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Patent GB-1480825-A (GB)
Title: Control device for an electrical appliance
IPC: D06F34/28
Filed: 1974-07-18
Abstract: 1480825 Component assemblies BOSCH-SIEMENS HAUSGERATE GmbH 18 July 1974 [19 July 1973 24 July 1973(2)] 31976/74 Heading H1R A control device for an electrical appliance, e.g. as shown an automatic washing machine, comprises a circuit board 30 provided on one side 31 with receptors 33 into which are plugged the control means 34a to 34d for the appliance and on the other side 32 with circuitry, preferably printed, connecting the control means to each other end to their respective outputs formed as units 35 plugged into the edge of the board. The board is preferably pivotally mounted on the appliance housing and as shown the wiring on side 32 is protected by spaced cover 37. To avoid intersections of the wiring a further receptor 33 receives a plug-in connector module 40 whereby selective interconnections can be made. As shown in Fig. 8, module 40 comprises a printed circuit board wherein the printed wiring and terminals connectible to the circuitry on side 32 are spaced by a selected unit distance or whole number multiple thereof. Further terminals 47 may be provided for measurement or testing purposes. The connector module may alternatively comprise a plastics member having parallel slots for receiving jumper wires or stamped out conductive members, these having two or more terminal portions which can be forced through bores in the plastics member and through board 30 for connection to the circuitry on side 32 (Figs. 5, 6 and 9 to 11, not shown). These wires or conductive members may be severed to prevent unwanted interconnections. Suitably all the high-voltage components of the control device are combined in a single module, also plugged into a receptor 33 (Figs. 12, 13, not shown). This module may also incorporate the main switch and the heating switch, and-the heating output is connected directly to the module.
Patent GB-921484-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to apparatus for vacuum melting and casting metals
Inventor: SMURTHWAITE JOHN WILLIAM
IPC: C22B9/04
Filed: 1959-09-21
Abstract: 921,484. Metal melting furnaces. UNITED KINGDOM ATOMIC ENERGY AUTHORITY. Sept. 2, 1960 [Sept. 21, 1959], No. 32046/59. Class 51 (2). [Also in Groups XI and XXII] Apparatus for vacuum melting and casting uranium comprises high-frequency induction coils 1 defining a heating cavity 2 enclosing a crucible assembly 3 with a bottom pouring outlet 4, supporting structure 5 for the coils and the crucible assembly, a carrier 6 for casting moulds, and a removable vacuum sealing envelope 7 enclosing all the aforementioned items, the crucible assembly being supported on a platform 8 so as to be insertable into or withdrawable from the base 9 of the heating cavity on removal of the envelope. The coils 1 are disposed between an outer sleeve 19 and an inner refractory lining 20, e.g. fireclay, with end closures 21 of asbestos insulating board. The crucible assembly 3 comprises a graphite crucible 23 and tundish 27, the former being sealed by a graphite plug 15 released by a graphite rod 13 actuated by a rod 59 through a lever system 14. On release, the graphite plug 15 floats to the top of the metal which fills the tundish and then the moulds. The platform 8 is held by sliding bolts carried in brackets attached to the structure 5 and having adjustable feet engaging said platform. An extraction hood 61 disposed over the crucible is connected to a vacuum source by duct 63, and has a graphite condensing plate 67 located close to the top of the water-cooled envelope 7 and protected by a spaced baffle plate from the molten mass in the crucible, Fig. 4 (not shown). The platform 8 carrying the crucible assembly and its cold contents is transported and manoeuvred into position by a fork lift truck.
Patent GB-1100442-A (GB)
Title: Gonadienones
Inventor: HARTLEY DAVID
IPC: C07J1/00
Filed: 1963-08-14
Abstract: The invention comprises compounds of formula <FORM:1100442/C2/1> wherein each R is a hydrogen or an alkyl group, R1 is an n-alkyl group having 2 to 4 carbon atoms, R2 is a haloalk-1-ynyl group, -OR3 is a free, etherified or esterified hydroxy group and Q is a methylene or ethylene group, racemates thereof with their 13a -enantiomers, and their preparation by (a) halogenation and dehydrohalogenation of a D 5(10) compound, or (b) haloalkynylation of a 3-protected keto-17-keto-compound to produce a compound of formula <FORM:1100442/C2/2> wherein W is a 3,4-saturated ketal group or a 3,4-unsaturated enamino group, followed by hydrolysis, followed, if desired, in either case by (c) 17-etherification, or (d)17-acylation with hydrolysis of the 3-enol ester formed.  The compounds of the invention have progestational, pituitary-gonadotrophic inhibiting and anti-estrogenic activity and may be used in pharmaceutical compositions in combination with a carrier, for example in forms suitable for oral, parenteral or rectal administration.
