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Patent GB-518607-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in fish-treating machines
IPC: A22C25/02
Filed: 1939-06-05
Abstract: 518,607. Dressing fish. ATLANTIC COAST FISHERIES CO. June 5, 1939, No. 16479. Convention date, July 27, 1938. [Class 28 (ii)] In a machine for scaling, heading and cleaning fish, the fish is advanced sidewise by a conveyer to the cutter and is positioned on the conveyer by a guide member which engages the pectoral fin of the fish as the fish is advanced, the guide member extending at an angle to the direction of feed to shift the fish across the conveyer, as the fin slides along the guide, to a predetermined position with respect to the cutter. The fishes are gripped prior to presentation to the heading knife 92 by cam-actuated jaws 30, 32, the fishes being dropped singly and manually on to a table 55 over which.the jaws, which are connected to an endless sidechain 25, sweep. The back of the fish preferably rests against the inclined corrugated face 31 of the jaw 30, so that the drag of the fish on the table moves the fish, head foremost, until the snout rests against a fence plate 53 and the head is engaged by one of a series of pins 51 spaced along an endless chain 15. The pectoral fin if stuck down on to the fish body, is separated therefrom by resiliently mounted pivoted fingers 60 which project through the table 55, the fin thus being prepared 'for subsequent engagement by an inclined guide edge 56 which pulls the fish. forward for correct presentation to the knife 92. The fin is received between the edge 56 and a plate 57 arranged beneath it. The fishes are held down on the table 55 during the operation of the guide 56 by presser bars 68 having straight bottom edges beneath which the fishes slide. The bars are freely raisable, being held down only by their own weight, and may be assisted by a pivoted arm which bears on the fishes and holds them until they are secured by the closing of the jaws 30, 32. The fishes pass from the table 55 to longitudinal wires 75 through which water jets 76 operate, from above and below, to remove the scales, the jets preferably being directed towards the head of the fish. The fishes are steadied during the scaling and heading operations by spring- pressed pivoted fingers carried by a bracket 88. The cutter 92 has a saw-edge and is so positioned, with respect to the edge 56, that the head is severed at the back of the pectoral fin along a line extending at an angle to the belly, as determined by the slope of the members 30. The removal of the head in this manner permits the greater part of the entrails to fall out of the fish, further cleaning, if necessary, being effected by water jets 98. The fishes are discharged over a plate 100 into a suitable receptacle. The jaw members 32 have projections 34 which are received in recesses 35 in the opposite jaw 30, the projections being of different lengths so that short fishes may be gripped as well as long ones.
Patent GB-373437-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to lasting shoes
IPC: A43D75/00
Filed: 1931-06-05
Abstract: 373,437. Boot-making machines. TENNANT, W. J., 111, Hatton Garden, London.-(Nollesche Werke, Komm.-Ges. ; Weissenfels, Saxony, Germany.) June 5, 1931, No. 16520. [Classes 17 (i) and 89 (iii).] Lasting and pulling-over ; Loose-nailing.-A step-by-step lasting machine is adapted to use tacks having a maximum diameter of shank and head of -7 and 2-2 millimetres, respectively. The raceway has a width of less than a millimetre and the tack holder is movable in the wiper block so that no gap exists between the holder and the work when the tack is driven, thus enabling these small tacks to be held close to the work. The holding cheeks 3 of the tack holder are pressed together by springs 4 and are pivoted at 10 to the reciprocating block I<1> carrying the wiper 6. The holder has a tail beyond its pivot co-operating with a cam 11 so that when the wiper is in its rear position, the tack holder is pressed upwardly against the tack delivery tube, but when the wiper reaches the forward extremity of its travel, with the holder in line with the driver 7, the holder can drop into contact with the work through an opening in the wiper. Specification 14453/97, [Class 17, Boots &c.], is referred to.
