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Patent GB-2446878-A (GB)
Title: Modular steel-framed building unit with a single storey lift shaft and staircase
Inventor: WINDOW JOHN
IPC: E04B1/34
Filed: 2007-02-26
Abstract: A modular steel-framed building unit according to the invention comprises a lift shaft (elevator shaft) and staircase extending for the height of a single storey of a multistorey building and intended to be built up as a stack of identical units to create the multi-storey lift shaft and staircase of the finished building. The unit comprises a metal outer frame (1) formed from cold-formed structural steel sections and a metal inner frame (2) formed from cold-formed structural steel sections. The inner frame defines the lift shaft in the finished building. A three-flight staircase (3) extends between the inner and outer frames (1) and (2) on three sides of the inner frame (2), each flight (3a, 3b, 3c) of the staircase being formed from folded sheet metal joined at one edge to the inner frame (2) and at an opposite edge to the outer frame (1), with a flat sheet metal landing (6) being secured between successive flights of the staircase (3) so that each flight runs at 90{ to the preceding flight. The unit has sufficient structural integrity that it can be manufactured off-site and transported to the building site where a number of such units can be stacked one over the next and connected together to build a structurally stable and accurate lift shaft and staircase.
Patent GB-2432609-A (GB)
Title: Method of expansion
Inventor: BRISCO DAVID PAUL
IPC: E21B43/10
Filed: 2005-08-11
Abstract: A method of expansion.
Patent GB-2441095-A (GB)
Title: Golf ball covers and mantles comprising glass particles
Inventor: KENNEDY THOMAS J III
IPC: A63B37/02
Filed: 2007-12-07
Abstract: Disclosed herein is a golf ball (20) with a mantle (24) or cover layer (26) formed from a composition comprising glass particles. More specifically, the golf ball (20) has a mantle (24) and/or cover (26) that contains a combination of glass particles and an ionomeric component or a non-ionomeric component.
Patent GB-2441479-A (GB)
Title: Packaging material as for a bouquet, and method for manufacturing packaging material
Inventor: VLUNG PETER
IPC: B65D85/50
Filed: 2006-05-22
Abstract: The invention relates to a packaging material (1) as for a bouquet (20), which in flat state has a determined surface area, a central part and a peripheral edge (61), wherein the packaging material has an incision (12) extending substantially from the central part in the direction of the peripheral edge (61). The invention also relates to a method for manufacturing packaging material such as for a bouquet (20), comprising of providing a length of material (1), forming from the length of material (1) the packaging material with a central part and a peripheral edge (61), wherein the method further comprises of arranging an incision (7) in the packaging material running from the central part toward the peripheral edge (61).
Patent GB-2445847-A (GB)
Title: Telescopic barrier assembly for tunnel walls
Inventor: WARWICK-ADKINS GRAHAM LAURENCE
IPC: E21D11/02
Filed: 2008-01-10
Abstract: A barrier assembly comprises at least one barrier member 34 arrangeable adjacent a wall and extending between a roof 6 and a floor 8, and a plurality of support members or struts 12 for supporting the, or each, barrier member. Each support member is adjustable in length, and is arrangeable between the roof and the floor. The barrier assembly also includes fixing means 20, 22 to fix the support members adjacent to the wall. The barrier member may be held in place on the strut by c-shaped brackets and the support members may be hollow shoe type members fixed to the floor with rock bolts.
Patent GB-2446271-A (GB)
Title: Back box containing intumescent material
Inventor: RAWLINS KARL JUSTIN
IPC: H02G3/12
Filed: 2008-01-28
Abstract: A fire resistant box back box has a flange, a means for clamping the box in position within a cavity (e.g. in an internal wall) and, on its internal back surface 12, a layer of solid intumescent material. The clamping means may be one or more spring-loaded lugs which slide in T-shaped slots 3(a) - the lugs are locked against the neck of the T-shape as the box is inserted and then released outwards allowing teeth 4(a) to protrude and hold the box in situ. Fixing an electrical accessory clamps the lugs.
