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Patent GB-310965-A (GB)
Title: Automobile headlight adjusting and focussing devices
IPC: G01M11/06
Filed: 1929-04-29
Abstract: 310,965. Hill, J. May 5, 1928, [Convention date]. Vehicle headlight adjusting and focusing devices.-A device for facilitating the adjustment and focusing of automobile headlights comprises a frame A consisting of two L-shaped members 11, connected by cross-bars 12, 13, and mounted on trunnions 10 provided on brackets 4 adjustable by racks 5 and pinions 6 on the side members of a frame 1, cross-shaped plates 17, formed with radial slots 18 in which screws 19 are adjustably mounted, or other means adapted to engage within the lamp rims, being carried by blocks 16 slidably but non-rotatably mounted on a lever 14 rotatable in the members 11, and blocks 28 carrying metal plates 29 being slidably but non-rotatably mounted on the bar 12. In use, the device is placed in front of the automobile with the point 22<11> of an adjustable gauge bar 22 in contact with the right-hand lamp, the point 22<1> being at a distance from its clamping-screw 22<1> one half the distance between the lamps, the plates 17 are adjusted to bring the heads of the screws 19 into contact with the lenses, and just within the rims of the lamps and tilted to the desired degree by means of an arm 24 and a scale 26, and the lamps are then fixed in the adjusted position. To focus the lamps, the blocks 28 are brought into alignment with the plates 17, the frame A is swung over backwardly to bring the plates 29 into a vertical position, and the lamps bulbs and reflectors are adjusted by observing the images of the lamp filaments on the plates 29 preferably by the aid of a sighting device placed on the top of the lamp. The pivotal movement of the frame A is limited by stop plates 31, 32. In a modification, the plates 17, Fig. 10, are mounted on a fixed bar 42 of the frame A, which is adjusted by means of members 33, mounted on the pinions 10 and operated as by pinions 35 in mesh with toothed sectors 37, the frame being provided with projections 41, 41<1>, adapted to rest respectively on the surfaces 34, 34<1> of the members 33.
Patent GB-1596485-A (GB)
Title: Data processing system which protects from secrecy of confidential data
IPC: H04B10/12
Filed: 1978-04-05
Abstract: A data processing system is provided which protects the secrecy of confidential data transmitted between a transmitting terminal and key, such as a credit card, which is used to authorize a dialogue between a data processing machine and an operator. A light pen is provided which is personal to each operator and which includes means for formulating the confidential data in a predetermined code and transmitting the coded information by means of an information carrying light wave. The light pen includes a keyboard which may be in the form of cursors movable along a longitudinal graduated scale which sets the coded data in accordance with the position of the cursors. To this end, the light pen houses an encoder, the output of which is fed to a shift register. The output of the shift register is modulated and fed to an optical-electrical transducer system which is screened to prevent unauthorized detection. The credit card receives the coded information through its own electrical transducer. The information is demodulated, and fed to a register, the output of which is compared to information stored in a memory contained in an integrated circuit chip which forms part of the card. A control responsive to the output of the comparator authorizes the dialogue to take place.
Patent GB-528365-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to wire spoked wheels
IPC: B60B1/00
Filed: 1939-05-05
Abstract: 528,365. Vehicle wheels. HUGHES, Ltd., G. H., and CRAWSHAW, A. L. May 5, 1939, No. 13439. [Class 144 (i)] A wire-spoked wheel, particularly for toys, b a b y carriages, and the like comprises a large-diameter front spoke-flange 7 formed to simulate an ornamental capportion 7c, and a relativelysmall rear spoke-flange 5, the front set of spokes 6b being secured to a small-diameter portion 7a of the flange 7 so that equal-length spokes may be used on both sides of the wheel. A snap-on hub-cap 8 of the kind described in Specification 501,466, or a screw-cap, may be fitted.
