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Patent GB-2141758-A (GB)
Title: Brick-wall coping
Inventor: KNOX COLIN JAMES MICHAEL
IPC: E04D3/40
Filed: 1983-06-07
Abstract: A pair of lower units 11 are located side-by-side on the top course 13 of the main portion of the wall, or on the skins of a cavity wall, and an upper unit 12 spans the pair of lower units 11. Each of the lower units 11 has a longitudinally extending chamfer 15 thus defining a V-shaped channel 17 running longitudinally along the wall. The upper unit has a correspondingly shaped under surface 19 which fits into the channel 17. A damp-proof course 23 may be located in the mortar joint 22 between the upper and lower units. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2131946-A (GB)
Title: Fluid transfer mechanism
Inventor: DRBAL VLADIMIR J
IPC: G01N35/10
Filed: 1983-07-15
Abstract: A fluid transfer mechanism (10) for rapidly and accurately picking up or aspirating a fluid quantity or aliquot in one position, moving it to a second position and dispensing the aspirated aliquot. The mechanism can include an arm mounted at one of its ends on a high helix shaft (28) and driven up and down the shaft by a first motor (40) and rotated around the shaft by a second motor (38). The arm includes at its other end a fluid transfer probe (24) which is moved into and out of the fluids to aspirate and dispense the fluids in precise angular locations. The arm may be accelerated and deaccelerated as it is rotated to avoid vibrations and spilling of the fluid from the probe. The probe may include a level sensing structure for sensing when the probe has contacted a fluid surface. The probe can be coupled to an oscillator means (30) to oscillate the probe in a vessel into which the fluid has been dispensed to mix the fluids therein. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2126082-A (GB)
Title: Pharmaceutical preparations having analgetic and cytostatic activity
Inventor: SCHULZE HEINRICH
IPC: A61K31/22
Filed: 1983-08-11
Abstract: The invention relates to the use of short-chain fatty acids, hydroxy fatty acids and ketonic fatty acids, their salts and esters, as analgesics. The invention also relates to pharmaceutical preparations with cytostatic activity which are characterized in that they contain esters of short-chain fatty acids and/or hydroxy fatty acids and/or ketonic fatty acids.
Patent GB-2126818-A (GB)
Title: Saw resonator
Inventor: BESSON RAYMOND
IPC: H03H3/08
Filed: 1983-09-06
Abstract: In a surface wave resonator a wafer 30 has on its surface two reflecting networks and at least one interdigitated transducer. The periphery 34 of the active zone 31 is hollowed out E except at places P forming bridges. The locations of these bridges correspond to the directions in which the frequency variation as a function of the stress variation is cancelled out. A double bridge monolithic suspension P10, P11, 101, 102 may be used.   <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2150298-A (GB)
Title: Method and apparatus for weighing rail wagons
Inventor: BASS JOHN JOSEPH
IPC: G01G19/04
Filed: 1983-11-24
Abstract: The weight of a railway wagon in a train is determined using a weighbridge 10 over which the train passes, the weighbridge having load measuring transducers 15-18. The weight indicated by the transducers is determined repetitively as each pair of wheels of the wagon pass over the weighbridge, the measurements being averaged in a computer 20 over a period when the measurements are within a predetermined tolerance band. Each transducer 15-18 may comprise a double strain gauge. If a discrepancy occurs between the outputs of the two strain gauges of any of the transducers, caused by a fault, the computer 20 identifies which strain gauge is faulty by comparing its output with those of other strain gauges. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2150888-A (GB)
Title: Ruler with variable scale
Inventor: COOPER ROMANO MARIO
IPC: B43L7/00
Filed: 1983-12-06
Abstract: There is disclosed a ruler 10 having at least one measuring edge 11, and display means 12 arranged adjacent to the measuring edge 11 in order to provide a visual display of scale readings. The display means 12 is an elongate panel having a liquid crystal display to provide a calibrated read-out. An electronically operated scale-setting device 13 is built into the ruler and is coupled with the display means 12, the scale-setting device 13 being selectively operable, via push or touch-contract buttons 14, to set any desired scale readings to be displayed by the display means 12. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-836119-A (GB)
Abstract: 836,119. Controlling burners. RHEOSTATIC CO. Ltd. Jan. 30, 1957 [Feb. 6, 1956], No. 3640/56. Class 75(1) [Also in Group XL(b)] In a flame safety control system for a burner, a bimetal strip 3 heated by an element 4 energized by a switch 6 closes a switch 1 to energize a motor 2 supplying fuel oil and air to the burner. The switch 1 is held closed and the switch 6 is opened by the operation of a bimetal scroll on a photo-cell 15 sensitive to the burner flame. In the event of flame failure continued heating of the bimetal strip 3 opens a lockout switch 5 to de-energize the system. The switch 5 is manually reset. An ignition transformer 8 is energized with the heating element 4. A switch 10 and a heater 11 may be provided to cause the lockout switch 5 to open if the switch 1 sticks in the closed position when the burner is closed down by a thermostat 7 sensitive to a temperature determined by the burner. The switch 10 is closed by the photo-cell 15 and the heater 11 heats the bimetal strip 3 until the lock out switch 5 opens. If a bimetal scroll is used instead of a photocell the connection between the bimetal scroll and the switch 1 may be mechanical or alternatively the switch 6 may have a second contact which is closed by the bimetal scroll to energize an electro magnet adapted to retain switch 1 in closed position.
