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Patent GB-189914-A (GB)
Title: Apparatus for preventing motor vehicles from running back
IPC: B60T7/12
Filed: 1921-09-26
Abstract: 189,914. Dickinson, W. J. Sept. 26, 1921. Locking by frictional and positive detents. - Means for preventing backward movement of vehicles comprises a ratchet wheel such as A mounted to rotate with the vehicle wheel and a pawl B having an arm b<1> extending through a slot in a sliding rod b<4> connected to an operating-lever b<8>. The pawl may thus be permitted to engage the ratchet wheel by gravity or a spring by sliding the rod b<4>. The ratchet wheel may be clamped between a brake drum and the wheel cr it may be formed on the exterior of a drum to which an internal brake may be applied or it may be frictionally clamped between a pair of plates so that it acts as a brake upon the wheel.
Patent GB-1153411-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Vacuum Cleaners
Inventor: KUWAHARA MASAYUKI
IPC: A47L5/36
Filed: 1967-06-01
Abstract: 1,153,411. Vacuum cleaner. M. KUWAHARA. 1 June, 1967 [21 Oct., 1966], No. 25435/67. Heading A4F. A vacuum cleaner comprising a dust collecting chamber 7 and a motor driven fan 23 arranged in a casing is provided with an additional fan 29 which directs air through a passage (d) (Fig. 2, not shown) of such a shape as to provide a Venturi effect which supplements the suction effect of the fan 23. The fans 23, 29 may be driven by a common motor 15 mounted in a tubular housing 13 which is so shaped at one of its ends 16 to co-operate with a partition 8 as to form an annular nozzle 17 which directs air to the passage (d) for producing the Venturi effect. The dust collecting chamber 7 which is closable by a hinged lid 2 provided with a suction aperture 5 houses a dust collecting bag 10 which is releasably secured by its rim between the lid 2 and the main body 1 of the casing. The casing is provided with exhaust outlets 25, 26 of which one is closable and with air inlets 30 for the fan 29. An air filter 37 may be provided and an electric cable reel 32 may be housed within the casing.
Patent GB-190268-A (GB)
Title: An improved picking motion for looms
IPC: D03D49/24
Filed: 1921-09-26
Abstract: 190,268. Lobley, J. T. Sept. 26, 1921. Picking - motions; pickers; shuttle boxes. -A picker 10 receives its forward motion from a chain or other flexible member 13 attached to the larger circumference of a compound pulley 15, 15<1>, which is rotated by a flexible member 16 connecting the smaller circumference of the pulley to the end of a rocking lever 17, which is depressed by a cam 21. During the forward motion of the picker, a cord &c. 24, Fig. 2, attached to the picker, elongates a spring 27 by means of another compound pulley 23, 23<1> and a cord 26, so that on release the spring recoils and draws the picker back to position. The shuttle box 1 contains upper and lower spindles 7, 8, on which slides the picker compressing two bushes 9 connected by a plate 10 containing a striking- block 12 of resilient material. The Provisional Specification describes the use of endless chains and free-wheel mechanism, the chain passing over one or two driven sprocket-wheels and moving backwards and forwards. Instead of the compound pulley, an eccentric is described.
Patent GB-1171059-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to Switch-Gear.
IPC: H01H3/60
Filed: 1968-05-29
Abstract: 1,171,059. Actuating switches. BROWN, BOVERI & CO. Ltd. 29 May, 1968 [31 May, 1967], No. 25700/68. Heading H1N. A single-acting damping piston and cylinder assembly 10, 11 is coupled to the actuating spindle 6 of a switch 1 by a crank 7 and connecting rod 8 which move through a deadcentre position whereby the switch is damped at the end of its stroke in both directions of movement. On initial movement the piston 10 descends and air enters the cylinder 11 through large ports 12 having flap valves 13. Towards the end of each switching stroke the piston 10 rises and air escapes through small apertures 14 which may have an adjustable throttle.
