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Patent GB-225012-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to "fire-bricks", furnace linings and the like
IPC: F27D1/04
Filed: 1923-10-04
Abstract: 225,012. Gibbs, F. Oct. 4, 1923. Linings; grates; fuel-economizers.-A fire-brick for stoves, furnaces linings, and the like, of the type having vertical passages 13 with angularlydisposed mouths 14 at the bottom to return dust to the fire, together with passages 15 extending between the passages 13 and the front face of the brick, which may be vertically corrugated or ribbed, is formed with a, recess 9 on the rear face, into which open horizontal or inclined passages 16 extending from the passages 13. The brick shown is for the side of a domestic grate; for furnace linings the bricks may fit together by means of tongues and recesses or the like. They may be of fire-clay, cast-iron, or other suitable metal.
Patent GB-690537-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to the cooling and insulation of electrical apparatus
IPC: H02K3/24
Filed: 1951-10-24
Abstract: 690,537. Cooling transformers and dynamoelectric machines. SHEPHERD, G. R. (Westinghouse Electric International Co.). Oct. 24, 1951, No. 24818/51. Classes 35 and 38 (ii). Induction apparatus has axial cooling ducts maintained between conductor sides and slot walls by insulating spacer members having extensions spaced from the combustors and the slot walls and projecting into the ducts. As shown, the stator coil sides 12 of a generator have low voltage insulation and an outer conductive coating 18 and are separated from the slot walls by spacers 21 which may have em. bedded metal foil 41 to decrease the electrostatic field and have projections 24. Hydrogen or air under pressure, or alternatively oil, is circulated as shown over coolers 48.
Patent GB-1508403-A (GB)
Title: Method of producing 3-amino-4-homoisotwistane and acid addition salts thereof
IPC: C07C209/00
Filed: 1976-06-16
Abstract: 1508403 Aminohomotwistane KAO SOAP CO Ltd 16 June 1976 [27 June 1975] 24841/76 Heading C2C 3 - Aminohomotwistane of formula I is prepared by alcoholysis of the 3-acetylamino compound in the presence of an alkaline reagent. 3 - Acetylaminohomotwistane is prepared by reaction under nitric conditions of acetonitrile with a compound of Formula II wherein X is Cl, Br, OH or acetyloxy.
Patent GB-466771-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in electric motors
IPC: H02K17/10
Filed: 1935-09-06
Abstract: 466,771. Induction motors. SPARKS, E. Sept. 6, 1935, Nos. 24844/35 and 21780 /36. [Class 35] A single phase induction motor has a shaded pole cruciform stator core with two or four poles carrying windings surrounded by the rotor, the spindle of which may traverse the stator core. In the form shown, the rotor slots B carry rods secured at each end to a copper ring and the cross - section of the unshaded portion of each pole is less than that of the shaded portion Windings D1 may be placed on all or alternate poles. The rotor shaft may extend through the bore F in the stator core.
Patent GB-1149633-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to brake actuating mechanisms
Inventor: COCK DONALD JAMES
IPC: F16D65/56
Filed: 1965-06-11
Abstract: 1,149,633. Disc brake actuating mechanism. GIRLING Ltd. 9 June, 1966 [11 June, 1965], No. 24883/65. Heading F2E. Brake actuating mechanism includes a rotatable cam member 19 (Fig. 1) and a push rod 74 extending transversely to the rotational axis of the cam member, a rotary bearing assembly comprising a housing, a plurality of rollers 71 arranged in a group, and a cage 70 maintaining the rollers in position within the housing, wherein the housing and cage have registering apertures (73 for the cage) at a position angularly spaced from but axially aligned with the group of rollers. As applied to a disc brake, the push rod acts on the lower end of a cam lever 13 (Fig. 4), the rollers supporting the cam member 19 against the resulting transverse thrust. The other end of the lever 13 applies the brake pad 10 to the brake disc, acting through the intermediary of an automatically operable wear adjustment mechanism comprising an extensible strut 87, 88. The mechanism is that described in Specification 1,029,945. The pad 10 is slidably engaged by two pairs of faces 80, 80A and a pin 81 on the caliper 12. The lower end of cam lever 13 is also engaged by a piston 16 for hydraulic operation of the brake.
