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Patent GB-2327373-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to nozzles for baths
Inventor: SMITH DAVID
IPC: B05B15/654
Filed: 1997-07-19
Abstract: The present invention provides improved nozzles for baths. According to a first aspect of the invention an aerated nozzle (2) with improved drainage is provided. According to a second aspect of the invention, an improved nozzle design allows easier assembly and ensures a more secure connection of the nozzle (2) to a wall of a bath (4), such that additional sealant material is not always required. In accordance with a third aspect of the invention a more efficient aerated nozzle (2) is provided by restricting the location of introduction of the air into the water flow path. A fourth aspect of the invention provides a nozzle (2) comprising a water outlet (44) of novel construction, such a nozzle (2) provides improved performance and efficiency. A further aspect of the invention provides an aerated nozzle (2) for a bath comprising an eyeball jet (12) and socket (26, 28) with improved sealing means.
Patent GB-2327571-A (GB)
Title: Sending short messages to groups of users
Inventor: TAYLOR RICHARD
IPC: H04W4/12
Filed: 1997-07-18
Abstract: A group list server 15 is interfaced with a short message centre 13 in a mobile communications network in order to allow a subscriber to send a single SMS message to be copied to a group of recipients. The subscriber is provided with the ability to control membership of the recipient remotely by means of SMS messages in the form of service control messages. The service control messages may contain any of a number of various predetermined commands, which are parsed by the group list server 15 to create and edit group lists held in a database in the short message centre 13.
Patent GB-2315707-A (GB)
Title: Booklet for notifying shareholders of share dividend with removable portions
Inventor: BELCHER AMANDA
IPC: B42D1/00
Filed: 1997-07-28
Abstract: The booklet includes pages with a portion 12 eg a cheque, tax voucher or share certificate, which is detachable without affecting the integrity of the booklet, so allowing the booklet to be retained and subsequently referred to. The booklet is bound along a common edge 6 by gluing. The booklets 2 are prepared by collating pages printed with common and personalised data from reels 15.
Patent GB-2316548-A (GB)
Title: Connector preventing incorrect mating
Inventor: DENT PETER
IPC: H01R13/645
Filed: 1997-07-31
Abstract: An electrical connector has two parts 1 and 50 each with a rectangular shell 10 and 55 surrounding contact elements 7, 8. The outside of one shell 50 and the inside of the other 10 are enlarged in the corners 62 to 65 and 30 to 33 so that the two shells only be mated when presented square-on, thereby reducing the risk that the contact elements will be inadvertently contacted by the shell on the other part. The two parts have mating coding members 41 and 82 to 84 and clamping members 40 and 81 located outside the shells 10 and 55, one part having two tower formations 53 and 54 in which the coding and clamping members are located. The width of the towers 53 and 54 is greater than the width of the shell 10 on the other part 1.
Patent GB-2317005-A (GB)
Title: Combustion chamber
Inventor: SANDELIS DENIS JEAN MAURICE
IPC: F23R3/00
Filed: 1997-08-22
Abstract: A thermal protective lining for a turbojet engine combustion chamber is constituted by tiles (9, 10) which are arranged to form rings disposed end to end in the direction of flow of the gases in the combustion zone (6). At the junction between each pair of adjacent tiles (9, 10) in the upstream to downstream direction, the downstream inner edge (11) of the upstream tile (9) is tapered and located in a chamferred recess formed at the upstream inner edge (15) of the downstream tile (10) so as to define a slot (16) between them which is inclined inwards in the downstream direction and such that the inner faces (9a, 10a) of the tiles are substantially flush. A clearance (J) is also formed between the two tiles in order to supply the slot (16) with cooling air to cool the junction by convection, and the tapered edge (11) may be further cooled by direct impingement of cooling air via openings provided in the opposing edge (15) of the downstream tile.
Patent GB-2328915-A (GB)
Title: Connected fluid reservoir and fuel tank arrangement
Inventor: BURT STEPHEN
IPC: B60S1/50
Filed: 1997-09-08
Abstract: A fluid reservoir and fuel tank arrangement comprises a fluid reservoir module 1 and a fuel tank module 3. Connecting means 25, 27, 29 are provided for connecting the two modules 1 and 3 together in a juxtaposed relationship. The fluid reservoir 1 which is embodied as a windscreen washer bottle, slides into a channel 25 indented in the fuel tank 3 and clips into place by means of clip 29 and flange 28. The whole unit is preferably mounted under the rear seats of a motor vehicle and the washer bottle can be filled via a tube 23 leading to the inside of the boot space (see figure 2). This positioning of the washer bottle frees up space in the engine compartment and allows the bottle to be filled without gaining access to the engine compartment.
