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Patent GB-267050-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to receptacles for storing and distributing granular or powdery substances
IPC: G01F11/28
Filed: 1926-11-26
Abstract: 267,050. Bowerbank, J. W. Nov. 26, 1926. Fixed-chamber apparatus for granular and pulverulent materials.-A receptacle for storing and delivering in measured quantities granular and powdered materials, such as tea, cocoa, coffee, and custard powder, consists of a number of compartments, each with an opening and a shoot at its lower end. Fig. 1 shows a receptacle 1 divided into compartments 2 by partitions 3. Each compartment has at its lower end an opening 4, a shoot 5, and a door 6 sliding in guides 7. The compartments are shown combined with a storage box which is arranged behind them and closed by a lid 8 which covers also the tops of the compartments. Different substances may be placed in each compartment, but preferably the same substance is placed in all, different measured quantities being placed in the various compartments, the doors 6 being lettered or numbered to indicate the quantity in each. Each compartment may have an inspection opening closed by a glass or celluloid strip.
Patent GB-314739-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to combing machines
IPC: D01G19/26
Filed: 1928-10-17
Abstract: 314,739. Lees & Co., Ltd., A., and Clegg, J. W. Oct. 17, 1928. Combing-machines.-In a Nasmith combing- machine in which the top comb is mounted independently of the nipper frame, the top comb 15 is supported by links 13 from a shaft 9 and by a bracket 19, carried by the nipper bracket 11, with which engages an adjustable, bowl 16 on the comb arm 14. The shaft 9 is rocked to give to-and-fro motion to the comb by links 22, 23 connected to a rearward extension of the usual crank arm 24, which is operated by a cam on the comb cylinder shaft 6. The up-and-down motion of the comb is derived from the shape of the surface of the bracket 19.
Patent GB-300819-A (GB)
Abstract: 300,819. Brunler, O. Dec. 21, 1927. Rotary furnaces under pressure; subaqueous gas burners.-A plant for heating liquids or molten materials by means of one or more submerged flames burning in an upright position comprises a container a for the material to be heated and an external burner structure h arranged so that the flame only enters the container. Fig. 1 shows a rotatably mounted drum, with a refractory lining, for the manufacture of cement. During the process the flames e burn in an upright position, the drum being rotated on trunnions c for the discharge of the contents.
Patent GB-408355-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to covers for the spare tyres or tyres and wheels of motor vehicles
IPC: B62D43/00
Filed: 1932-10-28
Abstract: 408,355. Covers for spare tyres &c. RYCROFT, N., 6, St. Patrick's Road, and CORNERCROFT, Ltd., Ace Works, Queen Victoria Road, both in Coventry. Oct. 28, 1932, Nos. 30218/32, 13691/33, and 16810/33. [Class 94 (ii).] A tyre cover of the type made of metal or other rigid or semi-rigid material and comprising a pair of annular members a, b which are adapted to be secured together about the tyre in the plane of the wheel or in a parallel plane, is characterized in that the adjacent edges a<1>, b<1> of the two annular members or the edge of one member and the adjacent free edge f <1> of a fitting f on the other member, are adapted to interlock with each other in such a manner that the two members together form a rigid but divisible casing, one of said members a, which may extend, a<2>, to the hub of the wheel, being circumferentially continuous, whilst the other, b, is circumferentially discontinuous and adapted when interlocked with the first member to be contracted thereon. The member b may be contracted by nut and screw mechanism, by an over-centre clip or by helical tension springs which may be housed in a rubber protecting-pad or in a metal fitting on the member b. Blade springs m, c may be fitted to hold the tyre more firmly in place. The member b may be divided at two diametrically opposite points, the parts being held together at one point by a hingeplate formed with blade springs. Rubber buffers may be fitted and a rubber &c. insertion o provided on the tread and side portions of the cover. Chromium plating or other embellishment may be provided.
Patent GB-204567-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to parquet flooring
IPC: E04F15/04
Filed: 1922-11-04
Abstract: 204,567. Lichtenfeld, L. Nov. 4, 1922, Wood-block flooring. -Thin parquetry blocks a without tongues or grooves are glued or nailed to boards n which are spaced apart and nailed transversely to the ordinary floor boards m. The nails for the blocks have countersunk heads which are covered with glue.
