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Patent GB-1283321-A (GB)
Title: Printing aids
Inventor: EIBL JOHANNES
IPC: D06P5/00
Filed: 1971-01-14
Abstract: 1283321 Printing pastes FARBENFABRIKEN BAYER AG 14 Jan 1971 [14 Jan 1970] 1899/71 Heading D1B The technical printing properties of print pastes for azo, acid, metal complex, cationic, vat, direct, reactive, mordent or oxidation dyes are improved by adding to the print paste a phthalimide of the general formula wherein R 1  is alkyl optionally substituted by halogen, hydroxy, acyloxy, carboxy, alkoxycarbonyl or an alkoxy group and which contain a total of 3 to 16 carbon atoms, wherein the carbon chain of the alkyl group may be interrupted by oxygen atoms and R 2  is H, halogen, OH C 1 -C 4  alkoxy, carboxyl, C 1 -C 4  alkoxycarbonyl, nitro or phenyl. R 1  preferably contains 3 to 8 carbon atoms, R 2  is H and the print pastes contain 5 to 50 g. per Kg. The Examples describe the application of the print pastes to cotton and regenerated cellulose.
Patent GB-898725-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to footwear-counter-stiffener molding apparatus
IPC: A43D11/12
Filed: 1960-01-19
Abstract: 898,725. Moulding shoe stiffeners. SCAMMON, H. G. Jan. 19, 1960 [Jan. 26, 1959], No. 1901/60. Class 17(1) A counter-stiffener moulding machine of the Stewart type has a loader comprising a support 18 mounting spaced pairs of fingers 20, 22 between which the wings of a counter-stiffener blank b may be inserted with the central portion arched across the space between the pairs of fingers, gauge elements 36 adjustable lengthwise of the fingers for engagement with the ends of the blank for controlling its position on the support 18, means mounting the support for movement from a retracted to a delivery position at the male mould 10, and means operable as the mould 10 and the loader are raised, the former into engagement with the female mould 14, to move the gauge elements 36 from the ends of the blank to permit retraction of the loader without damage to these ends. The outer fingers 20 of each pair are secured to the support 18 by screw bolts 24 arranged in slots 26 so that their position is adjustable and set screws 27 are provided for fixing them in their adjusted positions. The inner fingers 22 have projections 30 at their lower ends passing through openings in flanges 28 on the ends of the outer fingers 20 and are forced apart against the outer fingers 20 at their upper ends by springs 32. The gauge elements 36 are fastened to a bar 40 passing behind the support 18 and attached to an end of a slide 42 mounted between spaced guides. The support 18 has a hole in its centre for receiving a screw 50, the shank of which passes through a slot 52 in the slide 42 and is threaded into a base plate 54. The gauge elements 36 are angularly adjustable about the bolts 38 for counter wings of different length and are normally yieldably held against the wings by springs 46, the lower end of the slot 52 engaging the screw 50. The back of the base plate 54 has fastened to it a pair of spaced arms 62 so as to be pivotable about a horizontal axis 64 to bring the loader adjacent the male mould 10. As the loader rises with the mould 10 to the moulding position of the latter, extensions 98 provided at the ends of the bar 40 engage the lower flanged ends of a pair of stops mounted on the machine frame at opposite sides of the loader so as to displace the gauge elements 36 downwardly and prevent damage to the counter-stiffener ends as the loader is moved away from the mould to its retracted position. Specification 898,726 is referred to.
Patent GB-323130-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to weighing apparatus
IPC: G01G23/22
Filed: 1929-01-19
Abstract: 323,130. Fitzpatrick, H. D., (Maatschappij tot Vervaardiging van Snijmachines Volgens van Berkel's Patent en van Andere Werktuigen). Jan. 19, 1929. Indicating - mechanism.-In a weighing- apparatus a piece of transparent material is provided in front of the chart one side or edge of which serves as a datum or reading line. In the form shown in Figs. 1 and 2, a plane horizontal strip of glass 6 is mounted in front of each side of a rotating chart drum 1 with the lower edges 6a thereof coplanar with the axis of the drum. The drum casing has openings 4 closed by covers 5 carrying windows 7 of plano-convex form and provided with ledges 8 to which are secured L- shaped masking members 9 to facilitate reading. In a modification each side of the apparatus may be provided with two strips in abutting relationship the abutting edges together constituting the datum line. An example of this form is shown in Fig. 5 wherein the abutting strips 11, 12 also form the window of the drum casing. In the application of the invention to an apparatus with a movable indicating pointer the transparent material will constitute the pointer or part thereof.
