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Patent GB-2106766-A (GB)
Title: Harvesting
Inventor: HOYTE JOHN GRAHAME
IPC: A01D47/00
Filed: 1981-09-03
Abstract: A method and device for use during harvesting in order to sever and collect heads of weeds standing above the crop level, wherein a cutting bar (18) is mounted on a frame (16) attached to the pick-up reel support (12) of the harvester, so that said cutting bar (18) lies at a level above the crop (24) but below the weed heads (26), and a collector (20) is provided beneath the cutting bar (18) to collect the severed weed heads. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2084366-A (GB)
Title: Decoding Apparatus for a Variable Length Code
IPC: H03M7/42
Filed: 1981-09-15
Abstract: An apparatus for decoding a variable length code for a so-called "code tree" comprises an input terminal 27 for serially supplied code signals, a table memory 16 which has respective store areas for data corresponding to terminal locations and to intermediate locations on the code tree. The least significant bit B1 of data from the memory 16 indicates whether the data is intermediate or terminal data. A detector circuit 12 is responsive to a terminal data indication by the bit B1 to cause data from the memory 16 to be supplied to an output 31 by way of selector devices 21, 29, and in the absence of the terminal data indication to supply data from the memory 16 to an adder 22 wherein succeeding bits of the serial input at terminal 27 are added to provide a new address for the memory 16. The number of input bits from 27 to be added in is determined by a value preset into a counter 24 from above as shown. Bit B2 indicates the weighting to be given to the bits B3 to B8, in the presence of a terminal data indication by bit B1, one state of bit B2 causing the device 29 to apply bits B3 to B8 to the most significant locations of the output 31. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2083886-A (GB)
Title: Fenders
IPC: E02B3/26
Filed: 1981-09-15
Abstract: A fender, for protecting a vehicle or a vessel such as a barge, has a central portion (4) comprising a spirally wound strip of resilient material, which may be in the form of spent motor vehicle tyres, together with means of attachment (2, 3) to the vessel or vehicle e.g. chains or ropes and an outer covering e.g. plastic knitted rope or plastics. The fenders may also have one or more arms extending from the central portion (4) e.g. diametrically opposite each other. Also capping pieces (9) may be attached to opposing end faces of the central portion (4). Two central portions (4) may be mounted end to end and their rigidity maintained by e.g. a rod housed centrally within the fender and/or strips of material mounted along the external surface of the fender. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2109598-A (GB)
Title: Controlling electronic devices
Inventor: KIHARA NOBUTOSHI
IPC: H03J1/00
Filed: 1981-11-04
Abstract: An electronic device, such as a video tape recorder 23, is set into a desired, but complex mode, such as automatic recording of a desired programme, by manual scanning with an optical scanning instrument 10 of one or more code groups printed on a selection card 19. Respective selection cards 19 have code groups thereon for selecting, for example, mode, channel, day of the week, recording start time (including AM or PM), and recording end time. Code signals provided from the scanning instrument 10 are processed in a data processing circuit 22, such as a microprocessor, and included in the VTR 23 to provide control signals to the VTR 23 in response to information contained in the scanned code groups. Alternatively, a combination of an FM receiver and high fidelity audio recorder can be set into an auto record mode or other complex operating mode by scanning of selection cards 19. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-814389-A (GB)
Abstract: 814,389. Calculating-apparatus. CROWE, S. G. May 26, 1955 [Oct. 28, 1954], No. 31122/54. Class 106 (1). A device for determining the fertile period in women comprises a base disc 11 (Fig. 5), having its outermost part divided radially into fiftysix compartments, a range of which bear numbers 21-39, and a further compartment 13 is distinguished, e.g. by the colour of its defining radii. On this disc is placed concentrally a time table disc 1 which is divided radially in the same way as the base disc and bears on each of six concentric annular portions the days of one of the months January to June, followed in each case by some twenty days of the following month. Also mounted on the discs are two indicators A, B, and all four parts are connected together for relative rotation about a pivot 5. In use, the marked compartment 13 is placed opposite the date of commencement of the user's last menstrual period, and indicators A and B are placed over the numbers indicating respectively the length in days of the user's shortest and longest menstrual cycle. The fertile period then comprises the dates included between remote edges 9, 10 of the sectorial portions of indicators A, B as read on the same annulus as the commencement date. On the back of the base disc 11 are mounted a time table disc for the months July to December and two further indicators like A and B. In the modification shown in Fig. 10, the base disc 14 has a marked compartment 15 and, spaced relatively to it, two annular sets of figures relating to the longest and shortest cycles. The time table disc 16 has three rings of dates corresponding to months having 30, 31 or 28 days each, the ring to choose being indicated by arrows on an indicator A. As before, the marked compartment 15 is set opposite the date of commencement of the last period on the appropriate month scale and indicators A and B are set to the lengths of the shortest and longest cycles: The fertile period is then enclosed between adjacent radii of the indicators A and B.
