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Patent GB-490987-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to windows
IPC: E05D15/58
Filed: 1937-12-10
Abstract: 490,987. Casements ; hinged sliding sashes. KIEFER, J. Dec. 10, 1937, No. 34226. [Class 20 (iii)] Sliding sashes of the kind adapted to pivot when moved to certain positions are provided with a catch 18 automatically engaging a recess in the upper guide channel 7 to retain the sash in pivoting position. A flattened pivot 11 at the bottom enters a throated recess 13, Fig. 7a, in the pivoting position and after initial rotation prevents sliding movement of the pivot. The catch 18 is actuated on initial pivoting movement of the window by an anglepiece 25 having inclined jaws, Fig. 8, engaging a lever 16 pivoted on the frame and operatively connected by the link 20 to the catch. The catch 18 is held down by a spring 24. The upper pivot of the window engages an angleplate attached to a bar 5 having a rectilinearmovement ball-bearing in the channel guide 7. The sliding sash is combined with a hinged sash 2 which is held closed by the sliding sash 4 and may be opened when the sliding sash is in the pivoting position, Fig. 3.
Patent GB-514137-A (GB)
Title: Apparatus for feeding billets for rolling narrow sheets between the rolls of a rolling mill
IPC: B21B39/06
Filed: 1938-11-24
Abstract: 514,137. Rolling. SCHLOEMANN AKT.-GES. Nov. 24, 1938, No. 34274. Convention date, Dec. 4, 1937. [Class 83 (iv)] A slab conveyed by a chain conveyer 4, to a feeder plate 5 is fed into the rolling mill by pushers 6 which rise up between the chains and, in the same movement, slide forward pushing the slab in front of it. The pusher is in the form of a bell crank lever pivoted at 7, in a slidable head 8, and actuated by hand controlled air cylinder 16 through a rocker 14 and linkwork 13 the first part of the forward movement causing the bell crank pusher to rock up until its pivot 12 engages a stop surface 10 on the slider 8 after which further movement causes slider 8 and pusher to move forward.
Patent GB-1390396-A (GB)
Title: Gas heated rotary drier
IPC: F26B17/32
Filed: 1972-07-21
Abstract: 1390396 Rotary driers AMF Inc 27 June 1973 [21 July 1972] 34291/72 Heading F4G A rotary drier for particulate loose material, e.g. tobacco, comprises a cylinder 15 arranged to rotate about a sustantially horizontal axis and being provided internally thereof with hollow, axially extending paddles 24 and at least one gas burner 28, the interior of the paddles 24 communicating with the exterior of the cylinder such that flame from the burner(s) is directed into the paddles. As shown the paddles are triangular in section, one of the walls thereof being radially extending with respect to the cylinder. The cylinder 15 is enclosed by a casing 27 to form a combustion space which communicates at its lower end with the burner(s) 28 and at its upper end with a flue leading to a gas collection manifold 29. The casing 27 is further partly surrounded by curved sheets 31, 32 to form a passageway in which air is pre-heated prior to being blown into the cylinder either in the direction of or opposing the flow of material. The burner may be in the form of a plurality of strip burners each being controllable independently according to the required drying temperature. The temperature may be measured using thermistors. Alternatively the temperature may be measured by measuring the amount of expansion of the cylinder (Fig. 6, not shown). The material is fed into the cylinder by a vibratory feed conveyer 51, a seive 40 and sieve cleaner 41 being provided adjacent the conveyer 51. In a modification drying air is passed into the cylinder through a pre-heated air inlet probe (Fig. 7, not shown) which is rotated to keep it free of the material. A thermistor to measure the temperature of the material is mounted at the forward end of the probe.
Patent GB-865989-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to bottle inserts
Inventor: GOLDSTEIN DANIEL
IPC: B65D47/06
Filed: 1959-10-09
Abstract: 865,989. Stoppers combined with pouring spouts. SCHENLEY INDUSTRIES Inc. Oct. 9,1959, No. 34372/59. Class 125(3). A retractable pouring spout and closure for a bottle comprise an insert 12 which includes a tube 16 with integral head 17 and top closure disc 18, the spout 27 being connected to the inner wall of a recess 26 formed on the tube 16, so that on withdrawal of the tube to the position shown in Fig. 2 the spout 27 may be used to pour out the bottle contents. The insert 12 is of a resilient material, e.g. polyethylene, and the bottle of glass. An air vent passage 28 is provided ; and a recess 92 above the level of the inner end of the spout holds a pocket of liquid during the pouring of liquid from the bottle so that, when the bottle is returned to an upright position, the liquid in the pocket falls by gravity creating a partial vacuum therein and causing a suction within the spout bore, whereby drips from the spout tend to be prevented. In modifications, Figs. 7 and 11 (not shown), the disc 18 is omitted ; and the recess 26 may take various forms, Figs. 7-12 (not shown). The spout may have radial corrugations, Fig. 12 (not shown), formed by spiral grooves in the spout wall.
