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Patent GB-1138579-A (GB)
Title: Radioactive thermal power source with integral moderator
IPC: G21G4/06
Filed: 1967-11-24
Abstract: 1,138,579. Utilizing energy of radiation. SANDERS NUCLEAR CORP. 24 Nov., 1967 [5 April, 1967], No. 53675/67. Heading G6P. In a radioisotope thermal power source a mixture of thulium oxide 169 and a moderator is neutron irradiated in a nuclear reactor to produce thulium 170. The moderator reduces neutron flux depression in the reactor during the irradiation process. In one embodiment the thulium oxide and moderator are both powders while in an alternative form, separate layers of isotope material and moderator are employed. The source is sealed within a molybdenum liner and the moderator may be carbon, graphite, beryllium or heavy water.
Patent GB-1401755-A (GB)
Title: Lubricants containing amine antioxidants
IPC: C10N50/10
Filed: 1972-07-19
Abstract: 1401755 Lubricants MOBIL OIL CORP 19 July 1972 [17 Nov 1971] 53971/74 Divided out of 1400178 Heading C5F A lubricant composition comprises a major proportion of a lubricant and an antioxidant amount of a mixture of p,p<SP>1</SP>-dioctyldiphenylamine and 1,1<SP>1</SP>-dinaphthylamine. The proportion of each amine may be 0À001-5 wt. per cent based on the lubricant. Specified lubricants are paraffinic and naphthenic oils, and synthetic oils such as polyglycols, polyolefines, polyacetals, siloxanes, diesters of dibasic acids and esters of monocarboxylic acids with polyhydric alcohols. A C 5 -C 9  acid/pentaerythritol ester base lubricant is exemplified.
Patent GB-1221468-A (GB)
Title: Method of fastening insulating material to solid receiving material
IPC: F16L59/04
Filed: 1968-11-14
Abstract: 1,221,468. Fastening sheet material to a solid backing material. HILTI A.G. 14 Nov., 1968 [4 Dec., 1967], No. 54089/68. Heading F2X. In a method of fastening a sheet of insulating material on to solid material, e.g. concrete, a fastener 5 is driven through the insulating material and into the solid material by means of a tool having a driving plunger 3, and a retainer 7 is pressed on to the exposed end of the fastener to hold the insulating material against the solid material. The insulating material may be glass fibre, foamed polystyrene, coarse fibreboard or cork. The retainer is preferably plastics.
Patent GB-1205585-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in dual purpose digging and loading implements
Inventor: MARNER CRAIG
IPC: E02F3/38
Filed: 1967-11-28
Abstract: 1,205,585. Excavators. ERNEST A. WEBB Ltd. 7 Nov., 1968 [28 Nov., 1967], No. 54091/67. Heading E1F. In a shovel excavator assembly mountable on the rear of a tractor, the boom of the assembly is cranked to provide a short lower part 23 and a longer upper part 25 to enable such a boom, when swung upwards so that the part 23 is substantially vertical and when swung forwards, to clear the driver's cab on tractor to provide a compact arrangement of the excavator for travelling along roads. For low reaching operations a jack 30 is pivotally connected at 31 to the boom 25 and at 32 to the dipper stick 26 of the assembly, whilst for high reaching operations, the jack 30 is pivotally connected at 33 to the boom and at 34 to the dipper stick. Specification 1,205,586 is referred to.
