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Patent GB-162784-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to the construction of buildings
IPC: E04B1/41
Filed: 1920-07-03
Abstract: 162,784. Moss, H. B., Knowles, T., and Knowles, F. H. July 3, 1920. Walls.-Consists in building a cavity wall of courses A, B, Fig. 2, of bricks placed on edge with continuous flat reinforcing - members D between some or all of the courses, the reinforcement being carried round corners as shown in Fig. 4, to tie all the walls together. Transverse wall ties E, Fig. 2, may be employed and the reinforcement may be carried round a chimney F, Fig. 4. Specification 19949/06 is referred to.
Patent GB-1092101-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to electric voltage measuring apparatus
Inventor: REW IAN ARTHUR
IPC: G01R19/00
Filed: 1964-01-27
Abstract: 1,092,101. Voltage stabilizers. SANGAMO WESTON Ltd. Jan.22, 1965 [Jan.27, 1964], No.3424/64. Heading G3X. [Also in Division G1] A stable voltage source 21 - consisting of a transistor, Zener diodes 24, 28, and resistors 25, 25, 26 connected as shown - is such that for a given range of input voltages (e. g. 20 to 30 volts) applied between terminals 22, 23, a constant output voltage (e. g. 6 volts) appears across terminals 20, 23. The source is designed to provide a reference voltage for use in a voltmeter which meters the difference between the input voltage and the reference voltage, thus providing a suppressed zero scale (see Division G1).
Patent GB-228932-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to steam boilers with vertical water tubes
IPC: F22B21/00
Filed: 1925-02-06
Abstract: 228,932. Wiesinger, K., and Rheinische Metallwaaren-und Maschinenfabrik. Feb. 9, 1924, [Convention date]. Water-tube boilers.-Vertical water tubes d heated directly by the boiler furnace and tubes e heated only by the furnace gases are so connected to a longitudinal steam and water drum a that the circulations through the groups of tubes combine and assist one another for a portion of their path in the drum. The lower ends of the tubes d open into a frame or drum b, which is connected to the rear of the drum a by a large diameter return-flow tube c. The tubes e are U-shaped and may enclose a superheater. The tubes d may be fitted with internal helical partitions. The feed is supplied through a branch i in the return-flow tube.
Patent GB-113677-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or connected with Grinding Machines.
Inventor: BAMBURG GODFREY
IPC: B02C19/20
Filed: 1917-03-09
Abstract: 113,677. Bamburg, G. March 9, 1917. Impact pulverizers.-Relates to machines for pulverizing materials, such as resinous or fatty compounds, that clod under heat and pressure, comprising a rotary drum formed from sheets of stabbed steel. The drum consists of a number of wood split-pulleys 1 to each section of which is secured a sheet of stabbed steel 2. The sheets may be secured by screws and by turning-in the ends 3. The pulleys are secured to a shaft 4 and can be dismounted separately for renewal or repair of the sheets. The drum is arranged in a wood casing 8 under an inclined baffle 9, and pulverization is effected by impact, the usual devices for pressing the materials against the drum being dispensed with. The baffle may consist of 4 sheets of stabbed steel provided with a massive wood backing; or the baffle may have a smooth surface. The drum runs close to the casing, and a plate 10 is provided for preventing the delivery of insufficiently fine powder. The casing 8 is provided with a feed-door 11, a delivery door 18, and doors 12, 21 for giving access to the drum. The shaft 4 is mounted in bearings 5 on brick piers 7. Wood bricks are preferably employed, and the corner-posts 13 of the casing are secured to the piers by screws 22. Two of the machines may be arranged side by side and may have a common shaft 4 which is provided between the machines with fast and loose pulleys 15, 16.
Patent GB-287287-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in silencers for internal combustion engines
IPC: F01N1/06
Filed: 1927-02-08
Abstract: 287,287. Ford, W. V. Feb. 8, 1927. Exhaust-silencers. - The silencer comprises a main casing A with end passings B, C forming inlet and outlet chambers and between each of which and the casing is a tube plate D, E, the whole being held together by a long bolt J. Each tube plate is pressed up to form circular shoulders such as f, f<1>, g, g<1> to locate pairs of concentric tubes h, h<1> and j, j<1>. The pressings m the plate D are cut away at the centre to provide inlets from the chamber B, but those in the plate E are retained, but they may be perforated. The inner tubes h<1>, j<1> are perforated mainly at the end near the outlet as at m, n, and the tubes h, j mainly at the opposite ends as at p, q. A dividing partition H may be provided in the inlet chamber B The gases after traversing the pairs of tubes pass into the casing A, whence they escape through holes r, Fig. 4, in the plate E. A small portion of the gases may pass directly from chamber B to the casing A, and additional holes may be drilled in the tubes and end plates to short circuit any desired proportion of the gases.
