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Patent GB-2462582-A (GB)
Title: Duct support assemblies
Inventor: WHEELER RUSSELL
IPC: F16L3/00
Filed: 2008-07-17
Abstract: A duct support assembly 1 is provided for mounting and supporting a duct 4 on a structure, and comprises a single support bracket 3 adapted to be mounted on the structure, and a duct bracket 5 adapted to be secured to the duct 4. The support bracket 3 and the duct bracket 5 comprise respective mounting means that engage in use to mount and support the duct bracket 5 on the support bracket 3 so as to positively locate the duct bracket 5 on the support bracket 3 in a predetermined fixed position and orientation. The duct support assembly 1 further comprises mounting adjustment means 20, 31 provided to enable the duct 4 and duct bracket 5 to be mounted in a plurality of positions on the support bracket 3, the mounting adjustment means 20, 31 enabling the duct bracket 5 to be mounted in positions towards or away from the support bracket 3. The mounting adjustment means preferably comprise a series of apertures 22 on the support bracket 3 which are aligned with an aperture 31 on the duct bracket 5 before being secured in place by nuts and bolts.
Patent GB-2453028-A (GB)
Title: Strap retractor having an opening that resists twisting of the restraint strap
Inventor: DICK ROGER
IPC: A61G3/08
Filed: 2008-09-11
Abstract: A strap retractor comprises a housing 10, retractor spool 22, a restraint strap 14 wound on the retractor spool and an opening 40 having a device to resist twisting of the restraint strap. The opening may be equal to between two and eight times the thickness of a strap. The housing may be a retractor cover or a barrier hosing. The opening may be provided with at least one guide surface 50, 60, 70, 80 having at least one slope. The guide surfaces can be integrally formed with the retractor housing or can be provided by an insert piece which attaches to the housing. The guide surface may be disposed along an upper wall of the opening and be curvilinear and outwardly diverging. More specifically, the guide surface may have slopes that vary along its length whereby the guide surface is approximately vertical near a leading edge of the guide surface and is approximately horizontal near a trailing edge.
Patent GB-2453642-A (GB)
Title: Security inspection of liquid articles with dual energy CT imaging
Inventor: ZHANG LI
IPC: G01N9/24
Filed: 2008-10-02
Abstract: A method and a device for security-inspection of liquid articles with dual-energy CT imaging. The method comprises the steps of obtaining one or more CT images including physical attributes, such as density and atomic number, of the liquid article to be inspected by CT scanning and a dual-energy reconstruction method; acquiring the physical attributes of each liquid article from the CT image; and determining whether the inspected liquid article is dangerous based on the position of the physical attributes on the image. The computed tomography scanning can be implemented by a normal CT scanning technique, or a spiral CT scanning technique. In the normal CT scanning technique, the scan position can be preset, or set by the operator with a digital radiography image, or set by automatic analysis of the digital radiography image.
Patent GB-2457773-A (GB)
Title: Double walled tower for shaftless vertical axis wind turbine
Inventor: WU GORDON YING SHEUNG
IPC: E04H12/00
Filed: 2008-12-17
Abstract: A shaftless vertical axis wind turbine assembly has a stationary hollow tower core having inner and outer circular walls 5,6 separated by vertical ribs 8 and a void 7. The core has a diameter between 15% and 40% of the assembly diameter. A rotor 19-22 comprising a trussed carousel 23 is rotatably supported about the core and has trussed radially extending rotor arms 26 each having a wind engaging variable pitch aerofoil rotor blade 28 at a distal end. The rotors hang on a stepped ledge 30 or corbelled ring on the tower and are axially supported and radially guided by wheels. A generator (40 Fig. 5), may be gear driven by a toothed carousel ring or may comprise (60, 61 Fig, 6) carousel and core windings as a direct drive machine. The rotor may carry drag type turbine blades to assist starting and the core may house a hydro generation system.
Patent GB-2466307-A (GB)
Title: A net comprising a net body and a plurality of lifting loops formed from at least two materials
Inventor: TRAFFORD STEPHEN MARK
IPC: B66C1/12
Filed: 2008-12-22
Abstract: A net (2, 30) comprising a net body (4, 32) and a plurality of lifting loops (16, 38), wherein the net (2, 30) is formed from at least two materials differing in their relative properties.
