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Patent GB-1485232-A (GB)
Title: Silver halide photographic light-sensitive member with backing layer
IPC: C09B23/00
Filed: 1975-04-18
Abstract: 1485232 Backing layer for photographic member FUJI PHOTO FILM CO Ltd 18 April 1975 [19 April 1974] 16240/75 Heading G2C A silver halide photographic light-sensitive member comprises a support having on one side at least one silver halide photographic emulsion layer and on the other side at least one dye represented by the Formula (I):- wherein Z represents the atoms necessary to form an indolenine or benzindolenine nucleus, which nucleus may be substituted or unsubstituted; R' is a lower alkyl or a lower alkyenyl group; R<SP>2</SP> represents an -OXSO 3 - group or an -N(Y)-XSO 3 - group whereof x represents an alkylene or alkenylene group, Y represents a hydrogen atom an optionally substituted alkyl group containing 1 to 8 carbon atoms or an alkenyl, aryl, acyl or -OXSO 3 -,group; R<SP>3</SP> represents a hydrogen or halogen atom or an alkyl, alkenyl, hydroxy, alkoxy, alkylthio, carboxy, alkoxy-carbonyl, alkoxycarbonylamino or acylamino group and p is 1 or 2. The layer may contain a binder such as (meth)acrylic acid/(meth)acrylic acid ester copolymers, acrylonitrile-maleic acid, vinyl acetate-maleic acid or styrene-maleic acid copolymers, cellulose acetatephthalate, hydroxypropyl methylcellulosephthalate, poly condensation products of form aldehyde and cresol, salicylic acid, p-oxybenzoic acid or p-oxyphenylacetic acid, alkali decomposition products of shellac, or alginic acid nitrate. Other dyes and pigments and other additives can also be present in the layer. Other layers can also be present on the side having the dye layer. The backing layer is of particular value when the emulsion comprises grains of average size not more than 0À1 Ám.
Patent GB-184633-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in braces or trouser suspenders and the like
IPC: A41F3/00
Filed: 1922-03-13
Abstract: 184,633. Macfarlane, G. T. March 13, 1922. Braces.-Braces of the kind comprising a single length of webbing sliding freely through a back fitting are adapted for ready conversion to a belt. The back fitting 2 carries a snap hook 3, which engages an eye 4 carrying the back tabs, and adjustable front fittings 7 on the webbing 1 having eyes 8 adapted to engage snap hooks 9 attached to the front tabs. Fig. 8 shows the braces adapted for use as a belt. In a modification, the eye 4 and hooks 9 at the back and front respectively are carried by plates sewn or otherwise attached to the trousers.
Patent GB-120721-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Ball-bearings.
IPC: F16C43/08
Filed: 1918-10-07
Abstract: 120,721. Aktiebolaget Svenska Kullagerfabriken, (Assignees of Rydbeek, P. S.). Nov. 12, 1917, [Convention date]. Ball bearings.- Ball-bearing race rings are constructed in such n way that the fibrous structure conforms to the profile of the ball race and becomes more nearly parallel to the axis as it approaches the cylindrical side of the ring, as shown in Fig. 2. The race ring is preferably also hardened by compression. The race surface may be grooved or spherical, and a shoulder may be formed at one side only of the race, as shown in Fig. 6, this form being adapted especially for magnetos and dynamo-electric machines. Specification 118,640 is referred to.
Patent GB-1224029-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to hatch covers
IPC: B63B19/18
Filed: 1968-04-05
Abstract: 1,224,029. Hatch covers. ASSOCIATED CARGO GEAR A.B. 5 April, 1968 [28 June, 1967], No. 16398/68. Heading B7S. [Also in Division E2] A side-rolling hatch cover in which at least one cover section 2 is movable in relation to coaming 1 by means of a motor-operated pulling member 4, is characterized in a driving member 9 of the motor 8 being arranged outside the coaming and on a lower level than the top of the coaming. Two sheaves 10, 11 are mounted with their top parts at the same level as the top of the coaming and are arranged one to each side of the vertical plane through the centre of driving member 9. In the embodiment shown, the pulling member 4 is a chain and the driving member 9 contains a sprocket wheel. One end of the chain is secured to point 6 of the cover section and the other end is connected to the remote edge of the cover section.
