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Patent GB-527114-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in catalytic heating apparatus
IPC: B01J35/02
Filed: 1939-03-31
Abstract: 527,114. Catalytic heating apparatus. SOC. LYONNAISE DES RECHAUDS CATALYTIQUES SOC. ANON. March 31, 1939, No. 10148. Convention date, April 21, 1938. [Class 75 (i)] In a catalytic heating apparatus for use with fuels comprising rela. tively less volatile products, a metal reflector b is disposed adjacent the catalytic body a for reflecting back heat radiated from the latter to increase the combustion temperature and the temperature of the upper part d' of the wick d, the screen and body having a slope of the order of 30 degrees to the horizontal to prevent stagnation of hot inert gases between them. The screen and body may have the shape of a two-sided roof with open or closed ends, a cone, a pyramid, a frustrum of a cone or pyramid or a spherical segment, and the screen has an orifice c for creating a draught. In an apparatus of larger dimensions, additional air inlets in the form of aspirating louvres m, may be provided in the screen at a point where the air entering at k has all been transformed into inert gases. A metallic device comprising a part j connected by arms i to a perforated collar g may be provided on the upper part of the wick d for conducting heat thereto. For heating aircraft engines, the heater may be placed outside the cowling, the screen being arranged inside a sheath and the orifice c being connected to a heat insulated flexible metallic pipe introduced through a corresponding opening in the bottom of the cowling. A gauze is interposed in the path of the hot gases. When placed inside the cowling, a complete sheath provided with a gauze is used. An apparatus of medium power may be suspended by hooks under the cowling and a larger apparatus may be mounted on a carriage.
Patent GB-1171398-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to a Continuous Metal Casting Installation having Discharge Means for Severed Ingots
IPC: B22D11/126
Filed: 1967-03-03
Abstract: 1,171,398. Continuous casting-machines. GOSUDARSTVENNY SOJUZNY INSTITUT PO PROEKTIROVANIJU METALLURGICHESKIKH ZAVODOV. 3 March, 1967 [3 March, 1966], No. 10158/67. Heading B3F. A continuous casting installation comprising a mould 1, secondary cooling device and guides 3, extractor rolls 4, severing device 5 and clamps 6, has a carriage 7 into which starter bars 9 are lowered, and a carriage 10 into which ingots 12 severed from the cast strand 2 are lowered by the clamps 6. The carriage 10 stores the severed ingots 12 vertically until required for use when they are then turned to a horizontal position by lowering pivoted side walls of compartments 11 in the carriage 10. The carriages 7, 10 have moving means 13, 14 for advancing them beneath the strand 2. The carriage 10 may have two rows of compartments 11, and parallel adjacent tracks for the carriage may be provided by which means each row may be aligned with the strand 2.
Patent GB-867590-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to soldering tools
IPC: B23K3/06
Filed: 1958-03-31
Abstract: 867,590. Soldering. GUSTAFSSON, A. March 31, 1958 [March 30, 1957], No. 10182/58. Class 83 (4). In a portable electric soldering tool having a receptacle for solder and a device for feeding the solder to an electrically-heatable bit detachably secured to a heater device carried by the body of the tool, the body which also carries a handle, is together with the heater spaced from a conduit which guides the solder to the bit when fed thereto by the feeding device, the body is a tubular member having spaced cooling fins externally arranged thereon and the solder guiding conduit is formed by a tube which is secured in substantially parallel and spacedapart relationship with the body by its cooling fins which maintain the conduit at such a distance from the body and heater, and, when the tool is in a normal position of use, below the heater, that melting of the solder in the conduit by heat from the heater prematurely before reaching the bit is prevented and the bit is detachably clamped in heat transfer relationship with the heater at an acute angle, preferably about 25 degrees, relative to the solder guiding conduit by means of a clamping device operable by a finger of the user's hand holding the rod by its handle. In an embodiment, the tool comprises a piston having a transparent plastic handle 1 secured to one end of a hollow body 2 provided with cooling apertures 21 and cooling fins 3 and an electric heater 4 secured to the other end of the body. A copper bit 6 is releasably held in an extension 5 of the heater by a resilient hook 7 on the end of a spring-urged rod 8 passing through the body 2 and handle. A knob 9 on the rod may be pressed to release the bit. A tube 11 parallel with and beneath the body passes through and is secured to the fins 3. A reel of solder wire 18 is arranged on a pin in the handle and is fed through the tube 11 by a trigger 15 operating a toothed ratchet-wheel 14 coacting with a wheel 17. A heat-resisting wall 22 having a shield 20 in front of the trigger is provided. The solder may alternatively be in rod, bar or pellet form and the feeding-device may include friction-wheels.
