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Patent GB-2470564-A (GB)
Title: Parental control for internet using memory device
Inventor: MORRIS ALED WYN
IPC: G06F21/82
Filed: 2009-05-26
Abstract: Controlling internet access using a plug-in memory device, such as a USB flash memory stick, to automatically install an interface program so that internet access may only possible when an appropriate device is connected and the interface restricts internet access to a degree defined by which of said memory devices is connected to said computer. The memory device may be detected and then integrity checked, so that parental control settings can be applied to a child user's internet access, so that pre-approved whitelist sites for an age range may be accessed or other adult webpages blocked on a blacklist. A visual indication may be given by colour or pattern coding, adding numbers, an illuminated display or other means, for ages on the materials used on the pen drive. The installation may take place off-line or on-line with information being downloaded from a remote server to configure access rights.
Patent GB-2462525-A (GB)
Title: Optical transceiver system
Inventor: MCCOLLOCH LAURENCE RAY
IPC: H04B10/24
Filed: 2009-08-04
Abstract: An optical transceiver. system 100 comprises multiple parallel transceiver modules 110 mounted on a circuit board card 130. Which has small spatial dimensions, has very good heat dissipation characteristics, and is capable of simultaneously transmitting and receiving data at a rate equal to or greater than approximately one terabit per second (1 Tb/s). Each of the transceiver modules 110 are connected to respective optical fiber ribbon cable 111. A plurality of the transceiver systems are interconnected to provide a communications hub system zoo having even higher bandwidths. In addition, the transceiver system can be configured such that each card has a routing controller 310 mounted thereon for performing router functions. The router functions include: causing signals received by one transceiver module on the card to be routed to and transmitted by another of the transceiver modules; causing signals received by one transceiver module on the card to be retransmitted by the same transceiver module over one of its optical transmit channels; and causing signals received by one transceiver module on the card to be routed to an transmitted by a transceiver module on a different card.
Patent GB-2462038-A (GB)
Title: Apparatus and method of smoking foodstuffs
Inventor: COOPER TOM
IPC: A23B4/005
Filed: 2008-05-09
Abstract: An apparatus is provided for smoking foodstuffs, the apparatus including a plurality of heating elements and a control unit to control operation of the heating elements between an on state and an off state. In use, a material to be burned is associated with each of the plurality of heating elements and the control unit controls the operation of the heating elements such that the heating elements are switched between the off state and the on state.
Patent GB-1426131-A (GB)
Title: Selection display for coin-operated vending machines
IPC: G07F9/02
Filed: 1974-03-06
Abstract: 1426131 Vending machines SEEBURG CORP OF DELAWARE 6 March 1974 [29 March 1973] 10039/74 Heading A4T A selection display for a vending machine, e.g. a coin operated record player, comprises a panel 20 arranged to slope towards the front of the machine, the panel 20 having at least one shelf 24 having means 28, 30, 31 for retaining printed strips 33 relating to the records, &c., available for selection, which strips 33 are held substantially horizontally so as not to be viewable except in the immediate proximity of the machine. The retaining means 28, 30, 31 preferably comprises flanges below which the strips 33 are inserted, and a series of panels 20 may be provided with interengaging means 42, 44 on side flanges 38, 40. A central rib 36 may inter-connect shelf dividers 50; an access to the shelves 24 within a vending machine (10), Figs. 1-3 (not shown), may be through a pivotable transparent cover 18.
Patent GB-583053-A (GB)
Title: Improvements connected with the speed control of electric motors supplied on the variable voltage system
IPC: H02P7/34
Filed: 1944-05-24
Abstract: 583,053. Control of D.C. motors. WHEELER, H. D., and MOSSAY, P. A. H. May 24, 1944, No. 10071. [Class 38 (iii)] A hoisting motor is supplied from a motorgenerator set, and the generator, or an exciter therefor, is provided with auxiliary windings the excitation of which opposes that of the main windings, and switching means under automatic control effect automatic selective excitation of said auxiliary windings accordingly as the current in the armature circuit of the controlled motor exceeds a pre-determined value in either direction. The armature of a constantly-excited motor 1 is supplied from a generator 3 which is driven by a motor 4. The generator field winding is fed from an exciter 8, a field, 11, of which opposes a main exciter winding 10 when the motor 1 takes power from the generator, and a winding 12 opposes the winding 10 when the hoisting motor regenerates when lowering. Short-circuiting means controlled by a polarized relay (not shown), are moved to place the winding 11 or 12 in circuit when the main motor armature current reaches a pre-determined value during hoisting or lowering respectively. In order to obtain substantially equal speeds under similar conditions of hoisting and lowering, the winding 12 is generally provided with more turns than the winding 11. At lower speeds the motor is run at constant speed irrespective of load, the abovementioned polarized relay is therefore overridden on low speed steps of the motor controller, and the windings 11 and 12 are placed in circuit and in mutual opposition.
