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Patent GB-2146491-A (GB)
Title: Protective construction for electronic devices
Inventor: SEKI NOBORU
IPC: H01H15/02
Filed: 1984-09-10
Abstract: A protective construction for an electronic device (3) having a body actuatable by a slidable knob (2) includes a covering member (1) for covering an upper surface of the electronic device (3), the covering member (1) having a slot (9) in which said slidable knob (2) is slidable and presser members (8a), formed by portions of the covering member (1) being bent inwardly for forming the slot (9), for pressing the body of the electronic device against a printed circuit board (4). <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2165347-A (GB)
Title: Burner air/gas ratio control
Inventor: OVENDEN NEIL ANDREW
IPC: F23N1/02
Filed: 1984-10-04
Abstract: Apparatus for controlling the combustion of gas in a burner (eg for a domestic boiler) comprises a blower 9 for supplying air at one of two rates to combust the gas and a valve 12 for controlling the rate of flow of gas to the burner 3. The valve 12 is controlled by a control unit 15 which receives signals representative of the air pressure of the air delivered by the blower 9. Depending upon whether the signal represents a high air pressure (high air supply rate) or a low air pressure (low air supply rate) the control unit 15 varies the valve opening so that the volume ratio of air and gas supplied to the burner remains constant. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2168793-A (GB)
Title: Weapon systems
Inventor: PEARCE JOHN ROBERT
IPC: F41G7/22
Filed: 1984-12-21
Abstract: A weapon system includes a group of warheads which are stowed in a suitable containment vessel and can be released on parachutes. Each warhead in the group has a fuze including an acoustic sensor 30 responsive to an acoustic pressure wave produced by detonation of another, nearby warhead in the group. Some of the fuzes include an additional trigger device e.g. a timing circuit or altimeter. The acoustic sensors respond to detonation of a nearby warhead, caused by activation of the additional trigger device, resulting in near simultaneous detonation of the entire group. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2157643-A (GB)
Title: Mechanism for applying covers to bottle crates
Inventor: BREUGELMANS LEON
IPC: B65B7/28
Filed: 1985-04-17
Abstract: An applicator mechanism for securing top cover sheets 12 in the open tops of bottle crates C in a continuous operation includes applicator wheels LW1, LW2 each comprising a peripheral surface 36 for rolling engagement with a top cover sheet, the peripheral surface being interrupted by an annular series of blind recesses (32) each being spaced and sized to receive a neck portion of a bottle as the wheel rotates relative to a top cover of a crate c with the crate being fed in a linear path beneath the wheel and the annular series of recesses being interrupted by a pair of diametrically opposed peripheral cavities 34 each being spaced and sized to receive wall portions of abutting crates. The sheets may be delivered from a hopper by a chain 26 (Figure 2) driven by the crates and operative to drive the wheels. In a modification, the applicator wheels may be replaced by pairs of transverse recessed bars mounted on chain 26. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2159683-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to particulate product spreading machines
Inventor: RICCA ANDREA
IPC: A01C15/00
Filed: 1985-04-19
Abstract: A machine for spreading particulate products, e.g. fertiliser, has a hopper (31), a containment plate (32) and a pair of spreading discs (14, 15). The product in the hopper is mixed by stirring members and the feed through the containment plate to the discs is variable by varying the degree to which covering plates cover discharging orifices (40) in the plate 32. Adjustable vanes (16) are provided on the discs for adjusting the direction and width of the product distribution, and there are also means for adjusting the height of the machine relative to the ground. Mechanical and hydraulic control devices are provided which are actuated and controlled by a tractor unit to which the machine is attached. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2163340-A (GB)
Title: A button hole device
Inventor: AHERNE ROWLAND DAVID
IPC: A45F5/08
Filed: 1985-07-24
Abstract: A button hole device (2) comprising a body portion (4) and fastener means (10) which is secured to the body portion (4) and which is for securing the body portion (4) to an article of clothing, the body portion (4) being such that in use it receives a flower stem and maintains it in position. Fastener means (10) may be double-sided adhesive tape, or a pin, preferably a safety pin. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2163411-A (GB)
Title: Gripper bar assemblies
Inventor: TAYLOR ROBERT CECIL
IPC: B65H29/04
Filed: 1985-07-25
Abstract: An anvil bar 10 may be connected at each end to a transfer chain (not shown) for conveying a sheet in offset lithographic printing machinery. A finger shaft 14 carries a number of fingers 24, each through a mounting 44 rotatably journalled on the shaft 14 through legs 45. A sheet (not shown) is gripped between the fingers 24 and corresponding anvils 20 on the bar 10 by the force of a coil spring 26 having ends bearing on the bar 10 and mounting 44. The sheet is released by rotation of the finger shaft 14 in synchronism with the remainder of the machine by engagement between an actuator 54 fast on the shaft 14 and the mounting 44. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2184931-A (GB)
Title: Animal blinker
Inventor: KENNEDY ROBERT BARRON
IPC: A01K13/00
Filed: 1985-12-31
Abstract: An animal blinker comprising a sheet form member and attachment means for locating and retaining the blinker on an animal's head. The sheet form member is of a shape and size to prevent the animal from seeing in a directly forward direction but allowing it to see in a sideways direction. The attachment means may comprise buckles and straps and may include loops to locate the straps so as to accommodate the animal's ears. The whole device may be fabricated of leather or canvas or a combination of both.
