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Patent GB-661735-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to carton stapling machines
IPC: B31B50/68
Filed: 1949-07-14
Abstract: 661,735. Stapling machines. LARSSON, O. E. July 14, 1949 [Aug. 16, 1948], No. 18611/49. Class 89 (iii). In a stapling machine in which carton blanks 9 are fed past stapling mechanism 22 by feed belts 8 and pressure rollers 10, starting and stopping of the stapling mechanism is effected by the carton blanks through an electrical control comprising a spring-opened switch 16, which is closed by a blank 9, and remains closed until the blank clears it, and a bucket wheel 17, which by means of a vane wheel 19, momentarily closes a spring-opened switch 18 to energise a solenoid 20 which starts the stapling mechanism. The solenoid remains energised due to the closure of a switch 24 by its core 21 until the switch 16 is opened. Side guide and feed belts 7 are provided for the carton blanks.
Patent GB-1520112-A (GB)
Title: Lampholders
IPC: H01R33/46
Filed: 1976-05-17
Abstract: 1520112 Lamp holder WARD & GOLDSTONE Ltd 17 May 1976 [3 May 1975 9 March 1976] 18633/75 and 9400/76 Heading H2E A lamp holder comprises a plastics body 10 having a flange 12 and terminals 18 at one end and a bayonet fitting at the other end, a cap 22 covering the terminals and a cover 20 covering the bayonet fitting, the cap 22 being locked in position by a pawl 32 on circlip 28, engaging a recess 34 on the cap 22. The clip 28 is fixed to the flange 12 through lug 30 located in a gap 26 on the flange. In a modification (Fig. 3, not shown) the locking means comprise an aperture (40) on the cap through which a screw, not shown, extends in an aperture (42) on the body. Alternatively the screw may be omitted and a spring biased pawl (44, Fig. 4, not shown) provided in the aperture (42). In another modification (Fig. 5, not shown) the aperture (40) is located at the base of a groove (46) which extends around the outer surface of the cap, and one or both ends of a circlip located in the groove (46) extend in the aperture (42), which may be replaced by an annular groove on the body.
Patent GB-333681-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to metal drums, cans, casks and the like
IPC: B65D25/24
Filed: 1930-02-13
Abstract: 333,681. Bowman, A. Feb. 13, 1930. Foot-rings.-A cushioning-device in metal drums, cans, &c. comprises a rubber &c. rim a embracing the edge of the rim of the container c, a groove a<1> being provided for a non-adjustable fastening band whose ends are joined by passing one end through an eye in the other and bending over the free end. The rubber &c. rim may be cut from a length or may be a complete rim.
Patent GB-507384-A (GB)
Title: Improved cereal products and a process for their manufacture
IPC: A23L1/164
Filed: 1938-06-24
Abstract: 507,384. Conditioning grain ; reducing grain. BERRY, A. E. June 24, 1938, No. 18786. [Class 58] [Also in Group VI] In making flaked cereal products from cereal grains, for example maize, oats or rice, by conditioning and softening by addition of water, cracking by passage through rollers to release the germ and form grits, separating the grits from the meal and germs and cooking them, for example with steam, and flaking by passage between rollers which may be heated,' steep water rich in organic phosphates and protein produced in the manufacture of starch from maize by steeping the maize in water containing a small percentage of sulphur dioxide is added at a stage in the process before the finished cereal product is obtained. The flakes as they leave the flaking rollers may be treated with the steep water, for example by spraying on 15-25 per cent by weight of the steep water, and arc then passed to a drier to remove excess water and may then be cooked to impart the desired crispness. In a modification, the steep water is alternatively or additionally added by using it for the preliminary conditioning and softening of the grain. The steep water may be filtered and concentrated to 15-18‹ BeaumÚ before use. The cooking prior to flaking partially disrupts the starch cells and solubilizes the starch. The product may be used for direct consumption, or in the fermentation industry.