Patent GB-2442423-A (GB)
Title: Route optimization for on-demand routing protocols for mesh networks
Inventor: JETCHEVA JORGETA
IPC: H04L45/122
Filed: 2006-07-18
Abstract: Various embodiments implement a set of low overhead mechanisms to enable on-demand muting protocols. The on-demand protocols use mute accumulation during discovery floods to discover when better paths have become available even if the paths that the protocols are currently using are not broken. That is, the mechanisms (or "Route Optimizations") enable improvements to routes even while functioning routes are available. The Route Optimization mechanisms enable nodes in the network that passively learn routing information to notify nodes that need to know of changes in the routing information when the changes are important. Learning routing information on up-to-date paths and determining nodes that would benefit from the information is performed, in some embodiments, without any explicit control packet exchange. One of the Route Optimization mechanisms includes communicating information describing an improved route from a node where the improved route diverges from a less nearly optimal route.
Patent GB-2457548-A (GB)
Title: Compact travel clothes line
Inventor: HALL ALAN
IPC: B65H75/34
Filed: 2008-02-09
Abstract: A compact clothes line comprises a cylindrical housing and rotatable reel 6 for winding the clothes line 14. Reel 6 is provided with winding handle 3 which folds out in use, and when not in use folds flat against the side 1 of the housing to engage with one of several cavities 7 in the side of the housing to lock reel 6, preventing further rotation. Cavities 9 in the side wall 21 may be provided for storing clothes pegs 12, and may include central walls 8. Both the line 14 and housing may be equipped with a hook or clip 15, 19 for attaching both ends of the compact clothes line to a suitable point.
Patent GB-2447399-A (GB)
Title: Centralized identity verification and/or password validation
Inventor: CARTMELL BRIAN R
IPC: G06F7/58
Filed: 2006-12-15
Abstract: Described is a system and method for validating a user's login information. A provider (e.g. a provider of goods and/or services) receives a login request from a customer that includes a token value. The provider passes the token value to a centralized identity verifier with which the customer is registered. The centralized identity verifier tests the token value and returns a notice of the results of the test to the provider.
Patent GB-2464256-A (GB)
Title: Cable piercing probe hook adapter
Inventor: DEVEREUX JAMES
IPC: G01R1/067
Filed: 2008-08-05
Abstract: The present invention relates to a kit-of-parts comprising a hooked adapter for a cable piercing electrical probe. The probe (1) has a rigid conductor (20) which terminates in a sharp tip (10) suitable for piercing the insulating cover of a cable. The adapter (100) has a hollow main body (140), and a hook portion (110), suitable for hooking insulated electrical cables. The adapter (100) is slidably mountable on and slidably removable from the electrical probe (1).
Patent GB-2453234-A (GB)
Title: Heat exchanger
Inventor: KITANO RYUJI
IPC: F24F1/0063
Filed: 2008-09-23
Abstract: A heat exchanger (3, fig 1) comprises a plurality of parallel spaced fins 20 which air passes over and between the spaces, a plurality of pipes 'P' passing through the fins 20 and communicating a heat exchange medium (fluid) inside, a plurality of cut and raised sections 22-24 provided on one side of the fins 20 and having a longest dimension (length) between the pipes 'P' and arranged orthogonal to a direction of flow of the air, and the longest dimension (length) of at least one of the cut and raised sections 22 - 24 having an undulating shape with a concave portion 22b in between two convex portions 22a, 22c. The heat exchanger (3) is used in an indoor ceiling mounted air conditioner (A), whereby air is drawn through an inlet (12) via a blower (6), with the air being blown over the heat exchanger (3) and passed out into a room (R) via an outlet (13). The undulating cut and raised sections 22 - 24 may be flat (castellated) or arcuated, and arranged in three lines (columns). The central line (column) of cut and raised sections (33, fig 5) may not have a concave portion so that its height is the same height as the concave cut and raised sections (32b, 34b) of the other two lines (columns) of cut and raised sections.
Patent GB-2464325-A (GB)
Title: A tool for removing a compression ring
Inventor: GILBEY JEFF
IPC: B23D29/00
Filed: 2008-10-13
Abstract: A tool 2 for removing a compression ring from a pipe comprises means for controllably moving a cutting part radially with respect to a pipe and into engagement with a compression ring thereon. The cutting part 8 comprises a cutter 16 for cutting into the ring and a stop 18 for preventing the cutter from cutting into the pipe. The cutting part may be mounted or coupled to a threaded spindle 20 which is rotatable in a threaded bore of the tool body. A solid anvil part 6 may be engageable inside a pipe in use of the tool 2.
