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Patent GB-103332-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Temporary Binders or Loose Leaf Books.
Inventor: HARCOURT FREDERIC
IPC: B42F13/00
Filed: 1916-01-22
Abstract: 103,332. Harcourt, r. Jan. 22, 1916. Post files; locking-followers. - A loose-leaf binder, of the kind in which the locking-means comprises telescopic members 4, 5 having mutilated threads 6, has the members 4, 5 detachably mounted upon the jaws of the binder. The binder may comprise filing-posts of the kind described in Specification 103,330 and, according to the Provisional Specification, the members 4, 5 may be detachably secured to the jaws by a plate sliding in dovetail grooves as described in Specification 103,331. In the binder shown in Fig. 8, the locking-means comprise a socket 21 with an internal projection 23 to engage one or other of the slots 28 in the spigot member 25, this member having a longitudinal slot 27, so that the parts 21, 25 may telescope when the spigot has been turned into a position in which the projection 23 engages the slot 27. A helical spring 24 may be provided to prevent inadvertent turning of the spigot 25.
Patent GB-265564-A (GB)
Title: Device for regulating the return speed of the beer flowing back from the rising pipe into the barrel
IPC: B67D1/16
Filed: 1927-01-13
Abstract: 265,564. Boskothen - - Patent - Bierarmaturen Ges., (Asignees of Roskothen, K.). Feb. 8, 1926, [Convention date]. Direct air pressure apparatus.-In beer-raising apparatus, the by-pass pipe b for equalizing the pressures in the cask and the delivery pipe h so that the beer in the pipe h may return to the cask, is provided with an adjustable throttle c, which may comprise a screw-down valve e enclosed by a cap f and packing washer g.
Patent GB-468841-A (GB)
Title: Method and device for treating thixotropes
Filed: 1936-01-13
Abstract: <PICT:0468841/III/1> <PICT:0468841/III/2> <PICT:0468841/III/3> The method of treating thixotropes described in the parent Specification is modified by the use of vibrating plates instead of strings or needles.  As shown in Fig. 1, a vessel a is mounted on springs b and vibrated by an unbalanced mass d.  Transverse plates c, which may be weighted, are fitted to the container which discharges through perforated plates g.  In the form shown in Figs. 3 and 4, a vessel is vibrated by an unbalanced mass f and is fitted with undulating radial plates d.  The treated material is discharged through a screen g, into a gutter h.  In another form, an undulating radial plate construction is inserted in a mass of the material, while in a further form the material from one spring-mounted vessel to another, the vessels being separately vibrated and fitted with plates.
Patent GB-563030-A (GB)
Title: Improvement in parachute pack
IPC: B64D17/52
Filed: 1943-01-21
Abstract: 563,030. Parachute packs. CLEVELAND, F. J. (Pioneer Parachute Co., Inc.). Jan. 21, 1943, No. 1099. [Class 41 In order to hold the skirt 18 and suspension lines 14 in place until the upper portion of the canopy has been drawn out to nearly its full length a flap 24 secured to the pack base is folded over the canopy skirt 18 and may be secured in its covering position by snap or break-thread fastenings 38. The next fold of the canopy may be retained by a second flap 26. Specification 539,138 is referred to.
Patent GB-877727-A (GB)
Title: Protein hydrolysates
IPC: A61K38/01
Filed: 1958-01-13
Abstract: A dietary mixture substantially free from phenylalanine, and from aspartic and glutamic acids, is prepared by treating a protein acid hydrolysate with an anion-exchange resin on the hydroxide cycle simultaneously to neutralize the hydrolysate and adsorb the aspartic and glutamic acids, contacting the neutralized hydrolysate with charcoal to adsorb phenylalanine, isolating the resulting protein hydrolysate and converting the residual glutamic acid therein to pyrrolidone dicarboxylic acid e.g. by autoclaving.  A solution of the essential amino acids leucine, isoleucine, valine, methionine, treohnine, arginine, histidine and lysine may be so obtained, and the natural essential amino acid tyrosine, racemic essential amino acids comprising tryptophane and methionine, and the non-essential amino acid glycine, may be added thereto to prepare an orally administrable dietary mixture containing not more than 1% phenylalanine, not more than 5% aspartic and glutamic acids and not more than 3% racemic essential amino acids comprising tryptophane and methionine.  The hydrolysate may be derived from casein, lactalbumin, egg albumin, fibrin, blood serum albumin, and serum globulin, and mixtures thereof, and the anion exchange resin may be a polyamine resin.ALSO:A dietary mixture substantially free from phenylalamine, and from aspartic and glutamic acids, is prepared by treating a protein acid hydrolysate with an anion exchange resin on the hydroxide cycle simultaneously to neutralize the hydrolysate and adsorb the aspartic and glutamic acids, contacting the neutralized hydrolysate with charcoal to adsorb phenylalamine, isolating the resulting protein hydrolysate and converting the residual glutamic acid therein to pyrrolidone dicarboxylic acid, e.g. by autoclaving.  A solution of the essential amino acids leucine, isoleucine, valine, methionine, threonine, arguinine, bistidine, and lysine, may be so obtained, and the natural essential amino acid tyrosine, racemic essential amino acids comprising tryptophane and methionine, and the new-essential amino acid glycine, may be added thereto to prepare an orally administrable dietary mixture containing not more than 1% phenylalanine, not more than 5% aspartic and glutamic acids and not more than 3% racemic essential amino acids comprising tryptophane and methianine.  The hydrolysate may be derived from casein, lactalbumin, egg albumin, fibrin, blood serum albumin, and serum globulin, and mixtures thereof, and the anion exchange resin may be a polyamine resin.  A crystalline mixture of "fortifying" ingredients may be included in dietary preparations containing the protein hydrolysate.
