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Patent GB-434863-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to inking apparatus for rotary printing machines
IPC: B41F31/30
Filed: 1934-02-08
Abstract: 434,863. Printing - machines. GOSS PRINTING PRESS CO., 1535, South Paulina Street, Chicago, U.S.A.-(Assignees of Crafts, C. S. ; 645, North Lombard Avenue, Oak Park, Illinois, U.S.A.) Feb. 8, 1934, No. 37365. Convention date, Sept. 15, 1933. Divided out of 435,030. [Class 100 (ii)] Inking - apparatus.-In a rotary printing- machine one of the inking-rollers 260 is supported in a hanger 265 which is supported by spaced pivotal mountings 290 pivoted to the frame of the machine, and means are provided for positively moving the roller 260 towards or from either or both of two inking cylinders 210, 215. The pivotal mountings are received in guideways 259 in the hanger, and by means of screws 292 filled with collars 293, (not shown), and turning heads 294 the hangers can be adjusted angularly about either of the pivotal mountings, or can be moved in a straight line towards or away from the co-operating inking-rollers 210, 215. The hanger 265 is formed of a U-shaped frame member 265 on one side of which is formed a socket for receiving ball-bearings 270 at the end of the roller 260, the socket being preferably made in separable halves 266, 267, one of which, 266, is formed integrally with the frame 265 and the other is secured to the first half by means of screwed studs 268. The ball-bearing assembly comprises a self-aligning ball bearing 270 the inner race of which has a slightly tapered bore and is fitted on to a cone 271 fitted on the reduced end 272 of the roller shaft and held by a threaded collar 274 against a shoulder 273. The outer race is seated in a cylindrical carrier 276 having a bevelled outer wall, and is retained by a collar 277 held by screws. An oil passage 281 is provided and also lubricant-retaining rings 280. The hanger is fitted with a lower guiding surface 285 in which is engaged a groove 284 at the end of the shaft 272 in order to guide the roller to its mounted position. Specification 268,608, [Class 100 (ii)], is referred to.
Patent GB-1506259-A (GB)
Title: Patterning system for a knitting machine
IPC: D04B7/08
Filed: 1975-09-11
Abstract: 1506259 Knitting machines SILVER SEIKO CO Ltd 11 Sept 1975 [14 Sept 1974] 37371/75 Heading D1C [Also in Division G3] A patterning system for use with a hand operated flat bed knitting machine having a reciprocative carriage with a pair of electromagnetic needle selecting means comprises a program e.g. a punched card, switch means for detecting the direction of movement of the carriage and a control circuit for selectively energising the electromagnets in response to the program and to the output signal of the switch. The needle selectors are positioned one at each end of the carriage and on each pass of the carriage over the needle bed a sensor e.g. a photo cell reads the program data for the subsequent course of stitches into a memory while the leading selector selects needles in accordance with the data read on the previous pass. The needle selecting means each comprise a pair of rotatable drums a, b with intermeshing gears 1 and 3, gear 3 meshing also with a rack 2 on the needle bed. Each element 6 may be set in one of two positions, for selecting or not selecting a needle. To select a needle the electromagnet m is caused to attract the plate lid of the element 11 as it passes an arm 18 of magnetic material attached to the core 17, the foot 11c then tilts the element 6 in to lie against the surface of the drum a against spring loaded ball 9. Otherwise the element 6 remains in its non operating condition, overcoming the spring 19 and pivoting the element 11 about the annular wire 12. Elements 6 are reset to the non operating condition on each revolution.
