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Patent GB-1217447-A (GB)
Title: Coaxial cable
IPC: H01B11/18
Filed: 1969-03-28
Abstract: 1,217,447. Electric insulation. VEREINIGTE DRAHTUND KABELWERKE A.G. 28 March, 1969 [29 March, 1968], No. 16375/69. Heading H1A. An insulating spacer to be applied between concentric conductors 1, 3 in a coaxial cable consists of at least three parallel strips 6, 7, 8 with pyramids having flattened tips 5, and formed at regular intervals, so that on insertion into the cable, the tips bear against the inner conductor and the edges 9, 10 touch so that the mating pyramidal surfaces could be secured together and points 11, 12, 13 engage the outer conductor. Fig. 3 (not shown) indicates a spacer having alternate pyramids in opposite directions. When such a spacer is used (Fig. 5) the outward facing tips 14, 15, 16 lie on a circle. The corners 11, 12, 13 may also lie on the same circle. The spacer could be made of non-extrudable plastics material, and the lateral faces of the pyramids may be apertured.
Patent GB-857457-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to fuel containers having fuel output regulators
IPC: G21C1/20
Filed: 1957-05-23
Abstract: 857,457. Smokers lighters. GENOUD, H. L. R., and GILBERTON, E. May 23, 1957 [May 23, 1956; Jan. 4, 1957], No. 16409/57. Class 75(3). A lighter using liquefied gas comprises a fuel container 1 having a fuel output duct 13 blocked by a permeable member 7, and a stem 20 extending within the container and having a threaded connection 12 with the container so that the stem can be displaced axially to compress the permeable member 7 to reduce the flow of fuel through the output duct 13, the stem having a slot for a screw driver in the end remote from the permeable member. The output duct 13 is formed in a hollow plug 5 secured in an aperture in the top of the container and the upper end of the stem 20 fits with clearance in the plug. Fuel is delivered to the plug 5 by a wick 16 which passes through a transverse bore 22 in the stem 20. The upper end of the output duct 13 is closed by a spring loaded valve 9. In a modified construction the stem is hollow and the wick is contained therein, fuel passing to the wick through apertures in the bottom of the stem. In another construction the stem is hollow and its lower end is open and terminates inside the container. The upper end of the stem has a screw threaded connection with the plug 5.
Patent GB-296152-A (GB)
Title: An improved appliance for massaging
IPC: A61H15/00
Filed: 1927-06-21
Abstract: 296,152. Crombie, W. A. E. June 21, 1927. Massage. - In a resilient massage roller of the kind formed with surface hollows, the divisions between the hollows have parallel edges which run spirally criss - cross around the roller. The appliance comprises a resilient roller a mounted on a hard core b through which passes a spindle the ends of which are housed in handles f, f, or in a frame. Hollows h in the surface of the roller are separated by divisions g having slightly rounded edges. In modifications the resilient roller may be mounted directly on the spindle and the spindle may be formed in two or more parts for convenience in packing. According to the Provisional Specification the roller may be formed from a flat sheet of perforated rubber lapped round a cylindrical core and the hollows may be circular or hexagonal.
Patent GB-237543-A (GB)
Title: Improved means for holding sliding doors, windows, and the like, in open, closed, or intermediate positions and preventing rattling
IPC: B61D25/00
Filed: 1924-01-29
Abstract: 237,543. Thorpe, J. W., Bowden, J. A., and Taylor, J. Jan. 29,1924. Catches yielding to pull and pressure.-Relates to means for holding a sliding door or window in the open, closed or an intermediate position in which the sliding member is provided with two races subjected by rollers to oppositely directed pressures, one of the races having recesses therein with which one of the rollers is adapted to engage to hold the sliding member in the open, closed or an intermediate position, and consists in mounting the roller which engages with the recessed race on a spring-controlled pivoted lever. In the construction shown in Fig. 1, the races D, F are mounted on opposite sides of the door A sliding in the frame B, the roller E, which bears on the plain race F, being carried by a spring-pressed plunger e' mounted in a casing H secured to the frame B. The roller C, adapted to engage with the recessed race D is carried on one end of a lever c' pivoted at c<2> in a casing G secured to the frame B, the other end of the lever c<1> being provided with a roller c<3> which bears on a spring-pressed plunger c<4>. Specification 237,304 is referred to.
