baber/WOPTO huggingface dataset:
Patent GB-412608-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to traffic control signals
IPC: G08G1/08
Filed: 1932-12-30
Abstract: 412,608. Signal lamps. AUTOMATIC ELECTRIC CO., Ltd., Strowger Works, Liverpool, and SIMPSON, L. M., Lyndene, Kensington Avenue, Thorner, near Leeds. Dec. 30, 1932, No. 36925. [Class 75 (iv).] In road-traffic control signal casings, daylight from a top window 50 or light from a lamp 53 is reflected by mirrors 51, 52 on to one or other of the mirrors R, A, G co-operating with red, amber and green lenses respectively, the mirror R being fixed and the mirrors A, G movable. The cam-operated linkage for moving simultaneously the corresponding mirrors for a two-aspect casing is indicated at the bottom left-hand corner of the Figure. A modification is described wherein both red and amber lenses may be illuminated simultaneously.
Patent GB-368814-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in adjustable lamp supports
IPC: F21S8/00
Filed: 1930-12-08
Abstract: 368,814. Brackets. PIEPER, A. F., of Ritter Dental Manufacturing Co., Rochester, New York, U.S.A. Dec. 8, 1930, No. 36972. Convention date, Dec. 19, 1929. [Class 52 (v).] An adjustable lamp support comprises a preferably telescopic arm 7 pivoted about a horizontal axis to a carrier 2 and counterbalanced by an adjustable spring 50 controlling the relative movement of telescopic members 32, 38 pivoted to the arm and carrier respectively. The spring 50 is located between a ferrule 39 on the tube 38 and a nut 48 on the rod 32, the nut engaging a longitudinal slot 47 in the tube so that the spring can be adjusted by rotating the rod by means of the head 33. The outward movement of the rod 32 is limited by adjustable nuts 61 thereon engaging an internal flange 58 of a sleeve 52 secured by an external flange 57 between the end of the tube 38 and a shoulder in the socket member 54 into which the tube is screwed, and the inward movement is limited by the end of the rod engaging the bottom of the socket. The member 54 is provided with apertured ears pivoted at 44 to an upstanding lug on the carrier 2, the pivot 44 being secured by a setscrew 45 to one of the ears or the lug. The arm 7 is pivoted to the carrier 2 by means of a yoke 17 having friction ears 20 through which, and a lug 18 on the carrier, the pivot belt 22 passes. An adjustable nut 24 is provided for regulating the friction to assist the spring 50 and render slight adjustments of the latter unnecessary. The tubular members of the arm 7 are retained in adjusted position by means of a flanged ferrule 12 with a washer 15. The carrier 2 is swivelled in a wall bracket 1.
Patent GB-1381680-A (GB)
Title: Automatic carcass processing apparatus
IPC: A22B5/08
Filed: 1972-08-08
Abstract: 1381680 Cleaning carcases D L ARENDALE 8 Aug 1972 [10 Aug 1971] 36994/72 Heading A2U Apparatus for scrubbing carcases 13 suspended by hooks 17 on a conveyer rail 15 comprises a frame 11 carrying a drumlike brush 21 rotatable about a horizontal axis 73 and mounted on movable parts of the frame so that it is displaceable outwardly to a second position to engage the lower part of a carcase and upwardly to engage upper parts of the carcase, these movements of the brush being initiated by. an electric switch (not shown) actuated by the passage of a hook 17. The brush comprises an initially flat plate 61, Fig. 5, which is formed into a drum and has secured to it, by plates 83, groups of resilient fingers 55 of rubber &c formed with circumferential ridges. Groups of nozzles 69 are supplied with water from the hollow interior of the drum. The drum, which is partially surrounded by a shroud 117, is moved outwardly by a pneumatic cylinder 25 acting on frame members 41 which are slidably mounted at 43 on fixed frame members 29, 31, and upwardly by a pneumatic cylinder 27 acting on frame members 45 which are slidable at 47 on the members 41. Also carried by the members 41 is a spring-loaded abutment 95 for spreading and steadying the carcases. Outward movement of the brush is initiated by a switch (not shown) as a carcase reaches the apparatus, and the supply of water to the nozzles is turned on and the upward movement of the brush is started by a switch (not shown) actuated by a member 115 as the abutment 95 is displaced against its loading springs. The brush subsequently descends and returns to its initial position automatically in readiness for the next carcase.