Patent GB-967784-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to electric cables
Inventor: HOWICK-BAKER EDWARD JOHN
IPC: B41F17/10
Filed: 1962-09-07
Abstract: 967,784. Embossing machines. ASSOCIATED ELECTRICAL INDUSTRIES Ltd. Aug. 15, 1963 [Sept. 7, 1962], No. 34372/62. Heading B6J. Apparatus for embossing information (e.g. voltage rating) on cable sheathing 1 along a plurality of lines extending parallel to and spaced equiangularly about the cable axis, comprises an embossing wheel assembly including a balance or beam structure 4, 5, which is supported from spherical pivots 16, 17. The beam structure carries a pair of mutually inclined embossing wheels 10, 11 on one side of the pivots 16, 17 and on the other side of the pivots a single embossing wheel 12 which is inclined to the other two wheels. The condition of balance of the beam structure is such that a force is exerted downwardly against the upper surface of the cable 1 by the pair of wheels 10, 11 whilst an upwardly directed force is exerted by the single wheel 12 to the underside of the cable 1. The apparatus is supported by a Y-shaped yoke 20 swivably mounted in a stand 24. Two parallel support rods 13, 14 are pivoted to the yoke 20 with spherical pivots 21, 22, and these rods suspend the embossing wheel assembly from the spherical pivots 16, 17. Adjustable counterbalance weights 26, 27 are provided to balance the assembly about pivots 21, 22. The spherical pivots 16, 17, 21, 22 and the swivel joint 23 provide universal movement for the embossing assembly. The embossing forces may be adjusted by altering the position of the pivots 16, 17, relative to the length of the beam structure. This is achieved with a screwthreaded member 47 acting on block assembly 43, 44 slidably mounted in grooves 45, 46 in the beam structure 4, 5, to which block assembly are attached pivot support members 15. The pair of embossing wheels 10, 11 are mounted on members 8, 9, attached to sliding blocks 31, 32. Screw-threaded members 37, 38 serve to vary the spacing of the wheels 10, 11 to accommodate various diameter cables. The embossing wheels may be water-cooled.
Patent GB-357003-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to the spindles of cap-spinning frames
IPC: D01H1/06
Filed: 1930-11-15
Abstract: 357,003. Spindle apparatus for capspinning frames. VEREINIGTE KUGELLAGERFABRIKEN AKT.-GES., 3, Schinkelplatz, Berlin. Nov. 15, 1930, No. 34403. Convention date, Nov. 18, 1929. [Class 120 (ii).] In cap-spinning frames having an annular member which carries the bobbin and rotates on a stationary spindle, the annular member is mounted on the spindle by roller bearings, the lower end faces of the rollers serving to support the annular member and bobbin; the stationary spindle is resiliently mounted. The spindle f carrying the cap e is held in a sleeve h mounted in the lifter rail g by means of the resilient bush i, e.g. of rubber. The annular bobbin carrier l is mounted on roller bearings k, c; the lower faces of the rollers c rest on the sleeve h and so support the bobbin carrier. The bobbin carrier may terminate at its lower end in a wharle, or the wharle may be replaced by the rotor of an electric motor.
