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Patent GB-2287341-A (GB)
Title: Validation apparatus
Inventor: FURNEAUX DAVID MICHAEL
IPC: G07D5/00
Filed: 1994-03-11
Abstract: Apparatus for validating items of value comprises a measurement circuit, Fig. 4, including an inductor 2, the complex impedance of which varies in accordance with the interaction between a test item of value and a magnetic field within which the inductor is located; means for extracting first and second periodic signals from the circuit; timing means for timing the interval between corresponding portions of the first and second periodic signals; and processing means for determining the value of a parameter related to at least one of the real and imaginary parts of said complex impedance, as a measure of the validity of said test item, from the outputs of the timing means. As described the circuit includes a waveform generator 9, the inductor coil 2 and a resistor 10, and the time lags of the voltages across the inductor Vl, and the resistor, Vr, relative to the input voltage Vin, represented by T2 and T1, Fig. 5, are used to calculate the real and imaginary components of the coil impedance. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2278832-A (GB)
Title: Document sorter
Inventor: WINKLER THEODORE
IPC: B65H39/11
Filed: 1994-05-26
Abstract: A sorter for separating a plurality of documents into two groups on the basis of characteristics which distinguish the documents of one group from the documents of the other group in which a cabinet has an input tray 16 from which documents are fed one by one along a path past sensors 238, 240, 242 and between a pair of belts 66, 70 having divergent path portions between which a diverter 90 responsive to the sensors 238, 240, 242 is disposed and is adapted to divert documents alternatively to the nip between an upper pinch roller 82 and one of the belts in its divergent path portion to cause the document to be deposited in an upper output tray 98 by an upper stacker 108 or to the nip between a lower pinch roller 86 and the other belt in its divergent path portion to cause the document to be deposited in a lower output tray 104 by a lower stacker 118 in which the upper output tray 104 and the upper stacker 108 and the pinch rollers 82, 86 are mounted for movement as a unit between an operative position and an inoperative position at which the diverter is accessible with a magnetic coupling (228, Fig 3) being provided between a shaft (210, Fig 3) on the sorter frame and the upper stacker shaft (110, Fig 3). <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2283429-A (GB)
Title: A protector for a syringe needle or scalpel
Inventor: JENKINS DAVID HOWELL
IPC: A61M5/32
Filed: 1994-07-27
Abstract: The protector 16 is movable along a needle or scalped between an inoperative position in which it exposes the pointed end or sharp edge portion of the implement and an operative position in which it covers the pointed end or sharp edge portion of the implement. The protector also comprises a holder 15 for fitting to the implement and an arm 17, connecting the protector to the holder which prevents separation of the protector from the implement. The protective element flips into a tilted position to prevent unintentional movement of the protector to expose the pointed end or sharp edge. In a further embodiment the protector has two flexible arms connecting it to the holder, and is of generally spherical shape with a through passage. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2280747-A (GB)
Title: Oil or gas-burning stove
Inventor: GWILLIAM ANTHONY THOMAS
IPC: F24C13/00
Filed: 1994-08-02
Abstract: A stove, suitable for domestic use, has a cooker and a boiler (12) individually heated by independently controllable burners (8, 9) which can be turned on and off as required. The user may, therefore, set the burners for heating the boiler or the cooker alone, or both together. Preferably the burners are of a pressure jet type with automatic ignition and thermostatic control. The burners fire into combustion chambers (10, 11) formed at least in part of ceramic material; the chambers, and products of combustion passages (24) leading from them to a flue, being thermally insulated from one another. A roasting oven (5) and a warming oven (4) of the cooker may both be heated directly by products of combustion from the cooker burner (8), or the warming oven may be heated by heat exchange from the roasting oven. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2294815-A (GB)
Title: Non-rewirable electrical plug with noise suppression
Inventor: BORSTEL RICHARD ROBERT
IPC: H01R13/719
Filed: 1994-11-02
Abstract: A mains plug 14 has connected thereto an electrical cable with at least two insulated cores 11 and 12. A radio frequency interference suppressing ferrite annulus 30 is located in the plug 14 and encircles the cable 10 at or adjacent the point of entry of the cable. The first cable core 11 is connected in a first chamber of the plug to one end 32 of a first conductor 27 which is wound several times round the ferrite annulus 30, the other end of that conductor 27 being connected to a first terminal 18 of the plug. The second cable core 12 is connected in a second chamber to one end 31 of a second conductor 26, which also is wound several times around the annulus 30 and has its other end connected to a second terminal 25, 17 of the plug. The plug top is sealed to the base of the plug. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-944767-A (GB)
Abstract: 944,767. Balls. FRIDO Ltd. Nov. 26, 1962 [Dec. 5, 1961], No. 43409/61. Heading A6D. [Also in Divisions B5 and F2] An inflatable ball has a valve holding portion formed from a P.V.C. sleeve 15 bonded to the wall material of the ball resting on which is a washer 14 situated below a conical recess shaped to receive the head of the valve. In a modification, the wall of the ball is thickened to strengthen the portion receiving the valve. Specifications 826,076 and 856,769 are referred to.