Patent GB-300015-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to doffing mechanism for spinning, twisting and like machines
IPC: D01H9/04
Filed: 1927-11-10
Abstract: 300,015. Mackie & Sons, Ltd., J., and Mackie, J. P. Nov. 10, 1927. Addition to 273,904. Doffing-arrangements. -In the doffing-mechanism described in the parent Specification, wherein interchangeable bobbin rails are moved between the doffing position, the position below the flyers, and a rearward position by means of a rocking frame comprising bars c pivoted to arms d, e which are oscillated by suitable mechanism, the frame is provided with pivoted supporting plates p arranged to co-operate with the frame, to receive the bobbin rails as the frame is moved to the rearward position and to retain them raised approximately at the level they attain in the intermediate position of the frame, so as to obviate the difficulty of lifting and sliding the bobbin rails when the frame is moved from the rearward to the intermediate position. The plates p are pivoted to fixed brackets at a point q immediately below the pivots of the weighted hooks f, which, as in the arrangement described in the parent Specification, retain the bobbin rails in their rearmost position. At the commencement of the set the parts occupy the position shown in Fig. 3, the plates p being held in the depressed position by the engagement of the pivots v of the bars c with ledges u on the plates; the full bobbins a<1> are replaced by empty bobbins and the frame retracted, so that the plates p, being released from the constraint of the pivots v, rise under the action of counterweights and are engaged by runners w on the bars d, as shown in Fig. 4. In this position the plates support the lifter rail and allow the frame to be moved forward without effort into its intermediate position shown in Fig. 5 in readiness for the next doff. Pins t on the plates p engage the tails of the hooks f to determine their operative and inoperative positions. The invention may be applied to the form of frame which is pivoted above the bar c.
Patent GB-629741-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to ventilators, air directional outlets and the like
IPC: F24F13/065
Filed: 1947-11-14
Abstract: 629,741. Ventilators. STIRLING & CO., Ltd., R. B., STIRLING, R. B., and KEITH, R. F. Nov. 14, 1947, No. 30275. [Class 137] The ball, of a ball and socket  ventilator, comprises two independently rotatable hemi-spherical parts e, f . eaeh having a halfcylindrical air passage e<SP>1</SP>, f <SP>1</SP>, with axes xx; yy, the passages being so arranged that when the two outlets are brought together by manipulation of knobs g, as in Fig. 3, to  form a circular discharge opening, the passages are arranged at an angle to one another, so that the air is discharged in two divergent streams; and when the outlets are separated to the greatest extent, they and the inlet openings lie within the socket a, b, the discharge of air being thus prevented. The socket is formed by rings a, b having flanges c, d for connection to the air duct, and the inner surface has a felt facing to receive the two hemi-spherical parts e, f.  The passages e<SP>1</SP>, f<SP>1</SP> are of tapered formation, the larger diameter being at the inlet end. The divergence of the air streams may be increased by rotating the segments  in opposite directions until the outlets are just about to enter the socket, the.knobs preventing further movement.
Patent GB-1466444-A (GB)
Title: Manufacture of formaldehyde
IPC: C07C67/00
Filed: 1974-07-09
Abstract: 1466444 Formaldehyde production; methanol recovery BASF AG 9 July 1974 [10 July 1973] 30293/74 Heading C2C A process for the manufacture of formaldehyde by oxidative dehydrogenation of methanol in the presence of a silver catalyst and in the presence of steam at elevated temperature, is carried out using methanol which has been separated from a condensate which has been obtained by evaporating aqueous reaction mixtures derived from the synthesis of a urea resin or a methylol urea and has then been treated with caustic alkali in a reactor over a residence time of from 8 to 25 minutes with substantially no backmixing, the initial concentration of formaldehyde in the condensate being up to 5% by weight and the temperature being from 80‹ to 115‹ C. and the pressure from 2 to 20 atmospheres. Preferably plug flow conditions are used for the caustic treatment, suitable reactors including packed tubes of diameter 10 to 1000 mm., tubes of diameter 10 to 100 mm. and subdivided into 8 to 30 successive chambers, and a cascade of 4 to 8 stirred vessels.
