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Patent GB-2451225-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to dispensing apparatus
Inventor: WARBY RICHARD
IPC: A61M15/00
Filed: 2007-05-15
Abstract: Dispensing apparatus 1 for delivering product from a dispensing container 10 received in use within said dispensing apparatus. The dispensing apparatus comprising a housing 3 defining a socket for said dispensing container and an outlet 20 for product dispensed from said dispensing container. The apparatus further comprising a dose counting mechanism comprising number rings 11, 13 wherein at least a part of the dose counting mechanism is formed from copolyester. The use of copolyester allows e.g. the number rings 11, 13 to be made transparent, and as such novel combinations of colours and characters can be used to indicate dose count.
Patent GB-2453392-A (GB)
Title: Ladder attachable paint can holder
Inventor: HILL GEOFFREY
IPC: B44D3/14
Filed: 2007-12-10
Abstract: Ladder attachable paint can holder for painters comprises a tray 10 that can be attached to a ladder and a container 12 that fits a well 20 in the tray 10. The container 12 holds paint and has an air-tight lid 14 to prevent the paint from deteriorating when the container 12 is not in use. The invention provides a plurality of containers 12 holding different paints and interchangeably fitting into the well 20 of the tray 10. Each container 12 may be divided into a plurality of separate sections. The tray 10 may be formed with a downwardly facing recess formed to fit over a rung of a pole ladder.
Patent GB-2445257-A (GB)
Title: Router with device for indicating position of housing
Inventor: ZAISER ADOLF
IPC: B27C5/10
Filed: 2007-12-18
Abstract: A router comprises a housing 10, which is displaceable with respect to a base plate 24 between a starting position (26, fig 1) and an end position (28, fig 1). A device for indicating the position of the housing is provided, which may comprise an indicator 36 that cooperates with a scale 34. The indicator may be fixedly connected to a guide pillar (18, 20, fig 1), and the scale may be provided on the housing. Preferably, the scale runs on the housing in the direction of a vertical axis 30 of the router, a zero point 38 being arranged at an upper end of the scale.
Patent GB-2446916-A (GB)
Title: I.c. engine exhaust system with twin turbochargers
Inventor: GOELBELBECKER MICHAEL
IPC: F02B37/007
Filed: 2008-01-30
Abstract: The i.c. engine 100 has two turbochargers 112,114 coupled to respective sets, eg banks 110, of engine cylinders. The exhaust system has a lower heat loss path 118 coupled between one turbocharger 112 and an emission control device 122 and a lower heat loss path 118 coupled between the other turbocharger 114 and the emission control device 122. The lower heat loss path 118 may be a double walled or insulated pipe while the higher heat loss path 118 is a single-wall pipe having more bends. A valve mechanism 124 may be provided for adjusting the exhaust flow through a crossover pipe 116 joining the two heat loss paths 118, 120. The flow of exhaust gas flowing through the crossover pipe 116 is varied to control the temperature of the gas entering the emission control device 122.
Patent GB-2446517-A (GB)
Title: Security Enclosure for an Automated Teller Machine
Inventor: JONES ROBERT LOUIS
IPC: G07F19/00
Filed: 2008-02-11
Abstract: A security enclosure 10 comprises opposed side wall arrangements 14, 16. Each side wall arrangement comprises a first wall member 14A, 16A and a second wall member 14B, 16B movable relative to the first wall member to an extended condition. The first wall members define a main enclosed region, and when the second wall members are in their extended condition, the second wall members define a subsidiary enclosed region adjacent the main enclosed region. A carriage assembly (40, figure 4), from which the second walls downwardly extend, is preferably mounted upon opposing rail members (44, figure 4), and comprises a fixed support assembly (42, figure 4), and two movable carriages (54, 56, figure 4). Movement of the carriages may be provided by a rotary driving member (120, figure 11). One of said second wall members 14B, 16B may comprise an access member 20 having solenoid type securing member (77, figure 8), and an aperture (37, figure 3A) through which a telephone (33, figure 3A) mounted upon said first wall 14A, 16A may be accessed.
Patent GB-2445719-A (GB)
Title: A pointing device including a moveable puck with mechanical detents
Inventor: HARLEY JONAH A
IPC: G06F3/0338
Filed: 2006-01-26
Abstract: A pointing device (P) includes a moveable puck (1) that is capable of moving over a surface in a puck field of motion. The surface includes a detent feature defined within the puck field of motion (fig. 1) for engaging with a detent feature of the moveable puck (1).
