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Patent GB-794245-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in stapling machines
IPC: B25C5/02
Filed: 1956-09-05
Abstract: 794,245. Stapling machines. SKREBBA. O., SKREBBA, H., SKREBBA. H., and JOPP, W., [trading as SKREBBA-WERK KOMM.-GES.]. Sept. 5, 1956 [Sept. 16. 1955], No. 27171/56. Class 89(3) In a stapling machine a spring loaded centrally pivoted bar 13, Figs. 3, 4, and 5, within a staple saddle 1, Fig. 1, is provided at one end with a wedge shaped latch lug 14 which normally extends through aligned slots 15, 16 in the saddle 1 and in a staple guideway 2 respectively to lock the saddle and guideway together, the bar 13 at its other end having a lug 17 which is engaged by a gripping member 11 of the staple pusher 10 when this is retracted whereby the bar 13 is rocked to withdraw the latch lug 14 from the slot 16 and release the guideway 2 which can then swing upwardly about a pivot 5 to expose the staple saddle 1. The bar 13 also serves to hold the pusher retracted (Fig. 5) until the guideway 2 is again forced down over the saddle 1 to momentarily retract the latch 14 and thereby rock the bar 13 so that its lug 17 moves clear of the member 11 to release the pusher. A leaf spring 7 extending through slot 8 in the guideway 2 and secured by a lug 9 urges the guideway 2 upwardly away from the staple saddle 1 and also urges the pressure cover 4 upwardly away from the guideway 2. The saddle 1 is resiliently supported upon lugs 22, 23 formed upon a vertical limb of an L-shaped leaf spring 21 mounted in the base 6, the vertical limb having latching members 24, 25 which engage depressions in the sides of the saddle 1. Alternative methods of securing the spring 21 to the base 6 are shown in Figs. 1 and 11 respectively.
Patent GB-658776-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to fastener assemblies for use with apertured supports
IPC: F16B37/04
Filed: 1948-10-20
Abstract: 658,776. Anchor nuts. UNITED-CARR FASTENER CORPORATION. Oct. 20, 1948, No. 27297. Convention date, Oct. 25, 1947. '[Classes 44 and 89(i)] An anchor nut construction for mounting in a support 1, particularly when access can only be had to one side, has a base flange 7 held against the support by a bowed spring steel retainer plate 20 with pairs of fingers 23, 24 at each side that engage slots in the support. The fingers have cam surfaces 26, 28 beneath them to be forced through the slots and the fingers 23 have shoulders 27 to snap over the other face of the support and lock the joints in position. The fingers pass through slots 13 in the flanges 7 and thus floatingly restrain the nut from rotation. In a modification the flange has upturned extensions 7a, Fig. 10, (not shown) passing through slots in the support to restrain the nut from relative rotation.
Patent GB-1072467-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in separating liquids
Inventor: LINSELL RUSSELL FREDERICK
IPC: F16K33/00
Filed: 1965-06-28
Abstract: 1,072,467. Separating liquids. ESSO RESEACH & ENGINEERING CO. May 25, 1966 [June 28, 1965], No. 27305/65. Heading B1D. Water 3 which settles at the bottom of an oil tank 1 is withdrawn through a chamber 5 whose lower outlet is closed by a ball 9, ball 9 floating on the water but sinking in the oil to engage its seat 12 to prevent any oil following the water. Initially valve 6 and air vent valve 7 are opened to allow ball 9 to float, then valve 7 is closed and valve 8 opened. Valves 6, 7, 8 are all closed when drainage is completed. Ball 9 is hollow, stainless steel and retained by a chain 10. In Fig. 2 (not shown), ball 9 slides vertically on a guide (19) inside a strainer (14). Upstream of chamber 5, an additional outlet valve (20) may be used to drain off the bulk of water 3 quickly, before the flow is directed to chamber 5 for the final drainage step.
