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Patent GB-250884-A (GB)
Title: An apparatus for use in playing or practising ball games
IPC: A63B63/08
Filed: 1926-02-03
Abstract: 250,884. Siday, W. E. Feb. 3, 1926. Outdoor games; parlour games.-In an apparatus for playing or practising ball games of the kind wherein an inclined board pierced with holes to receive the balls has an extension of flexible material along which the balls are struck or rolled, mechanism is provided for winding or rolling up the flexible track in order to bring the apparatus into a compact form for storage or transport. As shown, an upright frame F with a stop wall G and a winding rod J is secured behind a box A provided with a row of holes or cups B. A platform N which may comprise the top of the box is hinged to the upright frame, and is secured to a strip D of carpet or webbing terminating in eyelets E. The strip may be marked with cross lines from which the ball may be played into the holes B. A cushion or other article may be placed beneath the strip to increase the difficulty of playing into the holes. The ball may be rolled or may be struck with a croquet mallet or a golf club; in the latter case the apparatus may be used for practising putting indoors ignoring all the holes but one. When the apparatus is to be packed, the eyelets E are placed upon hooks on the winding rod J and the strip is wound upon the rod, the platform N being turned up against the frame F.
Patent GB-922142-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to setting mechanisms for watch movements
IPC: G04B27/04
Filed: 1961-01-27
Abstract: 922,142. Watches. P. L. GLOCKER. Jan. 27, 1961 [Feb. 11, 1960], No. 3185/61. Class 139. A watch keyless mechanism which includes a setting lever 6, a rocking bar 9 and a winding pinion 3 is characterized in that the clutch wheel 5 carries or is integral with a toothed disc 12 which co-operates with the setting wheel 15. The rocking bar 9 is forked at 14 to embrace the disc 12 to effect the necessary movement of the clutch wheel 5.
Patent GB-547173-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to mercury switches
IPC: H01H29/22
Filed: 1941-03-10
Abstract: 547,173. Mercury switches. WEST & CO., Ltd., A., and BREEZE, V. L. March 10, 1941, No. 3241. [Class 38 (v)] A mercury switch has a rod extending along the path of flow of the mercury to facilitate free movement, the container being of such restricted cross-sectional area that the mercury would, in the absence of such a rod, tend to stick. The rod may be of conductive material and serve as an electrode. In the example an insulating casing 1 closed at one end, carries a metal rod 2 lengthwise, the other end being held in a plug 5 retained by a nut 8. A flanged metal sleeve 4 serves as the other electrode. If the rod is a non-conductor, two metal electrodes are used, for example, in the form of wires extending through one end. The rod may extend only from the end of the wires to the other end.
Patent GB-454655-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in heating apparatus for water or air
IPC: F24H6/00
Filed: 1935-02-01
Abstract: 454,655. Heating water; heating air; boiler furnaces. NOBLE, P. W., 1111, Cedar Street, Michigan City, Indiana, U.S.A., and NOBLE, H., 73, The Close, Norwich. Feb. 1, 1935, No. 3292. [Class 64 (i)] [See also Groups XII and XXVI] A portable domestic boiler contains a small flash steam generator D which supplies steam to a turbine J driving a pump feeding water to the boiler from the turbine condenser N mounted in the boiler water space B. The furnace gases flow upwards through a flat flue containing the steam generator and then around a draught inducing nozzle F to a corrugated coiled down-flow flue D<2>, which passes through the bottom of the water space and discharges into a stack pipe D<5>. The turbine drives, in addition to the feed pump, air fans K, L and an electric generator M. The fan L draws air through a casing G and delivers it through an adjustable cowl L<1>. The fan K forces air through the draught-inducing nozzle F. The air inlet to the fan K is regulated by a disc which is moved towards or away from the inlet under the control of a thermostat in the boiler water. The extension of a sliding sleeve in the inlet may be adjusted by hand. Steam and water flow from the immersed condenser N to an air cooled condenser N<2> at the lower part of the air casing G. The feed pump, which delivers water from a hot well S\ is driven from the turbine through worm gearing J<1> and a reciprocating shaft J<5> having an adjustable resilient connection with the pump shaft R, which is also connected to the piston of a pump for increasing the circulating in the water space. The oscillating shaft R is also connected through an arm A3 and a ratchet to the rotated conical grate A<1>. The slipper-shaped ash pan U may be slid out by a handle and carried vertically.