Patent GB-2298397-A (GB)
Title: Load covering arrangement for a road vehicle
Inventor: RUTTLE GEORGE HARRY
IPC: B60J7/08
Filed: 1995-03-01
Abstract: A road vehicle, eg a tipper, has an upwardly open body 4 which acommodates a load, eg sand or rock. A cover device 6 is secured to the body 4 and includes a tarpaulin cover 8 which is arranged to be moved between a storage position (shown in full lines) and a covering position (shown in dashed and dotted lines). In the storage position, the cover 8 is stored on a roller 12 which is rotatable by a crank arm 14. The end of the cover which is not attached to the roller is attached to a pair of arms 22 which are pivoted at 26 to opposite sides of the vehicle body. The pivots 26 incorporate springs to urge the arms anti-clockwise as seen in the figure. The cover 8 may be held in the covering position by ropes or latches.
Patent GB-2299501-A (GB)
Title: Structural panel with decorative side edge
Inventor: CRABTREE MICHAEL ANTHONY
IPC: A47B13/08
Filed: 1995-04-01
Abstract: A structural panel 10 comprises a main panel body 20 defining a planar substrate having opposed upper 21 and lower 22 faces, a cover sheet of a rigid material 25 bonded to and covering the upper face of the panel, the cover sheet having at least one marginal edge portion 35 which extends beyond a side edge 36 of the substrate, the side edge being covered by a laminated edge covering assembly 40, the edge covering assembly having an upper face 41 laminated with a lower face of marginal edge portion 35a and having a lower face 41 laminated contiguous with a lower face 10a of the panel. The panel may be used as a worktop.
Patent GB-2307331-A (GB)
Title: Method for dissolving nuclear fuels
Inventor: TOMIYASU HIROSHI
IPC: C01G56/00
Filed: 1995-11-14
Abstract: The powdered form of nuclear fuels such as uranium dioxide and plutonium dioxide are dispersed in an about 3N aqueous nitric acid solution, and irradiated by UV rays at a wavelength of approximately 300 nm in order to improve the dissolving rate of the nuclear fuels. This enables easy and efficient dissolution of the nuclear fuels.
Patent GB-2311002-A (GB)
Title: Headrest covers
Inventor: PALLETT DARREN VINCENT
IPC: B60N2/60
Filed: 1996-03-14
Abstract: A cover (10) for a headrest (H) of a vehicle seat (S), the cover (10) being generally in the shape of or otherwise to represent, a shirt. The cover (10) has a body portions locatable over a headrest (H) and sleeve portions (14) on respective sides (16) of the body portion (12). A collar portion (18) is also provided. The cover (10) is designed to represent a shirt indicative of a particular organisation, activity or the like, such as a football, rugby, basket ball team or the like.
Patent GB-2300264-A (GB)
Title: Determining metal dissolution rates in fuels
Inventor: TAYLOR SPENCER EDWIN
IPC: G01G3/16
Filed: 1996-04-23
Abstract: A method for determining the rate of metal dissolution in fuels, particularly hydrocarbon fuels such as aviation fuel involves determining small mass changes in a metal electrode in contact with fuels and comprises:  (a) immersing a metal coated quartz crystal working electrode 8 in the fuel 4 (b) connecting the crystal to an oscillating circuit (c) detecting and measuring the change in frequency of the crystal; and (d) analysing the results obtained in step (c). A reference electrode may be coated in an inert metal and immersed in the fuel.
Patent GB-2304442-A (GB)
Title: Radio selective calling system
Inventor: SATO YUKIO
IPC: G08B5/22
Filed: 1996-08-21
Abstract: In a selective calling receiver receiving a first message from a transmitting side, a plurality of selective calling signals including messages and linkage orders of the messages, respectively, are sequentially received, and the messages and the linkage orders are stored into a first memory 107 until a selective calling signal including a terminal linkage order is received. When the linkage orders stored in the first memory 107 are numbered consecutively from a predetermined beginning linkage order to the terminal linkage order i.e. the series is complete, the messages are sorted according to the linkage orders to produce a second message which is stored into a second memory 108.
