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Patent GB-2049443-A (GB)
Title: Indoor fishing game
IPC: A63F9/30
Filed: 1980-03-14
Abstract: An indoor fishing game comprises net 2 extending over an imitation pond, floatable imitation fish each with means by which they may be hooked, and a fishing rod. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2048095-A (GB)
Title: Preparation of Animal Fodder which can be Pumped
IPC: B01F3/12
Filed: 1980-04-11
Abstract: The fodder components are mixed in a weighing container 1 which is initially supplied with a predetermined quantity of water through pipe 10 and shut-off valve 11 and which progressively enriched with pumped water-silage mixture during preparation of the fodder. Pipe 6 and pump 7 supply the finished fodder to the animal feeding stations. Branch pipe 27 supplies water or water-silage mixture pumped from the container 1 by pump 7 to a premixing container 19 which receives silage discharging from the silo 17. The water and silage mixture is pumped from the premixing container by pump 23 to a grinding mill 24 which discharges into the container 1 through the inlet 25. Another solid component such as flour is added at 12. The mill 24 may take the place of the premix container 19, the silage ground with the addition of the water or water-silage mixture received through pipe 27 being pumped to the container 1 by the pump 23. Pipe 6' is the return pipe portion of pipe 6. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2056107-A (GB)
Title: A display device
IPC: G03B21/02
Filed: 1980-07-03
Abstract: A display device comprises a housing having a front face in the form of a translucent screen 5 and housing two projectors 7 and 8 supported side by side on a platform 2, which can be moved towards and away from the screen by means of a worm drive 25. Both projectors 7 and 8 have button operated slide cartridges and a synchronising device comprising a motorised cam and striker plate is positioned above the buttons so that the cartridges can be advanced simultaneously. In this way a cartridge of, for example, visual display slides and a cartridge of related captions can be sequentially displayed accurately in step side by side on the screen 5. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2058457-A (GB)
Title: An electrical disconnecting switch
IPC: H01H3/02
Filed: 1980-07-18
Abstract: A disconnecting switch suitable for snatch-cord emergency switching in a conveyor installation, comprises control contacts 2 operable by a lever (3) moving a rotary cam. The lever 3 is mounted on a shaft (5) which carries a transmission lever (6) which through a member (7) hinged thereto, is connected to strikers (8, 9) which engage in a respective diametrically opposed cut-outs 10, 11 on a striker disc (12) on the cam shaft 13. The cut-outs are each provided with a stop face (10a, 11a), the stop faces being effective in the same direction of rotation of the disc 12, the length of the cut-outs and the distances of the strikers 8, 9 from the hinge 6a of the member 7 on the transmission lever (6) are such that movement of the lever 3 in either direction, from the position shown, will produce clockwise rotation of the disc 12 and shaft 13 to a position (Figs. 2 and 3) in which the cam projection 4 actuates contacts 2 and subsequent movement of the lever 3 has no influence on the disc 12 etc. A spring 16 provides for snap-action movement between the two positions of the cam shaft 13 and a lever 19 thereon provides for resetting. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2061393-A (GB)
Title: Lock chamber and hydraulic conveying system
IPC: B65G53/30
Filed: 1980-08-20
Abstract: A lock chamber device comprises a continuously rotatable rotor 12 having a plurality of lock chambers 1, 5, and a stationary housing 11 having pairs of openings A, A', C, C' for delivering and receiving the suspension, and a further pair of openings B, B'. Each of the chambers can be associated and aligned with each pair of openings by appropriate rotation of the rotor. A low-pressure circulating system 22, 21, 24, 18, 17 which contains relatively cold liquid is connected to the first pair of housing openings C, C'. A high-pressure circulating system 27, 28, 15, 26 which contains relatively hot liquid at a temperature above the boiling point of the liquid in the low-pressure circulating system is connected to the second pair of housing openings A, A'. A high-pressure circulating system 16, 34, 33 which includes cooling means 34 is connected to the third pair of housing openings B, B'. Each chamber reaches openings A, A' after the openings C, C' and the openings B, B' after the openings A, A' as the rotor is rotated, so that the hot liquid in the lock chambers is cooled before the chambers open to the low pressure system. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2055374-A (GB)
Title: Nor-tropane derivatives
IPC: C07D239/46
Filed: 1980-01-11
Abstract: beta -3-Amino nor-tropane derivatives of the formula:   <IMAGE>  wherein R represents:   - either a hydrogen atom, R1 representing an acetyl or ethoxycarbonyl group; - or a benzyl nucleus; a benzyl nucleus monosubstituted in the meta position of formula:   <IMAGE> in which R2 = CH3, CF3 or halogen; a benzyl nucleus monosubstituted in the para position of formula:   <IMAGE> in which R3 = CH3, CH3O, lower alkyl, CF3 or halogen; a 3,4-dichlorobenzyl group; a 2-methyl thiophene group; a 3-methyl thiophene group; a 2-methyl furan group; or a cyclohexylmethyl group, R1 representing a hydrogen atom or an acetyl or ethoxycarbonyl group, or acid addition salts thereof, are useful as intermediates in the synthesis of pharmaceutical compounds.