Patent GB-2461076-A (GB)
Title: Devices and methods for the separation of blood serum from a blood sample
Inventor: LOVE JAMES
IPC: B01L99/00
Filed: 2008-06-20
Abstract: A blood sample from a patient may be taken into a pre-evacuated sample chamber 21 via a double ended needle (27). After centrifugation one separated component may be transferred to a second pre-evacuated sample chamber. Subsequently, the serum 12 may be transferred into a third pre-evacuated sample chamber 20. Transfer between chambers may be executed via double ended needle 27. Also disclosed are: a needle carrier (37); a serum preparation and extraction kit comprising an agitation module (e.g. centrifuge), an evacuated sample tube with end cap seal and a double ended transfer needle (where the centrifuge device may be may be a hand powered spinner with push down drive actuation (40), a handheld elongate sleeve (61) or a rotary rattle, clapper or clacker (50)). The devices and methods may allow blood serum separation to be performed in the absence of other specialised equipment (e.g. away from a laboratory setting).
Patent GB-2462285-A (GB)
Title: Removable cover member of a global positioning system
Inventor: HSU CHENG-CHIEN
IPC: B60R11/02
Filed: 2008-07-31
Abstract: A host 2 of a global positioning system 1 is enclosed by a cover member 3 having a joint member 31 to connect the host 2, and the host 2 has a butt joint member 21 to connect the cover member 3. The joint member 31 is conveniently assembled with and removal from the butt joint member 21, to assemble or remove the cover member 3 on or from the host 2 as needed. The host 2 includes a rear cap (4, fig. 6), at least one location on which is connected with the cover member 3, and the rear cap (4) has a joint member (31) to connect the host 2, for assembling or removal of the cover member 3 on or from the host 2, as needed. Therefore, the cover member 3 and the rear cap (4) of the global positioning system 1 can be replaced respectively by one own according to a user's needs and preferences, to match colour and shape of the global positioning system to be used.
Patent GB-2451751-A (GB)
Title: CCTV Network and Camera Control
Inventor: HALL CHRISTOPHER
IPC: H04N7/18
Filed: 2008-08-06
Abstract: A CCTV system comprises a camera controller (1, 3) provided with a coax input/output (f), a first coax (4) connecting the input/output (f) to the coax input/output (6) of a local video transmitter/receiver (5), a remote video transmitter/receiver (7) communicating with the local transmitter/receiver by way of an IP network (N), the remote video transmitter/receiver (7) having a coax input/output (9) connected by a second coax (11) to a video camera (12), the local video transmitter/receiver (5) receiving video signals from the network and outputting them to the first coax (4), and receiving camera control signals over coax signals from the first coax and transmitting camera control signals to the network, and the remote video transmitter/receiver receiving video signals from the second coax and to output those to the network, and receiving camera control signals from the network, to reassemble them, and outputting the camera control signals to the second coax. The camera controller unit (1, 3) interacts with the camera such that the camera is controlled as a local camera.
Patent GB-2462628-A (GB)
Title: Flame simulating assembly giving increased depth to the flames
Inventor: BAIRD PAUL C
IPC: F21S10/04
Filed: 2008-08-13
Abstract: A flame simulating assembly 10 comprising a light source 28, a simulated ember bed 22 located between a reflective mirror surface 26 and a partially reflective surface 20 that form an interior space (15, Figure 1), a flicker element 30 located beneath the ember bed 22 and arranged to reflect light into the interior space 15, and a housing (18, Figure 1) with vents (33, Figure 6) for permitting the reflected light to project onto an area adjacent to the assembly 10. The partially reflective surface 20 allows a portion of the reflected light to pass through so as to escape the interior space 15, and reflects a portion of the light back into the interior space cavity 15. Partially translucent screens on each side of the interior space 15 have light reflected onto the inwardly facing sides by the flicker element 30. Multiple partial reflections in a twin mirror design may be created within the interior space 15 to create an illusion of depth. The flicker element 30 may extend horizontally beyond the limits of the ember bed 22, the reflective surface 26 may extend behind the side screens and may be vertical, inclined (Figures 3 and 4) or in two angled portions (Figure 6). The partially reflective surface 20 may extend in front of the side screens and may be vertical. The flicker element 30 may rotate to create a constantly changing random reflection pattern.
