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Patent GB-2146310-A (GB)
Title: Display carton
Inventor: BOOTH PAUL ROBERT
IPC: B65D5/52
Filed: 1983-09-09
Abstract: A foldable display carton comprises a body defined by side wall panels (10,12,14 and 16), and a plurality of base forming panels (20,22,24,42) provided at the lower edges of the side wall panels and so interconnected that the side wall panels and the base forming panels can be displaced from a folded condition, in which they are substantially in flat face-to-face relation, to an open condition, in which the base forming panels are disposed in at least partially overlapping relation in a substantially common plane transverse to the side wall panels. One of the side wall panels (16) has an integral foldable extension (30) at its lower edge, and one of the base forming panels (42) is foldably connected to such extension. The one base forming panel (42) may be formed from material taken from the one side wall panel (16), or may be integrally connected to an outer panel of the extension (30) which is foldable into face-to-face relation with an inner panel of said extension. The extension (30), can be folded into a flat position beneath the base of the carton, or an extended position in which it serves as a leg to support the carton at an angle. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2130836-A (GB)
Title: Optical rotational printer
Inventor: SHIOZAWA ETSUO
IPC: B41J2/455
Filed: 1983-09-15
Abstract: A printer comprises a rotating member (4) carrying groups (20) of recording light emitting systems (21) having light sources (23) and condenser lenses, on its peripheral surface (13), a power feeder for feeding a modulated signal to the light sources, and an arcuately curved platen (2) for supporting a recording material (16). The groups of the light emitting systems are symmetrically positioned around the periphery of the member (4), with their centers aligned with one another on a common circumference (C). The light sources (23) of each emitting system group are mounted tiltably so that light beams impinging on the recording material are staggeredly shifted at equal intervals in a direction parallel to the rotation axis of the rotatable member. During printing the rotatable member is moved along and rotated about the rotation axis. The light emitting systems of each group scan adjacent lines, with the axial movement of the member being such that the first light emitting system of the next to scan group, scans the next adjacent line. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2130720-A (GB)
Title: Defrosting indicator
Inventor: ABEL JOSE PRAT
IPC: G01K11/06
Filed: 1983-09-21
Abstract: A transparent outer container 1 accommodates an inner container 2 containing a coloured liquid substance 3 which, on freezing, expands to a sufficient extent to break the wall of the inner container 2. The container 2 is enclosed within first and second layers 4, 6 of capillary material which extend between two fibre pads 7. A non-permeable opaque layer 5 prevents the liquid being visible when the substance freezes and breaks the container 2. When defrosting occurs, the coloured substance 3 flows in liquids form via the pads 7 to the second capillary layer 6 where it is visible. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2154182-A (GB)
Title: Technical drawing device
Inventor: DE JONG HERMAN
IPC: B43L7/027
Filed: 1984-01-03
Abstract: A device primarily designed for technical drawing is characterized by an angular sliding mechanism (at 45 DEG  or other angle) that allows movement in both horizontal and vertical direction. The sliding member (A) consists of a pair of straight edges mounted perpendicularly to one another having graduated edges a to f with common zero points in the corners, taking into account the average thickness of the pencil, the member A being mounted on an edge g of a second member B to slide thereupon, the member B being designed to cut said edge g at an angle  theta  to a given line when an edge h of the member B is cut on said given line. This eliminates the conventional marking off of dimensions. Ideally the entire device is rested upon a conventional horizontal parallel slide, moving freely to the left or right as required. There is scope to adapt the device for the purpose of scribing or guiding along a cutting or sawing tool and the like. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2154934-A (GB)
Title: A method for sealing polyamidic films
Inventor: OREGLIA AURELIO
IPC: B29C65/04
Filed: 1984-03-01
Abstract: A method of sealing polyamidic films of the homopolymer and/or copolymer types comprises a corona treatment of the film followed by a radiofrequency sealing step to be carried out within an elapsed time equal to or shorter than 15 minutes from the corona treatment step.
