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Patent GB-1444887-A (GB)
Title: Process for dyeing natural and/or synthetic polyamide fibre  materials below the boil
IPC: D06P1/642
Filed: 1975-03-14
Abstract: 1444887 Dyeing natural and synthetic polyamides BAYER AG 14 March 1975 [15 March 1974] 10742/75 Heading D1B Natural and/or synthetic polyamides are dyed at temperatures below the boil in an aqueous dyebath in the presence of an organic acid and of a phthalic acid derivative of formula: in which R is hydrogen or a halogen atom or a nitro, hydroxyl, C 1  to C 4  alkoxy, carboxyl, C 1  to C 4  alkoxycarbonyl, or phenyl group, R 1  and R 2  independantly denote C, to C 4  alkoxy or phenoxy groups or together denote a radical NR 3  in which R 3  is alkyl optionally substituted by a halogen atom or a hydroxyl, C 1  to C 4  alkoxy, C 1  to C 4  alkylcarbonyloxy or C 1  to C 4  alkoxycarbonyl group, and contains 1 to 8 carbon atoms. Formic, acetic, lactic, tartaric and citric acid may be used at temperatures of 80‹ to 90‹C, there being preferably 0.4 to 1g of phthalic acid derivative present per litre of dyeing liquor. Wool, poly- #-caprolactam and polyhexamethylene adipamide are the preferred substrates. Acid, reactive and movalant dyes may be employed.
Patent GB-166685-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to sideboards
IPC: A47B81/04
Filed: 1920-04-19
Abstract: 166,685. Milborne, F. April 19, 1920. Sideboards.-A sideboard is fitted with a table top c hinged at c<1> and adapted to be supported on folding frames g or to be slid back into a recess in the sideboard, the opening of which is concealed by a strip of moulding d supported by links e. The supports g fold against the body of the sideboard so as to present the appearance of part of the design. Compartmented drawers or cupboards k supported on feet l are provided in the ends of the body.
Patent GB-165976-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in folding seats for vehicles
IPC: B60N2/10
Filed: 1920-04-19
Abstract: 165,976. Windover, W. C. April 19. 1920. Folding seats.-A vehicle seat which is adapted to fold and tip up to facilitate entrance and exit from the vehicle comprises a seat proper A hinged at B to a fixed bar C and supported at the rear when in use by fixed legs or a bent support D. The back E is hinged to posts F at a point G slightly above the level of the seat so that when folded it lies flat.
Patent GB-1455483-A (GB)
Title: Load cell apparatus for securing a container to a base
IPC: G01L1/22
Filed: 1974-03-11
Abstract: 1455483 Measuring force CARL SCHENCK AG 11 March 1974 [12 March 1973] 10850/74 Heading G1N A load cell for measuring force applied in a direction as indicated at P includes a housing 1; a transducer, consisting in an annular deformation member 2 to which resistance strain gauges are secured; a guide 7 mounted with a sliding fit between flange 7b of the guide and a member 8 and a ring 9 secured to the housing wall 6; and a member 5 receiving the force to be measured and applying it to the transducer, which member is a sliding fit in the guide.
Patent GB-273663-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to a process for cooking vegetable fiber
IPC: D21C3/02
Filed: 1927-04-25
Abstract: 273,663. Wells, S. D. June 29, 1926, [Convention date]. Pulp, preparation of. - Vegetable fibrous materials such as wood, cereal straws, and grasses are softened for the preparation of pulp by boiling under pressure with a solution of sodium carbonate to which sulphur is added. The process is carried out at temperatures of 120 C. and above, and the cooking effect approximates that obtained when sulphide or hydrosulphide is used.
Patent GB-1027770-A (GB)
Title: Electrical connector assembly for tape cable
Inventor: JR EDGAR WILMOT FORNEY
Filed: 1965-03-16
Abstract: 1,027,770. Tape-cable connectors. AMP Inc. March 16, 1965, No. 11001/65. Heading H2E. Connections with a tape cable 10 are made by clamping it against a base member 16 with a clamping piece 56 which carries connectors 64 having edges 66 and 66<SP>1</SP> which penetrate the insulation of the tape cable and engage the conductors. The clamping piece may be screwed to the base member 16 (Fig. 3, not shown), and the complete connector may be mounted on a wall 42 by means of screws 40. The connectors 64 may carry resilient blade contacts 68 (Fig. 6, not shown), or may themselves be formed with such contacts (Figs. 14 and 15, not shown), for the reception of tab connectors 74, which are crimped to connecting leads. The connectors 74 may alternatively consist of a single strip of material which is bent over the exposed end of the connecting lead (Fig. 11, not shown). The base member 16 may be provided with a pair of posts 46 (Fig. 2, not shown), around which the leads connected to the blades 74 may be wound to provide strain relief. Alternatively, if the leads to the plates 74 are contained in a single cable covering 54 (Fig. 3, not shown), the end of the covering may be gripped in a ferrule 50 having a pair of opposed ears 52 which are seated in a pair of strain relief members 48, 48<SP>1</SP> (Fig. 2, not shown), on the base 16. A single tape cable 10 may pass over both the projections 30 and 32 (Fig. 5), or two such cables may be interconnected as shown. The cable 10 may have an adhesive backing to assist mounting.
