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Patent GB-1218012-A (GB)
Title: Drilling apparatus
Inventor: WILLOUGHBY SIDNEY
IPC: B23Q16/04
Filed: 1967-01-03
Abstract: 1,218,012. Machine tool details. BOULTON PAUL AIRCRAFT Ltd. 30 Jan., 1968 [3 Jan., 1967], No. 304/67. Headings B3B and B3C. A drilling machine for cross-drilling ports 54 in the recess 48 of a cylinder block 47 comprises a drill head 4, slidably mounted on rods 3, secured to column 1, and a work support 21. Head 4 has a balance weight 6, and the drill 19 is driven from the spindle 11 of a radial arm drilling machine on which the column is mounted, via gears 13-17. Work support 21 is secured to the table of the drilling machine, and comprises a table 24 having rollers 25, 26, which slide on guides 22, 23. Two pairs of work supporting rollers 27, 28, are mounted on the table 24, and the cylinder block is located by a fixed end stop 31, and a clamp 32. The latter comprises a bracket 33, a plunger 35 slidable in the bracket having a bayonet groove 39 which co-operates with a peg 38, a pad 43 on the plunger for engaging the end of the cylinder block, and a projection 44 for engaging in the cylinder bores so as to locate the latter after indexing. Table 24 is locked in the required position by clamps 45. Before a cylinder block is mounted in position for drilling, a spigot 49 is detachably fitted into a hole 51 in table 24, which is located on base 21 by a locating pin 53, and the base is adjusted on the machine table so that drill 19 is located in the bore 52 of spigot 49. Pin 53, and spigot 49 are removed, the cylinder block is clamped on table 24 with projection 44 entering a cylinder, pin 53 is inserted, and the hole 54 is drilled. The cylinder block is indexed into each drilling position. The gears for driving the drill may be replaced by bevel gears, or a roller chain.
Patent GB-103482-A (GB)
Title: Telephone System.
IPC: H04M9/00
Filed: 1917-01-06
Abstract: 103,482. Aktieselskab Elektrisk Bureau. Jan. 15, 1916, [Convention date]. Intercommunication systems.-The telephone instruments of a calling-station are connected to the leads of a selected station by means of a relay which is energized only if the desired station is free. The relav may control a local circuit for giving an audible signal to a calling-party if he attempts to call a busy line. Fig. 1 shows a system for three stations, the three pairs of leads at the bottom of the Figure being connected to the springs of the selecting-keys N<1>, N<2>, N<3> and relays R<1>, R<2>, R<3>, as indicated by the branch wires 1, 1', 2, 2<1>, 3, 3<1>. If party I desires to call station II, he depresses key N<2>, thereby, if station II is free, closing a circuit for relay R<1> over lead 2<1>. back contact d of relay R<2>, inductive resistance D and series contacts p, m of keys N<3>, N<1> at station II. Relay R' connects the telephone instruments T, J to the leads 2, 2<1>. The depression of the ringing- key K closes a circuit for the bell A at station II over lead 2. On the removal of the receivers T, the switch-hooks G close local circuits for the microphones M, and line circuits through the telephones T and leads 2, 2'. If, during the conversation, a party III attempts to call station I, his relay R<3> is not energized, as its circuit is open at contact m of key N<2> at station I. Similarly, if party III tries to call the called station II, his relay R<3> is connected in parallel .with the relay R<1> of station I, and receives insufficient current to energize it, although this current is sufficient to maintain relay R' energized. On the depression of his ringing-key, party III receives an audible signal from a buzzer V, the circuit of which is closed by a contact e of relav R<3>. In a modified arrangement, this busy signal may be given by the ordinary bell.