Patent GB-911169-A (GB)
Title: Duct rodding machine
Inventor: DEERING JOHN EDWARD
IPC: E03F9/00
Filed: 1960-07-23
Abstract: 911,169. Rodding machines. POSTMASTER GENERAL. Sept. 11, 1961 [July 23, 1960], No. 25711/60. Class 99(2). A rodding machine for feeding a continuous length of rod into a duct comprises a frame adapted to be positioned on the footway or carriageway adjacent the entrance to a manhole or jointing chamber, means, e.g. a flexible tube 11 attached to the frame for guiding the rod into a duct leading from the manhole or chamber, a manually-operable member pivoted on the frame and means providing a releasable connection between the member and the rod whereby operation of the member is effective to push the rod into the duct. As shown the frame includes channel members 16 providing a track for movement forwardly and rearwardly of a gripping mechanism having rollers 38 to ride in the members and including a cam member 42 between the surface 43 of which and a member 35 the rod is gripped; the cam member is pivoted to a pair of curved links 46 pivoted to curved links 44 by pins 47 which extend through elongated apertures 48 in the member 35. The links 44 are connected by straps 27 to a handle 23 pivoted at the lower end thereof to the frame. Operation of the handle in one direction causes the cam to grip the rod so that the latter is fed into the duct, and the rod is released by the cam by movement of the handle in the opposite direction so that intermittent feeding of the rod into the duct is obtained. To facilitate withdrawal of the rod from the duct an auxiliary handle 31 is pivoted to the handle 23. A counter 21 records the length of rod fed into the duct, and the rod, withdrawn from a reel, is guided to the machine through a flexible tube 10. Means for selectively controlling operation of the cam member comprise a pair of independently-operated pivoted latch members 51 which are engageable in recesses 53 in the links 44 to either lock the links against movement in either direction, or, by disengaging one or other of the latch members, to allow the links to move forwardly or rearwardly in the frame.
Patent GB-1142028-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in billet-loaders for the introduction of billets into a press
IPC: B21C33/00
Filed: 1966-06-09
Abstract: 1,142,028. Billet piercing; extruding. SCHLOE. MANN A.G. 9 June, 1966 [23 June, 1965], No. 25730/66. Headings B3H and B3P. Hot billets 9 are conveyed from a furnace to the billet container 1 of a vertical press, such as an extrusion or piercing press, or to a forging press by a transportable hood 8 open at one end which surrounds the billet to reduce heat loss and oxidation. Steel billets 9<SP>1</SP> heated in a furnace are moved along a conveyer 15 to a shoot 16 from which they are lifted by an hydraulic piston 12 into an insulating hood 8. This may have an insulated covering or be double-walled and may also include heating means. Billet 9 is retained in the hood by a pin 17 whilst it is transferred therein into the extrusion axis of a vertical tube-extrusion press by hydraulic, pneumatic or electrically actuated means 10. The pin 17 is then withdrawn and the billet falls into the vertical container 1 where it is pierced by a mandrel 19 and extruded through a die assembly 4. During extrusion a fresh billet is loaded into the hood.
Patent GB-230880-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in polishing apparatus
IPC: B24B21/00
Filed: 1923-10-16
Abstract: 230,880. Marks, E. C. R., (Wade & Butcher Corporation). Oct. 16, 1923. Cutting-edges, shaping and treating; band apparatus.-A machine for polishing knives &c., in such a manner as to remove abradant marks, comprises means for supporting the articles between parallel belts which move transversely of the articles, and for giving the article a longitudinal motion across the belt, whereby transverse abradant marks are removed. The machine comprises a bed 17 supporting, on pulleys 25, 26 and 27, 28 respectively, two pairs of belts 21, 22 and 23, 24, which are moved by rotation either of pulleys 25, 27 or of all the pulleys. The pulleys 25, 27 are, mounted on shafts 29, 30 carrying meshing gears. The shaft 29 is driven, through worm-gearing 35, 36 and chain gearing 40, from a main shaft 42. When the pulleys 26, 28 also are driven, this is effected from the shafts 29, 30 by bevel-gearing 63, 64, 58, 59. The knives are supported to lie between adjacent parallel runs of the belts by supports 68, secured to bars 69, 70, 71 carried by cross heads 72, 73. Each support carries a number of knives 102 held by screws 78, Fig. 4, clamping their tangs in blocks 74 mounted loosely on studs carried by the support. The knives are reciprocated vertically between the belts by movement of the cross heads on posts 79 by means of connecting-rods 82 and adjustable throw cranks 83 carried by shafts 85 driven from the shaft 42 by gearing 87, 88. The belts are pressed against the knives by tongues 96 cut in a plate 95 and pressed up to the belt by springs 94 carried by studs 93 supported on a bar 89 supported from the bed 17 by brackets 90, or the belts may be pressed by spring pressed blocks carried by the bars 89. Abrasive material, namely flower of emery and thick oil, is supplied by the knife blades 102 dipping into troughs 101 supported by brackets. A device for holding the cross heads raised during loading and unloading comprises a shaft 103 carried in bearings 104 and rotated by a handle 105 whereby an arm 109 with a recess 112 is brought to such a position that the recess is engaged by a pin 108 mounted on a flange carried by a sleeve 106 encircling freely the shaft 103. Rubber and like apparatus.-In modification, the belts are not endless belts but are attached at their ends to cross heads which are reciprocated on bars by levers.
