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Patent GB-902691-A (GB)
Title: Men's briefs
IPC: A41B9/02
Filed: 1960-01-25
Abstract: 902,691. Men's pants. FOSBURY, A. Jan. 19, 1961 [Jan. 25, 1960], No. 2587/60. Class 141. Men's pants include pairs of elastic tapes 8, 9 extending upwardly from opposite sides of the front and back of the crutch portion 7 to points at the sides of the elastic waistband 3. The elastic tapes are housed in tunnels formed by stitching non-elastic tapes inside the garment. The crutch portion 7 may be formed integrally with the back or front portion or formed separately.
Patent GB-620830-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to the sealing of metal and other boxes
IPC: B65B7/28
Filed: 1947-01-28
Abstract: 620,830. Sealing boxes with tape. GAMBLE, H., and HORGAN, G. D. Jan. 28, 1947, No. 2633. [Class 73] A machine for applying sealing tape to boxes comprises a rotatable box support and a roller device for affixing the sealing tape, the device having two sets of rollers, each roller of a set being independently mounted on a displaceable pivot, the sets being arranged on a pivoted yoke and the pivots of a set being interconnected. The box 1 fits into a recess in a rotatable support and is-held in place by a rotatable suction cup 2 adapted to be raised by a cam 7 to remove the box I after the taping operation. The tape is fed from a reel 10 to a combined gripping and severing arm 11 I which is moved by a cam to present one end of the tape to the box. A further arm 33 is then moved by a cam to present-two sets of pressure rollers 37, 38 to the box to secure the tape in place. The arm 11 I is then raised to clear the arm 33 and is returned to its original position, where it severs the tape when the box has substantially completed a revolution. The roller applying device, Fig. 4, consists of two sets of rollers, one 37, smooth and the other 38, milled, arranged on a pivoted yoke 36. The two rollers of each set are independently mounted on displaceable pivots 39 which are interconnected by means of pins 41 and a bar 42 pivoted at 43, whereby the roller device is adapted to give a compensated or equalized pressure on the box.
Patent GB-1109819-A (GB)
Title: Childrens' toy
IPC: A63F9/08
Filed: 1967-01-18
Abstract: 1,109,819. Toy. KIDDICRAFT-FRANCE. 18 Jan., 1967 [19 Jan., 1966], No. 2649/67. Heading A6S. A toy comprises a 'box divided into compartments, each of which has a door with look and key different from those of other compartments and a separate opening with piece of corresponding cross-section to pass through the opening into the compartment. In the embodiment, a house 1 has doors 15, 16 and two others not shown, openings 10, 11, 12, 13 in the roof, pieces 2, 3, 4, 5 and keys-6, 7, 8 and 9, and is divided into four compartments. Each key may carry an identifying mark 6d, 7d, 8d, 9d corresponding to the shape of the opening and piece of the compartment to which it unlocks the door. If all the doors are initially locked, the child fits the pieces into their corresponding openings so that the pieces fall into the compartments, then chooses the appropriate key for each lock to open the door and recover the piece from the compartment.
Patent GB-670644-A (GB)
Title: Heating boiler with heating surface reduced by improved convection
IPC: F24H1/22
Filed: 1949-01-31
Abstract: 670,644. Boiler furnaces. AKTIEBOLAGET GUSTAVSBERGS FABRIKER. Jan. 31, 1949 [Jan. 30, 1948], No. 2664/49. Class 51 (i). [Also in Group XIII] A heating boiler comprises a fuel compartment 4 defined by water spaces as at 5, 6 and 26 and water-cooled grate bars 1, separated by a secondary combustion space 41 from a convection pass formed as a zig-zag gas passage by water spaces 40, 49, 80, 56 and 77 having vertical fins on their outer walls and tapered ends 83, 53, 78 and 61, and a final flue 62 connected to an exhaust fan 68 and to a chimney flue 73, said flue 62 being provided with dampers 64 and 75 before and after the fan outlet respectively. A water way 27 formed as a fuel bridge fixes a fuel line 29 and horizontal water ways 36, 38 provide a tortuous path to the secondary combustion chamber, preheated secondary air being supplied through slits 34 at the top of a duct 32. The secondary air enters at 59 beneath a top-plate 45, passes down side flues 39 to the duct 32 which is provided with a damper 33 operated by a thermostat 42 in the combustion space 41. A removable cover 14 for the fuel compartment 4 seating on the top edge 9 thereof by a groove 13 may be raised by a lever system 12, 21 on to wheels 22 disposed on tracks 23 on the boiler top, and an opening 15 formed in said cover 14 is closed by a small lid 16 with a bayonet catch. The cover 14 and smaller covers 46, 50 disposed over the flue passages of the convection pass are lagged with insulating material such as glass wool or asbestos. The boiler is said to be operated at economical flue gas speeds of 3-10 cubic metres per square metre of flue area per second. Specification 670,645 is referred to.