Patent GB-2063212-A (GB)
Title: Disposal means
IPC: B65F1/14
Filed: 1980-09-05
Abstract: A disposal process particularly suitable for the removal of detritus and oil spillage from beaches, comprises positioning a container 1 of flexible material in a hole in the beach, placing waste material in the container and closing and removing the container. The container preferably has reinforcing straps 2, is of an elastomer-coated fabric, and is liftable by a rigid bar 4 and hooks 5. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2085790-A (GB)
Title: Retractable blade craft knife
IPC: B26B5/00
Filed: 1980-10-06
Abstract: A craft knife comprises a casing having two parts 10 and 11 providing a guide track 13 for a blade supporting carriage 14, the carriage 14 being arranged to receive a blade 15 formed with a cutting edge 16. Brazed to carriage 14 is a worm 21 which is formed with an internal bore 22 engaged over a stub shaft 23 fixed to the casing 10. Mounted on the worm 21 is a threaded plastic nut 24 which may be operated by the user of the knife so as to adjust the position of the knife blade or to retract it into the casing. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2066332-A (GB)
Title: Drilling stabiliser
IPC: E21B17/043
Filed: 1980-12-23
Abstract: A drilling stabiliser of the lock-on type comprises a main sleeve 10 internally threaded at each end 13A, 13B having a centrally disposed internal collar 14 laterally of which are conical surfaces 15A, 15B. A tubular end cap 24A, 24B which is externally threaded 25A, 25B, is provided for attachment to the threaded ends of the sleeve 10 and these end caps 24A, 24B are respectively mechanically interlocked to a split ring 21A, 21B, each of which has an external conical surface 23A, 23B, for engagement with conical surfaces 15A, 15B, of the main sleeve. The interlocking arrangement comprises an annular groove 27A, 27B, on the bore of the end cap and an annular rib 28A, 28B, on the external surface of the pertaining split ring, such that the mechanical interlock is maintained to withdraw the split rings 21A, 21B, during the release procedure. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2091096-A (GB)
Title: Sample holder and blank therefor
IPC: G09F5/04
Filed: 1981-01-21
Abstract: A blank for forming a sample holder, for holding samples of sheet-form materials, comprises a unitary sheet of synthetic thermoplastics material having:-     (a) a generally rectangular centre panel (1); (b) a pair of sets (2, 2a) of at least two parallel grooves formed in the sheet along two opposite sides of the panel; and (c) a pair of side panels (3, 3a) each provided with at least two perforations (4, 4a), the perforations in one side panel being correspondingly located to the perforations in the other side panel.   The sample holder is formed from the blank by bending the side walls until they are at right angles to the centre panel and parallel to each other and passing sample retaining means such as nut and bolt 8 through the corresponding perforations in the side walls. By the provision of at least two parallel grooves in each set, the side walls may be folded at varying distances apart thereby to accommodate various thicknesses of sets of samples. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2093188-A (GB)
Title: Positioning echosignal sensor and electrosignal sensors of cardiographic apparatus
IPC: A61B5/0408
Filed: 1981-02-17
Abstract: A device for positioning and holding an echocardiograph sensor (2) and ECG sensors (3) on the body has a base (4) with two mutually perpendicular guideways (5, 6) for a movable carriage (7) to travel thereon. The carriage carries a swivel head (10) with a socket (12) for the echosignal sensors (2) and is angularly displaceable in such a way that the centres of rotation of the socket and of the head itself coincide. The ECG sensors (3) are fixed on the base (4). <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2102151-A (GB)
Title: Apparatus for detonation coating
Inventor: SKADIN VASILY GEORGIEVICH
IPC: B05B7/00
Filed: 1981-06-23
