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Patent GB-1221499-A (GB)
Title: Method and apparatus for embedding a chip within a record card
IPC: G01D15/34
Filed: 1969-07-31
Abstract: 1,221,499. Splitting apparatus. INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORP. 31 July, 1969 [23 Aug., 1968], No. 38468/69. Heading B4B. [Also in Divisions B8 and G4] A method of embedding a chip 41 within a record card 18 comprises forming a pouch 37 in one edge of the card by means of splitting knife 31 and inserting a chip within the pouch. A machine 10 for carrying out the method comprises six stations, i.e. a card feeding station 20, a splitting station 30, a chip insertion station 40, a heat sealing station 50, an abrading station 60, and a card eject station 70. The machine includes a turntable 14 having pockets 16 which each retain a card therein by means of suction via passages (26, 27); the table is indexed around between each station by means of a stepping motor. The card feeding station includes a hopper 21 holding a stack 28 of cards, the lowermost card being fed into a pocket 16 by means of feed finger 22. At the splitting station a pair of pneumatically-actuated knives 31 are moved inwardly to form pouches in opposite edges of the card; the knives are provided with shoulders 32 which prevent tearing of the card. The chip insertion station includes hoppers 46, Fig. 4, for stacks 44 of adhesivecoated chips 41, the latter being pushed into the pouches by blades 42. The heat sealing station includes a heat block 52 mounted on a slide 55 which is actuated by a pneumatic cylinder 57; a heater 53 is located in the block. The turntable is allowed to rotate past the abrading station so that excess material in the card is removed by a pair of rotating abrading wheels 61 (Figs. 6A and 8E); the height of the abrading wheels is controlled by a vernier 64. At the card eject station an ejector finger 71 (Fig. 7, not shown) is operated by means of a pneumatic cylinder so as to pull the card from the pocket 16 on to a delivery stack (73, 74).
Patent GB-1503452-A (GB)
Title: Magazine for storing and dispensing sheets of material
IPC: G03B42/02
Filed: 1976-09-16
Abstract: 1503452 Sheet handling SIEMENS AG 16 Sept 1976 [13 Nov 1975] 38493/76 Heading B8R A magazine 1 for storing and dispensing sheets comprises a torsioned endless belt 10 part-surrounding a rotatable drum 5, the belt having gripping parts 27 which hold sheets against the drum in a staggered manner to be introduced or dispensed by movement of the belt with the drum. Sheets enter and leave the magazine via slot 12 when the belt 10 is stepwise moved either by motor 11 or manually. In another embodiment, Fig. 4 (not shown), a long belt (40) is attached at one end to the drum (41) and at the other to a spring (45) which is tensioned as the belt takes in sheets and a pivoting ratchet (48) allows stepwise dispensing. A guiding member (39) which presses resiliently at one of its ends on the drum, its other end leaving a gap for incoming sheets, may be provided, Fig. 3 (not shown).
Patent GB-385636-A (GB)
IPC: A42C5/02
Abstract: 385,636. Hats. RUDD, F., 24, Mill Drove, Uckfield, Sussex. June 30, 1931, No. 18846. [Class 63.] Relates to sweatbands of the kind comprising a leather 1 and a folded strip of greaseproof fabric 2 connected by stitches 4. A strip 5 of grease-proof material is attached by adhesive to the rear face of the fabric 2 so as to cover the stitches 4. The sweat band is attached to the hat 6 by stitches 7 which only pass through the strip 5 and one ply of the fabric 2. The object is to prevent percolation of grease to the hat through the stitch holes.
