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Patent GB-2177160-A (GB)
Title: Servicing gas turbines
Inventor: BAIRD EDMUND JACK
IPC: F01D25/28
Filed: 1985-07-04
Abstract: In a method of carrying out maintenance procedure for a gas turbine engine designed to be built or dismantled in the vertical mode, the engine is mounted horizontally within a rolling frame with the front and rear engine mounts, F and R, in registration with and secured to corresponding locations on the rolling frame. Additional load-bearing connections between the engine and the rolling frame are made utilising landings, eg., compressor casing 12, existing on the engine, and then the rear engine mounts are removed. In further steps, an auxiliary frame 26 is mounted on the rolling frame a linear track 27 on the auxiliary frame extending parallel with the engine axis. A runner 29 on the linear track is attached to a section of the engine using an adjustable hoist 30 mounted on the runner, shifting of the runner along the track is effective to withdraw the engine section from the assembly. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2181610-A (GB)
Title: Monitoring apparatus
Inventor: DIMOND STEVEN ANDREW
IPC: G11B15/68
Filed: 1985-10-08
Abstract: Apparatus for monitoring movement of an element (70) along a path (12) comprises transmitter/receiver devices (14, 16) on the element arranged in front of a screen (18) which can allow a unique combination of radiation to be transmitted and received according to the position of the element along the path. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2175021-A (GB)
Title: Linking machine
Inventor: CONTI ROBERTO
IPC: D05B7/00
Filed: 1985-11-04
Abstract: There is described a linking machine for joining various parts of knitted articles. The linking machine comprises a point ring onto which the parts to be joined are mounted and is provided with a single sewing station. The single sewing station is of the double stitch type and has a first needle bar and first co- operating yarn guide arranged on either side of the point ring and a second needle bar and second co- operating yarn guide arranged at said single sewing station, the second needle being parallel to and above the first needle bar and the second yarn guide being rigidly mounted adjacent the first yarn guide. The needle bars and yarn guides are provided with suitable drive means such as to effect the necessary sewing of the parts of the knitted garments with two chains of stitches. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2183282-A (GB)
Title: Building element
Inventor: FORKES JEFFREY CHARLES ARTHUR
IPC: E04G9/10
Filed: 1985-11-14
Abstract: A building element comprises two parallel sheets separated by supports which will decompose in the presence of a certain fluid. The supports are generally conical shaped and hollow. By constructing a concrete member with shuttering including such an element, the effects of ground heave below such a member can be reduced by introducing the certain fluid into the element after the concrete has set.
Patent GB-2185473-A (GB)
Title: Method and apparatus for removing oil and salt contaminants from condensed steam
Inventor: MANOLOVA KICHKA DOBREVA
IPC: B03D1/14
Filed: 1986-01-16
Abstract: Condensed steam containing oil emulsified therein and/or salts dispersed or dissolved therein is purified by supplying the condensed steam to an arrangement of two concentric anodes 6 and 8 with a cathode 7 therebetween, the electrodes being formed of porous corrosion resistant material and subjected to an impulse direct current. Electrolysis of water present causes gas bubble formation and formation of a foam which entrains contaminant material and is forced upwardly away from the region of the electrodes by incoming condensate to be purified. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2188525-A (GB)
Title: Animal feeding table
Inventor: SHELDON JOHN ANTHONY
IPC: A01K5/01
Filed: 1986-04-07
Abstract: To improve animal posture during feeding, especially in the case of growing dogs, there is provided an animal feeding table (1) having feed bowl retaining means (2,3) supported from base means (8) by vertically extendable support means (4). The retaining means (2,3) is adapted to receive and retain a removable feed bowl and the support means (4) are arranged to permit the feeding bowl to be securely positioned at a plurality of heights above the ground whereby the feeding bowl may be located at the correct height for the animal at its particular stage of growth. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2178148-A (GB)
Title: Apparatus for use with kilns or driers
Inventor: PRICE ANTHONY JOHN
IPC: F27D3/12
Filed: 1986-07-16