Patent GB-324532-A (GB)
Title: Shooting spectacles
IPC: G02C5/00
Filed: 1929-02-04
Abstract: 324,532. Amon, H. A. Feb. 4, 1929. No Patent granted (Sealing fee not paid). Spectacles.-In shooting spectacles an adjustable aiming glass is suspended to keep it vertical when the head is inclined for aiming, being pivoted to the end of the arm 4 which lies in the plane of the visual glass 2.
Patent GB-1298858-A (GB)
Title: Method and apparatus for heat bonding
IPC: B29C65/00
Filed: 1970-04-24
Abstract: 1298858 Laminating E I DU PONT DE NEMOURS & CO 24 April 1970 [6 June 1969] 3717/71 Divided out of 1298857 Headings B5K and B5N A process for heat-bonding an edge of a first thermoplastic resin body portion to an edge or surface of another thermoplastic resin body portion comprises advancing said first object along a path with its edge in contact with a heated release surface moving therewith to melt its edge, progressively removing said first body portion and thereby the molten edge from said release surface and progressively contacting said molten edge with said edge or said surface of said another body portion in sufficiently heated condition to cause heat-bonding at the location of said contact. The process of the invention may be used inter alia for the manufacture of laminates or tubes. An apparatus used in the process comprises means for advancing a first body portion of thermoplastic resin having an edge along a path, means for advancing a second body portion of thermoplastic resin along a path intersecting the first mentioned path to cause the edge of said first body portion and said second body portion to come progressively together, heated surface release means advancing in contact with said edge along the firstmentioned path to melt the edge and means for heating at least that portion of said second body portion which contacts the molten edge of said first body portion. In one embodiment, a structure 15 comprising a film 4 having ribs 6 and 8 integrally moulded therewith is fed from a reel 20 through a nip between hot roll 22 and guide roll 24 to melt the ribs and form flanges 10 thereon, the hot roll 22 being covered with a layer 26 of release material, the resultant structure with the flanges still molten being contacted on roll 38 with a layer 12 of thermoplastic resin continuously formed on the roll 38 by extrusion through die 40 and the resultant laminate passed through take-off rolls 52. In a further embodiment (Fig. 11), the ribs of a ribbed structure are contacted with a surface of a moving conveyer belt 76 made of a release material and heated by an electric heater 68 to melt the ribs and form molten flanges thereon prior to calendering the ribbed structure with a film 12 between rolls 78 and 80. In the embodiment shown in Fig. 12, a sheet 100 of thermoplastic resin is advanced along structure 102, the edges 104 and 106 of the sheet first each moving in contact with conveyer-like belts 108 and 110 heated by heaters 114 to form molten beads of resin along the said edges 104 and 106 and the sheet being passed whilst the beads are still molten into cylindrical forming tube 120 and around mandrel 124 to form a tube. In a further embodiment described with reference to Figs. 13 to 15 (not shown), tubular shapes formed of thermoplastic resin are bonded to thermoplastic resin sheeting.
Patent GB-593430-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to coke ovens, gas retorts, and like furnaces
IPC: C10B29/02
Filed: 1945-02-14
Abstract: 593,430. Coke ovens and furnaces. SOC. DE TECHNIQUE INDUSTRIELLE. Feb. 14,1945, No. 3742. Convention date, Jan. 14, 1942. [Classes 51 (ii) and 55 (i)] In a coke oven or furnace the heating walls forming the coking or like chamber are formed of units built up of silica or other refractory bricks, each unit containing one or more heating flues, the units being separated from one another by expansion joints extending transversely of the wall and so dimensioned as to close at the working temperature of the oven. As shown in Fig. 2, the units 1 are separated by expansion joints 5 and are held in place in the lower part 3 of the oven by means of a tenon 1a and are similarly held in the upper part 4, the upper and lower parts of the oven being made of silicoaluminous material. The units are formed with a central web, which provides two flue passages 2, 2 which are connected by an upper horizontal conduit 2a. The upper part of the oven may be formed as a direct extension of the unit members, in which case it will be formed of silica bricks. The expansion joint 5 between the units may be formed as in Fig. 5 with engaging projections and recesses on adjacent bricks of adjacent units to avoid any horizontal or vertical displacement of the units with respect to each other. The inner faces of the bricks may be formed with projections 15, Fig. 8, providing a staggered path for the heating gases. The height of the division wall 16, Fig. 10, between the heating flues may be adjusted by superimposing bricks 19 upon it, the ends of these bricks being held between ribs 18 on the side walls.
