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Patent GB-2453150-A (GB)
Title: Archuate top sheet for use in a roof assembly
Inventor: JEFFERY ROBIN ADRIAN REXWORTHY
IPC: E04D3/28
Filed: 2007-09-27
Abstract: A top sheet for use in a roof or similar light assembly, the top sheet comprising a translucent or transparent panel, at least one fixing point at opposite ends of the panel for connection with fixing elements, the panel including an arcuate portion between opposed fixing points.
Patent GB-2448209-A (GB)
Title: Multi-coloured crayons with associated packaging
Inventor: MESALIC ADMIR JAMES
IPC: B43K19/00
Filed: 2008-02-01
Abstract: A crayon has a shank, a tip and a plurality of longitudinally extending different colour zones. The crayon has generally planar exterior side surfaces on the tip and shank forming vertices therebetween. A colour zone bridges a vertex providing the same colour of marking material on opposite sides of a respective vertex, eg 31B. Packaging containers for the crayons having a high packing density are also disclosed.
Patent GB-2442426-A (GB)
Title: A universal power socket
Inventor: LEE KWOK KIT PATRICK
IPC: H01R13/453
Filed: 2006-08-03
Abstract: An electrical socket (100) for receiving an electrical plug, the socket comprising a first socket region (1) and a second socket region (2) which are electrically connected for alternative use, each of said first and said second socket regions comprising a base pair ((121, 122) , (111, 112)) of contact receptacles and a third contact receptacle (113, 123) which are located at the vertices of an isosceles triangular arrangement with the base pair of contact receptacles disposed at the base vertices of the isosceles triangular arrangement, said first socket region and said second socket region being adapted for receiving electrical plugs of a first type and a second type respectively, wherein an electrical plug of said first type and an electrical plug of said second type comprise at least a pair of base contact prongs which are respectively insertable into the pair of base contact receptacles of said first and said second socket regions respectively, and the foot-print of a pair of base contact prongs of an electrical plug of the first type falls within the foot-print of the pair of base contact receptacles of the second socket region, and the foot-print of a pair of base contact prongs of an electrical plug of said second type exceeds the foot-print of the pair of base contact receptacles of said first socket region.
Patent GB-2458448-A (GB)
Title: Controlling access to a cellular communication network
Inventor: NEIL DAVID
IPC: H04W12/06
Filed: 2008-03-12
Abstract: A network element for providing access to a cellular communication network via a communication cell comprises signal processing logic arranged to receive a message from a wireless communication unit, and determine whether to permit access based on at least an identity contained in the message. If it is determined not to permit access, the signal processing unit is arranged to generate an access barred message for transmission to the wireless communication unit, which message comprises an indication that a cause of the rejection is at least partly due to cellular access control.
Patent GB-2450991-A (GB)
Title: Closure retention and release mechanism with controller and power source
Inventor: GODDARD NICHOLAS ROGER CHARLES
IPC: E05C17/56
Filed: 2008-07-09
Abstract: A system (10) comprises a controller, a closure retention and release mechanism (10) and an electrical conduit (74). The closure retention and release mechanism may comprise an engagement plate (12) mountable to a closure and a magnetic retention and release device (14) mountable at a position remote from the closure. The magnetic retention and release device (14) may comprise a body (22) having spaced apart first and second portions (28,30) of ferrous material, a magnet (24) mounted between said portions (28,30) and an actuator powered by a power source and operable to move the magnet (24) relative to said portions. The magnet (24) is movable between a first position where each pole (40,42) of the magnet (24) is located in a respective portion of the body (22) and a second position where each pole (40,42) is not located in a respective portion of the body (22). The door may be released in the second position, for example in response to a fire.
Patent GB-2457743-A (GB)
Title: Method and Apparatus for Shimming a Magnet
Inventor: GOWLAND RICHARD
IPC: G01R33/3873
Filed: 2008-07-17
Abstract: A method of producing a shim has several 'slices'. For each slice, a first layer of powdered material is deposited. The layer is selectively bonded together in regions of the layer where presence of the material is required. Unbonded powdered material is removed from the layer, to leave gaps. Another powdered material is deposited into the gaps and bonded together in regions of the layer where presence of the first powdered material is not required. A high resolution shim arrangement is produced, which may be manufactured with equipment in its location of operation. The first material may be magnetic or magnetically inert material.
