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Patent GB-2470368-A (GB)
Title: A glass kettle with a heating element comprising a film coating of semiconducting material
Inventor: WILLIAMSON ROGER
IPC: A47J27/21
Filed: 2009-05-19
Abstract: The invention relates to a glass kettle comprising a glass vessel 3 for holding water to be heated wherein said kettle has a glass substrate 6 bearing an electrical heating element 5. The element 5 may comprise a substantially transparent film coating of conducting or semiconducting material. In one aspect, the element 5 is provided on an inner surface of a central tube or extrusion (2, Fig.3). In another aspect, a method of controlling electrical power to the kettle comprises forming a semiconductor device comprising a portion of the semiconducting material of the element 5 and using said device to control power. In another aspect, the kettle comprises a substrate having an undulating profile, a level sensor, or a temperature sensor comprising a portion of the layer of semiconducting material.
Patent GB-2462899-A (GB)
Title: Passenger boarding and gate number notification system
Inventor: CARROLL IAIN
IPC: G06Q10/00
Filed: 2009-06-12
Abstract: A method and system for individually notifying passengers of the status of a transport means, such as boarding time and gate number 5 of a flight at an airport. The system comprises portable signalling devices 3, each one associated with a different passenger. A registration device (check-in unit 1) further associates each signalling device 3 with a transport means (e.g. a flight), and a notification device (boarding gate unit 4) wirelessly sends announcement messages 7, 10 to the signalling devices 3 associated with a particular transport means. The announcement message may alert passengers of when the flight is ready to be boarded, the departure location, and how urgently boarding must take place. Each signalling device 3 may have an identification reference to associate it with a transport means, and this may be programmed using a bar code, RFID or direct-contact interface. Alternatively, the announcement message may include an identification reference. The identification reference may be a flight number 2. The signalling device [3, Fig. 2] may be worn by passengers, and may alert them using audible means, visual means, or by vibrating.
Patent GB-2464584-A (GB)
Title: A touch module connected to a housing and disposed above a swich module
Inventor: YANG CHING-FU
IPC: G06F3/041
Filed: 2009-08-19
Abstract: An electronic device (e.g. a notebook computer) has a touching function, including a touching region (A), a housing, a touch module (22), and a switch module (23). The touch module is disposed in the housing in correspondence with the touching region which may be an opening in the housing. The switch module includes at least one switch (e.g. a mechanical or membrane switch) and is disposed under the touch module. When the touch module is bent under force the switch is turned on. The switch module may include two or four switches (331, figure 4a, 431, fig 5a). The touch module may include a supporting frame (322, fig 4a) (including a first and second frame) a touch panel (321, fig 4) and connecting portions (323, fig 4).
Patent GB-2462221-A (GB)
Title: Relaxin to reduce diuretic use in humans with acute decompensated heart failure
Inventor: UNEMORI ELAINE
IPC: A61K38/22
Filed: 2009-05-15
Abstract: Use of H2 relaxin in the treatment of acute decompensated heart failure is disclosed, wherein the relaxin is administered as an intravenous fusion rate of 10µg/kg/day to 250µg/kg/day, to reduce diuretic use during a hospital stay. Preferably the loop diuretic use is decreased, and the patient is normotensive or hypotensive. The patient may also have dyspnea that requires hospital treatment, and the dyspnea is reduced following treatment with relaxin.
Patent GB-115336-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Metallic Casks.
Inventor: HANFF EDWARD
IPC: B65D45/10
Filed: 1917-07-11
Abstract: 115,336. Hanff, E. July 11, 1917. Metal casks &c.-A two-part metal cask &c. has ring fittings c, d, Fig. 3, secured to the two flanged components a, b, and a rubber or other joint-ring f is mounted in a dovetailed rim c secured to one of the flanges. The parts are drawn together by means of a series of bolts g engaging in tapped passages in the ring d. In a modification in which the joint-ring f is similarly mounted, the rings c, d are of channel-suction and their interiors receive and engage with the hooked ends of a screw-bolt and of a cap fitting thereon and tightened by a. nut, these parts being mainly within the cask and accessible by way of the man-hole. In a further modification, the ring c has a series of hook members c<2>, Fig. 4, which, on turning the member a partly round, come under corresponding dovetailed blocks p, p<1> engaging the bolts g and first raised thereby in dovetailed slots m, m<1> in the ring d. The bolts are then turned to move the blocks p, p<1> downwards against the faces c<4>, so that the joint-ring f, situated in a dovetailed groove, as shown, becomes forced on to the flange b<1>.
