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Patent GB-2268408-A (GB)
Title: Orthopaedic implant
Inventor: GIBSON PETER JEREMY
IPC: A61F2/00
Filed: 1993-03-04
Abstract: An orthopaedic implant, eg an acetabular cup, has a surface 11 adapted to make contact with the bone which surface is partly or fully textured. The finish comprises a series of inclined ridges or troughs arranged in a regular formation to provide a roughened surface. The ridges or troughs can be arranged in a diamond or square formation. The roughened surface encourages bone in-growth in an even manner. A method and a tool for applying the finish to the surface of the implant are also disclosed. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2275956-A (GB)
Title: Pivotable sliding window
Inventor: BOBAN ZYGMUNT
IPC: E06B3/44
Filed: 1993-03-09
Abstract: A window comprises a frame and a window sash 5 slidable vertically within the frame. The sash 5 is provided at the sides of its lower edge with downwardly depending horns 7. The sash 5 is pivotable within the frame, about points on the frame at or near the lower edges of the horns 7. The sash 5 preferably pivots about one or more rigid bars (72, Fig 6) secured to the sash 5 with the end of the bar located in the frame. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2273461-A (GB)
Title: Jig-saw greetings card.
Inventor: HURLEY ANTHONY LEONARD
IPC: A63F9/10
Filed: 1993-07-19
Abstract: A greetings card includes a jig-saw puzzle having a greetings or text portion 11 and a jig-saw puzzle portion 10, which is self-standing having foldable flaps 12 whereby it can be displayed in a near vertical position to show the completed interlocked puzzle. The puzzle portion 10 may be slidably received in a frame 13. Alternatively the perimeter pieces of the puzzle portion may interlock with the frame (21, Fig. 12) or (27, Fig. 18). A plastic sleeve (25, Fig. 16) is also provided to enable the card to be posted safely without damage to the puzzle. The rear of the sleeve is provided with postcard printing or label (26, Fig. 17). <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2280700-A (GB)
Title: Liquid storage container for dispensing system
Inventor: MARSHALL ALAN
IPC: B65D88/54
Filed: 1993-08-06
Abstract: A storage vessel for liquids which can be filled from its top end, without the risk of foaming of the incoming liquid, has the inlet aperture (16) arranged so that liquid entering through the inlet aperture will impinge on a wall of the vessel along which it will flow as it descends to meet the rest of a body of liquid within the vessel. The wall may for example be the internal wall of a cylindrical body of the vessel (Figure 3), or a shelf (104) on which the liquid is guided circumferentially round the vessel from a high point just below a panel (108) where the inlet aperture is formed. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2281083-A (GB)
Title: Bayonet ring hub connector
Inventor: MILNES FIONA
IPC: E04B1/32
Filed: 1993-08-18
Abstract: Poles forming structural members of a geodesic dome or, e.g., a climbing frame, are connected together via nodal connectors (A) of ring or other shape, the poles being connected to the connectors by bayonet connections involving key-hole slots in the connectors and pegs (D, E, F) on the poles. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2272877-A (GB)
Title: Recloseable sales packing, eg for meat slices
Inventor: LORENZEN OVE
IPC: B65D77/20
Filed: 1993-12-16
Abstract: PCT No. PCT/DK92/00198 Sec. 371 Date Jan. 11, 1994 Sec. 102(e) Date Jan. 11, 1994 PCT Filed Jun. 25, 1992 PCT Pub. No. WO93/00274 PCT Pub. Date Jan. 7, 1993.A popular type of sales packing for sliced meat comprises a cup shaped lower part having an outstanding edge flange, to which is peelably welded a tight cover sheet as an original closure, while for the reclosing of the cup there is provided a semistiff skirt lid above the cover sheet and in holding engagement with the outer edge of the edge flange. These lids are expensive and unsuitable in more respects, and according to the invention they are avoided in that a self-adhesive label (10) placed on the cover sheet (8) has an edge area located outside a cut line (11) in the sheet, whereby this system will constitute the recloseable part of the packing. As an original closure is used an outer barrier sheet (14), which is removeably secured by peel-seal welding to the edge flange of the lower part or to the top side of the cover sheet (8) as welded to this flange.