Patent GB-2138060-A (GB)
Title: Manufacture of thermally insulated frame members
Inventor: HIRONS TERENCE JAMES
IPC: E06B3/263
Filed: 1984-04-11
Abstract: A thermally insulated frame member 35 for a door or window comprises two elongate metal components 36, 37 interconnected only by thermally insulating plastics material. The two metal components are initially interconnected by two preformed elongate plastics components 38 each of which forms a mechanical interlock with each of the metal components and defines therewith a channel. The two channels face in directly opposite directions to each other and are filled in turn with a settable thermally-insulating plastics material 39 in a fluid condition, the material in one channel being allowed to set before the member is inverted and the other channel is filled. Each of the bodies of plastics material 39 thus moulded forming a mechanical interlock with each of the metal components 36, 37. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2146620-A (GB)
Title: Beverage dispensing systems
Inventor: NEWPORT-HASSAN THIJIL BEEDALLA
IPC: B67D1/00
Filed: 1984-09-13
Abstract: In a beverage dispensing system for the dispensing of juice and still water simultaneously at a dispensing head, the juice is supplied from a sealed container 20 by means of a pump 26 contained in a line 22 connecting the sealed container and dispensing head 12, whilst the water is supplied through a solenoid valve 34, a regulator 36 and refrigeration unit 38. The juice line is connected to the sealed container by quick release valve coupling arrangement 24 of the type ensuring that when the line and package are disconnected, the juice is prevented from flowing from both the package and the line through the respective valve connections. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2164886-A (GB)
Title: Welding preheating insert for heavy wall pipe
Inventor: WARDLAW III LOUIS J
IPC: B23K9/235
Filed: 1984-09-27
Abstract: A coating 24 of frangible material, e.g., cement, supports a combustible solid fuel mixture 42, e.g. thermite, and includes a deflector plate 44 for directing gases given off by the ignited fuel against the pipe section to be welded. After preheating, the pipe is welded by forming a multi-pass bead. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2149536-A (GB)
Title: Induction motor control system
Inventor: DAVIS RAY E
IPC: H02J3/18
Filed: 1984-11-01
Abstract: Single-phase and three-phase AC induction motors are controlled in accordance with the equation y = mx + b, where y is the motor voltage-current phase angle, m is the slope, x is the triac firing delay and b is the offset. Subsequently, the firing delay is increased by predetermined amounts, the behaviour of the phase angle is evaluated for several cycles, and the motor is controlled based on the results of the evaluation, thereby minimizing energy consumption. The method may be carried out using a programmed digital computer, or otherwise. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2153911-A (GB)
Title: Method of checking radial clearances in rotary machines
Inventor: KIDDLE JEFFREY GEORGE
IPC: F01C21/00
Filed: 1985-02-11
Abstract: In order to improve the sealing of the pumping chambers of a positive displacement rotary pump, motor or expander having pistons slidably mounted in slots in a rotor, radial clearances between the rotor and stator are checked by boring at least one hole 14 in the casing to communicate with a single pumping chamber at the position of minimum radial clearance c and comparing the flow or pressure of a fluid delivered into the chamber through the hole, with a predetermined, standard. The said clearance is then adjusted to bring the fluid flow or pressure into conformity with the standard. In an alternative arrangement, air is delivered through one hole to the chamber and is discharged therefrom through another hole. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2154251-A (GB)
Title: Sensitizing nonconductive substrates prior to electroless plating
Inventor: ARCILESI DONALD A
IPC: C23C18/28
Filed: 1985-02-15
Abstract: The substrate is sensitized by contacting it with an aqueous solution containing an effective amount of a bath soluble and compatible organic amine sensitizing agent of the structural formula:   <IMAGE> wherein X, Y, Z, R1, R2, a, b and c are as defined in the specification eg. N-(3-chloro-2-hydroxypropyl)trimethyl ammonium chloride or (2,3-epoxy propyl)trimethy ammonium chloride. The sensitizing solution provides for an improvement in the coverage and adhesion of electroless platings on difficult-to-plate nonconductive substrates and provides for further advantages in flexibilty and waste disposal treatment over that provided by prior art sensitizers such as ethylenediamine.
