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Patent GB-2264275-A (GB)
Title: A vehicle for receiving, transporting and discharging bulk material
Inventor: THEURER JOSEF
IPC: E01B27/00
Filed: 1993-02-19
Abstract: A loading wagon 10 has a wagon frame 12 supported on on-track undercarriages 13 and a bulk material hopper 30 for receiving bulk material 26 such as ballast. Conveyor belts 19, 20, extending in the longitudinal direction of the wagon 10, transfer bulk material 26 to and from the hopper 30. A section of one of the conveyor belts 19, which extends through a first hopper outlet opening 48, forms part of the base of the hopper 30. A second hopper outlet opening 32 allows the bulk material 26 to be discharged from the bottom of the hopper 30. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2264889-A (GB)
Title: Light bulb removing apparatus
Inventor: GREENE FREDERICK ALWYN
IPC: H01J9/00
Filed: 1993-03-11
Abstract: Apparatus (1) for removing a faulty light bulb (17) from a light fitting (12) comprises a sleeve (11) inserted into a cup shaped holder (10) to define a generally cylindrical opening having a diameter slightly less than the maximum diameter of the bulb. The holder is mounted at one end of a tube (2). A stabiliser (38) has a pair of arms (30) which fit in opposing manner into an upper grip (31) and a lower bearing (32) slidably located on the tube. The stabiliser is passed over a lamp shade and the upper grip is located with the light fitting. Downward pressure applied to the stabiliser holds the filling still whilst the holder is pushed over the bulb to grip it so that rotation of the tube releases the bulb from the light fitting. The holder (10) is provided with a battery-operated light (14). <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2268953-A (GB)
Title: Rheologically-stable water-based high temperature drilling fluid
Inventor: ELWARD-BERRY JULIANNE
IPC: C09K8/20
Filed: 1993-07-16
Abstract: A water-based fluid suitable for use in the drilling of wells comprises a clay, at least one inorganic salt, and parenchymal cell cellulose. The drilling fluid may have a density of at least 1.92 x 103 kg/m3 (16 lb/gallon). The salt may be, for example, a chloride, such as calcium chloride and/or a sulfate, such as sodium sulfate.
Patent GB-2281998-A (GB)
Title: Security cabinet
Inventor: SHEPPARD MICHAEL
IPC: G07F9/10
Filed: 1993-09-16
Abstract: A cabinet for providing protection to amusement machines such as gambling machines and the like comprises side, rear, top and base panels forming a carcase to enclose the machine on all sides except the front, and upper (21) and lower (20) panels detachably secured to the carcase. In normal use the panel 21 is unlocked from the carcase to permit access to the playing parts of the machine. The panel 20 can be unbolted from the carcase to allow access to the coin box and machine controls. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2285772-A (GB)
Title: Furniture decoration
Inventor: COOPER NIGEL BERNARD
IPC: B44C5/04
Filed: 1994-01-21
Abstract: Furniture, such as a wardrobe 10 having doors 12 and a base 14, is decorated by the provision of lines of routing 16 which may indicate various parts of a cartoon-like character, such as a dragon, with the decorative 3-D effect being enhanced by the provision of one or more add-ons, such as a head 18, which may overlie and extend above both of the doors 12. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2286536-A (GB)
Title: Golf club cleaning apparatus
Inventor: MORLEY NOEL
IPC: A63B57/00
Filed: 1994-02-17
Abstract: A golf club cleaning apparatus(s) provides a vertically disposed substantially cylindrical brush (85), motive means (65, 70, 75) for driving said brush, a fluid reservoir (100), and means for directing a cleaning liquid from said reservoir to said brush, characterised in that there is provided switch means for switchably driving said brush in either rotary direction around its longitudinal axis, such that, in use an operator can select the direction of rotation of said brush depending upon whether a left or right handed club is to be cleaned and thereafter clean said club by holding the club head against the brush. Axial oscillating movement may also be provided. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2278970-A (GB)
Title: Pass transistor multiplexer with reduced propagation delay
Inventor: REDDY SPINIVAS T
IPC: H03K17/693
Filed: 1994-06-13
Abstract: Select signal 302 to data out LOUT propagation delay in a tree-type multiplexer is reduced by using a decoder 304, 306 to select the pass elements in at least one of the tree stages 308, 310. The multiplexer may be applied in a PLA, memory, or look-up table, and may use bipolar transistors. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2279568-A (GB)
Title: Synergistic microbicide composition for plants
Inventor: ZEUN RONALD
IPC: A01N37/52
Filed: 1994-06-29
Abstract: A microbicidal (particularly fungicidal) composition for use in plants, having a synergistic action, comprises at least two active ingredient components, in which component I is a compound selected from the group of the compounds   <IMAGE>  in which: X is hydrogen, halogen, C1-C4alkyl, C1-C4alkoxy, trifluoromethyl cyano, thiocarbamoyl or nitro, and  Y is hydrogen or fluorine;   <IMAGE>  in which: Z radicals are identical or different and are halogen, cyano, nitro, C1-C4alkyl, C1-C4alkoxy, trifluoromethyl, phenyl, phenoxy or benzyl, these aromatic groups being unsubstituted or not more than trisubstituted by identical or different substituents from the series comprising halogen, cyano, nitro, C1-C4alkyl, C1-C4alkoxy or trifluoromethyl, and n is 0 to 3; and   <IMAGE>  in which:  U is oxygen or the group -CH2O-, A radicals are identical or different and are halogen, C1-C4alkyl, C1-C4alkoxy or trifluoromethyl, and  n is 0 to 3; and in which component II is 4-cyclopropyl-6-methyl-N-phenyl-2-pyrimidinoamino of the formula II   <IMAGE> or a salt or a metal complex of component I and/or component (II).