Abstract: Apparatus for moving ceramic ware to a kiln (10) or drier includes at least one car (12) mounted on a continuous track (14) having section (32) for movement of the car(s) (12) under gravity between a section (28) at the outlet of the kiln (10) or drier where ware can be unloaded by a conveyor (58), and a section (36) at the inlet to the kiln or drier where untreated ware may be loaded onto the car(s) (12) from a conveyor (54). The loading and unloading may be automatically effected. The car(s) may be pushed up the section (36) by a chain-driven belt having a lug for engagement with the car(s). <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2193649-A (GB)
Title: Game apparatus
Inventor: LITTLER-GORDON BRIAN RUSSELL
IPC: A63B59/02
Filed: 1986-08-09
Abstract: Game apparatus comprises a throwing sword (Fig. 1) for throwing and catching a ring (Figs. 2 and 3) of rapier like appearance, the sword comprises a light plastics hollow blade 1, a rubber handle or grip 2, and a hand guard 3 of plastics construction. The blade 1 is rounded off at the end, for safety reasons, by a plastics plug 4. The ring 4 is of hollow plastic construction, shaped as shown for performance reasons. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2196970-A (GB)
Title: Resin compositions containing organoclays
Inventor: GOODMAN HOWARD
IPC: C04B33/04
Filed: 1986-12-16
Abstract: Resin-coating compositions, e.g. unsaturated polyester or epoxy resin compositions, are prepared using an organoclay of improved dispersibility. The organoclay is prepared by suspending a smectite clay in water to form a fluid suspension; treating the suspension with a solution of an inorganic salt, the cation of which has a valency of at least two, the concentration of the salt being such as to flocculate the smectite clay substantially completely; mixing the suspension of the flocculated smectite clay with a quaternary ammonium compound, at least one of the four alkyl groups of which has from 10 to 24 carbon atoms; and dewatering the resultant product.
Patent GB-2187818-A (GB)
Title: Winding shaft
Inventor: KAMPF EBERHARD
IPC: B65H75/24
Filed: 1987-01-23
Abstract: A winding shaft (2) having clamping bolts (6) arranged each by groups in a radial plane, which clamping bolts each cooperate via a key face with a key face 22 of an axial slider 16. For each group of clamping bolts, consequently for each clamping plane, a precisely equal clamping force may be ensured so that all winding cores (7) are centrically clamped tightly with equal clamping force irrespective of variations and tolerances of the inner diameter. For each group of clamping bolts a pressure piston (16), guided in a pressure cylinder (8), arranged concentrically to the axis of the winding shaft, is provided as a slider. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2196511-A (GB)
Title: Lock for push-button telephones
Inventor: ROGERS ROY
IPC: H04M1/667
Filed: 1987-05-05
Abstract: A lock for a push-button telephone comprises a hasp member (8) (Fig. 3) for securing to the surface of the telephone key-pad to surround at least part of a predetermined push-button of the key-pad whilst still permitting access to that push-button, a cover member (22) (Fig. 2) to encase the remaining push-buttons of the key-pad and having a recess therein to receive the hasp member (8) therethrough, and a locking device (28) mounted on the cover member (22) and including a bolt member (32) movable between an inoperative position remote from the hasp member (8) and an operative position co-operating with the hasp member (8) to prevent removal of the cover member (22) from the telephone. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2193007-A (GB)
Title: Color filter for wind-up system color changer
Inventor: IKEDA YOSHIAKI
IPC: F21V9/40
Filed: 1987-06-23
Abstract: A color filter for wind-up system color changer comprises two sheets 1,1' of laminated transparent films in continuous length, having a plural sheet of color filter units 2 sealed between the films in continuous length. Each colour filter unit 2a to 2e may have optional colour and shapes. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2200619-A (GB)
Title: Combined closure and security seal for bottles
Inventor: PRADES JOSE FORT
IPC: B65D51/18
Filed: 1987-07-23
Abstract: A combined closure and security seal for bottles comprises a body member (2) and a capsule (60); the body member (2) has the form of an inverted tapering cup, comprising a threaded cap portion (4) separated by a weakened line from a security seal portion (14) provided with a circumferential ridge (34) and inclined fins (46) which mate with means located on the bottle (6) to prevent both axial removal of the security seal portion (14) and rotation thereof in the unscrewing direction. The capsule (60) is unreleaseably engaged with the cap portion (4) and also carries ratchet teeth engaging teeth carried on an inwardly extending shoulder on the security seal portion (14), said engagement allowing the force applied to the capsule (60) to be transmitted to the security seal portion (14) without affecting the weakened line (12) during application of the assembly to the bottle. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2195906-A (GB)
Title: A wobble board
Inventor: GOLD DAVID
IPC: A63B22/18
Filed: 1987-09-25
