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Patent GB-281064-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to apparatus or appliances for giving or imparting self-instruction in the playing of games
IPC: A63B69/36
Filed: 1926-10-25
Abstract: 281,064. Egg, H. Oct. 25, 1926. Golf-practising appliances. - Apparatus for giving instruction in games comprises a base, an indicator in the form of a strip or post upstanding from the base and in a position where it is struck by the club when a correct stroke is executed, and additional indicators also in the form of strips or posts upstanding from the base, arranged on each side of the first-mentioned indicator in positions where one of them is struck by the club when a faulty stroke is executed. In the form shown in Fig. 1, a base 1 secured to a ground anchor 3 by a bolt and nut 2 is provided with a number of slots 6 within which wooden indicator strips 5 are loosely held in a vertical position. The ball is teed a short distance away so that the club in making the stroke dislodges one of the strips and thus indicates the nature of the stroke. Strings 8 may be employed to prevent the strips being driven away. Holes 7 in the base, for alternate use, are provided for the bolt 2 to permit adjustment of the distance between the ball and the vertical strips. In a modification, Fig. 2, the indicator strips 10 are pivoted to obliquelyarranged members 12 pivoted on the base. The stroke of the club is delivered from the right hand side of the device as shown in the Figure, and causes one of the strips to spin on its pivot; if the stroke is too low the member 12 is knocked back as shown by dotted lines. In a further modification, Fig. 4, the indicator strips are replaced by metal indicator posts 17 sheathed in rubber and hinged to a block 30 adjustable along a metal support 31. A rubber-sheathed metal post 18 is hinged at the other end of the support. In using the device, the player strikes at the post 18 so that the club head after knocking down the post passes on and turns down one of the' indicator posts 17 according to the direction of the stroke. The indicators, instead of being hinged, may be flexible and may be adapted to emit different sounds when struck. A modified object to be struck consists of a disc of paper or cardboard the edge of which is held in a slot in the head of a ground pin. Instead of an object to be struck, a paper picture of a ball may be pinned to the ground. Tees.-In Fig. 5 is shown a tee for use with the devices shown in Figs. 1 and 2. The tee consist of a wooden block 20 with a slot 21 over which the ball 42 is placed. An anchoring device 22 may be provided for the ball. The leading edge 23 of the tee is sufficiently deep to allow the ball to fall clear of the club after being struck.
Patent GB-1474912-A (GB)
Title: Centrifugal machine
IPC: B67C3/22
Filed: 1973-06-05
Abstract: 1474912 Centrifugal separator THOMAS BROADBENT & SONS Ltd 4 June 1974 [5 June 1973] 26653/73 Heading B2P [Also in Division C6]  A centrifugal machine comprises a rack 14 disposed within a rotor 12 for supporting one or more bottles 18 containing a liquor, e.g. champagne, from which sediment is to be removed, the rack being arranged to support the or each bottle with its neck facing generally radially outwardly of the axis of rotation of the rotor, and means being provided for introducing a refrigerant around at least part of the neck portion of the or each bottle to enable a plug of liquor containing sediment to be frozen. As shown, the bottles 18 are supported in vertical rows in the rack and their necks extend into circumferentially spaced vertical chambers 17 defined by the rotor 12. the rack 14 and pairs of panels 16. An inlet pipe 20 serves to introduce refrigerant from a refrigeration plant into an annular channel 23 at the top of the rotor, the refrigerant passing through orifices 21 and flowing down the chambers 17 before spilling over orifices 22 into a collecting tray 19 from which it may be recycled to the refrigeration plant. The passages and chambers carrying refrigerant may be lined with, or constructed from, heat insulating material. In operation, bottles containing champagne from which sediment is to be removed and closed with, e.g. plastics bungs, are placed in the rack and the machine is brought up to a predetermined centrifuging speed e.g. 1000-1500 r.p.m. for 1-1¢ hours by which time the sediment gathers in the neck of each of the bottles. The centrifuging speed is reduced, e.g. to 150-300 r.p.m. and refrigerant is circulated through the chambers 17 until the champagne and sediment in each portion has frozen into a plug. The machine is then stopped, the bottles are removed from the rack and the plastics bungs removed whereupon the frozen plugs of champagne including the sediment are driven from the bottles by the pressure of the champagne.
