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Patent GB-531638-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in counting apparatus
IPC: G06M1/14
Filed: 1939-07-11
Abstract: 531,638. Counting apparatus. GENTLE, H. A. July 11, 1939, No. 20166. [Class 106 (i)] Transfer mechanism.-In a counting mechanism with numeral wheels rotatably mounted on a common shaft transfer between adjacent wheels is effected by a ball movable within radial recesses in the wheels and controlled by means of a cam which displaces the ball to couple the wheels together at transfer. As shown in Figs. 1 and 3 the lower denominational wheel has a radial recess 4 in alignment with with the zero number and the adjacent wheel has a circular groove with circumferential teeth 7 Fig. 2 in alignment with the numbers on the wheel. A ball 5, engaging the recess and groove, is normally held in the inner position by a spring 6 and bears on the edge of a cam 3 secured to the shaft 2. At transfer the nose of the cam moves the ball into engagement with one of the teeth 7 to advance the higher wheel. A detent spring 8 secured to the casing co-opoperates with notches 10 in the wheels to hold them in adjusted positions. Zeroizing is effected by rotating the shaft 2 forwardly whereby the cams pick up the balls and carry the wheels to the zero position.
Patent GB-1160185-A (GB)
Title: A Vehicle Seat Construction
IPC: B60N2/50
Filed: 1968-04-29
Abstract: 1,160,185. Vehicle seats. BREMSHEY & CO. 29 April, 1968, No. 20233/68. Headings A4J and A4U. A vehicle seat 1 is supported on a mount 2 supported by a parallelogram linkage 3 and by a compression spring shock absorber unit 4 which is pivotally connected at its ends, and the lower end of the unit 4 can be moved along a path which is perpendicular to the unit to change the force exerted by the unit on the seat. The lower end of the unit 4 has a bolt 20 which is displaced in guide slots 21 in inner cheeks 22 on a base plate 6 by a screw pack 5 comprising a rod 23, Fig. 4, with a male thread 23<SP>1</SP> screwed into a sleeve 24 with a female thread 24<SP>1</SP> and a male thread 24<SP>11</SP> of opposite hand which is screwed into a nut 26 carried on trunnions 28 mounted on the cheeks 22. The sleeve is rotated by a knob 27 and the rate of adjustment per turn is the sum of the leads of the two equal threads 23<SP>1</SP>, 24". An arm 33 connected to the bolt 20 of the unit 4 passes through a slot in an outer cheek 10 on the base plate 6 and co-operates with a scale 35. The seat 1 is pivoted to a pin 41 having rods 43 which slide in the mount 2 and a pin 45 on the seat is selectively engaged with a plurality of holes 46 in the mount 2.
Patent GB-684876-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in instrument for furthering natural insemination
IPC: A61D19/02
Filed: 1950-08-15
Abstract: 684,876. Treating generative organs. POUSSIER, F. Aug. 15, 1950 [Aug. 24, 1949; June 29, 1950], No. 20252/50. Class 81 (ii). An apparatus for furthering natural insemination comprises a funnel-shaped member, Fig. 1, the terminal or outlet section 7 of which is adapted to engage the channel in the cervix uteri, the said section co-operating with an input section 1 which is thin and yielding and is adapted to line the mucous membrane of the vagina and of the vulva. The sections 1 and 7 are interconnected through an intermediary rigid or semi-rigid section 3 which mates with the pocket of the vagina and the outside of the cervix uteri and has the internal shape of a cup, so as to present no depressions which might retain the semen. A mandrel 8, Fig. 2, for use with the device serves to deliver semen through the section 7 and is mounted inside a tube 12 to which are attached scraper discs 9, 10 which engage the walls of the portion 1.
Patent GB-202679-A (GB)
Abstract: 202,679. Enstone & Co. (Successors), Ltd., T. C., and Duley, W. E. April 22, 1922. Tyre valves.-A tyre valve of the kind in which a loose ball valve member is adapted to seat against a seat on a movable tubular member which can be reciprocated to press the valve member against a second seat on the valve casing has the ball confined within a housing provided by inwardly swaging the edge of a slotted extension of the plunger. The tubular member b screws into the main casing c and has a series of circumferential grooves g adapted to receive packing material. The ball a held by fingers e co-operates with a flexible seat f on the member b to act as a non-return valve during inflation and may be screwed down to engage a shoulder k which may have a rubber washer to act as a stop valve after inflation. The valve cap i has a convex face covered by a resilient pad I adapted to engage a counter sinking on the outer end of the member b. A cover j screws on to the main casing.
