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Patent GB-993978-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to the securing of doors, windows, joists and the like
IPC: E06B1/60
Filed: 1961-09-11
Abstract: 993,978. Spiked plates. V. OLIVIER. Sept. 11, 1961 [Sept. 12, 1960], No. 32562/61. Heading F2H. An angle fitting 1 for securing a door, window 8, joist or like article to a wall 11 has its two limbs 1a, 1b connected respectively to the article and wall and concealed as by ceiling work or a sill 13, 14. The galvanized metal, synthetic resin &c. fitting has a longitudinal rib and holes 3, 4 for the fixing nails or screws 12. A spike 2 is formed on the limb 1a. A lateral member 6, Fig. 4, may be secured to the limb 1<SP>1</SP>b.
Patent GB-1190696-A (GB)
Title: Baking Method and Salt Compositions.
IPC: A21D2/02
Filed: 1968-07-08
Abstract: 1,190,696. Salt for baking. WALLACE & TIERNAN Inc. 8 July, 1968 [7 July, 1967], No. 32565/68. Heading A2B. In baking processes wherein at least flour, water, yeast and salt are blended into a dough which is kneaded, shaped and baked, the salt is employed in the form of particles coated with an edible material, having a melting point of at least 110‹F. but below the baking temperature, selected from fats, hydrogenated animal or vegetable oils, animal or vegetable waxes, and higher alkane waxes having 22-40 carbon atoms. Lecithin may also be present in the coating. Mixed with the particles may be ammonium yeast foods, dough oxidants, dough conditioning enzyme materials, and L-cysteine.
Patent GB-303820-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to textile oils
IPC: D04B35/22
Filed: 1927-07-06
Abstract: 303,820. Wade, H., (Standard Oil Co.). July 6, 1927. Divided on 303,841. Lubricants for fibres and machinery.-An oil composition for treating textile fibres comprises a refined distillate mineral oil of low viscosity, oleic acid, an emulsifying agent such as an alkali metal soap, a sulphonated fatty oil, or an alkali metal salt of a preferably oil-soluble sulphonic acid obtained by treating a mineral oil with sulphuric acid, and an antioxidant such as #-naphthol or diphenylamine. The composition, especially for application to rayon fibres, may comprise 12-15 per cent each of emulsifying agent and oleic acid, 2 per cent of #-naphthol, and a white distillate mineral oil of low viscosity. Specifications 8077/12 and 303,841 are referred to.
Patent GB-1120634-A (GB)
Title: A process for the electrophotographic production of images
Inventor: MENOLD RICHARD
IPC: G03G13/22
Filed: 1965-07-30
Abstract: 1,120,634. Printing processes. AGFAGEVAERT A.G. 30 July, 1965 [1 Aug., 1964; 8 Oct., 1964; 25 Nov., 1964], No. 32736/65. Heading B6C. [Also in Division G2] Stable electrophotographic images are prepared by subjecting a layer of photoconductor in an insulating binder on an electrically conducting support to a corona discharge either simultaneously with or after image-wise exposure so that visible or invisible irreversible chemical changes are produced at the unexposed areas of the surface of photoconductive layer by gas discharges. Visible images may be obtained by incorporating in the photoconductive layer a dye which is imagewise bleached by the gas discharges. Invisible images may be developed by (1) dye solutions, optionally containing a surfactant, (2) vapour deposition of metals (e.g. Ag or Au) or dyes, (3) precipitation, e.g. of Ag from a solution of AgNO 3 /HCHO/ NH 3 , (4) etching, e.g. with NaOH, KOH or acetic acid, or (5) treatment with first a liquid (e.g. water) which wets layer imagewise and then a dye paste incompatible with the first liquid. Exposure may be made using visible, u.v. or incandescent light. The electrode may be a point, sphere, loop or wire and may be movable; a pulsating D.C. current is preferably used. The support may be a metal e.g. aluminium or metallized cellulose acetate.