Patent GB-233506-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in spars for use in thatching hay and like ricks and buildings
IPC: E04D9/00
Filed: 1924-04-23
Abstract: 233506 AEW MILLS 23 April 1924 Index E1A 296 Crops, preserving. - Spars for thatching hayricks &c. are in the form of metal rods having pointed ends a to pierce the thatch, and barbs b disposed alternately on opposite sides of the rods, such barbs being directed away from the pointed ends. An eyelet d and hook c may be provided at the upper end, as shown in Fig. 1. The rods may be bent to a sinuous or zig-zag shape, the barbs being disposed on the portions facing away from the pointed ends. The rods may also be shaped to have two pointed ends a, as in Fig. 3 (not shown) an eyelet d being formed at the top. The metal rod may be twisted immediately beneath the eyelet, as at #, Fig.3.
Patent GB-128396-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Apparatus for the Concentration of Sulphuric and other Acids.
Inventor: DAVIS GEORGE KEVILLE
IPC: C01B17/88
Filed: 1918-06-19
Abstract: 128,396. Davis, G. K. June 19, 1918. Acids, concentrating; spray evaporators; progressive evaporators.-Sulphuric acid in the form of spray is brought into contact with furnace gases in a succession of chambers, the acid passing through the chambers in series and the gases in parallel. The spray is produced by rotating fanners f, similar to those described in Specification 2113/09, [Class 55 (ii), Gas manufacture &c.], and the chambers are so shaped as to be entirely filled by the cloud of spray. The gases from the furnace A and combustion chamber B pass through the concentrating chambers C, D, E to a flue c leading to a scrubber F. The acid passes through a heat-interchanger H, where it is heated by the concentrated acid previously treated, and through an economizer K in the flue c to the chamber C, whence it passes by the pipe 5, 6 to the chamber D, and thence to the chamber E and the economizer H.
Patent GB-559164-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to the electro-deposition of antimony
IPC: C25F3/02
Filed: 1942-07-21
Abstract: 559,164. Electrodeposition of antimony. BLOOM, M. C. July 21, 1942, No. 10206. Convention date, July 28, 1941. [Class 41] Conducting surfaces on which antimony is to be deposited are roughened or etched mechanically, chemically, or by anodic electrolytic treatment and antimony is deposited thereon from an aqueous electrolyte containing the trifluoride, a fluoride of a monovalent alkali base, ammonium or sodium, and the alkali base in hydroxide form, the hydroxide ion concentration being insufficient to cause precipitation. Addition agents such as copper, mercuric, or telluric fluorides may be incorporated to decrease grain size, and increase the throwing power of the bath. Specifications 405,433 and 567,794 are referred to.
Patent GB-535999-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to photographic shutters
IPC: G03B9/22
Filed: 1940-06-12
Abstract: 535,999. Photographic shutters. KODAK, Ltd. June 12, 1940, No. 10223. Convention date, Oct. 5, 1939. Addition to 527,728. [Class 98 (i)] In the shutter disclosed in the parent Specification, means operated by the setting lever positively hold the trigger in the inoperable position to which it is moved in releasing the shutter. As shown, the shutter is set by clockwise rotation of a master member 2 by a setting-lever 1, the master member being held in the set position by the engagement with a shoulder 6 of a latch 4 carried by a pivoted trigger 5. The setting-lever 1 carries an arcuate shoe 8 which slides in a similar groove 9 in the shutter plate, and is formed at one end with a lug 10. When the shutter is released by depressing the trigger 5 the lever 1 with the shoe 8 move to the left to the position shown, in which the lug 10 lies in front of the end of an arm 11 on the latch 4 and so positively prevents return movement of the trigger to its operative position until the shutter has been re-set. In another form, applicable to existing shutters, an arm carried by the setting-lever externally of the casing lies in the path of the trigger when the shutter is unset.
Patent GB-1221612-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to a method of manufacturing thin film resistor elements
IPC: H01C17/232
Filed: 1969-02-26
Abstract: 1,221,612. Resistors. FUJITSU Ltd. and NIPPON TELEGRAPH & TELEPHONE PUBLIC CORP. 26 Feb., 1969 [27 Feb., 1968], No. 10249/69. Heading HIS. A resistive first film 2 (for example Ni-Cr alloy) is laid on a substrate; a second film 3 (e.g. Cr), having a temperature coefficient of resistance different from the first film 2, is laid over the ends of film 2 and overlaps on to the substrate at 5, and metal terminal layers 4 (e.g. Pd) are formed on the second film 3, leaving a portion of the second film exposed; and those parts 5 of the exposed part of film 3 which lie on the substrate are adjusted in size. By this means the T.C.R. of the whole resistor can be adjusted and made compatible with other resistors to be used. The second film may be impermeable to soldering material. The Ni-Cr layer 2 may be deposited or sputtered on to a glazed ceramic substrate 1.
