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Patent GB-115233-A (GB)
IPC: B63B5/08
Abstract: 115,233. Ghirardi, L., and Sanguineti, A. V. March 24, 1917, [Convention date]. Concrete vessels.-A ship or vessel built wholly or in part of reinforced concrete comprises a monolithic foundation bow, keel and stern structure a, b, &c. of reinforced concrete, complete precast transverse frames e placed in recesses g in the keel b, two or more precast longitudinal deck beams resting in recesses l in the transverse deck beams c<1>, and precast longitudinal stringer beams f at the sides and bottom. The inner skin m consists of a slab or slabs of concrete reinforced by metal meshwork ; a lining of wood planks o may also be applied. The outer skin consists of wood planking n, or slabs of reinforced concrete, or steel plating ; or, alternatively, concrete may be used for the submerged parts, and wood planking above water level. Holes p are formed in the transverse frames to connect the various cells of the double bottom which can be used for water ballast.
Patent GB-115290-A (GB)
IPC: G10K9/10
Abstract: 115,290. Marks, E. C. R., (Sparks-Withington Co.). May 14, 1917. Diaphragm horns.-In a mechanically-operated diaphragm horn, the shaft carrying the rotary cam has one end supported in a slidable bar whereby the cam can be moved towards or from the diaphragm to vary the volume of sound produced. In the construction shown, the horn is operated by the hand-lever 15 reciprocating the casing 11 along the threaded spindle 10 carrying the rotary cam 6. The casing 11 contains a nut 12 locked against rotary movement by catches 13 on the casing when the lever is moved in one direction, but free to revolve during the reverse stroke. The lower end 22 of the cam spindle is carried by the bar 23 adapted to be moved by the thumb-screw 26 when the nut 30 has been loosened. The upper end of the spindle is carried in the adjustable bearing 18.
Patent GB-804752-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to ovens
Inventor: PANISSET DENIS SYDNEY
IPC: F24C15/32
Filed: 1954-04-22
Abstract: 804,752. Heat accumulator stoves; electrically heated ovens. SIMPLEX ELECTRIC CO., Ltd/April 22, 1955 [April 22, 1954], No. 11608/54. Classes 39(3) and 126 An oven having heating elements within the oven enclosure has a thermally conductive member extending from a part of the oven adjacent the heating element where the member and the oven is heated to a part of the there the member supplies heat to the oven so as to obtain the desired heat distribution within the oven. Heat distributers 27, 28 of aluminium, copper &c. of high heat conductivity extend from the lower part of the sides of a cooking oven to the middle of the bottom of the oven, so that heat provided by electric elements 17, 18 is transferred to the middle of the oven. Baffles 21, 22 protect the elements 17, 18 from grease splashes. The heat distributers 27, 28 are secured to the side walls of the oven adjacent the heating elements, but are spaced from the side parts of the oven bottom. Springs 38 hold the cranked ends of the distributers in close contact with the middle part of the bottom of the oven. The distributers extend over the front part only of the oven, which may be heated by gas burners mounted behind baffles at the sides. The distributers may extend through the oven walls at the sides and the middle of the oven bottom, where a splash guard may be provided. The invention may be applied to an industrial oven, or to gas heated ovens.
Patent GB-920636-A (GB)
Title: New nitro-derivatives of 1:4:5:8-naphthoylene-dibenzimidazole and process for their manufacture
IPC: C09B57/12
Filed: 1959-04-06
Abstract: The invention comprises mono-nitro derivatives of 1:4:5:8-naphthoylene-dibenzimidazole which consist substantially of cis- or transcompounds of the formula:-  <FORM:0920636/IV(a)/1> where X is the radical:-  <FORM:0920636/IV(a)/2> The pigments are made by nitrating the cis- or transisomers of 1:4:5:8-naphthoylene-dibenzimidazole with nitric acid in sulphuric acid, oleum or chlorosulphonic acid.  Specifications 256,989, 341,357 and 369,604 are referred to.