Patent GB-2456192-A (GB)
Title: Sloped upper wall of cyclone inflow channel
Inventor: OH JANG-KEUN
IPC: A47L9/16
Filed: 2008-07-29
Abstract: A cyclone apparatus, has a cyclone 21 which is internal to a dust collecting chamber 10, and in which the upper face 25a of an inflow channel to the cyclone 21 is sloped, such that material being processed in the dust collecting chamber 20 does not gather there, but rather, slides off due to gravity. The cyclone 21 may be off centred or eccentrically disposed within the dust collecting chamber 10. The cyclone 21 may form part of the exterior wall of the collecting chamber 10, and the assembly may be used in a vacuum cleaner.
Patent GB-2462634-A (GB)
Title: Switching device for controlling internet access
Inventor: MABER NICHOLAS
IPC: H04L12/28
Filed: 2008-08-14
Abstract: An in-line switch device for use between a PC and an Internet connection comprises two female RJ45 connectors interconnected via a mechanical switch. The PC and Internet connection are each connected to one of the RJ45 connectors and the switch is operable to break the connection between the two connectors thereby severing the link between the PC and the Internet. The device may also use a timer to make its use automatic. Provides parental control over a child's access to the Internet.
Patent GB-2453849-A (GB)
Title: Steam power plant with additional bypass pipe used to control power output
Inventor: RODEWALD ANDREAS
IPC: F01K7/16
Filed: 2008-10-14
Abstract: A steam power plant comprises a steam generator 1, a steam turbine and a condenser 8, wherein at least one bypass pipe 9,11 and/or a turbine start-up pipe 27 are provided for bypassing at least one pressure stage of the steam turbine. At least one further bypass pipe 10,12 is provided for the output control of the steam power plant, and which is connected in parallel to at least one pressure stage 4,5,6 of the steam turbine, said further bypass pipe 10,12 being designed to limit the mass flow of steam supplied to said at least one pressure stage 4,5,6 of the steam turbine connected in parallel. The bypass pipe 10,12 may discharge into a condenser, and may comprise a quick-action shut-off valve 16,22, a pressure reducing device 18,24, or a cooling device 20,26 to inject water into the steam. A method for controlling the output of a steam power plant is also described.
Patent GB-2454612-A (GB)
Title: Composite materials of silicon and/or tin nano-dispersed within a lithium-containing framework
Inventor: GAO YUAN
IPC: C01B33/02
Filed: 2005-04-15
Abstract: A compound comprising silicon and/or tin nano-dispersed within a lithium-containing framework, wherein at least a portion of the lithium-containing framework is formed from a lithium oxide. The compound is suitably formed by exposing an alloy comprising silicon and/or tin and lithium to oxygen. The compound is suitably used to form a battery anode.
Patent GB-2470414-A (GB)
Title: Steam Generator Using Doped Tin Oxide Coated Tube
Inventor: WILLIAMSON ROGER
IPC: A23L5/10
Filed: 2009-05-22
Abstract: A steam generator comprises an inner tube 5 and outer tube 4, the inner tube being supplied with water 3 and having conduits 7 for the water to pass to a space 8 between the tubes, the outer tube having a doped tin oxide film coating 4 on its outer wall, electrical connections 2 to the coating enabling electricity to pass through it to heat the water in the space 8 between the tubes to generate steam, the steam being expelled through an output 9. The tubes may have any shaped cross section and the outer tube may be a glass or ceramic substrate. The inner tube may comprise two perforated sub tubes 5, 6 rotatable relative to one another, alignment of holes 7 adjusting the spray. The film may be semi-conducting, e.g. antimony tin oxide (ATO) or fluorine-doped tin oxide, may be transparent and may provide a temperature sensor and switch or rectifier. The generator can be used in a domestic iron, for cooking or in steam cleaners.
