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Patent GB-1175595-A (GB)
Title: Powder for use as Starting Material for Pastry Dough
Inventor: KAUTZ KURT
IPC: A21D2/26
Filed: 1967-02-15
Abstract: 1,175,595. Pastry doughs. K. KAUTZ. 15 Feb., 1967, No. 7284/67. Heading A2B. A powder for use as a starting material in the production of pastry doughs, for example for puff eclairs, or doughnuts, is prepared by mixing together at least one melted edible fat, flour, preferably a high gluten flour, in such an amount that the fat comprises 0.1-60 wt per cent of total flour and fat, and at least one tepoid, for example lecithin, with or without milk protein, in amoung of 0.5-25 wt per cent based on the fat, emulsifying the mixture with water, for example in the presence of an emulsifying agent such as a mono or diglyceride ester, heating to a temperature of 65‹C. to boiling point, and drying, preferably by spray drying. Sugar and leavening agents may be incorporated in the emulsion prior to drying. The powder may have starch added.
Patent GB-636004-A (GB)
Title: A process for improving the combustibility and water-resistance of wood
IPC: C10L9/10
Filed: 1947-03-17
Abstract: 636,004. Treating wood with liquids. PERBOHNER, S. March 17, 1947, No. 7339. [Class 140] [Also in Group XII] Wood in log &c. or briquetted waste form is impregnated with an aqueous solution without the evolution of free oxygen, of one or more oxidizing agents, such as nitrates, chlorates or perchlorates, dichromates, permanganates, phosphates, or easily-reducible metal oxides introduced as a soluble salt. A moistureresistant coating is then applied, such as paint, lacquer or distemper. A nitro-cellulose lacquer, a chinawood oil varnish, and a chlorinated rubber medium are examples; a nitro-cellulose solution may include pigments or zinc or copper oxide. Or a solution of copper or other metallic naphthanate in, e.g., benzine or white spirit, may be applied by brush, drip or spray methods. A further coating comprises water glass and feebly-basic compounds such as oxides, hydroxides, carbonates or basic carbonates of zinc, calcium and magnesium. In an example, wood pieces are simmered for two hours in a hot solution of 1.5 lb. sodium nitrate per gallon of water, and after air drying coated. with a mixture of water glass, zinc oxide, calcium nitrate and water.
Patent GB-763098-A (GB)
Title: Aqueous multivitamin compositions and method for producing the same
Filed: 1954-03-12
Abstract: A aqueous multivitamin dispersion comprises vitamin B12, vitamin C a watersoluble Montmorillonite clay together with thiamine and riboflavin and/or vitamin A and/or D.  Specified clays which may be used include montmorillonite, beidellite, nontronite, hectorite, saponite and sauconite and the complex calcium, aluminium and magnesium silicates obtained therefrom by purification and removal of gritty materials.  Optional components include nicotinamide, pyridoxine, pantothenic acid flavouring agents such as oil of orange, sucrose, glucose and saccharin. Sodium benzoate may be added as a preservative.  The water-insoluble vitamins A and D may be "solubilized" by addition of agents such as sorbitan polyoxyalkyllene ester or monoester of a polyethylene glycol and an aliphatic carboxylic acid.  The terms vitamin A, vitamin D, thiamine, riboflavin, pyridoxine and pantothenic acid are used to mean the vitamins per se or a salt derivative having the therapeutic efficacy of the vitamin.  The dispersion may be prepared by mixing an aqueous solution of vitamin B12 with a dispersion of the water-soluble clay in an aqueous solution containing vitamin C and other vitamins, or by incorporating the vitamin B12 into the clay dispersion containing the other vitamins and to add the vitamin C.  In this latter case the pH should be adjusted to between 6 and 7 in order to avoid destruction of the vitamin B12 due to the alkalinity of the solution.  It is also preferred to mix and package the preparations in a non-oxidizing atmosphere e.g. nitrogen.  Many examples are given.  U.S.A. Specifications 2,417,299 and 2,541,285 are referred to.
