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Patent GB-762072-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to hose end fittings
IPC: F16L33/207
Filed: 1952-04-07
Abstract: 762,072. Hose couplings. BRITISH TYRE & RUBBER CO., Ltd., and BEAZLEY, T. A. April 2, 1953 [April 7, 1952], No. 8866/52. Class 99(1) In hose end fittings for hose having a wire. &c. reinforcement 31, Fig. 1, between an outer cover 13 and a lining 14, wherein the end of the hose is gripped between an insert 10 and a ferrule 18, a sleeve 15, preferably made of aluminuium or soft brass, is fitted between the insert and a portion of the reinforcement from which the lining 14 has been removed, and the inner surface of the ferrule, or a liner fitted within the ferrule, has projections 28, shown as a sharp edge screw thread, adapted to cut into the cover 13 and positioned to overlie the sleeve. As shown, a flange 17 on the ferrule is held between a shoulder 16 on the insert and a circlip 19 fitted in a groove 20, and the insert has two sets of grooves 11, 12, the former providing a grip on the lining 14 and the latter digging into the sleeve 15. The end 30 of the lining 14 is separated from the reinforcement 31, and an extension of the sleeve 15 forming an annular flap 25 is inserted in the pocket thus - provided. Finally, the ferrule is swaged to reduce its diameter and squeeze the parts into sealing engagement. In Fig. 3 (not shown); the threads 28 are formed on a separate liner screwed on to the hose before the. ferrule is fitted. In Fig. 6, the sleeve 15 has a groove 40 to receive a rubber ring of round cross-section, which is distorted when the insert 10 is pushed home and is further distorted to the shape shown at 42 by the swaging operation. In Fig. 7, an insert 50 and a sleeve 51 are made of steel and are brazed together before assembly or are integral, and annular ribs 53 on the sleeve provide a grip on the reinforcement 31. Specifications 762,073, 762,086 and 762,165 are referred to
Patent GB-182171-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in oil or like presses or expressing apparatus of the worm screw type
IPC: B30B9/12
Filed: 1921-03-23
Abstract: 182,171. Schueler, G. R. March 23, 1921. Fats and fatty oils, extracting by pressure. In an extrusion press the worm is constructed in longitudinal sections which are arranged side by side around the worm shaft. In the preferred form shown, the faces of the threads a of each section A are widened towards a part a<1> near the delivery end of each section and are then narrowed &c. to fit the ends of the threads on the adjoining section, and the bottom of the space between each two threads on each section is carried up to form a gradually rounded ridge a<2> near the delivery end, which ridge is then rounded off at a<x> to the level of the space on the adjoining section, whereby the inner face of the compressed material is kneaded and the formation of a skin thereon prevented. One or both sides of each section are formed with recesses a<3> or with grooves a<5>, and preferably the back part of the side is cut away to form recesses a<z>, to allow the oil to escape to longitudinal grooves b in the worm shaft B and to a receiver C and a storage tank. The sections are secured to the worm shaft, as by engaging flats on the backs with flats b<1> on the shaft, and by engaging the tapered ends a<6> with coned fixed collars D, D'. The worm may be of a uniform or a varied taper, of the same diameter throughout, or it may be partly tapered and partly cylindrical. The compression chamber corresponds more or less in shape with the taper or other general form of the worm, and is stepped, corrugated, or the like across the line of travel of the compressed material so as to knead it and prevent a skin forming on the outer face thereof. It may be made of rings E or staves having grooves or passages, preferably between each two rings or staves, to allow the oil to escape to a casing F, trough G, and the storage tank. The material is fed through the space T and the worm rotated in any suitable manner. The material is expelled through an adjustable opening between the bottom E<1> of the pressure chamber and a pressure member, preferably a ring J with a tapered end. The ring J is shown supported on a thrust block L having arms l through each of which passes a threaded spindle M resiliently supported by the trough G and provided with a hand-wheel M<1>.
