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Patent GB-2193155-A (GB)
Title: Offer documents
Inventor: MARSTON GEORGE HARRY
IPC: B42D1/00
Filed: 1986-07-29
Abstract: Merchandise or services can be promoted, advertised and/or sold using offer documents which can be distributed to selected people eg by insertion in a periodical. The recipient can remove and return a part of the document. A base member A has a supplementary sheet B adhering along a transverse line 22 having a length less than the width of the base member. The sheet B is weakened at 24 so that it can be folded away from the member A. The document is manufactured using an on-line finishing machine. A web is slit longitudinally. The resulting strips are separated onto different levels, and brought together again to adhere. The web is then cut into individual documents. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2183207-A (GB)
Title: Projectile grapnel
Inventor: SPAYES JOHN
IPC: B63B21/24
Filed: 1986-08-28
Abstract: A grapnel for fluid propulsion from a launcher is provided with a cylindrical head (2,4) fitted with obturating means (7,8) engagable with the launcher barrel, thereby to comprise a propulsion reactive drive mass when disposed for launch. Tines (14), hinged to the head (2), are folded to lie close along the shank (1) of the grapnel for loading, so as to be contained entirely within the barrel. The arrangement permits the grapnel to be launched shank first, the folded grapnel being loaded into the barrel in reverse direction from previously known grapnels, with the advantage of placing its centre of gravity much closer to the operator's body, thus making handling such more convenient. The fully enclosed tines also provide additional advantage in handling. The grapnel inverts on leaving the launcher to continue its trajectory head first. The tines also fly open at launch, to be subsequently held in their unfolded condition by spring loaded locking pins. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2194876-A (GB)
Title: Process for preparing semi-finished and finished dessert products
Inventor: NADASDI NEE SZABO GABRIELLA
IPC: A23L29/231
Filed: 1986-09-10
Abstract: A process for preparing semi-finished and finished dessert products from fruit and/or vegetables or from the concentrates thereof and, if desired, from milk or a milk product, together with sugar, an edible acid or buffer salt, and dyeing and/or flavouring agents, by heat-treatment and, if desired, by preservation, in which there is added to the components a pectin with a low or high esterification grade and, suitably only before use a Ca<2+> and/or Mg<2+> source. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2183387-A (GB)
Title: Display device
Inventor: FUJITANI TOSHIHIKO
IPC: G09F13/34
Filed: 1986-10-21
Abstract: A display plate 2 is formed with fine meshes by lattices, parallel lines, radial lines or their combinations in ground colours or background colours, and a shading plate 5 to be overlapped over the rear side of the display plate is also formed with the same or different meshes at the corresponding parts of said meshes. If the display plate and the shading plate are moved relatively, Moiré phenomena are caused in the meshes of the display plate in accompaniment with the position discrepancy between both meshes, so that blinking or winking are effected in the display plate. The display device may use flat plates moved by linkages (Figs 2, 3, not shown); alternatively, the device may use cooperating belts, cylinders or cones (for lampshades, Figs 7, 8, not shown) or use cooperating discs (for clockfaces, Figs 11, 12, not shown). <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2182758-A (GB)
Title: Seal for rotatable valve closures
Inventor: SUPIK HELMUTH
IPC: F16K5/02
Filed: 1986-10-28
Abstract: The seal for turning valve bodies, in particular for valves in radioactive plants, is composed of a molded element of flexible graphite which is coated with a thin, flexible tantalum layer. The tantalum enclosure surrounds the graphite molded element, preferably all around. The tantalum layer is sufficiently thin so that it remains flexible.
