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Patent GB-1288350-A (GB)
IPC: F02M7/087
Filed: 1971-04-19
Abstract: 1288350 Carburetters TOYOTA JIDOSHA KOGYO K K 19 April 1971 [16 April 1970] 26945/71 Heading F1B A carburetter comprises a fuel chamber 2, a discharge nozzle 5, a first fuel line extending from the fuel chamber to the discharge nozzle an acceleration pump 4 in the first fuel line for delivering fuel from the chamber to the discharge nozzle, a second fuel line 6 extending from the fuel chamber to the first fuel line on the downstream side of the acceleration pump, valve means 11 connected to open and close the second fuel line and temperature responsive valve operator means (bimetallic element) 7 connected to the valve means for opening it when the engine temperature is above a predetermined amount, whereby a portion of the fuel handled by the acceleration pump is delivered back to the fuel chamber through the second fuel line to thereby reduce the fuel air ratio of the mixture produced by the carburetter, the temperature responsive valve operator means closing the valve means when the engine temperature is below a predetermined amount whereby all the fuel handled by the acceleration pump is delivered to the discharge nozzle. The bimetallic element 7 may be located outside of the fuel chamber and connected to the valve means 11 by a linkage. The valve means 11 may be controlled in conjunction with the heat sensitive element of the automatic choke.
Patent GB-816791-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in methods of cross-linking or vulcanizing synthetic resins or rubbers by means of ionizing radiations
IPC: B29C35/02
Filed: 1955-09-21
Abstract: Synthetic resin or rubber is cross-linked and/or vulcanized by treatment with ionizing radiation such as accelerated electrons, neutrons, X-rays, or gamma-rays in the substantially complete absence of molecular oxygen, both in contact with the surface of the substance and within the substance itself.  The treatment may be performed in a vacuum or in a nonoxidizing atmosphere, e.g. of nitrogen, a rare gas, or carbon dioxide, or air may be excluded from the material being treated by covering it with aluminium foil, a transparent cellulose film, or varnish.  The treatment of polyethylene, polystyrene, a polyester, natural rubber, and a butadiene-styrene copolymer is referred to.  Examples are described illustrating the high tensile strength of polyethylene samples treated with gamma rays in a vacuum and in a nitrogen atmosphere, and of other polyethylene samples treated with X-rays when covered with aluminium foil or a transparent cellulose film. Specification 665,263 is referred to.ALSO:Synthetic resin or rubber is cross-linked and/or vulcanized by treatment with ionizing radiation such as accelerated electrons, neutrons, X-rays, or gamma rays in the substantially complete absence of molecular oxygen, both in contact with the surface of the substance and within the substance itself.  The treatment may be performed in a vacuum or in a non-oxidizing atmosphere, e.g. of nitrogen, a rare gas, or carbon dioxide, or air may be excluded from the material being treated by covering it with aluminium foil, a transparent cellulose film or varnish.  The treatment of polyethylene, polystyrene, a polyester, natural rubber, and a butadiene-styrene copolymer is referred to.  Examples are described illustrating the high tensile strength of polyethylene samples treated with gamma rays in a vacuum and in a nitrogen atmosphere, and of other polyethylene samples treated with X-rays when covered with aluminium foil or a transparent cellulose film. Specification 665,263, [Group III], is referred to.
Patent GB-1154521-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Method for Reforming Hydrogen-Containing Carbonaceous Feedstocks
IPC: H01M8/06
Filed: 1966-06-17
Abstract: 1,154,521. Hydrogen. UNITED AIRCRAFT CORP. 17 June, 1966 [3 Aug., 1965], No. 27089/66. Heading C1A. [Also in Division C5] A method of producing hydrogen, e.g. for delivery to fuel cells, comprises catalytically steam-reforming a hydrocarbon or alcohol feedstock, see Division C5, and locating the catalyst at one surface of a tube formed of a metal selectively permeable to hydrogen.