Abstract: Apparatus for the detonation coating of the surfaces of parts, which includes a detonation chamber (1) connected to a powder supply system (4) and a gas mixture supply system (3). A control system incorporates a powder detector (32) adapted to determine the amount of powder in the detonation products and connected with a control unit (22) through a feed-back circuit (33) which includes a coating thickness measuring unit (35) arranged to de- energize the apparatus after the predetermined thickness of the coating being applied is attained. The unit (35) has an A to D converter (37) and an adder (38) which stores the cumulative value from the detector (32) for successive detonations. When the adder (38) has a value substantially identical to a reference value stored by unit (36) the coating process is halted. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2085986-A (GB)
Title: Disc brake
IPC: F16D65/18
Filed: 1981-09-15
Abstract: A spot-type disc brake comprises two rotating drive devices (e.g., as shown, spindle devices 11a, 11b or cam- type drives) which are arranged on one side of the brake disc (24) in the circumferential direction of the latter and work in opposite directions. The devices 11a, 11b act in parallel on only one brake shoe and are applied to move synchronously by means of respective swivelling levers 12a, 12b which are adapted to be spread apart by virtue of a pneumatic piston- cylinder arrangement 13, 14. As shown, the levers 12a, 12b are connected by joints 32, 33 to front faces 20 of cylinder 16; pistons 15 connected by a piston rod 19 are respectively situated in cylinders 16. Supply of air to cylinders 16 via (a) socket(s) 35 moves cylinders in opposite directions to move the levers 12a, 12b. Other illustrated embodiments involve a single piston- cylinder, and various modifications of the spindle devices and the mounting of the piston-cylinder arrangement are disclosed. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2108434-A (GB)
Title: Electric blackboard eraser
Inventor: WEN HUA YU
IPC: B43L21/02
Filed: 1981-10-23
Abstract: A blackboard cleaning device comprises a sponge eraser pad 21, a filter 31 covered with fabric 32, and a turbine fan 422 driven by an electric motor to create a suction force whereby chalk powder or particles are collected on the surface of the fabric to be accumulated in a lower transparent chamber 14. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2109432-A (GB)
Title: Horizontal force resisting building 2 and 3
Inventor: HANAOKA TADASHI
IPC: E04H9/02
Filed: 1981-10-31
Abstract: The bearing walls 3 are secured in spaced relationship to a steel building framework 7-12 by connectors 5 which have a lower resistance to plastic deformation than the walls 3. The connector is a bracket, e.g. 13 e.g. welded to the steel framework and bolted to the wall. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2091867-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in refrigerator heat exchangers
IPC: F28F1/12
Filed: 1982-01-21
Abstract: A heat exchange unit mainly for a refrigerator condenser coil comprises a sheet of metal which has been perforated by punching using a roller having a plurality of teeth which causes material to be displaced to form a rectangular perforation and the displaced material to be bent to one side of the sheet around the perforation. The roller forms a series of lines of perforations 2 between which is left an unperforated strip 3 having indentations 4 to which is spot welded the condenser tubing 5 in the form of a serpentine. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2115744-A (GB)
Title: Sheet and envelope therefor
Inventor: INSTANCE DAVID J
IPC: B65D27/00
Filed: 1982-03-04
Abstract: A sheet (e.g. a sheet of printed instructions) and an envelope therefor, both formed from a single folded sheet (10), e.g. of paper, wherein the single sheet is divided into at least two parallel rows of three rectilinear panels each, the panels (16, 17, 18) of the first row being separated from the corresponding panels (1, 2, 3) of the next row by a line of perforations (24) and each of the two outer panels (16, 18) of the first row of panels having a portion (19, 20) cut away inwardly from the respective outer edge of the sheet adjacent the line of perforations so that the line of perforations (24) stops short of the outer edges of the sheet, the single sheet being so folded that the panels (16, 17, 18) of the first row form the envelope, and the sheet is composed of the panels of the next row (1, 2, 3) and of any further rows (4, 5, 6; 7, 8, 9) which are folded to lie adjacent one face of the corresponding panels (16, 17, 18) of the first row, whereby the sheet is enclosed in the envelope but can be removed and detached therefrom by tearing along the line of perforations (24).
