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Patent GB-2266876-A (GB)
Title: Motor-driven measuring tape
Inventor: CHENG HAN TENG
IPC: G01B3/10
Filed: 1992-04-29
Abstract: A motor-driven measuring tape comprises a reversible electric motor 10 controlled by a Forward/Backward/Stop three- step control switch 26 to rotate a reel 24 through transmission gears to let off or take up measuring tape 25. The gears comprise a driven gear 15 driven by a driving gear 14 on the motor output shaft 13 and a transmission gear 17 meshed with the internal toothing 19 of annular gear 18 and driven by said driven gear 15 via small gear 16. The annular gear is attached to the reel by screws. The motor is driven by rechargeable battery 12. Housing covers are transparent. The tape is stopped as required using a rotary stop button (30) <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2267265-A (GB)
Title: Longitudinal wings flying machine.
Inventor: HENWOOD GEORGE ARTHUR
IPC: B64C23/00
Filed: 1992-05-22
Abstract: Means for providing flying machines with a capability of slow take-off and landing and/or vertical take-off and landing and/or hover. As shown diagrammatically, wings or aerofoils with or without lift enhancing devices such as slots and flaps, are arranged in alignment with the fuselage or hull of a flying machine and so disposed that lateral flows of gases originating from the machines engine(s) are made to flow over the wings thus generating lift to sustain the machine in flight. The wings and gas flows are symmetrical on each side of the machine in order to cancel sideways forces. The wings support the machine via struts which may be adjustable for maximum lifting efficiency and to permit retraction when the machine is in full flight and being supported by other means such as small conventional wings (10) (Fig. 4). <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2268165-A (GB)
Title: Adapting capping apparatus for applying different closures
Inventor: ROBERTS IAN RICHARD
IPC: B67B3/18
Filed: 1992-06-30
Abstract: A capping apparatus comprising one or more sealing heads having means specific to the application of a respective first closure to each of a succession of containers is provided with an adaptor 200 that can be releasably attachable to a sealing head to enable that sealing head to instead apply a respective second and different closure to each of a further succession of containers. The sealing head may include a plurality of pivotally mounted arms carrying rollers (20, 34, Figure 1) for metal forming the skirts of the first closures, the container rucks being received in an annular disc 16 mounted below the arms. The adaptor may comprise an annular portion 202 carrying projections 226 which releasably fit in keyways in the disc 16. The adaptor may have a central spindle 238 mounted for rotation within the annular portion. The adaptor serves to apply downward pressure on a second closure so causing it to snap fit onto a container neck. The spindle 238 prevents a design on the closure from being obliterated during application of the closure. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2268577-A (GB)
Title: A cyclonic liquid ornamental lamp
Inventor: LIN RICH
IPC: F21S8/00
Filed: 1992-07-08
Abstract: A transparent vessel 1 contains two liquids of different densities in which a vortex is generated by impeller 13. Ornamental lighting effects are provided by bulb 23. The liquid may contain solid objects or (Fig 8) a suspended reflective ball (50). The impeller may be magnetically coupled to a vari-speed motor and is eccentrically mounted with respect to the vessel axis. Shaped baffle 11 controls the fluid flow. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2260087-A (GB)
Title: Subsea degassing system
Inventor: STOCKMAN STEVEN MILES
IPC: B01D19/00
Filed: 1992-09-16
Abstract: A system and method for boosting the transportation pressure in a subsea multiphase fluid pipeline (18) has at least one booster station (10). The booster station has a riser assembly separator (12) which allows the gaseous phase to separate from the oil and water phases. The gas collected can be used to generate energy to drive a pump (32) to pump the remaining liquid phase through a continuing production pipe (34); alternatively the gas may be separated and passed along line (40). <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2260608-A (GB)
Title: Monitoring ceramic welding
Inventor: ZIVKOVIC ALEXANDRE
IPC: B05B15/68
Filed: 1992-10-08
