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Patent GB-217682-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in counting mechanism for printing machines
IPC: B41F33/02
Filed: 1923-04-03
Abstract: 217,682. Hoe & Co., Ltd., R., (Hoc & Co., R.). April 3, 1923. Associated counters, trip and total, and like ; counters for articles; transmitting actuation to counters. - In a machine for delivering and counting printed products, the counting mechanism is operated by means located at or adjacent to the delivery points and controlled by the passage of the products, the arrangements being such that the products delivered to separate receivers can be counted separately by individual counters, or collectively on either counter. As shown, the collected products are folded alternately by blades 8 into jaws 11 on cylinders 9, 10, and the folded products are detached from the cylinders 9, 10 by strippers 13 and delivered to belts 15. The products while on the cylinders 9, 10 move past a roller 16 on a spring-pressed arm 18 on a shaft 19 associated with each collecting cylinder. The shafts 19 are rocked by the movements of the rollers 16 away from the cylinders, the rollers 16 normally being pressed into grooves in the cylinders 9, 10. The rocking movements of the shafts 19 are transferred to counters 34, 35, and the transmission mechanism is so arranged that each counter operates independently as shown, or the mechanism may be arranged so that either counter can register the total products dealt with by both delivery rollers 9, 10. Each shaft 19 operates a freely mounted pawl arm 23 which operates a ratchet 26 on a shaft geared to a shaft 31 connected by a pitman 32 to one of the counters 34, 35. When the total products are to be counted on one counter, one of the pitmans 32 is dispensed with, and the pawl arms 23 are connected for simultaneous operation by link-mechanism.
Patent GB-539611-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in spring clip devices particularly applicable as clothes pegs
IPC: D06F55/02
Filed: 1940-05-24
Abstract: 539,611. Clothes pegs. BEILIN, L., and LEE, H. H. May 24, 1940, No. 9193. [Class 44] A clothes peg comprises a pair of wood or other nunmetallic members 1, 2 held together by a rubber ring 6 seating in shallow transverse recesses in the outer faces of the members. When the bevelled finger grip 20, 21 are nipped together, the jaws 15, 16 open about a fulcrum 3 which may comprise a semi-cylindrical part integral with or secured to one member and seating in a corresponding groove in the other, or a cylindrical pin seated in mating grooves in the two members. Nipping together of the parts 20, 21 also provides an external wedge form to facilitate application of the rubber ring which is placed on the thin end of the wedge and forced along into the ring-receiving recesses. A small gripping recess is provided at 11 to grip a wire cable and a larger recess at 13 to grip a jute &c. rope.
Patent GB-203010-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in shock absorbing and coupling devices
IPC: F16D3/12
Filed: 1922-03-31
Abstract: 203,010. Hupp, I. March 31, 1922. Shaft couplings.-In resilient couplings for aligned shafts in motor-vehicles &c., of the kind in which engaged cam-shaped members have positively-limited longitudinal freedom under spring control, two toothed members 15, Fig. 1, with oppositely-directed helical surfaces 18 and shoulders 19, engage similar toothed members 12, 21 and are splined to a spindle 33 loosely journaled in the parts 12, 21; the part 21 is integral with one shaft section 22 and the part 12 is secured by its flange 11 to the other section. Under load, one or other of the members 15, according to the direction of rotation, yields axially against a spring 20 until the load is balanced or the bosses 15<1> come into contact, which event occurs before the teeth disengage or the spring coils contact. The parts 12, 21 are held together axially by a screwed barrel 26, end cover 28, and thrust washer 24, locking-screws 29, 30 being provided. In a modification, Fig. 5, a single pair of toothed members 38, 41 is used, the helical surfaces 40 sloping both ways. The spring-pressed member 38 is splined to the extension 34 of a part 35 provided with a flange 36 for attachment to a spider or flange on one shaft section, the member 41 having a similar flange 42. Solid drive occurs when the member 38 abuts against a shoulder on the part 34. A locked nut 44 and thrust washer 43 secure the parts axially and a shell 52 encloses them.