Patent GB-1037372-A (GB)
Title: Process for decreasing the solubility of thermoplastic polymers
IPC: C08F2/46
Filed: 1963-07-09
Abstract: Thermoplastic polymers containing an unsaturated carboxylic acid ester of a substituted alkylene dioxolane, i.e. a plurality of <FORM:1037372/C3/1> groups where R1 is H or R11 and R11 is CH3 or C2H5, are cross-linked by subjecting the polymer to U.V. light of radiant energy 500-5000 Angstroms.  The polymer may be the polymerization product of a mixture including <FORM:1037372/C3/2> where RIII is H, a C1-8 saturated aliphatic hydrocarbon or RIV and RIV is <FORM:1037372/C3/3> where n is 1-4 and R11 is as above; or may include <FORM:1037372/C3/4> where RIII and RIV are as above; or may include <FORM:1037372/C3/5> where Y is H, CH3, Cl2 or CN and n and R11 are as above; or the polymer may contain <FORM:1037372/C3/6> where the symbols are as above.  The polymer may be a copolymer of the above esters and a monomer containing CH2=C=, e.g. styrene.  A portion of the polymer may be masked and protected from exposure to the radiant energy. In examples, the polymers irradiated were a copolymer of styrene and the itaconyl ester of glyceryl ketal <FORM:1037372/C3/7> which was polymerized in acetone using benzoyl peroxide as catalyst; the styrene of the foregoing copolymer was replaced by vinyl acetate, methyl acrylate or methyl methacrylate; a copolymer of styrene and <FORM:1037372/C3/8> which was polymerized in toluene using 2,21-azobis-isobutyronitrile as catalyst; a copolymer of vinyl acetate <FORM:1037372/C3/9> and the foregoing ester which was polymerized in water containing polyvinyl alcohol and potassium sulphate; and copolymers of styrene, vinyl acetate, methyl acrylate or methyl methacrylate and <FORM:1037372/C3/100>ALSO:A copolymer of styrene and <FORM:1037372/B1-B2/1> in toluene is used to coat wood and the polymeric film is then rendered insoluble by irradiation with U.V. light of 500-5000 Angstroms energy.
Patent GB-728163-A (GB)
Title: Tube deburring machine
Inventor: BODEN JOHN HEWETSON
IPC: B23D79/02
Filed: 1952-10-28
Abstract: 728,163. Hollow cutter-heads. HELLIWELLS, Ltd. Oct. 8, 1953 [Dec. 28, 1952], No. 27125/52. Class 83 (3). A machine for deburring tubes comprises two concentric cutters independently and simultaneously driven, one cutter to deburr the internal surface of a tube and the other the outer surface, the cutters being on rotatable concentric shafts one of which is hollow. An inner shaft 3 driven by a belt pulley 5 carries a conical cutter 6 for operating internally on tube ends A rotatable hollow sleeve 2 and belt pulley 4 surrounds and supports the shaft 3 and carries at one end a cage 7, 8, which provides a number of elongated radial slots which house the cutters 11 for operating on the outside edges of tube-ends. The cutters 11 are held between rings 12, 13 adjustable to enable the tools to be positioned both radially and axially relative to the internal cutter 6. The cutters are driven independently and a tube-end is deburred internally and externally in a single operation.
Patent GB-1406081-A (GB)
Title: Method for electrolytic deposition
IPC: C25D5/08
Filed: 1972-06-09
Abstract: 1406081 Electro-depositing metal AGENCE NATIONALE DE VALORISATION DE LA RECHERCHE 9 June 1972 [9 June 1971] 27136/72 Heading C7B Metal is electro-deposited by arranging an anode at least 0.1mm. from a cathode, applying a cathode current density of 5 to 500A/dm<SP>2</SP>, and circulating an electrolyte longitudinally between the electrodes at a speed of at least 100m./min, the electrolyte having suspended therein up to 200g/l of particles of diameter less than 1mm. The particles may be of the metal to be deposited, e.g. Cu, Ag, Au, Ni, Cr, Sn, or non-conductive e.g. microspheres of glass or plastics material. Superposed layers with or without subsequent diffusion may be obtained: e.g. successive layers of Cu, Ag and Au and Cu, Ni and Cr. As shown, sheet, strip or wire 1 to be coated, e.g. of light metal.Al, Cu, stainless steel or refractory metal Mo, W, Ta, Ti or Ti alloy is advanced first through pre-treatment enclosure 3, for sanding, brushing, microbeading or degreasing, then as cathode through metal electro-deposition enclosure 4 comprising cylindrical anode 2, e.g. of platinized Ti then through post-treatment enclosure 9 for rinsing, drying or polishing. Electrolyte E containing the suspended particles P is circulated through the enclosure 4 via pipes 6, 8 and reservoir 7 by pump 5. The electrolyte may be: NiSO 4  and H 3 BO 3  with suspended Ni or glass beads for nickeling steel; KAg (CN) 2 ) KCN and K 2 CO 3  with suspended stainless steel balls for silvering Cu wire; or K 2 SnO 4  and potash with suspended stainless steel beads for tinning Al conductors. An electric, magnetic or ultrasonic field may be applied between the electrodes. Layers of different metal may be plated in succession in the same bath or a series of baths. Localized plating may be effected e.g. to repair a metal coating or provide a protective coating. Specification 1406082 is referred to.