Patent GB-814234-A (GB)
Title: New sulphonyl-ureas and process for their manufacture
Filed: 1957-05-23
Abstract: The invention comprises sulphonyl-ureas of the general formula R-SO2-NH-CO-NH-R in which R is a diphenyl-(4) or 4 - phenoxy phenyl group or a naphthalene-(2) or 5 : 6 : 7 : 8-tetrahydronaphthalene-(2) group and R1 is an aliphatic or cycloaliphatic saturated or unsaturated hydrocarbon radical containing 2 to 8 carbon atoms or a saturated or unsaturated open chain or cyclic hydrocarbon radical interrupted by oxygen and/or sulphur and salts of these compounds with bases.  The compounds are made by known methods for the preparation of sulphonyl ureas and especially by the methods described in the parent Specification.  Examples describe the preparation of sulphonyl-ureas of the above general formula in which R is a n phenoxy-phenyl group and R1 is an isobutyl, n-butyl, cyclohexyl or n-hexyl-group; R is a diphenyl-(4) group and R1 is an n-butyl group; R is a naphthalene-(2) group and R1 is an isobutyl, n-butyl, cyclohexyl, b -ethylthio-ethyl, n-propyl, n-hexyl or g -methoxypropyl group, and R is a 5 : 6 : 7 : 8-tetrahydronaphthalene group and R1 is an isobutyl, cyclohexyl, allyl or g -methoxypropyl group.  5 : 6 : 7 : 8 - Tetrahydronaphthalene - 2 - sulphonyl carbamic acid methyl ester used as a starting material is made by reacting 5 : 6 : 7 : 8-tetrahydronaphthalene - 2 - sulphonamide with methyl chloroformate.  N - (Naphthalene - 2 - sulphonyl) urea is made by reaction of naphthalene-2-sulphonamide with potassium cyanate.  N - (Naphthalene - 2 - sulphonyl) N1 - cyclohexyl-isourea methyl ether is made by adding naphthalene - 2 - sulphochloride to the mixture obtained by reaction of dimethyl sulphate and cyclohexyl-urea and completing the condensation by the addition of sodium hydroxide.  N - (Naphthalene - 2 - sulphonyl) N1 - n - butylthiourea is made by treating naphthalene-2-sulphonamide with n-butyl mustard oil. Specification 595,472, [Group IV], is referred to. Specification 34857/45 open to public inspection under Section 91.ALSO:Preparations for the oral treatment of diabetes comprise a compound of the formula R.SO2.NH.CO.NHR1 (see Group IV (b)), wherein R is a diphenyl-(4), 4-phenoxyphenyl, naphthalene-(2) or 5 : 6 : 7 : 8-tetrahydronaphthalene-(2) radical and R is an aliphatic or cycloaliphatic saturated or unsaturated hydrocarbon radical of 2-8 carbon atoms, or a saturated or unsaturated open chain or cyclic hydrocarbon radical interrupted by oxygen or sulphur, or a salt thereof with a base giving physiologically tolerable salts, in admixture with a pharmaceutically suitable carrier.  The preparations suitably take the form of tablets, pills, capsules, cachets, mixtures, solutions or powders.  Many suitable active compounds are exemplified, the radical R1 being chosen from isobutyl, n-butyl, cyclohexyl, allyl, methoxypropyl, b -ethylthioethyl, n-propyl and n-hexyl groups.  Specification 595,472, [Group IV], is referred to. Specification 34857/45 open to public inspection under Sect. 91. This subject-matter does not appear in the Specification as accepted.