Patent GB-2458045-A (GB)
Title: A method of dropping objects into a wellbore
Inventor: ARCE DAVID A
IPC: E21B33/05
Filed: 2005-07-26
Abstract: A method of dropping or launching one or more first objects, balls (36 figure 2), and then one or more second objects, darts 44, into a wellbore features a first device 12, for dropping the first objects, and a second device 10 for dropping the second objects, mounted above the first device. The first device has a closable ball drop opening (42 figure 3), which is selectively obstructed after the ball 36 is released, to minimize damage to a subsequently released dart 44. The opening may be obstructed by a door which is shaped to conform to the shape of the common passage through which the objects are dropped. A retainer 52 keeps the darts 44 from coming back up above the dart launcher in the event of a pressure surge in the well. The dart launcher features a dedicated movable barrel with spaces 46,48 for each dart 44 that can be locked in fully misaligned and fully aligned position with the common passage.
Patent GB-2458076-A (GB)
Title: Apparatus, systems and methods for seabed data acquisition
Inventor: COMBEE LEENDERT
IPC: G01V1/22
Filed: 2007-12-07
Abstract: Seabed sensor units, systems including same, and methods for acquiring seabed data are described, one seabed sensor unit comprising a base, the base containing at least one sensor able to detect a seismic signal, electronics comprising a clock and one or more electronic components enabling the sensor to communicate seismic data to one or more memory modules, and a local autonomous power source. This abstract is provided to comply with the rules requiring an abstract, which will allow a searcher or other reader to quickly ascertain the subject matter of the technical disclosure. It is submitted with the understanding that it will not be used to interpret or limit the scope or meaning of the claims.
Patent GB-2474526-A (GB)
Title: Fibre wound vessel
Inventor: CARR ROGER
IPC: F17C1/04
Filed: 2009-12-16
Abstract: There is provided a vessel 10 comprising a plastics container 12 overwound with fibre to provide a first layer (35, figure 3) of threads 32 overlain by a second layer (37, figure 3) of hoop wound threads, wherein the threads 32 within the first layer (35, figure 3) are laid in at least two different orientations thereby to lock the threads 32 in a fixed relationship to each other. The threads 32 within the first layer (35, figure 3) are formed as a plurality of bands 34,34', each band containing threads of one orientation. If the container 12 should be subjected to large external forces sufficient to crush the container 12 over at least part of its surface, such a loose wound fibre wrap maintains its structural integrity with the threads 32 remaining in a fixed relationship to each other and is sufficiently flexible that the container 12 can restore to its original shape over time. The vessel may be a pressure vessel such as a fire extinguisher.
Patent GB-220261-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to ship's derricks and like cranes
IPC: B66C23/60
Filed: 1923-05-14
Abstract: 220,261. Hansen, L. E. May 14, 1923. Derricks.-Relates to derricks of the kind in which a swivelling pulley is mounted in a housing A, Figs. 1 and 4, at the top of the crane mast to lead the load rope 6 through the hollow mast to the winch. The swivelling housing A is outside the mast and is provided with a flange 47 which is retained in a groove in a cylindrical member 36 secured on or within the top of the mast. The lower end of the derrick 7 is mounted on a pin 9, Fig. 6, in a ring 10 provided with ball or roller bearings which take both vertical and horizontal pressures. Two derricks may be mounted on two crane masts 3 which are side by side and are braced together by a transverse member at the top. The winches may be enclosed in deck-houses 21 behind the masts, and the controlling gear may be on the roofs of these houses. The hoisting rope 6 may be led from the lower part of the crane mast to electrically-operated winches amidships through a casing below the deck, and an electric cable for the controls may pass through the same casing to a suitable operating station. The luffing line 19 passes through pulley blocks 16, 17, 18. The block 16 is mounted on a strap 14 pivoted on the pin 9, and the block 17 is supported from the swivelling member A. The pin 9 is formed at one end as a cleat for securing the luffing line. The arrangement facilitates luffing and slueing, and provides a free space around the crane masts for the loading operations. To enable a derrick to swing through a complete circle, stays for the mast are dispensed with, or in applying the invention to existing vessels with hollow crane masts the ring 10 is fixed above the stays. In one form of construction, the swivelling housing A contains two sheaves 40, 41, Fig. 4, the sheave 41 taking part of the pressure when the derrickis in its lowest positions.