Patent GB-191487-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to apparatus for the treatment of latex
IPC: B29C65/00
Filed: 1921-10-14
Abstract: 191,487. Wickham, Sir H. A., and Roa, Ltd. Oct. 14, 1921. Film evaporators.-Apparatus for treating latex comprises a carrier in the form of a travelling band or drum enclosed in a casing to which smoke is admitted from a furnace placed within the periphery of the carrier. The latex is fed to a trough 17 in which a roller 18 rotates conveying the liquid to a shoot 19 terminating in a hinged flap 22 which rests on the conveyer 23. The latter is preferably a metal band carried on pulleys 24, 25 one of which is acted upon by springs 29 to tighten the band. The furnace 35 is situated within the casing 10 enclosing the conveyer but communicates therewith only, by means of the flues 41, 44 which discharge the smoke into the casing at the end remote from the latex feed. The smoke leaves the casing by the flue 11 in front of the feeding shoot 19. The coagulated latex is removed from the conveyer by means of a stripping-knife 49 or a toothed wheel 63, Fig. 4, assisted by stripping rolls 31, 33. Specification 177,262, [Class 70, India-rubber &c.], is referred to.
Patent GB-896991-A (GB)
Title: A machine for treating and aerating loose material
IPC: A01G1/04
Filed: 1959-08-10
Abstract: 896,991. Mushroom cultivation. LANCASTER P. J. Oct. 13, 1960 [Aug. 10, 1959], No. 27344/59. Class 6(2). [Also in Groups II, XVII and XXX]. Apparatus for aerating and spawning compost for mushroom growing, wherein the compost to be aerated is stored in crates, and for subsequently returning the compost to the crates, comprises an upper conveyer belt 10 driven by a motor 11 and upon which the compost from a crate is manually tipped, a lower conveyer belt 19 driven by a motor 20 on which the emptied crate is manually placed, the two belts moving in the same direction, a rotating flail 15 driven by a motor 16, and two switches M<SP>1</SP>, M<SP>11</SP> arranged in parallel with one another in the circuit of motor 11, switch M<SP>1</SP> being normally closed and operated by compost on the upper belt contacting lever L<SP>1</SP>, while switch M<SP>11</SP> is normally open and is operated by the crate contacting lever L<SP>11</SP>. In operation, the switch M<SP>1</SP> is first opened by contact of the compost with lever L<SP>1</SP> so that belt 10 is stopped, allowing the crate to catch up with the compost until it contacts lever L<SP>11</SP>, whereupon belt 10 is re-started, the timing of the operation being such that the crate arrives in position to receive the compost as it is discharged by the flail 15 via a mixing chamber 18. A hopper 14 is provided to feed mushroom spawn to the compost as it is discharged by the flail for mixing in the chamber 18.
Patent GB-1461098-A (GB)
Title: Heat exchangers
IPC: F28D21/00
Filed: 1974-06-20
Abstract: 1461098 Exhaust gas silencing HAWTHORN LESLIE (ENGS) Ltd 13 June 1975 [20 June 1974] 27416/74 Heading FIB [Also in Division F4] A gas heat exchanger for use in the exhaust systems of slow-speed diesel engines has a matrix of heat exchange tubes 20 extending transversely to the direction of gas flow through a duct formed by panels 16 ... 19 each comprising an inner flat plate 10 secured to an outer plate 11 of arcuate crosssection and having spaced stiffeners 12 therebetween. Each panel has both ends closed by segmental plates 13, 14 the upstream plate 14 having ports 15 or the upstream end of the flat plate 10 may have apertures, to allow gas flow thereinto from the duct. By allowing exhaust gas pulsations to act on the surfaces of the flat plates remote from the gas flow it is stated that the damaging effects of forced vibrations of the plate 10 caused by these pulsations are avoided.