Patent GB-2317983-A (GB)
Title: Authenticating user
Inventor: YU JU-YEOL
IPC: G06F21/34
Filed: 1997-10-06
Abstract: An apparatus for authenticating a user includes an integrated circuit (IC) card for storing a secret key for generating a one time password and also storing predetermined random numbers. A terminal includes a card receiver for receiving the IC card, a random number memory for reading and storing, and then deleting the random numbers of the IC card, a first password generator for generating a one time password using the secret key of the IC card and one of the random numbers, a first random number changer for changing the random number stored in the random number memory in a predetermined way and storing the changed value, and a display for displaying the password. A server receives the password and compares it with one which it generates from stored values in a similar way, for verification. It is possible to raise the security level by using a one time password in which a different password is used each time a user is authenticated, and to save costs by generating a one time password for each of various services with a single terminal.
Patent GB-2318283-A (GB)
Title: Bag
Inventor: SMITH SEBASTIAN
IPC: A45C13/02
Filed: 1997-10-08
Abstract: A bag 10 comprises a lining 12 which can be sealed to the bag 10 in an air-tight manner, together with a port 14 through which a vacuum can be applied to reduce the volume of the bag 10 which has been sealed by the lining 12. This enables the packing of more clothes or other items in the bag 10. The bag 10 may have only one compartment, which is reduced in volume by the application of a vacuum, or may alternatively have two or more compartments, one of which is sealed in an air-tight manner and reduced in volume by the vacuum. The bag 10 may be a suitcase, rucksack, holdall, sports bag or handbag.
Patent GB-2320239-A (GB)
Title: Packaging arrangement
Inventor: MOORHEAD MICHAEL PHILIP
IPC: B65D5/66
Filed: 1997-11-28
Abstract: A packaging arrangement comprising a base panel (12) having a plurality of edges (12A, 12B, 12C, 12D), a plurality of side panels (14A, 14B, 14C, 14D) foldably attached to the edges of the base panel, and a plurality of side flaps (15). Each side flap (15) extends between a respective pair of adjacent side panels. The arrangement can be moved from a flattened condition to an erected condition by folding the side panels to positions in which said side panels extend transverse from the base panel. Top panels (28A, 28B) may be provided or one side panel may bear a single top panel.
Patent GB-2321972-A (GB)
Title: Hollow waveguide with dielectric layer
Inventor: MIYAGI MITSUNOBU
IPC: G02B6/02
Filed: 1997-12-17
Abstract: A solution of a metallic compound or a cyclic olefin polymer is introduced into a metallic pipe (2) to deposit the solution onto the whole inner wall of the metallic pipe followed by heat treatment at a high temperature to dry and solidify the solution, thereby forming a dielectric layer (3A). Thus, a metallic hollow waveguide (1) is prepared which comprises a metallic pipe (2), a dielectric layer (3A) provided on the inner wall of the pipe, and a hollow region defined by the inner wall of the dielectric layer. The above constitution makes it possible to provide a highly reliable hollow waveguide which is usable in a broad waveband, for which a quartz optical fiber is unusable, causes no significant transmission loss, can be mass produced, and can be easily produced in a reduced diameter and in an increased length, and to provide a method of making the same.
Patent GB-2332384-A (GB)
Title: Welding adaptor cover
Inventor: WATSON RONALD
IPC: B23K11/36
Filed: 1997-12-19
Abstract: A welding adaptor 2 for a welding head comprises a press-fit insulation pad Fig 2, which substantially covers the end of the welding tip portion of the adaptor. This causes welding operations to cease if the welding head becomes detached from the welding adaptor.
Patent GB-2320938-A (GB)
Title: Production fluid drainage apparatus
Inventor: ECHOLS RALPH H
IPC: E21B43/12
Filed: 1997-12-23
Abstract: Production fluid drainage apparatus for a subterranean well comprising a base pipe 26 having a sidewall inlet opening 28 and a tubular structure 30 which coaxially circumscribes the base pipe forming an annular fluid flow passage 32 which communicates with the interior of the base pipe 26 through the sidewall opening. A fluid filtering section 34 is situated on the tubular structure 30 axially offset from the sidewall inlet opening 28 and well fluid flows through this filter 34 into the annular fluid flow passage 32. An adjustable fluid flow control device 36 selectively varies well fluid inflow through the fluid filtering section 34 into the base pipe 26. Seals are provided on the inner side (80, figure 4) and outer side (78, figure 4) of the fluid flow control device 36 to prevent well fluid flowing around it.
