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Patent GB-2179433-A (GB)
Title: Table lamp
Inventor: CHU DOMINIC KWONG POR
IPC: F21L4/04
Filed: 1985-04-29
Abstract: A portable lamp comprising a base and a bulb holder, wherein the bulb holder is mounted on the base by means of an arm, which is pivotably connected at one end to the base and at the other end to the bulb holder such that the relative position and orientation of the bulb holder and base can be adjusted, the arm forming at least part of an electrical connection between the power supply at the base and a bulb in the bulb holder. Preferably a power switch is provided which can function as a carrying clip. Preferably the bulb holder and base can be so oriented relative to each other as to form together a pencil-like torch.
Patent GB-2158869-A (GB)
Title: Armoured door fastening
Inventor: RUIZ LOPEZ IGNACIO
IPC: E05C19/00
Filed: 1985-05-03
Abstract: A door provided along its free edge with a flat steel bar 22 or bars 3, 4 movable in bearings 9, 10; 11, 12 from an unlocked position to a locked position in which it engages in a slot in the door frame, the bar 22 or bars 3, 4 being movable by a rod 14, 25 by a lock 15 and retained in the locked position by a second lock 18 or by a member 26 provided on the main lock. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2162670-A (GB)
Title: Monitoring system
Inventor: WILKINSON HARRY BARNETT
IPC: F02D17/04
Filed: 1985-08-24
Abstract: In a fault monitoring arrangement a plurality of sensors (not shown in Figure 9) feed respective fault sensitive circuits (not shown) the outputs from the circuits (141-152) being fed to respective indicating devices (D41-D52) via magnetic memory relays (W1,W2,CT1) which remain in the state to which they were last poled. Thus, in the event of a fault which causes the arrangement to close down, upon re-establishing power, the fault will be signalled by the appropriate indicator. The arrangement is applicable to safety devices for use in hazardous environments. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2179685-A (GB)
Title: Floor tile spacers
Inventor: HWANG JEN-FAR
IPC: E04F15/02
Filed: 1985-08-28
Abstract: Spacers for laying tiles comprise a body having a channel cross sectional shape and having two or more arms at right angles to each other. The underside of the body below the channel having plural sawtooth notches which extend to the sides and ends of the arms. Screw holes are provided in the base of the channel. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2179902-A (GB)
Title: Suspension mechanism for a movable board used as an audiovisual aid
Inventor: METSA-KETELA HEIKKI
IPC: A47B97/04
Filed: 1985-09-07
Abstract: The board 4 is suspended by rollers 2 moveable along a rail 1. The rollers have a shank portion 6 which lie across the edge 3 of the rail so that when the board is freely hanging its weight is at least partially transmitted through the shanks to the edge to obviate board movement. The shanks are disengaged, to move the board along the rail, by lifting and/or pulling the board's lower edge. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2170495-A (GB)
Title: Cement accelerator
Inventor: KOBAYASHI SHIGEKATSU
IPC: C04B28/02
Filed: 1985-12-10
Abstract: A cement composition contains calcium nitrite in an amount of 0.1 to 3.0 wt% based on cement and a thiocyanate in an amount of 10 to 200 wt% based on said calcium nitrite, and optionally an amino alcohol in an amount of 0.005 to 0.06 wt% based on cement. Owing to these additives, the cement composition sets and hardens rapidly and has improved non-corrosive performance.
