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Patent GB-1306571-A (GB)
Title: Machine for making soft ice cream or gelatin soft ice cream
IPC: A23G9/32
Filed: 1970-02-04
Abstract: 1306571 Ice cream APAW SA 5 Feb 1970 [8 Feb 1969] 5456/71 Divided out of 1295945 Heading A2B [Also in Division F4] A machine for the production of either soft ice cream or gelatin soft ice cream comprises an ice cream mixing and freezing chamber surrounded by an evaporator forming part of a refrigerating circuit, a tank above the chamber for storing the liquid mix, with means for supplying the liquid mix and air to the chamber, a heat transfer circuit for the tank comprising a first heat exchanger in contact with the evaporator, a second exchanger in contact with a heating element, and a third exchanger surrounding the tank, a heat transfer fluid being actively circulated through the circuit, the operation of the circulating actuator being thermostatically controlled, there being a fluid switch which may be manually operated, whereby the third exchanger may be connected either with the first or with the second exchanger. In one form, the first and second exchangers are in series, and the heating element is electric, said element being switched off when the third exchanger is connected with the first exchanger. In another form the first and second exchanger are in parallel, and the heating element is a condensor of the ice cream freezing machine.
Patent GB-384284-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to buckle attaching devices
IPC: B64D17/32
Filed: 1931-02-23
Abstract: 384,284. Parachute &c. fastenings. LABRIQUE, G., 24, Rue Bosquet, Brussels. Feb. 23, 1931, No. 5609. Convention date, June 26, 1930. Void [Published under Sect. 91 of the Acts]. [Class 44.] The straps securing a parachute and the straps of a seat attachment for the aviator are fastened by a single device which is operated in one direction to permit simultaneous release of all the seat attachment straps and in the opposite direction to release the parachute. The seat and parachute straps are respectively secured to clasps 5, 6, Fig. 4, adapted to be inserted and automatically locked in slots 2a, 2b in a casing 2, the latter being also formed with a slot 2d to receive a similar clasp on the free end of the parachute belt. The clasps 5 are held in locked position by the engagement in holes 5a of bevelled pins 9a on a plate 9, Fig. 1, which is urged upwardly by a spring 10 ; on depression of the head 11, the plate 9 is forced downwardly and when the pins 9a are free of the holes 5a, the clasps 5 are automatically ejected from the casing by springs 8 mounted on a washer-plate 7. The parachute clasps 6 are similarly locked by the engagement in holes 6a of bevelled pins 12a on the underside of a plate 12 which is urged downwardly by the spring 10 ; upward movement of the plate 12 to release the clasps 6 is effected by raising the head 11 by the rotation of a dished hand-wheel 15, the head 11 being provided with a pin 16 engaging a cam 17 on the casing and screws engaging a groove in a collar secured to the plate 12. Springs 14 on a plate 13 automatically eject the clasps 6 on disengagement of the pins 12a. The wheel 15 is held against accidental rotation by a stop 18, Fig. 4, carried by a blade spring 19, while to prevent release of the clasps 6 before the clasps 5 there is provided on the head 11 a pin 11b which projects through an aperture 15a in the wheel 15 and engages a recess 2f in the casing ; the wheel 15 is thus held against rotation until the head 11 is depressed to release the clasps 5, re-engagement of the pin 11b, after such release, being prevented by a spring stop 21.
Patent GB-488019-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to steering-mechanism for cycles
IPC: B62K21/20
Filed: 1938-02-23
Abstract: 488,019. Cycle steering-mechanism; spring forks. HUSSY, J. A. Feb. 23, 1938, No. 5701. Convention date, Feb. 25, 1937. [Classes 136 (i) and 136 (iii)] Steering-mechanism for motor and other cycles comprises a disc 1 rigid with the front of the cycle frame, a stem 5 traversing the disc 1 and rotatable relatively thereto (as by roller &c. bearings 6), a tubular member 7 carrying the handle-bar (as by means of a strap 24 fixed thereto) and turning with the stem 5, and a plunger 16 which carries the fork limbs 17 and turns with the tubular member 7 but moves axially relatively thereto under the control of a spring 20 to absorb road shocks. The lower end of the tubular member or sleeve 7 is forked, and the limbs 17 of the wheel - carrying fork pass through guides 22 fixed to the sleeve and are screwed into the plunger 16, the downward movement of which is limited by brackets 19 fixed to the sleeve. Upper and lower friction discs 8, 9 are pressed against the disc 1 by a spring 10 in an axially-movable cup 12 mounted in a cover 13 secured to the sleeve 7 by a nut 14, the lower disc 9 abutting against a partition 21 rigid with the sleeve 7.
