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Patent GB-1522587-A (GB)
Title: Merchandise checkout apparatus
IPC: G07F7/00
Filed: 1977-06-28
Abstract: 1522587 Merchandise checkout system NCR CORP 28 June 1977 [12 July 1976J 26983/77 Headings G4V and G4H A merchandise checkout apparatus, in which a credit card with an available balance recorded thereon is used by a customer for at least part payment of purchased items, including a data terminal device for receiving data representing the amount of each item and for totalling the amount of the transaction; a card identification device 24, for reading the available balance, which is connected to the data terminal device 20 and is positional adjacent thereto so as to be operable by the customer simultaneously with the operation of the data terminal device by a checkout operator; computer means 38 arranged to compare the available balance with the total amount of the transaction and arranged to operate writing means 74 in. the card identification device to record a new balance or to indicate, on the data terminal device, a cash amount payable if the total amount of the transaction exceeds the available balance.
Patent GB-726533-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to coke oven batteries
IPC: C10B29/08
Filed: 1949-10-20
Abstract: 726,533. Coke oven bracings. ATTO, Oct. 20, 1949, No. 26989/49. Class 51 (2). In an underjet coke oven battery of the type in which uneven expansion of the upper and lower portions is allowed for by dividing the vertical buckstays at or near the sole plate level, the two sections 11 and 12 of each buckstay overlap and are provided with bearing plates 25, 26, 29 and 30, Fig. 3, the plate 29 being formed with slots 32 receiving guide bolts 31 which also pass through holes in the plate 30, thus allowing relative horizontal movement of the buckstay sections, said movement being resisted by a spring 34 surrounding an anchor bolt 33 threaded into a socket member 35 welded to the lower buckstay section section 12. This lower buckstay section is pressed against the battery masonry by a reinforcing structure comprising a horizontal beam 17, a vertical strut 18 and tension members 19, 20 and 21 connected as shown Fig. 2 and adjusted by a turnbuckle 23 as disclosed in Specification 501,089. In a modification (Fig. 8, not shown), the front flange and the web of each buckstay is cut through, so that the remaining rear flange of the buckstay forms a hinge-like connection between the upper and lower buckstay sections. Specification 579,268 also is referred to.
Patent GB-244425-A (GB)
IPC: F27D11/02
Filed: 1925-10-28
Abstract: 244,425. Siemens - Schuckertwerke Ges., (Assignees of Heraeus-Vacuumschmelze Akt.-Ges., and Rohn, TV.). Dec. 15, 1924, [Convention date]. Resistance furnaces.-A bright annealing furnace comprises a casing 1, permanently closed at the top or bottom and open at the other end, a refractory brick lining heated electrically in one portion to form a heating zone, the adjoining portion forming a cooling zone of the same crosssection and both zones being filled with inert gas, and a table 6 or other means for supporting the charge of dimensions such that it can be brought through the cooling zone into the heating zone. The thickness of the brickwork in the cooling zone may be less than that in the heating zone. The heating elements 2 may be if iron, nickel or nickel-chromium. The table 6 may contain an electric heater 5 and is operated hydraulically. The charging opening may be closed during working by dampers operated automatically or by hand. In Fig. 6 the furnace is provided with endless chains 13 connected by rods 15 from which plates 8 to be annealed are suspended. The furnace is surrounded by additional heat-insulation 16. The protective gas is supplied to the furnaces as described in Specification 242,283. The Specification as open to inspection under Sect. 91 (3) (a) describes a furnace for heating ingots comprising a bell-shaped casing lined with refractory masonry in which the heating elements are arranged, the furnace being closed at. the bottom by a sand or oil seal. This subject-matter does not appear in the Specification as accepted.
