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Patent GB-2168362-A (GB)
Title: Compositions for packaging films
Inventor: BRENNAN EDMUND VINCENT
IPC: C08L53/02
Filed: 1985-12-03
Abstract: A packaging film having high clarity and dead-fold properties, particularly for twist wrapping of goods such as confectionery, is formed from a blend comprising (1) 10 to 30% (preferably about 26%) by weight of a rubbery styrene/butadiene/styrene block copolymer having three or more blocks per molecule containing from 60 to 80% by weight of butadiene, (2) 70 to 90% by weight (preferably about 74%) of a styrene/butadiene copolymer (which may be block or random or partially both) containing from 25 to 35% by weight of butadiene, and (3) polystyrene in an amount based on the blend of from 1 to 60% by weight. The film is formed by extruding the mixture through a flat or circular die.
Patent GB-2169384-A (GB)
Title: Sprayer
Inventor: BUTI SARIO
IPC: B05B11/00
Filed: 1985-12-24
Abstract: A sprayer comprises a main body (11), means (12a) for engaging with a container for the product to be sprayed, a spray nozzle, a pumping means and valve means for allowing or preventing the discharge of the spray liquid through a passage in said body according to the position of the pumping means, and vent (aerating) means (20) for permitting selective communication between the inside of the container and the outer air, the vent means consisting of a notched (25) opening, made in a part (12) of the body communicating with the inside of the container, wherein an occluding member (30) made of deformable material is inserted; said member comprises a part provided with an abutting end resting against one of the surface areas (23) adjacent to the opening, a stem fitting into the opening and slightly curved end flaps (34), making contact with at least a part of the area adjacent to the opening on the opposite surface (24), the stem being shorter than the distance between the surfaces (23, 24) adjacent to the opening. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2170728-A (GB)
Title: Toy construction kits
Inventor: EDWARDS FREDERICK JAMES
IPC: A63H33/10
Filed: 1986-01-31
Abstract: A toy construction kit for use with playing cards includes a plurality of rod-like building blocks (10) having angularly spaced longitudinal slits (11) extending the length of each element, each slit (11) being adapted to receive and resiliently retain one edge of a playing card. Each slit may be of V-shaped cross-section. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2170936-A (GB)
Title: Adaptive responding system
Inventor: VAN NES FLORIS LEONARD
IPC: G10L15/28
Filed: 1986-02-05
Abstract: In an adaptive responding system the number of protests which a user presents to the system as a result of the fact that a spoken reply is wrongly recognized by the system is counted. If the number of protests exceeds a certain value then the decision model that is used in the reply recognition is adjusted during a certain time interval in such a way that the system, in reaction to a reply spoken by the user, chooses a reaction in the form of a more explicit indication to the user of the reply that has been recognized. For example, it may be arranged that in the normal case the system gives no direct information about the reply that has been recognized, but during the above-mentioned time interval information is in fact given.
Patent GB-2172773-A (GB)
Title: Data transmission using a telephone handset
Inventor: WONG WAI-YU
IPC: H04M11/06
Filed: 1986-03-17
Abstract: Apparatus for the transmission of data using a telephone handset (3) having an earpiece (4) and a mouthpiece (5) between data transmitting and receiving equipment (11), in which a box housing a pair of oppositely wound induction coils (L1, L2) and an amplifier circuit is positioned in a holder adjacent the earpiece, and a loudspeaker (6) is positioned adjacent the mouthpiece (5). The box 7 is shielded with an aluminum foil which is earthed. The induction coils can alternatively be positioned within the earpiece. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2189844-A (GB)
Title: Gas turbine engines
Inventor: BENNETT HARRY WRIGHTON
IPC: F02K3/065
Filed: 1986-04-30
Abstract: A turbofan gas turbine engine comprises a forward fan 50 and a rearward fan 80 arranged to rotate in opposite directions within a bypass duct 22. The forward fan 50 is driven by a first drum rotor 42 of a compressor 14, the first drum rotor rotating in the same direction but at a relatively slower speed than a second drum rotor 52 of the compressor. The rearward fan 80 is driven by a first turbine drum rotor 72 of a turbine 18, the first turbine drum rotor rotating in the opposite direction but at a relatively slower speed than a second turbine drum rotor 82 of the turbine. The second turbine drum rotor is arranged to drive the second drum rotor of the compressor. A combustor 16 is positioned axially between the forward and rearward fans, and may be stationary or arranged to rotate independently or with the first turbine drum rotor. Contra-rotating propellers may be driven in a similar way. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2176900-A (GB)
Title: Solid electrolyte gas sensor
Inventor: SCHLECHTRIEMEN GERHARD-LUDWIG
IPC: G01N27/416
Filed: 1986-05-07
Abstract: A method for measuring the partial pressure of a constituent of a gas mixture uses a solid ionic conductor, which contains several constituents, in contact, on one side, with a reference phase and, on the other side, with a phase which is sensitive to the constituent of the gas mixture. The solid ionic conductor has at least one constituent whose activity is substantially unaffected by the constituent to be detected so that the number of adjacent phases required to produce the phase equilibrium for the ionic conductor is reduced on the measuring side. Electrodes for deriving a potential difference corresponding to the gas partial pressure, are connected with the reference phase and with the sensitive phase. An intermediate layer may be located between the ionic conductor and the phase which is sensitive to the constituent gas. Sensors for chlorine, oxygen, nitrogen oxides and carbon oxides are described using electrolytes comprising substituted beta-alumin as or silver rubidium iodide.
