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Patent GB-2248798-A (GB)
Title: Coin holder and greetings arrangement
Inventor: IDDON MARTIN RICHARD
IPC: B42D15/04
Filed: 1990-10-20
Abstract: A coin holder 1 includes circular openings 3 in the shape of numerals. Coins are pushed into each opening and are retained therein by a friction fit, or are stuck to a backing sheet by adhesive. The coin holder forms part of a greetings card. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2249147-A (GB)
Title: Vehicle braking system
Inventor: BROOME WILLIAM SIDNEY
IPC: B60T8/36
Filed: 1990-10-23
Abstract: A vehicle braking system including a plurality of braking subsystems, each sub-system comprising a brake actuator 21a-22a, a supply valve means 60 having a fluid pressure inlet 65 and a brake operating pressure outlet 66 connected to said actuator, a control line 64 connected to the supply valve moans. a pair of solenoid valves A, B in said control line, and a managing means (18, Fig. 1) responsive to a wheel speed signal to energise the solenoid valves so as to effect one of a) interruption in the supply of said brake operating pressure to the actuator, b) interruption in the supply of said brake operating pressure to the actuator and exhaust of the brake operating pressure from the actuator, is characterised by said managing means being arranged to energise the solenoid valves of the subsystems such that the current consumption of at least one solenoid is reduced from its peak current consumption before the peak current consumption of at least one other solenoid occurs. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2250966-A (GB)
Title: Alignment guide to assist the coupling of a vehicle and trailer
Inventor: BEDDOWS PETER MAURICE
IPC: B60D1/36
Filed: 1990-12-18
Abstract: An alignment guide 1 is adapted for attachment to a first coupling part C1 of a vehicle/trailer coupling device C1, C2. Device C1 is a towing bar and part C2 includes a socket B1 which engages over part-spherical top A1 of device C1 on coupling. Guide 1 has a ramp 2 and tapered side wings 3 to guide part C2 into coupling engagement with part C1. Guide 1 can be moved to a storage position on part C1, when not in use. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-909968-A (GB)
IPC: H01H81/02
Abstract: 909,968. Temperature-responsive actuating- elements. MERTEN, T., and MERTEN, S., [trading as MERIT-WERKE, MERTEN & CO. KOMM.-GES.]. July 16, 1959 [July 18, 1958], No. 24452/59. Class 64 (2). [Also in Group XXXVII] A thermal contact-breaker comprises a leaf spring a having a high coefficient of expansion and clamped to supports c so that contacts e, f engage. On closure of a main switch, current passes through the spring a which expands and snap over to open contacts e, f, subsequent cooling of the spring a restoring it for the cycle to be repeated. In modifications, the spring is convex with the contacts e, f mounted above it, Fig. 2 (not shown), is mounted on supports of unequal length, Fig. 3 (not shown), is arranged as a changeover switch, Figs. 5 and 6 (not shown), or carries a heating coil connected across normally-open contacts, Figs. 7 and 8 (not shown). The spring a may be deflected into the desired conformation by an adjustable slide or screw bearing against it near each of its ends b.
Patent GB-2245124-A (GB)
Title: Spatial transformation of video images
Inventor: STARR MATTHEW RAYMOND
IPC: H04N5/262
Filed: 1991-04-11
Abstract: A digital video effects system, that can be used as a subsystem of a digital video system, performs real-time, anti-aliased spatial transforms of input video i.e. it provides an output signal where the picture is a spatially distorted version of the input picture. Any defined area of the input video frame can be placed anywhere in the output frame with independent changes in size and direction along either axis, by manipulation first vertically and then horizontally. Manipulation in each direction is performed by spatial interpolation of contiguous strings of input pixels to produce contiguous expanded, compressed or translated strings of output pixels. Pixel values of an input string are clocked in real time through two series connected latches 86, 88, and multiplied in multiplier/accumulators 82, 84 by pairs of weighting fractions FA, FB generated by a fraction generator 80 according to the proportion of overlap of the required output pixels with corresponding input pixels. The weighted input pixel values contributing to each output pixel are accumulated in the multiplier/accumulators 82, 84 and/or added by an adder 90, and output on a video output. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2245169-A (GB)
Title: Gripe mixture in unit doses
Inventor: HUGHES JOHN KENNETH
IPC: A61K9/00
Filed: 1991-06-07
Abstract: A gripe mixture formulation contained in sterile, unit-dose packs and requiring no additional preservative ingredients. The mixture preferably comprises a 0.25-5% by weight aqueous solution of sodium bicarbonate or potassium bicarbonate in an amount of 2 to 10 ml in glass or plastics ampoules.
