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Patent GB-2144303-A (GB)
Title: Interrogation device
Inventor: TOWNSING LESLIE CHARLES
IPC: G08B25/08
Filed: 1983-07-22
Abstract: An interrogation unit (1) for connecting into an installation to be monitored via sensing elements (sensors 1-16) is activatable by a remote signal e.g. over a telephone line 23 to supply tone signals indicative of the condition of each of various sensors in the installation, in turn. The signals may be coded. e.g. using pairs of tones, to indicate which sensor is responding and the system may initiate an alarm signal if any sensor changes its condition. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2124880-A (GB)
Title: Insect catching device
Inventor: MOONEY KEVIN JOHN
IPC: A01M3/00
Filed: 1983-07-28
Abstract: An insect catching device that can be readily used in environments where sanitary regulations prohibit the use of chemical insecticides or the swatting of insects comprises a pair of co-operating elements 20, 21, each in the form of a tray or a lid, connected by handle means. The handle means may be in the form of a flexible loop 22 or in the form of two rigid handles pivotally connected to each other (Fig. 13). The elements 20, 21 are closable against one another by means of the handle means to form a receptacle in which an insect may be trapped. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2144985-A (GB)
Title: Anatomical anti cervical arthrosis pillow
Inventor: FONTANESI FRANCO
IPC: A47G9/10
Filed: 1983-08-17
Abstract: An anatomical anti cervical arthrosis pillow consisting of a body (1) of undeformable material of a basically parallelepiped form, with rounded edges and a longitudinal ridge (3) along one of the edges, which is more accentuated in the centre (4). This central portion (4) of the ridge (3) has a profile analogous to that of the posterior curve of a man's neck when the man stands erect. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2127679-A (GB)
Title: Bag or purse
Inventor: FRUET EMIL WERNER
IPC: A45C1/04
Filed: 1983-09-21
Abstract: The bag or purse which is intended to be worn on a belt 19, comprises a bag part (1) and a carrying loop (6) serving to receive the belt. The upper edge of the self- contained carrying loop (6) is fastened along a line in the upper edge region of the bag part (1). The bag opening (13) is disposed below this line on that side of the bag part (1) which is remote from the carrying loop (6). In the position of use the bag lies astride the waistband terminating the garment at the top, the carrying loop (6) being on the outside of the garment and the bag part (1) on the inside. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2133276-A (GB)
Title: Pull-out guide assembly for drawers or the like
Inventor: ROCK ERICH
IPC: A47B88/14
Filed: 1983-12-01
Abstract: A pull-out guide assembly for drawers with a support rail (1) and a pull-out rail (2) on each side. The support rails (1) are fastened to the walls (8) of the cabinet and the drawer is detachable from the pull-out rails (2). Each pull-out rail (2) is provided with a latch member (12) with which the pull-out rails (2) can be arrested on the support rails (1) in the inserted position in order to facilitate the mounting and detaching of the drawer on or from the pull-out rails (2). <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2134430-A (GB)
Title: Method of securing and/or sealing an element relative to a support
Inventor: MURRAY JAMES ALEXANDER
IPC: F28F9/16
Filed: 1984-01-05
Abstract: A hollow element 10 (such as a tube) is secured and/or sealed relative to a support 12 (such as a tubeplate of a heat exchanger) by first forming in the support 12 an aperture (11) having at least one channel 15 between its side wall and the element 10. After insertion into the aperture (11), the element 10 is expanded to bring its external surface 13 into close contact with the aperture side wall, except where the channels 15 are provided. A flowable securant/sealant is then applied to a side surface 12a of the support 12 onto which the channels 15 open, and is caused to flow into the channels 15 at least partly by capillary action. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2153535-A (GB)
Title: Sphygmomanometer
Inventor: COSSOR ADRIAN JOHN
IPC: A61B5/022
Filed: 1984-02-02
