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Patent GB-2170108-A (GB)
Title: Absorbent article such as a diaper, an incontinence protector or a sanitary napkin
Inventor: BOMAN LARS
IPC: A61F13/49
Filed: 1986-01-30
Abstract: The characteristic feature of the invention is that the absorption body is constructed with at least two layers of which a first layer (1) is soft and placed closest to the user, whereas a second heavily compressed layer (2) is narrower than the first one and has a width adapted to the crotch of the user, the second layer being highly resistant to bending and being stable with regard to its form under normal stresses of use. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2172352-A (GB)
Title: Disc brakes
Inventor: SCHNACK WILFRIED
IPC: F16D65/097
Filed: 1986-03-13
Abstract: To prevent rattling of a carrier plate 2, on one face of which a pad 3 of friction material is fixed, against guides for guiding the plate to and from the rotating disc, there is provided a wire spring 5, free ends of which press upwardly against a support structure, the spring pressing the plate 2 downwardly on to the guides. The wire spring 5 extends completely or partially around a lug 4 extending from the main body of the plate and part of the spring lies in a recess in that face of the lug 4 which is remote from the pad 3. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2187707-A (GB)
Title: Method of placing an article
Inventor: KUBOTA SHIGERU
IPC: H05K13/04
Filed: 1986-03-14
Abstract: A method of mounting electronic components (c) at predetermined positions on a printed circuit board and which is capable of simultaneously correcting the misregistration of a plurality of electronic components by one cycle of operations. Misregistration of individual electronic components with respect to suction tubes (3) of a suction head (2) is corrected immediately after the suction tubes (3) have sucked up the electronic components (c) from the cavities (1) of a jig in which the electronic components are charged to thereby place each of the suction tubes (3) at a predetermined or exact suction position on the electronic component. After the components have been sucked up the tubes are moved in both the x and y directions to cause impact of the mis-positioned components with the walls of the cavities and thus cause them to be correctly positioned by relative movement between the components and the tubes.   <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2177159-A (GB)
Title: Fuel injection nozzle
Inventor: HEATHCOTE GEOFFREY LESLIE
IPC: F02M61/16
Filed: 1986-06-11
Abstract: A fuel injection nozzle for supplying fuel to a compression ignition engine includes a valve member which is lifted by fuel pressure from a seating against the action of a spring. The lifting of the valve member is sensed by a transducer 24 which has a stator 25 of hollow cylindrical form and an armature 26 connected to the valve member. A winding 33 surrounds a part of the magnetic circuit which includes the stator and armature and the portion 35 of the armature which enters the stator is tapered so as to ensure a substantial change in the reluctance of the magnetic circuit irrespective of the production tolerances of the various components, thereby obviating the need for adjustment devices. Alternatively, the tapered portion may be formed on the stator 25, the recess being formed in the armature 26. Instead of a tapered portion being provided on the member which enters the recess, the mouth of the recess may be tapered. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2177943-A (GB)
Title: Flotation tank
Inventor: PFALZER DR LOTHAR
IPC: B03D1/14
Filed: 1986-07-08
Abstract: A flotation tank which is elongate and is divided along its length into individual compartments. Injectors (2) for each compartment are connected laterally to the tank (1) approximately 30 cm to 50 cm below the surface of the suspension so that the suspension flows out in a forward direction towards the outlet end and scum removal trough (3) of the flotation tank (1). The injectors are preferably connected both at their inlet side and their outlet side to the same compartment. The removal of scum is preferably effected by means of cyclones which are provided in a vertical arrangement at the outlet end of the flotation tank.
