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Patent GB-343884-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to coin-controlled vending machines and the like
IPC: G07F11/16
Filed: 1929-11-14
Abstract: 343,884. Coin-freed article-delivery apparatus. GREENWALL, M., Long Copse, Bookham, Surrey. Nov. 14, 1929, No. 34753. [Class 27.] Articles stored in piles.- The lowest packet in a magazine 26, Fig. 1, is pushed out through an opening 39 in the machine casing by a delivery member 27 slidably mounted on a carrier 24, which slides on rods 25. The carrier is moved' by a crank-arm 36 which is actuated in the delivery direction, after the insertion of a coin, by hand or by a motor, and which is returned by a spring 38. The member 27 is raised behind the packet by arms 29 fast on a spindle 28 mounted in the carrier when a further crank-arm 31 in the spindle 28 engages a fixed stop 32. -The member 27 is held in its raised position by a gravity detent 34 engaging the arm 31. At the end of the forward delivery stroke of the carrier, the arm 31 engages a fixed stop 33 to lower the member 27, the detent 34 being released by a pin 35 thereon engaging an upper cam surface on the stop 33. The front wall of the magazine 26, which is cut away to allow the passage of the bottom packet, is normally closed by a shutter 40 actuated by arms 42 fulcrumed at 34. The arms 42 are rocked against the action of springs 44 by the carrier 24, when this reaches its normal position, to close the shutter. An additional shutter 45, Fig. 4, moves down under its own weight behind the opening 39. This shutter is raised to permit the passage of a packet by movement to the right of a plate 48 having inclined slots 47 in which pins 46 on the shutter engage. The plate is moved by a bell-crank lever 51 which is actuated by a projection 56 on a plate 54 pivoted at 55 and rocked by the carrier 24 engaging its lower edge. Unauthorized opening of the shutter 45 is prevented by a projection 59 on the plate 48 engaging the projection 56 of the rocking plate. Fraud, preventing.-To prevent a packet from being withdrawn by a wire or the like inserted through the opening 39 when the parts are in delivery position, three fingers 60 pivoted at 61 are raised by leaf springs 62 on the carrier 24 to project into the path of the next packet. Reference has been directed by the Comptroller to Specifications 17631/04 and 26030/08, [both m Class 27, Coin-freed apparatus &c.].
Patent GB-430026-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in route indicators for passenger carrying vehicles
Filed: 1933-12-12
Abstract: 430,026. Electric signalling systems. POLLARD, J., 87, Thorneywood Lane, Nottingham. Dec. 12, 1933, No. 34951. [Class 40 (i)] A route-indicator comprises a casing having a plurality of separate and individually lighted compartments each fronted by a translucent display panel. The panels may be separate plates each slid in at the front of a compartment, or may be all on one sheet fixed by press studs or other means to the rear of the display windows. The compartments are selectively illuminated by electric lamps controlled by a single manually-operated rotary switch comprising an annular base 11 having on its upper face a circular or segmental row of fixed contact studs 12, one corresponding to each of the compartments with an extra stud for the position in which all lamps are switched off. Contact with the studs is made by an arm 14 mounted on a central rotary knob 13. A dial 15 encircles the studs 12. The indicator may be multi-sided, and one or more mirrors, or a supplementary indicator may be arranged to enable the driver of the vehicle to see the legend displayed.
Patent GB-1100059-A (GB)
Title: Power assisted rack and pinion steering gear
Inventor: BRIGGS WALTER HENRY
IPC: B62D3/12
Filed: 1965-08-16
Abstract: 1,100,059. Power assisted steering. BURMAN & SONS Ltd. 20 July, 1966 [16 Aug., 1965], No. 34975/65. Heading B7H. In an hydraulic power-assisted rack-andpinion steering mechanism the rack-and-pinion are provided with helical teeth and the pinion (together with the driver operated shaft 12) is permitted limited axial movement, due to its reaction with the rack, so to operate the control valve for the hydraulic cylinder. The valve comprises a sleeve 13 located at the end of the pinion (10) by means of a ball race (16) and a member (14), the sleeve having a recess 18 cooperating with a pair of recesses (24) and (25) in the housing, with which are associated ports (22) and (23) leading to opposite sides of the power cylinder. Pressurized fluid is fed into the groove (18) through an inlet (19) and is directed by the valve into the appropriate port (22) or or (23) by axial movement of the pinion, and in the neutral position flows around the ends of the sleeve into the pinion housing from which it is exhausted to a reservoir. The valve may be centred by spring washers (26) or by a ball urged against a cam surface on the outer face of the sleeve 13, by hydraulic or spring pressure.