Patent GB-758706-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in picture hooks
IPC: A47G1/24
Filed: 1954-11-12
Abstract: 758,706. Hooks. KOESTLER, A. Nov. 12, 1954, No. 32869/54. Class 89 (2). An adjustable picture-hook comprises a hook-portion f slidable in a recess e in a head-portion a fixed to a well &c. by pins in holes b. Portion a has a slot d through which passes screw g by which the portions are clamped together in adjusted position. Scale i is provided to aid adjustment.
Patent GB-986834-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to respiratory masks
IPC: A62B18/02
Filed: 1962-08-27
Abstract: 986,834. Respiratory appliances. O. H. DRAGER, [trading as DRAGENWERK HEINER, & BERNH. DRAGER]. Aug. 27, 1962 [Aug. 25, 1961], No. 32886/62. Heading AST. The window of a respiratory mask is curved to form part of the surface of a cone, the apex of which is located on, or near to, the front edge of the window and the window includes a front wall, at said front edge, transverse to the cone axis. Preferably the window 1 is made of transparent synthetic resin and, in the form shown, the apex is adjacent the flattened front wall 7. The window is continued to form a major segment of the cone and has its edges bent outwards to provide a flange which is engaged in a corresponding recess in a rim 16 in the rubber face piece 14. Such a window may be fitted with a wiper blade for removing internal condensation, this being mounted on a pivot coaxial with the cone and passing through the flattened wall 7, to be actuated by an external handle. However, the mask is also preferably provided with an internal deflector 24 shaped to direct exhaled air towards the exhalation valve.
Patent GB-769345-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in the shaping of ends of hollow work pieces
IPC: B21D41/04
Filed: 1954-11-15
Abstract: 769,345. Pipe end closing; making engine push-rods. BUNDY TUBING CO. Nov. 15, 1954 [Feb. 8, 1954], No. 32963/54. Classes 83 (2) and 83 (4). A method of shaping, particularly cold forming, the end of a tubular metal workpiece or a metal workpiece having a tubular end comprises shaping the end to constricted form a, Fig. 8, positioning the workpiece W in a die 1 with part d of its constricted end portion within the die opening, and striking the end an axial blow so as to further shape it as shown at b and to upset the part d into contact with the wall of the die opening. A workpiece W, Fig. 3 (not shown), made from butt-welded tubular stock, with a plain end is moved by transfer fingers 40, Fig. 1, into a first position X wherein it is held by a pair of separable clamping die parts 1 with one end abutting against a locating surface 6 on a stop 5 and the opposite end protruding from the die 1. A first tool 11 mounted on a carrier 10 and biased by a spring 13 is then moved to engage the end of the workpiece whereby the spring 13 is first compressed and presses the workpiece firmly against the locating surface 6 and the forward end of sleeve 12 then strikes against the head of the tool causing its die cavity 16 to constrict the end of the workpiece to the shape a. The workpiece is then transferred to position Y where it is located against a surface 7 and its end upset by a second spring- loaded tool 20 into the shape b. Finally, the workpiece is transferred into position Z, located against surface 8 and its protruding end upset into semi-spherical form with increased wall thickness. Fig. 9 (not shown), by tool 30 which carries a pilot rod 35 for entering the end of the tubular workpiece to prevent it being completely closed. During both upsetting operations the die prevents the end being upset to a diameter greater than the diameter of the workpiece. The workpiece is then reversed and the opposite end thereof shaped whilst the workpiece is being located by its previously formed end, Fig. 4 (not shown). In another embodiment, Fig. 5 (not shown), the locating surface on stop 5 is plane and the front end of the die 1 is stepped with the tools 11, 20, 30 projecting from the carrier by different distances. In another embodiment, Fig. 6 (not shown), both ends of the tubular workpiece are formed simultaneously by oppositely acting tools which are not spring- loaded. The ends of the workpiece may be shaped to parabolic form. The invention is of particular use in making tubular push-rods for operating the valves of engines, particularly internal-combustion engines, the push-rod being hardened after its ends have been formed.
