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Patent GB-2288843-A (GB)
Title: Loft conversion
Inventor: MAHON NICOLA FENELLA
IPC: E04G23/02
Filed: 1995-05-01
Abstract: The trusses 2 of a loft are strengthened using prefabricated components before the supporting struts are removed. The components include eaves panels 4 and fish plates 7. The floor rafters may be strengthened by a tie beam 1. A retaining beam 5 and struts 3 are used under the roof ridge. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2297848-A (GB)
Title: Flow meters
Inventor: CARMICHAEL RICHARD Q
IPC: G01F1/44
Filed: 1995-09-06
Abstract: A flow meter comprises a divergent nozzle region 6 and a plug 10 which is axially displaceable within the nozzle region 6 under the influence of a flowing fluid. The plug 10 is guided, during displacement, by vanes 38 extending inwardly from the wall of the nozzle region 6. The plug 10 is displaceable against the action of a spring 20 which abuts a support ring 22. The force applied by the spring 20 to the support ring 22 is transmitted to a strain element 26. Processing circuitry 36 receives inputs from strain gauges 32 and provides an output representing the flow rate of fluid through the flow meter. The plug 10 may be a ball (Fig 3) or may be mounted on a magnetic rod (Fig 4) movable within coils. A sensor may provide temperature compensation.
Patent GB-2313670-A (GB)
Title: Assessing warpage and diameter of the inside of a gun barrel
Inventor: WOODFINE CLIVE FRANK
IPC: G01B7/28
Filed: 1996-05-29
Abstract: In order to enable warpage of the inside of a rifled gun barrel to be measured, a gauge comprises: an elongate body 14 insertable lengthwise into the tube 10; a pair of reference supports for supporting the body with respect to the wall of the tube at a pair of reference positions I-I, II-II which are mutually spaced along the body; and a mechanism for gauging the distance between the wall of the tube and a datum point with respect to the body at a gauging position III-III spaced from the reference positions. Each reference support comprises a circular array of balls 20, 30, a cam arrangement 22, 14c, 32, 14e engageable with the balls, and a spring 26, 36 for applying biassing force to the cam arrangements in the axial direction of the body, which is transformed into a radial biassing force on each of the balls. The gauging mechanism comprises a circular array of balls 40 each of which is radially movable with respect to the body so that at least one of the balls can abut the wall of the tube, a cam arrangement 42, 14g movable axially with respect to the body such that axial movement of the cam arrangement is transformed into radial expansion of the array of balls, and a device for measuring the axial position of the cam arrangement.
Patent GB-2300783-A (GB)
Title: A modular tweeter
Inventor: WALTON ROGER NEAL
IPC: H04R1/24
Filed: 1995-04-05
Abstract: A modular tweeter (10) is provided for inductive coupling and location within a host loudspeaker (50). The loudspeaker (50) is conventional having a pole (60) with a surrounding magnet (54) and pole plate (58) defining a gap therebetween and a voice coil (72) wound on a tubular former (64) disposed within the gap (62). The tweeter (10) comprises a diaphragm or dome (14) for producing sound having an electrically conductive skirt (28). The skirted dome (14) is supported by a support member (12) having a surface for attachment to the pole (60) of the loudspeaker and a plurality of points of support (22). A phase plug (16) is located on the opposite side of the dome (14) from the support member (12) and is connected to the support member (12) through an aperture (26) in the dome (14) in such a way that the dome (14) is locked in position whilst being free to vibrate, whereby the tweeter can be assembled before insertion into the host loudspeaker (50).
Patent GB-2303866-A (GB)
Title: Auger boring
Inventor: PARRY RONALD RODEN
IPC: E21C25/58
Filed: 1996-07-26
Abstract: An auger boring machine is provided with cradle means 35 for supporting each auger segment being transferred from one bored hole to another, the cradle means preferably comprising round bars 36 extending between a supporting crosshead 37 slidable along a rail 38 attached to a side member 39 of the tilting frame 11 of the machine and passing through linear bearings 40 in the second carriage 13 of the machine, which second carriage is movable to and fro along the first carriage 12 of the machine and which in turn is movable to and fro across the tilting frame 11.
