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Patent GB-1173010-A (GB)
Title: Container Handling Unit
Inventor: GOTELL WALTER JACK
IPC: B66C1/22
Filed: 1966-12-15
Abstract: 1,173,010. Container handling apparatus. WALTER GOTELL Ltd., and BRITISH RAILWAYS BOARD. 15 March, 1968 [15 Dec., 1966; 21 Feb., 1967], Nos. 56290/66 and 8134/67. Heading B8H. A container handling apparatus comprises a gantry with a pair of feet 4 at each end which support four columns 5 that carry a pair of I- beams 6 interconnected by a further pair of I-beams 7 and braced by struts 8. Castors 9 are fitted to the feet 4. In use the gantry is raised by screw jacks (10), Fig. 2 (not shown). A main carriage consisting of a pair of I-beams 11 interconnected by end bars 12 is mounted on rollet 14 for movement along the I-beams 6 by a ram complex 15. At each end of the main carriage is a subsidiary carriage consisting of a box frame 18, upper members 19 of which can slide along the I-beams 11. A double ram 20 is arranged to move the two subsidiary carriages symmetrically about the centre of the main carriage. Each sub-carriage frame 18 supports the cylinders of two rams 22 the rods of which support a crosshead 23 in the form of an I-beam. A pair of legs 24 is suspended from blocks 25 at each end of the crosshead 23 on rollers 26 movable by one of a corresponding pair of rams 27. Each leg 24 has an inwardly projecting lug or shoe 28 for use in engaging a container 34. In typical use the apparatus transfers the container 34 from a stillage 33 to a railway truck 32 lifting being carried out by extending the rams 22 to raise the crossheads 23 and thus the four legs 24. Each leg 24 is pivoted at 29 and the lower part can be swung upwards to a horizontal position.
Patent GB-472129-A (GB)
Title: An improved knicker garment for female wear
IPC: A41B9/04
Filed: 1936-03-19
Abstract: 472,129. Knicker garments. LINNELL, L. March 19, 1936, No. 8192. [Class 141] A knicker garment for female wear comprises an outer part A in the form of a short skirt having side openings C, and a knicker part E, the top of which is secured along the line D-D to the interior of the outer part, the side openings C extending from the point of attachment of the inner part E down to and out of the bottom of the outer part. The lower part of the front of the outer part A may be connected to the rear thereof by a connection which passes between the legs of the wearer below the lower end of the inner part. The garment may be made for use as an under or outer garment. According to the Provisional Specification, when the garment is made for outer wear, the skirt part may be made without side openings.
Patent GB-1453767-A (GB)
Title: Receivers for monochromatic and chromatic television signals
IPC: H04N/
Filed: 1974-02-22
Abstract: 1453767 Colour television INDESIT INDUSTRIA ELETTRO DOMESTICI ITALIANA SpA 22 Feb 1974 [23 Feb 1973] 8258/74 Heading H4F A colour killer is operated by a threshold detector 15 in response to the absence of a halfline-frequency identification signal derived at 14 from bursts separated from a received PAL colour television signal; the output of circuit 15 is also fed to circuits 17, 18, 19, circuit 17 including a light-emitting diode (D207, Fig. 5, not shown) which is lit when a colour television signal is being received, circuit 18 (Fig. 4, not shown) being a red signal amplifier, the signal from 15 causing the gain of this amplifier to be greater when a colour signal is being received than when a monochrome signal is being received, and circuit 19 (Fig. 3, not shown) being a trap to remove the colour subcarrier from the luminance signal during colour reception. The chrominance signal is fed via amplifier 11 to a delay line decoder 12 and thence to a circuit 6 including demodulators, a PAL switch, the colour killer, and a matrix circuit.
Patent GB-824984-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to flexible barges
Inventor: HAWTHORNE WILLIAM REDE
IPC: B63B35/28
Filed: 1957-03-13
Abstract: 824,984. Floating staiths for liquid cargoes. DRACONE DEVELOPMENTS Ltd. April 1, 1958 [March 13, 1957], No. 8272/57. Class 78 (4). [Also in Group XXXIII] Cargo, such as oil, is pumped into the cargo compartment of a flexible barge (see Group XXXIII) through a pipe 19 connected to a cargo filling valve and relief valve 20 carried on a float 14.
