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Patent GB-2198395-A (GB)
Title: Trolley
Inventor: TURNER LAURENCE GEOFFREY
IPC: B62B3/10
Filed: 1987-11-06
Abstract: A trolley, for transporting panes of glass or the like, comprises a base (3) provided with ground engaging wheel means, in the form of castors (26). A plurality of distinct elongate support areas (5) are provided by a corrugated upper face of the base (3), and a plurality of spaced support members (4A, B) are vertically spaced from the base (3) to define a plurality of open ended slots corresponding to support areas (5) of the base (3) member for receiving edge portions of upright panes of glass or the like (2) supported on the base (3). Additional support members may be provided at the front of the trolley or above the members 4A, B. Also described is a method of transporting panes of glass in which a series of trollies are winched on to a lorry platform, and retained in position on the platform using shoes which engage the castors 26. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2198199-A (GB)
Title: A device for monitoring the lining wear in shoe brakes
Inventor: BRAUN HERBERT
IPC: F16D66/02
Filed: 1987-11-26
Abstract: A device for monitoring the lining wear in shoe brakes, comprises a sensor (42) made of insulating material which contains an electrical conductor (48) connectable to a warning device and which has a sensor stem (46), which in use is arranged in an opening (40) passing through the lining support (18) of a brake shoe (20, 22), and a sensor finger (58) which is arranged at right angles to the stem which can be inserted into a bore (60) in brake lining. The sensor stem is securable in the opening by means of a separate retaining element (44) which can be locked together with the sensor stem upon insertion into the opening, and in the locked together condition, the sensor stem and the retaining element frictionally engage the opening. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2200961-A (GB)
Title: Control system for a motor vehicle having a hydrostatic transmission and an energy-storage brake
Inventor: HEYL WALTER
IPC: F15B11/02
Filed: 1987-12-31
Abstract: The control system ensures that the transmission is prevented from being switched to the mode of rotation of the transmission output shaft whilst the spring brake has still not been fully released. The transmission is controlled through lines 18, 19; forward/reverse selector 17 and adjustment valve 32, with an actuating element 15, in dependence on the pressure differential across a restriction 5. The restriction 5 has a by-pass line 27 with a closure valve 28 controlled by the brake-release pressure in line 22. If the brake pressure drops (accidentally or otherwise), the driving control pressure is reduced because the pump of the transmission swings back to its zero position. Thus, driving against rubbing brakes is impossible. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2223387-A (GB)
Title: Coil apparatus
Inventor: BRADLEY JOHN
IPC: A01B29/06
Filed: 1988-08-24
Abstract: Earth working apparatus includes a flexible helical coil (12) mounted on a frame (11) for rotation about its longitudinal axis. In operation the coil (12) rotates about a substantially horizontal axis by the effect of contact of the earth with the coil when the coil is dragged across the ground, for example by a tractor. Means for cleaning the coil comprises a plurality of cleaning elements (19) for engaging with or protruding into the coil. Each said cleaning element is pivotable about an axis (17) extending substantially transverse to the longitudinal axis of the coil (18), and the cleaning elements are all coupled to a shaft (18) extending substantially parallel to the longitudinal axis of the coil. This shaft (18) is arranged to be reciprocated substantially parallel to said longitudinal axis to pivot the cleaning elements and out of any potential jamming position relative to said coil.
Patent GB-2216055-A (GB)
Title: Paper cutting machine and method
Inventor: MORI CHUZO
IPC: B26D1/18
Filed: 1989-02-13
Abstract: The machine has a board 38 which is provided at one end with a support 41 in which one end of a rail 35 is pivotally supported by means of a pin (45 Fig 2). Thus, the other end of the rail is movable up and down about the pin. A slider 40 is movable along the rail. A rotatable cutter blade 26 is attached to the slider. A paper hold-down 36 is resiliently supported on the under side of the rail through a spring (56, Fig 5). A hook 50, attached to the distal end of the rail is received in a bore (58, Fig 4) to retain that end of the rail in a guide member 49 on the board. The rail support is provided with spring-loaded guide pins (46, Fig 2) for bearing against respective side surfaces. The slider is mainly comprised of a cutter blade-side slider body (3, Fig 7), a slider body (2) and a cutter blade holder (1). The blade 26 is rotatably mounted on a slide portion (11) of the cutter blade holder. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2220295-A (GB)
Title: Superconducting articles
Inventor: WAGNER GEORGE RICHARD
IPC: H01B12/10
Filed: 1989-02-16
Abstract: Superconducting articles having a generally sub-stoichiometric oxygen, nickel oxide insulation between superconducting strands and an operating temperature below 250 degrees kelvin. The articles have multiple superconductors, with a cladding of nickel on the strands, and an adherent coating of nickel oxide formed on the outer surface of the cladding. The nickel oxide has stoichiometric or less than stoichiometric oxygen (but not greater than stoichiometric oxygen) to be electrically insulating at the operating temperature of the superconductor. Thus high thermal conductivity strand insulation capable of withstanding strand to strand voltages of greater than 50 volts is provided to substantially eliminate coupling currents between the strands, and nickel oxide having areas which are semiconducting due to containing more than stoichiometric oxygen is avoided.