Patent GB-598955-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in rotary gearing
IPC: F16H35/02
Filed: 1945-01-24
Abstract: 598,955. Toothed gearing. GENERAL ELECTRIC, CO., Ltd., and FOREMAN, E. F. Jan. 24, 1945, No. 1977. [Class 80(i)] Toothed gearing applicable to motoroperated radio tuning mechanism as described in Specification 576,161, [Group XL], is adapted to drive a shaft 18 from a driving shaft 11 at a continuously variable velocity ratio. A planet wheel 16 is carried by an arm 10 on the driving shaft 11 and is geared directly or through an idler 15 to a reaction sun wheel 13 which is provided with an arm 14 engaging an adjustable stop 27. A crank-pin 17 on the planet 16 is in driving engagement with a lever 21 rigidly fixed to the driven shaft 18. Thus rotary movement imparted to the driving shaft 11 and planet arm 10 is transmitted to the lever 21 and driven shaft 18 but modified by the rotation of the planet wheel 16. A second lever 22 loose on the shaft 18 maintains the lever 21 in contact with the crank-pin 17 by means of a spring 23 connected between them and a coil spring 26 connected between the planet wheel 16 and its fixed spindle 24 maintains a torque throughout the gearing which takes up any backlash. This spring 26 also serves to reset the gearing automatically when a driving clutch is disengaged. An annulus may be used instead of the sun gear 13 and the functions of the three elements of the train may be variously transposed.
Patent GB-1080961-A (GB)
Title: Lock nut assmbly
IPC: F16B39/02
Filed: 1965-01-15
Abstract: 1,080,961. Locking nuts; anchor nuts. UNITED CARR INCORPORATED, and GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION. Jan. 15, 1965 [Jan. 16, 1964], No. l987/65. Heading F2H. A nut having a barrel 2 and a substantially flat flange 1 is locked to a bolt 12 in the barrel by a sheet metal plate 4 having an aperture 7 defined by a bolt-engaging wall 8. The locking plate 4 has a raised central portion 5 and camshaped edge portions 9, the plate being rotatably mounted on the flange 1 and held in assembly therewith by upturned fingers 3 on the flange 1 which over-lie the cam-shaped edges 9. The locking plate is rotated by a tool to force the wall 8 tightly against the threads of the bolt 12, the camming action between the fingers 3 and cams 9 being such as to bow the plate upwardly. The nut is spot-welded to a support 10 having a hole through which the barrel 2 extends. The bolt 12 has a head of soft rubber or plastics material to adapt it for use as a levelling screw, a number of such screws being used to support a hood or bonnet 14 of a motor vehicle.
Patent GB-725670-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to mounting means for electrical components
IPC: H05K7/02
Filed: 1953-01-23
Abstract: 725,670. Holders for thermionic valves; supports for circuit components. INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION. Jan. 23, 1953 [May 27, 1952], No. 2007/53. Class 38 (1). A mounting device for electronic circuit components comprises a head plate 10 carrying valve holders 18, and a base member 26 held in spaced relation to the head plate by posts 34. Intermediate the members 10, 26 are arranged a number of connecter plates 40 carrying terminals 42 to which the components are attached. Plates 40 are resilient and apertures 40a therein which embrace posts 34 are large enough to permit the plates to be flexed to disengage the inner edges of the apertures from slots 46 in the posts whereby the plates may be engaged in other slots 46, a number of which are provided on each post. Member 26 has pins 32 moulded therein and adapted to engage bifurcated socket contacts 54, the terminal stems 52 of which snap into slots in the bases of recesses 60 in a socket member 48. The contacts are engaged by first inserting the pins longitudinally into slots 62 in member 48 intermediate the sockets 54, the pins being guided into said slots by a block 64 on member 48 which enters a slot 66 in member 26. The members 48, 26 are then moved laterally relatively to each other causing the pins to slide laterally into the sockets, said members being looked together by an overhanging portion 74 of block 64 which enters a recess 78 in member 26. The lateral movement is effected by a cam 84 eccentrically mounted on a shaft 90 on the mounting device and engaging a recess 88 in socket member 48. The spacing between the socket contacts is not uniform so that some contacts engage before the others. An earthing contact 116 is located in recess 88 and is engaged by the cam prior to engagement of any of the pin and socket contacts. A number of mounting devices may be mounted side by side between brackets in a frame (Fig. 2, not shown).
