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Patent GB-2065457-A (GB)
Title: Runners in one-piece furniture drawers of plastics material
IPC: A47B88/00
Filed: 1980-08-07
Abstract: A drawer is moulded in plastics in one piece, and comprises double walled side panels 11, 12 which are open to the bottom, the runners being formed separately and being inserted between the double walls, and each runner being in the form of a member reinforced by a stiffener 4 wherein the running surface of the runner is of plastics and is not an exposed surface of the stiffener. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2070909-A (GB)
Title: End closure for sausage casings
IPC: A22C13/00
Filed: 1981-02-27
Abstract: A strand of sausage casing is closed at one end by an end closure constituted by a twisted end portion of the strand invaginated into the strand and axially compressed against the end wall of the strand produced by the invagination. The strand is preferably a shirred strand of a thin-walled sausage casing, e.g. collagen casing. A method of, and apparatus for, end-closing a strand of sausage casing are also described, the apparatus comprising a tubular mandrel with a slidably mounted piston which co-acts with a movable anvil to compress the closure. The casing strand is normally in shirred condition. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2095981-A (GB)
Title: Equipment for stripping wallpaper by means of steam
IPC: B44C7/02
Filed: 1981-04-01
Abstract: Equipment for stripping wallpaper by means of steam comprises a container (12) including an electric heating element, a connector (13) connecting the element to a power supply, a tube (20) connecting the interior of the container to a steam applying member (26) which is placed against wallpaper to be stripped, a pressure-relief valve e.g. ball valve (17) arranged to release limited quantities of steam when the pressure in the container exceeds a first predetermined value and another pressure- relief device e.g. blow-out plug (18) arranged to effectively open the container when the pressure exceeds a second higher predetermined value. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2090568-A (GB)
Title: A Cable Steering Mechanism and Multi-purpose Vehicle Incorporating such a Mechanism
IPC: B62D7/20
Filed: 1979-01-29
Abstract: A cable steering mechanism for instance for use on a multi-purpose four-wheel drive and four-wheel steered vehicle, which comprises a steering axle 330 supporting two pairs of spirally-grooved drums 334 and 336, each grooved drum having a cable-adjusting ratchet 338 secured thereto. Between each ratchet and the steering axle 330 there is provided a respective releasable adjusting pawl 350, allowing the disposition of the drums 334 and 336 to be adjusted with respect to each other and the axle 330. Steering cables C, C' have their ends fixed to the drums 334, 336, and are partially wound round the drums, the cables also being appropriately connected to wheel assemblies to be steered. The cables can be tensioned as required by the ratchets and adjusting pawls to ensure proper operation of the steering mechanism. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2101074-A (GB)
Title: Helical winding apparatus
Inventor: THOMAS PHILIP GARFIELD
IPC: B29C53/60
Filed: 1981-07-10
Abstract: Apparatus for helically winding a tape onto a cylindrical surface has a passage along its axis (22) through which the surface may be passed. The tape is taken from a roll mounted on a rotatable sleeve (33) by guide rods (26 to 28) which are rotated and from which the tape is applied to the axially moving surface. The sleeve (33) is subjected to a braking action to maintain a suitable tension on the tape. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2080221-A (GB)
Title: Control device for vehicle rearview mirror
IPC: B60R1/072
Filed: 1981-07-13
Abstract: In a control device for a vehicle rearview mirror in which the mirror is secured on a support member which is mounted for pivotal movement about two orthogonal axes relative to a base plate, two rotatable drums 12 on the base plate are provided on their cylindrical surface with a helical groove in which is engaged a spring biased finger 17 slidable in a sleeve 20 provided around each drum and of which one end is pivotally mounted by means of a knuckle joint 24, on the mirror support 3 to communicate the respective pivotal movements thereto. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2085078-A (GB)
Title: Submersible Pumping System
IPC: B63C7/16
Filed: 1981-10-08
Abstract: A submersible pumping system for pumping cryogenic liquid from a reservoir 10 has a pump and motor unit 26 which is lowered to the bottom of a fluid transmitting casing 14 in the reservoir. An isolation chamber 24 is provided in the casing above the roof of the reservoir into which the pump and motor unit is raised for removal, and an associated isolation valve 18 is provided. A special sealing arrangement comprising sealing elements 74 and a vertical tube 62 maintains the casing and reservoir isolated from the atmosphere when lifting the pump and motor unit, yet allows a flexible suspension cable to be utilized. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2109343-A (GB)
Title: Stackable lidded boxes
Inventor: PLUMMER GEORGE ALFRED
IPC: B65D5/00
Filed: 1981-11-12
Abstract: A box 10 is provided with a lid 11 made from paper board which lid is provided with upstanding walls 117-114 that co-operate in use with a substantially identical overlying box in a stack to retain it against relative movement. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2115514-A (GB)
Title: Extractor
Inventor: CAMERON JOHN DICKSON
IPC: B08B9/043
Filed: 1982-02-18
Abstract: An extractor for removing plunger canes from a drain pipe comprises a nose cone section having channels on its conical surface which serve to divert a plunger cane so as to engage a circular cut-out formed in a flexible engagement disc fitted at the base of the diverting nose cone.
