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Patent GB-2198421-A (GB)
Title: Releasable closure arrangement
Inventor: WILLIS LEONARD JOHN
IPC: B63B22/00
Filed: 1987-10-19
Abstract: In a device for releasing a load 3 from a housing 1 on impact with water, the load 3 is supported in the housing 1 by an O-ring 7 which is stretched about the load and fits into a shaped recess 11. On impact with the water the load is forced upwards into the housing, but the O-ring is prevented from moving upwards by the shaped recess. The O-ring relaxes when the load has moved up far enough to be clear of it, then falls free. The load itself is then free to fall from the housing under the force of gravity. Premature release is prevented by removable pins 13. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2211724-A (GB)
Title: Furniture assembly
Inventor: MIZEL GERALD ZEPH
IPC: F16B12/56
Filed: 1987-11-03
Abstract: A method and a kit of parts for connecting items or parts of furniture together. The method involves attaching a first member of each of two two-member joints to a first piece of furniture and attaching the second member of each joint to the second item of furniture. The members have inter-engageable relatively slidable surfaces so that the items can be brought together into engagement by relative sliding of the first and second members of each joint. One of the items of the furniture might be a divan and the other item of furniture might be a footboard. The members can be strip-like and right trapezodial in section.
Patent GB-2197818-A (GB)
Title: Folding workbench
Inventor: MURTAGH JOHN
IPC: B25H1/06
Filed: 1987-11-23
Abstract: A folding workbench comprises two parts, each part comprising a top beam (10, 11) and a pair of legs (16) fixed to the top beam and normally splayed outwards in use. Folding stays (24, 26) conned the opposed legs (16) of the two parts. The two parts are movable by the freedom of motion permitted by the stays from a first position in which the top beams are in side-by-side abutting engagement to a folded position in which the respective top beams (10, 11) are in an at least partly overlapping, overlying relationship and the legs of the respective parts are substantially contained within an extension of the overall width of the two top beams. In order to locate and hold the top beams (10, 11) in their side-by-side position in use, the one top beam (10) is provided with holes (20) which receive detents (18) spaced along the other beam (11). <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2217903-A (GB)
Title: Automatic reading and display device for music
Inventor: WILKINSON NEIL
IPC: G10G1/00
Filed: 1988-04-15
Abstract: A storage element such as a floppy disc or microfiche stores music information which can be read by the device. The device has a read head for reading the stored information under control of a microprocessor 10, and the read information is displayed on a screen 11. The device may be designed for use by an individual musician or it may be under the control of a conductor or lead musician and have a number of display screens for use by members of an orchestra or choir. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2217286-A (GB)
Title: A process for producing packs of small parts and packs produced by the process
Inventor: JOYCE WALTER ALFRED JAMES
IPC: F16B15/08
Filed: 1988-04-18
Abstract: A process for producing stacks of small parts, for example, metal staples used to form the joints at the corners of rectangular wooden picture frames comprises providing an edge of each part with a recess located so that on stacking the parts the recesses are aligned to form a channel 16 extending along the stack, and then inserting a linear member 19 into the channel 16 with which it has interference fit to securely hold the parts together. Discrete packs are produced by severing the stack at predetermined intervals. Typically the recesses are rectangular with a width and depth of 0.75 of a millimetre and the linear member 19 is circular with a diameter of 0.80 of a millimeter. The staples are produced by coin-pressing the edge 10 of a metal strip to form a sharpened edge on the completed staples prior to press forming the v-shaped profiles of the staples, providing central rectangular recesses 14; separating the completed staples from the strip and stacking the staples (Fig 1). <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2206632-A (GB)
Title: Process for the production of hardened particulate metallic material
Inventor: BROWN CHARLES BOSWELL
IPC: C21D9/00
Filed: 1988-06-22
Abstract: A process for the production of particulate metallic material, in particular metallic shot or grit. In order to produce particulate metallic material at a low cost per unit mass of usable material produced, the process includes the steps of reducing swarf or other scrap metal, separating out the particles of usable size, and heat treating the separated out particles to harden them.
