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Patent GB-1216166-A (GB)
Title: Composite sheet for use as a moulding preform
Inventor: DAVIS SR C J
IPC: B32B27/00
Filed: 1969-06-30
Abstract: 1,216,166. Glass fibre reinforced laminate; moulding sheets. OWENS-CORNING FIBERGLAS CORP. 30 June, 1969 [1 July, 1968], No. 32936/69. Headings B5A and B5N. A method of making a glass fibre reinforced composite sheet for use as a moulding preform comprises applying a settable resin containing paste to a sheet material, applying lengths of glass fibre on to the layer of paste, applying additional settable resin containing paste and a covering layer of sheet material over the layer of fibres, compressing the composite thus formed together, perforating at least one layer of sheet material and subjecting the composite to pressure to remove entrapped air and reacting the resin to the B-stage. Specified resins are polyurethanes, unsaturated polyesters and phenol-formaldehyde resins. The specified sheet material is polyethylene. In a preferred embodiment, resin paste containing a cross-linking catalyst, e.g. a mixture of dicumyl peroxide and 2,5 - dimethyl hexyl - 2,5 - di - (peroxy benzoate) and a gelling agent, e.g. calcium hydroxide, is applied to layers 18 and 18a by nozzles 26 and 26a, glass fibre cut from filaments 32 being applied to the paste on layer 18, layers 18 and 18a being combined and compressed by rollers 42, 44 and 46 co-operating with belt 12, perforation of layer 18a being effected by spiked roller 48 and further pressure applied to the composite by rollers 54 having evenly spaced ridges thereon and roller 60 co-operating with belt 12, the resultant sandwich being stored at room temperature to allow gelling and curing of the resin to the B-stage. A method of forming a moulded product, comprises stripping the sheet material from the composite sheet and moulding under heat and pressure.
Patent GB-759451-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to gang mowing machines
Inventor: FITZPATRICK GEORGE GUTHRIE MIL
IPC: A01D75/30
Filed: 1954-11-13
Abstract: 759,451. Lawn-mowers. SHANKS & SON, Ltd., A. Nov. 13, 1954, No. 32952/54. Class 6 (2). In a gang mower consisting of an odd number of mowing machines towed by a motor vehicle the gang is arranged with one machine leading the other machines of the gang and the leading mowing machine 1 is provided with a rigid frame 2 adapted to be coupled to the vehicle, the axle 6 of the ground wheels 7 of the machine being provided at its ends with coaxial extensions 8 which project outwardly from the wheels and to which equal numbers of mowing machines are connected. As shown, the mowers 11 are connected to extensions 13 on the axles of mowers 10. In a modification the extensions 8 of the axles 6 pass through tubular extensions carrying the ground wheels and the mowers 10 are provided with extensions 13 projecting from both wheels, a mower being connected to each extension.
Patent GB-278556-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in door-locks
IPC: E05B55/06
Filed: 1926-12-30
Abstract: 278,556. Wodarra, A. Dec. 30, 1926. Keyholes; locks and latches, preventing operation of; handles, attaching; reversible latches; latches, sliding.-The bore 14, Fig. 1, of the key barrel 13 of a door lock is displaced upwards so that the key bit will come out of the barrel during rotation. The tumblers 25 are mounted above the barrel and engage a plug 28 on the latch-bolt 3 which has two teeth 29 and carries a. pivoted catch 7. This catch has a finger 8 engaged by a lever 9 which is actuated by an arm 10 on the barrel for handle operation. A safety device 18 has a concentric surface for its inoperative position, a cam 19 and a tooth 20. Cam 19 raises the catch 7 to prevent handle operation whilst tooth 20 raises catch 7 and enters a recess 21 in the latch-bolt 3 to prevent either handle or key operation. The handle 15, Fig. 4, is carried bv a cap 32 secured to the barrel 13 and retained by a fork 35 held in position by a screw 36 so that the handle can only be removed when the door is open. In a modification, Fig. 6, the catch 51 is directly engaged by an arm .56 on the barrel 58 and acts also as a key tumbler so that the safety cam 54 prevents both handle and key operation by lifting the catch 51. The latch-bolt 42 has a reversible nose 47 secured by a screw 48. The key barrel 58 has recesses 61 engaged by lugs 68, Fig. 9, on the handle 65 which is held in place by a cover-plate, 69 and screws 63.
