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Patent GB-185191-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to flow meters
IPC: G01F9/02
Filed: 1921-05-27
Abstract: 185,191. Schroeder, R. W. May 27, 1921. No Patent granted (Sealing fee not paid). Multiple-indication apparatus.-An instrument for indicating 'directly upon a scale the units of work done by a motor per unit of fuel consumed comprises a flow meter for the fuel, an indicator for indicating the work done and a cornecting- link co-operating with a third scale to indicate the resultant work per unit of fuel consumed. The device may be used for measuring the rate of flow of fuel to an internal-combustion engine with reference to the speed of the vehicle driven or the work done. The flow meter comprises a slotted stand-pipe 2, Fig. 2, containing a piston carrying a pointer 6 co-oparating with a scale 33, Fig. 1, for indicating the rnte of flow per unit of time. The vehicle speed is indicated by a pointer 22 operatively connected to a collar 10, slidably mounted on a vertical spindle 11. The collar is connected to a pivoted arm 13 resting on a conical member 15 slidable on a speedometer shaft 16 and connected to rotate with the shaft through springs 17 carrying weights 20. The relation between the fuel consumption and speed is indicated on a scale on the lower side of an inclined slot 34 by a link 7 connecting the pointer 6 and collar 10. An odometer 36 may also be fitted.
Patent GB-1203539-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to washing-extracting machines
IPC: D06F95/00
Filed: 1969-03-20
Abstract: 1,203,539. Washing machines. G. A. BRAUN Inc. 20 March, 1969 [26 Nov., 1968], No. 14776/69. Heading D1A. A washing-extracting machine comprising a drum 14 rotatable in a casing 11 having perforated sides 19 and a closable opening 24 in one end which can register with an opening in the casing which is mounted on the upper members of a frame connected through vibration absorbing means with lower members pivoted to a supporting surface, power-operated means being provided for pivoting the casing and with it the drum to empty the laundry out through the aligned openings in the drum and casing. Washing drum 14, which is mounted for rotation on a shaft 15 whose ends are journalled in blocks 17, 18 in the front and back plates 12, 13 of the housing 11, is divided e.g. into three compartments 23 by longitudinal partitions 22 but may be of one, two or four compartments. The drum 14 has a hinged door 26 closing an opening 24 into each compartment 23. The front plate 12 has an opening 27 with a hinged door 28 and during loading and unloading each opening 24 is brought in succession into alignment with opening 27 when its door 26 opens downwardly and engages a lower lip 32 of opening 27. Drum 14 is driven at low and high speed for washing and spin-drying respectively by low and high speed motors 36, 37 through a multibelt drive. The housing 11 is mounted on two units at either side of the machine each including dampers 47 comprising springs 61 and piston-type shock absorbers 66 connected between support bars connected to housing 11 and base plates 48. Plates 48 are connected at the front by a shaft 72 journaled in bearing blocks 74, 74 mounted on plates 76, 76. At the rear of the machine two hydraulic or pneumatic cylinders with pistons 83 are pivoted to plates 76, 76 and the piston rods are pivoted to the plate 13 so that the rear of the machine can be raised to tip out the contents on to conveyer 81.
Patent GB-1215892-A (GB)
Title: A method of and apparatus for arc welding
IPC: B23K9/09
Filed: 1968-03-27
Abstract: 1,215,892. Welding by fusion. ELEKTRODENFABRIK OERLIKEN BUHRLE AG. 27 March, 1968 [21 April, 1967], No. 14800/68. Heading B3R. In a method of arc welding in an inert atmosphere with a consumable electrode, the welding current comprises four consecutive peaks, providing drop transfer, a first peak 4 at the end of which the current falls to a level insufficient to maintain a steadily burning arc, a second peak 1 during which material is melted and detached from the electrode in one drop 7, a third peak 2 having substantially the same maximum value as the first peak and during which the arc is maintained with minimal electrode melting, and a fourth peak 3 during which the drop is accelerated towards the work and further material is melted at the end of the electrode, the ratio of the maximum values of the second to third peaks being varied between 2À5 : 1 and 10 : 1 and the ratio of the maximum values of the fourth to third peaks being varied between 1À2 : 1 and 7 : 1 in dependence upon electrode diameter and specific current loading. In apparatus (Fig. 4, not shown), for producing the requisite current characteristic, impedances (11, 12) are constructed of cores of grain-oriented laminations whereby the ratio of the maxima of the second to fourth peaks is automatically varied from 4 : 1 to 1 : 1 with increasing mean welding current strength.