Patent GB-1206843-A (GB)
Title: Timber wall unit
Inventor: SPEED-ANDREWS DENNIS
IPC: E04C2/36
Filed: 1968-07-22
Abstract: 1,206,843. Building panels. D. SPEED-ANDREWS. 22 July, 1968, No. 34975/68. Heading E1B. A storey-high building panel comprises two jambs 1, a head member 2 and a lintel comprising upper and lower horizontal members 11 and 12 interconnected by struts 13, and 14, the lower member 12 is spaced slightly from the head member 2, and facing sheets 15, 16 fixed to the lintel project over the head member but are not fixed thereto. A frame 4 of a window 5 is mounted between the head member and a further cross member 3. Two vertical studs 6, 7 and facing sheets 8 and 9 complete the panel. The spaces between opposed facing sheets are filled with fibreglass, glasswool or expanded plastics insulating material 10, 18. The sheets 15, 16 project beyond upper member 12 to define a groove in which a fixing member 17 which extends across several panels is fixed. In a modification the parts of the panel below the head member other than the jambs 1 are replaced by a door.
Patent GB-447427-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in lifeboats
IPC: B63C9/02
Filed: 1934-12-06
Abstract: 447,427. Lifeboats. HALKET, J. P., Corbans, Beech Grove, Alverstoke, Gosport, Hampshire. Dec. 6, 1934, Nos. 35014/34 and 11559/35. [Class 113 (ii)] Metal lifeboats are constructed with built in side buoyancy tanks t the inner walls t<1>, t<2> of which form longitudinal stringers or box girders. The side tanks are compartmented by transverse bulkheads lined up with deep transverse frames c. The framing b between the tanks is longitudinal and the boat is transversely framed at a in the tanks themselves. Intermediate floors c<1> stiffen the bottom between the frames c. The gunwhale strakes are reinforced by the knees q. Corrosion resisting light-aluminium alloys may be employed as constructional material or light metals superficially treated to render them resistant to corrosion may be used. Specification 5684/90, [Class 113], is referred to.
Patent GB-954438-A (GB)
Title: Process for the treatment of light hydrocarbon oils
Inventor: STIJNTJES GERARDUS JOHANNES FR
IPC: C10G45/36
Filed: 1960-10-13
Abstract: Light diene-containing hydrocarbon oils are selectively hydrogenated by contacting them substantially in the liquid phase and in the presence of hydrogen with a sulphur-containing nickel catalyst which has been prepared by sulphiding a metallic nickel catalyst with one or more sulphur compounds in the substantial absence of dienes, i.e. \sE 1% weight of dienes, based on the weight of the sulphiding medium, are present, at a temperature below 150 DEG  C., for example by passing a sulphur-containing hydrocarbon oil over the nickel catalyst; preferably having a boiling range of 0.350 DEG  C., and which may be a fraction obtained by straight distillation. The sulphiding may be effected in the liquid phase in the presence of hydrogen. The catalyst may be supported on a non-acid carrier, for example alumina, such as a natural alumina having a silica content of not more than 5% by weight.  The contacting is preferably effected at not above 160 DEG  C., at 10-60 at abs., a space velocity of 0.5-5 kg. oil/hr/litre catalyst and a gas: oil ratio of 50-300 litres/kg. The oil may trickle over the catalyst in a fixed bed as a film. Specification 657,521 is referred to.
Patent GB-212673-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in controlling arrangements for the admission of air to internal combustion motors
IPC: F02M23/03
Filed: 1922-12-28
Abstract: 212,673. Cox, M. H. Dec. 28, 1922. Induction pipes, fittings for.-In auxiliary air supply devices of the type in which the auxiliary air valve is a piston connected with the throttlevalve and slides in a cylinder, the air admission ports in which are independently controlled by a rotatable sleeve, an additional set of ports is provided controlled only by the rotation of the sleeve and serving to admit air for braking purposes. The piston 12 is connected by a cable 10 to the throttle lever 11 and slides in a cylinder 1 connected by a duct 2 to a hollow flange 3. Ports 15 are formed in the wall of the cylinder and, in addition to being controlled by the piston 12, may be adjusted by the rotation, through cable 20 and lug 19, of a sleeve 16 provided with a port 17 the upper edge of which is inclined. A conical extension of the cylinder has ports 1R adapted to be opened by ports 14 in a corresponding portion of the sleeve after the latter has moved beyond the position at which the ports 15 are fully opened. The end of the cylinder 1 may be screwed directly into the induction pipe and a second sleeve may surround the sleeve 16. The cables may be replaced by rods or links, the ports in the cylinder may be inclined and the cylinder may form an integral part of the carburettor. According to the Provisional Specification, the sleeve may be formed with a cam slot engaging a pin on the cylinder in such a manner that after rotation to open the piston-controlled ports, it is caused to move axially to uncover the other set of ports.
