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Patent GB-2262887-A (GB)
Title: Herbal deodorant
Inventor: CHAPPELL KATHERINE CHENEY
IPC: A61L9/01
Filed: 1992-12-08
Abstract: A deodorant composition for use in a liquid roll-on or stick deodorant has active antibacterial constituents consisting essentially of natural materials and is essentially free of petroleum derived constituents and alcohols. In a preferred embodiment of the composition for use as a liquid roll-on or stick deodorant, the active antibacterial constituents include about 1% to 6% (by weight) Lichen Extract and about 0.1% to 3% (by weight) Coriander Oil.
Patent GB-2275494-A (GB)
Title: Security device for a door
Inventor: PROBYN SUSAN
IPC: E05C19/18
Filed: 1993-02-24
Abstract: A security device comprises: a rigid elongate element (1) provided at or near one end region (2) with a transverse lug (3) and at another region with holes (5) spaced apart in the direction of the length of the rigid elongate element (1); and a peg (7) capable of being securely lodged in any of the holes (5) so as to extend transversely with respect to the elongate element (1) at least in the direction opposite to that of the lug (3). When the device is filled from inside a room to an inwardly opening door, additional security can be achieved. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2275937-A (GB)
Title: Clear-of-ground timber post metal supporter
Inventor: OLSEN MARTIN
IPC: E04H12/22
Filed: 1993-02-26
Abstract: A metal supporter 10 and 12 for supporting varying thickness timber posts clear above ground level; the parts 10 and 12 can be adjustably spaced depending on post thickness; their lower parts are concreted into the ground. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2265155-A (GB)
Title: Metal powder consolidation
Inventor: JONES ANDREW RICHARD
IPC: B22F3/115
Filed: 1993-03-12
Abstract: A method of consolidating a body of a mechanically-alloyed powder material, comprising the operations of heating a pre-cursor mechanically alloyed powder material in such a manner as to cause transient melting of the precursor material and quench casting the molten precursor material onto a pre-form.
Patent GB-2265314-A (GB)
Title: Protective article for securing around a body part
Inventor: BARRY THOMAS
IPC: A61F13/15
Filed: 1993-03-31
Abstract: The article, which may be fitted or secured around a body part, is formed of a breathable or vapour permeable material and is configured to be spaced from a wound site and/or prevents water from reaching the body part. In particular, an inflatable protective shield 50 for a burns patient is formed as an oversize mitten with a sealable cuff 52, the mitten being formed from breathable thermoplastic polyester urethane film. A leg shield 60 may consist of such film in the form of a long sock having a garter strip 62 carrying adhesive, the shield in use being evacuated and then bonded and sealed to the leg. Alternatively, a support may be made by fitting a pouch of the said film with polystyrene beads, fitting the pouch around the part to be supported and evacuating and sealing the pouch. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2280158-A (GB)
Title: Wheel cleaning blade
Inventor: RODRIGUES NIGEL KEVIN
IPC: B60S1/68
Filed: 1993-07-21
Abstract: A wheel cleaning blade 1 is a length of material twisted through 180 DEG  along axis C - D to provide a radiused or scrolled bend at points C - D. The blade is releasably secured to a golf trolley 2 and positioned fractionally remote of the apex of the wheel 4. Once in position, the blade 1 will remove unwanted debris from the wheel when the trolley is pushed or pulled. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2280572-A (GB)
Title: Token bus protocol
Inventor: LYON KIM PHILIP
IPC: H04L12/417
Filed: 1993-07-29
Abstract: The Token Bus Protocol is a simple but sophisticated protocol that uses a numerical token that is passed retrospectively by the network hardware from one unit to another thus providing high speed data transfer through the resulting low data link overhead. The token is passed in an active manner and/or in a high speed passive manner. The protocol operates on a bussed topology and as such has the inherent high reliability of this topology. In addition the protocol has an arbitrary unit number assignment system providing greatly increased ease of connectability of units. The protocol also has provision for the connection of intra and inter network gateways. The protocol can be implemented easily and cheaply. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2270675-A (GB)
Title: Label printing cassettes for printers with reciprocable print heads
Inventor: HATAKEYAMA KAZUHIKO
IPC: B41J32/00
Filed: 1993-09-06
