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Patent GB-2183259-A (GB)
Title: Friction spinning apparatus
Inventor: CLOUGH DOUGLAS OWEN
IPC: D01H4/26
Filed: 1986-09-23
Abstract: A friction spinning unit includes a pair of cylindrical friction spinning rollers of which one (1) has an air nozzle 8 mounted adjacent to its periphery and able to discharge a current of air along the surface of that roller (1) so as to move any unwanted fibres which may be on the surface of said roller (1). The air jet from the nozzle (8) may provide a pneumatic barrier to hold fibres away from an annular passage between a surrounding shroud (7) and the outer foraminous sleeve (3) of the foraminous roller (1), and/or the air jet may be used to clear a fibrous slub from the spinning nip in the event of such a slub forming after a yarn break. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2182889-A (GB)
Title: Proofing presses
Inventor: GRAHAM KENNETH
IPC: B41F9/04
Filed: 1986-09-29
Abstract: A proof-press for web material comprises:-   (a) a printing station 3 at which a printing nip may be established   (b) pay-off roll means 1 upstream of the printing station and associated with adjustable tension control means (e.g. a torque control motor) for maintaining a substantially constant web tension between the pay-off roll and the nip; and (c) take-up roll means 5 downstream of the printing station and associated with tensioning means for maintaining web tension between the nip and the take-up means.   Register control for the second and subsequent print runs is achieved by measuring the print repeat length on the web, measuring the circumference of the printing cylinder to be used, and then adjusting the tension control means associated with pay-off roll 1 so that the web 2 is stretched or relaxed to ensure in-register printing. As described, the tension between the pay-off roll and the nip may be of the same order as that between the nip and the take-up roll,whereby transport of the web is effected by driving at the nip. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2184523-A (GB)
Title: Vehicle parking brakes
Inventor: YAMAZAKI TAKEO
IPC: B60T7/06
Filed: 1986-10-29
Abstract: An operation mechanism for a parking brake pedal 10 rotatably mounted on a stationary structure 51 in a vehicle compartment is connected to a parking brake (not shown). A cylinder type air damper is interposed between the structure 51 and the pedal 10 to dampen the return of the pedal from its depressed position. The air damper includes a cylinder body 41, a piston 43 axially slidably disposed within the cylinder body to subdivide the interior of the cylinder body into front and rear air chambers R1, R2, a piston rod 42 having one end integral with the piston and extending outwardly from the cylinder body through the rear air chamber in an air-tight manner, a throttle element 46 disposed in the piston for permitting therethrough a flow of air between the air chambers, and an annular member 49 of elastomeric material disposed within the rear air chamber in such a manner as to permit axial movement of the piston rod and to reduce the capacity of the rear air chamber R1 as small as possible when the piston is in its backward stroke end, and is useful to absorb the impact. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2183061-A (GB)
Title: A fuel injection device for internal combustion engines
Inventor: THOMA FRANK
IPC: F02M59/36
Filed: 1986-11-14
Abstract: A fuel injection device with a pump 2 for air compressing injection type internal combustion engines has a pump plunger 12 actuated by engine camshaft 9, 10 and having no chamfer control provision, and an electromagnetic switching valve 3. Control device 4 controls the valve 3 in response engine speed, load and markings 14 such that after a control pulse triggered by the crankshaft 6 the timing and quantity of injection is determined. The arrangement may be used with engines having an odd or even number of cylinders. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2197292-A (GB)
Title: Marker sleeve applicator tool
Inventor: MILLARD ARTHUR ERNEST
IPC: H01B13/34
Filed: 1986-11-14
Abstract: A marker sleeve applicator tool for attaching an identification marker sleeve to an electric wire end, comprises a magazine 3 having tubes 6 storing strips of partially connected marker sleeves (14, Fig. 2) and hand rotatable relative to a body 2 about a spindle 4, and a member 9 pivoted about an axis 11 by a trigger 12 and having an orifice 13 that receives and grips a selected sleeve when orifice 13 is adjacent the periphery of body 2, pivoting of member 9 to locate orifice 13 adjacent the spindle 4 tearing the sleeve held in the orifice from the strip, the wire end then being pushed into the orifice so as to be gripped by the sleeve. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2183483-A (GB)
Title: Pressure sore device