Patent GB-639398-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in clips for tentering machines and the like
IPC: D06C3/04
Filed: 1946-11-06
Abstract: 639,398. Tentering-machines. DUNGLER, J. Nov. 6, 1946, No. 33032. Convention date, Nov. 24, 1945. [Class 42 (i)] [Also in Group XVI] Clips for tentering-machines have the base member or plate in the form of a grid constituted by a number of parallel bars arranged perpendicularly to the selvage of the fabric and spaced apart to provide gaps or spaces extending the full length of the bars to permit the access of drying fluid to the selvage. A waveforming device may be associated with the clip to cause the selvage to enter the gaps. This may take the form of a downwardly-directed blast of air or steam, or of fins co-operating with the base member to press the selvage into the spaces; or the fabric may be fed into the clips by two endless strips of yielding material, the lower of which may be provided with corrugations into which the fabric may be expanded by a blower. As shown in Fig. 2, the base member is formed by a number of spaced bars 61, and the clipping jaw 2 is provided with co-operating ridges 21. The clipping jaw is prevented from closing until the edge of the fabric is drawn from beneath a roller mounted on a projection thereon. The selvage may be caused to enter the gaps 62 by a blast of air or steam, or by a series of fins 23 (Fig. 6), or rollers attached to the rear of the clipping jaw; in the arrangement shown in Fig. 10, the fins are pivoted at 18 on the body 1 of the clip, and their movement is co-ordinated with the opening and closing of the jaw by a bar 19 attached to the latter and entering a slide 172 formed between the central fins and projections 171 thereon, the jaw being prevented from closing completely until the fabric is clear of the fins, by the bar 19 engaging the slope 173. In the arrangement shown in Fig. 5, the fabric is fed into the clips by endless strips of yielding material 13, 14, the lower strip 13 having notches into which the fabric is expanded by a blower 15. Specification 378,202 is referred to.
Patent GB-968263-A (GB)
Title: Brackets with adjustable inclination for shelves and the like
Inventor: HILGENDORFF GERHARD
IPC: A47B57/04
Filed: 1963-08-21
Abstract: 968,263. Shelf brackets. H. DUSTMANN. 21 Aug., 1963, No. 33118/63. Heading A4B. An angularly adjustable shelf bracket 3 has a hooked projection 5 and two lower segment-shaped projections 6 with teeth 7, the angular spacing of the teeth being the same for each segment so that the projections 5, 6 may be introduced into openings 2 in a mounting bar 1.
Patent GB-864982-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to laundering cycles
Inventor: ELLIS CHRISTOPHER IAN ARTHUR
IPC: D06F33/38
Filed: 1958-10-17
Abstract: 864,982. Washing-machines. ELLIS, C. I. A. Dec. 28, 1959 [Oct. 17, 1958], No. 33149/58. Class 138 (2). Rinsing water is supplied to a washing- machine until the pH value of liquid in or discharged from the machine reaches a predetermined value. The invention is applied to an electro-pneumatically controlled machine to which liquid is supplied continuously during washing, from a tank 2. The pH responsive device 36 may be located in a trough 37 into which liquid overflows through weir holes 24 in the machine, but the device 36 may be in the machine itself. Water for washing is supplied to tank 2 and for rinsing to the machine 1 through air-operated valves 11, 15, respectively. Suitable quantities of bleach, alkali or soap solution are supplied to tank 2 from tanks 3, 4, 5 through a flow-meter 6. The amount of water supplied to tank 2 is controlled by a switch 34 connected to a solenoid 33 and level control elements 35. While tank 2 is being filled the clothes are given an initial wetting. A pilot light 19 indicates when the desired level in tank 2 is reached. By means of a switch 12 a valve 20 is opened to supply the washing liquid to the machine and an indicator light 17 shows washing is in progress. Heating is effected by steam injected through injectors 23 under control of a thermostat 26. When tank 2 is empty dip-rods 30 are exposed, a solenoid 14 is energized, valves 20, 22 are closed and rinsing commences, as shown by an indicator light 21. A further light 31 indicates when a master switch 32 has been operated.
Patent GB-1175464-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Power Actuated Driving in Tools
IPC: B25C1/14
Filed: 1967-07-19
Abstract: 1,175,464. Cartridge-actuated tools. ETEM, ETABS DE TECHNIQUES MODERNES. 19 July, 1967 [2 Aug., 1966], No. 33158/67. Heading B4C. [Also in Division F2] A cartridge-actuated tool comprises a rear barrel portion 8 connected to a front barrel portion 9 by means of a helical wire element 21 secured in mating semicircular grooves formed in both barrel portions. The wire element also serves as an overload device which shears in the event of excess energy being produced by the tool. Other details of the tool are as described in Specification 1,175,463.