Patent GB-1163978-A (GB)
Title: Holder for Spray Material Containers
Inventor: MUELLER ARTHUR
IPC: B65D83/16
Filed: 1967-03-03
Abstract: 1,163,978. Spray-producers. A. MULLER. 3 March, 1967 [7 March, 1966], No. 10295/67. Heading B2F. [Also in Division F1] Apparatus suitable for spraying a liquid such as a lacquer contained in a pressurized receptacle 1 comprises a handgrip 8 detachably secured to the receptacle 1 and having mounted thereon lever means 17 adapted to actuate a valve member 19 controlling the discharge of the lacquer through a nozzle 20, and a pair of concentric hood members 6, 7 which are provided with radial openings 10 and 15 respectively for the discharge facing away from the handgrip 8. The hood 7 is formed integrally with the grip 8 and the hood 6 is provided with slit (12), fig. 2 (not shown) so that it engages the neck of the receptacle 1 resiliently. In a modification figs. 4 and 5, (not shown) the lever actuates the valves of a pair of pressurized receptacles (2), (3) simultaneously so that two components of a lacquer are discharged in intersecting streams. In a further embodiment, Figs. 6-8 (not shown) the inner hood (24) is provided with a discharge nozzle (29) and the hood is injection moulded in a non-removable manner within an outer hood (25).
Patent GB-1273963-A (GB)
Title: Card reader
Inventor: LOVENDUSKY CHARLES MICHAEL
IPC: G06K13/073
Filed: 1971-04-20
Abstract: 1,273,963. Magnetic card reader. AMP Inc. 20 April, 1971 [5 May, 1970], No. 10301/71. Heading G4M. Magnetic credit card reader has a plurality of parallel coplanar axles carrying card transporting wheels and a magnetic reading head mounted above the wheels, one of the axles carrying two spaced wheels and a further axle carrying one wheel situated directly below the reading head and extending into the space between the two wheels. The reader has a support block 72 having openings 73 in side walls arranged to receive grooved members 74, 75 supporting the axles 47 (only one of which is shown). The axles are rotatable in arms 68a, 68b having a boss 77 at one end receivable in slots 80 in block 72 and receiving rods 79. Beneath block 72 is adjustable situated base member 82 having parallel lateral legs 89 extending downwardly at an acute angle to the top surface of the member. The legs have threaded bores 91 receiving set screws 90 and the member has a threaded bore 84 receiving an adjusting screw passing through a through hole 86 in member 72. The rods 79 are situated in the spaces between legs 89 and may be individually adjusted by set screws 90 or may be adjus ed in common by screw 88. The rods 79 (Fig. 7) are spring loaded to force the wheels upwards against a card 13 so that one wheel presses the card against the reading head 19. The reader may have a further spaced pair of wheels situated on the free side of the one wheel and may have a further wheel situated the further pair. The axles may be driven via belts and sprockets via a motor controlled by a printed circuit arrangement providing external information signals. A card having suitable embossed regions is received in a slot in the reader having an enlarged portion locating and positioning the embossed regions. The card operates a microswitch. A printed circuit board situated above the head is secured to pillars on member 72. The motor can be driven forward or in reverse.