Patent GB-1113940-A (GB)
Title: Microphone for use in hearing aids or other devices
IPC: H04R25/00
Filed: 1965-08-12
Abstract: 1,113,940. Microphones. DANAVOX INTERNATIONAL A/S. 12 Aug., 1965 [12 Aug., 1964], No. 34478/65. Heading H4J. A microphone, e.g. for a hearing aid, comprises a flat support 15 (Fig. 2), located in a housing (Fig. 1) and carrying components of the microphone. The support 15 has at least one projection 19, 20 of insulating material extending through an aperture 6, 7 in a wall 2 of the housing and an electrical conductor serving as a lead extends through the projection or projections 19, 20. Preferably the support 15 is of plastics and projections 19, 20 are carried on an upstanding part 18 which, together with upstanding parts 23, 26 locate an electromagnetic device 21 having a winding 22. Leads from the winding 22 pass through holes in the projections 19, 20 and terminate in solder knobs 31. The support 15 has a central slot (27), Fig. 3 (not shown), for a connecting strip between an armature and a diaphragm on the other side of the support 15. This other side has a depression (17) around which the diaphragm is glued. A narrow bent tube 30 is secured to a hole in one corner. In assembly, the support 15 is placed in the lower part of the housing, the projections 19, 20 being inserted in the openings 6, 7. The housing is of metal. A lip (16), Fig. 4 (not shown), of the support 15 rests on the side walls 2, 3, 4, 5. Thereafter, the upper part 8 of the housing, which has a sound aperture 9, is mounted with its side walls projecting downwards around the lip (16). In an alternative construction (not shown), cut-outs extending to an upper edge of the wall 2 replace the circular apertures 6, 7. The assembled support 15 is first glued to part 8 and the lower housing part is placed into the gap containing glue.
Patent GB-489034-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in bullet magazines for pneumatic machine guns
IPC: F41B11/52
Filed: 1936-12-16
Abstract: 489,034. Machine guns. OESTERREICHISCHE AGA-WERKE AKT.-GES. Dec. 16, 1936, No. 34548. Convention date, July 11. [Class 92 (ii)] Relates to bullet-feed devices for pneumatic machine guns in which the compressed air for discharging the bullets is fed to the bullet magazine to assist the bullet feed. According to the invention, the bullet magazine 3, Fig. 2, connected to the gun barrel by a passage 5, is furnished with a pipe 4 connected at its lower end by a passage 6 to the compressed air cylinder of the gun so that the pipe is under the control of a slide valve working in said cylinder, the upper end of the pipe 4 being led to the remote end of the magazine 3. The invention is shown applied to the pneumatic machine gun described in Specification 486,794, the helical magazine 3 and the pipe 4 being attached to a block 1 secured to the gun barrel casing 23 by a bolt 2 as shown in Fig. 3, the bolt being recessed to connect the passage 6 with a conduit 32 leading to the compressed air cylinder of the gun. To facilitate charging the magazine, a hopper 9 of V-section, Fig. 5, is attached to the top after removing a plug 8.
Patent GB-920710-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to fluid-controlling valves
IPC: F16K3/08
Filed: 1959-10-12
Abstract: 920,710. Valves. QUICKFIT & QUARTZ Ltd., and D. CURTIS. Sept. 16, 1960 [Oct. 12, 1969], No. 34571/59. Class 135. A fluid flow control valve comprises glass plates 1 and 2 having tubes 3 and 4 extending from one side of the plates respectively and smooth flat faces 8, 9 forming the other side of the plates. A glass shutter disc 7, provided between the plates, has smooth surfaces abutting the surfaces 8, 9 of the plates, the axes of the plates, disc and tubes being coaxial and the disc being capable of rotation about this axis. The smooth surfaces of each plate are provided with an orifice 12, 13 communicating with the bores of the tubes and out of alignment with these bores and the disc is provided with a passage 14 which connects or disconnects the bores on rotation of the disc about its axis. The plates and discs are clamped together by three equispaced bolts 15 provided with loading- springs 17. In a modification, one orifice of the plates is aligned with its bore and is in constant communication with an inclined passage in the disc while the other orifice is out of alignment with the bore as above.
Patent GB-411173-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to cartons, tins, and like containers for granular, pulverulent, and like fluent solid materials
IPC: B65D5/76
Filed: 1932-12-07
Abstract: 411,173. Cartons, tins, &c. RILEY, H. M., 37, Park Hill, Moseley, Birmingham. Dec. 7, 1932, No. 34600. [Class 18.] In a carton, tin, &c. to hold granular &c. material and for delivering measured quantities thereof of the type provided with an internal discharge-tube b, Fig. 1, extending from just above the base to the top of the container, the tube is positioned within an upright edge or corner of the container, and both the tube and the container are formed from a single blank. A tin with an airtight lid is shown in Fig. 7. In the paper, &c. blank shown in Fig. 5, the tube is formed from the part a<2> and it is adhesively secured in position by tabs a<3>. The lower entrance to the tube b may be in its end or in a side wall, and that part of the tube may be flared. The tube may be of square, triangular, round, &c. cross-section and tapered or parallel sided, and it may be temporarily sealed by a cap or wafer. Specification 394,807 is referred to. According to the Provisional Specification, the blank comprises four side wall sections arranged in pairs with the tube-forming section interposed between them. The tube may also be made separately and secured, e.g. soldered, in position.
