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Patent GB-222929-A (GB)
Abstract: 222,929. Haddan, R., (Postage Meters & Machines Co.). July 4, 1923. Counters actuated by revolving mechanism; associated counters; numeral-bearing elements.- In meters for registering the number of operations of a machine, and more particularly for use with a postal franking machine as described in Specification 170,058, [Class 100 (ii), Printing processes &c.], means are provided to indicate when the counting mechanism has been reset, the numeral " 1 " being displayed in line with the " 0 " of the highest numeral wheel. Means such as described in Specification 223,141 may be provided for locking the numeral wheels of the counter when a predetermined number has been counted and for locking the counting mchanism when the meter is removed from the machine. The mechanism is arranged in a two-part casing 1, 2, secured by bolts, and a frame 3 in the part 2 supports the two counting mechanisms 50 - - 54 and 56, 57, and the pinion 9 which drives the units wheel 50. The pinion 9 which is mounted on a shaft 7 receives its movement through a clutch member 8 adapted to engage a similar member in the machine. The units and tens of cents wheels comprise gear wheels 50<a>, numeral drums 50, and one toothed disc 50<b>, and co-operate with transfer pinions 62 on a shaft 61 having alternate long and short teeth. The units, tens, and hundreds of dollar wheels 52, 54 are similar to the cent wheel but in addition carry notched discs 52<c>, 54<c> that co-operate with projections 14<u>, 14<t>, 14h on a pivoted spring-controlled plate or locking member 14, and so arranged as to lock the numeral wheels in their zero positions. The numeral wheel 54 is provided with a shield 55 mounted on a sleeve 54
 carrying a one-toothed disc 54<b> and forming an integral part of the wheel 54. The sleeve 54
 has a flange 54<e>, on which is engraved the numeral " 1 " in line with the zero graduation of the numeral wheel. The sleeve 55 has an annular flange 55<a> with a notch 55<c> which can be turned so as to expose the numeral " 1 " ; this movement of the sleeve causes a lug 55<b> on the opposite side to cover the notch of the disc 54<c> so as to prevent the entry of the projection 14<h> of the locking member 14. The extent of the rotational movement of the sleeve 55 is limited by a pin and slot connection, Fig. 15. The first operation will cause one-tenth of a revolution of the wheel 54, and will conceal the numeral " 1 " and uncover the notch of 54<d>. The totals counter 56, 57, which is similar in construction to the counter described above, is arranged to add instead of subtract, and its units wheel is actuated by the single toothed disc 54<b> integral with the highest numeral wheel 54 of the counter 52, 54. To prevent tampering with the numeral wheel a pawl 10 is provided to prevent backward rotation thereof, and a catch 11 prevents forward rotation when a lever 6, co-operating with the locking member 14, is rocked, since the lever 6 no longer forms a support for the arm 11<b> of the catch.
Patent GB-263067-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to small-arms of the drop-down barrel type
IPC: F41A19/54
Filed: 1926-09-10
Abstract: 263,067. Etablissements Braekers Soc. Anon., and Francart, R. Sept. 10,1926. Breech actions, drop-down barrel.-The firing- spring bears with one limb 13 against the cocking lever 3, at a point between the pivot 7 thereof and the end 11 acting on the tumbler 1, and with the other limb 15 against a lever 19 engaging the underside of the barrels, so that the spring tends to open the gun when the locking holt is released. As shown, the lever 19 is pivoted on a prolongation 20 of the hinge pin of the barrels and its end projects through an opening 17 in the top of the breech body. The cocking lever has a slot 23 surrounding the pivot 20.
Patent GB-1170205-A (GB)
Title: Sight-Testing Apparatus.
Inventor: FREEMAN HARRY
IPC: A61B3/032
Filed: 1968-05-10
Abstract: 1,170,205. Sight testing apparatus. RUDOLF RODENSTOCK [trading as OPTISCHE WERKE G. RODENSTOCK]. May 10, 1968 [May 10, 1967], No.22364/68. Heading G2J. A sight testing apparatus for testing near sight comprises optotypes or other test figures and an optical distance measuring device for measuring the distance between the optotypes or figures and the position of a person under test and so constructed as to form an image at the position of the person under test. As shown in Fig.2 a three sided box 4, one side of which faces the person to be tested and carries optotypes, letters or the like, contains an optical system comprising a light source 90 which emits light which is reflected by mirrors 10 and 12 through lenses 13 and 14 on to the forehead 15 of the person under test. The mirror 10 is fixed and the mirror 12 is rotated by means of the worm gear mechanism 16 attached to the shaft 17 mounted in the tubular handle 6 so that the two reflected beams can be made to intersect on the forehead 15, the distance being measured by pointer 9 on shaft 17 cooperating with a fixed scale. In further embodiments a scale with large widths of the graduations is projected in such manner that the graduations whose numbering corresponds to the distance of a sharply defined image from the apparatus shows up sharply or a line from one beam is arranged to intersect the scale image.
