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Patent GB-379744-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to gas-heated furnaces
IPC: F27B9/10
Filed: 1931-06-04
Abstract: 379,744. Gaseous-fuel furnaces. LYSAGHT, Ltd., J. and PLUMLEY, E. W., Orb Works, Newport, Monmouthshire. June 4, 1931, No. 16306. [Class 51 (i).] In a gaseous-fuel furnace of the type in which air for combustion enters through a series of small holes formed in the crown of the furnace and the gas enters in such a manner that the gas flow is at right-angles to that of the air, the gas is supplied from ducts L in the end walls and arch blocks K and is directed horizontally in opposed streams from small holes g. The air is supplied from the spaces E and vertical ducts F in the double arch A, C.
Patent GB-357611-A (GB)
Title: Improved manufacture of refractory articles
IPC: C04B35/52
Filed: 1930-05-27
Abstract: 357,611. Moulding crucibles and other hollow refractory articles ; refractory compositions. CARBORUNDUM CO., Ltd., Trafford Park Road, Manchester. -(Tone, F. J. ; Niagara Falls, New York, U.S.A.) May 27, 1930, No. 16359. [Classes 22 and 87 (ii).] Crucibles, muffles and other refractory hollow articles are made of a plastic composition in which there is a substantial proportion of flaky material, and the mould in which the article i s made is jolted in order that the flakes may b e orientated into planes which are transverse of the direction in which the mould is jolted. The electrical and thermal conductivity of such an article are stated to be considerably different in the directions of jolting and transversely thereof. A crucible 18 may be moulded between a core 13 and a multi-part mould 1 whose sections are locked by rings 14, the mould and its associated parts being mounted on a table 7 which may be elevated and released by an hydraulic cylinder 9 in order to jolt the mould. The material is tamped into the mould during jolting by a head 19 working in a cylinder 25 containing liquid. A ball valve 27 in the liquid supply allows liquid to enter the cylinder 25 on the head 19 falling during the compactions of the plastic material, but allows no rebound of the head to take place. ' The hydraulic control of the head 19 may be replaced by a mechanical clutch which allows only one-way movement of the head. The plastic composition employed may comprise 21 per cent natural flake graphite, 45 per cent crushed silicon carbide grain, 11 per cent flint, 5 per cent borax as a mineral flux and 18 per cent tar as a plastic carbonaceous binder. Flaky fused alumina, flake anthracite, flaky silicon carbide or natural flaky materials such as mica, gypsum, talc, slate, &c., may also be used. Specification 294,176, [Class 87 (ii), Moulding plastic &c. substances], is referred to.
Patent GB-258366-A (GB)
Title: An improved tintometer
IPC: G01N21/29
Filed: 1925-06-25
Abstract: 258,366. British Launderer's Research Association, and Parker, R. G. June 25,1925. Colour scales.-Plaster of Paris discs, tinted by the admixture of various pigments in appropriate amounts, are used as standards for measuring or grading the tints of surfaces. The plaster of Paris may be mixed with magnesium carbonate or other substance to obtain a pure white, and with various proportioms of lead chromate to produce launderer's yellow, barium chromate to produce lemon shades, or cobalt blue, ultramarine, or ivory black to produce other shades. The pigment and plaster may be mixed dry, the mixtures being then gradually added to water. When the plaster begins to set, it may be poured into moulds and dried slowly for some days to attain its permanent tint. In use, the discs may be placed in turn on the surface to be tested, and the surface and the disc may be covered by a black screen having two holes respectively permitting the disc and surface to be seen and compared.
Patent GB-823023-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to tipping vehicles
IPC: B60P1/16
Filed: 1958-05-22
Abstract: 823,023. Tipping vehicles. DAIMLER. BENZ A.G. May 22, 1958 [June 13, 1957], No. 16497/58. Class 108(1) The load carrying body and driving cab 13 of a lorry may pivot about an axis 21 to discharge the load forwardly through a hinged front wall 19, the cab 13 being either separately pivoted to the body or fixed in relation thereto. A switch in the cab may be operated first to unlock the wall 19 ond then to initiate tipping of the body. The cab may be re-inforced or protected by a plate from the tipping load.