Patent GB-522055-A (GB)
Title: High-speed forging press
IPC: B21J9/18
Filed: 1938-12-23
Abstract: 522,055. Metal-working presses; forging-machines. SPENCER, F. W., Dec. 23, 1938, Nos. 37397/38 and 7747/39. [Class 83 (iv)] A machine in which work is forged between oppositely moving dies 10, 12, the movements are obtained from a crankshaft 7. One diehead comprises a frame 5 sliding in the fixed frame 3 and the other a ram 6 sliding in multiple vee grooves 5a in the frame 5. The cranks 9, operating the frame 5, rotate in blocks 46, Fig. 2, movable horizontally in rectangular openings in said frame 5. The crank 11, which has a greater throw than the cranks 9, engages a link 36, Fig. 1, connected, by an adjustable eccentric pin 37, Fig. 8, to the ram 6. The pin 37 is rotated, and a block 44 adjusted, by a wedge 39 moved by a hand-operated screw 42. The shaft 7 has slightly eccentric brake drums 49 engaged by adjustable straps 50 which are most effective when the ram is at the top of its stroke and is driven through spring-closed roller clutches which are opened by a projection 19, Fig. 2, thereof, striking an abutment 18, this being withdrawn by a treadle 14 to restart the machine. The clutches are arranged in gears 13 driven by pinions 26 on a shaft 27 which carries flywheels 29, one of which is driven by a motor 31 and belt 30, mounted so as to slip if excessive overload occurs. In a modification the gears 13 are keyed on their shaft and the shaft 27 has a freely-rotating driven flywheel which can be coupled to said shaft by a pedal-controlled, friction clutch. The heads may carry a number of different tools such as dies for flattening, cutting off and trimming.
Patent GB-1149177-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in, or relating to, tractor and implement hitches
IPC: A01B63/111
Filed: 1966-08-22
Abstract: 1,149,177. Tractor power lift mechanisms. MASSEY-FERGUSON Inc. 22 Aug., 1966 [23 Aug., 1965], No. 37521/66. Heading A1P. A tractor power lift mechanism having draft control similar to that described in Specification 1,113,681 in which movements in the upper link 10 operate against leaf springs 38 to actuate a lever 118 whose movement is transferred by cam 114 to a lever 68 and thence to a control valve 52 is characterized in that the connection between the upper link 10 and the lever 118 comprises a cam 138 arranged to operate on the lever 118 so that the draft signal transmitted to the control valve is proportionally reduced as the draft links are rotated from their neutral position in response to draft variations. The cam can be made inoperative by turning it through 90 degrees. In an embodiment the cam is associated with pin 116 and is connected to the upper link 10 by a spring biased lever and a chain.
Patent GB-357439-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to electric time switches particularly for x-ray apparatus
IPC: H01H7/16
Filed: 1930-12-12
Abstract: 357,439. Rontgen ray apparatus. BRITISH THOMSON-HOUSTON CO., Ltd., Crown House, Aldwych, London.-(Assignees of Kearsley, W. K. ; 1606, Randolph Road, Schenectady, New York, U.S.A.) Dec. 12, 1930, No. 37547. Convention date, June 23. [Class 98 (i).] A time switch for controlling the period of energization of X-ray apparatus comprises an electric motor rotating a contact drum adapted to co-operate with contacts spaced apart lengthwise of and adjacent to the drum, means driven by the motor for moving the contacts lengthwise of the contact drum and means for rendering the last means active for moving the contacts on to the surface of the drum. A synchronous electric motor 10, driven from alternating current mains 10<1>, drives a shaft 11 through variable speed gearing 18. The shaft 11 carries a contact cylinder having a central conducting portion 16 and insulating ends 14, 15, the dividing line between the insulating and conducting parts being a stepped spiral of the same pitch as a screw 17 also on the shaft 11. A carrier 27 can slide but not rotate on a shaft 21 to which is attached a lever 24, having at one end an armature 23. On energizing an electromagnet 22 by means of a push-button 26, the armature 23 is attracted and the shaft 21 is rotated. This causes the end of a lever 28 on the carrier 27 to engage the screw thread 17 and the carrier slides to the right. At the same time, contacts on arms 31, 32 engage the contact cylinder and their distance apart determines the time during which they are both on the conducting segment 16. In this position the X-ray apparatus is energized. The period of actuation is varied by movement of the arm 32 relative to a rack 39 which is provided with a scale 40, and also by means of the variable speed gearing 18. A coupling 13 is provided in the shaft 11 so as to alter the phase at which the break occurs and is adjusted to give a break at the zero of the alternating current cycle. A spring 35 returns the carrier 27 to its starting position when the magnet 22 is de-energized, and a latch 44 is provided to hold the carrier 33 in the event of its passing the end of the screw 17 with the magnet 22 still energized.
