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Patent GB-1389256-A (GB)
Title: Pipe systems for heating and or cooling buildings
IPC: F24F5/00
Filed: 1972-06-06
Abstract: 1389256 Heating or cooling systems for buildings C T C GmbH 6 June 1972 [8 June 1971 9 Dec 1971] 26331/72 Headings F4S and F4U In the heating or cooling of rooms, a water pipe system 1 is laid as a continuous length in a structural layer 2 of a floor, wall, or ceiling and comprises flow and return pipes 1<SP>1</SP>, 1<SP>11</SP> which are parallel and of similar flow area to one another and also in contact with one another along their whole length; control means being provided for causing water at a suitable temperature to flow through the pipes. The pipes may for example, be of plastics material not greater than 25 mm. bore. There may be an additional system 11 of flow and return pipes (e.g. 11<SP>1</SP>, 11<SP>11</SP>), connected to the control means for regulating the floor &c. temperature at a particular zone, e.g. near a window 25<SP>1</SP>. Parallel sections of the system 1 are spaced apart by a distance t not greater than 18 cm. For the system 11 the parallel sections are spaced by a distance t<SP>1</SP> not greater than 12 cm. For cooling, the water may be circulated alternatively (a) through a cooling tower 8; (b) through a tank (20<SP>1</SP>, Fig. 1), cooled by an underground source of cold water circulated through an element (20<SP>11</SP>), immersed in the tank; (c) through an element (7) laid in the ground (7<SP>1</SP>) or surrounded by well or river water; or (d) through the evaporator 9<SP>1</SP> of a heat pump circuit 9. For heating, the water may be circulated through a boiler 4, or through the condenser of the heat pump circuit 9. This latter may be achieved by reversing the flow in the heat pump circuit as used for cooling, using a four-way valve (15, Fig. 2), incorporated in the circuit. In this reversible heat pump circuit (Fig. 2), the other heat exchange element (9V) in the system, which functions as the condenser or evaporator as appropriate, may be laid in the ground or in well or river water. In the system as shown, water which has been reheated say in the boiler 4 or recooled say in the cooling tower 8, passes to flow and return headers 1<SP>111</SP> and 1<SP>1V</SP>. These are connected to the flow and return pipes 1<SP>1</SP>, 1<SP>11</SP>, 1<SP>11</SP>, 11<SP>11</SP>. The circuit comprising the flow and return pipes 11<SP>1</SP>, 11<SP>11</SP> includes additional heating and cooling means. The additional heating means comprises an electric heater element 24 controlled by a room thermostat 24<SP>111</SP> and a flow thermostat 24<SP>11</SP>. The room thermostat 24<SP>111</SP> also regulates, through a hygrostat 26, the operation of the heat pump circuit 9 as appropriate. The structural layer shown comprises a layer 2 of cement or synthetic resin in which the pipes are embedded, followed by a mat 2<SP>1</SP> of steel mesh, a layer 2<SP>11</SP> of thermal and sound insulation, and finally a concrete layer 3.
Patent GB-1393032-A (GB)
Title: Device for throttling and guiding gas streams
IPC: F16L55/027
Filed: 1972-06-06
Abstract: 1393032 Electrostatic precipitators METALLGESELLSCHAFT AG 6 June 1972 [22 June 1971] 26380/72 Heading B2J [Also in Division G3] A device for throttling and guiding a gas flow e.g. for improving the operation of coolers or electrostatic precipitators, comprises a number of juxtaposed parallel throttling means 2, Fig. 1, of angle cross-section carried by respective beams 1 and having a number of staggered apertures 4 in their sides. In an alternative arrangement the throttling means of each beam may comprise several bent strips (8), Fig. 2 (not shown), placed side-by-side along the associated beam. In Fig. 5a the device is located in a gas deflector with the apices of the throttling means lying in plane I-I and pointing against the direction of fall of dust carried by the gas so that the falling dust will slide down the sloping sides of the throttling means and collect in bin 14. The beams may be displaced relatively in parallel to provide a non-uniform arrangement complementary to a non-uniform gas inflow to produce a uniform gas outflow. The throttling means of adjacent beams may be arranged with their sides in spaced or overlapping relationship, Figs. 6a and 6c (not shown), to contrict the flow cross-section by 30 to 70%, preferably 45 to 55%. The gas deflector shown in Fig. 5a includes a louvre 9 formed by slats 10 provided with bent-out tongues 11 at their downstream ends.
