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Patent GB-301374-A (GB)
IPC: B63H23/00
Filed: 1928-10-01
Abstract: 301,374. Krupp Germaniawerft Akt.- Ges., F. Nov. 28, 1927, [Convention date]. Void [Published under Sect. 91 of the Acts]. Reversing-gear for motor boats yields a reduction on both forward and reversed drives, and in changing over, an engine clutch B is disengaged and a brake-drum D on a gear shaft C arrested. An element F with peripheral gear teeth and internal clutch teeth is feathered to slide on the gear or upper shaft C. When this is slid forward by a control lever N, its clutch teeth engage like teeth on a loose gear E establishing a reduced drive through pair E, H to propeller shaft G, the boat then going ahead. When the lever N and gear F are pulled aft, the gear F engages an idler M, so that another reduced drive is effected through train F, M, J, the shaft G turning in the direction to drive the boat astern. A thrust bearing L is built into the gear casing. The control lever N carries a cam O, which through bell-crank lever Q, link R, and threearm lever S disengages clutch B and applies a shoe to drum D in the course of the traverse of gear F.
Patent GB-507528-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in the production of dyestuffs on the fibre
IPC: C09B35/00
Filed: 1938-09-28
Abstract: 507,528. Dyeing. I. G. FARBENINDUSTRIE AKT.-GES. Sept. 28, 1938, \o. 28245. Convention date, Oct. 1, 1937. [Classes 2 (iii) and 15 (ii)] Azo dyes are made on the fibre by applying to cotton or regenerated cellulose compounds possessing affinity for cellulose fibres containing at least one sulphonic acid group and containing diazotizable amino groups, diazotizing and developing by treatment with enolizable hydroaromatic carbocyclic #-diketones. The substances possessing affinity are either substantive dyes containing diazotizable amino groups and at least one sulphonic group and substantive compounds containing diazotizable amino groups and at least one sulphonic group which are themselves not dyestuffs. Greenish-yellow shades are obtained. In the examples cotton is treated with bis-(p-aminobenzoyl)-1 : 4- diaminobenzene-2-sulphonic acid or bis-(p"- aminobenzoyl - p<1> - aminobenzoyl) - 4 : 4<1> - diaminostilbene - 2 : 2<1> - disulphonic acid, diazotized and developed with 5 : 6-dihydro-1 : 3- dihydroxybenzene, 5 : 5-dimethylcyclohexane - 1 : 3 - dione, 5 - phenylcyclohexane - 1 : 3 - dione, 4-isobutylcyclohexane-1 : 3-dione or 1 : 3- diketodecahydronaphthalene. Other com- - ponents specified are Diazo Brilliant Green 3G, Diazo Brilliant Scarlet BA, Diazo Brilliant Orange GR extra, dehydrothio-p-toluidine sulphonic acid and the compounds obtainable by condensation of aromatic diamines, such as 4 : 4<1>-diaminodiphenyl-3 : 3<1>-disulphonic acid, 4 : 4<1>-diaminostilbene-2 : 2<1>-disulphonic acid, 4 : 4<1>-diaminodiphenylurea-3 : 3<1>-disulphonic acid or 1 : 4-diaminobenzene-2-sulphonic acid with nitrobenzoyl halides and reduction; 4- methyl, 4-w-phenylethyl- or 5-phenyl-4-cyanocyclohexanedione, 5-phenylcyclohexane-1 3- dione-4-carboxylic acid ethyl ester. The latter may be made by catalytic hydrogenation of aromatic m-dihydroxy compounds in the presence of basic substances or by synthesis. The Specification as open to inspection under Sect. 91 comprises the use of any substantive compound containing diazotizable amino groups. This subject-matter does not appear in the Specification as accepted.
Patent GB-391692-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to floor polishing or cleansing appliances
IPC: A47L13/314
Filed: 1932-10-11
Abstract: 391,692. Reservoir floor-polishing devices. WILLIAMS, H. EATON-, 10, Greenway, Southgate, London. Oct. 11, 1932, No. 28277. [Class 19.] A polishing or cleaning device for floors comprises a brush or/and pad-like element a with bristles &c. c, c<1> and a pivoted handle q for operating ejectory mechanism k, h contained within a polish chamber f. In the element a is the internally threaded chamber f to contain beeswax, which is fed through a perforated bottom g. The beeswax is forced downwards by a piston h operated by pawl and rachet mechanism kl, h<1> connected to a spindle j. An arm l on the spindle is connected to a spring-pressed rod m reciprocated by a projection q<1> on the handle q as required. After polish has been applied to a floor, the whole device can be reversed to use the bristles c for polishing. A rubber band e prevents damage to furniture.