Patent GB-625299-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to compressor systems
IPC: F02C7/047
Filed: 1947-01-13
Abstract: 625,299. Induction heating. EDIS, A. R. Jan. 13, 1947, No. 1164. [Class 39(iii)] [Also in Group XXVI] In order to prevent formation of ice, the blades of an axial flow compressor are heated by eddy currents produced therein by induction. Magnets 25, which may be permanent, or energised by separate windings, are incorporated in the stator body 19, provide a magnetic field which is cut by the moving blades. The energised windings, if employed, may be supplied with a D.C. or an A.C. provided by an alternator or valve oscillator. In a modification the rotor blades may be equipped with magnetising coils and supplied with energy through slip rings.
Patent GB-1161583-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Gas Pessure Indicators
Inventor: HAMANAKA MITSUSHIRO
IPC: G01L7/04
Filed: 1967-01-10
Abstract: 1,161,583. Pressure gauges. M. HAMANAKA. Jan. 10, 1967, No. 1265/67. Heading G1L. In a gas pressure gauge indicator in which the indicator is attached at its lower end 3 to a container, such as a tyre, to be subjected to air pressure by an inflation device attached to the upper end of the indicator at 4. The air from the inflation device operates a spring-loaded valve 11 to enter the container and also, through a duct 16, a Bourdon tube 17 which extends or contracts in length to move a pointer 18 over a scale 22.
Patent GB-696479-A (GB)
Title: Improvement in or relating to combined means for heating, roasting, boiling, steaming, steam sterilizing and soil heating
IPC: A47J37/00
Filed: 1950-07-19
Abstract: 696,479. Boilers. THOMAS, R. V. Nov. 27, 1950 [July 19, 1950], No. 1381/50. Class 64 (i) [Also in Groups VI and XI] A combined cooking stove, boiler and steam sterilizer comprises a base boiler D forming a water jacket around the fire-box J, a centre chamber C usable as an oven or steam sterilizer, mounted above the base boiler, a food boiler B mounted above the centre chamber, a portable and collapsible frying or braising stand J<SP>3</SP>, and a flexible coil heater T4 through which hot water from the base boiler D is circulated. A flue D<SP>2</SP> passes through the chamber C to the chimney. By operation of a sliding damper L, Fig. 9, hot gases may be diverted across the top of the oven chamber C under a baffle plate 0, and may return above that plate, and below a second plate Z, to the chimney, or they may pass through the plate Z and heat the boiler B. Water is supplied to the boiler D by a tank X. N is a steam chamber connected to the boiler D by flow and return pipes N<SP>2</SP>, N<SP>3</SP>, and provided with valve-controlled pipes A<SP>2</SP>, A<SP>5</SP> for supply of steam to the chamber C and the boiler B. A greenhouse heater T<SP>3</SP> is also connected to the boiler D.