Patent GB-534125-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in luffing davits
IPC: B63B23/32
Filed: 1939-12-28
Abstract: 534,125. Davits. SCHAT, A. P. Dec. 28, 1939, No.; 33006. Convention date, Feb. 17. [Class 115] In luffing davits which are spaced apart a distance less than the length of the boat the face of the davit arm 13 held on the side facing the boat 12 is shaped to correspond to that of the bow and stern portions of the boat which rest against it.
Patent GB-1464031-A (GB)
Title: Energy absorbing panel structure for protecting vehicle
IPC: B62D21/15
Filed: 1974-07-26
Abstract: 1464031 Protecting vehicle passengers in accidents NISSAN MOTOR CO Ltd 26 July 1974 [24 Aug 1973] 33100/74 Heading B7B [Also in Division F2] An energy absorbing panel is secured to the inside of the passenger compartment and comprises two sheets of metal 11, 12 which sandwich a corrugated third sheet 13. If a passenger is thrown against the panel, the sheet 12 fractures along rows of apertures 15 to absorb some of the impact energy. The remainder of the energy is absorbed by subsequent deformation of the sheet 13. The sheets are fixed together by spot welds 16, and the sheet 12 may be covered with resilient material to provide further cushioning. The illustrated panel is shaped to fit round a steering column to protect the knees of the driver. However, similar panels may be provided on the instrument panel, the backs of the front seats, or on the inner sides of the doors.
Patent GB-818599-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to machines for carrying out plucking operations
IPC: A22C21/02
Filed: 1956-10-30
Abstract: 818,599. Plucking poultry. BUDD, A. G. Jan. 24, 1958 [Oct. 30, 1956], No. 33104/56. Class 28 (2). In plucking feathers gripped between a moving belt 16 and a pulley 17 an elongated aperture 7 for entering the feathers extends parallel to the tangential part of the belt and the belt and pulley 17 reciprocate along this aperture. The pulley 17 is mounted on a shuttle 21 reciprocated by crank-pin 25 and connecting rod 24. This reciprocation increases the pulling out action of the feathers. The belt 16 passes round an idler pulley 18 and also round tensioning jockey pulleys 28, 29 controlled by levers 33, 35, a swing arm 44 and springs 36 and 45 which arrangement allows the belt to be pulled out and in by the shuttle action and maintain a belt path of constant length. The plucking pulley 17 is knurled and grooved. The bird, Fig. 1, is suspended by a counterweight 12 near the plucking aperture, the operator thereby easily grinding it over the plucking zone.
Patent GB-172644-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to incandescent gas fires
IPC: F24C15/24
Filed: 1921-12-09
Abstract: 172,644. Chazard, H., and Scholak, V. Dec. 10, 1920, [Convention date]. Incandescent gas-fires are provided with a radiant surface formed of two windings of asbestos thread on a metal frame, the flame passing between the windings. The form shown comprises a metal frame d, Figs. 3 and 4, with sides d<1> having a close-wound vertical spiral e and an open-wound horizontal spiral e' of asbestos. The radiant thus formed is secured to the metal reflector a of the stove and heated by the tubular burner c beneath it.
