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Patent GB-2269425-A (GB)
Title: Hydraulic circuit
Inventor: SHIMOIE SHIZUO
IPC: E02F9/22
Filed: 1993-06-24
Abstract: A hydraulic circuit for vertically driving a boom of a backhoe implement, in which pressure oil from a first pump (8) and pressure oil from a second pump (15) is supplied through a control valve (21) and an auxiliary control valve (25) confluently to a hydraulic cylinder (11) for actuating the boom. This circuit structure includes a single pilot check valve (52) for preventing lowering of the boom due to oil leakage from the control valve and auxiliary control valve when the boom suspending a load is locked by operating the control valve and auxiliary control valve to neutral. The pilot check valve is disposed between the boom actuating hydraulic cylinder and a connecting point for joining the pressure oil from the first pump and pressure oil from the second pump. Control means are provided to close the check valve when the control valve (21) is in its raising or neutral positions and to open the check valve when the control valve is in its lowering position. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2270269-A (GB)
Title: Demetallization of hydrocarbon conversion catalysts
Inventor: ELVIN FRANK J
IPC: B01J38/04
Filed: 1992-04-22
Abstract: A demetallization process for catalysts used for chemical conversion of hydrocarbons, the catalysts containing at least vanadium as a metal poison, wherein the poisoned catalyst is contacted in a sulfiding zone with a sulfiding agent and a hydrocarbon having a minimum boiling point of about 300 DEG F, the hydrocarbon being at least partially vaporisable at the temperature in the sulfiding zone.
Patent GB-2283174-A (GB)
Title: Environmentally friendly pest control system
Inventor: DURANT COLIN EDMUND
IPC: A61L2/06
Filed: 1993-10-27
Abstract: An insulating, heat resistant bag (1) is used to envelope an item (2) (such as a bed) so that heat can be directed from a fan-assisted heater (5) to heat the item evenly to a temperature, which is monitored and kept constant, sufficient to kill pests, such as house dust mites, on the item. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2273977-A (GB)
Title: Projection headlamp system having direct optical coupling of light distribution elements
Inventor: DAVENPORT JOHN MARTIN
IPC: F21S8/12
Filed: 1993-12-10
Abstract: A projection head lamp system for a vehicle includes a high beam subsystem and a low beam subsystem. Each of the high and low beam subsystems includes a pair of light pattern projecting arrangements (32, 34), a remote single arc discharge light source (16), a pair of solid optical coupling devices (18), and a pair of elongated light distributing conductors (22) coupled at output ends to the pair of light pattern projecting arrangements and coupled at input ends to the pair of solid optical coupling devices. The high and low beam subsystems employ either separate single arc discharge light sources or a common single arc discharge light source. The coupling devices (18) are flat, transparent bodies with a semi-hexagonal recess at the end opposite the conductors (22), such that a pair of couplings together define a cavity for the light source (16). <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2274202-A (GB)
Title: IC Carrier
Inventor: MATSUOKA NORIYUKI
IPC: H01L23/32
Filed: 1993-12-20
Abstract: In an IC carrier comprises a carrier body (1) carrying an IC chip (4), which is either alone or in a protective case, and a wiring sheet (16), with a lead pattern (10) on its upper surface, covering an outer surface of the IC chip, a plurality of fine adjustment pushers (21) are provided for pressing the IC chip or the case sidewardly at several points to move the IC chip or case along the surface of the wiring sheet to adjust the position of the IC chip. Each of the pushers is formed as a plain pin, or as a male screw pin threadedly engaged with the carrier body, and reciprocally moved, the IC chip or the case being pressed sidewardly by end faces of the pins. Alternatively the pushers can be cams. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2284971-A (GB)
Title: Bird scaring apparatus
Inventor: BELL KEVIN
IPC: A01M29/16
Filed: 1993-12-21
Abstract: A bird scaring apparatus comprising an remote operator unit (10) and responder unit(s), the operator unit comprising a means to select and transmit radio signals to the responder unit which comprise a means to receive signals sent by the operator unit and, upon receipt, actuates the transmition of a bird scaring noise. The bird scaring device is particularly useful for dispersing birds at an airport. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2274796-A (GB)
Title: Abrasive belt grinding machine
Inventor: BRILL JURGEN
IPC: B24B19/12
Filed: 1994-01-27