Patent GB-2462867-A (GB)
Title: Video signal processing system and method thereof
Inventor: HUANG CHUN-RU
IPC: H04N5/262
Filed: 2008-11-12
Abstract: A video signal processing method and system thereof are disclosed. The system comprises four cameras for capturing four video signals (1373x986 pixels, frame rate is 22.5 fps). Each video signal may be adjusted and encoded in the camera to form an output video signal (960x540 pixels, frame rate is 19.98 fps). Each frame (960x540 pixels) of the output video signal may be segmented into three fields (720x240 pixels) to be the output video of the camera. Each camera transmits the processed output video (three fields, each field is 720x240 pixels, frame rate is 19.98 fps) to a digital video recorder via a coaxial cable. The digital video recorder may decode and restore the processed output video signal to the output video signal (960x540 pixels). Then the digital video recorder may transmit the several output video signal to a display device, and the several output video signal may be displayed into the display device in quad screen format to form a high definition video corresponding to the output video standard 1080p.
Patent GB-2462499-A (GB)
Title: Improvements to non-ferrous sheet transport systems
Inventor: COOKE JOHN CHARLES
IPC: B21D43/24
Filed: 2009-03-09
Abstract: An automatic sheet or part transportation system intended to remove and feed individual non-ferrous metallic sheets or parts e.g. aluminium sheets or parts from a stack of sheets or parts to a subsequent processing stage wherein the separation of the uppermost sheet or part from subsequent sheets or parts is facilitated by the application of electromagnetic fields. The applied electromagnetic field may either be alternating to create periodic and ultrasonic vibration within the upper sheet or part in the stack, facilitating separation by reducing the viscosity of the oil coating on the sheet or part and/or it may be configured to interact with a current applied to or induced in the uppermost sheet or part, such that the sheet or part is forced away from any subsequent sheet or part. Vibrational transducers e.g. piezoelectric or magneto-strictive devices may be used. The aluminium sheets or parts removed may be fed automotive body panel presses to formbody panels for the automotive industry.
Patent GB-2467613-A (GB)
Title: Pipe coupling device
Inventor: STANNERS CRAIG ANDREW
IPC: F16L23/08
Filed: 2009-05-28
Abstract: A pipe coupling device for coupling flanged pipes (1, Figure 1) comprising a housing 10 having first 10a and second 10c sections movable relative to one another between an open position and a closed position. The first 10a and second 10b sections are each adapted to receive a portion of respective flanges 40 of a pair of pipes (1) to be coupled. Fastening means 15, 16, 17 for fastening the first 10a and second 10b sections around the flanges 40 and urging means 30 adapted to be disposed in the housing 10 with the flanges 40 to urge the flanges 40 together as the first 10a and second 10b sections are closed around the flanges 40 are provided. The urging member 30 may direct the closing force orthogonal to the direction of closing and may be in the form of a half annular member. An inner seal 50 may be provided within the housing 10.
Patent GB-2472073-A (GB)
Title: Pipe clamp
Inventor: NORRIS DAVID
IPC: F16L3/10
Filed: 2009-07-23
Abstract: A pipe clamp comprises first and second elongate components 2,4 respectively which may be fabricated from lengths of flat steel bar or strip. A first end piece 6 of the first component 2 is provided with a series of indentations 8 along its edges. An opening 16 in a first end piece of the second component 4 is capable of receiving the first end piece 6 of the first component 2. By introducing the edge of the opening 16 into a selected pair of oppositely disposed indentations 8, separation of the first ends of the components is resisted. A second end piece 20 of the second component 4 is provided with a plurality of apertures 22 arranged in a row extending lengthwise of the component, each aperture 22 being capable of receiving a nib 10 or other projection extending from the second end of the first component 2. The components are thereby locked together at both ends.
