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Patent GB-1507127-A (GB)
Title: Toy aquatic predater creature and a toy prey creature
IPC: A63H13/02
Filed: 1976-05-06
Abstract: 1507127 Floating toys MASUDAYA TOY CO Ltd 6 May 1976 [19 Aug 1975] 18644/76 Heading A6S A floating toy resembling a larger fish or animal, e.g. a tunny fish, a hippopotamus or a pelican, is powered by a spring motor and is connected by a string to a smaller fish which is wound in by the motor and apparently swallowed by the larger fish, &c. In one form, a toy tunny fish 1. Figs. 1. 3, 4, has a spring motor 13, Fig. 3, driving through gearing 25, &c. to an eccentric cam 26 (see also Fig. 4) oscillated in a slot 29 in a lever 27 pivoted at 28 to a frame 22. A pin-and-slot connection 20, 30 between the lever 27 and the end of the tunny fish tail 5, pivoted at 21, causes the tail to wag back-and-forth and propel the tunny fish 1 forwards. At the same time, the spring motor 13 rotates a reel 14 to wind-in a string 6 connected to the tail of a small fish 2. The upper jaw 4 of the tunny fish 1 is journalled by pivots 10 to its body, so that finally the small fish 2 is pulled inside the mouth of the tunny fish and appears to be swallowed. A float 15, Fig. 3, is located beside the spring motor. In another embodiment, the larger toy fish or animal simulates a hippopotamus, Figs. 5, 6, having front and rear legs 31, 32 mounted on pivots 16, 28 to swing back-and-forth and having webs 40 to paddle the water in which it floats. The spring motor drives an eccentric pin 35 sliding in a slot 37 in an extension from the front legs 31, and a cam 26 sliding in a slot 39 along an extension of the rear legs 32. In another form, the larger toy fish or animal simulates a pelican, Fig. 7, having webbed feet or paddles at the ends of a unitary leg 34 swung back-and-forth by the spring motor.
Patent GB-1352682-A (GB)
Title: Device providing treatments for stammering
IPC: G09B19/04
Filed: 1970-04-18
Abstract: 1352682 Speech therapeutic apparatus G E DONOVAN and C E M HANSEL 16 July 1971 [18 April 1970 16 July 1971] 18648/70 and 33441/71 Heading G5J Speech therapeutic apparatus comprises means for producing a speech masking signal, selectively-operable means for automatically periodically interrupting or suppressing the masking signal to produce bursts of masking signal, means for varying the mark-to-space ratio of the interrupted signal, and/or the frequency or duration of the bursts and means for coupling the said signal to an electro-acoustic transducer. The speech masking signal at about 180 c/s. generated by a Schmitt trigger O1 connected as a free running multivibrator is connected to one input of a NAND gate G whence it is connected to a transducer P. The speech masking signal may be suppressed by a signal on the other input of gate G. This signal is produced by a Schmitt trigger multivibrator 02 and a shaping multivibrator M, the parameters of the suppressing signal being controlled by resistors R4, R5 and capacitors C3, C4. The speech masking signal may alternatively be a distorted or delayed version of the patient's voice. Sockets such as S2 allow the therapist to listen in and monitor the effects and may allow auxiliary devices such as recorders or light signalling circuits to be connected to the output.
Patent GB-216476-A (GB)
Title: Process for improving cotton
IPC: D06M11/55
Filed: 1923-07-19
Abstract: Cotton goods or mixed goods containing cotton, either in cop, warp, hank, or fabric form, are subjected to simultaneous treatment with alkali lye of not less than 12 per cent strength and carbon disulphide and without previous conversion of the cellulose of the cotton into alkali-cellulose; by such treatment either a very silky lustre with translucent effect is imparted to the goods, or the latter are given a stiffening finish, or both these effects are obtained; to secure the silky effect, stretching of the goods before or after the treatment is essential.  The materials may be treated in their raw condition or after bleaching or mercerizing as by treatment with weak lye at low temperatures or by strong lye at normal temperatures, or after a hydrolyzing or gelatinizing treatment, for example, with strong sulphuric, phosphoric, hydrochloric or nitric acid, or with hot zinc chloride solution, or with concentrated ammoniacal copper solution.  The treated material is washed, or acidified, and washed, and dried; or it may be dried or steamed before washing.  In examples, cotton fabric, mercerized or unmercerized, is treated under tension with carbon disulphide diluted if desired with benzene, and then, after squeezing, treated with caustic soda lye; or the fabric under tension is introduced into a mixture of caustic soda lye and carbon disulphide; alternately, the fabric may be subjected to a preliminary treatment with strong sulphuric acid at room temperature or lower, preceded, if desired, by mercerization.  The Specification as open to inspection under Sect. 91 (3) (a) includes the use of alkali lye of concentrations less than 12 per cent strength, for example, down to 10 per cent.  This subject-matter does not appear in the Specification as accepted.