Abstract: An abrasive belt grinding machine wherein a rotary workpiece such as a camshaft is to be mounted in a work holder and is to be treated at two or more axially spaced locations. The workpiece can be simultaneously treated by driven abrasive belts which are mounted on two or more discrete carriages or by one of two belts on a common carriage. The belts 36, 37 on a common carriage 18 can be selected to effect coarse and precision grinding of selected portions of the rotary workpiece 7 in the work holder. While a first shoe 38 urges one of the belts on the carriage 18 into material removing engagement with the workpiece, a second shoe 39 for the other belt is maintained in a retracted position in which the belt is out of contact with the workpiece. The carriage or carriages are movable transversely of the axis of the workpiece in the work holder and the work holder and/or the carriage or carriages are movable in the direction of rotational axis of the workpiece in the work holder to thus place selected portions of the workpiece into alignment with a selected belt on a single carriage or with selected belts on two or more discrete carriages. Each carriage can be moved at right angles to the axis of the workpiece or at an oblique angle to such axis. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2274765-A (GB)
Title: Plant shelters
Inventor: BECK STANLEY RICHARD
IPC: A01G13/02
Filed: 1994-02-01
Abstract: The specification discloses a combination of a tubular (plastics) transparent or translucent shelter and a stake 22 with a surface corresponding with a segment of the tube. The stake may be attached to the tube by ties or be integral. A membrane pierceable by the growing plant or degradable may close the upper end of the tube. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2274833-A (GB)
Title: Storage and/or transit stacking of articles
Inventor: EMBLETON MICHAEL CHRISTOPHER
IPC: B65D71/70
Filed: 1994-02-07
Abstract: A thermo-formed tray 3 carries staggered rows of bottles 1 as one of five such trays stacked one upon the other. The tray 3 is stacked on the tops of bottles 1 on the tray immediately below, with the tops engaged in closed-end channels of the tray's under-surface 7. The channels are defined by troughs 6 and 10 in an upper-surface 5 of the tray 3 that is otherwise flat within a peripheral wall 4. The troughs 6 are of short lengths so that the walls of the channels are interrupted to relieve frictional resistance against removal of the tray 3 from the bottles 1 below, and in regions 11 are omitted altogether to allow the tray to be lifted by suction pads. An orderly array of the bottles 1 is maintained in spite of the lack of row-constraint on the tops of the bottles 1 where the channel walls are interrupted in both these ways, by virtue of abutment of the bottles 1 upon one another within their rows and also between adjacent rows. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2288270-A (GB)
Title: String retaining means for a guitar
Inventor: JONES ROY CARL
IPC: G10D3/12
Filed: 1994-03-29
Abstract: A base plate 1, adapted to be attached to a guitar, for example under a tremolo device, has a plurality of posts 14 on which are rotatably supported respective spools 19, each within a rotatable housing 27. Each spool has a bore 26 for receiving the end of a string 30 and a recessed channel 23 in which the string may be wound. The housing 27 has an axial slot 28 through which the string may pass. Also mounted on the base plate is a string retaining bar 11 having string receiving slots 32 and clamp screw bores 33. The channel 23 may accommodate wire equivalent to several string lengths so that in the event of string breakage a further length may be pulled out for attachment to a tuning peg. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2276947-A (GB)
Title: Determining a depth correction for a logging tool in a well
Inventor: CHAPELLAT HERVE N M N
IPC: E21B47/04
Filed: 1994-04-07
Abstract: A method of determining a depth correction for a logging tool 1 that is moved, while suspended from a cable 11, along a well 2, the method being of the type in which a measurement of tool depth is performed at the surface at successive instants (by counting pulses associated with winding of the cable), the tool comprising at least two sensors suitable for measuring a characteristic of the well at each of said instants said two sensors being offset longitudinally in the displacement direction of the tool. The method comprises, at each of said instants: determining a first value for tool velocity by intrinsic measurement, e.g. derived from the output of an accelerometer 17; determining a second value of the velocity by correlation between information received from said two sensors; and combining the first and second velocity values to determine a depth correction to be applied to said surface depth measurement. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2279054-A (GB)
Title: Packaging
Inventor: SPILLARD JACK COLLIER
IPC: B65D33/16
Filed: 1993-02-05
