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Patent GB-902720-A (GB)
Abstract: 902,720. Furnace grates. INDUSTRIAS DE LA COMBUSTION S.A. Nov. 18, 1960 [Nov. 24, 1959], No. 39737/60. Class 51(1). A solid fuel burning grate 4, is formed in three sections, each comprising perforated firebars 19 and abutting coolant tubes, supported on laminated flexible steel struts 13, reciprocated longitudinally as a unit by a connecting-rod 5 which is connected to a motor-driven eccentric, Fig. 2 (not shown). The fuel is fed on to a deadplate 6 from a hopper 1 under a movable gate 2 controlled by a worm-gear 3, whence it is moved along the grate by the reciprocating action, ash being discharged down the shoot 8. As shown in Fig. 4, the grate section comprises a castellated sheet of metal with longitudinal covers 4 welded between the castellations to cover the coolant ducts, through which water is passed from an in-pipe 22 to an exit pipe 23. Combustion air is pumped under pressure from a main duct 15 through pipes 25 into frustoconical chambers 16, 17, 18 attached to the underside of the grate, thence into the castellations 19, escaping horizontally through perforations 24. Air-tight flexible joints between the pipes 25 and the air-chambers comprise concentric annular cups 27, partly filled with oil, attached outside and level at the top with the ends of pipes 25, with space between the cups and the pipes for the necessary movement of the cylindrical tubes 26 attached to the small ends of the truncated cones.
Patent GB-2239877-A (GB)
Title: Positioning device for stockings hose loaded on templates
Inventor: NAKANO MAKOTO
IPC: D06C5/00
Filed: 1990-12-20
Abstract: A positioning device 11 for pushing up an opening S1 of a stocking S loaded on a torn plate 2, pulling down the opening there-along to a fixed position by pinching opening S1 with a pair of pinching claws 14 and positioning opening S1 at a fixed place on template 2. The device includes a base 12 movable up and down along template 2, plates 13 pivoted on either side of base 12 and having claws 14 spaced apart by springs 15, and lever 16. When template 2 stops at a positioning station, an up-down bracket raises device 11 to an elevated position and pushes up the opening of the stocking, whereupon a swinging plate 40 pushes down lever 16 with portions 25 thereof entering between plates 13 to close claws 14. As claws 14 pinch and hold the opening, plate 40 lowers a fixed amount to pull down the opening held with the pinching claws 14 together with the device, and thus the positioning of the opening is achieved. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2252387-A (GB)
Title: An improved chain particularly for a bicycle
Inventor: WU CHIA LONG
IPC: F16G13/06
Filed: 1991-02-01
Abstract: A chain comprises a plurality of pairs of outer and inner chain plates 1, 2 linked by rollers 3 and pins 4, each chain plate 1, 2 being configured as a rectangle which has a protuberant arched portion 11, 21 on each transverse end thereof, and each chain plate having blade portions 14, 24 along longitudinal upper and lower edges thereof. Each inner chain plate 2 has inward cylindrical flanges 26 on an inner face thereof around the periphery of countersunk through holes 25 thereof. Each outer chain plate 1 has a frustum-like projection 16 surrounding each countersunk through hole 15 on an inner face thereof, and an outward blade portion 12 along an edge of each arched portion 11 thereof. Holes 17, 27 are provided in the chain plates 1, 2 between the countersunk through holes 15, 25. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2254183-A (GB)
Title: Fibre amplifier/filter combination
Inventor: FARRIES MARK CUNNINGHAM
IPC: H01S3/094
Filed: 1991-03-27
Abstract: An amplifier/filter combination includes a fibre amplifier 4 and a fibre reflection/transmission filter 5 coupled thereto. Fibre filter 5 eg a chirped Bragg fibre filter (Fig 4) filters out the unabsorbed portion of the pump light 2 from the output amplified signal and reflects the unabsorbed portion 7 of the pump light back to the amplifier 4 for re-absorption therein. Amplified signal 6 is transmitted by filter 5 to a receiver. A filter may also be included at the amplifier input. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2254539-A (GB)
Title: Lid for an electrical kettle
Inventor: HALLIDAY ANDREW MICHAEL
IPC: A47J27/21
Filed: 1991-04-10
Abstract: The electrical kettle (1) has a body defining a receptacle for liquid to be heated, an electrical resistance heater extending within the receptacle and a lid (7) for closing the receptacle (5). A latch element (20) is mounted to an outer surface (7a) of the lid (7) and cooperates with the lid (7) and the body so as to be movable relative to the lid (7) between a first position in which the latch element (20) locks the lid (7) onto the body and a second position at which the latch element (20) is freed from the body and engages a part of the lid (7) so that further movement of the latch element (20) beyond the second position away from the first position causes the lid (7) to move with the latch element (20) relative to the body. The movement of the latch is preferably about axis 0-0. It is accordingly not necessary for the lid (7) to fit tightly onto the kettle body and, moreover, the latch element (20) allows the lid (7) to be moved relatively simply by moving the latch element (20) from the first to the second position. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2258489-A (GB)
Title: Attachment device for a personal receiver.
