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Patent GB-2033629-A (GB)
Title: Presetting counters
IPC: G04G5/00
Filed: 1979-09-26
Abstract: A process and an arrangement for the electronic interruption and the cancellations of the interruption of input pulses of a manually rotatable pulse generator in an electronic storage for the purpose of locking the storage condition, including a pulse generator, a first and a second counter, a comparator which is influenced by the two counters, as well as an input key. At the coincidence of the two counter contents, the pulse flow from one impulse-generating element should be so interrupted that the content will be unchanged and also remain constant even when further counting pulses are generated by the input arrangement.
Patent GB-2059371-A (GB)
Title: A towing stabilizer
IPC: B60D1/32
Filed: 1979-09-29
Abstract: A towing stabilizer for ensuring the travelling stability of a trailer (2) such as a caravan, is characterised in that it comprises at least one damper member (24, 18) of a type able to undergo a variation in length by traction or compression by providing resistance to said traction and/or to said compression. The stabilizer is intended to be universally mounted (21, 25, 22, 26) on the trailer (2) and on a towing vehicle (1). The stabilizer is intended to oppose swaying or rocking movements of the trailer (2) as well as opposing the dipping of the rear of the towing vehicle (1). The damper member may be harder to extend than to compress. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2035156-A (GB)
Title: Chucks
IPC: B23B31/12
Filed: 1979-10-23
Abstract: A drill chuck for percussion drilling and hammer drilling machines, ensures a clamping force acting on the drill after tightening the latter by locking the clamping sleeve with respect to the chuck base member. Within a threaded bore (23) the clamping sleeve (13) includes a counter-sunk clamping screw (22) in the form of an internally hexagonal screw, the radially inner end of which is forced directly against the cylindrical peripheral surface (24) of a base member (12) or alternatively through an intermediate portion (34; 44) located therebetween. The clamping screw (22) is secured and retained against being lost by caulking (25) of the outermost screw thread. It can be tightened by means of an hexagonal key (21) on the end of the handle (20) of the drill chuck key (15). <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2034164-A (GB)
Title: Bird scares
IPC: A01M29/06
Filed: 1979-10-31
Abstract: A bird scare, particularly for use with a crane, comprises a moving arm or arms 11 which may be rotated or reciprocated through any angle up to 360 DEG . The arm or arms are provided with bird scare devices 12 which dissuade birds from settling on the crane. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2038525-A (GB)
Title: A coin slide mechanism for a coin-controlled apparatus
IPC: G07F5/06
Filed: 1979-12-27
Abstract: A coin chute adapted to receive interchangeable coin slides 14 carries a blocking device with a plurality of sizing dogs 60, 62 biassed against the coin slide 14. The sizing dogs are adapted to engage with coin receiving sockets 46 of the slide to jam continued projected movement of the slide in the absence of predetermined sized coins therein. The position of the dogs relative to the sockets of the slide and the spacing between the dogs is pre-set to similarly engage with differently sized socket openings of replacement slides without further adjustment of the sizing dogs 60, 62 to permit interchangeable use of coin slides whereby the coin chute is operable to accept a variety of differently sized coins and coin combinations by changing slides. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2056791-A (GB)
Title: System for the connection of electrical conductors
IPC: H01R9/26
Filed: 1980-02-12
Abstract: An adaptor 6, for use with a rail-mounted electrical terminal unit with flat male connector tabs 4, has an insulating casing 7 fitted with at least one connector 8 for an electrical conductor, at least one conductive member 9 with a contact 10 to make a plug-in connection with a first connector tab 4 of the terminal unit, and at least one electrically non-conductive retainer, e.g. a detent stud 11, to engage a second tab 4 of the terminal unit. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2049668-A (GB)
Title: Process for producing 1,1,1- trichloroethane
IPC: C07C17/10
Filed: 1980-03-28
Abstract: 1,1,1-Trichloroethane is produced by reacting chlorine with 1,1-dichloroethane in a vapor phase coexisting with a liquid phase containing a catalyst having hydrogen-attracting activity, preferably by a photochlorination reaction. 1,1,1-Trichloroethane can be obtained with high selectivity and with a high rate of conversion.
