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Patent GB-2236937-A (GB)
Title: Collection device for grass or hedge clippings
Inventor: KINZETT IAN ROBERT
IPC: A01G3/06
Filed: 1990-10-17
Abstract: A device 10 attachable to a grass or hedging clipping tool has means 16 in use located adjacent a blade of the tool to which material cut by the tool falls. The device is attachable to such a tool by releasable clip means 24. In one form the device is clipped onto and carried by the lower blade lawn edging shears and comprises a plate in use beneath the cutting edge of, and extending away from, said blade. In another form the device is attached to the cutter bar supports of a powered hedge cutter and comprises a member extending away therefrom in the cutting plane of the tool and including or supporting collecting means - e.g. a rigid platform or a woven wire or fabric piece - to which material cut by the tool falls. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2242605-A (GB)
Title: Baking methods and apparatus
Inventor: MARTIN ALAN
IPC: A21B1/26
Filed: 1991-01-29
Abstract: In a baking apparatus in which heated air is re-circulated, a variable speed fan receives spent air which flows through a healer and delivers the heated air to headers (30) which feed primary air inlets of nozzles (36) which act on the injection principle, only one nozzle and header being shown. The primary air outlets (40) are annular and encircle axial inner tubes (42) and are themselves encircled by secondary air sleeves 46. Outer sleeves (46) have secondary air inlets (52) which receive secondary air from the region outside the headers. The inner tube (42) provides a tertiary air inlet and outlet (66, 48). The fan is driven by a variable speed motor. The fan speed is controlled responsively to the air pressure as measured by a sensor at the fan outlet or in a duct or manifold connected thereto. The mass flow of hot air delivered by the nozzles (36) and directed onto the products to be baked can thereby be kept constant to a first approximation independently of the air temperature. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-910673-A (GB)
IPC: B60C11/02
Abstract: 910,673. Replaceable tread tyres. PIRELLI S.p.A. July 7, 1961 [Aug. 2, 1960], No. 24663/61. Class 144 (2). In a pneumatic tyre having a replaceable tread formed by rings 6,7, 8 which have circumferential inextensible reinforcements 11, 12, 13 near their inner peripheries and seat in circumferential grooves, defined by circumferential ridges 16, 17 in the casing periphery, correct axial alignment of the tread rings to ensure the correct overall tread pattern is achieved by integrally connecting the tread rings together in manufacture by annular bridges 9, 10 which are of the same material as the rings and are offset radially outwards of the inner periphery of the rings to bear on the ridges 16, 17. The bridges may be reinforced by one or more layers of parallel cords 19 extending across the full width of the tread formed by the rings and through the bridges 9, 10, the cords subtending an angle greater than 70 degrees to the circumferential direction. Where such reinforcement is used, the casing shoulder ridges 15, 18, Fig. 3, may be dispensed with as in Fig. 4. Specifications 787,705, 815,053, 825,632, 905,469 and 905,518 are referred to.
Patent GB-2254425-A (GB)
Title: Defect detecting method and apparatus using vibrations
Inventor: TSUBOI KIYOSHI
IPC: G01M7/02
Filed: 1991-04-03
Abstract: A defect detecting method for detecting whether or not an object to be measured has a defect comprises the steps of vibrating the object to be measured, picking up the vibration, and detecting that a spectrum of the characteristic vibration of the object to be measured has a portion which is separated into two peaks. Also, a defect detecting apparatus comprises vibration means 25 for vibrating an object to be measured, pick up means 27 for picking up an vibration of the object to be measured and for converting the vibration into an electric signal, and computation process and determination means 30 for receiving the electric signal from the pick up means, for analyzing a spectrum of a characteristic vibration of the object to be measured, and for determining whether the defect is present or absent depending on whether a spectrum of a defect of the object to be measured is present or absent. The type of defect is indicated by the position of extra peaks in the spectrum in the first or second order main energy peaks. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2256144-A (GB)
Title: A sexual aid
Inventor: CHANG TAO-PING
IPC: A61H19/00
Filed: 1991-05-31
Abstract: The aid comprises a tubular body 4 of natural or silicone rubber joined to a connection piece 41 which has bands 2,2' sewn or adhered to its lower end and a guard 1 sewn to its upper end for adjustment of tightness by a waistband 3. The body 4 has a number of helically arranged ridges 44 and recesses 45 and a groove for accommodating a ring element 5 which carries stimulating soft hairs 51. The body 4 is of hollow structure with a hole 42 at the front end for sperm flow. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2245042-A (GB)
Title: Automatic actuation of friction clutch
Inventor: TELLERT RUDY
IPC: F16D48/06
Filed: 1991-06-20