Patent GB-2194211-A (GB)
Title: Tickets
Inventor: LEITCH ANDREW MUNRO
IPC: G09F3/02
Filed: 1986-08-01
Abstract: A ticket comprises a front sheet 10 and a back sheet 11, the back sheet 11 having an area 16 of adhesive whereby the back sheet can be adhered, e.g. to a vehicle window, the front sheet 10 having a corresponding surface portion 17, e.g. containing release agent, to which the adhesive on the back sheet 11 can be removably attached, to secure the front and back sheets together, the front sheet 10 having pressure sensitive transfer means 20 on its rear face, e.g. a carbon based material, whereby information 14 and 15 printed, by machine, onto the front sheet is transferred to the back sheet in visible form, the front sheet 10 having at least one further surface portion 18, covered by the back sheet 11 when the front and back sheets are secured together. The further surface portion 18 may contain printed information which is obscured before the sheets 10,11 are separated. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2182382-A (GB)
Title: Handle with locking cover
Inventor: MAYES JOHN
IPC: E05B9/08
Filed: 1986-09-19
Abstract: A fastening device, e.g. for windows has a cover and a base plate. The base plate 10 has a sloping end 11 and straight end 12 and is provided with fixing holes 13 to receive screws by which the base plate may be fixed to a window frame. The base plate is also provided with a threaded bore 14 to receive a grub screw 15. The cover 16 has a dovetail shaped end portion 17 adapted to engage in the inclined portion 11 of the base plate 10. The cover 16 also has an end portion 18 adapted to engage over the corresponding end portion 12 of the base 10. In the cover is a countersunk bore 19 which received the grub screw 15. There is also a bore 20 through which a pivot pin 24 or rivet for a handle 23 may pass. The base plate 10 has upstanding walls which, when the cover is assembled on the base plate, conceal the sidewalls of the cover. A locking pin 25 extending from the handle can engage a bore in the top of screw 15. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2197577-A (GB)
Title: Shoe wlth stitched-in sock
Inventor: HAINES STEWART BARRY
IPC: A43B9/14
Filed: 1986-11-21
Abstract: A method of manufacturing a shoe by slip lasting is characterised in that the shoe upper (1,2) is stitched to a sock (3) on a single thread overseaming machine without provision of a turned band stitched around the feather of the upper. The method may involve the provision of a secondary vamp (6) which is stitched to the upper, and extends under the last feather onto the sock (3) and partly overlies it. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2201396-A (GB)
Title: Multipack cartons
Inventor: VANSTONE R
IPC: B65D71/00
Filed: 1987-02-19
Abstract: A carton in the form of a sleeve has end closure panels (38) which partially close the ends of the carton. The carton accommodates a plurality of articles, more particularly cans, which are provided with upstanding top flanges and the end closure panels are formed so that lower portions of the endmost cans are securely retained within the sleeve. Hinged locking tabs (30, 32) are folded inwardly to engage the top flanges of the endmost cans to prevent them from unauthorised removal from the sleeve or from being dislodged or toppling therefrom. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2186910-A (GB)
Title: Pivot joint
Inventor: FRIMLEY CHARLES HENRY
IPC: F16B7/12
Filed: 1987-02-25
Abstract: A pivot joint suitable for pivotally connecting two members (2,3) comprises a joint body (4) of substantially channel shaped cross section having pivot means (15) in the opposite side walls of the channel for pivotal connection with the member (3) intended to lie within the channel of the joint body (4). A sprung element (10) is provided on the joint body (4) directed outwardly from the base of the channel for engagement with a cooperating device (17) on the member (2), which member (2) is intended to sit on and around more than three sides of the joint body (4), such that the joint body (4) is fixed in at least one longitudinal direction by the sprung element (10) and the cooperating device (17) on the member (2). <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2188439-A (GB)
Title: Tensile impulse tester
Inventor: GILMORE RAYMOND BEWICK
IPC: G01N3/30
Filed: 1986-08-05
Abstract: A device, principally intended as an adaptor for universal testing machines enables tensile impulse tests to be performed by such machines on textile specimens and the like. The device utilizes compression springs (17, 18) which are precompressed, latched then released to displace a movable crosshead (10) from a static crosshead (11). Specimen grips (28, 29) on each crosshead are detachable for interchange and ease of mounting the specimen. Pretensioning is provided by screw adjustment of the specimen grips. Piezoelectric transducers (51) give a measure of specimen tension at each end thereof for assessment of shock wave effects.