Patent GB-2153469-A (GB)
Title: Hose connector assembly
Inventor: SAGGERS MICHAEL JOHN
IPC: A61H23/04
Filed: 1984-01-30
Abstract: A socket and hose assembly (A) for an inflatable includes a socket (10) comprising a hollow trunk (14) providing an upper portion (20) and a flexible lower portion (18) and includes a hose connector (40) mated with the upper portion of the socket and having a through bore (44) and means (60,62) at or adjacent the tip of its socket mating end to prevent the through bore being obstructed by the flexible lower portion of the socket when the lower portion is distorted (see Figure 2). <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2137630-A (GB)
Title: Silicone elastomer forming compositions
Inventor: CUSH ROGER JON
IPC: C08J9/10
Filed: 1984-03-21
Abstract: Composition which comprises a mixture of (A) a specified polydiorganosiloxane having a viscosity of from 200 to 100,000 cP at 25 DEG C and having at least two silicon-bonded vinyl groups, (B) a specified organohydrogensiloxane, (C) a platinum catalyst, (D) a substance which inhibits the reaction between (A) and (B) in the presence of (C) e.g. an acetylenic alcohol, and (E) 0.2-10% by wt. of a blowing agent which is p,p'-oxybis(benzenesulphonylhydrazide) and/or dinitrospentamethylene tetramine, can be converted by heat into an elastomeric sponge and is useful for the production of articles such as seat cushions, heat and sound insulation and shock absorbers.
Patent GB-2139546-A (GB)
Title: Device for holding rounded objects
Inventor: FLEMING ROBERT BRUCE
IPC: B25H7/04
Filed: 1984-05-02
Abstract: Flexible bands 10, 12, 14 and 16, connected to ring 22, are formed with slots 11 and are riveted at 18 to shank 20. They define a receptor space, e.g. for an egg shell, which can be gripped by drawing the shank 20 and the riveted ends of the bands 10 to 16 into sleeve 24 and fixing the shank 20 by pressing plug 26 into the bottom end of the sleeve 24. Thereupon the gripper object (e.g. egg shell) can be marked in a plane parallel to its major axis, for instance using a pencil in the slots 11 or along the edges of the bands 10 to 16. Marking around the object can be effected using pencil 38 carried by swinging arm 34 pivotally mounted on carrier 28 which can be positioned as desired along the sleeve 24. The object to be marked can be gripped in any desired orientation in the receptor space according to whether diagonal &c markings are desired to be made. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2164230-A (GB)
Title: Three-dimensional time-of-flight positron emission camera system
Inventor: MULLANI NIZAR ABDUL
IPC: G01T1/29
Filed: 1984-08-29
Abstract: An improved sensitivity, multiple detector ring positron emission camera utilises time-of-flight information to localize the position of a detected annihilation. The annihilations detected along each cross-coincidence line between any detector in one ring and a plurality of detectors on the other rings are included in the data of the image slices by determining the nearest measurement position on the plane or interplane slice to the actual location of the annihilation for summing therewith. The positional uncertainty function which characterizes the error in the measurement of the true position of an annihilation along a coincidence line may be weighted by an attenuation-uniformity coefficient to determine the contributions to those measurement positions which lie closest to the coincidence line between the detectors detecting the annihilation. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2169263-A (GB)
Title: Container especially for medicines
Inventor: LIN JOHN
IPC: A61J7/04
Filed: 1985-01-02
Abstract: A container comprises a base portion (10) divided into a plurality of components especially suited to the storage of medication in pill or tablet form, and a closure assembly having a plurality of closures (31) for sealing the compartments respectively and having hinge means (30) common to at least two of said closures capable of securing said closures to said base portion. Preferably the hinge means comprises a central spine (30) from which the closures (31) extend in pairs, one of each pair extending away from the other, the central spine being attached at 36 by a snap connection along the longitudinal centre of the base portion, which has its compartments arranged in pairs on each side of the longitudinal centre. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2151628-A (GB)
Title: Azetidine intermediates
Inventor: HEYMES RENE
IPC: C07D403/04
Filed: 1985-01-02