Patent GB-2215791-A (GB)
Title: Control system for a motor vehicle of the type including a clutch and a manual gearbox
Inventor: LEIGH-MONSTEVENS KEITH VERNON
IPC: B60W30/18
Filed: 1988-07-15
Abstract: The control system includes an electric power module for shifting the gearbox, an electric power clutch assembly for engaging and disengaging the clutch, and a control module arranged to control the gearbox power module, the clutch power module, the clutch power assembly. The control module operates to energize the gearbox power module in a sense to shift the gearbox to the selected position, and thereafter operates to reengage the clutch. The system preferably also initially disables the throttle control restoring it after gearshift. In one form of the power clutch assembly, an electric motor is positioned within the clutch housing in concentric relation to the clutch shaft and includes a screw drive assembly which is operative to move the clutch release bearing linearly to engage and disengage the clutch. In another form of power clutch assembly, an electric motor powers a hydraulic master cylinder and the output of the master cylinder is delivered to a slave cylinder associated with the clutch to engage and disengage the clutch in response to energization of the motor. In another form of power clutch assembly, an electric motor drives a pump which maintains a predetermined level of pressurized fluid in an accumulator and a solenoid valve delivers pressurized fluid from the accumulator to a slave cylinder in response to receipt of a shift command signal so as to disengage the clutch. Also disclosed are gear select lever assemblies designed to provide a two part shift command signal in which the initial signal is utilized to disengage the clutch and disable the throttle control system, and the second signal is utilized to shift the gearbox to the selected position. 
<??>The gearshift is preferably carried out by linear and rotary electric motors (112, 114) in response to signals from control module (26). 
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Patent GB-2210495-A (GB)
Title: Video cassette tape recorders
Inventor: KIM YOUNG-CHAN
IPC: G11B15/675
Filed: 1988-09-29
Abstract: A single motor (26) drives a cassette holder 30 and loads tape on the drum head of a VTR. Cassette holder 30 is moved to a loaded position by turning an arm 7 engaging a drive pin 16, arm 7 being driven through a gear 13 the sectored teeth of which quit the teeth of a driving gear 19 when the pin 16 is driven to the end of guide slot 5. A pin 14 on gear 13 enters a sectored gap in a side flange on gear 19 and rides up on the edge of the flange to hold the sectored gear 13 disconnected and to lock the cassette holder in its loaded position. Drive to gear 19 continues, a gear train not illustrated loading tape onto the drum head. Reverse drive to the motor unloads the tape after which pin 14 falls into the sectored gap where it is gathered by the end of the gap to re-engage the sectored gear 13 and unload the cassette holder. 
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Patent GB-2212916-A (GB)
Title: Sealed systems
Inventor: BROWN ANTHONY
IPC: F16K31/64
Filed: 1988-11-01
Abstract: A flame failure valve (20, 22, 24, 25) operates to close a gas line (17, 18) when a temperature experienced by phial (10) drops below that consistent with the presence of a flame. The phial (10) forms part of a sealed system (14) in which a flexible container (13) expands to open the said valve. The sealed system is charged with alkaline water, the pressure of which expands the flexible container. In order to achieve a rapid response to extinction of a flame the phial is designed to cool quickly by providing a heat sink or sinks. This may be done by increasing the wall thickness of capillary (12) so that it can conduct the heat away. Other heat sinks, e.g. a mounting, may also be provided. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2215731-A (GB)
Title: Compositions for forming exercise area surfaces
Inventor: COLLINS MARTIN ANDREW
IPC: E01C13/06
Filed: 1989-02-07
Abstract: A composition to be laid to form an exercise area, particularly for horses, comprises a particulate material such as sand, cold or hot coated with a composition comprising granules of a filler, such as plastics (eg PVC), rubber or cork, coated with an oil component, e.g bitumen, so that the laid material will be resilient and water permeable.
Patent GB-2219823-A (GB)
Title: Sliding window
Inventor: YAMAMOTO YUKIO
IPC: E05D15/22
Filed: 1989-06-01
Abstract: Sliding sashes 5 and 6 can be pivotted inwardly, and to allow the outer sash 6 to be so pivotted, the frame allows gap W when the sashes are in the position shown. When the sashes are in the opposite orientation, the sashes overlap. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2220403-A (GB)
Title: Carton packaging machine
Inventor: MAY EDWARD GORDON
IPC: B65B11/10
Filed: 1987-12-04
Abstract: PCT No. PCT/GB88/00876 Sec. 371 Date Jul. 18, 1989 Sec. 102(e) Date Jul. 18, 1989 PCT Filed Dec. 4, 1987 PCT Pub. No. WO88/04259 PCT Pub. Date Jun. 16, 1988.A carton-packaging machine (10) which causes progressive erection of carton sleeves from a supply of blanks (11) in a magazine (19), the partly erected blanks being loaded with product (24, 25) and then being closed in the form of a sleeve around the product. An endless conveyor (12) moves the blank through a blank supply station (14), an erection station (15), a product loading stations (16), a folding station (17) and a discharge stations (18), and a suction device (20) cooperates with the magazine (19) in order to draw individual blanks in flat form into the path of travel of the conveyor (12) for engagement thereby. A shaping device (21) at the erection station (15) forms each blank into U-shaped form and which is then advanced by the conveyor to the loading station (16) for loading with product (24, 25). Overhead folding rods (34, 35, 36) at the folding station (17) engage the upper portions (25a, 23b ) of the side flaps (23) of the blank in order to fold the side flaps inwardly into overlapping relation, with a line of adhesive therebetween, in order to complete the formation of the carton sleeve.