Abstract: A bag (1) of transparent plastics material has front and rear panels connected together around the side and bottom edges (3, 4 and 5) leaving an open end (6). Two holes (7 and 8) are formed adjacent to the opening (6). A closure member (2) is creased along a centre line (22) to form superimposed front and rear sections (9 and 10). The inner surface (12) is coated with a pressure-sealing adhesive, and the rear section (10) contains slits which define a pair of tongues (16 and 17) inserted through the holes (7 and 8). The two sections (9 and 10) are secured together by the adhesive around the marginal portions (11 and 19) and through the holes (7 and 8), and the tongues (16 and 17) are also adhesively secured to the front section (9). The closure member (2) could also be of the same width as the bag (1) and adhered through notches in the opposite side edges of the bag. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2284467-A (GB)
Title: Venting and expansion system for a central heating installation
Inventor: HANSON-GRAVILLE GEORGE
IPC: F24D3/10
Filed: 1994-09-06
Abstract: A venting and expansion system for a central heating installation having a hot water tank (20), an indirect heating coil (9) fed by a boiler (not shown) and a level controlled water storage tank (23) feeding the system. The system uses two chambers (1) and (2) connecting the top of tank (20) and the coil (9) with an expansion pipe (25) leading to tank (23). The chamber (1) has internal tubes (7) and (8) which allows the coil (9) to initially fill through pipe (21) from the tank (20) through chamber (2). Through hot water expansion and expelled air chamber (1) becomes an air-lock (see Figure 9) and chamber (2) maintains the head in coil (9). <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2292713-A (GB)
Title: Garden tool and refuse collection trolley
Inventor: JENNINGS LUKE JAMES
IPC: B62B3/00
Filed: 1994-09-02
Abstract: A Rectangular upright cage frame is mounted upon two fixed front wheels and at the rear two castor wheels 1. The cage frame has, at the top, a boxed lid in two halves 4. The two boxed lids open to opposite sides of the frame. Inside the boxed lids are fixings for various small hand tools, eg trowels and a hand fork. The boxed lids cover, when closed, a garden refuse bag 5 which is hung inside the cage by clips in the corners. On the outside of the front of the frame there are fixings for larger tools, eg spade, fork, rake. At the rear of the frame there is also a handle bar 2, by which the garden tool and refuse collection trolley can be manoeuvred. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2294286-A (GB)
Title: Heat sink mounting structure
Inventor: CHIOU MING DER
IPC: H01L23/40
Filed: 1994-10-10
Abstract: A CPU heat sink mounting structure includes a CPU (1), a heat sink (3) attached to one side of the CPU to hold an electric fan for dissipating heat from the CPU, and a plurality of clamps (2) fastened to the heat sink to hold doe the CPU. Each clamp has a forked mounting portion (22) fastened to a respective retaining hole (31) on the heat sink and a clamping portion (21) clamped on the CPU to hold down the CPU on the heat sink. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2284040-A (GB)
Title: Temperature sensitive fluid fan coupling
Inventor: TAKAYAMA KENICHI
IPC: F16D35/02
Filed: 1994-11-09
Abstract: A driving disc 7 in a temperature-sensitive fluid fan coupling him a generally C- or I-shaped cross section (Fig. 7) defined by a cylindrical wall 7 - 1 projecting from its outer periphery coaxially therewith. The disc, has at its outer periphery including the projecting wall a width which is equal to it least 7% of its outside diameter. The disc 7, its projecting wall 7 - 1 and a housing 2, 3 in which the disc is mounted define it least one chamber 14 for the temporary storage of oil. The disc has on it least one side thereof a plurality of radially extending partitions (18) (Fig. 15) which divide the oil storage chamber into a plurality of portions. Walls of the chamber 14 may be provided with small holes or slits. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2299970-A (GB)
Title: Publication with overlapping pages
Inventor: BALL FREDERICK JOSEPH
IPC: B42D7/00
Filed: 1995-04-21
Abstract: A publication 1 or printed matter comprises sheets folded off centre to form two different sized pages which are assembled together such that adjacent pages overlap on an edge parallel to the bound edge 12. Alternatively the overlapping can be on an edge at right angles to the bound edge 32 and each page can be formed from a single sheet, and in the case of folded sheets a single sheet page inserted between the pages of the central sheet pages ensures consistent overlap.
Patent GB-2300808-A (GB)
Title: Surgical dressing having bubbles filled with gas or air
Inventor: SALISBURY DAVID GEORGE
IPC: A61F13/00
Filed: 1995-05-13
Abstract: A surgical dressing or bandage comprising a plastic material in which sealed pockets or bubbles are filled with gas or air. In addition, the sheet may contain holes or perforations between the pockets to allow the skin to breath. Preferably, the sheet has a layer of gauze and may also contain adhesive tape. The device provides cushioning protection and may be used in, but is not limited to, the management of bed sores and orthopaedic injuries. It is intended that the article is sterilised and individually packaged.