Patent GB-954289-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to the loading and unloading of rail-cars
Inventor: EDWARDS JOHN ANTHONY CROMAR
IPC: B61D47/00
Filed: 1959-05-13
Abstract: 954,289. Apparatus for loading and unloading rail vehicles. B. H. COLQUHOUN, F. D. THOMAS, I. M. E. AITKEN, W. J. LLEWELLYN, P. MASON, and A. U. SHIACH, [trading as BRIAN COLQUHOUN & PARTNER], and MITCHELL ENGINEERING Ltd. May 12, 1960 [May 13, 1959], No. 16490/59. Heading B8E. A loading station for a train of rail trucks comprises a length of track and a plurality of bags into each of which a truck, or a part of a truck, may be moved to permit a wheeled vehicle to be run on to and off an end, or an end of said part, of said truck. In the embodiment shown in Fig. 1, each truck 4 of a train is brought to rest on one of a series of aligned rail sections 2 which are adapted to be slewed simultaneously to bring the ends of the trucks into alignment with loading bays 9 so that motor vehicles may be driven directly to and from the trucks. The couplings 10, 11 are such as to allow automatic uncoupling and recoupling during movement of the trucks to and from the loading positions. Fig. 3 shows a modification in which the rail sections 22 are mounted on platforms 25 which are traversable laterally on rails 27 with adjacent platforms moving in opposite directions to permit motor vehicles to be driven on and off the ends of the trucks. In the arrangement shown in Fig. 4, dogs 46 on an endless chain 45 engage the rear bogies 47 on the trucks and move them from track 42 on to turn-outs 43 terminating at loading bays. In any of the above described embodiments each end of each truck may be provided with a bridging member (not shown) hinged for movement about a horizontal axis transverse to the longitudinal axis of the truck. According to further embodiments (Figs. 5 and 6, not shown) one or more turntable platforms are mounted on each truck. The trucks and loadloading bays may be of two-tier construction.
Patent GB-476650-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in air supply distributors for furnaces
IPC: F23H3/02
Filed: 1936-06-12
Abstract: 476,650. Air supply to furnaces. WAGNER, J. June 12, 1936, No. 16496. [Class 51 (i)] In an air supply distributer for forceddraught furnaces of the kind in which air distributing pipes 1 extend below the grate and are provided with transverse outlets 4 having behind them internal and external deflecting or distributing screens 6, 7 inclined in a direction opposite to that of the air current within the pipes, the outlets are extended upwardly by diverging box-like members 5 formed with outlet slots 2 of greater length than the diameter of the pipes. The front edge 8 of each slot is rectilinear and the rear edge is formed with a central projection 9 so that the slot is narrower at the centre and widens out towards each side. The central projection may extend down the middle of the inner screen 6 and the outer screen 7 may be higher in the middle than at the sides.
Patent GB-271666-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to lubricating devices
IPC: F16N7/12
Filed: 1926-07-01
Abstract: 271,666. Coulter, W. H., and Coulter, J. B. July 1, 1926. Lubricant conveyed by mechanical means.-The slideway of a stone dressing, metal planing or like machine is lubricated by rollers C carried by a spindle c extending into a lubricant container D secured in a pocket a in the underside of the moving table A by a screwed flanged sleeve c<4>. Lubricant passes from the container through holes c' to pads d held in the underside of the container and bearing against the rollers C, radial passages c<10> being formed in the rollers to allow access of lubricant to the roller axles c<11>. The rollers are pressed against the stationary bed B by a spring c<1> arranged between a nut or collar c<2> on the spindle c and an adjustable nut c<3> mounted in the sleeve c<4>, the top of which is closed by a scrolled plug c<8>. The device may be made applicable to V or inverted V-shaped slideways by inclining or bevelling the rollers.