Patent GB-2060096-A (GB)
Title: Wheels Having Brake Discs
IPC: F16D65/12
Filed: 1980-09-11
Abstract: A vehicle wheel body incorporates an annular brake disc (6,7) formed by two half rings which are arranged on one side of a web (2) of the wheel, wherein a guide (15) extends parallel to the axis of the wheel body and engages substantially without clearance in aligned bores in each half ring and the web for the fixed mounting of the half ring on the web. The guide being located in a plane passing through the axis of the wheel body and extending perpendicular to the plane of division between the two half rings, and wherein threaded fasteners (12 to 14) associated with each half ring are uniformly distributed on each side of the plane containing the guide (15), the fasteners extending parallel to the axis of the wheel body and with clearance through aligned bores in the half ring and the web in order to provide loose mountings for the half ring on the web. A guide surface (33, 36) is provided on each half ring, and a parallel counter surface on central reinforcement (8) of the web (2) engages with the guide surface to hold and support the half ring on the web. The guide surface and the counter surface engage throughout an arc subtending an angle  alpha 2 on each side of the plane containing the guide (15), when the brake disc is in the cold state. When the brake disc heats-up, contact is still maintained between the guide surface and counter surface at contact points (39, 40) so as to provide guidance and support for the half ring during thermal movements in cooperation with the fixed mounting provided by the guide (15). <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2058483-A (GB)
Title: Three-phase single-chain overhead electric line with split phases
IPC: H01B5/00
Filed: 1980-03-11
Abstract: A three-phase overhead electric line contains split phases (1, 2 and 3), wires (4) of which are mounted on metal spacers (5), those spacers forming, in a plane perpendicular to the axis of the electric line, countours of the cross-sections of the split phases (1, 2 and 3) fixed by means of insulators (7) to the electric line towers whose elements (8) are stretched beyond the space embraced by the split phases (1, 2 and 3) and by air gaps between them. The distances between the neighbouring split phases (1-2 and 2-3) of the electric line are, on the whole, constant throughout the length of their countours, whereas the wires (4) are so situated in the split phases that their charges and currents are close to their mean values, so that the electric field is weakly non-uniform throughout the entire volume of the interphase gaps, the electrical break-down being possible only in a striated form in the case of an overvoltage. The countours of the split phases may be of different configurations: closed, open and combined.
Patent GB-2088109-A (GB)
Title: Display Devices
IPC: G09F19/08
Filed: 1980-11-22
Abstract: A display device comprises a small scale three-dimensional model of a head that is given a semblance of being alive by having projected onto it an image with facial features that move. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2070632-A (GB)
Title: Tanning
IPC: C14C3/20
Filed: 1981-01-30
Abstract: A tanning agent mixture comprises (1) an aluminum tanning agent and (2) a tanning agent based on a condensate of a C1 to C4 aliphatic aldehyde and one or more sulphonic and/or carboxylic acids containing the amino substituted benzene nucleus   <IMAGE>  where X=H, C1 to C4 alkyl,   <IMAGE> or -CH2-COOH, and Y and Z are independently -H, -SO3H, -COOH, -CH3 or -CH2-SO3H, R=H or C1 to C4 alkyl and R%=H or C1-C3 alkyl with the proviso that at least one of the radicals X, Y or Z is or contains a sulphonic acid or carboxyl group.
Patent GB-2094500-A (GB)
Title: Photographic slides and transparencies
IPC: G03B21/64
Filed: 1981-03-05
Abstract: The invention relates to improving the quality of a slide, by superposing a plurality of separate slides to form an array, and illuminating the array. There may be two slides in the array, and they may be secured together by a transparent, residue free adhesive.