Patent GB-522921-A (GB)
Title: Sighting device for anti-aircraft guns
Filed: 1938-12-21
Abstract: 522,921. Gun sights. RHEINMETALL-BORSIG AKT.-GES. Dec. 21, 1938, No. 37148. Convention date, Dec. 23, 1937. [Class 92 (ii)] Relates to sights for anti-aircraft guns of'the kind in which a sight bar c is supported at the front on a universal joint d<SP>1</SP> and at the rear on a vertical post b<SP>1</SP> adjustable to suit the range speed and heading of the target. According to the invention, a control handle d<SP>5</SP> is provided on the gun whereby the joint d<SP>1</SP> can be adjusted in all directions to apply spotting and other corrections to the sight. In the form shown, the sight mounting and the means for adjusting the post b<SP>1</SP> are similar to those described in Specification 367,402. The handle d<SP>5</SP> is pivoted at. d‹ in a forked lever d‹, d<SP>3</SP> turning in a bearing a<SP>3</SP> on the gun a. -The joint d' is connected to a member d<SP>2</SP> sliding in the lever arm d<SP>3</SP> and linked to the handle d<SP>5</SP>. The arrangement is such that movement of the knob d' of the handle is conveyed to the joint d' in the desired sense for effecting the required correction to the sight line.
Patent GB-1017027-A (GB)
Title: Motor vehicle windshield washer system
IPC: B60S1/52
Filed: 1964-09-11
Abstract: 1,017,027. Nozzles. FORD MOTOR CO. Ltd. Sept. 11, 1964 [Oct. 23, 1963], No. 37178/64. Heading B2F. A windscreen washer assembly comprises a plastic housing having a head portion 1a and a stem portion 1b, a metal cap 19, and a onepiece nozzle 2 located in a part-spherical recess 7 in the housing, the nozzle either being provided with a single slot-shaped diverging outlet passage, Figs. and 6 (not shown), or with a plurality of passages, Figs. 3 and 4 (not shown), which diverge relatively to one another so as to provide an extensive spray. A pair of nozzles may be located in each head portion, each nozzle producing a diverging spray.
Patent GB-774727-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to magnetostrictive alloys
Inventor: CLARK CHARLES ALFRED
IPC: C22C19/00
Filed: 1954-12-23
Abstract: A magnetostrictive element, for use as for example transducers in echo-sounding or ultrasonic drilling apparatus, consists of a binary alloy of nickel and cobalt containing from 15 to 20.5 per cent of cobalt.
Patent GB-795814-A (GB)
Title: Bactericidal detergent compositions
Inventor: KAY ERIC
IPC: C11D1/72
Filed: 1954-12-24
Abstract: Bactericidal detergent compositions comprise (a) at least one condensation product of one molecular proportion of an alkyl phenol, preferably containing 6-20 carbon atoms in the alkyl group(s) with 2-6 molecular proportions of ethylene oxide; and (b) at least one surfaceactive bactericidal quaternary ammonium compound.  The preferred alkyl phenols from which the condensates of (a) are obtained are mixed octyl cresols and p-(a :a :g :g -tetramethylbutyl)-phenol, but several others are also specified. The preferred quaternary ammonium compounds are cetyl/oleyl trimethylammonium bromide, didecyldimethylammonium bromide and cetyl pyridinium bromide, but other examples are also given.  The amount of (a) present may be 20-80 per cent, preferably 25-75 per cent of the combined amounts of (a) and (b). The compositions are suitably used in concentrations of 0.04-0.4 per cent.  Sodium carbonate, nitrite and phosphates, sodium salts of ethylene diamine tetracetic and nitrilotriacetic acids, ammonia and primary and secondary lower aliphatic alcohols, such as ethanol, isopropanol and sec.-butanol, may also be incorporated and the compositions may be formulated as powders, pastes or fluids or as aqueous suspension or solutions. Specifications 641,297 and 663,565 are referred to.ALSO:Bactericidal detergent compositions comprise (a) at least one condensation product of one molecular proportion of an alkyl phenol, preferably containing 6-20 carbon atoms in the alkyl group(s) with 2-6 molecular proportions of ethylene oxide, and (b) at least one surface-active bactericidal quaternary ammonium compound.  The preferred alkyl phenols from which the condensates of (a) are obtained are the mixed octyl cresols and p-(a  : a  : g  : g -tetramethylbutyl)-phenol, but several others are also specified.  The preferred quaternary ammonium compounds are cetyl/oleyl trimethyl-ammonium bromide, didecyldimethylammonium bromide and cetyl pyridinium bromide, but other examples are also given.  The amount of (a) present may be 20-80 per cent, preferably 25-75 per cent of the combined amounts of (a) and (b).  The compositions are suitably used in concentrations of 0.04-0.4 per cent.  Sodium carbonate, nitrite and phosphates, sodium salts of ethylene diamine tetracetic and nitrilotriacetic acids, ammonia and primary and secondary lower aliphatic alcohols, such as ethanol, isopropanol and sec.-butanol, may also be incorporated, and the compositions may be formulated as powders, pastes or fluids or as aqueous suspensions or solutions. Specifications 641,297 and 663,565 are referred to.
