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Patent GB-601542-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to water sprayers
IPC: B05B3/06
Filed: 1945-10-03
Abstract: 601,542. Rotary spraying apparatus. SIGMUND PUMPS (GREAT BRITAIN), Ltd., and SIGMUND, M. Oct. 3, 1945, No. 25743. [Class 69 (iii)] In a water sprayer comprising a rotatable nozzle 1 having a rotary-diffuser 14 carrying radial vanes 15, 15' which intersect the water jet to impart rotation to both the nozzle and the diffuser, the diffuser is provided with a brake which operates when the diffuser is moved a predetermined distance along its axis. The nozzle is mounted on a bearing 4 on a body 5 carried by a tripod 6. The diffuser 14 is rotatably mounted on a rod 9 held in a boss 8 by a clamp 10, and has a boss 13 which is loosely fitted on a rotatable sleeve 12 on the rod. The boss 13 is provided with a dog which engages a clutch 16 on the sleeve 12. A cup 19 presses on the clutch 16 and is loaded by a spring 18 held in another cup 20 actuated by a nut 21. The arrangement is such that at the commencement of operation the diffuser is moved axially until the dog clutch is engaged after which rotation is controlled by the frictional resistance imposed by the spring 18. The vanes 15<SP>1</SP>, which maintain the rotation of the diffuser and the nozzle, are larger than the diffusing vanes 15 and are equally spaced around the periphery.
Patent GB-438544-A (GB)
Title: Producing vulcanisable compositions and articles therefrom
IPC: C08J3/20
Filed: 1934-09-07
Abstract: Vulcanizable rubber mixings are prepared from unvulcanized sheet or cr<\>zepe rubber by diffusing a non-volatile fluid mixture of sulphur, a rubber-soluble vulcanization accelerator, and rubber-soluble compounding ingredients into the rubber without mastication.  Accelerators used are ethylidene aniline, mercaptobenzthiazole and heptaldehyde aniline.  The ingredients comprise animal, vegetable, mineral and synthetic oils, fats or waxes, organic fatty acids, secondary aromatic amines, aldehydeamine condensation products, natural and synthetic resins, mercaptoarylenethiazoles, and salts of fatty acids or dithio acids, e.g. the zinc salts.  A vulcanizable oil, e.g. linseed, rapeseed or cotton-seed oil may be used in the mix.  In an example, 25 parts of melted sulphur are mixed with 50 parts of fragmentary pale cr<\>zepe rubber and a hot mixture of 20 parts of linseed oil, 4 parts of zinc stearate and 2 parts of heptaldehyde-aniline accelerator is then added.  After diffusion, the mass is vulcanized, giving a vulcanite product.  Two other examples are given.  The vulcanizable rubber obtained may be used as a bonding agent for granular or abrasive materials. Specifications 390,531 and 390,532 are referred to.
Patent GB-1142958-A (GB)
Title: Optical lens system for use in manufacturing color television tubes
IPC: H01J9/227
Filed: 1966-06-09
Abstract: 1,142,958. Lenses. NATIONAL VIDEO CORP. June 9, 1966 [July 15, 1965], No. 25774/66. Heading G2J. [Also in Division H1] In the manufacture of the screen of a colour television tube of the shadow mask type, the colour triads are positioned thereon in a manner which corrects for radial misregister and misconvergence effects by the use of an optical system which includes at least two spaced lenses: to effect the required correction, it is shown that the lenses must be such that the distance of a light-ray from the axis of the tube at one of the lenses is a non- linear function of its distance from the axis at the other lens. Design theory for the lens system is provided.
Patent GB-380932-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to means for operating and securing pivoted windows
IPC: E05F11/06
Filed: 1931-09-16
Abstract: 380,932. Fastenings operated from a distance. HOPE & SONS, Ltd., H. and GARRATT, H. H., Halford Works, Smethwick, Staffordshire. Sept. 16, 1931, No. 25975. [Class 44.] A fastening adapted to be operated from a distance by a sheathed cable l connected to a bolt-releasing lever h is combined with actuating means on a pivoted window. The lever h is pivoted at g and connected to a pin i on the bolt by a slot k. The bolt is bevelled so as to engage automatically on closing the sash. The cable passes through a guide on the frame and has a handle at its free end. Specification 310,207, [Class 20 (iii), Doors &c.], is referred to.