Patent GB-2282785-A (GB)
Title: A suspension system for a vehicle
Inventor: HOYLE CHRISTOPHER STEPHEN
IPC: B60G17/017
Filed: 1993-06-16
Abstract: A vehicle air suspension can be controlled between a Standard setting of ride height and a lower, Kneel, setting. Movement to or from the Kneel setting is frozen if a door is opened or if the footbrake is applied. Alteration to the Kneel setting is prevented except when the vehicle is stationary. The suspension reverts to the Standard ride height if the vehicle is driven off or the handbrake is released. Movement of the suspension to or from a lower or higher setting is carried out sequentially to prevent headlamp dazzle. If the vehicle becomes partly supported by direct contact between the chassis and the ground (belly-out) this is detected by monitoring signals to ride height control valves and by providing a controlled re-inflation and balancing of the air springs. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2298130-A (GB)
Title: An adjustable seat assembly for a vehicle
Inventor: LORD CHRISTOPHER JOHN
IPC: A61G3/06
Filed: 1995-02-15
Abstract: An adjustable seat assembly for a vehicle to facilitate entry and exit from a vehicle comprising upper 12, intermediate 14, and lower 16 support means whereby the upper support means has a seat 10 mounted thereon and is pivotally mounted on the intermediate support means for movement about a substantially vertical axis, the intermediate support means being pivotally mounted by at least two linkage arms 41, 42, (43, 44) to the lower support means so as to allow raising and lowering of the seat relative to the lower support means, and an actuator 52 pivotally connected to the linkage arms or to the intermediate support so as to raise or lower the seat relative to the lower support means by swinging the linkage arms into a raised or a collapsed condition.
Patent GB-2299204-A (GB)
Title: Electroluminescent device
Inventor: CANHAM LEIGH TREVOR
IPC: H01L33/34
Filed: 1995-03-20
Abstract: An electroluminescent device 10 comprises a porous silicon region 22 adjacent a bulk silicon region 20, together with a top electrical contact 24 of transparent indium tin oxide and a bottom electrical contact 26 of aluminium. The device includes a heavily doped region 28 to provide an ohmic contact. The porous silicon region 22 is fabricated by anodizing through an ion-implanted surface layer of the bulk silicon. The silicon remains unannealed between the ion-implantation and anodization stages. The device 10 has a rectifying p-n junction within the porous silicon region 22.
Patent GB-2288572-A (GB)
Title: Producing a three-dimensional work from a two-dimensional work
Inventor: KEATING KENT G
IPC: B44C5/02
Filed: 1995-03-23
Abstract: A three-dimensional work (10) is created from a single copy of a two-dimensional work (11), such as a photograph, poster, drawing or painting, by bonding the two-dimensional work to a stiff backer (14) to form a composite (19), cutting the composite into a plurality of pieces (20 - 25) using a sculpture station (38), and reattaching the pieces to each other by spacers (32 - 37) to form more than one layer. The resulting work (10) can be displayed on a framing box (63) adapted for any surface. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2287897-A (GB)
Title: A high strength bonding tool and a process for producing the same
Inventor: NAKAMURA TSUTOMU
IPC: B23K20/02
Filed: 1995-03-28
Abstract: A thermocompression bonding tool, comprises a substrate consisting of a cemented carbide having microscopic protrusions of hard carbides and/or hard carbonitrides on at least one surface and a coefficient of linear expansion of 4.0 x 10<-6> to 5.5 x 10<-6>/ DEG C at room temperature to 400 DEG C and a polycrystalline diamond coating formed on the above described surface having microscopic protrusions by a gaseous phase synthesis method, the surface coated with the polycrystalline diamond coating being used as a tool end surface. The diamond layer may be polished to a mirror finish. A heating tool may also comprise a shank and an end brazed together, the side of the tool including the edge of the braze being coated with metal or ceramic.