Patent GB-250224-A (GB)
IPC: F26B11/04
Filed: 1926-03-26
Abstract: 250,224. Dobbelstein, O. April 4, 1925, [Convention date]. Addition to 226,543. Rotary roasting furnaces.-The central flue 1 of the rotary drum 2 of the parent Specification is divided into radial channels 5, 6 which communicate through openings 5<a>, 6<a> with the heating-chambers 4 of the drum. The channels 5, 6 communicate at their ends with the gas inlet and outlet openings 10, 11 respectively. Partition walls 7 and baffles may be provided in the heating-chambers. The material is fed into the chambers 3 of the drum by a reciprocating plunger 12 the thrust of which is resisted by longitudinal rollers 14 and is discharged by a scraper 13 into a chamber having flaps 15, 15<1> arranged so as to prevent the admission of cold air.
Patent GB-1444220-A (GB)
Title: Manufacture of finned tubes
IPC: F28F1/36
Filed: 1974-02-25
Abstract: 1444220 Making helically finned tubes BALCKE-DURR AG 25 Feb 1974 [17 March 1973] 8402/74 Headings B3E and B3A A strip 2 having a flange 2a bent up by more than a right angle is wound on edge under tension into a rotated tube 1 and the flange is subsequently re-bent to approximately a right angle. The strip is spaced on and pressed against the tube by guides 7 on arms 6 pivoted at 5 and urged against the tube by compressed air piston and cylinder devices 8. Each guide, Fig. 2, comprises a shoe 10 resting on the tube and blades 11, 12 of which blade 11 has its end bevelled. A roller 9 on shoe 10 guides the strip as it contacts the tube, its axis being inclined to the normal to the direction of strip feed as in Fig. 1 so as to tension the strip and provide a lateral component of force on it. The strip is flanged in a roller device 3. The wound tube may be hot galvanized, the coating metal penetrating by capillary action into the gap between strip and tube.
Patent GB-1485943-A (GB)
Title: Chain quick-connecting link
IPC: F16G15/04
Filed: 1976-03-03
Abstract: 1485943 Chain connectors FABRYKA SPRZETU I NARZEDZI GORNICZYCH IM GEN KAROLA SWIERCZEWSKIEGO 3 March 1976 [15 May 1975] 08431/76 Heading F2Q A quick-connecting chain link comprises two identical half-links of U-shape each having a stepped limb 2 and a correspondingly stepped recessed limb 3, a spacing insert 5 accommodated in the space between the interengaged limbs, and pins 4 disposed in transverse bores 9, 10 extending through the limbs 2, 3 and the insert 5. The pins 4 are located axially by an expanding sleeve 6 which is disposed in a bore 8 in the insert 5 and engages recesses 11 in the pins 4.
Patent GB-568327-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to machines for testing and comparing the hardness of materials
IPC: G01N3/42
Filed: 1943-05-27
Abstract: 568,327. Testing hardness of materials. LINOTYPE & MACHINERY, Ltd., and ROWLANDS, T. May 27, 1943, No. 8460. [Class 106 (ii)] A machine for testing the hardness of a number of similar articles has a reciprocating penetrator and means for indicating the depth of penetration at each operative stroke. The penetrator 14 is mounted on a rod 13 reciprocated by a motor-driven cam 40 which oscillates a weight-loaded arm 28 about its pivot 37, the arm having rollers 24 engaging blocks 23, 29 on the rod 13. A sleeve 11 can slide relatively to the rod 13 and is normally pressed by a spring 19 into engagement with a collar 15 on the rod. The sleeve 11 has an adjustable cap 17 normally extending beyond the penetrator point. A dial indicator 33 is attached to the rod 13 and engages an adjustable bolt 35 carried by the sleeve 11. The penetrator and sleeve descend together until the cap 17. engages the work, the penetrator then moving alone and the spring 19 being compressed. The bolt 35 is initially adjusted so that the indicator reads zero when the penetrator point is level with the face of the cap 17. The indicator is illuminated by a lamp 56 and read by a periscope 57. Contacts 59 are opened to extinguish the lamp if the loading arm 28 approaches the lower limit of its movement. The descent of the arm may be prevented by a catch during the setting of work table 7. Audible or visual signalling means may be associated with the indicator.
Patent GB-452316-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in devices for holding garments while drying
IPC: D06F73/00
Filed: 1935-03-19
Abstract: 452,316. Drying-frames. ATHERTON, W. E., 18, Newbury Drive, Davyhulme, Manchester. March 19, 1935, No. 8508. [Class 34 (ii)] [See also Group XIV] A device for holding garments while they are being dried comprises a substantially rigid pervious flat body to which narrow widelyspaced strips are secured at or near the edges of the body to hold a garment thereon substantially without tension. In the construction shown, a sheet of perforated zinc 1 is secured to a rectangular frame 2, which is formed with slots 3 to receive pieces of elastic 4. The garment to be dried is placed flat on the sheet 1 and held in contact therewith bv the elastic pieces 4, which are hooked to the frame 2. The device is provided with a stay 8 so that it may be placed in the position shown in Fig. 3. Pivotally-mounted clips 12 with a displaceable side member 14 are provided on the frame 2 for connection to a clothes line or to a clothes maiden. A sheet of fabric such as coarse linen may be used instead of the holding strips.