Patent GB-808391-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to collars for personal wear
IPC: A41B3/06
Filed: 1956-08-16
Abstract: 808,391. Shirt &c. collars. TRUBENISED (GREAT BRITAIN) Ltd. (Metzger, P.). July 26, 1957 [Aug. 16, 1956], No. 25073/56. Class 141 In a collar top comprising a lining 4 and two outer plies 9, 10 connected by marginal stitching 11, the lining ply is stiffened over its whole length, or over its end portions only, by an additional fabric ply 6 adhesively secured to it, the stiffening ply being so arranged that its front and lower edges lie adjacent the inturned edges of the other plies without overlapping them. The front portion of the stiffening ply may be of double thickness formed by folding back the mar- .ginal portion 8. The stiffening ply may comprise fabric containing cellulose derivative threads, adhesion being effected by treatment with a solvent and the application of heat and pressure, or it may consist of fabric coated with an adhesive. The Provisional Specification describes also a stiffening ply having both its front and lower marginal portions folded back upon itself.
Patent GB-723787-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to tractive couplings for caravans, trailers and the like
IPC: B62D53/08
Filed: 1951-10-26
Abstract: 723,787. Vehicle couplings. BULL, H. W. Jan. 21, 1953 [Oct. 26, 1951], No. 25079/51. Class 103 (5). A towing connection comprises a pair of rigid or resilient links 15 pivoted preferably universally to the rear axle 17 of the towing vehicle and to an attachment member 10 having a ball coupling 12 and being secured to the bumper bar 11 of the towing vehicle. The member 10 may also have a ground-engaging castor wheel.
Patent GB-169454-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to electric radiators
IPC: F24C7/06
Filed: 1921-09-22
Abstract: 169,454. Soc. GÚnÚrale Le PromÚthÛe, (Assignees of Lanier, P. G.). Sept. 22, 1920, [Convention date]. Electric radiators.- An electric radiator comprises a reflector having a flat bottom and a parabolic rim 8, and a refractory disc 2 supporting a circular heating-element 1 so disposed in front of the reflector that the heat rays are reflected in a substantially cylindrical beam. The plate 2 is provided with three plugs 7 parallel to its axis and engaging sockets in the reflector, two of the plugs being used to supply the current to the heating - element. The flat portion of the reflector is a circle having the same radius as the heating element and the heating wire is situated at the circular focus of the parabolic rim. The heating wire lies in a groove 4 in the plate 2, and the outer rim of the groove is relatively thin.
Patent GB-939053-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to artificial lawn elements
IPC: E01C13/08
Filed: 1962-07-02
Abstract: 939,053. Artificial flowers &c. FABRICATION INDUSTRIELLE DE MOULAGE. July 2, 1962 [Feb. 15, 1962], No. 25329/62. Class 63. An artificial lawn element comprises a baseplate 1 and blades of grass 2 moulded from polyethylene or polypropylene the plate 1 having octagonal apertures 5, 6 to facilitate cooling of the element during manufacture and the elements may be joined together by straps 3 having bosses 4 which engage in the aperture 5.
Patent GB-212590-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in spring suspensions for vehicles
IPC: B60G11/36
Filed: 1922-09-19
Abstract: 212,590. Chandler, J. H. Sept. 19, 1922. Springs, arrangement of; guiding vertical play.-A spring g suspension for vehicles comprises one or more helical or other vertical springs, one or more laminated or other horizontal springs, and an independent resilient compensating device for transmitting horizontal stresses, the two kinds of springs being so related that the vertical springs carry all, or substantially all, the load, the horizontal springs being substantially free from vertical load and horizontal stress and functioning solely to damp the vibrations of the vertical springs. One or more helical, spiral &c. springs a are mounted in housings b, bl secured to the chassis c and axle or equivalent f respectively, and a horizontal spring g, comprising a single leaf or a number of leaves, is connected to the chassis at g<2>, g<10> and is either secured to or has sliding movement within the housing b<1>. A stop h, with or without a resilient cap, or a shorter helical spring may be arranged within the spring a . The axle is connected to the bracket e<2> on the chassis by means of an adjustable resilient compensating device e<1>, g<1> which absorbs horizontal shook. In a modification, the springs g on the ends of an axle are replaced by a transverse spring secured centrally to the chassis and connected at its ends to the axle by links. Each end of the transverse spring may be arranged between a pair of helical or vertical springs. Specifications 181,662 and 183,937 are referred to. The Provisional Specification describes the use of radius rods to replace the compensating devices.