Patent GB-2220978-A (GB)
Title: Window wedge device
Inventor: MCHUGH JOHN
IPC: E05B15/02
Filed: 1989-07-17
Abstract: The device 10 comprises a member 11 having an obverse face 12 and a reverse face 13. Two openings, 14, 15 are provided which provide through-bores (16, Figure 6), 17. The reverse face 13 has two sets of four resilient elements 18, 19, 20 and 21 and 18a, 19a, (20a and 21a). Each set projects substantially perpendicularly from the reverse face 13 and each set defines a respective continuation bore 25, 26a in register with the bores (16), 17 respectively. Two corners of the member 11 each has a chamfered edge (27, 28, Figure 1). The device 10 is mounted on an aluminium or PVC window frame 50 by inserting each set of members into suitable holes and securing the device by inserting respective plastics pins 40, 40a into the openings 14, 15. The pins 40, 40a cause respective sets of members to be displaced radially outwardly thereby ensuring positive engagement of the device 10 on the frame 50. The chamfered edge (27 or 28) enables an engaging member 60 of a handle 61 mounted on a window 62 to move smoothly thereover enabling positive engagement of the member 60 with the device 10. Pins 40, 40a are shown connected to member 11 by this webs (41, 41a, Figure 2) and are detached when required. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2223307-A (GB)
Title: Assay for entamoeba
Inventor: HUBER MARION
IPC: C12Q1/6893
Filed: 1989-09-01
Abstract: As assay for the determination of the presence or absence of E. histolytica and for differentiation of these from other types of amoebae. The assay is used to determine whether the E. histolytica belongs to a symptomatic or asymptomatic strain. The assay is carried out by means of a DNA-probe adapted to hybridize to the DNA of the amoeba tested, probes being used which do selectively hybridize with symptomatic and asymptomatic strains respectively.
Patent GB-2226083-A (GB)
Title: Fan assembly comprising valved air outlets
Inventor: LANGEN HERBERT
IPC: F04D23/00
Filed: 1989-11-16
Abstract: A lateral channel fan, preferably for burners for the burning off cleaning of soot particle filters in exhaust gas pipes of vehicles is provided, in which, at the air-outlet side, a chamber housing (6) with a chamber (5), in which the air flows out of the lateral channel fan (1) and from which, on the one hand, an adjustable air return to the annular channel (8) by way of a by-pass (12, 13), on the other hand a further air return by way of an air-overflow channel (9), which can be closed by a valve (16), likewise into the annular space (2) is facilitated and from which, by way of two air outlets (8a, 8b), which can be closed by means of valves (14, 15) so that one outlet is open and the other outlet is closed, the conveyed air is supplied to the filters for the burning-off operation. 