Patent GB-1162956-A (GB)
Title: Winding Clamping Device for Transformers, Reactors and Like Apparatus
IPC: H01F27/30
Filed: 1966-12-02
Abstract: 1,162,956. Transformers and inductors. LICENTIA PATENT - VERWALTUNGS G.m.b.H. 2 Dec., 1966 [2 Dec., 1965], No. 54116/ 66 Heading H1T. Transformers, reactors and like apparatus housed in a tank 20 have their core legs clamped by plates 1 connected at their lower ends to coil tables serving as yoke clamps and at their upper ends to support members 2 located outside or accessible from outside the tank and to which winding clamping rods 3 are adjustably connected during clamping of the windings such that the clamping pressure is adjustable from outside the tank. Several embodiments are described in which the clamping pressure is applied hydraulically or mechanically and the clamping means removed after taking steps to maintain the pressure. Thus, the press 19 of Fig. 4 may be removed after placing blocks between the member 2 and rod 3. The member 2 may be replaced by a plate 2 welded to the tank (Fig. 1, not shown) or to an upper yoke clamp (5, Fig. 2, not shown) and the rod 2 screwed through, and subsequently welded to, the plate 2 to apply the pressure. Hydraulic pressure may be applied between the beams 5 and coil pressure plates (7, Fig. 5, not shown) and the pressure maintained after removal by welding the rods 3 to U-shaped members, through which they pass, placed on the beams 5 and welded to the tank and leg clamping plates 1. Alternatively, the presses may act between the ends of the rods 3 and girders (16, Fig. 3, not shown) atop the tank, or between threaded rods and a jig (2, Figs. 6, 7, not shown) welded to the beams 5 and capable of maintaining the pressure by adjustment of a nut (24) while the remainder (21, 22) is dismantled through an aperture in the tank.
Patent GB-1182771-A (GB)
Title: Electrostatographic Copying
Inventor: LAWES LOUIS FREDERICK WILLIAM
IPC: G03G21/00
Filed: 1965-12-06
Abstract: 1,182,771. Cleaning electro-statographic surfaces. ARLSIDE Ltd. Feb. 21, 1967 [Dec.6, 1965; Dec.8, 1965], Nos.51586/65 and 54511/65. Heading G2H. An electro-statographic surface X is cleaned by a roller 8 engaged by a band 4 of cleaning material pressed against the roller 8 by a roller 2. A rotatable cam 5 engages a bearing 7 which supports the roller 2. Rotation of the cam 5 urges roller 2 against roller 8. The roller 8 has a surface of soft rubber, fur or fleece. The band 4 may be as described in Specification 1, 078,128 or may comprise a strip of foamed plastics material carrying a layer of powder particles or individual fibres.
Patent GB-1280390-A (GB)
Title: Synthesis gas process
IPC: C01B32/40
Filed: 1970-11-17
Abstract: 1280390 Combustible gas mixtures TEXACO DEVELOPMENT CORP 17 Nov 1970 [21 Nov 1969] 54595/70 Heading C5E Synthesis gas for oxo and Fischer-Tropsch processes is made from a H 2 , CO gas mixture 6 by reacting the mixture with either CO 2  or H 2 O in a non-catalytic shift converter 70 or 72 at a temperature of at least 1500 F. to produce a gas stream 15, 37 the mole ratio CO/H 2  of which is greater (15) or less (37) than that of the mixture 6. The Figure illustrates a process for the simultaneous production of both streams, the feed 2 being refinery gas. The valves 7, 8 permit either limb of the Figure to be put out of use. In an example in which only stream. 37 is made, vacuum residuum 2 is gasified at 1, and the effluent passed in series through two non- catalytic shift converters each supplied with oxygen and steam, and two or more converters 70 may be provided in a process in which only stream 15 is made, supplemental O 2  and CO 2  being provided. The feed 2 may be gaseous, liquid or solid, e.g. coal or petroleum coke.
Patent GB-1240280-A (GB)
Title: A valve device especially for a diver's inflatable life jacket
Inventor: COOKE GEORGE WILLIAM ROLAND
IPC: B63C11/02
Filed: 1968-11-18
Abstract: 1,240,280. Air supply for divers. G. W. R. COOKE. 3 Nov., 1969 [18 Nov., 1968], No. 54692/68. Heading B7U. [Also in Division F2] Valve device, especially for diver's life jacket normally inflatable from an air bottle, allows the diver to breathe from the jacket in emergency, or the jacket to be inflated by mouth or deflated. The device comprises an inner tube 3 forming a valve member and urged to closed position within an outer tube 1 by a spring 4, in which position a seal is formed e.g. by a rubber washer 8 over an end wall of the tube. In a retracted position a seal is formed e.g. by an O- ring 11 to prevent leakage to the outside whilst flow is permitted through an aperture 10 in the inner tube. A check valve 17 in the inner tube wall allows venting e.g. when the diver exhales through a mouthpiece 20. In use, the device is connected to an aperture in the front surface of the front portion of the jacket (not shown) and a bleed tube inside the jacket extends from the aperture to the top of the rear portion behind the diver's neck. When inflating orally, the opening of the check valve 17 is closed off by the thumb.