Patent GB-2301140-A (GB)
Title: Fastening mechanism
Inventor: TIPPIN ARTHUR DAVID
IPC: E05B17/00
Filed: 1995-05-20
Abstract: A fastening mechanism for a door or window has at least two spaced apart bolting members 6 mounted on a slide bar 7 for simultaneous engagement with corresponding spaced apart keepers 5 in a locked condition. The slide bar 7 has a projection 11 received in a dog-leg recess 12 of a link 9 whereby the link 9 is pivotal in response to movement of the slide bar 7 to co-act with one of the keepers 5 to cause relative movement of the bolting members 6 and keepers 5 transverse to the direction of movement of the slide bar 7 for establishing the locked condition.
Patent GB-2303437-A (GB)
Title: Stress relief in heat exchangers
Inventor: RICHARDSON NORMAN KEITH
IPC: F28F9/00
Filed: 1995-06-12
Abstract: A heat exchanger includes a side support (4) which has a thermal stress relieving zone (12) in the form of a gap (12) which completely separates one end of the support (4) from the other. The gap (12) is generally symmetrical about a central axis parallel to the longitudinal axes of the tubes (6) of the heat exchanger and is shaped such that a straight line cannot be drawn through the gap from one side of the side support (4) to the other side. The symmetrical gap (12) reduces asymmetric stress patterns without leaving any fin (8) unsupported. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2306739-A (GB)
Title: Computerized correction of numeric data
Inventor: SHEVACH RONEN
IPC: G06V10/98
Filed: 1995-10-17
Abstract: A set of stored digital representations of numbers having an estimable error probability distribution and at least one known arithmetic relation between the numbers which can be expressed as a sum, difference or equality is corrected. The invention finds particular, but not exclusive, application to the correction of optical character recognition (OCR) results. Hidden Markov Model optimisation logic is employed for finding the most likely path through a set of states in accordance with probability functions recording the likelihood of transitions between the states giving rise to a set of event-related observations. The states are possible accumulated totals generated by adding or subtracting ones of the numbers to or from an initial accumulated total, addition or subtraction of the numbers to or from an accumulated total or equality of an accumulated total with the numbers are the events causing transitions from state to state, the digital representations are the event-related observations, and the error probability distributions are the probability functions.
Patent GB-2307636-A (GB)
Title: A cleaning aid
Inventor: SOAR LAUREL
IPC: A47L13/38
Filed: 1995-12-02
Abstract: A flat piece of plastic 1 has a strip of material 4, such as felt, secured to its underside. The device may be used to clean between components of an entertainment system or beneath a television or VCR. The upperside 3 may be used for printing, embossing. A hole 2 is provided to hang the cleaning aid.
Patent GB-2311186-A (GB)
Title: Hearing aid feedback detecting and warning device
Inventor: GADD JAN ALBERT
IPC: H04R25/00
Filed: 1996-03-13
Abstract: An electronic device 20 for detecting and warning a user of feedback occurring in a hearing aid. The device includes detection means comprising a microphone 22, a filter 23, rectifier 24, and comparator 25, for detecting the feedback and warning means 26 for warning the user when feedback occurs. The warning means 26 may comprise a warning light and/or vibrator to produce a warning signal. The device 20 is powered by a battery 27.
Patent GB-2301937-A (GB)
Title: IC package with a ball grid array on a single layer ceramic substrate
Inventor: GREENMAN NORMAN L
IPC: H01L23/367
Filed: 1996-06-05
Abstract: A Digital Integrated Circuit Package is disclosed which exhibits a large input/output (10) capability while maintaining a small footprint. The package employs a Ball Grid Array (BGA) format and a single layer ceramic substrate with bimetallic filled precisely positioned vias 22, 25. Some of the vias 25 are located for heat conduction from a die 30. The conductive balls 17 of the array may be of copper or lead/tin solder. A protective layer 31 is provided outside a cover 32. In other arrangements the die is encapsulated in epoxy material, and the die may be flip-mounted with the cover extending to the edge of the substrate.