Patent GB-2475291-A (GB)
Title: Nozzle for beverage preparation machines
Inventor: CARR SIMON
IPC: A47J31/06
Filed: 2009-11-12
Abstract: The present invention relates to improvements in beverage preparation machines and in particular to a beverage preparation machine of the type which uses pre-packed cartridges of beverage ingredients. The cartridges may be designed so that air becomes entrained so as to produce a desired foam or crema. A first section of an outlet nozzle has an upper portion which pierces the beverage cartridge 112, and a lower portion which allows the beverage to flow out 114. The lower portion of the nozzle has air inlets 118 to allow air to enter the beverage flowing passage. The piercing part of the nozzle is narrower than the lower portion which stops the flowing beverage leaving the nozzle through the air holes. A secondary section of the nozzle (120 - figure 10) is attached to the first section to extend the flow passage. The secondary section also has air holes (124) which are aligned with the air holes of the first section.
Patent GB-637736-A (GB)
Title: Improved method of forming blocking layers for blocking layer cells
IPC: H01L21/10
Filed: 1947-04-15
Abstract: 637,736. Dry contact rectifiers. NAAMLOOZE VENNOOTSCHAP PHILIPS' GLOEILAMPENFABRIEKEN. April 15, 1947, No. 10007. Convention date, Aug. 8, 1944. [Class 37] A method of applying a blocking layer 4, 5, e.g. of selenium or sulphur to an electrode for a rectifier, comprises disintegrating the material to be applied as blocking layer by ion bombardment. An aluminium carrier plate 1 is roughened and coated with a layer of carbon 2, and then selenium 3, to which has been added a volatile halide, e.g. tin chloride, is applied to the plate 1. The selenium surface 3 is smoothed by a press, the plate of which is previously coated with a resin-forming liquid, e.g. chinoline. The plate 1 is then heated at about 200 C. A layer 4 of a resin-forming liquid, e.g. triethanolamine, is sprayed either before or during the heating on the selenium, after which the plate 1 is placed between two electrodes in a vessel containing air, with the selenium layer 3 facing the cathode which is also of selenium. The pressure in the vessel is reduced to about 100 mm. of Hg and several kilovolts applied across the electrodes, whereby the selenium cathode is subjected to ion bombardment. The cathode disintegrates and selenium 5 is deposited on the plate 1. A low melting-point alloy forms the counter electrode.
Patent GB-560112-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to steering gear for vehicles
IPC: B62D7/02
Filed: 1942-07-20
Abstract: 560,112. Linkwork. RANSOMES & RAPIER, Ltd., and STOKES, A. S. July 20, 1942, Nos. 10059 and 13992. [Class 80 (iii)] [Also in Group XXXI] In a vehicle having at least two steering wheels F at one end of the vehicle, these wheels are mounted on steering posts 4 or E which can turn through approximately 180‹ and are provided with elliptical cams 5 or D so connected together by rope gearing that the inner post on a curve turns through a greater angle than the outer post. The vehicle may have steering wheels at both ends, the wheels at one end being turned either in the same or the opposite direction to those at the other end. In the construction shown in Fig. 7, the steering shaft J drives a central pinion A meshing with gears B on shafts B <1> carrying cams C each connected by two wire ropes, C<1>, D<1> to the cams D. Each cam is provided with two grooves, one for the upper rope C<1> and one for the lower rope D<1>, one rope being pulled in which ever direction the cams are rotated. One end of each rope is secured to a lug G on one cam and the other end is secured to the complementary cam by means of a hollow wedge H<1> engaged in a tapered slot H in the cam. In the arrangement shown diagrammatically in Figs. 5 and 6, the vehicle is mounted on eight wheels, all steered. The steering posts 4 at one end are steered in the same way as those shown in Fig. 7 and are connected to the rear steering posts 2a by rope gearing comprising end pulleys 16, guide pulleys 16a, and ropes 17. Intermediate steering posts 2a. 4a are connected by crossed ropes 21, and the posts 4a are steered in the same manner as the posts 4. The posts 4, 4a are simultaneously steered by a motor 14 and gearing 15. When the vehicle, which may be a crane, is working on a quay or platform it may be provided with a safety device comprising a wheel K carried by a pivoted frame L, this wheel projecting beyond the ordinary wheels and normally running on the same surface. If the vehicle approaches the edge of the quay or platform the wheel K drops and with it the frame L, this movement being utilised to open the switch of the propelling motor and/or apply a brake.