Patent GB-2467909-A (GB)
Title: Swimming pool lap timer with an alarm for when an expected lap time is exceeded
Inventor: HODGSON LUKE CHRISTOPHER
IPC: A63B69/12
Filed: 2009-02-12
Abstract: A device for counting laps in a swimming pool with a safety feature which raises an alarm if a swimmer does not trigger the device within a pre-set time period. The device may be triggered by a pad 2 mounted on a swimming pool wall being pressed by a hand or foot. The alarm may comprise a set or warning lights and an audible buzzer and may be linked to a phone or other remote location. The device may also provide information on total time and split times for each lap. In use when turned on the device will provide an alarm if the swimmer is struggling or drowning and therefore doesn't complete a lap within an expected time range.
Patent GB-2457816-A (GB)
Title: Colour control of backlighting system
Inventor: NG JOH JOH
IPC: H05B44/00
Filed: 2009-02-26
Abstract: In an embodiment, the invention provides a method of color control in a backlighting system comprising a plurality of LED light sources (210), a plurality of color sensors (206), a plurality of PWM controllers (218), and a video input for receiving video data. The plurality of light sources is activated during a first operative mode to produce white light. The spectral content of the white light is measured and a first duty cycle ratio calculated and sent to a PWM. The plurality of light sources is controlled during a second operative mode to produce white light. The brightest LED is determined and a second duty cycle ratio is calculated. The method of colour control may be used to dim sections of the backlight to improve contrast and reduce power consumption, it may also be used to change the intensity or colour point of the white light.
Patent GB-2458218-A (GB)
Title: Co-moulded single-piece prosthetic finger joint made from liquid silicone rubber and polyether ether ketone
Inventor: DEVINE JOHN NEIL
IPC: A61F2/00
Filed: 2009-03-13
Abstract: An implantable prosthesis made from first and second materials which may be polyetheretherketone (PEEK) and a silicone rubber. The materials may be injection moulded into unitary finger joints and craniomaxillofacial implants (100, figure 12) in a co-moulding process. An exemplary finger joint has a body 20 made of silicone rubber which defines intramedullary shafts 12, 14 and a hinge portion 22. Regions 24, 26 of the body on opposing sides of hinge 22 are over-moulded with a protective reinforcing sleeve of PEEK. The co-moulding process may utilize heat from the first injected material to cure the second injected material.
Patent GB-2459575-A (GB)
Title: A meat-based snack food product and method of manufacture
Inventor: ROBERTS PETER ELWYN
IPC: A23L13/60
Filed: 2009-05-01
Abstract: A non-fried snack food product in the form of a wafer or crisp is prepared from a cooked emulsion of comminuted meat comprising one or more seasoning agents, vegetable oil and one or more emulsifying agents. The product may contain one or more nutritional additives including fibre, minerals and vitamins. The disclosed method of manufacture includes sequentially mixing comminuted meat with the one or more seasoning agents and with a vegetable oil-in-water emulsion, cooking the emulsion to a core temperature of at least 72°C, chilling, slicing, and further cooking using microwaves or radio-frequency waves. Still further cooking by contact conduction may then be performed. The seasoning agents may comprise salt and alkaline phosphates and polyphosphates. One or more water-binding stabilisers, preferably including carrageenan, and one or more water-binding agents, preferably including a starch, may be added.
Patent GB-2460752-A (GB)
Title: Graphics processing system with first pass to aid command selection
Inventor: COX ANDREW HELGE
IPC: G06T15/40
Filed: 2009-06-05
Abstract: In a graphics processing system 1, a command list reader 3 first reads-in and identifies a portion of a command list. The graphics commands are prepared and stored in memory prior to the commands being executed by a graphics processor. The primitives corresponding to the commands in the portion of the command list are then subjected to a Z-only processing pass. This allows a Z-buffer 16 and a hierarchical Z-pyramid 8 to be filled with the appropriate Z-values for the primitives in the portion of the primitive list. The primitives are then subjected to a second, normal rendering, processing pass, but the filled Z-buffer 16 and Z-pyramid 8 from the first processing pass are used together with the Z-tests 7, 10 performed in the second processing pass to determine which primitive should be processed for each sampling point in the second processing pass.