Patent GB-2093637-A (GB)
Title: A frame for receiving electrical or mechanical equipment
IPC: H05K7/14
Filed: 1982-02-19
Abstract: A frame for electrical and mechanical equipment has two similar and spaced side panels (1, 2), similar top and bottom panels (3, 4), and corner brackets (5) to which the side, top and bottom panels (1, 2, 3, 4) are secured to form the frame which is rectangular. The top and bottom panels (3, 4) are formed with integral guides (16) with the guides (16) in the top panel (3) in line with the guides (16) in the bottom panel (4). The guides (16) are formed as the sides of punched out slots (7 to 15) in the top and bottom panels (3, 4). The top and bottom panels (3, 4) are each formed with integral lugs (17 to 21) which extend towards the other of the top and bottom panels (3, 4) and serve for securing equipment mounted within the frame. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2094473-A (GB)
Title: Method and apparatus for logging boreholes
IPC: E21B47/08
Filed: 1982-03-08
Abstract: In an acoustic logging system for providing information regarding selected parameters of the wall of a borehole in the earth, and of the rock formation which is adjacent the borehole, in which a first transmit/receive transducer system (T/RTS) 46 mounted on a rotating assembly 34 probes the wall of the borehole in a circular scanning pattern as a function of depth, the improvement which includes at least a second T/RTS 48 mounted on the rotating assembly in known geometrical relation to the first T/RTS and means to utilize in combination the electrical scan signals from the at least two scanning T/RTS. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2117506-A (GB)
Title: Burner for gaseous fuels
Inventor: LEWIS DAVID
IPC: F23D14/22
Filed: 1982-03-25
Abstract: A burner body comprises a plurality of sections 10 arranged end to end, and has a gas outlet 12 which opens into a combustion zone of elongate cross section which is defined between divergent flame-confining walls. Each wall comprises a plurality of wall elements 19 which are arranged edge to edge and are slidably supported between brackets 18, 21, 22 so that thermal expansion of the elements 19 does not result in their buckling. The wall elements 19 are secured to the body sections 10 only upstream of the combustion zone, and engagement between the brackets and the elements 19 is such as to prevent any substantial escape of combustion products. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2095557-A (GB)
Title: Pest repellant
IPC: A01N25/00
Filed: 1982-03-26
Abstract: Substituted aryl alkylcarbamates have been found to provide outstanding pest repellancy when applied to desirable foliage or agronomic crops.
Patent GB-2121269-A (GB)
Title: Meat press or clamp
Inventor: HOUGHTON DAVID
IPC: B65G15/36
Filed: 1982-05-04
Abstract: The two-part press or mould produces a non-uniformly contoured joint which, when sliced, forms slices or irregular shapes which do not appear to have come from a roll of meat. The mould is formed so that a proportion of the internal surface of one or both parts has a random pattern of contours. In the embodiment shown, the mould is in two parts 11, 12. Part 12 is inverted and fits into part 11 after meat has been put in part 12. Random contours are formed on both mould parts at 20, 21. Part 11 may have straight sides 22 to facilitate sliding mould part 12 telescopically into mould part 11. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2104974-A (GB)
Title: Wave and current energy converter
Inventor: SLONIM DAVID MEIR
IPC: F03B13/18
Filed: 1982-05-07
Abstract: A device for converting the energy of waves or currents of oceans, rivers or lakes into electricity, comprises a buoyant body which supports a bucket wheel or bucket chain when converting energy, wave the rise and fall of buoyant body 1 with the wave motion causes bucket wheel 9 or chain to rotate or circulate unidirectionally respectively. This movement is transmitted to a generator 33 or other energy conversion device on the buoyant body 1, and thence to shore. Where the energy is taken from under water currents, the bucket wheel 9 or bucket chain is supported by the buoyant body at a depth in the region of the under water currents, and where the currents are surface water currents a bucket wheel is fixedly secured to the buoyant body for circulation about horizontal axis disposed above the surface of the water or a bucket chain is mounted about the buoyant body. The buckets may be hingedly connected to the respective bucket carrying means. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2116729-A (GB)
