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Patent GB-587096-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to apparatus for measuring the loads on control rods and the like
IPC: G01L1/22
Filed: 1945-01-03
Abstract: 587,096. Dynamometers. BOULTON PAUL AIRCRAFT, Ltd., and REDSHAW, S. C. Jan. 3, 1945, No. 231. [Class 106 (ii)] An apparatus for measuring the loads on control rods and the like comprises an elastic ring or like member adapted to be connected in the control line so as to be subjected to the control loads, the member being fitted with electrical resistance strain gauges and having its deformation. limited by a stop constituted by two members which take up the load when it exceeds a p predetermined value. To measure the loads on an elevator control rod of an aircraft ,in flight, the ring 1 is of steel and has secured to it, at opposite ends of a diameter, an externally threaded tubular casing 2, which fits inside the end of the tubular control rod 5, to which it is secured by pins 6, and a steel plug 3 disposed within the casing 2 and provided with a forked end 4 for attachment to the rocking lever pivoted to the fuselage of the aircraft. A key 7 carried by the plug extends through slots in the tubular casing, its movement being limited by nuts 9 and 10 so that, when a predetermined load is applied, further deformation of the ring is prevented and the load is taken up by the stop members. Balls 11 are carried in a cage (not shown) between the plug and casing. Wire-wound electrical resistance strain gauges 12, 13, 14, 15 are cemented to the ring at opposite ends of a diameter normal to the loading diameter, two on the inside and two on the outside of the ring, and are connected to form the four arms of a Wheatstone net as shown in Fig. 2, this circuit providing automatic temperature compensation. The micro-ammeter of this circuit is calibrated by applying known loads to the control rod when the aircraft is on the ground. The, deformation of the ring is not of sufficient magnitude to give rise to slackness in the controls.
Patent GB-873848-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to the coating of edible articles
Inventor: POLLARD KENNETH JOHN
IPC: A23G3/24
Filed: 1958-01-03
Abstract: 873,848. Coating confectioners' goods. POLLARDS CONFECTIONS Ltd., and BRIERLEY, COLLIER & HARTLEY Ltd., WILLIAM. Feb. 11, 1959 [Jan. 3, 1958] No. 254/58. Class 28 (1). Nuts, toffee or the like to be coated with toffee, chocolate or the like are picked up from a supply thereof on rows of spikes 12 carried on spindles 10 which are then conveyed, adjacent belts 17 which frictionally engage rollers 13 on the spindles to rotate them, past a coating bath 16 in which the rows of articles are immersed successively, pegs being provided to ensure rotation of the spindles, and from which they are lifted by cam tracks 14a out of engagement with the belts and then returned to engage the belts to be rotated during drying in a blast of air after which the articles are removed from the spikes by combing. As shown, a chain conveyer 14 has pairs of pegs 15, or small bearing blocks, between which the ends of spindles 11 are engaged. After being loaded with nuts the spindles are transferred by conveyers 14 to a dipping bath 16 which carries pegs to engage rods on spindles 11 to ensure that the spindles rotate through 360 degrees while passing the bath. The riser block 14a lifts the conveyers 14 sharply to lift the nuts quickly out of the bath after which they pass through a drying station. After drying, the spindles cease to engage belts 17 and the rows of spikes are engaged in succession by a comb 18 which removes the nuts and turns the spindle through 90 degrees. The coated nuts are received on a tray 20 or on a conveyer and the spindles 10 carry on to a guideway 21 where they are lifted by a pair of arms and returned to the loading station where they are loaded manually from a single layer of nuts.
Patent GB-600396-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in the weighting of the top rollers of the drafting heads of textile preparation, spinning and like frames
IPC: D01H5/56
Filed: 1946-01-04
Abstract: 600,396. Drafting heads for spinning &c. frames. FINE COTTON SPINNERS' & DOUBLERS' ASSOCIATION, Ltd., and ROSS, T. Jan. 4, 1946, No. 338. [Class 120 (ii)] Weighting mechanism for the top rollers of the drafting heads of textile preparation &c. frames, having three or more lines of drafting rollers the front three lines of top rollers being weighted from a common source by means of a bar or saddle, comprises a saddle formed of two members A and B, the member B, applying weight to the top rollers 2 and 3, and the member A, to which a weight hook D is pivotally attached and which applies weight to the front top roller 1, being connected together by a pin d on a projection a<SP>1</SP> of the member A engaging in slots C formed in the sides of a vertical slot b<SP>3</SP> in the member B, so that the member A may be moved rearwardly to remove weight from the front roller 1 while the weighting of the rollers 2, 3 is undisturbed. Specification 600,366 is referred to.