Patent GB-2187435-A (GB)
Title: Wheel jack
Inventor: AL-SHAWI DR AIAD ABDUL-NABI
IPC: B66F3/08
Filed: 1986-03-07
Abstract: A wheel jack has a shaft 5 with right-hand and left-hand thread, supported at both ends, and passing through two internally-threaded members 2. Each member 2 is connected to a wheel support 3 which lies on sliders 6. Part of each wheel support 3 is enveloped by a roller 4. When turning the threaded shaft 5, the members 2 will move (slide) either towards or away from each other, therefore the wheel will be either lifted or lowered depending on the direction of the turning of the threaded shaft. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2188184-A (GB)
Title: Tuning Capo
Inventor: SCOTT IAN DONALD
IPC: G10D3/04
Filed: 1986-03-18
Abstract: The Tuning Capo, eg a moulded unit of six single interlocking tongue and groove blocks fixed on a pin K with a spring, which allows the blocks to be in a locked position until a new permutation is required. This is brought about by simply pulling the tongue and groove blocks apart, and rotating each block to desired positions on the pin; the spring automatically applies pressure and locks the blocks in a new permutation. An elasticated strap P with a number of eyelets S is fixed at the spring end of the pin. This allows the Tuning Capo to be fixed securely on the neck of the guitar by passing the elasticated strap beneath the neck, and introducing the open end of the pin to an eyelet: thus holding down the set permutation on the strings of the instrument, to bring about an altered tuning. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2176636-A (GB)
Title: A system for providing a workstation environment
Inventor: RAMSEY HERSCHEL RUDOLPH
IPC: H04L29/00
Filed: 1986-06-05
Abstract: A system for providing a workstation environment includes a plurality of centres 21, each centre having associated therewith all objects i.e. materials necessary thereto to execute a task assigned to that centre. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2192927-A (GB)
Title: A casement fastener with security device
Inventor: RIDLEY COLIN LESLIE
IPC: E05B13/00
Filed: 1986-07-26
Abstract: A casement fastener is described having a lever handle 6 mounted on a base plate 7 for pivotal movement about axis 8 between open and closed positions and a security device mounted on the underside of the handle 6 for engagement with the base plate 7 in the closed position to prevent pivotal movement of the handle 6 to the open position until manually released. The security device comprises a retainer member 12 pivotally mounted about axis 13 on the handle 6 and biassed by a spring 16 to engage an abutment end 18 of the member 12 in a recessed formation 19 in the base plate 7 in the closed position. The other end of the member 12 is provided with an actuating portion 15 arranged to protrude through an access opening 14 in the handle 6 by means of which the member 12 may be pivotted against the biassing of the spring 16 to release the abutment end 18 from the recessed portion 19 and permit pivotal movement of the handle 6 to the open position. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2179821-A (GB)
Title: Picture image input/output system
Inventor: URABE HITOSHI
IPC: H04N1/387
Filed: 1986-08-27
Abstract: The conventional picture image input/output system is defective in that it has a large number of complicated processing steps, and therefore requires sophisticated skill and a large amount of time and labor. A lay-out retouch system has been proposed for the processing step in printing plants in recent years, but it needs a medium of a large capacity such as a magnetic disk for storing data on original color pictures, and requires a high speed computer for editing process, thereby increasing the cost of the system inconveniently. A picture image input/output system is disclosed which can obviate such defects encountered in prior art systems and is characterised in that plural original color pictures are enlarged or reduced at a predetermined magnification ratio respectively by picture image scanning device and then color separated to obtain color separation signals, such color separation signals being processed for appropriate color correction, sharpness enhancement and gradation conversion; lay-out picture images are sequentially outputted on a recording material using lay-out instruction and information. This invention is concerned with the initial setting up of the final layout using the digitiser board 20, console 50 and display 52. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2186585-A (GB)
Title: Reactive azo dyes
Inventor: BERGMANN UDO
IPC: C09B62/085
Filed: 1987-02-06
Abstract: Reactive azo dyes have the formula:   <IMAGE>  where     R<1> is C1-C4-alkyl, C1-C4-alkoxy, chlorine or bromine,     R<2> is substituted or unsubstituted C2-C4-alkyl and     R<3> is hydrogen, C1-C4-alkyl C1-C4-alkoxy, chlorine or bromine. They, and their salts, can be used for dyeing cellulose-containing material. Liquid dye formulations which contain from 5 to 35% by weight of these compounds are resistant to crystallization.
Patent GB-2191474-A (GB)
Title: Coated magnesium hydroxide
Inventor: WATSON COLIN LLOYD
IPC: C09C3/08
Filed: 1987-04-24
Abstract: A process for modifying the surface characteristics of magnesium hydroxide which comprises heating with agitation a mixture comprising magnesium hydroxide having a crystallite size of less than 500 ANGSTROM (measured by X-ray line broadening), which crystallites form primary particles having a medium size of from 0.5 to 10  mu m, and whose surface area is more than 10 m<2>/g and a salt of an organic acid or an amide thereof said organic acid containing from 6 to 25 carbon atoms in order to wet and coat the surface of the magnesium hydroxide particles. A flame resistant and smoke suppressed plastics composition which comprises a polyolefin or a polyamide having dispersed therein these magnesium hydroxide particles.