Patent GB-2101054-A (GB)
Title: Emergency escape tower
Inventor: KINNEAR JOHN MORRIS
IPC: A62B1/20
Filed: 1982-03-12
Abstract: An emergency escape structure is supported on the ground adjacent to a multi-storey building (38) or inside a building and extending between storeys. It consists of a spiral chute 26 within a cylindrical shell 10, access 32, 36 from the building at the top of the chute and an exit at or near the base. The exit is closed by a door 30 which may be self-opening on impact and/or may fold down as an exit chute. The chute may be a tube. The chute may be supported by arms 24 from a central column 18 or may be attached to a central tube or may be self-supporting. Multiple chutes can be provided within one shell. The structure allows rapid escape even of handicapped persons, in the event of fire. If it is made in sections it is easily fabricated and erected. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2096580-A (GB)
Title: Removing defective printed portions of wrapping material being fed to an automatic cutter.
IPC: B26D7/06
Filed: 1982-03-30
Abstract: Defective portions of printed continuous webs being fed to a cutter (26, 27) of a packaging machine are marked with an initial spot and with a visible termination mark. The initial spot may be a magnetic or photoconductive spot, bore or cut. Whenever an initial spot mark of a defective portion is sensed by sensors (156, 157), the feeding of the defective web is interrupted, and web feed is shifted over to the reserve roll. The operator then manually removes the defective portion using cutters (54), the end of which is marked by the visible termination spot mark and reinserts the leading end of the web into the automatic shift-over and splicing device. The changeover from one roll to the other may be effected following exhaustion of one of the feed rolls (131, 132) as sensed at (56, 57). <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2098297-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to pipe joints
IPC: F16L21/06
Filed: 1982-05-11
Abstract: A pipe joint comprises adjacent ends of two pipes (e.g. 2) located in co-axial end to end relationship; an annular sealing member (3) located around the two adjacent pipe ends and two clamp members (7, 8) each of generally semi-cylindrical configuration fitted around the pipe ends and the sealing member with their adjacent axially extending side edges (9, 10) secured together. The configuration of the clamping members adjacent their mutually attached side edges departs approximately tangentially from their general semi-cylindrical configuration, and the sealing member has correspondingly thickened sections (15, 16) adjacent the attached side edges of the clamping members. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2102731-A (GB)
Title: Flexible and rollable sheet material
Inventor: GEORGE DAVID BRIAN
IPC: D21H27/34
Filed: 1982-07-09
Abstract: A sheet 1 of reinforced material which is flexible and rollable, comprising a non-woven sheet 2, in the embodiment shown of paper, combined with a scrim 3 of glass fibre strands or yarns woven with a Leno weave in which there are two strands or yarns 5 in the warp direction and one in the weft. The reinforced material can be used in underslating felt. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2124884-A (GB)
Title: Apparatus for removing meat from poultry drumsticks
Inventor: ADKISON FRANK L
IPC: A22C17/04
Filed: 1982-08-06
Abstract: An apparatus is provided for pulling gristle 16 such as tendons from cuts of meat 15 by mechanically holding down, by movable assembly 13 lowering clamp 32 onto an extending portion of the gristle 16 as the cut of meat 15 traverses a path defined by a conveyor 12 that intersects the location of a wedging jaw 14 that prevents continued traversal of the meat 15 along the path while permitting continued movement of the gristle 16 along the path until it is stripped from the meat. In an optional embodiment,the jaw 14 is a mechanical one that closes to form the wedging jaw 14 that strips the gristle 16 from the meat 15, after which the jaw 14 opens to release stripped gristle 17 therefrom that otherwise might have been undesirably retained therein. The assembly holds gristle 16 as it moves along track 25 until it reaches microswitch 35 whereupon clamp 32 rises releasing the gristle and assembly returns to start position. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2130264-A (GB)
Title: Starch-bound non-asbestos paper
Inventor: MCKENZIE NOEL CHRISTOPHER
IPC: C04B38/00
Filed: 1982-11-18
Abstract: Non-asbestos flexible sheet material suitable for use as thermal insulation in domestic gas-fired boilers is made by dewatering on a water-permeable conveyor a layer of aqueous slurry and compressing and drying the dewatered layer, the aqueous slurry employed being one that contains the following ingredients in the following proportions by dry weight: ball clay                            35-50% layer silicate mineral having plate-like   particles                          20-40% cellulose fibres                at least 2% starch at least 2% chopped glass fibre                   5-12% vitreous fibre in   wool form                           5-15% bentonite                      2-10% the maximum content of combustible ingredients (including cellulose fibres and starch) in said slurry being 10% by dry weight.