Patent GB-2186865-A (GB)
Title: Boxes
Inventor: DELLOW JOHN HENRY
IPC: B65D5/42
Filed: 1987-02-19
Abstract: A blank for a box, e.g. a slip case, includes a first portion provided with an aperture or apertures (46, 47) and a second portion provided with a foldable lug or lugs (40, 41) for engagement with said aperture or apertures (46, 47) whereby the first and second portions of the blank can be folded into a predetermined form and retained in mutual relationship to each other. Alternatively, the box may be formed from two separate blanks, one having apertures and the other having cooperating lugs. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2189283-A (GB)
Title: Barrier for closing a passage
Inventor: EGNA STANLEY
IPC: E06B11/02
Filed: 1987-03-30
Abstract: A barrier for closing a passage, comprising at least two uprights (1,2) joined by two parallel horizontal cross bars (3). The barrier is characterised in that the uprights and cross bars are made from the same metallic profile in the general shape of an  OMEGA , the uprights and the cross bars being positioned and assembled back to back through the medium of two wings (5, 6) from this profile, which are situated in the same plane and through which the means of fixing (8) pass. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2213398-A (GB)
Title: Drum mixer asphalt plant
Inventor: HAWKINS MICHAEL R
IPC: C08L95/00
Filed: 1987-12-15
Abstract: A drum mixer asphalt plant is provided with a rotatable cylinder (10) in which virgin aggregate, recycle material and liquid asphalt are mixed to produce an asphaltic composition and the hot gas stream for heating and drying the materials flow in countercurrent relation. In a first zone within the cylinder (10), aggregates are heated and dried by heat radiation and a hot gas stream generated at a burner head (46) of a combustion assembly (40). In a second zone within the drum cylinder (10) isolated from the burner flame and hot gas stream by the combustion assembly (40), liquid asphalt is sprayed from an injection tube (76) to mix with aggregate materials. A recycle feed assembly (60) delivers recycle asphalt material to the second zone also for mixing with the aggregate and liquid asphalt. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2206714-A (GB)
Title: Multiprocessing architecture
Inventor: FIELD MICHAEL HARRY
IPC: G06F9/50
Filed: 1988-05-16
Abstract: A multiprocessing architecture for use in a frame-based software system has a system bus connecting a plurality (N) of processor circuit cards, one (GLOBAL PROC) of which controls the system operation while the others execute application code. Global data are broadcast between identical areas of memory on each circuit card via the system bus, blocks of data being transferred from one card to all the others simultaneously at a single short interval in a frame, and task control instructions are transmitted in each frame by the global processor (GLOBAL PROC) to the other processor circuit cards. The architecture described ameliorates reduction of performance associated with increasing the number of processors sharing a common bus. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2209570-A (GB)
Title: Hydraulic anti-skid braking systems
Inventor: FULLER ROBERT GREGORY
IPC: B60T8/34
Filed: 1988-08-30
Abstract: In an hydraulic anti-skid braking system of the pump and de-boost type, bleeding of a modulator (2) and pump assembly (3) in a common housing (1) is achieved by a bleed screw (27) disposed between a de-boost chamber (22) and a reservoir (11), and a plunger (30) of differential outline which works in a stepped bore (31) and controls communication between the master cylinder (7) and a circuit containing the pump (3). The plunger (30) has a pressure-responsive face (36) over which pressure from the master cylinder (7) acts following closure of the bleed screw (27) to return the plunger (30) automatically into a normal brake-applying position with the master cylinder (7) isolated from the pump circuit. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2210392-A (GB)
Title: Drainage grating assembly
Inventor: HILTON REGINALD
IPC: E03F5/06
Filed: 1988-09-30
Abstract: A drainage grating assembly comprises drain-attachment and grating-support components, interconnected via opposed, centrally-apertured, facially-engaging plate-members, normal to the axis, mounted one on each of said components so that they are capable within limits of being shifted laterally with respect to each other without interfering with fluid flow. The drain-attachment component includes a skirt 12, adapted to fit the mouth of the drain and the grating-support component includes a dished drainage-tray 25 adapted to receive and retain the grating 27. One of the opposed plate members is retained in sliding engagement with the other by an annular cover plate 19 bolted to an upstanding flange arranged around the periphery of the other plate member. Vertical adjustment is provided by threaded interengagement between a collar 23 and neck-piece 24 in the grating-support component. This construction is simple and cheap to manufacture, yet both effective and easy to use. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2226318-A (GB)
Title: Non-attritive method for making polyester particles
Inventor: NIELD ERIC
IPC: C08J3/14
Filed: 1988-12-23
Abstract: A non-attritive method for making fine particles of polyesters comprises heating a mixture of the polyester in a moderate solvent for the polyester to a temperature above the melting point of the polyester when in the moderate solvent and then cooling whereupon the particles recrystallise from the mixture. The particles comprise crystalline zones and amorphous zones containing imbibed solvent and may be used in coating, in coating compositions and in making porous particles.