Patent GB-987932-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in liquid dispensing apparatus
Inventor: PRIOR FRANK ERNEST
IPC: G01F11/28
Filed: 1961-03-30
Abstract: 987,932. Delivering measured quantities of liquids. FLUOMAT Ltd. March 22, 1962 [March 30, 1961; June 12, 1961], Nos 11666/61 and 21200/61. Heading B8N. [Also in Division G4] Apparatus for dispensing a measured quantity of liquid comprises a measuring chamber 1, Fig. 1, having an inlet valve 17 and an outlet valve 6 and, to prevent frothing of the liquid entering the upper end of the chamber through the inlet valve 17, a baffle 14 is provided for directing this liquid on to the internal walls of the chamber. A series of nozzles, rotatably mounted if desired, may be provided for directing the liquid on to the baffle so as to assist in providing the curtain of liquid on the internal walls of the chamber. A cover 13 in the form of a piston is fitted on the container and contains the inlet ball valve 17. The baffle 14 is fitted in a recess in the bottom of the piston and the walls 24, 25 form an annular converging nozzle for directing the liquid on to the walls of the chamber. An annular rib 22 on the baffle provides an inner part which serves as a mixing chamber when dispensing a mixture of two or more liquids. When the required quantity of liquid has been fed into the container, it raises a control valve 18 and the valve stem 18<SP>1</SP> causes the pump supplying the liquid to be shut off. When the outlet valve is opened, back pressure within the container may cause an upward surge which is accommodated in an expansion chamber connected to duct 20, after passing through a labyrinth within the control valve. The piston 13 may be movable to vary the capacity of the chamber but preferably it is fixed and the chamber is movable by screw means 9. An inserted coin, after passing through testing mechanism, falls down a shoot 30, Fig. 2, and hits an arm 31 so that another arm 34 is moved into the shoot to prevent further coins from entering the mechanism and is held in this position by a weight adjustable on a third arm 32. The coin continues down the shoot until it is held up by a pivoted arrester 36 and operates a switch arm 38 so that the pump supplying liquid to the inlet valve 17 of the measuring chamber 1 is switched on. When the chamber has filled, the rising of the stem 18<SP>1</SP> of the control valve 18 removes the arrester 36 from the shoot, thus releasing the coin and allowing the switch arm to switch off the pump. The falling coin tilts a detent lever 41 clear of an arm 44 of a shaft 48 and the shaft can be turned by a handle 49 so that an arm 50 operates the outlet valve 6 of the measuring chamber. When the handle is pulled down, another arm 54 on the shaft 48 pulls down a link 55 and a pin 55<SP>1</SP> rides over a pawl 57 on a lever 58. On the return of the handle, the pin 55<SP>1</SP> rides over a pawl 57 on a lever 58. On the return of the handle, the pin 55<SP>1</SP> engages the pawl again and tilts the lever 58 so that an extension 60 knocks the arm 31 back into its original position.
Patent GB-731935-A (GB)
Title: Improved method for making microporous separators for electric accumulators and cells
IPC: H01M50/491
Filed: 1952-05-08
Abstract: 731,935. Batteries. AKTIEBOLAGET TUDOR. May 8, 1952 [May 9, 1961No. 11705/52. Class 53. [Also in Group V] A battery separator is manufactured by impregnating a sheet of matted glass fibres with latex, coagulating and subsequently vulcanizing so as to form a microporous structure in the rubber sheet so obtained. Preferably the glass fibres are bound by a binding agent such as starch. The threads may be about 20 microns in thickness and the sheets about 0.5 mms. The glass may occupy about 5 per cent by volume and the rubber component 10-25 per cent by volume. The plates may also contain wood particles or other lignincontaining materials. In an example, glass wool is fed from a drum 4 into a bath 5 of wetting liquid and then between two pressure rollers 6 over pulley 7, through latex bath 8 and into coagulating oven 1. A fabric or paper band 12 after passing through a water bath 13 is interleaved with the treated glass fibre before it is rolled on to drum 10 and the whole vulcanized together.
Patent GB-728335-A (GB)
Title: Cleaning implement comprising a metal sponge with a handle
IPC: A47L13/022
Filed: 1952-04-29
Abstract: 728,335. Pan scrapers. LEFEVRE, M. April 29, 1953 [April 29, 1952], No. 11784/53. Class 28 (2). A metal wool cleaner 1 attached to a handle 4 has an internal reinforcing wire 2 which co-operates with the pressing down rim 6 of the concave spatula 5 of the handle. The cleaner is clamped to the handle by a quick release nut 7 and screw 8 so that a worn front of the cleaner may be rotated to another position. A tubular rivet 3 secures the cleaner at its centre and provides a bore for the clamping screw.
Patent GB-680040-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to blade supporting rings for preliminary rotor blades of blowers and compressors
IPC: F04D29/28
Filed: 1950-05-11
Abstract: 680,040. Making centrifugal fans. MASCHINENFABRIK OERLIKON. May 11, 1950 [May 25, 1949], No. 11817/50. Class 83 (ii). [Also in Group XXVI] The inlet portion of the rotor blading of a centrifugal compressor or blower is attached to the rotor hub 4 by a blade supporting ring 5 provided with concentric circular undercut grooves 10<SP>1</SP> and projections 11<SP>1</SP> which engage with corresponding projections and grooves in the hub 4. The inlet portion is made by soldering the inlet blades 6 into slots 9 in a hub 1 which is subsequently machined to provide the grooves 10<SP>1</SP> and projections 11<SP>1</SP>.