Patent GB-1491349-A (GB)
Title: Motion transmitting remote control assembly
IPC: F16C1/28
Filed: 1975-08-21
Abstract: 1491349 Bowden mechanisms TELEFLEX Inc 21 Aug 1975 [19 Sept 1974] 34808/75 Heading F2K The subject-matter is substantially the same as Specification 1,491,350, but the claims are directed to the race members 48 being unanchored and freely axially movable whereby bending of the assembly is relatively unrestricted by said race members 48. The load bearing conduit reinforcing helically wound wire members 18 provide the reaction load path between the tubular end members 22 to which the wire members 18 are secured by swaging.
Patent GB-326224-A (GB)
Title: A bed chest
IPC: A47C17/86
Filed: 1929-08-08
Abstract: 326,224. Roberts, H. Aug. 8, 1929. Bedsteads combined with drawers.-A bedchest is suspended from a bed frame by hooks A, each pivoted at one end to a horizontal pivot B attached to the side C of the bed-chest, and secured in operative or inoperative position by means of a nut or thumbscrew D.
Patent GB-1460476-A (GB)
Title: Hole punches
IPC: B26F1/36
Filed: 1974-08-08
Abstract: 1460476 Punching apparatus CARL JIMUKI KK 8 Aug 1974 34935/74 Heading B4B A punch for punching holes in paper and like material comprises a plunger 24 engageable with adjacent ends 20c of two levers 20, which are pivotally mounted at their other ends and engageable with respective punches 16 such that movement of the plunger effects actuation of the punches. The punches are provided with washers 19 screwed thereto and are slidable in apertures formed in base 2 which is secured to a plastics tray 38 having a hinged flap 44 for the removal of waste paper. The levers are formed with flanges 20a which engage in aperture 22 in the base to provide the pivotal connection. The plunger, of plastics material, is provided with a metal insert 26 adapted to engage the levers, and is retained within a cover 30 by shoulders formed on guide lugs 28, Fig. 1; the cover is formed with projections 36 adapted to snap-fit beneath the end walls 8 of the base.
Patent GB-1188307-A (GB)
Title: Film Assembly
Inventor: LINTURN PATRICK JOHN
IPC: G21K4/00
Filed: 1967-07-31
Abstract: 1,188,307. Coating. ILFORD Ltd. 19 July, 1968 [31 July, 1967], No. 35030/67. Heading B2E. [Also in Division C4] An X-ray intensifying screen is produced by coating onto a casting surface a thin layer of a solution of a plastics, or a plurality of such layers, drying after each application, applying a relatively thick plastisol layer, heating to solidify the plastisol and removing the assembly from the casting surface. At least one of the layers, other than the plastisol layer, contains a phosphor. The slayer of plastisol may be at least 5 thousandths of an inch thick and may be based on polyvinyl chloride in a plasticiser such as dibutyl phthalate. The other layers may comprise cellulose acetate, cellulose acetate/butyrate or an acrylic polymer. A light-reflective layer containing a pigment may also be present. An adhesive layer may be placed between the plastisol layer and the phosphor-containing layer.
Patent GB-1120770-A (GB)
Title: Manufacture of organic isocyanates
Inventor: LOMAX ROBERT
IPC: C07C263/10
Filed: 1966-08-05
Abstract: Organic isocyanates are prepared by mixing in a first stage an excess of phosgene with a solution or suspension of a primary amine in an inert solvent while passing HCl in an amount not above 1 mole per mole NH2 group, and in a second stage or series of subsequent stages completing the reaction by heating, with optional addition of further phosgene.  Examples describe the production of tolylene diisocyanate, but other isocyanates are listed.
