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Patent GB-569264-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in pipe couplings
IPC: F16L37/248
Filed: 1943-07-13
Abstract: 569,264. Pipe joints. ANDERSON, T. July 13, 1943, No. 11396. [Class 99 (i)] A packing ring 5 is rolled and compressed on assembly of the joint by uniform surfaces of the pipe 1 and a sleeve or socket 2 one or both of which are tapered and the joint is locked such as by a bayonet-fastening comprising a slotted sleeve 7 and pins 12. The packing sleeve and coupling sleeve are retained in and on the socket by a flange 4.
Patent GB-838452-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to fixing means in a concrete structure
Inventor: CASWELL ARTHUR HUGH
IPC: E04B1/41
Filed: 1957-04-08
Abstract: 838,452. Securing means for concrete structures. UDALLS PRESTRESSED CONCRETE Ltd. Jan. 30, 1958 [April 8, 1957], No. 11397/57. Class 20(4) Fixing means in a concrete structure 14 to which are attached articles 17 such as joists, roof decking, window frames &c. comprises a metal strip 11 having a surface exposed on the surface 15 of the structure and behind which an element of soft material 16 is located. The strip is of comparatively thin metal, e.g. 18 or 24 S.W.G. and is bent into the form of a channel having a web and flanges 13 about three-quarters to one and one-half inches wide, the flanges being splayed outwardly from the web. The strip 11 is cast into the concrete 14 with the web flush with the surface 15 behind which the soft material 16 of pulpboard, wallboard, cardboard &c. may be adhesively secured. In securing an article a hole is punched in the exposed web which is screw-threaded by the use of a self tapping screw 18.
Patent GB-114859-A (GB)
IPC: F23D99/00
Abstract: 114,859. Drakes, Ltd., and Drake, W. A. July 30, 1917. Retort furnaces.-In regenerative retort settings with a producer and regenerators situated within the arch which supports a set of retorts, the secondary air flues are arranged so that some or all of them will end in common chambers, at the exit from each of which the flow of air is controlled. The flues are also arranged so that part of the heated air may be used for primary combustion in the producer. As shown in Fig. 2, the vertical air flues of each regenerator end in a common chamber h whence the air escapes under the control of the damper w to a series of secondary air flues 10<a> &c.. of various lengths, running forward as shown in the sectional plan, Fig. 1, and delivering the heated air to the combustion chamber c, Figs. 2 and 4, at various points in its length, to burn the gas supplied from the producer 4. Part of the heated air from the chambers h is supplied through the flues 15 to the ash-pit of the producer. The waste gases pass through the horizontal flues of the regenerator, under the control of the damper w<1>, to the main flue 6.
Patent GB-580193-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or connected with fuse boxes
IPC: H01H85/20
Filed: 1944-06-16
Abstract: 580,193. Fuse boxes. REVO ELECTRIC CO., Ltd., FELTON, A. E., and CRAWFORD, A. June 16, 1944, No. 11499. [Class 38 (i)] In a fuse box the fusecarriers g with their cartridge fuses j and contact blades k are - located by an insulating partition f that is provided with wells f<1>, each accommodating a fuse; and with slots through which the blades k pass to engage the fixed contacts c. The fixed contact blades c, terminals d, and bus-bar b<1> are mounted on insulating blocks e, supported by sheet metal brackets b, to which the partition f is-screwed. A neutral bus-bar n mounted on the base a of the box is connected to the other side of the fused circuits. The box has flanges a<1> to which the lid b is secured by tongues and a fixing screw.
Patent GB-812124-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to processes for the electrical treatment of organisms
IPC: C02F1/48
Filed: 1954-04-21
Abstract: Material containing liquid containing organisms (other than anacrobic ones) in suspension, e.g. milk, is exposed to a variable electric current such that the power dissipated per unit volume exceeds a lower limit appropriate to the treated organisms, the liquid being fed to the treatment zone at an initial temperature not above 45 DEG F. above the liquid freezing-point, the treatment being continued until at least 80 per cent of the organisms are killed.  Variation in current is by applying electric pulses.