Patent GB-684097-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to motor cycle exhaust silencers
IPC: F01N13/18
Filed: 1949-10-10
Abstract: 684,097. Exhaust-silencers. SANDERS, R. J. Oct. 10, 1950 [Oct. 10, 1949; Nov. 29, 1949], Nos. 25958/49 and 30538/49. Class 7 (ii) [Also in Group XXVIII] A silencer 10 is coupled to an exhaust pipe 11 by a tubular adaptor 9 having a screw-threaded portion 14 engaged in the inlet tube 12 of 'the silencer and a plain portion 15 frictionally engaging the end of the pipe. There may be a tapered collar to provide a smooth outward appearance of the connection, and a clip around the end of the pipe. In a modification, the silencer has an inwardly-extending inlet tube, and the end of the silencer is engaged by a flared skirt of the adaptor.
Patent GB-1198908-A (GB)
Title: Reinforced Asphaltic Composition Mattresses
Inventor: RINKEL GERARDUS
IPC: E02B3/12
Filed: 1968-05-30
Abstract: 1,198,908. Reverting banks &c. BITUMARIN N.V. 30 May, 1968 [1 June, 1967], No. 25970/68. Heading E1H. [Also in Division Dl] Underwater slopes and bottoms are revetted by a layer of asphaltic composition reinforced by mats of woven strips external to and on only one side of the layer. The strips may be of aluminium or plastics such as polypropylene polyamides or polyacetals or may each comprise woven glass fibre tapes. The layer may either be formed in situ, or built up from pre-fabricated flexible sections. When aluminium strips are used these may be coated with a corrosion inhibitor such as asphaltic bitumen.
Patent GB-701910-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in adjustable jaw spanners and wrenches
IPC: B25B13/28
Filed: 1950-10-25
Abstract: 701,910. Wrenches. DAVIS, J. H. E. Oct. 25, 1951 [Oct. 25, 1950], No. 25979/50. Class 61 In a spanner or wrench having a shank 1 carrying a curved toe piece 2 which provides the pressure jaw and a pivoted tension jaw 3 having a nut-engaging flat, the thrust between the tension jaw and the pressure jaw is transmitted between two abutting segmental surfaces on these two members to relieve the pivot pin from strain. As shown in Fig. 1, segmental lugs 3a projecting from both sides of the pivotable portion of the jaw 3 engage with segmental surfaces 1a on the arms of the bifurcated shank. The distance between the bifurcations is enlarged at 1b to allow introduction of the jaw 3. A loosely fitting pivot pin 4 is inserted. The toe piece 2 is secured as by rivets to the ends of the arms of the bifurcated shank. A leaf spring 5 maintains the jaws in closed position. In a modification segmental lugs on the tension jaw engage with internal bosses on the arms of the bifurcated shank. In another modification annular bosses on the tension jaw are centrally recessed to receive bosses on the arms of the bifurcated shank, the split ends of the shank forming the toe piece. In another modification the tension jaw is bifurcated and provided with recesses in which engage bosses provided on the compression jaw. Specification 646,953 is referred to.
Patent GB-1087746-A (GB)
Title: Imidazole derivatives and processes for producing the same
IPC: C07D233/90
Filed: 1965-06-18
Abstract: The invention comprises 5-amino-4-cyanoimidazole and the preparation thereof by reacting 4 - cyanoimidazole - 5 - carboxamide with a chlorinating or brominating agent in the presence of aqueous alkali to form the corresponding isocyanate intermediate which is subsequently hydrolysed with 0.1-2.0 N aqueous alkali at a temperature up to 100 DEG  C. to the 5-amino compound.  On further treatment with aqueous alkali, preferably 0.2-6.0 N, at a temperature above 100 DEG  C., the 5-amino - 4 - cyanoimidazol yields 5 - aminoimidazole - 4 - carboxamide.  It is preferred to form the isocyanate intermediate by treatment with Cl2, Br2, hypochlorous acid, hypochlorite, hypobromous acid or hypobromite at temperatures below room temperature.  5-Amino - imidazole - 4 - carboxamide may be isolated as the hydrochloride.