Patent GB-179179-A (GB)
IPC: F16H47/06
Filed: 1922-04-27
Abstract: 179,179. F÷ttinger, H. May 2, 1921, [Convention date]. Reversing-gearing.-In driving-gear for motor vehicles, turbines 35, 36 drive shafts 55, 56 through gearing 38, 39, 40 and 38<1>, 39', 40<1>. The pinions 39, 39' are mounted on a pivoted frame normally held against stops by the tooth pressure, so that the pinions 39, 39<1> mesh with the pinions 40, 40<1> for the forward drive. The frame may be swung so that the pinions 40, 40<1> are engaged by intermediate pinions carried by the frame and in mesh with the pinions 39, 39'.
Patent GB-540847-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to loose leaf pocket books or the like
IPC: B42F3/00
Filed: 1940-07-25
Abstract: 540,847. Loose-leaf binders. DORY, S. July 25, 1940, No. 12162. [Class 146 (i)] Loose leaves 11 are apertured at 12 to receive flexible tags 7 which are secured to one cover 2 and pass through the apertures in the leaves and the other cover 1, being detachably fastened to the outside of cover 1. The tags pass through slots 10 in cover 1 and are secured by snap fasteners 8, 9. The tags may form part of a strip secured at each end 5 by stitching or otherwise and forming a pocket for stamps, papers &c. The tags and strips may be elastic, in which case the covers are rigid and not flexible. The tags are of such a length that the fasteners remain engaged when the covers are fully open.
Patent GB-1466012-A (GB)
Title: Diapers
IPC: C09J7/02
Filed: 1975-03-24
Abstract: 1466012 Diapers COLGATE-PALMOLIVE CO 24 March 1975 [23 May 1974] 12177/75 Heading A3V A disposable diaper 20 having side edges 26a, 26b extending between waistline portions 28a, 28b and front 34 and back 40 surfaces facing towards and away from an infant respectively, has a tape fastener comprising a release sheet 32 secured e.g. by adhesive to surface 34 and extending to adjacent edge 26b, and a pressure-sensitive adhesive-coated tape strip 36 extending around edge 26b, strip 36 having an end section 38 secured to surface 40 and an end section 42 having a securement portion releasably attached to the release sheet, and a tab 47 adjacent the end of the securement portion remote from edge 26b, tab 47 having an adhesive-free surface portion facing surface 34 providing easy removal of the securement portion from release sheet 32. Strip 36 has adhesive 48 on one side securing section 38 to surface 40 and section 42 to sheet 32. Tab 47 is folded over and may have openings (54) e.g. apertures (58) or a notch (60) exposing adhesive 48. In Fig. 4 (not shown) a plastics strip covers the end of portion 42. In Fig. 7 (not shown) sheet 32 extends sufficiently from edge 26b to cover openings (54) and the exposed adhesive anchors tab 47 to sheet 32 prior to use. In use, the exposed adhesive anchors tab 47 against fluid-impervious backing sheet 22 to prevent the child peeling the strip 36. In Fig. 8 (not shown) portion 44 extends beyond sheet 32 and the exposed adhesive secures the portion to surface 34 prior to use and against another surface in use. The diaper may be flat.
Patent GB-975970-A (GB)
Title: Synthetic resin compositions
Inventor: VOLANS PETER
IPC: C08K5/00
Filed: 1962-03-30
Abstract: Flame retardant synthetic resin compositions comprise a copolymer of vinyl bromide with an ethylenically unsaturated aromatic monomer and a tertiary amine or a compound containing phosphorus, antimony, silicon or boron.  Specified aromatic monomers are styrene and a -methyl styrene.  The vinyl bromide and aromatic monomer may be copolymerized with minor proportions of other monomers, e.g. butadiene, isoprene, vinyl acetate or acrylonitrile.  The monomers may be copolymerized in bulk, in solution, or in aqueous emulsion or suspension, optionally in the presence of a volatile hydrocarbon blowing agent, e.g. pentane, to give a foamable product.  Specified amines are tri-n-butylamine, N,N-diethyldodecylamine, N,N-dimethylaniline, N-ethyl pyridine and N-vinyl pyrrolidone. Specified phosphorus compounds are tri-n-hexyl phosphine, triphenyl phosphine, trioctylphosphite, bis(2-ethylhexyl)-2-ethyl hexyl phosphonate, trimethyl phosphate, triphenyl phosphate, tricresyl phosphate, 2,3-dibromopropyl phosphate and sodium hydrophosphite. Specified antimony compounds are antimony trioxide, triphenyl stibine and antimony hexyleneglycoxide. Specified silicon compounds are tetraethyl orthosilicate, tetraphenyl orthosilicate, phenyl triphenoxy silane, and triphenoxy-o-tolyloxysilane. Specified boron compounds are triphenyl borane and butylphenoxy di(butyloxy) borane. The additives may be incorporated by dry mixing, mixing with a solution of the copolymer, or by adding to the polymerization system. Examples describe (1) the copolymerization of vinyl bromide and styrene in the presence of benzoyl peroxide, and the addition of triphenyl phosphine to a benzene solution of the copolymer which is used for casting films; (2) the incorporation in a vinyl bromide-styrene copolymer of N-vinyl pyrrolidone, trimethyl phosphate, triphenyl phosphate, tetraphenyl orthosilicate, antimony hexyleneglycoxide and butylphenoxy di(butyloxy)borane; and (3) the copolymerization of vinyl bromide and styrene in the presence of benzoyl peroxide and antimony hexyleneglycoxide.