Patent GB-916907-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to lamellar electric change-over switches
IPC: H01H1/28
Filed: 1960-11-02
Abstract: 916,907. Switch contacts. GELOSO, G., and CASTELLI, A. Nov. 2, 1960 [Nov. 6, 1959], No. 37634/60. Class 38 (5). A change-over switch comprises pairs of resilient metal lamellµ 1<SP>1</SP> stiffened by rigid lamellµ 1<SP>11</SP> and carrying contacts 5 co-operating with contacts on resilient metal lamellae 1, the lamellµ 1, 1<SP>1</SP>, 1<SP>11</SP> being mounted in slits in fixed insulating plates 2, 3 and secured thereto by welds 6 on conducting areas 7. The lamellae 1 are also secured to a movable insulating plate 4 for simultaneous operation and the plates 2, 3 have spacers (not shown) terminals 13 connecting with the conducting areas 7 on plate 3. The lamellµ may be arranged in several lines with a single movable plate, Fig. 6 (not shown), or with a number of movable plates, Fig. 7 (not shown), which may be separately or conjointly controlled. One or other of the fixed insulating plates may be integral with a printed circuit, Figs. 4 and 5 (not shown).
Patent GB-1420276-A (GB)
Title: Substructure in or for an ice rink
IPC: E01C13/10
Filed: 1973-08-08
Abstract: 1420276 Ice-rinks BRUUN & SORENSEN AS 8 Aug 1973 [11 Aug 1972] 37666/73 Heading A6D [Also in Divisions E1 and E2] A sub-structure for an ice-rink comprises a number of concrete units 1 connected together edge-to-edge by a number of staggered bolts 3 which pass through flanges 2 of at least two units and are tightened against the flanges of the next units.
Patent GB-1192403-A (GB)
Title: Yarn Monitoring Device
IPC: B65H63/00
Filed: 1967-08-16
Abstract: 1,192,403. Automatic yarn winding machines. SCHWEITER ENG. WORKS Ltd. 16 Aug. 1967 [17 Aug., 1966], No. 37781/67. Heading D1J. In a knotting device 13 for joining two yarn ends F1, F2 together, the knotting device comprises individual measuring cells 14, 15 in the paths of the two yarn ends, the measuring cells detecting changes in yarn dimensions or doubles and the like, and producing an output signal in response thereto; and an evaluation circuit for causing two yarn cutting knives, one for each yarn, to be operated should an evaluation circuit 16 connected to this measuring cells 14, 15 give a sufficient response. There may be a time delay means between the evaluation circuit 16 and the yarn cutting knives. The measuring cells may be capacitive or photoelectric. The apparatus includes a balloon breakers 5, a yarn brakes 6, grooved drums 7, wind-up bobbins 8, a hose 9 having a suction nozzle 10 for yarn end F1, and a gripper 11 for delivering yarn end F2 to suction nozzle 12.