Patent GB-698060-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to photographic cameras
Inventor: TAYLOR WILLIAM FRANK CHARLES
IPC: G03B27/50
Filed: 1951-06-06
Abstract: 698,060. Photographic copying cameras. KODAK, Ltd. June 4, 1952 [June 6, 1951], No. 13476/51. Class 98 (i). A photographic camera for use in document copying apparatus in which a document is moved continuously past an exposure station and photographed on a continuously moving photographic film in the camera, comprises separate film take-up chambers, a pair of exposure objectives of which one is of one fixed focal length for forming images on film while being continuously moved at one fixed speed through the focal plane of such objective into one film take-up chamber and the other is of a different fixed focal length for forming images on film while being continuously moved at a second fixed speed through the focal plane of the second objective into the other film take-up chamber, and driving means for feeding the film through the focal plane of the associated objective at the requisite speed. The camera shown comprises two similar units which are separated by a partition 9 and of which one is shown in Fig. 1 and part of the other in Fig. 2 (not shown). Each unit comprises a supply chamber 1 from which the film F is fed by a driving roller 11 on to a spool 5 in take-up chamber 4, the two rollers 11 being of different diameters and mounted on a common shaft 12 which passes through the partition 9. Between the roller 11 and objective 13 of each unit is a plate 15 with a slit 14 therein, the objectives being of different focal lengths and the slits of different widths. When the camera is mounted in the document copier, the shaft 12 is connected with a motor drive, whereby the rollers 11 are driven simultaneously with the movement of the drum which carries the documents continuously through the field of the objectives 13 so that the documents are imaged on both films at different magnifications. Alternatively, one or other of the camera units may be used alone. Specification 665,992 is referred to.
Patent GB-626555-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to strainers
IPC: A47J43/22
Filed: 1947-05-20
Abstract: 626,555. Strainers. LEVY, L. May 20, 1947, No. 13553. [Class 46] A strainer 1 is provided with a channel or spout 2, opening into the body of the strainer, and being sufficiently wide and long to collect liquid leaking over the side of a vessel 3 from which liquid is poured into the strainer. The channel 2 is preferably sloping, may be made wide enough to collect the liquid when the leak is subject to lateral shifting, and may be integral with, or rigidly secured to, the strainer body. The edges 5 may be inclined to, or lie in the same plane as, the upper surface of the strainer body, or they may be dispensed with.
Patent GB-1369816-A (GB)
Title: Process for agglomerating coffee
IPC: A23F5/38
Filed: 1972-05-03
Abstract: 1369816 Agglomerating coffee GENERAL FOODS Ltd 3 May 1972 [6 May 1971] 13554/71 Heading A2E An instant coffee composition comprising a free-flowing soluble agglomerated powder having a bulk density of 0.16-0.30 gm/cc a particle size distribution such that at least 50 wt % are greater than 18 B.S. mesh, having a colour of 25-40 Lumetron units, the agglomerated particles being irregular granules, may be prepared by milling a powder having a bulk density of 0.05-0.18 gm/cc, produced by drying a foamed coffee extract, under conditions whereby the powder is chilled to below 60‹F, for example by admission of CO 2 , introducing the chilled powder as a falling curtain into a zone where the surfaces of the particles are wet by a moistening fluid, agglomerating and fusing the wet particles by heating to a temperature above the surface fusion point, and cooling to below 80‹F.
Patent GB-584858-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in load-bearing structures adapted for use as wagon or carriage underframes
IPC: B61F1/04
Filed: 1944-07-17
Abstract: 584,858. Vehicle underframes. BULLEID, O. V., and LYNES, L. July 17, 1944, No. 13590. [Class 79 (iv)] [Also in Group XXXII] A vehicle underframe comprises longitudinals d, e of shallow V-formation and rigid end and middle transversals, h and g respectively, forming isosceles and truncated isosceles triangles j, k. As shown the structure forms a wagon or carriage underframe. The triangles k accommodate a fitting for a haulage bar &c. and the wagon load is borne by four transverse members m placed under the longitudinal members. Buffers are mounted on the transverse members h.
Patent GB-395132-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in wringing and mangling machines
IPC: D06F45/00
Filed: 1932-05-12
Abstract: 395,132. Mangles and wringers. ENTWISLE & KENYON, Ltd., KENYON, H. W., HOLT, A., and WILSON, W., Ewbank Works, Accrington. May 12, 1932, No. 13652. [Class 138 (ii).] A table top for a folding mangle or wringer which, when the mangle is in the inoperative position, may be expanded to an area greater than that enclosed by the machine frame B comprises two leaves a, a<1> pivoted to one another at A<1>. The leaf a is swivelled at d on a frame D which is pivoted at b to the frame B. When the table is raised as shown, the leaves mav be retained by a catch or bolt.