Patent GB-2118988-A (GB)
Title: Panelling and carriers therefor
Inventor: RIJNDERS WILLEM
IPC: E04B9/36
Filed: 1982-03-17
Abstract: A carrier for supporting panels which have a main portion (30) with inturned side portions (31, 32) sides, and one of which has a rim (35) whilst the other has an arm (33). The carrier is an inverted U- or V-shaped cross- section body portion with two legs having a plurality of pairs of spaced different lugs (15, 16). The first (15) is substantially rigid and includes a tongue, and the second (16) includes a projection 23 behind which bead 34 of panel arm 34 engages. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2098129-A (GB)
Title: Pliable microporous battery separator sheet
IPC: H01M50/489
Filed: 1982-04-15
Abstract: Pliable, sintered, microporous separator sheets 2 for use in electric storage batteries are made by the incorporation of terpolymers consisting of linear ethylene vinyl acetate copolymer backbones with pendant grafted segments of poly (vinyl chloride). <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2099601-A (GB)
Title: X-ray lithography
IPC: G03F7/20
Filed: 1979-01-12
Abstract: A COP resist which has been exposed to x-ray radiation, is developed with MEK developer and an ethanol solvent. The resist is first developed in a strong developing solution and then with a weaker developer whose concentration is slightly above that required to obtain complete development. Preferably the resist is exposed so as to obtain about a fifty per cent developed thickness and the developing is carried out in steps, the first with a concentration of 5:1.8 (MEK to ethanol) for five seconds, the second using concentrations of 5:1.8 and 5:2.7 for ten seconds and the third with a concentration of 5:2.7 for five seconds.
Patent GB-2099912-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to hinge mechanisms
IPC: E05F1/06
Filed: 1982-06-07
Abstract: A gate 1 is mounted on a tubular support post 2 by means of a hinge mechanism comprising a gate follower 9 slidably but non-rotatably mounted on a rod 3 fixed at its upper end to the gate 1, a stator 6 provided with a key 7 to keep the stator stationary relative to the support 2 when the gate, and with it the rod 3 rotates, a stop 14 fixed to the lower end of rod 3 and a spring 13 acting between the stop 14 and follower 9 to urge the follower 9 into engagement with stator 6. The gate follower 9 and the stator 6 engage one another via respective cam faces 10, 8 inclined to the axis of the hinge, the arrangement is such that, as the gate follower rotates with respect to the stator away from an equilibrium position, the follower and the stator are moved axially relative to one another against the bias of the spring 13, and as a result a restoring force urging the gate back to its equilibrium position is created. The stator 6, follower 9, spring 13, stop 14 and associated parts of the rod 3 are accommodated within the upper end of support 2. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2102023-A (GB)
Title: Reduction of fuel consumption of internal combustion engines and composition therefor
Inventor: LISTON THOMAS VINCENT
IPC: C10M159/12
Filed: 1982-06-22
Abstract: Internal combustion engine lubricating oil compositions containing as a friction modifier a borated fatty acid ester of glycerol have been found to reduce fuel consumption when used in such engines. A preferred friction modifier is a borated glycerol oleate. The compositions comprise an oil with four additives additional to the above borated ester viz. 1. an alkenyl succinimide and/or succinate, 2. a Group II metal salt of a dihydrocarbyl dithiophosphoric acid, 3. a neutral or overbased alkali or alkaline earth hydrocarbyl sulphonate mixture thereof & 4. a neutral or overbased alkali or alkaline earth hydrocarbyl phenoate or mixture thereof.