Patent GB-1174266-A (GB)
Title: Flow Counter for Measurement of Radioactive Materials
Inventor: WEGNER LUTZ-AXEL
IPC: H01J47/06
Filed: 1966-12-07
Abstract: 1,174,266. Measuring #-radiation. L-A. WEGNER. Dec. 7, 1966 [Dec .10, 1965], No.54771/66. Addition to 1, 090, 745. Heading G1A. [Also in Division H1] The counting rate of the flow counter described in the parent Specification is automatically controlled by varying the potential difference U  so  between the surface of the radioactive material being investigated and the counter chamber by applying a variable control voltage which is a function of a pulse signal produced in the counter. The control voltage may be made proportional to the ratio of the counting rates produced by two singlechannel discriminators covering different parts of a pulse magnitude spectrum Fig. 3 (not shown) produced in the counter, e.g. by the radioactive material to be measured, or may be made proportional to any monotonic function of said ratio. The counting yield may be adjusted to a constant value or may vary according to the counting rate.
Patent GB-1106050-A (GB)
Title: Complex ester-aminoplast coating compositions
IPC: C09D167/08
Filed: 1965-12-24
Abstract: Electrocoating compositions comprise (i) a partial ester of a diol e.g. neopentyl glycol or 2,2 - bis(4 - hydroxycyclohexyl)propane and an addition product of a drying oil fatty acid ester e.g. linseed oil and an alpha-beta-ethylenically unsaturated dicarboxylic acid or anhydride e.g. maleic anhydride or itaconic anhydride and (ii) a substantially completely etherified aminoplast e.g. hexakis (methoxymethyl)melamine. The addition product of (i) may also include units from an additional olefinic comonomer e.g. styrene, a substituted styrene, an alkyl acrylate or methacrylate, a diolefin or acrylonitrile.  Free acid groups in (i) may be neutralized e.g. with a water-soluble amine or metal or quaternary ammonium hydroxide.  The pH of the composition should be at least 7, preferably 7.5 to 10.5. The composition may also contain various organic and inorganic pigments, a corrosion inhibitor such as strontium chromate, dispersing on surface-active agents, antioxidants, driers, anti-foaming agents and bactericides.  Electrocoating.-The compositions may be coated on iron, steel, aluminium, galvanized steel, phosphatized steel, zinc or copper at a voltage of 1 to 1000 and a current density of 0.1 to 15 amp/sq. ft. from an aqueous bath containing 1 to 20% of the composition. The coating may be baked at 300 DEG  to 400 DEG  F. for 10 to 30 minutes.ALSO:Electro-coating compositions comprise (i) a partial ester of a diol and an addition product of a drying oil fatty acid ester and an alpha-betaethylenically unsaturated dicarboxylic acid or anhydride or itaconic anhydride and (ii) a substantially completely etherified aminoplast.  The addition product of (i) may also include units from an additional olefinic comonomer e.g. styrene, a substituted styrene, an alkyl acrylate or methacrylate, a diolefin or acrylonitrile.  Free acid groups in (i) may be neutralized e.g. with a water-soluble amine or metal or quaternary ammonium hydroxide.  The pH of the composition should be at least 7, preferably 7.5 to 10.5. The composition may also contain various organic and inorganic pigments, a corrosion inhibitor such as strontuim chromate, dispersing on surface-active agents, antioxidants, driers, anti-foaming agents and bactericides. Electro-coating  The compositions may be coated on iron, steel, aluminium, galvanized steel, phosphatized steel, zinc or copper at a voltage of 1 to 1000 and a current density of 0.1 to 15 amp/sq. ft. from an aqueous bath containing 1 to 20% of the composition. The coating may be baked at 300 to 400 DEG F., for 10 to 30 minutes.
