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Patent GB-2294921-A (GB)
Title: An Access Platform
Inventor: CONSTANTINIS DANIEL ALEXANDER
IPC: B66F11/04
Filed: 1995-08-09
Abstract: An access platform (11) to support personnel, for maintenance of a fixed structure such as the supporting leg (10) of an offshore drilling platform has at least one upright rigid mast (30, 31), fixed to and extending upwardly from the rear of the platform (11) and terminating above the latter in a horizontal section (34). Two suspension cables (17) are separately attached to the portion (34) to suspend the platform in a horizontal attitude. The platform is adapted to be braced by a strap (20) against the column (10) with a forwardly extending frame (18) pivotally mounted at (58) to the front of the platform base. A further inclined supporting leg (23) has a pivotally mounted front portion (25) which also bears against the column (10). Thus, the entire structure is braced against and supported by the column (10) to relieve the tension on the supporting cables (17). By located the mast (30, 31) behind the platform there is provided full unobstructed access to the work site forwardly of the platform. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2296199-A (GB)
Title: Catapult
Inventor: BIRD DAVID CHARLES
IPC: F41B3/02
Filed: 1995-12-20
Abstract: A catapult particularly useful for launching ground-bait whilst fishing, comprises a frame 2 defining a handle portion 3 and arms 4, 5. Lengths of resilient material 12, 13 are anchored to the interior of the handle portion close to the base thereof and then extend freely through the handle portion and through the arms 4, 5 before passing over rollers 15, 16. With such an arrangement, adequate stretchable elastic can be provided even if there is no slack elastic when the catapult is in its relaxed position. Thus, the length of the elastic material can be chosen such that the pouch 14 which is connected to the elastic material will be held midway between the arms 4, 5 with the catapult in its relaxed position. This facilitates loading of the pouch. The elastic material is clamped to the handle by means of clamping surfaces (18, 19, Figure 2) provided between mutually moveable hinged components of the handle. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2306438-A (GB)
Title: Forgery-preventing label
Inventor: NAKAMURA SHIGEYUKI
IPC: G09F3/02
Filed: 1996-01-18
Abstract: A label comprises a woven or knitted emblem (1) having an identification mark (2) such as a trademark. Said mark is made of thread having fluorescent material applied thereon which will emit light when subjected to illumination with ultraviolet radiation, thus exhibiting a different colour to that in visible light. The fluorescent thread may comprise inorganic material selected from the group consisting of yttrium, europium and salts thereof. The colour may change from white in visible light to red, green, blue or purple in ultraviolet. The label may be used on a garment.
Patent GB-2298992-A (GB)
Title: Telephone system having a wireless link between phone jack and telephone appliance
Inventor: SIZER THEODORE
IPC: H04B10/118
Filed: 1996-03-05
Abstract: A telephone system has a wireless connection between a phone jack (or socket) 12 and a remote telephone appliance, for example, a notebook computer 18. The wireless phone jack 12 is connected to a wired telephone connection such as a wall jack and receives signals from a wired telephone line. The phone jack produces a carrier signal which is modulated with signals received from the telephone line for transmission to an appliance jack 16 connected to the remote appliance 18. The appliance jack 16 also receives signals from the remote appliance 18 and generates a carrier signal which is modulated by signals received from the remote appliance 18 for transmission to the phone jack 12. The wireless transmission may be by radio, infrared or ultrasonic signals. The system removes the need for a cumbersome wire connecting between the remote appliance and the wall jack.
Patent GB-2301418-A (GB)
Title: Planetary Transmission Unit
Inventor: STRACH LOTHAR
IPC: F16H55/08
Filed: 1996-03-20
Abstract: A planetary transmission unit comprises an internal gear guided by means of three eccentric crank shafts 2,3 and meshing with an output spur gear 4 having a smaller number of teeth, wherein the internal and spur gear teeth have straight flanks 5,6. One of the eccentric shafts is a drive shaft 2 and the other two are idler cranks 3.