Abstract: A cassette, of a kind which is receivable in the ink-ribbon cassette holder of a reciprocable-printhead thermal printer, contains a supply of label-tape which is fed together with the ink-ribbon so as to be printed against the platen of the printer, and is characterised by a guiding portion of the cassette which acts to separate the label-tape from both platen and the ink ribbon after printing, and which collects the printed end of the tape in a manner convenient to present it to an operator of the machine. As shown the label tape 3 and ink ribbon 4 pass between printhead 11 and platen 14. Thereafter the ink ribbon 4 is wound onto a take lip reel 2c and the end 3a of the printed ribbon is guided by structures 28b, 13, 16, 18a, 18b, 18c into an operator-accessible printed-tape-receiving portion (15) of the cassette. If the length of the printed tape exceeds the capacity of portion 15, the excess protrudes as a bight 3b from the cassette. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2283299-A (GB)
Title: Beverage dispenser
Inventor: RAWLING DENIS MARTIN EDWARD
IPC: B67D1/14
Filed: 1993-10-29
Abstract: A beverage dispenser for dispensing a pressurised beverage such as beer, lager or a sparkling drink incorporates a chamber (46) communicating with an inlet (45) and an outlet (47). A first flow path is provided between a lower region of the chamber (46) and the outlet for the flow of beverage, and a second flow path is provided from an upper region of the chamber (46), for example also to the outlet (47), to release accumulated gas. In the embodiment shown the flow paths are respectively located on the outside and inside of a tapered member (52) which is displaceable by means of a further member (53) respectively to open and close the flow paths. In another embodiment the first flow path is provided round the outside of a tapered valve member and the second path is provided internally of its actuating spindle. A third embodiment disposed upstream of the tap has a spindle with an internal second flow path, the first path extending around the foot of the spindle. The actuating member (53) has a third position for closing the outlet and there is lost motion on passing from the third position to a position of engagement with the member (52). <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2284801-A (GB)
Title: Display containers
Inventor: KNOWLES ROGER
IPC: B65D21/02
Filed: 1993-12-14
Abstract: A two-part container, intended to house pot pourri or like materials of attractive appearance and/or intended to emit pleasant aromas, comprises a container body 2 which is relatively-shallow and which has a cylindrical wall to which a substantially air-tight lid 14 may be fitted for transport and when the contents are to have their desirable properties preserved. The lid 14 is domed with a central low spigot 18, and the centre of the base of the body 2 has in it a shallow blind recess 12 of complimentary dimensions. After the container has been opened, the lid 14 is placed on a display surface with the spigot 18 uppermost, and the open-topped body is then fitted over the spigot 18 so that the lid 14 acts as a support raising the body 2 above the display surface. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2286200-A (GB)
Title: Plasma treatment of substrates having non planar surfaces; contoured electrodes
Inventor: HEINECKE RUDOLF AUGUST HERBERT
IPC: C23C16/509
Filed: 1994-02-08
Abstract: A non-planar substrate surface is subjected to plasma treatment e.g. to provide a substantially uniform surface coating. The substrate 11 is disposed between first and second electrodes 12, 13 and contoured to match the respective substrate surface whereby to define a gap of uniform thickness between one electrode 13 and the respective substrate surface. A radio frequency or microwave plasma is generated in the gap to effect the plasma treatment which may comprise deposition of a surface film, e.g. diamond-like carbon. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2279570-A (GB)
Title: Vein needle set
Inventor: SONG KYUNG JIN
IPC: A61M25/06
Filed: 1994-05-27
Abstract: The set comprises a cylinder 8 having a vein insertion tube 9 and a transfusion line connector 3 into which an injectant line connector 16 is inserted, a transparent film shield 2 fixed to the connector 3 and to the bottom of the cylinder and a piston 4 fixed to a needle 7 and mounted at the centre of the non-collapsed shield. The piston also has a knob 6 which protrudes through a slot 10 in the cylinder wall for sliding motion therein. The shield may be attached only to the lower side of the piston, the upper side of which is then attached to a sliding flexible tube (20 - Fig. 11) carrying the connector 3. In variants, (a) the needle is carried by a cylinder joined to a connector by an outwardly deformable or collapsible shield (Figs. 17, 19) or (b) a needle-carrying cylinder with an internal plunger is mounted inside a protective cylinder (Fig. 23). An internal rubber cap for prevention of needle stick may be included in such cylinder. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2290344-A (GB)
Title: Friction hinge
Inventor: CHANG CITRON
IPC: E05D11/08
Filed: 1994-06-08