Title: Electrical testing
Inventor: CHITTICK ROBERT CARNEGIE
IPC: G01R31/18
Filed: 1982-06-11
Abstract: Insulation faults in electrical components are detected by measurement of electrical leakage before and after immersion in a mobile ionising solvent, e.g. a lower alkyl alcohol. A significant increase in leakage is indicative of a fault, e.g. a crack in the insulation. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2106489-A (GB)
Title: Process for removal of sulphur oxides from waste gases
Inventor: LOWELL PHILIP S
IPC: B01D53/50
Filed: 1982-09-15
Abstract: The waste gas is contacted with a sorbent comprising one or more of trona, sodium bicarbonate and activated sodium carbonate and then the spent sorbent is dissolved in alkaline ammonia liquor. The liquor is then carbonated to precipitate trona or sodium bicarbonate which is then separated and heat activated. The resulting liquor is then treated with an alkaline earth metal oxide or hydroxide to precipitate the sulphur as sulphates and sulphites. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2104439-A (GB)
Title: Mold for producing padded seat backs
Inventor: BRACESCO ROBERTO
IPC: B29C44/14
Filed: 1982-09-21
Abstract: A mold for producing padded seat parts having an incorporated framework, particularly motor vehicle seat backs, comprising a central (34') and a pair of lateral mold parts (32', 36') and the central mold part rigidly mounted on a base (130) and the lateral mold parts slidably mounted on guide bars (136, 138) supported by said base, said lateral mold parts being arranged to be opened and closed by a pair of rams (140, 142) firmly connected to said base. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2112327-A (GB)
Title: Hopper suction dredger
Inventor: STEHMEIER HEIKO
IPC: B63B35/00
Filed: 1982-09-28
Abstract: A hopper suction dredger has one or more slits (5) provided in its hull. Each slit (5) is open at its base and receives a auction tube (1) therein. The suction tube (1) can be raised and lowered by an associated winch (6) housed in the slit (5) or in a cell (7) to which access is had by way of a shaft (8). Each suction tube (1) is arranged to convey dredged material to the hopper (4) of the dredger. The hopper may have overflow connections to the slits. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2119086-A (GB)
Title: Reduction of measuring errors in spectrophotometers
Inventor: WITTE WOLFGANG
IPC: G01N21/27
Filed: 1983-04-08
Abstract: Measuring errors due to stray light, in particular the effects at each measured wavelength  lambda m of stray light from other wavelength bands, are reduced in a spectrograph 22 having a diode array 24 as a detector and an entrance slit on which a combined beam 20 comprising a reference beam 16 and a sample beam 14 passing through a sample 18 is incident. Proportion factors Sim, measured as instrument constants, are stored in a memory 28. These factors measure the proportions by which the deviation of the transmission Tmi occurring in a wavelength range  DELTA  lambda i from the transmission Tm at a measured wavelength  lambda m affects, by stray light, the measurement of the transmission Tm. The spectrum is detected and the detector signals for the wavelengths corresponding to the different diodes are stored in a memory 26 for both the reference and sample phases. A computer unit 30 forms a stray light signal and processes the stored signals to form corrected transmission signals which are stored in a memory 32 and indicated on a display 34. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2121112-A (GB)
Title: Rotary positive-displacement fluid-machine
Inventor: BAMMERT KARL
IPC: F01C1/08
Filed: 1983-05-26
Abstract: In a gas compressor or expander of the externally-meshing screw type having a pair of male and female screw rotors the latter are in direct dry contact with each other without gear synchronization. Preferably, a wear- resistant coating of e.g. a carbide material, is applied to at least one of the rotors in at least the contact regions. Alternatively, the contact regions of the rotors may be made of dissimilar materials e.g. steel and bronze, there being other examples mentioned.