Patent GB-542506-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to foot- and like game- balls
IPC: A63B41/08
Filed: 1940-07-11
Abstract: 542,506. Footballs &c. SYKES, Ltd., W., and WYCHERLEY, W. J. July 11, 1940, No. 11548. [Class 132 (ii)] The casing of a football, basket ball &c. is formed of thirteen or more sections of which the majority are teeshaped, the remaining section (or sections) being relatively small and substantially rectangular in shape, this small section (or one of these small sections) having a vent and lace holes provided therein. The ball shown in the Figure has twelve tee-shaped sections 2 and one substantially rectangular section 3 in which the vent 4 and lace holes 8 are formed. The seams 5 joining the ends of the small section to the adjacent tee-shaped sections are arranged in close proximity to the ends of the vent 4 to reduce the possibility of the vent tearing. In modifications, two, four or six of the small sections are incorporated in diametrically opposed positions to form balls of fourteen, sixteen or eighteen sections respectively. Specification 248,171, [Class 132 (ii)], is referred to.
Patent GB-1185113-A (GB)
Title: Apparatus for Packaging Flat or Dish-Shaped Articles
IPC: B65B5/10
Filed: 1968-03-11
Abstract: 1,185,113. Packaging articles, e.g. lenses etc.; endless conveyers; grippers for handling articles. CORNING GLASS WORKS. 11 March, 1968 [10 March, 1967], No. 11678/68. Headings B8A, B8C and B8H. [Also in Division F2] In apparatus for fitting flat or dish-like articles between rows of bosses in a sheet of flexible material, e.g. for forming packages of lenses or reflectors as described in Specification 1,074,774, the articles are delivered horizontally on to a platform having means to grip and release the articles, the platform being carried on an arm which pivots through 90 degrees whilst its pivot point moves horizontally, to deposit the articles edgewise between the bosses of the sheet, the latter being supported in a semicircular configuration on an intermittently moving endless conveyer. An article, e.g. a headlight lens 21 delivered on a rotary platform 20 is transferred by an arm 24, supporting a suction chuck 26, on to a platform 136, which deposits it on to a wrapper 41, supported on a conveyer 33. The platform 136 is carried on a pivoted arm 51, Fig. 8, and has retractable fingers 137 to grip and release the articles 21. The arm 51 is caused to rotate 90 degrees and at the same time to move linearly by cam means (see Division F2), the lens being thereby brought into the vertical plane and nested by the linear movement with lenses already in the wrapper. Related cam means operates a push rod 93, 95 which retracts the fingers 137 against a spring 157 through linkage 138, 139, 153. The finger spacing is adjustable for different article sizes. The conveyer 33 is moved in steps and each article properly deposited actuates a switch (SW1), Figs. 9, 10 (not shown) through a contact (167) permitting the next cycle. However, if the article is not positioned correctly, the switch (SW1) is not tilted and the apparatus is stopped. Another switch (SW2) is actuated by the top of the articles contacting a roller (172) as they are carried on the platform 136; if no article is present, the switch (SW2) is not actuated and the stepping motion of the conveyer is stopped until another article is fed. Control over the orientation of the articles is maintained throughout.
Patent GB-1363369-A (GB)
Title: Ammonium and potassium isobutyrate as pathogen growth inhibitor  and growth stimulator
IPC: C07D499/58
Filed: 1972-03-13
Abstract: 1363369 Animal feed W R GRACE & CO 13 March 1972 11681/72 Headings A2B and A2D [Also in Division A5] A composition comprising a substrate injectable by plant and animal pathogens, for example an animal feedstuff, seed, ground cracked or whole corn, milo, peanut or cottonseed meal, wheat, or silage, contains an amount of an ammonium and/or potassium salt of isobutyric acid sufficient to inhibit the growth of said pathogens. Also present may be citric or lauric acid and sodium lauryl sulphate. The growth of pathogens in animals may be inhibited, and the growth of the animals promoted, by feeding them with the above compositions.
Patent GB-549594-A (GB)
Title: Piezoelectric crystal apparatus
IPC: H03H9/19
Filed: 1941-09-12
Abstract: 549,594. Piezo-electric crystals. STANDARD TELEPHONES & CABLES, Ltd. Sept. 12, 1941, No. 11697. Convention date, Sept. 20, 1940. [Class 40 (v)] A quartz crystal element 1 adapted to vibrate at a flexure mode frequency of low temperature coefficient dependent mainly on the length dimension L and width dimension W, is cut so that the length dimension is parallel to an X axis, and the major surface is inclined to the Z axis at an angle Ï within the ranges +38 degrees to +70 degrees or -58 degrees to -80 degrees, the ratio W/L being between .05 and 1.6. The thickness T is chosen to give the desired impedance. Two pairs of electrode coatings 10, 11 serve to energize the crystal in opposite sense to give flexure mode vibrations. The crystal may be mounted by damping at the modes between conducting pins or wires and any of the means described in Specification 467,724 may be used, Specifications 464,894 and 540,184 also are referred to.