Patent GB-2453240-A (GB)
Title: A golf training aid
Inventor: FARMER JONATHAN
IPC: A63B69/36
Filed: 2008-09-25
Abstract: A golfing aid 21 comprises a hollow elongate member 2 containing a light unit 6. In operation the light unit delivers a beam of light in opposite directions through the either end of the elongate member 7, 8. The golfing aid may be a golf club and the elongate member may be the shaft of the golf club. The beams of light may be produced by two oppositely directed lasers each mounted to the golf club. The user may observe the paths of the beam of light to assess his performance. An audible signal may also be provided, indicating that the club has moved off the required path.
Patent GB-2463301-A (GB)
Title: Automatic screw feeding apparatus for a power screwdriver
Inventor: HSU MING-HUNG
IPC: B25B23/04
Filed: 2008-10-28
Abstract: An automatic screw feeding apparatus includes a base assembly 1, a slide assembly 2, a first spring 6, a screw carrier driving device 3, and a screw carrier guidance device 4. The slide assembly is movably mounted to the base assembly forward and backward between a first position and a second position. The first spring is mounted between the base and slide assemblies for keeping the slide assembly at the first position. The screw carrier guidance device includes a connection member (40, fig 3) connected with the base assembly, a guide member (42, fig 3) mounted to the connection member and movable forward and backward between a third position and fourth position, and a second spring (44, fig 3) mounted between the guide and connection members for keeping the guide member located at the third position, in which a screw can pass from the screw carrier guidance device to a passage (203, fig 2) of the slide assembly. The apparatus helps prevent screws from becoming jammed.
Patent GB-2461153-A (GB)
Title: Inhaler with energy absorbing pads
Inventor: BERRY SIMON
IPC: A61M15/00
Filed: 2009-06-08
Abstract: Breath actuated inhaler (BAT), comprising: a canister 22 containing medicament and having a metering valve 24, a mouthpiece 60 for guiding medicament to the mouth of a user, a nozzle block 62 for communication with the metering valve 24 of the canister 22 and for delivering medicament from the canister 22 into the mouthpiece 60, a loading element 6 capable of being loaded with an actuation force, a breath actuated trigger mechanism 3arranged to counteract the actuation force of the loading element 6, and to fire the inhaler by releasing the actuation force of the loading element to actuate the metering valve 24in response to an inhalation breath, and an energy absorber 80,85 arranged to absorb residual kinetic energy resulting from the actuation force upon firing. There advantage of the device is its ability to avoid discomfort to the user by reducing noise or mechanical shock created in the actuator upon firing.
Patent GB-2466533-A (GB)
Title: Canopy assembly mechanism for a child carrier
Inventor: ZENG HAI BO
IPC: B62B9/14
Filed: 2009-07-22
Abstract: A canopy mechanism comprises a canopy support 410 and a canopy frame 420. The canopy support comprises a combining part 450 and an engaging part 460. A terminal of the engaging part connects the combining part 450, and another terminal of the engaging part extends opposite to the combining part. The engaging part comprises a first lateral wall 432 and a second lateral wall 434. A chamber 430 is formed between the first and second lateral walls, and one terminal of the chamber has a chamber entrance 436. The second lateral wall has an opening 435, and a cantilever structure 440 extends from a side of the opening 435. The cantilever structure 440 has a first position-limiting part 444. The canopy frame 420 has a connection part 422 with a second position-limiting part 424. The connection part 422 of the canopy frame 420 inserts into the chamber 430 via the chamber entrance 436 to engage the first and second position-limiting parts 444,424 to fasten the canopy frame 420 and the canopy support 410.
Patent GB-2467394-A (GB)
Title: Toy snake
Inventor: TAYLOR GRAEME
IPC: A63H11/12
Filed: 2009-08-21
Abstract: A toy snake that reproduces the natural movement of a snake as it moves across surface is described. The toy snake comprises a head 2 that is pivotally mounted to a tail 4 and a motor unit 9 located within the head 2 for propelling the snake across a surface. In a preferred embodiment a body 3,5 is employed to pivotally mount the head 2 to the tail 4. The motor unit 9 may comprise at least two independently driven wheels 15a & 15b located towards opposite sides of the head 2 and the motor unit 9 is configured to introduce a periodic oscillation between the operation of the independently driven wheels causing the snake to move forward while the head oscillates to the left and right producing a rippling effect that flows down through the body of the snake. The motor unit 9 may also be configured to operate a tongue 12 that extends out from the head 2 to further increase the realistic nature of the toy. Embodiments of the snake may be adapted for use on land or water.