Patent GB-1086226-A (GB)
Title: Cavity gutters or trays
IPC: E04B1/64
Filed: 1965-05-04
Abstract: 1,086,226. Cavity gutters; flashing. P. B. SHILLABEER. May 2, 1966 [May 4, 1965], No. 18809/65. Addition to 1,007,225. Heading E1W.  A cavity gutter or tray of liquid-impermeable material has an upturned lip 2, Fig. 1 and an upturned end wall 3 at two adjacent edges of a planar, portion 1, and a flashing 5 of pliable material at or near the edge of the planarportion opposite the upturned lip 2, the planar portion being adapted to be placed horizontally in the outer skin of a cavity wall W, Fig. 3, with the upturned lip within the cavity and the flushing outside the wall. In use a plurality of the cavity gutters would be in an overlapping formation to follow the shape of a lower roof R adjoining the wall, with the flashings 5 extending to that lower roof, as shown in Fig. 3. If the roof R is a ridge roof, a set of gutters having the end wall 3 at one end of the planar portion and a set of gutters having the end wall 3 at the opposite end of the planar portion are necessary. The cavity gutters may have two end walls 3. The planar portion 1, the lip 2 and wall 3 may be made of galvanised metal sheet and the flashing 5 of lead sheet. Plastics material may also be used.
Patent GB-644045-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to bodies for automobile vehicles
IPC: B60J7/02
Filed: 1947-07-15
Abstract: 644,045. Vehicle hoods. CROUCHER, A. H. July 15, 1947, No. 18875 [Class 108(i)] A vehicle is provided with a hood 2 which is moved hydraulically from a position covering the boot of the vehicle to a raised position over the occupants. The hood 2 is provided with (runners which engage rollers mounted on. the upper ends 25 of the struts 6, and at its rear end the hood 2 is secured to trolleys attached to the chains 30 which are constrained to run in channels in the body. Movement of the hood 2 is controlled by a jack 11 acting on the cam 12 which is mounted for oscillating movement in rollers 13; as the cam 12 moves to the left (Fig. 7) the cam follower 14 and the rack 16 secured to it move upwardly, thus rotating the double gear wheel 18, 20 and elevating the struts 6 which carry the hood 2. As the cam 12 moves to the left the gear wheel 27 and sprocket wheels 29 attached to the same shaft are rotated by the rack 26 forming part of the cam 12. The sprockets 29 engage the chains 30 and the rear part of the hood 2 which is secured to trolleys attached to the chains 30 is moved upwardly and forwardly, the hood extending forwardly in cantilever fashion from the struts 6. Specification 650,782, [Group XXVII], is referred to.
Patent GB-147005-A (GB)
Title: Process for making coloured pictures
IPC: G03C5/48
Filed: 1920-07-06
Abstract: 147,005. Traube, A. Feb. 1, 1916, [Convention date]. Colour photography; toning.-For making coloured photographs a copper toned silver print is dyed with an organic basic dyestuff. Copper toned prints containing copper ferrocyanide may be dyed strongly to produce various tones, and for transparencies the silver ferricyanide can be dissolved away by a weak soda fixing-solution. Methylene blue (1 in 10,000) preferably with the addition of acetic acid may be used. Without removing the silver, very transparent pictures can be obtained by coating with a varnish such as a solution of damar in benzene. Specifications 10898/04, 21584/06, and 3666/15, are referred to.
Patent GB-319086-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to record-card-controlled statistical machines
Filed: 1928-06-29
Abstract: 319,086. Thomas, A., Brougham, L. E., and Accounting & Tabulating Corporation of Great Britain, Ltd. June 29, 1928. Statistical machines; taking totals and subtotals.-A record-cardcontrolled statistical machine has means for automatically taking a total from one or more of a number of accumulated sub-totals on the passage through the machine of a specially perforated card. The invention is described as an attachment for a machine, such as that set out in Specification 26896/13, in which totalling may be suppressed on any adding unit, until the accumulated subtotals are taken when desired by manual means. In such machines nought shutter combs have been provided which prevent the printing sectors advancing when there is no selection but which are moved directly by a cam at totalling. In the present invention this comb is operated indirectly by a special card co-acting with a special sensing pin W. When this pin is allowed to rise by the presence of the special cam it raises a lever 1 about a pivot 2 on the bracket 3 by which the attachment is mounted on the machine. A pin 4 or lever 1 raises a second co-axial lever 5 the outer end of which raises a slider 6 (shouldered at 5a) sliding on pins 9 and 6a and pivoting about 6<a>. The pin 9 is attached to the nought shutter comb and an undercut shoulder 10 on slider 6 co-acts with a pin 12 on a plate 11 also pivoted at 6<a>. The plate is operated by the usual total cam 13. A lever 14, 15 pivoted at 16 to the bracket 3 co-acts with pin 9 and has a hooked end 15<a> which, under the action of a spring 17, locks up the lever 5 when the latter is raised. At a normal totalling operation the cam 13 swings plate 11 about pivot 6<a> but as slide 6 is in its lower position the pin 12 clears the shoulder 10. If the special accumulative total card passes, pin W is operated to raise slider 6 so that when subsequently cam 13 moves plate 11, pin 12 meets shoulder 10 and rocks slide 6 about pivot 6<a> so that the pin 9 is moved to operate the shutter comb for taking a total. End 15<a> has locked up the lever 5 and as pin 9 moves over it rocks lever 14, 15 to release lever 5 again. In order to disable the above device and permit every motion of cam 13 operating the comb shutter in normal manner, a manual lever 22 is used. A cam 20 on the spindle 21 of this lever lies in a hole 19 in the lever 5. When the cam lies freely in the hole the lever 5 is operated by pin W but when the cam is across the hole the lever 5 is maintained raised so that shoulder 10 is in the path of pin 12. Fig. 5 shows the attachment mounted on the machine described in Specification 26896/13.
