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PATENT APPARATUS [3 records]

Record 1 2011-12-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • String Instruments
  • Keyboard Instruments
CONT

In 1881, an early patent for a piano player was issued to John McTammany of Cambridge, Mass. John McTammany described his invention as a mechanical musical instrument. It worked using narrow sheets of perforated flexible paper which triggered the notes. A later automatic piano player was the Angelus patented by Edward H. Leveaux of England on 27 February 1879, and described as an apparatus for storing and transmitting motive power.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Instruments de musique à cordes
  • Instruments de musique à clavier

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Instrumentos de cuerda
  • Instrumentos de teclado
CONT

Los pianos automáticos con programación sobre cilindros existían mucho antes de que hiciera su aparición hacia 1890 el primer modelo accionado neumáticamente por medio del sistema de rollos de papel perforado [...]. Los había con funcionamiento a pedales y poco después también con energía eléctrica, con un acumulador que los hacía autosuficientes […]

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Record 2 2004-11-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Underwater Diving (Sports)
CONT

In 1882 the brothers Carmagalle took out a patent for an armour-plated diving suit. The most satisfactory modern version of this apparatus is the rigid jointed Neufeldt-Kuhnke type, which is lowered and raised by means of a cable and allows the diver to observe and make limited movements.

CONT

Following Lethbridge and Rowe’s exploits there was little to no mention of the armoured diving suit until 1838, an almost 80 year lull from Lethbridge’s death in 1759. ... W.H. Taylor designed the first known armoured diving suit with articulating joints in 1838. The suit was to be surface-supplied and had accordion-like joints of spring steel, reinforced and water sealed with leather. From his drawing, it seems that either Taylor had no intentions of his suit being a true atmospheric diving suit, or else had no understanding of the depth-pressure relationship. The suit appeared to exhaust directly into the surrounding water from a short hose located at the divers waist. Therefore, the interior pressure would have had to be greater than the water pressure at depth. Also, the soft cloth joints of the suit would have most likely collapsed when exposed to any considerable pressure.

CONT

Where diving operations are carried out during the course of a drilling program, the operator shall ensure that the divers do not, except in the case of an emergency involving the safety of personnel, carry out operations at, descend to or ascend from a work site located at a depth of 50 m or more unless the descent and ascent are carried out in and the operations are carried out from a submarine, an armoured diving suit, a diving bell or other diving vehicle.

Key term(s)
  • armored diving suit
  • armor-plated diving suit

French

Domaine(s)
  • Plongée sous-marine (Sports)
CONT

John Lethbridge (1715) imagine l'armure de plongée dont une ouverture sert à l'alimentation en air par des soufflets et l'autre à l'évacuation de l'air vicié.

CONT

Lorsque des travaux de plongée sont effectués dans le cadre d'un programme de forage, l'exploitant doit, sauf dans un cas d'urgence mettant en cause la sécurité du personnel, veiller à ce que les plongeurs utilisent un sous-marin, un scaphandre renforcé, une cloche de plongée ou un autre véhicule de plongée pour descendre à un lieu de travail situé à une profondeur de 50 m ou plus, pour y effectuer des travaux ou pour en remonter.

Spanish

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Record 3 1999-10-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Search and Rescue (Aircraft)
CONT

Apparatus to effect a horizontal rescue include various patent rescue scoops for vessels with high freeboards...

Key term(s)
  • patient rescue scoop

French

Domaine(s)
  • Recherches et sauvetages (Aviation)
CONT

Les malades sont généralement débarqués à l'aide d'une civière de sauvetage. Bien que le navire dispose d'une civière dans la plupart des cas, l'évacuation des malades doit habituellement se faire sur la civière spéciale fournie par l'hélicoptère. Cette civière est munie de brides et peut être rapidement accrochée et décrochée en toute sécurité, grâce au crochet spécial fixé sur le câble de hissage.

OBS

Renseignement obtenu du Guide du navigateur, volume 3, Réglementation nautique, paru à Brest, en 1981, p. V-34.

Spanish

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