Patent GB-2319013-A (GB)
Title: Suction device
Inventor: GARDINER RICHARD
IPC: B65H3/14
Filed: 1996-11-06
Abstract: A suction device which may be used with a die-cutting press comprises a base 10 and a resilient suction element 11 attached to the base preferably by engagement with an outwardly extending flange 14 on an upstanding boss 13. The base 10 has an inlet port 15 and an outlet port 16 with a venturi 18 therebetween. The venturi 18 may be created as an integral part of the base 10 or it may be defined by one or more inserts (19, fig. 4) which fit inside the base.
Patent GB-2326276-A (GB)
Title: Dimensionally reducing patterns for making I.C.s
Inventor: FRYER TIMOTHY MICHAEL WILLIAM
IPC: G03F1/00
Filed: 1997-06-11
Abstract: A pattern, for example in a photoresist for making an I.C. is dimensionally reduced by applying the pattern to a surface which is subsequently shrunk. The pattern may be applied to a stretched elastic sheet which is then released. Memory alloys or heat shrinkable plastics may alternatively by used.
Patent GB-2314738-A (GB)
Title: Transmitting short messages on out-of-band signalling channel
Inventor: GOKHALE DILIP
IPC: H04Q7/22
Filed: 1997-06-24
Abstract: In a mobile satellite communication system including a land-earth station 20 which communicates with a mobile earth station 30 via a satellite 40, a method is employed for providing an overlay short messaging service. According to the method, a short messaging service is selected, following which a short message is transmitted from the land earth station to the mobile earth station via the satellite or vice versa. The short message is transmitted in one of a plurality of out-of-band signalling channels and occurs at a time when no signalling information is being transmitted.
Patent GB-2333672-A (GB)
Title: Analysing tactical data link messages
Inventor: HOPKINS DEREK IAN JOSEPH
IPC: G06F17/21
Filed: 1998-01-27
Abstract: The application describes a method of analysing digital data link messages, comprising the steps of: a) receiving a plurality of data link messages; b) assigning each data link message to one of a plurality of message groups such that each group contains data link messages of a specific message type (format); c) within a group, (i) tabulating the messages so as to align corresponding fields; (ii) displaying the tabulated data. For each field type, it is preferred to display a list of field contents within that type, filtered to remove repeated incidence of the same content. Thus, the user is presented simultaneously with a summary of the common entries for a particular field type and any spurious or unusual entries which are highlighted. It is also useful to filter the lists to remove repeated incidence of content falling with a specified narrow range. This could be more useful for continuously variable data types such as latitude or longitude data. This is particularly applicable to tactical data link messages, e.g. between aircraft and ground stations.
Patent GB-2336177-A (GB)
Title: A device for securing standard length toeboards to scaffolds
Inventor: WORSWICK MICHAEL
IPC: E04G5/14
Filed: 1998-04-08
Abstract: A device for securely connecting standard length scaffold boards to vertical scaffold tubes on the corner of a working platform of a scaffold without the need to cut the scaffold boards to suitable lengths and without the need to use additional scaffold tubes and fittings to provide toeboards, has formations or flanges 4,5 able to either hold a board 3b with its general plane in a vertical orientation or alternatively to hold two boards 3a and 3b, each with their general planes in vertical orientation but also with their respective longitudinal axes at an angle or orthogonal to each other and also to provide the said connection to a scaffold tube 10. A raised formation 7 on the body of the device bears against the scaffold tube 10 on clamping the device to the tube so as to urge the device into secure engagement with the board or boards.
Patent GB-2336107-A (GB)
Title: Child's folding cradle
Inventor: CHEN JR LONG
IPC: A63G9/00
Filed: 1998-04-09
Abstract: The cradle has two frames 10,11 which pivot at 12 between an open (as shown) and closed position. One frame includes a bar 15 supporting two rods 17, from whose ends a hammock-like cradle 30 is suspended. The rods are rotatable on the bar and spring-biassed into contact with it, whereby projections 18 (Fig 2) on the rods can engage cavities 16 in the bar to hold the rods perpendicular (as shown) or parallel (Fig 3) to the bar. Hooks 28 allow a swing to be attached to the bar.