Patent GB-1224779-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in escapement mechanisms for articles to be discharged from a magazine along a chute
Inventor: BARKER GEORGE PAUL
IPC: B23P19/00
Filed: 1968-06-26
Abstract: 1,224,779. Feeding screws. CHARLES CHURCHILL Ltd. 25 June, 1969 [26 June, 1968], No. 30355/68. Heading B8S. The movement of screws 10 down rail 11 is controlled by the action of wedge 19 and finger 12, wedge 19 being carried by arm 18 pivoted at 20, and finger 12 being carried by arm 14 pivoted at 15. Arm 18 engages with link 24 by means of pin and slot 27, 28 and arm 14 likewise engages with said link 24 by means of pin and socket 25, 26, so that transverse movement of link 24 backwards and forwards across the length of rail 11 serves to move wedge 19 and finger 12 into and out of engagement with the bottom screw 10 in an escapement movement to release the bottom screws one by one to move leftwards down the rails. The effect of wedge 19 moving between the ultimate and penultimate screws is to give a forward flick to the screw to increase its velocity.
Patent GB-936384-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in beet and like harvesting machines
IPC: A01D27/04
Filed: 1958-09-23
Abstract: 936,384. Root crop harvesters. J. D. DYSON, and C. R. DYSON. Dec. 23, 1959 [Sept. 23, 1958], No. 30364/58. Class 6(3). A root crop harvester has lifting means and topping means and is characterised in that the topping means is adjustable laterally of the machine relative to the lifting means. The topping means comprises a driven feeler drum 2 supported on an arm 4 attached to a sleeve 5 pivoted on a shaft 6 fixed to the main harvester frame. A U-shaped member 7 may be moved by a crank 9 to slide the sleeve 5 on the shaft 6. Alternative means of moving the U-shaped member 7 include pivoted levers, pulley and chain, hydraulic ram, rack and pinion or gear wheels. Skeith wheels 14 are mounted on arms 13 attached to the U-shaped member. In a modification a skeith wheel is mounted to pivot about a separate axis and two arms supporting the feeler drum are pivoted directly on the shaft 6. In a further embodiment the topping unit may be fixed to the shaft 6 and the shaft mounted to be movable transversely of the machine.
Patent GB-421686-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in machines for making concrete tiles, slabs and the like
IPC: B65G59/06
Filed: 1933-07-24
Abstract: 421,686. Moulding tiles. BATCHELLER, T. R. S., Amberleigh, Yeoman Lane, Bearsted, near Maidstone. July 24, 1934, No. 30609 /33. [Class 87 (ii)] Comprises a combination and arrangement of parts forming means for delivering pallets automatically to a tile-making machine. A hopper e carrying a pile of superposed pallets, is furnished with an inclined rear wall t and is fixed at its open front end to angle irons h secured to angle bars c forming an extension of the machine frame, and at its rear end to a main standard a of the machine, the angle bars forming guides for a reciprocating pusher plate furnished with renewable and wearing strips and carrying a bracket for direct attachment to a crank-operated rod driven by the machine to reciprocate the pusher plate. In operation the bottom pallet of the stack f is removed from the pile at each forward stroke of the guided pusher m and is delivered to the main table b of the making-machine. The pusher comprises spaced top and bottom members n, o embracing the angle-iron guide rails c, both the members and the guide rails being furnished with renewable wearing strips at the surfaces in contact. The rear wall t of the hopper slopes outwardly to facilitate the lowering of the pile by gravity. Each pallet may be sprayed with oil from the perforated pipe u during its advance.
Patent GB-488080-A (GB)
Title: Method for applying flock
IPC: D04H11/00
Filed: 1937-11-08
Abstract: 488,080. Coated fabrics ; ornamenting. FEINBLOOM. W. F. Nov. 8, 1937, No. 30635. Drawings to Specification. [Class 140] [Also in Group XV] A method of applying flock to a knitted or woven fabric comprises applying to one face of the fabric a, liquid adhesive thin enough partially to penetrate the fabric, dispersing thereon flock consisting of filaments of substantial length, stretching the fabric, subjecting it to slow beating, allowing the fabric to contract, and drying the adhesive. Alternatively the fabric may be stretched prior to application of the adhesive or after application of the adhesive but prior to flocking. The flock may consist of cotton, wool, silk, rayon, flax, jute, or hair and may be applied in the form of a design. Suitable adhesives include casein, glue, rubber cement, and rubber dispersions such as latex. Flock of more than one colour may be used, drying preceding each separate application. The base material may comprise a plurality of layers, for example, a double woven fabric.
