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Patent GB-271114-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in automobile vehicles
IPC: B60K5/00
Filed: 1927-05-16
Abstract: 271,114. Claveau, E. May 17, 1926, [Convention date]. Springs, arrangement of; guiding vertical play. -In motor vehicles comprising a shell or body without a chassis-frame, such as are described in Specifications 226,566 and 245,106, the wheels are mounted on journals which slide on frames rigidly secured to the shell, means being provided resiliently to control the movement of the journals. The front wheels are mounted on journals 1, each of which slides and swivels on a vertical rod 2 carried by transverse tubular members 3 extending through the shell B and secured thereto by flanged members 8. Load and recoil springs 5, 6 are mounted on the rods 2 between the journals and members 4 which secure the rods 2 to the members 3. The mounting of the rear wheels is similar except that the journals do not swivel and each journal slides on a pair of vertical rods 2, 2<1>. Telescopic casings 7 enclose the springs 5, and the springs may be replaced, by pneumatic or hydraulic devices.
Patent GB-131543-A (GB)
IPC: B60L3/00
Abstract: 131,543. Sykes Interlocking Signal. Co., W. R., and Tarrant, R. W. Feb. 3, 1919. Electrical systems, automatic.-In a normally continuous-current track-circuit system, means are provided for automatically converting the continuous-current into a pulsating current when the continuous current would be above a predetermined value as when the rails are shunted by a pair of wheels. The pulsator comprises a coil f on a core F and a contact G, h, both in series with the track battery C. The armature G is a vibrating reed and is so adjusted that the contact remains closed until a current in excess of the predetermined limit passes in the track circuit. The vibration of the armature G, consequent upon the excess current, causes a pulsating current and economizes energy. The contact G, h may be shunted by either or both a condenser j and a high-resistance polarizing coil g-
Patent GB-239264-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to the preparation of bituminous materials for use in road-making and the like
IPC: C10C3/02
Filed: 1924-05-29
Abstract: 239,264. Campbell, A. F., and Hardmann & Holden, Ltd. May 29, 1924, Pitch and tar are dehydrogenated by heating with sulphur until all the sulphur has been driven off as hydrogen sulphide. The material before treatment is converted by distillation to a pitchlike consistency if not already in that form.
Patent GB-280764-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to self-lighting cigarettes and the like
IPC: A24D1/08
Filed: 1926-05-25
Abstract: 280,764. Parsons, J. May 25, 1926. Cigarettes; cigars. - A cigarette or cigar is provided with a self-lighting attachment comprising a fulminate and a fuse composition including wood flour or other finely ground combustible, a selfcombustible binder, such as nitrocellulose, being used for the fuse or fulminate, or both. The fuse is preferably prepared by treating fine wood flour of hickory, ash, or other non-resinous woods with a solution of potassium nitrate, drying, and mixing with a solution of nitrocellulose in ethyl acetate, benzol, acetone, butyl acetate, ethyl alcohol, &c. In place of, or mixed with, nitrocellulose, oil and resins such as cumar resin, gum copal, gum dammar, and various pitches, may be used mixed with oxidizing agents. A fulminate may be obtained by mixing together 4 parts potassium chlorate, 1 part sulphur, 3 parts ground glass, and ¢ part of red phosphorus, and then mixing two parts of the powder obtained with 1 part of nitrocellulose solution. A safety fulminate may be made by mixing together 18 parts potassium chlorate, 2 parts manganese dioxide, 2 parts iron peroxide, 1.7 parts bichromate of potash, 1 part suphur, and 4 parts ground glass, and then mixing 10 parts of the powder with 7 parts of nitrocellulose solution. A striking-surface for the safety fulminate may be composed of 12 parts glass powder mixed with 5 parts red phosphorus and cemented with 4 parts nitrooellulolse solution, darkened, if desired, with lampblack, red oxide, &c. The igniting-band is preferably made in ribbon form and is applied by means of nitrocellulose solution in double width at doublecigarette lengths along the paper web before this is coiled, so that when the cigarette rod is cut midway of the bands, cigarettes with an igniting- band 12 at one end are obtained as shown. The band may, however, be applied to the inside of the cigarette, or to the end, or in the form of a cap. Reference has been directed by the Comptroller to Specifications 5008/78, 12048/86, 25696/98: 23405/99. [Class 50, Fuel, Manufacture of] ; 28656/03, 25072/12, and 101/15.