Patent GB-2130373-A (GB)
Title: Accelerometer device
Inventor: GREENWOOD JOHN CHRISTOPHER
IPC: G01P15/12
Filed: 1983-07-01
Abstract: An accelerometer or seisometer element comprises a movable body 11 mounted via two symmetrically disposed elastic beams 14 in an opening in a support body 13. Movement of the body is restricted by the provision of an elastic membrane (16) or by the provision of projections 51 on the body 11 which projections, in use, engage corresponding recesses 62 in a housing 61, Figure 6). Slots 17 are provided to reduce the stiffness of the coupling of beams 14. Strain gauges (15, Figure 2) are provided on the beams 14 to measure the movements of body 11. The element 11 may be formed as an integral structure by selective etching of a silicon body doped with boron. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2123360-A (GB)
Title: Tyre bead reinforcements
Inventor: KENNEY MICHAEL JOHN
IPC: B60C15/04
Filed: 1983-07-12
Abstract: A tyre bead reinforcement comprises a circumferentially extending ring (1, 11) material, e.g. steel shaped in cross-section to define a pocket in which is located a circumferential winding (3, 12), e.g. of rubber-coated steel cord. The pocket may completely (Figure 1) or partly (Figure 9) enclose the winding. The ring may define a plurality of pockets each containing a respective winding. In cross-section, the outer profile of the ring may differ from the inner, winding contacting, profile. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2146272-A (GB)
Title: Recovery system for cable scrap
Inventor: LIN YIN-PO
IPC: B03B5/42
Filed: 1983-09-07
Abstract: A recovery system for electric were and cable scrap comprises a cone type rotary separator (6) which is slopingly rotated and is sprayed with water so as to efficiently separate plastic granules from metal granules after pre-treatment of crushing (1), dust collection (2) and conveyor handling (3, 4, 5). <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2149345-A (GB)
Title: Heat sterilizable laminate films
Inventor: MARTINI FRANCESCO
IPC: B32B27/32
Filed: 1983-11-09
Abstract: A heat-sterilizable laminate film especially useful for making disposible pouches for sterile injectable compositions comprises an ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymer layer and on either side of the said layer a layer of a propylene-ethylene copolymer which may contain an impact modifier. The laminate may be cross-linked by irradiation.
Patent GB-2133881-A (GB)
Title: Apparatus for monitoring tool life
Inventor: MOORE ARTHUR IVAN WALTER
IPC: G05B19/4065
Filed: 1984-01-11
Abstract: A system for monitoring a power driven cutting tool during machining produces a signal proportional to the vibration spectrum of the tool which is then passed through a digitally controlled attenuator 18 to provide an output signal at a preselected level. The degree of attenuation is stored, as is a reference value which is generated as a function of the attenuated signal. During subsequent machining operations under the same machining conditions the attenuator is controlled to provide the same degree of attenuation and the reference value, which is in the form of a digital signal, is compared with the rectified and digitised output of the attenuator. When the latter exceeds the reference value a control signal is generated which either provides an audible or visual warning that the tool is worn and due for replacement or initiates an automatic tool changing operation. In providing its own reference, the system caters automatically for changes in the machining conditions such as use of a different tool or change in workpiece material. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2155352-A (GB)
Title: De-dusting air
Inventor: JUEI-JSE LIN
IPC: B01D46/22
Filed: 1984-03-08
Abstract: Apparatus for removing dust from air includes a motor driven first shaft (52), a second shaft (53) held within a water tank (55), an endless filtering net (54) which is guided by and surrounds the first (52) and second (53) shafts and a motor driven fan (4). The air driven by the fan is filtered through the wet, travelling filtering net (54). An ultraviolet lamp (59) may be mounted between the two sides (541, 542) of the circulating filtering net (54) to sterilize the air, and a dust scraper (56) may clean the net. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2134906-A (GB)
Title: Condensation products of a-aminoisopropylphenylketone through carbonyl c=o-conjugation with substituted amines, or functional substituted hydrazines, or with derivatives of amino acids
Inventor: EREMEEV ANATOLY VASILIEVICH
IPC: C07C251/24
Filed: 1982-07-30
Abstract: The condensation products of  alpha -aminoisopropylphenylketone through carbonyl C=O- conjugation with substituted amines, or functional substituted hydrazines, or with derivatives of amino acids of the general formula (I). The compounds may find application as carcinostatic preparations with narrow spectrum of action for the therapy of the human pulmonary cancer.