Patent GB-544150-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in the protection of naval and other ships from the danger of mines and torpedoes
IPC: B63G9/00
Filed: 1940-11-15
Abstract: 544,150. Protecting ships from mines &c. PAGE, F. C. Nov. 15, 1940, No. 16516. [Class 113 (i)] A ship is protected against the explosion of mines, torpedoes, or the like by means of a buffer consisting of a plurality of high pressure containers a attached to, or forming an integral part of, the ship's hull, and containing one or more gases and/or liquids under pressure each container having an inner wall 1 next to the ship's hull of greater thickness and/or tensile strength than the outer wall 2 next to the sea. The containers may be made of steel or other metal and/or rubber, they may be provided with inner struts and have rounded corners, and the inner walls may be concave, or disposed away from the hull, so as to provide a water buffer b.
Patent GB-1155832-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Television Picture Reproducing Devices
Inventor: BURLEY JOHN CHARLES
IPC: H04N9/12
Filed: 1965-04-20
Abstract: 1,155,832. Uses of electroluminescence. J. C. BURLEY. 13 July, 1966 [20 April, 1965], No. 16716/65. Heading C4S. [Also in Division H4]  A TV screen comprises a transparent sheet 2 either conductive or having a conductive coating, an electro luminescent deposit 3 on the sheet, and a non conductive plate 5 carrying a conductive track 6 in contact with the e.1. deposit. The track 6 consists of wire having an insulating coating wound in a flattened spiral forming horizontal lines over plate 5 of conducting glass or of non- conducting glass with a silvered surface; the coating on the segment of the wire adjacent the deposit 3 may be removed. The deposit for colour comprises groups of vertical lines of red, green and blue light producing phosphors. Plates 2, 5 are insulated by a glass sheet 4 and a sheet 8 which are sealed around their edges to form a sandwich that is evacuated. To form a picture, the signal from a video amplifier is fed on to the track and at the instant it fills the track the screen 2 is connected to a potential causing electrons to flow to the track through the phosphor the flow and hence the fluorescence at any point being dependent on the signal on the track. In another embodiment the amplifier signal is fed to the control electrode of an electron gun and the electron beam impinges on the beginning of the track.
Patent GB-988072-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to fire-resistant fabrics
Inventor: MORTON ALISTAIR JAMES FAGAN
IPC: D02G3/44
Filed: 1960-05-12
Abstract: A fire resistant fabric is made from chenille whose pile includes a substantial proportion of polyvinyl chloride and/or polyvinylidene chloride yarn and whose case is of normal textile fibres such as cotton, wool or rayon or other synthetic fibres. This chenille may be used as warp and/or weft.  The P.V.C. yarn may be spun or continuous filament and when subjected to substantial heat melts and forms a protective coating around the other fibres.
Patent GB-977412-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to machines for mining coal and other minerals
Inventor: JERRIT GEORGE
IPC: E21C27/10
Filed: 1960-05-12
Abstract: 977,412. Mineral-mining machines. MAVOR & COULSON Ltd. May 4, 1961 [May 12, 1960], No. 16722/60. Heading E1F In a mineral-mining machine having a cutter pick-carrying, universally jointed endless chain driven about a loop jib 22 having transversely extending upper and lower sections 23, 24 joined by a vertical section 25, the vertical section 25 is positioned directly in front of the leading vertical edge 21 of a wedging and loading structure 20 forming the leading end of the body 10 of the machine to which side sections 26, 27 of the jib are secured.
Patent GB-720158-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to electric shavers
IPC: G07F17/00
Filed: 1952-07-03
Abstract: 720,158. Coin-freed apparatus. MILTON, L. M. Oct. 1, 1953, [July 3, 1952], No. 16780/52. Class 27. [Also in Group XIV] An electric shaver comprises a base 10 hinged or otherwise attached to a wall plate or other support, a shaving unit 11 which is operatively connected to the base by a flexible shaft 12, and coin-freed mechanism which controls operation of driving means for the shaving unit. The shaving unit, which may be of the rotary or reciprocating type, is driven from a motor 24 in the base through the flexible shaft 12 and, when not in use, is held in a recess 14 by spring fingers with its cutter head 27 pressed against a pad 32 connected to a disinfectant reservoir 31; as an alternative to the pad 32, the unit may operate a sprayer when it is returned to its recess. A mirror is fitted in the front of the base. Coin-freeing mechanism.-The weight of a coin 36 inserted into an insulated coin guide 34 depresses a leaf spring 41 against a switch member 37 balanced to swing counter-clockwise about a pivot 39 and thus closes a primary circuit to the driving motor 24 and to a timing motor 46. As the insulated shaft 45 of the timing motor rotates, a part-circular conductor 49 on the shaft bridges a pair of wires 51, 52 to close a secondary parallel circuit to the motors to keep them running and, after about three-quarters of a revolution of the shaft 45, a projection 44 on the shaft tilts the switch member 37 sufficiently to release the coin 36 from the end of the guide 34 into a coin box 47, thus releasing the spring 41 and opening the primary circuit. When the gap in the conductor 49 reaches the wires 51, 52, the secondary circuit is broken and the motors stop. The coin slot 17 may be closed by a shutter when the shaving unit is in use.