Patent GB-847202-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to card clothing grinding devices
IPC: B24B19/18
Filed: 1958-10-17
Abstract: 847,202. Grinding. RIETER & CIE A.G., J. J. Oct. 17, 1958 [Nov. 4, 1957], No. 33232/58. Class 60. In a card cloth grinding device for mounting in rigid supports on a card frame, wherein a grinding roller 6 is rotatably mounted on a stationary shaft 7, the shaft ends are rigidly and eccentrically connected to two co-axial cylindrical bearing discs 21, 22, Figs. 3 and 4, which are each held in a desired position in an associated bearing housing 17, 25. The disc 22 rotatable through a worm-wheel 23, Fig. 4, which may be moved by a hand-operated worm 24 to swing the shaft 7 and the grinding- roller 6 through an arcuate path from K<SP>1</SP> to K". The bearing housings 17, 25, are supported within the limbs 10, 14 of pairs of rigid forked supports by three bearing faces, two 11, 12 on the inner side of one limb 10 and one 13 on the other limb 14. The grinding roller 6 is mounted on a tube 35, closed at its ends by discs 29, 30 which are supported on bearings 31, 32 on the shaft 7, and is rotated by a squirrel-case motor located within the tube 35, the stator 37 being carried by the shaft 7 and the rotor 36 by the tube 35. A short-travel traversing device, located within the grinding roller adjacent the bearing disc 29, comprises a pair of toothed wheel 48, 45, Fig. 3, mounted on the shaft 7 and in mesh with a common planet wheel 44 rotatable between collars on an axially-movable shaft 43 carried by discs 29, 41. The wheel 45 is held stationary on the shaft 7 by a pin 47 which engages a groove 46 formed in the shaft to allow the wheel to move axially during traversing, but the wheel 48 is free to rotate on the shaft and is caused to move axially during rotation by a projection 49 which engages an inclined groove 50 on the shaft effecting a reciprocating movement of the grinding roller 6. The rotation of the wheel 48 relative to the shaft 7 is achieved by a small difference in the number of teeth on the two gear wheels meshing with a common pinion e.g. if the "fixed" wheel 47 has 101 teeth and the "free" wheel 48 has 100 teeth the wheel 48 will cause one traversing cycle during each 100 revolutions of the grinding roller. The shaft 43 may be moved axially to bring the planet wheel 44 out of mesh with the wheel 48; it may be held in this position by a screw 52 if it is desired to render the traversing device in operation.
Patent GB-738251-A (GB)
Title: Bunker arrangement for coal dust and like materials
IPC: C10J3/50
Filed: 1953-11-30
Abstract: 738,251. Hopper stirring arms. KOPPERS GES., H. Nov. 30, 1953 [Dec. 8, 1952], No. 33233/53. Class 78 (1). A bunker stirring device comprises two Z-shaped arms 7 rotatably mounted close to discharge opening 21. As shown, the material enters the bunker 1 from shoot 13 and passes through opening 21 to be discharged by three screw conveyers 5. The arms 7 may be horizontal.
Patent GB-1140108-A (GB)
Title: Hydrocarbons having an improved stability
IPC: C10M169/00
Filed: 1966-07-25
Abstract: 1,140,108. Stabilized base oils. SHELL INTERNATIONALE RESEARCH MAATSCHAPPIJ N.V. 25 July, 1966 [26 July, 1965], No. 33360/66. Heading C5F. The stability of a base oil (which contains none of the additives used to form lubricating oil compositions) is improved by the addition of sodium naphthenate in a quantity equivalent to 0À0001-0À01% by weight of NaOH. The base oil is preferably a mineral oil having the viscosity of a lubricating oil. Sodium naphthenate (M.W. 250-600) may be obtained from the spindle oil-heavy distillate fraction of a lubricating oil distillate. Asphaltene impurities may be removed from the sodium naphthenate by washing with alcohol or by acidification, washing with water and filtering over earth.