Patent GB-651216-A (GB)
Title: Railway truck structure
IPC: B61F5/30
Filed: 1948-01-22
Abstract: 651,216. Railway vehicles. GENERAL STEEL CASTINGS CORPORATION. Jan. 22, 1948, No. 2035. Convention date, Oct. 15, 1938. [Class 103(vi)]  A railway truck structure has a frame 4 with a pedestal 5 in which an axle box 3 is slidable vertically and is characterized in that the axle box 3 has substantial play in the pedestal 5 transversely of the truck structure and that a rubber pad 8 extends across the face of the pedestal leg 5 and has one side fixed relative thereto by plate 11 while a metal plate 10 is secured to the other side of said pad 8 with a flange 12 spaced from the side of the pedestal leg 5 whereby transverse movement of the box is limited by contact of the faces 7 on the box 3 and flanges 12 and by resistance to shear of pad 8. Renewable wear plates 13, 14 may be provided and the top wall of the box 3 may be recessed and provided with a renewable seat member 16 mounting a plurality of rollers 17 which carry a saddle 18 mounting the leaf-spring 19 from the ends of which depend links 20 suspending the equalizers 21.
Patent GB-810574-A (GB)
Title: Preparation of sulfonates
IPC: C07C309/78
Filed: 1957-01-21
Abstract: Sulphonic acids or sulphonyl halide derivatives of hydrocarbons are formed by reacting the hydrocarbon and sulphur dioxide together with oxygen or oxygen and halogen in the presence of high-energy ionizing radiation.  Neutrons, beta-rays, or preferably gamma rays may be used and derived from a Van der Graaf accelerator, radio-active substances including isotopes, and fission products from an atomic pile. Hydrocarbons treated include aliphatic, cycloaliphatic, or aromatic hydrocarbons containing 10 to 30 C atoms.  Preferably the sulphur dioxide or other reactant gases are used in excess of stoichiometric proportions.  Specification 785,611 is referred to.ALSO:Sulphonic acids or sulphonyl halide derivatives of hydrocarbons are formed by reacting the hydrocarbon and sulphur dioxide together with oxygen, or oxygen and halogen, in the presence of high energy ionising radiation.  Neutrons, beta-rays, or preferably gamma rays may be used, and derived from a Van der Graaf accelerator, radio-active substances including isotopes and fission products from an atomic pile.  Hydrocarbons treated are aliphatic, cycloaliphatic or aromatic hydrocarbons containing 10 to 30 C atoms, e.g. cetane, paraffin wax; benzene, toluene, xyline; olefines and naphthenes.  In examples: (1) sulphur dioxide and oxygen are bubbled through cetane at 75 DEG  F. while treated with gamma rays from cobalt 60.  After 130 hours the liquid was treated with nitrogen to remove surplus SO2; the resulting liquid contained 2.2 mols. per cent of cetyl sulphonic acid; (2) sulphur dioxide, chlorine and oxygen are bubbled through cetane at 77 DEG  F. for 2 hours in the presence of gamma rays.  The reaction may be effected under pressure.  The reaction mixture was blown with nitrogen and contained cetyl sulphonyl chloride and cetyl sulphonate in a mol. ratio of 6:1.  Alkyl chlorides are absent, chlorine may be replaced by iodine or bromine.  The sulphonyl chloride may be hydrolized and converted to the calcium sulphonate by diluting with heptane and adding an equal volume of water containing suspended hydrated lime.  The bulk of the water separates and is removed leaving an emulsion which is broken by adding CaCl2 solution.  The oily layer is separated and freed from solvent.  Specification 785,611 is referred to.
Patent GB-304775-A (GB)
Title: Improved manufacture of gas containers
IPC: B64B1/58
Filed: 1929-01-22
Abstract: 304,775. Goodyear-Zeppelin Corporation, (Assignees of Huerttle, K.). Jan. 27, 1928, [Convention date]. Airships; aerostats.-The gas containers of aircraft are made of fabric coated with solutions or varnishes of phenyl resin, commonly known under the Trade Mark " Bakelite." The varnish is softened with castor oil, tricresyl phosphate, triphenyl phosphate or other suitable softener, and sprayed, painted or calendered on to the fabric. The varnish may be thinned with acetone. The softening and thinning medium may be varied within wide limits. Four different formulµ illustrating suitable mixings are given in the Specification.