Patent GB-1122127-A (GB)
Title: Method of transporting fluidizable solids
IPC: B01J8/00
Filed: 1967-04-12
Abstract: <PICT:1122127/C4-C5/1> In a fluidized bed coking process in which coke particles are circulated through a transfer line heater 22, the connection from the coker 13 to the heater 22 includes a conduit 20 inclined at 45 degrees to 75 degrees to the horizontal, and a carrier gas is delivered to the conduit 20 at one or more points over a distance L which is less than four conduit diameters in length to accelerate the gas from less than 0.4 ft./sec. to above 20 ft./sec. The distance H should be at least 2 feet for each lb./sq. inch of anticipated pressure fluctuation in the conduit 20.  Pressure surging and "slugging" are thus minimized and the need for slide valves is eliminated. Sufficient fluidizing gas is also delivered at 29, 30 to maintain a speed below 0.4 ft./sec., and extra carrier gas may be delivered at 34, 35 to give speeds up to 50 ft./sec.  The carrier gas may be air, steam, or recycle gas from 17.  Similar gas acceleration means may be made in the inclined conduit leading back to the reactor 13. The coking temperature is 2000 DEG  F., and the heater 22 operates at 2400 DEG  F.
Patent GB-494598-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to the extinguishing of fires
IPC: A62D1/00
Filed: 1937-06-17
Abstract: 494,598. Fire-extinguishing. STERLING METALS, Ltd., and GOODWIN, H. June 17, 1937, No. 16852. [Class 47 (ii)] A fire-extinguishing material consists of loose asbestos fibres mixed with powdered graphite or siliceous material and/or with a powdered, easily-fusible, substance which does not burn or decompose under normal fire conditions, such as anhydrous magnesium chloride, with which may be mixed a smaller percentage of calcium fluoride, potassium chloride, or carnallite. The materials, either mixed or in separate layers, may be put up in waterproof bags in a metal container with an easily-removable lid, within which a mixture of precipitated chalk with sodium bicarbonate, or carbon-tetrachloride in a frangible vessel, may also be contained.
Patent GB-384212-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to vehicle wheel tyres
IPC: B60C7/12
Filed: 1932-06-14
Abstract: 384,212. Wheel tyres. SOC. ITALIANA PIRELLI, 21, Via Fabio Filzi, Milan, Italy. June 14, 1932, No. 16858. Convention date, March 25. [Class 144 (ii).] A cushion tyre comprises a thick rubber tread 1 and baseportion 3 connected by isolated pillars 2 the side-walls being formed with air-vents 6. The pillars may be of round, elliptical, or other cross section, and may be of conical form. The rubber body is vulcanized to an ordinary metal foundation-band 5. Specification 350,227, [Group V], is referred to.
Patent GB-568460-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to methods of fixing machines, parts of machines and thelike
IPC: H02K5/00
Filed: 1943-10-15
Abstract: 568,460. Bolting. MOSS, H. Oct. 15, 1943, No. 16918. [Class 89 (i)] In fixing machines by bolting, and particularly electric motors on to machine tools, cranes, &c. the bolt holes are made adjustable to suit various bolt spacings by means of conical slotted washers. The invention is applicable also to fixing plummer blocks, brackets, hangers, shaft couplings, constructional steel work and pipe flanges &c. The holes in the motor base &c. are enlarged, if necessary, and finished to taper or stepped form and fitted with rotatable washers 1 slotted at 2 for the bolts. The metal at the end of the slot, may be thin enough to permit a slight amount of elastic yield.
Patent GB-1311891-A (GB)
Title: Video data diesplay system
IPC: G09G5/22
Filed: 1970-04-09
Abstract: 1311891 Cathode-ray tube displays VIATRON COMPUTER SYSTEMS CORP 9 April 1970 [9 April 1969] 16919/70 Heading H4T A C.R.T. display system for digital data characters comprises a number of circulating stores containing the data in a storage code, a shift register to which characters to be displayed on a single row can be gated, and means for converting the storage code into a video code. As shown, blocks of 20 eight-bit characters are read from circulating store 7 into recirculating shift register 4, and each character controls the read-out from memory 5 of the five bits constituting a row of a 5 x 7 bit display code at each of the seven times it circulates in 4, the rows being selected in turn at 6 by control circuit 12. The five bits are dynamicized in circuit 6 and the signal is thus suitable for passing to a rastertype display unit 1 which displays 20 characters per row. The number of blank traces between rows of characters is chosen as six to synchronize the read-out from 7 of successive blocks of 20 characters.