Patent GB-487295-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in display machines
IPC: G09F19/06
Filed: 1937-10-01
Abstract: 487,295. Displaying. AIMES, F. M. Oct. 1, 1937, No. 26655. [Class 3 (i)] Apparatus for displaying pens, pencils, fountain pens, &c. in use comprises a pen &c. 56 detachably held in a sleeve 53 carried at the outer end of an arm 49 pivoted at 48 to a yoke 46 which is rotated by a crank-pin 44 on a shaft 16 driven continuously through reduction gearing 11 by a motor 12. The arm 49 is slotted to take over a fixed post 41 which forms an outer pivot and sliding guide for the arm. The point of the pen &c. 56 rests on a strip of paper 37 which is gradually advanced from off a roll 37a by a friction roller 30 coacting with a spring-pressed backing roller 67. The roller 30 is turned intermittently by a pawl 23a engaging a ratchet-wheel 28 on the roller shaft 29, the pawl 23a being retracted by a spring 35 and advanced by a roller 21 on a crank 20 rotating with the shaft 16. An adjustable detent 32 prevents back-lash of the wheel 28. A spring-held bail 71 co-operates with the roller 67 in maintaining a stretch of the strip 37 flat for receiving the marks made by the pen 56, these marks in the construction described comprising a series of ellipses. The ellipses are broken at their inner ends by causing the pen to rise from the paper at that point, this being effected by an upturned tail 61 on the arm 49 which strikes a stationary roller 42. When the pen 56 is a stylograph, it may be turned through a small angle at every stroke by attaching to it a ratchet wheel 57 which strikes a stationary pawl 58 projecting into the path of the pen.
Patent GB-426336-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in latches
IPC: E05B55/00
Filed: 1933-09-28
Abstract: 426,336. Locks and latches. ACHURCH, G. P., 51, Broad Street, Birmingham. Sept. 28, 1933, No. 26714. [Class 44] A mortice locking latch for doors &c. has a handle follower locked by an auxiliary bolt sliding in the same direction as the latch bolt, this bolt being arranged below the latch-bolt and having an abutment or abutments to engage a face or faces formed on or near the lower edge of the follower and parallel to the direction of movement of the bolt. Two rectangular strips f, f<1> secured to two handle bosses G, G<1> have their meeting faces F on the common axis of the two handles which are secured in position on the door by two finger plates j. The two strips f, f<1> enter a square hole in a castellated bush c clinched to a follower plate C<1>. This plate has a horn C<2>, Fig. 3, engaging the bent end b<3> of a plate B on the latch b. The plate C has abutments c<4>, c<5> adapted to be engaged by projections e, e<1> on a plate E to lock the follower against movement, the plate E being moved by a key and held in either of its two positions by a spring H engaging a projection e<2>.
Patent GB-699058-A (GB)
Title: Shoe heel structure
IPC: A43B21/39
Filed: 1951-11-14
Abstract: 699,058. Shoe heel protectors. MALHERBE, G. L. Nov. 14, 1951, No. 26714/51. Class 17 (iii). A removable shoe tread member 16 has channels 20 and a keeper block 30 complemental to correspondingly shaped tongues 18 and socket 32 on a top member 12 rigidly attached to a shoe heel structure. Recesses 34, 36 are provided in the members 12, 16 that 34 being the deeper so that on inversion of the shoe a gravity catch or stud will fall into it and enable the tread member 16 to be removed.
