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Patent GB-1087469-A (GB)
Title: Building units
Inventor: WEBB JOHN RADCLIFFE GORDON
IPC: E04B2/86
Filed: 1964-08-17
Abstract: 1,087,469. Wall slabs; shoes for joists. BUILDING RESEARCH (HOLDING) Ltd. Dec. 8, 1964 [Aug. 17, 1964], No. 33468/64. Headings E1B and E1W. A building unit forming permanent shuttering for poured-concrete walls comprises two parallel panels 10, 11 spaced by elongated staples 12, 15 of circular, rectangular or other section embedded in the edges. Each panel may comprise fibrous material and a hydraulic binder, and the completed wall may be rendered internally and externally. During manufacture of a unit the two panels are clamped in respective rigidly-connected frames, Figs. 17A, B, C, (not shown), while the staples are inserted, the frames being rotatable about a common horizontal axis and being locked at 90-degree intervals by a pedal-released catch in order to bring the panel edges into convenient positions for stapling. Further staples may be used to connect units abutting side-by-side or at right angles Figs. 10A, 10B (not shown). Reinforcement may be embedded in the poured concrete to connect the wall to a concrete base floor or roof, Figs. 8, 9b, 15b (not shown), or to form a lintel for a window or door, Figs. 11, 12, 13 (not shown). The wall itself may be reinforced by caged steel rods or a steel column, Figs. 16A, 16B (not shown). The ends of floor joists may be supported in steel - shoes. Figs. 9A, 14A (not shown) secured to the wall face by embedded tongues. Where the floor joists are steel their ends may be embedded directly in the wall. A steel angle bearer may be secured to the wall face by welded-on tongues embedded in the wall.
Patent GB-335197-A (GB)
Abstract: 335,197. Hamilton, R. M. March 5, 1929. Totalizators.-In order that a minimum number of horse counting-units may suffice for totalling the bets received from ticket machines adapted for issuing tickets on a larger number of horses, the electrical connections are grouped and means such as plugs and sockets provided to facilitate the making of the connections required by the particular conditions. Moreover in this connecting operation, the numbers allotted to the horses actually starting are automatically set up on the indicator board. The invention is illustrated as applied to an installation comprising five horse counting-units 51 - 55 and ten runners, the ticket machines each having place and win sections and d being grouped in pairs. The wiring from the machines is shown as for No. 1 runner only and it will be seen that the place and win leads from the various booths are brought to separate contacts on a socket numbered 11. Adapted to be inserted in any one of the series of horse sockets 11 - - 20 are five plugs. 164 each having eight leads proceeding to counting-elements 47 pertaining to one of the counting-units 51 - - 55. Thus with the arrangement shown, bets on horses numbered 11, 13, 14, 17 and 20 will be totalled, the other horses being non-starters. The place and win meters 49, 49<1> are wired through clearing switches 56 to pool meters 58, 57 and all the meters control the indications on the board in known manner. In addition to the bet-signal wires two control wires 45, 46 also pass to the sockets to enable a control-signal to be sent to the totalling-mechanism when place-betting is not to be accepted on the horse concerned. In order to indicate the starting horse numbers on the indicator board automatically by the plugging-in operation, each socket is connected with two of a group of ten wires 64 having values ranging from 0 - - 9, the connections being in accordance with the digits to be shown. The wires lead to a relay 65 and thence to monogrammic signs 63 which may be as described in Specification 334,270. Connected with each digit sign is a lead 67 terminating in a sequence switch 66 synchronized with another switch 68 working over contacts wired with the various plugs 164 so as to complete circuit with the various wires 64 through the sockets seriatim. Thus when a plug is inserted in a socket, the digit signs are eventually operated to display the number relating to that socket. Specification 335,201 is also referred to. According to the Provisional Specification, the transmission of the runner number to the indicator is effected by means of a shaft extending along the row of sockets. When the shaft is turned through 180‹ it locks all the plugs in place and simultaneously causes a series of impulses to proceed to the indicator corresponding in number with the value of the digit of the related socket. By giving the shaft another half-turn the plugs are unlocked and complementary nuinbers of impulses are sent to zeroize the indicator drums. This Provisional Specification also refers to Specifications 324,658, 326,152, and 331,524.