Patent GB-1345549-A (GB)
Title: Resistors
IPC: H01C17/065
Filed: 1971-05-26
Abstract: 1345549 Glass-metal or metal oxide mixtures OWENS ILLINOIS Inc 26 May 1971 [27 July 1970] 17123/71 Heading C1M [Also in Division H1] A resistor composition comprises a resistive metal organo-metallic compound (e.g. a metal resinate such as the mercaptides of Pd, Rh, Ir, Ru, In), at least one stabilizer in organometallic form wherein the metal does not oxidize at the temperatures used to fire the mixture (e.g. Ag, Au and Pt) and an anti-agglomerating agent which is inert to the system and will not burn out at alloying and/or firing temperatures (e.g. alumina, silica 7. The mixture is fired to drive off the organo-constituents, alloy the metals and in some instances to oxidize the resistive metal. The composition may then be made into a paste with glass binder and an organic solvent. Examples of such binders include the borosilicates, particularly the lead-alumina-borosilicates. A preferred binder having particle size less than 5 microns is a mixture of the oxides of Si, B, Al, Zn and Pb. Examples of solvents include butyl carbitol acetate and iso-amyl salicylate. The paste so formed may then be printed in a desired pattern using a conventional screen or mask and finally fired. More than one resistive or stabilizer metal may be used.
Patent GB-584529-A (GB)
Title: A new or improved cabinet for stationery
IPC: A47B63/02
Filed: 1944-09-08
Abstract: 584,529. Cabinets. SPEEDWELL GEAR CASE CO., Ltd., and BEESLEY, W. H. Sept. 8, 1944, No. 17155. [Class 52 (i)] A cabinet for stationery comprises an upper casing 5 with a front opening 16 to the lower edge of which is pivoted a door 18 having compartments 19, provided on the back which are open at the ends nearest to the free edge of the door and a base member 6 which is deeper from front to back than the casing 5 and projects in advance of it. Since the weight of the compartments 19 falls behind the pivoted axis of the door, which comprises the wire 25 in the beading 23 of the opening 16 and the hinge plates 26, the door 18 is retained in the closed position, and when opened by the handle 27 the lugs at the ends of the cross bar 21 attached to the rearmost compartment 19 contact the beading 23 and limit the outward movement of the door. The casing 5 is riveted at 7 to the base member 6 which has a front opening and houses a drawer 13 the beaded side edges 12 of which slide in tubular guides 11.
Patent GB-658163-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in decomposition columns for alkali metal amalgam
IPC: C22C3/00
Filed: 1949-06-29
Abstract: <PICT:0658163/III/1> Alkali metal amalgam, produced by electrolysis of alkali metal chlorides in mercury cells, is decomposed with distilled water in vertical columns containing spaced, horizontal, perforated graphite plates, the upper surfaces of which are provided with recesses filled with amalgam directly below the perforation in the plate immediately above, thus avoiding abrasion of the graphite by the falling mercury.  The plates may be separated by spacing rings or by annular rings integral with the plates.  In the embodiment shown in Fig. 3, amalgam enters through pipe h and passes through holes a which gradually decrease in size, into the amalgam-filled recesses in the plate below.  Water enters through pipe e, flows counter-currently to the amalgam and leaves as a caustic alkali solution at k.  Mercury is withdrawn at m and recycled to the electrolysis process and the hydrogen evolved withdrawn at the top of the vessel.  A heating jacket g and a cooler i may be provided.
Patent GB-1222822-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to control valves for fluids
Inventor: SHEARDOWN JOHN MAXWELL
IPC: F16K11/078
Filed: 1967-04-14
Abstract: 1,222,822. Valves. J. M. SHEARDOWN. 10 April, 1968 [14 April, 1967], No. 17212/67. Heading F2V. A valve controlling separate flows of hot and cold water comprises a spool 20 having surfaces 26<SP>1</SP>, 24 co-operating respectively with O-rings 13, 15 to control flow from inlets 3, 2 to outlets 5, 4. As shown, the surfaces 26<SP>1</SP>, 24 may have flats 27 and notches 29. A further O-ring 14 cooperates with land 25 to separate the flows. Axial movement of the spool is effected through threaded collar 21. The O-rings are separated by spacer sleeves 6-8 and are removed together with the sleeves by washer 30. Spool grooves 36 relax the O-rings to facilitate withdrawal. In Fig. 3, surface 26<SP>1</SP> has flow-controlling notches 33, 34. In Fig. 2, not shown, the spool has flow-controlling annular grooves of V-form. A micro-switch can be actuated by the spool extension to control a pump or motor. In each case progressive spool movement opens and closes the cold water flow and progressively opens the hot water flow.
