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Patent GB-1111142-A (GB)
Title: Character reader
IPC: G06V30/146
Filed: 1965-07-16
Abstract: 1,111,142. Automatic character reading. RADIO CORPORATION OF AMERICA. 16 July, 1965 [28 Aug., 1964], No. 30436/65. Heading G4R. In a reader for characters formed of vertical and horizontal strokes, the characters are scanned by a series of vertical scan lines, the scan lines being divided into a plurality of equal sections commencing with a first section given by the detection of a first vertical stroke and means for restarting the division of the scan lines when the first vertical stroke is detected in the next scan in a higher section than the first. This prevents a false start position in the case of a badly printed character, Fig. 2a, having a bulge on one side. The video signals are shifted into an 11-stage shift register (80, Fig. 3a, not shown) under the control of timing pulses, 31 to each scan. The character occupies about 14 timing pulses so that at a particular instant the register contains the greater part of a section through the character. The stages of the shift register are applied to gating circuits (90, 110) which detect the presence of a medium vertical stroke, MVS and a small white gap, SWG. The medium vertical stroke signal, MVS is used to start the recognition circuits and is passed through a delay (202, Fig. 3B, not shown) to set a flipflop (152). The " 1 " output of this flip-flop enables a gate (153) to allow timing pulses to pass to a 5-stage ring counter (154) which divides the scan into groups of five pulses each forming a section. The sections are counted by a second counter (156). Section S1A, Fig. 2a, therefore starts at the bulge on the left-hand side of the " 9." Sections S2A, S3A, S4A, S5A and S6A follow cyclically. If in the next scan (2) the first medium vertical stroke appears in Section S1A, this sectioning is retained in every scan thereafter but if as in this case, the MVS signal in the next scan appears in Section S6A, the counters (154 and 156) are reset and start again on the now MVS signal, the new division being shown at S1B, S2B, &c. The successive scans are counted in twos to divide the character into right, centre and left zones. Appropriate outputs of the section counter (156) are used to divide the character into upper and lower zones. The zone signals and the MVS signal are gated together to determine the location of the medium vertical strokes of a character. These indications are combined with the short white gap signals, and further signals indicating the absence of a long white gap, in a recognition circuit to identify the character.
Patent GB-181652-A (GB)
Title: Improved detachable automatic golf bag support
IPC: A63B55/57
Filed: 1921-11-15
Abstract: 181,652. Moon, C. J. C. Nov. 15, 1921. Supporting-devices for golf-club carriers. - Relates to a caddy bag support of the type employing a pair of legs pivoted near the rim of the bag and adapted to open out when the bag is slightly inclined to the vertical. A frame a carrying two legs h is attached to a caddy bag by a clamp d which is hinged to the frame by a pin c. The two legs h are pivoted on a rod g which is coupled by a link f to an extension e of the clamp d. A metal casing b forming the lower end of the frame comprises two cover-plates connected by screws j and a central web i which serves to separate the legs. A central bolt j<1> engages oblique notches h', so arranged in the legs h that an axial movement of the rod g spreads the legs apart or draws them together. Thus as the frame is moved away from the bag the legs are spread apart against the action of a compression spring g<1>.
Patent GB-340630-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to furnaces burning liquid, gaseous or pulverised fuel
IPC: F23D11/36
Filed: 1929-10-08
Abstract: 340,630. Liquid, gaseous, and pulverulent fuel furnaces. Mc- KEAN, J. G., Westerhill, Mount Vernon, Lanarkshire, and JONES, R. F., 238, Auldhouse Road, Newlands, Glasgow. Oct. 8, 1929, No. 30459. [Class 51 (i).] Forced draught systems.-In furnaces burning liquid, gaseous or pulverized fuel, the air trunk through which air under pressure is delivered by a fan is provided with a balanced damper adapted to swing into the air trunk to open, which automatically cuts off the flow of air through the trunk when the pressure falls so that if the fan is stopped cold air does not continue to flow through the 1an and air trunk into the furnace. The damper 1 is mounted on a hinge pin 2 at the junction of the fan outlet 3 and the air trunk 4 and takes on a seating 5 formed on the fan outlet. A rod 6 mounted under the damper carries an arm 7 bearing against the damper and an arm 9 carrying a counterweight 8 which normally keeps the damper closed. When the fan is started the pressure of the air swings the damper into the air trunk, the degree of opening being regulated by an adjustable stop 10. To prevent chattering when in the open position due to variations of air pressure an electromagnet 11 connected in series with the fan motor holds the weight 8 when it has been swung into the open position. The electromagnet is carried by a bracket 12 adjustable by slotted holes 13.