Patent GB-953941-A (GB)
Title: Sheet member holder
IPC: B42F9/00
Filed: 1962-01-31
Abstract: 953,941. Holders for tickets and the like. J. E. B. ROBINSON. Oct. 17, 1962 [Jan. 31, 1962], No. 3760/62. Heading B8F and B8P. [Also in Division E2] A holder for tickets, invoices, bills or bank notes comprises a base 2 supporting a pair of side walls 4 which have lips projecting inwardly, a displaceable platform 8 carried between the walls and urged into constant contact with the lips 6 by expandable means 10 which may be foamed polyurethane. End walls 12 prevent longitudinal movement of the means 10, but they may be omitted if the latter is attached to the base and to the platform. The holder is made of sheet material or is moulded in a non- resilient plastics material. The side walls and base may be extended to accommodate a plurality of platforms arranged in a row.
Patent GB-1473473-A (GB)
Title: Lifting devices for raising lowering and suspending heavy loads
IPC: E02B17/08
Filed: 1975-01-28
Abstract: 1473473 Step-by-step jacks N H AHLGREN 28 Jan 1975 [30 Jan 1974 14 March 1974] 3782/75 Heading B8J [Also in Divisions D 1 and E2] A lifting device comprises a climbing jack 11 including upper and lower identical gripping devices 1, (1<SP>1</SP>), Fig. 2 (not shown), secured thereto and acting alternately in conventional manner to raise or lower a load (not shown) in conjunction with a lifting element 2. The gripping device 1 includes releasable jaws 3 of wedge shape coacting with wedge elements 8 of corresponding shape such that they would normally form a cone. The elements 8 are displaced longitudinally by a double acting piston 5 to clamp or release the element 2 by pressure medium introduced into cylinder 4 through pipes 9, 10 repsectively. The element 2 has a plurality of outer wire elements 24, shown arranged with gaps 26 around at least one inner wire 25 (seven shown), the propensity for permanent elongation of which is greater than that of the outer wire elements 24. As shown the inner elements 25 are aluminium and the outer elements 24 are steel. If a bulge (22), Fig. 3 (not shown), is formed in the element 2 a gripping device (1<SP>111</SP>) above the bulge (22) is secured to the element 2 so that the load is taken by all the elements 24, 25 to eliminate the bulge (22), a slight elongation of the inner elements 25 may occur.
Patent GB-920023-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to the manufacture of tufted pile fabrics
Inventor: CARD ROY THOMAS
IPC: D05C15/36
Filed: 1960-02-03
Abstract: 920,023. Tufting-machines. SINGERCOBBLE Inc. Feb. 3, 1960, No. 3850/60. Class 112. In a tufting-machine in which the tufts produced by a single needle may be either cut or uncut, for those tufts which are not to be cut the yarn tension is increased so as to pull them off the looper hook. A looper hook 3, Figs. 1 and 3, has a bill 7 pointing opposite the direction A of work feed, the lower edge of bill 7 being bevelled as at 8 towards the tip. A spring clip 4, secured by screws 6 to the hook, has an outwardly flared end 9 which directs the needle 1 between clip 4 and bill 7. The yarn loop 10 is retained on bill 7 by clip 4 and the work feed normally carries the loop against the reciprocating cutting blade 5. If the yarn tension is increased sufficiently to overcome the clip 4, the loop slides up the incline 8 to leave the bill. It is stated that varying yarn tension may be produced by the yarn feed arrangements described in Specifications 735,019 and 780,370; or by retracting the hook for a selected distance. In a modification the clip 4 is formed with a concave portion to accommodate the needle. In a further modification the clip is located on the side of the bill away from the needle. In the modification shown in Fig. 13, the cutting blade 19 carries a spring finger 21 which co-operates with the tip of the looper hook 20 to hold the loops thereon. Specification 849,174 also is referred to.