Patent GB-1501246-A (GB)
Title: Ureido fluoran chromogenic compounds and copy systems including such compounds
IPC: C09B11/28
Filed: 1975-09-23
Abstract: 1501246 Chromogenic ureido fluoran compounds CHAMPION PAPER CO Ltd 23 Sept 1975 [24 Sept 1974] 38909/75 Heading C4P The invention comprises chromogenic ureido fluoran compounds of the general formula wherein R<SP>1</SP> and R<SP>2</SP> are alkyl, R<SP>3</SP> and R<SP>4</SP> are H, halogen, alkyl, nitro, amino, acyl or carbo-alkoxy, R<SP>5</SP> is H or alkyl but is only alkyl when R<SP>4</SP> is H, R<SP>6</SP> is alkyl, aryl, or aralkyl, and X and Y are H, halogen, nitro, C 1 -C 5  alkyl, aryl, alkoxy or carboalkoxy. They are prepared by reacting a 2-anilino-6- dialkylaminofluoran with an isocyanate R<SP>6</SP>NCO wherein R<SP>6</SP> is as defined above. The reaction takes place at 40-150‹ C. and mixtures of fluorans may be obtained by varying the mole ratio of isocyanate : fluoran starting material, to give product mixtures containing 0À2-0À9 moles of ureido fluoran per mole of unreacted starting material. The compounds may be dissolved in an oily solvent, microencapsulated and used in pressure sensitive copy systems.
Patent GB-1455180-A (GB)
Title: Nuclear reactor installation
IPC: G21D3/04
Filed: 1974-09-05
Abstract: 1455180 Reactors KRAFTWERK UNION AG 5 Sept 1974 [10 Sept 1973] 38919/74 Heading G6C A pressurized-water reactor has a shut-off valve 9 in the live steam conduit 8 within the spherical safety envelope 10; valve 9 is placed equatorially and an air-lock 37 is provided for access to it. Valve 9 is actuable in two stages. At least one safety valve is also included and may blow off into, or outside of, the safety envelope. A further shut-off valve may be added and is outside the safety envelope.
Patent GB-333489-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to a cutting tool for rock drills of the percussion type
IPC: E21B17/04
Filed: 1929-12-19
Abstract: 333,489. Walser, H. Dec. 19, 1929. Percussive tools.- The end of the shank 1 on which the detachable bit 3 is screwed is formed with a conical end upon which the socket in the bit bears. Fig. 6 shows a form of bit with flats 6<a> for facilitating the escape of cuttings.
Patent GB-895309-A (GB)
Title: Pyrrolidine and piperidine derivatives
Inventor: JANSSEN PAUL ADRIAAN JAN
IPC: C07D211/52
Filed: 1959-11-18
Abstract: The invention comprises compounds of the general formula <FORM:0895309/IV (b)/1> and their acid addition and quaternary ammonium non-toxic salts, wherein Ar is a monocyclic aromatic hydrocarbon, halophenyl, methoxyphenyl or thienyl radical, Ar1 is a methoxyphenyl, dimethoxyphenyl or trifluoromethylphenyl radical, Alk is an alkylene radical containing more than 2 carbon atoms, X is a hydrogen atom or a methyl radical, n is one or two and k is zero, one or two.  The compounds may be prepared by condensation of an aroylalkyl halide of the general formula Ar-CO-Alk-Halogen with an appropriate arylhydroxy-pyrrolidine or -piperidine.  The aroylalkylhalides (above) are prepared either by the Friedel-Crafts reaction or by reacting an a -haloalkylnitrile with an appropriate arylmagnesium bromide followed by acid hydrolysis of the product. The arylhydroxy-pyrrolidines and -piperidines are prepared by reacting a compound B-(CH2)k-Ar1 where B is a strong alkali metal, e.g. Li, or a halomagnesium group and R1 is a hydrocarbon radical capable of protecting the N-atom, e.g. a benzyl radical, with a compound of the formula <FORM:0895309/IV (b)/2> hydrolysing the product to form <FORM:0895309/IV (b)/3> and hydrogenating this to remove the group R.  Arylhydroxypiperidines may also be prepared by reacting an appropriate 4-aryl-1,2,3,6-tetrahydropyridine with hydrogen bromide and then hydrolysing the resulting 4-aryl-4-bromopiperidine.