Patent GB-689652-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in pails and like hollow articles
IPC: A47J47/18
Filed: 1950-09-12
Abstract: 689,652. Making buckets &c. BABLIK, H., and BABLIK, H., [trading as BRUNNER VERZINKEREI BRUDER BABLIK]. Sept. 12, 1950 [Feb. 10, 1950], No. 22443/50. Class 83 (ii). [Also in Group XVII] Substantially identical half-bucket side blanks 1, 2 are cut from sheet-metal, each top corner of each blank having a hook-like lug 6, and these are seamed together in alignment with the main side-seams 18. An annular groove 10 is impressed round the opening 9 for the handle of the bucket 1 and claw-like extensions 14 of the grooves extend into the walls of the bucket. Alternatively, a complete ear, not in line with the seam, may extend integrally from each blank. The blanks are alternately reversed in the material 3 as shown in Fig. 3, to save material, and the lugs 6 are derived from the waste segments 7.
Patent GB-381278-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to electric relays
IPC: H01H53/10
Filed: 1931-08-08
Abstract: 381,278. Electromagnetic relays. JACKSON, L. MELLERSH-, 28, Southampton Buildings, London.-(Vereinigte Eisenbahn-Signalwerke Ges. ; Siemensstadt, Berlin.) Aug. 8, 1931, No. 22515. [Class 38.(v).] Relays for use more particularly in railway signalling systems are provided with a vertically arranged supporting plate, the relay terminals being distributed on this plate in such a manner that the moving parts of the relay within the casing may be observed through transparent portions or windows formed in the supporting plate. As shown in Fig. 1, the electromagnets 1 are supported by brackets from the vertical insulating supporting plate 8 and the armature is carried on a spring-supported insulating member which carries movable contact fingers 5. The terminals and fixed contacts 9, 11, 14 are supported in the plate 8 and connections 13 between terminals and movable parts on the relay consist of blade springs made of conducting material. In a similarly arranged induction disc relay, Fig. 2, the parts are similarly supported by the vertical plate 8, the disc 17 driving a toothed segment 19 linked at 22 to the movable contact structure. A motor relay Fig. 6 (not shown), may also be similarly arranged. In order that the moving parts may be conveniently observed from outside the relay casing transparent windows 23, 24 are formed within the supporting plate 8 as shown in Fig. 3. Alternatively, portions of the plate 8 may be formed of transparent material.
Patent GB-974005-A (GB)
Title: Document feeding apparatus
IPC: G06K13/05
Filed: 1961-06-22
Abstract: 974,005. Feeding sheets &c. INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION. June 22, 1961 [July 14, 1960], No. 22586/61. Heading B6B. [Also in Division G4] Apparatus for feeding documents having magnetizable material affixed thereto along a support member, comprises a feeding member which engages the documents to exert a frictional feeding force, and which is provided with at least one magnet which assists the feeding of the documents by virtue of the magnetic attraction between the documents and the magnet. As shown, a feed roller 1 of non- magnetic material on a rotatable shaft 2 has a number of equally spaced bar magnets 3 embedded radially therein. The documents to be fed are punched cards 4 on a support 5, and the cards are either provided with steel strips completed embedded therein, or they bear marks of a magnetizable material attached to their surface. The cards are guided by a plate 6 towards the roller 1, and are stripped from the roller by a plate 7. In a modification, the feeding means comprises an endless flexible belt of magnetizable material guided on rollers, and the belt is magnetized at intervals on its surface to form equally spaced magnets.