Patent GB-881633-A (GB)
Title: Electrostatic filter
IPC: B01D46/10
Filed: 1958-11-25
Abstract: 881,633. Electrostatic generators. McGBAW EDISON CO. Nov. 25, 1958 [Dec. 2, 1957], No. 37962/58. Class 35. [Also in Groups X and XL (a)] An electrostatic generator of the Van de Graaf type for use in an air filtering and conditioning apparatus (see Groups X and XL (a)) is driven by a propeller fan which is actuated by the air stream circulating through the apparatus or directly by the motor driving the air circulating fan and may be a separator unit insertable in spring clips 64, 65, Fig. 3, or may form an integral part of the apparatus, Fig. 8. In Fig. 3 the generator unit comprises a plastic housing 46 embraced by split clamping bands 47, 48 which form the terminals. The upper pulley 53, preferably made of insulating material, has a wool felt sleeve 55 and is driven by the propeller fan or by the motor. Idler pulley 56 is mounted on a shaft 58 which is prevented from rotating. The belt 61 consists of a silicone rubber band. Electrodes 62 and 63 are wires parallel to the belt and provided with bent ends which are clamped outside the housing by the clamping bands 47, 48. In Fig. 8 the upper pulley is driven by the motor shaft 85 and the shaft 89 of the idler pulley 88 is journalled in a U-shaped stand 90. The electrodes are wires 92, 96 and the lower electrode transfers the charge to a hollow metal cap 91. The pulleys may be crowned to maintain belt alignment.
Patent GB-1339200-A (GB)
Title: Rail support structure including prefabricated concrete parts
IPC: E01B9/28
Filed: 1971-08-13
Abstract: 1339200 Correcting settlement of the permanent way BETON-UND MONIERBAU AG 13 Aug 1971 [12 Sept 1970] 38091/71 Heading E1G A transverse cross-section of a permanent way includes two lower concrete wedges 4 each having an upper face 9 inclined downwardly to the outside of the track and which support an upper concrete slab 8 having a lower face inclined in opposite directions corresponding to the faces 9, the wedges being movable, e.g. on slide rails 5, transversely to the track to thereby adjust the height of the slab 8 and rails 11, 11'. The wedges may be moved by further wedges 30. The rails are received in recesses 14 provided with a resilient lining 15, 16 and may be anchored in a pre-stressed state by e.g. wedges 17 or a bolt and holder plate, Fig. 3 (not shown). Drainage ducts 13, 18 communicate with the faces 9.
Patent GB-1220655-A (GB)
Title: Program controlled apparatus
IPC: G05B19/408
Filed: 1969-07-30
Abstract: 1,220,655. Programmed control of machine tools. INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORP. July 30, 1969 [Aug.29, 1968J, No.38206/69. Heading G3N. Programme controlled apparatus comprises a machine tool having a removable fixture which can be precisely positioned thereon, means for performing an operation according to a programme prepared in respect of a workpiece at a standard position on the fixture, measuring apparatus to determine the difference between the actual and the standard position of the workpiece and computing apparatus for modifying the programme to compensate for said difference. Allowance is made for non-standard orientation of the workpiece in addition to its co-ordinate position. Measurement. The workpiece 6 is secured to the fixture 5 within about “" of the standard position and is identified by a tag 7. The fixture is first mounted on a measuring station which provides controlled movement in X and Y and has a probe movable in Z. These movements are controlled by means 17 in response to a programme element 22 according to the type of workpiece so that the probe traverses paths such as 75 ... 78, Fig. 5, to determine the co-ordinates of discontinuities Q... T. The movements progress in steps, the probe descending until a strain gauge on its mount detects contact with the workpiece; the probe is then raised and a step made in the X or Y direction, and the cycle repeated. This control system uses logic circuits which are fully described Figs. 12 ... 17, (not shown). From the co-ordinates of Q ... T a computing element 24 calculates the direction cosines of the non-parallel lines QR, ST and the co-ordinates of their intersection at P, or, if they do not intersect, the mid-point of a mutual perpendicular to the lines. In this form the actual position of the workpiece on its fixture is stored in a memory 3, together with its identification code. The relevant equations are given. Fabrication. The fixture with its workpiece is then conveyed to and is accurately located on the table 27 of the machine tool. This is movable longitudinally (now termed the Z" direction, which is the feed direction) and the tool, whose axis is horizontal, is movable transversely X<SP>11</SP> and verti- Y<SP>11</SP> . The table may also be tilted about an axis 39 and rotated about a central vertical axis. All of these movements are controlled by a programme element 46 according to the identification made at 47, but the programme 46 is prepared for a workpiece in a standard position so its instructions are modified by a computing element 45 according to the position data stored in memory 3 for that particular workpiece. The programme is written in terms of locations on the workpiece where the tool is to make contact and also in terms of planes perpendicular to the tool axis. The work is positioned in two stages, first in respect of angle of tilt and of rotation and then in the co-ordinate directions. The corrections made by the computing element 45 are explained in mathematical terms.