Patent GB-1458816-A (GB)
Title: Method of cleaning plastics surfaces
IPC: A47L13/10
Filed: 1973-04-27
Abstract: 1458816 Cleaning plastics surfaces IMPERIAL CHEMICAL INDUSTRIES Ltd 28 March 1974 [27 April 1973] 20282/73 Heading A4F A plastics surface is cleaned by rubbing it with a finely divided synthetic polymeric powder which is softer than the surface to be cleaned. For cleaning a bath of polymethylmethacrylate, powdered polyethylene, polypropylene, or polyvinyl chloride may be used.
Patent GB-176310-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in apparatus for producing imitation lightning for theatrical and like purposes
IPC: A63J5/00
Filed: 1921-07-29
Abstract: 176,310. Schwabe & Co. March 1, 1921, [Convention date]. Theatrical appliances.- Relates to apparatus for producing imitation lighting for theatrical and like purposes. According to the invention, an opaque screen m, having various zigzag openings t, is moved automatically in front of a flash lamp a after each flash, so as to vary the shape of the flashes projected on to the scenery. In the apparatus described, an arc lamp is employed, the upper carbon b of which is lifted by a solenoid e. A cam plate h fixed to the carbon b rotates a cylindrical screen m on step between each flash.
Patent GB-845258-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to control devices for bending machines
IPC: B21D7/12
Filed: 1958-12-30
Abstract: 845,258. Angular bending. R.A.S. Dec. 30, 1958 [Dec. 31, 1957], No. 42049/58. Class 83 (4). A control device for a bending machine of the type in which a bar or tube is clamped to a rotating form to be bent thereby while the rear portion is guided to move longitudinally, comprises a series of positioning stops and a series of spindle control means adapted each to be operated by a corresponding adjustable actuating member to stop the form spindle after it has rotated through a predetermined angle, each spindle control means being so arranged that, when operatively connected to any positioning stop, the engagement of said stop by the workpiece renders said spindle control means operative to stop the spindle under the action of said actuating member. A tube T to be bent is positioned, over a mandrel M, with its rear end in engagement with an adjustable stop B1-B5 and is clamped to a former F rotated by a spindle H driven by an electric motor U. The spindle H carries, on members P, a plurality of angularly adjustable dogs Q each co-operating with switch means A of separate control units C. Each control unit C is electrically connected to one or more of the stops B1-B5, or a stop switch b<SP>1</SP> on a mounting used for determining the plane of the bends and engaged by a previously bent part of the tube T. As the tube T is positioned against a stop B it pushes the stop, against spring means 10, Fig. 3, to close a switch b. This energizes a self-energizing relay E to open a contact, connected in parallel with a contact of the switch means A, in the circuit of the motor U, so that when the appropriate dog Q opens the switch A the motor U is stopped, the other dogs Q having no effect as the relays E of their associated control units C are not energized and the relay contacts in the motor circuit are closed. The start of the bending movement of the form F and its return to its initial position may be effected by hand from a control device PC or automatically, a cam TR on the spindle H engaging means AR to stop the motor on the return of the form F. The machine may alternatively be operated and controlled hydraulically or partly hydraulically and partly electrically or partly mechanically.
Patent GB-444530-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to rubber thread and to the process for its manufacture
IPC: B29D99/00
Filed: 1935-07-18
Abstract: 444,530. Elastic threads. HUNGARIAN RUBBER GOODS FACTORY, Ltd., 17, Kerepesi-ut, Budapest. July 18, 1935, No. 20527. Convention date, July 20, 1934. [Class 120 (iii)] [See also Group V] Rubber threads, which are to be covered with textile yarns, are provided with fins which prevent the yarm slipping during the covering. The threads are made from rubber sheet of masticated rubber containing no, or at most 5 per cent, solvent, by passing it between groove-profiled travelling surfaces, such as rollers, fig. 2, so that the sheet is moulded into threads connected with each other by thin webs ; the threads being cut away either before or after vulcanization.
Patent GB-1005361-A (GB)
Title: Coal-tar pitch compositions
IPC: C10C3/00
Filed: 1964-05-19
Abstract: A coal-tar pitch composition consists essentially of a homogenous blend of (1) 20-80% by weight of normal coal-tar pitch, and (2) up to 80% by weight of an oxidized aromatic flux oil residue containing 15-45% by weight of benzene-insoluble compounds, having a R. and B. softening point of 50-135 DEG  C. and a penetration index of at least - 1.5.  Pitch (1) may have R. and B. softening point of e.g. 40-135 DEG  C. or higher.  The flux oils are distilled from coal tar.  The compositions may be applied either as hot fluids, or dissolved in a volatile organic solvent, e.g. xylene or high flash naphtha. Fillers, e.g. talc, stone flour, crushed slate, or asbestos fibre, or reinforcing agents, e.g. asbestos, paper or cloth felt, or glass, cotton or tar-saturated cloth, may be employed.