Patent GB-467142-A (GB)
Title: A process of producing fibre-covered metal articles
IPC: E04B1/64
Filed: 1936-09-25
Abstract: 467,142. Compound sheet materials; coating webs. ROBERTSON CO., H. H., and COFFMAN, A. W. Sept. 25, 1936, No. 26071. [Class 140] A protective fibrous layer is secured to a metal sheet, plate, or slab by first applying to the metal body a coating of metal in a heated, fluid state, applying the fibrous material while the metal coating is still in a heated, fluid state, and allowing the metal coating to solidify. The fibrous material may be asbestos paper or felt impregnated if desired with asphalt or bituminous composition, and an outer bituminous coating e.g. of asphalt and cotton-seed pitch melted together may be applied thereto after union with the metal body. The metal adhesive may be zinc, tin, cadmium, lead, or an alloy e.g. of tin with lead or cadmium, and may become alloyed with the metal body at the contact face. As shown, steel sheets 18, Fig. 2, are conveyed from a storage tank 17 through a galvanizing bath 20, and immediately on leaving the bath and before the molten zinc coating has solidified, are covered with fibrous layers 26 pressed on by rolls 22 and 23. The fibrous material is drawn from supply rolls in enclosures 25, and around heating rolls 24 to remove moisture. The composite sheet is removed on conveyer 28, carried while still hot through a bath of impregnating material by an upwardly-sloping conveyer 32, Fig. 3, passes through squeeze rolls 34, over conveyer 36, and between coating-rolls 38 and 44 running in tanks 40 and 46 supplied from a tank 42. The heat in the metal coating and the steel sheet burns out a large part of the organic binder usually present in the asbestos paper or felt. Further heat may be applied for this purpose, if desired. Specification 391,936, [Group XIII], is referred to,
Patent GB-1561584-A (GB)
Title: Stepping motor for electronic timepiece
IPC: H02P8/02
Filed: 1976-06-23
Abstract: A stepping motor for an electronic timepiece comprises a permanent magnet rotor, a stator and a driving coil, having at least one static equilibrium point for the rotor. The driving coil is arranged to be energized by a current smaller than a driving current so that the stator is energized to required polarities of low flux intensity, whereby the static equilibrium point for the rotor is electromagnetically shifted to an arbitrary position to permit rotation of the rotor in any desired direction.
Patent GB-680685-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to the preparation of substituted pteridines
Filed: 1950-10-26
Abstract: Substituted pteridines of the general formula <FORM:0680685/IV (b)/1> wherein R represents a hydroxyl, amino or substituted amino radical, are prepared by reacting (i) a 2,4,5 - triamino - 6 - alkoxy or aralkoxy pyrimidine, (ii) a 1,1,3-trihaloacetone or a 2,3-dihalopropionaldehyde, and (iii) paraaminobenzoic acid or an amide thereof or a salt or ester of such acid or amide, the reaction being carried out under acid conditions.  The reaction may be carried out at a pH between 1 and 5 and/or at a temperature from 0 DEG  to about 100 DEG  C.  The reaction product can be purified by dissolving it in aqueous alkali and reprecipating under acid conditions at a pH below about 3.1.  The alkoxy or aralkoxy radicals of the pyrimidine are at least partially converted to hydroxy radicals during the reaction and the conversion can be completed by the above purification step.  Reactant (i) may be 6-methoxy-, 6-ethoxy-, 6-n-propionoxy-, 6-n-butoxy or 6-benzyloxy - 2,4,5 - triamino - pyrimidine.  The halogen atoms in reactant (ii) may be the same or different, but in the examples alpha, betadibromopropionaldehyde and 1,1,3-tribromoacetone are used. Reactant (iii) may be paraaminobenzoic acid, para-aminobenzamide or amino-acid amides of para-aminobenzoic acid, e.g. para-aminobenzoyl glutamic and aspartic acids as well as the salts and esters of these para-aminobenzoyl amino-acids.  In the examples, pteroylglutamic acid is prepared.  6 - Methoxy-, 6 - ethoxy and 6 - benzyloxy-2,4-diaminopyrimidine are prepared by the reaction of sodium methylate, potassium ethylate and sodium benzylate with 6-chloro-2,4-diaminopyrimidine and are then converted to:  6 - Methoxy-, 6 - ethoxy- and 6 - benzyloxy-2,4-diamino-5-nitrosopyrimidine by the action of sodium nitrite and are then converted to:  6 - Methoxy-, 6-ethoxy- and 6-benzyloxy-2,5,4-triaminopyrimidine by reducing with sodium hydrosulphite in the case of the methoxy and ethoxy compounds, and with hydrogen sulphide for the benzyloxy compound.  The methoxy and ethoxy compounds are converted into their sulphate salts.