Patent GB-1424382-A (GB)
Title: Catalytic composition containing palladium and chromium oxides
IPC: B01D53/94
Filed: 1973-01-16
Abstract: 1424382 Exhaust gas treatment catalysts NISSAN MOTOR CO LTD 16 Jan 1973 [18 Jan 1972] 2220/73 Heading B1E [Also in Division Cl] Catalysts free from copper oxide comprise a carrier and supported thereon palladium and chromium oxides and at least one of Mg, Sr, Ba, Al, Zr, V and Bi oxides, the contents of Pd and Cr being, respectively, 0.0003-0.1 and 0.05- 3.0 g-atoms per litre of carrier and the total amount of metal(s) in the additional oxide(s) being <SP>1</SP>/ 50 -¢ the amount (in g-atoms) of the chromium. The carrier may be monolithic or particulate, coated or uncoated. The catalysts may be made by impregnation of the carrier with compounds decomposable to the oxides and/or by mixing the carrier with hydroxides, followed by calcination.
Patent GB-640985-A (GB)
Title: Process for treating natural fibres for making brushes
IPC: D01C1/02
Filed: 1947-01-24
Abstract: Natural fibres for use in making brushes are softened by treatment with an alkaline solution, with or without the addition of an oxidizing agent, and then stiffened by impregnating them with the components of a synthetic resin and heating the fibres to condense the resin.  In example 1, coco fibre is softened by treatment with alkaline sodium hypochlorite solution and then stiffened by treating with urea and formaldehyde and heating so as to develop the synthetic resin.  In example 2, coco fibre is softened by treatment with hydrogen peroxide solution containing sodium silicate and sodium carbonate and then stiffened as in 1. In examples 3 and 4 African bass fibre is softened with caustic soda solution or soda ash and then stiffened as in 1.
Patent GB-1287511-A (GB)
Title: Method for the production of tetrabromophthalic esters
Inventor: PRAETZEL HANS EBERHARD
IPC: E01F9/669
Filed: 1970-01-16
Abstract: 1287511 Polyesters CHEMISCHE FABRIK KALK GmbH 16 Jan 1970 [30 Jan 1969 31 Jan 1969] 2262/70 Heading C3R [Also in Division C2] Polyesters are prepared by condensing tetrabromophthalic anhydride, optionally mixed with other polybasic organic acids and/or acid anhydrides, with a polyfunctional alcohol and removing sulphate residues contained in the tetrabromophthalic anhydride by a process wherein the tetrabromophthalic anhydride contaminated with sulphate ions is dissolved in a polyfunctional alcohol, the solution is treated at a temperature of 20 to 100 C. with a basic ion exchanger in an amount sufficient to combine with the sulphate ions and is separated from the ion exchanger and condensed to form a polyester. In examples: A mixture of tetrabromophthalic anhydride and propanediol-1,2 is treated with an anion exchanger and heated; further heated after addition of maleic anhydride to obtain a polyester and the latter is dissolved in styrene with addition of hydroquinone (3); and in a similar process the maleic acid is replaced with a mixture of maleic acid and phthalic anhydride to prepare the polyester (4).
Patent GB-1105805-A (GB)
Title: Production of lactams
IPC: C07D201/04
Filed: 1967-01-16
Abstract: <PICT:1105805/C2/1> Lactams are prepared by a continous process by the Beckmann rearrangement of one or more cyclic, preferably C5- 15, ketoximes in a rearrangement mixture, including sulphuric acid, oleum or phosphoric acid, together with recycled previously prepared lactam, which is continuously circulated through a circuit and the acid and the oxime are each injected separately into the circulating reaction mixture through separate nozzles, the nozzles being substantially separated and each being positioned before a throughflow mixer, the outlet velocity of the oxime and that of the acid from the nozzles being at least twice the flow velocity of the rearrangement mixture and the ratio of the rate of flow by volume of the rearrangement mixture per hour to the volume of the oxime introduced per hour being 50:1 to 150:1. Suitably the acid and the oxime are each injected at from 3 to 15 m./sec. through a nozzle 13 located within a tubular part of the circuit 3 and 6 and having a plurality of fine orifices having diameters of 0.5 to 2 mm. out of which the acid or oxime is ejected as filaments 16. Each nozzle 13 is positioned before a mixing device 17 and the nozzles are located at positions 3 and 6 sufficiently far apart that complete homogenization of one reagent into the rearrangement mixture is effected before the other reagent is introduced.