Inventor: PETERS PETER
IPC: G08B3/10
Filed: 1991-08-06
Abstract: An attachment device 6 for a personal receiver such as a pager 20 is formed by first and second arms 7, 8 rotatably interconnected at one end by a pivot 11. Projecting portions 14, 15 at the other ends can be releasably coupled by a resilient catch 18 and opening 19 arrangement. The pager 20 is mounted by its roar face to the first arm 7. The second arm 8 is interposed between a bearer 17 and the bearer's belt 16, and the arms 7, 8 are coupled together to form a closed loop around the belt. When the bearer 17 wishes to view the pager's display 21, the arms 7, 8 are uncoupled and the first arm 7 with attached pager 20 is tilted upwards. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2248163-A (GB)
Title: Restraining device
Inventor: SKOULDING RICHARD JAMES
IPC: A01K91/02
Filed: 1991-08-21
Abstract: A restraining device for a fishing line 10 enables the tackle, such as the weight (not shown) hook 20, snood 21, and swivel 11, at the end of the line 10 to be held by a water sensitive member 4 in a streamline inoperative configuration for casting or deploying. The water sensitive member 4 which retains a tensioned member 1, dissolves or disintegrates on immersion in water to allow the tackle to assume its operative position. The water sensitive member 4 may be in the form of a pin rod or ring and consist of preformed fish food or a soluble plastic adapted to dissolve or disintegrate in a predetermined time after immersion in water. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2260890-A (GB)
Title: Combination wearing apparel
Inventor: ROWELL JULIE HELEN
IPC: A41D15/00
Filed: 1991-11-01
Abstract: The wearing apparel 1 for use with children, comprises an upper item of clothing 11 and at least two lower items of clothing 12, 13. At least one of the lower items of clothing 12, 13 is detachably secured to the upper item of clothing 11 by, say, complementary rows of buttons 14 and button holes 16, 17 at the waist region 18. A second embodiment (Fig. 3) includes a blouse, a pair of leggings/tights and a skirt. In another embodiment (Fig. 2) the upper item is integral with a lower item to form a romper suit which may be detachably secured to a skirt. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2267526-A (GB)
Title: Blind bracket with release mechanism
Inventor: RALTON DAVID
IPC: E06B9/323
Filed: 1992-05-09
Abstract: Bracket means (1) for attachment to a wall, window frame or ceiling provide support for a window blind (2), the bracket means has releasing means (8, 9) which, upon activation, apply pressure to the window blind and force the window blind out of the bracket in order to facilitate removal of the window blind. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2268470-A (GB)
Title: Packaging tray
Inventor: COKER CLIFFORD ROBERT
IPC: B65D5/00
Filed: 1992-05-15
Abstract: A tray for packets of potato crisps or the like and for use on supermarket shelves for display and dispensing purposes has a rectangular base (1), a pair of side walls (3, 5) upstanding from opposite sides of the base, and a pair of end walls or ledges upstanding from opposite ends of the tray, the end walls being of two layer thickness (21, 23). At each corner of the tray, a stacking pillar is formed by a panel (37) connected to an end portion of a side wall, there being means (43) at each corner of the tray to hold the stacking panels (37) in engagement with the side walls (3, 5), and a locking flap (47) foldably connected to the stacking panel (37) and sandwiched between the two layers (21, 23) of the end walls or ledges. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2257464-A (GB)
Title: Device for fixing two molded parts to one another
Inventor: BOCK HERMANN
IPC: B29C65/58
Filed: 1992-06-23
Abstract: A device for fixing to one another two molded parts (1, 4) has a receiving element of plastic material provided on the first molded part (1) and a locking element (retainer opening 3) to be engaged with the latter and provided on the second molded part (4). The receiving element is formed by a thin-walled sleeve (2) deformable in the radial direction and circular or elliptic in cross-section, the sleeve wall (5) of which has a lateral snap-in hole (6). The locking clement (retainer opening 3) has a locking nose (14) extending at right angles to the direction of insertion (push-in direction E) and engaging with the snap-in hole (6) of the sleeve (2). The locking element (retainer opening 3) is moreover provided with supporting and guiding surfaces for radial support of the sleeve (2), radial, elastic deformation of the sleeve (2) taking place at least when the locking element (retainer opening 3) and the sleeve (2) are joined together. Alternatively a locking element with an externally projecting locking tooth can be inserted into the receiving element. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2274149-A (GB)
Title: Motor vehicle control devices for use by disabled drivers.