Patent GB-1400017-A (GB)
Title: A control device for correcting mispicks in an air jet loom
Inventor: VAN DUYNHOVEN ADRIANUS HENRICUS
IPC: D03D51/18
Filed: 1972-06-09
Abstract: 1400017 Correcting mispicks in jet looms MACHINEFABRIEK L TE STRAKE NV 9 June 1972 [10 June 1971] 27139/72 Heading D1E In an air jet loom, or detection of a mispick, a coupling 3 between the motor 4 and mainshaft 2 is disengaged and the mainshaft braked, the air supply to the insertion jet 9 and operation of a weft cutting device 23 are discontinued, a drive between the mainshaft 2 and a weft feeding and storing device 8 is interrupted, a device 50 for rotating the mainshaft one revolution in the reverse direction is engaged to reopen the shed, and an arm 38 moves the end of the mispick back into the path of the jet whereupon auxiliary blowing nozzles 11 spaced across the reed are operated to carry the mispick right through the shed and simultaneously insert the following pick. The detector 41 which originally detected the mispick, on sensing the arrival of the correct pick recouples at 3 the mainshaft 2 to the motor, opens the air supply and renders cutters 23 effective, to restant the loom. Weft feeding and storing apparatus is driven by a shaft 2a connected to mainshaft 2. After disengagement of coupling 3, when a detector 43 senses that the mainshaft has stopped, it sends a pulse to solenoid 54 which disengages a coupling 6 in shaft 2a, simultaneously closing contacts 4a which pass current to a solenoid S to couple the mainshaft with the piston and cylinder device 51 for rotating it in the reverse direction, and a solenoid S 5  which actuates a pneumatic valve 50 to supply air to device 51. Contacts 49 also operate solenoids S 7 , S 8 , Fig 3, which operate a clamp 33 in a lateral extension 9a of the insertion nozzle, to grip the mispick as it is beaten up and a pusher arm 38 which pushes the mispick back into the path of the insertion jet 9, so that it can be carried through the shed by the auxiliary jets 11. In normal operation of the loom, an oscillating arm 31 carries the end of the inserted weft into the range of cutting scissors 23. Air for the insertion jet is supplied via a cam controlled valve 15 and quick release valve 12 to a reservoir 13. When the valve 15 is fully depressed valve 12 opens to discharge the reservoir through jet 9.
Patent GB-961163-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in gaseous cushion-supported vehicles
Inventor: COLLIS MICHAEL NEILD
IPC: B60V1/00
Filed: 1960-08-05
Abstract: 961,163. Vehicles supported by gaseous cushions. NATIONAL RESEARCH DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION. Aug. 1, 1961 [Aug. 5, 1960], No. 27326/60. Heading B7K. A vehicle that can hover and travel on a gaseous cushion 12 under its base 13, has fluid operated height sensors 21 mounted around the vehicle to rise and fall relative thereto and arranged to signal, according to their relative position, the inclination of the vehicle relative to a supporting surface, and means responsive to the signals to correct the attitude of the vehicle. The cushion 12 is formed and contained by air curtains 14 and can be divided by cross-curtains 33. The sensors 21, supplied from the curtain duct, have air curtains forming a gaseous cushion under pads 22 carried by lever 24 pivoted at 23 to the vehicle. Each sensor on one boundary is paired with another sensor on the opposite boundary, the pair being connected by links 25 to a control lever 26 whose pivot-pin slides in a slot 27 in part of the vehicle. The lever 26 has rods 28 with fixed collars abutting the control rods 29 of flap valves 29. Initially lever 26 is rotated on its pin until both valves are open; if the rear of the vehicle, for example, approaches the ground lever 24 is rotated to move lever 26 along slot 27 to close the forward valve 30 to lower the front end of the vehicle. A simple servo system may be used to operate the valve 30; in Fig. 5 (not shown), a reversible electric motor is used. In Fig. 6 (not shown), the pads 22 are mounted on the vehicle by a parallel linkage to maintain the pads parallel to the ground. The pads may be the full length of a vehicle boundary, or several pads can be coupled together to give a mean height of a boundary. The links 25 may be adjustable in length to vary the vehicles attitude to use the curtain for propulsion. Pairs of coupled vanes in the curtain can be used to control yaw. Reference has been directed by the Comptroller to Specification 854,211.