Abstract: Products of formula (II):   <IMAGE>  racemic or optically active,  [in which  A represents a hydrogen atom or a sulpho radical; the wavy line indicates that the product is in its cis or trans form or in the form of a cis-trans mixture; and Ra represents a group R1 or a group R1 whose reactive functions are protected; where R1 represents a radical -(CH2)n-X; in which n represents an integer from 1 to 4; and X represents a halogen atom; a cyano radical; a radical O-R'1 in which R'1 represents a hydrogen atom or an alkyl radical; or X represents a radical S-R''1 in which R''1 represents a hydrogen atom, an alkyl radical or a heterocyclic radical; or X represents a radical   <IMAGE> in which R' and R'' are the same or different and each represents a hydrogen atom or an alkyl radical having from 1 to 4 carbon atoms, or R' and R'' together with the nitrogen atom to which they are attached form a heterocyclic radical; or X represents an azido, a thiocyanato or an isothiocyanato radical; with the proviso that when A represents a hydrogen atom, Ra cannot represent a methylthio, hydroxymethyl, azidomethyl, aminomethyl or alkoxymethyl radical] are novel compounds useful as intermediates in the production of the pharmaceutical azetidine compounds described in specification 2,111,482 from which the present case is divided out.
Patent GB-2155160-A (GB)
Title: Charging apparatus for a melting furnace
Inventor: FABRIS LUCIANO
IPC: F27D19/00
Filed: 1985-02-14
Abstract: Charging apparatus (3) is arranged immediately before a melting furnace (2) for metal, e.g. Al, scrap and comprises a preheat chamber (5) in which a charging bin (6) is arranged which is mounted on a carriage (11) for transport via doors (16, 17) into the melting chamber (15) of the furnace (2). The scrap metal introduced into the bin (6) through a supply chute (9) is uniformly distributed by a vibrator device (10) and is subjected to a rapid preheating by the hot exhaust gases of the furnace (2) admitted via nozzles (21) to the chamber (5). Hot gases from the preheat chamber (5) and, if desired, fresh air can be mixed with these exhaust gases to regulate the preheating temperature. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2162668-A (GB)
Title: Underwater communication
Inventor: CURTIS PETER BRYAN
IPC: H04B11/00
Filed: 1985-03-20
Abstract: Underwater frequency-agile data transfer by acoustic transmissions between two stations may be corrupted by delayed transmissions over indirect paths. Such paths include the sea bed, the water surface and refraction paths due to changes in density. The delay between reception of a direct path signal and the first indirect path signal provides a free time in which there will be no corruption. By sequential coded transmissions between the stations, each triggering the next, the free time is determined by both stations and also the direct path transit time. Intelligence transmissions can then proceed in 'free-time' data blocks the frequency being changed after each such period.
Patent GB-2157705-A (GB)
Title: Cleaning composition for waste-disposer
Inventor: KUENN CARY K
IPC: C11D3/10
Filed: 1985-04-19
Abstract: A composition for cleaning an in-sink waste-disposer, containing a surfactant, an alkali metal carbonate or bicarbonate and an acid. Each constituent is present in the composition in the range of 5 to 75% by weight. It is preferred that the composition contain 37.5% adipic acid, 37.5% sodium bicarbonate and 25% of a mixture of sodium lauryl sulfate and alpha-olefin sulfonate. Other ingredients may be added to provide desired properties, for example, halogen-containing compounds to provide germicidal properties, and abrasives.
Patent GB-851831-A (GB)
Abstract: 851,831. Binaural systems. TELEFUNKEN G.m.b.H. Dec. 31, 1956 [Dec. 31, 1955], No. 39624/56. Class 40 (4). Two channels of a binaural system are each associated with a plurality of loud-speakers, a pair of speakers associated respectively with the two systems being close together while another pair similarly associated are spaced far apart and have their axes of transmission either convergent or divergent. First embodiment, Fig. 1. The transmission channels include high-pass and low-pass filters HP and TP. The low-pass filters feed speakers 10 and 11. The high-pass filters feed speakers 12-17 which diverge according to their proximity to the walls of the room. The outermost speakers 14 and 17 reproduce the greatest volume of sound and the intermediate speakers 13 and 16 the least. Second embodiment, Fig. 2. For use in an open space the outer loudspeakers converge instead of diverging.