Patent GB-448305-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to the fuel supply of internal-combustion engines
IPC: F01L13/00
Filed: 1935-06-29
Abstract: 448,305. Speed governors. SANDERS, A. F., Delamere, Park View Crescent, Roundhay, and FOWLER & CO. (LEEDS), Ltd., J., Leathley Road, Hunslet, both in Leeds. June 29, 1935, No. 18669. [Class 57] [See also Groups XXVIII and XXIX] The delivery of a fuel-injection pump is controlled by a regulating member 21 which is actuated by a speed governor. The end of the member 21 is bent over and its movement in the direction to increase delivery is limited by a stop 17 connected to a spring-loaded piston 14 exposed to the pressure of the lubricating system in pipe 12. When the engine is stationary the piston is moved by the spring 15 so that the smaller diameter of the stop intersects the path of the member 21 and fuel in excess of the normal maximum can be delivered to the engine when starting.
Patent GB-233575-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in paper-making machines
IPC: D21F7/02
Filed: 1924-08-06
Abstract: 233,575. Nuttall, T. D. Aug. 6, 1924. Driving arrangements. - In clutch drives for the sections of paper machines, the strain and wear on the clutch, owing to the weight of the pulley, is reduced bv the use of a tubular shaft B through which the driven shaft D of the machine passes thus making possible the use of additional bearings. The clutch member C and the pulley A are mounted on the tubular shaft B running in bearings b, and the shaft D carrying the other clutch. member runs in bearings d, d<2>. d<3>.
Patent GB-1078565-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in the manufacture of crimped viscose rayon fibres
Inventor: MYTUM ERNEST
IPC: D01F2/06
Filed: 1963-05-13
Abstract: 1,078,565. Crimped regenerated cellulose fibres. COURTAULDS Ltd. May 12, 1964 [May 13, 1963], No. 18785/63. Heading B5B. Regenerated cellulose fibres are produced by extruding viscose containing 5-10% of cellulose and 5-10% caustic soda at a salt figure of 3 to 14 into a bath maintained at a temperature in the range of from 65‹ to 90‹ C. and containing 5 to 14% of sulphuric acid, 0.5 to 4% zinc sulphate and more than 12% of sodium sulphate, and, after removing the partially regenerated filaments from the spin bath, subjecting the fibres to at least 50% stretch either in air or in a subsequent hot acid bath or in a combination of the two. The viscose may contain more than 0.05% based on the weight of the viscose of polyethylene glycol having an average molecular weight of between 600 and 6000. The viscose may contain 7.5 to 9.5% of cellulose and 5.0 to 6.7% of caustic soda and a salt figure of 5 to 8, and may have a ball-fall viscosity of 50 to 100 seconds. The fibres are capable of assuming a high degree of permanently recoverable crimp upon relaxation in water or other aqueous liquid. The stretched filaments may be washed and cut into staple fibres. When these are relaxed in water they immediately develop a helical crimp. The viscose may contain 0.05 to 0.2% by weight of a zinc compound (calculated as the per cent by weight of zinc based on the viscose) to increase the degree of crimp which may be developed in the fibres. The expression " permanently recoverable crimp " is defined as meaning a crimp which, after temporary removal, for example, by wetting the crimped fibre and then drying it whilst it is held straight under tension, is recoverable by relaxing the fibre in water.
