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Patent GB-1361217-A (GB)
Title: Water closets
IPC: E03D9/08
Filed: 1972-03-20
Abstract: 1361217. Flushing cisterns; bidet attachments for sanitary closets CLOS O MAT (GREAT BRITAIN) Ltd 20 March 1972 [2 Dec 1971] 55970/71 Heading E1C A discharge valve assembly in the flushing cistern of a W.C. having a bidet attachment comprises a member 7 of inverted U form secured to a valve seat 6 so as to straddle a discharge valve 13, an actuating rod 12 guided by a hollow bolt, carried by the member 7, and also by a hollow bolt 15 extending through a top cover (17) of the cistern and engaged in a threaded aperture in the upper end 10 of a support bar 8, whose lower end 11 is secured to the member 7, a knob 16 at the upper end of the rod 12 for manual lifting of the valve 13, a compression spring 15 surrounding the rod 12 and engaged between the valve 13 and member 7, for returning the valve 13 to closed position, and a foot-operated or back operated control arrangement for initiating operation of a pump (not shown) of the bidet attachment, such operation being adapted to cause automatic lifting of the valve 13. The pump supplies water to a spraying unit (not shown) which is movable into a spraying position within the bowl for spraying the user, e.g. a disabled person. The means for automatically lifting the valve 13 comprises an assembly 21 having a chamber into which the water for spraying is supplied through a tube 22 from the pump when the pump is actuated. A restrictor valve between the chamber and a discharge tube 23 leading to the spraying unit causes pressure build up within the chamber which causes a ram 24 to be lifted. A fork arm 25 carried by the ram 24 then engages and lifts an abutment 18 on the rod 12 to lift valve 13. Instead of a hydraulic pressure chamber, a solenoid or mechanical linkage may be used for automatically lifting the valve 13 when the pump is operated.
Patent GB-1298682-A (GB)
Title: Formation of chromium-containing coatings on steel strip
IPC: C23C10/32
Filed: 1969-11-17
Abstract: 1298682 Stainless steel coatings BETHLEHEM STEEL CORP 17 Nov 1969 [18 Nov 1968] 56074/69 Addition to 1067126 Headings C7D and C7F The process of parent Specification (wherein Cr-containing powder is applied to a steel base and sintered to give a stainless steel coating) is modified in that a Cr-containing powder is applied to the surface of one side only of a steel strip, the powder is compacted, and sintered in a protective atmosphere with powder-coated sides of the strip facing uncoated sides, and a halogen gas or halogen-containing gas is included in the atmosphere to cause transfer of a portion of the Cr in the powder to, and diffusion of the Cr into, the uncoated sides. The resulting product has a malt stainless steel coating on the powdercoated side and a bright stainless steel coating on the originally un-coated side. The halogen gas is preferably chlorine, in amount 0À1 to 11 vol. per cent of the treatment atmosphere, (the remainder of which may be hydrogen) but bromine may be used; the halogen-containing gas may be HCl or vapour of a halide such as NH 4 Cl, NH 4 HF 2  or CrF 3 .