Patent GB-414259-A (GB)
Title: Diesel-motor driven rail guided vehicles
IPC: B61C5/00
Filed: 1933-11-17
Abstract: 414,259. Diesel-engine locomotives. TRIGGS, W. W., 57, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London.-(Schweizerische Lokomotiv - und Maschinenfabrik; 41, Zurcherstrasse, Winterthur, Switzerland.) Nov. 17, 1933, No. 32070. [Classes 79 (i) and 79 (iii).] A rail vehicle is driven by one or more radial cylinder Diesel engines arranged with crank shaft or shafts parallel to the driving axles, the transmission being effected through simple or variable speed gear trains or other mechanical or hydraulic or electrical means. The engines a<1>, a<2>, a<3> may be arranged alternately on opposite sides of the longitudinal axis of the vehicle and may be provided with charging blowers. Coolers i1, i2 may be associated with a ventilator k.
Patent GB-278551-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to golf tees
IPC: A63B57/00
Filed: 1926-12-18
Abstract: 278,551. Thompson, C. G. Dec. 18, 1926. Tees.-A golf tee comprises a peg a connected bv a light cord b to a lead or other weight c to which is attached a tassel d.
Patent GB-153903-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to shoemakers' or others' tool heaters
IPC: A43D95/18
Filed: 1920-11-13
Abstract: 153,903. British United Shoe Machinery Co., (Assignees of Emerson, E. L.). Nov. 15, 1919, [Convention date]. Electric stoves.- A heater for shoe makers' or other tools comprises a body 2, Fig. 3, hav ing a groove 3, or the sides of which are mounted heat ing-elements 4, 5, attached to the body by end lugs. A wedge-shaped tool may be inserted into the groove directly; tools of other shapes or smaller dimensions may be inserted into longitudinal or transverse recesses 14, 15 in an adapter 13, Fig. 5, of iron or other material, fitted in the groove. Cutting-tools may be inserted between the unrecessed surfaces of the adapter and the sides of the groove. The body 2 is preferably hollow and formed of cast aluminium, but may be non-metallic; it is secured to a non-conducting base 1. The heating-elements may consist of wire wound on mica sheets or disposed in zigzag form and enclosed in a metal casing packed with insulating material; they may be mounted on the inner faces of the body 2 instead of as shown.
Patent GB-1149166-A (GB)
Title: Pressure measuring apparatus
IPC: G01L7/08
Filed: 1966-07-18
Abstract: 1,149,166. Pressure gauge. GENERAL MILLS Inc. July 18, 1966 [July 26, 1965], No.32185/66. Heading G1L. In apparatus for measuring the pressure of a material within a containing structure, such as the pressure of dough undergoing mechanical processing, a rod 30, slidable in a tube 26, bears at one end 58 against the material and at the other end 62, via a rod 136, against a diaphragm of a fluid filled chamber of a force transmitting device 34 to vary an air pressure acting on another diaphragm of the fluid filled chamber and to indicate such air pressure on a meter 22 in such a manner that a full pressure range from zero to a maximum is effected by a 0À002 inch movement of the rod 30.
Patent GB-1148649-A (GB)
Title: Easily dyeable polyolefin composition
IPC: C08L23/02
Filed: 1967-07-13
Abstract: 1,148,649. Polyolefin compositions. ASAHI KASEI KOGYO K.K. 13 July, 1967 [29 Dec., 1966], No. 32243/67. Heading C3P. [Also in Division Dl] Compositions for making readily dyeable polyolefin articles comprise (1) a polyolefin, (2) 1À5-20 weight per cent of a compound having a basic nitrogen atom in the molecule and selected from amines and ammonium salts having at least one alkyl or cycloalkyl group of at least 8 carbon atoms, a pyridine derivative or a macromolecular material having at least 1 x 10<SP>-5</SP> gm eq./gm of basic nitrogen, and (3) 0À5 to 20 weight per cent of lithium, strontium, calcium, barium, magnesium, basic magnesium or zinc carbonate, zinc or magnesium oxide or hydroxide, or calcium silicate of average particle size less than 1 micron. The polyolefin may be a polymer or copolymer of ethylene, propylene, butene, 3-methylbutene-1 or 4-methylpentene-1. Many suitable nitrogen compounds are listed and examples describe dyeable films and filaments made of compositions comprising polypropylene and (1) octadecylamine and calcium silicate; (2) trioctylamine, dilauryl thiodipropionate, 2 - hydroxy - 4 - n - octoxybenzo phenone, 2,2<SP>1</SP>- methylene bis(4 - methyl - 6 - t.butylphenol) and calcium carbonate; (3) undecylpiperidine and magnesium oxide; (4) sym - tri(4 - pyridyl) cyclohexane and magnesium oxide; (5) dodecyltrimethyl ammonium acetate and zinc hydroxide; (6) a styrene/2- methyl-5-vinylpyridine copolymer and lithium carbonate; and (7) a product obtained by condensing epichlorohydrin, piperazine and stearylamine in the presence of sodium hydroxide, and lithium carbonate.