Patent GB-1024557-A (GB)
Title: Production of moulded articles
Inventor: BEALE JAMES
IPC: B22C1/02
Filed: 1963-07-05
Abstract: A composition comprises (a) a particulate refractory material, (b) a water-containing binding agent, and (c) a water-insoluble fatty or waxy substance comprising in its molecule a hydrocarbon residue of 12-22 C atoms and an hydrophilic group.  It may also include (d) further ingredients which react together exothermically.  The liquid content of the composition is substantially entirely water. Refractory (a) may be e.g. sand fire-brick, chamotte, sillimanite or alumina.  Binding-agent (b) may be e.g. a wet clay, an aqueous alkali-metal silicate, e.g. sodium silicate, or an aqueous dispersion or solution of a natural or synthetic gum or resin.  Substance (c), which may be present in a proportion of 0.05-2.0% by weight, may be a fatty alcohol, e.g. cetyl, lauryl, myristyl or stearyl alcohol, or the corresponding esters or amides.  Ingredients (d) may include, e.g. finely-divided Al and oxidizing agent therefor.  The composition may be used to form moulds and cores for foundry use.  If (b) is a silicate, a treatment by CO2 or other gas may be used to harden the composition.
Patent GB-1202898-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in panels
Inventor: SMITH ROY AUGER
IPC: B60R13/02
Filed: 1967-06-09
Abstract: 1,202,898. Panels. ROOTES MOTORS Ltd. 6 Sept., 1968 [9 June, 1967], No. 26785/67. Heading B7J. A moulded plastics panel is secured to a support member 20 by attachment means, such as keyhole slots 19, provided in an edge portion, 10, which is attached to the main body of the panel by an integrally moulded hinge 12, whereby the edge portion In may be folded to overlie that face of the panel 11 adjacent the support member 20, and thus conceal the attachment means from the other face. The edge portion 10 may be permanently fixed in its folded position, by riveting weld pips 16 through holes 17 in a flange 18 of the edge portion. The edge portion 10 is secured to the support member 20 by means of studs 22 passing through the keyhole slots 19.
Patent GB-741971-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to the power-transmission systems of motor road vehicles
IPC: B60K17/16
Filed: 1953-10-01
Abstract: 741,971. Differential and reverse gear. CORDEY, R. F. Sept. 28, 1954 [Oct. 1 1953], No. 26899/53. Class 80(2) [Also in Group XXXI] A motor vehicle final drive assembly comprises an output shaft formed in two sections 5, 6 permanently connected through differential gearing, an input element 19 concentric with the shaft section 5, an idler pinion 44 parallel to the sections, and a member 15 slidable with reference to the differential planet cage 12 so that either the cage can be locked to the element 19 for forward drive, or gear teeth 16 thereon mesh with the idler pinion 44 to provide a reversed drive of the cage. As shown, the invention is applied to a four-wheeled motor vechicle having an engine and change speed gear of the form normally associated with motorcycles (i.e. no reverse gear), the rear wheels being independently sprung and shaft-connected to flanges 7 on the shaft sections 5, 6. The drive from the change speed gear is transmitted to a sprocket 26 secured to the element 19 which carries external gear teeth 23 and internal dogs 24, the teeth 23 meshing with a gear 42 on a shaft 40 journalled in a lug 39 on a cover plate 37 of a casing 31 and the shaft 40 also carrying a gear 43 meshing with the idler pinion 44 also carried by the lug 39. An extension 14 of the differential gear cage 12 can be connected with either the dogs 24 to give the forward drive or with the pinion 44 to give the reverse drive to the rear wheels by movement of the member 15, the member 15 having a dog-engaging portion 17, the teeth 16 and an operating fork 46, and the fork 46 being controlled from a shaft 52 having an arm 51 and carried by a plate 50 of the casing 31.