Abstract: A wobble board comprises a support table, a base 12 and a pedestal 14 which intercouples the table and base 12. The pedestal 14 is coupled to the base 12 and to the table so as to permit the table to tilt relative to the base 12 and the pedestal 14 is of adjustable height; e.g. a socket is fixed relative to the base with a shaft threadedly received in the socket and a bearing connecting the top of the shaft to the table, thereby providing adjustment of the amount of tilt of the table relative to the base (12). In one arrangement pin and slot means 46-50 are provided for limiting rotation of the table relative to the base 12, optionally springs being inserted in the slot. In another arrangement the wobble board has roller and buffer means (36, 38, Fig. 3) providing adjustable resistance to rotation of the table relative to the base 12. The buffer may include a close cell foam element covered by an outer layer of wear resistant material. A locking mechanism (30, Fig. 4) may lock the pedestal after height adjustment. The wobble board may be used in combination with a knee therapy chair. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2212005-A (GB)
Title: Insulation barriers
Inventor: SPAIN PAUL ANTHONY
IPC: H01F27/04
Filed: 1987-11-05
Abstract: An insulation barrier is provided for an electrical cable termination in which the cable 2 is connected to a terminal 4 having an insulating bushing 6. The barrier comprises an insulating adaptor bush 9 of elastomeric material. The bush has a substantially cylindrical main body portion and a plurality of flexible internal annular ribs 12 adapted to engage resiliently at lips at their inner peripheries over a range of insulating bushings of different external diameters. A tubular shroud 8 of insulating material has a first end portion 16 of substantially cylindrical form dimensioned to engage sealingly over the bush 9, and an opposite end portion 18 of frustoconical form for sealingly engaging over the cable 2. The shroud also has an intermediate portion of corrugated flexible construction permitting the said end portions 16, 18 to be set at any angle up to 90 DEG  to each other. Thus the barrier can be adjusted on-site to suit the layout of the termination. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2212853-A (GB)
Title: Moulded hinge for clip
Inventor: TOWNLEY PHILIP RICHARD
IPC: E05D1/02
Filed: 1987-11-27
Abstract: A one piece plastics moulded hinge mechanism suitable for use in a restraining clip for electric cables comprises a pivot member 9 and a pair of hook members 10 which clip over the pivot member to hold the clip in its closed position. An interconnection arrangement 3, 4 permits locking of the hinge in the closed position by overcentring the connection therebetween. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2212756-A (GB)
Title: A blocking tool
Inventor: THORNLEY GEORGE HENRY
IPC: A21C11/00
Filed: 1987-12-02
Abstract: A blocking tool for making pastry products comprises a sleeve 2 surrounding a central core 1 made of plastics material and including air passages therethrough. A mushroom valve 6 and air ducts in core 1 when supplied with air, provide release means for releasing a product. Those means combined with the material of the sleeve and core enable conventional electrical heaters in the tool to be dispensed with thus enhancing operation and reducing maintenance. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2205713-A (GB)
Title: Motion compensated interpolation of digital television images
Inventor: GILLARD CLIVE HENRY
IPC: H04N11/24
Filed: 1987-12-04
Abstract: A motion compensated interpolator for digital television images comprises a three-dimensional variable separable finite impulse response interpolation filter operating in the horizontal, vertical and temporal domains. The interpolator may be used in a television standards converter or in a slow motion processor. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2216810-A (GB)
Title: Board Game
Inventor: MCDOUGALL DAVID TAYLOR
IPC: A63F3/00
Filed: 1988-03-01
Abstract: A board game comprises a board on which is defined a playing area 10 representative of a snooker or pool table, the surface 12 of the table being divided up by a grid into a plurality of hexagons. Various games can be played on the board, for example snooker or billiards, by moving counters representative of a cue ball and a plurality of objects balls. The board also includes a scoring area 26 and positions 22, 24 for chance cards. The game may also include a plurality of dice, the score of which determines the distance the balls can move in a single turn. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2217502-A (GB)
Title: Rotary display apparatus
Inventor: BUTLER EDWARD MAURICE PEARCE
IPC: G09F11/02
Filed: 1988-04-15