Patent GB-416873-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to dynamo regulators
IPC: H02J7/22
Filed: 1933-03-24
Abstract: 416,873. Automatic electromagnetic regulators. C. A. V.-BOSCH, Ltd., GLASER, W. H., and WOOD, N. R., Warple Way, Acton, London. March 24, 1933, No. 8932. [Class 38 (iv).] A dynamo a is provided with two shunt field windings b, c and a series winding d each shunt winding being controlled by a separate regulator k, k provided with a series coil l, a shunt coil m, an opposing or bucking coil n and a compensating coil s, the contacts p of each regulator being arranged to insert or remove a resistance q in the circuit of the corresponding field winding and at the same time energize or de-energize the bucking winding n. The compensating coils s are connected in series, are arranged to have opposite effects on their regulators and are connected across the ends of the field windings b, c so that they are energized by the difference in the potential across these windings and thus ensure fair division of the regulating action between the regulators. A resistance t may be connected between the junction of the two windings s and one terminal of the generator. The compensating windings s may also perform the functions of the bucking windings n if they are wound oppositely to one another and to their respective shunt windings m, their end terminals being connected to the fixed contacts p of their respective regulator contacts as shown in the Figure and their junction point through a common regulating resistance q, which replaces resistances q, q and is connected, as is the resistance t, to one side of the generator. Resistances r prevent sparking.
Patent GB-346953-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to means for lubricating "bowden wire" mechanism
IPC: F16C1/24
Filed: 1930-03-20
Abstract: 346,953. Lubricating Bowden-wire mechanism. LEES, A. M., 29, Crags Road. Paisley. March 20, 1930, No. 8938. [Class 12 (ii).] In Bowden-wire mechanism wherein the end of the outer covering 4 of the cable 7 is secured, as by means of a gland nut 10 and packing 11, Fig. l, in a body 3 having a passage 6, through which the cable extends and having also a hole 15 adapted for the periodical introduction of lubricant under pressure into the passage 6 and thence into the covering 4, escape of lubricant from the passage 6 is prevented by means of packing 13 pressed on to the cable by a threaded block 14. The block 14 may force the packing 13 against a member 25, Fig. 10, which in turn forces packing 26 into a tapered recess 27 so as to secure the covering 4. As shown in Fig. 3, the covering 4 is secured in a member 16 threaded into the body 3 so as to compress the packing 13 on to the cable, the member having an annular recess 17 and holes 18 establishing communication between the lubricant supply hole 15 and the interior of the member. Alternatively, the packing may be arranged within the member 16 and compressed by a spring. A conical washer 21, Fig. 6, may be arranged within the member 16 between the passage 15 and the covering 4 to act as a non-return valve. In another arrangement, the supply 8, Fig. 7, to which the cable 7 is secured is formed with an extension 22 adapted to be held forcibly against the end of the passage 6 during introduction and distribution of lubricant so as to prevent escape thereof, the nipple being so held either by the action of the mechanism in its inoperative position or by hand; or the operating lever 1 or the nipple block 9 or a washer, loosely or rigidly mounted on the cable, may be adapted to close the passage. Specifications 243,532, 243,533, and 282,984, [all in Class 12 (ii), Lubricating passages &.c.], are referred to.
Patent GB-580072-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in electric high-pressure gaseous discharge lamps
IPC: H01J61/86
Filed: 1944-05-10
Abstract: 580,072. Discharge lamps. GENERAL ELECTRIC CO., Ltd., and NELSON, E. H. May 10, 1944, No. 8950. [Class 39 (i)] In a high-pressure vapour discharge lamp having activated portions on the electrodes to assist starting, the electrodes 5 project upwards from the bottom of the lamp and are so shaped that the tips 7 are closer together than the distance between an activated portion 6 and the nearest part of the other electrode. When the apparatus is in steady running condition, the arc is then confined to the tips of the electrodes. The envelope consists of a vitreous tube 2 sealed at its lower end by a plug 3 of vitreous material, the lower ends 9 of the electrodes being pinched between the tube 2 and plug 3. Specification 384,067 is referred to.
