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Patent GB-2458733-A (GB)
Title: Newspaper storage and bundling apparatus
Inventor: CROSTON RICHARD JOHN
IPC: B65B27/08
Filed: 2008-04-01
Abstract: A device for storing old newspapers and then binding them with string ready for recycling includes a number of features mounted on a flat board. These include two arms at an angle to the board suitable for supporting the papers, a holder for a roll of string, and a cutter for the string. The board may be mounted on a wall by means of screws through holes in the backing board.
Patent GB-2460051-A (GB)
Title: A fold down baby changing table
Inventor: GRAINGER JOHN EDWARD
IPC: A47D5/00
Filed: 2008-05-13
Abstract: A baby change table which is to be mounted on a wall so that it can be folded up against the wall when not in use comprises a baby supporting platform 12 which can be orientated to extend either parallel to the wall (Fig, 6), or at right angles to the wall (Fig. 4). The platform 12 is supported by a support member 14 which is hinged to a bracket 10 that is adapted to be secured to a fixed structure, e.g. a wall. The platform 12 may be secured to the support member 14 by screws or bolts 26 with security heads that require special tools to unscrew them. Alternatively, the platform 12 and the support member 14 have inter-engaging formations, e.g. bayonet type joint, to secure the platform in the desired position.
Patent GB-2448833-A (GB)
Title: Apparatus and a method for cleaning fill material in evaporative cooling structures
Inventor: SMITH STUART
IPC: B01J19/32
Filed: 2008-06-12
Abstract: An apparatus and a method for cleaning fill material in evaporative cooling structures comprises two or more sources of cleaning fluid selectively conveyed to a mixing manifold and delivering the two or more cleaning fluids to structures to be cleaned. A fluid control means is provided and comprises of a non-return valve on each conduit communicating the cleaning fluids so that the cleaning fluids are prevented from mixing with each other upstream of the mixing manifold, i.e. preventing undesired backflow of chemicals. The fill material may be used in cooling towers and may be plastics packing material that is cleaned or disinfected. The apparatus comprises means for drawing off predetermined volumes of one or more chemicals (optionally diluted with water) and pumping them into a corresponding number of dilution manifolds. Other fluid-flow control means such as flow meters and control valves may ensure that correct predetermined ratios/volumes of each fluid are drawn into the respective dilution manifolds. The diluted or undiluted chemical agents flow into the mixing manifold where they are mixed with other diluted or undiluted chemicals from one or more other dilution manifolds. The mixed chemicals may be delivered by means of an air gun or spray nozzle to clean the fill/packing material in situ within the cooling tower. Advantageously, any exothermic reactions are prevented until at least in or after the mixing manifold to increase safety.
Patent GB-2461939-A (GB)
Title: Combined medicine measuring cup and screw-cap bottle opening aid
Inventor: WILLIAMS KEELY
IPC: A61J1/22
Filed: 2008-07-18
Abstract: The present invention provides a medicine cup 10 mounted on a cylindrical base 12, the lower end of the base 20 being open and having means inside the lower end to engage with the surface of a tamper-proof medicine bottle screw cap 24. The cup portion 10 and base 12 may be joined by a stem 14. The base defines an opening 20 with an inside surface that engages the surface of a tamper-proof medicine bottle screw cap. The inside surface may have ribs, an o-ring or other friction enhancing means inside the opening to improve contact between the cup and the surface. The inside surface of the base may taper slightly outwardly towards the bottom of the base. The cup may be formed from a single plastics moulding.
Patent GB-2461923-A (GB)
Title: Integrated folding/tabbing apparatus for creating mailpieces
Inventor: FARMER GEOFFREY
IPC: B31B19/26
Filed: 2008-07-18
Abstract: A method is provided for configuring a mailpiece creation system to minimize system set-up, mitigate errors and reduce the skill level required to perform tabbing operations. The method includes the steps of (A) determining a fold configuration of the sheet material employed in the creation of a mailpiece, (B) determining the dimension of an adhesive tab for securing a free edge of the sheet material, (C) determining a target location for the placement of each adhesive tab relative to the free edge of the folded sheet material, configuring at least one system parameter of the mailpiece creation system (10) in accordance with at the fold configuration, adhesive tab dimension, and/or target location, and (E) executing a mail run job by the mailpiece creation system.