Patent GB-2117178-A (GB)
Title: Switch-fuse unit
Inventor: CARPENTER PETER EDWARD GEORGE
IPC: H01H9/22
Filed: 1983-01-25
Abstract: A modulator switch-fuse unit can be engaged via terminals 26 with a busbar supply system (not shown). The unit is divided into a switch compartment 14 and a fuse compartment 16, the latter having an access door 36 which is normally blocked by operating handle 38 when in the "on" position. Handle 38 is provided with a semi-concealed latch 64 (Fig. 2, not shown) allowing access to the fuses 32 when live. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2114065-A (GB)
Title: Ferrule for ball-point pens
Inventor: GALLI LUIGI
IPC: B43K7/00
Filed: 1983-01-28
Abstract: A ferrule for ball-point pens consists of a pierced sleeve (2) with which engages one end (3a) of a small stainless steel tube (3) which is also provided with a longitudinal through hole (9), the opposite end (3b) of said small tube (3) projecting from sleeve (2) and being provided with a stainless steel ball (4) and housed in a socket (10) obtained by means of three or more punchings (11) close to the end (3b) of the small tube (3), plaited strands of polyester fibres (5) being secured at one end (5b) within the end portion (3b) of the tube (3) while the opposite end (5a) projects from sleeve (2) and is dipped into an ink pad (12) disposed rearwards to the ferrule. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2130912-A (GB)
Title: Filter housing
Inventor: PRADEL GUNTER
IPC: B01D27/08
Filed: 1983-02-10
Abstract: A filter housing comprises an upper housing part (1), an intermediate plate (2) and a housing base (3), the three housing parts being sealed from each other by radially acting seals (17, 18, 19). The upper housing part (1) at its periphery has a closure collar (4), which laces the intermediate plate (2) and housing base (3) and which serves as a counterbearing for a bayonet closure ring (5). The ring (5) at its periphery has segments (7), which co-operate with corresponding segments (8) of the housing base (3). With the aid of a lever pair (10 to 12) diametrally engaging at the housing base (3) and at the closure ring (5), the housing parts can be displaced relative to each other in axial direction, hence improving the method of releasing and tightening the filter housing parts. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2121998-A (GB)
Title: Timer
Inventor: GREEN ANDREW
IPC: G03D13/00
Filed: 1983-04-22
Abstract: The effect of time and temperature is integrated according to empirical data for a given temperature-dependent chemical process e.g. photographic development. An indication (8, 10) is given when the process is complete, having taken account of temperature variations during the process. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2123778-A (GB)
Title: Anchoring assembly
Inventor: HERON ROBERT K
IPC: B63B21/50
Filed: 1983-07-13
Abstract: An anchoring assembly for maintaining an acceptable position of a floating vessel such as a drilling platform 10 over a fixed point at the sea bottom comprises one or more mooring elements 22 having a positive buoyancy with respect to seawater. Each buoyant element 22 extends in use in a substantially inverted catenary arc from an anchor 24 to the platform 10. The mooring elements 22 provide restoring forces against the forces of wind, wave and current action which tend to offset the floating vessel from the desired mooring point. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2128005-A (GB)
Title: Key function presetting
Inventor: MATSUDA KUMEHIKO
IPC: G07G1/12
Filed: 1983-09-23
