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Patent GB-2238707-A (GB)
Title: Repairing footwear
Inventor: BULLOCK PETER
IPC: A43D5/00
Filed: 1989-12-08
Abstract: A method of re-soling an item of footwear with a stick-on type sole, comprises removing the worn sole; scouring the exposed, outer surface of the undersole; applying an air curing solvent adhesive/cement to the scoured surface; blowing air over the solvent, and applying a replacement stick-on sole to the cement. The invention also includes apparatus for carrying out this method comprising a drying cabinet having an open-fronted compartment, an electrically operated fan adapted to blow air across the interior of the compartment and hence across the solvent adhesive/cement applied to the footwear, an on/off switch for the fan, and timer means to time the period of operation of the fan.
Patent GB-2240372-A (GB)
Title: A gear position sensor
Inventor: PARSONS DAVID
IPC: F16H59/04
Filed: 1990-01-25
Abstract: The gear position sensor is used to indicate that one of a plurality of gear ratios has been engaged in a change-speed transmission (12). The sensor (23) comprises a sensing transducer component (53) and a co-operable component (42). The component (42) is movable relative to the transducer in a first direction and a second direction transverse to the first direction into any one of a plurality of predetermined attitudes each of which corresponds to one of the ratios. The cooperation between the components (52, 42) enables the transducer (53) to provide a signal to indicate that a particular ratio has been engaged. The component (42) may be of cam-like form for cooperation with an operating finger (54) of the transducer (53).
Patent GB-2233085-A (GB)
Title: Reducing electric power consumption of steering sensor system of vehicle
Inventor: OSHITA SAIICHIRO
IPC: G01B21/22
Filed: 1990-03-08
Abstract: The electric power consumption of a steering sensor system for a vehicle having a microcomputer (27) for calculating the absolute steering angle in a normal operating mode in response to an output signal from a steering sensor (23) is reduced by changing the microcomputer from the normal operation mode to a stand-by mode of low electric power consumption on switching off the ignition switch, and the operation is changed from the stand-by mode to the normal operation mode during ignition switch-off in response to a trigger signal from a deviation detecting circuit (25) which responds to any deviation of the steering angle. Thus if the steering is turned while the ignition is off, the microcomputer is switched from stand-by to normal operation and the absolute value of the steering angle is not lost. The steering angle sensor may be an optical or magnetic rotary encoder or a potentiometer. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2231426-A (GB)
Title: Network and intelligent cell for providing sensing,bidirectional communications and control
Inventor: MARKULA JR ARMAS C
IPC: H04Q9/00
Filed: 1990-04-04
Abstract: A cell for use in a network which provides sensing, control and communications. Each cell, as part of its manufacturing process, includes a unique 48-bit identification number. A terminal on the cell enables the broadcast of this unique number onto the network during initialization of the network so that each cell can be identified. The input/output section of each cell communicates with the plurality of processors in the cell allowing one processor to interpret messages received from the network without interrupts of functions performed by other processors.
Patent GB-900900-A (GB)
Abstract: 900,900. Photo-cell testing. MULLARD Ltd. April 14, 1961, No. 13520/61. Class 37. Apparatus for testing electrical components comprises a belt of linked carrier units for storing and selecting such components; each unit being tubular and perpendicularly to the belt length with a recess containing the component in such manner that it may be tested by external apparatus, a pin memory device operated in response to such test to indicate the result thereof, and means for selecting the component in accordance with the pin memory indication. A series of carrier units (Figs. 1, 2) of hexagonal cross-section are linked together by gudgeons 1 and pintles 2 into a belt (Fig. 3) wound from spool 13 to spool 14. A plunger 3 ejectable from each unit carries a memory pin 4 spring retained and slidable in a transverse bore to alternatively engage a long groove 6 or a short groove 5 of the unit controlling the degree of ejection of the plunger. In operation, the belt is fed past a shoe (not shown), engaging slot 11 of each unit to set the memory pins of the retracted plungers in positions permitting maximum ejection. Other shoes (not shown) then impel the pin fully in the opposite direction and return it; microswitches responsive to excessive force of the shoes due to pin stiffness serving to operate an alarm and stop the belt. At a loading position a pneumatically-operated piston ejects each plunger in turn to its maximum excursion, the photo-cells 7 to be tested are inserted in successive units with connecting leads 8 lying in grooves 9 and pushed home manually against the piston; a microswitch (not shown), being operated to release the air pressure at full insertion and energize a motor to wind the belt until the next unit is in loading position. After the loaded belt has been wound on spool 14 it is stored in darkness for a critical time, and thereafter placed in testing apparatus (not shown), wherein the belt is incrementally fed past a number of stations at which the cells are tested for illuminated output, current decay after illumination, resistance, and intermittency when a blast of air is directed through hole 12 of the carrier units; the cells being held horizontal with their light-sensitive ends shielded until test and leads 8 emerging upwards for connection. Any failure operates a device (not shown) to traverse pin 4 to its opposite position engaging short grooves, so that when the belt is fed through a selector device (not shown) in which spring pressure ejects plunger 3, a good cell is totally ejected (Fig. 4, not shown) and a faulty cell is partially ejected (Fig. 5, not shown) so that claw mechanism (not shown) may extract them separately.