Patent GB-1474435-A (GB)
Title: Urinary stoma appliance
IPC: A61F5/445
Filed: 1975-06-12
Abstract: 1474435 Colostomy appliances DOWNS SURGICAL Ltd 12 June 1975 [12 June 1974] 26057/74 Heading A5R . A colostomy appliance comprises a semirigid curved funnel portion 10 flared mouth 12 including a circular opening and a flange 13 for attachment to the user's skin about the stoma and a body portion 14 which tapers to an outlet 15 adapted to be connected to an inlet 16 of a urine collecting bag 11. The flange 13 may have an adhesive layer thereon, and a flexible retaining ring of smaller diameter than the external diameter of the flange may be located around the mouth 12 and provided with means for attachement to a belt. The bag 11 may have an outlet 17 provided with a closure comprising a threaded tubular member 19 receivable in the outlet 17 and fittted with a screw cap 20. In a modification outlet 17 is closed by rolling part 17 up and securing it by means of clips. The bag may be provided with a non-return at its inlet and with a strap for attachment to the user's leg.
Patent GB-423883-A (GB)
Title: Process for the production of immunising remedies
IPC: C07K16/00
Filed: 1933-09-21
Abstract: Immunizing substances or antibodies are obtained from the urine of human beings or animals during convalescence from infectious disease. The urine, if desired after filtration and dialysis, may be treated with an albumen precipitant and the antibody recovered from the precipitate, or the antibodies may be extracted from the urine by means of adsorbents, or urine after extraction with ether or similar solvent to remove impurities, may be concentrated or may be mixed with an inert medium and dried.  The urine is preferably taken from a patient at such period of convalescence that it contains a minimum of the toxin of the disease.  Albumen precipitants specified are lead acetate, phospho-tungstic acid, mercuric chloride, sulpho-salicylic acid, formalin, alcohol and ammonium sulphate.  Precipitates made with heavy metal salts are treated with sulphuretted hydrogen to remove the heavy metals and the remaining solution may be further purified by dialysis; precipitates made with substances other than heavy metal salts are dialyzed to remove the precipitants and the remaining solid is extracted with salt solution or weakly alkaline Ringers solution to yield the antibody.  Adsorbents specified are aluminium hydroxide kaolin, fuller's earth, silica gel, calcium carbonate and calcium phosphate; these may be added as such or may be precipitated in presence of the urine.  The adsorbates may be dried for oral administration, or the antibodies may be extracted therefrom by means of physiological salt solution.  For removal of impurities from urine it may be extracted with ether, petroleum ether, benzene, acetic ether, or other water-immiscible solvent and the so treated urine may be concentrated and preferably may be distributed on common salt, milk sugar, aluminium hydroxide or other inert medium and dried in a current of air or in vacuo, preferably over sulphuric acid to absorb any ammonia set free. The antibody preparation may be administered orally or by injection or may be atomized for inhalation.
Patent GB-572361-A (GB)
Title: Printing machines
IPC: B41L47/58
Filed: 1942-11-25
Abstract: 572,361. Compiling statistics. ADDRESSOGRAPH - MULTIGRAPH CORPORATION. Nov. 25, 1942, No. 26162/44. Convention date, Oct. 27, 1941. Divided out of 572,360. Drawings to Specification. [Class 106 (i)] A printing-machine is provided with a number of rack slides, each movable to and fro between digit representing positions, and with an accumulator having pinions movable into and out of engagement with the rack slides under the control of a pair of spaced control racks, one of which operates to cause the pinions to engage with the rack slides, while the latter are moving in one direction, for the purpose of entering amounts into the accumulator, and the other of which operates to cause the pinions to engage the rack slides while the latter are moving in the opposite direction for the purpose of setting type wheels to represent the total accumulated, shiftable gear segment being arranged to selectively engage the control racks for the purpose of enabling them to bring about the required operations of the pinions. The construction described is the same as that described in Specification 572,360. Specification 534,335 also is referred to.