Patent GB-1017252-A (GB)
Title: Oil burner
IPC: F23D11/40
Filed: 1962-07-09
Abstract: 1,017,252. Liquid fuel burners. OPTIMAL OLFEUENINGEMASCHINENBAU G.m.b.H. July 9, 1962 [July 8, 1961], No. 26160/62. Heading F4T. An oil burner, Fig. 2 (not shown), comprises an atomizer nozzle 1 discharging a conical oil jet into a vaporizing cup 3 supplied with primary air through inlet apertures 5 having guide surfaces 6 projecting at an acute angle towards the interior of the cup to cause the air to rotate therein. The oil is ignited in the cup by a pair of ignition electrodes 14, 15 and the flame is controlled by a flame detector 17. Air passes through the apertures 5 from the gap 9 formed between inner and outer tubular casings 22, 10 and supplied with air by a blower. The main supply of air flows through a ring gap 18 between the outside of the cup 3 and the inside of the outer casing 10 and mixes with the mixture of air and vaporized oil leaving the cup 3. A third flow of air for cooling the nozzle passes through ports 32 in the inner casing 22 to flow past the nozzle to a central aperture 23 in the vaporizing cup 3. The end of the inner casing 22 remote from the nozzle, Fig. 4 (not shown) is engaged in a fixed part 27 and is provided with a screw thread 26 for a regulating screw 28 rotatable to adjust the ring gap 18. The nozzle 1 is adjustable relative to the inner casing 22 by turning a plug 34 secured to the pipe 2 and threaded on to the inner casing 22.
Patent GB-928419-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to distance measurement devices for use in colliery or like winding equipment
IPC: B66B1/52
Filed: 1959-07-30
Abstract: 928,419. Mine cage control apparatus. G. A. BLACK. Aug. 2, 1960 [July 30, 1959], No. 26193/59. Class 78 (3). Switches 19 in the control circuit of a colliery winding apparatus are automatically closed in correspondence with movement of the cage in the shaft by floating levers 14 which each have a pair of rollers 20 co-operating respectively with cams 2 fast with a shaft 1 driven from the winding drum through a gear train which also rotates a shaft 3 carrying the sun wheels of epicyclic gears having their outer gears 12 locked, and lobes 9 on planet gears 8. In operation as the cage approaches each position where a switch 19 is to be operated, a lobe 9 moves the associated upper roller 20 into engagement with the corresponding cam 2 which subsequently operates the switch. Means are provided for adjusting the relative angular spacing of the cams 2 and the gears 8.
Patent GB-1429589-A (GB)
Title: Fuel injection devices
IPC: F23R3/14
Filed: 1974-06-13
Abstract: 1429589 Burners SOC NATIONALE D'ETUDE ET DE CONSTRUCTION DE MOTEURS D'AVIATION 13 June 1974 [28 June 1973] 26205/74 Heading F4T In a fuel injector for a gas turbine, an intermediate annular flow containing fuel and rotated by a swirler 12 is sandwiched between internal and external flows of air rotated by swirlers 4, 8, the injector being constructed in the form of two sub-assemblies A, B which can slide relatively to one another to accommodate temperature changes and are adapted to be attached to different parts of the turbine structure. A part annular rib (not shown) deflects part of the fuel/air flow before it reaches the ribs 16 to accelerate rotation and improve mixing while the swirler 4 has its blades inclined at a smaller angle to the flow than those of the swirler 8. A thermal screen 24 is welded to the sub-assembly A which is screwed into the combustion chamber 22 and additionally secured by a screwed ring 26. The sub-assembly B is integral with an arm 28 through which fuel is supplied to a nozzle 9. End caps (not shown) combine the inner, outer and intermediate flows as they leave the injector.
Patent GB-1241711-A (GB)
Title: Double counterbalanced vertically sliding sashless window
Inventor: DALLAIRE RAYMOND
IPC: E06B3/44
Filed: 1967-10-31
Abstract: 1,241,711. Vertically sliding balanced windows. P. H. PLASTICS Inc. 31 Oct., 1968 [31 Oct., 1967], No. 26227/69. Divided out of 1,229,420. Heading E1J. A double counter-balanced vertically sliding sashless window includes inner and out pairs of upper and lower panes 26, 27, 31, 32, whose side edges slide in plastics jamb tracks of the construction disclosed in Specification 1,172,251 and the inner lower pane 32 is coupled to the upper outer pane 26 by a cable 158 passing over pulleys 154, 157 mounted on plastics pulley journal blocks 152, 153 of a pulley box 147 having projections 148, 149 which engage base openings 150, 151 in the jamb track member 62, 63, and the outer lower pane 31 is coupled to the inner upper pane 27 by a cable 159 passing over pulleys 155, 156, mounted in the pulley box 147 at a lower position than pulleys 154, 157 so that the cables clear each other at the top of the system. The header and sill have tracks 23, 34 to receive the top edges of the upper panes 26, 27 and the lower edges of the lower panes 31, 32. The suspension devices for connecting the cables to the panes include a cable connecting block 160 provided with a slotted opening through which the end of a cable e.g. 158 passes and is held by a metal sleeve 161 crimped thereon. The block 160 being adjustably connected to the pane by means of true-like projections 164 engaging in slots of a pane support block 165 connected to an upper rail on the pane. A stop (190 Fig. 6) is provided to prevent the upper pane dropping when relieved of the counter balance lower pane by supporting block 165.
