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Patent GB-2253140-A (GB)
Title: Buttoning upholstery
Inventor: BENMAX PETER DAVID
IPC: B68G7/08
Filed: 1991-02-15
Abstract: A buttoning upholstery system in which extendible button parts snap together for use in buttoning upholstery. The improvement is that the main filling material. such as a foam slab, is held together, by the inner components of the system on the inside of the fabric while outer decorative covers snap on from outside the fabric to hold the fabric in place. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2256282-A (GB)
Title: Electrochromic device.
Inventor: HASHEMI TOORAJ
IPC: G02F1/1524
Filed: 1991-04-02
Abstract: An electrochromic device having an electrochromic element comprising a solid binary oxide of 2 polyvalent elements selected from metals and metaloids and which exist in different valency states in the oxide and at least one of which is multivalent. The multivalent element is preferably in the quadrivalent state in the binary oxide. Particularly preferred are binary oxides of the formula AxBOy where A is an element of Group II, B is an element of Group IV, x is 1 or 2 and y is x+2. The binary oxide is exemplified by CdGe oxides, CdSn oxides and ZnSn oxides, optionally doped with Bi. The binary oxide is made from the pure oxides, by calcining pellets of a stoichiometric mixture of the oxides, crushing the pellets and firing in air.
Patent GB-2245018-A (GB)
Title: Metal framework for weather-strip
Inventor: VIVARACHO ELVIRA VICTORINO
IPC: B60J10/18
Filed: 1991-06-14
Abstract: The framework comprises a U-shaped body, with a number of identical flat and transverse ribs (1) that are uniformly spaced out, and are grouped in pairs by means of longitudinal ridges (2) located at two imaginary longitudinal axes A and B that are in turn located on the lateral walls of the U-shaped body, while the various pairs of ribs (1) are attached to each other by means of other longitudinal ridges (3) that are in turn located on a single longitudinal axis C, positioned on one of the lateral faces of the U-shaped body. The framework may be used in weather-strip sections for motor cars and the like. The weather-strip section's longitudinal contraction and stretch is directly proportional to the distance between axes A and C. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2257739-A (GB)
Title: A glazing panel assembly
Inventor: HANLEY ALAN MARK
IPC: E06B3/54
Filed: 1991-07-16
Abstract: To prevent removal of a panel 1, 11 (e.g. a glazing panel) from a frame, a retaining bead 6 having an upstanding flange 2 is placed in the frame section 12. The glazing bead 5 cooperates with the section 12 to form a panel-receiving channel. The panel is secured in position by a gasket 3 which forces it against upstand 2 on bead 6. A record gasket 13 is positioned between the glazing bead 5 and the panel member 11 on the "outside" of the assembly. An elongate projection 4 on bead 6 prevents the bead 5 from being levered up should an instrument be applied at point 7. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2248115-A (GB)
Title: Apparatus for measuring the change of position of a rotar
Inventor: WEST DAVID ARTHUR
IPC: G01D5/14
Filed: 1991-09-18
Abstract: PCT No. PCT/GB91/01593 Sec. 371 Date May 13, 1992 Sec. 102(e) Date May 13, 1992 PCT Filed Sep. 18, 1991 PCT Pub. No. WO92/05402 PCT Pub. Date Apr. 2, 1992.An apparatus for measuring change of position of a rotor in a drive system having a drive rotor and a driven rotor generally concentrically mounted with respect to the drive rotor, the drive and driven rotors being magnetically coupled together. The apparatus includes a conduction device stationarily mounted between the rotors and a device for measuring the EMF (Electro Motive Force) produced in the conduction device as the rotors rotate. The apparatus also includes a device for determining, from the measurement, the relative position of the two rotors and/or the position of one of the rotors.