Patent GB-264166-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to heels for footwear
IPC: A43B21/00
Filed: 1927-01-06
Abstract: 264,166. Perugia, A. Jan. 6, 1926, [Convention date]. Addition to 249,495. Heels. - The heels described in the parent Specification are modified in that the upper block 8, Fig. 4, projects forward to increase the grip of the heel on the footwear and the lower part of the block 8 is bevelled at 14 towards the rear so that it is wedged firmly between the block 13 and the shoe. The blocks are encased in a metallic casing 1, Fig, 5, with turned-in lugs 2, 3 on top and 4, 5, 6, 7 at the front. The lugs may be joined together. The space between the blocks and the outer surfaces of the heel may be filled with composition or a liquid material which is allowed to dry.
Patent GB-496616-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to apparatus for manipulating tyres
IPC: B60C25/02
Filed: 1938-01-06
Abstract: 496,616. Vehicle wheels. LAKE, A. E. Jan. 6, 1938, No. 407. [Class 144 (i)] Apparatus for manipulating tyres comprises a plate 3 which is secured to the wheel disc 1, a screwed spindle 6 secured to the plate and two arms 9 rotatable about the spindle 6 and provided at their ends with tyre-engaging discs 10. The arms are moved along the spindle by a nut 17, to which they may be locked by a detent 21, when one of the discs 10 is rotated about its associated arm when in contact with the tyre. The means for rotating the discs comprise ratchet levers 12 mounted on toothed bosses 11 secured to the discs, the tendency of the tyre to move during operation of the apparatus being thereby diminished.
Patent GB-177281-A (GB)
Title: A delivery apparatus for use in connection with cotton gins and other machines of the kind that are designed to remove seeds, burrs and other foreign matters from wool, cotton and other fibres
IPC: D01B1/04
Filed: 1921-01-06
Abstract: 177,281. Reid, E. A. Jan. 6, 1921. Gins etc.; feeding openers &c.-The fibres from cotton gins and other machines that remove the seeds, burrs, &c. from wool, cotton, &c. are passed into hoppers B leading to a flue or trunk A, along which they are conveyed by a draught of air. The fibre is passed from the hopper to the flue by a rotary device F with leather-tipped vanes working in a cylindrical opening in a block, one side of which is hinged at L for cleaning purposes. The flue is built up in sections, one for each machine, and below each opening is an adjustable baffle or vane C to cause the air to move downwards to draw the fibre from the device F and to prevent back-draught into the hopper. The fibre drawn along the flue may be cleaned by a condenser cage at the end.
Patent GB-264172-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to electric heating units
IPC: H05B3/48
Filed: 1927-01-07
Abstract: 264,172. British Thomson-Houston Co., Ltd., (Assignees of Abbott, C. C., and Milnes, G. D.). Jan. 7, 1926, [Convention date]. Direct' connections between conductors. - In electric resistance heating units, especially such as comprise a helical wire packed in magnesia or the like in a cylindrical sheath, as described in Specification 144,767, the end of the wire is spirally wound on the terminal and secured thereto by compressing at a number of circumferentially spaced points. In the form shown, the resistance unit consists of two helices 11 in parallel slipped over the ends of terminals 13, 14 as far as a shoulder formed thereon and swaged along two diametral planes at right angles to each other. Blocks or lava 18 are then threaded on the terminals and secured by forcing ears 18<a> out of the sides of the terminal. The whole is then inserted in a sheath 10, one end of which is closed by a washer 21 and the terminals secured by pins 22, 23 shaped as shown and passing through holes in their ends. Terminal lugs 29, 30 are then attached, as described in Specification 198,932, by cutting off the ends of the sheath and pressing the lugs on to the ends of the terminals which are notched to receive them.