Patent GB-796808-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to interesterification processes
IPC: B01J21/00
Filed: 1956-11-02
Abstract: <PICT:0796808/III/1> <PICT:0796808/III/2> In the interesterification of esters of aliphatic carboxylic acids and polyhydric alcohols, particularly of glycerides, use is made of a solid catalyst obtained by spray drying, preferably immediately before use, an alcoholic solution of an alkali-metal or alkaline-earth metal alcoholate.  The catalyst, for example sodium methylate, is preferably obtained in powder form with a particle size of 10-50 m  by drying an alcoholic solution by means of a spray disc under vacuum.  As shown, a reaction vessel 2 is provided with a heating mantle 10 and an inlet pipe 1 ending in a delivery nozzle 1a projecting into the vessel and feeding reactants on to a spray disc 3 which is fluted and has a serrated edge.  The spray disc is rotated by a shaft 5 which also carries a stirrer 6.  A glyceride oil mixture is fed into the vessel 2 under vacuum with the spray disc rotating and is thereby dried and converted into a fine spray.  When the oil reaches level 7 the supply is cut off by a valve in line 1, and a valve in line 1b is opened to allow sufficient catalyst solution, generally 0.2 per cent catalyst by weight of oil as a 20 per cent solution, to pass from reservoir 8 to the vessel 2, the catalyst solution being converted to a fine powder by means of the vacuum and the rotating spray disc, and the powder being continually washed down from the sides of the vessel by the agitated oil.
Patent GB-424523-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to coin freed mechanism for turnstiles and the like
IPC: G07F17/14
Filed: 1933-12-01
Abstract: 424,523. Coin - freed turnstiles. LOCKERBIE & WILKINSON (BIRMING- HAM), Ltd., GOODWIN, A. R., and CHALSTREY, F., Alexandra Works, Tipton, Staffordshire, and DELUCE, S. A. N., 323, Bolton Road, Pendleton, near Manchester. Dec. 1, 1933, No. 33706. [Class 27] Coin-slit closing devices.-In coin-freed mechanism for turnstiles &c. of the kind in which a plunger f actuated by hand moves, through the intermediary of a coin inserted in a slot K, a second plunger h which thus releases a locking bolt for the turnstile arms, the plunger h has connected to it a guard plate or shutter m normally lying clear of the coin slot but closing said slot as long as the plunger h is moved from its initial position. The shutter m has a slot in it to allow passage of the coin to a position between the plungers where it rests on a ledge l. When the plunger h is moved an extension m<2> of the shutter prevents the passage of a second coin until the turnstile has been used and the plunger h allowed to return to its initial locking position.
Patent GB-872236-A (GB)
Title: Apparatus for rearranging loaves of bread or other bakery products from a side-by-side to an in-line relationship
IPC: A21C15/00
Filed: 1959-10-06
Abstract: 872,236. Endless conveyers; shoots. LANHAM, W. E., and MILLER, G. C. Oct. 6, 1959 [Feb. 20, 1959], No. 33855/59. Class 78 (1). Groups of loaves are re-arranged from a side-by-side to an in-line relationship in passing from a conveyer 14 over a shoot 16 on to a conveyer 25 at right-angles to the conveyer 14, the shoot comprising a stationary inclined plate 30 and a plate 31 pivoted about an axis 33 and supported on a rotating cam 37 which is driven by means of the drive motor 47 of conveyer 25. When the plate 31 is lowered, the loaves are aligned by the edge of the plate 30 and held until the preceding group of loaves has been removed from a plate 50 at the bottom of the shoot on to one or other of conveyers 23, 24 by means of the conveyer 25 which comprises a pair of endless chains supporting at least one pusher bar 54, and either driven continuously in one direction or reciprocated. As the loaves pass from the conveyer 14 on to the shoot they are correctly spaced and orientated by means of guide arms 26 pivoted about an axis 28. In a modification, Fig. 7 (not shown), the groups of loaves are conveyed from the conveyer 25 to a conveyer pivoted at one end about a horizontal axis adjacent the conveyer 25 in order to be aligned with one or other of two further conveyers arranged for delivering the loaves to two stations having slicing and/or wrapping machines at different levels. The conveyer is raised and lowered by means of a cam and follower, controlled either by means of a timing device or in accordance with the demand at each slicing and/or wrapping machine. During the pivoting of the conveyer, its direction of rotation is reversed to prevent crushing of the loaves against the further conveyers.