Patent GB-2252152-A (GB)
Title: Combustor dome of a gas turbine engine
Inventor: LAMPES ELIAS HARRY
IPC: F23R3/10
Filed: 1991-09-20
Abstract: A combustor dome 22 includes an annular dome plate 24 having a plurality of circumferentially spaced apertures 52 in a central portion thereof for receiving a plurality of carburetors. The dome plate also includes outer and inner support portions 54, 56 for joining the dome plate to combustion liners 16, 18. Each of the support portions include a first leg extending from the central portion, a second leg, and an arcuate apex joining the first and second legs. The apex has a uniform thickness and includes a plurality of circumferentially spaced coolant apertures 64 for channeling cooling air therethrough. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2250158-A (GB)
Title: An audio mixer capable of sudden, large changes of control settings
Inventor: NAKAMURA RYUICHI
IPC: H04H60/04
Filed: 1991-10-25
Abstract: In normal use the control signal for controlled device 7, e.g. a fader, is set by an operating device 1, 2. When a sudden or large change of the control signal is required the operator uses switch 2a to move switch 4 from position 4a to position 4b and to cause memory 3 to continuously output the most recently stored value of the control signal. The operator may then manually change the setting of the operating device and use switch 2a again to return switch 4 to its original position, so causing a sudden change in the control signal. The operating device may be either a rotary or linear potentiometer (see figs 3, 4, 5). <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2253218-A (GB)
Title: Double jersey knitted fabric
Inventor: DAY GERALD FRANCIS
IPC: D04B1/22
Filed: 1992-02-27
Abstract: A knitted cover for an upholstered structure such as a vehicle seat is a double jersey structure, the technical reverse side of the fabric cover being located on the core side of the upholstered structure and exhibiting at least one identifying mark in a contrasting yarn to its surroundings, the mark being substantially not visible on the exposed technical face of the fabric. The fabric may be knitted from two yarns, one of which (courses 2, 4 etc) is knitted on the rear bed only. The other yarn also normally appears on the rear face to produce a birds-eye backing (courses 1-4, 9-12) but in the region (A-B) constituting the identifying mark it is absent from the rear face. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2254537-A (GB)
Title: Ashtray
Inventor: BEKKER KEVIN MARTIN
IPC: A24F19/00
Filed: 1992-04-08
Abstract: An ashtray includes a first compartment 10 for receiving ash and butt ends of a cigarette, cigar or pipe and a second compartment 16 adapted to contain a quenching medium for the butt end or burning tobacco. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2255337-A (GB)
Title: Piperazine derivatives
Inventor: CLIFFE IAN ANTHONY
IPC: C07D215/38
Filed: 1992-04-30
Abstract: Piperazine derivatives of formula I   <IMAGE> and their pharmaceutically acceptable acid addition salts are 5-HT1A binding agents, particularly 5-HT1A antagonists and may be used in the treatment of CNS discorders, for example as anxiolytics. They may also be used as anti-depressants, hyprotensives and as agents for regulating the sleep/wake cycle, feeding behaviour and/or sexual function. In the formula A is C2-4 alkylene chain optionally substituted by lower alkyl groups, Z is oxygen or sulphur, R is hydrogen or lower alkyl, R<1> is an optionally substituted mono or bicyclic aryl or heteroaryl radical, R<2> is an optionally substituted mono or bicyclic heteroaryl radical and R<3> is hydrogen or a specified radical (such as lower alkyl, cycloalkyl, aryl, heteroaryl or optionally substituted amino).
Patent GB-2262753-A (GB)
Title: Curtain wall cladding system using metal-faced panels
Inventor: LANDHEER HUGO ARIE JOHAN
IPC: E04C2/38
Filed: 1992-05-06
Abstract: A panel for a curtain wall panelling system comprises two pans 22, 24 having inturned marginal flanges. The marginal flange 52 of the first pan 22 has a laterally projecting edge portion 58. This is engaged against abutment 60 of intermediate rigidifying profiles 28 positioned between two adjacent panels. The abutments 60 retain the pan 22 against movement, the profiles 28, 30 being secured by a fastener 18 against the support structure 10. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2255784-A (GB)
Title: Sliding-latch knitting needles.