Inventor: BLOTT PATRICK LEWIS
IPC: A61F13/15
Filed: 1986-11-20
Abstract: A device for the prophylaxis of pressure sores associated with the trochanter is described. The device comprises two flexible elastomeric compartments which contain a liquid and which are attached to a body contacting film. The volume of the first compartment is from 80 to 150 ml and is preferably in the shape of a segment of a circle, the volume of the second compartment is from 80 to 160 ml and is preferably U-shaped. By arranging the open end of the U-shape compartment to be adjacent to the straight portion of the segment-shaped compartment, the device is effective in spreading the pressure of a patient lying on the device evenly over the trochanter and the surrounding area and also reducing the overall pressure. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2187474-A (GB)
Title: Method for determining microbe concentration by means of the plating method and dishes used therein
Inventor: NORDLUND VILJO TAPIO JUHANI
IPC: C12M1/34
Filed: 1987-02-18
Abstract: A method is provided for the determination of microbe concentrations by means of a plating method, wherein a sample and a medium are plated in a dish, the medium is allowed to solidify and the solidified plate is incubated, wherein the colonies in the plate are counted. According to the method the microbes are inoculated to a medium solidifying in a dish and in such a manner that its layer thickness varies in a controlled manner. A dish is provided which is suitable for the determination of microbe concentrations by means of a plating method and the bottom part of which has such a shape that a solidified layer is formed in the dish after the plating of the sample and the medium, the thickness of the layer varying in a controlled manner. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2190047-A (GB)
Title: Bridges
Inventor: TOMPKINS ARTHUR CHARLES
IPC: E01D15/14
Filed: 1987-05-22
Abstract: A flexible bridge 16 spanning two relatively movable units 9. 12, e.g. pontoons, comprises a plurality of longitudinal members 47 disposed in side by side relation to form a vehicle transportation surface and having means 54 at each end connecting the members to the units which allow relative movement therebetween. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2191087-A (GB)
Title: Apparatus for use in making spring units
Inventor: HOLLAND LAWRENCE
IPC: B21F27/16
Filed: 1987-06-03
Abstract: A known kind of spring unit, for use in mattresses etc., is made as an assembly of spring bands (7, 8, 9) which are disposed side by side and linked together by transverse helical wires (6A, 6B). Each spring band comprises a length of wire bent to form a row of springs (1). An integral connector (2) interconnects each pair of adjacent springs. In a known form of apparatus for assembling a spring unit, spring bands are fed intermittently past a linking station (13) where locating jaws (10, 11) engage portions (3) of the bands and drive means (14) is operative to cause two parallel helical wires to travel axially across the band while rotating, to link those portions together. The invention provides such apparatus in which there is a trimming station downstream of the linking station. Here, end portions of the helical wires are trimmed off, and the trimmed ends are bent back, by combined trimming and bending devices (21 to 24).
Patent GB-2193781-A (GB)
Title: Screen assembly
Inventor: WILSON MERVYN
IPC: G09F15/00
Filed: 1987-07-23
Abstract: A display assembly (Fig. l) comprises a plurality of panels (l) joined together by elongate connecting members (2, 3). Each panel has a removable frame formed by extrusions (6) in each of which is a slot (l3) having a restricted entrance (Fig. 2). Each connecting member (2, 3) has two heads (l8) which can be slid into slots (l3) in adjacent panels (l), from one end, to join the panels together, each head being too wide to pass through the restricted entrance of the slot. A central body portion (20) of the connecting member, to which the heads (l8) are joined, is positioned between, and extends outwards between, adjacent panels to facilitate access to the connecting member and enable the screen assembly to be dismantled easily. A longitudinal slot (50), (Figs. 2l to 23), can be provided in a part of the body (20) that is accessible between connected panels, to enable components such as shelf-supporting brackets to be secured to the screen assembly. To increase the versatility of the assembly, a variety of connecting members (Figs. 4 to l2) can be provided, enabling panels to be joined together in a common plane or in planes inclined to one another and in one or more tiers, and the assembly can also include panels connected together by poles (34) and clips (35) (Fig. l6). The connecting members (2, 3) can be extended components and may be of hollow cylindrical construction (Figs. l0 and ll).