Patent GB-1507230-A (GB)
Title: Package strapping tools
IPC: B65B13/02
Filed: 1977-03-21
Abstract: 1507230 Strap tensioners GERRARD INDUSTRIES Ltd 21 March 1977 [6 Jan 1976] 00318/76 Heading F2G A package strapping tool comprises a base member 2 and an overlying plate 6 between which one strap portion is held fixed, a second strap portion after location of the strap about a package passing between the plate 6 and a toothed wheel (not shown) rotatable with a drive-shaft 17 by actuation of a handle 28 acting through a pawl mechanism 29 so as to tension the strap, reverse rotation of the toothed wheel being prevented by further pawls (not shown) the handle 28 including a torque wrench which is operable to interrupt the drive to the toothed wheel when the tension in the strap reaches a desired value. A lever 52 is also provided to operate a seal applying and crimping and strap severing device.
Patent GB-656418-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to packaged anodes for cathodic protection
IPC: C23F13/02
Filed: 1949-01-05
Abstract: 656,418. Preventing corrosion. DOW CHEMICAL CO. Jan. 5,1949, No. 337. Convention date, Jan. 7, 1948. [Class 123(i)] A packaged anode for cathodic protection systems comprises an inner waterpermeable sack 11 closed near the bottom by a transverse seam 14 spaced above the bottom, and an outer water-permeable sack 12 enclosing the inner sack 11 and secured along its bottom to the bottom of the inner sack at 16. The anode 6, e.g. of magnesium, zinc, or aluminium, is accommodated in the inner sack 11 and has a conductor 8 for connection to the pipe to be protected, the space between the two sacks being filled with a suitable backfiill 10. The top of the two sacks is then tied. The inner sack may be of cotton net, and the outer of muslin or canvas.
Patent GB-876252-A (GB)
Title: Electric dry shavers
IPC: B26B19/42
Filed: 1960-01-05
Abstract: 876,252. Dry shavers. SPERRY RAND CORPORATION. Jan. 5, 1960 [Jan. 5, 1959], No. 338/60. Class 131. A dry shaver has a skin-contacting roller adjustable, in a direction normal to the skin, to suit different beards and fixable in any position of adjustment. As shown the roller 24 is mounted in ears 23 projecting from a plate 20 slidable on the inside of the wall 14 of the casing 12, and interconnected by a tongue 37 and pins 38, which pass through aligned apertures 34, 32, 40, 35, 33, 41, with a slide 36 on the outside of the casing and a tensioned spring plate 39 by which the plate and slide are resiliently held to the casing and retained in adjusted position. Horizontal movement of the slide 36 exposes indicia 46 through a window 44 and advances or withdraws the roller 24 by virtue of the inclination of the slots 33. A roller 24 may be provided at each side of the cutting head and may be hollow, corrugated and detachable as disclosed in Specifications 809,702 and 876,251. Smooth surfaced rollers 31 may be mounted in the end walls 15, 16 of the casing 12 which preferably forms a removable pocket collecting the hair cut by the detachable cutting heads.
Patent GB-546532-A (GB)
Title: Flexible shaft couplings and the like
IPC: F16D3/62
Filed: 1941-01-13
Abstract: 546,532. Flexible couplings. HUMPHRIES. H. B. P. Jan. 13, 1941, No. 436. [Class 80 (ii)] A flange D' on one shaft is coupled to a flange D<SP>2</SP>. on the other by a battery of nested coaxial gapped springs R<SP>1</SP> ... R<SP>4</SP> of which the innermost and outermost are formed with lugs L<SP>1</SP>, L<SP>2</SP>, M<SP>1</SP>, M<SP>2</SP> the intermediate springs being of lesser length and without lugs. The lugs L', L<SP>2</SP> engage an abutment B<SP>1</SP> on the flange D' and the lugs M', M<SP>2</SP> a lug B<SP>2</SP> on flange D<SP>2</SP>. Mutual approach of the lugs may be restricted by the springs themselves and the outboard movement by stops S. A number of such spring batteries may be used as units spaced around a pitch circle as in Fig. 4. Roughly half of each end of the spring is formed with a lug, the lug on one end facing a blank part of the other end. One set of lugs may be fixed firmly in the rim of one coupling flange and the other end arranged to engage with a degree of freedom in the manner of gear teeth in the other rim. To assist assembly, the rim edge may have a removable segment where the engagement of the lugs takes place. The springs shown in Fig. 4 may be reversed, i.e. the lugs may be engaged towards the centre of the coupling. Specification 163,990, [Class 80 (ii)], is referred to.