Patent GB-596194-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to the manufacture of preparations of tribromphenols
Filed: 1945-07-24
Abstract: An insecticidal solution or stable dispersion comprises one or both tribromphenols, methyl alcohol, sulphonated castor oil or other dispersing agent and ammonia and/or soft soap.  The compositions may be used for spraying bedding, clothing, hessian sacks &c., and may contain hexachlorethane when they are suitable for mothproofing.
Patent GB-257394-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in brooms and the like
IPC: A46B9/08
Filed: 1925-07-27
Abstract: 257,394. Leather, C. L. July 27, 1925. Handles with clamping retaining-devices for brushes. - The stock of a broom is adjustably secured in a holder and the effective length of the bristles may be varied by adjustment of the stock or by other means independent of the position of the stock in the holder. As shown, a frame comprising a base 1, channelled sides 5, and cross-strips 8, is adapted to receive the stock 4 of a broom. Bolt-holes are provided in the sides 5, strips 8, and stock 4, and the resiliency of the broom may be varied by adjusting the position of the stock 4, or the position of the cross-strips 8. According to the Provisional Specification, the frame may be of box-like form with the bottom open for insertion of the stock.
Patent GB-632779-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to wireless signalling systems
IPC: G01S1/02
Filed: 1945-07-26
Abstract: 632,779. Radio navigation. WILLIAMS, F. C., and MOODY, N. F. July 26, 1945, No. 19225. [Class 40 (vii)] Relates to radio beacons suitable for C.W. or pulse operation, transmitting a bearing-dependent signal whereby a mobile craft fitted with a non-directive receiver can determine its bearing with respect to the beacon. According to the invention the beacon comprises means for transmitting continuously an omnidirectional radiation pattern and for transmitting sequentially during spaced time intervals two differentlydirected directional radiation patterns so that the amplitude of the signal received at the craft varies discontinuously to extents which are indicative of the bearing. As shown in Figs. 1 and 2, the central aerial 4, with an omnidirectional characteristic 1, is energized continuously from the transmitter 10 and the N.S. and E.W. pairs of aerials 5, 8 and 6, 7 with figure eight polar diagrams 2 and 3, respectively, are alternately energized for displaced quarter periods 2 and 4, Fig. 3, of the rotation period of the rotating switch 9. Fig. 3 (III) shows the amplitudes of the signals received from the beacon on a bearing angle # of 60 degrees, the two increments in signal strength being proportional respectively to cos # and sin #, so that the bearing # is a function of the ratio of the two increments. The quadrantal ambiguity is resolved by taking into account the relative polarities of the two increments since the opposite lobes of each figure-eight polar diagram are respectively in phase and out of phase with the omni-directional characteristic and the increments will therefore be positive in some quadrants and negative in others. At the receiver, Fig. 4 (not shown), the rectified output Fig. 3 (III), is differentiated, Fig. 5 (I,) and after linear amplification applied. to a sin/cosine potentiometer, which provides two outputs, Fig. 5 (II) and (III), proportional respectively to cos # # and sin #, where # is the angular position of the potentiometer shaft. The two outputs are applied to a display unit where the trailing edge pulses x and yare selected, integrated and applied to a centre-zero meter which reads zero when the applied signals are of equal amplitude, which condition obtains when # is equal to #. In order to select the pulses x and y, a reference waveform, Fig. 5 (IV), syn.- chronous with the beacon aerial switch, is provided by modulation of the radiation from the omni-directional aerial, and this is separated at the receiver and used to derive two sets of selector pulses, Fig. 5 (V) and (VI), as described in Specification 630,367. When the beacon transmitter is pulse-modulated the reference frequency may be transmitted by widthmodulating the transmitter pulses or the pulses radiated by the omni-directional aerial only. Further width modulation may be applied for communicating between the beacon and the mobile craft.
