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Patent GB-280975-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in direction indicating devices for use on motor vehicles
IPC: B60Q1/34
Filed: 1926-06-19
Abstract: 280,975. Harris, A. June 19, 1926. No Patent granted (Sealing fee not paid). Road - traffic signals on vehicles. - In a direction indicating device for use on road vehicles comprising a pivoted hollow hand or arrow with an internal lamp illuminated on the movement of the hand to indicating position, special forms of contact switch are provided to complete the lamp circuit automatically. In one form as shown in Fig. 1, the indicating hand a carries an insulated disc e to which is pivoted at d a contact arm c which when the hand is moved to the horizontal position bears on a central pivot or tube b carrying the arm, the tube being electrically connected to one of the lamp leads and the pin d. In another form Fig. 3, one of the leads g is connected to a terminal carried by an insulated disc e and provided with a metal ring h surrounding the central pivot b.
Patent GB-1161198-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Protection Devices for Universal Joint Packings.
IPC: F16D3/38
Filed: 1967-04-04
Abstract: 1,161,198. Mechanical seals. REGIE NATIONALE DES USINES RENAULT. 4 April, 1967 [8 April, 1966], No. 15476/67. Heading F2B. The packing 6 in a universal joint is protected by a ring having a tubular portion 11 and an annular 13 disposed between the packing and a shoulder 8 on the cross-pin. The ring 10 is preferably made of plastic. One end of the ring is in the form of a grooved lip which seals against a needle-bearing socket 1.
Patent GB-476302-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to work tables for milling and other machine tools
IPC: B23Q3/08
Filed: 1936-06-03
Abstract: 476,302. Work-holders. FORKARDT, R. June 3, 1936, No. 15490. Convention date, June 3, 1935. [Class 83 (iii)] A work table for a milling or other machine tool has located immediately below the surface of the table 1, Fig. 4, a power-operated plunger 3, the free end 4 of which is disposed to be engaged by a member 6 depending from a work-holding device 9 so that when this device is fixed on the table, displacement of the plunger causes the device to grip the work, and the work-holding device may be removed and another substituted without disturbing the power means for actuation of the devices. The plungers may be moved by hydraulic electric or compressed air means and a number may be provided on the table, the housing cylinders may also be arranged to slide and thus to actuate clamping elements simultaneously with the corresponding plungers. In a circular table, Fig. 3, the ends 4 of the plungers extend beyond the periphery of the table to engage depending levers from clamping devices arranged on the table.
Patent GB-1135427-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to furnaces
IPC: H05B3/64
Filed: 1966-04-07
Abstract: 1,135,427. Electric resistance furnaces. K. A. LANG. 7 April, 1966 [12 April, 1965], No.15529/66. Heading H5H. [Also in Division H2] A furnace comprises an elongated resistance heating coil 26 and stacks 31<SP>1</SP> . . . 34<SP>1</SP> of elongated metal leaves each connected at one end to a point on the coil. The coil 26 is located in grooves of a refractory tube 25 formed of two semi-cylindrical halves. The tube is surrounded by another refractory tube 37 and insulation 38, 39, 40 within a cylindrical housing 16. Terminals comprising metal straps 31, 32 and 33 34 are welded to the ends and intermediate points of the coil and the stacks are welded to the straps to form flexible extensions of each terminal which is led out of the housing 16 to terminal blocks 44. The intermediate terminals allow portions of the coil to be raised to a higher temperature. Two furnace units are removably mounted in a housing 13 on drawer mechanisms above controls for the heating elements. The ends of the tube 25 are closed by plugs 71 supporting a quartz tube 85 passing through the tube 25.
Patent GB-815873-A (GB)
Title: Underwater transducer
IPC: B06B1/06
Filed: 1957-05-16
Abstract: 815,873. Underwater transducers. BENDIX AVIATION CORPORATION. May 16, 1957 [June 1.5, 1956], No. 15626/57. Class 40 (4). An under-water transducer comprises a hollow ceramic cylinder 10a, a radiating disc 10b of aluminium, a sound porous window 14, a hollow cylinder 10c of lead, a disc 15 of soundabsorbent material and a moulded rubber casing 11d. The prior state of the art is represented by a reference to Specification 780,178.