Patent GB-837888-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to controlling the weight of individual cigarettes produced by a cigarette making machine of the continuous rod type
Inventor: BELL ARTHUR
IPC: A24C5/18
Filed: 1957-02-05
Abstract: 837,888. Electric correspondence control systems. AMERICAN MACHINE & FOUNDRY CO. Jan. 22, 1958 [Feb. 5, 1957], No. 3944/57. Class 40 (1). [Also in Groups VI and XL (b)] A main tobacco stream being forwarded by a belt 24 (Fig. 4) to a continuous-rod cigarettemaking machine has its amount gauged by a radiation and/or dielectric device 25 so that any variations therein may be compensated by corresponding variation in a subsidiary tobacco stream added from a hopper 37. The device 25 controls the speed of a pin-wheel 30. A section of the main tobacco carpet on a belt 6 passes to a vibrator shoot 19 feeding hopper 37. In a modification the shoot 19 is fed by a conveyer 42 (Fig. 5) in the main stream hopper which intercepts a variable quantity of tobacco under the control of a pivoted plate 43 positioned according to the fullness of hopper 37 as indicated by a capacity probe or light-sensitive device therein.
Patent GB-564850-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to internal combustion engines and the like
IPC: F01L7/08
Filed: 1943-03-11
Abstract: 564,850. Valves. ASPIN, F. M. March 11, 1943, No. 3949. [Classes 7 (ii) and 7 (vi)] An engine cylinder for use with a rotary valve assembly comprising a valve housing g located at the end of the engine cylinder and formed with a tapering gas - sealing and bearing surface which co-operates with a corresponding surface on a rotary valve member h within the housing, the valve member h having a through passage open to the cylinder at one end and co-operating at its other end with a port in the tapered surface of the housing is formed with an end wall or baffle having an opening c offset from the axis of the cylinder and smaller than the adjacent end of, and directed towards, the valve h, the opening having an area substantially equal to that swept by the end of the passage in the valve h. The wall or baffle is formed in a separate member b of good heat-conducting metal which constitutes an extension of the cylinder a and is provided with spaces b<1> for cooling fluid directed on to the back of the baffle by a nozzle d<1>. An upstanding flange c on the extension b engages a recess on the valve h with the interposition of a sealing ring f. As shown, the end of the passage is concentric with the valve h, the baffle being crescent-shaped in plan, and the opening c is directed towards the ignition means g<2>. The top of the piston fits closely to the inclined lower surface of the baffle to limit gas pressure thereon and minimize the danger of detonation. Specification 463,412 is referred to.
Patent GB-1128273-A (GB)
Title: Agricultural implements
IPC: A01B3/46
Filed: 1967-01-26
Abstract: 1,128,273. Agricultural implements. G. A. WATTS. 26 Jan., 1967 [27 Jan., 1966], No. 3957/67. Heading A1B. A reversible one-way plough is provided with a rear wheel which is steerable in response to turning movements of the tractor and in response to change of working position of the plough. As shown in Fig. 2 the plough rotates on a fixed tube 12 and a tube 76 is slidable in the table 12. The tube 76 is connected at the rear by linkage 80 to the rear wheel assembly 70 and at the front by a link 84 to a bell crank lever 90 controlled by a hydraulic ram 94. The linkage is such that the wheel assembly will follow movements of the plough and when the plough is reversed the ram 94 is operated to move the linkage to set the wheel assembly in the, right position, so that the opposite plough bodies are set at the correct angle to the direction of travel. As shown in Fig. 3 an arm 10 is mounted on a shaft 56 and a hydraulic ram 102 is connected in parallel with a ram 38 which rotates the plough bodies so that as the plough bodies are rotated the ram 102 operates to set the wheel assembly in the correct position for ploughing with the opposite plough bodies. The ram 38 moves a lever 50 provided with a chain 52 mounted on a sprocket 53 on the rotatable tube 28 carrying the plough bodies, movement of the lever 50 causes movement of the chain 52 and thus the rotation of the sprocket 53.