Abstract: A sphygmomanometer for use with an armcuff comprises a pressure sensor, separate display areas 14 for systolic pressure and diastolic pressure, and a press button control 17 operated to record each pressure by a person listening with a stethoscope for the appropriate pulse sounds. The first time the button is pressed the reading is displayed in the systolic area and the second time in the diastolic area. Provision is made for several readings to be recorded. An inflation bulb 7 and an adjustable pressure release value are provided. The instrument provides a compromise between a fully automatic instrument and a purely manual system with stethoscope and manometer. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2153876-A (GB)
Title: Tunnelling machine or roadheader with boom-mounted flipper arm
Inventor: COTTON BRIAN BENJAMIN
IPC: E21D9/12
Filed: 1984-02-10
Abstract: A boom-type tunnelling machine having a shield or a boom-type roadheader machine having a gathering apron, is characterised in that a flipper arm 47 is mounted on the boom. Preferably the flipper arm comprises a scoop movable between a retracted position, in which it does not interfere with the normal operation of the tunnelling machine or roadheader, and an extended position, in which it is engageable with the tunnel or roadway floor adjacent the front edge of the shield or apron by movement of the boom, the scoop, when engaged with the floor, being movable so as to clear cut material from the floor onto the gathering apron. The flipper arm is used to clear debris accumulating in front of the shield or apron to enable the machine to be steered correctly. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2154412-A (GB)
Title: Spreading system for granular material
Inventor: COWELL JOHN
IPC: A01C17/00
Filed: 1984-02-29
Abstract: A spreading system for spreading granular material from a vehicle in a controllable pattern comprises a vaned spinner disc 2 whose direction of rotation is reversible. The position at which granular material is deposited on the spinner disc may be varied, longitudinally of the vehicle, by moving the disc or the feed chute 8. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2142580-A (GB)
Title: Line feed in platen printing apparatus
Inventor: KONDO HIROATSU
IPC: B41J19/92
Filed: 1984-05-23
Abstract: A printing apparatus in which line feed is achieved by rotating a platen with a paper advancing motor (5), the printing being conducted while the platen is stopped by the paper advancing motor. The printer is further provided with a detent mechanism (10) for stopping the platen at the interval of a determined angle, and a solenoid (13) for deactivating the function of the detent mechanism. The solenoid is energised to deactivate the detent mechanism; 
 
  i) during platen advancement to reduce the motor load and noise 
  ii) in order that the platen can be advanced by intervals less than one full notch on the ratchet wheel (9). 
 
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Patent GB-2146011-A (GB)
Title: Preparing sodium chloride solution and producing sodium bicarbonate
Inventor: NINANE LEON
IPC: C01D7/16
Filed: 1984-09-04
Abstract: Process for the preparation of an aqueous solution of sodium chloride, according to which sodium bicarbonate is decomposed in an aqueous solution by means of a chloride of an organic cation, the carbon dioxide formed is removed and rock salt is added to the resulting aqueous solution. The process applies to the preparation of an aqueous solution of sodium chloride from a mother liquor from the crystallisation of sodium bicarbonate and an organic solution of amine hydrochloride, which are obtained by treating an aqueous solution of sodium chloride, an organic solution of a water-insoluble amine and carbon dioxide.
Patent GB-843919-A (GB)
Abstract: 843,919. Piezo-electric elements. CLEVITE CORPORATION. Oct. 11, 1956 [Dec. 5, 1955], No. 30980/56. Class 40(8). [Also in Group V] The operating element of a transducer consists essentially of a solid solution of a material selected from within the area ABCD of Fig. 3 and contains 0.5 to 5 weight per cent of niobium and/or tantalium, computed as oxide. Up to 30 atom per cent of the lead can be replaced by calcium and/or strontium. Hafnium may be present as an impurity in, or a substituent for, zirconium. Discs of the material have electrodes and leads applied to their opposed faces. Specifications 780,673, 818,710 and 843,918 are referred to.