Patent GB-1377573-A (GB)
Title: Acrloxyalkyl ester derivatives of penicillin and cephalosporin
IPC: C07D499/68
Filed: 1972-04-05
Abstract: 1377573 Penicillin and cephalosporin esters YAMANOUCHI PHARMACEUTICAL CO Ltd 5 April 1972 [5 April 1971 19 April 1971 20 April 1971 11 Aug 1971] 15715/72 Heading C2C Novel acyloxyalkyl esters of ampicillin, cephaloglycin and cephalexin having the general Formula (I)  wherein A is a group of formula in which R<SP>1</SP> and R<SP>2</SP> each represents an unsubstituted or substituted alkyl, cycloalkyl, alkenyl or phenyl group wherein the substituent is a phenyl group, a phenoxy group or a halogen atom or atoms, and R<SP>3</SP> is a hydrogen atom or an acetoxy group, and acid addition salts of the said esters, are prepared by esterifying 6-aminopenicillanic acid, 7-aminocephalosporanic acid or 7-aminodesacetoxy-cephalosporanic acid, or an N-acylated derivative of these compounds, by reacting the alkali metal salt thereof with an acyloxyalkyl halide of formula wherein R<SP>1</SP> and R<SP>2</SP> are as defined above and X is a halogen atom. The resulting ester is then N-acylated by reaction with an acylating derivative of phenylglycine (e.g. the acid chloride hydrochloride) to give the desired compound (I) or, if an N-acylated starting compound was used, the product is reacted with phosphorus halide in the presence of a tertiary amine to give an imide halide, converted to an imino-ether by reaction with an alkanol and the imino-ether is reacted with phenylglycine or an acylating derivative thereof, followed by hydrolysis with water or an alkanol to give the compound (I). Alternatively the acyloxyalkyl ester of a penicillin may be oxidized to the S-oxide which is heated in the presence of an acid to effect ring expansion to the corresponding ester of desacetoxycephalosporanic acid. The latter is then treated with phosphorus halide, an alkanol and then with phenylglycine as described above to give the required N-acyl group of the compound (I).
Patent GB-130213-A (GB)
Title: Joint Manual and Power Control for Aeroplanes.
Inventor: WALLACE WILLIAM
IPC: B64C13/00
Filed: 1918-09-27
Abstract: 130,213. Wallace, W. Sept. 27, 1918. Steering and balancing.-A joint manual and power control for aeroplanes comprises an hydraulic relay for operating the control surfaces which is controlled through a lost-motion device on the usual control gear. Means for cutting out the relay are provided. Fig. 1 shows the device applied to a rudder control. Loosely mounted upon the same spindle A<2> as the rudder-bar A' is a lever B<1> forked at one end to take the end of a lever A<3> keyed to the spindle A<2>. Springe C<2> normally hold the lever A<3> in mid-position between stops C<1> on the lever B<1>. Rods A<4>, C<3> connect the levers A<3>, B<1> to opposite ends of a lever B which is centrally pivoted to a valve spindle D<1>. Pipes D<2>, D<3> connect the inlet and exhaust sides of the valve to the delivery and return pipes D<4>, D<5> of a vaxiable-delivery pump worked by an airscrew or from the engine, a bypass E<4> enabling the pump to be short-circuited when the hydraulic relay is not required. The valve delivers pressure fluid to one or other of two single-acting cylinders F<1>, the pistons of which are connected bv cables F<4> to the rudder and by cables F<3> to the lever B'. The initial movement of the rudder-bar causes relative movement between the levers A<3>, B<1>, and the spindle D is actuated. The action of the cylinders F<1> causes the lever B<1> to follow up the lever A<3>, and the spindle D is restored to its mid-position. Fig. 6 shows a modified lost-motion device, a cylinder G being carried by the lever B<1>, and a pin G<1> carried by the lever A<3>. The pin G<1> passes through a slot G<2> in the cylinder G and engages a block G<3> spaced centrally in the cylinder by springs G<4>. Similar devices are described foroperating the elevators and ailerons.
Patent GB-951501-A (GB)
Title: A process for preparing sulpholene
Filed: 1962-04-25
Abstract: Sulpholene is prepared by reacting 1,3-butadiene with sulphur dioxide in the absence of a solvent at a temperature of between 70 and 110 DEG C. and at elevated pressure to form a reaction product consisting essentially of sulpholene and of an excess of sulphur dioxide reactant, at least a major portion of this sulphur dioxide excess being subsequently evaporated adiabatically to reduce the temperature to below 65 DEG C., and isolating the crystallised sulpholene, the excess of sulphur dioxide in the reaction product being defined as the amount required to cause the reaction mixture to cool by the adiabatic evaporation to below 65 DEG C. The sulphur dioxide removed may be recycled to the reaction cone. An inert vapour such as butane may be used for stripping the residual sulphur dioxide from the sulpholene. In examples given, the sulpholene produced being subsequently hydrogenated to sulpholane using Raney nickel as catalyst.ALSO:Sulpholene is crystallized from a reaction product formed by reacting 1,3-butadiene with sulphur dioxide (see Division C2), by adiabatic evaporation of at least a large proportion of the excess sulphur dioxide present in the reaction product.
