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Patent GB-2466243-A (GB)
Title: A wind powered display creating images due to persistence of vision effect of LEDs provided on rotating wind turbine blades
Inventor: AMESS COLIN LAWRENCE
IPC: G09F9/33
Filed: 2008-12-15
Abstract: A wind powered display comprises a wind turbine / windmill wherein a plurality of LEDs 3 are incorporated along the length of one or more of the blades 1. An electrical generator 2 is coupled to the turbine. The LEDs are controlled so that as the blades rotate they form an image by persistence of vision effect. A microcontroller and memory means 14 are provided to store operational algorithms and program data controlling the displayed image. A closed loop adaptive control allows the power consumed by the display from the generator to be adapted in order to maintain a high rotational blade velocity of the generator at lower wind speeds. The image and the number of powered LEDs may be controlled with regard to the generator braking current. A resistive ballast load or high capacity battery may be provided to increase generator braking and prevent the blades from spinning too fast in high winds. Brightness control means may be provided to maintain a uniformly illuminated image by more brightly illuminating LEDs that are further from the hub, and hence travelling faster, than those closer to the hub. A bi-directional communication link, e.g. via IR, RF, network or Internet, may be provided to allow the uploading of display information and control algorithms to the memory. A balancing weight 13 map be provided to balance the blades.
Patent GB-2455238-A (GB)
Title: Patient monitor
Inventor: MEIR IVAN DANIEL
IPC: A61B5/08
Filed: 2007-09-05
Abstract: A patient monitor is disclosed for detecting patient movement or abnormal breathing. Images of a patient (20) are obtained by a stereoscopic camera (10). These images are then processed by a 3D position determination module (25) which determines measurements indicative of positions of at least part of a patient The obtained measurements are then passed to a model generation module (32) which generates a breathing model of the variation in position of the at least part of a patient during a breathing cycle. Subsequently abnormal breathing or patient movement can be detected by processing further images obtained by the stereoscopic camera (10) to determine more measurements indicative of positions of at least part of a patient. These measurements are then compared with a stored breathing model (34) by a comparison module (36). If abnormal breathing or patient movement is detected the comparison module (36) sends a signal to a treatment apparatus (16) to interrupt treatment until normal breathing resumes or alternatively to a mechanical couch (18) to reposition the patient to account for the detected movement.
Patent GB-2467747-A (GB)
Title: A clamp
Inventor: LONG NICHOLAS
IPC: F01D25/28
Filed: 2009-02-12
Abstract: A clamp for securing first and second components is operable in a first configuration where relative rotation between said components is prevented, a second partially open configuration where said components are retained but relative rotation therebetween is enabled, and a third configuration where at least one of the components is released from the clamp. Stop means are moveable between a first disposition in which the clamp is limited to move between the first and second configurations and a second disposition wherein the clamp is moveable to the third configuration. A particular embodiment is a clamp for attaching a marine turbine to a tower, which comprises sectors 1-3 operated by a hydraulic piston 5 and cylinder 7 between positions in which the turbine cannot rotate to a position in which the turbine can be turned. When a lifting pin 12 is raised (e.g. by a remotely operated vehicle) stops are moved out of the path of plates 6, 8 allowing the clamp to open so that the turbine can be removed.
Patent GB-2455458-A (GB)
Title: Remote input device for a wagering game
Inventor: GAGNER MARK B
IPC: A63F13/06
Filed: 2009-03-20
Abstract: An input device dedicated for use with a wagering game is displayed on a display device. The display device is remote from the input device and includes outcome images of a randomly selected outcome and input images associated with player inputs for the wagering game. The input device includes a player input-receiving area and an interface. The player input-receiving area has a plurality of input elements associated with respective functions of the wagering game. The input elements replicate the input images of the player inputs. The interface is coupled to the input elements and transmits signals in response to the player activating the input elements.