Patent GB-219106-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in the production of artificial filaments
IPC: D01D5/04
Filed: 1923-04-23
Abstract: 219,106. Levy, L. A. April 23, 1923. Apparatus for making filaments. -In the production of artificial filaments by the dry-spinning process, the filaments are dried only partly in the extrusion chamber b, the final drying being conducted after the filaments have left the chamber and while they are maintained under tension. Thus, the filaments are guided by rollers f out of the chamber, and are passed round a drum c heated by gas jets e. or electrically or in some other manner, and after leaving the drum the dried filaments are collected on a winding-device d; a book g serves to guide the filaments while passing round the drum. Specification 213.138 is referred to. Reference has been directed by the Comptroller to Specification 5020/07.
Patent GB-882268-A (GB)
Title: Mechanism for conveying folding boxes in packaging machines
IPC: B65B43/46
Filed: 1960-03-29
Abstract: 882,268. Endless conveyers for conveying folding boxes. HESSER, MASCHINENFABRIK-A.G., FR. March 29, 1960 [April 21, 1959], No. 11037/60. Class 78 (1). Folding boxes F are conveyed around a horizontal guideway 4 by an endless belt 1 having impelling elements 2 between which the boxes are accommodated. In order to prevent partial collapsing of the boxes when traversing reversal wheel 3 owing to splaying apart of the elements 2, pairs of fingers 5, 6 are pivoted at 8, 9 respectively to the upper face of the wheel 3 and are controlled by a cam track 7. A roller 13 carried by each finger 6 engages the track 7, a link 12 interconnecting the two fingers and the track 7 being so formed that the fingers of each pair move together as a box approaches the wheel 3 and move apart as a box leaves the wheel 3, the outer ends of the levers 5, 6 being parallel during travel of a box around wheel 3 to engage the box and maintain its rectangular shape. A spring 14 maintains each roller 13 in engagement with the track 7. In a second embodiment (Fig. 3, not shown), the fingers 6 are omitted and the fingers 5 are positioned to engage one end face of the boxes and to press the other end face into contact with the impelling element immediately in front of it.
Patent GB-705256-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to composite cinematograph films
IPC: G03B15/08
Filed: 1950-05-04
Abstract: 705,256. Composite kinematography. HOULT, R. L., and DENHAM LABORATORIES, Ltd. April 30, 1951 [May 4, 1950], No. 11053/50. Drawings to Specification. Class 98(2) A foreground subject is placed in front of a backing and subject and backing are illuminated with lights in non-overlapping spectral zones, images of subject and backing being recorded separately, by means of a beam splitting camera, on separate films from which positives are produced. A further film is then printed twice, once from the foreground positive and once from a positive of a new background in register with the recorded background positive. The films exposed in the camera may be differently colour sensitized so as to record only foreground and background respectively and this separation may be assisted by the use of filters or by making the partially reflecting layer in the beam splitter in the form of an interference filter. In the described embodiment the foreground object is illuminated by yellow light and the backing by blue, or blue and red, in which case the backing is coloured blue.
Patent GB-551856-A (GB)
Title: Facsimile recording paper
IPC: B41M5/20
Filed: 1941-08-29
Abstract: 551,856. Wetting agent compositions. FINCH, W. G. H. Aug. 29, 1941, No. 11059. Convention date, Nov. 9, 1940. [Class 15 (ii)] [Also in Groups VIII and XL] Facsimile telegraphic recording paper is coated with a composition containing toluol to minimise bleeding of the record due to the stylus, e.g. with a composition containing " Acryloid " (a solvent), amyl acetate, butyl acetate acting as a wetting agent, nitrocellulose, toluol, and pulverized zinc with titanium dioxide as the sensitive substance. In addition to zinc or aluminium powder, iodide of cadmium, potassium, or lithium, or chloride of nickel or iron may be used to increase electrical conductivity and aid in making the sheet non- inflammable.