Patent GB-2300815-A (GB)
Title: Golf club structure
Inventor: LIN SHEN-JU
IPC: A63B53/04
Filed: 1995-05-19
Abstract: A golf club structure (10) includes a head (14) connected to a shaft (12) via a neck (16). The head (14) has a concave face (18) to contact a ball in hitting the ball. The concavity of the face (18) of the head (14) provides a better controllability to the moving direction of the ball due to the fact that it provides a better chance to allow the hitting surface of the face (18) to be normal to the desired path of the ball.
Patent GB-2302586-A (GB)
Title: Temperature indicator for mounting on a door or wall
Inventor: BOOTH DEREK
IPC: G01K1/16
Filed: 1995-06-21
Abstract: A temperature indicating device comprises a temperature indicator 1 mounted on one side of a door or wall, and a temperature sensor, integral with or separate from the indicator 1, activated by a thermally conductive tube 3 extending from the sensor to the other side of the door. Heat from the other side of the door is conducted along the tube 3 to the sensor so that if the temperature on one side of the door exceeds a predetermined level the indicator 1 will show this. Alternatively indicators 1,2 can be placed at both ends of the conductive tube 3. The temperature sensor can be chemical (eg. photochromic), mechanical (eg. bimetallic) or electronic (to provide a digital display). The tube 3 may have lenses at both ends to act as a peep hole.
Patent GB-2305499-A (GB)
Title: Gas burner safety device
Inventor: CHARMER ROBERT
IPC: F23N5/24
Filed: 1996-04-02
Abstract: A gas burner for a gas appliance is designed to duct a gas/air mixture to at least one of its flame ports and/or has at least one flame port designed such that the flame provided by said port is responsive to undesirable oxygen depletion in the surrounding air and/or to build-up of an undesirable gas or of undesirable gases in a manner that can be detected by a thermocouple or other sensor.
Patent GB-2316599-A (GB)
Title: Female's trousers with front and perineal fly.
Inventor: KHEMKA SHEEL
IPC: A41D1/06
Filed: 1996-08-23
Abstract: The trousers have a crotch zip 34 extending along and limited to the perineal region, a rear seam 28 extending between the crotch zip and a rear waistband of the garment, a front fly 30 that extends towards the crotch zip. The crotch zip is hidden by a concealment flap 36 extending along its length and the runner of the crotch zip rests in the closed position under the concealment flap. Typically the crotch zip and its concealment flap extend along the perineal region and the rear seam extends as far as the region of the rear waistband. The structure of the placket of the front fly is altered to accommodate a concealment of the runner of the crotch zip. The front fly may be closed by any other releasably closable means.
Patent GB-2318383-A (GB)
Title: Shoot bolt mechanism for a door
Inventor: MEGNA GIUSEPPE
IPC: E05B15/10
Filed: 1996-10-16
Abstract: A security system 10 for a door comprises a box 11 and rectilinear rods 46,47 extending upwardly and downwardly from the box and each being movable, by a rotary mechanism 30 comprising arms 32,33, the ends 34,35 of which engage in guides 26 (slots) to operate further arms 22,23. The arms 22,23 engage sliders 42,43 which in turn move the rods 46,47 longitudinally against spring biasing 44,45 so that remote end portions of the rods 46,47 locate in tracks which thereby restrict opening of the door beyond a pre-determined limit. A pawl 38 can be engaged in a detent 36 in the rotary mechanism 30 to lock the rods 46,47 in the extended position, but if the pawl 38 is not engaged and the turning force applied to the rotary mechanism 30 to extend the rods 46,47 (ie lock the door) is removed, the rods 46,47 are retracted under the biasing of springs 44,45.