Patent GB-998141-A (GB)
Title: A system for the numerical control of machines
IPC: G05B19/408
Filed: 1962-03-30
Abstract: 998,141. Programmed electric control of machine tools. LICENTIA PATENT-VERUALTUNGS-G.m.b.H. March 30, 1962 [March 30, 1961], No. 12272/62. Drawings to Specification. Heading G3N. In a numerical control system for machine tools, wherein a working programme is recorded on a strip-shaped medium, the numerical information for an operation is recorded as groups of bits on successive transverse lines of the medium and is arranged, by controlling the interrogation of the record by word and instruction addresses, to appear at the output of an instruction store in parallel-mode.
Patent GB-255979-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to synchronous telegraphy
IPC: H04L25/04
Filed: 1925-05-12
Abstract: 255,979. Muirhead & Co., Ltd., Heurtley, E. S., and roll, J. V. May 12, 1925. Restoring or modifying imperfect signals; repeating systems using contact-making relays; transmitting systems.-The circuit of a recording or retransmitting relay mechanically or electrically biased to maintain the position to which it is moved, is controlled bv the contacts of the receiving relay and by an intermittent contact device operated for short periods at regular intervals in synchronism with the signals, the closing of the intermittent contact determining the beginning of each recorded or retransmitted signal. Fig. 1 shows an arrangement for use with a code in which signal elements and spaces are of opposite polarity, and the signal elements are distinguished by duration of current. The coils d<1>, d<2> of the recording or retransmitting relay D are connected respectively to the contacts f, f' of the receiving relay B, and are also connected to the tongue of relay B through the intermittentlyclosed contact f<3> and battery f<2> . The tongue of relay D is held by a biasing spring d against either contact. The contact f<3> is closed by a lever G under the action of a spring g, and is opened by the action on the lever of a cam g<1> on a shaft making one revolution per unit signalling period, the closure being arranged to occur at about the middle of the signal period to eliminate effects of distortion of the signals as received. Systems using code elements distinguished by polarity of current.-Fig. 2 shows an arrangement for use with cable code signals. The tongue of the receiving relay B<1> contacts with stops b<1>, b<2> to energize coils h, h<1> of relays H, H<1> for a dot and dash respectively, and for a space takes a position midway between the stops. The tongues h<2> and h<3> of the relays H and H<1> move between contacts h<5>, h<6> and h<7>, h<8>, and are normally held by springs h<4> against contacts h<5> and h' respectively. The coils j<1>, j<2> of the dot recording or retransmitting relay J, and the coils j<4>, j<5> of the corresponding dash relay J<1> are connected as shown to the contacts h<5>, h<6>, h<7>, and h<8> respectively, and are also connected through battery j<12> and a contact f<3>, closed intermittently as in the arrangement of Fig. 1, to the tongues h<2>, h<3>. For breaking up block signals a second intermittently-closed contact f<4> is connected in circuit with the battery j<12> and additional coils j, j<3> of relays J, J<1> respectively. The closure of this contact, suitably timed, moves the tongues of both relays J, J<1> against their back contacts to terminate the signal. In a modification of the arrangement of Fig. 2 the relays J, J<1> are duplicated to enable the signals to be recorded or retransmitted in two separate channels. Specification 239,562 is referred to.