Patent GB-192119-A (GB)
Title: An improved device for icing cakes and the like
IPC: A21C15/00
Filed: 1921-09-24
Abstract: 192,119. Cockbill, F. C., and Grimes, J. H. V. Sept. 24, 1921. Coating bakers' and confectioners' goods.-In a device for icing cakes of the kind comprising a rotary table supporting the cake and a pair of blades adjustably mounted on a standard, the standard e is slidably arranged on the bed h, carrying the rotary table a, and provided with a spigot and socket joint l, secured by a pin n, this allowing the standard to be rotated to carry the blades f, g clear of the cake. The side blade g is carried by a member o slidable in a housing p on the standard e, a screwed rod q, having a handle r, being provided to move the blade towards or away from the cake. The upper blade f has similar adjusting means carried on a telescopic arm s slidably mounted on the standard e. A bead-forming blade i is hinged to the side blade g so that it may be swung clear prior to the withdrawal of the side blade from the cake. Fig. 3 shows a modification for use with oval cakes, the table a, in this case. carrying a cam-piece y which engages a member z adjustably mounted in the standard e and causes the latter to move away from the cake, a. spring 1 being provided to return it.
Patent GB-690953-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to driving means for brushing rollers in teaseling machines
IPC: D06C11/00
Filed: 1950-10-18
Abstract: 690,953. Finishing fabrics. MONFORTS, A. Oct. 18, 1950. [Oct. 19, 1949] No. 25423/50. Class 42 (i). A driving arrangement for a ring of brushing rollers 2 of a teaseling machine which are rotatably mounted in discs 4 on a driving shaft 5 comprises friction cones 1 on the ends of the rollers which engage with stationary friction rings. In order to ensure equal frictional pressure on all the rollers the friction rings are divided into a number of individual segments 7, 8, 9, 10, with tension springs 11, 12, 13, 14 connecting alternate segments. Alternatively adjacent segments may be connected by springs or a single spring may encircle all the segments:
Patent GB-1074561-A (GB)
Title: Fuel cells
IPC: H01M8/22
Filed: 1964-06-19
Abstract: 1,074,561. Fuel cell. TOKYO SHIBAURA ELECTRIC CO. Ltd. June 19, 1964 [June 20, 1963 (2); Aug. 17, 1963 (2); Sept. 16, 1963], No. 25440/64. Heading H1B. A fuel cell has a hydrogen electrode formed by a non-porous palladium or palladium alloy membrane coated on the hydrogen side with palladium black and on the electrolyte side with a mixed black of palladium and platinum. The palladium alloys of the mixtures are those having not more than 0À6 atomic per cent of Cu, Au, Ag per Pd atom.
Patent GB-835948-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to watch cases
IPC: G04B37/11
Filed: 1957-08-13
Abstract: 835,948. Watches. GINDRAUX & CIE. Aug. 13, 1957 [May 27, 1957], No. 25471/57. Class 139 In a watch case the back 3, Fig. 1, has a spanner receiving groove 10 having nut faces 11 so that it may be screwed into and unscrewed from the case band 1. A flange 7 of the back engages a packing 9. The movement is supported by a ring 13. In a modification, Fig. 2 (not shown), the movement supporting ring rests on a corrugated spring located in an internal groove of the case back.
Patent GB-1086576-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to electric circuit arrangements
IPC: H04Q3/00
Filed: 1965-06-17
Abstract: 1,086,576. Automatic exchange systems. SIEMENS A.G. June 17, 1965 [June 18, 1964], No. 25594/65. Heading H4K. The invention relates to apparatus in which a marking on an input line is repeated, on a one-to-one basis, to an output line and wherein if more than one input line is simultaneously marked that output line of nearest " order " to a previously marked line is marked in preference to any other. The apparatus consists of what is effectively a closed chain of bi-stable circuits each of which corresponds to one input and one output line, that bi-stable associated with the last marked input line being " set " while all the others are " reset ", Logic circuitry including AND, OR and Inhibit gates is included in the chain for causing a newly marked line to set its bi-stable and reset the others and for ensuring that only one bi-stable is set in response to simultaneous markings. The bistables may comprise transistors, cold cathode tubes or relays.
Patent GB-836251-A (GB)
Title: Jig-dyeing machines
Inventor: KENNEDY JOHN GEORGE
IPC: D06B3/32
Filed: 1957-08-14
Abstract: A jig-dyeing machine comprises a vat having a recessed base, a pair of batching rollers and one or more guide rollers, at least one of which is positioned within the recess, both the guide roller(s) and the batching rollers being contained <PICT:0836251/IV(c)/1> within the vat.  The vat may be provided with heating means and may be insulated.  Preferably the guide roller(s) and/or the batching rollers are removable.  As shown, vat 1 has a recess 2 and may have a removable lid 7.  Batching rollers 3, 31 may be driven by hand or motor and textile material 9 to be dyed may pass beneath guide roller 5 positioned in recess 2, and between guide rollers 4, 41.  The level of dye liquor is indicated by the broken horizontal line.  Electrical heating elements 6 may be provided on the sides of recess 2 and around the periphery of the vat.