Patent GB-842813-A (GB)
Title: A process for the preparation of liquid cleaning concentrates and liquid cleaning compositions
IPC: C09K23/00
Filed: 1958-07-15
Abstract: Liquid cleaning concentrates, particularly suitable for cleaning aircraft, are obtained by mixing, suitably at 50-60 DEG C., in any order (a) one or more oil-soluble amine soaps of a fatty acid, triethanolamine oleate being preferred, (b) hydrocarbon oil, suitably an oil free from aromatics, such as spindle oil, gas oil, kerosene, or gasoline, (c) one or more alkali-metal salts of a sulphodicarboxylic acid dialkyl ester, sodium dialkyl sulphosuccinate being preferred, (d) one or more fatty acid polyglycol esters, preferably a mixture of two oleate esters having average molecular weights of about 550 and 2500, (e) one or more alkaryl polyglycol ethers, preferably a monoalkylphenol polyglycol ether, and (f) water, the respective proportions of (a)-(f) present, expressed as percentages by weight of the aggregate of (c), (d), (e) and (f), being 100-25% of (a), 50-200% of (b), 28-42% of (c), 25-35% of (d), 15-25% of (e), and 12-18% of (f).  The mixture is suitably adjusted to pH 7 \sB 0.4 by the addition of monomethanolamine or monoethanolamine and is then allowed to ripen at room temperature, i.e. below about 35 DEG C., for several days in the absence of light, after which any sediment is seprated.  Before use, the concentrate is diluted either with 9-10 volumes of an organic solvent, suitably a mineral oil fraction, or with 20 volumes of water.  For special uses, the diluent may consist of aromatic or chlorinated hydrocarbons.  The cleaned surfaces are afterwards rinsed with water.
Patent GB-716433-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to combined heat and power supply systems
Inventor: BARR JOHN CHARLES
IPC: F01K23/06
Filed: 1951-09-28
Abstract: 716,433. Gas turbine plant. POWER JETS (RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT), Ltd. Aug. 29, 1952 [Sept. 28, 1951], No. 22753/51. Class 110(3) A combined heat and power supply system comprising an air compressor which discharges through a heater to a gas turbine delivering useful power and a steam raising boiler having a combustion chamber to which combustion supporting gas is supplied from the turbine exhaust, the exhaust gases of the boiler being used to supply at least in part the heat required at normal load in the heater, has a by-pass around the turbine and a further combustion chamber supplying additional heat to the heater fed with combustion supporting gas by the turbine arranged so that the steam and power requirements may be varied independently. Air supplied by a compressor 2 is heated in a heater 3 and then expanded in a turbine 4 driving the compressor. The exhaust from the turbine 4 is passed to a boiler 6 where it is used to support'the combustion of fuel fed through the pipe 7. The exhaust gases from the boiler pass through the heater 3 and the feed water heater 8 to atmosphere. Water is supplied to the boiler 6 from a pipe 10 and the resulting steam is used in a turbine 11 which assists the turbine 4 to drive the compressor 1 and generator 14. The exhaust steam is used in a process shown at 12 from which wet steam or water is recovered and returned via a condenser, where necessary, to the feed water heater 8. Make up feed water is supplied by a compressor driven evaporating still comprising a compressor 15, an evaporating chamber 16 and a heating coil 17. The compressor 15 maintains a low pressure in the chamber 16 and if this chamber is first heated, vapour is formed which is drawn off by the compressor. This vapour is further heated and compressed by the compressor 15 and discharged through the coil 17. The work put in by the compressor 15 maintains the operation of the system. The condensate may be led away or passed into the feed pipe 10. If the demand for steam falls when the demand for electricity is maintained, the fuel supply to the burners 7 is reduced and at the same time a combustion chamber in either of the positions 19, 20 is started up. If the demand for power falls, the turbine 4 may be bypassed by opening the valve 22. In a modification, a combustion chamber 24 which may be put into or taken out of operation is placed between the heater 3 and turbine 4. In another modification, the compressor is arranged in two stages with an intercooler between them and the compressor driving turbine is arranged in two stages with a reheater between them. The steam from the boiler may not necessarily be used in a turbine.
Patent GB-1076558-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to piston-type compressors
IPC: F25B31/00
Filed: 1965-05-28
Abstract: 1,076,558. Jointing by stamping. DANFOSS A.S. May 28, 1965 [June 1, 1964], No. 22758/65. Heading B3Q. [Also in Division F1] The components of a reciprocating piston compressor, Fig. 2 (not shown), are connected by means of an aluminium band (22) which is placed around the components and is itself surrounded by an electromagnetic coil which when energized forces the band into gripping contact with the components.
Patent GB-852062-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in phonographs
IPC: G11B3/085
Filed: 1955-08-08
Abstract: 852,062. Automatic gramophones. HANSEN, H. C. Aug. 13, 1956 [Aug. 8, 1955], No. 22818/55. Addition to 805,964. Drawings to Specification. Class 40 (2).  The description is the same as in the parent Specification but the claims are directed to the form of the cam-disc grooves. Specifications 757,303, 788,053, 801,174, 852,061, 852,064 and 852,065 also are referred to.