Patent GB-770007-A (GB)
Title: Antiperspirant compositions
IPC: A61K8/28
Filed: 1955-04-29
Abstract: An aqueous perspiration-inhibiting composition comprises (1) a chloride, bromide, iodide or nitrate of hafnium or zirconium or a corresponding oxy-salt, or a mixture of any of these, (2) a basic aluminium compound of formular Al2(OH)6-nXn where X is chlorine, bromine, iodine or a nitrate radical and n is 0.8 to 2, (3) urea in an amount to prevent gelling and between 5-50 per cent by weight of the composition, and (4) water constituting 25-90 per cent of the composition, the pH being from 3 to 5.  The aluminium is present in the atomic ratio of 3.5 to 1.5 parts to each part of zirconium and/or hafnium.  Bacteriostatic, germicidal and/or deodorants may be added such 2 : 21 - dihydroxy - 3 : 5 : 6 : 31 : 51 : 61 - hexachlorodiphenyl methane and quaternary ammonium salts.  The active ingredients may be combined with conventional cream, lotion or liquid bases.
Patent GB-400109-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in methods of and apparatus for working glass
IPC: C03B23/047
Filed: 1933-04-28
Abstract: 400,109. Glass manufacture. FONBRUNE, P. H. D. DE, 5, Rue des Abondances, Boulogne-sur-Seine, France. April 28, 1933, Nos. 12420 and 12421. Convention dates, April 28, 1932, and June 20, 1932. [Class 56.] A process for forming fine glass needles or pipettes consists in heating a glass rod or tube by means of an electric resistance which permits a very localized heating, the resistance and the glass being supported on the stage of a microscope so that the working of the glass can be watched through the optical system of the microscope. In the apparatus shown, a pointed glass rod 30 is clamped on a plate 35 which is placed on the stage 36 of the microscope. The heating- element consists of a fine wire 31 of iridio platinum, or other suitable material, clamped to the ends of two conductors 32 which are insulated from each other and are mounted on a plate 33 fitted to a carriage 34. The pointed end of the glass rod is arranged in contact with the wire 31 which is heated by the passage of the current. When a drop of melted glass is gathered about the wire, either the wire or the glass rod is moved so that the hot glass is drawn out to a fine thread. If a hollow glass thread or needle is to be made, the glass rod is replaced by a glass tube the end of which is pointed and is formed into a small knob. The heating wire 31 is arranged close to, but out of contact with, the glass, and the microscope is turned so that the stage 36 is vertical. When the glass is softened, the weight of the knob on the end causes it to stretch and draw down to the required size. In a modification, a number of glass tubes are mounted radially on a support which can be rotated, and a tube may be provided from which a jet of air or gas can be blown to cool the glass. In addition to needles and pipettes, fine glass lancets may be formed in the apparatus.
Patent GB-1486453-A (GB)
Title: Electronic account metering system
IPC: G06Q30/00
Filed: 1974-09-27
Abstract: 1486453 Data processing systems PITNEYBOWES Inc 27 Sept 1974 [16 Oct 1973] 12481/75 Divided out of 1486452 Heading G4A An accounting arrangement, e.g. for printing a postage amount on a label to be attached to an item of mail and for forming a total of the amounts printed, includes a computer which provides signals representing a numeric amount to be printed and an addressable memory which is increased or decreased by the numeric amount when the printer operates. The memory addresing circuitry includes counters to address the memory locations in a fixed sequence. The addressing circuitry receives clock pulses from an oscillator (824, Figs. 13B and 13C, not shown) which are fed to a gray counter (826) which cycles continuously. The output of the last stage of the gray counter passes to a first bi-stable unit (832) and via a gate (830) to a second counter (828). The first bi-stable unit provides an output pulse whenever the gray counter begins its count sequence, this pulse setting a second bi-stable unit (834) which enables the gate (830). Thus, each time the gray counter cycles once the second counter (828) is incremented. The parallel-bit output of the second counter is decoded (836) to select the corresponding location in memory (806). When the second counter has completed one cycle the second bi-stable unit (834) is reset and disables the gate (830). Decoding to select a location takes place only when a signal is received from control logic (842). The memory may be formed of CMOS units and comprises credit balance, total, and item registers. Each register holds in respective locations a binarycoded decimal digit of a corresponding decimal order so that accessing the register locations sequentially allows the digits of a stored amount to be presented in order. The memory feeds an arithmetic unit which adds (or subtracts) the amount fed from the computer to the printer to the amount in one of the registers, the result then updating that register. Whenever printing takes place the credit register is decreased by the amount, the total register is increased by that amount, and the item register incremented by one. The credit register may be increased by a fixed amount when funds are paid to a controlling office. The registers' contents may be displayed if required. Batteries prevent loss of data if the arrangement goes to stand-by status, which occurs if certain voltage levels go out of a preset range. Any arithmetic operation being performed when stand-by status is assumed is completed.