Abstract: A friction hinge includes first and second sockets (5, 6), a pivot unit (7) and a plug member (8). The pivot unit (7) is constituted by first and second pins (71, 70). The first pin (71) is made of plastic and has a front portion (713, a rear portion (711) and an enlarged head (712) between the front and rear portions (713, 711) and which is to be received engageably in a second section (52) of the first socket (5). The second pin (70) is made of metal and has a shank (704) and an enlarged head (703) which engages in a front section (61) of the second socket (6). A distal end of the shank (704) extends beyond a rear section (62) of the second socket (6). The enlarged head (703) of the second pin (6) has a blind hole (701) which houses the rear portion (711) of the first pin (71) therein when the first and second sockets (5, 6) are aligned and the first pin (71) is in the first socket (5) while the second pin (70) in the second socket (6). <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2281621-A (GB)
Title: Measurement of liquid parameters using resonant vibration
Inventor: MIURA SHINSUKE
IPC: G01N11/14
Filed: 1994-08-31
Abstract: A vibration unit includes a circular direction vibrator 1, a liquid detector 3 resonated by the circular direction vibrator, and a vibration transmission member 2 for connecting the circular direction vibrator and the liquid detector and being twist vibrated when the liquid detector is resonated. A mounting member 6 provided at a node of resonance existing in an intermediate portion of the vibration transmission member acts to suspend the vibration unit in a constant position, opposite ends of the vibration unit being free to vibrate. Applications include measurement of liquid level, liquid viscosity and liquid density. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-941750-A (GB)
IPC: C03B23/025
Abstract: In the preparation of curved elongated glass assemblies for laminating, the tip only of at least one of the ends of the top sheet of a glass doublet is seamed (i.e. the edge of its face is ground off) prior to bending in a lehr.
Patent GB-2285776-A (GB)
Title: Collapsible wheeled chair or buggy
Inventor: BACHMANN EUGEN PAUL
IPC: A47D1/02
Filed: 1995-01-24
Abstract: A childs chair comprises a frame 2A, a plurality of leg members 18 pivotally mounted on the frame and at least one threaded drive spindle 8 mounted for rotation on the frame 2 and coupled to each leg member 18, wherein rotation of the drive spindle 8 causes each leg 18 to pivot about its mounting 20 to move the chair from a collapsed state to an expanded state and vice versa. An electric motor may be provided to operate the drive. The backrest 32 is constructed as a plate which folds down on to the seat frame 2A, the legs 18 fold flat against the seat frame, and the leg rest 42A and flap 42 fold over the legs so that the collapsed chair resembles a suitcase and can be taken as hand luggage aboard an aircraft. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2288011-A (GB)
Title: Combustion chamber with premixing burners
Inventor: ALTHAUS ROLF
IPC: F23D17/00
Filed: 1995-03-29
Abstract: The combustion chamber of a gas turbine has at least one premixing burner (110) arranged in a dome (51) communicating with a plenum (50). The premixing burner (110) is fastened on the outlet side to a front plate (52) limiting the combustion space (58) of the combustion chamber. The premixing burner procures the combustion air from the dome. The fuel injected via nozzles is intensively intermixed with the combustion air within a premixing space of the burner prior to ignition. There is provided a jet injector (53) which opens into the dome (51) and of which the central nozzle (54) is connected to the combustion space (58) via an orifice (55) in the front plate (52) and of which the annular space (56) surrounding the central nozzle is loaded with a propellant. The propel lent is combustion air and draws in combustion gases to heat the combustion air in the dome. This allows the combustion chamber to operate as near as possible to the lean extinguishing limit. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2300077-A (GB)
Title: Transformer assembly providing a terminal pin mounting arrangement
Inventor: SHEEHAN JOHN A
IPC: H01F27/29
Filed: 1995-04-20
Abstract: A transformer assembly has a bobbin having a number of outward extending bosses A. Each boss A includes a hole 21 through which extends part 52 of a terminal pin 55. A portion 58 of the terminal pin 55 is exposed to the exterior of the boss A and is inclined relative to the terminal pin part 52. The portion 58 is also directly engaged by the tip of a rib 40 formed on the inside of a shroud member. The terminal pin 55 may be L-shaped and a trough 22 may be formed in the boss A to partially receive the terminal pin portion 58. The transformer assembly may be mounted on to a printed circuit board 57.
Patent GB-2301053-A (GB)
Title: Key cutting guide
Inventor: ASHTON DEON VICTOR JOHN
IPC: B23C3/35
Filed: 1995-05-20
Abstract: A guide block for Tibbe key cutting or decoding has a keyway 5 to locate a blank and channels 2, 3, 4 of different slopes arranged at 90{ to the keyway to guide a file or decode a ready cut key. Grub screws may be provided to retain the blank and the block may be hand held or vice mounted.