Abstract: In a ceramic welding process, a mixture of refractory and fuel particles is projected in a gas stream from an outlet 12 at an end of a lance 10 against a target surface 21 where the fuel particles combust in a reaction zone 22 to produce heat to soften or melt the projected refractory particles and thereby form a coherent refractory weld mass. The reaction zone 22 and at least part of the gap between that reaction zone and the lance outlet 12 is monitored by a camera 18 and an electronic signal is produced indicative of the working distance between the lance outlet 12 and the reaction zone 22. The monitoring apparatus may be calibrated by clamping a scale to the end of the lance (11). The scale has a series of holes behind which is positioned a light source so that the camera sees a series of light spots of known spacing. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2263703-A (GB)
Title: Culture dish
Inventor: LABARTHE JEAN-CHRISTOPHE
IPC: C12M1/22
Filed: 1993-01-29
Abstract: A culture dish comprises an axisymmetric receptacle (1) having a bottom on which is disposed a layer (2) of a culture medium and a movable lid (5), covering the receptacle (1) and having an internal face from which emerges a spreader (9), and means including notches (11) in a peripheral rib (10), a lowering stud (12), and stops (14) and (17) making it possible to transfer the lid (5) from a depositing position in which the spreader (9) is distant from the layer (2) to a spreading position in which it touches the layer (2). Those means are arranged such that the transfer requires at least two movements, in different directions, with respect to the receptacle, to be imparted to the lid. It is possible to transfer from the depositing position to the spreading position only by deliberate actions, which prevents accidental or inadvertent return to the spreading position from the depositing position. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2277001-A (GB)
Title: Motion compensated video standards conversion; simultaneous spatial and temporal interpolation.
Inventor: MANZE SIMON MATTHEW
IPC: H04N7/01
Filed: 1993-04-08
Abstract: A motion compensated video standards converter is described in which simultaneous temporal interpolation and line rate conversion is performed. Motion vectors 30, associated with input pixels 26, 28 are determined. The motion vector to be applied to a particular output pixel 32, that is non co-incident with the input pixels is taken from the spatially closest pixel 38 in the array of input pixels. The input fields between which interpolation may be made can be in an interlaced format with the motion vectors having been determined from interpolated versions of the interlaced input fields in which the input pixels have been made coincident between the fields. By using a single interpolator for both spatial and temporal interpolation, circuit cost and noise associated with an extra processing stage can be reduced. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2268426-A (GB)
Title: Bead mill
Inventor: FORREST JOSEPH MILLER
IPC: B02C17/16
Filed: 1993-07-07
Abstract: The mill, for wet grinding e.g of ink, paint, comprises a stationary casing 12, 14, 16, a shaft 40 rotatable within the casing and having a plurality of bead rotating discs 52 connected to it. The mill has a closeable opening 32 through which a mass of beads can be introduced, an inlet 30 through which a liquid to be ground can be pumped, and an outlet 38 through which ground liquid is delivered after passing through a screen 34. At least some of the discs have a triangular profile truncated at every corner, which traps beads, this causes the mass of beads to swirl around relative to cylinder 24 of the casing whereby rotational movement is imparted to the individual beads relative to one another; and/or by causing the beads to be packed closely into the outlet end of the mill by the force of the flow of liquid, and/or by making the ratio of the minimum radial clearance between the discs and the cylinder to the nominal diameter of the beads not greater than 10:1. As shown discs have slots 76 to enhance flow. The truncated triangular profile for the discs may be retained towards the outlet end of the mill. Cooling water enters a jacket 18; a hole 10 therein indicates leakage past seals 68. Mill may be shut down automatically if leakage occurs. Devices for monitoring temperature and pressure within cylinder may be provided. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2269322-A (GB)
Title: Medico-surgical assembly with fluid tube and signal line.
Inventor: CARTER ROLAND HENRY CLYNE
IPC: A61J15/00
Filed: 1993-07-19
Abstract: A naso-gastric feeding tube 10 has an ECG monitoring electrode 15 connected to a wire 16 that extends along the bore 14 of the tube. At its machine end, the tube 10 and wire 16 are bent into a side arm 26 of a Y-piece coupling 20 moulded about the tube. An opening 18 in the wall of the tube 10 enables feeding fluid to be supplied to the tube via the other arm 23 of the coupling. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2270059-A (GB)
Title: A station for distributing products.