Patent GB-618490-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in door and like latches
IPC: E05B55/00
Filed: 1946-11-11
Abstract: 618,490. Striking plates; door latches. MITCHELL, A. R. Nov. 11, 1946, No. 33432. [Class 44] Striking plates.-The casing and striking plate of a latch, Fig. 5, are provided with tapered ribs and grooves which come into engagement when the door is closed. The ribs 28a on the latch casing are formed on the top and bottom faces of a projecting frame 28 surrounding the bolt and run in the direction of opening and closing of the door. The striking plate comprises a casing 26 and a movable staple block 27 having projecting jaws 27a receiving between them the frame 28 on the latch casing and provided with grooves to accommodate the ribs 28a. The block is movable to accommodate for door drop &c. in the vertical direction and towards and away from the latch but is normally frictionally retained in position by a spring plate 29. The block is formed with a vertical groove to accommodate the spring 29 and to allow it to slide vertically on the spring. The spring is mounted in the staple casing so that it can slide with the block 27 towards or away from the latch. Door latches.-The spring actuated bolt 9, Fig. 1, is retractable by an outside key lock and an inside handle and there is provided a safety device to deadlock the inside handle manually operable by means located on the inner side or on the edge of the door and restorable to the inoperative position by retraction of the bolt by the outside key lock, or from the inner side by use of a key which is preferably that of the lock itself. The device comprises a pawl 17 pivoted at 16 and adapted to engage the latch actuating cams 11 and 13 associated with the inside handle and the outside lock respectively. That part of the pawl 17 engaging the cam 11 is of dovetail shape and engages in a similar shaped recess. That part engaging the cam 13 is of V-shape and engages in a V-shaped recess. Another arm of the pawl has two notches co-operating with a spring-loaded pin 19 which retains the pawl in the operative or inoperative position. The pawl is moved into the operative position by finger pressure on a sliding rod 18 whose end is in an inaccessible position on the edge ofthe door, covered by the staple casing when the door is shut to prevent inadvertent locking. The end is further protected by a thin spring strip 20. In this position the cam 11 on the inside handle' is locked by the dovetailed end but the cam on the outside lock may still be turned and will force the pawl into the inoperative position shown. The pawl may be released from the inside by a sliding bar 21 operable by a button. This is normally locked by two spring-loaded gated tumblers 22 disposed in slots in the bar 21 which are released when the key is inserted in the hole 25. A single spring 24, loads both the tumblers and urges the bar outwardly. Specification 618,492 is referred to.
Patent GB-1275218-A (GB)
Title: Transfer set incorporating colour-reaction sheets
IPC: B41M5/124
Filed: 1970-07-09
Abstract: 1275218 Cellulose ether compositions GUNTHER WAGNER PELIKAN-WERKE 9 July 1970 [25 July, 1969] 33444/70 Heading C3F [Also in Divisions B6 C5 and D2] A receiver layer in a set of colour-reactive copying sheets (see Division D2) may comprise acid-treated clay with a binder of methylcellulose, polyvinyl alcohol and polyvinyl acetate. Reference is also made to the use of other binders in the receiving layer, e.g. starch, starch ether or carboxymethylcellulose, and to the addition of up to 3% of solid acid, e.g. amidosulphonic acid, oxalic acid, maleic acid or sulphosalicylic acid.
Patent GB-907487-A (GB)
Title: Tertiary alcohols and acyl derivatives thereof
IPC: C07D213/30
Filed: 1960-09-29