Patent GB-845509-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to the manufacture of electron discharge devices
Inventor: LUBSZYNSKI HANS GERHARD
IPC: H01J9/20
Filed: 1955-11-26
Abstract: 845,509. Coating by vapour deposition. ELECTRIC & MUSICAL INDUSTRIES Ltd. Nov. 1, 1956 [Nov. 26, 1955], No. 33944/55. Class 82(2) [Also in Group XI] An evaporator comprises a tube 1 for containing material 6 to be evaporated and an electrical heating element 5 disposed in said tube for heating and evaporating said material, said tube having its ends closed as by plugs 2, 3 and having an aperture 7 through which evaporated material can issue. Tube 1 may consist of ceramic or quartz, and elements may be a tantalum ribbon. The evaporator may be charged with antimony trisulphide and inserted through a side tube in the envelope of a television pick-up tube so as to deposit a photoconductive layer on the window of the tube, preferably by evaporation in xenon.
Patent GB-168551-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in grinding or crushing machines
IPC: B02C17/06
Filed: 1920-12-01
Abstract: 168,551. Trent, W. E. Dec. 1, 1920. Ball and like mills. -A grinding or crushing machine consists of a rotary main grinding- chamber and one or more auxiliary grinding-chambers disposed alongside the main chamber and rotating therewith, with connections between the chambers to cause the material fed into the main chamber to travel lengthways therethrough and to enter the auxiliary chamber or chambers and travel lengthways through the same. As shown, the central main grinding-tube 5, Figs. 2' and 4, which is supported in bearings 3, 4 and has annular collars 6 to prevent lateral movement, has at its forward end a curved feed-shoot 7 which is supported by a bracket 11 and passes through a trough 10 as the tube rotates. The auxiliary grinding-tubes 20, 21 - - 25 are disposed around the tube 5 and secured thereon by rods 26 furnished with turn-buckles 27. The tubes are provided with grinding elements or rods 19, 28<1>, those in the auxiliary tubes being smaller than those in the main tube. Conduits 30 lead from one end of the tube 5 to the adjacent end of each outer tube, and the reduced material is discharged from each outer tube by curved pipes 32 delivering into a trough 33. The tube 5 is driven by gearing 12 from the driving-shaft 16. In a modification, Fig. 5, designed for dry grinding, the coal &c. is fed into the central tube 36 from a hopper 34 by a conveyer 35, and air is injected into the tube by a pipe 39 to carry the fine material through pipes 40 into the outer tubes 41. The reduced material passes by pipes 42 between the tubes to the opposite end of the central tube 36 which is separated from the remaining part of the tube by a partition 43. and then by a discharge pipe 44 to the dust-collector 45. The comminuted material settles in the lower part of the receptacle, and the air passes on by a pipe 46 to the compressor 47 to be again fed to the air-pipe 39.
Patent GB-767203-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in the treatment of nylon
IPC: B29C35/08
Filed: 1953-12-07
Abstract: The resistance of nylon to plastic flow at elevated temperatures is increased by irradiating the nylon with high energy electrons, the irradiation being carried out with a dosage of at least 5 X 107R.ALSO:The resistance of nylon to plastic flow at elevated temperatures is increased by irradiating the nylon with high energy electrons, the irradiation being carried out with a dosage of at least 5 X 107 R.
Patent GB-1393686-A (GB)
Title: Tap changing arrangements for amins transformers
IPC: G05F1/14
Filed: 1972-07-20
Abstract: 1393686 Automatic voltage regulation STANDARD TELEPHONES & CABLES Ltd 20 July 1972 34017/72 Heading G3X Tap-setting relays for a suoply transformer are cycled sequentially through all possible settings until a voltage derived from the transformer input lies within a pre-set range. As shown, main transformer 1 has tap contacts 2a-2c controlled by relays 2A-2C. In use, the input voltage is applied through an auxiliary transformer 3 to a rectifier 4 producing stabilized reference voltages V 1  V 2  in a circuit 7 to define a desired voltage range. The transformer 3 also supplies a circuit 5 which produces a D.C. voltage proportional to the peak to peak voltage of the A.C. supply, and a clock pulse generator 6 which drives a counter 11. Output signals from the counter drive the relays 2A-2C and simultaneously adjust the ratio of a potential divider 10. When the voltage taken from the divider lies within the desired range defined by voltages V 1 , V 2 , the counter outputs are inhibited so that the contacts 2a-2c are set to produce a desired output from transformer 1. If the input voltage should vary so that the voltage from divider 10 moves out of the desired range, the counter 11 causes the relays to operate in sequence until an appropiate setting is again reached.