Inventor: MOELLER KURT
IPC: B65G47/64
Filed: 1993-08-20
Abstract: A station for distributing products to a line 22 for supplying packaging machines or for storage if necessary comprises a first conveyor 5 having an end which is driven so as to oscillate between a raised configuration and a lowered, receiving configuration in which it is aligned with the output U of a vertically oscillatable product-conveyor line and is disposed above the centre-line M of the line 22 perpendicular thereto for supplying a packaging machine, and a first product-transfer unit 23 which is aligned with and below the first conveyor 5 and is driven in an oscillatory manner in order to move its input from a raised collecting position in which it is aligned with the product-conveyor line whilst the first conveyor 5 is in the raised configuration, to a lowered discharge position in which it is coplanar with the supply line 22, and a second transfer unit for any storage that may be necessary on the first conveyor 5 being disposed specularly on the opposite side of the supply line 22 to act, respectively, with the first conveyor 5 and as a unit for transferring to the supply line 22 the products previously accumulated on the first conveyor 5, which is drivable in opposite directions. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2281570-A (GB)
Title: Fabric tensioning device
Inventor: LETT DAVID
IPC: B44D3/18
Filed: 1993-09-04
Abstract: A fabric tensioning device suitable for use in tensioning the fabric in tents and the like is described. The device comprises a hub member 11 and an array of fabric support arms 12 which are engaged with the hub member 11 at their proximal ends 13 so that the proximal ends 13 lie in a common plane, the arms 12 being pivotable relative to the hub member 11 between a first configuration in which the arms are relatively closed up (figure 1), the distal ends thereof are disposed on one side of the common plane and fabric supported by the arms 12 is relaxed, a second configuration (figure 2) in which the arms 12 are splayed apart, their distal ends are disposed on the opposite side of the common plane and the fabric is tensioned. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2271076-A (GB)
Title: Method and apparatus for manufacturing carbon brake discs
Inventor: SNYDER DAVID R
IPC: C04B35/80
Filed: 1993-09-29
Abstract: Carbon discs for brake disc assemblies are made by feeding continuous strands (18) of carbon fibre from spools (14) into a die (22, 24), compressing the material in the die, and treating the material (e.g. by heating in an oven 40) so that it retains its shape on removal from the die. The die 24 and the fibre dispensing head 20 may move relative to each other, until a predetermined amount of fibre has been dispensed. Cutter 32 may cut the fibre into short strands during dispensing. The fibre can be dispensed into resin, and more resin may be added after compaction. If resin is used, it is cured in the oven. The disc is then carbonized, densified and finally machined to shape.   <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2283005-A (GB)
Title: Multi-layer label
Inventor: PLIMMER JEREMY JOHN
IPC: G09F3/02
Filed: 1993-10-19
Abstract: The label consists of a sheet having at least one fold line, as shown two parallel fold lines (10, 11), separating it into equal-sized portions (12, 13 and 14). Each portion has tabs formed by C-shaped cuts and these are superposed when the sheet is folded. The tabs can be pressed through to the back of the folded label and folded under. The tabs become trapped in this position when the label is adhesively attached to a surface. Where there are two or more folds, they may be parallel, as shown, or mutually perpendicular but in all cases the parts forming each layer have cuts in register with those in the other layers thus forming superposed tabs. The folded label may include transparent portions and may serve as a pocket for a printed insert. The label may also be used as a fixed penalty parking fine slip, in which case it would be made of waterproof material and such labels would be in a pad wherein each label would have a duplicate copy page and employ self-manifolding material. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2274559-A (GB)
Title: Multi-pole connector
Inventor: ISHII TAKASHI
IPC: H01R13/502
Filed: 1994-01-25
Abstract: A multi-pole connector 1 comprises a housing 3 receiving a plurality of plugs 2 and a housing 5 for a plurality of sockets 4. Each housing has a frame 8, 15 for receiving the plugs and sockets, the housing 3 for the plugs having ribs 11 which protect the plugs 2 and guide frame 8 into frame 15. Projections 12 lock the plugs against the detents 13 in frame 8 and a projection 14 on the plugs 2 locates the plugs in place. Similarly projections 17 on the sockets lock against detents 18 of frame 15. The housings are held together temporarily by projections (24 Figure 3) on frame 15 locating in holes (25) on frame 8 and then fixedly by a bolt 6 and captive nut (7). <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2278631-A (GB)
Title: Identification system
Inventor: BERTENSHAW PHILIP HALL
IPC: G07C9/00
Filed: 1994-04-27
Abstract: A proximity access control system, for example for use with a door lock, has a reader (12) and an identification token (11). The reader (12) operates in a normal low power mode until the token (11) is detected. The reader (12) then switches into a higher power mode in which sufficient power is generated to be able to read a code carried by the token (11). The reader (12) may generate pulses of decaying oscillations in the low power mode. In order to eliminate static environmental influences due to metallic materials in the vicinity of the reader (12), the reader (12) may establish a normal reference count for the decaying oscillations over a period of time during a period of stability. The reader (12) then responds to a change in this normal count. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2293292-A (GB)