Patent GB-629755-A (GB)
Title: Rotary fans and the like
IPC: F04D25/08
Filed: 1947-11-17
Abstract: 629,755. Cooling motors. SMITH, W. H. Nov. 17, 1947, No. 30493. [Class 35] [Also in Group XXVI] In an electrically driven centrifugal fan, air is drawn in partly through the usual inlet eye 5 and partly (for cooling the motor 3) through an annular passage 9 around the motor casing and thence through an opening 11.
Patent GB-602645-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in miner's knee pads
IPC: A41D13/06
Filed: 1946-10-21
Abstract: 6 0 2,6 4 5. Knee pads. GOSLING, A. Oct. 21, 1946, No. 30550/45. [Class 81(ii)] A knee pad comprises an outer covering 2 of hard rubber, leather, &c., and a resilient lining comprising a rubber layer 3a formed with resilient projections 3b between it and the covering, and having adhered to it a felt layer 3c. The lining is perforated. The upper half 1b of the covering is bent relative to the lower half 1a and affixed thereto by rivets 4. The upper half may be unlined. A rubber sealing strip 6 is provided at the top and sides between the lining and the outer cover. Straps 7 threaded through.slots in the cover enable the pad to be attached to the wearers leg.
Patent GB-809774-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to hypodermic syringes
Inventor: CAMBER BERNARD
IPC: A61M5/315
Filed: 1955-10-26
Abstract: 809,774. Hypodermic syringes. EVERETT & CO. Ltd., S. & R. J. Oct. 24, 1956 [Oct. 26, 1955], No. 30638/55. Class 81 (2). A hypodermic double - ended needle has a flange 42 to co-operate with a transverse front wall 43 of a syringe and, between the flange 42 and the piercer end of the needle, a boss 44 of which the end remote from the flange 42 is of smaller area than the flange 42. A doubleended needle 12 has flanges 41, 42 which fit against opposite faces of the front wall 43 of a cartridge syringe casing 10. A tapered boss 44 on the rear flange 42 bears against a flexible central zone of the diaphragm 13 at the front of a cartridge 11, the diaphragm 13 thus being deflected or compressed by the boss 44 so that the cartridge, which is fixed at the rear end by a cap 15, is prevented from moving axially. The needle 12 is inserted sideways in the front wall 43. The remainder of the syringe is substantially the same as that described in Specification 809,773.
Patent GB-321311-A (GB)
Title: Vehicle bodies
IPC: B62K27/06
Filed: 1928-10-23
Abstract: 321,311. Ascot Motor & Manufacturing Co., Ltd., and Pullin, C. G. Oct. 23, 1928. No Patent granted (Sealing fee not paid). Bodies; side-cars.-In a vehicle body such as a motor vehicle or side-car of the kind having a recess closed by a cover to form a compartment enclosing part of a wheel the wheel is supported solely upon the sides of the compartment and the use of an axle passing from side to side of the body is thereby avoided. The recess 2 is formed in the side of the body 3 and is provided with a cover plate 8 and the wheel spindle 6 is supported by spring suspensions 7 from the sides of the compartment. The cover may be welded in position in which case the wheel is withdrawable by removing the spindle 6 axially. The cover 8 may be shaped to form part of the wheel compartment with a shallow recess in the body side. Specifications 321,310; and 321,312, [Class 108 (ii), Road vehicles, Undercarriage details &c. for], are referred to.