Patent GB-1160579-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Root Crop Harvesters
Inventor: ASDAHL ERLAND
IPC: A01D19/00
Filed: 1967-03-01
Abstract: 1,160,579. Root-crop harvesters. F. A. UNDERHAUGS FABRIK. 1 March, 1967, No. 54927/66. Heading A1F. In a root-crop harvester, of the type wherein material dug by a share 1 is impelled laterally by a spinner 2 to fall on to the lower end of a conveyer belt 4, a circular rotary transfer member 3 bridges the gap between the share and the belt, the member being either a disc or a spider, and movable means are provided for deflecting the crop on to the conveyer. In Fig. 1 this means comprises a small wheel 5 revolving just above the disc so as to permit dirt to pass thereunder. In Fig. 4 the deflecting means comprises an endless slat-conveyer 6 the surface of which facing the oncoming crop travels upwardly. In Fig. 6 the deflector comprises a belt 11 running parallel with the surface of the transfer member 3 which, in this construction, is gridded.
Patent GB-1390638-A (GB)
Title: Imaged sheet or film and method for preparing same
IPC: B41M5/36
Filed: 1972-11-28
Abstract: 1390638 Thermographic processes; contact printing apparatus ASAHI-DOW Ltd AND RISO KAGAKU CORP 28 Nov 1972 [28 Dec 1971 20 April 1972 (2)] 54958/72 Headings G2A and G2C A method of forming a fine wrinkle-image on a heat-sensitive stretched thermoplastic resin film comprises superposing the stretched film on an original and effecting a flash exposure with high intensity radiation rich in wavelengths from 0.7 to 1.5 microns, i.e. the spectral distribution of the radiation contains at least one peak in the region from 0.7 to 1.5 microns. The film may be a single layer of a vinylidene chloride - vinyl chloride copolymer, polyvinyl chloride, polystyrene or a polyolefin or it may be a multi-layer film in which the layers are held together by their inherent self adhesiveness or by an adhesive e.g. a vinyl acetate acrylate copolymer or an isocyanate. The multilayer film comprises a stretched film e.g. ethylenevinyl acetate copolymer and an optionally stretched substrate e.g. cellulose acetate. A preferred multilayer film comprises a film and substrate both formed of stretched vinylidene chloride vinyl chloride copolymer. The apparatus for reflex exposing the films comprises a transparent plate for supporting the film and original, a further plate for pressing the film and original into contact and an electronic flash discharge tube e.g. xenon filled, positioned adjacent the transparent plate. The tube may be at the focus of a parabolic reflector or two tubes may be positioned in a parabolic reflector having a W cross-section, both arrangements giving uniform illumination.
Patent GB-1177362-A (GB)
Title: Floatable Structure
Inventor: HAWKINS ROBERT D
IPC: B63B35/44
Filed: 1966-12-12
Abstract: 1,177,362. Air cushion supported sea platforms. R. D. HAWKINS. 12 Dec., 1966 [29 Dec., 1965], No. 55465/66. Heading B7K. A craft, supported by an air cushion and moved to a location for use as a sea platform, comprises a deck 10 with cabin superstructure 26, 28 thereabove and with propulsion means 30 is formed with a flexible peripheral wall 20 which is secured to deck 10 and in use is inclined inwardly at an acute angle to the water surface to enclose an air cushion 18 formed by air pumping apparatus 14. Structural apparatus (Fig. 3, not shown) holds wall 40 in its desired position and a flexible skirt may extend from the base aperture or may be retracted. It is stated that the hull form renders the craft stable in pitch and roll even though the centre of gravity C.G. is positioned above the water level.