Title: SDH/ATM hybrid cross connect
Inventor: CAVES KEITH
IPC: H04L49/111
Filed: 1994-09-14
Abstract: A hybrid cross connect for use in a synchronous digital communications network includes an asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) switch element 21, and ingress 22 and egress 23 means for interfacing the switch element with the synchronous network. The ingress interface 22 incorporates means for recovering data bytes from incoming synchronous frames, for assembling said bytes into ATM cells for presentation to the switch element and for providing each said ATM cell with source and destination addresses. The egress interface incorporates means for recovering the data bytes from the ATM cells and for assembling said bytes into synchronous frames. The arrangement extracts the payloads carried within the incoming STM's (Synchronous Transport Module) and distributes those payloads in a predetermined manner among the appropriate output STM's. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2296711-A (GB)
Title: Partitioned container with rotatable dispensing closure
Inventor: TIEN LIN YU-MEI
IPC: B65D1/04
Filed: 1995-01-05
Abstract: A portable milk powder container comprises a container body 2, a fixed ring 3, and a rotatable top 4 with a capped outlet 42, the container body being divided into partitions 23, the ring being screw threadedly fixed around the body opening, and the top being rotatably held in a groove 32 in the inner surface of the ring. The top may have two protruding points 43, 44 which clamp onto the top of a partition such that the desired quantity of the milk powder contained in any partition may be dispensed. The container body has a handling recess 21. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2297548-A (GB)
Title: Controlling air supply to glassware blow mould by computer
Inventor: WINDLE GEORGE KENNETH
IPC: C03B9/36
Filed: 1995-01-21
Abstract: Proportional valves 18, 26 in the inlet 8 and exhaust 10 passages of blowing air supplied to a blow mould 2 of an I.S glassware manufacturing machine are controlled by a computer 32 to obtain optimum conditions of supply of air to the mould to blow a container into its final form. The computer responds to pressure signals from the pressure sensor 16 measuring the air pressure in the mould.
Patent GB-2284375-A (GB)
Title: Tig welding machine
Inventor: WADE PATRICK PAUL LESLIE
IPC: B23K9/02
Filed: 1994-06-02
Abstract: A portable, TIG welding machine comprising a guide member (1); a carriage (2) displaceable along the guide member (1) at a predetermined speed, a TIG head (15) carried by, and moveable with the carriage (2), and an automatic welding wire feed device (19 - 22) for feeding wire to the vicinity of the TIG head (15) at a suitable feed rate in accordance with wire consumption rate and carriage speed. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2287300-A (GB)
Title: Air spring for motor vehicles
Inventor: TATTERMUSCH PETER
IPC: F16F9/05
Filed: 1995-02-28
Abstract: The air spring has a piston 5 surrounded by a housing 6, the housing 6 and the piston 5 forming guide surfaces for two U-type bellows 8, 9 arranged between them and acting in opposite directions. The housing 6 and the piston 5 are formed in each case as a double ring body each having an inner ring 16, 17 and an outer ring 18, 19 connected by means of an annular collar. The individual rings are located opposite each other in mirror image and engage axially over each other in the region of the U-type bellows 8, 9 in such a way that the outer rings 18, 19 and the inner rings 16, 17 each form an annular space which receives and is closed by a U-type bellows 8, 9. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2288909-A (GB)
Title: Attaching tape to lead frames involving pre-heating of the tape
Inventor: HWANG KYU-SUNG
IPC: H01L21/50
Filed: 1995-04-26
Abstract: A tape attaching apparatus for a semiconductor lead frame includes a bonding tape drier 12 to heat and dry bonding tape under a high temperature just before a tape attaching process for the semiconductor lead frame, and a bonding tape protector 13 which protects the dried bonding tape from the ambient atmosphere until just before the bonding tape is attached to the lead frame, thereby preventing the formation of air bubbles and improving the adhesiveness of the bonding tape. The apparatus is especially effective in attaching thermoplastic bonding tape to a lead-on-chip lead frame. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2306588-A (GB)
Title: Sealing arrangement
Inventor: ERSTAD JOSTEIN
IPC: F16L17/00
Filed: 1995-11-01
Abstract: A dynamic sealing arrangement for connectors carrying high pressure fluids such as are used in the oil and gas industry for transferring production fluids from drilling installations to transport vessels. The sealing arrangement comprises a primary 8, 9 and a second 12, 13 U-shaped hydraulically operated sealing ring with open sides facing away from the junction of the connectors in the direction of the fluid leakage path. Barrier fluid under a pressure higher than that of the production fluid is supplied to the chamber between the sealing rings and independently to the open side of the secondary seal. The primary seal thus experiences a pressure differential and is activated. The secondary seal experiences a pressure differential and is activated only if the primary seal fails.
