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Patent GB-2179206-A (GB)
Title: Gas and watertight barriers for cables
Inventor: JACOBSEN CLAS T
IPC: H02G3/22
Filed: 1986-08-12
Abstract: Gas and watertight barriers for cables are formed from a sandwich 5 of flame resistant material e.g. a polymer with a high loading of MgO or Mg(OH)2, having a resilient layer 2 e.g. rubber, therebetween. The barrier (Fig. 5) is built up from blocks of the sandwich, some of the blocks being square or hexagonal in section with or without bores for receiving the cable (Figs. 2, 3 and 4c). The bored blocks are cut in half to fit around the cables. Complementary blocks for the edge of the barrier are provided to give a rectangular barrier (Figs. 4a, 4b, 4d and 4e). The barrier is held in a frame and the frame squeezes the resilient layer against the cables to effect a seal. 
<??>Also disclosed (Figs. 6a to 10b) is an elongate member having a through bore and a layer (14) of rubber transversely sealing the bore; the layer having been located by transversely cutting the member and glueing the layer between the pieces. 
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Patent GB-2184754-A (GB)
Title: Ribbon having a surface brilliance effect
Inventor: CHEYNET RENE
IPC: D03D15/56
Filed: 1986-11-27
Abstract: A ribbon comprises a base material A composed of synthetic weft threads 2 and elastic warp threads 3 and at least one surface weft of high density which, being composed of brilliant threads 5 of synthetic material, is connected to the base material A by fine warp threads 6 of synthetic material. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2184588-A (GB)
Title: Portable reading system for the visually handicapped
Inventor: BAIL MICHAEL HERBERT
IPC: G09B21/00
Filed: 1986-12-02
Abstract: A reading system for the visually handicapped includes bar coded documents, a hand held device for scanning the bar codes, and means for converting the output of the device into synthesised speech. The bar codes are arranged in linear arrays (figure 3-not shown) to facilitate scanning. Guiding devices to help the scanning device move over the arrays may be provided, as may tactile indications of the positions of the arrays. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2183647-A (GB)
Title: Prodrugs of rapamycin
Inventor: STELLA VALENTINO JOHN
IPC: A61K31/395
Filed: 1986-12-04
Abstract: Water soluble prodrugs of rapamycin are disclosed which are useful as components in injectable pharmaceutical formulations for the treatment of tumors in mammals. Said prodrugs are rapamycin derivatives or salts thereof mono substituted at position 28 or disubstituted at position 28 or and 43 by acylamino substituent of formulawherein m is an integer from 1 to 3 and R<sub>1</sub> and R<sub>2</sub> are each hydrogen or an alkyl radical having from 1 to 3 carbon atoms or R<sub>1</sub> and R<sub>2</sub> together with the nitrogen atom to which they are attached form a saturated heterocyclic ring having 4-5 carbon atoms.
Patent GB-2187019-A (GB)
Title: Token handling devices
Inventor: EGLISE DAVID
IPC: G06K19/07
Filed: 1987-03-10
Abstract: A token handling device transmits, using an electromagnetic carrier, data, clock pulses and power to a token. The token could be used in transactions in place of coins, or alternatively could be used for identification purposes in other areas. Data stored by the token is used to change the way in which the token handling device operates. The token handling device may for example form a vending machine, and the token could be used to alter the pricing of goods vended thereby. The token handling device may be combined with a coin validator, in which case there is preferably a common path from an entrance slot for carrying both the tokens and the coins to appropriate testing apparatus.