Patent GB-881906-A (GB)
Title: Method and machine for manufacturing flexible multi-strand assemblies
IPC: H01B13/02
Filed: 1958-03-24
Abstract: 881,906. Making cables. GEOFFROY-DELORE S.A. March 24, 1958 [March 26, 1957], No. 9336/58. Class 109. Cables constituted of several layers or strands are made by twisting all the layers at the same time and in the same direction and cyclically varying the pitch of every alternate layer. Wire strands 1 from a creel 2 pass through lay-plates 3, 4 and a die 22, which may be traversed by a grooved drum 23 to vary the pitch of one or more lays, to a rotary frame 9 that twists the strands together. After passing over a haul pulley assembly 15 rotating with the frame 9, the twisted strands go through a hollow shaft 7 and over guides which direct them through the axis of a takeup sheave 13 and over a haul pulley assembly 12 held stationary by its own weight or by gearing and applying a force not less than and preferably 2% greater than that applied by the assembly 15 to the strands which are then traversed by mechanism 14 on to the sheave 13. The strands on the sheave are next fed back through the assembly 12, frame 9 and assembly 15, now rotated in the opposite sense by means of a reverser clutch 19, and coiled into a container 21. The guide and haul pulleys are preferably formed with grooves corresponding to the size of the cable and made interchangeable for the accommodation of different sizes of cable.
Patent GB-116775-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Ammunition Cases or Receptacles.
Inventor: WILLIAMS BENJAMIN ALLEN
IPC: F42B39/26
Filed: 1917-06-30
Abstract: 116,775. Williams, B. A. June 30, 1917. Lids and covers; handles; fittings, internal; partitioned b o x e s ; strengthening by corrugating. - Relates to ammunition receptacles comprising a sheet-metal body 1 and sheet-metal perforated partitions 5, 6, 7 flanged at 8 to fit the wall of the receptacle and at 11 to embrace pieces of ammunition. According to the invention, (1) such receptacles are provided with a central longitudinal bolt 17 and nut 20 for clamping the lid 13 down and at the same time gripping the pieces of ammunition in their places, (2) the base 3 and the lid 13 are recessed at 14<a> to protect the head of the central bolt, the nut, and the bail handle, (3) the nut is retained on the lid by plates 23 secured over a flange 21 en the nut, and (4) the body of the receptacle is formed with longitudinal corrugations 25<a> for strengthening it and transverse indentations 12 for positioning the partitions.
Patent GB-688973-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in the manufacture of metal tubes applicable in some cases as electric conductors or other parts of electric cables
Inventor: DIXON HENRY JOHNSON
IPC: B21C37/15
Filed: 1950-04-18
Abstract: 688,973. Making composite pipes, and electric conductors. BRITISH INSULATED CALLENDER'S CABLES, Ltd. April 18, 1951 [April 18, 1950], No. 9484/50. Classes 83 (ii) and 83 (iv). Soldering; drawing.-A continuous process for the manufacture of metal tubing by gradually bending a longitudinally advancing strip of metal transversely until its edges meet to form an inner tube and similarly bending a second advancing metal strip to enclose the inner tube and form an outer tube, is characterized in that a thin ribbon of solder is fed between the inner tube and the outer strip as these are being assembled to bridge the two edges of the outer strip and when bending is complete heat is applied to solder the edges of the bent outer strip together and to the inner tube. A metal strip 1 is drawn from a supply reel 2 and guided by a pulley 3 towards a transverse bending device 4 comprising a set of apertured plates 5 which bend the strips into tubular form. A second metal strip 6 is drawn from a supply reel 7 and guided by pulleys 8, 9 towards the underside of the bent strip 1 which it meets at a point between the bending device 4 and a second similar bending device 10 which forms the second strip 6 into tubular form to enclose the first strip. During the bending of the second strip a thin ribbon of solder 12 from a supply reel 13 is fed between the inner and outer strips so as to bridge the edges of the outer strip 6. The solder, if not previously coated with flux, is passed through a bath of liquid flux 14. On leaving the second bending device the tube passes through a heating device 15 which may be a hot die or roll which melts the solder and presses the edge of the outer strip on to the surface of the inner strip. The tube is then cooled by a water-cooled die 16 and passed round a draw-off capstan 17 and on to a take-up reel. The solder ribbon is guided by a channel-shaped member 18 in which it is constrained to run by a bar 19, held by lugs 20, the bar terminating in a shoe 21 which applies the ribbon to the tube. The shoe is located near the last but one plate die 11 or between such die and the final die. A second solder ribbon may be fed diametrically opposite to the first and at a point to the rear of the point where the outer strip 6 first meets the inner strip if it is desired to solder the edges of the inner strip. A doublewalled tube, made according to this invention, may be used as the outer conductor screen of an electric cable and a similarly formed tube, comprising three or more metal strips, may form the core of the cable. A small gap is left between the edges of the inner formed strip to ensure a smooth inner surface after the outer strip has been finally closed.
