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Patent GB-688911-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to feed-stacks for labelling machines and the like
Inventor: FAIREST DEREK HOWARD
IPC: B65C9/10
Filed: 1950-02-01
Abstract: 688,911. Feeding sheets. FAIREST, Ltd., M. Nov. 13, 1950 [Feb. 1, 1950], No. 2583/50. Class 100(i) Pile tables.- In a labelling-machine the stack of labels 8 is supported and guided by parallel guide bars 21, 29, 32 which are adjustable, within an outer framework, to accommodate different sizes of labels, and are provided with front claws which engage over the margins of the front label. Each side bar 21 is supported in two bosses 11 in a side frame 5 (not shown) which is slidable vertically on a pillar 3, and each boss is provided with a support 14 for the bar 21 which can be adjusted, coarsely and finely by screw-thread means, axially of the boss. The upper bars 29 are each carried by pins 31 slidable in the vertical legs of a member 28 which can be finely adjusted by screw-means relatively to a boss 24. Each lower bar 32 is carried by pins 34 slidable in a pair of brackets 37 slidable vertically on the pillars 3. Two or more feed stacks may be arranged to supply labels simultaneously. The stack of labels is positively advanced by a ram provided with a rack with which a pair of feed pawls co-operate.
Patent GB-694953-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to expansion joints for metal coverings
IPC: E04D3/368
Filed: 1950-02-01
Abstract: 694,953. Expansion joints. BRITISH THOMSON-HOUSTON CO., Ltd. Feb. 1, 1950 [Feb. 17, 1949], No. 2633/50. Class 20(iv) An expansion joint is formed between adjacent metal surfaces e.g. between roofing, outer wall, or floor plates, by interposing between the interlocking edges of the metal a flexible member to which is stuck a layer of silicone rubber. A flexible strip 9, e.g. made of tin, lead, copper, glasscloth, tape &c. carries on one face a layer of silicone rubber 8 and on the other face an adhesive 4. To form an expansion joint, Fig. 4, the strip 9 is folded to adhere to the flange 2 of a roofing plate 1 and the flange 5 of an adjacent plate 6 is interlocked to engage the silicone rubber layer 8. The joint is then hammered down in the wellknown manner leaving a part 3 of the strip 9 projected outward from the joint. One method of forming a strip includes dipping a copper foil into a boiling solution of phosphoric acid and chromium trioxide for 30 secs., removing, washing, and drying the strip, and treating one surface with uncured silicone rubber paste comprising a titanium dioxide filler, a solid, elastic, curable methylpolysiloxane and a benzoyl peroxide as a vulcanizing agent. The silicone rubber, about 20 mils thick, is calendered on to the strip which is heated to 150‹C for an hour to cure the silicone rubber. The latter may be calendered on to both sides of the backing strip. Specifications 676,464 and 694,952, [both in Group III], are referred to.
Patent GB-1328752-A (GB)
Title: Packaging
IPC: B65B61/20
Filed: 1971-01-19
Abstract: 1328752 Packaging H FOCKE L UHINK and H PFUHL [trading as FOCKE & PFUHL] 19 Jan 1971 [17 Dec 1970] 2636/71 Heading B8C Before bottles or cans 10 arranged in rows are packed, transverse partition members 24-27 are introduced between the rows. The bottles 10 are fed by a chain to grouping cogs 28-31 and then in groups by driver rods 33. Insertion devices 41-43 are positioned in a staggered manner over the path of the groups to insert in succession longitudinal members 21-23 in each group. Each device comprises a magazine, a chain ejector, and a delivery guide. Longitudinal guides 36 and 40 converge after the insertion laterally to compress each group. Upstream or downstream of the devices 41-43 is a device 48 which inserts the transverse members 24-27. This device is located over a conveyer belt 19 which travels at a faster rate than the driver rods 33 so as to separate temporarily the transverse rows in each group.