Patent GB-697659-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to the lubrication of bearings
IPC: F16N7/20
Filed: 1950-08-14
Abstract: 697,659. Lubricating. PINCKNEY, P. V., and EXE ENGINEERING CO., Ltd. Nov. 14, 1951 [Aug. 14, 1950], No. 14809/50. Class 12 (ii). A horizontal machine spindle is provided with cones or other shaped annular surfaces whereby oil carried to the spindle by a chain or gears is caused to move axially along the spirdle and be carried into one or more bearings, either directly or after being caught in a sump and Tansferred to the bearing or bearings. In the arrangement shown, the spindle A of a glass-working lathe is driven by a chain B and sprocket C, the sprocket being separated from the bearings D by distance pieces F. The sides of the sprocket are tapered at G and H and the distance pieces are tapered at I and J, so that oil carried up during rotation of the spindle A to the sprocket C by the chain B, falls down when the spindle is stopped or rotating slowly, to the junction between the sprocket and the distance pieces F and then travels along the surfaces I and J towards sumps M conducting oil to the bearings. In a modification the surfaces J lead direct to the bearings, the sumps being dispensed with. In an alternative arrangement surfaces I and J on each side of the sprocket C are replaced by two opposed cone surfaces, the oil falling off the junction of these surfaces into a sump arranged to conduct the oil to the bearing.
Patent GB-553606-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to ring springs
IPC: F41A25/10
Filed: 1941-11-19
Abstract: 553,606. Springs. BOULTON PAUL AIRCRAFT, Ltd., and REDSHAW, S. C. Nov. 19, 1941 No. 14869. [Class 108 (iii)] In ring springs of the type in which a number of inner and outer rings with cylinderical and conical or double conical faces wedge into one another, the component rings are made of resilient material 8 such as rubber with rigid rings 9 on their cylindrical faces, inner or outer, and with rigid segments 10 on their outer or inner conical surfaces to form conical faces for corresponding engagement. The Figure shows only the inner rings so formed but both inner and outer rings may be resilient. The bearing members 10 are formed as a steel sleeve with a cylindrical surface and a double conical surface and are divided into a plurality of segments by saw cuts 11 of suitable width. The springs are located, as shown, between two telescopic tubes, each of which has a shoulder such as 5 and a flat ring 6 bearing against an end of the spring.