Patent GB-2102474-A (GB)
Title: Inside downhole blowout preventer
Inventor: CUNNINGHAM ROBERT A
IPC: E21B21/10
Filed: 1982-07-01
Abstract: An inside blowout preventer assembly for connection into a drill string for earth boring for minimizing fluid erosion, has a centralized ball valve retainer 39 with an annular flow area larger in comparison with the area of the opening 55 of the seat 51 to control the flow rate to levels to minimize erosion. The surfaces 31,33 of the inside of the assembly are tapered to further minimize turbulence and erosion. The retainer 39 that holds the ball valve 43 in a centralized position has a flow passage 45 causing the ball valve 43 to be stationary during downward fluid flow and to assist upward movement during upward flow. Inserts 29,37 are utilized to form the inside of the assembly to simplify construction and enable easy replacement. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2102299-A (GB)
Title: A regeneration unit for waste water from industrial washing installations
Inventor: FOESSEL EUGENE
IPC: C02F9/00
Filed: 1982-07-05
Abstract: A regeneration unit for waste water from industrial washing installations comprises a tank (2) for receiving the waste water, one or more filters (4), one or more ion exchangers (5) and a tank (3) for storing the regenerated water. The waste water arrives in the lower tank (2), passes through the filters (4) and then through the ion exchangers (5), and is pumped by the pumping station (18) into the upper tank (3) from which water is recycled to the washing installations. When this tank is full, the surplus overflows into the lower tank (2). <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2103986-A (GB)
Title: A pipe cutting machine
Inventor: AKITA SHINJI
IPC: B23D21/00
Filed: 1982-07-20
Abstract: For cutting a pipe simultaneously at a plurality of points, a pipe cutting machine comprises a pipe transfer line L, a plurality of cutting devices A1 to A6 disposed in series along the transfer line L some or all of which are movable lengthways of the transfer line (L), and support rollers 1 which are disposed between the cutting devices. The support rollers may also be movable lengthways of the transfer line. Associated with each cutting device there may be a clamp 6 and a chuck 7 which rotates the pipe while cutters 8 operate. Alternatively the cutters may be moved round the stationary pipe. Pinch rollers 19 brake the pipe when rollers 18 have fed the required length through the cutting units. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2105391-A (GB)
Title: Preparing a concrete layer on asphalt
Inventor: HENRISCHEN ANDERS
IPC: E01C11/18
Filed: 1982-08-26
Abstract: The method consists in milling the asphalt so as to obtain a rough surface and casting a thin layer of a concrete which contains fibres or is reinforced in some other way and that the concrete is both rammed and vibrated. To this purpose a vibrator beam may be used which is suitable for both ramming and vibration.
Patent GB-2118041-A (GB)
Title: Antibacterial compositions containing chlorhexidine
Inventor: WARNER PAUL L
IPC: A61K31/155
Filed: 1982-10-13
Abstract: The invention provides antibacterial compositions comprising synergistic mixtures of 35-65 wt% of (1) chlorhexidine or a pharmaceutically acceptable chlorhexidine salt, and 65-35 wt% of (b) nalidixic or phosphanilic acid or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof.
Patent GB-2110626-A (GB)
Title: Fermentation apparatus
Inventor: KUSTER GERHARD
IPC: A21C13/02
Filed: 1982-11-11
Abstract: Fermentation apparatus serves the purpose of providing optimum charging of an oven with matured dough pieces and of allowing a change or correction in fermenting time to be carried out with no or an only brief charging pause in the dough transfer to, in particular, a feed belt of the oven, the apparatus comprising a fermentation cabinet (1) and a meandering transport system which comprises a pair of endless feed chains (9) and a pair of endless transport chains (10) with carrier hangers (11; 12) each equipped with several bread moulds. The chains are conducted by deflecting chain wheels (13, 15) in such a manner that a horizontal return path section of the feed chains has a plurality of transfer stations (14a-d) which are arranged one after the other and each closely associated with a respective one of a plurality of deflection zones of the transport chains guided underneath in the manner of an endless conveyor type elevator. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2123693-A (GB)
Title: Sustained release device
Inventor: ALLEN WILLIAM MAURICE
IPC: A61K9/00
Filed: 1983-07-18
Abstract: The device comprises a source of at least one trace chemical element (as defined) incorporated in a cement and releasable therefrom on contact with an aqueous medium. As examples, cements containing the trace element magnesium can be used in the prophylaxis or therapy of grass tetany in lactating ewes or cows and cements containing iron may be used for treating anaemia in sucking pigs. Other active agents can be present in the cement including pharmaceuticals. Many examples of suitable cements and active agents are listed.
Patent GB-2144821-A (GB)
Title: Swivel link
Inventor: FROST MICHAEL ALAN
IPC: B60T17/08
Filed: 1983-08-11
Abstract: A swivel which comprises an axially rotatable member (4) extending through an aperture (3) in a clevis and constrained by a head (5) against movement in one direction has a spring clip having a first part (10) gripping the rotatable member and a second part (11, 12) extending partly around the clevis to resiliently engage the head and continuously urge it against the clevis. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2146667-A (GB)
Title: Heading tapes
Inventor: TILTSCHER OTTOKAR
IPC: D03D1/06
Filed: 1983-09-15
Abstract: A woven curtain lining heading tape 14 has weft threads 12 which, at predetermined locations spaced apart along the length of the tape 14, do not extend fully across the tape so that at these locations a bunch 20 of warp threads, adjacent to one edge of the tape, is not interwoven with the weft threads but is left floating to provide a loop. One of the bunch 20 of warp threads may be a different colour or shade from the remainder. <IMAGE>