Patent GB-1536190-A (GB)
Title: Gas scrubber
IPC: F01N3/04
Filed: 1976-03-15
Abstract: 1536190 Gas scrubber DRESSER INDUSTRIES INC 15 March 1976 [7 April 1975] 10319/76 Heading B1R A gas scrubber for cleaning and cooling exhaust gases comprises an enclosure 20 having an inlet 26 for the exhaust gases and a tube 30 connected at one end to the inlet; the tube has an inlet section 32 which extends downwardly into a transition section 35 having an orifice 34 submerged below the level 15 of a liquid contained in the enclosure, and an expansion section 38 leading to an outlet 39; in use the hot exhaust gases pass through the inlet section to the transition section where drops of liquid are induced through the orifice to mix with the gases, the wetted gases then passing to the expansion section where they are decelerated sufficiently to separate liquid droplets and particulates from the gases, the gases then flowing to an outlet 28 in the enclosure and the droplets and particulates falling from the open end 39 of the tube into the liquid bath.
Patent GB-678793-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in aerial supports
Inventor: LEE EDGAR MORTON
IPC: H01Q1/12
Filed: 1951-05-02
Abstract: 678,793. Brackets. BELLING & LEE, Ltd. May 2, 1951. No. 10336/51. Class 52 (v). [Also in Group XL (c)] A support for an aerial rod or mast 1 (see Group XL (c) comprises two bracket members 2 with clamping pieces 2a which carry eccentric bushes 9 rotatable to adjust the angular variation of the mast 1 from the vertical. Each bush has a central hole to fit the mast 1 and four different diameters referenced 10,11,12,13 respectively. The annular part 11 of each bush is eccetrically disposed with respect to the central hole and is embraced by the suitably shaped ends of members 2 and 2a. The bushes are rotatable in the brackets and on the mast 1. Thus, if the supporting fitting is not truly vertical, due, for example, to irregularity of brickwork in a chimney stack fitting as in Fig. 1 (not shown), the bushes may be relatively rotated until the mast 1 assumes a truly vertical position. The bolts 14 may then be tightened to clamp the mast 1 securely in position. The bushes are preferably of resilient material such as rubber but may be of non-resilient material or of metal in which case they must be slit longitudinally at one or more points if it is desired to contract them to grip the mast 1. Where the bushes are of metal or non-resilient material the eccentric part 11 of each bush may be formed as a part spherical surface so that the slight angular . movement of the axes of the bushes during adjustment does not cause twisting of the arms 2.
Patent GB-358447-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to the manufacture of iron or steel
IPC: C21C7/00
Filed: 1930-04-02
Abstract: In a process of manufacturing steel which does not age magnetically, the absorption of oxygen is prevented during melting, or the steel is deoxidized, or both measures are employed.  The steel may contain up to 5 per cent of silicon, aluminium, phosphorus, tungsten, molybdenum, chromium, or nickel, separately or together.
Patent GB-749239-A (GB)
Title: Television receiver cabinet
Inventor: EDWARDS BADEN JOHN
IPC: H04N5/645
Filed: 1952-12-02
Abstract: 749,239. Cathode-ray tubes. PYE, Ltd. Dec. 2, 1953 [Dec. 2, 1952], No. 10460/55. Divided out of 749,183, [Group XL (b)]. Class 39 (1). [Also in Groups XL (b) and XL (c)] In a television receiver cabinet the screen end of the cathode-ray tube is received in a frame 10 and the tube is held in position by a strut 14 having an aperture 14a through which the neck of the tube passes, the portion of the strut surrounding the aperture pressing on the bulb portion of the tube so that the bulb is held under compression between the strut and frame without the weight of the tube being supported by the neck. The strut is secured to side plates 15 provided with flanges 15a received in slots 16 in the frame. Lugs 17 fitting into holes 18 locate the side plates in position and the assembly is secured within the cabinet by wood screws passing through holes 15c into the side walls. The deflecting coils, focusing magnets and centring magnets are carried by a tubular member 25 (illustrated in detail in Fig. 4, not shown) formed with a flange 25a shaped to engage a portion 14b of the strut which is formed to a spherical or conical shape. The flange 25a is secured to portion 14b by screws 26 carrying nuts and washers (not shown) and the arrangement is such that member 25 may be rocked relative to strut 14, similar to a ball- and-socket joint, to achieve a desired alignment between the deflecting coils &c. and the tube neck. Two focusing magnets are provided carried by parts 29, 29a of member 25 interengaged for relative axial displacement by handle 25.