Patent GB-1190905-A (GB)
Title: Process for the Oxychlorination of Hydrocarbons
IPC: C07C17/15
Filed: 1969-01-16
Abstract: 1,190,905. Oxychlorination process. SOLVAY ET CIE. 16 Jan., 1969 [9 Feb., 1968], No. 2666/69. Heading C2C. Chlorinated hydrocarbons, e.g. 1,2-dichloroethane, are prepared by the oxychlorination in the gas phase of an aliphatic hydrocarbon or its partially chlorinated derivative in which the hydrocarbon or its derivative is mixed with oxygen and chlorine and/or hydrogen chloride and the mixture of gases is successively brought into contact with two or more Deacon catalysts, each catalyst having a support of different activity, the catalysts being arranged in order of increasing activity of the support as the gases pass along the reaction zone. The support for the first catalyst in the reaction preferably comprises granules of Kieselguhr agglomerated with colloidal clay, whilst the support for the final catalyst may be deposited on a support of alumina, silica or active carbon. Specified catalysts are those containing copper chloride optionally together with sodium or potassium chloride and/or compounds of metals of Group VIII of the Periodic Table and/or compounds of the rare earth groups metals.
Patent GB-755980-A (GB)
Title: Vehicle signalling circuit
IPC: B60Q1/38
Filed: 1954-01-29
Abstract: 755,980. Road-traffic signals on vehicles. HOLLINS, J. R. Jan. 29, 1954, No. 2753/54. Class 118(2) In a flashing-light direction indicating system for vehicles the two rear signalling lamps are used to give additional "stop" indication when the normal stop lamp is lit by application of the brakes. A battery 12 supplies current to the arm 15 of a selector switch 10 via a flasher FL-1. Operation of switch 10 causes arm 15 to bridge contacts to light left signalling lamps 20, 30, or right signalling lamps 20<SP>1</SP>, 30<SP>1</SP> according to the selected direction. High resistance pilot lamps PL-1 and PL-2 flash in synchronism with the signalling lamps. Step lamp SL is controlled by brake-operated switch 13 which also feeds a second flasher FL-2 when the arm 15 is in its neutral position, as shown. The flasher FL-2 is connected to flash the rear signalling lamps 30, 31<SP>1</SP> alternately whenever the brake switch 13 is closed and a turn is not being signalled. Pilot lamp PL-2 is flashed through the non-- illuminated lamp 30 or 30<SP>1</SP>.
Patent GB-959592-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to folding doors
Inventor: EUSTACE MAURICE PERCY
IPC: E05D15/26
Filed: 1961-01-24
Abstract: 959,592. Folding sliding doors; hinges. E. HILL ALDAM & CO. Ltd. Jan 23, 1962 [Jan. 24, 1961], No. 2802/61. Headings E1J and E2F. The end stile 31 of a suite of partially overlapping hinged leaves 2-5 of a folding sliding door 1, Fig. 1, is fitted with a door plate 71, Fig. 2, near the top and has a lug extending therefrom and an arm 99 mounted for pivotal movement in the lug about a vertical axis 22, Fig. 1, 2, and is secured to a roller assembly 13 movable along the track 17, the axis 22 being spaced laterally from the supporting track 17 during opening and closing of the door and is located forwardly of the stile 31 in such position that the movement of the stile during opening is located wholly rearwardly of the foremost part of the stile in its closed position. The arm 99, Fig. 5 is fixedly connected to the body 91 supporting a pair of rollers 93 which run in twin channels of the track 17 and the body has an arm 95 rigidly attached thereto and carries a roller 97 arranged to run in the channel 18, 20 between the twin channels. The roller assembly 21, Fig. 1 on the opposed end stile 33 is somewhat similar except that the axis of the arm secured to the body 91 and the arm 95 are in a straight line. The lower guide assembly comprises a plate 121, Fig. 8, carrying two rollers 123 running in the track 43, Fig. 2, and is secured to a plate 47 from which the arm 49 extends to be secured to a door plate and lug fitting 71. L-shaped draught-excluding sealing strip 10, Fig. 1 are mounted on the top and sides of the door frame and a draught stop 55 is provided integral with or secured to the guideway 41.
Patent GB-113647-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Machines for Controlling the relative Movement between Structural Shapes or Beams and Mechanism for Punching the same.