Patent GB-974271-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to methods of evaporating and concentrating scale-forming solutions
IPC: B01D1/12
Filed: 1961-03-15
Abstract: In a method of evaporating and concentrating scale-forming solutions, hot water circulates on one side of the heat exchange surface and the solution to be concentrated circulates on the other side, the two circuits being periodically interchanged.  The hot water is preferably heated by steam, particularly steam derived from the liquid to be concentrated; in a series of evaporators, steam produced in one evaporator is used to heat the water for the next evaporator. Evaporators of the plate type and with a tubular exchange surface are specified.
Patent GB-223154-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to boot brush or like tidies
IPC: A47L23/28
Filed: 1924-04-15
Abstract: 223,154. Haggis, L. F. April 15, 1924. Cabinets.-A compartmented container for boot brushes, polishing materials, &c. is provided with an upper shelf 14 on which is mounted a clamp or clamps for tins of polish consisting of notched sliding members 16, 17 embracing the tin, and a pivoted cam member 20. The member 17 may abut against one or more pivoted spacing strips 22 which occupy a vertical position when not in use. If two tins are to be clamped three members such as 17 are used. the central member being notched on both long edges. The compartments are provided with strengthening and retaining ledges 24 .. 27.
Patent GB-375437-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in anthraquinone derivatives
IPC: C09B5/10
Filed: 1931-03-30
Abstract: Anthraselenazole derivatives.--New products are obtained by condensing 1 : 9-anthraselenazole-2 carboxylic acid or chloride with aminoanthraquinones, or derivatives thereof, to give the acid amides. According to examples, 1 : 9-anthraselenazole-2-carboxylic acid chloride is condensed with 1-aminoanthraquinone, 2-aminoanthraquinone, 1 : 5-diaminoanthraquinone, 1 : 4-diaminoanthraquinone, mono-benzoyl-1 : 5-diaminoanthraquinone, 1-amino-6-chloroanthraquinone, 1-aminoanthraquinone-6-carboxylic acid, followed by conversion to the carboxylic chloride; the products dye cotton and artificial silk or are intermediates for dyestuffs. Specifications 219,830 and 326,487, [both in Class 2 (iii), Dyes &c.], are referred to.
Patent GB-558630-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to electrically heated garments
IPC: H05B3/34
Filed: 1942-07-10
Abstract: 558,630. Electrically heated garments. GOLDSTAUB, H. H. July 10, 1942, No. 9595. [Class 39 (iii)] In electrically heated garments, the fabric formed by knitting is provided with a flexible conductor knitted into it, e.g. between the fibrous strands. The conductor may be single or stranded, and may be insulated. The garment, e.g. a glove or sock, may be produced by a knitting operation, incorporating the heating element, or a knitted piece of the required shape may be incorporated as a lining. The wire may be of copper-nickel alloy of 40 gauge, and may be interposed as a row of loops in the fabric. The fabric adjacent to the wire may incorporate asbestos yarn. Rectangular mats or jackets for liquid containers may be similarly constructed.
Patent GB-1133052-A (GB)
Title: Selector bushing arrangements for use in electric switchgear
Inventor: CARTER CHARLES HERBERT JAMES
IPC: H02B7/00
Filed: 1964-12-31
Abstract: 1,133,052. Switchgear structures; high voltage switches. SOUTH WALES SWITCHGEAR Ltd. 4 March, 1966 [31 Dec., 1964], No. 9598/66. Divided out of 1,133,051. Heading H1N. A selector switch comprises an insulating bushing 14 mounted for arcuate movement and housing a conductor 19 carrying contacts at each end, one of the contacts moving, during the arcuate movement, between two positions in which it respectively engages fixed contacts 10, 12, while the other contact remains stationary. The selector switch may be employed in the switchgear arrangement of the main Specification, when the said other contact is engageable by an isolating contact of a withdrawable circuit-breaker 9 and the selector switch serves to connect the breaker to either of two busbars 3, 6 or to an earthed contact 20. The switchgear is housed in a weatherproof housing of fabricated steelwork clad with aluminium sheets and provided with partitions separating the two sets of bus-bars 3, 6 from one another and from the circuit-breaker chamber 8. Withdrawable shutters 22, 23 are arranged between fixed contacts 10, 12 and are withdrawn in sequence to permit passage of the bushing 14 from one position to another. The bushing 14 is mounted between a pair of rollers 15 arranged to slide in an arcuate guide 16 and is coupled by a link 24 with a screw and nut drive 26 driven by a motor or handle.