Patent GB-606470-A (GB)
Title: Apparatus for testing the profile of bevel gear teeth
Filed: 1946-01-15
Abstract: 606,470. Gauging gear teeth. DAVIES, W. J. Jan. 15, 1946, No. 1391. [Class 106 (ii)] Apparatus for testing the profile of a bevel-wheel tooth comprises a rotatable holder for the bevel-wheel, a stylus rotatable about an axis through the apex of the base cone of the bevelwheel, a member rotatable about said axis and in driving connection with the bevel-wheel by means of two friction gears and means for indicating relative angular movement between the member and the stylus. The bevel-wheel 25 is held by means of an adjustable collet 24 in a holder 23 rotatably mounted in angularly adjustable bearings 27 and having a friction-wheel 30 in engagement with a segment of a friction disc 5 rotatably mounted in a bed 8, a handle 11 and gearing being provided to rotate the disc 5. An arm 13 is also mounted in the bed 8, preferably in an anti-friction bearing (not shown), a bearing bush 15 being arranged between the hollow spindle of the arm 13 and the spindle of the disc 5 which also has a projecting arm 12. The stylus 19 is secured in a slideway in the arm 13 by means of distance pieces and a clamping plate 21. When the disc 5 and hence the bevel-wheel are rotated, the bevel-wheel tooth in contact with the stylus drives the latter and any relative movement between the arm 13 carrying the stylus and the arm 12 due to inaccuracies in the profile is indicated on a dial gauge 16. The friction-wheel 30 may be adjusted by means of two nuts 32 and is urged towards the friction disc 5 by means of a spring 33. Alternatively, friction-wheels of different diameter having coned peripheries may be detachably secured to the work holder for use with bevel-wheels of different angle. For testing teeth of true involute form, the stylus may comprise a point or have edges lying on the surface of a sphere drawn about the apex of the bevel-wheel as centre, but to test teeth formed by flat-faced cutting teeth and therefore of a modified involute form, the stylus preferably has corresponding straight edges.
Patent GB-370984-A (GB)
Title: A device for testing the liquid content of withered tea leaf in black tea manufacture
IPC: G01N33/02
Filed: 1931-01-15
Abstract: <PICT:0370984/III/1> The moisture content of black tea is tested during withering by pressing the chopped up leaf in a cylinder A and observing the moisture level E in a callibrated tube after a given interval of time, denoted by the sand glass I, and under a given pressure. The pressure may be applied hydraulically or mechanically.
Patent GB-1453000-A (GB)
Title: Installation for conveying printed products arriving in an overlapping formation
IPC: B65H29/00
Filed: 1974-01-11
Abstract: 1453000 Conveying a shingled stream of printed products FERAG AG 11 Jan 1974 [12 Jan 1973] 01426/74 Heading B8A Printed products in overlapping formation are fed by a belt conveyer 13 to the grippers 50, 50, of an endless chain conveyer 16. An auxiliary conveyer comprising rollers 49 (Figs. 5 and 6) carried between endless chains 40, has an auxiliary conveying action in holding the products against resilient members 61<SP>1</SP>, 62<SP>1</SP>, carried by the chain of the conveyer 16. Cam followers 68 bear on linear cam surfaces 72 to cause the mechanism of the grippers 50 to be operated in correct timing. The products may be discharged at 19 (Fig. 1) by a conveyer system similar to that shown in Fig. 6, or they may be transferred at 22 to a stacker 26<SP>1</SP>. The inclination of the conveyer 16 relative to the conveyer 13, may be adjusted (Figs. 2A to 2D) by mounting the drive shaft 51 of the conveyer 40 in selected alternative bearing axes 52, 52<SP>1</SP>, 52<SP>11</SP>, and 52<SP>111</SP>. The length of the chains 40 are compensated by adding or taking away the requisite number of rollers 49.
Patent GB-286198-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in dental apparatus
IPC: A61G15/14
Filed: 1926-08-18
Abstract: 286,198. Pieper, O. H., and Pieper, A. F. Aug. 18, 1926. Stands; air douches.- Relates to dental appara,- tus of the kind comprising a hollow pedestal fitted with means for supporting numerous dental instruments and accessories. According to the invention the pedestal 5 has an oblique panel thereon, a plate 75 fitting over an opening in the panel being provided with a number of tubes 71 - - 74 forming receptacles for instruments to which flexible tubes or electrical conductors are attached, the tubes or cords passing down into the pedestal. Within the latter are fixed vertical rods 80 upon which are s3idably mounted counterweights 83 carrying pulleys over which the cords and tubes pass. In the construction shown, a hot air syringe 76 is disposed in the receptacle 71, and flexible tubing connected thereto passes down over the pulley 90 to an air connection 95. An air control device 79 is received in the receptacle 74, and is adapted for use with spray bottles which are received in and heated by receptacles a provided on the stand as described in Specification 285,626. The device 79 has a flexible tube connected thereto and passing over a pulley 87 to an air connection 94. Compressed air is supplied to both the connections 94, 95 through pipes 91 - - 93. Electric current is also supplied to the hot air syringe by leads from a connection block 96, passing into the air tube by way of an insulating connection 97. From the block 96, to which low voltage current is supplied from the main connection block 56 by means of a transformer 98, leads are also taken to the instruments in the receptacles 72, 73 (such as a mouth lamp and a spatula, root canal drier, or excavator), the leads passing round the pulleys 88, 89. A switchboard which comprises controls for the various electrical devices is located on the front of the pedestal. Sockets are also provided at 105, 107 for plugging in connections to other instruments such as an operating light. In order that an instrument placed in any of the tubular receptacles 71 - - 74 will be guided therein to such a position that it can be conveniently gripped when required, each tube is provided with a bushing 20, Fig. 5, which is cut away obliquely at its upper e'dge. Inclined guide surfaces 121 are thus formed, and serve to direct a stud 124 on the instrument into a vertical slot 122, at the bottom of which it is retained.