Patent GB-691385-A (GB)
Title: A brush for cleaning shoes
IPC: A46B9/06
Filed: 1950-08-21
Abstract: 691,385. Brushes. SAMUEL, H. March 29, 1951 [Aug. 21, 1950], No. 20698/50. Class 19. A brush for use in cleaning suede shoes consists of two separable parts, one consisting of a handle member and stiff bristles secured to one face thereof and the other part consisting of a moulded rubber attachment having a body portion formed with a socket adapted to fit over and embrace firmly the part of the handle member surrounding that in which the stiff bristles are secured and also with rubber bristles so arranged that, when in position upon the handle member, they extend in a direction away from the stiff bristles. As stiff bristles there may be used wire bristles, hair bristles or fibre bristles, especially artificial fibres as, for example, nylon fibres. The moulded rubber attachment may be provided with an integral laterally projecting flange member, for example, projecting from each of two opposite sides of the body portion at right angles to the rubber bristles, the flange having on one face a serrated frictional surface. In the Figures, the handle 1 has stiff bristles 2 at one end. The detachable moulded rubber attachment 3 has a body portion formed with a number of rubber bristles 4, a rectangular socket 5 connecting with an opening 6 and on rim 7 extending laterally towards the centre of the opening at the entrance to the socket. The socket has an orifice 8 in one of its shorter sides for the insertion of the handle. The attachment is provided with an integral laterally projecting rubber flange 9 the edge of the flange having serrations 10. Specification 601,773 is referred to.
Patent GB-903756-A (GB)
Title: Carburetters for internal combustion engines
IPC: F02M1/08
Filed: 1961-06-08
Abstract: 903,756. Carburetters. GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION. June 8, 1961 [June 29, 1960], No. 20734/61. Addition to 880,196. Class 7(3) A carburetter for an internal-combustion engine comprises a casing through which extends an air induction passage 16 in which are rotatably mounted a throttle valve 18 and an air valve 20 which is located anteriorly of the throttle valve; a servo-device operatively connected to the air valve so as to control its degree of opening in accordance with the fluid pressure differential across the air valve; a fuel reservoir 40 connected to the induction passage intermediate the air and throttle valves by a conduit which includes a tube 54 projecting into the induction passage so that air flow past the tube induces a flow of fuel from the reservoir to the induction passage and which has therein a metering orifice 42 controlled by a rod 38 linked to the servo-device so that the flow of fuel through the metering orifice is proportional to the degree of opening of the air valve and a device 82 responsive to induction passage pressure posteriorly of the throttle valve adapted to bleed a restricted amount of atmospheric air into the conduit to reduce the fuel flow therethrough. The carburetter includes a choke valve 60 and a valve device 74 operative when the choke valve is closed to increase the fuel supply to the induction conduit but inoperative to effect control of the fuel supply when the choke valve is open. The valve device is biased by a spring so as to open only when the choke valve is closed during engine cranking. An accelerator pump (not shown) supplies additional fuel during acceleration.
Patent GB-1068806-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to cursors
Inventor: ALVEY FRANK STUART
IPC: G06G1/04
Filed: 1964-05-20
Abstract: 1,068,806. Cursors. BRITISH PETROLEUM CO. Ltd. April 14, 1965 [May 20, 1964]. No. 20765/64. Heading G4B. A transparent cursor 1 is centrally pivoted to an annular ring 3 so that the axis of rotation is not obscured, two lines 4, 5 on the cursor intersecting at the axis of rotation. To determine whether three points are collinear, the centre point of the line 4 is placed on one of the points and the cursor then pivoted to see if the line will simultaneously overlie the other two points. The cursor may be used for checking calculations relating to the viscosities of liquid petroleum products.
Patent GB-154326-A (GB)
Title: Emergency lamp for attachment to the interior of motor headlamps and the like
IPC: F21S13/00
Filed: 1919-08-26
Abstract: 154,326. Evans, F. A. A., and Evans, B. S. Aug. 26, 1919. Supporting.-An emergency lamp comprising an oil or spirit container and a burner is adapted to be detachably connected by means of a spring or other clip to some existing internal part of a vehicular lamp. In one form, the packed reservoir 1 is detachably held in a spring clip 4 having a second clip 5 adapted to engage the stem of the acetylene burner 6 of a motor headlight.