Patent GB-840427-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to aircraft navigational apparatus
Inventor: POWLEY MALLINSON
IPC: B64D45/00
Filed: 1956-04-03
Abstract: 840,427. Gyroscopic apparatus. FERRANTI Ltd. March 15, 1957 [April 3, 1956], No. 10076/56. Class 97(3) [Also in Group XXXIII] Navigational apparatus for displaying in an aircraft an indication of error in the actual course of the aircraft from a desired course which is represented by electrical signals comprising a pointer or the like for displaying said indication and movable in dependence upon a deviation in any direction of the spin axis of a gyro rotor from a datum axis of the apparatus, means for applying constraints to said rotor by eddy currents induced in an electrically conductive part thereof by an electromagnetic system fixed with respect to the aircraft, such constraints tending to restore said rotor axis to alignment with the effective magnetic axis of said system on any departure from such alignment, and means for so energising the electromagnetic system by said signals as to maintain the direction of said effective magnetic axis substantially coincident with said desired direction. The gyro apparatus, which is similar to that described in Specification 578,958, consists of a gyro wheel 11 and a spherical dome 12 of aluminium or the like mounted on a spindle 13. The rotor is driven by a belt 14 from a motor 15, the drive being conveyed through a Hooke's joint 16 which also acts as the suspension for the rotor. The dome 12, the centre of curvature of which coincides with the centre of the Hooke's joint, passes through gaps 17 between the pole pieces [8 on four independent magnetic circuits, two of which are shown at 19. Each'circuit is energised by a coil 20 supplied by a lead 21. The four magnetic circuits are located symmetrically in pairs with respect to a datum axis 22, the datum axis being coincident with the gyro rotor axis 23 when the latter is in alignment with the datum direction in the aircraft. The indication is given by a pointer 24, of light construction, carried near one end by a gimbal mounting 26. The rotor spindle 13 terminates in a small ball ended stem 27 which engages with a sleeve 28 at the end of the shorter arm 29 of the pointer 24. The ball 271 fits within the sleeve with no appreciable side-play, thus imparting movement to the longer end 30 of the pointer with, which carries a disc 31, when the axis of the rotor 11 moves with respect to its mounting. The disc 31 is observed with respect to a central marking and cross markings on a transparent dial 25. The arrangement is such that if the aircraft departs from a given course, the gyro axis 23 will depart from the datum axis 22 and the disc 31 will depart from the central indication on the dial 25. When. the aircraft is on the required course, or when the controls have been actuated in a sense which will bring it back on course, the disc 31 will return to the central indication. The pilot therefore so operates his controls as to keep the disc 31 in line with the central indication on the dial 25.
Patent GB-668025-A (GB)
Title: Steam heated drier
IPC: F26B13/18
Filed: 1950-04-25
Abstract: 668,025. Drying cylinders of paper-making machines. PUSEY & JONES CORPORATION. April 25, 1950 [Jan. 16, 1950], No. 10144/50. Class 96. [Also in Group XIII] A steam heated drying roller comprising a hollow cylindrical rim 20 and a cylindrical shell 27 spaced from the inner wall 26 of the rim has longitudinally extending vanes 28, 29, 30, 31 projecting outwardly from the shell 27 into contact with the inner wall and dividing the space into longitudinally extending compartments 40, each of which compartments is in communication with steam supply means and condensate removing means. The vanes are pitched forwardly and outwardly in the direction of rotation of the roller and are made in angularly disposed sections. Apertures 33 in the shell, facing the inner surfaces of the vanes 28-31, provide openings for the flow of condensate &c. Inwardly of the shell 27 behind the apertures 33, deflectors 41, 42 lead to trough-forming angle-members 46, 47, the condensate flowing through apertures 46<SP>1</SP>, 471 into a trough 50, whence it is removed by suction scoops 68, leaving the cylinder through pipes 67 and passages 66, 65, the latter of which passes through the boss 23 of the cylinder head. Steam enters through a passage 64 concentric with passage 65 and leading to a space, separate from space 66, having connected thereto radial delivery pipes 72, 73 which in turn are connected to headers 74, 75 extending axially of the drum behind the vanes 28, 29, 30, 31. The steam is discharged into the passages 40 laterally through slots and does not impinge directly against the inner surface of the roller. The mouth of each scoop 68 is adjustable by varying the height of the upper lip from the bottom of the channel, the adjustment being effected by means of a worm gear arrangement. Fig. 13 shows an arrangement of a plurality of-rollers in which steam is fed from a pipe 115 to flow in parallel through one pair of rollers 120, 121 and is delivered therefrom to flow in parallel through the next pair 122, 123 while steam separated from the discharged condensate in a separator 108 joins the steam entering the next pair 122, 123 through pipes 117,119, the condensate being discharged from the separator 108 through a pipe 116 and so on.
