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Patent GB-1481655-A (GB)
Title: Voltage multiplier assembly
IPC: H01L25/11
Filed: 1975-05-27
Abstract: 1481655 Voltage multiplying rectifier construction INTERNATIONAL STANDARD ELECTRIC CORP 27 May 1975 [31 May 1974] 23200/75 Heading H2F In a voltage multiplier, e.g. for a TV receiver, the capacitors on the D.C. side are formed into one composite roll 12 whilst those on the A.C. side are formed into another composite roll 11, the rolls being housed in a rectangular container 14 with the semi-conductor rectifiers 1 ... 5, located substantially as shown in such a way that the length of the container is not appreciably greater than the sum of the diameters of the rolls 11, 12 and the length of one rectifier 1, whilst the width is not appreciably greater than the diameter of the thicker capacitor roll 12. The capacitors are preferably formed using sandwich dielectric of two polystyrene layers with an intermediate polyester layer; the connecting leads are merely positioned in the rolls and not welded to the electrode foils. The container 14 may be of polycarbonate and filled with epoxy resin. The central section (Fig. 3, not shown) of the container may have reduced width so as to accommodate a mounting foot with screw slots. An extra rectifier 13 is included to prevent negative transients at the input. The high voltage output and ground leads 30, 31 are connected as shown. Terminals like 32 and 33 are provided for focusing voltage and input A.C.
Patent GB-756275-A (GB)
Title: Process and apparatus for drying colloidal matter, particularly lignite
IPC: F26B23/00
Filed: 1954-08-10
Abstract: 756,275. Drying lignite &c. SCHUSTER, W. Aug. 10, 1954 [Aug. 10, 1953], No. 23278/54. Class 34(2). In a process for drying lignite or like colloidal matter in which the material is heated under the direct action of pressure steam and hot water and cooled in stages in one or more pressure vessels, the partial heat quantities liberated on cooling are stored separately and then supplied at different times and in the reverse order to vessels which are to be heated. Raw material is fed by conveyer belts 1, 2, 3 into bin 4 from which it is fed through shoots 5 into vessels 6 from which it is discharged after steaming into bins 7 from which it is removed by conveyers 8, 9, 10, containers 11 receiving water and condensate. Live steam produced in steam generator 12 flows through pipe 13 to the steamers and boiledoff steam from the upper stage passes through pipe 14 to upper accumulator 15 which later delivers steam to a steamer about to be heated. Boiled-off steam from the second stage passes through pipes 17 to intermediate accumulator 18 which delivers steam to the third stage through pipes 19 and steam from the third stage is sucked through pipe 20 to a condenser 21, air and residual steam being sucked off through ejectors 22. The condenser 21 communicates through pipes 23 with warm water reservoir 24 whence the water flows through pipe 25 to pumps 26 and so to the steamers.
Patent GB-331123-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to films for sound photography
IPC: G03B31/00
Filed: 1929-07-30
Abstract: 331,123. Kodak, Ltd., (Assignees of Crabtree, J. I.). March 30, 1929, [Convention date]. Addition to 331,122. Drawings to Specification. Photographic records.-A modification of the device described in the parent Specification, for smoothing over the change during sound-reproduction from a photographic sound-record to another joined with it end to end, consists in attaching to the film records, over the junction, a strip of uniformly opaque flexible material having tapered ends (the strip being, for example, triangular or trapezoidal) instead of using a strip of material of varying density. The provision of a paper supporting strip, for enabling the obscuring strip to be correctly located on the sound-record, and for storing a number of such strips, in the manner explained in the parent Specification, is described.
Patent GB-1084924-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to table games
IPC: A63F7/02
Filed: 1966-05-25
Abstract: Apparatus for playing a table game includes a playing area divided into a plurality of recesses, individually identifiable objects adapted to swoop through the air and to land in an upright position in the playing area and projecting means for projecting the identifiable objects towards the playing area in which a plurality of sets of counters each set being identified with one of the identifiable objects and usable as scoring means when placed in the recesses of the playing area is provided.  The identifiable objects may be in the form of a human figure, e.g. Batman and are adapted to remain upright by fixing the figure to a weighted hemispherical base.