Patent GB-2154961-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to vehicle axle arrangements
Inventor: BOFFELLI PIER CARLO
IPC: B60K17/30
Filed: 1985-01-16
Abstract: An axle arrangement for leading wheels of a vehicle, preferably an off-road vehicle, in which a shaft (13), powered by a driving shaft (8) through a bevel gear pair (12a, 12b), can couple with axleshafts (14a, 14b) carrying the leading wheels by means of independent operable clutches (15a, 15b). Means are provided to engage and disengage one or both of the clutches automatically, depending on the conditions of the terrain and the path followed by the vehicle. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2170121-A (GB)
Title: Funnels
Inventor: BENNETT JOHN
IPC: B67C11/00
Filed: 1985-01-29
Abstract: A funnel 10 has flexibly 14 attached tubes 15, 17 of different sizes, the tubes have a common taper bore at one end to fit on to the funnel outlet tube 12, the other end of the tubes having smaller outlet sizes 15, 17. When a tube is fitted to the funnel outlet tube 12 this allows 16 the funnel to be used in a smaller size opening ie. equal to a smaller funnel. The tube/s when not in use are located in housing/s 16. The tubes are provided with a projecting rim to act as a finger grip to pull the tube off. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2153407-A (GB)
Title: Suspended ceiling
Inventor: OZAKI NOBUO
IPC: E04B9/24
Filed: 1985-01-30
Abstract: The ceiling comprises a rigid grid of beams (1, 2) forming bays, which is suspendedly fixed to a bare ceiling of a building; positioning members (16) having mutually perpendicular, vertically disposed, positioning parts or plates (18, 19) and holding cutouts (20) and fixed to the support structure at the four corners of each bay; ceiling panels (23) each received in a respective one bay and positioned accurately within the bay by the positioning members; and securing means in the form of a wire spring (31) fixed to each corner of each ceiling panel (23) and passed from below through the holding cutouts (20) of the positioning members (16) to engage resiliently with the cutouts so as to secure the ceiling panel in the specific alignment. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2154761-A (GB)
Title: Diffusive optical fibre termination
Inventor: CHAPMAN JOHN GERALD
IPC: G02B6/42
Filed: 1985-02-20
Abstract: An optical fibre termination (1), particularly useful for laser radiation treatment of tumours, comprises a tapered end (3) to the fibre (2) and a diffusing medium (5) over the taper. The taper (3) may be uniform or non-uniform and the diffusing medium (5) may includes particulate matter to give an isotropic spread of light. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2172646-A (GB)
Title: Security device for casements
Inventor: WOODCOCK MALCOLM IVOR
IPC: E05B17/20
Filed: 1985-03-21
Abstract: A security device for a casement window or door in which a first element (13) is secured to the outer edge thereof and cooperates with a second element (14) secured to the adjoining edge of the frame surrounding the opening for the window or door, to restrain movement of the first element (and therefore the window or door) in a direction towards the hinged edge of the frame, when the window or door is closed. The two elements each have a in-profile, the one fitting into the other when the door or window shuts. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2160282-A (GB)
Title: Security cover
Inventor: BROOKES GEORGE
IPC: F16B41/00
Filed: 1985-06-05
Abstract: A security cover for releasably fitting over a member (for example a gas pipe connector or terminator cap) to which unauthorised access is to be denied, comprises a cover 30 shaped to fit over the member 6 and a concealed catch (44, 48) supported by the cover 30 and engageable with the member 6 so that the cover 30 cannot be removed therefrom; a source of fluid under pressure (e.g. air compression pump 56) is screwed temporarily to the cover 30 and fluid supplied thereby is delivered to the piston 44 of the catch 44, 48 to release the cover 30. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2174284-A (GB)
Title: Tobacco filter
Inventor: BITTER ISTVAN
IPC: A24D3/14
Filed: 1985-09-17
Abstract: Tobacco smoke filters comprise a compound containing an enediol group   <IMAGE> Examples of such compounds include L-ascorbic acid, 3-hydroxy-2-oxopropanol reductinic acid, hvdroxytetronic acid, dihydroxy maleic acid and dehydro-ascorbic acid.The filter can also comprise copper sulphate and for an absorptional filtering material such as activated charcoal, hydrophobic filtering perlite, and a porous silicate. The filters reduce the amount of aldehyde in tobacco smoke.
Patent GB-2181666-A (GB)
Title: Treatment of gases
Inventor: CREED MALCOLM RONALD
IPC: C07C7/13
Filed: 1985-10-17
Abstract: Regeneration times for molecular sieve based adsorption beds used for pre-purifying, for example natural gas to be liquefied, can be significantly reduced by incorporating a silica gel layer upstream of the molecular sieve. The temperature at which both water and carbon dioxide is substantially completely desorbed is greater than 175 DEG C but less than 200 DEG C.