Patent GB-838903-A (GB)
Title: Fillers for rubber
Inventor: ROBERTS HUGH LEITHEAD
IPC: C08K9/04
Filed: 1957-08-14
Abstract: Finely-divided calcium carbonate containing in the crystal lattice 1-10% by weight of one or more calcium salts of oxyacids of elements of Group 3, 4, 5 and 6A of the Periodic Table excluding nitrogen, may be prepared by reacting milk of lime with carbon dioxide, one or more soluble salts of said acids being added to the liquid before, during or after carbonation. Specified oxyacid salts are silicates, aluminates, phosphates, borates, arsenates, molybdates, tungstates and fluorophosphates. Examples are given.ALSO:Calcium carbonate containing in the crystal lattice 1-10% by weight of one or more calcium salts of oxyacids of elements of Group III, IV, V and VIa of the Periodic Table other than nitrogen (see Group III) may be employed, if desired with a fatty acid or other coating agent, to improve the tensile strength, tear resistance and modulus of natural rubber.
Patent GB-738012-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to safety guards for road vehicles
Inventor: EDWARDS JAMES LESLIE
IPC: B60R21/34
Filed: 1952-10-14
Abstract: 738,012. Safety appliances for vehicles. EDWARDS, J. L. Jan. 13, 1954 [Oct. 14, 1952], No. 25641/52. Class 103 (2). A safety guard for a vehicle comprises a main guard having resilient brackets adapted to be secured to the front of the vehicle with the main guard clear of the ground, a secondary guard slidably mounted behind the main guard and normally in a raised position, and a trip rail projecting forwardly of the main guard, and movable rearwardly on encountering an obstruction, whereby the secondary guard is permitted to drop to the ground. As shown, the main guard comprises three cushioned horizontal bars 1 each formed from a channel-section bar 2 and a rubber cushioning tube 3, the bars 1 being formed by substantially vertical bars 4. The main guard is connected to the vehicle by brackets 5 of spring steel strip. The secondary guard 10 is a rigid framework of horizontal and substantially vertical bars, the vertical bars 12 passing through U-shaped brackets 11 on the main guard. The main guard has members 15 for retaining the uppermost bar of the secondary guard, and shelf-like supports 14 for keeping this guard above the ground. The trip rail 17 is carried by two thrust rods 18 pivoted to radial arms 19 extending from a tube which is rotatably mounted between the brackets 5 of the main guard. The rods 18 have each a pair of downwardly-projecting pins 31 which straddle a bar 13 of the secondary guard. When the trip-rail encounters an obstruction the bar 13 is pushed off the support 14 and the secondary guard falls to the ground. Skids 16 are provided on the guard so as to ride over the ground surface when the guard is lowered during movement of the vehicle. The secondary guard may be linked with the controls of the vehicle so that the brakes are applied or the ignition switched off when the secondary guard is released.
Patent GB-942649-A (GB)
Title: Devices for folding flexible material
IPC: D06F89/00
Filed: 1962-07-04
Abstract: 942,649. Folding articles. D. A. FREEMAN. July 4, 1962 [Nov. 24, 1961], No. 25695/62. Heading B8C. [Also in Division D1] A hanging-folding device for folding articles of flexible material suspended in a substantially vertical plane comprises clamping means 14, 15 to engage and hold the upper portions of the article and pivotable means 18, 19, 26 and 27 to fold the side portions of the article inwardly along substantially parallel vertical lines about the central portion of the article. The article is clamped into the machine when in the position shown in Fig. 1 and the arms 18, 19 are folded back which also causes arms 26, 27 to fold back into the position shown in Fig. 2, hence folding the article longitudinally about plates 20, 23. The tail folding assembly 12 then moves up into the position shown in Fig. 3 after which arms 13, 24 move back about a common pivot to the position shown in Fig. 4 from which position it is partially ejected by the machine and may be bagged or pinned by the operator. The machine then returns to the position shown in Fig. 1 to accept another article. The machine operates pneumatically by a series of pistons and valves controlled by relays, Fig. 10 (not shown), and is adjustable for articles of various sizes.
Patent GB-371270-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to match boxes
IPC: F23Q2/24
Filed: 1931-09-14
Abstract: 371,270. Matches. HEMMELMANN, H., 70, Stresemannstrasse, Berlin. Sept. 14, 1931, No. 25698. Convention date, Sept. 13, 1930. [Class 50.] A match box c for a strip d of material having match heads k at intervals along it is formed with an opening e leading to a projection g in an outer passage f, the projection being less than the length of a match away from an external opening h, through which the strip is pulled past an ignition surface i, and reducing the width of the passage f sufficiently to compel the match heads to engage it. A sharp pull on the exposed end d<1> of the strip draws the first or leading match head k past the projection g and when the next following match head reaches it, the strip breaks at a weakened point l just behind the first match head.