Patent GB-2321640-A (GB)
Title: Lead-free dense and extra-dense optical barium crown glass
Inventor: GRABOWSKI DANUTA
IPC: C03C3/064
Filed: 1997-12-31
Abstract: Lead-free optical dense and extra-dense barium crown glasses have a refractive index n d  of between 1.60, and 1.65 an Abbe number # d  of between 49 and 60, and have the following composition (in % by weight, based on oxide): SiO 2  38 - 45; B 2 O 3  5 - 10; BaO 29 - 42; ZnO 0 - 10; CaO 0 - 5; where BaO + ZnO + CaO 35 - 50; TiO 2  1 - 5; ZrO 2  0.5 - 3; where (SiO 2  + TiO 2  + ZrO 2 )/(BaO + ZnO + CaO) 0.84 - 1.35; La 2 O 3  0 - 2.5; Al 2 O 3  1 - 3.5; where La 2 O 3  + Al 2 O 3  2.5 - 3.5; Na 2 O 0 - 2; K 2 O 0 - 6 where Na 2 O + K 2 O 0 - 7. The glasses have very good chemical resistance and very high crystallization stability. Fining agents such as Sb 2 O 3  and/or fluoride may be present in amount up to 0.5 wt%.
Patent GB-2321535-A (GB)
Title: Drive train control for reducing brake slip
Inventor: GRAF FRIEDRICH
IPC: B60W30/18
Filed: 1998-01-23
Abstract: A drive train control 1 for a motor vehicle includes a gearbox control 10, engine control 9 and a control which, in one mode, controls the operation of the vehicle in response to the environment of the vehicle 3 (such as country road, hilly, etc.) and the driving style of the driver 2 (economical, sporty, etc.). In order to support braking by the driver, the gearbox control 10 can increase the gear ratio by selecting a lower gear, thereby using engine braking. However, on slippery road surfaces, this can result in brake slip, where on changing to a lower gear the wheels lock or slip as the vehicle continues at speed. Therefore an engine drag torque control is activated if brake slip is detected and if the gearbox control has specified a lower gear than that which would have been selected by an engine characteristic map if the vehicle had not been under braking.
Patent GB-2336202-A (GB)
Title: Ventilating buildings
Inventor: GAGE STEPHEN
IPC: F24F7/02
Filed: 1998-04-09
Abstract: A ventilating apparatus for a building comprises a plurality of upper ducts (16n,e) each having upper and lower ends, the upper ends in use being open to the outside of the building and facing in different generally horizontal directions. In a bi-directional version of the apparatus, it also includes: a supply duct (26) and an extraction duct (28a,b), each having upper and lower ends, the lower ends in use being open to the inside of the building; a damper arrangement (32) operable to connect the upper ends of each of the supply duct and the extraction duct selectably to the lower end(s) of one or more of the upper ducts; a sensor (46) for sensing, in use, wind direction outside the building; and a controller for controlling the damper arrangement in dependence upon the sensed wind direction. Unidirectional versions of the apparatus are also disclosed. With each version, when the wind blows, the direction of air flow in the supply duct and/or the extraction duct is predictable.
Patent GB-2324368-A (GB)
Title: Calcination using liquid metal heat exchange fluid
Inventor: MIROVICS IVARS
IPC: C22B26/22
Filed: 1997-01-17
Abstract: An apparatus (10) for calcining a material comprises a calcination vessel (10) which houses a heat exchanger (12). The heat exchanger (12) is arranged to transfer heat to the material from a liquid metal heat exchange fluid arranged to flow through the heat exchanger (12).
Patent GB-2343611-A (GB)
Title: Crab processing
Inventor: LETT RICHARD
IPC: A23L17/40
Filed: 1998-08-08
Abstract: Live crabs are placed in a tank containing deoxygenated fresh water and citric acid. The crabs are then placed in containers having perforated side walls in layers and conveyed into cooking unit containing heated brine and citric acid solution. The solution is agitated ensuring circulation around the crabs. The crabs are then cooled in a solution of chilled brine and citric acid. The cooked and cooled crab is then cleaned and washed and inedible crab meat is removed. The crabs are then graded, packed, pasteurised and stored.