Patent GB-905472-A (GB)
Title: Improved writing implement
IPC: B43K23/016
Filed: 1960-05-10
Abstract: 905,472. Writing instruments. MOOJEN, L. G. May 10, 1960, No. 16537/60. Class 146 (3). In a crayon holder comprising a tubular casing 4 open at both ends and in which the crayon 5 is propelled through the tube, return movement of the crayon in the holder is prevented by a metal strip 2 formed integrally with a metal pin 1 embedded in the rear end of the crayon, the strip being longer than the diameter of the tube so that it assumes a curved contour with the ends engaging the inner surface of the tube. As the crayon is worn down by use, the strip 2 is pushed forward in the tube by a rod or the like. The strip 2 is angled at 3 in order to retain it in the wax of the crayon.
Patent GB-1356069-A (GB)
Title: Weighing machines
IPC: G01G13/00
Filed: 1972-04-11
Abstract: 1356069 Active filters AUTOPACK Ltd 4 April 1973 [11 April 1972) 16540/70 Headings H3T and H3U [Also in Division G1] An active filter (Fig. 2) comprises four operational amplifiers 15-18 each connected as a Sallen and Key circuit to act as low pass filters. The frequency response of amplifiers 15, 17 is additionally modified by a feedback circuit including emitter follower transistor TRI 1  capacitor C1 and resistors R1-R4, and transistor TR4, capacitor C10 and resistors R16, R17 respectively.
Patent GB-242686-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in illuminating appliances
IPC: F21V5/00
Filed: 1924-07-11
Abstract: 242,686. Dorey, W. A. July 11, 1924. Lantern fronts and panels.-In a lamp of the kind comprising a glass structure having a concentrating lens element 3 provided on an outward surface with concentric prisms 2 and a co-operating construction 4 having on an inward surface a series of substantially straight parallel prisms 5, the prisms 2 are formed to concentrate widely divergent rays from the light source 1 into a beam of moderate divergence and the prisms 5 are adapted to further concentrate the light in planes at right angles to, and to permit divergence in planes parallel to, the prisms 5. The members 3, 4 are preferably portions of spheres and may be formed with straight sides having flanges connected by side walls to form square, rectangular, or other panels.
Patent GB-1221394-A (GB)
Title: A dimensional conversion indicator
IPC: B23Q17/22
Filed: 1969-03-31
Abstract: 1,221,394. English/metric conversion devices. CINCINNATI MILACRON Inc. 31 March, 1969 [12 July, 1968]; No. 16857/69. Heading B3T. An English/metric conversion indicator comprises a dial 34 on the external periphery of which is provided a seal in each of the systems of units, the dial being rotatably mountable on the machine spindle 12, a body member 8 securable to a machine part 14 and a connector member 16 axially displaceable on the spindle 12 and actuable by rotation of an eccentric 40 on an indicating member 42, whereby in one position of the connector the dial rotates directly with the spindle and indicates in one of the systems of units, and in the other position of the connector the dial is driven at a speed different from that of the spindle through gearing B.C. of a gear unit 10 and indicates in the other system of units. The direct drive between the selector and dial is effected a dog clutch 22, 24 which engages the connector with an intermediate member 20 which is in turn connected to the dial by cooperating axial teeth 36, 38, which are retained in engagement by spring 35. The manual disengagement of the teeth 36, 38 facilitates the zeroing of the dial scale with the pointer 44. A plunger 32 coaxial with the spindle 12 is actuable by axial displacement to disengage the hand wheel 26, by separation of clutch teeth 28, 30 between the hand wheel and intermediate member 20. The manual drive is disengaged and inoperable when automatic operation of the machine tool is effected.
Patent GB-821585-A (GB)
Title: Improved thermoresponsive valve assembly
IPC: G05D23/02
Filed: 1957-05-28
Abstract: 821,585. Temperature-responsive actuating elements. GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION. May 28, 1957 [June 20, 1956], No. 16877/57. Addition to 815,240 [Group XXIX]. Class 64(2) [Also in Group XXIX] A thermal element for actuating a valve (see Group XXIX) comprises a housing 22 containing a deformable plug 54 of elastomeric material and thermo-responsive waxy material 60 surrounding the plug, and a rod 40 with a cylindrical surface 38, an irregular surface 64 and a tapered end 62 projecting into the plug for reciprocation therein in response to temperature variation, whereby the valve carrying housing is moved over the rod but movement is delayed by the surface 64.