Patent GB-703804-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in automatic electrical message keying mechanisms
IPC: H04L15/22
Filed: 1951-12-03
Abstract: 703,804. Telegraphic transmitters. WALLACE & TIERNAN, CO., Inc. Dec. 3, 1951 [Dec. 6, 1950], No. 28304/51. Class 40 (3) An automatic electrical keying device for a predetermined message comprises a stationary control surface with a contour representing the message to be keyed, along which a sensing member is repeatedly driven to respond to changes of level of the contour and control the operation of a switch accordingly and in which the contour of the control surface is constituted by a number of settable elements which can be individually preset so that each forms either a high level or a low level of the contour. Keys 25 arranged in three rows carry enlarged ends 32 which in the depressed position engage laterally displaced sensing members constituted by rollers 72, 73, 74 mounted on rods 62, 63, 64 carried between looped chains 50, 51 driven by sprockets 56, 57 from gearing 102, 103 and a motor 100 The keys which are depressed to form the code elements of the characters forming a message are locked by turning each key through 90 degrees so that a pin 38 engages in a transverse slot 44 in a flange 42. The engagement of a roller 72, 73 and 74 with the enlarged end 32 of a depressed key moves downwardly a platen member 75, carried by two pairs of spaced parallel arms 77, so that a switch arm 93 carrying a roller 94 in engagement with the platen 75 is rocked to close contacts 92. The platen 75 is biased to its upper position by springs 84 attached to one pair of arms 77 and its upper position is adjustably determined by a set screw 82 mounted in an extension 80 of one of the other pair of arms 77 and in engagement with the surface of a member 60 fixed in the framework of the machine. The heads of the setting keys may have diametrical lines 46, or grooves which, by their position, show the operations of the successive keys for dots, dashes, spaces between code elements and between letters. In a modification, Figs. 5, 6, 7 (not shown), the message is set up by individual element members disposed in parallel slots and having short and long shanks. The dashes and long spaces may be set up by members having the length of three dot members or three short spacing members or by using three dot members and three separate short-space members. In a further modification, Figs. 8, 9 (not shown), four rows of keys are used, and a lengthened path is provided for the conveyor chains carrying the four laterally displaced sensing members.
Patent GB-979629-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to fluid coupling devices
IPC: F01P7/04
Filed: 1963-07-18
Abstract: 979,629. Hydraulic couplings. SCHWITZER CORPORATION. July 18, 1963 [Oct. 2, 1962], No. 28400/63. Heading F2C. In a fluid coupling for driving an engine cooling fan of the kind wherein torque is transmitted through shear in a liquid film between facings 28, 51 on a driving disc 26 and a casing 10 having a partition 19 that devides the interior of the casing into a reservoir 23 and working chamber 24 to which liquid is supplied and exhausted through ports 35, 45 in the partition, the opening and closing of the inlet port 35 is controlled by a bi-metal strip 31 which carries a weight 34 to provide control in response to the temperature of the liquid in the coupling and to the speed of the casing 10. A projection 46 on the partition 19 adjacent to the port 45 causes a pressure build-up at the port on relative rotation of the disc 26 and casing 10 and thus facilitates exhaust of fluid from the working chamber 24. Cooling fins 10a are provided on the casing. Holes 32 in the disc 26 and radial grooves in the facings permit toroidal circulation of the liquid in the working chamber as described in Specification 841,703. Figs. 5-7 (not shown), are graphs of engine speed and fan speed against time for a vehicle accelerating from rest through the gears. Fig. 8 (not shown) is a graph of fan speed against the air temperature surrounding the coupling for constant engine speed and compares coupling temperatures controlled by the bi-metallic strip with and without the weight
Patent GB-1485269-A (GB)
Title: Pharmaceutical compositions containing acetic acid derivatives
IPC: C07C51/16
Filed: 1974-06-26
Abstract: 1485269 Pharmaceutical compositions containing acetic acid derivatives LABAZ 12 June 1975 [26 June 1974] 28416/74 Heading ASB [Also in Division C2] Pharmaceutical or veterinary compositions, usable in treating non-human subjects with central neurological disorders, comprise as an active ingredient an acetic acid derivative of formula:  where R represents  where R, and R 2  may be the same or different and each represent an alkyl group with 1-4 carbon atoms, n is an integer from 1-3 inclusive and R 3  and R 4 , which are identical, each represent a straight chain alkyl radical with 1-4 carbon atoms, in association with a carrier or excipient other than Ordinary tap water or a common organic solvent. Preferred active ingredients are 3-n-propyl hexanoic acid; 4-n-propyl-heptanoic acid, 3-n-butyl heptanoic acid, 3-Methyl-butanoic acid, 3-ethyl-pentanoic acid and 5-n-propyl octanoic acid. The composition is preferably in a unit dosage form for rectal or oral administration.