Patent GB-769214-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to the heat control of electrically heated bodies
IPC: H05B1/02
Filed: 1954-06-04
Abstract: 769,214. Electric heating; current supply stands. PRICHARD, L. May 31. 1955 [June 4, 1954], No. 16529/54. Class 39(3). An electrically heated body, e.g. a soldering iron, is maintained at a required temperature by placing it on a current supply stand 1 with a slot in its upper part in which is inserted a bimetallic thermostat 4 which is.inserted in the heater circuit of the body, so that the thermostat is subjected to radiant heat and hot air from the iron, the hot air escaping through a gauze panel 9 at the top of the stand. The iron rests on cross members 2 on the lower part of the cast iron stand. The upper part of the stand is removable, is slotted vertically for passage of hot air over the thermostat and carries a socket 6 for the mains lead 7 and a neon lamp 11 connected across the thermostat. The stand has a perforated rear wall and perforations 10 in the sides of the upper part.
Patent GB-425293-A (GB)
Title: A method and device for regulating a propulsion motor supplied with direct current in order to adjust it to the various conditions of propulsion of a ship
IPC: H02P7/34
Filed: 1933-06-09
Abstract: 425,293. Systems for transmitting mechanical power. AKT.-GES. BROAVN, BOVERI, & CIE, Baden, Switzerland. June 9, 1933, No. 16554. Void [Abridged as open to inspection under Sect. 91 of the Acts, Dec. 11, 1933]. [Class 38 (iv)] [See also Group XXXVII] A motor 3 driving a ship's propeller, a fan, or a pump, has its field 7 varied in accordance with the armature current by means of a regulator 5. As shown, the motor is supplied from a variable voltage generator 2 driven by a Diesel engine 1, and a single controlling device may be effective first to reduce the speed of the engine, and then control the excitation of the generator.
Patent GB-1028043-A (GB)
Title: Improved knitting machine
IPC: D04B35/04
Filed: 1963-04-26
Abstract: 1,028,043. Knitting machines. EDOUARD DUBIED ET CIE S.A. April 26, 1963 [June 8, 1962], No. 16598/63. Heading D1C. In a parallel knitting machine there is, in each bed, a central needle trick 9, 10 with a trick on either side 11, 12; 13, 14 spaced at half the normal needle spacing from the central trick, succeeding tricks 15,16 on either side being at the normal spacing and the beds 1, 2 are so mounted that the tricks of one bed are opposite the spaces between the tricks of the other bed. As shown, the central tricks are occupied by straight needles 22 while the remaining tricks are occupied by needles 23 so bent that their hooks lie at half the needle spacing to one side of the tricks in which they slide, needles on opposite sides of the central needle being mirror images of one another, Fig. 2. Between the tricks there are fillets 17, 18 which end below the knocking over comb at the edge A where they have an incision E to receive the bent part of the knitting needles. Each needle 23, Figs. 3 and 4 (not shown), comprises a latch needle T joined to a transfer part R by an oblique part B. Part R comprises recesses 23e and 23g and an indent 23a. During stitch transfer from one bed to the other, the delivering needle 23, Fig. 6 (not shown), is pushed forwards until its recess 23f is adjacent the hook of the needle 22 of the opposite bed.
Patent GB-1157184-A (GB)
Title: Improved Piston and Cylinder Device
Inventor: BEECH AUSTIN SYDNEY
IPC: F16J10/02
Filed: 1967-04-11
Abstract: 1,157,184. Pistons and cylinder liners. AUSTIN S. BEECH & CO. Ltd. 4 March, 1968 [11 April, 19671, No. 16632/67. Heading F2T. A piston 9 for a pneumatically-operated valve or switch is a matched fit in a cylinder liner 4 which is mounted in a manner permitting a small degree of radial and axial float. The piston and liner may be made of hardened stainless steel. The liner is mounted with a radial clearance and between resilient cushioning pads 6, 8 with the interposition of a sealing ring 7. As shown, the piston is moved to the left by compressed air supplied through a port 13 and is returned by a spring, a plunger 14 serving as a manual override. The vent port 17 is fitted with a filter.