Patent GB-2206303-A (GB)
Title: Gear-driven wrench or screwdriver
Inventor: MEHMET TUNCER
IPC: B25B15/00
Filed: 1987-06-29
Abstract: A hand tool for imparting rotational movement to a component comprises a housing 2, a driving member 3 rotatably mounted upon the tool for manual rotation and a driven member 21 also rotatably mounted upon the tool and transmission means 4, 5 interconnecting the driving member and the driven member, the transmission means incorporating a bevel gear arrangement, the driven member 21 in turn driving a tool head 6 configured to engage the component and impart rotational movement thereto. The tool head may be a socket or a screwdriver blade. The handle 3 may be locked relative to the housing 2 so that the tool may be used like an ordinary wrench. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2211280-A (GB)
Title: Joystick
Inventor: KERRISON PETER MALCOM
IPC: G05G9/047
Filed: 1987-10-16
Abstract: A joystick (10) has a base plate (12) which is adapted to be secured to a panel (13). A housing (16) is formed on the base plate. A tensile rod (14) is secured at one end to the base plate and the other end extends through an aperture (20) in the housing and carries a manipulative knob (22). Strain gauges (26, 27) are attached to a square section of the rod inside the housing, whereby deflection of the rod in any direction perpendicular to the rod may be measured. The joystick may be mounted on the panel (13) without intrusion into the space below. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2208122-A (GB)
Title: Dispenser for paper toilet seat covers
Inventor: ONDER AHMET MUSTAFA
IPC: A47K13/22
Filed: 1987-11-03
Abstract: A toilet seat cover (4) for mounting for pivotal movement on a toilet pan (2) between positions in which it lies over the toilet pan and a position in which it is substantially vertical with respect thereto, incorporates a container (7) for dispensing toilet seat covers (11) each connected to the preceding cover and emerging from a slot (9) in turn to pass over the seating surface of the toilet. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2198526-A (GB)
Title: A viewing distance sensor for a television receiver
Inventor: PARK CHAN WOONG
IPC: G01S17/89
Filed: 1987-11-06
Abstract: The viewing distance sensor does not influence the remote control function of infra-red signals of other electronic equipment positioned in the neighbourhood of a television receiver and also cannot be influenced by the infra-red signals transmitted from other electronic equipments. An infra-red signal is transmitted intermittently from a transmitter 1 and, in the case where the presence of a viewer positioned within the viewing distance from the front of the television receiver is detected by an infra-red signal receiver 2, the transmitter is caused to transmit continuously. Upon detection of the continuously reflected signals from the viewer, the receiver 2 operates to cause a screen controller 3 to interrupt the image signal on the screen of the television. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2213829-A (GB)
Title: Production of solid fuels
Inventor: BARFORD ERIC DENNIS
IPC: C10L5/14
Filed: 1987-11-24
Abstract: Solid fuel materials are prepared by the steps:     (a) forming a mixture of:     (i) a solid particulate combustible material,  and   (ii) a solid wax; and   (b) compressing the mixture to convert it into a solid self-supporting body.
Patent GB-2212778-A (GB)
Title: The demountable skip emptier
Inventor: HINDLEY JAMES DENNIS
IPC: B65F3/04
Filed: 1987-12-02
Abstract: A demountable skip emptier is in the form of a mild steel container that can be carried on the back of a lorry, and has means for lifting and tipping a skip 6, at one end of the container, together with means for forcing rubbish from the skip into the container. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2214001-A (GB)
Title: Brushless d.c. electric motor
Inventor: BAINES ROGER FREDERICK
IPC: H02K29/08
Filed: 1987-12-18
Abstract: In an axial air gap brushless d.c. electric motor, the winding coils (13) are disposed on one side only of a diameter (D) of the stator (10) so that position detecting means, typically a Hall I.C. (16), can be on the other side of the diameter (D) at a position where the magnetic flux passing through it is changing from one direction to the other when rotor magnets (19) are directly over the winding coils. This ensures that the windings switch at zero torque positions. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2217378-A (GB)
Title: A device for securing elongate members together
Inventor: GALLANTREE GEOFFREY ALAN
IPC: E04G7/18
Filed: 1988-04-11