Patent GB-2216022-A (GB)
Title: Jigsaw holder
Inventor: SHILLITO DAVID DANIEL
IPC: A63F9/10
Filed: 1989-01-25
Abstract: A jigsaw holder (10) comprises a support member (11) on which the jigsaw (13) can be assembled, a cover means (15) pivoted or hinged to the support member so as to be able to overlie the latter, the surface of the cover means adapted to lie adjacent the support member being of a compressible non-slip nature, to lock assembled jigsaw pieces in position, and means for releasably securing the cover means in overlying relationship to the support member. The support member is also of a non-slip compressible nature. A retaining sheet (21) is provided to trap non-assembled jigsaw pieces between same and the cover means.
Patent GB-2215765-A (GB)
Title: Components in fluid flow systems
Inventor: FORD JOHN
IPC: G01F15/18
Filed: 1989-02-13
Abstract: A stopcock (24) is located in a waterproof housing (10) having a closable cover (18). The stopcock (24) is connected in pipework (22) mounted on a support (30), the latter being movably located in the housing (10) between a lowermost position wherein a lug (34) engages in a respective lower bracket (36) on the housing wall (16), and an upper position where the lug (34) engages in an uppermost one of the brackets (36). A handle (32) is provided to enable manual movement. The pipework (22) is connected to a pair of flexible tubes (38), each of which connects via a bulkhead fitting (26) to a mains water supply pipe (28). The tubes (38) normally assume the form of a coil to accommodate movement of the stopcock (24). When the casing (10) is located in use in the ground and connected with the water mains, operation of the stopcock (24) can be much more easily carried out when the latter is raised to ground level. The pipework (22) may also incorporate a water meter which can be more easily read, maintained and repaired at ground level. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2221806-A (GB)
Title: Inverter short circuit protection
Inventor: BABINSKI THOMAS EDWARD
IPC: H02H7/122
Filed: 1989-06-27
Abstract: The output semiconductors 36-44 of an inverter are protected from damage from short circuits by a combination of subcircuits that interact with each other to control the timing and magnitude of the current and voltage at the semiconductors to limit maximum current and instantaneous power to safe levels. A conventional series-connected choke 10 between the DC source and the output semiconductors has a conventional back-connected diode 16 in parallel with it. At the output of the choke is a capacitive snubber circuit 18, comprising a parallel arrangement of a resistor 24 and rectifier 20, which is connected to the capacitor 26, the other end of the capacitor being connected to the other DC bus. The protective circuits cooperate with each other as follows. The main semiconductor eg. 44 is biased to non-conduction promptly when a fault is sensed at 28, 28A; the choke 10 limits the current and the capacitor 26 is substantially discharged early in the fault. The capacitor 26 is, therefore, in a condition to receive current and does receive it later in the fault when the voltage across the semiconductor is rising. In this way the semiconductor's maximum current is reduced, and the semiconductor is protected from having its maximum current occur at the same time that the voltage is highest. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2234421-A (GB)
Title: Dampers for baking oven
Inventor: NORFOLK MICHAEL PAUL
IPC: A21B1/48
Filed: 1989-08-04
Abstract: A baking oven employing forced convection and comprising control dampers (30, 32) for controlling the flow of gaseous medium delivered by a fan (20) from heating means (22) to upper and lower nozzle arrangements (14, 16), a bypass damper (34) for bypassing any excess heated medium past the nozzle arrangements (14, 16) is coupled to the mid point of a lever (54) whose ends are coupled to the control dampers (30, 32). On adjustment of one control damper (30 or 32) in one sense, the bypass damper (34) is adjusted in an opposite sense and to half the extent. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2237015-A (GB)
Title: Method of manufacturing glass-ceramic articles
IPC: C03B19/09
Filed: 1989-09-06
Abstract: Glass ceramic articles of a defined shape, particularly thin products and products with sharp corners, are made by forming the shape of the desired article from a mixture of powdered glass particles and binder, and then heating the shaped mixture at the liquidus temperature of the glass of the glass particles for a time sufficient for the glass particles to crystallise across the boundaries of contacting glass particles.