Patent GB-375439-A (GB)
Title: A multiple tank for removing paint and the like from metal by electrolytic process
IPC: C25F7/00
Filed: 1931-03-30
Abstract: 375,439. Electrolytic cells. WILLIAMS, W. J., 33, Blythe Hill, Catford, London. March 30, 1931, No. 9599. [Class 41.] A cell for the electrolytic cleaning of metal plates is divided into compartments by a frame inserted therein. The compartments are formed by partitions B which are inserted between angle-blocks A on the frame and are mounted laterally in slots in angle-bars secured to the sides of the tank. Contact with the articles is made by strips C bent over the edges of the frame and sweated or soldered to lateral strips J mounted in grooves and connected to a leading-in conductor E. The grooves housing the strips J are filled in with insulating material. The frame is mounted on insulating blocks F.
Patent GB-137711-A (GB)
Title: An improved process of and means for fastening together sheets of material
IPC: F16B5/02
Filed: 1919-04-15
Abstract: 137,711. Rosenberg, H. April 15, 1919. Bolting. - To fasten together two or more metal or other plates, a hole is pierced through the plates by a pointed punch, forming a series of nested burrs 4<1>, 5<1>. A wood-screw having a hardened thread is then screwed into the hole and cuts into the metal of the burrs'.
Patent GB-728910-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to stretcher bars for bedstead-bottoms
IPC: A47C19/02
Filed: 1952-04-17
Abstract: 728,910. Bedsteads. PHILLIPS, Ltd., A., and ROWE, W. J. April 17, 1953 [April 17, 1952], No. 9625/52. Class 52 (2). [Also in Group XXII] A stretcher bar, for use with a bedstead bottom having a rectangular frame of angle-section metallic bars A, is made from a cold-rolled steel bar of channel section, the ends 6a being upwardly curved or inclined at an angle of 45 degrees to the horizontal main part 6 of the bar, and each terminating in a plate 6b having the outer portion folded to provide a double thickness having a part 6c parallel to the part 6 and joined to the inner part of the plate by a downwardly bent part 6d forming a shoulder 6e bearing against the edge of the side bars A. The double-thickness plates are formed by a pressing or stamping operation before, simultaneously with, or after the formation of the curved portions of the bar.
Patent GB-630918-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to the locking of screw-threaded parts
IPC: F16D3/18
Filed: 1947-04-10
Abstract: 630,918. Locking nuts &c. MORLEY, F. W. W. April 10, 1947, No. 9627. [Class 89 (i)] [Also in Group XXIII] Two rotating parts having a screw-threaded connection are locked against relative rotation by one or more resilient fingers engaging recesses in the parts, the engagement being assisted by centrifugal action. The invention is described with reference to the coupling of the turbine shaft of a gas turbine and the compressor shaft as described in Specification 630,919, [Group XXIV], in which a nut 17 flanged at 23 screws on the end of a shaft 3 to lock it to a shaft 4. The shaft 3 terminates in an internal flange 21 and the flanges 21, 23 are provided with recesses 22, 24 that can be brought into registration. The nut is then locked by resilient fingers 26 having ends that outwardly engage the recesses as keys. The fingers are formed on a sleeve 25 splined to the shaft 3 at 28 and retained against a shoulder 29 by a circlip 30. Adjustment is effected by a hollow spanner 31 passing through the shaft 4 and having an internally coned. end to engage the projecting bevelled ends 27 of the fingers to collapse them from engagement with the recesses in the nut prior to the engagement of the correspondingly formed end 32 of the spanner.
Patent GB-583794-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in arrangements for frequency measurement
IPC: G01R25/00
Filed: 1942-07-10
Abstract: 583,794. Frequency measurements. STANDARD TELEPHONES & CABLES, Ltd., and EARP, C. W. July 10, 1942, No. 9658. [Class 37] [Also in Group XXXVIII] In an arrangement of the kind described in Specification 581,201 in which a signal frequency lying between predetermined limits is measured by feeding it over parallel paths which introduce a differential delay depending on the frequency to the coils or windings of a phase-meter, the said coils or windings constitute an effective part of the delay network. In Fig. 2, the phase-meter is a dynamometer instrument having field windings F1, F2 arranged at right angles and a search coil S free to rotate in their field. The windings F1, F2 are tuned by condensers C1, C2 to the mid-frequency of the working range and are coupled by a condenser C4 so that the currents through them are always in quadrature, while the chain of tuned circuits forms a delay network which gives a variable phase relationship between the currents in S and those in F1 and F2. In Fig. 3 (not shown), additional tuned circuits are provided to increase the delay sufficiently to give a total phase rotation of 360 degrees over the working range. In Fig. 4 (not shown), the search coil S is connected at the end of the chain of tuned circuits. The arrangement may be employed with a meter of the kind described in Specification 537,743 which has no moving coil.