Patent GB-2336594-A (GB)
Title: Radiation-curable Ink Compositions
Inventor: CAIGER NIGEL ANTONY
IPC: C09D11/00
Filed: 1998-04-21
Abstract: A vehicle for a hot melt ink-jet ink comprises a radiation curable material. The vehicle is a paste or solid at 20‹C (preferably also at 25‹C). It has a viscosity of less than 25 centipoise, preferably 12 centipoise, somewhere in the range from 40‹ to 130‹C.
Patent GB-2325171-A (GB)
Title: Solid golf ball
Inventor: YOKOTA MASATOSHI
IPC: A63B37/12
Filed: 1998-05-15
Abstract: A solid two-piece golf ball comprises a core and a cover formed on the core, wherein the core is obtained by vulcanizing a rubber composition comprising a base rubber, a co-crosslinking agent, a vulcanization initiator and a filler, wherein a calculated volume content of the co-crosslinking agent is from 10.0 to 16.0% by volume, a total calculated volume content of the base rubber and the co-crosslinking agent is from 96.2 to 98.0% by volume, based on the total rubber composition for the core, and wherein the cover has a Shore D hardness of from 50 to 67.
Patent GB-2323517-A (GB)
Title: Cigarette manufacture
Inventor: DAWSON JOHN
IPC: A24C5/39
Filed: 1997-01-20
Abstract: A cigarette making machine includes an elongate tobacco reservoir (10; 110) arranged to receive pneumatically delivered tobacco at one end (10A), and to feed tobacco as a thick carpet towards the other end (10B) at which there is located one or more metering rollers (26, 28, 30) for feeding a thinner metered carpet (34) of tobacco towards a cigarette rod forming pan of the machine, the reservoir having a width approximately equal to the width of the metered carpet fed towards the rod-forming device and having at its tobacco inlet an oscillating device (22; 122) for spreading the pneumatically delivered tobacco across the width of the hopper, and having means (36; 136) at each end for substantially sealing the space within the reservoir from the atmosphere, so that tobacco can be stored in the reservoir, while the machine is not operating, without drying to any significant extent.
Patent GB-2340147-A (GB)
Title: Wellbore fluid
Inventor: SAWDON ALAN CHRISTOPHER
IPC: C08B31/00
Filed: 1998-07-30
Abstract: The present invention relates to a wellbore fluid comprising a particulate material composed of the reaction product of A) one or more water soluble organic compound having possessing a molecular weight of less than 30,000 and possessing at least two hydroxyl groups and B) any other organic compound(s) capable of forming acetal or hemiacetal cross-links with the hydroxyl groups of compound A. The invention relates also to the specific particulate material itself and to applications of the wellbore fluid of the invention for well processes such as drilling, under-reaming, completing, working over, sealing loss zones, sealing fractures, sealing cavities or other very high permeability conduits in a rock formation, or hydraulic fracturing to stimulate a hydrocarbon-producing zone.
Patent GB-2343906-A (GB)
Title: Seal strip with reinforcement carrier
Inventor: HELLER NORBERT
IPC: B60J10/00
Filed: 1998-11-18
Abstract: A seal strip has a gripping portion 5 and a sealing portion 6. The gripping portion 5 is for attachment of the seal to a flange. The gripping portion 5 has a reinforcement carrier 10 which is channel shaped and acts to secure the seal to the flange. Initially the gripping portion 5 has legs 5A,5B which are splayed. To secure the seal to the flange the legs 5A,5B can be pressed toward one another. The carrier 10 has no sharp edges where it folds around to form a channel shape. To ensure there are no sharp edges the channel shape can be a continuously smooth curve or have inclined rectilinear parts 10C,10D,10E. The carrier is contained within an extruded rubber or plastics material.
Patent GB-2346450-A (GB)
Title: Method and module for testing communication ports
Inventor: CHANG YU-CHUAN
IPC: G01R31/02
Filed: 1999-02-08
Abstract: A test module, suitable for testing all the pins of parallel and serial communication ports 21, 22 of a computer 20, comprises: a logic control and memory unit 11, an asynchronous receiver/transmitter 113 and a voltage converter 12 suitable for interchange between parallel port voltage and serial port voltage levels. A further test module for testing parallel port pins for open circuits and three test methods are also disclosed. These include feature such as transmitting and receiving walk 0 and walk 1 and/or predetermined data signals via a port under test; the use of registers to store data; comparing certain data signals with each other or with an operating logic value. A logic unit is also disclosed which includes the use of gate and flip-flop arrangements to interconnect certain signal lines/pins.