Patent GB-2233546-A (GB)
Title: Method and apparatus for controlling a tobacco cutter
Inventor: KOMOSSA WERNER
IPC: A24B7/14
Filed: 1990-06-28
Abstract: A tobacco cutter has a drive 7 for converging pressing chains 4, 6 defining a pressing channel 3 and a drive 16 for a rotary cutter drum 14 provided with cutter blades 13 for cutting tobacco slices from the pressed tobacco emerging from the pressing channel. The drives 7 and 16 are electric or hydraulic motors synchronized so as to maintain a constant thickness of cut of the tobacco slices. A maximum value for the rotational speed of the cutter motor 16 as set by transmitter 26 which provides a reference signal to control device 27. The power consumed by the cutter motor 16 is monitored by measuring transmitter 29 and composed in comparator 31 with a maximum value which must not be exceeded, if overloading of cutter motor 16 is to be avoided. If the maximum value is exceeded comparator 31 sends a signal to the control device 27 to limit the power supplied to the cutter motor 16.   <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2238086-A (GB)
Title: Axial end stops for cam-follower rollers of hydraulic motor or pump
Inventor: LEMAIRE GILLES
IPC: F04B1/04
Filed: 1990-09-11
Abstract: A hydraulic pump or motor comprises a cam 3; a multi-cylinder block 8 mounted to rotate with respect to the cam; pistons 11 to slide inside each cylinder; rollers 23 mounted on each piston for abutment on the cam, the rollers having end faces 27 and the end of the piston including two recesses 28 defined by the end of the rollers, the cylindrical wall of the cylinders and the piston and open in the direction of the cam; and two stop elements 29 disposed in each recess between the roller and the cylinder to prevent axial movement of the roller. At least one of the stop elements extending to the bottom of the recess such that when the piston moves out of the cylinder the said stop element is displaced therewith. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2236825-A (GB)
Title: Actuating assembly for clutch release bearing
Inventor: FEIGLER JACQUES
IPC: F16D23/14
Filed: 1990-10-05
Abstract: An actuating assembly, for coupling a clutch release bearing in traction to the diaphragm spring (11) of a clutch of an automotive vehicle, includes an actuating member (16) carrying a coupling member (20) and including a flange (18) having two distinct openings (22A, 22B) separated by a bridge portion (32). The coupling member (20) is generally ring-shaped and has two arms (121A, 121B) which are arranged to hook one over the other, and which extend through the openings (22A, 22B) in the flange. Each arm (121A, 121B) of the coupling member (20) has at least one local deformation such as a loop (122A, 122B) which increases its length in a resilient manner. Lugs (23) on the member (20) engage respective apertures in the flange (18) of the actuating member (16). <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2248778-A (GB)
Title: Ligament fixator
Inventor: BATEMAN RONALD
IPC: A61F2/08
Filed: 1990-10-09
Abstract: A fixator for securing a natural or synthetic ligament to a bone comprises a base plate 2 provided on one side with a pillar 4 extending generally perpendicularly therefrom and including a longitudinal passage which extends through the pillar and the plate to define a bore 8 for a bone screw, said base plate also including, on the same side as the pillar and also extending generally perpendicularly to the plate, a series of projections 6 capable of penetrating said ligament and bone. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2374407-A (GB)
Title: Optical sensing arrangements
Inventor: LANGSTON ROBERT JOHN
IPC: G01R33/032
Filed: 1990-12-20
Abstract: A method of detecting a submerged vessel 9 in or near the wake of a ship 1 in which a magnetically-responsive optical fibre sensor 4 is trailed from said ship in the ship's wake between two non-magnetic (acoustic pressure) optical fibre sensors 2, 3. The magnetically-responsive fibre enables false alarms caused by the ship's wake affecting the acoustic fibre optic sensors or hydrophores to be ignored.