Patent GB-468771-A (GB)
Title: Process for the preparation of new strains of living tubercle bacilli
IPC: A61K39/04
Filed: 1935-10-04
Abstract: Living tubercle bacilli for use in therapeutics and for use in the manufacture of therapeutic preparations are obtained in morphologically, chemically, and physiologically changed state by repeated cultivation on synthetic media containing lipoid-splitting enzymes.  Other enzymes may also be added to the media.  Suitable enzyme preparations may be obtained from pancreas, blood, liver, or lungs of animals, from seeds such as castor beans, soya beans or croton seeds, or from the amanita species of fungus.  The bacilli treated may be of the human, bovine, or bird types.  According to an example tubercle bacilli are inoculated in Lockemann's solution, without glycerine, to which a glycerine extract of pancreas has been added and are repeatedly sub-cultivated on this medium.  According to another example the medium consists of Lockemann's solution to which lipase solution has been added.
Patent GB-274881-A (GB)
Abstract: 274,881. Meyerhofer, A. F. July 24, 1926, [Convention date]. Addition to 269,491. Void [Published under Sect. 91 of the Acts]. Liquids, treating with gases.-In producing reactions between liquids, which may contain suspended solids, and gases, by injecting gas into a rising column as described in the parent Specification, the liquids or the gases are passed in succession through a series of mixing vessels and the liquid and gas may pass in countercurrent. Liquid is passed in succession from a. tube d through vessels a<1>, a<2>, a<3>, which may be separated by devices m for separating solid substances. Separate supplies of gas from a tube b are passed by pipes g to the injection nozzles f in the U- shaped pipes leading from the bases of the vessels a<1>, a<2>, a<3> and returning the mixture of gas and liquid to the upper parts of the vessels. The pipes rising from the nozzles f may be made removable and replaceable by pipes of different width. The pipes may discharge into the next vessel of the series. Means for separating solids from liquids may be placed in the connection between the base of the vessels and the nozzles f.
Patent GB-1016196-A (GB)
Title: Apparatus for packaging envelopes
IPC: B65B27/08
Filed: 1963-07-11
Abstract: 1,016,196. Wrapping-machine. R. WINKLER, and K. DUNNEBIER. July 11, 1963 [July 31, 1962], No. 27511/63. Addition to 896,220. Heading B8C. [Also in Division B6] In a modification of the wrapping apparatus in the parent Specification, the conveyer stops are arranged in pairs on two pairs of chains, the delivery discs having grippers and leaf springs feed the envelopes individually to the conveyer stops, the batching stops are arranged in path of the envelopes during the time when no conveyer stops are in position to receive the envelopes and the banding mechanism has suction devices for moving the band from the pile to the envelopes, a device for applying adhesive, a lower band applier which pulls the band downwards and then folds it upwards over the upper end of the band and a gripper having nozzles for holding the upper end of the band and later blowing it downwards. The envelopes are fed singly to the collecting station P by a suction roller 1 and delivery discs 2, influencing a photo-electric cell 84 which actuates the wrapping mechanism after a fixed number has been collected. The batches of envelopes are conveyed to the wrapping station while positioned between the pairs of conveyer stops 33, 34 which are mounted on chains 3, 8 for relative adjustment to accommodate different batch sizes. The conveyer stops are constrained by the chains to follow a path, Fig. 1, which causes them to move vertically beneath a batch being collected from the discs 2 against withdrawable batching stops 46, 49. In lieu of these stops, leaf springs may be provided (Fig. 10, not shown). The envelopes pass through an intermediate station P<SP>1</SP> to the banding station P<SP>11</SP>, the packet moving against the band W having adhesive applied to one end which is stretched transversely across its path and held at its rear end by suction holes 76 of a band applier 74 in its lowest position 74<SP>1</SP>, Fig. 4, and at its upper end by leaf springs 81 on band guides 63, Fig. 1. A gripper 51 pivots downwards from the position 51<SP>1</SP> and the band is held by suction from a nozzle 56, Fig. 4, the upper end being pulled free from the leaf spring. The end is then blown downwards against the back of the packet by compressed air from the nozzle 56. The band applier moves upwards, Fig. 6, pulling tight the band which is held first by the suction holes 76, then by the suction holes 77 and pressing the two ends together by a roller 75, Fig. 9, while the band is secured against displacement by a suction nozzle 88. Meanwhile a suction device 64 has sucked the end of the next band from the bottom of a pile 62 and pulls it along the guide 63 during which time it receives adhesive from a gummer 69. A second suction device 71 pulls it further downwards and transfers it to the band applier 74. An upper batch guide 42 adjustable for various envelope heights is provided.