Patent GB-807081-A (GB)
Title: Multipurpose inflatable structure
IPC: E04H15/20
Filed: 1957-03-28
Abstract: 807,081. Inflatable life-rafts. GARRETT CORPORATION. March 28, 1957 [June 6, 1956], No. 10161/57. Class 113. [Also in Group X] An inflatable structure, e.g. a life-raft, comprises an inflatable thermally insulating bottom section 10, having a circumferentially disposed inflatable tube 11 with an inflatable thermally insulating floor 12 to which is attached an inflatable thermally insulating superstructure 26 comprising a circumferentially disposed inflatable tube 27, inflatable ribs 28 and wall segments 32. Doors 75, windows 83, adjustable ventilators 73 and an annular ventilation hatch 41 with a cover 57 may be provided. The floor wall segments doors and hatch are constructed of two-ply air tight fabric, e.g. 33, 34 interconnected by a multiplicity of spaced tie threads 35 and the doors have inner and outer peripheral rings 80 and 79 to overlap the canopy wall and form a seal ; the windows comprise inner and outer panes secured to the fabrics. The circumferential tubes, ramp beams 18, ribs and members forming the supporting framework may be inflated prior to the floor and canopy wall. Inflation assemblies 47 and 48 together with valves e.g. 50 may be provided together with boarding ramps 17, water ballast buckets 24, life lines 87 and slings 94.
Patent GB-384523-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to metal screw propellers
IPC: B64C11/24
Filed: 1932-04-11
Abstract: 384,523. Screw propellers. HAW, J. Zeppelinhafen, Staaken, Berlin. April 11, 1932, No. 10272. [Class 114.] Hollow propeller blades cast from light metal are stiffened by a longitudinal V-rib 5 and longitudinal rods 3, 4, 3. These rods extend into the circular sectioned root and are secured to a cap member thereon. In order to provide access to the fastening means for rods in the transverse ribs 2 of the blade, holes 13 are provided which are closed by tapped nipples.
Patent GB-683423-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to antibiotic substances produced by group n streptococcus lactis
Inventor: FALCONER RODERICK
IPC: A23K1/00
Filed: 1950-04-26
Abstract: The antibiotic nisin is produced by fermenting Streptococcus lactis (Group N Lancefield) in a carbohydrate containing aqueous medium containing a source of organic nitrogen and maintained at a pH of 5.5 to 7.0, and preferably 5.9 to 6.0, by the addition of alkali, e.g. sodium hydroxide.  Increased yields are obtained by adding to the fermentation medium an alkali metal or alkaline earth metal salt of pantothenic acid, and 0.02 to 1.0 per cent of a sulphate ion.  The nisin is isolated by extracting the centrifuged or filtered cells obtained from the fermentation mash with an acidified aqueous solution of acetone, or of an aliphatic alcohol containing up to 4 carbon atoms in the molecule, at a pH 0.5 to 3.5.  The acid may be hydrochloric, sulphuric, nitric, phosphoric, chlorosulphonic, a fatty acid containing up to 4 carbon atoms in the molecule, oxalic, malonic, succinic, glycollic, lactic, tartaric or citric.  The extract is treated with sodium chloride at 6 per cent and 15 per cent concentration. The precipitate produced with the higher concentration is crystallized from 70 per cent acetone or 80 per cent alcohol saturated with Nall at 0 DEG  C.  Alternatively the nisin may be precipitated from the solvent extract at pH2 by the addition of up to 10 volumes of a solvent such as acetone, ethyl acetate, ether or mixtures thereof, in which the nisin is insoluble.  The fermentation medium of the example consists of glucose, yeast extract, sodium dihydrogen phosphate, magnesium sulphate and calcium pantothenate adjusted to a pH of 7.2 which fell to pH6.7 during sterilization. The medium was maintained at 30 DEG  C. and a pH of 5.9 to 6.1.