Patent GB-2191682-A (GB)
Title: Suitcase/leisure bed or chair combination
Inventor: GRIFFITHS HAYDN JOHN
IPC: A45F4/06
Filed: 1987-06-09
Abstract: A suitcase/leisure chair or bed combination comprises a framework (10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 and 17) manipulable to a first position in which it provides a frame for a chair or bed and manipulable to a second position as shown in which it provides the frame of a suitcase. A cover is provided for covering the framework in its second position so as to retain clothing or personal items. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2197732-A (GB)
Title: Apparatus with synthetic resin hand shaft
Inventor: YAMADA WATARU
IPC: G04B13/02
Filed: 1987-11-12
Abstract: An apparatus has a hand shaft formed of synthetic resin which has a first hand shaft portion (9) and a second hand shaft portion (11) having an insertion hole (a, e) into which the first hand shaft portion is inserted to be rotatable. The first hand shaft portion is formed in a columnar shape by molding with the synthetic resin containing fiber-like reinforcing materials (25). In the synthetic resin forming the first hand shaft portion, the longitudinal axes of fiber-like reinforcing materials are oriented to be consistent with the longitudinal axis of the first hand shaft. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2200403-A (GB)
Title: Window or door actuating mechanism
Inventor: PERKINS W F
IPC: E05F1/10
Filed: 1987-11-23
Abstract: One embodiment has a pulley 22 freely running on a shaft driven by a motor 20. A cable around the pulley 22 is connected to the opening portion of the window or door which is biassed to the open position by spring 13. An electro-magnetic clutch 23 rotates with the shaft 21 and is energised to engage the pulley 22 so that the motor 20 may close the window or door, or allow it to open. With complete power failure, for instance because of a detected fire, the clutch 23 disengages automatically and allows the window or door to open under spring bias. In other embodiments, a motor drives a rack and pinion (Fig. 6, not shown) or a lead screw (Fig. 7, not shown) to move an electromagnetic device to move a window or door. The electromagnetic device holds a spring compressed, but in the event of fire allows the spring to expand to automatically open the window or door. The spring is re-compressed using the motor. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2216153-A (GB)
Title: Permanent shuttered in situ beam foundation system
Inventor: THOMPSON ROYDON JOHN CHUTE
IPC: E02D27/14
Filed: 1988-03-25
Abstract: A permanent shuttered in situ beam foundation system for house and similar foundations comprises standard components preformed in a factory in glass reinforced plastic or plastic extrusions. [They are lightweight and may be positioned by operatives of average skill.] Which are positioned on the heads of piles, apertures may be cut to allow the pile heads to penetrate the shuttering. Piles are installed and there is sufficient allowance in the width of the shuttered sections to allow for site driving misalignments. Reinforcing steel may be placed in the shuttering. Components can be cut by hand-saws. The tool to form the pile aperture is manufactured from a section of the pile casing. The system is easily adapted to cater for swelling soils by laying in low density polystyrene or clayboard beneath the components. Steel arrangement depends on loadings, taking account of minimum cover to steel because of protection by shuttering and considering reduction in steel area utilizing tensile strength of the shutter material. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2217986-A (GB)
Title: Whirlpool/spa bath drainage valve
Inventor: MURFIN JOHN
IPC: E03C1/23
Filed: 1988-04-05
Abstract: A drainage valve 11 for a whirlpool bath or air spa bath comprises an open-ended chamber 12 located below the waste aperture 2 of the bath the chamber being provided with an aperture 26 through which liquid 34 from associated pipework may drain, and a pop-up valve member 17-21 comprising an upper element 18 which seats on seat 13 and a lower element 20 provided with seal 21 which seals against surface 15. The upper element may be solid or apertured. The arrangement is such that both bath and associated pipework may be drained of liquid simultaneously. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2206537-A (GB)
Title: Printing machine with reduced operating noise level
Inventor: CHEVROLLIER GUY
IPC: B41J29/08
Filed: 1988-07-05