Patent GB-619563-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to the heating of motor vehicles
IPC: B60H1/00
Filed: 1946-11-28
Abstract: 619,563. Rotary valves. MORRIS MOTORS, Ltd., and COOK, R. WELTON-. Nov. 28, 1946, No. 35257. [Class 135] [Also in Group X] A device for controlling the supply of heated air to either or both of two different parts of the interior of a motor vehicle comprises a casing 1 having an inlet and two outlets and a cup-shaped rotary valve 6 with a single lateral aperture 14 which may be turned to communicate with one or both of two compartments 7, 8, separated by a partition 3. Further internal ribs or partitions 4, 5 separate the compartments 7, 8 from a blind compartment 9. The casing and the valve 6 may be moulded from synthetic resin. The casing is secured to the vehicle dashboard by a flange 2 and has two spouts 12, 13 leading to the floor of the vehicle and the base of the windscreen respectively. Heated air from a heat exchanger connected to the engine cooling system enters the open end of the valve through a conduit at the back of the dashboard. The valve is actuated by a hand-operated knob 16 which may also actuate a switch to stop the fan supplying the heated air when the aperture 14 is opposite the blind compartment 9. In a modification, Fig. 6, the device is made of sheet metal and comprises a rectangular box 20, with mounting flanges 21, an apertured cylindrical valve guide 25 soldered to the end and one side of the box, a cup-shaped valve 24, an internal partition 26 joined to the guide and to the opposite side of the box, and two spouts 22, 23 secured to the other pair of opposite sides of the box.
Patent GB-652167-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in drafting machines
IPC: B43L13/08
Filed: 1947-12-31
Abstract: 652,167. Draughting-machines. CELLOPHANE SOC. ANON. Dec. 31, 1947, No. 35369. Convention date, June 6, 1945. [Class 97 (iii)] The head 10 of a draughting-machine is provided with means for locking the rules 1 in predetermined positions and with means for clamping the rules in any other position relative to their support 2 in which the locking and clamping means are controlled by a single member 18 adapted to occupy three positions corresponding successively firstly to the penetration of the cylindrical piston 3, constituting the locking means, in the appropriate recess 4 in the support 2, with the brake or clamp 7 out of action, secondly to the disengagement of the locking means, the brake remaining out of action, and thirdly to the locking of the brake 7 by means of the lever 8. The locking piston 3 is mounted to slide in a cylinder 5 and is provided with a stud 6 engaging a groove in one arm 12 of a bell-crank lever pivoted in the head at 13, the other arm 11 being pivoted at 19 to the operating member 18. The end of the lever 12 remote from the pivot 13 is provided with a stud 24 adapted, when the lever is turned, to engage an end of the brake lever 8 and thus to urge the brake 7 into engagement with the support 2 against the action of the spring 25. The member 18 is urged into the position shown by a spring 22 and by a spring 14 acting on the bell-crank lever 11 and a lever 17 integral therewith, in which position the locking means 3 engages a conical recess 4 in the support 2 and the brake is disengaged. The member 18 may be moved against the action of its springs in the direction of the arrow f, to engage in succession one of two notches 20, 21 in the head 10. When the member 18 is engaged by the notch 20, the locking piston 3 is withdrawn from the recess 4 and the brake 7 is still disengaged so that the rulers may be rotated freely relative to their support and when the member 18 engages the notch 21 the brake is applied by the lifting action of the levers 12, 8 to clamp the rulers in any desired position to their support. In a modification, the spring 14 is connected directly to the lever 11 and the brake 7 is integral with a vertical rod which is raised or lowered by the action of a cam integral with the lever 8. In a further modification, the member 18 is replaced by a knob mounted for rotation about a horizontal axis and carrying two cams, one of which co-operates with the stud of the locking piston and the other with the free extremity of the lever controlling the brake. Specifications 615,950 and 652,166 are referred to.