Patent GB-877370-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to a method of manufacturing plates having high neutron capture cross-section characteristics and improvements in nuclear reactor control rods including such plates
IPC: G21F1/12
Filed: 1960-01-06
Abstract: 877,370. Reactor control rods; radiation absorbing materials. BABCOCK & WILCOX CO. Jan 6, 1960 [Jan. 9, 1959], No. 461/60. Class 39(4). [Also in Group XXII] A plate having a high neutron absorption is made by making holes in a metal strip, filling the holes with material of high neutron captive cross-section and rolling the strip so that the holes and their contents have an elongated cross-sectional shape as shown in the Figure. Several such plates may be joined to form a cruciform control rod. Several rows of holes may be made so that the neutron absorbing parts overlap after rolling, forming a plate suitable for neutron shielding, Fig. 6, not shown. The plate may be of stainless steel, carbon steel or Al, containing B, Cd, Hf or their compounds. Gaseous products of neutron absorption are absorbed or released by using a porous metal strip or porous closures for the holes or by putting porous material in the ends of the holes before the holes are sealed.
Patent GB-1111362-A (GB)
Title: A damping centering bearing for a rotating shaft
IPC: F16C27/02
Filed: 1967-01-04
Abstract: 1,111,362. Bearings. COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE. 4 Jan., 1967 [24 Jan., 1966], No. 474/67. Heading F2A. A damping centring bearing for a vertical shaft B, Fig. 1, has a stationary casing 4 having a bore 6 therein which forms a recess coaxial with the shaft B; a damping element 10 comprising a sleeve 12 with an anti-friction lining 13 of P.T.F.E. for example, and a radiallyoutwardly directed flange 14 provided with layers 16, 18 of anti-friction material; a disc 20, made of steel for example, which is urged by a spring-washer 22 towards a flat surface 8 of the recess formed in the casing 4; and has a resilient ring 24, of rubber for example, which is secured to the periphery of the flange 14 of the damping element 10 and which abuts the bore 6 of the casing 4. The compression of the spring- washer 22 is adjusted by means of a screwthreaded ring 26 which is received into a tapped bore 28 of the casing 4, the ring 26 being locked in position by a looking-sorew 30. Heat which is evolved is removed by the contacting surfaces of the damping element 10 and the casing 4. In a modification, a resilient ring 24<SP>1</SP>, Fig. 2, is interposed between a member 14<SP>1</SP> and a sleeve 12<SP>1</SP>; and metallic braiding 32 forms a heat-bridge between the sleeve 12<SP>1</SP> and a casing 4<SP>1</SP>. In another modification, the resilient ring 24 is toroidal shaped and double spring washers 22 are used. 1,111,380. Brake pads. BUDD CO. 18 Nov., 1966, No. 51707/66. Heading F2E. A disc brake pad assembly  comprises at least one pad 15 of brake lining material bonded to a sheet 17 which is compressible in a direction normal to the working face of the pad(s) 15 and is substantially inextensible in a direction parallel to the working face of the pad(s). In the construction shown the sheet 17 is of woven brake lining material. The sheet and pad assembly is releasably attached to a shoe-plate 10 by a plurality of studs 11 arranged in spaced apart pairs along the length of the shoe-plate (Fig. 1, not shown) and each pair having aligned apertures. Wires 13 are passed through the aligned aperture, the wires being forced into grooves 18 in the sheet 17 to hold it firmly against the shoe-plate.
Patent GB-1177531-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Footwear.