Patent GB-2288387-A (GB)
Title: Foldable box
Inventor: MACHINO KUNIFUMI
IPC: B65D6/26
Filed: 1994-04-12
Abstract: A box which can be folded flat comprises a bottom panel 2, swing side panel 3 and folding side panels 4 of corrugated plastics board. The bottom panel 2 has vertical panels 9 on both ends and a retaining portion 10 in each vertical panel 9 for cooperation with an engaging portion 12 formed on the lower end of the swing side panel 3. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2280155-A (GB)
Title: Robot vehicular device eg for use on vertical surfaces
Inventor: BILLINGSLEY JOHN
IPC: B62D57/024
Filed: 1994-06-28
Abstract: The device comprises front and rear transverse members 5, 6, each having two spaced apart gripper members 1, 2, 3, 4 rotatably mounted thereon. An actuator 9 is pivotally mounted between the transverse members 5, 6, and a control arrangement causes the two front gripper members 1, 2 and one of the rear gripper members 3, 4 and then the two rear gripper members 3, 4 and one of the front gripper members 1, 2 to be operated in sequence in conjunction with the sequential operation of the actuator 9 to effect travelling movement of the robot device. In a modification (Figs. 3, 4), each pivot 7, 8 is not on the transverse member 5, 6 but on the apex of a triangle formed by the transverse members 5, 6 and V-structures (11, 12) attached thereto. In a further modification (Figs. 5, 6) the line of action of the cylinder 9 is replaced by a rhombus of links (13 - 16). <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2280756-A (GB)
Title: Aberration correcting plate of interchangeable lens
Inventor: ITO TAKAYUKI
IPC: G02B15/02
Filed: 1994-07-27
Abstract: An aberration correcting plate 22 for a compatible interchangeable lens can be detachably attached to either of a first camera body having a large resultant thickness of filters provided in front of an image pickup device and a second camera body having a small resultant thickness of filters provided in front of an image pickup device. The plate 22 is mounted to a rear end of the compatible interchangeable lens when the latter is mounted to the second camera body. The plate 22 is made of a parallel-plate whose refractive index N is larger than 1.7 or a lens of negative power. The sum of the thicknesses of the aberration correcting plate and the filters provided in front of the image pickup device of the second camera body is substantially identical to or smaller than the total thickness of the filters provided in front of the image pickup device of the first camera body. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2296317-A (GB)
Title: Liquid fuel burner apparatus
Inventor: HIBBARD TERRY
IPC: F23K5/04
Filed: 1994-12-19
Abstract: Burner apparatus (20) comprising a burner housing (4), a burner head (6), a motor (8), a fuel pump (10) and a fan (12), the burner apparatus (20) being such that the fan (12) and the motor (8) form a single integral unit, and the fuel pump (10) is separately driven from the fan (12) and the motor (8). <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2297842-A (GB)
Title: Remote pressure & temperature transmitter system
Inventor: ROBSON DOUGLAS
IPC: G08C17/02
Filed: 1995-01-18
Abstract: The remote pressure and temperature transmitter system consists of two modules. One is a battery powered transmitter attached to a rotating vessel and which collects data from its sensing device(s) e.g. sensing pressure, temperature, speed of rotation and transmits this data using infra-red light or radio waves, over a predetermined air gap, to a receiver module while still rotating. The other is the receiver module which comprises an infra-red or radio receiver connected to decoding circuitry, and a display for the transmitted data, e.g. an L.C.D. or graphical display. The receiver module may have a memory so that data may be downloaded at certain times or on demand, and may incorporate set point switching for an alarm function.