Patent GB-2471837-A (GB)
Title: A membrane electrode assembly with a iridium coated membrane
Inventor: HYDE KRISTIAN
IPC: C25B9/23
Filed: 2009-07-10
Abstract: A membrane electrode assembly (MEA) comprising a membrane coated with a layer of iridium. The coating may be applied by forming an ink from iridium powder and applying the ink to the anodic side of the membrane using an airbrush. The MEA with the iridium coated membrane had improved performance when compared with an MEA with an iridium oxide coated member.
Patent GB-2474080-A (GB)
Title: Rotor with variable helix blades
Inventor: SAEED OSMAN
IPC: B64C11/00
Filed: 2009-10-05
Abstract: A wind turbine generator or propeller rotor comprises a support having first and second rotating members coupled thereto for rotation about a common axis. One or more flexible blades are mounted one end on the first member and another end on the second to rotate about the axis. Actuating means e.g. gearing and motor or linear actuator cause the relative member rotation such that the blades coil around the common axis and the ends of each blade to move closer together by e.g. a telescopic or resilient mast or by sliding along the common axis. Alternatively directly twisting the blades may cause relative rotation and axial movement of the members. There may be a restraining ring between the blade ends for blade support, deformation control and to shield a fully coiled rotor. May be a vertical or horizontal axis machine. Allows pitch change, output control and storm protection.
Patent GB-2461678-A (GB)
Title: Method and system for exchanging NRTRDE files between a visited network and a home network in real time
Inventor: JIANG JOHN YUE JUN
IPC: H04W92/24
Filed: 2008-05-19
Abstract: The present invention provides a method for facilitating exchange of roaming information between a first gateway and either a Near Real Time Roaming Data Exchange (NRTRDE) agent or second gateway in real time. The method includes obtaining, by a first gateway associated with the VPMN, one or more event parameters in real time from mobile communication of the VPMN's inbound roamer coming from the HPMN. The method further includes generating the roaming information at the first gateway in real time, using one or more obtained event parameters such that the generated roaming information is comprehendible to either an NRTRDE agent associated with the VPMN or a third party vendor, or a second gateway associated with the HPMN. The method further includes providing the roaming information by the first gateway to either the NRTRDE agent or the second gateway in real time.
Patent GB-936627-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to ship stabilizer control systems
Inventor: FOLL JOHN VICTOR
IPC: B63B39/14
Filed: 1960-03-22
Abstract: 936,627. Automatic stabilization systems for ships. MUIRHEAD & CO. Ltd. Feb. 24, 1961 [March 22, 1960], No. 10157/60. Class 38 (4). In a ship roll or pitch stabilizer control system the algebraic sum of signals derived from potentiometers across generators producing electrical signals linearly proportional to components of roll or pitch is applied to a control amplifier. In Fig. 1 an electrical signal linearly related to the roll angle of a ship is produced by an induction regulator 1 adjusted by a gyro vertical 2. This signal is opposed by the output of an induction regulator 8 driven through reduction gearing 11 by a servomotor 5 controlled by the difference between the signals from induction regulators 1 and 8 so that the difference signal represents the roll angle relative to the mean roll angle. This signal is applied to a potentiometer 13. A signal proportional to rate of roll is produced across a potentiometer 17 from an induction regulator 14 adjusted by a roll rate gyro 16. This signal is also applied to control a velocitydamped follow-up type servomotor 20 which drives a tachometer generator 21 producing a signal proportional to roll acceleration across a potentiometer 22. The signals from potentiometers 13, 17, 22 proportional to roll angle, rate, and acceleration respectively, are combined in suitable proportions, according to the settings of the potentiometers, and applied to a magnetic, thermionic or transistor amplifier 29 controlling stabilizers (not shown) such as fins. The fins operate an induction regulator 26 to produce a positive feedback signal, dependent on fin angle, across a potentiometer 28. This signal is applied to the input of amplifier 29 together with the output of a potentiometer 25 supplied by an induction regulator 23 operated by the ship's steering gear (not shown) to reduce heeling during turn. In a modification the roll acceleration signal is produced by a pair of accelerometers, one on each side of the ship.