Patent GB-314321-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to combined calendars and stationery holders
IPC: G09D3/10
Filed: 1928-03-24
Abstract: 314,321. Young, C. H. March 24, 1928. Calendars and date indicators. -A base or holder for a writing pad and other articles of stationery is combined with a strip calendar 7, Fig. 1, which is wound between rollers 10, 11 supported between upright members 9, Fig. 3, on a slab 8 fitted within an aperture in the base 1 and secured against shoulders 13 by glue or other means. A transparent casing 2 may enclose the calendar, the casing and base 1 being preferably made of glass and moulded in a single piece. A guide roller 12 is provided to hold the calendar strip against the glass, and the rear of the casing is provided with an aperture 14 through which a finger can be inserted to move the strip. A writing pad 16 is held against a lip or flange 15 on the casing by a spring 17 disposed beneath it. In a modification the calendar strip is wound transversely within a desk-like casing; and in another modification it is wound vertically between two horizontal rollers.
Patent GB-995224-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to a hermetically sealed window and blind unit
IPC: E06B9/264
Filed: 1964-03-03
Abstract: 995,224. Sealed double-glazed unit enclosing blind. POLARPANE CORPORATION. March 3, 1964 [March 4, 1963], No. 8979/64. Heading E1R. A sealed double-glazed unit enclosing a louvre-type blind comprises a pair of glass panes 12, 13 hermetically sealed with a polysulphide seal 15 to a divider frame of hollow members 23 with a peripheral cover 66, and within the sealed space 14 a series of hollow slats 16, mounted for rotation in opposite sides of the frame and each having a pinion 37 operated through a rack 57 driven by a rotary circular magnet 46 within the sealed space 14 through worm and gear mechanism 45, 48 through tooth wheel 56 engaging the rack and the tilt of the slats is controlled by a manually adjustable rotatable circular magnet 58 outside of the sealed space 14. The slats are formed in elliptical section of one piece sheet aluminium bent at an intermediate line and joined together at the longitudinal edges by an overlapping edge 27. The slats may have rectangular, diamond or other section and are provided with nylon etc. inserts 28, 32 for coupling them to the driving shafts 51 or 33 and the pivot pins 31.
Patent GB-630451-A (GB)
Title: Improvements connected with cutting raw or crude india rubber
IPC: B29B15/02
Filed: 1947-04-03
Abstract: 630,451. Machines for cutting indiarubber. WILLIAMS, H. R. April 3, 1947, No. 9062. [Classes 70 and 87 (ii)] A mass of raw indiarubber is cut into slabs, slices or chunks by passing a plurality of spaced runs or stretches of electrically heated wire or wires through the mass. In a preferred apparatus a rectangular frame 11 provided at its ends with grooved guide wheels 12 which move up and down in uprights (not shown) is fitted with a plurality of resistance wires 15. These wires may be placed from side to side as well as from end to end. The expansion of the wires is taken up by wing nuts 24 acting on screw threaded stems 22. The frame 11 may be partially counterbalanced by counterweights attached to the end of ropes passing over pulleys.
Patent GB-781328-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to the production of moulds, cores and other shaped articles of bonded granular materials
Inventor: SNELSON DONALD HORACE
IPC: B22C9/12
Filed: 1955-03-29
Abstract: Shaped articles of granular material bound with a sodium silicate base binder, are subjected to a reduced pressure before or simultaneously to treating the article with a gaseous hardening agent.  Air is thereby at least partially removed from the pores of the article to facilitate interaction of the binder and the hardening agent e.g. CO2 gas.  The article may be placed in a chamber which is partially or completely evacuated and CO2 is then introduced, or the article may be subjected to reduced pressure on one side while CO2 gas is applied to the other.
Patent GB-196597-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in containers for keeping cool ice cream and other commodities
IPC: F25D3/00
Filed: 1923-04-04
Abstract: 196,597. Glacifer Co., (Assignees of Graham, J. E.). April 24, 1922, [Convention date]. Refrigerators, domestic and like.-Ice-cream or other commodities are placed in a container 12 housed within an inner casing 7 separated from an outer casing 1 by insulating material 8. Wooden blocks 5, 9, 13, 14 are provided at the base and top of the refrigerator respectively and a layer of cork 10 is provided on which the icecream container rests. The cover comprises wooden blocks 16, 17 bolted together, with a folding cage 20, 21 depending therefrom in which is housed a container 22 for the refrigerant or cooling medium. A spring strip 26 engaging in slots in the block 13 effects closure of the refrigerator.