Patent GB-752108-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to mounting arrangements for indicating or measuring instruments
Inventor: BUTLER HOWARD
IPC: G01R11/04
Filed: 1954-01-29
Abstract: 752,108. Locking nuts. BUTLER, Ltd., H. Jan. 27, 1955 [Jan. 29, 1954], No. 2689/54. Class 89 (1). [Also in Group XIX] A nut 26 used for clamping an indicating- instrument on a panel (see Group XIX) is formed with a spigotal portion. 28 passing freely through a hole 24 in a bridge 23 to abut a nut 18 which secures the screw 14 to a cover 11, and thus limit rotation of nut 26. Clamping pressure on the bridge is obtained from a spring washer 29 between the head of nut 26 and the bridge 23.
Patent GB-1141330-A (GB)
Title: A child's toy
IPC: A63H33/30
Filed: 1968-01-18
Abstract: 1,141,330. Toy shaver. BRAUN A.G. 18 Jan., 1968 [21 Jan., 1967], No. 2754/68. Heading A6S. A model electric shaver comprises a hollow operable casing shaped in the fashion of an electric dry shaver and carrying an imitation cutting head (7). The case contains a battery driven generator, preferably a buzzer (4) having a magnet and an armature, for producing a sound simulating that of an operating dry shaver, which can be switched on and off from outside the casing (5). In order to facilitate the replacement of the battery, the casing is made of at least two separable parts. The casing preferable has an opening which is covered by a material which enables the sound to pass out of the toy.
Patent GB-206419-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to inking apparatus in platen printing machines
IPC: B41F1/40
Filed: 1923-01-30
Abstract: 206,419. Pavyer, J., and Excelsior Printers' Supply Co., Ltd. Jan. 30, 1923. Inking-apparatus.-A duct roller 4 is journaled in a bracket 1 of, or secured to the frame of, a platen machine, a trough or duct 5a is pivotally mounted on the shaft of the duct roller, a distributor roller 9 is journaled in the side cheeks of the trough, and the duct roller is operated by the rocking movements of the trough. One of the side cheeks of the trough is extended to form an arm 10 which is engaged by the runner of the inking-rollers 11 at the top of their stroke to rock the trough. The trough returns by gravity to a position determined by an adjustable stop 6. A duct blade 7 of sheet spring steel is adjusted by a screw 8 and forms the bottom of the trough. The roller 4 is provided with a ratchet wheel co-operating with pawls on the bracket and trough respectively.
Patent GB-109390-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Puzzles or Game Apparatus.
Inventor: GREGG ARTHUR MARTIN
IPC: A63F7/04
Filed: 1917-02-26
Abstract: 109,390. Gregg, A. M. Feb. 26, 1917 Puzzles.-A board 1 adapted to be held in the hand is provided with a series of partitions 10 forming intercommunicating passages 11. The sets of passages at the ends of the board communicate only by a pair of openings in a cross channel 5 which are normally obstructed by a loose ball 4. Depressions 8 are provided to receive balls 9, representing opposing armies, and the puzzle consists in so manipulating the board as to interchange the balls 9. The various parts of the board are distinctively coloured.
Patent GB-768993-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to flushing cisterns for sanitary closets
IPC: E03C1/122
Filed: 1953-02-02
Abstract: 768,993. Flushing cisterns. SPEDDING, B. May 3, 1954 [Feb. 2, 1953 ; Feb. 2, 1953], Nos. 2856/53 and 2857/53. Class 26. The outlet pipe 1 of a flushing cistern is provided with a connector 3 to a closet pan 13 providing a reservoir of water 21 the surface of which is at a distance A beneath the outlet pipe, A being not greater than D/4, where D is the nominal diameter of the outlet pipe. In an alternative construction the lower part of the portion 15 is itself arranged to be at a distance A beneath the pipe 1, this part acting in the same way as the water surface shown to prevent air entering the pipe 1 to reduce the syphonic action of the cistern.
