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Patent GB-2195363-A (GB)
Title: Improved roller gin
Inventor: ADSHEAD JEFFREY
IPC: D01B1/04
Filed: 1986-09-30
Abstract: A roller gin has the ginning zone adjacent to its ginning roller 12 and the fixed ginning knife 11 cleaned by oscillation of a moving cleaning knife 13 having a rounded end 13a, giving a double-action cleaning operation. Furthermore, close to the path of the oscillating knife 13 is an anticlockwise rotating vaned transfer rotor having flexible vanes 8 generating an air current helping to entrain seed cotton from a gin feeder and to impel it towards the ginning zone. Improved clearance of separated cotton seed from the ginning zone is achieved by means of a seed grid 10 which oscillates parallel to the ginning nip defined between the ginning roller 12 and the stationary ginning knife 11. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2182559-A (GB)
Title: Dispenser for thermo-responsive drugs
Inventor: ECKENHOFF JAMES B
IPC: A61K9/00
Filed: 1986-09-30
Abstract: A dispenser (10) for delivering a beneficial agent formulation (18) to a warm, fluid environment of use comprises an outer semipermeable wall (12) surrounding and laminating an inner hydrophilic, swellable wall (15) which defines an interior space (14) for containing a thermo-responsive beneficial agent formulation. A passageway (13) through the semipermeable wall connects the exterior of the dispenser through an opening in the inside wall with the interior of the dispenser. The drug composition contained in the dispenser preferably melts at body- temperature. The inside wall (15) may be formed of a hydrogel polymer eg. poly-(hydroxyalkyl methacrylate). The outer wall (12) may be a cellulosic polymer such as an ester or ester-ether. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2198088-A (GB)
Title: Drawing instruments
Inventor: JONES GRAHAM RICHARD
IPC: B43L7/00
Filed: 1986-10-15
Abstract: A drawing edge accessory for use with a drawing board is adapted for securement to the drawing board and comprises an extensible drawing edge pivotal angularly over the surface of the drawing board. The accessory comprises a casing adapted for securement to an edge of the drawing board and housing the extensible drawing edge. The casing is pivotal about an axis parallel with the vertical edge of the drawing board when the latter is horizontally disposed. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2197797-A (GB)
Title: Backgammon game
Inventor: GUNTER KARL EDWARD
IPC: A63F3/02
Filed: 1986-11-25
Abstract: Three dimensional backgammon has three parallel boards which are of successively smaller dimensions so as to form a frusto-pyrimidal structure with open sides allowing access for play and visibility on all three boards. The conventional backgammon rules or instructions are varied to include movement from one board to another as well as or instead of on the single board.
Patent GB-2201159-A (GB)
Title: Process and apparatus for the dehydrogenation of organic compounds
Inventor: BITTER JOHAN GEORGE ALBERT
IPC: C07C5/32
Filed: 1986-12-05
Abstract: The dehydrogenation of organic compounds is carried out in a dehydrogenation zone containing a dehydrogenation catalyst and comprising a wall which includes a ceramic membrane which is selectively permeable to hydrogen and separates the dehydrogenation zone from a permeate zone; the wall may optionally be heated by conducting an electric current therethrough.