Patent GB-2197984-A (GB)
Title: Cadmium mercury telluride photodiode
Inventor: KNOWLES PETER
IPC: H01L31/109
Filed: 1987-10-01
Abstract: A CMT photodiode is formed by bonding to a silicon chip (2) an epitaxially grown CMT pn-junction (1). A hole (8) is formed through the junction layers (9, 10) by ion-etching, which converts the p-type region of the inner surface of the hole to n-type, and exposes a metal contact pad (6) on the silicon substrate. A homojunction is thus formed in parallel with the heterojunction. The invention enables the use of high quality grown junctions in CMT photodetectors. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2237684-A (GB)
Title: Mixer circuit for antenna
Inventor: MCEWEN COLIN DOUGAL
IPC: H01Q9/26
Filed: 1988-01-21
Abstract: A diode ring mixer has two input ports coupled to respective folded dipole antennas, 40, 41 the output port being provided by centre-taps of the folded dipoles. In one embodiment the dipoles are disposed in orthogonal relationship on a semiconductor substrate, the mixer being implemented by diode ring integrated in the substrate. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2215191-A (GB)
Title: Camping table
Inventor: TOWNSEND PETER JAMES
IPC: A47B9/00
Filed: 1988-02-24
Abstract: A camping table comprises a top 1 which is supported by an individual adjustable lockable pivotable telescopic leg assembly 2,3,4,5,6 suitably located and secured on the underside of the top 1 in each of the four corners. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2201877-A (GB)
Title: Coextensively aligning jerky
Inventor: SCAGLIONE FELICE
IPC: A23L13/60
Filed: 1988-03-02
Abstract: Lengthwise coextensively aligning jerky which has fiberous portions aligned generally parallel to the length of the jerky is prepared by extruding an alignable meat dough through an appropriately-sized loaf horn and/or a directional flow bar extruder under conditions such that fibers in the dough are in general coextensively aligned, preparing the fiber-aligning dough into cuttable jerky, for example, by freezing, and cutting the jerky first generally perpendicular to the axis of flow then generally parallel to the axis of flow. Drying can be carried out for example in an oven. The resulting lengthwise coextensively aligning jerky typically has a generally rugged, natural-like appearance and feel. The procedure can be highly efficient especially with employment of a directional flow bar extruder of, say, twenty or more inches in width. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2215601-A (GB)
Title: Beauty preparations having anti-fading effect and a process for preparing the same
Inventor: JUHOS TIBOR
IPC: A61K8/41
Filed: 1988-03-24
Abstract: Cosmetic preparations having sun-screening effect comprise elder-blossom extract as active ingredient in admixture with usual cosmetic diluents and/or carriers and optionally with p-dimethylamino benzoic acid 2-ethyl-hexylester.
Patent GB-2204497-A (GB)
Title: Electrode assembly for transdermal drug delivery
Inventor: POWERS WHITNEY R
IPC: A61N1/18
Filed: 1987-11-06
Abstract: A novel electrode and electrode assembly (4a, 10a, 20a, 4b, 10b, 20b) which preferably uses alternating and direct electrical energy (2) for transdermal delivery of pharmacologically active ligands and for stimulation of tissues in vivo. Methods and systems are also disclosed which allow a broad range of therapeutic agents to be transmitted to tissues and organs superficially or deep within the body.
Patent GB-2220808-A (GB)
Title: Power amplifying arrangement
Inventor: HART PETER JAMES
IPC: H04B7/005
Filed: 1988-07-15
Abstract: A power amplifying arrangement which amplifies pulse envelope signals in a manner which avoids the generation of transient sidebands and interference on adjacent channels. The arrangement comprises means (44,46,48,54) for generating a reference waveform corresponding to a predetermined desired shape, for example raised cosine, of the output power from a power amplifier (34). A power sensor (36) is provided for sensing the output of the power amplifier (34) and for producing a voltage which follows the envelope of the RF signal. This voltage is compared with the reference waveform in a comparator (58). The differences between the signals at the inputs (56,60) to the comparator (58) are used to control the output power of the amplifier (34). Applications for such a power amplifying arrangement are in TDMA digital signalling systems such as cellular telephone systems in which not only is it desired to minimise the generation of unwanted transient sidebands and interference on adjacent channels but also the output power can be set to one of a number of predetermined output levels. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2223678-A (GB)
Title: Automated supply and control of sterilizing vapour
Inventor: COLES TIMOTHY PAUL
IPC: A61L2/20
Filed: 1988-08-25
Abstract: When supplying a sterilizing vapour to an isolator, a variety of agents is available and most are best presented to the isolator in the gas phase with a concentration around 5 to 10 gm/kg and a Relative Humidity (RH) of 90%. Apparatus that evaporates and mixes the agent already exists, but is very slow in operation since it produces only small volumes of vapour at low concentration. A novel system of supply and control of the sterilizing vapour is disclosed which produces the desired vapour efficiently, safely and cheaply. Firstly the invention measures the temperature and relative humidity (RH) of a carrier gas (e.g. air) and then feeds sterilizing solution at an appropriate rate to an evaporation chamber (where it is evaporated into and mixed with the carrier gas to form a sterilizing vapour that is fed into the isolator) so as to achieve a high but "safe" (usually around 90%) RH in the isolator. Secondly, the invention simultaneously computes the "time to kill" required by the resulting concentration of sterilant inside the isolator. The sterilizing vapour is pumped to the isolator for the computed time after which the sterilant supply is replaced by sterile air only, thus purging the system of sterilizing vapour residues.