Abstract: A rotary display apparatus 10 of the kind having parallel vanes of triangular cross-section is driven by a common shaft 20 carrying a respective cam 22 for engaging each vane to rotate the vane through 120 DEG  for each rotation of the shaft. The cams 22 are angularly offset in groups 24, 26, 28 about the shaft such that one set 14 of adjacent vanes is simultaneously turned to a fresh display position while at least one other set 12, 16 remains stationary. In this way the display, which conventionally provides a three-fold display, produces a total number of displays equal to three times the number of sets 12, 14, 16 into which the vanes are grouped. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2208967-A (GB)
Title: Junction field effect transistor
Inventor: KANDIAH KATHIRKAMATHAMBY
IPC: H01L29/808
Filed: 1988-08-19
Abstract: A method of making a low-noise, junction field-effect transistor is provided, in which locations for a gate, source and drain are defined by simultaneously defining corresponding locations in an oxide layer (16) covering a silicon wafer, etching the oxide from the locations to leave gaps, and filling the gaps with polysilicon (30, 32, 34). The polysilicon then has suitable dopants deposited in it, such as phosphorus and boron, and a subsequent heat treatment causes the dopants to diffuse into the silicon to form the source (22), gate (20) and drain (24). Electrical connection to the polysilicon over the source and drain may be made by metal contacts. The topology of the JFET is desirably such that metal contacts do not cross over any p/n junctions and are @ from active surface regions of the device. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2210634-A (GB)
Title: Needle picker controlling device for knitting machine
Inventor: FUCIK BORIVOJ
IPC: D04B9/20
Filed: 1988-10-05
Abstract: In a double or single cylinder knitting machine a picker 1 is temporarily retained in a raised inoperative position when it has removed a butt from action during a stroke of reciprocatory knitting, e.g. by a lever 6, and is released for the next stroke by an electromagnet 8. The electromagnet is operated by a microswitch controlled by a segment 15 on a drum 15 and when energised withdraws the lever 6 from the path of the picker. Alternatively the magnet may act directly on the picker. A lever 16 and cable 17 render the microswitch 14 inactive during rotary knitting. 
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Patent GB-2209737-A (GB)
Title: Nestable/stackable containers
Inventor: SYMONDS R KENNETH SYDNEY
IPC: B65D21/06
Filed: 1988-12-12
Abstract: A nestable/stackable container includes bale arms 16 at each end such that with the bale arms 16 pivoted outwardly such containers can be nested and with the bale arms 16 pivoted inwardly and supported by the body of the container such containers can be stacked. Locating means are provided for each bale arm 16 in the form of upwardly facing projections 20 adjacent the container edges 15 arranged to interengage by means of a snap action with apertures defined in the bale arms 16. Accidental pivoting of the bale arms 16 is thus inhibited. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2216933-A (GB)
Title: Retaining wall composed of prefabricated concrete elements
Inventor: VARENNE JEAN-CHARLES
IPC: E02D29/02
Filed: 1989-03-29
Abstract: A retaining wall of the caisson-wall type is composed of prefabricated concrete elements and comprises transverse walls (2a, 2b), which are buried in the embankment; facing slabs (6), which are engaged in notches in the walls and I-shaped joggles (8a, 8b) which are placed in housings defined by two half-notches. The invention is particularly applicable to the construction of retaining walls having a height of some metres. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2231819-A (GB)
Title: Tubing manufacture
Inventor: WINFIELD PHILLIP WILLIAM
IPC: B26D9/00
Filed: 1989-04-04
Abstract: Tubing 1 having a hole 2 in its wall is manufactured by a continuous in-line process in which bar or strip is formed into the tubing which is finished to a required cross-sectional shape (eg. square, circular or rectangular) has the hole punched out of its wall and is cut to length. A wire hook can be attached at the hole 2 for the tubing to be suspended from a conveyor which takes the cut length of tubing through a paint spraying booth and drying oven. As illustrated, the hole is punched out by a lance blade 11 as the tubing is cut to length by a flying shear blade 3. The hole is diamond-shaped, the lance blade 11 having a tip (14, Fig 4) with a flat edge diagonally of the diamond and lengthwise of the tubing. The strip may be initially formed into round-section tubing by rolls. From the rolls, the tubing passes through an edge welding station, a flash removal dressing station, and then to further rolls which form the tubing to square section. As the shear blade 3 moves down, cam plates 9 cause dies 8 to move towards one another, to grip and support the tubing during cutting to length and hole punching. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2221208-A (GB)
Title: Form assembly
Inventor: TAYLOR URBAN CORNELIUS
IPC: B42D15/00
Filed: 1989-05-17