Patent GB-593570-A (GB)
Title: An improved method of balancing bodies intended for rotation at high speed
IPC: G01M1/12
Filed: 1943-10-08
Abstract: 5 9 3, 5 7 0.  Centrifugal separators. AKTIEBOLAGET SEPARATOR. Oct. 8, 1943, Nos. 16519 and 16520. Convention dates, Oct. 16, 1942, and Dec. 10, 1942. [Class 23] [Also in Group XIX] When the weights which must be added to a separator bowl to correct out-of-balance have been determined (see Group XIX), the bowl 11 is placed in a sleeve 12 angularly adjustable in a frame 13 provided with an angle scale 15. The necessary weights of solder are placed at the estimated points and attached by the use of heating means 16. Reference has been directed by the Comptroller to Specification 579,929, [Group XIX].
Patent GB-1098756-A (GB)
Title: Diamagnetic bearing
IPC: B64G1/28
Filed: 1965-04-20
Abstract: 1,098,756. Bearings. GENERAL ELECTRIC CO. April 20, 1965 [April 24, 1964], No. 16591/65. Heading F2A. A bearing maintaining first and second non- ferromagnetic members in non-translating rotation comprises diamagnetic material 14, 16 on the first member and ferromagnetic poles 27 on the second member. In Fig. 1 dished diamagnetic rings 14, 16 are secured by rings 18, 19, 20, 21 to respective ends of drum 12 on shaft 10. A split housing 23, 24 has attached permanent magnets 27 which are arranged symmetrically around the shaft axis and adjacent rings 14, 16. In condition of free fall, repulsion between rings 14, 16 and magnets 27 prevents translational movement of shaft 10. A conventional eddy current type damper comprises a disc 22 and permanent magnets 25, 26. In Fig. 3 (not shown) magnets (66) are on shaft (14) and diamagnetic rings (52, 66) on a housing. The diamagnetic material, e.g. bismuth, may be geometrically asymmetrical and include paramagnetic pieces to produce magnetic symmetry.
Patent GB-111167-A (GB)
Title: Improvement in the Inlet and Exhaust Manifolds of Internal-combustion Engines.
Inventor: KING JOSEPH MARION
IPC: F02M31/08
Filed: 1916-11-20
Abstract: 111,167. King, J. M. Nov. 20, 1916. Vaporizers, external.- The combustible mixture passes through a chamber 9 across which extend a number of pins 17; it enters at 8 and traversing the passages 11, 12, and 10, escapes at 14 to the engine. The exhaust passes from the open. ings 3 through a chamber 2 surrounding the chamber 9 and escapes by a pipe 5.
Patent GB-312692-A (GB)
Title: A power condenser employed in particular for automatic phase regulation
IPC: H01G4/38
Filed: 1929-05-30
Abstract: 312,692. Neff, C. May 31, 1928, [Convention date]. Drawings to Specification. Regulation, automatic; installation conductor arrangements.-Condensers for phase displacement are constructed so as to locate the greatest capacity and least resistance at the terminals. According to one method, several coatings are wound one upon the other at the beginning and the number progressively reduced until one strip at the end is wound with the paper or other dielectric layer. In a modification the same number of layers is caused throughout the winding, but each of the foil strips is of tapering form, the broadest part being at the terminacl. In a further modification both methods may be combined. A bank of such condensers can be combined with a step switch so that the necessary capacity for phase displacement is automatically obtained through the intermediary of a phaseindicator device. The conducting wire to the bank may be so dimensioned that the cross-section at any point is in the same proportion to that of the main conductor as the capacity to which it leads bears to the total capacity.
Patent GB-129881-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Rangefinders and Heightfinders.
IPC: G01C3/20
Filed: 1918-10-12
Abstract: 129,881. Barr & Stroud, Barr, A., and Stroud, W. Oct. 12, 1918, Range-finders.-In a short-home base rangefinder or height-finder in which the mechanism employed to find the range or height comprises a defecting prism movable along one of the beams of light, a mechanism frame is provided which carries the principal parts that are moved in finding a range or height, the said mechanism frame being free from contact with the frame 11 carrying the objective and eyepiece prisms, and consisting of two or more cross-pieces 9, 10 carried from the outer tube 14 and connected by parts 3, 5, one or more of which serves as a guide for the deflecting prism 1.