Patent GB-105456-A (GB)
IPC: B25C1/02
Abstract: 105,456. Evans, W. J. June 8, 1916. Nailing, hand - tools for.-A band-tool for driving single nails, or two nails spaced on each side of, and at the correct distance from, a joint when fixing floorboards &c., comprises a tubular body A with a base B provided with nail passages C in which drivers D are adapted to operate. These drivers are connected to a common head E, which is raised by one or more springs G and is adapted to be lowered by a plunger F operated from a handgrip J'; a stop K limits the downward movement of the plunger. Nails are fed into the passages C from lateral openings C' at the lower ends of tubes H, which are carried up the body A and brought together, as shown in Fig. 1, convenient for the operator to insert nails in their open ends; the tool may be fitted with a nail-holding receptacle. Normally, the weight of the plunger is sufficient to compress the spring G to a certain extent, so that the drivers D close the inlets C<1>. Pointers L may be provided to assist in positioning the tool, which may also be fitted with a supporting-foot. The tool may be used with one tube H loaded for driving single nails, or a similar tool with a single driver may be constructed on the same principle.
Patent GB-925281-A (GB)
Title: New penicillin
Inventor: HOLLINGWORTH HARRY DAVIES
IPC: C07D499/60
Filed: 1960-03-25
Abstract: Relates to a -acetoxybenzyl penicillin and non-toxic salts thereof. The penicillin may be prepared by reacting 6-aminopenicillanic acid with an a -acetoxyphenylacetyl halide, or the anhydride or a mixed anhydride of a -acetoxyphenyl-acetic acid.
Patent GB-1043551-A (GB)
Title: Laminated film material and method of producing the same
IPC: B32B27/00
Filed: 1963-03-18
Abstract: In apparatus for spot-welding together two webs of film by the application of spots of hot solvent followed by pressure between rollers the solvent is applied from a suspended container which is vibrated to cause its delivery nozzle to touch the moving film intermittently.
Patent GB-568612-A (GB)
Title: A floating structure for salvaging sunken vessels and other uses
IPC: B63C7/04
Filed: 1943-07-01
Abstract: 568,612. Raising sunken ships. CREED, F. G., and FLOATING STATIONS, Ltd. July 1, 1943, No. 10719. [Class 113 (ii)] [Also in Group XXI] A floating platform 19 is supported by bridgework connecting the upper ends of columnar buoyant members 3 ... 7, of which the lower ends are secured in and blank out parts of the upper portions of horizontal tubular buoyant members 1, 2. As shown, the platform may be provided with lifting gear 22 ... 24 so that when positioned over a submerged vessel V, the latter may be raised. Alternatively, the platform may be used for sinking piles or caissons or may serve as a floating relay or refuelling station. Examples of the dimensions of the buoyant members are given and the effects of sub-surface waves on the structure are discussed.
Patent GB-789645-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to guyless or shroudless masts
IPC: B63B15/00
Filed: 1956-04-09
Abstract: 789,645. Ships' derricks. CHANTIERS DE L'ATLANTIQUE (PENHOET-LOIRE), and MACGREGOR-COMARAIN. April 9, 1956 [April 7, 1955], No. 10747/56. Class 78 (4). [Also in Group XXXIII] A guyless or shroudless mast for supporting loading gaffs and shear-legs on ships comprises at least at its base a hollow portion 12 forming a box-section structure welded to the strength deck 3 of the ship. The box-section structure comprises lateral gussets 13, 13<SP>1</SP> connected on at least one side by a transverse plate 14 and extends from the deck 3 to about the level of the top 10. The structure 12 is surmounted by a hollow shaft 18 designed under conditions corresponding to those for a conventional mast embedded in two decks. A platform 6 overlying the deck 3 supports winches 9. The derrick pins or goosenecks are shown at 11.