Patent GB-419271-A (GB)
Title: Improved circuit arrangements for gasfilled electric discharge tubes
IPC: H05B41/232
Filed: 1934-06-26
Abstract: 419,271. Discharge lamps. NAAMLOOZE VENNOOTSCHAP PHILIPS' GLOEILAMPENFABRIEKEN, Emmasingel, Eindhoven, Holland. June 26, 1934, No. 18846. Convention date, July 4, 1933. [Class 39 (i).] The discharge in a gas filled tube 1 is started by means of a condenser 5 in parallel with the tube and an inductance 4 in series with the tube and condenser, the condenser and inductance resonating to a harmonic-preferably the third-of the alternating supply. An auxiliary discharge path may be included in the condenser circuit and this path may be within the tube 1 when it assists starting by ionization of the filling ; or a separate discharge tube which may be of the kind set out in Specification 415,682 may be used. This auxiliary path stops flow through the condenser when the main discharge takes place. In one form auxiliary electrodes 9, 10, Fig. 2- which may be electron emitting-surround the main electrodes 7, 8 and condensers 11, 12 are connected to these auxiliary electrodes ; in a modification a single condenser is connected between the two auxiliary electrodes. The condenser may be disconnected by the heat of the discharge acting on a bi-metallic strip. To ensure the presence of the third harmonic in the condenser circuit the inductance 4 may be constructed with two windings 18, 19, Fig. 4, on different sized legs of a core 16, the windings acting oppositely. The winding 18 is in series with the condenser and during the starting period the leg 16 is saturated. The discharge tube, which may have a filling of a rare gas and sodium, may have a double wall, the space between the walls of the envelope being exhausted.
Patent GB-403581-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to valves for internal combustion engines
IPC: F01L7/02
Filed: 1933-07-03
Abstract: 403,581. Valves ; valve gear. CREED, F. G., 11, Sydenham Road, Croydon. July 3, 1933, No. 18864. [Class 7 (vi).] A rotary valve c is driven by means of a gear wheel h coupled to the valve by a spring-pressed block n engaging a headed pin c<10>, so as to yield if the valve should seize, and to take up the drive again at the same point when the valve is free. The valve controls inlet at a<2> and exhaust at a<3>, and is provided with a packing-member d<1> held in position by a screwed plug e and pressed against the valve by springs f, the cylinder port d being formed in the member d<1>. The recesses c<1> in the valve are formed by indenting the metal of the valve, thereby forming internal ribs or baffles on the valve which assist the cooling effect of the air which is drawn through the valve to the carburetter.
Patent GB-258979-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to the construction of vehicles
IPC: B62D29/02
Filed: 1925-07-24
Abstract: 258,979. British Electrical Federation, Ltd., Twidle, A., and Worsfold, E. P. July 24, 1925. Bodies.-The cross-bars 1 of the lower part of a vehicle body frame are connected to the pillars 8 by gusset plates 7 inserted in slots in the cross-bars and pillars, and the cross-bars are also strengthened by means of inserted flitch plates 2 and by shaped inverted channel members 3 having stiffening plates 3a between the webs and provided with saddle plates 4 for connecting them to the chassis members 10. The intermediate longitudinal members 5 are butt jointed to the cross-bars 1 by means of metal boxbrackets 6.
Patent GB-1186794-A (GB)
Title: 2beta,7-Lower-Alkyl-2alpha,3alpha-Epoxy-17-Oxygenated 5alpha-Androstane Derivatives
IPC: C07J71/00
Filed: 1968-04-22
Abstract: 1,186,794. 2α,3α-Epoxy-steroids. SHIONOGI & CO. Ltd. 22 April, 1968 [25 April, 1967], No. 18875/68. Heading C2U. Novel compounds of formula (wherein R 1  is C 1-3  alkyl; R 2  is C 1-4  alkyl; X is an oxo or ketal group, or a group where R<SP>1</SP> is H or C 1-4  hydrocarbyl and R<SP>11</SP> is H, C 1-11  optionally substituted hydrocarboncarboxylic acyl, C 1-7  alkyl, cycloalkyl or up to 7 carbon atoms and optionally substituted by a 1-(C 1-4  alkoxy) group, or is a tetrahydropyranyl or tetrahydrofuranyl group; and the wavy line denotes the α- or #-configuration) are prepared by reacting the corresponding 2 - alkyl - #<SP>2</SP> - compounds with an epoxidizing agent. The products may be interconverted by conventional transformations of the 17-substituents. Compounds of the above formula are said to exhibit antiestrogenic, uterotropic, implantation-inhibition, myogenic, androgenic, estrogenic, anti-cancer and anti-uterotropic activities and to enhance the estrogenic activity of estrogens, and may be made up with carriers, diluents or coatings into pharmaceutical compositions for oral or parenteral administration.