Patent GB-1479073-A (GB)
Title: Two-wheeled motor vehicles
IPC: B62K19/46
Filed: 1975-06-25
Abstract: 1479073 Two-wheeled motor vehicles; storage compartments; fuel tanks HONDA GIKEN KOGYO KK 25 June 1975 [10 Sept 1974 (2)] 27022/75 Headings B7E B7J and B7H A two-wheeled motor vehicle has, at a position between a steering head 4 at the front of its frame and a rider's seat at the rear of the frame, a pair of substantially upright panels 6 lying to respective sides of the vehicle and attached to lateral frame tubes 2 extending rearwardly from the head 4, covers 7 being provided laterally outwardly of the panel 6 to form therewith lateral storage compartments 12, 14 and the panels also forming opposite walls of an intermediate storage compartment 18 provided with a top cover 9, the covers 7, 9 being mounted such that the compartments 12, 14, 18 can be opened and closed.  In the illustrated embodiment the covers 7 are hinged to the tubes 2 and the cover 9 is hinged at its forward end to a panel 10 connecting the panels 6 to one another. Catches 7a on the covers 7 co-operate with catches 9a on the cover 9 such that the compartments 12, 14 cannot be opened until the compartment 18 has been opened. The compartment 12 contains a fuse box 13a, resistor 13b, regulator 13c and connector 13d of the vehicle electrical system, and the compartment 14 contains the capped inlet end 16a of a radiator filler tube and an expansion tank 17 of the engine cooling system. The compartment 18 is divided into a forward part 18a, containing an air cleaner 19a, ignition coil 19b and removable tool box 24, and a rear part 18b containing the capped inlet end 20a of a fuel tank 20, the latter extending under the riders seat. The cover 9 may be provided with a lock 26 and may carry a fuel guage 27.
Patent GB-444204-A (GB)
Title: An improved fastener for fabrics or other materials
IPC: A44B1/36
Filed: 1934-09-20
Abstract: 444,204. Buttons etc.; fastenings. MARTIN, S. BOSWORTH-, Charley Hall, Loughborough, Leicestershire. Sept. 20, 1934, No. 27081. [Class 43] [See also Group XXV] A device for fastening two overlapping pieces of fabric, leather, &c. comprises a metal link A that is permanently secured to an underlying fabric C and is adapted to be passed through a hole D in a fabric &c. E., and then moved to locking position shown in Fig. 4. The link A may be loosely sewn down to the fabric C or may be secured thereto by a loop or link B of string, tape, rubber or wire which may be connected to the fabric by sewing or by a staple ring bolt &c. In a modification, Fig. 8, the link A has a wedge shaped portion for forcing the materials together. Specifications 7332/86, 6861/87, 3308/01, [all in Class 43], 443,727, and 443,728, [both in Group X], are referred to.
Patent GB-482385-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to thermionic tetrodes
IPC: H01J19/00
Filed: 1936-10-06
Abstract: 482,385. Thermionic valves. M-0 VALVE CO., Ltd., and TRELOAR, L. R. G. Oct. 6, 1936, No. 27112. Drawings to Specification. [Class 39 (i)] In an output tetrode the maximum dimension of the anode does not exceed 40 mms. and the distance between the control grid and screen is made so small, preferably less than 0À8 mm., that the anode current-anode voltage characteristics are free from inflections over the range used in operation, even when the screen grid voltage is as high as 250 volts. Penetration of the field of the control grid into the anode-screen space assists in the production of the necessary potential minimum, which could not be produced by the prescribed anode spacing alone. In an example, an indirectlyheated cathode is surrounded successively by oval control and screen grids having least internal diameters of 3À18 and 4À33 mms. respectively, and by a cylindrical anode 25 mms. in diameter. Full dimensions of the valve are given and its characteristics are compared with those of a standard pentode. Specifications 423,932 and 441,849 are referred to. Reference has been directed by the Comptroller to Specification 423,932.
Patent GB-444407-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in hair-waving appliances
IPC: A45D6/02
Filed: 1934-09-21
Abstract: 444,407. Hair - - waving appliances. HOLSTEAD, F., 29A, Newport Street, Bolton. Sept. 21, 1934, No. 27129. [Class 131] A device for winding a tress of hair helically upon a mandrel comprises a sleeve 4 adapted to be passed loosely over the tapered end of the mandrel and provided with an offset 8 carrying a comb 9 disposed parallel to the axis of the sleeve with its teeth 10 projecting laterally perpendicular to the offset 8, and with extensions 13, 14 adapted to press upon the wound tress. The comb, which is provided with a pivoted clip 11, may be pivoted at 21 to the offset 8, or may engage detachably in slides thereon. The extensions 13, 14 may be provided with a supplementary wire extension 18, 19 attached to a collar 20 which may be pushed forward to assist in maintaining the wound tress in place. In use, after the root of the tress has been secured to the tip of the mandrel, the device is passed over the mandrel, the tress is engaged between the comb and the clip 11, and the device is then rotated and moved along the mandrel. When the tress is fully wound, a sachet or the like is applied thereto, and the mandrel with the sleeve 4 in situ is inserted into a heater.
