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Patent GB-132007-A (GB)
IPC: F28D1/053
Abstract: 132,007. General Radiators Co., (Assignees of Cormier, J. 0.). Feb. 12, 1917, [Convention date]. Straight tubes between headers; tubes of special section.-To vary the cooling effect of a motor. car radiator, a movable partition is so fitted opposite one end of the water-circulating tubes that the volume of water passing through the tubes may be varied. Water from the inlet chamber 7 of a radiator flows into a vertical side passage or header 6, through the upper set of tubes 2, and into the opposite header 4, from which it flows through the lower set of tubes to the outlet chamber 8. A partition 9 fitted in the header 6 between the upper and lower sets of tubes may be moved vertically by a rack and pinion 12. The tubes are wedge-shaped and inclined downwards towards their front narrow edges, the partition being inclined to correspond with the inclination of the tubes.
Patent GB-132187-A (GB)
IPC: A01G25/14
Abstract: 132,187. Robinson Bros., and Wainwright, A. March 8, 1919. Direct air-pressure apparatus, non-automatic ; valves for liquid, arangement of ; valves for pressure fluid, arrangement of.-In a pneumatic knapsack sprayer for agricultural, horticultural, and like purposes, the connexions for the supply of liquid and air to the container or reservoir and for the discharge of liquid are assembled together as one structure and are attached to the container at a single orifice. In the form shown in Fig. 5, a pump j, for the supply of air and liquid, forms part of the same structure. A chamber r is provided with a spigot part fitting tightly into an orifice in the end of the horizontal container a, and is fixed by studs or thumbscrews to a flange c surrounding the orifice. Below the chamber r is a chamber containing an air or liquid supply non- return valve o and connected to the pump j. A supply pipe k is provided with a suction valve p and a bayonet-joint coupling, and forms the closing plate of the structure, the whole of which is connected together by studs or thumbscrews. A supply and discharge pipe is mounted in the orifice within the container, and a discharge pipe coupling m is provided. A float valve t may be provided to prevent escape of compressed air when the liquid has all been forced out of the container a. In a modification, the pump j and suction valve p are dispensed with, a separate pump being employed to charge a number of sprayers.
Patent GB-1476411-A (GB)
Title: Variable capacitor
IPC: G01R15/16
Filed: 1975-04-01
Abstract: 1476411 Capacitors SKODA OBOROVY PODNIK 1 April 1975 13241/75 Heading H1M A capacitor for voltage regulation in very high voltage switch gear comprises a stack of annular capacitor elements each comprising an annular disc of dielectric material whose dielectric constant is greater than 100 and having electrodes on opposite flat surfaces. The electrodes of the assembly are series connected optionally through the intermediary of resilient metal members. As shown the capacitor is arranged in the quenching chamber of the switchgear, coaxially around the fixed contact 7 and moving contact 6. Alternatively (Fig. 2, not shown) the capacitor may be connected to the quenching chamber by a capacitive leadthrough bushing.
Patent GB-131153-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and connected with Gun Mountings and Platforms and in Methods of Transporting the same.
Inventor: HERVEY CHILION LONGLEY
IPC: F41A23/40
Filed: 1918-08-15
Abstract: 131,153. Hervey, C. L., and Wilson, L Z. Aug. 15, 1918. Field carriages; recoil apparatus.-Consists in mounting a turntable, supporting a gun carriage on a platform which has an are-shaped abutmen for the carriage trail concentric with the turn table pivot, to resist the shock of recoil. The turntable and platform may be on a railway truck and the abutment on the track. In this case the abutment is connected by radial rods to the sleepers at points wherefrom it is desired to fire the gun without dismounting it from the truck The truck may have two sets of wheels of differ ent diameters and gauges, the outer wheels being removable when the truck and carriage turntable are to move along a narrow-gauge track. Fig. 5 shows in plan a platform, turntable, and abut ment. The turntable 10 has rests 15 for the car ria.ge wheels, and is pivoted at 101 on the platform 11. Connected to the platform by radial bars 13 is an arc-shaped abutment rail 12 supported ir chairs 123 on the bars 13. Reference has been directed by the Comptroller to Specification 145,731.
Patent GB-119858-A (GB)
Title: Apparatus for Change-speed of a Motor Car.