Patent GB-2460342-A (GB)
Title: Construction of a Tidal Wall
Inventor: FLEMING JOHN JOSEPH
IPC: E02B3/04
Filed: 2009-05-28
Abstract: The invention relates to a tidal wall 1 comprising parallel spaced-apart panels 2 upright in the sea bed (B figure 3), which may be capped by beams 3. The panels are inter-linked by tie bars 5 extending across the wall and through the panels 2, and secured by high strength couplers 8 on the outer surfaces of the panels 2. Infill 4 is retained between the panels 2. The wall 1 is preferably topped by a compacted fill 6 and top soil 7, which may be planted with vegetation. Rock armour 10 may be deposited on the outer sides of the panels 2, for additional wall support and to prevent scouring. The panels 2 are preferably a pre-cast reinforced concrete material. Some sections of the wall may include anchor bars (32 figure 4) extending down through a panel and into the sea bed to provide an additional lateral restraint. The method of constructing a tidal wall uses established jetting and excavation practices. Dredged material may be used for the infill. The wall may form a tidal enclosure when erected along a shore, thus providing for power generation without the need to build a barrage across an estuary.
Patent GB-2460932-A (GB)
Title: Flow control device for radial flow port
Inventor: LORETZ IVES D
IPC: E21B33/12
Filed: 2009-06-09
Abstract: Valve apparatus for packing off or choking flow through a radial flow port in an inflow control device (ICD). The apparatus includes a support element 240 and a polymeric element 230 surrounding the support element. The polymeric element 230 closes or chokes the radial flow port 220 when contacted with the tubular 210, the polymeric element may swell when contacted with oil or water, and is preferably made from a swellable elastomer. The support element 240 is positioned radially inward from the polymeric element 230 and may be expandable. The support element 240 may be a radial spring which may be compressed radially before being inserted into the tubular 210, the spring my then be released so that is expands outwardly to block or choke the flow port 220.
Patent GB-2471504-A (GB)
Title: Caffeine for use in the healing of damaged skin, body tissue, muscles, organs and hair
Inventor: MYOTT PAUL
IPC: A61K31/522
Filed: 2009-07-02
Abstract: A composition comprising an aqueous or alcoholic solution of caffeine for use in healing skin cuts and cracks wherein compositions comprising concentrations of caffeine ranging from 0.05% w/v to 2% w/v display effective healing characteristics. Ointments, creams and gels comprising caffeine concentrations ranging from 1% to 20% w/v also showed improved healing. A promoter of the healing and/or repair and/or regeneration and/or rejuvenation of damaged skin and/or body tissue, and/or muscles and/or organs of the body and/or other part of the body including hairs within the ears using caffeine and/or any other central nervous system stimulant and/or any other stimulant by application directly to the target area is also outlined. Also outlined is a composition comprising caffeine and/or minoxidil and/or combination of caffeine and minoxidil and/or other stimulatory substances for use in improving the condition of the sensory hairs inside the ears. Furthermore a composition comprising caffeine and/or Ce Bai Ye (arbour vitae) and/or combination of caffeine and Ce Bai Ye and/or other anti-inflammatories and/or other stimulatory substances and/or anaesthetic substances for use in the treatment of psoriasis is also provided.
Patent GB-2473838-A (GB)
Title: Manhole cover with closable waste disposal aperture
Inventor: BOWCOCK PAUL STUART
IPC: B65D90/10
Filed: 2009-09-24
Abstract: A manhole cover M has an opening or aperture N for the disposal of pet or animal waste or excrement. The manhole cover M includes a further cover or plug E which can be used to seal the aperture N. The aperture N may include a recessed sealing groove K with a locating seal lip G, the seal provided between the plug E and the cover M may be air-tight. The aperture may have a chute J extruded from its underside for directing waste material into a manhole chamber. The plug E may be cylindrical and may engage the cover M by screw thread means, its own weight under gravity, or by a turn and click mechanism. The manhole cover may have handles H.
Patent GB-2466119-A (GB)
Title: Distribution of holding material within a noncircular catalytic converter
Inventor: SAKANE TADASHI
IPC: F01N3/28
Filed: 2009-12-09
Abstract: A holding material 1 for a catalytic converter including a catalyst carrier 10 having an elliptical, race track or oval cross section, a metal casing 40 for receiving the catalyst carrier 10, and the holding matefal 1 mounted on the catalyst carrier 10 and interposed in a gap between the catalyst carrier and the metal casing 40, in which the holding material has a first portion 20 and a second portion 30. The first portion 20 being in contact with a flat portion of the track shaped catalyst carrier, or a portion of the elliptical shaped catalyst carrier 10 that is centred on an intersection of the ellipse and its minor axis. The holding material 1 used in the first portion 20 may be of a greater density that that used in the second portion 30 enabling the apparatus to better cope with the uneven thermal expansion caused by its noncircular shape. Also disclosed are methods of producing a holding material comprising pouring an aqueous slurry containing inorganic fibers into a dehydration forming die.