Patent GB-321199-A (GB)
Title: New or improved means for reproducing sound from gramophone records
IPC: H04R7/12
Filed: 1928-07-03
Abstract: 321,199. Thompson, J. D. July 3, 1928. Diaphragms.-A relatively large diaphragm c, which has a movement as a whole with the needle or stylus holder in addition to a vibrating movement when reproducing sound vibrations, is operably combined with a baffle, a. part or the whole of which is stationary, in such manner that air is prevented from passing too readily from one side of the diaphragm to the other in all working positions of the diaphragm. The baffle may be in the form of (1) a cylindrical tunnel in which the diaphragm c is adapted to slide, (2) a collapsable cylinder fixed between the diaphragm and a stationary baffle plate p as shown in Fig. 7, or (3) a cylindhical extension of the diaphragm slidable within an aperture in the stationary 7, or (3) a cylindrical extension of the diaphragm c may be of paper, treated fabric, metal, &c., and of disc or conical type, and if desired, a cylindrical extension r, coated with velvet s, Fig. 4, may be provided at the periphery of the diaphragm.
Patent GB-798389-A (GB)
Title: Apparatus for down-ending unattached movable articles
Inventor: COLLYER LEONARD CHARLES
IPC: B21C47/24
Filed: 1956-06-22
Abstract: 798,389. Load handling machines. STEEL CO. OF CANADA, Ltd. June 22, 1956, No. 19334/56. Class 78 (3). A coil handling apparatus comprises a cradle 13 which is secured to a shaft 19 arranged at an angle of 45 degrees to the horizontal, the arrangement being such that on rotation of this shaft through 180 degrees, by a motor-driven reduction gear 12 and bevel wheels 22, 23, the axis of a coil 29 in the cradle is moved from the horizontal to the vertical. The cradle is secured to a ring 25 which is supported on tapered rollers 28.
Patent GB-147440-A (GB)
Title: Arrangement for locating underground or hidden electrical conductors
IPC: G01V3/10
Filed: 1920-07-07
Abstract: 147,440. Ges. f³r drahtlose Telegraphie. Nov. 23, 1917, [Convention date]. Drawings to Specification. Locating conductors.-In an apparatus for locating hidden electrical conductors such as buried cables or pipe lines, a coil with a strong leakage field is associated with an oscillationgenerating cathode tube. A conductor in the vicinity of the coil will then affect the frequency of the oscillations, the change being observed by means of a heterodyne detector.
Patent GB-402183-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to cigarette making machines
IPC: A24C5/32
Filed: 1932-07-11
Abstract: 402,183. Cigarette-making machines ; packeting. MOLINS, W. E., 2, Evelyn Street, Deptford, London. July 11, 1932, No. 19537. [Class 130.] Deflecting blades 6 which may project radially from drums 2, 3, 4 sweep cigarettes from a continuous - rod machine into rows of unequal number on a transverse belt 5. The number of deflectors for each row is proportional to the number of cigarettes in the corresponding layer of the packet. As shown, the drums at each revolution deliver two groups of seven and an intervening group of six. Each drum has twenty peripheral slots, six or seven of which are occupied by blades. The slots in the different drums are slightly out of alignment to allow for the time the cigarettes take to travel from one drum to the next. Leaf springs 9 guide the cigarettes as they are laterally diverted. Specifications 362,532 and 395,029 are referred to.