Patent GB-2224496-A (GB)
Title: Vending machine
Inventor: ORMES UNCAN GRAHAM
IPC: G07F11/20
Filed: 1988-10-29
Abstract: A vending machine has a chute (11) for retaining a stack (12) of articles to be vended, such as packets of cigarettes and beneath each stack (12) is a vending carrier (13) which is movable between a rest position where it lies beneath the stack (12) and a vend position (13a) wherein it supports a lowermost article to be vended in a position laterally spaced from the chute (11), means being provided to restrain movement of the supported article from the vend position back towards the stack upon movement of the carrier (13) from the vend position (13a) to the rest position (13) enabling the carrier to be concealed and unavailable for access by users; the article (18a) is not dropped to retrieval location (24) until rod (14) has been moved back to position (28) from (28a), the article then falling off the cylindrical rod (14). <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2215774-A (GB)
Title: Lock striker with handle
Inventor: BOECKX JACOBUS
IPC: E05B63/24
Filed: 1989-02-13
Abstract: A lock striker consists of a front plate (2) with which the lock striker (1) can be secured in a door (34), a housing (5-8) which defines a space (35) in which the lockbolt (10), of a safety lock (11) built into the surrounding wall of the door or doorpost, can be received to bolt the door and means allowing for the wall or plate (8) of the housing (5-8) to slide in order to open aforementioned space (35) on one side (Fig 8) and to allow release of the lockbolt from the striker even when the lockbolt is extended. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2228989-A (GB)
Title: Apparatus for maintaining a desired temperature in a chamber
Inventor: GAILIS EMILS
IPC: F25D31/00
Filed: 1989-03-11
Abstract: Apparatus (10) for maintaining a desired temperature in a chamber (12) defined by said apparatus, wherein the apparatus comprises means (14) isolated from said chamber, heating means (16, 17), first fluid drive means (26) to drive fluid along a first fluid path, such that said fluid being driven along said first fluid path is cooled by said cooling means, and second fluid drive means (28) to drive fluid along a second fluid path (24), such that said fluid being driven along said second fluid path is heated by said heating means. The first fluid path and said second fluid path are arranged so that the fluid being driven along said paths is discharged into said chamber. The apparatus also comprises control means adapted to sense the temperature in the chamber and selectively to operate said first and second fluid drive means to achieve said desired temperature. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2231096-A (GB)
Title: Pumping mechanism for dispensing lotion in bottle/container
Inventor: CHIEN SMILEY
IPC: B65D47/34
Filed: 1989-04-26
Abstract: A pumping mechanism for a bottled lotion is designed to prevent lotion from flowing out of the bottle if the bottle is inadvertently turned over. The pumping mechanism includes a hollow cylindrical body member (20) for fitting to the bottle, a piston member (40) slidable in the body and having a hollow operating rod (50), a hollow pressing member (80) attached to the rod (50), an inlet ball valve (26) to a working chamber (21), an upper outlet valve member (31), and a compression spring disposed in the working chamber (21). When the pressing member (80) and operating rod (50) are pressed downward, a shoulder (53) of the rod (50) engages a winged extension 32 of the upper valve member (31) thereby disengaging it from sealing engagement with the piston member (40). Continued movement of the rod causes its bottom end (55) to seal against the upper surface of the piston member and cause the latter to perform a pumping stroke. Thus lotion in the working chamber (21) flows between the piston and valve members into the hollow rod 5 and is delivered through the pressing member (80). <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2220656-A (GB)
Title: Plant fungicidal azoles
Inventor: WORTHINGTON PAUL ANTHONY
IPC: C07D521/00
Filed: 1989-06-27