Patent GB-343633-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in apparatus for dispensing liquids
IPC: G09F23/04
Filed: 1929-12-06
Abstract: 343,633. Dispensing liquids ; changing signs. CHAMBERS, C., Dale End Works, Birmingham. Dec. 6, 1929, Nos. 37434 and 37435. [Classes 3 (i) and 116.] Relates to liquid dispensing apparatus of the type wherein beer &c. is raised from storage vessels either by pressure or by pumps operated by levers on the counter, the liquid delivered being visible adjacent the delivery point. The supply pipes 33 near the delivery taps 37 are of glass or other transparent material and are either enclosed in a housing 25 having a transparent window 27 or are seen through a window in the counter, and a mirror or panel 45 bearing advertisement or other matter is arranged behind the pipes. Coloured or other electric lamps may be located in the housing, and may be automatically or manually illuminated when liquid is being delivered. The automatic illumination may be effected by a switch controlled by a float in a chamber through which the liquid passes to the taps. The window 27 is preferably inclined, and the pump handles or the taps may be mounted on the housing. Curved reflectors 42 may be arranged partly to surround the transparent delivery pipes 33.
Patent GB-1478959-A (GB)
Title: Headlamp tilting system
IPC: B60Q1/10
Filed: 1973-08-08
Abstract: 1478959 Controlling vehicle headlamps LUCAS ELECTRICAL Ltd 23 July 1974 [8 Aug 1973 20 Sept 1973 8 March 1974] 37538/73 44075/73 and 10456/74 Heading F4R A motor vehicle headlamp tilting system comprises a single master transducer 210 which produces two separate fluid pressure output signals in response to movement of its single input member 220, 221, each output of the master transducer 210 being separately connected to a respective slave transducer 211, 212 each having an output member 213<SP>1</SP>, 214<SP>1</SP> connected to respective headlamps 215, 216 which are thereby tilted in response to the movements of the single input member of the single master transducer 210. The tilting of the headlamps is governed by the loading of the vehicle which is reused by a cable and sleeve type sensor 222, 223 located between a spring and an unsprung part of the vehicle and connected to the single input member. The single master transducer 210 may have two separate chambers 233, 234 each containing respective bellows 231, 232 whose input is connected by rods 229, 230 with the single yoke-shaped input member 220, 221 and whose output is connected by fluid pipes 213, 214 to respective slave transducers 211, 212. The bellows in the transducers may either be inherently biased or spring biased. Additionally, the input to the single master transducer 210 may be modified to take account not only of the loading of the vehicle but also of the acceleration or deceleration thereof as sensed by a cable and sleeve arrangement and coupled to an anti-roll bar, Fig. 3 (not shown), the resiliently mounted vehicle engine, Fig. 5 (not shown) or the vehicle gearbox, Fig. 6 (not shown). The resultant of the sensed vehicle attitudes provides the single input to the single master transducer.
Patent GB-326883-A (GB)
Title: Capsuling machine
IPC: B67B5/00
Filed: 1928-12-24
Abstract: 326,883. Bruun, O. J. Dec. 24, 1928. Capsules, applying.-In applying capsules by a head 16 with rubber ring 18, the capsule is prevented from contacting with the ring by interposed ribbons of linen, skin or other material, threaded through slots 22 and attached at the ends to springs, rubber-bands or weights. A cup-shaped metal plate may be used as a shield between the ribbons and the mouth of the bottle. An annular recess 25 may be formed in the ring to position the shield or a crown-cork capsule. In modifications the ring is covered with a loose cover of linen &c., or a sheet of linen &c. is placed above the ring. Specifications 2131/83 and 1320/91 are referred to.
Patent GB-1513803-A (GB)
Title: Thermally controlled fluid flow regulating or shut-off valves
IPC: F02M26/00
Filed: 1975-09-18
Abstract: 1513803 Valves DEUTSCHE VERGASER GmbH & CO KG 18 Sept 1975 [13 Nov 1974] 38428/75 Heading F2V In a thermally actuated valve a snap-acting bimetallic disc 16 seats on a sealing ring 20 to prevent flow between connections 12 and 14. The bimetallic disc is heated by a radiating disc 26 itself heated by a PTC-element (positive temperature coefficient semi-conductor) electrically connected to a plug 34. A thermally insulating spacer 24 is placed between the discs 16 and 26.