Patent GB-2462076-A (GB)
Title: Disc drive case for quick assembly to a device slot
Inventor: CHEN DENG-HSI
IPC: G11B33/12
Filed: 2008-07-21
Abstract: A disk drive case 10 is used to hold a disk drive and is then assembled into a corresponding slot in a computer case. The disk drive case provides a carrier to effectively protect the disk drive, allowing the disk drive to be quickly inserted into and pulled out of the slot of the computer case. The disc drive case has two baffle walls 102, 102' with a plurality of protrusions 1021 each having a locking element 1022 that locates in a slide rail (302, 40) of a device slot in a computer case. A plurality of first positioning devices 1011 locate a disc drive and second positioning device 104 pivots on one of the baffle walls and engages and locks to the other baffle wall. The case may also have a pulling handle 103 and the second locating device may have an elastic suppressing piece (1045).
Patent GB-2457791-A (GB)
Title: High efficiency direct electric heating system
Inventor: BREMNES JARLE JANSEN
IPC: F16L53/37
Filed: 2009-02-13
Abstract: The invention relates to a direct electric heating system for subsea steel pipeline with a piggyback cable arranged on the pipeline, where at least one shell-type magnetic core encompasses the pipeline with its piggyback cable. The shell-type magnetic core may be continuously or discretely arranged on the pipeline. Methods for applying the shell-type magnetic core around the pipeline with piggyback cable are also presented. A direct electric heating system according to the invention improves the pipeline current ratio through introduction of magnetic coupling between piggyback cable and pipeline thus significantly reducing power consumption and current in sea water.
Patent GB-2458844-A (GB)
Title: Format-preserving cryptographic systems
Inventor: SPIES TERENCE
IPC: H04L9/08
Filed: 2008-01-15
Abstract: Key requests in a data processing system may include identifiers such as user names, policy names, and application names. The identifiers may also include validity period information indicating when corresponding keys are valid. When fulfilling a key request, a key server may use identifier information from the key request in determining which key access policies to apply and may use the identifier in determining whether an applicable policy has been satisfied. When a key request is authorized, the key server may generate a key by applying a one-way function to a root secret and the identifier. Validity period information for use by a decryption engine may be embedded in data items that include redundant information. Application testing can be facilitated by populating a test database with data that has been encrypted using a format-preserving encryption algorithm. Parts of a data string may be selectively encrypted based on their sensitivity.
Patent GB-2463752-A (GB)
Title: Anti-skid braking system operable to monitor wheel speed and braking force
Inventor: CAHILL ERIC D
IPC: B60T8/17
Filed: 2009-07-28
Abstract: A system, apparatus and method of controlling a braking system of a vehicle having a plurality of rotating wheels and a plurality of brakes, each brake corresponding to one of the plurality of wheels. An operational status of the braking system is determined and, based on the determined operational status, different feedback regulation schemes are selectively implemented to control the brake force applied by the brakes. The braking system may be for aircraft landing gear. The operational parameter monitored by the controller or ECU may be wheel speed or braking force or pressure, and the controller may continue to implement an anti-skid braking scheme (ABS) on the wheels which do not have a malfunctioning wheel speed sensor or brake force sensor.
Patent GB-1438410-A (GB)
Title: Esterification reaction control method
IPC: C07C69/14
Filed: 1974-03-06
Abstract: 1438410 Esterification BP CHEMICALS INTERNATIONAL Ltd 4 Feb 1975 [6 March 1974] 10036/74 Heading C2C In the esterification of one or more C 2 -C 4  saturated alcohols with acetic acid, using a reaction kettle surmounted by a distillation column separating an ester/water azeotrope overhead, the operation is controlled by maintaining the conductivity of the reflux at a point in the column where the reflux contains 8-12% w./w. of water at 50Œ40 mhos cm.-<SP>1</SP>, by increasing the recycle of ester distillate to the top of the column when the conductivity rises above 50 mhos cm<SP>-1</SP> and reducing the recycle when the conductivity falls below 50 mhos cm<SP>-1</SP>. Ethyl, isopropyl, n-propyl, isobutyl or n-butyl acetate are prepared and a high boiling ester e.g. n-butyl acetate may be present. The reflux conductivity may be measured manually or by automatic monitoring and the recycle adjusted in accord. Examples describe the preparation of ethyl acetate with n-butyl or isobutyl acetate entrainment and the coproduction of ethyl acetate and n-butyl acetate.