Patent GB-2317146-A (GB)
Title: A data processing and document printing process
Inventor: DONNELLY BERNARD GERARD
IPC: B41B19/00
Filed: 1996-09-11
Abstract: A document is printed by use of a template (5) which has a typesetting format (7), a dataset (11), and a control table (12) which are all individually addressable. The template (5) also has a time stamp (6). Data values are stored in the dataset (11) and these may be current if the data has not been amended since the report was last generated. This avoids the need to carry out processing again. General output instructions may be user-defined by amendment of row and column expressions (8,9) and detailed typesetting commands may be amended by amendment of the control table (12).
Patent GB-2317417-A (GB)
Title: Rotary valve for an i.c. engine
Inventor: MALLIER RONALD CLIVE
IPC: F01L7/16
Filed: 1996-09-18
Abstract: The rotary valve 6, which is somewhat similar in construction to a conventional i.c. engine piston, rotates inside a cylinder sleeve (9, figs. 3,10) coaxial with the engine piston 11. The valve 6 has a right-angled passage 15 which extends from an aperture in the face of the valve 6 which faces the piston 11 to a port 14 in the side of the piston. Modifications of the passage 15 are shown (fig. 9) for different compression ratios. As the valve 6 rotates, at half crankshaft speed, the side port 14 passes respective inlet and exhaust ports located in the cylinder sleeve. On the induction stroke the port in the side of the valve lines up with the induction port; on the compression stroke the side port faces the blank cylinder wall and on the exhaust stroke the side port lines up with the exhaust port. The valve 6 may be driven by a belt, worm gearing or cog wheels and may have a piston-type rings in grooves 22. Vertical sealing bars 19 may be provided on each side of the side port 14.
Patent GB-2317560-A (GB)
Title: Anti-parasite medication for pets
Inventor: CAMPION EDMUND JOHN HILARY
IPC: A23K1/18
Filed: 1996-09-20
Abstract: A mixture of prepared pet food to which one or more pharmaceuticals, medicines or antibiotics have been added in the course of manufacture, the mixture intended to feed and simultaneously to dose the animal in order to eliminate and/or prevent infestation or reinfestation with any or all kinds of worm or other intestinal or other parasite, internal or external, in domestic and other cats and dogs and other animals, including birds, kept as pets, such medicated food intended for domestic use away from veterinary control or supervision; presentation for sale of such medicated pet food in measured unitary doses; or as loose or unportioned feed intended subsequently to be weighed or otherwise portioned to achieve the desired medicinal dose.
Patent GB-2308693-A (GB)
Title: Flash memory with redundancy
Inventor: PARK JOO WEON
IPC: H01L21/8247
Filed: 1996-12-24
Abstract: The present invention relates to a flash memory cell device having a repair circuit for replacing a fail cell of main memory cell arrays with a spare cell. The flash memory device according to the present invention comprises a main memory cell array, a redundancy cell block, a redundancy row decoder, a row decoder, a column decoder, a flag bit cell block, a flag cell transfer gate, a main sense amplifier and a flag sense amplifier.
Patent GB-2312317-A (GB)
Title: Raid video data storage utilising stripe to disk mapping
Inventor: BOPARDIKAR RAJU C
IPC: G11B27/34
Filed: 1997-04-09
Abstract: A RAID system is utilised whereby individual frames of video data are divided up into a number of stripes which are simultaneously written to respective disks within an array. Each disk is provided with a manufacturers code and an identity code which provide a unique identification for each disk. The positions of stripes within an image frame are mapped to the unique identification numbers enabling correct stripe alignment within an image frame to be maintained even when the physical locations of disks within the array are changed. Mapping tables are produced for separate subgroups of disks within the array which list disk identities and locations. The tables are automatically updated when a failed disk is physically replaced with a spare disk logically mapped to a subgroup.
Patent GB-2325627-A (GB)
Title: Basketball hoops with ball redirection means
Inventor: DUNN RICHARD BRIAN
IPC: A63B63/08
Filed: 1997-05-28
Abstract: A basketball hoop has attached thereto chute means which will direct the ball back to the shooter in the event of a successful throw. In one embodiment, support means 17 are mounted on support ring 16 which is hinged to the hoop at 18 and releasably attached to the hoop at 19 so that the return means can be simply made inoperable.