Patent GB-2301548-A (GB)
Title: Apparatus and method for installing a hub onto a shaft
Inventor: NELSEN RICHARD C
IPC: B25B27/02
Filed: 1996-05-30
Abstract: An apparatus and method for installing a hub onto a shaft 10 having a cylindrical outer surface and a threaded axial bore 12. The apparatus includes a threaded screw 22 for threading into the bore, an installer nut 46 threaded onto the screw having an enlarged tool engaging end 48 and a reduced cylindrical extension (50, Fig.2) having a distal end face and an outside diameter. The apparatus further includes an annular bearing 30 removably mountable on the cylindrical extension in an installing position, having a pushing face 42 for contacting the hub and an inside diameter (32, Fig.3) slightly greater than the outside diameter of the cylindrical extension and greater than the outside diameter of the shaft, whereby the pushing face of the bearing does not contact the shaft when the hub is installed onto the shaft. When the bearing is disposed in its installing position, the end face of the cylindrical extension may be coplanar or extend beyond the plane of the pushing face.
Patent GB-2299334-A (GB)
Title: Metalloproteinase inhibitors
Inventor: BECKETT RAYMOND PAUL
IPC: C07D213/89
Filed: 1995-01-20
Abstract: Matrix metalloproteinase inhibiting compounds of formula (I), wherein X is a -CO 2 H or -CONHOH group; R 4 is a phenyl or 5- or 6-membered heteroaryl ring wherein any ring nitrogen atom may be oxidised as an N-oxide, which may be optionally fused to a benzene ring or to a 5-, 6- or 7-membered heterocyclic ring, and wherein any of the rings may be optionally substituted.
Patent GB-2301855-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to ball valves
Inventor: BROWN IRVINE CARDNO
IPC: E21B34/00
Filed: 1996-06-06
Abstract: There is disclosed a ball valve 5 particularly for use in oil/gas wells. Known valves suffer from a number of problems, e.g. such as high actuating forces and seat failure due to applied load across the ball being transferred through the seat. The present invention provides a ball valve 5 comprising a body having a cylindrical bore containing a ball 10 and means for rotatably mounting the ball 10 within the body about a fixed axis, further comprising actuation means (15, 40, 45, 50) for controlling rotation of the ball 10, wherein, in use, to cause the ball 10 to rotate the actuation means (15, 40, 45, 50) is caused to move along a direction substantially parallel to an axis of the bore of the body. The ball 10 has journals 30 which rotate in fixed bearings 20 mounted in the valve body.
Patent GB-2314640-A (GB)
Title: Liquid crystal devices
Inventor: TILLIN MARTIN DAVID
IPC: G02F1/1337
Filed: 1996-06-26
Abstract: A twisted liquid crystal device comprising a liquid crystal layer (112) and first and second alignment layers (104) disposed in opposite sides of the liquid crystal layer (112). The first and second alignment layers (108,110) having respective alignment directions which are mutually inclined. A first linear polariser (114) is disposed on the opposite side of the first alignment layer (108) to the liquid crystal layer (112). Electrodes 104,106) apply a variable voltage across the liquid crystal layer (112) which has a twisted liquid crystal structure and is arranged for operation in surface switching mode with first and second regions (112a,112b) of the liquid crystal layer (112) adjacent the alignment layers (108,110) being mutually optically de-coupled so as to define, within the liquid crystal layer in use, a pair of separate, active optical retarders having mutually inclined optic axes.
Patent GB-2317409-A (GB)
Title: Rebated window frame accommodating an insect screen
Inventor: ARNOLD DANIEL ANTHONY
IPC: E06B9/52
Filed: 1996-09-20
Abstract: A window frame, having an opening glazed wing or vent, has a rebate or recess, of depth 12, formed in the surfaces 10, 11 of a face of the frame, as described the face on the opposite side to the opening wing. An anti-insect screen, figure 3, is attached, preferably by hidden means, within the recess. Various contours (figure 2) and depths of recess may be used.
Patent GB-2305463-A (GB)
Title: Cord clamp
Inventor: FRANO FRANK
IPC: F16G11/10
Filed: 1996-09-23
Abstract: A cord clamp (10) has a housing (60) with an open end (64), a surrounding side wall (62) and a closed end (66) which forms a cavity (68) for receiving a plunger (20). The plunger (20) has a body (22) with a throughhole (24) alignable with holes (70) formed through opposing sides (62) of the housing (60) and a stem (40) extending from a shoulder portion (26) of the body (22) with a resilient retaining member (80) on a distal end portion. A bias spring (52) is disposed about the stem (40) and is releasably retained in compression on it between the shoulder portion (26) and the resilient retaining member (80). At least a portion of the body (22) and the stem (40) are reciprocally disposable in the cavity (68) so that the throughhole (24) of the plunger (20) is alignable with the hole (70) to permit threading of a cord (100) through the aligned holes without the bias spring (52) urging the plunger (20) away from the housing (60). The housing (60) includes a release means (76,78) disposed in the closed end (66) of the cavity for engaging the resilient retaining member (80) to release the bias spring (52) from it when the plunger (20) is further depressed into the cavity (68) of the housing (60) whereafter the bias spring (52) urges the plunger (20) away from the housing (60) to engage and retain the cord (100) threaded through the holes of the cord closure (10).