Patent GB-1329742-A (GB)
Title: Method and apparatus for eviscerating fish
IPC: A22C25/14
Filed: 1970-11-24
Abstract: 1329742 Eviscerating fish MARINE CONSTRUCTION & DESIGN CO 24 Nov 1970 [13 Feb 1970] 55723/70 Heading A2U Decapitated fish are eviscerated by pressing the. fish progressively from the tail to the beheaded end to extrude the viscera including roe or milt producing organs. The roe or milt producing organs may be subsequently removed from the rest of the viscera. A suitable apparatus comprises conveyor chains 12 having lugs 14 for moving the fish along the table 13 and resiliently loaded pneumatic rollers 20 for pressing the fish. The rollers 20 are carried by carriages 22 mounted on tracks 24 which are moved by chains 28 driven at the same speed as chains 12. Each carriage 22 has a cam follower (not shown) which in following a V-shaped tracks (not shown) causes the carriage to move along track 24 and therefore rollers 20 progressively press the fish along its length. Spring loaded clamp means 32 on carriages 22 hold the fish stationary during the pressing operation. Stabiliser rollers 128 are provided at the ends of the track 24, which cooperate with means adjacent the sprockets 30, 31 to maintain the carriages normal to the chains 28 as they round the sprockets. The rollers may be conical or bellshaped. In another embodiment the pressing means may comprise pivotable air bags.
Patent GB-1418673-A (GB)
Title: Mechanical-to-electrical transducer
IPC: H01L41/113
Filed: 1972-12-04
Abstract: 1418673 Electrostrictive transducers RION KK 4 Dec 1972 [3 Dec 1971] 55945/72 Heading H4J A mechanical to electrical transducer element 10 comprises a body of a vulcanized elastomer having mixed therewith an electrically conductive material in distributed form.  The elastomer is selected from chloroprene rubbers, nitrile rubbers, isoprene rubbers, chlorosulphonated polyethylene elastomers fluoro-elastomers, which all include polar substituents in the side chains thereof, and butadiene elastomers having no polar substituents in the side chains thereof. The electrically conductive material may be carbon black or graphite. Specifically the conductive material is channel black or furnace black in an amount of 5 to 40 parts per 100 parts by weight of the elastomer. When such transducer elements have a field of 300 volt A.C. applied across them they exhibit electrostrictive properties. One such element is shown (Fig. 1) used in a mechanical to electrica 1 transducer. A brass HT electrode 12 is attached to one face of the transducer element and this electrode is insulated by a block 14 from a metallic shield 18 which acts as the second electrode of the transducer. A damper element 20 of for example foamed urethane covers part of the shield 18 and acts as a contact surface for a mechanical force applied in the direction A. An A.C. output voltage is generated at terminals 22 in response to such an impact. Fig. 2 (not shown) illustrates a similar transducer which acts as a vibration pick-up device. Such transducers may be used as electrical to mechanical transducers.
Patent GB-1224929-A (GB)
Title: Apparatus for drying compressed gases
Inventor: GYLLINDER LARS ANDERS GUSTAF
IPC: B01D53/04
Filed: 1968-11-26
Abstract: 1,224,929. Drying compressed gas. L. A. G. GYLLINDER AND Y. M. ANDERSSON. 26 Nov., 1968, No. 56006/68. Heading B1L. Compressed gas, especially air, is dried in a conventional twin-bed system which employs a portion of the dried effluent from the onstream bed to regenerate the desiccant in the off-stream bed in counterflow, the system being adapted to switch the function of the beds when a predetermined volume of the gas stream being treated has passed through the on-stream bed. The volume may be determined by a flow meter in the discharge conduit, by signals resulting from the start-up of the compressors, or by a pressure-sensitive sensor at a convenient point in the system. The system may be used in conjunction with either hot or cold regeneration devices, and control circuitry of application in each case is detailed.