Patent GB-2176932-A (GB)
Title: Sample plate for immunosorbent electron microscopy
Inventor: BARTON RICHARD JAMES
IPC: H01J37/20
Filed: 1985-05-28
Abstract: A sample plate for immunosorbent electron microscopy is characterised in that the plate is made from polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE). The plate preferably comprises a disc (1) of PTFE on one face of which a plurality of shallow wells (2) have been machined. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2165835-A (GB)
Title: Alkanolamine derivatives
Inventor: COLLIS M G
IPC: A61K31/13
Filed: 1985-07-26
Abstract: Alkanolamine derivatives of the formula:-   <IMAGE> wherein either R<1> is hydroxy and R<2>, R<3>, R<4>, R<5> and R<6> are all hydrogen; or R<3> is hydroxy and R<1>, R<2>, R<4>, R<5> and R<6> are all hydrogen; or R<5> is hydroxy and R<1>, R<2>, R<3>, R<4> and R<6> are all hydrogen; or R<1> and R<2> form oxo and R<3>, R<4>, R<5> and R<6> are all hydrogen; or R<3> and R<4> form oxo and R<1>, R<2>, R<5>, and R<6> are all hydrogen; or R<5> and R<6> form oxo and R<1>, R<2>, R<3> and R<4> are all hydrogen; or any two of R<1>, R<3> and R<5> are hydroxy, the other one of R<1>, R<3> and R<5>, and R<2>, R<4> and R<6>, all being hydrogen; wherein R<7> is hydrogen or halogen, or alkyl or hydroxyalkyl each of up to 3 carbon atoms; and wherein R<8> is alky of up to 3 carbon atoms; acid-addition salts thereof, processes for their manufacture and pharmaceutical compositions containing them. The compounds possess peripherally-selective beta-adrenergic blocking activity.
Patent GB-2164029-A (GB)
Title: Automatic fining and top-up machine
Inventor: BANNERMAN DUGALD GRAHAM
IPC: B67C3/34
Filed: 1985-08-30
Abstract: An automatic fining and top-up machine 1 is arranged to receive a filled cask from a conveyor at the left of the figure, to rotate the cask until the keystone opening 26 engages stop 27 and then to hold the cask in a fixed position with its head uppermost. A turret 18 is mounted on the machine so as to be movable under automatic control relative to the cask, the turret carrying a plurality of devices which may be selectively positioned above the head of the cask on rotation of the turret, one of said devices being a sensing device adapted to sense the position of the keystone opening 26 and arranged to control the movement of the turret so as to position the turret in a predetermined relation to the keystone opening, and at least one other of the devices being a filler device for supplying liquid to the cask via the keystone opening. Movement of the turret relative to the cask is by means of an electric stepping motor, lead screw and nut arrangement 16 and a stepping motor and depending shaft 17. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2167193-A (GB)
Title: Joint operation simulator
Inventor: WRIGHT KEITH WILLIAM JOHN
IPC: G01M13/04
Filed: 1985-09-27
Abstract: Apparatus for simulating the real- life operation of a bearing such as a hip joint prosthesis so that the wear characteristics of the material can be assessed, in which the lower component 16 of the bearing is mounted eccentrically on the planet 8 of an epicyclic gear so that as the gear is rotated the bearing, being relatively fixed in a horizontal plane, bobs up and down. The upper component 11 of the bearing, however, is fixed on a rotatable frame 13 including a series of weights 15 and a cam follower 18, so that the weights produce across the bearing a force which, by the bobbing of the bearing and inertial effects, varies in a cyclical manner except for a pre-determined period in the rotation of the gear, when the cam follower engages a cam 10 rotating with the gear to remove the action of the weights. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2171411-A (GB)
Title: Formation of solid polymeric material
Inventor: HALLWORTH GERALD
IPC: B05D1/40
Filed: 1986-02-11
Abstract: A coating material is applied to a surface, such as the back surface of carpeting, using a perforated roller (9). The material is supplied to the outer surface of the roller (9) so as to form a well of material (10) on the surface (1) passing through the perforated body (11) of the roller (9) up to a second smaller roller (12) inside the perforated roller (9). The roller (12) may be fixed or may be driven depending on the nature of the pattern to be applied to the coating material by the roller (9).