Patent GB-746711-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in adjustable strap connector
Inventor: WARNER ALDEN YOUNG
IPC: B64D17/32
Filed: 1954-04-20
Abstract: 746,711. Strap fastenings. CAPEWELL MANUFACTURING CO. April 20, 1954, No. 11354/54. Classes 44 and 109. An adjustable connector for the ends of a strap comprises a frame member 10 having end members 18, 20 to one of which the strap end A is fixed, and a slidable bar member 12 each end of which is bifurcated at 28 to slide, with freedom, along the side members 14, 16 of the frame, the bar member 12 being shaped to present ribs 34, 36 with an intervening groove 38 which is opposed by a tongue portion 42, 44 on the end frame member 20, the latter also being formed with upstanding portions 40, 46, so that the end B of the strap may be passed about the bar member 12 in either an upwardly or downwardly direction without affecting the frictional grip of the connector on the strap.
Patent GB-1480748-A (GB)
Title: Materials for transfer printing
IPC: G03C1/72
Filed: 1975-03-13
Abstract: 1480748 Transfer printing KODAK Ltd 13 March 1975 [14 March 1974] 11453/74 Heading D1B [Also in Division G2]  A photographic transfer process comprises (i) imagewise exposing a sensitive material comprising a support bearing a layer containing (a) a dye (which term includes dye precursors and optical brightening agents) containing at least two groups selected from azido, azidocarbonyl, azidocarbonyloxy, azidosulphonyl, o- or p-diazo-oxide, trichloromethyl or tribromomethyl groups, and (b) a heattransferable compound, e.g. a polyester of a glycol and cis-4-cyclohexene-1, 2-dicarboxylic acid, which is cross-linked by the dye in imagewise exposed areas rendering it non-heat-transferable, (ii) holding the exposed material in contact with a fabric or film to be printed, and (iii) heating to transfer at least some of the heat-transferable image of the fabric or film and cause it to react therewith. The process may be used to transfer-print textile materials of a variety of fibres.
Patent GB-1042321-A (GB)
Title: Transfer sheet
IPC: B41M5/10
Filed: 1963-03-22
Abstract: A transfer sheet consists of a backing and a coating which comprises a microporous sponge of synthetic resin containing in its pores a non-solvent organic liquid having colouring substances dispersed therein.  The coating is applied as an aqueous dispersion, containing the organic liquid in an amount by weight in excess of the synthetic resin.  The backing may be of paper or of polyethylene terephthalate, and may have a precoating of polyvinyl acetate or polyvinylidene chloride.  The synthetic resin of the coating may be polyvinyl alcohol, polyvinyl acetate, polyvinylidene chloride, polyacrylamide, polyacrylate, polyvinyl-pyrrolidone or a copolymer of vinyl-pyrrolidone with ethyl acrylate or styrene.  Mixtures of these resins may be used, particularly mixtures containing polyvinyl alcohol.  The dispersion may also contain karaya, tragacanth, guar, okra or locust-bean gum, Irish moss, or egg or blood albumen.  The organic liquid may be oleic acid or mixtures of oleic acid and hydrocarbon oils.  The colouring substance may be nigrosine, carbon black, alkali blue, or carbon black with toners.  The emulsion, after application may be "broken" by heat alone, but this may be accelerated by incorporating small amounts of mineral acids, ammonium chloride, formaldehyde, methylol-urea, methylolmelamine, chromium compounds, cuprammonium hydroxide, titanium lactate or triethanolamine titanate.  The transfer coating may also include diatomaceous earth and surface-active agents, e.g. a mixture of polyoxypropylene and polyoxyethylene.