Patent GB-962488-A (GB)
Title: Method for applying a decorative coating to a sheet
IPC: B32B15/08
Filed: 1962-05-01
Abstract: 962,488. Decorative coatings. UNITED STATES STEEL CORPORATION. May 1, 1962 [May 8, 1961], No. 16650/62. Heading B2E. A method of applying a decorative coating to a sheet comprises applying thereto a layer of heat-curable resin plastisol, sprinkling particles of reflective material on to said layer, passing the sheet underneath a roller which rotates counter to the sheet movement, picks up the layer and particles on contact therewith with a kneading action and re-applies the kneaded material to the sheet upon completion of the roller rotation, and thereafter heating the layer to cure it. As shown, a primer coating is applied to sheet S in stand 10 and is cured in chamber 16, the plastisol is applied at stand 17 and particles of reflective material sprinkled thereon from delivery conveyer 27. The material then passes under kneading roller 28, and after curing in chamber 29, is coiled on mandrel 30. The sheet may be of low-carbon steel strip; the primer may contain phenolic vinyl and epoxy resins ; the plastisol may contain polyvinyl chloride ; and the flecks or particles may be bronze powder, aluminium foil, copper dust, steel shavings or pigmented resin such as polyethylene terephthalate.
Patent GB-582936-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to resonator chamber systems for ultra high frequency devices
IPC: H01J23/20
Filed: 1941-09-19
Abstract: 582,936. High - frequency discharge apparatus; electric resonators. STANDARD TELEPHONES & CABLES, Ltd., FREMLIN, J. H., and FOSTER, J. Sept. 19, 1941, No. 16696. Divided out of 582,935. [Classes 39 (i) and 40 (iii)] A resonator for ultra-high-frequency devices employing one or more hollow resonators is built up of a stack of apertured plates arranged so that the apertures register to form the resonant cavities. As shown applied to an oscillator of the velocity modulation type in which a beam of electrons is coupled successively to pairs of cavities 1a, 1b, 2a, 2b, Fig. 1, the resonator is built up of pairs of apertured plates 6, Fig. 5, spaced apart to form a passage 3 for the electron beam to which the apertures are connected by narrow slots. Preferably, the plates 6 are interleaved with thin plates 5, 7 also apertured in register with the plates 6, and provided with tongues 4 to overlap the passage for the electron beam and prevent penetration of the oscillatory field along the beam passage. The plates 5, 7 may be of copper or preferably of molybdenum or other refractory metal.
Patent GB-354446-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to covering tiles employed to protect electric cables laid in the ground
IPC: H02G9/02
Filed: 1930-05-30
Abstract: 354,446. Covering tiles for underground cables. BRIDGE, W. J., Burscough Abbey Brick & Tile Works, Burscough, Lancashire. May 30, 1930, No. 16709. [Class 87 (i).] Covering tiles A employed to protect electric cables laid in trenches in the ground have the upper end surfaces of each tile formed with a shallow trough B, preferably of U-shape, as shown in Fig. 3, a metal link C being placed in position in the aligned troughs B to connect two tiles together. To allow slight movement between tiles, the link may be of smaller diameter than the troughs. In a modified construction, the link may be bent to a double dove-tail configuration as shown in Fig. 7 to fit in troughs or plain recesses B<1>, Fig. 8, in the tiles.
Patent GB-595289-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to catering counters for cafeteria and like applications
IPC: A47F9/00
Filed: 1945-07-02
Abstract: 595,289. Counters. ATKINSON, C. W., and ECLIPSE COPPER CO. OF YORK, Ltd. July 2, 1945, No. 16740. [Class 116] A cafeteria counter has an L-shaped frame with horizontal links 1 and vertical links 1a, which may be of angle iron, rear angle iron supports 2 descending from the rear edge, and front supports 4, the letter being preferably ornamental. Instead of the separate feet 2, support may be provided by a complete strip. A length of angle ,iron 3a, along the rear of the frame, serves as a support for the rear part of individual units 5, 5a, (e.g., bain marie, refrigerator, &c.) which are mounted upon the frame by sliding them forwards till their fronts rest on inturned edges of the angle irons 1a. The usual counter extension 7 is secured along the length of the frame, which has a front surface 7a with any appropriate finish. The ends of the frame may be closed by plates. By arranging suitable numbers of units, counters can be built up or extended as required.