IPC: B21D28/26
Filed: 1917-02-26
Abstract: 113,647. Marks, E. C. R., (Steel Utilities Inc.). Feb. 26, 1917. Punching.-In a punching-machine, a beam or other piece of metal is advanced against a sliding stop which is brought to rest by set stops when it has moved through the desired distance. The beam x moved by rollers 1, Fig. 1, which are set in motion automatically by the punching-mechanism or by a record strip or bv hand, pushes along a sliding head 25 which carries shoes 62 and 132 engaging in succession contacts 61 spaced one foot apart along a support 60. The record strip 68, Fig. 11, closes contacts 66. 67, 108, 109 representing desired numbers of feet, tens of feet, inches, and sixteenths of an inch. The first electrifies a corresponding bus-wire 150, say that for two feet, connected to the particular contacts 61<a> at two, twelve, twenty-two, &c. feet, and the second opens switches 164 in each of the ten bus-wires to cut off the current from all values below the particular tens of feet desired so that the first contact 61<a> electrified is that for the desired number of feet. When the shoe 62 comes to this contact, the current flows through the solenoid 54 to the return wire 64 causing the spring-returned core 53, Fig. 5, to move the half-nut 46 into contact with a screvs- 40. The shoe 62 also electrifies the wire 116 to close the switch 118 and start the motor 80 which drives the screw 40, as shown in Fig. 1, causing a further advance of the head 25. The contacts 108, 109 energize particular solenoids 92. 102 to advance pins 91, 101, Fig. 8, into circular slots corresponding in length to the length in feed required. The pins 101 slide in a fixed plate 89 and engage a revoluble member 87 carrying the pins 91 which engage a toothed disk 82 in gear with a pinion 81 on the screw shaft 40 which is thus brought to rest after a definite rotation. The shoe 132 engages the electrified contact 61a before the shoe 62 and is connected to a solenoid 135 which operates a switch 136 to slow down and then stop the motor 7 driving the rollers 1. When the switches 136 and 118 open again, switches 137, 138. close and contacts 139 controlled by the record strip to denote a particular punch, complete the circuit through the solenoid 140 of the corresponding punch which is thus actuated. The record strip is moved and the punches arranged as described in Specification 113.646.
Patent GB-961804-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to flash lamps
IPC: F21K5/08
Filed: 1963-01-23
Abstract: 961,804. Flashbulbs. TOKYO SHIBAURA ELECTRIC CO. Ltd. Jan. 23, 1963 [Jan. 23, 1962], No. 2831/63. Heading G2L. In a flash lamp comprising a glass bulb having two lead-in wires passing through the bulb wall and containing a combustion-accelerating gas filling at a pressure not below atmospheric pressure and a mass of finely shredded foil of a readily combustible lightproducing material selected from the group consisting of titanium, zirconium, tantalum and their base alloys, instead of a filament coated with an igniting paste connected to the inner ends of the lead-in wires as an igniting element, there is used a filament consisting of any of the above specified combustible light-producing materials. As described the bulb has an internal volume of 1. 2 c.c and contains 21 mg. of shredded zirconium foil of cross-section 28Á x 55Á and an oxygen filling at a pressure of 3500 mm. Hg., while the igniting filament is of zirconium with a cross-sectional area of 0. 0004 sq. mm. A noble gas may be admixed with the oxygen. Specification 806,101 is referred to.
Patent GB-924203-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in memory elements
IPC: G11C11/38
Filed: 1961-01-25
Abstract: 924,203. Tunnel-diode bi-stable circuits. NIPPON TELEGRAPH & TELEPHONE PUBLIC CORPORATION. Jan. 25, 1961 [Feb. 15, 1960 (2)], No. 2983/61. Class 40 (6). In order to ensure that a bi-stable circuit comprising series-connected tunnel diodes D1, D2 energized by clock pulses + E,- E resumes its previous state upon application of a subsequent clock pulse, unless that state has been altered by the application of a suitably poled input pulse at terminal 4, an energy storage circuit comprising a parallel RC circuit as shown or a parallel LC circuit, Fig. 6 (not shown), is connected between the junction point of the two diodes and earth. In order to change the state of the circuit an input pulse is applied at terminal 4 just prior to the application of a clock pulse. The action of the input pulse may be inhibited during any clock pulse interval by continuing the clock-pulse energization throughout that interval, i.e. the levels + E, - E are continued up to and including the next clock pulse. Read out is effected by the application of read-out pulses, similar in form to the clock pulses, to terminals 1, 2 mid-way during a clock-pulse period, the state of the circuit being indicated by the sign of the pulse appearing on terminal 5. Where a parallel tuned circuit is used as the energy-storage circuit, its resonant frequency is chosen to be equal to the reciprocal of the clock pulse period or three times that value.