Inventor: SCHINDLER HARTMUT
IPC: D04B35/06
Filed: 1992-05-11
Abstract: In a knitting machine equipped with slider needles, to avoid that the thread is not laid into the hooks correctly or that a thread which has already been laid into the hook, jumps out of the hook (5.2) during the closing movement of the slider parts (6) on account of vibrations or the like, the slider parts (6) are provided with inclined faces (6.5) which face the thread spaces (32) formed by the hooks and press 32 the thread deeply into the thread spaces (32) during the closing movement of the slider parts (6), so that the thread section from the thread guide being laid into the following slider needles with hooks still open comes securely into the respective thread spaces (32) and is retained therein. The inclined face (6.5) may alternatively extend over the full width of the slider part (6). <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2267747-A (GB)
Title: Corrugated toroidal vessel for cooling foodstuffs
Inventor: KAY JAMES DENIS
IPC: A23L3/36
Filed: 1992-05-21
Abstract: A cooling vessel (10) for rapidly cooling heated foodstuffs is toroidal in shape and has inner and outer walls (13, 14), when viewed in plan, which are corrugated to increase their effective surface area. In use, cooling fluid is pumped around channels (21) adjacent the inner and outer walls (13, 14) to rapidly cool the heated foodstuff in the vessel. The vessel (10) can be used as part of a foodstuff treatment process. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2260817-A (GB)
Title: Gauge protection apparatus
Inventor: MCKENZIE VALANCE WILLIAM
IPC: B63C11/02
Filed: 1991-06-21
Abstract: The invention provides gauge protection apparatus (10) for use with a booted gauge set (11). The gauge protection apparatus (10) includes a pair of locating members (16), interconnected by a cross strut (17) and a longitudinal strut (20) to define a cage or pocket within which the boot (12) of the gauge set (11) may be securely located. The locating members (16) are attached to the longitudinal strut (20) at one end (24) by angled nose struts (26), and at an intermediate point (25) by transverse side struts (27). The other end (30) of the longitudinal strut (20) is turned down and terminated by the formation of a loop (31). Passing through the loop (31) and securing the apparatus (10) to the high pressure hose (15) is a disposable electrical tie (32). The tendency of an impact to drive conventional guards through the gauge glass is substantially overcome by the marked clearance between the struts and the glass, with the added significant advantage of protection being afforded without losing significant viewability of the gauges. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-926897-A (GB)
Abstract: 926,897. Nitrosophenyl ethers; aromatic amines. HERCULES POWDER CO. Mar 17, 1961 [March 28, 1960 (3)], No. 9937/61. Drawings to Specification. Class 2(3). p-Nitrosophenyl ethers are obtained by reacting p-nitrosophenol with a primary or secondary alcohol at 0-150‹C. in the presence of an acid catalyst. The products may then be reacted with a primary aliphatic or aromatic amine at 0-160‹C. in the presence of an acid cataylst to yield a p-nitroso N-substituted aniline derivative, which may then be reduced to convert the nitroso group into an amino group. The alcohols used in the first reaction with p-nitrosophenol may contain up to 30 carbon atoms and include n-propyl, n-decyl, lauryl, tridecyl and stearyl alcohols, cinnamic alcohol, tetrahydrofuryl alcohol, ethylene glycol, glycerol, pentaerythritol, p-octylbenzyl alcohol, propargyl alcohol, p-nitrobenzyl alcohol and hexamethylene glycol; other alcohols are also specified. Methods of effecting the reaction are also described. Thus, the p-nitrosophenol and the alcohol may be reacted in an excess of the alcohol or in another solvent, and the yield may be increased by eliminating the water formed in the reaction by fractional distillation or by the use of an anhydrous entraining agent or by exchanging the solvent during the course of the process for another solvent in which p-nitrosophenol itself is only slightly soluble but the ether is readily soluble. The primary aliphatic or aromatic amine used in the second reaction may contain up to 30 carbon atoms and may be methylamine, n-butylamine, cyclohexylamine, benzylamine, ethanolamine, o,-m- or p-toluidine, p-anisidine, p-chloraniline, p-phenylenediamine, p-cyanoaniline, p-aminobenzoic acid, p,p<SP>1</SP>-diaminodiphenylmethane and benzidine; other suitable amines are also specified. In typical examples, (1) p-nitrosophenol and methyl or ethyl alcohol are reacted in toluene in the presence of sulphuric acid; (2) p-nitrosophenyl methyl or ethyl ether is reacted with aniline in ethyl alcohol solution in the presence of sulphuric acid. The nitroso group in the products may be reduced to an amino group by hydrogenation or to a substituted amino group by hydrogenation in the presence of an alkylating agent. The latter process may be effected by trearing the nitroso compound with a carbonyl compound, e.g. acetone, in the presence or two catalysts, one having hydrogenating properties and the other having alkylating properties. A mixture of palladium or charcoal and phosphoric acid is exemplified.
Patent GB-2264560-A (GB)
Title: Document imaging apparatus checks image orientation before stapling/punching
Inventor: SUMIDA HIROYASU
IPC: B42C1/12
Filed: 1993-03-01
Abstract: A document imaging apparatus. e.g. a copier or printer, has a device for identifying the orientation of the image on each page to ensure that the document is bound (stapled or punched) at a suitable position. Each orientation is compared with a selected reference orientation having a binding position, e.g. that of the first page, and may be corrected by operating on a digitally-stored image to effect rotation, or by reverse-scanning the page, failing which the operator is alerted to rotate the copy. The procedure detects the line direction relative to the page length, and the presence of text at the binding position. Orientation is identified by analysing pixels from a CCD sensor to detect one of: (a) size of margins, in particular the widest margin; (b) layout of lines of characters; (c) the orientation of individual characters using OCR; (d) existing punch or staple holes. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2265373-A (GB)
Title: Halogenophenoxy compounds
Inventor: HINO TOMOKAZU
IPC: C07C235/20
Filed: 1993-03-17
Abstract: A process for producing a halogenophenoxyfatty acid derivative represented by the formula (I):   <IMAGE> (wherein R, R<1>, R<2>, X and Y are as defined in the specification) which comprises selectively halogenating a phenoxyfatty acid represented by the following formula (II) in the presence of a halogenating agent:   <IMAGE>  (wherein R, R<1>, R<2> and X are as defined in the specification). The present invention further provides novel halogenophenoxyfatty acid derivatives represented by the formula (I'):   <IMAGE> wherein R', R<1>', R<2>', X' and Y' are as defined in the specification.