Patent GB-806316-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to machines or apparatus for the continuous laying of asphalt and the like material in road making
Inventor: HILL ARTHUR WILLIAM
IPC: E01C19/48
Filed: 1956-04-03
Abstract: 806,316. Road-making machines. RUBERY OWEN (WARRINGTON), Ltd., and BARBER-GREENE, OLDING & CO., Ltd. May 27, 1957 [April 3, 1956], No. 10052/56. Drawings to Specification. Class 107 A self-propelled endless track road finishing machine is provided with dismountable road wheels one on each side of the machine and carried on stub axles supported by brackets bolted on to the machine frame, and with one or a pair of steerable wheels associated with a towing frame detachably bolted to a bracket assembly at one end of the machine's frame.
Patent GB-455892-A (GB)
Title: Sewing machine
IPC: D05B57/02
Filed: 1936-04-06
Abstract: 455,892. Sewing-machines. FAIRWEATHER, W. C., 65, Chancery Lane, London.-(Singer Manufacturing Co. ; Elizabeth, New Jersey, U.S.A.) April 6, 1936, No. 10063. [Class 112] A hem-stitching machine has a laterallyvibrating needle and a looper with a horizontal axis rotating in a fixed path transverse to the lateral movements of the needle to form chain stitches. The invention is shown as applied to a two-needle machine with a looper for each needle. The needle- and feed-actuating mechanisms are as described in Specifications 282,275, [Class 112], and 404,205. The machine makes seams as described in Specification 396,337. After a work-advancing movement of the feed-dog 44, the main piercer 26 is closely followed in its descending movement by the needles 13, 14 in their narrowly spaced relation to enter the hole made by the auxiliary piercer 32, this hole being then enlaiged and shaped by the main piercer. Towards the end of their downstroke, the needles move slightly apart to their loop-presenting positions under the'influence of the rotary cam 25, and assisted, if necessary, by the divergent faces 40 of the needle-guiding web 38 below the throat plate. The needle guards 78, 79 which are both swelling in a retracted position during the work-penetrating movement of the needles, advance towards the needles as they approach their lowest position, to prevent fouling of the needles and loopers. The needles then rise into loop-presenting position, the piercer 26 having preceded them in its rising movement. The beaks of the horizontal axis rotary loopers 71, 74 enter the needle loops, and the guards 78, 79 are retracted by cams 84, 94. The needles complete their rising movement. When the needles next descend, they are moved to their more widely spaced relation and penetrate the work in the fabric adjacent the holes made by the piercer to form the anchoring stitches. The next stitches are formed in the holes made by the piercer and the cycle repeated.. Thread controlling. The needle threads are intermittently drawn from a suitable thread supply (not shown), by a pull-off mechanism comprising a pull-off rod 97 vibrated between the inverted U-shaped post 98 on the bracket arm 3, the thread passing through eyes in the post. The rod 97 is vibrated by the pierceractuating rock-shaft 28. Thread tensioning. Operating in suitably timed relation with the stitch-forming mechanism is an intermittent tension device comprising a bush 100 on the bracket arm 3, Fig. 10, carrying spring-pressed discs 109, 110 with an intermediate thread separating disc 111, separated periodically by a rod 115 operated by an eccentric 118 on the main shaft 5. Auxiliary tension devices comprising spring-pressed discs 124, 125, Fig. 7, are also provided to control the slack thread, one of the needle threads passing between the discs 124 and the other between the discs 125. Throat plates. The throat plate has an under-extension 38 with a slot 39 for the piercer 26, to prevent the needle loops fouling during stitching.
Patent GB-762577-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to mesh facilitating devices for engine or turbine driven vehicles having mechanical or hydraulic transmission
IPC: F16H31/00
Filed: 1953-04-13
Abstract: 762,577. Turning gear. REGIE NATIONALE DES USINES RENAULT. April 13, 1953. [June 30, 1952], No. 10073/53. Class 7 (5). [Also in Group XXIV] To facilitate mesh of a dog clutch in the change-speed gear of a vehicle having mechanical or hydraulic transmission, whilst both the vehicle and its driving engine or turbine are stationary, the engine or turbine shaft can be inched slowly through a predetermined angle in one direction only, by supplying pressure air or oil through a calibrated restrictor 13 to a single-stroke piston 15, which rocks a parallelogram linkage carrying a pawl 7, spring-loaded into engagement with a ratchet wheel 1 mounted directly on the said shaft. On exhausting at 14, the piston is returned to idle position, shown, by a spring 8, and a stop 9 lifts the pawl 7 off the ratchet.