Patent GB-989463-A (GB)
Title: Palladium decorating compositions
IPC: C23C18/02
Filed: 1961-09-29
Abstract: Biothioether palladous salt co-ordination compounds are prepared by reacting a thioether with a palladous salt under substantially anhydrous conditions at a temperature less than 150 DEG  C., the proportions being such that at least 2 sulphide groups per mole of the palladous salt are present.  Preferred thioethers are the sulphides of di-n-butyl, dimethyl, di-n-propyl, diisopropyl, diisobutyl, di-sec.-butyl, di-n-octyl, di-n-tetradecyl, diphenyl, dibenzyl, methyl-p-tolyl, di-alpha-methylbenzyl, dinaphthyl, dianthryl, n-butylmethyl, n-butylethyl, and trimethylene; and tetrahydrothiophene, 1,4-thioxane, 2,5-dithiahexane, 2,7-dithiaoctane, ethyl mercapto ethanol and thiodiglycosic acid. The palladous salts may be the chloride, iodide, bromide, nitrate, nitrite, sulphate or oxalate. These compounds and especially PdCl2.2(C4H9) 2S may be used in an organic solvent which is applied to glass, earthenware, ceramic or plastics and then fired to give a decorative finish. Specifications 889,912, 926,979, 934,182 and 961,315 are referred to.ALSO:Decorative compositions comprise bis thioether palladium compounds in an organic solvent which may be an aliphatic or aromatic hydrocarbon, a halogenated hydrocarbon, alcohol, ketone, ether, ester or terpene or a natural or synthetic oil or any mixture of the above. In a preferred embodiment the decorating composition contains a flux for the palladium metal formed during the firing process.  These fluxes may contain salts or resinates of Rh, Ir, Bi, Cr, Pb, Cd, Sn, Cu, Co, Sb, U. Decorating compositions may also contain Au, Pb or Ag and may contain salts or resinates to give desired electrical properties.  The compositions are applied to substrates such as glass, earthenware, ceramics, plastics and plastic laminates and then fired to produce a metallic Pd coating.  Specifications 889,912, 926,979, 934,182 and 961,315 are referred to.
Patent GB-283547-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to the doors or windows of vehicles
IPC: B60J10/00
Filed: 1927-12-30
Abstract: 283,547. Hibbard, T., and Darrin, H. Jan. 13, 1927, [Convention date]. Doors for passenger vehicles. -Grooves or housings for windows or fixed or movable panes are dispensed with in the door frames of vehicles, and the grooves &c. are fixed on the plane surface of the frame. As shown in Fig. 4 the channel C is secured bv screws c<1> to the plane surface of the frame A and the latter is constructed so that the curved parts E, F do not project beyond the lines x-x, y-y, Fig. 5, connecting the extreme protruding edges of the channel and the edges of the frame in order to obtain a maximum field of vision. Fig. 5 shows the restriction of the field of vision necessitated bv the use of a frame having the ordinary sunk channel. The frame may be covered by a coating of metal sheet or other coating.
Patent GB-931291-A (GB)
Title: Apparatus for the determination of the amplitude distribution function of a waveform
Inventor: CROFT ROBERT ALAN
IPC: H01J31/12
Filed: 1958-11-05
Abstract: 931,291. Analogue computing. PLESSEY CO. Ltd. Nov. 4, 1959 [Nov. 5, 1958], No. 35480/58. Class 37. [Also in Group XL (a)] The (first order) amplitude-distribution function P(x) of a waveform is defined by the equation t/T = P(x). #x, where the fraction t of the period T for which the amplitude lies between limits x and (x + #x) is proportional to #x provided #x is sufficiently small and T sufficiently long. For any given value of x the value P(x) may be determined by measuring the fraction t of the period T for which the instantaneous amplitude lies within a certain narrow range #x of the value x, and by repeating the process for a sufficient number of values of x the function P(x) may be determined completely. For this purpose the voltage waveform in question is applied to one of the deflecting plates 3 of a CRT and to the other plate 3 is applied a relatively low-frequency sawtooth biasing voltage which varies the value x of the test waveform amplitude at which the constant current electron gun beam impinges upon a target strip electrode 4 the width of which corresponds to #x. The output current taken from the electrode 4 (or from an auxiliary electrode 5 collecting secondary electrons emitted by the electrode 4) thus has for any one value x a value V 1  during the time t and a value V 2  during time (T - t) so that t/T  = V 0- V 2 /V 1 -V 2  where V 0  is smoothed (averaged) value of the output-current from the target electrode. Thus by applying the sawtooth biasing voltage to the X plates of a further CRT and the smoothed output from target electrode 4, after suitable amplification, to the Y plates the complete function P(x) may be displayed. Modifications. The target electrode may be a plate adapted to receive the electron beam as it passes through a hole or slot in a second plate suitably disposed.