Patent GB-515258-A (GB)
Title: An improved means for connecting facing strips to shelving
IPC: A47B95/00
Filed: 1938-05-27
Abstract: 515,258. Ornamenting. PARNALL & SONS, Ltd., and GABB, A. H. May 27, 1938, No. 15840. [Class 52 (i)] A metal facing strip 3 for a metal shelf 5 has flanges 3a and a number of pairs of metal tongues 4a which pass through slots 5a in the shelf and are bent over to secure the strip. Those portions of the shelf between each pair of slots may be depressed to enable the facing strip to abut against the shelf,
Patent GB-794123-A (GB)
Title: Endless magnetic tape magazine
IPC: G11B23/06
Filed: 1955-06-02
Abstract: 794,123. Magnetic recording and reproducing apparatus. TOLEDO TRUST CO. June 2, 1955 [June 7, 1954], No. 15867/55. Class 40 (2). A magnetic tape magazine to be releasably secured to a magnetic sound recorder and/or reproducer comprises a housing 10 ... 13, a rotatably mounted reel 20 having at one side a tape supporting flange 20<SP>1</SP>, an endless spiral roll of magnetic tape 22 mounted on the reel and supported by the flange with a portion of the tape extending to form a continuous loop from the innermost to the outermost roll convolution part of which loop is exposed outside the housing for engagement with a recording or reproducing head H, a pair of spaced-apart tape guides 24, 25 supporting the loop, and a guide wire 27 disposed adjacent that side of the roll which is remote from the flange 20<SP>1</SP> over which wire the tape is drawn from the innermost convolution and by which wire the tape is spaced from the top of the roll. The magazine is slidable in parallel channels 17 fixed to the top of the recorder and is urged towards the head 4 and a tape drive wheel D by a spring 19, a spring arm 32 having a felt pad 35 pressing the tape against the head. The reel has a frusto-conical hub 21 and the flange 20<SP>1</SP> has secured therein four equi-angularly disposed radial strips or rods 26 of graphite or graphite covered or loaded metal to lubricate the tape, reduce friction of the tape with the flange, and eliminate static electrical charges otherwise set up between the roll convolutions by relative movement therebetween during operation. The guide wire 27 may be graphite loaded also to remove these static charges and furthermore serves to limit axial displacement of the roll convolutions during rotation. A spot of electrically conductive paint 30 at a predetermined point on the tape bridges two electrically conducting inserts 31 in the electrically insulating guide post 24 to make a circuit, not shown, which signals that the predetermined point on the tape has been reached.
Patent GB-390970-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in tool chucks
IPC: B23B31/12
Filed: 1932-06-04
Abstract: 390,970. Chucks. U R B A H N, A., URBAHN, R., URBAHN, O., and URBAHN A., (trading as URBAHN & CO., A.), G³ldenwerth, Remscheid, Germany. June 4, 1932, No. 15887. Convention date, Dec. 31, 1931. [Class 83 (iii).] A chuck for a drilling- machine, hand brace, &c., comprises two pairs of spring jaws c, d inserted in slots e in the spindle head a and contracted by a screw cap f. The jaws may be loosely superposed as shown or secured together in cruciform formation. A spring g maintains the jaws in contact with the cap and the shank of the tool is held in a recess a<1> in the head a.
Patent GB-937624-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to trunking for electrical installations
IPC: H02G3/04
Filed: 1961-05-02
Abstract: 937,624. Conduits. F. W. BLANSHARD. April 19, 1962 [May 2, 1961], No. 15890/61. Class 36. A trunking for cables intended to be recessed into a floor or like surface comprises a base channel member 1 having extension to its sides which are adjustable vertically and horizontally by means of side pieces 2 and 5, a cover 11 being detachably supported between the sides and locked in position to suit the surface. The side members 2 and 5 are secured by screws passing through slots 3 and 6 so that they can be adjusted vertically and horizontally respectively. An L-section member 8 is welded to the base and a vertically adjustable partition 9 is screwed to the member 8. The cover 11, which rests on the flanges formed by the horizontal portions of the side pieces 5, has an obtuse angle section spring strip 12 attached to each side to ensure tight fitting of the cover against the side pieces 5 and is screwed to the flanges.
Patent GB-119319-A (GB)
Title: New or Improved Method of or/and Means for Supplying Gas at a Low Pressure from Storage at a High Pressure.