Patent GB-944770-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to battery charging devices
IPC: H01M10/46
Filed: 1961-11-01
Abstract: 944,770. Two-part couplings. R. W. DIXON. Oct. 10, 1962 [Nov. 1, 1961], No. 39165/61. Heading H2E. [Also in Division H1] A battery charging device comprises a metal casing formed from a tube 2 having at one end a portion 3 arranged as a removable slip fit for insertion of a battery to be charged into a chamber 4, and at the other end a portion 1 arranged as a tight press-fit to hold a light bulb and contact assembly. The portion 3 includes a recessed contact plate 5 insulated therefrom by a plastic sleeve 10 and spaced from an insulating disc 5a by a rubber cushion 11, the disc 5a carrying terminal pins 6, 7 of different diameter and connected respectively to the plate 5 and portion 3 by leads 8, 9. The Provisional Specification relates to an embodiment having a two-part casing of insulating material, the parts being screwed together and the negative pin 7 being connected to a contact ring engageable electrically with the bulb when the parts are screwed together.
Patent GB-1081708-A (GB)
Title: Rotor antenna
IPC: H01Q1/28
Filed: 1965-09-14
Abstract: 1,081,708. Aerials. BELL AEROSPACE CORPORATION. Sept. 14, 1965 [Sept. 17, 1964], No. 39174/65. Heading H4A. [Also in Divisions B7 and H1] A rotor blade for a rotary wing aircraft has extending along at least part of its length a radar aerial whose beam is consequently scanned through 360 degrees in azimuth as the rotor revolves. As described, a waveguide 10, Fig. 1, with a rearwardly facing array of radiating slots is mounted inside the trailing edge portion 15 of a rotor blade 12 against an aft spar 22, Fig. 2. The metal skin 18 of the rotor blade is replaced in the vicinity of the aerial 10 with a skin 20 made of a material, such as one containing glass fibre, which is transparent to radio waves and a small forwardly-facing metal wedge member 26, having an angle of approximately 30 degrees, may be provided for mechanical reinforcement. The space 24 left inside the trailing edge portion of the rotor may be filled with polyurethane foam. In a second embodiment an aerial (30), Fig. 3 (not shown), is embedded in a groove in the nose-block (32) of the rotor blade. The portion (36) of the skin of the blade forward of the aerial is made of a material which is both transparent to radio waves and resistant to erosion, such as a suitable polyurethane material. A plastics filler (38) occupies the space between the aerial (30) and the inside of the skin (36), except for slot portions extending from the slots in the aerial. In a third embodiment an aerial (40), Fig. 4 (not shown), is run along the sides of the rotor blade, between the nose-block and the trailing edge portion. As described, the aerial (40) consists of two slotted waveguides along each side of a rotor blade (42). Each waveguide is laid in a slot formed in the aluminium honeycomb core (45) of the rotor blade (42) and is backed by an aluminium support strip (46). Either separate beams or a combined beam may be obtained from the four waveguides. A rotor blade aerial may be fed from a stationary waveguide (52), Fig. 5 (not shown), extending through the centre of the mast (54) of the aircraft, by means of a rotary waveguide joint (58) at the top of the said mast, and a flexible waveguide (56). The rotary joint (58) provides for continuity of feed when the blades rotate, and the flexible waveguide (56) allows for operational twisting and flapping movements of the blades. The lower end of the waveguide (52) is connected to suitable radar equipment. In a modification two doubly rotating waveguide joints (75), (80), Fig. 7 (not shown), which each permit rotations about two orthogo nal axes are provided, and are coupled by a flexible waveguide (82). In a rotary wing aircraft, aerials may be provided in more than one blade, either to increase the data rate or to be phased together to act as one long antenna.