Patent GB-1184479-A (GB)
Title: Portable Appliance for Conditioning a Surface
Inventor: SAWYER HAROLD T
IPC: A47L11/12
Filed: 1967-12-11
Abstract: 1,184,479. Cleaning floors etc.; mechanically driven reservoir pads. H. T. SAWYER and V. D. BEEHLER. 11 Dec., 1967, No. 56275/67. Heading A4F and A4K. [Also in Divisions B3 and F2] A portable appliance for applying sound energy to a surface 13 to clean or otherwise condition it comprises an applicator 30 mounted on a substantially stiff resilient thin walled shell 23 containing a mass, e.g. an electric motor 35, orbitally movable about an axis substantially parallel to the applicator surface to be applied to the surface 13, and connected at one end to a bearing 47, carried by an arm 48 secured to a member 22 interconnecting the shell 23 and the applicator 30, and at the other end to the shell 23 by a resilient support, e.g. a wire coil 38. The motor shaft 44 is connected by a crank 45 to a stub shaft 46 mounted in the bearing 47. If the appliance is to be used for stripping wax and dirt from a floor the applicator 30 may comprise a porous cellulose or natural sponge 32 having secured thereto a member 31 of a semi-abrasive material such as stiff nylon fibre, a brushlike material, or a porous material having embedded therein granular abrasive, e.g. powdered flint or silicon carbide. The applicator 30 may be reversed in its holder 15 so that the appliance may be used to loosen wax and dirt with the sponge 32 applied to the surface 13 to which liquid is fed, via tubes (68, 69, Fig. 2, not shown) passing through the applicator 30, from a reservoir 72 (Fig. 1, not shown) on the handle 12 of the appliance. The loosened wax and dirt is then removed by operating the appliance with the member 31 applied to the surface 13. For buffing a surface on which wax is being applied the applicator 30 may be replaced by a sponge pad having secured to opposite faces buffing sheets of wool or other material.
Patent GB-1482526-A (GB)
Title: Fusion nuclear reactors
IPC: G21B1/00
Filed: 1974-12-03
Abstract: 1482526 Thermonuclear fusion UNITED KINGDOM ATOMIC ENERGY AUTHORITY 3 Dec 1974 [5 Dec 1973] 56350/73 Heading G6P A thermonuclear fusion reactor, especially. one having a toroidal configuration, is refuelled by subjecting a pellet 1 of a suitable fuel to a pulse 3 of laser energy of such intensity and duration as to vaporize a portion 4 of the pellet, and that the temperature distribution throughout the pellet remains non-uniform and of such direction that resultant forces on the pellet 1 direct it into the reactor. As a result of vaporization of material from the hotter region 4, the remainder of the pellet 1 experiences a net reaction which accelerates the pellet along the direction of travel of the laser pulse 3. Some contribution is also made by radiation pressure. Guidance of the pellet 1 is effected by an annular beam 2 of laser light; this can be simulated by a number of parallel mode-locked guiding beams disposed regularly about the circumference of a circle. The pellet may comprise solid hydrogen fuel.
Patent GB-564046-A (GB)
Abstract: 564,046. Drawing. MOND NICKEL CO., Ltd. May 29, 1943, No. 8622. Convention date, June 10, 1942. [Class 83 (iv)] Articles are lubricated for drawing by first applying a lubricating material containing a finely-divided roughening agent and then after drying applying powdered solid lubricant to the coating during the drawing through the die. The method is particularly applicable to tubes made from nickel-chromium-iron or nickel-copper alloys, the coatings being applied both internally and externally. The first coating is preferably a mixture of 1 part by volume of lithopone and 1 part either graphite or lamp black suspended in an adhesive vehicle, such as alcohol 20 parts and shellac 10 parts. Finely powdered aluminium may be employed either wholly or in part as a substitute for graphite and talc, soapstone, chalk or whiting may be used instead of lithopone. Varnishes having a nitro-cellulose or cellulose acetate base, synthetic resin in solution and solutions of rubber or rubber product may be used in place of shellac. The powdered solid lubricant is preferably graphite or soap or a mixture of the two. The use of adhesives, such as sodium silicate and glue containing rouge, is also referred to.
Patent GB-1144969-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to the preparation of cyclohexylsulfamic acid
IPC: C07C/
Filed: 1967-12-13
Abstract: 1,144,969. Cyclohexylsulphamic acid. COMMERCIAL SOLVENTS CORP. 13 Dec., 1967 [19 Dec., 1966], No. 56538/67. Heading C2C. Cyclohexylsulphamic acid is prepared by a process comprising reacting nitrocyclohexane with sodium hydrosulphite (Na 2 S 2 O 4 ) in an aqueous medium. The process is carried out at a temperature of 0-100‹ C. and for a period generally of 2-24 hrs. The sodium salt of the acid may be prepared by treating the acid so prepared with aqueous sodium hydroxide.