Patent GB-2220483-A (GB)
Title: A monitor for measuring noise radiated from a ship
Inventor: FRASER DONALD CAMERON
IPC: G01V1/00
Filed: 1987-04-07
Abstract: The system comprises a remote receiver 3 for receiving underwater noise, means to determine the range of the ship from the receiver, transmission means 4 to transmit noise and range information to the ship, and ship receiver means 16 to receive the transmitted noise and range information. The remote receiver 3 preferably includes an omni-directional hydrophone assembly. The remote receiver is suspended by a flexible cable 5 from a buoy 1 or float so as to be located at a preselected depth. The range is determined by including a master clock on the ship 20 and a synchronised clock 15 colocated with the remote receiver, the transmission means being arranged to transmit time signals from the synchronised clock and the ship receiver being arranged to compare the master clock time with the received time signals. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2199863-A (GB)
Title: A framework structure for a demountable panelling system
Inventor: THOMPSON BRYAN HARRY
IPC: E04B2/58
Filed: 1987-12-18
Abstract: The invention relates to a framework 10 for a demountable panelling system, a plurality of such sections 10 providing for a complete framework structure for panelling that can be erected in a required location. Each framework structure 10 includes two uprights 12 held in a parallel spaced apart configuration by a base member 16 and a top member 14, the position of the top member 14 with respect to the uprights 12 being adjustable to thereby render the framework height adjustable. This system permits the attachment of accessories, and the like, at a constant height above floor level, in the operative configuration of the framework, while accommodating variations in height between floor and ceiling. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-874399-A (GB)
Abstract: 874,399. Centrifugal strainer separators. PALM, B. E. Oct. 14, 1958 [Oct. 14, 1957], No. 32719/58. Class 46. [Also in Group II] A central shaft 2 driven by a pulley 4 supports, by means of arms 11 radiating from a hub 9, a number of screen drums 13 whereby the drums are rotated about the shaft axis and are also rotated about their own axes by gearing. Each drum has a rotatively driven shaft 12, and a helical conveyer strip 14 is attached to the shaft and to the drum. Material to be treated, i.e., particles in liquid suspension, flows from a part 15 carried by the central shaft to the drums via conduits 16. The drums rotate rapidly about the axis of the central shaft 2 and turn slowly on their own shafts 12, so that the finer material is centrifuged out of the drums through those segments turned away, from the central shaft, while clogging material in those segments facing the shaft is removed by centrifugal force. The drums rotate within a casing 5, 6 and the finer material passes from the outlet 8 of an annular chamber surrounding the drums ; the coarser material, which is moved axially through the drums by the conveyer 14, is delivered by rotary blades 10 to an outlet 7. Several conveyers may be located in each drum ; the latter may have one or more intermediate screening surfaces, and each annular space between screens may be associated with a separate outlet.
Patent GB-2200546-A (GB)
Title: Rotary clothes driers
Inventor: CLEMSON PETER
IPC: D06F57/04
Filed: 1988-02-01
Abstract: A rotary clothes-drier of the type indicated, wherein a latching arm (16) is fixed to the upper bush (11) so as to extend downwardly towards the lower bush (13), the latching arm (16) having at its lower free end a hooked portion (20) shaped so that when the lower bush (13) is pushed upwardly to it the hooked portion (20) will ride up over the lower bush (13) until a horizontal ledge or bar (15) on the lower bush is positively engaged in the hook (20), the underneath of the horizontal ledge or bar (15) and the part (21) of the hooked portion (20) which engages it being so shaped that when the hooked portion (20) is moved laterally a camming action takes place to free the hook (20) from the ledge or bar (15) and permit the lower bush (13) to be lowered. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2216396-A (GB)
Title: Endless line apparatus for movably supporting an article such as a curtain, a blind or an item to be dried
Inventor: SAU VIVIAN AU CHAN WAI
IPC: A47H1/18
Filed: 1988-03-16
Abstract: An endless line apparatus for movably supporting an article such as a curtain, a blind or an item to be dried, including at least two substantially semi-circular tube means 1 fixedly attachable, in spaced apart facing manner, to a support surface such as substantially horizontally above or substantially vertically alongside a window or door, and an endless ring of flexible line 2 running through said spaced apart substantially semi-circular tube means so as to provide two side by side substantially parallel runs to at least one of which 3 a curtain, screen or item to be dried may be attached to permit axial displacement of one run relative to the other through the tube means so that a curtain, blind or item to be dried, when on said one run, may be displaced from one position to another between the two tube means such as to cover or uncover a window or door or to move an item to be dried between desired drying or removal positions. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2221715-A (GB)
Title: Bracelet
Inventor: LAI FU-HONG
IPC: A44C5/10
Filed: 1988-08-09
Abstract: A bracelet for a watch or the like, comprising a plurality of interconnected members (10), at least two members (10) being connected together by fastening means (11) which enable the two members (10) to be separated from each other when they are at a first relative orientation and which fasten the two members (10) together when they are at a second relative orientation. Projections (16) at one end of a member (10) are shaped such that they may be inserted into and removed from recesses (17) at the other end of an adjacent member (10) only when the members are perpendicular to each other. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2209721-A (GB)