Abstract: A device for the automatic actuation of a friction clutch (1) in the transmission line of a motor vehicle between an internal combustion engine (3) and a change-speed gear (5) controls the clutch (1) through a setting drive system (11) controlled by a control system (19, 25, 31) in starting driving in dependence upon the engine rotation rate (n) and in the changing of higher gears with predetermined setting speed. The control system at the beginning of the condition in which the vehicle speed is less than a predetermined value and the accelerator pedal (29) is situated in a rest position, generates for clutch disengagement a position signal (S) which sets the drive system (11) to a position for starting torque transmission of the clutch and controls the system (11), after the elapse of a predetermined time in which the said condition exists uninterruptedly, into a position which entirely disengages the clutch (1). <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2259390-A (GB)
Title: Vehicle alarm system
Inventor: ENGLISH NICHOLAS
IPC: B60R25/102
Filed: 1991-09-05
Abstract: In response to a disturbance, sensors 2 initiate an activating signal which may be interrupted and cancelled by appropriate means. Failure to cancel the signal causes, in addition to conventional audible and visible alarms, the transmission 10 of an encoded signal to a remote receiving and decoding apparatus 11-15. In an exemplary embodiment of the invention, information may be included in the signal corresponding to the registration number of the vehicle. Where a network of receiving points is utilised, analysis of the pattern of signal reception may also give an approximate indication of the location of the vehicle. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2248045-A (GB)
Title: Aircraft wheel rotation mechanism
Inventor: RUSSELL ARTHUR ROBERT
IPC: B64C25/40
Filed: 1991-09-18
Abstract: To reduce aircraft tyre wear during initial touch-down, by inducing wheel rotation prior to landing, vanes 2 are positioned on the tyres or wheels so as to generate torque in aircraft wheels 1, by the effect of air flow past said wheels. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2261183-A (GB)
Title: Diffusion bonding superplastic materials
Inventor: FINCH DUNCAN RALPH
IPC: B21D26/055
Filed: 1991-11-08
Abstract: This invention relates to an improved method of providing apertures through which pressurising gas for superplastically forming a component may be provided. A stainless steel member 5 is positioned between two 1, 7 diffusion bondable and superplastically formable materials in a stopped-off area during diffusion bonding. The member is then removed and a titanium tube inserted in the aperture which is welded gas tightedly to the surrounding sheets. The titanium tube provides a convenient means by which pressurising gas can be applied in between the materials thereby causing them to superplastically deform. The method is particularly appropriate when the materials are of small gauge due to the gas flow limitations associated with small diameter conventional ceramic tubes. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2254036-A (GB)
Title: Casting food comositions into a continuous flexible mould
Inventor: SHERGOLD MICHAEL JOHN
IPC: A23L1/00
Filed: 1991-12-06
Abstract: The method comprises feeding the mobile composition to the mould (10) which extends continuously around a vertical, or horizontal endless path and allowing the composition to set within the mould, preferably by cooling it in an air cooled tunnel (18). The mould is preferably a continuous length of a flexible transversely adjacent series of moulds in edge to edge relationship and carrying a series of open topped moulding troughs therein, preferably of silicone or neoprene rubber, and preferably having a bore (30) in thicker wall regions, to render the wall thickness and cooling effect more uniform. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2252926-A (GB)
Title: Regulation of transverse profile
Inventor: ELLILA MARKKU
IPC: B05C11/04
Filed: 1992-02-06
Abstract: A method for regulation of the transverse profile of the coating quantity on a paper or any other web material in a coating station, in which the web (W) is passed over a-backup roll (1) and the coating agent is smoothed by means of a coating blade loaded against the web (W). The quantity of coating agent applied onto the web (W) is regulated by means of actuators (55) acting upon the constructions of the coating station, and in the method the transverse profile of the coating quantity applied onto the web (W) is measured constantly. In the method, a differential profile of the measured transverse profile and the desired transverse profile is calculated, said differential profile being fed as a regulation quantity to the actuators (55) that adjust the transverse profile of the coating quantity so as to correct said transverse profile. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2251987-A (GB)
Title: Welding lamp bulb contacts to lamp socket contacts
Inventor: HIGANO MASATO
IPC: H01R33/09
Filed: 1992-02-19
Abstract: A socket with an incandescent lamp having no base in which a pair of conductive contacts in press contact with an external conductive board is provided in the socket main body and lead wires of the incandescent lamp mounted in the main body are welded electrically to the contacts by utilizing working clearances formed in the main body. There are two types of contacts: one comprises a metal thin strip, and the other comprises a short rail having a U-shaped cross section. This structure is suitable for mass-production by an automatic processing machine. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2266789-A (GB)
Title: Overload protection means.