Patent GB-2164270-A (GB)
Title: Centrifugal spray apparatus
Inventor: COCOVI GARCIA JUAN
IPC: B05B3/08
Filed: 1985-08-14
Abstract: Sectorial centrifugal spray apparatus intended for low volume and very low volume spraying of liquids, especially for agricultural use, for the purposes of applying herbicides, insecticides, fungicides, pesticides, fertilisers, and for other treatments in which liquids are used, comprises a centrifuging rotor or drum (1) and a regulating chamber (4) fastened to said centrifuging rotor, the rotor and chamber being driven by a motor or transmission shaft (2) housed in a container (3) fastened to a body (6), the assembly comprising the centrifuging rotor (1) and the regulating chamber (4) rotating inside said casing (6), in which a sectorial aperture (7) is provided to enable the liquid to pass out at the open part of the rotor. Preferably the centrifuging rotor or drum (1) is of slightly frustoconical shape with its larger side open. The apparatus also preferably includes an axial pump (11) driven from the motor or transmission shaft (2) for recycling of liquids. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2168353-A (GB)
Title: Process for preparing steroid-nucleoside conjugates
Inventor: HONG CHUNG IL
IPC: A61P35/00
Filed: 1985-12-06
Abstract: A novel process for the preparation of a conjugate of a 21-hydroxy steroid and a nucleoside-5'-monophosphate comprises reacting the 21-hydroxy steroid with a derivative of the nucleoside-5'-monophosphate (in which hydroxy groups on the carbohydrate ring are protected) in the presence of 2,4,6-triisopropylbenzene sulphonyl chloride (TPS) as a condensing agent under anhydrous conditions and removing the hydroxy protecting groups from the conjugate thereby obtained. Such conjugates and their salts are useful as anticancer and antiviral agents.
Patent GB-2172271-A (GB)
Title: Feeding printed circuit boards
Inventor: LIMON CLAUDE
IPC: B65H3/08
Filed: 1986-03-11
Abstract: Rigid or flexible plates, especially printed-circuit boards, unpierced at least at one edge are continuously fed from file P by a movable gripping member 18, applied to the edge of the uppermost plate P1, lifting means 26 to lift and separate it from the next plate, and feed-rollers 28, 30, to cause the plate P1 to tip up when it is released by said gripping member in order to bring it into an approximately horizontal position. The plate P1 may then be transferred to a conveyor (not shown) of the machine to be fed, without it rubbing against the other plates in the pile P. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2173927-A (GB)
Title: Wrist-watch casing
Inventor: TAKAGI TORU
IPC: G04B45/00
Filed: 1986-04-15
Abstract: An airtight wrist-watch casing comprises a flat, tubular, transparent main body 1, a bar-like inner case 8 of reduced cross section mounting the movement and a pair of tightly sealed end closures 5. This provides the visual effect of transparency as in a see-through wrist-watch, while providing enhanced waterproof protection of the movement. The end closures 5 carry means 4 for attaching a wrist strap. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2197528-A (GB)
Title: Removal of wire wrap from fuel pins
Inventor: HOWELL ROBERT GEORGE
IPC: G21C19/36
Filed: 1986-09-05
Abstract: Wire wrapped fuel pins are fed into an aperture 28 defined by spring-loaded jaws 2, 4 and 6 to remove the wire from the fuel pin and hence avoid over-burdening the dissolver bath with waste steel during reprocessing. The wire is sheared at the front end of the fuel pin by the front face of one of the jaws 2, 4 and 6 and curls up in front of the jaws 2, 4 and 6 as the bare fuel pin is passed through the aperture 28. As the rear end of the fuel pin is passed into the aperture 28, the wire is sheared from the rear end to complete removal of the wire wrap. Guide means which may comprise fins 10, 12 and 14 located on the jaws 2, 4 and 6, or an expandable alignment bush disposed in front of the jaws, may be used to guide the fuel pin into the aperture 28. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2181851-A (GB)
Title: Engine monitoring
Inventor: SCHOFIELD LESLIE
IPC: F02P17/08
Filed: 1986-09-09
Abstract: In order to monitor an internal combustion engine, signals from the low tension ignition coil voltage are analysed and are compared with previously obtained, calibrated values for the engine in question. It has been found, surprisingly, that by sampling and comparing the low tension voltage various parameters of the high tension side of the engine may be obtained. The device used comprises an engine sensor unit which is linked to an interface and data conversion unit (28, 30) by means of optical fibres (12), and a microprocessor unit (16) is used to compare the values obtained with previously calibrated values. Information about the type of engine being monitored is input via a keyboard (18), and the information obtained from the low tension engine voltage is displayed on a monitor (20). <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2196368-A (GB)