Patent GB-847600-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in apparatus for monitoring the use of radio receivers
IPC: H04H60/32
Filed: 1956-07-18
Abstract: 847,600. Radio receiving apparatus. NIELSEN CO. Ltd., A. C. July 18, 1956 [March 16, 1956], No. 11787/60. Divided out of 847,596. Drawings to Specification. Class 40(5). The subject-matter is identical with that of Specification 847,596. Specifications 847,597, 847,598, 847,599 and 847,601 also are referred to.
Patent GB-237378-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to gas and air or like regulating and/or mixing apparatus
IPC: G05D16/18
Filed: 1924-05-13
Abstract: 237,378. Turner, E., (trading as Turner & Co., E.). May 13, 1924. Fluid-actuated valves. - A valve device for regulating and/or mixing gas and air, of the kind described in Specification 106,296, in which the valve member has ports communicating with the fluid conduits so as to constitute a combined admission regulator and a bye-pass regulator, has the valve member formed in two relatively adjustable parts and acted on by a spring or weight through a part of its stroke so that when the apparatus is at rest the valve is held in the position where the regulating ports are just about to open. The valve member comprises two cylindrical parts j, k having their closed ends connected by a bolt m. The upper part has a gas-inlet port b, an airinlet port o and a mixture-outlet port d all cooperating with similar ports in the casing, while the lower part has ports f, g communicating with the outlet conduit and the suction side of the compressor respectively. The lower part is guided and adjusted by a pair of pins p, p mounted on a rotatably adjustable cross-head q and engaging lugs on the valve member. Similarly, the upper part is adjusted by means of a square spindle o rotatably mounted in a cover o<1> and engaging a hole in a cross-piece n and the valve member. The spring t supporting the valve member is carried by an adjustable, abutment in the crosshead q. The casing is formed with a baffle u to prevent the discharge through the bye-passing passage causing a momentary back pressure against the flow of fluid from the mixture discharge port. The valve may be actuated by pressure. acting directly on the valve or on a diaphragm.
Patent GB-725865-A (GB)
Title: Coke-quenching car
IPC: C10B39/14
Filed: 1953-04-29
Abstract: 725,865. Tip-wagons. KOPPERS GES., H. April 29, 1953 [April 29, 1952], No. 11865/53. Class 103 (4). [Also in Group XII] A coke-quenching car for a horizontal coke oven battery comprises a chassis 1 for movement along the battery, a coke-container 6 adapted to be charged and discharged at the battery side and mounted to be tiltable about a substantially central axis, the container having a side wall in the form of a gate 11 which is automatically opened to discharge the coke when the container is tilted to lower the battery side thereof. The container when being charged, is tilted away from the loading so that the coke is substantially uniformily spread over the floor 10. The container has openings 16 to drain off quenching water. The gate 11 is pivotally mounted by means of arms 12 and pivots 13 carried by bearing brackets 15 connected to the end walls and pivoted at 7 to the chassis. Arms 19 carrying rollers 20 are disposed on the chassis in the path of the arms 12, so that when the container 6 is tilted to the discharge position the rollers 20 eventually engage the arms 12 and hold up the wall 11 to form a discharge opening.
Patent GB-1095220-A (GB)
Title: Novel benzdiaz[1,4]epine derivatives and a process for the manufacture thereof
IPC: C07D243/20
Filed: 1966-03-18
Abstract: Compounds of the general formula <FORM:1095220/C2/1> (wherein R1 and R2 each represent a halogen atom or a trifluoromethyl or nitro group, R3 represents a lower alkyl group, R4 represents a lower alkyl, lower alkenyl, lower alkynyl, benzyl, substituted benzyl, C3- 7 cycloalkyl or C3- 7 cycloalkyl-(lower alkyl) group and the broken lines denote optional substituents) are prepared by reacting a compound of the formula <FORM:1095220/C2/2> (wherein X represents a halogen atom) with R4NH2.  The lower alkyl, alkenyl and alkynyl groups each contain up to seven carbon atoms.  The compounds of the invention are anticonvulsants and muscle relaxants and may be administered in the form of pharmaceutical preparations containing them, with or without other (unspecified) active ingredients, together with a carrier.