Patent GB-100804-A (GB)
Title: Process for Producing Fast Dyeings on the Fibre.
Inventor: BLOXAM ARTHUR GEORGE
IPC: C09B39/00
Filed: 1916-02-01
Abstract: 100,804. Bloxam, A. G., (Chemische Fabrik Griesheim-Elektron). Feb. 1, 1916. 2 : 3-Oxynaphthoicarylides. - The following arylides of 2 : 3-oxynaphthoic acid may be made by the method described in Specification 23732/13 : di-2 : 3-oxynaphthoyl-m-toluylenediamine, di -2 : 3-oxynaphthoyl-p-phenylenediamine, 2 : 3 - oxynaphthoylthiazylamine, 2 : 3-oxynaphthoyl -p. or o-aminoquinoline.
Patent GB-1189942-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Extensible and Contractable Devices
Inventor: BAINBRIDGE WILFRED NICHOLAS
IPC: B60N2/23
Filed: 1968-01-11
Abstract: 1189942 Fluid-pressure apparatus AUTOMOTIVE PRODUCTS CO Ltd 28 Nov 1968 [11 Jan 1968] 1552/68 Index F2S 31 [Also in Division A4] A pneumatic device 16 comprises a cylinder 17 in which slides a piston 21 to compress or expand a mass of gas (e.g. between the piston and a closed end 18 of the piston) there being a locking device (e.g. arms 33 pivoted to the cylinder and having ratchet teeth 34 to engage corresponding teeth 26 on the piston rod) to prevent relative motion between the piston and cylinder at any position thereof, the locking means being held by application of the gas pressure (e. g. via passage 37 on composite piston 28, 29 having cam faces 35 acting urging the arms inwards) and being opened by releasing means (e.g. a fluid operated piston and cylinder or a cam device to force the abutments 38 on the arms apart). The device 16 may be used to adjust the tilt of the back (12) of a vehicle seat, Fig. 1 (not shown).
Patent GB-753359-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to dynamo-electric machines
Inventor: TUDGE JOSEPH
IPC: H02K3/24
Filed: 1954-01-19
Abstract: 753,359. Cooling dynamo-electric machines. METROPOLITAN-VICKERS ELECTRICAL CO., Ltd. Nov. 11, 1954 [Jan. 19, 1954], No. 1631/54. Class 35. In a machine with axially-extending ducts in the rotor conductors there are inlet ports disposed axially of the machine in the end windings, also passages leading radially outwards from sub-slots fed with air or hydrogen at both ends of the core while discharge ports lead from the axial ducts to the airgap. As shown, the axial ducts are blocked at 13 so that end winding coolant entering at 9 flows to the airgap through radial passages 12 while coolant for the main parts of the slot conductors enters by sub-slots 14, is distributed to axial ducts 7 by radial passages 10 and leaves by outlets 15 arranged alternately with passages 10 along the conductors which are shaped as shown in Fig. 4.
Patent GB-539934-A (GB)
Title: Propelling motor for aircraft
IPC: F02B75/22
Filed: 1940-01-26
Abstract: 539,934. Cooling aero-engines. ATTESLANDER, E. Jan. 26, 1940, No. 1667. [Class 7 (ii)] An air-cooled aero-engine having rows of cylinders arranged in V or combinations of V- formation with the crankshaft disposed towards the middle of a profiled section such as a wing or fuselage, has its cylinders extending to the outer covering of the profiled section, its inlet ports being disposed towards the sides adjacent to said outer covering and to exhaust ports within the V. In one form an engine with its cylinders in V-formation is arranged transversely on its side within a cowling B arranged on the front of a main plane, front and rear openings, being formed for the passage of cooling air which encounters the exhaust side of the cylinder heads first and is screened from the cooler inlet side by the camshaft casings and inlet manifolds. Cooling fins N, N<1> are provided on the cylinder heads. Deflectors which contain the exhaust pipes, ensure a uniform distribution of the propeller blast over the cylinders. The stroke-bore ratio is relatively large e.g. 1.4. Where a sleeve valve engine is used each cylinder head is formed externally as a cup-shaped member having cooling fins over which the air is directed by a funnel shaped member F, Fig. 2. The inlet port J is formed in the cylinder wall on the side of the cylinder away from the incoming air and the exhaust port E on the opposite side, the two ports being controlled by a sleeve valve T.