Patent GB-1224073-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to a burner for a combustible gas and air
Inventor: BERRY JOHN EDWIN
IPC: F23D14/00
Filed: 1968-06-06
Abstract: 1,224,073. Burners. COVENTRY RADIATOR & PRESSWORK CO. Ltd. 6 June, 1968, No. 26912/68. Addition to 1,135,666. Heading F4T. The gas burner claimed in Claim 9 of Specification 1,135,666 also comprises a tubular shield 56 coaxial with the tubular member 29 and arranged around the outlet nozzle 54 of tubular member 29 supplying a pilot mixture of gas and air but spaced inwardly from the outlet nozzles 22 of the main gas supply. The tubular shield 56 may include a row of radially directed bores adjacent its upstream end to allow a restricted flow of main mixture to reach the pilot flame within the tubular shield.
Patent GB-387626-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to insulated electric cables
IPC: H01B7/36
Filed: 1932-09-28
Abstract: 387,626. Cables. LIVERPOOL ELECTRIC CABLE CO., Ltd. and TWEEDLE, T. H., Linacre Lane, Bootle, Liverpool. Sept. 28, 1932, No. 26940. [Class 36.] An identification strip for a cable of the kind having an insulated core enclosed within a tough rubber protective sheath is formed of non-fibrons vulcanizable material and is applied to the insulated core before or during the process of sheathing the core so that the strip is vulcanized to the inner surface of the sheath. The strip, which is preferably of rubber tape pigmented to a different colour from the sheath and bears printed &c. matter, may be disposed spirally or axially of the cable.
Patent GB-1509937-A (GB)
Title: Lasers
IPC: B23K26/06
Filed: 1975-06-25
Abstract: 1509937 Modifying laser beams CATERPILLAR TRACTOR CO 25 June 1975 [12 July 1974] 26986/75 Heading G2J [Also in Division B3]  In an apparatus wherein a beam of electromagnetic radiation is concentrated to heat a workpiece the optical path includes a reflector which causes the beam to become focused at the work station as an elongate narrow patch of light. When applied to e.g. a CO 2  laser beam which has a hollow annular cross-section the arrangement "closes" the central hole to achieve more even heating. As described (and as shown in plan view in Fig. 1) an incoming beam 12 (whose cross-section is shown at 14) is reflected from a first cylindrical reflector 22 of long focal length and whose axis is horizontal. This causes slight diminishing of the vertical height of the beam cross-section. Cylindrical reflector 23 is of much shorter focal length and has a vertical axis, whereby the beam rapidly narrows horizontally to the profile shown dotted in mirror 19. Mirror 19 is plane and reflects the light to the workpiece, by which time its cross-section is a uniform line. Mirror 19 may be oscillated slightly to scan the line over the workpiece perpendicular to its length.
Patent GB-305958-A (GB)
Title: An improved air extractor for vehicles or buildings
IPC: F24F7/02
Filed: 1927-10-12
Abstract: 305,958. Muirhead, J., and Muirhead, D. P. Oct. 12, 1927, Ventilators.-An air-extractor for vehicles and buildings comprises a straight parallel-sided uptake 10, a cowl of substantially inverted U-shape disposed symmetrically over said shaft so as to provide an air duct 9 on each side of the shaft, and an air channel 20 at each side of each duct 9. The outer walls 18 of the air channels are adapted to deflect wind currents over the air ducts. The baffle members 8 of the cowl 11 may be parallel or inclined to each other, and the walls 18 of the air channels may be curved inwards at their upper ends. The sides 7 of the uptake 10 may extend upwards from an aperture 5 in a base plate 6, and all the members 7, 11, 18 may be mounted between end plates having drainage openings 19.
Patent GB-440130-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in methods of applying light-sensitive layers to films in intermediate film television installations
IPC: C07C5/27
Filed: 1934-09-20
Abstract: 440,130. Coating webs. FERNSEH AKT.-GES., Goerzallee, Zehlendorf, Berlin. Sept. 20, 1934, No. 27079. Convention date, Sept. 22, 1933. [Class 140] [See also Group XX] Apparatus for coating film with lightsensitive emulsion comprises an air-tight storage tank 1 connected to a discharge vessel 2 by a pipe 6. The tank 1 and vessel 2 are arranged in a liquid bath 3 having an electric heater 4 and a thermostat 5. The vessel 2 is connected to the atmosphere by a light-trapped tube 7, and has a discharge nozzle 8 having a discharge slot 9 and arranged in a thick metal plate 10. The film 11 passes over a roller 12 mounted on a bracket 12<a> carried on a threaded spindle 13 provided with a hard wheel 14 for adjustment.