Patent GB-911244-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in telescopic taps
Inventor: BRADBURY THOMAS HENRY
IPC: F16K3/26
Filed: 1959-11-13
Abstract: 911,244. Valves. PHILLIPS TELESCOPIC TAPS Ltd. Nov. 14, 1960 [Nov. 13, 1959], No. 38514/59. Class 135. A telescopic tap comprises an outer tube A with a flange for attachment to a container, a pouring tube B which is slidable in the tube A and has an outlet in its cylindrical wall, and an inner sleeve C coacting with the outlet in the tube B and having an outwardly bent projection 7 coacting with a longitudinal slot 5 in the tube B. When the tap is closed the projection 7 lies in a side notch 8 of the slot 5 so that when the tube B is drawn outwardly to open the tap the tube C moves with it, keeping the outlet closed, until the projection 7 engages an inclined slot 2 in the tube A whereupon the outward movement of the tube C is arrested and the tube C is turned slightly due to the interengagement of the projection 7 and inclined slot 2 so that the projection is disengaged from the side notch 8 in the slot 5 and the tube B is permitted to be withdrawn further so that the outlet is moved beyond the end of the tube C. On return movement of the tube B the outlet is first closed by the tube C after which the inclined side of the notch 8 imparts slight rotation to the tube C to disengage the projection 7 from the slot 2. A triangular projection 4 on the tube A positions the projection 7 correctly when the tap is first opened should the tap have been fitted to a container with the projection 7 displaced from the notch 8. The inner tube is formed with longitudinal slits so that the projection is on a tongue that can be sprung inwardly.
Patent GB-1354867-A (GB)
Title: Silencers for turbo engines
IPC: F01D25/30
Filed: 1972-08-18
Abstract: 1354867 Silencers SOC NATIONALE DES CHEMINS DE FER FRANCAIS 18 Aug 1972 [8 Sept 1971] 38673/72 Heading F1B Turbo engine exhaust silencer comprises a device absorbing sound energy of a frequency above 500 Hz by friction, said device consisting of members lined with porous or fibrous material and a device which attenuates frequencies below 500 Hz, said device consisting of a plurality of resonators each tuned to a frequency such that the complete system covers all the frequencies below 500 Hz, the resonators being disposed around a hopper which has perforated sides and which is an extension of the turbo-engine exhaust pipe. The engine exhaust pipe leads into a pair of cylindrical conduits 2 which are side by side and have perforated walls which allow communication with the interior of a first resonator 1. The gases then pass into a hopper 6, around which are arranged two further resonators 4 and 5, the hopper walls being perforated. Inside the hopper is a central member 7 and members 9 which are lined with absorbent materials. The walls 8 are also lined with similar materials.
Patent GB-1262233-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to the antistaling of bread
IPC: A21D2/16
Filed: 1970-08-12
Abstract: 1,262,233. Anti-staling of bread. GRINDSTEDVAERKET AS. 12 Aug., 1970 [22 Aug., 1969], No. 38779/70. Headings A2B and A2D. An agent for the crumb softening of bakery products consists of a powder of distilled monoglycerides containing at least 90% by weight of monoglycerides of saturated fatty acids, said powder having been obtained by the freeze-drying of an aqueous dispersion of the said monoglycerides.
Patent GB-1513405-A (GB)
Title: Load carrying vehicles having automatic braking systems
IPC: B60T8/18
Filed: 1975-09-22
Abstract: 1513405 Load responsive braking; external shoe-drum brakes; track brakes SAVEC 22 Sept 1975 [23 Sept 1974] 38822/75 Headings F2F; F2E The Specification discloses embodiments of a load-responsive braking arrangement for a guided vehicle 1 which comprises an underframe on which there is a center of articulation 14, a number of vertically elastic coupling means 10, 11 being provided between the underframe and a load carrying platform which with the load constitutes a first weight the means 10, 11 having stiffnesses in inverse ratio to their distances from the centre of articulation 14 and braking force transmitting means located on the underframe to transmit the first weight to a braking force applying means whereby relative motion between the vehicle and relatively movable track components is braked with a force proportional to the first weight. In the embodiment of Figs. 1-5 a vehicle (1) with wheels (8) rolling on a rail (9) has below the centre of articulation 14 an assembly comprising a cap 19 whose height is adjustable by a screw 20 screwed on a supporting lever 21 bearing on a member 30 through a pin 22 engaged in one of holes 23 provided in lever 21. The lever 21 is acted on by the force of an assembly 34 of elastic rings, and by the vehicle weight acting through centre 14 to cause a tipping of lever 21 around pin 22. Shoes 26 are thereby applied to a drum 27 integral with a wheel 28. In the embodiment of Figs. 6-7, a loading platform 42 is connected to an underframe 44 by coil springs 47, 48 and the loading platform is also supported by a central fulcrum 49 around which it may oscillate. Below the fulcrum 49 is mounted a bellows 50 filled with hydraulic fluid connected by ducts to bellows 52 whereon grippers 53, 54 articulated about an axle 55 are fastened. Brake shoes 56, 57 are fastened to the grippers for engagement with a vertical strip 59 integral with the track.