Patent GB-249822-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to relief printing
IPC: B41M7/02
Filed: 1926-02-01
Abstract: 249,822. Schubert & Co. Spezialmaschinenfabrik Akt.-Ges., O., (Assignees of Laager, R.). March 28, 1925, [Convention date]. Drawings to Specification. Printing processes.-In the production of relief prints by applying powdered resin to the freshlyprinted sheets and heating the sheets to fuse the resin, the powdered sheets are passed through a printing press in which the printing plate is replaced by a plate, slightly less than type-high, heated electrically or by steam &c., so that the sheets are heated by radiation.
Patent GB-693244-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in fluid flow controlling devices
IPC: A62B9/02
Filed: 1951-02-06
Abstract: 693,244. Anaesthetic apparatus. ROCHETTE, R. E. Feb. 6, 1951 [Feb. 18, 1950], No. 2942/51. Class 81 (ii). [Also in Group XXIX] A gas flow-controlling device in an anaesthetic apparatus comprises a casing of which two opposed ends consist of similar pressure-responsive diaphragms, a valve resiliently urged to the position closing off the inlet to the casing but opened by a cam fixed on a shaft which is journaled in the casing and carries an arm connected at its ends to the two diaphragms, and manually operated means for imparting a transverse displacement in the direction of the valve to both the shaft and the cam. Each diaphragm 10 is connected to a lever 12 pivoted at one end 13 to the valve casing and, at the other end, having a pin-and-slot connection with an arm 15 rotatable about its mid point on a shaft 9. A cam 19 carried by the shaft 9 will be similarly rotated and will act on the stems 21 of two inlet valves 18 to open the latter and allow gas to flow into the device through connectors 6. The valves are loaded to the closed position by springs 19, and the stems 21 are cut-away to allow the passage of gas. One end of shaft 9 is pivoted in the cranked end of a further shaft rotatable from outside the casing whereby shaft 9 can be moved laterally without rotation. Gas is supplied to the casing through a pressure reducing valve and the outlet leads to a breathing mask. The device may be used to mix gases.
Patent GB-232923-A (GB)
Title: Resilient gear drive for electric sewing machines
IPC: D05B69/12
Filed: 1925-02-03
Abstract: 232,923. Singer Manufacturing Co., (Assignees of Grieb, A.). April 24, 1924, [Convention date]. Clutches, ratchet; securing together machine elements for the transmission of rotary motion. -A resilient gear-drive between a motor and a driven shaft comprises a bow-spring located in a groove in a driving-member, to which one end is connected, the other end being attached to a pin in a driven member, the movement of the pin being limited by a slot into which it projects and the distortion of the spring being constrained by the wall of the groove. The motor shaft 17 drives through a gear 18, a gear 19 freely mounted on a sleeve 11 which is manually clutched to the shaft 10. Adjacent to the gear 19 is a clutch ring 20 in which is an eccentric slot for a spring 23 and clutch roll 22 which engages the sleeve 11. The sleeve may be formed with a slight flat. A bow-spring 29 connected art one end 31 to the gear 19 and at the other to a pin 28 projecting from the ring 20 is located in a groove 25 in the gear 19. The pin 28 projects into a slot 26 in the gear. Under abnormal loads the trailing end 27 of the slot engages the pin 28 and takes the strain from the spring. Distortion of the spring when the load suddenly diminishes and the clutch slips is prevented by the outer wall of the groove. A thin washer 32 keeps the spring 23 and roll 22 in place.