Patent GB-2285566-A (GB)
Title: Method and apparatus for crop spraying
Inventor: BENEST ROGER SYDNEY
IPC: A01M/
Filed: 1992-07-23
Abstract: A dropleg row crop sprayer senses boom height and tilt from ground-contacting droplegs (46, Fig 4) signalling through potentiometers to a boom control mechanism. The droplegs 46 follow crop row wandering by sensing same and centralising their position through a driven carriage. Dropleg attitude is assisted by a cam control system. The boom floats through a spring suspension system 138 and is damped by frictional abutment of the boom portions which transmit motion between them, thereby permitting a single actuator 106 to control attitude. A lost motion linkage 138 protects the actuator from snatch loads. Spray control is effected by use of microdroplets discharged from the droplegs below the row crop leaf canopy which protects the droplets from wind turbulence, while electrostatic charges and a droplet-energising air flow act to assist crop coating. Where conventional spray droplets are used, the spray direction is fore/aft of the row to minimise ground speed effects. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2289063-A (GB)
Title: Method for manufacturing warp knitted fabric
Inventor: MISTA KRESIMIR
IPC: D04B27/32
Filed: 1995-04-12
Abstract: A warp knitted fabric is made on a machine wherein the guides can also be displaced by one needle pitch additional to the overlap and underlap shog of the guide bar and the guides are selected twice in each operational cycle in dependence upon the pattern, so that the guides are not only displaced during the underlap shog but also during the overlap shog. By this means pattern threads may extend as a float (y) and/or a twill (z). <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2291556-A (GB)
Title: Colour Image reader
Inventor: MASUDA SYUZO
IPC: H04N1/48
Filed: 1995-06-16
Abstract: A device tor reading colour images comprises an optical input unit 1, optical resolution unit 13 and a photoelectric conversion unit 15. The optical resolution unit 13 receives three RGB lights that are incident upon the optical input unit through the first, the second and the third optical paths, LR, LG, LB and resolves the three RGB lights into a R light, a G light and a B light depending on the path taken. The photoelectric conversion unit 15 has a R reading pixel, a G reading pixel and a B reading pixel and converts the R light, the G light and the B light into a R signal, a G signal and a B signal. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2291226-A (GB)
Title: Method of transporting workpieces in assembly line
Inventor: NAKAJIMA SHIGEHIRO
IPC: G05B19/418
Filed: 1992-10-23
Abstract: In an assembly line in which workpieces W are transported by self-propelling transporting members 2, there is an automated working station 101. At the automated working station 101, the transporting members are stopped while assembly work is conducted on the workpieces. The transporting members 2 are restarted after a waiting time has elapsed following completion of the assembly work. If delays occur, a backlog builds up, which is eliminated by reducing the waiting time for each transporting member until the backlog has gone.   <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2306297-A (GB)
Title: Folding wardrobe
Inventor: CRAWFORD PETER
IPC: A47B43/04
Filed: 1995-10-27
Abstract: A folding wardrobe has a hinged frame, base, top, hanging rail and material covering for the back, front, sides and top. When not in use or for transport the covering can be removed and the main frame folded flat. A number of covers may be made for the wardrobe to change appearance to suit the decoration of a particular room.
Patent GB-2307490-A (GB)
Title: Flexible damp-proofing and insulating building element
Inventor: MARK DAVID ALEXANDER
IPC: E04B1/64
Filed: 1995-11-24
Abstract: A flexible barrier building element comprises a skin (1) of damp-proofing material surrounding a layer (2) of sound and/or heat insulating material. The element may have integral or attached skirt portions (3), and may be employed around windows and doors in ground or upper floors, and in cavity walls in general. The damp-proofing material may be a plastics such as polyethylene, e.g. in sheet form or as an extrusion, and the insulating layer may be of mineral wool or polystyrene, e.g.
Patent GB-2296871-A (GB)
Title: Golf ball
Inventor: NESBITT R DENNIS
IPC: A63B37/00
Filed: 1995-11-29
Abstract: A dimple configuration for a golf ball having a dimple-free equator E wherein each hemisphere has the same or substantially the same dimple pattern, the dimple pattern in each hemisphere comprising a total of 201 dimples with a dimple located at the pole P and a first set of five adjacent triangles, with one vertex of each triangle being at the pole dimple and the sides 27 of the triangles opposite the pole being spaced a predetermined distance from the equator, said pattern further comprising a second set of five triangles 47, 50, 53 etc. smaller than the first set of triangles and equally or substantially equally spaced between the first set of triangles and the equator, each of the second set of triangles having a vertex common with adjacent angles of the first set of triangles, the legs of all the triangles containing adjacent dimples, and the area within the large triangles and between the small triangles being filled with dimples, three different diameters of dimples being within the pattern.
Patent GB-2309062-A (GB)
Title: A chain link conveyor belt having unsymmetrical hinge parts
Inventor: DAMKJAER POUL ERIK
IPC: B65G17/08
Filed: 1996-02-06
Abstract: A chain link conveyor belt comprises a top plate 6 attached to hinge parts 3 which are unsymmetrical in relation to centre line 5' of hinge pins 5 to the effect that L, the side facing the centre axis 13 of the chain link, is greater than 1. When the chain links are assembled their unsymmetrical form results in a notch 23 which acts as a guide for teeth 10 of sprocket wheel 9. Extensions 11 have a tapered form 14 ending in a reduced front edge 19 which automatically centres the belt on sprocket 9. The chain links may be injection moulded in a thermoplastic material and provided with through openings 8 for drainage, cooling air or other purposes. In order to reduce friction between the chain links and support 20 a support bar 22, having an inclined or conical surface 18, is provided.