Patent GB-672739-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in the manufacture of shaped bodies of baked carbon
IPC: C04B35/528
Filed: 1949-10-13
Abstract: 672,739. Making shaped bodies from fine coal dust. KRUPP, ZECHEN, HANNOVER & HANNIBAL, F. Oct. 13, 1949 [Oct. 1, 1948], No. 26305/49. Class 87(ii) Shaped bodies of baked carbon made by pressing fine coal dust, with or without binding agents, are polished before being fired. The polishing may be carried out either by buffing wheels with the aid of hard waxes, natural or artificial resins or pitch or by coating the body with a thin film of paste containing a polishing agent and rubbing the paste in. A silver-grey colour is obtained by using a coating of coal, pitch or a paste of coal dust. and a brown colour by using coumarone resin. A part only of the pressed bodies may be polished, e.g. relief bearing parts. The bodies may be polished again after firing.
Patent GB-420929-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to lids for bottles and other receptacles
IPC: A47F5/00
Filed: 1933-09-26
Abstract: 420,929. Bottle &c. tilters. BENTON & STONE, Ltd., Bracebridge Street, Birming- ham, and HEATH, A. R. N., 44, Hartington Road, Chiswick, London. Sept. 26, 1933, No. 26460. [Class 21] A bottle &c., which is pivotally mounted in a stand, e.g., at b has a pivoted lid d connected by a link e, h, i to a fixed point of the stand, pivots being provided at j, l, k so that when the container is swung from one to the other of the two positions shown the lid is automatically opened or closed. A stop p may limit the opening of the lid and a spring t may act to keep the container in closed position. In a modified form, the part i of the link consists of two plates slidable one over the other, to form an extensible connection.
Patent GB-317659-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to driving apparatus for windscreen wipers on motor vehicles
IPC: B60S1/18
Filed: 1928-09-14
Abstract: 317,659. Smith, A. G., and Dorer, P. O. Sept. 14, 1928. Driving auxiliary parts.-Driving apparatus for wind-screen wipers comprises a shaft driven from a moving part of the vehicle, a clutch on that end of the shaft remote from the wiper, and means accessible to the driver for controlling the clutch. Thus when the clutch is disconnected the shaft provided for driving the wiper does not rotate. In the construction shown in Figs. 1 and 2 a shaft 12 inserted in the speedometer drive is connected through gearing 15, 16 with a parallel shaft 17 driving the wiper through a flexible shaft (not shown) as described in Specification 232,311. A clutch, comprising a dog 19 engaging a groove 18, is provided between the gear wheel 16 and the shaft 17, the shaft being normally pressed to the right by a spring 23 to cause the clutch to engage, disengagement being effected when the shaft is moved to the left by a Bowden cable 28, lever 26 and plunger 25. The Bowden cable is operated by the driver by means of a handle 32 having a transverse pin adapted to enter a slot 34 when the clutch is engaged. By pulling on the handle the clutch is disengaged, after which it can be kept disengaged by rotating the handle until the pin 33 is turned across the slot and thus the clutch cannot return to the engaged position. Modifications are described in which (1) the clutch is controlled by a handle working in an L-shaped slot, (2) the clutch is situated between the shaft 17 and a flexible shaft leading to the wiper, (3) the clutch comprises a short shaft sliding axially to engage a corresponding member on the adjoining end of the flexible shaft, this end and the short shaft being carried by a housing screw-connected to a boss such as is usually employed for the attachment of flexible shaft drives, and (4) a rigid shaft driven from the gear wheel 16 or other suitable rotating part is connected by a clutch to a flexible shaft leading to the wiper, the clutch having operating pins situated within reach of the driver. According to the Provisional Specification the clutch may comprise a sliding collar carrying pins adapted to engage holes in the driving member or gear wheel 16.