Patent GB-1516631-A (GB)
Title: Earth working and/or handling machines
IPC: E02F3/28
Filed: 1975-09-12
Abstract: 1516631 Excavators MINING DEVELOPMENTS Ltd 12 Sept 1975 [19 June 1974] 27158/74 Heading B8H An endless track vehicle 10 comprises a frame for detachably securing an earth working tool, an electro-hydraulic power unit 13 for driving the endless tracks and operating the tool, a hydraulic power take-off point 20 for driving a further tool, e.g. a jackhammer, drill, breaker, a submersible sump pump, a vibratory poker, a grinder, or a cutter, and a rear shield 14 for protecting the power pack and tiltable rearwardly to permit access to the power pack. The earth working tool may be detachably secured to the frame by bolts 21 and may be a dinter comprising a pair of brackets 22, a telescopic boom 26 pivotally mounted on vertical and horizontal axes, and a bucket 31 pivotable about axis 32 by a ram 33, or a slide dump loader (Figs. 3 and 4, not shown) comprising a pair of brackets, a boom pivotally mounted on a horizontal axis, and a tiltable bucket. The shield 14 may contain an oil cooler. The take-off point 20 may have a flexible transmission which is coiled or reeled when not in use.
Patent GB-736323-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to cylindrical brushes more particularly for carpet and like cleaners
Inventor: HUGHES IVAN WILLIAM
IPC: A47L9/04
Filed: 1952-10-29
Abstract: 736,323. Rotary brushes. VACTRIC, Ltd. Dec. 21, 1953 [Oct. 29, 1952], No. 27188/52. Class 19. A rotary brush, more particularly for a suction cleaner, comprises a hollow cylindrical stock having slots therein for the reception of resilient brush strips, the opposed edges of the slots engaging grooves in the sides of the strip. The edges of the slots may be bent inwardly so that the strip may readily be pushed into the slot or the strip may be slid endwise into the slot from an open end or from an end part of the slot which has been widened to receive the full width of the strip (Fig. 4, not shown). The ends of the strip may be shaped to hold them more securely. According to the Provisional Specification the strips may be made of rubber.
Patent GB-974693-A (GB)
Title: A motor vehicle with warning unit
IPC: B60Q7/00
Filed: 1961-07-27
Abstract: 974, 693. Road traffic signals on vehicles. C. GEHLSEN. July 27, 1961 [July 27, 1960], No. 27327/61. Heading G4Q. A motor vehicle having a flashing direction indicator circuit is provided with a warning lamp assembly which is connected in the circuit and adapted to be removed a predetermined distance from the vehicle without disconnection of the lamp from the flashing circuit, the assembly also including a stand and a reflector.
Patent GB-488637-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to electric transformer condenser or the like
IPC: H01B3/00
Filed: 1936-10-08
Abstract: An electric insulating composition having good heat conductivity comprises a chlorinated hydrocarbon, preferably of a wax-like character such as chlorinated diphenyl containing more than 5 per cent chlorine, and an inorganic filler which is "a good conductor of heat" such as crystalline quartz, metal oxides and superficially oxidized metal particles.  The insulating composition may be used in electric condensers, transformers &c., and it is stated that the transmission of heat from the casing of a transformer utilizing the composition may be increased by means of cooling ribs, water cooling, &c.
Patent GB-1361324-A (GB)
Title: Electric incandescent lamps
IPC: H01K3/22
Filed: 1972-06-12
Abstract: 1361324 Electric incandsecent lamp THORN ELECTRICAL INDUSTRIES Ltd 25 May 1973 [12 June 1972] 27408/72 Heading H1F A tungsten-halogen cycle electric incandescent lamp has a fill including a solid aromatic halide. The halide is introduced into the envelope as a solution in a non-polar solvent, e.g. petroleum ether, ether, toluene, benzene or a chlorinated or cyclic hydrocarbon, and the solvent subsequently evaporated in a stream of nitrogen. The envelope is exhausted and filled with an inert gas such as N 2 , Ar, Xe, or Kr. The halide is preferably hexa-chloro or hexabromo benzene. Bromophosphonitrile may also be added as a separate solution or admixed with the halide solution. The aromatic halide and the halophosphonitrile dissociate to give carbon, a halogen and phosphorus.
Patent GB-320218-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to bore-hole clinometers
IPC: E21B47/022
Filed: 1928-09-24
Abstract: 320,218. Chahnazaroff, A. Sept. 24, 1928. Borehole clinometers. - In a borehole clinometer the mechanism for effecting the measurement is mounted in a gimbal suspension so that it always remains horizontal and the record is made on the wall of the supporting-cylinder. The mechanism 1 and recording-means 2 are mounted in gimbal rings 5, 6, the outer ring 5 being pivoted to the cylinder 3 and the suspended system being rendered pendulous by a weight 10. The two recording styluses 11, 12 are adapted to mark on the inner surface of the cylinder 3. The cylinder 3 is supported within an outer fluid-tight cylinder 4 by means of rings 13 of cork or other shock-absorbing material. The cylinder 4 is lowered into the borehole and is guided and centralized by spring-supported rollers 14 which also prevent the cylinder from turning in the borehole.