Patent GB-2234575-A (GB)
Title: User input device for an interactive display system
Inventor: PENNA DAVID EDWARD
IPC: G06F3/0354
Filed: 1989-07-28
Abstract: The user input device comprises a body (30, 32) on which are mounted first input means, eg. tracker ball (36) or joystick, by which hand movements of a user relative to the body are translated into a first control signal variable in at least two dimensions and second input means (64) eg. of the "MOUSE" type by which movement by the user of the body in two dimensions across a reference surface against which the body rests is translated into a second control signal variable in two dimensions. The device enables the generation of two independent, multi-dimensional control signals, avoiding or reducing problems associated with the control for example of 3-D image synthesis display apparatus by means of known user input devices. The first input means may be surrounded by a bezel (46, Figs 5, 6) which is rotatable by the user's fingers to generate further control signals. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2236838-A (GB)
Title: Thermally-insulated storage units
Inventor: MERHEMITCH CHARLES FRANCIS
IPC: B60R15/00
Filed: 1989-08-24
Abstract: Storage unit for mounting on a motor coach particularly is of compact size and comprises an outer casing (24), an inner shell (26) moulded in glass fibre reinforced resin and defining two compartments (30, 32). One compartment (32) contains a refrigeration unit (54) and the other (30) a heated water supply system. Heat insulation is provided between the two compartments and surrounding the compartment containing the refrigeration unit. A facia (28) is attached to the shell to form a preassembled unit therewith. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2241837-A (GB)
Title: Threadless quick connector for junction box
Inventor: YANG CHIN-HUI
IPC: H02G3/06
Filed: 1990-03-07
Abstract: A junction box assembly, which includes a junction box having a plurality of round holes thereon each said round holes comprising two opposite notches; and at least one connector for insertion in either one of the round holes to secure a conduit each to the junction box for electric wiring. The connector comprises two opposite projections corresponding to the two opposite notches of the round holes of the junction box and a rubber ring mounted thereon and set between the projections and a collar thereof such that the connector can be conveniently fastened in either of the round holes of the junction box. Two bolt holes are made on the connector for the insertion therein of two screws to conveniently secure a conduit therein. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-900796-A (GB)
Abstract: 900,796. Musical instruments with sonorous bars. TRACEY, H. T. Oct. 21, 1958, No. 33589/58. Class 88 (2). A plucked-reed instrument is generally similar to that described in Specification 804,131 but differs in the method of mounting the straining- bar 17. In the present case this is effected by means of sheet-metal strips surrounding the straining-bar, at least one of the strips serving also as a sound-post. In one embodiment, Figs. 2 and 3, four strips 27 have holes at each end through which pass the straining-bar 17 and a mounting-bar 28 which is secured by means of a U-shaped sheet-metal strip 30 to the far wall of the resonant body 10, 14. The strip 30 forms a sound-post. A tension-bar 33 extends completely across the body 10, 14. In a second embodiment, Fig. 4, two metal strips 40 are bent as shown, and apertured to receive the straining- bar 17. In a third embodiment, Figs. 6 and 7, a metal plate is slotted to form strips 44 which are bent round the straining-bar 17 between the reeds 25, and the plate is fixed by screws through the front 10 of the body to a second plate 48, which acts as a tension-bar and has a limb 49 serving as a sound-post.