Patent GB-347518-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to automatic gas cut-offs
Filed: 1930-05-30
Abstract: 347,518. Thermally-actuated valves. BRILL, A. P., 712, St. James Street, Pittsburg, U.S.A., and RUDD MANUFACTURING CO., Ltd., Buckingham Avenue Trading Estate, Slough. May 30, 1930, No. 16787. [Class 135.] An automatic safety cut-off device is operated initially by a cam or equivalent device and is maintained open against the action of a spring load by a heat-responsive element which also restores the cam to its inoperative position. In the form shown in the Figure the bimetallic bow A which is arranged in proximity to a pilot burner Z<1> bears against an adjustable abutment H<1> on a rod H which passes through gas-tight glands h in a tube a and engages a recess B<2> in a valve B. The valve B which controls the supply to the pilot burner is loaded by a spring C and has a spindle B<1> which passes to the outside of the casing where it is fitted with a cam E having an actuating handle E<1> and is adapted to co-operate with the end F of the casing. The valve b controlling the supply to the main burner is slidably mounted on the spindle B<1> and is opened against the action of a spring C<1> by projections b<3> on the rod B<1> when the thermal element takes control. In a modification the thermal element actuates a single valve controlling the supply to the main burner.
Patent GB-827244-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to fire extinguishing compositions
Inventor: BIRCHALL JAMES DEREK
IPC: A62D1/00
Filed: 1957-05-28
Abstract: 827,244. Fire extinguishing composition. KERR & CO. (MANCHESTER) Ltd., J. May 28, 1958 [May 28, 1957], No. 16850/57. Class 47 A fire extinguishing composition especially suitable for extinguishing metal fires comprises a mixture of trimethoxyboroxine and an halogenated hydrocarbon. The halogenated hydrocarbon, which may be methyl iodide, may be present in an amount of from 5 to 10% by weight of the total mixture. An aerosal propellant in the form of an halogenated hydrocarbon may be added to the composition to expel the composition from a gas-tight container. The halogenated hydrocarbon may be a fluorinated methane, e.g. dichlorodifluoromethane.
Patent GB-152112-A (GB)
Title: Stitching and ruffling machine
IPC: D05B29/06
Filed: 1919-07-05
Abstract: 152,112. Fairweather, W., (Singer Manufacturing Co.). July 5, 1919. Ruffling-machines.-A sewing machine is provided with duplex ruffling devices operating on the same side of the work, whereby the material may be simultaneously ruffled on both sides of the seam sewn, the operation of each ruffler being independently adjustable to produce a different gathering fullness on the two sides of the seam. Either ruffler may be thrown out of operation to produce rufflng on one side only of the seam. In the embodiment shown in Fig. 2, the work is fed from left to right past a pair of needles 11 and is ruffled by a pair of ruffling blades 26<1>, 45 pivoted to arms 27, 38 on rock-shafts 26, 37 respectively, carrying the slotted arms 23, 28. Blocks 24, 28<1> adjustable along the slotted arms are connected by studs with blocks slidable in guideways in a pair of links 16, 15 respectively, which are oscillated about their pivots 18, 17 by connexion with the needle-carrying pitnam 14, thereby actuating the ruffling blades to an extent determined by the distance of the blocks from the pivots 18, 17 respectively. As shown in Fig. 2, blade 45 is inoperative, blocks 28<1> being in alinement with pivot 17, but may be rendered operative while the machine is running, to an extent determined by the position of a stop block 33 on the arm 28, by means of the lever 30 connected to the block 28<1> by the link 32 and normally urged to the left by the spring 30<1>, but retained in outer position by the latch 34 released by the finger lever 36. A pin 43 on the lever 36 engaging the bent end of a bell-crank lever 41 causes said lever to strike a rod 44, connected by a spring 47 with the arm 38, to lift the blade 45 from the work when the lever 30 is pulle to. the right to render the blade 45 inoperative. The blade 26<1> is lifted from the work by a lever 48 operated manually or by engagement of an arm 48' with an arm carried by the presser-foot lifting-bar. In the modification shown in Fig. 7, and in reversed plan, Fig. 8, the ruffling blades 134, 135 are pivoted to arms mounted respectively on the shaft 112 and on the tubular shaft 111 surrounding the shaft 112. On these shafts are mounted slotted arms 113, 122 carrying adjustable blocks 118, 124<1> having studs carrying blocks slidable in guideways 114<1>, 121 in swinging arms 107, 120 connected to move in unison by a bracket 119. The arm 107 is carried on a rock-shaft 108 and is oscillated by a pitman 105 actuated by an eccentric on the needle-driving shaft. Stop blocks 115, 124 limit the range of adjustment of the blocks 118, 124<1>. Each ruffling blade may be lifted from the work by the finger-pieces 140 or by the arm 147 carried by the presser-foot lifting-bar. The presser-foot 152 carries a tape guide 151 in which preferably the edges of the tape are folded, and a separator blade 162 which underlies the ruffling blades between the ruffling fabric and the body fabric.