Patent GB-1371945-A (GB)
Title: X-ray photography of monocrystals
IPC: G01N23/20
Filed: 1972-02-24
Abstract: 1371945 X-ray apparatus INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORP 24 Feb 1972 [26 March 1971] 8529/72 Heading H5R The orientation of a monocrystal relative to a set of parallel lattice planes, which crystal has a plane external surface approximately parallel to the lattice planes, is determined from a single photograph obtained by the Buerger method, with the crystal mounted in a holder having a reference plane against which the crystal plane surface abuts, and which is parallel to the film plane. The holder has a reference plane RF provided with a beam passage SD and suction holes SL connected to a vacuum pump, for holding the monocrystal in position; a marking contact surface MK; and an arm AR rotatable by wheel H and adjustable by screws J for permitting adjustment of the reference plane parallel to the photographic plane. Details of the calculation of the three angles defining the lattice planes with respect to the plane surface, and a specific lattice direction in the lattice plane, are provided.
Patent GB-128168-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Thrust Bearings.
IPC: F16C17/06
Filed: 1918-06-08
Abstract: 128,168. Vickers, Ltd., and McKechnie, Sir J. June 8, 1918. Thrust bearings.- In a thrust bearing of the Michell type, the bearing blocks B are mounted in pairs on rocking members C supported in a housing-ring D which rests on a spherical seat A<3> to render it self-alining. The members C rock on pivot pins C<1> in slots d in the housing, or un radial knife-edges placed in recesses in the housing. Projections b<x>, d<x> prevent the blocks from being carried round with the shaft.
Patent GB-125386-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Regulating Means for Electric Generating Sets.
IPC: H02P9/00
Filed: 1919-04-04
Abstract: 125,386. Domestic Engineering Co., (Assignees of Kettering, C. F.). April 6, 1918, [Convention date]. Electric governors.-In an electric supply system comprising an internal-combustion engine, generator, and associated battery, the engine throttle is controlled by a voltage coil, which, when the battery is being charged with the main load off, regulates the speed of the engine so that the generator voltage is higher than when the load is on. A voltage coil 123 maintains the engine speed constant to generate at say 110 volts, when the load circuit is closed by the switch 117. When the load is taken off by opening the switch 117, a resistance 121 is placed in series with the coil 123, so that if the generator now charges the battery, it is maintained constant at a much higher voltage, say 145 volts. This control of the throttle valve may be applied to any prime mover driving the generator. Specification 137,522, [Class 38 (iv), Electric supply and transmission systems &c.], is referred to.
Patent GB-443274-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to applicators for medicaments and other substances, andmethods of applying such substances to the desired places
IPC: A61M31/00
Filed: 1935-03-21
Abstract: 443,274. Syringes. LECONTE, C. R., Drexel Building, Philadelphia, U.S.A. March 21, 1935, No. 8914. Convention date, March 24, 1934. [Class 102 (ii)] [See also Group VI] A device for applying semifluid or other substances to surfaces comprises a nozzle 4, for example of a celluloseester plastic, screw threaded to a hollow collapsable bulb 11, itself connected by a screwthreaded plug 15 to a collapsable tube 1. The bulb 11 measures a dose of material transferred to it and after filling may be detached from the tube 1 and closed by a screw-plug 18. The nozzle 4 is closed when out of use by a cap 5. Reference has been directed by the Comptroller to British Specifications 12299/95, [Class 81], 266,587, [Class 11], and 329,498, [Class 81 (ii)], and U.S.A. Specification 1,923,409
Patent GB-100750-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Covering for use as a Foot Warmer or Sleeping Bag.
Inventor: ABBOTT HOWARD CHARLES
IPC: A47G9/06
Filed: 1916-06-24
Abstract: 100,750. Abbott, H. C. June 10, 1915, [Convention date]. Sleeping-bags.-A receptacle, Fig. 3, for the feet, which, in a larger size, may be used as a sleeping-bag, is formed by sewing round their peripheries two sheets shaped as in Fig. 1, thereby forming a flat bag, which is filled with kapok. Quilting-stitches 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 form lines for folding up the bag to form the complete receptacle, leaving an opening 14. The folded parts are secured together by sewing or by buttons or clasps.