Patent GB-573653-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to apparatus for throwing bombs, grenades and like projectiles or missiles
IPC: F41A9/48
Filed: 1938-05-04
Abstract: 573,653. Grenade throwers &c. BLACKER, L. V. S. May 4, 1938, No. 13266. [Classes 9 (i), 92 (ii) and 119] An apparatus for discharging grenades and like projectiles having a tubular tail 9 housing at its inner end the propellent cartridge 12, comprises a spring-impelled striker 8 which fits the outer end of the tail 9 and supports the grenade prior to discharge, which is effected by the forward impulsion of the striker by a spring 4. The striker is carried by a " recoil tube " 1 which is slidable in an outer tube 2, the latter being mounted on a rifle 3, as shown, or other small arm, or on a suitable base-plate, or on a vehicle. A detent 13 in the tube 1 is engaged by a catch or trigger 14 operated by a lever 19 through a slip-latch arrangement 48, 46. When a grenade is fired, the gas-pressure in the tail 9 reacts upon the striker 8 and drives the recoil tube back until the weapon is recocked. The range may be regulated by permitting a portion of the gases to escape through ports 30a, Fig. 1a, in the end of the striker 8 and through other ports 28, 31. The ports 30a are adjustable by screwing a sleeve 30 along the striker tube. A sleeve 10 extends forwardly from the fixed tube 2 and forms an abutment for the drum-shaped end 11 of the grenade to position the latter correctly relatively to the cocked striker 8. A compound arrangement' of the main spring is also described, and also a hydro-pneumatic buffer device. Several forms and arrangements of cartridges 12 are described. In one, Fig. 2, a firing-pin 22 extends axially through the cartridge and the primer 21 is driven on to it by the striker 8 (a solid striker is shown). In another form. Fig. 4, the primer is struck by a pin 25 on the striker and the flash passes to the charge through a perforated axial tube 26 in the cartridge. In a third form, Fig. 5, the primer is located at the inner end of the cartridge, arid the latter is driven by the striker 8 on to a firing-pin 22 mounted in the grenade tube 9, the cartridge being normally separated from the pin by a spring 23.
Patent GB-375027-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in electric cut-out systems employing metal vapour valves
IPC: H02M1/06
Filed: 1931-05-06
Abstract: 375,027. Protective cut-out arrangements. AKT.-GES. BROWN, BOVERI, ET CIE, Baden, Switzerland. May 6, 1931, No. 13363. Convention date, Oct. 2, 1930. [Class 38 (v).] A current-carrying line having a metal vapour valve 2 in series therewith is interrupted in the event of excess current by applying to the valve a reverse voltage derived from a condenser 1, the discharge path of which is completed by breakdown of a spark gap 4 under voltage applied by a current transformer 3 in the line, provision being made for automatically short-circuiting the transformer on either the primary or secondary side when the condenser discharge path is completed. Such provision may comprise an auxiliary electrode 5 swept over by the discharge at the electrodes 4 with the aid, if necessary, of magnetic " blowing."
Patent GB-1178522-A (GB)
Title: Induction Air Conditioning Apparatus
IPC: F24F1/01
Filed: 1968-03-19
Abstract: 1,178,522. Ventilation apparatus. DELCHI, S.p.A. 19 March, 1968 [5 April, 1967], No. 13371/68. Heading F4V. An induction ventilation unit comprises a chamber 10 supplied with primary air through a conduit 11, an expansion chamber 12A which acts as a silencer and a manifold 12B communicating with a bank of nozzles 15, primary air passing into chamber 12A through a grating 30, being deflected by a wall 20B and passing through a grating 21C to nozzles 15, the air discharge therefrom inducing a secondary air flow through a heat exchanger 18. The gratings 30, 21C are inclined to each other at an angle of between 60 and 120 degrees. The spacing of grating 21C from nozzles 15 and grating 30 and the ratio of the aperture areas of the gratings are indicated in the Specification. The unit is made of sheet metal. The chamber 10 or 12A may be lined with sound dampening material. Air flow through grating 30 may be controlled by a slide 33 or by the device described in Specification 1,178,521.
Patent GB-1157932-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Endoscopes
Inventor: REID COLIN DAVID
IPC: G02B23/24
Filed: 1966-03-25
Abstract: 1,157,932. Endoscopes. UNITED KINGDOM ATOMIC ENERGY AUTHORITY. March 6, 1967 [March 25, 1966], No.13438/66. Heading G2J. To provide an increased angle of view with increased focal length of the front field lens to facilitate reduction in the number of field/relay lens combinations for a given instrument length an endoscope has its objective formed by an inverted telephoto lens 1, 2, of focal length f 1,2  and back focal length S 0  which is followed by a field lens 3 of focal length f 3  wherein:- S 0  > f 3  > f 1 , 2 . As shown, the singlet field lens 3 is followed by a doublet relay lens 4, singlet field lens 5 and eyepiece 6. Optical data are provided for the objective 1, 2.