Patent GB-2168903-A (GB)
Title: Distillation equipment
Inventor: SHIROTA TOSHISUKE
IPC: G05D7/01
Filed: 1986-01-08
Abstract: A distillation device is provided with a heater comprising a heater body (27), a heater element embedded in the heater body, and a temperature sensor (34) embedded in the upper portion of the heater body. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2187391-A (GB)
Title: Baby feeding/gas supply connector
Inventor: SILVERMAN DR MICHAEL
IPC: A61J9/06
Filed: 1986-03-07
Abstract: A device for use in feeding an infant comprises means (10, 12, 14, 18, 20) to connect in a separable manner a feeding bottle (26) and a gas supply tube (34) such that in use gas is delivered to the infant's nose by the gas supply tube when feed is delivered to the infant's mouth by the feed bottle. The present device allows a person bottle feeding an infant requiring, for example, an oxygen enriched atmosphere, to hold the infant in one arm and the present device, comprising a single unit readily in the other hand. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2188262-A (GB)
Title: Universal manipulator for handling workpieces
Inventor: BROCK FREDERICK
IPC: B23Q1/54
Filed: 1986-03-25
Abstract: A universal manipulator comprises a base (1), a first turntable element (6) mounted for rotation on the base about a first vertical axis, a second turntable element (7) carried by the first turntable element and mounted for rotation about a second axis inclined at 45 DEG to the first axis, and a third turntable element (8) adapted to have a workpiece mounted thereon and so mounted on the second turntable element as to be rotatable about a third axis at 45 DEG  to said second axis. The turntable elements may be rotatable by manual hand wheels (10, 12, 14) or, alternatively, by electrical motors. The manipulator is particularly useful for use with heavy workpieces with the centre of gravity falling within the base of the manipulator, with the electric motor drives to the different turntable elements being programmable to provide a three dimensional controllable movement of the workpiece carried on the third turntable element. The manipulator can be used in machining, welding or fabrication operations. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2198014-A (GB)
Title: Information transfer system
Inventor: WRIGHT DEREK THOMAS
IPC: H04B5/00
Filed: 1986-11-14
Abstract: Information is transmitted between two information processing circuits through an inductive coupling (1). The first circuit absorbs power from the inductive coupling, and varies the absorbed power in response to information to be transmitted to the second circuit. The second circuit generates an a.c. signal (10) and applies this signal to the inductive coupling (1). A sensing means (14) detects the current passed by the coupling in response to the a.c. signal and provides an output (40) which is dependent on the detected a.c. signal and representative of information transmitted from the first circuit. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2184275-A (GB)
Title: Bar code reading wand
Inventor: WILKS ANDREW JOHN
IPC: G06K7/10
Filed: 1986-12-11
Abstract: A bar code reading wand 1 has an optical head 3 incorporating an optical emitter 6 (which may incorporate a light emitting diode) associated with a photo transistor which is responsive to signals from the emitter 6 which have been reflected from a surface, and received signals are analysed by optical processing electronics 2. The head 3 incorporates a spring 4 which can be compressed as the head is pressed against a surface so as to operate a switch 5 which allows power to be applied to the optical emitter 6 and the processing electronics 2. The spring 4 can be replaced by a resilient member and the switch 5 can be a membrane switch. In an alternative arrangement the proximity of the tip of the wand to a surface is detected by a capacitively operated detecting element. The application of power to the emitter 6 only when the wand is in an operational position conserves the battery power of portable units. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2193583-A (GB)
Title: Optical cables
Inventor: PEACOCK ALAN JAMES
IPC: G02B6/44
Filed: 1987-02-05
Abstract: An optical fibre cable, especially an aerial cable, has, within an outer sheath (3), four or five strength members (1) with at least one optical fibre package (6, 6.1) accommodated in an interstitial space formed by the strength members (1). Such a cable can be constructed to have sufficient tensile strength for installation between towers up to 1000m apart.
Patent GB-2187146-A (GB)
Title: Pneumatic radial tire
Inventor: UEDA HIROSHI
IPC: B60C3/04
Filed: 1987-02-19
Abstract: The heavy duty tire (21) includes a pair of bead portions (23), a carcass (24) consisting of one steel cord layer, and a tread portion (25). A rim (30) on which the tire is mounted has a bead base at an angle of approximately 15 DEG  relative to a rotational axis of the tire. During inflation of the tire from 7% to 100% of a determined maximum internal pressure, the ratio A/B of an enlargement amount A of a shoulder in a radially outward direction to an enlargement amount B of the bead portion in an axially outward direction is in the range 0.25-0.7, preferably 0.3-0.55, where a radially outward displacement of a shoulder point J spaced by 10 mm from each edge (25a) of the tread towards an equatorial plane Z of the tire is taken as the enlargement amount A of the shoulder, and an axially outward displacement of a bead point K at a height (h) of 21% of the tire sectional height H from the bead heel is taken as the enlargement amount B of the bead portion. 