Patent GB-2234492-A (GB)
Title: Container for housing excess length of cable
Inventor: MARCHESI FRANCO
IPC: G02B6/44
Filed: 1990-07-09
Abstract: The container 1 for housing the excess length of cables or ribbons 8 of optical fibre type comprises support blocks 7, 13 for the cables, which support blocks are provided with through openings 9, 11 (14, 14A) with slits 10 (15), the thickness of which slits makes it possible for the ribbons (8) to be slid transversely into the openings. The ribbons are retained by the blocks in an ellipsoidal path inside the container. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2238590-A (GB)
Title: Brake booster with anti-skid control
Inventor: WILLMANN KARL-HEINZ
IPC: B60T8/44
Filed: 1990-11-02
Abstract: A hydraulic brake booster capable of anti-skid control has a pot-shaped return piston 12 which guidingly receives a servo piston 7 with associated valve arrangement 81 and which is itself guided in a housing 20 which defines a chamber 56 and during anti-skid control the chamber 56 is pressurised through an opened valve 63 from the servo pressure chamber 74 and applies a return force on the return piston 12 which may be passed on to the servo piston 7. During anti-skid control a valve 54 is switched to relieve pressure in master cylinder chamber 50 which for rapid re-pressurisation a valve 85 switches to connect the booster chamber 74 to the chamber 50. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2241229-A (GB)
Title: Mine skip
Inventor: JOUBERT ROBERT MONTAQUE
IPC: B66B17/08
Filed: 1991-02-22
Abstract: A skip to be suspended in a mine shaft has a discharge opening (40) at the lower end region of a chamber defined by a skip body. A door (42) closes the opening and can open to discharge material from the chamber. Door operating members (54) at opposite sides of the body are pivotable about a common axis between a closed position in which the door is closed and an open position in which the door is open. Connectors (60) connect the members and the door and the connectors cross the pivot axis (50) as the door moves between the open and closed positions. The connectors can be at least partly flexible. It is desirable for the chamber to be generally of a greater cross-sectional area at a level above the operating members than at the level of the members and for the body to extend above and at least partly cover the operating members. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2256102-A (GB)
Title: Automatic level controller for in-vehicle sound system
Inventor: HOWIE ROBIN MIDDLEMASS
IPC: H04B1/16
Filed: 1991-05-24
Abstract: An in-vehicle sound system in which the system sound output is automatically increased with increasing vehicle speed and/or engine revolutions and/or total vehicle and/or wind noise levels so automatically ensuring the audibility and/or confidentiality of desired signals under normal vehicle operating conditions. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2250639-A (GB)
Title: Isolated antenna bases
Inventor: WALLEN LESLIE JAMES
IPC: H01Q1/12
Filed: 1991-06-26
Abstract: An antenna base 4, integral to the antenna, which is capacitively coupled to the bodywork or panel of a metal vehicle, or any other form of metal or substitute material groundplane 9, by any appropriate method comprising of a dielectric 6 or material of suitable permeativity. The antenna is thereby connected to ground enabling alternating current to pass in the form of radio frequency, but not allowing direct current to pass and thus isolating it. The capacitive coupling and d.c. isolation is achieved by the antenna base 4 itself so that no other structure is required between the base and the vehicle to which it is attached. The antenna earth or braid side of a coaxial cable 8 is connected to a plate 5, which could be magnetic, and is capacitively coupled to the vehicle surface 9 via dielectric 6. The cable 8 is run through extremities of the vehicle, such as, doors, boot lid, hatch back door etc. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2245619-A (GB)
Title: Brick cladding sheet
Inventor: THURSTON DAVID
IPC: E04C2/30
Filed: 1991-06-28
Abstract: The cladding sheet has locating slots to which a plurality of artificial brick fronts having complimentary locating projections are fixed using screws, rivets or adhesive.