Patent GB-2464203-A (GB)
Title: Defined medium for enumeration of Campylobacter
Inventor: THOMAS ALASTAIR OWEN
IPC: C12N1/20
Filed: 2009-10-06
Abstract: A chemically-defined culture medium for the growth of Campylobacter species. The medium may contain a metabisulfite salt, a bisulfite salt, pyruvic acid, a pyruvate salt and mixtures thereof. It may have a buffering capacity of pH 7.61 ∓ 0.2 and include a buffer selected from HEPES, MOPS and TES. Methods of growing and enumerating Campylobacter are also claimed. Alternatively claimed are specific chemically defined media suitable for growing Campylobacter.
Patent GB-2476927-A (GB)
Title: Event or appliance detection from utility data
Inventor: LOUREDA JOSE MANUEL SANCHEZ
IPC: G01D4/00
Filed: 2009-11-12
Abstract: A method of identifying an event associated with consumption of a utility comprising the steps of generating a utility consumption profile from utility consumption data, the utility consumption data comprising a plurality of utility consumption values measured at a corresponding plurality of measurement points, and identifying an event within the utility consumption profile that matches the profile of an event stored in a database of utility consumption profiles. A computer implemented apparatus, a computer program code and an article of manufacture comprising a machine-readable storage medium and executable program instructions embodied therein, for carrying out the method are also provided.
Patent GB-1273621-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to methods and means for printing or decorating articles
Inventor: JAMES DAVID RICHARD
IPC: B41M1/20
Filed: 1969-02-25
Abstract: 1,273,621. Decorating. MURRAY CURVEX PRINTING Ltd. 20 Feb., 1970 [25 Feb., 1969], No. 10015/69. Heading B6C. Plates and saucers to be decorated are fed to an intermittently rotating table 2 at position Ha and are suction held at positions H whilst being passed successively through adhesive application means G, drying means F and C decorating station E before being discharged at Hb. At the decorating station an elastic membrane 13 bearing on its underside a two colour image is pressed down on to the plate or screw by an hydraulically operated saw device the image having been formed on the membrane by the screen-stencil process whilst moving in an intermittent fashion past stencil stations A, B on a rotating table 1. At the station A a coloured thermoplastic ink is applied through a heated stencil and second coloured thermoplastic ink is applied using similar apparatus at the station B. At the station C the membrane is inverted and heated ready for the effort application on the plate or saucer at the station D.
Patent GB-860704-A (GB)
Title: Injections of the antibiotic kamamycin
Filed: 1959-03-23
Abstract: Aqueous solutions of kanamycin are stabilized by the addition of a non-toxic salt of sulphurous acid, a non-toxic salt of hydrosulphurous acid, a non-toxic aldehyde addition product of sulphurous acid or of hydrosulphurous acid, monothioglycerol, monothiosorbitol, monothioglucose, beta, beta1-thiodipropionic acid, a non-toxic water-soluble ester of b ,b 1-thiodipropionic acid or a mixture thereof.  The kanamycin may be a fermentation mixture of kanamycin A and B, kanamycin A, kanamycin B or a prepared mixture of kanamycin A and B.  Specification 817,385 is referred to.ALSO:An aqueous injectable antibacterial composition comprises 100 to 700 mg. per ml. calculated as karamycin base, of a non-toxic water-soluble karamycin salt, 0.5 to 15 mg. per ml. of a stabilizing agent as hereinafter specified and from 2 to 50 mg. per ml. of buffering agent, the solution being adjusted to a pH of 4.0 to 8.2.  A preferred composition contains 250 to 333 mg. per ml. of the karamycin (as base) and is adjusted to pH 4.0 to 6.5.  The karamycin may be a fermentation mixture of karamycin A and B, karamycin A, karamycin B or a prepared mixture of karamycin A and B, especially a 1 : 1 mixture thereof.  Specified stabilizing agents are a non-toxic salt of sulphurous acid, a non-toxic salt of hydro-sulphurous acid, a non-toxic aldehyde addition product of sulphurous acid, a non-toxic aldehyde addition product of hydrosulphurous acid, monothioglycerol, monothiosorbitol, monothioglucose, b ,b 1-thiodipropionic acid, a non-toxic water-soluble ester of b ,b 1-thiodipropionic acid or a mixture thereof. Preservatives such as phenol, chlorobutanol and methyl and/or butyl p-hydroxybenzoic acid may be present.  The composition is prepared by adding the non-toxic karamycin salt to sterile water containing a buffering agent, adjusting the pH to 4.0 to 8.2, contacting the solution with activated charcoal, removing the charcoal and adding the stabilizing agent.  Specification 817,385 is referred to.