Patent GB-167461-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and connected with signalling buoys
IPC: B63B22/16
Filed: 1921-06-20
Abstract: 167,461. Valguarnera,. C. July 31, 1920, [Convention date]. Buoy and lifebuoy signals; receiving and detecting audible signals; sound, controlling and actuating apparatus by.-On a buoy provided with signalling means brought into operation automatically on the approach of a ship, a supplementary signal preferably controlled by a barometer is brought into operation in bad weather. Three microphones 2 are placed on the buoy below the water line in a circle 120‹ apart and connected in a circuit containing a battery 8 and relay 9. The relay is preferably of the type in which a moving part is subjected to the opposite action of two windings, one of which is in the microphone circuit. On the microphones being affected by the vibrations produced by the ship, the armature 10 of the relay 9 closes the circuit of battery 15 between contact points 11, 12 to give the desired signal, such as to light a lamp 3. A more intense, or an additional signal is given in bad weather by additional lamps 3' or by syren. One terminal of the lamps 3<1> is connected to the battery 15 through contacts 17, 18 closed by the movable member 20 of a barometer when the latter falls below a predetermined indication, and the other terminal is connected to the battery through the contacts of the relay 9.
Patent GB-537772-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in liquid pumps
IPC: F02M59/02
Filed: 1939-08-14
Abstract: 537,772. Fuel-injection pumps. DAIMLERBENZ AKT.-GES. Aug. 14, 1939, No. 16390/40. Divided out of 533,709. Convention date June 10, 1939. [Class 102 (i)] In a pump comprising a main piston 2 and a non-positively actuated accumulator-piston 3, means for connecting the space 14 between the end surfaces 12. 13 of the pistons to a relief-passage to terminate delivery suddenly are so arranged that they do not communicate with the end-surfaces of the pistons, impairment of the suction by trapped fuel being thereby obviated. In the arrangement shown, a relief-passage 18 can, at or after the end of the delivery-stroke, communicate with the deliverypassage 16 through a passage 20, and a groove 19 in the piston 2. The passage 16 may be probided with a throttleplate 22 which at low speeds permits all the fuel to pass. At high speeds, residual fuel remaining in the space 14 is discharged through the passage 18. In another arrangement, the piston 3 is formed with a groove for establishing communication between the passages. 16, 18. The end surfaces may be ground and polished to ensure intimate contact.
Patent GB-398911-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to film magazines for use in motion picture apparatus
IPC: G03B17/26
Filed: 1932-03-24
Abstract: 398,911. Kinematograph apparatus; photographic apparatus. KODAK, Ltd., Kingsway, London.-(Assignees of Bouveng, N. ; Elgo Saltsjobaden, Sweden.) March 24, 1932, No. 17018/33. Convention date, March 28, 1931. Divided on 398,894. [Classes 97 (i) and 98 (i).] One end of a kinematograph film D is detachably connected to the spool C in a spoolbox A, and the continuity of the perforations in the film is interrupted adjacent that end secured to the spool B, as shown in Fig. 2. The film D after being wound from the spool B on to the spool C cannot become detached from the spool B, but on rewinding it becomes detached from the spool C and wholly rewound on the spool B. Either of the spools B, C can be driven by a friction drive such as belt drive. In a modification, instead of interrupting the continuity of the perforations to arrest the operation of the film-feeding mechanism, the end of the film may be fixed to the spool B to prevent detachment. With single-claw feed mechanism the perforations may be interrupted in one edge only.
Patent GB-416606-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to the connection of metal bands or strips
IPC: B65D63/04
Filed: 1933-06-15
Abstract: 416,606. Baling. GERRARD INDUSTRIES, Ltd., and TAPLIN, H. J., Victoria House, Vernon Place, Southampton Row, London. June 15, 1933, No. 17033. [Class 94 (i).] A joint for connecting the overlapping ends of metallic bands or straps is obtained by punching the ends while the band is under tension and interlocking the punched-out parts by inter-engagement which takes place when the tensioning devices are released. The punching operation defines strips a<1>, a<2> having circular protuberances b<1>, b<2> at the centre, the ends of the strips being left united to the material. Transverse bends are formed so that the protuberances lie transversely to the portions c<1>, c<2> as shown in Fig. 2. On the release of the tensioning means, relative longitudinal movement takes place and causes the circular portion of each end to lie between the strip and the main body of the other end. As shown in Fig. 3, the circular portions b<2> lie between the strip a<1> and the main body 1, while the corresponding parts b have passed between the parts c<2> and their corresponding strip.