Patent GB-1105496-A (GB)
Title: Epoxy resin-liquid rubber sealing compositions
IPC: B65D53/06
Filed: 1965-06-22
Abstract: Sealing compositions comprising (I) 12 to 20 parts by wt. of an epoxy resin obtained by reacting epichlorohydrin and bis(4-hydroxyphenyl)dimethylmethane, (II) 88 to 80 parts by wt. of an epoxy resin obtained by reacting resin (I) and ethylene glycol, and (III) 5 to 30 parts by wt. based on the wt. of (I) and (II) of a liquid rubber component which is a water-dispersed latex.  The compositions may also contain curing agents for the epoxy resins, fillers and thixotropes.  Liquid rubbers used in the examples are butadiene-acrylonitrile copolymer, chloroprene latex, polysulphide and polyurethane.
Patent GB-680016-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to quenching apparatus
IPC: C21D1/667
Filed: 1949-10-14
Abstract: 680,016. Quenching apparatus. GENERAL ELECTRIC CO., Ltd., and GORDON, G. Oct. 16, 1950 [Oct. 14, 1949], No. 26460/49. Class 72 In a quenching apparatus in the form of a hollow annulus having connections for the supply of quenching fluid to the interior of the annulus and apertures for directing the fluid on to a workpiece, the apertures are arranged with some directed towards the axis of the apparatus and some directed around the axis so that a ring-like or disc-like sheet of quenching fluid is formed in intimate contact with the workpiece. As shown, a quenching fluid, e.g. water, is led by pipes 15 into an annulus formed by inner and outer cylindrical parts 11 and 10, the bottom of the annulus being closed by a plate 12 and the top by a flange 13 having a central aperture 26, slightly larger than the workpiece, surrounded by a frusto-conical portion 25 of the flange. A row of apertures 20 near the top of the annulus has some apertures directed towards the axis of the apparatus and some directed tangentially to a circle slightly larger than the diameter of the workpiece. Jets of fluid from these apertures strike the frusto-conical portion and so form a disc-like or ring-like sheet of fluid having a component in the direction of movement of the workpiece. The apertures may also be given a downward direction. Two further rows of apertures 27 and 28 may be directed towards the axis of the apparatus and jets of fluid from these apertures are intended to complete the cooling of the work-piece which has been quenched by the fluid from the apertures 20.
Patent GB-1422910-A (GB)
Title: Steam generator
IPC: F22B37/42
Filed: 1974-06-14
Abstract: 1422910 Steam generators FRIEDRICH UHDE GmbH 14 June 1974 [16 June 1973] 26481/74 Heading F4A Thermal stress in the heating gas tubes 2 of a steam generator 1 is reduced by surrounding the upper portions of the tubes 2 with steam guide tubes 13 whose upper ends are fixed to an intermediate tube sheet 8 while the open lower ends terminate within protective tubes 12. Thus the upper portions of the tubes 2 are contacted only by a high velocity flow of steam as the latter passes to steam space 10. Vibration of the steam guide tubes 13 is prevented by providing their lower ends with locating pins which are accommodated in bulges provided in the protective tubes 12.
Patent GB-710930-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to installations for the purification of gases
IPC: B01F3/04
Filed: 1952-10-22
Abstract: 710,930. Treating gases with liquids. SERRA, F. SALSAS-, and PLANAGUMA, A. Oct. 22, 1952 (Oct. 31, 1951], No. 26487/52. Class 55 (2) Solid, liquid or gaseous impurities are removed from a gas by passing it through a tangentially positioned pipe 7 into a cylindrical chamber 6 and mixing it therein with a washing liquid which is finely atomized by a device as described in Specification 709,693, [Group XXIX], this device consisting of a number of blades 9 mounted on the shaft of a motor 10 and revolved at high speed whilst a stream of liquid is fed from above on to the blades. The gas-liquid mixture is withdrawn from chamber 6 through a duct 8 by a fan 1 which projects it at high velocity against a surrounding wall 3 upon which the dust &c., contaminated droplets coalesce and drain into a trough from which the liquid is withdrawn at 5. The clean gas discharges tangentially from a chamber 4 above the fan.