Patent GB-1092556-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to high-vacuum cold traps
IPC: B01J3/00
Filed: 1965-03-11
Abstract: 1,092,556. Diffusion pump baffles. GRANVILLE-PHILLIPS CO. March 11, 1965 [March 13, 1964], No. 10294/65. Heading F1E. A high vacuum cold trap includes a coolant vessel 56 which has an internal passage having a part containing a baffle 52 and another part defining a double-walled portion 32, 84 of the coolant vessel, the inner wall 32 extending beyond the coolant vessel remotely from the baffle. The coolant vessel is filled through orifice 80 and coolant passes by gravity through pipe 54, space 92 and pipe 55. Space 70 is evacuated by a diffusion pump secured to flange 36.
Patent GB-789427-A (GB)
Title: Process for the preparation of a biologically active compound
IPC: A61K36/63
Filed: 1956-04-04
Abstract: A biologically active hypotensive substance which is a colourless glittering crystalline solid having an acicular and prism-like structure, a melting-point between 153 DEG  and 155 DEG  C., [a ]21D in acetone of +367 DEG , [a ]21D in chloroform of +369 DEG , and an absorption spectrum in absolute ethyl alcohol with maxima at 225 and 317 mm , is extracted from plants of the oleaceae family, e.g. olea europa, olives.  Selected parts of the plants, e.g. bark, leaves, roots or fruits, or an extract of these parts in water or a water-miscible organic solvent, e.g. ethanol, acetone, are extracted with a non-water-miscible organic solvent, e.g. chloroform, methylene chloride, carbon tetrachloride and benzene, evaporating the separated non-water-miscible organic solvent, distilling the oily residue, if desired after a further purification, in vacuo and separating the fraction distilling between 120 DEG  and 160 DEG  C. at 0.1 mm. mercury and bringing this fraction to crystallization.  The extract of the plants in water or a water-miscible organic solvent may be subjected to an acid hydrolysis using an organic aliphatic acid, e.g. acetic, butyric, succinic or citric acid, or an inorganic acid, e.g. phosphoric, hydrochloric or sulphuric acid, or a cation exchanger in the acid form, e.g. Dowex-50.  The extract in the non-water-miscible organic solvent may be purified by evaporation, extracting the oily residue with water, extracting the filtered separated aqueous solution with ether and evaporating the ethereal extract and distilling the oily residue in vacuo as before.  The hypotensive substance may be administered orally or parenterally as tablets, solutions, suspensions or isotonic aqueous solutions, in admixture with normal excipients, e.g. gelatin, starch, lactose, cane sugar, talcum powder, stearic acid, magnesium stearate and physiological salt solutions.
Patent GB-1465882-A (GB)
Title: Type carrier
IPC: B41J1/30
Filed: 1975-03-12
Abstract: 1465882 Selective printing PITNEY-BOWES Inc 12 March 1975 [15 March 1974] 10358/75 Heading B6F A print disc comprises a hub 21 from which arms 22 extend radially, each arm branching into a plurality of fingers 23, each finger supporting a separate type element 26. The arms may be reinforced by thickened portions at the junctions of the fingers.
Patent GB-952103-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to strip lace
Inventor: GRANGER RICHARD JOHN TURNEY
IPC: D04C1/00
Filed: 1961-03-22
Abstract: 952,103. Severing by tearing. R. GRANGER & SONS Ltd., and G. W. PRICE Ltd. March 7, 1962 [March 22, 1961], No. 10423/61. Heading B4B. [Also in Division D1] Strips of lace B, C are united during manufacture by strong threads D, F which are secured to each other and to the edges of adjacent strips of lace by weak threads A, E, G. To separate the strips, the fabric is fed around rollers 7, 8 and over a guide roller 1 and as it passes over the latter the two strong threads D, F are gripped by take-up rollers 2, 3 to tear them from the fabric by breaking the weak threads A, E, G. The separated threads are then fed over rollers 9, 10 whereafter brush rollers 4, 5 brush out the loose ends of the weak threads from the strips which are finally received in a receptacle 6.