Patent GB-762794-A (GB)
Title: Process for the preparation of isophthalic acid
IPC: C07C51/265
Filed: 1954-04-26
Abstract: A process for preparing isophthalic acid comprises reacting in the liquid phase at elevated temperatures metadi-isopropylbenzene with molecular oxygen in the presence of 0.1 to 10 per cent by weight of the reaction mixture of a compound of heavy metal as catalyst and benzoic acid, the ratio of the benzoic acid being in the range of 1 to 8 mols. per mol. of meta-di-isopropylbenzene. The reaction mixture may contain in addition another monocarboxylic acid liquid at room temperature, e.g. an aliphatic, especially a saturated aliphatic, monocarboxylic acid having 1 to 6 carbon atoms.  The reaction mixture may also contain water alternatively or in addition to the aliphatic monocarboxylic acid.  The meta-di-isopropyl benzene employed as starting material may be pure or may contain some para-di-isopropylbenzene, lower or higher alkylated benzenes and saturated aliphatic hydrocarbon material.  Oxidation catalysts mentioned include manganese carboxylates, e.g. derived from carboxylic acids of 2 to 10 carbon atoms, e.g. manganese cumate, cobalt cumate and octanoate, zinc acetate, mercuric oxide and vanadium oxide.  Elevated pressure may be employed, e.g. to maintain a liquid phase of the lower carboxylic acid or water.  The process may be carried out continuously.  In examples: isophthalic acid is obtained by passing oxygen into a mixture of di-isopropylbenzene containing 84 per cent of the meta-isomer, benzoic acid and manganese cumate whilst heating.  The crude product may be washed with benzene or a lower carboxylic acid, e.g. glacial acetic acid, which removes terephthalic acid, or methanol, ethanol or propanol.  The isophthalic acid may be esterified with methanol using hydrochloric, sulphuric or phosphoric acid as catalyst or it may be converted with thionyl chloride to the acid chloride and esterified (1); in a similar process water is present and elevated pressure is used (2); in a similar process to (1) caproic acid and benzoic acid are present in the reaction mixture and in an additional run cobalt cumate is employed as catalyst with benzoic acid only present (3).  The metal carboxylate catalysts are prepared by dissolving the appropriate organic acid in caustic alkali and adding to the solution a solution of the appropriate metal acetate.  Manganese cumate is so prepared and when dried, first in air and then over calcium chloride at low pressure, is more soluble in meta-di-isopropylbenzene than when oven dried.  Specification 762,793 is referred to.
Patent GB-559383-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to a tubular lock
IPC: E05C1/16
Filed: 1942-08-25
Abstract: 559,383. Latches. TRIGGS, W. W., (Yale & Towne Manufacturing Co.). Aug. 25, 1942, No. 11945. [Class 44] In a tubular mortise latch having push-piece means for co-operating With a follower to prevent retraction of the bolt by the outside handle the spring which shoots the bolt also co-operates with a member which serves to regain the push-piece yieldingly in its locking and release positions. The push-piece is automatically moved from locking to release positions when the door is slammed or the bolt is retracted by the inside handle. As described retraction of the bolt by co-operation with the striker on closing the door is against a relatively weak spring action, retraction of the bolt by either handle being opposed by stronger spring action. As shown, the tubular casing of octagonal cross-section is in two parts 11, 12 secured together at one end by pin 13 and at the other by an end plate 14 covered by the face plate 15. The bolt 16 has a stem 17 held in a sleeve 18 provided with a tail-piece 19 and is shot by a light spring 20 bearing at one end against the part 18 and at the other against a plate 21 having a conical pin 22 extending through one wall of a transverse tubular push-piece guide 24 into engagement, under action of the spring in one or other of two depressions 29, 30 formed in the adjacent face of the push-piece 25, its opposite face having a projection 31 adapted to engage, as shown in a slot 32 in the follower 33 operated by the outside handle spindle 47 and a further projection, integral with projection 31, with cam surfaces 34 adapted to engage between the cam surfaces 35 of a slot formed in the follower 36 operated by inside handle spindle 48. The followers engage lugs 42 on the limbs 41 of a U-shaped yoke the cross-bar 39 of which engages lugs 40 on sleeve 18, the yoke being urged to shot position by a compression spring 46 disposed between the cross-bar 39 and guide 24. Push-piece 25 is movable by a knob 28 shown as hexagonal in cross-section and guided in a corresponding hole in the inside handle rose-plate (not shown), and has an inclined cam surface 37 which, in the locking position shown in Fig. 1, lies in the path of tail-piece end 19a When the door is closed, bolt 16 is retracted by the striker against action of light spring 20, the yoke-piece remaining stationary and surface 19a exerts cam-action on surface 37 to restore the push-piece 25 to release position When the bolt is retracted by the inside handle follower 36 retracts the yoke-piece which retracts the bolt against the combined resistance of both springs 20, 46, and at the same time cam action between surfaces 34, 35, restores the push-piece 25 to release position.