Patent GB-2141870-A (GB)
Title: Electrical discharge tube
Inventor: SCHERZER JOACHIM
IPC: H01J5/48
Filed: 1984-05-02
Abstract: An electrical discharge tube 1 operating as an emitter, in particular an ultraviolet emitter of tubular form, accommodated in an electrically insulated manner within a socket 8. A compression spring 5 for taking up longitudinal tolerances of the discharge tube, is located between the transition area 3 of the tube to a pinched end 7 and the socket 8. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2159866-A (GB)
Title: Lock
Inventor: ORMANDY LESLIE
IPC: E05B45/08
Filed: 1984-06-09
Abstract: Opening force applied to door 36, which is locked by bolt 32 of lock 34 projecting into keeper 10, causes angled bracket 40 to pivot about a fulcrum provided by the junction of its thrust plate 42 and its back plate 44. As a result, microswitch 54 carried by the bracket 40 is correspondingly pivoted so that it is actuated, to initiate an alarm, by reaction of arm 56 against front plate 22 of the keeper 10.   <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2145389-A (GB)
Title: Apparatus for feeding particulate materials
Inventor: GALLANT BEN JOSEPH
IPC: B24C7/00
Filed: 1984-08-17
Abstract: A vibratory cylinder 13, vibrated by an electrically driven mechanism 46, receives powder from a reserve chamber 21 through a feed tube 22 ending just above the floor 14 of the cylinder 13. Powder is driven, by the vibration of the cylinder 13, up a helical channel 17 formed on the inner cylindrical wall of the cylinder 13 and leaves through a connection 18, 19 and a duct 8 to a nozzle 9. Operation of the mechanism 46 is controlled by the same switch 44 as a solenoid valve 10 in the duct 8. Compressed air pressurises the reserve chamber 21 and a feed chamber 12 enclosing the cylinder 13, supply and exhaust solenoid valves 35 and 39 being controlled jointly from a switching circuit 41. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2154635-A (GB)
Title: Rail insulation pad
Inventor: COLLINS HARTLEY FRANK
IPC: E01B9/68
Filed: 1984-12-11
Abstract: A rail pad to electrically and dynamically insulate a rail from a rail tie is provided by a flexible, resilient pad at least 7.5mm thick with grooves or recesses in at least one surface which have a depth of at least 55% of the pad thickness. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2154873-A (GB)
Title: Heat-escape device for buildings
Inventor: BOCK HANS JOACHIM
IPC: E04D13/03
Filed: 1985-02-22
Abstract: A heat-escape device is proposed which comprises an outer covering of an easily fusible material in a thickness of material or shape which withstands snow and wind stresses and at least one further covering disposed beneath the said outer covering, the lower covering likewise being formed from an easily fusible or a pre-stressed material. This makes possible a thermal action almost without delay upon the outer covering, so that the latter frees the outlet opening for the escape of smoke and heat in the case of risk by melting. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2171765-A (GB)
Title: Rotatable fluid joint
Inventor: WALLACE NEIL MCINTOSH
IPC: F16L27/087
Filed: 1985-03-02
Abstract: A fluid joint (20) between a housing (12) fed (14) with fluid under pressure and a rotary shaft (10) to receive the fluid in a bore (16), comprises a sleeve (22) which is a close fit on a shaft-sleeve (24) fixed to the shaft (10). The sleeve (22) is sealed (46,48) in the housing. The close fit staunches leakage to a manageable level which is bled off through drillings (80,82) sealed by seals (A,B). Any tendency of fluid pressure to expand the sleeve (22) and increase the leakage is counteracted by pressure between the sleeve (22) and housing (12) tending to compress the sleeve. The seals A,B may be of the face-seal type or lip-seal type (Fig. 2 - not shown, seals C,D). <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2156508-A (GB)
Title: Storage container for hot media
Inventor: BROCKERHOFF PETER
IPC: F17C1/12
Filed: 1985-03-12
Abstract: A storage container for hot liquid, e.g. water or oil, under super-atmospheric pressure is provided with thermal insulation on the inside of its structural walls 2,3,4, to protect them from overheating. This is a double-walled liner 7 containing thermal insulation 8 and pressurized with gas, e.g. air or nitrogen, whose pressure is matched to the pressure of the medium to be stored, e.g. 60 bar. Baffles 11 reduce convective gas flow in the liner 7. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2175360-A (GB)
Title: Mower with locking differential
Inventor: TURNER ANTHONY LEONARD
IPC: B60K23/04
Filed: 1985-05-11
Abstract: A pedestrian guided mower has two driven wheels on a common axis with a differential mechanism in conventional manner for ease of manoevreing the mower. A shaft 24 parallel to the axle half-shafts provided with pinions 26 to mesh with complementary pinion 20 fast with the half shafts. When so meshed the differential is rendered ineffective and the arrangement is the same as if there were a solid axle connecting the wheels. The shaft 24 can be displaced bodily to disengage the pinions 26 allowing the differential to be effective when required, under the action of a pedal 40. <IMAGE>