Patent GB-2095207-A (GB)
Title: Garment label
IPC: G09F3/12
Filed: 1981-03-24
Abstract: An elongate strip of material (10) is provided with spaced apart locations (11) containing information and in the spaces between the locations (11) the strip (10) is provided with a transversely extending guide line (12) along which the strip (10) is severed to form individual labels and on each side of each guide line (12) there is provided a transverse line (13) which may comprise a printed line or a line of perforations or a crease line about which the end of a severed label is folded back before the label is secured to a garment by lines of stitching adjacent the folded back ends. The lines (13) serve as a guide to the person who stitches the label to a garment to ensure that the fold line is at a right angle to the longitudinal edges of the label. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2074602-A (GB)
Title: Hydroprocessing/catalytic Cracking Process
IPC: C10G69/04
Filed: 1981-03-26
Abstract: Gas oil 1 is hydroprocessed at 4 to remove sulphur and/or nitrogen and then subjected to catalytic cracking at 10 under conditions which produce at least 0.15 wt percent of hydrogen in the cracked product 11, this hydrogen produced, is used in the hydroprocessing. The cracking catalyst comprises a faujasite-type zeolite exchanged with silver, copper, nickel or manganese. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2079195-A (GB)
Title: Stirring Molten Metal in a Casting Mould
IPC: B22D27/02
Filed: 1981-06-01
Abstract: A magnetic field (M) which rotates about the vertical axis of the mould (20) and penetrates down into molten metal in the mould is produced by a series of electrical conductors (10, 11) which are positioned above the mould and about its vertical axis, each of these conductors being energised by a different phase of a multi-phase alternating current supply, e.g. a 3-phase supply at 50- 60 Hz. Various embodiments are described. The mould may be an ingot mould or, as particularly described, a continuous casting mould. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2078175-A (GB)
Title: A ball-point pen
IPC: B43K7/08
Filed: 1981-06-09
Abstract: The ball-point pen has a writing tip 12 with a rolling ball 13 in a socket at the outer extremity of the tip and an ink reservoir 11 connected to the tip 12 for supplying ink thereto, the tip 12 and the ink reservoir being in a tubular casing. The tip 12 has an ink flow duct 15 for supplying ink to the ball 13 and a valve chamber 16 arranged contiguous with the duct 15 at the inner extemity of the tip 12. The chamber 16 has a larger inside diameter than that of the duct 15, whereby an annular shoulder 14 is formed at the juncture of the two diameters. A plurality of ink flow grooves 14 min  are formed in the shoulder 14 which interconnect the chamber 16 with the duct 15 via inlet openings 14 sec . A ball 17 is housed within the chamber 16 to be freely movable in the axial direction of the chamber 16. A seat 18 having an opening 19 of smaller diameter than that of the ball 17 is provided at the end of the chamber 16 remote from the shoulder 14. When the pen is pointed upwardly, the ball 17 seats itself on the seat 18 under gravity to close the opening 19 and thus prevent backward flow of ink from the tip 12 into the reservoir 11. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2080970-A (GB)
Title: Optical fibre cable
IPC: G02B6/44
Filed: 1981-07-21
Abstract: A cable comprising an optical fibre 1 coated with Polyvinylidine difluoride 2 positioned within a sheath 3 of substantially inextensible fibrous material, having an external helix of polyethylene 4. Bending of the cable is permitted until adjacent turns of the helix abut one another and thereafter bending is strongly resisted. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2093987-A (GB)
Title: Photo-electric determination of dimensions and surface quality
IPC: G01B11/02
Filed: 1982-01-05
Abstract: To obtain reproducible values relating to the geometry and surface quality of objects 2 such as fine ceramics, are transported between vertical and horizontal optical scanning devices 4.2 and 4.1, the data obtained being compared with preselected values in order that the objects can be allocated to appropriate quality categories. Different views of the objects are focussed onto line sensors 4.1 and 4.2 as the objects are moved past by a driving system 9. A pulse transmitter is connected to the driving system to synchronise the scanned signals with the movement of the objects. A microprocessor calculates the actual dimensions of the objects from the geometry of the system and compares these with ideal values. Surface flaws of different reflectivity are also distinguished and their positions calculated. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2091853-A (GB)
Title: Fluid control valve
IPC: F16K7/07
Filed: 1982-01-18
Abstract: A fluid flow control valve comprises a deformable throughflow valve chamber 2 containing an obturating element 41 and means operative upon the exterior of said valve chamber for controllably deforming the wall of said chamber to vary the cross-sectional dimension of the chamber in the region of the obturating element, thereby to vary the fluid flow path therepast. The obturator 2 is retained in position by spiders 3. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2117515-A (GB)
Title: Monitoring the degree of superheat of steam
Inventor: DAY BOBBY L
IPC: G01N7/00
Filed: 1982-03-25
Abstract: A temperature measurement- independent apparatus for determining the degree of superheat of steam in a pipe (1) comprises a tube (5) having a closed end (8) disposed in the pipe (1) and partially filled with water so that steam at a saturation pressure corresponding to the superheated steam temperature is formed in a space (7). Such pressure is communicated by the pipe (5) to a chamber (3) of a differential pressure transducer (4) and compared with the pressure of the steam in the pipe (1), which is communicated with a chamber (10) of the transducer (4) by a tube (9). <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2097297-A (GB)
Title: Rotor for use in centrifugal separators
IPC: B04B7/08
Filed: 1982-04-16
Abstract: A rotor for use in a centrifugal separator comprises a rotor shaft, a rotor body mounted on and extending around the rotor shaft, and a plurality of buckets mounted on the rotor body and angularly spaced at equidistant locations around the rotor shaft. The rotor body is made of a continuous fibrous composite material composed of continuous high- tensile fibers such as of glass, graphite, or boron impregnated with synthetic resin. The continuous high-tensile fibers extend between diametrically opposite pairs of the buckets across the rotor shaft, or between the rotor shaft and alternate buckets substantially in directions along which the rotor body is subjected to centrifugal forces. The rotor body includes a plurality of radial arms angularly spaced at equal intervals and supporting the buckets, respectively.