Abstract: A printing machine is arranged to print on a substrate (3) in sheet or in strip form and possesses a housing (1) having at least one inlet and/or outlet orifice (2,5) for said print support. The inlet and/outlet orifice is provided with obturator means (7) constituted of a microporous cellular or alveolar flexible noise damping material, with a smooth abrasion resistant surface, and arranged to obturate at least the greater portion of said orifice and prevent the propagation outwards of the noises generated within the machine in the course of the operation of the latter without however interfering with the correct passage of the print support through the orifice. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2211697-A (GB)
Title: Self-routing switching element for an asynchronous time switch
Inventor: NEWMAN PETER
IPC: H04L49/111
Filed: 1988-10-13
Abstract: The switching element (16) comprises a plurality of selectors (32) each having an input for a tagged packet signal and a plurality of arbiters (34) each having an output for a transmitted packet signal. Between each selector (32) and each arbiter (34) is a signal path connection. Each arbiter (34) selects the first received packet signal and prohibits transmission from all other selectors by assertion of a busy signal until transmission of the first received packet signal is completed. An asynchronous time switch having a switching fabric made up of such elements (16) copes with the maximum delay requirements of voice class signals by priority of selection over other classes of signals. Increased throughput is attained by means of multiple switch fabric planes and by use of flooding. The latter technique involves sending copies of a packet signal along all possible paths to a desired output, all but one copy failing at arbiters (34) within the switch fabric or at a switch plane arbiter (24). <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2233520-A (GB)
Title: Frequency filtering apparatus
Inventor: WALLER DAVID ERIC
IPC: H03D7/16
Filed: 1989-12-08
Abstract: A frequency filtering apparatus has a first filter 1 to band limit an input signal 2 about a first centre frequency fc1, a first converter 3 to convert the frequency of the band limited signal to a second frequency, a second filter 4 to receive the signal from the first converter 3 and band limit it to substantially the same band width as the first filter 1 but about a second, different, centre frequency fc2, a second converter 5 to receive the signal from the second filter 4 and convert it back to the frequency of the band limited signal outputted from the first filter 1, and a local oscillator 6 supplying the first and second frequency converters 3, 5 such that the width of the overall pass band or bands of the apparatus may be varied in size and/ or position by varying the local oscillator 6 frequency supplied to the first and second electrical frequency converters 3, 5. The apparatus may be used in satellite transponders to define channel width. A device may comprise several units of apparatus permitting the overall frequency spectrum to be divided into individual channel segments with the fraction of band width allocated to each being adjustable. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2230946-A (GB)
Title: Adjustable CRT support stand
Inventor: HASSEL CHUCK
IPC: F16M11/04
Filed: 1990-03-02
Abstract: A repositionable stand for CRT monitors or the like, comprises:     (a) base support means (12); (b) extension means (96) for supportably transporting a CRT monitor platform (104) reciprocally toward and away from said base support means, said extension means having adjustment actuation handle means (106) at a remote end; (c) articulating arm means (48, 50) coupled to said base means and supportably elevating said tension means into alternative elevational positions; (d) said extension means and said articulating arm means being actuatable by said actuation handle means and remaining in constant static equilibrium in respective positions until displaced by a manual actuation force applied to said actuation handle means.   <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2244311-A (GB)
Title: Retractable door or window stop
Inventor: SIMPSON WATERS JAMES
IPC: E05C17/50
Filed: 1990-05-24
Abstract: A retractable door or window stop is characterised by the incorporation of a spring means (14), positioned between the underside of the bar and that portion of the barrel into which the bar retracts, and acting on the underside of the bar to urge the bar into its non-protruding position. Preferably the spring means acts on a protrusion formed on the underside of the bar and is a coiled spring, whose opposite ends are trapped between respective opposite side members of the said portion of the barrel, with a portion of the spring intermediate its ends acting on the bar-underside protrusion.