Patent GB-1103089-A (GB)
Title: Thread handling systems and devices for sewing machines
IPC: D05B63/00
Filed: 1967-01-23
Abstract: 1,103,089. Sewing machines. SINGER CO.23 Jan., 1967 [10 Feb., 1966], No. 3313/67. Heading D1G.  Thread passes from a supply to the stitchforming means of a sewing machine through a conduit, and air under pressure is caused to flow through the conduit contrary to the movement of the thread for tensioning the latter to set the stitches. In one embodiment the needle bar 28 of a lockstitch sewing machine is slidable in a bush 27 formed with diametricallyopposed apertures 31, 32. Aperture 31 is connected via a tube 34 and an on/off valve 35 to a compressed air main 36. Aperture 32 is connected via a tube 37 to an aperture 46 in the head of a casing 41 communicating with the space between two depending walls 43, 44. A second aperture 50 communicating with said space is provided in said head. Thread 62 from a cop 61 passes successively through a tensioner 60 and the apertures 50, 46 to enter tube 37, emerging from the latter through an outlet 40 adjacent the sewing machine, and finally passing to the needle 29. The needle bar is formed with a transverse bore 33 which becomes aligned with the apertures 31, 32 during the upstroke, when a loop of thread seized by the beak 67 of a rotary hook 63 is in the cast-off position. Air then flows through tube 37 to tension thread 62, thereby setting the stitch, while the resultant slack thread forms a loop 42 in the space beween the walls 43, 44. To facilitate thread pull-off, the loop-controlling tail 75 is shorter than usual, and a second thread guide 79 is mounted on the usual thread guide 78 to prevent beak 67 from picking up a double loop. In a modification, Fig. 4, a simple bent pipe (91) is used and casing 41 is omitted. In another embodiment, threads 135, 136 pass through tensioners 142, 143 and bent tubes 131, 132 to a closed casing 137, emerging from the latter by outlets 138, 139, and finally passing to the respective loopers 125, 126 of an overedge sewing machine. A compressed air main 141 is connected to an inlet 140 of casing 137, whereby the passage of the air in the pipes 131, 132 serves to tension the looper threads. In a two-thread chain stitching machine, thread to the single looper (114), Fig. 9, passes through a bent tube (117) through which a counter flow of compressed air is induced, the thread passing around a snubbing post (123) at the entrance of tube (117).
Patent GB-725137-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to shuttering for use in building concrete structures
Inventor: JONES DAVID ARTHUR DARCY
IPC: E04G17/00
Filed: 1951-02-12
Abstract: 725,137. Shuttering for building concrete structures. RAPID METAL DEVELOPMENTS, Ltd. Feb. 12, 1951, No. 3387/51. Addition to 682,870. Class 20 (2). The shuttering of the parent Specification is provided with a rightangle corner shuttering member 1, 2 having flanges 3 adapted to be clamped to the flanges of the shuttering 5.
Patent GB-1135435-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to the manufacture of articles of footwear
Inventor: WALMSLEY JACK
IPC: A43B9/00
Filed: 1966-01-26
Abstract: 1,135,435. Boots &c. NEWCHURCH BOOT CO. Ltd. 25 Jan., 1967 [26 Jan., 1966], No. 3423/66. Heading A3B. A method of making footwear e.g. slippers includes the steps of moulding a sole on to a lasted upper and then securing a heel to the shoe bottom. As described a heel seat piece 1, having adhesive on its lower surface 4, is secured to a last 2 and an upper and insole assembly 3 is then placed on the last. A tread layer 5, sponge rubber mix 7, a wooden shank stiffener 9, and a filler 8 are then placed in a sole mould 6. The mould 6 is closed by the lasted upper 3 and the mould is heated to vulcanize the rubber and bond the sole components to the upper. The part formed shoe is then removed from the mould and last, a heel (not shown) is secured to the shoe bottom by pins driven through the heel seat piece 1 and the shoe is completed by the addition of a fabric sock (not shown) which is adhered to the inside of the shoe.