Patent GB-351114-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in locking devices for miners' and like electric lamps
IPC: F21L4/00
Filed: 1930-04-01
Abstract: 351,114. Locks for battery lamps. CONCORDIA ELECTRIC SAFETY LAMP CO., Ltd. and STRETTON, T., Thor Works, Tredegar Street, Cardiff. April 1, 1930, Nos. 10324 and 19011. [Class 39 (ii).] A locking-device for the cover of the batterycontainer of an electric lamp adapted more particularly for use in mines, comprises a hasp e, Figs. 1 and 2, pivoted upon the cover a and arranged to engage a U-shaped member h on the body b of the container, a casing c being provided on the cover a to enclose a slidable locking-plunger i which is pressed downwardly by a spring k to retain its end within a diametrical hole in the pivot pin f of the hasp. To release the hasp the locking-plunger i is lifted by means of an electromagnet, the poles of which may be so formed that the lifting of the plunger is followed by an outward swinging of the hasp, a roller g being provided on the lower end of the latter member to facilitate such movement. A plug or cap j retains the spring k within the casing c. In a modification, the plunger-casing and hasp are mounted on the body of the battery-container, the hasp-engaging member, which may be provided with a U-shaped guard, being mounted upon the cover.
Patent GB-130116-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to the Manufacture of Solid Rubber Tyres.
IPC: B29D30/02
Filed: 1918-06-22
Abstract: 130,116. Dunlop Rubber Co., Macbeth, C., and Willshaw, H. June 22, 1918. Stream-cutting machines.-A double rubber tyre A shaped by extrusion through a die is fed along a roller track B by profiled rollers C, C<x> and severed longitudinally by a rotating disk E working in a guard F provided with extensions adapted to divert the severed sections through a right angle to facilitate their delivery or roller tracks I, J by a roller G and co-acting weighted roller H. The rollers C, C<x> may be replaceable or mounted for lateral adjustment. Water may be supplied to the cutter E to facilitate cutting, and the cutter may be laterally adjustable or replaced by a band knife.
Patent GB-875724-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to ground covering plates
IPC: E01C9/08
Filed: 1960-03-23
Abstract: 875,724. Connecting ground covering plates. HENSCHEL-WERKE G.m.b.H. March 23, 1960 [Aug. 6, 1959], No. 10364/60. Class 107. A ground covering plate comprises a lower longitudinally corrugated part 1 and a flat upper part 3, having a roughened tread surface, secured thereto, e.g. by welding. The space between the upper part and one end corrugation 2 houses a number of captive nuts 4 and the opposite end corrugation is not covered by the top plate and is provided with a number of bolts 11 welded in position. The plates are joined by placing the end covered corrugation of one plate within the uncovered corrugation of an adjacent plate and securing the captive nuts on to the corresponding bolts. For this purpose the nuts are provided with recesses in which a pin spanner engages.
Patent GB-645725-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in illuminated indicators for electric switches, thermostats and like devices
Inventor: WILSON WILLIAM HARRY
IPC: H01H19/02
Filed: 1948-04-14
Abstract: 645,725. Indicators for switches. RHEOSTATIC CO., Ltd. April 14,1948, No. 10387. [Class 38(v)] A temperature setting and illuminated indicating device, preferably for a thermostat, has a stationary cover 16 through the central translucent or transparent top 17 of which an indicating lamp 13 is visible and a setting member 24 rotatable around the cover. Such an indicator comprises a lamp in a stationary holder 11 mounted in a rotatable tube 9 which is surrounded by the cover and moved by a projecting arm 15 carrying an index 24. The cover is held on the indicator by a split ring 7 which is mounted on the indicator base 4 and the arm 15 engages a flat on the tube 9 with its tongue 18. In modifications, Figs. 5, 6 (not shown) the index 24 on the arm 15 may be replaced by a ring having an indexing mark or graduations.
Patent GB-375461-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to oil engines
IPC: F02B19/10
Filed: 1931-04-08
Abstract: 375,461. Oil engines. HILL DIESEL ENGINE CO., 238, Mill Street, Lansing, Michigan, U.S.A.-(Assignees of Hill, H. D. ; 238, Mill Street, Lansing, Michigan, U.S.A.) April 8, 1931, No. 10394. Convention date, Jan. 19. [Class 7 (iii).] In a compression-ignition engine of the type described in Specification 373,647 fuel is supplied under pressure through a conduit L to a fitting M where the supply is divided to feed an additional injector K, located in a recess F in the cylinder head which recess forms a primary combustion chamber. As injectors J, K are so arranged as to direct their jets along intersecting paths, the springs P of the injectors may be adjusted to vary the quantity of fuel injected by each.