Patent GB-2237794-A (GB)
Title: Device for lifting skips
Inventor: COLE MICHAEL JOSEPH
IPC: B66C1/16
Filed: 1990-06-22
Abstract: A device for lifting skips having upwardly and outwardly diverging end walls, said device comprising connection means (2) for location over lifting means of a crane or like lifting apparatus and having extending therefrom lifting means comprising tie rods or the like or lifting cables, ropes or chains (3) which are connected at their ends remote from the connection means to a rectangularly disposed or rectangularly disposable skip-encircling means (15) (such as a rectangular frame, or rigid end cross beams interconnected by chains or cables, or a rectangular/rectangularly disposed chain, rope or cable arrangement); wherein said skip-encircling means (5) is selected to be of a size relative to the general range of skips with which the device is to be used such that said skip-encircling means may be raised upwardly with the skip bottom disposed inwardly thereof so as to engage the outwardly diverging end walls of the skip to permit lifting of the skip in a stable manner. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2238444-A (GB)
Title: Digital video coder quantization control
Inventor: COTTON ANDREW DAVID RAINE
IPC: H04N7/50
Filed: 1990-09-12
Abstract: In a digital coder of the type in which a signal is formed and subject to a transform, for example, a discrete cosine transform 12, the signal is applied to a quantizer 14 with variable coarseness of quantization. The quantization coarseness is controlled by control circuit 32 in response to the occupancy of a buffer 26 following the quantizer so as to prevent buffer overflow or underflow. The control circuit 32 is responsive to the buffer occupancy to generate a quantizing step size control signal which varies relatively slowly with buffer occupancy over a central range of buffer occupancies and varies relatively rapidly with buffer occupancy in top and bottom ranges respectively above and below the central range. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2247614-A (GB)
Title: Infant seat apparatus
Inventor: PARKER ROBERT M
IPC: B60N2/28
Filed: 1990-12-04
Abstract: The infant seat apparatus (2) can function as an infant carrier, a glider, or a car seat for an infant and includes a base (4) with an upwardly open cavity and a carrier (6) connected to the base (4) and at least partially contained within the cavity. The positioning of the carrier (6) relative to the base (4) may be adjusted to allow the carrier (6) to glide relative to the base (4) or to lock the carrier to the base. In a locked configuration, seat belt receivers (88) are suitably positioned to receive an automobile seat belt, when the infant seat is positioned on the seat of an automobile. The carrier may include handle means pivotally connected thereto and which can be locked in at least two positions by means of a pin and slot mechanism, or at least two hand slots (52) for transporting the carrier. The glider means includes front and rear U-shaped swing support members (66, 67) pivotally connected to base (4), the front member (66) being pivotally attached to adjusting knob 76 which is rotatably attached to base (4). The locking means includes a restraining rail (28) in base (4) which engages a slot (44) in the lower surface of carrier support 41. (Fig 6). <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2239773-A (GB)
Title: Graphical object, e.g. cursor, is rotated during translation
Inventor: VENOLIA DANIEL S
IPC: G06F3/033
Filed: 1990-12-10
Abstract: The position of the graphic object e.g. cursor 10 on a display is determined by the position of a control point 16 having a fixed position in relation to the object and a variable position in relation to the display. The control point's position is changed in response to translational signals received by an interactive control device, and the object is displayed at each position of the control point. A change in the orientation of the object 10 is determined by establishing a following point 18 having a fixed position with respect to the object and a variable position with respect to the display, and tracking the variable position of the following point behind the path of the motion of the control point. The path of the control point 16 is tracked by the following point 18 by determining the direction and magnitude of change in a vector extending between the control point and the following point and then changing the variable position of the following point to normalize the magnitude of the vector in that direction of change. The cursor may be two- or three-dimensional (figs 7, 8). <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2254466-A (GB)
Title: Bank/credit card laser read fingerprint comparator
Inventor: STANTON DAVID JOHN
IPC: G07C9/00
Filed: 1991-04-03
Abstract: A laser read fingerprint comparator consists of a metal or plastics casing 7 in which a bank/credit card is inserted into a slot 1. A finger pad 2, with a laser device for reading fingerprints beneath, is on the top of the unit. At the side there is a switch 3 which is turned on when a card is inserted into the slot 1 and a finger placed on the pad 2. If the print on the card matches with the finger on the pad 2, a green light 4 will be activated. When the switch 3 is turned on the red light 5 shows, this will indicate that the fingerprints do not correspond. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2255759-A (GB)
Title: Poultry handling assembly
Inventor: BERRY PAUL SIMON
IPC: A22B1/00
Filed: 1991-05-14
Abstract: A poultry-handling assembly (10) (figure 6) comprises two endless conveyors (12, 13) arranged side-by-side and adapted to move poultry from a first location (15) to a second location (17). Access means at the first location allows birds to enter the assembly (10) one by one e.g. with one foot on one conveyor (12) and the other foot on the other conveyor (13). Conveyor guide means constrain the conveyors (12, 13) to present an open-bottomed V-shaped trough configuration at the second location, where the legs of the birds will slip between the two conveyors (12, 13) for engagement by a restraint device (19) and subsequent take-up by the shackles of a processing plant shackle line (20). In an alternative embodiment (figure 9), the conveyors (12, 13) are replaced by two side-by-side conveyors (38, 39) which grip the birds laterally.