Patent GB-140102-A (GB)
Title: An improved process of and apparatus for drying fruits, vegetables, meats and other materials
IPC: F26B23/10
Filed: 1920-03-11
Abstract: 140,102. Anhydrous Food Products Co., (Assignees of Beckworth, O. Q., and Hobson, O. J.). May 11, 1915, [Convention date]. Chambers; air, controlling circulation of.-In the desiccation of vegetables, fruits, meats, &c., the material is first heated through by the application of moist heat without cooking the material or breaking the cell structure; the surrounding atmosphere is kept warm and moist, the drying being effected by allowing a portion of the moisture to escape during the process. The heating of the moisture-laden air is effected by radiators disposed at the sides of the drying-chamber. In the apparatus shown, the material is placed on trays 6 carried by frames 5 on a wheeled base. It is heated by radiators 9, 10, 11, 17 supplied with steam from a source outside the chamber through valved pipes, and additional steam &c. may be supplied through a pipe 32, Fig. 2, if the humidity is insufficient. A ventilating-shaft 3 at the top of the chamber is provided with a damper 3' operated by an adjustable counterweight 27. Baffles 25, 26, 28 are disposed in the upper part of the chamber, and the upper and lower parts are connected through apertures 23, 35 forming the mouths of a pipe 22, Fig. 2, leading to a fan casing 21 and provided with valves 24, 24<1>. When the preheating has caused the air to become saturated with moisture, the fan is set in motion and the air caused to circulate, the lighter and moister portions escaping at the desired rate through the ventilating shaft. Hygrometers and thermometers may be employed, visible through observation holes in the doors &c.
Patent GB-739470-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to a film gate for photographic apparatus
IPC: G03B1/56
Filed: 1954-03-15
Abstract: 739,470. Kinematograph apparatus. KODAK, Ltd. March 15, 1954 [March 26, 1953], No. 7398/54. Class 97 (1). A film gate is provided with a guiding surface for one film edge, the other edge engaging an inclined surface by which the film is bent out of its own plane to provide a force, due to the film resilience, by which the one edge is engaged with its guiding surface, rails also being provided to guide the film at its two faces, but not at directly opposite points thereof. In the form shown, for exposing half the width of a film, the member 10 has an exposure aperture 12 and claw slot 14 and has a film edge guide surface 30 and rails 31, 32 for engaging the film surface. The member 11 carries an inclined surface 35 by which the other film edge is bent into a recess 36 in the member 10. A rail 33, between the rails 31, 32 engages the other film surface. In a modification the inclined surface 35 is carried on the member 10. The rail 31 is retained but the rails 32 and 33 are replaced by a single rail on the member 11, in the vicinity of the centre line of the film. The member 11 carries, on its outer face, a conical member engaged by a spring which forces the member into position against the member 10.
Patent GB-746894-A (GB)
Title: Electric generating units
Inventor: MURRAY GEORGE HAMILTON
IPC: H02P9/06
Filed: 1954-03-15
Abstract: 746,894. Driving dynamos. NAPIER & SON, Ltd., D. March 4, 1955 [March 15, 1954], No. 7516/54. Class 35. [Also in Group XXIV] An electric generating set has an internalcombustion engine which drives through gears and clutch an output shaft coupled to a stubshaft by a connection permitting limited misalignment, the stub-shaft being supported in a bearing approximately coaxial with the said output shaft and rigidly joined with the generator shaft. In the embodiment shown in Fig. 2 the output shaft E has a gear-wheel El arranged to be meshed with the gears driven by the engine crank-shafts as in Fig. 1 (not shown). The shaft E is hollow so as to receive and drive a shaft J through a centrifugal coupling.H, H<SP>1</SP>. A stubshaft G<SP>1</SP> journalled in a bearing G is coupled to the shaft J by a radial dog type coupling J, J<SP>2</SP> which permits a limited misalignment. The'generator shaft L<SP>1</SP> has a flange L<SP>2</SP> to which the flange G<SP>2</SP> of the stubshaft G<SP>1</SP> is bolted. Instead of the centrifugal clutch H, H<SP>1</SP>, a Bibby type coupling M, M<SP>1</SP> may be used as in Fig. 3 (not shown). In a further modification in Fig. 4, a short shaft E<SP>2</SP> is employed and arranged to drive the inner shaft P through a radial dog-type coupling O, O<SP>1</SP>. The inner end of the shaft P is coupled to the stubshaft G<SP>1</SP> through the radial dog type coupling as that described above.