Patent GB-1392673-A (GB)
Title: Process and apparatus for removing mercury from waste water
IPC: B26D3/00
Filed: 1973-04-06
Abstract: 1392673 Adsorbing mercury with anthracite SOBIN CHEMICALS Inc 6 April 1973 [10 April 1972] 16714/73 Headings C1C and C1A [Also in Division B1] Metallic and/or dissolved mercury is removed from water by contacting with finely divided anthracite coal (e.g. 2<SP>7</SP>/ 16  inch to 0À1 mm.). Alkali borohydride may first be added to the water to reduce Hg ions to the metal before passing the water through a first stage filter which is preferably a pressure leaf filter pre-coated with diatomaceous earth or cellulose. The water is then passed to the anthracite coal which may be in the form of a bed where adsorption may take place, and optionally may then be passed to a bed of chelating resin to adsorb remaining ions. Prior to treatment with alkali borohydride and/or prior to chelation, the pH of the water may be reduced by addition of HCl, H 2 SO 4  or H 3 PO 4 .
Patent GB-467702-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to the attachment of stick-on rubber soles to boots and shoes
IPC: A43B13/32
Filed: 1936-06-16
Abstract: 467,702. Rubber soles. STOWE, J. H. June 16, 1936, No. 16721. [Class 17 (iii)] Small plates A, Bare affixed by nails at the toe and waist of a rubber sole to reinforce the adhesive attachment of the sole to the shoe, the plates seating on a peripheral flange on the sole.
Patent GB-219018-A (GB)
Title: Stopper guard for barrels and other containers
IPC: B65D39/08
Filed: 1924-07-11
Abstract: 219,018. Kruppa, E. July 11, 1923, [Convention date]. Stoppers secured by key locks.-The screw plug a of a barrel or other container has a groove c round its projecting part in which engage projections d on the two halves b<1>, b<2> of a hinged cap, adapted when its two halves have been locked together to rotatably engage the plug so as to prevent tampering.
Patent GB-1211178-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to the selective heating of an area of a plastics material
IPC: B29C35/02
Filed: 1969-03-31
Abstract: 1,211,178. Sheet forming. SOBREFINA S.A. 31 March, 1969 [20 May, 1968], No. 16760/69. Heading B5A. [Also in Division D1] A device for differentially heating or cooling an area of a sheet 7 for subsequent forming comprises a heated or cooled backing plate 5 to which is secured a heat-conductive body 1 having a stem 3 and an enlarged head having a convex sheet contacting surface 4 and tapering edges 2. Due to the difference in length of conduction paths from the backing plate to the surface various regions of the surface 4, the area of the sheet contacted by the surface 4 will have, in the case of a heated backing plate, a central hotter area, and in the case of a cooled backing plate, a central cooler area.
Patent GB-1073310-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in a device for the stepwise feed of band-shaped record supports
IPC: G11B15/20
Filed: 1965-04-21
Abstract: 1,073,310. Feeding webs. AKTIEBOLAGET ATVIDABERGS INDUSTRIER. April 21, 1965 [April 21, 1964], No. 16773/65. Heading B6B. [Also in Division G5] Apparatus for step feeding a record tape between a store coil 21 and a take-up coil 23 comprises a pair of tape clamp members 16, 16<SP>1</SP> between which is disposed a feed plunger 5 operating at right-angles to the tape. The clamps and the plunger are electromagnetically operated and are supplied from a circuit, Fig. 4 (not shown), which issues a sequence of control pulses when triggered during operation of the arrangement by a single stepping pulse. These control pulses in turn operate clamp 161, release clamp 16 and operate the plunger to increase the size of the tape loop between the clamps then operate clamp 16 and release clamp 16<SP>1</SP> and the plunger so that the take-up coil draws the tape forward by one step. The plunger 5 when unoperated is positioned such that the tape follows a curved path between the two clamps. Springs 22, 22<SP>1</SP> compensate for the jerk in the tape.