Patent GB-168537-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to means for holding in close contact a movable truck and stationary cubicle of an electric switchboard or other relatively movable members
IPC: H02B1/00
Filed: 1920-10-07
Abstract: 168,537. Johnson & Phillips. Ltd., and Hockly, A. Oct. 7,1920. Sliding switch-carriage arrangements. - The movable truck and stationary cubicle of an electric switchboard or other relatively movable members are clamped together by a lever pivoted on one member and carrying a roller at its extremity, co-operating with an inclined surface on the other to carry the roller past the dead centre of the movement. Blocks H are secured inside the upright walls I of a cubicle adjacent to openings J in the face thereof. Levers A carrying rollers G are secured on a shaft B in brackets carried by the truck F. With the handles a on the levers A raised, the rollers G pass through the openings I when the truck is pushed into the cubicle. On depressing the handles the rollers move along inclines h<1> on the blocks H, and on passing the dead centre are received in depressions h, thus forcing the truck home and locking it in position. If the truck is provided with spring contacts as described in Specification 172,795, the truck will disengage itself when the handles are raised. A lever K operating a switch in the truck may be interlocked with the levers A by means of an abutment l on a lever L fixed on the shaft B. and lying in the path of the switch mechanism, for example the lever K.
Patent GB-424614-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to the manufacture of pozzolana cements
IPC: C04B7/13
Filed: 1934-10-05
Abstract: Puzzolanic cement comprising a mixture of Portland cement, or other highly calcareous hydraulic cement, and burnt clay, is made by burning the raw clay by means of the heat contained in the clinker of the calcareous cement, and then grinding the clinker and burnt clay together.  The raw clay, which may be first dried and ground, is fed, for example, at the burner end of a rotary kiln on to the incandescent clinker discharged from the kiln.  The mixed mass falls into a rotary drum protected against heat loss where it is retained by a baffle for a sufficient time.
Patent GB-815480-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to control systems for alternating current electric motors
Inventor: FRIEDLANDER ERICH SIEGFRIED
IPC: B66B1/06
Filed: 1955-10-06
Abstract: 815,480. Automatic speed-control systems. GENERAL ELECTRIC CO. Ltd. Oct. 8, 1956 [Oct. 6, 1955], No. 28531/55. Class 38 (4). In a system wherein the speed of an A.C. motor 1 is controlled automatically by an adjustable liquid resistance 4 in the rotor circuit and in accordance with the difference between an adjustable reference voltage applied at terminals 9 and the output of a tachometer generator 7, 8, through a magnetic amplifier 11, a feedback or compensating signal dependent on the motor torque is obtained from a current transformer 21 and a rectifier 22 and applied through a delay network 24 to an auxiliary winding 20 on the magnetic amplifier to reduce variation of speed due to variation in load. The system provides for dynamic braking during overspeed periods by the application of a direct current from source 23 to the stator windings, through contacts 19 which are caused to be actuated by a polarized relay 14 in the event of overspeeding. During dynamic braking the output from the current transformer is shortcircuited by contacts 25 and the feedback voltage is taken from a series resistor in the stator circuit. The tachometer field 8 is arranged to be reversed when the motor 1 is reversed, and alternative arrangements for deriving the feedback proportional to torque are referred to. Specifications 717,253 and 738,310 are referred to.