Patent GB-555072-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to internal combustion engines
IPC: F02B75/02
Filed: 1942-03-07
Abstract: 555,072. Four-stroke and two-stroke engines. COSNAHAN, W. T. March 7, 1942, No. 3015. [Class 7 (ii)] In a single-acting engine, an annular pump chamber 6, Fig. 1, for air or, gas, is formed around a reduced part 1 of the engine piston 2, the bottom of the pump chamber being formed by a slidable sleeve 5. The engine shown works on a four stroke cycle and the sleeve 5 is reciprocated by a connecting-rod 8 and an eccentric 9 on the crankshaft. The cylinder is fitted with the usual combustible-mixture inlet valve and exhaust valve. Air admission and transfer ports 7, 13-15 are provided in the cylinder 3 and a cylinder lining 14a, and a port 12 in the sleeve 5, so that air drawn into and compressed in the space 6 is transferred to the engine cylinder above the piston 2 to serve alternately as scavenging and charging air. The eccentric 9 may be set in advance of or in unison with the engine crank, and an inner collar on the sleeve 5 may enter a recess under the head of the piston 2. In a modification, comprising a pump chamber 25 and a sleeve 16, Fig. 4, the sleeve is connected to an eccentric pin 19 on a toothed wheel 18 driven from the crankshaft at half speed, so that the sleeve is reciprocated once for two reciprocations of the piston, and a port 21 in the sleeve coacts with air-intake ports 22, 23 during each half of a revolution of the wheel 18. In further forms (a) the sleeve has separate ports coacting respectively with an inlet port and a transfer port in the cylinder; (b) the air from the space 6 or 25 is ejected through an automatic valve into a manifold from which it is distributed to another engine cylinder ; (c) the sleeve 5 is stationary and sleeve or other valves control the intake and transfer of the air ; (d) the ports 22, 23, 27 may be variably throttled to vary the charge transferred ; (e) the engine works on a two-stroke cycle, the pump space being' proportioned to give a full cylinder supply suitable for petrol injection or a carburetter engine.
Patent GB-730711-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in calculating machines
IPC: G06C7/10
Filed: 1951-02-07
Abstract: 730,711. Calculating-apparatus. OLYMPIA WERKE WEST GES. Feb. 7, 1951 [Feb. 25, 1950], No. 3052/51. Class 106 (1). The pin carriage, or similar intermediate setting-device of a calculating-machine, is reciprocated during the actuating cycle longitudinally of the machine between a normal forward position for key setting and a rearward totalizer controlling position, and the return forward movement is effected by a spring, or other power accumulator, energized during the rearward movement. The invention ensures a rapid return of the setting device so that a new amount can be key set during completion of the previous actuating cycle. As shown, a pin carriage 29 is carried on rods 28, 31 supported by bails 22, 27 rockable about shafts 21, 25. Arms 20, 26 of the bails are knucklejointed at 24 and the arm 20 bears a pin 19 engaged by a cam-slot 18 in an actuating lever 15 pivoted at 7. A lever 8, also pivoted at 7, carries a pawl 11 normally held by a spring 12 in latching engagement with an arm 14 of the actuating lever 15. During forward (counter clockwise) rotation of the actuating shaft 1, a cam 2 thereon rocks the lever 8 clockwise, the actuating lever 15 moving with the lever 8 by engagement of the pawl 11 and rocking the bails 22, 27 to move the pin carriage rearwardly into the. position for controlling the totalizer actuators. As the forward rotation is completed, a stud 5 on the cam 2 trips the pawl 11 to release the actuating lever which is then immediately returned by a spring 16 stressed during the preceding clockwise movement. The pin carriage is thus returned so that a further amount can be set during the second half-cycle and return rotation of the shaft 1 and cam 2, at the conclusion of which the lever 8 is restored and the pawl 11 re-engaged with the arm 14. A notch 4 in the cam 2 ensures the re-engagement of the pawl.
Patent GB-826359-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to implements for laterally displacing material
IPC: A01D78/00
Filed: 1955-11-25
Abstract: The subject-matter of this Specification is included in that of Specification 286,350 but the claims differ.  Specifications 826,353, 826,354, 826,356 and 826,357 also are referred to.