Patent GB-902003-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in, or relating to, nozzle attachments for taps and like fittings, and to the method of manufacturing such attachments
IPC: F16L37/48
Filed: 1957-08-15
Abstract: 902,003. Pipe joints. WESTMORELAND, A.G. Aug. 15, 1958 [Aug. 15, 1957], No. 25742/57. Class 99(1). [Also in Group XXIX] A nozzle attachment for taps &c., comprises a non- metallic body 1 with a substantially spherical recess 3 which receives a correspondingly shaped head 14 of a spout 2, and metal reinforcing rings 9, 10 surrounding the part of the body formed with the recess 3. A perforated disc 12 is received in a groove 11 in the body. The spout may be made wholly of metal, wholly of the material of which the body 1 is made, i.e. rubber, polythene &c., or the head 14 may be non-metallic and the tubular part 13 metallic.
Patent GB-1394872-A (GB)
Title: Investment shell moulds
IPC: B22C1/16
Filed: 1972-06-02
Abstract: 1394872 Shell mould linings REM METALS CORP 2 June 1972 [3 June 1971] 25765/72 Heading B3F [Also in Divisions B5 and C3] An investment shell mould for casting titanium, zirconium and other reactive or refractory metals comprises superimposed layers of shell mould material and binder and a metallic barrier coating on the mould cavity face produced by the hydrogen reduction of at least one of the hydrogen-reducible compounds of tungsten and/or molybdenum. It is formed by successively dipcoating, stuccoing and drying a disposable pattern, the first dip coat including at least one tungsten or molybdenum compound reducible by hydrogen to the metal, the mould shell formed being heat-cured in hydrogen after removal from the pattern. The hydrogen-reducible compound may be a tungsten or molybdenum oxide, tungstic or molybdic acid or salts thereof, ammonium or lanthanum meta-tungstate, an alkoxide, halogenated alkoxide, halide or oxyhalide of molybdenum or tungsten. The first dip coat may include tungsten or molybdenum metal powder.
Patent GB-320726-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in lubricating devices such as grease boxes for the axles of rolling stock and the like
IPC: B61F17/20
Filed: 1928-09-07
Abstract: 320,726. Leonard, N. Sept. 7, 1928. Lubricant conveyed by mechanical means.-In a grease-box for axles or transmission bearings in which lubricant is raised by a rotating scoop or segment to a reservoir communicating with the axles or bearings the segment is so shaped as to reduce agitation of the oil. The segment 25, rotated by a cranked arm 25<1> attached to the axle 8 and balanced by a weight 160, is of spindle shape, formed by an annulus bounded by outer and inner edges 25<2>, 25<3> with bevel faces and end facets and the edges ab, cd cut by inclined faces 170.
Patent GB-1301996-A (GB)
IPC: C07C51/347
Filed: 1971-04-19
Abstract: 1301996 Production of cinnamic acid and its derivatives SUMITOMO CHEMICAL CO Ltd 19 April 1971 [13 April 1970 31 July 1970] 25799/71 Heading C2C Cinnamic acid and its derivatives are preprepared by reacting, an aromatic compound with acrylic acid or a derivative thereof of formula in which R 1 , R 2  and R 3  are each a hydrogen atom, or an alkyl, an aryl, an aralkyl, an alkylaryl or a cycloalkyl group, in the presence of oxygen or a gas containing free oxygen, with metallic palladium or a palladium salt as catalyst. The following compounds are prepared in the example: cinnamic acid, methyl cinnamate, methyl α-methylcinnamate, methyl #-toluylacryalte, and a mixture of methyl #-(3,4-dimethoxyphenyl) acrylate and methyl #-(2,3-dimethoxyphenyl) acrylate.
Patent GB-940311-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to door closers
IPC: E05F3/04
Filed: 1961-07-17
Abstract: 940,311. Chains. E. GROSS, and P. REBMANN. July 17, 1961 [July 16, 1960], No. 25800/61. Heading B8A. [Also in Divisions E2 and F2] A chain comprises alternate links 1 of H- section pivotally interconnected by plate-like links 2 bevelled at 2a, so that it can bend between a first limit position in which it is substantially straight and a second limit position in which it has a definite curvature defined by the engagement of the bevelled surfaces with the connecting webs 1b of the links 1.