Patent GB-2174969-A (GB)
Title: Means diverting articles to one of two take-away conveyors
Inventor: JACKSON RONALD
IPC: B65G47/71
Filed: 1986-05-08
Abstract: Conveying apparatus comprises two conveyors (10, 12) which diverge in a region (14) to feed articles to one or other of two take-away conveyors (18, 20). In the diverging region (14) a roller 22 is rotatably mounted about a horizontal axis, so as to engage the underside of articles supplied by the moving conveyors (10, 12). The direction of rotation of the roller 22 causes the articles to be fed to one or other of the take-away conveyors (18, 20). The roller 22 is frictionally driven by a wheel 24 which may project above the surface of the roller to assist in the diverting action. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2190497-A (GB)
Title: Measuring pitch circle diameters
Inventor: CLOUGH DONALD STANLEY
IPC: G01B5/08
Filed: 1986-05-16
Abstract: A method of measuring a pitch circle diameter comprises positioning a pair of locating devices 12 on the pitch circle, the locating devices of the pair being spaced apart by a predetermined distance, moving a third locating device 15 along a predetermined path 24 with respect to the said pair until the third locating device is also on the pitch circle, and determining the pitch circle diameter utilising the distance between the said pair and the third locating device.The third locating device 15 can be moved along the path 24 by means of an elongate slide to which is attached a cursor 20. Fine adjustment, eg by Vernier scale, is controlled by adjusting screws, eg 14. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2177767-A (GB)
Title: Motor vehicle braking system
Inventor: PAULSON WILLIAM CHARLES
IPC: B60T1/06
Filed: 1986-06-23
Abstract: The system provides automatic braking when the vehicle (as shown a trailer), moving in reverse contacts an obstruction; a member 56 rotates in one direction in the forward direction of movement of the vehicle 10 and in the opposite direction in the reverse direction of movement of the vehicle 10 and upon rotation of the member 56 in said opposite direction being sensed the brake system 71 is brought into readiness for operation by detector means sensing contact of e.g, a bumper tube 22 with an obstruction. As shown member 56 is a disc fixed to a hub cap 34 and carrying magnets 62 which registers with a ring 46 of magnet, on a disc 38. Forwards rotation of disc 56 rotates disc 38 in one direction but in the opposite direction movement of disc 38 opens a valve 52-contact of tube 22 with an obstruction operates valve 74 to operate the brakes. in the embodiment of Figs. 11-13 a drive shaft (150) carries a circumferential band of magnets cooperable with an arcuate head (154) carrying magnets. The specification envisages rotation sensing by fluid, hydraulic, mechanical electrical means or a combination - detection may utilize a bar, rail, sensing strip, sonar or infra red. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2179607-A (GB)
Title: Wheel immobilisers
Inventor: DENMAN PHILIP
IPC: B60R25/09
Filed: 1986-08-04
Abstract: A wheel immobiliser comprising a pair of arms (1,2) adjustably spaced apart by means (3) to accommodate therebetween varying widths of wheels. Further means (11) is provided on one arm (1) of the pair which is adapted for co-operation with a selected wheelnut of a wheel of a vehicle to which the immobiliser is to be fitted. At least one of the arms, in use of the immobiliser, extends beyond the periphery of the wheel for engagement with adjacent body structure of the vehicle or ground to prevent full rotation of the wheel. Access to the adjustment means (3) is prevented by placing a barrel lock in the end of the tube (12) of the adjustment means. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2196449-A (GB)
Title: Joystick with serial output
Inventor: HOLLOWAY WYNFORD P
IPC: G06F3/038
Filed: 1986-10-14
Abstract: A joystick electrical switch assembly is adapted to be held in the palm of one hand and controlled by the other hand. The assembly comprises a plurality of contact pairs, some of which are disposed as an array around the control lever, and a shift register having a plurality of stages with respective inputs connected to the contact pairs. The shift register has a serial output and a control input serving to shift the register contents in steps and thus deliver signals to the serial output representing the states of the contact pairs. The switch assembly needs an electrical lead having only five conductors regardless of the number of contact pairs.
Patent GB-2183263-A (GB)
Title: Conveyor belt
Inventor: TONN HASSO
IPC: B65G15/34
Filed: 1986-10-20
Abstract: A conveyor belt of rubber, rubber-like plastics or plastics-like PVC with one or more woven inlays which consist of polyester warp and polyamide weft, an additional bearing warp material being associated with the polyester warp. The essential feature of this invention consists in the additional warp material not being twisted with the polyester warp yarn and the proportion of polyester in the warp amounting to 51 to 70%. The additional material may be polyamide, arylamide, polyvinylalcohol polyvinylacetate cotton or rayon.