Inventor: PAGE BRIAN FREDERICK
IPC: B60W30/18
Filed: 1993-01-07
Abstract: The control device has a handle 22 mounted on one end of a pivotal control arm 10 for operating brake and accelerator linkages 14, 16, and a switch having a rotary actuator collar 30 with an actuator tab 32 mounted adjacent the free end 28 of the handle 22. The switch actuator is easier to operate, less liable to obstruct the driver's arms or clothing and more attractive than the known toggle switch which protects from the end of the handle. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2262747-A (GB)
Title: Gold wire
Inventor: KUJIRAOKA TAKESHI
IPC: C22C5/02
Filed: 1993-02-02
Abstract: A gold wire for use in the wire bonding of a semiconductor device comprising the elements La 30-100, Be 2-10. Ca 1-20, Mg 1-10, all the figures being in p.p.m. by weight, the balance being Au of high purity.
Patent GB-2276360-A (GB)
Title: Electric forklift trucks.
Inventor: KEMSHALL PAUL ANDREW
IPC: B60K1/04
Filed: 1993-03-22
Abstract: A forklift truck, in particular an electric reach truck 2 has a driver's compartment 4 with a battery compartment 8 located to the side of the driver. An operator's console 20 is pivotally mounted above the battery compartment so as to be movable into a position where access to the battery can be obtained for servicing or exchange of the battery. The console 20 has non-hydraulic operating controls for the working hydraulic system of the truck. For example, an array of four fingertip-actuated electrical joysticks 42 may be provided to operate the lift, reach, tilt and side shift functions of the forks, respectively. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2266297-A (GB)
Title: Fastener delivery tube
Inventor: EDWARDS CYRIL KENNETH
IPC: B21J15/32
Filed: 1993-04-02
Abstract: A fastener delivery tube (21) incorporates an internal guide (22) - such as a continuous sleeve lining, flexible, or resiliently deformable spring strips (34, 37, 38) or re-circulating balls (54) - forming a longitudinally movable constricton, inhibiting fastener free-fall through the tube and preserving fastener orientaton, by maintaining fastener (25) contact with a driving plunger (28) in its passage there-through and upon exit there-from into contact with a workpiece. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2266273-A (GB)
Title: Doctor blade bar for rotary printing press.
Inventor: REDER WOLFGANG OTTO
IPC: B41F31/20
Filed: 1993-04-21
Abstract: A doctor blade bar 1 for a short inking unit of a web-fed rotary printing press has doctor blades 8, 9 with a negative contact angle to the screened ink roller. Bending of the doctoring edge of the doctor blades is avoided and the endurance of the same is increased by simultaneous throwing-on and readjustment of the doctor blades to the periphery of the roller on a straight line, extending in the direction of the cross axis 14, 16 of the doctor blades, and by spring-mounting 51 in the base body of the doctor blade bar closing plates 12 arranged at the ends of the doctor blade bar. The blades are moved in the cross axis direction B by means of feet, on the blade bar body 3, having inclined surfaces 6, 7 which contact the faces of ribs 23, 24. Movement of the body 3 is effected by hydraulically-actuated member 44. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2279108-A (GB)
Title: Spring-loaded doorstop wedge
Inventor: TURNER GEORGE WILLIAM
IPC: E05C17/54
Filed: 1993-06-18
Abstract: A doorstop comprises a tapered housing 10 with a wedge 12 hingedly connected to the housing at is narrow end. A spring within the housing acts on the wedge 12 to bias it outwardly so as to contact the undersurface of a door. A handle in the form of a tube with a handgrip 13 is attached to the housing at its widest end and has a plunger 14 extending therethrough to engage the wedge 12. By depressing the plunger 14 the wedge can be lowered against the spring pressure enabling the doorstop to be installed or withdrawn from under the door with a minimum of effort and with the operator in an upright position. Friction pads 15 may be provided on the underside of the housing. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2269897-A (GB)
Title: Assay to detect peroxisome proliferator activity
Inventor: MOHAMMED ADAM A
IPC: G01N33/50
Filed: 1993-08-06
Abstract: A cell based transactivation assay, useful in detecting peroxisome proliferator activity of chemical entities, comprises co-transfecting a host cell with a full-length peroxisome proliferator activated receptor cDNA sequence and a combination of a peroxisome proliferator-responsive element, such as that of the rat acyl-CoA oxidase gene promotor, upstream from a promotor linked to a reporter gene, such as chloramphenicol acetyl transferase, CAT. This assay allows detection of peroxisome proliferator activity while employing a minimal quantity of test compound. Cells comprising such constraints are also claimed.