Patent GB-1200146-A (GB)
Title: Measuring magnetic fields
Inventor: FOERSTER FRIEDRICH M O
IPC: G01R33/04
Filed: 1968-08-14
Abstract: 1,200,146. Fluxgate magnetometers; flaw detecting. F.M.O. FORSTER. Aug.14, 1968 [Aug.17, 1967], No.38938/68. Heading G1N. Fluxgate magnetometers. A fluxgate magnetometer comprises an annular core 30, a primary winding 34 linking the core, and a secondary winding 42 extending diametrically across the core without linking it so that the signal induced in the secondary winding is the net result of opposing signals induced by flux changes in the two halves of the core. Two or more cores may be provided having a common primary winding Figs.4, 6, 7, (not shown) or parallel-connected primary windings Fig.9 (not shown), their secondary windings being connected in series to produce a net output only when the cores are in magnetic fields of different strengths. To provide a shift in operating characteristics, a permanent magnet 202 may be arranged with its axis on a core diameter perpendicular to the secondary winding and a rectifier 162 may be connected in series with the secondary winding. Flaw detecting. A workpiece 14 is tested for flaws by passing a current through it and scanning its surface with a fluxgate magnetometer described above. The secondary (or primary) winding of the fluxgate may be tuned with a capacitor 47 so that the frequency of the primary A.C. lies on the slope of the resonance curve thereby making the response to flaws insensitive to variations in the distance from the surface of the workpiece. To improve the signal to noise ratio, a plurality of fluxgates Fig. 9 (not shown) may be spaced in the direction of scanning with their secondary windings connected in series to a band pass filter tuned to the frequency which a flaw passing the fluxgates will produce.
Patent GB-1355842-A (GB)
Title: Polysulphone-containing thermoplastic moulding compositions
IPC: C08F283/14
Filed: 1971-08-19
Abstract: 1355842 Polysulphone/graft polymer blends BAYER AG 19 Aug 1971 [27 Aug 1970] 38964/71 Headings C3G and C3R A moulding composition comprises (A) a polysulphone, and (B) a thermoplastic polymer of (1) a polypentenamer rubber, and (2) polymerized, (a) styrene, a nuclear- or side-chain alkylated styrene, a halogen styrene and/or methyl methacrylate, and (b) acrylonitrile and/or methyl methacrylates, the weight ratio of (a) : (b) being from 100 : 0 to 50 : 50, from 25 to 100% by weight of (2) having been polymerized in the presence of (1) and the remainder, if any, having been added as a separate polymer. In the examples, a polysulphone of recurring structural unit is fused and homogenized in an extruder with a granulated blend of a polypentenamer grafted with styrene, acrylonitrile and, optionally, methyl methacrylate, bis-stearylamide of ethylene diamine and 2,6 - di - tert. - butyl - pnonyl phenol.
Patent GB-1311630-A (GB)
Title: Gas turbine power plant
IPC: F01D9/02
Filed: 1971-08-20
Abstract: 1311630 Gas-turbine combustion chambers GENERAL ELECTRIC CO 20 Aug 1971 [23 Nov 1970] 39108/71 Heading F1L A transition member conducting hot combustion gases from a combustion chamber to a gas turbine inlet passage and disposed in a chamber connected to a source of pressurized cooling fluid is surrounded by a sleeve member, the radially outer wall of the transition member being perforated to admit jets of cooling fluid for impingement cooling of the radially outer wall of the transition member, and the radially inner wall of the transition member having openings to admit cooling fluid from the sleeve into the transition member for improving the radial temperature gradient of the hot combustion gases entering the turbine. The transition member 6, which is shaped in cross-section to connect the circular outlet end of a flame tube to an arc of radially extending turbine nozzle blades, is surrounded at its outlet end by a sleeve 11 having a flanged periphery 12 attached, as by spot welding, to the transition member. Air from the compressor of the engine can pass through a large number of small perforations 18 to provide impingement cooling of the radially outer wall 14 of the transition member 6. This air passes through the space 13 to enter the transition member 6 via a small number of large holes 19 in the radially inner wall 15 of the transition member to cool the combustion gases in the radially inner part of the gas path where the turbine rotor blade stresses are highest.