Patent GB-1006940-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in water-containing hydraulic liquids
IPC: C10M173/02
Filed: 1962-07-25
Abstract: A non-combustible, water-containing hydraulic liquid with high lubricating power contains the following ingredients:-  (a) 0-50 parts by weight (p.b.w.) of an aliphatic glycol or glycol ether or a mixture thereof having a maximum M.W. of 200;  (b) 5-30 p.b.w. of a polyalkylene glycol and/or a polyalkylene glycol ether with a mean M.W. of 500-3000;  (c) 0-10 p.b.w. of a high M.W. polyalkylene glycol and/or polyalkylene glycol ether with a mean M.W. of 5000-50,0000, the amount of (c) being less than that of (b);  (d) 1-20 p.b.w. of a condensation product from one or more alkylene oxides and partly saponified naturally occurring fatty acid esters (e.g. castor oil or oleic acid monoglyceride), said product being insoluble but dispensable in water;  (e) 0.5-15 p.b.w. of a C8- 22 aliphatic fatty acid.  (f) 0.1-2 p.b.w. of a C1- 12 aliphatic amine, e.g. triethanolamine;  (g) 60-20 p.b.w. of water.  Examples of ingredients (a) to (f) are given. Further optional additions include alkali or alkanolamine salts of aliphatic, saturated or unsaturated fatty acids and/or alkylene sulphonic acids, fatty alcohol sulphonates or naphthenic acids; morpholine or N-methyl morpholine; cyclohexyl- or diisopropyl-ammonium nitrite; borax, sodium phosphate, triethanolamine phosphate, sodium mercapto benzolthiazole, sodium benzoate, sodium nitrite, alkyl phenols, alkyl siloxanes or mixtures thereof with tributyl phosphate or proproxylated nonyl alcohol, and benzoic acid.
Patent GB-431776-A (GB)
Title: Threads, ribbons, tubes and the like capable of being resorbed
IPC: A61K9/70
Filed: 1933-10-16
Abstract: Artificial threads, ribbons, tubes, capsules, pills, or plugs of cellulose or its organic derivatives, or mixtures thereof with polyvinyl compounds, are rendered capable of resorbtion by incorporating therein before, during or after manufacture, oxalic acid, malic acid, an amino acid such as glycocoll or asparaginic acid, or phenylhydrazine hydrochloride.  The substance promoting resorbtion may be added to the spinning solution, or emulsified in the softened cellulose, or incorporated in the formed thread &c. by impregnation.  The strength of the threads may be increased by the incorporation of sulphocyanides and cane sugar.  Bactericidal substances, e.g. propyl benzoate and metal compounds or esters of organic acids may be incorporated; also therapeutically active substances.  Specifications 393,505 and 427,106 are referred to.ALSO:Artificial threads, ribbons, tubes, capsules, pills, or plugs of cellulose or its organic derivatives, or mixtures thereof with polyvinyl compounds, are rendered capable of resorption by incorporating therein, before, during or after manufacture, oxalic acid, malic acid, an amino acid such as glycocoll or asparaginic acid, or phenylhydrazine hydrochloride.  The substance promoting resorption may be added to the spinning solution, or emulsified in the softened cellulose, or incorporated in the formed thread &c. by impregnation.  The strength of the threads may be increased by the incorporation of sulphocyanides and cane sugar. Bactericidal substances, e.g. propyl benzoate and metal compounds or esters of organic acids may be incorporated; also thereapeutically active substances.  Specifications 393,505, [Group IV], and 427,106 are referred to.
Patent GB-461205-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to snap action mechanism for operating electric switches
IPC: H01H37/60
Filed: 1935-10-17
Abstract: 461,205. Thermally-actuated valves. RICHMOND, T. G., and MACLAREN & CO., Ltd., R. Oct. 17, 1935, No. 28686. Addition to 451,005. [Class 135] [Also in Groups XXXVII and XXIV] A snap - action thermally-operated valve of the kind described in the parent Specification comprises a resilient strut 18 which presses air arm 5 against a bracket 3. A tongue 21 of a bimetallic strip 20 bears on the arm 5, the pressure being regulated by a screw 28. When the strip 20 heats up, the arm 5 snaps downwards to move a valve 54 to close a port 53, which opens when the strip cools.