Patent GB-1082363-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to gas-cushion vehicles for travelling over water
Inventor: TATTERSALL EDWARD GUNSTON
IPC: B60V1/00
Filed: 1964-03-10
Abstract: 1,082,363. Air cushion vehicles. HOVERCRAFT DEVELOPMENT Ltd. April 15, 1965 [March 10, 1964], No. 10037/64. Heading B7K. An air cushion vehicle for operation over water 14 and provided with cushion-containing walls 11 which in operation are partially immersed in the water, is provided with a concave deflecting member 12 forming part of, or attached to, the wall in order to deflect downwardly air escaping from the cushion 16 beneath the wall. The deflecting member may be adjustable angularly to vary the direction of the deflected air or it may be adjusted in height.
Patent GB-1506566-A (GB)
Title: Rolling mills with control of the rolling gap
IPC: B21B38/10
Filed: 1975-05-22
Abstract: 1506566 Rolling mills QUAY DYNAMICS Ltd 22 May 1975 [6 March 1974] 10121/74 Heading B3M In a rolling mill having a pair of working rolls, a position transducer is located between auxiliary chocks on the roll journals for use in controlling the roll gap, an adjustable distance piece being positioned between the transducer and one of the chocks. The auxiliary chocks 20, 22, Fig. 2, are each formed in two halves 201, 202 and may be located between the roll barrels and the main chocks at one or both ends of the rolls. Transducers 18 are mounted on either side of the chock 22 and act on distance pieces 46 (in the form of cams with a stepped spiral contour) carried on the other chock 20. Each transducer, Fig. 4, includes a fixed coil 28 in which an armature rod 30 is movable, the end of the rod acting on a nut 38 which is spring biased towards the cam. The rotational position of the cam is altered to accommodate changes in the roll diameters due to dressing operations or roll changing.
Patent GB-979795-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to devices for producing metal layers
IPC: H01J29/28
Filed: 1961-03-21
Abstract: <PICT:0979795/C6-C7/1> In a vapour deposition process of coating a screen of a cathode ray tube with a metal such as aluminium, a heating filament which holds the source metal is inserted through the neck of the envelope of the cathode ray tube, said filament as shown in Fig. 1 including at least two vertical straight portions 2 and adjacent parallel portions 3 which form upwardly extending bends at 4, said portions 3 being interconnected to form a horizontal portion 7 which retains the molten source metal.  Preferably the vertical portions are interconnected by a portion in the form of an inverted V (Fig. 7, not shown).
Patent GB-1388830-A (GB)
Title: Sheep tip
IPC: A61D3/00
Filed: 1971-04-21
Abstract: 1388830 Sheep tipping device JOHN H TAYLOR Ltd 19 July 1972 [21 April 1971] 10337/71 Heading A5R A sheep tipping device comprises a sub frame having two side members 1, 2 which are relatively movable to embrace a sheep, one of the side members being pivotally connected at 3 to a base frame 4, the side members being pivoted together by quadrilateral linkages 8, 9 and 10, 11 at locations which are above the pivot axis 3 when the subframe is in a position to receive a sheep and retained in their relative positions by a ratchet and pawl mechanism 18, 19, and the free ends of the side members being angled towards each other. The subframe is pivoted by means of a handle 14 connected between extensions of links 9 and 11, and an adjustable back stop 15 is slidably mounted on side member 2. A catch may be provided on the main frame for retaining the sub-frame in its inverted position.
Patent GB-610388-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to the manufacture of bearing bushes, distance pieces and the like
IPC: B21D5/01
Filed: 1946-04-03
Abstract: 610,388. Making bearings. SELF-PRIMING PUMP & ENGINEERING CO., Ltd., and BROWN, B. J. April 3, 1946, No. 10352. [Classes 83 (ii) and 83 (iv)] Angular bending; dies; shearing-adjuncts.- In a machine for making bearing-bushes &c. from strip material, a strip is fed against a stop 6 and on depression of a die head 2 a cutter 11 severs the blank. A mandrel 18 is then moved axially by an air cylinder secured to a member 14 and is lowered to bend the blank to U-shape between spring-mounted dies 8. On further depression of the head 2, a die 12 bends the legs of the U about the mandrel. The latter which constitutes the plunger rod of the air cylinder is then withdrawn to strip the bush from the mandrel. The bushes may be broached to size and the slot may be machined and fitted with a taper key. In order to ensure the mandrel is in position when the press operates, a stop is withdrawn from the pedal of the press by a supplementary air cylinder fed from the main air cylinder, Fig. 3 (not shown).