Patent GB-2466574-A (GB)
Title: Fixed gear bicycle hub
Inventor: SU HSIN YANG
IPC: B62M11/16
Filed: 2009-12-24
Abstract: A fixed internal gear hub comprising a fixed axle 1, an input member 4 and an output member 2 each rotatably mounted about the axle 1. An epicyclic gear system comprises at least one sun gear 31, 32, rotatably mounted about the axle 1, planet pinions 33 disposed in a planet cage 34, 35 and a gear ring 36. The gear ring is connected non-rotatably to the input member. The planet cage is connected non-rotatably to the output member. A clutch 51 enables the input member to be selectively non-rotatably connected to the planet cage and a selector key 53 enables the sun gear 31, 32 to be selectively locked rotationally to the axle 1. The hub provides two fixed gear ratios and further fixed gear ratios may be provided by adding an additional sun gear or gears.
Patent GB-567530-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in apparatus for grinding cutting tools such for example as cutters foruse in sound recording
IPC: B24B19/16
Filed: 1943-06-21
Abstract: 567,530. Grinding cutting - tools. HARRIS, W. June 21, 1943, No. 10008. [Class 60] Apparatus for grinding fine cutting-tools, for example, sapphire &c. tools, for use in sound recording as shown in Fig. 2, and having inclined facets 11, 12 meeting in an edge 14 making an angle alpha with the front face 10 of the tool,- comprises a lap 1 with a plane face 2 disposed horizontally, and a jig 3 supported on a horizontal round bar 4, which is movable to enable the jig body 3 to be raised and lowered. From the body 3 extends an arm 5, rotatable about its longitudinal axis in the body 3, to which the cutter blank 6 is attached so as to make the desired angle alpha with the lap face 2, and'the body 3 has thereon a spirit level 9 ; as grinding proceeds, the blank is kept at the correct angle by lowering the bar 4 and observing the level 9. The bar 4 may be mounted in a vertically adjustable carriage or mounted eccentrically ; the level 9 may be replaced by a tilting mercury switch, and the lap, instead of the jig, may be adjusted to keep the jig axis horizontal. For grinding the facets 11, 12, the arm 5 is rotated through the requisite angle so that the facet under treatment makes contact with the lap whilst making the correct angle, and grinding proceeds as described above; the undersurface of the jig body 3 may be formed as a V-block, the body being tilted to the requisite inclination. When it is desired to produce a small radius on the edge 14, instead of leaving the edge sharp, an additional stop-bar 15 is provided mounted eccentrically, and adjustable by rotation of a divided wheel 16. The bars 4, 15 are connected in an electric circuit including a battery and a lamp or other signalling device, and to grind the radiused edge, the bar 15 is lowered a predetermined amount and the cutter is oscillated, about the axis of the arm 5, in contact with the lap until the body 3 touches the bar 15 and completes the electric circuit. In a modification, the cutter is adjustable on the arm 5 by a micrometer device, and the arm 5 is carried by a boss rotatable about its longitudinal axis in the jig body 3 ; a microscope with hair lines crossing on the axis is mounted in the boss so that the position of the edge 14 of the cutter may be observed. In operation, the bars 4, 15 are adjusted to contact with the jig body and the cutter is adjusted to bring the edge on the intersection of the hair lines whilst in contact with the lap ; the cutter then is lowered the predetermined amount, thus lifting the jig from bar 15 and the boss is oscillated to swing the cutter edge 14 in contact with the lap until contact again is made with the bar 15. Instead of employing the micrometer device, a graduated scale may be provided on the hair lines of the microscope. The Provisional Specification describes also the production of a cutter with a chisel edge ; this corresponds to the production, as described above, of the face inclined to the front face 10 of the cutter blank at the angle alpha.
Patent GB-1302601-A (GB)
IPC: C08G75/14
Filed: 1970-03-03
Abstract: 1302601 Tricyclic polysulphur compounds UNIROYAL Inc 3 March 1970 [6 March 1969] 10039/70 Heading C2C [Also in Division C3] Novel compounds of formula where X is -OR<SP>1</SP>, -SR<SP>1</SP>or halogen, and R and R<SP>1</SP>are independently benzyl or alkyl are prepared by reacting a para-substituted alkoxybenzene with sulphur monochloride in the presence of an inert diluent and an acid catalyst.