Inventor: TUSA JOHN
IPC: A43B23/00
Filed: 1967-01-04
Abstract: 1,177,531. Boots, &c. BRITISH BATA SHOE CO. Ltd. 1 Jan., 1968 [4 Jan., 1967], No. 498/67, Addition to 1,119,663. Heading A3B. An article of footwear of the type described in Specification 1,119,663 which includes a compass is also provided with a pocket accessible from the outside of the article when being worn. As described a boot 7 is provided with pockets 5 arranged at both sides of the ankle, each pocket 5 being closed by a flap 9 secured by a stud fastener 10.
Patent GB-286412-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in record magazines for talking machines
IPC: A47B81/06
Filed: 1927-01-07
Abstract: 286,412. Gramophone Co., Ltd., and Buckle, H. L. T. Jan. 7, 1927. Magazine gramophones.- Consists of improvements in. the record magazine in a gramophone of the kind described in Specification 188,787, wherein a number of records are arranged at an inclination in a magazine above and to one side of the turntable, and are discharged singly by gravity, on to the turntable. The magazine comprises a platform 6 having downwardly extending flanges 7 at the front and rear edges, and flanges 8 which extend both upwardly and downwardly at the sides. Lazytongs 9, connected to the side flanges 8, support the platform, and enable it to be depressed close to the motor-board 1 or to be raised as shown. A spring clip 12, 16 pivoted to the underside of the platform, and adapted to engage with a fixed bar 15, holds the platform in raised position. Beneath the platform 6, a plate 18 is pivoted on a transverse rod 19, and carries at its outer end two posts 22 which tend to pass upwards through holes in the platforms, spring 21 acting on the plate 18 for this purpose. The posts 22 form ahutmentis for the records, which are 'thereby retained in the magazine. At each side of the platform is .a lever 24, pivoted on the rod 19, a rod 26 joining these levers extending across the magazine directly over the posts 22. The rod 26 has two downwardly extending pins 27 engaging the upper ends of the posts 22. The length of these pins is slightly greater than the thickness of a single record, but less than that of two records, and as the weight of the parts 26, 24 is sufficient to depress the posts 22 against the action of the. springs 21, when the rod 26 rests on the top record of a pile in the magazine, all the records are retained by the parts 22 except the top one, which is held somewhat in advance of the others by the pins 27. During the working of the machine, a cradle 3 is automatically raised about an axis 4 when a new record is to be fed to the turntable, and lifts the levers 24 together with the rod 26 and pins 27. The uppermost record is thus freed, and slides on to thb cradle 3, which afterwards lowers it on to the turntable. When the rod 26 again descends on to the records, the one then at the top moves into engagement with the pins 27, ready for delivery.
Patent GB-645202-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to lubricating compositions
IPC: C10M133/06
Filed: 1948-01-09
Abstract: Amine fluoborates of formula RxABF4, where R is an amine and x is 1 or more, are prepared by interaction of an amine with a fluoborate such as ammonium fluoborate.  Amines mentioned are aniline, diethylene triamine, 3-di-n-amylaminepropylamine, monoethanolamine, phenylethanolamine, aminoethylethanolamine and nitron (1,4-diphenyl-3,5-endoanilino-4,5-dihydro-1,2,4-triazole).ALSO:A lubricating composition comprises a major proportion of hydrocarbon oil and a minor proportion of a fluoborate RxHBF4, where R is an amine and x may be 1 or more. The hydrocarbon oil may be of natural or synthetic origin. Fluoborates mentioned are those of diethylene triamine, nitron, aniline, aminoethylethanolamine, 3 - di - n - amylaminopropylamine, monoethanolamine and phenylethanolamine. From 0.5 to 5 per cent of the fluoborate is preferably used. Additives, such as extreme pressure additives composed of chlorine-, sulphur- or lead-containing compounds, may also be added.