Patent GB-2321152-A (GB)
Title: Scanner with shading compensation and gamma control
Inventor: OU YANG DENNIS
IPC: H04N1/60
Filed: 1997-01-13
Abstract: The apparatus comprises a scanning circuit 20 to generate colour signals for each scanned pixel which are then multiplexed 22. The direct current (DC) level of the multiplexed colour signals is adjusted by an adjusting circuit 24, and the analog form of the adjusted colour signal are converted to an equivalent digital form 26. A compensating circuit 28 is used to compensate the digitized colour signal shading effects caused by previous sections of the image signal processing apparatus. The compensated signals are passed to an enhancing circuit 30 which includes a mapping circuit to generate a mapped colour signal for each compensated colour signal using an interpolation method. The compensated colour signals are mapped according to a Gamma characteristic(figs 4A-C). The mapped colour signals are stored 34 with the number of mapped colour signals being less than the number of the compensated colour signal, thereby substantially saving memory area.
Patent GB-2321337-A (GB)
Title: Trench IGBT
Inventor: AMARATUNGA GEHAN ANIL JOSEPH
IPC: H01L29/749
Filed: 1997-01-21
Abstract: An Insulated Gate Bipolar Transistor has a gate in the form of a trench 9 positioned in a p region 8 in a silicon body. The device operates in a thyristor mode having a virtual emitter which is formed during operation by the generation of an inversion layer 12 at the bottom of the trench within the p region. The device is inherently safe and turns off rapidly as removal of a gate signal collapses the emitter. As the trench gate is situated within the p region, it can withstand high voltages when turned off as the reverse electric field is prevented from reaching the trench gate. Lateral configurations of the IGBT are also described.
Patent GB-2324766-A (GB)
Title: Dry store for a boat
Inventor: RILEY PETER ALAN
IPC: B63B17/02
Filed: 1997-05-02
Abstract: A dry store for supporting a boat out of water comprises a chassis 1 supported in water by buoyancy tanks 2, a winch 4 for drawing the boat out of the water and over rollers 5 on a catwalk 3, and guide means in the form of upright legs 10 carrying rollers 6. When a boat is winched onto the floating chassis a cover 9 can be attached to the upright legs 10. This will avoid rain water collection. To relaunch the boat the cover 9 is removed and with the help of the rollers 5 and guidance rollers 6 the boat is manually pushed back into the water. Fixing points 7 are provided to attach the dry store to a jetty, with fenders 8 providing a buffer.
Patent GB-2309783-A (GB)
Title: Method and apparatus for preparing substances for optical analysis
Inventor: GUIRGUIS RAOUF
IPC: G01N33/00
Filed: 1995-11-03
Abstract: The present invention is directed toward a solid matter collection apparatus and a method for collecting matter in a fluid. The apparatus includes a collection site (14) which collects the solid matter (20) at a predetermined density and location, and suitable for exposing the solid matter (20) to electromagnetic spectroscopy (40, 41).
Patent GB-2312036-A (GB)
Title: Double-mass flywheel and clutch assembly
Inventor: REIK WOLFGANG
IPC: F16F15/131
Filed: 1994-06-17
Abstract: Coil spring dampers 10 are enclosed in an annular space 11 that forms an approximately torus-shaped area and oppose the relative rotation of two flywheel masses 2,3. The coil springs 10 have an end convolution and preferably a pitch which is either the same as, or similar to, that of at least one other convolution, such as an intermediate coil of the spring 10. The need for the end coil to be partially ground or laid flush is thus eliminated, making it possible to use the terminal coils as springing coils to give more spring power or a shorter spring length.