Patent GB-784949-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to centrifugal strainer separators
IPC: B04B9/06
Filed: 1955-04-06
Abstract: 784,949. Centrifugal strainer separators. WESTERN STATES MACHINE CO. April 6, 1955 [April 6, 1954], No. 10096/55. Class 46. In a centrifuge wherein a vertical driving shaft is provided at its lower end with a coupling member which interlocks with a second coupling member provided on a driven shaft which carries a centrifuge basket, the coupling members are shaped to permit the driven shaft and the basket to gyrate about a centre at the level of the coupling members so that one member engages the periphery of the other at substanti - ally that level to prevent lateral movement between them. The basket 10 hangs from the lower part 11b of a shaft 11 the upper part 11a of which is mounted in bearings 29, 30 in a stationary sleeve 28 formed with an upward extension 41 secured to a casing 21 which houses a turbine wheel 19 by which the basket is rotated. A spherical surface 39 on the extension 41 seats in a like surface 40 in a ring mounted in a stationary hanger 14 bolted to the underside of the casing 21 permitting gyratory motion of the sleeve 28 and shaft 11 under control of a rubber buffer 42 disposed between the extension 41 and the hanger 14. At the top of the shaft 11, radial teeth 45 with convex edges and faces engage teeth with flat faces on a driving ring 43b secured to a drive shaft 18 on which the turbine wheel 19 is mounted : the teeth 45 also have convex edges engaging a sleeve 46 on the driving ring 43b. The hanger 14 supports the friction bands 27 of a brake adapted to engage a brake drum 24 secured to the shaft 11 and providing a reservoir 75 for cooling water supplied through a pipe 76 and withdrawn by a scoop 77 operative only when the shaft is rotating rapidly. A wall or partition 59 spaced from the sleeve 28 and carried by the shaft 11 excludes the water from an oil reservoir within the wall, oil being supplied to this reservoir from an inlet 60 in the hanger 14 through annular chambers 51, 50 therein and past the bearings 29, 30. Spent oil is scooped from the reservoir during rotation, at 62 and flows up an annular chamber 55 between the sleeve 28 and the partition 59 which separates it from the incoming oil between the bearings 29, 30. From the chamber 55 it flows through passages 64, 63, 65 to either a discharge pipe 72 or to an overflow 70 which may replace the pipe 72 if a shut off valve is provided in the oil inlet pipe 61. Specifications 627,166 and 688,707 [both in Group II] are referred to.
Patent GB-1019099-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to the melt-spinning of polyamides
IPC: D01D1/04
Filed: 1964-03-10
Abstract: 1,019,099. Melt-spinning polyamides. SNIA VISCOSA SOC. NATURALE INDUSTRIA APPLICAZIONI VISCOSA S.p.A. March 10, 1964 [March 15, 1963], No. 10026/64. Heading B5B. In melt-spinning polyamides, the polymer chips, after having been dried, by heating in vacuo, are artificially cooled, or allowed to cool spontaneously, in an atmosphere of inert gas to a temperature not exceeding 50‹ C., and preferably between 25‹ and 30‹ C., before being transferred to the feed hopper of the melt-spinning apparatus, preferably while still surrounded by an atmosphere of the inert gas. The chips may be artificially cooled or allowed to cool spontaneously in the apparatus in which they have been dried in vacuo, a dry inert gas such as dry nitrogen having been introduced into the drying chamber until the interior of the latter is at atmospheric pressure and cold water being circulated through the jacket of the drying chamber (which may be rotated to tumble the chips) until they have been cooled to the desired temperature. Alternatively the chips may be cooled, while they are being mechanically conveyed from the drier to the melt-spinning apparatus, by contacting them with a stream of a cooled dry inert gas such as dry nitrogen. In either case the initial humidity of the inert gas may be so controlled so that it does not exceed a predetermined level, such as 70 milligrams of moisture per cubic metre of gas. In a third method the hot dry chips are discharged from the drying chamber on to a hollow horizontal metallic plate through the interior of which flows a stream of cold water. The plate is enclosed in a chamber through which flows a stream of dry nitrogen and the polymer chips are caused to travel along the entire length of the plate by vibrating the plate. The cooled chips are discharged into a duct through which they are pneumatically conveyed to the melting apparatus by a current of dry nitrogen.