Patent GB-327208-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to compound piston rings or stuffing-box packing rings
IPC: F16J9/16
Filed: 1929-01-09
Abstract: 327,208. Hemmingsen, T. V. Jan. 9, 1929. Piston packing.-Packing comprises two or more rings, each composed of two or more segments. Each segment has at the middle a lateral flange d engaged by the recessed and outwardly-springing ends 'of the segments a<1>, a<2> of the adjacent ring. Dissassembly of the packing is prevented by a hook engagement e between the flanges d and the ends of the segments.
Patent GB-933955-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to the manufacture of reinforced concrete
Inventor: DRUCKER RULDOLF
IPC: F24D13/02
Filed: 1959-01-09
Abstract: 933,955. Heating reinforced concrete structures by electric resistances. G.K.N. REINFORCEMENTS Ltd. March 30, 1960 [Jan. 9, 1959], No. 824/59. Class 39 (3). A method of manufacture of a structural element of moulded concrete comprises embedding therein metal reinforcement consisting wholly or in part of a substantially rectangular mesh of resistance wires comprising parallel longitudinally-extending wires 1 spaced apart and interconnected as by welding to parallel, spaced-apart transverse wires 2, and thereafter passing electric current through the longitudinal members 1 of the mesh to heat the concrete and thereby reduce the curing or setting time thereof while it is in the mould. The structural element may be a floor, wall or ceiling. As applied to the floors of rooms 3, 4 and 5 of a building, a mesh is laid as shown to provide sections 9, 10, 14, 15, 16, 20, 21 and 25 connected by bunched groups 13, 17, 18, 19, 22, 24 and 26 of longitudinal wires 1 which are connected at their ends to terminals 7 and 8 to allow subsequent use of the mesh as a floor-heating element. Current can be supplied to individual sections of the mesh during moulding by removable clamp connectors applied at the points 13, 17, &c. The mesh may be pre-formed on an automatic machine which provides transverse wires 2 in the positions where required in the final structure, and rolls up the mesh for delivery to the mould site. Alternatively, pre-forming may consist in the removal of selected transverse wires 2 from a uniform mesh.
Patent GB-100221-A (GB)
IPC: B63G8/08
Filed: 1916-01-18
Abstract: 100,221. Electric Boat Co., (Assignees of Spear, L. Y.). March 30, 1915, [Convention date]. Motor power plant, comprising reciprocating engines and electrometors, comprises plant for submarine and other vessels adapted to act economically at all speeds so as to increase the effective radius of action. Main and auxiliary internalcombustion engines 9, 12 and main and auxiliary dynamos 11, 13 are fitted, the arrangement being such that, for high speeds, each propeller shaft 8 is driven by the main engine 9 alone, and for low or cruising speeds, the shaft 8 is driven by the main dynamo 11 only supplied with current from the auxiliary dynamo 13 driven bv the auxiliary engine 12. For intermediate speeds, the clutch 14 is opened and the circuits of the dynamos 11, 13, so that the engine 9 drives the dynamo 11 to supply current to the motor 13, which drives the aircompressor 15 direct and the water pump 17 through gearing. Pipes 22, 23 supply respectively compressed air and cooling-water for the main motor 9. Clutches 10, 14, 16, 19 allow the connexion or disconnexions of the various motors.
Patent GB-570887-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in gas pokers
IPC: F24B15/00
Filed: 1944-01-17
Abstract: 570,887. Fire igniting burners. NEWMAN, M., and CLAY, R. S. Jan. 17, 1944, No. 893 [Class 75 (i)] [Also in Group XIV] A tubular gas burner 6 for igniting fires is fitted with a nozzle 8 having a small circular orifice formed by two cones meeting at their apices so as to give a narrow elongated flame which may be directed on to the fuel. After the fuel surface has become red hot the gas supply is momentarily interrupted and then burns only at the fuel surface. The burner may have a lug 7 by which it may be secured by a bolt 4 and wing nut 5 to a split clamp block 3 adjustable vertically on a rod 2 which is fixed on a base 1 placed in front of the fireplace.