Patent GB-2328217-A (GB)
Title: Lubricating oil compositions suitable for use in low speed diesel engines
Inventor: VROLIJK DIRK JAN ELZO
IPC: C10M165/00
Filed: 1998-08-11
Abstract: The wear of a low-speed marine diesel engine is reduced by contacting the internal surfaces of that engine with a lubricating oil composition comprising a major amount of a base oil of lubricating viscosity, from 0.5% to 2.5% of a polyalkylene succinimide, and up to 6% of a highly overbased detergent, such as an alkyl aromatic sulfonate.
Patent GB-2340530-A (GB)
Title: Aluminium kit formwork composite building system
Inventor: KESKIN OZDEMIR
IPC: E04G17/04
Filed: 1998-08-12
Abstract: Aluminium, flanged channel sections with location and restraining detailing will be used as formwork to construct in situ walls and slabs of mainly single and two or multi-storey buildings. The walls and slabs will be of composite construction, comprised of inner and outer leaves of concrete either side of rigid sheet thermal insulation; the internal partition walls will be constructed only with the concrete material. Conduits and wall face fittings for the services will be incorporated during the construction of the concrete leaves and walls. Window and door receivers will also be included in the mould. The aluminium sections are supplied in a kit form to facilitate the complete construction of the superstructure shell, including door and window openings. When the formwork is removed and after curing the shell will be immediately ready for the installation of fittings. The surfaces need only be smoothed at joints although the exterior can be rendered and the interior painted or wallpapered without the need for plaster skims.
Patent GB-2330644-A (GB)
Title: Cylindrical vibration isolator
Inventor: SUZUKI SHINGO
IPC: F16F1/387
Filed: 1998-10-06
Abstract: A cylindrical vibration isolator has an elastic body 12 fixed to an inner cylindrical member 11 and in use mounted within an outer cylindrical member 21. The elastic body 12, before mounting in the outer member 21, has arms 12b with extensions 12c1 defining outwardly concave areas 12c2 at ends of the arms. When the elastic body is mounted in the outer member these arms are pressed against the inner periphery of the cylindrical member 21 and because of their shape the extensions 12c1 hardly separate from the inner periphery of the outer member even when a large rolling load is input into the vibration isolator.
Patent GB-2342568-A (GB)
Title: Structure for grinder/squeezing apparatus
Inventor: LING KUO-I
IPC: A47J42/20
Filed: 1998-10-15
Abstract: A structure for grinding dry or squeezing wet objects 3, such as beans or corn, comprises two opposing discs 1 and 2, one of which 2 is driven. Each of the opposing disc faces has grooves 12 and 22 radiating from its central area, the depth of which decrease towards the disc's circumference. Upstanding knives 121 and 221 lie on both sides of each groove 12 and 22. Each opposing disc face also has both coarse and fine grinding teeth formed by spaced ridges 14 and 24 and 15 and 25. When objects 3 are put into the grinder the driven disc 2 is rotated so that they are firstly cut and/or agitated by parts 13 and 23 lying between grooves 12 and 22 and projecting into the central area of the discs. The objects 3 then move to the grooves 12 and 22 as a result of centrifugal force where they are cut by the knives 121 and 221 into small pieces which are then ground or squeezed between the toothed surfaces 14, 15, 24 and 25.
Patent GB-2334773-A (GB)
Title: Valve and pump for a gear system
Inventor: AGNER IVO
IPC: F04B49/08
Filed: 1998-10-16
Abstract: A valve arrangement (2) with a pressure limiting valve (7) and a flow regulator valve (5), which comprises a flow regulator piston 15, having at least one first hydraulic resistor (21). The flow regulator piston (15), has a split pressure return surface. The first part (45) of the pressure return surface is capable of working at a pressure p1 and a second part (31) is capable of working at a pressure p2. The piston (15) is moved by pressure to uncover a part allowing fluid to return to the input of a pump. The position of the piston is dependant on the load of the spring (17) and the magnitudes of the pressure forces acting on the pressure return surfaces (45,31) and on pressure surface (43). The magnitude of these forces is dependant on the resistor (21) and a second resistor (47) and the flow rate of fluid into/out of chambers adjacent those resistors.