Patent GB-150659-A (GB)
Title: An improved method of and means for raising sunken ships
IPC: B63C7/06
Filed: 1920-05-18
Abstract: 150,659. MacGregor, J. May 18, 1920. Addition to 132,608. Sunken s h i p s , raising.-The rotary pontoon described in the parent Specification is modified to operate automatically. The rotary pumps D, Figs. 2 and 3, driven by electric motors E, are mounted at opposite ends of the central tube B in bearings e<1>, F and prevented from turning with the pontoon by the weights g attached to the arms G. The inlet opening d<5> and outlet opening d<6> of the pump D, Fig. 4, are formed in a ring d<2> fixed to the pump, and ports leading to the pipes a<3> in the radial compartments a of the pontoon are successively brought opposite these openings by the rotation of the pontoon, so that water is pumped from the lowest compartment and discharged into the highest. Compressed air is at the same time introduced into the lowest compartment through the hollow trunnion d, a port in which engages successively the inner ends of the tubes f. Non-return valves a<4> are provided to flood the compartments, and relief valves a<5> permit the escape of compressed air.
Patent GB-769814-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to gauges having a dial and cooperating pointer
IPC: F16C1/02
Filed: 1955-05-12
Abstract: 769,814. indicating-apparatus. MANNING, MAXWELL & MOORE, Inc. May 12, 1955 [Dec. 27, 1954], No. 13731/55. Class 106 (4). [Also in Group XXIV] A temperature or pressure gauge having a case 12 containing a dial 20 and pointer 24 and a stem 26 containing a sensitive element 25 is provided with a flexible torque transmitting spring 38 connecting the element 25 and pointer 24 and a tube 42 connecting the case 12 and stem 26 which can bend through a right angle in any direction. The element 25, Fig. 3, which may be a flat bi-metallic coil or a Bourdon tube, effects rotation of a shaft 32, which rotation is transmitted to the pointer 24 by the spring 38, without introducing any parasitic movement provided the axial length of the spring 38 is maintained constant and provided the case 12 does not rotate about the axis of the stem 26. The latter condition is satisfied by forming the tube 42 as a hollow bellows, flexible longitudinally, but rigid in torque. The tube 42 is preferably of stainless steel or other corrosionresistant material, e.g. nylon, and since the tube protects the driving elements they may be made of cheaper materials, e.g. copper. The former condition may be satisfied approximately by introducing crossed links 44, Fig. 1, of suitable length, pivoted to brackets 46, 48 which are mounted for rotation respectively on the case 12 and a nipple 30 supporting the stem 26. The bracket 48 is a split sleeve whose clamping bolt 57 engages a peripheral groove 60 round the nipple 30 to prevent axial movement. A more accurate alternative is to provide parallel links 144, Fig. 8, pivoted on brackets which are formed with intermeshing gear sectors 147, 149 in the ratio 3 to 2. In either embodiment, when the case has been adjusted so that the dial faces in a desired direction, it may be locked by tightening the clamping bolt 57 and the pivot screws 56 (156), the holes in the links 44 (144) being unthreaded.
Patent GB-695777-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in tubulous vapour generating and vapour heating units
IPC: F22G1/04
Filed: 1952-05-30
Abstract: 695,777. Steam boilers; superheaters and reheaters. BABCOCK & WILCOX, Ltd. May 30, 1952 [June 2, 1951], No. 13766/52. Class 123 (ii) A steam &c. boiler comprises a furnace 1 which is lined with steam-generating tubes 2 and is provided at its upper end with an up-pass 5 leading to a down-pass 6, the said passes locating a primary superheater 14, 15, 16, a secondary superheater 19, 20, and a reheater 23, 24 25, the latter section 25 of the reheater being disposed in front of the superheater section 15. The reheater section 25 may be formed as relatively widely spaced tube panels adapted to be heated mainly by radiation; the superheater section 15 or sections 15, 16 may also be in the form of panels, preferably disposed in side-by-side relationship with the reheater panels 25.
Patent GB-540660-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in brackets for ship's cabin lights
IPC: B63B45/06
Filed: 1940-09-03
Abstract: 540,660. Brackets. GRIFFITHS, T. L. Sept. 3, 1940. No. 13775. [Class 52 (v)] A bracket for a cabin light comprises a hollow body 5 of sheet metal and straps of strip metal 7 welded or otherwise secured to the body and having integral attachment portions 10 for mounting the bracket in position. Spring arms or clips 12 within the body grip the container of a cabin light.
Patent GB-1182772-A (GB)
Title: Air Filters
Inventor: LUNN JAMES GILBERT
IPC: B01D46/02
Filed: 1966-03-29
Abstract: 1,182,772. Air filter. COAL INDUSTRY (PATENTS) Ltd. 29 March, 1967 [29 March, 1966], No. 13800/66. Heading B1T. Air is delivered by a fan from the vicinity of cutting machines in a mine to a filter housing 1 mounted on skids 4 and containing a preliminary depositing chamber 10, defined by a baffle 8 round which air passes above and below to spaces between flat filter bags (5), whose ends open into outlet 3 to atmosphere. A removable drawer 11 collects dust, and a handle (not shown) permits bags to be shaken when the fan is stopped or when door 12 is closed and lid 13 removed to divert incoming air from the bags. Bags may be removed as one unit at outlet 3. Housing 1 has a sampling pipe 14, for determining methane content of air, and a manometer 15 connected across the bags. Inlet 2 is circular in section for connecting to inlet ducting.