Patent GB-748769-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to containers for blocks of volatile material
IPC: A01M1/20
Filed: 1953-01-12
Abstract: 748,769. Disinfecting device. NEW HYGIENE, Ltd., and MACKEWN, A. R. Jan. 12, 1953, No. 906/53. Class 81(1). A container for a block of volatile material, at least one wall of said container being formed of a single thickness, has a cut in said one wall defining a flap which is arranged to be bent outwardly from the container to provide suspension means therefor and to leave an aperture in said one wall of the same size and configuration as the flap, to serve as an egress for vapour from the block. As shown, a container comprises a front 10 and back 11 of stamped sheet metal having marginal flanges to hold the front and back together securely but easily detachable so that a block 18 of volatile material may be inserted when required. Perforations 12 are provided in the front and back. The front 10 is formed with a cut 13 extending at its ends nearly to the margin of the flange so as to define a flap 14 formed with keyhole slots 15 and 16. Slot 15 contains a rubber sucker 17 having its cup side outwards. In use, a sealing wrapper (not shown) is removed, the sucker 17 pulled outwards and the flap 14 thereby bent into position for the sucker 17 to engage a wall surface, or for the keyhole slot 16 to engage a nail or hook. In a modification (not shown), lateral extensions on the flap leave corresponding slots exposing the volatile block within the container when the container is in use. In another modification (not shown), the arrangement is such that the flap may be bent through 360 degrees.
Patent GB-585254-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to domestic fireplaces
IPC: F24B1/183
Filed: 1945-01-11
Abstract: 585,254. Hot water boilers. NEWTON, CHAMBERS, & CO., Ltd., and MORRIS; A. E. Jan. 11, 1945, No. 959. [Class 64 (i)] [Also in Group XI] In a .fireplace, as shown in Specification 585,253, having an open grate and a flue passing below and behind the boiler, the boiler is provided at the back with discontinuous aligned fins 10 which lie in the direction of gas flow and extend completely across the flue. Each fin tapers upwards tc minimise the soot-retaining surface. The Provisional Specification states that the fins may be continuous.
Patent GB-959588-A (GB)
Title: Carton blank feeder
IPC: B65H3/22
Filed: 1961-01-10
Abstract: 959,588. Feeding sheets. M. B. RASMUSSON. Jan. 10, 1961 [Feb. 1, 1960], No. 963/61. Heading B6B. Carton blanks 14 are separated sequentially from the top of a stack 13 and pulled upwardly along guides 22 to the nip of a pair of rotating feed rollers 31, 32 by needles 62 on a carriage 51 which is reciprocated by a piston rod 48 secured to a piston in a cylinder 47 supplied with compressed air or other fluid. The cylinder 47 is pivoted to brackets 43, and can be swung into the inoperative position 49. The needles 62 are secured by screws 63 in a rectangular block 61 having stub axles freely mounted in the carriage 51 and secured to end wheels 57, 58: limited rotation of the wheels and block is allowed by stops 64, 66 on the carriage. The stack 13 is contained on a support 12 by a rear stop 26, side guides 18, and triangular front guides 22 which provide inclined faces 23 along which the blanks are guided to the rollers 31, 32. In operation, on the commencement of a feeding stroke, the wheels 57, 58 rotate by frictional engagement with the top blank 14 against the stop 64 and the needles pierce the blank: thereafter the blank is pulled along the stack until the front end is gripped by the feed rollers 31, 32. The rollers pull the blank at a fast rate, thus rocking the block 61 against the stop 66, so that the needles release the blank. On the return stroke of the carriage 51, the wheels 57, 58 slide along the top blank to starting position. The feed roller 32 is driven by chain and sprocket means from a motor, and the roller 31 is spring-urged downwardly. The blanks are fed by the rollers to a folding station 7.