Patent GB-355384-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in internal combustion engines using wobbler or swash-plate driving gear
IPC: F02B75/26
Filed: 1930-05-30
Abstract: 355,384. Two-stroke engines. BRAMSON, M. L., 7, St. James's Street, London. May 30, 1930, No. 16790. [Classes 7 (ii) and 7 (vi).] In a swash-plate engine the shaft 3 is hollow and acts as a receiver for air or mixture delivered by double acting pumps 16 driven off a swash plate. As shown, pairs of oppositely moving pistons 4 work with common combustion chambers ; the pistons controlling the exhaust ports 5 have a lead over those controlling the inlet ports 6. When used on an aeroplane the propeller is placed on the right end of the shaft as shown to balance its thrust, and the left-hand pistons are made of larger diameter than those to the right hand. Specification 350,521, [Group XXVI], is referred to. Cylinders, cooling.-Ethylene glycol is used as a high-temperature cooling fluid. Valves.-The admission to and delivery from the pumps is controlled by the ported end of the shaft which is divided into two chambers by a partition 28 and baffles 31, 32.
Patent GB-552075-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to safety locking gear for lifts, hoists and the like
IPC: B66B1/08
Filed: 1941-12-31
Abstract: 552,075. Lifts, operating. PRESTON, P. Dec. 31, 1941, No. 16834. Addition to 541,255. [Class 78 (iii)] The invention of the parent Specification is modified by applying the interconnected master handles to the operation of the switch of an electric lift &c. instead of to the control of the through-running cable, chain &c. of a hydraulic lift. The switch-gear comprises a rockable quadrant 4 bearing against a spring-pressed contact 5 and adapted to be brought against either an " up " contact 6 or a " down " contact 7. A polygonal recess 25 receives a similarly shaped part of the handle shaft, stops 32 limit the lateral rotation of the quadrant and a biasing spring 10 returns it to the medial "off" " position when the handle is removed. A detent 14 is forced up, against the action of a spring 16, into a notch 18 for retention of the quadrant in said position, and this can be released only by insertion of a master handle into a recess 25 in a rockable cam 21. The tip 19 of the detent 14 rests in recesses 22 on the cam 21 both in its up and down positions, and stops 23, 24 limit the rock of the cam. The handles can be removed, for insertion into the two gate locks, only when the quadrant 4 is in the "off" position and the detent 14 in locking engagement with the notch 18,
Patent GB-495578-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to electric apparatus comprising one or more electric heating devices
IPC: F24C7/08
Filed: 1937-06-17
Abstract: 495,578. Heating by electricity. BERRY, A. F. June 17, 1937, No. 16878. [Class 39 (iii)] An electric apparatus comprising one or more electric heating devices is provided with visible means for indicating when the apparatus is connected to the supply mains and giving a further different visible indication when the electric heaters are connected. In an electric heater of the type described in Specification 476,636, a green glass marble 2 is mounted in front of a pilot lamp 1. A movable part of a switch 5, which closes the circuit of the heater 6, is connected to an arm 8, pivoted at 9, so that when the switch is closed a red coloured slide 10 is moved between the lamp 1 and marble 2 to modify the light indication. Specification 266,421, [Class 39 (iii)], also is referred to.
Patent GB-867914-A (GB)
Title: Rotary cylinder swash plate pump or motor
IPC: F04B1/24
Filed: 1957-05-28
Abstract: 867,914. Liquid-pressure engines. WIGGERMANN, G., and REINERS, W. May 28, 1957 [May 29, 1956], No. 16888/57. Class 69 (2). [Also in Group XXVIII] A liquid-pressure swash-plate engine comprises a rotating disc 3 on each side of which are arranged a cylinder block 7 having axial cylinder 8. The cylinder blocks are rotatable on journal members 2 either or both of which are provided with passages for the flow of liquid to and from the cylinders. The pistons are mounted in bearings in the disc 3 which is provided with passages 24 to allow liquid to flow from one cylinder to its corresponding cylinder in the other block thus equalizing the axial thrust on the disc. The disc is supported peripherally in the housing and may also be supported by the journal members. The journal members may be formed separate from the end caps of the housing and may be adjustable through racks and gearing to vary the stroke of the pistons. Various embodiments are described for the bearings of the piston in the disc and corresponding pistons in each block may be interconnected as in Figs. 8-10 (not shown).