Patent GB-439271-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to high frequency electric cables
IPC: H01B11/20
Filed: 1935-02-22
Abstract: 439,271. Cables. SIEMENS & HALSKE AKT.-GES., Siemensstadt, Berlin. Feb. 22, 1935, No. 5775. Convention date, March 28, 1934. [Class 36] In a high-frequency cable comprising one or more core groups, each core group, for the purpose of increasing its inductance, is surrounded by a sheath of magnetizable material which is subdivided to reduce eddy current losses. The sheath may be formed by winding a tape of magnetizable material around the cone group with the turns of the tape insulated from one another, or spaced apart. The tape may be applied in a number of layers which are insulated from one another. Alternatively, the sheath may consist of magnetizable particles which are mixed or sprayed with insulating adhesive material and secured to an insulating strip which is wrapped around the core group. In the construction shown, a single core group, comprising air-space insulated conductors 10, 11 stranded together and enclosed in an insulating sheath 15, is wound with a magnetizable tape 16 with spaced turns, over which is applied an insulating layer 17 and a lead sheath 18. The air-space insulation of the conductors 10, 11 is built up by winding on the conductors an insulating cord consisting of a thread 13 spun round a thread 12 and then applying over the cord winding a lapping of insulation 14. The insulation 13, 14, 15, 17 is preferably of polystyrol. In another construction a cable comprises a quad lapped with two open windings of magnetizable tape which are insulated from each other, whilst in a further embodiment the cable has three core groups which are individually wound, in overlapping turns, with the magnetizable tape, the tape being coated with varnish to insulate the turns from one another.
Patent GB-801119-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to emulsions
Inventor: DUIN HENDRIK JAN
IPC: A23D7/00
Filed: 1954-02-26
Abstract: Highly-packed, heat-stable, oil-in-water emulsions, particularly edible fat preparations, are made by intensive stirring, e.g. stirring in a turbo mixer at 3000 r.p.m., followed by homogenizing, of the oil with an aqueous phase in the presence of a water-soluble emulsifying agent containing an anionic or non-ionic, capillary-active, hydrophilic substance, other than a fatty acid substituted protein hydrolysate, of formula RXY, in which R is a hydrocarbon radical containing at least 8 carbon atoms in a straight chain, X is the -O-, -S-, -N-, -CH2-, <FORM:0801119/VI/1> or <FORM:0801119/VI/2> radical, and Y is an inorganic or organic radical containing a water-solubilizing group <FORM:0801119/VI/3> -SO3M, -PO3M2, or substituted or unsubstituted polyoxyalkylene, M being hydrogen, an alkali metal, ammonium or substituted ammonium.  The agents are exemplified by: sodium N-stearoyl, N-lauroyl and N-oleyl sarcosines; sodium N-stearoyl glutamate, proline and glycine; partial esters of phosphoric acid with higher fatty alcohols, e.g. the sodium salt of monostearyl phosphoric acid; aqueous preparations, of pH at least 7.5 of straight-chain fatty acids having at least 12 carbon atoms; higher fatty acid esters of sorbitan polyoxyethylene condensates of at least 20 oxyethylene groups; octadecylpolyoxyethylene ether having at least 20 oxyethylene groups; hexaglycerol monolaurate.  Examples are concerned with making 80 per cent oil emulsions of (i) soya bean oil in water containing stearic acid neutralized with sodium hydroxide and brought to pH 7.5-8 by citric acid; (ii) linseed oil in water containing polyglycol stearoyl ether; (iii) a soya bean oil, coconut oil, palm oil, palm kernel oil, hardened whale oil, hardened palm oil and lard mixture in water containing sodium lauroyl sarcoside brought to pH 5.5 by citric acid; (iv) a soya bean oil, coconut oil, palm oil, palm kernel oil, hardened whale oil, hardened palm oil and lard mixture in water containing sodium oleyl sarcoside and sorbitan mono-oleate. Specification 801,118, [Group I], and U.S.A. Specification 2,609,300 are referred to.