Patent GB-756543-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to luminescent compounds
Inventor: RAMSDEN PETER
IPC: C09K11/08
Filed: 1951-11-23
Abstract: 756,543. Luminescent materials. CROMPTON PARKINSON, Ltd. Nov. 4, 1952 [Nov. 23, 1951], No. 27552/51. Class 39 (1). A luminescent material, particularly for use in a low-pressure mercury vapour discharge lamp, contains one or more of the alkaline earth metals calcium, strontium, barium, the phosphate radical supplied by a phosphate ingredient forming between 65 and 90 per cent by weight of the starting materials, fluorine and/or chlorine and a trace, i.e. less than 5 per cent of the total composition, of activators comprising one or more alkali metals of the group lithium, sodium, potassium, rubidium, and one or more of antimony, manganese, uranium, silver. A mixture of the ingredients is ground in a ball mill in the dry state and then fired in covered silica crucibles at a temperature between 1050‹ and 1150‹ C. in an inert atmosphere such as nitrogen for periods of 30 minutes or longer. The mixture may be ground and fired again.
Patent GB-1383167-A (GB)
Title: Mixing and dispensing device
IPC: G07F13/06
Filed: 1973-06-09
Abstract: 1383167 Mixing apparatus EDOARDO BIANCHI DISTRIBUTORS AUTOMATICI SpA 9 June 1973 27570/73 Heading B1C A mixing and dispensing device for use in a beverage dispensing machine comprises a refrigerated container 2 divided by a filter into an upper part 5 and a lower part 4, means 12, 13, 11 for supplying predetermined quantities of beverage constituents corresponding to a drink to the lower part 4, agitating means 6 in the lower part 4 and the upper part being connected to a siphon 14 for discharging mixed beverage. The capacity of the container 2 is preferably limited to one or two drinks to ensure frequent renewal of mixed beverage retained in the container below the inlet 15 of the siphon.
Patent GB-304223-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to carburettors for internal combustion engines
IPC: F02M3/12
Filed: 1927-10-17
Abstract: 304,223. Wade, H., (Thelma Carburator Co., Soc. Anon.) Oct. 17, 1927. Addition to 281,027. Spray-carburettors.-The carburettor described in the parent Specification is improved or modified (1) by making the body in two or more cylindrical sections 3, 4 held together by screws 5 and readily separable, the upper portion carrying the fuel pipe 11, and the lower portion the air-inlet valve 26. (2) Detachably mounting the nozzle unit 9 on the fuel pipe 11 by screwing it into a socket 10 secured thereto. (3) Locating the buffer spring 34, which loads the valve 26 in the event of a back-fire in the lower end of the nozzle body, and (4) providing a striker 36, actuated by a press-button 37, to lift the air and fuel valves and flood the carburettor. The fuel flow is controlled by a screwed needle valve 13 which can be locked by a screwed cap 18. Pilot jets 20 discharge through openings 21 into an annular chamber 22 and then through conduits 23, 24 into the induction passage. The fuelregulating valve carried by the air valve has a cylindrical part 19 below which are parts 30, 30<1> of different degrees of taper or cylindrical parts of different diameters. The main jets are located at 31. The buffer spring 34 presses against a collar 33 adapted to be engaged by a spring ring 32 on the fuel valve spindle. The outlet end of the body has a screwed and adjustable flange 38 as described in Specification 303,934. A ball valve 14 isolates the jets from the fuel passage when there is no suction.