Inventor: HSIEH CHI-SHENG
IPC: E06B9/68
Filed: 1992-05-02
Abstract: Overload of the motors 14, 15 opening and turning a vertical blind is prevented by monitoring the extent of opening/ turning of the blinds following instructions from an operator, and stopping further operation once the blinds are determined to have reached an overload position eg. fully open or rotated. The overload positions can be input by the operator 45 or learnt in an automatic set up mode. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2257823-A (GB)
Title: Electric cable
Inventor: LLUIS JAUME FERRER
IPC: H01B7/00
Filed: 1992-06-25
Abstract: An electric cable comprises a group of wires whose cross-section is formed by various plane sides forming a polygonal perimeter. In a preferred embodiment, an electric conductor 10 is formed of a plurality of wires 12 which are originally of circular cross-section. The wires 12 are deformed by being passed through a die (not shown) to adopt an approximately hexagonal cross-section which permits closer packing. Thus, an electric conductor 10 can be formed of seven wires 12 each abutting adjacent wires along planar faces 12a and surrounded by an insulating material 11. This construction gives a smaller cable diameter. The wires (12) may also be octagonal. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2271978-A (GB)
Title: Fence post extractor
Inventor: STANNARD RICHARD FREDERIC
IPC: E04H17/26
Filed: 1992-10-28
Abstract: A fence post extractor includes a main frame supported on front and rear feet (3 and 4). Pivotally attached to the main frame near one of its ends is a lifting frame comprising two lifting arms (2) of generally arcuate shape. Resting on the apex of the lifting arms is a clamping means (9) for clamping around a fence post to be extracted. The clamping means (9) is free to slide along the lifting arms. The front ends of the lifting arms (2) furthest from their attachment to the main frame, are rotatably attached to a lifting ram. Actuation of the ram lifts the lifting arms (2) and consequently the clamping means (9), causing the fence post to be raised and extracted from the ground. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2261810-A (GB)
Title: An anti-g sock
Inventor: WILLIAMS RONALD
IPC: A41B11/00
Filed: 1992-11-18
Abstract: The sock comprises a single-layer sole 1 portion and a double layer side/upper portion 2 defining a space into which pressurising fluid may beefed. The portion 2 comprises a number of parts joined together by adhesive and tape (Figs. 2 & 3). The sock is connectable to the associated trouser leg (39, Figs 4 & 5) of an anti-g suit, some of the pressurising fluid from the trouser passing to the sock through connecting means 3. The sock may be manufactured readily in a range of sizes and is easily fitted or removed. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-922755-A (GB)
IPC: C08G64/24
Abstract: 922,755. Polycarbonates. PITTSBURGH PLATE GLASS CO. June 9, 1959 [June 12, 1958], No. 44558/61. Divided out of 922,754. Class 2(5) In a process for preparing polycarbonates by reacting a dihydric phenol dissolved in an aqueous solution of an alkali with phosgene, the amount of alkali present during the addition of at least the first 30% of the total amount of phosgene added is less than 2 mole equivalents per mole of diol, whereby the monophenate of the dihydric phenol is present in the reaction mixture. Preferably, the reaction is effected in the presence of an organic liquid which dissolves the polycarbonate (e.g. a chlorinated aliphatic hydrocarbon, an aromatic hydrocarbon, a chlorobenzene, tetrahydrofurane or cyclohexane). The dihydric phenol may be a bis-phenol, a dihydroxy benzene, a dihydroxy naphthalene or a dihydroxy diphenyl. The first part of the reaction may be effected (a) by mixing the dihydric phenol, the organic solvent and an amount of sodium hydroxide sufficient to give a pH of about 11 (whereby about 4% of the dihydric phenol is present as monophenate whilst the remainder is undissolved), then adding at least 30 % of the phosgene whilst maintaining the pH at about 11 by the addition of further sodium hydroxide or (b) by mixing the dihydric phenol, the organic solvent and an aqueous solution containing 1À1-1À5 moles of sodium hydroxide per mole of dihydric phenol and then adding at least 30% of the phosgene. In either case, the reaction is completed by adding sufficient sodium hydroxide to bring the total amount to between 2À5 and 4 moles per mole of dihydric phenol and then completing the phosgenation. The latter part of the process may be completed in an emulsion as described in Specification 922,754. Examples describe the preparation of the polycarbonate of bis-phenol A.