Patent GB-977802-A (GB)
Title: Coppo complexes of reactive disazo dyestuffs
Inventor: BAKER RONALD
IPC: C09B62/477
Filed: 1962-01-30
Abstract: The invention comprises copper-containing disazo dyes which, in the free acid form, are of formula <FORM:0977802/C4-C5/1> wherein A is a sulphophenyl or sulphonaphthyl radical, Z is an hydrogen atom or a methyl radical, n and m are 1 or 2 and L which is linked to the naphthalene nucleus in the 6-, 7- or 8-position is a group of formula <FORM:0977802/C4-C5/2> wherein Y1, Y2 and Y3 are hydrogen or chlorine atoms and p is 1 or 2.  The dyes are prepared by treating a disazo dye of formula <FORM:0977802/C4-C5/3> wherein A, Z and n are as defined above, X is a methoxy, hydroxy or carboxylic acid group and L1 which is linked as above is a group of formula <FORM:0977802/C4-C5/4> with, in either order, a coppering agent and an acylating agent derived from an acid of formula <FORM:0977802/C4-C5/5> such as acryloyl chloride, a - or b -chloroacryloyl chloride, and a  : b  : b -trichloroacryloyl chloride. The dyes may be used to colour wool, silk, polyamide polyacrylonitrile, and particularly cellulose fibres in the presence of acid-binding agents in blue and grey shades. The preparation of the dyes is described in examples.  The Provisional Specification also describes copper, nickel, cobalt and chromium compounds of dyes of the above formula wherein A is a substituted or unsubstituted aryl radical, the middle component may be 1,4-phenylene or 1,4-naphthylene and may be substituted, and the group L is of formula <FORM:0977802/C4-C5/6> wherein R1 and R2 are hydrogen or C1-C4 alkyl, R is a phenylene radical which may be substituted, m and p are 1 or 2 provided that m is not 2 when p is 1 and X is an acyl, radical derived from an unsaturated acid as specified above wherein Y1 is a hydrogen or halogen atom or a C1-C4 alkyl or hydroxyalkyl radical, Y2 is a hydrogen or halogen atom and Y3 is a hydrogen or halogen atom or a carboxylic acid group. Components for use in the preparation of these dyes are specified but no examples additional to those in the Complete Specification are described. Specification 885,814 is referred to.
Patent GB-113349-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Vegetable Slicing and Shredding Machines.
Inventor: HAWES CHARLES
IPC: B26D3/18
Filed: 1917-03-09
Abstract: 113,349. Hawes, C. March 9, 1917. Cutting and slicing vegetables &c.-In order to render the cutter-disk or carrier accurately adjustable relatively to the hopper delivery face of a vegetable shredding or slicing machine, the shaft upon which it is mounted is formed with screw-threaded portions fitted with nuts or collars serving to determine its axial position in relation to its bearings. As shown in Fig. 5, the shaft 2, carrying the cutter-disk 1, is adjustable relatively to its bearing 19 by screw nuts or collars 26, 27, which are split and provided with clamping-screws 28, 29. A ball thrust bearing 25 is provided. The device is described in connexion with a machine as shown in Fig. 1, in which the shaft 2 is driven from fast and loose pulleys 33, 34, the cutter-disk 1 is enclosed in a guard casing 37, and is preferably fitted with curved slicing knives and shredding blades which may be of the kind described in Specification 110,087, and the hopper 5 is fitted to a throat piece 22 provided as shown in Fig. 4, with a sharply inclined back 32, strengthening- webs 23 and a machined facing 24.
Patent GB-1009457-A (GB)
Title: Process for the hydrocatalytic treatment of gas oils
Inventor: LAINE BERNARD
IPC: C10G45/58
Filed: 1963-01-29
Abstract: A heavy gas oil fraction, which constitutes less than 50% of a total gas oil fraction which is the total distillate between the gasoline boiling range and 220 DEG C. and residue material with a viscosity at 50 DEG C. of 40 Engler, in admixture with a lower boiling petroleum distillate, the mixture being such that it cannot be obtained by simple distillation, is contacted in the presence of hydrogen with a catalyst having a hydrogenating / dehydrogenating component supported on a base having isomerizing and/or cracking activity at a temperature of at least 371 DEG C. but below that at which substantial cracking occurs, a pressure of at least 7 kg./cm.2 and a space velocity such that the product is a gas oil having a pour point at least 5 DEG C. lower than the feedstock. The lower boiling distillate may be kerosene and may comprise 50-150% of the heavy gas oil.  The hydrogenating/dehydrogenating catalyst component may be one or more elements or compounds of Groups VIa or VIII, e.g. molybdenum and/or cobalt oxide or platinum.  The support may comprise a major proportion of alumina and a minor proportion of one or more oxides of Groups II, III and IV, e.g. silica, titania, zirconia and beryllia. The support may also contain one or more compounds of non-metallic elements of Groups III, IV and V, e.g. boron and phosphorus, and up to 15% by weight of halogen, e.g. fluorine and chlorine. Specifications 862,121, 908,288, 908,289, 928,460, 937,055 and 943,238 are referred to.