Patent GB-2183515-A (GB)
Title: Centreless grinding
Inventor: SMEDLEY ROGER WILLIAM
IPC: B24B5/18
Filed: 1986-11-07
Abstract: Centreless grinding tends to produce lobed profiles. This is controllable by adjusting machine parameters during grinding. Thus a workpiece is supported by a blade 8 and contacted by a grinding wheel 1 and a regulating wheel 2. Sensors 3, 4 monitor the diameters of the wheels 1, 2 and provide inputs to a computer 5 which controls the height and/or angle of the blade 8. Thus the computer may control two adjusting motors 7, 10 which rotate threaded shafts 6, 11 which engage complementary bores in displacement means coupled to a blade carrier to effect, respectively, vertical displacement and pivoting about a horizontal axis. For vertical displacement the shaft 6 acts to displace a wedge having a cam surface which engages the blade carrier and is profiled to provide a desired displacement ratio. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2186318-A (GB)
Title: Combination locks
Inventor: THOMAS DOUGLAS ROY
IPC: E05B37/16
Filed: 1986-12-15
Abstract: A combination lock has a casing (3) which is securable to the outside of a door (1) by fasteners accessible only from the inside. A shaft with an operating knob (4) extends through the casing (3) and is adapted to operate a latch within or on the inside of the door. Within the casing (3) the shaft carries a disc (8) with a peripheral array of detents (10). A corresponding array of pins (11) with their ends (5) projecting from the casing can be set in one attitude or another to determine the combination. They have asymmetrical collars (12, 13) to co-operate with the detents and inside of the casing, and the lock is freed by pressing in the correct combination of pins. Depressed pins are subsequently returned by pulling the knob (4) so that another disc (9) on the shaft engages the collars and shifts the pins. The lock may be springless. A diametral pin on the shaft cooperates with part annular abutments on the backplate 14 of the casing (3) to limit the rotational movement of the shaft. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2201180-A (GB)
Title: Window lock
Inventor: SCHOLES ERNEST MALCOLM HEYWOOD
IPC: E05C9/00
Filed: 1987-02-21
Abstract: There is disclosed an openable rectangular window frame 20 which is assembled from four window sections secured together, at least one of which has on one side a hollow inner upstand which forms one limb of a channel shaped mounting for receiving a glazed unit and also serving to receive therein a gear casing of a main espagnolette fitting 22, and on an opposite side thereof a groove in which a mounting plate of the espagnolette fitting is mounted. A pair of corner drive espagnolette fittings 24 are provided on the window section 21, and are coupled with the main espagnolette fitting 22 by a direct mechanical coupling, so that a single actuator (not shown) fitting in mounting hole 26 can operate the main espagnolette fitting and the corner drive espagnolette fitting simultaneously. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2202508-A (GB)
Title: Multi-mode lifting/hauling/conveying apparatus
Inventor: AITCHISON KEITH NUNNERLEY
IPC: B62B1/14
Filed: 1987-03-24
Abstract: A multi-mode apparatus capable of selective conversion for operation in lifting, hauling and conveying modes, comprising a main body (10) whose one end carries a cable winch (24) and whose other end can be selectively connected (a) to a self anchoring winching spade which, in a hauling mode of the apparatus, is adapted to embed itself in the ground when the winch (24) is operated to tension a winch cable attached to an object to be hauled, and (b) a wheeled platform component (52) which, in a conveying mode of the apparatus, provides a platform surface (54) for supporting a load to be carried and which has a pair of wheels (60) for enabling the apparatus to be manually displaced. The main body (10) is of box-section and can receive therewithin a dooly device which can carry a lifting member (46) and which, in a lifting mode of the apparatus, can be displaced longitudinally along the main body (10) by the winch (24) for lifting an external load engaged by the lifting member (46). <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2192846-A (GB)
Title: A self-advancing system for a rail track
Inventor: BRANDIS CURT
IPC: E21F13/00
Filed: 1987-04-14
Abstract: The self-advancing system comprises two trucks (1, 1a) interconnected by way of a cylinder (2). The trucks (1, 1a) are constrainedly guided on a rail (3) and each has a gear (6), lockable by means of levers 10, meshing with a pin tooth rack (7) disposed centrally on the rail (3). The gear (6) and the corresponding latch or locking mean (10) are freely disposed in a vertical longitudinal plane of the rail (3) so that zones adjacent the same remain clear. With one truck (1a) locked to the rail (3) the cylinder (2) is extended to advance truck (1) in the direction of travel. Truck (1) is then locked to the rail (3) and the cylinder (2) contracted to draw truck (1a) in the direction A. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2207709-A (GB)
Title: Fluid collection and transportation device
Inventor: MERCER LEONARD
IPC: A61M1/00
Filed: 1987-07-28
Abstract: A device for collecting fluid such as mucus from the body comprises a sealed transparent container 1 which houses a flexible plastics bag 8 in sealed communication with a suction catheter 6 outside the container. In operation the container is evacuated by applying suction to a tube 4 communicating with the interior of the container such that the bag expands so creating a suction effect at the free end of the catheter to enable fluid to be drawn-off by the catheter for collection in the bag. The arrangement removes the danger of contact between the operator and the fluid. <IMAGE>