Patent GB-2232682-A (GB)
Title: Process for removal of flyslag deposits
Inventor: HEITZ WALTER LEWIS
IPC: C10J3/84
Filed: 1990-05-25
Abstract: Fouling or plugging of surfaces in the heat exchange zone following a coal gasification reaction zone caused by deposition of flyslag is relieved by addition of an amount of abrasive particulate material to the synthesis gas at a suitable locus or loci to erode the deposits. The particulate material has a diameter of 1/16 to 2mm and a Mohs hardness of at least 5.5
Patent GB-2246474-A (GB)
Title: A layered frequency selective surface assembly
Inventor: BUDD CHRISTOPHER
IPC: G02B5/20
Filed: 1990-07-24
Abstract: The power or frequency characteristics of a layered frequency selective surface assembly (1) having a dielectric substrate layer (2) and, superimposed therewith at a spacing (X) therefrom, at least one layer (3) of electrically conductive elements (4) disposed in an array, is modulated by moving at least one layer (2, 3) relative to the or each other layer (2, 3). The layers (2, 3) maybe substantially planar or substantially non-planar and may be disposed substantially parallel to one another. Relative movement between the layers (2, 3) may retain the substantially parallel orientation or may not retain the substantially parallel orientation. The relative movement may have the effect of changing the spacing between the layers (2, 3) for example to tilt, skew or rotate one layer relative to the or each other layer. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2246813-A (GB)
Title: School bus: safety unit actuating device
Inventor: WICKER JAMES H
IPC: B60Q1/50
Filed: 1990-08-10
Abstract: An actuating device is disclosed. Fig. 1, for use in moving a school bus safety unit, such as a stop sign 12 or crossing arm 16, between retracted and extended positions. The actuating device, Fig. 3, includes a drive motor 56 for rotating pivot member 24 carrying the sign or arm. A friction-type slip clutch 36, 40, 50 permits the safety unit to be manually moved from its extended or retracted positions without damage to the drive arrangement. A pivoting cam shaft actuates motor-control switches. Several alternative control circuits are described to automatically or semi-automatically return the safety unit to its retracted and/or extended positions if manually moved therefrom. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2234509-A (GB)
Title: Intermediates for the preparation of insecticidally active compounds
Inventor: BUSHELL MICHAEL JOHN
IPC: C07F9/54
Filed: 1990-08-21
Abstract: Diphenyl ether compounds, useful as intermediates for the preparation of insecticidally active compounds, have the formula:   <IMAGE> and geometric isomers thereof, wherein W is hydrogen or halogen, and X is hydrogen or fluoro, and either Y represents chlorine, bromine or iodine, or Y is selected from a group of formula:     -P<+)<R<2>)3 Hal<->  and a group of formula:   <IMAGE> wherein R<2> represents alkyl of up to six carbon atoms or aryl, and Hal<-> represents a halide anion selected from chloride, bromide and iodide.
Patent GB-2248787-A (GB)
Title: Spaced bricks
Inventor: ALTHAM JOHN ROBERT CARR
IPC: A63H33/10
Filed: 1990-10-17
Abstract: A kit of model construction bricks such as a children's kit of construction, are utilised together to build various structures. The bricks 1 have bores (2) passing therethrough by means of which they may be stacked one above the other on dowels 5. The bricks when assembled one above the other on the dowels are capable not only of forming rectilinear lines, but may be inclined within the horizontal plain to form a curved or tortuous wall. The bricks are suitably provided with two bores and may be assembled to form a wall. Some bricks may be wedge-shaped to create the top of a sloping wall. They may also be joined to tiles (15, Fig. 5). The kit may include laminar rectangles for use as doors or windows. Studs or bolts adapted to receive vertically disposed dowels, may be attached to some of the bricks or laminar rectangles. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2236470-A (GB)
Title: A meat and condiment material encasing machine
Inventor: TOWNSEND RAY THEODORE
IPC: A22C7/00
Filed: 1990-10-24
Abstract: The machine includes a first metering pump 25 and a second motoring pump 34, a source of flowable meat material connected to the inlet of said first pump, a source of flowable condiment material connected to the inlet of said second pump, and a reciprocating stuffing horn assembly 18 mounted on said machine for movement between an advanced position and a retracted position. The stuffing horn assembly has an elongated cylindrical outer stuffing horn (86, Fig 6) having an open forward end defining a discharge outlet and having an inner end defining an inlet opening, and an elongated cylindrically shaped inner stuffing horn (84) positioned concentrically within and spaced from said outer stuffing horn and having an open front end defining a discharge outlet and an open inner end defining an inlet opening. The stuffing horn assembly is connected to a mounting block 66 which is also connected to the outlets of said first and second pumps, such that the inlet openings of the inner and outer stuffing horns are connected respectively with the second and first pumps. <IMAGE>