Patent GB-681269-A (GB)
Title: Therapeutically-active concentrate and process of preparing same
IPC: A61K31/00
Filed: 1949-10-25
Abstract: A high-potency concentrate effective against pernicious anaemia is obtained by extracting an aqueous solution of the anti-pernicious anaema concentrate obtained from liver preparations or from biological sources, with an immiscible organic solvent phase containing an alkyl phenol, e.g. amyl or ethyl phenol or benzyl alcohol.  Subsequently washing said alkyl phenol extract with aqueous sodium bicarbonate and water; diluting the resulting alkyl phenol extract with petroleum ether, and extracting the anti-pernicious anaemia factor therefrom with water; washing the resulting water extract with mesityl oxide; removing residual mesityl oxide by washing said extract with chloroform; extracting the anti-pernicious anaemia factor from said water solution by the addition of benzyl alcohol; diluting the resulting benzyl alcohol extract with chloroform and extracting said extract with water; adding chloroform to remove residual benzyl alcohol; and then treating the resulting purified solution in order to recover a solid concentrate of the antipernicious anaemia factor of high potency.
Patent GB-1005688-A (GB)
Title: Apparatus for sterilising liquids
IPC: C02F1/32
Filed: 1963-07-11
Abstract: Water for treatment by source of U.V. rays in a trough is maintained at a depth which is not greater than the depth to which the source is designed to penetrate.
Patent GB-1400613-A (GB)
Title: Profile section assembly
IPC: E04B2/78
Filed: 1972-06-13
Abstract: 1400613 Joining panels or framing members C A GEORGES 13 June 1972 [30 June 1971] 27581/72 Heading E1W [Also in Division F2] Framework elements for partitions are joined by a resilient strip or series of clips 4 which engage in a recess cojointly formed between two abutting elements 1, 2. Resilient flanges 14, 15, 16 and 17 on the strip 4 cooperate with recesses 11 and ribs 12 to provide a snap fitting arrangement. A groove 18 may be provided in the strip for insertion of a tool to effect its removal.
Patent GB-708230-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to publicity placards
IPC: G09F1/06
Filed: 1952-11-03
Abstract: 708,230. Showcards. SOC. ANON. CELLO. Nov. 3. 1952 [July 2, 1952], No. 27664/52. Class 3(2) A publicity placard is made. from a sheet of cardboard of which a central portion 4 exposed to view is connected, along two curved folds 3, 9 arranged symmetrically in relation to a central plane, to other portions 5. 10 which are folded in relation to the central portion and which are held in this folded position by constraining means, the curved folds terminating in the air at each end. The portions 5, 10, when folded, form supports having a convex shape looked at from the front and the portion 4 assumes a concave shape. These portions are kept in position by a second piece of cardboard 14 which is engaged in an aperture which extends across the centre portion 4 into each portion 5, 10. The piece 14 is wider than the slot so that it is curved when in position and it has two tabs 11, 12 to hold the portions 5, 10 in position. In a modification of this construction the aperture is omitted and the piece 14 is not used, instead each portion 5, 10 is provided with a tongue, each of which is folded back to engage a separate folded back piece of the central portion 4.
Patent GB-378692-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to the cleaning of offset graining or printing rollers
IPC: B41F35/00
Filed: 1931-10-05
Abstract: 378,692. Printing-machines. TRIGGS, W. W., 57, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London.-(Oxford Varnish Corporation ; Detroit, Michigan, U.S.A.) Oct. 5, 1931, No. 27669. [Class 100 (ii).] Cylinder offset machines ; set-off, preventing.- In a machine for transferring a design from an inked plate P to an object S by means of an offset printing or graining roller C, wherein the roller C is mounted so as to travel from the plate to the object and finally to a suspended cleaning position, a cleaning mechanism comprising a scraper arranged to contact with the roller is provided with means to elevate the mechanism for the cleaning operation so that the vertical adjustment of the roller is not altered. The roller C is suspended on members 4 from a carriage 2 running along a trackway 1 and is vertically adjustable by means of eccentric parts 5<1> carried by the axle 5 which engage slots 6 in the members 4, the axle being looked in adjusted position by an attached arm 7 and a set-screw 8. The cleaning mechanism comprises a supporting frame 10 carrying a spring-pressed scraper blade 11, a roller 12, dipping into a vessel 13 containing cleaning fluid, and a small roller 14, Fig. 4, both rollers being driven at the same speed from an electric motor 20 and serving to rotate the roller C by friction, when the frame 10 is in its raised position. This is effected by pinions 37, fast on the ends of a cross-shaft 35 mounted in the frame 10, which engage stationary vertical racks 38, rotation of the cross-shaft being brought about by depressing a foot-lever 45, the frame 10 being guided in its vertical movement by guides 27, 28, 40, which are fixed to the frame 10 and are respectively slidable upon fixed vertical bars 30 and the racks 38.