Patent GB-905286-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to drinking straws and drinking appliances
IPC: B65D77/28
Filed: 1960-12-07
Abstract: 905,286. Drinking straws. YAT CHUEN YUEN. Dec. 7, 1960, No. 13439/62. Divided out of 904,010. Class 14 (2). In an assemblage of a container of a beverage, a closure therefor and a drinking straw normally held down in the container by the closure, the straw is a helically-wound strip having overlapping convolutions which slide freely over one another. The strip may be of paper or a plastic. The straw of Fig. 1 is cylindrical; that of Fig. 2 tapers inwardly from bottom to top. Application of the container closure reduces the length of the straw, and on removing the closure the straw extends to bring its upper end into position for drinking.
Patent GB-509077-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in the sealing of electric conductors into quartz or like highly refractory vitreous material
IPC: H01J9/32
Filed: 1938-05-05
Abstract: 509,077. Sealing conductors into vitreous material. GENERAL ELECTRIC CO., Ltd., HARRIS, N. L., and LEWIS, W. A. May 5, 1938, No. 13446. [Class 36] The manufacture of a seal of the kind wherein a conductor passes through a quartz or like highly refractory vitreous envelope comprises the following steps : (1) coating part of a tungsten or other refractory metal conductor 1, Fig. 1, (a), with one or more layers of intermediate glass 2 ; (2) making a tube of the material of the envelope having a relatively wide and preferably thick-walled portion 3, Fig. 1, (b), into which the coated part of the conductor fits (not necessarily exactly) and a narrow-portion 4 into which an uncoated portion of the conductor fits (not necessarily exactly) ; (3) placing the parts of the conductor within those parts of the tube into which they fit, Fig. 1, (c), and joining the tube to the coated part of the conductor, but not necessarily to the other parts ; (4) joining the exterior of the tube to an aperture 6, Fig. 1, (d), of the envelope 7, or to a tube 9, Fig. 2, projecting from the envelope. The tube into which the coated part of the conductor is sealed has an extension 5, Figs. 1, (b-d), which serves as a handle during the sealing operations and which is subsequently severed from the narrow portion 4. As shown in Fig. 2, the extension is severed before the conductor is inserted in the tube 9, the latter tube also having an extension which. after the tube has been sealed to the envelope 7 is cut from a narrow conductor-supporting part 10 of the tube along a line 12.
Patent GB-332929-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to portable tables and the like
Filed: 1929-04-30
Abstract: 332,929. McMillan, F. April 30, 1929. Folding tables. - The legs 3 of a folding table are pivoted to corner brackets 4 and are held in the open position by depressible spring members 7 which may be of such a width as to abut against the under face of the legs when in the closed position. Each bracket 4 may be formed also with a portion 6<a> to engage another side of the leg to give additional rigidity. The spring 7 may be fixed to or carried by an extension of the bracket 4. Each leg may be cut away at 3<b> to accommodate the end of the opposite leg when folded, and the pairs of legs at each end of the table may be connected together.
Patent GB-638016-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to wood wind and like musical instruments
IPC: G10D7/06
Filed: 1947-05-20
Abstract: 638,016. Wind musical instruments. CHANCE, H. May 20, 1947, No. 13498. [Class 88 (ii)] In a mouthpiece for a wood wind or like instrument in which the air passage 17 extends rearwardly and upwardly from the instrument (not shown) to an elongated slot 14, along which a reed may be mounted a constriction is provided in the air passage. Preferably the constriction is formed by thickening the lower wall 10 of the wedge-shaped channel as at 19 and making the upper surface 20 of the thickened portion of approximately V-shaped cross-section.
Patent GB-136759-A (GB)
Title: New or Improved Safety Switch Machanism for Internal Combustion Engines particularly applicable to Motor Vehicles.
Inventor: WALLIS WALTER JOHN
Filed: 1919-05-28
Abstract: 136,759. Wallis, W. J. May 28, 1919. Secret contact-combination switches.-A switch for closing the electric ignition circuit of an internal-combustion engine, to prevent unauthorized use, comprises a.box k of insulating-material having mounted in an unenclosed position on the face thereof a number of groups of contacts e, f, g arranged in arc formation, and an arm b, c, d pivoted at the centre of each arc and adapted to move over the face of the box in engagement with the exposed contacts, so that only when each contact-arm engages its correct contact is the ignition circuit closed. The combination may be varied by altering the interconnexions within the box shown in dotted lines.