Patent GB-1130494-A (GB)
Title: Air filtering apparatus
Inventor: FLANAGAN GUILIO
IPC: B03C3/74
Filed: 1966-07-19
Abstract: 1,130,494. Electrostatic precipitators. GALLONE ENG. CO. Ltd. 23 June, 1967 [19 July, 1966], No. 32276/66. Heading B2J. Air filtering apparatus comprises a removable preionizer and precipitator section 1, 2. Fig. 2, comprising oppositely-charged parallel and alternating plates 7 and wires 8 and parallel plates 12 respectively, and in tandem a fan unit 3 with a tangential fan 21 whose rotary axis and vanes 23 are parallel to air flow channels which are at right angles to the preionizing plates 7 and wires 8 and are formed by the plates 12 of the precipitator 2. As described two fans 23 are used with an air baffle 24. The preionizer and precipitator operate at 5 and 6 Kv. Heating elements 26, Fig. 3, include self-resetting thermal cut-outs to prevent operation when the fans are off or airflow restricted. An indicator light 31 flickers due to discharge across the plates 12 and remains on when the plates require cleaning. A screw and switch 40, 38 cuts off the mains when units 1 and 2 are removed, and a latch arrangement 42 . . . 44 discharges the electrodes 7, 8, 12 before removal of the front panel.
Patent GB-604635-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to work centring machines
IPC: B23B49/04
Filed: 1945-11-29
Abstract: 604,635. Drilling-machines. MANCHESTER REPETITION ENGINEERS, Ltd., LIVING- STONE, H., and ROGERS, W. E. Nov. 29, 1945, No. 32290. [Class 83 (iii)] A centre-drilling machine comprises a headstock with a drill revolving therein, two spindles mounted for axial movement in the headstock at opposite sides of the drill axis, a cross-head connecting the forward ends of said spindles, means in the cross-head for receiving the end of the work-piece to be centred by the drill, springs resisting movement of the cross-head towards the drill, and adjustable means limiting such movement, a tailstock with means for carrying an end of the work-piece and means for traversing the work-piece towards the headstock. The centring machine in one form, Fig. 1, comprises a headstock a and tailstock b carried by a bed c, the tailstock being adjustable thereon to suit the length of the work-piece m to be centred. The centre drill g, Fig. 3, is carried in a collet type chuck tightened by a nut h in a spindle d rotated by a belt pulley e. A cross-head j, Fig. 5, is arranged centrally across the face of the headstock supported by a pair of spindles or rods i, slidable in the headstock and adapted to be moved rearwardly against the pressure of springs n. The crosshead carries a hardened steel bush at its centre having a conical recess to take the end of a work-piece. The tailstock has a non-rotatable sleeve q adapted to be fed axially by a hand wheel and rack-and-pinion gearing and has a bush with a conical recess to take the other end of the work. Axial feed of the tailstock sleeve presses the headstock end of the work against the resilient headstock bush and the work is thus centre-drilled. The depth of hole drilled is limited by an adjustable stop-bolt p. In a second form of the invention, Fig. 7, for drilling centre holes at each end of the work in one set-up, the tailstock B is provided, similarly to the headstock A, with a centre-drill and a resilient cross-head 9. The drive to the tailstock drill spindle is taken from a shaft j through a slidable pulley 4 which moves in unison with the tailstock through a fork-piece x carried by the latter engaging a groove on an extension of the pulley. According to the Provisional Specification the work-pieces may be fed into position and discharged automatically.