Patent GB-539091-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to boxes
IPC: B65D5/24
Filed: 1940-06-17
Abstract: 539,091. Folding cardboard &c. boxes. STEVENSON & SONS, Ltd., H., and DAVIES, J. June 17, 1940, No. 10475. [Class 18)] A folding box or lid made from a single cardboard, paper &c. blank has wings formed at the corners by folding on line 14b and laid along sides 11, 13 whereafter flaps 15, 16 are folded over them to form double walls and extension flaps 17 are tucked upwards beneath the wings. Similarly formed lids may be employed together, the double walls of the lid covering the single walls of the box and being of the same depth.
Patent GB-1260843-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to block copolymers
Inventor: POPE GEORGE ARTHUR
IPC: C08F297/04
Filed: 1968-03-05
Abstract: 1,260,843. Three-block copolymers. DUNLOP HOLDINGS Ltd. 3 March, 1969 [5 March, 1968], No. 10539/68. Headings C3P and C3R. A block copolymer has the formula A-B-C, where A is an amorphous block, B is an elastomeric block, and C is a crystalline block. The polymers may be obtained by a three-stage sequential polymerization, desirably using hydrocarbon solvent for preparation of blocks A and B and at least partially replacing with a saturated ether or amine for preparing block C. In examples, the blocks are A-polystyrene, polyalphamethylstyrene, poly-4-vinyltoluene or poly - 2,5 - dimethylstyrene, B-polyisoprene, or an isoprene-styrene copolymer, and C- polyethylene sulphide, while the catalyst is n-butyl lithium-anisole and the solvents toluene, benzene, hexane, cyclohexane and tetrahydrofuran.
Patent GB-101952-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Cooling the Parts of Internal Combustion Engines.
Inventor: SMITH JOHN WILLIAM
IPC: F01M13/02
Filed: 1916-07-26
Abstract: 101,952. Smith, J. W. July 26, 1916. Valve-gear.-Scoops are fitted on the engine to direct the air into the crank case and thus cool the cylinders, pistons, and valve-gear; a fan is employed to assist in its withdrawal. In a radialcylinder engine, the scoops a are situated around the centrifugal fan o on the forward side of the engine; air enters the crank case and escapes through a passage containing the valve cams and the boss of the fan, as indicated by the arrows, and as described in Specification 5071/15.
Patent GB-610441-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to pipe couplings
IPC: F16L23/08
Filed: 1946-04-05
Abstract: 610,441. Band clips. BRITISH THOMSON-HOUSTON CO., Ltd. April 5, 1946, No. 10570. Convention date, April 13, 1945. [Class 44] [Also in Group XXVIII] A band clip consists of a split band 1 with inturned edges 3 and provided at its ends with attachment members 4 carrying lugs 5 through which pass tightening bolts 6, and also of a number of segmental parts 14, Fig. 3, carried by the band but slidable relative to it. Each segment has two axially-spaced rows of fingers 15 with radially inwardlydirected edges 16, the fingers being formed by making cuts 19 in the sheet metal part before it is shaped; an additional cut 20 is made at one or both ends so as to provide a resilient portion 21 which will space the segment slightly from the one adjacent before the bolts are tightened. Contraction of the band during tightening produces a toggle action which causes the finger portions 16 to be forced tightly into engagement with the members, such as the pipe flanges shown, to be joined. Fig. 5 shows a modification in which the band 23 is of inverted U-section and the segments 14 are replaced by a W-section inner band welded at its edges 24 to the band 23. Cuts are made in the inner band so that the portion 25 will be made up of resilient fingers as above.
Patent GB-105858-A (GB)
IPC: F16L1/06
Abstract: 105,858. Donald, P. G. Sept. 20, 1916. Slings.-A device for supporting a pipe particularly whilst effecting a joint with another pipe comprises a vertical externally-threaded rod F, Fig. 1, carrying a chain, strap or the like 0 in which the pipe R can be slung. The portion of the sling 0 bearing against the pipe R preferably consists of a chain Q having rollers S which project into contact with the pipe and so minimise friction when the pipe is rotated. The rollers S may be spirally ribbed as shown at T, Fig. 2, so as to give the pipe a forward feed when it is being screwed into another pipe.