Patent GB-843097-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to the synchronising of two trains of signals
Inventor: INGHAM WILLIAM ELLIS
IPC: H03D13/00
Filed: 1955-09-29
Abstract: 843,097. Automatic phase control systems. ELECTRIC & MUSICAL INDUSTRIES Ltd. Sept. 21, 1956 [Sept. 29, 1955], No. 27688/55. Class 40(5). In order to derive an error signal in an automatic frequency control system for a sinusoidal oscillator, the oscillator output is added to a reference signal (the two signals being in phase under correct operating conditions) and the combined signal is inductively coupled to the centre tapped winding of a Foster-Seeley discriminator. The reference signal is normally equal to the centrefrequency of the discriminator. The discriminator winding is also supplied in push-pull with the resultant of combining the oscillation and the reference signal in opposite phase relation to the first combination. The oscillator 1, controlled by a reactance valve 16, supplies an amplifier 3 from which two outputs of the same phase are obtained. The reference signal is amplified at 4 to provide two outputs in phase opposition. All the outputs are of equal amplitude. The sum of the variable and reference signals is applied to the primary 5, and the difference applied to the centre-tap of the tuned secondary 6 of the discriminator. It is shown that phase or frequency errors produce a resultant signal across resistors 10, 11, in a sense to restore the oscillator 1 to the desired frequency and phase equality.
Patent GB-1094443-A (GB)
Title: Coin freed card display device
IPC: G07F17/16
Filed: 1964-07-06
Abstract: 1,094,443. Coin-freed card-display apparatus. W. E. FORRESTER (L. R. Forrester). Oct. 6, 1965 [July 6, 1964], No. 27778/64. Heading G4V. Coin-freed apparatus for displaying a card for a period proportional to the value of inserted coins comprises coin mechanism which on insertion of a coin moves an endless, flexible chain 70 in a first direction and prepares a card support for card insertion, and means for periodically indexing the chain in the opposite direction until the chain operates the card support to remove the card from display. As a coin slide 55 is pushed in against screw 107 it moves to the left a rod 83 and a member 74 with a projection 106 which pivots a pawl 75 to move a point 77a between adjacent beads of chain 70 so that the chain is moved eight beads, say, with pawl 75 as it slides along a slot 73. Simultaneously a roller 85 on rod 83 moves a cam 142 and card support (36) (Figs. 9-11, not shown) to card reception position, a gate operator (144) (Figs. 12-14, not shown) rotating with the support to unlock a gate (35) blocking the card insertion slot (34). After card insertion a button (151) (Figs. 15, 16, not shown) is manually depressed to close the gate. More coins may be inserted to book extra display time, deposition of too many coins being prevented by a trip (Fig. 18, not shown) which renders the slide 55 inoperative. The return of the chain is effected by the periodic closing of a switch (171) (Figs. 22-27, not shown) in circuit with a switch (143) (Fig. 10, not shown) held closed by the cam 142 in card reception position, thereby energizing a solenoid 90 to move its armature 92 into contact with the pawl 75 and move the chain back by one bead. When the chain reaches its initial position a large bead (71) (Fig. 6, not shown) actuates a second trip 86 which releases a latch (113) holding the cam 142, and the apparatus is returned to its initial condition.
Patent GB-435074-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to cigarette cases
IPC: A24F15/12
Filed: 1934-09-28
Abstract: 435,074. Cigarette cases. WYNER, H., and ROTHMAN'S, Ltd., 13, Underwood Street, City Road, London. Sept. 28, 1934, No. 27833. [Class 18] A cigarette case has a memorandum device in the form of a renewable or washable sheet 7 detachably engaged with turned over edges 6 of the lid. Thumb slots 8 may be provided in the sheet to facilitate its removal from the case. Partitioning ribs 3 as described in Specification 435,073 may be provided.