Patent GB-2317414-A (GB)
Title: A foldable frame mechanism
Inventor: LIAO GORDON
IPC: B62B1/04
Filed: 1996-09-04
Abstract: A foldable frame mechanism has a socket pipe disposed upon one end of the first elongate member 6. A press plate 62, which has a latching hole 64 and a bevel, is also fastened to the same end of the first elongate member 6. A bracket is formed with a tabular portion 71 which recieves a hollow elastically biassed latching member 72 engageable with the hole 64 and one end of the second elongate member 7 by means of a hollow seat. The pivotal coupler 8 has a slot and two parallel lugs, with the first elongate member positioned between the lugs by means of a pin which defines the pivoting axis, and the second elongate member passing through the slot.
Patent GB-2304123-A (GB)
Title: Soft tissue product
Inventor: FARRINGTON JR THEODORE EDWIN
IPC: D21H27/40
Filed: 1994-06-23
Abstract: Soft tissue products such as bath tissue comprise one or more uncreped throughdried tissue plies having a machine direction stiffness in accordance with either of the following parameters: a) the maximum slope of the load elongation curve measured in units of kilograms per 7.62 cms (3 inches) is 10 or less or b) the stiffness factor is 150 or less, where the stiffness factor is the product of the maximum slope as in a) and the square root of the caliper per ply.
Patent GB-2308566-A (GB)
Title: Apparatus for removing or mounting a bearing cup
Inventor: AIKEN ALBERT
IPC: B25B27/06
Filed: 1996-12-18
Abstract: An apparatus is disclosed for positioning a bearing cup with respect to a universal joint having a yoke. The apparatus includes a base. A support is connected to the base and disposed at a distance therefrom. A spacer connects the support to the base and fixes the distance. A ram is mounted on the support. The ram is movable relative to the support and toward the base. Movement of the ram is adapted for positioning the bearing cup with respect to the yoke.
Patent GB-2309138-A (GB)
Title: Message Storing and Forwarding in a Radio Communication System
Inventor: OHSUGE MICHIHIRO
IPC: H04W4/12
Filed: 1997-01-13
Abstract: A mobile handset periodically powers down ("sleep" mode) to save battery power. A message received during such a period is stored at a base station of the communication system. At a preset time, or after a predetermined interval, the mobile unit automatically calls up the base station, and, if there is a stored message, receives and stores the message at the mobile unit. The presence of the message may be shown by an LED.
Patent GB-2311249-A (GB)
Title: Composite sheet for absorbent article
Inventor: SUZUKI MIKIO
IPC: A61F13/15
Filed: 1997-03-18
Abstract: A composite sheet comprising a liquid impermeable on permeable sheet (21) and a nonwoven fabric (22) joined to each other by an adhesive composition, the liquid impermeable sheet having a thickness of 15 to 40 ~m; the nonwoven fabric having a fiber diameter of 1.5 to 3.5 deniers and a basis weight of 10 to 35 g/m 2 ; and the adhesive composition comprising not less than 20% by weight of an amorphous poly-* small Greek alpha *-olefin (APAO) having a melt viscosity of 500 to 10,000 cps at 180 {C and applied at an amount of 0.5 to 7 g/m 2 .
Patent GB-2323550-A (GB)
Title: Embedding copper nuts
Inventor: FAN KAN-TSANG
IPC: B23K1/08
Filed: 1997-03-26
Abstract: A machine for embedding copper nuts in pasted holes 31 of a workpiece 3, includes a machine base holding two horizontal sliding rails and four upright guide rods 13, a mold carrier 2 reciprocated along the sliding rails, the mold 24 having upright heating elements for holding and heating copper nuts 32. A slotted workpiece carrier 17 reciprocates along the upright guide rods, together with a holding down plate 16 to hold down the workpiece on the slotted workpiece carrier. A first air cylinder 26 moves the mold carrier into the working position and a second air cylinder 18 lowers the workpiece, permitting pasted mounting holes 31 of the workpiece to be forced into engagement with heated copper nuts 32. Two third air cylinders 18 move the slotted workpiece carrier relative to the holding down plate for loading/unloading of the workpiece.
Patent GB-2324028-A (GB)
Title: Lifting seat apparatus with guide
Inventor: GARMAN DAVID EDMUND TALBOT
IPC: A61G7/10
Filed: 1997-04-09
Abstract: In a seat 23 which is lifted by a stack 11 of inflatable bags or a segmented bellows and which has an upright guide 37 for the seat movement, a steel rod frame 83 is located around the periphery at the joint between at least one pair of adjacent bags or segments 60, the frame having an extension 84 which encompasses and slides along a part of the guide whereby transverse movement of the bags or bellows is limited. Each bag or segment may be internally stiffened by a thin plastics ring 85 engaging the inner periphery of the seam 81 between the two halves of the bag or segment. Spacers 86 may be provided on the seat or on the base 10 to prevent crushing of the lifting means and the stabilising means when the seat is lowered.