Patent GB-2300004-A (GB)
Title: Carding Machine: Detecting Unwanted Particles
Inventor: LEIFELD FERDINAND
IPC: D01G31/00
Filed: 1996-04-12
Abstract: Unwanted particles in the fibre material passing through a carding machine are detected by a camera monitoring the fibre web between processing means such a stripper roller (6) and a pair of nip rolls (7, 8). Also claimed are (1) an appts. on a carding machine for detecting unwanted particles; and (2) a method of viewing a card web travelling through a carding machine. Pref. the camera is sealed in a housing (14) with a transparent window (17) and reflective mirror (20). The camera may be traversed across the roll width on carriage means (21). The camera output may be transferred to an external information handling system to be used as part of a control loop.
Patent GB-2313068-A (GB)
Title: Liquid and gas purification and filtration
Inventor: HAYNS ANDREW BICKFORD
IPC: B01D39/18
Filed: 1996-05-16
Abstract: There is disclosed a material comprising a base formed substantially of cellulose fibres onto which is adsorbed a composition comprising one or more aliphatic carboxylic acids having hydrocarbon chains consisting of 8 to 20 carbon atoms, and a filter material comprising a matrix in which is dispersed a granular formulation of this material. The material can be used to adsorb hydrocarbon pollutants, such as oil spills, from a fluid stream and may be contained in filter cartridges 18.
Patent GB-2315013-A (GB)
Title: A carriage slidably and removably mounted on a track
Inventor: SAWDY MICHAEL BARRY
IPC: B60N2/015
Filed: 1996-07-10
Abstract: A carriage 1, for a vehicle seat, comprises a main body having a pair of retaining elements 21 adapted for lateral movement when the carriage is mounted on a track, eg 2. Each element is biased inwardly to allow the carriage to be mounted on and removed from a channel formed in the track. A pivotally mounted knife element 19 engages the retaining elements to move them outwardly to a position in which they engage the side edges of the channel, thereby securing the carriage to the track. An alternative mechanism is also disclosed in which the retaining elements are rotatably actuable. The carriage finds use in coaches or buses, trains or aircraft, where a large number of passenger seats are mounted.
Patent GB-2317626-A (GB)
Title: Waste pipe installations in buildings
Inventor: KOSTENKO DENNIS MICHAEL
IPC: E04C1/39
Filed: 1996-09-26
Abstract: A waste pipe block (10), for incorporating into a building wall, includes a waste pipe (20) extending therethrough for subsequently coupling waste pipe systems within the building to waste pipe systems outside the building. The waste pipe block preferably matches standard brick gauges in order to avoid disruption to the course of bricks. The pipe (20) can be fitted into a conduit embedded in the block, or can be set directly in to the block itself. The ends of the pipe may be male or female fittings, and may extend from, or be recessed in, the blocks. The end faces of the blocks can be textured or provided with a mesh face, and the blocks can have drip channels (38).
Patent GB-2307628-A (GB)
Title: Interactive radio/TV broadcast uses guide tags to access databases
Inventor: IINUMA KAZUMOTO
IPC: H04N5/445
Filed: 1996-10-04
Abstract: Broadcasting center (400) includes a guide information addition section (400c) which adds data base accessing guide information to a broadcasting signal for a program to be transmitted. User terminal (100) includes section (100b) which extracts the guide information from the broadcasting signal, and a network communication section (100d) which accesses a data base (eg the Internet) of the data base center (300) via network (200) based on the extracted guide information and user information peculiar to a user of the user terminal (100) and receives a response from the data base center (300). The data base center (300) includes another network communication section (300c) which confirms the guide information and the user information received from the user terminal (100) via the network (200) and then establishes bidirectional communication with the user terminal (100).