Title: Auxiliary towing rear view mirror
Inventor: OHAYON DAVID
IPC: B60R1/078
Filed: 1988-09-12
Abstract: A towing mirror (28) for use in conjunction with a conventional side mirror (18) supported on a vehicle (12) when a caravan or other wide trailer is to be towed by the vehicle comprises: (a) an elongate mirror (30), (b) an adaptor (34), (c) means (40), e.g. an adhesive pad, for enabling the adaptor to be secured to the existing side mirror (18), or to a mirror support (22) after first removing the side mirror therefrom, (d) means (38, 48) for releasably securing the elongate mirror on the adaptor, with the elongate mirror extending transversely of the vehicle. The adaptor preferably comprises a secondary mirror (36) which is uncovered by the release and removal of the elongate mirror (30) and which then serves as an ordinary side mirror. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2226233-A (GB)
Title: Dispenser
Inventor: LOS LEENDERT
IPC: B01F1/00
Filed: 1988-12-22
Abstract: A dispenser (1) delivering an aqueous chemical solution having a substantially constant concentration comprises a container (2) for holding and supporting a solid block (3), at least the lower part of which comprises a water-permeable support (4), a housing (6) surrounding the container and being openable at the top, downwardly directed fluid jets (6) mounted inside the housing adjacent at least two sides of the container and arranged to spray the lower parts of at least two opposed lateral surfaces of the solid block through the water-permeable support and an outlet (7) in the bottom of the housing for the aqueous chemical solution formed by spraying the block. The block may comprise an alkaline and/or surfactant composition and the solution may be used in an industrial cleaning process e.g. fabric washing or warewashing. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2228579-A (GB)
Title: A method and apparatus for producing instant photographs
Inventor: ASCOTT RYDER
IPC: G03B17/53
Filed: 1989-02-23
Abstract: A photographic apparatus comprises a weatherproof housing (1) mounted on a base (2) containing batteries (3) providing an electric power supply. A conventional shutter operated camera lens (4) may be mounted on a zoom attachment (5) to vary the focussing of the lens onto an image plane (6). A store (8) in the rear of the housing holds a supply of post cards (9) having a photographic emulsion on one side and standard post card format on the reverse. The exposed post cards pass to a developer unit (13) from which they are transported to a customer collection slot (15). The camera can be combined with a photographic flash device (7) and a printer (12) to print messages on the post cards. The machine is operated by a coin in the slot (10), mechanism alternatively may be operated using a credit card. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2216533-A (GB)
Title: An orthopaedic splinting bandage
Inventor: HICKS JOHN KENNETH
IPC: C08G18/48
Filed: 1989-03-13
Abstract: An orthopaedic splinting bandage comprises a substrate which carriers an isocyanate functional resin containing residues of a diol, triol or tetrol and an aromatic polyisocyanate. The diol is a polyethylene glycol, the triol or tetrol has a molecular weight of less than 200 and the weight ratio of diol and triol or tetrol to aromatic isocyanate is less than 1:1. The resins will normally contain conventional additives such as catalysts, stabilizers, antifoams etc.
Patent GB-2231136-A (GB)
Title: Gas separation
Inventor: BENJAMIN ROSALIND
IPC: F25B45/00
Filed: 1989-03-17
Abstract: The present invention provides a process for the removal of undesirable fire extinguishing vapours, such as halocarbons, from substantially enclosed spaces, such as rooms in a building, and without contaminating the atmosphere, by condensation. There is also provided condensing apparatus for performing said process.
Patent GB-2251686-A (GB)
Title: Downhole seismic source
Inventor: SIMPSON DAVID
IPC: G01V1/155
Filed: 1989-05-09
Abstract: A tool comprises a drive unit (10) for generating seismic energy by the reciprocation of a mass (24) within a bore (22) in a housing (20) using two linear motors. Clamp units (8, 12) are fitted at either end of the tool and each has a piston (16) which is moveable between a deployed position in which it projects into engagement with the borehole wall and a retracted position flush with the tool housing. The clamp units (8, 12) secure the tool with a high degree of rigidity into the borehole so that seismic energy generated by the reciprocating mass (24) is transmitted into the surrounding geological strata. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2218757-A (GB)
Title: A seal for a spherical thread drive system
Inventor: FEDELI GIANCARLO
IPC: F16J15/16
Filed: 1989-05-19
Abstract: In a seal for a thread drive system consisting of a plurality of ring parts arranged one within the other, an operationally- reliable compact unit made of few parts is achieved by the use of a sealing ring (1) which rests on the threaded spindle and is made of rigid synthetic plastics material, the ring having a single-thread section (2) on the axially-staggered ends of which there is integrally formed a transverse connection (3) closing the thread gap. 
<??>A clamping ring 8 of elastic material exerts a radial pressure on the sealing ring 1. The sealing and clamping rings 1, 8 are surrounded by a housing ring 9 of metal which has flanges 10, 11 embracing the rings 1, 8. 
<??>The ring 1 is slotted and has circumferential gaps to adapt to variable diameters. 
<??>The ring 1 includes a scraper element 13 to increase the sealing effect. 