Patent GB-968203-A (GB)
Title: Method and apparatus for chemical etching
IPC: C23F1/00
Filed: 1961-04-04
Abstract: <PICT:0968203/C6-C7/1> A method of etching a body of material to a predetermined dimension, comprising correlating the desired dimension to the corresponding apparent weight of the body in the etching medium, continuously and directly monitoring the apparent weight of the body, and automatically terminating the etching when the desired apparent weight is obtained. A slice 30 of semi-conductor material is suspended in etching solution 10 in a container 121 by means of a rod or wire 24 from one end of a balance beam 16 supporting at its other end weights 34.  The slice and/or the container is or are rotated so as to produce relative motion between the slice and solution to remove gas bubbles and avoid temperature variation. Etching liquid is circulated through the container by a pump 46, conduit 44, spout 42, annular trough 48 and conduit 621.  When the desired weight is attained, the weights 34 move downwards to close electric contacts 88, 90 in the circuit of a battery B and solenoid 80, whereupon a slide valve 68 is actuated to a left-hand position in which the etching solution is drained through an exhaust port 56, while water or other rinsing liquid is delivered to the container from a source 66. The contacts 88, 90 may alternatively be placed below the beam 16 to the left of the fulcrum 18 or above it to the right.  The container support 38 may be displaceable vertically to remove the solution from the slice 30.
Patent GB-1030734-A (GB)
Title: Latex paints comprising dispersions of modified styrene-butadiene copolymers
IPC: C09D125/04
Filed: 1963-03-27
Abstract: A paint comprises as a binder an aqueous dispersion of a copolymer of 40-60% styrene, 5-35% of butadiene and 10-35% of one or more esters of acrylic, methacrylic, maleic and/or fumaric acids.  In an example, a paint contained an aqueous dispersion of a styrene-butadiene-octyl acrylate copolymer and a pigment paste comprising water, an alkyl phenol polyglycol ether, potassium pyrophosphate, sodium polyacrylate, methyl cellulose, titanium dioxide, mica, asbestos, talc, zinc white, dolomite and a silicone oil.
Patent GB-1148044-A (GB)
Title: A method of securing fittings to motor vehicles
IPC: B29C65/50
Filed: 1966-03-18
Abstract: 1,148,044. Seaming. DRAFTEX G.m.b.H. 18 March, 1966 [3 Dec., 1965], No. 12114/66. Heading B5K. [Also in Divisions B3 and E1] A method of adhesively securing fittings to motor vehicles comprises placing a resistance wire (1), tape or mesh, sheathed with a thermoplastic adhesive (2), between the fitting (3) and vehicle (4) and melting the adhesive by passing a current through the wire, tape or mesh. Decorative or rubbing strips, stiffening plates, mirrors, lamps or name plates may be fixed to a vehicle, and the sheathed wire being positioned in a groove in the part to be fixed before this is applied to the vehicle. The sheath (2) may be of circular, triangular or rectangular crosssection, and the wire (1) may be of coppernickel alloy.
Patent GB-160096-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to multi-spindle turning, screwing and the like machines
IPC: B23B3/30
Filed: 1920-05-03
Abstract: 160,096. Spawforth, R. G. E. May 3, 1920. No Patent granted (Sealing fee not paid). Turning.-Relates to multi-spindle lathes,. screwing &c. machines, and consists in providing a single tool-carrier d having the tools g, h &c. for each work-piece correspondingly adjusted so that all are moved up to and away from their work simultaneously. reference has been directed by the Comptroller to Specification 22464/98.
Patent GB-377295-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in devices for preventing the skidding or sliding of the wheels of roadvehicles
IPC: B60C27/00
Filed: 1931-04-25
Abstract: 377,295. Vehicle wheels. WHITE. HEAD, H., 171, Sunbridge Road, Bradford, Yorkshire. April 25, 1931, No. 12264. [Class 144 (i).] Anti-skid devices arranged in series around the circumference of the wheel rim comprise flexible members 11, of indiarubber or of woven or like fabric, adjustably secured to a metal fixing-piece'2 held in position between the wheel rim and the tyre. Between the separated lower ends of the members 11 is secured a metal piece 15, which is adapted, when skidding occurs, to be jammed between the tyre and the ground. In a modification, the flexible members comprise cords passing through indiarubber tubes, which are secured to the metal fixing- piece 2.