Patent GB-1431949-A (GB)
Title: Recording track accessing apparatus
IPC: G11B15/60
Filed: 1973-06-04
Abstract: 1431949 Transporting record strips; track Changing CONTROL DATA CORP 4 June 1973 [7 June 1972] 26519/73 Heading G5R Data storage apparatus includes a recording strip 102 passing over a guide surface 101 which moves to scan heads 111 therein along longitudinal tracks on the strip 102, track changing being effected by laterally shifting the section 102e of strip passing over the surface 101 under the control of a controller 205 when a new track address is received from a processor 225. Strip transport.-The guide surface 101 is a rotatable drum and an air bearing is established between strip and drum by high-speed rotation of the latter or air discharge holes therein. The strip is laterally shifted by means of two pairs of strip guide bars 105a, 106a; 105b, 106b which are oblique to the strip and are pivotable about vertical axes by means of voice coils 114a, 114b with armatures 115a, 115b; the pivot axes may be at one end of the bars as shown, or centrally disposed, Fig. 8 (not shown). Alternatively, the separation of the bars of each pair can be varied, Fig. 5 (not shown). All guide bars preferably have air discharge openings in two rows to form air bearings, Fig. 7 (not shown), but can be rotatable. The ends of the strip may be wound on spools 201a, 201b so that the strip can be longitudinally transported to access different data blocks, and tensioned by opposing reel torques. Strip transport control.-The controller 205 receives block numbers and controls spool motors to transport the strip to the required block, interblock markings such as reflective markers stuck on the strip being sensed by a sensor 211; the bars 105, 106 are positioned to give zero offset of the strip section 102e during strip winding, and sensors 212b, (a), Fig. 4 (not shown), also sense the strip edge position, the bars 105, 106 being adjusted if the strip deviates. The controller also receives track and head numbers and shifts the strip to the selected track, the strip position being sensed by photoelectric edge sensors 220b, (a); (228b), Figs. 3, 4 (not shown), on a movable bracket 222b; pneumatic or electromechanical sensors may alternatively be used. Voice coils 114a, 114b are normally controlled to keep strip 102e central between stationary sensors 220b, (228b), and to change tracks the sensors are driven by a voice coil 219b to the required position as sensed by a sensor 217b, the strip 102e following. Alternatively, Fig. 10 (not shown), the strip 102e may be shifted by the coils 114a, 114b and the sensors 220b, (228b) controlled to follow the strip, the sensor 217b thus providing an indication of strip position.
Patent GB-277825-A (GB)
Title: Voice placer
IPC: G09B15/00
Filed: 1926-10-25
Abstract: 277,825. Keller, (nÚe Russ), E. Oct. 25, 1926. Teaching and practising music. - A device for assisting a singer to listen to his own voice comprises a dished reflector 5 in contact near its lower edge with the upper teeth and a second dished rejector 7 arranged with its lower edge in the path of the projected sound. An adjustable spoon 17 may be provided to hold down the singer's tongue. The plates 5, 7 are relatively adjustable by bending the connecting bars 3, 4; or they may be mounted to slide on a horizontal frame.
Patent GB-1216733-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in life jackets
Inventor: GLOSSOP RONALD
IPC: B63C9/125
Filed: 1968-06-05
Abstract: 1,216,733. Lifejacket. R. GLOSSOP. 29 May, 1969 [5 June, 1968], No. 26697/68. Heading B7U. An inflatable life-jacket has a hose d containing a pressure relief valve D. The hose d is attached to the top of the jacket and the valve D is in the free end of the hose adjacent a mouthpiece d<SP>5</SP>. The jacket is inflated by gas from bottle B or orally through a non-return valve in a tube a<SP>2</SP>.
Patent GB-480877-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to the treatment of shaped textile goods
IPC: D06B1/02
Filed: 1936-10-02
Abstract: <PICT:0480877/IV/1> Articles, such as stockings, mounted on a plurality of shaped upright forms attached to a conveyer are, in order to assist in even distribution of the liquid throughout the article and to assist in removal of excess liquid, passed between pairs of squeeze rollers or their equivalent between two successive spraying treatments with scouring liquor and rinsing liquid, or dyeing liquor and rinsing liquid.  The shaped articles such as silk or artificial silk stockings are mounted at a loading station A on shaped formers on a conveyer 10 which carries them in succession through a chamber 12 where they are sprayed with a scouring liquor, a chamber 15 where they are sprayed with rinsing liquid, a chamber 17 where they are sprayed with dye liquor and a chamber 20 where they are sprayed with rinsing liquid.  Between the chambers 12 and 15, and the chambers 17 and 20 and also, if desired, between the chambers 15 and 17, pairs of squeezing rollers 14, 19 and 16a or their equivalents, respectively, are placed.  From the chamber 20 the articles may pass through squeeze rollers 21a to a chamber 22 wherein they are sprayed with a liquid to subdue their lustre.  This treatment is followed by a finishing and drying treatment as described for example in Specifications 478,677 and 478,686.  The squeezing rollers may be covered with sponge or other rubber, felt, or other material.  Specification 451,261 also is referred to.