Patent GB-2291855-A (GB)
Title: Lightweight Crane
Inventor: DONAGHUE JAMES
IPC: B66C23/42
Filed: 1995-07-31
Abstract: A lightweight crane (1) is provided so as to be mountable at the longitudinal centre line of a small commercial vehicle (2, Fig 2) and comprises a base (3) including a plate (3A) which can be bolted to the vehicle floor to position the crane (1), a column (5) rotatably mounted on the base (3) and an extendable telescopic boom (7A, 7B, 7C) carried by the column (5) through an upper support formation (8) forming a "T" with the column. One leg (8C) of the "T" supports a winch (10) for the crane lifting line (11). Setting of the boom (7) in the vertical plane is achieved by a rod (13) located between the boom and the column. Slewing and boom extension/retraction may be effected purely manually but in a preferred embodiment any one of these operations, especially boom retraction, is achieved by force or power means. To this end (i) a clamp (18, Fig 4) enables boom retraction by the winch (10), and (ii) a spring device (20) biases the boom to the extended condition. A gear drive (G) may be provided for crane slewing. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2294345-A (GB)
Title: Voltage boosting circuit of a semiconductor memory
Inventor: YOON SEI-SEUNG
IPC: G11C11/407
Filed: 1995-10-11
Abstract: The circuit comprises a voltage converter 30 which converts an internal voltage level, such as from an oscillator 8, into an output power supply voltage level, a pumping circuit 2, 4 controlled by the output of the converter and a transmission circuit 6 connected to the pumping circuit for supplying a boosted output voltage VPP. The converter 30 may be connected between the oscillator 8 and the pumping capacitor 4 or between the oscillator 8 and the pumping capacitor 2 (Fig 3). Alternatively two voltage converters 30(40, Fig 4) may be connected between the oscillator and the respective pumping capacitor 2, 4. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2294692-A (GB)
Title: Cytochrome P-450cam mutants
Inventor: WONG LUET LOK
IPC: C12N15/09
Filed: 1995-11-01
Abstract: A mutant of the mono-oxygenase cytochrome P - 450cam in which the tyrosine residue at position 96 and/or the cysteine residue at position 334 is replaced by the residue of any other amino acid. The mutants have further substitutions at at least one of positions 87, 98, 185, 244, 247, 295 and 297, and are used for the oxidation of optionally halogenated hydrocarbons. The substitution of tyrosine (96) is preferably by an amino acid, other than phenylalanine.
Patent GB-2307567-A (GB)
Title: Load tap changing AC voltage regulator
Inventor: YAMASHITA YOSHIAKI
IPC: G05F1/14
Filed: 1995-11-22
Abstract: A main transformer 3 has primary P, secondary S and auxiliary windings Sa. The auxiliary winding Sa has taps which are changed by semiconductor contacts. A tap changing control means 5 detects the variation in output voltage to the load and changes the taps of the auxiliary winding Sa to compensate for the variation without causing instantaneous disconnection. A series transformer 4 adds to or subtracts from the output voltage to compensate for the variation, and a current limiting reactor 6 suppresses circulating current caused to flow through the auxiliary winding Sa by the tap changeover.
Patent GB-2309940-A (GB)
Title: Method and Apparatus for forming a dyke, dam or river bank from sludge
Inventor: LIM PO TUNG
IPC: B63B27/30
Filed: 1996-02-07
Abstract: A method and apparatus for forming a dyke, dam or river bank from sludge, in which sludge/sedimentary material collected from the bed of a body of water is transferred into a container 7 and thereafter discharged into a carrier barge 6, the carrier barge 6 then being transferred to the required site where the material is discharged between walls 3 to form the desired dyke or river bank etc. As shown the sludge container 7 is borne by apparatus 5 comprising a structure 11 having a flat base section 12 and two downwardly extending legs 13 which define with the water surface a tunnel or corridor under the structure 11 adapted to receive a carrier barge 6. The apparatus 5 can be adapted to float on the water or sit on the bed.
Patent GB-2299619-A (GB)
Title: Anti-theft device for ATM
Inventor: ACKETTS RONALD LIONEL
IPC: G07F9/10
Filed: 1996-04-02
Abstract: An anti-theft device for an automated teller machine (A.T.M.) 20 comprises a cross-member 4 to which the A.T.M. is attached by bolts 24, and a bracket 12. The bracket 12 is bolted to the supporting floor, and the cross-member 4 is attached direct to the bracket 12 by bolts. The construction provides a very low profile support for the A.T.M. 20 which will resist attack for a substantial period of time.