Patent GB-2246156-A (GB)
Title: Flood barrier
Inventor: CLERY OLIVER ROBERT
IPC: E06B9/00
Filed: 1991-07-18
Abstract: A flood barrier for mounting at a doorway opening comprises a panel slidably engageable with receiver brackets (6, 7) mounted at opposite sides (3) of the doorway opening (2). A tube housed within a channel extending around side and bottom edges of the panel 5 is inflatable to urge a sealing strip mounted across a mouth of the channel into sealing engagement with the receiver brackets (6, 7) and a threshold (4) of the doorway opening (2) for flood protection. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2250911-A (GB)
Title: Dishwasher with discharge pump and non-return valve
Inventor: SANTAROSSA GIANNI
IPC: A47L15/42
Filed: 1991-12-09
Abstract: In a dishwasher with a washing compartment (3) connected at the bottom to a collecting chamber (4) into which extends an outlet duct (8) of a discharge pump (6), the outlet duct is provided with a non-return valve (11) accessible from the interior of the washing compartment. The valve comprises a box-shaped body (12) formed in one piece with the outlet duct (8) which in turn is formed in one piece with the chamber (4). The valve (11) has a blocking member (18) in the form of a flexible membrane shaped with an extension engaging with a boss (21) formed in one piece with the box-shaped body (12). A projection (22) of a cap (13) which seals the box-shaped body (12) is in contact with the boss (21) to hold the membrane in position. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2261262-A (GB)
Title: Wave-powered device
Inventor: MOMENY BAHRAM
IPC: F03B13/18
Filed: 1992-01-20
Abstract: A wave-powered device comprises a toroidal float 28, mounted on a column 29 by an arrangement of block-like members, shafts and gears (including bevel gears) that allow universal pivotal movement. Oscillation of the float due to wave motion results in rotary motion of an electric generator 23, by means of gears 5, 7, 11, ratchets 10, a spring 17, an epicyclic gear box 19 and clutch 21. For relatively shallow water sites, column 29 is telescopically received in a pipe 30 anchored to the sea bed. For relatively deep water sites, the column 29 is moored by cables, pulleys and a balance weight, (Figure 5). <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2253155-A (GB)
Title: Baby walker safety apparatus
Inventor: CERDA DIEGO
IPC: A47D13/04
Filed: 1992-02-13
Abstract: A closed wall barrier which is removably attached to a baby walker 4 prevents the baby from grasping dangerous objects. The barrier has a screen made of transparent plastic mounted on a frame formed by upper and lower rails 26, 24 connected together by telescopic support posts 28 which allow the height of the barrier to be adjusted. The barrier may also have a removable top 60. In another embodiment (fig 3) the screen is moulded out of a rigid or semi rigid plastic with small apertures being left to allow visibility, the screen in this embodiment being self supporting. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2268484-A (GB)
Title: Improving the brightness of white minerals
Inventor: KOSTUCH JACEK ANTONI
IPC: C09C3/00
Filed: 1992-07-06
Abstract: There is disclosed a process for improving the whiteness and brightness of a natural mineral material for the purpose of improving its usefulness as a pigment or filler, which process comprises treating the mineral material in aqueous suspension with a combination of a low oxidation state transition metal ion and a complexing agent.