Patent GB-595585-A (GB)
Title: Cooling of welding or heating electrodes
IPC: B23K11/30
Filed: 1945-02-24
Abstract: 595,585. Welding electrodes. ENGLISH ELECTRIC CO., Ltd., and BARLOW, K. F. Feb. 24, 1945, No. 5802/46. Divided out of 592,598. [Class 39 (iii)] [Also in Group XXII] A fluid cooled resistance heating electrode has an external circumferential cooling surface near the contact surface in combination with an electrode holder forming a closed confined space around the cooling surface, the holder or electrode having inlet and outlet ducts communicating with the confined space whereby cooling fluid may be circulated through the space in contact with the cooling surface. The electrode 1 which is screwed in the holder 5 is formed with a groove 8 to form a cooling surface round which cooling fluid such as water is guided from an inlet duct 9 to an outlet duct 10 of larger area than the inlet duct. The electrode top has a tip silver soldered thereto consisting of a domed disc or a number of small contact pads 3 arranged in a ring. The inlet and outlet ducts may be arranged so that cooling fluid flows almost completely round the groove 8 and additional grooves and/or inlet and outlet ducts may be provided. The inlet and outlet ducts may be formed by drilling radial holes in the bottom of groove 8 in the electrode to communicate with longitudinal holes in the back of the electrode and communicating with pipes passing through the rear of the holder.
Patent GB-1314146-A (GB)
Title: Fuel tank reservoir
IPC: B60K15/077
Filed: 1972-02-08
Abstract: 1314146 Fuel tank BENDIX CORP 8 Feb 1972 [18 Feb 1971] 5843/72 Heading B7H A device for ensuring that the intake line 21 of a fuel pump is supplied with fuel when the fuel level in a tank 110 is low and under acceleration and/or cornering forces, includes a wall 12 which forms a fuel storage space 10 and which has a fuel receiving aperture 13 at its bottom, and a fuel return jet action nozzle 30 for increasing the velocity of the return fuel, the nozzle 30 being disposed adjacent the aperture 13 and being aimed at the fuel intake line 21. The device is suitable for use with fuel injection I.C. engines in which excess fuel from the pump is returned to the tank. The flow restricting orifice 31 in the nozzle 30 increases the velocity of this return fuel and directs it through aperture 13 into the reservoir 10, the jet of fuel also entraining fuel from the main tank 110 into the reservoir 10 to maintain an adequate level of fuel in the reservoir 10. Preferably the reservoir 10 is closed by a cover 22 so that the return fuel (which is hot) does not mix with the fuel in the main tank 110. This arrangement reduces the amount of heat transferred from the return fuel to the intank fuel, thereby reducing gas vapour emissions within the main tank.
Patent GB-1171774-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Bonding.
Inventor: CROWLEY THOMAS JOSEPH
IPC: D04H1/552
Filed: 1966-02-10
Abstract: 1,171,774. Laminates. DUNLOP CO. Ltd. 26 Jan., 1967 [10 Feb., 1966], No. 5866/66. Heading B5N. [Also in Divisions C3 and D1] A method of bonding a surface of a polymeric material having -CO-NH- linkages to another surface of a polymeric material having - CONH- linkages comprises treating at least one of the surfaces to be bonded with a halide, oxyhalide or organohalide of phosphorus, arsenic or antimony, contacting the surfaces to be bonded and isolating a bonded product. Specified polymers which may be in the form of fibres, filaments, powders, granules, felts, woven fabrics, non-woven fabrics, sheets and films are nylon-6, nylon-66, nylon-610 and polyurethanes. Many halogen-containing compounds are specified, examples being PCl 3 , POCl 3 , PCl 5 , C 6 H 5 - POCl 2 , C 6 H 5 PCl 2 , AsCl 3 , SbCl 3  and SbCl 3 . The compounds may be liquids or in the form of solutions or dispersions; alternatively vapours may be used. The treated surfaces are preferably exposed to air at ambient or elevated temperature prior to bonding. Bonding is preferably effected in a press at elevated temperature.
Patent GB-1201006-A (GB)
Title: Process for producing l-asparaginase
IPC: C12N9/82
Filed: 1969-02-04
Abstract: 1,201,006. L-Asparaginase. KYOWA HAKKO KOGYO CO. Ltd. 4 Feb., 1969 [15 Feb., 1968], No. 5928/69. Heading C3H. A process for producing an L-asparaginase enzymatic preparation with anti - tumour activity comprises culturing an L-asparaginaseproducing micro-organism of the genus Serratia under aerobic conditions, the aeration being limited to that sufficient for the growth of the micro-organism, in an aqueous nutrient medium containing 1% by weight or less of carbohydrate, accumulating cells containing L-asparaginase in the resultant culture liquor, and isolating and recovering an asparaginase preparation therefrom. The organism may be S. marcescens. Extraction of the enzyme is conventional.