Patent GB-272239-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in apparatus for clamping and holding shoe lasts and patterns
IPC: B27M3/20
Filed: 1927-06-07
Abstract: 272,239. Amann, P. June 5,1926, [Convention date]. Turning; chucks.-Apparatus for holding shoelasts and patterns A while the wooden tenons 1, 3, are being secured in a copying-lathe and the lasts are being finished and polished comprises a three-jaw self-centring chuck 10 rotatably mounted in a fixed ring 16. The jaws 11 are operated by a scroll 14 rotated within the chuck-body 10 by a pinion 15 and the work is centred by claws 1<b>, 3<b> mounted on brackets 20, 21 movable along guides 18 perpendicular to the plane of the chuck by a right and left hand screw 22 and a hand wheel 23. The claw 1<b> is adjustable in its bracket bv a screw 24 and a hand wheel 25. The chuck jaws may consist of dogs 30, Fig. 3, screwed on arms 27 which are locked against rotation in any angular position in eyes 26 on the ends of the jaws 11 by right and left hand screws 28, or of dogs 35, Fig. 6. mounted on a ball 36 and having spherical ends 35<a> secured within a split spherical seating 32 by screws 33, the seating 32 being secured within the eye 26 by the bolts 28, or the jaws may consist of plates 40, Fig. 7, each having a pair of screws 41 for engaging double projections on the work. In operation, a shoe-last or pattern is provided with three projections or nails 7-9, Fig. 8, approximately midway between its ends after the last has been turned in a copying-lathe, the nails 7 &c. being spaced at the vertices of an equilateral triangle inscribed in a circle whose centre o preferably coincides with the axis about which the last has been turned. The last is then placed between the claws 1<b>, 3<b>, Fig. 1 and the jaws 11 advanced until they grip the projections. The chuck 10 is then removed from its ring 16 and mounted together with a pattern in a copying-lathe for the removal of the tenons 1, 3.
Patent GB-1057266-A (GB)
Title: A solid fuel burning boiler
IPC: F22B7/12
Filed: 1965-04-08
Abstract: 1,057,266. Fire tube boilers; ash removal. CLEAVEB-BROOKS CO. April 8. 1965 [May 28, 1964], No. 15028/65. Headings F4A and F4B. A triple pass wet-back boiler 14 fired by solid fuel is provided with means to prevent the passage of fly ash through some at least of the fire tubes. Coal from hopper 22, ignited by igniter 25, is carried by travelling grate conveyer 23 into furnace 24. Air from fan 30 is directed by cylindrical baffle 32 into the furnace 24, the resultant combustion gases and fly ash making a return pass through large diameter fire tubes 40. The ash is then deposited in collecting chamber 43 connected to a pneumatic ash conveying system whilst the ashfree combustion gases make a third pass through small diameter tubes 52 before being exhausted through duct 54.
Patent GB-162205-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in clinometers or the like for use on aircraft
IPC: G01C9/06
Filed: 1920-06-03
Abstract: 162,205. Bates, A. H. June 3, 1920. Clinometers.-For indicating the equilibrium of aircraft, and for showing automatically when the machine reaches a dangerous banking angle, a pendulum D, pivoted in a bracket B on the insulating base A, works over a graduated scale H, and is adapted to complete, with a contact block G on either side, the circuit of one or other of two differently coloured lamps F. The contact blocks G are adjustable.
Patent GB-1310435-A (GB)
Title: Semiconductor rectifier arrangement and method of production thereof
IPC: H01L27/00
Filed: 1970-03-31
Abstract: 1310435 Semi-conductor devices SEMIKRON GES FUR GLEICHRICHTERBAU UND ELEKTRONIK mbH 31 March 1970 [1 April 1969] 15122/70 Heading H1K A semi-conductor arrangement is formed, in a single semi-conductor body with alternating regions of opposite conductivity type in opposite faces, by dividing the body with two intersecting channels, perpendicularly aligned, and leading from the opposite faces of the body in order to form the equivalent of four, interconnected, diodes which comprise a full wave bridge rectifier. The diodes 1, 2, 3, 4 may be formed from a silicon body by suitable diffusion to produce four regions separated by horizontal and vertical PN junctions. The channels 15, 16 may be formed by sawing or ultrasonic drilling, channel 16 penetrating along the line of the vertical junction to a depth greater than that of the horizontal junction, and channel 15 penetrating, from the opposite face to a height greater than that of the horizontal junction from that face, the channels resulting in the production of isolated junctions 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 and 14. Conductors 5, 6, 7, 8 of nickel may be deposited on the faces through which the channels penetrate. During construction a plurality of devices may be formed in a single body and subsequently separated along the lines of the vertical junction.