Patent GB-2270425-A (GB)
Title: Female electrical terminal
Inventor: SAI NORIAKI
IPC: H01R13/405
Filed: 1993-08-18
Abstract: A female electrical connector for use with a tab contact has sheet spring members 18 with slots (22), arranged in a curved shape within the inside space 14 of a main body 16 and with their front ends 18a fixed to the main body and their rear ends 18b slidable on the main body towards the rear of the inside space 14. Additionally, projecting parts 26 which contact the rear ends 18b prevent more than a specified amount of deformation of the sheet spring members 18. The projecting parts 26 are provided at a specified distance to the rear of the positions of the rear ends 18b of the sheet spring members. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2274457-A (GB)
Title: Hydroformylation of unsaturated carbonyl compounds
Inventor: DRENT EIT
IPC: C07C45/49
Filed: 1994-01-24
Abstract: Alpha-substituted, alpha-beta-unsaturated carbonyl compounds are hydroformylated in the presence of a catalyst system based on     a) a source of rhodium cations and b) a source of ligands of the formula MR<1>R<2>R<3> wherein M represents a phosphorus, arsenic or antimony atom and R<1>, R<2> and R<3> independently represent substituted or non-substituted hydrocarbyl groups, together containing not more than 24 carbon atoms, whereby at least one of R<1>, R<2> and R<3> is linked to M via an aliphatic carbon atom. Alpha-formylated products are obtained with high selectivity.
Patent GB-2276255-A (GB)
Title: Track buffer with embedded error data
Inventor: BODWIN JAMES M
IPC: G06F11/00
Filed: 1994-02-17
Abstract: A buffer stores a plurality of records read from a mass storage device. The buffer includes a record information field and an error flag field for each stored record. The record information field includes count, key and data fields, together with an optional error data field for storing error data indicating a characteristic of an error which occurred when the record was read from the mass storage device. The error data field is typically located adjacent to the field which caused the error. The error flag field stores information indicating whether an error occurred when the record was read from the mass storage device. The error flag field also indicates whether the error was a permanent error. When the host processor requests from the buffer a record which has an error associated with it, the host is informed that the error occurred and is provided with the error data and the record data. If the error was a permanent error, then a unit check is provided to the host for indicating that the record data is not valid. The invention allows the host processor to be aware that the data in the cache buffer contains corrected errors, and also means that host processor need not waste time trying to retrieve data that the cache has already failed to retrieve. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2287556-A (GB)
Title: Keyboard with integral disk drive
Inventor: GREGORY RICHARD
IPC: G06F3/02
Filed: 1994-03-17
Abstract: A computer input apparatus comprises a remote keyboard unit (4) for coupling to a computer (12). The keyboard unit comprises a keyboard (8) and a disk drive (6). The apparatus further comprises a first interface circuit (18) for mounting in the computer and for coupling to the disk controller of the computer. The first interface circuit may be remotely coupled to a second interface circuit (22) in the keyboard unit via a cable. In use, the disk drive may be used in the same way (including use as a boot drive) as would a disk drive which is mounted conventionally in the housing of a computer. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2280340-A (GB)
Title: Automatic timbre control
Inventor: LEE WON-WOO
IPC: G11B27/30
Filed: 1994-06-24
Abstract: An automatic timbre control method and apparatus thereof assign a sub-code representing a music pattern to a compact disc, analyze the music pattern e.g. classical, pop, jazz, depending on the sub-code in a microcomputer (30), read out a timbre mode coefficient depending on the analyzed music pattern from a coefficient ROM table (40), and apply the timbre mode coefficient to a digital equalizer (50) so that equalizing can be controlled automatically. Thus, users need not frequently operate an equalizer depending on the input music pattern, and are able to listen music with better timbre quality. The microcomputer may read the timbre mode coefficient from the ROM and apply a control signal to the equalizer. Alternatively, the control signal may be applied to the equalizer directly from the ROM. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2290652-A (GB)
Title: Training apparatus for surveying contamination
Inventor: WARD DAVID ROBERT
IPC: G09B9/00
Filed: 1994-06-27
Abstract: Apparatus for training individuals in surveying terrain for contamination comprises a store for data indicative of a particular pattern of contamination in a terrain, e.g. the levels of contamination at a plurality of different regularly arrayed locations or cells within the terrain being surveyed, means for inputting data indicative of the position of the apparatus in a terrain being surveyed, e.g. means responsive to signals derived from a global positioning system to determine the coordinates of the location of the apparatus, and processor and display means responsive to the input data to read and display the stored data, e.g. values from the data store of the contamination level for a particular cell at a particular time.