Patent GB-915298-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in shaft couplings
IPC: F16H1/00
Filed: 1960-03-22
Abstract: 915,298. Toothed gearing. BOON, V. N. March 22, 1960 [March 24, 1959], No. 10149/60. Class 80 (1). A coupling between relatively inclined shafts 11, 12, which are rotatable in forks 5, 6 hinged together at 7, is provided by intermeshing toothed flanges 1, 2 mounted on the spindle ends, at least one of the sets of teeth 3, 4 being parallel, or nearly parallel, to the shaft axis, and each tooth being in the form of a cylinder surmounted by a hemisphere. As shown, both sets of teeth are axially directed so that the coupling accommodates shaft angles from 0 to 90 degrees. In a modification, Figs. 5-8 (not shown), accommodating angles from 0 to 180 degrees, or slightly more, the teeth are of similar shape but those on one of the flanges are radially directed. The flanges 1, 2 may be flat, concave or convex.
Patent GB-1197866-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Folding Flap Cylinders for the Folding Apparatus on Rotary Printing Presses
IPC: B65H45/16
Filed: 1969-02-26
Abstract: 1,197,866. Rotary folders. SCHNELLPRESSENFABRIK FRANKENTHAL ALBERT & CIE A.G. 26 Feb., 1969 [4 March, 1968], No. 10150/69. Heading B8R. A folding cylinder 1 for the folding apparatus on a rotary printing press includes a plurality of folding flaps each comprising a fixed part 2 and a movable part 4 secured to which is an insert 5 carrying pins 9 which co-operate with depressions 10 in the gripping surface of part 2, whereby the folded copy 8 can be firmly held in the flap when the parts 2 and 4 are in the closed position. The part 2 may also be provided with pins to co-operate with corresponding depressions in the part 4, the pins and depressions alternating in sequence along the respective parts.
Patent GB-423697-A (GB)
Title: Process for the deoxidation of copper
IPC: C22B15/14
Filed: 1933-06-06
Abstract: Molten copper is deoxidized by treatment in an induction furnace with a mass of molten and very fluid slag having a high extracting power towards copper oxide, a violent agitation of the metal which is in part transferred to the slag being produced by the electric field, and the surface of the metal being protected from oxidation throughout the operation by a covering of the slag. The slags used may comprise one or more of the following materials: silica, titanium dioxide, alumina, lime, magnesia, alkali and alkaline earth compounds, and iron and other metal oxides not reducible by copper. The slags may be melted in a water-jacketed furnace, and exhausted slags may be regenerated for p  reuse by reduction for example with carbon.  In some cases the slag may be removed and the operation continued with a fresh slag.  Specification 409,911 is referred to. The Specification as open to inspection under Sect. 91 describes also purification other than deoxidation.  This subject-matter does not appear in the Specification as accepted.
Patent GB-125435-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Machine-guns and the like.
Inventor: LOGAN HUMPHREY THOMAS
IPC: F41A19/03
Filed: 1916-07-21
Abstract: 125,435. Logan, H. T. July 21, 1916. Machine guns.-Relates to means for regulating the speed of discharge of that class of machine guns in which a member is reciprocated automatically and fires the gun when driven forwards by a spring stressed during the previous rearward movement. According to the invention, the firing movement of the reciprocating-member is retarded by a dash-pot having a release-valve which is increasingly opened to accelerate the rate of fire as the hand trigger is moved further back. The invention is shown applied to the reciprocating piston-rod member A of a Lewis gun which is held in the rearward position by a pivoted sear B engaging a bent A<2> and controlled by a trigger C. A second sear D engaging the bent A<2> is actuated by a spring-controlled air dash-pot F, F<1>, the piston of which, after a predetermined interval, engages a toe piece D<1> on the sear D to permit the piston-rod A to move forwards to fire the cartridge. A projection A<3> on the piston-rod engages a trip H<3> to energize the spring F<2> of the dashpot during the recoil movement of the piston-rod. The dash-pot, which is provided with a one-way valve G<1> to allow air to pass freely out of the dashpot, is furnished with a needle-valve G to time the flow of air into the dash-pot. The needle valve is operated by the sear B to decrease the dash-pot effect as the pressure on the trigger C is increased. The sear D is positively actuated through a pin D<3> by extreme movement of the trigger C, the dash-pot being then inoperative. Specifications 21743/00 and 27422/06 are referred to.