Patent GB-930341-A (GB)
Title: Catalytic oxidation of hydrobromic acid with air
IPC: C01B7/09
Filed: 1961-05-25
Abstract: A process for the recovery of molecular bromine from aqueous hydrobromic acid comprises contacting said acid in the liquid phase with a gas containing molecular oxygen in the presence of a catalyst comprising a dissolved soluble salt containing gold, cerium, copper, iron, chromium, nickel, platinum, thorium, titanium, or vanadium. The catalyst may be formed in situ from a precursor for the bromide of one of the metals, e.g. by dissolving iron, titanium, manganous oxide or platinum dioxide in the hydrobromic acid.  Numerous catalysts are mentioned.  The reaction is preferably carried out under superatmospheric pressure, and the mixture may be agitated. Air and oxygen are referred to as suitable gases, while the aqueous hydrobromic acid may be any acidified solution containing bromine ions, for example those obtained from fuel cells, brine, and effluent streams from bromination processes.  Strong mineral acid may be added to brine to provide the necessary acidity in situ in the reaction zone. The vapours from the reaction zone may be fractionated to recover bromine, and any hydrobromic acid passing over returned to the reaction zone.
Patent GB-1133467-A (GB)
Title: Device for regulating an ore-agglomerating plant
IPC: G05D9/12
Filed: 1966-04-29
Abstract: 1,133,467. Endless conveyers. COMPAGNIE D'ETUDES ET DE REALISATIONS DE CYBERNETIQUE INDUSTRIELLE. 29 April, 1966 [30 April, 1965], No. 18993/66. Heading B8A. [Also in Division G3] If the amount of material behind a doctor blade associated with material on a baking chain conveyer associated with an ore-agglomerating plant builds up to a predetermined extent, it touches an electrode to complete a direct current circuit which, through relays, reverses an electric motor so that the doctor blade is rotated to raise its lower edge and allow more material to be fed by the conveyer thereby preventing further build-up of material behind the blade.
Patent GB-959621-A (GB)
Title: Subscriber controlled apparatus
Inventor: SIMJIAN LUTHER G
IPC: G07F7/02
Filed: 1962-05-17
Abstract: 959,621. Checking receipts; money delivering apparatus. UNIVERSAL MATCH CORPORATION. May 17,1962, No. 19037/62. Headings G4T and G4X. A cheque is cashed on presentation of the cheque and an identifying card to the machine. The cheque can only be for 10, 20 or 30 dollars and the required amount is selected by the customer by pressing an appropriate button. The identifying card 21 (Fig. 2) comprises a printed portion, 22 naming the customer, a punched tag 23 equivalent to the printed portion, an edge divided into sections 24 representing periods of time and corresponding spaces 26 for receiving a note of the amount drawn a period of time. The card and cheque are placed in compartments of a drawer 43 (Fig. 5) which is then moved by the customer to an intermediate position. There, the cheque compartment is sensed by a contact for presence of a cheque, and the tag 23 on the card is compared by photo-electric device 60 with tags 56A on a drum, which represent invalid cards. If there is coincidence in the left and right-hand sections of device 60, showing that a tag on the drum is identical with that on the presented card, no further operation of the machine is possible. Similarly, if no cheque is sensed, the machine is disabled. The drawer is then released so that it may be pushed fully home. The cheque is photographed or otherwise recorded, as by photoelectric scanning on to magnetic tape, and the cheque is dropped, by opening the hinged floor of its compartments into a receptacle 65. The section 24 of the card 21 is also checked for validity. Screwed on rails 72, 73 (Fig. 10) which run parallel to the sliding direction of drawer 43 is a device including a print wheel 83, a switch 86 with arm 87, and a cutter (not shown). The device is adjustable so that with the drawer fully closed the switch arm 87 bears on the card 21 at any required edge section 24. If the card is notched at this section switch 86 is operated as arm 87 is free to move and further operation of the machine is possible. If the card is not notched delivery is made of the required number of ten-doller bills by device 36, which comprises two tapes 33,34 enclosing the bills and wound on a drum. The tapes are unwound on to drums 54, ejecting the bills on to the drawer 43. The number of bills delivered is dependent on the button pressed by the customer. The card 21 is notched by the cutter, the amount of money delivered is printed in section 26 of the card, and the money photographed or otherwise recorded. The drawer may now be withdrawn by the customer. Instead of a check of the tag 23 on the card against tags 56A in the machine, the check may be made against a greater number of tags stored at some central station. The cheque and disbursed money may be recorded with the identification card.