Patent GB-1188739-A (GB)
Title: A Uranium Alloy with a Low Molybdenum Content
Inventor: LEROUGE GEORGES
IPC: C22C43/00
Filed: 1968-08-09
Abstract: 1,188,739. Nuclear fuel. COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE. 9 Aug., 1968 [11 Aug., 1967], No. 38269/68. Heading G6C. [Also in Division C7] A uranium based alloy, for use in nuclear reactor fuel elements, comprises Mo 0À15-0À8%, one of Si 0À02-0À15% or Sn 0À02-0À15% with optional additions of Al 0À02-0À15% and/or Cr 0À02-0À2%, the balance, apart from impurities, being uranium. The alloys may be subjected to quenching (e.g. in oil or water), interrupted quenching or controlled cooling from the gamma or beta phase.
Patent GB-967354-A (GB)
Title: Collapsible weir
IPC: E02B7/00
Filed: 1962-10-09
Abstract: 967,354. Collapsible weirs. J. C. BUIJZE. Oct. 9, 1962 [Oct. 10, 1961; Jan. 26, 1962], No. 38277/62. Heading E1H. A collapsible weir comprises a flexible sheet of material P which is connected by its edges to hinged flaps B on the threshold S on the bottom of the waterway so that the material P, flaps B and the threshold S form a closed casing which can be filled with a pressurized medium through the conduits E to assume the shape of a part-cylinder, shown in Fig. 1. The threshold S comprises a recess F into which the material P may be stowed when collapsed, as shown in Fig. 5, covered by the flaps B pulled about their hinges by the tension T of the collapsing material P. A further embodiment describes flaps B having extensions beyond the hinges which move in recesses so that the movement of the flaps may be controlled by fluid pressure. The flaps may be provided with containers which may be filled with gas or liquid.
Patent GB-315658-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to apparatus for heating, cooking and lighting by means of petroleum and other liquid fuel
IPC: F24C5/18
Filed: 1928-12-29
Abstract: 315,658. Fetter, J. Dec. 29, 1928. Liquid-fuel supply; vaporizing-apparatus.- Liquid fuel is supplied by gravity from a tank a to a heating, cooking, or lighting burner through an expansion chamber d formed with two wells c, j into which extend pipes b, k leading from the tank and burner respectively. The air above the fuel in the chamber d is trapped so that a regular supply of fuel is obtained. The fuel supply is regulated by a needle valve f. The burner shown is similar to that described in Specification 328,226.
Patent GB-1390143-A (GB)
Title: Time monitoring device
IPC: G07F17/24
Filed: 1973-08-16
Abstract: 1390143 Coin-operated device VDO ADOLF SCHINDLING AG 16 Aug 1973 [1 Sept 1972] 38807/73 Heading G4V A coin-operated time monitoring device, in particular a parking meter, comprises means 10 for transporting a coin 2 between a coin feeler 5 and a guide element 3, the feeler setting a disc 6 in accordance with the coin diameter, a disc position sensing element 8 connected to a pointer setting mechanism, a lever 20 having at one end a feeler pin 26 located between the feeler 5 and guide element 3 and engaged by a coil to release the other end 23 of the lever from the sensing element and a stop lever 30 one end 32 of which normally, Fig. 2, prevents pivoting of lever 20 and whose other end 33, which is magnetic, lies adjacent the coin transport path so that only when a genuine ferromagnetic coin is used the lever 30 is carried round with the coin, Fig. 1, to release the lever 23. In the embodiment described the entire stop lever 30 consists of a plastics bonded magnet and is located in a recess 29 in a guide plate 13 carrying the guide element 3. The transporting disc 10 is triggered by a lever 11 located behind coin insertion slot 9.