Patent GB-531355-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to protective means for elastic fluid turbines
IPC: F01D21/02
Filed: 1939-07-19
Abstract: 531,355. Protective cut-out arrangements. BRITISH THOMSON - HOUSTON CO., Ltd. July 19, 1939, No. 20980. Convention date, July 21, 1938. Drawings to Specification. [Class 38 (v)] [Also in Group XXVI] When the direction of power flow to a turbinedriven generator is reversed, as on the failure of the steam supply, a power directional relay, as, for example, that described in Specification 508,005, is used to disconnect the generator from the bus-bars.
Patent GB-1260616-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to aerosol spray heads
IPC: B65D83/16
Filed: 1970-05-01
Abstract: 1,260,616. Aerosol spray heads. 5-DAY LABORATORIES DIVISION OF ASSOCIATED PRODUCTS Inc. 1 May, 1970 [1 May, 1969], No. 21031/70. Heading B2F. [Also in Division Fl] A spray head especially for an aerosol container comprises a casing 10 of plastics material having an axial passage 16 in communication at 18 with the container and from which extend at least two parallel discharge passages 14 each opening into a cone shaped orifice 24, the passages 14 being disposed in such close proximity that in use the spray from one passage intermixes with that from the other passage (or passages) to define an overlapping spray pattern on the target.
Patent GB-280170-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to the deposition of cakes of solid matter from fluids in which the solids are suspended
IPC: B01D33/00
Filed: 1927-08-09
Abstract: 280,170. Filtration Engineers, Inc., (Assignees of Young, F. W.). Nov. 4, 1926, [Convention date]. Moulding pulp.-The form and constitution of a cake formed by the deposition of solid matter from liquid is determined by causing the liquid to be withdrawn at different rates from beneath the different parts of the support, on which the solid is deposited. The process is applicable in the manufacture of tapered sheets, consisting of a mixture of asbestos fibre, sand and cement, with or without, colouring material, which after further treatment, are suitable for use as shingles or chapboards. Fig. 1 shows filtering apparatus for carrying out the process. A tank 11 contains the liquid mixture, and a tapered cake 15 is deposited on a filter element 18. The lower side of the element comprises a filter cloth 28, Fig. 8, on a drainage screen 38, supported by a casting 27 with grooves which increase in depth towards one end of the element, from which end the liquid is withdrawn by suction through a flexible pipe 29 and a. threeway valve 31. For a length at the opposite end of the element an additional fine screen is provided between the screen 38 and the casting 27. The element 18 is suspended from levers 21, pivoted on a, carriage 17, and it can be lifted out of the tank 11 and moved into a position where an air blast through the valve 31 will detach the cake on to a conveyer 14. Automatic means may be provided for operating the levers 21, and the valve 31, and for moving the carriage 17 as required. Elements, as shown in Fig. 8, may be arranged longitudinally on a rotary drum 52, Fig. 4, dipping into a tank 53. The cakes are built up on the outside of the drum about a reinforcement 68 comprising a number of parallel endless strands which pass round the drum 52 and a grooved roller 57. The roller 57 removes the cakes from the reinforcement, and they fall on a receiving surface 59. A compressor belt 58 is provided.
Patent GB-573863-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to game apparatus
IPC: A63F3/04
Filed: 1943-12-20
Abstract: 573,863. Puzzles; word-building apparatus. SHAMAH, I. Dec. 20, 1943, No. 21346. [Classes 132 (iii) and 146 (ii)] In a puzzle word-building apparatus flexible strips a, b bearing fragments of pictures, words or letters are adjustable relatively and adapted to be interwoven to form a complete representation exposed to view in the rectangular space 2 cut in one face of the framework. The framework comprises a box 1 with rounded sides 3 and slits 4, 14 in the edges of the rectangular space 2 through which pass the strips a, b in the form of endless bands or straight lengths on rollers.
Patent GB-149844-A (GB)
Title: Improved safety razor
IPC: B26B21/50
Filed: 1919-09-01
Abstract: 149,844. Cremer, O. Sept. 1, 1919. Fittings, internal; boxes combined with sharpening-appliances.-The body B of a box for containing a safety-razor is provided with clips b, b<1> for holding the razor and a number of spare blades. A stropping-surface is arranged inside the box lid A.