Patent GB-795111-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to electric motor speed control systems
IPC: H02P7/34
Filed: 1955-01-20
Abstract: 795,111. Automatic speed control systems. IGRANIC ELECTRIC CO., Ltd. Jan. 20, 1955 [Jan. 25, 1954], No. 1744/55. Class 38 (4). [Also in Group XL (b)] In a system for controlling the speed of a motor 10 wherein a field winding 12 is supplied with a constant current from rectifiers 16, 18, and current supplied to the armature 14 through a bridge comprising thyratrons 20, 22 and diodes 16, 18, is regulated by the bias on the thyratron grids; the grid circuit includes a dual-output, phase-shifting network 66, 68, 70, 72, 76, 80, 82 for applying an A.C. from transformer 64 which lags the anode voltage by approximately 120 degrees, the armature 14 and a resistor 88 which together produce a voltage proportional to motor speed and compensated for armature IR drop, and a potentiometer 86 across which an adjustable speed determining reference voltage is developed. Closing of main switch 48 operates relay 26 to close the field circuit after a time determined by a thermal relay 24, and the armature circuit is closed by relay 28 in response to the subsequent operation of the " start " button. A condenser 96 which is short-circuited by a contact of relay 28 prior to starting and a resistor 90 are provided to determine the rate of acceleration, and resistors 74, 78 to limit the grid currents which can be equalized by resistance 82. An alternative circuit arrangement is shown by a dotted line 100, and a battery 95 for determining the thyratron working point may also be provided.
Patent GB-1244292-A (GB)
Title: Gas turbine engine
Inventor: POUCHER MICHAEL
IPC: F02C7/045
Filed: 1970-01-14
Abstract: 1,244,292. Gas turbine engines - air intakes, jet nozzles. ROLLS ROYCE Ltd. Jan.14, 1970, No.1842/70. Headings G1G, F1J. A gas turbine power plant comprises an outer casing, a main air intake at the upstream end of the casing and a gas or air outlet at the downstream end of the casing, there being first restricting means movable between an inoperative position in which it is fully retracted and an operative position in which it extends partially to obturate the main intake; also an auxiliary air intake defined in the outer casing and second restricting means movable between an operative and an inoperative position to permit and to prevent respectively ingress of air into the auxiliary intake. The engine shown in Fig. 1 is a gas turbine ducted fan engine comprising a fan 13 mounted in a duct defined by a fan casing 11, 12. A series of flap members 18 are pivotably mounted at 19 adjacent the upstream end of the fan casing being movable between an operative position shown in Fig. 1 in which they partially obturate the air intake and a retracted position in which the flap members are received in recesses 24 formed in the inner wall 12 of the fan casing in which position they do not impede air-flow into the main air intake. The flaps are movable by a ball-screw jack 20 acting through links 22 which incorporate shock absorbers. An auxiliary air intake duct 31 is provided downstream of the flaps 18, the duct 31 having associated therewith flap members 30 which are movable between an operative position shown in full lines and an inoperative position shown in broken lines in which they respectively permit and prevent air-flow through the auxiliary air intake. The auxiliary flaps 30 move conjointly with the main flaps 18. The flaps are movable to their operative positions to prevent passage of sound waves from the fan assembly out through the intake. Means may be provided to increase the area of the discharge nozzle when the intake flaps are moved to their operative positions. In Fig. 6 the inner wall 16 of the fan duct which surrounds the gas turbine engine 17 comprises pairs of flap members 130, 131 which are pivotally inter-connected at 133 and have a pivotal connection to the wall 16 at 132 and a sliding connection to the wall at 134. The flaps are movable by actuator 35 between a minimum nozzle area position shown in full lines and a maximum nozzle area position shown in broken lines. In Fig. 3 the downstream end portion 28a of the fan casing is axially movable in a downstream direction as indicated by chain-dotted lines to define an annular passage for thrust spoiling. Arrangements are provided in Fig. 3 for discharge of jets of air from the flaps 18 to prevent eddying downstream of the flaps when in their projected positions.