Inventor: FLUGEL BERNHARD JOHN VALENTINE
IPC: G05D16/06
Filed: 1917-11-01
Abstract: 119,319. Flugel, B. J. V. A. Nov. 1, 1917. Pressure-regulating valves; safety valves. - A reducing-valve, for controlling the supply of gas to a low pressure pipe, e.g. the induction pipe of an internal-combustion engine from a highpressure storage chamber, comprises a disk P<3>, Fig. 4, on one part of a crank P acted on by the gas pressure and a valve 0 which controls the admission of gas to the reducing valve chamber X. a spring R acting on the crank to open this valve when the pressure in this chamber is reduced sufficiently. The spring R is adjustable by means of a collar V actuated by a screw W, and a spring Q resting in a recess A<2> in a projection A<3> on the valve casing counterbalances the action of the spring R on the disk P<3>. The valve 0 is grooved at the sides and co-acts with a conical seating M<x>. A spring Y adjustable by a screw cap controls a relief valve Y<3> which relieves the pressure if pressure in chamber B rises too highly. A non-return and relief valve on the low-pressure pipe comprises a valve D, Fig. 2, the stem D<1> of which is encircled by a spring E arranged in a recess in a screwed plug H adjusted bv a milled handle J. When the valve D is opened gas passes to a pipe C<2> leading to the engine.
Patent GB-402478-A (GB)
Title: Improved apparatus for indicating statistical or other data
IPC: G09D1/00
Filed: 1932-06-07
Abstract: 402,478. Indicators directly operated by hand. MARSH, J. T., 18, Addle Street, Wood Street, London. June 7, 1932, No. 16086. [Class 118 (i).] In apparatus for displaying variable statistical data, co-operating overlapping sliding strips are used which indicate sets of numerical values in juxtaposition for the purpose of comparison. Vertical strips 7 are retained in a frame transversely to cross-bars 2 by overhanging ledges at the top and bottom of the frame, and the three divisions of each vertical strip 7 are provided with fixed scales 8, 9, 10 respectively having transparent coloured covers 8<1>, 91, 101 and fitted with two sliding indicator elements 8<11>, 9<11>. The element 8<11> slides over the scale 8 and over the upper scale 10, but not over the scale 9, the element passing by way of slots 11, 12 behind the scale 9. The element 9<11> slides over the scale 9 and also over the scale 10, and, as regards the latter, is adapted to slide over the top of the element 8<11>. Pressed-out portions 15 on the elements facilitate moving them with the fingers. The lower portion of the element 8<11> is opaque, while the upper portion is transparent and coloured. The element 9<11> is transparent and coloured differently from the element 8<11>. The apparatus may be used for indicating and comparing the daily sales of a business compared with the daily sales of the preceding month. Elements 8<11>, 9<11> are set to indicate the daily sales of the preceding and present month respectively, so that the side-by-side exposed portions of the scales 8 form in effect a coloured graph indicating the rise or fall of sales throughout the past month, while the exposed portions of the scales 9 form a similar day-to-day graph for the present month. Increase or decrease of sales as compared with the same day in the preceding month is indicated by the overlapping portion of the element 8<11> or 9<11> on scale 10. The scales 8, 9 may be dispensed with and the common scale 10 relied upon for setting the slides.
Patent GB-956943-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to curtain rails
Inventor: JAMES JOHN MARTIN
IPC: A47H1/06
Filed: 1962-04-27
Abstract: 956,943. Curtain rails. HARRISON (BIRMINGHAM) Ltd. April 19, 1963 [April 27, 1962], No. 16125/62. Heading A4B. An inverted U-section curtain rail 4 includes two straight, parallel portions 4a, 4b spaced apart in a direction transverse to their length and joined by an integral interconnecting portion 4c, the web of the latter being removed over at least part of its width along at least the greater part of its length. The rail 4 comprises sides 5 with inturned flanges 6 to support curtain runners and provides an undistorted interconnecting portion 4c which facilitates overlap with a rail 7. The cut-away web portion may be continuous over the length of the centre portion 4c or may comprise several portions separated by transverse web portions. The parallel portions 4a, 4b may be of equal length with one portion 4a joined to a further, straight rail portion or the further portion may be integral with the rail 4. The interconnecting portion may be straight or curved.