Patent GB-2315375-A (GB)
Title: Fluorescent lamp drive circuit
Inventor: NAKAGAWA HIROKI
IPC: H05B41/24
Filed: 1997-07-10
Abstract: A self oscillating inverter drives a fluorescent lamp 8 connected in series in an L-C resonant circuit 10b, 7, the inductor 10b of the resonant circuit forming a primary winding of a feedback transformer 10. Gate drive signals for alternately conducting FET's 5, 6 (or bipolar transistors, or IGBT's) are derived from secondaries 10a, 10c of the transformer 10 via L-C resonant circuits 21, 22 and 15, 16. The resonance frequency of circuits 15, 16 and 21, 22 is preferably higher than the switching frequency of FET's 5, 6 (eg. resonance frequency of 100KHz and switching frequency in the range 10KHz to 75KHz). The gate-to-source drive voltage of the FET's 5, 6 is limited by zener diodes 19, 20 and 17, 18. The zener diodes may give equal positive and negative limit voltages (Fig.4). Preferably, however, the positive limit voltage is higher than the negative limit voltage (Fig.5), thereby preventing shoot-through by ensuring that there is a dead time (TD) between turn-off of one transistor and turn-on of the other transistor. An alternative inverter has a single transistor driven by an L-C resonant circuit.
Patent GB-2329314-A (GB)
Title: Removing bedding plants from boxes
Inventor: BAILEY STUART DAVID
IPC: A01G9/10
Filed: 1997-09-19
Abstract: A device for removing bedding plants from boxes 4 comprises a rectangular plate 1 carrying six pegs 2 spaced to engage the holes 5 in the base of the box. When the box is pressed down on the device, the pegs ease through the base, lifting all six plants at once. The device is provided with a drilled hole 3 for wall hanging.
Patent GB-2320085-A (GB)
Title: A sub-calibre projectile
Inventor: BISPING BERNHARD
IPC: F42B14/06
Filed: 1997-11-17
Abstract: A sub-calibre projectile comprises a penetrator (2), a discarding sabot (3) surrounding the penetrator, and a plastic hood (5) mounted on the front of the sabot (3) and conically tapering in the direction of the nose (4) of the penetrator. To ensure a simple and economical connection between the plastic hood (5) and the sabot (3) the material selected for the hood (5) is a thermoplastic and the plastic hood (5) is secured to the sabot (3) using an ultrasonic welding or deforming process. The plastic hood (5) is peripherally heated in at least two zones (11) by ultrasonic spot welding and deformed into a groove-shaped recess (9) in the sabot wall in such a way that the resulting inwardly directed protuberances (12) interlock with the groove-shaped recess (9).
Patent GB-974826-A (GB)
IPC: B65D30/18
Abstract: 974,826. Welding block-bottom bags. PAUL MOORE CO. Ltd. Aug. 27, 1962 [June 12, 1962], No. 32862/62. Heading B5D. [Also in Division B8] A bag formed of material coated on at least portions of an inner surface with thermoplastic material, includes a block bottom 1 (Fig. 24) with triangular extensions 32 welded to the side walls 30, 31 or to the bottom. The bags may be welded and parted from gussetted tube, as shown in Fig. 12, and the parting may be effected either by continued heating in the region of the welds, or by a knife mounted on the welding head, or by a knife 10 (Fig. 19) spaced from the welding head 9 but moved with it so that, as the web is fed intermittently each weld formed by the head 9 is subsequently cut by the knife 10 as a further weld is being made. The spacing between the welding head and the knife may be adjusted to alter the length of the bags. The welding head 9 shown in Fig. 19 serves also to join sheets 1a, 1b to form the gussetted tube. The gusset is formed in the lower web by a folder 5. A similar folder may be used to form a gusset in previously formed tube. The bags may also be formed from double-gussetted tube by welding members 15 (Fig. 29) and knives 19, 19a. Suitable materials are kraft paper, box-board, cloth or foil. Specification 921,752 is referred to.
Patent GB-2323122-A (GB)
Title: Double shoot bolt fastening
Inventor: HICKSON GRAHAM STANLEY
IPC: E05C9/18
Filed: 1998-03-13
Abstract: A shoot bolt fastening for windows or doors comprises a pair of oppositely movable bolts 30,49 which are caused to be moved into and out of operative engagement with keeper means by turning an operating handle eg by a drive gear engagement at 17. An espagnolette rail 5 adapted to be secured at a edge of the window or door is linearly movable reciprocally by operation of the handle, first 6 and second 7 elongate slide members adapted to being attached to the espagnolette rail 5 at 25, 25' to share the linear movement of the rail 5. The second and third slide slide members 7 and a third slide member 8 have elongate racks 4,5 which mesh with a pinion 9 so that the third slide member 8 (and bolt 49) is caused to be moved in the opposite direction to the first slide member 6 (and bolt 30). The members 6 and 7 have teeth to engage toothed portions 25, 25' of rail 5.