Patent GB-913074-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to textile drafting mechanism
IPC: D01H5/88
Filed: 1959-07-07
Abstract: 913,074. Textile drafting mechanisms. SKF KUGELLAGERFABRIKEN G.m.b.H. July 7, 1959 [Aug. 5, 1958], No. 23383/59. Class 120 (2). A top apron holder for a textile drafting mechanism comprises a top apron bar and a frame for carrying the apron bar, the apron bar and frame being separately formed, the frame including spaced portions which are adapted to engage round a top roll journal and to extend from the roll towards the apron bar and a continuous portion joining the spaced portions adjacent the apron bar and having the apron bar permanently secured to it. As shown, a frame 4 passes over the journal 3 of twin top rollers 2 and a part 12 of the frame is inseparably connected, e.g. by welding, to the apron bar 10. A spring 6 bears at one end against the carrier arm 1 and is secured at the other end against the part 12. Lugs 13 and 14 are formed in the part 12 and apron bar 10, respectively, to guide the aprons laterally.
Patent GB-854114-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to electrodes for producing a high frequency field for the pervasive heat treatment of materials for example biological tissues
IPC: A61N5/04
Filed: 1958-07-21
Abstract: 854,114. R.F. couplings; aerials. SIEMENSREINIGER-WERKE A.G. July 21, 1958 [July 20, 1957], No. 23397/58 Class 40(7). [Also in Group VI] An electrode which produces a high frequency field for heat treatment comprises an electrically conductive hollow body forming an inductance of a tank circuit and a conductor element associated with the body, having ends 4, 5 disposed closely adjacent the mouth of an aperture 2 in the body and forming with parts of the body the capacitance of the tank circuit. The hollow body is cylindrical and has the aperture 2 in the cylindrical wall 1. A concentric connecting lead 3 is connected directly, capacitatively or inductively to a high frequency generator, extends into the cylinder transversely of its axis and may include a line transformer 3a. The ends of the lead 3 are connected to metal strips 4, 5 which are located adjacent the edges of the aperture. In a smaller electrode the free ends of the strips cam circular metal plates (not shown) which are arranged parallel to the end faces of the cylinder. Alternatively, the strips may be disposed outwardly of the aperture or may lie adjacent and parallel to plates extending inwardly of the end faces of the cylinder. The aperture may be formed by leaving one end of the cylinder open, the connecting lead being parallel to the cylinder axis and the strips extending across the open end. A synthetic plastic covering may be arranged over the aperture.
Patent GB-1385240-A (GB)
Title: Sealing element for a joint between socket-type pipes and joint  including said sealing element
IPC: F16L47/06
Filed: 1972-05-18
Abstract: 1385240 Joint-making packing; pipe couplings PONT-A-MOUSSON SA 18 May 1972 [28 May 1971] 23417/72 Headings F2B and F2G A sealing sleeve for a spigot and socket joint between pipes (T<1> and T<2>) comprises an elastically yieldable skirt portion 1 having a smooth internal surface and an external surface having alternating annular grooves 1b and ridges 1a and a relatively rigid inwardly extending flange 2 at one end of the skirt portion. The flange 2 is reinforced by an embedded metal ring 3 and is joined to the skirt 1 by a frusto-conical face 2a. The other end of the sleeve has a flared portion 4 having inner and outer frusto-conical surfaces 5 and 6. In the free state of the sleeve, the inner diameter d of the skirt portion 1 is less than the outer diameter D<1> if the spigot end of the pipe T<1> and its external diameter D exceeds the inner diameter D<2> of the socket end of pipe T<2>. The pipes may be of plastics material.
Patent GB-1347742-A (GB)
Title: Metal recovery
IPC: C22B/
Filed: 1971-04-19
Abstract: 1347742 Recovery of silver B R MACKAY 19 April 1971 [9 March 1970] 23447/71 Heading C7D Apparatus for the recovery of silver from photographic fixing solution comprises a container 12 having an inlet and outlet and containing a mass of metal for effecting precipitation. The container has a lid 20 and a polyethylene lining 21. Silver-rich fixing solution is introduced at 39 and flows over grill 79 resting on flap 70 and passes down the sides of the container. On entering the core 16, precipitation of the silver takes place. The spent solution is removed through outlet 39.