Patent GB-2308511-A (GB)
Title: Screening enclosure for coaxial cable
Inventor: MALKOWSKI RAY
IPC: H01R9/05
Filed: 1995-12-21
Abstract: A screening enclosure and connection assembly 10 enables simple and effective connection of a coaxial cable core 55 to eg a circuit board 40 within the enclosure, and the cable outer screen 53 to the walls of the enclosure or to the ground plane of the circuit board, without the use of plug and socket arrangements. The sheathed core conductor of the cable is passed through an aperture 26 in the enclosure wall to a connection point 60 inside the enclosure, while an exposed portion of the outer screen is clamped 70 directly to an adjacent portion of the wall or of the ground plane. Preferably, the connection point 60 is a screw terminal and an access port 28 is provided in the wall. A common or plurality of clamps 70 is provided for several cables, and the clamp(s) can electrically contact the screen 53 by insulation piercing. The circuit board 40 is trapped in enclosure channels 30, 31 adjacent a rebate 23, 24, or supports the enclosure on one face that includes the ground plane (figure 5).
Patent GB-2308994-A (GB)
Title: System for applying a coating composition
Inventor: MCDERMENT IAIN GRIERSON
IPC: B05C17/00
Filed: 1996-01-11
Abstract: A system (1) for applying paint and the like (2) to a surface comprises a bag (4) of the composition which is squeezed by air pressure to deliver the paint continuously to a tool (3) (e.g. a brush, roller or pad) so avoiding the need to redip the tool into the composition. The bag is adapted to be standable upright by the provision of a foldable transverse base (6) which means that the bag is squeezable transversely and so it also contains an open-ended channel-defining spacer (11) leading to an outlet (9) and provided with proximal access (14) to enable the bag also to be emptiable by pouring. The use of the channel defining member prevents the bag compartmentalising and trapping paint in pockets during use.
Patent GB-2300639-A (GB)
Title: Polyurethane compositions
Inventor: MIROSSAY THOMAS C
IPC: C08G18/50
Filed: 1996-05-01
Abstract: A two-component polyurethane sealant composition comprises a diisocyanate-based prepolymer as a first component and a polyol composition as a second component reactable with said first component, when said two components are admixed, to form a thermoset curable polyurethane, said polyol composition comprising a catalyst comprising one or a mixture of cobalt , molybdenum and vanadium alkanoates, and a ketimine.
Patent GB-2301163-A (GB)
Title: Installing pipes by using a flexible guide
Inventor: STOVES DEREK
IPC: F16L55/16
Filed: 1996-05-08
Abstract: The flexible guide 18 is inserted through the open end of a steel service pipe 12, connected to a main 10 by a tee 14, and through the tee 14 into the main 10. The guide 18 includes a coiled wire section of lower stiffness 22 and a ball and socket connection 24 of even lower stiffness at its leading end. The ball 30 is connected to a weight 34. The weight 34 falls down on entering the tee and creates a turning moment on the assembly 18. A plastic pipe is inserted through the open end of the pipe 12 over the assembly 18 and is inserted through the tee 14 into the main 10. The pipe has a corrugated leading end which is more flexible than the remainder of the pipe and has a tapered nose terminating in a cylindrical mouth which enters an aperture 70 in a liner 72 in the main 10.