Patent GB-775226-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in cigarette-making machines
IPC: B65B19/04
Filed: 1955-04-13
Abstract: 775,226. Feeding cigarettes to a grooved conveyer chain. KORBER, K. April 13, 1955 [May 14, 1954], No. 10616/55. Class 78 (1). In a device in which oval-section cigarettes are fed by a pusher 5 from a supply magazine 2 into the grooves 11 of a conveyer chain 10 which carries them past a photo-electrically controlled device for turning cigarettes with the brand imprint incorrectly positioned, the cigarettes are retarded whilst being fed to the chain by a yielding element, which causes the cigarettes to move downwardly into the grooves. In one form, Fig. 1, the yielding element is a felt disc 8 which is secured to a frame 8<SP>1</SP> pivoted at 9 so that it can be swung out of the way when not required. A guide 15 locates the ends of the cigarettes after they are received in the grooves. The felt disc may be replaced by a plurality of springy blades corresponding to the number of cigarettes in a batch. In a further form, Fig. 5, the yielding element is the head 18 of a plunger 19 reciprocated obliquely by the combination of a sliding motion in a support 20 by cam 22 and a vertical movement of the support 20 by cam 21. The surfaces 23 propel the ends of the cigarettes downwardly into the grooves 11.
Patent GB-883074-A (GB)
Title: Plate riding roller for oxygen cutting machines
Inventor: JONES HAROLD
IPC: B23K37/02
Filed: 1959-03-26
Abstract: 883,074. Cutting by fusion. BRITISH OXYGEN CO. Ltd. March 25, 1960 [March 26, 1959], No. 10645/59. Class 83 (4). A plate riding roller for an oxygen cutting machine consists of a wheel disc having a peripheral groove in which is loosely retained a tyre. The wheel consists of discs 21, 23 bolted together and having a V-groove 22 carrying a non- deformable tyre 27. In modifications, rectangular or circular sectioned tyres are retained in correspondingly shaped grooves. Such rollers are used on a machine having three cutting nozzles 18, 19, 20 for preparing a plate edge for welding. The main body 10 carrying nozzles 18, 19 and mounted for vertical movement on a post 12 is supported by one roller. An auxiliary body 11 carrying the third nozzle 20 is supported by a second roller 16 and is connected by leaf springs 13 to the main body 10.
Patent GB-1468238-A (GB)
Title: Abrasive
IPC: B24D3/34
Filed: 1974-03-11
Abstract: 1468238 Coated abrasives FELDMUHLE ANLAGEN-UND PRODUKTIONS GmbH 11 March 1974 [10 March 1973] 10675/74 Heading C4V An abrasive comprises abrasive particles bonded to a substrate and having a covering layer over the abrasive particles which comprises 16-91% of a binder and 9-84% of at least one wax the percentages being based on a total weight of the binder and the wax. Suitable waxes are plant waxes such as carnauba wax and ouricuri wax, insect waxes such as beeswax and natural paraffin waxes such as ceresin. Synthetic waxes such as polyolefin waxes and particularly amide waxes may be used. The binder is preferably a synthetic resin such as a phenolic resin, an epoxy resin, a polyester resin, a polyurethane resin, an alkyd resin, a urea resin or a melamine resin, or a natural binder such as hide glue. The abrasive material may be in the form of an abrasive-coated sheet preferably in the form of a belt.
Patent GB-129086-A (GB)
Title: Improvement in Electric Railway Systems.
Inventor: PATELSKI ERICH JOHN
IPC: B60M1/30
Filed: 1918-06-28
Abstract: 129,086. Patelski, E. J. June 28, 1918. Skate collectors; conductors for electricity; strikers for operating electric switches on track.-In a stud-contact system of electric traction, the studs are engaged and raised above the road surface by the inclined forward end of a member mounted on the vehicles. In the construction shown, the member is in the form of an inverted channel-shaped housing D carrying contact strips or collectors d<3> which engage the underside portions e<1> of the contact studs. The extreme ends of the housing may be inclined upwards, as shown at d<7>, in order to depress any studs that have been left in a raised position. When the etuds are raised by the inclined portion d<4> of the hous. ing, the contacts e<5>, e<6> are brought into engagement and the portions e' of the studs energized. The housing is made of reticulated sections to per. mit lateral flexing at curves.
Patent GB-107067-A (GB)
IPC: E03C1/23
Abstract: 107,067. Gittins, R. June 17, 1916 Plug cocks; actuating-mechanism.-Relates to washing-basin discharge-valve mechanism of the type comprising a rotary valve, as 1, connected by a crank and link 3, 4 to a foot-operated device so that the valve is only closed when the user places his foot upon the foot device. In the present arrangement, a foot-lever 5 is used which is pivoted at 6 behind the basin, the operator's foot being placed on the forward and free end. A spring 8 raises the lever 5 and opens the valve when the foot is removed.