Patent GB-842780-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to fuel reignition devices for use in combustion chambers of propulsion engines of the continuous combustion internal combustion types
Inventor: ORCHARD PETER FREDERICK
IPC: F02C7/262
Filed: 1958-02-04
Abstract: 842,780. Igniting burners. BRISTOL SIDDELEY ENGINES Ltd. Jan. 30, 1959 [Feb. 4, 1958], No. 3647/58. Addition to 819,141. Drawings to Specification. Class 75(3). The tubular re-ignition device of the parent Specification is provided with fins on the end projecting into the flames. The fins may be formed integrally with the tube or they may be formed on a sleeve secured to the end of the tube. The tube may be made entirely of a catalytically active platinum alloy or it may be composed of a non-catalytically active material such as tungsten or an alloy of tungsten, nickel and copper in which case the fins are coated with a catalytically active platinum alloy. Specification 578,956 also is referred to.
Patent GB-960995-A (GB)
Title: Method for the production of clinker from plastic raw materials
IPC: C04B7/40
Filed: 1963-01-29
Abstract: <PICT:0960995/C1/1> <PICT:0960995/C1/2> Cement clinker is produced by the thermal treatment of slugs 5 formed by passing the plastic raw material 3 through a kneader device in which a scraper blade, stirrer arm or the like 2 squeezes the raw material through holes 4 in the kneader device in such a manner that the pressure of the blade acts non-uniformly on the material so that the issuing slugs have deep cracks 6 in their surface.  Fig. 2 shows press 7 where the raw material slurry is dewatered to form a plastic filter cake whence it passes via conveyer 8 to kneader device 9 where it is converted to slugs which are passed into hopper 11 of a Lepol grate 12 and thence to rotary kiln 13.
Patent GB-414149-A (GB)
Title: Improved table-stand or tray
IPC: A47G23/08
Filed: 1933-02-07
Abstract: 414,149. Revolving trays. POWDITCH, R. V., and POWDITCH, V. H., 78, Erskine Hill, Golders Green, London. Feb. 7, 1933, No. 3696. [Class 128.] In a rotating tray of the kind in which the tray is mounted on a pedestal formed in two parts so that the upper part carrying the tray can rotate on the lower supporting part, a ballbearing device is incorporated between the two parts of the pedestal. As shown, the ballbearing consists of an upper plate c secured to the upper part b<1> of the pedestal carrying the tray a, and a lower plate d provided with a semicircular groove containing balls e, the two plates being secured together by a rivet f. A damping pad g is provided to prevent too free rotation, and the lower half b<2> of the pedestal carries a rubber &c. ring j.
Patent GB-1437561-A (GB)
Title: Method of dividing a liquid flow
IPC: F02B75/02
Filed: 1974-01-25
Abstract: 1437561 Fluid regulation MOSKOV AVTOMEKHANICHE INST IZHEV MASHINOSTROITEL ZAVOD and ZAVOD IM V A DEGTYAREVA 25 Jan 1974 [26 Jan 1973] 03707/74 Heading'G3H  A liquid flow divider comprises a body 1 formed with a bore 2 in which a rod 3 having a screw-  threaded portion is reciprocably disposed, the screw-threading defining restricted flow passages between it and the bore to adjustably proportion the flow entering through inlet 4 to a pair of outlets 5, 6. The distance between the inlet and an outlet is approximately equal to the length of the screw-threaded portion. The latter may be multithreaded with each thread co-operating with a respective outlet.
Patent GB-123735-A (GB)
Title: Improved Process and Apparatus for the Fractional Distillation of Liquids.
IPC: B01D3/00
Filed: 1919-02-15
Abstract: 123,735. Soc. d'Etudes Chimiques. Feb. 20, 1918, [Convention date]. Rectifiers.-A dephlegmator for use in fractional distillation is kept at a constant temperature by the ebullition of a separately-heated liquid under pressure. The dephlegmator d is packed with closely wound coils, small cylinders of wire gauze, &c., and is arranged in a boiler a containing liquid boiling under a pressure maintained by a safetyvalve c. The liquid is heated by steam coils h and the vapours are condensed by a reflux condenser b. In applying the invention to the separation of xylenes, the vapours from the still are led to the dephlegmator by a pipe f, and the temperature of the boiling liquid is raised to 136‹ C. by adjusting the valve c. After all the p-xylene has distilled off through the pipe g, the temperature is raised to 139.2‹ C. and the m-xylene is collected. The liquid used in the boiler may be water, benzene, &c. A reflux from the dephlegmator to the still is provided.