Patent GB-1143080-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to internal combustion engine power units for vehicles
Inventor: DENSHAM JOHN RICHARD
IPC: B60K17/06
Filed: 1966-12-19
Abstract: 1,143,080. Engine/transmission units. AUTOMOTIVE PRODUCTS CO. Ltd. 19 Jan., 1968 [19 Dec., 1966; 1 Feb., 1967], Nos. 56630/66 and 4926/67. Heading B7H. [Also in Divisions F1 and F2] A variable ratio gear-box 11, situated below the level of the crank-shaft, is driven through a drive take-up device 5 and gearing 16, and drives a differential 8 through hypoid bevel gearing 10, 9, the common axis 12 of the input and output shafts 13, 14, of the gear-box 11 converging towards the crank-shaft axis and passing above the axis 15 of the differential 8. The drive take-up device may be a manually controlled clutch, a centrifugal clutch or, as shown, an hydraulic torque converter comprising an impeller 4 driven by the crank-shaft and a turbine 6 mounted on a shaft 7 which transmit the drive to the input shaft 13 through tapered spur gears 17, 21, 19. The gear-box 11 may be an automatic type as described in Specification 931,877. In Fig. 2 (not shown), the shaft 13 is driven through a chain gear (29), the sprocket 24 of which is driven from shaft 7 through a constant velocity universal joint; such a joint may also be used with straight spur gearing.
Patent GB-1204758-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to nuclear reactor fuel elements
Inventor: HEATON JOHN FILDES
IPC: G21C3/12
Filed: 1968-11-29
Abstract: 1,204,758. Fuel elements. NUCLEAR POWER GROUP Ltd. 19 Nov., 1969 [29 Nov., 1968], No. 56821/68. Heading G6C. A fuel element comprises a block 1 of solid moderating material, e.g. graphite, part of which block 1 is shown in section in Fig. 2, adapted for assembly with similar blocks to form a reactor core structure, and containing a plurality of parallel passages 2 each housing a fuel member 3 with a clearance left between the fuel member 3 and the wall of the passage 2 for the flow of coolant. Each fuel member 3 has three axially extending lugs (only one, 3a, shown) which contact the wall of the passage 2, and each fuel member 3 is supported in the passage 2 by a support member 4 located under the lug 3a such that when the block 1 is located in the core with the passages 2 vertical the weights of the fuel members 3 exert couples causing them to lean against the walls of the passages 2. The lug 3a is of greater radial width than the other lugs and extends into a groove in the wall of the passage 2. The support members 4 can take the form of keys fixed to the passage wall and located at the lower end of each passage 2. The effect of the couples exerted by the fuel members 3 is to exert side thrust in the passage walls, and the tendency of the fuel members 3 to vibrate under forces due to coolant pressure is thereby reduced.
Patent GB-1194840-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Tent and Trailer Combinations
Inventor: BUCKNELL ROBERT BARRABY
IPC: B60P3/34
Filed: 1966-12-19
Abstract: 1,194,840. Convertible vehicles. R. B. BUCKNELL. 15 Dec., 1967 [19 Dec., 1966], No. 56834/66. Heading B7B. A collapsible camping trailer has a box body 5, outwardly pivoting cover parts 6, 7 and three longitudinally arranged U-shaped hoops 25, 26, 27 the hoops 25, 26 having their lower ends slidably mounted in tracks 28 secured to the box body. The end of the body has an access panel 19 for use when the trailer is collapsed.
Patent GB-1339555-A (GB)
Title: Assembly of a table and a printing machine
IPC: B41F15/08
Filed: 1970-12-01
Abstract: 1339555 Screen-printing apparatus S G MALLOFRE 1 Dec 1970 [1 Dec 1969] 57006/70 Heading B6C In a textile-printing machine of the kind in which a printing screen 37 is mounted on a carriage 1, and is moved step-wise over a table bearing a textile length, on to which the screen is repeatedly lowered, the movement of the carriage is both actuated and controlled by the co-operation of paired pawls 6, 7 with a series of longitudinally spaced stops 8. The pawls comprise a stop pawl 7, which contacts a face of each stop 8, and an impulse pawl 6 which moves out of the way on contacting each stop, then springs into position beyond it with a rearwardly facing portion biased against the forward face of the stop. When the stop pawl is rotated out of the way by turning of shaft 10 the bias of the impulse pawl advances the carriage. Lowering of the printing screen and printing are actuated pneumatically.