Patent GB-2191528-A (GB)
Title: Door for display cabinets
Inventor: COYSTEN BRIAN MICHAEL
IPC: E06B3/50
Filed: 1986-05-21
Abstract: The bar 12 which supports the door of a display cabinet for lateral sliding movement is itself supported by bars 2 which permit the door to be pulled forward. The bars are supported between a set of pinch rollers (5-7, Fig. 1 not shown), to reduce wear and jamming. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2195967-A (GB)
Title: A coupling
Inventor: CLAY ROBERT ANTHONY
IPC: B60D1/52
Filed: 1986-08-23
Abstract: A coupling comprising a male member (1) having a shaft (6) provided along its length with a plurality of projections (7) of different height, width, spacing, and a female member (2) having a bore (8) provided along its length with a plurality of spaced recesses (9) of different depth and width, the recesses (9) and the projections (7) being so arranged as to provide matching recess projection pairs when the shaft (6) is received within the bore (8). A ball and socket is illustrated. The towed vehicle having the ball 3 in its cup cannot therefore be towed away by another vehicle. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2195755-A (GB)
Title: Heat insulation panel for location behind a space heating radiator
Inventor: SUMNER PAUL
IPC: F24D19/06
Filed: 1986-10-01
Abstract: A heat insulation panel (1) for location between a space heating radiator (2) and a wall (3) on which the radiator (2) is mounted, comprises a pair of spaced apart, outer, containing walls (10) of flexible synthetic plastics material e.g. P.V.C. of such melting point to be locatable at elevated temperatures, without degradation, in close proximity to a radiator (2), with flexible heat insulating material (11) e.g. fibreglass interposed between the two containing walls (10), with the insulation panel (1) formed to a rectangular, or generally rectangular shape, and with the peripheral marginal edges of the rectangular shape closed, so as to retain the insulating material (11) within the containing walls (10). Slots in the panel between double rows of stitching enable the panel to be mounted on radiator mounting brackets (4). The panel may be associated with a heat transfer grille, which may be carried by the panel. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2203644-A (GB)
Title: Waste outlet and plug
Inventor: EDWARDS CHARLES WILLIAM
IPC: A47K1/14
Filed: 1987-04-25
Abstract: A sink or like closure plug is connected by a chain to the overflow fitting, and the parts have a projection and recess 10, 12 so that the plug can be located and supported on the overflow fitting. This has the added advantage of closing the overflow at times when the main outlet is open. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2212727-A (GB)
Title: Game apparatus
Inventor: NORMAN MALCOLM ANDREW
IPC: A63F3/06
Filed: 1987-11-26
Abstract: Game apparatus comprises a card or the like which contains initially visible information concerning a problem or problems to be answered and information which is initially hidden by one or more removeable layers of opaque material and which, on being revealed, interacts with the initially visible information to provide an answer to the problem or problems set. One or more clues may be provided to assist in answering the problem or problems set. Each set of information defines an essential part of the game presented by the game apparatus, and both sets of information are essential for proper completion of the game so presented.