Patent GB-269368-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to wind-screens for motor vehicles
IPC: B60J1/00
Filed: 1926-07-06
Abstract: 269,368. Lane, P., and Lait, A. E. July 6, 1926. Windscreens.-Relates to vehicle windscreens of the kind in which one panel at each side of the vehicle is adapted either to be supported on the vehicle side to form part of the entire sidescreen or to be turned inwards to extend across the vehicle to meet an opposing panel and thereby form a transverse or V-shaped screen for the occupants of the rear seat. According to the invention, the panels 1, when arranged to form a transverse screen, are adapted to be pivoted to the vehicle body at points 7 near one end and at their other ends to be detachably engaged with and supported by a pair of folding arms 11, 12 hinged to the rear of the front seat 8 so as to move in an horizontal plane, while the panels may be removed from the arms and supported in sockets 6 on the vehicle sides to form portions of the side screens. Whilst supported by the folding arms, either panel may be disengaged from its socket 7, and the panel and arms moved to a forward or collapsed position in order to facilitate access to or egress from the seating space. Each folding arm preferably consists of two parts 11, 12 disposed in superimposed horizontal planes, the rear part 12, which carries at its free end a depending socket 14, being longer than the forward part 11, so that the parts may be folded to lie one above the other and the sockets 14 may be accommodated between the points of support 10 of the arms.
Patent GB-170101-A (GB)
Abstract: 170,101. Cattrall, J. C. July 12, 1920. Spring surfaces.-A seat 2 rests on a plate 3 of three-ply wood or other suitable material which is adapted to slide vertically between the frame members 4, and is supported by means of simple or compound leaf-springs 5 with or without antifriction rollers 12. Sheet metal or other wear-resisting plates 8 may be attached to the underside of the plate 3.
Patent GB-1253946-A (GB)
Title: Machine for positioning articles of circular cross-section in a protector
Inventor: BAROIN GEORGES
IPC: B65B23/22
Filed: 1970-04-09
Abstract: 1,253,946. Packaging machines. RHONE-  POULENC S.A. 9 April, 1970 [11 April, 1969], No. 17024/70. Heading B8C. A packaging machine comprises a rotatable plate 1 provided with circumferentially spaced open ended compartments 6, a slotted dispenser 13 which drops an ampoule into a compartment 6, a dispenser assembly 3 which drops a container B into an ampoulecontaining compartment 6, and a pusher assembly 5 which pushes the container B over the ampoule A. The ampoule A is held axially in the compartment 6 by retractable grippers (7, Fig. 4) situated in grooves (28) in the compartment walls. The ampoules A are fed to the dispenser 13 from a shoot 10 by two feed rollers 25. The containers B are fed from a spiral 16 down a shoot 17 to the rotary plate 1, and are fed one at a time thereto by a pawl 31 carried by an arm 30 connected to the pusher assembly 5 so as to move vertically therewith. The pusher assembly 5 comprises two hollow cylindrical pushers 8 mounted on a plate 9   which also carries a piston 32 operable to detect an ampoule A in a compartment 6. If an ampoule is not present a microswitch 35 actuates a solenoid 36 to cause a member 26 to pivot from under the compartment 6 so that the empty container B falls into a rejectshoot 23. An element 33 also carried by the plate 9 forces a completed package into an outlet shoot 24. A device 4 for placing ampoule-opening files C in the packages may be situated between the dispensing assembly 3 and the pusher assembly 5. The files C are fed down a shoot 19 and picked up to a suction arm 20 which is then pivoted so that the file C is stripped from the arm 20 by a stop 29 and drops into the package.
Patent GB-830112-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in emulsifiable wax or oil compositions
Inventor: FRONMULLER GEORGE DOUGLAS
IPC: C09K23/00
Filed: 1958-05-29
Abstract: Hydrocarbon waxes or oils are made emulsifiable in water by mixing therewith equal parts of (a) glyoxalidines or salts thereof, and (b) a condensation product of a glyceride oil with mono-, di- or tri-ethanolamine or propanolamine.  Preferably a higher fatty acid is also present.  Examples of (a) are: alkyl polyamine or alkylol polyamine containing 2 to 6 amino groups reacted with higher fatty acids, e.g. stearic or coconut oil acids.  The product may be treated with formic acid, boric acid or HCl to form a salt.  The composition is substantially anhydrous and may be emulsified by simple mixing with water.  The emulsion in water may have added thereto small amounts of alkali to render the emulsions cationic, or with acid to render it anionic. Micro-crystalline or scale wax, or white oils may be used.  In examples, stearic acid is heated with hydroxy ethyl ethylene diamine or tetra ethylene pentamine and the waxy product treated with formic acid.  Equal parts of this product and of the product obtained by heating diethanolamine with crude coconut oil and a little potassium carbonate, are mixed with oleic or lauric acid, and the mixture of emulsifying agents mixed with water containing a little formic acid and poured into molten paraffin wax with agitation.  The emulsion may be further processed in a colloid mill. Aluminium acetate may be added to form a proofing composition for fabrics or paper.