Patent GB-343783-A (GB)
IPC: B65B19/08
Filed: 1930-03-20
Abstract: 343,783. Packeting cigarettes. UNIVERSELLE CIGARETTENMASCHINEN-FABRIK J. C. MULLER & CO., 48, Zwickauerstrasse, Dresden, Germany. March 20, 1930, No. 8969. Convention date, Aug. 8, 1929. [Class 94 (i).] In order to ensure that the imprints on oval cigarettes are all directed upwards in packeting, they are fed, in parallel pockets, past a testing station in which a heat or light-sensitive cell or a feeler adapted to contact with the seam actuate mechanism to turn over incorrectly placed cigarettes. To facilitate the correct working of the testing station, apparatus constructed according to the invention ensures that the major axes of the cross-sections of the cigarettes lie exactly horizontal. In the form shown in the Figure, the cigarettes Z in the pockets 1<1> on a chain 1 are fed between drums 2, 5 having pockets 3, 6, the peripheral speed of which is equal to that of the chain. The drum 2 raises the cigarettes slightly out of the pockets 1<1>, and, in conjunction with the drum 5, correctly positions each cigarette before passing to the testing station. In a modification, one drum only is used and is mounted above the chain 1, an inclined surface gradually raising the cigarettes into engagement with the pockets.
Patent GB-804159-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to the production of diphenyl-pyridyl-methanes
Filed: 1956-03-22
Abstract: The compounds of the parent Specification are extended to those of the formula <FORM:0804159/IV (b)/1> where RO and OR1 are hydroxy, alkoxy or acyloxy, R11 is alkyl, aryl or aralkyl, Pyr is a pyridyl residue, X and Z are hydroxy, alkyl, aryl or aralkyl and m, n and p are 0-4.  In addition the invention claims a process of making these by condensing carbinols of the formula <FORM:0804159/IV (b)/2> with phenols (or their derivatives) of the formula <FORM:0804159/IV (b)/3> in the presence of a dehydrating agent such as sulphuric, hydrochloric or phosphoric acid or zinc or aluminium chloride. The condensation is preferably effected at 10-30 DEG  C. in the presence of a hydrocarbon solvent such as benzene or toluene.  The hydroxy groups can be alkylated or acylated before, during or after the condensation, or alternatively alkoxy and acyloxy groups in the products can be converted into hydroxy groups.  Examples show the preparation of (4-hydroxy-41-methoxy-diphenyl) - (pyridyl - 2) - methane, (4 - hydroxy - 41-methoxy - diphenyl) - (6 - methyl - pyridyl - 2)-methane, (4 : 41 - dimethoxy - diphenyl)-(pyridyl - 2) - methane, (4 : 41 - dimethoxy - diphenyl) - (6 - methyl - pyridyl - 2) - methane, (4 - hydroxy - 3 - isopropyl - 41 - methoxy - 6-methyl - diphenyl) - (pyridyl - 2) - methane, (4-hydroxy - 3 : 41 - dimethoxy - diphenyl)-(pyridyl - 2) - methane, (4 - hydroxy - 41 - methoxy - 2 - and 3 - methyl - diphenyl) - (pyridyl-2) - methane, (4 - hydroxy - 21 - methoxy - diphenyl) - (pyridyl - 2) - methane and (4 - hydroxy - 21 - methoxy - diphenyl) - (6 - methylpyridyl - 2) - methane by condensation as above.  (4 - Acetoxy - 41 - methoxy - diphenyl)-(pyridyl - 2) - methane and (4 : 21 - diacetoxydiphenyl) - (pyridyl - 2) - methane are made by acetylation of the corresponding hydroxy compounds.  (4 : 21-Dihydroxy-diphenyl)-(pyridyl-2) - methane and (4 : 21 - dihydroxy - diphenyl)-(6 - methyl - pyridyl - 2) - methane are obtained by dealkylation of their methyl ethers.  (2 - Methoxyphenyl) - (pyridyl - 2) - carbinol and its 6-methylpyridyl analogue are made from pyridine - 2 - aldehyde or 6 - methylpyridine-2-aldehyde and the Grignard compound from o-bromanisole.