Patent GB-2225450-A (GB)
Title: Beam stabilization of a scanning electron microscope
Inventor: FENS THEODOOR WOUTER
IPC: H01J37/26
Filed: 1988-09-30
Abstract: A method of automatically stabilizing the beam of a scanning electron microscope (SEM) 10 using back scattered electron (BSE) imaging apparatus comprises maximizing the BSE intensity. In a first operating cycle c1 a predetermined sample line is scanned a first time to obtain a BSE response signal SB.1 which is integrated to produce an integrated signal SI.1. An adjustment coil arrangement then adjusts the beam of the SEM which is then scanned a second time to obtain a corresponding set of signals SB.1', SI.1'. If SI.1'>SI.1, then the process is repeated; otherwise the beam is moved back to its previous position and the method stops. Variations in beam position and intensity, due to thermal effects on start-up, are thereby eliminated. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2226541-A (GB)
Title: Waste disposal bag
Inventor: BALDWIN PAUL RICHARD
IPC: B65D30/20
Filed: 1988-11-09
Abstract: A side gusseted bag of flexible plastics material has an open end (22) and a heat sealed closure (6) at the other end. The sealed end portion is also folded over (20) and a further heat seal (18) formed midway between the fold (20) and the end seal (6) so that the bag can be opened out into a box shape. A series of such bags are formed from a tube blown from a film. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2226058-A (GB)
Title: Prefabricated floor slab
Inventor: PRYCE KENNETH JOHN
IPC: E04B5/02
Filed: 1988-12-14
Abstract: A prefabricated floor slab 10 comprises a precast concrete slab 12 for absorbing compressive forces with a load bearing structure 14 of corrosion resistant material extending downwardly therefrom. The load bearing structure may comprise a lattice girder, which may be of tetrahedral construction. Services and insulation may be located in the lattice. Levelling wedges may be located in recesses 24. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2217255-A (GB)
Title: Spin welding components
Inventor: COLLINS MALCOLM GEORGE
IPC: B29C65/06
Filed: 1989-04-11
Abstract: The annular surfaces of two components 56, 57 bear axially against each other in order to be joined by spin welding upon relative rotation and define an inner flash trap zone surrounded by an annular weld zone and an outer flash trap zone surrounding the annular weld zone. The annular surfaces define a weld land 64 and void 66 flanked by complimentary annular projections 60 and troughs 62 to function as the inner and outer flash trap zones and so to seal the weld zone against melt leakage. The projections 60 may appear on one component while the troughs 62 on the other. Alternatively, each component has a projection and trough to cooperate with those on the other. Again the surface 68 of one component 57 may be plain while the other 56 includes troughs 62 which alone form the trap zones. The void 66 projects at an angle of 3 to 5 degrees. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2232339-A (GB)
Title: Planar article; headwear
Inventor: CAPLE IAN
IPC: A42B1/20
Filed: 1989-06-22
Abstract: A planar article 10 which may be deformed to form a concave shape, especially a cap for wearing on the head, comprises a flat sheet, preferably of foam plastics material of at least 1 mm thickness, having a series of spiral slits radiating from a central region 15 to an edge region 14, such that deformation normal to the plane of the sheet forms a concave shape defined by strips 16, which will fit the head. Other uses specified are pressure sensitive valve diaphragms, propellers and impellers. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2220221-A (GB)
Title: Glazing bead
Inventor: ROGERS JOHN THOMAS
IPC: E06B5/11
Filed: 1989-06-26
Abstract: An extruded glazing bead (20), for retaining a glazing panel (19) to a frame member (10) of a window or door, has its portion (24) which is accessible when the bead is installed designed to be insufficiently strong to be engaged by a tool for an unauthorised person to lever the glazing bead out of engagement with the frame member. The accessible portion may be of thinner cross-section than the rest of the glazing bead, or may be joined to the rest of the glazing bead by a portion (29) defining a line of weakness at which the accessible portion of the bead will break off. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2239151-A (GB)
Title: Fishing lure
Inventor: BRADY CHRISTOPHER JOHN
IPC: A01K85/18
Filed: 1989-12-19
Abstract: A fishing lure, eg a fish simulator, has a hollow cone 6 which is able to swing from side to side around stabilizing arrow 9 because of the positioning of regulating pin 14. A rubber tail fin 4 is attached to the cone which may have a coating 5 of glitter paint. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2226384-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to a roll
Inventor: BRENDEL BERNHARD
IPC: B29C43/46
Filed: 1989-12-21
Abstract: A roll comprises a shell 1 which is supported hydraulically upon a beam 3. Adjacent each end of the roll a piston and cylinder unit 45 is provided which is adapted to raise the shell towards the nip defining position adjacent a further roll. The piston and cylinder units are so designed as to be movable only to a predetermined position, whereupon pressure fluid in the piston and cylinder unit is discharged. The piston and cylinder units therefore only raise the roll shell to a predetermined position, which is just short of the nip forming position. …<IMAGE>…
Patent GB-2229844-A (GB)
Title: Individual identification
Inventor: CLAYDEN DAVID OSWALD
IPC: A61B5/117
Filed: 1990-01-16
Abstract: Apparatus for the identification of individuals comprises a plurality of measuring means for measuring a corresponding plurality of biometric parameters of an individual, a comparator or comparators for comparing the outputs from the measuring means with sets of stored values and combining means for combining the outputs of the comparator means to produce either an acceptance or a rejection signal dependent on the combined results of comparisons made by the comparator.