Patent GB-1402094-A (GB)
Title: Lubricant compositions
IPC: C10M163/00
Filed: 1971-08-23
Abstract: 1402094 Hydrogenated SBR SHELL INTERNATIONALE RESEARCH MAATSCHAPPIJ NV 21 Aug 1972 [23 Aug 1971] 39348/71 Heading C3P [Also in Division C5] A lubricant additive is provided by hydrogenating a butadiene/styrene random copolymer until 5-95% of its olefinic double bonds have been removed. Many suitable catalysts are listed the copolymer may be nydrogenated in solution in an inert solvent such as a saturated hydrocarbon. In an example, a solution of copolymer in a mixture of hexane and cyclohexane (the preparation reaction mixture) is hydrogenated at 20‹ C. and 40 kg./cm.<SP>2</SP> using, as catalyst, a mixture of nickel 2-ethylhexanoate and aluminium triethyl in cyclohexane. Hydrogenation is stopped at 89À6% by releasing the pressure and deactivating the catalyst by adding aqueous HCl and methanol. In a comparative example, hydrogenation is continued to 98À0% removal of olefinic bonds.
Patent GB-1088810-A (GB)
Title: Method of epoxidizing olefinic compounds
IPC: C07D301/06
Filed: 1966-09-05
Abstract: Ethylenic compounds are epoxidized by contacting them in the liquid phase with an oxygen containing gas in the presence of one or more organic hydroperoxides containing only C, H and O atoms and an oxyboron compound as catalyst selected from a boronoxide, a dehydrated boric acid-especially metaboric acid in the boroxine form alone or containing other hydroxy-boron compounds comprising at least one B-O-B linkage-and the hydrocarbyl esters thereof, particularly alkyl esters.  A preferred group of alkyl esters consists of the trialkoxyboroxines.  The hydroperoxides may be obtained in situ by the reaction of the oxygen-containing gas and one or more organic compounds, e.g. an alkane or a mixture of alkanes having an alkane moiety which forms a hydroperoxide with oxygen.  Examples show the epoxidation of 1-hexene, 1-butene, alphadodecene, mixed C12 and mixed C14 alkenes and propylene.
Patent GB-960333-A (GB)
Title: Sectional water-heating boiler
IPC: F24H1/32
Filed: 1962-10-19
Abstract: 960,333. Sectional boilers. W. MITTELMANN, [trading as MITTELMANN FABRIK MODERNER BADEOFEN GEB.]. Oct. 19, 1962 [Oct. 19, 1961], No. 39680/62. Heading F4A. A sectional boiler which can be fired by solid fuel and/or by liquid or gaseous fuels is built up of a number of steel sections of the form shown in Fig. 3 to provide a lower combustion chamber 3 for oil or gas fired through a burner 5, a middle combustion chamber 8 having a grate 31 for solid fuel, e.g. coke, and an upper chamber 9 in which may be disposed a water preheater 19, the sections being connected by nipples 2. The furnace 3 has a refractory lining 4 provided with apertures 6 coinciding with gas flues provided between the abutting sections in the region of the middle chamber 8, these flues being formed by providing a constricted profile 30 for the sections in this region, for example, as shown in Fig. 12, so that flues 7 are formed when the sections are placed together. Gases flow from the chamber 3 through the apertures 6 and upwardly in the flues 7 into the chamber 9 and thence to a chimney through a connection 11. Gases from the solid fuel furnace 8, when it is being used in conjunction with the oil or gas-fired furnace, flow directly to an outlet 12 to a separate chimney. When the solid fuel furnace only is being used the direct connection to the chimney outlet 12 is replaced by a T-piece 14 shown in Fig. 1, an extension 16 leading the gases into the furnace 3, the chimney outlet 12 having been closed by a sliding damper 13. The gases flow from the furnace 3 by way of the apertures 6 and flues 7 into the chamber 9 to discharge into the first chimney through the outlet 11. In modifications, Figs. 7 to 11 and 13 (not shown), the constriction 30 in the section profile may have various forms.
Patent GB-1186193-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Sliding Panel and Frame Assemblies.