Patent GB-1482057-A (GB)
Title: Impact resistant polyamide mixtures
IPC: C08L23/00
Filed: 1975-05-20
Abstract: 1482057 Polyamide/polyethylene/graft-copolymer compositions BAYER AG 20 May 1975 [1 June 1974] 21454/75 Headings C3R and C3P A homogeneous mixture consists, by wt., of 3-30% (A) polyethylene of melt-index >15 g./10 min. and MW<100,000, (B) a graft polymer having polymerized #-caprolactam units grafted on to 0-3À5% ethylene/(meth)acrylic acid copolymer, and (C) poly-#-caprolactam, there being 65-96À7% total grafted and ungrated polycaprolactam. In (B), 30-70% of the (meth)acrylic acid may be in the form of the Na salt. The copolymer may contain 1-10% moles (meth)acrylic acid. (A) may be highpressure polyethylene. The mixture may be prepared by (i) polymerizing caprolactam and #- aminocaproic acid in the presence of (A) and the copolymer, (ii) homogenizing (A), the copolymer, and (C), or (iii) polymerizing caprolactam in the presence of the copolymer and then processing with (A). Conventional additives may be incorporated. The mixture may be moulded. Use.-Housings, plates, rolls, bristles.
Patent GB-994158-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to high speed printers
IPC: B41J9/14
Filed: 1962-06-04
Abstract: 994,158. Selective printing. POTTER INSTRUMENT CO. Inc. June 4, 1962 [June 9, 1961], No. 21484/62. Addition to 992,590. Heading B6F. Type-wheel actions; hammer impression arrangements ; types, dies and printing surfaces. In a high-speed printer a printing character drum 1, Fig. 1, is mounted on a rotating shaft 2, the drum carrying a plurality of peripheral rows of alpha-numeric printing characters arranged in pairs, such as 3, 4 and 5, 6 &c., each row comprising a group of contiguously spaced characters followed by a blank space equal at least to the length N<SP>1</SP>, Fig. 2, of the group of contiguous printing characters in the adjacent row and an additional length R, representing the peripheral displacement of the drum required for a hammer 9 to recover and to be fired again. The groups of printing characters in each row 3, 4 arranged to be acted on by the single hammer 9 are staggered in the manner described, so that only one printing character will be located under the printing hammer at any time. The hammer 9, Fig. 1, is fired by a magnetic coil 10 energized from a hammer drive unit 13, receiving the information to be printed on paper 8, over input wires 14, 15. In another embodiment in Fig. 3 (not shown), a single hammer is arranged to span three peripheral rows of contiguously spaced printing characters and the blank space in each row is equal to at least twice the length of the groups of contiguous characters in the two adjacent rows and twice the length of the hammer recovery time, represented by interval 7 or R in Figs. 1 and 2, respectively. In a further embodiment in Fig. 4 (not shown), any number of rows of groups of contiguous characters may be acted on by a single hammer and the blank space in the rows is arranged accordingly.
Patent GB-904266-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in expansion joints
IPC: F16L51/02
Filed: 1961-06-14
Abstract: 904,266. Expansion joints; indicating leakage. ZALLEA, J. P., and ZALLEA, S., [trading as ZALLEA BROS.]. June 14, 1961 [June 15, 1960], No. 21545/61. Classes 99(1) and 99(2). In a pipe line expansion joint a bellows element connected at opposite ends thereof to rigid end fittings 40, comprises inner and outer plies 20, 10 substantially in free surface contact with one another to define a fluid penetrable space therebetween, communicating with which space is means for coupling to a device for detecting the presence of fluid in the space. As shown, the ends of the bellows element are welded to the fittings and the outer ply 10 is provided with an aperture 60 in register with which is an opening 70 in a coupling 50. Attached to the latter is a sensing device which operates an alarm to give warning of breakdown of the inner ply of the bellows element. An anti-torsion device 80 prevents relative rotation between the coupling 50 and the fitting 40, and a metal foil cushion is disposed between the plies 10, 20.
Patent GB-708842-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to set-off preventing spraying devices for printing machines
IPC: B41F23/06
Filed: 1951-09-13
Abstract: 708,842. Pistons; packing. INTERPRINT SOC. AR.L. Sept. 13, 1951 [March 30, 1951], No. 21547/31. Class 122(1) [Also in Group XVI] In a device for spraying antiset-off solution on to printed sheets (see Group XVI) a pump 2 is provided with a piston 27 having secured to its upper end a recessed piston cup 33 retained by two washers 34 and containing a pair of expanding felt washers 35 retained by a washer 36 and nuts 37.