Patent GB-331679-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to glow discharge devices such as are used in the recording of sound
IPC: G11B7/00
Filed: 1929-06-20
Abstract: 331,679. Gramophone Co., Ltd., and Whitaker, A. June 20, 1929. Amplifying circuits employing vacuum or lowpressure apparatus.-In order to determine the operative conditions of a glow discharge device, such as used in recording sound, so that it shall operate on the straight part of its characteristic curve, a superaudio frequency oscillation modulated at audio frequency is applied to the device and the operative voltage is then adjusted until no rectification takes place. Fig. 1 shows a glow device 5 the current through which can be modulated by audio frequency oscillations applied at 1 through an amplifier 2 and impressed through a. transformer 6. To ensure that the device 5 shall operate on the straight part of its characteristic curve, provision is made whereby on moving over a, switch, superaudio frequency oscillations from a generator 4 modulated by the oscillations applied at 1 are impressed on the device, the voltage supply being then adjusted by a potentiometer 10 until no rectification is produced, such condition being indicated when no sound is produced in the loud-speaker 9 connected through an amplifier 8 with a photoelectric cell 7 on to which the glow is directed.
Patent GB-795884-A (GB)
Title: Improved mechanism incorporating a time-delay device
Inventor: OLIVER CHRISTOPHER SIBLEY
IPC: G04F3/02
Filed: 1955-07-01
Abstract: 795,884. Positive clutches. ROTHERHAM & SONS, Ltd. June 29, 1956 [July 1, 1955], No. 19053/55. Class 80 (2). In a mechanism in which a driving element 10 is moved in the operating direction at a speed dependent on a time - delay device 27, driven from the element through a gear train 16, 24, 25, 26, and a pawl 18 and ratchet 17 freewheel allows movement of the driving element without hindrance in the reverse direction, the freewheel is arranged to be disengaged by a variable stop 20 at the end of the time-delay motion so as to provide a variable degree of free motion. The " click-plate " 15, is attached to the driving element 10, and is formed as a segment of a circle of about 120 degrees. At the commencement of motion one end of the click-plate rests against a fixed stop 23, rotation of the element 10 causes rotation of the click-plate away from the stop and causes a driving connection to be made through the pawl and ratchet to the time-delay 27 which may be an escapement, a wind-vane, or an eddy-current brake. After approximately 40 degrees rotation the camshaped pawl 18 contacts the adjustable stop 20 to release the ratchet-wheel 17 and the drive to the delay device. The element 10 is then free to rotate through a further 110 degrees without hindrance until the other end of the clock-plate meets the fixed stop 23.
Patent GB-769486-A (GB)
Title: Television apparatus
IPC: H04N9/68
Filed: 1953-07-09
Abstract: 769,486. Colour television. PHILCO CORPORATION. July 9, 1953 [July 10, 1952], No. 19077/53. Addition to 750,492. Drawings to Specification. Class 40 (3). [Also in Group XL (c)] The arrangement described in the parent Specification is modified in that the line and colour synchronizing outputs at 15.75 kc/s. and 3.6 Mc/s. respectively from the band-pass filters following the gate stage are applied to a ratio measuring circuit to develop a control voltage which is applied forwardly to control a variablegain amplifier in the channel conveying the 3.6 Mc/s. chromaticity component. The invention is described as applied to a receiver of the type described in Specification 753,447 and employing a cathode-ray tube as described in Specification 753,442. Reference is made to the use of components other than the fundamental of the 15.75 kc/s. line synchronizing pulses and to the provision of special signals in the two parts of the video band for use in place of the line and colour synchronizing signals.
Patent GB-384229-A (GB)
Title: A furniture polish
IPC: C11D7/60
Filed: 1932-07-06
Abstract: A polishing composition for furniture, linoleum, &c. consists of a mixture of linseed oil, malt vinegar, turpentine, wood spirit, butter of antimony and spirits of wine.