Patent GB-1431174-A (GB)
Title: Process for the conversion of a penicillin s-oxide into a corresponding desacetoxycephalosporin
IPC: C07D333/24
Filed: 1972-06-30
Abstract: 1431174 Preparing desacetoxycephalosporin compounds CLIN-MIDY 18 June 1973 [30 June 1972] 30674/72 Heading C2C Desacetoxycephalosporin compounds are prepared by ring expansion of a corresponding penicillin S-oxide by heating at 70 to 140 C. in the presence of (a) dimethyl sulphoxide, (b) from 0À01 to 0À3 molar proportions, referred to the starting penicillin S-oxide, of a sulphonium salt obtained by reaction of dimethyl sulphoxide with a hydrogen halide or salt thereof with a tert. organic base; an oxygen-containing mineral acid or an organic acid having a pKa lower than 1; a tri(C 1-6  alkyl)oxonium fluoroborate; a sultone of formula wherein Q is ethylene, n-propylene or o-phenylene; or a compound of formula R 3 -(CO) n -CH 2 -Hal wherein Hal is Cl or Br, n is zero or 1, and R 3  is hydrogen, C 1-5  alkyl or phenyl which may be substituted by 1 or 2 halogen, nitro or methoxy groups, R 3  being hydrogen or unsubstituted phenyl only when n is zero; or (c) a mixture of dimethyl sulphoxide and said sulphonium salt.
Patent GB-1260885-A (GB)
Title: Colour television camera arrangements
IPC: H04N9/73
Filed: 1969-06-18
Abstract: 1,260,885. Colour television. FERNSEH G.m.b.H. 18 June, 1969 [11 July, 1968], No. 30901/69. Heading H4F. [Also in Division G1] To compensate for the influence of variations in colour temperature on image reproduction in a television system, photo-electric cells which supply signals dependent on the colour temperature of the lighting are disposed remote from the colour television camera, and these signals supplied by the photo-electric cells are used to control the amplification balance of the chrominance channels. A photo-electric cell may be associated with each chrominance channel, the light being supplied thereto by way of a colour divider having a similar transmission characteristic to the corresponding colour divider of the camera. Alternatively two photo-electric cells may be sufficient, their sensitivity maxima lying in the red and blue spectral regions respectively of the transmission curve of the colour divider of the camera, the algebraic sum of the two resulting signals (which are of opposite polarity) comprising the control signal for the red and blue chrominance channel amplifiers (Fig. 3, not shown). The equilibrium setting for establishing the white point may be effected by means of a potentiometer or means of light dimming screens or filters arranged in front of the cells. The photo-electric cell arrangement may be connected to the camera by cable or by radio transmission. Two or more such photo-electric cell arrangements may be selectively associated with one camera.
Patent GB-1309535-A (GB)
Title: Method and apparatus for warming carbonated beverages in sealed  containers
IPC: A23L3/10
Filed: 1971-07-01
Abstract: 1309535 Heating sealed containers CONSOLIDATED FOODS CORP 1 July 1971 [27 July 1970] 30911/71 Heading A2D [Also in Division F4] In apparatus for the continuous heating to ambient temperatures of the contents of sealed containers filled with carbonated beverages to avoid condensation or for heating carbonated beer to pasteurization temperatures in sealed containers 23, the containers pass over an elongated dry heat source 26 on an endless perforated conveyor belt 12, 13 or on a vibratory conveyor, Fig. 6, so that the emitted heat impinges on the undersides of the containers. The heating source may utilise radiation from an upper wall 29 of an infrared heater generated by burners 31 or flames from burners may directly contact the undersides of the containers. The containers, which may be of metal or glass, are transferred directly to and from the conveyor by separate infeed and discharge conveyors, not shown.
Patent GB-341469-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to picture and the like telegraph receivers
IPC: H01J65/04
Filed: 1929-10-11
Abstract: 341,469. Copying telegraphy ; discharge lamps. TELEFUNKEN GES. FUR DRAHTLOSE TELEGRAPHIE, 12, Hallesches Ufer, Berlin. Oct. 11, 1929, No. 30949. Convention date, Nov. 26, 1928. [Classes 39 (i) and 40 (iii).] In picture telegraph and like receivers wherein recording is effected by means of an electric glow discharge lamp, the light is set up within a capillary a, Fig. 2, which has its axis directed towards the recording-surface f, the source of light being controlled by the received signals and operating without the interposition of electro-optical devices, or lenses &c. The bulb b of the lamp contains a gas such as neon or helium, the end of the capillary being closed by a substantially perfectly flat transparent plate c which is either fused or cemented thereon. An internal electrode e is provided within the bulb b, and an external electrode d may be provided in the form of a coating around the capillary a ; alternatively, the external electrode may be used as an auxiliary starting electrode, a second internal electrode i, Fig. 3a, being in the form of a ring or apertured plate within the annularly expanded end of the capillary. The latter arrangement may be modified by providing a single lateral projection to receive an electrode at the closed end of the capillary. As shown in Fig. 2, the lamp is mounted within a light-tight casing provided with a shutter adjacent to a drum carrying the recording- surface.