Patent GB-972500-A (GB)
Title: A trailer provided with a conveyor
IPC: B60P1/36
Filed: 1961-09-08
Abstract: 972,500. Unloading vehicles. SCHUITEMAKER PATENTEN N.V. Sept. 8, 1961 [Sept. 19, 1960], No. 32326/61. Heading B8E. The means for driving an endless belt or other conveyer 3 mounted on a trailer vehicle platform 2, together with an auxiliary conveying device such as the rotary feeder 26 or a laterally conveying belt at one end thereof (not shown), comprises a transmission system drivable by a drive shaft on a towing tractor and connectable thereto at either end of the platform, the arrangement fulfilling the condition that no matter to which end the drive shaft is connected a predetermined sense of rotation of the drive shaft always drives the conveyers in the same direction relative to the trailer platform. The output shaft of the said transmission system operates the conveyer drive 6 (see Fig. 1) and is itself driven by gearing to one member 5 of which it is connected. As shown, the gears are bevel gears, but they may be worms. In either case gear element 5 may be driven by either of two gear elements attached to shafts 4 and 4a themselves drivable from opposite ends of the platform and by the arrangement shown satisfying the required condition. Thus, the conveyer 3 always. delivers to the same end of the platform 2 and, in order that the unloading point may be at either end of the trailer chassis, the platform is rotatable on the chassis about a central vertical bearing axis and may be secured to the chassis in either of two positions 180 degrees apart by suitably positioned peg-and socket locking members 7, 8. An auxiliary conveyer 53, Fig. 10 (not shown), separate from the trailer, may be coupled with the conveyers on the trailer and arranged to receive the material discharged therefrom.
Patent GB-141000-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in steam boilers, or generators
IPC: F22B9/00
Filed: 1919-12-24
Abstract: 141,000. Balster, F. W. Dec. 24, 1919. Sectional boilers.-In a boiler consisting of a series of vertical tubular sections arranged in a easing or flue, each section 1 consists of two dished corrugated plates 2, 2<a>, welded or otherwise joined along a line x. Vertical fire tubes 10 are located in the recesses 6 between the corrugations 5, in the central enlarged portion 12, and in the cylindrical ends 7. Fire tubes 8 are arranged diagonally in both directions across the section 1. A number of sections 1 are arranged side by side in a casing or flue, and are held together by bolts traversing the large tubes 13. Water is supplied from a manifold connected to the bottom of each section, and steam is taken from the centre of each section by a pipe 20 leading to a superheating manifold.
Patent GB-1123520-A (GB)
Title: Concrete pumping apparatus
IPC: F01L23/00
Filed: 1967-07-14
Abstract: 1,123,520. Vehicle suspensions. DANKIN Inc. 14 July, 1967 [1 Aug., 1966], No. 32473/67. Heading B7D. [Also in Divisions F1 and F2] A trailer carrying a concrete pump (see Division F1) has pairs of road wheels 13 mounted on beams 15 pivoted at 116 on posts 117, semielliptical springs 119 being compressed between beams 15 and flanges 120 projecting from posts 117, to restrain pivoting movement of beams 15. Posts 117 are connected to piston rods 121 of hydraulic jacks 122, which are operated to lower the trailer body to the ground at a utility point and to raise the body for transporting. Vertical channels 118 on the trailer body slidably receive posts 117.
Patent GB-537413-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to electromagnetic indicator devices
IPC: G08B5/24
Filed: 1939-12-19
Abstract: 537,413. Electric selective signalling systems. STANDARD TELEPHONES & CABLES, Ltd., MYATT, E. R., and GOLD, S. F. Dec. 19, 1939, No. 32498. [Class 40 (i)] A number of indicating members are capable of being set independently, and being restored to normal by shifting them, all together, in a direction different from that of setting. In the example a number of spring returned discs 3 are separately rotatable on a shaft 2, are set individually by pawls 19 acting on ratchets 4 and can be released for self-setting to normal by sliding the shaft endwise to cause the pawls to ride on discs 5 mounted at the side of the ratchets. Three electromagnets 16, 25, 28, separately energized, operate the indicator. Magnet 16 receives a train of impulses, and the armature 17 carrying a shaft 18 at its outer end, steps up a number wheel 3, through one of the pawls 19, one only being shown in the Figure, the selection of the particular pawl being effected by a series of cams 15 on a shaft 14, stepped round by gearing with a ratchet wheel 4 on a disc 10, operated by a separate impulse from magnet 25. Each cam is shapedto prevent its associated pawl from making contact with its ratchet except in one position, and these positions are so arranged on the series of cams that the pawls engage their number wheels successively at each impulse on magnet 25. The release to normal is effected by a side thrust from the armature of magnet 28.