Abstract: A preset system is provided in an electronic cash register for modifying a function key layout at operator's choice. A key determination table is included in a read only memory for defining a key function when a key is actuated. A key function exchange table is included in a random access memory, which stores a modified key assignment table. The preset system is associated with the key function exchange table to preset a desired key assignment. When a key is actuated in the normal registration mode, a CPU determines the key function in accordance with the information stored in the key determination table and the key function exchange table. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2124908-A (GB)
Title: Device for application in blood vessels or other difficultly accessible locations
Inventor: WALLSTEN HANS IVAR
IPC: A61F2/02
Filed: 1982-09-15
Abstract: PCT No. PCT/SE82/00283 Sec. 371 Date May 5, 1983 Sec. 102(e) Date May 5, 1983 PCT Filed Sep. 15, 1982 PCT Pub. No. WO83/00997 PCT Pub. Date Mar. 31, 1983.Device comprising a helically shaped spiral spring and means for bringing the spring to expand from a first state of a certain diameter to a second state of larger diameter and vice versa, characterized thereby that said means are arranged to rotate the ends of the spring relative to each other with maintained length of the spring so that the transition from said first state to said second state takes place by reducing the number of spring turns within said length and the corresponding increase of the pitch of the spring, or to supply to a given length of the spring further spring material at at least one end of the said length of the spring so that the transition from said first state to said second state takes place independent of pitch and number of spring turns within the said length; and a method for transluminal implantation of an intravascular prosthesis using the said device.
Patent GB-2145301-A (GB)
Title: An acoustic transducer and a method for making it
Inventor: MURPHY PRESTON VINCENT
IPC: H01L41/45
Filed: 1983-12-19
Abstract: Providing acoustic transducers with diaphragms of thickness not greater than 5 microns, preferably produced using vacuum both to hold down a plastic sheet and to tension it, a frame then being adhered to the sheet.
Patent GB-837789-A (GB)
Abstract: 837,789. Controlling fuel supply to burners. VEREENIGDE BLIKFABRIEKEN N.V., DE. Jan. 14, 1958 [Jan. 15, 1957], No. 1290/58. Class 75(1) [Also in Group XXIX] A safety device for application to a burner comprises an expansible member, such as a tension wire 6 exposed to the burner flame 15 and holding against retraction by springs 8 a slide 7 having an abutment 9 on the top surface of which rests when the burner is in action a lever 13 of an opened fuel shut-off valve 2. The abutment comprises two members 16, 17 with inclined side faces 10 and staggered to present a "gate" 12. The abutment is adjusted so that its member 16 overlies the lever arm 13 when the latter is in the inoperative position. At starting the lever arm 13 is manually raised by a finger lever 14 and deflected sideways by an inclined side face 10 of the abutment member 16 until it reaches the top face 11 of this member. As the tension wire becomes heated and expands, the slide 7 moves backward under its springs 8 until the lever arm 13 drops on to the slightly lower top face 11 of the abutment member 17. Should the flame fail then the wire 6 contracts and pulls the slide 7 forward whereupon the lever arm 13 is moved by an inclined face 10 of the abutment element 16 to drop through the "gate" 12 and so close the shut-off valve 2. Should the wire 6 break then the slide will be retracted by the springs 8 and so remove the abutment 9 from underneath the lever arm 13 which thereupon falls and closes the shut-off valve.