Patent GB-2261812-A (GB)
Title: Hairbrush cleaning device
Inventor: WILLIAMS POLLY
IPC: A46B17/06
Filed: 1991-11-29
Abstract: A device 1 for cleaning the head of a hairbrush, comprises a housing 2, 3 inside which the brush head can be accommodated, the housing having on its inner surface a plurality of blades 5 arranged so as to lie between rows of bristles or tines on a brush head accommodated inside it. The housing is also capable of movement relative to a brush head accommodated inside it, so as to effect cutting of hair tangled between the bristles or tines of the brush head by means of the blades on the inner surface of the housing. The device greatly simplifies the cleaning of hairbrushes. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2253903-A (GB)
Title: Reflective optical fabric seam detector
Inventor: WHITMAN DOUGLAS L
IPC: B65H26/02
Filed: 1992-03-13
Abstract: A CCD line scan camera 12 observes the regular periodic light and shadow pattern of an obliquely illuminated seam 16 in a moving web 10. The camera output signal is bandpass filtered, rectified, integrated, and compared to a reference to determine the presence of a seam. IR filtering yields colour and texture insensitivity. A conventional TV camera may be used, or an image intensifier. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2265395-A (GB)
Title: An office building construction
Inventor: POWER MICHAEL
IPC: E04H1/06
Filed: 1992-03-23
Abstract: The invention provides an office building construction comprising a building structure having a plurality of floor areas 90 disposed one above the other, said floor areas defined by boundary walls comprising front and rear walls 10, 11 and left and right side walls 12, 13. Each floor area has a plurality of rooms 18, 18' situated in the corners of said boundary walls and a plurality of workstation groups 19 located along each of said boundary walls. A central oblong area 91 is defined by inner front and rear walls 14, 15 and inner left and right side walls 16, 17, said oblong area comprising access means 52, 61 to at least one stairwell 50, 51. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2258604-A (GB)
Title: Seat belt pad
Inventor: HARLOW ALEXER LEGGE
IPC: B60R22/00
Filed: 1992-08-11
Abstract: The pad comprises pile material 14 mounted to one face of base material 16 which has releasable securement means 22 mounted on its opposite face. In use, with the pad folded over the seat belt so that the securement means 22 cooperate to hold the side edges 26, 28 of the base material together, the pile material covers the side edges 26, 28 so the wearer is protected against injury from the edges of the belt and pad. The pad may include a body (30, Fig. 3) of shock resistant (high impact) foam attached to the said opposite face of the base material. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2260177-A (GB)
Title: Device for preventing undoing of nuts
Inventor: GREEN MICHAEL JOHN
IPC: F16B39/10
Filed: 1992-08-12
Abstract: The wheel nuts 2 of vehicle wheels 7 are prevented from coming undone by devices (e.g. a hub cap) which engage with the hexagonal formation of the nuts, and anchor them to part of the wheel or to each other. In Figure 1, the nut 2 is engaged by a hexagonal aperture in, or by a tapered socket 6 carried on, a plate 4 which is secured by a screw 8 to the wheel 7; the outer end of the plate 4 may be crimped onto the wheel rim 10. Alternatively, the plate 4 may be moulded plastics, and engage two, three or four nuts 2. A pair of sockets may be linked by a bar slidably clamped to the sockets; or by a bar having resilient jaws at each end which snap into annular grooves in the sockets, and stops to limit rotation; or by a wire passing through elongate holes in the sockets (Figure 10). <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2259498-A (GB)
Title: Bird resistant milk bottle cradle
Inventor: SHARP JOHN RAYMOND
IPC: B65D71/52
Filed: 1992-09-09