Patent GB-213171-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in garment hangers
IPC: A47G25/20
Filed: 1923-07-02
Abstract: 213,171. Thwaites, C. A. July 2, 1923. Coat and like hangers. - Relates to the kind comprising a yoke or shoulder support provided with a suspending hook and fitted with a clamping piece for clamping trousers or skirts to the yoke, and consists in the provision bf spiral cone-shaped springs 5 at each end of the yoke and on its upper edge, and the provision of a second hook 13 on the suspending hook for the reception of the coat hanger. The clamping piece 7 is of the usual form operated by a loop 10 engaging recesses in the curved part of arms 8. The hook 13 is so positioned, with respect to the springs 6, that the shoulders of the coat are kept out of contact with the yoke.
Patent GB-955908-A (GB)
Title: Method of and apparatus for continuous vulcanization of long articles such as rubberhoses
Inventor: UOTANI HIROSHI
Filed: 1962-05-04
Abstract: <PICT:0955908/C3/1> An apparatus for vulcanizing rubber hose and the like comprises a U-shaped vessel having an inlet and an outlet opening which are tightly sealed by means of packings round the article to be vulcanized and a guide pulley at the bottom of the U-shaped portion, the inlet opening of said vessel being connected to the outlet of an extruder, a liquid having a high boiling point substantially filling said U-shaped vessel leaving an air space at each sealed end, means for supplying compressed air into said air space to apply pressure on the liquid and the article to be vulcanized, heating jackets provided around said U-shaped vessel and means for supplying a heating medium to the jackets.
Patent GB-220129-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to typographic casting and composing machines
IPC: B41B7/04
Filed: 1923-07-02
Abstract: 220,129. Lanston Monotype Corporation, Ltd., (Lanston Monotype Machine Co.). July 2, 1923. Single-type composing and casting machines.-Relates to die-case positioning-mechanism for machines, such as that described in Specification 8633/99, wherein the positioning-gauges are operated by a relatively small number of perforations in the record-strip. The two sets of gauge-pins B, C are operated by compressed air passing through pipes 43 under the control of two series of valves 25, which are operated singly. Each series of valves is controlled by four notched permutation-bars 17 operated by levers 18 and motors 19 connected to ports in the cross-girt 13 over which the record-strip passes. In addition to the two sets, of four positioning-ports, three ports are provided for justification. The rearrangement of the bars 17 by a signal opens a single passageway in the bars, whereby one of a series of spring-pressed plungers 31 is permitted to rise and operate the corresponding valve 25. The plungers 31 are controlled by a common bar connected to the paperfeed bell-crank. In a. modification, the notches in the bars 17 are replaced by apertures, the alignment of which permits air to pass directly to one of the pipes 43, the valves 25 being dispensed with. Specifications 17199/08 and 217,773 also are referred to.