Patent GB-870098-A (GB)
Title: Process for preparing acid esters of polyphosphoric acids and their salts
IPC: C07F9/09
Filed: 1958-08-20
Abstract: Acid esters of polyphosphoric acids are obtained by heating a straight or branched chain aliphatic alcohol containing at least 8 carbon atoms with a polyphosphoric acid in the presence of an inorganic salt capable of binding water in the form of water of crystallisation, e.g. anhydrous-sodium sulphate, -calcium chloride, -magnesium sulphate, -magnesium chloride, -aluminium sulphate or -zinc chloride.  The heating is preferably effected at above 100 DEG C., e.g. between 100 DEG C. and 140 DEG C. and about 0,1 to 1 mol of the inorganic salt is generally used per mol of alcohol. When the reaction is complete the inorganic salt is separated by decantation or filtration and, if desired, the acid ester may be neutralized, e.g. by means of a 50% sodium hydroxide solution, to form a salt of the ester.  Specified alcohols include octanol, 2-ethyl hexanol, decanol, dodecanol, octadecanol, hexyl-dodecanol, wax alcohols, and mixtures of alcohols obtained by hydrogenation of vegetable and animal fats and oils.  The polyphosphoric acid may be pyrophosphoric acid or tri-, tetra, or higher molecular weight polyphosphoric acids or mixtures thereof. The acid ester products and particularly their salts are useful as emulsifiers, as additions to textile auxiliary agents and in the preparation of high polymers by the emulsion process.
Patent GB-519079-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to band conveyors
IPC: A01D61/00
Filed: 1938-09-14
Abstract: 519.079. Endless belt conveyers. INTERNATIONAL HARVESTER CO. OF GREAT BRITAIN Ltd. (International Harvester Co.). Sept. 14, 1938, No. 26861. [Class 78 (i)] [Also in Group I] An endless belt, more particularly for use as the platform conveyer, elevator or buttor of a grain binder, is made of moulded indiarubber or like elastic material, and is formed with transverse grooves 4, Fig. 2, of dovetail, or equivalent, undercut to receive and to hold wooden slats 3, Fig' 3, without any additional fixing means. The sides of the slats may be hollowed out, or otherwise shaped, to conform to the walls of the grooves or may be formed with grooves to receive projections on the walls of the grooves.
Patent GB-810483-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to non-adherent wound dressings
Inventor: WATSON PETER STRACHAN
IPC: A61F13/00
Filed: 1955-09-20
Abstract: 810,483. Surgical dressings. SMITH & NEPHEW Ltd., T. J. Sept. 20, 1956 [Sept. 20, 1955], No. 26915/55. Class 81 (2). [Also in Group VIII] A surgical dressing comprises a thin flexible film placed in contact with the body, over which is disposed a layer of absorbent material, the film comprising two layers each having a plurality of openings separated by solid parts, and means holding the layers together so that the solid parts of one cover the openings of the other. The openings 24, 26, Figs. 2, 4 and 6, in each layer 22, 23, are square or circular (not shown) and form a similar pattern in each layer 22, 23. Exudate from the wound passes through the openings and between the layers 22, 23 to the absorbent material which may be sewn or stuck to the film. Alternatively, columns of cuts 43, 45, Fig. 15, may be formed in each layer, the layers being superimposed so that the cuts 43 in one layer cross the cuts 45 in the other layer at right-angles. The patterns formed by the openings may be dissimilar in each layer. In another construction, Figs. 16 and 17, a single film layer has openings 47 so arranged that when the film is pleated, each opening 47 is covered by a solid part 48. The film is non-adherent to the wound and is made of polyethyleneterephthalate or fine grain embossed polyvinyl chloride and has a thickness of 0.001 to 0.0003 inch. The layers are secured to each other by heat-sealing in spots.
Patent GB-681775-A (GB)
Title: Apparatus for practising ball games
IPC: A63B71/02
Filed: 1950-11-03
Abstract: 681,775. Training apparatus for games. BOUCHET, P. Nov. 3, 1950. [Nov. 10. 1949] No. 26918/50. Class 132 (ii). A captive ball 4 of, e.g. sponge rubber is attached by an elastic or part-elastic cord 3 to a mast 1 removably mounted on a base 2 resting on the ground, the mast being made of telescopic sections a, Fig. 1, or of interfitting screwed rods or of two sections d, e having similar spigots, f, g, Fig. 3, so that the height of the ball can be adjusted. The part d may carry by a ball-and-socket joint a resilient or rigid extension rod 6 which carries the cord. The parts d and/or e may have a groove round the spigot round which the cord may be wound when stowed. The cord includes a swivel 5.