Patent GB-389523-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to hair curlers and wavers
IPC: A45D2/02
Filed: 1931-09-18
Abstract: 389,523. Hair-curling appliances. SARTORY, P., 93, Regent Street, London. Sept. 18, 1931, No. 26197. [Class 131.] One end of a hair curler or waver carries a detachable clamp in which a tress can be placed while detached from the curler ; the re-connecting of the clamp with the curler forming a steam-tight joint between the clamped tress and the steam-heating appliance. In the illustrated form the detachable clamp comprises a threaded metal pin 5, with a head 2 covered with vulcanite and washers 3, 4 of flexible material such as indiarubber. The tress of hair is drawn through the central perforation in the washer 4 and the screwed end of the rod 5 engaged with the socket 7 by moving the latter axially and then rotating the member 9 until the hair is clamped between the washers 3, 4 and the washer 4 abuts against a spiral guide 10. The tress then is wound and bound on the curler 1, the spiral guide 10 giving it the initial twist after it emerges from the washer. The steam chamber 13 then is inserted over the curler and moved axially through the agency of the pin-and-slot mechanism 17a by rotating the cap 15 until the inner end makes a steamtight joint with the washer 4. A slot 9a receives the free end of the binding tape for the tress.
Patent GB-532838-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in side discharge wagon tipplers
IPC: B65G67/00
Filed: 1939-09-21
Abstract: 532,838. Rotary tipplers. STRACHAN & HENSHAW, Ltd., SARGENT, T., and GROSSMITH, G. W. Sept. 21, 1939, No. 26320. [Class 78 (iv)] The top stop of a rotary tippler is held to one side of and clear of the tippler track when the tippler is not in use so that locomotives can pass freely over the tippler, and is projected laterally into an acting position when the tippler commences to turn. Fig. 1 shows roller-supported end rings fitted with racks 4 driven from a pinion shaft 5. The wagon is supported by a table 6 which is slung by links 8 (Fig. 8) from the horizontal limb 10 of an L-shaped carrier. This limb 10 is supported at its rear end on the frame members 13 and slung at its front end by links 14 from other frame members. The vertical limb 11 slides between the side buffer and the frame. The top stop 16 is carried by arms 17 pivoted to the frame at 18. The arms carry a roller 19 which contacts with a fixed cam 20 as the tippler rotates to project the stop into the acting position. In operation the links 8 allow the wagon to move against the side stop as the tipping commences. The final movement of the wagon against the top stop is obtained by the sliding movement of the L-shaped support. As seen in Fig. 8, when the links 14 have passed the vertical position they control this sliding movement which occurs under gravity until contact with the stop 16 is made.
Patent GB-463194-A (GB)
Title: Process for the manufacture of natural rubber and artificial rubber-like masses
IPC: C08K5/13
Filed: 1935-09-23
Abstract: Substances which are obtainable from styrene and aromatic hydroxy compounds in the presence of agents which accelerate the polymerization of pure styrene are added to rubber and artificial rubber masses as anti-aging agents.  Specially suitable are substances obtainable from 2 mol. of styrene and at least 1 mol. of an aromatic hydroxy compound such as phenol, resorcin or naphthol, for example, the product obtained from 2 mol. of styrene and 1 mol. of resorcinol in the presence of borofluoroacetic acid in accordance with Specification 456,359, [Group IV].
Patent GB-969910-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to trepanning tools
Inventor: ROBERTSON KEITH MACMILLAN
IPC: B23B51/04
Filed: 1961-07-20
Abstract: 969,910. Tool holders. WICKMAN WIMET Ltd. Oct. 16, 1962 [July 20, 1961; Feb. 24, 1962], Nos. 26342/61 and 7307/62. Heading B3B. A holder for a trepanning tool blade e of curved cross-section comprises a semi-cylindrical block a slidable on a rigid bracket b secured to a mounting plate c. The block a is straddled by a cap d and the blade e is inserted, together with backing strip f, between the cap d and the block a. The cap, blade and backing strip are clamped by nuts 2 and 3 and the block a is secured by a nut 4. The tool blade is therefore gripped between its opposite curved surfaces g, h, and its side edges i, j. To clamp the side edges i, j a block k is provided in a keyway n in the bracket b and a screw m exerts pressure against the edge o of the backing strip f. Angular adjustment of the blade e is effected by studs p, q in co-operation with opening r and slot t in the mounting plate which facilitates tilting the unit centring the bracket b towards and away from the work axis.