Patent GB-1310441-A (GB)
Title: Method and apparatus for use in fluidisation of particulate material mixtures
IPC: B01J8/44
Filed: 1970-03-31
Abstract: 1310441 Fluidised beds BUHLER AG GEBR 31 March 1970 [31 March 1969] 15214/70 Heading B1F A method of assuring a steady flow of fluidising gas through a fluidised bed maintained as a dense homogenous fluidised bed, of which the height can vary up to a maximum predetermined height by addition to and/or removal of particulate bulk material comprises using a base plate, Fig. 5, of which the diaphragm aperture effect varies inversely proportionally to the square root of the weight per unit area of the material (in the normal bulk packing condition) constituting the bed at its predetermined maximum height on the porous mat 102. The total area of perforations 106 is not greater than 10% of the area of the porous mat 102. The method can be used for the separation of cereal grain into fractions.
Patent GB-1519951-A (GB)
Title: Fluid applicator for use as a line marker
IPC: E01C23/20
Filed: 1975-07-07
Abstract: 1519951 Ground marking apparatus LODGE EQUIPMENT HOLDINGS Ltd 7 July 1975 [5 April 1974] 15268/74 Heading E1G A surface is marked along a single line by two or more rollers 31, 33 one behind the other, at least one of the rollers receiving marking fluid from the outlet 18-19 of a reservoir 11, the rollers being mounted in side supports 26, 27 at least one of which is removable for roller replacement. As shown three intermeshing rollers 31, 32, 33 having replaceable central foam plastics sleeves 37, 38, 39 form a triple roller assembly mounted in apertured side plates 26, 27 which are supported by outrigged wheels 48, 49 and are releasably bolted to a perforated cross tube 19 supplying fluid from the reservoir 11 on to the sleeve 38 under the control of a valve 18 linked to trigger 25 The two surface-engaging foam sleeves are flanked by adjustablypositioned support discs 45. In a modification two triple roller assemblies having full width foam sleeves are arranged one behind the other under respective perforated cross tubes to provide four in-line marker rollers. In a further modification, Fig. 7 (not shown), cranked side plates support a forward, vertically-movable, triple roller assembly (70) and two laterally-spaced rear triple-roller assemblies (71, 72) to provide collectively a broad marking line of adjustable width. In a still further modification two triple roller assemblies are mounted side by side and are capable of relative vertical movement. Specification 1519952 is referred to.
Patent GB-262363-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to fuels for use in internal combustion engines and for other purposes
IPC: C10L1/12
Filed: 1925-06-12
Abstract: 262,363. Meyer, E., G. E. June 12, 1925. Motor spirit comprises mineral oil or liquid coal tar distillates having a boiling pint of about 160‹ C. or higher with small additions of ether and ammonia or like volatile basic material, and without the addition of wood spirit, naphthalene. or sulphur. Up to 10 per cent of hydrocarbon boiling below 100‹ C. may be added. In an example, 87 litres of a petroleum or coal-tar distillate boiling between 160-260‹ C., 9 litres of a petioleum fraction boiling below 100‹ C., and 4 litres of ether are mixed, and then 1 lb. of 0.880 ammonia is added to 10,000 lb. of the fuel.
Patent GB-1114398-A (GB)
Title: Nickel-silicon alloys
Inventor: WILLIAMS KEITH JUXON
IPC: C22C19/00
Filed: 1967-04-04
Abstract: A ternary alloy comprises:- .Si.7.9-8.7% .Ti.2.3-3.1% the balance apart from impurities being Ni, the alloying elements being so proportioned that:-  (Si - 8.3)2 + (Ti - 2.7)2 \sE 0.16 The ductility of the alloy may be improved by heat-treatment at 1000 DEG -1100 DEG C.
Patent GB-1188811-A (GB)
Title: Precipitated Silica.