Patent GB-372366-A (GB)
Title: An improvements relating to the manufacture of hydrogen
IPC: C01B3/10
Filed: 1931-02-06
Abstract: In the manufacture of hydrogen from silicol and a caustic alkali wherein the whole of the silicol and alkali necessary for the charge are placed together in the generator, the silicol is submerged under such conditions that it does not become mixed with the mass of the solution but becomes surrounded by a local accumulation of hydrogen so that there is only slow access of the solution to the silicol, the charging door being then closed.  The silicol is enclosed in a perforated sheet metal &c. container and the silicol should not completely fill the container; preferably, 0,6 of the container is filled by shaking without ramming.  The perforations in the container may be one-quarter of an inch in diameter and the silicol is ground to pass a sieve having 30 meshes per square inch.  The temperature is maintained at 220-240 DEG  F.
Patent GB-575193-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to snap action electrical switches
IPC: H01H15/18
Filed: 1944-03-02
Abstract: 575,193. Snap-action switches. PACKMAN, P. J. March 2, 1944, No. 3936. [Class 38 (v)] In a manually operated snap-action switch, two discs 4, 4 are rotatably mounted on the ends of a length of wire 5 coiled to form a spring 6 about a stud 7 which is carried bv a bar 8 (part only shown). The bar 8 is slidably mounted in a cover (not shown) and when it is pushed to the right the discs 4 separate further against the spring tension round the moving contact disc 2 until the latter snaps to the left to contact a stop 3 and cease bridging fixed contacts, 1, 1. When the bar 8 is pushed to the left, the discs 4 again ride round the moving contact disc 2 which moves to the right to bridge contacts 1, 1 with a snap. Modifications of the switch are described in which the moving contact may be a cylinder or sphere, the fixed contacts may be spring members engaging either the curved or flat faces of the moving contact, further fixed contacts may replace the stop 3 to form a two-way switch, and the slide member 8 may be moved by a pivoted lever or a fingeroperated button projecting through the cover.
Patent GB-524773-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in luminous bowl electric lighting fixture
IPC: F21S8/06
Filed: 1939-02-07
Abstract: 524,773. Semi-indirect lighting. AINSWORTH, G. Feb. 7, 1939, No. 4006. [Classes 39 (ii) and 75 (iv)] A semi-indirect fixture has a shallow translucent bowl 1 with the lamp bulb 2 close down on it the bulb being silvered with narrow horizontal strips left clear. Specification 492,554 is referred to.
Patent GB-161559-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to compressors or the like
IPC: F04B39/08
Filed: 1921-02-03
Abstract: 161,559. Gensecke, W. April 10, 1920, [Convention date]. Addition to 156,211, [Class 8 (i), Air and gases, Compressing &c.]. Lubricant conveyed by mechanical means. - The lower non - compressing end i of the piston of an air compressor or the like, on which slides a block containing the driving eccentric, is formed with openings j through which oil is spurted into the piston interior, from a well constituted by this end of the cylinder, by the motion of the piston.
Patent GB-1072835-A (GB)
Title: Parity checking system
Inventor: BURGESS GORDON STEWART
IPC: G06F11/10
Filed: 1966-01-29
Abstract: 1,072,835. Checking arrangements. INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION. Jan. 29, 1966, No. 4056/66. Heading G4A. [Also in Division H4] In a parity checking system, predetermined test data is applied to a device to provide, if the device is operating correctly, output data of predetermined parity which is then combined with a fixed value parity bit and parity checked. In a computer (Fig. 1, not shown), a word (including parity bit) is odd parity checked (8) when read from a store (1), before use (without the parity bit) in an ALU, i.e. arithmetic and logic unit (3). The ALU output is reinserted into the store (1) together with a parity bit generated (7) for it, after a further parity check. To test the ALU etc., a diagnostic routine is initiated in which two test words are read from the store (1) and processed in the ALU, the words being chosen so that in the absence of error, the result has even parity. A pseudoparity bit, which is always " one ", is combined with it and a parity check (8) carried out. The computer can be parallel or serial. In a data transmission system (Fig. 2, not shown), a predetermined number of multi-bit parallel message words are transmitted in turn serially by bit, each word being staticized and provided (19) with a parity bit at the receiver. When the predetermined number of words have been received, a counter reverses a (relay or transistor) switch (20) to combine a pseudoparity bit, which is always " one ", with a predetermined word of even parity transmitted after the message words. A parity check is then carried out on this last (combined) word and if it does not have odd parity, an error has occurred. In this case, the transmitter is caused to send the predetermined word again and if this time the parity is correct, the message words are retransmitted. The system could alternatively be serial throughout.