Patent GB-1390349-A (GB)
Title: Integrating meter register mechanisms
IPC: G06M1/04
Filed: 1971-03-04
Abstract: 1390349 Counting apparatus SANGAMO WESTON Ltd 6 March 1972 [4 March 1971] 6030/71 Heading G4D [Also in Division H1] A cyclometer type register for use in an electric watt-hour meter operates change over contacts 82, 86 from one to the other state each time the register steps on one digit. The register is of the kind having a units wheel 11 driven through a falling weight mechanism from a further wheel 10 driven continuously by the watt-hour meter as described in Specification 1,290,858. Two such registers are used in a two tariff electricity meter and the switches are used in a signalling system (Fig. 3, not shown), like that described in Specification 1,287,292 to transmit the two readings to two remote registers also the kind described in the latter Specification. The switch comprises a magnetized disc 80 and a small bar magnet 81 which alternately attract and repel to operate the wire contacts 82, 86a, 86b. The magnet 80 is coupled to a transfer wheel 17a which is rotated through 90 degrees each time the units wheel 11 is stepped. The contacts may be replaced by a change over reed switch.
Patent GB-564560-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in feeding devices for strip material in typewriters and other imprinting or recording apparatus
IPC: B41J11/28
Filed: 1943-04-15
Abstract: 564,560. Typewriters &c. WILLIAMS, W. P. (Standard Register Co.). April 15, 1943, No. 6071. [Classes 100 (ii) and 100 (iv)] [Also in Group XV] A feeding device for strip materials in typewriters and other imprinting or recording apparatus such as addressing-machines, autographic or manifolding registers, &c., is constructed with sprocket devices for two rows of longitudinally spaced holes, one sprocket comprising a set of separate pins 16, Fig. 3, or 10, Fig. 7, each having a small degree of freedom of movement transversely, of the strip to compensate for normal variations in width of the strip due to humidity or other causes. The outer ends 17 of the pins 16 are preferably of thin flat form so as to engage elongated holes in the strip of the kind described in Specification 564,559. The inner ends 18 are spherical and are located in seatings in a disc member 13 and extend radially outwards through a recess in the disc member so as to have limited movement laterally of the web only. The pins 10, Fig. 7, are mounted so as to be reciprocated radially by a fixed cam 9 which engages slotted wings 12 on the pins in such a manner that lateral movement of the pins can take place.
Patent GB-215722-A (GB)
Title: Improved process of cold enamelling on wood, metal cement or like surfaces
Filed: 1924-03-10
Abstract: 215,722. Soc. Progil. May 7, 1923, [Convention date]. Coating-compositions.-Wood, metal, cement, and other surfaces are coated with a composition comprising a phenol-formaldehyde resin, an acid-hardening agent, such as hydrochloric or sulphuric acid, and a filler such as talc. The resin may be liquid or in basic or alcoholic solution.
Patent GB-511867-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to the manufacture and production of staple fibre
IPC: D01G1/04
Filed: 1938-02-26
Abstract: 511,867. Stapling continuous filaments. COURTAULDS, Ltd., and MORTON, E. A. Feb. 26, 1938, No. 6129. [Class 120 (iii)] Means for producing staple fibre from a tow of artificial filaments comprises, two non resilient nipping rollers o: similar or different diameter of which, one 5 has a smooth cylindrical surface, and the other 4, has helical paralle cutting ridges 9 protruding from its cylindrical surface The ridges are preferably V shaped, the top of the V being ground to a surface parallel or inclined to the surface of the other roller. The rotation of the rollers is such that the linear speed of the tips of the ridges on the one roller is substantially the same as the peripheral speed of the other roller. The thickness of the tow, and the depth of the ridges are arranged so that the ridges of the one roller touch the surface of the other throughout the cutting action.
Patent GB-1437153-A (GB)
IPC: A23L27/20
Filed: 1974-02-11
Abstract: 1437153 Flavourings FIRMENICH SA 11 Feb 1974 [9 Feb 1973] 6160/74 Heading A2B [Also in Divisions A5 C2 and C6] Foodstuffs are flavoured with a compound of the formula: wherein: n=0 and the side-chain attached at position 1 of the ring contains a double bond in the position indicated by the dotted line, or n=1 and the side-chain attached at position 1 of the ring contains a single bond in the position indicated by the dotted line; m=0 and the side-chain attached at position 5 of the ring contains a double bond in the position indicated by the dotted line, or m=1 and the side-chain attached at position 5 of the ring contains a single bond in the position indicated by the dotted line: and X represents the group wherein R represents an alkyl group having from 1 to 6 carbon atoms, and R<SP>1</SP> represents a hydrogen atom or an acyl group having from 1 to 6 carbon atoms and where X does not represent the group CHO when n is 1 and m is 0 or 1.