Patent GB-572814-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to steel alloys and piercing dies made of said alloys
IPC: C22C38/22
Filed: 1943-06-23
Abstract: 572,814. Alloys. STEVENS, A. H. (Finkl & Sons Co., A.). June 23, 1943, No. 10139. [Class 82 (i)] Alloys capable of withstanding the working conditions of a hot-work piercing die which is subjected to water-cooling between successive piercing operations consist of : carbon 0.25- 0.35 per cent, molybdenum 2.0-2.5 per cent, chromium 4.5-5.0 per cent, silicon 0.8-1.0 per cent, manganese 0.2-0.4 per cent, and the balance iron, which may contain the usual impurities. The alloys may also contain one or more of the metals nickel, vanadium, tungsten, in a total amount not exceeding 0.1 per cent.
Patent GB-1129614-A (GB)
Title: Heat resistant materials and structures
Inventor: HILLIER GEORGE HENRY
IPC: F16L59/02
Filed: 1965-03-10
Abstract: 1,129,614. Laminates. MINISTER OF TECHNOLOGY. 23 March, 1966 [10 March, 1965], No. 10163/65. Heading B5N. A heat resistant material comprises a gaspermeable, heat insulating layer of aluminium silicate fibrous felt material and a layer which decomposes in part with increasing temperature, the gases given off during decomposition carrying heat away. The layer which decomposes may be asbestos fibre laminate, or non-laminated chopped asbestos material impregnated with phenolic resin, or glass, asbestos, or silica filler in cloth or fibre form impregnated with epoxy or phenolic resin. A reflective coating of colloidal gold, silver or bronze paint, sprayed aluminium or aluminium deposited by a vacuum technique may be present between the insulating layer and the layer which decomposes. More than one layer of either material may be present.
Patent GB-854298-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in, or relating to, ablutionary appliances
Inventor: WRIGHT WILLIAM EDWARD
IPC: A47J39/00
Filed: 1958-03-31
Abstract: 854,298. Lavatory basins; waste fittings. WRIGHT & CO. Ltd., J. S. June 30, 1959 [March 31, 1958], No. 10187/58. Class 26. A self-contained ablutionary appliance comprises a lagged or heat-insulated water-storage reservoir 2 from which water is discharged through a tap 7 into a bowl 9 or like receptacle. The reservoir 2 with feet 3 is within a box 1 or larger-proportioned container, fibreglass 4, for example, intervening, the tap 7 being fitted thereto through a pipe 8. The bowl 9 is hinged on lugs 11 and can be swung from the position shown in Fig. 2 to a vertical position, when any water therein is discharged through perforation 18. Straps 12, pivoted at 12a, then each slidingly engage with a loop 13, and notches 14 finally engage the edges of the loops, (which are abutted by stops 15 to locate the bowl for receiving water), to be locked thereby, each free end entering into a bracket 16 on the container 1, a member 17 locking the straps 12 by engagement therewith. Instead of perforations 18 the bowl may function as necessary by having a waste-outlet through which a stem passes freely having a disc on the inside and a weight on the outside. A tube 5, with a filling orifice, on the reservoir 2 extends to the outside of the container 1 to be closed by a removable cover 6 or the like. The appliance may be supported by a framework made from angle strips 19 and include a frame 20 hingedly fitting over uprights 21, an overhanging flange of a strip 22 and across piece 23 seating upon the removable top plate of the reservoir 2 in service through a pivoted strap 24 engaging a pin 25.
Patent GB-309035-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to iron sheet piling walls
IPC: E02D5/08
Filed: 1929-04-02
Abstract: 309,035. Nolte, K. April 3, 1928, [Convention date]. Addition to 295,996. Piles; piling.-In a modification of the invention described in the parent Specification, a connecting-member for the sheet-pile members consists of a deep web a with a flange b bent over to receive the flanges c of the sheet-pile members g, and a foot d with corresponding grooves e, and with additional grooves f to receive the flanges of additional pile members when it is necessary to build up a box-section pile wall.