Patent GB-877793-A (GB)
Title: Improved process of annealing low carbon steel
Inventor: GARBER SIDNEY
IPC: C21D9/52
Filed: 1959-01-07
Abstract: A process of annealing cold worked low carbon steel in elongated form comprises rapidly quenching the steel from a subcritical annealing temperature to an age-softening temperature below 300 DEG C. coiling the steel, and allowing it to cool sufficiently slowly for age-softening to occur.  The quenching temperature may be 200-250 DEG C. and the steel may be maintained in that range for 30-50 minutes. The steel may be heated rapidly to the subcritical annealing temperature e.g. to 670 DEG C. in 1-10 seconds and may be cooled to 600 DEG C. in 3-4 seconds before quenching.  If the quenching is at a temperature above 250 DEG C. the age-softening should be performed in a non-oxidizing atmosphere.
Patent GB-1270081-A (GB)
Title: Process for the continuous production of metal tubes coated internally with plastics material
Inventor: GRIESINGER WOLFRAM
IPC: B05D7/22
Filed: 1970-01-07
Abstract: 1,270,081. Coated tubes. KABEL-UND METALLWERKE GUTEHOFFNUNGSHUTTE A.G. 7 Jan., 1970 [14 Jan., 1969; 21 March, 1969], No. 813/70. Heading B2E. [Also in Divisions B3 and F2] Metal tubes are coated internally with plastics material by forming a metal strip into a slit tube, welding together the edges of the slit tube and continuously coating internally the tube so formed. The plastics material may be applied by spraying of a liquid or powder and the powder may be charged electrostatically before coating. The coating is sintered after application. The plastics may be based on polytetrafluoroethylene, fluorinated ethylene/propylene copolymer, polyethylene, polyvinyl chloride, polyurethane, epoxide, polyester and silicone rubber and an adhesion-improving agent such as a polyimide or polyepoxide may be present.
Patent GB-1150122-A (GB)
Title: Radio Alarm System
Inventor: ALEXANDER DAVID GEORGE
IPC: G08B13/22
Filed: 1967-01-05
Abstract: 1,150,122. Radio signalling. G.R. DESIGNS Ltd. 27 Dec., 1967 [5 Jan., 1967], No. 815/67. Heading H4L. In a radio alarm system in which the operation of peronal transmitters causes a central radio receiver to actuate an alarm, the receiver comprises one or more superheterodyne stages in each of which the frequency difference between the wanted input frequency fw and the image frequency is equal to or greater than fw/20. A receiver is described in which this frequency difference is made equal to fw/8, enabling the number of tuned circuits to be reduced. The alarm unit responds only to a signal in which the main carrier is modulated by a 2 kc/s. subcarrier modulated in pulse form. A.G.C. is provided.
Patent GB-430928-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in boilers for heating water or other liquids
IPC: F22B17/12
Filed: 1934-01-10
Abstract: 430,928. Water-tube hot-water boilers. DAVISON, J., White House Farm, Bishopton Road, Stockton-on-Tees. Jan. 10, 1934, No. 894. [Class 64 (i)] Water - tube boilers made up of units each consisting of two or more vertical or inclined tubes a and the units being connected together by headers c at each end of the tubes have the readily detachable connections f between a header and a unit in alignment transversely of the tubes with the connections b between the tubes themselves, these connections which are of less diameter than the tubes providing a direct passage for a cleaning member. In a modification a single tube in which reducing nipples connected to the unit tube ends are disposed replaces the connections and is of less diameter than the unit tubes. The unit-header connections f, shown as of flanged type, may also comprise screwed couplings, &c. A plugged boss g is located in the end unit tube remote from the headers in alignment with the connections b at each end, or alternatively headers may be provided. According to the Provisional Specification the tubes may be horizontal. Specifications 21081/01, [Class 123], and 19630/10, [Class 123 (ii)], are referred to.
Patent GB-511476-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to guards for the points of scissors
IPC: B26B29/04
Filed: 1939-01-11
Abstract: 511,476. Scissors. COGGANS, J. Jan. 11, 1939, No. 906. [Class 30] A guard for the points of scissors comprises a clip 1, a sheath 4 adapted to be applied to the points, and an elastic cord 5 connecting the clip with the sheath. The clip 1 is in the form of a spring hook adapted to be opened and to engage with the bow 3.