Patent GB-1282211-A (GB)
Title: Process for the bulk dyeing of linear polyesters
IPC: C08K5/43
Filed: 1970-05-14
Abstract: 1282211 Bulk dyeing linear polyesters CIBAGEIGY AG 14 May 1970 [19 May 1969] 23471/70 Heading C3R Linear polyesters are mass dyed using dyestuffs of formula in which X represents a hydrogen atom or a substituent and R is an alkyl or aryl group which may be substituted. The preferred dyestuffs are those in which X represents an alkoxy or phenoxy group, optionally substituted, and R represents a phenyl group, also optionally substituted. Dyestuffs are exemplified in which X is Cl-, Me-, MeO-, C 6 H 5 O-, and R is methyl, phenyl, p-toluyl or #-naphthyl. The polyester, e.g. in the form of chips or granules, is intimately mixed with the dyestuff by applying the latter as a dry powder or as a solution in an organic solvent which is then evaporated but the use of an aqueous dispersion of the dyestuff, preferably containing a dispersant and/or a carrier is preferred.
Patent GB-1038126-A (GB)
Title: Ventilators
IPC: F24F7/02
Filed: 1962-06-19
Abstract: 1,038,126. Ventilators. QUEENSTOWN ENGINEERING CO. Ltd., and W. F. GOUGH. Feb. 11, 1963 [June 19, 1962; Oct. 24, 1962], Nos. 23582/62 and 40305/62. Heading F4V. A ventilator 10 has four side frames, Fig. 1 (not shown), defining ventilation passages, each containing a pivoted damper, the dampers being interconnected by projections on their shafts and move simultaneously. As shown in Fig. 3 adjacent dampers 11 and 17 are mounted on rotatable shafts 12 and 16 which project through the sides of their respective housings 13 and 18 and are connected by a right angled projection 22 engaging the sides of a slot 14 in a bifurcated cam member 15. A similar connection is provided at each corner of the ventilator and is covered by a curved plate 23. The housing forming each side of the ventilator is formed from a single sheet of metal perforated to form a vermin guard grill and to admit air. The four sides are joined together by pairs of keyhole slots 20 and headed pins 21. The dampers are opened or closed by a toggle switch, Fig. 4 (not shown), which comprises a spring 40 and a T-shaped lever 30 pivoted at 31 and connected by a link 34 to a damper 36. An operating cord is connected to a rod 50 and operates the switch against a spring 46 and through a C-shaped link 42 engaging an arcuate slot 43 in the lever 30. In a modification, Fig. 8 (not shown), the bifurcated cam is replaced by a right-angled projection which will turn the adjacent damper in one direction, turning in the other direction being effected by a biasing spring. A further type of operating mechanism, Fig. 9 (not shown), comprises links 125 and 127 pivoted to a bracket 123 on damper 114 and a bracket 130 on the ventilator housing respectively. The links are also pivoted at 129 and joined by a looped cord 132 which is used to open and close the ventilator. In further modifications (not shown) the dampers are operated by a mechanism which permits the ventilation passages to be opened to various extents, the ventilators may have two or more dampers in each ventilation passage, and there may be two or more ventilation passages in each of at least two sides of the ventilator.
Patent GB-1393998-A (GB)
Title: Television camera tube assemblies
IPC: H01J29/92
Filed: 1972-05-19
Abstract: 1393998 Image pick-up tubes PHILIPS ELECTRONIC & ASSOCIATED INDUSTRIES Ltd 19 May 1972 [22 May 1971] 23701/72 Heading H1D [Also in Division H4] A television camera tube assembly comprises a camera tube 2 including a target electrode 8 and an adjacent gauze electrode 10; and an electron optical system comprising a magnetic focusing unit 15, an electromagnetic deflection unit 14, a wire coil 16 of soft magnetic material between the focusing and deflection units and a gauze electrode connection loop comprising the target electrode 8, a resistor 17, a gauze electrode supply conductor 20 external to the tube and lying in a neutral plane of the line deflection field, a gauze electrode connector 11 within the tube, the gauze electrode and an electron path between the gauze and target electrodes, said loop extending longitudinally within but not encircling the coil. The arrangement of the loop prevents interference voltages being generated between the target and grid by magnetic fields which occurs when the loop includes connector 18 and encircles coil 16. Residual voltages between the target and gauze electrodes are reduced by replacing conductor 20 with a pair of parallel conductors (21), Fig. 2 (not shown), connected together via a resistor to form an adjustable potentiometer. To reduce interference from the deflection field two pairs of diametrically opposed conductors are used.