Abstract: A device for securing elongate members 10 and 11, for example scaffolding tubes, together is made of a strip of material which has a uniform width over its entire length except possibly at its ends. The strip has been bent and twisted to provide at its two ends upwardly-open hook-shaped parts 1 and 2, which support the member 11, at its middle an upper part 7, with a screw-threaded hole through it which receives a screw 9, and between the parts 1 and 2 and the part 7 twisted regions 5 and 6 in which the strip is twisted through 90 DEG about its longitudinal axis. The directions of the width dimension of the strip in the parts 1 and 2, on the one hand, and in the part 7, on the other hand, are perpendicular to one another. The member 10 extends in a direction perpendicular to that in which the member 11 extends and passes between the twisted regions 5 and 6 and it is pressed by the screw 9 against the member 11. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2220875-A (GB)
Title: Integral slide-valve member and casting tube member
Inventor: FISHLER MARK KENNETH
IPC: B22D41/50
Filed: 1989-01-25
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Patent GB-2217196-A (GB)
Title: Backrest
Inventor: BARTLETT ADRIAN MARK
IPC: A47K3/12
Filed: 1989-02-27
Abstract: A backrest for use at the tap-end of a bath provides both a surface against which a bather may rest his back and protection from the taps. The backrest has a support 10 for the bathers back, which is mounted on the taps of a bath by means of projecting brackets in the form of channels 20,22 with an inverted-U cross-section. The backrest may also be provided with suction cups 32 and 34 to further provide for securing the backrest to the bath. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2216782-A (GB)
Title: Adjustable bathboard support
Inventor: DEARE RAYMOND
IPC: A47K3/12
Filed: 1989-03-15
Abstract: A bathboard (2) which is suitable for baths with non-parallel sides and which can accommodate baths of different widths has a locking bracket assembly (1) comprising a pair of brackets (3, 3') for engaging sides of a bath which the bathboard (2) spans in use. Each of the brackets (3, 3') is rotatably attached to the bathboard (2) and selectively locatable in one of a plurality of positions. A pair of elongate members (8) are rotatably attached to one another at a position substantially at one end of each elongate member (8), the other end of each elongate member (8) being slidably attached to a respective bracket (3, 3') such that rotation of the elongate member (8) with respect to the bracket (3, 3') is inhibited. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2216426-A (GB)
Title: Above-knee prosthesis
Inventor: SAWAMURA SEISHI
IPC: A61F2/68
Filed: 1989-03-23
Abstract: A programmable swing-phase-controlled above-knee prosthesis comprises a thigh frame, a leg frame, an air cylinder interconnecting the thigh and leg frames and provided with adjusting means for adjusting the degree of opening the valve of the air cylinder to a plurality of degrees respectively for a plurality of walking speeds selected during trial walking, a mode selecting switch having positions respectively for setting degrees of opening of the valve of the air cylinder in a teaching mode and for a playback mode in which one of the degrees of opening is selected according to an actual walking speed, an opening detector for detecting the degree of opening of the valve of the air cylinder, an opening storage device for storing a plurality of set degrees of opening of the valve of the air cylinder, a phase detector for detecting swing phases and stance phases, walking speed detector for detecting an actual walking speed, and control unit for adjusting the degree of opening of the valve of the air cylinder to one of the set degrees of opening corresponding to the actual walking speed. The programmable swing-phase-controlled above-knee prosthesis is capable of automatically controlling the speed of swing motion of the leg frame according to the actual walking speed of the prosthesis wearer.
Patent GB-2223162-A (GB)
Title: Seat lifter
Inventor: SUZUKI TAKAMI
IPC: B60N2/16
Filed: 1989-06-26
Abstract: The seat lifter, for a vehicular seat, comprises front and rear lift mechanisms 30, 40 mounted on front and rear portions of side base members 31a, b for adjusting the heights of respective portions of a seat cushion. Each lift mechanism 30(40) has a pivot shaft 32(42) extending across the side base members, brackets 34a, b(45a,6) secured to the pivot shaft to rotate therewith, arm members 35a, b(46a, b) pivotally connected to the brackets and connected to the seat cushion, a sector gear 33(43) pivotally connected to one of the side base members and pivotally moved together with the pivot shaft 32(42), a pinion 33a(43a) meshed with the sector gear, and a handling knob 33b(43b) mounted on the side base member and having the pinion connected thereto. 