Patent GB-2171299-A (GB)
Title: A castor wheel provided with a directional locking device
Inventor: VOLLBERG FRITZ
IPC: B60B33/02
Filed: 1986-02-11
Abstract: A castor wheel is provided with a directional locking device 16 provided in a housing 20 which is arranged on the rotary mounting head 14 that rotatably holds the wheel fork 10. A locking slider 17 which is biassed to a release position by a spring member 35 is guided in the housing 20 to be horizontally displaceable between a release position and a locking position in which a tongue 18 engages into an opening 15 provided in the back 13 of the wheel fork 10. The actuating lever 24 is pivotable about an axis which extends in the direction of displacement of the locking slider 17, and has a control arm 28 which bears against an inclined support track on the locking slider 17 through a roller 30. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2172828-A (GB)
Title: Process for fixing a tube with respect to a base, and apparatus constructed according to this process
Inventor: CAMBIEN CLAUDE
IPC: B21D39/06
Filed: 1986-02-21
Abstract: The immersion tube (5) of a thermostat engages in a hole (2) in its base (1), abutting against a shoulder (2c) thereof. Depressions (3, 4) are made in the base (1) so that the hole (2) comprises a notch formed by said depressions (3, 4). Two tongues (5a, 5b) are cut out in the end of the tube (5) and folded down against the bottom (3a, 4a) of the depressions (3, 4). In this way, the tube (5) is immobilized axially and angularly. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2176677-A (GB)
Title: Combining image signals
Inventor: YOSHIOKA KAZUO
IPC: G06T15/40
Filed: 1986-05-27
Abstract: Image signals are combined to produce a composite image in which images of higher priority overlay images of lower priority, the order of priority of the images being controllable. Image signals relating to images A, B, C together with associated stencil signals which indicate the area in which the image is to be displayed - see A, B, C in figures 3a and 3b are stored in image memories 11a, b, c. The signals are read via priority setting circuit 12 which passes the image signals to data selecting circuit 14 and arranges them in a predetermined order of priority, as a result of which they are displayed as in figure 3a. The stencil signals pass to priority rearranging circuit 13 where the order of priority may be changed. A control signal on line 23b may cause image B to be suppressed as in figure 3b. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2179337-A (GB)
Title: Process for purifying waste-waters
Inventor: BLATTNER RUDOLF
IPC: C02F1/26
Filed: 1986-07-03
Abstract: The invention relates to the purification of waste-waters containing aromatic and/or aliphatic sulfonic acids by acid extraction with water-insoluble amines and subsequent extraction of the extracted organic phase which contains the sulfonic acids with an aqueous alkaline solution, in the temperature range from 30 DEG C to the boiling point of the aqueous phase, preferably from 50 DEG  to 90 DEG C and, most preferably, from 60 DEG  to 80 DEG C, and, after separation from the organic phase, either removing the resultant highly concentrated aqueous solution of sulfonic acids as obtained for suitable disposal, or separating the sulfonic acid salts in the form of the moist solid by crystallisation from the cooled solution, and recycling the aqueous re-extraction solution. The organic phase can be used once more for the extraction of the organic sulfonic acids.