Patent GB-2276327-A (GB)
Title: Ball retrieval device
Inventor: MANSBRIDGE ERNEST JAMES
IPC: A63B47/02
Filed: 1993-03-24
Abstract: The present invention relates to a ball retrieval device and particularly to a device for retrieving golf balls from hazards in which they have been driven. The device is formed of a U-shaped frame 4 provided with a cage like structure formed of containment elements 2, 3 between which a golf ball may be captured during a retrieval process and so held there until the operator is able to remove the ball from the holder by hand. In a modification the retrieval device is formed of a single piece of wire. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2265177-A (GB)
Title: Sealed lever latch
Inventor: GROMOTKA GABRIEL
IPC: E05B15/00
Filed: 1992-08-14
Abstract: The sealed lever latch includes a housing for mounting in the door, a handle assembly which is pivotally attached to the housing, and rotatable between an opened and closed position, and a fastening means. The fastening means 17 retains the door, when the door is closed against the frame, by engaging the frame as the handle assembly is rotated to the closed position. The housing, handle assembly and fastening means form an integral solid structure for preventing the passage of matter through the latch itself. The sealed lever latch includes a biasing means which is adapted to retain the handle assembly in the closed position, and a spring 54 urges the handle assembly from the closed position to the opened position upon disengagement of the latch 42 from the keeper 44. A trigger means 20 is also included for releasing the latch. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2281288-A (GB)
Title: Cassette holder and winding apparatus
Inventor: JAKEMAN IAN
IPC: G11B25/06
Filed: 1993-08-26
Abstract: A winding machine for winding and/or re-winding a video cassette 10 comprises means 22, 23 for retaining the cassette 10 while located in a holder 1 and a control and winding mechanism. Activation of a switch causes the control and winding mechanism to activate a prong member and driving spindles 27 so that the prong member is inserted into a brake release mechanism of the cassette 10 and the spindles 27 cause the tape within the cassette to be wound or re-wound. When light from a light source passing through a transparent lead tape is detected by a sensor the control and winding mechanism is de-activated. The cassette 10 is sealed within the holder 1 to prevent tampering and the holder has apertures 4 therein to allow the cassette to be wound and/or re-wound by the winding machine without breaking the seal. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2282879-A (GB)
Title: Optical gyroscopes
Inventor: MALVERN ALAN RICHARD
IPC: G01C19/72
Filed: 1993-10-16
Abstract: In an open loop gyroscope clockwise (CW) and counterclockwise (CCW) beams from a common source 10 pass in opposite directions around a coil 20 of optical fibre and recombine on a detector 24. A phase modulator 22 applies a stepped phase modulation in which each step is of duration equal to the transit time of the coil 20 and in which alternate steps are zero. The intermediate steps increase linearly from zero to 2 pi . Without modulation, the CW and CCW beams combine on the detector with a combined intensity which varies as a cosine of rate. The above modulation causes two points to either side of the cosine fringe to be sampled which move progressively further as the amplitude of the stepped modulation increases. The sample data is processed to determine the rate applied to the gyroscope. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2274006-A (GB)
Title: Electronic data manipulation system
Inventor: MCNALLY DAVID JOHN
IPC: G06Q10/00
Filed: 1992-09-09
Abstract: In a system and method for controlling access to an electronic data system, either of first and second portable electronic data recording means (23, 25) may contain recorded information. A user is only allowed access to the recorded information in at least one, when both have been detected by a reading device (13, 15, 19 21). The first data recording means provides prompts for data input and receives data in response to the prompts. The second data recording means records the same data as the first. The data from the first data recording means (23) is pre-processed by a pro-processor (33) and then finally processed by a processor (35). The first and second data recording means (23, 25, 27, 29) are adapted such that the data recorded by the second can be independently updated and the new data then acquired by the first. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2290595-A (GB)