Patent GB-2336393-A (GB)
Title: Adjustable connectors for a shootbolt mechanism
Inventor: LAMBERT JOHN FRANCIS
IPC: E05C9/20
Filed: 1998-03-24
Abstract: The adjustable connectors 10 lie between the latch members (7, Fig 3) and the shootbolts 9 allowing the length of the shootbolt mechanism to be adjusted. In the first embodiment shown in Figure 4, an inner elongate channel member 12 slidably engages with an outer elongate channel member 13 allowing the length of the connector to be varied. Channel member 13 comprises a U-shaped channel with a longitudinal lip 15 extending inwardly from each sidewall. The lip includes apertures 16, which releasably engage with a resilient connector (19, Fig 6) to link the two members 12,13, defining a plurality of discrete fixing positions. In the second embodiment shown in Figure 8 the outer channel 13 slidably engages with flat inner member 27 and includes a series of apertures (16a, Fig 7) in the sidewalls of the outer channel. Locking means 28 is attached to one end of the elongate member 27, and includes projections (38, Fig 9) which releasably engage with the apertures 16a to define a plurality of discrete fixing positions. In each case fine-scale adjustment of the length of the shootbolt mechanism is also provided.
Patent GB-2323928-A (GB)
Title: Sensing humidity and prediction of icing
Inventor: STORMBOM LARS
IPC: G01N25/56
Filed: 1995-03-30
Abstract: The invention relates to an apparatus suited for prediction of icing. The method is based on measuring the humidity of a gas directly and simultaneously measuring the temperature of the humidity sensor (3). According to the invention, the temperature of the humidity sensor (3) is shifted by heating (2) so as to bring the operation of the sensor to a measurement range of maximally high sensitivity. The ambient temperature is also measured (6) and used in the determination of relative humidity.
Patent GB-2325842-A (GB)
Title: Machine for soil preparation
Inventor: GOSSOP JOHN BRISTOW
IPC: A01B77/00
Filed: 1997-03-13
Abstract: A machine for preparation of soil comprises a soil lifting means (6,7) for lifting a layer of soil, a soil breaking means (8) for breaking up the layer of soil, and a frame (1), the soil lifting means (6, 7) and soil breaking means (8) being attached to the frame (1).
Patent GB-2330462-A (GB)
Title: Harmonic current attenuating apparatus of a motor
Inventor: KIM BU-HYEON
IPC: H02P23/04
Filed: 1998-10-12
Abstract: A harmonic current attenuating apparatus of a motor 30 which controls a rotation speed of the motor 30 by phase-controlling a sine wave AC power supplied from a power supply unit 10 and attenuates the harmonic current generated at a phase-controlling mode of the AC power by way of an harmonic current attenuating unit wherein the apparatus comprises: a manipulating unit 34 for selecting a phase-controlling mode or a full power operation mode according to manipulation of a user; and a switching unit 21 for supplying the AC power supplied from the power supply unit 10 through the harmonic current attenuating unit 20 to the motor 30 when the phase-controlling mode is selected by the manipulating mode, and for supplying the AC power from the power supply unit 10 directly to the motor 30 when the full power operation mode is selected, such that there is an advantage in the harmonic current attenuating apparatus of a motor in that it effectively attenuates the harmonic current through a harmonic transformer 20 at the phase-controlling mode and substantially improves an output of the motor 30 by directly supplying the AC power from the power supply unit 10 to the motor 30 without phase-controlling at a full power operation mode. The unit 21 may be a triac (Figs 6 and 7). The motor may be used to drive a cleaner.