Patent GB-2321897-A (GB)
Title: Equipment for the handling of freight containers
Inventor: BLACKSTONE CHRISTOPHER EDWARD
IPC: B66F9/07
Filed: 1997-02-05
Abstract: Equipment is provided for handling containers involving: travelling; lifting; placing into racks and removal from racks without disturbing any adjacent containers. A pair of handling machines (only one shown) is provided to handle one container. The distance between the machines may be changed in order to accommodate container different length e.g. by means of a number of adjustable links 16,18. Each machine has a vertically movable lifting carriage 7 carrying container handling attachments such as twist locks 12 on a spreader 11 slidable on an intermediate beam 10 in turn slidable on a fixed base beam 10 so that a container can be inserted into and extracted from a racking system (not shown). The machines can have wheels for travelling or move on rail systems 3, 15. A control system is provided that incorporates a data link between the pair of machines so that the movements may be co-ordinated or varied as required.
Patent GB-2311792-A (GB)
Title: Setting lotion for eye lashes
Inventor: COLLIS JOANNA SHARON
IPC: A61Q1/10
Filed: 1997-04-01
Abstract: A setting lotion for eye lashes in gel form comprises an aqueous alcoholic mixture containing a dissolved resin and in gel form. The resin is preferably a synthetic polymer with appreciable elasticity. The synthetic polymer may be a homopolymer, copolymer or a mixture of polymers. Suitable polymers include polyvinyl pyrrolidones, polyvinyl acetates and/or a dimethylhydantoin formaldehyde condensation polymers; the most preferred is a polyvinylpyrrolidone/ vinylacetate copolymer. A method of curling eye lashes comprises applying a setting lotion in gel form to a row of eye lashes, holding the lashes in the required shape using tongs until the setting action is complete, thereafter releasing the lashes and removing surplus setting lotion.
Patent GB-2324993-A (GB)
Title: A connection between frames of a pallet retention unit
Inventor: USHER TERENCE RICHARD
IPC: B65D19/38
Filed: 1997-05-10
Abstract: A pallet retention unit comprises a plurality of pivotably linked frames enclosing a pallet, a releasable connection between two linked frames 14 and 28 being formed by a captive pin 34 on the first frame 28 displaceable into a female element 16 on the second frame 14. The captive pin 34 has only limited movement, being slidable within a fixed sleeve 32 on the first frame 28 but constrained in this movement by a stop means 40 on the first frame 28 and the fixed sleeve 32. Preferably the stop means 40 is formed from a flange projecting from the top horizontal strut 26 of the first frame 28. The first frame 28 may be provided with a lower female element 30 and an upper coaxial pin 34, the second frame 14 then being provided with an upper female element 16 and a lower coaxial pin 20, at least on of the pins 20 and 34 being of the slidable, captive type claimed.
Patent GB-2328241-A (GB)
Title: Door mechanism
Inventor: FISHER SYDNEY EDWARD
IPC: E05B65/20
Filed: 1997-05-21
Abstract: Vehicle door mechanism has self-acting latching means in which a latch release lever 10 (figure 1) operated by an inside handle of the door frees the door for opening and locking means operated by a lock drive lever 22 secures the latching means to lock the door. The two levers are coupled by motion transmitting engagement of an abutment 20 on one lever locating with a formation 34 on the other to positively shift the lock drive lever to locked condition by movement of the release lever beyond a neutral position in a first direction with a spring 36 acting between the levers to return the lock drive lever to unlocked condition when the release lever is moved the opposite way as far as or beyond the neutral position, and allowing further movement of the release lever for unlatching the door. The spring aids return of the release lever to its neutral position and the arrangement enables latching and locking to be effected by the door handle alone.
Patent GB-2326355-A (GB)
Title: Excavator or tractor-mounted cement mixer
Inventor: BURN HARRY
IPC: B28C5/18
Filed: 1997-06-17
Abstract: The mixer drum 1 is mounted on an excavator or tractor by means of a quick-release adaptor plate 7. The drum motor is driven from the auxilary hydraulic power take-off.
Patent GB-2326326-A (GB)
Title: Electrical fly swat
Inventor: TENG HSI-HSIUNG
IPC: A01M1/22
Filed: 1997-06-19
Abstract: The device comprises a handle 10 having a high voltage power supply unit disposed therein, a frame 20 mounted on the handle and two sets of bare output wires 30/40 arranged alternately in parallel within the frame. The top portion of the frame has a plurality of recesses 22 in its front face and an isolating valley 23 between each adjacent recess. The bottom portion of the frame has a plurality of cavities 25 in its front face staggered respectively with a plurality of flanges 24. An upper end of each of the bare output wires is secured in the recess, and a lower end of each of the wires extends through either a first set of holes 241 or a second set of holes 251 to connect with the power supply unit in the handle. The construction of the frame avoids loss of power due to shorting by moisture.