Patent GB-272094-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to paper or the like sheet separating and feeding machines
IPC: B65H3/06
Filed: 1926-10-29
Abstract: 272,094. Pollak, J. E., (Brehmzer, Maschinen-Fabrik, Geb.). Oct. 29, 1926. Tripping-arrangements.-In sheet-feeding machines of the kind in which the action of combing-rollers 1 is stopped when the front edge of the sheet reaches a feeler 3, the combing action is controlled by a cam 5 integral with the feeler, and by a simple lever gear 7, 11, 12, 10 provided with a pawl 9 for engaging a ratchet wheel on the roller 1 and thus releasing a clutch to stop the combing-wheel. The cam 5 has a small circular part concentric with its pivot 4 on which a roller 6 carried by lever 7 normally engages, but when the feeler 3 is moved clockwise by the sheet, the roller 6 moves on to the portion 5<11> of the cam and the combing action is stopped. The lever mechanism may cause the roller 1 to be raised off the fanned out pile 2. The mechanism is re-set by an arm f on a shaft 4 oscillated by a cam b on the driving-shaft a.
Patent GB-411145-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to electric converting apparatus
IPC: H02M7/00
Filed: 1932-10-01
Abstract: 411,145. Converting. BRITISH THOMSON-HOUSTON CO., Ltd., Crown House, Aldwych, London.-(Assignees of Willis, C. H. ; 184, Prospect Avenue, Princeton, New Jersey, U.S.A.) Oct. 1, 1932, No. 27307. Convention date, Oct. 1, 1931. Addition to 409,713. [Class 38 (ii).] In apparatus of the kind claimed in the parent Specification, for transmitting energy in either direction between D.C. and A.C. circuits 10, 11 under any desired power factor conditions, an inductive winding is interposed in the connections between the valves and the D.C. circuit, and means are provided for producing across the inductive winding an alternating potential which is a harmonic of that of the A.C. circuit. In one arrangement, Fig. 1, the circuits are interconnected through a polyphase network 12, valves 20 ....31, and windings 33, 34 of a commutating transformer 32 as shown, and the commutating transformer is excited at a harmonic frequency by means of an auxiliary valve inverting connected across the D.C. circuit. The auxiliary inverter comprises a winding 36, condenser 39 and valves 37, 38, the grids of which are excited at triple frequency from a frequency changer comprising a synchronous motor 42 energized from the A.C. circuit 11 and a synchronous generator 43 connected to the motor. For varying the power factor conditions on the A.C. circuit, a phase-shifting transformer 17<a> is interposed in the connections to the grid transformer 17, controlling the valves 20 .... 31, and the frequency changer. In a modification, Fig. 2 (not shown), the auxiliary inverter is connected in series, instead of in parallel, with the main converting apparatus In another arrangement, Fig. 3, the commutating transformer is replaced by reactors 44, 45 associated with condensers 46, 47. The latter reverse polarity whenever the current is transferred from one valve to another, so that the potential across the condensers is the third harmonic of the fundamental. In a modification, Fig. 4 (not shown) the condensers are connected so as to be charged in parallel to opposite polarity, and then discharged in series through the valves to be commutated. Specifications 219,026, [Class 38 (ii)], 347,474, and 390,184 are referred to.
Patent GB-463646-A (GB)
Title: Manufacture of condensation products from oxy-and amino-derivatives of pyrene and chrysene
Filed: 1935-10-03
Abstract: New condensation products are obtained by treating an oxy- or amino-chrysene or pyrene with an oxyaminobenzene in excess in presence of bisuphite; according to examples, 3-oxypyrene, oxychrysene, and aminochrysene are condensed with 1-oxy-4-aminobenzene to give 3-(4<1>-oxyphenyl)-aminopyrene and 2-(4<1>-oxyphenyl)-aminochrysene.