Inventor: TAMURA SHINKICHI
IPC: F16H61/02
Filed: 1918-08-15
Abstract: 119,858. Tamura, S., and Watanabe, M. Oct. 12, 1917, [Convention date]. Variable -speed epicyclic gearing; controlling variablespeed gearing.-In gearing for motor-cars of the type in which brakes are applied to members of an epicyclic train the brakes are operated by an arm on a spindle rotated by a spring to tighten any brake when the arm is ,slid along the spindle into the appropriate position. The driving and drum shafts 1, 2 carry sun-wheel 5 ,9 gearing with planet-wheels 6, 8 secured on a spindle 7 which carries two or more additional planet-wheels 10, 12 gearing with corresponding loose sun-wheels 11, 13. The planet casing A and the drums B, C secured to the wheels 11, 13, are braked by brakes 14, 15, 16 to give the several speeds, one of which may be a reverse. The brakes are separately operated 'oy an arm 21 sliding under the control of a selector handle along a squared spindle 22, which is rotated in one direction to apply the brakes by a spying 25 bearing on a rod 26 secured to a lever 24 on the spindle, and in the other direction by a lever 34 and link-work 32, 29, 28, 24. The arm 21, under the influence of the spring 25, presses inward, against the pressure of light springs 18, rods 20 secured to the free ends of the several brake-bands. At the end of its travel, the lever 34 may press the lever 29 against a pin 44, or a bell-crank lever 42 coupled by a link 41 to a lever 39 connected at one end by a rod 38 to one end of a brake-band 37, and pivoted by a link 40 on the other brake-end, so that the band is tightened on a drum D secured to the driven shaft.
Patent GB-255027-A (GB)
IPC: B23Q5/40
Filed: 1926-05-26
Abstract: 255,027. Balleydier, E. July 7, 1925, [Convention date]. Lathes.-In a copying-lathe for reproducing profiled articles such as wheel spokes, pick-handles &c. the work piece 25 and templet 24 are rotated about parallel axes in a swinging frame 9 which is controlled by the template and is traversed to carry the work past a rotary cutter 3. The cutter is mounted in a fixed bracket 2 and comprises a number of shell-shaped cutters 5 arranged round a disc 3 on a ball-bearing spindle driven by a pulley 4. The screw 6 driven by fast-and-loose pulleys 19, 20. is provided with bearings 7 for the swinging frame 9, and half nuts 8 are secured to one of these bearings. The work and templet are carried between fixed centres 13 and movable centres 12 mounted respectively in fast and loose headstocks guided on the frame 9, and rotation of the work and templet is effected from a sprocket 14 splined to the spindle 6 through chain gearing 15 and spur gearing 16. In operation, the halfnuts are closed and the rotating work is moved past the cutter, the profile being determined by the engagement of the templet with a fixed guide 18. At the end of the operation an adjustable stop ring 17 on the screw 6 engages a bar 23 to disengage the half nuts and arrest the longitudinal traverse. By varying the shape of the guide 18, the templet may either be copied accurately or a modified profile may be reproduced on the work.
Patent GB-1385868-A (GB)
Title: Catalyst preparation
IPC: B01J37/03
Filed: 1973-03-20
Abstract: 1385868 Preparation of supported catalysts STAMICARBON BV 20 March 1973 [24 March 1972] 13332/73 Heading B1E Supported catalysts are prepared by a process which comprises forming a suspension of particulate carrier material in a solution of a complex compound of an α, # or γ-amino-acid or an amino-sulphonic acid and at least one of Cu, Zn, Cd, Mg, Mn, Fe, Co and Ni and generating hydroxyl ions in the agitated suspension in the absence of free ammonia until a pH is reached at which the complex(es) become(s) unstable and an insoluble compound of the metal(s) is deposited in homogeneously dispersed form on the carrier, washing, drying, and optionally calcining and/or reducing the product. The hydroxyl ions may be generated by the hydrolysis of urea or other nitrogenous compounds or by the reaction of urea with nitrite ions.