Patent GB-2334267-A (GB)
Title: Combination of toilet cistern and washbasin
Inventor: JARRETT ANTHONY
IPC: E03D1/00
Filed: 1999-02-11
Abstract: A water closet cistern lid (10) is formed with a bowl (12) with a drainage aperture (14) passing through the material of the lid and communicating in use with the interior of the cistern, the lid is further provided with means for passing water to the bowl. The means for passing water to the bowl comprises an upstanding spout or spigot (16) secured in the material of the lid or of the body of the cistern. A flexible hose (20) is provided for coupling the spout or spigot to the supply of water fed to the cistern when the cistern is flushed. In an alternative arrangement a water closet cistern is provided the uppermost part of which is formed with a bowl having a drainage aperture coupling the bowl to the interior of the cistern, means being provided for passing water to the bowl and thus the cistern.
Patent GB-2349038-A (GB)
Title: Gateway discovery
Inventor: BONARRIGO DOMENICO
IPC: H04M7/00
Filed: 1999-02-16
Abstract: Gateway-location requests (<I>[2]</I>) from within a administrative domain (100) of a packet-switched network are serviced by gateway location servers (110,210,310), to identify a gateway (222) with particular characteristics for passing a call from the packet-switched network to a circuit-switched network. Each server (110,210,310) is given responsibility for handling requests relating to a respective subset of the number space of the circuit-switched network and accordingly stores gateway data concerning gateways that give access to that number subset. If a server (110) receives a request (<I>[2]</I>) relating to a number outside of its responsibility, it passes the request on to the correct server (210).
Patent GB-2347694-A (GB)
Title: A device for locating pipes and cables in a joist
Inventor: TAYLOR ROBERT JOHN
IPC: E04B5/48
Filed: 1999-03-10
Abstract: A device comprising two components, a rectangular shaped block 101 and a cover 102. The block 101 may comprise two compartments 103, 105, to allow electrical cables and plumbing pipework to be held separately. The block 101 is positioned in a notch cut in a floor joist with flaps 106 embracing the sides of the joist. The cover 102 holds block 101 in place and is fixed to the joist by nailing or screwing through holes 108 in the side flaps 107.
Patent GB-2349237-A (GB)
Title: An optical element, method of manufacture thereof and a display device incorporating said element.
Inventor: MOLSEN HENNING
IPC: G03F1/00
Filed: 1999-04-24
Abstract: A method of manufacturing an optical element (eg. blazed reflectors) comprises the steps of exposing a first part (18) of a layer of photoresist (4) to a first depth (d<SB>1</SB>), and subsequently exposing a second part (19) of the layer of photoresist (4) to a different depth (d<SB>2</SB>). When the layer of photoresist is developed a recess (40) having a sloping base (41) is formed. A reflector obtained by depositing a reflective coating on the photoresist layer has an inclined reflecting surface in the region corresponding to the recess in the photoresist layer. A blazed reflector can be manufactured in this way. Such a reflector can be used as an internal reflector <U>within</U> a display device, to enhance the brightness of the device when it is illuminated obliquely but viewed in a normal or near-normal direction. Small thickness variations can be induced in the layer of photoresist, to produce a diffuse reflector.
Patent GB-2349838-A (GB)
Title: Adhesive applicator
Inventor: WILDING DAVID HARRY
IPC: B05C17/005
Filed: 1999-04-29
Abstract: An applicator (10) for applying adhesive, for example, to the slot of a slot joint comprises a body for receiving the adhesive and defining a hole (16) through which the adhesive may exit. A guide (18), which is dimensioned for a flush fit with the sides of the slot, enables the body to be guided in the slot whilst the adhesive is applied. The body comprises a tube (12) and a blade (14) and the guide (18) comprises a bar connected to the tube by connecting rods (20, 22). In use the blade and bar are inserted in the slot in which adhesive is to be applied and adhesive is pumped through the hole in the body of the applicator to flow past the side and bottom of the blade and coat the sides and bottom of the slot.
Patent GB-2337585-A (GB)
Title: Laser beam spatial energy distribution measurement
Inventor: BAHNMULLER JOCHEN
IPC: B23K26/70
Filed: 1999-05-18
Abstract: The spatial energy distribution of a pulsed laser beam is measured by extracting a measurement beam from the laser beam and sequentially deflecting 6 the pulses to different parts of a detector eg a ccd camera 8. The measument beam can be extracted from the laser beam using a beam splitter 4 or alternatively (figure 2) from laser light reflected from the workpieces or heat emitted from the workpiece due to heating by the laser beam.