Abstract: Novel compounds having plant fungicidal activity have the general formula:   <IMAGE> wherein R<1> is C1-6alkyl (when R<5> is other than H) or is -C IDENTICAL C-R<7> or -CR<8>=CR<9>R<10> in which R<7> to R<10> are H, C1-4alkyl, C2-4 alkenyl, C2-4alkynyl or halogen; R<2> is H, C1-6alkyl, C3-6alkenyl, C3-6alkynyl; R<3> to R<6> are H, C1-4alkyl, C2-4alkenyl, C2-4 alkynyl; X, Y and Z are H, halogen, alkyl, haloalkyl, cycloalkyl, cycloalkylalkyl, alkenyl, alkynyl, aryl, aralkyl, alkoxy, aryloxy or aralkoxy; Az is imidazol-l-yl or 1,2,4-triazol-l-yl provided that when R<3> and R<4> are both methyl, R<5> and R<6> are both hydrogen and Az is 1,2,4-triazol-l-yl then R<1> is not -C IDENTICAL C-alkyl, and provided that when R<3> and R<4> are both alkyl, R<5> is hydrogen and R<6> is one of alkyl, alkenyl or alkynyl then R<8>, R<9> and R<10> are not all hydrogen, or are stereoisomers, salts or metal complexes thereof. Novel intermediates used in the preparation of the fungicidal compounds have the formula:   <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2221363-A (GB)
Title: A channel display circuit for distinguishing the presence or absence of a signal at a satellite-broadcast receiver
Inventor: CHO SEONG-JAE
IPC: H04N5/50
Filed: 1989-07-04
Abstract: This invention provides a channel display circuit for indicating the presence or absence of a channel signal at a satellite-broadcast receiver. The circuit includes the conventional channel tuning unit (1) which is driven by the output of MICOM (9). The conventional IF signal AGC AMP 2 and IF signal level detector (3) are also used. However, in addition there is provided an FM signal detector (5) which receives an input from the IF amplifier (2), a video signal processor (6) which receives signals from the FM detector (5), a signal presence detector (8) which receives signals from the video signal processor (6) and which outputs signals to the MICOM (9), and a display generator (7) which receives inputs from the video signal processor (6) and the MICOM (9) to generate a display indicating individual channels and the presence or absence of a signal therefor. 
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Patent GB-2411438-A (GB)
Title: Ramjets
Inventor: CHEVALIER ALAIN
IPC: F02K9/24
Filed: 1989-10-12
Abstract: Ramjet (3) comprising a combustion chamber (10) terminated by a gas discharge nozzle (13), a cruising propulsion unit (11) introducing a fluid fuel to the interior of the said combustion chamber and at least one air duct (4) for introducing into the said combustion chamber air intended for the combustion of the said fuel. According to the invention, this ramjet is characterised in that it comprises a rigid tubular element (7) of which the interior volume is separated into two spaces (9, 10) by an intermediate transverse partition (8), one of the said spaces (9) serving to accommodate the said cruising propulsion unit (11), while the other (10) serves to accommodate the said combustion chamber (13, 14), passages (12) being formed in the said intermediate transverse partition (8) for the introduction of the fluid fuel into the said combustion chamber (10) and the said air duct being fixed on the said tubular element to introduce the combustion air through the tubular wall of the said tubular element (7).
Patent GB-899419-A (GB)
Abstract: 899,419. Sparking plugs. STACKPOLE CARBON CO. March 15, 1961 [Aug. 11, 1960], No. 9443/61. Class 7(4). A sparking plug comprising a tubular porcelain core 1 and an electrical resistor 8 disposed between a terminal 7 and an electrode 3 is characterized by a filling 12 of viscous dielectric material which has a high viscosity at both high and low temperatures in a chamber housing the resistor and excluding all air from the end contacts 9 to prolong the useful life of the resistor. The dielectric material may be grease, viscous synthetic plastic, oil or a dielectric gel. The resistor 8 may be a carbonaceous member. The contacts 9 may be of metal sold under the Registered Trade Mark "Monel" or "Nickel".
Patent GB-2229620-A (GB)
Title: Sweetening compositions comprising sucralose and isomaltulose
Inventor: BEYTS PAMELA KAY
IPC: A23L27/30
Filed: 1990-03-23
Abstract: Sweetening synergy is is obtained by combining sucralose and isomaltulose.