Patent GB-208473-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to machines for applying glass tubes to glass bulbs
IPC: H01J5/24
Filed: 1923-04-28
Abstract: 208,473. Naamlooze Vennootschap Philips' Gloeilampenfabrieken. March 17, 1923, [Convention date]. Welding.-A machine for attaching exhaust tubes to electric lamp bulbs &c. comprises an intermittently-rotatable table 6 carrying a number of bulb holders 15 and an equal number of tube holders 18, 19, the several operations being performed simultaneously around the table. The bulb holders are pivotally supported at 30 on levers 31 normally held in the raised position by springs 36, but adapted to be lowered by their rollers 33 co-operating with a cam-track 34. When the levers are lowered, pins 26 attached to the holders 15 run in curved slots 27 and cause them to take the position shown in broken lines in Fig. 2 to enable a finished bulb to be withdrawn and a fresh bulb inserted, and at the same time the glass tubes are placed in the grippers 18, 19. When the levers 31 are raised, the springs 86 cause the bulbs 21 to be pressed against abutments 16 to maintain an airtight contact between the bulbs and their resilient seatings 23. Associated with each bulb holder is a vertical shaft 47, Figs. 3 and 5, carried by the table 6 and carrying a burner 20 adapted to heat the bulb in a number of successive positions of the table 6, and the bulbs are perforated at the heated spots by compressed air admitted to the bulb holders by pipes 42, 44, from the central bearing column 3. The tube holders 18, 19 are pivoted in arms 56 secured to the shafts 47, the grippers being closed by springs 55 and opened by rollers 53 engaging fixed cams. The shafts 47 are rocked, to bring the burners 20 first over the bulbs and later to bring the glass tubes above the perforations made in the bulbs, by means of rollers 89 running on a cam-track 90. The parts of the tubes and bulbs to be fused together are heated by fixed burners in two successive positions of the table 6, and then the tubes are pressed upon the bulbs by depressing the shafts 47 either by means of handles 96 or automatically, expanding air being allowed to escape from the bulbs by way of pipes 44, 82. The shafts 47 and the tubes are again raised to contract the tubes at the point of connection with the bulbs. The finished bulbs are allowed to cool and are then released..
Patent GB-331297-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in the teat cups of milking machines
IPC: A01J5/08
Filed: 1929-04-15
Abstract: 331,297. Ridd, A., and Ridd Co. (Australia) Proprietary, Ltd. April 15, 1929. Cow-milkers.-In a milking-machine teat cup having an outer metal casing a, a tapered flexible lining c passing through the casing and fitted at its upper end with a rigid mouth-piece f, longitudinal ribs h within the upper end of the lining, and nipples or pipe connections b, l communicating respectively with the lower part of the casing and the interior of the lining, reinforcing means are provided integral with or attached to the sides of the lining towards the lower part thereof to stiffen the lining at this part. The lower part of the lining may be of cylindrical formation and the reinforcing means may be in the form of a band or protuberance, c<1> on the outside or inside of the lining adjacent the lower end of the upper tapered portion. Recesses j are formed in the exterior of the lining above the external flat sides. i opposite, to the ribs.
Patent GB-667760-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to switches with mercury contacts
IPC: H01H29/18
Filed: 1950-05-10
Abstract: 667,760. Mercury switches. DAUZIEL, P., and RITON, E. May 10, 1950. [May 11, 1949]. No. 11654/50. Class 38 (v). An electromagnetically-operated mercury switch adapted to operate satisfactorily even in an inclined position due to rolling or pitching of an aircraft or ship comprises a tube A containing mercury which rises when core C descends so as to enter pockets containing contacts G, H which are externally connected to each other, thereby completing a circuit from an electrode J. Other contacts O, P may also be engaged and the core may be surrounded by a glass sheath I and have a guiding disc M (Fig. 7) a swell as a plain disc N which nearly fits the tube A and so retards the core movement. The core may be made to descend either by the energization of an electromagnet D as shown or by the deenergization of an electromagnet, Figs. 4, 5 (not shown).
Patent GB-1248296-A (GB)
Title: Vesicular-image-forming element
IPC: G03C5/60
Filed: 1969-03-05
Abstract: 1,248,296. Photographic vesicular materials. INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORP. March 5, 1969 [March 14, 1968], No. 11662/69. Heading G2C. A vesicular material comprises two or more layers, each layer containing a binder and a radiation-sensitive material capable of decomposing on exposure to form a gas and wherein the binders of the different layers have different gas permeabilities. Generally there are two layers each layer containing the same two polymeric binders, a vinylidene chloride/acrylonitrile copolymer and an acrylic ester polymer, in different ratios i.e. 2-3:1 in one layer and 1:1 in the other layer. In the example, a polyester support is coated with a layer containing a diazonium salt and the copolymer and polymer in a 3:1 ratio and the layer is heated before applying a second layer containing the diazonium salt and the same copolymer and polymer in a 1:1 ratio. The material is then heated to increase the speed of the second layer by applying hot water thereto. The vesicular material obtained is stated to have a greater density range than prior art materials.