Patent GB-2342915-A (GB)
Title: A compost bin
Inventor: HAWES MICHAEL
IPC: C05F17/02
Filed: 1998-10-24
Abstract: A compost bin 10 made from a sheet 12 or sheets of a readily biodegradable material with fold lines 15, 17, 19 defined on the or each sheet to form four wall sections 14, 16, 18 and 20. When the bin is assembled, the top of the bin is smaller in area than the base of the bin and the line of action of the centre of gravity of the bin acts through the base. Vent holes 34 are provided to allow ventilation. The vent holes 34 are reinforced to enable them to be used as hand holds to allow lifting of the bin. In preferred embodiment the bin is made from two separate sheets which are attached together at respective edges, each sheet having a single fold line so as to define two wall sections. A lid 88 of corresponding shape to the compost bin may be provided and the top of the lid may be open and closeable by means of a flap whereby, when the lid is inverted, it can act as a funnel. The bin may be pyramid shaped or frustoconical.
Patent GB-2337084-A (GB)
Title: Quick connect hydraulic coupling including integral damper
Inventor: NIX RICHARD ANDREW
IPC: B60K23/02
Filed: 1999-05-04
Abstract: A quick connect coupling for use in a hydraulic clutch control system including a hydraulic master cylinder and a hydraulic slave cylinder. One of the coupler members (44) of the quick connect coupling includes a central axial passage (54d) defining an inlet at one end of the passage and including a diaphragm (72) positioned at the other end of the passage at right angles to the passage and in fluid communication with fluid flowing through the passage. The passage further includes a radial passage portion (54i) communicating with the central passage and extending to a fluid outlet for the coupler member. Hydraulic fluid flowing through the coupler member communicates with an inboard face of the diaphragm so that the diaphragm functions to attenuate pulsations in the hydraulic fluid and preclude transmission of the pulsations in the system to the clutch pedal.
Patent GB-2351051-A (GB)
Title: Rear engine, front-wheel drive vehicle
Inventor: BASNETT MICHAEL NEIL
IPC: B60G11/44
Filed: 1999-06-17
Abstract: An architecture for a motor vehicle is disclosed in which a motor vehicle comprises a driveshaft, a flat power unit 2 mounted to the rear of the vehicle, and a flywheel 12, a clutch, ancillaries and a transaxle comprising a gearbox 18 and a differential unit mounted close to or forward of a front axle centreline 10 of the vehicle. Such an architecture has improved weight distribution, crash, NVH and refinement, and ride and handling characteristics.
Patent GB-2354290-A (GB)
Title: Gas turbine cooling air flow control using shaped memory metal valve
Inventor: CARE IAN COLIN DEUCHAR
IPC: F01D25/08
Filed: 1999-09-18
Abstract: A cooling air flow control device for a gas turbine engine comprises a cooling passage 76 defined within a component 50 and a shaped memory metal valve 114 disposed in the passage 76 to regulate, in use, the flow rate of a cooling air flow supplied through the passage 76 wherein the valve 114 operates by changing shape to control the cooling air flow rate in response to the temperature of the component 50. The valve 114 may be a disc which dilates (fig 4A) or distorts (fig 4B), or a plate (122, fig 5A,5B) or series of plates (122, fig 6A,6B) which distort. A plurality of valves (114, fig 8) which dilate or distort at different temperatures may be arranged in series in the passage 76. The component 50 may be a blade, vane disc, casing or bearing chamber or heat exchanger. The valve 114 may switch shape at a given temperature, or change shape gradually over a temperature range.
Patent GB-2355134-A (GB)
Title: A telephone credit account crediting system
Inventor: HUGHES ROBERT JOHN
IPC: H04M17/00
Filed: 1999-10-08
Abstract: A terminal (300) provided at a retail outlet has a card reader (33) for reading an identity code from a card (40), an input device (34) for enabling a retailer to input data representing the amount the cardholder wishes to credit to an account such as a pre-pay mobile telephone account, and a communication link (20a) for sending a signal carrying transaction data including identity code data representing the card identity code read by the card reader and amount data representing the amount. Apparatus (200) at a mobile telephone service provider includes a database store (24) arranged to store data associating each of a number of pre-pay mobile telephone accounts with a respective different one of a number of card identity codes and a receiver (25) for receiving transaction data communicated by the communication link. A processor (21) of the service provider apparatus (200) identifies from the database the pre-pay mobile telephone account associated with the card identity code represented by the received identity code data and credits the identified pre-pay mobile telephone account with the amount represented by the received amount data. The terminal (300) may be arranged to request deferred activation of the crediting of the account in which case the service provider apparatus (200) will issue a keycode which is communicated to the cardholder via the mobile telephone number associated with the card presented by the cardholder.