Patent GB-941612-A (GB)
Title: Machine for assembling components
Inventor: WEBSTER EDWARD
IPC: A45D40/00
Filed: 1960-02-23
Abstract: 941,612. Components-assembling machines; force fits. E. WEBSTER Ltd. May 11, 1961 [Feb. 23, 1960], No. 6271/60. Heading B3U. [Also in Division B5] A machine for assembling components which fit one within the other comprises a subassembly head B, a feeding mechanism C a final assembly head A and two tables 21, 23 rotatable step-by-step, the table 23 being smaller than and wholly superimposed on the table 21 and so arranged that a componentcarrying hole 24 in the upper table is vertically aligned with a component-carrying hole 22 in the lower table at the cessation of the step-bystep motions of each table. Each table is provided at its periphery with vertical hardenedsteel pegs 28 upon which act pawls 84 to provide the appropriate step-by-step motions, stop pawls 85 also being provided to prevent reverse motion of the tables. In the embodiment, assembly of a lipstick holder comprising a slotted inner member 13 (Fig. 1), a cup 16, a shell 10 with helical groove 11 and a metal cover 12 is described. The inner members 13 are inserted manually into holes 22 and shells 10 with covers 12 likewise into holes 24. The subassembly head B comprises a vertically reciprocable cross-head 30 (Fig. 9), a punch 38 which pushes a member 13 firmly into position, a tool 39 which rotates on descent of the crosshead and has a movable tongue 46 (not shown) which engages slot 18 in member 13, a tube 48 for dispensing lubricant within the member, a punch 62 and a plunger 65. The feeding mechanism C comprises a conveyer belt 53 and guides 54, 55 between which are fed cups 16 to a surface 56 where one cup at a time is frictionally held. A cup 16 is made to enter an inner member 13 by action of the punch 62 which pushes the cup between blades 63 (not shown) housed within surface 56. The blades connect with pegs 17 on the cup thereby orientating it to correspond with the pre-set position of the slot 18 as determined by the tool 39. At the same time a wedge 58 (not shown) on a pivoted arm 59 enters the slot 18 and expands the upper end of inner member 13 to receive the cup. At the next position the plunger 65 pushes the cup to the bottom of the inner member. As the inner members and cups leave the sub-assembly head they are re-orientated for final assembly by a finger 66 acting on slots 18. The final assembly head A comprises a vertically reciprocable cross-head 71 (Fig. 18), a plunger 75 which pushes the shells 10 with covers 12 fully into the holes 24, a lubricant dispenser 76 for the shells, a punch 78 which operates at the position where a hole 22 is in register with a hole 24 to force a shell and cover over an inner member 13 and an ejector punch 79 which removes the completed holder from the lower table. A radially reciprocating finger 77 (not shown) acts at the same time as the punch 78 to contract the upper end of the inner member. In advance of the final assembly head a pivoted member 81 with finger 82 engages the shells in the upper table, a switch 83 being actuated by an over-size shell to stop the machine.
Patent GB-729093-A (GB)
Title: Method and apparatus for sealing containers
Inventor: HOHL JOHN
IPC: B67B3/22
Filed: 1953-03-06
Abstract: 729,093. Closuring containers. OWENSILLINOIS GLASS CO. March 6, 1953, No. 6292/53. Class 125 (2). In closuring containers such as jars in a sterile fashion and, with the head-space air replaced by a vapour, e.g. steam, the containers 11 are advanced by a horizontal conveyer 10 to extract a cap 12 from a shoot 13 and then to pass under a sealing head 14 and are subjected in their passage to the following vapour streams : firstly a horizontal line of streams issuing from a line of orifices 49 ; secondlv a concentrated series of horizontal streams issuing from orifices 50 ; thirdly, a series of vertical streams issuing from orifices 53 ; fourthly, a series of vertical sheets issuing from slits 56 and also impinging on the caps as they leave the shoot ; and fifthly, a series of horizontal streams issuing from an apertured plate 63. The horizontal streams are directed from orifices along both sides of the line of the machine. The steam may be superheated. The vapour flows from a pipe 35 to an end chamber 34 from which it leaves through two apertured distributer slates 32, one at each side of the machine to enter side channels 21, 22 provided with the orifices 49, 50 in depending parts. At their front ends, channels 21, 22 are joined by a channel 23, the base of which is provided with the orifices 53 and the front of which carries a member 55 including the slots 56 and adjustably mounted by screws 58. Apertures 26, 27 at the forward ends of channels 21, 22 lead to extension channels 24, 25 on which are mounted the apertured plates 63. While passing between the channels 21, 22, the containers are surmounted by a plate 48 which confines the treating vapour.