Patent GB-855486-A (GB)
Title: Novel heterocyclic hydrazine derivatives and a process for the manufacture thereof
IPC: C07D333/24
Filed: 1959-03-24
Abstract: The invention comprises compounds of the general formula: <FORM:0855486/IV(b)/1> and their acid addition salts, wherein R1 represents a thiophene, pyrrole a N-alkyl pyrrole radical (which may contain one or more halogen, alkyl or alkoxy substituents attached respectively to a carbon atom or carbon atoms thereof and R2 represents an aralkyl radical, a saturated dicyclic hydrocarbon radical containing not more than seven carbon atoms or a saturated branched-or straight-chain aliphatic hydrocarbon radical containing not more than seven carbon atoms and the preparation thereof by (a) condensing an acid of the general formula:  <FORM:0855486/IV(b)/2> or a salt thereof, with a substituted hydrazine of the general formula: H2N-NH-R2 in the presence of an N,N1-disubstituted-carbodiimide, and if desired, converting the condensation product into an acid addition salt or, if an acid addition salt, into the base or (b) reacting a hydrozide of the above acid with an appropriate carbonyl compound and simultaneously or consecutively reducing the resulting hydrazone of the carbonyl compound.
Patent GB-1370082-A (GB)
Title: Exposure device for manufacturing colour picture tubes
IPC: H01J9/227
Filed: 1972-03-03
Abstract: 1370082 Luminescent screens HITACHI Ltd 3 March 1972 [5 March 1971] 10114/72 Heading HID In the manufacture of a colour television screen by a photo-resist process wherein light from a point source passes through a correction lens comprising a plurality of rectangular lens areas joined by abrupt transition portions, the latter transmit less light and produce a dark grid pattern on the screen; this effect is mitigated by reducing the light passing through the lens areas. In one arrangement a chequered pattern of attentuating material is provided either on the lens areas or on the surface of a transparent substrate combined with the lens. Alternatively a pattern of straight grooves may be cut in the surface of the lens areas.
Patent GB-742572-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to knitting machines
Inventor: TOONE RALPH NORMAN
IPC: D04B35/00
Filed: 1951-04-30
Abstract: 742,572. Knitting-machines. TOONE (NOTTINGHAM), Ltd., B. April 29, 1952 [April 30, 1951], No. 10138/51. Class 74 (2). A circular knitting-machine has a yarn feeder 2 movable into and out of action in each of certain courses, a device within the needle circle and adjacent the feeder, for trapping the outgoing yarn and subsequently positioning it to be taken by the needles on re-introduction and a separate non-trapping cutter 27, independently slidable, circumferentially of the needle circle, on a fixed welt instrument cam ring, in timed relation with the change from knitting to non-knitting of the yarn, so that a cutting edge 46 thereof, near the inner side of the circle of needles, co-operates with the edge 45 of a knife ring 39 fast with the cam ring, to cut the yarn. The feeder 2, for splicing yarn, is swung into and out of action, about axis 2A, by the main cam drum, acting through a thrust bar 3 and is operatively connected to the cutter 27 through abutment screws 7, 13 on a member 5 swingable about axis 2A and co-operating abutments 8 on feeder 2 and 14 on a bell-crank lever 15, 16, linked to an eccentric disc, a peg on which engages a slot 41 in the cutter. The trapper is raised to inoperative position against the action of a spring, by the main cam drum, acting through a thrust bar 19, lever 18, also pivoted on axis 2A, and associated linkwork. Levers 15, 16 and 18 are connected by pin-andslot connections 20, 21. The arrangement of the cams for thrust bars 3 and 19 is such that, at the end of splicing, the cutter 27 is rendered inoperative before the feeder 2 is taken out, so that the thread passes into the normal trapper. Separate screw adjustment for the cutter is provided at 50. The trapper, which may also be raised normally through a knob and secured in that position, consists of two superimposed plates 60, 61. When the feeder 2 is taken out of action, a tapered part 62 on plate 60 guides the thread A between the plates and a part 66 directs it into a slot 65, the feeder end of the thread being carried above the upper end of a slot 64 and so deflected by a rounded part 63 of plate 60 that, when the feeder is again lowered, the thread passes down the slot 64 into a notch 67, which positions it for re-introduction. Specifications 532,520, 532,586, 550,102 and 559,952 are referred to.