Patent GB-937916-A (GB)
Title: Tool for handling textile packages
Inventor: DAVIES TERENCE GEORGE
IPC: D01H1/18
Filed: 1961-09-16
Abstract: 937,916. Hand tools. BRITISH NYLON SPINNERS Ltd. Aug. 20, 1962 [Sept. 16, 1961], No. 33280/61. Class 120 (3). In the use of a package-handling tool, a collet 5 comprising spring fingers with gripping protuberances 6 is inserted into the hole in the centre of the plastic insert of a drawtwist package (not shown) and is expanded into engagement therewith by a plunger 10 when handles 1 and 2 are squeezed together, about a pivot 3 and against the bias of a spring 4.
Patent GB-1082434-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to sheet folding machines
IPC: B65H45/12
Filed: 1965-08-04
Abstract: 1,082,434. Sheet folding apparatus. MIEHLEGOSS-DEXTER Inc. Aug. 4, 1965 [April 2, 1965], No. 33382/65. Heading B6H. [Also in Division G1] In a sheet folding machine comprising a number of pairs of folding cylinders 12, 13 each of the pairs is provided with a regulator R for adjusting the position of cylinder 13 mounted pivotally on a lever 14 with respect to the cylinder 12 for accommodation of sheets of varying thickness. The regulator R comprises a knob 18 attached to a threaded spindle 16 terminating in a 45-degree sliding block which displaces a complementary sliding block 22 mounted on a rod 28, which is attached to the lever 14 to pivot the lever about a pivot 15 and adjust the distance between the cylinders 12, 13. The regulator R is adjusted in correspondence with the thickness indicated by a micrometer C whose yoke 1 is attached to the frame of the sheet folding machine.
Patent GB-359238-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to the adjustment of the rollers of roller mills
IPC: B02C4/36
Filed: 1930-11-06
Abstract: 359,238. Roller mills. SIMON AKT.- GES., Nossen, Saxony, Germany. Nov. 6, 1930, No. 33427. Convention date, Dec. 16, 1929. [Class 59.] In a roller mill in which the rollers are mounted in eccentric sockets c which are individually rotatable in order to adjust the position of the rollers, a pointer a is affixed to each socket and is adapted to move over a scale b whereby the position of the rollers is indicated.
Patent GB-837757-A (GB)
Title: Resuscitator
IPC: A61M16/00
Filed: 1958-10-21
Abstract: 837,757. Respiratory appliances. BROOK AIRWAY Ltd. Oct. 21, 1958 [Sept. 16, 1958], No. 33534/58. Class 81 (2). A tube for " mouth-to-mouth " resuscitation is combined with a suction tube for removing mucus from the patient's throat. In the simplest form of the apparatus the tube assembly 1, 4, through which blowing takes place, carries the suction tube 5 inside it and this is retained by a cap 7 and has a bulb 8 at its outer end. In use, the tube 1 is placed in the patient's throat, with the guard 2 sealing the mouth, and the tube 5 is used to withdraw any mucus or water. The cap 7 and tube 5 are then removed and resuscitation is commenced. In modified forms provision is made for holding the suction tube continuously in a guide tube adjacent a wall of the tube 1, so as to be ready for immediate use during treatment, or the suction tube may be moulded in one piece with the tube 1. It is also proposed to incorporate a pivoted flap device in the tube 4, which moves to obstruct the tube partially if the operator blows excessively hard, and a spring-loaded relief valve may be fitted which may be adjusted according to whether the patient is a child or adult.
Patent GB-1436177-A (GB)
Title: Protective device for a basin
IPC: E04H4/00
Filed: 1973-07-13
Abstract: 1436177 Swimming pool covers L U ERLANDSSON L R ALSENHAG and T L E KARLSSON 13 July 1973 [28 July 1972] 33621/73 Heading A4N A cover for a generally rectangular swimming pool 1, comprises a plurality of rigid members 3 disposed transversely with respect to the pool and provided at each end with ball journalled runners (4), Fig. 4 (not shown) engaging rails 5 disposed along the length of the pool. One end 6 of a cloth or net 2 is secured to one edge of the pool and the other end is secured to a member 7 which, in the operative position of the cover, sealingly engages the opposed edge of the pool. The members 3 are movable by a piston and cylinder device 8, 9 cooperating with a rope 13 and pulley wheels 15. When the cover is fully extended, the piston 8 is locked automatically by means (20-22) and (24), Fig. 3 (not shown). The member 7 is provided with a device (25), Fig. 5 (not shown) adapted to co-operate with a spring-loaded piston (28) to lock the cover securely in position. The device 8, 9 is operated by purified pool water.