Patent GB-712043-A (GB)
Title: Process for the preparation of higher aliphatic alcohols
IPC: C07C29/34
Filed: 1951-04-02
Abstract: An aliphatic alcohol containing twice the number of carbon atoms per molecule compared with the number of carbon atoms in the starting material molecule is obtained from a primary or secondary monohydric aliphatic alcohol having from 9 to 20 carbon atoms in the molecule and possessing a methylene group next to the hydroxylated carbon atom by heating the said alcohol with technical potassium hydroxide in the presence of boric anhydride or a boric ester at a temperature of from 250 DEG  to 300 DEG  C.  When the alcohols used as starting materials have a boiling range (at atmospheric pressure) above 250 DEG  C. the reaction is preferably effected at atmospheric pressure.  The alcohols used as starting materials are preferably the alcohols or mixtures of alcohols derived from natural vegetable or animal sources, e.g. the mixture of wax esters in the oils of the sperm whale, the dolphins and porpoises.  Thus sperm oil, both head and blubber oil, furnishes by saponification or reduction a mixture of aliphatic alcohols having from 14 to 20 carbon atoms partly saturated and partly unsaturated.  Saturated alcoholic starting material may be obtained by first submitting the crude sperm oil to hydrogenation. Other suitable starting materials can be obtained by the total reduction of wax esters or of the glycerides from vegetable oils such as coconut oil, or of the fatty acids derived there-from, by one of the modifications of the Bouveault-Blanc process or by catalytic high-pressure hydrogenation.  The reaction product may be recovered by adding water and then separating the product either as a liquid layer or as a crystalline product and then directly, or after drying, isolating the alcoholic condensation product by distillation.  The aqueous solution may be worked up for the recovery of the boron compound. Alternatively the reaction product may be submitted directly to fractional distillation.  The alcohol products are stated to be susceptible to oxidation to the corresponding acids, to dehydrogenation, to ketonization, and to esterification.  In examples: (1) 3.3 mol. lauryl alcohol is heated with technical potassium hydroxide (corresponding to 1 mol. KOH) and 0.5 mol. boric anhydride, the heating being carried out either in a sealed autoclave for 5 hours at 290 DEG  C. or under reflux at atmospheric pressure for seven hours at 255 DEG  C.; (2) cetyl alcohol (1 mol.), technical potassium hydroxide (corresponding to 0.3 mol. KOH) and 0.15 mol. boric anhydride, are heated under reflux at atmospheric pressure for five hours at 300 DEG  C.; (3) the alcohols prepared by the saponification of hydrogenated sperm oil with solid caustic soda followed by distillation are heated under reflux with technical potassium hydroxide and boric anhydride for 5 hours at 300 DEG  C. The products in each case are aliphatic alcohols containing twice the number of carbon atoms as the starting alcohol.  Specification 655,864 is referred to.
Patent GB-1020428-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in disc brakes
Inventor: THOMPSON GEORGE ERIC
IPC: F16D55/14
Filed: 1963-02-26
Abstract: 1,020,428. Disc brakes. GIRLING Ltd. Feb. 14, 1964 [Feb. 26, 1963 (2)], Nos. 7643/63 and 7644/63. Heading F2E. In a disc brake of the kind in which two rotatable discs 14, 18 are located within a stationary housing 11 and urged into frictional engagement with the braking surfaces 12, 13 on the housing, a first disc 14 is slidably keyed on a rotatable shaft 10 and a second disc 18 is supported from and driven by the first disc through a driving or coupling ring 17 which lies outside the braking surfaces and provides an axially slidable coupling permitting relative axial movement between the discs. The discs 14, 18 are urged apart into frictional engagement with the braking surfaces 12, 13 on the housing by means of pressure plates 20, 21 located between the disc and in the form of annular members which are located by pilot projections 30-33 inclusive on a stationary central member 29 (see Fig. 2, not shown), co-operating with the inner edges of the plates. The pressure plates are actuated by a cam 23 which acts on thrust member 25 acting on a radial ear 28 (see Fig. 2, not shown) on the plate 21 and a thrust member 25 acting on a radial ear 27 (see Fig. 2, not shown) on the plate 20 to move the pressure plates in opposite circumferential directions whereupon ball and ramp mechanisms 22 urge the pressure plates against the discs 14, 18 and thereby urge the latter into frictional engagement with the braking surfaces 12, 13 of the housing. The engagement between the discs 14, 18 and the driving ring 17 is formed by axially extending tongues on the end of the ring engaging in holes or in radial notches in each respective disc. Rings or pads of friction material 19 are bonded or otherwise secured to opposite faces of each disc 14, 18.