IPC: E06B3/46
Filed: 1967-08-30
Abstract: 1,186,193. Sliding doors &c. assemblies. CLIVE INVESTMENTS PTY. Ltd. 30 Aug., 1967 [30 Sept., 1966; 16 Nov., 1966], No. 39728/67. Heading E1J. A sliding panel and frame assembly comprises adjustment means including the adjustable runner 22 of a sash 13 slidable on a rib 4 of the sill member of the frame which runner comprises a roller assembly constituted by a U- shaped member 22 horizontally disposed with the major surfaces of its arms 24, 25 vertical a block 21 slid between these arms and integral with a T-section bar 18 slidable in the upper chamber 17 formed by internal ribs 16 in the inverted channel portion of an H-section rail 12 of the sash and secured against the ribs 16 by grub screws 30 screwed against the web of the inverted channel, the member 22 being pivoted to the block 21 at 26 and adjusted as to inclination with respect to the bar 18 and rail 12 by a grub screw 32 screwing against block 21, said adjustment means also including buffers 55 adjustably mounted by grub screw 50 in a block 46 adjustable and fixable by grub screw 48 in the chamber 44 in the mullion to contact the confronting sash stile when the sash is in closed position. The vertical side members 36 of the sash are secured to the upper and lower members by linear connectors 37, one end 37a of which is locked by grub screws 38 in a chamber 33 similar to chamber 17 of the stile and the lower portion 37 of the connector is secured in the confronting end e.g. of the rail 12 by a self-tapping screw 35 engaged in an omegasection recess 34. Each mullion 2 of the main frame is of channel section with an inwardly projecting rib 43 forming the chamber 44 and the arms are provided near their ends with weather strips (45 Fig. 5).
Patent GB-832656-A (GB)
Title: An improved aircraft propulsion unit
Inventor: PETERSON VICTOR WISEHEART
IPC: F16D25/10
Filed: 1958-02-05
Abstract: 832,656. Gas turbine plant. GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION. Feb. 5, 1958, No. 39815/58. Divided out of 832,655. Class 110 (3). [Also in Group XXXIII] An aircraft propulsion unit comprises two engines connected to a common propeller, a common starter for simultaneously starting both engines, and a torque responsive starter clutch between each engine and the starter to release each engine from the starter as the engine becomes operative. In the Figure, the drive shafts 14, 15 of gas turbine engines 10, 11 are connected through one-way clutches 20, 21 to pinions 16, 17 meshing with a bull gear 18 on the shaft 19 of a variable pitch propeller 13. The shaft 31 of the starter 32 has a gear 30 meshing with gears 33, 34 connected respectively to shafts 14, 15 through gear 35 and oneway clutch 37, and gear 36 and one-way clutch 38. A propeller brake 40 is connected to gear 18 through gear 41, and is operable by shaft 31 through a coupling 39. On starting, rotation of shaft 31 releases the propeller brake 40, and drives shafts 14, 15. As each engine starts and delivers torque through its shaft, the associated clutch 37 or 38 becomes disengaged automatically. A preferred form of clutch is described. Reversed torque driving of a failed engine by the propeller is prevented by one-way clutches 20, 21. The propeller brake, initially released by the starter 32, is thereafter held off by the pressure of the engine oil system. Thus on failure or shut down of the power plant, the brake is applied. A preferred form of brake is described. Specification 832,657 is referred to.
Patent GB-398552-A (GB)
Abstract: 398,552. Electrolytic reduction of cuprous oxide. W E S T I N G H 0 U S E BRAKE & SAXBY SIGNAL CO., Ltd., 82, York Road, King's Cross, London.- (Assignees of Hartley, R. A. ; 264, Bellfield Avenue, Pittsburg, U.S.A.) March 18, 1932,- No. 8159. Convention date, May 1, 1931. Drawings to Specification. [Class 41.] In the production of a photo-electric cell a copper blank having a superposed layer of cuprous oxide is coated with beeswax to leave exposed spaced areas of the cuprous oxide and the blank is then placed in an electrolytic bath reducing the exposed areas of cuprous oxide to copper. The wax is subsequently removed.