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Patent GB-2236366-A (GB)
Title: Automotive tool
Inventor: BAILEY NIGEL PETER
IPC: B60T17/22
Filed: 1989-09-15
Abstract: To enable one-man testing of automotive brake and clutch systems a tool 10 comprises a frame 12, a power cylinder and piston arrangement 36, 38 and an extension rod assembly 50 which is connectible to either the cylinder or piston rod and which is attachable at 54 to the brake or clutch pedal 76 or brake lever, the other end of the tool being engaged with a seat 78 or the floor (in the case of the handbrake) and extension of the piston and cylinder arrangement thereby actuating the pedal or lever. The arrangement 36, 38 may be pneumatic. A clamping arrangement 54 on the extension rod 50 may have a formation for depressing the handbrake ratchet. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2230834-A (GB)
Title: Coupling means and method for pipe material
Inventor: GOTOH TAIJI
IPC: B21D39/04
Filed: 1990-03-05
Abstract: This invention relates to a pipe joint and to a coupling method for a pipe material by use of the pipe joint. The pipe joint has a main body portion having substantially the same diameter as that of the pipe material and increased diameter portions at the end portions of the main body portion with a ring-like swell protion between them. Coupling is made by inserting the pipe material into the pipe joint, pressing the increased diameter portion of the pipe joint on the pipe material insertion side in a circumferential direction and causing plastic deformation of the increased diameter portion and the pipe material at the pressed portion. The pipe joint and the pipe material are firmly fixed to one another by the recess formed at this pressed portion and pull-out prevention force is increased by the effect of a tapered portion disposed at the tip of the pipe joint. Complete seal can be made by a sealing material which undergoes deformation due to the pressing and is on the inner side of the ring-like swell portion. Furthermore, since a suitable gap is left between the non-pressed increased diameter portion and the inserted pipe material, the occurence of gap corrosion can be prevented completely.
Patent GB-2244334-A (GB)
Title: Height gauge
Inventor: CHEN WEN-PING
IPC: G01B3/10
Filed: 1990-05-23
Abstract: A suspension-type height measuring apparatus comprises a fixed unit (1), and a movable unit (13) in which there is a tape reel for the end of a tape (2). The device can be stuck or hung by the unit (1) on a wall and after having been reset to zero enables the value of a person's height to be read out directly at a window (15) by just pulling down the unit (13) to the top of the head. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2238730-A (GB)
Title: Removing cuttings from drilling mud
Inventor: HAMILL JAMES
IPC: E21B41/00
Filed: 1990-05-31
Abstract: Drilling mud contaminated with cuttings is washed with oil or aqueous liquid in shakers 12 and wash drum 14, then the large cuttings are removed by a screen 16. The liquid phase from screen 16 is subject to gravity separation in tanks 18, 20, 22 and centrifugal separation of small cuttings in centrifuges 24, 26. Tanks 20, 22 separate the mud and wash liquid for recycling to the drill and to shakers 12. If the wash liquid is aqueous, they also separate oil which is further treated by hydrocyclone 30. The drill cuttings from screen 16 and centrifuges 24. 26 may be further de-oiled by heating and crushing, the oil being recovered by condensing (Fig. 3). <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2248757-A (GB)
Title: A ground surface treating system
Inventor: HARGREAVES JONATHAN WILLIAM
IPC: E01C23/082
Filed: 1990-10-20
Abstract: A ground surface treating system comprising a generally horizontal supporting framework (10) consisting of a transversely spaced pair of parallel frame members (11) and a forward transverse member (12). Depending from the frame members (11) are a pair of wheels (13) which are pivotally mounted at (16) and extendible and retractable by means of an hydraulic cylinder (18). A parallelogram linkage (22) connected to the wheels (13) by draw bars (25) and associated radial links (24, 26) ensures that the framework (10) remains horizontal irrespective of its height as the wheels (13) are extended and retracted. The framework (10) carries a rotatable spiking tool (30, 31) and a number of additional ground effect tools (32, 34, 36). <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2271782-A (GB)
Title: Low temperature ozonolysis of silicon and ceramic oxide precursor polymers to ceramic coatings.
Inventor: HALUSKA LOREN ANDREW
IPC: H01L21/314
Filed: 1990-11-06
Abstract: A rapid, low-temperature method of forming a ceramic or ceramic-like coating on a substrate comprises coating the substrate with a solution comprising a solvent and one or more hydrolyzed or partially hydrolyzed preceramic silicon alkoxides condensed esters, or disilanes and, optionally, a ceramic oxide precursor. The solvent is evaporated and a preceramic coating thereby deposited on the substrate. The coated substrate is heated to a temperature of between about 40 to about 400 DEG C in the presence of ozone to ceramify the ceramic or ceramic-like coating. Additional protective coatings may be applied onto the coating thus produced.