Patent GB-2252103-A (GB)
Title: Emulsified water-based functional fluids thickened with water-soluble polymers containing hydrophobic groups
Inventor: BOCK JAN
IPC: C10M173/00
Filed: 1991-10-04
Abstract: An oil-in-water emulsified, preferably microemulsified, water-based functional fluid, e.g., metal working fluid, having improved rheological and/or anti-misting properties which contains polymer, oil, surfactant, and water. The polymer contains water soluble nonionic monomer species, e.g., acrylamide, water soluble anionic monomer species, e.g., Na acrylate, and water insoluble monomer species, e.g., N,N-dialkylacrylamide. The polymer acts as a thickener. The oil may be a mineral oil or a C5 to C18-alkane. The surfactant may be anionic or nonionic e.g. a metal organo sulfonate. In examples the polymeric thickener is a terpolymer of acrylamide, sodium acrylate and N-n-octyl acrylamide.
Patent GB-2253073-A (GB)
Title: Double bevel gradient-index rod lens
Inventor: BRAUN DAVID M
IPC: H04B10/43
Filed: 1992-02-04
Abstract: A gradient-index (GRIN) rod lens 10, for use in an optical receiver 30, in which the end faces 14, 16 of the GRIN rod lens are bevelled. The receiver 30 may comprise an optical fibre 40 and a photodetector 50. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2255832-A (GB)
Title: Locating buried object having an associated electromagnetic field
Inventor: HOWELL MARK IAN
IPC: G01V3/10
Filed: 1992-05-13
Abstract: The buried object is detected by a detector having an array (preferably triangular) of detector coils 1, 2, 3 whose extended axes define a multi-sided area on the ground, which is passed over the buried object, the change of phase in the coils being detected by a detecting circuit 10-49. The circuit is located outside the area defined by the axes of the coils, and is preferably electromagnetically screened from the coils, thus substantially eliminating interference problems. As described, the detector comprises three similar circuits 10, 20, 30 operating on three separate frequency bands ie 50-60Hz, 5KHz-5MHz and 15-100KHz. Each circuit comprises a high gain amplifier 14, 24, 34, two monostable circuits 15, 17, 25, 27, 35, 37, a 3 input gate 16, 26, 36 and an associated LED 19, 29, 39. When an object is detected, the output of one of the coils will be out of phase with the other and the LED of the relevant frequency band circuit will light, indicating the nature of the buried service. When no object is detected, equal signals are supplied to all inputs of gate 40 and LED 49 is lit. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2269517-A (GB)
Title: Fish lure.
Inventor: WARD JOHN MATTHEW
IPC: A01K85/14
Filed: 1992-08-13
Abstract: A Fish Lure which has a Body 1 which can be attached to an angler's Hook 6, removed, and/or changed for another of similar design without the need to cut the Line 5 or untie the Hook 6. The body, once secured to the hook by its own tension, will wobble when retrieved through water. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2260767-A (GB)
Title: Fuel briquettes
Inventor: LAYDEN BRENDAN
IPC: C10L5/14
Filed: 1992-10-22
Abstract: Fuel briquettes are manufactured from crushed coal or coke which is bound together by a binder comprising starch and a sulfamate starch cross linking agent. Ammonium peroxodisulphate may also be used as a co-binding agent. The briquettes are dried at a temperature of from 200 DEG C to 240 DEG C.