Patent GB-2290887-A (GB)
Title: Multiple year calendar
Inventor: GIRLING MICHAEL JOHN
IPC: G09B21/00
Filed: 1994-07-01
Abstract: The calendar enables people to be able to find out desired past, present and future days and dates over a period of 150 years. The calendar comprises a plastic magnetic or similar suitable material bearing on its upper half the facts of the calendar. The lower half of its front side has a holder arranged to accept a peripheral which is chosen from a list on the reverse side of the calendar. The day and date may then be worked out from the calendar. An embossed version could be utilised by both sighted and unsighted persons. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2294482-A (GB)
Title: Security anchoring device
Inventor: BOOKER BRIAN ANTHONY
IPC: E02D5/80
Filed: 1994-10-01
Abstract: A security device which is installed in the grounds, to which steel chains or other flexible restraints can be attached, comprises a tube (1) wherein a chain (3) or a steel wire rope is stored, attached to a steel bar (2). The device can be used for securing vehicles or farm machinery, e.g. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2284458-A (GB)
Title: Brake system for a vehicle train
Inventor: BROOME WILLIAM SIDNEY
IPC: B60T13/66
Filed: 1994-11-17
Abstract: Each trailer (11 - 13, figure 1) in a vehicle train includes an electronic control unit (47) which, in response to a brake demand signal transmitted to a pressure transducer (46), controls the flow of air from a main supply line 26 via lines 37, 36, 35 to a relay valve 32 which, in turn, controls air flow to a brake line 34. The brake demand signal for the second and third trailers (12, 13) originates from a selector valve 60 on the preceding trailer. An initial electrical signal, e.g. from the stop light circuit of the tractor, on line (66) causes the ECUs to partially charge the braking system, without any significant braking, prior to the pressure transducers transmitting a signal to the ECUs. Electrical failure will result in air in line 28 passing via selector valve 38 to relay valve 32. Solenoid valves a and b form part of an ABS. In a further embodiment (figure 4), the trailers have brakes, which can be applied by springs and by air pressure. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2299030-A (GB)
Title: Dart shafts and a method of manufacture thereof
Inventor: LOWY S R
IPC: F42B6/00
Filed: 1995-03-24
Abstract: A one-piece dart shaft 12 is produced by flattening an end portion (11, Figure 2) e.g. by swaging, and then stamping or punching therein a slot 20. The slot walls are shaped to receive and retain a dart flight having four vanes. The shaft 12 is preferably of steel material. Suitably the slot walls diverge at right-angles to one another to accomodate a one-piece flight having four vanes.
Patent GB-2290541-A (GB)
Title: Preparation of 5-formyl imidazoles by peroxydisulfate oxidation of substituted 5-alkyl or 5-hydroxymethyl imidazole
Inventor: WAT EDWARD K W
IPC: C07D233/68
Filed: 1995-06-08
Abstract: A process for preparing substituted 5-formyl imidazoles comprises contacting a corresponding substituted 5-alkyl- or 5-hydroxy-methyl-imidazole with a compound of the formula M2SO2O8 wherein M is Na, K or ammonium.