Title: Window and door frame
Inventor: POLLARD WILFRED CHARLES
IPC: E06B3/08
Filed: 1986-09-15
Abstract: A moulding for a UPVC sealed unit double glazed window or door comprises core and adaptor sections which may be assembled together to provide L, T or Z cross sections, in which the adaptor sections are provided with tongues which are longitudinally slidably insertable in grooves formed in the core section and are laterally retained therein. Profiled glazing strips have an angled tongue for insertion and retention within a groove of a core section by the presence of the glazing and sealing gaskets. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2184133-A (GB)
Title: Metal matrix composites
Inventor: BROOMFIELD GEOFFREY HUGH
IPC: C22C32/00
Filed: 1986-12-03
Abstract: A composite material comprising a refractory, inorganic filler material (e.g. SiC or Al2O3 in a matrix of aluminium or an aluminium-containing alloy is made by incorporating the filler material into the aluminium or aluminium-containing alloy at a temperature above its liquidus, e.g. by vacuum stirring, followed by cooling to solidify the composite. In order to improve the wettability of the filler by the molten metal, the filler has a bismuth additive, for example in the form of a bismuth compound such as bismuth oxide, dispersed therein, This may be done by intimately mixing elemental bismuth with particulate filler followed by oxidation of the bismuth to bismuth oxide, e.g. by heating in air.
Patent GB-2189999-A (GB)
Title: Urinary incontinence prostheses
Inventor: ANNIS DAVID
IPC: A61F2/48
Filed: 1987-05-07
Abstract: A prosthetic device (10) suitable for use in the treatment of stress incontinence in women by location as a cuff around the urethra, to elevate the bladder following prolapse, comprises a body (11) composed predominantly of a cross-linked synthetic polymer hydrogel having a water content of the order of 90%, and preferably about 95%, by weight. The hydrogel can be homogeneous through the body but in this event the body suitably has a local reinforcement (12), such as by embedded plastics material mesh, in at least one relatively small edge portion to enhance its tear resistance in relation to sutures (13) passed therethrough. The body is suitably of kidney shape having dimensional proportions of approximately 5 x 3 x 1 cms.
Patent GB-2197892-A (GB)
Title: Patterned structural cast plates
Inventor: MOLYNEUX GEORGE
IPC: B28B7/24
Filed: 1987-10-07
Abstract: The invention relates to a method and apparatus for the production of patterned rendered structural features (for example, "crazy-paving") such as may be incorporated on walls, paths, patios and pavements. The apparatus generally comprises a grid-like former which consists of a series of strips 12, 14, 16, 18, 20 joined together to form an irregularly shaped primary frame and some strips 21, 22, 24, 26, 28 providing branches radiating from the frame so that a great variety of patterns can be produced by a collocation of formers (see Fig. 6).   <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2198573-A (GB)
Title: Display apparatus
Inventor: HUMPHRIES BRYAN JASON
IPC: G02F1/1335
Filed: 1987-10-13
Abstract: Filter unit 1 has a liquid crystal display panel 2 having a plurality of sections 4-6, each electrically energisable independently of the others to be optically transmissive and having different transmission characteristics. The panel is sandwiched between two transparent glass substrates 3,3<1> one having a surface coating formed of three concentric regions each of a different colour transmissive material. A polarizing surface coating 7, oriented to block the light of an activated cell may be formed on one or both substrates. The sections with different transmission characteristics may alternatively be formed as separate sectors or as wedge-shaped radial sections. Each section may be further sub-divided into elements which can be separately energised to control the intensity level of each colour. The filter unit may be used in an imaging system to display slides, photographs on a TV receiver, in still photography and in video or film making. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2199287-A (GB)
Title: Displayable parking ticket
Inventor: JOHNSON COLIN
IPC: G07C1/30
Filed: 1987-12-14
Abstract: A displayable parking ticket is printed with groups of data, for example the date (year (2), month (3) and day (4) i.e., 1 to 31) and numbers (5) representing hours or parts thereof. There may simply be one group of such numbers to indicate "times of arrival" or there may be a second group to indicate "times of departures" (6). The card is provided with scratch-off areas (Fig. 2), or tear-off portions or tabs (Fig. 3) in order to display the relevant data. <IMAGE>