Patent GB-2272343-A (GB)
Title: Automatic aircraft landing system calibration
Inventor: SILLITTO HILARY GIL
IPC: G01S5/16
Filed: 1992-11-10
Abstract: To allow calibration of an airfield microwave landing system an aircraft carries a microwave landing system receiver and a TV camera together with a data processing system. The aircraft is guided in to land by the microwave landing system and the positions of the airfield landing lights are observed by the TV camera, the images from the TV camera are processed by the data processing system to give the position and orientation of the aircraft relative to the runway at each point in its landing approach. The aircraft's actual flight path and orientation can then be checked against the intended flight path and orientation and the necessary changes to the microwave landing system to eliminate any differences and so properly calibrate the microwave landing system can be calculated.
Patent GB-2261730-A (GB)
Title: A measuring device for high temperatures
Inventor: CHRISTMANN WERNER
IPC: G01J5/00
Filed: 1992-11-18
Abstract: A measuring device for high temperatures having a radiation pyrometer (1) which is particularly for use in combustion chambers (8) which may contain particulates from combustion residues. A small measuring tube (2) extends coaxially to the direction of measurement of the pyrometer (1). The outer end (2a) of the tube (2) is closed. The inner end of the tube (2) which faces the pyrometer is open. The tube (2) extends through the wall (4, 5) of the measuring chamber. The thickness of the wall (4, 5) and the material of the small measuring tube are such that at the inner side of its closed end (2a) a temperature corresponding to that in the measuring chamber can be measured. The tube (2) is surrounded by a plurality of supporting tubes (7) open at both ends. The tubes (7) project from a coolant chamber (11), coolant gas passing through the supporting tubes (7) into chamber (8). <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2264830-A (GB)
Title: Digital frequency generator
Inventor: FRANK BERNHARD
IPC: H04L27/20
Filed: 1993-02-23
Abstract: A digital frequency generating device (1) has a first digital frequency generator (10), which generates at its output (19) a first signal with a selectable first frequency f1 and with a first phase position @1. At any time the first frequency f1 can be switched over at the output (39) of an output stage (30) to a selectable second frequency f2 with a continuous phase continuation by a multiplexer (4). A second digital frequency generator (20) generates at its output (29) a second signal with the selectable second frequency f2. The first frequency generator (10) continues to run independently. and subsequently the output (19) of the first digital frequency generator (10) can be connected, to the output stage (30) of the frequency generating device (1). In this way a phase-coherent switching back from the second frequency f2 to the first frequency f1 is possible. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2267702-A (GB)
Title: Alkaline-earth based sorbent for removing effluent from a gas stream
Inventor: RODRIGUEZ DOMINGO
IPC: B01D53/50
Filed: 1993-06-10
Abstract: A sorbent for removing effluents such as sulfur dioxide from combustion gas streams comprises a hydroxide formed from an alkaline-earth based material such as lime and having incorporated therein an iron and organic compound promotion addition to enhance its ability to remove effluents from the gas stream. The sorbent is formed by co-dissolving an iron salt and an organic compound in a hydration solution and thereafter mixing the hydration solution containing the iron salt and the organic compound with an alkaline-earth based material. The sorbent thus produced may be injected into a gas stream in either dry or slurry form to remove the effluents. The organic compound may be glucose, fructose, glycerol, sorbitol and/or gluconic acid.
Patent GB-2281549-A (GB)
Title: Folding a blank around a product
Inventor: FISHER GARY AUSTIN
IPC: B65B11/10
Filed: 1993-07-31
Abstract: Apparatus for assembling a wrap-around sleeve blank (21) around a product (11) which is being moved through the apparatus on a conveyor includes a pair of rotary horizontal plough means (26) arranged to fold end portions (21B, 21C) of the sleeve blank (21) back across the product to enclose the product within a sleeve. The plough means (26) for folding one end portion (21B) is upstream of the plough means (26) for folding a second end portion (21C). Each plough means (26) also supports the product (11) during its passage through the apparatus. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2284002-A (GB)
Title: A modular coastal protection system
Inventor: HAYES GEORGE
IPC: E02B3/04
Filed: 1993-11-19
Abstract: A modular construction coastal protection system comprises a plurality of blocks 1, 2 adapted to be interconnected to form a solid wall. Each block 1, 2 has either a tongue 3 or a groove 4 extending substantially the full length of each of the sides thereof. The tongue 3 or groove 4 is, respectively, received in or receives the groove 4 or tongue 3 in the side of the block immediately adjacent thereto in the wall. A reinforcing bar 6 may be inserted in a hole extending vertically through the sides of each column of blocks. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2275281-A (GB)