Patent GB-917386-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to tractor mounted agricultural implements
Inventor: CHAFER CHARLES LITTLEWOOD
IPC: A01M17/00
Filed: 1961-05-12
Abstract: 917,386. Agricultural implements. CHAFER Ltd., J. W. Nov. 23, 1961 [May 12, 1961], No. 17352/61. Class 6(1). An implement 1 is supported on a beam 2 disposed transversely between the wheels of a tractor and adapted to be rotated by a hydraulic ram 5 or a screw and crank device. The implement is attached to the beam by a V-shaped member so that it is adjustable lengthwise of the beam and also vertically. The blade of the implement is detachably secured to the shank by bolts 35. A tube 38, Fig. 5, is connected to the blade for distributing fertiliser or insecticide from a manifold on the tractor. In the embodiment of Fig. 8 the beam is hollow and is used for distributing fertiliser to a tube 51.
Patent GB-559671-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to bust holders or brassieres for ladies' wear
IPC: A41C3/00
Filed: 1942-12-07
Abstract: 559,671. Brassieres. SYMINGTON & CO., Ltd., R. & W. H., and SULLEY, W. Dec. 7, 1942, No. 17380. [Class 141] Each of the side edges of the back sections b, b<SP>1</SP> of a brassiere has secured to it a number of hair-pin like lace lengths g, n, p, m, nested within each other, the looped portions passing respectively through loops or openings h - - h3 in the end portions of tapes c, d adapted to be tied together at the front of the wearer.
Patent GB-1287351-A (GB)
Title: An indexable cutting insert and a toolholder therefor
IPC: B23B27/16
Filed: 1970-04-13
Abstract: 1287351 Cutting tools FAGERSTA AB 13 April 1970 [15 April 1969] 17401/70 Heading B3T An indexable cutting insert 1 for a turning tool is of isosceles triangular form in which the equal base angles are less than 60 degrees. The insert is provided with a central aperture for engagement with a locating pin 2 which extends from the seat on the tool holder which supports the insert. The insert is clamped against the pin by a wedge member 4 securable to the tool holder by a conical headed screw 3. The wedge member is provided with a tongue which engages in a groove 7 in the tool holder, tightening of the screw 3 displaces the wedge longitudinally relative to the groove, wedging the insert between the pin and the side 8 of the wedge. Indexing of the insert produces a change in the orientation of the insert sides and the wedge member is therefore exchanged. Alternatively, two intersecting grooves may be provided so that the orientation of the wedge can be changed to suit the repositioned insert.
Patent GB-222580-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to the manufacture of sheet metal plates and the manipulation of similar articles on the removal from a furnace
IPC: B21D43/10
Filed: 1923-07-05
Abstract: 222,580. Page, S. E., (Lacke, W. A., and Boyer, M. C.). July 5, 1923. Corrugating. - Automatic means are provided for transferring hot pieces of metal in succession from a furnace, through a machine which operates on them and to a loading device. Metal plates 3 to be corrugated are lifted, one by one, from a truck 1 by an electromagnet 4 carried by a derrick 4a and placed on a platform 5. Members 8, which extend through a furnace 6 and have a rectangular movement as described in Specification 222,579, [Class 51 (i), Furnaces and kilns, Combustion apparatus of], lift the plates and, resting them on the hearth while they move back, carry them progressively through the furnace until finally they place them on supports 9 or extensions, not shown, of rails 14. Each plate is then, in turn, pushed along the rails 14 into a press 15 by balanced rods 10 of a cantilever 11 carried by a truck 12 and then positioned by V-jaws 40, Fig. 9, operated by fluid-pressure cylinders 38. After the plate has been corrugated it is seized by a fluid-operated gripper 17 carried by a truck 19 and drawn along rails 21, then it is advanced, step by step, along rails 23, to cool, by reciprocating rods 24 carrying weighted pawls 25 until it rests on supports 30 which are suddenly separated to allow the plate to fall on to a truck 34 for transport. The rods 24 and supports 30 are operated by fluid-pressure cylinders 29, 33. Forging.-According to another modification, hot metal blanks or shaped articles are fed to a drop-forging machine.