Patent GB-325838-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to electric elevator and like control systems
IPC: B66B1/16
Filed: 1928-11-29
Abstract: 325,838. Associated Electrical Industries, Ltd., (Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co.). Nov. 29, 1928. Drawings to Specification. Electric plant; electric push-button systems.- In a lift system provided with a switch on the cage bv which the attendant can control the hoisting apparatus and with call circuits with push-button or other floor calling devices at each floor and in the cage, the means for causing the cage to respond to the calling devices includes relay circuits influenced by actuation of a call registering device for initiating retardation of the cage automatically to make a stop at the called floor and for indicating to the attendant when to move the switch into stopping position. A change-over switch or other device is provided by means of which a stop at any floor can be placed either under the control of the cage switch or the call registering devices. Apparatus operable in correspondence with the movement of the cage brings it to rest at a called floor in steps of diminishing speed, the call registering devices being operable to render the said cage operated apparatus effective to control a portion only of said steps independently of the attendant operated switch device. When the system includes a series of cages, the call registering devices for a floor are common to all cages and when actuated cause the stopping of the first cage to approach the floor. An indicator is provided at each floor which is actuated by a circuit energized when the cage enters the stoppage zone and also energized when the cage enters the call zone additionally to actuate the indicating device only if the calling device is active. When the cage is operated at a speed which cannot be reduced to zero in the distance between consecutive floors, the signalling circuits include two different signal receiving devices in the cage, or a single signalling device operable in two different ways, and means operable in correspondence with the movements of the cage for actuating said signalling devices as the cage approaches predetermined points in its travel to indicate that the cage is to stop at a floor more than one floor distant from the then position of the cage, and to indicate that the cage is to stop at the next floor. The signalling devices consist of a " high speed " signal lamp and a " standing " signal lamp disposed in each cage and means for completing the circuit for the " bigh speed " signal lamp in the first cage to approach the called floor when it is near the slow-down distance from said stop, and also means for completing the circuit of the " standing " lamp in any cage that is standing at a floor next to the floor at, which the stop is to be made. A switch may be provided in the cage whereby the attendant may set the signal devices to indicate the stops to be made to set down passengers.
Patent GB-1156779-A (GB)
Title: Scraper Chain Conveyor.
IPC: B65G19/28
Filed: 1967-08-01
Abstract: 1,156,779. Scraper chain conveyers. GEWEBKSCHAFT EISENHUTTE WESTFALIA. 1 Aug., 1967 [27 Sept., 1966], No. 35216/67. Heading B8A. A scraper conveyer for use in mines comprises a plurality of line pans, wherein one or some of line pans 13 have at least one portion of one or both of their side members reinforced and of greater thickness than the corresponding portion of each of the remaining line pans 12. The thickened portions 16, 17, 18, 20 are arranged such that the reinforced line pans are substantially the same shape and width as those of the other line pans but are slightly off-set in relation to the central flanges 18 which project into the upper guide path 19.
Patent GB-830663-A (GB)
Title: Apparatus for investigation of the occurrence of secondary images
IPC: B01D39/04
Filed: 1956-11-19
Abstract: 830,663. Sight-testing apparatus. STOCKY, J. Nov. 19, 1956 [Nov. 17, 1955], No. 35238/56. Class 97(1) Apparatus for investigating the occurrence of secondary images comprises a light tight compartment containing a number of observation screens, an eyepiece concentrating the visual axis of the investigated person on to one of the screens and revolvable relative to the compartment, means for projecting on one of the screens light images of predetermined colour and intensity and means for recording the duration of the projected image, of the latent interval thereafter and of the time of subsequent appearance and training of the secondary image. As shown the apparatus comprises a closed container 1 having an eyepiece 12 through which screens 7, 7<SP>1</SP>, 7<SP>11</SP>, diffusely illuminated by lamps 3, may be obscured. The one screen can be additionally illuminated by a lamp 8 in a light-tight box 2 which can be attached at will behind any of the screens 7, 7<SP>1</SP> and 7<SP>11</SP> and which is intermittently energized by one of a number of cams 16 which close switches in the lamp circuit for different periods. On the shaft 23 carrying the cams is a drum 20 on which a record can be made by a pen 22 controlled by a switch 24 operated by the patient. In use the patient applies his eye or eyes to the eyepiece 24 and looks directly_at the screen 7. Behind one of the screens 7, 7<SP>1</SP> or 7<SP>11</SP> is the illuminating box 2 and the interior of the container 1 is diffusely illuminated by the lamps 3. The shaft 23 is then rotated by a suitable motor and when one of the cams 16 closes the circuit thereto the lamp 8 is energized. Thereupon the patient presses the switch 24 and the pen 22 begins to record. When the cam 16 breaks the lamp circuit the patient releases the switch 24 but presses it again when the after-image appears. Maintaining the recording while the after image is visible. Colour filters may be inserted before the lamp 8. Alternatively the intermittent illumination may be provided by a light projector adjacent the eyepiece, the lighting directed to the appropriate screen by a rotatable mirror.