Patent GB-1525482-A (GB)
Title: Cleaning a heated pressure member in an electrographic copying apparatus
IPC: G03G15/20
Filed: 1975-09-30
Abstract: 1525482 Cleaning heat-fixing devices EASTMAN KODAK CO 30 Sept 1975 [30 Sept 1974] 39977/75 Heading B6C Prior to contacting a copy sheet bearing a toner particle image with a heated pressure roll to fix the image thereon, a fusible, relatively dry, finely divided resinous powder is randomly distributed over it. Contaminents, especially fibrous matter, on the heated pressure roll, adhere to the powder as it is fused to the copy sheet, thereby cleaning the pressure roll. Suitable resinous powders consist of conventional toner particles without the colourant. Every copy sheet or every nth, e.g. 50th, sheet may be so coated.
Patent GB-853651-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to solenoid operated fluid-flow control valves
Inventor: SHIVERS PAUL FRANKLIN
IPC: F16K31/06
Filed: 1958-12-11
Abstract: 853,651. Electromagnets. ROBERTSHAWFULTON CONTROLS CO. Dec. 11, 1958 [March 6, 1958], No. 40028/58. Class 35. [Also in Group XXIX] In an electromagnetically-operated valve energized from a rectified A.C. supply the rise and fall of magnetic flux in the winding core member is opposed by inductive delay means mounted on said core member. The noise or hum usually caused by vibratory movement of the magnet armature is thus reduced. The core member 34, Fig. 1, is disposed in a casing 36 of magnetic material and the magnetic circuit is completed by a member 44 and a ring member 38 on which a buffer ring 42 is mounted. A rectifier 54 mounted between the cover member 50 and the member 44 is connected between the terminal studs 52 and the coil 32, Fig. 2. The closure member 22, 24 is connected by a swivel connection to one end of the armature 26 the other end of which has an annular magnetic disc 30 and a conical head 28. Upon energization of the coil 32 the head 28 of the armature moves into a conical recess 46 in the core 34 to open the valve. On the core 34 are a plurality of damping rings 48 of non-magnetic material and the e.m.f. induced in said rings provides a flux which opposes the rise and fall of magnetic flux generated by the coil 32. In a modification the rings 48 are omitted and the inductive delay effect is caused by short-circuiting one turn of a bifilar winding on the core 34.
Patent GB-1509409-A (GB)
Title: Pharmaceutically active thiozolidine derivatives
IPC: C07D473/08
Filed: 1976-09-30
Abstract: 1509409 Thiazolidine derivatives CREAT 30 Sept 1976 [1 Oct 1975] 40220/75 Heading C2C Novel compounds of Formula I wherein R is OH metaloxy alkoxy, amino or mono or dialkyl amino are prepared by reacting compounds of Formulµ II and III Pharmaceutical compositions in conventional forms having bronchodilatory and macolytic activity comprises an above novel compound and a carrier or diluent.
Patent GB-862081-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in fuses for pyrotechnic devices
Inventor: SCHERMULY ALFRED JAMES
IPC: F42C15/295
Filed: 1958-12-15
Abstract: 862,081. Wind operated vane fuzes. SCHERMULY PISTOL ROCKET APPARATUS Ltd. Dec. 14, 1959 [Dec. 15, 1958], No. 40297/58. Class 9(1). A fuze comprises a body 1, flanged at one end, in which a spring loaded striker 9, in a tube 8 which may be hexagonal, is centrally located and is also screwed into a cup-shaped wind operable vane device 13. The striker is maintained in the withdrawn position by two steel balls 23, which engage a circumferential groove 20 in the shank of the striker and two flanged sleeve members 21 located in a recess 18 in the device. In operation, upon rotation of the device 13 and the axial displacement thereof, the force of the spring 12 acting upon the balls causes them and the members 21 to disengage the shank of the striker which then initiates an explosive cap 5. The device is prevented from separating from the fuze body by the engagement of a collar 16 in the cap of the device with the flange 7 of the fuze body.