Patent GB-2276891-A (GB)
Title: Struts with compression and tension elements
Inventor: EVANS TIMOTHY JOHN
IPC: E04C3/30
Filed: 1993-04-05
Abstract: A strut comprises compression and tension elements extending longitudinally alongside one another with respective end portions interconnected longitudinally so that a compressive load in a compression element is balanced by a longitudinal tensile load in a tension element, and with respective intermediate portions interconnected laterally so as to resist buckling. The tensile load in the tension element of Fig. 7 is produced either by adapting the longitudinal interconnection (20, 22) between the compression (17, 19) and tension element (18) so that an externally applied compressive load produces the tensile load in the tension element (18), or by a combination of pre-stressing and self-tensioning in response to an externally applied compressive load. Alternatively an outer tubular tension element (1) may be filled with a compressed liquid (4) or a conformable resilient solid, or an inner tension element may be surrounded by a solid tubular compression element. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2266859-A (GB)
Title: Thermally-stable polymide mouldings
Inventor: SEIDL SIGRID
IPC: B29C45/00
Filed: 1993-04-22
Abstract: High-temperature resistant polyimides from 4,4'-oxydiphthalic acid dianhydride (ODPA) and methylene-bis (phenylisocyanate) (MDI) and optionally also toluylene diisocyanate (TDI) can be readily moulded in the temperature region from 300 DEG C to 400 DEG C and in particular they can be fabricated using an injection moulding process to give mouldings of any desired shape.
Patent GB-2284889-A (GB)
Title: Skin impedance measurement device for determining the correct choice of medication
Inventor: JESSEL KENYON JULIAN NORMAN
IPC: A61B5/053
Filed: 1993-06-11
Abstract: This application describes an electronic system for applying a 3-volt direct current voltage to an electrode placed over an acupuncture point. The voltage is then passed through a 100 ohm resistor, and current is measured in milliamps at a frequency of 10 megahertz. A graph of milliamps against time is plotted on the accompanying computer. A consistent change in the shape of the graph is noted when a medication within a glass container is placed on a metal dish, in series in the circuit, that medication being effective for the patient being tested. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2270151-A (GB)
Title: Reducing condensation in heat exchangers
Inventor: WADA KOUJI
IPC: F24F1/0067
Filed: 1993-06-30
Abstract: A heat exchanger comprises upper and lower portions 6 and 7 arranged at an angle to one another by a bend part 15, and made up of front and rear (F and R) rows of pipes 12 extending through fins juxtaposed at narrow intervals. The pipes 12 are connected by U-bend portions 13 such that fluid entering the heat exchanger flows along pipes 12 in the lower part of the upper portion 6 across to the rear row R at the bottom of the upper portion and back across to the front row F at the top of the lower portion 7. Air flows across the heat exchanger from an upstream side adjacent row F to a downstream side adjacent row R. The fluid is introduced into the heat exchanger from the upstream side and discharged at the downstream side. In the preferred embodiment a further flow path for fluid through the exchanger is provided in the upper part of the upper portion of the exchanger. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2280565-A (GB)
Title: Mobile landscape recording unit
Inventor: FURS EDWARD DAVID
IPC: H04N7/18
Filed: 1993-07-29
Abstract: A road vehicle landscape recording unit equipped with electronic camera and recording equipment, computer analysis equipment, monitor screens and radio telephone information transmission means for connection to a police central computer information exchanger, which landscape recording unit when on patrol may continously record the landscapes of a patrol circuit, and thus frequently record each landscape, thus permitting the distinction to be indicated by computer analyses between pre-recorded habitual circumstances within any landscape, and incident circumstances, in order to identify by logiciel any vehicle used in incident circumstances at the time and in the vicinity of a crime, thereby making the theft of vehicles more difficult, and making the use of any vehicle for criminal acts much more difficult.