Patent GB-159702-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in double bed lathes
IPC: B23B3/00
Filed: 1919-12-29
Abstract: 159,702. Marks, E. C. R., (Rockford Tool Co.). Dec. 29, 1919. Turning.-A lathe is provided with a double bed disposed on both sides of the longitudinal axis of the machine, one of the bed portions adapted to carry a tailstock and a tool carriage and the other a second tool carriage, the tool carriages being movable past each other, and the second tool carriage movable past offsets in the headstock and tailstock. The bed 1 has two slideways 9, 10 and 15, 16 on which slide the carriages 5. 4 respectively, the inner rib 16 of the front slideway being vertically above the inner rib 10 of the rear slideway at or about the middle line of the lathe, which is the best position to resist the thrust on the tools and the thrust on the tailstock, which is adjustably secured on the rear slideway. The headstock 2 is fixed to the rear bed portion of the lathe and carries a belt-driven spindle 19 which drives the live-centre spindle through change gearing 22, 23 at the inner end of the headstoch and sliding change gearing 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31. The main tool carriage 4 may be traversed, by a hand-wheel 55 operating the screw 46 or by power from the live-centre spindle in the hend-stock through gearing 31 33, reversing-bevels 35, and worm gearing to the shaft 45, to which the traversing-screw 46 may be clutched by a clutch 48. This clutch may be automatically disengaged by a pawl 54 on the carriage engaging a stop 53 on a rod 52 attached to the clutch operating lever. The rear tool-carriage 5 is adjustable along the bed and may be clamped in position by a clamping-plate 63, Fig. 3. Each tool carriage carries a tool slide, the one on the front carriage being fed transversely of the machine by a hand-operated screw 62, while that on the rear carriage is fed by a vertical lever 71 rocked by a rocking shaft 77 operated by screw gear from a handle 78 disposed at the opposite end of the machine front to the wheel 55 which controls the hand traverse of the front carriage. The amount of cross feed of the tool slide is limited by a screw stop 85.
Patent GB-1042871-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to pumps
Inventor: RAUSZER KAZIMIRE STANISLAS
IPC: F04D29/22
Filed: 1961-09-11
Abstract: 1,042,871. Centrifugal pumps. HOOVER Ltd. Dec. 10, 1962 [Sept. 11, 1961], No. 32587/61. Heading F1C. The pump impeller shown in Figs. 7 and 8 comprises two blades 31 carried by a disc 30 which is domed at its centre 33. Each blade is of generally aerofoil shape with a convex outer surface 38 which lies closer to the periphery of the disc 30 at the trailing end 37 than at the leading end 36. The inner surfaces 40 are of ogee form to provide a generally diametrical passage 45 which is considerably wider at its ends than at the centre of the impeller, whereby solid matter such as lint can pass freely through the passage. The inner periphery 15 , Figs. 1 and 2 (not shown), of the axial inlet 11 of the pump casing is circular about the axis 14 of the inlet except over a portion in which a ramp 16 extends from a point 17 to a line 18, the ramp occupying about 90 degrees of the inner periphery at the line. The ramp 16 is directed generally towards the outlet 13 to assist in guiding solid matter towards the outlet. The outlet 13 is cylindrical externally, with a generally square bore.
Patent GB-867574-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to processes for removing one gas from a mixture of gases
IPC: B01D53/14
Filed: 1957-10-18
Abstract: <PICT:0867574/III/1> In a process for removing one gas from a gaseous mixture, e.g. carbon dioxide from a gaseous mixture to be used for ammonia synthesis, the gaseous mixture is contacted in two stages 1 and 2 with a liquid absorbent for the gas to be removed, e.g. sodium or potassium arsenite solution, and the absorbent in each stage is continuously withdrawn for regeneration by blowing with air or an inert gas in regeneration zones 11 and 21 respectively, the zones 11 and 21 being arranged so that the air or inert gas used and saturated in regenerating the absorbent in zone 21 passes into zone 11 for regenerating the absorbent from the first absorption stage.  Air or inert gas enters the bottom of zone 21 from a blower 7 and leaves zone 11 at 8, sensible heat contained in the effluent air or inert gas may be used in preheating absorbent to be regenerated in heat exchangers 3 and/or 4.  When employing sodium or potassium arsenite solution as absorbent the regeneration of the first solution in zone 11 is carried out at about 75 DEG C. and the air used for regenerating the solutions is so heated and saturated in regenerating the second sodium in zone 21 that the temperature of the first solution in zone 11 is not reduced by more than 15 DEG C. during regeneration.