Patent GB-350024-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to power plant
IPC: F01K7/02
Filed: 1930-03-08
Abstract: 350,024. Motor power plant. ASSOCIATED ELECTRICAL INDUSTRIES, Ltd., Bush House, Aldwych, London.-(Assignees of Hodgkinson, F. ; Walnut Park Plaza, 63rd Street, Philadelphia, U.S.A.) March 8, 1930, No. 7649. Convention date, March 8, 1929. [Class 110 (iii).] Relates to combined reciprocating engine and exhaust turbine plants, particularly for marine propulsion. The reciprocating engine 10 drives the propeller shaft 11 direct, and the exhaust turbine 12 drives the same shaft through double reduction gearing 35. In this transmission line a slipping coupling 42 is arranged which permits continuous relative movement between the turbine rotor and the driven shaft when the torque therebetween exceeds a predetermined value. This coupling may be built into the intermediate gear 38. When the reciprocating engine is reversed, the exhaust is byepassed to the condenser 14 by a valve 26 actuated by a servomotor 28 which is under the control of a pilot valve 30. This valve is linked to the reversing gear 31. A valve 34 is provided to open the turbine inlet to the condenser while in reverse so that steam is then pumped through it to keep it cool. A combined steam-separator and feedwater heater 16 is arranged between the reciprocating engine and the turbine. Several constructions are described.
Patent GB-301684-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in umbrellas and parasols
IPC: A45B19/04
Filed: 1928-03-13
Abstract: 301,684. Roberts, A. J. March 13. 1928. Sticks.-A telescopic umbrella or parasol is provided with a stick 1 and a sliding extension or tube 9 and a ring 11 attached to the tube and limiting the relative movements of the stick and tube. The ring 11, Fig. 4, has a projection 12 which slides in a groove 2 in the stick 1 between stops 27, Figs. 2 and 3. The stick is provided with two spring stops 5 and 6 one near each end and constructed in known manner. There is also a tubular runner 6 carrying the lower ends of struts 8. The tube 9 has a slot 10 through which the upper spring stop can project. The ring 11 only partly encircles the tube 9 leaving the slot 10 free. The handle 18 may be made separately from the stick and has a cup-like portion for receiving the ends of ribs 17. A block 25 of wedge form on the handle serves to keep the ribs apart and allow access to the spring 5 on the stick.
Patent GB-622411-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to gas-turbine-engines
IPC: F23R3/38
Filed: 1947-03-20
Abstract: 622,411. Liquid-fuel burners. CORBITT, R. W. March 20, 1947, No. 7709. [Class 75(i)] [Also in Group XXVI] In a gas turbine plant the working fluid is reheated between stages of the turbine and in plant used for jet-propulsion, the reheating may take place after the turbine. In the former case, Fig. 1, the reheating takes place after the first running blades 19 and before the stator blades 18. Fuel carried through a blade 18 by pipe 25 and duct 27 is delivered from a pipe 28 against the face of a turbine disc 11 radially within a sharp-edged annular lip 29. The fuel is thrown from this lip in a fine spray through an annular chamber defined by a stationary wall 30 where it is burnt with working-fluid brought into the chamber by scoop-like parts of the wall 30. A similar arrangement may be provided on the downstream side of the turbine rotor at the beginning of the exhaust duct for heating the exhaust gases when they are used in a propulsion jet. The single lip 29 may be replaced by a ring secured to the rotor and having two annular grooves. The fuel is delivered to the inner groove and passes from it through radial holes into the outer groove from which it is thrown in a fine spray.
Patent GB-621047-A (GB)
Title: Fishing lure
IPC: A01K83/06
Filed: 1946-03-12
Abstract: 621,047. Artificial bait. L'HUILLIER, W. R. March 12, 1946, No. 7722. [Class 48] A fishing line comprising an envelope 12 of transparent material for receiving a live fish 14, is characterized in that the envelope, which is oval in cross-section, is encircled by an endless band 21, the latter lying in a plane transverse to the longitudinal axis of the envelope and carrying attachment means for a line 24, and, on the portions covering the sides and underside of the envelope, hooks_20. The envelope has an open rear end provided with resilient fingers 19 adapted to hold the bait in position, and is formed with slots 15, 16 and 17 which allow the fins to project, and with apertures 18 in the front part. In a modification the endless band extends along the sides of the envelope and passes transversely across the under-side of the latter.