Abstract: A milk bottle cradle comprises a ledge 5 on which a milk bottle can be set only so that the bottle will tip under gravity, arrester means 2 to limit tipping of the bottle on the ledge 5, and a roof 6 below which the top of the bottle is disposed when the bottle is tipped so as to prevent access by birds to the bottle top. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2260409-A (GB)
Title: Vehicle wheel for measuring multi-component forces
Inventor: KOTZLE HORST
IPC: G01L5/16
Filed: 1992-09-15
Abstract: A wheel with strain gauges to measure multi- component forces thereon comprises a rim 4 (for a tyre 3) attached to an angle-section ring and flange 7, 8. The outer ring 12 of an annular measuring disc 11 is held spaced from the flange 8 by means of a plurality of stud bolts 10 parallel to the wheel axis acting as measuring cross-sections and equipped with strain gauges. The measuring disc 11 further includes an inner ring 13 coupled to the outer ring 12 by spoke-type measuring webs 17 which are also equipped with strain gauges. The inner ring 13 is bolted to a pot-shaped adaptor 18 which compensates for the axial distance between the measuring disc 11 and the position of the bolt-on flange of the wheel disc of a conventional wheel and matches the bolt-on flange of a conventional vehicle wheel disc. A signal transmission device 10 is rotatably mounted in or on the adaptor 18 and includes a stationary part fixed against rotation by means of a linkage 22. The strain gauges applied to the axial and the radial measuring cross-sections are so selected, applied and connected into electrical measuring bridge circuits that isolated electrical signals can be determined with respect to wheel load, longitudinal force, side force and braking force, it being possible to convert the primarily obtained measurement signals into the forces actually of interest with relatively small computational effort. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2271109-A (GB)
Title: Pharmaceutically active substituted alkylamine derivatives
Inventor: NUSSBAUMER PETER
IPC: C07D333/16
Filed: 1992-09-30
Abstract: Novel substituted alkylamine derivatives of the general formula   <IMAGE>  wherein X represents an oxygen atom, a sulfur atom or a group of the formula -NRb- in which Rb represents a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group; R1 represents an alkenyl group which may be substituted, an alkinyl group which may be substituted, an aryl group which may be substituted, or a heteroaryl group which may be substituted; R2 represents a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group; R3 represents a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, haloalkyl group, an alkenyl group, an alkinyl group or a cycloalkyl group, R4 represents hydrogen, allyl, alkenyl, alkinyl, cycloalkyl, cycloalkylalkyl, phenyl, phenylalkyl, phenylcycloalkyl, trialkylsilyl, dialkylphenylsilyl, trifluoromethyl or alkoxycarbonyl, whereby alkyl, alkenyl, alkinyl, cycloalkyl, cycloalkylalkyl, phenyl and phenylalkyl may be substituted by alkoxy, alkylthio, hydroxy, halogen, cyano or a heterocyclic group and may contain a carbonyl group, R5 and R6 represent, independently from each other, hydrogen, halogen, cyano, trifluoromethyl, alkyl, alkoxy, hydroxy or alkylthio, whereby R3 may form together with the -CH2-group and nitrogen atom a group of formula   <IMAGE>  wherein m represents a number from 2 to 5, or R3 may form together with the nitrogen atom and the -CH2-group a group of formula   <IMAGE>  wherein x represents a number from 0 to 3, and nontoxic salts of these are useful against hypercholesterolemia, hyperlipemia and asteriosclerosis.
Patent GB-2262748-A (GB)
Title: Powder metallurgy of coated fibres
Inventor: HONNORAT YVES CHRISTIAN LOUIS
IPC: C22C47/04
Filed: 1992-11-20
Abstract: A method of manufacturing a part made of a composite material having a metallic matrix, for example of titanium or a titanium based alloy, comprises depositing the matrix material on a continuous length of reinforcing fibre, for example of the SiC type, to produce a coating of a predetermined thickness, winding the thus coated fibre onto a former of suitable shape until a desired thickness is obtained, and then heating and isostatically compacting the wound coating fibre to produce the required pan.