Patent GB-2313431-A (GB)
Title: A viscous coupling which acts as a brake for a roller shutter
Inventor: GASSMANN THEODOR
IPC: F16D35/00
Filed: 1997-05-19
Abstract: A viscous coupling comprises a housing 3 having an inner chamber 18 in which a hub 6, a set of inner plates 13 and a set of outer plates 11 are arranged. The outer plates 11 are connected, via toothing 4, to the housing 3 while only the inner plate nearest the hub is drivingly engaged by lugs 16 to the hub 6. Inner plates 13 are provided with lugs 16 which project from one face and circumferentially offset lugs 17 which project from an opposite face. This circumferential offset allows each inner plate 13 to move through an angle 19 so that they engage each other sequentially as the hub 6 moves relative to the housing 3, thereby increasing stepwise the torque transmitted between the housing 3 and hub 6. When used as a brake for roller shutter fire door the coupling applies a varying torque which allows for the weight increase as the door unrolls. In another embodiment the inner plates 13 may be fixed to the hub and the outer plates 11 may be provided with the lugs 16, 17.
Patent GB-2315652-A (GB)
Title: An audio system for a vehicle
Inventor: DEVEY GLENN ROBERT
IPC: H04R3/12
Filed: 1997-07-15
Abstract: An audio system for a vehicle is disclosed which comprises an audio unit 10 with two pre-amplifiers 11, 12 feeding primary and secondary audio outputs 17, 20. The pre-amplifiers can select between a plurality of audio sources 130, 140, 150 and the audio on one audio output line 17, 20 is selected and altered independently of the audio on the other output line 17, 20. The primary audio output line 17 feeds an audio amplifier 18 which supplies speakers 19a, 19b, 19c, 19d, 19e. The secondary audio output line 20 supplies headphone modules 21, 22 which provide independent audio for the rear seat passengers through sets of headphones 23, 24 under local selection and control of audio unit 10. The audio unit 10 alters the primary audio in response to the connection of either set of headphones 23, 24 to reduce mutual interference.
Patent GB-2315117-A (GB)
Title: Demand valve with detent member
Inventor: JACKSON PETER JOSEPH
IPC: A62B9/02
Filed: 1994-09-16
Abstract: A positive pressure demand valve for breathing apparatus comprises a valve member 6, biassed towards the open position, for controlling the flow of pressurised gas from an inlet 2 to an outlet 15, a flexible pressure responsive member 20 sensitive to the difference between the pressure at the outlet and ambient pressure to control the movement of the valve member and a manually operable detent member 17 linked to the valve member moveable to a position where the valve is held closed. The detent member is maintained in its detent position by engagement of a portion of the detent member with a retaining formation 40. A portion of the flexible pressure responsive member is adapted to abut said portion of the detent member so as to release it in response to a predetermined sub-ambient pressure which occurs within the outlet chamber, due to inhalation of the user. The valve may include a bayonet fitting for a mask, a retainer 36 for the mask also constituting the manual control for the detent means.
Patent GB-2330546-A (GB)
Title: Adjustable trepanning cutting tool
Inventor: MAUGHAN BERNARD JOSEPH
IPC: B23B51/05
Filed: 1997-10-24
Abstract: An adjustable trepanning cutting tool includes an axially rotatable chuck base element, to which is affixed and clamped one or more cutter support elements which replace the chuck jaws. Within each cutter support element is secured a cutting tip or insert 16.1, 16.2, 16.3. By adjustment of the chuck base, and tightening of the clamping arrangement, the tool may be used to cut holes or grooves of differing diameters.
Patent GB-2333316-A (GB)
Title: Flexible key and curved key guide
Inventor: NEALE JOHN WILLIAM
IPC: E05B35/00
Filed: 1997-11-18
Abstract: A threaded security bolt 11 is screwed out its housing 12 by means of a flexible key (30, Fig 3). The key (30) is guided through a keyhole 14 and across an open space into a straight tube 15 with a downward facing open side 16. The key further passes across another open space and along a partially curved tubular guide 13, through a security device 20 which comprises a series of pegs 34 which project into the path of the key, and finally makes contact with the end of the bolt 11. A hexagon drive (32) on the end of the key (30) engages the end (27, Fig 2) of the bolt (11).