Patent GB-1027051-A (GB)
Title: Organopolysiloxane compositions
Inventor: KELLY PATRICK MCAVOY
IPC: C08L83/04
Filed: 1962-09-03
Abstract: A filled elastomer-forming composition comprises by weight (1) 100 pts. of an organopolysiloxane having 1.98 to 2.01 organic groups per Si atom, at least 2 of the groups, per molecule, being unsaturated groups, and an average molecular weight not less than 2 x 104, (2) 0.1 to 100 pts. of an organosilicon compound having at least 2 Si-bonded H atoms per molecule and an average molecular weight not greater than 20,000, (3) 0 to 150 pts. of a reinforcing filler, (4) 0 to 250 pts. of a semi- or non-reinforcing filler, the total amount of filler being not more than 260 pts., (5) 0 to 10 pts. of a structure control additive, and (6) as curing catalyst not more than 0.2 pt. of a Pt metal, viz. Ru, Rh, Pa, Os, Ir or Pt, in the form of a metal on a carrier, a salt or a complex.  The unsaturated groups of siloxane (1) may be vinyl, allyl or cyclohexenyl, and the remaining groups may be alkyl, fluoroalkyl, aminoalkyl, cyanoalkyl, or phenyl or tolyl with or without amino or fluoro substituents.  Ingredient (2) may be a silane, polysilane or polysiloxane.  Other ingredients specified are fillers (3)-various C blacks and silicas; fillers (4)-diatomaceous earth, C blacks, clays, TiO2, CaCO3 and Zn silicate; and structure additives (5)-(tetra-alkylethylenedioxy) alkyl silanes, diaryldialkoxysilanes and bis-alkylsilyl ethers.  In a typical Example (2) a siloxane gum composed of MeViSiO and Me2SiO units was milled with a liquid MeHSiO and C black, and the product was formed to shape and heated at 200 DEG  C. to yield an elastomer. Uses.-For making electrical heating elements and panels.ALSO:Siloxane elastomer-forming compositions, particularly those containing C black fillers with or without other fillers (see Division C3), can be deposited from a solvent dispersion on a fabric of glass or polyethylene-terephthalate fibres and the resulting coated fabrics can be used as heating elements by attaching electrodes thereto.  The conducting compositions can also be applied to rigid or semi-rigid substrates, e.g. hardboard, chipboard, plasterboard and sheet glass, as by spraying or knife coating, to form heating panels.  In Examples, (1) a benzene dispersion of the elastomer-forming composition (containing C black) was coated on a fabric substrate and heat cured to give a silicone rubber coated tape; (4) a toluene dispersion of the composition (containing C black) was coated on glass cloth and heat cured and brass gauze electrodes were fixed thereto to form a heating element; and (8) a toluene dispersion of the composition (containing C black) was sprayed on a hardboard panel and heat cured and silver electrodes were then painted on opposite sides of the board to form a heating panel.
Patent GB-393599-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to burners for use in connection with lighting and heating lamps and the like
IPC: F23D11/44
Filed: 1931-12-04
Abstract: 393,599. Vapour burners. PENBERTHY, E., Roseland, Illogan, Cornwall. Dec. 4, 1931, No. 33724. [Class 75 (i).] A cleaning-needle 9 for the nipple orifice 5 of a vaporizing-tube 1 is carried by a rod 6 adapted to be raised and lowered by means of a reciprocatory member 14, having an inclined end 13 engaging a slot 16 in the rod and rotatably connected, as by a transverse pin 20 engaging an annular groove 21, to a screw-threaded operating spindle 17. The rod 6 is provided with guide ribs 12 and a valve 10 co-operating with a corresponding seating 11 on the nipple 4. The needle 9 may be detachably secured in an axial hole in the rod 6 by means of a grub screw.
Patent GB-1380039-A (GB)
Title: Convolute wound fibre drum with thermoplastics adhesive
IPC: B65D3/04
Filed: 1973-07-16
Abstract: 1380039 Making drums CONTINENTAL CAN CO Inc 16 July 1973 [24 Nov 1972] 33728/73 Heading B5D [Also in Division B8] The thermoplastics, e.g. polyethylene, layer 56 uniting the paperboard plies of a convolutelywound drum body 10 is thicker at the ends 54 of the drum body thereby increasing the elasticity of said layer at the ends to permit deformation of said ends without rupture of the paperboard during securement of an end closure 40 and metal chines 26 and 32. Alternatively, the thermoplastics layer may be of uniform thick - ness, Fig. 6 (not shown), the end portions of said layer being of a more resilient thermoplastics, e.g. polyethylene or ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymers, and the thermoplastics, e.g. L.D. polyethylene, forming the remainder of the layer. The thermoplastics is applied to the paperboard from which drum body is wound by extrusion or by electrostatic deposition of subsequently heated powder and is rendered tacky prior to winding by heating. The chine 32 is placed over an end of the tube, and the closure 40 pushed down into the partial curl 34 of the chine. The tube end and chine are then deformed at 38 and the chine curl completed to secure the closure.