Patent GB-635135-A (GB)
Title: Aircraft utilizing magnus effect
IPC: B64C39/00
Filed: 1947-02-11
Abstract: 635,135. Controlling aircraft. GROSE, P. C. Feb. 11, 1947, No. 3969. [Class 4] An aircraft fuselage is provided with an air chamber and two or more pairs of cylindrical rotors positioned in outlets in the air chamber at opposite sides of the fuselage, blower means for supplying air to the chamber for discharge through the outlets across the rotors and means for applying variable rotary motion to the rotors for altering and controlling their Magnus effect lift values. The aircraft is provided with normal means of propulsion 5, 6, additional lift and control being provided by two pairs of longitudinal rotors 1, 2 and 3, 4 positioned within outlets formed in the sides of an air chamber provided with an air impellor 14. Since the air is discharged over the rotors at constant velocity variation of the speeds of the rotors to vary their Magnus lift effects will influence movement of the aircraft about its rolling and pitching axes. A mechanism (Fig. 5, not shown), is described for altering and regulating the rotational speed of one pair of rotors in relation to the speed of the other pair. Specification 371,691 is referred to.
Patent GB-687153-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to exercising apparatus
IPC: A63B21/00
Filed: 1950-02-16
Abstract: 687,153. Exercising apparatus. HUNTER, W. Jan. 25, 1951. [Feb. 16, 1950] No. 3969/50. Class 132 (i). Exercising apparatus comprises a rope or the like passed over pulleys in the same vertical plane so as to present adjoining straight horizontal and straight vertical rope sections and a jockey pulley that is freely movable along and engageable with either of the rope sections and is adapted to engage a part of the body, which is exercised by pulling against the force of a vertically movable weight suspended from the rope. As shown in Fig. 1, a base frame 10, 11 supports, at one end, four spaced vertical posts 12 connected by plates 13, 14 to form a supporting frame for pulleys 15 ... 19 round which a rope 25 is passed. Suspended from the rope 25 is a pulley 22 having a support 21 that is slidable on the posts 12 and carries a weight or weights 40. An adjustable seat 34 may be provided at the opposite end of the frame. A jockey pulley 27 engages rope 25 and has a block 29 with an eye member 28 which may be engaged by a clip 37, Fig. 4, carrying straps for attachment to a patient's foot. Alternatively, the pulleys may be arranged as shown in Figs. 7 and 8.
Patent GB-684377-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to apparatus for hot-coating crushed and/or pulverulent materials
IPC: E01C19/10
Filed: 1951-02-19
Abstract: 684,377. Hot coating road-surface materials. RIEUX, C. G. H. Feb. 19, 1951. No. 4044/51. Class 107. [Also in Group XIII]. An apparatus for hot coating pulverulent materials with a binder, such as in the preparation of tar macadam, comprises a fixed section including binder tanks and a furnace, and a movable section revolving in the furnace, the apparatus being characterised by having means for selectively distributing the furnace heat between the material to be coated and the binder. An elevator 25 feeds materials into hopper 26 and thence into the rotating cylinders 7, 6, 5, a chamber 13 being provided adjacent to the inlet end into which a variable quantity of air from the furnace 1 may enter from ports 14, but which is not penetrable by the materials to be coated. Dust and vapour are removed by fan 28. The binder is melted in tanks (not shown) adjacent the furnace and receiving heat therefrom. The liquid binder is pumped by pump 16 through superheat tubes 17, which are enclosed within a boxlike structure, which may be placed into communication with the atmosphere through shutters 19, or in communication with a heated chamber by other shutters (not shown). The binder temperature is thereby controlled. The binder enters mixing chambers 23 by pipe 22 and meets the materials to be coated. Motor 31 supplies the necessary power and the supercharger 32 feeds air to the burner 15. The apparatus described above is suitable for crushed aggregates and a vane type mixing chamber for mixing sand and the like with binder is illustrated and described in the :Specification.
Patent GB-363214-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to pile delivery devices for printing machines
IPC: B65H31/22
Filed: 1931-02-09
Abstract: 363,214. Delivery apparatus for printing - machines. MASCHINENFABRIK AUGSBURG-NURNBERG AKT.-GES., 7, Stadtbachstrasse, Augsburg, Germany. Feb. 9, 1931, No. 4078. Convention date, Feb. 27, 1930. [Class 100 (i).] The delivery table of a printing-machine comprises a number of superposed platforms 1, 2, 3 which can be removed individually and are mutually interchangeable so that when an easily handled number of sheets have collected on the uppermost table 1 it'can be interchanged with one of the other tables. The platforms are held in position by spring catches 9. Joggers 4 operated from the shaft 5 driving the delivery carriage straighten the edges of the sheets on the table 1.