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Patent GB-2201573-A (GB)
Title: Biscuit snacks
Inventor: DUDLEY COLIN GEORGE
IPC: A21D2/36
Filed: 1987-03-02
Abstract: Biscuit snacks are made by rotary moulding a dough based upon 2 kinds of flour, namely a standard biscuit flour and a wafer biscuit flour, optionally with a powdered calcium carbonate component, possibly as part of an effervescent couple, and/or with a third kind of flour, i.e. malt flour, included in the dough.
Patent GB-2190638-A (GB)
Title: Wheel and axle guard for low bed rail vehicle
Inventor: LATHAM JOSEPH
IPC: B61F19/02
Filed: 1987-05-19
Abstract: A railway vehicle has a bed 8 for carrying loads and wheels 2 which in the gross condition of the vehicle project above the level of the bed 8. At least some of the wheels 2 are associated with respective protector arrangements 13-16 (Figure 3) which extend above the bed 8 and which serve to protect the wheel 2 from fouling a load when the vehicle is in the gross condition. Axle guards 18 are mounted on the protector arrangements thereby permitting these guards to have a greater length and thus be stronger than would be the case if mounted on the frame of the wagon. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2193546-A (GB)
Title: Braking-skid-controlled brake system
Inventor: KLEIN HANS-CHRISTOF
IPC: B60T8/44
Filed: 1987-07-29
Abstract: A brake system for automotive vehicles comprises a vacuum brake force booster (14) the piston wall (11) of which contains a quick-switching pneumatic short-circuiting valve (18) to be opened during wheel slip control. The short-circuiting valve (18) comprises a valve disc (20) covering a connecting port (19) between the pressure chamber (16) and the vacuum chamber (17) on the pressure chamber (16) side and openable by an electromagnet (21). The actuating plunger (22) of the valve disc (20) extends, opposite the opening direction, to a compensating piston (23) provided thereon for compensating for the opposed areas of the disc and acted upon, in the valve opening direction, by the pressure of the pressure chamber (16) and, in the closing direction, by the vacuum of the vacuum chamber (17). In the braking system of Fig. 1 the pressures in the booster chambers (16,17) are determined by a differential piston device (14') connected to a vacuum tank (48) and including a pedal actuated vacuum valve (45) which inlets atmospheric air to a chamber (16'). During skid control two valves (50) are closed and the valve (18) is selectively actuated. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2210995-A (GB)
Title: Vortex valves
Inventor: LAKATOS DANIEL
IPC: E03F5/10
Filed: 1987-10-14
Abstract: There is provided a vortex-valve (40) which comprises a housing defining a vortex chamber (44), the housing having an inlet (46) through which liquid may enter the vortex chamber (44) in a manner to promote swirl within the vortex chamber (44) and an outlet (30) at one axial end of the vortex chamber (44). A wall of the housing is provided with an opening (4) which is normally closed by a closure, this closure (6) being operable between the closed position and an open position in which liquid may enter the vortex chamber (44) by-passing the inlet (46). The vortex-valve (40) may be provided at the outlet of a gully and is useful in enabling a blockage, which may occur at the inlet (46) of the vortex-valve (40), to be by-passed, thereby draining any accumulated liquid in the gully. The blockage may then be removed when the gully is relatively dry.
Patent GB-2199659-A (GB)
Title: Occupancy sensing device
Inventor: WARNER KENNETH JOHN
IPC: F16B2/24
Filed: 1987-12-01
Abstract: Fixing an object (1) such as a presence sensor housing in an aperture (15) in a barrier member (16) so done by a securement device (8) of resilient spring form that fits to and grips part of the object (1) protruding through the barrier member (16). The spring member (8) can be flexed ut of gripping of the protruding part of the object (1) to be moved up to the barrier (16) then allowed to relax in achieving gap-free mounting. Specifically, flexing is of an arcuate part (11) having an object gripping aperture (14) using angled parts (12,13) presenting bends (12a,13a) able to butt up to the barrier (16). <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2200757-A (GB)
Title: Hydraulically operated container testing apparatus
Inventor: DAY HUEY FREDERICK
IPC: G01M99/00
Filed: 1988-02-05
Abstract: A hydraulically operated container testing apparatus comprises, in one embodiment, a fixed beam (6) cantilever- mounted (at 7) at one end and spaced above a supporting surface at the other and for insertion through an open doorway at one end (4) of a container (1) and over the floor (5) of the container (1). In the same embodiment of the invention means providing a lifting point is in the form of a bridge assembly comprising two hydraulically extensible side frames (9) interconnected at the top by a cross beam (10). The bridge assembly is slidable bodily on the support surface (8) between operative and inoperative positions. <IMAGE>