IPC: C01B33/16
Filed: 1967-04-04
Abstract: 1,188,811. Greases. MONSANTO CO. 4 April, 1967 [4 April, 1966], No. 15424/67. Heading C5F. [Also in Division C1] A thickener for lubricating oils and greases comprises an amorphous, pulverulent, dry silica xerogel having a specific surface area of at least 300 m<SP>2</SP>/g. and having a ratio of linseed oil absorption (ml./lOO g. of xerogel) to specific surface area (m2/g.) of less than 1:1 (see Group C1). The xerogel may have an average pore volume of 0À5-1À0 c.c./g., an average pore diameter of 35-90 angstroms and an average bulk density of 3-7 Ibs./cu. ft.
Patent GB-593655-A (GB)
Title: Process of preparing acylamino dianthrimide acridones
IPC: C09B5/34
Filed: 1945-06-18
Abstract: 1.11-Dianthrimide-2.21-acridones and 2.11-dianthrimide-1.21-acridones having an acylamino group in an alpha-position of a terminal nucleus are prepared by subjecting the appropriate ortho-carboxy monoacylamino dianthrimide or its ester to ring closure in the presence of a condensing agent having no hydrolytic action on the acylamino group, and preferably in an organic solvent.  Condensing agents specified are benzoyl, acetyl and thionyl chlorides, acetic anhydride and phosphorus oxychloride, and these are preferably employed with not more than 25 per cent of sulphuric acid, based on the weight of dianthrimide.  The products may be purified by recrystallization from nitrobenzene, fractional precipitation of the sulphates from sulphuric acid, acid-pasting, or vatting.  In examples, the following substances are heated with benzoyl chloride in nitrobenzene in presence of a little sulphuric acid: (1) 5-benzoylamino-1.11-dianthrimide-21-carboxylic acid and its benzyl ester; (2) 5-benzoylamino-2.11-dianthrimide-21-carboxylic acid. 5-Benzoylamino-1.1-dianthrimide-21-carboxylic acid and its benzyl ester are prepared by reacting 1 - benzoylamino - 5 - aminoanthraquinone with 1-chloranthraquinone-2-carboxylic acid benzyl ester, the benzyl ester so obtained being hydrolysed to the acid with alcoholic potash.  5 - Benzoylamino - 2.11 - dianthrimide - 21 - carboxylic acid and its methyl ester are made by reacting 1-benzoylamino-6-chloranthraquinone with 1-aminoanthraquinone-2-carboxylic acid methyl ester, the methyl ester so obtained being hydrolysed to the acid with alcoholic potash. Specification 291,878, [Class 2 (iii)], is referred to.
Patent GB-943555-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in sheet feeding machines
IPC: B65H9/06
Filed: 1961-04-28
Abstract: 943,555. Feeding sheets. H. T. BACKHOUSE. April 13, 1962 [April 25, 1961], No. 15533/61. Heading B6B.  In sheet feeding apparatus sheets are fed over a feed table section 110 up to a front lay 111 which is mounted on a lever 112, pivoted at 113, adapted to raise and lower the lay, and a guide and smoother blade 131, beneath which the front ends of the sheets move before engaging the lay, is mounted on a further lever 140 also pivoted at 113. The blade 131 is mounted on a bellcrank lever 123 of which the fulcrum 120 is carried by the lever 140, and a roller 141 on the lever 123 engages within a recess in a block 142 secured to the lever 112. The lever 140 is rocked upwardly about the pivot 113 by a cam 155, which rocks a lever 146 having a spring and tie connection 147 with the lever 140, and is rocked downwardly by a spring 148 acting on the lever 146. When the lever 140 has moved downwardly a predetermined extent, a stop screw 151 engages the lever 112 and rocks it, against the action of a return spring 114, to lower the front lay 111. In operation, if the lever 140 is rocked to lower the fulcrum 120, the bell-crank 123 is rocked about the fulcrum in a direction to move the smoother blade 131 to the left away from the lay 111 and downwardly prior to the lowering of the lay, so that registered sheets are not disturbed. In a modification, the smoother blade 131 is pivotally mounted on the bell-crank 123, and the position of the blade above the sheet table is controlled by an adjustment screw to suit the thickness of the sheets. Specification 900,819 is referred to.