Patent GB-1202418-A (GB)
Title: Multi-stage transmission system for information represented in pulse code modulation
IPC: H04B10/50
Filed: 1967-12-13
Abstract: 1,202,418. Laser beam fibre guide transmission system. TELEFUNKEN PATENTVERWERTUNGS G.m.b.H. Dec.13, 1967 [Dec.21, 1966], No.56549/67. Heading G1A. In a multi-stage laser-beam fibre-guide transmission system for pulse-code modulated information interstage repeaters comprise semi-conductor photo-diode receivers, pulse regenerating devices controlled by decoded received signal pulses, and semi-conductor laser transmitters. Three hundred coder stages 1, 1<SP>1</SP>, 1<SP>11</SP>, are available to twelve hundred 4 Kcps channels, and accepted and coded signals are amplified in power stages 2 to control semi-conductor lasers 3. The signal is transmitted to three hundred receivers over a multiple line 5 which may be dimensioned so that only a single wave mode can develop may be designed to propagate light intensity fluctuation, and may be combined with a power conductor for supplying power to the repeaters. Photo receivers 6 in the repeater are followed by amplifiers 7 pulse re-shapers 8 power amplifiers 2 and lasers 3. The laser outputs may be fed to a single waveguid through a number of fibre bundles.
Patent GB-1421355-A (GB)
Title: Sulphones with an alcohol group and their esters
IPC: C07C315/04
Filed: 1973-12-07
Abstract: 1421355 Alkenyl sulphones RHONEPOULENC SA 7 Dec 1973 [7 Dec 1972 22 Dec 1972] 56893/73 Heading C2C [Also in Division C5] The invention comprises compounds of the formula wherein one of X and Y is CH 3  and the other is H, R is alkyl, aralkyl, alkylaryl or aryl which may be substituted, and R 1  is H or -COR 2  wherein R 2  is H, alkyl or aryl. Compounds in which R 1  is -COR 2  may be obtained by (1) reacting a compound of the formula with a compound of the formula wherein Z is halogen and M is an alkali metal; or (2) reacting a compound of the formula with a compound of the formula Compounds in which R 1  is H may be obtained by acid hydrolysis of compounds in which R 1  is -COR 2 . Examples are given for the production of the compounds. The compounds of Formula I may be reacted with alkyl halides or with conjugated diolefines, and the products may be desulphonated. In Example 4, 4-phenylsulphonyl-3-methyl-but- 2-en-1-ol is reacted with isoprene hydrochloride in the presence of butyl-Li to give 4-phenylsulphonyl - 3,7 - dimethyl - octa - 2,6 - dien - 1 - ol and this product is reduced with Na amalgam in an alkaline medium to give a mixture of ocimene and nerol.
Patent GB-1373666-A (GB)
Title: Electrostatographic development
IPC: G03G15/08
Filed: 1971-12-13
Abstract: 1373666 Electrographic developing apparatus XEROX CORP 13 Dec 1971 [15 Dec 1970] 57755/71 Heading G2H A developer applicator comprises a conductive base 46, a dielectric layer 48 and separate conductive screens 50 which are engaged by a slip ring 62 so that, as the applicator rotates past a toner loading station (28), Fig.1 (not shown), a toner agglomerate removing station (30), a charging  station (32), another agglomerate removing station (34), a developing station (C), and a cleaning station (40, 42), the potential applied to each screen 50 at any time is appropriate to the station adjacent that screen at that time. The applicator may be a cylinder or an endless belt having an aluminium base 46, enamel layer 48 and silver or copper screens 50.
Patent GB-1212369-A (GB)
Title: Precooked foodstuffs
Inventor: KWELDAM ADRIAAN CORNELIS
IPC: A23L23/10
Filed: 1967-12-20
Abstract: 1,212,369. Precooked foodstuffs. A. C. KWELDAM. 20 Dec., 1967 [23 Dec., 1966], No. 57908/67. Heading A2E. A precooked foodstuff is prepared by cooking an edible protein-containing animal or vegetable material in water, to which preservatives and/or flavouring substances may have been added, separating the cooked solids from the liquid, drying the separated solids and, separately, the liquid to a small residue, recombining the dried solids and the residue, and subsequently removing any further amount of water necessary to obtain a preservable foodstuff. Fat and salt may be added before or after the cooking step. Artificial meat products may be incorporated with the product after the cooking or drying step.