Title: Stud partition resistant to bullets or bomb blast
Inventor: HAMMERTON ROY WILLIAM JAMES
IPC: E04H9/10
Filed: 1994-02-22
Abstract: A stud partition (22) comprising first sheet material (24) forming a first side (26) of the partition (22), second sheet material (28) forming a second side (30) of the partition (22), a plurality of vertically extending stud members (32) which are positioned between the first and the second sheet material (24, 28) such that the first and the second sheet material (24, 28) are spaced apart and define therebetween a cavity (34) in the partition (22), and third sheet material (36) which is positioned in the cavity (34) and which is for resisting penetration by bullets and flying debris from bombs. The sheet (36) may be GRP held in place by C-shaped channel members (40); metal mesh sheets (46) and metal plates (48) may lie between sheets (24, 28) and the studs (32); sheets (24, 28) may be of plasterboard. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2278708-A (GB)
Title: Children's speech training aid
Inventor: RUSSELL MARTIN JAMES
IPC: G10L15/22
Filed: 1993-11-02
Abstract: A children's speech training aid compares a child's speech with models of speech, stored as sub-word acoustic models, and a general speech model to give an indication of whether or not the child has spoken correctly. An indication of how well the word has been pronounced may also be given. An adult operator enters the word to be tested into the training aid which then forms a model of that word from the stored sub-word speech models. The stored acoustic models are formed by first recording a plurality of words by a plurality of children from a given list of single words. These recordings are then processed off-line to give a basic acoustic model of an acceptable or correct sound for each phoneme in the context of the pre- and proceeding phonemes. The acoustic models are Hidden Markov Models. The limits of acceptable prononciation applied to different words and children may be adjusted by variable penalty values applied in association with the general speech acoustic model. The training aid generates accumulated word costs for each child's utterance and uses these costs to indicate correctness of pronunciation. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2291621-A (GB)
Title: Saw blade adjusting mechanism
Inventor: CHEN CHUN-CHIUNG
IPC: B23D51/14
Filed: 1994-07-20
Abstract: A saw blade adjusting mechanism is disclosed having a first tightening rod (12) and a second tightening rod (23) each mountable on the frame assembly (10) of a hacksaw at two opposite ends preferably by nuts, to hold the saw blade. A rotatable adjusting knob (17) is mounted around the first tightening rod and is biased by a first spring (18) preferably a coil spring to mesh with a toothed through hole (11) on the front end of the frame assembly of the hacksaw. A gear (25) is mounted around the second tightening rod and forced by a second spring (26) to disengage from the locating block (21). In operation the first and second tightening up rods are moved synchronously when the rotatable adjusting knob is turned to change the angular position of the saw blade. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2280468-A (GB)
Title: Suspended platform scaffolding
Inventor: REED HENRY THOMAS
IPC: E04G3/20
Filed: 1994-07-27
Abstract: A scaffolding assembly of the type wherein working platforms (9) for personnel are suspended from above comprises four continuous flexible suspension elements, for example chains (11), and a number of generally rectangular platforms, each of these platforms, below the top one, being separately suspended from the suspension elements by four links, for example chains (8), each link being connected between a corner of the platform and one of the suspension elements. The scaffolding assembly can readily adapt to the contour of an inclined or curved work surface and, by virtue of the links, the platforms are essentially self-levelling. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2284538-A (GB)
Title: Disposable absorbent article of hygiene with surface web provided with an opening for receiving stools
Inventor: DURANT BENEDICTE
IPC: A61F13/15
Filed: 1994-12-06
Abstract: The article comprises an absorbent pad (2) arranged between an outer support sheet (1) and a surface sheet (3), the surface sheet comprising an elongate opening (5) which is offset toward the rear to be centered with respect to a point of acquisition of stools, and two elasticized longitudinal folds 10, on either side of the opening, which each have a first region in which the fold is folded toward the longitudinal axis of the article and fixed to the underlying part of the sheet (Figure 2), and a second region (Figure 3) where the fold is free over most of this region, is folded toward the outside or the inside with respect to the longitudinal axis and fixed to the underlying part of the surface sheet only in proximity to the front transverse edge (6) of the article (Figure 4). The article allows better confinement of stools and improved leaktightness to leaks of urine. <IMAGE>