Patent GB-160876-A (GB)
Title: Improved means or apparatus for preventing unauthorised use of motor road vehicles, motor boats and the like
IPC: B60R25/04
Filed: 1919-11-19
Abstract: 160,876. Murray, W. A., and Howell, J. T. Nov. 19, 1919. No Patent granted (Sealing fee not paid). Preventing u n - authorized running of engines is effected by means of an electric plug and socket coupling in the ignition circuits, the wiring of these circuits being connected in a non-uniform manner to irregularly-spaced contacts in a socket member, with which co-operates a removable plug, having its contacts similarly arranged and so interconnected within the body of the plug, that only this particular plug designed for the particular wiring will complete the circuits correctly. The socket member is contained in a casing a, Fig. 3, of insulating material, terminals i, l, Fig. 1, being arranged around the casing and connected to irregularly-spaced contacts k mounted in two parallel insulating plates e, f. The movable plug member g, Figs. 1 and 4, comprises an insulating block provided with contacts m adapted to register with the corresponding contacts k on the socket member. Fig. 4 shows an example of circuit connections, the plug member carrying contacts on its four sides which are adapted to register with irregularly-spaced contacts mounted on the four internal surfaces of the socket member, the internal connections between the pairs of contacts on the plug member are such that the various ignition circuits A, B, C, D, E are completed when the plug member is inserted.
Patent GB-1313408-A (GB)
Title: Chassis-frame structures for automotive vehicles
IPC: B60K5/00
Filed: 1970-06-15
Abstract: 1313408 Chassis frame REGIE NATIONALE DES USINES RENAULT and AUTOMOBILES PEUGEOT 15 June 1970 [22 July 1969] 28789/70 Heading B7B A chassis frame structure for an automotive vehicle having a front power unit comprises a pair of front upper parallel members 2 each connected at two nodes 13, 14 with one of a pair of front lower parallel members 3 and being joined at their forward extended ends 2 1  by a curved horizontal cross member 10, and an intermediate chassis member 15 having pressed wells 16 and a pair of parallel rear members 17. The members 2 are interconnected by an arcuate cross member 11. Thrust links 9 connect the front wheels 7 to the chassis frame. The power unit and transmission mechanism 5, 6 is connected to the nodes 13, 14 by means of the engine mounting 13 1 , 14 1 . Rear extensions 31 of the lower parallel members 3 are rigidly connected to the chassis member 15 and their rear ends 32 welded to the wells 16 formed in the chassis floor member 15. Similarly the ends 17 1  of the rear members 17 are connected to the rear wall of the wells 16 and are welded to the underside of the floor member 15. A fuel tank 18 is fitted between the rear parallel members 17. Half cross members 23, 24 support anchor points 25 of the thrust links 26 of the rear suspension 21. Cross member 30 has pivotally mounted thereon a link 32 connected to the rear axle. Oblique uprights 28 rigid with the upper parallel members 2 and also with the cross member 11 receive at their upper ends 29 the bearing points of the suspension elements 8. Thus in the case of a front crash backward and upward displacement of the power unit occurs and with a greater impact the front end would fold upwardly about the node 14.
Patent GB-728444-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to drying or purifying natural gases or waste gases fromhydrogenating or cracking processes
IPC: C07C7/11
Filed: 1951-12-10
Abstract: 728,444. Purifying gas. GES. FœR LINDE'S EISMASCHINEN AKT.-GES., and LURGI GES. FœR WARMETECHNIK. Dec. 10, 1951 [Dec. 9, 1950], No. 28922/51. Class 55 (2). [Also in Group XIII] Impurities such as hydrogen sulphide, mercaptans carbon dioxide, water vapour and resin formers are removed, together with C 2 - to C 5 - hydrocarbons, from natural gas and the like by cooling the gas under pressure to below 0‹ C., whilst washing it with polar washing agents, preferably methanol, to remove the hydrogen sulphide. &c., and with non-polar washing agents such as C 3 - to C 7 - hydrocarbons to remove the C 2-  to C 5 - hydrocarbons. In one form, the process consists in cooling the gas to minus 40‹ C: in contact with a polar solvent such as acetal or the lower ketones or ethers or with aldehydes, aliphatic or aromatic monohydric or polyhydric alcohols, the lower esters of formic and like acids, amines amino alcohols and nitriles and the corresponding aromatic compounds or substances containing aromatic -OH groups, the solvent absorbing the H 2 S &c. and with non-polar solvents such as C 5 - to C 7 - hydrocarbons which dissolve the C 2 - to C 5 - hydrocarbons contained in the gas. To regenerate the' washing agent, it is first separated into its polar and non-polar constituents by stratification and the dissolved gases freed by controlled evaporation, for example as described in Specification 692,804. The gas may be cooled by direct heat exchange with intensively cooled washing agent to which 10 to 50 per cent of water is added when it is desired to prevent absorption of any methane or ethane.