Patent GB-1057206-A (GB)
Title: Tearing device for tough materials in bale form
IPC: B02C4/08
Filed: 1965-06-30
Abstract: 1,057,206. Dismtegrating-apparatus. SOESTFERRUM APPARATEBAU, G.m.b.H. June 30, 1965 [July 10, 1964], No. 27617/65. Heading B2A. Apparatus for tearing tough materials in bale form is characterized in that a pair of feed rollers for feeding a bale in a vertical downwards direction with a gripping action is followed by a pair of tearing cylinders rotatable at different peripheral speeds and having axially-spaced cutting teeth, the teeth of one cylinder engaging between the teeth of the other cylinder and the medial vertical plane of engagement of the teeth coinciding with the middle vertical plane between the feed rollers. As shown, a bale 1 of synthetic rubber is gripped and fed by rollers 3 to the zone between tearing cylinders 5, 6 which are rotatable in opposite directions, each tearing cylinder comprising toothed discs splined to a shaft and separated by plain intermediate discs. The diameter of the cylinder 6 is slightly greater than that of the cylinder 5. The material torn by the cylinders drops to a further tearing zone comprising a tearing cylinder 9 rotatable in the same direction as the cylinder 6 and cooperable with a tearing comb 8. The tearing cylinders are shielded outside the tearing zones by casing sections 7, 16. Alternatively, the cylinders 5, 6 may be followed by a further pair of tearing cylinders.
Patent GB-321026-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to direction indicators for motor vehicles
IPC: B60Q1/36
Filed: 1928-09-28
Abstract: 321,026. Best & Lloyd, Ltd., and Dyke, C. H. Sept. 28, 1928. Road-traffic signals on vehicles.-In a directionsignalling device for use on motor-vehicles, a hand-actuated valve connects the engine suction by means of pipes r with one or other of two cylinders k so as to move a piston rod i to right or left. The rod i engages a lever e, rocking it on one of its two fulcra f so that a projection h on the lever engages and swings over a pivoted cam member c on the same spindle b as the discs carrying the signal arrows a. In a modification using only one cylinder 6, Fig. 8, for actuating the rod i, the hand-actuated valve 19 connects the engine suction either direct to the cylinder 6 or to a chamber 13 so as to pull to the left a stepped piston 15 and compress air in a chamber 14 for delivery to the cylinder 6, whereby the piston rod is actuated in the opposite direction. A switch 4 is provided for controlling the lamp illuminating the signal.
Patent GB-1094827-A (GB)
Title: Method for defining reservoir heterogeneities
IPC: E21B15/02
Filed: 1966-06-22
Abstract: 1,094,827. Determining reservoir heterogeneities. ESSO PRODUCTION RESEARCH CO. June 22, 1966 [Nov. 3, 1965], No.27868/66. Heading G1S. In a method of evaluating a porous subterranean fluid-bearing reservoir penetrated by a plurality of boreholes, the rate of fluid-flow is changed at least three times at a first borehole and the resulting transient pressure at a second borehole is measured by apparatus described in Specification 1, 045, 578. The flow rate is changed by either increasing or decreasing the rate of flow, and the maximum amplitude of the responsive pressure change is determined.
Patent GB-1144646-A (GB)
Title: Light-weight pallet
Inventor: TILLEY FREDERICK HERBERT
IPC: B65D19/00
Filed: 1965-07-01
Abstract: 1,144,646. Load handling pallets. BOFFYN INDUSTRIAL DESIGNS Ltd. 28 June, 1966 [1 July, 1965], No. 27913/65. Heading B8H. A light-weight pallet comprises a sheet metal decking 1 forming an outer skin expanded and a metal inner skin 2. An expanded metal inner skin 3 covers the side members which have openings 4 for lift-truck forks. The pallet shell is assembled from a sheet metal blank, Fig. 2, and two expanded metal parts, Figs. 3, 4 (not shown), all pressed in single pieces and then filled with a foamable synthetic resin mixture, which forms a solid foam substantially completely filling the space between the inner and outer skins, see Fig. 6. The resin, which is preferably polyurethane, is foamed in situ or prefoamed and pumped in under pressure. The pallet will float on water.