Patent GB-557001-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to cathode ray tubes
IPC: H01J29/52
Filed: 1940-06-12
Abstract: 557,001. Piezo-electric delay devices ; cathoderay tubes; modulating light ; television. WILLIAMS, B. C. FLEMING-. June 12, 1940, No. 10243. [Classes 39 (i), 40 (iii) and 40 (v)] An electromechanical delay device comprises a bar of piezo-electric material with a pair of electrodes 1, 2, Fig. 1, at one end and with mechanical or electrical damping means at the other end, whereby voltage variations applied to the electrodes produce stress waves which travel along the bar and in turn produce corresponding voltage variations with time delay at points along the bar. If a second pair of electrodes 3, 4 is provided at the other end of the bar, the delayed voltage variations may be taken therefrom. The bar may be used to deflect elemental parts of a ribbon cathode-ray beam successively by locating the bar Q, Figs. 2 and 3, beside and parallel to the width of the ribbon beam X, the stress wave along the bar causing potential waves along one side of the bar to deflect successively the elemental parts of the beam on to a stop electrode Z which intercepts a proportion of each elemental part of the beam according to the degree of its deflection. An image of a cross-section of the beam in the vicinity of the bar Q is focused on the screen S by coils FC. If the potential between the plates P<SP>1</SP>, P<SP>2</SP> is kept constant, the line trace which the beam forms on the screen can be moved in the direction of its length by the plates P<SP>3</SP>, P' at such a speed and in such a sense as to compensate for the travel of the stress wave in the bar Q, so that the variation in the intensity of response along the length of the stationary trace will correspond with the variation with time of the voltage applied between electrodes 1, 2. One face of the crystal may be given a semiconducting coating by platinum sputtering. A television picture may be reproduced by applying the line and frame deflecting potentials to the pairs of plates P<SP>1</SP> ... P', and the picture signals to the electrodes 1, 2. According to the Provisional Specification, the beam may be deflected by the voltage pulse at the output end of the bar, or by plates connected to electrodes at that end. Other minor modifications are described.
Patent GB-1157500-A (GB)
Title: Dyeing of Olefin Polymers.
IPC: C08L23/02
Filed: 1967-03-03
Abstract: 1,157,500. Oxymethylene polymer-olefin polymer compositions. MONTECATINI EDISON S.p.A. 3 March, 1967 [7 March, 1966], No. 10322/67. Heading C3P. [Also in Division D1] Compositions comprising 5 to 25% of an oxymethylene polymer or copolymer mixed with a crystalline olefin polymer are formed into fibres, which are dyed using conventional disperse or pre-metallized dyestuff. The compositions may be formed by mixing with agitation or by mixing the olefin polymer with a solution of the oxymethylene polymer, and allowing the solvent to evaporate. Homopolymers of trioxan or formaldehyde and copolymers with dioxolan, 1,3-dioxan, tetrahydrofuran, ethylenglycol formal, butyrolactone, propiolactone and hexahydrobenzotrioxepan are mentioned as oxymethylene polymer component. Isotactic polypropylene is the only olefin polymer mentioned. In Example 1, isotactic polypropylene, formaldehyde homopolymer, TiO 2 , and 4,41-butylidene - bis - (6 - tert. - butyl - m - cresol) are mixed in a ball mill, and fibres formed by extrusion in a melt-spinning device, while in Example 2, fibres are formed from a composition obtained by mixing isotactic polypropylene, TiO 2 , tris-phenyl-nonylphosphite, calcium stearate, and a trioxan-dioxolan copolymer, and the fibres dyed in both examples.
Patent GB-954355-A (GB)
Title: Magnetic workholders
Inventor: PANTON JOHN ROBERT
IPC: B23Q3/154
Filed: 1960-03-23
Abstract: 954,355. Magnetic holding devices. DARWINS Ltd. June 20, 1961 [March 23, 1960], No. 10362/60. Heading H1P. A magnetic workholder comprises a number of polepieces 2 extending radially from a central axis 3 and separated by non-magnetic separators 4. It is rendered operative and inoperative by a magnetic block disposed below the workholding surface and arranged to rotate about the axis 3; the magnetic block comprises alternate magnets 30 and conductor bars 31 disposed vertically below the polepieces 2, the magnetic circuit being completed through a magnetic base plate (not shown) supporting the magnets and conductor bars. A central bore 5 is formed in the workholding surface in which fits a removable plug 6 which may be located by means of a key fitting a key-way formed in the bore 5. The plug 6 comprises alternate laminated layers of magnetic and non-magnetic material 7, 8 respectively, arranged so as to couple the polepieces 2 across the bore. The plug 5 may alternatively comprise alternate radial segments of magnetic and non-magnetic material (Fig. 2, not shown).