Patent GB-564441-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to electron discharge tubes
IPC: H01J21/36
Filed: 1942-08-19
Abstract: 564,441. Discharge apparatus. MULLARD RADIO VALVE CO., Ltd., CLARK, R. G., and MYERS, L. M. Aug. 19, 1942, No. 11689. [Class 39 (i)] In the manufacture of valves of the type in which the arode 10, o the nearest grid, is in physical contact with the oxide-coated cathode 1, arrangements are made to separate the electrodes during the processing of the cathode. This may be done by arranging the anode lead 11, coated with glass bead 12, loose in the exhaust tube 9, a temporary connection being made at 13 for the activating discharge. By inverting the tube the electrodes are separated by gravity ; alternatively, a bimetallic or magnetic movement may be used. The bead 12 is then sealed into the exhaust tube 9. Where the tube includes grids, they are mounted to form with the anode a unitary assembly which can be moved as a whole. To reduce thermal expansion, the supports 2, 3 for the indirectly heated cathode 1 are secured to it near the emissive surface.
Patent GB-370667-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in combustion turbines
IPC: F02C5/06
Filed: 1931-04-21
Abstract: 370,667. Combustion turbines. SOC. POUR LA FABRICATION DES MOTEURS ET TURBINES, 38, Rue des Haies, Paris. April 21, 1931, No. 11776. Convention date, April 30, 1930. [Class 110 (iii).] A combustion turbine comprises a bladed rotor 1 and a plurality of compressors 3 driven from the rotor shaft each of which compressors forces combustible mixture into an individual combustion chamber 5 which is provided with an outlet valve 12 to control the passage of the combustion products on to the rotor. The combustion products after a certain amount of travel with the rotor are further expanded in a number of chambers 7, 8 arranged successively on the casing beyond the combustion chamber 5. The outlet valve 12 is spring-loaded so as to open on ignition, and is held open for a sufficient interval by cam-operated push rods 13. The compressor pistons 17 may be directly driven from a crank 2 on the turbine shaft.
Patent GB-197333-A (GB)
Title: Improved process of and apparatus for cutting continuously moving glass tubes or rods
IPC: C03B33/06
Filed: 1923-05-01
Abstract: 197,333. Naamlooze Vennootschap Philips' Gloeilampenfabrieken. May 3, 1922, [Convention date]. Cutting glass. - Comprises a method of, and means for, cutting into lengths continuously fed glass tubes or rods, in which the glass is bent during its travel and scored at a point, where bending tension prevails, by a tool which does not travel in the direction of movement of the glass. The tube 25 is continuously fed by rolls 15, 17, the former of which is driven through worm and chain gearing from an electromotor 2, across a spring-support 37 and an adjustable guideway 34. A compressi.on spring 50 on a rod 45 is actuated by a cam 44, causing a slow forward and a quick retracting movement, to bend the tube and bring the skin of the tube which is in tension against a stationary grinding wheel 31 rotated from a pulley 5 on the motor shaft.
Patent GB-513994-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to fluid-pressure actuated driving mechanisms for mechanical stokers
IPC: F27D99/00
Filed: 1938-04-21
Abstract: 513,994. Fluid - pressure apparatus for mechanical stokers. BARKER, R. P.; and ELSTON, T. P. April 21, 1938, No. 11925. [Class 122 (ii)] [Also in Group XXX] In a mechanical stoker e.g. for brick kilns of the kind comprising a bunker 22 above the firing point having an outlet controlled by a fuel feeding member, the latter is given a step by step motion by a pressure fluid operated piston and cylinder drive 1 preferably mounted in the stoker. Where a number of stokers are employed the cylinders are connected to a common pressure fluid supply. Pressure fluid supply 11 to piston 2 is controlled by a valve 8 operated in one direction by the fluid and in the opposite direction for part of the stroke by the piston which is returned by a spring or weight 29. Piston 2 moves downwardly under pressure supplied at 11 until it uncovers port 18 when pressure has access to the top of valve 8 and moves it downwardly to close the pressure inlet 11 and open exhaust port 12. The weight returns the piston which first opens port 18 to atmosphere and then abuts the stem 21 of the valve and moves it upwardly until the supply port opens. The remainder of the valve upward movement is completed by pressure fluid. Specification 514,016, [Group XXX], is referred to.
Patent GB-768805-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to the manufacture of insulated terminal structures for electrical apparatus
IPC: H01J9/32
Filed: 1955-04-25
Abstract: An alloy for sealing to a vitreo-micaceous material comprises 42 per cent nickel, 6 per cent chromium, 0.29 per cent manganese, 0.12 per cent silicon, 0.04 per cent carbon, trace of alumnium and the balance iron.  Pins of the alloy may be heated at about 2300 DEG F. in wet hydrogen to form a thin highly adherent layer of chromium sesquioxide thereon.