Patent GB-2239728-A (GB)
Title: Identifying objects, E.G. motor vehicles
Inventor: GONTOR FERENC
IPC: G08G1/017
Filed: 1990-12-21
Abstract: A station provided with a forced passage for an object has a buried transmission antenna in the form of a figure eight for producing a signal (SI) incident upon the object as well as a receiving antenna, coplanar with the transmission antenna, for receiving an electro-magnetic return signal (SM) and detecting a code identifying the object. The object is provided with a cell (Fig. 5) having a receiving antenna (22) for receiving the incident signal (SI) and a transmitting antenna (21) for transmitting the return signal (SM) modulated by the identification code. The cell further has a circuit (23) for temporary activation of an electrical power supply (25) of the cell. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2250985-A (GB)
Title: Pyrimidinyl- and triazinyl-salicylamides and their use and preparation
Inventor: LUETHY CHRISTOPH
IPC: C07D409/12
Filed: 1990-12-21
Abstract: Pyrimidinyl- and triazinyl-salicylamides of the formula 1   <IMAGE> in which the meanings of the radicals are described in claim 1, and the salts of compounds of the formula 1 which have a free hydroxycarbonyl group, have a herbicidal and plant-growth regulating action. They are suitable as active substances in weed killers and in compositions for positively influencing the growth of crop plants. Compounds of the formula II'   <IMAGE> are useful precursors of the salicylamides of the formula I.o
Patent GB-2238500-A (GB)
Title: Rolling mill and method
Inventor: METCALFE JOHN
IPC: B21B19/04
Filed: 1991-01-07
Abstract: A cross-rolling mill comprising a plurality of workpiece engaging rolls (10, 11) defining between them a roll aperture through which a workpiece (23) passes during rolling, and a workpiece engaging tool (20) associated with said rolls, the mill being characterized by said tool (20) being a composite internal tool associated with said roll aperture and including a tapering piercing portion (21) and a substantially cylindrical elongating portion (22), means for moving said tool along the axis of the mill relative to the rolls to accommodate a piercing operation in which the piercing portion (21) of the tool (20) coacts with the rolls (10, 11) and an elongating operation in which the elongating portion (22) of the tool (22) coacts with the rolls (10, 11), and, means for reversing the direction in which the workpiece passes in use through said roll aperture so that piercing can take place in a first pass in one direction and elongation can take place in a second pass in the opposite direction, the profile of the rolls being such as to accommodate both piercing and elongating operations. Also disclosed are methods of operation and a mill employing opposed cone rolls. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2242762-A (GB)
Title: Automotive power unit mounting with vibration damping
Inventor: DOI KAZUHIRO
IPC: F16F13/28
Filed: 1991-01-18
Abstract: A control system, particularly for a vehicle engine mounting, includes a detector for sensing vibration at a point on the vehicle chassis, at least one engine mount whose vibration damping characteristic is selectively variable and means to generate from the sensed vibration a signal to control said variable mount so as to reduce the sensed vibration. The vibration detector is mounted on the vehicle chassis adjacent the driver's seat and a further detector may be provided adjacent the passenger seat or on the variable mount. The variable mount may comprise an inner shaft (12, Fig. 3), an outer tubular member (14) and an elastomeric body (16) having electrorheopectic fluid filled electrode orifice arrangements (28, 30) each having a pair of electrode plates (32a, 32b; 34a, 34b). The viscosity of the fluid and hence the resonant frequency of the mount is varied by the voltage applied across the electrodes. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2240285-A (GB)
Title: Fluidised bed combustion unit
Inventor: KINNI JOUNI
IPC: F22B31/00
Filed: 1991-01-21
Abstract: A combustion unit comprises a reactor chamber (1) and at least one particle separator (6) placed inside the upper part of the reactor chamber. The outer casing (7) of the particle separator (6) and the casing of the reactor (1) are formed from tubes which carry a heat-exchange medium such as water, which also circulates in the wall of the return duct (10) and in the grate (2) of the base of the bed. The separator (6) has an inlet (9) for the flue gas, the inlet extending around the outer surface and - as shown in Fig 2 - being divided by ceramic vanes (20) through which tubes (19) pass. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2251074-A (GB)
Title: Body temperature monitor
Inventor: MORRIS CLIVE
IPC: G01K13/00
Filed: 1991-09-05
Abstract: A body temperature monitor comprises a temperature sensor (12) for attaching to the body of a baby or other person or animal, and a control unit (10) responsive to the temperature sensor to provide an alarm signal when the sensed temperature exceeds a reference level. The control unit is adjustable to alter the reference level, so that it is possible to track whether the body temperature continues to rise. Also, an alarm signal is provided when the sensed temperature falls below a second reference level, which is in the range of 32.5 DEG C to 33.5 DEG C.
Patent GB-2249531-A (GB)
Title: Restraining device
Inventor: ROAST COLIN GEOFFREY
IPC: B60R7/02
Filed: 1991-10-09
Abstract: A restraining device (1) for restraining the movement of carrier bags within a motor vehicle comprises a hook member (2) providing at least one hook (3, 4, 5, 6) to receive the handles of a carrier bag (7), and a multiplicity of leg members (8, 9, 10) extending from the hook member to support the hook member stably on a flat surface at a distance above the flat surface. When not in use the restraining device can be folded substantially flat. The device may also be used as a presentation or display stand and also as a frame for a hazard warning triangle. <IMAGE>