Patent GB-283564-A (GB)
IPC: C13B20/12
Filed: 1927-10-14
Abstract: 283,564. Komers, K. and Cuker, K. Jan. 14, 1927, [Convention date]. Purifying saccharine liquids. - Beet slices, sugar-cane, or conglomerates of other sugar-producing vegetable cells subjected to a lixiviation process and treated with reducing, oxidizing or other chemical means are treated with finely divided substances such as active carbon, pulverized coke &c., cellulose or hydrocellulose, or with metals, metal oxides or salts, for the purpose of increasing their active adsorption surfaces in contact with the crystalloid solution to be purified. The finely divided substances may be produced chemically as precipitates in the solution, for example, by the addition of metal salts thereto before the solution is brought into contact with the conglomerates of the vegetable cells. Apparatus for carrying out the above process comprises a chamber 4 in which beet slices are treated with flue gas &c. introduced at 5 as they pass from the press 1 to the diffuser 3. Finely divided carbon is distributed into the slices from the container 6, or precipitates can be formed in the contents of the juice tank 8 before the juice contacts with the slices on their way to the diffusion batteries. The distribution of active carbon and the formation of precipitates in suspension may be employed separately or together.
Patent GB-300756-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to devices for elevating waste paper and the like
IPC: B65G19/22
Filed: 1927-10-14
Abstract: 300,756. Barrs, W., and Barrs, E. Oct. 14, 1927. Inverted harrow and rake endless-chain elevators.-In an elevator for waste paper of the kind comprising an inclined plate 6 through slots in which project prongs 1 attached to an endless chain, the chain is passed round sprockets 2, 3 at the top of the elevator and the prongs always make the same angle with the extension 7 of the plate 6 during withdrawal. Specification 23258/07, [Class 6, Agricultural appliances for the treatment of land &c.], is referred to.
Patent GB-1212721-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to methods of making reconstituted tobacco
IPC: A24B15/12
Filed: 1968-06-11
Abstract: 1,212,721. Reconstituted tobacco. LOEW'S THEATRES Inc. 11 June, 1968 [12 June, 1967], No. 27670/68. Heading A2C. [Also in Divisions B1, B2 and F4] That part of the method of producing tobacco sheets from tobacco fragments including stem material and fines described in Specification 956,427, wherein a layer of slurry and fines is applied to a carrier surface and dried to form a sheet thereon, is modified by lifting the sheet from the carrier surface while it is only partly dried to break any bond between it and the surface, replacing the sheet on the surface for further drying, and collecting substantially all of the liquid drawn from the sheet for recycling back through the process. After passing through a first stage dryer 42 the sheet L is lifted off a wire conveyer band 40 by suction applied through a wire conveyer band 46 and is subsequently returned to the conveyer 40 by suction applied at 50. The sheet L then passes through two further dryers 52, 54 for final drying. The dryers 42, 52, 54 may comprise infra-red heaters or may be of the type in which air is circulated. A pump 80 returns drawn off liquid to a mixing tank (11) used in an earlier stage in the process. The Specification also discloses an alternative device, to that used in Specification 956,427, for disintegrating the tobacco stem material (see Division B1).
Patent GB-151655-A (GB)
Title: Interlocking device
IPC: B61L19/02
Filed: 1920-09-29
Abstract: 151,655. Soc. d'ElectricitÚ Mors. Sept. 29, 1919, [Convention date]. Interlocking hand-levers.-Control members which require to be interlocked, and which may occupy any number of positions, some of which are inconsistent with the position of members of other groups, are interlocked by means of mechanical members moved by the control members. The apparatus is described as applied to railway signals and points control, and is applicable to all apparatus in which it is desirable to interlock movable members. Each control member is a plunger carrying a wedge e and is capable of occupying several positions as indicated by the circles on the guide bars g<2>. Between these guide-bars are arranged sliding locking-pieces x, y, z, shaped to engage or miss the wedges e when these are depressed and thereby prevent or permit operation of the controlling plungers. The stepped formation x<3>, x<4> causes the wedge e to engage the plate x in positions 1, 3, 2, 4 as shown, but not in positions 5, 6. The plates x, y, z may be arranged to rotate.