Patent GB-794599-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to liquid spraying nozzles
IPC: B05B1/30
Filed: 1955-09-21
Abstract: 794,599. Nozzles. WALDRON, P. B. Sept. 17, 1956 [Sept. 21, 1955], No. 26937/55. Class 69 (3). An adjustable nozzle of the kind comprising a tubular sleeve c threaded to a liquid jet tube a having lateral apertures a<SP>8</SP> and a head a<SP>7</SP> which co-operates with the nozzle outlet c<SP>1</SP> to provide an adjustable spray, includes a rubber or like sealing-ring d located in a groove c<SP>2</SP> in the sleeve. A cup-shaped head b receives a hose-pipe.
Patent GB-1526566-A (GB)
Title: Drawing compass
IPC: B43L9/24
Filed: 1976-06-29
Abstract: 1526566 Drawing compass HELIX INTERNATIONAL Ltd 17 June 1977 [29 June 1976 19 Nov 1976] 26952/76 and 48257/76 Heading B6P Pencil-carrying arm 5 has an externallythreaded barrel 6 for a clamping nut, with a thread 7 with stop means at both ends and an internally-threaded resilient plastics material clamping nut 9<SP>1</SP> which is forced over the stop means during assembly of the compass. Preferably the clamping nut is passed on to the barrel from the shank of the arm, the barrel and arm are a metal die cast unit and the stop means are unthreaded portions 11a, 10a of the barrel ends.
Patent GB-700411-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in telescopic tubes
IPC: A41H5/00
Filed: 1951-10-31
Abstract: 700,411. Adjustable stands. LINDSELL, S. J. Oct. 31, 1951 [Nov, 7, 1950], No. 27165/50. Class 52(3) Pedal operated. frictional locking means for telescopic tubes comprise a plug 12 with an inclined face 13 attached to the inner tube 10, and a locking member 21, with a corresponding i n - clined face 22, attached to a rod 15 passing through a radial slot 14 in the plug 12. A spring 20 between a knob 16 at the lower end of the rod and the inner tube holds the locking member 21 against the plug 12. Because of the inclined surfaces the rod moves sideways in the radial slot whereby the outer member 11 is firmly held by the jamming action thereon of the plug and the locking member. A compression spring 27 acts as a buffer to break the fall of the outer member when a lever 17 is depressed to release the locking member.
Patent GB-607965-A (GB)
Title: Means for use in holding sheep to facilitate the treatment of their feet
IPC: A01K15/00
Filed: 1945-10-17
Abstract: 607,965. Holding appliances for sheep. KELLY, E. J. T. Oct. 17, 1945, No. 27215. [Class 81(ii)] A device for holding a sheep for the treatment of its feet comprises a box open at its ends and consisting of two hinged halves 10a, 10b, the normal upper half 10b being mounted on pivots 12 on posts 13, so that when the sheep has been driven into the box and confined therein by bars 16 at each end of the box, this may be inverted, and the then top half 10a swung open after release of staple and hasp fasteners to expose the animal's feet. The sheep is clamped against one side of the box by a board 15 hinged at the front end of the box and extending the length thereof. In use, the device is disposed in a sheep race which may have a foot bath disposed at the exit end of the box.
Patent GB-428342-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in apparatus for heading hollow rivets
IPC: B21J15/04
Filed: 1934-09-21
Abstract: 428,342. Setting tubular rivets. BRISTOL AEROPLANE CO., Ltd., and SIBLY, W., Filton House, Bristol. Sept. 21, 1934, No. 27228. [Class 43] Apparatus for heading a hollow rivet comprises the combination with a spindle 10 having an eccentric end 12, which is passed through the rivet and rotated to deform the shank end 17 of a bush 16 which centres the spindle within the rivet during the heading operation. The spindle is rotated by a cross-bar or hand wheel 11 and tension is applied by rotating one of two interengaging nut members 13, 14. Alternatively, the tension may be applied by a cam 22, Fig. 5, on an operating lever 20, acting between the rear end of the spindle and an abutment 23. Specifications 145,490 and 294,102, [both in Class 43], are referred to.