Patent GB-719351-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to methods and apparatus for producing wrapped articles
Inventor: BRANDENBERGER JACQUES EDWIN
IPC: B65B51/02
Filed: 1952-09-12
Abstract: 719,351. Packaging-machines. SOC. LA CELLOPHANE. Sept. 12, 1952, No. 23021/52. Addition to 656,535. Class 94 (i). [Also in Groups V and XXX] In producing individual wrapped bars of chocolate, &c., from a flat tube filled with plastic chocolate, &c., as in the parent Specification the cut-off ends of the bars are coated with a sealing substance, which may be applied to both ends simultaneously. The tube passes into a cooling tunnel 34 where it is pressed between endless steel bands which feed it forward to nipping and indenting mechanism 37 to mark out the individual bars. The continuous string of bars then passes between smoothing bands 38 in a cooled chamber 39 to flatten them, as in Specification 719,367, and then to cutting mechanism 43 as in Specification 719,366. The individual bars then proceed end on, against an abutment 123 which has a slit to protect the cut-off end. Rotated 'arms 125 sweep each bar along a curved guide 128 through 90 degrees on a table 124 to feed them now broadside on to a chain conveyer 127 with fingers 132, Fig. 4 (not shown). The bar then passes between sealing wheels 145 supplied with wax, &c., as in Fig. 8 so that both ends are sealed simultaneously. The sealing wheels 145 have grooves 146 supplied with wax, &c., by discs 149 partly submerged in wax in a reservoir 147 heated by thermostatic electric heaters 148. Scrapers remove excess wax from the wheels. All the mechanisms are driven from a main shaft with hand controlled adjustments to give accuracy in their timed relationships. Specification 640,375 also is referred to.
Patent GB-411325-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to variable speed transmission
IPC: F16H57/04
Filed: 1933-08-18
Abstract: 411,325. Lubricating variable-speed gearing. REO MOTOR CAR CO., 1331, South Washington Avenue, Lansing, Michigan, U.S.A. Aug. 18, 1933, No. 23113. Convention date, Oct. 17, 1932. [Classes 12 (ii) and 12 (iii).] A transmission gear casing C is divided into two parts by a partition K. One part houses normally stationary parts, such as gears H, H<1>, H<2>, on a countershaft F, and the other part houses constantly rotating parts such as a drum J enclosing centrifugally controlled planetary gears acting as an automatic gearshifting mechanism. A small aperture N connects the two parts of the housing C and a rib L<1> is formed on the upper wall M. When the transmission gear is idle the lubricant levels on both sides of the partition K are the same. When the gears are rotated the drum J throws lubricant against the rib L<1>, which directs it into the housing part containing the countershaft F. The level of lubricant in the housing part containing the constantly rotating parts is thus kept low so that little churning-up of the oil occurs. A part of the lubricant thrown by the drum J falls into a channel O and is led to lubricate the parts within the drum J.
Patent GB-1255401-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to circuit-breaker tripping means
Inventor: CHRISP GEORGE FRANCIS
IPC: H02H9/02
Filed: 1969-05-07
Abstract: 1,255,401. Protective arrangements. A. REYROLLE & CO. Ltd. 31 July, 1970 [7 May, 1969], No. 23250/69. Heading H2K. An A.C. tripping circuit for a circuit-breaker 10, e.g. in a 250 MVA 11 kV A.C. system, comprises an A.C. trip coil 12 in series in the line protected by the circuit-breaker, and a saturable reactor 13 in parallel with the trip coil 12 to protect the latter from damage by fault currents. The reactor may comprise a stack of insulated laminations of annular form surrounding a single straight bar conductor clamped alongside the trip coil.
Patent GB-1093318-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to sewing machines
IPC: D05B81/00
Filed: 1966-05-25
Abstract: 1,093,318. Sewing machines. HUSQVARNA VAPENFABRIKS A.B. May 25, 1966 [May 26, 1965; Aug. 30, 1965], No. 23278/66. Heading DIG. A lock stitch sewing machine comprises a member movable to a position adjacent the path of a needle to prevent concatenation of the needle and looptaker thread. As shown, a zig zag sewing machine has a swinging needle 10, and a shuttle of the kind described in Specification 725,349 with a fixed supporting plate 38 for an oscillating member 35 having a loop-seizing beak 37. A pin 45, passing through an aperture 44 in plate 38, is rigid with a knob 46 and a finger 43 slidable on respective sides of plate 38. Manipulation of knob 46 to shift pin 45 to the right hand side of aperture 44 positions finger 43 adjacent the path of needle 10 at the left hand end of its swing, whereby thread concatenation is effected only at the right hand end of the swing. The stitch length of the straight seam thereby produced may vary from twice the normal stitch length, to six times the normal stitch length when cam means swing the needle to the left only once for six needle penetrations. The longer stitch length is used for basting. In a modification a finger (52), Fig. 7, carried by a lever (54), is spring-biased to position the finger adjacent the needlepath. A follower on lever (54) co-operates with a cam (57) rigid with a ratchet wheel (60) actuated by a pawl (62) on the feed bar (50), whereby a cam lobe swings lever (54) to shift finger (52) from needle-blocking position at each fifth needle penetration.