Patent GB-2320034-A (GB)
Title: Coating of continuous casting machine grid plates
Inventor: LAVIN PHILIP ANTHONY
IPC: C23C4/18
Filed: 1996-11-08
Abstract: A coating consisting of ceramo-metallic material, e.g. WC-Co, is applied to an internal surface of a grid plate by flame spraying. A ceramic slurry is applied and fired to produce a ceramic coating which is partially removed to produce a composite ceramo-metallic and ceramic surface which is then bonded and densified. The coating is in the form of an array of islands. A ceramic slurry may then be applied and fixed to produce a ceramic coating which is partially removed to produce a composite ceramic-metallic and ceramic surface which is then bonded and densified. The ceramic slurry may contain a chromium compound capable of being converted into chromium oxide at temperatures of at least 300{C. The composite surface may then be impregnated with a solution of at least one soluble compound capable of being converted on heating, into an insoluble substance which bonds the coatings. The soluble compound may be selected from chromia and phosphate forming compounds.
Patent GB-2328020-A (GB)
Title: Stomach posture warning device
Inventor: STAGE JAMES HALLIDAY
IPC: A63B23/02
Filed: 1997-07-15
Abstract: A stomach warning posture device that is similar in appearance to a telephone pager. The device would be attached to a person's waistband or trouser belt by means of a clip (2). Attached to the belt clip 2 there is a button (3) which rests against the person's distended stomach, which in turn presses micro switch 7 button (6) which allows current to flow to motor 11 with unbalanced load (12). This energised state creates a vibration that the wearer can feel and reminds them to pull in their stomach, and by doing so releases pressure on button 3 allowing micro switch 7 to return to it's normally open position thereby isolating motor (11). Continual holding in of one's stomach is a form of isometric exercise.
Patent GB-2327549-A (GB)
Title: Mrking multi-page facsimile documents
Inventor: LEE EUN-JAE
IPC: H04N1/32
Filed: 1997-07-21
Abstract: A reception method for use in a facsimile system provides a visually distinguishable multipage facsimile document. Ringing signals from a communications link are detected and counted to a predetermined number. A facsimile signal concerning each page of the multipage facsimile document is then received and decoded, line-by-line, to generate a decoded facsimile line signal for each line. First and a second stored pattern signals, representing respectively a document identifying symbol (52) and a page number (53), are provided and combined to provide combined pattern signals on a line-by-line basis. A plurality of first pattern signals are stored and a different pattern is read out for each new document. A combined facsimile signal for each line on each page is obtained by combining the combined pattern signal and the decoded facsimile signal. At a final step, the combined facsimile line signal is printed on a recording sheet to thereby output the visually distinguishable multipage facsimile document.
Patent GB-2322174-A (GB)
Title: Hose coupling with swagable ribs
Inventor: MOODY VICTOR
IPC: F16L33/207
Filed: 1997-08-20
Abstract: The coupling, e.g. forward supply to an oil drilling rig, comprises a tubular body having a bore 14 therethrough and an annular socket at one end thereof with inner and outer walls and opening at the end of the body, the inner wall presenting alternate circumferential peaks 15-18 and troughs along its length and the outer wall presenting opposing troughs 21-23 and peaks along its length. The external surface of the body is provided with circumferential ribs 27 corresponding in position with the peaks on the outer wall of the socket such that, when an end portion of a hose is inserted into the socket in the coupling and the ribs are swaged inwardly, the hose end is firmly held in the socket. The outer coupling end may have no ribs and a larger diameter, with a decreasing annular gap to grip a hose with inner and outer layers partly removed.
Patent GB-2313583-A (GB)
Title: Mooring assembly
Inventor: LANGE ESPEN
IPC: B63B22/04
Filed: 1996-02-21
Abstract: The invention relates to a mooring assembly for an offshore floater, said assembly comprising a vertical shaft (4) in the floater (1), a rotating part (5) rotatably mounted in the vertical shaft about a vertical axis, a number of mooring cables (16) extending from the rotating part down to the seabed, and means (17) aboard the floater (1) for tightening/slackening the mooring cables. Each mooring cable (15, 16) is secured, right below the rotating pant (5), to a rigid body (13) having two ends, one end being connected by a universal swivel joint (12) to said rotating part (5) and the other end comprising a locking device (14) for locking the mooring line to the rigid body (13).
Patent GB-2318133-A (GB)
Title: Hollow roofing panels
Inventor: RICHARDSON CHRISTOPHER
IPC: E04C2/54
Filed: 1997-10-09
Abstract: A hollow roofing panel (10) of plastics material comprises one or more longitudinal ducts (30) and has at opposite sides thereof, coupling members (32, 34), whereby elements are connectable to each other directly or indirectly, wherein lower coupling members (34A, 34B) comprise ducted flanges (42, 50 respectively). A hollow aluminium reinforcing beam (12) is slipped between adjacent panels, and a capping (14) is pressed on to the beam.