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Patent GB-2241098-A (GB)
Title: Credit-operated machines
Inventor: MARCHINI BARRY ALLEN
IPC: G07F7/08
Filed: 1990-02-16
Abstract: A credit-operated award-giving machine, such as a games playing machine of the fruit or betting machine kind, is operated by means of a portable data storage device which may be of the credit-card type. The storage device is read by inserting device into slot 7 and stored credit is decremented before a game is played. In the event that a win is achieved stored credit is appropriately incremented on the storage device or on a second storage device. When a single storage device is used for reading of credit and award writing the machine has a separate award-writing location 8. The storage device may then be re-presented to slot 7 for further games or, alternatively, there may be a separate reader machine which is used to read and then decrement the award value in correspondence with the making of a pay out or prize award. When two separate storage devices for credit supply and award storage they may both be presented to the same read/write slot of the games playing machine or to different slots. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2230780-A (GB)
Title: Tertiary alkyl functionalised piperazine derivatives
Inventor: CLIFFE IAN ANTHONY
IPC: C07D241/20
Filed: 1990-04-20
Abstract: Compounds of the formula <CHEM> in which R<1> is alkyl; R<2> and R<3> are alkyl or taken together they are polymethylene, R<2> and R<3> complete a 5-norbornen-2-yl moiety; X is -CO2-, -OCO-, -OCO2-, -N(R<7>)CO-, -NHNHCO-, -ON(R<7>)CO-, -CON(R<7>)-, -N(R<7>)CO2-, -OCON(R<7>)- or -N(R<7>)CON(R<8>)-, wherein R<7> and R<8> are, independently, hydrogen, alkyl, phenyl, benzyl, substituted phenyl or substituted benzyl in which the substituents are halo, alkyl, alkoxy, cyano, nitro or perhalomethyl; R<4> is hydrogen or alkyl; R<5> is hydrogen, alkyl, hydroxyalkyl, phenyl, benzyl, substituted phenyl or substituted benzyl in which the substituents are hydroxy, halo, alkyl, alkoxy, trifluoromethyl, nitro, cyano, carbalkoxy, carboxamido, amino, alkylamino, or dialkylamino; R<6> is phenyl, benzyl, 2-, 3-, or 4-pyridinyl, 2-pyrimidinyl or 2-pyrazinyl, any of which may be substituted by one or more hydroxy, halo, alkyl, alkoxy, trifluoromethyl, nitro, cyano, carbalkoxy, carboxamido, amino, alkylamino or dialkylamino; n is one of the integers 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5; or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, with the proviso that when X is -CON(R<7>)- and R<7> is alkyl, R<6> is other than 2-pyrimidinyl, are antidepressant and/or anxiolytic agents.
Patent GB-2244747-A (GB)
Title: Wander hose assembly for a cleaning vehicle
Inventor: BRADLEY RICHARD MAURICE
IPC: E01H1/08
Filed: 1990-06-08
Abstract: A self-propelled cleaning vehicle 10 has two wander hoses (362, 364), each covering an arc of at least about 180 degrees at each side of the vehicle. The wander hoses are stowed unobtrusively in recessed portions of the vehicle extending lengthwise thereof at upper and lower locations thereon. The upper portion of the wander hose is below the maximum vehicle height. The hoses are pivotable about upwardly extending axes. Each hose has an articulated support structure which permits hose articulation about a second, spaced, upwardly extending axis, whereby the hose assembly can cover two arcs of movement, and can reach forwardly around the projecting cab structure. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2235583-A (GB)
Title: Inspection window for switchgear cabinet or assembly carrier
Inventor: BOVERMANN KLAUS-DIETER
IPC: H02B1/30
Filed: 1990-07-09
Abstract: An inspection window for an opening in a switchgear cabinet or assembly carrier, includes a U-shaped transparent panel 10 formed from a front plate 11 and two lateral plates 12, 13 which, at both end faces, are connected to frame portions 20, 30. When the inspection window is closed, the opening is sealed in that the frame portions are provided with receiving grooves in the region of the free edges of the lateral plates of the panel, and edging strips 25 are attached to the free edges of the lateral plates and form, with the receiving grooves in the frame portions, a circumferential receiving means for a sealing element 35. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2251258-A (GB)
Title: Kerbstone incorporating light reflecting element
Inventor: AMYES FRANK
IPC: E01F9/053
Filed: 1990-12-12
Abstract: A kerbstone of bull-nosed form has a radiused edged between an upper face (10) and a front face (11) at 90 DEG  thereto, a corner (12) defined by the faces (10, 11) and an end face (13) being formed with a recess provided by a flat chamfer (14), there being a light reflecting element (15) mounted in the chamfer, for example cast into the kerb. The kerbstone can have such a recess at both its ends, and moreover a double chamfer (20) can be provided at said radiused edge at a position between the ends of the kerbstone. The double chamfer (20) can alternatively be provided without the end recesses of the kerbstone. In another embodiment the kerbstone front face has its upper part sloping rearwardly and the recess for the reflector element is that between this rearwardly sloping upper part and the upper face. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2251843-A (GB)