Patent GB-2266510-A (GB)
Title: Continuously supplying individually packaged articles from boxes
Inventor: HJALMARSSON PER
IPC: B65B61/20
Filed: 1993-04-27
Abstract: A method of dispensing packaged articles such as straws continuously for application to a side of a respective carton utilises an arrangement for dispensing a strip (8) of the individually packaged articles comprising a box (16) in which the strip (8) or articles is in folds to form a stack with a leading end (18) and an opposite bitter end (22) of the strip (8) projecting through the top of the box (16), at least the bitter end (22) being attached (28) to a flap (26) of the box. From the bitter end (22), the strip extends along the inside of the side wall to the bottom of the box and then ascends in folds to the leading end (18). This arrangement allows a second box (16) containing packaged articles packed in the same manner to be placed adjacent the first box, and the bitter end (22) of the strip (8) in the first box (16) to be joined to the leading end (18) of the strip (8) in the second box (16) while the first strip (8) is in the process of being withdrawn from the first box (16). <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2271742-A (GB)
Title: Process for extruding low density foam using water blowing agent
Inventor: DEMELLO ALAN J
IPC: B29C48/12
Filed: 1992-04-23
Abstract: In a process for extruding a low density foam, a foamable thermoplastic elastomer such as a thermoplastic rubber is selected. The selected thermoplastic elastomer is then fed into a heated extruder barrel where it is compressed and melted by the action of a screw. A blowing agent consisting of water is introduced into the melted thermoplastic elastomer. The melted thermoplastic elastomer and the water are thoroughly mixed and then cooled to a uniform, predetermined temperature. The mixture is then forced through a die to form an extruded foam profile.
Patent GB-2283664-A (GB)
Title: Cordless kettle
Inventor: PARKER CHERYL LYNN
IPC: A47J27/21
Filed: 1993-11-09
Abstract: The kettle comprises a detachable water container on a base secured and sealed to a work surface. Water and electricity are supplied via the base to the water container. The kettle can be filled automatically to various levels and can automatically switch off when the water boils. The base may be connected to the mains water supply with a fail safe valve and base and container are typically connectable by a water supply coupling and valve system to enable filling of the container.
Patent GB-2272564-A (GB)
Title: Magnetic head device
Inventor: NISHIMURA MASARU
IPC: G11B19/04
Filed: 1994-01-05
Abstract: Crosstalk is prevented by incorporating into a magnetic head device comprising a read/write coil 6 and an erasing coil 12, means 27 for short-circuitting the erasing coil during a read operation. The means 27 comprises a transistor 26 which has an internal resistance lower than the resistance of the erasing coil. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2280941-A (GB)
Title: Pipes
Inventor: HILL DAVID JOHN
IPC: F16L11/04
Filed: 1994-03-01
Abstract: A pipe has a pipe wall comprising a polyolefin layer 21, and bonded thereto with no intervening adhesive layer a barrier layer 22 formed of a barrier material, which barrier material has enhanced resistance to the permeation therethrough of gaseous and/or hydrocarbon materials relative to the polyolefin; either the polyolefin layer or barrier layer or both having adhesive polymer units incorporated therein, in at least the region of an interface between the layers; the adhesive polymer units being present in a concentration effective to bond the polyolefin layer 21 to the barrier layer 22. In a preferred embodiment, the adhesive polymer units are contained within the barrier layer, which is preferably formed of a rubber-modified polyamide. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2282454-A (GB)
Title: Method of determining air density for the intake air of an automobile engine
Inventor: NAKAJIMA YOSHINORI
IPC: F02D45/00
Filed: 1994-09-29
Abstract: A method is disclosed for determining the air density of intake air into an engine without using an additional hardware such as an atmospheric pressure sensor. An average basic fuel injection amount and an average throttle opening angle are obtained when the engine is in a first predetermined condition and when it is in a second predetermined condition, respectively. Based on these average basic fuel injection mount (TPM1) data and average throttle opening angle (ALPM1) data, determination parameter (H5) is calculated. The parameter (H5) is employed as a parameter from which an air density value is obtained or from which it is judged whether or not the engine is operated at high altitude. The parameter (H5) is a weighted average of values of the ratio TPM<n>/ALPM<m>. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2281363-A (GB)
Title: A disc brake
Inventor: WAY ASHLEY
IPC: F16D65/78
Filed: 1994-03-18
Abstract: A disc brake caliper which includes a cooling fluid gallery (23) which at least partially surrounds the or each brake operating piston and cylinder assembly (16, 17, 18) to cool the hydraulic fluid of the assembly. The gallery (23) is constructed to provide thin side walls for the piston and cylinder assemblies to maximise the cooling of the assemblies. The invention also provides a method for the casting of a caliper which includes such a cooling gallery. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2298406-A (GB)
Title: Dual compartment container and closure assembly
Inventor: WARBY RICHARD JOHN
IPC: B65D51/28
Filed: 1995-02-21
Abstract: A container 2 and closure 6 assembly, which allows for the separate storing of two components 4 and 12, comprises a two part vial 7 consisting of a first portion 8 formed integrally with the closure and a second portion 9 releasably attached in sealing engagement with the first portion, the portions separating on movement of the closure relative to the container so that the component 12 in the vial can mix in the container with the second component 4. The vial opening may be caused by a helical cam surface defined by a projection of the closure (29, figure 4) cooperating with cam formations 25,26 on the second portion of the vial, the cam formations engaging ratchet formations 27 on the neck to prevent rotational movement of the second portion. The rim of the second portion is preferably a push fit in a groove 23 provided on the closure, which preferably screw fits on the container. The container may be squeezable and the closure may carry an upstanding cap covering a dispensing nozzle (41, figure 7).