Patent GB-219715-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to appliances for rearing animals
IPC: A01K9/00
Filed: 1923-02-01
Abstract: 219,715. Youlden, E. K., and Stewart, G. Feb. 1, 1923. Kennels. - An appliance for rearing puppies and other animals comprises a receptacle provided with a rounded closed hot-water fitting c covered with fur or other material e<1> similar to the coat of the parent animal, and provided with feeding-appliances such as vented receptacles f having teats g located at, the upper edge of the fitting c. The fitting c extends along three sides of the receptacle, and the hot-water therein may be circulated. The food containers f may be in the form of vacuum flasks or may be heated to maintain the food at a suitable temperature. One side a of the receptacle is hinged, and the roof is formed of pivoted or sliding slats j which may be tilted simultaneously by means of a sliding rod geared to wheels or coupled to levers on the pivots of the slots. Ventilating-apertures and glazed windows may be provided in the sides and the air supplied may be heated, e.g. by being passed through pipes in the chambers c. Water containers may be fitted in the receptacle or other means provided for supplying moisture.
Patent GB-781283-A (GB)
Title: Rotary head tunnelling machine
IPC: E21D9/10
Filed: 1956-01-31
Abstract: 781,283. Tunnelling machines. GOODMAN MANUFACTURING CO. Jan. 31, 1956 [April 25, 1955], No. 3084/56. Class 85 [Also in Group XXX] In a tunnelling machine comprising inner and outer contra-rotating cutter carrying memberis mounted at one end of a frame, there is a thrust bearing between the inner member and a support ring carried by the frame, and thrust and radial bearings between the outer member and the front and inner faces of the ring. The inner member 23 comprises a disc 231 carrying arms 232 having cutters 234 and core-breaking rollers 236 according to Specification 781,282. A pilot burster core 233 and rollers 235 are mounted at the centre of the disc. The disc rotates about a hollow shaft 33 supported by radial struts 381 welded to the support ring 51 which is connected by struts 501, 504 to the frame 21. The outer member 24 comprises cutter and roller carrying, arms 451 radiating from a drive ring 45. Ring gears 71. 72 fixed to the disc 231 and the ring 45 respectively are engaged by pinions 671, 672 on shafts 68 of reduction gears 69 driven by belts from main motors 79. Rollers 46 mounted on the disc 231 engage the ring 45 and form the thrust bearing for the inner member. The thrust and radial bearings for the outer member are formed by rollers 48, 52 mounted on the ring 45. Each of the arms of the outer member carries buckets 54 which discharge material through a hole 58 in the ring 51 to a conveyer 62. A shield 88 carried by the frame.-has openings 93 for face supporting jacks 96, (see Group XXX) and an opening for the machine support shoe 81. The shoe has hydraulic cylinders 82 which permit vertical adjustment of the cutters, and a hydraulic cylinder 84 the ram of which may be engaged with the tunnel face to move the machine backwards. The machine is advanced by jacks 126 having legs 133 which engaged tunnel rings 92. Small motors 109 connected to the drive motors 79 by one-way clutches move the cutter carrying arms clear of the jacks 96.
Patent GB-810659-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to thermostatically controlled cooling fan drive
IPC: F01P7/04
Filed: 1956-01-31
Abstract: 810,659. Cooling engines. THOMPSON PRODUCTS Inc. Jan. 31, 1956 [March 29, 1955], No. 3105/56. Class 7(2) [Also in Groups XXVI and XXIX] A variable speed cooling fan drive for use on an engine having a liquid cooling system comprises a pulley continuously driven from the engine and connected to the-fan by a fluid coupling arranged to be operated by lubricant from the engine lubrication system, the pressure of the lubricant supplied to the coupling being controlled by a thermostat in accordance with the engine temperature. A cooling fan 15, Fig. 2, for a liquid-cooled internal combustion engine is driven by the engine through a pulley 16 and a fluid coupling 17. A thermostat 39, Fig. 3, exposed to the liquid coolant, actuates a valve spool 38 to control the supply of oil from the engine oil pump to the fluid coupling. Below a predetermined coolant temperature, the valve spool 38 is in the position shown, allowing oil to drain from the fluid coupling through pipe 45 to a return pipe 47 leading, say to the engine oil sump. Above this temperature, the valve spool 38 allows communication, to an extent depending on the temperature between an oil supply pipe 42 and the pipe 45, thereby filling the fluid coupling to a corresponding extent and establishing the drive to the fan with a corresponding degree of slip. Bearings 28, 33, 34 are lubricated by the oil supplied to the fluid coupling. The belt drive to the pulley 16 also drives a liquid-coolant pump.