Patent GB-2240397-A (GB)
Title: Capacitive transducer
Inventor: WARD RICHARD
IPC: G01L9/00
Filed: 1990-01-27
Abstract: A capacitor plate 12, pressure-responsive diaphragm 10 and interconnecting member 13 are formed as an integral unit eg by machining a solid block of material. The plate 12 defines a variable gap in cooperation with a further plate 16. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2229686-A (GB)
Title: Vehicles or vessels with dismountable power packs
Inventor: SHAW SYDNEY
IPC: B60K5/10
Filed: 1990-02-22
Abstract: An industrial vehicle, eg. a fork-lift truck, or a vessel has an integral power pack which is readily dismountable and is capable of operation when dismounted, eg. for testing. The power pack may comprise a frame (2), i.c. engine (3), hydraulic pump (5), hydraulic hoses (6), fuel tank (7), hydraulic fluid reservoir (8), battery (14), and control box (15). In a fork-lift truck the hoses (6) supply the driven wheels and forks; in a vessel, the hoses may be of considerable length, leading from the inboard power pack to the outboard hydraulic motor and screw. The fuel tank (7) and fluid reservoir (8) are mounted low so that there is little change in the centre of gravity of the vehicle as the fuel and fluid levels change.   <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2242471-A (GB)
Title: A trestle for a workman's platform
Inventor: HOLBORN MICHEAL JOHN SCANLON
IPC: E04G1/30
Filed: 1990-03-28
Abstract: A trestle having first and second portions which each comprise a pair of stiles and cross bearers supported by the stiles, the cross bearers being such that they are of circular cross section. Thus, a standard hooked-end scaffold platform may be secured to the circular rings. Guard rails 46, which may be telescopic, may also be so attached. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2244509-A (GB)
Title: Mounting device
Inventor: WU MIN-WOEI
IPC: F24F8/108
Filed: 1990-04-27
Abstract: A gauze filter mounting device for a ventilating exhauster, which comprises a socket mounted on the top of a suction inlet 20 of a ventilating exhauster, having a plurality of fastening elements in through-holes to firmly retain the circumferential metal frame of a gauze filter. Each fastening element 70 has a cylindrical body 71 with an unitary head portion 72 of wider diameter, a circular retaining groove 73 near the head portion for engaging one of the through-holes 31, a rectangular notch 74 made on the cylindrical body to define therewith two opposite faces and a front opening 77, two opposite, semi-circular retainer portions 78, 79 for retaining the circumferential metal frame of the gauze filter, and two opposite, chamfered edges 80 at said front opening. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2233161-A (GB)
Title: Retaining cables in trunking
Inventor: BOFFELLI ROBERTO
IPC: H01B/
Filed: 1990-05-09
Abstract: Cables are retained in trunking or a raceway by clips 10, 11 on a tie rod 12. The lower clip 10 is rotated (Figs 4 & 5) to secure its edges in channels formed at the bottom of the trunking by edges 8, 9. The edges 8, 9 may be integrally formed in the walls 4, 5 or by strips attached to the walls. The clip 10 may be slid along the channels before clamping the cables in place (Fig 3). <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2233253-A (GB)
Title: Processes and devices for the protection of pipes
Inventor: BARTLES FRANCIS LODOWIC
IPC: B05B13/04
Filed: 1990-06-05
Abstract: A process for applying a protective coating to a metal pipe comprising heating a predetermined part of the surface of the pipe applying a corrosion prevention agent to the heated surface, applying particles of a thermoplastics resin to the heated surface and heating the particles so as to cause them to coalesce. A device for carrying out the process comprising a plurality of curved body members connected hingedly to one another and adapted to encircle the surface of a pipe, the device providing means for applying separately a corrosion preventive agent and a thermoplastics resin and means to heat the particles of resin.