Patent GB-613075-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in adjustable holding devices for use in coating and decorating bakers'and confectioners' goods and in the mounting of floral tributes and similar purposes
IPC: A23G3/28
Filed: 1946-05-08
Abstract: 613,075. Stands for icing cakes, &c. HENSMAN, H. May 8, 1946, No. 13908. [Class 28(i)] [Also in Group XV] A stand for use in coating bakers' goods comprises a bracket A tiltably supporting a cage B, B1 on which is mounted a spider in two parts D, D, provided with extensible arms D2 and adjustable clips D3. The cage is rotatable about a horizontal axis and is locked in any desired position by wing-nuts B2. The spider is supported by blocks C2, C3 which are adjustable on a spindle C and may be locked by a wing nut C1, which, when free, permits the spider to be turned to vary its radius about the spindle, the arms D2 being loosely supported in guides D5. A pinion E may be provided on the spindle for the mechanical manipulation of the stand. Specifications 222,018, [Class 28(i)], 326,489, [Class 52(v)], and 490,078 are referred to.
Patent GB-863141-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to electrical terminal assemblies
Inventor: LESLIE JOHN ANGUS
IPC: H05K1/00
Filed: 1958-05-01
Abstract: 863,141. Terminal boards; printed circuits. ASSOCIATED ELECTRICAL INDUSTRIES Ltd. April 9, 1959 [May 1, 1958], No. 13956/58. Classes 37 and 38 (1). A terminal assembly comprises an insulating base 1 having formed on one surface a number of conductive areas 2 constituting terminals defining a regular pattern and each having one or more holes 3 therein which extend into and preferably through the base. The areas may be formed of copper by a printed-circuit technique and arranged in rows and columns, as shown. Two holes 3 preferably are formed in each conductive area, one of which may receive a component lead and the other an interconnecting lead, both leads being soldered to the area.
Patent GB-1135719-A (GB)
Title: An improved method of making a lead or lead alloy structure such as a sheet or foil
Inventor: ROSE MICHAEL VICTOR
IPC: B22F3/18
Filed: 1967-03-28
Abstract: 1,135,719. Granulating lead: forming lead and lead alloy bodies by powder metallurgy. ST. JOSEPH LEAD CO. March 28,1967, No. 13957/67. Headings C7D and C7X. Lead or lead alloy bodies such as sheet or foil are produced by compacting e.g. by hot or cold rolling acicular particles the greatest dimension of which is in the range 0À005 to 1 inch. The aciculae are formed by feeding molten lead or a lead alloy into a spinning cup the walls of which have openings through which the lead is extruded. The cup which may be heated is rotated at 50 - 4000 r.p.m. and the extruded lead may be cooled by a stream of air or by quenching in water. The aciculae formed may be up to 1 inch in length and <SP>3</SP>/ 16  inch in diameter and are screened to 100 mesh, preferably to -40+60 U.S. standard mesh. The screened aciculae are continuously fed to a rolling mill and rolled at e.g. 10 feet per minute. Sheets having different alloy compositions on each face may be formed by feeding separate streams of the different alloy particles simultaneously into the rolling mill. A reinforcing sheet may also be fed into the walls between the lead particles.
Patent GB-312636-A (GB)
Title: Plastic or coating compositions
IPC: C08K5/1535
Filed: 1929-05-06
Abstract: 312,636. Selden Co., (Assignees of Jaeger, A. 0.). May 29, 1928, [Convention date]. Hydrogenated phthalides are produced by hydrogenation of phthalic anhydride in the vapour or liquid phase at ordinary or super atmospheric pressure.