Patent GB-570942-A (GB)
Abstract: 570,942. Displaying. POSNER, K. Dec. 3, 1943, No. 20218. [Class 3 (ii)] [Also in Groups VIII and XV] A device for holding stamps, pictures, coins or similar articles and which may form part of an album comprises a laminated sheet having the outer lamination provided with a number of slits and superimposed upon and united locally to another lamination by the application of heat and pressure in such places as to define and form a number of pockets between the laminations which are accessible through the slits. In one form, Fig. 5, five laminations are employed, the two outer laminations 20, 24 having slits 26, 27 respectively, the inner one 22 being plain and the two intermediate laminations 21, 23 having openings 34, 35 corresponding to the size of the pockets and being provided with flaps 32 which project through the slits and form covers for pockets. The laminations are secured together along lines adjacent to the side and bottom edges of the openings 34, 35 and the laminations 21, 23 serve to space the outer laminations from the central sheet 22. The edges 30 of slits are turned down and secured by adhesive to reinforce the slits. The laminations 23, 24 may be omitted so that pockets are formed on one side only of the lamination 22 and the spacing laminations 21, 23 may also be dispensed with if desired. A double-sided device may be constructed of two laminations only by staggering the slits in the lamination and forming flaps in one lamination to act as covers for the slits of the other lamination. Alternatively, the flaps may be provided on a central lamination. Moreover, by means of smaller slits adjacent to the main slits, pockets to receive slips of paper containing matter descriptive of the articles in the larger pockets may be provided. The sheets are secured locally by means of heat and pressure, using an adhesive which becomes tacky when heated is employed, whereby the sheet or sheets can be coated with adhesive and secured by local application of heat and pressure. Alternatively, material such as transparent films of cellulose acetate which becomes adhesive under heat may be used, in which event the blank sheet may be coloured. A machine is described for forming slits in two webs, and feeding these webs with an intermediate blank web to heated rollers with raised parts which apply heat and pressure to the webs at the desired locations. A knife severs the webs into sheets.
Patent GB-1190900-A (GB)
Title: A Reciprocating Pump for Dispensing Liquids
Inventor: ROACH WILLIAM JOHN
IPC: B05B11/00
Filed: 1968-12-02
Abstract: 1,190,900. Reciprocating pumps. OXFORD LABORATORIES. Dec.2, 1968 [Dec.1, 1967], No.57135/68. Heading F1A. A liquid dispensing device has inlet and outlet ball valves 25, 26 respectively on either side of tee-pieces 31, 32 connecting the delivery tube 21 to a uniform diameter barrel 12 having a ground glass plunger 11 slightly tapered at its lower end and the handle 17 of which has bi-furcations 18 which abut an adjustable stop 8 of a scale for limiting the outward movement of plunger 11 and the volume of liquid delivered. Sediment is removed on the square edges 13 of barrel 12 on the downward movement of the plunger.