Patent GB-2332076-A (GB)
Title: A computer recovery system provided on a removable high capacity disc
Inventor: MEYER GEORGE RAYMOND
IPC: G06F9/445
Filed: 1998-11-03
Abstract: In the event that a user encounters an abnormal operating condition, the user inserts the removable high capacity disc into the computer and restarts the computer. The computer boots either directly from the removable high capacity disc or from a floppy disc which transfers control to the removable high capacity disc. The removable high capacity disc includes all of the files necessary to load the computer operating system and launch the graphical user interface of the operating system such that the user is provided with a familiar operating environment. The removable high capacity disc also includes a suite of recovery software which attempts to ascertain and correct the cause of the abnormal operating condition to return the computer system to a normal operating condition. In the event the recovery system cannot correct the cause of the abnormal operating condition, the user may continue working with files located on the hard disc within the computer or perform a restore operation from an archive.
Patent GB-2332704-A (GB)
Title: Over-center draw latch
Inventor: ANDERSON JOHN P
IPC: B65D45/06
Filed: 1998-12-08
Abstract: A draw latch for joining a first member to a second member, including a keeper 15 for mounting on the first member, a bracket 16 for mounting on the second member, a handle 17 pivotably mounted on the bracket, the handle pivotable about a first axis between latched and unlatched positions, a hook 18 pivotably mounted on the handle, the hook pivotable about a second axis between a first position with the hook engaged with the keeper at a contact point and a second position with the hook out of engagement with the keeper, with the first axis located over a cross-sectional line between the contact point and the second axis when the handle is in the latched position, providing an over center condition, and with manual rotation of the handle about the first axis moving the handle to the unlatched position and an under center condition, and a spring means carried between the bracket and the handle always urging the handle toward the bracket when the handle is in the latched position.
Patent GB-2345036-A (GB)
Title: Vehicle wheel tooth
Inventor: MCCARTNEY NEIL
IPC: E02D3/026
Filed: 1998-12-24
Abstract: The tooth comprises a base (1) adapted to be fixed to a landfill compactor vehicle wheel; walls (2,3,4) extend upwardly from the periphery of the base towards a crest (5) which has a peripheral profile defined by the upper edges of the walls (2,3,4) and which is generally "M" shaped. This is provided by scallops (6,7) in a front wall (3) and a scallop (8) in a rear wall (4). These walls (3,4) optionally have lower ramps (9,10). Side walls (2) are optionally inclined.
Patent GB-2335479-A (GB)
Title: Heated roller
Inventor: SIDHU BALDIP SINGH
IPC: D21F5/02
Filed: 1999-02-09
Abstract: A rotatable hollow roller 2, for drying web material such as paper or textiles contacting an outer surface of the roller, has a fuel gas burner 24 mounted therein, a burner slot 26 being adjacent to and facing towards an inner surface 28 of the roller 2. An acoustic baffle 64 to absorb sounds generated by the combustion of the fuel gas is mounted behind the burner 24 and may be at an opposite side of the axis of rotation of the roller 2. The baffle 64, which extends longitudinally of the roller 2, may comprise porous layers 66, 68 of ceramic fibres and may be curved (Fig. 8), or two oblique baffles may be provided (Figs. 17, 22).
Patent GB-2348559-A (GB)
Title: Motion vector estimation using multi-resolution techniques
Inventor: RA JONG-BEOM
IPC: H04N7/26
Filed: 1999-03-31
Abstract: A motion estimating method comprising the steps of: <SL> <LI>(a) reducing the resolution of an input frame(layer 0) to produce a layer 1 image <LI>(b) reducing the resolution of layer 1 to produce a layer 2 image <LI>(c) calculating a mean absolute difference (MAD) with respect to a search region of the layer 2, determining two positions in which the MAD calculated is minimized and using these two points as initial search centre points in layer 1 <LI>(d) determining one addition search centre point in layer 1 using a correlation of neighbourhood blocks of a current block, <LI>(e) calculating a MAD with respect to search regions using the initial search centre points in the layer 1 <LI>(f) selecting a position in which the MAD calculated in the step (e) is minimized as the search centre point in the layer O, <LI>(g) calculating a MAD with respect to a search region using the initial search centre points selected in the step (f) as a centre in the layer 0, and <LI>(h) determining a final motion vector from information on the distance between the position in which the MAD calculated in the step (g) and the origin. </SL>