Patent GB-107489-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Interlocking Mechanism of Railway Signals, and in Automatic Indicators Working in Conjunction therewith.
Inventor: ROBERTS JOHN TROUGHTON
IPC: B61L19/02
Filed: 1916-09-25
Abstract: 107,489. Roberts, J. T. Sept. 25, 1916. Hand-levers and hand gearing and signalling instruments, interlocking.-Locks on hand-levers, indicators, and electric switches are put in action by operation of a hand-lever, as for a cross-over wad, but are not removed by resetting the handlever; special handles are provided for resetting the locks. Fig. 1 shows one construction of apparatus in which the cross-over road lever 1, is connected to a tappet 2 carrving an angle-iron 5 which engages the bell-cranks 3, 4 so as to cause them to move the links 7, 25 to the right when the cross-over road lever is pulled. The rod 7 rocks the locking-piece 6 to obstruct the angle-bar 10 on the tappet 9 of the up signal lever 11, and to set the up line indicator 12 to " blocked." The rod 25 acts similarly on the down line lever 34 and indicator 23. By means of electric switches, block instruments in other cabins may be controlled and signals locked at danger. When the cross-over road lever is replaced, the bell-cranks 3, 4 are not moved but the apparatus on each lever 11, 34 may be reset by the handles 35, 36. This action is prevented whilst the cross-over lever is pulled over by the abutment of the bracket 5 against the bell-cranks 3, 4. Modified means for moving the rods 7, 25 are described.
Patent GB-135699-A (GB)
IPC: B23B27/16
Abstract: 135,699. Whitfield, C. Jan. 30, 1919. Tool-holders.-In a tool-holder comprising a tool-bar b carrying a part a for carrying the tool d in a transverse hole, the part a is slotted at a<2> from the top to the tool opening, so that the tool is clamped when the conical parts a<3>, b<1>, which may be pyramidal or circular, are drawn together by means such as the set-screw c, or a nut engaging the threaded outer portion of the shank a<1>. The part a may have further slits in planes at an angle to it and, if desired, extending from the tool opening downwards.
Patent GB-475122-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in electric switches specially applicable to motor starters and control switches therefor
IPC: H01H50/88
Filed: 1936-05-14
Abstract: 475,122. Master control of motors; actuating controllers. BROOKHIRST SWITCHGEAR, Ltd., and LANCELEY, C. May 14, 1936, No. 13632. [Class 38 (iii)] A controller comprises a series of pivoted switch arms 64a-64d carrying movable contacts 63 co-operating with fixed contacts 61 and biassed to an " off " position, an operating arm 11 similarly biassed, a shaft 13 carrying detents 40 for holding the switch arms in their "off" " position and an electromagnet 10 which first pulls the operating arm 11 to an " on " position to render a spring or weight 12 effective to operate the shaft 13 against retarding means 44, so that the detents 40 are released in succession and the switch arms moved by the electromagnet 10 into their " on " positions. The controller may control the starting resistances of an electric motor, the contacts 63, 61, operating to energize resistance contactor coils in sequence, or operating directly on the resistance in which case renewable roller contacts are provided. The operating arm 11 may itself be provided with a contact which operates as a main switch subject to the action of a magnetic blow-out coil. The operating arm 16 is connected to the detent shaft 13 by means of a block 29 which slides on a rod 28 which slides in a block 32, connected to a crank 33 on the shaft 13. A spring 34 is positioned between the blocks 29, 32 and its tension is adjusted by a nut 35. A second crank on the shaft 13 is coupled to a rack engaging gearing 49 coupled to the disc 45 of an eddy-current brake so energized that the rate at which the switch arms 64a-64d close, is dependent on the motor current. The switch arms 64a-64d each carry a vertically adjustable pawl mounted in slots 67, 68 and having a nose 71 engaging with its respective detent 40. The pawls are positioned so as to be released by the detents in succession, and the cam-like detents 40 may also be adjustably mounted on the shaft 13. A dashpot may replace the eddy-current retarding-device.