Patent GB-189821-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to air tubes for pneumatic tyres and moulds therefor
IPC: B29B15/02
Filed: 1921-06-13
Abstract: 189,821. McLeroth, T. B. June 13, 1921. Moulding wheel tyres.-Relates to moulds for tyres comprising a series of pneumatic chambers each communicating with an inner continuous inflation tube, of the kind described in Specifications 160,942 and 189,552, [Class 144 (ii), Wheel tyres, Pneumatic &c.], and comprising outer chambers c, Figs. 1. and 2 formed by partitions b moulded integrally with the tube c, and an inner inflation tube f vulcanized to the tube c. Figs. 4 and 6 show the moulds for forming the tubes c, f respectively. Referring to Fig. 4, spaced cores r are secured in the two-part mould j, k by set-screws s which also serve to position plates u for producing the apertures d (through which the cores d are removed). The mould for the tube f (which may be formed in a straight length or annular) comprises outer members x, y, and a core 33 which is champed in position between a spacing-lug on the part y and pins 26 in the nipple-forming apertures 25. Fig. 11 shows a mould for produqing a modified construction of tyre wherein half-moulds 44, 45, which are shaped to produce an enlargement 48 for the tube f, are detachably connected by pivoted yokes 46.
Patent GB-953790-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to electric induction motors
Inventor: CHOUDHURY SHAFI-UDDIN AHMED
IPC: H02P23/00
Filed: 1962-03-20
Abstract: 953,790. Control of A.C. motors. ASSOCIATED ELECTRICAL INDUSTRIES Ltd. Feb. 22, 1963 [March 20, 1962], No. 10634/62. Heading H2J. An induction motor M is reversed by disconnecting the motor from three-phase supply S and by alternatively connecting the motor to a capacitor network CR having a reactance comparable to the short-circuit reactance of the motor. The motor is self-excited as it decelerates and the capacitors of the network ensure that the frequency of the motor voltage decreases with speed, thereby providing a braking operation. When the speed falls to a predetermined value, voltage-sensitive relay VR releases to disconnect the motor from network CR, and to reconnect the motor to the source S for reverse driving operation.
Patent GB-168696-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in hinges
IPC: E05D3/02
Filed: 1920-06-17
Abstract: 168,696. Cluley, J. E. June 17, 1920. Pinless and like hinges.-A hinge for the hasps of trunk locks and for other purposes comprises a slotted plate A through which is passed a tongue or tongues e on the plate D, these tongues being then curled over as shown, to embrace the metal strip or strips c formed by slotting the plate A. The part c serving instead of a hinge pin is cranked up from the face of the plate A so as to bring the hinge plates into the same plane when the hinge members are assembled.
Patent GB-751425-A (GB)
Title: Manufacture of injectable insulin preparations with protracted effect
Inventor: PETERSEN KARL
IPC: C07K14/62
Filed: 1954-06-02
Abstract: An injectable insulin preparation having protracted effect comprises a sterile suspension of amorphous zinc protamine insulin in an aqueous medium of pH between 6 and 8, the suspension being free from any substance capable of forming a slightly soluble zinc compound or complex at pH 7.  The zinc may be wholly or partly replaced by cadmium, cobalt, nickel, copper, manganese or iron in divalent form or mixtures thereof, and the protamine by histone, surfen or rivanol. The suspension contains protamine in amount not exceeding that necessary for precipitation of the insulin e.g. 2 to 5 mg per 1000 I.U. insulin, and the zinc in amount greater than 0,25 mg per 1000 I.U. insulin.  The starting material which may be amorphous or crystalline insulin may provide the whole or part of the zinc content of the final suspension.  The protamine, insulin and zinc compound e.g. chloride, sulphate, nitrate, hydroxide, oxide, acetate, may be mixed in any sequence in the aqueous medium which may also contain buffer substances e.g. acetate, barbital, borate, maleate, preserving agents e.g. methyl- or propyl-p-hydroxybenzoate, phenyl mercuric acetate, and isotonic substances e.g. glucose, sodium chloride, glycerol, to form sterile suspensions.  Suitable protamines are salmidrine, clupeine, scombrine, sturine, thymine, cyprinine and cyclopterine which may be in the form of salts of inorganic or organic acids.
Patent GB-585454-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to the anodes of electric discharge tubes
IPC: H01J19/34
Filed: 1941-12-19
Abstract: 585,454. Thermionic valves. STANDARD TELEPHONES & CABLES, Ltd., GOODCHILD, F. D., and WOLSEY, W. H. Dec. 19, 1941, No. 16438. Addition to 585,450. [Class 39 (i)] In tubes as claimed in the parent Specificationtubes wherein the input and output are screened by a copper disc connected to the grid and passing through the envelope wall-the anode 19 carried by a tube 18 projecting outside the envelope wall, a copper rod 21 being fitted inside the tube and being secured to the anode to provide cooling means therefor.