Patent GB-2177773-A (GB)
Title: Mounting for offset sign
Inventor: HEARD ROBERT ARTHUR HENDERSON
IPC: F16B2/08
Filed: 1986-07-16
Abstract: A mounting bracket for mounting an offset sign (46) to a post (50) has a plate (12) for rivetting to a T-shaped reinforcing element (44) along the top or bottom of the sign. The bracket has two transverse channels (14,28). One channel (14) has internal ribs (23,24) defining a slot (27) to receive the head (34) of a bolt (32). the shank 33 of which then projects from the channel for bolting it to the post (50). An alternative method of mounting is to pass a strap around the post and through the channel (28). The bracket can accommodate round posts by, cutting a shallow V profile (58) in the walls at the mount of the channel (14).
Patent GB-2185262-A (GB)
Title: Polyolefin composition
Inventor: FUGITA TISHINORI
IPC: C08K5/06
Filed: 1986-02-06
Abstract: A polyolefin composition containing (A) 100 parts by weight of polyolefin, (B) 20 to 70 parts by weight of an organic fire retardant, (D) 0.5 to 30 parts by weight if an antioxidant, (E) 10 to 60 parts by weight of an insulation-improving agent, and (F) 1.0 to 50 parts by weight of an antioxidant aid. This composition shows excellent fire retardancy, heat aging resistance, cut-through properties, and mechanical and electric properties.
Patent GB-2189297-A (GB)
Title: Friction clutch for punching-machine
Inventor: PORTMANN AUGUST THOMAS
IPC: F16D25/0638
Filed: 1987-03-23
Abstract: In a friction clutch for a punching-machine, a driven flywheel (1), Fig. 1, is supported rotatably on a main shaft (3) and a clutch disc (4) is mounted for rotation with the main shaft (3), frictional engagement between clutch disc (4) and flywheel (1) proceeding as a result of axial motion of a pressing plate (9) against the clutch disc (4). This motion is produced by pressurised fluid acting upon pistons (12). The pressing plate (9) is connected to the flywheel (1) by means of generally tangential leaf springs (19), Fig. 4, which are each secured to a pressing plate lug (17) at the centre of the spring and to flywheel (1) at the spring ends, to allow axial shifting of the pressing plate (9). The springs (19) hold the pressing plate (9) centered within the flywheel (1). <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2203394-A (GB)
Title: Actuation of hydraulic power assisted steering system
Inventor: ADAMS FREDERICK JOHN
IPC: B62D5/087
Filed: 1987-05-14
Abstract: A power assisted vehicle steering mechanism having a rack and pinion assembly, the pinion being mounted to be displaceable by reaction with the rack on the application of steering torque, including a lever (4) mounted for pivotal movement in response to displacement of the pinion, movement of said lever actuating both an hydraulic valve (9) for directing hydraulic fluid to augment steering torque and electrical sensor means (11) for energising a motor which drives a pump to supply hydraulic fluid to said valve. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2204838-A (GB)
Title: A collapsible golf cart
Inventor: LAI WINSTON
IPC: B62B1/04
Filed: 1987-05-22
Abstract: A golf bag combined with a collapsible golf cart includes: a golf bag 1 having two inclined-surface portions 1a formed on its side portion, a pair of radial-movement legs 2 pivotally mounted on the two inclined-surface portions of the bag, a wheel supporting shaft 3 having a pair of telescopic shafts 31 telescopically disposed on two opposite sides of a sleeve 30 of which each shaft is pivotally secured with each leg and rotatably mounted with a wheel 32, a pair of actuating links 4 each having its lower ends pivotally secured to each leg, and a U-shaped handle 5 pivotally secured to the bag and the actuating links, so that upon raising the handle, the pair of actuating links are simultaneously pulled to move the two legs rearwardly and outwardly so as to extend the two wheels in an outwardly transverse direction. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2215886-A (GB)
Title: Data processing system
Inventor: BALDWIN DAVID ROBERT
IPC: G06F9/38
Filed: 1988-03-23
Abstract: The system provides a control processor operable asynchronously and concurrently with a numerical processor which performs arithmetic operations using a 32-bit word. The numerical processor interfaces to a cache memory through an interface including a cache bus, 144, which carries eight 32-bit words in parallel. The bus is multiplied down to 64-bit wide fast register files, 430, through a set of holding registers, 420, which play an important role in crossing between different clock domains in the numerical processing module. A double-word interface is provided from the register file toward the data bus although, from the numerical processing module the register tile appears to be only one word wide. This gives faster data transfer on the cache side of the register file even though some granularity is built into the address structure - even word addresses tend to map to even word addresses. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2282504-A (GB)
Title: Surveillance system
Inventor: BISHOP GARY
IPC: H01J47/00
Filed: 1988-04-29