Patent GB-1032293-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to anodic metal dissolution
Inventor: HERENGUEL JEAN
IPC: C25F5/00
Filed: 1963-03-14
Abstract: A protective copper coating on an article of zirconium or a zirconium-base alloy is removed by anodic dissolution in an aqueous bath containing copper and sulphate ions.  Preferably the bath contains 50 to 200 g/l CuSo4 and 25 to 100 g/l H2SO4, at a temperature of 20 DEG  to 30 DEG C, the electrolyzing voltage is 0.5 to 10v, the cathode is one or more wire or expanded metal grids, the cathode current density is 0.5 to 1 A/sq.dm., and the cathode-anode surface ratio is from 0.1 to 10.  If the article is a tube or of re-entrant form a cathode may be inserted into the re-entrant space while if it is of elongated form it may be formed into a speral for treatment.  The copper removed from the article is cathodically deposited.  After removal of the copper coating continued electrolysis results in the formation on the article of an anodized oxide coating of zirconium without appreciable dissolution of zirconium or any interdiffusion alloy formed with the copper coating. Reference is made to removing copper coating from a zirconium alloy containing less than 6% of uranium.
Patent GB-289626-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in tools for stripping insulation from electric wires
IPC: H02G1/12
Filed: 1927-04-14
Abstract: 289,626. Selley, W. April 14, 1927. Cutters and tongs.-A cutter for stripping insulation from electric wires is provided with jaws 4 having notches 9 to receive the wire core and arcuate notches 8 tapering to form cutting edges while the cuter parts of the edges are of normal thickness to abut against each other and form a stop. The jaws may be at the ends of spring arms 2 or on crossed arms. The jaws may be made to cut with a scissors action, the cutting edges then being arcuate and tapering, Fig. 5.
Patent GB-683714-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in portable electric battery lamps
IPC: F21Y101/00
Filed: 1950-04-26
Abstract: 683,714. Electric battery lamps. DENNY, C. W. April 23, 1951 [April 26, 1950], No. 10252/50. Class 75(iv) In a lamp of the kind provided with a tubular light - transmitting sleeve which is slidable axially relative to a bulb and associated reflector and provided along its length with two or more coloured portions for transmitting light of different colours, e.g. for signalling, the sleeve d, d' is slidably mounted within an aperture at the centre of the front glass or lens f<SP>1</SP> of the lamp and operated by a direct push or pull upon a flange or knob k. The lens is preferably made of transparent plastic material. Outward movement of the sleeve is limited by a lateral stud f on the portion behind the lens. Two degrees of inward movement are obtained by providing the flange k with an aperture e<SP>1</SP>, and the lens with a projecting stud or stop e, so that by rotating the sleeve to align the aperture with the stop the full inward movement of the sleeve is obtained and the green portion thereof Jsurrounds the bulb c, otherwise the inward movement is limited by the stop e and the red portion of the sleeve surrounds the bulb. A white light is. obtained by withdrawing the sleeve to the position shown in the drawing. The surface c<SP>1</SP> of the half of the bulb remote from the lamp cap is silvered and painted to prevent stray light from the bulb entering the sleeve.
Patent GB-1403667-A (GB)
Title: Lens holders
IPC: A45C11/00
Filed: 1973-03-02
Abstract: 1403667 Contact lens cases MCD CORP 2 March 1973 [3 March 1972] 10306/73 Heading G2J A lens holder for a pair of contact lenses is made of plastics material and comprises a base 12 with convex surfaces on opposite sides and having a reduced extension carrying pins defining a pivot axis; two identical cover members 14 each carry two projections which can be hooked under the pins and a further projection for locking the cover member to the base, so that the lenses may be held between the base and the cover members with the lateral edges of the cover members aligned with each other. The convex areas of the base 12 are grooved, and the cover members 14 are perforated. The reduced extension of the base fits into a cap 16 which can be screwed to a container 18 for saline solution; the assembly can then be suspended in boiling water to sterilize the lenses. The cover members 14 cannot be separated from the base 12 while the latter is secured to the cap 16.