Patent GB-2189639-A (GB)
Title: Mail detecting apparatus
Inventor: TEE TAN SEE
IPC: A47G29/122
Filed: 1987-04-03
Abstract: The apparatus is mounted in a mail box to indicate the presence of mail in the box. As mail enters the box 7 through the flap 9, the lever 10 is deflected to the position 10B and this changes the state of a rotary indicator (15, not shown) visable through the cover 8. A latch mechanism 13 retains the lever 10 in the position 10B until the box is emptied by opening the cover 8. As the cover 8 is opened, a reset mechanism operates to reset the lever 10 to the upright position. The operation of the reset mechanism is initiated by the rod 17 which is upwardly biased by a spring 20 and is released from abutment with the ledge 19 as the cover 8 opens by rotating it about its upper edge. As the rod 17 moves, the latch mechanism is released and the indicator rotates to show white instead of red. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2188948-A (GB)
Title: Cosmetic compositions for dyeing or for bleaching hair
Inventor: MADRANGE ANNIE
IPC: C09K23/18
Filed: 1987-04-10
Abstract: A cosmetic composition suitable for dyeing or bleaching hair when mixed with an oxidizing solution, comprising, in an aqueous medium:     (a) at least one fatty acid soap,   (b) at least one cationic or amphoteric silicone polymer,   (c) at least one cationic surface-active agent,   (d) at least one alkalifying agent, and (e) at least one cationic polymer which is a quaternary polyammonium polymer, a vinyl- pyrrolidone/dialkylaminoalkyl acrylate or methacrylate copolymer (quaternized or not quaternized), a poly(methacrylamidopropyltrimethylammonium chloride), a cationic protein, a polyaminoamide, a crosslinked polyaminoamide, an alkylated polyaminoamide or a mixture thereof can be used to bleach hair or, if it additionally comprises an oxidation dye precursor and, if desired, a coupler and a reducing agent, can be used to dye hair.
Patent GB-2188905-A (GB)
Title: Extensible cable coil
Inventor: SMITH PAUL WILLIAM
IPC: B65H75/36
Filed: 1987-04-10
Abstract: In an extensible cable coil 1 in which risk of over-extension of turns of the coil is reduced, pairs of adjacent turns of the electric cable 5 of the coil are connected together by circumferentially spaced non-extensible flexible elongate elements 7, e.g. tapes, each of which flexible elements is of such a length as to prevent over-extension of the turns when a longitudinal tensile force is applied to the coil. The extensible coil 1 is especially suitable for use in applications where it is required for the coil to be extended in an upward or downward direction and the weight per unit length of the electric cable is high. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2191363-A (GB)
Title: Transfer function generation for active noise cancellation
Inventor: TAYLOR BRIAN ALAN
IPC: G10K11/178
Filed: 1986-10-17
Abstract: A method for the active cancellation of an incident vibration field (N(i omega )) which comprises superposing on the incident field, a cancelling vibration field (C(i omega )) to create a residual vibration field (R(i omega )) and operating on the residual field with a transfer function to obtain an updated cancelling field, the transfer function being divided by a reference point (10) into an upstream part (Fi(i omega )) and a downstream part (Fo(i omega )) and the downstream part (Fo(i omega )) of the transfer function being periodically updated by multiplying the last obtained value (Fon(i omega )) by a factor which is the ratio of a computational value of the last cancelling field (Cn(i omega )) and a computational value for the sum of previous residual fields (R(i omega )).
Patent GB-2203954-A (GB)
Title: Multiple-dimple golf ball
Inventor: GOBUSH WILLIAM
IPC: A63B37/00
Filed: 1988-04-05
Abstract: A dimpled golf ball has at least about 78% of its surface covered by dimples. Dimples of two or three different diameters are provided on each ball, the preferred number of dimples ranging from 320 to 484. Two areas 10, 12 may be left smooth for the application of a trade mark and identifying number. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2231612-A (GB)
Title: A latch, spring assembly
Inventor: MALLAN LEE
IPC: E05B15/04
Filed: 1989-05-10
Abstract: A latch assembly 1, the combination of such an assembly and a component 4 to which it is fitted, and a method of assembling the latch assembly 1 with the component 4 which assembly has a latch member 2 which is to be longitudinally slidable on the wall component 4 for latching and a spring member 3. Preferably each member 2 and 3 is a plastics moulding. The spring member 3 has a head part 5 with leaf springs 7 and 8 extending therefrom and is mounted in a cavity 30 of the component 4 so that the leaf springs 7 and 8 react on a face of the cavity to bias the head part 5 longitudinally into abutment with a wall 33 of the cavity. The wall 31 has an aperture 34 through which the latch member 2 is inserted for a shank portion 12 thereof to be received in an aperture/seating 9 in the head part 5. The shank portion 12 carries a resiliently mounted detent 16 which snap engages with the head part 5 so that the latch member 2 and head part 5 are displaceable longitudinally in unison, against or under the biasing of the springs 7 and 8. The latch member 2 is reversible in its position for engagement with the head part 5a so that a chamfer 17 on a bolt portion 11 of that member can be presented in either of two latching senses. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2232383-A (GB)