Patent GB-437750-A (GB)
Title: Apparatus for controlling the flow of gas, electricity or liquid
IPC: G07F15/12
Filed: 1934-05-05
Abstract: 437,750. Prepayment mechanism for meters. BREMNER PATENTS (HOLDING CO.), Ltd., and BREMNER, D. O., 1, Ironmonger Lane, London. May 5, 1934, No. 13664. [Class 27] Time-controlled apparatus ; coin action, mechanical - connection.-In coin - controlled timeoperated apparatus for delivering gas, electricity, &c. wherein a cam disc driven by the timing means actuates a master valve or switch by means of an operating arm, a manually-operated plunger 36, Fig. 2, actuated by an external push button 37 slides in a cylinder 34 and through the medium of a coin inserted through a slot 35 rocks a resetting lever 40 pivoted at 41 to cause a pin 20 on the valve or switch-operating arm 18 to rise on to the periphery of the cam disc 22. The coin, when moved, engages an adjustable projection 39 secured to the lever 40. The lever 18 is secured to the spindle 17 of a valve carrying arm 16 located inside a valve-box 14. The cam disc 22 has a straightsided notch 33 into which the pin 20 drops to close the valve when the disc has been driven through one revolution by the timing clockwork. A resetting plate rotatable with the disc 22 is pivotally mounted coaxially with the disc. The resetting lever 40 engages a pin 47 on the member 42 and rotates this member relatively to the disc thereby causing an inclined surface 46 to move the pin 20 out of the notch 33. A pin 43 situated between stop surfaces 44, 45 on the member 42 limits its rocking movement. A bevel wheel 50, Fig. 7, connected to the cam disc 22 engages a bevel wheel 51 on a spindle 52 having a square bore 53 for the reception of a key for zeroizing the mechanism, a friction drive being included between the clockwork and the disc to allow the disc to be rotated independently. A bush 54 carrying the spindle 52 is screw-threaded to receive a plug by which the spindle may be jammed when the coinfreed mechanism is to be rendered inoperative. A manually-operated valve is also provided. It is arranged to start and stop the clockwork as described in Specification 422,849. Coin-slit closing-devices.-When the master valve is open, a pin 19 on the arm 18 engages a catch attached to the plunger 36 and prevents the plunger from returning to its initial position, thereby closing the coin-slit until the pin 20 drops into the notch 33.
Patent GB-433812-A (GB)
Title: Apparatus for use in connection with water softening plant
IPC: C02F1/42
Filed: 1934-05-07
Abstract: 433,812. Softening water. MARSHALL, C. G., 12, Abbey Gardens, Birkdale, Lancashire. May 7, 1934, No. 13713. [Class 46] [See also Group XIX] A water-softening plant is provided in the outlet pipe D with an apparatus for indicating the correct flow of water during back washing. The apparatus comprises a transparent receptacle A enclosing a tube B inserted in the pipe D. The tube B is provided with openings b<2>, b<3> situated on opposite sides of a partition b<1>as shown in Fig. 2. The opening b<2> is larger than the openings b<3> so that as water passes through the tube B it accumulates in the receptacle A, the amount of water accumulating depending upon the rate at which the water passes through the tube. A scale a<1> on the receptacle A indicates the level at which the accumulated water must be maintained for ensuring the correct flow through the installation. The openings b<3> may be covered with gauze, and a tap H enables water to be drawn off for testing purposes. Instead of the water level being indicated directly on the scale a<1>, a float may be used for this purpose.
Patent GB-206794-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in match-box holders
IPC: A24F27/04
Filed: 1923-05-24
Abstract: 206,794. Anderson, F. A. W. May 24, 1923. No Patent granted (Sealing fee not paid). Match - box holders; drawer-and-shell boxes.-A match-box holder of the kind consisting of a drawer and shell adapted to hold the drawer and shell respectively of the match-box and in which the narrow sides of the shell are slotted to give access to the striking surfaces has the drawer 10, Figs. 1 and 3, of the holder provided with tongues 11 adapted to pass between the walls 4 of the match-box and the slotted sides of the holder so as to protect the striking-surfaces on the match-box from moisture and from mechanical injury. Studs 12 on the tongues 11 engage within the slots and prevent the drawer from being withdrawn completely. The shell of the match-box is retained within the shell of the holder by a leaf spring 7 on the holder engaging the edge of the shell of the box by means of a turned-down lip. A stud 8 on the front end of the top of the holder indicates the position in which the box is to be held for opening.
Patent GB-170320-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to conveyors
IPC: B65G39/00
Filed: 1920-05-19
Abstract: 170,320. Taisey, F. R., and Lamson Co. May 19, 1920. Roller-ways.-At the curved parts of a gravity roller-way, each spindle is provided with independently rotatable rollers 10, 11, in order that the articles conveyed may not leave the way. Each roller 11 may carry a ring 12 or may be conical.