-HB.  The alginates used may be sodium potassium or ammonium alginate or copper or zinc-ammonium alginate.  The soap ingredient is optional and functions as a wetting agent.  The compositions may be applied to bitumen-surfaced building sheets (see Group VIII). Specifications 410,305 and 583,241 are referred to.