Title: Pollution containment equipment
Inventor: CARR RUPERT ELLIS
IPC: E02B15/04
Filed: 1989-05-30
Abstract: To contain oil spilt from a tanker 10, a pontoon 20 is launched from the stern and two oil booms 21, 22 comprising inflatable sections 35 are deployed from the pontoon until they meet in front of the tanker. Besides booms 21, 22 the pontoon comprises a generator (24, Fig. 2 not shown), a compressor 27, and winches and drums 28, 29 for paying out the booms. This equipment and the booms can be mounted on the tanker 10 itself if required. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2234493-A (GB)
Title: Device for collecting and dispensing measured quantities of printing ink
Inventor: TIDBURY GEORGE NIGEL
IPC: G01F11/02
Filed: 1989-07-10
Abstract: A device for collecting and dispensing measured quantities of printing ink for mixing together which includes an outer cylinder (1) and a replaceable inner cylinder (3) which contains a piston (9) which can be pulled and pushed along the inner cylinder. A stock of inner cylinders (3) can be provided, each cylinder containing a different coloured ink. The device enables measured quantities of different colours of ink to be drawn up and expelled for mixing; a measuring scale (11) and a ratchet and pawl arrangement are provided, as is a release trigger (14). <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2221684-A (GB)
Title: Anticorrosive agent-containing bead polymers
Inventor: PARRY RACHAEL LOUISE
IPC: C08J3/21
Filed: 1989-07-12
Abstract: The products of the invention are granules of polymeric particles containing a non-toxic anticorrosive agent. The polymeric particles may be vesiculated or not and have a particle size of from 1 to 100 microns. Coating compositions containing these polymeric particles have superior anticorrosive properties to compositions containing the anticorrosive pigment present in the free state. The polymeric beaded products are obtained by dispersing a non-toxic anticorrosive agent in a polymeric material in solution, converting the dispersion so formed into an aqueous emulsion and curing the so formed globules of polymeric material.
Patent GB-2222949-A (GB)
Title: Lice control
Inventor: ELGAR GORDON ANTHONY
IPC: A61Q5/02
Filed: 1989-08-21
Abstract: A method for controlling lice or their ova on a human subject consists of applying to a human subject a topical, pharmaceutical composition comprising a solution of a film-forming polymer, a conditioner and a plasticiser in an aqueous, aqueous alcoholic or alcoholic medium. Preferably the polymer is a carboxyalkylcellulose or a hydroxyalkylcellulose, the conditioner is a quaternary ammonium derivative and the plasticiser is glycerol or a polyalkylene glycol. The composition may also contain a surfactant, a lousicide and/or an insect repellent. Application of the composition forms a thin film on the hair. This film causes the louse not to recognise the host as being a human head with hair. The louse then either leaves the site or fails to infest the site.
Patent GB-2228231-A (GB)
Title: A device for discouraging fraud
Inventor: POLLOCK GRAHAM GORDON FREDERIC
IPC: B42D15/00
Filed: 1990-01-30
Abstract: A device for discouraging fraud or other crimes, such as terrorist attacks on aircraft, comprises a pocket (11) for receiving a document, such as a cheque, credit card voucher, withdrawal demand slip, or airline ticket, a finger print pad (16) on the exterior of the pocket, and an openable or removable cover (12) overlapping the finger print pad to preserve finger prints applied thereto. The pocket is made of transparent or translucent material so that a document contained in the pocket can be viewed and an anti-tamper device is provided to prevent or indicate any unauthorised attempt to open or remove the cover once a person's finger prints have been applied to the finger print pad. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2244198-A (GB)
Title: Improved plant pot
Inventor: PETERS LORNA ROSEMARY
IPC: A01G27/02
Filed: 1990-04-28
Abstract: A plant pot 11 incorporates a water channel 12 which surrounds at least a part of the periphery of the pot adjacent the pot edge. Preferably the channel extends substantially all the way around the pot periphery so that its benefits in use are maximised. Advantageously the pot wall is perforated within the area bounded by the channel. Specifically there may be two channels incorporated, one adjacent the top edge of the pot, the other around the base region of the pot. There are disclosed means whereby water can be injected into the channel as well as - or instead of - being poured in through the substantially open top of the ring. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2252399-A (GB)
Title: Woven materials
Inventor: WRIGHT MICHAEL POCHIN MARIUS
IPC: F41H3/02
Filed: 1990-06-30
Abstract: Woven webbing material particularly suitable for military use comprises dark pigmented fibre as the weft of the material and green dyed fibre as the warp of the material. The overall appearance of the webbing is green and it has an infra red remission of less than 40% for a wavelength between 350 and 1200 nanometres. The pigment is preferably black and contains carbon. A method of making the webbing is also provided.