Patent GB-1398993-A (GB)
Title: Triazolyl-styryl compounds
IPC: D06L3/12
Filed: 1972-07-31
Abstract: 1398993 Triazolylstyryl compounds SANDOZ Ltd 31 July 1972 35631/72 Addition to 1273478 Heading C2C Novel triazolylstyryl compounds having the general formula wherein R is hydrogen or methyl and R 1  is -CONH 2 , -COOH, halogen or hydrogen with the proviso that both R and R 1  cannot simultaneously represent hydrogen, are prepared by condensing a triazolylaldehyde of the formula or a functional derivative thereof, with a substituted toluene of the formula wherein X is hydrogen, -CN, -COOH or in the presence of a condensation catalyst. The novel compounds may be used as agents for the optical brightening of organic compounds.
Patent GB-1469870-A (GB)
Title: Installation for giving driving instruction
IPC: G09B19/16
Filed: 1974-08-14
Abstract: 1469870 Installation for giving driving instruction A GAMBON 14 Aug 1974 [16 Aug 1973] 35718/74 Heading B7H [Also in Division H2] An installation, Fig. 1, for giving driving instruction comprises a passenger vehicle 1 having an electrical propulsion unit supplied with electricity through a cable 4, the electrical propulsion unit including an electric motor 17, Fig. 2, a clutch 12, a gear-box 10, and an electronic control unit 21, Fig. 3, responsive to the setting of a foot-operated pedal 41 and operative to control the speed of the electric motor 17. The cable 4 is connected to an A.C. current junction box 5. The electric motor 17 is started by moving a key 38 from an "off" position through a normal running position to a starting position. A tacho-generator 47 driven by the motor 17 produces a signal supplied to the control unit 21 and is operative to simulate "stall" conditions of an internal combustion engine. The motor 17 has a field winding 22 and an armature winding 23 supplied with D.C. current from respective rectifier devices 30, 31. The vehicle is provided with a safety device in the form of a switch 51 which is operative to de-energize motor 17 when the bonnet of the vehicle is unlocked. The electrical propulsion unit as illustrated in Fig. 2 includes a toothed drive belt 20 and a bearing means 14 which may be readily removed to facilitate maintenance access to the clutch 12. The drive belt 20 may be replaced by sprocket or gear arrangements.
Patent GB-1397311-A (GB)
Title: Wire forming machine and method
IPC: B21F45/16
Filed: 1972-07-31
Abstract: 1397311 Bending wire MEAD CORP 31 July 1972 35721/72 Heading B3E A wire corrugating machine comprises a pair of wheels 16, 17, each having pins 20, 21 disposed abouts its periphery, the axes of rotation of the wheels being mutually inclined so that the spacing between the sets of pins varies round the peripheries from a minimum to a maximum, and means for looping a wire W1 round the pins at a position where the pin spacing is below the maximum, so that the loops become stretched and set. In Fig. 6, the pins have their greatest spacing at the top of the wheels, and the wire is looped on to the pins about halfway up the wheels by a rotary hooper 23 comprising arms 24, 31 pivoted at 25, 32, Fig. 7, and having rollers 26 co-operating with cam tracks (not shown) so that projections 27, 27A on the arms alternately form a loop in the wire which is laid over a pin 21 by finger 30. The finger 30 and plunger 33 are operated synchronously with the looper to retain the wire on the pins, and hold-downs 22, 32, 34, 35 are provided. As the wheels rotate, the wire is stretched as the pins move apart toward the top of the wheels, and then released as the pins move towards each other at the bottom of the wheels where the corrugated wire is stripped off. Pins 21 are of greater peripheral dimension than pins 20, and the corrugated wire is fed to further bending stations so as to assume the final form shown in Figs. 3 and 4.
Patent GB-1280346-A (GB)
Title: Ends for containers
Inventor: FRANEK JOSEF TADEUSZ
IPC: B65D17/00
Filed: 1969-07-16
Abstract: 1280346 Container ends METAL BOX CO Ltd 9 June 1970 [16 July 1969] 35755/69 Heading B8D In a tinplate or aluminium end for a metal, paperboard or plastics container body wherein the lower end of a chuck wall 2 merges into a radiused channel portion 3 which itself merges into a peripheral zone 5 raised from the central portion 5, the peripheral zone comprises contiguous upwardly-sloping portions 7 and 8 and downwardly-sloping portions 9 and 10, the slopes of portions 8 and 9 being less steep than those of portions 7 and 10 respectively. The junctures between the sloping portions are formed by small radiused portions. A score-line 13 is defined in the juncture between portions 8 and 9 to provide an easy open end, a pull tab (not shown) being attached to the end.