Patent GB-507075-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to tubes, pipes, or like conduits
IPC: F16L9/04
Filed: 1937-12-08
Abstract: 507,075. Metal tubes. DAYA, W. Dec. 8, 1937, No. 34026. [Class 99 (ii)] A metal tube a, Fig. 1, for conveying fluids at high pressure is made thinner than is necessary to with. stand the internal pressure and is reinforced by a plurality of separate one piece, closed annular metallic bands or rings b located at intervals along the tube, the metal of said bands being of greater tensile strength than that of the tube. The bands are secured to the tube by shrinking, welding or rolling, and they may be of various crosssection, Fig. 3, and located in corresponding grooves in the tube.
Patent GB-878946-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to washing machines
Inventor: HALE ERNEST STANLEY
IPC: D06F37/08
Filed: 1957-10-31
Abstract: 878,946. Washing-machines. MANLOVE, ALLIOTT & CO. Ltd. Oct. 31, 1958 [Oct. 31, 1957], No. 34035/57. Class 138 (2). [Also in Group XIII]  An end loading washing-machine or drying tumbler has its rotary clothes cage or container 11 divided into two or more separate compartments 20, 21 by vertical partition(s) 22 provided with doors 26 which are closed when the machine is in operation and can be opened to allow the contents of the compartments to be removed through the end opening 15 of the cage.
Patent GB-343126-A (GB)
IPC: F02K7/00
Filed: 1929-11-08
Abstract: 343,126. Spray and pulverulentfuel burners. PADGETT, C. S., 4114, New Hampshire Avenue, Washington, U.S.A. Nov. 8, 1929, No. 34177. Convention date, Dec. 13, 1928. [Class 75 (i).] Reaction jets, particularly those described in Specification 341,871, are fed with liquid fuel atomized by steam derived from water jackets surrounding the jets. In the case of an aeroplane, air may replace the circulating water in the jackets and be utilized for atomizing the fuel when the supply of water is exhausted. Each jet-nozzle comprises a central tube 30, Fig. 5, through which the fuel passes, and a concentric tube 42 for the steam which issues through inclined passages 43 so as to form a whirling jet. Additional air is admitted through holes in the jacket casing, which holes may have spring-controlled flaps. According to the Specification as open to inspection under Sect. 91 (3) (a), pulverized fuel may be used instead of liquid fuel, Fig. 12 (Cancelled), showing a hopper 92 for pulverized solid fuel which is fed bv a worm 93 to the throat of an air scoop 96. The fuel is blown to a flared nozzle 97 provided with inclined vanes 98 and steam or air is supplied through an annular passage 99. This subjectmatter does not appear in the Specification as accepted.
Patent GB-943422-A (GB)
Title: Device for the mechanical cleaning of electrodes
IPC: G01N27/38
Filed: 1960-10-07
Abstract: 943,422. Construction of pH electrodes. SIEMENS & HALSKE A.G. Oct. 7, 1960 [Oct. 15, 1959], No.34384/60. Heading G1N. A device for the automatic cleaning of electrodes, such as glass electrodes for pH measurement, comprises an elastically displaceable surface which is periodically drawn across the electrode. A motor driven spindle 12 projects into the through tube 1. An arm 4, which carries a silicon rubber sleeve 3, is fixed to the spindle 12 by the hexagonal spindle 6 so that, when the arm 4 is rotating, the head of electrode 9 is periodically wiped. The electrode 9 being held in gland 11 and adjusted to a depth equal to that of measuring rod 8. The rotating arm 4 and its fixing 6 are accessible through the trap 17 for maintenance and replacement. The measuring rod 8 may be replaced by a resistance thermometer of similar shape which can be used as a guide for electrode positioning and for temperature compensation. The wiping material may be inelastic but elastically mounted around its periphery.