Patent GB-269853-A (GB)
Title: Combined detonator and fuse body for percussion or other fuses for projectiles
IPC: F42C1/02
Filed: 1927-02-03
Abstract: 269,853. Remondy, L. E. April 23, 1926, [Convention date]. Projectite fuzes. - The detonatorcontaining socket or gaine B, Fig. 1, of steel or steel cased with copper, is arranged as a liner within the fuzes body A of aluminium, aluminium alloy, or plastic material. The liner may be splayed into the body or interengaging shouders a, B' and a<1>, B<2> may be provided, and the liner held in place by a screwed member A<1>, or by a thimble carrying a sensitive percussion fuze E and secured by a shear wire. The detonator charge C may be loaded into a capsule C<1> held in place by a nick b in the gaine B, or may be loaded directly into the gaine and covered by a washer C' and plug C<3>, Fig. 2. A delayaction device F, such as is described in Specification 213,547, and a cone G may be inserted betweeen the percussion fuze E and the detonator C. Specifications 172,326, 224,847, and 238,186 are referred to.
Patent GB-823105-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in valves controlling fluid flow
Inventor: WINDSOR RICHARD THOMAS
IPC: F16K31/40
Filed: 1957-01-29
Abstract: 823,105. Valves. HAYS MANUFACTURING CO. Jan. 29, 1957, No. 3154/57. Class 135. [Also in Group XXXV] Hot and cold water inlets 12 are connected to a common outlet 50 under the control of identical valves 21 of rubber or similar material, the outlets having therein a flow-control device 90 as described in Specification 803,247. Each inlet opens into a chamber 20 in which one of the valves 21 is disposed, the chamber being separated from an upper compartment 70 by a diaphragm 25 integral with the valve 21, through which diaphragm is an opening 36 connecting the compartment 70 and outlet 50, the opening being normally closed by a rubber pilot valve 135 with an insert 35 of iron, stainless steel or rubber impregnated with iron particles, which valve 135 is integral with a clamping portion 27 between which and an electromagnet 14 is a plastic sheet 32. Moulded in the electromagnet housing 40 is a coil 42 and an iron core 43, 45, with a gap adjacent the pilot valve 135. The apparatus is arranged so that the two electromagnets 14, 15 are secured by triangular plates 280 and interconnecting bolts 83. In a modification, applicable to gas lines and other low-pressure applications the pilot valve is dispensed with and the electromagnet coil co-operates with a magnetic portion of the diaphragm ; an annular gap is provided in the iron circuit. The invention may be applied to a valve controlling the flow in a single pipe.
Patent GB-788228-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to coffins
IPC: A61G17/00
Filed: 1955-02-03
Abstract: 788,228. Sliding bolts. PYE, C. P. Feb. 8, 1956 [Feb. 3, 1955], No. 3168/55. Class 44 [Also in Group XVII] A covering 16 is secured to the base of a casket 10 (see Group XVII) at intervals by bolts 25 passing through counterbored holes 21 into sockets 15. Springs 23 bear on washers 24 on the bolts 25 to urge them outwards whilst keys 26 on the bolts 25 enter through keyways (not shown) and when turned retain the bolts in operative position. Suitable washers protect the wood from rubbing by the keys.