Patent GB-903654-A (GB)
Title: Stable polyvinyl alkanoate latexes and process for preparing the same
IPC: C08L31/04
Filed: 1961-03-03
Abstract: Polymer latex compositions comprising an aqueous emulsion polymerizate of a monomeric material containing at least 50 weight per cent of a vinyl alkanoate having 2 to 4 carbon atoms in the acyl group, and a protective colloid consisting of or containing a water soluble hydroxyalkyl alkyl cellulose ether having 2 or 3 carbon atoms in the hydroxyalkyl substituent, 1 or 2 carbon atoms in the alkyl substituent, 19 to 24 weight per cent alkoxyl substitution and 4 to 12 weight per cent hydroxyalkoxyl substitution, may be prepared by polymerizing the monomeric material in an aqueous phase in the presence of a free radical polymerization catalyst, an emulsifying agent and the protective colloid, said protective colloid being added before 25% of the monomeric material has polymerized.  The vinyl alkanoate may be vinyl acetate, propionate or butyrate, and specified comonomers are vinyl chloride, vinylidene chloride, acrylonitrile, dialkyl maleates and fumarates such as di-n-hexyl maleate and dibutyl maleate, and vinyl alkyl ethers.  The cellulose ether may be hydroxyethyl methyl, hydroxypropyl methyl, hydroxyethyl ethyl or hydroxypropyl ethyl cellulose.  The catalyst may be hydrogen peroxide or potassium persulphate, optionally together with small amounts of benzoyl peroxide or lauroyl peroxide, or a redox system comprising potassium persulphate and sodium bisulphite.  The emusifier may be an alkyl aryl sulphonate, alkalimetal alkyl sulphate, alkali metal sulpho succinic acid esters, alkyl phenol polyethylene glycol ether or sulphonated alkyl diphenyl ether. Polymerization may be effected batchwise or continuously with continuous or incremental addition of ingredients.  The latices may be blended with pigments, e.g. titanium dioxide, dyes, fillers, stabilizers and other latices in the formulation of paints and adhesives.  Specifications 812,510 and 818,243 are referred to.
Patent GB-982181-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to the colouring of copper
Inventor: AIKEN JOHN KEMPTON
IPC: C25D3/38
Filed: 1961-03-03
Abstract: An aqueous electroplating bath contains a copper complex of ethylene-diamine N-hydroxyethyl-N:N1 triacetic acid, or an alkali metal or ammonium salt thereof, and wheat gluten, egg albumin, caesin or methionine.  The bath should be alkaline and preferably has a pH of 8-12.  The bath is operated at a temperature of 0-95  DEG C. (preferably 60-80  DEG C.) and at a current density of 5-16 amps./sq.ft.  Brightening agents, such as sodium sulphite, sodium dithinate, hydroxylamine sulphate or sulphamic acid, may be included in the bath.  Specification 832,062 is referred to.
Patent GB-526255-A (GB)
Title: Continuous furnace for heating billets and the like
IPC: F27B9/36
Filed: 1939-03-10
Abstract: 526,255. Continuous billet-heating. furnaces, DEHN, F. B. (Amsler Morton International, Inc.). March 10, 1939, No. 7850. [Class 51 (ii)] A continuous billetheating furnace comprises an elongated heating - chamber A through which the billets are pushed on skid rails 6 on to a soaking hearth 3 and discharged through a door 10. Burner ports 14, 15, 16 are arranged at the ends of the furnace and at 17 intermediate the ends, the burners 16, 17 also being arranged below the level of the hearth and skid rails. The main portion of the gases passes through a flue 18 adjacent the centre portion of the heating chamber and to recuperators for heating air supplied to the burners. Gases also escape from the heating chamber through ports 56 adjacent the charging end of the furnace. The furnace roof slopes downwardly at the centre towards the flue 18.
Patent GB-1004031-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to operating appliances
IPC: H01H21/28
Filed: 1962-03-01
Abstract: 1,004,031. Valves; cams. CROUZET. March 1, 1962 [March 11, 1961], No. 7952/62. Headings F2K and F2V. [Also in Division H2] A device for operating an electric switch, valve &c. 26 comprises a casing 2 containing the switch and a head 3 rotatable with respect to the casing and having an operating shaft 4 extending at right angles to the axis of said rotation and operating, through a cam 12, a push rod 25, movable along said axis, to actuate the switch. The head 3 is mounted to the casing by a spring C-clip 9 sprung into an annular groove 8 in the casing and attached to the head by screws 7. When screws 7 are slackened the head can be rotated with respect to the casing. The cam 12 is provided with spring-loaded balls 15 which co-operate with an internal cam surface 18 to locate the shaft and a stop 19 co-operating with pegs 20, 28 projecting from the member 18. As shown in Fig. 7, if the shaft 4 is located so that stop 19 can move between pegs 20 then the device is stable in two positions; as shown in Fig. 8, if the shaft 4 is located so that stop 19 moves between pegs 28 it is retractive.
Patent GB-1087801-A (GB)
Title: Improved cork gaskets
IPC: F16J15/10
Filed: 1966-02-23
Abstract: The invention comprises a cork gasket having a coating of an emulsion of an acrylic modified vinylidene chloride copolymer. The emulsion may contain between 1 and 10% by wt. of the coating of dibutyl phthalate as a plasticizer, a small quantity of carbon black as a filler and a small quantity of a dye for colour identification.