Abstract: A missile approach warning surveillance system operates in the ultra-violet ozone absorption waveband so that solar inclined clutter disturbance is reduced. The photo-electric effect detector 18 uses a waveband whose upper wavelength limit depends upon the work function of the photocathode 20 (eg tungsten or copper). The lower limit is determined by the transmission properties of the quartz glass, dye, or polymer matrix window 24. A mechanical elevation/azumith scanning arrangement is provided, 12, 14. The system may be used in a look-down mode, associated with an upward looking infrared sensor. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2204300-A (GB)
Title: Dispenser
Inventor: BARNETT NAN
IPC: B65D25/52
Filed: 1988-05-05
Abstract: A dispenser e.g. for small items of clothing comprises a container 2 for storing said items, the container 2 having a first aperture 3 through which said items are entered into the container 2 and a wall 4 with a second smaller aperture 5 through which said items are dispensable. More than one aperture 5 may be provided, as may a handle for carrying the dispenser or means for mounting it on a support. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2206391-A (GB)
Title: Bearings
Inventor: SLEE ROGER HARVEY
IPC: F16J1/14
Filed: 1988-06-23
Abstract: Connecting-rod small-end attachments to pistons are described which have capacity for deflection in three mutually perpendicular axes of rotation. Such bearings are particularly advantageous in internal combustion engines and compressors having a non-circular radial profile.
Patent GB-2217618-A (GB)
Title: Target board, e.g. for darts
Inventor: ROSS DONALD KAY
IPC: F41J5/04
Filed: 1988-06-23
Abstract: This invention relates to a target board for electrically sensing the penetration of darts and similar missiles that do not penetrate entirely through the target. More specifically, the invention relates to the construction of a target board that is adapted to be a sensing device to trigger an electrical scoring device not of this invention wherein an electrical trigger circuit is closed upon the impact of a pointed missile (12) partially penetrating the target board. A unique feature of this invention is that it allows the use of regulation-grade metal-pointed throwing darts of the type preferred by serious dart players, with no modifications made to the dart to accommodate the triggering of the target board circuit.
Patent GB-2220478-A (GB)
Title: An improved automatic electric lamp
Inventor: CHEN JACK YING-CHUN
IPC: H05B39/04
Filed: 1988-07-06
Abstract: An automatic electric lamp has a switch (SW) in its circuit, whereby the lamp may be operated as an automatic lamp with adjustable brightness, or may be operated as an ordinary lamp also with adjustable brightness. In view of the conventional automatic electric lamp having a drawback of blinking upon being turned on, the circuit of this automatic electric lamp has a blinking-proof circuit, whereby the lamp does not blink upon being turned on. The lamp has an infra-red sensor for sensing human body radiation, and an ambient light sensor (CdS). When the infra-red sensor is triggered, the blinking-proof circuit grounds one end of a resistor (R23) to reduce the sensitivity of the ambient light sensor. The lamp brightness is adjusted using a variable resistor (VR4) which changes the conducting angle of a silicon bilateral switch (ST1). <IMAGE>
Patent GB-888864-A (GB)
IPC: B29C48/395
Abstract: 888,864. Mixing and grinding appliances. FRENKEL, W. S. Aug. 25, 1958 [Aug. 23, 1957], No. 26691/57. Classes 59 and 86. A mixing or grinding appliance as arranged for continuous discharge, Fig. 1, comprises a rotor 1 having a diminishing helical thread 7 defining helical grooves 6, rotatable in a stator 2 having an inlet port 3, and discharge ports in an end plate 11. The stator has axial vanes 9 defining grooves 8 and forming a frusto-conical interface 10 with the diminishing helical thread 7. When the rotor is rotated so that the thread conveys material from the inlet to the discharge ports, there is transfer of material from grooves 6 to grooves 8 in such manner as to effect mixing and homogenizing. In a modification, Fig. 3, suitable also as an extruder, the screw thread has a section of opposite hand. In another embodiment for batch mixing, Fig. 2, the rotor is vertical and the material is loaded into the funnel-like extension 13 of the stator. There are no discharge parts and the material undergoes simultaneous 2-way transfer between the grooves. The bottom of the rotor may be spirally grooved and co-operate with radial vanes in the bottom of the stator. Valve means may be provided at 15 or 16 for discharging when mixing is complete. Passages 17, 18 may be provided for a heating or cooling medium. In a modification (Fig. 4, not shown), the apparatus is vertical and the stator open at the ends, and adapted to be mounted in a vessel as a stirrer. In another modification (Fig. 5, not shown), the inner component is the stator and may be integral with the bottom of the vessel. In a further modification (Fig. 6, not shown), the rotor is hollow with inner and outer helical threads and co-operates with an interior and exterior stator. The apparatus may also be arranged as a stirrer with a rotor in disc form having central inlet ports and with spiral grooves co-operating with radial grooves in the stator which may be formed in the bottom of the vessel or pan (Figs. 7, 8, 9 not shown). Adjustment of the rate of mixing may be effected in all arrangements by axial displacement of the rotor.