Patent GB-1032034-A (GB)
Title: Multi-purpose furniture unit
IPC: A47B85/00
Filed: 1962-10-15
Abstract: 1,032,034. Convertible baths. F. P. M. A. CORRIGAN and T. P. CORRIGAN. Nov. 29, 1963 [Oct. 15, 1962], No. 38865/62. Headings A4H and A4N. A multi-purpose unit comprises a cabinet 10 movable between three positions in which the unit can act as a shower cabinet, Fig. 1, a bath, Fig 3 (not shown), or a wardrobe, Fig. 5 (not shown), and means being provided on the cabinet 10 to enable connection thereto of the fitments necessary for the use of the cabinet for the aforesaid purposes. For use as a shower cabinet, the cabinet 10 has a water tank 13 mounted on a ledge 12 which is supplied with water from taps 14 and 15. The water passes from the tank 13 via a mixer valve 24 to spray nozzles 22, and the waste water is collected in tanks 20, 21 covered by an apertured plate 16. To convert the cabinet 10 to a wardrobe, the tanks 13, 20, 21 are removed, the cabinet is inverted, and a platform is placed on ledges 36 to cover the shower equipment. A rack and shelved unit may be placed inside the wardrobe. For use as a bath, Fig. 3 (not shown), the wardrobe and shower fittings are removed, the cabinet 10 is laid on its back on a frame 27, and the two tanks 20, 21 are connected by a flexible piping 32 to a hole 22 in the base of the cabinet. The frame 27 may be used also as a bed frame when not supporting the bath.
Patent GB-1438380-A (GB)
Title: Regeneration process for flue gas sorbent
IPC: C01B17/60
Filed: 1973-08-17
Abstract: 1438380 Cyclic regenerative process for SO 2  removal EXXON RESEARCH & ENG CO 17 Aug 1973 [7 Sept 1972] 38882/73 Heading C1A SO 2  is removed from a gas mixture by a cyclic regenerative process in which the gas mixture is contacted under oxidizing conditions with a solid sorbent which is selective for the removal of SO 2  and which sorbent is regenerated by contact with a reducing gas comprising a C 1 -C 6  aliphatic alcohol at a temperature within the range 600 to 1000 F. In addition to the C 1 -C 6  monohydric alcohols, ethylene glycol may also be used. The alcohol may be diluted with steam. The preferred sorbent is copper oxide on alumina-if desired at the commencement of the desulphurization metallic copper may be used, this being converted into the oxide by oxygen present in the flue gas. Potassium oxide-vanadium pentoxide may also be used as sorbent. Other supports specified include alumina-silica and silica.
Patent GB-1483081-A (GB)
Title: Production of a stream of tobacco particles
IPC: A24C5/39
Filed: 1974-09-05
Abstract: 1483081 Feeding tobacco ROTHMANS OF PALL MALL CANADA Ltd 3 Sept 1975 [5 Sept 1974] 38921/74 Heading A2C A horizontally moving stream of tobacco is converted into a vertically moving stream by being transferred to a rotatable drum 26 provided with an air-permeable but tobacco impermeable surface. A vaccum is applied to the interior of the drum 26 so that tobacco particles are gripped thereby and transported into the vertical stream. A vacuum shoe 28 provided within the drum 26 acts to release the tobacco into the vertical stream. U.K. Specification 1483082 is referred to.