Patent GB-406834-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to electric switches or circuit breakers
IPC: H01H3/46
Filed: 1932-11-29
Abstract: 406,834. Heavy-current switches. ELLISON, Ltd., G., and ANDERSON, J., Perry Barr, Birmingham. Nov. 29, 1932, No. 33754. [Class 38 (v).] Heavy-current switches comprise a series of separable contact pieces carried by pivoted linkage, the arrangement being such that the contacts can be caused to separate from each other simultaneously by movement of the linkage, for the purpose of dividing up the arc. In the double-pole switch shown, two sets of contact bars b are carried by pivoted insulating links a interconnected by a rod e connected to an operating lever f. A spring h serves to hold the contact bars in their separated condition, and a catch may be provided to hold them together in the 'on' position of the switch. In a modification, the contacts may be arranged at the intersecting parts of a lazy-tongs mechanism. In another modification, Fig. 4, each contact piece consists of a pair of strips b, b<1> held together by means of springs, the strips having bevelled edges as shown.
Patent GB-176320-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in the electric control of distant installations
IPC: H02K7/02
Filed: 1921-12-15
Abstract: 176,320. Laboratorio Elettrotecnico- Ing. L. Magrini. Feb. 28, 1921, [Convention date]. Void [Published under Sect. 91 of the Act]. Motor-power units.-One or more installations are controlled by a single, central unit which consists of a power element driving a shaft carrying a, flywheel and transmission gearing. At a given speed, a second shaft is started which operates one or more shafts from which the controlling motions of the various installations are taken. An electric motor M is connected with a flywheel V and gearing R. When the flywheel has stored sufficient energy to operate, through subsidiary shafting, oil switches controlling the installations, a coil B is excited, the motor M cut out, and the power-trasmitting shaft D set in operation.
Patent GB-428025-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in oscillating platforms for motion picture cameras
IPC: F16M11/12
Filed: 1934-11-24
Abstract: 428,025. Supports for kinematograph cameras. MERY, J., 2, Rue Dumas, Epinaysur-Seine, France. Nov. 24, 1934, No. 33872. Convention date, March 24. [Class 97 (i)] In a support for a kinematograph camera, comprising a platform rotatable about vertical and horizontal axes, the weight of the camera is balanced in any inclined position of the platform, by connecting the platform at a point in its median plane, (i.e. the plane containing the centre of gravity of the supported camera, and the horizontal axis of rotation) to one or more springs by means of a member so guided as to pass through a point on the vertical axis of rotation of the support. The platform 1 is pivoted about the horizontal axis 2 in standards 3 extending from a base 4 which is rotatable about its vertical axis on the fixed head 5 of a tripod. A socket 7 extending axially from the base 4 contains a spring 6 the upper end of which is connected by a chain 8 to a point 9 on a semicircular member 10 extending from the platform 1. The chain is guided between rollers 12 mounted in the upper end of the socket so that the part so guided always lies on the vertical axis of rotation of the table 4.
Patent GB-290132-A (GB)
Title: Swimming tank
IPC: E04H4/00
Filed: 1927-12-14
Abstract: 290,132. Job, F. H. Dec. 14, 1927. Swimming baths.-A building de. signed for sports, such as skating and hockey, or for use as an auditorium, is provided with an easily removable cistern to serve as a swimming bath during the off-seasons. The side of the bath is built up of sheet-metal plates 13 joined by butt straps 14 erected in place of the usual guard wall around the permanent floor 10, which is formed of hydraulic cement or mortars and is provided with the usual refrigerating coils 11. The wall is stiffened by vertical and horizontal stiffeners 23, 22 respectively and an edge channel-section bar 27 which is further supported by outstanding vertical brackets 17, 18 provided with feet portions for attachment to foundation bolts 21. The edge channel stiffener serves the purpose of a combined scum channel and hand hold for swimmers. An inclined temporary promenade 29 may be provided between the tiers of seats and the bath side. The joints of the plates are caulked and the entire inner surface of the tank and gutter may be coated with enamel porcelain or the like, which may be supplied by any suitable spraying device.