Patent GB-222719-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in connection with heat-insulating coverings for boilers and other vessels
IPC: F16L59/12
Filed: 1923-12-10
Abstract: 222,719. Bell's United Asbestos Co., Ltd., and Barratt, S. H. H. Dec. 10, 1923. N o n - conducting coverings for heat.- Distance-pieces for maintaining an air space between a heat insulating covering b and the surface to be protected comprise rectangular sheets a of asbestos millboard with turned-down corners a<1> saturated with a hardening agent such as sodium silicate, casein or a phenol-formaldehyde condensation product. They are secured to the covering by wire or asbestos twine c passing through holes a', or through a central hole and two holes in a button. They may be moulded from asbestos fibre mixed with a hardening agent.
Patent GB-283705-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to laminated electrically conducting brushes
IPC: H01H1/10
Filed: 1926-12-07
Abstract: 283,705. General Electric Co., Ltd., and Angold, A. E. Dec. 7, 1926. Contacts. - Laminated switch contacts are formed of a number of laminations of equal dimensions which are clamped together by a cotter and bolt passing through holes or recesses in the laminations which are also of equal dimensions and are uniformly disposed with respect thereto. The laminations are arranged so that the contacting edge of the brush is at an angle with the sides and spacers or strips forming part of a flexible lead are inserted between adjacent laminations. As shown in Fig. 1, the stationary laminated brush 3 consists of alternate laminations 1. Fig. 2, and spacers 19, Fig. 3, which are formed with elongated perforations 5, 20 to allow the entry of a cotter 4 and gib 16 to clamp them in the holder 2. The cotter 4 is parallel sided where it passes through the brush, but is wedge-shaped where it passes through the limbs of the holder 2. A triangular block mav be inserted between the brush and the upper side 13 of the holder 2, which may, alternatively, be inclined parallel to the side of the brush. The rear ends of the laminations extend beyond the spacers so that they may be bent against the rear side 12 of the holder 2 as the cotter is driven home. The cotter may be terminated in a screwed stem provided with a nut for securing it in position. The outer end of the brush is engaged by a movable switch bar 24. In the modification shown in Fig. 4, the laminations are clamped together by inclined blocks 29, 30 secured by a bolt 32 passing through elongated holes in the laminations and being provided with a nut 33. Some or all of the spacers are continued backwards to form a laminated flexible lead 35 secured in a block 36. The contact 26 is clamped by a bolt 40 between the pivoted arms 38 which are rotated to bring it into engagement with a fixed contact block 41.
Patent GB-505507-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to cinematograph projectors
IPC: G03B21/32
Filed: 1937-11-11
Abstract: 505,507. Kinematograph projectors. STEATIT-MAGNESIA AKT.-CES. Nov. 11, 1937, No. 31034. Convention date, Nov. 13, 1936. [Class 97 (i)] A portable projector, particularly for substandard films, comprises a flat casing a from which, when ready for transport, only operating knobs project, the casing containing the film-feeding mechanism c and driving motor d, and lamp house h the same width as the casing and pivoted to the casing at i. The casing is of metal cast under pressure or is moulded from artificial resin, and the lamp house carries cooling ribs n. The supply spool carrier q may be lowered into the casing, and that for the take-up spool is plugged into the casing. Current is supplied by contacts v.
Patent GB-412831-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to rotary kilns
IPC: F27B7/38
Filed: 1933-11-08
Abstract: 412,831. Rotary kilns. MIAG MUHLENGAU UND INDUSTRIE AKT.- GES., 41, Rosstrasse, Brunswick, Germany. Nov. 8, 1933, No. 31036. Convention date, July 12. [Class 51 (ii).] In a rotary kiln a having a cooking extension b with an inspection tube e extending therethrough, the tube is mounted independently of the kiln, e.g. on an external carriage c, so that it can readily be withdrawn to allow access to the interior. The burner f may be cantilevered in the inspection tube, or secured therein by supports e<1>.