Patent GB-2245119-A (GB)
Title: Remote control circuit
Inventor: ROWE JOHN MICHAEL
IPC: H04B10/60
Filed: 1990-06-15
Abstract: Remote control circuits can operate according to carrier mode or according to flash mode. Integrated circuits for processing the received IR (Infra-Red) flash-mode signals are much more expensive than integrated circuits designed for carrier mode. It is an object of this invention to reduce the costs of circuits which process flash mode signals by using integrated circuits designed for carrier mode operation. According to the invention the processor 4 for the remote control receiver is of the type designed for carrier mode. The input circuit for the said processor 4 is dimensioned in such a way that the duration of the received flash mode pulses is increased. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2232683-A (GB)
Title: Aqueous emulsion polish
Inventor: MUNSON THOMAS HENRY
IPC: C09G1/04
Filed: 1990-07-23
Abstract: An aqueous, general purpose polish composition comprises a dispersion of gum arabic (acacia wax) in water.
Patent GB-2237352-A (GB)
Title: Apparatus for coating the interior walls of pipes
Inventor: BRADLEY WILLIAM GEORGE
IPC: B05B13/06
Filed: 1990-10-03
Abstract: So that a supply of the material for coating the interior walls of pipes can to at least some extent be maintained in a flowable condition, the apparatus is provided with means whereby the material is heated by waste heat from a water cooled engine (52) for powering the apparatus. The material eg. epoxy precursors may be heated by passing cooling water from the engine (52) through hollow walls of tanks (48, 50) or a storage cabinet (58). <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2238071-A (GB)
Title: Glass retaining member
Inventor: WATTS ALAN
IPC: E06B5/11
Filed: 1990-11-12
Abstract: A glass retaining member (35) comprises a frame-engaging portion (38) to be inserted into an inwardly-facing feature, e.g. a groove (30), in a frame member (12), a panel-engaging portion (42) to engage a glazing panel (22) in the frame (10), and first and second panel edge-engaging portions (44, 46) which engage edges of the panel (22) which meet at a corner. The frame-engaging portion (38) retains the member (36) in the frame (10), the panel-engaging portion (42) prevents the panel (22) from moving out of the frame (10) past the member (36) and the panel edge-engaging portions (44, 46) prevent the frame-engaging portion (38) from being withdrawn from or moved along the feature. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2246044-A (GB)
Title: A zoom lens for a variable depth range camera
Inventor: SCHNEITER JOHN LEWIS
IPC: G01C11/02
Filed: 1991-06-27
Abstract: An apparatus for a variable depth triangulation ranging system, the ranging system including means for emitting a light beam, means for focusing an emitted light beam on an object, and light sensitive means. The present apparatus includes motorized zoom/focus lens means for imaging reflected light onto said light sensitive means, a distance between the zoom lens means and the light sensitive means being substantially fixed when in an operative condition, the light sensitive means being rotatable relative to said zoom lens means, and means for adjustably positioning the light sensitive means and the zoom lens means such that an emitted light beam, a plane axis through the zoom lens means, and an image line through the light sensitive means all intersect at approximately a common point and satisfy the Scheimpflug condition. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2247670-A (GB)
Title: Cut-web tall edge holding means for web winding apparatus
Inventor: SHIRAKAWA KATSUAKI
IPC: B65H19/29
Filed: 1991-07-25
Abstract: The winding apparatus includes a main winding drum 5 and a web separator roll 10 rotating in synchronism, the roll 10 having a web separator means 11 projecting therefrom to move web 1 into a channel 12 in drum 5 to tear web 1 A hook blade assembly 20 having hooks 22 is mounted at fore side of channel 12. Edges of the hooks 22 are arranged side by side rearwardly of the direction of rotation of the main winding drum 5. Therefore, when a cutter blade 13 of the web separator means 11 plunges into the channel 12 and the web 1 is torn in channel 12, the tail edge 1b of the separated web 1 is caught by the hooks 22 and held against the surface 5a of the drum 5. <IMAGE>