Patent GB-841586-A (GB)
Title: Portable dictation apparatus
IPC: G11B5/00
Filed: 1957-04-26
Abstract: 841,586. Magnetic recording apparatus. DICTAPHONE CORPORATION. April 26, 1957 [April 30, 1956], No. 13343/57. Class 40 (2). A portable tape record apparatus is provided with a removable magazine carrying spools having central portions protruding through loose-fitting bearings in the magazine to facilitate engagement with driving-means having tapered engaging surfaces to effect alignment of the spools. Fig. 1 shows the general appearance and the arrangement of the controls on the casing, a front door of which is provided with windows 42, 44 through which the amount of tape 46, Fig. 5, on the spools 84, 86 in a removable magazine 30, Figs. 2 and 4, may be observed. The spool hubs are provided with tapered internal teeth for easy engagement with splined driving members 128, 130. The shape and general arrangement of the magazine is symmetrical to allow it to be reversed for doubletrack recording. When inserted into the machine the right-hand spool 86 becomes the takeup spool during recording or reproducing, and a conical-pointed pin holds back a pressure-pad 110 to permit free reeling on to the take-up spool. Operation of ON-OFF lever 12 to the ON position moves a forked member 170, Fig. 9, past a dead-centre position against initial effect of a torsion-spring 240 to permit a spring 174 to rotate a lever 160, carrying a pressure-roller 156, about a fixed point 162, to bring the pressure roller into contact with a capstan 150. A motor 140 drives the capstan via a belt 146, and a gear-wheel 176 on the same shaft drives the spline shaft 131 via a gear-wheel 178, friction wheels 182, 184 and a slipping clutch 185. When the control-lever 14 is switched to REWIND a forked member 202 moves a lever 206 about fixed point 162 and draws a hooked bar 214 to the left, as viewed in Fig. 9, and causes a plate 180 carrying friction-wheel 182 to be moved out of contact with wheel 184, and wheel 190 to be brought into driving connection with the shaft associated with the left-hand spool via jockey wheel 192. At the same time a pin 116 on the bar 214 lifts the left-hand pressurepad 106 from the tape, and a cam surface 220 on the bar 214 lifts the pressure-wheel from the capstan 150. When lever 14 is in either REPRODUCE or REWIND position, an erazing magnet 262 is lifted from the tape by cam 278. The lever 14 cannot be pushed directly into the RECORD position, but requires firstly a sideways movement against a leaf-spring 280.
Patent GB-331313-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to self-lubricating fabric bushing
IPC: F16C33/18
Filed: 1929-04-30
Abstract: 331,313. Skillman, N. April 30, 1929. Joint pins.-A self-lubricating fabric bushing 3, Fig. 4, is made by stitching together the ends of a woven fabric web to form an annulus, impregnating the web with lubricant, and simultaneously compressing and forming the fabric to size and shape without the use of any hardening material whereby it will be inherently self-sustaining and to a small extent retain some of its resiliency and compressibility. The compression of the fabric web may be done in a rotating punch press having reciprocable jaws 5 which engage the outer surface of the bushing 3 and bodily rotate about a tapered arbor 4 on which the bushing is mounted. Preferably, the final outer diameter of the bushing is slightly greater than the bore into which it is to be fitted for use. The bushing 3 is suitable for forming the bearings between the quadrant control tubes 1, 2 of a steering gear, as shown in Fig. 5.
Patent GB-133638-A (GB)
IPC: F21S13/00
Abstract: 133,638. Proffitt, T. May 26, 1919. Brackets, lamp.-In order to prevent unauthorized removal of a cycle or like lamp from its bracket, a link g is pivotally mounted upon the extended extremity of one of the pivot pins f<1> of the parallel-motion supporting frame e of the lamp, and its apertured free end h is fastened to the lamp bracket c on the cycle by a locking-device, such as a padlock i.
Patent GB-1136954-A (GB)
Title: Screw conveyor apparatus for turning over and simultaneo usly conveying loose bulk materials
IPC: C12C1/15
Filed: 1966-03-25
Abstract: 1,136,954. Conveying germinating material. D. SEEGER, H. SEEGER, E. SEEGER, and K. SEEGER, [trading as C. SEEGER MASCHINENFABRIK]. 25 March, 1966 [3 April, 1965], No. 13433/66. Heading B8A. Carriage 3 running on rollers 4 over rails 5 carries screw conveyers 9 in troughs 8 so that germinating material 2 of left hand heap on floor 1 is conveyed along the casings and discharged through openings 13 so as to be guided by adjustable flaps 14, 14<SP>1</SP> on to the right hand heap of Fig. 1. The screws 9 are of alternate left and right hand driven in alternate directions, and the whole body of the troughs 8 pivots on carriage 3. The carriage 3 may also support an endless conveyer which receives material from the screws and in turn drops it on to floor 1. The troughs are fitted with stripping devices for cleaning the walls and floor.