Patent GB-2103055-A (GB)
Title: Switching arrangement for a stereophonic sound synthesizer
Inventor: GRIFFIS PATRICK DOUGLAS
IPC: H04S5/00
Filed: 1982-05-06
Abstract: A system for synthesizing stereophonic signals from an audio information signal source (10) is provided. The system includes a transfer function circuit (14) for producing a modulated signal which varies as a function of frequency in response to the audio signal (A), first (18) and second (20) amplifiers for providing amplified output signals (C, D), and a switch circuit (16, 32) for coupling selected ones of the audio signal and the modulated signal to the inputs of the first (18) and second (20) amplifiers. In one position (SS), the switch circuit (16, 32) causes the first (18) and second (20) amplifiers to operate in a matrix mode for matrixing the input signals to provide first and second synthesized stereophonic output signals (C, D). In one or more other positions (TS, M) the switch circuit causes the amplifiers (18, 20) to operate in a non-matrix mode for providing an amplified audio output signal (C, D) from monophonic or true stereophonic input signals supplied thereto. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2099462-A (GB)
Title: Washing machine
IPC: D06F39/08
Filed: 1982-05-17
Abstract: In order to avoid detergent wastage, especially in wash cycles which take place at a relatively low water temperature, e.g. between 30 DEG and 60 DEG C, the delivery side of the washing machine pump 8 is connected to a conduit or tube 11, the height of which is at least approximately equal to the maximum height of the drum 7 contained in the tub 3. Furthermore, after the operation or operations involved in feeding the detergent or simultaneously therewith, the discharge pump 8 is controlled by pulse means which determine a series of short operating periods of the pump alternated by halt periods, such that the water with the undissolved detergent is made to rise in the conduit or tube during such operating periods, and then descend then the pump is stopped, thus obtaining a to-and-fro movement which favours the dissolving of the detergent. The water column is able to descend by virtue of the fact that the pump commonly used in washing machines is of the centrifugal type, which does not hinder such backward flow. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2103204-A (GB)
Title: 2-(2',2',2'-tribromethyl)-4- chlorocyclobutan-1-ones and their use in the preparation of cyclopropane carboxylic acids having an insecticidal action
Inventor: MARTIN PIERRE
IPC: C07C51/60
Filed: 1978-10-23
Abstract: The invention provides 2- (2',2',2'-tribromoethyl)-4- chlorocyclobutan-1-ones of the formula I   <IMAGE> in which one of the radicals R1 and R2 is methyl and the other is hydrogen or methyl, or R1 and R2 together are an alkylene group having 2 to 4 carbon atoms. The 2-(2',2',2'-tribromoethyl)- 4-chlorocyclobutan-1-ones of the formula I are valuable intermediates for the preparation of 2-(2',2'- dibromovinyl)-cyclopropane-1- carboxylic acids and esters thereof having an insecticidal action.