Patent GB-2307283-A (GB)
Title: Rolling bearing seal
Inventor: KOBAYASHI EIICHI
IPC: F16C33/78
Filed: 1996-11-12
Abstract: The invention permits stacking of seals without possibility of the sticking of their synthetic rubber seal members to one another. Moreover, when assembling the seals to produce anti-friction bearings, the invention permits storing the seals as a stack in a stocker of an automatic assembler and, unlike the case of using silicon or like prior art anti-sticking material, substantially eliminates generation of fine particles or the like adversely affecting precision apparatuses and deteriorating the reliability thereof. In an anti-friction bearing comprising an inner ring (1), an outer ring (2), and rolling elements (3) provided between the inner and outer rings, a side gap between the inner and outer rings is closed by seals (4) of the invention, which each include a synthetic rubber seal member (6) and a surface active material (7) coated thereon.
Patent GB-2308043-A (GB)
Title: Mobile phone location registration with variable group of cells
Inventor: MARKO PAUL D
IPC: H04W64/00
Filed: 1996-12-04
Abstract: A mobile phone 702 is registered with a group of base stations or cells 712 defined by a cell grouping level. A level of 1 comprises all cells contiguous with the registration cell of the mobile, a level of 2 is shown in figure 7. A mobile phone registered with a cell 710 monitors a signal quality such as received signal strength (RSS) of base stations in adjacent cells. When the signal quality from an adjacent cell 714 exceeds that of the current cell the mobile receives the base station identifier and cell grouping level of the adjacent cell 714. An algorithm then determines whether the mobile is already registered with the adjacent cell. If it is not, the mobile registers with this cell and also a new group of cells 716 defined by the cell grouping level. The cell grouping level is programmable on a cell by cell basis. Cell grouping reduces registration traffic and ensures that registration is not initiated by signal fading due to shadowing.
Patent GB-2320256-A (GB)
Title: Beer filtration
Inventor: MCKECHNIE MALCOLM
IPC: C12H1/075
Filed: 1996-12-11
Abstract: A method for the single stage processing of beer comprises passing the green beer from the fermenter directly to a cross-flow microfilter, the filtration being effective to produce beer of sufficient clarity and colloidal stability that there is no requirement for separate conditioning of the beer. The filtration step may be effected at above 0{C.
Patent GB-2312960-A (GB)
Title: Electrochemical method and process using enzymes
Inventor: DALTON HOWARD
IPC: C12Q1/26
Filed: 1997-05-08
Abstract: A method for the transfer of electrons between an electrode and an enzyme in an electrochemical process in which the enzyme is caused to adhere to the electrode, the transfer being direct.
Patent GB-2319562-A (GB)
Title: Snubber for a hydraulic motor
Inventor: WOOD TREVOR J
IPC: F15B15/22
Filed: 1997-09-26
Abstract: Snubbers are useful in dampening inertia loads at the end of stroke movement of a hydraulic motor. The subject snubber includes a snubber stem 52 which is moved to contact the end 20 of a tubular hydraulic cylinder so that all fluid from an actuating chamber 22 must pass through a circular orifice 63 which will build up pressure in the actuating chamber to provide a dampening effect on a piston rod assembly. When fluid is directed into the actuating chamber the snubber stem will move away from the end of the tubular hydraulic cylinder to allow free flow into the actuating chamber to provide quick response for extension of the piston rod assembly.
Patent GB-2329650-A (GB)
Title: Stressing of sectional elements
Inventor: PRIEST ALICK HENVILLE
IPC: B21B1/08
Filed: 1997-10-24
Abstract: Development of beneficial residual stresses, or removal of undesirable residual stresses in sectional elements. A stress is applied so as to generate a Poisson strain in the relevant area. The stress is then released and the Poisson strain leaves its own residual stress. The use of the Poisson approach results in the initial stress being particularly straightforward to apply, particularly to a rail section or I - beam, e.g. by the use as shown of conical rollers which contact head 60 and base 64 but not web 66, or by separate pairs of rollers or skewed rollers (Figs 6 and 8, not shown), which have the same effect. For an H - beam, wedges can be placed in the limbs of the H for cooperation with the conical rollers (Fig 7, not shown), or pressurised oil can be used (Fig 5, not shown).
Patent GB-2333151-A (GB)
Title: Solar heating panel
Inventor: ASH ARTHUR
IPC: F24S23/30
Filed: 1998-01-07
Abstract: The panel includes a transparent top wall 9 formed with an array of convex lens elements 13 and a bottom wall 10 defining an intermediate fluid space. The lens elements improve the absorption of solar energy through the collecting surface 2. The lens elements 13 may be concavo-convex or plano-convex or bi-convex in shape.