Patent GB-2239470-A (GB)
Title: Cleaning of cuttings from drilling operations
Inventor: BAILEY MARSHALL GRAHAM
IPC: B01D11/02
Filed: 1990-09-07
Abstract: In a method of removing oil from oily cuttings obtained from a drilling operation of oil or gas wells, the cuttings are exposed in an extractor chamber (12) to a solvent for the oil, such as toluene or other suitable stabilised gasoline fraction The solvent thus dissolves the oil, and the cuttings may then be separated from the solvent with the oil dissolved therein on a fine mesh conveyor belt. Alternatively the cuttings and solvent may be formed into a slurry in an agitating vessel and then pumped to a solid bowl decanting centrifuge (26) from which the solids are fed to a dryer (18). <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2241012-A (GB)
Title: Threshold weather excluder
Inventor: ALLPORT BRIAN CHRISTOPHER
IPC: E06B7/26
Filed: 1990-12-14
Abstract: A weather excluder comprises an elongate channel member 10 for locating on a door or window threshold 15', and a resilient seal 30 carried on the underside of the member for sealing between the underside of the member and the threshold. The channel member 10 has at least one pair of legs 11, 12 on its underside by which the member is stood on the threshold, and the seal comprises a main body portion 31 retained snugly between the pair of legs and an integral sealing portion 32 projecting downwardly beyond the free ends of the legs. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2244401-A (GB)
Title: Station presetting method for radio receivers
Inventor: FUKAMI TOSHIYUKI
IPC: H03J5/02
Filed: 1990-12-31
Abstract: In a presetting method for radio receivers, in which seek-scanning is performed to select a predetermined number of radio stations with reception field strength higher than a specified level in the descending order of reception field strength and to set data of the selected stations in a station-presetting memory the method comprising the steps of: storing in a second memory a predetermined number of radio stations with reception field strength higher than the specified level which are not set in the station-presetting memory; each time specific station data set in the station-presetting memory is specified for data rewriting, deleting the specified station data from the station-presetting memory, and then writing into the station-presetting memory station data in the second memory with the highest reception field strength; and then erasing the station data in the second memory with the highest reception field strength.
Patent GB-2241842-A (GB)
Title: Protective electric circuit in a device for reducing vibrations of a vehicle body
Inventor: KURIYAMA SHIGERU
IPC: G05D19/02
Filed: 1991-01-24
Abstract: An electrical protective circuit is used when abnormality occurs in a vibration suppressing apparatus which changes the load torque on an alternator (4) fixed on an engine to generate an angle moment on the generator body to cancel rough idling engine vibrations to suppress vehicle body vibrations. Generator (4) includes a voltage regulator (9) to control a field winding current such that a fixed voltage is output to a battery (1). The generation of engine rough idling is detected (22) on the basis of either a change in engine speed or a change in engine vibrations. If rough idling is detected, a high voltage circuit (13) is connected to the field winding (8) to increase the field winding current and hence the load torque on the generator (4). The battery or regulator voltage is compared with a predetermined reference value when no rough idling is detected. If the detected voltage exceeds the reference value, indicating a fault, a changeover signal is generated and the high voltage circuit (13) is disconnected from the field winding (8). <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2254759-A (GB)
Title: Tv access control system
Inventor: BROADHURST PAUL ANTHONY
IPC: H04N7/16
Filed: 1991-02-14
Abstract: A TV access control system comprises a hub unit (10) serving a plurality of groups of customers within a predetermined area. Each group of customers (eg in a block of flats) are served by a headend unit (12) connected to a satellite TV dish (14). The headend unit receives control signals transmitted from an antenna (16) connected to the hub unit (10). The hub unit (10) stores information about the current availability of the TV channels to each customer and transmits control signals to control the de-scrambling means in each customer's customer unit (48). Thus, each customer's ability to receive a premium TV channel is controlled and governed by what is stored in the hub unit (10). <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2243382-A (GB)
Title: Roofing and other cladding structures
Inventor: MEIR DOUGLAS
IPC: E04D3/36
Filed: 1991-04-22
Abstract: Overlapping roofing sheets 5 laid in rows over tubes 2, 8 of a framework are held down onto the framework by overlying bearer tubes 20, 21 that extend across the sheets 5. The over-bearers 20, 21 are clamped down across the sheets 5 by spaced clamps 9 each of which has a strap that embraces the over-bearer and is bolted to a stirrup that pierces the sheet 5 and embraces the under-bearers 2, 8. A bolt carried by the strap is turned down onto the over-bearer 20, 21 to sandwich the sheet 5 tightly between the over- and under-bearers; alternatively, the strap may itself be tight on the over- bearer. The over-bearer 20, 21 may be engaged with the clamps 9 of its row after all sheets 5 of the row have been laid; alternatively, it may be installed as soon as just two end sheets have been laid at opposite ends of the row - or even only one sheet has been laid in the row - the other sheets being slid between the over- and under-bearers. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2255528-A (GB)
Title: Transfer sheet and transfer printing using the same.