Patent GB-231281-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to show cards and the like
IPC: G09F5/04
Filed: 1924-02-05
Abstract: 231,281. Merrell, E. H. Feb. 5, 1924. Cards for displaying. -In show cards, sheets, &c. on which samples are displayed in holders comprising a transparent disc or cup and a metal or other part, the holders being inserted in holes in the card, the front glass part b of the holder engages the rear part c so as to grip the edge of the card 2 around the opening 3 between flanges or the like d, e. The parts b, c are furnished with engaging means such as ribs f and detents g, and the rear part c may have depressions or corrugations h for manipulation. The rear part c may be transparent or translucent to admit light from a source at the back. The holders may be adapted to contain liquids by fitting washers between the flanges d, e or under the edge i of the glass part b.
Patent GB-514369-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to wardrobe valises or the like cases
IPC: A45C13/03
Filed: 1938-02-01
Abstract: 514,369. Cases. DENSOW, M., [trading as BERLINER KOFFER-UND LEDERWARENFARRIK M. DENSOW]. Feb. 1, 1938, No. 3144. Void. Convention date, Dec. 22, 1937. [Class 18] A wardrobe valise or similar case with a hinged lid is provided with a strap 7 which besides serving to secure the lid closed can be used to prevent the case from toppling over when it is set up in the position shown: The strap is provided with a buckle 13 by which the case could be suspended and with a clip 10 adjustable on the strap, the clip having one prong 11 collapsable so that the clip will engage round an edge of the case in the closed position.' The strap may be secured at the mid-point of the base, in which event it has to be rotated through a right angle to form a fastening strap.
Patent GB-1072102-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to electrophotographic apparatus
IPC: G03G15/00
Filed: 1963-11-27
Abstract: 1,072,102. Electrostatic charging apparatus. HARRIS-INTERTYPE CORPORATION. Nov. 27, 1963 [Nov. 27, 1962], No. 3217/67. Heading G2H. The subject matter of this Specification is included in that of 1,072,101, but the claims relate to a charging apparatus.
Patent GB-397899-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to lids for pressure-resisting vessels in which fluids are stored or generated under pressure
IPC: F17C13/06
Filed: 1932-02-03
Abstract: 397,899. Lids and covers for resisting fluid pressure. HALL, C. S., Norton Hall, The Green, Norton-on-Tees, and IMPERIAL CHEMICAL INDUSTRIES, Ltd., Millbank, London. Feb. 3, 1932, No. 3267. [Class 123 (i).] A lid 1 for sealing a pressureresisting vessel 2 is pressed against a gasket 3 by means of a screw bolt 9, and a following ring 4 with an obtuseangled recess to receive the gasket is provided with three projections 5 which fit recesses 6 in the wall of the vessel. Handles 11 enable the ring to be turned so as to disengage the projections from the recesses. The ring may have an interrupted thread to engage a corresponding thread in the wall of the vessel.
Patent GB-347308-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to methods and means for sorting cigarettes or like articles into dissimilar groups or classes
IPC: B65B19/06
Filed: 1930-01-31
Abstract: 347,308. Separating solid materials. ROSE, A. G. and ROSE BROS. (GAINSBOROUGH), Ltd., Albion Works, Gainsborough. Jan. 31, 1930, No. 3309. [Class 117.] Articles, such as cigarettes, are fed in succession past a photo-electric or heat-sensitive device which controls mechanism by which the articles are selected according to their optical properties, such as the presence or absence of an imprint, and separated into groups while still remaining in the succession. The apparatus described comprises a conveyer chain 10 provided with pockets 15 in which are carried cigarettes with the imprint 17 disposed at random on the upper and lower sides. A series of pusher elements 25, each disposed opposite a pocket, are carried by a second conveyer 20 and are guided by pins 26 in a track 27 parallel with the conveyer 10. A detecting element 19, consisting of a photo-electric, selenium, or other heat- or light-sensitive cell, examines the articles in succession, and a mechanical relay consisting of a rocking arm 32, actuated by a spring 35 and cam 34 is controlled by a spring latch 38 and a solenoid 42 in circuit with the detector cell to throw the switch track 29 into the path of the pushers 25 and move the selected articles transversely in the pockets 15. A shutter may be operated in connection with the detector to cut off the direct rays from the source of heat or light. The articles in the two groups may be fed to a machine for wrapping or otherwise operating on them, and they may be turned into positions suitable for packeting &c.