Patent GB-803831-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to warp and other flanged beams
Inventor: STANWORTH LAWRENCE
IPC: D02H13/28
Filed: 1956-04-03
Abstract: 803,831. Warp beams for looms. ASHWORTH & CO, Ltd., T. April 3, 1957 [April 3, 1956], No.10149/56. Addition to 663,644. Class 142(2) In a device for .clamping the flange of a warp beam to the beam barrel as described in the parent Specification, the lever is replaced by a resilient member 21. The member 21 is of wavy or S formation and is made of a strip of metal. According to the Provisional Specification, the portion 25 engaging the barrel of the beam may be curved for all or part of its length to increase its contact with the barrel.
Patent GB-437644-A (GB)
Title: An improved liquid container
IPC: B65D25/16
Filed: 1934-04-04
Abstract: 437,644. Lined barrels &c. PINNEY, H. H., 2396, Noble Road, Cleveland Heights, Ohio, and KLOCKE, W. H., 8906, 97th Street, Woodhaven, Long Island, New York, both in U.S.A. April 4, 1934, No. 10151. Convention date, Aug. 7, 1933. [Class 21] [See also Group XXII] A barrel &c. of the kind comprising an outer wall 1, Figs. and 3, of comparatively inflexible thick staves and a relatively thin inner flexible wall 2, has the inner wall retained in place by stop pieces 8 of the same width as a stave, one of which is secured by screws or spiral nails to each stave. The arrangement permits the removal and replacement of individual staves. The top and bottom consist of plates 3, 4 between which insulating material 5 is positioned. An aperture in the top is closed by a cover member 6. A slight clearance a is arranged between the joint 20 connecting the side and end of the lining and a recess 21 in the outer wall, in order that the inner container can move slightly under severe impact. The lining may be expanded to contact the outer wall by hydraulic pressure. A metal bush 11 for a wooden bung 16 is welded to the lining and a flanged ring 15 is seated in a recess by means of a lock-nut 14, this arrangement permitting the removal of the bung hole stave. A groove 18 is formed in the wall to avoid the surfaces of the end and side meeting at an acute angle.
Patent GB-513326-A (GB)
Title: Method of dressing screw-thread-grinding discs
IPC: B24B53/04
Filed: 1938-04-02
Abstract: 513,326. Trueing grinding-wheels. SCHAURTE, W. T., and KAUFMANN, K. April 2, 1938, No. 10160. Convention date, April 3, 1937. [Class 60] A screw-thread grinding-disc having the profile shown, with working flanks a, flank roots b extending beyond the flanks a, and steps c between the flanks a, b is dressed on both sides simultaneously by two diamonds d<1> mounted on opposed carriers d, reciprocated in planes corresponding to the flank angle. The steps c, which may be of curved form, may be used to treat the tops of the thread being ground.
Patent GB-280099-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to a method and apparatus for removing deposits, scale or incrustations from metal
IPC: F23D3/02
Filed: 1927-04-13
Abstract: 280,099. R³tsche, G. April 13, 1927. Addition to 253,073. Absorbent pad and blowpipe burners; vaporizing- apparatus.-A burner for removing scale &c. according to the method of the parent Specification comprises a vessel c supplied with oil through a pipe b and carrying a number of slit or perforated tubes d formed with channels hand containing wicks k preferably of asbestos wool. Asbestos cord o is wound spirally round the tubes d so as to form a chamber in which oxygen supplied through a nozzle a<2> on a pipe a can mix with vaporized oil issuing from the slits i in the tubes d and produce a mixture which burns with a luminous elotigated flame of comparatively low temperature.