Patent GB-112600-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Soft Fold-over Collars.
Inventor: SUDIAH RACHEL
IPC: A41B3/08
Filed: 1917-09-19
Abstract: 112,600. Sudiah, R. Sept. 19, 1917. Collars, linen and like.-The outer folds C of double soft collars are provided, near what will be the lower ends when the collar is worn, with a loop d' on one end and a button d to engage therewith on the other. The loop is not seen in use. It retains the ends of the collar in spaced relationship. Whalebone or like stiffeners D, D<1> are fixed along the adjacent edges, and press fastenings b<2>, b<3> are secured to the adjacent ends of the band B, as shown. A button and button hole may replace the press fastenings. In a modification, the button d is carried at the end of a short tape.
Patent GB-134913-A (GB)
IPC: B63B3/14
Abstract: 134,913. Silley, J. H., and Spanner, E. F. Nov. 12, 1918. Addition to 115,477. Ballasting. - In a duct keel as described in the parent Specification, the duct e, Fig. 1, is subdivided into liquid-light divisions by permanent partitions f, and is utilized for the accommodationof pipes leading from one compartment to another. Access is obtained to these divisions by manholes having doors. As shown in Fig. 4, the duct keel e may stand up above the tank top k. A wider duct e, Fig. 5, may be framed by means of gusset plates l. To enable the duct to carry large local loads, it may be modified by the provision of a number of transverse apertured stiffening-plates. In parts the duct may be discontinued and a single plate keel substituted therefor.
Patent GB-177731-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in lapping strips of paper and the like on electric conductors and the like
IPC: H01B13/08
Filed: 1921-05-13
Abstract: 177,731. Beaver, C. J., and Claremont, E. A. May 13, 1921. Wire cores, covering by winding.-A lapping- head for lapping strips of paper on an electric conductor is mounted on a bar a rotating relatively to the conductor and comprises a member b slidable on the bar a and a spool-carrier hub e mounted on an arm c. The member b is formed in halves, which are clamped together to bite the bar a by a clamping-screw b<6>. The position of the member b is adjusted by a hand-wheel b<5> on a sleeve concentric with the clamping-screw and carrying a pinion b<4> which engages with a rack in the bar a. Quadrants c<3>, pivoted on a bolt c<4> in the member b and clamped in any angular position by a hand-wheel c<8>, support the arm c. The spool of paper e<5> is held on the hub e by a spring collar e<6>, the hub having a flange e<3> faced with a leather or other ring e<4>. Splined on a spindle e<1> of the hub are sleeves f<1>, f<2> journaled in the arm c and having therebetween a spring f'. The sleeve f<1> has a flange faced with a leather or other ring f<5>, between which and the ring e<4> is an inwardly projecting flange c<12> secured to the arm c. A nut f<6> on a screwed end of the spindle e<1> bears against the sleeve f<2> and adjusts the retarding friction on the spool hub. The strip of paper passes over a roller d mounted on a telescopic extension d<3> of the arm c to the cable. A scale on the quadrant c<3> indicates the angle at which the strip meets the cable, and a scale on the bar a indicates the distance between two lapping-heads, or a scale may be carried by one head and a pointer by the other.
Patent GB-624411-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to methods for producing penicillin
Filed: 1945-05-31
Abstract: Penicillin is produced by cultivating Penicillium notatum Westling in contact with an aqueous nutrient medium comprising a fermentable carbohydrate and a protein, said aqueous medium being supplemented intermittently by the addition of a fermentable carbohydrate and hydrolysed protein to compensate at least partially for the amounts used up by the mould.  Preferably from 10-50 per cent of the medium is withdrawn and an addition made at intervals of 24-48 hours.  The fermentable carbohydrate may be glucose, fructose, sucrose, invert sugar, lactose, maltose, raffinose, melibiose, inulin, dextrin, beet or cane molasses or starches; and the hydrolysed protein may be corn steep liquor, wheat steeping liquor, acid hydrolysed casein, enzyme hydrolysed casein, distillers' grain slops, acid hydrolysed corn gluten or acid hydrolysed wheat gluten.  Magnesium sulphate, potassium dihydrogen phosphate, zinc sulphate, ferric oxalate, sodium nitrate, potassium nitrate, caesium nitrate, magnesium nitrate, calcium nitrate and strontium nitrate may also be added. Specifications 574,649, [Group VI], and 618,415 are referred to.