Patent GB-467744-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to apparatus for testing the moisture content of solid substances
IPC: G01N7/16
Filed: 1937-01-13
Abstract: 467,744. Hygrometric apparatus. MOLINS, D. W., and MOLINS MACHINE CO., Ltd. Jan. 13, 1937, No. 3329/36. [Class 97 (iii)] [Also in Group XI] Apparatus for testing the moisture content of solid substances comprises a sealed container 3 for the substance, blocks 9, 10, movable to surround the container 3, means for heating the blocks until the moisture in the substance is converted to steam, and means for indicating the pressure developed in the container. As shown, the container 3 is a cylindrical tube which is provided with a neck 5 supporting thermometer 7 and into which a known mass of the substance, e.g. tobacco, is packed. The metal blocks 9, 10 are hinged together at 12 so that they may be moved apart to receive the container 3 and are heated by electrical heating elements 13. A U-tube manometer 16 communicates through a pipe 15 with the interior of the container.
Patent GB-664180-A (GB)
Title: The manufacture of 3,5,5-trimethylhexanoic acid
Filed: 1949-02-07
Abstract: A process for preparing 3,5,5-trimethylhexanoic acid comprises intimately mixing molecular oxygen with 3,5,5-trimethylhexanol at a temperature of 0 DEG  to 100 DEG  C. and continuing the resulting oxidation until 3,5,5-trimethylhexanoic acid is obtained.  The preferred temperature range is 20 DEG  to 75 DEG  C.  An organic peroxy compound is formed initially but this disappears gradually and 3,5,5-trimethylhexanoic acid is obtained in virtually p  quantitative yield.  Inorganic oxidation catalysts need not be employed but to carry out the reaction at the maximum rate oxidation catalysts such as compounds of cobalt, copper, vanadium, manganese, osmium and cerium may be employed though polycarboxylic acids may also be produced.  In examples: (1) air is passed through 3,5,5-trimethylhexanol and the product is purified by distillation under reduced pressure; (2) 3,5,5-trimethylhexanol in acetic acid is oxidized by air in the presence of manganous acetate, the product is distilled and treated with aqueous alkali, extracted with ether and acidified and the desired product separated and again distilled. 3,5,5-Trimethylhexanol is obtained by heating diisobutylene in ether with carbon monoxide and hydrogen under pressure with a cobalt catalyst.  3,5,5-Trimethylhexanol-1 is also formed and is separated by distillation.  3,5,5 - Trimethylhexanoic acid may be esterified with monohydric or polyhdric alcohols, the polyvinyl ester being valuable as a lubricating oil thickener and the metallic salts as thickeners in greases (see Group III), as catalysts in organic salt type driers and as modifiers in alkyd resins.  Specification 614,010 is referred to.ALSO:3, 5, 5-trimethyl-hexanoic acid, prepared by the oxidation of 3, 5, 5-trimethylhexanal (see Group IVb), may be employed in the form of the polyvinyl ester as a thickener for both naphthenic and paraffin base lubricating oils and the metallic salts of the acid may be used as thickeners in greases.  Metal salts of caproic, caprylic and pelargonic acids are also stated to be suitable as thickeners for greases and their esters are stated to be of value as lubricants.  Specification 614,010, [Group IV(b)], is referred to.
Patent GB-1147261-A (GB)
Title: Flowing cathode electrolytic cells
Inventor: BON CHARLES KORTRIGHT
IPC: C25B9/14
Filed: 1967-01-23
Abstract: 1,147,261. Mercury cathode electrolytic cells. DOW CHEMICAL CO. Jan.23, 1967, No.3381/67. Heading C7B. An electrolytic cell having a flowing mercury cathode comprises a cathode base-plate 24 over which flows the mercury; a composite anode structure comprising a graphite block 28 which has a surface 48 facing said cathode, and a top member 64 spaced from said graphite block and adjoined thereto by side and end members 54, 56 at least along the periphery of said granite block to define a compartment between said top member 64 and said graphite block, which may be further subdivided into compartments 68..... 76, the block being formed with an array of transversely disposed pairs of slots 78......86 extending across the surface thereof and having communicating means extending between each pair of slots and the compartment 68.... 76, said pairs of slots being spaced apart between 5 and 12 inches, the spacing between the slots being between 1 and 3 inches and the width of said slots being between # and 3/16 inches; means for withdrawing gas from said compartment; inlet and outlet means for passing electrolyte through the cell and means for spacing the anode and cathode in predetermined relationship. The amalgam withdrawn from the cell may pass via an amalgam level controller (14) and an amalgam decomposer (16) to be returned to the cell by pump (41) Fig. 1 (not shown). The anode may rest upon a gasket separator (36) which produces the predetermined inter-electrode gap.