Patent GB-2230063-A (GB)
Title: Multi-element shaft seal
Inventor: BOWERS NORMAN KENNETH
IPC: F16J15/46
Filed: 1989-04-05
Abstract: A seal assembly for sealing a space between a rotary shaft (44) and a stationary member (10) includes a housing (66) having a bearing (90) that maintains the housing (66) true on the shaft (44). Seal assemblies (103, 105 and 107) axially spaced along the shaft (44) are connected via pressure relief valves (134) (Fig. 2) so that e.g. pressure above a predetermined limit across a first ring (103) passes to a second ring (105) and when the threshold at ring (105) is exceeded, pressure passes to third ring (107). In this way, at high pressures all three seal assemblies (103, 105 and 107) are active. A normally inactive back-up seal (109) may be provided. The seal assembly may be water lubricated. A split lap-jointed structure for a sleeve (110) forming part of the seal assemblies (103 to 109) and the curvature of the sleeve (110) relative to shaft diameter are also described.
Patent GB-2218345-A (GB)
Title: Dodgem car arena
Inventor: GRAY KENNETH
IPC: A63G25/00
Filed: 1989-05-09
Abstract: A fairground dodgem car arena characterised by the features, firstly, that the electrically conductive mesh which forms the ceiling of the arena in use, is divided into sections 18 each of which is hinged to the or each adjacent such section by loops 21, 22 which hold the abutting section edges together; and secondly, that the loops are so sized and fitted that the adjacent sections define a sufficiently flat and substantially uninterrupted surface when the arena is in use, whilst being able to fold down against one another when the arena is taken down out of use. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2221224-A (GB)
Title: Simultaneous electrodeposition of metal and film-forming polymer from a single bath
Inventor: DOROSZKOWSKI ANDREW
IPC: C25D15/02
Filed: 1989-06-06
Abstract: A process for coating an article simultaneously with a metal and film-forming polymer which comprises passing an electric current at a current density of 1 to 35 milliamps cm<-2> between the article as a cathode and a counter-electrode immersed in an aqueous coating composition having an inherent pH of 2.5 to 9.5, comprising:   (a) a dispersion in an aqueous carrier of film-forming polymer having steric stabilising stabilising units and being free from ionic stabilising units the dispersion being one which has a critical coalescence value more negative than -0.3 units and (b) at least 0.06% by weight based on the total composition of one or more zinc, cadmium, cobalt, iron, lead or nickel salts such that the dispersion has a critical coalescence temperature of 35 to 95 DEG C. The film-forming polymer may be an epoxy resin in which the steric stabilising unit comprises a non-ionic hydrophilic moiety derived from a polymer which comprises repeating oxyalkylene units. D
Patent GB-2220543-A (GB)
Title: Multichannel television receiver
Inventor: SUB KIM CHANG
IPC: H04N5/265
Filed: 1989-06-14
Abstract: A multichannel television receiver has the facility for displaying a group of channels (CHK, CHO, CHL, CHP) from the received plurality of channels in picture-in-picture mode. The groups of channels are selectable by paging up or down the channels stored in a skip memory. If a channel contains no signal then the next channel in the skip memory is substituted. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2222865-A (GB)
Title: Drive connection between the flywheel of an internal combustion engine and the housing of a torque converter
Inventor: KREUER MANFRED
IPC: F16H41/24
Filed: 1989-07-13
Abstract: In a drive connection between the flywheel of an internal combustion engine and the housing of a torque converter, having a plurality of flat straps which are arranged parallel to the flywheel and in a tangential direction close to the outer peripheries of the two components and which are alternately joined thereto by screwing, the straps are combined to form an integral, polygonal ring (7) which passes through the fastening points (8 and 9) and the radial dimensions of the straps at the fastening points (8 and 9) being such that in the event of bending alternate-stress loading the bending stress is uniformly distributed along the straps. <IMAGE>