Patent GB-1003790-A (GB)
Title: New vat dyestuffs and processes for their manufacture
IPC: C09B9/00
Filed: 1962-09-07
Abstract: The invention comprises anthraquinone vat dyestuffs that are free from carboxylic acid amide groups and that contain at least one sulphonic acid group and/or one carboxyl group and at least one triazine ring having attached to the three carbon atoms two anthraquinonylamino groups or one or two vattable ring systems of the anthraquinone series which have at least five fused rings attached via amino and the remaining carbon atom or atoms having attached thereto an alkyl, aryl, primary amino, alkylamino, hydroxy or alkoxy group but no halogen atom.  The dyes are made by sulphonating an appropriate vat dyestuff, by hydrolysing a suitable vat dyestuff containing at least one sulphochloride group or by reacting amino-anthraquinones or amino-substituted vattable ring systems of at least five fused rings with halotriazines, reacting any halogen atoms attached to the triazine ring with water, alcohols, alkylamines or ammonia and, if no sulphonic acid or carboxyl group is present, sulphonating the product.  The dyes vat-dye and print cellulose textile materials in a variety of shades by the usual vat-dyeing and printing methods.  The preparation of certain dyes of the above type but containing no sulphonic or carboxylic acid group and of sodium (11 : 41-diaminoanthraquinonyl-21) benzoxazole-5-sulphonate is also described.
Patent GB-1441301-A (GB)
Title: Loose coiler
IPC: F15B11/02
Filed: 1973-07-19
Abstract: 1441301 Feeding strip; continuous casting TECHNICA-GUSS GmbH 19 July 1973 [25 July 1972] 34439/73 Headings B3E and B3F A loose coiler 1 for loosely coiling strip material 10 issuing from a source of the strip comprises a movable part mounted on wheels 11  for movement relative to the source and position-responsive control means, for varying the coiling speed in accordance with the speed at which the strip material issues from the source, operatively dependent on the position of the movable part of the coiler. The coiler comprises pairs of drive rolls 2-5, a bending cylinder 6, guiding rollers 7, 8 and lateral guiding rollers 9 and runs on rails 12. A hydraulic cylinder 13 is connected to the rails 12 and its piston is connected to the loose coiler and controls movement of the coiler during withdrawing of the material from the source (e.g. a continuous casting machine comprising a holding furnace, a mould, a withdrawing unit and a cutting device) and during coiling. Pipes 14, 15 lead to a hydraulic control device, fig. 2 (not shown); a computer may be used to ensure that the coiling speed is relatively constant and is dependent on the waiting time, withdrawing length and withdrawing time of the continuous casting machine. A switch cam 28 is provided on the frame of the coiler 1 for contact with limit switches 29-33 arranged on rails 12. The limit switches switch the driving motors of the driving rollers 2-5 into several speeds, or on or off.
Patent GB-1428723-A (GB)
Title: Rivet bushes
IPC: F16B37/00
Filed: 1973-07-19
Abstract: 1428723 Rivet bush PSM FASTENERS Ltd 7 May 1974 [19 July 1973] 34442/73 Heading F2H A rivet bush comprises a head portion 10 having a screw-threaded bore 12 and a hollow shank portion 18 having a non-screw-threaded inner surface 16 and a frusto-conical outer surface with its end having the larger diameter adjacent head portion 10 and of lesser diameter than the latter and which is formed with longitudinally extending teeth 20, each tooth extending from the smaller diameter end of the outer surface and terminating short of its larger end. The bore 12 may be a blind bore, as shown. Each tooth may extend over substantially 50% of the axial length of the outer surface of the shank 18, and the crest of each tooth may be collinear with the untoothed part of the shank 18. The end face 24 of the head portion may be undercut as shown. In use, end 22 of shank 18 may be inserted in a hole in sheet metal having a thickness less than the axial length of the untoothed part of shank 18, and the bush is driven in so that the untoothed part engages as an interference fit in the hole. When the end face 24 seats on the sheet metal around the hole, the shank is spread by a punch to clinch the bush in position (Fig. 3, not shown).