Patent GB-1431879-A (GB)
Title: Rod loader
IPC: B21B39/16
Filed: 1975-05-01
Abstract: 1431879 Road loaders for rolling machine W FIELDS 1 May 1975 [12 Dec 1972] 57199/72 Heading B3M A rod loader, suitable for a skew-roll straightening machine 2 (Fig. 1) comprises a slide 12 which is movable along a bed frame 6, a partspherical bush carried within the slide, and a two-part clamping sleeve 23 which can clamp the end of a rod 3 to be loaded. The bush 18 (Fig. 3) has a frusto-conical inner surface, corresponding to the outer surface of the sleeve 23, and has dovetail grooves to house corresponding projections 25 (Fig. 7) on the sleeve. In operation, the leading end of a rod 3 is fed manually through a guide tube 28 and within the sleeve 23. A double acting pneumatic cylinder 33 moves the tube and sleeve towards the slide. Co-operation of the sleeve with the shaped bush 18 causes the sleeve parts to contract and grip the rod, and then to feed the slide towards the rolls. After the rod has been rotated by the skew rolls 4 of the machine, the sleeve contacts a stop 10, and the slide is moved further by a hand wheel 36, thereby unclamping the rod and enabling it to be drawn by the rolls into the machine. A sensor 35 detects rotations of the sleeve and initiates restriction of the sleeve and tube 28. In an alternative embodiment (Fig. 14, not shown) the slide is mounted by a lostmotion connection on an axially slidable rack. The rack is directly connected to a two-part sleeve for effecting clamping and feeding movements. The sleeve is split in a horizontal, rather than a vertical plane.
Patent GB-1178200-A (GB)
Title: Fluid Actuated Visual Indicator
IPC: G01L7/08
Filed: 1968-12-03
Abstract: 1,178,200. Measuring fluid-pressure. GARDNER-DENVER CO. Dec.3, 1968 [July 8, 1968], No.57424/68. Heading G1L. In a visual indicator a flexible member 30, mounted in a casing 12 to form a chamber 32, when subjected to fluid-pressure through a conduit 22 is deflected to conform to the inner surface of a transparent dome sloped cover 38 attached to the casing. Alternatively the cover 38 may be translucent or frosted. The member 30 may be coloured or coated with a fluorescent or other highly reflective material. In a further embodiment, Figs. 2 and 3 (not shown), the member 30 is a rolling diaphragm.
Patent GB-1147240-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to electrical components for high voltage purposes
Inventor: CLARK COLIN HENRY WILLIAM
IPC: H01R13/24
Filed: 1966-12-28
Abstract: 1,147,240. Capacitors; resistors. STEATITE & PORCELAIN PRODUCTS Ltd. 7 Dec., 1967 [28 Dec., 1966], No. 57890/66. Headings H1M and H1S. [Also in Division H2] An electrical component, e.g. a capacitor or resistor, comprising a slab or disc 10 of material having appropriate electrical properties and bearing electrodes or terminals 11 on opposite faces, is encapsulated by a solid medium 12 which, where it overlaps the margin of an electrode or terminal, is formed as a socket 13 to receive, locate and hold a hollow plug 14 of insulating material housing a metallic connector 15, 17 or 19 by which the component is to be electrically connected to another. The plug and socket may have a screw-threaded engagement (Fig. 2, not shown). Alternatively (Fig. 3, not shown) the encapsulation at one terminal is formed as an integral hollow plug which mates with the socket in the encapsulation of an adjacent component. Assemblies of the components are suitable for use at high voltage, and discharge between them is minimized since the electrodes are completely shrouded. Discharges within the tubes 14 &c. may be prevented by coating them internally with graphite or metal.
Patent GB-1390220-A (GB)
Title: Square
IPC: G01B3/56
Filed: 1972-12-15
Abstract: 1390220 Measuring angles J F EBDON  11 April 1973 [15 Dec 1972] 58181/72 Heading G 1X A carpenter's square for measuring out angles on roof timbers to be cut to shape comprises two blades 11, 12 at right angles to each other and a member 15 adjustable relative to the blades and securable thereto to form a triangle therewith. As shown, the blades 11, 12 are integral with each other and are each provided with linear scales, the blade 11 and the member 15 being additionally provided with graduations (19, 21) Fig. 2, (not shown) corresponding to angular settings of the member 15 about predetermined points on the blade 12. The blades 11, 12 are arranged to extend through slots 16 in the member 15, the slots 16 being each associated with a thumb-screw arrangement 17 which can be adjusted so that each slotted portion of the member can grip an associated blade.