Patent GB-1529383-A (GB)
Title: Making magnetic-recording heads
IPC: G11B5/23
Filed: 1976-01-21
Abstract: 1529383 Magnetic heads FERROXCUBE CORP 21 Jan 1976 [24 Jan 1975] 2322/76 Heading G5R In a method of manufacturing the polepiece assembly of a magnetic head in which a planar surface 26 is formed in one polepiece 10 to extend obliquely away from the gap face 12 and a channel 16 is formed in the gap face, glass is first melted in the channel 16 and after it has solidified it is then polished level with the gap face. The polepiece is then placed against its opposing polepiece 13 and glass 70 is melted in the triangular channel defined between the surfaces of the polepieces together with the glass in the channel 16 so that there is a flow of glass into the gaps between the pole faces. After solidification of the glass a unitary assembly is formed and the channel 16 may then be removed by cutting.
Patent GB-638361-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in hydraulic weighing scales
IPC: G01G5/04
Filed: 1947-01-25
Abstract: 638,361. Weighing-apparatus. AVERY, Ltd., W. & T. (Williams, L. S.). Jan. 25, 1947, No. 2363. [Class 143] In a weigh scale employing hydraulic systems for transmitting force from a load receiver to a load counterbalancing mechanism, the hydraulic pressure receiving elements for converting hydraulic pressure into force are adjustably secured to a member, an integral part whereof forms a fulcrum support for the gathering lever upon which said elements are adapted to act. The load bearing platform 1 is supported through swing links 5 on four pressure capsules 8 each having associated therewith a pressure receiving element 15 serving to convert the hydraulic pressure into force which is applied through a strut 18 to a gathering lever 19 connected through a stirrup 21 and a steel yard rod 22 with a counterbalancing beam 24. A single casting 17, Fig. 4, comprises the fulcrum stand 20, the adjustable support for the elements 15 and the rigid support for the beam fulcrum stand 27. The beam 24 has its centre of gravity located above its pivot axis so that the overturning moment caused thereby is sufficient to counterbalance the spring effect of the hydraulic system. In a modification (Fig. 7, not shown), the centre of gravity of the gathering lever is raised to counterbalance the spring effect, so that any conventional load counterbalancing mechanism can be employed.
Patent GB-371835-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to feed troughs and like receptacles
IPC: A01K39/01
Filed: 1931-01-24
Abstract: 371,835. Feeding - appliances for animals. MAJOR, A. K., Castle Hayes Park, Tutbury, Burton-on-Trent. Jan. 24, 1931, No. 2383. [Class 5 (ii).] A feeding-appliance for young animals comprises two closed ends 3, a series of continuous and suitably spaced bent rods or staves 7 forming the means of access to a trough 8 within the appliance and also forming the top of the latter, and a feed hopper 9 fixed on the outside of one of the closed ends, the hopper being in line with the trough. In a modification, parts of the bent rods or-staves are replaced by a solid wall forming one side of the appliance, the trough being placed against such side. The trough may comprise a sheet metal plate bent into a semicylindrical form and fitted between the closed ends of the appliance. Two or more troughs may be provided. The Provisional Specification also states that the rods or staves may be replaced by wire netting; that troughs may be provided at the ends of the appliance ; or partitions covered by wire netting may be provided in front of the trough.
Patent GB-965756-A (GB)
Title: Means for controlling temperature,pressure or other characteristics
Inventor: SMITH HAROLD JAMES
IPC: G05D23/22
Filed: 1960-01-25
Abstract: 965, 756. Automatic temperature control. INDUSTRIAL PYROMETER CO. Ltd. Jan. 25, 1961 [Jan. 25, 1960], No. 2588/60. Heading G3R. An automatic temperature control system for apparatus such as a furnace comprises an indicating instrument having an indicating pointer 10 operative by a device 11 such as a thermocouple responsive to the furnace temperature, the circuit between the thermocouple 11 and the pointer 10 including two variable resistors 13,14, the indicating instrument also including control means having a control pointer whereby the desired temperature of the furnace may be set, the error between the control pointer and the indicating pointer being arranged to operate, via switches 12 and an associated chopper bar, a reversible motor having windings 16, the motor controlling a valve which admits fuel to the furnace which motor also drives the potentiometer 14, the potentiometer 13 being manually preset the arrangement being such that operation of the motor to open the valve to admit more fuel to the furnace thereby to raise its temperature will drive the potentiometer 14 so as to decrease the total resistance in the thermocouple circuit and vice versa causing the 'overshoot' of the indicating pointer to be reduced thereby giving a more rapid control of the furnace. Alternatively the characteristic being controlled may be pressure.