Patent GB-482096-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to the production of crystals
IPC: C30B7/00
Filed: 1937-07-14
Abstract: <PICT:0482096/III/1> Large crystals of Rochelle salts &c. are formed by circulating a solution in a system comprising at least two vessels 4, 6 in communication with each other and maintained at different temperatures, keeping the solution in the warmer vessel 4 in a saturated condition by passing it through crystals so that it enters the cooler vessel 6 in a supersaturated condition, and growing a crystal in the latter vessel.  The vessels 4, 6 are immersed in liquid in chambers 3, 5 at different temperatures, and the solution is circulated by a pump 25 which forces it through a filter 19 and a layer of crystals enclosed between the filter and a perforated tube 18, which leads the solution to the pipe 7 opening into a vessel 6. The liquid in the vessels 3, 5 may be heated by electric elements 10, 11, 12.
Patent GB-1298440-A (GB)
Title: Method of and apparatus for mixing gaseous or vaporous fluid media
IPC: B01F11/02
Filed: 1969-12-19
Abstract: 1298440 Mixing by sonic vibrations DUMAG OFFENE HANDELSGESELLSCHAFT DR TECHN LUDWIG KALUZA & CO 19 Dec 1969 [23 Dec 1968 9 Jan 1969 8 April 1969] 19597/72 Divided out of 1293360 Heading B1C [Also in Division G5] A device for mixing gases, vapours and atomised sprays, and especially for mixing a combustion gas with air, comprises coaxial annular nozzles 24, 30 with an annular groove 31 arranged in the path of the fluid from one of the nozzles to impart to that fluid an ultrasonic vibration, or a sonic vibration in excess of 3 KHz. In another embodiment (see Fig. 2, not shown) the annular groove (46) is provided in a mushroom head (43) carried on a stem, and faces the mixer nozzle (45). In a modification (not depicted) of either embodiment the annular groove in the position shown is replaced by a deflecting surface which deflects the fluid flow towards an annular groove in the end face of the centre portion 23 (52).
Patent GB-1340319-A (GB)
Title: Coin-box telephone
IPC: H04M17/02
Filed: 1972-04-27
Abstract: 1340319 Coin box telephones INTERNATIONAL STANDARD ELECTRIC CORP 27 April 1972 [5 May 1971] 19627/72 Heading H4K A coin box telephone has a coin collection system with a coin store for each denomination of coin and is provided with a credit indicator and debit indicator arranged to separate the coins for collection and return by ensuring that sufficient coins of a lower denomination are retained in the stores so that change can be given for the next higher value coin and where additionally inserted coins may be either collected, stored or returned. In the schematic diagram shown the number of coins stored is signalled on lines 5 and shown in coin counters 12 and their value in credit counters 13. Debiting pulses applied on line 11 are totalled in counter 17 and the amount subtracted from the total in credit counters 13, the amount in credit is displayed at 18. The system described has coins stored in denominations of 10 pfennig, 1 DM and 5DM and ensures that nine 10 pfennig and four 1 DM coins are retained in the coin stores. When these values are reached then a 5DM coin, if present, will be collected when the call charge reaches this value. When the call ends the credit counters 13 will count down to zero and coins will be returned accordingly. If the lower coin denominations are insufficient to meet the call charge then the next higher denomination is collected and all the lower value coins returned. If 10 pfennig coins are inserted during the call a test is made to see whether they should be collected or returned. Higher denomination coins are returned if the appropriate store is full. For a telephone with a disconnect key it is stated that coins can be added so that the debit can be exactly met.
Patent GB-1194765-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Casting Wheels
IPC: B22D11/06
Filed: 1968-04-25
Abstract: 1,194,765. Continuous casting. SOUTHWIRE CO. 25 April, 1968 [27 April, 1967], No. 19679/68. Heading B3F. In a grooved-wheel-and-band type of casting machine, a ring 20 having the mould groove G and cooling ribs 22 is clamped between two annular flanged members 18, 21 by nuts and bolts (31) which unite them; one member 18 has a bevelled surface 34, which co-operates with a complementary surface 16 on an annular projection 15 on a disc plate 14 on which the assembly of annular members 18, 20, 21 is supported by bolts 36 screwed into the edge of the plate 14 to attach the member 18. The plate 14 is mounted on an axle (A) by which the wheel is rotated. The co-acting surfaces 25, 26 of the ring 20 and annular members 18, 21 are complementarily bevelled. Flanges 29 act as splash shields against coolant or melt.