Patent GB-976070-A (GB)
Title: Compressed gas circuit breaker having a spherical metal reservoir
IPC: H01Q11/04
Filed: 1963-07-04
Abstract: 976,070. High-voltage switches. ETABLISSEMENTS MERLIN & GERIN S.A. July 4, 1963 [July 10, 1962], No. 26504/63. Heading H2B. In a compressed gas circuit breaker a spherical metallic gas reservoir 11 forms one electrode of a safety spark gap, a second spherical electrode 14 being connected with the opposite side 13 of the interrupting chamber 12.
Patent GB-339245-A (GB)
Title: Means for controlling the working temperature of light sensitive cells
IPC: H01L31/08
Filed: 1929-09-02
Abstract: 339,245. Constable, F. H., and Radiovisor Parent, Ltd. Sept. 2, 1929. Ligh't-sensitive cells.-A. light-sensitive cell is maintained at a definite predetermined temperature by subjecting it directly or indirectly to a source of heat under thermostatic control. As shown in Fig. 1 the light-sensitive element 1 is mounted in an envelope 2 through which an electrically-driven fan 4 circulates gas from a reservoir immersed in a container 8 containing liquid heated by an immersion coil 9 to a temperature controlled by a thermostatic switch 14. Fig. 3 shows a modified arrangement in which the resistance element 1 is contained between glass plates sealed off at the edges and the heating source 13 is within the cell envelope 2, filled with a liquid whose temperature is controlled by a fixed electrode 11 in conjunction with a bi-metallic strip 10. The cell envelope 2 may be surrounded by a heat-insulating envelope 12. Alternatively heating fluid may be passed through a passage adjacent the light sensitive element formed as a bridge across hollow electrodes. Cooling fins or ribs may he provided on the apparatus to effect the dissipation of superfluous heat.
Patent GB-491627-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in control mechanism for electrically driven machines feeding webs of fabrics
IPC: B65H20/00
Filed: 1937-10-01
Abstract: 491,627. Controller handles. GESSNER AKT.-GES., E. Oct. 1, 1937, No. 26632. Convention date, Oct. 29, 1936. [Class 38 (iii)] The controller S of an electrically-driven fabric finishing or dressing machine is actuated by a handle in the form of a roller W extending along the entire front of the machine. The roller W is supported in bearings in two parts A, B of a frame and is roughened or covered with rough material. It carries a bevel wheel G at one end meshing with two pinions, one pinion rotating the controller and the other operating a pointer Z indicating on a scale the controller position. The controller is effective to start, stop, reverse, and control the speed of the machine.
Patent GB-461416-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in suspender or garter fasteners
IPC: A41F11/02
Filed: 1936-10-01
Abstract: 461,416. Hose &c. suspenders. PUGNIET, P. Oct. 1, 1936, No. 26639. Convention date, Oct. 12, 1935. [Class 44] In a suspender of the button and loop type, a tubular roller 3 of flexible material such as indiarubber, is placed on an horizontal cross-bar 1 of the loop yoke 2 so as to be freely rotatable. The side arms 4 of the yoke 2 are bent to form ears and prevent lateral movement of the roller 3.
Patent GB-700859-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in axial flow turbines
IPC: F01D9/04
Filed: 1950-11-01
Abstract: 700,859. Elastic-fluid turbines. WIGG, R. E., FIELDEN, G. B. R., and RUSTON & HQRNSBY, Ltd. Dec. 28, 1951 [Nov. 1, 1950], No. 26663/50. Class 110 (3) An axial-flow gas turbine wherein the constituent parts are so arranged that by removal, addition or substitution of rotor discs, stator casing rings, segmental shroud rings or/and rows of rotor and stator blading, the axial spacing of rotor and stator blade rows, the number of stages or/and the radial width and conicity of the turbine annulus can be altered. The rotor 3 comprises blade-carrying discs 5 which are arranged in pairs with corresponding serrated recesses 13 to receive the .blades 14; each pair of discs being separated by spacing discs 6. The discs 5, 6 are clamped between flanged hub members 8, the members 5, 6, 8 being interconnected by dowels 10, 11, 12. The stator casing comprises inter-engaging hollow ring-shaped elements 16 and spacer rings 17 which are bolted together so as to clamp the stator blades 20 therebetween as shown. The blades 14, as well as the blades 20, are circumferentially spaced by dummy blade roots. The stator blade roots 20a and their spacers are formed with recesses to receive the tongues 24 of shroud-rings 23 and are locked in position by studs 29 acting on packing strips 28. Cooling air is circulated through the ring- shaped elements 16 and spacers 25 between the shroud rings and the stator casing. Clearances exist between various members, to accommodate expansion, details of which are given.