Patent GB-2303229-A (GB)
Title: Constant power output circuit for an electric fence
Inventor: MANNING CARLTON DUDLEY
IPC: H02M3/335
Filed: 1995-03-30
Abstract: A battery-powered circuit for charging a capacitor 4 intended to deliver high-voltage pulses to a load, and in particular to an electric fence, is able to deliver its intended output with the battery voltage lying in the range of 3 - 15 V. Positioned between the terminals across which the battery is to be connected and the energy-storage capacitor, is a voltage-sensitive device 3 and at least one timer circuit 12 by which energy from the battery 2 is intended to be supplied to the capacitor 4 in pulses of battery current initiated at timed intervals. The duration of each battery pulse is dependent on the instantaneous voltage of the battery, and the voltage-sensitive circuit controls the length of the period over which the pulses supply energy to the capacitor, so that the period is a function of the instantaneous voltage of the capacitor. This extends the effective life of batteries used to charge electric fences, and enables farmers and other users to use partially-discharged batteries to keep the fence effective against straying cattle.
Patent GB-2289209-A (GB)
Title: Display unit
Inventor: LAWRIE MERVYN J
IPC: A47B87/00
Filed: 1995-04-13
Abstract: A display unit 200 is constructed by mounting a flexible display container 204 in a wire frame 202 having two horizontally-spaced end pieces joined by four transverse rails. The display container is formed by folding a flat plastic sheet and, when not mounted in the frame, has a vertical rectangular rear wall 222, from which two side walls and a flat rectangular base extend forwards. When the display container is mounted in the frame the base is held by the frame in an elastically deformed state so that the base curves upwards towards its front edge. The lower edges of the side walls are curved to match the curved base and so the container forms, in the frame, a display receptacle for holding goods for display. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2290668-A (GB)
Title: Signal processing system
Inventor: BANGHAM JAMES ANDREW
IPC: H03H17/00
Filed: 1994-01-14
Abstract: A datasieve typically used for a method of pulse analysis applied to a signal conglomerate to remove unwanted signals, for example to enable the output to be used for object identification in an image analyser, wherein the datasieve includes a succession of ordinal value filters (130, 132, 134) for sampling the signal conglomerate with window sizes increasing from N (less than M) up to M, each filter being fed with a signal derived from the output of the previous filter, bandpass filter outputs representing granularities being formed by subtracting the outputs of successive filters, a predetermined signal subset of the granularities being selected and the subject granularities being added together to produce the required output signal. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2305884-A (GB)
Title: Vehicle facia and manufacture thereof
Inventor: MCKEOWN SEAN COLIN
IPC: B29C70/74
Filed: 1995-10-04
Abstract: A vehicle interior facia comprises a substrate 12 having an opening 18 therein, an air duct 10 having a mouth 16 connected to a rear side of the substrate 12 and an air vent 34 having an inlet tube 36 extending through the substrate 12, which tube engages with the mouth 16. A foam material 28 is applied to the substrate 12 so as to coat it and form a seal 32 between the inlet tube 36 and the mouth 16 of the duct 10. A method of making a vehicle interior facia and providing a seal for a duct 10 comprises the steps of providing a surface 12 for use as a substrate, providing a duct 10 having a mouth 16, providing an air vent 34 having an inlet tube 36 extending through the substrate 12 for engagement with the mouth 16 and applying foam 28 to the substrate surface 12 to form a seal 32 between the inlet tube 36 and the mouth 16 of the duct 10.