Patent GB-2319539-A (GB)
Title: A tissue sheet
Inventor: WENDT GREG ARTHUR
IPC: D21F1/00
Filed: 1995-04-12
Abstract: Tissue products such as facial tissue, bath tissue, and paper towels are made using a papermaking fabric having from about 5 to about 300 impression knuckles per square inch (per 6.45 cm<SP>2</SP>) which are raised above the plane of the fabric to produce corresponding protrusions in the sheet which impart a significant amount of cross-machine direction stretch to the sheet. In addition, other properties such as bulk, absorbent capacity, absorbent rate and flexibility are also improved. The tissue sheet has a basis weight of from about 10 to about 70 grams per square meter, a bulk of about 12 cubic centimeters per gram or greater and a flexibility, as measured by the ratio of the geometric mean modulus to the geometric mean tensile strength, of about 4.25 km/kg or less.
Patent GB-2335059-A (GB)
Title: Searching a database through a simplified keyboard
Inventor: HU XIAO-GANG
IPC: H04M3/493
Filed: 1998-03-06
Abstract: Use of a simplified keyboard such as a CCITT keyboard (shown) to search a database comprising a plurality of records each including at least one index item for inquiry (e.g. "NAME", fig. 3). The user inputs an input string by pressing the keys (S1, fig. 4). Each input key of the input string is compared with the same-positioned characters of the index items (S2, fig. 4) for locating data records whose index items match the input string. During the comparison step, the data records identified by matching the first inputted key are stored in a searching buffer, S25, and subsequent comparisons are carried out based on the content of this buffer, S27. The matched data records, from which the user can select, are displayed on a display device (S3, S4, fig. 4). Search speed can be improved by utilising a "key area" part of the character storage codes (10a, fig. 6). The need for using repeated key presses to input single characters (fig. 2) is obviated.
Patent GB-2329028-A (GB)
Title: Semiconductor device test system
Inventor: KIDA TOMOYUKI
IPC: G01R31/01
Filed: 1998-06-26
Abstract: In a test apparatus, a host computer (109) writes test result data in a data base (109b) and outputs the test result data in response to a data request. Each of a plurality of testers (101) performs an electric characteristic test based on a test program to generate the test result data for each semiconductor device in pallets (107). Each of a plurality of handler sections (103) connects the semiconductor devices of a pallet (107) a test head (102) for the electric characteristic test. A loader section (105) loads the semiconductor devices from a first tray (605) to the pallet (107). An unloader section (106) unloads the semiconductor devices from the pallet (107) transported thereto to appropriate second trays based on the test result data from the host computer. A pallet transporting section (104) transports the pallets to a specified one of the plurality of handler sections (103) before the electric characteristic test, and transports the pallet to the unloader section from the specified one of the plurality of handler sections after the electric characteristic test.
Patent GB-2328387-A (GB)
Title: Powder coating process and apparatus
Inventor: YAMAGUCHI MASAYUKI
IPC: B05B15/12
Filed: 1998-08-21
Abstract: Paints (7a,8a) of different color brightness not deposited on a workpiece 17 to be coated in a powder coating process, selectivity using paints of high, medium and low brightness, are recovered at 24 as a mixture, and a fresh paint of high or low color brightness is added to the mixture in a control tank 46 to adjust its color brightness and thereby prepare a fresh mixture of medium color brightness which can be used as a paint of medium color brightness. The recovered product is classified in a vibrating tank 26, one fraction being collected at 33 for delivery to tank 46.
Patent GB-2329136-A (GB)
Title: Sorting grate
Inventor: KOFLER MATTHIAS
IPC: B07B13/07
Filed: 1998-09-14
Abstract: The grate has a frame supporting a plurality of grate members defining between them at least one aperture which increases in size from one end to the other of the grate. Typically the grate 10 has a set of elongate rods 12 arranged side by side. At the first end of the grate 14 the rods are more closely spaced than at the other end 16 such that the openings between the rods have gradually increasing width along the grate. The grate can be mounted for vibratory movement and may be suspended above a set of hoppers to collect the resulting classified material. Utility may be in ore classification or fruit or grain sizing.