Patent GB-1180930-A (GB)
Title: Rear View Mirror.
Inventor: STEPHENS HUGH
IPC: B60R1/08
Filed: 1967-12-28
Abstract: 1,180,930. Vehicle rear view mirrors. H. STEPHENS. 28 Dec., 1967 [3 Jan., 1967], No. 58832/67. Heading B7J. [Also in Division G2] A ball-and-socket mounted mirror 1 is flat in the middle and curved away from the viewer at one or both ends 2, the curvature having a radius of from 4¢-10 inches. The curved areas may be colour tinted or phosphorescent and the mirror reinforced by metal 5. In another embodiment. Fig. 4, the mirror is without a mounting and has a bonded rubber backing 6 provided with an adhesive layer protected from drying by a plastic sheet 7, the arrangement being to fix the mirror to an existing mirror.
Patent GB-1416330-A (GB)
Title: Sliding door assemblies
IPC: E05D15/10
Filed: 1972-12-21
Abstract: 1416330 Wagon doors; vehicle doors SOC NOUVELLE DES ATELIERS DE VENISSIEUX 21 Dec 1972 [23 Dec 1971] 59132/72 Headings B7L and B7B A pair of sliding doors 3, 4 in a door assembly such as for a railway wagon 1 (which doors may be moved longitudinally in direction 7 relative to one another after displacing door 3 in direction 6 out of longitudinal alignment with door 4) carry respective abutments 14, 12 of which abutment 12 on the internal door 4 has an oblique ramp face 13 which co-operates with a curved surface 18 of a rod 17 on abutment 14, so that when overlapping, lateral inward movement of door 3 in direction 19, i.e. opposite to direction 6, produces relative longitudinal movement of the doors 3, 4. The face 13 terminates in an edge 15 beyond which there is a second, oppositely directed, sloping face 16. The invention is intended to facilitate accurate alignment of the sliding doors for closure thereof.
Patent GB-1187110-A (GB)
Title: Continuous Process for Antifelting and Antishrinking Treatment of Keratinous Textile Fibres.
IPC: D06M13/364
Filed: 1967-12-29
Abstract: 1,187,110. Shrinkproofing keratinous fibres. ENTERPRISE MINIERE ET CHIMIQUE. 29 Dec., 1967 [30 Dec., 1966], No. 59227/67. Heading D1P. The felting and/or shrinking tendency of keratinous textile fibres, e.g. wool, is reduced by treating the fibres with an aqueous solution of a N-chloro-substituted isocyanuric acid derivative or water-soluble salt thereof, e.g. trichloroisocyanuric acid, dichloroisocyanuric acid or a water soluble salt thereof thickened by the addition thereto of a natural or synthetic thickener chemically inert with respect to the N-chloro substituted isocyanuric acid or salt thereof and having a pH of 3-6.5 and an available chlorine content of 10-50g per Kg of the fibres. The thickening agent may be a natural or synthetic gum, e.g. guar gum, an esterified or etherified starch, carboxymethyl cellulose, an alginate, polyvinyl alcohol or an alkali metal polyacrylate, and may be used in a concentration such that the composition has a viscosity which varies from 10 to 1000 centipoises for rate gradients of 100 to 300 seconds. The composition may also contain sodium bicarbonate and isocyanuric acid, or acetic acid. The keratinous fibres alone or in admixture with synthetic fibres, e.g. polyester and/or polyamide fibres, may be in the form of carded or combed tows, threads or cloth. The textile material may be passed through the composition and then held at 10‹-35‹C for 15-300 seconds, rinsed with running water, squeezed, treated with a solution having a pH of about 4 of sodium meta-bisulphite, sodium hydrosulphite or other dechlorinating agent, rinsed with water, squeezed and dried in a stream of hot air. Alternatively after treatment with the composition the fibres may be passed into an aqueous solution of an organic or inorganic acid e.g. hydrochloric acid, of pH value 2-5 for 3-30 seconds, squeezed, dechlorinated and rinsed with water.