Patent GB-722448-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to ball-point pens
IPC: B43K7/08
Filed: 1952-04-17
Abstract: 722,448. Reservoir pens. VERMES, G. April 17, 1952 [July 27, 1951], No. 9735/52. Class 146 (3). In a ball-point pen the ink reservoir 1 is open at the end remote from the ball 3 and contains oily ink 4, and a follower sealing element 5 on the ink meniscus consists of a viscous material not miscible with the ink and is a wholly or mainly a gel which is water-attractive and non-miscible with oil. The element 5 may be a film of glue, gelatin, agar-agar, tragacanth, pectin, carrageen moss, Icelandic moss, or gum arabic, and has about ten per cent. sodium chloride or other hydrophile material dissolved therein. As shown, the reservoir 4 is removablysecured in a barrel 9 closed by a cover 6 having air-inlet passages 7. and a plug 8, through which air can pass, is fitted into the open end of the reservoir. In a modification, the pen barrel forms the ink reservoir which may be more than 5 mm. diameter, and the ball housing is removable. Reference has been directed by the Comptroller to Specification 669,973.
Patent GB-915011-A (GB)
Title: Production of synthetic resin articles with pearl and mother of pearl iridescence
IPC: C08J3/28
Filed: 1959-03-20
Abstract: A synthetic resin article having a pearl-like iridescence is produced by orienting iridescent crystals in a plastic synthetic resin mass in a mould subjected to two or more electric or magnetic fields crossing at an angle of at least 45 degrees, and preferably at right angles, or in a mould rotated at intervals in a stationary electric or magnetic field, the treatment being continued until the resin mass has set.  The synthetic resin material may consist of a polyester or epoxy resin, a polymer of methyl methacrylate, polystyrene, or a phenol aldehyde resin.  The iridescent crystals may consist of basic lead carbonate.  Examples are described.ALSO:An object of synthetic resin material having a mother of pearl or pearl iridescence is produced by orienting iridescent crystals in a plastic synthetic resin mass in a mould subjected to two or more electric or magnetic fields crossing at an angle of at least 45 degrees and preferably at right angles or in a mould rotated at intervals in a stationary electric or magnetic field.  The synthetic resin material may consist of a polyester of epoxy resin, a polymer of methyl methacrylate, polystryrene or a phenol aldehyde resin.  The irideccent crystals may consist of basic lead carbonate.  Examples are described.
Patent GB-508610-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to catamenial tampons
IPC: A61F13/20
Filed: 1938-03-31
Abstract: 508,610. Catamenial tampons. ROBINSON & SONS, Ltd., and GILLIBRAND, C. G. March 31, 1938, No. 9937. [Class 81 (ii)] A catamenial tampon comprises a tubular pad 1 of cotton wool, cellulose wadding or like absorbent material enclosed in an open mesh fabric envelope 2 and provided with a withdrawal thread cord or tape secured to the envelope. The envelope 2 preferably comprises a length of tubular knitted fabric and the withdrawal cord or the like is preferably threaded laterally through the pad adjacent one end thereof, as at 6, and the ends tied together around this end. To make the tampon a tubular length of knitted fabric slightly longer than twice the length of the finished pad is placed on a mandrel and cotton wool or the like is wrapped around it near one end thereof; the longer end of the fabric is then drawn up over the pad, the mandrel withdrawn, and the fabric edges tucked into the central space as at 9, the cord when applied then passing through both of the tucked-in edges. Alternatively the cotton wool may be so applied as to extend beyond the end of the fabric in which case only the remote free edge is tucked into the central space. The completed tampon is compressed and may be inserted into a paper or cardboard cartridge which is wrapped and sterilized. The tampon may be ejected from the unwrapped cartridge by an ejector comprising a cylinder, having a lateral aperture for insertion of, and a constricted outlet to prevent the ejection of the cartridge, and a plunger fitting the cartridge and slidable to displace the tampon therefrom.