Patent GB-953816-A (GB)
Title: Improved method of producing aluminium bodies capable of taking a high gloss
IPC: C22F1/04
Filed: 1962-08-09
Abstract: A method of forming aluminium bodies, e.g. sheet, strip, wire &c., from an aluminium billet comprises homogenizing the billet at a temperature above 550  DEG C. and below the melting point, quenching the billet to a temperature of at least 500  DEG C. and thereafter shaping the billet into a body in a temperature range of 420-500  DEG C. The billet may be formed into an intermediate shape at 420-500 DEG C., quenched to a temperature below 200  DEG C. and finally cold rolled into its final shape.  The optimum homogenizing temperature is given as 600  DEG C. for 8/9 hours. The quenching medium may be water to which is added 1-2% nitric acid or oil.  The final product may be temper-annealed at a temperature of 100-200  DEG C. In a modification the billet is quenched to room temperature and subsequently induction reheated to 420-500  DEG C. prior to working as above.  Aluminium having an aluminium content of 99.7-99.99% or alloys thereof containing from 0.2-2.8% magnesium may be used and the billets preferably have a weight to surface ratio of less than 2.2 Kg/dm2. The finished products are finally anodized. Specific examples of the process relating to the forming of sheets and wire are given.
Patent GB-210880-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in connection with the heating and cooling of buildings
IPC: F24H3/00
Filed: 1922-11-10
Abstract: 210,880. Crittall, R. G., and Musgrave, J. L. Nov. 10, 1922. Cooling buildings.-In a system for cooling buildings by means of radiators located in the walls, floors or ceilings there is embedded in the plaster of the wall or ceiling or in the concrete of the floor a series of tubes B forming a grid adapted to contain water and to receive a pipe D through which is passed a fluid for cooling and thus circulating the water in the grid. Preferably, the tube b<1> receiving the pipe D has a greater cross-sectional area than that of the remaining tubes of the grid.
Patent GB-362949-A (GB)
Title: Electrically operated hand shears
IPC: B26F1/38
Filed: 1930-09-03
Abstract: 362,949. Cutting-appliances. HOOGLAND, E., 19, Allerheiligenstrasse, Cologne, Germany. Sept. 3, 1930, No. 30830/31. Divided on 362,960. [Class 31 (ii).] In electromagnetically operated cloth shears in which a blade attached to a casing 2 cooperates with a blade 13 vibrated by the armature of an electromagnet, a conical screw 10 adjusts a spring upon which the armature is mounted. To prevent adjustment of the screw 10 tilting the blade 13, the armature carries an extension 11 provided with a spherical projection 14 which engages a recess 12 in the blade 13.
Patent GB-1144835-A (GB)
Title: Keyboard operated typewriter or like printer
IPC: B41J25/02
Filed: 1967-07-05
Abstract: 1,144,835. Typewriters. INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORP. 5 July, 1967 [22 July, 1966], No. 30855/67. Heading B6F. Actions using auxiliary power.-A keyboardoperated printer has key levers 10 which operate a plurality of interposers 20, the selected depressed interposer being driven to the left, Fig. 1, by a half-revolution of a drive 56 to operate selection bails 60 and returnable to the right after each selection to enable a subsequent selection, but when a repeat action is required the interposer is held against full return so causing the selected bails to be maintained operative and the drive mechanism to operate repeatedly. Movement from the key to the interposer is via a pivoted dauber 18, the right-hand end of the interposer 20 is lowered .underneath a leaf spring 30 while a bail 40 is depressed to release a latch 40, 41 whereupon a lever 43 is urged to the left by a spring 47 and a clutch latch 62 on the right-hand end of the lever 43 releases a clutch sleeve member 50 and a drive belt 55 rotated by the clutch rotates the drive .shaft 56 which operates the now depressed interposer 20. In a single operation the interposer 20 returns rearwardly and upwardly by means of a spring 26 and comes to rest, as shown, against the spring 34 and clear of the drive shaft 56 which is stopped by the relatching of the clutch sleeve 50 by the latch 62. The latch is moved into engagement with one of the sleeve shoulders 51 by levers 65, 65 pivoted by the drive 56. Prevention of repeat operation.-The dauber 18 is pivoted counter-clockwise by the interposer 20 if the key is held down too long so as to prevent an unintended repeat operation. Repeat operation.-When a repeat operation is required a repeat key is depressed while the required character or other action key is held depressed. The character key may be released but repeated action occurs as long as the repeat key is held. The key lever 70, Fig. 70, has a resilient part 74 and engages and pivots an angular repeat bail 67, this moves into the return path of a stepped ear 76 having a latching surface 77. The clutch bail 40 is held depressed and the drive continues to operate Key-interlocks.-A crowded ball interlock device 30 co-operates with a raised hook 32 on the interposers 20 to prevent more than one action occurring at one time.