Patent GB-2287207-A (GB)
Title: Power tool mounting
Inventor: SHAFTO KEITH
IPC: B25H1/00
Filed: 1994-02-14
Abstract: In order to provide a power tool mounting for mounting a power tool above a work table, the power tool mounting has first fixing means 8 for engaging a work table and second fixing means 5, 6 in the form of rails for engaging a slider for the power tool. The rails 5, 6 may be moved from a first, storage position to a work position, at a distance from the work table, for mounting the power tool above the work table. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2276214-A (GB)
Title: Bearing mounting
Inventor: HARRISON PETER
IPC: F16C35/077
Filed: 1994-03-14
Abstract: A shaft 5 is conventionally mounted in the bore of the inner race 2 of a rolling bearing 1. The outer race 4 is mounted in a polypropylene mounting bush 6. This has an internal shoulder 7 against which the outer race abuts and an external taper 8, the shoulder 7 being at the large diameter end 9 of the taper. At the small diameter end 10 of the taper, the bush has an external lip 11. The bush is received in a tapered housing 12 in a light alloy casting 13. At the small diameter end of the housing, it has an under-cut 14 into which the external lip on the bush snaps on insertion of the bush from the large diameter end of the housing. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2282325-A (GB)
Title: Epidermal preparation comprising kojic acid and a surfactant
Inventor: IGAKI TAKAHISA
IPC: A61K8/00
Filed: 1994-06-15
Abstract: A preparation for epidermis comprises kojic acid and/or a derivative thereof, and a surfactant or surfactants having HLB value adjusted to 12 or less, which is preferably in the form of O/W emulsion or W/O emulsion, with the latter being preferably formed by gel emulsification process.
Patent GB-2281453-A (GB)
Title: Electrical connector
Inventor: SAGAWA TETSUYA
IPC: H01R13/42
Filed: 1994-08-18
Abstract: A locking device (50) is inserted from the side surface (24) of a housing (10) to secure contacts (80) and has latching arms (60, 62) extending outward from one end. In a temporary latching position of the locking device (50), tips (60b, 62b) of the latching arms (60, 62) project above the surface (46) of flange (26), but do not extend above that surface in a completely latched position. Since the width of the latching arms (60, 62) is almost equal to the width of guiding grooves (28, 30, fig. 1B) in the flange (26), the locking device (50) can be moved from the temporary latched position to the completely latched position without skewing relative to the housing (10). Temporary and full latching lugs (60a, 62a) may be provided on the arms (60, 62). Guiding grooves (28, 30, fig. 1B) of the housing (10) may include catches (28a, 30a) for receiving the latching lugs (60a, 62a). The tips of the arms (60b, 62b) may be shaped and the catches (28a, 30a) and lugs (60a, 62a) may be in a staggered formation. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2293313-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to a safety arrangement for vehicle seating
Inventor: ELSE ROBERT FREDERICK
IPC: B60R22/26
Filed: 1994-09-21
Abstract: A safety arrangement provided in a motor vehicle is associated with the rear seat. The rear seat has a squab 1 in the back part 4. The back part is movable pivotally from a substantially upright operational position to a substantially horizontal position. A beam 10 extends transversely of the vehicle. The beam has, at each end thereof, a latching mechanism (20, 21) solely to secure the beam to the body of the vehicle. Latching means are provided to latch the seat back to the beam. The beam can only be unlatched from the body of the vehicle when the seat back is latched to the beam. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2295294-A (GB)
Title: Telemetry aerial
Inventor: YOUNG JOHN FREDERICK
IPC: F01D25/00
Filed: 1994-11-18
Abstract: A telemetry aerial for a machine rotor eg a turbine shaft is formed from a solid strip (3) of brass of dovetail cross-section mounted in a circumferential groove (1) of similar section. The aerial strip is locked in position by epoxy resin (7) fed into the gap between the two and cured. A wedge effect against radial movement is thus achieved so preventing escape of the aerial strip even at high rotational speeds. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2295803-A (GB)
Title: A wheel clamp
Inventor: KNEUSS ROGER JOHN
IPC: B60R25/09
Filed: 1994-12-08
Abstract: A wheel clamp (2) comprises a first limb (4) having a foot extending from each end thereof for engaging around the outer profile of a wheel, a second limb (6) pivotally connected to the first limb and having a similar foot at its free end, and means (16) for releasably-locking the first and second limbs against relative pivotal displacement when in a clamping configuration, for securing the device to a wheel. The clamp is foldable for storage. <IMAGE>