Patent GB-309039-A (GB)
Title: Machine for issuing tickets for theatres, cinemas and the like with numbered seats
IPC: G08B5/22
Filed: 1929-04-03
Abstract: 309,039. A.E.G.-Fahrkartendrucker Ges., (Assignees of Allgemeine Elektricitõts- Ges.). April 3, 1928, [Convention date]. Void [Published under Sect. 91 of the Acts]. Tickets, issuing.-Comprises a machine for issuing tickets for theatres &c. having numbered seats in which a machine A delivering tickets is combined with a numbering typewriter B and an indicator plan C so that on the keyboard of the typewriter being operated, the card supplied from the delivery machine A is printed with the seat number, and at the same time the corresponding seat number is shown as sold on the indicator plan C. The kind of ticket-orchestra stalls, boxes, &c.-is determined by a keyboard D on the delivery machine A. The selected ticket is delivered to the numbering machine B where the purchaser depresses one of the numbered keys E which prints a number on the ticket and causes the corresponding illuminated number on the plan to be obscured. The ticket then falls on to a belt conveyer L and is removed at the opening M. A checking strip is printed by means of an ink ribbon K while the kind of ticket is marked by perforations H at different levels.
Patent GB-238820-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in umbrellas and the like
IPC: A45B25/02
Filed: 1925-04-21
Abstract: 238,820. Metzger, J. April 21, 1925. Umbrellas of special configuration; runners. -An umbrella or the like is constructed and arranged so that one part thereof can be lowered while the other part remains up in a fully stretched or taut condition. Preferably, the runners to which the ribs of the umbrella are articulated are made so that one fits telescopically over the other whereby the sama locking- means and the same open retaining snib can be used for both runners. As shown, one half of the usual stays D are linked to one runnner A, and the other half to a second runner B, so that each runner controls one half of the umbrella cover. A vision aperture may be provided in the part of the cover controlled by the lower runner B. The runners A, B are made so that one fits telescopically over the other and the longitudinal slots a, b therein coincide when the one runner passes over the other so that the same locking- means and the same open retaining snib c<1> used for both runners.
Patent GB-1211004-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to vehicle simulators
Inventor: GEARY MICHAEL EDWARD
IPC: G09B9/04
Filed: 1967-03-06
Abstract: 1,211,004. Simulated vehicle gear-box and clutch. REDIFON AIR TRAINERS Ltd. 28 Feb., 1968 [6 March, 1967], No. 10491/67. Heading B7H.  In a simulated motor vehicle gear-box comprising an inertia disc 11 rotated by an electric motor 13 through frictional engagement of a drive wheel 15 with the disc surface, selection of the different gear ratios is simulated by movement of the drive wheel 15 to different radial positions on the disc 11. The drive wheel 15 is kept out of contact with the disc 11 until a gear ratio has been selected thereby rotating a drive key 36 through 90 degrees from the position shown and a simulated clutch pedal has been let up permitting the clutch bar 30 to be pivoted on links 31 by a spring 33 into contact with the drive key 36 thereby pivoting the drive wheel 15 about a bar 17 of.the simulator. On movement of the gear lever 18 in the neutral plane its end engages the side of a slot 21 on an arm 22 and moves the arm 22 and a carriage 16 with the wheel 15 radially of the disc and on movement of the gear lever fore-or-aft to engage a gear the end of the lever 18 engages the side of a slot 23 thereby moving, through two Bowden cables 25, 26, the carriage 16 relative to the arm 22 and hence the wheel 15 a further increment radially of the disc 11. The relative movement between the carriage 16 and arm 22 rotates the drive key 3.6 through a pinion 38 and a rack 37. Reverse drive is provided either by reversing the motor 13 and engaging a drive wheel 39 on the edge of the disc or by interposing a reverse gear in the drive to the wheel 15.