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Patent GB-2220569-A (GB)
Title: Use of catechol-o-methyl transferase (COMT) inhibitors as anti-cancer agents
Inventor: LINDEN INGE-BRITT YVONNE
IPC: A61K31/06
Filed: 1989-06-12
Abstract: Catechol-o-methyl transferase (COMT)-inhibitors are useful in the treatment of estrogen dependent cancer. Such COMT-inhibitors described in GB-A-2200109 and EP-A-0237929 are particularly useful e.g. 3,5-dinitro- catechol and N,N-diethyl-2-cyano-3-(3,4-dihydroxy-5-nitrophenyl) acrylamide, in the treatment of breast cancer.
Patent GB-2238180-A (GB)
Title: Cable laying equipment
Inventor: KNIGHT BRIAN THOMAS
IPC: H02G1/10
Filed: 1989-11-14
Abstract: A cable burying device (3) comprises several heavy hollow tapered elements (7, 8) coupled to each other (7A, 7B, 8A, 8B) to provide limited flexibility, which is towed along the seabed and which digs a trench, the cable (1) passing through the length of the device to become buried in the trench. The elements may have different sorts of spikes X, Y, Z (Fig 5) according to the soil to be trenched. A guide tube (2) to guide the cable (1) from the ship to the device (3) is disclosed which has a flexible lattice construction (Figs. 6, 7, 8) and which can be folded flat for ease of storage on the ship. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2226357-A (GB)
Title: Sash windows
Inventor: PEDERSEN SVEND ARNT SCHJAER
IPC: E06B3/44
Filed: 1989-12-20
Abstract: Sash windows of the type having two vertically sliding sashes placed in mutually offset planes for sliding so as to cover each other when opening the window the sashes being guided in vertical guides (4) cut in a common frame (1), and wherein each sash is equilibrated, i.e. self-retaining, in any position by means of balance springs (5); the sashes being carried by sliding mountings consisting of slide block members (6) having projecting pins (9) engaging elongated oblique guiding grooves in the sash sides, to guide the sash relative to the sliding mountings - and therefore also relative to the pins - so that the sash is subjected to a plane-parallel displacement toward or away from the frame (1), to compress elastomer profiled sealing strips between the sash and the frame or between the middle sections of the sashes to obtain sealing of the window when closed. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-899622-A (GB)
Abstract: 899,622. Two-part couplings. ASSOCIATED ELECTRICAL INDUSTRIES Ltd. Oct. 24, 1958 [Nov. 5, 1957], No. 34496/57. Class 38 (1). In H.T. apparatus wherein a supply unit 16 is connected by a cable 2 to an ignition device 3 such as a sparking-plug, detachable connectors are provided at the ends of the cable and the supply side of each connector incorporates a switch which automatically connects the H.T. conductor to earth when the connector is disengaged. The connector at the ignition device end of the cable, Fig. 1, comprises a tubular body 1a which screws into a wall 4b to retain the ignition device in an aperture therein. A central, double-headed, plunger contact 11 is carried by an insulator 12 in the body 1a and a contact 10 carried by an insulator 9 on the end of cable 2 is retained in engagement with plunger 11 by a nut 7 engaging the outer end of body 1a, resilient contact pressure being provided by a spring 13 acting between a sleeve 6 and the insulator 9, the sleeve 6 together with an outer crimped sleeve 5 serving to grip the outer cable covering. On disconnection of the body 1a from the wall 4b, the spring 13 urges plunger 11 outwards until the head 11b thereof engages a metal washer 14 thereby connecting the central conductor 2a to the body 1a. This connection is broken when the body 1a is re-connected to the wall 4b. At the supply unit end of the cable, Fig. 2, a terminal 16b of the unit carries a spring-blade 24 on which is mounted a contact 23. The end of the blade engages an earthing post 25 on the unit casing when no cable connector 21 is engaged in a sleeve 18 carried by the casing. Connector 21 is similar to that on the other end of the cable and when retained in sleeve 18 by a nut 17, spring 13b urges a contact 22 on the cable end into engagement with contact 23 and disengages blade 24 from the post 25 to provide a H.T. supply for the cable. In a modification, Fig. 4, a contact 27 on the end of the cable engages the ignition device 3 directly and is backed by an insulator 31, a washer 30 and a spring 32, the two latter being located in a ferrule 26 on the end of the cable. In the disconnected position shown, a spring 29 surrounding insulator 31 presses a washer 28 against the contact 27 and thus connects it to the ferrule. This connection is broken by the end of the housing of the ignition device when the cable connector is connected thereto by means of the nut 33.