Patent GB-337567-A (GB)
Title: A new or improved device for holding or retaining a door, window or the like
IPC: E05C17/44
Filed: 1929-10-11
Abstract: 337,567. Clements, H. G., and Ruffle, F. J. Oct. 11, 1929. Door-holders.-The plunger 3 of a door-holder slides vertically in guides 2, 2<a> fixed to the door 18 and carries a rubber pad 7 at its lower end; the plunger is provided with teeth 15 which automatically engage with the edge 16 of the aperture 4<a> in the guide 2a to hold the pad 7 in contact with the floor, as shown. The aperture 4<a> allows slight movement of the plunger away from the door, as shown dotted, so as to disengage the teeth 15 when the door is moved against the resistance of the holder, allowing the spring 5 to raise the plunger to its normal position clear. of the floor. The pad may have a slightly concave lower surface and that surface may be grooved or serrated.
Patent GB-1193870-A (GB)
Title: Articulated Telescopic Piping Systems
IPC: B64C3/38
Filed: 1967-07-05
Abstract: 1,193,870. Pipe system; pipe joints. AVIONS MARCEL DASSAULT. 5 July, 1967 [24 Feb., 1967], No. 31024/67. Headings F2G and F2P. An articulated telescopic piping system, applicable in particular to a variable-geometry aircraft comprises a fixed pipe 29, terminating in a first knuckle 11, a mobile pipe 12 able to swivel about a fixed axis of rotation and terminating at one end in a second knuckle 14 and a telescopic tube constituted by two cylinders 15, 16 which can slide in sealed manner with one another. One, 16, of the cylinders terminates at one end of the tube in a third knuckle 17 which forms a first sealed ball joint with the first knuckle 11 and the other cylinder 15 terminates at the other end of the telescopic tube in a fourth knuckle 18 which forms a second sealed ball joint with the second knuckle 14 the fourth and second knuckles constituting the second ball joint being in the form of annular elements of which that constituting the fourth knuckle has its axis fixed perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the telescopic tube. In the construction shown the sealing between the cylinders 15, 16 is effected by a sleeve 20 attached to cylinder 15 and provided with a plurality of sealing rings 22, 23, 24, 25, 30. In the aircraft three such telescopic piping systems are connected between the fuselage and the swing wing (Fig. 1, not shown), two to carry fuel from the wing and the other to carry compressed air to the fuel containers.
Patent GB-1008645-A (GB)
Title: Dibenzocycloheptane derivatives
Inventor: CORTS GERARDUS JOHANNES BERTRA
IPC: A61K31/00
Filed: 1963-08-06
Abstract: The invention comprises N-substituted-3-(dibenzo[a,d] - 1,4 - cycloheptadien - 5 - yloxy) nortropane derivatives of formula <FORM:1008645/C2/1> where R1 and R2 represent hydrogen, halogen or C1- 4 alkyl, R3 represents C2- 8 alkyl or aralkyl with up to 8 carbon atoms in the alkyl moity, and their non-toxic acid addition salts. They are prepared by: (1) reacting <FORM:1008645/C2/2> with <FORM:1008645/C2/3> preferably in the presence of an acid-binding agent or using an alkali metal salt of the nortropine; (2) reacting a compound of formula <FORM:1008645/C2/4> with R3 Hal or with R31 CO Hal (R31=C1- 7 the alkyl moity) followed by reduction of the carbonyl group, e.g. with LiAlH4; or (3) reacting a compound of formula <FORM:1008645/C2/5> with R31CHO under reducing conditions (R4 H or COOH).  N-Ethylnortropine is prepared H2/Raney nickel reduction of N-ethylnortropinone.  3 - (Dibenzo[a,d] - 1,4 - cycloheptadien - 5 - yloxy) - 8 - octanoylnortropane is prepared from 3-(dibenzo[a,d]-1,4-cycloheptadien-5-yloxy) nortropane and octanoyl chloride.  N - (b  - Phenylethyl) nortropine is prepared from N-carboxynortropine and phenylacetaldehyde in the presence of hydrogen and Raney nickel.  The compounds of the invention possess spasmolytic, antihistaminic and local anaesthetic activity. Inorganic and organic salts are specified.  They may be administered orally as tablets, pills or capsules or parenterally.  Specifications 943,603 and 988,291 are referred to.