Patent GB-143494-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to machines for the manufacture of perforated fuel balls
IPC: B30B11/16
Filed: 1920-03-31
Abstract: 143,494. Liais, L. A. A. May 20, 1919, [Convention date]. Rolling-machines.-In roller machines for the manufacture of perforated fuel balls, a pair of reciprocating plates H, I are symmetrically disposed about the perforating-pins E to prevent the material adhering to the pins and to force it into the moulds K, L. As shown, the plates H, I are supported by rods F, G, operated by cranks. M, N. The devices H, I, may be combined with the pressing-rollers described in Specification 140,443.
Patent GB-590161-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in filters
Filed: 1945-04-17
Abstract: 590,161. Filters. MADE, J. VAN DER. April 17, 1945, No. 9575. Convention date, April 25, 1944. [Class 46] A filter 1 is provided with a false bottom 2 fitted with nozzles 14, each consisting of two chambers 16, 19 separated by a partition 11 which carries a tube 18, depending into the chamber 17 for filtered water, the lower chamber 19 communicating with the chamber 17 through an orifice 20. The walls of the chambers 16, 19 are formed with slots which prevent passage of the sand or other filtering material 3. The filtering material is cleansed by back flow of water through inlet 6 and compressed air through inlet 7.
Patent GB-833407-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to electric digital-to-analogue converters
IPC: H03M1/00
Filed: 1958-03-25
Abstract: 833,407. Electric selective signalling systems. WESTERN ELECTRIC CO. Inc. March 25, 1958 [April 5, 1957], No. 9582/58. Class 40 (1). [Also in Group XXXVI] An analogue converter for producing an electric current or potential analogue of the value of the sum of the products of magnitudes of a plurality of signal currents or voltages by respective constant factors, comprises a plurality of signal windings, means for respectively applying said signal currents or voltages to said signal windings, a plurality of load windings, a plurality of magnetic cores linking said signal windings to said load windings, coupling means, means for applying an alternating supply voltage across said load windings and said coupling means in series, a load and rectifying means for connecting said coupling means to said load, the relative cross-section areas of said cores and/or the relative numbers of turns of said signal and/or load windings being weighted in accordance with said constant factors so as to produce said analogue in said load. As described a digital representation of a multi-digit radix r number, each digit a (O # s # r - 1) of the number being represented by a current of magnitude sI, is converted into a current analogue through an output load. In a first embodiment, Fig. 2, the currents representing the digits of the number are caused to flow through input windings 21, 23, 25, 27 of a linear magnetic amplifier of the kind described in the article " The Magnetic Amplifier," by W. C. Johnson, in " Electrical Engineering," July 1953, Volume 72, pages 683-588, which is referred to, having load windings 5 and 7, the number of turns of the input windings being in the ratio of 1 : : r : r<2> : r<3>, and as a result a rectified current analogue is caused to flow through an output load 17. Radices 2 and 3 are considered in detail and in respect of radix 3 it is stated that each input digit could be represented by one of the currents + I, O and - I, using the code described in Specification 734,830 which is referred to. In the case of a radix of 2 a second embodiment (Fig. 5, not shown) is described in which each input winding is preceded by a bi-state magnetic amplifier to minimize errors caused by variations in the input currents. In a third embodiment (Fig. 6, not shown) four magnetic amplifiers arranged to have a common output load are employed, one for each digit of the number, and their load windings, as opposed to their input windings, are weighted. It is stated that similar results could be achieved bv weighting the cross-section area, of the cores instead of the windings.
Patent GB-556875-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to distribution of telephonic signals
IPC: H04H20/77
Filed: 1942-07-10
Abstract: 556,875. Distributing music &c. REDIFFUSION, Ltd., and ADORJAN, P. July 10, 1942, No. 9583. [Classes 40 (iv)] Programme signals are applied to a distribution network by frequency-modulation of a carrier and each receiving station is provided with a limiter for levelling the amplitude of the side-bands before demodulation to compensate for the non-linear attenuation of the network. Such signals may be transmitted over a phantom circuit provided by two audio-frequency channels. Two or more programmes may be transmitted on different carriers over the same network.