Abstract: The invention comprises tertiary alcohols and acyl derivatives thereof of formula (I) in which one of the radicals R1 and R2 is a diphenylyl and the other a diphenylyl or monocyclic aryl (including heterocyclic) radical, the radicals being optionally substituted, R3 is a monocyclic aryl radical substituted by one or more groups of formula -O-A-Z (Z is tertiary amine, A is C2-7 alkylene separating O from Z by at least 2 carbon atoms), R4 and R5 are each H or alkyl, R6 is H or acyl and n is 0, 1 or 2; and salts or quaternary ammonium compounds thereof.  Preferably, <FORM:0907487/IV (b)/1> the said other radical is a diphenylyl, pyridyl or alkyl, alkoxy-, halogen- or unsubstituted phenyl, R3 is the radical (II) in which A is C2 or C3 alkylene and Z is di- C1-4-alkylamino, R4 is H or methyl, R5 and R6 are H; most preferably, one of R1 and R2 is p-R7-diphenylyl and the other the same or p-R8-phenyl or pyridyl, R7 and R8 being H, alkyl, alkoxy, halogen or halogenoalkyl, R4 is H and A is ethylene. Specific compounds claimed are 1 - (4-diphenylyl)-1-[4-(2-diethylaminoethoxy) -phenyl]-3-phenylpropanol and 1-(4-diphenylyl)-1 - [4 - (2 - diethylaminoethoxy) - phenyl] - 2-Q-ethanol wherein substituent Q is (2-pyridyl) or (4-chlorophenyl), and their hydrochlorides. The compounds of the invention are manufactured by reacting a ketone XYCO with an organometallic reagent WM+, wherein one of X, Y and W is R2, another is R3 and the third is the radical R1R4R5(C)n (c.f. formula I), M+ is the positive ion of a Group Ia metal or has the formula Met-Hal+ in which Met is a bivalent Group II metal and Hal is halogen; the tertiary hydroxyl group in the product may be acylated with an organic carboxylic acid. In examples, the said specific compounds are prepared by reaction with 4-diphenylyl-4-(2 - diethylaminoethoxy) - phenyl ketone of, respectively, 2-phenylethyl magnesium bromide, 2-pyridylmethyl lithium and 4-chlorobenzyl-magnesium chloride.  The ketone starting material is prepared by reacting the sodium derivative of 4-diphenylyl-4-hydroxyphenyl-ketone with 2-diethylaminoethyl chloride; the required ketone is in turn prepared from diphenyl and 4-methoxybenzoyl chloride (AlCl3).  The compounds of the invention may be used in admixture or in conjunction with a pharmaceutical carrier suitable for enteral or parenteral administration, and are stated to exhibit anti-uterotropic or anti-cestrogenic effects, to reduce the cholesterol level in the blood and to alter the adrenocortical hormone balance.
Patent GB-938278-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in closures for collapsable tubes or containers
IPC: G01F11/26
Filed: 1960-10-01
Abstract: 938,278. Stoppers adapted for discharging contents. G. H. P. THOMAS. Dec. 28, 1961 [Oct. 1, 1960], No. 33774/60. Class 125(3). [Also in Group XVIII] A closure for a collapsible tube 1 which permits a measured amount of the contents to be dispensed comprises a tubular valve casing 4 having apertures 6 and a ball valve 10 which is pushed toward an outlet 7, when the tube is compressed, by the contents entering through an inlet 9. Simultaneously the contents also enter the casing through the apertures 6 and are forced out through the outlet which is finally sealed by the ball valve 10, the ball valve being returned to its initial position by a pin 11 on a screw cap 3 when the cap is applied to close the tube. The ball valve may be replaced by a cylindrical member, and cross bars or pins may support the valve member at the lower end of the casing instead of a flange 8.
Patent GB-1414687-A (GB)
Title: Water-soluble pyridine mono- and diazo-dyestuffs process for  their preparation and their use
IPC: C09B29/42
Filed: 1973-07-16
Abstract: 1414687 Water-soluble pyridine mono- and disazo dyes HOECHST AG 16 July 1973 [14 July 1972] 33810/73 Heading C4P A water-soluble azo dyestuff has the structure in which D represents the radical of an aromatic or heterocyclic diazo or tetrazo component carrying at least one -SO 3 H group, R 1  is a primary or secondary amino group, R 2  is a primary, sec. or tert. amino group, -OH, ether or thioether group, R 3  is -CN, carboxylic ester, opt. subs. carbamoyl, alkylsulphone or arylsulphone radical, R 4  is H or opt. subs. alkyl, alkenyl, cycloalkyl, aralkyl or aryl, and m is 1 or 2. Prepared by diazotization or tetrazotization and coupling, the dyes give yellow, orange and red hues on dyeing or printing wool, silk, polyamide fibres, basically modified polyacrylonitrile and polyester fibres.
Patent GB-656882-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in automatic fire-arms, especially pistols
IPC: F41A3/56
Filed: 1947-12-23
Abstract: 656,882. Automatic guns. ZBROJOVKA BRNO, NARODNI PODNIK. Dec. 23, 1947, No. 33981. Convention date, Dec. 11, 1942. Addition to 539,974. [Class 119] The sliding inertia member 11<SP>1</SP> of the parent Specification is formed as a T- or U-shaped member for ready removal in a transverse direction from the space between the breech block end members 8<SP>1</SP>, 10<SP>1</SP>.