Patent GB-800377-A (GB)
Title: Process for concentration of plutonium
IPC: C01G56/00
Filed: 1944-01-17
Abstract: Plutonium is concentrated in a mixture of plutonium and uranium lower fluorides by treating the mixture with elementary fluorine at a temperature above 140 DEG  C. and distilling off the uranium hexafluoride thus formed to leave a residue enriched in plutonium. The enriched residue may be treated with fluorine at a temperature above 315 DEG  C. to form and distil off plutonium hexafluoride.  The mixture of lower fluorides may be obtained by conversion of neutron-irradiated uranium to the oxide and reaction with anhydrous hydrogen fluoride at 500 DEG  C. or with an aqueous solution of hydrogen fluoride.  Experiments are described in which uranyl nitrate containing plutonium and fission products is heated to form U3O8 and this oxide is reduced with hydrogen to UO2; reaction with hydrogen fluoride yields the lower fluorides which are treated with fluorine first at 300 DEG  C. and then at 500 DEG  C.  The fission product activity occurs mainly in substances volatilized during reaction with hydrogen fluoride and in the residue from the treatment with fluorine.  The uranium and plutonium fluorides obtained are substantially free from beta and gamma activity.  Another experiment shows that neptunium fluoride is volatilized with the uranium fluoride.
Patent GB-233304-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in the manufacture of friction bodies for brakes and clutches
IPC: F16D69/02
Filed: 1925-01-12
Abstract: 233,304. Kirchbach'sche Werke Kirchbach & Co. May 1, 1924, [Convention date]. Clutches, friction.-In brakes and clutches comprising a lining of impregnated fabric mounted on a support by means of rivets, screws or wedges, the holes for the reception of the rivets &c. are made by inserting suitably shaped mandrels into the fabric prior to the hardening operation, so that the fabric adjacent the holes is not damaged, but the threads merely displaced and compressed. The Specification as open to inspection under Sect. 91 (3) (a) comprises also the following subject-matter :-The fabric may be formed by winding or stretching threads, cords or wires on suitably shaped formers, so that the threads &c. are disposed in the direction in which the frictional stress is to be applied. The threads may consist of asbestos or cotton fabric, or wire netting impregnated before or after the winding operation with a suitable hardening material, the wound body being hardened by the application of heat and pressure. The method of winding a disc-shaped friction body is shown in Fig. 2. The former 2 is provided with flanges 3, 5 and the cord 1 is wound thereon in superposed layers, a number of radially disposed threads or wires being preferably wound round the cord, these being arranged either singly, as shown in the upper part of the figure, or in pairs, as shown in the lower part thereof. The body may be strengthened by drawing a number of threads or wires 6 through it after winding, or radially disposed flexible wires may be incorporated in the threads during winding. A 'number of cords 1 may be wound side by side to form a heavy friction disc. Hollow cylindrical friction bodies for brake blocks &c. are wound on a wide former of the required diameter, and the threads are then arranged to cross the former once or twice in each revolution. In the form shown in Fig. 5, the threads are not crossed, and cross threads 17 are then wound in to assist cohesion. The countersunk holes for the rivets used to fasten the body to its support may be formed during winding by attaching suitably shaped formers to the winding drum, and the threads may then be led round them, as shown in Fig. 5, to produce a segmental lining. Any desired shape of former may be used, and individual threads or wires may be stretched over its surface instead of being wound thereon. This subject-matter does not appear in the Specification as accepted.
Patent HK-16091-A (HK)
Title: Method and apparatus for analyzing the information transfer characteristics of a recording medium
Inventor: EFRON EDWARD
IPC: G11B27/36
Filed: 1991-03-07
Abstract: Method and means for evaluating the quality of audio and/or video transfer characteristics of a device upon which, or through which, audio and/or video information is contained, or passes, respectively. Both method and apparatus concern the evaluation of the quality of information transfer in the recording and playing back of a recording medium or in the transferring of audio and/or video information through an information handling device referred to as a throughput device. Unit evaluation is accomplished by establishing an input signal of known content, measuring selected parameters of selected parts of the input signal, feeding the input signal to the unit under test, measuring the parameters of parts of the output signal from the unit under test corresponding to the same selected parts of the input signal, and comparing the selected parameters of the input signal with the corresponding parameters of the output signal. Whether monitoring the quality of the signal transfer characteristics of a throughput device, a magnetic tape containing program material, or a video disc, master disc or replica, a "siganture" is created for the unit under test, and subsequent analysis of the unit as it progresses along a production line or of a copy made on the same or alternate recording medium results in a second "signature" which is compared against the first signature to make a determination as to the quality of the signal handling or transfer characteristics of the unit. In this manner, out-of-tolerance conditions can be automatically detected, thereby eliminating subjectivity and providing consistency in the quality level of device testing.