Patent GB-688593-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in processes for concentration by freezing
IPC: B01D9/04
Filed: 1951-04-18
Abstract: 688,593. Concentrating solutions &c. by freezing. AHREL, P. J. I. April 18, 1951 [April 18, 1950], No. 9060/51. Class 29 [Also in Group XVIII] Liquid solutions, colloids &c., such as sea water, waste cellulose liquors &c., are concentrated by freezing out at least one component by mercury kept in motion used as a cooling surface. The mercury cooled by direct contact with ammonia in the evaporator 4 of a refrigerating system is fed by a pump 5 to a distribution box 3 with a perforated bottom whence it falls in drops through the solution to be concentrated in a tank 1, collects in the lower part of the tank and flows back to the evaporator. The tank is subdivided by openwork partitions 2 so that the liquid to be concentrated is circulated by the downwardlyflowing mercury. Ice crystals rise to the surface and are continuously removed by a worm to a centrifuge 10 from which the mother liquor is partly returned to the tank and partly discharged as concentrated solution. The ice from the centrifuge is fed to the condenser 8 of the refrigerating system. In a modification the evaporator is immersed in mercury at the bottom of the tank, the mercury being kept in motion by a propeller pump and vibrating diaphragms subjecting the mercury to pulsations of a frequency of from 2 to 40 per second. Pulsations of two different frequencies may be used, one to break up the laminar layer at the cooling surface and one to cause stirring of the bulk of the mercury. To prevent the mercury drops becoming oxidised and to prevent corrosive action of the liquid on the mercury, the mercury may be electrically charged e.g. by an alternating voltage superimposed on a direct voltage. The mercury may be replaced by an amalgam containing an alkali metal e.g. sodium, magnesium or calcium, by circulating a portion of the mercury through an electrolytic cell.
Patent GB-555778-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to paper pattern indicated loom dobby
IPC: D03C1/26
Filed: 1942-07-01
Abstract: 555,778. Loom dobbies. CROMPTON & KNOWLES LOOM WORKS. July 1, 1942, No. 9093. Convention date, July 12, 1941. [Class 142 (i)] The means for moving each harness hook H into register with the lifting knife comprises two parts, one part RS located on the side of the pattern sheet P remote from the hook and arranged so that upon engaging a perforated portion of the sheet it is pressed through the aperture to raise the second part 104 which in turn engages the hook. The parts RS are mounted in a carriage 150 which is raised and lowered in time with the movement of the knife, and they are held raised within the carriage normally by springs 155 which are strong enough to raise the parts 104 but are not strong enough to injure the unperforated part of the pattern sheet. Guard members 160, 161 are provided to hold up the hooks H should the corresponding harness strap break during a working stroke of the knife. The pattern sheet P, which passes between guide plates 112, 113 perforated to correspond with the sheet, is fed step by step by sheaves 76 with peripheral pegs 77 and mounted upon a shaft 69 rotated by a worm wheel 66 and gear 68. The carriage 150 is raised and lowered by levers 139, 136 under control of a cam 130, the carvature of which moves the carriage so that the members RS move against the paper with a slow motion. The perforations upon the pattern sheet are arranged in pairs of rows corresponding with the arrangement of members RS, and lines are printed upon the pattern sheet so that associated pairs of rows can readily be seen. Specification 544,802 is referred to.
Patent GB-234952-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in card index cases and in cards to be used therewith
IPC: G06K21/04
Filed: 1924-04-11
Abstract: 234,952. Lee, F. H. April 11, 1924. Statistical apparatus.-In a record-card system in which the different sets of cards are provided with pairs of distinguishing tabs a<1>, b<1>, c<1>, &c. filed on rods f passing through holes therein, the cards of one set can be removed independently from the remainder by removing the rod supporting them from the holes in the right-hand side of a container e and inserting it in the corresponding slot g in the left-hand side. The. side j of the container is then opened out flat by releasing a catch l, and the rod moved transversely out of the slot, carrying the required cards with it.
Patent GB-912982-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to circuit arrangements embodying flash tubes
Inventor: CLIBBON MICHAEL EDWARD
IPC: H01J17/44
Filed: 1958-03-24
Abstract: 912,982. Supply systems for gas-discharge flash tubes. ELECTRIC & MUSICAL INDUSTRIES Ltd. March 17, 1959 [March 24, 1958], No. 9285/58. Class 38 (4). A supply system for two gas-discharge flash tubes 1, 2 serially connected across a supply source 10 comprises a capacitor 9 connected in parallel with the discharge path of the tube 2. When a triggering pulse is applied to an auxiliary electrode 7 of the tube 1 the tube ignites by reason of the discharge of a capacitor 12 there. through, the capacitor 9 receiving a charge at the same time, the capacitor 9 then providing the energy to flash the tube 2 when a triggering pulse is applied to its auxiliary electrode 8.