Patent GB-851934-A (GB)
Title: Stop motion device
IPC: G01N21/89
Filed: 1957-05-30
Abstract: 851,934. Photo-electric flaw detections. EDELMAN, A. May 30, 1957 [June 12, 1956]. No. 17175/57. Class 40(3). [Also in Group VIII] Fabric, as it leaves a warp knitting machine, is examined by a scanner 10 having a lens system 19 facing the fabric and, behind the lenses, a thinly silvered mirror 20, the mirror transmitting a beam to one photo-electric cell 17 and reflecting another beam to a second photo-electric cell 18, the lenses being focused upon both cells; masks 23, 24 ensure that the cells shall "see" only closely adjacent areas of fabric, and associated means controlling a machine stopping circuit, controlle by an unbalance in the light received from the two adjacent fabric areas, ensures that the machine shall be stopped by a defect in the fabric. The apertures 27, 28, in the masks are circular, or approximately so and may each be adjustable in size, as by means of an iris. Lamps 15, 16, which illuminate the fabric, are provided with reflectors 30, 31, which also act as shields. The lamps are supplied with current via a transformer 38 and a full wave rectifier 32. The ripple, at twice supply frequency, left in the rectified current, is largely  removed by a capacitance 36 in series with a choke 33, their values being so chosen that the combination resonates at the ripple frequency; fluctuation in temperature of the lamp filaments is thus largely removed. The scanner is moved to and fro across the fabric along a rail 11 by a motor 49, the direction of which is reversed, at the end of each traverse, by a switch 63 operated by a cam plate 60 carried by the scanner. The drive from the motor is via a cord 53 led over pulleys and anchored to the scanner. Springs 58, 59 absorb shocks at reversal of traverse; and bumpers 65 absorb shock if the reversing mechanism fails. The rail 11 is supported, near its ends, on abutments 40 the height of which can be adjusted by means of screwed supports 46. By adjusting the downward pressure on each end of the rail of a screw 44, enough initial arching may be imparted to the rail spacer to neutralize the sagging due to the weight of the scanner. Specification 672,152 is referred to.
Patent GB-1433031-A (GB)
Title: Nuclear reactor safety system
IPC: G21C7/12
Filed: 1973-04-10
Abstract: 1433031 Nuclear reactor emergency control COMITATO NAZIONALE PER L'ENERGIA NUCLEARE 10 April 1973 [14 April 1972] 17219/73 Heading G6C [Also in Division H1] A nuclear reactor emergency control system embodies a safety control rod suspended by an electromagnetic assembly which comprises a plurality of electromagnets and a single, common armature, the electromagnets being arranged in pairs and each pair being arranged to be energized independently of each other pair, and only a fraction of the total number of electromagnets being necessary to hold the rod. As shown in Fig. 2 various different reactor parameters such as coolant temperature, neutron flux, fuel temperature, ratio of reactor power to coolant flow rate, are sensed by three transducers, in each case, namely transducers 10, 10<SP>1</SP>, 10<SP>11</SP> and 10a, 10a<SP>1</SP>, 10a<SP>11</SP> and the signals applied to respective meters 11, 11<SP>1</SP>, 11<SP>11</SP> and 11a, 11a<SP>1</SP>, 11a<SP>11</SP>. The outputs from the meters are supplied in pairs to logic circuits 12, 12<SP>1</SP>, 12<SP>11</SP> each of which supplies an output to a respective amplifier 13, 13<SP>1</SP>, 13<SP>11</SP> each of which supplies an output to one pair of each of three pairs of electromagnets in the electromagnetic assembly of each safety rod. In a typical such assembly (Fig. 3) six electromagnetic cores are provided and are energizable in pairs by windings 51<SP>1</SP>-56<SP>1</SP>, the windings of each pair 51<SP>1</SP>, 52<SP>1</SP> and 53<SP>1</SP>, 54<SP>1</SP> and 55<SP>1</SP>, 56<SP>1</SP> being supplied in parallel from an associated one of the three amplifiers 13, 13<SP>1</SP>, 13<SP>11</SP>. The cores are arranged on a circle (Fig. 5, not shown) so that the two of each pair are diametrically opposite, and coact with a common armature 73 secured to the safety rod. The windings are operated so that their associated cores are at saturation whereby any increase in the current in a winding does not significantly increase the holding power of the core. The holding forces of the cores are such that where F 51 -F 56  are the respective holding forces of the core and F B  the force required to hold the rod. The redundancy margin being ¢F B , one pair of electromagnets and its associated circuitry may fail or be out of use for testing or repair without shut-down occurring. The system can be modified to provide different redundancy margins. The safety rod can also be utilized for normal control purposes and to this end is movable, while suspended by the electromagnets, by a drive 4 which can be operated manually via an amplifier 14 and control 5 or automatically via an amplifier 3, control 2 and sensor 1a.