Patent GB-2279248-A (GB)
Title: Adjustable back for photograph and picture frames
Inventor: WHATFORD GARY
IPC: A47G1/14
Filed: 1992-07-07
Abstract: A photograph or picture frame back offers advantages over existing types manufactured in traditional fibreboard, 'MDF', coated or covered boards and is also suitable for plastics materials. Standard fixed position support struts do not allow fine adjustment of the support angle and existing adjustable types do not work for wider section frame material. The novelty is that total adjustment of the support strut is achieved by its location on the back via a special slot. The same back can, therefore, be used for each frame size allowing it to stand firmly and at the correct angle whatever width of frame material is used.
Patent GB-2268800-A (GB)
Title: Optical sensor
Inventor: CUSH ROSEMARY
IPC: G01N21/55
Filed: 1992-07-10
Abstract: An optical sensor for testing a biochemical sample includes a resonant mirror device 1 and a prism 2 for coupling an input beam of light to the device 1. The input beam having a single line spectrum is produced by a source 10 and polarized by a polarizer 4 to provide equal TE and TM components. The resonant mirror device is arranged in the path of said input beam such that the resonance is excited for at least one of said components. The light reflected from the device 1 is projected onto an analyser and thereafter passed through a diffraction grating 13 for producing an output beam having a spectrum including a series of bright and/or dark lines or bands. When a sensing layer is sensitized by the chemical sample, an angular shift in the resonance angle takes place and this causes the lines or bands of the output spectrum to be swept across a reference point where detector means 14 is located to count the number of lines or bands or parts thereof swept across the reference point. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2258322-A (GB)
Title: Zoom lens having cam ring and separate grooved cam member.
Inventor: MOGAMIYA MAKOTO
IPC: G02B7/10
Filed: 1992-07-30
Abstract: A zoom lens 10 has at least one variable power lens group 11, 12 movable in an optical axis direction L3 thereof, a device 15 having a movable member 16, 17 separate from the zoom taking lens 10, a rotatable cam ring 13, at least one cam groove 13a, 13b formed in the cam ring 13 to move the movable variable power lens group 11, 12 in accordance with the rotation of the cam ring 13, and a cam member 14 made separately from the cam ring 13 and secured to the cam ring 13 and having at least one cam groove 14a, 14b for moving the movable member 16,17. The device 15 may be a zoom finder and device 25 may be a zoom strobe. Position adjusting means (19 - 21, Fig. 4) may be between the cam ring 13 and cam member 14. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2262051-A (GB)
Title: Exercise device
Inventor: MULLARD RAYMOND RICHARD
IPC: A63B23/035
Filed: 1992-12-03
Abstract: An exercise device for handicapped people comprises a generally upright post 10 rotatably mounted on a support structure 12 adapted to rest on the floor. The post has an upper cross-bar 14 having handles 50 at its ends and a lower cross-bar 13 having footrests 41 at its ends. The device is intended to be used by a person sitting in a chair and allows the user to exercise their arms and/or legs. The height of the post, and the height of the lower cross-bar, may be adjustable. The distance between the handles, and between the footrests, may also be adjustable, as may be the angles of the handles and/or footrests. The support structure may be an H frame, or may alternatively be a pair of strips 30 of adjustable length and/or angle, with retaining means 32 at their ends for engaging with the front feet of the user's chair. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2264763-A (GB)
Title: Multifuctional energy-saving system with an automatic clutch
Inventor: GAO XINGLONG
IPC: F16D27/00
Filed: 1993-01-14
Abstract: A multifunctional energy-saving system for vehicles is composed of automatic clutch means (1) and control means (2). The automatic clutch means mainly comprises a shaft (4) with a regular prismatic section (5), a hub (6) , a synchronous cage (10) with torque-transmitting elements (12).When the speed of the shaft is higher than that of the hub, torque is transmitted between them through said elements (12). When the speed of the shaft becomes lower than that of the hub, no torque is transmitted between them. The shaft can be engaged with the hub as required at any time responding to the control means. The energy consumption can be considerably reduced by means of the present system. When the automatic clutch means of symmetric structure is used in the system and disposed in place of the original differential of a vehicle, the automatic clutch means can further function as a differential with anti-slip performance. <IMAGE>