Patent GB-258116-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in davits
IPC: B63B23/18
Filed: 1925-11-04
Abstract: 258,116. MacArthur, A. Nov. 4, 1925. Davits.-Slueing davits, particularly davits of the kind in which the davit post is extended through the boat deck and is supported at its lower end by a step bearing mounted on the next lower deck are provided with a worm wheel and sleeve 5 loosely mounted on the davit post 1 which take, up lateral thrusts in association with a socket 6 bolted to the boat deck a set of ball bearings 7 being interposed between' the two members. The drum of the worm wheel is communicated to the davits through a gland 9 bolted to the davit post in having tongues which engage in sockets in the worm wheel. The worm (not shown) associated with the worm wheel 5 is operated by a train of gearing including a spur wheel 12 around which passes a sprocket chain 15. The gears are enclosed in a case 16, bolted to the base plate of the socket 6 and supported by a stay 17.
Patent GB-790016-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to the production of animal growth stimulants
IPC: A23K20/195
Filed: 1955-09-29
Abstract: A growth stimulating substance for animals is obtained by contacting a streptomycin fermentation broth with a carboxylic acid ion exchange resin to remove streptomycin and concentrating the streptomycin-depleted liquid.  The product may be mixed with calcium carbonate, fuller's earth, flour or meal, whey or dried skim milk, or with the material obtained on drying a presscake of mycelium and filter aid from a penicillin, oxytetracycline, chlortetracycline or tetracycline production.  The product may be added in a proportion of 0,5-1 per cent to a nutritionally-balanced feed, e.g., a poultry feed containing 50-80 per cent of grain, 3-10 per cent of animal and 5-30 per cent of vegetable proteins, 2-4 per cent of minerals, and vitamin supplements.  According to examples, acidified, filtered streptomycin broths are adjusted to pH 7,0, streptomycin is removed by passage through a column of the resin, e.g. that obtained by copolymerizing methacrylic acid with a small proportion of divinylbenzene, the effluents are concentrated by evaporation at 50 DEG C. under reduced pressure, the concentrates are drum dried, and the dry products are mixed with a dry penicillin presscake and a dry mixture of oxytetracycline and penicillin presscakes; according to a further example, vitamin B12 is adsorbed from the effluent before it is concentrated and dried, the effluent being adjusted to pH 2,5, fuller's earth added, the earth filtered off, and the filtrate adjusted to pH 6,5.
Patent GB-519444-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in antennae
IPC: H01Q21/06
Filed: 1938-09-23
Abstract: 519,444. Aerials. HAZELTINE CORPORATION. Sept. 23, 1938, No. 27740. Convention date, Oct. 20, 1937. [Class 40 (v)] A loop aerial for transmitting or receiving ultra-short waves comprises a figure-eight shaped conductor having a terminal on one or each of the cross-over portions of the conductor adjacent their cross-over point. Such aerials may be combined to form an array for transmitting or receiving low-angle horizontallypolarized waves uniformly in azimuth. As shown in the figure, the two horizontal figureeight shape'd loops 14, 15 are spaced apart vertically by a half wave-length and are angularly displaced at right-angles about the axis of the balanced transmission line 10-13. The perimeter of each half-loop is a half wavelength. Since the loops are horizontal, the earth capacities of the two halves of each loop tend to balance out and capacity effects are further reduced by making the two pairs of feed-wires 10, 11 and 12, 13 symmetrical. In place of the four-wire feed-line, a two-wire or single-wire line may be used with the consecutive loops disposed at voltage maxima of opposite polarity.
Patent GB-455167-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in corsets
IPC: A41C1/08
Filed: 1935-10-08
Abstract: 455,167. Corsets; foundation garments. INTERNATIONAL CORSET CO., 315, South Union Avenue, Aurora, Illinois, U.S.A. Oct. 8, 1935, No. 27744. Convention date, April 20. [Class 141] A corset is provided with detachable fastening means at one side of the front thereof, and comprises a front section provided with eyeletted strips 10, 11, which are adjustably connected together, e.g. by means of a lacing 14, and a transversely elastic apron 20 which is stitched at one edge thereof to the corset, and is detachably secured at its other edge to the corset, e.g. by means of a sliding-clasp fastener 22, 23, so as to overlie the eyeletted strips 10, 11, and the lacing 14. The width of the elastic apron 20 when unstretched does not exceed that of the underlying portion of the corset when adjusted by the lacing 14 to its minimum width. In a modification, the apron 20 may consist of two pieces of material each stitched along one edge to the corset, the inner edges of the two pieces being detachably secured together by means of a sliding clasp fastener. In a further modification, Fig. 5, the corset is combined with a brassiere, and the latter is provided at its lower edge with a tab 29 terminating in a hook 30 adapted to engage one of a number of vertically spaced eyelets 31 provided in the front of the corset, to maintain the brassiere in position. In this modification, the eyeletted strips and part of the front lacing are adapted to be concealed.