Patent GB-2102178-A (GB)
Title: Plasma display panel control
Inventor: MARENTIC MICHAEL J
IPC: G09G3/294
Filed: 1982-06-14
Abstract: Complex waveforms used to control a plasma matrix panel are formed as sequences of common elemental waveform modules stored in a ROM. These modules are combined in various orders into strings capable of independently performing various functions on the plasma panel, including a wide range of brightness control. Large scale parallel addressing is accomplished by forming a string of several sustain modules, followed by a write or erase module. The use of 512 cell parallel addressing enables border electrodes to discharge only once during each extended cycle, thus lowering the intensity of light emitted from the borders by at least a factor of five. An erase before write technique is described which allows an erase operation to be inserted into a write function without extending the length of the write function, thus doubling the maximum data rate of the plasma panel display system. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2105890-A (GB)
Title: Taximeters
Inventor: ROYDS TOM LONGSTAFF
IPC: G07B13/02
Filed: 1982-07-23
Abstract: A taximeter has an electrical supply system designed to ensure that it is operational, when necessary, even when the taxi's engine is switched off. The taxi's ignition switch (4) turns the meter on to a standby mode, in which the meter can record mileage. A switch (11) on the meter is operated for a hiring mode, and this latches the supply on by another switch (5) in parallel with the ignition switch, which can then be opened without affecting the meter. This has to be returned to standby by a further switch (8), opening the switch (5), before the meter can be de-energised. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2124326-A (GB)
Title: Resilient mounting with hydraulic damping
Inventor: POMPEI MICHEL
IPC: F16F13/20
Filed: 1982-07-26
Abstract: The invention provides a hydraulic damper comprising a sealed casing 1 formed of two parts 2, 3 connected together by an elastomer ring 4, a dividing wall 5 having therethrough a calibrated passage 6 dividing the inside of the casing into two compartments A and B and a liquid mass 7 filling the compartment A and the bottom of compartment B. The ring 4 has a form sufficiently hollow transversely towards the inside of compartment A, for any axial compression of this member to result at the same time in a transverse resilient "entry" thereof towards the inside of said compartment. This ensures an adequate reduction in the volume of the compartment A. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2108148-A (GB)
Title: Cooling-lubricating pastes and liquids
Inventor: PERL MIKLOS
IPC: C10M173/00
Filed: 1982-08-10
Abstract: A cooling-lubricating paste comprises water, a bentonite having a grain size of at most 70 microns, e.g., 5.0 to 30.0% by weight and optionally an oil conventionally used in combination with water-based cooling-lubricating liquids, in a conventional quality and amount and optionally further additives, preferably improving lubrication. The properties of cooling-lubricating liquids conventionally employed during shaping and cutting metals and other materials are improved by admixing 0.1 to 20% by weight of additives liable to precipitation from the above liquids, e.g. disinfectants and aroma materials with 30.0 to 80.0% by wt. of water, 5.0 to 30.0% by wt. of the above bentonite and 30.0-50.0% by wt. of the above oil.
Patent GB-2108713-A (GB)
Title: Speed governor for music box
Inventor: ISAKA AKIHIKO
IPC: G10F1/06
Filed: 1982-08-26
Abstract: A speed regulating device for a gear train, primarily for use with a music box, is provided in the form of a flexible rotor (37) which provides substantial air resistance braking when rotated, and which, when rotated at high speeds, elastically deforms to engage a brake member (46) arranged proximate the rotor, such that both air friction and surface contact friction operate to maintain the gear train output speed constant. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2126983-A (GB)
Title: A jack system
Inventor: HOYLE CHARLES
IPC: E02B17/08
Filed: 1982-09-07
Abstract: A jack system suitable for moving a structure (a) relative to structure (b) comprises hooks (1) and (2) alternatively connectable to structure (b) and caused, by any means, to reciprocate along track (12) in structure (a) within fixed length stroke limits always in opposite directions relative to each other, enabling structure (a) to be propelled relative to structure (b) in a series of steps; at the stroke limits, hooks (1) and (2) simultaneously coincide with corresponding sockets whence both hooks may be engaged, permitting movable barrier plates (13), (14), and (16) to be manipulated to enable either hook as chosen to be withdrawn from engagement with structure (b). Plate (15) is integral with structure (a). Barrier plates 13, 14, 15 and 16 illustrate a form of interlock which ensures that a connected hook cannot be disconnected unless the alternative hook is connected and is supporting the load. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2106321-A (GB)
Title: Mounting thermocouple junction
Inventor: GODFREY PETER MARTIN
IPC: B23K11/26
Filed: 1982-09-24
Abstract: To connect a thermocouple junction to a metal member, especially a metal tube that is to be used in rigorous conditions, the junction is embodied in a pad (2) that is connected to the tube (1) by a D.C. welding process, in particular by capacitor discharge welding. <IMAGE>