Title: Shock absorbing device
Inventor: MURPHY MARTIN JOHN MICHAEL
IPC: B60G15/06
Filed: 1994-06-24
Abstract: A shock absorber comprises two relatively movable parts 1, 5 and includes a cage 11A, 11B carrying ball bearings in a gap 10 between the two parts, to reduce friction when the shock absorber is subjected to side loads. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2292429-A (GB)
Title: Brake wear indicator
Inventor: KNOTT BRYAN CLIFFORD
IPC: F16D66/02
Filed: 1994-08-10
Abstract: Brake wear indicator apparatus (30) is of a simple form for attaching as a retro-fit to commercial vehicles not having integrated wear indicator systems. For simplicity and to make the apparatus useful to personnel with mechanical skills who approach and perform checks at each wheel in turn, a control unit (32) is clipped onto the chassis (11) in a convenient manner, such as by a magnet (35), in the vicinity of the braked wheel (28) and connected to a wear sensor (31) disposed in relation to a conventional friction lining (23) rivetted or otherwise fixed to a shoe platform (22). The wear sensor (31) includes a sensor conductor (45) extending for part of the lining thickness and a grounded return conductor (46). When the lining (23) wears the drum (16) bridges the conductors (45,46) or simply grounds the sensor conductor (45) and a circuit is completed in the control unit (32) which provides an indication at the site of the brake affected when the vehicle is parked with brakes applied, ie, under normal inspection conditions. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2281875-A (GB)
Title: Supply feedstock for workpiece finishing machine
Inventor: ZIBERNA F
IPC: B23P19/00
Filed: 1994-09-20
Abstract: A supply feedstock (100) intended for use in a workpiece finishing machine wherein individual workpieces (104) are successively separated and presented in a predetermined fashion to an automated loading means. The feedstock (100) includes a plurality of individual workpieces (104) arranged in side-by-side order in the form of a continuous belt, or bandolier, of workpieces (104), each of the workpieces (104) being interconnected at head and tail portions of the workpieces (104) by integral webs (106), successive workpiece (104) being trimmed from the bandolier and presented to a loading means, while the separated webs (106) are discharged to waste. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2282886-A (GB)
Title: Flow measurement
Inventor: MOSS BRIAN CECIL
IPC: G01P5/24
Filed: 1994-09-28
Abstract: The movement of particles carried along with a fluid is detected by isonifying a region of the fluid with pulses of ultrasound from a transducer 14, and detecting pulses of ultrasound scattered by an individual particle from successive transmitted pulses. The difference in arrival times of successive detected pulses is simply related to the speed of the particle. Use of suitable gates or windows (A, B fig 2 not shown) enables successive reflections from a particle to be tracked while reflections from other particles are rejected. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2294424-A (GB)
Title: Cutting apparatus with debris collecting means
Inventor: SMITH LEONARD
IPC: A01G3/06
Filed: 1995-02-20
Abstract: A cutting apparatus 10 comprises cutting means 12, 18 and debris collecting means 36. The cutting means may comprise first and second blades 12, 18 which are pivoted about a bolt (32, Fig. 2). The debris collecting means may be integral with a first blade 12 or it may be detachable. Handles 14, 20 extend away from the two blades and may be long enough to cut lawn edges by operation of the handles at waist height. The device may be a hedge trimmer (214, Figs. 8, 9) with first and second reciprocating blades (218, 220 Fig. 8). In this instance the collecting means comprises a tray (212 Figs. 8 - 10) extending adjacent to the blades and attaching to a housing (217 Fig. 9) of the device. <IMAGE>