Patent GB-1032928-A (GB)
Title: A purifying plansifter
Inventor: SPEIGHT JOHN
IPC: B07B1/38
Filed: 1963-04-09
Abstract: 1,032,928. Plansifters. MIAG MUCHLENBAU UND INDUSTRIE G.m.b.H. April 9,1963, No. 14056/63. Heading B2H. In a plansifter comprised of a stack of screening boxes each box comprises a square screen in a frame 2 boxed in members 1, members 5 surrounding the box 1 to provide compartments 4 and members 9 surrounding the members 5 to provide compartments 11. The compartments 4 and 11 are aligned with the similar compartments of other boxes in the stack to provide an inner and an outer set of ducts the inner set ducting material to be screened to the tops of a pair of screens in series, passing the throughput of these screens to the tops of a further pair of screens and so on, and the outer set of ducts receiving the tailings from the screens and rinsing these tailings in an upward current of air in the ducts. The top and bottom halves of Fig. 1 show alternative constructions in which the members 5 are of wood like the box 1 and screen frame 2, or are of metal (see reference 5<SP>1</SP>) like the outer members 9. Spacing and closure members are required to fully define the ducts. Each box is secured at its corners by bolts 6 and the corners are occupied by channel-section pieces 10 which are displaced out of the plane of the box so as to provide projections and recesses whereby stacking of the boxes in exact alignment is facilitated.
Patent GB-143401-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in powder blowers
IPC: A01C15/04
Filed: 1919-06-04
Abstract: 143,401. Baker, J. C. June 4, 1919. Powder blowers.-A power-driven powder blower, such as is used in blowing powdered chemical fertilizers on to trees &c., has a main air passage 3 and a by-pass 4, in which the powderconta.iner 5 is situated, the two air currents reuniting in the exit pipe 8. The proportion of air passing into the container can be regulated by a movable flap 18, and a movable shutter 15 regulates the exit from this chamber. Further regulation is obtained by a conical plunger 11 moved by means of a screw spindle 12 and a handle 13 Stirring-vanes may be provided on this spindle 12 operated from the handle 13, or by the air current, or by gearing from the engine. An air-tight closure 9 is provided.
Patent GB-1102117-A (GB)
Title: A device for cleaning surface of flat rolled stock
Inventor: MARTYNOV VALERY DMITRIEVICH
IPC: B08B3/12
Filed: 1966-03-30
Abstract: Apparatus for the ultrasonic cleaning of flat stock such as metal sheets comprises a fluid bath 1, magnetostrictive converters 11 disposed in the fluid above and below the path traversed by the stock and clamping means arranged on the opposite side of the path of the stock from each <PICT:1102117/C6-C7/1> respective converter.  The clamping means may be biased driving rollers 13 (Fig. 2) or nozzles (16) for projecting liquid against the surface of the stock at high pressure.  The sheets are fed in three parallel rows through the bath 1 filled with water via rolls 3, 4 and 5 and pass between the magnetostrictive converters 7, 8, 9 and 10 the rolls 13 acting as clamps.  Each converter has a flat membrane (15) and the water is removed from the sheets at the exit side by rolls 14.  Pipes 12 supply streams of water to remove the separated impurities.
Patent GB-886418-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in heat exchangers
IPC: F28D7/02
Filed: 1959-04-27
Abstract: 886,418. Heat exchangers. HALLIDAY, M. P. April 27, 1960 [April 27, 1959], No. 14279/59. Class 64(3) A heat exchanger comprises conduits 8 of crescent-shaped cross-section extending through a shell 1, and a fluid such as water flows within the shell and over the conduits 8 in heat exchange relation to another fluid such as hot gas flowing through the conduits. In the apparatus described each of the conduits 8 is made up of two curved plates. The arrangement is such that the heat exchanger may be readily dismantled for cleaning.
Patent GB-1486071-A (GB)
Title: Cleaning tool
IPC: A46B15/00
Filed: 1975-04-08
Abstract: 1486071 Brushes combined with squeegees S LARSSON [trading as BYGG-FINESSER STIG LARSSON] 8 April 1975 [8 April 1974] 14296/75 Heading A4K [Also in Division B4] A cleaning tool comprises an elongate handle 1 secured to a flat topped wooden brush-head 4, the handle 1 or a separate holder therefor having a flange 3 which lies at an angle to the plane normal to the axis of the handle 1, the flange having an extension 5 which extends through and projects from a correspondingly angled hole in the brushhead, a wedge 6 which is driven into a slot in the projecting portion of the extension 5 so as to fix the head 4 against the flange 3 and a plate 7 secured between the flange 3 and brush-head 4 the plate 7 releasably supporting a rubber squeegee strip 11, and having a hole for the extension 5 and V-shaped notches which open into the hole and co-operate with tapering triangular section ridges 13 on the extension 5, the ridges 13 serving to prevent angular movement of the brush-head 4 and plate 7. The plate 7 may have serrated teeth (14) on an end edge, Fig. 1 (not shown) for use, e.g. in clearing ice and snow.