Patent GB-155582-A (GB)
Abstract: 155,582. Krupp Akt.-Ges., F. July 8, 1916, [Convention date]. Conning-towers.-A connin g-turret having a sighting-device therein comprises a rotary cupola A<3> mounted on the stationarv turret A. The cupola is fitted with a bracket a<4> carrying a telescopic sight a<5> which is stabilized by a gyroscope. An observation opening a<6> anc. a seat a<8> are provided. The cupola is rotated by a manuallyoperated pinion B in gear with an internallytoothed wheel a<7> fixed to the turret cover a<2>. The cupola is also geared by toothed wheels a<10>, c<1> with an electric transmitter C, C<2> from which electric lines c<3> run to apparatus or receivers for laterally training a gun at long distance. By this means every rotary movement of the cupola will be transmitted true in angle to the receivers located at the gun emplacements.
Patent GB-377358-A (GB)
Title: Improved machine for slicing cooked meats, bread and the like
IPC: A47J47/00
Filed: 1931-05-28
Abstract: 377,358. Slicing meat. HALKET, W., Ozanam, Roman Road, Duntocher, Dumbartonshire. May 28, 1931, No. 15577. [Class 28 (ii).] A slicing device for cooked meats, bread, &c. comprises a container 2 which may be jacketed to receive ice or cold or hot water depending on the material being sliced, a pusher plate 7 for feeding the food towards the open end of the container, and a slicing knife 11 slidable across the open end. The container 2 is closed at the bottom by a baseboard 1 to which it is detachably secured by bolts 22 and wing nuts 23. The upper wall of the container is slotted at 3 to receive slidably a bracket 5 in which a lever 4 is pivoted, the end of the lever 4 inside the container being pivoted to the pusher 7. The sliding member 5 acts as an adjustable fulcrum for the lever 4, and a frictional drag is imposed on the food by a leaf spring 9 adjustable by a bolt 10. The knife blade 11 is carried by a frame 12 mounted on a slide 13 movable in guides 14 attached to the underside of the board 1. The lower end of the knife is anchored at 11<1> to the frame 12 whilst the tension of the blade is adjustable by anchoring its upper end at 112 to a pivoted member 18 having an adjusting set-screw 20 engaging with a lug on the frame 12. A handle 15 is attached to an extension 16 of the frame 12 for sliding the knife, and the baseboard 1 is formed integrally with a handle for facilitating transport.
Patent GB-150845-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and connected with electrical water heaters
IPC: F24H1/10
Filed: 1919-06-20
Abstract: 150,845. Barr, J. F. June 20, 1919. Heating by electricity.-A main water-heater A is connected by a pipe F<2> having a two-way cock G with an auxiliary heater H from which the water when boding is ejected through a siphon I. A gauge glass K is mounted on the auxiliary heater. The main heater has heating elements D in a vessel E to which water is admitted through a pipe B. An outlet F' controlled by the cock G is provided on the heater A. The auxiliary heater has heating elements D' at the bottom and a switch L' operated by hand or automatically, for instance, thermally. The main switch L is controlled by a diaphragm so that it cannot be closed when water is not passing, and is opened when the valve C is closed, as described in Specification 1.44,446. Specification 12129/13 is referred to.
Patent GB-312805-A (GB)
Title: Improved attachment for trawls and the like
IPC: A01K73/04
Filed: 1928-05-29
Abstract: 312,805. Mills, R. J. May 29, 1928. Nets; trawling-gear.-The cool end of a trawl net is protected by a mat, made of rubber or similar material which may be combined with sheets of flux or wire gauze or other reinforcement. The mat may be laced to the net through non-corrodible eyelets placed in staggered formation along two or four sides of the mat.