Patent GB-532092-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in strand-feeding devices for knitting machines
IPC: D04B15/48
Filed: 1939-08-17
Abstract: 532,092. Knitting-machines. SCOTT & WILLIAMS, Inc. Aug. 17, 1939, No. 23743. Convention date, Aug. 19, 1938. [Class 74 (ii)] In a knitting-machine having a traversing thread guide, e.g. a Lamb type machine, means engageable by the reciprocating means for the thread guide after the guide has moved through a part of its stroke in either direction are provided for operating positive thread feeding means intermittently so that the thread is fed to the guide in proportion to its take-up by the knitting operation. In one form, Fig. 3, pins 72, 73 carried by a bracket 70 mounted upon a thread-guide carriage 10 engage hooks 75 upon the upper and lower stretches of a transmission belt or chain 41, the hooks 75 being inclined so that in each direction of motion of the carriage 10 the pins can slide over one of the sets of hooks. The belt or chain 41 drives a pinion 48, arranged upon the spindle of a conical feed roller 40. A presser roller 49 is provided to hold the thread y against the feed roller 40 and is adjustable axially of the roller 40 so as to vary the rate of feed of the thread. In a modification, Fig. 11, a friction wheel 115 is mounted between fibre strips 106, 107 arranged on a frame 100 fastened to the reciprocating frame of the machine and is moved by stops 130, 131 so as to contact one of the surfaces 106, 107 in each direction of the movement of the frame 100. The wheel 115 serves to drive a pulley 128 upon the shaft carrying the feed roller 80. When elastic thread is being knitted it can be tensioned as described in Specification 460,601, or when non-elastic threads are being supplied to the needles of a full-fashioned machine, yarn furnishing means as described in Specification 196,262, [Class 74 (ii)], may be provided.
Patent GB-1059645-A (GB)
Title: Articulated delivery apparatus for pumpable media
IPC: B67D9/02
Filed: 1964-06-09
Abstract: 1,059,645. Liquid cargoes discharging. MANNESMANN A.G. June 9, 1964 [June 15, 1963], No. 23753/64. Heading B8E. Apparatus for delivering pumpable material such as in the discharge of tankers, comprises a tubular column 1, a jib 5, and trunk 6 connected by articulated joints 3, 4, 7, 8, which allows connection between a fixed installation 2 and a movable filing cap 16. The apparatus is counterbalanced by a weight 14 supported by a beam 13 connected by a pivoted link 10 to the joint 4 and by a lever 15 pivoted to it but fixed to the trunk 6. The arrangement is such that as the position of the centre of gravity of the trunk 6 alters as it is moved the position of the weight 14 alters so that balance is maintained in all positions. In a modification, all movements of the column 1, jib 5 and trunk 6 about the joints are power-assisted by hydraulic jacks.
Patent GB-1385141-A (GB)
Title: Method of coating a glass container
IPC: C03C17/34
Filed: 1973-05-18
Abstract: 1385141 Coated glass containers TAKEDA YAKUHIN KOGYO KK and MITSUI POLYCHEMICALS CO Ltd 18 May 1973 [19 July 1972] 23875/73 Heading B2E A coated glass container, e.g. a bottle, has a first coating of an olefin copolymer containing OH and/or COOH groups in its molecule and a second coating of a thermoplastic polyurethane. The olefin polymer preferably R' | contains units of (a) -CH 2 -CH-, wherein R' is a hydrogen atom or an alkyl radical containing 1 or 2 carbon atoms, (b) -CH 2 - X' | CR<SP>2</SP>-, wherein R<SP>2</SP> is a hydrogen atom or methyl radical, and X' is -OH, -COOH or -COO(CH 2 ) n OH in which n is 1 to 3, and (c) X<SP>2</SP> | -CH 2 -CR<SP>2</SP>-, wherein R<SP>2</SP> is as above and   X<SP>2</SP> is -OCOR<SP>3</SP> or -COOR<SP>4</SP> wherein R<SP>3</SP> and R<SP>4</SP> are each a C 1-4  alkyl group, the total amount of repeating units (b) and (c) being from 1 to 50 mole percent, and the amount of repeating unit (b) being from 50 to 100 mole percent relative to the total amount of repeating units (b) and (c), the melt index of the copolymer being 0.5 to 100 (g./10 min). Preferred olefin copolymers are hydrolysed olefin with vinyl acetate or methacrylic acid, or partially hydrolysed olefin and acrylic acid ester or alkoxy ester, or methacrylic acid ester or alkoxy ester, wherein the olefin is ethylene, propylene or butylene. Other comonomers mentioned are vinyl propionate and vinyl butyrate. The copolymer is preferably applied by dipping into a fluidised bed of polymer and sintering, but a bottle may alternatively be dipped in a polymer solution. The details of preparation of many conventional polyurethane solutions are given and the olefin copolymer coated bottle is top-coated by dipping into such solutions.