Patent GB-2311830-A (GB)
Title: Expansion bolt with multiple expansion shells
Inventor: WU MING-HSIN
IPC: F16B13/06
Filed: 1996-04-04
Abstract: An expansion bolt comprises a screw bolt 1, a locating socket 2 which abuts the head 11 of the screw bolt 1, a plurality of expansion shells 3 each having a tapered locating portion 31 at one end and a receiving portion 33 at the other end, and a tightening-up member 4 which is threaded onto the end of the screw bolt 1. The locating socket 2 and the expansion shells 3 are sleeved onto the screw bolt 1 and are engaged in series by inserting the wedge blocks 32 of one expansion shell 3 into the longitudinal slots 34 of the adjacent expansion shell 3. In use the tightening-up member 4 compresses the expansion shells 3 axially causing them to expand radially when the screw bolt 1 is turned.
Patent GB-2304418-A (GB)
Title: Liquid level and angle detector
Inventor: KARNICK DREW A
IPC: G01D5/24
Filed: 1996-06-13
Abstract: A feedback circuit 10 generates an output signal from a sensor 14 that is independent of the electrical and temperature characteristics of the sensor and any sensing medium. As shown the sensor has a differential input (formed by a pair of plates 24,26) and a single output (formed by a plate 28), but an arrangement using a sensor having a single input and a pair of differential outputs is described (Fig.2). The sensor output is connected to an amplifier 18, the output of which is fed back to the sensor inputs via resistors 22; the circuit is driven by a signal generator 12. The sensor is thus in the forward loop of the circuit to make the output depend on the area of the parallel plates 24,26,28 of the sensor and not on any electrical or temperature characteristics of the sensor or sensing medium. The sensor may have liquid between the parallel plates and may be used as a liquid level sensor or an inclinometer. Alternative sensors such as inductive sensors may also be used.
Patent GB-2316760-A (GB)
Title: Fabricating optical waveguide gratings
Inventor: LAMING RICHARD IAN
IPC: H04B10/18
Filed: 1996-08-23
Abstract: An optical waveguide grating having a plurality of grating lines of refractive index variation is made by :  (i) repeatedly exposing a spatially periodic writing light pattern onto a photosensitive optical waveguide 10; and (ii) moving the writing light pattern and/or the waveguide between successive exposures of the writing light pattern, so that each of at least a majority of the grating lines is generated by at least two exposures to different respective regions of the writing light pattern Acousto-optic modulator 50, phase mask 30 and crossed roller bearing translation stage 20 are shown.
Patent GB-2317867-A (GB)
Title: A stop for a rail system
Inventor: THORPE JAMES CHRISTOPHER
IPC: B61K7/16
Filed: 1996-10-04
Abstract: A stop (31) for halting the movement of a trolley (21) along a rail (11) and which comprises a yoke (32) straddling the rail with a limb (33,34) located on each side of the rail (11), and a catch means (36) rotatably mounted on at least one limb and being rotatable from a first position engagable with the trolley to a second position in which it disengages from the trolley.
Patent GB-2302571-A (GB)
Title: Light weight shell acoustic enclosure
Inventor: PINNINGTON ROGER JAMES
IPC: F04B39/00
Filed: 1995-05-24
Abstract: A light weight acoustic enclosure (1.1), for the reduction of noise transmission from monopole, quadrapole and higher order noise sources via airborne paths at frequencies lower than the approximate ring frequency of the enclosure (1.1), comprising an approximately spherical shaped enclosure (1.1), which is made from stiff materials to reduce the amount of stretching of the enclosure wall and substantially encases the noise source, all structural paths between the enclosure and the noise source comprising vibration isolation (2.4). The thickness of the enclosure wall can be relatively thin. The enclosure (1.1) can comprise multiple concentric layers of stiff material, ideally with adjacent layers having at least one compliant layer, such as foam rubber, sandwiched between them. The enclosure (1.1) can comprise several component parts such as spherical shell elements (1,2), with radii less than that of the approximate radius of the enclosure (1.1). Additional webbings or flanges (1.3) can be included which either form part of or are used with the component parts to increase the stiffness in the enclosure (1.1). Suitable stiff material can be steel, aluminium, carbon fibre, fibre reinforced resins or any combination of these.