Patent GB-2134920-A (GB)
Title: Upgrading heavy hydrocarbons employing a diluant
Inventor: CALDERON JOSE LUIS
IPC: C10G7/00
Filed: 1984-01-14
Abstract: Heavy crude oil 12 is mixed with a diluent 18 prior to distillation to produce gaseous hydrocarbon products, overhead liquid hydrocarbons (from which recycle diluent 16, suitably boiling in the range 150-800 DEG F, is recovered) and residuum 60, suitable for delayed coking at 66 and 68 to produce metallurgical coke. The mixture of crude oil and diluent can be subjected to dehydration at 22 and desalting at 24 and 26 prior to distillation. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2136491-A (GB)
Title: An adjustable lock with adjustable locking bars
Inventor: HUANG YEN-TZAN
IPC: E05B27/08
Filed: 1984-03-05
Abstract: A lock assembly includes a lock and a key 5. The key includes a body connected with the handle with the body supporting a plurality of rods 6 which project from the body in the opposite direction to the handle. The key code is determined by the axial length of the rods projecting from the body and upon insertion of the key into the lock the key is used to set the key code into the lock and also to operate the lock. The lock includes an adjustable device preferably comprising a stacked set of pairs of inter- engageable plates one of each pair being movable by a rod of the key against spring 9d and the other being engageable with a locking device 11. The other plate is provided with a recess for receiving the locking device so that when the recess of each other plate is in line with the locking device, the locking device is released and the lock is operated to move to an "unlocked" position. Conveniently, relative positions of the plates of each pair can be determined by the respective rod of the key and accordingly by changing the combination of the rods the lock code can be changed without replacing the whole lock. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2150694-A (GB)
Title: Well pipe depth indicator
Inventor: MIKOLAJCZYK RAYMOND FELIX
IPC: G01B7/26
Filed: 1984-04-02
Abstract: A movement measuring device 30 includes circuitry which produces signals functionally related to the amount and direction of movement of a cable or drill line 15 in relation to up and down movement of an object such as pipe S in a well bore W. A totalizer device 35 is provided with circuitry that is coupled to the movement measuring device 30 to instrumentally display the object depth in the well bore W resulting from the signals received from the movement measuring device 30. A switch 58 is operatively connected to the cable or drill line S and a device 52 closes the switch 58 only when a predetermined weight or load on the cable or drill line S is exceeded to provide power from a power source to the movement measuring device 30 for transmitting the signals therefrom to the totalizer device 35. The totalizer device 35 continuously displays the total depth of the object in the well bore W.
Patent GB-2141206-A (GB)
Title: Friction clutch driven plate
Inventor: MAYCOCK IAN COMMANDER
IPC: F16F15/121
Filed: 1984-05-08
Abstract: A friction clutch driven plate comprises a hub 11 with flange 13 and an intermediate drive means 14 coupled to the hub through a lost motion connection associated with interengaging teeth 15 and 16. In addition to main torsional damping springing associated with springs 28 in windows in the intermediate drive means and side plates 18 and 19 of a friction facing carrier, auxiliary circumferentially acting springing provided by springs 37 and 38 acts between the hub 11 and the intermediate drive means 14. The two springs 37 and 38 are provided one to each side of hub flange 13 in the interests of compactness. The springs are circumferentially extending spring arms engaged in the hub and intermediate drive means for example as shown at 42. Springs 37 and 38 together are much weaker than springs 28 taken together and provide damping to prevent idle rattle while springs 28 provide friction damping during transmission of torque through the driven plate. A modification uses springs cut from sheet material in place of the wire springs 37, 38. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2143852-A (GB)
Title: Treatment of metal strip
Inventor: GRUBE MANFRED
IPC: B65G49/04
Filed: 1984-07-24
Abstract: A pickling line may be used for intermittent operation by using a transition plate 11 to cover a pit 14 used to receive a loop during continuous operation. The plate is arranged to descend into the pit during continuous operation thereby to form the loop when necessary. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2165497-A (GB)
Title: Motor cycle wheel assembly
Inventor: BOXSTROM MAGNUS JACOB
IPC: B60B27/02
Filed: 1984-09-05
Abstract: Instead of making the wheel with integral brake disc or sprocket wheel carriers thereby rendering it impractical to stock all various different types of wheel for competition and high performance motorcycles, the wheel (10) and carriers (11, 12) are made separately e.g. by casting from magnesium, aluminium or other light alloy. Drive pins (25) are located in registering holes (16, 24) in the hub portion (13) of the wheel and in the carriers (11, 12) to connect the carriers to the wheel for rotation therewith. Also, means, e.g. a bearing spacer (27) and end caps (28), are provided to hold the wheel and carriers together along the axis of the wheel. Thus carriers and wheels can be matched to meet customers' requirements. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2147613-A (GB)
Title: Dispensing arrangement
Inventor: HARGREAVES ROBERT EDWARD
IPC: D06F39/02
Filed: 1984-09-28
Abstract: A liquid-dispensing arrangement, more especially for delivering liquid fabric conditioner or liquid detergent into the wash drum of an automatic clothes washing machine, has a reservoir 20,21 removably accommodated in an operative position in a housing with a separate liquid-tight connection formed between the reservoir outlet and a dispenser 50, and valve means 40 which normally allows the passage of liquid from the reservoir to the dispenser, but is operable, preferably automatically, to close the reservoir outlet when the reservoir is withdrawn from its operative position. <IMAGE>