Patent GB-405927-A (GB)
Title: Hollow rubber tyre with aeration channels
IPC: B60C7/12
Filed: 1933-10-04
Abstract: 405,927. Wheel tyres. MUNDHASS, B., 100, Pestalozzistrasse, Charlottenburg, Berlin. Oct. 4, 1933, No. 27323. Convention date, Oct. 4, 1932. [Class 144 (ii).] A cushion tyre is formed with a cavity b of crescent-section which communicates by passages f, g with continuous channels d, e in the tvre-base. The channels d, e are arranged over checkvalves h, i on the wheel-rim k to obtain a cooling air-circulation, as indicated by the arrows. The cavity b may be continuous or may be divided into compartments by flexible radial partitions.
Patent GB-410004-A (GB)
Title: Driving device
IPC: F16H7/02
Filed: 1933-10-05
Abstract: 410,004. Sewing machines. FAIRWEATHER, W. C., 65, Chancery Lane, London.-(Singer Manufacturing Co. ; Elizabeth, New Jersey, U.S.A.) Oct. 5, 1933, No. 27415. [Class 112.] A driving device for a sewing-machine has a driving gear 9 on the motor shaft 8 which can be engaged with either of two gears 17, 18 coaxial with the belt pulley 16 which drives the flywheel 5 of the machine. The gears are engaged by screwing the shaft 21 in the appropriate hole 10 or 11, according to the speed required. The bracket 2 and motor frame 3 are the same as described in Specifications 182,033 and 182,057, [both in Class 112].
Patent GB-741769-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to hydrocarbon vapour burners
IPC: F23D11/44
Filed: 1953-10-06
Abstract: 741,769. Vapour burners. BATES, S. W., and ALADDIN INDUSTRIES, Ltd. Sept. 10, 1954 [Oct. 6, 1953], No. 27418/53. Class 75(1). A vapour burner of the type in which liquid fuel is supplied under pressure to a vaporizing tube 1 and in which a jet of vapour induces a flow of air through pipes 9 to mix with the vapour, has a burner head divided internally into three superimposed compartments A, B, C, the vapour and induced air being introduced into the middle compartment B, the mixture passing therefrom to the upper compartment A then to the lower compartment C and finally issuing through apertures 5 in the base 4. The burner head comprises a cylinder 2 closed at its upper end by a hemispherical cap 3 and at its lower end by the base 4 and having internal partitions 6, 7 forming the three compartments A, B, C. The vaporizing tube 1 extends through the lower compartment C to discharge into the middle compartment B. A mixing tube 10 extends from the middle compartment to the upper compartment and vertical tubes 11 extend from the upper compartment through the middle compartment to the lower compartment. Specification 682,183 is referred to.
Patent GB-1478888-A (GB)
Title: Process for rendering organic fibrous material flame retardant by dry thermal transfer
IPC: D06M13/288
Filed: 1974-06-20
Abstract: 1478888 Flame proofing organic fibre by dry thermal transfer CIBA-GEIGY AG 20 June 1974 [22 June 1973 26 July 1973] 27429/ 74 Heading DIP Organic fibre material is flame proofed by the dry thermal transfer process, the flame proofing agent being a phosphorous compound. The phosphorous compound has the formula I, wherein R 1  and R 2  each denote alkyl or halogenated alkyl (1-6C), X denotes -O or -NH- and Z denotes hydrogen, alkyl, hydroxyalkyl, halogenated alkyl or alkenyl (at most 6C) or acyloxyalkyl (1-6C in the alkyl radical), and wherein acyl denotes the radical of an aliphatic monocarboxylic acid with at most 5C. The procedure is similar to that described in Specification 1478889, as is the selection of organic fibre materials which may be treated.