Patent GB-1304960-A (GB)
IPC: C09D141/00
Filed: 1970-06-26
Abstract: 1304960 Binder compositions for baking finishes BADISCHE ANILIN- & SODAFABRIK AG 26 June 1970 [27 June 1969] 31082/70 Heading C3P A baking finish contains, as binder, a mixture of (1) from 40 to 97% by weight of a copolymer containing polymerized units of (a) from 8 to 97À5% by weight of at least one ester of an α,#-olefinically unsaturated carboxylic acid, (b) 2 to 25% by wt. of S-vinyl thioethanol, (c) 0À1 to 19% by weight of an olefinically unsaturated carboxylic acid and if desired (d) up to 55% by weight of at least one other copolymerizable olefinically unsaturated monomer not specified in (a) to (c) and (2) from 3 to 60% by weight of an aminoplast resin optionally mixed with another binder such as an epoxy resin, phenolic resin, an alkyd resin, a cellulose derivative or a polyacrylate. Component (a) is preferably an ester of a C 3-5  acid with a C 1-8  alcohol, and acid component (c) preferably contains 3-5 carbon atoms such as acrylic, methacrylic, maleic, fumaric and itaconic acids. Half esters of the dicarboxylic acids with C 1-8  alcohols, may also be used. Optional monomer (d) may be selected from vinyl aromatic hydrocarbons, vinyl esters of aliphatic linear or branched C 2-11  monocarboxylic acids, N-vinyl amides, vinyl/ C 1-8  alkyl ethers, (meth)acrylonitrile, (math) - acrylamide and butadiene. The preferred monomer (d) is styrene. The aminoplast resin (2) may be, for example a melamine/ formaldehyde resin, optionally etherified with a C 1-4  alcohol. Examples are given using the preferred ingredients mentioned above. The compositions are coated on to deep drawn metal sheets.
Patent GB-254969-A (GB)
Title: Latches or retainers for record trays or slides
IPC: E05B65/46
Filed: 1925-05-18
Abstract: 254,969. Rand, J. H. May 18, 1925. Catches, automatic.-A latch or retainer adapted to hold a card index tray or slide within a cabinet or the like comprises a flexible strip 62, Fig. 2, arranged on the bottom 10 of the tray adjacent to the front wall 13 and secured at one end by lugs 63 struck up from the bottom of the tray, the other end being provided with a catch or stop portion 65, Fig. 1, preferably of U-shaped section, which projects through a hole in the tray bottom and engages a ledge X on the transverse partition supporting the tray. The stop portion 65 extends upwardly and rearwardly so that its rear edge 66 is substantially flush with the bottom of the tray, thereby enabling the stop to be cammed upwardly by the ledge X when the tray is pushed in. The latch is lifted and disengaged by means of a finger-piece 67 projecting forwardly from the central portion of the strip 62 and extending through an opening 68 in the front wall, beneath the tray handle 70. To prevent the latch from being strained, due to the tray being pulled before the stop 65 is fully released, an abutment or reinforcement 69 is provided on the bottom of the tray immediately behind the stop.
Patent GB-897586-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to the catalytic hydrogenating refining of hydrocarbons
IPC: C10G45/02
Filed: 1960-09-09
Abstract: <PICT:0897586/III/1> In the process of the parent Specification, wherein hydrocarbons such as petrol, benzene, gas oil, and the like are catalytically hydrogenatively refined in the presence of hydrogen or a hydrogencontaining gas by vaporizing the hydrocarbon in a double or more effect vaporizer through which effects they pass in succession in admixture with the hydrogen before being refined, and which in the course of their vaporization are maintained in circulation through each vaporizer offset by the action of the hydrogen as in an air-lift pump in such manner that only the liquid phase flows through the heating system of the vaporizer, characterized in that the vaporizers are heated by the gas-vapour mixture emerging from the hydrogenating refining after the said mixture has transferred some heat preferably to the gas-vapour which is about to be refined, in such manner that the gas vapour mixture which serves as the heating medium flows in succession through the heating systems of the several vaporizers in countercurrent to the hydrocarbon to be vaporized and hydrogen, the present invention introduces the additional step of treating the residue which is withdrawn from the final vaporizer with fresh circulation gas, which gas is then passed to the first vaporizer, thereby recovering hydrocarbons and heat from the residue.  The Figure illustrates a suitable plant for carrying out the process of the invention, wherein the residues are located in column 69, 70, 71 with fresh circulating gas via line 68, which gas leaves via line 60 and enters the first vaporizer 7.