Patent GB-2232707-A (GB)
Title: Gate apparatus
Inventor: EVANS ROBERT GERAINT
IPC: E05F13/00
Filed: 1990-06-15
Abstract: Gate apparatus comprising a barrier (1) mounted on support means (4) so as to be displaceable by the action of a vehicle thereagainst from a closed position into an open position in opposite directions; biassing or other force-exerting or force-transmitting means (20) for urging said barrier into its closed position; latch means or securing means (8) biassed to retain said barrier in its closed position when it returns thereto from either of the open positions; and release means (16) for releasing said latch means or securing means and operable by engagement on either side of the barrier by a front portion of the vehicle which is to pass through said gate apparatus. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2234391-A (GB)
Title: Fluorescent lamp
Inventor: OSADA KIMIO
IPC: H01J61/32
Filed: 1990-06-15
Abstract: In a fluorescent lamp, a curved discharge path is constituted by a plurality of bulbs (1a, 1b) and a cap (10) interconnecting end portions of the bulbs. Terminal electrodes (4a, 4b) are provided at end portions of the bulbs, which are situated at both ends of the discharge path. An intermediate electrode (12) is arranged within the cap. A voltage is applied selectively between the intermediate electrode (12) and the terminal electrodes (4a, 4b), thereby selectively enabling the bulbs to emit light. The bulbs have apertures (3a, 3b) having different widths and positions. Different types of phosphor layers (2a, 2b) is formed on the inner surfaces of the bulbs, thereby selectively emitting light of different wavelengths. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2233659-A (GB)
Title: Improved macromers for preparation of graft polymer polyol dispersions
Inventor: DAVIS JOHN EUGENE
IPC: C08G18/83
Filed: 1990-06-28
Abstract: New macromers useful for the preparation of white, stable, high solids, low viscosity vinyl graft polymer polyol dispersions contain alkyl fumarate groups. These macromers may be produced by reacting an alkyl fumaryl or alkoxyalkylfumaryl halide with a polyol. e.g. a polyether polyol. The macromers may be used together with a reaction moderator in the in situ polymerisation of one or more vinyl monomers to form the vinyl graft polymer polyol dispersion.
Patent GB-2237771-A (GB)
Title: Greetings card with mirror surface
Inventor: ENSOR CHARLES HOWARD
IPC: B42D15/04
Filed: 1989-11-10
Abstract: A blank for a greetings card comprises two superposable lamina members (11, 12) joined by a fold line (13). One surface, ie. a front surface, of the lamina member (11) has a mirror finish. The fold line (13) is such that said one surface serves as an inner surface of a greetings card produced from the blank, in use. The opposed lamina member (12) is die-cut or printed thereon to provide an alpha-numeric message (14) and/or a design which is readably viewable in the said mirrored surface when lamina members (11,12) are positioned apart at an acute angle one to other, in use. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2239312-A (GB)
Title: Optical fibre monitoring
Inventor: HAWKINS RONALD GEORGE
IPC: G02B6/00
Filed: 1990-12-20
Abstract: A handtool for detecting whether or not an optical fibre F is carrying a light signal includes a motor-driven operating mechanism mounted in the tool housing (1) for causing a pressure member (9) to move towards or away from an anvil (4) so that when the pressure member is caused to move towards the anvil an optical fibre positioned between the pressure member and the anvil will be subjected to microbending of a gradually increasing extent. The motor-driven operating mechanism preferably comprises a screw-threaded shaft (12) supported in the housing (1) and rotatably driven about its axis by the motor (14) in either rotational direction. This application is directed to a modification of the apparatus for detecting whether or not an optical fibre is carrying a light signal forming the subject of co-pending European Patent. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2240472-A (GB)
Title: Agent for use in the prevention, control or reversal of hypertension
Inventor: MASTERSON JOSEPH GERARD
IPC: A61K31/565
Filed: 1991-01-28
Abstract: Compounds of the formula (I> <IMAGE> in which R is a hydrogen or bromine atom and R1 is a hydrogen atom, an SO2OM group wherein M is a hydrogen or sodium atom, or a sulphatide, phosphatide or glucuronide group and wherein the broken line represents an optical double bond, and the hydrogen atom at position 5 is present in the  alpha - or ss-configuration or a mixture of both configurations are used for the manufacture of medicaments for use in the prevention, control or reversal of hypertension, especially essential hypertension.