Patent HK-68197-A (HK)
Title: Gear change device
Inventor: RAFF FRIEDRICH
IPC: B60K20/02
Filed: 1997-05-22
Abstract: The gear change device is provided on an automatic transmission of a motor vehicle and comprises a selector lever (3), which can be swivelled in two channels (6, 8). In the first channel (6) of the selector lever (3) various operating positions and automatically changing transmission gears can be selected via a transfer device (10). The selector lever (3) can be switched over into a second channel (8), in which by swivelling the selector lever (3) once from a middle position it is possible to change up or down one gear. So that the transfer device (10), from which the selector lever (3) is separated in the second channel (8), is held in its intended position, the transfer device (10) acts in concert with a locking device (13). <IMAGE>
Patent HK-95086-A (HK)
Title: A urethral catheter
Inventor: HICKEY DAVID STEPHEN
IPC: A61M25/00
Filed: 1986-12-04
Abstract: A urethral catheter comprising a tube for insertion into the bladder and having an inlet (17) for the drainage of urine via the tube, and a wall portion (18) having reduced thickness and increased flexural properties such that this wall portion (18) will undergo substantially complete collapse under normal urethral pressure thus to comply with the irregular and slit-like lumen (11) but permit adequate distension for normal drainage.
Patent JP-H01177837-A (JP)
Title: Energy storage device
Inventor: TAKAHASHI AKIRA
IPC: H02J15/00
Filed: 1988-01-05
Abstract: PURPOSE:To obtain a device for effectively collecting and storing the energy of a lightning by flying an arrester at a lighting generating area, leading the energy through a superconducting conductor to a superconducting coil to store it. CONSTITUTION:A flying arrester 1 which can receive a lightning while flying is prepared, and flown to an area in which the lightning occurs. A superconducting coil 5 for storing the energy of the lightning as electromagnetic energy is mounted. The arrester 1 is connected through superconducting leads L1, L2 to the coil 5 to store the energy of the lightning received by the arrester 1 in the coil 5.
Patent JP-H11194566-A (JP)
Title: Image forming device
Inventor: ISOMOTO MASATAKA
IPC: G03G15/00
Filed: 1998-01-05
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an image forming device capable of easily setting documents and excellent in the discharge confirmation and extraction of recording mediums or the operability of an operation panel. SOLUTION: This device is provided with a reading means 2 for reading document described information and a recording means 12 for recording the information on recording mediums S, and the reading means 2 is provided extractably from a device main body 1. The document reading means 2 can be arranged at a position lower than the upper face of the device main body 1 by making the document reading means Z extractable, and the operability of the document reading means 2 is prevented from being impaired even when cassettes 9 are fitted in many stages and the height of the device main body 1 becomes high.
Patent JP-H01179893-A (JP)
Title: Heat exchanger
Inventor: SATO HITOSHI
IPC: F28F1/32
Filed: 1988-01-06
Abstract: PURPOSE:To improve the efficiency of heat transfer without impairing the mechanical strength by arranging on each fin plate projections each disposed with the center at the point of intersection of the center line along a flow passage and that between adjacent rows of tubes and at a suitable slanting angle to the direction of the flow of the liquid. CONSTITUTION:A multiplicity of tubes 2 are arranged through fin plates and at certain intervals from line to line and from row to row. The tubes 2, each of which is shaped as a flat tube, are ranged in many lines with the direction of their elongation in parallel with the direction (a) of the flow of the fluid and in many rows with each tube disposed at an equal pitch from the adjacent ones. A row of fin plates 3 forms a flow passage 4 between adjacent fin plates, and there are provided protrusions 5 each comprising a rectangular parallel-piped which is fixed to a fin plate with the center at the point of intersection (d) of the center line (b) of a flow passage 4 and the center line (c) between rows of the tubes 2 passed along the row 3 and with slanting at an angle of alpha to the direction (a) of the flow of the fluid. This angle alpha is formed within the range of 30 deg.-60 deg. and the protrusion 5 has a height within the range of 1/4-1/2 of the pitch of the fins. This device improves the efficiency of heat transfer without impairing the mechanical strength.