Patent GB-603528-A (GB)
Title: Concrete blocks
IPC: B28B7/00
Filed: 1945-10-23
Abstract: 603,528. Building blocks. STANCLIFFE, C. W., and CLARINCRETE, Ltd. Oct. 23, 1945. No. 27928. [Class 87(i)] [Also in Group V] Concrete building blocks comprise inner and outer slabs 1, 11, joined by ribs 9 situated “ of the length of the block from each end thereof. The inner slab 11 may be dispensed with. The outer slab consists of a layer of waterproof concrete and a backing of foamed-slag concrete and may have a chamfered edge. 6. The ribs may contain a metal reinforcement in which case there may be a gap, bridged by the reinforcement, between the ends of the ribs and the block 11.
Patent GB-1208039-A (GB)
Title: 0-HYDROXY-7alpha-METHYL-OESTRADIOL DERIVATIVES
Inventor: PREZEWOWSKY KLAUS
IPC: C07J75/00
Filed: 1968-06-12
Abstract: 1,208,039. 1 - Hydroxy - 7α - methyl - estradiol derivatives. SCHERING A.G. 12 June, 1968, No. 27939/68. Heading C2U. Novel steriods of the formula (in which R 1  and R 2  is each H, C 1-6  alkyl or a saturated oxyheterocyclic group or an acyl radical; and R 3  is H or an optionally halogensubstituted C 1-6  aliphatic hydrocarbon group) and the novel 1,3 - diacetate and 1,3 - bis - tetrahydropyranyl ether of 1 - hydroxy - 7α - methyl - estrone are prepared by etherification or esterification of 1- hydroxy - 7α - methyl - estrone and formation of the group α - R 3 (#- OR 2 ) from the free, esterified or etherified 17 - ketone by known methods. In the products free hydroxy groups can be esterified or etherified and/or esterified or etherified hydroxy groups hydrolysed. 1 - Hydroxy - 7α - methyl estrone is prepared by reacting 7α -methyl - estrone (prepared by hydrolysis of the tetrahydropyranyl ether) with lead tetra-acetate in glacial acetic acid to give 7α - methyl - #<SP>1,4</SP> - estradien - 10# - ol - 3,17 - dione acetate and treating this with a little conc. H 2 SO 4  in acetic anhydride. The steriods of the above general formula have oestrogenic activity and inhibit ovulation, and they may be made up into pharmaceutical compositions for oral or parenteral administration.
Patent GB-860728-A (GB)
Title: Retractable seat belt
IPC: B60R22/357
Filed: 1958-09-01
Abstract: 860,728. Safety belts. MATTHEWS, H. B. Sept. 1, 1958, No. 27964/58. Class 141 [Also in Group XXVI] A safety belt device Figs. I and 2 for protecting an occupant of a vehicle, comprises a belt 12 which may be pulled across the occupant's waist and latched to a flexible holder 40 fastened to a fixed part of the vehicle, and a spring retracting device 16 (see also Group XXVI) which reels up the belt when it is not in use. The latch end of the belt, Fig. 9, has a catch 54 which is pivoted by a pin 62 to a body 56 and is provided with a notch 58 adapted to engage one of the cross-bars 60 in a receiving block 50 mounted on the holder 40. A valved rubber bulb 78 beneath the catch 54 is squeezed when the catch 54 is pressed down to release or engage the block 50, and air is forced from the bulb 78 along a tube 86, through a tube within the belt, and into a rubber bulb in the retracting device which releases and operates the belt retracting device. In the operative position the belt is maintained taut and unyielding across the occupant by a pawl which locks the retracting device.