Patent GB-299385-A (GB)
Title: An improved telescopic clothes rail
IPC: A47B61/02
Filed: 1928-04-11
Abstract: 299,385. Brugidou, A. Oct. 25, 1927, [Convention date]. Garment racks. - A telescopic rail for wardrobes &c,. consists of a number of tubular members 1, 2, 3 of circular cross section, the outer member 1 being provided with brackets &c. 4 for attachment to the wardrobe &c. The members 2, 3 are each prevented from turning by a pin 8 thereon engaging a longitudinal slot 6 in the surrounding tube. Each member 1, 2, 3 is provided with a lower longitudinal slot 10 to guide sliders 9 arranged within the rail and connected by lazytongs 14. Each slider 9 carries a depending double hook 15 and the end sliders are secured one at the front end of the member 3 and the other at the inner end of the member 2. The garment hangers are held in place on the hooks. 15 by V-shaped leaf springs 16 formed with apertures engaging over the points of the hooks.
Patent GB-271228-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in vacuum cleaners
IPC: A47L5/34
Filed: 1926-04-23
Abstract: 271,228. Stent, T. F., and Edison Swan Electric Co., Ltd. April 23, 1926. Vacuum cleaners.-In an arrangement for adjusting the height of the suction nozzle, the rollers 22 which support it are mounted on a shalt 23 which works in a vertical slot in the nozzle casing, the simultaneous adjustment of both ends of the shaft in the slot being secured by pinions 29 on the shaft working in racks 30 where the shaft 23 is controlled by a cam 26 operated by a knob 28. The cam member is formed as a screw thread of coarse pitch so that the shaft may be operated both upwards and downwards. The cam spindle is frictionally held in its adjusted position by a spring washer.
Patent GB-694002-A (GB)
Title: Method of and apparatus for the production of metal band fastenings
IPC: B65B13/30
Filed: 1951-05-08
Abstract: 694,002. Sealing. TIMMERBEIL, E., TIMMERBEIL, P., and TIMMERBEIL, H. May 8, 1951. No. 10784/51. Class 146 (ii). In sealing the overlapping ends of metal bands by cutting therein one or more pairs of angular slits, deforming the shoulder-like parts so formed, and displacing the band ends longitudinally, as described in Specifications 267,160, [Class 94 (i)], and 417,821, [Group XXII], additional locking means are provided to secure the. band ends against rearward displacement from the engaged position. As shown in Fig. 1, tongues or flaps 14, 15 are punched out centrally and bent back towards one side of the band sufficiently to prevent the band end 12 from being separated from the end 11 ; the flaps may be located to one side of the band, and may be between two of the shoulder-like seals 13 ; the flaps may be replaced by centre-punch marks, half-moon impressions or other indentations ; locking means at the tip of one band end, or a tongue pressed out of one end to grip the tip of the adjacent end at one or both ends of the band overlap, are also referred to. The sealing machine shown in Fig. 3 incorporates a stamp 34 and die 34a to produce the locking tongues 14, 15 of Fig. 1 ; the lower band end 12 passes beneath a fixed cutter blade 23a and rests on a toothed abutment plate 26 ; the upper band end 11, extending above the blade 23a, is pressed towards the plate 26 by a combined clamp and tensioner in the form of a toothed roller 25 whose shaft, mounted in an eccentric bushing controlled by a locking lever 24, is rotated through a pawl and ratchet by a feed lever 27. A stamping lever 30, initially extending towards the right of Fig. 3, is then rotated about its pivot 40 to the position shown wherein its cam surface depresses a die 32 co-operating with a fixed die 22 to produce the seals 13 and carrying a blade co-operating with the blade 23a to cut off the end 11. The lever 30 is locked in this position by a spring-loaded catch 33 on the locking lever 24, until the latter is rotated anti-clockwise to release the clamping roller 25 and move the catch 33 opposite a part of the lever 30 which is bent clear of the catch ; the lever 30 is then swung clockwise and a pin (not shown) on its inner end engages a hook pivoted on the die 32 which withdraws the latter. The band ends are then, either positively or solely by the band tension, displaced longitudinally to engage the seals 13. Further clockwise rotation of the stamping lever 30 depresses the stamp 34 through a spring- loaded stirrup 36 comprising two plates, one on either side of the lever 30, pivoted at 37 and connected by a shaft 35 on which the stamp 34 is pivoted and by a bolt 38 engaged by the lever 30. A hook 39 engaging the bolt 38 withdraws the stamp 34 on slight anti-clockwise rotation of the lever 30. The die 34a is slotted at the front to allow withdrawal of the tongues 14, 15.