Inventor: HUANG CHEN-CHIN
IPC: B44C1/17
Filed: 1991-05-09
Abstract: A transfer sheet comprises a backing sheet (10) which is coated with a layer of release agent (13) followed by a protective polymer layer (11) and a coating of dye (12) constituting a reverse picture or print. The transfer sheet is placed on a receiving object (20) with the dye coating (12) in contact with the object and heat at a temperature of 100 DEG C-200 DEG C and pressure of 1-10 Kg/cm<2> are applied for 3-60 seconds to cause the polymer of the protective layer (11) to melt and flow through the coating dye (12) onto the object (20). The backing sheet (10) and release layer (13) are then removed to leave the dye coating (12) firmly adhered to the object (20) with the dye coating (12) embedded therein. The dye coating (12) is fully protected from detachment or abrasion by the protective layer (11) which is transparent so that the dye coating can be clearly seen therethrough. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2259926-A (GB)
Title: Roofing component allowing varied roof angles
Inventor: SCHOLES ERNEST MALCOLM HEYWOOD
IPC: E04D3/06
Filed: 1991-09-27
Abstract: A component for use in a panelled roof unit, for connecting a glazing bar 18 to another such bar or to a structural wall to which the roof unit is to be secured. The component 18 has receiving means 15 for receiving fixing means, e.g. screw 22 by which the glazing bar can be secured to the component at a securing point, and the component is so shaped that the glazing bar, when secured to and/or supported by the component, can pivot about the securing point the adopt, in use, any of a range of connecting angles relative to the other bar or structural wall to which it is connected by the component. The receiving means 15 preferably takes the form of a longitudinal channel, adapted to receive a fixing means 22, and ideally also a glazing seal, at any point along its length. The invention also provides a panelled roof unit incorporating the component. The component may be used where, as shown, a pitched roof meets a vertical wall, or else at a ridge or valley or at the ring beam of a conservatory. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2258066-A (GB)
Title: Semiconductor memory redunduncy
Inventor: JANG HYEON-SOON
IPC: G11C29/00
Filed: 1991-11-05
Abstract: A redundancy device increases redundancy efficiency in a semiconductor memory device. Block select signals BLS each determined by a row address are applied to a fuse circuit MFB which also receives column addresses and generates redundancy signals REN. These are passed via selector circuits RS to redundant column decoders RCD, and to a circuit NDC for controlling normal column decoders NCD. Use of both a row address and column address for column redundancy control permits a decrease in the area of redundant cell array as well as an increase in the efficiency of the redundancy operation. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2262721-A (GB)
Title: Wheel assembly
Inventor: ONG TIONG EE
IPC: B62D13/00
Filed: 1991-12-06
Abstract: A wheel assembly 11-21 for a vehicle 1 comprises a plurality of mountings 57, 59, each comprising at least two wheels 23-29 mounted on a rocker arm 31. Yokes 63 are provided for supporting the rocker arms to allow independent rocking movement of each mounting. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2251072-A (GB)
Title: Piezo-electric rate sensors
Inventor: VARNHAM MALCOLM P
IPC: G01C19/5691
Filed: 1991-12-20
Abstract: A method of and apparatus for scale factor compensation for piezo-electric rate sensors. Means being provided for maintaining the magnitude of vibration at the primary pick-off point Pp substantially constant in relation to a reference value so as to enable one of the variables of a vibrating structure - the piezo-electric change coefficient to be determined and thereby enable the scale factor of the sensor to be determined in order to enable correction of the sensor output to be made by a scale factor control unit 30 in order to ensure that the output therefrom more accurately reflects the true timing rate of the sensor. This enables such sensors to be employed in applications requiring a higher degree of accuracy than they were previously able to provide. <IMAGE>