Patent GB-956588-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to rotatable vessels
Inventor: SOAN BRIAN SPENCER
IPC: D21F5/02
Filed: 1961-03-22
Abstract: 956,588. Steam-heated cylinders. KINS DEVELOPMENTS Ltd., and WIGGINS TEAPE RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT Ltd. June 19, 1962 [March 22, 1961], No. 10509/61. Heading F2U. [Also in Division F4] In a steam-heated drying cylinder in a paper-making machine, condensate rimming therein is constrained to flow towards the cylinder ends where collecting means are provided. As shown, the internal diameter of the cylinder gradually increases from a mid-point 7 towards the ends. The resulting thermal conductivity variation across the cylinder may be compensated for by altering the thermal pattern of the associated drying system. In Figs. 3, 4, (Prov., not shown), the depth of the bottoms of parallel-walled grooves machined in the internal surface of a non-tapered cylinder increases towards the cylinder ends. The internally facing lands between the grooves are chamfered to encourage shedding of the condensate. The condensate may be drawn off by stationary, outwardly perforated, annular extractor pipes 8 connected, by radial support pipes, to an outlet pipe 5 coaxial with a perforated inlet pipe 3. Alternatively, Fig. 5, (Comp.), nozzles 20 inserted in the peripheries of the cylinder ends extend into continuous openings 23 of stationary, annular collecting ducts 22 coaxial with the cylinder. Preferably, to maintain an interior/exterior pressure differential, the bores of the nozzles are reduced at their outer ends, or are of constant section and filled with a porous material such as sintered metal.
Patent GB-105431-A (GB)
IPC: F23C5/00
Abstract: 105,431. Hall, I. May 5, 1916. Crucible furnaces.-One or more adjustable impinging elements are provided and assist in breaking up or atomizing the fuel after it leaves the burner nozzle. As shown applied to a crucible furnace, the impinging element a comprises a transverse bar, arranged in the path of the fuel jet, and is adjustably mounted on an injector box i tangentially arranged as shown in Fig. 2. Two or more elements may be employed with their point of intersection in the axis of the jet, and they may be mounted on a screwed member fitting in a tapped hole on the furnace. The burner also is preferably adjustable. The combustion chamber d is preferably of annular form, and concentric with, but of larger diameter than and below, the crucible chamber, with which it communicates by an annular passageway with inclined walls.
Patent GB-105645-A (GB)
IPC: C09C1/00
Abstract: 105,645. Wade, H., (Titanium Alloy Manufacturing Co.). May 9, 1916. Pigments.-Titanic sulphate solution for instance of 1.40 specific gravity is treated with some sulphuric acid and then with a " base " such as calcium, or barium hydrate or barium sulphide capable of yielding an insoluble sulphate the " base " being added in less quantity than would cause the precipitation of titanic oxide, for instance in quantity equivalent to 40 per cent. of the total sulphate present, or, if a lower quality and larger yield are desired as much as 60-75 per cent. may be used. The reaction mixture is agitated and heated but preferably below the boiling-point, 85-100‹ C. being mentioned, a basic titanium sulphate being precipitated on the insoluble sulphate. The precipitate is washed and dried, and, if desired, calcined to convert the basic sulphate to oxide. The products are free from chlorine.
Patent GB-1090008-A (GB)
Title: Apparatus for the delivery of bulk material from a silo cell
IPC: B65G65/00
Filed: 1966-03-10
Abstract: 1,090,008. Silo discharging. MIAG MUHLENBAU UND INDUSTRIE G.m.b.H. March 10, 1966 [March 10, 1965], No. 10637/66. Headings B8E and B8S. A silo divided into cells 1 by walls 2 has a discharge opening 7 below which a chain conveyer 4 runs over an intermediate floor 6. The opening 7 is sub-divided into compartments 9 by guide blades 8 mounted between retainers 10 pivotable about 11 by a device 13 to raise them together. The bottom of the guides 8 are progressively higher above the floor 6 in the direction of conveyance and may be curved to direct the material into the direction of conveyance to be deposited in layers on the conveyer. The device 13 adjusts the height of all the guides 8 together so that the relationship between the amounts of material withdrawn from each compartment remains the same as the total quantity withdrawn is varied. The material drops through a hole 16 in the floor 6 to be conveyed back by the lower conveyer run to a discharge opening 21. The cells may be closed by shutters 32 extended transversely of the conveyer 4. The radius of curvature of the bottom of the blades may increase from blade to blade in the direction in which the material is conveyed.