Abstract: A form assembly of the type used in hospitals, etc. for sending a specimen (e.g. blood, urine, sputum) to a laboratory for analysis comprises a form 1 for the recordal of information partially overlaid by a bag 2 for receiving the specimen to be analysed. The bag is attached adjacent its open end to the form 1 remote from an edge thereof so that there is free area of the form not overlaid by the bag. A strip of adhesive 7 is provided on the free area which may be folded along a line 3 against the bag 2 so as to close the mouth. A line of perforations 4 may be provided so that the portion of the form on which information is recorded is separable. The bag has a lip 2a with adhesive 6 on its rear for attached to the form. Lip 2a also has adhesive Ton its front to close the mouth. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2238345-A (GB)
Title: Hinge
Inventor: ELDER MICHAEL TIMOTHY
IPC: E05D5/06
Filed: 1989-10-13
Abstract: A hinge joint for school or hospital furniture has two mutually-pivoted hinge parts (2, 3) which can be secured for example to a cabinet and a door, one of the hinge parts (3) having a transversely extending securing tab (17) which can also be secured to the cabinet to increase the strength of the hinge joint. One or, as shown, both hinge members may be cranked and the tab (17) may be provided at one end of a further section (14) of the member (3). <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2233048-A (GB)
Title: Device for the generation of auxiliary pressure
Inventor: VOGEL GUENTHER
IPC: F04B9/113
Filed: 1990-03-30
Abstract: A device for the generation of auxiliary pressure, in particular for automotive vehicles, comprises control valves (2) arranged in a control housing (1), the valves (2) controlling channels (4) connected to several control pressure chambers (3) so that, depending on the position of the control valves (2), communication can be established between an energy source (5) and the working chambers (7,18) of a spring-loaded motor piston (6). The motor piston (6), is coupled to a pumping piston (8), elastic means (11) which influences the change-over point of the control valves (2) and which, is located between an element (9) arranged on the motor piston (6) and a control rod (10) of the control valves. Thereby a simple, operationally reliable actuation of the control valves (2) is ensured. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2244283-A (GB)
Title: Metallized polypropylene films containing atactic and isotactic polypropylene
Inventor: CHRISTOPHERSON ROY
IPC: C23C14/20
Filed: 1990-05-24
Abstract: Extrusion laminatable metallized oriented polymeric films, have an outer surface consisting of a mixture of isotactic polypropylene and a metal adhesion promoting amount of atactic polypropylene with a vacuum deposited metal layer on the said mixture. Good metal adhesion has been achieved combined with good metallic lustre following extrusion lamination. The mixture preferably contains not more than 30% by weight. e.g. 10-20% by weight, of atactic polypropylene and preferably has a melt flow index of less than 20 at 230 DEG C. The metal deposited is preferably aluminium. The mixture is preferably itself present as a layer on a different polymeric layer, e.g. substantially isotactic polypropylene. A preformed polymeric film may be adhered onto the melted layer of the composite formed by co-extrusion using a melt of an ethylene/ vinyl acetate copolymer, polyethylene or an ethylene/acrylate copolymer. This further pre-formed film may consist of a core of isotactic propylene with heat seal layers of a propylene/ethylene copolymer on either side.
Patent GB-2237141-A (GB)
Title: Cathode ray tube face plate
Inventor: MAEDA MICHIHISA
IPC: C23C14/08
Filed: 1990-07-05
Abstract: A cathode-ray tube has a face plate (1) which includes a phosphor layer (8) provided at the inner surface side of a glass plate (10) and an optical interference filter (7) provided between the phosphor layer (8) and the inner surface of the plate (10), the optical interference filter (7) being constituted by a plurality of alternating high- and low-refractive index layers (2, 3, 4, 5), wherein the outermost layer (5) of the optical interference filter in contact with the phosphor layer (8) is an Al2O3 layer or a ZrO2 layer having a physical thickness of 10 nm or more. The high-refractive index layer (3) of the optical interference filter preferably consists of TiO2, and its low-refractive index layer (4) preferably consists of Al2O3. The outer layer (5) protects the filter (7) from damage during cleaning before the phosphor (8) is applied, and from colouring by exposure to the scanning electron beam (R). A number of specific examples are given. A method of producing the alternate layers of high- and low-refractive index material is also disclosed in which an oxide or an element convertible into an oxide is formed on the inner surface of the faceplate and is then irradiated with O2 ions in a reduced-pressure atmosphere containing O2. <IMAGE>