Title: Paint container
Inventor: JEFFRIES BERNARD WILLIAM PETER
IPC: B44D3/12
Filed: 1991-01-18
Abstract: A container for holding fluids such as paint or small items, has special compartments for parking brushes or tools. The handle 7 of the container is hollow and has a spout 5 which contains a shaped opening 17 for the parking of brushes or tools. Other compartments 3 for the parking of brushes or tools are situated on the sides and top of the container part, and include retaining bars 9 on the inside. Scrapers 11 are also provided for the removal of excess fluid from brushes, a dibbing surface (ribs, 13) is included for even distribution of the fluid throughout the brush. The dibbing surface also protects the hand holding the container from coming into contact with its contents. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2251930-A (GB)
Title: Device for preventing evaporation of liquefied gas in a liquefied gas reservoir
Inventor: YANAI MASAYOSHI
IPC: F25D19/00
Filed: 1991-01-16
Abstract: A device for preventing evaporation of liquefied gas in a liquefied gas reservoir used to cool an EDS detector of an electron microscope or the like, wherein a cold head 12 of a cryogenic refrigerator 11 is disposed so as to fit an opening 10 of the top of the liquefied gas reservoir 4 and moreover a temperature measuring instrument 17 or a level gauge is disposed within the liquefied gas reservoir 4 so that the cryogenic refrigerator 11 is automatically operated depending on the temperature within the liquefied gas reservoir 4 or on change in the liquid level of liquefied gas, whereby vaporized gas is condensed and reliquefied, thus suppressing wasteful dissipation of vaporized gas. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2243993-A (GB)
Title: An injection type vacuum cleaner
Inventor: JUNG TAIK KWEN
IPC: A47L11/30
Filed: 1991-05-08
Abstract: A vacuum cleaner of a detergent injection type uses a part of the suction force of a vacuum impeller 16 actuated by a main motor 1 to pump up detergent to a detergent supplying device. To this end, the vacuum cleaner includes a rotation device 2 disposed in a passage of discharge air and rotated by discharge air and a pump device 14 rotating simultaneously with the rotation device to pump up detergent to the detergent supplying device 8. The detergent supply rate to a brush 9 can be adjusted by a control 15. The vacuum cleaner has no need for additional motors. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2255499-A (GB)
Title: "chair back adjustment mechanism"
Inventor: HOBB GORDON DENNIS
IPC: A47C7/40
Filed: 1991-05-09
Abstract: A mechanism for adjusting the height of a chairback (10) relative to the seat of the chair comprises friction plates (17) associated (a) with the seat frame and (b) with the chairback support (18), respectively. The friction plates are urged into mutual frictionai engagement by pressure from a spring (21) and are capable of linear movement relative to one another when they are disengaged. in a preferred form of the mechanism, the friction plates are disengaged by pressure of the user upon the chairback. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2246600-A (GB)
Title: Improved clamp.
Inventor: LINDSAY RICHARD ARTHUR
IPC: F16M11/32
Filed: 1991-06-28
Abstract: The need for readjustment of clamps due to wear and tear is overcome by the provision of clamping means comprising a first member movable (16) relative to a housing (10) to effect clamping; torque limiting drive means (30, 44) rotatable to effect that movement; and lost motion stop means (50, 60) rotatable by the drive means into a first stop position relative to the housing (in which continued rotation of the drive means is permitted) and, through reverse rotation of the drive means, into a second stop position spaced angularly from the first, in which continued reverse rotation of the drive means is prevented. This clamping means can be used in particular to clamp telescoping legs, for instance on camera tripods.
Patent GB-2246345-A (GB)
Title: Recovering titanium values
Inventor: MOSTERT GERHARD JACOBUS
IPC: C22B34/12
Filed: 1991-07-25
Abstract: A process for the recovery of titanium values from a complex matrix containing titanium nitride comprises chlorinating the titanium nitride in the matrix to obtain a reaction product containing titanium chloride, and separating the titanium chloride from the reaction product. The complex matrix containing titanium nitride may be obtained by nitriding titanium values in complex titanium-containing starting materials such as complex metallurgical titaniferous slags and ilmenite, perovskite, armalcolite and fassaite. The chlorination may be carried out at 200-500 DEG C with a chlorinating gas e.g. Cl2, HCl, CCl4, SCl2 or mixtures thereof.
Patent GB-2247018-A (GB)
Title: Hydrogenated rapamycin derivatives
Inventor: CAUFIELD CRAIG EUGENE
IPC: A61K31/435
Filed: 1991-08-06
Abstract: A derivarive of rapamycin where one, two, or three of the double bonds at the 1-, 3-, or 5-positions of rapamiycin have been reduced to the corresponding alkane, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, which by virtue of its antifungal activity is useful in treating fungal infections. <CHEM>