Patent GB-1045583-A (GB)
Title: Method and apparatus for knitting
IPC: D04B9/06
Filed: 1963-04-08
Abstract: 1,045,583. Knitting-machines. M.PHILIP. April 8, 1963 [April 19, 1962], No. 13908/63. Addition to 914, 585. Heading D1C. A rib machine has means for individually deflecting the needles of one bed in relation to those of another to enable the pattern of a fabric to be varied by selectively camming flexing elements associated with the needles which cause the needles to be displaced laterally. Fig 1 shows a flexer 332A and needle D acted upon by a cam 340A moving in the direction of an arrow 300A. The flexer 332A rotates about a pin 333 which is pivoted in a base plate and the needle D is deflected in the clockwise direction. Two modifications of flexers 332A and 332D, in Figs. 3 and 6 (not shown) having notches 301A and 303D, 301D respectively which can be operated on by ribs on the cams such as 311 and 312. By using combinations of these and other modifications of flexers selective movement of flexers and hence needles can be obtained for a given cam surface. Alternatively a plurality of ribs can be produced on a cam and combinations used to produce the same effect. In a further modification (not shown) a cam can have one rib., the cam being raised or lowered to operate on selected flexers. The invention is described in connection with a stationary needle, cylinder machine but is also applicable to a rotating needle type of machine.
Patent GB-493034-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in the production of hydrogen peroxide
IPC: C01B15/03
Filed: 1938-05-10
Abstract: In distilling continuously-flowing solutions of persulphuric acid or its salts to obtain hydrogen peroxide, the introduction of the fresh solution into the distilling zone is distributed along the path of flow of the liquid through that zone in such manner that the acid concentration in it is kept substantially constant. Suitable concentrations are 750-1050 grams of sulphuric acid per litre, and the optimum concentration is 830-930 grams per litre.
Patent GB-398290-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to enclosed electric arc devices
IPC: H01J61/54
Filed: 1932-05-17
Abstract: 398,290. Discharge lamps. BRITISH THOMSON-HOUSTON CO., Ltd., Crown House, Aldwych, London, STRICKLAND, R. F., 2227, Noble Road, BLAKE, H. D., 1937, Parkway Drive, both in Cleveland Heights, and McLEAN, S., Bishop Road, R.F.D.1, South Euclid, both in Ohio, U.S.A. May 17, 1932, No. 14051. Convention date, May 19, 1931. [Class 39 (i).] In arc lamps with a starting filament across the gap between the electrodes as described in Specification 317,832, [Class 39 (i). Electric lamps, Arc &c.], auxiliary electrodes 23, 24 are arranged between the main electrodes 21, 22 and the filament 25. At starting, current is led through the electrodes 21, 22 and then through the electrodes 23, 24 to. the filament to ionize the surrounding gas, and an arc forms across the filament and transfers itself to the electrodes 23, 24 and then to the shorter gap between the electrodes 21, 22. The lamp is fed from a transformer with a drooping characteristic or through a ballast. The electrodes 23, 24 may be tungsten coils with the ends of the coiled filament 25 passed through them as described in Specification 397,887, and these electrodes may extend over the bent ends of the tungsten wires 19, 20 forming the main electrodes. The electrode leads and supports have parts 12, 16, 14 respectively of copper, tungsten and a metal such as tungsten or molybdenum. The bulb 10 is of quartz or of borosilicate glass transmitting radiations down to a wavelength of 2900 Angstroms but no very short wavelengths. The bulb 10 is filled with argon at 100-125 mm. and mercury.
Patent GB-276749-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to egg poaching utensils
IPC: A47J37/10
Filed: 1926-06-04
Abstract: 276,749. Jones, A. June 4, 1926. Egg-poachers.-An egg-poacher of the kind comprising short tubular members which are slidable on an upright and are normally spring-pressed into contact with a base to form containers, is characterized by the base being perforated. As shown in Fig. 1, the base 5 is of sheet metal and has a. strengthening flange 5<a>. The upright 7 is soldered or otherwise secured to the base, and is preferably made of square or angular crosssection so as to prevent relative rotation of the tubular members 9 which are carried by a correspondingly bared sleeve 8. A spring 12 is interposed between a loop 7a and an abutment 11 on the sleeve 8 which is also provided with curved arms 11<a> to facilitate the lifting of the members 9. The base 5 is perforated at 5b between the members 9, to permit the circulation of the water.