Patent GB-527192-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in self-starting synchronous motors
IPC: H02K3/28
Filed: 1939-04-03
Abstract: 527,192. Windings for dynamo electric machines. BARRACLOUGH, E., and MOSSAY, P. A. H. April 3, 1939, No. 10379. Addition to 481,504. [Class 35] In a self-starting synchronous motor with a double layer secondary winding having three phases E1, E2, D; El, E2 being the exciting windings and D serving as a damping winding, the relative arrangement of the groups of coils belonging to the respective phases on or about the periphery entails the sequence El, E2, DE2, E1, D - E1, E2, D and so on in the upper layer and E2, E1, D - E, E2, D - E2, E1, D &c. in the lower layer, D being the damping winding and E1, E2 the exciting windings of the secondary member of a motor. In the form shown, the upper row of references denotes the upper layer and the lower row the lower layer the sequences being as specified above. The winding shown is for a 2-pole machine having coils of full pitch of 180 electrical degrees and adapted for 3-phase star connection, the exciting winding being so connected that the effect is that of a coil pitch of <SP>2</SP>/ 3  full pitch, i.e., 120 electrical degrees, but the zones occupied by the conductors in each group need not be equal. Thus, that of the damping phase may be less or more than and that of each of the exciting windings more or less than 60 electrical degrees. Such a machine can be connected to a standard 3-phase slipring inductor motor starter so that part of the secondary binding gives the maximum excitation and part gives the maximum damping in synchronous running and assists synchronization at starting.
Patent GB-635715-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to voltmeters incorporating dry-plate rectifying devices
IPC: G01R19/22
Filed: 1947-04-18
Abstract: 635,715. Voltmeters. GENERAL ELECTRIC CO., Ltd., and REIK, H. April 18, 1947, No. 10384. [Class 37] In an A.C. voltmeter having a resistance R2 in series with a rectifier 1 and a moving coil instrument 8, the resistance R2 is shunted by a condenser C2, the value of which is such that for one particular value of voltage there is substantially no error in the reading of the voltmeter caused by the -variation in reactance with frequency of the portion of the self capacity of the rectifier 1 which shunts the instrument 8. The value of the condenser C2 is such that with a known resistance for the rectifier 1 at a chosen fraction of full scale deflection the product of the self-capacitance of the rectifier 1 and the sum of this known resistance and the resistance of the instrument 8 is substantially equal to the product of the capacitance of the condenser C2 and the resistance R2. A number of resistances R2, each shunted by its appropriate condenser C2, may be arranged so that they may be selectively connected to provide a number of different voltage ranges. The rectifier 1 consists of four dry-plate rectifying elements connected in a full wave bridge rectifier network. One diagonal 2, 3 is connected in series with the resistance R2 to a pair of terminals 6, 7 to which the alternating voltage to be measured is applied, the moving coil instrument 8 being connected across the other diagonal 4, 5.
Patent GB-1499931-A (GB)
Title: Apparatus for yarn crimping
IPC: D02G1/12
Filed: 1975-03-12
Abstract: 1499931 Sluffer - box crimper KLING - TECS INC 12 March 1975 [13 March 1974] 10385/75 Heading D1F A stuffer box crimping head comprises a crimp site 10, a plug guiding area defined by opposing surfaces 11 for contacting opposite sides of the plug to establish its lateral width, pressure shoes 16 mounted laterally outwardly of and downstream of the guiding area on each side thereof and means for moving the downstream ends of shoes 16 towards the yarn plug to apply a constant pressure to the plug at the downstream ends of .the pressure shoes only. The shoes 16 are pivoted at 20 to the front and rear walls 12, 13 and at 25 to links 26 which are in turn pivotably connected at 27 to piston rod 28 via vertically sliding block 30. The pressure in air cylinder 42 is maintained constant. The yarn is fed by rolls R to crimp site 10 to impact against the upstream end of the yarn plug. Back plate 40 and front plate 60 of plug gathering area 50 are spaced further apart than the walls 11 of the guiding area and are upwardly diverging to avoid back pressure on the yarn plug. Openings 65 are provided for photocells to sense the leading end of the yarn plug and provide signals to vary the speed of yarn take-up mechanisms alternatively or additionally switch 70, operated by spade 71 may control the take-up mechanism as the leading end of the yarn plug lifts the end of spade 71. With 25p.s.i. pressure in cylinder 42. resulting in 8p.s.i. pressure of shoes 16 or the yarn plug yarns of 2720, 2100, 1500 and 760 denier were found to be crimped to 18.4, 20.1, 23 and 27.8, crimps per inch respectively. It is therefor postulated that should the yarn denier increase or decrease during a run the crimp level mould decrease or increase respectively. A more uniform varn in which increased crimping compensates for reduced denier and vice versa should thus result.