Patent GB-1504920-A (GB)
Title: Fabricating moulded brassiere pads
IPC: B29C51/14
Filed: 1975-05-28
Abstract: 1504920 Moulding brassiere pads MOLDEX/ METRIC Inc 28 May 1975 [28 May 1974] 23320/75 Heading B5A In a method of preforming a seamless brassiere pad, a sheet of fibrous batting material comprising short polyester fibres randomly packed and bound with an acrylic resinous binder, is shaped and stretched by a conical plunger 52, Fig. 6, from the surface of which pins 53 extend. The pins progressively engage the sheet as the plunger moves upwardly whereby progressively more stretch is imparted to the sheet in the direction away from the apex. The preformed pad is then heated and pressure moulded in a two-piece mould. The fibrous sheet may be a laminate of two sheets stuck together with an auxiliary piece therebetween.
Patent GB-289322-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in sharpeners for knives or other blades
IPC: B24D15/08
Filed: 1927-09-06
Abstract: 289,322. Gibbons, K. M. Sept. 6,1927. V-slot sharpeners.-A knife &c. sharpener con. sists of members 5 rotatably mounted in a holder 1 and provided with flanges or threads 8 of V-shaped cross sec tion, the sides 9 of the flange being inclined to the axis of the member at about 70‹, and an intermediate face 10 being inclined at about 20‹. The members are held in the holder by a screw engaging in the central recessed part of one of the members. A guide piece 4 is provided for use when sharpening scissors.
Patent GB-186510-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to drop hammers
IPC: B21J7/44
Filed: 1921-09-02
Abstract: 186,510. Brett, B. Sept. 2, 1921. Power hammers.-Drop hammers for use with multiple dies k have a cast-iron anvil a with an upper part b of steel rigidly connected to the guide-posts d. Guide-strips for the tup h may be arranged on the posts so that they can be adjusted laterally by longitudinal movement on the posts as by screws i. The posts are of H-section and incline inwards towards the top and the strips g are of wedge shape so that their inner faces are parallel.
Patent GB-143123-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to sealing apparatus
IPC: B43M1/00
Filed: 1919-09-24
Abstract: 143,123. Lindahl, A. Sept. 24, 1919. Sealing.-Apparatus for melting and applying sealing-wax, &c., comprising a tube 1 containing a stick of the material and heated electrically or otherwise, is provided with means for controlling the outlet, consisting of a ball valve 5 closed by a spring 9 and opened by contact of a projecting pin 7 against the envelope, &c. Two plates 3, 8 notched peripherally for passage of the melted material are fixed in the lower end of the tube 1. The valve is guided by a second pin 6 passing through central holes in the plates, the spring 9 being attached at one end to the pin 6 and bearing at the other end under the upper plate 3.
Patent GB-453479-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to power operated valves
IPC: F16K31/04
Filed: 1935-03-06
Abstract: 453,479. Electrically - actuated valves. STRUCKMAN, E., 97, Copse Hill, Wimbledon, London. March 6, 1935, No. 23514/36. Divided out of 453,430. [Class 135] A self-contained unit 53 for operating a valve of the kind which is opened by the depression of a plunger 54 against spring action is carried by and supported from the valve casing 9 and comprises a lever 52 engaging the plunger 54, a cam or crank for depressing the free end of the lever, and an electric motor x which rotates the cam or crank through reduction gearing. The lever is pivoted at 56 and carries an adjustable tappet 55. The cam, as shown, is formed as two pins 57, 58 on a crank disc 59. The pin 57 is nearer the driving shaft 62 than the pin 58 and in advance of it in the direction of operation so that the valve is partly opened by the pin 57 first to release the pressure tending to seat the valve. The shaft 62 carries a further disc with two projecting blocks which make contact with pairs of concentric arcuate strips on a stationary disc in such a way that one block leaves one pair of strips when the valve reaches the open position, so breaking a valve-opening circuit whilst the other block simultaneously joins the other pair of strips in a valve-closing circuit. The two circuits are controlled by a two-way switch under the control of an automatic rotary timing device such as described in Specification 453,430.