Patent GB-375846-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in soles for footwear
IPC: A43B7/06
Filed: 1931-03-30
Abstract: 375,846. Ventilating boots &c. MAVAUT, O., 85, Rue du Bois de Linthout, WoluwÚ St. Lambert, Brussels, Belgium. March 30, 1931, No. 9594. Convention date, April 3, 1930. [Class 17 (ii).] Soles of rubber or like material for boots &c. are provided with one or more cavities 13 in the inner face at a central thickened portion to a depth of about half the thick. ness of the sole and in direct communication with the outer face of the sole through apertures 21. A closing member 14, which may be separate from or integral with an insole 19, is inserted in the cavity 13, which is in indirect communication with perforations 20 in the insole through channels 14, .. 17. Filtering material may be placed in the cavity 13, as shown.
Patent GB-456060-A (GB)
Title: Manufacture of aqueous solutions of addition compounds of alkylacridinium salts with heavy metal salts
IPC: C07D219/08
Filed: 1935-03-27
Abstract: Water-soluble organic acid salts of acridinium bases are mixed with heavy metal salts in aqueous solution to give addition compounds, or the bicarbonate of an acridinium base is dissolved in an organic acid which forms with the base a salt readily soluble in water, and a heavy metal salt is added.  The addition compounds are more soluble than the acridinium salts and are used pharmaceutically.  Organic acid salts of acridinium bases specified are the salts of 3 : 6-diamino-10-methylacridinium hydroxide with the following acids: acetic, glycollic, aminoacetic, citric, quinic, mandelic and lactic acids.  Addition compounds specified are those from the lactate of the above-mentioned base and copper acetate or lead acetate and from the acetate and copper acetate.  The alkylacridinium compounds may be substituted in 10-position by methyl, ethyl, propyl, a -hydroxypropyl or butyl radicles and may be substituted in the nuclei by amino, methyl, ethyl, propyl, methoxy or ethoxy groups. Carboxylic acids in which the bicarbonates may be dissolved are formic, acetic, propionic, butyric, lactic, tartaric, benzoic, o- (or m- or p-) toluic, glycollic, citric, gluconic, and quinic acids.  As heavy metal salts are specified the salts of the above-named acids with copper, silver, gold, iron, mercury, lead, particularly those of the first group of the periodic system such as silver acetate, auric chloride, mercuric acetate and ferric acetate.  In an example, the bicarbonate of 3.6-diamino-10 - methylacridinium hydroxide prepared according to Specification 454,375 is mixed with lactic acid and then with silver lactate, the solution being treated with a buffer substance if desired, or adjusted to neutral reaction.
Patent GB-486476-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in printing on non-absorptive surfaces
IPC: B41M1/30
Filed: 1937-04-05
Abstract: 486,476. Printing on bottles &c. KNAGGS, D. W. April 5, 1937, No. 9627. Drawings to Specification. [Class 100 (ii)] In printing labels &c. on bottles or other non- absorptive surfaces, the print is made in a hard-setting, quick-drying, alkali-resistant ink, and is covered with a synthetic-resin thermalsetting, alkali-resistant varnish. The varnished surface is heated for approximately fifteen minutes at a temperature about 300‹ F. The surface may be etched before printing.
Patent GB-1306842-A (GB)
Title: System for transmitting and switching ifnormation between subs cribers
IPC: H04J3/02
Filed: 1970-02-27
Abstract: 1306842 Automatic exchange systems LICENTIA PATENT - VERWALTUNGS GmbH 27 Feb 1970 [27 Feb 1969] 9667/70 Heading H4K Time-division-multiplex transmission between substations in a switching system is effected without low-pass filters in the substation line circuits, a filter circuit complex being provided on a shared basis, the system being such that the scanning frequency can be less than twice the speech band width. The stations TL are connected to a GO highway by switches a11 to an1 and are connected to a RETURN highway by switches a12 to an2, each channel switched over the highways being served by a filter circuit such as TP1 to TPk. The amplitude modulations received at a line circuit from the RETURN highway are stretched to occupy a whole multiplex frame by so-called interpolators I1 to In. The filters TP may be active filters, such as analogue or digital feedback shift registers, and may be constituted as a single system shared by the channels in time division multiplex.