Patent GB-954055-A (GB)
Title: Label applying machines
IPC: B65C9/30
Filed: 1962-06-21
Abstract: 954,055. Apparatus for transferring designs etc.; feeding webs. DENNISON MANUFACTURING CO. Ltd. June 21, 1962 [June 21, 1961], No. 23967/62. Headings B6B and B6C. A machine for applying transfers from a continuous strip or web of material S on to articles such as bottles B having a part-conical surface comprises a rotatable heated die I having a part-conical operative surface portion, guides 236 and 237, Fig. 14, for supporting the strip S between a bottle B and the die I in contact with the die during the transfer, and means for imparting a rocking motion to the guides so that they swing about a point representing the projected apex of the operative surface portion of the die I. The bottles B are transported on a turret T which is constructed and is operated as described in Specification 954,054, the bottles being inflated during transfer. Feeding webs.-The transfer-supporting strip S is supplied from a spool 2 and passes via rolls 7, and rollers 8 and 9 under tension to a take-up spool 3. The rollers 8 and 9 are supported on a slide 11 which is reciprocated under the action of a cam block 26 rotatably mounted in a slide 27, Fig. 4, and the strip S is fed at a metered rate to the roller 8 by a sprocket-wheel 12. In addition to the rockable guides 236 and 237, the strip is supported between the rollers 8 and 9, Fig. 14, by stationary guides 244 and 245 and further stationary guides which may be generally conical in shape, Figs. 11 and 12 (not shown), are provided to give the strip the desired arc of contact with the operative surface of the heated die I. A rocking movement is imparted to a yoke 230, Figs. 2 and 4, which supports the guides 236 and 237 by an arm 239 connected by a link 240 to a slide 202 which is operated by a cam 200. The yoke 230 rocks about an axis 231, Fig. 2, which is arranged to be the common projected apex of a conical bottle B at the transfer station and the operative surface of the die 1. Adjustments are described for bottles and dies of various tapers. Specifications 844,382 and 937,071 also are referred to.
Patent GB-706099-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to warp knitting machines
Inventor: BONSER ALFRED WALKER
IPC: D04B27/34
Filed: 1950-09-30
Abstract: 706,099. Knitting-machines. FINE SPINNERS & DOUBLERS, Ltd. Oct. 1, 1951 [Sept. 30, 1950], No. 23975/50. Class 74 (2) The take-up mechanism for a warp knitting-machine comprises a spring or weight loaded roller e which diverts the fabric in its path from the control roller d, withdrawing the fabric from the needles, to the take-up roller g so as to increase the circumferential contact of the fabric with the control roller.
Patent GB-952186-A (GB)
Title: Synthetic resin concretes for use as constructional building material and methods ofmaking the same
IPC: C04B26/14
Filed: 1960-07-08
Abstract: A constructional building material, for concrete surfaces, steps, wall plastering, roofing or pavings, includes a hardenable or hardened concrete mix containing (a) 70-98% by weight of an inorganic aggregate, such as sand of grain size 0.1-0.5 mm., gravel or clinker, (b) a fibrous, filamentary or fabric material, e.g. 0.1-10% by weight of synthetic resin fibre, textile base or metal filament materials, but preferably 0.5-2% by weight of glass fibre, and (c) a hardenable or hardened ethoxylin resin binder, being a combination of an epoxy resin and an amine-amide prepared from a monomeric, polymeric or epoxidised unsaturated fatty acid by reaction with a polyamine, e.g. 5-13% by weight. The concrete mix may also contain one or more tertiary Mannich bases containing the grouping: <FORM:0952186/C3/1> where X = 1-4, R1 is a mono- or poly-nuclear mono- or poly-hydric phenol radical, R2 and R12 are each an alkyl, aryl or hydroxy-alkyl/aryl radical or together members of a heterocyclic ring, e.g. 2-6% by weight of tri-(dimethylamino-methyl)-phenol. An accelerator and/or a viscosity reducing agent may be added for hardening. For marbling, colouring materials may be added, e.g. carbon black, red iron oxide and/or a metal powder such as aluminium. The mix may be hardened into building elements in a mould treated with silicone or paraffin wax, polyvinyl alcohol and/or polyethylene, or faced on to an insulating backing, e.g. on brickwork, such as made of foamed polystyrene or polyvinyl chloride, by applying with pressure or spraying the resin binder made up to a dispersion, emulsion or solution or used as a melt.